Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1883 — Page 4

NEWS CONDENSED.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Consideration of the Tariff bill to committee of the whole was completed by the Senate on the 10th tost. The amendment proposed by Hr. Beck reducing the internal-revenue tax on snuff, smoking and manufactured tobacco to 8 cents per pound waa agreed to. On motion ot Mr. Williams, the tax on cigars J3p@r thousand, Instead of (4, as in the bilL Mr. Logan moved to place salt on the free list, but it was decided to refer the matter to the Senate. The House discussed the Wavs and Means Committee's Tariff bill. Mr. Maxey’s amendment fixing the duty on iron cotton ties at 36 per cent, (id valorem was defeated, after a sharp discussion, by the close vote of 97 to 101, four Democrats all of them from the Pennsylvania manufacturing districts voting with the Republicans against toe proposed reduction. On motion of Mr. Kelley, a duty of 154 cents per pound was imposed upon cast-iron vessels, plates. stoveplates and iron, sad irons, tallow hatters’ Irons. Mr. Dunnell move* to reduce the duty on cut nails and spikes from 154 to 1 cent per pound, and, In advocating toe motion, spoke of the pending bill as giving too little reduction. The motion was lost, after a lively debate. On motion of Mr. Carlisle, toe duty on railway fish-plates was reduced from 15* to 154 cents per pound. Mr. Donnell moved to reduce the duty on horseshoe nails, hobnails and wire nails from 4to 3 cents per pound. The motion was lost. The Senate spent the whole day, and a good part’ of the night, on the 12th Inst., discussing the Morrill Tariff bill. Much of the " time was consumed in fighting over again the pig-iron battle. The Immediate bone of contention was the proposition of Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, to put the duty on pigiron at (6.72, where It was fixed by the committee. He failed to get the figure he wanted, but coaxed toe Senate to Yield so far as to place it at (6,60. The action of the committee of the whole in striking out lumber from the wood schedule was disagreed to by 20 to 16. Lath, shingles, pine clapboards and spruce clapboards, struck out in the committee of the whole, were also restored at the rates in the bill—the Senate refusing to agree to toe ac- . r.lon in committee by - a vote of yeas 18, "Viays 32. Two hours were spent In discussing an amendment In relation to vinegar factories. The tariff question also claimed the attention of the House, and precipitated one of the liveliest debates of the session. The Items under discussion were those relating to the duties on bars and rods from which fencing-wire, trace-chains, horseshoes, nails ami similar articles are manufactured, and steel used for making locomotive and other tlrop. Slight reductions were made in the material of which fencing wire, trace chains, horse shoes and nails arc made, but the locomotive tire material was kept up. The House refused to pass n bill for the retirement of Alfred Pleasonton with the rank of Major General. Mr. Robertson introduced a bill to prohibit the transmission of lottery advertisements through the mails. The Bonate worked seven hours upon it* Tariff bill on Feb. 13. Sugar waa toe main subject. of discussion. The New England men, who wanted reductions in the lower grades; the Southern men, who wanted reductions in toe higher grades, if any reduction were to be made; the men from the Middle States, who were opposed to any reduction, but preferred reductions in the higher to reductions In the lower grades, made over again the speeches they had made In committee of the whole. At times the debate was exciting. The outcome of It all was a compromise, offered by Mr. Jlavard, with which everybody seemed to be satisfied. The tobacco item was then taken up, and also excited i spirited debate, which was likewise ended by a compromise between the Connecticut and Havana tobacco interests. The House was engaged all day upon the metal . schedule of the Ways and Means Committee bill. Among the important changes made was an amendment to prescribe a duty of 45 per cent on all steel not specially enumerated, the duty in no case to exceed V‘i cents per pound. The duty on nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind In which nickel is the element of chief value, was reduced from 25 cents to 15 cents per pound. A duty on quicksilver of 25 her cent, ad valorem was Inserted. Bronze powder was reduced from 25 per cent, to 20 per cent.; gold leaf from $2 per package of 500 leaves to $1.50, and shotguns and all other firearms not provided for In the act were reduced from 35 per cent, to 30 per cent. A duty of 35 per cent, was placed on pistols of all kinds. The duty on isjnknives, pocketknives and razors of all kinds , was •educed to 40 per Cent. The tariff on metallic pens was fixed at 12 cents a gross instead of 45 pel cent. There was a little personal spat between Messrs. Townshend, of Illinois, and Haskell, of Kansas. The former charged that the measure under consideration was the work of hired lobbyists. The latter resented the charge, and some hot words followed, which for a time relieved the dull monotony that usually attends tariff legislation in Congress. The amendment made in committee of the whole, raising the duty on bituminous coal from 50 to 75 cents a ton, came up in the Senate on Feb. 14 and gave rise to a long debate. It was concurred in by a vote of 23 to 18. There was also a lively discussion concerning the duty on books, which was fixed at 15 per cent, ad valorem. Mr. Blair Introduced In the Senate a bill to prevent the use of convict labor upon works of the United States. The House wrestled the whole day with the tariff problem. An attempt to reduce the duty on all iron wares not enumerated in the bill was defeated, every amendment looking to that ond being promptly voted down. A proposition offered by Mr. Cox, of New York, for the admission of foreign-built ships on the payment of a duty of 30 per cent, was lost, three Bepublicans voting with the Democrats in the affirmative. Mr. Holman moved to place lumber on the free list, which gave rise to a long and animated debate: This, together with several other amendments looking to the reduction of the duties on hubs, wagon blocks, etc., were promptly squelched. A night session was held to consider the Legislative Appropriation bill, at which Mr. Butterworth made an earnest effort to secure an lionr for the consideration of the bonded whisky bill, was beaten. Mr. Joyce declared ttha the measure should not have one minute during the session. Nearly all the day of Feb. 15 was consumed in the Senate by discussion of the tariff, and the Senate bill was pushed through the second reading. Mr. Cockrell presented petitions from the officers of several educational institutions in Missouri for the appointment of a practical astronomer as Superintendent of the Naval Observatory. Mr. Morrill handed in a remonstrance against any reduction of the tariff on books below 25 per cent., signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes, T. B. Aldrich and John O. Whittier. In executive session Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution to admit to the floor only such private secretaries as are engaged in the performance of duty. In the House Mr. Williams submitted a conference report on the Japanese indemnity fund, to return the (785,000 received, to pay $140,000 to the officers of the Wyoming and Takiang, and cancel the bonds composing the indemnity fund. This was agreed to. The sugar schedule of the Tariff bill was under discussion, and all amendments were voted down by large majorities, and the committee bill was substantially unchanged.

