Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1882 — Page 2

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FLINN—Robert A FIlnD Sr., bU l?te reelflerca, No. S31 north Fourth tiKCt, et 7 clock TuewSev evening, F^b. 21si aged 67 years.

The funeral will tak^plaee from St. Joseph's chureh this (Thursday) afternoon at 3 o'clock. Friends of tbo family are invited toattend without farther notice.

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Wiron.

ASTER—A MAN-To work in "the country. Also a vorow to twiL arid References jcquired. Apply to J. 0 Kluke, 225 Ohio, at letidence east of tiwn, or Telegraph Mills, north Lafayette sfrjet.

AiklTKt!—A hover for !00 cords of four foot wood, eelivered on Flirt ai reet. Address with price

Clay City, Ind.

\ST AHTEO—HOUSES AND MULES —For W which I will-pay the highest market mice, I will beet Calico's Liveiy Stable uutii i/wch 1st. SAMUEL STEOC8K.

FOB BENT.

OH KKNT—Two rooms, famished or iin-i:-fished. Apply at 425 north Motn street.

toMbw3,|o«roio^"(«»Di#?1

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residence, No. 620

.^nth sixth street- Two story brick, has IwEptaitner kitchen, cistern Also bricVitak le and is'ge lot. Call

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Mil cherry strw-t nf uf-WT—Drslrable hrick dwelling, No. f- 5^ Scnth B/th fctriet. Apply_atonreat HflMSinstreet

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F-7, BAEE—Four good counters, tables, pi?r glflffli »n3 large firat-clafe safe and other fiiinres

cheaPQARBABRANT & C0LE.

or roy residence on National ioa5.east ^th^pity- J. IX. BLAKE. ion

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good family horeo,side-bar

bnegy end harness, all complete. Will be £ji at a bargain. Apply Rt 1 !o north Ninth

COU 8 i.E—A full ttock of diy good-i and crriceries, all new, on good terms, and will rent two of the best business rooms in the city on very reasonable terms well situated. Sales now average six to eieht thousand dollars per month. Cause of selling, poor health: For further particulars address W. J. DAVIS,

Beal Estate Broker, Danville, 111,

«B SALK—Kxtenslve flour barrel and stave and heading factory at Terre Haute, Ind. Occupies six seres ground in the city. New iron-roofed factory building, two dry kilns, ample shed room, latest improved machinery as good as new. Railroad switch end steamboat landing on the ground. At undant supply of timber and ready sale for all oflals. To be sold at public sale on Monday, February 27th, 1888, on the premises. Terms of sale made known at the time.

BRQS & co

I7IOR H&LE—HOUSES AND LOTcS—Two on the corner of First and Linton streets three on Second and Eagle. This properly belonged to Bufns St John, deceased. The property must be sold at once, and there aTe just five chance* for the five good bargains. Apply to George Planet, at John Armstrong's, No. 10 north Th'rd street.

FOB SALE OB BENT.

riOB 1K OR B«srr-My house oa JC northeast corner of Fourth and Poplar streets, formerly occupied by the late B. L. Thompson. Bent, $600.00 per annum. Possession given within a week or

MONEY TO LOAN.

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TO IIOAN— Home capital at rea-

JVL sonable rate of interest in sums not less than 11,000 first mortgage security. Apply to Tennant &

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and Ohio.

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northwest corncr iourth

TO iOAK—At lowest rate of in terest. J. T. Downey, 815 Ohio street, Terre Haute

MOHEYupwards

TO IIOAJR—In sumB of $1,060

and ftl lowest current rates of Interest on first class improved farms and city

aacond and lourth Thursday evenfngs. auartere, G. A. B. Hall, corner Sixth and Main Visiting comrades are always welcome.

FIFTH STREET

SECOND HAND STORE

18 SOUTH FIFTH BTBEET.

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

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OTICE TO HEIES, CREDITOR?,

In matter of the estate of Emanuel Gormong, deceased. In tho Vigo Circuit Court, February term, 1882.

Notice is hereby given that Emanuel Gormorsg Jr.,-as administrator of the estate of Emanuel Gormong, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 21st day of March, 1882, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear In said Court and show cause, if any there be, why said account and vouchers should not be approved.

Witness, the Clerk and seal of said Vigo Circuit Court, at Terre Haute, Indiana, this 2lst dav of February. 1882. -MURRltJ, N. SMITH, Clerk.

PPUCATION FOR LICENSE.

Notice is hereby glv that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Vigo county at their March term, for a license to sell *inNoxtcating liquors" In a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing

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same to be drank on my premises, for one year. My place of business and the premise* whereon said liquors are to be drank,are located on the southwest comer cf lot number 85,

iUSTEE'3 8ALE.

sotfee is hereby given that the undersigned. Trustee by assignment of Jacob Behringer, will •eU at public auction to the highest bidder, at the late place of business of said Jacob Behmnger, No. 829 Main street Terre Haute, Ind., the stock ef goods, groceries, provisions and other articles assigned to me. Said sale to be on the *.n day of March. 18S2, begfnning at 10o clock

A. M., and to continue from day today if neees"*TERM8 OF SALE to be made known on the d*y of sale. stEINMEHL, Trustee.

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Ready oil Opening. Jest the thing for use in 0LUBS,

HOTELS, PA E TIE

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PRIVATE SPREADS.

Put a Case in your Wine Cellar So'd by all Grocets, Druggists and Wine Mer-

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that the genuine always bears the f*c

simile of the pwprietore on the .capsule over the cork of etch bottle.

('. D. GRAVES A- SON'S, Prop's, Boston.

