Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 February 1882 — Page 2

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CLUTTER— At 19:30 o'clock frlosy morning, eatarrs of iht iUJtu»«b, Jtfsa H. Clutter. The lateral will tafee plaee at the Christian Chapel, on Mulbtny street, at 2:30 oVloci thi» afternoon. 8ervio« will b» eondnoted by Bev. e. P. Peals.

Friends of the funny are invited to attend without further notice. AGIN

SIS—Alba't Maginnls, late train.dis­

patcher of the VanflaUn railroad, tiled cfituiufiJ, February 4th, at 9 a. m. The /oners 1 will take piece from his late reeideaoe, north C^strc street, Tuesday, February 7th, at 10 a. m. Bev. C. P. Cro/t* and Terr# Haute Commander? will have charga of the ssr-

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HADirector*,

D-To know why Welch's Filth Street Barber Shop Is called the "Silent Bhop. Because man can get a shave there without beiDg ahked to take something he does noi want. Plenty of clean towels always on hand.

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r£D—A fnrnubed room for light housekeeping, centrally located or three unfurnished room*. Must be well llgh'ed. In good condition, and connected. Address at Terre Haute House. EL1.ES M. DELANO

In re»i*ence», et«., and names, residences, etc., of persons moYii to the city litely. or persons who think they fc»ve Ixen missed by the canvassers. All Information of the above character desired, ana If sent or broueht to the office, 21 Beach Block, will be properly inserted.

AND MULES-For

which I will pay the highest market price. I will be at Carlco's Livery Stablei until March 1st. SAMUEL STROU8E.

fOB RENT.

OK Kl XT-HOUSE—Twostory brick house containing ei*ht rooms and summer kitchen: brick stable, well and cistern large lot. de lrable property—S2B south Sixth street. Call at Koopman's leather store.

Oft RS NT—Several nice rooms Inquire at No. 822 Ohio street (new brick bouse.)

TOOK BKIST—Furnished rooms with board, also day boarders wanted. Also good stable, centrally located, Enquire at 212 North Sixth street.

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rkst—The room on Fourth street formerly occupied by Byers Brothers. Also, a small room adjoining, suitable for anoffioeor small busiut ss. MRS. LONG. -onth Fifth street.

HI-H P^lra'le dwelling on south street. Apply to J. D. Early, 118

Main street. Ki KT—lfsirnWe brick dwelling. No. »t oncer

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222"south Filth strtet. Apglv »t one*at life Main street.

FOR SALE.

3ood cottage house, eight

rooms 65 fen front of ground on the northwest corner of 8eventh and Early street'. Oo' well, ci tern rtlier, b-.rn and other outbuildings. Call and kce or address 1040 north Beventh street.

VB SA —Farm of 120 rcres near BraslL Good coal and fftim.ng lac.d.

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or of i74 acres near Coal uiie half good coal lnnd railroad runs thr ugb farm. Two thirds cf yurch-se money VUr-'UgU l^rUJ. VA ^UIVU -DW can icrii?.\-i ou tbo pl&co tit a. ™R^STON^"

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/OK fi*5.E—Intensive flnur tarrel and aUuv and heading Inctory at Terre Haute, Ind. Occupies ei* seres ground in the city. Newiron rcofed factory building, two dry kilns, ample shed room, latct irnprov.d machinery as cO' as new. Railroad switch and stesmboat landing ou the ground. AMtndant supply of tin ber and rsaoy fnle for all cflala. Tube sold at public sale on Moncay, February 27tc, 1882, ou the lrremises. Terms of sale made known at the time.

QILMAK BR0S. 4 c0.

OB HOUSES ANU.LOTd-Two on the .rtier First and Llntcni streets: Area on .- ecotid ano E gle. Thi- pioper.y belonged toRufos 8t. John, deceased, ihe prcperty must be sold at once, and there fire just five eh&nre* for the five Rood batgHins. Apply to George Planet, et Jolin Aiuiatrung'8, No. 10 north Th'rd street.

MONEY TO LOAN.

Molt

FA' T«» liOAPtf—In srnns of SI,000 and upwards at lowf fit current rates of Interest on first class imj.rcvcd farms and city property. I V. PRESTON,

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13 Morton Post No. 1, Regular jOl.1 IV. Enramrments, first and third Tliutscay evenings of each month. Special meetings, for social and historical purposes, on second and fourth Thureaay evenings. Headquarters, G. A. R. Ball, corner Blxth and Main treets. Visiting comrades ore always welcome.

FIFTH STREET

SECOND HAND STORE

18 SOUTH FIFTH STREET.-

Second-hand furniture bought and sold. Repair work neatly done. A liberal cash price paid for cast-off clothing.

