Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1884 — Page 1

M. I I 1 I I fit III

VOL. XXXNO. 15. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1884. WHOLE NO. 1,552

PLAGUE DISTIUCT.

Terrible State of Afla.tr la the Strlclieu Kegton. An Indescribable Woe Enwrap the AClioted Country, anJ a Pall of Desolation Everj where. The Affect of the Red Cross Association Relates More Awful Suffering. FAMINE, Rrtüfff, .Afcetber Chapter of Authentic Nwi From tha Southern Plague District Starvation oi Ktcrj Hand Vaitt Graveyard, LorsviLLi, Ky., Doc, C Tbe CourierJournal' s stall correspondent sen d 3 h.3 paper the result of his tour through the plagneetricken district in a special from Mount Fleasant, Harlan County, Kentucky, tonight. He say a: No one who haa not personally visited thia country can form anything near aa idea of the woe that enwraps lite a winding sheet and casta the pall of desolation and sorrow everywhere. Almost every house in many sections has contributed its one or more victims to the hundreds who have gone to fill simple country graveyards, and the mourning ia as wideI read as the everlasting nil's which have Iren cevasdated. I left Mount rieasant, Harlan County, three days ago, and have traveled into iht northern part of fiat coniity along Clover Fork arid little streams emptying into it, aud then went on to P.xr Jfora, a lung whose Dank in Harlan and Letcher Coouuts scores Lave j ielded up tueir lins to tLe awful scourge. HORRORS A'CCMCI.ATIN'j. From Toor Fork I crossed the Cumberland Mountains into Wie and Isle Counties, Virginia, enconnterii g in the former such a c null ion of horror that rnr heart fail wten 1 be in to write. Individual instance of the meet heartrending nature are ncmerOU9 aa the mountains, aud t mention them one by one would seep uw mployed lor a tay. At one place in Harlan County I learned of an Instance where live out of a family of seven, tbe Clarks, liviDtr on I'o.ir .Folk, succumbed to the scourge. In anotrier Lere the only living member of afauiiiy of Iii wis bb not yet able t- prattle; in another, 'where tbe faiheraud three cmldren bill left a bereaved wife aDd raitoer to mcum her sorrow alone at the cheering beaxtb. and anil ia another where not one Cl a household of four remained to perpetuate tLe name. On Poor Fork, at Letter, juat beyond the Harlan line. Is the count j ctn etery, in w hich thirty -vevea neir-m-td nnvQnds of lock and earth light'y covered all that waa mortal of plagne victims. Li one little neighborhood not live rutins square, in that section, almost whole famiJies were swept away like chaff before the wind, and in many more death had taten a majority. IN LETCHJC, Deaths in Letcher had been far above ths average of those in any other county atv Wt Ccuaty, Virinia in which tas disease baa inane a wider pwath than in any 1 have Visited. They number, as nearly a? the best authorities could tstlmate, 2 x, and the namber oi casts have exceeded that fully threefold. It was not until I crossed into Virginia that tne tnoet pitifnl stories reached my earB. Here I was toid that near tue little town cf Emboden, in a graveyard coutainmir aixty three new graves, twenty-nine perscLS t ut o' the Baker family had died and were icct pants of that many burial places in tbe rude cemetery. I was told that in or. e day thirty-three persons had dird, und tbat there was not grave c'"the vA coiücs : ouih in the neighborhood to bury them. The physician who practice in the cou-jty. but two in cuDiber, were totally unable t' cope with the disease, and the dead haye multiplied faster than tbey coald be buried. Tht ir treatment of it ha been of the era sort, from what I can learn, aid as a remit has been little n.ore than experimental, confessing that the plague has hatred all the medical skill they possess. In Wue County the ctatLs exceed 4(0. iRATS OX KVEBY H ILLS IDS. Every crave yard, alraoit every hillside, contains rude hea;s winch mark the lot xefdiDg-place of the dead. In t hia country, aa jo Letcher, the nuoaoer of those attacked tad been ebormoii in many instances there not belüg enough well people to care for t'i ick.. Tne exact number of th e who ne been ill I could n jt acrU'n, bat Mr. Jath Oakley, with whom I talked, said nearly or.e-haif of the poDU'atioa had been attacked. In Lte County I met Dr. W. C. Winter at the iMtcihce at Crab Orchard, near the Kentucky line. He has been in the infected section but about three week, htvirg hit bis practice in the southern portion of Le to answer the pitiful cry for aid which caite frocu tSe northern portion of the county, r-n.re bis arrival be has treated aroro cf pallet t. ai d saved every one. He has the appear 4ice of aa inteliitt-int mtt, aLd gave it as his opinion that with prooer trtatn ent and nurfirg the mortality could bave been reduced 75 percent. "In Le County, as in fact in all distHcta in which I bave purtutd my investigations, th disease Is now decreasing, both in the number attacked and in fatality ; and wbile fresh cafes appear tingly and in twos and threes daily, they are lacking In the mal'KraHtffatnrts which marked the epIdeni'C before the recent rains and fronts. Tne deaths in Lee hav resched about VJ) since the liiiectiou li.'bt made its appearance. TBK CAlaC. . "In the countries which I have visited, all sources of information, medical and otherwije, aaree that to impnre water iß attribntable this mct terrible p'atjue. In several plsces I have examined the water, and. although it ha bei t j a great extent purified by ravi and frrwt. I have been abie to detect the brackish, bitte taste so often de3"-rihd. The water rot rn!y tas'es bad, hut lojkt bad, and bat wbScl penplM have been uhhij for dr'rikiii purpose Sot weets wniht turn the strongest ttonaoh arid cane the Laltbiet man to fa.l ill. The mire ral or vej.tav!e poieoo, whichever it rr.ay he, in pom instances ?o strongly imI'.rtuBtes the vtreaiiia that it ran be discovered rotb by aifjht and tasted, a sligot ditnrbance at the bittom bringing up a raa-'S fif eedinient oT brht yellowisn col ir. m Litter aa nut pall. I found instances where j e np whoe eprings had given out had du holes two and three feet deep in the eround at d ced ttse limy, pet-breedin? wtr wl)ih Oo;d op, the at'itl beinec no imour that it leems inrredib'e that they shonld not be awsre of it. A care of almost critniu a) fooKtbvfta i related U me. A man whrn well bad given out banled water a lon diMance and dumped it into the well, atfriirp nt the filth which for years Ld twen accuninlattr at the bottom. Of thia water tl entire family rjed, Aa a cnn"ennr tiir attacked every member, one or to djiag.

