Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Eaati The thriving man afactaring town of Haverhill, Mass., has been visited by a most destructive conflagration. Eighty-two shoe and leather firms, representing 02,500,000, were swept out of existence, and 2,000 people thrown • out of work. The blaze originated in a frame building used as a leather store. AdjoinirA buildings were also of wood, and a brisk wind from the north carried the burning wood for blooks. The bursting of some hose in the early stages of the fire also served to hamper the firemen. One national bank and two savings banks were destroyed, two persons are known to have perished, and eighteen families were rendered homeless. The insurance is light in proportion to the losses. The Albion print works, in Philadelphia, and the stocks of several firms in the same building, were swept away by fire. A charred corpse was found on the second floor. The loss foots up $150,000. By the burning of the east wing of the insane asylum at Flatbush, L. L, one patient was suffocated and three escaped from custody. Arthur Lucas, a Freshman at Dart - mouth College, who was to speak at a class supper in Montreal, wao abducted to White River Junction and locked up by Sophomores, regaining his liberty by promising not tg reveal the names of the offenders.

There is an alarming increase in malignant scarlet fever in New York city. The deaths in 1880 were 618, and last year were 1,964. The deaths for the first seven weeks of this yoar were 670. William Phoenix, of Malden, Mass., went home late at night, and, not finding anything olse to eat, partook freely of poisoned fish, which his wife had placed in a mealbox to kill rats, and died from the effects next morning. West, The Mayor of Chicago, spurred by attacks of the press and pulpit, has determined upon a war of extermination agaiust the gamblers and criminals of Chicago. A committee, representing the exConfederate soldiers of Cincinnati, visited Mrs. Garfield at Cleveland, and presented a memo rial tribute to the late President, in tho form of engrossed resolutions framed in Tennessee marble. The widow and mother .of the chief magistrate were both deeply affected. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held in Farwell Hall, Chicago, by the people of that city who favor the suppression of Mormonism. Judge Caton presided and made an address. Oiher speakers were Thos. W. Smith, son of Joe Smith, the original Mormon . prophet, the Rev. l)r. Thomas; Bishop Fallows, and the Hon. John Wentworth. Anti-Mormon meetings were also held in various other cities, at which resolutions were passed asking Congross to put a stop to the evil. The report of the Chicago and Alton road for 1881 shows 1,075 miles of track, $26,523,822 in stock and bonds, $7,537,740 in gross earnings, and a net revenue of 11.3 per cent on all the capital stock. The company owns 213 locomotives, 124 coaches, and 6,043 freight cars. One of the boilers in the Vnlcan steel works in South St Louis exploded, fatally injuring four men. Soutla. Gov. Cameron, at the head of the Virginia navy, captured in the Rappahannock u whole oyster fleet consisting of six scheoners and one sloop, and made prisoners the crews—-sixty-one men. Eighteen shots were fired through the rigging of one of the schooners, and she was chased thirty-five miles toward the eapes of Virginia before brought to. A terrible tragedy occurred near Centreville, Texas, in which two negroes named Hall were killed and their wives mortally wounded. It appears the negroes, who were riding along the road in a wagon, had some trouble with a child of a white man named Lyle. The child ran home, told Its father about the affair, and the latter, taking a shotgun, concealed himself by the roadside. Shortly after the negroes drove by, and Lyle fired upon them from his ambush, almost blowing the heads off the men and fatally wounding the women. The murderer fled, but officers started in pursuit. Certain land-owners in Florida and Texas have offered to donate land to Jewish refugees. Rev. G. O. Barnes, the mountain evangelist of Kentucky, claims 2,473 conversions as the result of seven weeks' work in Louisvil’e, and the restoration to health of nearly as many more by the prayer oure. New Orleans was favored with fine weather for the Mardi-Gras festivities. The day procession was over two miles in length, and comprised fifty-five cars. The pageant of the Krewe of Comus' in the evening filled twenty cars, illustrating the religions of the world, and 25,000 invitations to the King’s bal l were issued. A blood-curdling tragedy was enacted at a barn-raising in Rowan county, N. C. John Held and Peter Joseph, two of the workmen upon the building, got into a quarrel, and Held threw an ax at Joseph, the keen blade literally splitting his head in two, Boattering his brains and killing him instantly. As Held threw the ax he lost his foothold and fell down from the building, breaking his neck. Three men were on the ground at the time—James Cephas, Richard Wiley and Ned Blandford —engaged in raising a heaver log. They became so much excited at the tragedies they had just witnessed that Cephas lost his hold on the log and caused it to fall. As it came down it canght Wiley and crashed his abdomen, inflicting injuries from which he died.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Charles H. Reed still clings to the belief that Guiteau is ibsane. He hits recently received a number of letters from him, which he regards as the effusions of a lunatic, and he believes that they will Strike the publio in the same way. __ _ ' - - The Grand Jury-at Washington has indioted twelve persons for conspiracy in the star-route cases, among them being Brady, the Dorseys, John W. Miner and Capt W. H. Turner. The Director of the Mint decides that coin which has. been mutilated cannot be restored to its position as coin by merely tilling np the holes made.. It cannot become mmey again, properly speaking, without being recoined. ' r '• , . A. 0. Soteldo has .been indicted for in kiHing'his own and for deadly assault on Clarence M. Barton. - The Honse Committee on Territories has agreed to the Mil-to divide Dakota and make a Territory of the northern sedabh/ A Washington correspondent i bmb : “A feeling -tt prevalent among the ßed&bn th»t the-President will not now malar i nge in the Secretaryshipyif the Interior. It is be-

