BETS ON BOULANGER The Odds Just at Present Favor of the General's Election in Paris. in HE HAS SPENT A FORTUNE, But Circumstances Are Combining to Toss Him in the.Consomme. A BIG BUDGET OF FOREIGN GOSSIP. Some of the Foibles of Royalty A Pretty Plucky Prince Colonel North's Latest Monto Christo Feat The Sultan's Leni ency With the Greeks Dying- Days of the Kins; of the Netherlands Proposed Combination of Cable Companies to Knock Oat Codes An English Editor's Ifnoranee of American Politics and Offi cials' Duties. The crisis in Boulanger's life Till occur next Sunday. On that day the Parisians trill decide whether he is the idol he has so long thought himself or made of common clay. The betting is in his favor just now, but the situation seems to be against him. He has already spent 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 mysteriously acquired francs, bnt is making no headway. The Socialists are going over openly to M. Jacques. tBT CABLE TO TIIK DISrATCH.l Pakis, January 19. The approaching Paris election and Boulanger's chances fill the col umns of the European newspapers moreand more, as the 27th approaches. The opinion of most correspondents influenced, per haps, by the action of the Royalists and the betting at the Paris Jockey Club has been in favor of Boulanger's success, but I still think that the result will show his strength in the capital to be overestimated. He will doubtless poll a vote large enough to make a second ballot necessary, but not large enough to carry Paris. Boulaneer's follow ers, after all, are not so numerous as is im agined. The enormous class of fairly-prosperous little people employes, tradesmen, etc, who have saved some money and are pretty well satisfied, do not want Boulanger. The mass of voters who know what it cost to set rid of one-man rule, and who are Re publicans from principle as well as interest, do not want the blue-eyed adventurer, either. Many Royalists and Imperialists will vote for him, because thev have been in structed to do so, but if any man is looked down upon thoroughly by what is left of the French aristocracy it is Boulanger. His name as well as his individuality damn him at the start. Too Slnch ntne and Ancestry. Men with complicated family names and unlimited ancestors and things do not can much for a man who is named Baker, and has no brains to atone for his lack of family history. The Royalists who would not in vite him to dinner will probably be rather lukewarm in aiding him to overturn the Republic which they hate. As for the large class of thinking men of Paris, who come under the heading of So-, cialists, it is amazing to me that an Associ ated Press correspondent should have found space to express his opinion that Boulanger would be victorious with tb.3 help of their votes. The unexpected, which happens in Prance at least twice as often as elsewhere, may elect Boulanger, but he will never be elected if the votes of Socialists can prevent it. As I have pointed out in two previous letters, Boulangerism, the type of the dicta tor, the soldier who helped shoot the com munists in 1871, and whose advocacy of war means glory for gentlemen and bullet holes for workiugmen, is the one above all others whom the Socialists will try to defeat The Government candidate, M. Jacques, is not to the Socialists' liking, it is true, but if put to it they will vote for him to defeat the pretender. Even the Socialists Forsnke Him. I have received a copy of resolutions adopted unanimously by a meeting of 1,200 Socialists at the Pont de Lodi, in which it is revived that they will, without forsaking their principles, vote for M. Jacques against one of the massacreing Versailles officers of 1871 meaning Boulanger. Of course, the talk of a second Republican so-called clerical candidate, who is to help Boulanger by dividing Totes against him, amounts to nothing. Clerical votes are anti Rcpnblican votes, and a clerical candidate would be much more apt to take away from Boulanger. The men in power, too, have of Jate thrown off their former apathy, and are Sard at work. Floquet has managed to roll to his side the powerful element of wineshop keepers. These were touched by Boulanger's promise to do away with certain obnoxious laws and chemical laboratories, thus en abling them to adulterate wine all they pleased. But Floquet comes out with a business proposition to pass a bill releasing them from fines which have thus far been imposed on them for adulterating. Ashe is able to do what he promises, the wine men have wisely concluded that his is the most attractive, business-like proposition. Dancer In Bonlnnger's Success. Jules Simon has evidently taken King Bonlanger as seriously as possible. He thinks he would be hard to dislodge if once he got to power, and adds that it would take Boulanger but a year to ruin the country and a month to bring on war. The question as to where Boulanger gets his money from has again been brought up, and this time by Floquet himself. Boulanger has spent 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 francs on this election, and as he has no money of his own, it would be very interesting to know the name of his financial backer. The name of the Duchesse de Uzes, whose in terest in Bonlanger I have alluded to at in tervals during the past year, nowcommenc-s to be linked with that of the dictator by various correspondents, and she is spoken of to-day as a possible source of the Gen eral's supply of money. The Duchesse may have assisted Boulanger financially in a small way, but although she is a very rich woman, thanks to having Mine. Clicquot for a grandmother, her wealth is not suffi ciently great to keep Boulanger going athis present pace. ' 0XLY WANTS THE EARTH. A Cable Company Objecting to Commercial Men Using; a Code. tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, January 19. The Anglo- American Company is credited with taking the lead in the movement to raise press cable rates between England and America, and to pnt restrictions upon commercial men using a code for their telegrams. It is fortunately sot likely that this scheme, which is characteristic of the Anglo-American, -will result in anything. FOIBLES OF EOJALTY. A Gonrmandizlnc Czar, An Erratic Prince nnd a Literary Queen Rnssta's Ruler a Glutton Wales' Enffnpenient Card for 1SS9 Already Filled. tBT CABLE TO THE DtSFATCU.1 London, January 19. Stories about the quantity of things the Emperor of Russia can eat and drink are going about as they do at intervals, and the feats in that line related of Prince Bismarck are entirely eclipsed. It seems that it is exaggeration to credit the Czar with eating and drinking as much as a half dozen men. but that it is reasonable to say that he takes from two to three pounds of solid meat and an average of two quarts of champagne for luncheon, with a dinner big in proportion. Once, when his insomnia and other troubles