Indianapolis Leader, Volume 3, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1882 — Page 2

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PDBLISEED EVERY- SATURDAY BT 9 OFFICE 11 MILLER'S BLOCK Corner Illinois and Harket als. KnUr4 as tcond-clsta matttr at tos Pcxtofflc at Indianapolis, Ind. ' ; TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ilofla Copy, 1 year.. M nontha f!.00 l.oo ... M ... .20 ... 1.75 ... 1.50 i month Ctabt ! aial Jr, ach copy-. M ' Uo, 1 year, tacb copy . THIS PAPER" may b found on file at P. Bowell a Co.'s Kwippr AdvartUinz Bureau (10 Sprue St ) whera rtlsins eoatracta may ta mad for it la NEW TO&K Aubterlbe for the Leader. Let every colored man who favors the elevation of his race subscribe for the Leader; and let every white man who believes that slavery was a crme against 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. A Great deal has been said about the superior school advantages enjoyed by the colored people in some of the southern states which have been under Democratic control. An itelligent colored gentleman who has traveled extensively in the South informs us that these stories Are not only rose colored but in most cases absolutely false. In the lara ger cities the schools are very good but in most of the snaller places and in the country they are as a rule worthless. In many communities in the country, said he, competency is a positive disqualifi cation for a teacher. The school authorities do not want thoroughly qualified teachers for the colored schools. When such apply, they will not employ them. Some idea of the inducements held out to competent teachers may be drawn from the fact that in Alabama the average sal ary of teachers is twenty-three dollars per month. There is, possibly, one consolation in this, said our informant, for if by any mishap we get hold of a competent teacher, we've got him for all time, for he can never get money enough to get away. All these things go to show that the liberal movement in the South has come none too soon and that the salvation of the South de pends upon its success. With all the encouragement and fa cilities the State and community can give, the poverty and inexperience of the colored people will still form obsta cles iu the way of ntellectual advance ment, than which no people ever had to meet greater. No community can afford to foster ignorance. Sooner or later a better harvest must be reaped. The Southern whites will bless the colored people not more than themselves by con secrating their influence their energy and their means to the great work of educating and elevating the masses. The Atlanta Cotton Exchange which has just closed is doubtless the greatest Industrial achievement of the South since the war. It was a magnificent exposition of the products of American genius and American labor. It was also a grand exponent of the New South that is to be. The success of this Exposition is an indication that the eyes of Southern men are being opened to the folly of the past and that they are, at last, turning their backs upon the brutish suicidal policy which for fifteen years has driven out and excluded Northern capital and made a social pandemonium of the fairest section of our country. Murder, assassination, and every species of brutality and crime became the common heritage of nearly every Southern community. The poor were made poorer and every real interest of the people was sacrificed to the passions, predudices and base ambitions of a few unworthy leaders, and the bummer element which the Confederate army turned loose. At last reason has returned and the people see that no community that wrongs and persecutes any class of citizens can hope to gather the golden fruits of prosperity and happiness. Northern capital is now not only being welcomed but invited and solicited by the south. And in every State in the South liberal parties are springing up, with material development and fair treatment of the colored people as the cardinal principles of their faith. The exposition though a eoutheru institution was in a large measure the product of Northern brain, Northern industry and Northern capital. It brought together crowds of men from every section of the country. It cannot help but have an excellent influence in teaching the young, men of the South, black and white, the possibilities and the dignity of free labor. ; The current number of the Century Magazine contains an excellent article on the "Significant aspects of the At lanta Cotton Exchange" in which some very interesting facts are stated. Leather was on exhibition from the tannery at Chattanooga Tennessee, the largest single tannery in the country, and worked entirely by colored men.

