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Mr.. Beecher Introduces Himself to- q Bar
ber and Talks About the Administration.
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MIR. Beecher Introduces Himself to Bar
ber and Talks About the Administration.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
M a NO Marah LII Cd you shave mug
wumps nerel incurred large, nahus5iEe 0rd
gentleman, with broad, smooth face and long
gray hair, upon entering the barbershop at
Willards Hotel this morning.
''Yes sir take seat, quickly responded the
barber, eyeing his customer cautiously.
''Yes am mugwump from way back" con-
tinued the gentleman stripping himself of his
coat and swinging into a chair. While the bar
Der was shaving the man, he stammered II
I've seen you somwhar, judge. May ask if
you live hereabout"
I'm known as Henry Ward Beecher, sir, and
live in Brooklyn, answered the man III the bar
ber's chair, much to the astonishment of the
lineal descendant of Ham, who was manipulat
ing the razor
Later. Mr. Beecher called upon President
Cleveland. Subsequently he said: II am well
pleased with the new administration. The very
thing that is being complained of, namely, Mr..
Cleveland's deliberation about making changes,
/ like. think that in making new appoint
ments, if there is question between q Republic
an and a Democrat, the Democrat should GER
tainly be chosen; but when man occupies
place for which he is suited, performs his duties
faithfully, and is not indecently partisan, he
should not be disturbed | refer to subordinate
places. think the administration is going to
be success
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indeed his very body exhaled malice whenever
the Chief Signal Officer was named" Judge
Mackey then called the attention of the witness
to the fact that his letter to the Secretary, dated
Feb. Ii last, was indorsed by the Secretary as
having been received at the War Department
Feb. 26, and also to the fact that the statement
concerning the contents of this letter was pub
lished in the Chicago Tribune of Feb. 25, and
asked where the letter was kept prior to Feb. 26.
Gen. Hazen replied that it was kept in his
desk.
Judge Mackey asked whether within recent
period, official letters have not been puroined
from desks in the signal Office and taken to the
Secretary of War
The Judge advocate objected to this.
Judge Mackey said the purpose of the defense
is to negative the presumption that the accused
circulated the contents of this letter. He said
he proposed to show that letters had been pur-
loined from desks in the signal Office, and taken
to the Secretary of War by the person purloining
them, and that that person received special en-
ployment after purloining these letters. He said
they wanted to show the general course of the
Officer-that nothing was safe or sacred in the
office of the Chief Signal Officer from the hand of
the Secretary of War, by day or night
The judge advocate said he did not feel called
upon to reply to the insinuations Of counsel with
respect to the Secretary of War. That official,
he said, needed no defense at his hands, and the
attacks upon him were in very bad taste, to say
the least
Without concluding the examination OF GEN
eral Hazen, the court adjourned.
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POSTSCRIPT EDITION.
-Four O'clock A. M.
RUMOR OF GRANTS DEATH.
The Newspaper World Thrown Into
Great Excitement This Morning.
AReport that the General Had Died During
the Night Speedily Shown 10 Be
Without Foundation.

New YORK, March 17-4 A. M.-The news
paper world is in a commotion this morning over
q report of the death of General Grant Report
ers are flying in all directions, rushing to
the residence Of General Grant and Of his several
physicians, while the telegraph is busy bearing
messages to the same place and people. General
Grants home is fully half an hours quick drive
from the nearest newspaper office, and verifca
tion is necessarily slow DIR. Fordyce Barker
telegraphs as follows:
March II, A. NJ.
''To William Henry Smith, General Manager of the
Associated Press
II have not heard anything Of the kind Ia ru-
NOR of the death of General Grantl l saw the
General at 2 clock yesterday.
sFoRDYCE BARKER"
All the New York papers are ready to issue
extra editions should the report prove true.
AIS A. N.-The report of the death of General
Grant is without foundation.
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THE HAZEN TRIAL:
The Accused on the Stand-A Vicious Assault
on the Ex-Secretary of War.

