Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1882 — Page 3

WASHINGTON.

A decision has just been rendered bv the Directors oftbe Mint regarding tbe habit of filling holes in\punehed coin, which will be of considerable interest. It is, in effect, that a coin once punched or mutilated can only be consider as bullion thereafter, even though the holes be filled with the same quality of metel. This will spoil what some jewelers have made quite a prosperous business of late. It is said that the Grand Jury will report indictments against Dorsey, Gardy and other Star Routers, perhaps to-day. An effert is making to give the Mississippi Committee primary jurisdiction of Mississippi river affairs instead of the Commerce Committee as heretofore. The river would fare much better. Representative White, the only Republican member from Kentucky, says the report about his supporting the Independents in that State, is untrue. It is generally conceded that the Shipherd Peruvian Company scheme is a great fraud. No importance is attached to Sliipherd’s sayings. Forty-four ropes have been received at the jail to hang Guiteau —one each from the Carolinas, New Hampshire, Vermont and California. Eight are of silk. Guiteau, though seeing mention of these in print, never speaks of them. The Warden has been offered SI,OOO by a showman lor the lot. Guiteau is sullen and very crabbed. He deprecates his sister’s letter to Mrs. Garfield. It is stated that Senator Edmunds’ name will be sent in in a few days to succeed Justice Hunt, lately retired. A bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Louis was introduced in the House by Mr. Bland. The bridge is to open for the passage of boats, and „must permit any railroads desiring to Cross to do so at reasonable and uni- * form rates. The bridge is to be built at or near the Cbsia of Rocks.

Senators and Representatives from New Jersey unite in a letter to the President requesting him to review the findings of the court in the Fitz John Porter case, and asking that the latter be restored to the army. The Western Associated Press reporter asked Senator Voorhees about the story telegraphed from here recently to the effect that certain prominent Democrats, including Mr. Voorhes, Morgan, of Alabama, and Jere Black, were secretly scheming with Blaine to run Blaine and Voorhees as candidates for President and Vice President Q 4, and gi'-e tnem tne support of the Democratic party. Voorhees said the story was too absurd to deserve even the deniel, that there was nothing in it, and he did not pro]>ose to dignify it by taking any notice of it. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, said the whole thing was a fiction. He had seen Blaine twice in as as many months, and then only for a few minutes at a time, and no reference to polities was made in their conversation. Morgan said: “I don’t think Mr. Blaine would ever trust his political fortunes to-such Democrats as Voorhees, Jere Black and myself. 1 like Blaine very much personally, but he is not the man I would noninate for president. I believe in straight, unadulterated Democracy, and if I hail mj T way, I would place the party upon Democratic principles. I would relieve it of Tammany in New York, of readjusterism in Virginia, and of repudiation everywhere, and I would nominate firm and true Democrats like Thurman and Hendricks, or a number of others tha: could be named, for President.” Senator Morgan added that he did not believe in any political coalitions; that he would rather sutler defeat with a pure Democratic ticket and platform than to win victory by a coalition and mixture of principles. Among Democrats here this story is generally pronounced absurd aud laughed at, but there are a f w, comprising those who are not friendly to Blaine, who shake their heads, and say that if this story is not literally true, they believe that machinations looking to Democratic support of Blaine in the next Presidential canvass are going on. Secretary Hunt received a letter today from Mr. Hoffman, at Si. Petersburg requesting the relief of the expedition in search of the Jeannette survivors, and stating that the reason why Engineer Melville was placed in command of the party was that Lieut. Danenhower was physically unable to attend to the duties of thejofllce,* as, in addition to having ‘lost his eyesight, his terrible afflictions had caused temporary aberration of mind. It is now believed that Danenhower has fully recovered his reason, and that his general health, as well as that u>f the other members of his party, is being gradually restored.

