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AMUSEMENTS TOTS EVENING. GRAND OPERA-HOUSE—Madison Square Theater Company in “Hazel Kirke,” matinee and evening. ENGLISH'S OPERA-HOUSE.—Professor Morris’s Canine Paradox, matineo and evening. the~daTly journal BY JNO. C. NEW & SOX. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1884. TWELVE PAGES. THE INDIANAI'OUS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 449 Strand. PARTS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. C.— Brentano’s, 1,015 Pennsylvania Avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVn^LE—C. T. Dearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. THE INDIANA SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT. The following contributions to the fund for the Indiana soldiers’ monument have been made public through the columns of the Journal: L. M. Campbell. Danville SIOO.OO Benjamin Harrison The Indianapolis Journal 100.00 The Terre Haute Courier 50.00 C. L. Holstein 50.00 Dr. Charles D. Pearson 100 00 McKain & Murray 50.00 Stanton ,T. Peelle 50.00 Moses ff. McClain 50.00 E. G. Rathbone 25.00 Other contributions, no matter what the amount, will be acknowledged. It is hoped the response will be prompt and general. Let it be a people's monument to the soldiers and sailors of Indiana.

THE WOMAN QUESTION. It is a saddening fact that woman’s worst foes are found in her own ranks. Men rarely r’g ise each other unless the masculine shortcomings reach a point openly entitled to general and public denunciation; but women have a way of exposing the failings of their sisters which will ever militate against the progress of their sex. Melancholy evidence of this fact meets one on every side. Mrs. Leonard, of Massachusetts, has just come to the front to tell how sly and tricky women are, and now, from the depths of the tomb, in a letter from Heloise to Abelard, comes the same mournful tidings. If, as Margaret Fuller says, “The observations of women upon the position of women are always more valuable than those of men,” what a dreadful thing it is that the tongues of women should be allowed to riot in criticism on their fellow stragglers for political position and privileges. If women are indeed such a mass of corrupting influence as Mrs. Leonard and others Would have ingenuous mankind believe, let every trembling masculine heart be thankful that the country has held together as long as it lias. However, as a precautionary measure, let the following, from Heloise to Abelard, be carefully considered: “Such has ever been the baneful influence of women on the greatest men. Hence the caution of the wise man against us (Proverbs). Eve, our first mother, drove her husband from Paradise. Heaven gave her to be his helpmate, but she soon became his destruction. Delilah was alone strong enough to vanquish that brave Nazarene whose birth an angel had foretold. She delivered him to his enemies. When deprived of sight, he was no longer able to support the load of misery; involved in one common ruin, he expired with his enemies. Solomon, the wisest of men. was so infatuated by a w oman, the daughter of the King of Egypt, as even, in the decline of life, to become an idolater. Job, that man of piety, had to enduro the severest of all his conflicts from his wife. She instigated him to curse God. The arch-tempter well knew what experience had often taught him, that the most certain way to destroy a husband was to employ the artifice of his wife.” In the face of all such statements, ancient and modern, it would indeed be a rash measure to endow such a destructive element as woman with political power. Let the monster be appeased with jewelry, seal-skin cloaks, handsome equipages, elegant dwellings, anything and everything which the horny-handed bread-winner can scrape together; but let not the country, the gubernatorial chair, sole remnant of man’s grandeur before the fall, he resigned into the hands of heartless, designing woman. In the mere contemplation of such ignominy, the most careless man cannot but shudder. 0, woman! woman! take the pocketbook and the middle of the crossings, but leave to mankind the helm of state. COURT MANNERS. The Louisville Commercial, citing the recent suicide of Martin Sellers, at Kendallville, to avoid testifying in a murder case, remarks: “There's many a witness who has wished himself dead after being bullied and badgered by a privileged attorney.” The humor of this observation is lost in the fact that it is too near the truth to be very funny. The manner in which the courts allow pettifogging lawyers to insult, slander and bully witnesses is a shame alke to bench and bar. Too many prosecutors feel free to malign and impeach off-hand any and all of the defendant’s witnesses, no matter how reputable they may he nor how sensitive to such brutal proceedings. It is a fact that the men most hurt by such unprofessional badgering are the very ones who, left to themselves, would tell the whole story without equivocation or mental reservation, and in exact accord with the truth, while only too often the .studied attacks of this class of attorneys have no more effect on a liar than the pouring of a spoonful of water would have on a duck’s back. A sensitive man, unused to such malevolent methods, is almost certain to contradict himself under the unnecessary and indecent inquisition. The truth is lost, just as the ex- j

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amining lawyers decide beforehand that it shall be lost; justice is overwhelmed and court proceedings are made a farce. The conscientious man who has never had his honesty questioned in his life, has his feelings crucified and outraged in the most shameless manner when unwillingly dragged into court to give the force of his good name and long-estab-lished reputation to the discovery of right and the vindication of justice. For such a man one experience of the kind is enough; he leaves the witness-chair shocked and humiliated, helpless to resent the wrong that has been inflicted upon him, and firmly resolved never again to give testimony if he can possibly avoid it.

