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The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
Cable Notes.

The death of Gustav Richter, painter, is an
nounced
The anniversal ornithological exhibition opened
at Vienna yesterday.
John Bright is better, having been suffering
from congestion of the lungs
The Brussels Independence Beige declares
that Stanley is definitely abandoning the Congo
mission.
The Queen of Tahiti has gone to Havre on her
way home. She breads the journey through
America, on account of newspaper reporters.
Fourteen bombshells and ten rifles have been
discovered in a house in the suburbs of Madrid.
The occupants of the house have been arrested.
A new Anarchist journal has appeared at
Genoa, Italy. Its object is to promote the de-
velopment of German colonies, agricultural and
commercial
The cotton yarn factory at Silversum burned
yesterday One person was killed. Several
were wounded. Six hundred people are thrown
out of employment.
Otaora President of Columbia, declares the
deficit created by the past three administrations
amounts to over $ll ZOO, 600, and the interest
and foreign debts to 0365,0OO.
Explorer Dupius has returned from Tonquin.
He denies that there are either English or Amer
ican officers in the Chinese army. He says even
General Gordon's lieutenant, Mesny, has aban-
doned the Chinese.
Cardinal Won Hohenlohe has returned to
Rome and sent his excuse to the Pope for his
prolonged absence. The Pope will grant him an
audience shortly when his Holiness will take
occasion to express his discomfort at the Cardi-
nails conduct
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
The Cnhan FiIihnsters.

KEY WEST, April 4-The war ships Vandalia
and Swatara and revenue cutter Boutwell, sailed
from here, to day, to assist the revenue cutter
DIX in the search for the schooner of the Cuban
bandits. The Spanish consul believes that the
small party from here was to meet larger one
from Mobile and New Orleans
State, Navy and Treasury had brief conference
this afternoon in regard to the alleged filibuster
ing expedition against Cuba organized at Key
West 1t vast stated the collector of customs at
Key West and the commanders of the revenue
cutters Dix and Boutwell, and the United States
ships Vandalia Swarata and Yankee
had been advised of the suspected viola
ton of the neutrality laws and directed
to use every effort to intercept
the offenders. The three naval vessels are on
their way to Cuban waters, as is one OF the
revenue steamers. in the hope of finding the
schooner Shooters. The other revenue steamer
will remain in the vicinity of Key West on look
out for any other suspicious craft which may ar
rive at or sail from that port.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
Continuation of the Inquiry into the DAN
vile RiOt-Testimony of a Member
of the Virginia State Senate.
Strenuous Efforts to Discover the
Writer of the Mysterious Circular.
Governor Murray Defends Himself Against
Charges of Fraud and COrruptiOn-MiS-
cellaneOus Washington News.
wHooP FOR FREE TRADE.
Congressman Cox Writes a Letter Declaring
Against Protection.

Congressman Cox Writes a Letter Declaring
Against Protection.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-Some surprise is ex-
pressed by friends of Mr.. S. S. Cox upon learn
ing that he has written letter to be read at
dinner to be given tomorrow by the Young
Mems Democratic Reform Club, of Brooklyn, in
which he says that Mr. Carlisle elected
Speaker as tariff reformer, and would have
been disloyal had he failed to recognize it in the
appointment of the committee ways and
means; that the Morrison bill is moderate itself,
and asks if there is any reason why an enlight-
ened economist should refuse to support it.
sit is to be regretted" he writes, 'that this ques-
ton of tariff reform should depend so much on
partisan considerations. Iwould be glad, in
deed, if it were totally eliminated from partisan
politics; it would then have fair play and better
opportunities for successful legislation. Nor do
I despair even now at this time of the session,
that some good will result if nothing more than
debate. I maintain that protection cripples in
dustry; it keeps genius in its swaddling clothes.
The custom-house is an unnecessary evil it is
frontier system of affront, and surrounds the
nation with a Gordon of robbers
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05

