Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 17, Bloomington, Monroe County, 24 February 1883 — Page 3

The oldest inhabitant is drowned out, xuetaphoncaliy speaking, by these high waters. It will be many years before white haired croakers can silence younger generations by appealing to the flood of '47 or '32. This flood of 18S3 will be high water mark for a good while.

A Chicago letter to the Louisville Courier-Journal states that their are 700 Chinamen, one Chinese woman and one Chinese child in that city, The wealthiest of these Celestials stands possessed of about $6,000. Three hundred of them are engaged in laundry work. One is so distinguished an artist that be is permanently engaged to paint the portraits of ex-Presidente of the Chicago Press Club,

at the same time engaged in temporarily replacing their poles with fence rails inserted in hole? drilled Hu the ice.

This, from the Boston Herald, seems to be to the point: A. the next meeting of the Worcester county Central Gran go, the topic for debate vrill.be: Is there anything? in being the wife of a farmt? which will binnt the lore of the beautiful in art or nature, or rob wobigu of her inborn qualities that go to muko'the real lady?" It sooms i ns fqat every? bingr will depend mH?r tbe kind of a farner a to man marries. One v;ho was comV pelted to rise I fore daylight nv.d milk halF a 0?en eowa vaatiinl have many thoughts a'out sjxre ;ir.c txt, while one who married a farmer "farms ii' pftsr the style of our own Dr. A would have ample opportunity to cuitibeautiful."

middes, doubtless, go v down to eath in the fall possession of

xcept, perhaps, discrimin-

Bnt when it comes to was resorted to by a Buffalo, there is no anity possible. On i Car-wheel Works, ately plunged his molten metal m kneel to " mas quick'4oth his face

grocery store , and told the . they had a bet as aie most molasses, and o settle the question. The irocer said he knew "nodings t such businesses," and "grumbled at the "foolishness," but proceeded to fill up one of the hats with choice "New Orlfians.,t "When it was full one of -the bad men took the hat, put it on the obliging grocer's head, and, while he was sputtering and trying to get the sticky mess out of his eyes, the strangers took 27o from his pockets and went away. The bet about the molasses is still undecided.

President Eliot of Harvard says that "the decline of the ministry is a rteog nized fact of the hist few decades." In the last century clergymen made onethird of all the educated people, and wielded an influence proportionately great. To-day all imt one in nineteen ox the graduates of Harvard and all but one in thirteen of the graduates of Yale avoid the ministry. He points out that ou reason for this neglect of the pulpit if. "intellectual bondage to which a young coilegeman is obliged to submit by adopting at the start some carefully hedged creed, which cannot bo stretched much,

and from which he cannot vary during the whole of his life without breaking? from beloved associations and exposiqg himself to reproach. The physician, the

scientist, or the statesman may change his opinions, but the clergymen never. Lawyers and journalists grow by sharp competition with others of their kind, but the clergyman is the unanswered man, with no one to directly dispute fhe truth of his statements and, hold him ' to proof." The Harvard President insists that a more varied training is necessary for a minister. He should, as a preliminary work in the college course, obtain an accurate knowledge of Greek and Hebrew for exegesis; Latin and German for the sake of the valuable works in those languages; political economy, to aid him in charitable and reformatory work, and in counteracting the natural tendency toward sentimental charity; should scan the important periods of history; make himself familiar with English literature anTsome one of-thescien to give hi in certain habits of thought that come only through their study; and also study nature, "a sober love for which is akin to love to God and.love to man."

THY NAME.

I told Mm row thy name It blushed and stirred; Its petnlri trembled m in ectasy. I cried lliy immo aloudmul lo! tho bird liuret into song within tho thick-loured trwk 1 pnko it when tlio moon wnsrry und rW. Andstrniglit from out his ontt upshot tho sun. I Bpakoit in the night tho clouds that rolled Abovodia: orsed, tho stars came- one by ono. Should any whinper it xriien on my face Tho black oartb lies, calm sleeping underground, I think my hoort won Id heat pnr. And that my Hps would tremble at tho Bound. And if before 'he Rate of W avpn 1 enme. And could fcr ray own worth no entrance win, I think that Hrm i f 1 should namo thy name, The eternal doors waul 1 wtir and lot mo in.

HOW MY FATE WAS DECIDED,

LEGISLATIVE NOTES:

Department clerks' -wives write pathetic letters to the Washington papers protesting against that outrageous, Blavedriving law which will compel their husbands to be at their arduous and servile labors between the hours of -&30 a. m. and 4;30 p. m. The cleri s themselves may stand it, say these letters in- substance, because they are strong, font "how can we,rthe wives, rise and prepare breakfast for our husbands at sneh early hours?" When the attention of Congress is called to this view of the case it will undoubtedly see that both wisdom ;md humanity call for a lessening rather than an increase of the department clerk's toiL

The gallant defense of the treasure of Wells, Fargo & Co., by Mr. Boss, their agent, against a baud of robbers marks him as a hero whose bravery entitles him to conspicuous mention. The attack was made in one of the loneliest spots in Ne

vada, The miscreants utterly failed to

get into the car or to get him out, though ha was wounded three times by shots fired through the car at him. They tried to wreck the car and to burn it but their attempts failed and he remained the victor, though severely wounded, and kept the treasure intrusted to him out of their hands. His actions shows what a coolheaded, resolute man can do. against odds, But if one man, without help, can frustrate the designs of a gang of villains, how is it that so many trains have been robbed that have had apparently numerous means of protection? Three times the thieves have tr ied to rob this man of the treasure in his charge, and three times

he has thwarted them. If train emoloves'f

generally had his courage we should

bear of fewer robberies.

