Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 42, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 February 1884 — Page 1

V. IP. MIGHT, Editor ui VOLUME PETERSBURG, 0«ee over City Drag Store, renter Main and Eighth itrott -_- y_:___._ NUMBER ri. ~ OF THE COUNTY; FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1884.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. ' CONGKUSSIONAE PROCEEDINGS. . In the Senate on the 15th a joint resolution passed appropriating $200,000 for the flood eUITcrerS. Consideration of the bill relating to National bank circulation was resumed, Mr. Plumb speaking lit some length in support of an amendment to authorize the issue of Treasury notch as fast as National bank notes are withdrawn. The amendment offered by Mr. Sherman was rejected. .In the House, tbc flood relief resolution was adopted. The Chalmers-Mann lug oontest was debated till 3:30, ’when the previous question was or dered. Curtin marched Manning up to the Speaker's desk and demanded that he be sworn in on fhe certificate of the Governor Of Mississippi. The Speaker declined to administer the oath on tlie ground that Manning's right to the seat was under consideration. The majority report was finally adopted. This discharges the committee as to the prima facie cijse and leaves the seat vacant until the case is decided on its merits. Both houses adlouraed till'Monday. In the Senate on the ISth the bill to irrigate certain arid lands was indefinitely postponed. The bill passed fixing the terms of United States Cou rts in Texas. Also the bill firing agricultural lauds to the Southern Ute niiians. Consideration of the National Bank note bill was resumed, Senator Plumb submitted a modification of his amendment. No action was reached.In the House the usual Monday batch of bills was introduced and referred. Mr. Belford offered a resolution, which was referred, inquiring whether the State Department had received any letter from Prince Bismarck touching the Lasker resolutions. A resolution was referred appropriating $500,000 forrelief of sufferers by floods on the Lower Mississippi The bill to retire the trade dollars was made a special.order for March II. The bill passed relieving certain soldiers from the <iharge of desertion. A resolution was adopted to hold night sessions Fridays to con&der, pension bills. On a motion to consider the Mexican veteran pension bill on the 21st, a call of the House showed noquo

In the Senate on the 19fch a bill was favorably reported providing for punishment of tresspassers on Indian lands. The bill is intended to apply to the OMuhoma invaders. Bills to receive tegal-tendeilrafor customs and to retire small legal-tender notes were reported adversely. The bill relating to National Bank note circulation was again the subject of a long debate, participated in by Bayard, McPherson. Plumb, Allison, Vest and Mitchell. Plumb withdrew the modification to his amendment and Morgan offered another in its place. No vote was taken.The House having continued >in session all night over the Mexican pension bill, finally voted to make it a special order for the 21st inst. The House adjourned about nine o’clock. The Senate on the 20th passed the bill increasing to $600,000 the annual appropriation to furnish arms for the militia; a’so the bill fixing the time of bolding Federal Courts in the Northern District of Iowa. A resolution was adopted making inquiry as to the amount of indemnity lands patented to land grant ! railroads in Iowa. The bank circulation bill was taken up and both Plumb’s and Morrill’s J amendments were rejected.In the House the report was agreed to calling for reports made by special agents of the Postal Department in reference to the Star-route investigation. A report was submitted favoring the bill to forfeit the Oregon Central land grant. Resolution calling on the President not to deliver up the Cuban refugee, Aguero, till the case is fully snve-tbrated was reported favorably. Joint resolution appropriating $150,Qp>0 for education among the Indians was adopted. The Military Academy appro aria* ion bill was discussed without action. In the Senate on the 21st Mr. Cullom introduced a bill to strengthen the Say levee. iTbe bill making it a felony to personate a Government official with intent to defraud, ttes discussed without aclion. The bank circulation bill was taken up, and after long discussion Morgan withdrew his amendment. The Senate adjourned till Monday..In the H nice the agricultural appropriation bill na> reported and crlered pinnted. The Military Academy bill was r a ken up and passed. A motion to ad'ourn over Washington’s birthday was agreed to. The post rock' bill passed. Kesolutions were adopted inquiring whether the Northern Pacific Company claims any lands on which homestead entries had been made prior to the time of location. A communication from the President gave notice of the gift of the steamer Alert by the British Government for the Greely expedition. Mr. Bandall asked unanimous consent to have the , cooimun cation spread upon the record. Mr. i Finerty objected. A vote was then taken and j the motion carried, only two members voting 1 against it. PEKSOJJA1L AND POLITICAL. The bill introduced by Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, to provide for the (lis|>oshion of unused military reservations covers 179 tracts aggregating 2,929,59") acres. On the 20th Secretary Chandler and a number of naval officers went to New York to participate in the ceremonies over the remains rtf Pe Long and his comrades. Ox the ISfch Theodore Sachs snrren- ‘ dered himself to -the-police of St. Louis, Mo., claiming to bo the murderer of the Boneckers at Fenton. He is believed to be insane, r Ox the afternoon of the 20th the steamship Frisia from Hamburg, with the bodies*of the victims of the Jeannette Arctic expedition, arrived in New York. On the 15th the citizens of Logan, O., were guarding the cemetery to prevent the burial of Wm. N. Terrell, the murderer of the Weldon family, who died recently in the Ohio I’ehitentiary, and whoso romains were taken home by his sister. He was buried pt the Terrell homestead. On the 20th reports front many places on the Ohio River indicated that flooddamages were greatly increased by the high wind of the night o' the I9th. Entire villages were swept away. People ine posed positions were frost-bitten and col idera; bla loss of life is said to have result t. Additional breaks ia levees and raili fed embankments have occurred along th /Lower Mississippi. At Khartoum General Gordo./is taking radical measures, and,"according to the reports, is inspiring general confidence. On the night of the 19 th F. C. Bradley and wife, an aged couple, died a natural death locked in each other’s arms at Milwaukee, Wis. On the evening of the 19th a caucus ol Democratic Congressmen was held at

