Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 6, Number 48, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 26 February 1885 — Page 2

Dfypane* ‘SEeehlg gjnus. NAPPANEE, : : INDIANA. Congressman Hitt, of Illinois, is said to be worth $3,000,000. Dynamite has been discovered in the Shetland Islands. News from the moon is now rfixiotrdy awaited. The latest traffic of the smugglers between Buffalo and Canada is in dead bodies for Canadian dissection rooms. The Bell telephone patent has been declared roid in Canada for failure to comply with the terms of the Dominion patent laws. The ice-bridge at Niagara Falls this winter is said to be the most massive for many years, and is estimated to be over sixty feet thick. I Rev. Charles E. Burdette, a brother of the humorist, was married recently to Miss Minnie Russell, a fel- * low-missionary in Farther India. It is said that Edward Everett Hale is the only survivor of seven newspaper n who reported Webster’s address at the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument sixty years ago. The statement it made that during the year 1884 there were 3,900,000 acres entered in South Dakota, and that 160 post-offices, seven daily and 79 weekly newspapers were established. Adam Forepacgh has offered Mrs. Victoria Morosini Huelskamp ten thousand dollars to travel with his show the coming season and pose as Cleopatra with her coachman-husband in the role of Anthony. In the Connecticut Legislature a resolution was introduced a few days ago to establish a State Fireman’s Association. one of whose functions shall be the “complication of statistics.” This was not a printer's error. The driven-well patent, which has been the source of so much troublesome litigation against farmers, expired recently, and any one is free hereafter to drive a well on his own premises without fear of prosecution. We think we have discovered the meanest man in the person of a Memphis (Tenn.) undertaker who recently exhumed the body of a little girl he hted buried and returned it to its mother because she could not pay two dollars, the price of interment. The whipping-post still survives in Delaware. Nine convicts were whipped at Newcastle recently, eight for larceny and one for burglary. The latter, a negro, received twenty lashes and stood for an hour in the pillory. The others received ten lashes each. One lamentable effect of the dvnamite outrages in London is the discharge of Irish people from employment there. It is said that over 40,000 Irish people are out of work in that city, of whom fully one-tenth have been dismissed since the recent explosion. A Singular phenomenon is reported from Stone Creek Valley. Perry County, O. A solid sheet of ice and sleet formed the other da}* on a tract of forty acres of valuable timber land, and the weight of it was so great as to level effectually to the earth'every tree in the tract A detective in the Mexican Revenue Department met with a rather unpleasant experience a few days ago. He attempted to seize the stock of a trader at. Jalisco for selling unstamped cigarettes, but was doused in a fountain, tarred and feathered, and driven through the streets to the music of a band. Philadelphia comes to the front with a romantic marriage. William Oliver and Bessie Roberts, two young people accused of stealing jewelry, having been convicted, expressed a desire to marry. They joined hands and were married,' after which the Judge sentenced them to two months each in the House of Correction. In the United States Treasury the fund to the credit of the Money-order Office on account of unclaimed orders now amounts to about $1,250,000. The Postoffice Department has recently issued a circular to the postmasters who have issued unclaimed money orders, notifying them that money orders issued by them remain unpaid, and instructing them to hunt up the remitters. A new but effectual method of suicide is reported from Reading, Pa. John Steinman, aged sixty-three, a bachelor of peculiar fiabits and the owner of a two hundred-acre farm at Hall’s, wellstocked with cattle, was found in his barn sticking in a barrel, head downward, and with life extinct He was burdened down with weights and stones tied around his neck, showing that it was a deliberate suicide. Prior to suiciding he killed all the stock upon the place by cutting their throats. The recent decision of a Minneapolis Circuit Court Judge deserves to go thundering down the ages. A statute of the State provides that anybody who shall give information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person who steals a horse shall be paid a reward of S2OO. An officer ran down a man who stole a mule and at great trouble and expense secured his conviction. When he came to apply for the reward he was refused, and on suiug for it lie was thrown out of court by the Judge declaring that under no circumstances is a mule to be considered a horse. Thus are the liberties and cash of the people preserved. The Oklahoma region, in Indian Territory, about which there is much excitement, is a tract of land extending from Red River in Indian Territory to the Kansas line, containing about fourteen million acres. The tract is some three hundred miles in length from north to south and two hundred miles in breadth. It was purchased by the Government in 1866 of the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole Indians, with a view of settling freedmen and friendly Indians thereon. A good deal of the land is of excellent quality, well watered and tempting to land-grabbers. It is said that none of the purchase money has been paid, while the lands obtained of the Cherokees were by the terms *>f sale to remain in possession of the tribe until occupied and paid for.

NEWS OF THE WEEK. BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. XLVlllth CONGRESS. Second Session. In the Senate on the 17th the bill authorizing the sale of part of the lands of the Winnebago Indians In Nebraska was passed. 'The AntiForeign Contract Labor bill was considered. —ln the House the Appropriation Committee reported the Naval bill, calling for $13,515,838. Mr. Dorsbeimor introduced a bill to regulate the coinage and prmnote the equal circulation of gold and silver. The Legislative Appropriation Dill was passed. The Senate on the 18th passsed—so to lithe Anti-Foreign Contract Labor bill. The bill forbids the importation of aliens into the United States to perform labor; exceptions are made in favor of artists, actors, lecturers, singers and domestic servants. A bill was reported to enable the Pres dent to negotiate for the opening of Oklahoma, providing a penalty or line or imprisonment for entering upon the lands without authority of law In the House the time was occupied in discussing the River and Harbor bill. In the Senate on the 19th the Texas Paciflo Land Grant Forfeiture bill passed, as was also a resolution appropriating $2,500 for inauguration expenses. The Post-Office Appropriation bill was reported In the House further consideration of the River and Harbor bill occupied the greater part of the session. The Senate on the 20th passed the Agricultural Appropriation bill and discussed the Post-office Appropriation bill at considerable length In the House nearly the entire day was occupied in further consideration of the Htver and Harbor bill. At the evening session fifty pension bills were passed. FROM WASHINGTON. Th* exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 14th aggregated $716,678,111, against $727,781,013 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding period of 1884, the falling off amounts to 27.6 per cent. Advices of the 18th state that members of the diplomatic corps were resigning daily. Taft of Austria, Astor of Italy, and Young of China, had already tendered their resignations, and intimations had been received at the State Department that the resignations of most of the others had already been forwarded. There were 287 business failures in the United States and Canada during the seven days ended on the 13th, against 307 the previous seven davs. The distribution was as follows: Middle States, 48; New England States, 27; Western, 90; Southern, 66; Pacific States and Territories, 33; Canada, 33. 3 The recent railroad collision in the District of Columbia caused the death of five train hands, the loss of about SIOO,OOO in currency in the express safe, and the destruction of more valuable mail matter than was ever before known.

