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fellows’ Hall; loss, SI,OOO. Lehue’s residence; loss, SOOO. There was but little insurance on any of the property. Six Live# Loit in a Fire in New York. New York, Feb. 22. —At a fire early this morning, at Beaver and Williams streets, six lives were lost The names of the dead are as follows: Mrs. Annie Murray, aged thirty; .Tames Murray, jr., aged 7; Daniel Murray, aeed 5; Maggie Murray, aged 2p, Mrs. Venners, Murray’s wife’s mother, who was 53 years old, is also dead. James Murray, father of the family, was a policeman attached to the First precinct His wife attended to the janitor's duties of Litchfield’s building. He was doing patrol duty near the scene of the fire, and rushed to the burning structure, his first thought being to save his wife and children. He was seen to enter the house, but has not been seen since, and it is thought he was suffocated by smoke, and subsequently burned to a cinder. The firemen are still searching for him. At 1:50 A. M. Officer Bunker found the lifeless body of the missing policeman on the first floor. Murray had evidently been dead some time. He was not burned, but his body was bruised, and he was partially covered by a largo quantity of debris which had fallen from the third floor. It is thought he was in the third story, and becoming stupefied by smoke, sank exhausted to the floor. The wood work,| owing to the ravages of the flames on supports of the floor. gave way and precipitated Murray to the spot where he was found. His remains were borne by bis comrades to a station-house, where his corpse was laid beside that of his wife and children. Murray was an Irishman about 40 years old, was appointed to the police force in 1809, and Captain Cass ray, of the First precinct, speaks of the deceased as an excellent and trustworthy officer. _ A #200,000 Fire at New Britain, Conn. New Britain, Conn., Feb. 21— At 3 o’clock this morning fire was discovered in the livery stable of Bailey & Bunting. It gained such headway that three occupants of the stable office barely escaped with their lives, while a fourth, Ed. Rowley, was burned to death. The fire spread to a large wooden block on Church street, occupied by W. H. Giddings, furniture dealer; W. H. Allen, baker; H. Roberts, harness; Lee’s laundry, and several tenements, and got beyond control of the firemen. The fire then spread from Church street north to Main street. Some merchants saved their goods, but the majority lost everything. Those burned out were: P. D. Osborn, grocer, F. 11. Breumer, restaurant; C. H. Smith, fish market; Chas. Seymour, boots and shoes; W. A. Dwight, jeweler; F. J. Smith, tobacconist, and Horace Booth, variety store. The following lose everything: Cohen, millinery; George Keller, tailor; W. N. Felt, dry goods; T. Schmidt, tailor; C. D. Loomis, boots and shoes; Abbe Brothers, hardware, and Moffitt, photographer. The Central Block, a large four-story brick, occupied by the Young Men’s Christian Association, attorneys, the telephone company and others, was the last to burn. Loss, $200,000; insured for $123,000. Texarkana a Heavy SnfFerer. Texarkana, Feb. 21.—This morning, at 2 o’eiock, the magnificent Marx brick block was discovered to be on fire. The flames increased and spread with remarkable rapidity, although the fire department responded promptly, and exerted every effort to subdue the fire. The loss will be far greater than was ever before sustained in Texarkana. Followintr is list of losses as far as can, at this time, bo ascertained: John J. Dougherty, loss on stock, $32,000; insurance, $20,000. Mansell. Munzelheimer & Cos., $110,000; insurance, $20,000. L. C. Demorse, $9,000: insurance, $7,000. Citizens’ Bank. $3,000; insurance, $2,000. Mrs. Dukes, residence. $1,500; insurance, S7OO. M. V. Flipper, $12,000; insurance, $3,500. Interstate newspaper office, $9,000; insurance, $3,000. James Whittener, livery, $3,000, and N. S. Ramseur, wagon factory, $4,000; covered bv_ insurance. The total loss is estimated at $175,000, but it will probably reach a quarter of a million; insurance, SIIB,OOO. Grocery ami Drug Stores Burned. Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 21.—Fire broke out in Schiff Bros. Building, this morning, and destroyed that and several adjoining buildings. The occupants were Schiff & Cos., wholesale grocers; William Wilson & Cos., wholesale druggists, and Thomas Reese & Cos., retail druggists. The fire •communicated to the rear rooms of the Central Hotel, but was extinguished with little damage. In a room in the building in which the fire originated, Grace Howard, a disreputable woman, was found lying helplessly drunk in bed, with the bed on fire. She was burned from hips to feet, and cannot recover. The losses and insurance are: Schiff Bros., on building, $6,000; insurance, $3,000. H. C. FiCcles, owner of the building occupied as a drug-store, $5,000; insurance, $2,300. ‘Schiff & Cos., $3,000; insurance, sl. 500. William Wilson. $27,000; insurance, $27,500. Thomas Reese & Cos., $7,000; insurance, $5,000. Business Houses Burned. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 21.