Indianapolis Leader, Volume 3, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1882 — Page 1

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THE NEW YORK STORE UNLAUNDRIED SHIRTS. CO Dosen at .60, worth .65 65, Dosen at .75, worth .90 100 Dosen at -.88, worth $1.00 : 40 'Dosen at $1.00, worth 1.25 CUea 14 to 7i GOOD MUSLIN, FINE LINEN, WELL MADE, All Goods Marked In Plain Figure. Pottis, Ivors & Co. II1DI1I1AP0LIS LEADER. CORRESPONDENCE. lOorrMpeadaata will pUM mak their ooniniunleCloa M briaf and coociM at poMibla. Owia to oar UalMdapseo, r frqH0Bttjr compelled to Ieav at aiBtUr that wtvoL4 like to publish, but cbd jC tt vBt of spao. All lott oauide of In Maaapoll tboM rasch m Tharaday. All commaJoUaa' writUo both aid of the paper will be rafaaad.J - HprlnffÜeld Ohio. Jalbw Sadie MUlar Is still in very bad health. Tb bird, Mr. atlrd thin, will fly In by and i . .C.Jaejsoa haajort gotln asupply of new ÄUfeea. ; Iaam Blf&e will soon start a grocery on his lot, 196 Short WlnUr street. The "crap" game has caused quite a remorseful' feeling la aomeof our young men of Spring Heid. In calling on Mr. Geo. Leach, at his office, we found him very Jolly; but we will not tell the Joke, George. The dashing youna lady Miaa Boyd, of Urban., vUl ted our city lat week in company with her aunt. Mrs. Thomas Watt received a ceremonial present from one of her friends, in the form of a set of all ver spoons. Thsj Rev. Mr. Moorland will again take charge of the center of the Center St. Church, as there is no change made by conference. L. Bird will Boon open a boarding house on Winter St. He says he believes he can make It a aueeeas if he can get a good housekeeper. C. W,we learn by the way of a gentle breeze from the south west, that Mim L. M., of Indianapolis, will soon be lead to the altar by a young man from the Paris of America. There is much complaint about the city lamps not being lighted until eight o'clock. Many accidents happen by people falling into ditches, a the nights are very dark. We believe that Mrs. Peels can oe congratulated by knowing that one of her Hunday achool pupils, Hamilton by name, has great inclination to the ministry. We pray for his ucceas. . A club has been organized In th I city, known as Jhm Champion City Union Club, to look after tha interests of the colored voters. The offl- . eera are: President, Mr. Jewett; sec'y, Sam Huffman; vice-Prest, Sam Harris; D. A. Rudd, treäa. executive com., Rudd, Harris and Eslick. W. Boh jvers has opened a store on East Pleasant street, a few doors east of York, where he 1 now doing an immense business. He keeps everything in the line of general groceries. We hope'Mr. hchlvars will soon have a trade equal to his opponents who have been some time established. Success to him. -We heard one of our venerable citizens say Uaf 'evening, that a certain young man would not stay away from his place of busings and that he kad tried to insult him. If you want Aim to stay away, give him one of your dangh ' ten; then you can get rid of him, because he will' not have the time to loaf, but will have to fo'to work for a living. '. EläerGaxzaway haa had added to his church ctu'rlaaj the revival, 105, and he is not yet tired working It would be a blessing if some other enure h had auch a ml n later, tlder uazzaway tooor knowledge, has done more than any otber pastor that has ever had charge of the church.- What we wish is that the conference will notehange him. '.The property holders, outside of the city limits, ask that the motion for the extension of the elty llmit be defeated for several reasona.' . Soma are, that a great deal of the terri tory which they desire to incorporate, is now undr cultivation, and such tax as will be im posed upon it cannot be paid by the product raised upon It. Last Thursday evening E. B. Jackson and family were called from home to Xenia to at tend the funeral of Mrs. Williams, a sister of .Cr. Jackson. Mrs. Williams, formerly of In dlan spoils, feeling confident that she could not live many years longer, and desiring todie near her people, moved to Xenia, where reaided her mother and sister. Her suffering has been Intense; for two years she has slept on her knees, but from her pain she was relieved by .death. : It came with its gentle embrace, and kindly the angels visited her, and with them her spirit took Its flight to that Celestial city beyond the etheiial blue. Mrs. Williams leaves an adopted son, who had the remains placed In the vault. Her funeral services were eon ducted by the lie v. Mr. Coleman. Elb, Cincinnati Ohio. Mia 'By Ua Berry man will please Send her addreas'to Allen Temple, and oblige a friend. ' Little Miss Pauline Goggins has returned ' t w wua ner mamma irom iuisiana. Mr. Chas. Moore formerly of the Hjrvrs Sisters combination is now in Detroit Mich. Owing to the gushing acknowledgements, which the hosts of ucadeb patrons give to its merits by their readiness to welcome it to their homes, hearts, we humbly return thanks and promise unwaveringly that we shall spare jao pains so xaras our department is concern

ed to make it worthy of heir future patronage, 'i The colored voters of west Walnut Hills have a fair share of the city government's patronage. ' ; Mr. Peter Fisher is a No. 1 banjoist. Mr. Ben. Quills proposes to enter upon a business life in the 6pring. A number of our young school Misses have professed religion, and many long standing feuds are being amicably adjusted. Mr. Ben j. Hickman Jr. left this week for Oberlin. Mr. Harry Griffin, sunt, of Allen Temple