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Breaches of promise don't work well backward in England;" That is, when a gallant brings suit against a recalcitrant girl, it is a very nice problem to decide what the result will be. A case in point: .Mr. Halliday Kingsley, of Iondon, elaimed a,000 damages from Miss Eliza Anna Peile, of Bublin. The plaintiff admitted that for some yea a he assumed the name of Stanley to escape from his creditors. The defendant's counsel contended that the plaintiff was a designing, heartless fellow, and the lady had a marvelous escape fram him. The jury on the first count, that a promise of marriage had been made; found for the plaintiff. They also found for the plaintiff on the second count, that the promise had not been rescinded. They awarded damages of one farthing. That wa& bad enough', but the jury was not content to rest there. They found for the defendant on tee account that the promise had.been obtained by fraudulent representations. They also found for the defendant on the counter

claim for money lent, with 100 damages. The judge accordingly grave judgment forthe defendant, withjj ndgement American enterprise would find- it but sorry encouragement in England. " A, curaous result of recent Hoods has been seen in the blockading of a railroad with ice, near Franklin, Fa. A branch of the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad runs throogh French creek valley, which, a few miles from Franklin, narrows until it becomes little more than a gorge between high hills. At the narrowest point the stream turns almost at

right angles, the track following the.

oend, and at a level which is not above high-water mark. When the "rains descended and the floods came" two weeks ago the creek was filled with ice, which broke up and was thrown out of the current and high upon the banks and the track the length of the gorge. After a day or two the water felt, but the weather turned extremely eold and froze the blocks of ice into a solid mass from five to fifteen feet in height. For six days traffic was suspended, and alarge force of workmen at each end of tne blockade were engaged in mining a passageway for trains Holes were driven in the ice and torpedo bombs insertecL After the explosion of these, a road was carved and quarried through with picks and axes, and trains are now running between walls of solid ice. Telegraph men were

The finance committee of the Senate 1 tas decided unanimously not to apirrnp; i;:te a dollar for Purdue University unless the order keeping secret-fraternity men out tho institution was rescinded. What may be regarded as a test vote on the Jewett promissory note bill was taken in the House Tuesday, as that ' body de clined to take it up, although it was a special order, by a veto of 53 to 42. Mr. Sluveley's mechanics' lien bill is one of universal importance. It provides that such liens shall attach to all build

ings and structures, such 'as trestleworks, incomplete railroads, etc There is also a provision for attorneys' fees which go with the lien. The bill passed the House Thursday. , It is understood that the House prison committee is after the scald of A. J. Howard, warden of the Southern Prison, and that his friends became so alarmed Wednesday night as to telegraph him tc go to Indianapolis immediately. The Senate Wednesday finally passed the Benz road .bill, which has been so amended that nothing short of a full copy could give an adquate idea of its provisions.It, however, substantially repeals the enactment of 1881. The Senate, Wednesday, passed the Hilligass bill; which provides that county commissioners may purchase graved roads and make them free, when authoriaed to do so. by a majority of the tax payeas along the line of the road. ... A committeo of prominent citizens ot Elkhart were at Indianapolis Saturday pressing upon the Legislators the advantages of that city for the location of an insane-asylum. They diaini for it accessibility, healthfulness, apd the most desirable sites. Their clajims are strongly presented, and deserve1 the careful consideration of the General Assembly. The fee and salary ttill which will be recommended by the Jlouse committee is substantially the Mocjdy bili, Avith a few important amendments. No provision is made for the compensation of State orfi cers, which remain as under the-old law. Very strict measures fare provided to prevent construe tive fees, and the main feature of the bill, whiqh make it a misdemeanor for an officer to charge illegal fees, are also added jto the bill. At the session of the House prison committee it was agreed to recommend a ehange in the systeni of keeping the accounts of receipts and purchases at he Southern prison; (the adoption of the same plan of keeping the boarding h rise at the Southern pJison as has been adopt ed at the Northern; vesting the directors with sole power jto make purchases of supplies, and insnrutiiig them to buy in the lowest market; the appointment of a steward who shall be an expert caterer. Mr. Hueston od the committee, moved that warden Howard should be severely censured for neglect of duty, and that the directors be iirgad to remove him at

once.