THE EAST. A fierce snow and wind-storm prevailed on the 17th in the northern and western portions of New York State. At Troy, Buffalo and other points great damage was done, and the railroads were completely blockaded. A firk destroyed C. A. Coffin & Co’s shoe factory in Lynn, Mass., on the 17th. Loss, SIOO,OOO. C. B. Tehbett’s shoe factory was .damaged $90,000. In New York recently George McThews, son of the founder of the soda-water business in that city, died from pneumonia, and his widow died from the same disease twenty-four hours later. The cotton mills of New England with the exception of the Pepperell Company, report a losing business for the last half of 1884, production being still in advance of consumption. General Grant’s physician on the 19th pronounced him recovered from the throat and tongue ulceration which at one time it was feared would lead to a fatal result. On the 19th flames burst forth in a cotton warehouse in Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and raged until an entire square was destroyed. Two firemen were killed. The losses aggregated .$250,000. O’ Donovan Ross a on the 19th returned to his home in Brooklyn. He has entirely recovered from the effects of his wound. Joseph Haberecker, his wife and three children were out sleighing at Muncy Valley, Pa., a few nights ago, when the horses ran away, overturning the vehicle and dragging it a long distance. The entire family were killed. Oliver, of Boston, on the evening of the 20th held his wife on the floor while he cut her throat with a jack-knife, and then cut his own throat from ear to •ar. No cause was known for the deed. The Marvin safe factory in New York, valued at $230,000, was destroyed by fire on the 20th. The death of William C. Kingsley, famous as the builder of the Brooklyn bridge, occurred at his home in Brooklyn on the 20th, at the age of fifty-two years. WEST AND SOUTH. The lowa Legislature has adopted a bill forbidding any one to sell or give tobacco to minors. Merchants and others at Cameron, W. Va. have been defrauded by a woman representing herself as Mrs. Scoville, the sister of Guiteau. A coal famine prevailed at Bloomington and other places in Illinois on the 17th, owing to the railroads being blockaded by snow, and actual suffering was reported in some small towns. Farmers were burning fencing and corn. Elizabeth Bony, aged ninety-six years, committed suicide on the 17th by burning lerself to death in her house near Falmouth, Ky. The Nebraska Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors. A fire on the 17th swept away the business portion of Bisbee, A. TANARUS., the loss reaching SIOO,OOO. Thirty persons lopt their lives by the recent snow-slide at Alta, Utah. The first regular ballot for United States Senatof was taken in the Illinois Legislature on the 18th, there being but two'&bsentees. John A. Logan received 101 vdtes, W. R. Morrison 94, E. M. Haines 4, James H. Ward 1, Frank Lawler 1 and John Smith 1. In the Virginia coal-fields near Pocahontas riots were reported on the 18th, owing to the discharge of miners on account of business depression. On the 18th Lake Michigan was frozen from shore to shore. The ice vat ied from eight inches to three feet in thickness. James Reynolds, Residing in Hawkins County, Tenn., recently put kerosene on the heads of his three children to kill vermin. Two of the little ones' died, but the third survived. A fire destroyed the steamers Ida Darragh and City of Helena, with full cargoes, and the wharf-boats at Memphis on the 18th, the losses aggregating SIOO,OOO. The failure is announced of Bray Bros., grain commission merchants at San Francisco, for $500,000. ■ln Hon. Harry Oelrich’s barn near Cheyenne, Wy. TANARUS., a fire a few afternoons ago destroyed the imported stallion Brudant, which cost $15,000, Cleveland Boy, worth $5,000, and three other horses and a number of carriages. The closing on the ’Bth of the Victoria iron mines and fui-ace in Rockbridge County, Va., threw -welve hundred men out of work. Both houses of the Michigan Legislature has passed the resolution for subiuitting a prohibitive amendment to the people. The E. V. Olive, a fruit schooner, went ashore a few nights ago on Dixie Island, at the entrance of Mobile Bay. Five lives were lost. Ben Coombs shot and killed his wife and her paramour, Jake Mason, on the 19th, at Hogdenville, Ky., and then eloped with Mrs. Mason. The other day Bob Johnson, a negro boy, who assassinated a citizen near Princeton, W. Va., was taken from jail by a mob, tied to a tree and riddled with bullets. An explosion of natural gas killed four men at Ashtabula, 0., a few mornings ago. A few days ago four men were killed by a collision on the Virginia Midland Road, near Alexandria.

