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NEyEn moo oLp ro ELorE.
a Widow of seventy-Hve Loses Her Hear
nnd SIC. .OoO-Her LoYer BiIysing.


and $40, ,O00-Her Lover Missing.
TIFrS, o., Dec. Sl.-The details Of an
extraordinary elopement and n ten thou.
sand dollar swindle have just been made
public. The parties are a rich widow of
seventp-fiye and a man of thirty. Several
years ago, Abraham Cromwell died, leay-
ing his wife a fortune estimated at 100000,
nearly an OF it in rich Seneca county
farms. Early last summer, an oily, plaus-
IDLY talking man, calling himself Buckley,
came 10 this place and did land Office
business, selling Bohemian oats valued ut
IS bushel. By some means he became
acquainted with the widow, and In short
time gained her complete confidence; so
much so, that she intrusted $4,000 to his
keeping, and it has elIectually disappear
ad. BY some strange chance, the women's
friends were not aware OF tho proceedings
until her money was gone, the iirstintima-
ton OF the real condition OF alIairs being
discovered on the announcement OF the
marriage OF the couple, who eloped TO
Monroe, Mich, hefethey were married,
They returned to this city, where the aged
man now is; but the whereabouts OF
Buckley are unknown. 1t is learned that
the old lady has made her will, leaving
the bulk Of her property to her youthful
husband. The affair produces profound
sensation, and threatsoi violence to Buck
ley are freely INDUCED in. The woman's
friends will at once proceed to recover the
the property. 1t is said Buckley has a
wife elsewhere, who understands the sit
uation, and is partner of her husband in
tho maLter.
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RALEIGH, N. c., Dec. Sl.-Messrs. Will
ley, Ctaigan and Bingham, the Mormon
Elders, are propagating their religion in
Rutherford county, near the South Caro-
lima line. They brought withthem twen-
ty-three converts from Rock Hill, S. G.
They have settled on the farm Of
Joseph Russell, who has Joined
them, and are holding meetings
and preparing to build church.
Their accessions are mostly from the Bap-
lists, and they have nearly exhausted tile
membership and congregation OF the New
Pleasant Baptist Church. One Of the
male converts learned that one Of the
Elders was too intimate with his wife and
demonstrated with the Elder. He was
told that such was their religion and he
must not complain. There is considerable
excitement in the community, and the
people intend TO prosecute the Elders il
they do not leave the county.
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AFiEIItInE Mayor.

KSoxyIEuSrEEGSa Dee. 3l.-The firm
Of Fulcher & Jones has been known all
over this end Of the State for number OF
months past MS prosperous and success
iul contracting company. A few days
since w. Q. Fulcher, a member OF the
firm, and Mayor Of this city, dissolved
partnership with Jones. To-day the men
were having settlement, when lively
tussle took place, in which Fulcher
knocked Jones out in quick order and
gave him bloody nose, also taking out a
good handful Of whiskers. The &iayor
only received slight bruises at the hands
Of his antagonist. No further trouble Is
fnnr rod
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RALEIGH, N. G., Dec. 3l.-On Christmas
night in this county large number Of me-
groes assembled at the house Of Monroe
Womack and engaged in festival. Mil
lard Banks and Nathan Womack are half
brothers, and engaged in cake walk.
Banks used some proiane language and
wasreprovcdby Nathan because he uttered
itin the presence oftheir parents and other
females. Banks was armed with long
pocket knife and had previously declared
that lie intended to cut some nigger's
heart out, lie became angry with Ma
than and a fight ensued, and Banks cut
Nathan so badly that he died in few
hours. Banks then fled and has not been
arrested,
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NEw YoRK, Dec. Sl.-A special train
took 15O Wall street brokers and New
York, Newark and Baltimore sporting
men and prominent officials together with
20 game birds, representing Long Island
and New Jersey to secluded spot few
miles from Hunters Point, L. l., where a
cooking main was fought. The stakes
were $1,000 on the main and SlOO on each
battle. Each side showed f3 birds, but
only 8 weighed in, and eight battles were
fought. The eighth battle settled the re;
suit, which was victory for New Jersey.
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prnnk wIth tne WRONG Man.

