Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1881 — Page 3

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IIIDIllPOLIS LEADER PCDLISDEÜ EVERY SATURDAY BT BAGBY -Sc CO., OFFICE, l23IILM:nS LOCK Corner Uliuois and Market Ms. J. D. BAGBY, Business Manager. Entered at iwcond-claM mutter at the Postoflke at Indianapolis, Ind. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. Single CorT. 1 J'r - 2.00 " " 6 months. 1.00 ...... ...... " 3 month.. 1 month . ..... Club of six I year, each copy...... ten, 1 year, each copy..... .50 .20 1.50 mil m r i riMIs may b foand od fit at n 1 'A Ti U.. P. B..WH1 A Co. Ne-ivpnper Adverting Bureau (lOSprnceSt ) where advertising contract my he made tor It In at IÜUK Snbserlb for (lie Leader. Let every colored man who favors the elevation ei his race subscribe for the .Lead er; and let every white man who believe3 that slavery was a erme aainät humanity and that it is the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in his struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. The Exodus, the Topeka Tribune, the Pittsburg Trimmer where are they ? it i "Peccavi" editors are fed on Kan sas grasshoppers and prairie pups in their infancy. Tho Oklahama settlers send to the colored people of tho South the Ma cedonian cry "Come over and help us." The colored peoplo of Louisville have a singing society called the "Saengerfest." This, wo think, is a case of irnitativeness gone to seed. why not take sorco fancy English word that will express the same meaning? Whv break into the German language when the English is not yet exhausted? 1. - - . L?! BB8 There was a time when wo could "abear" the semi occasional National "Wilson-llall Tribune, of St. Louis ; but that was beforo it discarded its patent inside and outside. We only read it now when we desire a few hours of sound sleep. It is the most powerful narcotic we know of. We observe, by tho way, that it is to re ceive a benefit ot the hands of the charatably disposed people of the "Future Great' We know nothing about its financial condition, but wc are satisfied that a persual of its columns will conuince any unbiased reader that it is sadly io need of an intellectual "beutfit." As one good turn deserves another, will not the semi-occasional N". W. II. T. return the compliment to the generoushearted people of St. Louis ? How would an indefinite suspension of the semi-occasional, etc., fill the bill ? The would-bo Oklahama settlers, who are only kept out of Indian Territory by military force, are said to be in close correspondence with the agents of the colored exodus relief societies at St. Louis, Kansas City, and other points, with a view to diverting the exodus movement to the Oklahama lands. There is no good reeson why these lands should not be thrown open to the settlement of all persons who wish to go there. The treaty obligations of the Government to the Indians will bo fulfilled, if the new settlers are prevented from occupying lands alrea ly in possession of the people of the various tribes in the Territory. Indian Territory is too close to the Mississippi Kiver, and the soil and climate are too fertile and propitious for so large a tract of land to be set apart as a hunting and fishing reservation for wild Indians. The most humane and benevolent course for tho Government to pursue toward the Indians, is to adopt such a policy in its administrative dealing with them, as to compel them to assume the habits and pursuits of civilized life. The Baltimore School Board, by a vote of two to one, has refused to employ colored teachers in colored schools. Such a decision in a city so large as Baltimore, in tho year 1880, is surprising. Not content with refusing the colored people the privilege of attending the common schools, they even refuse them tho right of having competent teachers of their own choice in the schools they do provide for them. This is a decidedly villainous feature of proslavery prejudice. One object the Baltimore plug uglies have in refusing to employ colored teachers, is to discourage the aspirations of colored pupils above a rudimentary education. Another and almost equally nefarious reason, is the desire to use tho colored schools as nurseries in which white teachers are temporarily ''employed, until they have gone through tho adequate Amount of experimental practice to

entitle them to employment in tho white schools. Such infamies as these arc natural, however, among

a high-toned aristocracy whose lordly progenitors wero shipped to this country two hundred years ago as convicted lelons. Its the old story blood will tell. But justice will yet prevail, even among the plug ngly aristocrats of Baltimore. Tue following table is of interest to the general reader, as it shows when the Legis lature of each State in the Union will next convene, the length of the session, if limited, and whether the serious are held an nually or biennially. In twenty-eight States the Legislature will convene in 1?S1, and in ten States in lK-2. In thirty-one States the Legislature convenes biennially, and in seven States annually. In eight State the sessions are limiwd to sixty day?, in we State to fifty days, in four States to forty days, in three States to ninety days, in one State to seventy days, in one State to seven ty-five day?, and in one State to forty-five davs. In seventeen States no limit is im posed. The tabulated statement is as fol lows: States. Session. Limit of iStssiou. Next Legislature Meets Arkansas........Kieun!a1...G0 days ... Alabama ..Biennial ...fiel days...., Jan. 10, 1881 Nov. 7. 