New Grocery Establishment,

At 807 Olito Street,

1 have just opened a new, clean and freah stock of family GROCERIES and PROVISIONS To which I invite the attention of my friends and the public generally. All noods sold low for cash. Articles will be delivered to any part of the city when desired. Cash paid atall times for country produce. Give me ft call when —anting anything In my line.

GEO. T, DRAKE.

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OTICE TO PUBLISHERS AND BINDERS. Crrr CLERK'S OFFICB, TERRS HAUTI, IND., January 27,1882. Sealed proposals will be received by the Common Council of the city of Terre Haute, Ind.. at their next regular meeting, Tuesday evening, February 7th, 1882, for printing, publishing and binding two hundred (2t)0) copies of the Revised City Charter and Ordinances. The said work to be done ou sixty (60) pound book paper No. 2, white, text of book to be set In long primer type and side notes and foot notes in non part 11 typ'.

The pages are to he 46 picas long by 28 picas wide the text to be 24 picas wide and side notes 4 ricaa wide

The book is"to be bound in the same style and the binding is 'o be of the same quality aa used ID the last revision of the City Charier and Ordinance*.

The Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals must be accompanied by a bond In the sum of one hunched (3100) dollars for the faithful ente iu into of the contract by the person to whom the »ame Rwa ded.

This bond t« be signed by two disinterested and responsible resident freeholders. Withiu five (5) days alter the contract Is awsrde'1 the person tn whom It is so awarded shall file a bond wi the City lerk In Ue sum of tw hundred (1200) dollars for the faithful performance of the same.

Proposals may be directed to the City Clerk. By order of the Common Council. EUGENE V, DEBs, at? Clerk. January 17th. 1882,

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^ure, suitable for presents. Kef era to all Ciu4nuatl. Address LUCERNE & CO., 216 and 215 West SeTCJith 6t, *Jlucinnatl, O.

lOBB NOKOGBAn. On receipt of 88 00 we will forward to any address, free of charge, OOO ftelielaaa «.'»• (areiitw, each beauUruily decorated with xaou»ramorname, manufactured from Vauiiy Fair Tobacco. Also, a suiall size, with or withMt mouthpiece, expressly for ladiea. Please be careful in giving sl«ippinc directions. Ad dress. L. LUCERNEt CO., 2X6 and 213 West Seventh St. Cincinnati, O.

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It is now in order to try Sergeant Mason and Bill Jones.

After a separation of twenty-seven years a family of former alaves held a reunion at Akron, Ohio, a few days ago.

It cannot be said that the present high price of food is due entirely to short crops. Speculators are partly responsible.

The assassin's autograph seems to be in demand. When last in court he displayed a roll of greenbacks gathered from that souroe.

Mr. Marble hascoDcluded to withdraw bis resignation as commissioner of patents, «nd the president and cabinet have agreed :o retain him.

Tiffin, Ohio, produces a German emigrant who has three limbs, all well developed. Barnum will be after him as «oon as he hears of the case.

The representatives of the Chinese government in Washington have visited the Smithsonian Institute and declare themselves rery much pleased with it.

Florence, the actor, is in such poor h^itltli that he disbanded his company in Indianapolis on Friday, and it is announced that he will permanently retire from the stage.

The criminal court at Memphis, Tennessee, was compelled to close on Wednesday because there was not a case on the docket. This speaks well for a city of 3-5,000 inhabitants.

The latest feature in Sargeant's candidacy is that he is backed by the Central Pacific railroad company. The statement that Senator Jonen, of Nevads, wants Sargent appointed is positively denied.

The Gainesborough eclipse is the latest name for the monstrosity commonly known as the cart wheel hat. Down in Cincinnati they are devising ways and means to exclude it from the coming opera festival.

Gniteau made his bat appearance in public yesterday and received his sentence. The hanging will take place on Friday, June 30th, just two dsys less than a year from the time he aseassinated£President Garfield.

Public meetings of protest against the Bassian inhumanity to the Jews are becoming quite popular in England and in this oountry. The whole civilized world Bhould enter a protest which would have the desired effect even on the Bassian bear.

The friends of subsidies profess to feel very much encouraged because the general subject of subsidies to mail steamship lines is to be referred to a sub-committee of two members from each of the committees of post office, naval affair*, and commerce.

It Is rumored that the ways and means committee have determined to reduce the internal revenue taxation $60,000,000. The information comes from the distillers, who are at present moving heaven and earth to secure a reduction of the tax on whisky.

All bills relating to the regulation o( the sale of liquors are referred to the militia committee by the Misisseippi legislature, An exchange says this course in pursued "on the idea that the use of ardent spirits tends to disturb the peace, which ia it the duty of the militia to conserve."