TOTAL DEATHS THIS FAT.

Havirs; traveled throngh many counties, and made every elTort to secure the most reliable information, I think the following estimate of the nnuber of deaths as correct as any can be secured, certainly nearer the troth than any teures given from outsiae sources: Wbtieley Cotsaty ?o P.eil tounty f 0 Ltc'Jtr Vt uiny 200 Lee County, Va... 10 Toial Knox Connty 50 llirKn County. ...liO. Hie Coiuty, Va -.400 .910 This estimate, it will be eeu, does not include Luchanan County, Va. in which the mortality is placed at over 123; ScottConniy, Va, 250; Dickinson County, Vs., L); Tike County, Ky., K"; FJoyd County, Ky., 75; Listie County, Ky., ; Knott, .V); and Ffott, Bell, Jtcnifee and Wolfe Counties, Ky., 4M), which brings the grand total up to 2,010, a startliDg fkure truly, and one that can not but strike a sympathetic chord in the breast of everyone who red this. My figures for the counties which I bave cot visited are based on Btatementt of men whose reliability is not questioned ; therefore I bave no fears that I have overestimated the ravsg?30f this most destructive demon. A f ter leaving Virginia, and while en route to üount Flea-ant on my return trip, I met Dr. J. O. Carson, of Bowling -Green, Ky., who bad been tent oat by the State Board of Health to investigate the dtea-e ai d its causes. I met him a'serward at Mount rifflf-aiit, and he informed me that be had visited several houses where there were people tick, and he bad formed the opinion that the malaJy was not contagious, though he was not certain that un der certain circumstances it coald not be conimnnicated from one peTscn to another. He referred to the condition desciibed in a previous letter. He attributed the sickness to ma laria, as well as to impure water, and was tot tatittied as to whether vegetable or mineral poison bad cause the la' ter to become po baneful. Dr. Carson procured vials of water from several streams ou which the plague bss ragtd, but heavy rains, which fell a day cr two before his arrival, couple ! with the severe frosts, has no doubt eo purifitd it that it will not be of much u-e in his investigations. Dr. Carson, like every physician 1 utt, bad a theory, and he informed me that both Doctors ilenor. of Lee IJoanty, Virginia, and Blair, of Mount Tleasar-.t, agreed with him in the more material lints. His researches wil probably beef note velne than any off-handed opinion, and will doubtless result m the discovery of the real cause of the epidemic and of a core, thonld it recur. TUE U KNOWN DIsKASK. An .t jrnt of ttiA lied Crwn A woristiaa fcttds a Letter Describing the Dlseaee tj Itll. l.trs Karton. W..rni-uTON, Dec. 7. Dr. J. B. Hnbbell, field agent of the American Association of tie lied Cross, has written the following letter to Hiss Clara Baiin, from Wise County, Va, relative to tLe disease which has been prevalent in that State. This mornir.g I called on Judze C. W. Kil?ore. attorney, editor and Member of tte Iegiflatnre, who ban taken pains to coil ft t the data and particulars of the dis esse in this and adjoining coanties. The frt cae which appeared in this region was thet of W. M. Bates, of Pound gap, Uannberlsi d Mountains, n the latter part of Jaly, at the beginning of the drought. He lingered nearly two inontha. when he d'ei. T be next three ca?es appeared at Uiadyille, in Aopust, also whpn the droaht bgan, other cae occurred in Cowl Camp, ah Eg the tributaries of the creek, where it bf c!ie general and epidemic, causing sixty deaths. It became general over Wise County in the latter part of Augast and in Bertember, when the de aiha were frequently five per dav. As nearly as ran be uscertained the deaths in this county number '2.J1). In Le, Dickeiäcn and Uuclaran Countie.4, Virginia, and McDowell, West Virginia, scattering ras occurred, averain abont twenty t'.ettbs in each. Whatever the original cause of the dieae may have been, there ia no donht it has been anfra-nted by draupht and impure water. The first ca-n-s wüch ap eared were bloody flar, with vondt, the latter asumin - the form of A 8-atie cholera. In ntarly all rases where llif jalients died they were attacked with severe griping, with above naned symptoms. The disease existed in two forma, one as above, tbe othe: commencing with gripirg and vomit Those aiTVcted ia the latter way never died. Large quantities, oroetin-.es red and sometimes dark, bleed appeared at previous stages of the distale. All who died were conscious to the last and every aault was not only anxious to die but prayed to di. Tbe diseve ha tow nearly disappeared in thia concty, there remaining but three critical cases: but it has left many cripples in a condition resembling that cause! by rheumatism. The remedy which proved moat effectual was compound castor and olive oil, laudanum and camphor, or whera physicians were in attendance, a simple treatment of warm teas and careful nursina. None of the attending physicians b? emed to understand the disease, and their treatment was pimply e xpenmett. In the commencement varioue forms of treatment were used and every pstient po" treated died. The disease was mere fatal along the creeks and rivers than on tbe highlands. One year ago tbe same or a similar disease attacked a man and bis wife on Dry Fork, this coauty. and both died. Two years ago two rases appeared and the persona recovered. I will pend samples of water from dilferent sections where d'seare has prevailed to Washington tor eheraical analysis. I expect to go Into Kentucky to-morrow. (Darunter 3.) There Las been plenty of food and no destitution of any Kind save the lack of proper medical attendance." THK SfAS 1-iH TKEATY. The Argnmenta far and Against Its Itatifl-4-xtlon from the Sugar Interest of Mr. rbaota and Kellner. New Youk, Dec. 8 The commercial treaty between tbe United States and Spain is regarded with great interest by all business men whose trade ia affected. A prominent aogar importer eaid to a Iat reporter: With the exception of the Pacific Coasts which was becoming in sugar trade, by Cans Spreckels, the Hawaiian sugar km?, people this country, some M.OJOWO, were w holly dependent for their sugar upon some twenty refininir oncerna in thia city. i Losten and Philadelphia. No raw nar was cobsumed except a little in the tobicco cnauu utactnre, which was rot worth mentioning. Abjut I (i (,( tons of sugar were imported into this country annually, none cf which learfced the conson era except through tbe little circle refineries, which had tbe r?ar trade by the threat, and it was only natural, therefore, tb&t the re Titers should . be satisfied with tbirgs as they were, and opoo-e any change which would give a angar-producing country some riegre of independence. They ottsii.ed pnpar from a!) parts of the world, aid tbey wished t balance the interests of the oitleJtut rountrka against . each other.