And what is true of the treatment accorded witnesses is equally or even to a greater degree true of the way principals to the cause are treated by the attorneys of the opposition. To the case-hardened the ranting and vituperation of bellowing lawyers are nothing, Some can see that there is nothing sincere in it from beginning to end, and that the very same attorney who so loudly proclaims the untrustworthiness of one side would be equally ardent in denouncing the other were, he employed by the side opposing him. But there are many who cannot comprehend why it is that a lawyer should be allowed to impeach their veracity in court when they would not only not dare to, but would not think to, question it elsewhere. The very best men in each community have suffered in this direction, and it is a shame upon us that it has been so long tolerated. It has been earned to such an extreme that an honorable man, established in business for years, cannot bring • suit on a mote for even the most insignificant sum without incurring the risk of having some whippersnapper of a lawyer denounce him as a Shylock, and even to put the brand of dishonesty upon him. These men are the exceptions, it may be said; but their methods should not be allowed to exist anywhere, and there are enough of the kind complained of to bring the majority into a measure of disrepute. Those above such petty meanness should assist in killing out such disreputable practices. No man anywhere has the right to wantonly traduce the character of another, and if done in court, the guilty one should be held to even stricter accountability for his cowardice in shielding himself behind his presumed privileges.

In tho first edition of the novel called “Cape I Co<l Folks” actual names of persons living in that region were used, much to their indignation. As soon as the publishers learned this other names were substituted in later editions, but this did not appease the wrath of the persons who chose to regard themselves as caricatured, and several suits were brought against the publishers. The case of the hero of the book, Lorenzo L. Nightingale, against the firm, is on trial this week in Plymouth, Mass., and attracts much attention. He avers that he lias suffered and continues to suffer much annoyance on account of the libelous nature of incidents in which he is represented as figuring. Ho is particularly exasperated over tho description of a scene wherein lie is pictured as kissing tho school mistress. He says he never did it, and never thought of such a thing, and if the teacher was in love with him he did not know it, and thought she might have taken another way of telling him so. As this school mistress is supposed by the people of the region to be the writer of the book, though, as an exception to the rule, she does not use her own name, Mr. Nightingale, by this testimony, makes matters rather interesting for that young woman. The complainant further declares that tho change of his name in later editions to Lorenzo B. Cradlebow, so far from being a relief, was a source of increased annoyance, as he was subjected to much “chaff’ and ridicule in consequence, and is now as often greeted by tho offensive name of Cradlebow as the euphonious one of Nightingale. For his sufferings, Lorenzo demands a salve of SIO,OOO. The publishers plead that they were innocent of any malice or intent to annoy, that the book was on its face a fiction, and that even if the characters were drawn from real life so flattering and idealized a description was given of the plaintiff that he should be far from complaining. It is the first case of libel ever brought against the publishers of a work of fiction, and there being no precedent to fall back on, it is impossible to tell which way the court will jump. So illustrious a man as Sullivan cannot live long in any town without setting the impress of his individuality upon it. His example is beginning to tell in that most conservative stronghold. Boston. In Cambridge, two young men, rival suitors for the hand of one young lady, agreed to fight for the girl. In the presence of a few friends they had a slugging match, in which both were badly disabled. The young woman, who does not seem to be educated up to the slugging plane, cruelly refuses to have anything to do with either of them. In spite of this discouraging feature, however, this method of settling difficulties will undoubtedly increase in popularity in Mr. Sullivan’s town. It is told of Mr. Wood, a newspaper man who recently died in New York, that he employed the spare hours of six years of his life in writing a novel. To write it in the rough did not take very long, and the greater part of the time spent upon it was devoted to the trimming and polishing process. He revised, condonsed and corrected until, finally, at the end of six years it was grammatically perfect. Having reached this point of perfection, the author read it over critically to judge of it as a novel, and found that in the act of polishing ho had eliminated the story nothing left, so to speak, but tho frame work. His book was not published. *There are thirty thousand rag pickers in Paris, eight thousand of whom wear medals as “trusties,” or those who will return lost property; twelve thousand are “swallows.” having#o medal, and ton thousand work only by day, Tho business is said to be quite a profitable one, and many engaged in it are soon enabled to retire. Elaborate arrangements have boon made for the welcome of Archbishop Feehan to his homo in Chicago to-morrow, upon his return from the council at Rome. The programme, as published, embraces a street parade from tho depot to the cathedral, and thence to the archepiscopal residence. It is well and proper to do honor to so

