LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER MONDAY JANUARY 23 1882
Lancaster fcttelUaencet.
MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 23, 1882.
Earn en the Railroad.
The conductor of the train en the
Hudsen River" railroad which lately met
with se fatal a disaster, testifies that the
accident was due te rum ; and the facts
leave no doubt of the truth of the asser
tion. It was a Friday evening train
bearing from Albany the dead-headed
legislators and politicians at the end of
the week's session, and itwastlie habit
of these passengers te carry with them
an abundant supply of liquor te be freely
used en the journey ; which has conse
quently always been hilarious and drunk
en. The conductor believes that an
inebriated passenger tampered with the
rope running through the cars which
controlled the air-brake, and se caused
the stoppage of the train. That may be se,
although this is but a suspicion founded
en the known condition of many of the
passengers, but net otherwise proved :
but while an intoxicated passenger may
have been responsible te this extent for
the accident it is clear that if the brake
man en theend of the train whose business
it was te warn succeeding trains had
done his duty the disaster would net
have occurred. This man was an old
servant of the company, fully cognizant
of bis duty and competent te perform it.
The inference is strong that he failed
because he had come under the influence
of the freely dispensed liquor of the pas
sengers. Upen the company itself rests the re
sponsibility for a state of affairs which
rendered probable the lapse from duty
that ended se fatally. Its administration
should have seen such as te secure the
order and sobriety en the trains neces
sary for their safety. The character of
performances en these Friday trains was
well known, for they had been, as the
conductor testilies, of long continuance.
The railway managers knew of the dis
order among the passengers and the
temptation presented te the train hands.
They are reasonably chargeable with a
knowledge of the probable consequences,
and with the responsibility for these con
sequences when they come te shock the
community. The guilt of the fatal re
sults of this sad accident is plainly at their
their doers. They undertook te carry
passengers with precaution and te give
them every reasonable guaranty of .safety.
Yet here innocent passengers have been
killed because of the permitted violation
by ether passengers of what should have
been stringeutly enforced regulations te
securn order and sobriety en the trains.
The most pronounced advocate of in.
dividual liberty will net claim that men
charged with the conduct of a railway
train should be permitted te drink intox
icating liquor while en duty, or that pas
sengers en a train should be allowed te
drink themselves drunk or uproarious.
The New Yerk railroad is net the only
one which is thus culpable. The recent
trial in the Philadelphia courts of a
rough character for firing a pistol ball
into the feet of a fellow passenger while
returning from a political convention and
villainous with whisky, has advised the
public of the occurrence of like
scenes en the Pennsylvania rail-
read te
fatally en
that which ended
the Hudsen River.
mere
Preb-
ably there are few railroad companies
which guarantee their passengers im
muuity from such scenes and dangers.
Yet they are easily preventive, and one
efficient means would be te refuse te
carry free of cost the class of men from
whom this trouble largely comes. The
disorderly fellows are generally these
who ride free. If they had te pay their
way they would net be found upon the
trains in convivial crowds. Influential
enough te get passes, they are influential
enough also te intimidate the train con
ductor who hesitates te treat harshly a
man te whom his railroad president pays
se much consideration.
In this state the railroad companies
are forbidden te give free passes ; yet its
governor and its state officers and Legis
lature claim and g.it them from every
railroad in it. It is a disgraceful fact
that there should be such a privileged
class where it is forbidden by the su
preme law and by the most obvious con
sideratiens of public policy. A pass is
a bribe, neither mere or less, and the
pass laker, as these railroad disorders
show, is apt te have ether vices, beside
the lack of honesty, that make him un un
weithy of being regarded above his fel
low men whom his felly brings te danger
en the rail.
Thk investigation which started in te
discover hew much money was- stolen
from the federal treasury ler luxuries
for the clerks and their mistresses seems
te have developed considerable matter of
public interest touching the way in
which Jehn Sherman and his agents tried
te compass his nomination for president.
Nothing mere shameless in its unscru unscru
puleusness was ever known in our
political history. His agents were
sent all ever the country te
work up his " boom," while they were
paid salaries and traveling expenses as
government officials. He is a rich man,
made se most people believe by corrupt
exercise of his official position, and lie
must be as mean and stingy as he is rich,
for when one of these ' agents " failed
him he was promptly dismissed from
public service.
If the New Yerk Times and its West
ern correspondents, with whom the wish
is father te the thought, are te be ba
lieved, the Democratic party in Ohie. is
in a state of disorganization and demor
alization. If this is true it is only
a natural result of the factional feel
ing te which its leaders in the past have
se often subordinated the general party
welfare, and of the cowardice and time
serving which they have displayed in
dealing with the financial questions and
ether public issues of national import
ance. Since disorganization must always
finally ensue from such leadership before
proper reorganization can take place, we
are glad that it has happened in
Ohie se long in advance of a
presidential struggle in which Ohie
might as well be carried by the Demo
crats as net. The troubles there 'new
are only the travail out of which ought
te be born better leadership and wise
policy. Under them the rank and file of
the party can be organized for victory,
but the men who infest the party camp
only for the spoils of war must be drum
med te the rear.
