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ESTABLISHED 1869.

Z_,3303iT G-AMBBTT^.

Leon Gambetta died five minutes before the doss of the year 1882, when a life ended as full of promise of future greatness as 'exceptional ID the splendor of it- past accomplishments. He was born at 0 ihors in the south ol France, on the second of April, 1838, the son of parents who kept a miscellaneous store a his native t"wu, and were in bumble md obscure circumstances. They were Italians in blood, devoted to the church md anxious that their fon should become priest. With this view he was seat to he parish school to prepare for the jeminaiy of Montauban, into which he pas received after proper preparation, 'revioua to this, when he was eight years age, h© lost his rigbt eye. He was atching a cutler bore a knife handle ben the machine broke, and a part of it icrced his eye-ball, totally destroying it. this accidi-nt. is attributed the failure (""his pareuis' expectation with regard his future, his unmanageable disposU 1)n while at the seminary, being consided due '.o the lond parental iudulgeuce

Liich followed bis great misfortune but te probability is that his bias wards the excitements of the forum wuld have overcome, sootier or lier, the restraints of a theological trainiir if the accident had not occurred. Be tl as it may, his position at Moatauban jved so uncongenial and irksome to tli boy that, at tuerequest of its authoritip, he was removed trom thence, and Wcamc pupil of the Lycee of Cahors, vnere he was graduated- At eighteen je*rs of ase h3 wenl to Paris to study iwr, in opposition to the wishes of his pi(-ents. and soon made his mark as an e:5raordmary debater, and a young man with the daring and aggressive dispositiah of leader. He was poor and lived u'tbe LJoheiiiian manner common to stuibnts ot ms class, until Mile. Massabie, a njiiden sister of his mother, left her home *n a village in h's native town and took uj her residence in l3aris in order that sin might share her little property with htr studi-nt kin3tnan. This arrangement so favorable to Gambetta's comfort and piitity of lite, was continued until the ye*r i860, when his popularity iu Bellevile, Paris led to his election as a membei ofthe Corps Legislatif, for that demcastra'ively Democratic district. His l»o?lilarity was unbounded, dae in a grett measure to his wonderful oratorical gifti, which combined the physical adv^ntftges of a magnificent voice, fall, finelpresence and impassioned delivery, witlia fearless hatred the Empire, and the ibility to origins', phrases into which he concentrated th* points of his attack and which were coon in everybody's liioith. At the bar he was scarcely less eminent than in the political arena, and at nc time acted a? private secretary to the eminent advocate, Lachaud. His entiance into political ife was encourage! by one of the pressors whose law lecturss he attended, M. Valette, who foresaw that he would attain tmineecc as si politician and statesmas. In the

Corp# Legislatif, the unmeasured invective with which he assailed the tottering Empire gave him his greatest distinction. He strenuously opposed the war with Prusiia. After the collapsf of the Empire at ^«dau he was made minister of tfte interior, in the gC ^rnment which Bismtirck described as that of the "gful\cnien ot the pavement,'' and performed the duties of his office for a while Within the walls- of the besieged i-spital. Stimulated a patriotic bciieftiiat the fortunes ot France could be redeeibed under his leadership, ho caped\trom Paris in a baloon, at the nr.minenl ri&k of his lite, and was landed at Amiens. From ihrnce lie m^de his way t4 Tour?, where hiyactsd a? cliicf of the* Committee ot tbe Nationel Defence Chiellj- as the nsult of bis inspiring energj the army bf the Loire was organized, as force ot one hundred and eighty thousand infantry and artillery with •argc foice of cavalry besides and had he been a military man possibly the tide of victory would have turned in favor of invading France notwithstanding the surrender of the army at Metz as well as

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the officials in the late Empire taking part'in tbe pending elections, Bismarck opposed him and Gambetta resigned The election of M. Thiers to the presidency and peace with Germany followed. M. Gambetta sat in the Chamber of Deputies as leader of the Extreme Left, but gave the president a steady and cordial support, the more valuable because it served to attach the extreme Radicals to the new administration. Since the beginning of the Third Republic he has always resisted reactionary tendencies, but has outlived his popularity among the extrem* theorists and the rabble who follow them. As president of the Chamker ot Deputies he was successful, but his brief administration as premier in the early part of last year was a failure, as his friends say, because premature. He died the strongest of French statesmen, though out of ofiice, and all Europe feels the shock of his departure. The late emimeht^M... DubttlV said tut Kink.