A grandson of John C. Calhoun said:

"If my grandfather and his associates had known as much about the Negro as I know, and could have had the same faith in his capacity for progress which I have attained from my own experi ence, there would have been neither slavery nor war." We cannot better close this article than by quoting the following eloquent paragraph from the article referred to: "But the clouds in the sky are be ginning to clear away. The country is taking on settled habits, lhe planter has become more industrious and economical; the Negro who emerged from slavery without a dollar and with no experience of providing for himself, has by industry in many instances been able to buy mules, wagons, farming implements, cattle, etc., and thus to surround himself with the comforts of a home. Many others have enough to support themselves for one year. In spite of everything, many have prosfired. The fertility of the soil and their own industry have been in their favor. And here permit me to digress far enough to say that I believe if our ancestors could have foreseen the present condition of the Negro, there would have been no war." ECHOES. The Interior Dep't has 1,601 employes, of which 113 are colored. Peter II. Clark delivered a lecture Sunday at Turner Hall, Cincinnati, on "Tom Paine. The Washington Item fears that the Republican party by its inconsistency will alienate the colored vote. Clara Louise Kellogg and Hon. E. D. Bassett, formerly minister to liayti, were classmates, says the People's Advocate. A scheme is on foot to get 1,500 colored people from Kentucky and Southern Illinois to emigrate to Colorado in the Spring. Of the C00 convicts in the Arkansas penitentiary, 100 are bloody murderers. Sixeighths of the whole number are colored. J. O. Lewis, colored, merchant tailor in Boston, does a $50,000 business per annum. This is decidedly a better showing than politics or law. What's the world coming to? mn have been arrested; crime, Bev. Marshall Smith, colored, Two white murder of at Clinton, La. Mrs. Lewis C. Andrews, of Chicago is 103 years old. Born in the West Indies and witnessed the inauguration of George Washington. The natives of Central Africa speak forty different languages, but all get there oneway in eating the good missionary. We starve him to death in this country. John Shafer, 32 years of age, of Jamestown Dakota Ter., is the owner of a dry good store and barber shop in said town, lie is said to be worth $100,000. He is of Tiffin Ohio. "We is gittin mo like de white trash ebery day." The colored Baptist Sunday school, of Springfield Mo., has an orchestra of four pieces to play during the services. West V irgtnia colored people wish to raise $15,000 to endow the John Brown Professorship in Storer College. The money, would do more good if given to John Browns poor, old and su Oering widow. The colored Republicans, South, complain that they are not counted, iu the distribution of offices. It b ever thus. In the words of the Conservator, "We deserve ten thausand more offices than we get," and it might be added than "we will get." Mrs. Coppin, better known as Miss Fannie Jackson, delivered a lecture at Washington, lately, on Labor. She presented the impor tance ol mechanical and agricultural labor as forming the basis of a nation's progress ana power instead ot protessional pursuits, That kind of argument has the solid ring. Who is'this Cre-a-ture, Wild eyed, swell-ed veins ana swinging Arms; it is a Uol-or-ed f a. T 1 a". m a . -w . wr-a-ior. is ine ur-a-tor .Had 7 it is. hy is the Or-a-tor mad? It is a "Lead-er" of his peo-ple and wants Of-fice. Will the wild-eyed Or-a-tor get it? No, no, no. Poor Or-a-tor. Mrs. Scott and her three daughters, colored, of Salina Kansas, have been most foully outraged by some prominent (?) white citizens of that place. The family were compelled to go to Denver in order to save their lives. Short work ought to be made of these scoundrels. A colored lunatic of the Virginia Insane Asylum was the manager of a brain which weighed 70 ounces. This is several ounces more than the brain weight of Cuvier, Webster, or Cromwell. We can name parties who in their own estimation have brains which weigh a ton, or more. A bill is now pending before the Kentucky legislature imposing a fine of $5.00 to $20.00 upon all parties "who by word of mouth, attempts to deceive his" fellow-men." This will be a serious blow to that horde of secret and lienevolent society sharks who are impoverishing the grossly deluded colored citizens of Kentucky. Thomas T. Henry, born of slave parents,is the first colored lawyer to pass the local examinations in Philadelphia. He has been a letter-carrier in Richmond and a waiter in a hotel where he meets a wealthy man who puts him in the way of studying law. Indianapolis has three or four colored lawyers. The Gate City Press laments that the colored man seeks the professions and politics and other aesthetic avocations to the neelect of business pursuits. The paper says: "We don't control a single railroad, a single telegraph line, a single steamer and scarcely a uuo nun UUUK iu uui . ILJ . AHCBC 1111113 require wealth and years of business experi ence; it is not like starting a colored news paper. The 14th Continental reciment nnder Gen'l Humphrey, fought throughout the Revolutionary war, and were colored men. They were at the surrender of Cornwallis, and were mustered out by Gen'l Washing ton. Commodore Perrv in his official corre spondence on file at Washington, acknowledged the black sailors' services in the engagements on Lake Erie. Ther wer 200 000 colored men in the late war. The colored nress is develoninc the mrm of an idea that will soon stand forth as a characteristic of a new era of progress, and tne marKs oi the iuture coming out to view, are to be regarded as prophetic of that future manv forciblv. some feehlv. 11 earn estly are urging the abandonment of the proiessions and politics, both unsatisfactory, and are directincr the thought and nprcv f our race into business pursuits, the securing land, and the learning of the trades. In these lie nower? nolitir ia n man TK Jews made themselves necessary to the world oi commerce ana money, and cultivated politics afterwards. Slavery exists in Brazil, but will, in a few years be extinct. Bv the law of 1R71 nn child can be born a slave. All slaves be longing to the Imperial household wer do. clared free on the passage of the law. All freed persons are provided with work by the government. . Children born since 1871 are reared by the government, provided with teachers and priests. A fund is provided to yearly purchase the freedom of slaves of private individuals. The number of emancipated slave to the present about 60.000 or or more, and of. children born. ;

WASHINGTON LETTER.