William F. Tucker, of Illinois, is to be appointed Paymaster in the United States army, vice Colonel Rochester promoted to be Paymaster General, and Forrest H. Hathaway was appointed Captain and Quartermaster, vice General Rucker promoted to be Quartermaster General. General Rucker entered formally upon his new duties, Monday. Paymaster General Rochester has been ordered to Washington to assume the puties of his new office. General Grant is expected at the White House as a guest of the President for a few days.

FROM THE WIRES.

A Reproduction of Important Telegraphic Dlspsitches— Records of Fires, Crimes, Horrors, and Interesting Events. A Cincinnati dispatch says: A heavy rain has’been falling al morning. The river at 11 o’clock is fifty-five feet low-water mark, aud rising two inches an hour. All the cellars below Third street are flooded, practically suspending business in that part of ‘he city. A great force is kept busy removing goods. The Plum street passenger depot is inaccessible, and trains deliver passingers at Wood street. Maddux & Hobart’s distillery and the Globe Rolling Mill have been compelled to close operations. The former has driven away all its stock. Other distilleries in the same locality will be compelled to close to-day. If the rain should stop now, it is estihiated there will be, five feet mere of a rise. What will come with more rain would make the highest water ever known. : The six large columns of the old State Bank building of Nashville Tenn., Which is now being torn down, will be used for a monument to the Confederate dead. The monumeut will be erected in Mount Olive Cemetry. Another national bank will soon be started here, with a capital $200,000. Robert Mclnley, sentenced to be hanged in the jail yard March 31, appealed to the Supreme Court. He was a convict in the Penitentary and murdered a fellowconvict named James R. McM ilan last Sepetember. A St, Louis dispatch says: Rain has fallen pretty steadily and heavily here since Saturday morning, measuring nearly six inches, and has done considerable damage. All trains were from four to eight hours late in arriving this morning. Several trains which left this morning were abandoned and obliged to return. At Lane Cliff, on the Iron Mountain road, there is an extensive washout, and two passenger trains that left the Union depot last night were obliged to lay over all night at Carondelet, and are still there. The scaffolding erected for the use of the workmen, while repairing the St. Charles Bridge, on the Wabash road, was cashed away by the sudden rise in the Mississippi river, and the country arouud is much flooded by the heavy rain, and the track of the Wabash. St. Souis and Pacific, between here and St. Peters, is flooded.

A fire in the Albion Print Works, ou Water street, Philadelphia, destroyed the entire stock, worth $50,000, and the stocks of several other firms in the same building. Total loss, $150,000. The charred body of an unknown man was found on the second floor when the fire was subdued. A number of other persons are missing. : The eastjjwiug of the Kings County, New York, Insane Asylum, at Flatbush, burned the 21st. Or:e patient was lost. He was a paralytic, aud would scarcely have lived the day out. Loss, $15,000 Two or three inmates escaped from custody. Winter cholera is alarmingly prevalent at Rock Island, 111., aud is atributed to impure water. A specimen of the water has been sent away for analysis, Judge Glenn was so prostrated with Winter cholera, contracted here, that he was unable to hold court on his return to Monmouth, The Herzegovians have been successful iu several minor engagements with the Austrians. FJatcha is surrounded by three insurgent divisions, the commandant is treating for its surrender. After the Ist of March the Iron Mountain Railroad Company will charge all its employes working in its shops and yards iu South St. Louis, six miles below the center of the city, full fare, 15 cents, fcr passage between the two points. Some 300 men are concerned in the order. Heretofore they have ridden free, p *• - from Panama state ihat Trescott seems to have made up his

