Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1882 — Page 1

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NO SELF-SUPPORTING HOST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. The Post Office Appropriation bl) for the next fiscal year exceeds that of the present year by $2,671,868. The economy so much boasted of is not very apparent in these figures. And when they are analyzed the result is far less satisfactory than we had a right to expect from those who promised us a self-supporting Post Office Department.

There are some curious coincidences disclosed by an examination of the details ofthis bill. The appropriation for transportation 0:1 railroad routes for the running year was $9,488,282. For the year 1882-83 it is reported in the present bill at $10,655,000, or an increase of $1,160,718. Now. the reduction on the Star route eontiacts aggregated exactly $1,147,757. It thus appears that the saving on the Star routes was all expended on favorite railroads, wholly under the discretion of the Postmaster-General. And this fact is made still clearer by the declaration of Mr. Cannon of the Appropriation C< mmittee. *’On one item alone,” he said, “the pay for railway mail transportation, the deficiency for this year will have to be, as 1 am satisfied from careful examinatioa, not less than $1,089,864. We suspect that as the investigation is pursued still further, it will be found that the great bulk of this created deficiency, which offsets the Star route retrenchment, was for the exclusive advantage of one great corporation and Its branches, and that the service rendered was by no means commensurate with the pay allowed for it. 80 that the Treasury after all, is not much the gainer by this particular reform. The enormous increase in the expenditure for carrying the mails byrailroads cannot fail to attract the attention of Congress and the attention of Congress and the country. The proposed appropriation of $10,655,000 tor the next fiscal year dos not represent the whole outlay. In the same bill the sum of $500,000 is granted for rapid transportation on certain trunk lines. Add to these items that fur the postal car service, and the aggregate is actually $12,181,000. The cost in this service in 1872 was $6,502,771. The Postmaster General, in commenting upon it that year,said that It showed ‘‘an increase of s■>, 971 000 in twenty-seven years, an aver age increase of $221,148 per annum.” but In less than ten years of the later experience the cost has doubled by the crooked ways of legislation, and by the power of the Postmaster General, exerted for the benefit of his friends, personal and political. Congress passed an act in June, 1872, fixing the pay for carrying the mail on any railway of the first class at S3OO per mile per annum; for the second class at SIOO per mile per annum, and for the third class at SSO per mile per annum. Il is provied that if one-half the service was required to be performed in the night time, then the Postmaster-General might pay twenty-five per cent, in ahdition to the specified rates. The railroad companies combined soon after this law was passed, and the next year they dictated their own terms, by which the smaller roads were driven to the wall, and the larger ones pocketed the profit . Congress promptly yielded to their demands; and now the department is paying some of the trunk lines $1,900 and $1,500 per mile for the service, the n?»ximum allowance for which under th.'act Juue 8 ’ 18721 only S3OO pef wile per annum. In addition to this exorbitant pay., it is proposed to vote $500,000 independently for "necessary and special facilities on trunk hues I Burdens like these, and others that might be named, have stood in the way of making the department selfsustaining. Kings or combinations of one kinp or another have constant- . ly preyed upon the Post Office rev aues and augmented the expendinres. So it goes on; and so it pro - ably will continue to go on uuti speople wake up and compel a genline reform. __ HIRE ARETHE MISSINH PAPERS

It is given out from the Department of State that a part of the correspondence relating to the so-called Peruvian Company is missing from the nlea. The disappearance of these leUe 'j which are said to have contained some important revelations, natura y excites surprise. If Mr. Blaine were a man easily embarrassed, he would be plaied in an awkward position in regard to these papers. He has done what no former Secretary ever ventured to do -he has carried off into private the copies of all the official despatched this Chilian and Peruvian business. More than this, he has openly exhibited to several peraona what he dam s to be the original drafts, with the emendations, of the instructions to Mr. Treseott. He has exhibited them in order to excite hostility against the President, and tocreate the impression that Oeu. Arthur has changed front in regard to the “policy" which had been contrived to entrap him. Mr. Blaine came into possession oft those drafts as Secretary of State. -r h ey belong to the public archives, and form a part of the current history of a diplomatic negotiation. As an individual or private ottiwii, Mr - Blain* had no more right to appropriate them to his personal use than he would have to take away the original Declaration of Independence. wing an engraved copy in its place. no knows what changes may have