The failure of C. Cavaroc’s Sons & Cos., of Chicago, wholesale wine and liquor dealers, for SIOO,OOO, is announced. Every member of the Illinois Legislature on the 19th participated in three ballots for United States Senator, the result in each case being the same. John A. Logan received 100 votes and W. R. Morrison 94, the remaining 10 votes being scattered among seven persons. On the Alton Road a stock-train was wrecked at Sag Bridge, 111., on the 19th-, by a broken rail, killing one hundred head of cattle. Gidiere, Day & Cos., of New Orleans, have failed for $712,328. On the evening of the 19th a loss of nearly $300,000 was incurred in Chicago by the burning of the Gr&nnis Block, in dearborn street, and damage to adjacent propfe? erty. New petroleum wells are being opened daily at Macksbjirg, 0., three spouters, averaging seventy-five barrels ea<h, were struck on the 19th, and the population was rapidly increasing. In Rit hie County, W. Va., valuable silver discoveries have been made, and it was asserted on the 19th that the Baltimore & Ohio Road ballasted its tracks for miles through the mountains with silver quartz. On the 19th seventy-five Mormon converts left Chattanooga, Teun., for Salt Lake City, Utah. They were from East Tennessee, North Georgia and North Carliua. Elder John Morgan, head of the church in the South, said the elders were meeting with great success. Churches were being estallished in all parts of Virginia and North Carolina. The sleeper of the Ohio & Mississippi passenger train was thrown down an em bankment near North Vernon, Ind., on the 20th, resulting in the loss of three lives and the injuring of several others. } On the 20th three ballots for United States Senator were taken in tha Illinois Legislature, every member being present. Logan twice received 100 votes, and then 101. Morrison had 95, 97 and 98. Ox the 20th the Oregon Legislature adjourned sine die. The Senatorial deadlock continued until the end of the ( session, and no United States Senator was chosen. In a railroad accident near Ashton, Mo., nine people were injured the other night. The east-bound train on the Wabash struck a broken rai/, and two passenger cars plunged over a bridge. In the Tuscarawas Valley, Ohio, the striking miners have agreed to a reduction of ten per cent in their wages, and have resumed work. The other day the house of a colored woman named Alice Wilson, living in Buncombe CouDty, N. C., caught fire and her three small children were burned to death. It was’said that over one hundred colored children had been burned to death in this maimer since October last. The mothers, while at work in the fields, leave the children locked in the houses. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Advices of the 17th state that General Wolseley had decided to remain at Korti with the present force of 1,500 troops until General Evelyn Wood reported as to the situation at Metemneh. The Arabs were said to be deserting from Metemneh in large numbers, and entering the British camp at Gubat. The heaviest snow-storm for years raged in the neighborhood of Montreal on the 17th, and railroad traffic was at a standstill, immense quantities of snow having drifted on the tracks. A similar state of affairs prevailed at Quebec. On the 18th the Canadian voyngeurs w ho took General Wolseley’s boats up the Nile were preparing to sail from Queenstown for home. Ten of the command were drowned, two died from fever and two were killed on the railway in Egypt. The governor of Sonora, Mex., it is said has given the Mormons the right to settle in Yaqui County. The county is represented to be one of the richest sections in the world. Detectives in Toronto, Can., held up Charles M. Weed, the absconding bookkeeper of Milmine, Bodman & Cos., of Chicago, on the 18th and forced him to disgorge $25,000 which he had embezzled. Mrs. James Russell Lowell, wife of the American Minister to England, died on the 19th in London. Irkutsk advices of the 19th [reported a revolt among the Russian exiles, in Eastern Siberia, which was quelled with great difficulty. Nin? soldiers and thirty exiles were killed. London advices of the 19th state that the plans of the Soudan campaign had been changed, the main body of the British army having been ordered to concentrate at Korti. It was believed that General Wolseley would be recalled to Cairo or London. The British Parliament opened in London on the evening of the 19th. No person not duly authorized was allowed to pass the gates. The death of General Sir Herbert Stewart, who was wounded at the battle of Abu-Klea Wells, was reported on the 20th. The British Government had called out the militia and suspended transfers of officers from the regular army to the reserves. The English arsenals were preparing more war material for Egypt than was sent to the Crimea.

LATER. The completion of the Washington monument was celebrated on the 21st at the National Capital with great rejoicings. The ceremonies opened with an address by Senator Sherman at the monument. Hon. W. W. Corcoran formally presented the obelisk to the United States, and President Arthur accepted it with an appropriate response. Masonic rites followed. In tho House of Representatives, where both branches of Congress were assembled, Mr. Edmunds’ brief speech was followed by tho address of the day, written by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and read by Representative John D. Long. At a fire in New York on the 21st six membe sos the family of Policeman James Murray were burned to death. At twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United States the exchanges during the week ended on the 21st aggregated $070,781,030, against $710,678,111 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding period of 1884, the falling off amounts to 20.1 per cent. Ten business buildings in New Britain, Conn., valued with contents at $200,000, were burned the other morning. One man lost his life. Mail-robbers at New Braunfels, Tex., on the 21st killed Hal Gosling, United States Marshal and Mr. Manning, his deputy. The two robbers were pursued and shot dead. Six persons were killed by an explosion of natural gas at Wellsburg, W. Va., on the 21st, and a considerable amount of U iperty was destroyed. ■General Logan received one hundred votes for United States Senator in the Illinois Legislature on the 21st. The Democrats refused to vote, and broke the quorum. In the District Court at Chicago, after a trial lasting fifteen days, the jury on the 21st convicted J. C. Mackin, W. J. Gallagher and Arthur Gleason of perpetrating election frauds, and acquitted Henry Biehl. Motions were entered for anew trial. Mackin and Gallagher were held in $20,003 bail each, and Gleason in SIO,OOO. The Indians about Fort Reno were on the 22d exhibiting symptoms of hostility on account of the recent invasion of the Oklahoma boomers. The troops at Camp Russell had taken refuge in the fort. Consideration of the Post-office bill was resumed in the United States Senate on the 21st, and it was decided to retain in the bill the House paragraph reducing the postage on newspapers sent from publication offices to subscribers to one cent per pound. In the House the Committee on Appropriations decided to ins i t in the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill a clause authorizing the President to suspend for one year from July next the coinage of •ilver dollars,

THE WAR IX THE SOUDAN.

