Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 17 November 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

BB.Auawr.ftMl w n ~, K , H , t , lrr ' i ABAKF.R, Vice Prc"'t. THE ACAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, k This Bank is now open for tho transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSON & HUFFMAN?' attorneys at law. DKCATUH, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining J-oxnnej. Espeoitl attention givrn to colleciiowx and titles to real estate. Are NoBarits Public and draw deeds and mortgages <>nl estate bought, sold and rented on ieasonabla terms Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. (‘ 0. F. building 25jy7Jtf aTkTngl , ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATDR.IN»IA>A. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BKC.ITVK, INIiI.IXA. All log.-il buxines. promptly alton lel to Office up stairs in Stone r lui Hug 4ih door. »2,’>n2 1 year 1. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, ®pc>ctaclcs, €<3o Repairing done at lowest prices to guar an’.ee good and sound work DaujhteiSi Wires, Motas, ■ I ■<?'/ t. w \ ■ • i.'.* ■ . v* ■ Dr. J. Q. FSnRCHJGI, ’ ricA. y, DI-roVK. KI; .ip MARCHIST’S 11TEB1NE(’ATHOLU’()\' A POSITIVE Cu"E FOR FEMALE COMPLAIN”. Thi* R-’in'lv will ac i.i tem-.v w «!i • •• i F(';jia:e*y-t m n’ nil hnC hunn <! . . Ir . upon th*' ;’hiL»nji isl and nn iin-- mi.-c i s >n-.t j it - lore tli’ it io a h«*viny and sir<»; ro».di:i.>r;. | Dr. M archil's Uterine ( ■ ■•i’l euro ’ filling of the Wn-ar», L<’iiCC»»-rb(i>», <*‘ t•> >C In- ; fl.-imma ion and Ulceration ot tlv w«nn’., I: . iCer I ta; I bun »• rtiaze <»r i‘T> ulinz. i-*a : n•r. ’. Shp;iri’~M’-t an I Irregular JLwtni'Mi Kid < — (’ouip’a’e- ’ .•uni t- ep pec ally adapted t* ■Ct nt g<- ‘ : < ’f . I Send f<>r pimpti'er. Al|< n o( i: u'tiry ( freely answered Addr -- •• FOIC XALR BV ALL lUU f.GZ U'-. , IT'ze #1 5 • per bottle. Bcr-u; «u.! :i . lot . . •_ Ma niai’e Uterine Catholic Tik? io r s JSL A A 'f'J J - JH SUNNYSLOPE \\ ’ll. HANDMADE. ts C rXeorVER D!S T n. 1 Ejjj, // ■ i ■ >? 'CU /7xC- OT ■lo CORN r-.li wLrackeK// \\ HAND MADE. / / Both ofthese famous brands of Whiskey are kept in stock for sale al, THE “OCCIDENTAL.” j. n. BRwnuiMie. |

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The Decatur ] Democrat.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. I A. J. 11l 1,1., Editor and IBusinrHa Man nirer. TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS , IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D.~ . PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, • | DKCATIIR, INDIANA. Office .ver Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Rest dence sn north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart’s Mill. 25jy79tf W? H. MYERS, * trick ft Stone t on tracer DECATUR, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his line. Perlons contcnip'.Rt!! g building might make a point.by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25u46m3. E N. WICKS, j. t. MERRIMAN. attorneys at Law AND Real Estate •fg'mts. Deed”, Mortgages, Contracts and al! Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. PaXiiion. settlement of decadent s estates, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs iu Atone s building—4th door. ▼cl, 25, no 24, yl. DR? KLTCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of each month to treat all Chronic Diseases. Consultation free Call and see him. All i letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua. Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write to him and make a statement of your ease.—v2’.n36ly. 'TJ Though nds of graves RM are annually robbed lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the groat GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures Bmpotrncy (cause 1 by excesses of any kina ) Seminal Weakness and all ' diseases that follow as a sequence of Self- , Abuse, as loss of energy, 1, ss of memory, ‘ universal lassitude, pain tn the back, d.m- --! ness of vision, premature old age, and j many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circulars vi• h testlmonals free by mail The Eat ’» sold at $1 per t’ONj or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, secutely sealed, on receipt of price, by add rowing, S’ J.< i)rug4ii*t, . 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. » Q ole .Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce Co., Sole Agents at Decatut .z. - PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. Th e I’est, Cleanest and , j most Economical Bair ’ Dressing. f .'j A -A-a -ip..- . itver Ms n r?” ■? , J , r . ■■»?<, <•*. ' youthful < <)< ’rt • ..t*.” ; U . /• v□> FWiair. soc and $i sizes at ■ :s. f U 'Floriston Colo;®. ■'j y A new ntt.l frn > i >• Pi't a * l H-’mK l’itie ’.'i au«l is'. PASKES’g GINGERTONIIk j A Purs ramily MctUcins that licver Intoxicates. | H If y"i are a mechanic orf.umcr, worn out with [ 1 Ueve-work, o’- a mother run down by family ovhouse- i j bci«l duucs try I’aiikek's Ginckk Tonic. I i.| If yn-i nr- a lawyer, minister cr business man ex- ’ ilhau<cti by mental .Mrnin or anxious cares not , . ; take intoxicating Mimui.nnts, but use Parkkk's i ' Gi .gi::i I onic. ’ Ir‘you have Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Kidney or | !r Urinary' (. omnk-mis. or if yon are trouble. ! with any S I cisOrder of the lungs .stomach boweis. bloc Jornerves F i r you can be cured by I‘axker’s Gingk* lonic. » I m Ifrouarc waning away from age, dissipation erf I . an-.- disease or weakness ami require a stitnulaut take I | f Gi-.<;» t: T onic r.t once: itwiil m\; ;<>ra:e_a.wi b uiu | I k 'ou tin from t • f >t < ; k c but wi i never I ‘ i:has s.ive.i hum.:cds of lives it may save yours. » * J ni.'cox k C'L. t’’ l " : ?t :.- N ' r York - * nd J one uvilxr at all .ieuurs in ::>< di< aie». N •1 GREAT SAVING BUYING DOLLAR SIZE.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, I8«2.