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lieved that at one time he decided to put Sargefit ia the place, but could not owing to the feet that a, heavy case in which he was interested was pending. This caused eo much procrastination that it is thought he will probably keep in Kirkwood. The House Committee on Coinage have agreed upon a bill providing that the silver coin of the United States shall be a dollar, half dollar, quarter dollar, and dime; the dollar : to contain 412% grains of standard silver, and to be the unit of value. Holders of gold or silver bullion may deposit the same at any subtreasury, branch mint or assay office, and receive the market value thereof in silver certificates of not less than $5 and of corresponding denominations with national-bank notes. These shall be receivable for customs dnties and in-ternal-revenue taxes, but shall not be legal tender for other obligations. Ex-Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, has, it is reported, the refusal of the Mexican Mission. Gen. Rucker has been retired from the army, and Gen. Rafns Ingalls appointed as Quartermaster General.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres, dated Jan. 24, says particulars have been received there of the massacre of the inhabitants of Pisco by the Peruvian soldiery. CoL Mas, with COO iroops from lea, attacked Villavaoentio, routed him, and with the aid of his men proceeded to sack Pisco. A thousand pipes of wine were distributed among the men, who burned the houses and murdered the inhabitants. Four hundred foreigners resisted and were cut to pieces, 300 being killed, including the French Consul. The total number of the victims was 1,000. It is said CoL Mas has shot by Garcia Calderon’s troops. Pisco river flows into the Pacific 130 miles south of Lima, and the town of Pisco is situated at the mouth of the stream. Immigrants are coming to America in mighty droves. A New York telegram says: Tho arrivals at this port thus far this year show an increase of 6,000 over tho number landed in the same time last year. In January, 1881, the number landed was 8,082. Last month the arrivals numbered 11,212. In February, 1881, the number landed was 9,353, and thus far this month the number is 9,575, and the total for the month will probably foot up between 16,000 and 17,000. Everything points to a large increase in immigration this year. It is probable we shall have more than 500,000 immigrants at this port this year, which will be an increase of 60,000 over the figures reported last year. Since the Ist of January last twentysix persons have been killed and scores of others injured by exploding boilers in various parts of the country. Envoy Trescott has taken a house in Chili for six months. The Erie road has decided to doubletrack its line west of Horuellsville, thus perfecting its system and averting the danger of a dividend. The President and Cabinet have, it is semi-officially announced from Washington, decided in favor of the restoration of Fitz-John Porter to the army. The only question in connection with the case that is undecided is as to Porter’s back pay. When cashiered he held tho rank of Colonel of the regular army and Major General of volunteers. The question is now whether Lis back pay as Major General would accrue to him up to the time when he is reinstated, or wh< ther it would terminate in 1866, when other Major Generals were mustered out of service* This question is referred to the Attorney General for his opinion. The President will nominate Porter as Colenel of infantry to fill the first vancancy, and Porter will probably ask to he retired. Mr. Vanderbilt says Maud S. will be taken to New York and driven on the road in double or single harness. She is 8 years old, and leaves the turf with a record of 2:10%. Three hundred and twenty-five Russian Jews arrived at Philadelphia, and were received by a committee appointed for the purpose. Most of them are very poor, but will be provided for until they can find places to settle.

POLITICAL POINTS. A call has been issued for a national convention of the Union National Greenback party at St. Louis on the Bth of March. The reform element in Philadelphia politics won a sweeping victory at the election last week. The Tammany members of the New York Legislature are voting with the Republicans. The Greenbackers of Indiana held a State convention at Indianapolis, 300 delegates bemg in attendance. Hon. Gilbert Do La Matyr presided. Hiram Z. Leonard, of Cass county, was nominated for Secretary of State; J. N. Armentrout, for Auditor; John Studebaker, for Treasurer ; M. W. Lee, for Attorney General; Carlton Ball, for Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Jared Baiter, for Clerk of the Supreme Court It is rumored that Samuel J. Tilden has written to ex-Gov. John M. Palmer, of Illinois, that he has been requested to be a candidate for the Presidency in 1884, and wUI consent on condition that Gov. Palmer will run as Vice President.

rOREIGN NEWS. The Herzegovinian rebels have been successfully resisting the Austrian troops. Michael Davitt has been elected to Parliament for Meath, to succeed A. M. Sullivan. Rouzeaud, the husband of Christine Nilsson, who became insane over the recent financial crisis in Paris, died in an asylum. In the British House of Commons, after the defeat of a motion to order a new election, Bradlaugh took the oath, signed the roll and declared that he would take his seat The Speaker ordered him to withdraw below the bar, and he obeyed. Lord Churohill moved that a writ issue for a new election. During the debate Bradlaugh passed the bar and took a seat, whereupon Northcote moved his expulsion for contempt of the House, the vote standing 291 to 83. Bradlaugh then left, and & new writ was issued.

Among the fast runs made by trains running out of London are the following: Great Western (Swindon 77J), 87 minutes, no stoppage; Great Northern (Peterboro 76J), 90 minutes, no stoppage; Northwestern (Rugby 82f), 110 minutes, one minute stoppage ; Midland (Kettering 72), 91 minutes, no stoppage; Southwestern (Salisbury 81£), 121 minutes, three minutes stoppage; Great Eastern (Stowmarket 80f), 124 minutes, five minutes stoppage. Gbapes are sent from the Crimea to St. Petersburg packed in sealed pots with kiln-dried grain between the bunches, and they keep through the year.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1882.

LATER NEWS ITEMS. Maj. Hicks, a colored man, was executed in the jail at Covington, Ky., for the murder of Henry Williams. Two murderers, both Mexicans, were strong up at Austin, Texas. White Brown, colored, was executed at Pine Bluff, Ark. Dr. J. N. Brandon, of Caneyville, Ky., confirmed on his death-bed that he was one of the three fiends who caused the burning to death of Wiley Embry and six children last year. The flint-glass manufactory of Hobbs, Brockmier & Co., at Wheeling, W. Va., one of the largest in the United States, was destroyed by fire. The auditing committee on the expenses attending the illness of President Garfield are reported to have agreed upon the following recommendations: Dr. BUm $25,000 Dr. Agnew 15,000 Dr. Hamilton : 15,000 Dr. Bey burn 10,000 Dr. Boynton 10,000 Mrs. Dr. Edson 5,0J0 Mr. Crump, Steward of the Executive Mansion 3,000 The other employes at the Executive Mansion to be allowed two months' extra pay. The committee will also recommend that Surgeon General Barnes be made a Major General and placed on the retired list of the army, and that Assistant Surgeon General Woodward be pro* moted from Major in the army to Lieutenant Colonel, with the rank and pay of the latter office. They will recommend that Mrs. Garfield be allowed the remainder of the year’s salary of her hnsband as President. The committee is not unanimous on these recommendations. It is understood that Messrs. Blackburn and Springer will bring in a minority report.

