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GENERAL NEWS.
frequent Statements of the Condition of
Railroad Properties Demanded.


The railroad interests of this country have be-
come so important and the ownership of railroad
stocks so scattered that there is a growing de-
mand which railroad directors are beginning to
recognize that frequent statements Of the inan-
cial and physical condition of roads should be
made yet but few railroad officers, comparatively
speaking consider themselves under obligations to
give information, either to the stockholders orthe
business public. 1t is proper in this connection to
speak well of companies like the Pennsylvania.
Reading, Erie, Union Pacific and Others which
publish gross and net earnings monthly
Monthly or quarterly reports Of the condition
of leading roads would have beneficial
effect on business generally, as when railroads
doing well other branches of business are
usually active There are now some seventy
roads which make these statements public
monthly, and more confidence is shown by in
vestors in such roads than in those where the
arrangements cover up their operations.
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vessel eareened until the yard arms would touch
the water The engine trembled and ierked, and
every time the vessel rocked the deck
was completely immersed. Every man went be-
low, and was left alone to run the ship All
were frightened very near to death, and instead
OF dong what they could to save the vessel they
were praying. | myself thought we would GER
tainly go under, but it would do no good to cry.
l stood by my post, but not one of the towards
came to my assistance and finally |
went below with two revolvers, mad
enough to murder, and threatened to open fire
among them if some of them did not come
deck and help me. Melville himself was kneel-
ing down. | grabbed chair and told him
would strike him over the head with it if he
didn't get up and act like man. If there is any
thing the crew can say for me, it is that l never
shirked when courage was required
How did you come to go with the Jeanette
expedition was asked
Il went for fame, just as all the others did.
was enthused with the idea that it was a great
exploring expedition They told me that great
discoveries would be made, and gave q glowing
view OF the glory there would be in having made
such discoveries They talked about Columbus,
and my enthusiasm was fired. | was told that
the government would honor us and we would
be pensioned for life l signed the little piece
of paper they handed me, and then was bound
Spenser arrived in New York in June 1882
been III Freedman's Hospital in Washington
de suffers at times from neuralgia
in the face, and his eyesight is affected under
certain atmospheric conditions. He is in rather
good health now, but is in destitute circum-
stances and is in search of employment as an en-
gineer. Without Congress makes a special APP
preparation he will receive nothing for his
services more than ordinary wages. He has
at Washington from President Arthur down and
has been given the assurance that something
will be done to reward the Survivors of the i'll
tated expedition for their suffering.
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Train No. 7, the fast mail over the Chicago, St
Louis & Pittsburg road, which consisted of six
cars. two of them sleeping coaches, was yesterday
hauled by engine No 463, lately out of the In
dianapolis shops, from Bradford to Indianapolis
in two hours and thirty-nine minutes, making
eleven stops, and with detention of seven
minutes at the c., r. & c. junction, which would
make the run-lO5 miles-in two hours and
thirty two minutes r. j. Mckay engineer. He
ran from Knghtstown to the Belt Office, thirty
two miles. in thirty-three minutes, and made
one stop. Master Mechanic w. c. Arp. who
sends the report of the run to the Journal, in
a record that beats this, send me word"
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L!vrs orPAIN
RHEUMATISM and NEURALGIA have
long enough run riaE in the human
system.

