Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1887 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 18ST.

TIIE PANAMA CANAL'S RIVAL

First Practical Step Toward Construction of the Xicaragnan Waterway. The Final Survey for Location of the Canal to Ba Made at Once Feasibility of the Proposed Work and Its Estimated Cost. DE LESSEPS5 RIVAL. The Projector of the Mcarngna Canal Prepurino Bolo Operations. Coeelal to to Indlananolis Journau Washingon, Nov. 20. The Nicaragua Canal Company will very soon take the first practical ' step toward the construction of the proposed canal connecting the Carribean sea with the Pacific ocean. A party of forty surveyors and their assistants, under the immediate control of eivil engineer R. E. Peary, will leave New York city next Saturday on the steamer Hondo for - Nicaragua, for the purpose of marine minute and extended surreys of the canal route. One hundred laborers will be added to tne party when they reach Greytown, the eastern terminus of the proposed canaL The surTeyors will at once becin the work of making an axial location of the canal from sea to sea, and will make additional borings after bonne the sites of the locks, dams and embankments. A railroad will also be located, to be built as soon as the construction of the canal is commenced. The railroad is to extend from the ocean harbors to the unimpeded narration on either side of lake Nicaragua. The proposed route ot the canal extends from the harbor of Greytown, on the Carribean pea, to Brito, on the Pacific Its total length is 170 miles, of which thirty-nine miles will be excavated canal, forty-seven miles navigation by lake Nicaragua, and eighty-six miles by the river San Juan (the outlet of the lake), the basin of the river San Francisco, and through seven lov-ks. The lake will be connected with the Pacific by a canal about sixteen miles in length. The concession granted by Nicaragua to the eompany.and which was ratified by that government fast April, is as liberal as conld be desired. It gives to the company the exclusive privilege of building and operating the canal and a railroad for ninety-nice years, with a privilege of extending the contract for a like period. The eeanorts at the entrances to the canal are to be free to the merchant vessels of all cations. Large donations of lands on alternate sections alone the route of the eanal, amounting to 300 square miles, are riven to ths company. The final surveys, now soon to be commenced, are, under the terms of the concession, to be commenced within one year after its ratification by the Nicaraguan Congress, a year and a half is to be allowed to complete them, and $2,000,000 must be spent on construc- , tion daring the first year of work. Admiral Ammen. wio has long been known as a champion of the Nicaragaan canal project, believes this route is perfectly feasible, and free from comolieated or doubtful engineering problems. He Bars that as now located the navigafrora sea to' sea would be 170 miles, of which forty miles are to be excavated, possibly admitting of a reduction of ten miles by the further substitution of estuary navigation in the eastern division. Not less than fourteen miles can be executed by dredgers, and the remainder will almost wholly be effected by machine labor. . The last partial survey, made two years ago, developed the estuary of the San Francisco river, near the Carribean sea coast, actually adding, he say, 50 per cent, to the commercial value of the route. The further development of estuary navigation will doubtless shorten the mileage of excavation and further lessen the cost of construction and maintenance of the canal, but to what extent can only be known when the work of this surveying party is completed. The estimated cost of the eanal is $05,000,000. and it may be completed in six years, of which time one year, perhaps, will be expended in perfecting the location and making the necessary preparations for active operations. THIS HOUSE AND TIIE PRESIDENCY. Ways Suggested by Which the Control May he Given to the Democracy. Washington Special in the Boston Herald. " While the Republicans have a majority of the State delegations in the House, the Democrats have a majority of the members of that body, and by the change of two seats only they could transfer the power to chose a President to their own mde. The Indiana delegation consists of even Republicans and six Democrats. The -seating of one Democrat in place of a Republican would give that delegation to the Democrats, nor would it be necessary to make up a case to bring about that resnlt, as a contest over a seat awarded to a Republican for that State is pending. A change of one seat in the Michigan delegation would transfer it from the Republican to the Democratic side, but it would require an exercise of brazen partisanship to make that change. The California delegation, in which there is a contest, eonld be neutralized by seating one Democrat where a Republican now holds. It would require the actual transfer of the control of two State delegations from the Republicans to the Democrats in order to give the latter votes econ;b to elect a President in the House, and. though the arbitiary nse of the party majority in the House is mentioned as a means by which the result could be attained, it is doubtful if, in these davs of reform and independent political sentiments, any party would risk snrh high-handed measures. From California two Democrats are contesting the right of two Republican members to seats in the House. For the right to represent the Fifth district Mr. Sullivan, who was the Democratic candidate, maintains that Mr. Felton, his Republican opponent, who was awarded the certificate, was not elected, but that he (Sullivan) was. The testimony taken by Mr. Sullivan in the effort to sustain his right to the seat fills two large printed volumes. From the Sixth district Mr. Will'am Vandever, Republican, was returned as eler red. His Democratic oppouent, Mr. Lynch of Los Angeles, an editor of prominence and influ rice, insists that he was legally elected, and that he can demonstrate it to the satisfaction cf the House. Judge Lowry, the' Democratic Representative f roui the Twelfth district cf Indiana in the Ust Congress, and who was the candidate of bis party at the election last year, contests the election of Mr. White, who was awarded the