The Accused on the Stand-A Vicious Assault
on the Ex-Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, March 16-General Hazen tes-
titled in his own behalf before the court-martial
to-day. He admitted writing the articles in
controversy, but he said he intended no disre-
spect or discourtesy to the Secretary of War
He gave as his reason for making the statements
that he had been held to most serious response
'bility for not effectively reseuipg the Greedy
party; that it had been published all over the
world that he was in fault, and that in his own
defense he simply wished to state the fact that
Greedy could have been rescued and that he,
(Hazen) did ali in his power to have him
rescued. The Secretary of War, in his annua-
report, has largely confirmed the opinion ex
pressed in the press, that he (Hazen) was re-
sponsible for the death of these men. The re-
port made him either willfully culpable and neg
lectful, or inefficient in his work Neither was
true. He wrote the letters simply to relieve
himself of that blemish upon his record, which
the Secretarys report had wrongfully placed
there
In argument upon an objection, Judge Mackey.
counsel for Gen. Hazep, said: I'VE know that
the prosecution does not want to touch Cape
Sabine. The accuser does not want
to face these horrors. We propose
to show the anmuS of the accuser; that he was
imEaed with malice so deep sand deadly against
the Chief Signal Officer Of the army that he be-
came blind upon any question touching arctic
matters, suggesting his Deep tireless hate that
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IRELAND AND THE IRISH.
An Attack To BE Made on Parnen from an
Entirely New Quarter.

An Attack To BE Made on Parnell from an
Entirely New Quarter.
LONDON, March, 16.--Parnell is to be at
tackled from an entirely new quarter. The man
ifesto read at the meeting of the nationalist sec
tion Of the Dublin municipal council, on Thurs
day. has been submitted to the solicitor for the
crown. The manifesto was an expression of the
attitude proper to be observed by the national
league toward the Prince of Wales during his
coming visit. It advised the Nationalists to main
tain an attitude of reserve make no hostile de-
monstratons and no expressions of welcome
The crown solicitor to dav rendered an opinion
that the manifesto of Thursday was a treason
able document. 1t is believed that the govern
ment will base some severe action upon the
opinion of the solicitor.
Mr.. Gladstone has recommended Earl Spencer
Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, TO the Queen as de-
serving of some signal mark of royal apprecia-
ton for the conspicuous ability he has displayed
in the management of Ireland
The corporation of Dublin to-day, by avote of
Al to IL, rejected motion to present an address
to the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his
visit here. April 5.
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THE REVOLT IN CocHrN-cHINA.
The Insurrection Spreading and the French
Generals Asking for More Troops.

The Insurrection Spreading and the French
Generals Asking for More Troops.
PARIS, March 16.-Telegrams from Saigon re-
port that the revolt in Cochin China is spread
ing. A plot has been discovered to set fire to
Saigon in order to give opportunity for an out
break of 5000 Annamites The Annamites at
tackled Oemen, seven miles from Saigon,
and sacked the European residences, burning
alive native prefect and his wife. The north
ern provinces are held by the insurgents, who
massacre the native adherents of the French.
The crews of the men-ofwar at Saigon have
landed to defend the town, and the foreign resi-
dents are under arms
General Briere de lIsle has returned to Hanoi.
He asks for 600 more men before resuming
operations. He reports that it is necessary to
increase the garrisons depleted by the expedi-
tons to Langson and Thuyenqnan. The fortress
at Namdinh has garrison of fifty men,
Thorngyen 160 and Honghoa eighty-five. Ow-
ing TO the feebleness of the garrisons, the Black
Flags and pirates are swarming in the Red river
delta.
General Negrier. at Langson reports that he
cannot take the offensive unless he is reinforced
a dispatch from Shanghai says that Admiral
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THE WAR IN THE soUDAN.

