Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 February 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME XIV INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1884 NUMBER 41 gjjFTf jr £i>. 1

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§K1 CONGKK5SIONAL PBOCEED1NU8. Ik the Senate »n the 1 ltli Senator Payne'* credentials wore Hied. The bill for relief of survivors of the iFeanuctte expedition was re-’ -ported favorably and placed ou the calendar! abo bill fixing salaries of United States Judges. Among numerous bills introduced wts one defining the powers of the Mississippi Hirer Commission and authorizing the appropriation of land necessary to its work.In the House the following were among the bills introduced: To limit the number of naval cadets: to proviie for leasing desert lands in Colorado; to abolish the electoral college, fa resolution was ofi’ensd calling for the official report on the investigation of Architect Hill’s Office. The Mil tary Academy bill was reported. A joist resolution appropriating *3 «,000 Tor the flood sufferers called out considerable speech-making and was adopted 233 ,te on the ISth voted to allow the Thk Old two eons doc war. Among bills Introduced was one to suspend coinage af the silver dollar: also to Mrs. Louisa noddy, whose husband, and son in lawr were killed in the Moforbid and prohibit political assessments. The bill passed authorizing the construction of a building for tho Congressional library.Jn the House a resolution inquiring as to the action of officials in the star route prosecutions was adopted. The bill for retirement of trade dollars vras refened to the coinage committee. A resolution for n committee to investigate Government, work at Hot Springs was adopted. The Hennepin Canal bill was reported and referred to committee of the whole. The naval appropriation bill was taken up. and Mi-, Calkins criticised the meagerness of tho > meagerness lias set apart for the new cruisers. In the Senate on the 13th a resolution directing the Interior Department to withhold approval of patents of certain Northern Pa-cific-lands was laid over. The McPherson bill to issue circulating notes to-National banks was taken up. Hi', Bayard speaking in Its sup■t Mr. Sherman injected a speech on the port silver question its bearing directly on the ' ' compile banking question, and sure to complicate it at so me time or other.... .In the House the Chal-uers-Manniug contest was discussed without action. A statement of claims of contractors, aggregating $3T$,M5, for care of donble-.ur-rt'ted monitors, w as referred. A petition was presented in favor of pensioning Union soldiers who suffered In Confederate prisons. Kef erred. . -■ W the Senate on the 14th the transcript f testimony take of tcstiinoKf taken in the investigation of the architect's, office iras presented and referred. Tlip billmaking a 11 public high ways poet routes Sssed; The bill also passed allowing the Louana State Bank to file claims for $90,000 .• Worth of notion slid, claims being debarred by limitation. T&e McPherson National Bank ncto bill w as taken up. Mr. Morrill offered a jjutnfa regulating the amount of eireutatotes ana limitingit to that of paid in oapsAmenflmoi ts were offered by Messrs. Vest wm Morgan. Pending discussion the Senate adjourned.- In the House consideration of the Chaliuers-Mannlng eontest was resumed, but so conclusion was reached. Is the Senate on the I5tli a joint resolution passed appnipriating$KK>,000 for the flood: sufferers. Consideration of the bill relating tuJRdfonal bank circulation^ of tomb speaking lit some length in support amendment to, authorize the issue of Treasury notes as fast as Nntlonal bank notes aro withdrawn. The amendment offered by Mr.Sherman wai rejected.In the H ise. Sherman ws _ the flood relief n solution was adopted. The Chalmers- Manning contest was debated till.3:30, when the prevttme question was or to 1 dered. Curtin marched Manning up fp Baker’s desk and demanded thathe be in on the eerti leate of the Governor J Mississippi. The Speaker declined to admin- .■ istn- theonth on the ground that Manning’s & risht to the seat -vas under consideration. Tho ground thatMa ■ PM-nder oonsiderath—. „„„ jority report was finally adopted. This discharges the committee as to the prima facie ' caiie and leaves the fttat vacant until the ease joiumStiV K? Both houses adMontlay. .?<,

I»MLmCAT.. '-4-1 Os the 11th -& nolle prosequi was entered in tlie Blue Cat robbery case against Frank James at Kansas City, Mo., and he V has been turned over' to the Federal authoritiw tobe tried llor tlie Mussel Shoals rob- - bery in Alabama. The case against Charla' -ley Ford was also dismissed. Three cases against James at Gallatin were also-nolle ? prosequied. The incompetency of Dick Liddil as a witness brought about this ac- - Otf-the 11th llradlaugh again attempt- . ed to take his scat in the British Hoase of Commons, and seas again excluded. The Democratic members of Congress will holdn joint caucus on the 21st to select a Congressional campaign committee. . > The Committee on Commerce o! the arnse hair-decided, by a vote of fourteen to ole, that legislation to regulate inter-State commerce fa nerded. On the 12ti Geo. Davidson, chief clerk In tlie subsistence department of the United States army, at 'Chicago, was arreited on a charge of embeiodemeut, The Queen of Tahiti sailed from New Tiirk lor France on t.he 13th on the steamer St. Laurence. Repkkjentativ® Potter, will withdraw his two percent, funding bill and will ' lir- ♦ 11, i n m■ ■■ Oh' _ — a 1 *11 % k • if per cent, bill, which on National bank eirmeasttres have been adopted | ^ Secretary Lincoln for the distr.butlon ;i» supplies to destitute people in the . Booled regions. i ^General Gordon in a recent dispatch says theribeUare putting forth their greatest efforts to Bpread revolt among their neighbors. They ar e not making war on loyal tribes in the Soudan, but are trying to make proselytes of them. Ok the 13th General Sheridan we nt to New Y ark to call on General Giant. The English cabinet is growing more warlike. General Graham has been assigned to the co®ms nd oi a force of British troops for the relief of To tar. . On the 13th * verdict of not guilty was rendered at Pittsburgh, Pa., in the case of Dr. G. H. Marshall, charged with .. attempting to backinaU Miry Anderson, iso reduc