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SEAT OF THE SOUDAN WAR. Description of Khartoum, the Most Important Military Post on the Upper Mile. This map, says the Chicago Standard (to which paper we are indebted for the above cut), will give our readers a good Idea of the seat of war in the Soudan, a reg’on whose geography has hitherto been but little known to the American people. The city of Khartoum, which has so long been the objective point of public interest, is located on the. south bank of the Bahr-el-A’zrak, or Blue Nile, a mile above (south of) the junction of that river with the Bahr-el-Abiad, or White Nile, and the city walls reach to within less than half a mile of tiie latter, so that the garrison of Khartoum commands both streams. On the other side of the White Nile is the terminus of the great caravan route to Dongola and the fortified camp from wliich General Hick’s ill-fated expedition set out Opposite Khartoum is the Island of Tuti, d.viding the Blue Nile into two branches. The city is thus the most important post, strategically considered, on the Upper Nile, and is the natural center of military power In the Equatorial Provinces. In one other respect it is even more important to Egypt. It is at Khartoum that the Niiometer records the rising of the waters, and indicates to the farmers of the Delta the influence the melting snow will exercise lipon the volume of the stream upon which their prosperity and Very existence depend. Its early history is unknown. The ruins In the neighborhood of the present town indicate it to have lieen an important outpost of the Imperial Governmmentof the Pharaohs. The vicissitudes of centuries finally reduced it to the position of a subordinate town of Senaar, commercially tributary to Snendy, wliich, situated more than a hundred miles further down the Nile, had become the business center of the entire Eastern Soudan. In 1819, however, Mehemet Ali, the great Pacha and first Khedive of Egyphdeteruiined to extend his sway as far as possible, lie accordingly sent up the Nile an expedition commanded by his son's Ibrahim afterward Khedive for a few weeks—and Ismail —not the Khedive of that name, of course. The result of this expedition was to conquer the Eastern Soudan and annex it to the Egyptian realm, and Khartoum, at first made the base of military operations, became in 1823 the seat of Government and outstripped Slicudy in commercial importance. In 1846 Pope Gregory XVI. founded a mission there, which was long conducted by Dr. Jgnaz Knoblecher. Several European consulates were also established there, that of England dating from 1849 to 1864, in which latter year it was abolished under circumstances which gave rise to much comment The population of Khartoum lias varied from 10,000 to 30,000, according to the policy of the Governor; official exactions frequently causing a sudden exodus of onethird of the inhabitants. The town contains, however, aliout 8,000 houses, mostly of mud and millet stalks, and in only a few instances arranged in streets or squares. The Governor's house is the principal building in the city. It stands on the river bank, and General Gordon said it was as large as Marlborough House, London. There have also been constructed some other buildings of importance, for in 1871 Dr. Scliweinfurth says lie found tiiere a large number of new brick buildings, a spacious quay on the Bine Nile, and some imposing structures oil the otner bank of the river. The land sides of the city are surrounded by a wall and ditch. The drainage of the place is bad, much of it lying below the level of high water in the river; consequently, it is an unliealthful and foulsmelling city. The inhabitants are Egyptians. Berbers, Arabs, Turks, Jews, Negroes and Europeans. DISTANCES. From Cairo to Old Dongolo, about 1,000 miles. From Old Dongola to Korti. about 50 miles. From Korti to Mctcmneh, 185 miles. From Mctemneli to Khartoum. 95 mites. BURIED DEEP IN SNOW. Thirty Persons Supposed to Have tost Their Dives In Utah—Twelve Bodies Recovered. Salt Lake City, U. TANARUS., Feb. 19.— The relief party which went from here to Alta, the scene of Friday night's terrible snowslide, returned to the city at a lato hour Tuesday night, bringing the bodies of twelve victims. Four of those at first reported dead were rescued alive. They are Andrew White, but little injured, who was under the snow twelve hours; Fred Cullinin, who was buried sixteen hours, sustained some/, injury te his back; Mr. Koist, who was ingulfed six hours, and Mr. Ford. The body of one Chinaman was not found. -The bodies, sewed in blankets, were hauled down the canyon on sleds, one of ,which carried the bodies of the four Ballou children, anu another the remains of Mrs. Font and baby. The latter, on the night of the terrible disaster, vainly begged of her hurbaud that she and her child be taken to a place of safety, as she was sure a slide was coming. At the inquest yesterday nothing new was developed. The funeral services will take piaee to-day. Five adults and eight children are still in Alta in constant danger from snowslides and a relief party will go there to-day to bring them lo tills city. Snow-slides in the vicinity of Alta are of daily occurrence. One took place at Superior gulch Saturday, and, it is believed, resulted in the death of three men who were working there. Two men from a neighboring camp went to Superior gulch to see if all was right there. The visitors got within sight of the cabin and tunnel. Just then they saw Ja slide -start, and in an instant the cabin and tunnel were obliterated by a sea of snow. The concussion of the slide was suilicicnt to hurl the terrified witnesses to the ground, and they hurried away. In the three slides of last Friday at Alta it is believed thirty persons lost their lives. —John Bright says that Queen Victoria’s reign in England has sacrificed #76G,oot>,tXX> and 68,000 lives in war,

FAST IN A FLOE. A Fleet of Selling: Vessels Imprisoned in the Ice on Long: Island Sound—Lake Michigan Frozen frein Shore to Shore— A Missing: Steamer Heard From. New York, Feb. 19.—Many vessels bound to sea went out yesterday morning, but none of the small craft that are believed to be lying off the coast awaiting fair weather, were able to come in. Lower Bay down to Sandy Hook is filled with floating ice, and navigation is conducted under great disadvantages. Off the quarantine station the ice has frozen almost solid. Steamers and sailingvessels plying on the Sound have had very rough experience during the past forty-eight hours. A fleet of these vessels lies helpless in the ice above Hell Gate for a distance of twenty-five miles. The Captains of incoming vessels report the water covered with ice floes all this distance from shore to shore. Many of the steam-tugs that ply the harbor are doing a lively business in bunging supplies to these vessels and disposing of them at their own figures. At nine o’clock a. m. yesterday, the steamers Providence, Stouington and "Waterbury passed City Island in company. They moved in single file, the Providence taking the lead and the others following in the wake which she had cleared. At eleven o'clock the Providence reached her dock. Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 19.—1 tis believed here that Lake Michigan is frozen from shore to shore. At one time last year the lake was entirely frozen over. That was the first time, however, in many years that this has occurred. It requires an extraordinary season of cold to effect this result. Milwaukee, Wis., Fob. 19.