L' And Will HaTo to Take a Lous Best Before Tackling the Homo Eule Fight. TOBIES mil FILIBUSTER As Long as They Can Possibly Stand Up to Delay the Matter. SOME VERY HARD SOTS TO CRACK. Jags of EeTeral Ends Give Justice a Job Xot to Ee Emied. IADT SCOTT AXD HER BANKRUPTCY fBT CABLE TO THI DISPATCH. IVosdos-, Julj 51 Copyright. There is no reason to fear that Mr. Gladstone' health is not as satisfactory as his number less friends could wish. The tremendous (train of the last few weeks has undenlablj made its effect felt both upon his mental and physical strength, and the Grand Old Man will certainly have to take a long rest before commencing the herculean task of piloting a home rule bill through the House of Commons and fighting the House of Iiords afterward. If wise counsels should prevail, Mr. Gladstone will share that work with others by giTing John Jlorlev or Sir "William Harcourt charge of the bill during the whole of the committee stage, which will be un duly prolonged by Tory filibustering. At present the aged statesman will not listen to the dictates of prudence, lest he should nnwittingly shirk any part of the sacred duty of gmng justice to Ireland, which he has imposed upon himself, and with which his mind is occupied night and day, to the ex clusion of almost everything else and to the utter disregard of personal consideration. Harmony In the Liberal Banks. Kumerous conferences have taken place during the week between the Liberal lead ers and party managers with reference to the parliamentary plan of campaign, and the necessary secrecy of these deliberations has given rise to absurd rumors of divided councils and incipient mutiny. A Dis patch reporter is enabled to state, upon authority, that harmony prevails among the leaders, and unity and enthusiasm in the rank and file of the various corps which compose the Liberal army. Even the nine Parnellites have ceased to hint at sedition, and Keir Hardle, the solitary Labor member, who has shown a disposition to kick over the party traces, has demonstrated his loyalty by promising to help John Morley, should "that gentle man have to sect re-election on his appoint ment to office. The poncy sketched in The Dispatch last week has since been formally decided upen br the .Liberal leaders. Xue home rule bill will tate preoedence of everything else, and measures dealing with electoral registration laws, suffrage, qualification and extension of local government in Great Britain will follow closely in its wake. If the debate in the House of Commons on the motion of want of confidence should be at all prolonged, the Queen will be at Balmoral when she has to summon Glad stone to her presence, which means that the Grand Old Han would have to travel to the Hichlands and back, a distance of 1,200 miles. No Consideration for Gladstone. No other monarch would dream of being absent from the capital during a ministerial crisis, and the Liberal newspapers are in sisting that Queen Victoria shall display proper consideration for Mr. Gladstone's convenience, and at the same time facilitate public business by taking up her residence lor two or three weeks either in Bucking ham Palace, London, or in Windsor Castle. It is certain, however, that she will not come to London, because that would be too great an honor for the metropolis, which she shows a strange delight in avoiding. "What she will do will be to remain at Os borne, in the Isle of Wight, until the com pletion of the ministerial changes so say Liberals aud Tories alike. It is stated the sum which Andrew Car negie subscribed to the fund for promoting the election of labor candidates was $1,000, oi -whom the most successful was Heir Hardie. The suggestion that the money cbould be returned to the donor by way of marking disapproval of the recent proceed-lnc- at homestead has not been received with iavor by those who obtained shares, because it is thought to savor of the pro Terbial folly of cutting oft one's nose to spite one's face. eir 3-iIirrd CTatklns Schemes. Pir Edward "VTatkins has not given up his Idea ot settling the Irish question by a ship canal and a tunnel to Ireland. He writes to to-das Times, "The dutance between Liverpool arde York, Ma Queenstown, is 3S47 miles, while the distance between L verrool and Xew York, via Galway Bay, is 2 rG4 miles, or a saving of CS3 miles, and tl e i etions ot Fafety and certainty have also to be weighed. Had a ship canal ex isted, the Ciucago would now be reloading at Liverpool. Ssea dangers lurk mainly on the coast line. The rpeed at which a ship can pais along a canal is a question of engi neering, no doubt attended with some extra cost ot norks, but economic in the end. The larger the ship becomes the more important is the savings of distance and time, but such a work as I contemplate would serve miny other purposes beside navigation in the main drainage, tne im provement of the Shannon aud so on. "The state of nuud ot my critics is well illustrated by a letter Irora Lord Anglesey, the most popular Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, to Attorney General Blackburn, dated 1804, irom Borne. He says, dilating in con trast on the solidijv ot the works of the Imperial City, which appeared to have been 'destined lor eternity:" lhey would have made you a ship canal from Galway to your Day in a month. How a Roman Emperor would have smiled at the difficulty of form ing one Irom Kingston to Dublin.' " lt!vui cbfm Mas the Iad. But it Sir EJward does not make haste and convert the British Government to his channel-tunnel scheme, he will be left be hind. Ine rival scheme of a channel bridge 1b advancing rapidly. It is true that it has not vet got beyond the paper stage, but the