The African ColonizationSociety Humbug1 Paesident Arthur's Conciliatory Course Factions Discountenanced. Iiouisville Distanced Miscellaneous Personal Etc., Etc., Etc. From Our Special Correspondent. Washington D. C, Jan., 30, 1882. The sixty-second anniversary of the African Colonization Society, was held in this city a few days ago. This organization seems to be held together now only by the powerful cohesive power of public lying and private plundering, alias begging. Left without any adequate excuse for its further existence, by the emancipation and enfranchisement of the Negro, the members of this gang of sanctimonious wolves still keep up their organization and gain a living for themselves and through alms received by pandering to and working on the diseased sympathies and sentiments of a few ancient people of a decayed regime, who think the proper thing for the Negro to do is to return to the "land of his lathers." which of course means that he should go to Africa, and fill a premature grave in an unsuccessful effort to conquer the dreaded acclimating fever of that heated continent. It appears from the authorized reports of these hypocritical cormorants that withtin the past year over one hundred misguided people have been sent to Liberia to meet their untimely fate, and that since the first organization of the society more than fifteen thousand deluded creatures have been consigned to this West African graveyard by these colonization ghouls. And what has been the result? Sixty-two year3 is a long time. Has Africa or any considerable portion of it, been reclaimed and permanently civil ized by the establishment of the Liberian colony? i ar from such a result as this, it is at this very time a debatable question whether the few surviving emigrants and their descendants, with the few civilized natives, .will be able to withstand the hostile natives by whom they are surrounded, together with the encroachments of European governments. The climate of equatorial Africa pre cludes the vigorous national growth of a transplanted foreign people. The regeneration of this jiart of the Dark Continent, while it may be assisted and directed from without, must, neverthe less, proceed principally from within C : 1- 'Pi 1! iruui lvs UHU pcupie. iney are acclimated to the manor born and can successfully withstand the ravages of the climate, which foreigners, no matter if they are descended from African lineage cannot do. Give these natives the implements of civilization, tell them what to do and how to do it, and they will eventually solve the problem of their own destiny, ahd unfold the hid den mysteries which have seemingly enveloped the land of Ethiopia since the dawn of civilization. All other attempts at reclamation are abnormal, and will only result in bringing the con tinent with leeble colonies dependent A , upon extraneous powers lor me and protection. It is needless to say that the African Colonization Society is a murderous, swindling humbug. It was conceived brought forth and nurtured into strength and vigor by a most unreasoning and inhuman prejudice, and is only kept alive now because the hypocritical coterie composing it know ot no other way to make a dishonest living. It certainly cannot long survive the now expiring life of their agency which brought it into existence. The fact is beginning to dawn upon the minds of politicians that President Arthur's administration is not to be one of revenges. Many so-called stalwarts were of the opinion that the guillotine would be applied indiscriminately to the heads of all of those who had ever breathed an anti-stalwart breath, but the course of the President has not sustained their position. He regards him self as the head of the party and not of a faction, and will give no encouragement to the factional fights within the party anywhere. Many politicians, white and colored have come here and gone away dissatisfied, because they thought the royal road to office lay in being intensely stalwart. Not a few, especially from the South, who were intensely antiGrant at Chicago, have sought to carry off the fat offices in their section by disparaging and belittling the Garfield administration; but they have found that such a course is not a recommendation to appointment The indications all point to the fact the President is desirous of harmonizing and strengthening the party by discountenancing all internecine struggles, which speaks volumes for his wisdom and sagacity.. I used to think from observing the society announcements in the Louisville papers, that that city could certainly distance all others in the ridiculous absurdity of some of the names used to designate the various so-called secret organizations of the Falls City. However, a recent criminal case in the local courts of this city has brought to light a society name that undoubtedly completely "lays it over" the professional society namers in the Kentuckv me tropolis. The facts were elicited by the arrest and prosecntion in the public court for enbezzlement of funds of two brother members of the society of 4,The independent Order of the Sons and Daughters and the Brothers and Sisters of Moses of the United States and the World at Larere." If the Louisvilleians think they can beat that, they must put np or shut up. A few days ago I had the pleasure of an extended interview with Editor H. C. Atwood of the Louisiainan, now in the city with a delegation of pilgrims trom the Pelican btate. Mr. A. is a fecial, communicative gentleman, and listened with interest to his relation of the facts concerning the many complications which underlie and intermingle with the political superstructure of

Louisiana. Mr. Astwood is an enthusiastic adherent of Governor Piuchback, and thinks that gentleman will soon receive a prominent appointment from the President.. Mr. J. II. Piles, of Springfield, Ohio, is in the city. Professor R. T. Greener lectures on Benjamin Bannaker, the Negro astronomer, this week. Senator Mahone was recently presented with an elegant gold-headed cane by prominent colored citizens of Virgin