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oeen made in the instructions after dear 6 Bub “ ilted 10 Presi- { dtt ‘ng aside the misdemeanor involved in this act of purloining pubt a aU9 P icion *’ necessarily exthe man who confesses guilt in that respect, and even gioWes in the trick, is also responsible the stolen correspondence, the possession of which he doe, not acknowledge. The belief is general here, and strong, that Mr. Blaine is fully informed how those letters disappeared, and through whose instrutality they got out of the department. And, if they were not destroyed, he Knows where they now are. Unfortunately for the ex-Becretary, his antecedents do not Inspire confidence in any explanation he may attempt to make of this transaction. The Mulligan incident, though not altogether fresh, is deeply engraved on the public memory. Mr. Mulligan was called to Washington as a w itness to establish serious charges against Mr. Blaine, and he held Mr. Blaine’s own letter to prove these charges. Ou the night of Mulligan’s arrival at Washington he was Invited, with other witnesses, to visit Mr. Blaine’s house. He declined to go there. The next morning Mr. Blaine went to his hotel, and, as Mr. Mulligan testified under oath, he there besought him on his knees to save him from disgrace and his family from ruin. After a second conference between Mr. Blaine and the witnesses,at which every effort and appeal were made to prevent the impending disclosures,Mr. Blaine visited Mr. Mulligan in his room. He there begged for the priviledge of reading the criminating letters, in the hope of being able to explain away their guilty admissions, and pledging his word to restore then forthwith. Mr. Mulligan, in a moment of confiding weakness, and perhaps of sympathy for the broken man, handed him the package, and Mr. Blaine instantly made off with it, and the correspondence was burned. That audacious act prevented a catastrophe at the time, which would have finished the political career of Mr. Blaine. If there were any real mpstery about the papers now’ missing, the Mulligan episode would afford a sufficient explanation.

REPUDIATION IN THE NORTHWEST. Some citizens of Dakota have presented a very serious objection against the admission of that Territory as a State. Dakota has attempted unsuccessfully, to repudiate outright S2OO--of her bonds issued to help build a railroad, and, though the United States Supreme Court has decided against her, she has of late refused to pay the interest. If Dakota can once become a State with the precedent now established by Mahone and the Republican party she will probably find little difficulty in carrying out her schefne of repudiation. This possibility is foreseen by those prudent citizens who resist admission into the Union, and they pray that the sovereign powers of a State may be refused. There is no valid reason for making this Territory a State, anyway; but if she must come in let it be with clean hands. __________ A Descriptiou of the Louisiana Insane Asylum.

It stands out on an onen, desolate, half-drained plain that was once a cypress swamp. The grounds within Its high, rough plank fence are of an aspect only a little less melancholy than that without. On entering the gateway a broad porch comes in view, on which a number of unoccupied female at once begin an excited demonstration, lifting their arms, spreading their fingers and grimacing. He finds the few large apartments into which the female ward is divided totally unfitted, by their arrangement, for the proper oversight of the inmates. These unfortunates roam about from one apartment to another restlessly, disturbing and exciting each other, with ill-trwined female attendants and ignorant male keepers moving at will among them. As the visitor passes through he sees wild gesticulations, stealthy approaches, startled retreats, scampering hither and thither; is accosted by this lunatic am! that, begged for tobacco and for liquor, rallied with loud outcries, sudden quarrels, loud laughter, and the foulest obscenities; the poor creatures gibber, and mutter, and peen through the cracks of doors and around corners; frequently one falls to tormenting another, and eV ery few moments there is a general hubbub. They are clothed in harsh, rough garments, that to the over-sen-sitive skin of many insane is a perpetual and excruciating torture. In short, in this so-called asvlum for a class of unfortunates whose every sensibility is exquisitely sharpened bv disease, there is not a moment of true tranquility in the dav. Tranquility! appetite! comfort! occupation ! well, yes, a few quiet ones do sit and sew—when they are quiet; but exercise! amusement! retirement. There are no answers. “But," says a keeper, if you think this is anything, you ought to bear them at night.” . “Pretty bad at night, is it? ' “O, it’s just hell!” There is no classification of patients according to degrees of ailment. The ehronic insane and tbe acute (new cases)—two classes that in some countries are not allowed to occupy even the same asylum—are thrown into actual contact; the epileptic, the seemingly rational, the lunatic, the idiotic, each inmate receiving all the damage derivable, from tbe insanity of the rest. No wonder they die rapidly. —New Orleans Democrat. A Jewish family consisting of the mother, daughter, aged seventeen, and son, aged fourteen, have been massacred by fieasants in the district of Ananieff, Russia. Advices from Lima, January 25, confirm the report that a treaty of neace has been signed between Bolivia and Peru. By its terms Bolivia is left without seaboard.

CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Washington, February 14.—The motion of Mr. Edmunds, to take up the anti-polygamy bill out of its regular order, « as defeated by a vote of 21 to 29. Upon the expiration of the morning hour, the pension arrears resolution came up. The unfinished business was then informally laid aside and Mr. Slater spoke upon the importance of the commerce of the northwest and of the improvement of the Columbia river Mr. Vance then made a speech on tlie tariff, in which he deplored the burdens of the high protective policy which fell with greatest weight upon the agricultural class and did more to retard the growth and impair the wealth of the south than any other cause. Upon the conclusion of Mr. Vance’s remarks, the pension arrears resolution came up, and Mr. Call, who was awarded the floor upon it, deferred his remarks until to-morrow. Mr. Edmunds then asked fora vote upon his motion to take up a bill, and after an arrangement which entitles Mr. Call to retain the floor for his speech to-morrow on the pension bill, the motion prevailed and the bill was taken up and laid over as the next business in order after Mr. Call shall has finished his remarks. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution, which was referred, requesting the president to bring to the attention of the government of Nicaragua the necessity of arranging by convention for a final settlement of all the unadjusted claims existing between the United States and Nicaragua and of citizens of either of said governments. Adjourned. HOUSE. Mr. Willetts, from the committee on judiciary, reported the bill'to prevent persons living in bigamy or polygamy from holding any civil office of trust or profit in any territories of the United States, and from being delegates to congress. Placed on the house calendar. Mr. Orth from committee on foreign affairs reported adversely resolution offered by Mr. Robinsin, of New York relating to the arrest and imprisonment of O’Connor, in Ireland. The house refused to lay the resolution upon the table by a vote of 71 to 79.

Mr. Cox, of New York, thereupon offered an amendment, requesting the president to obtain for D. H. O'Conner and other American citizens now imprisoned under a suspension of the habeas corpus by the British government in Ireland without trial, conviction or sentence, a speedy and fair trial or their prompt release. This brought on a general discussion w’hich at times took a personal turn and the floor of the house entermined in the utmost confusion during the remainder of the session. The proposition for a night session was ruled down, and consideration of the apportionment bill was resumed. Mr. Orth gave notice of a motion he would make to recommit the bill, with instructions to the committee to report the bill fixing the number of representatives at aoo. Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, proceeded to argue in favor of a small house, but the great confusion in the hall prevented his being heard, and he yielded to a motion to adjourn, which was carried. SENATE.

Washington, February’ 15. —Mr. Jackson introduced the bill presented by Mr. Morgan in last congress for tlie relief of book agents of the Methodist Episcopal church south. It appropriates $150,000 in compensation for property connected with the publishing house of said book agents in Nashville, which was taken or destroyed by the United States in 1864, or at any other time. After a long debate the senate, by a vote of 33 to 15, passed the resolution to provide a messenger for each of the committees on finance, postoffices, pensions, claims, district of Columbia and engrossed bills. The pay was fixed at $1,400 per year, The senate then took up and temporarily passed over the regularorder, the anti-polygamy bill. At 2:25 the anti-polygamy bill, to amend section 5,352 of the revised statutes of the United States in reference to bigamy, and for other purposes, was taken up and the amendments proposed by the committee on judiciary read and agreed to up to the fifth section, which authorizes the president to grant amnesty to classes of offenders guilty before the passage of the aet of bigamy, polygamy, or unlawful cohabitation, on such conditions as he shall think proper. Mr. Brown moved to amend so as to require that not more than three’of the board shall be of the same political party. Mr. Call maintained that the power to revise the acts of election officers was properly one belonging to the courts, aud for a board to say who should constitute a legislature would be unrepublican and farcical. Mr. Edmunds replied that the board would have no power to decide as to tlie qualification of electors. A motion for an executive session was lost—ayes, 21; noes, 29.

After several efforts to secure an arrangement for a vote on the bill, interspersed with motions to adjourn, it was finally arranged the measure should l>e proceeded with immediately after the morning business to-mor-row, and the debate upon it ceased at 5:30 p.m. Upon this understanding Mr. Edmunds consented to an adjournment. HOUSE. The morning hour was dispensed with and the house resumed the consideration of the apportionment bill, and Mr. Herbert continued his speech in opposition to an increase in membership of the house. Mr. Joyce protested against the bill reported by the census committee, saying it was a blow at New England. Mr. Hewitt did not fear an increase in the number of members, provided a rational system was adopted for transacting public business. Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, thought 325 the number just to the great and growing states of the northwest. Mr,Deering expressed his preference for 882. Mr. Brumm contended that the smaller states had too much power already. Mr. Cox, of New York, submitted a modification of his amendment so as to fix the total number ot representatives at 319. Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, who was entitled to the floor for the last hour's debate before the demand for the previous question, was recognized, but feeling unwell yielded to a motion to adjourn, which was voted down by the republicans. An arrangement was finally agreed to that at the conclusion of the one hour’s debate to-morrow the previous ques-