The commission appointed in the Sen

ate to consider and repcrt on the expediency of re-apnortinoing the school find was asked for by Senator Foulke, because the officials of Wayne county assert they cannot loan tile money at tho rate re

quired by law! 8 per cent. Under the

he apportionment every

ed wih the iuterest on the

given to it whether loaned urse, if it is not loaned

the taxpayersimust pay the deficit It is broadly intimated that in some counties, thd custodians of public funds do not lose any sleep in their efforts to place the school fund among borrowers, as while it remains in their custody it is good for

four per cent, per annum from the banks in which it is deposited. ... The Governor, Monday afternoon, sent to the Senate his veto of the Brown bill reorganizing the benevolent institutions. His reason for disapproving the bill are that the Legislature of 1879 deemed it necessary. to transfer the power oP ap

pointment of the trustees of the benevolent institutions from itself to the Governor; that the Legislature ought nt to vex itself (with the distraction of pa tronage dispensing when there is so much importune legislation demanding its attention; that the party spirit is aroused to the detriment of business; that the

people are already complaining of the instabiHtyj of the laws; that the laws ar changed so often that plain people must employ J lawyers to tell thm what the laws ar; that it is a wise rule not to change laws until evil consequences arc shown;! that the present law worked well and ought to be left on the statute books. J An lmmenseConcern. The largest printing establishment in America, and probably in the world, is the Gc vernment Printing office at Washington. About 2,700 persons are employee in it.

acr making

county is cliai

amount of fiinj

or not and of

"Oh, WelHc, bow I envy you!" said Louise Carey, as she stood upon the platform bidding me good-by. What a delightful time you will have! Of course, iu so romantic a spot as Newport, you will have an adventure and meet your destiny." Louise Carey and I had been friends from childhood. She was beautiful, vivacious, and inclined to be sentimental, while I was plain, staid and matter-of-fact. As my aunt and I took our seats in the ear, Louise's last sentence came into my mind, and I must confess that a little romantic feeling came with it. What kind of an adventure would mine lie? I wondered. Auntie soon fell asleep, leaving me to

enjoy my own thoughts, and I improved (lie time by building all sorts of air-castles concerning my future until we reached ou r de? Hi r. iion. Arrived at our hotel we were shown to our rooms, which, contrary to orders, were not adjoining. My aunt fretted that we should be so far separated, but the assurance that I was not a coward calmed her fears, and we resolved to make the best of the condition of things. My room opened on a balcony which extended before the windows of two or three rooms. My curosity was immediately aroused concerning my neighbors, but for two or three days remained unsatisfied, as I spent the greater part of my time in auntie's room. At the end of tho third day, I began to tluuk that ad ventures in Newport are not such every-day occurrences as Louise had imagined. On the morning of the fourth, after a bath in the briny waters, I hurried up to my room to make my toilet for dinner. The exhilirating bath had aroused my spirits, and I was humming a gleeful song with a great deal of enjoyment, when, upon opening the door of my room, I discovered a man lounging in my easyohair. J started back in amazement, fearing that I had, by some mistake, entered the room of a stranger. But no; my number was upon the door, and my trunk an 1 various articles belonging to mo wrere in tho room; consequently 1" presumed to enter, and was drawing up my figure with a great deal of dignity, preparatory to demanding the cause of his intrusion, when, with n smile, he addressed me as follows: "My dear little Miss, how sweetly you sing! One would suppose you had been taking lessons of Apollo; in fact, I should insist upon retaining that idea, were I not in direct communication with the gods. Had it not been for then, I should be just now in my own cozy little room in Hartford:, but Cupid and I had a long conversation, winch resulted in my visit to this delightful spot. Arriving here this morning, I saw you in the water and made Neptune promise that he would today preserve the calmest serenity in the watery element, and you might come forth unharmed." During this speech he had been gradually moving toward the door, which encouraged me to hope that he was about departing, when, horror of horrors! he turned the key and quietly placed it in his pocket. I was locked in the room with a madman. My blood seemed to freeze in my veins and catching a glimpse of my face in tho mirror, my eyeballs seemed starting from their sockets. Of course thero was no hope of escape, but by the tenor of violent death my mental action became intensely quickened, and in a few minutes I had thought of everything. What was I to do? I knew that maniacs mui always be indulged by those who did not understand controlling them bo I concluded to agree with all that he said. "I have a nephewiwrhom 1 am anxious to see happily settled in life before I leave him," he began. "You are the first young

laay J. sa w an;er my arrival, anu you are the one selected for him. He is rich as Orcesus, handsome as Apollo, and Btrong as Hercules. If you do not accede to my terms and accept him wnen he arrives I will hurl a thunderbolt at you, for I sometimes act the part of Jupiter." "I promise with all my heart," I replied, hoping that he would leave after accomplishing his object. But as he remained and seemed in deep thought, I inferred that he was planning some terrible deed, and exerted myself to draw him into conversation.

"Please describe your nephew more minutely," said I, "for I am nnxioue to understand thoroughly the man whom I m to marry." In the most gracious manner he cornlied with my request, and extolled his nephew in the most entertaining and eloquent manner. If any one had been with me I should have enjoyed hearing him express his flighty ideas; but I was alone, expecting

every moment that be would produce some weapon with which to take my life. "Ob," tbought I, "can this bo the adventure referred to by Louise,and is murder the destiny awaiting me?" I must have lived hours in those few momenls, spent in racking my brain for some way of escape. At last I resolved to make a desporate effort, and having a pencil and paper in my pockets I pretended to be carelessly scribbling, talking at the same time to tho maniac. After a long time I had written in large letters: "A mad man in this room; get a force of men and capture him." This time I moved toward the windows and stationing myself at one, invited him to look from the other. Thanking mo with great volubility he accepted my invitation. My object in doing this was that I might, without being seen by him, hold up the papor on which I had written to any one who might pass on the balcony,

