Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 March 1884 — Page 1

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BRIEF. td from Variants Sources. CONCRliSSIONAE PROCEEDINGS. lx iihe Senate on the 3d the Committee on tfaval Affairs was Instructed to Inquire and rop >r: at tci the advisability of e su pping a 1. undrEtvma eb'gguns. Various bills for eicetionof publ etui dings passed. Eulogies on the into l evies ntaiive Haskell were pronour tied_In the House Mr. Banda 1 rerot ted back acoiunnnicition from the Treasury i uuosit w th the information t iat the e is blest n~ed for claimants to erop cy ta lor the cotlyc^ion ol’JohcaoM>_TOuato. _tou directing iht> Naval Committee rest! rate the allegations of unoti oer-ttke ‘ in the Jeusnette expedition was __ A resolution was also at lop to 1 to innate charges of fraud in the Pao'tle Nt»Bank of Boston and connivam e of _i Statw officials. The bid to pension survivors of the Mexican War pasrei under suspension of the rules. draw the Id Junction of sorrTOy from the members of the I lla John Porter court-mart ill was reported favorably. Tne Military Academy bill passed with an amendment making ineligible for reappointment all ca'ets expelled fSlhating. Among bills introduced was one granting copyright to newspapers. Tuebill passe 1 io punish counterfeiting within t ie United States of foreign securities.in the House the bill to amend the Chinese act; was referred to the committee or the whole. Also the bill for permiuent improvement of t!ie Erie Canal. Corn-id- ration of the naval appi-o-priation biU was resumed and an amendment reducing the medical and pay corps to live members each was adopted. ~ In the Senate on the 5th the bill extending the limits of Yellowstone Park passed; also the biU rotating to lease of Post-office buildings. The bill providing for the exere: se of jurisdiction conferred on the United States in places outside their dominion was diseussei without act! on %_...In the House the joint resolution increasing the Sonat ■ contingent fund S 10,000 for witness fees in the Danvii' investigation was agreed to with an amend ment confining the expenditure to investigations already ordered. The bill to forfeit the Texas Paclf o grant was placed on the calendar. Several mils were reported and refereed to committee of the whole. The Naval appropriation bill was t&Ken up. The amendment to reduce the number of C tpti'.ns to thirty was defeated, as were several other amendmeatu.

In the Senate on the 6:h several memorails were f rjsenteS touching tariff and lalior topic;;. Joint le solution providing money for committee Investigations was. called up and the Senate refused to concur in the House amendment limitinjgthe use of the funds to Investigations alread,- tprdered. The bill passed approoriating! UJO for South Pass and river work, as did sev nil unimportant measures. The vote by whir. 1 the Mexican treaty failed was reconsiderctrand next Monday was fixed as the date fcr further discussion. In .the H ouse the naval bill passed with an amendment authorizing the detail of naval officers as iastruunrs in State Universities. In the Senate on the 7th bills passed: To appropriate $1150.000 for a fin'-proof building for records; to constitute a majority of the Jridges of the Supreme Court to be a quorum. The 111 for the establishment of a bureau Of labi r st a' istics was laid over The bill passed to refund to the heirs of M-u-ice Grivot S7lK> deposited in a bank at New Orleans ani seized hy General Banks. The bill to forfeit the Texas Pacific grant was recommended for passage. Adjourned till Monday.In the House the bill granting a pension to the widow of General Frank P. Blair was reported favorably. The bill to place General Pleasanton on this retire! list was recommitted and a substitute introduced. An evening session was held for consideration of pension claims. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. £ On the night of the 3d in the MuldoonBauer Graf co-Roman wrestling match at San Francisco, Cal., for 3M0 a side, Muldoon won the second and third falls and the match. The Connecticut Prohibitionists have —neadnst-d Bti haH. Palmer tor Governor. O?; the 1th the sixth anniversary of Pope Leo’s coronation was celebrated in the Bistine Chapel at Home. The New York Republican State ■Convention is to be held at Utica April 23 i. IS the Senate on the. 4th a petition was presen left-froa mttBbtys of the Grand Arpiy of the Republic in Kansas protesting against the reinstatement of Fitz John Porter. Is warning his people to expect furtlier an1i-Mormon legislation, Geo. Q. Cannon, urges them to be faithful, trnst in God, and pay their tithings—especially pay thedpti things. I r has been decided by the corporation of Cor!:, Ireland, to give the remains of Jerome Collins, of the Jeannette expedition, a public funeral. . Washington dispatches name Jno. TV. Mason, -f West Virginia, as the probable successor of John C. New as Assistant Secr etary of the Treasury. Brigadier-General McKenzie is to he placed on the retired list » Twelve thousand dollars reward is now offered for the arrest of Tiller, the St. Loqis express robber, and the recovery of the money. Judge Folgek, Secretary of the Treasury, is mentioned as the probable successor of Minister Hunt to the Court of St. Petersburg. On the 5 th M. O. Van Fleet, Treasurer of Huron County, O., absconded, leaving his accounts f50,0C0 short. At Boston, Mass, the United States local inspectors, who investigated the wreck of the City of Colnmbns, find that Captain Wright was derelict in his duty in delegating the functions of pilot to unauthorized persons, and they have revoked his license as master and pilot. - The Legislature of Iowa has passed and the Governor has signed the Prohibition bill. It; takes effect July 4. ■ Spurgeon, the noted Baptist preach er, has fallen heir to a large fuitune. . May 7th has be?n fixed for the Massachusetts Prohibition State Convention. > The low* Republican State Convention ip to be held at Des Moines, April 30. j- The California Legislature will as- < semble In extra session March 24. j On the Slih Richard Swan, a mining ■speculator, was rescued from the bottom of a deserted shaft near Leadville, Col., into (which he had fallen six days previously. He was nearly starved to death beside being bddly bruised.