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whom the destinies of a great country might be more safely confided. He will be a Richelieu without cruelty and a Colbert without vanity." What his future would have been it is vain to conjecture. He loved power and Frenchmen need a hero. No man is left to them now who fills the eye of his country as the great man and who personifies the disposition to avenge the disasters of the war with Germany. If, as result^ of Gambia's death," France, like the UBited (States, will become content with the administration of affairs by officials who perform their duties each without a dangerous supremacy in the- regraTd of the nation, and the permanency of the Republic in this way b»com£an"as3ured fact and if cordial relations with Germany should continue to be maintained, as a result of steady progress unbroken by foreign complications, the death ot M. Gambetta may come to be regarded as nearly an advantage as the removal of a brilliant orator, a true patraot and a great statesman can be.

Gambetta was a strong built maD, of the average height of Frenchmen, with a tendency to corpulency. He loved the country and took much exercise. His home was at Ville d' Array, near Paris, where he died. He was disinterested in his services to his country and comparatively poor, the property he had accumulated being made principally by his newspapers—the

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and La Petite Pepublique. M. Gambetta was a bachelor.

Restauranter In a Sad Predicament. An East End restauranter a few days ago accosted a passing policeman at a quarter before twelve and begged the lean of fifty cents with which to purchase meat for dinner. He said he had eight boarders who would be in at twelve for their dinner aud he did not have a bite of meat in the house, and worse than that, was destitute of the necessary amount of lucre with which to purchase it for his greedy gastronomers.

The knight of the locust was very much touched, and huge tears crept into his eyes when he heard the poor fellow's pitilul story. No one ever knew a policeman to carry es much as fifty cents in his jeaos and ol course the boarders were obliged to be consent with corn gruel and oatmeal that clay for dinner. 'r 7ifcfrj ,-,i

A Terrible Caistrophc.

ST. PETERSBURG, in. 14.—During a performance, yesterday, in a circus in Berdidschefl", in Russian Poland, a fire broke out and before the spectators could escape the whole structure was ablaze. Three hundred persons perished.

And Maybe His Mother-in-Law. CINCIKNATI, Ohio Jan. —John B. Hoffman, who shot his son nobert, Friday. says he is only sorry he did Dot also shoot his wife. V,

A SUITE of unfurnished rooms is advertised for rent. See Wanted column.

A hpuse, on South Sixth Street, is offered for rent.

BOLD VILLAINS.

Theltory of the Abduction of Prelty Miss Garrison, of St- Louis,

And How She Was Recovered After Great Anxiety Among .« Her Friends-

MISS GARRISON'S STATEMENT^ ST. LOUIS, Jan 13—Miss Garrison was found and returned home of her uncle O. L. Garrison, between 8 and 9 o'clock to-night. The youug lady's statement is that while on her way lrom the street railroad to the convent, she was accosted by two men, one of whom wanted her to go up town with them. She refused, say ing that she was going to school, whereupon one man threw handkerchief saturated with chlorform over her face, and she became insensible. She did not return to full- consciousness until Sunday morning, when she'found herself in a comfortably furnished rooiu, iG a strange part ol the city. She was attended by a middle aged womsn who treated her kindly. The two men visited her several times*and tried to prevail upon her to write to her relatives, stating that she would be released for money. This she refused to#Uo until yesterday, when she sent a brief postal saying that she was in the city and safe, but could not give her whereabouts. This afterneon one man, in whose custody the young iady was, visited the residence of Mr. Garrison, and stated to the ladies present that he knew where Miss Garrison was, and would produce her for $50Q.