While we were standing there I exerted myself to entertain him, trying to divert his thoughts from myself, describing almost by inspiration, (fori was never gifted in tho art of amusing, ludicrous

'Really, miss'said he, "you are the most eotertaining young lady I ever met; 1 be lieve 1 shall marry you myself, instead of

triviui? von to my nephew. Do you think

you could act the part of Juno?" A sensation of faintness came over me,

when a footstep on the balcony aroused

ray failing ene-gies. I placed my paper iu full view, and presently a young gentleman passed the window. Ho probably saw us standing there but was not rude enongh to stare at us. When he repassed T fixed my eyes full upon, resolved that if there was any power in mesmerism, he should fee! the force of it. He turned his head toward me, as he did so, reading tho mute agonv written

I on my face; then reading the words I had I written, he comprehended the situation, ; mid iriviiu? mo an assuring srlance he

passed on. Soon after there was a clicking of the lock, the door opened, and in nished five men, who, surprising the madman, had handcuffed him before he was aware of it. : Then I passed into obliviomfrom winch I did not awaken in many days. The terrible excitement which I had undergone had proven too much for my strength. After awakening to consciousness I 60on regained my usual health, when auntie told mo that the maniac had escaped from the Hartford asylum, that he had been a great classical scholar, and since he had been insane, often imagined himself a god. But there were fresh Mowers on the table vvhich,auntie told me,had been left by Mr. Benton, the gentleman who Lad so providentially passed upon the balcony,

and helped to capture the maniac Mr. Benton and T did not forget each other, and as soon as I was well lie took me for a drive, and entertained me most eloquently with the old, old story. Of course I assented to his proposal, (how could I do otherwise when ho had saved my life?) and although he is not "as rich as Croesus, handsome as Appollo and strong as Hercules," yet he is good, noble and true. Louise's prophecy had been fulfilled. I did have an adventure and met my destiny. Quails. A circular letter from Mr. A. 0. Lanier, a well-known and intelligent sportsman, of Madison, has been laid on the desks of members of the legislature. It gives facts curious to hunters as to the increase and decrease of the quail crop. It is not the gun that destroys so many birds, but the cold waves that sweep down from the north that freezes them to death as they sit huddled together in the field. Whenever the temperature falls eighteen or twenty degrees below zero the quails are frozen to death in whole covies. They rarely seek sheltered plaoa to roos j, but are usually found in the open field, ; often timesin the most exposed field. "Dur in.? the seasons of lBoi and 1855," be continues, "The quail were more abundant than ever known before or since in this state. The three proceeding winters had been mild, and the summers dry and favorable to their nestings, but the winter of 185G almost destroyed the entire crop. When spring came and summer the whistle of the male bird was rarely heard. When the season arrived for shooting, it was a rare thing to find a covey. From 1850 a gradual increase took place until January 1, 1864. On th morning of thafc day the mercury fell from twenty to twenty-five degrees below zero. Thousands and tens of thousands ot birds were frozen to death before noon. From 1850 to 1881 the increase was slow. It more than once occurred where the winter was mild that the summer was wet and unfavorable for nesting, and so no increase took place. The winter of 1SS0 (like thoso of 58 and '64) was also very destructive to the quail. In many portions of the state one-half or more of the crop perished from cold, and in other portions nine out of ten died from starvation, the ground being covered with snow for a long time. The excessive cold of winter and a wet summer both reta rd the increase of quail. Last summer was a fair illustration of the injurious effect of a wet season. The first nestlings ol quail and the prairie hen were both drowned out by the excessive rains of May, June and July. Many of the quail had a second brood. The prairie hens never have but one. Here is a simple and true history of the increase and decrease of quail in our State and the causes therefor, for the past twenty-nine years. President Arthur Acting as Watchman Washington Critic. President Arthur played the role of Treasury watchman at the main West door of the Traasnry building yesterday afternoon. Shortly after 2 o'clock he called at the door and asked the watchman if Secretary Folger was in his office. "I don't know, sir," responded the guardian of our wealth, "but I'll 'go up and see if you'll tend door for me during my absence," "Certainly," responded the President, and as the watchman Hew to obey the formar took a position alongside of the door, ready to execute the rules of the department and eject any turbulent intruder. When the doorkeeper returned in fifteen minutes he found the President filling the bill admirably, and received hearty thanks for taking the message. This is the first instance on record whera a President has stood guard at the doors of any of the departments, and hereafter the position

should be regarded as one of honor, say the watch-dogs of tha Treasury. Arabi's Family in Distress. The members of Arab Pasha's family

who still remain iu Egypt are in a perfectly destitute condition. They live in daily expectation of being ejected front their homes and Egyptian territory, and have been threatened that this step will be carried into effect. TJ j to the present the family have, through a feeling of pride, refused all friendly aid, but unless substantial help is forthcoming they must suffer from actual want. Sonic of them state that they are quite willing to proceed to England or anywhere else where they coutd feel assured of protection. Those who were appointed to protect the interest ol Arabi's relatives are distrusted by them, while the Egyptian troops, who act. as sentries, are continually interfering with the movement of the family and rendering life generally as unpleasant as it can possibly be under such circum stances. The remains of John Howard Payne are to reach New York, from Marseilles on the 22d ins t.