They have tormented the human family and
defied the medical faculty from time out of memory
they have corrupted the blood, demorazed the joints,
YeXed the nerves, aEonized the muscles and racked
the brain with wearying pain.
"ATHLoPHoRos - is the enemy OF Rheuma-
tism and Neuralgia, repairs their damages, renews
the blood eases the joints, Gains the nerves, soote
the muscles, gives rest and peace to the troubled
brain, and ensures delightful sleep.
'ATHLoPHoRos" is q new remedy, but it has
been abundantly tried. From far and near come ts-
timonials from wellknown persons who had loEg
been sufferers 1t has turned their diseases out It
has cured them. That is all,-and TINT is enough
"ATHLoPHoRos" can do for you what
it has done for those sufferers. 1t can
drive out your Rheumatism and Neuralgia,
and will do so II you give it a fair trial.
"ATHLoPHoRos' has by this time had such
good trial all the country that its true work is
KNOWN and its true character proved. a9asr
"ATHLoPHoRos" means "Prlze- Bearer;;''.
"Victor;" "Conqueror." 1t carries of the prize as
VICTOR over the attacks OF these terrible nliadies
and CoNQCERoR of the frightful agonies their vic
tins have endured. Not mere temporary relief,
but permanent, enduring and triumphant eT!ir-
If you cannotget ATHLoPHoROs of your drug
gist, we win send it express paid, on Feceiptof
regular price-one doIarper bottle. WepreIer
that you buy it from your druggist. but II he
hasn't it, do not be persuaded to try something
else, but order at once from Us as directed.
ATHL0PH0RoS co., iI2 WALL ST., NEW YORK.
EssEskass ssa e 4. z LEES
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vantage upon large systems where it is hardly
possible for one pay-car to make the rounds
within a reasonable time.
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RrsEs no "DETAILS rHE DRUG

IA while ago number of druggists here and
in other cities had complaints from customers
who bought sulphate of mOrphia (morphine) by
the dram the bottles contain one dram and there
are eight. one ounce, in a box that on unwrap-
ping the bottles they had found them empty
The druggists would grumble but take back the
empty bottles and return full ones for them. These
customers were honest, but how to discover the
depredators was the question 1t was finally
discovered that the trick was played in this way:
A sEful operator would carefully unwrap bot
tie of morphine remove the tinfoil capsule care
fully, and after taking out the morphine, replace
the cork, capsule and wrapper so deity that no
one could discern that they had ever been re-
moved. With this empty bottle in his pocket, the
operator would saunter into q drug store and ask
for a bottle of morphine The bottle with the
blue paper wrapper would be given him, and he
would hand the druggist dollar Looking at
his change, as it was handed to him. he would be
dissatisfied with the price Sixty cents DRAM
he would say; why, always get it for fifty, and
then, having in the meantime taken the fraudu-
lent bottle out of his pocket, he would hand it to
the druggist instead of the full one pocket his
dollar and march off with the full bottle, 1t was
IA neat trick, sldllfully played, but. we are all
onto it now. They seldom try it now, at least
mot in the cities, though they may get some of
the country druggists.
Il find its q good thing to, read the papers.
One morning had received my. Pharmaceutical
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Below is given the number of cars transferred
over the Belt road, in each month of the years
1881. 1882 and 1883:
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A NOTABLE INSTANCE.

MANY people who use morphine do so to
deaden their sensibility to pain-to find relief
from the tortures of neuralgia, sciatica, acute
rheumatism. Heavy drinkers get in the habit
of using it to produce sleep when suffering from
insomnia after debauch. l recall to mind an
oculist, who was here many years ago. He was
not uneducated quack, but a skilful and sue
cessful practitioner and fully qualified to do all
kinds of surgery in his speciality. though he was
not regular He enjoyed good and increas-
ing practice but he was an opium eater. At
first, 1 am told, he used it sparngly and
secretly but the habit grew him with
frightful rapdity. He became unable
to attend to his Office, and his days passed by in
idleness. his entire being having been given up
tincture Of opium, but form of the narcotic
came amiss to him. One day did not then
know him--he came into my store and asked for
four ounces of laudanum L measured the
amount quarter of pint, in graduated glass.
He had a professional air about him. and
thought he intended to ask for other things to go
with it-that it was the basis of a linament, or
something of that kind What was my surprise
and horror to see him lift the glass to his lips and
drain it all down. l thought it a of suicide,
as he threw down the money for the poison and
walked out, leaving me standing speech
less. In a half hour he returned.
explained who he was, asked for and
obtained another quarter of pint and swallowed
that. In half an hour he had taken a half pint
of laudanum, tincture of opium, of the officinal
strength, and containing what would be at
least three hundred ordinary doses of the drug.
Il said victims of the opium habit would do
anything TO get their customary poison. This
man, who had handsomely furnished Office and
| an extensive wardrobe lat one time he was as
! dressy man as there was in town., got rid of
| everything to get opium or morphine. remem-
| Der that in midwinter he had scarcely clothes
! enough to cover him, having sold and pawned
them to get money to get the narcotic He was
finally put into jail that he might not freeze to
death, and there, out of money, he would have
| died had not the druggists who knew his eondi-
| ton kept life in him by supplying him
with the fatal drug, which it is death to continue
to use and worse than death to attempt to dis
continue
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The necessity fss=
prompt and efficient
household remedies is
daily growing more
imperative { and If
these II os letter i
Stomach Bitters is tha
chief in merit and the
popular. hregu-
larity Of the stomach
and bowels, malasiaI
fevers, liver complaint,
debility, rheumatism
and minor ailments,
are thoroughly con.
quered by this ineom-
parable family restor-
alive and medicinal
safeguarst aud it is
Justly regarded as the
purest and most COM
prehensive remedy Of
its class. X
Dealers GENERALLY. II
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Ex GoyERNoR ODEN BOWIE, of Maryland,
praises St, Jacobs Oil for pains.
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ID, $5; cut ma
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TIMERS S
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New-York tribune., 1884-11-26
MANY FAMILIES IN PERIL.