Sunday School, was formerly a student in U llberforce University. Mrs. Elsie Liverpool the accouaplehed wife of the late Joshua Liverpool, will soon return to her patrrnal roof in Wheeling West irginia. When will the "Mascot" wed? well I don't know but they say soon. u The Baptist buuday bchool convention, convened in the early part of thUweek in the Rev. Darnell's church. Waluut Hills. The exercises were of the highest order, and richly reflected upon the good these conventions are accomplishing. ' Mr. rrank Abney is one of our most pro gressive young business men. Messers Wm. Copcland, Wm. Taylor, Thos True, Willis Jones, George Cumley, Jack Robinson and Archie Allen are among the foremost of the workingmen politicians. Mrs. Tibitha Short, the oldest centenarian in the city and until a few weeks since in full possession of all her powers, U at present an invalid. Mr. Chas. Watkins a much traveled gentle man, will be one of Uncle John Robinsons train managers for the coming season. Mr. Green C Turner, a genial gentleman of Evansville lud. was in the city last week. Miss Einnia Kirk, of Milford 0. will visit friends in the city next week. Another soul made happy. , Mr. Jas Bush and sisters, Misses Alice and Belle Bush have almost recovered from their recent attack of smallpox. Among the many distinguished visitors in the city, Rev. Allen Allensworth, is prominent. He" displayed his wonderful theological wisdom in the fine pulpit orator he delivered last Sunday evening in the Union Baptist Church. Alexander Davis recently received the sad intelligence of the severe illness of his uncle Charles Davis, a Well-to-do gentleman of V ashington, D. C. ' . Fred D. Smith was in the city last week. George C. Bowles, who has beta suffering from a very sore eye, has almost reco? ered the use of the afflicted organ. Horace McGee has entered the business world for himself. The charming Mis3 Olivia L. Jones ioaves for Indianapolis Monday next. The eminent lecturer, Theodore Tiltcn, is a true gentleman and richly jleserv1 very plaudit he receives at the hands of the masses. Rev. C. Boone, of Zion Baptist Church, is a resident of Boston, Mass. . ' ' We are modest, very modest and will be nothing save "Rush" to the clever "El b.Mbut we are very happy to inform him that "Rush" loves success, uncumbered and un"HackMed, Mr. Wm. Reynolds, of the Board of Edu cation is a candidate for director of the City Inhrmarv. Mr. Reynolds is a gentleman well known for his generous heartedne?s, in bestowing his influence where it can work for the good of his colored constituency. It is a fact that the Methodist Book Con cern is a huge establishment, into which the colored race is yearly pouring vast snms of money, and it Is likewise a tact that this giant concern, giving employment as it does to hundreds, has but one sole representative of the colored. race among all its employes' and he is placed in the lowest poosition, a coal heaver. An advertisement appeared in one of the morning papers calling for fifteen youths to inquire at the aforesaid establish ment for employment. Amongst the ones answering to this call were two colored lads and these were informed that white boys were wanted. Now this is a 1 galling shame' that this "concern a representative of the largest body of christians in the Na tion, a representative of a creed whose foremost law is 'Mo unto all men as you would have them do unto you," it is a shame that an institution of this character should be among the number that glories in turning a deaf ear to the cries of the black man for his rights. A Rothschild Baby. Oliver Logan's London Letter. I suppose the accouchment of the Count ess of Kosebery was a matter sufficiently important to be reported by cable. A jon and heir! Lucky little pink rascal, lying there all unconscious in his lace-trimmed crib, - it! 1 i A t tt craving uuuiing dui irequeni lmoioings oi the fluid lacteal, how little he is aware of the fact that he is Lord something or other, his father's son; though that is a small matter compared to the other circumstances, namely, that he is bis mothers bairn, and as such a Knight of the Red Shield, and that not a ship floats the ocean, nor a crop of grain 'is sent to merket in all the wide. wide world, but that in some way, sooner or later, part of his profits will accrue to - the money-mill of his ancestors in St. Ö wit hind's Lane. Yet as fine an inheritance as he derives from his pecunious mamma, without which all the rest would be deprived of its savor, is (or so I should fancy) a splendid physical constitution. Miss Hannah de Rotnscbild was a noble example of robust girlhood, and her children should be by rights of such vigor as to form a living proof of the falsity of Dr. Richardson's assertion that the world of civilization contains no entirely healthy baby. The residence with in whose walls the young heir has entered a world which he will find all padded at the aneles for him is Lansdowne house, in Berkeley square, which the Earl of Roaebery has rented for a period of years from the Marquis ot Lansdowne. It is one oi those large ancestral houses of which a few yet re main unharmed in London, amid the mania lor improvement nd rent collection. Rogers used to tell with great glee and eclat of a duel which a Frenchman and an Englishman had in a darkened room. When he was dining in London he always said that the Englishman, unwilling to take his antagonist' sTife, magnanimously fired up the cnimney, and, to his great surprise, killed the frenchman. When he was dining in Paris, however, he always said that the magnanimous frenchman fired up the calm ney ana killed the Englishman, in this way be made everybody happy and helped to allay those bitter National animosities which all but Americana are apt to enter tain. - ; A widower who had added unto himself a second rib, which he afterward found could be denominated "a spare rib," was in the habit oi referring to rib No. 1 as perfection, wnicn was certainly exacerbatine to the last degree. One day he even went so far as to say that he was sorry that she had died. The spare rib at once replied: "Believe me, my aear. yon can not possibly regret per loss swi much as I do,"

THE FLOODS.

