Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 April 1897 — Page 6

THERE’S NO LET-UP. Southern Flood Continues With No Belief in Sight. • taking Lm« and Kncrunching Watm Laying Wait* What were Fruitful Mm ▲long the St. Francis. Memphis, Tenn., April 4.—Another disastrous break in the Mississippi levee occurred this morning at eight o’clock at Flower lake, six miles below Tunica, Miss. The crevasse, while not yet of great width, is fully 55 feet deep, and the water is pouring through the cavity with fearful velocity. This will probably be the most destructive break that has occurred in thedelta. The most fertile farm land of Mississippi, lying in Cohoma, Laflore, Quitman and Tallahatchie counties, in the northern part of the state, will be inundated, and the newly-planted corn orops will be laid waste. Fortunately no loss of life is reported, the inhabitants of this stricken section having made preparations for just such a catastrophe as exists there to-day. The condition of the poorer classes throughout the flooded area is indeed* critical to-night. Thousands of refugees are being huddled on the levees and spots of land, waiting for relief. The towns of Rosedale and Tunica report that everything possible is being done for these poor people, but that funds and provisions are fast becoming exhausted. In the little city of Rosedale alone 1,900 refugees are being cared for by the citizens. Haif a hundred towns to-night stand in six feet of water and tiie yellow stream is creeping «p slowly but surely.

is four inches higher than In the Hood five weeks ago. Most of the stores on Cumber land avenue are flooded. Sixtyfire families hare been washed out. Three hundred people are fed by the city. Boats are plying on the principal strtrets. At Pineville the Cumberland river is rising three feet per hour. West Pineville is raider water. Clinch and Po well’s rivers are flooding the entire country. > The Grand Hirer Still Ktelng. Trentox, Mo., Apnl 4.—Grand rivet is still coming up and the bottoms are completely under water, causing much damage. Weldon bridge, four miles north, was washed out and considerable timber of the Quincy, Omaha A Kansas City railway extension has been lost. The baseball park is completely submerged. Mr. Winslow, manager of the watei works, received a telephone message from the power station that water was running in through the walls, and that if the flood was any higher to-morrow they would vacate, leaving the city without any water supply. Six young men on horseback attempted to cross the bottoms west of town and were swept from their horses. Three got safely to land; the other three floated down stream and were rescued from the tree tops. The HUeoarl River Steadily Climbing C| St. Joseph, Mo., April 4.—The first alarm was felt here to-day over the rise of the Missouri river. The stream rose seven-tenths of a foot here today and is steadily climbing up Reports from the country 75 miles north ol here state that the Nodaway, Nishnaboth a and other streams are all out oi their banks. Just south of this city the river is cutting badly, and the Burlington railroad company has a large

MAI* OP THE FLOOD SECTION OF THE SOUTH.

Advices just received tell of » break In the levee two miles south of Hel--ena, Ark. This is the levee for which the people of southeastern Arkansas have made such a desperate fight. The waters from this break will flood; a .great area, and in all probability will hack up into the streets of Helena. The relief steamer Ora Lee arrived at Marianna, Ark., late this afternoon and made an expedition up the St. Francis river. There were on board 160 refu(MB and 800 head of cattle. The steamer went up the St. Francis river as far as Cutoff and then worked her way down stream, rescuing people from perilous positions. The suffering along the St- Francis, •river is appalling. The water through-, out the entire neighboring sections is from four to six feet deep. Relief boats rescued the body of Mrs. McCain. of Baggio City. The body was found at Baggio and it was taken to Marianna Tor burial, there being no land at the former place on which to give it interment. The St. Francis is rising from three to five inches daily. At Memphis to-night the river is alowly rising again, the gauge registering 4 feet. There is a rise of onetenth since last report. At points below Vicksburg the river is rising. It it the general opinion of old river men here if the levees below Vieksburj hold the great volume of water in its regular channel, it will be little short • of a miracle.