ia. ' I am sorry to announce that Hon. W. A. Pledger of Athens, Ga. , did not receive the postmastership of his town. for which he was an applicant. Madison Davis, another colored applicant was appointed. As was expected by all sensible people, the jury trying Guiteau made short work of that villainous wretch, and the balance remains now for the officers of the law to do, which they doubtless will do in due course of time. A number of newspaper men in the city held a meeting at the Item office in this city last Saturday evening. After a lengthy consultation, the assembled quill-drivers adjourned to the Philadelphia House, where a sumptuous repast was in readiness. Iam sorry to say that an urgent business engagement prevented my attendance, but I am glad to know that all present enjoyed themselves. Dr. Alexander Crummell, rector of the Colored Episcopal Church in this city, read an interesting paper before Bethel Literary Society last week, deploring the apparent tendency of young colored men to abandon the industrial trades of their fathers and rush into the professions. Dr. C. thinks, and he 1 is doubtless correct, that many a good caterer, carpenter, blacksmith, barber, farmer, shoemaker, etc., has been spoiled to make a poor lawyer or doctor. It is understood here that the Mormons propose to fight fire with fire by exposing the private polygamous proclivities of all members of Congress who join in the fight against them. If the Saints adopt this line of action they can doubtless make it quite lively for scandal-mongers, bu; whether they can place any of our suprosed-to-be-virtuous and monogamous sobns hors du combat, remains to be seen. E. R. B. TABLE OSSlf. The aesthetics now speak of hash as "a mosaic," A Washington correspondent says that Senator Hoar's recent dinner to Justice Gray cost $1,000. There were thirty persons pres ent. A New Yorker who ias traveled all over Turkey says no Turk ever cares two cents for his wife until he 3nds that some other man cares three. A hotel on the European plan has Asiatic laundrymen, African vaiters. and a North American clerk with a South American diamond in his shirt front. Silver dollars with holes in them are painfully numerous, but they are not hilf so painfully numerous ts holes without any silver dollars around item. During the moiths of August, September, October, November and December of last year nearly 1,60t cocverts to Mormonism have been made h England alone. Stories first heaid at a mother's knee are never forgotten, t is the same with some other things received at a mother's knee, which will readilj occur to our readers. "Oh, Henry," remarked an Oil City woman to her husbaid, "do you think there is any danger of smillpcx?" "Tnere certainly is," replied he, "the disease is spreading." "You don't tell." "Tes, a victim of tne dread contagion died in Bradford, yesterday." "Well, if it's gtting that near home I guess you'd better get vaccinated. I'm afraid I'll have it" "How could my getting vaccinated preveit you from catchin t it? ' "Why, man and wife are one, and I think it would only be a wa3te of money for us both to get vaccinated." The husband then started for a bucket of coal, remarking something about being smart. Oil City Darrick. Tewfik. the young riler of Egypt, is par ticularly fond of poets and theologians, and keeps his Court full of them. He is weak, timid and pious, and inclined to religious mysticism. Dr. Ridpath's History of the United States is out inja new revision. It comes up to the present time and takes in Garfield's Administration up to the time of his death and Arthur's Administration. "There!" triumphantly exclaimed a Deadwood editor, as a bullet came through the window and shattered the inkstand. "I knew that new 'Personal' column would be a success." San Francisco Post An Oil City man purchased a small handbellows, took it home, and told his wife he had concluded to blow his brains out, whereupon she replied that a smaller-sized bellows would have answered the purpose. England, alarmed lest foreign Nations should learn the secrets of her naval superiority, is said to have issued orders for the exclusion of all foreign visitors from England's dockyards, unless provided with special letters of credit 8he had caught him coming out of a samEle room, and as he wiped his mustache he oped she was not offended. "Oh, no," she replied, "not at all, excepting that in that room is a bar a bar to matrimony, Henry." They now meet as strangers. Of late years attention has been generally drawn to the rapid increase of suicide among the officers and soldiers of European armies. This mania is especially prevalent in Germany. It is said that disordered finances causes a large proportion of them. The Bank of England is the largest building of the kind in the world. It covers five acres of ground. The walls are very thick, and have no windows on the outside, light being obtained from inside open courts. Nine hundred clerks are employed. It is said that the Rocky Mountain mule is a perpetual study, that no animal in the world possesses so much individuality and will develop in a given time so many distinct phases of character. We presume his kick is as fatal as that of bis Southern relative. The Philadelphia Board of Trusts hw appropriated $6,000 from the Girard fund to test the project for a mechanical college in connection with the College. The boys will not be taught any particular trade, but in structed in the use of all ordinary tools. Doraoe Greeley aa a Printer Boy. (BurUngton llawkeye. I Here in Poultney the New York Tribune was founded. Here its founder washed the forms, and carried water, and built the fires, and didn't sweep out the news room, and didn't carry out the ashes, and forgot what he was sent after, and let the paste sour, and lost the letters he was given to mail, and upset the lye, and tried the usual experiments with the fancy, job type and the flnett colored inks in the way of fearful and wonderful visitiiig cards, in all ways conducted himself even as the devil always does abou a print shop. Here Greeley passed some years of his boyhood. I wander about the village thinking about the good old man, and trying to think of the young frinter, dusting out his case with a pair of eaky bellows, or "soldiering" for a big pick up that was next to the last fat thing on the hook, Just under a long take of solid nonpareil.