BIRNINoHAN, Ala, Dec. Sl.-W. Mar
tin, from Chicago, who has been here a
month prospecting, had his pocket cut
while asleep yesterday and nearly loo
taken. An itinerant patent medicine man,
]. II. Cooper, who drank with Martin oil
day yesterday, was arrested while pre-.
pairing to take a train this morning and
The money, at most the amonnt wanted,
and answering to Martins description,
was found on his person.
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THE iron BELT.
Mr.. y Randairs Reception In Alabama
Mapped Out.

Mapped Out.
BIRNISeuAM, Ala, Dec. Sl.-The joint
committee appointed by the local Demo-
cratic organizations had arranged to go to
Nashville to-day to escort Samuel j. Ran
dali to this city, but just before train time
they received telegram saying 1t had
been decided to send Mr.. Randall and
party through on a special train, leav-
ing Nashville at midnightto-night, instead
Of the regular train leaving at s =. NJ, and
that it was impossible 10 accommodate
the committee on the car, the committee
therefore did not go. The early hour at
which the party will arrive will not pre-
vent a ut reception. As the train pulls in
the whistles OF the railroad locomotives,
furnaces, foundries, and machine shops
will blow, and the Birmingham artillery
will FIRE a salute. The Reception Com.
mittee and the Birmingham. Rifles will
escort the visitors to the Florence Hotel,
where they will be entertained. In the
forenoon the party will visit the Pratt
mines, the most extensive bituminous coal
mines in the world.
During the evening Mr.. Randall, assis.
ted by JOHN Martin, Congressman-elect
from this district, and Mrs. Martin and o
number OF ladies, will receive callers at
Florence hotel Friday morning the party
will visit the furnaces and iron minesnear
the city. In the evening Messrs. Randall
and McAdoo will speak at 0'Brien's 0p.
era House. A banquet at Florence hotel
will follow. A goodly number Of promi-
nent citizens at other places in the State
have indicated their intention to meet
Mr, Randall here.
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EvASsvILtE, ISp, Dec, 32.-Fire totally
destroyed MIller's dry goods house. Total
loss on stock is $4,000 to 5000, 900; on
the building, $4,000, total insurance,
sl25,OOO to SlSO,OOO on stock and $4,000
on the building, and Chas. F. Schmidt,
music. dealer, next door, whose total loss
Is Sl4, 900, insurance 5000; George Sohn,
tag & Co., hardware dealer, loss from fire
and water about $4,000 on stock and
about SIS, 900 insurance; Q. O. Tenny, hat
and fur dealer, loss about $4,000, insur-
ance $4,000.
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TOO MUCH FAITH
And too Little Cure-Inhutaan Treatment
of PountlIings.

ol GOuhliiuB3.
DENVER, COL, Dec. 3l.-Last night an
other foundling died at Williams Asylum,
making three deaths from inanition since
Christmas. At the. coroner's inquest to.
day Williams admitted no physician had
been called to attend the children or the
simplest remedies applied, as he and the
household firmly believed in the efficacy
Of fprayer curing all human ills, and where
q patient dies his institution believes no
human power could llaye saved them.
Prominent physicians at the autopsy to.
day, which revealed the fact that one or
more Of the childen would nave recovered
with proper medical attention, or even the
care Of competent nurse. The cornoer's
jury declares in the verdict that the insti-
tuition is in the hands OF a lot OF religious
fanatics who in the above cascswere Grim
inally negligent, and recommends the
place to be closed by the authorities.
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SpttIaI D'palth % Ie INseIIl9dHoT.
GLESEAsroS, WA, Dec. Sl.-Another
merchant from our little village has dis
appeared for parts unknown. Hardly had
the community gotten over the excite
ment OF H.H. woodruF's hasty exit until
Mr.. j. @. Wiednan. another merchant Of
this place, does likewise, leaving here
Sunday night, December 2Sth inst. He
leaves family consisting OF a wife and
fiye children. No cause can be given for
his shasty flight until an investigation
takes place. It is said friend here re-
ceiyed letter from him dated at Indiana.
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ANnrtllwe,I.rn I,llssard.

SIOUX CRY, Iowa, Dec. Sl.-The bliz
zard, which prevailed in this region yes
terday and last night, passed over to-day
aud was succeeded by severe cold, the
thermometer indicating lS' below at
o'clock this afternoon. The railroads are
ST! PAUL, Dec. Sl.-Thc storm in Mime
sofa and Dakota last night gives place thii
morning to clearer colder weather, witt
high winds. Six to eight inches OF snow
fell and several night trains were aban
lnnnl
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A Cool Conference.