1MM2 California liienuial...GO days... ..Jan. 1S2 5, oSl 5. 1MI 4. 11 4, 1M1 s, isa 5, lhl 6, 1NH1 Colorado . ...HIenidal...40 dayo.....Jan Connecticut Annual. None........ J an. Kie-nniul ... N'one Jan. ...l?iennial...r0 days ....Jan. HiennU1...40 days Nov. . Hie iniAl...Xone Jan. .... ltieimial...00 days Jan. Delaware-... Florida-....-. Georgia Illinois Indiana....... ...i:ieniiiai...one Jan U, I V.! Kansas Kentucky..., riennial...5u days Jan. 11, IsHl l;iennial...60 days...... Dec. 31, 181 , lHnn1l...n days Jan. 12. 1.Biennial. ..None... Jan. 5, 1881 Istuisiana.... Maine..... Maryland ..lieniiial...,.U uay.....Ja,i. 4, 1H 5, l&Si 5, 1N1 4. 11 0. Invj 5. IM 4. 18X1 3, IHM Massachusetts-A nnuat. None Jan. Michigan Biennial... None Jan. Minnesota Biennial. ..60 day Jan. Mississippi Biennial ...None Jan. Missouri .I5iennlal...70 d ivs . Jan. Nebraska.......... Biennial... 10 days Jan. Nevada..... Biennial...60 day Jan. New Hamps,re..IMeunUl...None Jan. 1. 1H.81 New Jersey AnnuaLNoue Jan. 11. 11 New York Annul.....Nne -...Ian. 6, ISnl North Carolina. Biennial... (10 days Jan. ft, IhhI Ohio Ilieiiiel...Noiie Jan. 5, isy Oregon Biennial... 10 days Jan. 13, lss-i Pennsylvania.... Biennlal...None Jan, 4. ISM Rhode IsHnd.... Annual.... None Jan. s, sM South Carolina. Annual.... None .......Nov. 23, l.d Tennessee Biennial...7S days Jan. 3, lM Texas Biennial. ..CO days.....Jan. S, 1M Vermont bleiiniaL.None Oct. 3, 12 Virginia IiennIal...lK) days Dee 1 ISI West Vlrginla.Biennial...4.- day Jan. 12, 1SM Wlsconsin........Anntial...Nn .Inn. 1. Ism THE NEW MARKET HOUSE. It is gratifying to know that the Common Council of Indianapolis has concluded to define its position on the new Market House question; and still more satisfactory to know that its action is strictly in conformity with the essential wantsof thecity. It isonly necessary to take a cursory glance at the line of shanties which disgrace the city on Market Square to convince any one who is capable of comprehending tbe situation that one of the supreme needs of Indianapolis is a new Market House. Every local interest pleads for prompt action. The matter has been too long delayed. The city i. amply able to construct the building, whi' h in the long run would prove to be an excellent investment. To show the action taken on Monday evening upon the subject by the 'ouncil, we publish the following repon; Your Special Joint Committee, to wh ra was referred the motion to report some plan whereby the city could build a Market House and hall on the East Market space, have carefully considered the matter, and And no possible way by which the building can be erected, unless provided for as hereinafter recommended, it requiring all of the present revenues to run the several departments of the city government; and, believing that such a building erected on the East Market space would be of great benefit to the city and a source ol revenue, we, therefore, eubmit the following, and recommend the ad.-vtlon of the same: 1. That a building be erected to cost not to exceed S2i",0()0, of whieh S75.000 can be realized from the hale of the Tomlluson estate, including the amount now on hand, the balance $150,000 to be raised by the issuing of city bonds, running one, two, three, four and five years, tbe amount of each bond $30,000 tobe raised annually by a special tax levy. 2. That the City Attorney be and on the adoption of this report is instructed to draft a bill, and have the same presented to the LegMature, authorizing the city of Indianapolis to Issue such bonds upon the approval of the voters of the city at the election to be held In May for city officers. 3. That after said bill shall have passed the Legislature the city authorities submit the question to the voters at the coming May election for and against the Issuing of such bond, and should a majority vote In the affirmative, that the city place upon the market said bonds for sale, and that tbe work be comiuf need as soon as plans and specifications for the building can be procured. 4. That the revenue derived from the building be used in taking up the bonds so far as such revenues will go. W. II. Tucker, James T. Duwling, John R. Tearson, Isaac Thalman, Will F. A. Berxhamer. We have reason to believe that the report will be adopted at the next meeting of the Council, as upon a motion to make it the special order for the next meeting was carried by thirteen to five. It will be noticed that of theestimated cost$225,000 the cityhas on hand $75, 000. The remainder of the estimated cost, if the funds were raised by taxation, would be less than six cents annually uin the $100, which would extinguish the debt in five years. We are satisfied that the people of Indianapolis are in favor of a new Market Houseand will so decide if permitted to vote upon the proposition. It is the boast of Indianapolis that it is a progressive, wide-awake, enterprising city and so it is but its Market House accommodations must not he cited as proof, forinthat regard Indianapolis is behind any city of population and importance on the continent. The indications are now favorable for a new departure, which we hope will be inaugurated with as little delay as possible. EDUCATION IN INDIANA. Indianapolis Sentinel.l We have before us the twenty-eighth report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Professor James H. Smart, concerning the condition of the school funds, revenues and public schools of Indiana, for the two years ending August 31, 1880. It is a book of 578 pages. The report is complete and exhaustive. It not only meets every requirement of the law, but responds to the largest demands of the people for information touching the educational interests of the Commonwealth. The law requires that 10,000 copies of the biennial report of the Suterintendent of Tublic Instruction shall be printed. It would indefinitely aid the advancement of the educational interests of the State if 100,000 cop ies of Professor Smart's report could be placed in the hands of the people, since no State paper contains information so well calculated to promote the public wel fare. - The history of the free school system