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tiou shall be considered as seconded, I and the voting upon the various propI osltions begin. ▲ vote will also be allowed upon , the question as to wuether the old or new method of apportionment shall be adopted. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, February 1.6. —After ; a short executive session the antii polygamy bill was proceeded with. Mr. Vest denounced the bill as a i bill ot attainder (inflicting punish- • ment without judicial trial,) which ■ was prohibited by the constitution. i Mr. Pendleton objected to several features of the bill, particularly the i one excluding from the jury box known polygamists in trials for polygamy, etc. Mr. Sherman said he would vote for the bill, but doubted its effectiveness. Mr. Brown then renewed hie amendment, requiring that not more than three of the members of the board of commissioners shall be members of the same political party. Agreed to on a party vote —ayes, 26; noes, 24. Mr. Davis, of Ills., voted with the democrats, and Mr. Mahone was absent. Several amendments were proposed and defeated by decisive votes, and aftc the rearrangement of its sections the bill was finally passed by a viva voce vote, in which no negative responses were heard. . The pensions arrears resolution was laid over as unfinished business. The committee on military affairs reported back the senate resolution. The committee, in their report, present the desired information in a statement prepared by Second Auditor Ferris, of the treasury department. Mr. Ferris re commends an amendment to the law of April, 1872, which provides that volunteers wno enlisted prior to July 22,1861, and were actually mustered “before August 6, 1861,” shall be paid SIOO bounty. This act, Mr. Ferris suggests, should be amended by striking out the words “before August 6, 1861,” and extending its provisions to the widows and heirs of deceased soldiers, aud also to further amend the law so that all claims for bounty which have been disallowed may be re-opened and re-examined. Adjourned. HOUSE.

Mr. Cox, from the committee to audit the expense growing out of the death and burial of the late President Garfield, reported the bill granting a pension of $5,000 per year to Mrs. Garfield, and it was passed. Under call of committees, several lowing bills were reported: Consideration of the apportionment bill was resumed. Mr. Prescott offered a resolution providing that whenever the house shall determine upon any motion of members the same shall be apportioned among the states on the same basis of division and tested as in the forty sixth congress and now known as the old methed. Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, moved to amend so as to provide that apportionment shall be based upon the Seaton method. Mr. Converse, of Ohio, moved to amend tlie amendment so as to adopt the plan previously presented, au'i fcwv'OAMpd lt»y him. Mr. Hooker submitted an amendment to the bill, selecting 326 as the total number of representatives. Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, addressed the house in favor of an apportionment bill fixing representation at 319. At 3 o’clock the previous question was seconded and a vote taken on the amendment offered by Mr. Converse to the resolution submitted by Mr. Prescott, and it was rejected. The next vote was taken on the amendment offered by Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, fixing the number at 325, and it was agreed to—yeas, 162; nays, 104. A motion to table the motion to reconsider was immediately made on tiie Republican side, and the Democrats demanded the yeas and nays. Mr. Springer asked that tlie amendment be read, but a storm of objections came from the Republican side, and the speaker ruled it could only be read by unanimous consent. A vote v as then taken on the motion to lay on the table the motion to reconsider the vote by which the house rejected Mr. ColericK’s amendment, and it resulted: Yeas, 134; nays, 4—no quorum. The democrats refrained from voting. Without further action the house adjourned.

SENATE. ' Washington, February 17.—After considering several bills onthecalen i dar without action, the senate agreed i to adjourn liver till Monday, and then ordered an executive session. ; When the doors were opened the j pensions arrears resolution was taken • up and laid over as unfinished business. Adjourned. house. ’ Mr. Springer moved to reconsider the vote by which Mr. Colerick’s amendment to the apportionment bill was rejected yesterday. The amendment provides that the governor of any state may call a special election when the legislature fails to redistrict the state before election for representatives. The house tabled the resolution by a vote of 130 to 114. The yeas and nays were then ordered on Mr. Colerick’s substitute, fixing the number of representatives at 316. Rejected by a vote of 154 to 94. The question then recurred on the substitute offered by Mr. Page, of California, providing the house shall be composed of 319 members. This Mr. Page des red to withdraw, but as it was the number favored by the Democrats, an objection was made. It was, however, rejected—yeas, 99; nays, 148. The previous question was then ordered on the final passage of the bill pending which Mr. Colerick moved to recommit with instructions to the committee on census to report a provision that in states where the number of representatives are reduced, it shall lie lawful for the governor, after the state shall be redistricted, to provide for a special election. The motion to recommit was lost — . yeas, 102; nays, 142. The bill was then passed without division. , Mr. Valentine, of Nebraska, reported the agricultural appropriation bill. . Referred to committee of the whole. Adjourned until to-morrow. SENATE. i Washington, February 20—Mr. s Hale from the census committee, reported favorably tbe house apportionment bill, and asked unanimous i consent for its immediate consideration. Mr. Cockrell objected, as the senators had not yet had a chance to read it. Mr. Hale said the committee were unanimous in support of the measure, and urged that no time be lost, as i several state legislatures were awaiting congressional action.