—A fire occurred early thi3 morning in the four-story brick building, No. 504 Market street The first floor was occupied by Ruth, Bennet & Cos., dealers in china and glassware, and the two upper floors.by Joseph J. Meany & Cos., boot and shoe commission merchants. The stocks of both firms were destroyed. The stock of Ruth, Bennet & Cos., ■was valued at $115,000. The flames then spread to the paper warehouse of S. A. Rudolph, Sons <k Cos., the contents of which were destroyed. The fire then attacked the building No. 508 Market street, the upper floors of which were damaged. The first floor aud basement were occupied by Lippencott, Son & Cos., auctioneers. The total loss ou buildings aud stocks is estimated t $125,000, Burning: of Chappaqua Mountain Institute. Chappaqua, N. Y., Feb. 21.—The Chappaqua Mountain Institute was entirely destroyed by fire this morning. S. C. Collins was aroused by the smell of smoke, and heat once awakened the other teachers and the seventy-five scholars, and all were safely removed from the burning building, although there were some narrow escapes. Many of the childreu were carried insensible through the smoke and flames, and out upon the frozen, snow-covered ground, in their night clothes, bare footed and partly naked. Kind neighbors were soon at the scene, and the poor, half frozen children were kindly cared for. The institute was started sixteen years ago as a Quaker school for boys and girls. The building cost $45,000. and the loss is estimated at $50,000; insurance $21,000. Fire Losses at Cairo. Cairo, 111., Feb. 21.—Last night fire destroyed another building belonging to P. Neff, aud used as a barber-shop and millinery store below, with sleeping apartments above. The loss on the house is $5,000; on stock, SI,OOO. The fire also damaged C. R. Stuart's dry goods store about #10,1300; insurance unknown. An incendiary fire also broke out in Black Bros. * shoe store, but the loss was light, and is covered by insurance. Opera-House and Kink Burned. Huron, D. TANARUS., Feb. 21.—Fire this morning, originating in Foshange’s livery stable, destroyed the opera-house, rink, Louis Keam’s commis-sion-house and C. D. Iloueh ton’s warehouse. Loss, $15,000; insurance, $2,300 on the opera house nk rink. The Cardiff giant, on exhibi tion in the opera-house, was destroyed. When the figure crumbled away, she giant disclosed urge iroL rods projecting limbs. Fire In a Faint-Factory. Philadelphia, Feb. 2L—The press room of John T. Lewis L Co.' paint and color works, was burned to-night, together with valuable machinery. Loss, $33,000; fully insured. NATURAL GAS EXPLOSION. £fx Persons Killed at Wellsburg, W. Ya., and Property Seriously Damaged. Steubenville, 0., Feb. 21.—A terrific natural gas explosion occurred at Wellsburg, W. V'a., seven miles down the river, this morning,

by the gas leaking into the cellar of a two-story brick building, occupied by R. Hillesly & Bros., cigar makers. This building and an adjoining structure, occupied by Luke Weller as a saloon, also a substantial brick, were blown to atoms. The debris took fire. The intense cold gave the fire full sway, and the flames spread rapidly to adjoiuing buildings. The shock of the explosion was so terrible that glass was shattered and plastering shaken from the ceilings of nearly every residence in town. The inhabitants ran in all directions, terror stricken. A great many buildings were found badly damaged quite a distance from the explosion. The list of killed, so far as received, is as follows: Conrad Hellesly, wife, mother and child. The infant babe of the above and John Walters are still missing. Search is now going on. The bodies recovered are terribly mangled. Owing to the intense excitement, it is impossible to get the individual losses, but they will probably reach a total of $20,000. By superhuman efforts the citizens got the fire under control at 4 o'clock A. M. A special from Wellsburg gives the following additional particulars: About half past 1 o’clock this morning a terrible explosion of natural gas shook the town to its foundations, startling every one. Citizens rushed into the streets, not knowing what had happened The cries of the people in the immediate neighborhood brought every one to the spot, where a most heartrending scene was presented. The scene of the explosion was the large butiness and dwelling block owned and occupied bv Hellesly Bros., cigar manufacturers, and Luke Walters’s saloon, the families of each residing over the busines rooms in the building. The whole building was demolished and leveled with the ground. By great efforts the fire was confined to the building blown up and the two frame dwelling-houses adjoining. The whole family of Mr. Hellesly, consisting of himself, wife, mother and two children were instantly killed. All the bodies were easily recovered except that of the youngest child, aged eighteen months, which has just been recovered, burned to a crisp. Johnnie Walters, aged seventeen, is missing, and is supposed to be buried in the ruins. Mr. Walters, his wife and two other children were badly injured, some of whom will not recover. Several others are reported fatally injured. The houses for several squares away were completely shattered by the oxplosion. At 6:30 this evening the body of John Walters, son of Lucas Walters, was recovered from the ruins. The infant child of Mr. Hellesley is still buried in the debris. The loss to property amounts to $30,000. Later reports from the scene of the ga3 explosion at Wellsburg increase the