source. The majority of the tariff reformers
continue to lay it upon Messrs. Randall and
Converse, who are so bitterly opposed to tariff
agitation The reformers claim that these men
are malcontents and that they would stoop to
any political turn that would precipitate the de-
feat of the Morrison bill There is no ques-
toning the fact that the call or card
was so put out that it has had effect. There
was, before its issuance a general feeling that
the horizontal bill was dead. The card has
shown that there are men in the party who are
determined that if it still lives it shall be throt-
tied and the last breath of life forced out of it.
Many think tonight that this effort has proven
successful.
For several days there have been some ma
neuverings among the Democrats in the House
that have been suspicious, to say the least. At
no time for years have Randall and some of his
trusted followers been running out of and into
the House, and visiting New York, and the com
mittee rooms, and the hotels about town so
much. 1t has been many years, say Mr. Morri-
sons friends, since that gentleman has been so
exercised and held so many conferences with
friends He is nervous and almost impetuous.
Usually he is calm and calculating.
1t is true that something has been Sin the
wind" on the tariff question during the ten days
just past. These conferences and trips to Phila-
delphia, New York and elsewhere are not pas
times. There is no doubt that the party, real
izing that the tariff action will have very much
to do toward imparing making the presiden
tial success, is holding conferences, and it now
looks as though Morrison may have seen his
mistake, and is willing to let Randall beat his
hill
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
The British Government Urged to Establish
an Independent State at KhartOum
Under General Gordon.
England's Protest Against the Chilli
Peruvian Treaty Criticised.
Debate in the British Commons on Popular
Suffrage in lreland-Italy and the
PrOpaganda-Cable Notes.
ENGLAND AND THE soUpAN.

The Government Decides Against Establish
ing Protectorate Over Egypt.
LONDON, April 4.-The Cabinet, after thor
fishing protectorate over Egypt.
In the Lords. Earl Granville Foreign Secre
tary of State, said the government was not pre-
pared to send military expedition to the relief
of General Gordon. The latest advices from him
were reassuring.
In the Commons, the Secretary of State for
War said it was not advisable to state the meas
ures contemplated by the government for the
defense of the Nile provinces.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: Egyptian affairs
are fast drifting into anarchy, and through an
archy to annexation or war-possibly both.
England must undertake the administration of
Egypt. This will be terrific burden, but the
country must shoulder it manfully The Min
listers may try to ignore the existence of the
burden, but the comedy of such course is being
rapidly play ed out
The Gazette then urges the government to as
slst General Gordon to establish at Khartoum an
Independent state under his sovereignty. Tell
him., it says, that England no longer considers
the Soudan part of the Ottoman empire"
Colonel Kitchen and Major Rundell who were
sent to co operate with Captain Chermsde in his
endeavor to open the road from Suakm to Ber-
Der by means of negotiations, have arrived at
Assouan. They have been ordered not to pro
ceed further for the present
The Haddindowas, reinforced by the survivors
OF Osman Digmas army, are infesting Kassala
They fire heavily into the town every night.
The Governor of Kassala asks British relief.
King John of Abyssina has sent to Cairo to pur
chase costly robe of honor for the Queens
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
Mary Anderson Again.

LONDON, April 4.-Mary Anderson says she
cannot guess who inspired the recent slandering
paragraphs She is indignant and angry, and
says; They are all fiction, but they are none
the less painful to me and equally painful to
the men whose names have been coupled with
mine" She pronounces them cruel practical
jokes. She says she is suffering greatly from
insomnia, and is going away Saturday for a
few weeks rest. After this she will fill three
weeks engagement in Edinburgh and then go
to Venice. In September she will go to London
Count Gleichen has completed a bust of Miss
Anderson, and George Boughtof has painted her
portrait
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
THE NATIONAL COMEDY.
A Western Editor Who Is Managing Demo-
cratic Presidential Interests.