The ladies said they could do nothing in the matter then, but if be would return in an hour or so they would have somebody there who .would treat with him. He leit, and the ladies immediately telephoned Mr. O. L. Garrison at his ofiice down town, telling him what had occurred. Mr. D. IY. FI. ii and E. A. Hitchcock, two old freiuds of the iamily, at once jumped into a carriage and went out to the house, stopping on their way at the police station and taking two detectives. On their arrival near the house the detectives alighted and went to the rear to watch that part of the premises, while Mr. Furguson and Hitchcock entered in front.

Tbe man had returned and renewed his proposition to Mr. Ferguson, who took him in his carriage and drove to 710 Washington street, where the man said Miss Garrison was secreted. Arriving at

sub-station, a couple of blocks away, where she was found'by Mr. Fergusot and taken to her uncle's house. The detectives had followed Mr. Ferguson's car riage, and as soon as the man had proposed to restore Miss Garrison to her friends saw their, he recognized them, and before Mr. Ferguson could give any directions he disappeared, and has not yet bpen arrested. The detectives did not know tbe man, and from all the circumstances in the case there is no doubt that he is a criminal, and that the abduction of Miss Garrison was a deliberately concocted scheme to obtain money from her relatives in the way of ransom.

No harm was done to the young lady, and no violence of any kind offered or threatened, the object of the men being, evidently,to lead her gradually along and use her in opening negotiations with her relatives. The woman at whose house Miss Garrison was kept is a widow named Fanny Levy, and so far as ascertained at this writing is not known to the police as belonging to the criminal class. Great relief is' felt at the restoration of the young lady, and excitement which ran pretty high during the day is is greatly allayed.

The GAZETTE of yesterday contained an associated press dispatch from St. Louis announcing the sudden disappearance of Miss Zerelda Garrison and the excitement incident to the abduction. The girl was only seventeen years old, but strikingly handsome. She is of wealthy parents being a relative of Commodore Garrison. When last seen alive she was on the street car on her way to the Convent of the Sacred Heart to resume her studies, having been absent since the Christmas holiday.

At 10 o'clock laut night the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an extra which sold like wild-fire, as the excitement in the city was great. The extra contained the following: "At 9 o'clock- this evening Mr. Garrison called at the office of the Post-Dis-patch to report in person that Miss Garrison had been found during the evening, and is now at the house ot her uncle on Pine street. He does not think she suffered any violence at the hands of her abductors, other tban being chloroformed on Saturday last, when the ruflians^ obtained possession of her person. That she wus chloroformed, however, is absolutely certain, though Miss Garrison has quite lost her memory about the manner and place of the occurence. The young lady was returned this evening by one of the ruffians himself, who had probably become alarmed at the great excitement ofthe public and the probability of his punishment. The young laJy is suffering from the chloroform, the gaeot shock ar.d confinement, but is not seriously ill. Two of the ruffians have already becn arrested. They belong to a notorious gang ol Carondelet hoodlums.'

Liable to Taxation.

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 10.—'The Supreme Court decided to-day that the re-insur-an reserve fund of'fire companies must be listed for taxation.

OSLY $6 were expended by the street commissioner? last week/ .i •.

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TERRE HAUTE, IND.—THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1883. .50 PER YEAR

Another in the Lung List of Hotol Burnings*

The Planters' House of St- Louis Takes Fire Early Yesterday Morning. ...

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The Guests Thrown Into the Greatest Confa9ion and a Panic Takes Ityiqe.