plans show remarkable prog ress. A few months ago the drawings ot the bridge showed 141 piers resting on the bed of the channel and rising high out of the sea. Now 09 of these costly piles hate been removed, not by the iury of the wave', but by the activity of the draughtsman, with mdia rubber. The re vised bridge will only require 75 piers, and ttie cost will be considerably reduced. It is interesting to note the enthusiasm of the company, as shown at its meeting yesterday, oier what Eeems to outsiders Tery poor prospects. The bridge on the re nted estimate is to cost 32,000,000. In order that interest may be paid on this ,ri-.nnit ranital it would be necessary for the undertaking to earn daily a net profit of 3 0J0 to 4,000. It the channel bridge does that it will be the bet patronized 20 miles ol railway in the world. Abenorn Inunfiics in lyrone. As showing the influence brought to bear J dk ' and the energy developed in bringing up voters in Ulster to defeat Nationalist candi dates, the story of the Abercorn influ ence in North Tvrone it significant. It seems that on the polling day it was found that two invalid voters had not been polled. The "Unionists were in a dilemma as all their carriages were employed in bringing up other voters. The Duke of Abercorn was applied to, ana finally two farm horses were taken from the plow and hitched up to the great stage coach, which was the only vehicle net previously sent out for the use of the Unionists. Then no one could be found to drive,all the regular coachmen already being out with electioneering vehicles and the Duke as a membsr of the House of Lords being prevented irom taking part in an electoral contest. Finally, however, the Duchess, - who is possessed of sporting blood, mounted the box and brought up the two voters, only three minutes before the ballot boxes were closed JUMBLED-UP JAGS Give Encllsh Juttloes Some Hard Knt to Crack The Difference Between Dead Drunk and Leg Drunk Some Irre sponsible Mendicants. fBT CAJLt TO TBX DISrATCH. London, July SO. The other day a man charged at a London police court with being drunk and disorderly vainly urged, in mitigation of punishment, that "he was only dead drunk," and not "leg drunk" a subtle distinction which the magistrate was unable to recognixe, but at the Stafford Assizes Thursday Mr. Justice Collins grappled with the question of the difference between "sober intention" and a "drunken impulse," and in doing so laid down the law in a novel manner, calculated to drive the temperance people into a frenzy of in dignation. Harry Pugh, a miner, was charged with the murder of Anna Gill by drowning her. The couple had been drinking heavily to gether, and according to a statement made by Pugh, they agreed to commit suicide in company in a deep pool, but when they got into the water the woman "seized him, held him under and nearly drowned him, but he got the better of her anddrowned her." Push Fulls Out of a Bad Hole. The case looked very black indeed against Pugh until evidence was produced to show that both he and the woman had been heard to declare their intention to commit suicide. Thereupon Justice Collins directed the jury that before there could be a common purpose, "the minds of the 'two persons must nave been in a condition sufficiently clear to enable them to frame an intention of that kind. Drunkenness, although often said to be no defense to crime, was a mate rial factor when a proved intention was a necessary ingredient for the crime; for a person might be so drunk as to be incapable of forming an intention." After this luminous exposition the jury took only 20 minutes to make up their minds to acquit the prisoner. People who don't drink are complaining that the law was unduly strained in favor of a drunken scoundrel who undeniably killed a woman, but inebriates have equal ground for pro testing against the action of the Islington Guardians of the Poor, who want Parlia ment to create a new office at the expense of men who don't know when they have had enough. A Queer Kind ot Tippler. It seems that there is a creature living in Islington who 'tf rinks himself into periodi cal fits of delirium tremens, and while they are on is chargeable to the poor rates as a pauper lunatic." The guardians want to have this man punished "for refusing to maintain himself," and if the law is power less to deal with him they want the law altered. But this objectionable man does not actually refuse to maintain himselfi When he starts drinking, too, i., is not with the Intention or desire to cret tn the dttltrtnm "tremens stage. He reaches it all of a sud den, beiore he has time to consider the question of his maintenance. In the bad time that is coming for En glish drunkards.men of the Islington stamp, wife deserters and the like will be classed as fraudulent state debtors, and will be kept under lock and key until they have done enough work to wipe out their indebted nets. That, at any rate, is the intention of the temperance reformers, who at this moment constitute a majority of the House oi commons. THE JIABCH OF CH0LESA. Decreasing: In the Towns First Affected, bnt Increasing In Other Places, St. Petersbubg, July SO. The cholera has decreased in towns in Russia in which it first made its appearance, but in those places more recently affected by the disease it is increasing rapidly. It has also broken out in several districts which have hitherto been free from its ravages. In Astakhan, on the 26th inst, 46 new cases of cholera and 42 deaths from the disease were re ported, and on Wednesday there were 39 new cases and 250 deaths. In Samara, on the same date, respectively there were re ported 120 new cases and 74 deaths and 130 new