mind to lemain >n Chili, having rented a house there for six months. It is reported that Trescott is authorized to discues the Blaine circular in reference to the Panama Canal, and endeavor to obtain a recognition .by Chili and other Republics in the priihcipies there enumerated. James G. Allison, convicted of murdering his father at Indiana Pa., sufered the penalty of death by hanging at 11 o’clock.- Tne prisoner arose at 6 this morning, having slept four (hours. He ate a hearty breakfast, ,but preserved a stolid silence. At 10 o’clock his mother, sister and brother called but he positively refused to see them, and when they came into his cell would not recognize them. He also refused to be shaved, and would not allow the Sheriff to dress him iu a new,suit. At 11 o’clock exactly the trap was sprung, and the prisoner was launched into eternity, the only words he spoke were, I have been fetched here wrong.” The body was allowed to hang until 11 :30, when it was cut down and life pronounced extinct. No excitement prevailed. No one witnessed the execution excepting the officers of tiie law and newspaper men. The crime for which young Allison suffered was committed bn the evening of June 18, lbßo. Neighbors living in the vicinity of Allison’s residence heard the report of the several pistol shots, and hurrying out to ascertain the cause found old Mr. Allison lying on the ground with four in his body. He died three days after, and before death said his son James had murdered him. James was arrested, tried and convicted, the evidence being strong against him, and showing that a bad feeling had existed among the members of the Allison family for a long time on account of the father’s dissolute habits. t

A .Chester, Pa., dispatch says: About 8 o'clock an explosion occurred at the pyrotechnic works of Professor Jackson, in this city. The building was badly shattered, and took fire, and was consumed. At least fifteen, and probably more, lives are lost, and many dangerously wounded. The building was the old homestead of Admiral Porter. 9:40 a. m.—A number of colored families lived ir. the old Porter manj sion. It seems that, when it first took | fire, and while the firemen were playng on the flames, and a large crowd surrounded them, an explosion oecur- ' red, scattering destruction far and wide. The number of killed is “between fifteen and twenty. About twenty are dangerously and fifty more or less seriously wounded. The dead are being laid out in the City Hall, and the wounded are cared for in the various drug stores, so that no accurate list can be obtained now. The following is a list of the killed: John Lamptugh, Thomas Dollison, Thomas Anderson, Alexander Philips, John Pollick, Joseph Kestner, Gee. Taylor, James Dougherty, Benjamin Gartside (colored) Anthony Barber, William Wood, John Daiers, Edward Stropschire. All the killed lived here. 1:30 p. m.—Fifty persons were more or less wounded, three fatally. Part of the mansion had been used by Professor Jackson, a Pyrotechnist, for some years as a olace of manufacturing explosive commodities. The firemen, after being assured that there were no explosives in the place went to work. After playing on the flames about half an hour a terrific explosion occuned. The bodies of the victims were thrown in every direction, the air was filled with rubbish, and the ground oovered with manglea forms—some killed, some seriously injured, and others badly hurt. Tile dead bodies of the men lay coiled on the ground, others lay in the agonies of death, and a number, writhing "in their blood, moaned and groaned piteously for help. Many lay insensible their surroundings, aud others, bruised aud bleeding, groped their way from the scene of the terrible accident. The scene beggars description. The fire was abandoned, and everybody in condition to do so turned attention to alleviating the distress. The houses n the vicinity of the explosion were converted into hospitals, and the wounded removed thereto. A Boston dispatch says: Midnight—A fire broke out at Haver!: ill, Mass., at 11:45 and it now burning fiercely. The authoiities have telegraphed for assistance to Lawrence, Newburyport, Lowell and other towns adjacent. Haverhill was settled 242 years ago, and contains 15,000 inhabitants. It lies on the north bank of the Merrimack river, the head of navigation, fifteen miles from the ocean, on the Boston aud Maine Railroad, thirty-