I jhe JUHiisiana Republican State ConTention met in Mew Orleans oil the &th. t Mb. Gye, the famous Loudon manager is reported as likely to succeed Mr. ;Henry Abbey in the management * of the 'Metropolitan Opera House, Mew York. I Solicitor of the Treasury Raynor died in Washington on the atli. “ ! Oh the 5th px-Po dmaster-Genoral James testified before the House Committee on Expenditures in relation to the Starroute prosecutions. i Jidoe Gresham, rostmaster-Gen-eral, is strongly urged for appointment to .the vacancy caused by the death ®f Judge Drummond on the United States Circuit '.Court bench. | Tire Mafiie Democratic Sta*e Convention will be held June 1*. ity Coi lector John McMahon of oken, M. J., is missing, and the Mayor taken possession of the office. the 6th General James A. Moor* , one of the oldest and most prominent

A test cordial reception, w*tj$vi« Lieutenant Schuetz at the Merchants’ Bxchanife, St. % Lonis, Mix, at noon on the 61 h. Many ladies were present, and the cc ngratniations were both warm and general on his safe return from his long and perilous expedition. tAn elaborate banot et was also given in the evening at the Si frmania Club On the Cth Alden B. Sitockwell, a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and at one time «, two-millionaire, was postiid, being unable to meet the demands of a deal calling for f5 9. The St. Louis nianagofa of the Paoiiio Express Company declare they will siaerd as much as Tiller stole if it ia necessai-y to do so in order to hunt him down and (ring him to justice. Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks has ieturned to Paris, iindhig Italy unhealthy. During the nig ht of the Cth Finnk. Rande, the “Ban dij of the Wabash,” committed suicide i* tlte “solitary” at Job el j (111.) PenitentHry by hanging • himself with a rope made (itm portions of bin underclothing. The Lasker resolutions have been received by tbe German Minister at Washington from Bismarck and ho has turns! them over to the State Department A dispatch of the 7th from Omaha, Nel)., stated that Bishop Clarkson was very low and beyond the reach of medical skill. 'I'he Irish informer, Nellis, who gave alleged iniormation as to the murderers of Loird Leitrim, has been adjudged insane and sent to an asylum. 1)b. Greenmibk, Demociratic meiub?r of the German Reichstag, is dead. .On the 7th General Graham commenced a forward movement on Osman Pigma’s position. * i CRIMES i'si). Itr a collision of two passenger trai linear Juliette, Ga., on the 4tli, two 1 rai nmeu were killed an! several persons badly injured.

While m ant cf .eaions passion .John Glascock murdered his wife nnd three children, set fire to Ms house and then killed himself in Fauquier County, Va., a few days since. • hr1 ■ By a collision between the Norwegian bark Amatia and the steamer: Bertha off Gibraltar, nine persons were drowned on the 4tb. O.v the 4th Charles Lowinsbeek, aged sixteen, an employe of the Gi-een Knitting Company at Amsterdam, N. Y., was fatally injured by being caught in the shafting. His arms and one leg were torn from liis body. • A few days ago John Barnes, colored, brutally whipped to death the orphan son of his sister,,near TownviUe, 8. C., because the little fellow, exhausted by ov ?rwork and brutal treatment, could not comply with the demands upon his endurance. The fiend narrowly escaped lynching. United Statics Lumber Inspector John W. Hawkins, at Buffalo, N. T., is charged with the embezzlement of $40,'100 from Kelson Holland, lumber dealer, to whom he was also private secretary. Wheat margins swallowed the funds. On the night of the 4th Richard & Burk’s livery stable with seventeen homes and three adjoining buildings bnrr<fiJ at North Auburn, Neb. On the 4 th an ,«»- ploye in Hasselmao & Co.’s printing house in Iad'anapolis, Iud., fell down an elevator shaft from the fourth story and was instantly killed. By the lurs'ing of aboilerid J.Tree's dyeing establishment at Lawrence, Mass., on the 6th, John Trees, Jr., William Me reland and Michael Cronin were killed, and .others injured. On the 6th tin extensive Oil-cloth Works of George W. Blabon &'Soil's, "ar Nicetown, Pa., bur ned. Over five huncl 'ed men are thrown out of employment. Loss, over $100,000, insured for $50,000. The fact leakcl out on the 7th that the Paymaster’s si te in the C. B, & Q. K nilway office in Chicago was robbed on the 1st of $27,000 while Paymaste r Bartlett was temporarily absent for lnncb. Os the 7th the crewaof the Baltimore schooner Stephen .if. Fooks were landed in Boston by the schooner Mar;,- S. Hoatret. They were rescued in mid-ocean at the point of death. Captain Crufeiere of the Fools went mad from thirst end exposure. On the 7th four men were kiliod by the explosion of a boiler in J. F. Dear hoi li’s steam mill at Bryant’s Pond, Me. On the 7th burglars entered he room of Augustus Harris, manager of Drary Lane Theater, London, and stole a check for £1,000, ai large quantity of biink notes and a diamond brooch. The murder mystery at Cahokia, Mo., has been cleared up by the confess ioi iof one of the participants named Brown, vrho implicates his wife and two men named Jones and “Doctor,” residents of Cahokia. The two latter have fled. MISCELLANEOUS!. It is said that the secession party in Manitoba is gaining; strength. A REWARD of 1:500 has been olfeied by Governor McEnory of Louisiana for r,he arrest and conviction of fence entters. Six inches of snow fell in Washington, D. C., on Che 5th. The gross earnings of the Union Pacific show a decreese of $1,029,000 as compared with last year's report. The bullet which was fired jxiintblanlc at Frank Rande’s head at the Joliet Penitentiary was found to be flattened out against the skull, and even the flesh of his leg turned the bullet fired into it, permitting only a slight flesh wound. Is Arabia another revolt against Turkey is reported. On the 5th an unusual number of