Abont cne-balf of our annual imports 1 1 An-! I 1 . f .1 I

oi BUfar caruy iruot vuu ui x uvu IMco, and if this half was made free of duty lta producers could always find a maiket here, as oiher people would bay it at a reasonable price, and hold it if the rehLers were not ready to purchase. Tbis Btate of a'Jairs would partly emancipate the planters and merchants from the control of thereüners, and therefore the latter, with the importers from other countries and Louisiana planters would Join in a bitter opposition to the treaty. The treaty woaid amount to a commercial annexation of Cur a and Porto lüco to the United States, givirg us all the benefits of a political anneibticn without any of its disadvantages, j The German Government bad lately encourage dtbe beet root sugar industry by a large bounty on exports. so tbat Germany, which a few years bco, waan importer of stiirar, last year wn -exporter of about oOO.WW tcus. If this amount, abont 52 000 tons, came to this port alone, the enormous profits whtca accrued to tbe early bett root factories thronsfh - the bounty system had the effect of developing tbe busintss to its present extent, and over pioduction had become so great that manufacturers bad sold sugar at a positive los. In regard to tbe claim that the treaty would be ruinous to the interest of American wcrkraen in tho refineries, the same imponer declared the statement Ws a preposterous argument, as the refinery interest ' employed fewer skilled workmen than any other branch of ruanufactnre in proportion to the value of tbe produce. Nearly all tbe wnrk was dine by itachinery, and most of the workmen connected with the business were simply laborers. A Cuban planter, who has a large estate, pays the scgr crop of the island coald b? doubled within two years, and that the ratification of the treaty was the only hope for the island to live Haven eyer, of Uavemeyer it Kiers, extensive susrar rtfiners, expressed the strongest opposition to the treaty. All the rtiners were opposed to it, be said, not merely in their rapacity as business men but as American citizens. He obj-cted to treaty d acrimination in favor f the trade of any particular country, which was an injustice, and projected further to the measure, which would further enslave labor in another country when we had abolished it in rcroiB, and would encourage importation there of Coolie labor, which we had shat out. irnm our own sr ores. We had already stimulated tbe employment of Chinese labor in Hawaian l.-land by our commercial treaty with their Goyernmeut All the benefit of the Spanish treaty would accrue to th? rlarters of Cuba. who. if it should be ratified, would immediately put up the price of their fcpar so as to include the amount of the old duty. For the year 18?:i the total value of all our ex ports to Cuba was only $U,CCU,( 10, while the duties wnich we cdilected on Cuba snear were abaut $2",000,OHO. Tbia $25.0O.O) it was now proposed to transfer from tbe United States Treasury to the rocke of Cabaa planters, without a cent's beneüt to our oun ptople. If our dfivernineot was gcin-j to pfve a bo ir.ty for growing eurar, it would be better to pay two cents r er pmnd to Louisiana planters. If it was to make a 0 strin-inalins treaty with any country, it would lie better to niske it with Kiland aud ber coloniea.with whom weconld have an extensive comroerre, ir stead of granting auch pmiJejrfs toami?erable,impoverisheJ island, like Coba, two hundred yeas behind the ace. He was in favor cf itnportin raw srjpars free from all prs of the world. Ilefineis in general favored ton policy so as to Jo away witl this tarid' agitation; h bai been iu fevo of it. but St"r.Ad-- be-!- Iol'aJil referred to a handful of planters in Louisiana who could never compete successfully with the emplojers of sdave labor or producers of beet-root sngar. The treaty, he romarktd, not only admitted raw sugars free, but the grades between Nos. U and Vi at tbe duties of standard, which wers rartially reilned. This would cause a transfer of that branch of refining to Cnha, as refiners here could not compete with slave labor. In consequence of thu tieaty his firLi bad closed two large reSneiiesat Williamshu'ga fortnieht ago. Tnese rerlneries employed 500 men, and of caurtw their suspension fTects barrel making, the bone black business and various other industries. Alarm of the Cigar Trade Over lta t'oatbilitiea- List of Articles Affected by it. New York, Dec. 8. The cigar manufacturing firm of Str&iton it Sterm announced to their 2,000 employes Saturday night that the factory would discontinue work until the uncertainty about the new treaty with 6 pain in regard to tbe West India trade wa? removed. In an interview Mr. Btraitoa paid: "Our firm now keeps itsetockof tobacco in Havana, for if we had a large stock here and tbe treaty should bo ratirled, we fibould be out the amount that the duty is reduced. At the firt moment the text of the treaty is officially icade public and acted Tjpon by Cougre we shall opea our factory." Tbe effect of abolishing the duty on tabacCO would be, I think, to make the United States the great center of the tobacco trad a of the world. Manufacturers would welcome the abolition of the tax as it would cause a great increase of business. Tobacco growers, for obvious reasons, oppose It. Hook for a bitter fight against it In Congress." Cigar-makers from all the principal factories of the city held a meeting yester Jay to consider the pending treaty. G. O. Myera presided. ''If this treaty," eaid he, "is ratified by both countries it will cause a redaction of 50 per cent. In duty on manufactured tobacco from Cuba and Porto Rico. A moment's thought will show that thl3 reduction would be a death blo to tbe tobacco trade of tbia country. Tobacco grows naturally as well in this country, yet it caa not conptte with the fine gjades of tobacco from the Spanish possessions. It is timeless to aryue tbat free imported tobacco may be mixed with our American growth in tbe manufacture of ae ci.ari. Smokers of Havana cigars will not be inpoeed upon by any such deception In other words, smokers of uavaua cigirs will not smoke an amalgamated production, only half as good as a genuine Havana, when they can get the genuine at the same prici as the amalgamated. And this condition of the tiade, we claim, will be brought abaut if tbe treaty is ratified. Other delegates here report other large Manufacturers preparing to follow the example of Straiton & Storm. Their employes can not complain of auch action. Fmpioyers say, in justification, and we kr.ow it to be true, that they can not comrete with Havana ciears imported almost free of duty. A reduction of 25 pet rent, in duty on Havana cigars might enable tbem to manufacture from Havana leaf a cigar or cigarette that would allow tbem to compete successfully with the Imported cigar, but 50 per cent is rubbin it in too deep, and hence their action in closing tbeir shops. Twenty-three hundred of ns are already laid off ; and by the end of another week there is no telling how many