distinguished an ecclesiastic as Archbishop Feehan, but the propriety of such a demonstration by a church on a day presumed to bo regarded ns sacred by the church may well be doubted. If churches have street parades and displays on Sunday, who shall say nay to any sort of a demonstration, in a country where the church is not supposed to have any peculiar or especial privileges. Hon. John Cobthin, of this city, has been nominated by the President associate justice of Montana Territory. This action was foreshadowed in the Journal’s Washington special yesterday. Indiana will lose a citizen of emi nent character and ability by the removal of General Coburn, but what is Indiana’s loss will be Montana’s gain. It will seem very odd to call the roll of our prominent citizens and miss the name of John Coburn from the list. Every Indianian will wish him the highest success in his new Western home. The Hancock County Democrat suggests to the Indianapolis school board that a good way to teach history would be to introduce a few copies of daily newspapers into the schools. The Journal has frequently suggested the same thing: but school authorities seem to have a deadly horror of anything that would make the school curriculum in any degree interesting or attractive to scholars. There arc a few schools, however, where the practice prevails, the results being in the highest degree satisfactory. The difference: A Colorado woman found a burglar in her house, drew a bead on him with a revolver, and marched him off to the authorities. A New York womau under similar circumstances hit the intruder real hard with an umbrella, and then flopped down and cried. The New York burglar was so badly scared that he probably hasn’t stopped running yet. With all the talk about the present flood being the “greatest of the century if not of all time,” it may bo said, for the gratification of the oldest inhabitant that the record of ’32 is not so very much behind. Careful calculations by the city engineer of Pittsburg show that in that city the water this year rose only four and three-eighths inches higher than in 1832. The Journal has received from Silas Needham, chairman, a draft for S2O, a contribution to the flood sufferers made by the members of the Republican convention of Tipton county, held on the 13th instant. A splendid example of Republican manhood and sympathy. It is mentioned as something remarkable that a woman who has been a switch tender in Georgia for twenty years has never misplaced a switch. The number of women in this country proficient with the switch is legion, and seldom, indeed, has one been misplaced. A Pittsburg man advertises for the names and addresses of “all who propose to start new papers.” If this man will call for names of those who, having started new papers, want somebody to help them let go, ho can get right into business in almost any town. A Wikesbarre, Pa., man had his wrife arrested for poisoning his pie. If the drug had been put in any other article of food it would have been all right: but in pie it was too much, as the two, combined, would undoubtedly have killed him. _ Standing Bear, a Sioux Indian, has opened a store at the Rosebud Agency. Better that than to cast his lot with the remaining members of the bear family on the hoard of trade. The total amount contributed to the Board of Trade relief committee, up to 4 o’clock yesterday, was $13,407. This does not include the sums given through other sources. Senator Lapham is evidently a long-winded man. That whistle of his is reverberating through the country from East to West and back again. It will be necessary to suppress the proceedings of the school board if things keep on. To read them “will prejudice the minds of the children.” _ The New York Sun says: “In these days no journal can long retain much influence with the people which is always for its party, right or wrong.” . - - POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. The bar of Delaware county has unanimously indorsed Hon. C. E. Shipley as their candidate jor circuit judge of that district. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle is of the present opinion that stranger things have happened than would be the nomination of the Hon. Samuel J. Randall for the presidency. Major John N. Runyan, of Warsaw, lost a leg and not an eye in the service. Col. N. Headington writes a warm indorsement of the Major in liis candidacy for State Treasurer. The Rockville Republican says: “The Republicans of Parke county will present the name of Hon. J. T. Johnston, as their candidate for Congress: and in doing so they expect his nomination, as a matter of even-handed justice to the county. We have borne the heat and burden of the day ever since the organization of the party, and have never yet been honored with a position either on the congressional or State ticket” Captain Johnston is one of the old reliable working Republicans of that district and of the State. He is always to be found in the thickest of the fight with his coat off and his sleeves rolled up. If services count, Mr. Johnston has strong claims.