*1 asiujigwu. -ii wummree was appoimea to take pi-elim'jury steps toward organizing for the nAt political ccmoaign. Secretary Lincoln having Lean called on to furnish money to rebuild houses destroyed by the floods, replies that he is , only authorized to supply food, clothing, tents and personal necessaries. On the 2Cth Mrs- Fred. W. Paramore, previous to her marriage the reigning belle ' of St. Louis, Mo., and who gained national notoriety a few years ago as the reported affianced of Samuel J. Tilden, died at her residence in St. Louis in her twenty-sixth year. The Elections Committee of the . House of Representatives in the contest of Woods against Peters of Kansas, will report in favor of Peters, the sitting member Late dispatches state that General Gordon purposes interviewing El Mahdi to find out the fate of Hicks Pasha and his troops. v Joseph Gate and Cliauncy Ames were killed recently neat Park City, M. T-, in i. fight with Indian horse-thieves. Four Iudians were killed. ! ' The German Minister at JVashingtch says the unfriendly construction put upon Bismarck’s action in the Lasker matter was doe to fidse impressions created by the English and French press. ’*■ Bismarck’s official organ in Berlin says the request made by Minister Sargent regarding the l^asker resolutions was of such remarkable character that it coaid only be explained by his ignorance of diplomatic usage. All the Berlin papers are hotly discussing the incident, some attacking Sargent and some Bismarck. On tie 2181. Brad la ugh was once more excluded rom the British House of Commons by a vote of 226 to 178. The Democratic National Convention tr ill be held July 9 ip Chicago,

On the 21st, at the session in Cincinnati of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the following officers were elected: President, Janies Bayless of New York; Vice-Presidents, Eckley B. Coxe, Drifton, Pa.; Thomas Eggleston, New York; Edwin C. Pecklen,Cleveland; Managers, Edward 8. Book, Pottstown, Pa.; Frank Funstine, Easton, P.; C. W. Maynard. New York; * Treasurer, T. Ik Rand, Philadelphia; Secretary, Ressieter W. Raymond, New York. On the 22d a statue to General Robert E. Lee was unveiled in New Orleans. The National Greenback Convention will be held in Indiana]>olis, Ind., May 28. The resignation of Cardinal Von Hohenlohe has been accepted by the Pope. On the 22d the Virginia Legislature passed the reapportionnient bill over the Governor’s veto. De Lessee's agreement with the British bond-holders is repudiated by the Suez Canal bond-holders. Salmi Morse, who endeavored to produce the Passion play, committed suicide by drowning himself in the Hudson River on the S2d. „ The Proteus board of inquiry in its report pays a handsome compliment to Lieutenant Colwell of the navy. On the 22d Speaker Brand of the British House of Commons resigned after the address from the throne had been adopted. A Washington’s birthday party was given by Minister Sargent in Berlin, notwithstanding the Bisma rck-Reichs tag incident. On the night of the 22d a banquet of independent Republicans was held in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Academy of Music, and was attended by about 200 gentlemen. It was preliminary to a conference on the 23d in that city upon the qaestion of anti-ma-chine politics. Carl Schurz responded to a toast, “The day we celebrate,” and-Presi-dent S lyee, of Amherst College, to “Our Country.”

CRIMES AND CjI.USCAI.TIE S. At Apollo, Pa., a wire bridge collapsed ou the 19tb. A teamster and his team were drowned. The severe storm which swept across the country the afternoon of the 19th developed tornadoes at various points in Noi-th' Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama, causing heavy loss of life and great destruction of property. A fire in the business portion of Charlottetown, Prince Edward’s Island, on the 20th destroyed property to the amount of 1250,000; and another tire was reported to have started. Os the 2Cth White’s Shoe Factory at Holbrook. Mass., burned, throwing 301 men out of employment. A |50,000 fire occurred at Cortland, N. Y. Fire destroyed the Pennsylvania Company’s round-house at Erie, Pa., on the 21st. B. F. Barnes killed, his wife and cut his own throat fatally at Boache, Wis., on the 21st. Details of fatal casualties resulting from the Southern tornadoes come with every day’s dispatches. * At Palmyra, Wis. , on the 21st a hotel and several other buildings were destroyed by an incendiary fire. A* wealthy old fanner named Harvey Chappell, who lived alone near Lebanon, Conn., was found murdered in his house on the 21st. On the 21st a shocking tragedy was u * earthed at Avondale, O. O* the 15th the cabin of an old colored man burned, and since then nothing had been seen ot the occupants until their bodies—those of Beverly Taylor, his wife and grandchild-—were found at the Ohio Medical College with evidences of their having been murdered. Four arrests have been made. Fire destroyed more than forty houses nt Mayagus“. Porto Rico, recently. , The b3rk Ada Barton of St. John, N. B-, is reported lost at sea with nine of her crew. A negro roustabout named John Fields, was fatally stabbed in St. Loui , Mo., on the 22d by John Long another of the same calling. On tbc 21st John Heith, one of the Bisbee murderers, was sentenced at Tombstone, Arizona, to life imprisonment. On the 22d he was taken from jail by a mob and lynched. Os the morning of the 22d Benjamin McCloud, a boss of the Comet coal mine at Jackson, O., was found on the railroad track terribly mangled py a train. Investigation Showed that he had been murdered before he was placed on the track. MISCELLANEOUS. ON-the 20th a convention of general baggage agents assembled in St. Louis, Mo.,-to consult over matters pertaining to their calling. Quite a number of delegates were present. i The Austrian Consul at Khartoum has forwarded to El M ahdi £2,000 ransom for Catholic missionaries held as prisoners. At Salt Lake City, Utah, the new Council, elected under the Edmunds law, qualified on the night of the 19tb. While presumed to be a monagamous hotly, there appears no donbt but it will act in accordance to the mandates; of the Mormon Church. James Sharp, the new Mayor, made a speech in which he indicated such a course.

all the trench war material destined for use in the campaign in Tonquin is expected to be on the ground by the end of the present month. Os the. 20th officers surrounded a band of highway robbers who have for some time terrorized the mountain region of Fayette County, Fa., and fatally shot oho; the others escaped. Os the 20th, in the British House of Commons, speaking on the Parnell amendment censoring the government policy in Ireland, John O’Connor Power criticised the course of Parnell and the National party and opposed the amendment as insufficient and ill-advised. The Cholera Commission from Germany which has been investigating in Egypt and India seems to have traced the cholera germ to its laid. They find it in the water and also in tike corpses oE victims to the disease. The Treasury Department has called $10,000,000 three per cents, to mature on May 1. j Exchange, of mail between Mexico and the UnitedgStates is suspended indefinitely, owing to the controversy between the Post-office Departments of the two governments relative to llhe payment of the carrier between Laredo and New Laredo. The sum in dispute is $162. On the 21st a terrific hurricane swept St. George’s Channel. The twenty-fourth annual St. Loois Fair will fce held Monday, October 6 to Saturday October 11, inclusive. The appropriation for premiums in tbs different departments aggregates SSO.cCfo. On the 21st a thous and feet of snowsheds collapsed at Emigrant Gap, Cal., on the Central Pacific Railway. Boats with relief parties continue to ply the Ohio River, and the need for them in us. great as ever