Four tribes on the frontier of Tripoli burned the city of Hammah. A terrible storm has impeded operations against the Herzegovina insurgents. The English Court of Appeals has decided against Bradlaugfi in his application for a new triaL The French Minister at Guatemala has asked for a man-of-war to press recognition of his grievances. The House of Lords, having nothing better to do, and suffering under a chronic disposition to annoy Mr. Gladstone, has appointed a committee of fifteen Peers to inquire into the workings of the Irish land act. Jolrn N. Starin is set up as the coming Stalwart gubernatorial candidate for New York. The House Election Committee refuses to recognize the claim of either Campbell or Cannon to the seat for Utah, but declare the same vacant. The House Committee on Elections agreed by a two-thirds vote to report that Campbell was not elected as Delegate from Utah, that Cannon is not entitled to a seat, and that a vacancy exists in the representation of Utah. A snow-slide in Big Cottonwood canon, Utah, buried William C. l’eckett, a wood-chop-per, his wife and five children. Troy, N. Y., has a little gill, aged 11, who is an expert safe-robber. A large quantity of jewelry was found at her home, the result of her thievish skill. A story comes from Qubec, via New York, that a scheme is under discussion for the removal of the Pope from Rome to the shores of the St Lawrence,

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

The Senate held no session on the 18th. The House took up the Immediate-Deficiency bill, which appropriates $1,822,983. Mr. Singleton resented charges of extravagance brought against the Printing Committee of tne last congress. In regard to the clause for additional vaults in the treasuries, Mr. Hewitt characterized the silver dollar as a fraud, while Messrs. Stephens and Marsh declared it the true unit of value. The bill passed by 155 to 26.

Mr. Hale made a favorable report in the Senate, Feb. 20, on the House Apportionment bill, but objection to its immediate consideration was made. Mr. Saunders introduced a bill to improve the navigation of the Missouri river, and Mr. Windom a measure for the erection of a public building at Duluth. Mr. Call offered a resolution favoring a congress of representatives of the American republics to settle the controversy between Chili and Peru. Mr. Logan callod up the bill to place Gen. Grant on the retired list, favoring the measure on its merits. Mr. Vest objected that Grant was rich and the precedent would be a bad one. Mr. Butler said Grant had not asked for retirement, and would reap no honor by the measure. Mr. Logau repiied that the act would be appreciated by the beneficiary, and the bill would soon be pressed to a vote. Iu the House Mr. Hewitt rose to a question of privilege to announce that the u.->e of his name iu connection with the Peruvian company was entirely unauthorized. A bill was passed to authorize the loan of tents for a soldiers’ reunion at Grand Island, Neb. Bills were introduced : To provide for tho redemption of defaced silver coins at face value; for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi near St. Louis ; to force the use of material from the same State in the construction of public buildings at any point, and to transfer to a PUiladelplua association 100 condemned cannon for an equestrian statue of President Garfield. A bill was passed to refund duties paid on certain copies of the revised Testament, as also one to promote the efficiency of the life-saving service, and another to refund to Japan $1,770,340 of the indemnity fund.

Mr. Dawes presented a petition in the Senate, on the 21st, in behalf of the Indian tribes, and called attention to the fact that 100,000 citizens of influence had signed similar appeals." Mr. .Plumb favored less sentimentality, and hoped to see the relations of the Government to the Indians placed on a practical basis. The House Apportionment bill was passed. Mr. McMillan introduced an act to. set apart a portion of Montana for certain Indian tribes, and to pay each $50,000 per annum for ten years. The resolution that the Arrears of Pensions law should be repealed was tabled by 26 to 23. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed John C. New as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, P. B. S. Pinchback as Surveyor of Customs at New Orleans, and W. Q. Frye as Consul General at Halifax. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution that the Secretary of the Interior report the gross and net earnings of the roads now comprised in the Union and Central Pacific lines since the commencement of operations. In committee of the whole on the Postoffice Appropriation, an amendment was agreed to that mails shall be carried on the fastest trains without extra charge, under penalty of a loss of half the compensation. Mr. Singleton was defeated in an effort to secure steamboat mailservice throughout the season of navigation between St. Louis and St. Paul. It was agreed that not more than $25,000 per year should be paid to the St. Louis Bridge Company. The bill to retire Gen. Grant came np in the Senate Feb. 23. Mr. Bayard moved to amend by providing for the payment of a quarter salary to each ex-President for life, but it was rejected. It was agreed that the proposed retirement shall be additional to the number authorized by law. The bill then passed, by 35 to 17, David Davis and four Southern Senators voting for the measure. This will give Gen. Grant $12,500 per year for life. Mr. Harris presented a memorial frpm the cotton exchange of Memphis, stating the danger to the river front from the encroachments of the Mississippi. Mr. George introduced a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to issue rations for the relief of the laboring classes in the overflowed region between Mem- • phis and Vicksburg. An appropriation of SIOO,OOO was quickly passed. In the House Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill for the relief of sufferers by the overflow of the Missis-