EASTERN.

Hon. Marshall Jewell, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and who had served as Postmaster General, Minister to Russia and three terms as Governor of Connecticut, died at Hartford. He was 57 years of age. Charles R. Thorne, the actor, died at New York of gout of the stomach, aged 43years. At Rondout, N. Y., a large building occupied by railway and steamboat offices, the ice-house (containing 2,000 tons) of the Cornell Steamboat Company and the steamer City of Catskill were burned. Loss $150,000. The Bay State Iron Company, of Boston, has suspended operations, with liabilities of $€50,000. The plant is said to be worth $1,000,000. Stuart Robson delivered an address at the funeral of Charles R. Thorne, Jr., the actor, but there were no religious ceremoniea A telegram of sympathy from Robert J. Ingersoll was read. The Boston Board of Aldermen has passed an order for lighting all the streets by electricity. Collender’s seven-story billiard factory at Stamford, Conn., was swept away by fire. The loss is placed at $250,000. Over $25,000 has been expended on the crypt under the cathedral at Garden City, Long Island, but the corpse of-A T. Steward is still missing. A court at Troy, N. Y., annulled the marriage of Samuel Hides, aged 77 years, and a clairvoyant named Mann, and candled the deeds to property given the bride. Two hardware manufactories and a spectacle factory at Reading, Pa, have closed for a period, owing to dullness of trade. The Reading Railway Company has also reduced its car-shop force by 150 men. At Wilton, Conn., in the room in which her father's corpse lay, ready for burial, Miss Gregory was married. It was in accordance with the wishes of her deceased parent. Edwin D. Morgan, the war Governor of New York, has passed away, at the age of 72. Early in life he proved himself possessed of business abilities of a high order, and for more than a generation he had been at the head of one of the largest mercantile houses In New York City. At the funeral of Edwin D. Morgan in New York, President Arthur, John Jacob Astor and Hugh J. Jewett appeared among the pall-bearer a The remains were Interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford. y / James D. Fish’, President of the Marine Nationalßank of New York, purchased Booth’s Theater for $550, ogo,

WESTERN.

Cincinnati dispatches of Feb. 15/ recut off from railway communication, being surrounded by water and all the railway tracks submerged. Business was practically suspended all over the city. Soup-houses had been established at various points. The Catholic churches were thrown open to accommodate the homeless. The work of relief was going on vigorously and many touching scenes were witnessed. Outside aid was pouring to freely. It was ascertained that fourteen boys were drowned by the bursting of the McLean avenue sewer. Louisville telegrams of the 15th represented the situation as extremely distressing. The river was rising at the rate of an inch an hour, and all along the city front for several miles houses were being undermined and were tumbling into the angrjr torrent Subscriptions were being freely made for the benefit of the thousands of homeless onea At Jeffersonville, opposite Louisville, the distress was even relatively greater, the whole city being submerged to the depth of from two to twenty feet Many houses were swept away, and hundreds of people had taken refuge to the upper stories of public buildings and business blocks, food being sent to them to small boata Filth from hundreds of privies, was floating on the waters, and the scenes of Buffering were described by an eye-witness as appalling. At Lawrence b urg, Ind, north of Louisville, the people were suffering greatly, and carloads of food were sent from other parts of the State, the Legislature of Indiana having also appropriated (40,000 for relief. Madison and other points* along the river between Louisville and Cincinnati also suffered more or less from the extraordinary inundation. At Fern Bank, below Cincinnati, a floating house was stopped, and in one of the rooms was found a baby sleeping peacefully in its crib. The child was delivered into the care of the Catholic Orphan Society. Two lads of Minneapolis, 11 years of age, quarreled over some petty matter, when one killed the other with a pocket knife. Special Customs agents of Chicago went to St Louis and forced a prominent business house in that city to pay $7,000 for duties and penalties on goods brought from Paris. Several private parties also settled accounts on smuggled jewelry and clothing. Dispatches from the overflowed districts along the Ohio river on thej 16th inst state that “the flood at Cincinnatilreached its highest Btage at 4 o’clock yesterday morning, when it stood sixty-six feet and four inchea Contributions of $16,001 were received from various cities, ana the lifesaving crew of Cleveland arrived with its apparatus. The May ors of J eff erionville and New Albany sent dispatches (to all the chief cities, asking for aid for tl e sufferers. Fire-damp or sewer gas caused i n explosion in a house at Cincinnati, sha;tering the structure, killing three persons, knd wounding many others. The rivers are rising at Pittsburgh and Louisville, and the Wabash, Muskingum and Licking are adding their quota to the inundation. Jeffersonville and New Albany, Ind., ar§ entirely surrounded, and Marietta and Zanesville are also flooded. ” Isaac Knapp, who was sent to the Ohio penitentiary from Fremont for life, secured a pardon by false representations as to his health. He was speedily rearrested and instituted habeas corpus proceedings. The State Supreme Court decided that it could not inquire into the validity of the pardon, and Knapp was discharged.