Ox the 19th tl^ residence of ex-Lieu-tonant Governor Gardner at Bennington, Center, Vt„ burned. Loss $25,000. Ox the 18tli a quantity of powder exploded in a hardware store at London, Canada, killing three men and blowing; out the top of the building, j Ox the 19th the roof of the Steel lVorks at Coshocton, O., the largest n: anulactory In tbo place, was blown off and a portion ot the walls demolished, by a terrific wind and rain storm. All the lines of telegraph were blown down and it was 1 eared much damage had been don6 throughout the country. an employe of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, named Bryan Coffee, was so severely injured by t ailing against an engine, at Bellevue, la., on the 17th, that he may not recover. Ox the morning of the 20th an explosion occurred in a coal mine near Conneilsyille. Pa., where seventy-five men were at work. About twenty lives were lost. In the Dominion Parliament a bill granting the Canadian Pacific Railway nearly $30,000,000 has passed the lower house. Ax official denial is made by theJPout-naster-General of tuo report that a British spy had been allowed to tamper with American mails. Ox the 21st the Ohio River was fall;ng at Evansville, 2nd., and the flood. was Iseiieved to have done its worst. The Chinese have a scrions revolt on hand to distract their attention from Toniuin.

Tiie unconditional gift by the British government of. the Arctic steamer Alert? for the Greely relief expedition is n very graceful acknowledgment of the courtesy shown by the United States in the recovery and return of the British ship Resolute. While making excavations on the Santa Cruz hacienda, near Uorlia, Mexico, the workmen discovered a number of idols made of black stone, some finely finished, and ornamental articles of pottery and the remains of several human beings. A corn famine exists on the Peninsula of Yucatan on account of the ravages of locusts. . I The Manitobans will hold a secession 'convention at Winnipeg March 8. A force of 4,000 British troops are how at Trinkitat and Suakem, in the Soudan. < ' At Anzin, France, seven thousand ;coal miners are on a strike. On the 23d Francis McGinity, a Liverpool grain dealer, failed for £33,000? ; On the 22d the river at Cairo was at % stand. Everything was considered safe dt that point, but a high wind caused much anxiety for Mound City and some other points, where great damage probably resulted. The rising waters in the Lower Mississippi continue to play havoc with weak leyees. On the 22d the funeral ceremonies of the Jeannette victims took place from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Since January 1st sixteen persons have been banished from St. Petersburg for polrttcatg-easons. The press of Europe continue to discuss the Lasker resolutions and Bismarck’s exploit in keeping them from the Reichstag. On the 21th Tokar surrendered to El MahcH. The relief expedition wad too ate. The unmarried portion of the garrison were trying to escape to Trinkitat, where British troops were landing. A substitute for the bonded wliisky hill is proposed by Mr. Morrison, providng that the bonded period shall be ex.ended not more than two years from the late at which the tax would fall due. 1 On the night of the 22d Mrs, Ed. Craves* a lady prominent in society at Dubuque, la., fell and broke au ankle while performing on roller skates at a riijk in (that city. The negro Silas Lane, who was to have been hanged af" Rolling Fork, in Sharkey County, Miss., and who was twice -espited by Governor Lowery, has had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for ■life in the Penitentiary. Two gentlemen from Clarinda, la., have been engaged several days ih searching for the grave of Colonel W. Kinsman, who fell at the battle of the Big Black, hear Vicksburg, Miss., when leading a charge of his regiment, the 23d Iowa In fantry. jb -<•»»- LATE NEWS ITEMS. In the House of Beprcvcotat'vc ! on |he 23d a bill to prohibit contract importation of laborers was placed on the calendar. Also the bill to enablo the Po stmaster'-Gen-oral to intercept registered letters for lottery companies. The pleuro-pneumonia hill was taken up and discussed without action. The Morrison bonded whiskyfbill was reported and referred to committee of (file whole. The failures in the United States and Canada for the Week ended on the 23J numbered 246. Several of the State reformatory buildings burned at Ionia, Mich., on (the 23d. The New York banks at the close of business on the 23d held $19,000,0.0 in ex

‘less of legal requirements. The State Department is notified; that tlie rest! ictions against importation of pork into Greece are removed. A Catholic school burned, at Ker-' shena, Wis., on the morning of the: 23d. Seventy pupils and six Sisters escaped in their night clothes. Consul-General Heap has besiji appointed to conduct the jl^otlations with Turkey regarding the new tpriff. Rumor names Appointment <?lerk Butler of the Treasury Department as ths successor of Assistant Treasurer New. w The House Committee on Public Lands came to a dead-lock cn the 23d on the Backbone land grant forfeiture bill. At last accounts from Tonqui ti the French naval forces were taking positions with a view to supporting an attack on Bac Ninh. tconvention of Northern negroes is held at Pittsburgh, Pa., April 29, to discuss the condition of the colored race in the South. The Senate Committee on Territories will recommend the admission as a State of that portion of Dakota south of the Cortysixtb parallel. During a violenPstorm in Colorado on the 23d two passenger coaches wei e blown from the track near Georgetown Several passengers were injured. Colonel Burnaby, the London Post correspondent at Suaketn, wants the Government to use Indian troops, chastise Osman Digna and open communication with Khartoum. Ben Johnson and Allen Ingalls, the ressunrectionists, who sold three murdered persons’.bodies to the Ohio Medical College, have been held for murder in the first degree. There are still more breaks in the levees along the lower Mississippi. The people are working hard to strengths:! the weaker ones and it is thought there will be B© general ioss&geih <