THE FLOOD.,

Fearful Destruction and Horrible Suffering -The Homeless Thousands A Reflex of the Situation Sample Telegrams Prospects Greatly Improving.

Cincinnati dispatches of tho Mth and 15th: The river is rising again. Thero is great distress among the people living in the bottoms. Business is generally suspended and everybody is looking after the 5,000 people washed out of house and home. Many cases of extreme destitution are reported by the relief boats, and in some cases the frantic cries of starving children for food are heartrendering. The bakeries not inundated arc preyed to their fullest capacity to keep the supply of bread. There have been some fears of a meat famine on account of the difficulty of receiving live stock, but several thousand readied distillery cattle can be utilized in case of necessity. It is estimated that 3,000 business firms and manufactories are prostrated by the great calamity, and that 32,000 workmen are thrown out of employment The water is deep enough on Pearl street to allow skiffs to run within one square of the Burne house. It reaches the market house on Pearl and Broadway, and covers the side walk in front of William Glenn k Son's premises on Vine street. A lamp post here is bent over, a boat having collided with it. Thero are over 300 families in the old bpencer house and over 160 in the Broadway hole), all suffering from the necessities of life. There are now several of the inmates sick and in need, of immediate at

tention.

The actual loss sustained to business houses and manufactories will amount to

$1500,000, AT JKFFEKSONVinnE. More than two-thirds of the eitv is sub

merged from three to twenty fenst deep, j A number of cottages and Iiohfc hi int. j

low part of the city have beau sv;:l away, and hundreds of homeless ci izens are quartered in the second stoti'-? of the public buildings and business Loutes. Food is sent to them in skin?. Belief committees are doing all that can bo done The loss is estimated at half a million dollars. A telegram from Jefferson villa says: Our city is flooded with water from two to twenty feet deep. Five thousand of our people are homeless, many of whom have lost all they have on earth. A large number of cottage houses in the lower part of the city are swept away. Hundreds of people are quartered in the second stories of the public buildings and business houses. The scenes of suffering are appalling. It is still raining. The loss will reach $800,000. STIIT. GOING HIGHER. At V.45 o'clock Thursday morning, the river was 50 ft. 4 inches and still rising. The first authentic report place the number of deaths at the. Cincinnati Southern depot at fifteen drowned. In some cases the ories of the starving children are heartrending. Steamers have all stopped running, there being no place to land. But a single road is now able to reach its depot. NBWPOBT, KENTUCKY., The city has just passed through a small pox siege, and one-third of tho city is now submerged by the water, Three thousand families are suffering and destitute, Relief is called for. LAWRENOEBURG The water courses through some of the principal streets with such force a3 to render navigation dangerous. The loss will be at least $300,000. No lives have been lost, About fifty houses were washed away. MADISON. The destruction and suffering will be incalculable. The city is now on a peninsula. The Western hotel is iieserted, it being in a dangerous condition. MXXiTOX, KENTUCKY. The town is completely submerged not a house but what is setting in water. Many residences are being auchored by cables. nouisviLiiE. The entire seven miles of river front is submerged and the water is creeping into the second stories of buildings. Thieves are plundering in every direction, in the submerged districts. AT POUTIiANl), KY One thousand five hundred people are homeless. JEFFERSONVIliLE. Two-thirds of the city is submerged and the loss is estimated at half a million dollars. NEW ALBANY, One thousand families are homeless in this city and vicinity. Belief is being organized. The damage will amount to $300,000. The river is rising threefourths of an inch per hour. The weather is warm and raining. No lives lost. Dispatches of th 15th do not improve th situation: In Newport, opposite Cincinnati, onethird of the town is submerged, and 5,000 families destitute. The citizens here have raised $35,000 in addition to the 875,000 voted by tho City Council to relieve suffering thousands. Many have been sent from here to neighboring towns to relieve the distressed inhabitants. New Albany is flooded far and near and 7,000 people are thrown out of employment. Jeffersonville is entirely inundated,

there being seven feet of water in the m aiu street of the city. The destitution and want is terrible. ZiAWBBNCSB PBO. The situation of the citizens of this

place who are imprisoned in the Court House is constantly growing more dangerous. Added to the irregularity of the food supply and crowded quarters, there is a possibility that th. e Court House itself may collapse from the undermining of its foundation by tho flood of waters. Should that occur, the loss of life will certainly be great. Every hour the rescue of these people is delayed increases the horror of the situation. A fall of buildings in various places clearly indicates that such a fate may await the Lawrencoburg Court House, and there is even more danger of it occurring while waters are subsiding than while they arc rising. The very best estimates put the families in Cincinnati, Newport and Covington affected in their homes by this flood at 2,000 in Newport and Covington, and from 4,000 to 5,000 in Cincinnati. This includes tenement houses in all these places, and in Cincinnati many largo tenement houses are in tho flooded districts. This would make nearly 30,000 persons iu families affected by the flood. Dispatches of tho 16th show ihe waters to be receding, bnt the suffering con

tinues. The river, even should there be no more rams, will not assume its normal stage for several days. The Missis

sippi at Memphis is rising rapidly and greuit destruction is feared along its banks. Tho dispatches of the 17th show the waters to be slowly receding, but the suffering continues. We give descriptive dispatcher of the awful work of the waves, which fairly represents the situation all along the river: APPALLING DESTRUCTION. The extent of the suffering among the working class at Lawrenceburg is appalling, especially as in almost every in