aaastone was aslionOon. t Victoria’s book ation reached ten 14th Oh m Gltdston mw i Qui t publics t gallantry at tire wreck umbtie, Lieutenant Rhodes of the iter Dexter is to be promoted. Preside at Arthur was niemters ol the Educational i at Washington. - who in of a

r On the llth eighteen dromken boarded a coal train itt Dayton., O. beat the train hands unmercifully, brakeman will dir. Thu engineer cut locomotive loose and esisaped. Two desperadoes, Mike McJDo and Bd. Carey, were consumed in ths at Wausau, Wls., when that strui burned down the morning of the l.'ttfa. Puts destroyed an entire block, eluding the Post office, 1 TV-- xr«i» . at Albion, Pa., on Town Hall and stores, the 11th. A DisrATCH of the 11th from London says Captain Gardner., and seven men of the bark Champion, from Baltimore for 'Hamburg, were washed overboard. The remainder of the crew 4rere rescued by the steamer Sirocco after being in the rigging four days without food and badly troat-nit-tim. While coasting at lliddeford, Me., on the 12th, Henry Colbroth was killed and several others were injured. Lv Philadelphia, on the 13th, it pair of comic valentines led to i murder. On the night of the 12th the Bluli City Hotel at Council Muffs, la., burr , Emma Neiser, of Crown Point, l:ad., a / burned to death. On the night of the 18th, burglars stole from Dr. H. Braiitard, of Cleveland, O., the finest collection of coins in this country. On the 14th, George Emory, engineer in tire Booster flour mi l at Indianapolis,! Ind.., was.caught on a shaft, and was torn to pieces. On the 15th some miscreant fired two charges of buckshot into a Rock Island train near Belfast, la. Nobody hurt. MISCELLANEOUS. An appeal has been issued by tho Supreme Lodge Knights of Honor to lodges of the order throughout the country to contribute in aid of the flood sufferers. A bill has been adopted by the French Chamber of Deputies to suppress seditious demonstrations. The French Bishops have been summoned to Rome by tho Pops to coder upon measures to revive the Catholic spirit in France. , ' . 2 Bepkesentattves i i Congress from -Texas are reported to have sent infornu.•lijfc to San Antonio than the Secretary of ihe Interior has ordered the eatMe-Arai^ opened through the ltd an Territory. .± Board of Tkape has been organflowed towns.'

1ms gross receipts of the performance for the benefit of the O.iio flood sufferers, sit which Patti and Gerster appeared in Chicago on the 13th, we re over $5,'XX). The Proteus board of inquiry, in its report, censures General Hazen fijr a long list of shortcomings. IfBtiCf) has appropriated 3209,003 for its exhibit at the N sw Orleans Cotton Centennial Exposition. The mannfaotnrers and workingmen of Pittsburgh, Pa., will send a joint delegation to Washington to oppose the Morrison tariff revision hill.* At Niagara Falls, on the ISlih, three toys were arrested on a train for theft. They had three revolvei-s, a Life of the James Boys and a lot o< stolen money. The press throughout Germany is poking fan at the British policy in Egypt* At Terre Hante, Ind., a Board of Trade was organized on the 13th. Josephus Cobbett was elected President; B. G. Harvey, Vice-President, anil M. Warren, Treasurer. ‘ * • ' _ The American Institute of Mining Engineers will hold its annual meeting i:n Cincinnati, beginning c n the 19th, and to continue for four days. The authorities disinterred the body of a man named Cooper, killed recently in the Teton basin, Utah, e nd his death was found to have been caused by two shots instead of one, as claimed by two men, who gave themselves np as bis slayer. Ok the 13th the Red Cross Society of St. Louis, Mo., collected $535 for the flood relief fund. The negro, Alien Moore, charged with the murder of Preacher Hankin at Cote Brilliante, a suburb of St. Louis, Mo., has been released. On the 13th the ]£xpressmcn's Aid Association convened in Jacksonville, Fla. Addresses of welcome were made by Governor Bloxham, ex-Governer Bollock and others. The Association has 1,072 members and within two years has pidd $5,800 to the families of deceased members- H. B. Plant was re-elected President. The treaty of commerce with Spain tak es effect March 1. A Tombstone (Arizona) dispatch states that legal proceedings have been Set on foot to delay the execution of the convicted Bisbee murderers, but that the people will have no delay. If the authorities do not hang the men a mob will. On the 13th the we ll-known trotting horse Compton Boy, dropped dead in his f ta blp at Quebec, Canada. The flood reached its height in Cin

listed,-has caused terrible distress in the submerged towns all alangtbe Ohio. Belief measures hare been throughly organized and every effort making to effect the moot systematic and useful distribution of the funds available. * j * . The telegraphic cable between Hai Phong and Saigon has lieen compl eted. The National Council of We Union League meets in Washington March 6. The faculty of Harvard University has adopted the rules ol the inter-collegiate conference. A military band, and cadet coips '•Will he among the attractions from Mextiso at the Nejr Orleans Kxpoeitkm. |fe At Davenport, la., a company hits 1m« organised to build another bridge over the | ftai to the . I