DEADLY FIIIE DAMP. Nineteen Miners In is Pennsylvania Colliery Killed by nn Explosion of Fire Damp— The Bodies all Recor ered—A Large Number of Widows and Orphans Left to Mourn. Pniostown, Pa., Feb. 20. The little mining vil lage of West Leisenring, fonr miles north of here, was this morning the scene of the most terrific explosion ever fc*5jhvn in the coke regions. The Connells vilte Coal! and Iron Company have 2,000 coke ovens here which have been in operation about a year. The works give employment to about 100 men and quite a little town has sprung up. The coal is obtained by means of a shaft which reaches the mine at a distance of 400 feet from the surface. This morning a part of the force, who had worked all night, left the mines at a little afteastwo o’clock, and seventy others took their places, making the usual morning shift. At about half past six o’clock, while the men were digging, suddenly, without warning, there occurred an explosion that convalsed the mine in every apartment nnd threw the men into the utmost consternation. The scene of the explosion was in one of the apartments, fully 800 feet distant from the bottom of the shaft, and therefore about 1,200 feet from 1he surface opening, yet the report was heard on the ontside for a considerable distance, and caused such a jar that the top of the derrick a hundred feet high was knocked off. Two males were standing at the liottom of the shaft, 800 feet from the explosion, and therush of air blew one of them through the wooden

The other cage, shattering it to pieces, mule died from suffocation. The awful scene that ensued ctmong the terror-stricken miners can not be described. All their lamps were blown out and they were left in darkness and confusion. They had not :ime to recover • from their shock until they found themselves unable to breathe. The explosi on of the fire damp left the mine filled wilh after damp, which contains no oxygen, and renders it impossible for life to be snstained for any time. This after damp is densest in the upper part of tbe mine and hence the men hovered near the bottom, but even here they did not long find relief. Of all those who were in the heading where the explosion recurred Dirk Baisley ■alone escaped to tell the awful ‘story. When the explosion came and all the lights were blown out Baisley was just changing his clothes He at on ce wound part of his clothes tightly around his face und mouth to keep the foul air fiom choking him and gave the rest of his garments to nis companion, with instructions to take the same precautions. He then started for the main entrance, bidding his companion to follow. They ran over the bodies of men and over shattered wagons. Th ey could see nothing, but could hear the groans of dying men. Presently Balsley’s companion’ protested that they were not going in the right direction and turned back. Liko Lot’s wife, he perished. Baisley pushed on until he finally saw the light and. was taken out. When the news of tho explosion was flashed around the families of the men gathered about the shaft and were wild with suspense. Baisley’s story gave them little gronnd to hope that any of the miners would be got out alive, So dangerous was the after damp that it was fully two hours before any volunteers conld enter the mines. Many were on hand ready to make the search, but were Unable to cio so until hope of rescuing the unfortunates, alive had quite fled. It was about eight o’clock when the first body was brought cut. It was that of Michael Ripko, a Hungarian. His face bore no marks of violence and he had evidently died from suffocation. The work of rescuing the men now went' on rapidly by willing volunteers and; at noon nineteen bodies had been ca rried out. The company’s books were then examined, the roll called, and it was announced that all the men were aero anted for. Coroner Button of this place, with many citizens, went from here and the inquest began at 3:30 o’clock. So testimony was taken except that which identified the dead, the list of whom is as follows: , '-.. THE DEAD. MlohaelHeffcra. Irish, bruised in the face; leaves wifeumd six chi dren. John Buckley, Irish, unmarried; no visible injury. \ Patrick Kqgnrdy, Irish, burned in face; unumr.ied and ohiy chi d of a widow. Janies Tracy, Irish, badly burned ia the face and body; single. James Baker, Irish, terribly burned in face; leaves wife and two children. David Lloyd, Welsh, unmarried; burned in head and face. Wt Ham Davis. Welsh single; no marks.• Thon as McGarr, Irish, badly burned; leaves wife and three children in Cumberland County, Englnn I. John Hart, American, single; no marks. Michael Ripko, Hungarian; wife and two children. □George Oatlis, Hungarian; leaves wire in the old o mntry. Daniel lluckner, colored; leaves wife and two children. John Murray, Irish, wife and one child. Peter Walters, Irish, single; brother of Mrs. Murray. William Scaring, native'; wife and! four children . /a Joe Bakerf'Hungarian; Heaves a wife. Andy Warmup, German: single. Alban N. Hackney of this county; wife and one child. G. E. May, natve of Maryland. Most of the above bore no visible marks of violence, but hadtdied from" suffocation. Their faces were very black, the smoke and dust having been blown into the skin. Th® last man taken out alive was Henry Wilson, who had managed to subsist'on air in the very bottom of the mine until rescued, He was almos t gone. Many of those who were in other pc.rts of the mine suffered severely. After identifyingthe bodies Coroner Barton adjourned the inquest until Saturday morning. The company will bear all the expenses of the funerals which will take place to-morrow and next day. The accumulation ef so much gas in this mine as to canse such an explosion is a matter of much Surprise. No accident ever before occurred here, and it was regarded as a very safe mine.

WHAT THE STORM BID. Devastating Effect« of Tuesday’* Storm in Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia—A Hundred or More Lira Lost, and Bain Everywhere 'Visible in Us Path. Columbia, S. t!., Feb. 30. Specials to the Daily Register indicate that the storm was fearful throughout the State. At Chester the Baptist « ad colored churches were blown down. The Presbyterian Church tower and bell were blown a hundred feet. The cotton-seed oil mill buildings were partially demolished. Many private residences und business houses were damaged. The loss is estimated at $50,000. At D. D. Dickert's plantation, Newberry County, a hundred acres of original forest was swept away. 8I» Matthew’s Lutheran Church was blown down. William H. Ellers’ residence was corned off, and he and his child seriously injured. All the plantations were badly damaged.. Several large Ores were observed in the track of the storm. Chappel’s Station was swept away; not a house left. The wife and child of George F. Read were badly hurt. Mrs. Rosalie Simpkins had an arm broken and a colored man’s skull was crushed. John Scarry’s residence was destroyed and he and his wife t.nd child hurt.' Mrs. David M. Dickert’s skull was frtictnred. C. M. Shnfford, Postmaster; Bozeman W. Reed, and one or two others were in the second story of Reed’s store. Stafford was killed; Bozeman had an arm and leg broken, and Reed anarm and rib broken. Others were more or less cut up. Eight loaded cars standing on the track were carried forty yards and tern to pieces. % A woman and child arc reported killed at Anderson. In the lower part' of Clarendon County James Cabbage and Ben Baggett’s child were killed. In Darlington County the dwelling of R. W. Boyd was destroy ed, himself seriously injured and two negroes killed. The dwelling of Mr. White, near Darlington Court-house was blown down and hirv shlf and wife killed. Mrs. C. Edwards was feriounly injured |Atb«4R 9! W horse, fiix person* Pf*