cases and 64 deaths, and in Rostov, 105 new cases and 70 deaths and 141 new cases and 62 deaths. At Baku, on June 27, there were 190 new cases and 141 deaths. The scourge holds' lull sway in Nijni Novgorod, where on Thursday last 74 new cases were reported and 30 deaths occurred. In Kooban, the most seriously affected of the western districts, there were 85 new cases and 24 deaths on "Wednesday. In Baghestan, on the same day, there were 372 new cases and 184 deaths, and in Terek, 3S3 new cases and 205 deaths. A SPANISH GUNBOAT ATTACKED. A Party of Moors Keep Up a Long Fight on the Tessel From Shore. Madrid, July 30. The Spanish gunboat Pillar while cruising along the coast of Morocco, was fired upon by a party of Moors on shore. Immediately upon the firing of the first shot the commander of the gunboat hoisted the Spanish flag, thinking that the attack was the result of a mistake, and expecting that it would cease as soon as the nationality of his vessel was made known. In this, however, he was disap pointed, for no sooner did the Moors see the flag than their firing became more vig orous. Thereupon the commander ordered the fire to be returned, and tor a time a brisks cannonade was kept up between the vessel aud the shore. The course of the gunboat was changed so as to bring her nearer to the shore and render her fire more effective. The Moors held their ground until the ves sel neared the shore, when they fled precip itately. Russia's New Income Tax. St. Petebsbuko, July 30. A bill has been prepared imposing a graduated tax upon incomes. On incomes ot 1,000 roubles, the tax is 1 per cent, and for every addi tional thousand roubles the rate increased one-tenth of 1 per cent. Exemptions are allowed in the cases of members of the imperial family, Assemblies, nobles, the 1 eading clergy, ' convents, schools and high Government officials. Agreed to Increased Taxation. CnuisTiANA, July 30. The Storthing to day agreed to the proposed increase in taxa tion to themouut of 2,830,000 kroner to provide lor the reduction recently made in the duty on sugar and the abolition of the duty on petroleum. Fcotch fympatliy for Homestead. Glasgow, July 30 The United Trades Council, at its meeting in this city next I week, will discuss a motion deeply deplor ing the condition of the workmen at Home stead; sincerely sympathizing with them, and bitterly Censuring Andrew Carnegie. LADV SCOTT'S DEBTS. Fecu'lar Facts Brought Oat inhs Bank ruptcy Court Karl Russell's Mother-in-Lair In Sore Straits and No Way Ap parent Ont of Them. fBT CAfet.fi TO TBX DISPATCH. London, July SO. The affaire of Lady Lena Scott, the well-kuown grande dame of London society, have been occupying the time of the bankruptcy court, this week. She is the,widow of Sir Claud Scott, baronet and banker, and until lately was reputed to be Tery wealthy. She was at the zenith of her glory a few seasons ago, when, after an exciting race with nearly all mothers in polite society, she won a husband for her beautiful daughter in the person of Earl BusselL The marriage proved a molt unhappy one, as all the world knows from the proceed ings in the law courts from time to time, and Lady Scott's suit quickly set. Her ac counts, as filed in the bankruptcy court, show gross debts of 14,353, of which sum, however, only 3,768 is Unsecured, and as sets nil. Her ladyship's trouble, judged by her answers in the course of examination, was due in some measure to rash speculations, but more largely to the commonplace habit Ot living beyond one's means. Her creditors stand a poor chance of getting anything, for although Lady Scott expressed deep re gret at her position, and bravely declared "that It would be the best endeavor ot her life to pay everybody in lull," her hopes are based upon no more solid foundation than the gambler's superstition that bad luck cannot last always. Among her ladyship's credltols is her son'in-law, Earl Russell, who claimed 103, and against this sue naively endeavored to set a dressing bag, bought for 190, which she gave the young man upon his marriage with her daughter. The attempt failed, and Earl Bussell remains on the list of creditors, in company with the usual assort ment ot florists, Jewelers, milliners and hotel keepers, to whom the poor woman owes money. A MAN OF THE DAY. Stephen Bonzal Blent on Top of the Heap In London Dined and Feted and Hts Fio ture In the Illustrated Papers His Ad ventures. BT CABLE TO TH DISPATCH. London, July 30. Stephen Bonzal, of Baltimore, well known to American news paper men, is to-day the hero of the British journalistic world, and his name Is bracketed with those of Forbes and Stan ley. He was in Morocco, with a roving commission from the United Press ot New York and the Central News Agenoy of Lon don, when Sir Charles Evan Smith and the members of the British mission started out to negotiate a treaty with the Sultan of Fez. Bonzal joined the caravan and was treated as a member of the mission, and rapidly rose to the position of right-hand man to Sir Charles. The conference with the Sul tan resulted in a number of tragic incidents, all of which Bonzal described at length in the English newspapers. Negotiations were finally broken off, and tne mission started out on its return to Tan. giers, but Bonzal, striking out for himself, rode across the desert with the news, keep ing in the saddle 16 hours a day and beating the caravan by nearly a week from Tangier He cabled the dispatches which electrified Great Britain, and on his arrival in London he was summoned to the Foreign Office for conference with Lord Salisbury, beside be ing feted on all sides. Bonzal was fired at cm his way to Fez and promptly made a representation to- the Sultan on his arrival. Compensation to the amount of fS,000 was offered him, but this was declined, and the Saltan wrote him a touching letter of apology, asking him to exouse his uncivil ized children, and praying him to accept a jeweled sword of honor. This was accepted. Bonzal's portrait appears in the illustrated papers, his biography has been published, and he is one of the men of the day in Loudon. GREAT RACING CROWDS Attend the Meeting at Goodwood and Make Things Pretty Lively. rSV CABLE TO THE DISPATCH, r-CKDOS-, July 30. The fashionable race gathering at Goodwood this week has been a success, both weather and sport being ad mirable. The pienio element was more than ever conspicuous, and the number of elegantly dressed ladies present has never been surpassed on any previous occasion. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught were among the guests at the Duke of Bichmond's, and attended the races daily. The Duchess of Portland, in a dainty rustic dress of pompadour silk. was conspicuous, while the orange colors of the Marchioness of Ormonde and the white green gown of Lady Arlington at tracted much notice. The 'squires and dames were more plenti ful than usual, and with these racing counted for little, but nearly all the racing men, from the Duke of Westminster down ward, were present on the course. MACKAY ABO TOM 0CHILTRB2 Celebrate the Twentieth Anniversary of Their Meeting In a Gay Manner. B V CABLE TO TUB DISPATCH. London-, July 30. John Mackay ar rived in London this week, and left to-day for Homburg. Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of Mackay's meeting with Colonel Tom Ochiltree, the occasion being the day of the winning of the Goodwood cup by Favonius, July 29, 1872. In cele bration of the event Ochiltree gave a din ner at the Albemarle Hotel last night, at which the other guests were well-known racing men, including Colonel North, the Earl of Cork, and the Earl of Courtney. The party visited the Lyceum Theater afterward and sat up with Irving in the beefsteak room until 5 o'clock this morn ing. THE QUEEN'S DILEMMA. She Must Either Summon Gladstone to Power or Klo Abdicate. London, July 80. Land and Water, an unusually well-informed, politoco-society journal, says that when the Duke of Devon shire visited the Queen last wefk, Her Ma jesty said she relied upon his advice to as sist her in avoiding the necessity for send ing for Mr. Gladstone to form a new Gov ernment. The Duke, it is reported, said in reply that there was but one alternative for her to adopt: She must either call upon Mr. Gladstone to form a Ministry, or must abdi cate the throne. T0BT1XTIHG 2BITISH C0LUKBIA, Victoria to Be Girdled by Forts and Esq.nl manlt to Be Invulnerable. Ottawa, Ont., July 30. It is reported that $1,000,000 is to be spent on fortifica tions in British Columbia. Hon. MacKenzie Bowell, Minister of Militia md Customs, and General Herbert are to go West shortly to look over the ground, and if indications are to be relied on it will not be long before the work will be begun of throwing up a line of defenses which will make Victoria a fortified city and the naval station at Es quimault invulnerable in the event of war. ,,&J-&d'&;&r.?l Almost Overwhelmed' With Them Ever Since He Punished lams. MANY GO TO POSTAL INSPECTORS. in Account of trie Treatment of the Pri vate From Eye Witnesses. COLONEL STBEATOR'S TEEM EXPIRED (THOU A ttXtt COBBISFOKDfcXT. HOMESTEAD, July 30. The hanging by the thumbs of Private lams, of SI Company, Tenth Regiment, at Camp Bam Black just a week ego to , day, has created more of a Stir than any other incident in civil or military life within the aver age memory. The dismissal in disgrace Cbtenel A. L. Hawkins, from the encamp ment of the unfortunate soldier seems to have struck the country as only a mild f eaure of the punishment, and Lieutenant Colonel Streator, upon whose order young lams was first punished, has during the past week re ceived more communications bearing di rectly on his action than could be crowded into a bed tick. Every mail since last Monday has brought the stalwart Colonel a great bundle of letters, either applauding or condemning his treatment of young lams. No Lack of Expressed Opinions. From nearly every city in the country Colonel Streator has received a letter, a postal card or a telegram. Pittsburg has sent to him nearly a barrel full of letters. New York, Boston, Philadelphia PrKate lams. From a photograph taken for The Dispatch yes- terumy.j and Baltimore have each sent in a liberal donation of views and opinions on the subject Every city and town from Allegheny, West as far as San Francisco and up to Portland, Ore., have been heard from, and "West Virginia people seem to have abandoned all other work and are just now devoting themselves exclusively to telling Colonel Streator the manner of man he is in their humble aud unofficial judgment. -Colonel Streator left Homestead two days ago and since then he has been at his home in Washington, Pa., but .his new made friends and enemies alike' have not yet learned of his quitting the camp, and hts correspondence still come to his mili tary address with embarrassing regularity. Lieutenant Colonel Streator opened and always read aloud the letters he received while he remained in camp, and when he was ordered away he left instructions with Adjutant Hays to look alter the flood of mail. The work assigned to him has con sumed most of the Adjutant's time. The Biiposal of the tetters. All the unfriendly letters, save those that are vulgar, obscene and profane, are burned immediately after they are read. The friendly ones are sent to Lieutenant Colonel Streator's home, and the others are sent to a