We find that the contractor for the
Legislative Recerd of last session seems
te have been paid his full price for that
half-executed and badly-served job. As
printed, published and delivered, he
neither fulfilled the terms of his con
tract, nor answered the purposes of the
publication. It was in most respects an
utterly useless affair, a swindle even en
the members whe3e proceedings it es
sayed te report, and a fraud upon the
taxpayers. The attorney general, the
auditor general and the state treasurer
knew this perfectly well, and they should
have been just as prompt and energetic
te prevent payment for it, as they were
te interfere against giving the members
their extra $500 pay. We have no reason
te suspect the personal integrity of any
one of these three gentlemen, but as
things go at Harrisburg, it is the fash
ion of men who have thieving bills
against the state te get them approved
by dividing the plunder with these who
secure payment for them. When men
of geed repute pass bills se flagrantly
dishonest as that of the Legislative Rec Rec
ord contractors, they lay themselves
open te suspicion and cannot wonder if
they are classed with the common
feather of " hill" roosters who steal ap
propriations and raid the treasury with
"contingent expensesi" bills for "car
pets and rugs," "brooms, buckets, &c."
The census of 1S80 shows that theic arc
in Pennsylvania 140,138 children ever 10
years of age who cannot read aud 228,014
ever 10 years of age who cannot write.
The president has stated that he would
lend his aid te the Independent movement
iu Georgia in preference te the Bourbon
Republicans.
The way of the Sunday paper is deeply
mysterious. One of them yesterday had a
discourse en the International Sunday
school lessen sandwiched between a
" fascluatiug French horror " and an al
leged account of Bookwalter's bar'l iu
Ohie politics.
The r. S. Tobacco Journal mournfully
rotates " the obstacles and difficulties
which beset the path of the editor in his
endeavors te steer clear of the shoals and
quicksand of partiality aud inaccuracy."
We should like te kuew hew this editor
knows. Has he ever made any such en
deavor ?
The printers' department el the Cecil
Democrat comes te us this week exhibit
ing a pardonable pride in its appearance
The type is new and bright and clear, and
has aided much in the general improve
ment. As a faithful chronicler of local
news aud au exponent of country j eurnal
ism as it should be, our contemporary
ever the line has richly deserved the suc
cess of which it gives this latest manifes
tation. It is new pretty well settled that State
Treasurer Samuel Butler will be au active
and energetic candidate for governor aud
that he will gather te himself the opposi
tion te Beaver. This all leeks very nice
en its face aud may furnish a very geed
pert for the half-and-half Independents te
lie by in. But Farmer Butler is very sly,
and the Stalwarts couldn't de a smarter
thing than trot out Farmer Butler te keep
the Independents from fixing their miiids
en a inore daugoreus man. The state
treasurer will moderate his pace se as net
te get his nose ahead of Beaver's, aud if a
secondary nomination should drop te
Chester county keep your eye en Farmer
Butler.
It is re-lie-ably reported from Wash
ington that the 110th Cincinnati delegation
called at the White Heuse te ad vise the
president about the Cincinnati ami Cov
ington posteffices and had beet refused
admittance ; while the 214th Maryland
delegation walked up te the White Heuse
te advise the president abaut Baltimore
appoaitraents, and this body of statesmen
also walked home sadder but net wiser
nieu, without having been able te sec the
president. A considerable part of the
adult male population of Cincinnati has
been registered at Washington hotels since
the 1st of last November, and some of the
prominent citizens talk of coming en per
manently se as te be en baud daily te
advise the president about the Cincinnati
posteflicc, which appears te be one of the
most important institutions iu the world
and one en the security of which our mat
erial liberties largely depends.
PERSONAL.
Lord Leuxe arrived at Halifax, N. S.,
en Saturday.
Wm. J. Fekdx'EY, who has been mak
ing a tour around the world, is expected
home seen.
" Stonewall " Jacksen's sole daugh
ter, Julia, is te be married te a Mr. Frank
Baker, of Baltimore, whose father is weilh
his million dollars. Miss Julia is half
North Carolinian by her mother's side.
Joel Chandler IIauris, the clever
chronicler of Uncle Remus' sayings, has
sketched out a serial story, "The Remance
of Reckville." He is also writiug a story
of old slave life in the Seuth.
Rev. J. B. Lucas, a Methodist minister
of Pittsburgh, has sued Rev. T. H. Cel
neuER, also a Methodist minister of the
same place, for libel, placing his damages
at $10,000.
Sufficient money te endow a new profes
sorship in the Harvard law school has been
presented te the university, and it is under
stood that the new position will be filled
by Oliver Weldell Helmes, jr. The
amount is said te be $90,000.
Mr. Stuart Robson, the comedian, has
purchased from Mr. Charles R. Theme his
cottage and grounds at Cohasset, Mass.,
adjoining the home of Lawrence Barrett.
Mr. Robson has presented the house te his
daughter Alicie, who will shortly retire
from the stage te become the wife of a
well known banker of New Yerk city.
The trustees of Wells college, Aurera,
N. Y., have formally accepted a bequest
of Hen. Edwin B. Morgan, of Aurera.
The college has new a permanent endow
ment fund of $200,000, all of which, beside
upwud of 75,000 in buildings and ether
property, has been the gift of the same
benefactor.
President Aiithuk breakfasts at ten,
dines at half-past seven, and is a hearty
eater. He generally has friends for dinner
and wine and geed stories are net lacking.
At dinner he is " diet" Arthur again.
This meal ends with cigars about nine
o'clock. After that time he gives himself
up te appointments made during the day
with various individuals. After these are
ever, about twelve o'clock, he gees into
the library and leeks ever the newspapers,
arranged there for him, and disposes of
such public business as must be transact
ed without interruption. This occupies
him till two or three o'clock in the morn
ing, and sometimes it is four or five before
he gets te bed.
