Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1884 — Page 2

WltmocrattcSentihel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Bills .were Introduced in the Senate, on the 13th, to suspend the coinage of the standard silver dollar until June, 1886, and to receive trade dollars in small amounts for postage and revenue stamps; for the erection of public buildings at Pueblo and Del Norte, Colo., and to prohibit the assessment of Government Officials and employes for political purposes. A bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bulking for the Congressional Library. A resolution was adopted calling on the Attorney General to explain the delay in interpreting the law as to the adjustment of Postmasters' salaries. A bill was passed to pay Mrs. Louisa Boddy, of Oregon, $5,400 for mnrders and depredations by the Modocs. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution to send a select committee to Hot Springs, Ark., to examine all Government interests at that point. Bills were introduced—to retire or recoin the trade dollar, to authorize the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio road to the military lands at Fortress Monroe, to provide for the construe- , tion of the Michigan and Mississippi canal, to erect a public building at Carson City, and to convert the 3,4, and 4% per cent bonds into 2J$ par cents., paying a premium equal to the amount saved to the country. There was some debate on the naval appropriation bill. Mr. Stewart, of Vermont, offered a resolution, which was adopted, authorizing the committee to investigate the manner in which the star-route cases have been prosecuted, with a view to ascertain whether such prosecutions have been in good faith. A caucus of the House Democrats was held in the evening. It did nothing but elect a chairman (8. 8. Cox) and font secretaries. The tariff question was not brought up. Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution in the Senate, Feb. 13, directing the Secretary of the Interior to withold for the present his approval of certain patents for lands selected by the Northern Pacific Road. Mr. Pendleton introduced a bill to grant condemned cannon for a statue to Gen, William H. Lytle, of Ohio. The McPherson bill to provide for the i->sue of circulating notes to national banks was advocated by Mr. Bayard as being in the line of absolute security. Mr. Sherman offered an amendment as to bonds bearing more than 3 percent, interest. He said sentiment in Congress was hostile to the suspension of silver coinage or the adoption of a new ratio between the precious metals, and that a silver standard was casting its shadow upon the future. In the House, a resolution was offered inquiring into the delay in returning the measure for the relief of sufferers by the tioods now prevailing. Petitions were presented for pensions to Union soldiers confined in Andersonville, Belle Isle, or •other Confederate prisons. The Secretary of the Navy transmitted c aims of contractors for the care of monitors, aggregating $278,645. Some time was spent in debate on the contested election case of Chalmers vs. Manning.

Senator Beck called up the McPherson banking bill Feb. 14, and during the course of his speech deprecated the proposition to allow the issue of circulating notes up to the market value of the securities deposited. Senator Morrill offered a substitute prdviding for the issuance of notes up to 110 per cent, of the par value of 4 per cent, bonds deposited previous to 1890, the amount in circulation to decrease 1 per cent, each year subsequently until par is reached. On all other securities the circulation may 1 equal the par value of the bonds. No action was taken. Bills Sissed the Senate for the relief of the Louisna State Bank and to make all public roads and highways post routes. Mr. Logan introduced a bill to provide that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors be preferred for appointment to civil offices. Mr. Beck handed in an act for the organization of Supreme Courts in the Territories. In the House of Representatives, Mr. McKinley presented a telegram from Cleveland recommending that the flood relief appropriation be Increased to $1,000,000. Several members aired their views in regard to the Mississippi contested election case of Chalmers vs. Manning. An additional appropriation of $200,001 making the total amount $500,000, for the relief of the flood sufferers, passed both houses of Congress Feb. 15. The Senate spent an hour in debate on the biU to provide for the issue of circulating notes to national banks. A vote was then taken on the amendment submitted by Mr. Sherman providing that if any bonds deposited bore interest higher than 3 per cent additional notes shall be issued equal to one-half the interest in excess of 3 per cent accruing before maturity, and it was rejected. The House defeated a resolution declaring Manning entitled to the seat from Mississippi, contested by him and Chalmers, and decided that the s?at should remain vacant until decided on its merits. Both houses adjourned to Feb. 18.

EASTERN.

By the collapse of a bridge at Weedsport, N. Y., a mixed train was dropped into the Seneca River, the engineer, fireman, and brakeman being drowned. The Philadelphia Medical News says Gen. Grant is doing well, but his recovery is retarded by rheumatism. The will of Wendell Phillips conveys his entire estate, valued at $250,000, to his widow and adopted daughter. Whole families of children are dangerously ill with scarlet fever at Ware, Mass. New York is said to be overrun with beggars, many of whom steal simply to get shelter and food in jail.