seat. Judge Lowry maintains that Mr. White was not a citizen under the requirements of the law. These are the only pending contests that might be used so as to change the vote of the House upon the presidency. The seating of Messrs. Sullivan and Lynch of California and Judge Lowry of Indiana in place of the Republicans who were returned as elected would give the Democrats the delegations of nineteen States and leave the Republicans with eighteen, which would enable the Democrats to declare their candidate for President elected. MINOR MATTERS. The Civil-Service Commission Takes Measures t Oowrt Against Imposition. Epecial to the Indiicacolu Journal. Washington, Nov. 20. The Civil-serviceCom-mission has made a new rule in regard to applications for examinations for the departmental service at Washington. The questions embraced in the applications are designed to elicit more information in regard to the habits, character, etc.. of the applicant than the present circular. An applicant must have his application indorsed by two or more persons from his own State. The present form allows the application to be indorsed by anyone of the applicant's acquaintances, whether from his own State or not. A number of other amendments differing from the present form are also made, intended to prevent the commission from being imposed upon by unsuitable applicants, as frequently happens nowadays. Indiana Pensions. Washington Special. Pensions have been granted to the followingnamed Iodianians: Widow of Etnil Forstmever, Evansville; endow of Benjamin Owens, Columbus; minors of Jacob Brown, Terre Haute: widow of John Benson, Dugger; widow of John Jacobs, Peru: Widow of David Conn, Royal Center; widow of James Reed. IndianaDolis; Lemuel Kirtley, Tinton; John Wiles. Florence; Elias Hedges, Jeffereonville; Thomas Stillions, Allen's Creek; John McNabb, Scotland; William Burton. Indianapolis; Alexander Myers, Clinton; Andrew Marshall. Harvybnrr: Jesse Ii. Seofleld, Knightstown; William Milner. Fremont; William Washburn. Connerviile; Newton Robinson. Knightstown; Jacob Loser. New Waverly; John Perry, Gshen; Justus Baldwin, Crown Point; Vincent Browning, Columbus; Marion Bartley, Laeoma; William Allen, Terre Haute; Elihu Mclntire. Mitchell: Nathan Miller, Octogen; Darwin Johnson. Bristol; William Livingston, liown Point; James Anderson, Spencer; Joel

Wood, Anderson: Wilbur Wbeadon. Alnswortb; Martin Pieraon, Indianapolis: Solomon Jaekson, Terre Haute; Robert Mitchell, Rising Sun. Congressional Tariff Talk. Washington Special in Mew York Evening Post. Most of the Democratic Congressmen who have arrived have been asked their views as to the prospects of tariff legislation. There is great diversity of opinion as to details, bat not one man has yet been found who is in favor of the abolition of the internal revenue taxes, or of any considerable portion of them, unless there shall also be a reduction of customs duties and an enlargement of the free list. The idea among the Democrats seems to be to propose the aoolition of the tobacco taxes, or a part of them, and to add to ths bill a long free list, and a plan to reduee the duties upon a number of articles in the tariff schedules. This, of course, will renew the old contest. It cannot be predicted that the result will be the same as it was in the last Congress, for the 'conditions are different. The Democrats as a party have a much smaller majority in the next Honse, while the Randall people claim that their forces have suffered no diminution. If that shall prove to be the fact, the majority of the committee on ways and means will not have as strong a support for a tariff reduction bill as in the last House. Many experienced observers think that the winter will be one of words. Mr. Bayard Seeks an Angel. Washington Special. The other day a personal and political friend of Secretary Bayard's happened to mention the vacant Assistant Secretaryship of State to him. "I have not been able yet to find a man fit for the place who would take it," remarked the Secretary in a melancholy tone. - General Notes. Washington, Nov. 20. Mrs. Cleveland has as her guests three of her former ''classmates at Wells College Miss Kingsford, of Oswego; Miss Minnie Alexander, of Cleveland, O., and Miss Julia Severance, of Bridgeport, O., who arrived yesterday afternoon. C. M. W. Earl, of Indianapolis, is said to have a good chance of being appointed foreman of the Congressional Record rooms in the Government Printing Office, a position paying seven dollars per day. , It is stated that ex-Land Commissioner Sparks intends to remain in Washiorton during the coming session of Congress for the purpose of securing legislation which will embarrass those who have in charge the work he has left in the department. It is known that Mr. Peyson, of Illinois, has. to a considerable degree, indorsed the departures made by Mr. Sparks in the Land Gface, and. as he will be in this, as in past Congresses, a prominent member of the House committee on public lands, Mr. Sparks expects to get the ear of the committee and "get even" for the manner in which Secretary Lamar has sat down npon him. If Secretary Lamar should remain in his present position, the recent Commissioner of the Land Office might be able to make things uncomfortable for him. There are Senators in both parties who anticipate a long and heated debate over the contests from Indiana and West Virginia; and there are those who believe that there may be two seats declared vacant in the Senate by these contests. There is little likelihood that there will be any literary bureaux run here this winter in the interest of aspirants fcr the presidential nominations. The friends of the men spoken of in either party sav the nominations must come unsolicited, and that any "working up" schemes are not only frowned npon by the aspirants, bat the people at large. It has been hinted that Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan, may be made Secretary of War, to succeed Mr. Endicott, who is not in popular favor, and that Assistant Postmaster-general Stevenson may be the successor of Mr. Vilas. If Mr. Lamar is not confirmed for the Supreme Court, the retirement of Mr. Endieott and the induction of Mr. Dickinson to the War Department can proceed just as well as though the other changes occurred. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.