THE DISAGREEING DOCTORS.
MOKE COMMUNIS ON TUE SMAl.i-l'OX
CASK.
Dr. Brown Vindicates Himself aud Hie Heard
or Health.
Editors of the Intelligenxeu : On
Friday afternoon Dr. Davis called at my
office, when I told him of my visit te Mr.
Mercer's house in company with Dr. Hess,
and I distinctly stated te him that I ex
pressed no opinion concerning the nature
of the disease, and that Dr. Hess alone
was the authority for the statement of "no
smallpox ; " and in the evening, in order
te prevent any misunderstanding, I wrote
Dr. Davis a letter, repeating and empha
sizing the abeve assertion, and saying that
the item which had appeared in oue of the
eveniug papers te the effect that
the beard of health had investigated
the cases and pronounced them net small
pox, was incorrect. Notwithstanding this,
Dr. Davis in his article en Saturday even
ing persists iu repeating the misstatement
and upon it bases a personal attack, thus
knowingly aud intentionally misrepresent
ing me ; which attack would fall te the
ground as without foundatieu, did he net
distort the facts for his own purpose. If I
may judge from the expressions of opinion
concerning Dr. Davis I have heard during
the past few days, I have no fear that my
reputation for honesty aud veracity would
suffer by a comparison with his.
Dr. Davis hastens te take credit for re
porting the existence of smallpox te the
beard of health ; but if you will allow
me te explain hew he reported it, per
haps it would net add much te his credit.
On leaving Mr. Mercer's house, after his
first visit, Dr. Davis passed through tlr.
P. R. R. depot where he publicly pro
claimed the existence of smallpox. He
then went te the Glebe hotel drinking
saloon, where he again openly declared
that there were several severe cases of
smallpox in town. This rumor spread
rapidly, causing much alarm, aud the next
morning reached the Cars of Mr. Marshall,
one of the most zealous u.embcrs of the
beard of health, and he immediately called
en Dr. Davis te ascertain the truth of the
report, aud it was ceuflrmed by that phy
sician . This was the manner in which he
"notified the beard of hcaltli through
James II. Marshall, esq ., a member of the
same." Te put it mildly, Dr. Davis acted
very indiscreetly by thus publicly pro
claiming the existence of a loathsome aud
contagious disease ; nor would I consider
the starting of a rumor which reached the
cars of ene of its members, as a notifica
tion of the beard of health.
Although I expressed no opinion con
cerning the disease, as I did net examine
the cases, I may say that I would prefer
Dr. Iless's opinion te Dr. Davis's ; but a
public correction of the statement that the
beard ePbealth had declared the disease
te be net smallpox is due te the members
of the beard and myself as secretary.
If there is any 'wisdom in the adage
which teaches that these who live iu glass
houses shouldn't threw stones, then Dr.
Davis ought te be the last man te refer te
any ether physician as an irregular practi
tioner or a violator of the rules of profes
sional etiquette.
C. 11. Brown, M. I.
au Editor ou Professional Etiquette.
Ed. New Kra.
In view of the gravity of the surround surreund
iug circumstances and the shadow of death
which he says hangs ever an afflicted
family, the tone of Dr. Davis's communi
cation is in very bad taste, se much se that,
the publication of his statement of facts
iu such a connection is justified only be
cause it is supported by the certificate of
six reputable why siciaus who are above
the suspicion of lurking iu the shadow of
death te indulge in unseemly professional
animosities. If Drs. Brown and Hess did
make a mistake in diagnosing the disease,
Dr. Davis should have remembered that
the honored profession te which he belongs
canuet claim infallibility even in its eldest
members, and that he who ventures te
threw professional stones should first
make sure that he himself docs net live in
a glass house.
Frustration of it Safe Robbery.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says :
" II. A. Little, who has been a guest at
the St. Geerge hotel iu this city for sever
al days past, went into the office about 12
o'clock last night, when nobody was -pre
sent except Ferd Parker, the night clerk,
and a colored waiter. Stepping up te the
counter Little handed Parker a parcel,
asking him te put in the safe. Parker
turned toward the safe, when Little sprang
at him with drawn revolver and ordered
him te threw up his hands and keep still.
He then attempted te rob the safe but
Parker rushed upon him, wrenched the
pistol from his band and fired, sending a
ball through Little's body and inflicting a
fatal wound. Parker was arrested but no
doubt will be released as everybody thinks
he did right."
'Net Leaded " or Course.
While a son of ex-Sheriff Hankensen
was handling a leaded gun at his father's
house, near Mount Helly, New Jersey,
the weapon was .discharged. killing a
woman wlie had been in the employ of the
family several years.
While William L. Howe, of Portland,
Maine, and Jeseph H. Flint, of Concord,
New Hampshire, classmates iu Dartmouth
college, were walking down one of the
streets of Hanover, New Hampshire, a
shotgun, carried by Flint, was discharged,
and the contents entering Howe's back
caused a wound of which he died in a few
hours. It seems that Flint was going out
te hunt, and, supposing his gun unleaded,
put ou a cap and pulled the trigger, hold
ing the weapon at such an elevation that
Howe received the discharge.
MelghiuK In MasMchnimttl.
William Robinson and James Goodell
were severely wcunded in a fight with six
drunken men whom they encountered
while sleighing.near North Adams, Massa
chusetts. Goodell died of his injuries.
Twe of their assailants have been arrested.