had become very aggravated by over eatinc and drinking, he diminished the former and gave up the latter entirely, but only for a short time, declaring that insomnia and champagne were preferable to a temperance diet. Considering the Emperor's habits, it isn't surprising to learn that among those attached to the imperial court are 13 court physicians, and 5 court surgeons, 2 occu Iists, 1 dentist and 4 other doctors whose particular line is not laid down. Gentlemen whose pride in life is based on the great social demand in which they find themselves may turn green with envy at this piece of news about thePrince of "Wales being asked to attend'some function orfother not in the very near future. He sent u po lite note of regret, saying that he couldn't accept invitations of any soit for 1889, as every one of his engagements for that year was already booked. At present his Royal Highness is about to start for Monte Carlo, and have some fun in his own way. "We shall probably hear of obliging great ladies along the Riviera importing variety actresses from London for the future King of En gland's delight, good dinners and quiet ex cursions behind various theatrical curtains, which, while he is abroad, help the Prince to forget his corner-stone-laying-speech-making and generally virtuous occupations under the royal maternal eye at home. The Queen of England is not very much better at book criticism than at book writ ing. With a desire to be kind and conde scending to Sir. "Walter Crane, and give a finishing touch to his literary and artistic reputation, she informs Messrs. Cassell, through her secjetary, that "Flora's Feast" is a very pretty book. A LIT1NG BULLETIN. How the Daily Condition of the Kins of the Netherlands Is Ascertained. tBT CABLE TO THE DISFATCH.3 London", January 19. The unhappy King of the Netherlands continues to hover between life and death. There is no regu lar arrangement for furnishing news of his condition to the press, and correspondents judge of it through the actions of the Queen, who, though she has little cause for her goodness, is entirely devoted to him. "When she drives out it is a sign that, temporarily, there is a slight improvement in his condi tion, and when she keeps to the palace, as she has done lor days at a time, it shows that the worst is to be feared. The King has found a defender against the numerous attacks touching his private life which have been made in the French and other newspapers in Mr. Brun, a prom inent Dutchman. and friend of the King. This friend declares which doesn't help the matter very much that the King's ex travagance and silly freaks of generosity toward scheming women was paid out of his private fortune and didn't come out of the pockets of the Dntch people. The best thing that any friend ol tne King can say of him conscientiously, however, is that he was good natured to his Dutch people as well as to Paris actresses, didn't try to get more money out of them than was fair, and even allowed his civil list to be reduced by 120,000 francs a year when requested to do so by the people's representatives. At present the King's condition appears to be slightly improved, but mentally he is in a very bad way, being most of the time insane, and it is "very improbable that he can last much longer. The Dutch are naturally speculating on the condition of things which will follow the King's death, as, for the first time in 300 years, thev will have for a ruler a girl of 8 years, and for Executive Chief a German Princess who married their King, and will now doubtless be regent. One thing is certain, that, being a respectable young woman, she cannot well help being an improvement on her hus band. KIND IS HER CRUELTY. A Woman Cuts Off Iler Cat's Tall nnd Saves Its Life. TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, January 19. The most ag grieved woman in all England at present I Mary Ann Proudly, who lives in a town called Bootle. She was passionately at tached to a cat, and this very attachment augmented the wrath and amazement of a neighbor, who observed her with one blow of a hatchet cut off the cat's tail. In court there were many to testify that Miss Proudly had been loving to the cat since cutting "off its tail. She said the cat was troubled in its mind and would soon have gone mad but for her prompt action. Every cat, she tearfully informed the learned magistrate, has a worm in its tail, which can go up to its brain and drive it mad. You can tell when the worm begins to travel, because then the cat begins to run around after its tail. Under such circum stances the only thing to do is to cnt the tail off above the worm, and she had reluctantly adopted this course. Its efficacy, she thought, was proven by the fact that the cat had ceased to run alter its tail. The Magistrate administered a fine of 40 shillings and costs, on the ground that cruelty is not excusable because based on superstition. The balance of public opinion in Bootle, which accepts the worm theory, is with Miss Proudly. A CHANCE FOE SPECULATORS. The English Neglecting an Opportunity to Get Action for Their Money. fBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, January 19. Colonel North, the sudden nitrate millionaire, continues to interest England and be talked about The last report is that he has bought Lord Ran dolph Churchill's entire stable of racing horses, which, if true, indicates that Lord Randolph knows a good thing when he sees it in the way of an opportunity. Another idea with which the nitrate king is credited is that of investin.tr in a steam yacht and taking a party of interesting people out to Chili to enjoy themselves, under the pre tense of a business desire to see where all the nitrate money comes from. It is curious that Englishmen have not yet begun to bet on the probabilities of the worthy Colonel's financial wreck a thing which usually happens in this country when a man suddenly gets lots of money, and dis plays unusual ability in ridding him self of it SUICIDES IN SEASON. The Self-IUurder Epidemic on In Foil Forco at Monaco. IBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.: Monaco, January 19. The sunshine is 'wonderfully bright, the Mediterranean blue as usual, the fashionable world pouring in, little wary roulette balls spinning mdustri- ously, and the suicides are commencing. THE The victims this week have been two young people, "not married, who lived in a hotel here. They lost , all their money at the Casino, and the young man killed his sweet heart and himself. When the bodies, were found locked in their room no time was lost, of course, in publishing the fact that it was a lovers' quarrel, and not the result of despair. THE SULTAN GOOD NATUBED. Be Shows a Lenient Disposition Toward the Unlbrglren Greeks. TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, January 19. The Sultan of Turkey has been showing a good-natured disposition toward the Greeks, allowing their newspapers, most of which had been proscribed, to be again sold in his do minions, and generally giving evidence of having forgiven them for escaping from Turkish rule and establishing their own in dependence. On the other hand, if the ac cusations against him be true, as they prob ably are, the people have received orders to treat" with the utmost barbarity the unlucky Armenians. The depredations of the Kurds are en couraged in various ways, and villages, with their inhabitants, are burned up, ac cording to a story whioh comes from the un fortunate region, and everything points to a desire on the part of the sublime ruler of Turkey to get rid of the Armenian difficulty by stamping out the Armenians. A PLUCKY T0UNG PRINCE. Ferdinand of Bulgaria to Add Matrimony to His Ulnny Troubles. TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, January 19. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is a plucky young man. Not content with all his troubles as a ruler in the East, he is going to join the army of people engaged in settling the question as to whether marriage is ajailuic. A young woman named Princess Henriette, daughter of the Count of Flanders, is goifcg to share his troubled throne the same, bv the way, which Mrs. Frank Leslie once told me she would not have at any price, when a little prince who wanted her tried to persuade her that Bulgaria wanted him. Prince Ferdinand's future wife is onlv 19 years old, and is one of the richest girls in Europe. It seems as though she might have done better. The match was brought about by the Prince's hard-working and energetic mother, Princess Clementine of Coburg. AROUSED A WOMAN'S IRE. . A Female Admirer of a British Rector De fends Tllm In Poetry. BT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, January 19. A letter from "Woodstock informs me that the Duke of Marlborough, according to his threat, has pjanted a lot of tall fir trees so as to cnt off the view whicn his enemy, the rector, has enjoyed of the ducal park. There is great indignation among the rector's supporters, but the friends of the duke, while admitting that the latter chuckles considerably over his last maneuver, say that he has good reason for doing so, which seems reasonable. The deepest indignation is expressed by a certain young woman, evidently a devoted member of the rector's flock. She writes a letter on the subject to a local newspaper, and sends a copy ot it to The Dispatch correspondent. It is very sarcastic, but unfortunately too long to print Part of it is poetry. A REWARD FOR BRATERI. The Stanhope Gold Mcdnl Given to an In trepid Youngster. 1BT CABLE TO THE DISrATCH.l London, January 19. A boy whose pluck deserves to be told about is Albert Battison, of Her Majesty's ship Impregna ble, who has just received the. Stanhope gold medal, the highest honor of the Royal Humane Society. He earned it in this way: A thirteen-year-old girl, attempting to cross a river, broke through the ice and disappeared beneath it. A man went part way to her assistance, but came back frightened. Battison went out on the ice, dived under it, and got the girl, taking his chances of being able to break the ice with his head as he rose beneath it. He suc ceeded in doing so, and got the girl ashore. The water was over fourteen feet deep and as cold as it is usually when a river is frozen. CARNEGIE AND THE CABINET. What an English Editor Doesn't Know About the Unties of Onr Oiuclnls. TBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.1 London January 19. The proprietor of .the "Wolverhampton Evening Express, a friend of Andrew Carnegie, prints that he has received a cable dispatch informing him that the office of the Secretary of the Interior has been offered to the Pittsburg iron man, and many English newspapers arc commenting on the appointment, taking for granted that it is genuine. The position is made to appear a great one, and the English interest in it is turned upon the fact that Carnegie, if what his friend says is true, will have control of the inter-State commerce law, affecting the Canadian railroad system. WHO SHOT MRS. FORGET. The Divorced Wife of an Ohio Farmer Re ceives a Load of Buckshot. tSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Ikonton, O., January 19. News was received here this morning of the shooting of Mrs. Alice Forgey, near Proctorville, last night. Mrs. Forgey and her daughter, Maggie, having just returned from the spring with a bucket of water, were in the kitchen. Mrs. Forgey started to go into the adjoining room. Just then some un known person fired a charge of buckshot through the window, striking her in the shoulders and arms. Nine buckshot were taken from her breast and shoulders. In the last term of court in Lawrence eountv Mrs. Forgey sued her husband. Matt Forgey, for divorce and alimony, and also the possession of their five children. Mr. Forgey also filed a suit for divorce and the possession of the children with the excep tion of Maggie, the eldest, aged 16, saying he could not control her and didn't want her. Mr. Forgey is a farmer worth $20,000. Judge Dever decided in favor of Mrs. For gey, giving her possession of the three girl children and one-third of a farm valued at $16,600, and $600 in cash. Mr. Forgey was to have possession of the other two children, both boys. The suit created a great deal ot enmity between the relatives of both Mr. and Mrs. Forgey. 2fo arrests have been made. The house where Mrs. Forgey lives is on the land given her by the court as her share of the farm. Mr. Forgey lives in a house on the samejarni some distance away. Mrs. Forgey is 35 and her former husband is nearly 70. SUPERS ON A STRIKE. ' Mrs. liaegtry Has Mo'ro Trouble in the Pro duction of Macbeth. (SrZCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE BIRPATCH.1 New York, January 19. Mrs. Lang try's latest difficulty in the pro duction of "Macbeth" at the Fifth Avenue Theater occurred yesterday in an unexpected strike of the supernumer aries. Ordinarily they are paid 25 cents an hour, but at the last moment, on Friday, they declared that they wouldn't appear unless tnevgoi ou cents, xne twistnone- ments had teen so many that the Lily ac- . ceded to.the small army of stage attendants. The Backus Murder; Trinl. Geeensbueg, January 19. The murder trial continues to excite considerable in terest The only witness examined to-day whose testimony was of much importance was Constable Cunningham, bt Suterville, who testified that Backns told him that he killed Green, but did it in self defense. PITTSBURG DISPATCH, PIITSBUfifi'SPAUPERS Receive Consideration in the Report of the Ford Committee. A EADICAL REMEDY IS PROPOSED To Stop the Continuous Influx of Unde sirable Immigrants. THE SITUATION IN THE COAL EEG10N. General Spinola Disagrees With the llajorlty In a Report of His Own. The Ford Investigation, Committee made