No Confirmation of the Reported Fall of
Kassala and Massacre of the Garrison.
LONDON, March 16.-Suakim advices do not
confirm the rumored fall of Kassala, and mas
sacre of the garrison.
A boat loaded with ammunition was landed at
point ten miles down the coast, and the am
munition was carried up into the country to the
rebels. A British gun boat hurried to the scene,
but arrived too late to prevent the escape of the
rebels There has been no firing by the rebels
during the night.
The British troops in retiring to Kort were
harrassed between Gakdul and Hambok by
marauding followers of the Mahdi who were
armed with rifles, and several British soldiers
were wounded
Pain is said to have escaped from Khartoum
and to be descending the Nile. General Wose.
ley has offered a reward of ESQ for Pains body,
dead or alive.
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JEWELS IN THE TREASURY.
A Box that Everybody Wishes TO See, and the
Value of Which No One Knows.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.
WASHINGTON. March 16.--The old, old story
of untold wealth in the form Of jewels hidden
away in the vaults of the Treasury Department
is revived again. This old yarn comes up two or
three times year, and the value of the treasure
is magnified each time until now seven or eight
figures are required to express it. There is
quart or more of precious stones in the bond
vault of the Treasurer's Office, but the
strange part of the story is that absolutely
no one knows anything about their value Back
twenty-five or thirty years ago an Eastern
potentate with name of thirty or forty sylla-
bles, sent to the President of the United States
several swords heavily jeweled, bottle of altar
of roses and jeweed casket. The swords and
other presents could not be accepted by the
President because of a clause in the Constitution
which prohibits the acceptance Of gifts Of this
character They could not be sent
back because etiquette would not permit
this to be done, therefore they were dumped
into case in the model room of the Patent
Office, where they excited the cupidity of an on
terprising individual who concluded to possess
them He made the attempt and got away with
the booty. Later the jewels were recaptured
and deposited in the treasury vaults for safe
keeping Here, for eight or ten years, they have
remained sealed up in bottles and deposited in
rough pine box out of sight and generally out Of
mind The box which contains them is rough
pine affair of about a cubic foot in dimensions.
1t is tied up with q common piece of twine, and
looks like box of soap or candles The custo-
dians Of the vault differ as to the value Of the
contents. One says that the lot would be cheap
at 500 OOO while another thinks $1,000 very
high price, indeed, for the whole assortment No
one owns it. The United States has really no
more title to it than the King of Hawaii, except
that the United States holds possession Some
day it will be stolen, and the thief win probably
reap the benefits Of the haul, as it would be ex-
ceedingy doubtful ii the ownership Of tho
United States could be established This is the
only way in which the treasure can be disposed
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And Is Now Waiting to Learn Whether the
Russian Foreign Minister Regards the
English Understanding as Correct.
The City Of Panama Attacked by aSmall
Party of Revolutionists.
No Confirmation of the Reported Capture Of
Kassala-French Generals in China Call
ing for More Troops-Cable Notes.
THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY.
The Alleged Understanding Between England
and Russia Not So Clear as 1t Might Be.

The Alleged Understanding Between England
and Russia Not So Clear 1t Might Be.
LONDON, March l6-In the Commons,
Mr. Gladstone explained that England and
Russia had agreed, as he stated on
Friday, that no further advances should be made
on Afghanistan The statement that this agree
ment was based on was an interchange of COM
munications carried on through the British en-
bassador at ST. Petersburg. The latest
communication on the Afghan dis
pute received from the ambassador
was that of March 5; but, to
obviate any possible misunderstanding,
Granville, the British Foreign Minister on Sat
urday last wired his (Mr Gladstones) exact
words to Thornton, asking him to ascertain
whether the Russian Prime Minister indorsed as
correct the statement made by Mr.. Gladstone of
the agreement reached with Russia AS yet no
reply has been received. Mr.. Gladstone said
there had been no time to obtain the assent
of the Ameer of Afghanistan to the
terms Of the arrangement made with
Russia. ''The expression agreement,
said Mr. Gladstone, conveys somewhat
fallacious ideas as to what has been obtained.
prefer the word arrangement The telegram
sent by Granville, on Saturday, TO Thornton,
was merely intended to ascertain whether our
or arrangement was correct There is no ques
ton as to the substance of it."
Harrington explained that the Russians occupy
hatan and Akrabat and that the Afghans still
occupy Penjdeh. He refused on the ground of
public policy, to make any further disclosures.
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Central American Questions in the Senate.