Dtismess iau tires vrere reported. Ix 1883 the Union Pacific Baiircad Company sold 1,163,349 acres of land. Ox the 5th Farnell’s bill amending the Irish Land act was rejected in the B -itish House of Commons. A duel between two Matamoas (Me?:.) editors was announced to take p’acer on the Texas siide of the Bio G rande on the 6th. Osr the 5th, at it meeting of the Western Export Association in Chicago, it v as decided to reduce tho production of wrhit ky ten per cent, below the present basis after May I. Os: the f th the American Base B ill Association commenced its animal imeting in Baltimore, Md. H. D. Me Knight w as chosen President a ad A. C. Wyckoff flecretary. At Dartmonth College four meniborj of tho Junior clasi have Lev a su.-pui * " disciplined for

Is tie lower. house of the Rhode island Legislature a bill was passed on the t ; th pprohibiting the location of a clram-shop ithin 400 feet of any school building. The Montezuma Hotel whtc’li burned iOBHi time since at Las Vegas, N. M., is to ! e rebuilt immediately. Os the night of-the 5th another snow»term blockaded the Western railroads, ti nd travel was again seriously impeded. At Bridgeport, Conn., on the Cth, f mr members of the Salvation Army were sent to jail for fifteen days each in default of seven dollars fine for parading the streets. “ A reward is offered by the Coat* utander of the Block Flags in Tonquin of £16 for each head of a French scldier and £32 for each head of a French officer. Another Dutch oxped'tion will be disputched to Acheen, Sumatra, with the h ope of securing the release of the crew of A! le wrecked steamer Nfsero. <i; The German National Libsr.t’% have decided not to ra;se a discussion over the Lasker incident in the Reichstag until the rr atter has been internationally disposed Of. Or the 6th the fiftieth anniversary of tl e incorporation of the city of. Toronto, Oat., was celebrated by the firing of salutes, ringing of bells and the opening of a free library. Os the night of the 5th Tim Dcpcw, wanted for murder at Buffalo, N. V., was ai rested at a revival meeting at Blenheim, Oat. Instructions have been received by the German, Austrian, Spanish, French and other Ambassadors at Rome to confer w ith the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs w ith a view to European co-operation in demanding of the United States repressive measures against dynamite emissaries. In Vienna much excitement wasoccs sioned on the 16th by the discovery of "tbre«'i»fgk2?VnamM® laboratories bearing evidence of recent"OpCrati?118' . In Corning, O., and vicinity'^0 situation over the McDevitt-O’Boyliin trouiw*wus reported becoming more serious on I

The Fifth Virginia Regiment (Confederate) who were royally entertained ata fr enctly reunion by the Twenty-eighth Kew York Volunteers in May last at Niagart Fills, have invited the latter to a three de yti’ sojourn with them the coming summer at Staunton, Va., and propose to give th ? New Yorkers a taste of Virginia hospitality. A beport was current on tbs 7th that m jonshiners had hanged an Inturnal Revenue informer in Floyd County, Va. On the 7th specie shipments wero at out $5,0(10,000. Is South Africa a collison between th 3 Boers ahd the British is considered imm nent. In Southern Russia the Cossacks are re ported to be violently resisting the tax co llections. The losses by the rebels at the battle of Teb, in the Soudan, are now placed at K,( >00 killed and wounded. An enterprising museum manager has of: ered the Warden of the Joliet l111.) Penitentiary $1,000 for the body of Frink Rande ar d the cell door on which he hung himself. Ti e offer;was declined. O* the 7th the Senate agreed to give tin fjpma of “Lincoln” to,the Territory w itch it is proposed to make out of the northern portion of Dakota. In the Ontario House of Commons a dramatic authors’ copyright law has been introduced. For the we. k ending the 7th the busin 3S3 failures numbered 272, of which 216 wore in the United States and fi fty-six in Canada, a total increase over th<i preceding woek of thirty-seven. I r is reported that dynam'ters are aj: a in threalTOiflg_Covernment property at H difax, N. a _____ Advices of the 7th stated that the Fiench forces 12,009 strong had commenced th » advance on Bac Ninh. On the 7th David McLlain was hr nged at Traders’ Hill, Charlton County, 6a., for the murder of W. F. Saxton in 1879; Harrison Williams was served likewise at Corsicana, Tex., for the murder of his sister-in-law last {one, ahd Noah Jackson was swung off at Lake Provid snee, La., for the murder of his wife in Jiily last. The foot and mouth disease is developing alarming proportions in soma parts of Kansas. LATE SEWS ITEMS. The Senate was not in session on the 8tt ......In the House a resolution from the Committee on Elections confirming Skinner of North Carolina in his seat was: laid over. Th 5 House refused to take up tile bonded wli isky bill. The bill authorizing the purchase of foreign built ships for ase in the cat rying trade was placed on the calendar. Several bills for public buildings: were repotted. The Post-office appropriation bill was taken up and discussed with ant action. A resolution was adopted inquiring by wh»t authority the Secretary of War had male regulations for the navigation of Soi tit Pass or other waters of Louisiana. 11’ is denied that Russia his joined the Austro-German alliance. The Kew York banks, at the close of business on the 8th, held $12^21,675 in excess of legal requirements. it serious break has occurred in the lev ’e fifteen miles above New Orleans. CtREAT dissatisfaction is reported among the window-glass blowers: at Pittabur s;h, Pa. Tin; Russian official organ says tho present time is opportune for a general dis,- rmnment. Trouble is again threatened between the cigar makers and employes i,n Cincinnati.