NEw YcRH, Dec. Sl.-The Anthracite
Coal Conference to-day arrived at salts
factory allotment Of tonnage for 1885 upon
a basis OF thirty million tons, percentages
10 range from 100000 TO 50,000 per
month. Mr.. Wister, OF Pennsylvania,
favored the propositions, but said he could
not formally agree to 1t until be consulted
the directors OF his company. All others
present agreed to the management.
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N4snyLtr, TrSS., Dec, s1.-J. c. Toi-
bert, a fine.looking fellow who halls from
Murfreesboro, was arrested here yester.
day. Several fathers and brothers have
been looking for him. In the short period
Of six weeks he has married one woman
and abducted three young girls. Tolberts
wife is in Murfreesboro'. Two weeks age
he abducted girl named Mary Jarntgan
from farm, Yesterday he arrived here
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MEpToRD, oSr., Dec. Sl.-The trans Of
the mill dam gave way this morning. An
immense body Of water was rushing down
the main side Of the town. In few
hours the bridge gave away. Abbots
dwelling and outbuildings were swept
away. What was yesterday q fine street
Is to-day the bed Of river,
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The new lines have been put up Of the
very best material, the wires of hard
drawn copper and galvanized iron, and
the permanency Of the onlyreally success.
iul company is undoubtedly beyond all
question. Indeed the record Of the late
president, as well as that Of his son, the
present president, utterly preclude all
danger Of such sort Of thing, The close
relations the Baltimore & Ohio has estab.
lished with the new Mackey-Bcnnett ocean
lines, the Commercial Telegraph Com.
pany, signalized decomposition for foreign
business by reduction OF twenty percent
on the old tolls will enable the reaping Of
the advantages OF the extensive land line
reductions in connection with cable
grams. The carly completion Of the Bal.
timore & Ohio extension OF its lines into
Texas, Louisiana and the South will soon
bring that within the fields OF compCti-
ton, and II the new year bring with it,
that to the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph
what 1884 has, 1t may become a question
before II Is over rs to what company will
have the greatest mileage.
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IT is to be hoped that Mr.. e. William
Mugwump Curtis will read with great
satisfaction MIR. Cleveland's letter on Civil
Service. 1t is the most dclusiyc document
. ever penned and contains more loopholts
of evasion than chicken coop has slate.
Mr.. Cleveland means well, that is he
wants the public to think he means well,
but the hungry Democracy have evidently
given him warning and he has turned his
periods and shaped his phrases SO as not
TO offend the taste Of the most fastidious,
while at the same time he has retained a
saving clause that is balm and salve to the
long suffering martyrs who have been in
the Wilderness for 10! these twenty-five
years.
He declares that he will not remove any
competent officer who has not proved to
be olIensiyely partisan. That is good. 1t
is the Arkansas plan OF removal within
the meaning of tho civil service law. That
plan is "to prove every every Republican
Office holder Extensively partisan" and
who shall say nay2 1t is within reason to
believe that eight or ten months from the
present time there will not be a
single Republican holding office in
any Southern State. Reasons" are
easily manufactured, and a hun
CRY horde can readily produce evi-
dence that the crice-holders have been
"olIensively partisan" and have been
'manipulators OF local party manage
ment." These are Cleveland's Civil Ser
vices Rules, and they mean that the Re!
publicans must go, and that good, honest
Jacksonian- j fIersonian place hunters will
fill their places-until 1880.
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with two girls named Mary and Annie
Farrell, the former but fifteen years old
and the latter seventeen. They are pretty
girls, and placed implicit trust in Tolbert,
who told them he would take them TO
Kansas, where they could make plenty Of
money. He'and the two girls were found
at the. Broadway Hotel here. Their
friends will take charge Of them, and
Tolbertwill stand trial on the charge Of
abduction.
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LIFE AT THE CAPITAL.
THE PRESIDENTS NEW YEARS.
who are to Assist Him in Doing the Honor.
of the White Houso-A Brilliant Array of
Women who VIII Stand by the Chief
Magistrate = Washington Notes.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. Sl.-The Pres
ident will be assisted at his reception to
morrow by the wives OF the members o
the Cabinet, as follows: Mrs. Geo. I. Ed
munds, Mrs. John G. Carlisle, Mrs. Jus
tice Miller, Mrs. Justice Field, Mrs. Justice
Woods, Mrs. Justice Blatchford, Mrs. Sen
ator Logan, Mrs. Senator Pendleton
Mrs. Senator Miller, of California, Mrs
Senator Hale, Mrs. Senator Cameron
OF Penn, Mrs. Senator Miller, Of New
York, Mrs. Senator Butler, Mrs. Senator
Manderson, Mrs. Senator Frye, Mrs. Senator
Cullom, Mrs. Senator Palmer, Mrs. Senator
Harrison, Mrs. Senator Hawley, Mrs. sena-
tor Sherman, Mrs. Senator Vest, Mrs.
Senator Ingalls,, Mrs. Senator Mcpherson,
Mrs. Senator Sabine, Mrs. Senator Jones,
Mrs. II. w. Slocum, Mrs. J. F.Spriggs, Mrs.
John X. Thomas, Mrs. ]. Randolph Tucker,
Mrs. Theodore Lyman, Mrs. John d.
Ketcham, Mrs. W. W. Keitling, Mrs.
Thomas i. Reed, Mrs. A. G. Curtin, Mrs.
L. John Ellis, Mrs. II. G. Burleigh, Mrs.
F. A. johnson, Mrs. General Sheridan,
Mrs. Chancey McKeever, Mrs. John Davis,
Mrs. William A. Maury, Mrs. Clayton
McMichael, Mrs. Bancroft Davis, Nine.
Jerome Bonaparte, Mrs. William II.
Hunt, Mrs. George NJ. Robson, Mrs. A.
+. Rockwell, Mrs. John Field, Mrs.
Charles Nordhof, Mrs. McAllister Laugh
lin, Miss Stout, the Misses Frelinghuysen.
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CoLUNnrs, O., Dec, 3l.-The officers Of
the Hooking Valley Railroad and Coal
Exchange report everything quiet in the
Valley this morning, though they express
the opinion that there will be some trouble
tn.ni0ht
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THE MITCHELL CASE,
On Trial Mt St. CiAlrsvills-Ettdsnoe for the
state Finished.