postoffice inspector. Many unthinking writers my have to answer to the Postoffice Department lor improper use of the mails. About half the letters addressed' to Colonel Streator are of abuse and half of praise. His New York letters, with very few exceptions, are positive in their denunciation. The great bulk of them are unsigned; Lieutenant Colonel James B. R. Sheaior. From a photograph taken a few months ago. many of them threaten his own llie-and the lives of his family. His property and all his possessions are threatened with destruc tion and to him are applied an ingemus and unique variety ot epithets. The friendly Utters and telegrams are all signed. Many of them refer in earnest words to the serious and threatening condition of affairs at Homestead, the grave responsibility at taching to a military commander under such circumstances, the purposes for which the National Guard was organized, and the Importance of maintaining the strictest discipline within the ranks. Offers of Financial Support. "Draw on me for fSOO to defend your position in the lams case," a San Francisco banker telegraphed Colonel Streator Tues day. ''Any amount of money in our bank is at your command in case of attempted prosecu tion in the lams affair," a prominent Phila delphia banker telegraphed. 'The right thinking, God fearing, liberty loving 'people of this great country will commend your course," Austin Corbin, the great railroad magnate, formerly President of the Beading and now of the New York & New England road, concludes a long and almost pathetio letter. I was an eye witness to all the' punish ment inflicted upon young lams. I saw him taken to the guard house for his first breach of military discipline early in the encampment. Later I saw him carry a rail for having been found asleep on his gun during the night while on guard duty. I was within hearing the day the Tegiment was paraded and when young'Iams admit ted that he had proposed "three cheers for the man who shot Frick." I heard Colonel Streator almost plead with him to withdraw the remark and apologize. He refused to comply with the Colonel's earnest request f5Sy and was house. Description of ah Eyewitness Then Colonel Streator, Captain Patilley, Of K Company, and Colonel Hawkins, com manding the Provisloal Brigade, went Into a prolonged secret conference in Colonel Hawkins quarters, and then followed the order from Colonel Streator to have the offender strung Up by the thumbs. Burgeon Neff, humane and gentle as a woman, was ordered to take charge of the case. A fly tent was erected near the guard house, lams was then brought out. Assistant Surgeon Grim fastened a ciftton cord by loops about the prisoner's thumbs, and Iaml himself assisted in arranging the cord oh his hands. By standing on his toes his thumbs reached the 'tent pole to which they were fastened, and he was safely tied. The, tent pole fit in between the thumbs and forefingers. He laughed about his punishment while it was being inflicted, and he Banging lami by the Thumbs. 'Drawn from the description of a Staff Corre'pond- ent. several times referred to it in profane and vulgar language. The surgeons watched him closely and. being punished for 15 minutes, he horrified all present by asking for a chew of tobacco. The officer Of" the day held the plug of chew ing tobacco close to lams' mouth while he bit off a liberal chew. He then squirted the juice in front of him. He also swal lowed some and when he had been up Just 18 minutes he became deathly sick and was cut down. He was greatly distressed by swallowing the tobacco and for a time he was unable to speak after being taken down. Didn't Hane the Thirty Minutes. He had been sentenced to bang for 80 minutes. The Surgeon, however, has au thority to mitigate any military sentence, so lams was taken to the guardhouse ad joining, where he was kept, until early the next morning. Lieutenant Colonel Streator and Colonel Hawkins remained alone, ,each in his own quarters, while the punishment was being inflicted. Colonel Streator at once prepared a writ ten report of the ofiense committed bvlams. his effort to have the young soldier retract and the punishment inflicted upon him. This was sent to Colonel Hawkins, where it was approved and was transmitted to Major General Snowden. The last named ap proved and returned the report with the written recommendation that lams be dismissed in disgrace and drummed out ot camp. The order to drum out of camp in disgrace in the judgment ot the commanding officers carried with it the shaving of half the head and the shifting of the military uniform to citizens' dress. ShHTine the Private's Head. lams submitted to the changing of his dress, but when the barber was called on Sunday morning to shave one side oi head he protested vigorously. The barber, a colored man, was frightened as badly as was the victim, but the order to shave was obeyed. When the shaving was completed lams was supplied with a 5-cent straw hat which almost covered his head and before he had been taken from the guard house the entire Provisional Brigade had been drawn up in solid column In front of the brigade headquarters, and then the unfortunate was marched along the line from one end to the other. He was halted in the center of the col umn, while the story of his offense and punishment was read, which concluded with General Snowden's sentence. Then the bands of the Fourth and Tenth regiments struck up "The Eogue's March," which, by the wav, is probably the most harrowing and distressing piece of musio ever forced upon a civilized ear. Sur rounded by a double guard with bayonets fixed lams stood out 20 pacee from the brigade of soldiers, and when the command to move was