horrors of the singular disaster. Six lives are known to be lost. The eldest of the two children taken out of the ruins was alive, but so seriously injured that it died at 4 A. M.; the youngest child has not yet been found. Mr. Lucas Walters, his wife, and two children, had a narrow escape. The missing named are undoubtedly in the ruins. Mrs. Walters rec. ived injuries, but they are not considered dangerous. Leonard Esterday, a shoemaker doing business in a small frame shop adjoining the Walters home, who boarded with Mr. Walters, and was asleep in his room at Mr. Walters’s, received injuries not considered fatal. The firemen are throwing water on the ruins, endeavoring to cool off the debris so that a search can bo made for the remains of the two missing children. As to the cause of the explosion, it is reported by reliable persons that Mr. Hellesley stated during the day and evening that the gas was leaking in his celiar, and that he had opened up some of the approaches thereto to allow the gas to escape, and retired for the night. The supposition is that the escaping gas found its "way from the cellar to the upper rooms of the house, and coming in contact with the fire in the grates or some gas get, the explosion took place. RAILWAY PERILS. Cincinnati Business Men Injured in a Collis ion on the O. & M. Cincinnati, Feb. 21.—The St Louis express train on the Ohio & Mississippi road, due here this morning, ran into the rear car of a commuters’ train waiting on the side-track at Delhi, twelve miles from this city, injuring a number of passengers, all suburban residents of Cincinnati. The cause of the accident was an open switch, but why it was open is not clearly explained. Officers of the Ohio & Mississippi road say that tho express train, being behind time, the accommodation train had orders to use thirtyeight minutes of the express train’s time, and sidetrack at Delhi for the express to pass. The accommodation ■was getting on the side-track, but found a box-car in the way, and while delayed moving it tho express came up and struck the rear car, telescoping it into tho next one before it. Some of the passengers were hurt by jumping. But one lady was hurt, and she but slightly. It is not believed that any will die from their injuries. The list of injured is as follows: Nelson Sayler, leg injured. Harry W. Smith, Aurora, Ind., leg broken. Judge Conner, of North Bend, leg slightly injured. F. M. Drake, Manchester. Mass, (who was visiting Judge Conner), hip fractured and foot mashed. Captain R. W. Wise, scalp wound. Wm. Robinson, baggage agent, back and leg bruised. John H. Long, leg crushed, internally injured. George Forbes, of the Citizens’National Bank, slightly. C. F. Bincamp and two sons, of Aurora, Ind., slightly injured. Edward Woodruff, of Cincinnati, seriously injured about the eyes. J. McQueely, of the Third National Bank, leg injured. L. W. Pearce, of Fernbank, slightly. The engineer of the accommodation was slightly hurt. It is said the express train was running not more than ten miles an hour at the time of the collision. Engineer Gardner, of the St. Louis express train, and his fireman jumped from the engine and were both injured. Later reports indicate that some of the injuries are quite serious. Not far from the same time an accident happened on tho Bee-line road, at Lockland station, thirteen miles north of the city. A New York express train was approaching the city and had just passed Lockland, when it ran over a broken rail. Two sleepers and the rear passenger coach were thrown from tho track, but no one killed, so far as now known, and only two are reported seriously injured—Max Fleischraan, of New York, brother of Chits. Fleischman, of this city, and a lady from New York, name unknown. Quite a number of others were more or less bruised. Max Fleischman has been removed to liis brother’s dwelling. Ilis ribs are broken, and it is feared he is iuternally injured. Mrs. Mary Rosenberg, of San Francisco, was the lady passenger who was hurt. Her injuries are slight Three Lives Lost by Disobeying Orders. Parkersburg, W. Va,, Feb. 21. — Engineer Byron left hero last night at 7 o’clock with a heavy east-bound freight train 1 ! He had orders to stop at Pennsboro, forty miles east of here, and wait for a west-bound freight to pass. He went past Pennsboro, in disobedience of orders, and, after reaching a point four miles beyond, met a west bound freight train coming at the rate of twenty-five miles per hour. Tho trains collided, inakiug a terrible wreck. Engineer Byron was instantly killed, as were his firemen and a brakeman, whose names cannot be ascertained. On the west-bound train Anthony Cannon, the engineer, was dangerously scalded, and his fireman seriously bruised. It is thought both will die. Fireman and Engineer Killed. Utica, N. Y., Feb. 21.—At 2 o'clock a. m. today a passenger train bound west on the West Shore road ran into a freight train at Canajoharie. Three locomotives were smashed. Engineer Andrew Shiner, of Frankfort, and fireman Grover Penny, of Deposit, were mangle! in the wreck and instantly killed. Several others were severely injured.* The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Great bargains in children’s knee pants, suits and overcoats at the Model Clothing Cos.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1885.