more will be eating the bread or rather the crnst of idleness. Importers are secretly at work while we are lying idle Tbe treaty is probably already in the hands of the Senate. By its conditions the proposed rod utitioa will take elTectfrom the 1st of January next. We have but little time to work in. Let us be up and doing at once." The Executive Committee, which had b-jen in session during the early part of the afternoon, reported in favor of issuing a circular i explaining the effect of the operation of the j treaty upon the tobacco interests of the country, and calling upon the country at lame to raise its voice in protest. The com- I mittee also recommended the appointment of a committee to visit manufacturers and obtain their co operation ia the movement. The recommendations were unanlmons'y adopted. A motion to call a mass meetinz in the interest of the movement was voted down, and instead it was deemed best to apjoint a committee to gj to WasUingtoa. This committee will be bppointed next Sunday. ' The Executive Committee reported that a meeting of cigar manufacturers was called for Borne day this week. Tbe treaty. ! New Yop.k, Dec. 8. The Times this roaming publishes a copy of the treaty, whin1! it obtained in Madrid, and its terms seem more favorable to this country than was suppled at yesterday s meetinz of cigar makers. The following are the principal articles of the products of both countries which will be aCTected: To be admitted into the United States free from duty: Horses, cocoa, coHee, fish, fresh fruits, cotton, hemp, 13 ax, hides, skins undreamed, analineand mineral dyes, palm oils, sugars nt above No. lb Daten standard iu color, loaves of crystallized eyrncs of the sugar cane, meiada, molares, seed, woods, casiiron, eggs, honey, wax., ppoogea, bines, guano, manure, esparto, hrse hair, rushes, osiers, straw, coins of gold or.silver.. Saiect to duty: Cigars, cigarette, beqaer03, 1.23 per pound, 12lA per cent ad valorem ; tobacco leaves requiring more than 100 to the poand, if Laving ttems, 27c per poa id without stems, ööc; other tobacco in lecves having stems, 17)iJ cents per pound; tooaco maaaf&ctured of every kind, tobacco without stens. 20cents per poand; ennn", powdered tobacco, 33 cents per pouud; tobacco not manufactured, 15 per cent, ad vibrem. Article, the product of the United States, which shall be admitted into Cuba, exempt In to, duty; beer, fresh meats, bacon, fruits, fish, shell fih, grain and other cereals excepting rice, wheat. Hour of cereals other than rice and wheat, lard, swine, beef,

