Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 7, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 June 1881 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intellizence from All Parts, Vomestic. Tae Amerlcan Missionary Association held its annual meeting in Boston on the 25th. < A -very satisfactory exhibit of evangelizing and educational work amcng the colored- people in the Southern States was made by the Secretary. Duriug the nineteen years of itsexistence the Association hal eent 5,936 teachers and missionaries into the Southern fieid, at an average expenditure of $200,000 a year. It had . established no less than fifty-one schools for higher education, six having colleziate and three theological courses. During the same pei'iod seventy-five churches had also been estab'ishel. In all respects the Jork of the Association is reported to have Ybeen highly successful. : AT a mass-meeting of cit'zens at Bodie, Col., on the 25th it was resolved that no Chinamen should be aliowed to work on the railroad being constructed from Bodie to Mono Lake. AT the session in Buffalo, N. Y., on the 25th- of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church the report on foreizn missions “was read, showing the receiyts of the year to ‘have been $59 1,63 ); disbursements, $581,515. A marked progress had been made in Persia, Siam, China, Mexico, India and Syria, and the committee made an earnest appeal for the continuance of the liberal contributions that had previously been made for this object. : ' Tue sixty-seventh annual meeting of the American Tract Society was held in Boston on the afternoon of the 25th. Officers were elected for the ensuing year. Receipts of the year, $396,938, of which $104,939 was received from donations and legacies, $256,678 from sales, and $11,976 from rents; expenditures, $396,420. T . IN Brookiyn, N. Y.. on the 25th 8741 offi{ cers and teachers and 52,00) children took part in the anniversary parade of the Sun-day-schools of that city. : b . DurixG the late session of the Baptist, Home M ssionary Society at Indianapolis Hon. George W. Williams, of Ohio, stated that 3,000 negroes were preparing to emigrate from Louisiana to New Mexico. A comMITTEE of Boston’s wealthiest citizens has been. raised to consider the project of holding a Worid’s Fair in that city. Ata meeting heid on the evening of the 26th about 200 were present and great enthusiasm was exhibited.: .

Ir is announced authoritatively that Secretary Windom does not intend to allow an increase in the amount of standard dollars coined. : : Tue Northwestern River Improvement and Canal Convention met at Davenport, lowa, on the 25th, and effected a permanent organization, R. G. Horr, of East Saginaw, Mich., being chosen President.. The delegates present numbered about 400, representing seventyseven cities, towns, ete. Bjeeches were made during the day and evening by Governor Gear, of lowa, Congressman Henderson, of Illinois, James F. Wilson, of lowa, Mavor Harrison, of Chicazo, and ex-Mayor Murphy, of Davenport, the last named delivering the address of welcome. Resclulions were unanimously adopted on the 26ch in favor of a canal from the Mississippi to . Hennepin and Lake Michi. an, and for a continuance of the work of the M ssissippi River Commission. Mrs. EGLER, of Pittsburgh, Pa., recently attempted to light the k tchen fire with kerosene. The net results were: The death of her little daughter; the insanity of her husband; fatal injuries to- herself; the dest:uction of seven frame buildings, and serious in+ juries to a fireman. It is stated that the right of way for the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad has been already secured through New York, Penngylvania and Ohip, and that the road-bed will be ready for the rals in September. Mr. RoßgrT P. PORTER," Chief of the Wealth, Debt and Taxation Department of the United States Census, states that the net debt of all the cities and towns of the Unitel States wth a population of over 7,500 is $570,471,373. : i AN immigration azent, representing Texas, ArKkansas and Louisiana, has sailed for Europe to estabiish Immigration -Bureaus in seven of the larger cit'es. The Germans who were recently dispatched from Castle Garden to South Carolina report thémselves highly pleased with their new home. ; i Ox a train which recently reached Cleveland with twelve hundred immigrants was Yound a woman on whom small-pox was fully developed. She wss locked up until the pest-house man could be sent for, but escaped into the business quarter before she could be again secured. : LasT year 11,851,733 bushels of buckwheat were raised in the United States, acainst 9.821,721 bushe!s raised in 187); of buarley, 44,149.479 ‘bushels, against 29,7618 5 in 187 ; oats, 407,970,712, against 282,107,157; wheat, 459,501,008, agalist 287,745,626; corn, 1.773,106,576, agaiast 760,944,543; rye, 19, 863,632, against 16,918,795, THE excess of exports from over imports into this country during the twelve months ended April 30, 1881, was $259,073.961; twelve months ended Apiil 30, 188), $178,460,218. At Cochran, Ga., the other d y, in a quarrel between Mrs. Garrett and her daughter, the latter seized a shot-gun and blew off the top of her mother’s head. The father then whipped the g rl near y to death,