IN HONOR OF WASHINGTON. [Concluded from First Page.] it marched in and took the seats assigned it, in front and a little to the left of the Speaker’s desk. Shortly afterwards General Sheridan and staff entered, amid loud clapping of hands, and their brilliant uniforms tended to lend an air of gayety to the scene. The President and Cabinet next appeared, and the large assemblage rose and heartily applauded as the chief executive and his advisers passed down the main aisle, and were assigned seats in the space directly in front of the Speaker’s desk. The Supreme Court, the judiciary of the District, and the diplomatic corps followed and flanked the presidential party, and at 2:30 the Senate, preceded by its officers, was escorted to the space reserved for it. Its presiding officer, Mr. Edmunds, proceeded to the Speaker’s desk, where the gavel was courteously handed him by Speaker Carlisle. In calling the assemblage to order Mr. Edmunds said: "Gentlemen, you are assembled, pursuant to a concurrent order of the two houses, to celebrate a memorable occasion, the completion of the monument to the memory of the first President of the United States. It is not only a memorial, but an inspiration that shall live through all generations of our posterity, as we may hope, and which we this day inaugurate and celebrate by the ceremonies which have been ordered by the two houses.” Prayer was then offered by Rev. S. A. Wallis, of Po’hick Church, near Mt. Vernon, Va. The prayer being ended, the Marine Band, stationed in the members’ lobby, played ‘‘Hail Columbia,” and then Mr. Edmunds, expressing his regret that Mr. Winthrop was necessarily absent, introduced Representative John D. Long, of Massachusetts who, having been loudly applauded, proceeded to read MR WINTHROP’S ORATION. The speech begins by expressing his regret that some abler speaker than himself had not been selected: "Nothing less imperative than your call could have brought me before you for such an effort. Nearly seven and thirty years have passed away since it was my privilege to perform a similar service at the laying of the cor-ner-stone of that monument. In the prime of manhood, and in the pride of official station, it was not difficult for me to speak to assembled thousands, in the open air, without notes, under the scorching rays of a midsummer sun. But what was easy for me then is impossible for me now. I am here to-day, as I need not tell you, in far other condition for the service you have assigned me—changed, chanced in almost everything, except an inextinguishable love for my country and its union, and an undying reverence for the memory of Washington.” He then reviewed at length the history of the association which, in 1833, was formed for the purpose of erecting the monument now completed. It was not, however, until fifteen years later that the work was begun, and on July 4, 1848, the corner-stone was laid. Mr. Winthrop, then as now, delivering the principal address. In a few years work was suspended, and soon atter the civil war put an end to' it. Had rebellion succeeded in its purpose, it would have been well to have left the unfinished monument as it was, to be torn dowr. and scattered, or worn away by the inroads of the elements. But with the Union reassured this monument shall henceforth be lovingly associated, net only with the memory of him in whose honor it has been erected, but with an era of assured peace, unity and concord, which would have been dearer to his heart than the costliest personal memorial which the toil and treasure of bis countrymen could have constructed. The Union is itself the all-sufficient and the only sufficient monument to Washington. The Union was nearest and dearest to his great heart. "The Union in any event,” wero the most emphatic words of his immortal farewell address. Nothing less than the Union would ever have been accepted or recognized by him as a monument comensurate with his services and bis fame. Nothing less ought ever to be accepted or recognized as such by us, or by those who shall rise up. generation after generation, to do homage to his memory. Can wo not all read upon the four sides of that monument already, as if graven by some invisible finger, or inscribed with some sympathetic ink, —which it requires no learning of scholars, no lore of Egypt, nothing but love of our own land, to draw out and make legible,—thoso masterly words of his letter to the Governors of the States, in 1783: "There are four things which, I humbly conceive, are essential to the well-being—l may even venture to say, to the existence —of the United States as an independent power: First, an indissoluble Union of the States under one federal head; second, a sacred regard to public justice; third, the adoption of a proper peace establishment; and fourth, the prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among tho people of the United States which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community. These are the pillars on which the glorious fabric of our independency and national character must be supported.” But what are all the noble words which Washington wrote or uttered, what are all the ini idents of his birth and death, what are all the details of his marvelous career from its commencement to its close, in comparison with his own exalted character as a man? Rarely was Webs' r more impressive than when, on the complete a of the monument at Bunker Hill, in describing what our country has accomplished for the welfare of mankind, he gave utterance, with liis characteristic terseness, and in his inimitable tones, to the simple assertion. "America has furnished the character of Washington!” And well did he add that, "if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.” Nor can I fail to welcome the crowning tribute, perhaps, from our mother land—reaching me, as it has, at the last moment of revising what I had prepared for this occasion—in a published letter from Gladstone, her great Prime Minister, who, after Saying, in casual conversation, that Washington was "the purest figure in history,” writes deliberately, "that if, among all the pedestals supplied by history for public characters of extraordinary nobility and purity, I saw one higher than all the rest, and if I wero required, at a moment’s