Dr. Wm. O'Gorman was put upon the witness stand in Newark, New Jersey, the other day as an expert. He was asked the question: "Do you believe in insanity at all-, Dr.?" "Not in the insanity that begins when a man has his linger on tha trigger and ends when he ha* ofrot his victim," was the prompt reply. issga

A republican senator' says of the Blaia* controversy: "I see little in the so-called controversy between Blaine and the president. It is about the difference between saying prayers in English or Latin. There ij a certain diplomatic style of stating things in platitudes whfch Blaine does not seem to have fallen inter, and in consequence wrote some pretty vigorous English that meant about the same as the later modification. I think it very unfortunate that certain friemds of these gentlemen seem bound to fan the .flame into a fire.'

THE MOBHOlfS AGAIX.

There are so many plans and tuggeations for the suppression of polygamy in Utah and elsewhere that congress will likely experience trouble in making a selection. The Gentile portion of Utah have prepared a brief which has been presented to congress, every member receiving a copy, wJaich asks for provision by law aa follows: "So that the reputation of being together and cohabitation be received as evidence to prove the marriage relations so that avowed polygamiets or Mormons, who are by their endowments obligated to obey the priesthood (which means, in fact, a nullification of the laws), be not allowed to sit as jarors when one of their brethern is being tried for bigamy—holding as we do, that if an individual was to be tried for robbery it is not in harmony with the rales ot jurisprudence that the jury should be made up partly from his own gang that the Etatute of limitations be so amended that all persons, male and female, may be punished for the crime of polygamy that the home&tead law be so amended that polygamous wives (concubines) be not recognized under the title of 'heads of families,' and thereby permitted through this medium to obtain support for the practice of their crimes. Holding that all men are equal under the law, and that the inhabitants of Utah cannot be indulged as exceptions thereto also, that polygamy is a curse and a blotch upon the escutcheon of human progress and virtue, and opposed alike to the laws of God and man, we submit that in harmony with Justice it should by right be extirpated."

The question is being agitated now in such a vigorous manner that congress cannot very well dodge it, and the sooner it is taken up and settled the better it will be for all parties. The demand that the disgrace be blotted out is gaining in strength and tone each day, and the demand should be heeded with as little delay as possible. The Mormon faith is a disgrace to civilisation and that it should be tolerated in the country Is worse than disgraceful, if such thing were possible. It

Beems

very

strange that a committee of intelligent men should consider for a moment the claims of a m*n with four living wives to a seat in congress, but it only Verifies the adage that ''truth is stranger than fietion.

BIBTHOLD AtEBBACH.

Bsrthold Auerbach, the German novelist, essayist and poet, is reported to be dying. He was born of Jewish parents at Nordsteten, Wurtemberg, February 28, 1812. He studied Hebrew theology at Hechingen, Carlsruhe, and Stuttgart, and later at Tuebingen, Munich, and Heidelberg, but soon after gave up theology for pliiloeophy and literature. His first work was the Jewish Nation and its Becent Literature, published in 1836. Poet and Merohant appeared in 1837, Spinoza, in 18S9, and a life and translation of the works of that philosopher in 1841. A ir later his Educated Citizen and Village Tales from the Black Forest gave him great celebrity, the latter being translated into several languages. In 1845-46 he published an almanao under the name of the Godfather, a sort of German Poor Richard. He wrote much on educational topic?, and entered on anew era of popularity on the appearanoe of his Country House on tke Bhine in 186W. In 1871 he discussed the war with France in his Wieder Unser. His novel, Waldfried' was published in 1874. Through translations many of his works are hardly less familiar to English and American readers than are their originals to his own countrymen.

This country is supplanting England in the horse markets of Europe. Nearly all the English street railroad companies use American horses, because they find them cheaper and tougher and more hardy than any they can get. French agents were recently Bent to this country to purchase 5,000 horses for the French army, and the animals will be shipped to Havre in lots of 250 each. Germany is also becoming a large purchaser of American horseflesh.

The Southern Pacific railroad does not intend to wait for government subsidies, but is having a line of steamships built, which will carry the California freight from Galveston and Nsw Orleans to Europe, and return with emigrants, whe will be carried from Liverpool to San Francisoo for $50. When the road completes its line to Galveston the distance from sea to sea will be reduced to 1,500 miles, and that, too, far below the snow line.

The National Bepublican, of Washington, is to be the administration organ in the future. Gorham will vaeate the editorial chair. It will be under the control of Col. Bliss, who will be represented by Messrs. Paton, formerly of the New York Timer, and Reed, formerly private secretary to the president. The paper has been a losing concern since Brady purchased it, having lost money steadily at the rate of $1,000 per month. seasBMBBSsssBsaaai

Commissioner Raum is taking a hand in tha federal appointments down in Georgia. The president was about to appoint some one named Farrow to be district attorney of the state, but the commissioner intei posed with the information that Farrow has always been at war with his officers. Farrow is a liberal and there seems to be an impresesion that he will be appointed in spite of Raum's proteat.

