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! TARIFF DEBATE CLOSED.
ttr. Reed and Speaker Carlisle
Wind Up the Discussion.
Summary of Their Speeches On
the Great Question.
After several weeks of debate, daring
which many speakers were heard on both
tides of the question, the discussion on the
Mills Tariff bill in the House of Representatives
has been closed. The last speakers
were Mr. Reed, of Maine, the Republican
leader in the House, and Speaker Carlisle.
A digest of th?ir speeches is given below:
Mr. Reed's Address.
Mr. Reed spoke without notes, having
committed his speech to memory. "If it be
true," he said, '*that by having their goods
manufactured abroad the people of the
United States, as a whole, will It come
richer and more prosperous and enjoy more
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all means sick national prejudice, burst the
barriers of provincial narrowness and with
one accord adopt not merely the present bill,
bat such legislation as will triple the spindles
of Europe and destroy our own.
"The revenue reform argument is either a
false pretence or covers the whole ground.
Protection is either in its essence a benefit or
a curse. You cannot dilute a curse and make
it a blessing. Incidental protection is a
sham. Tariff for revenue only must go
down before the same arguments which are
osed against protection. If protection be a
tax for manufacturers' benefit, it is the same
tax if it be the result of even a revenue tariff.
'< Incidental protection is of all the most inexcusable."
V
Turning his attention to the President's
Hessage Mr. Reed said: "If this message
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lrom our ruier do true, every mi turj ? wo
abode of a robber baron, more fell and sure
than ever swooped down a European hillaide
to harry a cavalcade of honest merchants.
In every mine lurks a more dreadful
giant than ever before smelled the blood
of an Englishman. But what do the friends
of virtue propose to do with these
wicked people? Sweep them out of existence
with the strong liand of justice?
The castles of the marauders are still to
moke upon the hill-tops, and the tall chimneys
are still to break the sky-line of this
unhappy country. They are to be allowed
to rob within 7 per cent, of what they rob
now, and as compensation they are to be let
loose npon the markets of the world, where,
according to the learned chairman, they will
reap larger wealth and pile np statelier millJons."
The speaker did not purpose to defend
protection. Its vast growth within the
last quarter of a century defended it better
even tnan eloquent orauous. it was uum
-with the Republic. It was the faith and
Sractice of every civilized nation under
lie sun save one. It bad stood up against
all the half knowledge of learned men who
never had tense enough to transmute their
learning into wisdom. On the face of the
earth to-day there are but two sets of people
who believed in free trade, whether
pure aad simple or disguised as revenue reform,
and those two are the masked majority
of the Committee on Ways and Means
and their followers, and the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, with Ireland
suppressed.
Mr. Reed asserted that if the principles of
-free trade were true there must be direct
taxation. He closed with a bit of ridicule at
tHe supposed dangers 01 trusts ana monopolies
_ .? and some comment on the growth of the
coantry, and especially of the South, since
I860.
Speaker Carlisle's Address.
Mr. Carlisle began by saying that if protection
was a sound doctrine it should be
carried to its logical conclusion?protective
duties. All taxation was an evil,
and trade should be made as free
as possible, with the lowest tax
that would afford the necessary revenue.
Commenting on the effects of protection
on manufactures, he said it was the manufacturing
interests of New England which
had the best reason to appeal for
further reduction of the tariff. He predicted
that if this bill became a law and
the effects of tariff reduction were fairly
tested the New England representatives
would com? back to Washington demanding
i further reduction in the interests of all her
people If they did not other men would be
'sent in their places.
New England under a low tariff had seen
prosperity. She had seen all her interests
thrive, but she had not seen vast fortunes accumulated
in a few years. Speaker Carlisle
jread at length from tariff reform speeches
i by Senators Wilson and Sumner in
-? * [1857. He quoted Senator Morrill as saying
'thirty years ago that a margin of 20 per
'cent of protection was all that was required.
iKesistance was offered to-day to the reduc
!tion of duties affording three times the protaction
which was then deemed necessary.
Labor, the speaker said, was paid out of
lits own product. The claim that a projtective
tariff at the same time reduced the
'cost of products and increased wages, was
DQjfe^r utterly inconsistent and unsound. It was
manifest that the same cause could not
iproduce both effects ? the fact was
that it produced neither. The increase in the
' efficiency of labor was due to the increased
[efficiency of mechanical device, co-operating
with human labor. The marvellous inven!
tions of this wondrous age were the cause of
jthe great increase of the inefficiency of labor.
The laborer who studies the operations of
ja high tariff cannot fail to .-find that the
! balanqe^ta^against him. The protectionists
[promised anome~marlcgf^ all-sufficient for
the consumption of all American produc .Iaw?
T^a *v\r\nlofmn trAiil/1 Vtorn tn Ka
rvtvuo. A UU yVj^UiUVIVU " VUIU ?<MI V ?V MV
100,000,000 before we could consume our own
wheat. Our demand would have to be
multiplied three times before the cotton product
could be consumed at home. The promised
home market could never bo secured.