WESTERN.

The Coroner’s jury investigating the railroad horror near Indianapolis, Jan. 31 last, find that the bridge was weakened by the repairers substituting temporary for permanent rods, but cast direct responsibility on no person, thus shouldering the blame on the railroad company. One of the most comprehensive coin collections in the United States was stolen by burglars from the office of Dr. H. C. Brainard, of Cleveland. Nearly one-half of a flock of 6,000 sheep on the Dakota bad lands, owned by Marquis Demores, having died this winter, the belief gains ground that they were poisoned by his enemies. A contract for through sleeping-cars between Chicago and San Francisco has been signed between the Central and Union Pacific and the Northwestern Roads and the Pullman Company. A dispatch from Fort Buford states that the Indians at Poplar Creek and Wolf Point Agencies are at the point of starvation. They have eaten their dogs and horses, the game is destroyed, and many warriors are unable to resist the extreme cold. The rations issued monthly by the Government are devoured within a few hours. The Illinois Supreme Court has rendered a decision declaring the Harper bill, which imposes a license of SSOO on whisky and $l5O on beer and malt liquor, constitutional. By the explosion of a tank of oil, which a boy fired at Bellefontaine, Ohio, six children were severely burned. The winter packing of hogs in Chicago shows a decrease of 459,000 when compared with the corresponding period of last year. The directors of the Chicago and Alton Road report the gross earnings for the year as $3,810,610, and the operating expenses os $4,879,958. The total amount of Stock and bonds is $26,309,822.

SOUTHERN.

The Rawley family, of Boyle County, Kentucky, has within thirty years figured in affrays in which ten men were killed. The feud with the Shearins resulted in the shooting of one of that family by George W. Rawley. A shooting affray occurred at Hot Springs, Ark., between Editor Harris, of the Morning Honethoe, and two men who sympathized with the assassins who figured in the Doran-Flynn tragedy. After emptying • his revolver, the editor started for his Winchester, but was captured by the police. No person was wounded. Three rural visitors to Lexington, Ky., blew out the gas upon retiring, and were found dead the next morning.

WASHINGTON.

A Washington dispatch says the House Committee on Public Lands will report a bill forfeiting the land grantsof the Houghton and Ontonagon, the Marquette and State Line, the Brule River, and the Ontonagon Railroads, comprising about 200,000 acres in Michigan. President Arthur has ordered the promotion of Lieut. Rhodes, of the revenue cutter Dexter, for heroic work at the wreck of the steamer City of Columbus. The Bureau of Engraving and Printnlg at Washington has made the last delivery of Si and $2 notes warranted by the appropriations, and there will be determined opposition in Congress to providing for any more small bills. Thomas Benton, colored, was hanged at Plaquemine, La., in the presence of 2,000 people, for the murder of Robert Duggan, July 8, 1883. A Congressional delegation visited Baltimore last week to inquire into the advantages of a proposed canal across the peninsula, which would require the expenditure of $30,000,000. The metal men were before the Ways and Means Committee last week. Mr. Horr, of Michigan, declares that Morrison’s bill will pass the House. He counts but three Republican votes in its favor, but not more than twenty-five Democratic votes against it. The House Commerce Committee has voted to strike out the provision in the Reagan bill relative to the discriminations between short allong hauls on railroad, and also the section requiring fixed rates to be posted in public places and not changed without five days’ notice. The committee has indicated its intention of recommending a bill forbidding discrimination and pooling combinations for the purpose of raising rates.

POLITICAL.