A steamboat has been fitted up with the necessary machinery to grind "tanbark. It will work on the Tennessee river. The bark will be taken on board, ground, compressed and packed in cases for shipment to Europe.

Hanged.

GAI/VSBTOV, Tex., Feb. 4.—The News' Wills Point special says that D. C. White was executed yesterday for the murder of a peddler named Congar. The prisoner protested his innocence from the scaffold. The execution was witnessed by hundreds ^»f people.

Going the Other Way. .NEW YOKE, February 4.—Gold shipBents to-day, $1,642,265 for the week. ^460,840.

Stories of Cox, the Fainter,

He left Hereford in 1827, after selling his cottage for a good price to a West India planter. "In the settlement there was a few shillings to be returned to the planter from the sum paid down. Cox searched his pockets to find the necessary coin, when the new owner exclaimed: 'Never mind the change, Mr. Coxt you can give me five or six of your little drawings for the balance,' 'and he really meant what he said!' Cox "told his friends when narrating the stoiy." A curious comment on it is afforded by the history of the well-known pifcture, "Lan-. caster Castle," which is given in the following chapter. It was originally given by Cox to an old friend, who some time afterward happened to be short of money, and, meeting Cox, said: Mr. Cox, rve got a picture of your painting. I am short of -money at this time. Should you mind if I sold 'Lancaster Castle?' Cox replied: "Not at alL Sell it to me. If you remember, I gave it to you." In the end Cox bought the picture for £20, and resold it for the Same price. At the Gillot sale it went for something like $3,000 guineas.— London Saturday Beview.

A Good Example.

Quite a young little lady was observed passing down the aisles of the Utica, N. .Opera House the other evening, says the Observer, wearing a very stylish and attractive, but quite large "mush" (short for mushroom) hat. As she glided toward the front the ladies and gentlemen in the row behind her began moving about uneasily, as if they feared total eclipse of the stage for the remainder of the evening. T^hey were not annoyed long, for, after settling comfortably in her chair, the lady coolly removed her large hat and hung it to th§ back of the seat in front of her. Then she extracted a worsted "fascinator" from the pocket of her sacque and arranged it in a very fascinating manner upon her head, making her look "too sweet for anything," as an old bachelor expressed it. All of her neighbors exchanged approving smiles, and the. cotene in that locality rewarded Miss F. with quite a ripple of applause. She set a good example for her older friends, and deserves a season ticket to the lecture course for her good sense and regard for the comfort and enjoyment of others. Let us have a few more fascinators and a few less mushrooms in the parquet.

Parisian Omnibuses.

The admittance of a woman to the outside places on the large new omnibuses provided with staircases has

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so lucrative to the company that is proposed to transform all the vehicles in time, and to apply the staircases even to those omnibuses plying in narrow thoroughfares, or in the less-fre-quented quarters, where those of the larger size would be inconvenient. To women who go out to work, small shopkeepers, and the like, to whom economy is an absolute necessity, the charge of three sous, instead of six, is a matter of considerable importance and for this reason only the modification would be generally welcome, while for others the platform outside and the convenient steps makes the omnibus in its new form a most useful and-by no means a disagreeable conveyance. As for the large tram-omnibuses, they are as comfortable as many first-class railway carriages, and promiscuity need not offend more in the case of the former, th&a of the latter^

Tha Heroine.

Among the amusing stories told of the elder Dumas is the following: He was often at his wits1 end to imbue into those selected to play in his dramas any of the soul he had written between the lines, and at a rehearsal, where a principal part had been confided to a young lady who was very pretty, but, alas, also very stupid, he labored long and fruitlessly, At last, out of patience, he iaid: "Mademoiselle has a lover, doubtless?" "Yes, Monsieur Dumas." "He brings you here, and waits for you at the stage door?" "•Yes, Monsieur Dumas." "Very well. Now suppose, on going ©ut, you would not find him and would discover, after a while, that he was de* ceijjng you, that he loved you no longer, ana haa abandoned you what would you do?" "I would get another one."

Somebody else played the heroine.

A Strange Mixture.

German cookery is distinguished bv the great variety of elements which enter into the composition of any one dish. That toothsome compound, a herring salad, is concocted from sixteen different articles. A German beefsteak is made of hashed meats, rolled into a ball and fried. What they call roast beef is a chunk of meat boiled a while and then baked it usually looks like a lump of India-rubber. With the meats is always served a compote, made of stewed or preserved fruit. The vegetables are deemed at their best when they are floating in grease! Sausage, however, is the great national delicacy. It is produced in great varieties of size and quality, ana the sausage-shops of Berlin are the most elegant in the city. It is needless to say that the suffering American tourist never becomes reconciled to this sort of cookery, and flies to Berlin— where there are some good restaurants— for relief.

Germany is declared to be the first nation of the world in the number of her special asylums for the relief and cure of the afflicted. For deaf mutes she has 31 asylums for the blind, 81 for lunatics, 39, and for epileptics, 11 her total is 176. France ranks next after her with 70, and England next witli 65. Russia lias only 18.