—A1l doubt iu regard to the safety of the propeller Michigan, missing for nine days, was set at rest by a telegram receieed by the agent here last night from Grand Haven. The dispatcli announced that the Michigaxi was imprisoned in heavy ice seven miles off Saugatuek, twenty miles south of Grand Haven. The boat is abundantly supplied with fuel, and with milder weather will easily free herself. Seventeen of the crew walked ashore at Grand Haven yesterday. They were sent ashore in order to save provisions. One of the party, the clerk, had his foot badly frozen during the walk. WESTON'S LATEST SCHEME. An International Military Test of Physical Endurance to Last Four Weeks. New York, Feb. 19. —Edward Payson Weston, the celebrated pedestrian, has formed a syndicate of prominent citizens of New York, with himself a Director-General, for an international military test of physical endurance for prizes aggregeting $20,000. Judge Noah Davis is President and S. H. Hurd Treasurer of the syndicate. The scheme contemplates, for the first week, competition between the members of the National Guard in the cities of New York and Brooklyn; second week, competition betwein the members of the volunteer militia regiments from three cities in the States of New Y'ork, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island; third week, competition between members of volunteer militia regiments of three cities in Canada and three cities in the States of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio; fourth- week, competition between ten picked men of the National Guard of the cities of New York and Brooklyn and ten picked men from the best of the volunteer regiments in London. Each contest is to cover five mid a half days, beginning on Monday and ending on Saturday. Each competitor is to appear in heavy marching order, with regulation knapsack and rifl*. Not Alms, but Work. London, Feb. 19. —Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the Home Secretary, yesterday received a deputation of unemployed workingmen, who assured him that they did not desire alms, but work. They repudiated all sympathy with any socialistic propaganda. The Home secretary was much impressed by the expressions of the deputation and assured the delegates that the Government would look into the matter closely and consider the advisability of stimulating efforts of local philanthropic bodies, with a view of affording larger temporary relief. In addition he thought that the Government might do something in the way of emigration by communication with the British colonial authorities. Riots in Virginia Coal Fields. Lynchburg, Va., Feb. 19. —Trouble is reported at Pocahontas, Tazewell County, and more is anticipated. Owing to the depression ot business a number of miners were recently discharged from the coal-mines. Since their dismissal several persons, among them the Mayor of the town, have been fired upon in the night, and a negro policeman has been killed. Other persons, including a mine boss, have been ordered to leave town under penalty of death. The'ritizens held a massmeeting last night, condemned the outrages and subscribed money for the equipment of the police force. Graves Desecrated. Point Pleasant, W. Va., Feb. 19. Three miles south of this place is a church called Pisgah, attached to which is a rural burying-ground. Tuesday morning when the sexton went to dig a grave he was horfied to find Half a dozen graves open. The corpses had been taken from tlieir coffins and stretched on the ground. In one or two instances limbs were severed from the body. The graves had been opened without regard to family. The bodies lay in one place, arranged in the shape of a Greek cress. Thera is no clew, and no reason was aligned for the act. The bodies had evidently been exposed for a day or two.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT. Appropriate Ceremonies on the Occasion oflraFinal Dedication. Speeches of Senator Sherman, Colonel Cuney and President Arthur—A threat Parade—Ceremonies in the House— The Withrop Oration. A GRANIN PILE. 5 Washington, Feb. 23.—Despite the boreal blast that swept over the city Saturday, and the discomforts attending the outdoor exercises, the great Washington monument was dedicated with ail of the intended pomp, and with little less than the anticipated enthusiasm. Pennsylvania avenue was festooned and garlanded with bright bunting and National emblems until it seemed arched with a compact mass of beautifully blended colors. At an early hour tin; shivering spectators began to arrive at tiie grand-stand, just in the shadow of the monument, the first to claim a seat being Ebenezer Burgess Ball, of Loudon County, Va., a member of the Washington family. There were present of the descendants and relatives of Washington: Mrs. Lewis Washington. Vice-Regent for Virginia in the .Mount Vernon Association; her stepson. .1. B. Washington. Pittsburgh; Mrs. B. It. Washington and daughter, Frederick County, W, Va.; Miss Eliza Washington, Charlestown, W. Va.; Colonel Thornton Washington, Texas; Bttshrod C. Washington and S. W. Washington. Charlestown. W. Va.; Robert Washington, Westmoreland County, Va.; George Washington, Jefferson County, W. Va.; Mrs. 1,. Montgomery Bond. Elizabeth, N. .1., a great grand-niece of Washington; Miss Virginia Mitchell, Charlestown, W. Va.; Miss Claiborne, Richmond, and Mr. Myrvin C. Buckey, Washington. At eleven Senator Sherman, Chairman of the Joint Congressional Commission, called to order the eight hundred people who had assembled at the center stand. He said: “ The commission authorized by the two houses of Congress to provide suitable ceremonies for the dedication of the Washington Monument direct me to preside and to announce tiie order of ceremonies deemed proper on this occasion. I neiA not say anything to impress upon you! the dignity of th event you have met to'eelebrate. The monument speaks for itself. Simple iu form, admirable in proportions, composed of enduring marble and granite, resting upon foundations broad and deep, it rise3 into the sk es higher than any other work of human art. It is the most imposing, costly and appropriate monument ever erected in honor of one man. It had its origin in the profound conviction of the people, irrespective of party, creed or race, not only in this country, but in all civilized countres, that the name and tamo of Wash ngton should bo perpetuated by a most imposing testimonial of the Nat on’s gratitude to its horo, statesman and father.” Senator Sherman then gave a historical statement concerning the monument, and concluded his address as follows: "It is a fit memorial of the greatest character in human history. It looks down upo* scenes most loved liyrhim on earth, the most conspicuous object in. a landscape full of objects deeply interesting to the American people, and all eyes turn to it, and ail hearts feel inspiration iu its beauty, symmetry and grandeur. Strong as it is, it will not endure so long as the memory of him in whose honor it was built, but, while it stands, it will be evidence to many succeeding generations of the love and reverence of this generation for the name and fame of George Washington. “ First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his country men’’—more even than this —the prototype of purity, manhood and patriotism for all lands and all time. Without further preface, I proceed to discharge the duty assigned mo.