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. THK EAST. A collision between a special and ; passenger train at Lincoln, Me., on the European and North American road, caused the wounding of many railway officials who were on the special train, the locomotive of which was wrecked. Several passengers were also severely bruised. Henry Boas, an election inspector, In New York, has been sent to the State prison for a year for violation of the statutes ....The artist Bierstadt’s palatial residence at Irvington-on-the-Hudson was destroyed by fire. A number of valunb e pictures, curiosities and relics were consumed The building itself cost $103,000, and the furniture, paintings, etc., were valued at SIIO,OOO. A train on the Cuba extension of the Bradford, Eldred and Cuba railroad, while running at a high rate of speed, was derailed and thrown off the trestle near C’larkville, Pa. The engine, tender, baggage car and two passenger cars were hurled into the gorge thirty feet in depth. James France, engineer, Charles Sterresscv. fireman, ana the baggage-master were killed. Several passengers were also killed. A large number were seriously injured. The engineer was trying to make up lost time. The fast train on the New York Central road ran into a locomotive near Peekskill. The engine and draw ng-room car were hurled from tec track. Four persons received serious injuries, among them being Warren G. Derby, of Brooklyn. .Secretary Folger was on the train, but was not hurt... .Mere than $14,000,000 has been expended on the Brooklyn bridge thus far. Ellery Albee,who two years ago took everything but the safe in the Ashuelot Savings Bank, at Manchester, N. H., of which he was cashier, pleaded guilty to two indictments for makii g false entries, and was ied off to State prison for ten years ... .PJchard Hoffman, of Somerset township, Pa., who has been a cripple all his Mfe, while fervently praying behind a barn, heard a voice say, “Arise and walk!” He obeyed the command. and is now sound in every l.mb. TITE WEST. Certain church officials in Utah, who are monogamists, have been informed by President Taylor that unless they marry a plurality of wives they will lo?e their positions. Some have acquiesced in this arrangement, and others arc still on the fence. The steamer Emma C. Elliott, while nearing St Louis, Mo., came upon an immense flock of wild ducks. The electric light was turned op, when the birds dashed against it with such force that several hundred of them were captured, and in the morning thirty-six were found concealed in the cabin. Edward Holroyde, a Cincinnati miser, was robbed and almost beaten to death by burglars. He is 80 years of age, and is worth over SIOO,OOO. Twenty-five years ago he separated from his wife and cut off ail communication with the world except to ; receive necessary supplies. Four masked | burglars entered his sleeping apartment, and, after beating him brutally, they were handed a pocket-book containing $5. They wrenched a large toe-nail from his foot, when he pointed out the hiding-place of bonds worth $13,000 and a roll of currency. After > vainly singeing his body they ransacked the | house and left. A police Lieutenant penetrated to the bedroom and found the old | man in a bed of greasy rags. Geo. B. Armstrong, a Chicago journalist, was sent to Huron, Dak., to estab- j lish a land office. By 3 o'clock on the morning of opening, 500 attorneys had assembled in front of the building to file applications, and the doors and windows were broken by the crowd. The receipts for the first day were $9,000, the total transactions being the largest on record Col. F. Lourv, formerly Postmaster at Dayton, Ohio, who stood $5,500 behind in his accounts with the department, thrust a tiny knife blade into his jugular vein, and died instantly. A terrible collision occurred on tho Chicago and Alton railway near Oak Grove, twenty miles east of Kansas City, Mo., between a construction train and a hand-car. which resulted in the death of six men and the ditching of the entire train. The construction train was in charge of Conductor Hamlett, and at the time of the collision was backing toward Blue Springs, when it encountered the hand-car going east All the men on the hand-c.'.r jumped, the loss of life being with the laborers and trainmen. The caboose, six flat-cars and one box-car went into the ditch. As the cars went into the ditch some of the men jumped, but were caught under the cars and crushed out of all shape. Beside the six killed a large number were wounded. The night watchman in the Union depot at St Joseph, Mo., hearing pistol •hots, started out to discover their origin. He soon found in the street the warm corpses of Joseph Hughes, a notorious char- • acter. and Murker Davis, his cousin. It ap- 1 pears that they bad been playing cards in a saloon near by and had considerable money, although none was found on their bo lies.... The fall of a derrick at Cleveland caused i the death of three men almost instantly and the severe wounding of another. THE SOUTH. A New Orleans dispatch says “tho gas company has turned off the gas in ail public buildings controlled by the city, including the police stations, parish prison. City Hall, etc. The city owes the company over $200,000 old debt, and on the cash contract has not paid the company monthly instaUments since July. The company offered to light the city if the city would supply lamp lighters for four months, but this offet was not accepted. The street-lamps are : also out, and, except in the vicinity of elec- [ trie lights, the city is in darkness. The St. Louis Republican says that the cotton crop now being gathered is esti- . mated at 7,U00,U00 bales, the largest ever raised That of last vear was 5,436,<W Ia es ; and that of the year before was 0,589,000 , bales, being the largest in the history of the ; country down to that time.... The Hodge I brothers (colored) were exe uted for mur.ier at Knoxville, Tenn., by being placed under the gallows in a wagon, which was then moved slowly away, leaving the culprits to strangle to death. This method ot a iministering the law was the choice of the condemned men. A negro at Frankfort, Ky., undertook to pitch hay with a lig ;t d pipe in his mouth. The result was the destruction of the Major Opera House, the postoffi ce, Buhr s Hotel, and other buildings, the los< ag. regating SBO,OCU The Opera House wa< owne I by the city, and some of the public records were burned. By the burning of the Court House and jail at Crockett, Texas, two m »le prisoners perished. All the records were destroy e A Near Texarkana, Charles Homey, . Jr., a merchant at Lost Prairie, Ark., after a quarrel with two brothers name! Butler, went home and was pursued, the Butlers following him to a negro cabin, where he had taken refuge, and kicking the door down. Hemey had a double barreled shotgun, and killed both brothers as they crossed the threshold. He was woun.led. in the arm by a ball fired bv a man who came with the i assailants. The Butlers were picked up | dead and buried in one gtave. WASHINGTON. Gen. Sherman, in a report to the ! Secretary of War, criticises the system oi I erecting forts here and there throughout ' the West, and advocates the erec Jon cf permanent fortific tions, which would sen as quarters for the whole army forth; half century... .Work >as begun on 'h ■ 1 proof Pension Office ac Washin ;ton. Io ate I on the square bounded by F and G and Fourth and Fifth streets, and two year vil be required to erect the s ructure A sample of the counterfeit E.and I silver dollar which is being’extensively cir-