"It's a disgraceful shame!" exclaimed Mrs. Smith, as her lord and master' came in in a demoralized condition. '•You've been drinking again, anditwaa only last week that you took the pledge." "Just my luck," said Smith "break every thing I get hold of."

"There," said Miss Dashie, as she sealed a letter addressed to Iter lover, "that isn't very bright, but it will do for him. Lovers are all alike, If you only write to them they don't care a snap what you 6ay."

During the last year the number of lives imperilled by marine disaster reached 1,800, and of the?e, owing to the efficiency of the life-saving service, only twenty-six were lost.

A New York jury awarded $12,000 damages to a poor woman injured on a street railway.

Returned arctic whalers assume th« safety of the Jeanette with an "u.

The Boston public library now numbers more than 400.000 volumes.

A "inn of marked character—The tat tooed South Sea Islander.

TELEGRAPHIC.

Terrible Disaster in a Virginia Coal Pit—Thirty-two Men Entombed by an Explosion of Gas.

Heartrending See tics about lbe Montb of the Pit—Heroic Elfarts Making to Reach 2 the Victims.

Wasbingto! Ster vs. Iron for our Rejuvenated Navy—President Gar--field's Surgical Attendance —The Jeannet'e.

Zea! of Our National Tart to Go to the Rescse Another Dispatch from Bennett.

The Question of Age in the Postal Service After those Three Per Cents—The Granger

Department.

Fall of a Bridge Span In Virginia— Extraordinary Escape of Stage Coach Passengers in the Wreck.

Terrible Disaster.

RICHMOND, Va. February 3.—Information was received to-nisht of a gas explosion at Grove Shaft, Midlothian coal mines. Chesterfield county.

A later dispatch states that there is little or no hope for any of the thirty-two men in the ahaft. Men went down nearly to the bottom of the pit three times, but were forced to return on account of the suffocating smoke and gas. They report the pit on fire, but will make another effort in the morning to search for the unfortunates.

News of the disaster spread very rapidly, and in a short time crowds had gathered. The scene was most distressing, as neaily every one had some relative or friend among the entombed miners.

The shaft in nearly 600 feet deep, running about three-quarters of a mile in a lateral direction. The Midlothian coal mines belong to the estate of the late H. H. Burroughs, of New York, and cost, about twelve years ago, between $400,000 and $500,000.

DISCOURAGING.

RICHMOND, VS., February 4.—Information received here this morning from the Midlothian mine disaster is of the most discouraging nature. There is no earthly hope that any of the entombed men are now alive. Every effort is being made to enter the pit, but it will be impossible to resch the point where the men were, fur days, and perhaps weeks. The explosion destroyed all the apparatus, including that used for ventilation, and this will have to be replaced before successful eperations can be resumed.

HEARTRENDING SCENES.

NEW YOBI, February 4.—Special to the Poet from Coalfield, Ya: The Grove shaft, the scene of the horrible explosion yesterday, is shrrounded with women and children, despite the fact that the ground iB covered with snow, and falling rapidly. Hundreds are about the mouth of the shaft. The appeals of wives and mothers for assistance in getting to the loved ones are heartrending.

THE LATEST.

RICHMOND, Feb. 4.—A telegram from Coalfield,in relation to the mine disaster at Midlothian, says: Superintendent Dodds and two others went down into the shaft abont noon, but returned before reaching the bottom. They found no indications of fire. Another party of five went down this afternoon, to repair the brattice and restore the ventilation, which was cut off by the brattice being tumbled in by the force of the explosion. This party remained below until after 4 o'clock, when they came up and reported that there was a slight prospect of reaching that portion of the mine where the men were entombed to-night. The miners are still at work, however, and ventilation, at 8 p. m., had been restored to the bottom of the shaft. This disaster has left twentyseven widows and 108 orphan children. A subscription has been started in this city for the benefit of the stricken families.

Washington. THE NAVT.

WASHINGTON, February 4.—The House Committee on Naval Affairs, to-day, visited the Navy Yard and witnessed some experiments to test the relative strength of iron and steel. They then returned to the committee room, and heard Gibbons, president of the Pusey & Jones Ship Building Company, of Wilmington, Del., on questions ot naval con ction. He advised the use of steel as Jiaterial in preference to iron and had at present six steel vessels in his yard under construction and he considered that material much superior to iron. It could be obtained in good .quality and abundant quantity. It was, he said, sometimes cheaper to import steel than to use that of home make, but the quality of American steel is the very best. His viewB on this question accord with those of other builders who have appeared before the committee. John Roach also expressed the opinion that steel is better for shipbuilding than iron,

THE SURGEONS' BILLS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The select committee of the House, charged with auditing the expenses attending the illness and death of the late President Garfield, today received a brief communication from Dr. Bliss. It contains no itemized account of charges, nor does it suggest what compensation should be allowed, but leaves that matter to be determined by the committee. In view of the criticism as to the exorbitant charges that would probably be presented by the attending surgeons, the members of the committee regsrd the communication from the surgeon in charge as a very appropriate and considerate one. It is understood that Dr. Bliss wss authorized by doctors ignew and Hamilton to prepare a communication to the committee, and to furnish copies of it to each of them for endorsement.