R. W. Glass (colored) testified before the Sherman committee, on the second day of its sittings at Washington, that on the 3d of November, at Danville, Va., he heard a pistol fired, and rushed to the scene, where he found some seventy-five negroes and twentyfive white men. The white men and policemen were telling the negroes to leave, which they declined to do. Then the white men drew pistols and fired. Said he heard some whites say: “Kill every damned nigger we can see.’’ Heard Henry Barkesdale make a speech in which he said: “We intend to carry this election by fair means or foul.” Heard him say it was to be carried “by de point ob de gun.” At the time of the riot saw white men riding up with guns; taw white men running home after their guns; saw no colored men armed. George A. Lee (white) saw several pistols in the hands of the colored people. Believed the first volley was fired into the crowd of negroes, but after the latter began to run a great many shots were fired in the air; saw some eight or ten pistols among the negroes pointed at Taylor and himself, the negroes demanding that they come out and show their faces. Charles G. Freeman (white) described his efforts to disperse the crowd of negroes before the riot They (the blacks) replied that they had been mistreated, and were going to have their rights before they Ibft. Witness saw many negroes with pistols. John Stone (white) testified that the negroes generally did not vote on election day, saying they were not going to be slaughtered. At a meeting of prominent Republicans in New York, headed by Senator Miller, it was concluded that it would .be next to impossible to give Arthur a solid delegation for the nomination, and a messenger was dispatched to Washington to carry the news to him. Miller, it is claimed, is Inclined to down Arthur in the hope to get second place on the ticket. Gen. Will Cumback, of Indiana, in an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, expressed it as his opinion that neither Arthur nor Logan would receive the Republican nomination. Arthur would find his strongest opposition In his own State, and Logan is not at all popular in the East.

FIRE RECORD.

The fire record of the week is as follows: , Losses. St. Louis, Mo., dry goods store.. $ 40,000 Long Island City, N. Y., oil tanks 75,000 Middleport, N. Y., hotel and stores 20,000 Trinidad, St. Thomas Island, stores 400,000 Buckeye City, Ohio, flouring mills 15,000 Zanesville, Ohio, railway repair shop.... 20,000 Genesee Falls. N. Y.. planing mill 40,000 Omaha, Neb,, brick business block 55,000 Sabina, Ohio, two stores 20,000 Wheeling, W. Va., business property.... 70,000 Helena. Ark., five business houses 75,000 Walcott, N. Y., a dozen stores 101,000 Haverhill, Mass., shoe factory 50,000 Browmlale, Minn., grain elevator 25,000 Keokuk, lowa, dwelling house 10,003 Albion, Pa., several stores ts 20,000 Bennington, Vt., paper mill 60,000 St. Louis, Mo., steamboat 100,000 Oneida, N. Y., hardware store 50.000 Toronto, Ont, soap factory... s 50,00<i Leon, lowa, grain elevator 10,000 Council Bluffs, lowa, hotel 15,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., brick works 10,000 Minneapolis,Minn., cooper shops 15,000 Union City, Mich., stores 15,000 Jonesboro, Ind., grain elevator 12,000

A WEEK’S FAILURES.

The week’s business failures of importance, as reported by telegraph, are noted in the appended tablo: „ Liabilities. Pilkington <fc Co., agricultural implements, St. Paul .. $75,000 H. <t H. S.Church, stove-founders, Trov, V . N ; Y. .. • 50,000 Victoria Straw Works, Montreal 80,000 H. J. Woodrich, clothing, Chicago 22,000 R. A, Saalfield, music publisher, New F. <t E. Jaeger, crockery, Chicago 70,000 Perrine & Co., wool, New York 115,000 J- A. Grinstead, turfman, Lexlngton.Ky. 100,000 A. C. A: C. H. Klomanson, mills, Pittsburgh... 250,000 Renshaw & Co., clothiers, New Orleans. 50,000 John Kerr, banker, Abilene, Tex...' 40,000 Isaac Hodge, banker, Platteville, Wis.... 150,000 J. Freedman, dry goods, New York 100,000

J. W. Fowler, dry goods, St Joseph. Mb. H.OCX) Jones Car Manufacturing Company, Troy, N. T 1 100,000 W. Beisterfleld, dry goods, Baginaw,Mich. 10,000 Edward Pillsbury's Sons, cotton. New Orleans 140,000 Woodside <fr Co., liquors, Philadelphia... 00,000 Gleaner A Rose, confectioners, Kansas City .. 40,000 National Wrapper and Packing Co., St Loots 50,000 T. P. A 8.8. Smith, shoes. Philadelphia.. 40,000