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TVIE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Luter, of Christ’s Church, Alexandria, Va. Hot. W. W. Corcoran, the First VicePresident of the National Monument Society, described at length the part taken in the initiation of the project and the construction of tiie monument by the society. To Colonel Thomas L. Casey, United States Engineers, was assigned the duty of presentTng the part taken by the general Government in the construction of the monument and of delivering it to the President of the United States. He gave an account of the firsi proceedings in Congress, with a view to tl>* oompletiftu es the monument, and described each successive step in tiie construction .ot the \voi*c until the setting ?,*' the cap-stone finished the undertaking, and then tv id; “ Although the dimensions of the foundation base were originally planned without due regard to the tremeifdous forces to lie brought into play in building so large an obelisk, the resources of modern engineering science have supplied the means for the completion of the grandest monumental column ever erected iu any age of the world. In its proportions the ratios of dirgensions of the several parts of ancient Eyptian obelisks have Keen carefully followed, and the entire height has been made slightly greater than ten times the breadth of tiie base, producing an obelisk that, for grace and delicacy of outline, is not excelled by any of the larger o-1 tbs, while, in and gnlty and grandeur it surpasses any that can be mentioned. Mr. President, for and in behalf of the joint commisson for the complet on of the Washington Monuluent, 1 deliver to you this column.” President Arthur, in accepting the monument, said: “Fellow Countrymen: Before the dawn of centuries whose eventful years will soon have faded into the past, when death had but lately robbed this Republic of its most beloved and illustrious citizen, the Congress of tiie Pi ii v ':d Static; pledged the faith of the Nation, that in this city, bearing his honored name, and then, as now, the seat of the General Government, a monument should be erected to commemorate the great event of his military and political life. The stately column that stretches heavenward from the plain whereon we stand bears witness to all who behold it, that tiie covenant wliich our fathers made their children have fulfilled. In the completion of this great work of patriotic endeavor, there i**abuudant cause for national rejoicing, for while this structure shall eudure it shall be to all mankind a steadfast token of the affectionate and reverent regard iu which this people continue to hold the memory of Washington. Weil may he ever keea the foremost place in the hearts of his codtryiren. . The iu th that never faltered, the ivbdom ’that was broader .and deeper than any learning taught in schools, the courage that shrank from no peril and was dismayed by no defeat, the loyalty that kept all selfish purpose subordinate to the demands of patriotism and honor, the sagacity that displayed itself in camp and Cabinet alike, and, above all, that harmonious union of moral and intellectual quotations which has never found Us parallel among men. These are attributes of character which the intelligent thought of this century ascribes to the grandest figure of the last. But other and more eloquont lips than mine will to-day rehearse to you iu story of his noble life and its glorious achievements. To myself has been assigned the simple and more formal duty, in the fulfillment of which I do now, as President of the United States and in behalf of the people, receive this monument from the hands of its buildor and declare it dedicated from this time forth to the immortal mime and memory of George Washington.” The President read his address in a firm, clear tone, and, at its conclusion, cheers broke forth and were hearty and prolonged. The Masonic ceremonies by the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, which then followed, were brief. The gavel used by Grand Master Myron IV. Parker was one

prepared for and used by General 'Washington as Grand Master pro tern, in laying the corner of the National Capitol on the 18th of September, 1793, the sacred volume belonging to Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, Virginia, upon which Washington took the first vows of Masonry; that belonging to St. John’s Lodge, No. 1, of the City of New York, upon which on the 30th of April, 1789, he took the oath of office as first President of the Lfnited States; the ‘‘Great Light” belonging to Alexandia —Washington Lodge, No. 22, Alexandria, Va:, upon which he, as Worshipful Master, received the vows of initiates; the apron worn by him which was worked by Madame Lafayette; a golden urn containg a lock of his hair belonging to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts; and the “Lesser Light” one of the three sperm candles borne in Washington’s funeral procession were exhibited. The monster parade was under the command of Lieutenant-General Sheridan. The three divisions were respectfully marshaled by Brevet Major-General R. B. Ayres, United States Army; General Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, and Brevet Major General W. W. Budley. The President, with Secretary Frelinghuysen, rode in an open barouche, and was repeatedly cheered along the line of march. An hour later the pageant was reviewed by the President Cabinet and members of the diplomatic corps from a stand erected in front of 4fie east main entrance of the Capitol.. The ceremonies in the Representatives Hall began at two o’clock. About a thousarid ticket-holders were admitted. Following prayer Congressman Long read the prepared address of Robert C. Winthrop. The address contained a number of personal reminiscences, and after tracing the struggles to push the monument to completion, ended as follows: “Our matchless obelisk stands proudly before us to-day,” said the speaker, “and we hail it with the exultation of a united and glorious Nation, ft may or may not be proof against the cavils of critics, but nothing of human construction is proof against the casualties of time. The storms of winter must blow and beat upon it. The action of the elements must soil and diecolor it. The lightnings of heaven may scar and blacken it. An earthquake may shake its foundations. Some migHty tornado or restless oyclone may rend its massive blocks asunder and hurl huge fragments to the ground. But the character which it commemorates and illustrates is secure. It will remain and unchanagable| in ail its consummate purity and splendor, and will more and more command the homage of succeeding ages in all regions of the earth. God be praised, that character is ours forever.” THE RECORD OF A GREAT ENTERPRISE. The 7th of August, 1783, the Continental Congress unanimously resolved (ten States being present): “ That an equestrian statue of General Washington be erected at the place where the residence of Congress shall be established in honor of George Washington, the illustrious Commander-in-Chief of the armies of the United States of America during the war which vindicated and secured their liberty, sovereignty and independence.” At his death a joint committee of both Houses of Congress was appointed to consider a suitable manner of paying honor to his memory. December 24, 1799, it was resolved by Congress: “That a marble monument be erected by the United States at the City of Washington, and that the family of General Washington be requested to permit his body to be deposited under it, and that the monument be so designed as to commemorate the great events of his military and political life.” Mrs. Washington acceded to the request, but the resolution was not executed. The resolutions above mentioned remaining unexecuted by