culat’ d, c p-daily in the West, has been received in Washington. The coin is very heavily plated, resists acid tests unless deeply cut before applied, has a ring similar to the genuine, and is of the exact w ight. The officers of the Secret Service Department consider the counterfeit one of the most dangerous that has yet appeared. Commissioner McFarland, of the General L nd Office, in a recent decision declares that where a person has failed to make entry to a tract of land through being misinformed of his rights by local officers, when otherwise entitled to make entry, he will be protected by the department and lose nothing, unless required to do so by the actual demands of the law... .In a decision rendered the other day the Acting Secretary of the Interior holds that a contest for a land title instituted by a parent cannot be transferred or inherited by a child, even though it shall appear that the contest waa instituted for the child's benefit GENERAL The successful scheme of Chicago firms in exporting dressed beef to the sea board cities has excited the ire of the rail roads and live stock interests, who have formed a company with a capital of $l,O mi,. 000, of which W. Arnold, of Chicago, and W. H. Vanderbilt are members, for the purpose of opening depots and underselling the original nrojectorsin the r fields of operation.... Vanderbilt has recently sold to savings hanks in New York, in a quiet way, no less than $10,000,00 > or his 4wt cent, bonds, two points below the currenFinarket price. It seems to be pref.y well settle 1 that Vanderbilt ha? got possession of the Nickel-Plate road The accidental killingof an Alaska chief incited the natives to capture a launch and two sailors of the United States revenue cutter Corwin, and upon refusal to return the nrisI oners (’apt Merriam destroyed their village ' and killed several of the natives. hostile villagers who had taken possession of ; an American fur-trading company’s station I and held the employes prisoners were treated I in the same manner and tee prisoners re- , leased. The United States Marshal in Indian Territory s ized a quantity of liquor belonging to army officers, as the Federal statutes permit the entry of spirits onlv for medicinal purposes. ?A protest has been entered by the commander of the department, in which Gens. Sherman and Siierida i join. Secretary Teller will be forced to decide the point.... Mrs. Scoville is de ivering lecture? in Canada. She avers that her husband is the worst crank in the Guiteau family. J. C. Tiffany, who was indicted in Arizona for embezzling $15,000 while Indian Agent, i ave bail in New York to appear al Tucson for trial in February... .The New York and Texas Mexican railway has purchased 4,010,V0U acres of land for colonies. POLITICAL. Simon Cameron remarked to an interviewer that the defeat of the Republican party in Pennsylvania would have the effect of keeping the spirit of faction alive. He does not consider that his son has been badlj beaten, and believed he could be his own successor in the United States Senate if he so desired... .Bob Ingersoll thinks the political cyclone was caused by extravagant appropriations and a refusal to reduce taxation, especially on tobacco. He predicts that Gen. Sherman will be the next Presi- ; dent Os the 293 members of the last House of Representatives, 173 were candidates for L re-election. One hundred and thirty were I re-elected and lortv-three were defeated. I This does not include those who were can- ; didates but were defeated in nominating conventions. Less than half the o d mem- ' I ers were returned, although the membership of the House has been in ire ise.i. There [ will i e 185 members of the Furty-eighth House who are not members ot the Fortyseventh House... .The Boston Journal unequivocally state' that Gov. Long will be Hoar’s successor in the Senate of the Fortyeighth Congress. The names of Morrison and Springer, of Illinois; Randall, of Pennsylvania; Carlisle, of Kentucky, and Eaton, of Connecticut, are ah prominently mentioned in connection with the Speake ship of the next House of Representatives.... .Lee, colored Republican, who was defeated for Congress bv M ckey in the black district of South Carolina, will contest the election. Samuel J. Randall presse cxs the ! opinion that the Democratic successes at the polls are a declaration by the people tor a reduction in public expenses. He favors : the absolute repeal of all internal-revenue taxation, and thinks the question of free I trade will not practically arise for a genera- ; tionyet. Ben Butler assumes that the DemI ocratic Congress will substantially sweep away internal-revenue taxation, and thinks that, if this be not done, a single short crop would bring unprecedented financial i disaster. FOREIGN. The negro troops and the followers of the False Prophet recently engaged in a fierce battle near Khartoum, in the Soudan, the former having 100 men killed, while the Prophet's losses were still greater. A Dublin journal opposes tlie granting of the freedom of that city to Gen. Wolseley, as on two distant occasions he expressed a hearty willingness to lead an expedition to Ireland to quench insurrectionary fires.... The French Chambers were opened on the 9th inst Premier Duel ere indicated his foreign and domestic policy in a speech of no great length, whicn was received coldly by his hearers, and in some instances was openly sneered at Gen. Wolseley is not popular in Ireland, as he had, prior to his departure to i the seat of war in Egypt, expressed himself as sorry to forego the opportunity to crush out any uprising in Ireland that might occur ' during his absence, and other sentiments equally obnoxious to the Home Rulers. AcI cordinglv, when the proposition came up in the Dublin corporation to tender Wolseley i the freedom of the city, it was voted down—--1 yeas 21, nays 27... .Gladstone announced in Parliament that British troops would not be I sent to suppress the rising of the False Prophet in the Soudan. On account of recent disorders the financial situation of France is regarded as bad and the situation of the Ministry is very precarious... .Since the bombardment of Alexandria, Russia has ordered seven warvessels for the Baltic and two for the 81. ck sea... .Queen Christina, of Spain, gave birth to a daughter... .The coffee crop of H tvti is less than two-thirds yield, and the quality is poor. So GREAT is the distress in the Egyptian delta from the failure of the rice crop that many deaths from starvation are probable unless aid is extended by the Government....A prairie fire on the Mongolian frontier of Russia has covered a space of seventy square miles, consum ng many Cossack villages.. ..Wheat-sowing in EnglandD retarded by floods and storms of hail and snow In his statement to the House of Commons recently, Premier Gladstone said it was necessary that 12,(D0 British troops remain in Egypt for the present, and in a short t : me a treaty would be made with l Egypt, one clause of wh : h would provide I that the cost of the maintenance of thi« ■ army would be defrayed by England.... There is an excellent prospect that the per- I petrators of the atrocious murder of which the Joyce fam ly in Ireland were the vic- , tims will pay with th°ir lives the penalty of that awful crime. Two men who ac om -a nied the party of assa sns hav * turned state’s evidence, and it is expected that the t stimonv will be complete and concilia ve. ....At donstantinbple has jus beenc.le- ■ brated the 1390th year of t ie Mohamm j an calendar, and bus ness was iorg >tten ft r participation m j rob salons and re igiou? te tivals. The astrologers assu - d th*- bn tan that he is the new p. ophet of Is am predicted to make hi? appearance thi ■ year. In eighteen months the popnLition cl i El F isr>. Tex., lias inc«-.wl from 80C ; to a.r<yo.