given the prisoner, the guard and the command marched off on the most dolefnl mission ever inflicted upon a Doay ot soldiers. The Officer Actnally Wept. "I talked with Colonel Hawkins just before hecommanded the brigade to move. He was visibly agitated, and suppressed his emo tions with au effort. Lieutenant Colonel Streator, a brawny lawyer of mental and physical force, was unable to keep back tears from his eyes, and many ot the staff officers actually cried when the procession started. lams, the victim upon whom disgrace and ignominy was being heaped, seemed to be the coolest and most unconcerned of the 1,500 soldiers present. He insisted upon chatting with the guards, but at no time did he receive any reply. He looked anxiously at his own company in the column, but re ceived not even a glance of sympathy. The New York Eerald has printed the following letter from General Snowden: Homestead, Fa., July 27. To the Editor of tbe Herald In view of your letter of tbe 24th Inst., I write to say that Private lams was sus pended by tne thumbs without my knowl edge or concurrence. I have had no occa sion officially to express aDproval or dis approval of It, and I have not done so. A report of the ciroumstances, alter they occuned, was made to me, and I was asked what disposition would be made of the man, when 1 ordered: "Dls cbargehim from tbe service in disgrace; drum him out of camp, aud send him borne." "Tou will observe that the manner of send ing him off, outside of drumming out, is not prescribed. I have authority summarily to discharge enlisted men. but no dlsauall- fication follows. Sober-minded people will remember that the punishment Inflicted was in tbe face of revolution, treason and anarchy. Very respectfully, GeOEQE R. bNOWOKS. Colonel Hawkins said yesterday: "Lieu tenant Colonel Streator had the authority to punish any soldier in his command and report the punishment to his superiors afterward." Streator's Term of Office Expired. Lieutenant Colonel Streator's commission expired to-day. An election to fill his posi tion will be held in Pittsburg August & The Captains and Lieutenants of the Tenth Begiment are the only ones who can vote to nfl the office. Lieutenaut Streator will have no opposition for re-election. "He will get every vote in his com mand," Colonel Hawkins said last night. Such an election would be accepted by Lieu tenant Colonel Streator as a vindication irom a military standpoint, at least. Hebbert. link MSlilll 11? wiii lUKMiam iSJniiMiiiriYM 'MamCn-ilRTV ' itfrfr istflssssssr flP' Remarkable Electric Phenomena Underc!iff,Out the P. fe W. 8EESIS TO CHARGED. It Bobs the Clouds of the I ightiun? and Terrifies the People. SCENES BtJEING IHUNDIR STCE1IS A hillside extracting lightning from the sky is by ho means a common Spectacle. But it is witnessed quite frequently by peo ple living jnst a short distance from Pitts burg. It his been especially notieeaole during the recent electric storms. During storms, when the atmosph'ere and clouds are charged with electricity, showers of fire hare been seen to issue from the sky and, descending upon this magic mount, form into various colored blazes and go dancing along the ground like Willi-of-the-Wisp. Then suddenly they sink into the earth and are gone. The phenomenon is of such frequent occurrence that the peo ple residing near the mount have ceased to wonder at it "It has never done ns no harm," said one old man, "and so we never pay any attention to it no more." . Almost In Sight of Pittsbnrjt. , About six miles from Pittsburg, on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, it a picturesque little place called Underdid. It it just beyond the first tunnel. Imme diately after emerging from the tbbhel, the railroad winds along a rocky hillside which slant down into a pretty little valley. Jnst above the railroad track is a ledge of jagged rocks, which extend along for some distance, suggesting the appropriate name which the Dlace bears TXndercliff. Near tho center of this ledge the fiery phenomena occur. Just opposite the ledge, across the valley, another hillside rises with graceful slope, and here live the peo ple who can tell thrilling tales of fiery storm phantoms which they have seen. An old farmer, Daniel Baldwin, says it is a very common sight during storms to see balls of fire playing about among the un derbrush and among, the rocks across tne valley. He has sat at his window many a time, he Said, and watched them flitting about on the hill side and then disappear mysteriously into tbe ground. On one occasion, after an unusually violent atmospheric commotion, as many as adozen or 15 fireballs were seen gamboling together. They were ot various sizes and colors and made a very pretty dis play. A Danzer Signal on the Track. Lawrence Smith, an ex-engineer of the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, tells the following story: "One stormy night several years ago my fireman and I witnessed an amazing sight near TJndercliff. We were hauling a heavy freight from the west and bad just rounded the sharp curve at Glenshaw, when a brilli ant red light suddenly appeared on the track ahead of us. I took it for a danger signal and whistled Mown brakes' immedi ately. Being on a down grade the brakes were ot little use and the train went thundering along the valley. At we neared the light we were surprised to find that It was acting in a Very peculiar manner. It was describing circles and all kiuds of figures in the air. Then all of a sudden it broke up into two lights, both of which lingered in the air for a moment and then mysteriously united again into a single light. "But the most puzzling-thing, about the light was its location. It