CAUSES OF SUICIDE.

Resume of the Curious Cases of Sul i clde Recorded in 1 881. Ie, Money, Despair or Disease at the Bot1 torn of Nearly All of Them. Toronto älaii.J glance at the files duriug the past year diioses many curious cases of suicide worth noting here from the peculiarities of mode onotivc. Dr. McCreery, of Louisville, kill himself because he believed that hii newlv acquired anpetite for liquor waincurable; John McPherson, of Toledo, bewse he had promised his wife on hedeath-bed not to drink again, and after a tlee days' struggle he found that he must bret his vow or die; Rev. Jacob Mulford, of reenville, N. J., because after reformingand laboring successfully for some mo;hs as a temperance advocate he fell intiemptation and lost his Church. Pro fess Louis Walker, a pyrotechnist of St Lots, put a nitro-glycerine cartridge on his brett and blew himself to pieces because he feail the shooting of President Garfield wotd spoil the Fourth of July business; Job E. Jost, of tbe same city, read an accout of a suicide, laid down the paper, dre his pistol and shot himself. A Philadelhian, on being slapped in the face by his wife, turned white with rage, ana aft standing a moment irresolute, walked intithe next room, took down his shotgun, anc killed himself. At Stepney, London, Enjand, a girl drowned herself because her gradmo'her would not let her wear her nei clothes, and at the funeral the Spartan anestress was mobbed and almost kilhi. At Manchester a boy af thiieen hanged himself from remorse at ilaying truant, and at Newt ort, Fertnand Pitcher, aged ten. went and did likerise when toli to set the table for tea. Witam S. Pimer, of Willimantic Conn., comuitted suicide on his wedding day from ctiagin at not receiving a promised re m itayan lawyer of Miorehekd" Ky . eloped r.lii; r- ii... k.-.IJ k. I tan C to defray his expenses. Bruce cooper wittMollie De llart,a girl of thirteen, whose parots had forbidden her to marry him. and after going a few miles advised her o return home, and shot himself. Williarx Bennett, of Denton, Ala., was threatene with being disinherited in case marrieda servant girl with whom he was in lovr, she refused him, and he killed himself At Newark, O., a rejected suitor made a thai appeal to his obdurate sweetheart as thy were driving together, .and when she dedared she never would consent to marry hin, took the check rein from the horse.went inn the woods and hanged himself. At Dälas, Texas, Mrs. C. T. Burke, of Little Reck, having followed and overtaken her elping husband, put her two little children tosleep and poisoned hersell witn lauaaiura. At Louisville, Mrs. Jennie Dorsey, Khen her husband, after sixweeks of happiness, took to drinking and gambling and left her with a board bill of $25 unpaid, poisoned herself, and died just a few minutes before a letter came protesting ha love in earnest terms, and announcing that he was coming to take her away to a new home. At Melun, in France, Jules Roy and Clemence Wagner tied themselves tightly together and dropped into the river, leaving a request to the girl's father that they might be buried in the same grave. A young lady in South Carolina hanged herself because her father was defeated for the Legislature. At Schoolcraft, Mich., Dr. Barnum, who had lone been suffering from a painful disease, laid himself on his dissecting table and shot himself through the heart David Crimrains, of Toronto, jumped over Niagara Falls, leaving a letter declaring that he had been forced to the act by his wife and tbe priests. Dr. Ü. T. B. Read, surgeon on the bark Veronici, drowned himself at sea near Maderia while his brain was unsettled from the effects of an overdose of bromide taken to relieve seasickness. At Buntingford, England, a servant girl of seventeen, named Miles, having been wrongfully accused of taking some articles belonging to her mistress, jumped dowu a well 120 feet deep. A female "Perfectionist" at Dallas,,Tex., having failed in running herself to death, in the belief that would be "running the race to tbe end" and making sure of Heaven, threw herself into the river. Hobenmoisen, in Prussia, a police official, drove a three-inch nail into his head with a curtain rod. Hugh Brandt, of Cohoes, having been unable to obtain work, tied a fifty-pound reck around hts neck, filled his pockets with stones, and drowned himself in three feet of water. A negro named McJennings, at Indian Creek, a., ran head foremost upon a circular saw in full operation, and had hi3 bead split through instantly. A woman at Milwaukee destroyed herself by holding her face in a basin of water, and a maa at Constantine, Mich., put his head in to a bag with a number of stones, tied the mouth of the tack closely round his neck, and jumped into a pond. At San Saber, Tex., L. B. Chapman, fearing a relapse of the mumps, shot himself four times. At Greenville, 8. C, W. R. Mims, a prisoner in the Jail, choked himself by thrusting his felt hat down his throat At Dansville, N. Y., Mrs. J. S. Boyd went Into the cellar of her dwelling, striDped herself, poured a pitcher of kereosene over herself and set fire to the oil. Captain Fritz, of San Francisco, banged himself with his feetsbackled and his wrists handcuffed, but his wife explained that she had frequentlp fastened him in this manner at his own request when be felt himself un able to resist the temptation to go out and spend the nirht with political worxers. lie fore shooting herself Josie La n el et, of St Louis, put ön an elaborately embroidered wrapper, arranged her hair becomingly, and seated herself in a graceful position on the lounge. Before hanging himsel