MISCELLANEOUS. The waters of the Ohio River had fallen two feet at Cincinnati on the morning of Feb. 16, and was receding all the way down as far as Evansville. A seething torrent was rushing through Jeffersonville. carrying everything before it. Great distress prevailed at Uniontown, which was partly desei ted, and mountainous waves were destroying the structures which remained erect at Lawrenceburg. The devastation at New Albany continued. Distressing reports are narrated by persons on the relief boats plying up and down the Ohio. Th« horrors of the flood were aggravated-at Cincinnati by a terrible disaster by which twelve lives were lost. Two large buildings, undermined by the water, fell with a crash, burying the occupants in the ruins. The accident spread terror among the occupants of similar old buildings in the Inundated district, and many who could do so were seeking safer quarters. By the upsetting of a boat in the Tennessee R'ver, near Newburg, Tenn., two women and three children lost their lives. The delegates of the Manitoba Farmers’ Union have returned to Winnipeg from Ottawa. They say their memorial to the Dominion Government, requesting a redress of grievances, received no attention. The Council has called a convention for March 8, at which the whole Northwest will be represented, and decisive action taken. The excitement through the provinces is intense, and trouble is feared. The importation duties on dutiable goods entering Mexico will be increased 5 per cent, from May 15. At Cairo, Paducah, Shawneetown and other points on the lower Ohio river, according to dispatches of Feb. 18, the water was still rising, and, as rain was falling, it was anticipated that the rise would continue for some days, The situation at Shawnee, town was growing more serious, and Paducah was in danger of being entirely submerged. Nearly all the houses between Calrc and Evansville were under water. Between Raleigh and Saline, in Illinois, a distance of fifteen miles, 150,000 bushels of corn were swept away. Newport, Ky., reports 3,387 houses inundated, the estimated damage being $1,000,000. Thirty-three buildings were washed away, and 127 turned bottom upward. At Cincinnati, hundreds of men were at the work straightening the houses that had toppled over. A concert by the Abbey opera troupe at Cincinnati netted nearly SB,OOO for the re lief fund. Reports from the Southwest say the Red River, which runs through a rich cotton section, was overflowed almost from its source to its mouth, entailing Immense destruction of property. The Alabama and many other Southern streams were also on the boom. The work of raising funds for the relief of the flood sufferers goes bravely on throughout the country, and if an equitable distribution of money and supplies can only be effected, and the sufferers reached in a reasonably short time; there ought to be little real physical suffering.

FOREIGN.

A second edition of Queen Victoria’s new book, issued on the 11th of February, is being printed. Ten thousand copies of the book were sold the first day of publication. It consists of a diary covering the period embraced between 1836 »nd 1870, and is devoted almost exclusively to domestic and family affairs. The Mexican Government has appropriated $200,000 for suitable representation at the world's exhibition in New Orleans. Seven persons were drowned at Dundee, Scotland. They were pleasure-seekers. Vague reports have reached London of a frightful butchery of Christians in Tonquin. It is stated that from 250 to 300 Catechists have been massacred and the missionhouse destroyed. An unknown man seized Premier Gladstone in Bond street, London, and brought him to a stand. The Premier disengaged himself, and proceeded to the House of Commons. . Turkey has a new trouble on her hands. The Cretans are again in a revolt, arising from the determination of the Sultan that the Christians in Crete, who belong to the Greek Church, shall be regulated by the Mohammedan religious laws. So long as these laws applied only to civil affairs the Cretans made no serious objections; but when it was sought to regulate their, ecclesiastical affairs they at once resisted. Greek brigands have made another haul of Judges and other officials. A company, of which John Bright, E. Dwyer Gray and Charles S. Parnell are directors, has been formed, to operate under the Irish tramways act, to purchase estates' and relieve congested districts. Russian journals, in noting thp final annexation of Merv, declare that England and Russia can continue to gobble Asia without arousing new antagonisms. The German papers, however, cannot refrain from taunting England on the added dangers which the recent conquests of Russia have brought to British rule in India. Gen. Gordon has reached Khartoum, and posted a proclamation recognizing El Mehdi as the Sultan. A duel between members of the French Chamber of Deputies took place in Paris, M. Laquerre receiving a wound in the knee. Bismarck has returned the Lasker resolutions to the German Minister at Washington, instructing him to return them to the House of Representatives, as they are not acceptable to Germany, and ask for their recall. The London Times states that there is considerable ill-feeilng between the Washington and Berlin Cabinets. Attempts have been made at Kieff, Russia, to incite a massacre of the Jews. A bill for suppressing seditious street demonstrations has been passed by the French Chamber. Bismarck has been assured of the Czar’s friendship by a military attache of the Russian Embassy nt Berlin. A second large mass-meeting was held in London, to denounce the policy of the government in relation to Egypt. A resolu-

tion offered by Sir Robert Peel, that Parlament had ceased to be in accord with the people, was adopted. A royal commission, of which Sir Charlo? Dilke is Chairman, will shortly inquire into the condition of the dwellings, of the poor in the United Kingdom. Four men fired upon the carbineer of King Humbert's train near Corncto, Italy. The carbineer returned the fire, wounding cne of his assailants. A bottle of gunpowder with a lighted fuse attached was also thrown at the train, without doing any damage, however.