Prolonged and copious rains have caused disastrous floods all alone the Pacific coast of tbe United States. Minister Sargent has decided not to resign, though the Deutsche Tageblatt says his usefulness has departed. The British Consul at Suakem thinks tbe :-ebels will make terms and idiow free communication with Barber. General Sudeikin’s assassination has caused such terror that it is difficult to recr iit the 8t. Petersburg police force. The new fast mail train between Now Yorlt and Chicago makes the distance in twenty-eight hours and a half. G eneral Graham is under orders not to advance unless he is sure of striking the t neiny, who are growing wary. Goidon recommends an attack on Osman Dig. na. Burglars entered a Boston pawnshop on the 8th, while the propiietor was gone to dinner, and carried off a goodly stock of watches, chains and jewelry. Alt anarchist named Murphy has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment in Paris for advocating assa isinatiou. Ti e Dominion Government will concede > land subsidy of 12,0)0 acres per mils for a railroad from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay. Issouti

AlOTKlfit CLfiAN 1! Phe State at Pajnu aster eago ,B arllngto n A Cliicage Robbed of nate JLuncIi Trip. Last Saturday E’aymaster C. A. Surllngton & Q aincy Railroad, >fflce for lnnclii w it bout iary precaution to close the >f the biig safe in which u aayment of eroplnyes was in leaving the room he did so ing the return of other sfflee, who had all gone to lunch, his return the sale was roblted of all contents, with the exception of some packages of nickels and small change, the total amount disappearing, as neiur as the company officials can estimate, luting *2T,000. On the facts becoming known and an investigation being instituted. Paymaster Bartlett was discharged from the service of the company for negligence, and the matter placed in the hands of detectives. Effort was made) o keep the affair a secret in tlie hope tbat-t he detectives would be facilitated in their work, but the affair becoming known, and in tlte belief that an exaggerated s ratement would be published concerning the robbery, the officials showed a willingness to let the exact facts be fnraishel the publi c. THE THEORY ADVANCED by the Treasurer of the company Is that the robbery was accomplished by a sneak thief. Two doors lead into the cashier’s office from a vacant room, one of which was found'ajar on the paymaster’s return. Tie Paymaster’s room is located in the general offices of the company on the second floor of the building, and was constructed especially with a view to guard against intrusion or theft, bnt in thiis instance the most ordinary -pfggantions appe ar to have been ignored. Theexplimatibtt.givenb? ,lhe Paymaster

is that it was supposed Tim in room adjoining his ofSce was ways kept locked, but in this case it was proved otherwise. This door was close to and adjoining the vault in which the safe was l<«ated. When the Paymaster left the loom the cashier of the company and an assistant, who occupy practically the same room, but sit at desks somewhat removed from the vault, and in an angle which partially conceals the entrauce to the vault, so that any one entering from the vacant room conld have accomplished the robbery without their knowledge, the Paymaster assumes that the robbery must have been committed by some one having complete knowledge ' of the room and the habits; of its occupants. FRANK RAMIE’S LATEST VICTIM. The Noted Bandit left to Close Common, ton with Himself In the “ Solitary,” Apparently Concludes that HU H salon Is Fulfilled, and finds HU Worthless Ufe. Joliet, icc., March 7. Frank Rande committed suicide in his cell this morning by hanging himseli to the iron door. He was placed in a solitary cell Iasi; Monday morning by ortWf df UepdtrG*lrvTii,"1ffntrc which time he has had no communication with any one except his keeper. When last seen last evening he was quite cheerful, only that his close confinement CHAFED A!STD IRRITATED HIM, and he was anxious to get ont. His keeper visited his cell at eight o’clock this morning to give him his breakfast, when he was found hanging to the door by a rope made from his clothing. He adjusted the rope about his; neck -— with the knot under hit right ear. The other eud of tin rope whs irmly fastened to the top bar of the grated door. He spread his coat on the stone floor and placed his cell ]>ail upon it, so that when he stepped off the pail would make no noise. Stepping upon the pail THE CLOTH ROPE WAS DRAWN TIGHT, and then he swing off. When found this morning he was quite dead and cold, havbeen dead doubtless some hours. He will be bailed tils afternoon in the prison cemetery. THE FLOODS. The Wateirs Slowly Recoding—Perilous Position of Friilr’s Point, Kiss. Helena, Ark., March 7. The decline expected to set in began yesterday, two inches being the extent of the fall. The unprecedented bad weather of the past two weeks so wrought upon the levees thai: several crevasses have occurred within the last thirty-six hours. Friar’s Point, a village ha Mississippi, fifteen miles south of here, is threatened with destruction by having a terrible current through its streets from a break hall a mile above. The people are fearful that many houses will be taken from their foundations and wrecked by this flood, and every prepai-ation for removal is being made. Johnstown and Clarksda ie, Miss., eighteen miles back from the river, are Hooded, boats being the only means of communication between houses. The private levees on Old Town ridge gave way yesterday morning, jnst in front of Red Store Post-office, sweeping the store, two barns and a dwelling back through the plantation. No casualties are reported. It is expected that the fall will be very rapid from this on, in which event the worst is passed and the countiy will soon be in condition for the work of repairing damages. The Government steam patrol has been hovering in this vicinity fof several days, tailing notes upon the situation.