Four children of Andrew Lewis, living near Plain City, Ohio, set fire to a barn recently, and perished in the flames. THE excessive heat on the 27th caused a rail on the Louisville, New Albany & Chicaco Railroad to curl up, throwinz fourteen coal .cars off the track. A brakeman was Kkilled and several persons svere seriously hurt. Ture wharves of New Orleans have becn leascd for five years to Captain Joseph Aiken, who agrees to charge ocean steamships only five cents per ton for whar;age. CoNTrACTS have been made for the shipment of thirty thousand bushels of spring ‘wheat from Bt. Paul to Glasgow, via New Orleans, at twenty-eight cents per bushel. SECRETARY HUNT on the 27th ordered the Commander of the United States steamslip Alliance to proceed from Norfolk to the southern coast of Sp.tzbergen in search of the Jeannette. e o TaE boiler of alocomotive on the Nashville & Chattanooga Road exploded at the latter named ciiy on the 28th. The fireman, Charles Handeman, was blown fiity yards and instantly killed. The engineer had just sterped behind the tender, and escaped. A plece of fron we ghing nine pounds was thrown half a mile, and struck J. C. Finch, car ingpector of the East Tennessee, Virzinia & Georgia Railroad, causing instant death. One piece of fron, weighing two hundred pounds, passed through two cars and then knocked down the corner of a house.

Tae Chicago Infer-Ocean o! the 28th says the prevailing opinion among ciergymen and theologians who had been interviewed in different parts of the country was that the new Bible wus a success. Ithad been adopted for common use in many churches and theological schools. It is more cordially received in America than in Eogland. IN asix days’ pedestrian contest which ended ic New York City on the night of the 38th Albert Vint, a shoemaker of Brooklyn, won the belt, having made the unprecedented record of 57814 m les. Sullivan was second, with 569 miles to hia credit, and Haghes third, with a score of 55224 miles. IHE Co lier white-lead works in Bt. Louls were burned on the 29th. Loss about $150,A woMEN’s walking-mateh in fan Francisco, which ended on the night of the 28th, was a financial failure. Mrs. Howard made 3864 miles in six days, and Mrs. La Chapelle 353. JouN GriscoMm, of New York, on the 23th entered upon a prolonged fast in Chicago, in tue interest of science. Local physicians o: high standing will make daily examinations of the exper:mernter, and have been given full control of the affair. ' ' THE street railways of New York recently averted a general strike by conceding to their employes th: advance demanded. IN Francis Qounty, Ark, on the 28th George Latimer, a colored Baptist minister, was shot by Wililam Newsom, a desperado. Newsom was drunk, and demanded thas Latimer should kneel and pray, and when Latimer refused Newsom shot him. Latimer was old and aimost helpless, and the assault occasioned great indignation. A RECENT quarrel acising from some trivial cause led to a duel with knives between two lads named Trent and Strick.and at Waidron, Ark. The latter was probably fatally injured, as the fl.sh on uvis arms was cut into shoestrings and portion of his legs were slas.ed off. : ON the evening of the 28th a- party of burglars operated on a Minneapolis safe, and, after several hours’ hard labor, succeeded in blowing it open. They realized ¥4 for their labor, and one of the thieves was 80 ‘badiy injured that he could not leave when the store took fire. ¢ ‘A FIRE at Alexandria, Va., on the morning of the 29th originated in a house where two chi‘dren were locked in whaile the parents were absent, and the flames spread so ra, idly that the younger, an intant, was burned to death. The other child, aged three years, climbed out of a window and was saved.