LATER NEWs ITEMS.

On the 10th day of last January the House of Representatives at Washington unanimously adopted the following resolution, which was introduced by Mr. Finerty, of Illinois: Resolved, That this House has heard with deep regret of the death of the eminent German statesman, Eduard Lasker. 2. That his loss is not alone to be mourned by the people of his native land, where his firm and constant exposition of and devotion to free and liberal ideas have materially advanced the social, political, and economic condition of those peoples, bnt by the lovers of liberty throughout the world. 3. That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the family of the deceased as well as to the Minister of the United States resident at the capital of the German Empire to be by him communicated through the legitimate channel to the presiding officer of the legislative body of which he was a member. These resolutions have been returned by Prince Bismarck to the German Minister at Washington, with a counter request that he return them to the American Congress, as the position of in Germany was not such as to justify the resolution. Bismarck claims that a “high political principle” formed the basis of his action in this matter. The London Times, commenting upon the insolence of the German autocrat, says: “One thing is certain. We have not heard the last of the Lasker incident. The Americans are much too proud, too sensitive, and too independent for that.” It is believed at Washington that, unless the State Department chooses to pursue a course of pusillanimity that shall cover the American name with disgrace the world over, this matter will lead to grave international complications. The house of Rheuben Hart (colored), near Crockett, Tex., burned the other night, and six children who had been locked in while their parents went to church perished in the flames. A snow-slide at Park City, Utah, killed four persons and wounded two others. Seven thousand Indians on Poplar River are starving and have been subsisting for some tiffie on their dogs and ponies. There are fears that the agents and posttraders will be massacred. The snow in the region is unprecedentedly deep. A Palmyra (Wis.) dispatch says: Miss Emma Bond, the victim of the TaylorviUe, 111., outrage, has arrived in Palmyra for medical treatment. She has been offered a home and treatment as long as she chooses io remain. A favorable report was made in the Senate, Feb. 18, on the bill to erect a public building at Winona, and an adverse report was handed in on the act for the irrigation of lands in the arid region of the United States. Bills were introduced to admit Dakota as a State, and to provide for improving rivers and harbors bv contract. Bills were passed to fix the terms of Federal courts in Texas, to authorize the sale of timber on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, and to provide for the removal of the Southern Utes to Utah. The Senate spent another day in the consideration of the finance bill. No vote was reached. The striking speech was made by Mr. Vest, of Missouri, who vigorously attacked the national banking system, and charged that those who support it are slaves to the banks. Mr. Morrill says that it was evident that Mr. Vest wanted the Government to become a great national banking institution for ths issue of paper money without any preparation for its redemption, and that the lesson of history had been that whenever such a policy had been adopted the paper had never been redeemed in gold. The House of Representatives passed a bill making the postage on newspapers, when sent by others than the publishers, one cent for each four ounces or fraction thereof. This promises a direct boon to the reading public, who had previously been obliged to pay one cent for two ounces. A resolution was adopted by the House making the bill for the retirement of the tradedollar a special order for the 11th of March. Rills were introduced—to grant 320 acres of public land to each survivor of the Mountain Meadow massacre; to make freight pools unlawful on roads aided by Government bonds; to appropriate $12,000 for additional signal stations, and to amend the sinking-fund act. A resolution was offered directing the Secretary of State to furnish information as to the action of Bismarck on the resolutions in death of Herr Lasker. A bill was passed to relieve certain soldiers from the charge of desertion. The bill to restore to the Mexican pension-rolls the names of Confederate soldiers stricken oft for disloyalty soon left the House without a quorum, and an all-night session was the consequence.

THE MARKET.

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DEVASTATION.