Leonidas Robertson, of Madison. Ind.. put on his wife's clothes and sun-bonnett. George Wieeins. of Port Washincton. L. I., loaded both barrels of his gun, fastened it to a fence, tied strings to the triggers and walked backward until he was about ten yards away, when with a sham pull he brought both charges into, his head and body, riddling himself from the waist upward. M. Anderwert President of the Swiss Confederation, shot himself on the public promenade at Geneva on Christmas day, 1880. General Ucbatius the Austrian inventor of the "Uchatius gun metal," being nettled at the failure of one of his guns, blew out his brains. A Hindoo Driest at Ahmedabad, who for twelve years had made a practice of praving two hours daily at noon, gazing in tently at the sun all the while, paid on his debts, composed and sang a hymn of praise, and then ascended a pyre of his own building, and Betting fire to it burned himself to death. William Newkim. a Chinese theological student at Marietta. 0, poisoned himself with chloroform through being worried over bis love affairs Michael Mclntyre, of Hoboken, having eloped from his wife and eight children, sent her a letter dated at Buffalo, and announcing his intention of killing himself on the Slat of September, but it failed of its effect, as she noted that it had been mailed at New York, and reflected that there was no 31st of September. At Fishkill Landing Mr. Saunders' old horse drowned himself in the Hudson in shallow water, after having been once brought in when he attempted to swim out into the river with manifest suicidal intentions. , A DESTRUCTIVE FI EE. Newspaper Bow, New York, Partially Burned Many Lives Lost Damage, SI.000,000. New York, Jan. 31, 10 a. m. The New York Times building is burning. The flames are raging fiercely, and there is no doubt that the building will be a total loss. 10:15 a. m. The fire reported as breaking out in the Times office originated in the building formerly occupied by the New York World, in the block with the Times building, but senarated from it by intervening buildings. Streuous efforts are making to save the Times, but the fire is spreading rapidly and it is feared it can not be controlled short of the corner, where the Times office Is located. There is an unconfirmed rumor of the loss of several lives. Ambulances are on the spot There is a slight 5T-ow falling, but tbe air is dry and crisp, with alight breeze from the north, which increases the difficulty of controlling the fire. The block in which the fire is burning is an irregular-shaped gore, with the building formerly occupied by the World ca the loatbeut comer, and Times

building occupying the entire northern angle of the gore. The Tribune office is diagonally across Nassau street from the Times building, and the Sun office is on the uppf corner of the same block with the Tribune. The fire has been burning fiercely for an hour, taking hold in the top of the building and sending up large masses of flames. lrenaes Prime sends the following note to the Associated Press: Tbe New York Observer has been burned out, and this week's issue will be delayed. The Observer office was at No. 37 Park Row, in the old World building. There was a large number of offices, stores and advertising agencies in that and adjoining houses. In one of these offices there were a number

of women employed, and it is reliablvasis reliably asBe4 m;u niok uwe wyuiau i w '"f i J .v . .II 1,1 I buv a wi v v a tbiuiii a cva v nu o v and was killed. There are rumors of other women being burned in the offices, hut these can not yet be verified. The pecuniary loss will be very heavy both on buildings and stock in stores, including wholesale supplies of rubber, machinery, etc. At 11 o'clock the southern end of the gore is a mass of ruins, but it is now thought that the Times office will be saved, though the danger Is not entirely over. The Times building is saved, but is con siderably damaged. The flames are confined to the Beekman street and Park Row corner of the block. Only one life is 'lost, that of the woman already referred to. FOUR LIVES LOST. 12:05 p. m. It is stated that four bodies were recovered in Nassau street of persons killed bv jumping from windows. It is feared that the list will be heavier than at first believed. The building was crowded with employes, and a very few could haye escaped by the stairways. An old gray haired woman was seen in the fourth-story of the World building, appealing for help. Her lips were seen to move, but her voice could not be heard. All who saw her were horror-stricken. The flames rased about her person, ienitine her hair and clothing. She fell back into the flames, and was no doubt burned to death. A voune eirl. wearing a J"- Wh. aÄgrf tern, the ...irj, ran to a fourth story window, l on Park Row. and stood hesitatingly while the flames and smoke encircled her. "Jump! lump!" shouted the spectators. Castine a friehtened look below, she threw herself out and fell on the stone pavement. When picked up life was extinct her head beine crushed bevond recognition. A few minutes later a" neero woman appeared at a third-story window of the World office on the Park Row side and also jumped to the sidewalk. She was badly injumed and was taken to the Chambers Street Hospital. Several men and women saved themselves bv leaping from windows in Nassau street When the woman who was killed jumped from the window there were two men HANGING FROM WINDOW BILLS BY THEIR HNGER END8. The ladders were too short to reach them, and they were saved by firemen mounting on one another's shoulders, ai.d the men let themselves down with their aid. The