MISCELLANEOUS. Citizens of Chihuahua organized a company and attacked a band of Apaches, killing twelve of them and capturing thirtythree In a fight on the border of Sonora, Mexican troops killed 100 Indians and took sixty prisonera In the United States during 1882 there was manufactured 4,623,323 tons of pig-iron, and at' the close of the year 383,655 tons remained unsold The year’s product exceeded by 500,000 tons the greatest output of any one year. The President of the Irish Land League issues from Buffalo, N. Y., an appeal for aid for the starving people in Ireland Porfirio Diaz, the ablest soldier and one of the most prominent statesmen of Mexico, who has participated in a score of revolutions and suppressed as many more, and who served a four years’ term as President of the republic, has been elected President of the Supreme Court of Mexico. Near' Dundas, Ont., two express trains collided on the Grand Trunkline, killing an engineer and two passengers, and wounding several others. The latest wedding at Lancaster, Ohio, was that of Elijah Kemper, aged 81 years, and Rebecca Rider, of 29 summers.

WASHINGTON.

In the star-route trial at Washington, Ilerdell interrupted the proceedings to plead guilty, place himself at the mercy of the court, and offer to divulge any facts in connection with the defendants Secretary Lincoln, in answering the request of Gen. Hazen for an investigation of the Signal Service Bureau by the Senate, suggests that the Articles of War provide tribunals for dealing with officers of the army. Gen. Hazen says the floods in the Mississippi are certain to be very disastrous between Cairo and Memphis, and citizens of the river towns have been duly warned

POLITICAL.

The Minnesota House indefinitely postponed the bill proposing a prohibitory amendment to the State constitution, prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors. Gen. Hazen requests Secretary Lincoln to cause an investigation of his administration of the signal office by a committee of the Senate. Caucuses of all the different parties in the Michigan Legislature were held Feb. 15, and the Senatorial question was discussed at length. The Ferry caucus formally absolved its members from any further obligations tq support the Senator. Ex-Gov. Powell Clayton ha§ been elected Chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee of Arkansas.

FOREIGN.

The French Senate adopted M. Wad dington’s proposal that Princes who attempt to further their pretensions be banished, after trial in special assizes, or by the Senate, sitting as a high court, whereupon all the members of the Fallieres Ministry sent in their resignations. Wilhelm Richard Wagner, the great German composer, is dead He was born at Leipsic, May 23,1818, and was the youngest of seven children. Rumors prevail at. Berlin that Gen. Yon Kameke, Minister of War, has resigned Bishop Logue, of Donegal, Ireland, writes the distress is heartrending, and that hungry thousands will no longer be able to suppress the cry of distress An uneasy feeling pervades the Limerick policemen, and another strike of the force is threatened Prince Napoleon assured the ex-Em press Eugenie that should a popular vote in France result in favor of the republic he should bow obedience to it If banished he will make London his home. Additional evidence against the as- : sassins of Cavendish and Burke has been secured, making their chances very black. - The Duchess de Chaulrie§ died in Paris i« extreme poverty.

THE TARIFF.

Mr. Dunn offered an amendment providing that there shall be allowed on all implements and machinery manufactured for use in agricultural labor and production, made to whole or to part of material imported on which duties have been paid, a drawback equal in amount to the duty paid on such material This was an opportunity for the gentlemen on the other side who claimed to be the friends of the farmer to show they were to earnest to their protestations of interest in the cause of agriculture Mr. Seed opposed the amendment, which he declared had been offered, not because the gentleman supposed it would prevail but because he thought the country would pay attention to these attempts to make a record The country was too sensible to do anything of the kind. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, challenged the Sroduction from the history of tariff legislaon of a bill which was more oppressive in its operation than the bill reported by the present Ways and Means Committee. No important measure had ever been brought before an American Congress wnere such unfair and tyrannical means had been resorted to in .its, management The bill did not originate in Congress. It was sired by a lobby of hired agents of the monopolists, and was brought forth in secret conclave. Mr. McKinley—No Democratic member of the Ways and Means Committee will say what you have said. Mr. Townshend went on to Bay thatL the three gentleman—Messrs. Kelley, Haskell ancl McKinley—who were in charge of the bill had not yet descended to the work of detraction and viUiflcation. That work had been assigned to another (referring to Mr. Reed), whose voice, manners and characteristics peculiarly qualified him for that work. Every other member on the other side spoke only apparently by license. Was there ever such shameful proceedings inaugurated in an American Congress on such an important measure? Mr. Haskell said he had stood here for nearly three weeks and had listened to denunciations coming from the other side leveled at the Ways and Means Committee long enough without reply. The gentleman from Illinois stood here and charged that this bill was the creation of a corrupt and scandalous lobby. Every word of his declaration was a flat falsehood. Did he comprehend exactly the full length and breadth and width of that statement? Every word of this bill had been considered in the Ways and Means Committee, and hever from the day the committee had taken charge of it until the day they reported it was there a manufacturer or a lobbyist to come before them. Mr. Townshend—According to your Republican papers the lobbyists crowded the com-mittee-room. Mr. Haskell—Not a man was before that committee when it was in session. The gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Carlisle) is as honorable a man as the representative from Illinois, and Mr. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, is no scoundrel and the tool of no lobbyist When men like Messrs, Morrison, Randall, Carlisle, Kasson and Kelley are charged on this floor with acting as the ‘ agents of lobbyists, the man who charges it utters, I believe, a deliberate falsehood. He knows better. I will go on and brand such statements as that publicly. I put my honor and character before this whole world ifhd country. I invite the closest scrutiny of my public acts and private acts. No hound, no dirty gutter-snipe, ever sunk so low yet as to charge me with dishonor in discharging my duty on this committee or any other. I wIU not stand here to assert my Integrity. It is known where lam known. But when my committee is attacked in the name of my colleagues on that committee, Democratic colleagues and Republican colleagues, I want to brand here now such declarations as that with the appellation which belongs to them. Mr. Townshend said he did not desire to bandy epithets with the gentleman from Kansas. He did not propose to go to the cesspools to throw filth at the gentleman. He had not in his remarks intended any personal application to either of the three gentlemen to whom he had referred. He simply intended to inform the country of the fact, which he had derived from the statements of Republican organs, that the committee had been surrounded and crowded by hired agents of the tariff monopolists and it was the influence they had exerted (he would not say corruption) on members of the committee that had brought forth this bill. He had not any personal animosity toward the gentleman from Kansas. He had been surprised at the ability and information which the gentleman had displayed in the management of this bill, for he was the only one on the other side who had shown any acquaintance with it He was surprised because he had never known the gentleman to show any ability or knowledge worth considering of any subject he had ever discussed. He (Mr. Townshend) did not know whether the gentleman intended to hurl at him the epithet of being guilty of uttering a falsehood or not “I want to know,” he continued, turning toward Mr. Haskell, “whether the gentleman charges me personally with falsehood. ” Mr. Haskell—Answer me a question and I will answer yours. I Want you to answer me whether or not you said that this bill was not made under the rules of this House, but waa the creation of a corrupt lobby. Did you say that? Mr. Townsend—l said then, and say again, that this bill was sired by hired agents of monopoly. I did not say, nor intend to say at the time, that the gentleman himself was the tool of the monopolists. I simply intended to assert, what I repeat here, that this bill was made up by, was inspired by, was sired by, hired agents of the monopolists, and your committee has accepted it and the Republican caucus embracedl wish to know, before I say what I may desire to say, whether the gentleman desires to charge me with personal falsehood?