‘She water and collapsed, causing the death of ten persons, the foreman and others heroically rescuing the remainder, Pee.rj of i Jther such calamities are not ungrounded. A meeting was held in Cooper ] nsti>ute, New York, the night of the HS'i, to' approve a hill giving the Mayor absolute power in appointing the heads of dcpartnentn. There was a largo attendance. The strike of tobacco factory cm»lovea at Petersburg, Va.. is ended. The Ohio river continued to re cede ; slowly at U jicinnation the 15th, and rising d points further down. Relief boats were sent out from Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville and other points, the Serr^tary of War having chartered seven in alt. Reborts of great distress multiply daily. Ail praise the activity with wh ch tlie War Department has acted. People on the Lower Ohio were hopelul that the flood would rot be as high as last yoar. A call, has been issued by 'Enos 'Brown, of Denver, Col., Coairman of the Colorado Wool-Grower’s A.ssoeiation, to the wool-growers of Colorado, Kansas,- Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, So meet in convent ion at Denver, March 12, dor the purpose of forming Sfc&te organizations ahd combining to prevent further relucWon of the tariff on wool. For the past year the net earnings of the Denver & Rio Grande Road were $2,••32,000. • A Judge and other Greek officials nave been carried off by brigands to the Albanian frontier. The passage of the bill for the extension of the bonded period on whisky is being nbged by many hankers. At last accounts the Chinese Imperial Couqpii had decided to defend Bae Nnh to the last extremity. The jebels have been warned by the principal,, chiefs near Suakem to respect the > territory or expect hostilities. Berlin dispatches intimate, that England’s delay in proclaiming a protectorate over Egypt is due to fear of offending FVance. S': “ On the 15th a posse from Deadvrood, D. T., had a tight with. cow-boys, one man being killed and one wounded on each side, the posse held the field of battle. ’ The Post-office Committee *p\roporfc favorably to Congress the bill arultrgizing the Postmaster-General to stop Mae only Afghanistan remains between India »nd the Russians. ' This will be » heavy blow to the British power in the Efet. 'vtt At Youngstown, O., the peopSe' had » sensation loraconple of days recently.1 A young lady died there and still gave snch dgns of life that the physicians 'could not lecide whether or not she was merely iu a trance. On the 16th they prbhonuced life sxtinct.

A Mass Convention of American In ventors has been called to begin Marcl) 25 e! this year, in the great Music Hall anti Exposition Building in Cincinna i, Ohio. The call incites generally that “the great monopolies of the country have made strong efforts to destroy the present wise and beneficent Patent laws, and there have been aone to antagonize the representations; thus made. To this end the inventors of this country hav9 determined to form a permanent organization, wholly and solely for the purpose of being able by combined efforts to show Congress and the people that it will be detrimental to the interests of the country to accede to ti e demands of the monopolists.” The convention to be held will sock to adopt some united form of action, or form State associations. All inventors and patentees who can attend, and desire to do so, are invited io ad iress at once the Chairman of the Execu live Committee, J. S. Zerfae, editor of the American Inventor. 188 West Fifth street, Cincinnati, O., who will forward each ap plicant the badge to entitle the holder to Admission on the floor as a delegate. The citizens of Cincinnati have subscribed a liberal guarantee fund to meet the expenses ef the convention. I

wrought has been vastly greater than; supposed. Many houses that still stand are unsafe and will have to be torn down.' lh pot a few towns whole streets have bee? itwept bare of houses or completely wrecked. Another large building collapsed in Cincinnati within a few I tours alter the people had_ removed from it. It will require two more days for the railroad companies to get at their tracks to make •epairs in the eity. The river is falling for longs distance below Louisville. Krlief measures are-being vigorously pushed. General Gordon has res hed Khartum. It is announced that Geo. C. Gor*am will retire from politics and jonrnalAdmiraL Carr Glynn, the man to trhom Adelaide Neilson willed her properly, is dead. .' Archbishop Feehan arrived in Chisago on the 17th from Rome: He watt givisn a royal reception. Fred. Douglas seems to have se ttled down to housekeeping quietly. His former housekeeper has changed bar mind about uing him. Father James J. Ryan, fonnesjy a well-known Catholic priest of Bt. Louis, Ida, but recently of Shenandoah, la., died lit that place the morning of the 17th. The Soudan rebels under Osman Digna are preparing a warm welcome for Ihe Egyptian troops, in the same locality where Baker Pasha and Cdexiel Honi riel’ met their fate. Mexico will add five per cent, to im|>ort daties on tbe 15th of May. The New York banks held au the :lose of business on the 16th, 090 in uxcess of legal requirements. The Bey of Tunis has given aeimisi ion for the French engineers to let tbs sea water into the desert. Ten freight conductors on the Boson its Albany Road, have been arretted, : barged with robbing freight cars. A general strike of railroad coal miners id tbe Pittsburgh region is appraS ■ended on account of a half cent reduction n wages. - LATE NEWS ITEMS. , *" As the Hoods recede it becomes evident that in many quarters the dathage