GOOD TOB THE SAILOB BOTB. WASHINGTON, February 4.—Nearly 100 Navy officers have made application by letter or telegraph, or by the help of influential friends, to the Secretary of the Navy, to be ordered to go in search of De Long and the missing boats of the Jeannette. Many of the applicants are officers on easy duty, or on leave, and the general zeal to go to the rescue of the Jeannette's crew is highly creditable to the spirit of the Navy. THE JEANNXTTE—A MTSFATCH TBOM BEN-

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The Secretary of the Navy has received the following cable dispatch from James Gordon Bennett, who is in Paris: "Permit me to suggest, in reference to the request of Lieutenant Daaenliauer to go back and continue the search, that in view of his condition he should be ordered home. If he returns to the North there is a strong possibility of his losing his eyesight entirely, but on his way home he could have the best m.dical attention, and perhaps regain the nse of both of Lis eyes. Nor doles it seem to me necessary to send line officers from Ameriea. It would only put the Govern­

ment to unnecessary expense, as I have already sent a man, who is cow on his way to Irkutsk, and Siberiakoff having kindly placed his steamer, the Lena, at my disposal, the search for De Long and Oiipp can, with the assistance of the Russian authorities, be continued with all possible energy and efficiency at the earliest practicable moment. If Danenhauer and the invalids under bis charge are ordered home, I will see thst they have all possible care, and the best medical advice on the way. I make the suggestion entirely without Danenhaner'e knowledge. "JAMXS GORDON BENNETT."

The Secretary of the Navy cabled Bennett in reply tbat he has sent orders for the return of Lieutenant Danenhauer, in accordance with Bennett's suggestion, and that he has already ordered two officers to Europe, to take part in the search for Captain De Long and Chipp, and that he thinks this necessary, in case of accident to Engineer Mellville, end as a matter of duty from the Navy to the officers and men in distresss.

THE THING THAT TROUBLSS DANIEL. Postmaster General Howe will, on Monday, forward to Butterworth, chairman of the House Committee on Civil Service Reform, a long communication explanatory of the position of the Post Office Department on the question raised by Senator Voorhees as to the limitation of age imposed on postal employes. The Postmaster General says: The approval bestowed by Postmaster General Key upon the action of the Postmaster at Cincinnati, in piaoing such a limitation upon age, was specifically revoked in a subsequent order, leaving it entirely within the discretion of local Postmasters. There is, however, a postal regulation which provides that mail carriers shall be within the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years.

The Postmaster General says he regards this regulation as wrong in prineiple, and in accordance with this belief will issue an order which shall only stipulate that mail carriers shall be above the age of 21. As they are bonded employee, he says this limitation must be made, to insure their legal responsibility.

RATHER PREMATURE.

WASHINGTON, February 4.—TheComptroller of the Currency, to-day, received from an Eastern National Bank an application for the first subscription of $600,000 for the new three per cent, bonds proposed in the Senate funding bill. The bank holds now nearly $500,000 of the extended 3J par cents." The application was referred to Secretary Folger.

FAVOBS A NEW DEPATMENT. The House Committee, on Civil Service Reform in the civil service, to-day, had under consideration the question of establishing another department of Government, embracing agriculture, commerce and manufactures. The sentiment of the committee, was decidedly in favor of the proposition.

APPOINTED.

The Prisident has appointed B. H. Conger, of Michigan, to succeed Morris as Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park.

Wraealons Escape.

RICHMOND, Ya., Feb. 4.—A span of Mayo's bridge, across the James river, gave way this afternoon, precipitating the Manchester stage, filled with passengers, into the river. Several were hurt, but none fatally. All were rescued by boats from the shore.

As the stage was crossing the bridge coming to Richmond the seoond span of the struoture suddenly gave way, carrying with it the stage and its load of eight passengers. The whole span, nearly seventy-five feet in length, broke away from the two granite piers, upon which it rested, as clearly as if each end had been sawn through, and sank with a crash to the rocky bed of the river, a distance of nearly thirty feet. Fortunately the falling span did not tilt, and the stage remained upon the bridge in an upright position until the bottom was reached, when the vehicle was overturned and the horses thrown into the water and became entangled in the iron work of the bridge, their exertions dragging the stage into the river. The male passengers succeeded in getting out through the broken side of the stage on the bridge span, which remained in between the pillars, having struck on the rocky bottom of the river and become fixed. They then quiokly drew the females out, and all remained on the the half-submerged debris until rescued.