large piece of plastering fell from the cen, a,
ing in l. uarriss tailor shop the first hoor OF NO o.
Rowcrv late on Monday night. IL smasned " ''e
kerosene oil lamp table and set hrc 10 'no fsee
Some tailors who were still at work III ''~ Saop
tried in vain to extnguish the flames linen thes "' "
the street and gave tho alarm. Separa'cl "o'', '
tailorshop by thin board partition on tho same "oo
of the building was the stationery shop OF Johh "oi
Three floors above occupied by SIX faiiics' n'
OF the members of which In bed The entrance "
their rooms IL at No. Second-st. iilgnh vi iaiio
stairs lead from the street to landing on thc So'
floor of the building No. 1913 Bowery, and from inc '
Ing other narrow stairs upper foors o1 poth %
ings When the fire drove the alors out oi ,nc so
situation of the families upstairs was cAccco'"S' f
-. ..,ra n md
Policemen and frcmcn mn the rickcty -.
alarmed the persons asleep on all the noor-,
the hall-doors their hinges IN some chses' -,
women and children were hustled ont OF tne rooni'
filling with smoke rupdly. They suffered much from n
posIrc To the cold In their night clothing nut we,o 80,
10 be out Of the houses. nevertheless one famly r
on the roof and shivercd there until all danger M's m
The iremcn cNtinguishcd the hanes qhlchly III ,,,
prevent the upper part Of the building rom siIie
ured and soon after midnight the lflghtencu d,,
were able return to their rooms. IyeryIhnE w =, -
i'm the tailo-shop destroyed. Mr. Harrls sai t -,
erday that he hal insurance amounting 10 S-,"oo.
the polcc estimated his loss NJ 5000 Johh nao,, r"
stock was insured for 81. 800 III the Gernaia a,ii
wich companies. lie said that his loss wou" oo "'
81 800. other losses by the fire were slight
New-York tribune., 1884-11-26
LOSSES IN VARIOUS PLACES.

Chicago, Nov. 25-Fire occurred IN the 1our-
story and basement building, 1873 Monroest occupcu
by the Chicago Paper Company and others last "Eii'
The Paper Comranys loss il $4,000 insurance, 49,
600 Other minor losses chiefly by printers amount 10
e6 600: fully insured The building. owned py Ir,''
Campbell is damaged to the extent OF T3ooo; Hsc"'
JACKSONVILLE Fla, Nov. 2l.-Fire at Green Low
Spring Florida. yesterday, destroyed Leandcr pa"
room Lawrences confectionery, the Crocker pock' ''
Ioyelaccs boarding house. and Mr. Crackers resuenre
Lsss S5O, 900; insurance, $4,000 Inc hie was "'o
result of accident. ~
NoRwICII, Conn, Nov. ga store at Hails'ihc '''
Poouctnnnuck was burned early this morning. III "'s !"
new building and was to have been opened to-day in
loss IL $4,000; partially insured The heaviest oSs
falls on George o. Stead who had just bought large
stock. r.,
KANSAS CIrY Nov. GA fire yesterday at '''i
Junct,nn on the ST. Louis and san Francisco khiw'E'
DESTROYED twelve buildings including hall dozen s'oic'
The loss Is heavy but Is generally insured.
NrwnrRG ~ V. Nov. 2j.-Thc hardware store oi A.
IT. Pckcns was damaged by fire last night to the amount
OF 5000; insured.
sAyASNAII Nov 2j.-Thc house OF Colonel Ea"m"
Bird at Guyton, thirty miles from saVanhah' ""'
burned this morning by ncendaiics. The inmates p"''y
c.caped with their lives.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-26
TuE ToNQUIN TROUBLES.
, ,,rn,ATIoN TO BE ASKED FOR.
u,.,,oss THROUGH :rnE BRITISH FOREIGN
Nkoo' SECRETARY.