Mr. Cockrell withdrew his objection, and Mr. Hale said he would renew his motion later. The senate proceeded to consider bills on the calendar, and Mr. Logan asked to have taken up as the first in order the bill to place General Grant on the retired list. Mr. Vest objected, but the bill was taken up and the amendments of £he committee thereto adopted without objection. I’he discussion of the bill to retire General Grant consumed the session until 3:25. The bill comes up again to-morrow. Tlie pensions arrears resolution was taken up, and Mr. McPherson offered and advocated a substitute declaring the senate adheres to the principle that pensions shall be computed from the time of disability, and directing the pension committee to bring in a bill by which the business of the pension bureau may be expedited and frauds detected and punished. An executive session interrupted the discussion, and when the doors were reopened the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Mr. Hewitt, rising to a question of privilege, referred to the recently published letter of Jacob It. Shipherd to Minister Hurlbut, of Peru, and to the use of his (Hewitt's) name as being one of the gentlemen witli whom Shipherd claimed to be in confidential negotiations. As he was the only member of the house whom Shipherd included in his list of names, it was proper to say he did not know Shipherd, had never known him, and the use ot his name by Sbipherd was entirely without his knowledge or consent. He found on his desk one day a circular which mav have related to this business, and which he threw in the waste basket. He was also authorized in behalf of August Belmont to make a similar disetaimer. On motion of Mr. Valentine, of Nebraska, the bill was passed, authorizing the secretary of war to lend to Nebraska, tents, etc , to be used at a soldiers’ reunion to be held at Grand Island, Nebraska. Under the call of states, a bill was introduced by Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, providing that all silver coin defaced or worn by ordinary use should be received by the government and paid for in perfect coin at its original value. Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, from the committee on ways and means, moved to suspend the rules and pass the joint resolutian refunding to the American revisers of the New Testament th*e duties paid on copies of the New Revised Testament for the use of the company. Agreed to and the bill passed. A resolution authrizing the secretary of war to grant immediate relief by issuing rations to destitute citizens of Arkansas and Louisiana in the Red river valley. Referred. The bill to promote the efficiency of the life saving service and encourage the saving of life from shipwrecks was passed.

What Mrs. Grundy Nays. That it is better to be rich than aristocratic. That there is a rave forold fashioned Dutch clocks with chimes of silver bells. That there is an establishment in town where you can hire long sealskin cloaks. That eight out of every ten society women of to-day’ have manufactured complexions. That bunches of artificial flowers are the correct thing on Miss Flora McFlimsy’s muff". That the most fashionable dinner parties of the season are those costing the most money. That the go without-your-overcoat young man has suffered greatly from the cold of late. That people eannot be too careful how they’ take in and entertain reputed English noblemen. That artificial smilax is now universally’ used for decorating private houses and churches. That you must have two bonnets — one very thin of feathers; and one very big, of plush and fur. That a Boston girl broke her engagement with a New York man because he could not speak Latin. That there are always signs and indications that plush as a favorable material has had its day. That a married woman of the Amer lean colony in Paris has eloped with on impecunious count. That the lady who stole a fur cloak at a party, a few months ago, is nowin the insane asylum. That is a bad sign when people supposed to be rich are discovered pawning their jewelry.—New York Mail and Express.

During a dispute at Pueblo, Colo- 1 rado, Policeman J. T. Conners was • shot and severely but not dangerously 1 wounded by City Marshal Desmond. Trains on the Cincinnati & Northern railroad now arrive and depart at the depot within the city limits of Cincinnati, on Court and Broadway streets. A man in North Carolina named Bi vans, only two weeks married to an attractive-looking lady, repented of his choice, and suicided by walking into the river. At Stanford, Ky., John Carr, a highlv esteemed colored man, was shot dead in his own house by an unseen person while playing with his little child. No clue to the perpetrator. It is announced that Rauston, the French minister to Tunis, will shortly be recalled. There is talk of his succeeding Count De Maney as minister at Athens, who is coming to Washington. In Jeffersonville, Ind., a crowd of young hoodlums attempted to enter a dive kept by Mrs. Munden. Munden’s husband being home, opened the door and shot Thomas Morgan in the neck, killing him instantly. Vienna dispatch: A telegram from Zara reports that the inhabitants of various quarters are forming a volunteers corps to act asrainst the insurgents. Five thousand rifles have been distributed so far. A dispatch from Alexandria says a detachment of Yeman rebels are advancing upon Mecca via Saadeah to to proclaim the spiritual deposition of the sultan of Turkey and the restoration of tbe Arabian caliphate. John Hudson, of Piqua, Ohio, attempted to leap from a train before it stopped, at Urbana, and fell between the trucks, and was crushed to death instantly. He was a nephew of the late Billy Manning, the famous minstrel. Fire at Mexico, Mo., destroyed Carroli & Botts’ dry goods store, several small shops and the daily Intelligence office. IjOss, about $25,000; insurance, $15,000.

