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Senator Frye,s Bank Account,

Correspondence Lewiston (Me, D Journal
81 see" said Senator Frye, ''that Washing
ton paper in very complimentary notice, sets
me down as poor man, not worth So, 900.
That's too much, said Mr., Frye ''But the fell
low who wrote that does not know the reason
am SO poor. 1t came about in this wise: was
brought up in Quaker family and when in
my boyhpod, L got chance to go up to Boston
my Quaker grandfather gave me So to spend. /
did not know any boys in Boston, and / could
think of no way to have five dollars worth of
fun without boys So l kept the money in my
pocket When l got home my grandfather
air of one who had done virtuous action, said,
L did not spend it at all, grandfather; saved it
and have it in my pocket Whereupon my
grandfather said: You may give me back the
money, William; gave you that money to spend
at Boston. Ever since that, said the Senator,
II have known better than to save money"
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ILLINOIS.
The Feeling Over the AcquttaI of MOntgOm
cry and Companions.


HILLsBoRo, Jan. 3.-AIatters ave very quiet
here so far to-day. There is some bitter talk
against the jurors, but no violent feelings are
manifested Lee Pettus left for the West this
morning, and Clement started for Irving, a
small town six miles away, where he has friends
A dispatch from there says when it became
known that he was in the place he was given five
minutes to leave. and he went at once. Mont
gomerys whereabouts or plans are not definitely
known at this writing
A dispatch from Taylorvile the home of the
Bond family, says: when the verdict of the
jury became generally known this morning, the
feeling and expression of the people was that
Justice could no longer be obtained from the
courts. The friends of Montgomery and other
defendants, and they have some friends, indorse
the verdict of course and talk more freely than
for a long time The Bond family arrived here
yesterday to attend the funeral of their relative
who committed suicide ON Tuesday and the grief
over this loss deadened them to the effect of the
verdict Colonel Bond said this morning that
the alibi was too strong for the jury, and he had
not counted on conviction since that testimony
was given"
The funeral of Abner D. Bond took place this
afternoon at Christian Church. Notwithstand-
ing the intensely cold weather an immense crowd
was present
meeting with Mr.. Glenn a prominent
miller as leader, was held to night. Resolutions
town tomorrow morning, public meeting
should be called and they be notified to leave i'm
medately. A movement was made to hang the
jury in et1igy in front of the court house night
but the idea was finally abandoned. The sheriff
seems very nervous in regard to the situation.
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Brief Mention.

Harvey Kinser who was arrested at Jonesville
for shooting his brother William, has been ac-
quilted.
After examining 154 jurors, in the murder
ease of Mrs. Stuart at Aledo, the panel was
filled. The trial began yesterday .tsa
Congressman Moulton, in wel-written letter
to the Sheloyville Leader, declines a renomina-
ton for Congress on the Democratic ticket from
the Seventeenth district.
Phillip Cosper committed suicide by cutting
his throat with corn knife, in a crib at the
poor farm, four miles north of Decatur. He was
German, aged sixty three years, and was a
county charge.
Samuel Roberts, of Plano while working on
planer in the harvester factory got his right
hand caught in the knives The hand was cut
off and the arm so cut and mangled that it had
to be amputated at the elbow.
An incendiary fire at Joliet destroyed the stock
of the Phoenix furniture store The building
they occupied is a complete wreck; both stories
were Quilted, and nothing remains but the walls
The property was we'll insured. The Hartford
had the building risk, $4,000. There was S., 500
on stock, divided as follows: Merchants, of
Newarks 81 900; Queen 81 900; Northwestern
National, $500; Merchants, of Cleveland, 81 900;
Springfield Fire and Marine, 81, 000 Phoenix, of
Brooklyn, 81 000
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4 Stranpe MalanY.

Summitsville Special
Peter Davis, the eight-year-old son of William
B. Davis, is afflicted with a strange malady,
which is already pronounced fatal On Monday
he complained of a chill, and short time after
ward was taken with high fever His eyes
dilated and fecks of foam appeared on his lips
He whined like puppy, swapping and barking
and finally went into spasms. While in this con
dition he snapped and barked like dog, the
force of his swapping breaking three teeth.
Though small-framed and weakly, it required
three men to hold him on the bed. The sight of
water drives him almost frantic, yet he COM
plains of extreme thirst From about noon yes
terday till this morning, he had passed through
eight hard spasms. The strangest part of all is
that the physicians in attendance emphatically
deny that the child has hydrophobia, and his
father states that he has not been bitten by a
dog, except about two years ago, when a Spitz
dog slightly lacerated one of his hands.
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War Against Mahone Onicials.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan 3-Now that the anti
Mahoneites have got the State government
again, they are making it lively for such Malone
officials as held over. To-day R. F. Mays
Judge of Botetourt county, resigned The Dem
ocrats some weeks ago appointed committee to
investigate charges against him. They called
him the Botetourt Jeffreys. Among some of his
acts he ordered an attorney never to appear
entered the next day with the forbidden article
whereupon Mays imposed a fine upon him for
contempt of court. Charges are now pending
against two other Malone judges-Goodwn
Judge of Norfolk, and Claybourne of Franklin.
The latter is charged with having invented the
lizard game known to gamblers, and has gone
by the soubriquet of the 'Lizzard Judge" for
some time past. General Jubal A. EARLY is the
leader of the anti ''Lizzard Judge" faction Good
win is charged with accepting brides. Some
time this week the resolution calling upon Ma
hone to resign his seat in the United States Sen
ate will come I'D.
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Minor Notes,