Mr. Haskell—What I said was that the statement made was a false statement, and that I repeat. “What I want to know,” persisted Mr. Townsend, amid derisive laughter on the Republican side, “is whether the gentleman draws a distinction between a statement and the personal honor of the gentleman who makes the statement Before Mr. Haskell could reply, Mr. Henderson endeavored to bring about peace by appealing to the committee to proceed with the business and not turn the hall into a bear-garden. But Mr. Townshend persisted in his demand for an' explanation. “The statement which I have made,” he said, “has been a matter of public notoriety. Leading Republican papers have made it If the gentleman simply desires to brand tbo sta ements which have been spread throughout this land, I have no personal issue with him; but if he here shelters himself behind the privileges of debate on this floor for the purpose of insulting me in public, I want to know it” Mr. Kasson—l want to say in the common interest of the House that a distinction has always been drawn between a personal charge and a charge of misstatements of facts alleged. The gentleman must remember that his charge was practically one of corruption. Every member of the committee knows that charge to be salsa Mr. Townshend—Let the gentleman from Kansas make that statement and I will be content , Mr. Kasson—He has already made that statement Mr. Townshend—l again ask the gentleman from Kansas whether the gentleman from lowa has properly stated his feelings on this question. Mr. Haskell deigned no reply, and Mr. Townshend’s persistence was . cut off by a motion limiting the debate to one-half minute. Mr. Dunn’s amendment was relected.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Cincinnati dispatches of Feb. 17 report a comforting condition of affairs consequent upon the marked subsidence of the waters. New Albany was in sore distress, and a special committee had appealed for relief. Along the Ohio southward many small towns were partly submerged The sudden thaw raised the rivers generally in the Northwest, and gorges caused the wrecking of bridges, two being destroyed at Joliet, and sections of the town inundated Similar accidents occurred at other Illinois towns, and railroad tracks washed out. The testimony of Rerdell, one of the indicted star-route conspirators, who pleaded guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the court, was of a most important nature. He told how he had lived under the same roof with the Dorseys, and how, after aiding them in filling out bids, he had been sent out West to establish “paper” stations and prepare the way for the “expediting service” that followed, and by which the conspirators were enabled to rob the Government of hundreds of thousands of dollars. On the second day of his appearance in the witness, box, he was engaged during the entire session of the court in identifying handwritings and documents Under ex-Senator Dorsey’s direction he manufactured the paper applications upon which the postal routes were extended, forged the names of fictitious persons, and Stored genuine implications. Ip the cash-I

book w i r t-J- goxdell i ton. An express train on the Columbus road was ditched nearGalion, by which Rev. D. I Fonts and two others were killed and three men were injured. Four residents at Massillon, Ohio, have brought suite against that city for damages sustained by the floods, alleging that the culverts were permitted to fill up with rubbish. The Arkansas Legislature passed an act prohibiting for two years the sale of intoxicants within three miles of a church or school, according to the wishes of the adult majority of both sexes. A train on the Pittsburgh and Western road was derailed at Etna station, mortally injuring Engineer J. C. Cooper And Fireman Edward Brady. The Japanese Indemnity hill which had previously passed the House, was taken up and passed by toe Senate on Feb. 16, after which toe Senators tackled the Tariff bill, but did little work. The House laid aside toe Tariff bill and took up and passed the Legislative Appropriation bill. The working hours of the Government clerks were fixed at seven and one-half in winter, and eight in summer. The clerks fought vainly fora softer job.” The whisky men made an effort to secure the consideration of the “Bonded ■'Period” bill, bat were promptly defeated. Bills were introduced to appropriate (100,000 and (500,000 for the relief of toe sufferers by toe flood along the Ohio and Mississippi. .‘a

A MINE MASSACRE.