Gov. XcUtariu'i Kfforu In Hr ha If of th* flood Mffrrrn. Jackson, Miss.. April i-Uot. McliSuriu continues to make diligent in* quiry touching destitute flood suffer «rs. He will perhaps be compelled to report to Secretary of War Alger that the amount of 810.000 mentioned in his telegram, last night, wilt be wholly inadequate to alleviate the want and suffering. Hon. J. YV. Cutrer. of Coahoma, a member of the Yazoo*Mississippi levee ' district, is here and states that he does not expect the waters to abate before Hay 14. _ The Situation nt S»» Or!can*. ■Nkw Orleans, April 4.—All day the nun has shone with almost midsummer brightness, and the conditions have naturally, so far as the city is concerned, been exceptionally favorable ior the levees. The river is slowly rising. To-day's gauge registers 17.T, one-hundredth of a foot above the figure of yesterday, but this was anticipated and no uneasiness is resultant. Along the entire river front of the Crescent City, the vigilance of the authorities has not been nor will it be relaxed in the, remotest degree and absolute confidence prevails All the levees are apparently in splendid conedition Mid are able to stand considerable pressure yet. The Flood* Is Kratwkf. Middles boro. Ky., April 4.—MidJllesboro is again flooded. The water

force of men protecting its tracks at Barnes' lake. Xaiijr Families Driven from Their Homes. Maryvii.;.e. Mo., April 4.—The river rose six inches in a few hours here to day. and the lowlands are nearly under water. At Bedford, la., water is up to the depot and many families haw been driven from their homes. DISASTROUS FOREST FIRES Ra(ln{ Over Thousand* of Acre* in the Nittany Mountain*. Beixefoxte, Pa., April 5.—The forest fires in the surrounding mountains ape spreading at an alarming rate. All efforts to check the flames have proven futile, apd unless a heavy rain sets in 1 many thousands of acres of valuable timber will go up in smoke. The fire originated in the middle section of the Nittany mountains from a spark from a locomotive falling on a tract of dry grass. Heavy winds have prevailed for almost 40 hours and the j flames are sweeping fiercely along the t nuumtains from top to bottom. The approach of the fires to the lumbei camps has caused great excitement, and the woodsmen have left their workings. The course of the flames is constantly changing, making back firing useless. Different crews have been sent out tc fight the fires, but thus far they have accomplished little, and their efforts are now being directed to confining the blaze to the mountains and to the prolection of property in the clearings. This blaze is in the heart of the hemlock district and is doing much damage. Residents along the base of the mountains are praying for raiq. which is the only thing that can now stop the course of the flames.

• ' COL. EMILIO NUNEZ. The l>Mhlnt Frlrad of Cab*. Returns U the l ilted States. N tv York. April A—The United States authorities here hare information that CoL Emilio Nunez, who is wanted for organising and taking part in a movement for the alleged filibustering expeditions has, within the past few days, returned to this country. It j is also hinted that Nunez is hiding hereabouts, haring come to New York with Dr. Jaoquin IX Castillo. Col. Emilio Nunez, distinguished; himself as a daring cavalry leader during the tea years’ war and is hated by j the Spaniards, who would like to see j him in prison. It is said that since the breaking outj of the present struggle for independence. under orders from (Jen. Calixtc f Garcia and Carlos Roloff, Nunez has ; been engaged in organizing andjsend- j ing men arms and ammunition. Nunes, | it is alleged, took an active part in all the trips made by the steamships Bermuda. Laurada.Uorsa. Flambrough and Woodall, from the United States tc Cuba during the past two years. He was tried here last winter for breaking the neutrality laws in connection with one of the Bermuda expeditions, hat the jury disagreed.