known to be killed in the county and filteer wounded. Serious loss of life and property is reported in the vicinity of Williamsburg County. The loss of property everywhere was great. Birmingham, Amu Feb. 21. A cyclone swept through Unhaba Valley yesterday at noon. It is reported that thir-' teen are injured In one community. At Leeds the cyclone swept away the section house of the railroad, killing three negroes. An old white couple named Bass were seriously injured. Three miles south of Leeds the house of John Poole was blown away. A son and daughter and child of a tenant were ill-* stantly killed, and Poole, wife and four children very badly injured. The residenc e and premises of Dr. W. F. Wright, railroad contractor, were demolished. The body of Dr. Wright’s mother was found a hundred yards from the house fearfully mangled, Annie, Jennie, Thomas, James and Edward, children of Dr. Wright, have arms or legs broken. Harriet McGrew, cook, was killed. Of twenty-four carts, two wagons and three horses on the place, nothing remained but the carcass of one horse. The house occupied by Mr. McLaughlin was blown away; McLaughlin was badly hurt. A neighbor, J. P. Landrum, wife and daughter, all had legs broken. The house of a man named Kerr took fire and was blown away. Mrs. Kerr was fatally injured. The railroad for several hundred yards is thickly strewn with debris, delaying trains. Later intelligence but adds to the horror of the awful story. Wm. Wesson, aged fourteen, near Kerr’s Gap, was killed. George Davis, a boy on the Poole place, was killed. Miles of forest inCahaba Valley were leveled by tbe storm. The bodies of strange cows were found around Leeds. In many places fhe ground is as clear of stone as if carefully swept. Stumps and trees bear the marks of flying rocks. There is absolutely nothing to indicate where Dr. Wright’s residence and out-houses stood. John Poole died of injuries at Leeds. Many wiros are down.

Au iijsta, Ga., Feb. 20. Yesterday’s storm was the severest since the cyclone of lS~o. In Hancock County the storm overturned out-houses and unroofed houses. The stables of David Dickson were destroyed by lightning. In Columbia County the barn and stables of J. V. Ballard were blown down and three horses killed. The plantation of Geo. Granade was ruined; houses demolished and timber carried off. On the plantation of Dr. Kees a negro was killed. Mrs. R. M. Wade, wife of the overseer, was seriously wounded. The gin-house of John A. Fawcett was demolished. The town of Bradley, 8. C., was nearly blown away. The residence of Dr. Ligon was blown down and his wife badly injured. At Ninety-Six, S.C., ahouse was wrecked and a child killed. The residence of W. H. Slattworth, in Edgefield County, was blown down, the ruins took fire and his little daughter perished. The house of J. C. Hankinson and the store of J. S. Boyd, at Jackson, S. C„ were blown down and three negroes killed. The town of Miller was nearly destroyed. Trains are impeded, the wires down and the mails irregular. Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 20. Twenty-five houses in Philadelphia settlement were leveled by the cyclone. The bodies of three white men and eleven colored were recovered. Search is being madattfor others believed to have been killrf.. At Pioneer Mills, Cabarrus County, six houses were blown down and a colored woman killed. At Woodward’s a negro and his wife were killed. At Winnsboro three negroes and an aged white lady, Mrs. Sterling, were killed. Mrs. Sterling’s son and daughter were blown from the house into a tree. , • At Polkton, N. C., the wife of F. M. Gray was killed by a falling house. \t Concord two brick residences were partly demolished. Fifty thousand dollars damage was done at Chester; S. CNashville, Tens., Feb. 20, Clarksville, Tenn., was visted yesterday by two destructive cyclones, about two hours apart. Th^y swept, through the central part of the city, levelling many houses and doing serious damage to hundreds of buildings. Two churches were nearly blown down; two towers taken off the Court-house; one end wan blown out of the Franklin Hotel and much other destruction was done. Many persons were seriously injured In falling houses, but none killed outright. The roof of the Chronicle office, rafters and all, was lifted up and carried over Elders’ Opera-house and driven through another house two blocks beyond. The damage will be very large. Every telephone and telegraph wire was prostrated and trains delayed. Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 30. A special to the JStar, says: At Rocking ham the cyclone struck the village on the outskirts, destroying fifteen houses, killing twenty-thre j people an 1 wounding many more. Several colored people were also killed on Pedee River. At Manly and Keyser the cyclone destroyed everything. Near Lillington, Harnett County, six persons were killed. New Orleans, Feb. 20. A Times-Democral Talladega (Ala.) special says: A destructive cyclone yesterday passed through ;he suburbs of Cave Springs, Gn., killing five man and severely injuring others. The cyclone was about a quarter of a mile wide, and swept down houses and everything in its path. The damage was great. In the eastern portion of Clinton Parish, Louisiana, trees and fences for miles were blown down, and Sam Hyams, colored, was killed. Wacom, Ga., Feb. 20. This city was visited yesterday afternoon and night by tremendous storms. There are rumors of death and destruction in tho surrounding counties. Ar Atlanta telegram reports fifty killed north of that city. A special from Columbus reports several killed and wounded.