its report yesterday in sending in the bill already outlined in The Dispatch. It says that over 00 pauper and insane immi grants arrived in Pittsburg within six years. The condition of affairs in the Penn sylvania coal regions is described as very bad. The committee' thinks it is time to call a halt. General Spinola makes a minority report "Washington, January 19. The report accompanying the pauper and contract im migration bill of the Ford committee, which was published in yesterday's Dis patch says that it was obvious to the com mittee that it was almost impossible to properly inspect the large number of per sons who" arrive at Castle Garden, New York, daily during the immigrant season, with the facilities afforded. The testimony taken puts it beyond question that large numbers of persons not lawfully entitled to land in the United States are annually re ceived at this port In fact, one of the commissioners of immigration himself testi fied that the local administration of affairs at Castle Garden by the method and system now followed was a perfect farce. The report says that as no inspection is made of immigrants along the border between Canada and the United States large numbers ot alien paupers, insane persons and others not lawfully entitled to enter the United States by tnis way, the number during six months being estimated at 50,000. In many instances immigrants coming from Quebec have, within 48 hours after their arrival, been applicants for shelter in New York almshouses, and the charitable institu tions of "Wayne county, Mich., are filled to overflowing from this cause. WITHIN OVR OWN GATES. The investigation at Pittsburg elicited the fact that over 500 immigrant paupers and insane persons were received at that city within the last six years, the great majority of whom were admitted through the port of New York and that many of these pauper immigrants bore upon their clothing the branded name of the workhouse, of which theyhad recently been inmates in Ireland. The investigation at Boston and New York disclosed a much worse state of affairs in this particular. There are thousands of alien paupers, insane persons and idiots annually landed in this country, who be come a burden and a charge upon the States where they happen to gain settlement,many of whom are aided and assisted to immigrate by the officials of the country whence they came. Criminals are shipped to the United States by officials of foreign Governments, and they have persisted in this course after having been requested by our Government to discontinue it Of the contract labor law the report says that it is easily evaded to a large extent in spirit, while the letter is usually observed. Chinese immigration was not investigated because ot lack of time. THE GOOD AND THE BAD. On the subject of immigration generally the committee after speaking favorably of its benefits in the past, say, that from the inquiry they have made, they believe that the time has now come to draw the line, to select the good from the bad and to sift the wheat from the chaff. To any person familiar with the results of the committee's investigation it must be apparent that this country cannot properly assimilate the im migration now coming to our shores. Take the class ot persons known as An archists, for instance. A few years ago they; principally lived in Germany. The officials of that empire determined to get rid of them. Their newspapers were sup pressed and they were forbidden to hold meetings. They were prosecuted in differ ent ways, until Germany became an un pleasant abiding place for them. They then emigrated to England in large num bers, but the officials there made it so uncomfortable for them that they came to the United States. Here they have proven a lawless, turbulent class, and the whole country is familiar with their recent acts of violence. These disorderly persons do not come here to uphold and maintain our form of government. Their object and purpose is to destroy and tear it to pieces. They hold any aw'in contempt which does not meet with their individual approbation, and be lieve disobedience to it is perfectly justifia ble. This class of persons, in the judgment of the committee, ought to be rigidly ex cluded from entering this country. IN THE COAL BEGIONS. Generally speaking, the class of immi grants who have lately been imported and employed in the coal regions of this country are not such, lathe opinion of the commit tee, as would mike desirable inhabitants of the United States. They are of a very low order of intelligence. They do not'eome herewith the intention of becoming citi ns,""their whole purpose being to accumu late by parsimonions, rigid and unhealthy economy, a sum of money and then return to their native land. Th'ey live in misera ble sheas like beasts, and the food they eat is so meager, scant, unwholesome and re volting that it would nauseate and disgust an American workman, and he would find it difficult to sustain life upon it. Their habits are vicious, their customs are disgusting, and the effect of tkeir presence here upon our social condition is to be de plored. They have not the influences, as we understand them, of a home; they do not know what the word means, and, in the opinion of the committee, no amount ot ef fort would improve their morals or "Amer icanize" this class of immigrants. Tbey have been brought here in such numbers and have been employed at such low wages that it has resulted in their replacing the American citizen who formerly performed this class of labor, until now there are com paratively few Americans engaged in min ing coal in Pennsylvania. AGENTS TO BLAME. The agents of steamship companies in portions of Europe have been active in in ducing, encouraging, and stimulating im migration to this country through false rep resentations. The report condemns the prac tice which has prevailed amoncr certain for eigners resident in this country of import ing men for the purpo'se of contracting them on railroad works, and keeping them in a state of 'almost abject slavery. Beference is also made to the daily crossing of Canadian laborers, it being shown that about S0Q Canadian carpenters daily labor in Detroit, while the same number of Americans lie idle for lack of employment. Inconclusion the committee says: "Certainly the effect of the present unre stricted system of immigration as applicable to the conditions under consideration upon the industrial situation of this country has been very bad, and the committee believe that the time has come when immigration should be more effectively regulated: that persons who immigrate to the United States should at least be composed of those who in good faith desire to become its citizens and are worthy to be such. A MINOBITT REPORT. Mr. Spinola does not agree with the ma jority ot the committee in regard to either the report submitted or the bill presented. In