Judge John Brady, father of General Tom
Brady, is dying at his home in Muneie
The Citizens Bank, of Delphi has been sold
to Messrs E. H. Shirk, Milton Shirk and Rob
ert f. Moore, of Peru.
Judge Bonner. of Rushville. has granted a
change of venue in the Block murder cases. They
were sent to Greensburg.
The millionaire Charles Mclaughlin, who was
recently murdered in San Francisco used to be
a gay stage driver between Richmond and
Kpishtstown
The mail pouch from Butlerville was found. on
Wednesday, on the Ohio d Mississippi road, near
Mount Vernon. The pouch was cut, and its con
tents had been Iifed.
Dick T. Morgan has sold onehalf interest in
the Terre Haute Courier to John Donaldson. 1t
is the intention of the new firm to improve the
paper m many respects
Charles Tague and Robert Lynum, of Green
field engaged in a brawl and Tague was Sc
riously injured Lynum breaking his collar bone
and three ribs and almost punching out both of
his eyes
Much feeling prevailed at Peru over the report
that Colonel w. f. Kidder accused of bgamy
had been released in New York. The fear of
-lynching which he expressed is laughed at as
groundless
Eli. T.. McGorman. of Clarksburg, has &C
cel.-ef Il cali as pastor Of the Christian Church of
i4awrenceburg. He is spoken of in the highest
terms and pronounced to be a most effective re
ligious worker
Considerable interest is felt in Mt Vernon con
-uii-.s the approaching hanging of the murder
ers Of Van Wye, which will take place on the
morning of the 18th. No respite is expected. and
it is considered dangerous if one should be
granted.
On New Years day, Sam Blunt, of Caborn
Station went hunting in the vicinity of Mt Yer
non His gun exploded, tearing out tho breech
and ripping the barrels almost to the muzzle. A
portion of the gun struck him in the head, frae-
turing the skull and killing him almost instantly.
George Peters, of Jeffersonville, aged seventy
six died on Wednesday, after a lingering illness
Deceased was an eccentric old fellow, and lived
all alone in shanty which was constructed
something like a fort He supposed to be
possessed of considerable wealth, which, it is
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Indiana Patents.

Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors
as follows:
Horace r. Allen, indianapolis, cutter bar, etc,
for moving and reaping machines, also moving
machines F, L. Bailey, Freeport, sawsetter: G.
j. Berens, Washington, refrigerator; E. c. Clark
and A. Dewey, Cannelton, feed mechanism for
grinding mills Hamilton C1pp and F. NJ. Brock,
New Providence, mailbag; c. H. Dougherty,
Gleason, Wabash, wagon-tongue support; c. R.
Goodman. Hammond, apparatus for laying rail
way tracks; J. G. Croft. Connersville, saw
guard Robert Hamilton, Franklin, cleyis; VIII
horses william Hodgen Vincennes, food fence;
}. w Myers, Lincoln. device for fastening
school desks; R. E. Poindexter, indianapolis,
saw set +. w. Robinson. Richmond. straw
machine; S. J. Stofer, North Liberty, fireescape;
Carl Wagner Columbus, method of and machine
for Ornamenting wood; c. H, Wagner. Elkhart
device for attaching crossbars to telegraph poles
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Joel Chandler Harris, in Atlanta Constitution.
1t is not to be denied however, that the dialect
business has been wofully overdone, both in the
newspapers and in the magazines There is a
horrible example of it in the January number of
the Atlantic Monthly, entitled ''The Bishops
Nagabond," and signed by Octave Thanet, who
ever he or she may be- The scene is laid in
Aiken, S; c., and the vagabond is an illiterate
cracker, but the whole story is spoiled by the
horrible mess which Octave Thanet makes of
the dialect: Not a word nor a thought,
and therefore not an act of the vaga-
bond is CHARACTERISTIC. Such language as is put
in his mouth was never heard by mortal man or
woman unless Octave Thanet has had the mis-
fortune to hold conference with lunatic suf-
fering from the nightmare. Now, the whole
merit of the piece turns upon this, and every
word that the vagabond utters bears inherent
evidence that the conception is false to life, and
therefore false to art. That such stuff should
pass muster with the editor of the Atlantic
Monthly, who is supposed to be on the alert is
one of the mysteries that will probably never be
solved, until we all go to a land where society
SonnetS and epigrains not regarded as poetry.
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a Neglectful Registrar.