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

sippl, and an appropriation of SIOO,OOO was railroaded through, un committee of the whole the postoffice appropriation was taken np. It was resolved that no contractor shall be released until a bond has been made by the sub-contractor. A proposition to increase to $1,800,000 the amount set aside for postal clerks was rejected, as was also an amendment increasing by SBOO,OOO the appropriation for rsute agents. A resolution offered by Mr. Davis was adopted by the Senate, on the 24th, to inquire into the expediency of giving to States and Terri* tories more aid in organizing their militia. Mr" Bayard introduced a resolution that the Committee on Foreign Relations inquire into the charge that persons officially connected with the Government of the United States have promised intervention in the controversies in South America in connection with gnano contracts. A lengthy discussion took place on the bill to restore Mark Walker to an army Lieutenancy from which he was dismissed for drunkenness, it being finally recommitted. Mr. Van Wyck spoke on the necessity for an investigation of alleged fruds in the townshipsurvey system. The Immediate Deficiency Appropriation bill was passed. When the nomination of ex-Senator Conkling as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court was read in executive session, this afternoon, a motion was made to take it np for immediate confirmation. Senator Hoar thereupon took the floor, and warmly said that, while he conceded Conkhng’s freat abilities, and that no man since Webster ad surpassed him in intellectual force, he believed Conkling had used his powers for bad purposes, and he did not believe him honest. ‘•His elevation to the Supreme bench.” said Mr. Hoar, with great excitement of manner, and pounding his desk with emphasis, “would be a disgrace to the judicial ermine and he therefore interposed objection to present consideration of the nomination, and insisted that it should take the regular course of reference to the Judiciary Committee. Senator Ingalls made a short speech defending Mr. Conkling in a measure, as also did Senator Teller. Senator Teller said that, whatever might be said about Mr. ConkliDg, no one could say he was a corrupt man. A single objection being sufficient to prevent immediate consideration, the nomination was accordingly referred to that committee under the rules, without opportunity for debate or any reply to Mr. Hoar’s remarks. The nomination of ex-Senator Sargent as Minister to Germany was then referred to the Committee on fioreign Relations, under objection to its immediate consideration, which was - interposed by Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, understood to be friendly both to him and Cottkling, but who desired to prevent the appearance of any distinction between the cases of the two ex-Senators. The House adopted a resolution that the Committee on Foreign Affairs inquire into the allegation that certain papers connected with the] Chili-Peru-vian correspondence, whieh are supposed to show the improper co anection of one or more Ministers of the United States with business transactions for which intervention was expected, have been lost or removed from the files of the State Department. Bills were passed to retire William P. Chambliss with the rank of Major, and Carlisle Boyd with the rank of Captain, and to grant arrears of pension to the widow of Maj. Gen. Alexander Hays.

THE SOUTH AMERICAN COMPLICATION.

The effort of the House of Representatives to get to the bottom of the gigantic scheme of the “Peruvian Company,” to use the American Government as a means of “gobbling” Peru, lias not yet proved successful. Government has laid before the House “complete transcripts ” of the letters indicated in the resolution of request of the 6th inst., and has also supplied the suppressed parts of the letters previously laid before the House. Most of the letters furnished were written by the chief of the Peru speculators—Mr. Jacob R. Shipherd—to Minister Hurlbut. They are epistles of a most extraordinary character. They represent Shipherd, in his character of chief agent of the Peruvian Company, as having the most intimate and confidental relations to a large number of distinguished public men ana great capitalists. Among the former were U. 8. Grant. John Sherman, J. D. Cameron, Roscoe Conkling, Senator Blair, Senator Eugene Hale, Senator Dawes, Collector Robertson, ex-Senator Eaton, George S. Boutwell, Scott Lord, A. S. Hewitt and Marshall Jewell. Among the latter were E. D. Morgan, Hugh McCullough, W. H. Vanderbilt, W. L. Scott, Sidney Dillon, W. W. Astor, Howard Crosby, and fifteen or twenty other notable capitalists, bankers, etc. It is not represented that all these persons stood in the relation of share-owners, or as having any direct interest in the Peruvian Company, but that such of them as were not were expected to become interested. It was by their enlistment that the Peruvian Company was to be made “strong in its personnel,” as the great projector wrote to Marshall JewelL It appears to have been thought essential that the great Peruvian Company should be not only “strong in its personnel,” but strong also in the number of its newspaper organs, of which it was to have had one in Chicago, oue in Cincinnati and two in New York.

The conspicuous meu who are represented as being drawn into the scheme, by an interest of some sort, are George S. Boutwell, Senator Blair, Scott Lord, ex-Senator Eaton, U. S. Grant and Roscoe Conkling, For the satisfaction of Mr. Hurlbut, who probably had expressed doubt of the respectability of the Peruvian Company, Shipherd informed him that “ our staff of counsel ” included the above-flamed gentlemen. Boutwell “has prepared a conclusive brief in support of all our demands.” Blair is “the intermediary between the Secretary [of State] and myself when lam away from Washington.” The special office of Grant seems to have been that of guide, philosopher and friend. “ Most radical suggestions of policy as yet suggested have the hearty autograph approval of Gen. Grant, who is now one of us. The significance of this you need no aid from me to estimate.” Judge Lord had also prepared a brief for the company, in which “ Boutwell concurs and Eaton substantially concurs.” What active service the other members of the “ staff of counsel” performed does not appear. minister Morton’s Name Involved. A Washington dispatch says : There are daily new developments in the South American complication. Some days since there was published, from advance sheets of the Chili-Peru corresoondence, a letter from Levi J?. Morton, United States Minister to France, from which it appeared not only.that Mr. Morton was very anxious that Peru should not be dismembered, but was conferring with President Gfevy with a view to a possible upion between France and the United States to protect the respective interests of French and American citizens in Peru. This letter of Minister Morton bears date Aug. 11, 1881. Mr. Blaine, in reply, -rejected any entangling alliance with a European power. It appears that ten days after Minister Morton had sent his letter to Mr. Blaine, the firm of Morton, Bliss & Oo. r of which Minister Morton is the senior and chief mornber, entered into a contract,, in the city of Paris, France, with Pedro, Louis and Henry Gantreau, of Paris, the representatives of the Societe Generate de Credit Industrial et Commercial, for the sale of the guano and nitrates ceded to this company by the Peruvian Government. This contract was negotiated through Robert E. Randall, of Philadelpliia, brother of the ex-Speaker. It provides, in substance, that Morton, Bliss <fc Co. shall become agents of this French company for the sale of the nitrates and guano ceded to that company by the Peruvian Government. For this service Morton, Bliss & Co. are to receive a commission of 5 per cent. It is needless to sav that unless Minister Morton can explain this extraordinary contract with his firm, the Emma Mine scandal is likely to prove insignificant in comparison with the gnano-ni-trate contract of the United States Minister to France. >• .