TO-DAY'S TIDINGS.
NEWS OF ALL SORTS.
Crime and Calamity Obituary Notes News
Miscellany.
There were 817 deaths, 500 births and
238 marriages in New Yerk city last
week.
There are new 70,000 claims for the fix
ing of a fair rent listed iu the Land court.
A farmer named Heyt was killed by a
blew from a pitchfork during a quarrel
with some ether farmers at Durautl, Min
nesota, en Saturday night.
Themas Jennings, supposed te have
been a Philadelphian, was drowned in the
river at Pittsburgh, by the upsetting of a
beat.
R. S. Payne, the Democratic candidate
for mayor, was elected at Knoxville, Tenn.
ou Saturday by 234 majority. Of the
beard of aldermen 12 aie Democrats and
4 Republicans.
The grand jury at Jeffersen, Ohie, ig
nored the bill against White and Heldeu
for engaging in a prize lignt in that coun
ty. Meney is alleged te have been used te
secure this result.
Wm. Murray, aged 34 years, a clerk em
ployed by Agebcl & Day, fruit dealers, at
New Yerk, committed suicide ou Saturday
by cutting his threat with a razor.
"The murder of Mrs. Betsy Bland, at
Stanford, Ky., was for the purpose of rob
bery. AYni. Dusteu, the murderer, is in
jail at Lancaster, Ky., and is in danger of
being lynched.
Mary Harrington, a scrvaut girl at Sing
Sing, New Yerk, being sick of typhus
fever, jumped from a second stcry window
early en Saturday morning and then ran
down te the river aud plunged iu. Her
body was recovered seen after.
Where the Celd Wuve Starts.
A heavy snow storm raged throughout
Northwestern Ontario en' Saturday night
aud yesterday .
A cold westerly gale prevailed yester
day at Bosten, the wind reaching a
velocity of 40 miles an hour. At mid
night the temperature was 11 degrees
above zero.
Tlie Nurviveis or the Jeauuctte.
Intelligence from Yakutsk states that
nine Amcricaus under Lieutenant Daucn Daucn
hewer left that place en the 8th hist. They
are expected at Irkutsk at the end of the
month. The search made bg Engineer
Melville for Lieutenant De Leng and his
comrades in an easterly direction from the
mouth of the Lena has been fruitless,,
although some of De Leng's letters have
been found in abandoned camps, as well
as the ship's leg and various instruments.
The places mi which these have been found
have been indicated by the erection of
cairns.
coasting.
A boy named Fellows, 13 years of age,
was fatally injured by running into an om
nibus while coasting at Saugerties, New
Yerk.
Charles Royal, nine years old, was killed
while coasting at Springfield, Massachu
setts. He sprang from his sled te avoid
collision with an approaching sleigh, aud
was struck en the bc.id by the horses
hoofs.
Canadian Crimes.
Au old man named Malier aud his
daughter were murdered near Cummins
ville, Ontario, by Michael Rourke, who
bearded with thorn. Maher's son was also
attacked, but lie drove Rourke off with a
a club. Rourke has net yet been arrested.
Jehn Smith, a farmer, living near Shcl
burne, Out., was murdered by au unknown
man, who shot him through a window of
his house. Smith was reputed wealthy,
aud robbery is supposed te have beeu the
cause of the murder. His nephew, the
only ether occupant of the house, fled te a
neighbor's en hearing the shot.
Eight Lives Lest in :t Itarlc.
signal corps station at Cape Hat-
The
tcras reports te the chief signal officer as
follews: "The bark F. L. Carney, from
Navassa, West India, te Baltimore, Cap
tain J. L. S. Merry, leailc;! with guano,
sunk three miles south of Ilattcras Inlet.
Eight lives lest. C. J. Cartsen, a Swede,
and Frank Blakley, colored, were saved."
200 Arabs Killed Uy the Turk.
A dispatch from Constantinople reports
that the Trkish regulars have defeatcd the
Arabs of Yemen, in Arabia, who had re
volted. The Arabs lest 200 killed.
The Spread et Epidemic.
Typhoid fever and diphtheria have
broken out in the Erie county jail. The
cases were isolated te-day. The jail is one
of the cleanest in the country, but imper
fect ventilation and a bad system of sew
erage counteract the sanitary work of the
sheriff.
I Ien ford M. Burr, a freshman at Am
herst (Mass) college, is alliicted with
varioleid. A number of his classmates
have been exposed te the disease, and
there is considerable excitement. Bun
rooms at ene of the professors' houses,
which has been quarantined.
The smallpox continues its ravages at
Pert Jervis, New Yerk. Thus far about
40 cases aud 7 deaths have been rn
ported. The disease is abating in Hudsen
county, New Jersey. Nearly 200 cases,
CO of thorn fatal, have been reported at
Fert Wayne, Indiana. In compliance with
an order of the secretary or the navy, all
the crews of United States vessels are new
being vaccinated.
Fallen from Grace.
Edward E. Blanchard, aged 29 years,
assistant teller of the Farmers' & Mechan
ics' national bank et Buffalo, disappeared
about a week age, with money oclengiug
te the bank. Wine, women and gambling
caused his ruin.
The extensive fish firm of Isbell & Mer
rill, of Detroit, has beeu placed in the
hands of a receiver. It was discovered
that Merrill, the junior partner, had been
selling property of the firm without the
knowledge of the senior partner and busi
ness manager, nd had disappeared. The
extent of his operations is net yet known.