DELUGED DISTRICTS. News of Widespread Devastation EverywhereThe Rivers Rising and Sweeping Everything Before Them The Wird- ' storm. CiscixKATi, Feb. 21. The Ohio River is now higher than it has been sinca the great flood of 1847. At 11:30 it wa fifty-right feet and tlx inches, and rising half an inch an hour. High wind? prevailed this morning, and colder weather, with 1'ght snow. This Hill check the rise, though not immediate! , 4 the river is rising rapidly ab;vt. The ftiiid has a most injurious e fleet on the railroad embankment in Mill Cieek Valley, as the waves tend to ruruble in thi bink. There aie serious fears that he track of t.V Cincinnati and Baltimore Road will be eriouhly injured. His already abandoned, owing to injury to the Gest stieet bndgp. All freight business is practically suspended. The Cincinnati Southern and the Cincinnati Northern are the only roads whose trai ks are free from water. The obstruction of other tracks and the rloodit.g of aide tracks of the Cincinnati Southern restricts business to the running of passenger trains. -The wind this morning blew down much telegraph line, and the business of the telegraph office was consequently in great confusion. Business is much retarded. The most serious loss this morning is the breaking away of eighteen barges of coal from Collier, Budd fc Co. There being no steamers ready to ursue them, tbe chances are that they will be los 1 All coal yard are submerged and obliged to suspend business. Great inconvenience is caused by the Hooding of the first floors of streets along the river front where yesterday only cellar were iiiuxt lated. At 6 o'clock to-night the river commenced falling slowly after havinjr s.tod four houis at ÖH feet, HH inches. At 10 o'clock it had fallen an inch and was supitoed to be receding half an inch hour. Men with all forces of labor can command are busy moving property from cellars and first floors to dry places. The individual losses from direct damage will be small, but the aggregate will be great. At midnight to-night the river was nfty-eiht feet three and one-half inches, and was fallng half an inch per hour. THK SXTS5T OF THE SLEET AND WIUD bTORil. Chicago Feb. 21. From the meager re ports and official telecraras to the teleirranh officials, it is learned - that the sleet ami wind-storm, which has finally subsided, extended all over Iowa, Missouri, Western and Southern 'Illinois, Southern Indiana, Ohio and-Canada. Further East than this the condition of affairs is not known. The Western Union have large gangs of men working In all directions, and gradually tbe wires are being repaired. Communication with all parts of the country will be doubtless restored befoie morning. .TRE STORM AT BOCK ISLAND. Rock l8LA$p, Feb. 21. The storm of sleet and snow had not abated this afternoon. Little damage Is yet reported. All railroads. except the C. B. andQ., are reported in good order. IN IU.1KOI8, Chicago, Feb. 2L The great storm has reached Chicago, and after rainin . steady yesterday and last night, the weather has grown much colder and snow has been falling since early this morning. Telegraphic communication in most all directions is se riously interferred with or entirely cut off. L private dispatch from Rock Island, 111., says the storm raged so violently there last night, that part of the great Government bridge there, a solid stone and iron structure, was blown down. Advices from Vandalia, 111, says O'Kaw River is out of its banks and the bottom land, comprising an area of some three or four miles square, is one vast sheet of water. An immense amount of live stock and lumber has been swept away. Tbe water is higher than at any t.me since 1875, and as it is still rising, it is greatly feared that some of the bridges . on toe auonai iuau wm oe swept away. At Carllnville, 111., it has rained for forty-eight hours. All trains have been abandoned, bridges and houses have been swept away, and great damage has been done to (arms situated in the low lands. ' SEVERE STORM. Dulcth, Minn., Feb. 21. A very severe and unusual .Storni for the season of the year prevailed here last night, ceasing at davlieht. Wind accompanied bv u dri vinir snow blew a gale from the north "northeast. The sea on Lake Superior ran high. All ice in tbe harbor was broken up. and shipping lying here for winter is now riding freely at anchor or along side the docks. The temporary suspension bridge over the canal was badly damaged arid left almost impassible. The wind and waves have formed a huge breakwater of ice of barges along the exposed shore. Con siderable snow has fallen during the day, and sleighing is now good. Prospects for lumbering are brightening. ' ST. LOUTS AND ELSEWHERE. St. Locis, Feb. 21. The weather turned very cold about 2 o'clock this morning, and the mercury sank several degrees below freezing point between that hour and day light, ine ground is frozen very hard this morning, and all still water had a coating of pretty thick ice. The river has risen over five feet since last evening, aud now marks twenty-seven and one-half feet by the gauge. a total rise since Sunday of about seventeen feet. Tbe rise now is much slower than yesteraay, ana the water will probably begin to fall again by to-morrow. Railroad travel is still very much interrupted. The only roads wuicn senium trams uns morning were me Ohio and Mississippi, Cairo Short Line, St. Ixui8 and Ban Francisco and the Vandalia. The latter nsed the O. and M. track to Odin, thence by the Illinois Central to its own road The. onlv train from Chicago this morning arrived