TTHK PLAiKTRRS' HOl'ftK OS FIRE. St. Louis, Mo. Jan. 14.—It was just ten minutes past 4 o'clock this morning when the fireman in tbe engine room of the Plantfrf$Hous« discovered live coals dropping on the paved alley just outslde the window^ Going out he found the alley so densely filled with smoke it was impossible^# distinguish the locality of the fire which caused it. The coals, however, evidently camo from the store room of the hotel which is part of a frame structure extending out across the. alley at the second floor, and a batting on the large furniture ware rooms of the auction house of Blook, Tyler & Co. The fireman ran to the end of the alley where a hijjh gate encloses it, making with the frame structure a long narrow room, in which the smoke had accumulated. He succeeded in getting the gates open, thus creating a current which carried off seme of the smoke, and then returned to try to extinguish the tir\ He found, however, that it had a strong hold in the store room and in the kitchen, which is immediately over tbe boiler room, where he was at work. He gave an alarm and in three minutes the

HOTEL WAS ALARMED.

Nearly three hundred people, filled with the horrible recollections of the Milwaukee holocaust, were dating hither and thither throughlhb main corridors and down the several stairways into the office and street. The Ittrtel employes acted with prnnd r4aoiag lQud

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five minutes later-making afeinsure that everybody was up and advised of the danger. Very few waited to dress, as the smoke from the rear of the building where the fire wis located had already invaded the corridors and was making its way slowly into the rooms.

A PANIC

Stopping only to grab a few articles of clothing, men, women, and*children tied in dismay and would not halt even in the commodious main office, where there was light, comfort and little smoke. As the engines, the first of which arrived within fifty seconds of the sounding of the alarm, dashed up to the hotel, the stream of fugitives began to pour -from the doors. There were men in naught but their un-der-clothes, women with but a nightdress aud possibly a shawl or a cloak over their shoulders, and little children hastily bundled in blankets or other wraps, few wore shoes, aad a great many were in their bare feet. The lights of the Republican and Globe-Democrat offices' and of a gambling house all of which were within the distance of a block led the half crazed people to the temporary refuge of warmth, whence carriages in a few moments removed them to other hotels. Some of the scenes incident to this hegira were quite thrilling, their effect being intensified by the rattle, clang, and shriek cf engines anrt shouts of firemen. !THB FIREMEN AT WORK.

Soon ttie main body of the hotel was cleared ot guests and the building was in possession "of the firemen, who within twenty minutes as a result of a second alarm had thirteen engines at work. Meantime the events in the rear ofthe building were ol a far uiore ugly character. W 'T.V..=! |THE BOTE!., i-.i

which is six stories in height, fronts on the west side of Fourth street i'rom Chestnut to Pine, while a wing runs back on both Chestnut and Pine streets to a depth ot a half of a block. Thus the main building forms the sides of a rectangle. The fourth side is formed by a four story building, forty years old," midway on which on a ground floor above it were the two upper floors, occupied by the kitchen. On this floor is the boiler room above referred to, and the kitchen and boiler room. A narrow stairway rises and winds to the roof.

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The tire, which started very close to this stairway and was carried up to the roof by a draft in the stairway and thus not, only cut off escapS by that means, but also formed a bamer which prevented the men sleeping in the south half of the building from reaching another stairway at the north end. Hence these unfortunates almost smothered by the smoke were compelled to climb out on the roof on a frame strcuture which abutted over the alley and thence either to jump or lower

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themselves by means of a puller rigged there for hoisting supplies. One poor fellow was seen to start down tho stairway before the fire reached the third floor and an hoar later his crushed corpse was found in the kitchen near the front stairs. Another employe who, although answering to a call, seems to hare been too much stupified by smoke to get up for two hours afterward. His dead body was found on a smoking mattress.