Y STATE flnlshou.
speial DlspdteE 70 ne IHtelli0ae1.
ST. oIArRsyIiLE, o., Dec. sl.-coprt
convened at o'clock this morning, and
the trial Of Emmett Mitchell for the muir
der Of Charles Griffith wasresumed. The
State rested half an hour later.
!. Mitchell then went on the stand and
gave his version OF the killing, claiming it
was done in self defense. He was testify
ing for four hours, and vigorous cross
examination failed to confuse him. Two
other witnesses were examined.
The defense expect TO prove that Grill
fth threatened Mitchell's life from two
years ago until the week before the homi-
Oida Y.
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Dox'r laugh. A man in Pennsylvania
the other day, according to the indis-
putable evidence OF coroner, died OF vic
lent laughter. Always look sour, never
smile, and the world will be happier.
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TIE workenour and Marling robbers
will eat their New Years sturkey-orsome,
body else's New Years turkey-in free
dom. BY another New Years they may
be in iail-and out again.
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CLEVELAND, O., Dec Sl.-Ruth Gill, a
little daughter Of John Gill, prominent
grocer, was accidentally shot and killed
to-day by aive-year old companion named
Walter Grosshart. They were playing
with revolver.
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CLEVELAND, O.. Dec. Silt Is reported
here that Col. H. o. Payne is to resign the
Treasuryship Of the Standard Oil Com
pany to accept high position under the
incoming administration; possibly Cab
met position. Payne's friends deny the
rumor,
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ToRoNTo, oNT., Dec. Sl.-While SIX
children were playing on the bay this
afternoon the ice broke and three were
drowned, Patrick Corbett, Robert Cor
beit, and James Talon.
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SEVEN years ago, the dispatches relate, a
certain MIR. Truesdall was Chicago mil
lionaire. Yesterday he was sent to the
almshouse. Drink did It. Swear Off!
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UNCLE sAM's New Years gift to the
country is contained in the statement that
the decrease in the public debt for De-
cember amounts to 100000.
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EARTHQUAKES still rock Spain. This has
no bearing on the recent treaty with this
country, but the treaty will rock the Sem
ate before it is passed, il ever.
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Our New Years address: Numbers 95
andl27 Fourteenth street. Weekly. one
dollar year. Daily, eight dollars. Post
age prepaid.
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THE BIG L00Ph0LES
THAT GOV. CLEVELAND HAS LEFT
In hi. Letter on Civil Service notorm-rhe
"onensiysIy Partisan" Officers Must 30,
which Means the Entire List-NO
Comfort for srugwanp Curtis.