Trade supplied at manufacturers' prices by garfcer & Alvty, Main street. Tare Haute, Ina,

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fl^"All six months subscribers to the Weekly Express will he supplied FREE with "Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases," a valuable standard illustrated work the price of which is twenty-five cenfp. No horse owner should be without it.

Persons subscribing for ths Weekly a year will receive in addition the Hoisebook and our illustrated Almanac.

Remember, the Weekly and Horse-book for 65 cento the Weekly, Horse-book and Almanac for $1.25.

Will some one arise and explain wbat has become of Bill Jones?

Ex-Atlorney General MacVeagh is in Washington on business conneded with the Pennsylvania railroad company.

The report of the Mississippi river commission is now being considered by the boiife committee fio Mississippi river improvements.

New York city is going to discharge all its married female school teachers. That 13 rather diaoouraging to Bchoolmarms matrimonially inclined.

The opening day of the sale of tickets for Patti's first appearance in opera in New York city, netted over $37,000. She comes high but Gotham must have her.

Ex-Governor Pinchback was confirmed as surveyir of customs at New Orleans, without having his nomination laid over one day for examination by a committee.

In addition to their other troubles a number of the star route ringsters h»ve had the charge of perjury laid at their door. Their case is becoming rather complicated.

Speaker Keifer, it is said, is possessed of an ambition to go to the seuate, but it is doubtful thst he will ever reach it. Ohio has other sons whom she would doubtless prefer to honor.

It is once more rumored that Secretary Folger will retire from the treasury to

A Morton Post No. I, Regular take a 6eat on the supreme bench. If the pr«itol..»ld *1*4 meetings, for social *nl cessor he would relieve many well meaning newspaper correspondents of the burden of many lies.

Congressmsn Steele, oi the eleventh Indiana district, has prepared a bill appropriating $25,000,000 for the construction of canal to connect the lakes with the Ohio river. It is proposed to cut the canal from Toledo to the headwaters of the Wabasb, and its estimated cost is the sum mentioned.

The reapportionment bill is now awaiting the signitnre of the president to make it law. In the senate it met with no opposition, except that offered by Mr. Ingalls, who seemed to think a membership of about 2,500 would be the proper thing. Mr. Ingalls has a fondness for lirge figures, and never fails to display.it.

There is a report that the president ha: determined to reinstate Fitz John Porter in the army. Porter's friends claim to have accumulated a great deal cf evidenence in his favor which has heretofore been concealed, and "which ha* been brought to light eicce General Grant declared his change of front in the cape.

The naval affairs committee will not accept the proposition of the advisory board fo expend $50,000,000 on the construction of a new navy, but will sek for $10,000,000 to be used in the construction of swift steel dispatch ehips, and i«°o or three armed cruisers. The sum nsmed will not go very far in the corstruction of navy.

Mr. Howlett is a native of Massachusetts but has spent a short portion 61 his time in Kentucky. He called upon the president the other day to post him es to how the federal patronage Bhoold be distributed in the latter state. As Mr. Howlett once called upon President Garfield to help him form his eabinet, and as his services were declined without thanks, the president concluded he could attend to the federal patronage cf Kentucky without his'valuable assistance.

The second auditor of the trecsuiy thinks the arrears of penaica? act has not given the pension agents a sufficient opportunity to dire into the treasury and now.recommend* the passage cf an act providing that all claims for bojunty which have been disallowed in whole or in part thereof would be allowed. He also recommends the extension of the provisions of the bounty act to the widows, children and widowed mothers of deceased aoldiera. Of ooom if such a bill is Introduced it will bs pissed, because members of congress k»vf RtiMfrg courage

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VTHO IS THE PLAGIARIST 1

Oa the 8th of January Col. Ioger*oll delivered a hort addreaa it the grave of a child in W&shington city, which was published in the Express three days later. It was ope of those gems peculiar to the great orator, and has had a wide-ppread circulation. •On the 5th of the present month the Fort Wayne Gasstte published a stanza of a poem which it claimed had been written seven yeBrs ago, fnd then proceeded, to show that the funeral oration was nothing more than the aforesaid pOem done over in prose. Sincc then the Chicago Tjmea published the poem, with the remark, "Colonei Ingersoll may now rise." We have not seen the poem in full, but the. veise in the following letter which the great infidel has addressed to the Fort Wayne Gazette will show tire:

WASHINGTON, I. C., Fob, 16, Hws—

Editor Fort Wayne Daily Gazette DEAB SIB take it for granted that you would not knowingly do me an Injury, and yet, iayour paper of February 5tb, instant, Is an article entitled "Iagersoll's Plagiarism," in which you say that my address over the grave of little Harry Mlllrr WBS taken from the following poem: "No rest is here without a hope beyond No comfort for a lonely one bereft 'Twere vain,' ,Indeed,, 'to gild a gi«f iVnh wordt'— Here empty words—*to rob the grave of fear 'Nor in this world, where life but leads to death. We all must meet what all the dead have met And if existence ceases with the tomb, Then what of bliss we know In this, short life Makes more intense the ever present dread For death spares none, but from the tree oi life Plucks bud and blossom with the ripened fruij, And patriarch and babs lie side by side

You also say that this poem was published gome seven years ago in a Philadelphia paper. Nowlet me tell you the facta: jSOBOQ one h&8 taken a few sentences from my address, added a few lines of their own, and made the poem said to have been published so long ago.

I will give one thousand dollars for affjr paper containing "this poem" published prior to my address. I will give tho same amount for any book containing it, or for any evidence that it was ever written or published anywhere n-the wide world, previous to January Sth, 1882.

I hope you will do me tho justice to publikh this letter. Yours, respectfully, It G. INGKKSOU,.