The Hunt for Tiller. Sr. Louis, Mo., March T. The hunt iis becoming more interesting day by day, and instead of diminishing is being strengthened. Eveiy member of the Police Department has the official description of Till* r in bis pocket, and tbe impression prevails that if ithe police cannot catch him hue and ciy will. Telegrams are continually pouri ng in both to the Chief of Police and Mr Morsman to the effect that in the belief of the sender Tiller is concealed somewhere in his vicinity, and iif a little money was forwarded he would be caught. A M rstery Solved. Sr. Louis, Mo.. March 7. The mystery of the Caltakia butchery has been cleared up by the discovery of the ghastly evidences of the mnrder in the cabin of a negro maned William Brown and by his confession of complicity in ihe crime lie also implicates another negro and a white man. The crime was eddently committed for plnndi ' “ - - Brown’s eabliu i mass of humstn h while the beds. In the fire-place of WlW WW Wl t!

THE FLOODS IH THE SOUTH. Levees Along the Lower White and Other Rivers Giving Greet Dan VlCKSbURO, Hews from the Sunflower River is to the effect that a general overflow of the section is almost certain. The water h comes through the break in the levee at Bculeh Lake W Bolivar ity has not yet reached the Sunflower through the Bognephalia, in addition to the water coming through the Lewis swamps already in the. river, wiU cause a general overflow. Telegrams were sent from here yesterday notifying Governor Lowry of the impending danger up the Sunflower River. GOVBBilSNT AID. ii telegram was received by Captain Marshall, United Stated engineer in charge of this district, from the Chief of Engineers at Washington, asking what steamers and barges belonging to the Government were ia liis charge that could reader assistance to the citizens of this district, which extents from the mouth of White River t» Warrenton, twelve below this aty. The steamers and Jno. C!. Fisher and some barges are a s Wilson’s Point and it it becomes necessary to them for that purpose. Mr. Copple, States Assistant Engineer, goes by the Anchor line steamer in the _ to inspect and direct the necessary repairs to levees in the vicinity of Oiiega, Madison Fin ish, La. The State levee at Longwood, La., six miles above Lake Providence, is caving ' and washing badly. The caving has ' the crown of the ievee. This lie revetted wil l plank; also the new : at Omega, which 1s Wave-washed for three hundred feet, will Ire pirotected. The State levee, between the Government levee in the same vicinity, is too low, and “ be raised immediately. These levees now safe, but will be made secure an anticipated rise of eighteen which is expected from the Yazoo in the next three weeks.

TRACKS UNDER WATER tion yesterday from the Generin this city, of the & Texas Railway, Is to the effect that ol the road from Me mphis sooSW^8’18" pended and some eleven miles of tine overflowed. Work is also suspended from the Yazoo River north. No track has been laid since the twentythird of last month. ARKANSAS FARMS FLOODED. Rock, Ark., March 6.—Reports ived from Southeast Arkansas repreit a sad condition of affairs in the inties bordering along the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers. The water has broken the levees and a large tract of country is inundated. In Lincoln and Arkansas Counties the loss is very great. The Arkansas in Arkansas County was fo«r inches above the marks of 1877, the highest within eighteen years. It Is slowly falling. The loss from crops still in the field is small, bnt the loss in hogs, cattle and mules will be considerable. There is an average of one break in the levee to every Ave mi les on the north side from Swan Lat e to the mouth of the Big Bayou Meto. ANXI ETY AT HELEN A. Helena, Am:., March 6.—The rainfall h*r**u the p*m thirty-six homes amounted. to nearly two inches, which lias assisted materially the one-inch rise iii the river. Reports from Madison yesterday indicate a con' inuation of the rise ip St. Franc! i Bottoms which leaves no hope of a c ecline here for some days to come. Thin prolonged rise in the St. Francis basin i ;fter nearly five feet fall at Cairo is unacc ountable, unless it be attributed to rail, and is another evidence of the mysterh us workings of this great river at flood tl le. The levees are holding still by virt le of unremitting labor on the part of the people. A heavy storm prevaiteLTnf* i*y night which created somethingTif" iCnight passed without disaster. The 1 generally bett r new, though anxiety is still mani ested as to the suit of the pret snt high water. A BAD S’ ATE OF AFFAIRS. Corning, O., All Torn I'p Over The Beeent Expulsion of Andy HcDerttt from the Town—A Ware t Factl one Likely to Result. Columbus, O^. March &. . The trouble t rer tht McDevitt* abduction at Corning is getting worse. Every turn of affairs s ems to irritate it, till theie is danger of v dence. Andy McDevitt, who promised 1 te mot last Sunday night that he would i ;ver s»t foot in the town again, returned -esterc ay accompanied by his friends can ing rites. McDevittwas given a royal reception. Fully 2,000 people met im at the depot and escorted him to tis store, where he held an ovation during the day, but did m t remain in the town over night. He and Father B. M. O’Boylai have, however not at yet been in the town at the same time since last Sunday. The everenl father left for New Lexingtoi on the train previous to McDevitt’s irrival, expecting to return on the i ixt train, but when he saw the McDt -itt party on the cars he did not board it, and remained at the County Jail w :h the members of his congregation, who are under arrest. The case of Father TBoylan was postponed till Friday. The others will hate no hearing All the Grand Jury meets next Mnday, as they waived a preliminary ext mination. Andy McDevitt came up to ] ew Lexington in the afternoon, and l ather O’Boylan returned to Corning. JcDevitt swore out twelve more warrants, making twenty-six in all, with more to fc How. To complicate the present despera te social condition of this mining region, four arrests were made for the lynching of Richard Hickey, two weeks ago, and efforts are being made to have Andy MePevitt indicted for killing' Ira Qnickbauitn in seif-defense a year ago. There is a desperate state, of affairs at Coming and Rendviile.