of Indiana is briefly outlined. Its feeble beginning and growth in popular favor, and its final triumph are recorded. The present working of the system is clearly stated, and the fact that it is now established upon a firm basis, satisfactorily demonstrated. In the year 1805 there were in Indiana 7.403 school houses, valued at $3,827,173, while in 1830 there are 9,047 school houses, valued at

$11,817,931.53. In 1802 the State had a school fund amounting to $7,193,154.91; in 1880 the fund amounts to 49.0G5.234.7.J. But while the fund has increased the num ber of children has also increased, and that, too, faster than the school fund. In 1862 there were 528,583 school children in the State; in 1880 there are 703,55.8 school children. The school fund is large, but not iarge enough to meet the demand. But we have not the spaca to furnish our readers with cren a synopsis of the valuable information contained in Professor Smart's report. To be appreciated it roust be ex amined and read. It seems to us that even important question is answered, ami that every problem relating to the educational a flairs of the State satisfactorily solved. The I qualification of teachers, the construction of school houe text book", discipline, and all other matters deserving attention, are given deserved prominence, evincing high ability and a scrupulous regard for the wel fare of the rising generation. Professor Smart has met every requirement of his im. portant office, and leaves the public schools of the State in a condition that has won for him the first place in the ranks of profes sional educators and the Superintendents of Public Instruction in the country. PERSONALS. Ma. Gladstone wa serenty-oue years old last Wednesday. General Grant will, it i said, occupy his Long Branch cott&ze next summer. It is said that Senator Jones, of Florida, will be elected. His only opanent li ex-Confederate General Loring. General Robert Toombs, of Georgia, hag given 1,000 acres of Texas land to aid in founding University in that State. Senator-elect Fair, of Nevada, will go on the fat man's tide of the Senate. Though rather frhort in stature, he weighs 230 pounds. Mr. J. C. Flood declares that he wouldn't accept an election to the United States senate from California under any circumstances. Speaker Ranoall will deliver the oration be fore the Literary Sodetle of Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Teun.. at the next Commencement. Govrp.NOR Foster did not issue auy Christmas pardon to a convict, as has been the custom ia Ohio, b cause he could find no cae deserving of Executive clemency. Senator Edmunds U the oldtst-looklug mem ber of the Upper House of Congress; he is fcarcely fifty, and looks venerable enough to be the father of a great grandfather. JIM Kf.es e, it is said, is going to present a statue of Nathan Hale to the city of New York, to be erected on the spot where the young Connecticut hero was hanged as a spy. Mrs. Susan Jackson, the widow of Jackson who shot Colonel Ellsworth iu the Marshall Ilotfe, Alexandria, Va., at the beginning of the war, died several days ago at Lanfjley, Fairfax County, Virginia. It is understood that the President will In Feb-rut-y appoint Private Secretary Rogers to be Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia. The plave Is worth between JG.000 and J10.0Ö0 ier year, and is now held by General George Sheridan, of Louisiana. THEgirHof Lake Erie Seminary, at Painesville, O., actually claim to have uomlnated Garfield for Preside ut as loig ago as 1861, and to have agreed then to go and see him Inaugurated. They propose to meet at New York, March 1, and go forward a an honorary escort for the President-elect. Mont of the girls of twenty years ago are now wives aad mothers. Gkneral Grant Is reported to t very deeply Interested In the subject of an Inter-oceanic canal by the Nioanpuan route, and an article dictated by him. discussing the advantage tbat would accrue to the United States from the construction of a csual under American auspices and subji-et to American control, will appear In the North American Review for February. Boy nature is full of magnetLim and sympathy, as was recently illustrated in Detroit. A boy burned both his hands so badly that he could not use them. A deaf boy came along and they made a trade. The deaf one pounded on a tin pan, and the other got dowu a picture book. For so much pounding so many pictures were shown, and lxth had a good time. James Burns, of Iowa, voted for Douglas and vowed he wouldn't cut hi hair tinlil a Democratic President was elected. A month ago he was seized and bound and his locks sheared close to his scalp. He sued three of his assailants for damages, but he not only failed to secure any, but was told by the Judge that he came w ithin an aca of being