stance they havo lost everything they possessed, and will be out of employment for months to come. There are 800 heads of families deprived of their only source of revenue and for the timo being they are absolutely dependent upon charity for the necessaries of life. It will bo a week, at least, until they are able to move back to their homes that is, those among them whose homes remain standing. Five thousand months are being fed daily by the committees at distributing points. It is almost impossible to communicate between the old town and and i he now town, so strong is the current that flows between them. Residents of

the former are supplied from the wharfboat with provisions from down the river, and those of the latter at the engine house with provisions from Indianapolis. Hundreds have fled to Greendale. above the city on the hills, and hundreds less fortunate in finding quarters, have slept in box cars, or have found no refuge at all. Another dispatch says: The Belief Committees arc getting matters pretty well systematized, and food is being distributed, but suffering and anxiet is be

ginning to do it." work, and many constitutions are bou:rr ... :jy tried. What the end will be no one can predict. One end of 'tho furniture ware rooms of E. 33. Dobel, fell in, carrying all tho floors with it.

bout thirty persons were in the upper stories at the time, and went down with the crumbling building. Not a life was lost. The warerooms were four stories high, 100 feet front, and stored with 820,000 worth of furniture. The loss will be almost total. The market house was filled with $10,000 worth of furniture, and it and contents were swept away. The loss of the stove works and various manufacturing establishmentswill enumerate many thousands of dollars. The loss of household effects is enormous scarcely a family esca ping. Skcple anxiety continues to increase; sickness and misery in appalling forms fill every family. A number of children have been

born, and as families are packed promis-1

cuously together in imbue buildings, tho inconviences become intensified. Tho Court House alone shelters 400 persons, while skiffs can pass over the ilvit door and through the building. Coal can be

obtained only by fishing it from the wa j

ter and drinking water has to be brought from Greendale. AT SIADISOX. The water is twelve inches above high water mark in 1832. The Relief Committees report that over 550 families have been driven from their homes by the flood; this does not include business houses and manufactories. Large numbers of excursionists are arriving hourly to witness the flood and destruction. The city has a ferryboat patrolmg the river front to save persons and property. She steamed down town to-day, lashed on to a house floating down, towed it below and turned it loose to prevent it striking against any ei dangered buildings. The Davis Canning Factory has been moved 100 yards from tho foundations. The starch works contain about "200,000 bushels of corn in the ear and are one-fourfch submerged. The gas works are completely surrounded and in- : undated, so that Madison has been in darkness for two nights. At Fulton every house is submerged and many upset,the families camping on the hillsides At Milton, opposite Madison, every house is submerged except the Kingston Hotel, in which some twenty families are sheltered. At least a dozen business and dwelling houses have either floated off or have moved from their foundations. The African church has floated down and is right in the middle of the streets. The reports from the floods of the 18th show the waters to be receding, but the cold weather increases the suffering. Most heart rending scenes of destruction are reported, but the open handed chanty of the entire country is alleviating the most extreme cases and doing all that can be done to prevent starvation or even avoidable suffering. Other rivers are also creating distraction along their banks. The Wabash being much higher thau wTas ever known, The Maumee at Toledo, suddenly rose past the danger line aud tho loss will aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars. Leavenworth, Crawford county, is entirely under water. The damage to property is enormous. The flood is two feet higher than in 1832. Many houses have been washed away. Perhaps six or eight out of 200 or 300 dwellings are firm ou their foundations. Owners were compelled to weight them down with heavy slabs of stone to keep them from floating away. Steamers run through the streets as far as the hill. On Nelson street tho water is twenty feet deep, and two or three feet on the second floors of two story buildings. The supply of provisions is exhausted. There is much suffering among the poorer classes, many of whom are camping on the hill. W. 0. Allen's stock of dry goods, valued at 3,000, is said to be a total loss. The Legislature

wi'l .be- appealed to for additional aid. The $500 sent will not feed one-third of the destitute people. APPALLING CONDITION AT LAWRENCEBURG As the river falls a most appalling and inconceivable condition of affairs is revealed. Houses rest one upon another in a wrecked and shattered state; treetops aloug the streets serve as anchoring places for out-buildings, sheds, haystacks, furniture, aud almost every imaginable article that will float. Churchspires havo obstructed the onward course of lumber piles from up the river, and almost every roof that has not been so far beneath the surface of tho water as to allow the passage of obstacles over it has something resting upon it. Everything s in a state of eh aos and ruin indescribable, and beyond tho imagination of those who are not here to see it. Overturned houses by the scores have been washed from their foundations aud rolled over and over, to lodge finally in the streets and about th comers, until it will be

next to impossible to distinguish where the thoroughfares were when the waters

reach their love!, whenever that may bo.