Terrible Destruction Wrought, by the Floods m the Ohio Valley. The Waters Beach a Higher Point Than It Has Been for Centuries. Untold Suffering at Wheeling and Other Points Along the Roaring Biver. Hundreds of Towns and Vast Stretches . of Country Inundated—Starvation and Famine. [Special Telegraphic Corresnondence of Chicago Times.] CINCINNATI AND UPPER OHIO RIVER TOWNS. The situatibn in Cincinnati and her subuibs is one that calls for commiseration. A year ago this week the whole country was aroused by scenes of destruction and distress, and tonight the damage exceeds the wildest estimates of last year. The stories of the floods in Hungary and Austria are dwarfed by the size of the mighty flood that at this moment is rolling in resistless volume down the Ohio. Within cannon shot of the center of population of the United States is a community of 300,000 souls, rich and prosperous beyond most cities of the country, nearly one-fourth of which will be, before this flood reaches its utmost height, driven from or imprisoned in their homes, and dependent on others for food and shelter. Not a gas jet is lit in all the three cities. The face of the sun has not been seen for days. The full moon*s.gentle rays, thinly filtered through the clouds, is the only source of light at night. Away from the struggling beams of coal-oil lamps and scattering electric lights, the gloom that has settled as a pall over’the people is in full keeping with the sadness of nature's self. A prominent business man said a few minutes since that never in all his life had he felt as gloomy and disheartened at the prospects of the future outlook as to night. The direct loss in Cincinnati alone of over $1,000,000 last year will be multiplied several fold before Saturday night next. Again the tributaries are rising, and where it will end is a matter of the wildest conjecture. Conservative people gave seventy feet as the least figure at which the river would stop. Many believed that it would go still higher, but it is all a matter of guesswork. The rooms of the relief committee is piled to the ceiling with provisions and clothing, and a couple of policemen, stand at the door to keep back the crowd.

A special from Maysville, Ky., sixty-five miles up the river, says it has rained steadily all day and the river is rising one inch an hour. All business is shut down and citizens are assisting the needy. The greatest suffering is in the suburban town of Chester,where thousands of people are quartered in halls and school houses. Relief committees are distributing provisions in skiffs. In Maysville the water is up to the center of the town. Never has there been such suffering. The Emmet Rifles were ordered out by the Council to patrol the streets, but nearly all of them got drunk, took possession of the skiffs, and did more harm than good. The Manson Company has given the city of Maysville $2,5000 for aid. Many houses pass down the river. At Aberdeen, Ohio, nearly opposite, the suffering is intense. Loud cries are heard from there as houses tumble down and are carried away. Above the city, in the upper suburbs, the situation is worse than ever. At California it is terrible-beyond description. The entire town is completely submerged, and many of the houses along Front street are almost out of sight. Many are on the verge of complete destruction. Not a solitary light is. to be seen and not a voice to be heard. Qhisculum is at present under water; Columbia is very badly submerged, both above and below. One-third of the town is under the flood. There was no gas lit last night. Much suffering prevails. Delta, Tusculum, Columbia, and East Columbia are deserted and tenantless. Pendleton is in the same condition as Fulton and Columbia. A local relief committee has been busy for the past five days ameliorating the condition of the sufferers. The public buildings are all turned into marine hospitals. The people of Austinburg and Sandfordtown are in a deplorable condition. Covington stands apparently high and dry, but gas has been shut off, and the citizens may look for a cut-off in the water supply. At Newport the situation is proving worse hourly. Many families in the extreme lower portion of the flooded district were forced out of the second stories to-day. The situation in East Newport is terrible. The houses in that locality are ail threatened with destruction. Four thousand people were fed ty the committee at noon, and as many more were turned away dinnerless in the rain because all supplies had given out. There was nothing for supper. Advices from Pomeroy, 245 miles up the river, say the town and its surroundings are almost entirely submerged, and the destruction has been terrible. The water was eight feet higher than ever before. The town has had no telegraph or railroad communication for four days. Provisions are almost exhausted, and appeals vere made to the country at large for aid. The special was sent to Athens, thirty miles, by messenger. Point Pleasant, W. Va., four miles above, telegraphs for speedy aid. A Parkersburg dispatch says' that the crisis has passed there. The river reached fifty four feet. The town suffered severely, the estimated losses being about SI,OCO,QOO. At Gallipolis, Ohio, 5,030 people are camped on the hills in terrible want for food and shelter. One hundred and fifty houses have floated away. Nearly every business man is bankrupt. A house went by Middleport this 'morning with a woman sitting on the gable end. Men rowed out and appealed to her to get off, but she refused, saying she had four babies below. The glass was broken, and the children were seen floating dead. New Richmond, Ohio, has been cut off for six days from the outside world except by skiff. There is water in every building, and hundreds of houses are submerged. The water is twenty-six inches higher than a year ago. The village of Rural, Ky., is entirely swept away, only two of thirty-six houses being left. WHEELING, W. VA. The city of Wheeling suffered greater loss last week than it has in all its hundred years of existence. Nothing like it has ever visited the city before. To-day was really the first day of relief since last Wednesday, and as soon as the light broke thousands left their homes to view the ruin the waters had wrought. The island was the principal place of resort, for there the destruction was the greatest. No accurate estimate can be made for many days yet, but it is certain that the loss in the city of Wheeling alone will not fall short of $4,000,000. As an idea of the general destruction wrought, the loss in pianos alone will reach $60,000. The relief work goes bravely on, and what can be is being done. Food is now plenty, and no one suffers for something to eat. The city authorities are cleaning the streets of drift, and people are making some effort to restore their homes. NEW ALBANY, IND. The river is rising one and a half inches an hour, and is now sixty-eight feet eight inches in the channel, against sixty-nine feet in 1832, and seventy-two feet in 1888. Six hundred residences are flooded here, and the number is being added to stekdUy. But five of the many factories in the city are running. Thousands of working people are idle. Families are huddled together by the dozens in small, unwholesome, damp houses, and sickness is increasing as a result. There is a great deal of real suffering, and scenes like this are frequently met that touch the hardest heart. The situation in this city is grave, and- the suffering is great. The city authorities and citizens are doing all in their power to relieve it. There will certainly be three feet more of a rise, and this will involve a heavy loss here. It cannot now be estimated with any accuracy. At Jeffersonville the sit *tion is