The surplus must lie sold at the price";
fixed in the foreign market It was true
that the American product had some
effect in fixing the price in the foreign market,
but the world's supply and the world's
demand fixed that price. The product of
pauper labor of every class and every clime
entered into competition and must be met in
selling in the foreign market.
; NEWSY GLEANINGS.
, Henry T. Coxwklt,, the seventy-year-old
balloonist, has made 700 ascents.
Tnt? Cnlfan r\t V?aa ??noiT I
WU1WBU VI UIU put VUU?wU
cannons from the Krupps for $200,000.
E. P. Dcflex, a colored Justice of the
Peace, has been e1 xted Mayor of Wheatland,
California.
_ - ?r?Lojoj Wolselet has told Par
liament that 100,0p0 med men might capture
England.
, Deaths in New York city average twentysix
to the thousand. In London twenty to
the thousand.
I Hat and oats in Indiana have suffered
from drought, while cornfields are being devastated
by cut worms.
The sugar crop of Cuba, owing to prolonged
drought, will show a yield of ten to
twenty per cent, below that of last year.
The bonanza proprietors of the Nevada
bank, Mackay and Flood, have settled accounts,
paying ex-Senator Fair |2,00C ,000.
^ Some 350,000 boxes of oranges were shipped
from Florida to New York during the season
beginning with November and closing
April.
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HEH^SjfliiHsaS^BKancI twenty per cent, of some
United States aro said to
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eaitcrn and Middle State*.
The Brooklyn Democratic Club gave a
banquet at the Academy of Music in honor
of Secretary of the Treasury Fair child.
Fred. Mars den, the popular playwright,
committed suicide a few days ago at his home
in New York city. His daughter's wrongdoing
was the cause.
Peter J. Quinn, bookkeeper for C. G.
Dixon & Co.. builders, of Pittsburg, has absconded.
His accounts show a shortage of
$15,000.
John P. Webster, of Norridgewock,
Ma, the oldest attorney in Somerset County,
was killed by a fall from a railroad bridge.
At the Geileral Conference in New York,
Rev. Dr. J. H. Vincent and Rev. Dr. J. N.
Fitzgerald were elected Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
At a saw mill in Hewittville,St. Lawrence
County, N. Y., Horace Ellis, aged 18 years,
fell upon the saw. His head was severed
from his body and dropped through a hole in
the floor into the river.
Howard Gaskill, twelve years old, and
John Williams, aged fifteen, sons of well
known Lockport (N. Y.) citizens, were
drowned in tiw canal near tfcat city while
Ashing.
The Maine Democracy assembled in convention
at Augusta and nominated a ticket
headed by William L. Putnam for Governor.
Delegates were elected to the national convention
who are enthusiastic for Cleveland.
Resolutions were adopted favoring a reduction
of the tariff.
Two men were killed by a varnish explosion
in Philadelphia.
South and Weit.
By an explosion of dynamite at Negaunee,
Mich., Fred Hanburg and Charles Sundberg
were instantly killed. Sand berg's back was
terribly torn, and a staple from the door was
found in it Every baas ia Hanbergs's body
was broken.
A supplementary report od the d?fa3cation
of Tate, the Kentucky Treasurer, swells
the amount of his shortage to $247,000.
The Union Labor and the United Labor
parties have been holding National Cenven
tions m Cincinnati, but were suable to
unite on the land Question, and adopted
separate platforms. ll?e Union Labor man
nominated A. J. Streeter, of Illinois, for
President, and Charles E. Cunningham for
Vice- President. The United Labor party will
make nominations at some future any.
There was a revolt at the Virginia Republican
State Convention in Petersburg,
find two sets of Delegates-at Large, with exSenator
Mahone at the head of one, and John
S. Wise leading the other, were nominated
for the National Convention.
Minnesota's Democratic State Convention
met at St. Paul, and a delegation |
was elected to the National Convention which
is instructed to vote as a unit for Cleveland's i
renomination. A tariff reform platform was
adopted.
William George: has been hanged in the
penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, for murdering
an old farmer in Muskingum County.
A Qcincy (DL) dispatch says that the total
area of cultivated fields submerged by the
great flood in the two levee districts is
250,000 acres, and the loss to crops will aggregate
$3,000,000.
Edward Wilmax, of St. Charles, Mich.,
killed his wife because she persisted in joining
a church he objected to, and then shot
himself through the heart.
Four horse thieves were lynched by vigilantes
at Woodward, Indian Territory.
Hail fell at Pratt, Elan., with such force
as to destroy all the growing crops and kill
many pigs and cattla
Robert Smith set Are to the jail in which
he was confined at Cairo,111.,and was burned
to death in the destroyed prison.
Frantts T. Nichols was inaugurated as
Governor of Louisiana at Baton fiouge.
W. L. Bancroft, of Port Huron, Mich.,
has been appointed General Superintendent
Railway Mail Service, vice T. E. Nash, resigned.