TELEGRAPHIC. Watertown, N. Y., February 18. —The directors of the Merchants bank, of this city, have decided to go into voluntary liquiaaticfti. Since the failure of Kenyon & Co., of Chicago, public confidence in the bank has been weakening, H. O. Kenyon being a director, and the depositors began withdrawing their funds. The capital stock $210,000, with deposits of about $700,000. Last week the assets were $1,100,000, but since Kenyon’s failure there has been a large shrinkage. The officers of the bank state that the depositors will be paid in full. No statement from the bank has been made yet. Memphis, February 18.—The cotton exchange held a meeting this afternoon and declined to entertain the proposition to inaugurate a future board. Ths Appeal's Helena special says: The twe year old son of L. A. Fitzpatrick, a prominent wholesale druggist, was drowned this afternoon by falling from the sidewalk into the water which covers the lower portions of the city. Cincinnati, February 18.—The river at midnight is fifty-two feet above low water, and will probably be two feet higher to-morrow, which will bring it within eight feet of the highest ever known, which was in 1832. The water is on the second story of houses in Rat row and Sausage row, which are houses built dowu on the slope at the east and west extremities of the landing, and it is in the cellars of some houses on Front street. Norfolk, Va., February 18. —Governor Cameron and party captured a whole oyster fleet, consisting of six schooners and one sloop, and made prisoners the crews, sixty-one men. London, February 18.—In the house of commons Mr. Chaplin stated that all the evidence before the royal commission tended to show that the United Stateshad reached the acme of agricultural prosperity, and the worst, therefore, had been seen of foreign competition. New York, February 18.—Jesse Seligman, Samuel Stone, William J. Jessup & Co., S. D. Babcock & Co. and Norvin Green declare that the use of their names by Shepherd is altogether unwarranted, ana they know nothing of him or his Peruvian scheme. Shepherd and Grant refused to be interviewed.

Canton, 0., February 20.—Henry Zimmerman, seventeen years of age, an employe of the safe lock works, wrs instantly killed about one o'clock to-day. He was crossing the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad on his way to work. A freight train was standing on a side track, the cars being detached and standing a few feet apart. Just as Zimmerman passed between them the engine backed and he was caught between the bumpers Philadelphia, February 20.—Fire in the Albion print works, on Water street, destroyed the entire stock, worth $50,000, and the stocks of several other firms in the same building. Total loss, $150,000. The charred body of an unknown man w’as found on tlie second floor when the fire Wa.- oubdued. The body taken out has been identified as that of John Meyers, foreman of one of the rooms. This was the only life lost. Providence, February 20.—The divorce petition of Katherine Chase Sprague against William Sprague, will, it is said, be settled. Mrs. Sprague’s petition will be granted, and a decree of divorce entered giving her the custody of her three daughters, the boy to remain with his father. The question of alimony will probably not be mentioned in the decree. London, January 20.—The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the grain trade the past week, says: All crops are healthy, and their previous too rapid growth has been checked. The position for the time of year is exceedingly good. The supply of wheat is restricted completely and trade is completely ruled by foreign. Even tlie best samples has slowly declined since Monday. Inferior unsaleable. In foreign trade has diminished in expectation of lower rates, and prices deelined Is Friday. Nineteen cargoes arrived and three sold. Values of off coast declined 3s. Bed winter ■cheat to arrive has fallen 4s. Flour in small demand and prices slightly declined. Foreign supply increasing. Prices for useful brands unchanged- Inferior cheaper. Foreign barley aud oats unchanged. Maize declined 6d. Sales of English wheat during the week, 43,503 quarters at 465. per quarter, against 36,448 quarters at 31s. Bd. per quarter for the corresponding week last year. Chester, Pa., February 20.—Two more victims of the explosion of Jackson’s pyrotechnic works died last night. Tbev were William 11. Franklin, fireman, and Robert Taylor, colored.

St. Lotrrs, Feb. 20.—Rain has fallen pretty steadily and heavily here since Saturday morning. The river has risen nearly six inches and has done considerable damage. All trains were from four to eight hours late in arriving this morning. Several trains which left this morning were abandoned and obliged to return. At Cave Cliff, on the Iron Mountain railroad, there is an extensive washout, and two passenger trains that left the Union depot last night were obliged to lay over all night at Carondalet and are still there. The scaffolding erected for the use of workmen while repairing the St. Charles bridge, on the Wabash railroad, was washed away by the sudden rise in the Missouri this morning. At St. Charles the Missouri river rose seven feet between Sunday evening and this morning, and the country around is much flooded by the rain. The track of the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific road between there and St. Peters is Hooded. I'he scaffolding supported by short piling which has been used in erecting the wooden spans of the St. Charles bridge, was swept away, but the three temporary piers are still standing. Trains will not be allowed to cross the bridge until the condition of the new wooden piers is ascertained by an examination of them. The river has risen about ten feet since yesterday. The rise was so unexpected that considerable f. eight lying on the levee near the old shore line was swept away. Otherproperty has been moved further up the bank to day, or taken away altogether, so that no further damage will be done. The Ohio <fc Mississippi east,and the Missouri Pacific west were the onlytrains that departed to-day. All trains on other roads have returned on account of washouts. A Post Dispatch special from St. Charles says: The three temporary spans and two wooden piers »-• mg the middle tresf’1 Charles bridv<* 1 2 p. m