A MATTER OF OPINION. Comments of the Press Upon the Results of the Election. What Democrats, Rspublicans and Independents Think. Democratic Opinion. [From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The Democrats have achieved victories uh ch justify an exhilarating hope that, the next President will be a representative man of their political faith, and that ihj reins of govt-rument will return to the p irtv of the people. Ihe result has been brought about through the disruption of the Repub ican organization and the general disgust of the people with the bosses and the tireless papsuckers; and no party can afford to be h- edless of the lesson conveyed. Jhe party which has had almost a monopolvof the distribution of the spoils has suffered >uch a tremendous rebuke that it can only recover from (he shock it has received through th blundering of its opponents. [From the Louisville Courier-Journal. 1 The Democrats have gained all over the North. The Republicans have made their only gains in the Southern States. T..is is well ; n’ither party is solid in either section. The next Congress will be Democratic. The mijcriiy will be large enough; itwiil, pt rh:i]>s, be too large. With this access on of power comes new responsibilities. If the Democrats meet these as t hey should; if they are true to their convictions, their tradit ons and their promises; if they will at once perfect measures for a gradual reduction of taxation a d a revision of the tariff ; if they ! will enact laws which shall take the civil service out of politics and make free citizens of the public servants, there is n • doubt whatever the vote < f confi lence to-day id be r» p ated in iBBI. If, on the contrary, tiiev violate or ignore the pledges given in this canvass, this great party w.ll give w.iy to a gr. ater and a better one, which will execute the people's wilt [From the St. Louis RcpublicanG It is not possible for any one to View current history without something of the bias of selfish interest and pride of opinion. It is also certain that no one knows what the influence of so sweeping a change may be, because its full effec.s are coating nt upon the uncerta n actions of men in the future into whose motives so many conflicting factors enter. A great battle which might be decisive of the fate of arnves and the power of nations often proves, from the course of subsequent events, of little consequence and of no real value to the victors. What has become of the Repub ican majorities apparently sw> pt, away in Pennsylvania, j New York and other State' ? The voters ' who contributed to those majorities in other years are still in the flesh, ant a l but a ma gin of them are still Republeans. It ' will not do to conclude that S ates lately i Republican have all at once become Democratic. It would be easy for the Democratic I party, by an unwise an 1 injudic.ous course | by a failure to appreciate the responsibii - i ties now thrown upon it. to cause area tion | and even a revulsion which would place it further from permanent victory than it ha > I been since 1872. [From the New York World.] How little the disaffection of the “h ;lfbreeds” has really had to do with the overthrow of the Republi an party is shown by the overwhelming vote given t • Mr. Belin nt in the First Con ressional distr ct. Mr. Belmon ’s competitor was put into the fi LI by friends of Mr. Blaine, and k pt there solei v ' y the r contributions and th ir activity. W..at was the r suit? Tir t Mr. Belmont goes back to Congress at the head of amajorit more than f ur t mes as arge as tha by which lie was orgnallysent to W .shin it on. This single tat suffices to shoe that the Demgpratic party has been : called l ack to power in NewYoik, not because the Republicans of New York think I Pr s d nt A-uiur more or less worthy of confidents than Mr. Blaine, but because the people of New York are weary of teedin on the east wind o the Re üblican promises of reform. “A plague on both your houses” is the brief moral of ye ter ay’s tremendous popu’ar verdict. It rings tae k .ell of ho Republican organization Itgves notice to every young aspiring man in the country that (tie luture belon ,s to new issues and to the Democratic party. Republican Exp an at ions. [From the Cleveland Herald.] The general disaster which overtook the Republican nominees cannot be laid to merely local caus s. The liquor question may have had a certain influ nee here and I th< re, but where the d moralization wa gr- atest that quest on was no in the slightest degree an issue. Tne real cause was the same everywhere, was at once general ana ! local, and was of sufficient potenc. to < verbear the strongest local ssues and bmy the best tickets beneath a mountain of adverse votes. [From the Buffalo Express.! The rebuke visited u; on Arthur’s stalwart : alm nistration — the most cr.-siiing ever) dealt ou to a politic il factio i—is a rebuke j not only to the men at the heal ot th-.’ machine, an b ike not only to t l ieir metho Is, *4*ll a rel uke to and a repud a*.ion <>f the w.iile stalwart idea. That idei is, c seatially that a party >8 an army, and that the only duty, the only right, of th * men in the muxs is to obey their masters-their bosses. The men in the ranks ye<“rdiy showed t n.t they are the masters, that their will must be* carried out by the party leaders, and that self-constituted leaders who atl temp’ to rule father than t'» scrv *. will be , tr-ed by d. um h”ad court martia an<l shot upon the sp >L The levo i has b tnwr tt n lup 1 irge, so th it they who run—t-te stal- ) wart«, t ■ wit—may rea l. No man wili -a .e i any excuse for mi* understandi’ gic her after. [From the Cincinnati Commercial]. President Arthur succeeded, an 1 was im-j I mediately beset by the gang who had been disap. ointe lin Garfield. He resisted many I o their most vicious and unseemly de- I mam Is, but they have been sufficiently die- i tat-rial, and have so far flavored the Ad- j ministration with their vindictive follies that i the Ne at York election of yes enlay serves as an object les on As a p rly tho Republicans are about, where they were eight years ago. It has -ost un-lcr Arthur the ground | gained after it g F rid of Granb If the R publican par y i- to hav • a future ) —if i is to retai l the national Gov rnment I beyond the n< xt 1 residential e ection—it | mu't be relieve ! of its bosses. Stalwart- j ism inii' t he t/own away ike a bad smell in ) a high wnd And w■■ mu 6x)p the fa’ at ic 1 crus ute s in b.ehalf of p etc ided t< m- i peran >• reformat on. The country distrusts ' the D mot rati • par y, and there are an abu I' .