~ Personal and Political. GENERAL J. A. WiLLiaMsoN, Commissioner of the General Land-Office, tendered his resiguation on the 24th, to accept the position of Land Commissionerof the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe branch of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. : Junge EBENEZER PECEK, ex-Judge of the Court of Ciaims, died in Chicazo on the 25th. He was seventy-six years old. A STATUE of Admiral Farragut was presented to New York City on the 25th. Secre-retary-of-the-Navy Hunt delivered the presentation speech, Mayor Grace delivered the speech of acceptance, and the statue was unveiled by Admiral M. Smith. TuE New York FHwvening DPost has . passed under the control of Carl Schurz, Horace White and E. L. Godkin., Mr. Schurz has assumed editorial charge of the paper. Tue New York Greenback State Convention isto be held at Elmira on the 231 of August. RT. REV. J. J. LLINTON, senior Bishop of the Africap M. E. Church, died. at Atiantic City, N. J., on the 25th, aged fifty-six years. “CoMMODORE NUTT,”” whose real name was George W. Morrison, the famous dwarf, died in New York City on the 25th. He was thirty-seven years of age and forty-three inches in height. A Crty oF MExilco dispatch of the 26th announces that General Grant’s railroal contracts and concessions had been approved Ly both houses of the Mex.can Congress, and that the ex-Presidegt, in company with Mr. Eads. had left Mex:co for the United States. ~ TuE thirteenth annual Convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association met in Boston on the 26th. Mrs.® Elizabeth Cady Stanton pres.ded, and delezates were present from fi. teen States and Territories.. MAX STRAKOSCH, the operatic impressario, has acknowie.iged that ke is a bankrupt, and has assigned his property to Charles H. Neilson ;or the benefit of his creditors. PRESIDENT GARFIELD has appointed Normal.VLliams, of Chicigo, Honorary Commissioner of the United States to the International Exhibition of electrical apparatus and to the Electrical Cougress which is to me-t in Paris next August. : ALFRED J. FrITZ, & prominent San Francisco politician, committed suicide on the 27th. THE resolutions adopted by the National Woman’s Suffrage Convention at its recent session in Buston demand that thé right of suffrage should be based on citizenship without distinetion of sex; that it is the duty of Congress to submit a proposition for a Sixteenth Amendment, prohtbiting States from disfranchising on account of sex; that women have the right to vote on the sulfrage amendments ‘in Indiana, Nebraska and Orezon. At a reception given to the members of the Convention Governor -Lon: announced himself as ‘heartily in favor of the movement. : Tae recent town elections in Virginia resulted favorably to the regular Democratic organizat.on 8 opposed to the Readjusters. Ex-CoNGRESSMAN JAMES WIiLsoN died- at Keene, N. H., on the 20th, aged eighty-five years. . Tur statue of Abraham Lincoln, in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. N. Y., was decorated on the 29th, i.. the presence of 8,000 persons. R:v. Congressman J. H,att Smith made the aldress. = PRESIDENT GARFIELD has appointed Charles Kaylo, of Indiana, Consul General of the United States in Prussia.

~ Foreign. 'Mr. G. H. Heap, Unitel SBtates Consul General at Constantinople, has reported to the Government the continued prevalence and extension of the plazue in spite of the most vigorous efforts to confine it. J A NOTED bandit chief, Niko, has, from his cave near Vodina, Roumelia, eaptured a rich land owner,and wants $30,000 for his ransom. ON the evening of the 24th the steamer Victoria, returning from Spring Bank, about three miles below Lond m, Ont., with 6)) excur:ionists on board, suddenly collapsed ard became a total wreck. All her passengers were plunged into the river, and over 240 persons perished. A : Tue Mexican Congress has given the President full power for eight months to contract with States or individuals for the ocenstruction of railways, i Ar Ottawa, Oot., a few days azo Johnny Rain, of that city, ran a mi.e in four minutes and twenty-eight seconds—the fastest time on record in America. TuR Bulgarian Government has arrested ex-Minister Karaveloff and procla‘med martial law in Rutschuk, Widdin and Tirnova. A NimiList bomb and explosive factory was discovered by tl;g French police at Montrouge, a subarb of Paris, on the Hth.

Bora bouses of the Mexlcin Conzressbave app-oved of Ea i’s contract ‘or a ship raiiway across the istomus of Tehuantep c. ‘ - PArRNELL has been ordered by his physicians to aovstain’ from work because of- illhealth. : DuriNg April there was a falling off of Irish emigration of about forty-five per cent. from that of the corresponding month last year. o - ; Tue City of P nsk, in Russia, containing a population of 18,00 J, has been nearly destroyed by a conflazration. Th 3 loss was very heavy, and great distress prevailed among the inhabitants. ' A NEw PaLLas ([reland) farmer was sentenced on the 25th to two months’ imprisonment with hard labor for assaultinz an English military officer. . HERR Mosr, editor of the London Freiheit, the Socialist journal, has been convicted of inciting to murder. On account of his being a foreiguer, the ju'y recommended him to the meicy of the court. » e Tre French mint is striking & peWw coin, composed of go d and s lver in equal propor tions, to circulate as a five<franc piece, which is to be presented to the Monetary Conference for its approval. GENERAL MILUTINE on the 26th tendered his resignazion as Minister.of War under the Czar. TeE Budgzet Committee of the French Chamber o 1 Députies report that the cost of the Tunisian expedition was under 14,000,000 irancs. 5 | NearvLy a'l the chiefs of the A'banian Learue have been arrested by Deérvisch Pisha. e i AN attempt at evictions caused a- battle near Carrick, Irgland, on the 26th, in which several persons were wounded. VAN RaaLTe, ja Duteh diamond merchant of Paris, suspended payment on the 26th. Bankers held his acceptances for eizht million franecs. ! e Duriya evictions at Mitchel'sville, Ireland, on the 27th an .mmense crowd stonel the agent of the estate. The poiice and soldiery charged the people several times, and many people and s veral soidiers were wouunded. Six baronies in Tipperary and one in Donegal were proclaimed on the 27th under the pro-vis-ons of the Coercion act. : . DESPITE measures to prevent the immigration of Russian Jews, they are said to be entering Mo davia in great numbers. - THE truth of the late report of the hanging of Hessy Helfmann, one of the female assassins of the late Czar of Russia, was officiallydenied on the 27th. :