In the district court at Cheyenne, Wy.
T., Chief Justice Sener has ordered the
name of Charles M. Heyt stricken from
the roll of practicing attorneys for failing
te pay ever 3,087 intrusted him by a
client. Heyt has lied, and was last heard
from iu New Yerk city. He has also been
indicted by the grand jury. A reward of
$200 is offered for his apprehension.
FRIGHTFUL FUN OF A FIEND.
Results In tils Committal te Prison for a Hor
rible Crime.
Wm. Tyseu, an unmarried man hoards
and works at Steelton. As Saturday was
payday, Tyson imbibed tee much bad
whisky and became possessed of a dcvilUh
spirit. While in this condition he returned
te his beardiug house. There the rum
worked en his brain and he became a hu
man fiend. He began te exercise his
fiendish propensities by kicking one of
the children of -the housoheld under
the table severely injuring it. Anether
child he took iu his arms and
placed ou a red het stove until some of
the flesh was burned off its body. While
a lady was remonstrating with him he
knocked her down and, no doubt would
have done her considerable harm had he
net in turn been knocked down by a col
ored man and then heavily handcuffed bv
a Steelton constable. The officer had him
committed te the lockup. Mr. Mickle, the
keeper of the lockup, staied that he car
ried en se badly that a man who had been
placed in the cell with him asked te be
placed in another cell, as Tyson was acting
like a maniac. Tyson bad cooled down
somewhat by yesterday afternoon.
DISASTROUS FLOOD.S
10,000 PEOPLE DRIVEN
HOMES.
FROM THEIR
The Great Rise in the River at Nashville
Distress et the Inhabitants Rail
roads Inundated.
The flood in the Cumberland river sur
passes anything of the kind ever seen in
Nashville, and previsions have taken an
upward tendency iu consequence. At
least 10,000 people have been compelled te
flee from their homes, and the end is net
'yet. Families are still moving from houses
that the water continues te eucreach upon.
Many moved te the upper stories of their
dwellings, hoping te escape without
further inconvenience, aud the work of
rescuing these was a terrible one. At
midnight a "dugout" could be seen mov
ing about en the water taking out the
imprisoned. The women and children in
some instances became panic-stricken when
they saw the renewed increase of waiers.
Many were crying and wringing their
hands in the most distressing manner, and
all begged for help. Friday night families
ou the borders passed the hours in sleep
lessness, as the raiu continued te pour in
torrents, aud they knew net what hour the
waters would creep into their households.
There Is great suffering in consequence,
but every effort is being made te help the
distressed. Fully two thousand work
men are out of work and will be for weeks
te come.
The Tennessee & Pacific railroad is cov
ered te the depth of twenty-four iuches
for 130 yards, and travel must step unless
the water subsides. Trains en the North Nerth
w. stern division of the Nashville, Chatta
nooga & St. Leuis railroad are greatly im
peded. They run from Nashville te Johns Jehns
ville and from Hickman te Camden with a
break of ten miles between Nashville and
ilickmau. The Teuucsse river at Jehnsville
is nine miles wide, extending nearly the
cntne distance from Jehusville te Cam
den. The gap is made by ilatbeat ferries.
A mile from Point Burnsidc, up the Cum
berland river it is said that the river is
still rising at that point. It rained con
tinuously there from 5 o'clock Friday
evening te 7 next morning. The New
Provideuce bridge has lest its place and
all be swept away.
The damage done te sewers will be in
calculable. In every direction they are
bursting and caving in, and from this
source alone an immense less will be sus
tained by the city. The caving in of a
street in Seuth Nashville broke the gas
pipes, and, consequently, that portion of
tlie city was put in darkness. I be river
new surrounds two blocks of stores en
Bread street, while merchants have had te
remove all goods from cellars of stores en
Market and Frent streets for a distance of
nearly half a mile. The Memphis & Lou
isville railroad is submerged for teu or
fifteen miles. Much of it will have te be
rebuilt.
A special dispatch from Clarksville,
Tenn., says the Cumberland river is six
inches abeve the great rise of 1847, and is
.still rising. The water works pumping
neuse is six feet under water. All the
trains en the railways south from Clarks
ville are discontinued. The city bridge
ever the Red river is endangered, aud all
the mills and factories en Frent street are
covered with water, ureat damage is
feared. All railroad communication with
Memphis is cut off, aud large quantities of
lumber arc floating away from the lumber
yards.
MILLIE CHRISTINE'S HOTEL. KILL.
A Cashier Cannet Comprehend Hew Twe
Mouths are Satisfied With One Meal.
Philadelphia Recerd.
Millie Christine, the two headed girl,
who some years attracted considerable at
tention from Dr. Pancoast and ether prom
inent members of the medical fraternity,
is at present a guest of the Great Western
hotel, en Market street, abeve Thirteenth.
On Saturday when her agent presented
himself at the cashier's desk te settle the
week's account he was surprised te find
that the bill read : "The Misses Chris
tine," and that beard was charged for two
persons.
" Hew de you make this out ?" asked
the agent as he looked at the bill and then
at the cashier.
"The lady has two heads, has she net'.'"
said the cashier.
The agent admitted that such was the
case.
" Aud she has two mouths '."' continued
the hotel man.
Again another affirmative ued.
"And she cats with both of them ?"
persisted Mr. Cashier.
" Yes," broke in the agent, " but she
only takes half a meal te each mouth."