BREAKFAST CHAT. A Philadelphia man uses old tooth-plates to make gold tooth picks. # A Southern congressman has introduced a bill which would pension Jeff I>avis. Judge Tourgke has canceled all his lecture engagements because he is suffering from overwork and anxiety. It is definitely decided that Mine. Bernhardt will travel through America next season, and it is staled with emphasis that she will play in English. Lord Bute has given an order to Miss Edraonia A. Edwards, the American negro sculptress, to execute a marble statue of the Virgin Mary for one of his chapels. The late Thomas Kinsella. of the Brooklyn Eagle, left an estate worth about $250,000, including his interest, of about SIOO,OOO in that journal. His six children are his hoirs. Toughing the party squabbles in New York on the presidential nomination, it is said that the President “maintains a reticence which by comparison makes all former silent men appear garrulous and leaky.” An English woman who had little faith in banks used often to swallow coins for safo-keopiug. One day she swallowed seven pieces of silver. At her autopsy six of the coins were found, amounting to 3s Od. Susan B. Anthony says that one great, hindrance to the suffrage movement, women’s lack of education in money matters. They have had no experience in earning money or in knowing how far it will go. A Boston correspondent relates Miss Susan B. Anthony, in conversation with General i'ut.ler, who is counsel for her and Lucy Stone Blackwell i'V the suit contesting the bequest of Mrs. Eddy, amounting to about $20,000 for each of them, said: “General,

will try as hard to get this as if it were for yourself, will you not?” And he replied: “A great deal harder, Miss Anthony. For myself, I wouldn't car#* whether I had it or not, but I do care for you to have it.” Sir Mosks MontefioßE has been seriously ill with bronchitis. He had two attacks, the last one more serious than the first. The weather had been very severe at the time. The last mail advices did not report him entirely out of danger. “WALKING yesterday along the Rue de Sevres,” writes a lady from Paris to the London Truth, “I saw the following delightful announcement painted on the side of a porte cochere: ‘Madame Zenobie C , third story, lots out teeth for evening parties and balls.’ ” Mr. Sintha, a Hindu gentleman, has carried off from all his fellow students of the Inns of Court in London, the prize offered by the Council of Legal Education for 6uch extensive and various subjects as Roman law, jurisprudence, constitutional law and legal history. A MINISTERIAL decree recently issued in the Grand Duchy of Weimar enjoins upon all public departments to abstain as rigidly as possible from the use of foreign words in their official reports, documents, etc. The Grand Duke is desirous of restoring the language of the Fatherland to pristine purity. Rev. J. G. Wood, of New York, possessed for four years a large lump of dry Nile mud, a hole in one of the sides showing that a mudfish was within it. The other day he carefully cut the lump open, and found the inhabitant in good condition, doubled up, with its tail over its head just as when it went to sleep more than twenty years ago. Theophrastus, a Greek writer who flourished in the fourth century before the Christian era, in a work entitled the “Book on Stones,” describes an earthy substance which would kindle and burn, and which was used by smiths. There can he no doubt that he refers to coal, and that this is the earliest passage in which that substance is expressed or mentioned. M. DE LRBBKPB is untiring. He is a candidate for the place among the French immortals, vice Henri Martin retired to another place of immortality; he is pegging away at his Panama canal scheme, and now, in conjunction with M. Rondaire, ho is entering on the work of changing the Sahara desert into a great inland sea. If he succeeds he will he thrice immortal —worthy to take his place “among the gods.” Ruskin says: “Never buy a copy of a picture. All copies are had, because no painter who Is worth a straw ever will copy. He will make a study of a pioturo he likes for his own use in his own way, hut he won’t and can’t copy; and whenever you buy a copy you buy so much misunderstanding of the original, and encourage a dull person in following a business he is not fit for, besides increasing ultimately chances of mistake and imposture. You may, in fact, consider yourself as having purchased a certain quantity of mistakes, and, according to your power, being engaged in disseminating thorn.” It has been decided by the authorities at the Indian Museum. South Kensington, London, to put up in a place where it can be conveniently read, Dr. Leitner’s key to shawl writing, as furnishing some clew to the full moaning of the shawls shown in that exhibition. Dr. Leitner was the discoverer, in 1872, of the secret of the language of the weavers