either a fool or a lunat ic. Mrs. Baird, Troy, W'ls., was 108 years of ajre when fhe died on Tuesday, ner mother died at the age of 102, and her sister lived to see 105. Mrs. Baird had never suffered a day of illness, and took onemile walks daily with ease. On the day of her death she was about, and waited upon herself as usual, passing away quietly and suddenly. She was a stranger to spectacles, her eyesight being perfect. General Gbant perpetrated another Jke at Mr. Barbour's residence, In Patcrson. N. J., recently. He had Jii3t neen the elegant stables Mr. Barbour keeps for his fine blooded cows, and said to him: 1 now see how it is that you treated your guests with champagne instead of milk," he said to Mr. Barbour. "How's that?' asked Mr. Barbour. "Why," replied the General, glancing at the cattle, "your milk costs too much." The new Associate Justice, Woods, is forty-five years of age, quick and nervous In hL movements, very active and alert, with keen, shrewd eyea, that look tnrough at a glance. Justice Woods has a charming family an elegant wife, a son of twenty-two or thereabouts, and an exceedingly graceful and accomplished daughter tMiss Florence). The family have long been leaders of society in Atlanta, and will be welcomed as an acquisition to the National Capital. Colonel McClurE, writing from Nashville, Tenn., says of the widow of President Polk: "She Is so universally beloved by all parties and classes fu Tennessee that her little fortune in State bonds all she possesses in the world hss been, by unbroken consent, exempted from the flood-tide of repudiation that has defaulted in the Interest due to other creaitors. Republicand an Democrat, white and black, hbth-tax and low-tax-all auree .1 V. 1.. . . .,1.11 1... I A ........ , 1 .. . . u that the Interest shall be paid promptly on the debt held by ber. Rurcs Choatk once made an argument of, say three days, to convince the Jury that the car wheel sold by defendant was radically, intrinsic ally and indubitably different from that patente by the plaintiff. Webster rose to an?wer, and the Jurors rustled uneasily in their seats, settling themselves for another three days. But he simply tilted the two models upon the babies in the Jurors steht, fixed his great, magnetic eyes upon the entire twelve at once, and said: "Gentlemen of the jury, there are the wheels; ook at 'era." Verdict for the plaintiff on tho spot. CURUKNr KOTES. The messengers of the New York District Telegraph Company delivered 12,000 packages Christmas Eve. There has been a marked falling oT lately in the orders for standard silver dollars received by United States Treasurer Gilfillan. The census returns for every Southern State except Delaware show a larger relative Increase of the colored than of the white population. The novelty of delivering mall from carriages was witnessed In New York Monday. Tbe accu I muUUons of ChrtitoM and 9s4ay were so gm

it was impossible for the carriers to bear them.

Two carriers accompanied each carriage. Christ mas Cards were as plentiful as valentines in February. Sidney smith used to say that he never passed a fat man without thinking of pork, nor a lean one without thinking of 12 per cent, per annum. Lou of people passed Smith without thinking of anything. James C. Flood is reported to have had trans actions to the amount of X)0,00'VX0 In the Stock Exchange during the past five years. Mr. Flood is described an exemplary citizen and a punctual and exact uiau of business. This is the ae of champions, and thi-re is noth ing inconsistent in William Harrison, of Ohio. Claiming to have received more dog bites than any other man in the world. He has a record of 15.'! bites, which are pretty evenly divided on his spindle-shank leg. A farmer's wife in Bloomington, 111., was watering stock recently, when u pet cow turned its head quickly and keocked lu rinto a well, where she remained for three hours. She kept her head atove water by dinging to the bricks, but died from the chill sooq after she was taken out. Soms: years ago the country was told that the Mormons were hiving, and tbat unless something was done New Mexico, In the course of a few years, world be practically annexed to Utah. Now the Governor of Idaho announce that the Mormons are swarming info that Territory, bring ing their )cculiar institution with them. Dell; te Can non, of Utah, w ho has four wives and a seat iu Congress, it not disturbed by reports from l Iah whicli represent that Governor Murray will withhold his certificate. Cannon says that the Governor is only u ministerial officer, and must leave the question of a Territorial delegate's qualification to the House of Representa tives. A writer in an art Journal says; "I do not thiuk plates look well hung on a wall. They should Ik; put on shelves and in a kiud of dresser." The w riter's art taste is low. It needs cultiva tion. Next thing he will declare that coal scut tles and wash-tubs do not look well hung on par lor walls, and he w ill relegate a decorated bootjack to its proper place. If he were to go to Boston and promulgate stich ideas he would get bounced. Xorrlstow n Herald. A ha rciiET-FACFD woman, of about fifty-ore summers, with a wealth of freckles in her face and a witiff stick in her mouth, g t Intoacrowded cht on Galveston avenue. - There were half a dozen tentlemen on the car, but none of them offered to give her a seat After she hftd waited a rcHMjnable time, she said: "Ef eny of you galoots I wuiiiu' fir me to squat in yer laps, you