" That's all very fine," responded the
cashier, " but you can't come that racket
ou us. She's get two heads aud two
mouths, aud she gets two meals served in
her room. New, if that doesn't consti
tute her two persons, then I'd better go
out of the business.."
The head waiter was called aud corrob
orated the statement concerning the
double feed. Then the agcut hied him te
an upper apartment aud demanded au
explanation from the double headed lass,
which developed the fact that while the
two meals were actually served, oue of
them was devoured by a veracious
curiosity that occupied au adjoining
room .
Somewhat of a similar affair accurred
en the Pennsylvania railroad a few weeks
age, when a conductor, who had net a
spark of humor in his system, gravely de
manded two fares for the monstrosity. It
was only with considerable difficulty that
her agent managed te convince him that
although there were two heads, four arms,
four legs aud two minds, it was only one
woman. After some demur the cenduc
ter agreed te accept the single ticket, but
up te the lime that the train reached the
depot he had failed te solve the arithmeti
cal conundrum, as te hew one and oue
could be simply one.
OIIITOAKI.
The Mere or Less Distinguished Dead.
General Silas Casey, U. S. A., retired,
died yesterday at his residence iu Brook
lyn, N. Y.
Rev. Enech Poud, D. D., president of
the Banger (Me.) theological seminary,
died en Saturday night, aged 91 years.
Hen. William Hottenstein died at Max
atawny, Berks county, en Friday, in his
92d year. He was elected te the Legisla
ture by the Democrats iu 1831.
Henry E. Rucltwull, secretary of the
United States fish commission, dropped
dead of heart disease in Washington, last
night. He was 71 years of age.
Mrs. Barmere died at Rockland Lake,
N. Y , ou Friday, at the alleged age of 103
years. fcue was the mother et Aiircti isar isar
raere. for many years president of the
Knickerbocker ice company of New Yerk,
who died in 1875, at the age of 70.
Geerge Payne, well-known te visitors of
museums throughout the United Shatcs as
"the man without arms," died last Thurs
day at his home in Williamsburg, N. Y.,
aged 27 years. Frem his birth he was
compelled te make his legs and tees de
service for arms and hands, and he fed
himself like ethor people. He also shaved
himself and was a geed penman. He
leaves a wife and child.
The funeral of ex Governer Bulleck, of
Massachusetts, te.ik place en Saturday at
Worcester, and was largely attended,
among the mourners being members of
the Legislature, military officers, and rep
resentatives of Amherst college. The
Episcopal burial service was read. The
pall bearers were : Alexander II. Rice, ex.
Governer Themas Talbot, Governer Leng,
De Witt Fester, Dr. Jeseph Sargent, Dr.
Themas II. Gage, Francis H. Dewey and
Jeseph Masen.
A GIFT OF A MILLION.
A Preposition te Give te the City el Haiti-
mere a Public Library.
In Baltimore Enech Pratt, one of the
solid business men and president of the
National Farmers' and Planters' bank, has
formally proposed te the mayor and city
council te establish aud endow a "free
circulating library for the benefit of the
whole city" at a ce3t of ever one million
dollars, provided the city will grant and
crcate an auuuity of $30,000 per annum
forever, for the support and maintenance
of the library and its brauches. Mr. Pratt
in his letter te the mayor says he has
already, in pursuance of his plan, con
tracted for the erection of a fireproof
building en his Mulberry street property
capable of holding two hundred thousand
volumes, which will be completed in the
summer of 1883 at a cost of $223,000.
This he will deed te the city and he will
donate in money the additional sum of
$333,000 en the condition mentioned. He
proposes that a beard of nine trustees be
incorporated for the management of the
"Pratt Free Library ;" no trustee or offi
cer te be appointed or removed en religious
or political grounds.
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A Wealthy Widow's Suicide.
Mrs. Rebecca Rankin, a wealthy widow
living a few miles south of Newcomers
town, Ohie, was found hanging dead in
her smokehouse, having committed sui
cide during the night. She had recently
become possessed with the idea that she
would die in poverty, the bare thought of
whica prompted her te prevent the imagi
nary catastrophe by self destruction, bhc
was sixty years old.
Grant's Brethcr-ln-Law.
Themas M. Cenklin has foreclosed a
mortgage ou 112 acres of land at West
Park, L. I., which is owned by General
Themas F. Casey, a brother in-law of ex-
rrcsident Grant. Iho laud, en which U.
S. Grant, jr., also has a mertgage of
$5,000, is unimproved, but it is said te be
similar te that el Garden City. Iho
sheriff of Dueens county, New Yerk, was
instructed te sell the property ou Wednes
day next.
L00Al71?fELLIGENCE
MARRIAUE INSURANCE.
Tlie Mt-.tlmds ky Which Yeuug Couples a
Defraudett of Their Meney.
Rending Dispatch te New Yerk Sun.
Suits are about te be instituted by three
young married couples residing near
Reamstown, which will expose the
methods of the marriage insurauce com
panies, iu which the complainants arc in
terested. Iho plaintiffs were married
hist thirteen months age. Prier te their
marriage they were approached by three
agents, who, it is alleged, premised that
the companies would pay each member $430
ene year after their marriage. 1 he young
people paid $10 apiece for their policies or
certificates, and $4 annual dues. Twe
weeks after their policies were received they
were married and liepelully looked for
ward te the time when they would reccive
their money. The three couples live near
together, and the numbers of their ccr tiff
cates ran up from 475 te 4S0 inclusive.
Three-weeks age they sent the companies
notice that their year was up, aud that
they wanted their money as premised.