cheese, eggs and bread, woods of all kinds, staves, knees, timber, pipes, boxej of woo l, cattle, sheep and goats, hogs, stone i and earths employed in construction an 1 in the arts and Industrie?, clay, tiles, bricks and tiles nnglazed, hides and undressed skin9, minerals or me tab, coins of silver or gold, meful tools, agricultural implements, agricultural apparatus, indnstrial and scientific motors of all classes and materials, separate parts of the came, raw cotton, hsrnp, fl it, jule and all other raw vegetable f bre?, wools, bops, hair, raw horte hair. Asphalt, reiiued bitumen, tar, pitch and rosin. NiTIOSAL NOtUs. Various Matters Reported from the Capital Appointments, Kto., Etc. WAsni.N'jTOJf, Dec. 8. Another circuUr in regard to the importation of ras ia being prepared at the Treasury Department which it i3 understood provides, ia general terra?, for the admission of ragi properly disinfected; provided, procesa of disinfection is satisfactory to the Health 023 ;er at port of entry, as well as to the otäeerj of the Treasury Department. The President to-day 8f:nt to the ßenate another long list of resets appointments. The President has appointed O. O. Steeley, W. 0. Nicholas aud N. VV. Barkhoas a Commission to examine the completed portion of the Southern Pacific lUilroai in California. General Foster, Unite! States Minister to Spair, arrived in Wajaingtoa this morning end presented tha Secretary of State a copy cf tbe treaty entered into between Spiin and the United Stales. A bill was introduced in the House to-day by Mr. Beach to maintain the secrecy of t he ballot in the election of llepreseatatives aad delegates in Congress. It provides for a separate and uniform ballot upon which candidates are to be voted for. The quality of papear and s!ze of type are specified, and a general provision made that all ballots nint b) the same in outward appearance. An important change is made in the existing law in respect to what is legal ballot. See. 27 of the Revised Statutes provides that all votes for Representatives must be by written or printed ballot, and nullities ail votes which axe not bo cast. Beach' b bill permits ballots to be printed or written, or partly prinUd and written. The bill also .requires that all Representatives aud delegates shall be voted for upon separate ballots. A violation of any of the provisions of the bill is declared a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine or imprisonment, or both. Owing to the crowded condition of the. calendar, tbe House Committee on Pacific l'ailroads informally decided to-day not to coEsider the bills introduced last session by Representatives Sumner and Bel ford relative to tbe regulation of the rates of transportation ou the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Kailroads. Posttnaiter General Hatton recommends an immediate appropriation of $100,000 for tho railroad postal car eervice for the remainder of the year. In the letter sent to tbe House to-day he says: "The accomplishment of certain long-desired improvements in the postal service, whereby the time in transit between the Fast and the far .West has been reduced, rendered it necessary to establish a greater amount of railroad postal car Eervice than anticipated wh-sn the estimate was submitted and appropriation made for that object." Mr. Hatton also sent a letter to the none recommending an appropriation of $75 000 for the employment of additional clerks at Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland. Indhnapolis, Louisville, St. Lonis, San Francisco aad Kasteru cities. The nomination of Ilugh McCulloch as Secretary of the Treasury was favorably reported from tbe Senate Committee on Ft nance, but Senator Riddleberger objected to its present consideration, and under the rules it went over to the next execative cession. Representative Morrison's bill to amend tbe tatute in relation to tbe immediate transportation of dutiable goods, introduced to-day, provides for the amendment of the statutes so that the regulations governing inland transportation shall apply U the b8ggage of the traveling public. Representative Springer has decided to appoint Messrs. VanAlsiine and'Stewart members ot the aub committee to visit Ohio and investigate the conduct of United States Marshal Wright at the election in that State in October lost. The resolution passed by tbe House authorizing the investigation provided tbat Springer should serve as Chairman of the sab committee. This committee will hold ita first meeting in this city on Wednesday. It is thought that the examination of the Government employes

who, it is said, were appointed Deputy Marshals will continue until Congress adjourns fcr the holiday recess, representative Stewart says private business will compel him to remain at home durine the holidays, and it is possible, in consequence of this, that the subcommittee will not visit Ohio until January. 'OTB COMMON CURRENCY."