of cashmere, and he has described the numerals and names or colors used in the manufacture of shawls at some length. The subject is of considerable interest in connection with the decay of what used to be one of the most flourishing industries in Northwestern India. Sir Stafford Northcote has been amusing a literary society by lecturing upon the subject of “Nothing,” though ho reminded them that he was not the first person who had attempted to discuss that theme. Lord Rochester, the friend of Charles 11, addressed a very clever poem to “Nothing;” a French writer, quoted by Dr. Johnson, wrote a Latin poem to show that Nothing is purer than water, Nothing is richer than gold, Nothing is higher than the heavens, and so on. The speaker defined masterly inactivity as the art of sitting still and not committing yourself iu any action at a time when it is not convenient you should do so. Labouuhkre says it’s all humbug that the late gillie John Brown was a particular favorite of Prince Albert, and commended by the consort on his deathbed to the Queen. lie was an ordinary upper servant when Prince Albert died, and then the Prince “looked with ineffable disdain upon those beneath him.” “Heavn itself,” says the editor of Truth, “would scarcely be acceptable to a German prince if ho were doomed to inhabit the same regions as his sometimes domestics; and I apprehend that such personages regard the assurance, ‘ln my Father’s house are many mansion’s, as a sort of guaranty that no such grievous huddling together of patricians and plebeians is to be anticipated.” The Italian papers relate tlio following anecdote of Victor Emmanuel: Soon after the King’s marriage, he met a peasant-girl upon the steps of thr Royal Palace in Turin. She was bringing a basket of eggs for the royal kitchen, and because the King wore a plain hunting-dress, and was alone, she took him for a servant. “Do point out the. King to me,” she begged: “I should so like to see him.” “lam tho King,” he said.” “Eh! bah!” said the girl, laughing in his face. “The Princess would not have chosen such an ugly mau.” The King laughed too, and accompanied the girl to the kitchen, where he bade the servants attest to his identity. He then gave the girl a twenty-franc piece, and left her bewildered. Earl Grosvenor, the eldest son of tho Duke of Westminster, who has just died, was chiefly remarkable for his great, and, for his age, immense size; his habit, which probably occasioned this size, was staying in bed until 3iu the afternoon, and his passon for engine driving. He had been subject from one-and-twenty years and upward to epileptic attacks, but when on the engine “Wild Irishman” was always accompanied by the usual driver and stoker, so that the public suffered no risk. Hi3 young widow is one of the beautiful daughters of Lord Scarborough, and their little boy, Lord Belgrave, who is destined to inherit the vast estates, is a fine little fellow, called in the family “Bend Or,” after Ids grandfather's Derby winner.

INSPECTOR LANIERS RESIGNATION. Tho Sudden Departure of the Gentleman for South America Explained. Altanta, Ga.. Feb 15. —Tho flight of Postoffice Inspector H. B. Lanier, and his dismissal from office by tho department, have been explained by a letter dated New Orleans, Jan. 28, addressed to Chief Inspector Brown, of this city, in whicli he resigns his office and takes ship for South America. In the letter he says lie has never severed a business connection with more regret, and proceeds: “Wild speculations complete the exhaustion of all ray means, and borrowing money from the postmasters to keep up my margins and recover are the reasons for my resignation. Although tho amounts are small, 1 am unable to replace them at once, and feel that my usefulness as an officer is impaired until I am absolved from all obligations above referred to. I have friends and relatives in South America to whom I shall make immediate personal application for such assistance as will relievo me from my present un for tun ate em barrassm ent. ” He then gives the chief inspector power of at torney to open his letters, collect certain moneys, and apply the same to the clearing of certain debts, and modestly hints: “1 hope none of this will go into the papers, except the mere fact of my resignation. It will do no possible good, will hamper my efforts to raise money to pay out, and would* do all con cerned much more harm than good.” With this request he proffers a little advice to Mr. Brown, thus: “Never speculate; never gamble in cotton, stocks, or anything else, is my advice to you.” Murdered by His Wife and Brother. Haumar, 0., Feb. 15.—W. R. Miller was found dead in his houso with two bullet holes in his body. His wife and his brother have been arrested for the murder. Rumor says his wife threatened to put him out of the way because she loved his brother. The prisoners deny all knowledge of the crime.