CINCINNATI, Dec. Sl.-General Boynton
telegraphs to the Commercial Gazette as
follows, from Washington: All the talk
to-day is over Cleyeland's letter on the
civil service. The curious thing aboutit
is that extremes meet and shake hands
over it. The Pendletonian reformers de-
clare that they could not have expressed
their own views half as clearly. Ike Hill,
who is constructing lecture OH Reform"
based on the idea that Democracy and
competency should be the only tests, and
that all Democrats are competent, isde-
lighted with the letter, because, as he says,
"It will put out every last mothers son
and daughter OF EN-"
Members OF Congress who are already
staggering under an unsupportable load
of applications for Office, read the letter
backwards, and ioytully rest with sighs OF
relief upon the declaration OF the closing
clause, that selections for Office not em-
braced within the civil service rules will
be based upon sufficient inquiry as to tit-
ness, instituted by those charged with that
duty rather than upon persistent importu-
nity or seli.solicited recommendations on
behalf OF candidates for appointment"
So great has been the rush for Office in
all the Congressional districts and so sharp
the contests between the many opposing
candidates and their friends tlat the ma
jority OF the Representatives-elect have
already begun to despair OF being again
elected. Every mail comes burdened with
demands from the warning factions for the
members sole and earnest support, and
thus former friends whose demands could
not be promptly met are already either
lukewarm or turned TO opponents. :. To
such perplcxing tangle OF the lines this
portion OF the letter sounds like the restOr-
ing command, "As you WERE" 1t dam
ages, ii it does not totally destroy great
many self-cOlleGted recommendations and
petitions, but those interested can ut least
have the satisfaction OF feeling that their
papers will give them entrance into the
swarming legions Of those whose "fitness"
may form subject OF Enquiry"
In this the lnventorsOf the Arkansas
plan find themselves sustained by the
President-elcct, and feel that all which is
now necessary to wholly redeem their
State is to prepare their proof that Feder-
al oiIicialsin Arkansas "haye proved them
selves offensive partisans."
1t is easily seen that this plan which
has been deridcd in Democratic quarters
may yet become the very cornerstone Of
the new Democracy, and be received by
the patriots in all the States as their sal
vatiOn from civilseryice, which latterly
has seemed to yearn for their utter de-
struction.
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If you were born January l, 1775, you
will be one hundred and ten years old to-
day.
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1SS5-may theyea be happy one to
the country and the people.
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1aal,. 50 raoc and mO,cy at mos. need help
y5G. sWearl
. GhoSt-Swearl
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Z FIFTEEN more years of the century and
then
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To SWEAR, or not to swear of, that is the
question.
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The advocates OF the Arkansas plan re-
gard the letter as au infringement OF copy
right as they bluntly describe it, when
they gave tito the world. "There will be
a clean sweep in Arkansas. We will pre-
fer charges against every Republican in
the State. They have all been partisan
workers, and they will all be bounced. "
They assert that Mr.. Cleveland has
adopted the Arkansas ideas III their es-
sencc, and only smoOthed them down to
more even surface, when lie says, "there
is class OF Government positions which
are not within the letter Of the civil ser
vice statutes but which are so dlsconnec-
ted with the policy Of an administration
that the removal therefrom OF present in.
cumbents, in my opinion should not
he made during the terms for which
they were appointed, solely on partisan
grounds, and for the purpose OF putting in
their places those who are in political ac-
cord with the appointing power. But
many now holding those positions have
forfeited all Just claim to retention, be-
cause they have used their places for party
purposes in disregard OF their duty TO the
people, and because, instead OF being de.
cent public servants, they have proved
themselves offensive partisans and unscru'
pulous manipulators Of local party man.
agement."