And He Sat.

He sat at her feet in quiet peace. He‘ looked into her face and said softly: “Ah, dear, I could sit hare forever.” “Could you, love?” answered she.*" “Yes, Sweet.” “You are right sure you could, darling?” “I know it, myi own.” “ Very well, then, you sit there, for I have an engagement to go out with young Mr. Fitzspooner, and I won’t be back this evening. Turn down the ggs and fasten the nigh Match when you go away. Ta, ta, dear.” And she went out, leaving him in an awful solitude of

her goneness and his bitter disappointment.—Steubenville He* aid.

NEW APPORTIONMENT.

Text ol tl»e BUI Panned by Congreas. The text, of the Apportionment Ml, as it passed both Houses of Congress, is as follows:. Be it enacted, etc.. That after the Sd of March, 1883, the House of Representatives ah all be composed of 825 members, to be apportioned among the several States as follows s Alabama .*..".... 8 Missirslppi 7 Arkansas. 5 Missouri ...14 California. 6 Nebraska , 3 Colorado 1 Nevada 1 Connecticut 4 New Hampshire 2 Delaware, 1 New Jersey 7 Florida 2 New York .35 Georgia 10 North Carolina 9 Illinois 20 Ohio 21 Indiana...; 13 Oregon.. 1 lowa 11 Peauayl vania 28 yanaaa 7 Rhode Island 2 Kentucky 11 South Carolina 7 L0ui5iana.............. 6 Tennessee 10 Maine 4jTex»s 11 'Maryland 6 Vermont 2 Masaachuaetta 12 Virginia. 10 Michigan 11 West Virginia 4 Minnesota. 5 Wisconsin 9 Sec. 2. That whenever a new State is admitted to the Union the Representative or Representatives assigned it shall be in addition to the number of 325. Seo. 8. That in each State entitled under this apportionment the number of Representatives to which snch State may be entitled in the Forty eighth and each subsequent Congress shall be electfed by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing as nearly as may be an eqnal number of inhabitants, and equal in number to the Representatives to which' snch State may be entitled in Congress, no one district electing more than one Representative ; provided that unless the Legislature of such State shall otherwise provide, before the election of such Representatives shall take place, as provided by law, where no change shall be hereby made in the representation of a State, the Representatives thereof to the Forty-eighth Congress shall be elected therein as now provided by law. If the- number as hereby provided for shall be larger than it was before this change, then an additional Representative .or Representatives allowed to said State under this apportionment may be elected by the State at large, and the other Representatives to which the State is entitled by districts, as now prescribed by law in snch State; and if the Dumber hereby provided for shall in any State be less than it was before the change hereby made, then the whole number to such State hereby provided for shall be elected at large, unless the Legislatures of said States have provided or shall otherwise provide before the time fixed by law for the next election of Representatives therein. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Tremendous Rain-Storm.

A rain-storm unprecedented in its widespread area and disastrous effects swept over the West, beginning about the 18th of February and ending about the 22d. The storm, it seems, began away out in Texas, and moved slowly northward, completely inundating the country as it progressed. At St. Louis we hear the first serious results of the deluge. For nearly forty hours it poured down a steady torrent, the rain-fall in that time reaching the extraordinary average of seven inches. All the water feeders of the Mississippi, in a large region of which St. Louis formed tho center, were soon raging torrents, and the Father ol Waters itself soon began to swell its volume 'at an astonishing rate. For twenty-four hours the great rivei rose at the extraordinary rapidity of six inches an hour. The levee was covered with large piles oljmerchandise, and all the available help in the city was called thither to remove the goods from the threatened danger, but with only partial success. A large amount of merchandise was swamped by tne waters and either swept away or seriously' damaged. The loss wili amount to many thousands of dollars. At Cincinnati and Louisville similar scenes were witnessed and similar losses are recorded. The Ohio river, swollen by the numerous tributaries, oveiflowed its banks in an incredibly short time, sweeping away hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property, and business of every kind was completely paralyzed for the time being. At Cinciunatiall the rolling mills and foundries stopped work, and nearly all ttio factories located near tho river. In the foundries the damage is very serious, for the reason that it will require at least sixty days to dry out the molding floors and get them into proper condition for use again. Throughout Missouri, Central Illinois and Central and Southern Indiana the disastrous effects of the storm were felt. All the rivers, creeks and rivulets were flooded, and. Spreading over the adjacent country, swept away fences, and damaged the growing wheat. The losses throughout the West will reach into the millions. At New Albany, Ind., the damage was very great. All the shops and factories along the river were forced to suspend. Jeffersonville, Evansville and other points along the Ohio river also sustained serious damage from the -flood. Railroad traffic at many points in Illinois and Indiana was partially abandoned through the destruction of bridges. Along the Lower Mississippi immense damage has been produced by the breaking of the levees and the inundation of vast areas of country, and planters are enduring great hardship from the loss of live stock by drowning. The city of Helena, Ark., was completely drowned -out. The greater portion of the town was several feet under water and the streets were navigated in skiffs. Serious loss of life is reported in connection with the storm. At Paducah, Ky., five persons who lived on a flatboat were drowned, as was also a man named Little, who went oat in a skiff to their rescue. Near Helena, Ark., six children' were drowned on the plantation of tho late CoL Ellis. Chas. Washington, colored, when he found that the plantation would be overflowed, pnt his wife and six children in a dugout to take them to a place of safety. He had just started when the dugout capsized. AH the children were drowned. Washington and wife were saved by clinging to tho capsized boat. A man, named Green, was drowned near Helena, by the capsizing of a small boat. Near Carlinville, UL, two young man named Rhodes were in a house when the creek rose so rapidly that they were surrounded by water, and they attempted to escape, when one of the boys was drowned. The other managed to climb into a tree, and staid there all night in a snow-storm.