tut. Incalculable— at the InunAppual for Succor—1The Nation Awakening to the t the Situation—National. State, [ and Private Measure* for KeCi scixsArt, O.. Feb. li—8 9. M. The situation has been more glcotny than ever. The river rose almost constantly today from half an inch to an inch an hear, and was growing from two to tfldee feet above the highest stage lastycaf. Wrhis is a fact of great sign ificance, ami loses no weight by the uncertainty whoa the rise will end. It is significant because of the vastly Increased territory finodetl and because of the greatly increased danger to buildings by increased leverage - die swaying water has on them as well as injury to foundations. One two-story brisk business bouse, occupied by Charles A. Mulsh & Go!, : oh Sixth street, near Freeman, foil with a, great crash, owing to Weakened foundations. The building was weigh : ad with a quantity of hemp wiiich aided : n causing its destruction. This is only the teginning. Much apprehension in felt on thiis account in Covington and Nenrport, wheie the nature ofthesoil makes the dangergreater. As the vrajer creeps up on the bouses it has been found'nacdsSary to remove families to other places. The relief committee in charge of this work has to act arbitrarily in some cases and compel people to leave their houses. In two c>r three of these cases the houses are now off their foundations or washed away. There undoubtedly would have been loss of life if the people bad been left to act in their own behalf, so tenaciously do they cling to their little all of property. To-night bad a frightful beginning, by reason of high wind, which, threatened for a time to be a severe gsle, but though strong it was not steady enough to start the waves so as to do any great damage so far as known now. There is great danger, however, that the agitation of the water by the wind wild loosen the houses dteM* their foundations. Severn), more how* lain Newport have left their foundations n have tumbled over deserted beforehand. The water-hound houses, some with no break the gloom, must haveheardthe_ ing wind and beating rain to-night with afeeling of albmost hopeless helplessness. News from more exposed places like New night freon Newport on this point; are reassuring. The river at, 10 p. nu was 68 feet lfMt Wlg&tz haU “ anbonrAt midnight the water reached 69 fc. rise of an inch and three-quarters in hours. Owing to the general impression here 'aktte flood would) not exceed Hast year ami that losses would be less and suffering less, contributions are touch s Iowa rooming SS^rsnaSsss^Si council. This has boon anticipated already, and drafts will have to be made soon on the appropriation un less funds come in faster. The representative here oiy he ColnmbuB Boggy Co., Columbns, 0.,!las received a telegram that the emphtyas have given a day’s wages, amounting tof $1,900, and many were doobling their sabscriptions. Among the people from alt* midwho have contributed, are Ceo. W. Cliil'ds, Philadelphia, $509; Henry Irving, ijilTA. The committee will persist in thedetermin . ,, --mination to disburse all contributions from abroad among sufferers outside of Cincinnati.

Locisviulb, Kt., Fob. 12—10 p. m. The river continues to rise. From the indications from above it will continue to rise till all previous records have been passed. The water hits been rising all day half an inch an houir. The canal gauge now registers 42 feet 11 inches. The Kentucky River is still rising at Frankfort and above. The weather ils still warn and has been showering since noon. There is bu‘ little suffering here but considerable at Jeffersonville and New Albany. At Jeffersonville the stores are all closed and a 'great many failed to lay in a supply of fro visions. Business is entirely suspended. t is estimated that 4,000 people Have been driven to the second stories or out of their homes entirely, temporarily. The Cincinnati Short Line track through Bast Louisville is under water to-night; trains only come as far as the eastern city limits. It was at this hour just a year ago that the fill above the city gave way suddenly and inundated the “point,” with great loss of property and several lives. 10:30 p. m.—The river continues to rise. Pitvsbubo, Pa., Feb. 12. The river is swelling again at the rate of two inches an hour, vrtth 18 feet 3 inches on the Konohgahela marks and 10 feet on Allegheny. Dispatches from points above report continued rains and the water rising. The people living in the bottom lands are filled with apprehensions of another flood. Mary have net yet recovered from the late deluge, and the discouraging outlook tends to increase an uncomfortable feeling with nineteen feet of water submerging the lower districts of the tyro Cities. It is quite probable the situation of affairs among the sufferers of Allegheny is worse, if possible., than any day since the flood abated, and numerous other cases of destitution are rejected. Many of the .victims, in addition to having been systematically plundered by the waters, were thrbwn out of employment by the workshops being devastated, and, tinder any eircuttstauoes, this fact alone would be producti ve of more or less want among the poorer classes. At least 3,500 people were supplied with food yesterday, ail increase over any previous day. Midnight—The rivers rising slowly, with “ feet 6 mches on the Monongahela mark. The water is falling i,t the headwaters and no serious inundation is apprehended.

tions, of which one-sixth floated off down the river. No live* have been (pot, but the damage to property is immense and can not yet be adequately adjusted, the extent of the rise being unprecedented and communication with poin ts above being shat off. At Racine, nine miles above here, IQS houses are moved from their foundations and a number have floated away. A similar condition of affairs exists all along the river between here and Parkersburg. Middieport, two miles below Pomeroy, is also under water. Many merchants there, not anticipating the unprecedented rise, left their goods in their stores and awoke Saturday morning to find them muter water, the appeals sent out by our relief committef,ng generously responded to and will probably enable it to promptly relieve the immediate distress. ” - _ Aijuora, to. Fab U. The Hvsr reached the high mailt of Feb ra*n:, laud year, at 1:31 W afternoon, ■«*» is atilt rising. Ten. dwellings and stables have been washed off their foundations to-day. Applications for relief are becoming more numerous. The w ater will probably flood the post-office by. morning. The, steam tug Wavs, plying betw een here audLawrenceburg, sank at Lswrc noeburg