Collapse of a Sink-Hole Above a Coal-Shaft at Braidwood, HI. The Pit Flooded With a Vast Torrent of Water, and Abont Eighty Men Drowned. [Braidwood Telegram (Feb. 16) to Chicago Tribune.) The mosi awful tragedy which has ever visited the Wilmington coalfields occurred to-day at the No. 2 shaft of the Wilmington Coal-Mining and Manufacturing Company, known as the Diamond Company, three miles and a half northwest of this city. The little village of Diamond is a scene of desolation calculated to wring the heart of even the most hardened to scenes of misery and woe. Sixty-eight men and sik boys lie dead in the mine, and it may he weeks before even the melancholy satisfaction of recovering their bodies is accorded. No such calamity has ever befallen ihis section of country, or, for that matter, nothing as horrible has ever been chronicled in the history of mining in the United States. The destruction occurred in an instant, and came with overwhelming force. In every home there is weeping and sorrow for the Braidwood miners who will return no more. The whole population of Diamond is devoted to mining, and this crushing blow carries ruin to a hundred families. In several instances all the male members have been swept away, and what will be the future of Diamond it is impossible to forecast. The tragedy was as unique as it was devastating. A section of prairie-land, forty by ninety feet, over which the floods had extended until the water stood three or four feet deep, suddenly caved in, the result being the instantaneous flooding of a mine in which 300 men and boys were at work. Inside of half an hour the water had extended to all parts of the workings, and to-night it stands within five feet of the top of the main shaft Seventy-four human beings were choked to death in the grim recesses of the mine

All hope of the possible rescue of any of these unhappy beings by the opening of a driveway from an old air-shaft into the workings was abandoned at dusk, when the water poured into the last-named shaft, and the workmen were compelled to abandon their last desperate attempt at the salvation of their fellows The scene of the horror was the Diamond Pit NO. 3, which has been operated for about ten years, and in which anywhere from 200 to 400 men were regularly employed. This morning from 290 to 800 went to work, and by noon one-fourth the number were dead. The escape of the majority was almost by a miracle. The country around the mines is an almost dead-level prairie, and the recent tremendous rains have covered the whole country with water. Hundreds of acres of land are honeycombed by the mine-work-ings, manv of which have been worked out and abandoned. It was through a break in one of the abandoned workings that the flood poured in to-day. The Diamond shaft No. 2 is ninety-two feetdeep. Above the coal lies from seventy to 110 feet of earth. The coal-vein varies in thickness from two feet nine inches to three feet four inches. Above it is a layer of soap-stone, and it rests on a bed of fireclay. The vein winds and dips a good deal, and thus some parts of the mine are a good deal lower than others. About 11:30 the rumor spread among the population of the mining village that the ground had caved in over the main roadway in the Diamond Shaft No. 2, and that the water that had stood in a large pond on the surface of the prairie was rushing into the passages of the mine, cutting off the miners and holding them in the passage Upon the spreading of the rumor large crowds or miners’ wives, with children in arms, rushed toward the scene of the catastrophe, anxious*to hear of their husbands, brothers and sons who were employed in the mines. When the crowd reached the main entrance they found everything in a state of the utmost confusion. Around the shaft .were a crowd of anxious men and women, eagerly rendering any assistance that was possible to the half-drowned miners who appeared at the bottom of the shaft To the north could also be seen a crowd of men collected around an air-shaft, who were likewise fishing out the almost perishing miners who h <1 climbed to the top and would have sunk back exhausted upon the ground had it not been for the assistance of the willing hands. Women wrung their hands, as, one by one, they anxiously viewed each new face that appeared above ground, but found not the father or son who was missing, and for whom some fell down upon their knees and prayed. The news was upon the lips of every one. Friends anxious for the safety of some lost one hurriedly paced back and forth, trying to devise some means of salvation for the poor creatures who were penned up never to be rescued alive. Little by little the terrible character of the catastrophe became apparent Then it was that the most heartrending scenes occurred. A wife bent over the shaft as her husband was climbing the ladder in the airshaft with his young son dead in his arms, and extended her arms to receive them, but she was doomed to disappointment, for the man, worn out with the desperate struggle which he had undergone to save the body of his son, fell back into the pit a lifeless corpse, and has not since been seen. A young German maiden saw her lover brought out of a shaft in almost a lifeless condition, and, falling upon her knees, she smoothed back the hair and thanked God that he had been saved. Mrs. McQuistion, who was on the ground when the news came that her husband and three sons were dead in the mine, was taken with nervous prostration and had to be removed from the ground. She is now in a precarious condition and her mind is permanently injured The following is the story of John Huber; an eye-witness of the whole affair, and a man who was in the mine at the time of the accident: “I was working in one of the west sections of the main corridor, and had just got my car ready for transfer, when I heard a voice which sounded weak at first saying, ‘Look out; the water is coming,’ For a few moments I did not comprehend the awful meaning of the language used, and so went back to block up the coal, when I heard the same warning again and again, and a small stream of water running down the center of the track. The truth at once flashed upon me that I was in danger, and that the water was coming from some unknown locality. I rushed as fast as the nature of the passage would allow me to where I thought my two sons were at work, but found that they had gone. I then yelled at the top of my voice to the men near me, and made as fast as I could for the air-shaft, where I knew there was a ladder, and that I could get out By this time the water was up to my armpits, and I had a hard time to get up the shaft, so exhausted was I with the rapid run I had made in the stooping, position. When I got home, great God! What did I Bee! There upon her bed lay my wife, tearing her hair and wailing in almost a crazy condition. *O, John,’ she said, ‘where are the boys?’ The truth then flashed upon me that' perhaps they were dead I went back as fast as I could, and found that my horrible anticipat.ons were only too true, and lhat the boys had not been seen since entering the shaft Jn the morning.” - '

STARTLING STATISTICS.