remained al ways the same distance ahead of" us" after we had come within about 40 vards of it, now 'bounding over the ties like a rubber ball, now hang ing suspended in the air, and now sailing along the track like a bird. The mysteri ous light kept up this maneuvering until just a few feet from the tunnel, when it suddenly disappeared. Tbe strange light must have followed along in front of our engine for half a mile or more." Engnlfed tn a Sea ot Flrr. An old farmer of that region, who is now dead, used to entertain hit children in the evenings with stories of the TJndercliff fire balls. One dav while he was at work in a field above the cliff a heavy storm came up. j xne lightning became so irequent and threatening that he unhitehed the horses from the plow and started down the winding road to the valley below. He had not proceeded far when the storm burst upon him with terrific fury. The lightning flashes seemed to be continu ous and the man blinded by the glare im agined he was in tbe midst of a sea of fire. Spluttering balls of fire danced around him, played in the underbrush and went frisking about like rockets and roman candles in a pyrotechnic display. The fire finally all disappeared leaving the man and horses un touched. An explanation of the phenomenon given by the country people is that the lightning it attracted to the place by a great mass of cannon balls which lie imbedded in the hill side. Their theory is based upon the report that dnring the civil war the valley at TJn dercliff was used as a testing ground for the cannons made in Pittsburg foundries. Attracted by Cannon Balls. The cannon were stationed on the slope opposite the ledge and directed toward a target located at the base of the hillside. This, report would have it, and by the way it has many supporters, that so many cannon were made and consequently so many shots fired that the hill is fairly lined with iron cannon balls. The electrical phe nomena is therefore simply a sequence. But there it another explanation which, thoagh not so wonderful as the former, is no doubt correct. It is that a vein of mag netio'iron ore runs through the hill. 'Workmen, Help Tonr Brothers. Tbe unfortunate circumstances, In whtclr many of the locked-ont workmen ac Home stead are placed, command the sympathy of all, especially that of their fellow work men in this country. Tou cm now espies your sympathy in a practical manner and ac the same time benellt j ourselves ly taking advantage of the 5 per cent relief dale In augurated by Saller'ri. The following lettor explains our position. .If yon wMi inrther infoimatloii call at our store, corner .smith field and Diamond. rrrisBuro, July 20, ISO.'. Mr. M. SSller. Esq.: Deaii Sib Your favor of to-day in which you offer to set aside a liberal per cent of tho Krois amount of your ales, hojjlmiliu Mmi day, Auitnst 1 and fending Saturday mht, Augusts, for' tho benellt of tin-locked-out workmen. Is heruoy ncanowleded. iu reply, 1 desire to say that in accepting your generous prott'er of aid oil benuif 01 those who are onaed In this stiugle lor the existence of organized liuorunu tlio-o who have been borett of lovtiiit support In the recent sad oxpeileuce ut Home-uenl. 1 can convey to you more fully than noni can expi ess their bppieclatlouuf journouie effort and liberal hand. With m.iuy tnan.cj. foryonr kindlier, I am Vuuis vory remectf illv, William U .iiu. XOW BATES 10 deavei:. August 2 to 6, Inclusive. Tho Pittsburjf and Western Kallway will sell excursion tickets to Dcnvei. Col., s"od to return until October !1. Very low iatcs from Pittsburg. A M lse Move. There Is nothing better than opening a bank account with the People Sivlns-t Bank:, pi Fourth avenue, by depositing . They allow Interest on deposits. rxBTBo? action and -perfect health result from the use of Do Witt's Little Early Hlsers A. pertect little pill. ery small; very sure at e -imWr Supreme Officers Say the Application for a Kccrlver Will Be Easily Defeated The Order' Becord la Two Large Cities Perfrctlf Solvent. Philadelphia, July SO. One of the supreme officers of the Order of the Iron Hall says: The inrormatloh that an application has been made tut a receiver for ont order does not worry me In the least, as anyone can make inch ah application; but there will be trouble for the accuser when the matter cdmes Up in cotirt. I don't know Who has caused this trouble, but 1 am euro it has started from JealouBy. The allegations are made against US at Indianapolis, and it will be a difflcult'matter to (tee ahead or us In an Indianapolis court. We have about 70,000 members In this country and Canada. Wo hate paid about $6,2,00O in sick and final benefits, and We have over $2,ooo,000 leit in undoubted securities. There are about 8,000 of our members In Philadelphia, organized Into 64 branches. Since our order Was started In 1331 we have conducted everything on a square basis, and have a clean record. A dispatch from Detroit says: Dr. J. O. Younghusband, local representative of the Supreme Lodge of the Iron Hall, said to day in regard to the report from Indianapo lis about the appointment of a receiver, that the order is perfectly solvent. He de clared that The proceedings looking to the appoint ment of a receiver are not now. Similar nnnl(tat1nrta hiTA bMn made in the rjatt. and they have Invariably been disposed of piomptly upon our showing. F. F. Kirke, a prominent official of the order, said in regard to the charges: "They were started by enemies of the order and are baseless." The Order of Iron Hall was conceived in Detroit, which has ever remained one of the strongest localities. At present there are 18 branches there with a membership ot over 2,500. Four of the