scenes at the time when the occupants of the upper floors were making their escape were often exciting and touching. Men could be seen holding the hands of women, evidently encouraging them to calmness. Three women ran on a roof and fell through the sky-light of one of the northern buildings, receiving serious injuries. A boot-black, on the corner of Beekman street and Park Row, seeing some men entangled in the telegraph wires adjoining the burning premises, climbed the pole and cut the wires, releasing them from their critical condition. Several people descended from the burning building on the Nassau street side by reaching telegraph poles. One boy leaped from the fifth story, and would doubtless have been killed but for he wires breaking his fall. He was hurt, but not dangerously. An express wagon, with a heavy canvass covering, drew up under tbe windows, and several men who were about to leap to the ground were told by the driver to jump on the wagon, which they did and escaped any serious hurt One young woman stood upon a window sill of the fourth story until the firemen arranged a large piece of canvass, which they held at the ends and sides. When all was ready she threw her hands straight over her head and jumped. She fell upon the outstretched canvass and escaped injury. AN OCCUPANT'S STATEMENT. The following state nent regarding the origin of the fire is made by one of the occupants of the building: "I was passing down near the corner of the Nassau street stairs of 37 Park Row, and when near the foot of the stairs the flames burst up through the new elevator shaft from the basement Nothing had occurred indicating an explosion up to that moment. The flames rushed up the shafs like a flash of lightning, and almost as quickly up the stairways In terrible torrents of fire, with a dense black smoke, which almost instantly cut off all possibility of egress. Passing back through the building and calling the alarm, I came out on the Park Row side. The engine room adjoins the bottom of the elevator shaft. The fire must have begun there and gained its impe tus before any alarm was given. I fear that the rapidity with which the flames and smoke filled the various stairways cut on' escape for many occupants of the upper stones." An old gentleman with white hair got out of a fourth-story window on tbe Beekman street side. He stood on the sill for fully five minutes, holding on to the narrow top piece with bis bands, lhe flames were ap proachmg him, but he saw no chance of es cape. The firemen raised a ladder, but it only reached to the story below him. A crowd in the street got a tarpaulin, and a score of willing hands braved the danger of falling debris and cinders, and a shout went up, plainly heard by the old gentleman, to jump. "Jump for your life; we'll save you. ' But he looked at the sixty feet dis tance below him and could not muster up courage enough to make the at tempt He turned forward, facing the street, and with his hands behind STOOD LIKE A STATUE, BRAVING DEATH. Meanwhile two brave men got a short ladder, went up the long fire ladder, held it up to him and steadied while he slowly climbed down. Just as be reached the long ladder the flames burst through the window where he had stood, but be reached the sidewalk in safety amid the cheers of the crowd. A man who gained the roof and escaped by the way of the Times, shouted to his rescuers that other human beings were perishing. Three men appeared in a fourth-story window imploring aid with outstretched arms. None was possible from without but a quick-witted negro, a bootblack in Park Row, named Charles Wright climbed a large telegraph pole in front of the Evening Mail office, and cut the wires, enabling the men to slide down them and escape. EXPECTED THE TIRE. Carles White, of the Pacific Newspaper Publishing Company, had an office on the flourth floor of the burned building. He said: "You can see I have been pretty close to the llames, as my he'r, beard and eyebrows are singed; but I only found that out after my escape from the building. Tbe fire was not altogether a surprise to me. In fact, an hour or two before it broke out I spoke to the workman engaged in the building, and told them something of the sort was about to happen. There was something wrong with the heating apparatus, I fancy, although I can't say just what it was. At all events, the walls about the closets were so hot that there was evidently danger of some kind. I put my hand upon them and immediately directed the workingmen's attention to the fact They were getting hotter and hotter. We are going to have a fire here,' said I. But they treated tbe matter very lightly, merely saying that it was all right they could fix it When the flames did break out raged with extraordinary fury. They leaped from the bottom to the top of the building like a flash, and rolled upward in great sheets." ANOTHER 8TATEMENT. Another occupant said : "I was in the of fice this morning, when 1 smelled smoke. I went out into the hallway and saw a heavy volume of smoke coming up the hoistway. I went back into the office and said to two men whet were in the office, 'The building is on fire, and you had better get out just as quick as you can,' and grabbed my hat and overcoat and ran out into the hall, and then the flames were rushing up the elevator shaft and also up the well hole in the center ot the building. I ran down the stairway on the Park Row lidt of tht building, for the

flames were all about the stairs on the Nassau street side, and it was impossible to escape in that way. Iam certain I was the