VICTIMS OF TIIE TORRENT. Serious Loss of Life Added to the Flood Horrors at Cincinnati. The Water Causes a Weakening of the Walls and the Falling of Two Buildings in the Flooded District. Ten of the Thirty-Five Occupants of the Structures Lose Their Lives. Effect of the Disaster on the Occupants of Other Water-Surrounded Buildings — The Daily List of Casualties. TEX PERSONS KIDDED. Two Buildings Undermined l>y the Flood Tumble Into the Water. Cincinnati, Feb. 15.—At 3:40 this morning the Are alarm was sounded for the box at Ludlow and Pearl streets, where the water surrounds the houses. When the engines reached the place it was discovered that the rear part of two brick buildings on the south side of Pearl, near Ludlow, had fallen in, and that ten per sons were buried in the rains or drowned. The occupants of the front portion had given the alarm, and before the real cause could he ascertained the fire alarm was sounded. The firemen, in conjunction witli the police, used every effort to rescue the living and dead. The living were soon brought out Four members of a family named Burk. Mr. and Mrs. Coulter, Maud Ellis, Lydia Ellis, Willie Kyle, and another, name not known, are supposed to be crushed or drowned. Mrs. Webb, an occupant of the room in the part that fell, was awakened by the cracking of the walls, and tried to awaken others, but fell with the rains, and yet escaped without injury. The buildings wore occupied as hoardinghouses by Robert Kyle and George Oyster. There were about thirty-five people in the buildings at the time. The following are known to have been killed either by falling timbers or drowning: John W. Kyle, son of the proprietor; Mary E. Colter, Maud Ellis. James Ogden, Barney Winkler, Mrs. Winkler, Thomas Burke, Mrs. Lena Burke and two children, William and Louis Burke, making ten lives so far known to have been lost. The rescued women were conveyed in the patrol wagon to the fire engine-house in the vicinity, where they were made comfortable by the fire. Mrs. Kyle, whose sou was lost in the ruins, was inconsolable. She imagined her hoy was alive and struggling for his freedom. Then she gave him up for lost and her agony was heartrending. Mrs. Webb, who occupied a room in the part that fell, says she could not sleep for the cracking of the walls. She thought at first it was the paper affected by the water, but afterward supposed it was something worse. “I got up at last,” she said, “and awakened Mary Colter, and told her we must get out, something was going to happen. I went to the door of the next room, where Maud Ellis was sleeping, and tried to awaken her Then I called Mary Colter again to hurry. She was sitting on the bed. I was near the door. I felt the house going. I could have stepped through tho door to the front part, but I turned to get Mary. I could not see, and I felt all around for her, and then we all went down together. I do not know how I escaped, but I crawled out and screamed.” This was told between sobs, as the poor woman bemoaned her room-mate, Mary Colter, and the girl Maud Ellis. The occupants of the house say they called the attention of the owner last summer to the weakness of the rear wall, hut it was not repaired. One of them thinks the wooden lentel over the rear cellar door was broken by the effect of tho watar, and so let the rear wall down. The body of Thomas Burke was recovered shortly before noon. It was crushed fearfully. The accident has spread terror among the occupants of similar old buildings in the flooded districts. Many who can do so are getting out to safer quarters. By the confusion of names tho report was current that two additional bodies had been found, making the total number of victims twelve. It was afterwards learned that the two people hitherto called Winkler in the reports, were Mr. and Mrs. Woenker. This leaves the total number of victims, so far as known, ten. The body of Maud Ellis has also been recovered. The body of another woman was found fast under a partition wall, but owing to the danger of other walls falling, further search was abandoned till the water falls. OTHER CASUADTIES. Five Persons Drowned Xear Newlmrg by the Upsetting of a Skiff. Paducah, Kv., Feb. 15. —While John Beatty was attempting to convey his wife aud three children, aud two young ladies, namod Weather ford, across tue backwater, near Newhurg, on the Ohio river, the skiff was dashed against a tree by the current, and upset. Mr. Beatty, all the children and one of the young ladies were drowned. Explosion in a Residence. Newcastle, Pa., Feb. 15.—A chandelier in in the residence of Sewell Fulkerson fell during the night after the family had retired. Fulkerson struck a match this morning and a terrible explosion followed, shattering the glass, tearing the doors off the hinges, and burning Fulkerson badly. Dead or Alive? Youngstown, 0.. Feb. 15.