CBARLZ8TUK, W. Ti., M. K. r'Sfi>g,?T*r?5*e^ boat Bee and towboat John D. Lewis returned hare from distrib^inKproTisions to the Hood sufferers alone the Kanawha River yesterday anil last night. The Associated Tress correspondent who was along took a close observation of the damages, also calls of absolute necessity, and learned from those he met that IK) such suffering has ever been ca tsed by fte high water on the Kanawha River, it Buffalo half the town is submerged, but the people as a general tiling are well supplied with food, Leon, a plate of 3W people, is under water and alt suffering for food and clothing. At Point Pleasant, a towd of 3*000 people, there is not a foot of grenpd whieh is not at least six feet under watfr. Storehouses, goods, dwellings, in fact all kinds of houses, are bid from the second story by water. Fully one hundred houses have been upset and washed nway. People are living on the decks of barges, in the Court-house, in factwherever they cvq get shelter. Many have gone to the hills for saf ety. This city has sent at t $3,900 worth of cooked provisions to fterers along the^ivei^a«i*ifWorwith a second load of provisions for rivet towns. The steamer Wenona left here to-dav with a load of provisions for various towns along the Kanawha River. The whole lower part of the Kanawha River vallay Is overflowed; in m WM ... _ many places the river is fully three to live miles wide. TTarjAisc, W. Va^ Feb. 13. The river ia twenty-seven feet. It has fallen steadily but slowly since Wednesday night. The weather iscldarand warm. Slow progress is made in clearing away the debris left. The number of destitute is materially reduced, but several thousand are still dependent on the relief committee, pritx-ip city women and children, or old i men. Since.the flood receded a jieculiar phenomenon is noticed at Powhattan: Sand and water are thrown to a considerable height there by three regular geysers, which attract many sight-seers. An immense land-slide on- the hill in the Second ward resulting from recent rains threatens four or five houses. Two small tenements belonging to a man named White were deserted fco-tl.uy by panic-stricken inmates. Donations i or the benefit of fl tod sufferers are still coming in liberally, but the committee are at heavy expense yet. Senator Payne of Ohio telegraphed a subscription of $1,000 to-day. A telegram was received from the Secretary »f War authorising the Mayor to expend $2,000 and draw on the Department. The relief committee reports the worst need is clothing and bedding. t RarescbsprO, inn.. Fob. 13. The condition is growing worse. More houses are floating away. Only one day’s rations of bread; plenty has been sent, but the only mode of access is by boats from Biasdgtl’s. The people' at last have been compelled to make an appeal to the general public for help. They say 4,000 have been driven from the houses. Fully 2,000 must be fed daily, while hundreds of houses have been swept away. . • • roRTSi UJTH, O., Feb. V. The river is nearly on; stand. There Is great distress. Many houses floated away. Two j&iTdren were drowned. The fire on $20,000.

THE LATEST. _ ClscIiBi.wi, Feta. 14,2 a. m. The Rood tt, this Soar has reached a height of 70 feet 8 inches. Rain by fits and starts Tuesday night ; heavy rain by spells all day Wednesday; heavy clouds overV and. over seventy feet of water in ar, where fifty marks the danger oivs something of the condition of _ here. The river rose eighteen inches in twentyfour hours—that means more destruction than heretofore, more people homeless, more demands for charity, a longer pet_ of darkness, and without water, with little cost to h.* had, but few .mails, little traveling, no freight moving to or from a great trade centre, no business, higher prices in provisions, not mnch of anything but wetness and a great deal too mnch of that; with a great waste of yellow, rushing waters environing the eity, and the consciousness that hesides onr own thousands of homeless people and our own discomforts and suffering, it will be within a few hours repeated many fold on scores of smaller towns below us. Cincinnati is big and rich and generous. She will care for her own people, and do it well; but even her big hands will be filled with home work. The calls for aid and their generous responses aU ever the country are not too many. There is enough and for all the charity and good will of the whole people to do along this great valley in places where, as yet, little or nothing is known of the situation. The cries of thousands for help will reach only -the ear of Infinite Mercy before it does that of the American people. They mav prepare now for what is sura to come. The water now is on Pearl street, the heaviest retail street in the city, running like a mill-race along this mart of trade lour squares back from the suspension bridge. The signal service flag denoting the coming of cold weather floated yesterday for the third time since the flood began. Hitherto its presence was welcomed; now it brings the worst apprehensions. Cold weather can now have no substantial effect on the water disaster; that has abont done its worst; but with cold weather the imprisoned people in alt the towns and cities along the Ohio will suffer terribly for lack of fuel. Few realise the d fficnlty of getting supplies delivered. There are no landings for steamers and the damage done to buildings by the wa ves caused by passing steamers has been so great as to cause the occupants of flooded houses to fire on steamers bringing them relief. From alt points, in the inundated territory reports are of the most gloomy character. Fully fifty thousand people are practically homeless and dependent upon charity for subsistence. To the horrors of the flood has been added that of pinching cold, which renders their condition doubly distressing. The appeals for aid are being generously responded to from *11 quarters, but the many obstacles in the wav of its distribution, principal among which is the checking of transportation facilities by the floods makes the situation in many cases a very trying one indeed.