Indications. Washington. Nov. 21 1 a. m. For Indiana, Illinois and Missouri- Warmer, fair weather; light to fresh -winds, generally southwesterly. For Ohio Slightly warmer, fair weather, preceded by local snows on the lake; light to fresh southwesterly winds. For Lower Michigan Light snow in the northern portion; fair weather, preceded by light snow in the southern portion; slight changes in temperature, except in the western portion; slightly warmer; light to fresh southwesterly winds. For Wisconsin Fair weather, followed hy light snow in the northern portion; warmer; light to fresh southwesterly, shifting to westerly winds. Local Weather Record. Indianapolis. Nov. 20. 1887.

Time. Bar. jTher. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 7 a. M... 19 71 West. Cloudy. 0.03 2 P. M... 20 63 Swest Cloudy. T 9 p. M... 30.06 17 77 Swest Clear. O.OO

Maximum thermometer. 22; minimum thermom Following is a comparative statement of tion of temperature and rain-fall for Nov. the eondi20, 1887: Tern. Bain. 0.12 O.03 0.O9 1.92 15.02 Normal. ............. .......... Mean. ......................... Ttn ....... .A mm M 1 37 17 20 Total excess or deficiency since Jan. 1. 46 Plus. General Observations. Washington. Nov. 20. 9 p. m. Stations.

R.F. Weather ..... Clear. ..... Clear. Clear. Clear. ..... Clear. ..... Cloudy. Clear. ..... Clear. Fair. Fair. ..... Cloudy. ..... Clear. Clear. ..... Clear. ..... Smoky. .....'Clear. Fair. ..... Clear. ..... Clear. Clear. ..... Clear. - - - - Clear. . Clear. T Cloudy. T Cloudy. ..... Clear. ..... Cloudy. T Snow. Clear. Cloudy. (Clear. T Fair. T Snow. ..... Cloudy. Cloudy. . .... Clear. Fair. Fair. Fair. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Fair. ..... Clear. ..... Cloudy. Fair. ..... Cloudv. ..... Cloudy. Cloudy. t'lo-idv. Clear. Clear. Fair. Clear . .... Clear. ..... Clear. ..... Clear. . Clear. Clear. ..... Clear. Clear.

New York citv 29.78 Philadelphia, Pa... 29.84 Washington Citv... 29.86 28 1 West. 30;N'wst 28 N'wst Charleston. S. C... 29.92 SauAntonia, Tex.. 30.1C Jacksonville. Fla... 29.96 36; West. 52 South 38N'wst Atlautatia 30.O6 22 N'wst 36 North 5i)' N'wst 30; N'wst 32;S"east 52;North 38 i West. 34'Calm. 32 Swest 54 North 42 North 58 North 22!Twst 28jS'ast Pensaeola. Fla (SO. 12 Titnsville. Pa. 29.94 Montgomerv, Ala..!i$0. 14 Vieksburg, Miss 30.16 New Orleans, La.... 30.16 Shreveport, La..... 30.14 Fort Smith, Ark.... 30-OS Little Rock. Ark...30.12 Gal veston. Tex 1 30. 1 S Palestine. Tex 30.18 Brownsville. Tex.. 30.16 Chattanooga, Ttn.. 30.16 Memphis, ienn 30.12 Nashville. Tenn 30.12 Louisville. Ky 30.12 Indiananolis. lad 30 06 Cincinnati, ).....- 30.08 Pittsburg. Pa 29.90 Boise Citv. I. T 30.12 Oswego. N. Y. 29.6y Toledo, u 29.92 Escanaba. Mich 29.76 Prince Arthur's L'g. 29.60 Chicago. 1U. 29.9a Milwaukee. Wis 29 90 Dulnth, Minn 29.64! St. Paul. Minn 29.78! La Crosse. Wis . 29.74! Davenport. Ia 29.92 Des Moines, ia. 29 84 Concordia. Kan.. 30.00 Keokuk, la. 29.94 Cairo UL 30.12 Springfield, 111 j30.06i St. Louis. Mo '30.04! Springfield. Mo. ....130.06 Leavenworth, Kan.. 129.94 Omaha. Neb 29. SO Valentine. Neb..... 29.64 Yankton. D. T 29.60i Moorhead. Minn 29.46 Bismarck. D. T. 29 56 Fort Buford 29 60 FtvAssinaboine.M.T29.66 Qu'Aoelle. N. W. T.129.64, Deadwood. D. T 2.6S: Chevenne. Wv. T.. 29.7 North Platte, Neb.. 29.72 Denver. Col 29.78 W.Las Animas. CoL 29.76 Dodge Citv, Kaa... 29 88 Fort Elliot. Tex 29.86 Fort Sill. 1. T 30.00 Fort Davis. Tex.... 29.92 El Paso. Tex 29.06 SaltLakeCity 30.06 Santa Fe. N. M 30.04 Montrose, Col 30.08i 20, Calm. 22' West 16 Swest 24j West. 24;North 34 "Calm. 26 Swest 22 Swest 16 Calm. 18j West. O' Swest 12 Swest! 20 Swest 24lS'east! 20 South 22 Swest -26jWst. 33 Swest 24'Swaat 14! West. 16! Swest 24 South 26i South 30 South 32jWest. 42! N'wst 40; Swest 21; West. 40: N'wst 33iN'wst 42! East. 30 N'wst 50;West. 48;N'wt 20jWost. 561 N'wst 40;N'wst 42iSouthi 42Swest 42 South 52. Swest 56, Calm. 38 S east' 33 East. I 30 South! Clear. Clear. T Traces of rain. Mrs. Paranns's Fntnre. Chicago. Nov. 20. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, wife of the Anarchist who was banged a week to-day, has decided upon her mode of making a living. She said to-day: "I shall open an office, which is to be a general headquarters of all kinds of labor, socialistic and anarchistic literature. My husband's book, written in his call while under condemnation of death, is now in the hards of the printer, acd will be placed on the market as soon as I can make the necessary financial arrangements. In this way I hope to make a living for myself and children, and at the same time urotnote the good cause." The advance sheets of Parsons's book were issued to-night. Its title is "Anarchism; Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis, as Defined bv Some of Its Apostles." The dedication is "To the toiling masses in every land, striving for their economic emancipation, not the least of whom is my beloved wife, Lucy E. Parsons." Are von weak and wearv. overworked and tired Hood's Sarsaparilla is just the medicine t r. nnpif v vini. 1 il .1 &n4 piffA V n 11 Kt.reriCf.H.