a minority report he states that he is op posed to a head tar of more than $1 for each immigrant, believing this sum to be sum- SUNDAY,' JANUARY 20, cient to meet all the'required expenses nec essary to conduct the Department of Immi gration. Mr. Spinola says the minority is prepared to go to any length in the advocacy of a proper measure in order to shut out paupers, lunatics, idiots, cripples and thieves, as well as all evil doers, who come -here to practice their wickedness and fill our poor houses and prisons, but declares unqualified opposition to the passage of any law that will in any way check or stop the influx of honest immigration, believing thai our happy and prosperous country will in the future, as in the past, continue to receive with open arms every industrious, honest man who may seek a home among us for the purpose of improving and benefiting his condition in lite, whether such comer may have Jl or 51,000,000. PUT HIM1 IN A HOLE. A Dlspnte Between Tiro Farmers Over Rlaht of Way, Lends to One Bury ing the Other Up to Ills Neck in a Fit. rSrECIAL TELEOKAM TO THE DTSPATCH.I Canonsbotig, January 19. For a long time a bitter controversy has existed be tween John Shearn and 'William Light holder, of this place, over the right of the former to use a road through the premises of the latter. The road was the only thoroughfare for Shearn to the Canonsburg coal bank. A few days ago Shearn was driving over the road on his way to the bank, when he came to a wide and deep hole in the road which it was impossible for him to pass. It was in front of Lightholder's house, and Lightholder and his son stood at one side of the pit smiling as Shearn drove up. Know ing that the pit had been dug by the Light holders on purpose to prevent him getting to the coal banks, Shearn told them that unless they filled it up he would fill it him self. Lightholder refused to fill it, and Shearn got out of his wagon and began to shovel the dirt back into the hole. Light holder attacked him with a pick. A strug gle ensued between the two Lightholders and Shearn, but the latter got the pick in his possession and young Lightholder re treated to the house. Shearn then proceeded with the work of filling in the deep hole. Lightholder jumped into the pit and lay down in it, supposing that Shearn would not dare fill the dirt in on him, but Shearn worked right on. "When Lightholder discovered that tSkkarn intended to finish the job, even if it buried the former, he struggled to his feet and defied Shearn to fill the hole. Shearn paid no attention to Lightholder's protests, but filled in the dirt on all sides of the stubborn pit digger until nothing but his head was" above ground. Shearn then mounted his wagon and crossed over the filled-in hole. Then he stopped his wagon and offered to dig Lightholder out if the latter would fill the pit afterward, but Lightholder refused to agree and Shearn drove on his way. Old man Lightholder was exhumed by his son, and Thursday had Shearn arrested, charged with assist and battery. The case was tried by a justice's jnry and Shearn was discharged, with all the costs on Lightholder. BHAH0KI5 WHITE CAPS. They Slash a Harmless IdlotUntll lie Is Un conscious and Duck II Ira in Icy Water. Shamokin, Pa., January 19. The White Cap outrages near Coal Run sur passes in atrocity the exploits of that in famous organization in other States. Fat rick Doolan and two Hungarian laborers left the mines of the Corhin colliery at 2 o'clock yesterday morning to go to theiphomes at Springfield, a mile from this city, and two miles from the mines. Whpn npflr flipir brtmfla iarr wiflf 9A armed men wearing black masks and white caps, i our or the men were carrying a naked man whose person resembled a quar ter of raw beef. This appearance was caused, so the leader told the aston ished and affrighted miners, by hav ing t 20 lashes of a cat-o'-nine-tails laid on him. When the procession reached the spot where Doolan and the White Caps stood, the bleeding man, who was unconscious, was held up in front of the workmen, who recognized him as Thomas Hague, of Coal Run, reputed a harmless idiot, who, it was claimed had tried to assault a girl. A rope was then tied around Hague and he was cast into the ice-cold stream and dragged up and down in the water for a short while, when he was laid on the bank. A White Cap then ordered Doolan and his men to kneel and remain in that position until they were out of sight. The men did so and the band disappeared in the woods. The workmen carried Hague into a hostelry in Springfield, where he now lies at the point of death. The alarm was at once given and bands of angry miners scoured the woods for miles around, but no trace of the brutes could be found. Yesterday's mail brought a number of warnings to different people to leave Shamokin in 24 hours or re ceive punishment from the White Caps. It is feared that there will be bloodshed, as everybody is heavily armed. COMPULSORY EDUCATION. A Stringent Mcnsnre to be Prepared for the Illinois Schools. Chicago, January 19. At a meeting of representatives of the Board of Education, the Board of Trade, the Union League, the Woman's Alliance, and other bodies, to day, it was decided to submit to the Legis lature a bill for a more stringent compulso ry education act. The bill provides for the attendance at school of all children between the ages of 7 and 14 years, during at least 20 weeks during each year; that no child under 12 years of age shall be employed by any firm or corporation; and that between that age and 14 years they shall not be employed more than eight hours per day, and only during school vacations, unless by permission of the school board upon proof that its earn ings are necessary on account of poverty. Also that school books shall be furnished free of charge to children where parents are too poor to buy them. Penalties in the way of fines are provided for the enforce ment of the law, and truant officers are to be appointed under it to see that its provisions are carried out. WILL HAYE TO HANG. John W. Rndy, Convicted of Itlnrder, Re fused a New Trial. SrltCUL TELEGRAM T0T1IE DISPATCn.l Lancasteb, January 19. John W. Rudy, convicted last June of murder in the first degree for killing his aged father, was to-day refused a new trial in an opinion by Judge Livingston. Rudy was in court, but was not affected. Sentence of death will be passed next week, and the case will then be taken to the Supreme Court. The murder was a terrible one, but the evidence against Rudy, who is a young man respectably con nected, was entirely circumstantial. A new trial was also denied Thomas F. Bradenbnrg, a young drug clerk of Colum bia, who was convicted of involuntary man slaughter for selling a customer morphine in mistake for quinine, which cansed death. A Tramp's Gratitude. ISPXCIAl. TKLEQKAM TO THE DISPATCH. Beilaike, January 19. Thomas Ray craft, a