RELIEF* NOTES. Governor Hoadloy of Ohio has issued a proclamation calling upon the people of Ohio to contribute to relieve the dire distress brought upon thousands of their fel-low-citizens by the floods. A central committee has keen organized at Columbus with F. W. Huntington as chairman. A committee of citizens has been appointed in Boston to make collections Mr sufferers by the Western floods. The Hew York Coffee Exchange and Importers’ and Grocers' Board of Trade have formed committees for the relief of Ohio Valley sufferers and subscribed $3,000. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company contributed $1,000 for sufferers. $3,000 to be distributed from the Pittsburgh office, and $1,000 each along the lines of the Pan-Handle and Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Roads. A petition forwarded to the Ohio Legislature from seventy citizens of Cincinnati for an appropriation of three hundred thousand dollars, for relief of flood sufferers, wns presented in the Seijate, and a bill was introduced in both Senate and House. Robert Garrett has ordered free transportation of provisions or other gifts ontha Baltimore & Ohio Road for the sufferers by the floods; also the free use of the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph. A public meeting was held at Dayton, at which a resolution was adopted petitioning

THE LIMIT REACHED. After Go'** Cincinnati, Above lievrntj-cne CraciatiAH, 0, JWx. 14. T • flood reached its climax to-day—71 feet and X of an inch at noon. It remained stationary at that until two o’clock, when a decline was noticed. At 3:90 it had gone down half an inch, and since then has continued to decline—slowly, very slowly, but sorely and steadily. The news that the fall had begun was hailed With joy by every class of citizens. The city is in a terrible condition. Business is suspended in nearly all the wholesale houses and manufacturing establishAs yet there has not been any body is nervously apprehensive of one at any minute; unless the waters fall vbry gradually, it would seem almost impossible to escape withont immense losses from warehouses and stores, filled with costly goods, crumbling and falling from their walls being weakened by the waters so long about them. The situation at Newport, the second largest of our Kentucky suburbs, is much worse relatively than in Cincinnati. The waters have risen, till out of the 117 squares in the town eighty have been overflowed, - over two-thirds of the town , and of the 18,000 inhabitants over 9,000 have been or are being afforded relief, mostly food. When half a city is in such a condition the scenes of distress may Its imagined. The distress and grief can only be pictured and hardly described. Looking over the vast territory now submerged naught but ruin and desolation can be seen. The ter-, rifle wind and rain storm last night laid waste many houses. The streets are now in many places blocked with houses, stables, porches, etc., making it very difficult for the relief boats to" navigate. A reporter went through the flooded district, with a relief committee, and fonnd people, actually starving. As coffee, (seed and meet were distributed to the poor sufferers they grabb d at the eatables in a dazed, half-famished manner that was heartrending to witness. Twenty houses were counted turned bottom- upward. Ten thousand peple were given dinner at the soup-house to-day. Seven thousand loaves of bread, 2,000 pounds of meat, 1,500 gallons of soup and 1,00) gallons of coffee were distributed by the relief committees to-day. In Covington the situation is not much worse than yesterday. The town stands much higher than Newport. About 1,000 ]>eople are being fed there. At Payton, Ky., by actual count, there nre 315 houses submerged. Taking on an overage seven people to a house, It makes over 8,000 homeless people. On the Ohio side. Mill Creek Valley, at the west end of Cincinnati, presents a scene of the utmost desolation. Houses ore inundated, some of them to thCsecond s tory, and others submerged: stables and rheas are overturned; tops of freight cars protrude from submerged railroad tracks, nnd all kinds of rubbish and refuse is floating about. At Lawrenceberg, Ind., over 500 bouses have been swept away'and upwards ol 1,000 people are homeless. Fears of still creator damage are not unfounded, as the W ‘ " luniks built to protect the city from an overflow of the Miami river have been broken down, and a resistless torrent oi twelve to twenty feet of water is pouring through the heart of the city. i

LOmSTOit, FeD. 14, B p. M. The river continues to rise. The canai i^auge registers forty-six feet, eighteen inches higher than at any time last year. The strong wind, of last night caused tht waves to do much damage in the submerged district. A great many house; have fallen or floated off. Hie water if still rising, though the ground is bard frozen, and this morning reached the cellar of the Board of Trade building, putting out the fire in the furnace. There is nt likelihood of aqy further rain and the river is expected to be at a stand by morning. Inch 1 by Inch the water has come up at Jeffersonville till nearly every street has disappeared. If the water continues to rise at the present rate, by noon Friday there will not be a dry spot in the town. Sights are the most appalling and distressing. Houses have paved in and hundreds of people are hnddled together in some buildings. Many remain in Becond stories, shivering, suffering from dampness and cold, and in many cases hunger. The penitentiary is still out of water, bat a little more water and the convicts will become flood sufferers with nowhere to go. Utica, Ind., is almost out of sight. The inhabitants fled to the hills for safety. Clarksville is entirely depopulated. Irokton, 0,, Feb. 14. Telegraphic communication was re-estab-lished to-day. Three-fourths of the town is underwater, including the entire business portion. The water is seven feet 'higher than in 1883. Though it has fallen considerably, it is still above any known high watermark. Soup-houses are open, bat are inadequate. Thousands are homeless and penniless. Every door is open, but there is not enough room. Frame houses are swept from their foundations and brick buildings crumbled into the water. At Hanging Bock bat four houses are above water. Coryville has but two houses above the flood. Starvation stares thousands in the face. The iron mills have stopped, and many employes were destitute before the flood came. OALurous, O., Feb. 14. The relief steamers Nora Bell and Montgomery returned from a trip down the river. They report the village of Athalia almost entirely swept away. In Millersport twenty or thirty houses are gone. At Fnctorsville the water is in the second stories. Ceredo, West Virginia, lost $300,000 worth of lumber. BvassviLn*, Ind, Feb. 14. At Shawneetown the water is approaching the second story of the Riverside Hotel and fteadily swelling. Officers of the last boat from there describe it as a scene of desolation equal to that of last year. No houses as yet have been moved from their foundations, but as the.water swells the danger incenses, and there Is great dread of wind, which would inevitably do grea* damage. One hundred and twenty pens of oorn in the water were- counted on the Indiana side in a distance of ten miles below Henderson. It can not be reached. This represents 20,000 bushels, the loan on which will be at least SO per cent. Mamma, Ind., Feb.'14. The flood in the Ohio river at this point will probably reach its height to-morrow morning, two feet higher than the flood of last year. The damage to property in this city will be greater than last year on account of the additional height of the water. LawsKSGaamm, Ind., Feb. 14. A fearful windstorm last night added farther desolation to the place by upturning more houses. The losses on property can be safely placed at not less than $400,000. Nine inches more would have flooded the floor of the highest located house in thecity- The cold weather, though welcome as stopping the rise, bringB much suffering to the people in cars and i