A Loxpox dispatch of the 27th says the holders of Confederate bonds in London were about to petition the United States to pay their bonds. _THE first electric railway is workine in the vicinity of Berlin so satisfactorily that a second I 8 projected to run to another district of the suburbs. The cost of construction is £7,500 per kilometer. ' " THE German Government has ordered the expuls'on of Mormon m.ssionaries who have been endeavoring to make pros:lytes. Spaxisa Commissioners have gore to the uninhabited island of Culebra, near Porto Rico, to fix a site for a settlement and distribute lots for colonists. 2 . AX election in Paris on the 29th to fill the seat in the Chamber of Deputies made vacant by the death of Emile de Girardin, resulted in the choice of Anatole Forge, a Rejublican. ; ‘A CONSTANTINOPLE telezram of the 29th says the Sultan bhad called upon the Bey of Tunis to acknowledge that he is a vassal of the Sultan, and threatened that, -if he did not so acknowledge himself, sentence of deposition would be pronounced. On the other hand the French had - threatened to depose him if he did not renounce his allegiance to the Sultan. Durineg the two weeks ended on the 28th there was an increase of 313 cases of smalljox in London, and there were on the date named 1,600 cases in the hospitals, of which one hundred cases were admitted the day before. = DeMPSEY, an Irish farmer, who took land from which a tenant hal been evicted, was assassinated from behind a hedge in the County Galway on the 29th. —

~ LATER NEWS, | DECOrATION DAY (30th u't.) was generally and appropriately observed throughout the country, In many sections the graves of both the Union' ald Confederate dead were alike decorated with flowers. At the Gettysburg National Cemetery the assembiage num. bered fifteen thousand. There was an imposing military dis slay at Washington, and the President attended decoration ceremonies at the Soldiers’ Hyme. There were special ceremonies at the Washington Monument in Philadelphia. | TaE lil.nois Legislature adjourned sine die on the 30th uit. ABourB 0 persons, rerresenting the League of American Wheelmen, assembled in Boston on the 30th ult, and‘ paraded throu_h the principal streets onfbicyeles. Tre Chicago| Inler Ocean of the 31st ult. says a gentleman just in from the West, where he had traveled extensively, gave the +nost glowing accounts of the prospective crops. He saysithe long, eold winter did not result so disastrously to stock as was expected, and the people seemed to have forgotten all the:r| discomforts in the hurry of business. He says in every section there were hundreds of home hunters, and real estate was advancing. The past year thousands of mortgages were paid off, and merchants and others declare their payments -were never miade more promptly. : ONX the 30th ult. a farmernamed Lynch was ‘arrested at Kilroan, Ireland, unde<r the provisions of the (Coercion act, and loiged in jail at Galway. |On the same day Kettle, of the Irish L .nd League Executive Committee, was arrested on h.s return from a visit to Brennan and conveyed to Maas jail.

At a caucus of the Democratic members of the New York Legislature on the evening of the 3uth ult. State BSBenator John C. Jacobs was unanimously nominated to fill the vacancy.in the United States Senate caused by the resignation of Senator Conxling, and Francis P. Kernan to succeed Mr. Platt. The Republicans made no nominabionsiin caucus. Fiityseven members | attended the anti-Conkling caucus, at which resolutions were adopted to withhoid support from Messrs. Conkling and Platt. Atthe ojening of the Assembly in the evening the Senate resolution for a Joint Convention on the Ist, to elect United States Senators, was unanimously adopted. SECRETARY BLAINE had a long conference with Bir Edward Thornton, the British Minister at Washington, on the 28th ult., in reierence to the outrages on American fishermen in Fortune Bay and the claims growing out of them. Secretary Blaine claim:d on behaif of the American fishermen $lOB.OOO, and the result of the conference was that the British Minister on the part of his Government consented to pay £l5OOO (something over $75,000) in gold cu n, and the United States Government wou d ' g've a receipt in tull. The money will b: distr buted among the fishermen whose interests suffered, most of whom are residents o. Gloucester, Mass, '