A Possible Infernal Crime. CLEVELAND, February 4.—Yesterday Joseph Walham removed with his family into the rear of a house on Buokeye street. In the evening he fonnd a handsome powder horn hanging on a knob of the back door. He playfully hung it about the neck of his three year old boy, who, with acether son of six years, took the horn and went into the next room to play. Presently an explosion was heard, and the children we fonnd horribly mutilated, perhaps fatally wounded. They are alive to-day, but the eyesight of both is destroyed, and they have simply a chance to recover. It is suspected that the horn was an infernal machine hung on the knob by some enemy.

SI order.

TBOY, N. Y.J February 4.—William Jacobs killed his sister-in-law, Mrs, Adam Lonax, to-day, nnd then killed himself. All belonged in Grafton.

LYNCHBURG, Va,, February 4.—A store clerk named Atkinson was killed to-day at Sycamore, Pittsylvania county,by a man named Yeates.

NEWBERN, N. C., February 4.—Henry Bryant, a negro, to-day fatally stabbed Joseph M. Agostine, white, at the railway depot. Both were employes of the company.

ATLANTA, Ga., February 4.—At Fairburn, Joe. Brantley shot dead Wiley Redding, a negro desperado.

Bodies Recovered.

NEW YORK, February 4.—A body, believed to be that of Robert Harris, assistant foreman of the New York Observer Company's composing room, was taken from the ruins of the old World building this morning. The remains were terribly crushed and burned.

Two bodies have been recovered, but only one identified, that of Joseph Cunningham, foreman of the Observer. He had wrapped bis face up with his coat, and when fonnd thst portion of the remains was perfect, while the legs and top of the skull were burned to a crisp. The other body recovered is unrecognisable.

A Fisby Swindle.

SAN FBANCISCO, Feb. 4.—The Grocer and Country Merchant's Business Journal, cf this city, will publish an article relative to the seizure of salmon by the Gpvernmept authorities at Chicago, showing that the business of shipping inferior Sacramento river and Puget Sound salmon, under the labels of a Fraser river canning firm, haa bten systematically carried on by parties in this city and Chicago that a similar course has been pursued with fruits, and that undoubtedly the fish seised in Chiosgo are of an inferior quality of home production.

Marine News.

QUEXNSTOWN, Feb. 4.—Arrived: Parthia and Adriatic from the United States.

NEW YORX, Feb. 4.—The English steamship City of Limerick from New York for London, with 2,000 tons of msrebsndise and 275 cattle, is now seven days over due, and some fear is felt for her safety.

CONGRESS.

THK HOUSE.

WASHINGTON 4, '1882 A resolution waa adopted to pay ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Thompeon $8,000 for expenses incurred in connection with the obsequies of the late President Garfield.

Rioe, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a joint resolution requesting the President to give notice to Great Britain of the termination of certain previsions of the treaty of Washington, relative to the fisheries ordered printed and re-committed.

The House then went into Committee of the Whole, Calkins in the chair, on the Post Office appropriation bill. The question was on the item of $2,900,000 for letter carriers, and on the various amendments pending thereto. Finally it was adopted in this shape, under the amendments offered by B'ngbam and Cannon: for payment to letter carriers and* incidental expenses of the free delivery systen, $3,000,000, $100,000 of which may be used for the establishment of the tree delivery system where it is not now established.

The item for railroad mail transportation having been reached, Springer made a point of order on the provision authorising the expenditure of 25,000 for specisl railroad service across the St. Louis bridge. He insisted that $25,000 was an exorbitant allowance for such service, and it should be let to the lowest bidder, whether by railroad, steamboat or horse train. After quite a sharp debate, the chairman overruled the point of order, on the ground that the clause was germaine, was not a change existing law, and was, on its face, retrenchment of expenditures, besaose under existing law a contract for a larger amount might be made.

Springer appealed from the decision and the appeal was discussed at considerable length. Finally the question was submitted to the committee and the decision of the chair sustained—100 to 47.

Hewitt moved to strike out the clause as to the St. Louis bridge, and to substitute for it a clause that the compensation shall be computed at the rates prescribed in the act of the 3d of March, 1873, authorizing the construction of the bridge.

The subject waa agreed to—102 to 2. The effect of this will be{ it is estimated, to rednce the compensation to $8,000.

Robeson offered an amendment authorising the Postmaster General to require mails to be carried by the fastest trains without extra charge.

Cannon offered as a substitute a provision that whenever any railroad company shall refuse or fsil to carry the mails on its fastest trains, its compensation shall be reduced 50 per cent.

Holman offered an amendment as a substitute, for a reduction of 50 per cent, compensation in the case of land grant railroads.