- n< eof vo‘■ rs oppose I to that party to def at it if they c «n b • neim t'o I to exercise the r c 'mmon scus< nd common rights of Republic*.n cil z m ; but they are not to be tu: or limited both? vulgar d. urination of bo 'ses and the despotic caprice< of vainglorious pret- nders to statesman hip. the St. Lonis Glob?-Democrat.) It may be sai 1 that the Republicans needed this defeat They invited it, and had it net come the bosses would have t een very pure te bring’t on two years hence. Fortunate v a R p p .bliean Senate, i wiiha R public n Ex cu iv • l-ehliiu it. will ; be in place to i re vent Democratic c pers in i the House from being serious.v detrimental )to the general we’fa e. while the Demo rats wi 1 show their inc pa -tty for Legislative work beyond peradventure.. Tcey have s?- ; cured jus enougiropeto hang trnm eves j with, nnd the few wise advisers they have i c :mmt prevent them irom mik ng use of it. T c effort t» control them has been made in vain time and Thus there wii: be two string influences at wor'; to win Rep ib’ican success in 1881, namey: the exp si ion of th row i weaknes son the pa tof the Repub! cans a- d the demonstrate ■ n ’ccssi y of coaecting them, and th? exhibition of Dcm- . ver a liability to g »vera. In fa t, ih s Re- : p b ican defeat is a pre’.ty good th ng it it is only viewed rightly. IFrum th • Chicago Inter Oce%n.J WfaEe d ss. ter ha* b*-en anticipated by thi-kiugß»-p .biicans al ever tha cou..t:w ) th v nev r iully realized such a flood as is i reported in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New

York and Penn ylvama. It looks a good ■ de >1 like a case of samson and the temple, I Th<• people undertook to pun sh the bosses, I and fell with them under the ruins or the . tempi'*. There will, however, he ar< suit- clion of the temple and u resuscitation of the victims. The Repub'ican party is of 100 < grand a history and too promising of noble , purpose in the future to godown. Croak- i . trs to the contrary, its mission is not yet ‘ [ fi led. The result of yesterday does not ; show that Bepubl’canism has a less strong I hold on the country than it has held for ! years, but rather t .at the purifying process . is going on that it may rise to grander i flights and nobler deeds. < [From the Chicago Tribune.] ■ The self-inflicted chastisement cannot fail j i to be beneficial to the Republican party. It ' will teach th ? men temporarily elected to I > power and place that they can he deposed as j readily and promptly by the same popular ' will that lifted them from obscurity. The ' lessoi sos this defeat will be instruc ive. It • wi l but clear the way for a renewal l y the ‘ . people o the poli ie< of the Republican i party and the restorat on of the Government j to th • control of that pa. ty in 1584. ' Independent Comment. [From the Chicago Times.] A year ago such a political revolution as I was consummated in this country yesterday i would have been considered impossible. To- : ' day it excites not even a ripple of surprise- ' ; Much has been done in the past three months ; by the chiefs ot the defeated party to con- j i vince the American i eople that, in the inter- j est of political morality and common public | decency, a change was necessary. The effect ■ of that work will be almost universally accepted as in accordance with the eternal tit- . ness of things. Amid tne general slaughter of the ]>olitica’ | bo se-*, the like of which hasn't been seen in I a lifet me, it must be matter of regret that the most intolerant as well as the meanest of them all, Mahone, of Virginia, escapes w ith slight injury. Sti 1 his victoiy, if it is as represented, can hardly be' more than short-lived. The President, I having lost such a list of States I as New Yoik, his home; Pennsylvania, the i home of his tiustod Lieutenant, Mr. Don I C’ morn; New Hampshiie, the home of his , aggressive Secretary of the Navy; Connect!- ' ent, Ohio, possibly Michigan; Indiana, which | had no savior this year, Mrs Star-Route Dorsey, whom the President toasted two years ag >, being almost within the shadow of tne penitentiary; Wisccn-in, possibly; Colorado, t e stalking ground of his man Teller; California and divers and >undry oth* r str< ngholds of his party, will haidlv care to exert himself again for the satisfaction of a p- tty ! boss in the Old Dominion. Tnotigh it exhibit | unm stakable signs of life, the President will I probably be inclined to let the tail go with the hide. Unsustained by Federal patronage, 1 . Mahone will surely go to the wall. What a Greenbarker Thinks. — [From t he Chicago Express.] It is a Democrat c land-slide, as was ex- I ! pccted. The Republicans, disgusted with | i Hubbellism, bossism an I stahvart sm, have i ; let the thing go by default. The Democratic party has won, not upon its own merits, but : upon its enemy's demerits In the South the | Demo-nats have scarcely he’d their own. T.jc people ot Massa* husetts have taken i that lively citiz 1 n, Ben Butler, down from h s shelf and dusted him off for action. He seems to '-e almost an good as new. Two men survive the crash of machine's and the wreck of st teamen this 3 ear—Butler and Baine. They have carried their States. Their white plumes will be seen in the fray again. Folger is terribly beaten. The admnis nation is humi’iate 1. New York presents her compliment < to the dan ly Pre ideut. S alwartism is as dead as Guite.au. The people are sick of all old spoils f etion . They are ready for a new deal. The old lines cannot stand the t-torm much longer. The first reports give up details of Green- j j back-Labor and Anti-Monopoly votes. They I will be fished up out of the bottom of ihe I boxes in a few days. Let us wait patiently ■ for the official count. THE NEW 801 SE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The elections to the national House of Representatives appear to give the Democrats 199, the Republicans 122, and the Independents 4—making a total of 325. Many of j the districts have chosen their Congressmen i by majoi iti* s ho small that the result in | some of them may be changed on the offi- , cial count. 