over the Vandalia Road and the oaly Eastern train came in by the same line. incoming trains on all other roads are either abandoned or indefinitely delayed.' The Chicago and Alton, Chicago, Burlington and tuincy and the Indianapolis and St. Louis are stopped at Wood River, about twenty miles from hre, and ha.c washouts, bad bridges, or oversowed tracks at various other places. The Vandalia and Louisville and Nashville are flooded at Silver Creek and other places. The Wabash, Eastern Division, has trouble beyond Alton and the Western Division had bad land slides between here and the Missouri Kiver at St. Charles. On the Missouri Pacific there are several bad slides within fifty miles of the city and considerable track overflowed. The Keokuk aud St. Louis is also under water at several places. The Iron Mountain, beside the land-slide reported last night, has an extensive washout about sixteen miles below the city. The St. Louis and an Francisco has no serious damage. Trains have not been stopped. All roads are very busily employed repairing damages and the prospects are that all trains will be running regularly in a dav or two. The rise in the river here is said by the best steamboat men to be unprecedented. No such amount of water was ever known to come down so suddenly or in such a short space of time before. The rain-fall was also very unusual in quantity, amount to within 1.700 of an inch of as much as the average fall for the entire winter for the past eleven years. Telegraph lines west of nereare still prostrated. SIX CHILDREN DROWNED. LlTTLl Rock, Feb. 21. The Gazette's

Helena special says: "itewa reached here today of an accident on the plantation of the late Colonel Ellis, eleven miles below this city, by which six children were drowned. It seems that Charles Washington, colored, when he found the plantation would be overflowed last Friday, put his wife and six children into a dugout to take them to a place of safety. He had just started when the dugout capsized and all the children were drowned. Washington and wife were saved by clingiDg to the capsized boat The be heaved father was a bird-working man. Information has also just been received of the drowning of Moses Green, colored, on Villiard fe Coffin's plantation, on the Mississippi side, by the capsizing of a dugout." WIDESF&ZAD PIVAgtaTIOjr.. The Gazette's Helena special says: "The disaster caused by the break in the levee at Williamson's place greatly prevented communication with ihe outside world to a considerable extent. The iron Mountain Railroad track is submerged and the telegraph lines broken. The levee Las been temporarily rebuilt The onlv line of communication with Wt-st Helena is by means of skills and other sir all craft. The prospect is very gloomy, as the oil mill, foundry and other industrial establishments are closed. Many workmen and laborers are thrown out of employment. There can be little doubt great destitution will result among the working classes of this city, as. it will be at least two weeks ere the water falls sufficiently to permit tbe resumption of business. The water is still rising, and will continue to do so as long ' as the present stage prevails i:i the river. The Mississippi is about on a stand-still at this point, and will probably be rising within the next forty-eight hours. Captain Csrvilie, of the steamer Nick Jones, just in from Sunk Lands, reports the river falling in the neighborhood of Lester's Landing, Mo., but an immense volume of water pouring into St. Frauds River from tbe Mississippi by way of Tyronza and Little Rivers and Blackfiah and other bayous The outlook is not cheeringVr ri early subsidence of the flood at that place. The officers of every boat arriving at this port from aliove or below bring news of widespread devastation every? here. ' In the bottoms contiguous to the . Mississippi River 1,000 horses, mules and cattle have beeu drowned, miles of fencing : swept away, houses destroyed and corn-cribs floated off with their conunts, in many instances leaving the peo iie without tbe actual necessaries; what the end of this will be none can tell, but It is evident relief will be needed or many persons will die of starvation. Business is entirely at a standstill in this city. Merchants are de&iondent but are bearing it with courage. HEAVY SNOW FALL. Green Bay, Feb. 21. Snow has been falling here continually since 5 o'clock last evening. Reports from neighboring logging camps say there has been a heavy snowfall. The urojpect of a satisfactory logging harvest is greatly increased. . AT L0118VILLZ. Louisville, Feb. 21. Business is played out on the wharf to-day owing to the river being too high. The canal marks showed thirty-five feet and two inches, and rising at the rate of an inch an hour, with thirtythree feet in the chnte on the Falls and thirty feet and fotir inches over the rocks. LbcisviLLE,- Fen."!. At Fourth street the water is on the first floor of Gilmore, Hite & Co., one door below alley. This was just one door below Woolfolk, over whose floor the rise of 1867 came. Early in the day apprehensions began tobe felt that some of the buildings would give way and fall. F. J. Melcher is the ewner of the tnree-story double brick on the east side of the street. In one side he kept a grnery and in the other ball room. Water invading the first story in the . morning, he moved his goods up' s'alrs. - Shortly after this he noticed ' a " crack in , the middle wall, and at once removed his family. On returning the crack had widened to two or three inches, and in great alarm he hunted up Life -savers Devan, Tully and Gillooly and oflere'd them $300 if they would save his goos. They took a life-boat and bags, aud rowing out in' front of tbe