, three miles north oi Boston. It has I from twenty to thirty churches, ami a ; fine city hall. It is a great manu- ! faeturing town. . Haverhill, Ma=s., February 18 —The fire is under control. But oue block remains on. Wingate street aud two at ; the upper end of Washington street, ! All else in the square bounded by tile ' Merrimack river on the south, Washington Square and Essex street on the east, the nortipside of Wingate street on the north, and Railroad square on the west, burned to the ground. This tertitory embraces the largest part of the boot aud"shoe manufactories. Joseph Pratt, a firemau. was killed, and George Whittier was fatally injured. Wnat yesterday was the finest street iu the city and the principal business mart, is to-day a smoldering mass of ruins. Bome eighty, shoe firms have been entirely burned out, and others suffered „more or less damage.- Two thousand people are. thrown out of employment. Several families are homeless. The loss is estimated at $2 500.0'0. Engines are present from Newburyport, Lawrence aud Lowell, Men are already at work clearing away the debris. Ober & Blake’s and the Gardner block, on the north side of Wingate street, were several times on fire, but were saved. The wind blew fresh from the northwest, which, with a scarcity of water, and the freezing of the hose, made it difficult to control the fire. Several persons are reported to be missing, but nothing definite is known yet. The Journal says the insurance men believe the loss by the Haverhill fire will fall almost entirely upon the insurance companies. The net loss to the firms will not exceed a quarter of a million.

THE STATE.

The wife of William Sea, of Waveland, fell dead while dressing. James Hendrickson, an influential farmer of NobJe township, Shelby county, has become violently insane. The growing wheat of Indiana, according to reports from various parts of the State, never looked better or gave promise ol a more luxuriant crop. At Terre Haute, two thieves managed to steal $1,500 from Shannon’s Bank. One of them, who hails from Chicago, was arrested,but the one with the cash escaped. Dave Holler, who lived about thirty miles soutli of Carthage, who had goneto look after some traps he had set, was found dead m the woods. He is supposed to have died of epilepsy. Samuel Sunderland, of Delaware county, has given a farm to each of his eight children. He has a splendid home farm of 190 acres left, where he will reside and labor. Dr. O. H. Thomas, a leading dentist of Pendleton, has disappeared suddenly under suspicion of being too intimate with a young servant girl named Carrie Collins. The girl attempted suicide a short time ago. A four-months old child of Frank and Laura Clements, of Crawfords vibe, died Monday morning of strangulation, caused by a erving fit. The child was in unusual good health until the moment of its death. Irwin Miller, a teacher in the public schools of Middletown, Henry county, was arrested on the charge of cruelly whipping a little girl, one of his scholars. He pleaded guilty in. the circuit court and was fined heavily. John Black, w r ho was shot by Robinson, in Brown county on Monday, for traducing the character of Robinson’s sister, died on Tuesday. Robinson is still ai liberty, the sympathy of the community being with’bim. Dr. J. C. Comstock, of Marietta Shelby county, called from his house recently aud severely whipped by J. X. P. Shaw, Oscar Crawford and George Hunter, has brought suit for $2,009 damages against them on account of injuries received. John P. Cravens, son of Hon. John R. Cravens, of Madison, died from an overdose of morphine taken tc allay nervou-Htss. Mr. Cravens was thirtyeight years of age, served with distinction throughout the late war. He leaves a wife and one child. Some friends of the prisoners in the Warsaw calaboose threw coal oil into it and set it oil lira Sunday,for the purpose of freeing the inmates. The plan did not work, however, for the prisoners, under a strong guard, were removed to a place of safety, but the jail was burned. A daughter of Joseph Saberton, of Evansville, who has given her parents a good deal of trouble, having been in jail for stealing, and other mbdemeanors, attempted to put an end to the chronic state of bobber* by mixing poison in the biscuit. fshe made her parents deathly sick, but they were pumped out and she escaped. A wonderful religious revival is in progress at New Albany. It has been going on for the past six weeks, and