DECEITFUL DEALING. tkc Dlagley Coudltec Stack tm tit* Tract*. It will be observed that the advocates of the Dingley bill are careful to speak of the sugar differential as one-eighth of a cent a pound, or 12% cents per 100 pounds. By the “differential” is meant the extra duty put on refined sugar for the benefit of the sugar trust. Refined sugar under the present law pays 12% cents per hundred more duty than raw sugar. But this means 12% cents more than raw sugar of the lowest as well as the highest grade. This “differential” ought not to have been in the bill. It was put there by traitorous senators who called themselves democrats cooperating with the republicans. On acc8bnt of it the republicans denounced the bill as a “trust bill” because it had cut down the McKinley differential only 75 per cent. In spite of their denunciation of the trust bill of 1894, they are willing to admit that their bill contains the same differential as that of 1894. This, however. is a deception. The differential is larger in the Dingley bill, and those who understand the subject know it. The tax on raw sugar testing 75 degrees by the polariscope is one cent a pound, or a dollar per 100. The tax on refined sugar is $1.87% per 100 pounds, or, in decimals, $1,875. Thus refined sugar is taxed seven-eighths of a dollar per 100 pounds more than raw sugar of the lowest grade. Under the present law it is only 12% cents per 100 pounds, in addition to the 40 per cent, ad valorem on raw sugar. It is true that the tax on raw sugar in the Dingley bill is on a sliding scale. For each degTee over 75 there is added a tax of 3-100 of a cent a pound, so that by the time we get to 100 degrees, the tax amounts to $1.75 per 100 pounds, and 12% cents added to make the duty on refined sugar $1,875. But this takes no account of the smaller tax on sugar less than 100 degrees. In point of fact, if we go back to 1890, when this sliding scale was in use before, there was no sugar imported testing 100 degrees, nor yet any at 99 degrees. There was a small quantity at 98 degrees, but all imports above 94 were comparatively unimportant. On the other hand, there were imported 350,000,000 pounds testing 84 and 85 degrees, and nearly 400,000,000 pounds testing 90 degrees. Below 84 degrees the qualities imported were smaller, but still considerable, extending all the way to and including 75 degrees. The rate then ranged from $1.40 to $2.75 per 100 pounds, the latter for sugar testing TOO degrees, but the average tax on the whole was about two cents a pound, or about equal to imposed on sugar at 90 degrees. Let us apply this 90 degree test to the differentials. Under the Dingley bill sugar at 90 degrees pays $1.45 per 100 pounds. Taking this as an average, and subtracting it from $1.87%. we have 42% cents per 100 as the true differentia] in favor of the trust.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

QUESTIONS ON WOOL Thtaga hr'Mr. Diagler to Account For. Mr. Dingley has some hard things to say, in his report on the tariff bill, about “speculators importing wool,” into whose pockets, he says, the money (enormous wool tax his bill provides for) will be turned that should go into the treasury. In this connection we have a fair question to ask of the chairman of the ways and means committee, who is himself interested in woolen nanufacture. He is said, by Washington correspondents, to be “touchy” about this fact, but it is a fact. Through his family, if not directly, he is interested in a woolen mill at Lewiston. Has that mill been stocking up with a year’s supply of free wool, and will it buy eTery pound of free wool it can get hold of before the Dingley tax goes into effect? Will it, in Mr. Dingley’s words, turn into its own pockets and those of the Dingley family the money which, he says, ought to go into the treasury? On this we have to say that, if the Dingley mill is not doing this, it is not doing what all the other mills are doing. If its manager is not taking every bale of free wool he can put his hands on he is incompetent, and should be discharged. If the Dingley mill is not getting its wool free while it can it will have to go out of business. There is nothing wrong about importing wool in advance of the duty. What is wrong is to get up in congress and condemn, with great show of virtuous indignation, the thing which you are doing yourself.—N. Y. Poet.

WtfMMrtn to Bo Taxed. If increased taxes upon the necessaries of life shall not bring with them increased wages far labor the men who are framing the new tariff are only sow* ing the wind and will surely reap the whirlwind. The people of the country will not submit to increased taxes upon that which they must consume unless they realize a compensating increase in the wages of labor. If in this regard the new tariff shall fail the revolution of a million majority against the McKinley bill in 1S90 will be repeated against the Dingley bill in 1S93. We bag the framers of the new tariff bill to read the impressive lessons of the past, and to remember that never in all the history of this country were the people so sensitive as to taxation end so inclined to revolutionary action as they are to-day. A tariff that taxes the necessaries of life without increasing the wages of labor to the full measure of the Inrnnnsrd exactions put into it must provoke revolution, and another revolution against a protective tariff would protection to a death from which there could be no resurrection.—Philadelphia Times._ -The democratic policy can be stated in two sentences, both short: let the tariff alone. Reduce expenditures. The Wilson tariff will support the government, economically administered, and there is cash enough in the treasury to pay the bills until congress, by cut• ttggwatiatBWawaiiMiltlwtitcads meet.—5. Y. Timea.