The Flood In the Lower MississippiAn Awful inundation.

Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 23. A deplorable condition of affairs exists throughout the Lower Mississippi valley. Thon sands of men are on constant guard along tl e levees between here and Vicksburg, using every possible means to strengthen their power of resistance and elevate their crests, to prevent the water from inundating the whole country. Washington, Issaquena, Bolivar, Coahoma and Tufllca counties, Miss., and', in fact, the whole shore line between Memphis and Vicksburg on the Mississippi side, and the whole eastern shore of Arkansas, are either under water or threatened with inundation. The inhabitants of a vast area of country are in great distress. Many have been forced from their houses, and are subsisting the best they may on rafts, and some on knolls or parts of the old levees. The destruction of live stock is beyond calculation. The waste of property by the great submersion is outside the limit of present computation. Navigation of the river itself is regarded by steamboatmen as dangerous at its present stage on account of the great expanse of water m many localities and the billowy character of the waves when the surface is swept by heavy gusts of wind. Between Cairo and Memphis the following points of land are only visible above a surging flood : the bluffs at Columbus, the bills back of Hickman, land on the Tennessee side opposite Island 10, New Madrid, Point Pleasant, Tiptonville, Fulton bluffs, Randolph, Richardson’s, Islands 35 and 36 'and Dean’s island, above the head of the Centennial cut-off, forty-miles above Memphis. Gov. Lowry, of Mississippi, has appealed to the people of Memphis and other cities for aid. A sad accident occurred on the Tyronza, a small bayou, which empties into the St. Francis river about twenty mnes above Madison, Ark. Se high water had overflowed lands belongto a Mr. Jamison, and, while engaged in removing his wife and six children to a place of safety on the high lands, the dugont which contained them capsized, drowning all the children, two of whom were grown young ladies, the remaining four being aged from 6 to 14 years. Jamison saved his wife, but could render no assistance to the drowning children.

LETTER OF GEORGE ELIOT.

To a Critic or Her “Daniel Deroada.” [From the Atheneam.j We owe the opportunity of publishing the following letter to the courtesy of Professor D. Kaufman, to whom it was addressed. Professor Kautfman is well known by his remarks on “ Daniel Deronda,” and it will be seen that his criticisms attracted the notice of the novelist, and led her to writing to him : The Pbioby, 21 Noeth Bank, 1 May 31, -1877. f Mr Deab Sib— Hardly, since I became an author, have I had a deeper satisfaction, I may say a more heartfelt joy, than ; you have given your estimate of * Darnel Deronda.” . I must tell you that it is my rule, very strictly observed, not to read the criticisms on my writings. For year* I have found this abstinence necessary to preserve me from tnat discouragement as an artist which ul-jndgea praise, no less than ill-judged blame, tends to produce in me. For far worse than any verdict as to the proportion of good and evil in onr work is the painful impression that we write for a publio which has no discernment of good and evil. , ... My husband reads any notices of me tnat com- s before him, and reports to mo (or else refrains from reporting) the general character of the notice, or something in particular whicn strikes him as showing either an exceptional insight or an obtuseness that is gross enough to be amusing. Very rarely, when he has read a critique of me, he has handed it to me, saying, “You must read this.” And your estimate of “Daniel Deronda” made one of these rare instances. , . Certainly, if I had been asked to choo; e what should be written about my book and who should write it, I should have sketched well, not anything so good as what you have written, but an article which must be written t>y a jew who showed not merely sympathy with the best aspirations of his race, but a remarkable insight into the nature of art and the processes of the artistic mind. Believe me I should not have cared to devour even ardeut praise if it had not come from one who showed the discriminating sensibility, the perfect to the artists' intention, which must make the fullest, rarest joy to one who works from inward conviction, and not in compliance witn current fashions. Snch a response holds for an author not only what is best in “ the life that now is,” hut the promise of that “ which is to come.” I mean that tne usual approximative, narrow perception of what one lias been intending and professedly feeling in one s work, impresses one with the sense that it must be poor, perishable stuff without roots, to take any lasting hold in the minds of men ; while any instance of complete comprehension encourages one to hope that the creative prompting has foreshadowed, and will continue to Satisfy, a need in other minds. Excuse me that I write imperfectly, and perhaps dimly, what I have felt in reading your article, ft has affected me deeply, and though the' prejudice and ignorant obtuseness which has met my effort to contribute something to the ennobling of Judaism in the conception of the Christian community and in the consciousness of the Jewish community, has never for a moment made me repent my choice, but rather has been added proof to me that the effort was needed—yet I confess that I had an unsatisfied hunger for certain signs of sympathetic discernment, which you only have given. I may mention as one instance your clear perception of the relation between the presentation of the Jewish element and those of English social life. I work under the pressure of small hurries ; for we are just moving into the couutry for the summer and all things are in a vagrant condition around me. But I wish not to defer answering your letter to an uncertain opportunity. * * * My husband has said more than once that he feels grateful to you. For he is more sensitive on my behalf than on his own. Hence he unites with me in the assurance of the high regard with which I remain always

yours faithfully.

Acquisitiveness.

In the introduction to his pamphlet on “How to Grow Rich,” Dr. Bland gives the following definition and analysis of this organ : “ The faculty of acquisitiveness is common to brute and man. It is not an intellectual faculty, but a selfish instinct. Its office is to desire, covet, long for, grasp, appropriate anything, everything that can in any way minister to the physical nature. It is a legitimate organ, whose functions are necessary to the continued existence alike of the insect,, the animal and the human being. It is devoid of moral sense, as well as intellectual perception, hence it has no recognition of the rights of property, nor any knowledge of how to get what it desires, nor yet any idea of the re’ative value of things. It is simply the instinct of acquisitiveness. It is the controlling faculty in each. The insect aud the brute having no other than a sensuous existence, their wants are limited to food and shelter. Man, while allied to the animal kingdom, on the sensuous plane, is lifted infinitely above it by the fact of his being endowed with reason, and crowned with moral sense and spiritual aspirations. By means of his superior intellect, man is able to subjugate the earth and all its forces, compelling it to yield its fruits sud treasures in rich and varied abundance to supply his needs and gratify his desires. Through the guidiDg wisdom of his moral faculties he recognizes the brotherhood of man and the equality of the race, the foundation of the principles of justice. ” Accepting these propositions as correct, it is clear that the-man whose life is spent in the service of acquisitiveness is simply an intellectual brute. —Phrenological Journal.