Secretary Folger on the Patten BUI. Washisgton, D. C., March 8. Secretary Folger suggests several amendments to the Fatten Bill, and says: “I doubt whether the people would approve Its provisions. It is certainly open to the charge of being partial to the banks; and its effect, whether intended or not, would seem to be to defer calling in security bonds until such times as bonds not used as a basis of circulation shall have been called, and I do not think it wise policy to thus discriminate in favor of banking associations, and against all other bond-holders.” Warned to Leave. !"■ Somerset, Kt, March 8. A regularly organized body of men in Harrison 'District hold meetings in a church for consummating plans to drive George and William Carter and William Troxtiil from the State. They were tried in court for the murder of Harvey Bussell and acquitted. The general belief is that they Were guilty. They have been notified to ire, and Troxtili has disappeared. The brothers received notice, but reto leave, and say they will shoot man whose name is attached who them in the least suspicious A tragedy will Of obably end

DYNAMITE. DlKotea •( Dynamite Latwntorici in Vienna —Foreign Ambanadorm Instvueted to Confer with n View to Demanding Depressive Measure* by the United Staten Against Dynamiters—A Dig at Brother John. Vreus A, March A Serious alarm and much excitement has been caused by the discovery by the police of three large dynamite laboratories tn the heart of the city, all of which show signs of having recently been occupied. Everthing indicated that dynamite was then being manufactured, and that the occnpants hail made a hasty exit. The activity of the Terrorist party causes greatest uneasiness among the wealthiest classes, and a general feeling of insecurity prevails on account of the number of dynamite bombs being scattered broadcast over the city. Bombs are found in the street almost dally. As yet no serious explosion has taken place. The detective force has been doubled, and is continually scouring the city and suburbs for dynamite. Last evening a man dressed in the garb of a workman was arrested while attempting to smuggle a number ol small bombs into the city. He made a desperate resistance, and attempted to explode one c<f the bombs. He was final]} overpowered and taken to the police station. He refused to reveal the place where he procured the bombs. From information rereived by the police and from other sources it is believed that dynamite is being manufactured in the suburbs. A number of detectives are actively searching the suspected places. A careful examination qf some of the dynamite discovered has led to the belief that large quantities of the stuff are received by Terrorists from friends in America, and that it is shipped from America via Switzerland. The Swiss authorities have been asked to keep a sharp lookout for dynamite intended for shipment to Austria. The Austrian Government has secured the services of a number of Swiss detectives to aid Li the search for explosives. Home. Maroh &

It transpires that the German, Austrian, Spanish, French and other Ambassadors here are receiving instructions to confer with Mancini, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, regarding Enropeat co-operation With a View to demanding that the Government of therUnited States jyiact legislation against the avowed ^^aitg emissaries. Some of the AmJyll,“^"*^|dared themselves in favor of Daff*,rs,C^^Steent passport ‘system reviviM the Others lor5?5",SB Washington say that the Government wjthoat is best able to adjust the remSjf" European interference. Signor recognized the difficulty of the authorities at Washington in Inaugurating legal surveillance. He also points • out the English protection to foreign emissaries who legally enjoyed immunity from arrest when the interests of Great Britain were unmolested. Some ambassadors say that while England fostered revolutionary Incendiaries regardless of disasters to other nations, she now complains only when she herself is damaged. Other ambassadors take the ground that moral suasion is the only remedy for so* eialistic evils. AN IRATE PAKSON. K«». Jos. Cook, Disturbed in a Map by a Brother Div ne with Whom he Had Agreed liar Bobs _ Mm~ Most Unmintutorial ] Keen, N. H. March 6. An authorized version of a recent display of ministerial pugilism has just been made pnblic, in Which the Rev. Jo. Cook assaulted a fellow clergyman at a hotel here for having called ' him seven minutes too early to attend a prayer meeting. A local paper last week published an account of the encounter, but the conduct of the Rev. Mr. .Cook was represented as ( so gross' that but. few would believe in the correctness of thenariative. To-day, however, the belligerent clergyman is out tn a letter in which the principal features of the affair are admitted. The common version of the affair is this: The Rev. J. Cook was to deli rer his lecture ton “The Seven Wonders of the World” JfVhe City Hall one evening. On reachimj town in the afternoon he took a room

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quejjjbe seized his hat, and hastened out^Phe church, not eve s taking care that^s/door shonld not slam alter him. Nsw Yon*, March 7. William Treadwell Rhodts, a brother of Lieutenant John A. Rhode: i, the hero of the Gay Head disaster, and Miss Lottie Redfleld, the youngest daughter of Mr. Samuel Redfleld, a wealthy farmer, have eloped from North Madison, Conn. Young Rhodes, is now twenty-two years old. Miss Lottie Redfleld has long been the belle of North Madison. She is some two or three years younger than her husband and is very pretty. Young Rhodes has long been her devoted swain, but his sui s was bitterly opposed by the young lady’ll parents. —•—-»■*- " General Grant’s Cor dltlun. Nsw York, March 7. General Grant, accompanied by Mrs. Grant and by Miss Bessie Sharp, his niece, drove to the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, last boarded directors’ car ti the Philadelphia, Wll Baltimore Railroad, which totherearoMhe^ingt full