—Kitty Gilmore, a young lady, was placed in a vault at Warren yesterday, and taken from the vault two hours afterward by Undertaker Townsend, to the house of Dr. Nelson. There still remains the glow of the cheek and natural expression of the eye. Physicians say she did not die of inflammation of the bowels, but from hypodermic injections, and are yet divided in opinion as to whether she is alive or dead. The body was taken from the coffin and placed in bed, and will he kept for several days at least The body, on showing signs of life, was examined at 5 this afternoon by three physicians and pronounced dead. The body was again placed in the vault this evening. Canada and the United States. Ottawa, Feb. 15.—At the annual meeting of tho Dominion Artillery Association Lord Lansdowne. in his speech, said: “You are not, and I iiope never will be, a military nation, in the sense in which some great European powers are. Your people have their peaceful pursuits, and are engaged in tin* development of the resources of the country. Your only coterminous neighbor is a. great nation, with which you are upon the most friendly terms, whose relations with you are absolutely unclouded. They are united to you by the ties of descent, language and common love of free institutions. A gain, you form a part of

the empire which, you may de; ill never quarrel gratuitously or for -,, rpose. For all t hese reasons the peo>-. jof Can ->• are content to intrust what might be called national insurance to an army of very moderate strength, supported at very moderate cost and sacrifice of the time and attention of those who form members of the different forces.” PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. THE SENATE. Consideration of the Bill to Provide for Cip. culating Notes Resumed. Washington, Feb. 15.—Mr. Pendleton sent to the desk and had read a telegraphic, dispatch from Richard Smith, of Cincinnati, to Representative Jordan, saying that the Secretary of War had done grandly in the matter of relief for the sufferers by tho Ohio floods; that cold weather, though better than rain, had increased the distress; that no pen could sufficiently describe the sufferings; that Congress should appropriate an additional million. It would have to come, and the more promptly the better. Mr. Pendleton said" there was no politics in the matter. Everybody was working for it, as the cause of common humanity, Mr. Voorhees said he had similar telegrams, some of which he would read. He said his people had not, on the occasion of last year's flood, asked aid of Congress, as the Indiana Legislature was then in session, but would do so now as the Legislature could not be convened in time to take such immediate action as would meet the emergency. The matter was referred to the commit* tee on appropriations, and at 1:40 Mr. Allison, from that committee, reported favorably the joint resolution, and it was immediately read three times and passed. At 1 o'clock a message was received from the House of Representatives, announcing that that body had passed a joint resolution making a further appropriation of $200,000 for the relief of the destitute persons in the districts overflowed by the Ohio river and tributaries. • Shortly afterwards a message was received from the House which announced the affixing of the Speaker's signature to the measure, whereupon the President of the Senate instantly affixed his own. Mr. Voorhees presented a petition from 1,100 settlors of Washington Territory, praying protection in the titles of their lands, in controversy between them aud the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The Senate then resumed consideration of tliO bill to provide for tho issue of circulating notes to national hanks. Mr. Plumb addressed the Senate at some length. Mr. Jones, of Florida, characterized Mr. Plumb's proposition as revolutionizing our whole system of finance. A vote was then taken on the amendment heretofore submitted by Mr. Sherman, providing that if any bonds deposited Imre higl.e- interest than 3 per cent., additional notes will he issued equal to one-half of the interest in excess of 3 per cent, accruing before maturity. Rejectedyeas, 7; nays, 42. The cliair laid before the Senate a communication from the Attorney-general, explaining the delay in responding to the call for his opinion, made by the Postmaster-general, regarding the adjustment of postmasters’ salaries. The matter was received at this office, he says, in August last, while on his vacation. When ho returned he gave it close inspection, and as it was a matter involving a large amount of money ami complicated and intricate questions, and ho was anxious to give it careful and deliberate consideration, his opinion, when drawn up, lie had laid aside for awhile to give it more mature consideration. It was fifial'y completed five weeks ago, and senttothe Postmaster-general on the 14th mst. After executive session, tho Senate adjourned until Monday.