1 States. Rep. Dem. Ind. i Alabama .... Arkansas 5 .... California 6 .... ; Colorado 1 Connecticut 1 3 .... Delaware I .... 1 Florida 2 .... | Georgia 10 .... Illinois 11 8 1 Indiana 4 9 .... I lowa 8 2 i 1 Kansas 7 Kentucky 1 10 .... j Louisiana 1 5 .... Maine 4 Maryland 2 4 .... j ; Massachusetts 8 3 1 ' Michigan 5 6 .... Minnesota 5 Mississippi 1 6 .... I Missouri 14 .... i Nebraska 3 I Nevada 1 .... ; New Hampshire 2 ; New Jersey 4 3 .... I New York 13 21 .... 1 North Carolina 1 8 .... Ohio 8 13 .... I ' Oregon 1 I Pennsylvania 15 13 .... I Rhode Island 2 South Carolina 1 fi .... I Tennessee 2 8 .... I Texas 1 10 .... j Vermont 2 ' Virginia 5 5 .... West Virginia 1 3 .... Wisconsin 2 fi 1 122 1 9 4 Democratic majority over republicans 77 Democratic majority over all 73 . Fusion majority over Republicans 81 TERRITORIAL DELEGATES. Arizona —Granville H. Ourv, D. Dakota—John R. Raymond, B. Idaho—George Ainslee, D. Montana—Martin Maginnis D. New M« xico—Trang nil ino Luna, R. Utah —John F. Caine, D. Washington—Thomas H. Brents, R. Wyoming—M. E Post, D. Progress of Railway Building. I The last number of the Railway Age con- ■ ; tains the io lowing regarding rai.road con--1 Btr-.iction for October: The work of adding to the railway mi cage j of the U-itc.d States still goes on with rc- | mar ab.e rapidity. Our returns for ihe ; month of October e’.ow an aggregat not muca less than that of the two preceding j mont s and indicate that the total for the year will probab y be larger than the most I liberal estimate heretofore. Summarizin' the deta ; cd sta: oment which is given below, we have a record of 1,058 mi es o new track —main lines only-added on seventy-one 1 diffe* ent lines in’th rtyof the States and ' Territories, as follows: No. I No. States. Lines. M. 1 States Lines. M. •' Arizona Ter’v.. 2 29 Minneso‘a 7 172 | i Arkansas I 53 Mississippi 1 11 Ca if rnia 2 22 Missouri 2 26 « • lorado 2 47 Montana Try... 2 62 Dakota Ter’y. fi I*l ebraska 2 8 Florida 2 21 New Hampshire..! 5! , Giorria’ 1 " IXewYork 1 25 1 IdahoTer’v....2 22 North Can lina. 1 19 Illinois 4 4.’ Ohio 4 55 I Indiana 1 26 Oregon 2 11 lowa 5 38 Pennsylvania....! 29 Kentucky 1 16 Texas 6 69 Main* 1 1 Virginia 1 HI Mai viand 1 3 West Virginia. ..! s Michigan 3 33 (Wisconsin 2 38, Total lines and miles in thirty States and Territ ries 71 Reported to Oct. 1 8,075 Total Jan. 1 to Nov. 1 293 9,141 I Adding the fi ure» for October to those previously given, we find that at least 9,143 miles of new track have been added in the ten months of 188*] just closed,: nd that the work was prosecut d on no less than 2V3dif- . ferent I nes in forty-three Stat* s and Territories, le ving only three States and one Territory—New Hampsiiire. Rh: de Island, Delaware end Wahingcon Teiritory—in w :chnotr-c laving .or the year ba? thus far been repo, tea I

SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Explosion of a Boiler in a Cleveland Iron Mill. Several Persons Killed and Many Bad'y Wounded. rrelejn’am from Cleveland, Ohfo. I A terrific explosion occurred at a little after 4 o'clock this evening in Ihe Forest City j I iron woiks, operated by At ins <t Clark, at I the union crossing, Newburg. The main | boiler of the mil suddenly exploded while , the day men were going from their work, ' killing three or four men and fatally wound- i I ing a number of others. The mill was almost entirely wrecked. One-half of the boiler i ! went through the roof end landed several j hundred yards to the north, while the other i | ha'f ven' a similar distance in an oppo- i j site < irection. Walls were blown down, { a tall smoke-stack left leaning over j ■ ready for a fall, while the dead and injure 1 | wei e scattei ed mah dire tion«. A tire al- ' most instantlv broke out. but it was soon gut under < oiitrol, and did little or no dami age. Help from Newburg and the city was j instantly summoned, and as soon as possii b!e the injured and dead were carried into ' the office of the works and car* d for. Sevi eral men are now missing, and it is not ' known whether they are dead under the : ruins, hidden in the water-course near by ! or gone to their homes without reporting j themselves. The dead and injured accounted for up to i 9 o’clock to-night are ar? follows: John Williams, the master mechanic. He i was found lying so deep in the mud i and so discolored by the earth about him that he would nob have been noticed bad not John Gallagher, an old man who lay beside him, called out: “There are two of us here.” Williams’ head was horribly crushed in and his body broken all to pieces. John Gallagher lived until 9 o’clock, when he died also. He was a piler on the guidei mill. His face was terribly bruised, his i nose torn off and his head full of holes, from which the brains oozed. As he lay on the | floor in agony his wife hurried in, and, kneeling by his side, asked: “Do you know me, John? 6 He said that he did, when she placed her hand on his face and said quietly: “Put your trust in God, call on Him and trust Him. ” He said that he would, and then begged an I I egg d to be laid on his side. He lingered in great agony until 9 o’clock, . when death put an end to his pain. Ano her man instaut'y kil ed was Sydney i D. Wright of Wyandotte, Mich., who stood beside a friend who had accompanied him 'in search of work. The whole top of his ' head was blown off. ' William Wilson, of Chicago, Wright’s ’ friend, was struck on the hip and foot by I some of the debris, thrown down and senI ously but not dangerously injured. William Atkins, a roller, stood some 200 i yards away from the boiler. He was struck I by something and cut instantly i i two, the i body going in one direction and the limbs in another. His head was mashed to a jelly I and ground into the dirt. Francis P. Bradley, a