BAENUM AGAIN BURNED OUT

The Main Building of His Bridgeport Winter Quarters Totally Destroyed. Three Elephants, the Trained Horses, Lions, Tigers, and Other Animals Earned Many Other Animals Escape and Cause Alarm. fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 20. About 10 o'clock to-night fire broke out in the cluster of buildings occupied by P. T. Barnum as winter headquarters for his great show. Within five minutes after the alarm had sounded the streets were filled with thousands of people hurrying toward the spot. It soon became apparent that the main building could not be saved, and every effort was made to rescue the animals. Hundreds of animals, including elephants, lions, tigers, leopards, camels and horses were liberated, or else broke loose, and for hours a tremendous uproar ensued. Several persons were pieked np in the streets by the infuriated elephants and tossed all around. A detail of police pnrsued a roaring lion and put six or seven bullets into his hide but with no perceptible result. At midnight the fire is under control, but still burning. The main building was destroyed. The fire was caused by the explosion of a watchman's lantern. There were six watchmen; five have reported, but one is missing. Three elephants were burned to death and thirty-six broke loose and escaped. Six of them and a hippopotamus rushed through the streets in a pitiable condition, being terribly bnrned. Thirty elephants and a large lion started off aeross country toward Easton. All ' the trained horses were burned, as were also the lions, tigers, hyenas, monkeys, birds, cats, and three rhinoceroses. The ear sheds were saved, but the main building burned so rapidly and fiercely that water had no effect npon the names. The total loss is estimated at $509,000 to $700,000, with only $100,000 insurance. Mr. Both well, the Bridgeport agent, says steps will be taken at once to obtain new attractions. He thinks the buildings wilt be rebuilt at Jersey City instead of Bridgeport, on account of better railroad facilities there. Mr. Barnum and Mr. Bailey are in New York. A watchman asserts that while making his rounds be discovered the fire, and as he did so he wanted to cry out, when some unknown person hit him on the head with a blunt instrument, felling him to the ground and cutting several severe gashes in his head. He staggered to bis feet, giving the alarm and enabling the other watchmen, who were in the building preparing for bed. to escape. One of the three elephants burned was the "sacred white elephant." The lion which the police attempted to kill at the time the fire broke out was afterward found in a barn devouring a cow which he had killed. He was shot. Destructive Fire at Gran by, Mo. St. Louis, Not. 20. Dispatches from Granby, Mo., a thriving town in the lead region of Newton county, state that what proved to be a conflagration started there yesterday afternoon, and at a late hour last night about 100 houses had been consumed, including all the principal business places in the town. The drought in that section has been long and severe, and, as the town was built almost entirely of wood, the houses burned like tinder. Assistance was sent from Neosho, a few miles distant, in the way of men and buckets, but as there were no water-works in Granby, and nearly all the wells and cisterns being dry, the town was actually at the mercy of the flames, which swept through the place under the action of a fierce wind. Nothing, apparently, could be done to stay the destruction, and at last accounts it was thought that the entire town would be destroyed. Scorns of families were houseless last night, and as roe weather was very coid there was much suffering and distress. Later advices Indicate that the fire was not so disastrous as was at first supposed. Fifteen business bouses were destroyed and a large number of residences consumed. A fair share of the stocks in the stores was saved by moving, and while the loss will be heavy, it will not be so great as anticipated. No statement of loss or insurance has yet been made. The homeless families were taken in by those whose houses were not burned, and are being provided for. One old man in feeble health died from over-excitement. River Steamer Itnrned. Astoria, Ore., Nov. 20. The steamer Telephone bnrned to the water's edge in this city at 6 o'clock this evening. She was on her regular trip from Portland, with 150 passengers. Just as she approached the city fire was discovered on her lower deck, just forward of the engines. The boat was running at such a high speed that in less than a moment the whole afterpart was enveloped in flames. The engineer shouted np the tube to Capt. Scott, who was at the wheel: "Boat's a-fire!" Capt. Scott made a sharp turn and ran the boat at full speed into the bank, and every man, woman and child escaped, except one drunken man, who was badlv burned and will probably die. The Telephone was built two years ago by the Columbia Transportation Company, of which Captain Scott. who is an old Ohio river steamboatman, was the principal owner. She was the fastest stern - wheel boat in the world, and the fastest craft of any kind on Pacific coast waters. Last summer she made the run from Portland to Astoria, ninety-six miles, in four hours and thirty-seven minutes. The loss is $45,000; insurance. $40,000. The effects of all the passengers were lost. There was only time to save life. Heading-Factory Iiurned. Special to the IndianaDolis journal. Yeedersbttrg, Ind., Nov. 20. Henry Alfrey's heading factory and circl9-mill caught fire at 6 p. M. and burned to the ground. Two large dry-kilns filled with heading were also burned. There is no fire department here. The loss will be between $12,000 and $15,000; no Insurance. Cotton Flrea at Galveston. Galveston, Nov. 20. This morning five flat ears, with 250 bales of cotton, burned. Loss, $18,000. Later in the day a more serious fire broke out among cotton stored on the new wharf, 1,200 bales being destroyed or badly damaged before the flames could be subdued. Loss, $40,000; fully insured. . Iowa Village Bnrned. Des Moives, Ia, Nov. 20. The village of Soloni in Warren county, was almost entirely destroyed by fire yesterday. Before the flames could be placed under control, fourteen buildings, with their contents, bad been burned. The loss will aggregate nearly $75,000, with only a small insurance. Otlier Fires. Calumet, Mich.. Nov. 20. About half past 5 this morning fire broke out in No. 1 Hecla shaft at the seventeenth level of the Calumet and Hecla mine. The fire was discovered