City and tbe KnUwCountry-A Tribune The nation has been horrified'at the burning of a Milwaukee hotel, whereby over seventy lives were lost This event carried terror because it was sadden and appalling; but had the same disastrous results to life and limb come silently they would have been unnoticed, not only by the people of the land but also by the very community to which they occurred Fatal events of a far worse nature have taken place to this very city, but they have attracted no attention, nor would they now did not the Bureau of Vital Statistics bring them to our notice. “ Figures do not lie,” whatever else may be uncertain, and the report on the death* of this city is a startling comment on its life. During the past year the enormous increase of certain maladies is simply appalling. While the total number of deaths has diminished and the death rate on most diseases has decreased still it is far greater in one or two serious disorders than was ever known before More people died in the oity of New York in 1682 from Bright’s disease of the kidneys than from diphtheria, small-pox and typhoid fever all combined! This scarcely seems possible but it is true, and when it is remembered that less than onethird the actual deaths from Bright’s disease are really reported as such, the ravages of the malady can be partially understood The immediate query which every reader will make upon such a revelation of facts, is: What causes this increase? This is a difficult question to answer. The nature of the climate, the habits of life, the adulteration of foods and liquors, all undoubtedly contribute; but no immediate cause can be certainly assigned Often before the victim knows it the disease has begun. Its approaches are so stealthy and its symptoms so obscure that they cannot be definitely foreseen and are only known by their effects. Any kidney disorder, hbwever slight, is the first stage of Bright’s disease. But it Is seldom that kidney disorders can be detected They do not have any certain symptoms Mysterious weariness; an unusual appetite; periodical headaches; occasional nausea; uncertain pains; loss of vigor; lack of nerve power; irregularity of the heart; disordered daily habits; imperfect digestion—all these ana many other symptoms are the indications of kidney disorder, even though there may be no pain in the region of the kidneys or- to that portion of the body. The' serious nature of these troubles may be understood from the fact that Bright’s disease is as certain to follow diseased kidneys as decomposition follows death. It is high time the doctors to this land, who have been unable to control kidney troubles, should be aroused and compelled to find some remedy, or acknowledge one already found The suffering public needs help and cannot await the tardy action of any hair-splitting code or incorrectly formulated theories. If the medical world has no certain remedy for this terrible disease let them acknowledge it and seek for one outside -the pale of their profession. For tbe discovery of this remedy and for its application disease, the people of this city; the people of the whole land; not only those who are suffering, but those who have friends In danger, are earnestly and longingly looking. The above quotation from the New York Tribune is causing considerable commotion, os it seems to lift the cover from a subject that has become of national importance. The alarming increase of kidney diseases; their insidious beginnings and frightful endings and the acknowledged inability of physicians to successfully cope with them may well awaken the greatest dread of every one who has the slightest symptoms. It is fortunate, however, that the surest relief is often found where, possibly, least expected, and that there is a specific for the evils above described we have came to fully believe Within the past two years we have frequently seen statements of parties claiming to have been cured of serious kidney troubles even after hope had been abandoned; but to common with most people we have discredited them. Quite recently, however, a number of prominent and well-known men have come out voluntarily and stated over their signatures that they were completely cured by the use of Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure Most people have been aware that this medicine has an unusual standing and one entitling it to b classed above proprietary articles generally; but that it had accomplished so much to checking the ravages of kidney disease is not so generally known. Its great worth has been shown, not only by the cures it has effected, but also because a number of base imitations have appeared in the market, fraudulently claiming the valuable qualities of the original Safe Cura If it were not valuable it would not be imitated

The above may seem like an ultra indorsement of a popular remedy, but it is not one whit stronger than the facts admit Whatever assists the world toward health and consequent happiness should receive the hearty indorsement of the press and all friends of humanity. It is on precisely this principle that the foregoing statement is made and it merits the careful consideration of every thinking reader.

Length of Hair.

It has- been ascertained that the ordinary length of the hair, as shown by the measurement in women, ranges between twenty and thirty-six inches, and its weight from six to .eight ounces. However, if the hair is closely shaved it becomes persistent, and also increases in bulk and strength. The hair grows at the rate of one line and a half per week, or six and a half inches per year, being twenty-six feet, if we live to be eighty. ' The shape of small hairs is cylindrical, and more or less oval for long hairs. The hairs of the head are never cylindrical, and those of the beard and eyebrows are somewhat oval. When left to their natural growth the end or tip is always conical and pointed. The surface of the scalp presents about 120 superficial inches, and the number of hairs on the entire head amounts to 90,000 in a thin head of hair, but in a thick head of hair the amount is much greater, for many of the pores give passages to two hairs. At its lower- end the hair-tube terminates in a cuTde sac, and this portion of its cavity ig filled by an accumulation of freshly-formed cells and granules, which constitute the root of the hair; above this point the little mass of cells separate into two parts; a central part of a cylindrical figure, which is the newly-formed hair, and a peripheral layer, which incloses the former and is continuous with and is the sheath of the scarf-skin which lines the tube. —Brooklyn Eagle. The Salem, Mass., Register mentions: Mr. J. S. LeFavopr, artist, surprisingly benefited by St. Jacobs Oil. Rheumatism twenty years./

The Old Gum Shoe.

Do you remember the old-fashioned rubber shoe?* Ah, that was the shoe worth having. It was none of your flimsy, trim, shiny abominations of the present degenerate day. It was a great, clumsy, ill-looking moccasin, that had neither form nor symmetry, but it would wear out a dozen of our ordinary modern shoes. What an art was it to put the thing on! Turning it half inside out, you put your toe into its interior, and then with a tug and a jerk you pulled the heel in place, and you were inside a shoe that qlung to you tighter than a brother. And what fun was it at school to dimple in the toe, place a spit ball in the hollow, and then, with fingers inside, to send the ball with catapultic power smack into the face- of the studious scholar on the opposite side of the room! Alas! there is no fun in the modern rubber shoe, and but veiy little wear. Joy and utility have given place to mere beauty of outline and prosaic comfort. —Boston Transcript There are 622 different farm gates for use of farmers, and the farmerknows it as well as any one else. The great advantage in his profession is in always having time enough to let down the fence. The Albany, N. Y., Argus observes: Judge McGowan, this city, was oared of rbeamstisgi by 81. ftoobi OU,

Mb. Jonathan Bowkbs, of Blanches ter, 0., writes: “I am 72 years of age. Ikeep Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla always in the house A dose now and then makes me feel Hke a boy. It gives me a good appetite and keeps me from having dyspepsia.”