A Newport Speculation.

In 1850 Wm. Beach Lawrence purchased of George Armstrong and others the Ochre Point property, sixty acres, for $12,000. Once afterward, when hard up for ready money, Governor Lawrence offered to sell the property for $14,000, and again for $20,000, but he found no purchasers. In 1862 the Governor sold a house lot off this property to R. M. Staigg for $2,308.87. Since that time the following sales of land from off the Lawrence estate have been made : To Marshal Woods, for $9,825.63, a small tract; to Professor Fairman Rodgers, three acres, for $3&,795; to the same party, another lot for sll,400 ; to Mrs. Geo. H. Pendleton, a lot, for $10,900; to Pierre Lorillard, ten acres, for $96,147; to the same patty, a lot, for $10,000; to Mrs. Acosty,.a lot, for $10,140 ; to Mrs. O’Donnell, a lot, for $10,140 ; to Professor W. Shields, a lot, for $13,000; to Miss Catharine L. Wolfe, thirteen acres and homestead, for $492,000; to General H. J. Van Allen, ten acres, for $98,942.50 ; to Miss Julia Rhineland, of New York, a four-acre lot, for $60,000. Thus, from a $12,000 purchase the sum of $560,649.97 has been realized. The difference between the two sums represent the rise in value of the property in thirty years. In 1830 the whole property was sold for $465.. — Boston Post.

A Word to Girls.

The woman who is indifferent to her looks is no true woman. God meant woman to be attractive, to look Well, to please, and it is one of her duties to carry out this intention of her Makpr, But that dress is to do it all, and to suffice, is more than we can be brought to believe. Just because we . love to see girls look well, as well as to live to some purpose, we would urge them to such a course of reading and study as wilf' confer such charms as no modiste can supply. A well-known*author once wrote a

very pretty essay on the power of education to beautify. That it absolutely chiseled the features; that he had seen many a clumsy nose aud thick pair of lips so modified by thought awakened ' Mad active sentiment as to be unrecognizable. And he put it on that ground that we often st e people, homely and unattractive in youth, bloom in middle life into a softened Indian summer ol good looks and mellow tones. — Imivrence Sentinel.

THE SUPREME BENCH.

The Nomination of Conklin* Cause* a Sensation at the National Capital* A Washington dispatch of Feb. 24 says: The sensation at the capital to-day was the nomination of ex-Senator Coukling, of New York, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme bench caused by the retirement of Mr. Justice Hunt When the intelligence was iirst circulated few persons would believe it, but wended their way to the office of the Secretary of the Senate for ocular proof, by examination of the manifold copy of the list of nominations. Generally, when the Vice President receives the list from the President’s Private Secretary, one or two Senators will take interest enough in the document to superintend its removal from the envelope, and to-day formed no exception to this rule. As the first name on the list met the eve of the presiding officer, he elevated his eyebrows considerably and took a second look as if to reassure himself that it was not an optical delusion. The news spread like wildfire, and from the conversation of the groups of Senators the spectators in the galleries rightly inferred that something unusual was transpiring below on the floor. The sheet of manifold was suddenly in great demand, and the grave Solons swarmed around the table of the presiding officer with the same eagerness depicted on their faces that a troop of school boys would exhibit when the prize roll is opened for the first time. When it was also learned that ex-Senator Sargent had been selected for the vacant mission at Berlin, instead of, as had been believed by his friends, the portfolio of the Interior Department, the astonishment add comment was increased. It was tde general verdict that, notwithstanding all rumors to the contrary, the President was oapable of keeping his own counsel, and had a shell suddenly exploded in the Senate chamber it could not have oreatod more exoitement or coufnsion.

Advices from Utica state that Mr. Gonkling declines to say anything upon the question of acoepting the Supreme Court Justiceship. It is believed in New York by many of the leading lawyers that he will decline the office. Gentlemen who know something of his business engagements sav that he has been retained upon cases enough to employ him busily for a year, and upon which an income of at least f 100.000 is assured. So urgent are his engagements that he is reported to have reoentlv declined to go to St. Louis to argue a railroad case for whloh the extraordinary fee of $2,000 a day had been offered him.

The Heroine of Matagorda.

The tempest lasted thirty hours, aud thirty-four men out of 140 had fallen. The fort was not more than 100 yards square; and “here,” says Napier, “be it recorded an action of which it is difficult to say whether it was most feminine or heroic. ” The action referred to, as detailed in “The Eventful Life of a Soldier,” won the woman for long after the sobriquet of “The Heroine of Matagorda.” She was the wife of Sergeant Reston, of the Scots brigade. Under fire she tore up her linen to form bandages for the wound, d; and water being wanted, a drummer boy was ordered to draw some from a well, but the scared child did not seem much inclined to the task, and lingered at the door of a hut with the bucket in his hand. “Why don’t you go for the water?” asked the Surgeon angrily. “ The puir bairn is frightened,” said Mrs. Reston, “ aud no wonder; gie the bucket to me. ” And under all that dreadful storm she proceeded coolly to the well, procuring water for the wounded. General Napier says a shot cut the bucket rope in her hand, but she recovered it and fulfilled her mission. “Her attention to the wounded was beyond all praise, ” says Sergeant Donaldson, of the 94th ; she carried sand bags for the repair of the batteries, and handed ammunition, wine, and water to men at the guns. “ I think I see her yet,” he adds, “while the shot and shell were flying thick around her, bending her body to slieild her child from danger by the exposure of her own person.” She died at an early age, in Glasgow, without other token to her merit than that accorded by the humble book of her husband’s comrade. —British Battles.