Haskell and Cannon represented that Holman's amendment would be a great hardship to small land grant roads, while it would not affect at all the Pacific roads, whose compensation for oarrying the mails is retained by Government for the sinking fund. Without action on any of the pending amendments the committee rose, and the House adjourned.

The Weather.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The enow is eight inches deep and still snowing. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—It has been snowing and blowing hard all day.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va., February 4.— A severe northwest snow storm has prevailed in northern Virginia for fifteen hours past, and is still raging. The snow is twelve inches deep on a level, and drifting badly. Railroad trains are delayed, and communication bj the county roads cut ofl.

NEW YOBX, February 4—The snow storm continues, with high wind. Trains on the Long Island road are blocked. In the interior of the State and throughout New England the storm is very severe. Freight trains have been abandoned on the New York Central and Erie, and passenger trains are oompelled to use two or three engines.

PETERSBURG, Va., February 4.—Along the line of the Norfolk 4 Western railroad, snow has fallen to a depth of fourteen inches. Trains in every direction are delayed.

BALTIMORE, February 4.—A snow storm has been raging all day, and still continues. The snow is now fourteen inches deep on the level, and in many plao es has drifted several feet high.

Fires.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 4.—The Jef ferson public school building, on Virgin' ia Avenue, burned at an early hour this morning. Loss $135,000 insurance, not yet ascertained. The building was one of the finest in the city, and accommodated 1,600 pupils.

CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 4.—The Brilliant glass works seven miles below Steubenville, Ohio, burned last night, catching from the explosion of a lamp in the packing room. Loss $50,000 insurance, $20,000.

BRADFORD, Pa., Feb. 4.—A fire at Four-Mile, New Yerk, this morning destroyed the Armstrong Hotel, Blodgett & Higgins' grocery and oil well supply store, McCarthy's Palace Hotel and three or four other buildings. The lodgers of several of the hotels had narrow escapes with their lives from the bdrning buildings. The fire originated from a lamp explosion. Loss, estimated at $100,000 insurance, not ascertained.

BALTIMOBE, February 4.—The residence of Bobert Campbell, coal merchant, just beyond the city limits, burned this morning. Campbell, an invalid, with his family, was rescued by the firemen with ladders, from the windows of the second story.

Floods.

SHRIYUORT, Florida, Feb. 4.—There has been a heavy rain fall here for the past thirty-six hours, and the whole lower country seems undsr water. The lakes above here are higher than for six years. Many plantations above aad below here are already under water, and the levees are giving way.

Drowned.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 4.—William Wayne and Lloyd Hunt, aged 12 and 13 respectively, while coasting to-day, ran into a nd of water forty feet deep, and were rowned.

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MEMPHIS, February 4.—Robert Boss colored, was sentenced to-day to be hanged on April 7tb, for the murder of Henry Bunch, last August

Foreign Notes.

A new ministry has been formed in Egypt. Confidence has somewhat revived ia the Paris Bourse,

There are apprehensions of failure ot the crops in Mysore, India. The oldest Catholio church in Htlitssr land burned down yesterday.

The Liverporl police have seized the stereotype plates and 205 copies of United Ireland.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies h»s passed the bill providing for the scrutin de liste in elections. It was a Cabinet me is are.

The Sab-Commissioners of the Irish Lsnd Act, sitting at Belfast, Ireland, have made redactions of rent of from 15 to 40 per cent.

Vignaux, the French billiard player, refused to shake hands with Slosson at the conclusion of the match on Friday night, and demanded his revenge, which 81osson said he conld have If he e.me to the United States.

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Visitors to the Dore Gallery, London, will remember the superb painting, occupying nearly an entire side of the splendid, gallery, entitled

Of this magnificent painting—the m«st important of Dore's works—a pure line steel engraving has just been completed in England. This engraving is only sold by subscription, and the price is £6, or about $30. It is absolutely impossible to secure a copy at a less price, except through this offer. The engraving represents the Savior as he is leaving the Prtetorium, after being condemned to crucifiction. He i» descending the steps leading from the judgment court. At the foot of the stepe stands two burly executioners, in charge of the cress which the Savior is to bear. On the right are the followers and believers of Christ, with despair in their every look, while the mother of our Lord is an agonized and fainting attendant. In the rear and on the left are the judges and scoffers, surrounding Pontius Pilate, who are looking with fierce complacency on their work. The central figure is that of Christ, as he uncomplainingly descends the steps to tske up the cross and bear it to he scene of his crucifixion. ^.The work in this portion of the engraving is more perfect and beautiful than we had supposed conld ever be executed. The expressions of the faces, the grouping of the figures' and the careful attention to detail in the drapery and accessories cf the picture, are all carried out in perfection and with consummate skill. There is a very large number of figures in the work, and all are depicted with life-like faithfulness. It stands today unquestionably The Finest and Host Valoable

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