by the boy attending the pumps. The burning shaft is one hundred feet north of the main eugine shaft, and is a solid mass of timbers. The prospects are worse than at the last fire. All the shafts except those at the South Hecla are closed, and carbonic gas will be sent down to night to extinguish the flames. Elktok, Ky. , Nov. 20. Fire here yesterday destroyed three "hotels and four small stores. The flames were checked with difficulty, owing to the scarcity of water. The loss is estimated at $25,000; insurance very small Omaha, Neb., Nov. 20. York, Neb,, suffered a destructive fire this morning. Seven stores, including the Union and Masonic blocks, were burned. Loss, $100,000. Minneapolis, Nov. 20. A fire at Winona, Minn., this evening, destroyed the First Baptist Church and damaged other buildings. Total loss, $20,000. Boston, Nov. 20. The Charles River ironworks, in West Boston, were partially bnrned to-night Loss $00,000. Partly insured. Free Sons of Israel. New York, Nov. 20. -The United States Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Free Sons of Israel opened a three days' convention to-day, in Arlington Hall, this city. About 150 delegates were present, representing nearly every State, David Leventritt, of this citv, was elected chairman; George Braham, of Chicago,

first vice-president; L. .1. Lo wen thai, of Nashville, second vice president, and L. Hartman. of

Providence, third vice president. Grand Master Isaac Hamburger read a report showing the order to be prosperous. One of the prominent question to be decided is the matter of endow ment. MAX O'RELL'S LECTURE. The Frencli Satirist Entertainingly Contrasts the Briton anil the Gaul. Report of Lecture in New York World. Mons. Blouet has a fine power of analysis; he is essentially a critic as well as a nomorist. He began his contrast of French and English character, last evening, in the following abrunt manner: '"La dees. genteelmen," he said, standing witn his bands in his trousers pockets, and with a polite smile on his good-looking features, "when an Englishman speaks French ever so well and comes across a Frenchman who can speak but a few words of English, does he carry on the conversation in French? Not he. He knows that a man who speaks a language with the slightest imperfection appears foolish. He does not like to appear foolish. It is not so with the Frenchman." He paused a second, and then added, with a sly twinkle: "As yon see.-' Thus were good and amicable relations established between Mr. O'Rell and his hearers at the outset. He then continned: "When the English people arrive at a French hotel and find no soap on the wash-stand, do they conclude that the French people carry their soap in their portmanteaux. No, they conclude that the French people do not wash! This is not a fact, the French people do wash, and thus I sweep away one of the great prejudices against us. lu France we ought not to be considered a close letter. We do not attempt to hide our defects; on the contrary, it sometimes seems to me we glory in them. But the English people and, I can say. you Americans, judge ns from the stand-ooint of Paris. The young Enclishnfan spends a week in Paris, and then writes to his friend: 'Old boy, I have just returned from France. What a country it is! I can assure you have seen sights. 'I will tell you all about them in private.' "The Frenchman who goes to London on business (I say on business, for nobody could think of going to London on pleasure.) does not attempt to judge of all England from what be sees on the Strand. So neither shall you judge of France from the Parisian boulevard. I want you to see Jacaues Bonhomme, the French farmer, at home. Jacques is a small land-owner, deeply attached to his country and his cottage. His great aim is to be independent of the world. He needs no John Bright to tell him that saving the pence makes the pound. H knows the value of money. He takes gold without repugnance, but he looks askance at a bank note, and if you sbould offer him a check he'd send for a policeman. He keeps early hours and saves the candle and his health. When he dies it is in his own bed. In politics he takes but little interest. All governments are the same to him. He is not wealthy, but he is rich in what be knows how to do without. Jaeques has had the good luck to be placed on fertile soil. If you talk to him of emigration he will ask you what crime has been committed to deserve transportation. But it is at the pier or in the market that yon see him at his best. Look at bim as he takes a preliminary stroll. He has made up his mind to make a purchase. Observe how cautiously be approaches the stall. He lifts the coveted article with the limpest of fingers, gives sundry grunts and gestures of disapprobation, then drops it and pretends to go away. Mark him when he finally decides to part with a portion of his patrimony. He does not face the enemy. He turns his back and picks his monev from a long purse. It takes five minutes to get at the contents of that purse. Jacques Bnnhomme's wife is the fortune of France." Here the lecturer drew a strikingly realistic picture of the frugal French farmwoman, with her never-failing thrift and industry and her unflinching patriotism. "Very different from Jacques Banhomme is his neighbor, John Bull. John is a very large land-owner. The sun never sets on his possessions. It has been hinted that the sun cannot trust him. His estate consists of the British Isles, to which he has oddly enough given the name of the United Kingdom, and of big slices of all other parts of the world. He has acquired all this territory at the cost relatively of little bloodshed; it was the gift of a find. He keeps it with a small army. Such is Johu Bull's sense of security that in England the l'ves of 'his soldiers can be insured without any extra premium. But what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul? John has thought of that and has solved the difficulty. He has knocked down to himself the kingdom of heaven, which in his eyes constitutes as much a part of the British possessions as Canada or .Australia.. iVThe French fight for glory; the Gormans for their living; the Russians to divert attention from home affairs: but John Bull fights to help trade. When he conquers a nation it is for their best good in this world and the world to come. How shall we account for this man's remarkable success? I see the key to it in these qualities: his tenacity, his clear head and his thick skin. The English boy is trained at school to be plucky, pig-headed and obstinately tenacious. For the mere temporary possession of a football he will grovel in the dust, sustain compound fractures of bis limbs without a murmur and die happy if the intelligence is brought to him that bis side have won the game. John Bull is indeed a curious mixture of the lion, the mule and the octopus. 