Papcr-Knltes. If, however, hard though I find it to believe so, the days of paper-knives are numbered, let note be taken of this: That, for a reason which does not perhaps lie on the surface, hut regarding which I shall offer a few remarksfwe shall not be the only sufferers, “Think of the saving of trouble in finding the edges of our books ready cut,” not a few will say off-hand, as if even being saved trouble must needs lie an absolute boon; but let that matter pass. To the remark itself I reply, ‘Think rather of the extinction o' at least one souree of that great incentive of human activity —curiosity.” Does any one take up a book whose leaves have lieen already cut with the zest he does one whose secrets the paper-knife has yet to dise]oo to him? Who has not observed the eagerness with which the paper-knife is appealed to, to enable the holder of a newly-arrived and virgin book to get at that, be it what it may, which the folded sheets still veil from him? And who, too, has not seen the impatient distress of a man on such an occasion, if the pa-per-knife be not forthcoming? “Heavens! earth! ocean! oh sacrilege! soh abomination, calamity, scourge, pestilence! 1 have left at your honse my knife, the dear knife that never leaves me”—so writes Balzac 0:1 such an occasion to his sister. For I- assume that temporary separation from a mere penknife could never have called up in him such emotion—created such a commotion rather. Bat if we picture him haring just finished a draught of “my poison of coffee in Anna’s covered eup,” a new book that moment aivived, and the discovery then made that the papers knife was not forthcoming—what more natural than his agitation? True, when he had cut the leaves and read the book, he might pronounce it unspeakable •tuff; but the zest of anticipation, not its possible collapse afterward in disappointment, is the point of consequence here.—Temple Bar. ..•»-►> ...- —Miss Thcodocia Gray, of I)ar!en, Conn., aged ninety, who has been toothless many years, is mow cutting oa upper front tooth,—HorW’prd fqst.

IS MEMORIAL. Unveiling of the Monument to General Robert E. bee at New Orleans—The Union of the Bine and the Gray in the Ceremonies —The Programme Abridged by a Violent Thunder Storm. New Orleans, La., Feb. 22. The history of the public pageants and open-air festi vities is a long one, filled with conspicuous and distinguished triumphs. On nearly every occasion the weifther has favored and seconded the efforts of the managers of such affairs; but to-day they were destined to an overwhelming failure. The occasion was the unveiling of a statue of and dedication of a monument to the Confederate chieftain, General Robert E. Lee. The fact that it was to take place on Washington’s birthday added still more interest to the intended display. All the military of the city and many visiting companies, including the fine company of light infantry from Detroit, Mich., were to lend their aid, and ail the organizations of veteran soldiers of the late war were to give a grand historic interest to the affair. Not only did the Veteran Confederate Associations of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Tennessee appear in force, but large and imposing delegations of the Grand Army of the Republic, represented in Joseph A. Mower and Timothy 0. Howe Posts, graced the occasion with their presence. The hour of tw# o’clock had arrived, the troops were on the ground, and the veterans were in their places of honor and a great array of distinguished guests were on the platform. Seats which had been provided for a great number of ladies were filled and the small circular park in which the monument stands and the street which surrounds

the ciiycle were crowded with people of all sorts and conditions. Fall 10,000 people were on the ground. Flags of all nations, over which the national standard dominated, floated in the balmy south breeze, and in the sunshine which gilded the scene. But in the meantime a densely dark and formidable looking cloud was seen rapidly rising along the northern horizon and mounting swiftly in the heavens. Confident of the favor of fortune very few persons took warning from the gathering clouds and the preparations for carrying out an imposing programme prpceeded 1 without interruption. By 2:15 the entire northern sky was black as ink, and the thunder growled in the distance and the atmosphere became oppressive and sultry. The great orchestra, under the direction of Prof. Moses, Albert Sidney Johnston’s bandmaster, struck up a grand march from Wagner’s Rienzi, when in a moment tho storm burst npon the vast assemblage. Rushing down lrom the north, its advance guard o' dust, fragments of paper and light rubbish of all sorts, filled the air, followed by great drops of rain. The crowd j broke up as if scattered by an explosion. The confusion was intense. Women screamed and men shouted, and all instinctively broke for shelter. Escape for most of them was hopeless, for the rain came down in an. avalanche to be realized only in these southern latitudes, and in five minutes many thousands of people were > drenched to the skin. The wind blew a violent gale, and carried away every flag, awning, hat and other similar movable it could lay hold on. The thunder roared, and the lighting cut. the driving storm in every direction, and played around the gigantic statue whose outline was strongly defined through the*wet cotton shroud tha’u draped it. , The statue faces the north, and the oil commander stood unmoved amid the storm of heaven’s artillery as he hadfcefore stood in the face of war’s iron hail. But all his j followers had fled. Fortunately, in the va it confusion in such a crowd and in such a s' orm nobody was hurt to any serious extent, but a grand and imposing ceremonial was effectually broken np. The programme embraced a poem by H. F. Requier, Esq., and an oration by Hon. Charles E. Fenner of the State Supreme Court. These were dispensed with forever. But after the storm a small squad of the officials of the Monumental Association gathered at the base of the dripping column and Judge Fenner, in a few words on behalf of the Monument Association, presented it to the city, to which Hon. W. J. Behan briefly responded, accepting the trust on behalf of the city. The Right Rev. Bishop J. N. Galleher,-of the Protestant Episcopal Churqh, pronounced a benediction upon the work. The Lee Monument Association was organized here on the 16th of November, 1870, and went to work to raise money for the erection of a suitable shaft to the memory of the Confederate leader. On the 31st of July, 1877, the City Council devoting “Tivoli Circle,” a small circular park in the enlargement of St. Charles avenue at the intersection of Delord street, for the site of the monument, and changed its name to Lee place. On the 1st of December of the same year a contract was given to John Rey to build the monument at a cost of $27,000. The design chosen was a fluted doric column of white Tennessee marble on a base of gray Georgia granite, standing on a turfed mound. The base of the statue stands 92 feet above the street, and the statne is 16 feet high. The dimensShrA^of the whole in detail are as follows: Height of mound, 12 feet; height of granite base, 12 feet; height of column 00 feet; height of die, 8 feet 4 inches; height of statne, 1C feet C inches; diameter of meund, 190 feet; diameter of base (square), 42 feet; diameter of column, 10 feet; diameter of die, T feet 8 inches; height of whole, 109 feet; basement, 42 feet square.