Central American Questions in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 16.-The Senate, in
executive session to-day, had under considera
ton the state of affairs in Central America, and
a short message from the Secretary of State III
answer to a Senate resolution of last week
was read, giving history of Barrios's
project for union of all the Central American
states, together with the steps taken by Mexico
in view of the threatened complications. All
the points in the narrative have already been
published. Some discussion took place regard
ing the propriety of declaring it to be the sense
of the Senate that steps should be taken to pro
tect the rights of this country in Nicaragua un-
der the pending canal treaty. The point was
made that the Senate had no knowledge of the
pendency of the canal treaty since the with
drawal Adjourned without action.
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Ignoninionsly Expelled.

CINcINNATI March 16-The charges preferred
against Samuel Beresford, in the Lincoln Club,
have been acted upon, resulting in his expulsion
by the unanimous vote of the board of directors
The resolutions of expulsion are as follows:
Whereas Samuel Beresford, in order to procure his
election as sheriff of Hamilton county made promises
which Mt the time he knew was unable TO fulfill, and
also made promises and obligations which, after his
election he wilfuly refused to carry out;
Whereas The conduct ef said Samuel Beresford is
likely to endanger the welfare interests and character
of this club.
Resolved, That said Samuel Beresford be, and he
is hereby exyjelIed from this club.
Mr. Beresford's violated promises and obliga-
tions" consisted in his breaking faith with those
of his own party after his election, by carrying
the patronage Of his Office, the shcrif's advertis-
ing to the Enquirer.
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WAR AT PANAMA.

Tho City Attacked by Several Hundred Rev
Olutionists Under Gen. Aizpura.
PANAMA, March 16.-The city of Panama was
attacked at A. NJ. to-day by party Of revolu-
tionists commanded by General Aizpura, num-
beripg 250 men. The government is defending
the city. Firing is going on incessantly
A Washington special says: ''The president
of the Central and South American Cable Com
pany to-day telegraphed the Secretary OF State,
from New York, that he had information that
vessel supposed to have been sent by the govern
ment of Guatemala was on it's way to cut the
cable line. He asked that the company's proper
tY be protected.
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY

An Amicable Dispute Over an Island ia
the South Pacific.
LONDON, March l6-The alleged occupation
of Raiarea, of the Society iSouth Pacifc)
islands, by the French, is denied In 1882, the
French flag was hoisted. AS soon as England
heard of it she protested, and France at once
disayowed the action, and said the flag had been
raised by naval officers without warrant. France,
however requested that the flag should be
allowed to remain until England and France
should arrange the dispute about their respective
rights on the island. The controversy is still in
amicable progress
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Deputy Sheriff Assassinated.

LOUISVILLE March 16-A Courier-Journal
special says Steward Cumgardner, deputy
sheriff, was shot dead from ambush, four miles
from Morehead; this evening. Particulars cam
not be had to night Excitement is high 1t is
said he sided with the Martin faction in the re-
cent trouble with the Toivars, which produced
so much excitement in Rowan county.
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A Noted Cattle -Thief Rum Down and Killed.

NEW ORLEANS. March 16 The Times Demo
Gratis Little Rock special reports the running
down and killing Of Frank Strong, noted cattle
thief, by posse which traced him to deserted
cabin on Wild horse creek, in the Chickasaw
Nation. where he was shot to death. He fought
his pursuers to the last A reward of 81, 500 had
been offered for his capture. He had operated
successfully in western Arkansas and Indian
Territory for years, stealing herds of cattle from
ranchmen, driving them into Texas and dispos-
ing of them
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Cable Notes.

erick William of Germany will visit Paris next
month.
Another action for libel has been brought
against Edmund Yates. Mr.. Legge, editor of
the Whitehall Review, bases his action upon
squib in the London World, which said Legge was
very appropriate name for the editor of the
Whitehall Review, and intimating that Legge
had become its editor because he was ac-
quainted with things ishy."
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An Opinion from a High Source.