THE DAMAGE TO THE HOTEL, ,-R The firemen made a grand fight, and the nozzles wtre carried through the walls of smoke right to where the names were raging, and, notwithstanding the inflamable nature of the building, they succeeded in preventing the fire from extending beyond a distance of twenty feet from the point of origin, but in that space it burned through to the roof, destroying about ten rooms. The balance of the rear building was made uninhabitable by water, but the hotel proper did not suffer to the extent of a dollar. The $re, however, crossed the alley to the furniture warerooms, where the firemen had another fierce but short fight. The damage to the hotel property is about $10,000, and to the auction firm about $20,000, all covered by insurance,

CLEARING THE DEBRIS.

Ttiis evening the workmen engaged in clearing awav the debris found the charred body of.a'man amid the broken timbers at the foot of the stairway on the basement floor. It proved to be Henry Blaney, an employe, over sixty years old, who, as a boy, served as chore boy in the hotel. The other two dead men are Carr Rebote and^ Dennis Rebote, a carver. The hotel is a very substantial structure, well provided with fire escapes and stairways, remote from each other, and even had fire invaded it, the progress would have been slow. There were two watchmen in the main building. The origin of the fire is unknown.

Most ofthe guests and boarders of the Planters'House returned to the hotel this evening, being satisfied it was safe to do so, and the business of the house is proceeding aa usual, excepting that it will not b$ able to serve breakfast tomorrow, and perhaps cot dinner. So far as known, npne of the guests or boarders lost any personal effects, ani none ol them were injured or met with aBy mishap.

"Other Flrea. CHICAGO BLAZE.

CHICAGO, IIIL., Jan. 15.—The works of the Chicago Smelting and Refining company were totally destroyed by fire at 4 o'clock this morning. Loss, $110,009 insurance, $29,000.

There was some delay in calling the fire department and in turning on the water, and before the streams were turu-

Tbe buildings were two and a half stories high. Cause of fires unknown. HARDWARE WORKS.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 15.—About 1 o'clock this morniDg the Duggan & Parker Hardware company'sworks were destroyed by fire. Loss, $40,000 insured for about $25,000. Severn Zobolt, silver plater, who occupied the second floor of the buildiDg, lost $2,500 insured.

FINE RESIDENCE BURNED.

TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Jan. 15.—The fire residence of Samuel C. Lewis, having a frontage of one hundred feet, together with all the furniture and pictures, burned. Loss, over $100,000.

Afire broke out in the great wagon and carriage works of F. G. MaUdt, at Stoughton, Wis., Saturday afternoon. Loss is estimated at $100,000 insured for $70,000.

Sunday morning a fire broke out in Gaffney's store in Neecab. Wis., acd extended to other buildings. The Pettibone block and the postoffice was burned. Th6 loss will reach $100,000 and the origin was undoubtedly incendiary.

The First Presbyterian church at Memphis, Tenn., burned yesterday a quarter of an hour after the congregation had been dismissed. Loss about $25,000 insurance light.

Two children were burned to death Saturday in Dakota by the upsetting of a lamp.

At 2 o'clock yesterday morning the jail at Oak Harbor, Ohio, took fire and a man locked up the night before burned to deatb.

The round house of the Midland railway at Uxbridge, Ont., burned, with four locomotives. Loss, $50,000.

The public school house at Mitchell, la, burned Saturday. Loss, $10,000. Dr. C. W. Hackett, publisher of the Laconia N. H. Tocsin, was fatally injured during a fire at his offices.

The paper mill of J. & B. Crossley & Co., 25 by 50 feet burned with contents at Bangor, Me.

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The ftascally Cashier's Bail Likely to be Increased. JERSEY CITY, Jan. 15.—Shaw, cashier ofthe suspended City Bank," was arraigned to day. He said he was unable to furnish $20,000 bail and demanded and asked to have the amount reduced. •The justice replied that in view of certain evidence now in the hands of the state, the bail instead of being reduced would probably be increased. The prisoner was committed to jail. It is intimated that general additional arrests are about to be made on the matter, on information, implicating parties not heretofore mentioned in the case.

TIIE cold snap continues. We repeat now is a good time to remember the poor. We may be able to hold out a little lonc-

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The Hunt For Victims in the Mil waukee Fire Still Progressing.