'The French boaster is noisy and boisterous. Ha wears his hat on the side of his head and shouts at the top of his voice that France is the light of the world, but as you look at the dear fellow yod can't help thinking that he doesn't mean quite all he says. The Englishman never runs himself down. If he has faults well, he'll let you find them out Not so the Frenchman. He is a braggart of vice. As has been said before, when a Frenchman speaks ill of himself don't believe him; he is boasting. The Englishmen have a quality of what may be called British philosophy. It teaches them to like what they have when they cann t have what they like. It is this British philosophy which leads the great London journals to announce on the morning after their party has scored an overwhelming defeat, that they 'have gained a great moral victory.' The Frenchman knows nothing of tnis philosophy. In victory he sees only glory, and in defeat he sees only disgrace. I believe it is in adversity that tne Englishman is seen at his best If he finds his door being broken in by a burglar, he politely opens it. Though he may not save his treasure, he at least saves the smahing of the door." Speaking seriously of English politics and the English form of government, the lecturer declared that he regards the Englishman as the stanchest monarchist and at the same time the freest man in Europe. Referring to the subject of anarchy in France, tbe lecturer was a trifle unfortunate, and bis advocacy of the theory that tbe Anarchist should be ignored and allowed to rant to his heart's content, the idea being that it was only by paying attention to him that the Anarchist became of any consequence in the community, was received with marked silence by the audience. Clearly M. Biouet has overlooked the tragedy which was recently plaved to an end at Chicago. Tbe conclusion of the lecture was an eloquent eulogy of France, and was received with hearty applause. "If 1 may turn prophet," said he. ' and I suppose I may, sioce 1 am not in my own country, I will venture to predict that the only rivalry which France and England will ever know in the future wiil be the rivalry in the works of peace and industry." Scarcity of Coal at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Nov. 20. The present stock of coal in Cincinnati is half a million bushels, while the usual stock at this time is three or four million bushels. The low stage of water in the Ohio river, which is tbe chief source of sup ply tor soft coal, makes it impossible to add a bushel in that way to the stock. The railroads are not at all prepared to supply such vast quan tities as are consumed here daily, though in case there is not very soon a rise in the river, their equipment will have to be enlarged to pre vent actual distress. Manufacturing establish ments are now in trouble over the short allow ance and high prices, and all are intensely in terested in a rise in the Ohio river. Heavy Losses by Forest Fires. Louisville. Ky., Nov. 20. Reports from towns in the southern and western portions of Kentucky state that, owing to the protracted drought, forest fires are causing great destruction in that region. In many places the heavens a'Le obscured by the smoke, making it difficult to distinguish objects at any distance. Barns and other farm buildings near Owensboro. Glasgow, Bowling Green, Paducah and Hopkinsville are reported burned, and the total loss wiU be great. Riin is eagerly looked for by the suffering farmers as their only hope for the quenching of the flames. Explotlon nf Natuml Ga. Toledo, O., Nov. 20. A natural gas explosion on the East Side latt evening wrecked the office of Dr. Beekwith, on Front street. Tne explosion was tbe result of carelessness in making connections with a hieh pressure main, and for about half an hour all the gas fires in the city were out Edd e Hnlee, twelve years old, was seriously burned. Condition of Uugn J. Jewett. Havre de Grace. Md., Nov. 20. Hugh J. 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LaTiyette Besies to See tho End of What Slight Have Been a Serious Situation, gpeciai to the inJtanaDoiia Jcrnau Lafayette. Ind.. Nov. 20. This city has been experiencing the difficulties of a water famine. During repairs to the suction pipe, water was taken from the Wabash & Erie canal. The owners of the latter, purposely onened the waste s?ates and let out the water. leaving the city without any. The reseryoir auoply gave out last night, and to-day the railroads, electric-light comoanies and private consumers have been without water. As half past 9 to-night tbe pumps were set working, taking water from the WaOash river, and by Monday there will be a full supply, otherwise, all factories will be closed. Thrown from a Train aod Fatally Injured. Special to the Indiananolis Jcarnau Paris, I1L, Nov. 20. Everett Augustus, a young man of this city, received fatal injuries at Kansas, twelve miles west of here, last night While attempting to board a passenger train he was struck and his skull crushed in on the forehead and fractured at the base by being violently thrown to the ground. He was found by the westbound train men at 2 o'clock this morning, having lain by the track for two hours unconscious He was brought home on the limited this afternoon, and is rapidly sinking. Finding of a Supposed Bomb. Freeport, UL, Nov. 20. Apiece of gas-pipe plugged at both ends, and tbought to be a dynamite bomb, was found at the entrance of the Embury M. E. Church this morning by the sexton. It is now at police headquarters, and an effort is being made to ascertain who placed the supposed bamb in the building. Indiana Note. While John Turner and Ira Tanner, of Adams, were hunting, on Saturday, Turner accidentally shot Tanner in the side, inflicting a dangerous wound. The grand jury of Jackson county has returned a bill against Rice, Stuart and Ma9oo, the three Detroit confidence men charged with robbing Zachariah Deputy of $3,000. Mr. W. IL Smith, of Indianapolis, delivered his lecture on "The Mound Builders of Indiana," in Logansport, on Saturday. The lecturer was listened to with much interest by a large audience, Alex. Ste ward, aged sixty-four years, died on Saturday morning, of congestion of the stomach. He was a well-to-do