The portion of the oration quoted to prove the charge of plagiarism is ss follows

MY FRIENDS: I knew how v&in it is to GILD grief with words, and yet I wish to take from every grave Its fear. Here in this world, where life and death are equal kings, all should be brave enough to meet what all the dead have met. The future has been filled with fear, stained and polluted by the heartless past. From the wondrous tree of life the buds and blossoms fall with ripened fruit and in the common bed of earth the ratriarchs and babes sleep side by\ide.

In answer to Ingersoll's challenge, the Gazette says the editorial was in manuscript several! weeks before publication that at the time the poem was first seen the editor had not seen the oration complete, and that when it was received the paper from which the pneai was clipped was lo3t altogether.

If Col. Ingersoll has been wronged it proper that he ehould be set right, and that the author of the poem should be exposed. The Gszette eays it has taken steps to hunt the matter down. If this country possesses a Thomas Chatter ton he

The Sergeant Mason court-Martial looks as though it is going to be a tedious affair, utterly devoid of interest and thoroughly wound up in red tape. Mason confided to a reporter that he tried to shoot the asaassi nbecause he "didn't like his d—d mug."

hould be discovered with es little dehy as posstble, so that the public will not further be imposed upon by productions wrongfully ascribed to otherp. In the meantime the public is anxiously awaiting further disclosures.

BLAISE AND VOORHEKS.

The Washington newspaper men reem determined to make all they can out of the alleged presidential ticket composed of Blaine and Voorhees for 1884. The Washington Critic was the last paper to take the matter in hand, and has this to say of the novel combination Mr. Voorhees says, in reference to the story published in a Chicago paper and reproduced in a city paper, that there wes a scheme to run Blaine for jjjpsident on the democratic ticket, Qnd Voorhees for vice president, that the story is all boah. "I have not seen Mr. Btaine but once this session. I have a very high regard for Mr. Blaine personally, but he and General Grant ought to be satisfied by this time that neither of them can be president of the United States. 8o far as I am concerned, I was born and bred a democrat, and always expect to be a democrat. I am opposed to any amalgamation of the democracy with half breed* or any other political sect or ism. I am for a-straight democratic ticket in every instance. If we cannot win with that kind of a ticket, we cannot win at all. In Indiana, all reports to the cqptrary, the leading men of the democratic party arc a unit. We can and we will win the oext election iu that state."

Those who remember how hard Senator Voorhees kicked against the nomination of Greeley in 1872, end how much difficulty bis party found in pereuadiDg him to submit gracefully, can have no doubt of the sincerity of hi* utterances at the present time in rrgtrd to a matter of eo much importance. The talk of Blaine as a democratictacdidate is absurd, end no one knows it better than Mr. Blgine himself, who is doubtless laughing ia hie sleeve over the great fuss which is being made over sn impossibility. As te the unity of the democratic leaders in Indiana and their ability to carry the stjje this year, to which Mr. Vooliees refers, more anon. «t

Some ungodly paper is authority ior the statement that Riv. Thomas K. Beecher, brother of Henry Ward Beecher, and pastor of the largest and finest church in Eimirs, New York, publicly drinks beer in the saloons and the most expert billiard player in the city. When denounced by the temperance people for the example which he "sets the young men, he said: "Why do not young men follow my example and pray ss well as drink? If th-y drink the way I do no harm will come to them. I do notdrink to exeffw, and have no desire to. If I had a desire to I should not drink at all."

Denis Kearney Has disappeared from the sand lots of Sin Francisco, but his spirit hovers around tbe sacred spot still. The other day his late followers held a metting and deaoucced congrew because it hes cot yet driven the Chinese from tbe country. As most of the sand lot gentlemen are foreigners their denunciations on this question are very appropriate, and will doubtlesa cau* a great stir in congressional baliv

WABASH IBPBOTEJREST.

Thus far Michigan City is the only point in t&s state mentioned in the river ard h^rbor b'll now before coogtrw. The Ohio iivtr is in good repair and requires no appropriation, bat tbe same cannot be said of the Wabash. For the first time congress a little over a year ago, appiopriated a sum sufficient to put the improvement of the Wabash fairly under way. The money has bsea judiciously expended and those who reside near the improved porlisuq cin testily, to the benefits derived from it. The reports of the engineer in charge 6f the eurvey state that the river can be improved and made navigable as far north as Ligantforf, and the sum required for it ia no^arge in comparieon with the benefits to be derived. Thus far during the present ression the only member of Congress from this state who seems to take any* interest in tbe matter is Mr. Heilman, of the first dis tricl, who recognizes the importance of the work and ia going lo ask for $50,000 this year to ba expended in widening and deepening the channel. All members of congress, both in Indiana and Illinois, in whose districts there are counties bordering on the river ehould interest themselves ia the matter, and should they fail to do so their conatitu tents should refresh their memories by petition^, qn thejsabiect. Wv ...VII I

EEPUBLI0AH EDITORSi.rr Jlecllo* or tbo State Association To-

DRY—ACdress of President W. 8. Unglc. Tbe Indiana Republican editor's TCSOoistbn is holding its regular meeting in the United Sates Court room in the Iadtaoapolii Poet Office. A hearty effort has been made to secure a full attendance and about tme hundred were present at the first session yyesteiday afternoon. The following are t».e of those who are here: F, M. Thayer, Ev&nsville Journal N. F. Etbell, Muncifi News George J. Langsdale, Greencastle Banner Charles E. Wilson, Lehanoa Patriot T. B. H. McCain, Crawfordsviile Journal G. R. Stormont, Princeton Clarion F. W. Kelt & Bro., Ft. Wayne G. zstte John C. Eiler, Muccie Time»^ L. Thompson, Home Journal, Lafayette J, B. Scoit, Delphi Journal C.N. Faasett, South Bend Register W. D. Pratt and Jamea T. Bryer, Lpgansport Journal W. W. Pershing, Tipton Advocate G. W. Patch, Union City Times W. S. Lingle, Lafayette Courier C. Ricketts, Columbus Republican- Isaac Jenkinson, Richmond Palladium J. A. Hays, Sullivan Union John O. Hardesty, Terre Hau'e Couriei W. A. Elliott, Greencastle Courier S P. Davis, Newport Hoosier State L. C. Hoss, Kokoino Gazette O H. Smith, Danville Union -James H. McNeeiy, Terre Haute Express.