- A HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE. An Excursion Boat Near London, Canms da, Suddenly Collapses and Sinks—Of the 600 Passengers on Board Nearly 230 Are Drowned—Gross Carelessness the Alleged Cause of the Terrible Acsident. ; : ‘ LONDON, Ont., May 24. THIS evening at ¢ix o'clock the steamer Viotoria, with over 600 excursionists on board, was returning from Spring Bauk, and when near the Cove Railway bridge, one mile below this city, the boat suddenly collapsed like an egyg sheil and became a total wreck, level with the water's edge. All the passengers were instantly plunged into the stream, more than half of them being-underneath the debris. The first news which reached the city was brought by survivors, who struggled through the strests wet and weary. . : The news feil like a thunderbolt, and a stampede took place for the! spot. Arriving there a te_rriblé sight met the view. Fifty or sixty bodies had already been recovered and were lying on the green sward some distance up the bank. £ g . Those arriving from the city from every direction crowded around, anxious to see if any relatives were on board. Several hundred families were represented on the excursion, and the wail at the sight of the victims was heartrending. Faihers, mothers, brothers and sisters rushed about panic-stricken, endeavoring to identify relatives. By seven o'clock about eighty bodies were recovered from under the wreck, where the water was twelve feet in depth. Almost every minute some victim was brought to the surface and conveyed to the boat. ¢ The steamer Princess Louise was early brought to the spot and the victims placed on the upper decks. Fires were lit on the bank overlookin< the river, and petroleum torches were brought andthe search continued. Allis in the deepest confusion. The newspaper staffs, like ail else, are sadly demoralized. all having friends involved in the calamity. The whole city seems almost demented to-night. The accident was entirely due to gross carelessness. The boat was overcrowded to a disgraceful extent. The manager, George Parish, was expostulated with' by several at Spring Bank, and urged not to let the boat go out in that overcrowded condition, but he is reposted to have xjepl_ied;, *“All right, I know my business,” or something of that sort. Mr. Samuel Stewart, a stove merchant, one of those who protested, left the boat at Spriang Bank with his tamily. Several hundred more remained there, ?hable to get passage, .and had to walk home, a distance of four miles, to-night, no coaveyance of any kind being available. - i

Lok ;LATER. T : LONDON, Ont., May 25. OUp to the present time (10:30 p. m.) 238 bodies have been recovered. It is believed there are several yet beneath the wreck. : . HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED. About four o’clack in the afternoon the Victoria, of the Thames Navigation Company’s line, started fromthe dock on her fourth and her last trip for the day, with a large load of passengers of all ages, variously estimated at from 400 to 600. All went well on the down trip, though the boat was so heavily laden that she shipped water in small quantities occasionally, when a crowd would happen to surge to any particularside. _On the return -trip, when more than halfway home, a slight commotion on the boat, said by some to have been the playful pranks of a number of youths on the lower deck, and by others ascribed to the boat striking on a snag, eaused the erowd, out of curiosity, torush to the side, and, as the side of the boat sank with addjtional weight, a volume of water a foot or two in depth poured in upon the lower deck, which was erowded with passengers. Instantly the crowd on both decks rushed to the oppysite side, and their weight, together with that of the water shipped by the boat, caused it to/lurch in the opposite direction. Then it was that the disaster occurred. Theside of the boat sank in the water to the depth of one or two feet, and while tho crowd of people on the lawer deck were struggling to save themselves from siipping down into the river, the stanchions supporting the upper deck suddenly gave way, and the who'e Btructure, with its load of human beings, came : down on those who were below, crushing them on the deck and rendering escape out of the question.. 1t is impossible to describe the scene that followed. The boat continued to settle on its side deeper into the water, taking with it many of the pass¢ngers who were stunned by the fall of the upper deck, and were unable to help themseives. Scores sank in the water without an effort, while many others, who were 'preclpltatedfi into the river unhurt, rent the air with their vain appeals for that succor which those passengers who were safe were powerless to extend. . . The utmost exertions were put forth to res. cue as many of the drowning ones. as possible, and many were saved from a watery grave. As soon as possible help was secured and the | work of recovering the bodies from the river and from the wreck proceeded with. The bodies were placed oh the steamboat Louise as | fast as they were brought up, and then taken to the company’s docks, where the task of iden- | tification began. | : | The acc'deat oceurred at about 6:15, and it was midnight before the bodies so far recovered were brought back to the city. Here a most heart-rending scene ensued. The bodies, as fast as transferred from the steamers, were laid out in rows ogx the grass by the river side, all in their holiday attire, anl, with the aid of torches, the faces were eagerly scanned by hundreds of anxigus friends iooking for their missing ones. to A gpodly proportion of the drowned are men in middle life, and many are children ot tender years. Many were the walils of sorrow which foliowed the identificat on of relatives. Perhaps it is the mother who discovers her child, or chiluren a parent. One man was heard inquiring for four children. As fast as corpses werg claimed they were taken in charge by their friends, and removed to their homes. vl