cratic Presidential Interests.
Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April At developes that Mr.
Mumford, editor of the Kansas City Times, who
has been here some time laboring zealously
to erase the name of Senatorelect Payne, of
Ohio, from the list of Democratic presidential
probabilities, is just zealously at work trying
to get up boom for Justice Field Mumford
thinks Field is more likely to be nominated than
any other man, and came near being nominated
at Cincinnati in 1880.
Reports have reached here to-day about Til
| den's physical condition which come from reli-
able source and which, if true, put the old
ticket beyond the pale of possibilities. One re-
port comes to Representative Peelle, of Indiana,
from fresh from Tilden's freside. He
says it is practically impossible for Tilden to
walk twelve-inch plank twenty feet; that he
totters like a child is so palsied that he cannot
raise his hands above his head and that he is too
weak to feed himself, and cannot speak above a
whisper
During the past six weeks your correspondent
has made especial effort to ascertain the feeling
of the Democrats in Congress upon the presi-
dental outlook. 1t is safe to say that from time
members and have general information con-
corning every State in the Union. 1t is the
opinion of four out of every five from the ex-
treme East, South and the Pacific, that the OLD
ticket Will be renominated.
1t is beginning to develop in the mind of a
very great many that the shoot of Dana for Hol-
man, the refusal of Tilden to say he would con.
sent to the use of his name, and the European
tour of Hendricks form a train of circumstances
will show a concerted plan to have been work
ing. l have not found dozen prominent Demo
Gratis out of 300 representing every part of the
country, but say that Tilden can and will be
nominated if he wants the race.
So plain is it coming to the surface here that
Tilden will be nominated that there are men of
undoubted political precocity who say that even
ex-senator Mcdonald, of Indiana, is in the plot
to nominate the old ticket There is decided
impression that the old ticket has gained
strength that will benefit it after denomination
by the course pursued.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
THE DANvILLE RIOT.
Some of the Humorous Phases of the Vir-
ginia Investigation.

Some of the Humorous Phases of the Vir-
ginia Investigation.
Special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, April As the Danville riot
investigation drags its weary length before Sen
ator Shermans committee an occasional Incl
dent serious or ludicrous, occurs to give
some spice. For instance, to-day, Cornelius
Wannock, native Virgnian. sixty-six years
old, black as midnight, tall and cadaverous, and
wearing long, flowing locks testified that he
was black Democrat and had been badly
treated by the people of his race because he
preferred pure Democracy to corrupt Republic
anism.
''How were you badly treated'7 inquired SEN
ator Vance
81 had my nose pulled replied the witness,
dejectedly.
''When was that"
'During campaign four years ago."
''Where?n
SIN shop"
''By whom."
'Men and wimmen BOTH" and the witness
dropped his eyes toward the floor
you see,' he continued slowly, ''they just
stood me up and marched along in a line, each
man. woman and child giving my nose a twist"
And he wept as he reflected, and murmured
"An' dat was not de only time dey pulled my
nose, neither"
''How does your Democracy affect your social
standingw Mr.. Vance asked
dis way: I'm no more respected than dogs
in de streets
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
INDIANA MEASURES.
Bills and Petitions Intended to Benefit Ger
tain HOOsiers.


tain HOOsiers.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
. WASHINGTON April 4.-General Browne in
troduced in the House, to-day, petition of fifty
four wage workers OF Richmond, for legislation
to prevent importation of foreign laborers
under contracts made abroad. A bill of this
character is now on the calendar of the House,
favorably reported from the committee on labor,
but it will probably not be reached at this ses
sion.
General Browne also presented petition of
G. W. Leonard Post G. A. R., of New Castle,
for pension to Eliza Ann Albertson, widow of
John B. Albertson, deceased.
The resolutions of post of the G. A. r. at
Selma Delaware county, asking for legislation
in the interest of soldiers of the late war, in the
way of increased pensions, issuance of land war
rants, ETC., reached the House to-day through
General Browne.
Mr. Stockslager has introduced a bill appro
priating $50 900 for the improvement of the navi
CATION of the Ohio river at New Albany and for
the protection of the banks of the river at that
place from damages caused by the construction
of Golfer dams at Portland and Sand Island, KY,
by the government.
Black Greek is the name of postoffce estab-
lshed in Harrison county to-day, of which Enos
S. Kerr will be postmaster
John Bish has been commissioned postmaster
at Gates, and Goodlope Wright at Goodview.
The star mail service from Elkinsville to Crinns-
town will be increased to three times a week
after the 10th inst.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
Details of the Investigation.