The prime object of the meeting is to device ways and means to carry Indiana at the next and succeeding elections. The programme wss not "cut and dried," but the speakers were moved by a spirit of earneetnees and brevity.

Tbe president, W. S. Lingle, of tbe Lafayette Courier, called the meeting to order, and devoted a large part of bis address to the tariff question. This he regarded as the practical and predominant question cf the dav, overshadowing all other issues. He said "Indiana as much interested in the tariff ss Pennsylvania. Indiana is a manufacturing State. Her booming industries tell of a prosperity that has come to stay. I think, "the tin-bucket brigade," the skilled operatives of the shops, will stand with us on the tariff is3ue. When the Republicans came into power the balance of trade with England was against us $20,000,000. In 1881 tbe balance in our favcr was $260,000,000. The' farmer who sells his corn for $15 and expends $20 at the country store finds a balance of trade against him^ but if be realizes $40 from his farm products and cxpeiids but $20 he knbws the balance is in hia favor. This epplier to Uncle Ssm as an individual."

ABV RR illustration of the tariff and its practical relation to the industries of Indiana, Mr. Lingle exhibited some specimens of tile manufactured by the Encaustic Tile Works of this city, cqu»l, he said, to tbe bsst English make, cheaper, and representing a iraturday nigbt pay roll of eighty skilled operatives, or 500 souls as factors in the general prosperity. The tariff issue may be summed up in a word: Shall these skilled laborers be compelled to work at pi ices paid to English operator#, or driven into other occupations? The Wood tariff bill, the only ineasure'ef Democratic reform evolved in the fiye years in which that party held power in Congress, reduced the tariff on tile-from thirty-five to ten "Jjer cent. the effect of which Would be to close the Encaustic Tile Works of Indianapolis and make tramps cf its operatives, and make our deposits of fine clay practically valueles?.

Mr. Lingle suggested lo the convention the duty of perpetuating the memory of Indiana'^ first Governor, Jennings Mortun, its great war Gove,norj 8D1 roes of Tippecanoe, with suitable monunv.

A letter was received by the convention front Calvin Fletcher, Fish Commissioner, eetting forth tbe idea that every farmer wiih a pond of water, less even than an acre, couid raise fish cheaper than chickens, with carp spawn from Germsnv.

E.'W. Halford, cf the Journal, read a paper on "The Party Newspaper." Ex-Secretary Thompson, who edited a Whig paper in 1836, is the guest of the convention. Goverror Porter gave the members of the association a reception last night at his residence. The meeting will probably last through to-day.

The Mexican Central Eailway. St. Louis Republican. The Mexican Central ia being constructed rapidly from both ends. It hem already been opened for business from tbe City of Mexico northward 150 miles to Queretaro, a city of 75,000 population and tbe capital of 4hp State of that name. From El Paso.southward work continue*, aUd it is oyer this route, one of great length, the people of this country will be first contKC'.ed with the City of Mexico. The entire route is over a high, pictur'eeque sad healthy country, with a mild and delightful climste. No equal length of road on this continent, or perhaps in tbe world, will offer more delights to the eye or graier advantage to travelers seeking the benefits of change of scene and climate. It will traverse the regions from which tbe Spaniards drew the wealth that made Spain two centuries ago the most powerful of European states. The mines, for a century past fallen into neglect, will doubtless again feel the revivifying touch cf tbe acquisitive genius of eager fortune hunters. ..

flr. Loon the War Path. ST. PAUL, February 22.—A special from Battleford, Northwestern Territory, says: Tbe Blackfeet and other Indians in the vicinity tf Forts Red Deer and Sontb Branch are committing numerous depredations, driving off and killing cattle. In ifce Bow River country American whisky tradt-re .were killed by them, and several oibt Americans hxv* hwa found dead in the neighborhood, and are supposed to have been killed by the same pavsgea.

TELEGRAPHIC.

Washingtoa: Fits John Porter to be Vindicated!, but His Back Fay on tho

Bagged Edge.

Tbe Star Boaters Presented tor Indlelment lor Perjury— DeatilHtioa i%tbe

Seatb.

Some Mementoes of Fr«nKlin Sale—The Utah Ca?e to We Sent Back to

Utah.

Senator Sherman and tbe Custodian— An Apology for a Too Utterly *:"Fr e«h" Associated Press

Fiend.

Tbe Floods: An Inland Sea Below Cairo—Watching the Levees Devastation and Iis—^ tress. !8§l

3* *'vSp5r: rJft '3 Foreiflh News: Bradlangh Expelled from the House of Commons—'"No Rent" ^Vindicated in Ireland—

News Nates,

in Ex-Confederate Tribute to tbe Memory of Garfield Presented -sir-to His Wife— -j-t Liehtiilfltr.