house, proceeded to get out goods through the second-story windows. There were four families living over the bar room part, and two over the grocery Melcber's and another. One large load was taken out including Melcber's piano and fine furniture, and taken to the shore and landed, and the heroes returned for a second load. Gillooly was in the third story. Tully in the eecond, and Devan down In tbe boat. Onlv a few thin its had been . landed when a. crash was beard, the middle wall fell, and the whole bouse, from the roof to the ground floor with all its contents, went down in the cellar. The workees had bare warning and Gillooly jumped from the third ' story and Tully from the second through the awning irame into me water oeiow. jueicners ana the other five families were without homes or-goods: and the life-savers had failed to earn their $300. From the foot of First street clear up to the cut-off ridge every building along the river front is under water, and many houses and coal offices have been washed away, and are drifting aimlessly around against coal brages and ooats. Tbe embankment of the Short Line Railroad has been washed away up to ;the ends of the cross ties, , and the destruction of the track is threatened every moment. calls roa re j. i t:r. Memphis, Feb. 21 A Helena VArs.j special says: "The day opened with a strong wind ' blowing from tue north, and many congratulated themselves the cold snap would have a tendency to check the velume of water from, tbe upper river, but their hopes were dashed to the ground on the receipt of dispatches announcing floods pouring down the Ohio and Missouri Rivers. The river here declined ui-e-balf inch, but further material decline is not looked for. The situation is one that calls relief from some quarter. Every day reports reach here of numerous cases of almoft actual want, among the people, Wh white and black in the submerged districts. Our citizens are becomlr g more reconciled to the ritoalion and rapidly adapting Ihciusclvcs to the inconveniences that urround them. AT KYAK8V1LLK. Evansville, Feb. 21. During the gale last night the harbor tug. Uncle Buck, was swamped, and sunk on the wharf at tbe foot of Mrun street. Two families were wrecked, and two men, two women and one child. were drowned. Choic Items Culled Fro an a Paper of the Last Centary. Philadelphia Times. If instead of the copy of the Times now before the eye the reader had received this morning a copy of. tbe Pennsylvania Gazette for May 21, 1747, he might have fancied for the moment that the earth had passed the night in whirling round the sun ou the b.ick t rack. There woulijl b before him not a a tight-page journal of generous breadth, but a little yellow paper, behind which the face hardly could be hidden. He would not read of Committee of One Hundred, bold bosses, scheming Stalwarts, sunflowers, sinners and such, but of European military events, in pickle tor three weeks, of quaint shipping incidents, runaway bound boys, ar.d things los, strayed or stolen. The Pennsylvania Gazette w-.s "Printed by B. Franklin, Tost Master, at the New Printing-Offloe, near the Market," and the issue of the date mentioned was "Numb. 962.' From an original

copy, now before the writer, it is seen t!iat the first and second pages were devoted to European news, with a few American items, and that the third and fourth pages weie set apart for the use of advertisers. WHAT THE PAPER PRESENTED. The first item, dated "Hague, March 17," tells of a melancholy inundation" when by Utrecht and Leydon suffered severely. Following is a bit of news from Liege, arou nd which Imperial troops were marching; j ist below is a Parma item about fifty pieces of cannon to be used in the si-ge of G n -a, and further down the column apiears i he intelligence that France had spent lsyOHX000 of livers in the cruel war with Engl a d. "An extract oi a Letter from a ver auh ntlck Perfon at Stockholm, dated Mar.-h 1 2" gives particulars to the effect that "'he Emprefsof Ruffia will, before the Eni of June, have about 400.000 Men on Fvku." Then, as if Roman type were equai to he proper telling of actual battle news, th re comes in italics the following paragraph : Genoa, March 4- Skirmifhing has witbia day or two begun again. Oneof the Auftrian deta hinent has attempted to furp rise, in a poft d ar Voltri, the independent company of BarbarotVa; but that company defended itfelf with so mi:ch bravery that the enemy were obliged to rerire with the lofs of several killedjand wouuded, thüir Commander being of the cumber of the latter. From London are accounts of many disasters to shipping at the hands of the enemy and of pirates as well, and on the second nage are found budgets from Boston a: id Xew York. In the Boston News is the following: "Bv a Letter from the Coaft of Guinea (dated the 14ih ol January iaft, by the Way of Bart adose), we have Advice thai ('apt. Baer. of Kbo:eIfland. being off Cape Cos It t'aftle with a Number of Slaves aud a confiderable Quantity of Gold Duft on board, tüe Negroe rofe upon the Crew, and kill'd the Mutter and all lue Men, except tbe two Mates, who jump'd over-boaid, aud by fwiinmlng saved their Lives." Before quitting the news for the advertisements Poor Richard tells his readeis the names of the vessels that had "Entered Inward" at the "Custom Houe," and immediately below is a list of the vessels that had "Entered Outward." BROGUE ON HIS TONGUE. The