notice, to name the fittest occupant for it, I think my choice, at any time duriDg the last forty-five years, would have lighted, and it would now light, upon Washington!” Our matchless obelisk stands proudly before us to-day, and we hail it with the exultations of a united and glorious nation. It may, or may not, be proof against the cavils of critics, but nothing of human construction is against the casualties of time. The storms of winter must blow and beat upon it. The action of the elements must soil and discolor it. The lightnings of heaven may scar and blacken it. An earthquake may shake its foundations. Some mighty tornado, or resistless cyclone, may rend its massivo blocks asunder and hurl huge fragments to the ground. But the character which it commemorates and illustrates is secure. It will remain unchanged and unchangeable in all its consummate purity and splendor, and will more and more command the homage of succeeding ages in all regions of the earth. Mr. Long spoke from the clerk’s desk in an impressive manner and in a voice which, though not loud, was so clear as to reach every corner of the chamber. The eloquent passages of the speech were delivered with a fervor which elicited frequent bursts of applause, and as Mr. Long read the peroration the multitude broke into a storm of applause. On the right of the Speaker were seated the chaplains of the Senate and House, and Rev. Mr. Wallis, while on his left sat Hon. Jno. W. Daniel, of Virginia, and Senator Sherman, chairman of the congressional joint commission. As Mr. Long ceased the band struck up "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,” and as the strains of the air ended, Mr. Edmunds introduced Hon. Jno. W. Daniel, who was greeted with longcontinued clapping of hands. mu. im.niel’B address. Mr. Daniel then proceeded to deliver his oration, begipning as follows: "Solitary and alone in its grandeur stands forth the character of Washington in history; solitary and alone like some peak that has no fellow in the mountain ranee of greatness. ‘“Washington/ says Guizot, ‘did the two greatest things which in politics it is permitted to man to attempt. He maintained by peace the

independence of his country which he had conquered by war. He founded a free government in the name of the principles of order, and by re-establishing their sway:’ Washington did indeed do these things. But he did more. Out of disconnected fragments he molded a whole and made it a country. He achieved his country’s independence by the sword. He maintained that independence by peace as by war. He finally established both his country and its freedom in an enduring frame of constitutional government, fashioned to make liberty and union one and inseparable. These four things together constitute the unexampled achievement of Washington. * * * "Would with all ray heart that a worthier one, not I, had been your choice. Too highly do I esteem the position in which you place me to feel aught but solemn distrustfulness and apprehension. And who indeed might not shrink from such a theater when a Winthrop’s eloquence still thrilled all hearts, with Washington the theme? "Yet, in Virginia’s name I thank you for the honor done her, even in the person of her humble son who is tho medium of its acceptance. She deserved it. In her merit I hide my insignificance. Times there are when even hardihood is virtue; and to such virtue alone do I lay claim in venturing to abide your choico to be her spokesman. "None more than her could I offend did I take opportunity to give her undue exaltation. Her foremost son does not belong to her alone, nor does she so claim him. His part and her part in the Revolution would have been as naught, but for what was done so gloriously by his brothers in council and in arms, and by her sister colonies, who kept the mutual pledge of ‘life, fortune, and sacred honor.’ * * * "But may I not remind you that Washington was a Virginian before he became an American, to tell his countrj’inen that: ‘The name of American which belongs to you in your national capacity must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations'? And if I seek the fountains from which sprung a character so instinct with all-embracing patriotism, I shall pursue a line that seems not without suggestion in the invitation given me, aud may not be without a useful lesson. "In 1657, while yet a ‘Cromwell filled the Stuart’s throne/ there came to Virginia, with a party of Carlists who had rebelled against him, John Washington, of Yorkshire, England, who became a magistrate and member of the House of Burgesses. and who distinguished himself in Indian warfare as the first Colonel Washington on this side of tho water. He was the nephew of that Sir Henry Washington who had led the forlorn hope of Prince Rupert at Bristol in 1643, and who, with a starving and mutinous garrison, had defended Worcester in 1649, answering all calls for surrender that he ‘awaited his Majesty’s commands/ And his progenitors had for centuries, running back to the Norman.conquest, been men of mark and fair renown. "One hundred and fifty-three years ago. on the banks of the Potomac, in the county of Westmoreland, on a snot marked now only by a memorial stone —of the blood of the people whom I have faintly described —the. fourth in descent from the Colonel John Washington whom I have named, there was born a son to Augustine and Mary Washington. And not many miles above his birthplace is the dwelling: whex*e he was reared aud lived, and now lies buried.” The speaker then followed the career of our own Washington, from early manhood through all the grades of his promotions and all his great services to his country. He concluded his address in the following words: "Long live the Republic of Washington! Respected by mankind, beloved of all its sons — long may it be the asylum of the poor and oppressed of all lands and religions; long may it be the citadel of that liberty which writes beneath the eagle’s folded wings: ‘We will sell to no man, we will deny to no man. right and justice.’ "Long live the United States of America! Filled with the free, magnanimous spirit, crowned by the wisdom, blessed by the moderation, hovered over by the guardian angel of Washington's example, may they be ever worthy in all things to be defended by the blood of the biave who knew the rights of man; may they be each a column, and all together, under the Constitution, a perpetual temple of peace, unshadowed by a Caesar's palace, at whose altar may freely commune all who seek the union of liberty and brotherhood. "Long live our country! Oh, long through the undying ages may it stand, far removed in fact as in space from the old world's feuds and follies—solitary and alone in its grandeur and its glory, itself the immortal monument of him whom Providence commissioned to teach man the power of truth, and to prove to tho nations that their Redeemer liveth.” Though having his manuscript ou a desk before him, Mr. Daniel referred to it but once or twice during the course of his oration. He spoke in an easy manner, his voice being finely modulated to suit the meaning of his sentences, and his speech was accentuated and emphasized by graceful gestures. Many times was he interrupted by rounds of applause elicited by his clean-cut and well-balanced periods, and by his eloquent style of uttering them. As .ho closed, Senator Edmunds and Senator Sherman, Speaker Calisle, and Representative Long, warmly congratulated him, while once more the audience testified their appreciation of the orator’s eloquence. After the benediction by tho chaplain of the House, the distinguished guests departed, and tfie Speaker called the House to order, and the body at once adjourned till Monday. THE MONUMENT. Dimensions of the Shaft—Stones from all States and Countries. Washington, Feb. 21.— The monument has been built for the greater part, under the direction of Col. Thomas Lincoln Casey, in the form of the Egyptian obelisk. Its foundation is eighty feet square, and it is set in solid rock eight feet below the surface of the earth. At its base the shaft is fiftyfive feet square, so that its breadth in the widest part is exactly one-tenth of its height. The lower portion of the monument is constructed of blue granite, faced with large crystal marble, and the upper portion is entirely of marble. At the five-hundred foot mark the dimensions are thirty four feet five and a half inches square, and at the top about thirty feet square. The pyramidal top begins at the height of five hundred feet, and is surmounted by a shining point of aluminum, a metal which oxidizes slowly, and is superior as a conductor of lightning. This metallic point is connected with a copper rod which leads down through the center of the capstone to each of the four columns which form the elevator frame in the main shaft. Every State, and many counties and cities, fire-engine companies, and secret societies in the United States, and almost every crowned head of the old world contributed a stone. Among others, Pius IX, Pontifex Maximus, sent a block of African marble from the Temple of Concord. In 1855 Know-nothing-ism was rampant, and a lot of Washington Protestants, incited by a pulpit harangue by a Baltimore minister, demonstrated their aversion to the Pope’s toe by breaking into the shops at night and stealing the stone, which they sank in the Potomac. Since the government assumed the work of construction no memorial stones have been placed in the wall, but a good many will be set hereafter. Memorials of fire companies, social clubs and sewing circles will probably not appear. The stones contributed by Illinois and Indiana are set in the east wail, about fifty-eight feet up from the ground. Illinois contributed a block of buff native limestone, 2x4 feet, and bearing in plain letters the words: • •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••*•# • ; ILLINOIS. i ; STATE SOVEREIGNTY. J ! NATIONAL UNION. ; • | Indiana furnishes a block of variegated native limestone, inscribed: ••••••••••••*•••••••••••• ••••••••••*•••••••■ • INDIANA ; ; KNOWS NO NORTH, NO SOUTH; ; ; NOTHING BUT THE UNION. • I These two stones are in the same course, and between them is the contribution of Georgia.

Nearly every stone contributed by a Southern State bears a declaration of devotion to the Union or the Constitution, or both. The Ohio stone is about ninety eight feet from the ground, and is inscribed: “The State of Ohio. The memory of Washington and the union of the States. Sunto Perpetua.” Michiean contributes a block of native copper, diagonally across which runs a vein of silver. The lettering is of. silver obtained from the copper. The block weighs 2.100 pounds. The stone bears the name of the State, under which is the State seal, and below that is the sentiment: “An emblem of her trust in the Union.” Wisconsin furnished a block of native white marble inscribed: “Wisconsin. Admitted May 29,184& ” Minnesota’s memorial is a small block, 12x20 inches, of native dark-red Indian pipestone, bearing nothing but the name of the State. lowa is represented by a fine piece of native limestone on which is inscribed: “lowa. Her affections, like the river of her borders, flow to an inseparable union.” The stone is two feet by four. Among other stones is the one given by the city of Frederick, Md., having a dove and an ark and an elaborate legend. An ancient and fish like smell comes from the stone sent by New Bedford, Mass. It is decorated with a whale and a pair of harpoons. There is a stone from the field where Braddock was defeated. The general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church furnished a stone decorated with an open Bible. Company I, Fourth United States Infantry contributed a stone in 1851. The Indiana postmasters furnished a block. Redmen, Odd fellows, Masons, militia and fire companies, and all sorts of associations furnished stones, but most of these private gifts will never appear in the wall. New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Baltimore and many other cities have contributed very finely carved memorial stones, and a city as prominent as Chicago ought not to be behind eastern municipalities. THE WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, ) Office of the Chief Signai, Officer, > Washington, Feb. 22, 1885. 