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FITZ JOHN PORTER.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The President and Cabinet have, so it is semi-officially announced, decided in favor of the restoration of Fitz John Porter to the Army. The only question in connection with the cae that is undecided is as to Porter's back pay. When cashiered he held rank as Colonel of the Regular Army, and as Major General of volunteers. The question now is whether his back pay asM8j General would accrue to him up to reinstatement, or whether it wonld terminate In 1866, when other Major Ganerala were mustered out of service. This question has been referred to the Attorney General for his opinion. The President will nominate Porter as Colonel of Infantry, to fill tbe first vacancy, and Porter will probably ask to be retired.

PILIHO-IT ON."

WASHINGTON, February 22,—In addition to being presented for indictment for conspiracy in the Star Route cases, additional presentmenta were brought in against the following, yesterday afternoon J. R. Miner, for perjury in connection with the route from Bismarck to Fort Keogh, and the route from St. Charles ts Greenhorn J. E. Sanderson, for perjury in connection with the route from S&quatch to Lake City John W. Dorsey, for perjury in connection with the route from Pueblo to Raeita, and the route from Trinidad to Madison City M. C. Reertell, for subornation of penury in connection with the route from Rawlings to White River John W. Peck, for periary in connection with the route from Kearney, Neb., to Kent, and the loute frcm Eugene City to Bridge Creek, Colorado.

DISTRESS IN THB SOUTH. .*

There seems to- be more truth in the reports of distress in eastern Arkansas and northern Looisiana than has been supposed. Congressman Dunn, of Arkansas baa received a number of letters from public officials, prominent citizens and the chairmen of relief committees, setting forth the danger in strong terms, and he has introduced a resolution te authorize the Secretary of War to issue rations in his discretiou, and extend such Aber aid as shall appear to be necessary. The resolution has been re* ferred to, the Commitee on Appropriations.

MEMKNTOKS OF FRANKLIN. WASHINGTON, February 22.—The Joint Committee on Libraiy held a meeting today to consider the advisability oi recommending the purchase of the Stevens collection of manuscripts and rare printed books written by or relating to Benjamin Franklin, which are offered the Government for £7,000 by the London possessor. They comprise all the papers bequeathed by Franklin to his grandaoa, William Temple Franklin, and include som 24,000 documents specially selected by Dr. Franklin for preservation, after his retirement from public sffairs, and haver printed. Assistant Secretary Davis, Dr. Edward Everett H»k, and Librarian Dwight, of tbe State Department, wer8 present, and favored the purchase. Indications are that tbe joint committee will report favoring the purchase.'

THE tJTAH CASE.

The entire House Elections Committee will to morrow act on the Utah coatest. The argumen a have been concluded, and while tbert been no formal expression of "op'mpn by the committee, it is generaU believed thsy will decide alike against Cannon's eligibility and the claim of Campbell to the seat, and will refer the matter to the people for anew election.

COMMITTEE NOTES.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—HOB. Wayne MacVeagh continned, to day, his argument before, the House Committee on Commerce against the theory ef regulation by the Government of inter-State traffic. He appeared ia behalf of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.

The House Committee on Public Heahh has agreed to the Senate bill for the disposal of vacine points, with amendments providing for their distribution through State and municipal authorities, Boards of Health and regularly licensed physicians. A sub committee consisting of Van Aernaro, Rosecrans and Aiken, was appointed to-day on the various bills to prevent tbe introduction and spread of contagions diseases.

Jr The Amende Honorable, GENEBAI* OFFICE OF THE WESTKBN ASSOCIATED PRESS, -CHICAGO, February 22

To the Public. One week ago there came in the report of the Western Associated Press from Washington, what purported to be a circumntantisl account of the testimony of Mr. Pitney on re-examination before the Senate committee making inquiry into the disbursements of the Treasury contingent fond, which reflected on exSecretary and Mrs. Sherman. While this report •seemed to have been made by some person present at tbe session of the committee, it was yet of so extraordinary a character as to suggest a doubt as to its genuineness. This doubt disappeared on the following day, when the Washington correspondent informed me that »everal parties desired to send in the same way a sensational report of the teslimoBy of Emerson. This waa declined. Inquiry was made of the correspondent fcr the authority upon whioh his report as to the Pitney examination was made. Before a reply could be received by mail, Senators 8herman and Hale, and also Pitney, pronounced the report false_ in every particular. Tbe investigation which was instituted by tbe officers of the

Associated Press confirms tbe statements made by Senators Sherman and Hale. It seema that our correspondent was misled by a reporter of the Washington Btar, aud b/ a sutem^pi coming from a prominent character at

St,.-

the Capital, whoee nsmefMw withheld,« no good could result to any one from thsir publication. The ZJ-1 which certain persona at- W^shington have shown to injure tfce ex-Secretary of tbe Treasury through the Associated Prtas is worthy a better cause. Bbt they need not tear publicity through the same instrumental-1 Uy. It is," however, doe to tbe correspondent that this much should I be stated, although he deserves censure for being misled into committing a great wrong, not only against Mr. Sherman and tbe Senate committee, but against the association which had given him its confidence and relied on. his prudence, truthfulness and impartiality. This fault he his acknowledged, and we bave assurances of greater carefulness in future. This unusual method of addressing the public is felt to be warranted by the gravity of tbe -wrong done and thj importance of placing the vindication ofa distinguished public officer and citizen beyond all question. Ia making this statement it is also proper, to add that this the first instance since the orgalPzttipn of the Associated Presa when desigbing persons have succeeded in using its facilities for an improper and malicious purposer It has been tried often, bnt was never before successful. It is believed that this mishap ia due to the inexperience of the correspondent.

W W*. HKNBY SMITH, General Manager. •-•-r

Flood Kenrs.