many editors of this day who so conduct their papers that the advertisements are more interesting than the news and m'scellany may be gratified to learn that the pioneer of journalism gave them an illustrious precedent in the matter. Whatever tbe Philadelphia reader of 1747 may have thought of it, the Philadelphia reader of 1831 finds the advertiments in the Gazette much more entertaining than the cou-e-ppondence. A fair specimen of the former ia appended: Philadelphia, May 21, 1717. K UN away about three weeks ago, from the fnow Bonetta-packet, Charles Leon, mafUr. a tailor, named William Crofs, an Infhman, and has a good deal of the brogue on his tongue, about 35 years uf age, about 5 foot and a half high, a well-fed fellow, and much pockfretteu: Had on when he went away, an old hat, a huuen cap, blue jacket, and a white flannel one under it, wowsers, good yarn ftocklngs, aud eld f hoes. Whoever takes up fald Crofs aud fecures him. fo as he may be bad again, fhll have Forty-fbllhngs reward, paid by Samuel Powell, janitor, N B. He had a month's pay from the owners of faid veffel, and Is fuppofed to be lurking about tonn, I NUTMEGS AND BATTLE PICTURES. Smith Si Jenes must have been among the leading mercantile houses then, for they required a half-column to tell of oznabrigs, 7eight garlix, hoi lands, cambricks. nutmegs, sets of flowers and butterflies, brass ink-pots, allora, snuffboxes, representations of the battle of-Culloden, frying pans and other articles ''too tedious to mention." that were "Just imported from London, in the ship Bolton, Edward Dowers, Commander, and to be sold for ready money, at their store on Ifrael Pemberton's Wharrf." Thomas Cadwallader gives notice that "all who have any demands ujoti the eftate of Martha Cadwallader are defired to bring in their accounts to Samuel Morris, tanner, at the lower end of Second street. In thoe days the reader learned of robberies from the advertising columns, as witness the following: Philadelphia, May 21, 1774. Whereas, on tbe 21ft day of April laft, forie perlon or perfon s enter.d the houfe of Timothy hearth, on the Northern Liberties of the city of Philadelphia, broke open his efcrutore. and f tele the following goods, viz.: A. gold necklace ai d locket, and a geld locket, and a pair of gold buttons, and fix filver teafoons. and two laige filver fpoons, a bed quilt, and fome bed linueu, a fet of fine hugabag napkins, and fuudry other - Things, to tbe value of 4 Pounds, or upwards. If the perfon in whofe poffeffion the above mentioned goods are, will return the fame to faid Timothy dearth in eight days from the date hereof, there fall be uo quel tions afed concerning the fame ; or If any perfon will inform faid Timothy Search where fald goods are, he fhall receive iFve Pounds reward, paid by TIMOTHY S JARTH. When the foreman of the Gazette office came to make up the paper for that isue, he found he had five lines left, and as if to fill out he bade good-bye as follows: Very good LAMP-BLACK made and fold by the Irinter hereof. BoflTenatein and tlie Women. 'Herman," raid Hoffenstein, as he noticed the gloomy look of his clerk, dere was someding de matter mit you, vas you sick?" "No, sir." Veil, vat vas it den?" MI don't like to say anyding about -t, Mister Hoffenstein, but 1 made a proposal to Rachel Goslineky de oder day, ven she dells me dat 1 can come around again v( n bisiness vas better. She vas now flying about mit a rich young vehudi whose feder vas in de dry goods bisiness in New Yoik State." Herman, my boy," said Hoflenstein, after he had listened attentively! "I know hov you feels; you feels as if you vould like" to go away off some vere und get beat mit a persimmon club for a gouplo uf days. . DA vas de vay all uf dem feels, und if I see a man in your fix, Herman, I pity nim; lied if I vaen't acquainted mit him I feels like reaching my sympathy out to him on de end ufa fishing-pole. I knew a man voccc, Herman, vot come to me und he says: "Hoffenstein, a vornan vas shust like a mule, de more you put your dependence in dorn de more you vill go up und twine vere de voodbine vas. You vill be left, my frend, und I vill doll you vy. I vent gourtin mit a girl fur nine years, and ven I dinks she vas going to be my vife, she goes and takes a feUow vat vasn't vert de powder vat blows him to tarnnation. It vas de same vay mit a mule vat 1 haf, ucd vat I blaces all my dependence in. I rode out dat mule, from de dime he vas a colt undil he vas so old dot his eyes vas veak, und he vas shust so gentle as a doe. Vat you dink, Herman, dat mule vorVed for fifteen years to get my confidence, und den vent back on me. Von day, vile I vas riding de mule along de road, he stopped vere dere vas a brier patch mit a

vatp nest in it. I hits him mit de spurs to make him go away, but he von't. Vat does he do? He vinks a gouple of times with his ears, kicks up his heel 3, und I find myse'1 in do brier patch mid de vasps all ofer me. Dat vas de way mit a woman, Herman, und you better had keep away. An. epitaph is a curious place in which to look for wit, but there are two epitaphs which, while they excite a smile, do not Interfere with more serious thoughts. When the actor Burbadge died, his friends pondered over a suitable, inscription, and at last happily hit upon this, which is simple enough and yet tells the whole story, "Exit Burbadge." When Charles Knight died Jerrold suggested that this equally simple Inscription should be put on his tomb,