5 For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee —Fair weather, followed by local rains in Tennessee, northeasterly winds in Tennessee, and winds shifting to northeastern in the Ohio Valley, slight rise of temperature. For the Lower Lake Region—Lightlocal snows, partly cloudy, slightly warmer weather, westerly winds, shifting to northeasterly. For the Upper Lake Region—Slightly warmer, partly cloudy weather, light local snows, winds shifting to north and east. For the Upper Mississippi Valley-Fair weather, followed by light local snows, north to east winds, slight rise of temperature, lower barometer. For the Missouri Valley—Fair weather, followed by light local snows, northerly winds, shifting to westerly, slight rise of temperature, lower barometer. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Feb. 21. Time. Bar. Thar. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6a. M.. 30.30 —2.0 91 SW Clear lOa. m.,30 32 6.4 85 SW Clear 2 p.m . 30.281 13.8 65 W Clear 6 P.M.. 30.29, 12.3 70 NW Clear 10 p. m.. |30.34| 9.0; 83 NW Clear Maximum temperature, 14.2; minimum temperature, —2 (below zero.) TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Wm. Lee. who sued the Cincinnati Enquirer for $50,000 damages for libel, on Saturday obtained a verdict awarding him SI,OOO. In a fight at Louisville, Kv., about a woman named Lizzie Davis, Joseph Pope cut the throat of Harry Chappell with a pruning knife, killing him instantly. During an altercation, on Friday night, at Clover school-house, near Williamsburg, 0., between Lees Holmes and Alexander Thomas, the latter was fatally shot. Holmes escaped. Joe Kelly, a policeman of Little Rock, Ark., committed suicide on Saturday night by shooting himself in the head while standing on the street talking to another officer. The cause is said to be gambling. The special train of Vice president Waite, of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, was saved from ditching, on Saturday, by a tramp, who saw a broken rail and flagged the train. The tramp was rewarded with a position on the road. Abraham W. Duryee and Thomas Norvan filed application, on Saturday, for a receiver for the St. Louis Hot-pressed Nut and Bolt Company, of which W. H. Stone is president. The application will be heard in the Circuit Court next Tuesday. At Charlotte, N. C., Sam Richardson, a colored fireman, ran against Isaiah Bronson, also colored, and broke two eggs in the latter’s pocket. Bronson thereupon. cut Richardson’s throat. Richardson walked across the street to a drug store and fell dead. Bronson was arrested. How She Got Rid of a Witness. Janesville, Wis., Feb 21.—The last proceedings have finally been held in the famous Mack murder case, which took place July 14, 1878. Mrs. Mack, charged with murdering her husband, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to the State prison for life, but the Supreme Court granted her anew trial, and on the second trial the jury disagreed. Since then she married the principal witness against her, which renders his testimony incompetent. Yesterday she made an application to have her bondsmen released by giving her own bond in Ihe sum of $5,000, which was granted. She having married the State’s most valuable witness, and the other witnesses being widely scattered, it is not likely that the case will ever be called. Tampering with British Mails. New York, Feb. 21. — A telegram from London, announcing that mail bags containing dispatches from the British consul had been cut open and rifled on board the steamer Celtic, was shown to Postmaster Pearson today. Mr. Pearson said the consul's mail did not go through the postoffice, but was sent on board direct from the consul’s office. The postoffieo authorities here had no control over it. As the alleged offense was committed on board a British vessel, that government alone has power to make an investigation. None will bo commenced on this side, as intimated. Preparing for a Socialistic Riot. New York, Feb. 21.—A general row between the police, militia, and the Socialist and dynamite organizations is expected on Monday, when all will parade in honor of Washington's birthday. Militia companies have been drilling for several weeks past in special tactics for streetfighting, and have made very satisfactory progress. Considerable anxiety exists among police officials over the bold threats of Schwab and his followers to make a scene on Monday, and the temper of the rank and file of the police force is such that a bloody fight will ensue if the conflicting elements meet at all. The Knights of Honor Litigation. Louisville, Feb. 21. —Robert J. Breckinridge, through his attorneys, made a motion, this afternoon, in the Law and Equity Court, asking permission to pay into the hands of the receiver of the court $110,498.18, to be placed to his credit in settlement of his account as supreme treasurer of the Knights of Honor. The motion was assigned on Tuesday for hearing. Obituary. New York. Feb. 21. — Wm. C. Kingsley, one of the principal promoters of the Brooklyn bridge, died this morning. Cincinnati, Feb. 21. —Ex-Judge A. G. W. Carter.’ a prominent citizen, died to-night, aged sixty-five. Schooner Wrecked ami Crew Drowned. London, Feb. 21. —A dispatch from Waterford, Ireland, reports that a large schooner, name not ascertained, was wrecked off that port. The crew were drowned. Killed by His Brother-In-Law, Eginton, lila., Feb. 21.—Last night Patrick McDermot shot and killed his wife’s brother. Daniel Dougherty. The killing was the result of au old feud.

THE BLOCKLEY ALMSHOUSE FIRE. Conclusion of the Inqnirj—Nadine and Schroeder Held for Gran£ Jury Action. Philadelphia, Feb, 21.