-~'^THE "WATERS RECEDING. CINCINNATI, O., Fehruary 22.—Rim 56 feet 6i inches, and falling steadily an inch per bour. Weather fair, cold and •windy.-

AT CAIRO

CAIRO, lib., February 22.—The river ia 50 feat 2 inches and siili rising clear and cold. SH *gp3

ALONG TH&MISSISSIPPI.

MEMPHIS, Feb. 22.—The officers of the "City of Greenville" confirm the report published of the sad condition of ^affaire now existing throughout Mississippi. Thousands of men are on guard along the ievecs between here and Vicksburg, using every possible means in their power to prevent tbe water from inundating the whole country. The reenville brought up eeveial thousand trnpty sacks be urcd by filling with earth to aid in strengthening tho embankments. A balch of 2,500 was pat off at Bolivar landing, wbere the danger of breaks was imminent, Washington, Issaquena, Bolivar, Caabama and Tunica counties, Mississippi—in fact, the whole shore line between Memphis and Vicksburg on the Missis£ppi side, and the whole eastern shore of Arkansas, ara either under water or threatened with inundation. The inhabitants of a vast area of country are in great distress. Many ha*e been forced from their houses and are subsisting as best they may on rafts, and some on knolls or parts of old levees. The destruction of live stock is beyond calculation. The navigation of the river itself is regarded by steamboat men as dangerous at its present stage, on account of the great expanse of water in many localities, the character of the waves when the surface is swept by heavy gusts of wind, and also because of the great difficulty of getting to sife ports. The Government lights along the river are maintained with admirable regularity. These lights prove of incalculable benefit to steamboat men now, sinCfi all tbe bank landmarks have disappeared.

Arkansas City is completely submerged. Not a single house in tbe city is free from the presence of the muddy flood, Tbe water there is represented as being eight inches higher than the flood of 1876. The houses were built so as to be above the bigh-fl,ood level of that year, but in all cf tbem there is from seven to eight inches of water. Between Cairo and Memphis the following points of land only are visible above tbe surging flood: The 'blufla. at Columbus, hills back of Hickman, land on the Tennessee side opposite Inland No. 10, New Madrid, Point Pleasant, Uptonviile, Fulton Bluffr, Randolph, Richardsons, Islands No. 35 and 36, aDd Daap'a Island, above the bead of Centennial cut-off, forty miles above Memphis.

Foreign Mews,

.£ 'GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, February 22 —In the House of Commons, Gladstone, this evening, stated thst a. motion for the issue oi a new

writ

for Northampton would relieve

the House from difficulty, but as Bradfaugh had not sat during the debate his conduct was cot tuch as would vacflle his seat. Gladstone reiterated that tbe House had tcted beyond its powers in preventing Bridlarigh taking the oath, but that BradliiiijbVconduct wsB an act of Migrant disobedience. .Lord Churchill's motion, that a new writ bs issued for Northampton, was rejsc'.ed. Tiie motion of Lyons, Liberal member for Dublin, that Bradlaugh is guilty of profanation, and is therefore incapable of sitting in the House of Commons,was withdrawn, because of legal objections. During tbe discussion of tbe point, Labourche demanded that Bradlaugh be heard at the bar of the House. The House receiving tbia unfavorably, Bradlaugh parsed the bar snd took hia seat. Io consequence of this act of disobedience, and of Gladstone's refusing lo act, Northcote withdrew bis first motion, and moved that Bradlaugh, having disobeyed the chair, and being in contempt of the House, be expelled. Glsdstono supported this motion, which was passed by a vote of^ 291 to 83. Bradlaugh voted with the minority and Gladstone abstained. Bradlaugh then quietly left. Upon the motion of Northcote a new writ for Northampton waf ordered, Laboacbere statfng that Bfadlaugh would be a candidate. Tbe Marquis of H^rtington, Right Hon. Geo. Goecben and Sir Henry Jamei (Attorney General), all Liberals, voted, forexpulsion. Sir Cbaa. Dilke (Radical), Bight HOD. J# A. MundcllJi (Liboral), Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain (Radical), Mr. L. Courtney (Liberal), Mr. Geo. Trevelyn (Liberal), and Right Hon, Geo. Lefevre (Liberal), voted against.

LONDON, Feb. 22.—Wreckage from the stealer Cify of London, from Loodon November 13, for New York, which never reached its destination, is continually washing upon the Irish coast. The signal locker has been found, bearing the name of the vefsel. Tne verse* carried no passengers, but tbe officers and crew numbered forty. Her chief business waa in the cattle carrying trade.

LOSDON, Teb. 22.—The race for the Sandown grand prize was won by Scot Guard Minnie Hauk, second Falmouth, third. Pierans also ran.

IRELAND.

LONDON. February 22-—Davitt has been elected to Parliament to succeed A. M. Sullivan, reeigned.

NEW YORK, Feb. 22—Irish World's London cable —Michael Davitt'e election i? a vindication of bis principles and th® answer of the Irish people to tbe coercion policy of the Gladstone Government. Patriok Esgan, treasurer of the Land League, was run as a dummy candidate, to make it imp ssible for the will of the people to be annulled by any legal technicality raised by the Government. The result ia especially significant as a ratificatioa of the no rent macifestiTbytbe people of Meatb, including Bishop Nulty ,nd his Catholic clergy, who strongly .supported the candidacy of Davitt ana

Eagan. I' IFCU*

HK%H

IR SKOBBLOFF*

BERLIN, Feb. 22.—No official reprSsen tation regarding Skobelofl's speecu will be made at St. Petersburg^

BERLIN, February 22.—The ijoith German Gazette states that General Sko-

beloff bas received orders to return immediately to St. Petersburg. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.