Congress, in 1833 some citizens of Washington formed a voluntary association for “erecting a great National monument to the memory of Washington at tha seat of the Federal Government.” Having, by 1848, accumulated sufficient funds to justify the society in commencing work, the Fourth of July that year the cornerstone was laid with imposing ceremonies. Wort progressed steadily until 4865, whon it was suspended for lack of funds. Congress was memorialized, but without result. The shaft had attained a height of 152 feet above the floor. The advent of the war interfered with the public interest in the work, and during that period and subsequently the shaft remained as loft in 1855. At last, in 1876, Congress passed an act appropriating $200,000 to continue tlis construction of the monument, and, supplementary appropriations being annually made, the shaft was finally declared finished the 6th of December, 1884. The strengthening of the foundations and the practical construction of the shaft was accomplished by Co.onel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Corps of Engineers, engineer in charge, detailed under the joint construction committee constituted by the act of August 2,1876, to supervise the erection of the monument. The monument is located adjacent to the Potomac Kiver, on a Government reservation comprising seventy-eight and a half acres, and being public property the view of the shaft entire will never be obstructed. The site is one marked on Major L’Enfant’s map of Washington City for a proposed statue to Washington, which was voted to be erected by the Contidental Congress in 1783, and which map was examined, unproved and transmitted to Congress by Washington when Prescient. It was also the site for the- monument to the heroes of the Revolution, which was proposed i>thc year 1795. The elevation of tne ground on Which the monument stands is twedty-six feet above low tide-water in the Potomac Hiver. The original foundation was of blue gneiss rock, in large blocks as they came from the qSiarry, laid in lime mortar (with small portion of ceraenti, was 80:feet square at base, covering an area of 6,400 square feet, pyramidal |in shape, having offsets or steps, and extended 7 feet 8 inches below ground and 15 feet 8 inches above ground. Being enlarged and stregthened by Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey .Corps of Engineers, engineer in charge, the present foundation is 126 feet 6 inches square covering an area of 16,002 square feet. "36feet_10 inches in depth, and extends down to a level 6 inches below the permanent level of water in the site on which the monument is located.” The shaft is slightly over nine times the base, being 500 feet 5!4 inches high; base, 55 feet m inches square; top, 34 feet 514 inches; thickness of walls at entrance, 15 feet; at top, IS inches; batter of walls outside, .247 of an inch to 1 foot rise. The top of the shaft is ?iths the width iff the base, and it would come to a point at a height of 2 H its present altitude. Ascent—By means of iron stairway and steam elevator, supported by a construction of eight vertical Phoenix iron columns (four 6)4 and four 5>4 inches internal diameter) I beams, channelsquy i ties; four columns terminate at the height of 500 feet and four within the roof at 517 feet, which four sustain the elevator machinery above. The eight c flumes are arranged in concentric squares. Stairway—ln alternate short flights, strung along the north and south sides of the well, connecting with platforms 4 feet 8 inches wide (to height of 150 fteet), and 7 feet 1044 inches widb, 20 feet apart on a side, and extending along the east and west walls, being 50 flights and 900 steps. Elevator—Capacity, 10 tons, with a factor of safety of 15. Total height of monument above floor, 656 feet 5)4 inches, or 597 feet 3 inches above mean low Water in tne Potomac, or 596 leet 9.36 inches above the mean level of the Atlantic at Sandy Hook, N. Y. Number of stones in the shaft above 150 feet, 9,613. Some 14,000 barrels of Portland cement were used in the new foundation and shaft. Tons. Weight of foundation and earth upon it.. 36,912 Weight of 150 feet of old portion of 5haft.22,378 Wetght of new port on of shaft, 21,260 Weight of pyraraidkm 300 Weight of iron framo 378 Total weight 81,120 The interior of the shaft is lit up by incandescent electric lights disposed through it at var.ous heights. Amount raised by contributions from the people and expended in rearing monument to 156 feet, $300,000; appropriated by Congress (Aug. 2, 1876. to December, 1884), $900,000. Mr. John W. Daniels, of Virginia, paid an eloquent tribute to the immortal Washington, at the conclusion of which the assemblage broke up. In the evening a magnificent display of pyrotechnics appropriately finished the celebration. A Fire Horror in New York. New York, Feb. 23.— Shortly before midnight Saturday fire broke out in the building corner of Beaver and Williams street When the firemen arrived they found that the people living on the top floors were cut off by the fire, and more engines were at once sent for. Ladders were raised to the windows and a number of persons were rescued. When the flames were extinguished the firemen were horrified to find five dead bodies on the upper floor. The remains were those of the wife, three children and mother-in-law of Policeman James Murray. All had evidently been suffocated by smoke, as their clothing was not even scorched. Murray was at the station when he learned that his residence was on fire. He at once dashed down to the burning building and endeavored to enter by the Beaver street door, but was prevented by the firemen. He hurried round to the Williams street entrance, and, although two men tried to hold him back, he disappeared into a dark hallway and perished in the burning building. ■ ■ Found Guilty. Chicago, Feb. 23. —In the United States District Court, after a trial lasting fifteen days, the jury on Saturday convicted ,1. C. Mackin, W. J. Gallagher and Arthur Gleason of perpetrating election frauds, and acquitted Henry Biehl. Motions were promptly entered for anew trial. Mackin and Gallagher were held in $20,009; each, and ('.leason in SIO,OOO,

STATE INTELLIGENCE. Tke General lambi;. Indianapolis, February 12.—Senatb.—BOta passed: Providing that recorded wills In one county may be recorded In another; to legalize the acts of the Brown County Com missioners; to raise funds to pay the expenses of teachers’ institutes by charging n fee of fifty cents for the examination of teachers desiring places; to amend section 2605 R. 8., known as the Widows' Rights bill. Several minor bills were passed. House.—The State University bill appropriating $50,000 to that Institution was taken up. Mr. Gordon moved to reduce the appropriation to $30,000. Mr. McMullen made an Ineffectual motion—yeas 40, nays 49—to lay the amendment on the table. The amendment was adopted—yeas 46, nays 42. The bill was ordered engrossed. Bills passed: Providing that foreign fire Insurance companies failing to pay losses within sixty days, shall be required to pay a penalty of 10 per cent, for each additional thirty days. Allowing the County Commissioners to assess five cents on the SIOO for township library buildings, the assessment to be made for not to exceed three successive years. The bill in relation to Supreme Court practice was defeated. Indianapolis, February 13.—Senate.—A large number of bills were read the second time. An exhaustive discussion of the pending medical bills took place. There were three propositions really under consideration—what is known as the Bhiveley bill, another bill reported by the committee as a substitute, and an amendment proposed by Mr. Winter, of Marion. The point at issue was as to the need of an examination and certificate as a qualification or authority for practicing medicine. The Senate voted against the Winter amendment—34 to 6, and then suspended the rules to put the bill on its passage. The bill passed—yeas 28, nays 11. It is regarded as a moderate and well considered measure, which raises no question between the several schools of medicine. House.