—The coroner’® investigation into the circumstances attending the deaths of the twenty victims of the Blockle/ Almshouse fire has been concluded. The jury returned a verdict that the victims came te their death from injuries received At the fire, which was an act of incendiarism on the part of Joseph Nadine, a patient in the insane department, prompted by Peter J. Schroeder, the chief attendant of one of the insane sections, ani that J. D. Millen, Shroeder’s, assistant, had guilty after-knowledge of the same. The jury also censured the officers of the institution for their apparent loose management and for their failure to have had sufficient fir* apparatus in the building and means of escape for the inmates. Nadine and Schroeder were committed for the action of the grand jury, and Mullen was committed as a witness against Schoroeder. Lizard Green and Ox-Blood. Baltimore Sun. The new colors for spring bonnets are chartreuse, a pale yellowish green; absinthe, a whitish or cloudy green; pistache, moss, olive and lizard green; chaudron, or copper color; casserole, or burnished copper: tobacco, bacchante and Princess of Wales red, while the vivid cocquelicot red of last season is still used. Other color® are sang-de-bceuf, or ox-blood; Lincoln green, . navy blue, hyacintlie, beige, ecru and the accepted grays and neutral tints. Yellow is also a much-used color, and flowers of this color can be seen on many bonnets. It will be seen from the above that green, in bronze, olive or gold tints, is the ruling color. A charming noveley are gauze ribbons, dotted with embroidery of silk and gold and silver tinsel in the designs of bees and other insects, and small flowers. Others are double-faced and reversible, while still another sort have spots or circles of self color. A novel decoration for a hat is a little ch enillo umbrella, opened and bent flat upon the handle A feature of new millinery is a bow set on top, with broad ends imitating mule's or cat’® ears. A great deal of gold is used, and in some form or other it enriches almost every bonnet shown. Anew feature ol straw bonnets is alternate braids of strongly contrasting colors. How Congressman Reed Was Admitted to the Bar. Undertones in San Francisco Chronicle. W. W. Morrow told me a story about Reed of Maine, a great friend of Mr. Blaine. A California man was on east and called upon him. They chatted awhile about various things, and then, to this man’s astonishment, Mr. Reed began asking for all sorts of people in California. “You seem to know California folks well enough,” said he. “1 should think I did. I am from California myself.” “You are! From where?” “From San Jose. I was admitted to the bar in California, and Judge Wallace examined mew I’ll take my oath nobody was ever admitted to the bar with as simple an examination.” “Well, that’s a big statement to make. “But it’s true. When I went up for examination the great question of the hour was th® legal-tender act Everybody was discussing ks constitutionality. Some said it was constitutional, others said it was unconstitutional. The first question Judge Wallace asked me was, ‘la the legal tender act constitutional or unconstitutional?’ I didn’t hesitate a moment. I said simply, ‘lt is constitutional.’ ‘You can pass,* said Judge Wallace. ‘We always pass a man who can settle great constitutional question® off-hand.” United States Marshal Killed by Mail-Rob-bers. Galveston, Feb. 21. Hal Gosling; United States marshal for the western district of Texas, and his deputy, Mr. Manning, were killed this evening by mail-robbers at New Braunfels when attempting their arrest. The authorities hav® telegraphed to Huntsville for blood-hounds t® track the robbers. An Ash Wednesday Superstition. Reading, Pa., Feb. 21. —An odd ceremony is reported from Manatawnv township, Berks county. The farmers in that vicinity on Ash Wednesday sprinkled their horses and horned cattle with ashes, and the women sprinkled tho poultry, sheep and pigs. This is done, they say, for the purpose of delivering the stock from superhuman influences. A Business Hen, Detroit Post. “No interruption f business on account of tho weather,” is the motto a Kalamazoo hen, nailed above her nest, and when the mercury was 32° below zero she came off with a brood of young chickens. _ Steamship News. London, Feb. 21.—The steamer Elysia, Captain Brown, from New York, Feb. 3, for Lon* don, has put into Queenstown, short of coal. All commercial travelers are requested to meet at the Grand Hotel this afternoon, at 3 o’clock, far the purpose of organizing an advisory board of tho Travelers’ Protective Association. b r order of tho committee. The graduating exercises of tho Central College of Physicians and Surgeons will be held at the Grand Opera-house Friday afternoon, Feh. 27, at 2p, m. The public are cordially invited to be present. The second concert of the Harugari Srengerchor will be held to night, at Mozart Hall. An entertaining programme has been prepared. DIED. RlCHMOND—February 18, 1885, near Indianapolis. at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Thomas O. Hammond, Ephraim Richmond, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. ANNOUNCEMENTS. OO TOM ON 8 ORIGINAL LOAN OFFICE, 25 South Illinois street. Money advanced on all articles of value. Telephone number 742. WANTED. ANTED—FI VE BROWN LEGHORN HENS Vr and a rooster. Call at 272 North Pennsylvania street, city. \\ /'anted—CASH PAID FOR CLAIMS ON INVV diana Banking Company. D. 11. WILES, 1 Odd-fellows’ Block. ANTED—AGENTS ADDRESS ST. LOUIS Electric Lamp Cos.. St. Louis, Mo., for circulars, cuts and terms of 5G candle power Marsh Elec trio Lamp. VI7 ANTED—TO PLACE SSO 000 AT 7 PER W cent., in sums of S2OO. *SOO. w wards, ou city property or farms. H. 11. BEY ILLK, 8 North Pennsylvania street. Wanted —ladies and young men, in city or country, wishing to earn $3 to $5 per day at their homes; no canvassing; work furnished and sent bv mail anv distance. For particulars address, vdth stamp. CRYSTALLIZED PHOTO CO.. 53 West Seventh street, Cincinnati, O. • FOR SALE. FOR SALE—FOR CASH, OR WILL TRADE for claims on Indiana Banking Company, house of three rooms on Paca street and house ofeight rooms on Indiana avenue. WM. ROYYL, No. I Wright’s Block. AUCTION SALES. a UCTION SALE —OF WELL-KEPT FURNIA ture e tc. We will se l, on Ihursday morning, Feb 26 at 10 o’clock, at the residency No. 123 N Tenn st., a choice collection of household furniture, etc. embracing elegant, embossed plush easy chairs and rockers, wdlow rockers, pat lit hair cloth double lounge, marble top sideboard, walnut book-case, two wainut marble-top bed room suites, one cherry bedroom "suite, one decorated bed-room suite, one very elegant nlckle-trimmed “Art Garland” base-burner stove, one Richmond range, body brussels, double lounge, one three hole gas stove, inlaid marble-top table, ebony table, one White sewing machine, toilet sets, cane chairs, rockers, paintings, body brussels, tapestry brussels and ingrain carpets, refrigerator, rugs, lace curtains, feather bed, coal stoves, window shades, qaeensvmrc, glassware, etc. Terras cash. &ale positive. HUNT & McCURDY, Auctioneers.