are barkin' up the wrong tree, for I want you to understand I'm a lady." A irend that she w as not In earnest caused six gentlemen to leave the car. Galveston News. Miouf.lSolis Is a half reed burner, living in the foot-hilU of tho Siei ; MesiUa, and the oldest man in the world. Ills e ia mythical. Grayhaired men told Dr. Lrij Hernandez that they remembered Miguel as a centenarian when they were boys. The Doetr found the old fellow at work in his orchard, parchment-skinned, robust, active, his now white hair twUted, turban-fash ioned, around hU bead, and his eyes so bright that the Doctor felt uucrmfortable when they were turned upon him. Questioned as to his habits, Miguel told the Doctor that the secret of living a century or two was very simple merely never getting drunk and never over-feeding. Washington Irving, says the London Times, seems to be growing asr iin Into favor, or, as It were more Just to say, into popularity, for he could never be out of favor with those who know him. "It was but the other day we noticed the superb library edition of bis jcollected works which is ia course of publication, and separate editions of particular works have been prominent features o-f Christmas literature for several sea sons past. 'Little Britain is an account of the so ciety of n quaint old district in London, deriving iu name from having Ihsii in times long gone by the residence of the Dukes of Brittany. It is rieh with that delicate humor atid nice observation which distinguish all Mr. Irvimt's works, while on the charm of that beautiful stj le, which, while at every twge, recalling memories of Goldsmith ana Atiatson, is yet all the writer s own, it is un neceary v dilate." Uforx Klllott. The holidays are ovtr. The weather has heen extremely cold, yet it dia not chiii tne merriment Of iae young ioiks. veaaingsf parlies, hazaarg, Christina trees and calling day all lending; thoir aid in filling' the cup of joy to thy brim; young and old being eager and wining to take a arauant irom us soul in spiring contents. Just, hefcre the Christmas bells began to ring away over across Atlantic fl stormy waters, "A bell tolled the more solemn tidings" of a loss to thu literary world in the person of Mr?. Marion Cross, better known as "Ueorge Juliot. bixty-one suns baa risen and sot on thecteatauthore??, but her work was done, and quietly she folded those hands wh: :h had toiled so untireingly with the pen and sunk into that Im p, which knows no wtkinj. Hessing Deace.ully leieathf eiod J all that was mortal but destined to live and move among men throcgu time, tobe erected her own monument and was her own epitaphiat. Her nam1! and writings are as familiar on this i'de of tbe waters, as in her native land. The noble characters which have fouod homes in her novels, could only ue -woven into such, interesting; stories by a power far above ordinary cvltivation; these speak louder than all words can in favor of her who produced them. Ona marked characteristic of her writings is the reward which invariably follows true nobleness and the corresponding punishment to evil doers. tohe lend no attraction Jto Tice. Her Adam Bede" marries the estimable Dinah. "Dan iel Deronda," too pure to be mortal, moves among humanity but to bless them. In the opinion she gives Daniel of "Mor deeti" ono can ?e seme fof tbat tender domestic inclination to which fhe bent in epite of a staring public." A mind ".onEeiously, energetically moving with the larger march of Jiuman destinies, but not the less full of conscience and tender heart tor the footsteps tbat tread near and need a leaning place; capable of conceiving and choosing a life's task with far tff issues, yet capablo of the ur applauded heroism which turns off the road of achievement at the call of the nearer dutv wboe effect lies withiu tbe beatings of the hearts that are close to us, as the hunger f the unfledged Mrd t j tba breast of its parent. What a heautiful leton Daniel teaches when he tells Gwendolen that, 'No evil dooms us hopelessly exoept the exil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escapa taora." Who has not read "Silas Manier" with an eager and unabating interest? One follows him through the time of his accusation of a theft and the consequent les of the love of his lift, and his pvIIm from soriet v and faithlessness in humanity; his contracted f ' - miserliness and Ioös ot tbe hoarded wealth; his adoption cf the little golden-haired baby who toddled into his hut from he knew not where and who lived to ble.s him in his old age, and prove tbe staff of his declining years. Middle-march, Komola, Felix, lloUand, and other fruits from her fertile brain hold their places in the long catalogue ot fcetm which genius has given to the readiog world. Hut reader, I shall not tire you with a long letter, yet I believe 1 speak ttuly when I pen Kate Fields' words, viz., "Though our grandchildren may not care to read George Eliot any more than vri care to read Müs Austin, they will hardly deny that among the writers ot the Victorian age there was nono that in true intellectual greatness could be ranked above the woman whose death will be mourned to day wherever the English laDguaje is spoken." ticcola. Walnut IIill, Jan. 3 1881. Sky terriers were the pets of the ladies until they found something vglier, and pugs are now in the highest favor. It has long been a study for scientists to discover why homely men are so fortunate in getting the prettiest wives, and this may give them a 1 hint to work upon.