Un the sist ot May, ia»2, a contract was entered into with the Hinsdale & Doyle (now tho Hollowell) Granite Company, New York, for a bronze statne of General Lee to snrmonnt the monnment. The statne was to cost $10,000. fin June, 1882, Mr. Alex. Dovle, artist, was sent by the contracting company to New Orleans to make a model, which he did in the hall of the House of Representatives of the old State House in this city. It was cast in bronze by Henry & Bonnard, of New York, and is the largest statue that was ever made in an American foundry. It weighs about 7,009 pounds. It was cast in six sections, the head alone weighing 305 pounds. It represents General Lee in an easy, natural position, standing erect, with folded arms, as though overlooking the field of battle. He is dressed in full service uniform, with cavalry boots, and the sword strapped at bis side measures eight feet from tip to hilt! The stars, according to his wish, are placed on the lapel of his coat instead of on the collar. The entire work is paid for, the total cost 'being about $40,000. The officers of the Monument Association are Charles E. Fenner, President; G. T. Beuregsrd, First Vice President; M. Musson, Second Vice President; S. H. Kennedy, Treasurer; W. L Hodgson, Recording Secretary; W. M. Owen, Corresponding Secretary. A Harrow Escape. Joliet, III., Feb. 22. Consternation reigned to-day in the Or rendorf Mine, caused by the water of an abandoned shaft breaking through and into the shaft now being worked. There were eight men in the shaft at the time. Those nearest the break, about twenty yards therefrom, heard an awful noise which they at once attributed to the rush of water. Their suspicions were soon realized when they saw a column of water rushing toward them. It required but an instant to act, and at once giving the alarm the men made a break for the bottom of the pit, when a last signal was given and the men raised from the dangerous cavern. Shocking Result of Carelessness. Joust, III, Feb. 22. George Ester and John Tally, two poor workmen with families, employed by the Ottawa Tile Company, had4 sunk a deep hole in the clay bank for a blast and put in a large quantity of powder, but before tamping it tried to dry out the hole with hot ashes. A terrific explosion was the result. The men were blown twenty feet in the air. Tully fell down the side of the hole. Ester tell upon his side and his face was blackened and fearfully cut. One of bis legs was actually blown off, a portion of it hanging down, held by a particle of flesh. Tully was also injured about the face and burned cm the neck. Aside from these Injuries their eves were put out.

Centralisation. The gradual encroachment of power which the Federal system seems to permit, and which, under the skillful manipulation of the Republican leaders, has frown to proportions which seem to enanger the liberties o£ the country, is a tit study for the patriotic heart, and one that can not be dwelt upon nor contemplated too often. It is the great question of the time whether, in the strife for political power, the principles of free government are not being trampled under foot and sport mode of the dearest possession the patriot can enjoy. Amid the conflict and excitement of the period there is great danger that the landmarks of liberty niay be lost, and the people awake from 'their lethargy and indifference to find themselves fettered by chains which their own neglect has fastened upon them. The history of all human government shows that the masses have become enslaved through the ambition and ‘cupidity of public leaders, and who will say what would have been the destiny of England had not the ambir'on -of Cromwell overleaped itseif aad opened a way for the return of mon trehy in the person of Charles the Second. All the wisdom and tbe patriotism of that period went down fn the misguided zeal and unworthy ambition oi that aspiring fanatic, until the fabric.of popular J.berty which the patriots hrd reared was baptized with the best blood of Britain. It is from the ambitious strifes of the leaders that the people have always received their yokes am burdens, and the history of the ;>ast few years in this country proves that nothing' but the utmost vigilance upon the part of the people can protect them, even in this favored land^from being made the servants of ambition and the slaves of •desisnini!

politicians. Every step this Nation has taken during the past twenty years has been in the direction of centralization and away from the -principles and practices of the early days of the Republic. Under the specious cries of progress and advancement the people have been deluded into surrendering one right after another until the States are shorn of all their proper powers, and the individual is left almost, powerless to protect himself against the assumption of Government. Away back in the early period of this country’s history this possibility was discussed and feared, for it appears in Elliott’s Debates'that Alexander Hamilton undertook to disabuse the minds of the framers of the Constitution of the fears which were then felt by exclaiming; “Will the people suffer Congress to strip them of their privileges till the solemn prerogatives of the States are reduced to a shadow and a name?” and then, as if repelling such a thought, answered: "The idea is shocking to common sense;” and yet this is precisely what the followers of this great advocate of Federalism are preaching and g-acticing to-day. and the idea which amilton t hought was “shocking to common sense” ka3 been for years held aloft as the true principle of National policy. That the people were jealous of their rights and regarded home rule, the sovereignty of the masses as contradistinguished from the designs of aspiring politicians, above all other considerations, is abundantly proven by the acts of the colonies long before the Constitution was formed. Even then the claims of the people to manage their domestic affairs was strenuously insisted upon. Previous to 1863 the colony of' Virginia received a charter which provided that “no orders of the court in London were to be binding on the colony unless ratified by the Assembly.” In 1632 a charier was granted to Maryland which gave the people the power of legislation Without any interference from the mother country. In the charier to Pennsylvania in' 168b the principle of the right of loeal selfgovernment by the people was fully recognized. In the controversy between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which was settled in England in 1679, and a Government organized in New Hampshire, it was provided “that no act, imposition,, law or ordinance should be imposed upon the people of the province, but such as should be made by the Assembly and approved by the President of the Council.” On page 61 of Alexander H. Stephens’. History of the United States it is stated that “ there was a confederation formed between four of the colonies, in which it was provided that each colony was to be perfectly free in its management of its own internal affairs, while external matters were intrusted to commissioners to b^

O JIUl.ttu UJ UikV.U VWtUIIJ . uwc ■ »u. have the jealous regard of the people for their rights and liberties distinctly s'ated and admitted while yet the Nation was in embryo, and before the idea of a Federal Government was thought of. This desire to hare local self-gov-ernment remained with the colonists, and'it was against the fears felt by the patriots of the time that Hamilton used all his matchless powers of statesmanship to reassure and encourage those who doubted the wisdom and expediency of surrendering those rights for the general purposes of government. Notwithstanding the efforts of Hamilton and the Federalists, the people were afraid to fall in with their views, and it appears in the second volume of Elliott’s Debates, that Mr. Bodman, while the adoption of the Constitution was under consideration in Massachusetts, expressed his fears that the General Government would encroach upon the sovereignty of the States, to which Mr. Sedgwick “replied and said: “If he believed that the adoption of the proposed Constitution would interfere with the State Legislatures he would be the last to vote for it,” and it appears that Hamilton said in one of his great speeches that “the States can never lose tneir powers until the whole American people are robbed of their liberties.’1 it Will be seen from these extracts that the spirit of popular liberty and the right of local self-government was insisted upon from the foundation of the Government, and that the prophetic eye of the statesmen of that period looked into the future and questioned the wisdom of acts tjiat might rob them of this priceless boon. Could they have seen the rapid strides this spirit of Federalism has made in our time, and noted the ease with which men now trample upon all popular rights and privileges, their patriotic hearts would have burned within them, and we should have upon record Words of warning and utterances which might be of service in these degenerate days. The departure from the purer principles of government in the scramble for place and power, and the rise of parties with whom the end justifies the means, but makes t,he duty of the jpatriot more clear and imperative. The Jeffersonian standard of honesty and fitness need to be taught anew in the choice of public servants, and place hunters and spoilsmen sent to the rear, with the wicked doctrine of centralization of which such low estimates of public duty funs a part,— Ammwin - .■■■■ ■ v' ' .. «A’ Cm, * ■ vf4-v v-ri