supporting the pier are still standing. The river is rising rapidly. Rain is falling continually. Cincinnati, February 20.—A heavy rain has been falling ail morning. The river at 11 o’clock was fifty feet deep and raising tw’o inches an hour. All the cellars below Third street are flooded, practically suspending business in that part of the city, as a great force is kept busy removing goods. The Plum street passenger depot is inaccessible and the trains deliver passengers at Wood street. Maddux & Hobart’s distillery and the Globe rolling mills have been compelled to close. The operation of the former has driven way all stock. Other distilleries in the same locality will be compelled to close to-day. If the rain should stop now, it is estimated there will be five feet more of a raise, but what will come with more rain would make the highest water ever known Forest, Ohio, February 50.—James Lillis,a night watch on the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne & Chicago track, was severely burned last night and little hope is entertained of his recovery. It appears he had come in off his watch and laid down in hfs shanty to sleep and left his lantern burning by his side. When he awoke his clothing was in flames, and before it could be extinguished was burned as above stated.

MAKING SEW EYELIDS. The Disfigured Faces of a Lehigh Miner and a Philadelphia Girl Put Into Shape. .Transplanting human flesh has always been considered a difficult operation, but the success attending two remarkable operations of this kind recently performed by Dr. Richard J. Levis, at the Pennsylvania hospital, has attracted the attention of the entire medical profession. The subject that received the severest cutting from the surgeon’s knife is a coal miner named John Delaney, from the Lehigh valley district, who received terrible injuries about the head and breast by the explosion of a can of blasting powder. The accident happened five years ago, and after the wounds bad healed the man was horribly disfigured, presenting a sickening appearance. The head was drawn so far forward that his chin had grown fast to his breast, while the eyes were with ut lids. It was impossible lor him to shut his eyes, ana food could be taken with only the greatest difficulty. In this condition life was a misery to the unfortunate man, while his repulsive appearance was no Jess a source of annoyance to his friends. In this condition he came to the Pennsylvania|hospital [about fifteen months ago, aud was placed under the care of Dr. Levits. The head was first brought to an upright position by what is know’n as the plastic operation. The flesh that field tlie chin down was cut, and to prevent this new wound from drawing the chin to its former position it was covered by skin turned up from adjacent parts of the breast. The chin was held in position by props and bandages, aud within a rew weeKs’ time the patient was able to hold his head erect. But the eyes were still a source of great annoyance to him. The upper and lower lids were burned oft', leaving the inflamed edges turned outward. The upper lids were supplied by flesh from a little finger, which it was necessary to amputate. The application healed, and in a short time Delaney returned home greatly improved in appearance. He was able to partially close his eyes, but the under lids were still sore. A few weeks ago he again came to the hospital and was supplied with new lids taken from the flesh of an arm. This application was no less successful than those that had preceded it, and in a short time the man will be able to leave. The second operation performed by Dr. Levis was one requiring even more skill than the preceding, although tlie results obtained were not as great. The patient in this case was a young woman, the corner of whose moutli and the under lip were eaten away by disease. The flesh was gone, even down to the jaw bone. To heal this, a portion of the upper lip was cut and turned over, so .as to fill the place of tlie part eaten away. The wound is healing readily, and within a short time tlie moutli will be whole and without disfigurement, only a slight scar showing.—Philadelphia Record.

Meet Me in the Morning He had been absent a year, the youngest pupil at a boys’ school, and now his mother was expecting him every day, amt she weut about, proud and hai py, telling her friends of the improvement in his studies, and always ending with his being such a good boy. Then came a telegram from Willie himself, the first real message he had ever sent—ho w funny it seemed, from that baby—and there was just this simple form, “Meet me in the morning.” His mother went about all day with it in her hand, reading it over as if it had been in her child’s own handwriting. Then she smiled to herself as she pasted it carefully in a scrap-book, while somebody suggested framing it and hanging it over the mantel. But all the friends loved Willie; he was the only son of his mother and she was a widow —and he did not come in the morning. There came instead the hasty news of dread illness, and his mother hastened to her darling boy, but it was too late. The despoiler had done his work—he was breathing out his little life in the sleep from which he never would fully awaken here. Only once, toward the last, he unclosed his eyes swiftly and saw the dear mother face bending over him, and murmured with dry, husky lips, “Meet me in the morning, mamma.” Dear boy! it is morning with him always —the morning light of fairer than Italian skies —while yet we gro[»e among t e shadows. But by and by Wh shall go home at evening And find It morning there. —Detroit Free Preu.