VIENNA, March 16-Doctor Armenius YAM
berry, professor of oriental languages in the
University of Pesth, asserts that Penjdeh and
the whole country between the Rood ana
Herat is now and has been for three centuries
an integral part of Afghanistan. Prof. YAM
berry is the greatest living author on the stand
ard literature of the countries and naonlA di-
rectly affected by the present Russian advance,
and spent four years time among them.
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INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH II, 1885

probate judge. The County Commissioners in
the case of Roberts declare that there is an ap-
parent deficit of 5000, which amount is de-
manded from his bondsmen. Roberts declares
that there is no deficit, and the result is looked
forward to with great interest as the accused has
stood high in the estimation of the people.
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RALEIGH, n c., March LET. 3. Coward, a
deputy United States marshal arrived at the
town of Highland with five prisoners charged
with illicit distillation. A mob of mounted men
came to the hotel where the party was and at
tempted rescue They were repulsed by Cow
killed. one wounded, and three captured and
sa.io
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Great Fire at Hull, England.

LONDON March 16.-Fire in Hull this morn
ing, destroyed Stead's seed dcrushing mills, Bel
tons corn warehouse, and a portion of the Hull
Corn Exchange. The flames were spread by a
large quantity of oil, which, while burning,
flowed through the streets in stream, in some
plaaaz- -tsun faa+
burned. The total loss is $400000 e4-
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Protection i'm France.

PARIS March 16-The bakers have already
taken advantage of the recent passage of the !
bill increasing the duties On cereals and have
raised the prices of bread. The people are COM
planning savagely against the increased cost of
living
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The Duty Of State Legislatures.

Legislation in every State should regulate the
sale and use Of the many poisons resorted to by
women in their desperation to obtain beautiful
complexions There exists in Dr. Harter's Iron
Tonic every requisite to accomplish the object
githQnt iniuripg health or endangering hfe
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An Alleged Shortage of $50, 900.

HELENA M. r., March l6.-The County Com
missioners of lewis and Clark counties, assisted
by experts, during the past two weeks have been
making an examination of the accounts of w.
X. Roberts. county clerk; Alexander H. Beattie,
clerk Of the district court, and F. 2. Sterling
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Mr.. Egan Returns Thanks.

LINCOLN, Neb., March fitzpatrick Egan
president of the Irish National League of
America, received this morning the following
cable message from T. Harrington, NJ. P, hon
orary secretary of the league in Ireland and for
warded the following reply, in reference to the
action of the Dublin City Council to-day:
DUBLIN March 16.
''Patrick Egan, Lincoln, Neb.:
THE corporation here day, at the suggestion
of the League, refused, by forty-one votes to
seventeen, to address or entertain the Prince of
Wales. TIMOTHY HARRINGTON"
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A PERSON cannot possibly attend TO business
IL he has been kept awake during the night by a
troublesome cough; TO all such would recon-
mend the timely use Of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Price, 25 cts.
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Probable Loss of a Polar Expedition.

Probable Loss Of Polar Expedition.
ST. PETERSBURG March 16A dispatch from
Irkoutsk states that the polar scientific expedi-
tion under Baron Toll and DR.. Bunge, is snow
and ice bound, near Tundren. 1t is feared
most Of the members of the expedition have per-
ished
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Courbet intends to abandon his position at the
island of Formosa and operate the coast OF
northern China
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.'LINCoLN, Neb., March Is.

'LINCoLN, Neb March IS.
Timothy Harrington. nj. p;
ssThe manly attitude of the Dublin corporation
will send.a thrill of pride to every true Irish
heart. In the name of the Irish National League
of America we thank them.
PATRICK EGAN Pres't."