TROUBLE FOR TARIFF MAKERS. Be*iblleu ProteiaioB. Tkat Waal Stffhd the Teat. ^ It Is reported from Washington that President McKinley’s currency commission for the study of the currency laws during the recess of congress has not been abandoned entirely, according to the declarations of republican leaders. It has been determined, however, that tbe tariff shall have right of way. This means, of course, that in view of what is beginning to look like a desperate tariff emergency, the republican professions of favor for the proposal to promote international bimetallism must be kept before the federal lawmakers. All signs point to trouble ahead for the tariff-makers, and it is thought to be wise not to let any doubt as to the republican position in support of the conference proposition constitute an additional obstacle to the carrying out of the tariff programme. By postponing the dispensing of patronage and keeping to the front the professed republican intention to do the fair thing by silver the administration is doing all that it can to make the road of the tariff bill as little rocky as possible. What effect this policy will have on the silver republicans in the senate can hardly be foretold, but it is not amiss to remember that some of them yielded to the siren voice of the international agreement vocalist last summer, and they may be prepared to do it again. They are all protectionists, of course, and they may consent to aid in establishing the proposed protective policy, although their pet product is not included in its provisions. In this they will be influenced, doubtless, by the hope that their turn will come later, and no more delusive hope ever took up its abode in the human breast. It is likely, however, that this attempt to play on the credulity of the silverites. while it may achieve that end, will not operate to save the condemned and repudiated tariff bill from serious trouble in the senate. That measure is too clearly a terrific blow at the public interests to admit of any deception as to its possibilities and purpose. The patronage will be withheld and the silverites fooled in vain.—Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader.

PROFLIGATE MEASURES. Mo Such Word as Economy In the Re* publican Programme. Instead of saying one word upon the necessity of economy in his message to congress. President McKinley encouraged the very extravagance that lias produced the deficiency which is his excuse for the extra session. He declares at the start- that “we are presenting the remarkable spectacle of increasing our public debt by borrowing money to meet the ordinary outlays incident upon even an economical and prudent administration of the government.” Is a succession of billion-dollar congresses and an increase in the national expenditures of $100,000,000 a year in ten years an evidence of “an economical and prudent administration of the government?" “Ample revenues,” said the president, in closing, “must be supplied, not only for the ordinary expenses of the government, but for the prompt payment of liberal pensions.” The cost of pensions has increased §65,000.000 in ten years. This is the full amount of the deficiency for the current year. In other words, if congress. 21 years after the close of the war, had put a reasonable limit upon pensions—as Gen. Grant and President Garfield both declared it should do— the present tariff bill, even after the income tax had been nullified, would have yielded revenue enough. Our pension list of $140,000,000 now exceeds the total of the combined military pension lists of Europe. It has more than doubled since 1SS6. It costs more than some of the greatest standing armies in Europe. Was there any necessity, outside of the old soldier demagogy, for the president to lug in a reference to “the prompt payment of liberal pensions.” in the face of a yawning deficit in thr revenues?—N. Y. World.

POINTS AND UKINIUN5. -The Fifty-fifth congress cannot make itself popular by applying the gag rule and passing appropriations at the rate of $450,000 a minute.—St. Paul Globe. -The woolen manufacturers want to reduce the Dingley rate on raw wool one-half. The wool growers want to double It. Here’s a pretty row.—Utica Observer. -The new tariff bill will increase the duties by $117,397,867. and will swell the profits of the beneficiaries by as much as the combinations can squeeze out of the people.—St- Louis Republic. ——The Dingley bill has done more in three > days to reconstruct and strengthen the democratic party than all the harmonizers and conciliators and managers could hare done in a year. —Baltimore News. -The McKinley tariff was introduced as a measure to reduce the revenues, which had been redundant, and It had that effect, while now, when the revenues are regarded as insufficient, it is proposed to reenact substantially the same tariff in order to increase them.—Philadelphia Times. -The tariff built up the trusts ana | the trusts are building up the tariff. 1 Look at the genesis of the trusts. They I controlled nominations, corrupted state ! legislatures and log-rolled in congress ! to get the tariff higher, ever higher. As i a result of the exorbitant prices thuc exacted from the American people the barons amassed millions, until the artificial conditions created brought into existence an excess of industrial plant. Then ensued the destructive competition which led the manufacturers to combine—aa they claim in setf-defense —Into the trusts and put an end to competition. Excessive tariffs destroyed foreign competition, and the resulting trusts hare destroyed domestic com pc titkm. and the*** you are.—-N.Y.Heralo.