carpenter, had an arm and a leg broken and was cut in the groin and back. His case is hopeless John Mollaney, fireman, had a leg broken, and v as very severely bruised. G. H. Hanna sat on a bench beside Atkins | and was lifted by the concussion of the air, carried over the shears, and thrown on the I ground. A roll weighing two tons struck within a few feet of him. A brick struck hini on the back of the head as he was flying through the air, and rendered him insensible. The damage to mill in dollars will be several thousand. THE RR&ULAR ARMY. Points irom the Y’<-arly Report of Gen. W. T. Sin rman. The annual report ol Gen. Sherm n shows the general staff to consist of 573 officers and 1,212 enlisted men. The army prop r consists of 10 regiments of cavaby, -IJI offi . cers and 6,883 men; 5 regiments of artilh ry I 280 officers and 2,493 men; 25 regiment: of | infantry, 876 officers and 8,7.73 men; total, including unavailable men detailed at va- ! rious points, 2,165 officers and 23,024 nu n. He says the experience of the world shows that but 66 per cent, of an army is aval able for active service, and, as2s.‘<> : men me really needed for a standing army, he recoi.i ; i mends that the limit of the army be n- | cr* ased to 3 00. '1 I: ■ • iffi • r :• I the army are now, he says overworked, I i and must c ntiune so, unl“ S the num- ; j ber is increased. He rev <*w th * work’ , . of the year somewhat indela l. rrivi g . I at the conclusion that there la? be n ' a less numb r of Iniiun outbreaks in the ; i year than at any time for iwe: ty Years. | Part of this is du * to t c effi ienev of the | army, an.l pert to the advauc ment o: civ.l ; ization in the West. Th- rej ort devo es cons dcra‘»le space to the growth o the ; great West, and says that, now tli it the . ; transit on period i? pa t, it is due to the Government to select certain stra epic I po nts for permanent army post?, and en , struct comfortable build n: s on them, s » :•« ; 1 not oncer to compel the effit eis and men to I I live in holes in the ’.'round, si an ties, r j gre< n cot’on'.vdod log huts, a, h* r: totor . ' i There h v ■ be-m 1,711 trials l»y court m r a! ; during the year. He recommends a em<: i.r ; in the system of courts-martial, saying I e > ' present system was establish- d by cus oui ! 1 in the English army a hundred ye isu;o, , when the habit was’to dine at 3 o’clock m. I ger, drunk after d nn r. which habit is now, j happ Iv, done away with. The number of de.*-e t ons during Ihe ye ir | wa? 3 721, and en i-tments and re m i<tmont 7,341. Commenting on the number 1 ei des a i • he ■ ■. • ret wi.oeidstin Eastern cit and after get- | ting free transportation West desert, kn ■ , ing there wi.l ba 1 ttle ell rt to bring them ■ back or punish them. The rem-uiy, he ; thinks, is in I e ler trea’m*. nt of those who ■ stay, and moesevere punishment of do- | setters. IT ' recommends an inervas • of th*! , pay of nr n to sl6 pt r month, instead of sl3, as now. and that puuishm nt for desertion ' be made m re sevvre, even ia ! !icting capital | puni-hment in aggravated eases. a> is < me , Iby other ? ountrii s. 'The general coudi ion i of tiie army p< rsonw l has boon imp’oved, ias has the general condition of the people of the country at argThe 1 recent- rifle contests have made treat imi p ovem nts in tl;*' mari smansh-p of the ' men. and her < mm nd? an a,pioprati- n i • for continuing the w uk. lit recoinnr ni? I . the adoption of some | lan by which.’eg - : • ments and offi ers can bn given de n to ! terms in remote posts and then bealo- ed , to rct irn to the < uni-it- « f cixi i'. d . ai d their plac- sbe tak<m by others. He :e- j com men's the employment of teach is lor schools at posts, raying m* n Horn the a:my can no. be spared i’ur th s pur; o e, ; nd remark ng that as r»nv-rs i- spih* of sa e ad vice, wid marry . have families, they . ought to be provided for iu the best maun r possible. LATER ELECTION RETURNS. Later returns from Colorado cleet Judge Belford, Republican, t > Congre-s The Legislature is Rcpub ican, wh ch in urns to that party the Senator to be electe I. jhe ' entire R publican St ite t ; cket is elec ed, exi cent Governor. Returns from evt ry countv in Pern* w’v - ; nia of v-hich fifty- ix ■ re oitic a', give L’. t i--1 son. Deni ,crat. t< r Governor, 3\ K si» j lu/elity l ov-'r Beaver, Republi The Legislature of Ne vada Is ate on jo nt ' i ba’ ol Full return : fr m the K< n* tc .y r b<- nn • show that White, ii* jui 1 ;-;m ce - | to Congress n the T n ht is ric‘, thus g v g j th" li •pub: : ‘. .’”.s wo Co \g. sri :i on b.e j Coni - era ker 8 '• h ' fol v. is tee » -np> 'i m » t j i N: hra-ka L«.-guvr •: i)t* I' >■, J 14; Democia: . 1i; .'■? tv.nnp-vi Hou< \ Repu'li au\, *5; De n . . ; I An" Monopolists C'inp’ex on ot 1 li ’<• ? L’g I ;*ur : ' ; eui e, : 3 Republic ns, <J D ni>; 11 u • ” I R-'“ b cans, 'ti D 'ao rato, I led-;- n lent. - I The vol > in illino son - a«e effi - ■ Ti- s r r and Bup< rn en lent o: • nbl c In- I ‘ 6 rue ion :s v rv c esc Th * p dir ca coiap oxffin ot the Cabfor d i | L’g-iflvn c S rate. -I'nc ■■ r d?. ’2 •: •- |ru h..a;.s li gi , 3 I- :.o . ’ .. lie- ' ' publcmz—a Demccr.Vc m i.v > vi ' : t w -th rds. ’ Delaware Legislature: Senate. 8

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< i.*r , 1 Republican; House, so idly Denioj crude. Imiiau i Leg:slature: .Senate, 28Democrats. I; publicans: Home. <’.o Democrats, 46 1 R p-iudcans, 1 Greenbackcr. I i .egislu. ure: Senate, 34 Repnble.ii;, 10 Democrat-, 3 Gr enbackers; ilo s *, 76 R jmbheans, 28 Democrats, 3lnueixndeuts. In Nebraska, the Democratic candidate for State . reasurer, Sturtevant, is elected by 8, io majority, and Burke. Democrat, fa elected Regent by .2,out). Dawes, Republican candidate for Governor, has about 2,’XX) majority, The Democratic majority in the New Jerse, legislature is seven on joint ballot. Pemisv vnnii I e_ds a lure: Senate, 29 Republicans, 2i Democrats; House, liO Demo- < rat-, 9! IV pub i -ans. W scorn-in Legislature: Senate, 18 Republican-', 15 Demo ra's; Ass mblv, 44 Republirm.s, f)6 Democrats, 3 Independents. i Ravmond, Republica > candidate for Conrr -.-s in Dakota, receives nearly 25,0-0 maI i.