Fire at Versailles, Ky., destroyed four buildings occupied' respectively by Gray & Bohen, grocers; A. Schuberth, variety store; William Wolf, fancy groceries and the residence of John T. Berry, a miller The fire originated in the in the cellar of Gray 4 Bohen about ten o’clock p. m., and was first discovered when it could easily have been extinguished but for the suffocating smoke and the fear of some powder and coal oil which wen*, known to be stored theie. - - — The Dublin of”-’ B f»<a claims fiv-

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151 DANA. Edwin Booth plays Hamlet at Fort Wayne Feb. 23d. Tickets are $1.60 and $2.00. Col. John A. Scott is .the manager. Emma Belin, of Brookville, being opposed in her matrimonial aspirations, attempted sulcsde by shooting herself with a pistol. The residence of Benjamin Daily is Clifty township, Bartholomew county, was burned by an incendiary with all the contents. Jacob Spiry, bar tender in the sa* loon of Charles Linck, at Evansville, was fatally burned while in a room in the rear of the saloon. The business men of Portland have organized a joint stock company, with $12,000 capital, for the purpose of building a much needed hotel in that town. . A monster walnut knot, grown on some Cass county farm, was shipped to Indianapolis. Its weight is 6,300 and the value is estimated at three hundred and fifty dollars. Since the commissioners of Madison county have agreed upon the plans and specifications and location for the new court bouse, the feeling in the matter is subsiding. Burglars made a general raid upon Logansport, Thursday night. The largest haul was at Frank Harwood’s where the thieves secured jewelry and clothing valued at S7OO. A depot on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago railroad at Chalmers, twelve miles north of Lafayette, was burned by incendiary tramps. The loss is small. The revival in the M. E. church at Anderson, conducted by Rev. W. J. Vigus, is still progressing. Seventy have united with the church and the interest is deepening and spreading. John Black who was shot by Robinson, in Brown county, for traducing the character of Robinson’s sister, died on Tuesday. Robinson is still at liberty, the sympathy of the community being with him. Judge Osbotne has issued an injunction preventing the Eikhart county commissioners from doing any farther work on the farm they recently purchased for a poor farm until all matters concerning it are adjusted.

The barn of William May, living near Hope, Bartholomew county, was burned, together with eleven head of cattle, two mules, one horse, a large quantity of grain, a threshing machine and a number of agricultural implements. The fire was of incendiaiy origin. Jake Painter and Tom Robinson, two rough characters living in Brown county on Little Sand creek, became engaged in a quarrel over a woman of loose morale, when Robinson instantly killed Painter by hittilijf hilD n ” th** witli t»n ak. The murderer escaped. A serious affray took place in the saloon of Gus Hafner, of Greenfield between William Pauley and Rafe Copper, Fortville. Copper was intoxicated and called Pauley several bad names, when he struck Copper knocking him down cutting and beating him in a most terrible manner. Jake Painter had his own way in Brown county, for a number of years, and a bad way it was. His wife got a divorce and married again; but he drove away her husband and compelled her to return to him, frightening her bo thoroughly that she remained. A neighbor offended him and he retaliated by poisoning cattle until the family moved aw ay to escape his persecution. He shot three men who at various times opposed him and escaped punishment through the cowardice of the witnesses. A few days ago he went to Thomas Robinson’s house near by, and demanded that Mrs. Robinson be given to him. It la not stated whether the woman regarded the proposed transfer favorably, but Robinson certainly did not, and, when Painter threatened him with death for refusing, shot the bully dead. A special from Seymour gives an account of the shooting of three burglars at Tunnelton, on Friday night The men were named Edgar Wilson, Zach Whithead and Nick Bond, all residents of the vicinity and long suspected of being thieves. A man named Ben Willoby got into their confidence, and to him they unfolded their plan, which was to go at midnight and rob Myer’s house and then go to Thomas Clark’s, kill him, gag his wife and get his money; then they would raid Doc Guthrie and Alfred Guthrie where they expected a good haul. Willoby having given them away, a number of citizens armed themselves with shotguns and assembled in an empty ear on the side track of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, about forty feet from the building and as sx>n as the robbers entered the mob surrounded the house. Willoby ran away and the other three men were riddled to death with bullets as they came out. Wil ■ son and Whithead were killed and

Bond mortally wounded. Whithead bad both eyes shot out and his eyes was riddled with balls. Wilson had a hole in his head large enough to idmit a man’s fist and his body was adly riddled, yet he managed to run 100 yards and empty his revolver before lie fell. Bond recovered sufficiently to give the names of two others who were to have taken part in '.he robbery.

The annual rites of those Onondaga Indians who remain pagans ended last night. On Sunday was celebrated one of the most singular ceremonies—the burning of the white dog as a sacrifice to the powers of the air. The Indians having assembled in a long room surrounded with benches, the relation and interpretation of the dreams of the year began. At precisely 12 o’clock a tall brave entered with the dead body of the white dog •lung over his shoulder. When he had received his instructions be departed, followed by two or three other persons. Presently they returned with a basket of tobacco and the dog, which, decked with paint, beads and ribbons, was placed upon a platform. The celebrants murehed around *' platform in procession, cb»plications that th- ’ _ . iTA CO’J