»«*>; She "firra! Old Ko doubt '.'('osiu-rfc’jW interest will ftttach at this timss to Mr. MacVexga's attempt i» the (kuturu to sketch the Weal PresidSQ* -the President who shall be- nomksAtgd and elected this year, but who probably will not be, The artie'e does aot amount to row^ eo far as original suggestions f.n concerned. hs simply ottiaw the duties of the President)*I office and the Cablnet positions, and the ideal President is one who will d: charge those duties to the letter and select a Cabinet that will look otter everything within its province with fidelity and efficiency equal to bis own. TSutre is hardly a political jobber in the oonatey who would not claim that he was working to bring about the election ot just such a man, though he m;gbt have occasion to wins® more than once were ha to follow the lino of disensstoo which Mr. MaeYeagh adopts to lead up to his conclusion?, The paper is chiefly valuable as an anslvs s of the condition of pol Vcs and partly at the present time and a kind of ethical review of the transitions in pol'sttesd methods since the war. Here he places himself oa strictly independent groutid aud cats both ways, but inasmuch aa the Kepubl'can party is, and for a long time has been in power, thus furnishing the snore agg avated instances of eotraprios and deviation from constitutional standards, that organization quite naturally gots the worst of it H s^on tempt for the pr\s- ’ ent Admifissti ation from top to bottom and indeed, for almost every National AdBiinisirtticai from the assassination of Lincoln to the pre ent—es< ept perhaps that oi which he was a factor—is but thinly veiled and his specifications of the qualifications and motives that the President and his advisers should i possess are so framed as to emphasize the conspicuous lack of them at present. We hardly think Mr. 3ls«Yeagh‘s review * of the situation or lus high standard for the ideal President will endear him especially to tjfctj party with which he |as been so closely identified. Like General Woodford at Ttemont Temple, Mr. MacVeagh has struck a vein of enerrHc frankness, and we are glad that was able to evolve so much truth with it, for the ed Scation of the public, if not of his immediate party assoc" ates. On his briefest summing up, the ideal President must conform to these rettoverntbeBts: “In the presept state of

»uaus au v* asijmgLUU, uc iK^av aw vmj be am boiia-.v ra»n,but hey of dmxsmt in. every form ol thievery; and iffKst able to dedicate himself to the solemn wort of reforming not only the administrative service of the National Government, but the very atmosphere itself of the National capital. Four, years of administration of the National Government by such a man would transform the public life of America.” —BgsIoh Post, - Republican Presidential Candidates. The Chicago Ketcs is at some pains to find ont. wiiat- was very plain to most observant persons on the very surface^ of public opinion. It addressed a large’ number of .letters to prominent men m the Republican party in the different State*. mfriag if General Logan was, the first or second choice of his party for the Presidential nomination. The responses show a concurrence of opinion in all sections that the Illinois Senator is neither the first nor the second choice of Republicans. These letters, however, drew forth casual expressions of preference which are much more significant than those respecting General Lagan. Three men are named by two-thirds of the correspondents as the choice of their States—President Arthur, ex-Secvetary Blaine and Senator Edmunds. These gentlemen are given the relative prominence indicated m the order in which they are mentioned. The conclusion to be lairly drawn from the facts is that neither will have a majority in the convention. A combination will therefore be necessary or a new man will have to be taken. A combination on Mr. Blaine is rendered ■meeacticable on account of his promHnce and the established enmities exHng toward him. The Grant-Confc-Sfe element of the party would sever to Mr. Blaine, and Its dlsHte for him is so pronounced that |H defeat before the people would be MKedevenby’ tK&WHtfo wollli^jiiik® to ■ him President. There is muMP®®** H>bability of a union of tbe frienH? ™ Hssrs. Arthur and Edmunds, though H way to this sort of an alliance Is n\d Hhom obstructions. They are botnv [ptern men- Mr. Arthur is a machine Hitician and has many embarrassing Httplicatiotis in his own State. He is Bwise heartily disliked, if not disHted, by the Garfield faction in Ohio Indiana. These are some of the' ^■cbs why he would not be available. Hater Edmunds has fewer positive B* backs to prevent his nomination Hi either of the others, and at the He time ho hts fewer positive eleHts of popularity. He comes from a Bh State, whose political status is H and is not to be affected by any Hr done to one of its sons. He is of Hid and distant nature, aud has Hud law of the leaders of his party B? obligations fa him. There would |Kss of the ingredients of a hurrah HLaign in a ticket with the frigid Bnonter at the head of it than there Bbaen ia any ticket ever offered by ■ Republican party. Nevertheless, R&e three most 'prominent Republio ■ to-day Mr, Edmunds appears to Bid wish at least equal chances to any. Hood estimator of chances, however, ^Hld, doubtless take the field against anv favori lit-^*Sk Louis JRevublican.

Mmj. Mr. Stephen W. Dorsey, instead of being in jsd, whose it is ssttppposed Mr. Attorney-Genera! Brewster wss very anxious to ptrt hint, ts in lock and proposes to snake a inti hand in the next Presidential campaign. It is even reported that so corseious is President Arthur of his power that he has sent the Hon. Klehnrd Crowley to visit and pdacate him. We cap assure Candidate Arthur and Candidate Logan that Mr. Dorsey is a m:ghtr hard man o fool, and equally diuiehtt >« drive. It is quite possible for him So m&l as tractably as ever tra-il-the loud reaches the brink of the precipice, tud the a hit is very likely to kick d over. Candida e Art fear, before he became Presidra!, was *sk<xi by Mr. Dorsey to examine the charges against bint and give his opinion as to h s guilt or innocence. ft h!« tvss at the time d«|tt sad MaeVe.ygh were prosecuting^hs«^ Mv. Arthur w reported by MV. Barney to have done to aed to have declared that there eras nof » iseiatiiiaof eridenoo against him. »» withstanding this, when ho aoecowfed iotfee rretadenoy he ae&biwsiy nejttffitRssd Dio prosecution.