perilous. nearly me wnoie town is noooecs and people have moved into the second stories, of their houses. AURORA, IND. The dismal predictions made yesterday in regard to affairs at Lawrenceburg have been verified. The water has keen rising ra; and with it comes destruction. Upward of forty residences now are more or less wrecked or moved from their foundations, some of them several squares. People all over the town are leaving their houses, but they are compelled to leave their goods, as there is no place to take them, and even if there were a place to put them, they could not be moved, so strong Is the current through the town. Provisions are scarce, and there is much suffering in prospect. LOUISVILLE AND LOWER RIVER POINTS. This city is filled with alarm at the encroachments of the flood. The river has been rising a half-inch an hour for eighteen hours, and the signal service department predicts that the flood will exceed the mark of 1883 all along the Ohio. At this point that height has almost been reached, and a great deal of water is reported coming. So far as Louisville Is concerned, there “ a need for immediate subscriptions to the flood relief fund, but no outside aid is neoessarv yet. From points down the river terrible accounts come of destruction of property and distress of people. The steamer Ariadne arrived from the lower Ohio this evening, the first boat up in a week. She left Uniontown, Ky., last Friday morning. At Uniontown the water was within two feet of being over the bank, which at the town is some three feet higher than inrther up the river. The water must by this time have got into Uniontown, and flooded the whole place. Above Uniontown the country has been flooded for days, and farms are much damaged. Mount Vernon .Ind., is stiH above water, as at Henderson, Evansville, and Owensboro. The water is in all the stores of Newburg, Ind.,, and business is entirely suspended. At Rockport the railroad depot is under water, and the eastern end of the town is flooded, but the main business portion is above water. At Grand ' View the shipping warehouses and the lower end of the town are under water. Many people have deserted their houses, and there is some distress. The business section is still above water. Lewisport was three teet above water night before last. A rise of three feet would have flooded all the houses. Troy is all under water and no business is transacted. Every house in Tell City is in the water. The people there have become navigators, and every house has its boat. At least 500 skiffs may be seen moving about the streets. At Cannelton the water extends back for three blocks. Cloverport, east of Clover Creek, was submerged, and steamboats cannot land at the regular landing. Tobinsport and Rome, both in Indiana, are entirely inundated. Stevensport also is all under water, and there is no landing for boats. Concordia is all under water, and the people have taken refuge in the hills back from the river. At Alton, Ind., the water covers many houses entirely, and is up to the eaves of all of them, even those in the rear part of the place. The people have all deserted. At Leavenworth, Ind., the water reaches to the hills, and covers the entire away ♦ the awnings in front of stores. Even that section nearest the hills is submerged, the back water having come in through a creek that runs by the place. The river in front of Amsterdam is flooded. One-half of the business is on the river ahd is flooded. At Mauckport the water has flooded everything. The place has a number of saw-mills and flour-mills, which have suspended operations. West Point is flooded and business is suspended. Capt. McCoy, of the Ariadne, says of the flooded-eouutry: “The people were generally prepared for the flood before the water caught them, and the damage will not be nearly so great as it was last year. If the flood does not go down soon, however, there will be great want of provisions, though I think there is as yet no suffering.’