FASHION LITTER. Xtw TUlwr Q»wm Mat Radically Dtf< fercat tram Those s( Last 8cassa— Rotes os Trlaalags, Sleeves aad Wrays. {Special New York Correopondoscc.J The cloeeiy woven but medium* Height wools are the very best fabrics for utility gowns for the spring and early summer. The greens, browns and grave present a most attractive range of shades this year. The lightest and deepest dyes with intermediate tones are alike popular, but the new blues are mostly dark, some with a decided tint of plum color, others leaning towards the purple and silver tints. Again among stylish tailor cloths we see the pure marine and Neapolitan dyes, which are of all the blues the most enduring. Some of the swallow

and gray-blue costumes are made up in princesse style with deep ceinfcure, bolero jacket - fronts and close sleeves laced to the elbow aud finished with a very small puff on the top of the arm. The general effect of coloring and design in new tailor gowns is not radically different from those worn the past season,

iauucnru, men: uttu^ new colors and effects in the pretty checks, hair lines and wool mixtures among1 Scotch braids, cheviots and mohair and camel’s hair fabrics, and also smooth cloths in light weights. Great favor is also shown in new weaves of double-faced cashmere that ciosely resemble drap d’ete. The broken checks with several colors handsomely blended seem to predominate, and excepting serge (the peer of all utility fabrics), they are more serviceable than other materials used for everyday costumes. For dressy dinner toilettes crepe de chine in a number of exquisite colorings and also in cream, ivory and black.has come back to favor, and is made up in most fascinating forms. These

clinging’ textiles require a crisp taffeta silk lining. though every really stylish gown is now silk lined. This can hardly be dispensed with * if one wishes a j perfectly fitted,^ gracefully hang- 1 ing dress. Natty r silk-lined cos- l t umes are made V of checked silk a] or wool ^bods, jfl the skirt shaped M with seven gores ■ and completed ^ by a bolero or *

jacket bodice of plain clotb matching one of the shades in the check, with braiding or rows of giinp forming the contrasting color. On the making of new sleeves, the close coat-shape is almost universally used, but the manner of arranging the sleeve tops is simply endless; frills in rows, few or many; deep flounces, butterfly draperies, puffs, points, caps, slashed effects, etc., all prevailing among fashionable models. The linen, duck, hoiland and white and colored pique suits are very stylish this year, but they still share honors with the grass linen toilettes, many of which are elaborately trimmed and so elegantly lined that they cost quite as much when completed as an expensive silk or bro

cade. The Norfolk style of costume will •till be in high favor all summer far yachting, cycling, traveling and tennis wear. The graceful crossed corsages with their demure nun’s folds and also many fichu and bertha effects appear upon not a few of the dainty and poetic creations from Paris. These styles are largely copied by American modistes in the making of organdie, India muslin, batiste and summer textiles. Some of the newest corsages for slender matrons aad young women are hooked up the back, the front portion showing a full vest, a short bolero and a high girdle. All sorts of fetching little capes, fichna and peleriaes will be worn ea suite with thin summer toilettes .as well as those in wool and silk and wool for the present season. KATE DUNHAM. Potato Puff.—Two cupfuls of mashed potatoes, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Stir these, with a seasoning of salt, to a light, fine, ereamv consistency. Beat two eggs separately and add six , tablespoonfuls of cream. Beat all together, well and lightly. Pile in an irregular form in a dish. Bake in a quick oven until nicely colored. — N. Y. Ledger. ____ A screweyo inserted in the top of a broom or mop handle is far more convenient and lasting than a cord. Chocolate spoons, with decorated Dresden handles, have silver gilt howls.

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