last man down stairs, for I as I reached the doorway and stairs, and the whole interior turned about looked up tbe of the buildTbe twomeu ing was apparently in names. whom I left in the orhce were named Stell and Brown, and I have not seen either of them or heard from them since I escaped from the building, and I am almost certain tney perished, for I had to hold my breath as I ran through the flames as I came out of the door of my office. I heard screams and cries of terror on the upper floors as I ran along the hallway, and fully believe ten or a dozen women and girls were caugnt on the fourth floor and unable to escape. 1 neter Bam cru Mr.roai an nmWitr Th.r vr m robabl v 400 or 500 DeoDle in the buildlne when "ivu.v..j. -r .r r - the lire broke out.' A BRAVE ACT. - Three men appeared in a window sill, but while a ladder was beintr put in position, one of the men dropped, in the hope of catching it, and missing bis aim fell to the street his head striking a cuibstone. ' He was fatally injured. With the aid of a desk and a score of stalwart arms,' the ladder was' placed directly under the feet of one man. lie was a young man and nearer the flames than the others, but with a display of bravery that called forth tbe cheers of hundreds who saw the act He stretched out his hand to the older man and helped him to descend first As the older man reached the sidewalk his appearance was greeted with cheers. His name Is A. M. Stewart, editor and proprietor or tne fecot-tish-Amencan Journal. The ladder was shifted and the hero of the fire descended. His name is Edward Moore, compositor on the Scottish-American Journal. The fire burned through into tbe Times building, but did not damage the editorial rooms. Toe composing room was Hooded with water, and two large holes were made in the walls and ceilings by firemen. Some of the offices on the south of the Times' editorial ro mis, on the floors above and below, were damaged by suarks and water. The walls of the Postoffice were so hot that 0ffl7oiV ParV dVV7 clod nd th heavv iron shutters fastened. and the heavy iron shutters fastened. Among the persons reported missing and who it is supposed lost their lives, are: A. J. Todd, patent lawyer, and his clerk, James H. Hunter. NARROW ESCAPES. The stories of the narrow escapes from destruction are related to-night A girl stepped from a window in Beekman street at the call of a fireman, but was unable to reach him, when he held out his hand on which she stepped and was safely lowered. A man venturing too far into the theater alley was overcome by smoke, but was dragged into a place of safety. The . were several instances of firemen being tempo-, rarily overcome by smoke, but all recovered. The Turf, Field and Farm that occupied a portion of the burned building had the tinest sporting library in the country, some of tbe books being very valuable. The library was the p -operty of Colonel A. B. Bruce and Iei-lie Bruce. Tbe manuscript tor the year's stud book was destroyed. The loss to the concern is put at $50,000 The loss of the firm of S. M. Pettingiii & Co., advertising agents, is estimated at $15,000. Among the occupants not heretofore enumerated are Jacob J. Stoner, patent solicitor; Tibbals, school books; Burke, Frazer and Connett, patent solicitors. The Army and Navy Journal, like the Worla moved away not long ago. The loss of life, in the light of the information furnished the police, promises to be much less than feared. It is not thought that more than five or six perished, and some of the firemen who were at the fire from the start reduce even this figure to four. It has been ascertained that the fifth or top floor was untenanted; Its only occupants, besides the janitor, were a half dozen plumbers and carpenters who were fixing tbe rooms heretofore occupied by the World into quarters. The workmen got out Fafely. and the janitor, getting bewildered, stumbled and rvdled down stairs, which circumstance doubtless saved bis. life. At 11 to-night the engines were still playing on the ruins, which burned brightly despite the firemen's efforts. The sides of the buildingon Beekman and Nas-au streets ha v been demolished, completely obstructing both streets. The front of tbe old Evenine Mail building was reached and blackened, and did not contain a sound pane of glass. The front piece of the Morse building was also badly damaged by falling walls. The flames will hardly be extinguished until morning, and it will be late in the afternoon before the ruins will be sufficiently cooled to allow a search for the missing. The damages to the Times establishment will not exceed $1,009 or $2,000. The building was saved' and the spread of the fire arrested by the fire proof structure of walls, the one on the south, next to the fire being four feet thick and twelve feet higher than that of the burned building. When it seemed impossible to save the Times from serious damages, offers of hospitality and aid in getting out papers were sent from several neighboring establishments. RAILROAD TIME TABLE. Oa aid after Sssdaj, Dee. 1, 1SSU IndlanpnlU A St. Loata. Depart 1 Arrive. Day Express re- 7:25 am N. Y. Ex 4:15 am Load Express ... 7:00 pm'ludianapTs Ac-11 :00 am N. Y. Ex....,. ,11:10 pm'Day Express 7:00 pm Indiana, Blooming ton A Weaicra. Depart.! Arrive. Pacific Ex. 7:45 am East &. 8. Ex 4:10 am B.4R.I. Ex 11 :00 pm Cinclnnati Speal0:30 am Crawford'vle Ac 3:50 pm K. & T. F. Line- 1:15 pm Atlantic Ex.iM. 5:40 pm PI t tabu r ft-, Cincinnati A St. Lamia. (PAN HANDLE AND PENI'SYLVAMA LIN a) Depart. Arrive. New York. Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburg & Columbus Express. . 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