PENSIONS.

Proposed Legislation at Washington. A Washington correspondent telegraphs as follows: The temper of the Pensions Committee of the House of Representatives on the subject of swelling the lists of persons entitled to draw pensions from the National Treasury is illustrated by a report it has made recommending that twenty general measures referred to it bo laid upon the table. Included in the list are bills granting pensions to persons who served fourteen, days in the war of 1812, and to those whoserved in the Mexican war, or the Creek, Florida, Black Hawk, or any other Indian war. Among the pension bills introduced in the House, that of Mr. Henderson, of Illinois, has attracted the most attention. With slight modifications it will receive the, indorsement and approval of the Pension Office, and is likely to form the basis of any peiision legislation contemplating an extension of the present pension list. The bill proposes to grant pensions to all persons who, having enlisted in the regular or volunteer army or navy in any wars waged by the United States, served three months, were honorably discharged, and who are tinable, by reason of physical disability, to earn their subsistence, or who are 65 years of age, and are dependent upon their labor for support. This will cover all the veterans of tho,war of 1812 and the Mexican war, as well as those of the rebellion, and is in this respect a most comprehensive bill It does not propose to pension everybody that served the Government, only those who are in actual want, or who, by reason of age or physical disability not resulting from bad or vicious habits, are unable to earn a living. The requirement of three months’ service is criticised by some as being too short, and a recommendation of an extension to six luonths has been made to meet this.

GEN. SHERMAN.

The President’s Order Announcing HisRetirement. The President, on the Bth Inst., issued the following order, announcing the retirement of Gen. Sherman: Gen. William T. Sherman, General of the Army, having this day reached the age of 64 years, is, in accordance to law, placed on the retired list of the army without restriction of pay and aßowances. The announcement of the severance from the command of the army of one who has been for so many years its distinguished chief can but awaken in the minds not only of the army but of the people of the United States, mingled emotions of regret and gratitude—regret at the withdrawal from active military service of an officer whose lofty sense of duty has been a model for all soldiers since he first entered the army, July, 1840, and gratitude freshly awakened for the services of incalculable value rendered by him in the war for the Union, which his great military genius and daring did so much to end. The President deems this a fitting occasion to give expression in this manner to the gratitude felt toward Gen. Sherman by his fellow-citizens, and to the hope that Providence may grant him many years of health and happiness in relief from the active duties of his profession.

Banking and Currency.

A majority of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, says a Washington dispatch, have practically given up the expectation that Congress will remove the tax on banking circulation. At their next meeting they will probably draft a substitute for the Buckner-Potter and other bank and bond bills referred to them, which will be a combination of bills introduced in the Senate by Messrs. Aldrich and McPherson, one of which is recommended by Comptroller Knox, and the other by United States Treasurer Wyman. The substitute as now proposed will provide for a new series of 3 per cent, bonds, to be exchanged for 4’s, at a bonus of 15 per cent., to induce holders to give them up; also that national banks may issue circulating notes to the amount of the par value of their bonds on deposit.

BRIEFS.

The ten German universities matriculated 12,708 students for the winter course. Mrs. Strong is the name of the first cotton raiser in California. She raised lot) bales last year. Beecher says that "Jonathan Edwards* sermons were made for hell, and ought to be sent to hell.” Bismarck is becoming regular in his habits. But that does not compensate for bis-exelu-sion of the American hog. Mrs. John Jacob Astor has sent 1,033 homeless children to the South and West during the last few years at an expense of nearly $16,000. An international agricultural exhibition is to be held at Amsterdam next August, and valuable prizes will be offered for every description of live stock. Over 34,000 of the 4,440,822 pieces of mail matter that were sent to the Dead Letter Office last year contained checks, money, to the amount of about $1,030,000.

cHESTER A. ARTHUR.