s Madison, Isd., Feb. 14. The river to still rising and to expected to reach its highest to-morrow. It to now twb feet above last year. Seven houses epre washed away to-day, and as many more from Milton, Ky., and others lost their foundations. Is is estimated 3,001 peopie here are homeless and destitute, Matbtius, Kr., Feb. 14. The wind# censed much damage here and at Aberdeen, Ky., lost night by wrecking

A* Arek Beaisgegue’s Methods, Senator Shenas.3 has always believed in the late General Xilpaaiek’s plan of conducting Jispabiican can; paigns— “the bloody shayl «ud more money.’1 It was, therefore, only in seeping witit that arch demagogue's political methods that he neernd fa the Senate to investigate the Danville riots. Mr. Sberman was one of the visiting statesmen of 1876 who Invented Eliza Pinkston and the other delectable witnesses on whose suborned testimony the Electoral Vote of Louisiana was" fraudulently given to the imposter Hayes. It was doubtless owing to his experience in discovering witnesses of that description that he was selected by the Republican managers to move this investigation. Ke wm under She rales of the Senate become the Chairman of the Committee and will have the opportunity of exercising his peculiar talents for procuring testimony to prove the truth a lie and a lie the truth. Danville is in the State represented in the Senate by Mahone and Riddlebergvr bot neither of them eoul<| be trusted to manage this investigation. Only the man who discovered and coached the Louisiana witness, Eliza Pinkston, is regarded by the Republican Senators as fit to undertake the task . The people of Virginia, however, should be glad that this investigation is to take place. Senator Cockerell should not have objected, and every Democratic Senator should have voted for Sherman’s motion. The testimony taken by the committee of citizens of Virginia appointed to investigate the Danville riots shop's that the collision between the whites and blacks was accidental and that the race issue involved in .the politics of that town was made by tho Mahone party. But it is alleged that the inquiry made by the committee of citizens was partial and that the whole truth concerning the matter has not been told. It is better, therefore, for the people of Virginia that there should be a Congressional investigation so that they m&y have an opportunity of vindicating themselves from the malignant but unsupported charges on which Mr. Sherman has based his motion. The facts as they are should be deadly brought out, ami Mr. Mabone’s method should, not be neglected either. He certainty stirove to sot the negroes against the whites ir. Virginia, and it was. undoubtedly under tie bloody instructions issued by him that the Democratic procession at Richmond was assaulted and that Democratic negroes who were in that procession were beaten and otherwise maltreated. Since Mr. Sherman is so profoundly eonceme 1 about the political rights of the people of Virginia let hipi likewise investigate the Mahone riot at Richmond. There are other Stotes besides Virginia, whose people are sometimes deprived of their civil rights. Mr. Sherman’s own State has not been entirely •free from riots in which the mob took the law in their awn bands. The same may be said of the neighboring Stats of Indiana. Even staid old Pennsylvania has had riotous demonstrations in which the. rights of property were ruth

lessiy vioissptt aue men were snot down in cold blood. But it has never occurred to Mr. Sherman, .or any other Republican in Congress to invade Ohio, or Indiana, or Pennsylvania at the bead of an investigating committee to inquire whether those States have failed to protect their citizens in the enjoyment of their civil rights. It is only Use Southern States, in Mr. Sherman’s opinion, that are amenable to such supervision on the part of Congress. It has also been charged in the newspapers and by the late Governor of Massachusetts that systematic intimidation of voters is practiced in that State. Mr.’ Sherman should enlarge the scope of his investigation so as to give the factory kings of the old Bay State an op; ortunitr to clear themselves of this charge. Congress should not make fish of one State and flesh of another.—Harrisburg (Fa.) Patriot. Hetr the Republican Party Is Held Together. The Republican party bangs together. There am faction lights for spoils, but when a contest involves the retention of power all minor questions are held subordinate to that consideration. The explanation of this is found in the construction of the party. Republicanism truckles to fanaticism. Extremists of ail sorts pin their faith to that party and support its candidates in Presidential elections. •Capital, represented by monopolies and corporations, is with Republicanism from self-interest. It may go astray on minor occasions, but Jttids stenebly.by the Republicans in a national contest. Republicans oi intelligence and integrity deplore the degeneracy of their party. They know that its great issues are dead ami that long-continued power has given it over to the hands of unscrupulous managers. Bnt their patriotism is flot broad enough to overcome their natural prejudice against democracy, and their integrity exhausts itself in empty protests against Credit Mobilier, Star-route robberies, official fraud, bribery and the failure to bring public thieves to justice. Whenever the question of the Presidency is involved they forget their indignation and vote with their party. They connived at the electoral fraud of 1376; they supported Garfield, sndtbe# would vote for Arthur if he should receive the nomination next year as readily as they voted for him. before the Dorsey banquet. The Republican party is held together by the cohesive power of public plunder. The enormous army of Federal office - holders, spreading through ail the States, is ready to do battle for its bread and butter at every Presidential election. Stalwarts anil Half-Breeds struggle fiercely in a nominating convention. Bui when a nomination is mads they. unit*. Better keep the spoils iu any Republican hands than hand them over to Democrats. The Stalwarts fought for Garfield as stontly as they would have done battle for Grant. Although cheated in the end, they wtudd do the same thing