Comparatively nothing has been saved

f rom the general wreck aud all have suf

fered alike. Among the merchants, scarco

one will have remaining a dollar's worth

of marketable wares. So swift and sudden was tho - win of the stream that no time was allowed for the removal of goods all the available boats being pressed into the more important service of saving hu

man lives. As the flood crept rapidly up

through the town claiming block after

block for its wholesale ravages, stocks

were carried to the upper stories in the

vain belief that they would be out of

harms way. Such stocks as hardware, dry goods and heavy stuns could not be

haudled, and even where they have not been carried away bodily by the current, they have been completely ruined and will be worth only what they may bring as old metal aud rags. ,The losses of the merchants aro beyond repair. Fortunes, the accumulations of lifetimes of careful application and untiring efforts, have been swept away, as it were, in a moment and ruin and disaster staies them in the face. The dispatches of tho 19th and 20th show no more danger is to be apprehended from overflow and attention is directed to alleviating the suffering and figuring up tho losses. TUB HOMELESS PEOPLE.. At Jefferson vi Ho there are 8000 people without homes, at New Albany about 8,000, at Madison 1,000, at Aurora 600, at

Lawrenceburg nearly 4,000, and in, the intervening country 2,500, or a total for the whole district of 24,009. When these facts are taken into consideration, it will be seen that the help extended from outside sources must be as limitless as the spirit in which it is given is generous and benevolent. Hundreds of business men who were prosperous a week ago are coday bankrupt, and thousands of women and children who lived in comfortable houses then are now refugees from them, and dependent upon charity for food and clothing. Sickness is greatly on the increase in the flooded districts, and the mortality has increased at least 200 per cent. AN ESTIMATE OF THE DAMAGE. The principal damage is by the washing away of fences, sheds, stables stock and agricultural products, 300,000 would be but a small estimate for this. A summary of the total loss from New Albany to tho Ohio line is as follows : Jeffersonvillo $ 920C0 New Albany . 730,000 Madison 200,000 Aurora...... 1S0,CC0 Lawrenceburg 850,000 Intervening country.. 0,000

Total 155,000 FLOATING ITEMS. CINCINNATI. It is related that an Irish woruan in one of the flooded houses received $1 from the relief committee Saturday, and with it made tbe following original investment: Eighty cents worth of eggs and twenty cents worth of "tobaccerJ" She was evidently observing Lent. There is one saloon-keeper who was driven out by the high water with his family, who has retired from business, aud has four or rive houses of his own from which ho obtains rent, and has money laid aside for a raiay day, who is a daily applicant for relief from the committee. Another individual, who is a contractor, president of two building associations, and has money laid up, also accepts relief from the same source. Saturday a female with a small babe in her arms called at the engine-house, and having related a pitiful story of her unfortunate circumstances, was furnished with an abuudauee of good things. She departed, aud shortly after another woman appea red on the scene, baaring the identical baby that had been there before. She went through the same pathetic business, was provided for like her predecessor, and went away rejoicing. Scarcely fifteen minutes had passed when a third one made her appearance, carrying the same precious specimen of inf fintile humanity. She tried the same old racket, but tae machinery was out of gear, and the thing didn't operate.

A SOCIABLE AT THE PABS02f&

United States Supreme Court. The organization of the Supreme Court has more than once been changed. Originally co misting of a Chief Justice and five Associate Justices, as we have seen it was enlarged in 1807 by the addition of a sixth associate. The States of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee had come into the Union, and were made a new circuit., represented on the bench by Thomas Todd, of Tennessee. In 1837 two more Justices were added by law, the new appointees being John Catroh,of Tennessee, and John McKinley, of Alabama. In 1863 a ninth Associate Justice was added to give the Pacific Coast a representative. This was thought to be good political policy at a time when the Union was in

the throes of rebellion; and besides the-

court needed the assistance of a Judge who was familiar with the peculiar land system of California, inherited from the Mexican and Spanish regimes. Stephen J. Fields of California, was the appointee. Wheu Justice Catron died, in 1865, Congress was in the midst of its long, serious struggle with President Johnson a struggle which ended in the practical subversiou of the Constitution by depriving the President Of important functions of executive power, and reducing him in real authority below the level of his Cabinet Ministers. To prevent the appointment to the Supreme Bench of Democrats in sy mpa thy with Johnson's .Southern policy, a Jaw was passed over tho Presi dent's velio, forbidding the filling of the existing vacancy, or any future, vacancy, until the number of Associate Justices should l5 reduced to six. The death of Justice Wayne, 1867, reduced the number to seven. In 1869 a now law increased the number to eigbt,and President Grant appointed Justices Strong and Bradley. In all there have been seven Chief Justices aud forty-three Associate Justices

a small number for a period almost span

ning a century. John Marshall and Jo

soph Story each served thirty-four years.

James M, Wayne and John McLean

each served thirty-two years. The next

longest term was that of Bushrod Washington, a nephew of George Washington

and the heir of Mount Vernon, who sat for thirty-one years. William Johnson was thirty-one years on the bench. Roger B. Tiaioy twenty-eight, John Catron

tweuty-oight, and Samuel Nelson twenty-seven.

Thoy carrie d the pie to the pasto r's house, And scattered the fioor'with crumbs; " And marked the leaves of his choicest book, - . ' WiUithe prints of their greasy thumbs. They piled his dishes high and tldckWith a lot of unhealthy cako, Whale they gobbled the buttered toast and roll Which the pastor's wife did make, j Thoy hung around Clytie's classic neck Their apple parings for f-prtf. ' And every one JauKhed wu ,a a clumsy lout ' Spilled hie tea in tho piano forte. Next day the parson went down on his knee With Ids wife, but not to pray; Oh, no; 'twas to scrub the grease and dirtf From the carpet and .airs awny!