farmer and influential citizen, and had been a citizen ot Morgan county all of his life. Seth Wolf, aged nineteen, was instantly killed near Briant on Friday evening. He was assisting to load loss on a wagon when one rolled back, and, before he could make his escape, passed over his body, crushing the life out of him. The Morgan County Teachers' Association will hold its annual meeting at the M. E. Church, in Martinsville, on Thursday and Friday. State Superintendent LaFollette will be present There will also be contests in oratory and essays by tbe teachers. E. R. Johns, a travelling salesman from Sioux City, Ia., on his way to Fort Wayne, while changing cars at Warsaw und running to catch tbe Fort Wayne train, fell through the railroad bridge near the depot to the street below, a distance of twenty feet, and was seriously, if not fatally, injured. The rumor has been circulated throughout the State that Jas. Dennis, who was at one time under arrest for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. MeMullen, in Montgomery county, and for which J. W. C. Coffey was hanged three times, had confessed that be did the deed, and that Coffey was present at the murder against bis wilL ' Jas. R. Rankins, bis father-in-law, says there is not a word of truth in it, and that he has been at Jeffersonville, Ky., all the time. He has not been West and "killed a man," as is also reported. Illinois Items. There is no coal to be bad at Oakland for love or money, and the coal dealers say they have no assurance of when they cau supply their patrons with the black diamond. Nine criminal convictions have taken place at the present term of the Pike county Circuit Court. A new venire has been ordered and the court will continue in session two weeks yet nog cholera i reported to the Illinois Livestock Commission, as prevalent in nineteen counties in the State. In some counties the fatalities have amounted to 70 per cent among the young stock and 50 per cent of the mature stock. Samuel Davis, of New Albany, an Air-line employe, upon going home at a late honr Saturkay night, quietly repaired to the dining-room for lunch, as be decided to not awaken his wife while eating, but the continual crying of his babe tempted him to go into bis bed-room, when to his utter dismay he found bis wife, twenty-six years old, dead with the the child clasped in her arms. She died of heart disease. ALMATADESIA'S KINDNESS. A Poor Governess Who Admired His Work Presented with a Specimen. Pittsburg Dispatch. There's a capital photoo-gravure of one of Alma Tadema's pictures of ancient Athenian life in a Wood street store, and if my memory serves me it was about that very picture that a romantic little tale used to be told. When it hung "on the line" at the Royal Academy in London a few years ago. among those who were entranced by its exquisite coloring and the story that it so vividly illustrated was a poor little governess. She came with her children, two children of a wealthy man, to spend an afternoon among the glories of Burlington House. Alma Tadema's pictures, with their sunlit Mediterranean skies, their skillfully introduced marble fountains and alabaster seats, their straight Apollo-like young Greeks and the i-till more lovely types of Athens' maidenhood, always attract a circle of admirers at the Academy. This day was no exception, and the poor little governess edged her way into the crowd with difficulty. But at last sha squeezed her face under an old gentleman's arm and caught a glimpse of the picture. She was fascinated at once, enraptured and enthralled by the wonderfull scene. She forgot about her pupils who were on the outside of the group, forgot everything hut the days of Greece's glory, which the artist had conjured up for her. The daughters of a rich man would not submit to such treatment from a chit of a governess, and one of them got near enough to the slave to bid her come away at once. She prepared to obey and her aristocratic pupil and mistress consoled, her with; "You couldn't buy it, you know; so what is the good of locking at it." At that moment a gentleman with a fine face and a gracious manner he was in the prime of life touched the governess on the arm. "Would you mind telling me your name and address?" The girl, half scared to death, with the gallows, perhaps, before her eyes, told who she was and where she lived, and the gentleman bowed and walked away. , One day soon after this incident the little governess received a note and a package. In the note Alma Tadema presented his compliments and asked Miss to accept a little picture to remind her of the one she had admired so much at the Academy. In the package was a veritable gem from the studio of the greatest painter of antiquities this centuty has seen. Julian Hawthorne's First Fight. November Cosmopolitan. For my own part, though the event occurred when I was no more than nine years of age, I still vividly remember, and shall never forget the thrill of noblo joy that traversed my diminutive frame the first time I fairly knocked an adversary down. It was in the back -yard of a boarding-house in Liverpool, England. The yard was paved with broad flagstones, and was surrounded with high brick walls. - The dispute between my antagonist and myself began on the steps of the kitchen door, and was occasioned, very likely, by a diversity of opinion as to rightful ownership of an eleemosynary piece of pie; but upon that point I am open to correction. What is certain is, that we arose and fought in the center of the yard, and that the party of the 6econd part received an unexpected right-hander on that portion of his countenance where the nose meets the tipper lip. He fell over backward, to my own surprise and extreme satisfaction; the circumstance that he was. then and afterward, a particular and cherished friend of mine not in the least diminishing the latter emotion. The delight of battle is no respecter of persons, and the taste of blood is stimulating, no matter whose veins supply it. No grudge was borne on either side; whereas, supposing for example, that I had eaten his pie and had then omitted to knock him down for it, an Unfeeling might have been engendered that would have ren lered our innocent little lives unhappy and malignant. Steamship News. Queenstown. Nov. 20. Arrived: British King, from Philadelphia. New York, Nov. 20. Arrived: Moravia, from Hamburg; Scheidam, from Amsterdam. London, Nov. 20. Tbe.Rugia, from New York for Hamburg, has arrived at Plymouth; La Normandie, from New York for" Havre, passed Lizard Point to-night. , .