tramp, was injured in a. wreck at Belmont some time since. Hehadno'frlends to care for him, so George Mercer, of that place, took care of him nntil he recovered. A day or two since Bajrcraft returned Mer-J cer me lavor uuue min uy ui&jne an tne money he could find in Mercer's house and skipping. He Will Haye a Fair Salary. Cr,EVEi.AND,Tanuary 19. Bev. Wilton Merle Smith, pastor of the First Presbyte rian Chnrch, has accepted a call to the Cen tral Presbyterian Church of New York at ?T,000 a year. 1889. .' GEN. CASS IN MARBLE. A Very Fine Statue of the Old States man to be Shortly Unveiled. GREAT WORK OP A I0UNG ARTIST. A Present From the State of Michigan to the United States. TBIBUTE TO A GOOD MAK'S W0ETH. He Knew Washington and Was a Defeated Candidate for President. The statue of General Lewis Cass, pre sented by the State of Michigan to the United States, is to be unveiled at "Wash ington in a 'few days. It is the first great work of Mr. D. C. French, is of Carrara marble, and was made in Paris, in a year and a half, at a cost ot. $10,000. rSFECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, January 19. In a few days the statue of General Lewis Cass will be unveiled in Statuary Hall. It is the work of Mr. D. C. French, a young man of 30, the son of the late E. B. French, As sistant Secretary of the Treasury under Arthur's administration. The statue will rank as one oi the best ever placed in the capitol. It is Mr. French's first- great work, and for a year and a half he has been at work upon it diligently in his atelier in Paris, after having spent several months in Detroit, the home of General Cass, securing from old acquaintances and from relatives all the as sistance possible for the perfect rendition of a portrait statue. General Cass is represented as he ap peared in the last years of his life a stately, dignified, heavy-set old gentleman, clad in the dress of 50 years ago, with swallow tailed coat, very large in the collar, a double breasted waistcoat, the old-fashioned "barn door" trousers, and a heavy pendant watch fob. Cass was as bald as a turnip, but the sculptor has preserved faithfully his dark brown curling wig, for which it is said he was accustomed to pay $100 in order to have the best that money could buy. The figure is heroic in size, a'nd no tricks of posture have been attempted. It is Cass, the grave and reverend statesman, standing sqnarcly upon his ieet, one hand resting upon an open book and the other holding a roll of paper. A BEAUTIFUL MARBLE. The sculpture is done in a magnificent piece of Carrara marble, the finest piece Mr. French says he has ever seen. When you tap it with a silver dollar it rings with a clear flute-like resonance of a big Dell. The statute is the gift of the State ot Michigan to the United States, and it has set in the face of the pedestal a plain little medallion, hardly a foot in diameter, bearing the coat of arms of the State. Mr. French received for the statute 510,000. Senators Sherman and Morrill are the only survivors now in Congress who sat with General Cass in the Senate. It will be re membered that the Republican party be came dominant in Michigan in 1856, and Zach Chandler was elected to succeed Cass. With the election of Buchanan, Cass became Secretary of State, and con tinued his life in Washington. He lived in one of the dwelling houses since modeled over into the Arlington Hotel, where once a year he was wont to give a grand reception. The old gentleman was exceeding fond of good wines, and while Secretary of State re ceived generous donations of rare old bran dies and wines from his admirers in the dip lomatic colony. WEALTHY, BUT A MODEST LIVES. Owning a farm of 500 acres in the heart of tne city ot .Detroit, its ennancement in value when it was cut up into blocks and lots, made him a wealthy man; yet his econ omy was a by-word in Washington. Dur ing most of his Senatorial career he lived at the St. Charles Hotel, in a simple and saying way. This habit was possibly as much the result of early training as any thing else. General Cass was born in New Hamp shire, of poor parents, and although his life was distinguished bymany honors and an acquaintance, even in youth, with many great men, it was not nntil his later years that he escaped the pinch of poverty. It is hardly over 20 years since General Cass died. To men who knew him and who heard from his lips the countless stories of adventure in his long life he seemed a won derful link between thepreseut and the past. His grandfather knew Peregrine White, the first child born to the pilerims after their arrival at Plymouth. He himself talked with Washington. As he said in his speech introducing the Prince of Wales to President Bnchanan, he had been BORN A BRITISH SUBJECT, having seen the light of day before the final treaty of peace with the mother country. He made the acquaintance of General .Harrison before that worthy had ever traveled west of the Kanawha, He lived at Harper's Ferry over half a century before John Brown's famous raid. His first appointment to office was re ceived from Thomas Jefferson, who made him Marshal of Ohio. He knew the Blen nerhasset and his charming wife well, and at their island home met Aaron Burr, against whom afterward, while a member of the Ohio Legislature, he framed a bill de fining treason. He was a Brigadier with Hull at the Detroit surrender. He saw Tecumseh killed. For 17 years he was Governor of Michigan, which then embraced jvhat is now Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. He was in General Jackson's first Cabinet; for six years was Minister to France, and his last office was that of Secretary of State under Buchanan. He resigned be cause Bnchanan would not re-enforce Sum ter in 1859. During the war he was an in tense Unionist, supporting the Government unequivocally. .His candidacy for Presi dent in 1848 is one! of the most pathetic in cidents in the history of the Democratic Sarty. But for the spite of Martin Van uren he wonld have -received the undi vided support of his party, and have been elected. Singularly enough, although IVan Buren was nominated as a Free Soiler, Cass car ried a majority of the free States, while a majority of the slave States voted with the Whigs for General Taylor. Fifteen States gave their electoral votes to Cass and 15 to Taylor, but among the latter were New York and Pennsylvania, where Van Buren had divided his party and effected his rival's defeat. AN EAGLE'S BIG LIFT. It Prepares to Slake Off With an Eight-Year-old Boy Taken Five Feet Off theJSronnd A Cap tain's Story. rsrrciAi, txxiobam to the dispatch.! Caibo, III., January 19. Captain Mark Cole, of the steamer Sentinel, vouches for the following remarkable event: On Wednes day last, while en route to Golconda after rock with his boat, and while immediately abreast with the New Liberty, mid-river, he crippled with a shotgun a huge black