The New York Sun Discusses the Question ft the Currency, and Predicts the Extinction of the "National Dank Circulation. Nxw Yokk, Dec. 5. The Sun ia a notable, double leaded editorial discusses tha question of "Oar Common National Currency," and reaches the conclusioa that the National Bank currency must go and give place to a Government currency of coin and paper money. The article notes careful'y the rapid decrease of National Bank circulation, and the more raüid increase in coin and coin certificates, and says: "Xh'a will give ns by lb91 a grand total cf $1,133,000,000 of Government currency, against not more than 100,000 000, and probably less, supplied by the banks. Of course, much may happen to modify or prevent this result. The conduct of men can not be predicted so confidently as that of inanimate things. The le,:ral tenders may be redeemed and withdrawn; the coinage of silver dollars may be euspended, and the supply cf gold may be diminished at tbe mines or ba drained away to foreign countries. The decrease of National Bank circulation may, on . the other hand, be checked by favoring legislation, but the probabilities are greatly against these events, and as we said at the outset, and it is much more likely, that the National Bank notes will be drivan out of the United Siatea altogether, and tbeir p'ace taken up by exclusive Government currency. The existence i National Bank circulation, it must be "remembered, depends entirely upon the profit it yields the banks. These institutions are conducted upon commercial and not upon philanthropic principles. So ion? as the bones required as security for the circulation bear a eulScient high rate of interest they will issue tbe notes, bat so soon as th9 rate falls below tbe paying point their circulation will be withdrawn. At present there are enoog'i 3 per cents, to be had at about par to make it worth while to take out circulation upon the'n, but these bonds, as we know will all soon be paid otT, and the Comptroller af the Currency tells ds that tbe l'a aid 4'j are already too high to make thevu a profitable basis for circulation. The 4''d will ourely be redeemed at their maturity, ia 1S91. and the i"a are rising in price continually under competition by executors, trustees, parings inatitutions atd time lovesters. That the people of tbe United Slates will, for the ke of tbe banks, sanction any legislation by which tbe national debt shall be DrolonEtd or the interest upon it be in creased, it ia idle to suppose. Tbat they will permit the banks to is-aae a circulation on any less Eecure a bas;s than United States bonds is equally incredible. There is no es cape tbat we can eee from this hard layer of facts. The National Bank currency must eo, aud tbat pretty boou, if the possibility cf the retirement of leeal-tender notes by redemption and cancellation there is i;o indication. The contracting ot them in this way was stopped in 1?7S by pablic clamor, and a3 we have already remarked, tbey bave remained lixed at their present amount eyer Bince without effort by either political party to reduce it. The same may be eaid of tbe coinage of silver dollars. Everv attempt to check or to suspend it has hitherto bten abortive. The West almost unanimously favors it. and will saDpirt it to the last. As to tbe danger that the with drawal of bnnk circulation may cause a money stringency, tbe coining, which causes eo much EOlicitude, lias been expressed in various quarters, it need only be remarked that the coinage of gold and silver a'oce will more than nil any vacuum thus occasioned whether tha coin goes into circulation as coin or as Government certificates for coin deliv erable on demand is immaterial. There is sure to be circulation mediate of enoaeh for tbe needs of the community at the wcrtt. Supposing tbe amount of it to be reduced by an unusual foreign demand, ex ceeding the product of our mines, we shall have always, as e had dm ins the war. the resource of legal tender notes, especially since the issue of them ha3 been declared by the Supreme Court to be a Constitutional exerqise cf Government power. We shall always do well to remember that the natural forces are often stronger than legislation, and that the common sense of events constantly seta aside the transcendental reasonirgs cf theorists and philosophers." A MVsltaiOLj MAttBIAQB Aud the kenaatiou It 11 aa Created at Vincennee, lud. YiNCENSEfs, Ind., Dec. 5. A social sensation was developed here yesterday in the most unexpected matiner, which has created no small amount of excitement, because of the peculiarity of the circumstances Surrounding the affair, and because of a mistake made by the Clarion, a paper published at Princeton, twenty miles south of this city. Tbat paper published the following, healed 'Under Assumed Names Hasty Marriage of a Chicigo Drummer and a Pretty Viaceunea Damsel "Gilbert E. Abbott and Lucinia B. Monford are the persons who secured a marriage licenee at this place last Wednesday under the assumed names given above. The gentleman's came is Applegate, a commercial traveler, who resides at Chicago, and does business in this State. The lady'e na-ne is Miss Sadie Rabb, daughter No. 3 of Dr. lUbb. the President of the Vincenne3 Bank. They were married at tbe Methodist personage about 4 o'clock and took the evening train for Chicago. Both were well dressed and far above tbe average good looks. Miss Rabb is well known to Beveral parties here, and her ptrange course WkS a great surprise to her friends. It is to be hoped that her road freak will not end disastrously, as too often Lappens." Tbe appearance cf the paper here, of course, was the signal for much consternation, as there is no truth in the statement tbat Miss Kabb has eloped to marry anyone, much less a Chicago drummer. Tne lady at'ended a social gathering at tbe residence of Dr. Hindman here the evening in question, and is not acquainted with anyone by the name of Abbott or Applegate. Tne mysterious couple ppoken of by the Princeton paper excited the curiosity of Princeton, and an effort was made to identify then." The man claimed Vincennea as his residence, aud convinced the County Clerk that be was competent to take on the matrimonial yoke. The young lady was elegantly dressed, and thooe who saw her say ehe resembled Miss Kabb greatly.