To the western Associated Press.
WAsHINGToN, April 4.-General w. B. Wick
ham a member of the Virginia Senate was ex
amined by the Danville committee to-day.
Since 1865, he has been Republican and was so
still. Since the negroes acquired the right of
suffrage there had been no unjust discrimination
against them by the laws of Virginia The wit
ness thought there had been no unlawful combi
nation against the colored people, nor had they
been threatened with discharge from position as
far as he knew for not voting as their employers
wished.
During the cross-examination by Senator
Sherman, the witness said at the time he Joined
the Republican party themass of white people of
Virginia were unquestonably Democrats, and
the Republican party was then in a
political sense, considered the friend of the
negro 1t was natural that the colored
people should join the Republican party When
the Readjuster party was organized the Repub-
Leans were divided. The witness opposed the
''repudiation of the debt" The witness was in
vited to become candidate against the Coalition
party on the ground that from his known posi-
ton a Republican he would carry portion of
the colored vote.
rs there not a strong instructive feeling
among the colored people that their rights are
not safe in the hands of the Democratic partly"
Il think that is fact l think it is proper, Mr..
CHAIRMAN, tndt L Shoulu say IL is tact brought
about by false teaching of designing men. 1t is
more a feeling that the Republicans are more lib
eral to them than the Democrats would be-"
''Now, don't you think, if the Democratic
party would convince the colored people that
their rights would be secure under the control
and management of the Democrats, that they
would divide the colored vote!
Unquestionably, l think that, if that could
be contrived. But it would be a most difficult
thing in party where there are men who want
them to vote solidly one way telling them all
the time that the Democrats would oppress
them"
''Why should not the Democrats then, vote
with the Republicans if there is no issue Of that
kindM
''Why should they not break down the color
linesl'
''Yes; and vote with the Republicans, and di-
vide up themselves"
''If you will allow me to go back I will tell
you that is just exactly what | have been work
ing for since 1865. 1t has been the desire of my
life to divide the white people, and have political
parties composed of both 1t would be most
fortunate for both races if it could be done"
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
The House Passes the Indian Appropriation
Bill.


WASHINGTON, April 4-Mr. Anderson, from
the committee on public lands, reported bill to
provide for the adjustment of land grants made
by Congress to aid in the construction of rail
roads within the State of Kansas. Placed on
the House calendar.
The morning hour having been dispensed with,
the House went into committee of the whole,
Mr. Wellborn in the chair, on the Indian appro
priation bill.
The consideration of the bill having been con-
cluded, the committee rose and the bill passed.
The House went into committee of the whole,
Mr.. Cox, of New York. in the chair, on the pri
vate calendar. The committee remained in ses
sion long time considering the bill to relieve
certain soldiers of the late war from the charge
of desertion, but no final action was arrived at.
Mr.. Cook presented the House. through the
petition box, paper signed by about fifty citi-
zens of Avery, Ia, (which can hardly be termed
a petition, since it opens with the words, 'We,
the undersigned sovereign citizens hereby re
spectfully command you. our servants, y de-
manding the passage of bill to construct
double track steel railroad from New York to
San Francisco, and declaring that not another
dollar should be lent national banks.
The House took a recess until 7:30.
The evening session will be for the consdera-
tiOn Of pension bills.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Pettingill & Everett importers and shipping
merchants. Boston, have failed
George w Clay & Co, wholesale notion deal
ers, Pittsburg have failed. Assets, 100000;
liabilities, $22 600
George Bell was shot dead by Robert Powers,
at Baton Rouge Both are colored The diff
Guilty was about politics.
The employees of the Republic Iron Works,
South Side Pittsburg, have been notified of a 10
per cent. reduction in wages, to take effect on
next Monday
The t~ial of the Murraysvilie PA gas well
riotersis set for next Monday, the 7th inst. The
defendants will ask for change of venue to
Armstrong county.
The night express from Toronto to Montreal
ran off the track near Wales station The
driver was killed and the fireman fatally injured
A few passengers were slightly injured,
By the will of Rev. Henry Morgan, of Boston,
the Morgan Chapel and two dwellings adjacent,
valued at $39 000 are bequeathed to the Benevo-
lent Fraternity of Churches, of Boston.
The bill to repay Prince Edward Island mer-
chants 100000 collected from them by the United
States customs authorities on fish and oil pre-
vious to 1871, passed the Canadian Parliament
yesterday,
Senator Miller, of Caifor MIA, telegraphed
the Californian Republican central committee
yesterday, absolutely declining to be a can
didate before the Republican national conven-
tion, at Chicago.
A boiler explosion in w H Healeys Touring
mill, at Bellairsvlle, Pa, wrecked the building
and seriously injured Peter Stump, fireman.
Captain Healy the proprietor, was also badly
scalded about the legs and feet. The boiler was
considered unsafe for long time.
The Cleveland Rolling-mill Company, of
Cleveland, o., obtained judgment yesterday, in
the United States Circuit Court, at St Louis,
against the Texas & st. Louis Railway Com
pany for $40, 44S. The suit was on contract for
the delivery of fifteen thousand tons Of Bessemer
steel rails.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
THE PROPAGANDA.