They received word that the companies
were paying off as Hist as possible
and that they would have te wait until
their turn came. The next day's
mail brought six envelopes, each of
them containing fifteen notices of assess
ment, amounting in each case te $18 75.
The very next week another batch of
notices were received, and they continued
te come s fast that before a month had
passed their assessments called for $50
each. They refused te pay, and consulted
an ex-agent of another company. He told
them that they would either have te pay
their assessments or forfeit their policies.
Said he : "And that is net the worst of it,
either. . Your policies are exceedingly
high numbered. I dare say that out of
the 475 persons who are ahead of you at
least 350 are married new and waiting for
their money, just as you all are.
Before your turns come te get your
money each of you will have te pay at
least 350 assessments of $1.25 each; se
you see the very best thing you can de is
te step right where you are and go no
further. The chances are 100 te 1 that by
the time you will have paid your 330 as
sessments the policy holders who come
after you will be utterly unable te keep
up the drain en their purses, and you can
not get your money. De net invest any
mere. Make up your minds that what you
have already paid out is lest forever, aud
thank your stars it is net mere. The
companies you are in arc perfectly willing
te carry out their part of the contract,
provided you are. Your certificate plainly
shows that you must pay up all assess
ments that the company calls for in order
te satisfy the just claims of these whose
policies are ahead of yours. If you de net
comply you cease te be a member and
your policy becomes null and void."
The young people declare that they had
no such understanding, and that they
were insured te get $ 150 one year after
tlieir marriage. A number of lawyers are
examining into this matter with a view of
beginning a war against these marriage
insurance companies if there is any possi
ble legal way te get at it. They arc
aware that hundreds of young persons
have been induced te become insured
prier te their weddings. The Pennsylva
nia courts new positively refuse te charter
any mere of the companies, en the ground
that their business is corrupt and fraudu
lent ; and the probabilities are that the
next important move will be made against
these who have been chartered, but whose
duped members are waiting in vain for
their money. Very many efliceis arc
quietly withdrawing, anticipating the im
pending conflict. Other companies are
quietly consolidating and transferring their
business.
Diamond Cut Diamond.
The ether day a peer Irish woman stop step
ped at the Pennsylvania railroad depot,
and seeing Hecter" Kautz, the depot
policeman, in his handsome blue uniform,
mistook him for the owner of the railroad,
and asked him if he wouldn't be kind
enough te give her a free pass te
Yerk. Net wishing te be bothered with
the woman, and thinking te have some fun,
Hecter directed the woman te go te the
superintendent, pointing out as that offi
cial a certain well-known dentist. The
teeth-puller took iu the situation at
a glance and told the woman te go into
his office ( pointing te Hecter's cozy little
box) and wait until he returned with the
ticket. The woman did as directed and
the dentist went down street. When Hec Hec
eor came around again, andaaw the woman
occupying his office, he told her te get, but
she answered net a step would she go ter
the likes of him, for the superintendent
had told her te stay in the office until she
get her ticket and she was going te de se.
Neither threats, persuasien nor explana
tion had the least effect en her and Hecter
was obliged te stand out in the cold for
the balance of the afternoen:
Sales of Tobacco.
Wm. McComb, of Drumere township,
delivered today 2,100 pounds of tobacco
te Heffman it Sens, and received 28, 14, 8
and 3, respectively for the four grades into
which the crop was asssrted.
Christian L. Kauffman, of Salisbury
township, has sold 2 acres te M. Mc
Laughlin at 20, 10 and -V
J. D. Ilasseu sold 2 acres te the same
gentleman for 20, 12, 8 and 3, and Henry
M. Hassen 1 acre te same at 21, 8 and 3.
COUltT PROCEEDINGS.
Licenses Common Pleas Miscellaneous.
On Saturday afternoon the licenses were
taken up by the court and the old stands,
against which there were no remenstrances
were granted. Iu addition te these the
following liquor store licenses were granted
te persons in this city : Jehn L. Bnchcr,
Third ward ; Frederick Engle, Fourth
ward ; Jehn Dickcl, Ninth ward ; Herace
G. Heuscal & Ce., Seceud ward.
Iu the case of cem'th vs. Jehn Pciffer,
charged with desertion by his wife, the
court directed the defendant te pay $1.50
per week te his wife for the support of his
child uutil February, when the case will be
reheard.
Common Pleas.
This morning the first week of January
common pleas court began, with both
judges en the beuch and Judge Livingston
presiding.
There were thirty cases en the list, but
after it had been called ever it was found
that but seventceu or them were ready for
trial.
The case of Lucy Maze vs. Levi Rick
sccker, executer of Henry Shaffner, dee'd,
was marked settled.
Iu the case of Geerge M Stcinmau &
Ce. vs. J. P. Stermfeltz and Jacob Gable
issue te ascertain when the erection of the
heuse of Wm. Fitzpatrick was begun, the
issue was withdrawn.
Eliza A. Bare ct al. vs. JeUu Sellers;
summons iu ejectment. Iu this case a
verdict was taken iu favor of the de
fense. CKOI
Anether Celd Wave Sweeps Over Us.
The mild weather of the past few days
was followed yesterday by a high gale of
wind from the northwest, and a very rapid
fall of temperature. This morning the
thermometers iu this city marked 10 ami
12 degrees abeve zero. This is net quite
as low as was marked during the Iato cold
snaps (niue degrees) but the policemen,
bakers, milkmen and ethers who had te
be en the streets before daybreak, say
they suffered moie from cold than they
had at any former time during the present
winter'
Venner's prophecy has beeu literally ful
filled this time, as the cold wave appears
te have extended ever a bread belt of ter
ritory all the way from Manitoba te the
Atlantic seaboard.