BERLIN, i-'tbrnary 22.—The Ameroan reaidents and legation celebrated the d»y with a banquet and display of flags

A Tribnte to Garfleld^ CLEVELAND, Feb. 22.—C. A. Withers, James D. Campbell, B. F. Krnhe and Ferdinand Schwartz, a committee appointed by ex Confederate soldiers resident in Cincinnati^ and its vicinity, arrived this morning, bringing with tbem a memorial tribute to James A. Garfield, in ibeform of eulogistic and sympathetic resolutions, engrossed oa panhment and framed in vari-oolored Tennessee marble, highly polished ind cut from a single block about two feet square, With the United States coat of arms in Mexican onyx inlaid Cat each corner. The committee called upon Mrs. Garfield thia forenoon, selecting Washington's birth-day as an appropriate time, and formally presented the testimonial, Major C. A. Withers, formerly Adjutant General of General J. H. Morgan's staff, making the following adad rese: "It is with mingled feelings of gratification and regret that I have the honor, madam, of presenting to yon this memorial of the ex Confederate soldiers of Cincinnati. It la gratifying that we can truthfully aud feelingly unite oar voices, in commendation of the lamented dead, with those of the many thousands of a common people and the occasion which calls for such sentiments is painful in its recollections, and ss fully deplored by the people of the South as by those of any other section. The unanimity with which these resolutions were passed, and the expressions conveyed therein, speak more then any words of mine, and yon can rest assured, madam, that in them is voioed tbe tribute of all the old wldiors of the South to the sterling worth of the late President."

Mrs. Garfield, witbgreat effort, repressed her emotions, while the old mother of tbe late Preaident wept violently. Both ladies were clad in deepest

ladies were dad in deepest mourning.'-v

The late President's widow ber voice £rt

trembling with emotion, replied to the

address of General Withera as follows: "GENTLEMEN I am-very grateful to you, and to thoee from whom this beautiful gift comes, both for its sake, and the sentiment you express."

The two Madames Garfield then examined the memorial gift, and expressed their admiration of the frame to Mr. Knipe, its maker, who said: "My heart went out in sympsthy for tbe President. I volunteered to make that frame, and I made it so that it may .remain a standing testimony of Southern sentiment."

General Withers added "And, moreover, we want tcf show these Northern politici ana that we ex-Confederates are not so black as they try to make ua out.' The younger Mrs Garfield said it had been the General's greatest wish that there be no North or South. His earnest desire was to see a united country, and had he lived —[here her grief overcame her, and the sentence waa unfiniBhed].

After a brief silence, courtesies were exchanged, and the visitors withdrew, driving to Lake View Cemetery, where Garfield'a casket lies in a vault.

lndiana-Cminent Financiers. INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 22.—The State Greenback convention met here to-day. Judge John S. Bender, of Plymouth, was chosen temporary chairman. After the appointment of committees on organization, rules and platform, the convention adjourned till one o'clock.* General Weaver, of lows, the Greenback candidate for'President in 1880, was present at the convention.

On reassembling this afternoon, Hon. Gilbert De La Matyr was chosen President The following is a summary of tbe platform adopted: All money ahould be issued by the Government labor should be protected by National and State authorities the eight hour law should be enforced the bonds of tbe United States should not be refunded, but paid as they become due in the lawful money of the United States legal tenders ehould be sub8tituted for National bank notes the Burlingame treaty ahould be abrogated, the public domain ehould be reserved for actual settlers Congress should regulate Inter-State commerce denouncing railroad land and moneyed corporations as monopolies, and the men who loaned tbem money should never be preferred to soldiers demands a graduated income tax opposes an increase of the standing army favors tbe placing of all ^representatives of the people on an equal "footing demands a government of the people, by tbe people and for the people.

Also, a resolution favoring submitting the prohibitory and suffrage amendments to tbe State' Constitution to the people. After the adoption of the platform, a full State ticket was notninated, with -the exception of Judges of the Supreme Court.

':ra-f••- Drownedj 'yST. Louis, February 22.—A dispatch from Paducab, Kentucky, says Abut four o'clock yesterday morning, during a high wind storm', a small flatboat which contained three women named Jennie Brown, Carrie Smithers and Sallie Williams, and two men named James Murray and Henry Cox, the latter colored, all of whom came here recently from Nashville, Tennessee, and were disreputable characters, was blown from its moorings and swept into tbe middle of the river. All the women and men were drowned. A young man named Dode Little, who came here lately from New Albaoy, Indiana, was on a flatboat moored near the ill-fated craft, and being attracted by tbe cries for help, went out to the boat, but bad hia skiff swamped, and be, too, was drowned.

Peach Crap Probabilities. MADISON. Ind., February 22.—The Courier te-morrow will publish Argus D:an's views on the peach prospect*. Mr. Dsan says that for the first time in_ his experience the buds were not winter killed, theiefoie tbe bloonls will b9 unusually full, and tbe only danger is from spring froats. From the ftct^ that the crops have been gathered in succession, the yield will be lese in quantity and poor in quality, unleas wise care has been taken of the trees. Ths prospects for ail stone fruits is quite as good as for peaches.