s INCIDENTS. A small lad, in his fall into the water, struck on the back of Mr. William Ashburg (whose wife was drowned). Mr. Ashburg telt the obJect on his shoulders weigh heavily, and, not knowing what in was, shook to free himself from his *“man of the sea.”” All to no purpose, however. The little chap hung on with the desperation of despair, and Mr. Ashburg was able to reach the shore more dead than alive. No more desperate struggle for life ever took p:aée than that in which Nicholas Wilson engaged immediately after the disaster. App ehend ng the danger, he told his newlymarried wife to cling to the railing, and a moment later he found himself floundering in the water. Btrange to say, Mrs. Wilson was thrown directly into his arms, and, seizing her firmly, he struck out for shore. On the way a strong, big man, overcome with fear, seized him by the throat, and hung there for dear life. The whole three must inevitably bhave sunk but for Mr. Wilson's presence of mind. He seized the fellow with his tecth, and bit him with all his force. The hold was then relaxed, and with weakened strength, and still bearing his wife in his arms, he struggled toward the shore. But a few feet had been pussed, however, before he was again seized with a visc-like grip by a drowning man, and in the struggle he lost his wife. He rcached the shore exhausted, and fooked about to see his wife saved, in some unaccountable way, by his side. They both then became unconscisus. 4 ---~——-f-——‘o-’-———:—-— —The buildinfi improvements in Salt Lake City for the coming season, it is estimated, will reach the value of $l,- . ettt Pt el —The escape of a steam boiles has & gort of flue-went expression. |

A Day of Funerals. : LONDON, Ont., May 286, THiS has been a day of funerals. Over one hundred and fifty have been buried already, the process of Mmterment being kept up till after dark. The cemetery authorities and the clergy have been busy all day. Every avalias ble venicle in the city was in use. and the hackdrivers and livery-keepers put the figures up to a most extortionate rate. All of the ecity hacik-drivers will be fin=d for exceeding the .charges laid down in the city ordinances; but, as the fine is limited, they e¢an pay it a hundred times over and still be largely ahead on the day’s trade. Instanc2s are kuown where ten dollars was charged for two hours’ use of a common dray, that can be hired ordinarily for twenty-five cents an hour. All sorts of vehicles were used as neaises, and & never-ending procession of funerals was kept up. They met and mingled at every street corner, and it was impossible - after they got started to tell where one party ended and the other began, save by the presence of a cotlin in some of the conveyances. Milk carts, grocery delivery wago)s, democrat wagons, lumber wazous—in short, everything on wheéls was pressed into gervice. At one street corner seven funerais merged and proceceded in . one procession. One of the most melancholy signts was a procession of six veuicles. The first one contained a ooffin, the second two cotfing, tiie third three coilins, and the other three vehicles the friends of the family, or, at least, such of the friends as were not attending funerals in other quarters of ths city. As the melancholy processions passed, people lined the sidewalks and sobs were audible in - many streets. Strong men turned aside to conceal their emotion, and many wept outright. Prayers were heard all along the line, Business was entirely suspended., and the: saloons closed their doors and refused to do business in the face of the solemn ceremonies of the day. People from the surrounding, district flocked in by train and conveyance to express their sympathy with the bereaved city and take partin the funerals, Several who lived at a distance and had friends in the vicinity of the city, as soon as the news was received, came to see if theirs~ were among the lost. From early in the morning the roads leading to the city were crowded with vehicles driving ‘in to hear the rews of the disaster. Wherever any one could be found who had been on the Victo:ia there was a crowd gathered around to hear the details of the accident. There were but few who had not lost some relative or friend, and about whom some fond remembrgnces were told. of ‘“the last time I saw poor Tom,” or how Bsuch mother and father* had lost children, or how such children were left orphans and thrown on the charity of the world. Cases were mentioned where whole families had been blotted out, and the houses remained locked up and the keys in the dead men's pockets until they were recognized .at the dead house. There was nothing but wailing @nd lamentations and unutterable woe. The Odd-Fellows, Masons and other societies turned out and paid the last mark of respect to such as were mem-f bers of their orders. Owing to the scarcity of children’s coflins, in many instances it was found necessary to bury a small child in an adult’s coffin. A car-load of coflins arrived per Great Western Railway on yesterday, but they were not equal to the demand. ~ Miss Fannie Cooper and Mr. William Glass died in each other's arms. They were to have been married in two weeks, and the trosseau had been prepared. They were 'buried together, she wearing the dress in which she was to have been married. A number of persons in the city have become insane, and it is feargd that the lunatic asylum in this city will have to be utilized to confine some. Most of them, however, can be cared for by their friends. Thoey have fallen fnto a state -of melancholy, a much more in-, curable form of insanity than the acute mania which grief generally produces. . All the bodies have now been identified.