A LITTLE SPICS.

''Remember, young man," sold Uncle More, "dat de best frien yerVs ot on did earth is a better frien ter himself than he is ter you." Miss Ella Wheeler, the Wisconsin poetess, says in her last poem, "There's a spring to my breast no more." Can it be that she has lost them, or are they worked around under her arms. At the marriage of an Alabama widow

er one of the servants was asked if his

master would take a bridal tour. "Dan-

no, sah ; wnen ole missis s a! ixo took a paddh to her, dunno if h$ toke a btidle to de new one or not."

"Darling he said to his1 a ored one, "what do you think I wear next to my

heart?" "I don't know' she rep!ied,"but

if you have any regard for your health in

this changeable weather, I should think

it would be a flannel shirt. She was too

practical by half, and it broke the en

gagement. . - :

Exercise: "Fact is," said the physician,

"you don't take enough exercise " "Don't

take enough exercise?" exclaimed the as

tonished patient. "Why, Doctor, I belong to tho Episcopal Church and attend

services every Sunday. Jb or heaven a sake what more would you have?"

The latest mode of popping the qnea .

tion was introduced by an Evansville young man. The recent cold snap nerved

turn to ask his adored: "Miranda, do you

wish to warm your feet against my back

this winter?" And Miranda blushed and softly murmured: "If s going to be a, terrible cold winter. John,"

Until -winter is o'er 1 We are ftoing for. gore: We are right on the floor. And some clothes will be tore, . And the st iff will bo bore, To the dreary old MorGue, if you don't shut that qor.

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The. New Orleans' Picayune sadly remarks that the only surviving horse of the late war has begun to dier

Farm Notes. Half a teaepoonfui of carbolic acid in a

fill of milk is recommended by Dr. J. A. Dodge in the Journal-vl Agriculture, as" an excellent remady for hog cholera.

Many a man has had his pork fail to ceep properly because it was salted in

frozen condition, Frozen meat, whether

beef, pork or mutton, will not properly assimilate the salt, and cannot be depended on to keep in hot weather. Iowa Homestead: "Farmers should exercise the greatest care, during the present portion of the year, in . feeding corn to hogs. There is no doubt but that overfeeding corn in cold weather produces indigestion, and as a result disease Give your hogs plenty of loosening food such as bran or oil meal slops. Bed ants are said to like lard better even than sugar; for this reason, if the red ants are troublesome" in the kitchen or store-room set a plate well greased with lard in the room. It will soon be covered with them, and you can soon dispose of them; put the plate back, and keep on doing so until they are all ex terminated. A. B. Allen writes to the Rural New Yorker that he finds it best in pruning raspberries t leave eight to twelve canes

at each stool, instead of three or four as often recommended. When only three or four were left several of the bushes

died, and the remainder bore smaller

fruit. He ascribes the success of the

many cane to the shading of the ground.

Many farmers injure their farm imple

ments more by exposure to the weather than by use on the farm. An ira dement

which with good care would last twenty

years, wih, when exposed to the weather,

will become useless in five years or even

less, a farm cart whi ?h, with good usage.

would last almost a lifetime, wiH last

only a few years when exposed to the sun.

Kainit, or German potash salts, con

tains about 25 per cent, of sulphate of

potash, 14 per cent, of sulphate of- mag

nesia, 12 per cent of chloride of magnesia, 38 per cent, of common salt, 15 per

per cent of moisture and slight traces of

other materials. The amount of pure

potash contained in it is about 12 per

cent. From 300 to 400 pounds is a fair

application for an acre of land. , ...f "

An English paper in discussing diar

rhea in lambs, suggests that a simple re

laxation of the bowels, produced by fresh, grass, a chang6 of pasture and an allowance of good linseed cake, or other dry

food, will probably be sufficient restora

tive. If not, take ot prepar ed chalk one ounce, powered ginger two drahms, powdered opium half a drahm, peppermint water half a pint, and give two table spoons of cordial twice a day. Pittsburg (Pa.) Stockman. , . A cheap hotbed, with cloth sashes, is recommended by an Ohio farmer, which is made of a single square of one-quarter inch stuff, with a single bar dGwn the middle and covered with common unbleached muslin painted over with two coats of boiled linseed oih He claims that the plants grown under such cover-, ing are better colored, harder and better able to withstand transplanting than when grown under glass. After the hotbead is filled with manure lay in the soil so as to come within three inches of the muslin, sloping exactly as it does. As the season advances the bed will settle as fast as the growth of the plants requires it. .............. V. A successful grower of quinces says he attributes all his success in the business to the accident that most of his trees were set in low, mucky ground, and with such shelter that their own fallen leaves and those of an adjoining apple orchard made a good annual mulch. He 3?y8 it is not the trunk and branches of the quince that are tender, but the root, trees being almost invariably killed in exposed situations wherever frost penetrated deeply. He mulches well with autumn leaves and well-rotten stable manure, saying the better the manure (within reasonable limits) the fairer and larger the fruit He also believes a vigorous growth prevents to some extent the twig blight and, red rust Paintings of ragged street urchins find the readiest sale in New l'ork art gal