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They said that what Governor Oglesby told them bad given them the impression tnat he would pardon all tbe condemned men, and that they were astonished at the resnlt After a heated debate it was resolved to continue the committee for the purpose of arranging an entertainment for the benefit of the families of the executed men by a vote of 63 to 30. Tbe building trades strongly opposed the continuance, A motion to denonnce the United Labor party for expelling J. A. Bogert for alleged treachery at the polls was so strongly opposed that the Socialist faction, which made it, withdrew it Charges Against the General Assembly. Chicago, Nov. 20. At a meeting of district assembly No. 57. Knights of Labor, this evening, a resolution was adopted pledging the moral and financial support of the assembly to the Chicago Typograpnical Union in the present 6trike. The routine business was followed by the reading of Master Workman Powderly's report, which promises to cause considerable dissension among the members of the order. The report included the correspondence between Powderly and Master Workman Butler and others. It also included five charges against Gaunt who, at the time of the stockyards strike, was master workman of the Butchers' Assembly, and who was unanimously expelled from the order. The delegates to the Minneapolis couvention submitted their report of the business transacted, and preferred charges against the General Assembly. One of the charges was against the treatment given Buchanan, the Chicago delegate. The Chicago delegation claim that only Powderiy, Hayes and Ellsworth were present not a quorum and accordingly their transaction was illegal. Switchmen's Strike Spreading;. Houston; Tex., Nov. 20. The switchmen in the Missouri Pacific yards made a demand, yesterday, for an increase of wages from $2.25 to $2.50 per day. On being reftu.ed-JLh.ey atpuclr . last night, while the wiight switchmen in the Texas Central yards, in order to avoid handling ' freight for the Southern Pacific Company, resigned their positions. They resign instead of striking, as this road is still in the hands of a receiver and nnder the jurisdiction of the United States court The day switchmen on the Texas Central announce tbeir determinatfon to resign tomorrow. Business is paralyzed by the strike, and indications point to its extension throughout tbe State within the next few days. The brakemen strongly sympathize with the switchmen. The Starving Coal Miner. Philadelphia, Nov. 20. Mr. Powderly has issued a personal appeal to the Knights and ths general public for aid for the starving coal miners. This is additional to his special appea to the Knights. He says the condition of the men is frightful. Negro Laborer lies u me Work. Donaldsonville, La., Nov. 20. The laborers throughout this parish resumed work on Fri day, and the strike waa declared at an end. Tbe sugar mills, are working full-handed, and quiet prevails everywhere. A, Kemtniscence of BemenjL Critic Lounger. Remenyi, the violinist, whose death has been chronicled, was an amusing man, but mething of a poseur at the same time. In traveling from place to place on his concert tours, while sitting in a car reading the news paper he would hold a "dummy'" violin rucked under his cum. as his eyes aosoroea tiie news, his agile fingers ran up and down the strings. i he passengers would stare, but he appeared to be heedless of their curious gaze. He always said in reply to any questions on the subject, that he was keeping his hand in practice; but the members of hi 3 company thought that he did it more as an advertisement than anything else. For everybody said, "Who is the jelly little fellow with a fiddle?" and there was always some one to reply "Oh! that s Remenyi." Ho was not a great violinist, but I have had a great deal of enjoyment from his playing. He always reminded me of a gnome, and l snouia not nave been at all surprised had I met him in the woods. sitting cross-legged on a toad-stool, and playing his violin for the fairies to dance. "Likely to Get On In Life. Pnnch. . ... Pa Tf T cive von sixnence and tell von to buv five penny papers, how much change will you bring back to me? - . i . ' . I . . . A fcjnarp isoy (consiuenngj v ea, papa leu me see u you gave me sixpence Papa Yes, yes. How much change to brinsr back to me? Sharp Boy (readily and with decision) None not if you gave me the sixpence! Papa determines to put the question in a dif ferent way next time. She Withdrew Her Thanks. Sew 'r-rk Epoch. B nd (just starting for out of town) My deai e is a fifty-dollar bill. Wi aastily) Oh, John, Pm ever so much obligedHusband Which I wish you would give the tailor for my new overcoat He said he would send his bill to-day. 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