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MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 15.—Ofle hundred and fifty men are at work searching for bodies to-day. The weather is somewhat milder and the wort proceeds quicker. Still, the total result of the forenoon's search was only two bodies, so badly burned that recognition is impossible. Thus far twenty little heaps pronounced by physicians to be human flesh and bones have been taken 'from the ruins- So far as can be learned thirty nine are still missings

TOM THUMB'S SEARCH.

MILWAUKEE, WIS., Jan., 15.—General Tom Thumb has made frcpuent calls at the police headquarters, every day since the fire, to see if his trunk has not been found. He would examine closely every trunk recovered. He has failed to find the object of his search. His trunk contain ed his overcoat, clothing, jewels and a collection of old coins. MOMENTUS ISSUE BETWEEN T03» AND A

POLICEMAN.

The General was indignant over the report that Officer O'Brien recovered him and his wife. Yesterday afternoon he told Chief Wason that he rescued O'Brien who might otherwise have perished. He admits that O'Briea awakened him and wife and remained in their room a'oout ten minutes while they were dressing, but that when they left the room he found tbe ladders by which they made their escape and as he commenced to descend the ladder told O'Brien that he had better follow him.

THE GENERAL'S ANXIETY.

The general and bis troupe left the city this morning, hut not until he had warned the police to notify him immediately if his trunk was found. The repoit. afloat to tbe effect that Landlord Antis3611 "lTas disappeared is wholly untrue. He was found this morning at Prof. Ba£T from The terrible thock, but was not dangerous He denied that there was any truth in the rumor that the night watchman was instructed that in case of a fire the office clerk was to be informed of it without regard to aw&kening the guests.

Mrs. Bridget Bridgeman, the oldest employe of the hotel, is reported among the additional missing. She is known to have started out on the morning of the fire, arousing the servants, and has not been heard of since.

Five bodies were buried yesterday,' among them T. B. Elliott, a prominent lawyer, who came to the hotel on the 3:30 train, and half an hour later jumped from a fourth-storv window, breaking his legs and injuring his spine. He was a prominent Mason, and State representative to the United States Grand Lodge ot Odd-fellows.

Yesterday the Lincoln Gaurds, militia were called out for gaurd duty at the ruins to ward off the crowds of people, but oAly a few ofthe latter congregated at the scene, extremely cold weather prevailing. There were funeral services at all prominent churches before crowdedaudiences.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 14. The call for volunteers for the exhumation of bodies of the New hall House lire wa3 a fhzle. Only two citizens responded. Five rharred bodies were taken out to-day, making eighteen, in addition to the twenty-three indentified dead, making forty-one in all.

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Terrific Controversy Between Tom Thnmb and a Policeman as to Who Saved the Other-.

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TWEDDLE HALL BURNED.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—Tweddle Hall *t Albany burned this morning. The fire started in McCammon's music store undtr the hall aud spread so quickly to the stage that within ten minutes the flames were beyond control. The hall was entirely ruined. iB

TOTALLY DESTROYED.

ALBANY, Jan. 16.—Tweddle Hall block',: includiug tbe opera house, Albany couuty bank and eight or ten retail stores and a number of offices was totally destroyed by fire. Loss heavy.

ALBANY, Jan. 16.—The building was a fine four story free stone, 88 feet on State and 11G on North Pearl street. The lower stories were devoted to stores and offices, sbove which "was a fine hall, 100 by 75 feet, which had one gallery and was capable of seating 100 people. It was built by the late John T. Weddle and thrown open to the public in 18G0. Tbe original cost was *1JO,OCO and the property is DOW assessed at $230,000. Erastus Coming's residence adjoining was on firt a number of times, but hundreds of willing bands put out the fire and saved tbe venerable old liouse and its wealth of family pictures and relics. Tbe total loss is estimated at $300,000 insurance about $200,000.,

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