At the city mill the water pumps were
se clogged with ice that they had te be
stepped at midnight, and Superintendent
Kitch was telephoned before daybreak te
visit the works. The Worthington pump
was also choked with slush ice, which had
broken in the wire screen protecting the
well from which the pump is fed. The
steam pump had te be stepped from 7$ te
i) o'clock this morning aud the water
pumps from midnight until 10 this morn
ing. During the time they were stepped
the water in the reservoirs fell about ene
feet. By neon it had risen six inches aud
is new at its usual height. Men were all
morning hard at work keeping the head
race free from the slush ice that interfered
with the pumps. Notwithstanding the
high water and the swift current the city
dam was frozen ever by midnight, and at
neon te-day the ice was two inches iu
thickness. On the ponds iu the vicinity of
the city the ice is of course thicker and
the ice-men are busily engaged harvesting
it, and hoping almost against hepe for a
continuance of the cold weather.
DtATU Or A THOROUGHBRED.
She Breaks Open Her Stable In Search of
Medicine.
Mr. B. J. McGrauu's old marc Kate was
taken with colic en Saturday night ami
died. She was a thoroughbred, and had
something of a history. During the first
raid made by Gcu. Negley's brigade from
Columbia, Tenn., te Chattanooga, a num
ber el fine Confederate horses were captur
ed and confiscated. The mare Kate, theu
a three year-old, was sent te Lancaster
by Cel. Hambright, whose regiment form
ed a part of Negley's command.
She was bought by Mr. McGranu,
aud for the past nineteen or twenty years
has been owned by him. She ran several
races and wen them all. She was the
dam of eight fine colts among them Miss
Leamington, a half-sister of the famous
Iroquois. The manner of Kate's death is
somewhat peculiar. She was stabled at
the park stables, and late Saturday night
(being in great paiu no doubt) she kicked
open the stable deer, broke her halter,
and made her way te the heuse of Mr.
Reilly, her groom. Here she stamped aud
pawed at the perch until Mr. Reilly get up
te sec what was the matter. His practiced
eye at once told him the mare was suffer
ing from colic. He hastened for a veter
inary surgeon aud Dr. Tracy was seen iu
attendance, but -tee late te be of any
service. He sa'.d the mare must die, aud
seen afterwards she was dead. She had
once or twice before suffered greatly from
colic and had been cured, aud there is
little doubt she broke out of the htable
last night and called at Mr. Reilly's for
her usual medicine. "
l.lst ir Unclaimed Letters.
The following is a list of unclaimed let
ters remaining in the posteflicc for the
week ending January 23, 1882 :
huhes' TAht. Miss Hattii; Fisher, .Mrs.
Anna Flin, Anna 31. Gray, Miss Kate G.
Geed, Miss Ilcttie II. Hess, Miss Lizzie
A. Hess, Miss Minnie B. Immel. .Miss
Sallie Kcifer, 3Irs. Lizzie Mauck, 3Irs. I).
B. Rohrer, Mrs. Mary Shafer, Miss Ida
Siple, Mrs. Mary .Jane Schmidt. Miss
3Iillie E. Snyder, Bessie E. F. Spiccr,
Mrs. Rebecca Wcitzcl.
Gent' List. F. Armstrong, And. Bcr
gcr, Aug. R. Bair, W. 31. Baumaii, Chas.
P. Benncll, I. S. Dixen (2), Peter Dew
dell. Elmer Fidler. Darnel Gallagher,
Jehn Hummer, 31. B. lies-, W. II.Head-
ley, Edward Lites. II. II. C. 3Iyers, Robt.
.Morten, William Pickel. Harry Raymond,
Gee. Reynolds, Rev. II. S. IJice, N. E.
Rust, Jacob II. Rohrer.
Patents 'Granted.
A patent has been received by Henry S.
Stautl'er, of 3It. Jey, for au improvement
iu the irons which support the pests of a
perch. The novelty consists in haviug a
screw thread cut in the upright and the
washer tinen which the pest rests working
about the samu as a nut, enabling the pest
te be kept in its normal jKisitien upon any
sinking of the perch tloer by screwing up
the washer.
A patent has also been granted te Chas.
V. Rete, of this city, for a stay belt cutter.
The advantage about this cutter is that
it cuts off a belt without injury te the
thread of tlie part te be again screwed
into the sheeting, whilst the cutter itself
remains ou the belt until the whole of the
j-ame has been used.
These patents wcie secured through
Win. R. Gcrhart, solicitor of patents.
Larceny and Embezzlement.
Jehn Eberly, en complaint of his sister
inlaw, 3Iary Eberly. was arrested ou
charges of larceny and embezzlement, the
allegation being that after 3Iary's husband
(who was proprietor "of the Union hotel)
died, Jehn appropriated te his own use the
contents of the bar-room till. Alderman
McConemy held the accused te answer at
court.
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Passed Through.
On Saturday night 3Iaplesen's opera
company passed west through this city en
a special train en their way te Chicago,
where they open te-night.
Mayer's Cenrt. m
The mayor had eleven cases before him
this morning, most of whom were tramps,
who had voluntarily run into sung harbor
te avoid the blizzard from Manitoba.