j sinners are being gathered in by scores I every night. At the Centenary M. E. church about IfiO have neen converted • at Wesley cuapel over sixty nave pro-’ fessed; at the German M. E. church over fifty; at ’he Third Presbyterian church about s vtnry- Ive. The interest is on the increase, ami promises to extend to all the churches. ' Twelve or fifteeu years ago an old man named Burke, who lived in Bhelby county, near the Bartholomew line, went hunting, carrying with him a fine silver trimmed title—a weapon that was famous in thatregion. Bnice then he has-never been heard from. Recently the rifle was discovered in the possession of a man named Jackson, it has passed through several hauds before coming into Mr. Jackson’s possession, and efforts are beiug made to trace its history, with a view to clearing up the mystery of Burke’s disappearance. In oue of the "German Lutheran churches of Harrison qounty there is an aggravated case of scandal. The pastor of this churen last summer took a trip to Germany, leaving his wife and family at home while he made the visit. But it has leaked out that he took another woman with him, whom he passed off as his wife. The church members are indignant over the I ‘social outrage,” and have invited the preacher to resign, which he will do, and travel westward. He had previously stood very high with his congregation, and the church is greatlv torn up over his moral Jderilietiom, Jake Painter had his own way in Brown county, lor a number of years, and a bad way it was. His wife got a divorce aud married again; but lie drove away her husband and compelled her to return to him, frighteniug her so thoroughly that she remmued. A neighbor offended him, and he retailated by poisoning cattle, until the family moved away tc avoid his persecution. He shot three men wno at various times opposed him, and escaped punishment through the cowardice of the witnesses. A few days ago he went to Thomas Robinson’i house,near by, and demanded that Mrs. Robinson be given to him. It is not stated whether the woman regarded the proposed transfer favorably; but Robinson certainly did not. and, when Painter threatened him with death for refusing, shot the bully dead.

It is said that the State Board of Health is preparing to establish a vaccine farm near Evansville. An encampment“of the State militia will be held at Indianapolis sometime between June 20th and July Ist. Adjutant General Carnahan {§ counting the cost on a proposition to hold an encampment of the State militia in Indianapolis next June. The Directors of the Northern Prison, assisted by Governor Porter, have recently been investigating charges and complaints against Warden Murdock, to the efiect that he was enriching himself upon contracts and perquisits at the expense of the people of the State. The investigation disclosed abuses of long standing, which fully sustained the charges and complaints, and the result was the annulment of contracts and cutting off of perquisites which will divert from $7,000 to SB,OOO a year from the pockets of the the prison warden into the treasury of the State. Reform was necessary. The State Bureau of Statistics has compiled a- statement showing the total expenditures in each county of the State for the years 1880 - 1851. A sum • mingupofthe statement of the B. of S. shows that the total expenditures of all the counties for 1881 were made as follows: For the payment of county officers out of the county treasury, $483,327; for grand aud petti t juries aud bailiffs, S2BO 253, coroners’ inquests, $19,197; enumerating and assessing, $242,908; road viewing and surveying, $40,978; county superintendents aud institutes, $52,711; criminals and prisoners, $90,440; poor, SOOI,313; State benevolent and reformatory institutions, $20,288; new public buildings $205,577; repairing public buildings, $88,991; interest on county bonds, $l7B 256; interest ou gravel road bonds, $20,794; county orders, $36,977; books and stationary, $128,623; printing and advertising, $92 397; new bridges, $312,296; repairs ou bridges, $41,322; redemption of county bonds, $280,206, and all other expenditures, $504 327; total, $4,070,589:

Heat in a Snowbank.

Frank White, of Leadviile, return* ing from a trip in the Indian country, * ound himself freezing to death in a Minding snow storm on the Grand ,• Riqer. Remembering that he had heard old travelers on the plains talk about the latent heat in a snow-bank, be dug a deep hole in a drift with his hands and crawled in. Presently he negan to feel more comfortable, and the delightful but ominous drowsiness which precedes death by freezing stole over him. He fought against it in vain, and at last became unconscious The next morning he awoke, not in eternity, as he had confidently expected to do, but in the snow drift,as warm and sjnug as the traditional hug. «*■ • » ■■■ Captain Bam Shoemaker, of Terre Haute, has produced a quantity of wild rice seed, wnlch grows in the water, and intends to sow in the Wabash river to furnish food for wild ducks.