Not the Only Fool.

Judge Peter Dombey attended the inaugural ball, and he enjoyed himself so much that about midnight it took four men to bring him in a hack and a comatose condition to his wife. She, thinking from the looks of him that he had a rush of blood to the head, sent for the physician, who investigated the patient carefully, and then directed that the family pastor be sent for at once. In a short time the clergyman was bending over the conch of the dying reveler. The clergyman was in the midst of an earnest prayer when he smelt a rat, or rather the aroma of whisky. “I think,” said the clergyman, “that onr friend has already had more spiritual consolation than is good for him.” “Yes, he is drunk,” calmly replied the physician. “Why, then, did yon send for me ?” “Because, yon see, I didn’t care to be the only fool on this sad occasion.”— Texas Siftings.

Major Gale Faxon bought a horse from the pastor of an Austin church, and shortly afterward the following conversation was heard: “Yon have swindled me with that horse you sold me last week.” “How so?” asked the clergyman, very much surprised. “Well, I only had him for three days when he died.” “That’s very strange. I owned him twenty-three years, and worked him hard every day, and never knew him to do that while I owned him.— Texas Siftings. Indorsed by the Clergy. We take pleasure In recommending Dr. Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup to the public, especially to any public speaker who may be troubled with throat or lung diseases. Rev. M. L. Booheb, Pastor Presbyterian Church, Reading, Mich. Rev. J. T. Iddings, Albion, Mich. Rev. Y. L Lockwood, Ann Arbor, Mich. Bold by all druggist*. When rain falls, if she gets the bigger half of the umbrella, they are lovers; if he takes the bigger half, they are married. Charlatans and Quacks Have long plied their vocation on the suffering pedals of the people The knife has pared to the quick; caustic applications have tormented the victim of corns until the conviction shaped Itself—there’s no cure. Putnam’s Painless Cobn Extbactob proves on what a slender basis public opinion often rests If you suffer from corns get the Extractor and you will be satisfied. Sold everywhere Wholesale, Lord, Stoutenburgh A Co., Chicago. When is a man like the woman of Bamaria ? When his wife tells him “all things he has ever done” Free to All Ministers of Churches. I will send one bottle of White Wine of Tar Byrup, gratis, to any minister that will recommend it to his friends after giving it a fair test, and it proves satisfactory for coughs, colds, throat or lung diseases Respectfully, Dr. C. D. Wabneb, Reading, Mich. Sold by all druggists The man who was “six feet to his stockings” probably wore the garter around his neck. Good health is the greatest of fortunes; no remedy has so often restored this prize to the suffering as Hood’s Sarsaparilla Try it “I dess I know what memory is,” said a little 4-year-old. “It’s de ting I fordet wid.” Gxbls, like opportunities, are all the more to you after being embraced. Personal t—To Men Onlyt The Yoltaic" Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye’s Celebrated ElectroYoltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Address as above. N. B. No risk is inourred, as thirty days’ trial is allowed. * Mensman’b Peptonized Beep Tonic, tho only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains bloodmaking. force-generating and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over-work, or acute disease, particularly If resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York. Bold by druggists. Thousands upon thousands of bottles ot Carboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, have been sold, and from all over the land comes one universal cry, “Carboline. as now improved and perfected, is the best hair restorer ever used.” Sold by all druggists. Ladies or gents out of work furnished with steady, lucrative employment at home. Bend 3-cent stamp, for particulars, to Agents’ Furnishing Co., P. 0. Box No. 1060, Topeka, Kan. The Howe Scales have all the latest improvements. It is true economy to buy the best. Borden, Selleck A Co., Agents, Chicago, 111. Jiheuinatism Quickly cured! Bend stamp for free presotipt’n, R. K. Helphenstine, Washington,D.C. Get Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners applied to new boots or shoes before you run them over. Tky the new brand, Spring Tobacco. Dose Cup. Advertisem’t in another column.

THOUGH SALT RHEUM

Does not directly imperil life, it is a distressful, vexatious and resolute complaint. Patient endurance of it* numerous very small watery pimples, hot and smarting, requires true fortitude. If the discharged matter sticks, itches, and the scabs leave nnderneath a reddened surface, the disease has not departed, and Hood’s Sarsaparilla, in moderate doses, should be continued. FAMOUS CASE IN BOSTON. *My little four-year-old girl had a powerful eruption on her face and head. Under her eyes it was regular scalding red and sore, like a bum. Back of her left ear we had to shave her hair close to her head. Five or six physicians and two hospitals gave up her case as incurable, save that she might outgrow it. When it began to maturate I became alarmed. In three weeks, with Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the sores began to heal; two bottles made her eyes as clear as ever. To-day she is as well as I am.” JOHN CAREY, 161 D Street, South Boston. ATTEST: I know John Carey. He is an honest, good man, whose statements are worthy of entire credit. I believe what he says about his child’s sickness. CLINTON H. COOK, Milk Street, Boston. HOOD’S /SAHBAPAKILLA. Sold by druggist*, /$1: six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.

Satisfactory Evidence.

J. W. Graham, Wholesale Druggist at Austin, Texas, writes: “I have been handling Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs for the past year, and have found it one of the most salable medicines I*have ever had in my house for Coughs, Colds and even Consumption, always giving entire satisfaction. Please send me one gross by Saturday's steamer.”

Dr. Green’s Oxygenated Bitters

is the oldest and best remedy for Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Malaria, Indigestion, all disorders of the Stomach, and all diseases indicating an impure condition of the Blood, Kidneys and Liver. Dumo’B Catarrh Snuff cares Catarrh and all affections of the mucous membrane. The Excesses of Youth are drafts upon Old Age, payable with interest. Sufferers should immediately use Allen's Brain Food: (1; 8 for *5. At druggists and at Allen’s Pharmacy, 315 First Avenue, New York.