M. E. LEWER.

Why He Came to Texas.

A good many years ago, when Austin was a very small town, quite a number of prominent citizens went out on a bunting expedition. One night when they were all gathsred around the camp lire, one of the party suggested that each man should give the time and reason for his leaving liis native State and coming to Texas, w hereupon each one in turn told his experience. Judge Blank had killed a man in selflefense, in Arkansaw, General Soandso had forged another man’s signature to a ilieck, while another came to Texas on account of his having two wives. The 3iily man who did not make any disclosures was a sanctimonious-looking old man, who, although a professional gambler, was usually called “Parson.” “ Well, .Parson, why did you leave Kentucky ?” “I don’t care to say anything about it. Besides, it was only a trifle. of you would believe me anyhow.” “Out with it. Did you shoot somebody ?” “No, gentlemen, I did not. Since you want to know so bad, I’ll tell you. I left Kentucky because I did not build a churoh.” Deep silence fell on the group. No such excuse for coming to Texas ever had been heard of before. There was evidently an unexplained mystery at the bottom of it. The “Parson” was called on to furnish more light. “Well, gentlemen, you see, a Methodist congregation raised $3,000, and turned it over to me to build a church—and I didn’t build the church. That’s all. ” Texas Siftings. In Switzerland, for its seeming capacity probably the most wonderful dairying country in the world, the cattle of the various cantons are quite distinct. The owners generally arrange for an animal inspection when the best cattle for breeding are selected. The race is large, remarkably persistent in repeating the same characteristics, made hardy by mountain climbing, excellent for milk and for beef. It is believed if more known in this country they would take high place, as they are of the most thrifty habits, eating what is set before them and picking up a living in poor pastures.

Emottvb religion without righteousness is all gush. Morality without righteousness is only dress parade ; but when our emotions and our morality are , the result of character, that, and that /done, is righteousness.

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INDIANA NEWS.

The new city directory of Indianapolis contains 86,489 names, against 38,121 last year. A mammoth stave aud heading factory at Wabash is among the probabilities for the coming season. The Adjutant General states the encampment of the State militia will be held in Indianapolis, between June 20 and July 1. The Humane Live-Stock Feeding Company has completed negotiations to erect a cattle restaurant in Fort Wayne, to coat $20,000. Samuel Sunderland, living near Mancie, lias given a 120-acre farm to each of his eight children. He has a splendid home farm of 190 acres left. C. S. Ookn, Jr., general ticket agent of the Ohio and Mississippi roud, was accidentally killed at North Vernon, by putting his head out of a ear window. The stone to be plaoed over the grave of the late Gov. Williams is to lie of Barre granite, twenty-eight feet nine inches in height, and the foundation seven feet square. Gov. Porter’s investigation at the Northern Indiana prison resulted in rescinding the contract with the Warden and turning over to the State the profits of the boarding house. The Rolling-Mill Company, recently organized to build works in Brazil, lias secured the full amount of Btook, SIOO,000, proposed to be invested, and are now making preparations to begin the work. William Smithson, living on a farm near Indianapolis, hid $345 in currency in a corn-crib. Rats having chewed it into fragments suitable for a nest, he will appeal for relief .to the Treasury Department.

County RxpemcN. Among the subjects that arc of greatest public interest, says the Indianapolis Times, that of county expenses is one of the most important. The facts and figures that have been gathered from the several oounties of the State by the Bureau of Statistics will therefore attract the notice of all who desire to promote economy aud needed reforms in the matter of county expenditure, and their publication will also possibly tend toward bringing about something like uniformity of system in the management of county affairs, by exposing the weak points of the present methods and management. The classification of expenses, and the comparison of totals for 1880 and 1881, as given by the bureau, are as follows : 1880. 11-81. Pay of conuty officers out of county treasury $ 488,289 $ 483,827 (fraud aud petit juried aud bailiffs 827,615 286,263 Ooroner’a inquests.... 14,888 12,197 Enumerating, asanasing aud app raising 146,182 243,968 Road viewing, surveying, etc.. 121,723 46,978 County Superintendent, und institutes 81,181 82,711 Criminaiß and priaouers 102,932 90,449 Poor 598,831 661,818 Incidental coßt of State benevolent and reform lii-illtutiona. 79,224 61,296 New public buildings 359,963 205,577 ttepaira of public bulldlnga.... 86,188 88,991 Intercat on county bonds 205,803 178,259 Intereet on gravel road boudn.. 13,023 20,794 Interest on county ordera 37,358 36,997 Redemption of county bonda.. 160,356 280,206 Redemption of free gravel-road bonda 13,720 40,927 Booka and stationery 150,234 123,623 p. luting and advertising 58,393 52,397 New bridges 408,249 312,297 Repairs on bridges 38,886 41,322 All ether expenditures 608,996 564,347 Total expenditures $4,098,395 $4,070,589 The comparison of the two years’ expenses shows tliat thirty-nine counties increased their expenses in 1881 and fifty-three reduced their expenses more or iess, but, as wjll be noted, there was but a trifling reduction in the total outlay. The leading items of county expenses, as well as the totals, are given by counties in the following table, which will be found worthy of study aud preservation : •

Kipenf** of Poor . ... ! ami Bauxtfx I stV^ctacoo^ooVTo iwstfVTwTt-T cfWTcief *«• rfcsetcoe e* »■< •" ** _ ____ - Pay of Public OjnCfTh k sc c »e w w c r w c w c c wo’e w?}scctoicct<s , swiflci! , •» 777 flHillfilMsisSllllHlfMlli SlMlfiiiHs 111 I=MIfHIISIIJSf|SpiIIfpfp|pIIIRRpR|ISB Total h.xpr.uhtvr,* -fefSSSef 23532 §SSS 3 5 = 32 3sfsf?fsSf; Sis SSsafSf s'sJssT 3!88352 38W Sfsfi g;S5 3S82 52S £3 S S£5 £&255 52S 8 *5 SS 2ft 8S S» S2S- 88 "BaifflHiSEiilß