Some time ago a bachelor well along in years,
from the eastern part of the town, applied to F.
E. Ely, registrar of births, deaths and mar
riages, for a marriage license. Mr.. Ely, in a
most affable manner at once sat down to his
desk and from drawer took out a proper blank
and began filing it as the law required. The
questions as to his age, occupation, birthplace,
ETC., were ansvS2sd promptly, and everything
went smartly TIL Mr.. Ely inquired the lady's
name, and received the reply, ''You are to fur
nish her" Mr.. Ely said, II cannot do that; you
said, ''The pretty registrar you are, being the
only man in town who can give us a license.
Have you not got list of women who have
handed their names in TO you who want to be
married." The bachelor then said, II supposed
you had such list to select FROM but if you have
not, we will have to drop the matter right here.
Accordingly the subject was dropped, and the
man went away disappointed and remains I'M
married to this day
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said, he seereted somewhere inside his dwelling,
but none of the aforesaid wealth has been found
and he will be buried at the expense of the
county.
The gas well sunk on the lands of Mr.. W. C
DePauw in Harrison county, is bored to the
depth of $40 feet. Sufficient flow Of gas has been
obtained to run the engine used in the boring
1t is the intention to sink the well to the depth
of 200 feet if a sufficient flow of gas is not OBJ
tanned before that depth is reached.
Julius Stephens eight years old, strayed from
his home in Fort Wayne on Monday and was
found by William Chapman, farmer, eight
miles southwest of the city on Tuesday after
noon. The lad was lying in fence corner, his
feet frozen and nearly dead. He was delirious,
and the terrible exposure may result very seri-
ously
The Portland Buggy-top Attachment Manu-
featuring Company has been organized. The
company is composed of the leading business
men of the town. and Differed with men of en-
ergy and fine business qualifications. number
of men will be employed to work in the factory,
and several frst-class statesmen put on the road
to sell territory and attachments.
Mrs Jenkins, an inmate of the Delaware coun-
ty inirmary is suspected of the murder of her
step-son, who suddenly disappeared over a year
ago Suspicion having been aroused, the coro-
ner to-day searched the premises where the fami-
ly lived, and found in an old shed what seemed
to be grave, which, when opened, is expected to
tell the tale of the woman's crime.
Dick Stevenson who killed his brother Aaron,
at Green Hill, some months since by chOpping
off his head died in the Williamsport jail on
Monday of last week OF pneumonia. On the day
of his death he made known that he wanted to
make confession. To Jailer Reddick he said
that he killed his brother with an old AK because
he had abused him, whipping him severely some
time before and continually swore at him.
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This is the latest craze of fashionable society
Ladies who are semi-invalids and debarred from
the pleasures of gay life are invited to the house
of one of their number and requested to bring
their bottles. The hostess receives them in
stylish negligee and seated in recling position
with her camphor bottle in her hand. Soon all
the visitors are seated, bottles are produced, and
the hostess opens the ball by uncorking her
bottle and taking a preliminary sniff. Then
of shifts: meanwhile e1viops and distressed
glances are directed to cut glass and decorated
bottles, and one lady upsets the equilibrium of a
whole company by appearing with colored cam
phor The correct thing is an ordinary half pint,
white bottle, with a cork stopper, but al
red or blue ribbon may be tied round its neck.
The effect on the camphor sniffer is said to be
both soothing and celebrating, but few spite
full outsiders declare that it is a benefit to the
complexion. Be this as it may, the fact remains
that it is the very latest dissipation in the fluid
refreshment line
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THE TORONTO DISASTER.
The List of Dead Increased to Twehty-Six-
Statement of the Engineer.