Resolutions Adopted by the Recent Cas nal Convention at Davenport. ' DAvVENPORT, Iowa; May 286. THE Committee on Resolutions made ‘the following report through its Chairman, General T. J. Henderson: : This Convention, represeanting the pecople of the Missis~ippi Valley and of the Northwest, in pursuance of the purposes thereof, unanimously declare: o 1. That the Congress of the United States should devise by law, and sustain by libera! and eflicient appropriations, a system of cheap transportation by water routes connecting the - Mississippi River and its tributaries with the eastern Atlantic® seaboard and thke Guif of Mexico. ‘ ! 2. That it has been the policy of Congress and the desire of the people of the Northwest for many years to inaugurate and complete a system of water channelimprovement, having the Mississippi for its base; that to give greater efficiency te this policyi there should be constructed from the Mississippi River, on the most direct and feasible rou e to the Illinois River at Hennepin, and thence to the lake at Chicago, a canal adequate to te present and future transportation needs of that great part of the Northwest to whose people such a work of inte nal improvement is an imperative necessity for relief from the excessive freight rates on the produce and commerce of the country, and that the work so long needed should be immediately commenced. 3. That the continued improvemé&nt of the Mississippi River under the auspices of the Mississippi River Commission, created by act of Congress, i 3 a work of such National importance that the Congress of the United States ought to promote that scheme of improvement by the most liberal appropriations, in a separate approp iation bill therefor, and that we emphasize and indorse the united and earnest demand of the people of the entre Mississ ppi Valley that Congress shall make prompt and adequate appropriations for the improvement of the river and its navigable tributaries from the Fails of St. Anthopy to the Gulf of Mexico, and that th s Convention ‘bas. no sympathy with any policy that would deprecate or hinder this great enterp ise of making fully navigable and bulding up a great commerce upon this central river—Nature’s great h.ghway of the continent. ; 4. That we hail with peculiar satisfaction the increasing success of the barge line sys- ' tem of transportation on the Mississippi and its tributaries, and the relief it gives to the producers and shippers of the Mississippi Valley in the cheapening of ‘freights. 5. That we heartily favor the proposed cession of the lilinois & Michigan Canal and the improvements on the Illinois River by the State of Illinois, and declare that the Erie Ca. nal should be made free of tolls: therefore, we hope for the early success of the efforts inatgurated to secure these results. ' ‘ 6. That the Commission under the auspices of whica this Convention has been called be continued, with the proviso that its membership be enlarged by che selection of an addi- ‘ tional member from each State represented in this body, which additional member shall be named by the delegates of the respective States, said Commission to afterward elect its ' own officers and mature ite own organi-ation. 7. That the Commission, when reorganized as contemplated herein, be requested to select two gentlemen fom each State to present to Congress the appeal for the support to the work of internal improvement which is con‘templated by the foregoing resolutions, £ - The report was unanimously adopted amidst ohqggs;__*‘*____ el —People who set the fashions haten out many silly styles. : il S :v«fi it T——:“m S l 4 . —A poor fool is just as well off as & rich one—in his mind. e i

THAT MISTER MAHONE. id you hear of one Mister Mahone, pl ¥ . Ochone! Went off by himself all alone, . Alone? 0, he's broke all the hearts 2 Of his friends in them parts, This tlagrant O(I)l(l’(li] einl ral Mahone, : one This flagrant ould Gin’ral Mahone. - Of wooers he had a full score, = - * 0 -Or more, , With places he wished, three or four, : “In store. From the President down All the men of renown i Were.atier tm%Mister Mahone, . ; Ochone! ; e Were after this Mister Mahone. But so shy seemed this Mister Mahone, h o "T'was known i That some one must see him alone, Ochonel For ogle or sigh < He'd not care; they must buy The vote of this Mr, Mahone, : ‘Ochone! - ‘ : The vote of this Mister Mahone, | Then one Mr. Conkling, O, dear! : ] . How queer! . : It’s little for shiners he’d care : Anywhere, : Put a flea in his ear, : And he yielded, 1 hear, Eane For a Sergeant-at-Arms did Mahone, : - Hisown! ; For a Sergeant-at-Arms did Mahone! Then this man, whom; they’d all thought upright, . ‘ Near, or quite! To his honor at once bade good night, in a fright! ‘ ; But *Roscoe,”” says he, : : * Since you ve now made so free, Won't youa throw in my Gornam, my own, Ochone! : Won’tyou throw in my Gorham, my own?’, There’s a moral contdined in my song; - It’s not wrong, . And one comfort, it's not uuif as long, e As it's strong ! If a vote on the sly. ] | In the Senate you'd buy, You haa better steer clear of such sieves a 8 Maaone; : . S Ochone! You had better steer clear of such sieves - a 8 Mahone !—Detruit Free Fress.