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[This engraving represents the Lungs In a healthy state.] A 6000 FAMILY REMEDY! STRICTLY PURE. Harmless to the Moat Delicate! By It* faithful use CONSUMPTION has been COKED when other remedies and Physicians have failed te effect a cure. William 0. Diqok*, merchant of Bowling Green. Xs., writes April 4.1881, that he wants u« to know that to Lung Balsam A/m cured hi* mother of OtmmanpNon, after the physician had given her up as incurable. He says, others knowing her case have taken the Balsam and been cured; he thinks all so afflicted should give It a trial. William A. Graham & 00.. wholesale druggists. Zanesville, Ohio, write ns of the cure of Mathias Freeman, R well known citizen, who had boen afflicted with Bronchitis In Its worst form for twelve years. The Lima Balsam ourod him, as it has many others, of Bronchitis. As an Expectorant It has No Equ'al. For Male by all Medicine Dealer*. SR In SOB per day at home. Samples worth (5 free. f 9 TO yZU Address Stinson & Co.. Portland, Malne< uiUA .OO made In one month teaching. Address / h 54 t JVn.nujjjui Process 00., Bjfcrsh' ,v, »Wts. H s TTLITP NO patent no pay. PATr NTS K.S.&A.P.LAC’KY.IMIont I n I ItlW I W ashington.D.O Full In* ruction* and Hand-book on Patents* nt fr e. mm am mm pm For Information and Maps of |i_ U Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and g fa lf M Texas, write to JOUN K LNNIB, ■ ■*™ ™4O Clark S., Chicago PATENTSin Send Model And nketoh; will examine and report if patentable. Many years' practice. Pamphlet fro©. rj.W* Fiizgkrald k 00., Patent Attorneys Washington, D.O. “THI BEST 18 CHEAPEBT.” ENGINES, TUDfCMPRQ SAWMILLS, Horse Power* I linLOilLnO flow duller! (Suited to oil sections.) Write for I'liKE Ulna. Panvnhiot and Prices to Tho Aultman & Taylor Co., Manslleld, Ohio. We Take Pleasure In Announcing B&ol E WMARK twain ENTITLED “LIFE ON THE MI»MIBAII*ri.” A rich theme, and the richest, raciest volume ol all the Twain series. Characteristic illustrations. 82,500 in ca*h prite * to agents." A word to the wise Is sufllelent.” IPCtITO Wanted-Outfits now ready,6l. Korpar. AUtll I u tleuiant address C. B. Beach ACo Chicago. 0170NewPianos! M I ■ ■ For particulars writer to 111 11 U Reed's Temple of Music, ~ CHICAGO. DOSE cup & CORK-SCREW, '.fifesKjieflf the invalid’s boon and nurse’s delight GIVEN FREE toDmKooTka , .wKy,- A/ Health Monthly to those sending “ «9gpr ui only 4 letter stamps for n 3 months’ lE w tritu sulweription. Tho I)08K CUP J 2 measures accurately one drachm and ii £ ° prevents mistakes : the oork - screw < A 1- prevents broking oorks and kntfps f S blades; the Health Month V prevent* 3 \ « human ills. Address M. HILL PUB. < a CO., Box 188. New York City. $25 Reward! Wc will pay tho atxrvo reward for any caae of Rheumatism or Neuralgia wo can not euro. Wo can relievo anv case of JOiphtnoria or Croup instantly. Tho J. K* Gardner Army and Navy Liniment will relievo pain and BoroneHH and remove any unnatural growth ox Done or muecle on man or beaut. Larj?o bottlon fit . email bottles GO cents. Will refund the money for any f 8«r ire. m. ARMY AND NAVY LINIMKNr CO., 51 Wabasli Avenue, Chicago, REKDBggaa I will pi vo you the best Seeds for the least money of any llrm in Americnor refund. Western 'jWL Seeds are best. Mine take tho lead. Gardeners say they never “'‘—-Jp-üBH 'Best fail. I used <looolbs paper to print 50000 WJM (Reeds pretty Catalogues 11l ostrated w! th 72000 worth of engravings, r t beats the world, xiffira pr etty worth many do I lam. FREE. Prices below TV* Book all. •R. H. 6HUMWAY, Rockford. 111. Y Fr** A GREAT SAVING TO FAHMERSI -j. THE e-J{ Hay Knife! fig (WEIMOUTH'B PATENT.) Awarded “First Order of Merit” / ' at Melbourne Exhibition, 1880. , ' r Was awarded the First Fremitus L'i H at the International Exhibition in Philadelphia, in 1876, and aoforiV cepted by the Judges as mm oumioß to m otexs f ? SOTI IN PSE. | It Is the BEST KNIFE In the - mam would to cut pine pep.d from Imm bale, to cut down mow or stack, mm to cut corn stalks for feed, of m Uf to cut peat, and has no equal /.y*y for cutting sods or ditching la [bM marshes, and for cutting rnuil* W¥ aok from silo. V,/ TRY IT. IT WILL PAY YOU; ' Manufactured only by HIRAM HOLT«CO,EastWiIton,Me.,D.S.A* Tor salt by Hardware Merchant, and tbe trade generally. Consumption Can Be Cured. a HALL’S Iungs.BALSAM Cores Consumption, Colds, Pneumonia. Infloenca,liro«ichla.TDifficulties, IlronchltJs.Hoarsoness. Asthma. Croup, Whooping Coogh, sad all Diseases oftlic Itreatl) lug Organs. It soothe* and heals the Membrane 'ofthe Lungs, Inflamed and poisoned by the disease, and prevent* to* night sweats and tightness across the cheat which accompany It. Consumption is not an incurable mala/lr. HALL'N BALBA M will cure pHhevijnthoughijrofrsjjOTaUjdM^^^

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