,,oxs THROUGH THE BRITISH fohN'"N
Nkoo' SECRETARY.
Nov GA dispatch from Shangha, 10
. LoNpo. saws: "The action OF the French anas
the i'~c "ss;na 10 reopen the Tonqun question: ana
driven Oa .ad that she will ask for English media
Tna secretarics of Prince Ii assert that they
Won c.n,o;n Fournier, who negotiated the liehts'm
saw Cor France, make erasures in the treaty
r'V" Palm correspondent of The Times teleerapns
". In. ,ha British Minister to China is inactive ana
.a, .as, the breach is widening between emma anu
,s" ~sanco The Tsung-li-Yamen is calmly con"aen'
at ahinas powers and has decided to re)ec, Oap.;
To,rnier's May Convention as basis LOT "'s''''
,,ons II will repoen the whole question: u
7, ia asserted that NJ. Waddington' anu 'ne VIA,
or;s Tseng are conducting negotiations as some
he Rritish Foreign Secretary, WHcH ~ J;snnte
nro MISE that a peaceful settlement, Vi 'u ',racpcnt
pa he reached. The main points OF an Trn,,na
may bo ,voulI he satisfactory to China ana france
s,.. krown TO both diplomats lhesc nss,oms d,urv"
arc, az Inth rountries must make large conce ,s
.%;n renndiates all responsibility ior tDc i-nS
snn aaair lint will make honorable cohcco''on'
s"n ~ rrance to secure a peaceful settlement. 60
y" p""S Nov o5-Ju the Chamber OF pepMM,es w. =;
aay The debate was resumed npon the d ION iu,, a.
Crsait hill NJ Freppel, III defending ihc cuu
she ,;overnment and advocating colonla eApar;t;u,.
said that il behooved France, as eIci' He con
and cIviiIzing Power, to possess co"n;o was worth
:anded that The conquest of Tonquin was SV ad
Tho sacrifices il demanded Ihe depa'o ""' "
yonrneJ unfil tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-26
An OLD HORSE THIEF CAPTURED.
.AITIuoHE, Nov. pa man of apparently

BALTIMORE, Nov. 2j.-A man of apparently
seventy years who gave his name aS Charles smith, was
caught in front of the City Hall late last hiSht trying 10
stcol horse and buggy. Ills frank statement that he
had lcr his own on The street nearly
resulted in his dismissal. He was held, however,
and the marshal Of police was requested 10 look out
for horse and wagon stolen in Washington yesterday.
The horse and wagon were found in livery stable here
and the old man identified as the one who LEFT them
there The man arrested In Baltimore. In 1869 for
the theft Of horse and buggy In Harrisburg, whittier
he was carried and served four years
In prison. His then was John Weise. Nearly
two years ago he was captured In Baltimore County "a
william Willard while III the act OF stealing morse
from stable but managed with several others to break
iai aud escape He next appeared IN NcwJerscy when
for Ike offence he was sent to state prison as Anton
Meelz bur August last he escaped.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-26
DISMAL TRADE PROSPECTS.
THE OUTLOOK IN THE COAL FIELDS.