TORONTO. Jan. 3.--Three more men wounded
in the terrible railroad collision here yesterday
have died-James Kelly, Matthew Walker and
Charles Mcdonald, making twenty-five 50 far.
Three or four others are not expected to re-
cover. McDonalds brother, Joseph, was killed
instantly A meeting of the City Council is called
for this afternoon to devise means to aid the
widows and orphans. The surviving employees
of the Bolt Works will also meet for the same
purpose. Subscription lists have been started
by the newspapers, and contributions are flow
in All papers call for searching Investigation
into the cause of the accident.
Patrick Norton, aged seventeen, the twenty
sixth victim of yesterdays disaster died at mid
night. Engineer Jeffrey, of the freight train
that collided with the suburban lies dangerously
hurt at his lodgings 1t was previously stated
that he jumped from the engine before the col
lision, but this he denies. He says
he remembers nothing until he
found himself lying in the snow, with
blood flowing from terrible scalp wound He
states that, not having been over the road be-
fore, he asked for pilot, and got Barber who
is under arrest All went well until Hamilton
was reached There he was informed that No.
l express would be the first train they would
meet but no mention made of the suburban,
and Barber never told him of it.
AT special meeting of the City Council it was
decided to appropriate 81 600 in aid of the be-
reaved families 1t was also decided to give a
decent burial to the dead. Apublic meeting will
be held at the council chamber to morrow to dis
cuss further steps for the relief of the widows
and orphans. A meeting of the employees of the
bolt works was held tonight to make arrange
ments for the funeral of the dead.
Patrick Cavanagh, aged sixteen, the twenty
seventh victim, has just died in the hospital.
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An Alleged Accomplish of Harvey.

IYansVlIIe journal.
Incidents in the crime for which Harvey was
lynched at Petersburg, some time since, continue
to crop out, but the most startling was that
which transpired yesterday. The officers have
been working up the several selews since the oc-
currence, and yesterday arrested, in Illinois, just
across the State line, man named Ben Battles
as an accomphce of Harvey. 1t now leaks out
that Harvey made confession and implicated
Battles and others whom the authorities have
been after since the lynching The capture was
made by w L. Hargreve ex-sheriff of Gibson
county. aided by George Guliek, of Petersburg,
who have been working up the case. The man
has been taken to.Petersburg and turned over to
the sheriff There is great indignation among
the Petersburg people, but no lawless measures,
it is thought, will be resorted to. The criminal
denied any completely in the crime. He has had
a hard record in and about Oakland City and
Peters burg.
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could be given the whole structure, which was Of
wood was q mass of flames and the roof ready
to fall in. Nothing could be saved, and in
short time only a pile of ruins remained The
fire originated in an upper story, and incendiar
ism is suspected Twenty thousand pounds of
-four, 200 bushels of oats, and large quantity of
other grain were consumed. The loss is $4,000,
with an insurance of s., 900 in the Royal, Frank
lin, and Liverpool, London and Globe, $500 of
which was on stock Tt is thought the firm will
rebuild
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The Harbor Grace Riot.

HARBoR GRACE, Jan. 3.-John Bray and Rich
ard Bradbury, wounded in the recent encounter
between Orangemen and Catholics, died to-day
Both were Orange sympathizers. Bradbury was
wounded by the bursting of his own rifle. Twenty
one persons are under arrest for participating in
the riot. Dispositions of witnesses were taken to-
day. The Catholic witnesses swore that the first
shot, which killed Callahan. was fired by Head
constable Doyle who has been temporarily sus-
pended from duty. .r-st7l
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THE JOURNALISTS
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LABOR TROUBLES,

Pennsylvania Miners Meet in Convention to
Effect Thorough Organization.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 3.-The coal miners met
in State convention here this morning for the
purpose of effecting a thorough organization
Delegates We're present from all parts of the
State and the convention will be in session sew
eral days. The officials claim that the present
difficulties will not be considered. The miners
of the Fourth pool at meeting in Brownsville
yesterday, resolved to establish camps in the
vicinity of the mines working at less than the
district price, if the men refused to strike.
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TILE FIRE RECORD.
FOrty-FOur Hundred Bales of Cotton De-
strOyed at Augusta


AUGUSTA, Ca, Jan. 3.-Phinizy & Co.'S cot
ton warehouse took fire this morning about 2
o'clock. The high wind and freezing weather
impaired the service of the fire department at
the commencement of the fire, which got well
under way before it could be reached Thirty
six hundred bales of cotton were in the ware
houses. This has been burning ten hours, and
the entire fire department is still at work. The
loss on cotton is $l5000O; loss on warehouse
$20,000 Insurance. $l45,0O0 At 7 o'clock
the warehouse of Wheless & Co.,
containing 800 bales was ignited by sparks from
Phinizys warehouse The fire is under control
the loss on cotton is $4,000. Loss on the ware
house, $1,000; insured. The weather was so
cold that the water froze almost as soon as it
left the engines.
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Trestle Blown Down.

BUFFALO, Dec. 3.-The storm that set in yes
terday continued to rage to-day with increased
fury, accompanied by binding snow. The
large trestle on the Niagara Falls branch of the
Central railroad was coated with ice last night
and blown down to-day, forcing all trains on
that line and the Canada Southern to enter the
city by the old belt line. No serious accidents
are reported in this vicinity.