A Horrible Fire In a New York Tenement House Yesterday. -

Tea Persons With No Means Escape Perish in the Flames. Of Tho Terrible Disaster Caused by the Carelessness of a Plumber. Nriv York. .T.m. 4. At 8:1. this morning a fire broke o it iu a tenement in the rear of Janus 1 oyle's : iquor store. 35 Madison street. 1 1 started j t tne l ottomol tne stairs mat iununea tne v.ilyexi!. for the tenants in the five-story build-: exc pt tire escapes atmcnea to tne uuiioing ointae. ana m le man nve minutes swept. t':r.."gh the stairway to the roof, cutting off the escape oi a score ot persons, ine uames soon found a vent also tnrougn tne two io.ver stones, and thus barred egress by the lire tse.ine. The tevnnts. pa1 tc stricken, made a rush for the "oof, but the scuttle was firmly hooked and w uld not jield. The ascending Humes drove il e people back within their rooms, and the wildest confusion followed. Men ami women threw ibeir children from the windows n I jumped after them tnrough the 11 inti-s tlmt swept across tae ynra aim set their clothing biaze. When t'ie firemen obtained the mastery, the DEAD BODUS of nine oersons who had beeu burned were taken out from the bulldincr. Several were iniaied in their -norts t- escape, and were sent to lue nov pltal. ine snowing is tne list oi tue neau: tuen Sheridan, ju-'ed forty-three years: Knie Sheridan, fourteen; M;utcie Sheridan, five; Martin stieiidnn, thtee: John Walsh, thirteen; Thomas Cjisddy, six: Charles CaMdy, ciuhl: gir! named F.gan, aired two, and Mrs. Mieridun, asie unknown. Several persons were injured, among them James Cassidy, Mary Egau and Chailes Walsh. The scene i f the calamity, t he like of which has not occurred in this city since the tenement house fire lu t-aiinoii street a year a., ami tne Turner Hall disaster, at.iout the same time, is s uiwi.le proaehed through a narrow slley (hardly enough to allow the pu-sMge of a portly man) between tall tenements, Nos. and :: Madison street. In the front of the house 3." is Doyle's liquor store. Its back door ojeis directly upon a narrow hallway in the rear tenement, where the fire obtained its start. Plumbers were at work at the foot of the stairs thawing out frozen water pipes, and for this pdrposc used a gasoline vessel, which was by some means upset, and. beci miiig Ignited, there was an explosion, which Llew iu the door of the saloon. Iu an instant THE BLACK SMOKF. ROLLED up the loug stairway, drawn onward by the draught caused by an open window iu the top storv. There was a momentary hush n.s the frightened plumbers huriied inio the yard. A roan sluing toy the bar-room stove slammed tbe hall door oir the advancing nre. and iinme'li.itcly there was a wild rush overhead and the sound of breaking glass, and the air was tilled with the wails of the impiisoned men and women, shouts of frightened children atid the ciies for help of the barkeeper and plumwrs, w ho ran through the street to a near-by ronce station. eiy soon the clang of the fire bells filled the streets nod the narrow alley became idled with firemen and police struggling to bring help to the imprisoned and burning tenants. They came TOO LATE, the fire finding vent through the open doors and winaowh ot tne uutenaiiieii erouiiu-uoor 01 me house, and through the door, had seized upon the shutters, window frames and wooden floors of the balconie outside, licking them up like so much tissue paper, and reaching upward toward the floors, where the frightened men and women huddied toget her afraid to venture out i i the fire escape that was iPseli a tiame, while the flames within the house were plainly vit-ible through the ill-fitting doors then being fast consumed. Eight families occupied the house two on each floor. On the second floor the Kugans and Muldoonshad, at the first alarm, escaped throutha window. Mrs. Mary Engar, (widow) and her f.ur grown children, Margaret, Thomas. Joseph and John, reached the ground iu hafety by a quick jump. Mrs. Muldoon, who is over eighty years old, was less fortunate: se-izing her iwo giaudchildren Annie, ace ten, and K.uc. aue seven he sprang from ihe tire escape, but iu the fall sprained or broke her leg, nud crawled away with dilheulty. On the third floor Mr. Iteau. w ho lived alone, escaped with his neighbors, the MckTenna family, likewise by jumping. James, &ze nine; Hugh age four, and a baby, were THROWN THKOt.OH A WINDOW by Charles McKenna. their eldest brother, a lad of fifteen. The mother, who was sweeping in the yard when the fire broke out, rushed to the stairwav. but was met by a soli. 1 sheet of flame, and realizing the danger ef her children, rescued them by shouting before they knew of their danger. "Jump! Charles, throw them down!" the agonized mother cried, aiH stretched out her arms to rescue them. As three little heads looked over the window-till beside their brother, the mother appealed to him to throw the children to her and to jump himself, while the baby, irightenedby the cries of the othen, who w ere alarmed at the smoke which was fast fliliinj the room, continually cried, with it little nuns outstretched, "Mamma! m.inima!" The boy quickly measured the distance to the ground from his third story perch, and taking the baby up tirst, TOSSED IT OUT and it fell Into the arms of Its mother, who caught the other children as they were sent to her one by one, and finally broke the fall of Charles as he leaped, and all escaped unhurt. On the fourth floor lived Cassidy ami another family of the Kagans. On the fifth ami topmost story Mrs. Ellen rtheriden was at brekf.tst with her four children; the men of these families, h of all others in the house, had pone to work. Mrs. heriden at the first alarm gathered together the children ami sought to escape by the stairs, but the fire had possession of them. There was no succor from street and the sought the scuttle in the roof, but it was immovable. Hie shrank back from the leap to the yard five stories below, and closing the door of her apartment, to keep out the rapidly advancing flame, herself and children WERE SUFFOCATED Y THE SMOKE rapidly filling the mom. The Cassidy family, unable to escape to the roof, flupg themselves from the windows. Two of the children. harles and Thomas, aged six and eight, remained in the room and were burned to deith. The Eagau family also leaped to the ground, except a