At the time the National Committee met here—a year or so Mr. Doraey was still under Brew harrow and generally in bad odor, stor Logan, at a session of the committee, offered a resolution praising Assistant. Secretary Hooker very highly for bt? efficient services* during the campaign, but never mentioning Secretary Dorsey— the man who had not only bought Indiana, but had eoitecied -a good deal of the money jvith which it was purchased. If Senator Logan could have heard Mr. Dorsey’s remarks about him at that time he would be slow to count him among his supporters cow. We warn both of these gentlemen. Candidate Arthur and Candidate Logan, that Mr. Dorsey keeps all the letters written to him, as. well as a diary, and that to use a very slang phrase, “he i* a bad man ana carries a razor.”— Washington Post. Interesting but Net Hopeful. Our Republican friends are discussing the Presidency in an interesting but not wholly hopeful or intelligible manner. The ^purely Stalwart organs are cooing as gently as sucking doves for General Arthur. They are declaring that “he conferred a great favor upon the country by taking the Presidency under great difficult.es, and by so conducting himself as to allay hostile suspicions.’’ The creation of a role for President Arthur was a necessity. He was and is only a politician, the Pharisee end of the Republican party has mafle the role of a politician, which Pitt. Jefferson, Franklin. Lafayette and Clay were not averse to confessing, disreputable to the encoring m'mds of the non-think-ing members of that organization. • Accordingly, General Arthur's accession to the Presidency, in consequence of the murder of General Garfield, is naively treated as a philanthropic act, and the fact that he has not outraged the social sensibilities of the people is rated an amazing and an admirable fact. The implication from this, concerning alike the sagacity of the people and the character of the President himself, is not complimentary. Artemus Ward, easily superior Jooth in statesmanship and in a discernment of public opinion • to the average Republican editor of the i day, wrote once as follows in London:

hs rcircH—near sir: i am gisa h> miorm you that I have von the confidence of the landlord of the Green Lion. Rising in bis bar the other night, surrounded by twenty of his steady customers, he said: “Gentlemen, I wish to tell you that this North American has been an inmate of my house for some three weeks. During that time he has taken his beer He uses bit knife and fork like other to scaln any of my e sgrBiaaBHMBkS? ftmily. I find boarders or any mem^ he can be trusted with light_ such men might to be encouraged. I propose bis health, The eulogy, which is based on praise of General Arthur's Emission to do anything or be anything at all in office, can safely be left to the test of Artemns Ward’s comments. At the- same time, while the President is thus praised for qualities predicable of dull passivity, bis lieutenants are not slow to resent any HepubKcnn. expression of distaste for him. For say- ‘ ing that “General Art hur could not carry one side of Ohio, ex-Govemor Fos-. ter, who has never failed to carry it himself, is held up to obloouy in eveiy ..Stalwart paper. He is called a liar, even “an embodied Mar;” he is de‘soured, disappointed scribed as a to as one man;” he is referred •whose views could be entirely changed by the tender of a Cabinet office.” Tbe fact that ex-Governdr Foster never suffered political defeat; that he is regarded as the closest-seeing, politician of his party in Ohio: that he has asked no office for himself or for anybody, and that with wealth, friends, health, youth aud a love of ease and fellowship, ho feels perfectly free to speak his mind is pretty well known by the people; but having disturbed the Serenity in which President Arthur is represented to shine, like the oak face of a dead saint on the pew door of a Cathedral aisle, Mr. Foster comes in for abuse and defamation from the Stalwart papers. The way in which the compact Coriolanus of Ohio has fluttered the Stalwart Yolscians in their Troy, Buffalo. Albany and Washington de'enses, is not only amusing in itself, but it is proof positive that the idea of President Arthur’s “not being a‘candidate” is a sheer affectation, baaed on a Relief in the guUfkjtity of the people.—Albany Argus.■

In Artienlo Mortis. Hie approaching National Convention of the Republican party promises to be distinguished by low intrigues and tricky combinations such as would be a jjisgrace to an ordinary want caucus. N&thing better is to be expected, howeveKtrom a party which is now held together merely by the desifc of its roembcvS to continue in the enjoyment of the spoils ot office. When a political organization has outlived the purpose for which fkcame into existence and finds no further occasion for the assertion of its principles, it naturally falls into the decay which for sometime lias been visibly the condition of the Republican party. An inevitable consequence of this State of politics! putrefaction is the evolution of candidates for office devoid alike of principle and tiftness. ' They are as natural to that condition of a party as maggots to a rott&i carcass. Arthur, Logan and Sherman, the three prominent Republican candidateX^or the Presidency, are the normal products of the present putrescent and ^y-blbtvn condition of the Republican organization. They are all riere spoilsmen. Neither of them ever attained public position because either represented some great principle of government, bnt both owe their prominence to political manipulation, the distribution of the Federal patronage, the influence of rq,oney and the Inck, and plnck of fortunate as well as desperate office-seeking. Arthur is now engaged in a canvass for the nomination at Chicago that involves the patronage of the Government which Is to he used to influence the election of delegates and to that end especially to demoralize the Balf-bceod element which is not yet reconciled to the leneficiary of the assassination of Garfield. Logan Is also scheming for the nomination and regarding Arthur as his most- formidable compettor is making an effort to attach to his cause the enemies of the Administration. It is beJjeved at Washington that he has ennent ’ J§§ which the latter tered into an arrangement with Dorsey ■Mfinfenne by whic' ifilii is to take charge of his loom in certain of Star-route i John Shermap, of the-bloody States and has shirt and is ostensioly making liis battle for the nomination nnder that filthy ensign, but he really depends on the his financial intrigues Whii of the ft is demonstrate nomination is to be corruption * ' almost cer! and