eagle, which' was soaring slowly toward the Ken tucky shore. The bird fell about 100 yards on the shore below Hamlettsburg, and after considerable tronble was secured and taken aboard the boat. Its wings measured eight feet two inches from tip to tip, pronounced by the denizens of the locality to be the largest ever known in that section. The bird was taken to Golconda, and as it was supposed to be badly crippled and unable to fly, was located in the court yard which was surrounded by a high wire fence. Yesterday a negro boy about 9 years old ventured within the iuclosure, and in some manner excited the ire of his eagleship. who instantly de veloped sufficient strength and activity to ponnce upon the child and fixing its talons into his shoulders began slowly ascending, flapping his broad wings violently in the meantime. The boy screamed loudly in his terrorand pain. Assistance did not arrive until he was suspended five feet from the ground. The feathered monster dropped his e cargo and quietly lighted into a corner of the yard apparently not in the least excited over his failure to procure a winter supply of food. The shoulders of the boy were considerably scratched but not seriously. CflDECH AND STATE IS QUEBEC. Protestant Feeling- Greatly Aroused Against Cardinal and Jesnfts. Montreal, January 19. As a result of the attitude of the Jesuits particularly, and the Catholic Church generally, in Quebec, there seems likely to be a bitter religious warfare here and in Ontario shortly. A special to the. Witness, of this city, to-night Trom Ottawa, says: The Orangemen and Young Britons, of Ot tawa, who describe themselves asloyal subjects to Her Majesty in apetitlou to the Governor General, drawn up at a meeting last night for the disallowance of the Onp.bec Jesuits act. refer to the evil results of the interference of Jesuits in political affairs and protest against any money crants to men who maintain that no obedience is due by Roman Catholics to the laws of the Protestant sovereigns. If would. in ine opinion oi tne petitioners, leaa to raids on the public treasury by every kind of relig ious institution. A resolution was also adopted to send a printed copy of the petition to every city, town and village In Ontario inviting the signatures or the Protestant associations of every kind, and of Protestant citizens in general, after which the monster petition will be handed in. This is the beginning of a crusade by Protestants against the influence ot the church in Quebec provincial affairs, and is the direct outcome of Cardinal Taschereau's persistency a week ago in demanding a seat in the Provincial Parliament on the throne beside the Queen's repre sentative and directly under the royal arms. The "Jesuit bill" referred to is the measure passed in the Quebec Parliament through the influence of the Church, giving that order $400,000 indemnity for loans which reverted to the Government at the time Pbpe Clement XTV. abolished the Jesuit Order. The bill contains a provision that the money is to be distributed subject to the conditions to be made by Pope Leo XIIL THE! HIT THE PIPE. Two Pretty Little Girls Become Slaves of the Opiam Habit. (EFECIAI. TZLXGKAM TO TUX CISFATCn.l ' Boston, January 19. Two pretty 16-year-old girls were in court to-day, charged with frequenting opium joints, whose career during the past 18 months was shaped by two Harvard students. They were then bright and innocent schoolgirls. To-day they are inveterate opium smokers. The story of their downfall is one of peculiar significance. Both girls belong to respectable families, and their fathers are well-to-do tradesmen residing at the South End. They have been chums ever since they journeyed to- getner to tne primary school, ana when, 18 months ago, mutual friends who were stu dents at Harvard College proposed that all four test the pleasures to be found in smok ing opium. The girls entered in the scheme for a little fun. Two or three "hits of the pipe" were in dulged in and almost before they were aware of it the habit of smoking had fastened itself upon them. For a few months the girls were able to keep the knowledge of their misdeeds from their parents, but as the latter awoke to the fact they had lost all restraint over their wayward children, they realized the extent to which the girls had become slaves to the opium habit. All efforts to reform have so far failed. HELD FOE HIS BRIDE'S DEATH. Charged With Causing the Death of His Wife a Few Hoars After Marriage. SPECIAL TELXOIIA1I TO TUB DISPATCH. BROOKLYN, January ,19. Frank P. Dudgeon, who was arrested on Friday night for complicity in the death of Katie Cody, wa3 committed withont bail yesterday by Coroner Booney to the Raymond street jail to await the result of the inquest, which is to begin to-morrow evening. Police Captain Kenny testified before the Coroner that "one of his detectives had found letters going to show that Dudgeon assisted in bringing about the operation which caused Miss Cody's death a few hours after her marriage to Dudgton. After (he Coroner's commitment Dudgeon was taken before Jnstice Cullen on a writ of habeas corpus.. Justice Cullen said he could not admit him to 'bail, provided the Coroner would use proper diligence in holding the inquest. SHIPWRECKED SA1L0ES. They Were Seven Days fn an Open Boat on the Pncific Ocean. San Francisco, January 19. The steamship Alameda, which arrived to-day from Australia, brought Captain Timothy Murphy and 19 of the crew of the American ship John Bryce, of Thomaston, Me., which sailed from Port Ludlow, Pnget. Sound, October 6, with a cargo of lumber for Mel bourne, Australia, but was waterlogged in the hurricane of December 7, and was abandoned about 800 miles east of Samoa Islands. One man was lost overboard. The re mainder of the crew proceeded in open boats to the islands, where they arrived after be ing out seven days and nights. The second and third mates and steward remained at Apia when the others left on the Alameda. BIG BLAZE AT WILKINSBUEG. A Livery Stable and Billiard Room De stroyed This Hlornlnc Johnson's livery stable and a pool and billiard parlor at Wilkinsburg were totally destroyed by fire abont 1 o'clock this morn ing. Several horses were burned and the loss will reach $7,000. The fire is supposed to have caught from an overheated natural gas stove. A Disturber Fatally Wounded. Cleveland. January 19. Bain Cun ningham shot and fatally wounded Fred Stricklin last night at Kenton. Stncklin entered Cunningham's home and provoked a disturbance. Four balls took effect in his body and he died in a short time. Cun ningham was arrested. 