No Remonstrance Against the Con version of
the Property by Italy.
ROME, April 4.-Mancini Minister of Foreign
Affairs states that no foreign government has
demonstrated with the Italian government
against the conversion of the property of the
propaganda into Italian rentes. The question,
he says is purely an internal one.
New York dispatch says the Catholic Re
view has been informed that the Holy Father
has so far announced no decision as to the APP
pointment of new archbishop of Philadelphia.
The Catholic Review also learns that new
episcopal see has been created in New Hamp-
SHIRE with a cathedral in Manchester, N. H, to
which the Holy Father has just appointed as
first bishop Rev. Dennis M. Bradley, recently
rector of st. Joseph's Church, that city, and
member of the council of Bishop Healey of
Portland. Me.
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
THE CASE OF GOVERNOR MURRAY.
He Defends Himself Against Charges of
Fraud and Corruption.

anu COrfupLIOhs
WASHINGTON, April 4.-Governor Murray, of
Utah, appeared before Mr.. Springer's committee
to-day, to answer to the charges made against
him by Representative White, of Kentucky;
Henry Diven, an ex deputy marshall, and G. X.
Chase. These charges were, in substance, that
Governor Murray, while United States marshal
for the district of Kentucky, collected illegal
fees and made illegal charges for guards, and
for the transportation of prisoners. He said in
his answer to-day:
Every accusation here attempted to be made is
eight years old Every one of them denounced and
and dsproved at the time openly and publicly far
as they in any way reflected upon Upon my dis
covery Of Dtens dishonesty and my doubts arising as
TO some of the charges made by him and another
deputy in the accounts against the gov
ernment l. without any request of
nv own accord and without any
obligation except my wish to do so, Immediately,
in 1875 deposited in the treasury money enough to
secure the government in every item about which
felt any uncertainty threw open my Office and the
books and papers in it, when the charges made,
to the district attorney and Democratic newspapers to
examine and investigate the affairs of my office and
all charges against The paper which first pub
shed these things stated editorialy, after full in
The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-05
CHILI-PERUVIAN TREATY.
Response of the Peruvian Minister to Eng
lands Protest.


PANAMA, March 2I-The Peruvian Minister
of Foreign Affairs replying to the protest Of
England against the clause in the treaty of peace
between Chilli and Peru, ceding the nitrate and
guano beds to Chill, which England claimed
guaranteed the payment of the Peruvian debt,
says, in substance, that Peru, when negotiating
the treaty, acted in the virtue of the right she
edged from the moment of her independence by
all nations, and she cannot consent to any
foreign interference without wounding her
rights as a sovereign and Independent state, and
without abdcating or jeopardizing those prerog
atives which she has always respected in other
nations, so that she has not consulted nor does
she consider herself obliged to consult with them
regarding her treaties, lest she might
endanger the lease of her own proper existence
The debts originated from loans effected
with private parties regarding whose nationali-
ty the government never ruled it proper to in
quire, as those debts have never assumed an in
ternational character Although they NAV now
time they may be transferred to persons of any
other nationality. Peru owes nothing to Eng
land as a government or state, and consequent.
ly the loans referred to cannot be
made subject of diplomatic in
that for four years past the mortgaged property
has not been in the possession of Peru, vet dur
ing that time cargOes of nitrate of guano from
the property have been sold in foreign ports
without protest on the part of the nations now
making the protest If, after the war,
Peru found herself obliged to sacrifice property
for her own preservation. which is the first and
most imperative duty of a State.