MINERS TO RESIST SUSPENSION OF wORK-TD
"MoLLY MAGUIREs" ORGANIZING.
HAzLEToN, Pa, Nov. 25.-The great mining and
transportation corporations representing the coal
bination, have determined upon a general suspension
of operations at the collieres in the Schuykl Lehgh,
Wyoming and Lackawanna regions The suspension
will be ordered about December l. An army OF be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 will be thrown out of en-
ployment by the movement The GOLFERS considering
the scheme uncalled for and unjust upon
the part of the companies preparing to begin
counter movement and it is confidently believed that
serious trouble will ensue. The Miners and Laborers'
Benevolent Association, which a large and pow
eriul labor organization previous TO 1s7O-71, but
which became bankruped in the long strikes Of those
years, being organized again. Already lodges have
been formed at Minersve, Ashland, Shenandoah and
other places in the middle coal fields. The Amalga-
mated Association of Miners and Laborers is also being
strengthened. These bodies in conjunction with tho
Knights of Labor stirring up strong sentiment
among all classes Of collery operatives.
From private 1t Is learned that the "a 900
colliers employed in the Cumberland lMaryland) and
Kanawha West Virginia and Virginia. bituminous
districts have resolved to strike against the companies
proposition announcing reduction of 20 per cent in
wages the new schedule to 20 into effect on and after
December l. This movement has been pushed by
emissaries sent by the Knights of Labor to those
districts to the seeds OF discord and dissenson
Molly MagurclsHl cropping out. OOlilerv
property being watched by incendaries and several
instances are known where mine works have fallen
beneath the inccndiary's brand. Backcg" or nom
union miners. Others. who have in any way incurred
the animosity of the Molly Magmres.' receive coffin
notices." warning them TO quit the county under the
penalty of speedy and summary death
The Knights of Labor and other organizations are
silently bat surely perfecting their plans for the
projected vast labor demonstration and hostile have
members Of some of the lodges become that an un-
defined and grave feeling of insecurity prevails in those
mining communities where the power of the dangerous
clans is strong and threatening. The communistio
element has deianly manifested It's disregard
of the law in numerous cases. All the recent
countable murders that have occurred in the middle
and northern coal fields, well in the bitumnous
regions. attributed to the Molly Mcguire hatred.
Late affairs rapidly mpressing the honest, reput
able and law-abiding citizens with the apprehension
that the coal regions of Pennsylvania soon again
TO witness renewal of the that enacted
when Molly Magureism" was rampant.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-26
SUITS ABOUT DISCRIMINATING RATES.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l

CLEVELAND, Nov. 25.-Two important dam
age suits begun In Common Pleas Court here to-day
The first that f.scofed. Shurmer Teage against
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Com
pany for 100000, claimed rebate on account Oh
freight discrimination in favor Of the standard OIL Com
pany and against the plaintiffs. The claim is for ex-
ccsses Of freight charged Scoed, shuer Teagle from
December l, 1879. until restrained by an inlnnctlo
granted by Judge Blandin q few months ago. General
Freight Agent Baant. OF the Lake Shore Road ad-
mited in his evidence to-day that the Standad had been
granted lower rates than its competitors The second
that OF Louisa and Charles ]" Crawford,
dealers In coal against the Cleveland, Mount Vernon
and Delaware 8nd Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroads Tor
S3357 49, with interest claimed to have been exacted
from the plaintiffs in excess Of. the rates charged 10
others for the shipmcnt of coal.
New-York tribune., 1884-11-26
PERsoNATING SIR ROGER 7IcHBoRNE.

A PEErENIIoCs coACuMAN on TRIAL FOR BIGAMY.
iBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUSEl
TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov 25.-In the Common
Pleas Court this morning there called the case of
Charles Newbod, alias Sir Charles Everard MELVILLE IN
dicted for bgamy. Newbod a coaclnan In the en-
ploy Of c. whitney, of the Opera Houses in
Detroit and in May last eloped from the former
city with WhitDeys daughter, Lillian. to whom he was
married by Justice OF the Peace in this city. He
pursued by his ate faherin law who caused his
II was claimed that NewbOd had many other wives lv-
ing various parts of this country and Canada The
attracted much attention through the prominence OF
the whitney family and through Newbods claim, made
public white he in jail that he was the real Sir Roger
TckbOrne and the OF the vast property OF hat
family in England At his examination before a police
justice he bound 10 court and has since been
confined In Jail His attorney this morning asked post
ponement 10 which the prosecution objected ana inc
question argued during the afternoon.