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Meet in State CenTfntioi in This City, Adopt a Platform and. Nominate a State Ticket. The delegates to the State Greenbackers Convention arrived in large numbers during Tuesday night, and at 10:30 o'clock, when the Convention was Informally called to order by J. C. Campbell, of the Six.tb District, the Park Theater was comfortably filled. Tbe object of infor ually calling the Convention to order was to give Colonel Josse Harper, of D-tnville, III., Chairman of tbe National Executive Committee, a chanow to make some remarks. Mr. Harper went on to express his faith in the Greenback cause and to declare his zeal in the work had not abated. He recited his own labors during the campaign of 1880, and gave the history of the preparation and publication of "Harper's CalL" He showed that it had been prepared after consultation with the leading men of the party, and it was not the outcome of any desire on his part to father a new party. The "call" to which Mr. Harper referred as for the organization of a new party, based Uku the belief that both the ruling political parlies should be ovu. thrown, and uj on a greenback, anti-monopoly, free-ballot platform. He said that persons who signed the call would naturally be forced into the Greenback Labor parly, as the party which Lad those views. rive hundred thousand circulars containing the call and askirg lor signatures were to be sent out. It was n t asked that any Democra:, Republican, Granger or anti-monopolist as such should join the new party, but every man, independent of his previous party affilia tions, who could abandon any party with which ue nau oeen laemiueo, ana give nis support to the new party on the platform indicated by the call, would be cordially received. In closing his remarks Mr. Harper paid a high compliment to Iiis party. Iiis remarks were recived with loud applause. After the above remarks by Mr. Harper, the Convention was formally called to order by the Chairman of the 8tate Central Committee, C. C. Post, after which Judge John S. Bender, of Plymouth, was chosen Temporary Chairman, with Henry Smith, of Whitney, Secretary, with the Greenback edi tors of the State as Assistant Secretaries. The appointment of the Committee on Credentials was made, as also the following additional Committees: - ON OBQANLXATION. First Pis let . " Secoiid J C Albert, of Oraot. Third H S. Love, of Jackson. Fourth Fifth I. N. Porch, of Mouroe. Sixth Eli Foieman, of Dubois. Seventh Jolin Stuart, of Shelby. Eighth T. 11. MesFlck, of Montgomery. Ninth Dr 7. mil Harptf, of it ad i so a. Tenth A. i. v.utQrie, of Gnaa. Eleventh (jwoic V. WaUoa, of Jay. Twelfth Dr. J 4 Brown, of Noble. Thirteenth J a. darner, of Starte, BULLS AND B EMULATIONS. First District-W H Chapman, of Pike. Second T .1 SMvely, of Knox. Third Uury L. SmaUwood, of Clarke. Fourth D. D. Fowler, ofDeeatur. Fifth Dr. J. H. Robinson, of Putnam. Sixth Johu Knapp, of Roah. Seventn D. T. Davidson, of Hancock. Eighth E. A. Boardmau, of Warren. Ninth A. B. Cook, of Tippecanoe. Tenth J. N. Moore, of Lake. Eleveuth Dr. M. E. Please, of Howard. Twelfth James Mitchell, of Allen. Thirteenth Dr. D. II. Poynaar, of Xlkhart. ON PLATFORM. First District-B. F. Harris, of Warrick. Second W. L. Green, of Lawrence. Third s. W. Deputy, of Jennln a Fourth Richard Gregg, of Dearborn. Fifth Dr. a. T. Keightler, of Putnam. Sixth Dr. S S. Boya, of Wayne. Seventh R. A. RUey, of Hancock. Elghth-J. A. Allen, of Vigo. Niuth T. A. Cobb, of Boone. Tenth C. W. Anderson, of Cass. Eleventh John Monan. of Blackford. Twelfth Christian Orth, of Allen. Thirteenth John a. Bender, of Marshall. i VICE PBE8IDENTS. First District J. R. Lynch, of Gibson. Second J. C. Albert, of Orange. Third Jared 8a tor, of Clark. Fourth D. D Fowler, of Decatur. Fifth Harvey Barnett, of Johnson. Sixth Dr. A. J. Riley, of Delaware. Seventh Isaiah Hornady, of Marlon. Eighth W. D. Gill, of Montgomery. Ninth David Moss, of Hamilton. Tenth-John B. Milroy, of Gass. Eleventh Albert Stile, of MiamL : Twelfth Christian Orth, of Allen. Thirteenth J. C. Johnson, of Elkhart. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. First District A. W. Seiby. of Pike. Second H. S. Slenkard. of Boone. . Third S. M. Hudson, of Jennincs.Fourth Richard Gregg, of Dearborn Fifth J E. Burton, of Morgan. Sixth Thompson Smith, of Wayne. Seventh C. vv. Brouae, of Marion. Eighth M. C. Rankin, of Vigo. Niuth-J. L. Miller, of Tippecanoe. Tenth Dr. II. Z. Leonard, of Caaa. Eleventh Frank T. Waring, of Wei la. Twelfth 1. . Goodwin, of Noble, Thirteenth-John L. Bender, oi MarshalL After the appointment of the above Com mittee the Convention adjourned until 1:30 AFTERNOON SESSION, j , About 2 o'clock the Convention reassembled and the Committee on Credentials made its report, and as there were no contests it was adopted. The Committee on Permanent Organiza tion reported the name of Hon. öilbert De La Matyr for President," and Milton H. Daniels, of thia County, for Secretary. The report of the Committee was adopted unan imously. On taking the chair, Mr. De La Matyr made proper acknowledgements of the compliment that bad been paid him, among other things saying the country was -OF