Picked Up at Sea,

SAN FRANCISCO, February 22.—A Tuoaon dispatch, special to tbe Star from Gu ay am as, says: Capt.- Stouinton, of the steamer Newburn, picked up part of tbe crew oi a wrecked British bark off the coast of Lower California. Tbey were famishing, and about to resort to cannibalism. The party consisted of the Captain, his wife and two children, and two seaman. One child and a seaman died immediately, and the mother gave birth te a healthy infant in two days. ^,-

Scarlet Fewer in Stw York. NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—Statistics show an alarming increase In inilignant scarlet fever. Tbe deatba in 1880 were 618, and last year 1.964. Deaths for seven weeks of this year bave been 690.

lr*S

oughs, Colds,

[Hoarseness, Bronchitis,Crcup, InftuJ Asthma,Whooping Cough, cipient Consumption and for the relief ofconsumptive persons in advanced stages of the Diseasg. For Sale all Druggists.-

A Fearful Bids-

A few days since at Bradford, Pa., Harvey McHeury, employed by the Roberta Torpsdo Company as a "shooter" of oil wells, set out with fifty quarts of nitro glycerine in his wagon, to shoot a well in Berger Hollow. He bad peeked his fifty one-quart cans with unuiiuaf care in a specially constructed wagon. The road be was obliged to take waa very billy, and was slippery with ioe, and bis horses becoming frightened, ran at breakneck speed down a steei» bill. MeHeary held on to the lines, although he knew that every jump of the horses threatened to explode the nitroglycerine under his

Beat.

Half way

down the hill he saw that the wagon would in all probability bit a tree a few feet further down. "I knew," says McHenry, "that I stood very little chance of my life by jumpiog from the wagon, but I felt that not a bit of me would be left if I stuck to the sest.

am0D

tbe rocks and brush.

8Q btdl

/that I oooldn't get up.

bat ret&intd my

I knew that I

was so close to the tree that I would be be torn to pieces when :2re explosion occurred. I shut my eves and lived a year in a second. No explosion came, and I glanced dowo the road and saw tbe wheels of the .wagon just touch tbe trunk of tbe tree. It had barely passed the tree when tbe wagon was overturned. The horses kept on, dragging the wagon alon tumbling over and over as it went. I never bad known nitro glycerine to withstand one quarter of the jar ^-without exploding. The wagon?-., turned over four times before the horses reached tbe bottom of thet hill. There they brought up againt a tree and stopped. Then I fainted dead away."

A $26,000 Portrait of Urs- Maokay. Puis Letter. Meissonier has delivered to the fair mistress his admirable portrait of Mrs. Mackay, and far which be got $16,000 as some say, $25,000 according to others. By the way, let me note that Horace Vernet never received more than $5,000, even for bis equestrian portraits. Meissonier represents Mrs. Mackay in a fancy dresshalf Louis XVL costume, time been bard

Bonnet has at work on

for some another portrait of Mrs. Mackay, snd which will figure at tbe exhibition in May. He will depict her wearing the famous $20,000 dress. The municipal authorities of Paris ordered this dress io the Empress Eugenie. It cost 14 year* of assiduous work to the best lace makers of Normandy. Mrs. Mackay is painted with this lace dress thrown over iCg white silk train the bodice covered »:thlace will be relieved by white satin or -elvet fastened by a large tuft of roses, while an enormous nosegay of roses will be shown as having accidently fallen on the white silk train

Proteotion to American L&bor-^'w^ Cleveland Reader. It is, therefore,necessary that American labor should be secured against encroachment upon its rights. Protection must have respect to the difference in the joint cost, or price, or value ot money and labor in the United States and in the countries with which we trade. In no other way than by defensive duties on imports can this difference be offset. The very object of a protective tariff is to compensate for the inequalities between the cost of production in this and foreign countries. The paramount considerations render such a tariff both justifiable and necessary.'

Winter Landsoape-

San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 14. The peaks of the Coast Range were white with snow yesterdsy, and for tbe first time thir winter Monnt Diable was covered far down on its flanks. The air was singularly clear, and no more beautiful sight could be imagined than tbe view from any of tbe hills of this city. The foothills and the Marin county shore have put on the most delicate shade of green, which brought ont in sharper contrast tbe deep blue of the more distant mountains, with their crewn of dazzling white. This snow is a welcome sight, for it means abundant moisture for tbe farmers and a good crop for tbe coming season.

Down on the Backet Shops. CHICAGO, February 22.—The Chicago Board of Trade, following in the footatepa of the New York Produce Exchange, has inaugurated a vigorous wsrfare againat the numerous bucket shops which abound in the neighborhood of the Chamber of Commerce, and propose hereafter not to allow the Gold & Stock Company to furniah theae open boards with their quotations. The Board of Trade quotations are the basis upon which the bucket ebopa do business, aud without tbem their occupation will be gone.

Murder.

MOORXHEAD, Minn., Ftb. 22.—Mrs. Tollef Hanaon was shot snd killed by ber huaband yesterday, from whom she had procured a divorce on the grounds of cruel treatment. Hansc-n iben made a weak attempt to kill himself, but will rccover, v'-"

CHIOAGO, Feb. 22-Jimcs McF

am ara,

a yardman on the Michigan Southern Railway, waa ahot ard killed in tbe town of Lake Erie, this morning.

Marine News.

GLASGOW, Feb. 22.—Arrived: State of Nebraska, from New York. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22.—Arrived:" Lord Clive, from Liverpool.

Washington's Birthday. NEW YOBK, Feb. 22.—The National holiday appears to have been generally observed throughout tbe East, but without sny unusual features in any section.

Mexican War Veterans. INDIANA tons, February 22.—The State Association of Veterans of the Mexican War met here tQ-dsy with about 100 members present.

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&NSOli'l CAPOINE POROUS PLASTERS r* tl 7a VnK ONUfKXOWH BE»SD* THAT HEVERFAULS.

to ibe ordinary alow aetlng Vorons Plastea used for tMspurpoee. Price, 2® eti. SKABVRY 40HH£T0tf, PMrafteevtle?! Chemists. Y,