branches are composed of women ex clusively. During the 11 yean the order has been in existence $275,000 have been paid out in benefits in that city alone. A STEAW FOS C0I0NEL KIHO. Lawyer Prshalt, of Jersey City, Points Ont a JfiC" Little Technicality. Jeksey &!., July SO. Charles J. Peshall, the lawyer who has three times saved murderer Edward W. Hallinger from the gallows, is taking an interest in the case ot Colonel H. Clay King, under sentence of death at Memphis for the murder of Colonel Poston. Mr. Peshall sent him the follow ing telegram last night: Applr to United States District Court, Nashville, for writ of habeas corpus if de- tiled your right of appeal absolute. see case and case Sun YUne. zv jeuerui report?, JuglrO, HO United States reports. Hail letter. Mr. Peshall says the visit of Colonel Sing's jury to the Arkansas shore makes his trial a nullity. The jury crossed the Mississippi river in charge of a constable during tne trial and touched on the other side. Mr. Peshall holds that the moment the boat carrying the jury passed within the Arkansas boundary, the jury was law fully dissolved. THE LATEST TZ0TS. GBEAT SAHGIEB. One Captain Estimates That the Eruption Destroyed 10,000 Human Lives. VICTOBIA.B. C, July 30. The'steamship Empress Japan brings additional details of tbe volcanic eruption of Gunong Aroo on Great Sangier Island, June 7. The town ot Xoroana was buried by ashes, and the enor mous cocoanut plantations covering the hills on each side of Toroana Bay were destroyed. One captain, who was there with a ship at the time, 'estimates that 10,000 lives were lost on the island. Belief has been for warded to-the survivors from neighboring Islands. IF rOW WOULD REALIZE SWEET THOUGHTS IN FORM, COME TO US. MPPY of the goods pealed KCli WMJt r& t-Ai. LOW PRICES FOR FANCY WORK. Double Head Rests, covered in neat and tasty patterns of Figured Silks, finished with silk tassels, at 48c as good as any ever sold at 75c. 16-inch Sofa Pillows, covered with Silkalene, fast colors and finished with, fancy ruffle, only 40c Isn't ibis cheap? And the same in Eiderdown at 75c. Not many left 22x22 and 36x36 Tinted Hollywood Canvas Table Squares and Sofa Pillows (the genu ine goods), desirable expressly to work with Bargarran art and rope linen or silk just half price 22x22 at 45c; 36x36 at 95c. Cretonne Covers stamped in cream, ecru, old rose and gobelin, 36x36 at 38c and 44c. These are all very much used now by ladies at the sum mer resorts. 5I0, 5I2, 5I4, 5I6, The Cost of the National Elec tion Is Getting Heavier Every Year. WHEBE THE MONEY GOES. Chairmen Get All the Praile aud Censure bnt Nary aPenny. HONOR GOVERNS DISBURSEMENTS. This Tear Each Party mil BaTft a Mllliom Dollars to Spend. EN0RSI0U3 EXPENDITURE FOR CARRIAGB rWTtrrMT FOB TBI DISr-AtCH.l OW much money does it take to run a Presi dents! campaign? This is a question that I have often heard asked but never satisfac torily answered, la every campaign there are always stories cir culating on both sides concerning the use of money. These am nearly always colored by partisanship, aud are invariably exaggerated. I have been through three or four Prest dental campaigns, and in those campaigns have learned enough to make a just esti mate concerningthe amount of money em ployed on both sides. In one or two in stances the figures that I give are practically official. In 1SS0 the National Committee of the Republican party received in the way of subscriptions some $450,000. This money war disbursed through the chairmanship of Marshall Jewell, the former Postmaster General of General Grant. In the cam paign of 1881 some $500,000 was raised. B. F. Jones, of Pittsburg, was the Chairman of the committee that collected the money and spent it. In 1333 Senator Quay had the disbursement of some ?800,000. This Was the largest sum ever raised and spent by a national committee. The Democrats 2fot Far Behind. In each one of the years above named the) Democrats had about the same amount of money. In 1880 and 1884 they had an equal amount. It can be said generally in every Presidental campaign that the Democrat' raise as much money a3 the Republican' In the year 1883 they had perhapl $100,0( less. The two committees disbursed in t' last campaign over a million and a half dollars. Some of the Democratic subsci tions came from individuals rather t' organizations. One Democratic leader very rich man, told me personally that contributed to the campaign fund in 1 the sum of 5250,000. It is said by those who are ezperienceo such matters that it is always easier to r money for the party which is out than the party which is in. This may account the deficiency in the Democratic treas in the year 1888. For what purposes are these vast sut employed? maypxpperly be ask"' Iha'N never seen any ef faencer.k, i J Chairman ot the National Committee of snonslrjle rjersorr directl-r oharo-e ia.. lus W 1 fltoJfZ&Y Jff0 M Must be contented, and contentment comes only when one is perfectly sat isfied with one's surroundings one's home, in fact. Many points on "How to make home beautiful" can be picked up in our Art Embroidery Department, Ladies. And just now you can get what is even more acceptable than suggestions, for we are offering some most attractive bargains in tor fancy work that ever ap to your aesthetic hearts. But you $i you must come very soon if would share in these specials. Finest H. S. Linen Table Squares, 45x45 inches, with hand-drawn opea work, finest goods ever sold and just Yt -price, at $1. 75 and $2. The same, 1x2 yards long, at 92c and 1.10. These four styles are the greatest linen bargains in finest goods ever offered. H. S. 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