child. aged two vears, that was suffocated. Mary Knuau in the fail was badly injured. Officer Thomas Barrett took two children from the second story by mean oi the nre enseal, but the names soon sent him to the ground with burned bauds, a demolished beard and scorched face. THE CALAMITY was completed within a half-hour. In a ßhort time the nine bodies of the, dead were removed to tne Police Station and the saloons, now with pipes entirely thawed, resumed business. Ihe bodies presented A HORRin SPECTACLE, the flames evidently, in some cases, having anticipated the smoke in the work of death. Voumr McKenna wrapped his little brothers and sisters in sheets and blankets before dropping them to his mother and the firemen in the yard. He saved himself by seizing a clothes-line stretched letween the two houses, and going hard over hand beyond the line of the flames, he dropped into tbe arms of those walling to receive him. On each side of the hallway, on every floor of the building, were a small living rom and two bedrooms, each barely six feet square. The living rooms all bad two windows fi outing on a court, and one of each set of bedrooms als fronted upon it, w hile the remaining bedroom in each suite of rooms was dark. A tire escape led from the roof of the first floor with balconies couuected with suites of rooms upon each floor. A corridor on ech floor led from the narrow cram ped entry of each floor to this balcony. The stairs by which the families reached their rooms was not; wide enough to allow two iers ns to comfortably pass each other, and these were also full of turns to economize space. A scuttle led to the roof, and this made the urafl which drew the flames un the narrow stairway, cutting off the retreat of the imprisoned inmates. Curious crows blocked the epproaeh to the Station House in Oak street, this afternoon, and half a dozen policemen were scarcely able to clear ihe way for the dead wagons which anlved. The coitins. hastily nailed together of roimh pine boards, were carried into the Lock-l'p, where, on the floor In front of the untenanted tier of cells, lay tbe bodies of the dead. A youth named Donegan went throuph an adjoining house, reached the roof of the building, and with an ax demolished the scuttle. Mary Sheriden, with a child in her arms, endeavered to escape, but her clothing was ablaze. As the girl nearly reached the top she extended her arm to Donegan who grasped it. but THE FLESH TEELED FROM THE HONE, and the girl and child fell Iwck Into the flames. pieces ot charred nesn remaining in the nanus of bonrgnn. Three children of the Kagau family - recover. John 1). Reagan was saved by leaping the window of his room to the Viiidow of A house opposite. Mary Muidoou Sttvw r wee grauaeniiuren . wrapping mem in bed Ctot.oiig and dropping them into thearins of the people iu the yam; she herself Iben leajed and nad her anale sprained. ANOTHER VICTIM of the fire was found this evening, making a total dead of ten. This addition to the number is the babe ol Mrs Cassidy, which was discovered wrappedl 1 1 and clasped to the breast of its dead mother Timothy Harrington, a plumber. Is arrested. His bauds are burned. He charges the whole dis aster to the carelessness of a boy helper named Mcfiloan, who has disapieared. lheir employer. Mr. ratten, was also arrested. Au tannest w in be held next week. ARREST OF THE PLUMBERS THEIR STATEMENT. William J. Pat ton. the boss plumber, for whom Harrington was working when the accident happened that cost so many lives, was arrested this afternoon, and biken before the Coroner, who, after taking his sworn ntatement, com mitted him to the Toombs ui de fault of J10.000 bail. In the evening securities for that amount were furnished ami Patton set free. His aliened oflense Is in permit ting his men to use dangerous gasoline, Harrington being especially a green hand, and afraid of assuming the responsibility of using it. Patton's statement under oath was to the effect that he was a plumber, and was engaged as agent of Mrs. jcagan, a unaiaay living in bixty-tourua street,

to thaw out the pipes in the house, No. 35 Madison street, and to repair them. That having much work on hand, he sent for Harrington, who was a plumber, to help him and engaged him to do the wrk at No. 35 Madison street. He commenced there this morning at 1 o'clock, and acain going to work at 7 a. m, at the same job. At 10 o'clock Patton states that he heard of the accident. He never used pasoline until this w inter, but last month he used it with succes. He knew gasoline was explosive if fire got near it, and that it required careful handling. THAT FIRE IX A NEW YORK TENEMENT HOUSE New York. Jan. 5. Among the bodies taken from the Madison street tenement yesterday was one said to be that of Charles Cassidy. To-day the body was identified as that of his brother James. Civvies i missing. Charles Mceilain, th plumber's helper to whose carelessness iu handling giisoline i.-"nUiibuled 'the fire and awful consequence, has iecn committed to the House of I'e cntion. M. C oialn mule the following statement under oath: "Have worked at various trades; worked for Patten at plumbing one day and a half. Yesterdav morning Patten sent me with Harrington to Madison street to thaw 8:nne pipes. I did not

take or see Harrington bring gasoline to the Madison street house: I believe it wa in an empty ro m where we got them. We got the tools on the tirst floor, and filled the machine with gasoline and then went to the cellar to thaw out some leud pipes of Croton water. We were down sudrs ten minutes when the gasoline was burned out. Potli of us went upstairsto fi;l the machine aenin. He made a funnel out tf tin to fill the machine the tiist time, but afterward lost it. He did not have It t lill the machine with the second time. He took the cn while I held the machine. Ho wmn-d in the gaolinc. I had ray hand on the opening of the machine. A few drops fell on the tlxr and it biased up before I knew iL I then ran away. Tbe ean held two ualloii; the machine had about half a gallon. The candle was silting on the floor about six feet away. Harrington brought it up from the cellar and left it on the tlnoi. Harrington asked me while we were u-iug gasoline in the cellar, 'Hid you ever see tin go off?' He told me it was traso'ine. Thomas Lenahan came to the house just as we