'T.' BISMAKCK'S PEOGKAE Will be Ratified by the Reichstag With, but little Opposition. SALISBURY AND THE CHANCELLOR Working in Perfect Harmony, But liberals Are Protesting. tho PUBLIC FEEWXG FAY0BS GEFFCKE5, And the Goreniment Will Sot Print Any More of U Correspondence. The East Africa bill will go to the Reich stag by the end of the week. Bjsmarck will then make a statement as to the co-operation of the- English Government. Salisbury will let Morier fight his own battles. It is not believed that the remainder of the Geffckea correspondence will be published. Several financial schemes are being perfected at tha German capital. CCOPYRIGHTID, 1S39, BT THK NEW TORK ASSOCI ATED FRZSS.l Beelin, January 19. The Bundesrath, will dispose of the East African bill with out delay, and it will be submitted to the Beichstag. at the end of the week, when it will evoke the long-expected declaration from Prince Bismarck on the Government's, colonial policy and its relations with En gland. The measure, it is believed, will be finally passed by a large majority. The measure is known in Parliamentary circles as the outcome of an agreement between tha leaders of the Government groups after a, consultation with Prince Bismarck. The center party will also approve of fol lowing the policy observed during Tues day's debate. The opposition will thus ba left to the Progressists only, and this will narrow the debate into lively encounters between the Chancellor and his persistent assailants. An important part of the bill, the proposals relating to the enrolling and disposition of levies, it is understood will be settled in a secret sitting of the commit tee. Interest really centers in what Princa Bismarck will choose to reveal concerning the co-operation of England. ENGLISH OPPOSITION. It is noted here that English opinion against colonial extension by Germany gains ground, and even conservative capers suggest that Lord Salisbury "weakly yielded to the requests of Prince Bismarck, without knowing how far the Chancellor's designs extended. Probably Pritoce Bismarck will frankly disclose how completely the En glish Government has been apprised of every phase of the German policy as em bodied in the East Africa bill. He is de sirous of preventing English Liberals from making party capital from the concert of the Government. Every suggestion coming from Lord Salisbury during the nejitia tions has been accepted here. The Chan cellor will therefore announce absolute har mony in the co-operations. The Morier incident has not had tha slightest effect in the relations between the twoGovernments. It may have formed the subject of conversation during recent inter views between Prince Bismarck and Sir Ed ward. Malet, the British Ambassador. Officially Lord Salisbury leaves Morier to fight his own battle. The diplomatic circle is confident that Prince Bismarck has a strong card in reserve against Morier and will probably oblige Lord Salisbury to take official notice of the affair by transferring Morier from St. Petersbftrg to some post that has less influence on European politics. THE GEFFCKEN CASE. TheGeffcken correspondence, covering 180 folios, has been submitted to the Bun desrath. It was intended to publish the correspondence, but the,Government is be ginning to learn that the country has had a' surfeit of GefTcken. Besides, public opinion is maturing in favor of GefTcken. The Pro gressist press, knowing it to be a powerful, weapon of offense, wonld sustain the agita tion. The Tageblult demands a complete clearing of the affair, the production of the appendices to the indictment, the answers, for the defense, the reasons lor the decision of the tribunal, etc. The semi-official press continues to give favorable extracts from the correspondence, but otherwise has, ceased to refer to the matter. The official press of Vienna upholds the action of Prince Bismarck. Count von Taafe's organ, the Presse, holds-tbat the prosecution was forced upon the Govern ment by the exigencies of actual politics, and denounces GefTcken as hardly waiting for his royal friend to sink intd the grave before publishing the diary. The paper blames Emperor Frederick's selection as a, confidant t a person without responsibility. ' This public comment, which is entirely in taste with the German official press, does not disclose the real opinion of the Court and official circles of Vienna, which cen-" sures GefTcken and condemns the unwise course of Bismarck. The Austrian official mind cannot understand the Berlin Gov ernment fighting its opponents by dis closures affecting fhe Imperial family. Private letters from Vienna convey the im-' pression of surprise at the folly of Bismarck.' The succession to the throne of Holland, confbined with the Luxembourg question, occupies me attention ui aipiomausu. Under the advice of Bismarck the Duka of Nassau has abandoned 'his intention of abdicating in favor of his son on the death of the King of Holland. The German Gov-. ernment will not change the position of Luxembourg fixed by the treaty of 1876. The duchy will enter the German Zoll verin, but will otherwise remain separate from the Empire. The Budget Committee of the Beichstag has agreed upon the estimates for the con struction of war ships. Dr. Stocker has in duced the Ultra-Conservatives in the Beich stag to support the proposals to prohibit the importation of alcoholic beverages into the German colonies. Stocker is in difficulty', through his denial that he wrote a letter trying to influence the legal evidence in the. case of Bev. Dr. Witte, the latter having produced the letter. A consistory of the clergy has cited Dr. Stocker for trial. The applications to enter Lieutenant Wissman's ' service in the East Africa expedition.' amount to 4,000. BANKIfTG SCHEMES. , The Boersen Courier announces that tha syndicate composing the German-Chinese bank will meet on Tuesday, and definitely launch the concern. Eminent bankers who are largely interested in the enterprise ex pect to undertake to raise the necessary capital. An animated discussion is going on among bankers on a proposal to compel private -note banks to renounce the right to issue notes. The charters of most of these banks continue valid until 1901, and they could not be divested of the right to issue notes unless the Federal Government consented. The proposal is part of a project to change the Beichsbank into a purely Government, institute by "paying out" the present share holders. Admiral Monts, Chief of the Admiralty, died at 8 o'clock this evening. Emores3 Frederick goes to Kiel about the middle of February, in time for the accouchement of Princess Henry. IN NEW TOES, NOW. Jack the Ripper Says He Will Kill Some body Before Next Thursday. New York, January 19. Captain Byan, . of the Twenty-first police precinct, to-day received the following letter, badly written: Captaut Ryan Do you think that "Jack the Ripper" is in England? He is not. I'am, right here, and 1 expect to kill somebody by Thursday next, and so get ready for me with your pistols. But 1 have a knife that has done more than your pistols. The next thing yon will hear ot some woman dead. Yours, truly, "Jack xhi BirrEE," i i 1 9HHP