-rily. A HUMAN HOLOCAUST. —.—; Horrible Results of a Fire in the Poor Asylum at Halifax. Tw?nty-three Women and Eight Men Consumed Almost Beyond Recognition. Awful Scenes in the Blazing Structure Among the Doomed ami Frenzied In m ales. A dispatch from Halifax, in Nova Scotia, .-says that at midnight, while all hands were sleeping, tire broke out in the bake-house, in the basement of the Poor Asylum building. Exactly how it originated is not very clear, but the smoke of the smouldering wood spread through the building into the dormitories and caused the utmost terror among four or five hundred inmates of the institution. There was no immediate danger, so the officers of the asylum did not take steps to remove the inmates. An alarm was sounde.i, and the stroke bell bad scarcely c immenced when reels were run out of the engine houses, as one or two men happened to Im? about A few people who had not retired, and others who live I in the neighborhood, ran to the buiiding. 'They found smoke issu ng from the \\ indow s all over the building, but no flames wer :to be seen. In the west wing old women and children were seen at the windo.vs, c ying to be let out, and, as they began breakinggia>B, it was feared they wou'd throw themselves to ihe ground A sturdy ax man dashed at the door leading from this wing into the yard, and with a few vigorous blows of his ax knocked it in The stairways were crowded, and out came a procession of women nursing infants, old, . .*. h aded grandmas, and feeble old man. All were s reaming, and as they reached the j fro.sli air without they ejaculated their ' thanks, and then began calling for this one and that one until all wa< a babel of confu- ' sion. Then it be.-ame known that those in iho upper wards of that wing were helpless. I Some of the Bremen and fire wardensand aldermen and clergymen, and others who ' v ere among the early arrivals, hastened up, and willing bands were soon getting the blind, halt and lame down the long wind-ng stairs. The work was a veiy slow one, but finally that wing was emptied. In the meantime the fi mes in the basein-. nt. which the Superintendent, engineer and officials were trying 10 keep under, spread to tm* l«- s» of the long air shaft < r elevator leaching bo the top of the main building. The draught here swept the Hames upward with tremend-ms force, and in as» w seconds the heaviest part of tho c nil is. ration was in the, top of the man buildi' g The story just under the eaves in th s building was used ns a hospital, and in j it were ; bout seventy patient-, most of them T ■ fine was now I fiercely burning right in the ho pital ami above it. The heat was ro intense that lead poured down irom the roof in streams of brilliant fire, and slates flew everywhere in deadly showers, rendering anv near approach to the building almost certain death. Notwithstanding this, th« re w<- hundreds standing outs de who would w idingly have entered the building if they could have found their way through I the*place. Indeed, several did o* in, hilt without guidance could do nothing in the immense building, and had to return to the yard. An attempt uas made to raise lad iers , to the windows, but the ladders were too abort, and after a fireman was knocked do • n by falling brick, and it was seen that the ! ladders even would be swept away in a few minutes, the attempt ceased The fire , burst through the roof, and the scene was one never to be forgotten. Far above the roar of the flames and j crack of burning slates were heard the cries or the wrote bed patents n the hospital, wh • wer * roa>t'ng to de th Mod of them, as b ?fo. e stated, were helpless, and could not h av ■ i h -i*. b d-, and p€rhaps were .* tided i b fore the cruel flames icaohed them, but other* wtc seen to dash tnemselvesaga nst i the windows an 1 cling tirt the sa he? till their strength was exhaust'd or their hauls burned off. and they .ell ba k into the seethi mg cal ‘ron of flames. A woman wa? seen 1 to dr; g herself to the corner window, ad, ' rorcing her body half out though the iron j bar- in she could breath ? cool air, she rein ined in that posi ion ti’l her head burned | off As far as can be a certained, th rty one i pc : ons were burned to death—eight men i and twenty t' rm- women. '! he budding wns <:<>ns*r’i t*d in I*6l It < c I and was i:i-o.ie<l lor S'>b,<X4). SHIPWRECK. The Steamer Westphalia Sinks an Unknown Steamship Off Portsmouth. Nothing Seen of the Unknown Steamer, and Not a Soul Saved. [London Cablegram.! The steam* r Westphalia, of the HamburgAmerican line, from New York Nov. 2 for Hamburg via Plymouth, has put into Portsmouth with a hole in her port bow received by collision with an unknown steamer off Beachy Head early this m riling. A boat lower-<1 fi -n the We.stpl’.alia to search for I the other steamer is missing. It is be .eved tint the miss n i steamer has gone to the bo.tom with al! on board, and also the missing b at of the Westphalia, which contained im offi er and six men The officers of th< Westphalia report that it was iut n«cly dark at th time of the collision, with a h'-avy sen. The collision occurred nt 2o’cl< ck m the nv rning. The m filing s -ame. was bark iE g *.I and no? seen after the tolli n ‘ apt. Ludwig, ot the Westphalia, uimedine y di-patched a boa* to trv to lind her. II- then made ready ah t i other b .at**, in ihe event of water gain ng on the V’. vst j ha'ia AH the pumps wer ■ kep going without nte m ; B ion. Th * rea ls a d nin ty pus* iv/ers landed at T ri-rnnrh thi - aft rnoon and will be o; vanDd to the r d.s inntions at the « rl t : ' *;i ’> mo re g. Th Westphalia ic n moore i ? >p s de the dock card and k« j t nr o v a eric ber purap.v The cargo is n t great v-I m tg-'d. Gr-'a* pra se is ac-cut-.h n pt Lu g. < flic i> -ni crew, for co Ine d i - .ru*- fmn the moment of the cold'i m i here was a very heavy «#»a o ad it wo* to dark to sec the ship's \ tength. locrr r: itsoxs drowned. •’sn-nn- .pAn < ic;. plving . tla a».d Hull, li-s to in-ie.i <*d in the North ■ : oa. and forty persons drowned. A SEA-rritTLi weighing SOO pounds was decently < aptnml in a weir off’ Cape C l the large, t evei taken in Uuse waters.