‘Republican' Leaders Alarmed and Dis- . mayed. : Therevelations concerning the ¢“Starroute’’ swindle have tilled the Republican bosses with alarm and dsmay. They find the men entrusted with the management of the late Piesidential canvass on their side steeped to their eyes in that’ monstrous iniquity. Dorsey, who superintended the purchase of Indiana and was complimented with a public dinner at which Viee-President Arthur toasted him as the eflicient distributor of ‘‘political tracts;’ Brady, who was called upon for material aid 'by Garfield through Hubbell, the Chairman of the Republican Congressional. Committee; Gorham, the candidate for Secretary of the Senate and editor of the Washington organ of the stalwarts, and who was the associate and ass stant of Dorsey in Indiana, were the organizers and leaders of their party during the late Presidential canvass. Dorsey, it turns out, was one of the chief beneficiaries of the irauds committed on the Government through the connivance of Brady, late Second Assistant Postmas-ter-General, and Gorham is. his chum, adviser and defender. In order to soften the effect which the disclosures concerning Dorsey. Brady & Co. necessarily must have on the fortune of the Republican party the bosses at Washington invented and circulated the story tnat the nomination of General. Hancock Yor the Presidency was secured by the use of money contributed by the ‘‘Star-ronte’ r.ng. This bold and outrageous - falsehood was telegraphed from Washington to such journals as are known to be ready'to publish any scandal that is likely to make a sufiicient sensation to procure them a few additional readers. In order to invest the calumny with an air of probability a statement was injected into it to the effect that ‘:an anti-Randall de'egation’ was sent from this State to the Cincinnati Convention through the expenditure of ‘‘Star-route’’ money. But this simply served to stamp the lie with its true character. The delegation from this State was not ‘‘anti-Randall.” The ex-Speaker’s friends orzanized the delegation, elected _its chairman (Mr.Malcolm Hay, of Pittsburgh), controlled its committees, and would have given their favorite for President a ma,ority of its votes: had not the pressure in favor of Hancock from the people, in thousands of enthusiastic telegrams to the delegates, destroyed their hopes. This is a matter of hisiory and is well known to every member of the delegation from this State to . the Cincinnati Convention. But the charge. that - Hancock’s ~nomination was corruptly procured fell everywhere on increduloas ears, and now the bosses -are obliged to change their tactics in order td throw some of the odium of the ¢ Star-route’’ iniquity. on the Democrats. The other day a numRker of persons were arrestéd in Philadelphia and taken beiore the United States Commissioper' on charges of complicity in certain frauds perpetrated, on the ‘Government in the letting of contracts for carrying the mails. At once it was announced through the columns of the sensational press that the: accused parties are friends of exSpeaker Randa:l, but it was ‘gen\er_ously_r agded that it is thought the ex-Speaker: had no knowledge ofgth’exs connection with the fraudulent mail contracts! This shows how severe is the test to. which the ingenuity of the Republicang bosses is subjected in their efforts to divert public attention from the real criminals in the ‘Star-route’ frauds and to transfer to the Democracy some of the odium which jattaches to their own party on account of the prominent part played in those frauds by the men who ruaised the sinews of war and purchased the victory for Garfield and Ar--thur last November.—~Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot. i rheE 4 L 8 : {

——DBilly - Mahone will presently emerge from the little end of the horn. He is no longer a great, a vital prin- . ciple. He is nothing but a private, a. small-bore Confederate trigadier. Like the juckdaw that strutted with a peacock’s feather in its tail, he is derided: ?IY both the peacocks and the daws. e must now go and floek all by him-. self. His vote is no longer of consequence. : ——— ~——The whole country now knows. how the Democratic party was beaten last fall. Dorsey and Brady, the chiefs of*® the *Star-route’ fraud; took the money from the Tre asul('iy to corrupt the people. They carried Indiana in October, and: fairly stunned the Democratic party by the extent of their ele%filfihéfiihg ‘Tesources., “The hl_dml,g~ - shirt, with money," did the work. 3 an