TALKS WITH CLEVELAND.

Bis Mind Kot Made Up on Any Cabinet appointment He Denies Having Had a Political Bow With Ucodrlcki, aud Says That No Two ?Jem Ever Parted More Pleasantly. New York, Dec. 1. A Washington special to the Evening Post say3 a prominent Democratic member of Congress, who has recently visited Governor Cleveland, says the latter said to Lim: "I intend to resign on the Gth of January, and ae Lieutenant Governor Hill will administer the Executive olica for the next year, I bave turned the writicg of the message over to him. After laying down the duties of Governor, I shall listen to whatever my Demo cratic friends have to say. I shall divide my time between Albany and Baifalo until the day arrives to go to Washington. I intend to give due consideration to the counsel of our party friends. It may be that when I enter the Presidential oiiiee some things may not move as fast ss some Democrats whb; but I think itwill be much better to go slow but sure. We can not hope to avoid mistake-?. but if we proceed slowly we wiJl make fewer mistakes than if we go with a ru-h " A member cf Congress with whom Cleveland talked eajs, the Governor will become President without any ambition for a sacond term, and tbat he holds to the second term principle laid down in his letter of acceptance, and declared that bis great object ia to so administer the Government as to lay the foundation of long-continued Democratic rule. Gov. Cleveland spoke to his visitor of tbe efforts of certain hotels in Washington to use him for advertising purposes by otferiDg hiia their hospitalties free cf charge and emphatically declared he would not Etop at any hotel that soaght to get him as a guest. The Governor incidentally alluded to tbe report of the quarrel between him and Hendricks, saying tbat tbey did not in tbeir conversation discuss politics, and the two men never parted more pleasantly. This Congressman drew from the conversation with Cleveland, tbat the latter has not yet made up his mind in regard to a tingle Cabinet appointment. He is deferring these matters until he retires from the Goyernorship. WaSHlriarOMMONU.ilENrCOMPI.KrEU The Cap-Stone Set lu I-lace at Last and tbe L'oited States Fine Floated from the Highest Pinnacle Kver Erected by Human Hands, Washington, Dec. C. The lou?-expect3d completion of the Washington Monument Ob3lik was accomplished this aliernoon by tho b.-U'es la place of the marble cap-stone and its pyramidal epex of aluminum. Tbe ceremonies wtre few aud simple, in elaborate celebra'ioa of tae event being reserved for V ashinton's Birthday. Shortly aiUr 2 o'clock Thomas L. Casey, Government Engincerin charge, aiid his u&sistaats, Captain Daws, United States Aircy, and Bernard A. Green, Civil Engineer, totetber with Master Mechanic McLaughlin and Beveral worxingnen, standing oa the narrow platform built around the narrow marble roof, near the summit, proceeded to set tbe cap-BtODe (we'ghlDg 3,600 pound!-), waich was suspended from aqnadrouod of heavy jaistt snppor:od !; tbe pisiioria tud towenui; tony Joel above tbem. As soon us be cap tone was net the American flag was unfurled ovei head and a salute of twnty-one kuiis fired by the battery la tbe White House lot bt-low. The eoarid ot the Cheers alvo tame up faiutly from the crowd of ppecttttors p&thertd around the bae ot the monument, while a number of Invited pntsts on the 500 ieet of platform and tbe interior at ttie fKt of the monument at that level t-pou tan eons jy struck up the "iar-siai!glea Uauner" and other patriotic sorgs. A steady dowu-pour of raiu had given jUe a little hile previously to a brisk caio of ind. at tfci elevation blowing about fifty-tH-e mLn hour, and vtry few of the invited gue-ts caied to avail thcmstlves of tue privilege cf elimbing a I. early perpen Jicular ladder lro. i the 600 foot platloixu to the dizzy be'stit of 5:U fee . from which three or four journalists and a half doscn otter adventurers cuinbei aud witnea-d tbe setting of the cap Mone, aad sutisequent ly ascended to tie piniiHCe. AUanwl.ile tLe Washtuston Monument nocietv, rej rtsentf d by Pr. Joseph Toner, Hou. Horatio Kinp, tieneral William McKee Dunn, Dr. Daniel ii. Clark atd T. L. Harvey, fcecreUry. held a m t-t-Hir on t-n elevated platform at a oelxbt of tOO U et, and when artillery firing aunouuocd tae ieit ap of the op stone, adop.ed a resolution offered by General Dunn, congratulating the American ptople on tt e tomple'ion of thin enduring mouurr.eut ot the Nation's gratitude to tue father of his country. Among those present to-day at the completion of t-e structure wat one of the masr mechanics h.i laid tlie corner-stone of this rnonunier.t mora tban thirty-six years ago, and the watchrran of the monument, who bai beea continuously employed in thai capacity durlüg nearly the whole it.n-rveuiug period. Tne tla on the b outiment floated tday from the flag-statf. tne top of which is exactly OiK) fee t from taeKroun'i, thus obplajing the American colors at tue greatest fcetfcht t any coDuructiou ever yet auown ia ILe world. Tue monument iv-eif, with T total height Ol boO feet, lar ovtrtops every tier Ftructure l y human bands. The aluminum apex of the monument is engraved with luncrip tioiiP as follows: Un one tare ' thief Kiuinerr and Architect Thomas Lincoln Casey, Colonel of the Corps of Knuineers: AHtiMaut, Geor. e W. DaviK, fourteenth United fetale ln'aatry: Bernard it. tireea. tivil Engineer; Master Mechanic, P. U. McLaughlin." On auothtr "Corner bton-j laid on tbe bed of the foundation July 4. lin. lhe first dtone at the height of 152 feet, lal l aupuht 7, J8i0; csp-t-tone et December 6, ISsl." Ou the third fate "Joint ComtniMon at tbe w;ttiu of the cap-More, Chester A. ArthuT, W. w.coicorau, t-hairmaa; M. E. Hell. Edward Charit, Jota Ktwton. Aet of August 2, 176." aad oa tüe fourth face the words. "Laus leo." NAVAL A iTFAlti!. Talk of Booming the Iron Industrie by Establishing a Foundry Large Kuwagh to Cast Large Guns. Special to the Sentinel. Washington, Dec. 8. Alon with the feeling tbat the navy ia to be reconstructed and the coast defenses rebuilt under the incoming administration, ia an impression that the Government will establish a foundry at Tittsbur for tke manufacture of heavy ordracce. There is no foundry in the Unite J States where either the largest or the best guns can be made. It is considered a great teat in an American foundry now to cast a fcix-iiiCfc-bore iron gun, while the brass ones can net be made at all. "The establish ment cf a Government foundry at Pittebnrg will cot only be a Btimulns to tbe iron inteiests of Pennsylvania, bat ot tbe entire country," eaid a member of the House Committee on Appropriations, this morning. '"If the iron interests are stimulated there, tbey will be everywhere, as Pennsylvania controls the trade. Then, of course, a foundry will be placed in the Soatb. somewhere, for it would cot do for the Government to locate all her powers of producing aar enpplies at one quarter. Alabama would likely get a foundry of some eort." Mach talk is beard oa the Bnbject of th army and navy now. Tho oihcara are oa tiptoe. They anticipate a great deal of rejuvenating, and can not loreiee the direction of the mhbiles. The Telephone Business. Boston, Iiec. 6. The Directors of the Amerfcn Belli tlepbone Company have yotea to petitloa the LeidMature for authority to increase the capital from tlO.DOO.000 to $20,000.0 Hi ritreet romip is that in the event of authority being Framed the new stock will be issued at the rate of Sl.tOO.OOO per annum at tr. The company expect to bave wiors between Postou and New York opened to km in Jniy. 1SS3.

DYNAMITE OCrCAOES.