Be.Ti year There are ixrge. combers of freetraders and revenue reformers In the Eepnhlic-ar, ranks, Yat should the tariff qne^iiou be snad® the issue in the Pre«dente&; contest nest year they woold support the saosfc violent Republican pretec«t2ofite5 against the most conservative Iwus'iera'.fc revenue reformer. Let th5« risups-i 1mt be remembered. —n. t. awsT*

Mow Things Dm Daring the Presidency of Thomas Jefferson » relative applied ,to him for a place of no great consequence under the Federal Government. In bis note of reply Jefferson freely conceded the personal fitness of the applicant, and said that under other circumstance* it would have afforded him much pleasure to make the appointment; bat the fact of their relationship rendered such action improper, and he was therefore compelled to refuse, limes have changed, aad Presidential nrinciplca and practices changed withohem, since the great Democrat occupied the Executive chair. A President who should imitate hilt example in such matters would he considered a curiosity worthy of a glass case. It seems to be generally understood that kinfolks to the last degree of. kinship, and friends to the feeblest degree of friendship, have eliding upon their kinsman or friend which they may press with the utmost pertinacity without loss of self-respect, and which he may recognise to any extent without suffering severely in public estimation. The idea that offices are the property of the people, and not of the temporary headservant erf the people, and should bn distributed with sole reference to popular interests, has quite gone out of fashion. The Jeffersonian views of duty and propriety are as obsolete as the almanacs he consulted. Naturally enough the notions which prevail in the Executive Department are cordially indorsed and vigorously practiced in the Legislative; often with much more shameful resuits. The latest illustrations brought to light are those furnished by ex-Speaker Keifer and Senator McMillan, of Minnesota. The former dismissed an accomplished stenographer So make room for a nephew, and the latter—considerably more impudent ---removed a cierk of the Commerce Committee to make room for a son who is at college, and who is drawing a salary of $2,200 per annum without doing any work whatever. Doubtless there are scores of similar cases which pass undetected; indeed, they have become so common as to occasion little or no surprise, and rarely provoke the condemnation they deserve. Now, just as long as this unblushing nepotism is permitted to flourish unchecked and almost nnrebukod at the headquarters of Government, preaching civil-service reform is a waste of time and breath. There can be no civil-serv-ice reform, not even a beginning of it, until the men who control-Federal patronage take the same view of it that Jefferson did; until Presidents, Senators and members of Congress are compelled by pressure of popular opinion to regard that patronage as a sacred trust upon which relatives and friends, as such, have and can have no claim. The root of our crril-sjjvico evils ties in the assumption that public offices are private property, and may, be bestowed as private feelings dictate without any special regard to the public welfare. “The spoils system* ia simply nepotism on a larger scale; for if President, Senator, or member of Congress is Justified in such recognition

as nepotism implies, a dominant party bas ampler justification in the rewarding of its friends and the punishment of its enemies.in the distribution of offices. Until there is the requisite quality and quantity of public opinion to make such performances as those of Keifer and McMillan impossible, there can be no real reform of the civil service. ■ The Jeffersonian idea is sadly ont of fashion, but we must get back to it—approximately at least—before genuine and permanent reform is brought within the range of remote possibilities;—St. Louis Republicam. Raising a Dead Issne. Republican newspapers are very free with their gibes-and sneers upon the general proposition which they have advanced that the Democrats are afraid of the tariff question. But if their own alleged statesmen are not also afraid cf it why do they try to run away from it, or-rather, bring ont a thread-bare, blear-eyed and generally demoralized old issue to place in front of it. About this time the Republican leaders get out their properties and decide among themselves what are available and what mu3t be laid aside. The bloody-shirt (has been so long exposed to neglect that it has become mildewed and rot- ' ten, but John Sherman, viewing the shreds of this once successful gonfalon, has evidently asked his comrades what better inspiration than that still remained to them, and by their votes they have answered: “None!” The great Cjd routed the Moors once after the life had departed from his valiant body, and with nothing living upon which they can depend, why may not the Republicans see’what can be done with a dead issne about which cluster cherished recollections of success when the passions of men Were more easily influenced and their prejudices more readily excited than now? That is the whole meaning of the Sherman-Mahone demonstration at this time. The Mephistoiean Senator tod his mephitis ally * not expect that an investigation'into * rinia will disclose the local affairs of Virginia i anything to their credit or benefit. It is not probable that they want such an investigation made. But they do want the country to believe that a reason and justification for it exist, and thus create a sectional cry for use in the coming campaign. Mahone is the stool-pigeon.. Somehow the Republican party seldom ventures upon a political line of action ndw without first making terms with this unscrupulous and contemptible soldier of fortune, and enlisting his sendees in its behalf. Whether the' schema originated with Mahone or not we have no means of knowing. He is capable of quite as lofty conning as that, and, defeated by the people who at first, unfortunately for themselves and the credit and good name of their Commonwealth, gave him their confidence, he has been meditating schemes of revenge ever since. The necessities of the ; Republican party hnva given him ani opportunity and be lias jumped in'clear

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