THE HOUSE. The Chalmers-Manning Election Case to Rest Upon Its Merits. Mr. Holman, from the committee on appropriations, reported tho joint resolution making ft further appropriation of $200,000 for tho relief of tho sufferers by the Ohio floods. Mr. Browne, of Indiana, read a telegram from Richmond asking an immediate for the relief os the destitute and homeless peo* pie along the Ohio. The joint resolution was passed. The Chalmers-Manning election case was then taken up. At 3:30 the previous question was ordered. Then Mr. Curtin took the floor for the purpose of withdrawing his resolution, and wound up his recital of tho reasons which led to this action with the words, “With General Manning’s full consent and approbation, I bring him to the Speaker’s desk and ask that the oath be administered to him on the certificate of tho Governor of Mississippi.” and suiting his action to tho words, he took Mr. Manning by the arm and together they stood at the bar of the House. When Mr. Curtin presented him and demanded that he be sworn as the representative under the certificate of the Governor of a loyal and great State, immediately the House woke up and Mr. Calkins was ready with the i>oint of order that the House had referred the case to tho committee; that the committee had reported to the House and the report was now under consideration. The Speaker said that he did not think that tliere was any necessity to decide a question of order, because the question whether or not Manning was entitled to take the oath of office was" tho very question which the House was now considering and on which the House was about to take a vote. The chair would not undertake to administer the oatli of office to a person claiming to be a member elect. Tho House itself was considering his right to the seat. Messrs. Manning and Curtin thereupon returned to their scats amid the derisive laughter of the Republican side, which was increased at the remark of Mr. Belford, “Ring down the curtain. the play is over.” The question recurred on substituting the minority resolution for those of the majority, and a division on the resolutions being demanded a vote was taken on the first, declaring that Manning holds proper credentials. This wa6 rejected—yeas 10C, nays 140. The announcement of the vote was received with applause on the Republican sido. The second resolution declaring Manning entitled to the seat was defeated —yeas 92. nays 157. The majority resolutions were then adopted 130 to 56. This discharges tho committee on elections from the prima facie case, and leaves the seat vacant until the case is decided on its merits. Adjourned until Monday. A Peace-Maker Killed. Galveston, Feb. 15.—Advices from Hempstead to-day give meagre details of a fearful encounter in which one man was killed and twe others were wounded. For some reason or other Will Wheeler and John Ellison, late city marshal, commenced shooting at each other in Howe’s bar-room last night. Captain James T. Browning, who was present at the time, interfered and tried to make peace. When the firing ceased it was discowed that Browning was shot dead and Wheeler and Ellison were in such a condition that they will probably die. Browning was a candidate for the city marshalship in the election to bo held next Monday and it is said he was a law-abiding citizen. A Fight with Cowboys. Deadwood, Feb. 15.—Information was received here a few days ago that an attempt would be made by cowboys to rescue Jesse Pruden, arrested for horse stealing at Miles City. Montana, and en route for Deadwood. A posse left Spearfish to assist the officers. Ar riving at Stoneville, seventy-five miles north of Deadwood, yesterday, the posse was attacked by cowboys, and a man named O’Hara killed, and Fred Willard wounded One cowboy named Cunningham was killed, and another, name unknown. wounded and captured. The cowboys then fled. A party is now organizing at Spearfish to pursue the outlaws. Wendell Phillips's Will. Boston, Feb. 15. —The will of Wendell Phillips makes no pub’-c bequests, his property. $250,000 in value, 1 Ang devised to his widow and adopted daughter