Tbe Nationalists Claiming That They Arc Principally the Work of British Sple. Lokpo-, Dec. 7. The question wnether James A. UcDermctt or O Donavaa K ssa ia a spy in the hire of tbe English authoritie?, or whether both of them are or are eos British poüce servants, has Veen revived With npw evidence and theories. Mr. Wi Bam O'Brien, the editor of United Ire'anJ, in an interview to day with yur c.rres pondent, fcaid tbat he recently r Ciived a personal letter from O' Dono van Rsaia wh'ch the litter declared he bad ooJ reason to beiieve that McDermott wsa a British ppy, employed to secure' evidence against Ferner;?. This letter state! that recently JJcDerruott called upon Bits ard offered to negotiate with Lim fr the perpetration of a series of dynamire outrages throughout England. Rosea says the jlan proposed were feaslbla, and if carried out woald have caused destruction and terror, but he was led to distrust McD-rmctt and declintd to commit himself to any of thj proposals. Mr. O'Brien farther tavs that in this very tarce letter O' Donovan Ko3sa Jn-clof-ed the original of a letter written by McDermott to a friend after tbe latter had left Ireland and reached America, ia whiclx the writer admitte l that he bad organized tbe Mill etreet dynamite conspiracy for which Denis Deacy, who died last May, while incarcerated in the Chatham Cornier Prison, was convicted. In this same letter McDermott refers to three infernal machines which he declares be diupstched to Kerry. Commenting oa this letter. Mr. O'Bnensajsbe believes that one of the ii acbines was used at the Hu-?y explosion. He taid this information furaishei by Rieai ccmborated a great deal ot the iiforiE.ticx ODeartbed by members of tbe Hone Pule jartv. Ireland, and went far m justifj tbe bei ef that a large number of the dynamite outrages which bad been charged upon Legue organizations were really the outcome cf plots inspired by fellows like Mc Dermott, who, being in the pay of theaathorities (n anaed to retain their sineenrea by devisirg and abetting outrage Mr. O'Brien dfclares that the Irish ta-tyare determined upon getting at the bottom cf the whole business, and that they hpe to expoEe the whole villainy which they believa has underlain the entire police a-id soy system which the English Government has in tiicted upon Ireland in its pretended worlc of cprootitg agrarian crimes. Terriflie Wind aud Ratn Storm. Pittbve?, Pa , Dei A terrific wind and rain p'oiri passed over Western Pennsylvania at 5 o'clock ifcW everinc. and, thouub it la-teibu; five min ut- p, gieat damage wa dorn to prvipert?. In Ulis Vit, leloeraph Ire, iw'niu nica. (hlDEeJi, e c, 6Ui'tred PCverHy. Ou Un, four feel wide snd ccverinc the enure top of a bus;aKl l.oute on Seven1 h avfnue. wa erriU away, fallii g on a woman named 1'fatt ant her two Children, Wllne, aped eix, and Georeia. thre yisrs oid, who accompanied her. The hoy w?s killed instantly, and the mother and lMtlegrl seriously, but it Is thought DOt faulty tnji:re1. 1 litre were ruirors of a'-cidoms in oiherpraof t";ecity se i Allekheay, but cothlna dcnl:e ii jeirnelved. At Gr- enfcburjr. West Moreiand County, the root ot H e Court liouf-e was earned off, b it uoona WPSiDjurtd. NoreporBOf danaee naveh-ear-ctiveii from other town. The wires are iown in ail dirt ct oits m.d ih i t-leimij: h cni,ni s are exjxrieucitg great OlCini tv iu tiaudlin business. The Swalm Court-Martial. Wafhitsgton-, Dec. 8. Mr. Bateman continued his testimony be'ore the Saiax Court-Martial to-day. He related circaai stances connected with tbe 3aim due bill ard the suit which f ollowed its presentation, tbe Cling and withdrawal of his chirge eyainst bwaim, the arbitration matter, ere. Pubstantially es told before the Court of Intjuiry. The cro3S examination thea began, but before its conclusion the Jude Advocate submitted an application by General ü w aim for subrocnas for a number of witpertes, including newtpaper men, ia this city, and bankers and bank clerks in New York and Washington, and Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, the Jodge Advocate, doabtei tbe wisdom cf granting an application s) broad in tcote that it called for the radoccf tbe books of New York firms. Without determining the question the Court adjourned. About JMcColloch's Confirmation HIS Turlff Views, Etc. Special to the Benti-iel. Washington, Dec S. Much goss'p fcaa been indulged in here during the pist week ever the delay there has been in the confirmation of the nomination of Huzh McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasure. Suspected Senators deny it, but it will always b-s believtd that tbe confirmation was oojcte-i to on account of the Secretary's views on the tan If He holds Abrain S. Hewitt's ida that a!i raw material should be free tf dnty. A doH or mare of tha Republican Senators believe that noae of the American pre ducts should be duty free. It will teach future Presidents that it i? better to ak for a creed when men are called to Cabinet positions. McCulloch was presumed to be the mott radical of protectionist a. President Cleveland Church. Ben. Perley Poore. The new Prteident will bave his unmarried sister and probably one of his married fciMers to preside over the domestic arrangements at the White House, and it is understood that there will be mere enuplic:ty aol lees attempt at ditp'ay than there has been pince the tirte of Buchanan. F resident Cleveland will attend the New York Avenue Presbyterian Cbnrch. the present pastor of which is Rev. William Alvin B&rtlf tt, who was his c'aemate. President Lincoln ud to attend the Presbyterian Church, when he went ai yahere, which was eeidm. Grant and Hajes were Methodists, GarSeM attended the Christian Church, and Arthur worships at Bt. John's Episcopal Church, where be was married. A Shortage of Fand. Ntw York, Dec. 8. At a meeting of tbe Board of Directors of the American Baptise Home Missionary Society to-day, the, Treasury reports phowtd such ahortase of funds tbtttbe appointments which were made wera for tern b of only eix months, in.deai of a year as ct-nal. Apprehension that there might Dot be möney enough to pay tha salaries ard expenses for a full year was tha reason. The i-ociety's embarrassment is largely due to its having recently taken complete ctaige of the miionary work arnon;; the Chinete cn the Pacinc Coast, and tj large phids expended in the church edifica ard educational departments. A tuiluut Old Mao. FALIM, 111 , Doc. fV,-Unclo Jofcn Orntehfeld wat ct.hty-five jca.old yesierday, and ha tven a reMcieut of this county about sixty year. lid has alwiM lan a very peculiar man, and the m'Nit petulmr thirds ot lug li'e are that he has ntver rone cu the tailroad and l as never been on a hove, A btnevt r he wauted to k to auy place he mould walk, lu the ear'y settlement of this country, when tit er and other game ere very plenty, I title JohDTiie viould be Keen Urtin? out with hii gun on his shoulder and ledin his hors?, w hich he toos alonij for the purpose of carrying his gsrxie. He is a very active man n his and yeetercay walked from Patoka to sa'em, a difianca of stxtefn tDi!e. and after remaining In town fee an hour or o sarn-d for his home, twelve rail a northeast of ta.s city.