[ Lei There Be IiiTestiftMiMi. Congress has now t een in session two months. We are told that the Appropriation bills are approaching completion. The 1 Committee of Ways and Means is supposed to be engaged in, perfecting some tax reform. Mr. Sherman has measured off two or three yards of bloody-shlrt preamble, and the Senate _ has appointed a committee to investigate an election row in Copiah County, Miss., and a fight between negroes and white men at a post-town in Virginia. But as vet we have heard of no proposition in the Democratic House to investigate thjp assaults of the Repub-® liean party on the very life of republican Government. The Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, of which Mr. Springer is Chairman, has in the pursuance bf its duties found it necessary to inquire into the Star-route prosecutions. It is met at the threshold by the pretense thpt any information supplied by the Department to the Committee would “defeat the ends of justice,” as prosecutions are still pending. The people«,know that, the prosecutions nl-, ready undertaken have been barefaced frauds 'designed to facilitate the escape of the defendants and used as a means of still further plundering the Government under the cloak of legal fees to assistant counsel. They know that Garfield commenced and Arthur continued the protection of Dorsey, the agent who had done the practical work in purchasing their election, and of Brady, the .Star-route oflicial who had squeezed the bribery fund out of the pockets of the dishonest contractors on the strength of Garfield’s begging letter. Hence the people are fully aware that an Administration in league with the Star-route thieves and a beneficiary of its frauds can have mvhonest intention to nro«o

cute any Star-route suits to a successful issue. Yet it is evident that the whole power of the President, of his Cabinet and of a convenient District Court is to be used to embarrass and defeat the inquiries of Mr. Springer’s committee. This makes it all the more necessary for Congress to start investigations without any further delay into abuses and outrages which concern not a Mississippi county or a Virginia post town, ' but the people of the whole United States. It has been admitted by the exSccretary of the Republican National Committee that in the election of 1880 . the State of Indiana was carried for the Republicans by bribery and corruption. Investigate! It has been admitted by Republicans that a corruption fund of $400,000 was raised in New York City, which was carried tolnd'ana and used to “induce men to change their opinions and their votes.” Investigate! It has been charged that the present United States Minister to France bono-ht his appointment with the share he contributed to that fund and his efforts in securing other subscriptions. Invesli- , gate! It has been ^barged that two prominent specuiatbfsl^nterested suits liefore the Supreme Court of tlje United States involving millions of dollars, pa d $100,000 toward Garfield’s election expenses in consideration of his pledge to make appointments to that court acceptable to them, and that, a Judge friendly to them was actually appointed in conformity with the bargain. Investigate! J Investigate it, because,' if true and eapab’e of proof, it shows that the very foundation of the Government, the High Court Which is the final arbiter of the Constitution, is tainted and unworthy of the public confidence. Surely it is more important to ascertain if the President holds his office by fraud and if seats on the Bench of the United States Supreme Court are sold for money than it is to inquire who is responsible for an alleged election outrage in Copiah County, Miss. Surely fhe people are more interested in inquiring whether the diplomatic offices of the Government are made the reward for money supplied to corrupt the ballot V box, whether the officers of justice are , bribed to let public robbers go free and whether our Federal Courts, marsbalships and coriimissionerships are filled with thieves, than it is to ascertain whether negroes or white men were drunk when they commenced the Dan- » - villc fight.—N. 1’. World.

Mahone .Negotiating. Mahone is reported to be negotiating in a business way with Blaine and Arthur. The question is 'whether he shall support the Accident or the Knight. « It is characteristic of the gentleman. He is a business man and his principles are his stock in trade. He sold out his eto give the Senate to the Repubi, and it was a very good bargain for himself and his few friends. That he should negotiate with Blaine as agaiDst his owner by inheritance is a little odd, however, except on the supposition that the latter has sickened of him and his cheap goods. He certainly should stick to Arthur. That gentleman has stuck to him to such an extent that he has unavoidably sacrificed his honor and his chance for the nomination of his party for President. In behalf of Mahone' he has indorsed the robbery that is called readjustment., That he might keep the property called Mahone he has stultified himself with regard to civil-scr-, vice reform. He has permitted Mahone 10 control the Federal offices of Virginia and to bleed the officeholders pretty nearly to the last drop. It is quite true that Virginia, notwithstanding this villainous hypocrisy on the part of the President, has repudiated Mahone; but still the President has not wavered in his allegiance to his Wily friend, and one wouid think that an honorable man would be loyal in return. But Mahone is Mahone, and the bargain'which gave the Senate to the Renublieans is likely to be followed by others of a similar kind. It is doubtful, however, if Mr. Bisine accepts the damaged goods surreptitiously removed from the possession of their original purchaser. President Arthur has done his best to make the Republican party a party of repudiation, and if Mr. Blaine retains the shrewdness with which he has been credited he will see that it will profit him to lead a crusade in an entirely different direction.—if. I. Graphic. —The other day the Marquise de Hautcfeuilie created * sensation in Brussels by entering the wild beasts’ cage with the lion tamer. The lady is said to have borne herself with the utmost intrepidity, and was greeted with tremendous applause, while the band played tbe Rational hymn, “La Brabaneonne.” '<? —In un oysfcr-opening match in Trenton, N. J„ Leeds won fifty dollars, opening fire hundred oysters in twentythree minutes and thirty second?,-* Newark Jleqisfer.