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more in need of the Greenback Labor party now than ever before, and that he was confident of the success of the party. The Chairman of the Committee on Platform submitted the following report: 1. All money should be L&ued by the Government. 2. Labor should be protected by National and State authority. The eight-bour law ebould be enlorced S. The bond- of the United States hould not be refunded, but paid & lhe become due iu the lawful money of the United Htates. . Legal tenders should be substituted foi National bank notes. 4. The Burlingame treaty should be abrogated. 5. Public domain ßhould be reserved for actual settlers. r 6. Congress should regulate- inter-State commerce. 7. Denouncing railroad land and moneyed cort ors tions as monopolies. s. Mea wbo loaned them money rhould ne?er preferred to the soldiers. 9. Demands a graduated income tax. 10. Donoiii ces efforts to restrict the right of it! rage. 11. Opposes an increase of the standing army. 12. Favoring the placing of all representatives o! the "people on an equal footing and taking away the veto power from Committees in Congreaa. a IS. Demands a Government of the people, by tire people and for the people 14. Aaka the co-operauou of all fair-minded po1 le. 15. Believing that the proposed Constitutional amendments tbe temperance and su 0 rape queationa now pending before the Indiana Legislature would, if adopted, promote the welfare of our people. We, therefore, demand their submission to the voters of Indiana for ratification or rejection. 16. Favoring the enactment of a fee and salary IM. 17. That we are iu favor of dealing honestly, a id honorably with all convicts in tho State Pris.n as the proper means of their reformation; that the State should manage her convict labor by her own officers; that the avail of convict labor shall be apportioned among those wbo earn it, and after paying costs of conviction, transportation a id support, shall be used for the maintenance of the families of such convicts. IL A. Riley, of the First Dirtrict; J. A. Allen, of the Eighth, aud Thomas A. Cobb, of the Ninth District, submitted a minority n port, which was as follows: Resolved. That we demand that the people have full opportunity to express authoritatively by th.ir votes at the polls their decision on the impottant pending Constitutional amendments.

The proposition was to substitute the above resolution for one of the planks offered by the majority. Mr. Orth, of Allen County, offered a further substitute as follows: Believing and endorsing the pure American principle that this should be a Government of the people, for the people and by tbe people, we therefore demand that the temperance and suffiage question le submitted to a vote of the people for their ratification or rejection by tbe ballot box. A lengthy and somewhat heated discussiou took place upon a motion to lay tbe above resolution on the table. Finally the resolution was carried, and the majority report, as amended, was adopted. The Convention then went into the nomination of A 8TATE TICKET. Under the rules of the Convention the nomination of a candidate for Secretary of State came first. Hon. John Stuuc-baker, of Bluffton. Wells, County, was put in nomination, but declined. Hiram L. Leonard, of Cass County, was then put in nomination, and, as four other gentlemen, who were after ward nominated, refused to accept, the nomination of Mr. Leonard was made by ac clamation. J. N. Armentrout, of Clinton County, and J. C. Albert, of Orange County, were nominated for Auditor of Slate. As the latter de clined, Mr. Armentrout's nomination was made by acclamation. Mr. Speer made a little speech, in which he begged Hon. John Studebaker to accept tue nomination put his name before the Convention for Treasurer of State, and Mr. Studebaker was nominated by acclamation. Several gentlemen were nominated for Attorney Gene al, but they all declined, and finally M. W. Lee, of Delaware County, was nominated by acclamation. Carlton Bull, of Howard County, -was nominated for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, although he protested against such nomination. Jarrett Salter, of Floyd County, was nominated for Clerk of the Supreme Court by acclamation. The nomination of candidates for Judges of the Supreme Court was, on motion, referred to the State Central Committee. . A telegram was received from the Greenbackers in Michigan, in Convention assembled, sending greetings, and the President was instructed to answer it in like manner. The following resolution was then offered and adopted : Resolved, That this Convention, having fnll confidence in Hon. Jesse Harper, and in . the wisdom of the call of the Executive Committee, known as the "Harper call," we, therefore, urge the members of the party everywhere to be energetic in the circulation of petitions for the National Convention. . A Greenback song was sung by a colored delegate named Thompson, after which a collection amounting to $800 was taken up for campaign purposes, when the Convention adjourned sine die. . AT NIGHT. A large number of the delegates assembled at the Park Theater in the evening and listened to enthusiastic Greenback speeches by General Weaver and others. A gentleman sold a saddle horse as a th roughly reliable and honest beast, ' emphasizing the assertion that he was honest.' The next day the horse fell with his new owner, breaking his own knees and very nearly performing the same service to his master's neck. The irate purchaser went in a fume to the seller. "Well," said the man of conscience, "I am not at all surprised that the horse fell with you, and it only, proves that he is an honest beast, just as I told you. I have ridden that horse for six years, and every time I rode him he threatened to fall and kill somebody, so I sold him, for I knew that some day he would keep his promise. No matter how much you deal with me you will always find that 1 tell the truth." THE - OF-

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