— The morning session was consumed in reading bills the second- time. One of the bills in the House which attracted some attention was that of Mr. Pleasants, which provided that druggists shall keep a record of sales of liquor-whether for medicinal or other purposes. This bill had been reported unfavorably from the Committee on Rights and Privileges, but the House disagreed with the committee, and the report was not' concurred in by a vote of 48 to 39 Mr. Williams moved to recommit the bill to the committee with instructions to report a bill compelling druggists desiring to sell liquor to take out the same license as a saloonkeeper. This was, however, tabled by a vote of 43 to 30. After voting down a couple of humorous amendments, the bill was engrossed. Indianapolis, February 11.—Senate.—A minority report was filed in favor of the passage of the bill abolishing the State Bureau of Statistics. A minority also reported in favor of the abolition of the office of Fish Commissioner. Mr. Fowler offered a resolution that a committee of nine Senators holding over be appointed by the Chair to serve, without compensation, to take Into consideration the Inequality of the circuit court districts, and to redistrict the State for judicial purposes, and as far as can be to equalize the labor in the several judicial circuits of the State, and that said committee make report to the next General Assembly by bill or otherwise. * House,—The following bills were recommended for passage: Authorizing the levy of writs; defining the liabilities of railroad* for killing stock; providing for the organizing of boards; providing for the satisfaction of judgments in eertain cases, and providing for building, loan and savings associations; concerning the powers and duties of common councils; prohibiting the publication and sale of immoral literature. A resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Military Affairs to Inquire into the practicability and advisability of providing by law for the maintenance of needy and indigent Union soldiers honorably discharged. Indianapolis, February 18.—Senate.—A resolution was Introduced directing the committee on swamp lands and drains to prepare a bill to repeal an act concerning drainage, approved April ft, 1881. A concurrent resolution was offered that the General Assembly adjourn March 2, sine (He. Lost. The resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to report an apportionment of judicial circuits to the next General Assembly was taken up. Mr. Winter moved to amend the resolution by inserting after the word State “and providing for grading the salaries of the judges according to the population of thC circuits, and the services required.” The amedment was agreed to. The resolution, as amended, was adopted. Mr. Macy’s bill [3. 89] to amend sections ST® and 5830 of the code coming up as a special order. Mr. Macy said that he proposed, among other things, to increase the bond of the Clerk of the Supreme Court from $2,000 to SIO,OOO. The bill was referred to a special committee. The bill appropriating $40,000 to Purdue University was passed. House.—No morning session. At the afternoon session the bill concerning the entries of County Superintendents came up on second reading. A motion to postpone was agreed to. Mr. Staley’s bill [H. 1.121] to provide a fund for the holding of teachers’ institutes, came up on the second reading. On motion of Mr. Staley, the bill was mpommitted to the Committee on Education, after it bad been discussed by several members. The House then adjourned. Indianapolis, February IT.—Sena^t*.—The bill to invest 10 per cent, of the appropriation for State-house work in bonds was discussed and recommitted, Nearly all the remainder of the session was devoted to the’ consideration of the Civil Service bill. It provides for the appointment of three Civil Service Commissioners, who shall employ a Chief Examiner, and shall examine competitively when thpreis more than one applicant, and generally when there is only one, all aspirants to appointive offices. The bill would reach appointed clerks of the Senate and House, etOployos of all the reformatory and benevolent institutions, all the appointees of the Governor, or appointees of the Judge* of the Supreme Court, and all olerks of State officers. Elective officers are not included. House.—Bills passed: Abolishing the offices of City Treasurer and Assessor in In-, dianapoits, and intrusting their duties to the County Auditor and Treasurer, at an additional salary of SI,OOO and $2,000 respectively. For the relief of towpship trustees who lost money by the failure of banks. Prohibiting the sale of explosives in the shape of toys. Mr- Pleasant's bill limiting the rate of interest on school funds from 8 to 8 per cent, wa* defeated. Indianapolis February 18.—The general appropriation bill reported from the committee gives SBO,OOO to repair the burned Insane Asylum, The bill to prohibited children under fourteen years of age being employed in factories, was defeated in the Senate. The House passed the bill limiting railroad farw to three cents per mile. niuMllazMaa Iteaaz. Miss Loma Shaw, who resides in the south part of Shelby County, owes her lif* to the presence of mind displayed by a. young lady friend, Miss Warner. Misa Shaw was standing with her back to th* fire-place, when the draft drew her dress in and it caught fire, blazing up in a moment above her head. She at onoe started to run ont of the house, when Miss Warner caught her, pushed her back, and, seizing a pan of dish-water, threw it over her and extinguished the flames. Miss Shaw escaped with no more serious injury than some severe burns, and the loss of a portion of her hair. Elizabeth Cduzan, aged eighty-nine wras burned to death at Madison by her clothes taking fire frtfm a grate. , Another lodge of Masons has been or* eapized in Richmond by colored oeonm Siberian Prisoner*. ~ Escapes of political and other convicts from Western Siberia are more frequent than is generally supposed, but from Eastern Sioeria, though often attempted, they seldom succeed. Save for convicts under sentence of penal servitude, and actually imprisoned, it is easy to elude the vigilance of the police and get away from a convict village settlement, but it is almost impossible to get out of the country. The immense • distances to be traversed, the terrible climate, lack of money, the absolute necessity of keeping to the high roads, prove, except in very few instances, insuperable obstacles to success. In order to be really free, moreover, it is ime perative for a fugitive not only to pass the frontier of European Russia, but to reach some country where he runs ho risk of falling into the clutches of the Imperial police. Even in Germany he is liable to be recaptured, and is really safe only in England, France or Switzerland. Hence, to make a good flight from Eastern Siberia, requires a conjuncture of so many favorable and nearly imposssible circumstances as to render a complete escape a rare and remarkable event. Contemporary Review. —A Kansas City editor has patented a pair of triple shears. It is an instrument with three sets of blades, two of which when properly manipulated will adapt themselves to the columns of any newspaper and cut both sides, while the third set will chop the clippings out at the proper place. —Chicago Herald. ■.♦ m 1 - - —A condemned murderer at Marshall, Tex., passed his hat around the court-room on receiving his death sentence, for the benefit of his wife an 4 six children.