were going to work. He told me that gasoline was daucerous, and to be caretul not to let any of it get rn my clothes or near a liht, as it would fly out and scare me. Lenahan went away before the accident. He simply brought us some material P work with. I do not know w ho brought the gasoline to the house. I think it wn in an empty toom when we got there, as one of Pattou's m n In d beMMi working there the day betöre." A Helping LI and. "Every man's Netnaa Lion lies in wult for him somewhere." ltuskin. There was a small crowd of bov and men congregated upon an up-town corner the other morning, atid the oocasiou of it was a horse fallen in the harness a respectablelooking horse drawing a respecable-lookmg milk wagon, and driven by a bov, who now tugged at his head, vainly urging him to rise. Jerk hitn up," called a man who stood on the sidewalk with both hands in his pock ets. ' Give him the whipl" Each on: shouted out 6ome advice, but no one volunteered to assist the bov who was j i?t fur enough away from bis childhood to b:el like having a genxl cry; but ho coaxed ana pu.iea at tue norse mat now lay quite still, und, with horpe sense did not try to move on tie :lii-pjry ito, but stretched his neck out in a wy that brought despair to the heart oi tbc bov, who believed h was soing to die on his hands. Just then h man came walking briskly along and a w tha prostrate horse, and the db.con.-olal; -looking boy; he carried a heavy piece e f machinery in one hand, but this he laid aside and stepped out to the horse and began to take oil' the harness. In a moment be had run the shafts back and left the horse free. Then he took the bridle-rein, gave quick, sharp chirrup and tbe animal sprun t ) his feet and gave himself a great shake: the man helped the boy reharness him, the two exchanged a smile of thanks and wel come, and then the man picked up his ma chinery and walked cheerily off one way, as the bov drive on another, lie had shun tha Nemesn lion to begin his day, and we may wen believe mat when evening camo he would be one of those who can sing "SompthlnR accomplished, something done, II (is earni-d a nilit'r rei'oae." An oi l colored woman stopped at a corner of one ef the moot fashionable thoroughfares the other afternoon, just before nightfall, aid looked disconsolately up and down the ttre-t; then she appealed to a beautiful girl in a K.ipuael bat aal with eyes ike some pictured saint who tripped aVong in rich and cost.!y attire: 4llease, miss, mought this be Anthony street, deary;" but only a look irom nie ueautuui eyes was voucneaiea ner. Then came some fair and prosperous ma trons, all laughing and chattering over their LiirhTtmas purchases, ine old aunty, with her withered face stood in the way. ''Please, honeys, will ye direct mo to Anthony street? lee done got lost." "We never heard of such a street," they faid, and went laughing on. It was a wenry professor going home from instrumental lesson-givin?, with the merest breath of lifo left in him, who stopped and said: You mean Antoine street, Aunty," and ho turned her in the right direction, and saw that she followed it. And so he bd slain his Nemean lion before he slept. Yov the difficulty of moment in the path of everybody, is tbe small, homely, unheroic duty, which U so unbeautiful we will not see it, and has so little grandeu- with which to inve&t us when we have performed it, "Who of ii cares to be seen assisting an old woman Y.th nn overburden of unwashed clothes, or a blini man groping behind a wheelbarrow. The fear of ridicule is stronger than the creed of ages. Determined FtTort of a Pet Bird to End Its li!eae-lurdeneel Life. I New York Mercnryd A canary, the property of a lady wellknown in society in this city, who resides on Fifth avenue, within a stone's throw of Mayor Cooper's private residence, was about te.-i days ato taken unwell. The little fellow was ttbout eight years old, and had been reared by the lady, who was extremely fond of it. So amount of coaxing or persussion could induce the little fellow to open his bill, and when once or twice a drop of diluted brandy was forced into its moutb it resolutely refused to swallow it, and fluttered and pecked so ob:tinately that its fair owner was forced to let it alone. Alter being subjected a second time to what it evidently considered an indignity, the bird's mode of action showed clearly that it was determined t put an end to itself. The modus operan li was watched by its mistress and her husband with great and increasing interest, as it first tried ono plnn and then another to accomplish ITS SUICIDAL PURPOSE. Firit it would climb to the top perch in the enge, and seizing the, ring which hung de pendent from tho bell on the top of the cage in its beak, would hang Suspended, its little legs tucked in underneath its wings, nor was it very easy to open the beak and take the bird down, for it resented the slightest interference. As it was found impossible to prevent the recurrence of these suicidal efforts, the ring was removed. The canary resented this in a very etrange fashion. The watertrough used was a very deep one, which ,i; within e;iy reach of the bird when on th lowest perch of its cage; the second perch rnn lengthways. Suspending itself by hi cl ws to this, the canary hung with its head down into the water-trough, evidently determined to commit SUICIDE BY DROWNINU. When discovered the first time its head was almost entirely covered by the water in the trough. To prevent all chances of misadventure, but very little water was afterward left in the water cup. Getting on the top perch of the cage it next poked its little head through the wires, and, letting go of the perch with its feet, tried to hang itself, and was only prevented from successfully accomplishing this by the fortunate interposition of the lady. Toward the close of its life it became hardly able to move, but tbe suicide mania was upon it and it was constantly caught poking its head through the wires of the side of the cage and trying to strangle itself. Prevented from effecting its purpose, the bird in its last moments seemed to feel affronted and would not permit itself to be touched, and with its last expiring effort forced its head through the latticing ot the cage and died while attempting to commit suicide.

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