The Genera] Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Chuch, which has
for three weeks been in session at Newberne,
N. C., has adjourned to meet at Pittsburg,
Penn., in May, 1392.
Both houses of the Louisiana Legislature
have elected Randall L. Gibson as United <
States Senator to succeed himself.
The Democratio Convention for the Thirteenth
Congressional District of Illinois has
renominated Congressman W. M Springer
by acclamation.
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Washington.
The Senate has confirmed the nominations i
os Robert B. Roosevelt, of New York, to be
Minister to the Netherlands: Thomas Brown
to be Consul at Paramaribo; and 0. H
Ernest, to be a member of the Mississippi
River Commission.
The new United States steel cruiser Baltimore,
building at Cramp's shipyard, Philadelphia,
will be launched on July 4. Mrs.
Cleveland will christen it and th9 President
will witness the launching.
According- to the present arrangement,
the Tariff bill will be laid aside by the House ;
for the present, and appropriation bills will
be taken up in the following order and
passed: The Legislative, the District of Columbia,
and the Post Office bills.
A bill has been referred to the House Military
Committee for the appropriation of
$2,000,000 to be used in experimenting with (
dynamite and other high explosives with a
view to determining the most suitable for sea
coast defences.
The Chinese Minister at Washington, ac
companied by his suite, has sailed for Lima
to look after China's interests in Peru.
The wife of Senator Sawyer, of Wiscon
sin. died, Monday, at her home in Washing
ton, of paralysis.
The President has approved the act for the 1
relief of the Mechanics1 National Bank of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. i
Foreign. _
A tarty of tithe collectors and police were ,
attacked by a mob at Lianifidd, Wales, and
In the conflict that followed thirty-five per- .
sons were injured, seven of them seriously. !
I.v a conflagration at Calbuzowa. in Galicia,
four hundred houses and the public
buildings of the town have been burned. ?
About forty prominent Home Rule leaders,
headed by Messrs. Parnell and Dillon, |
have issued a manifesto in reply to the Pope's .
late rescript against the Land LeagiR. 1
Five hundred persons have been drowned (
by floods in Mesopotamia. ,
The Emperor of Brazil has recovered from 1
the severe attack of pleurisy that threatened
his life. i
Five lumbermen were crossing the Aroos- (
Maw Rrnnswinlr vchftn t.hfiir 1
boat upset and three of them were drowned.
New Zealand has ratified a law which ,
prohibits the landing of Chinese under any ;
circumstances.
A STRANGE SPECTACLE.
Lights in the Form of a Human
Hand Dismay the Superstitions.
A strange spectacle was visible in the
northern sky at Findlay, Ohio, a few nights
ago, which has caused the greatest consternation.
It was the representation of a human
hand of immense proportions. Early in the
evening the sky in the north had a peculiar
look, which as the night wore on took tne form
of flashes of light, becoming more brilliant and
unnatural as the night advanced. About 11
o'clock those watching the phenomenon were
terrified to see the plumes of light concentrating
into a distinct object, which soon
assumed the shape of a giant's hand, well
f/vrmnH nnrl na HisHnrfc nq if tviinted
I upon the blacijj background of tfie sky.
kffhe band appeared to be a shadowy suoWfc^through
which waves of light of
I^OTj^H^color gurged aa regularly as
^BHnBS^n^hutqan breast and then fell
HBgg|Hflffl9BttN^Jlpger8 in drops of the
as hot air balfflHMGHBRRHE^9^M^Land
pointed
as if
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TEE WATERS RECEDE.
Illinois Farmers Lose Nearly
Four Million Dollars.
Great Suffering Caused in the Inundated
District.
The great flood in the Mississippi, which
will be remembered as without a precedent
In the destruction and suffering created, is
slowly abating, says a Quincy (UL) dispatch,
and it is thought that the worst of the high
water Is passed, .But the worse tnat couia
happen has already occurred, hundreds of
families having been rendered homeless, and
thousands of acres of growing crops ruined,
to say nothing of the loss entailed by demolished
dwellings, wrecked fences and washouts.
A trip through the submerged regions
shows that the stories of loss and suffering
already published have not been exaggerated
in the least. From the northsrn end of Adams
county to the southern end of Pike county
the land on the Illinois side of the
river was protected by a system of
levees, the region embracing 250,000 acres,
the soil being the richest in the State. All
the region was found to be one vast lake from
six to ten feet in depth. Along the bluffs on
tbe eastern edge of the submerged
district hundreds of families were camped,
living in tents, huts and the open air. Before
the flood most of these people ware well-to-do,
prosperous farmers, but now they have little
or nothing. Much sickness prevailed among
tbe unfortunates, but prompt measures were
taken to alleviate their sufferings.
Tbe Inundated regions were full of desolation.
Deserted homesteads, with the water
lapping the [eaves, were thejmost frequent, as
well as the most painenc sag?!. wane
the vast majority of the inhabitants fled to
the higher land a few were not granted
time to get away or misjudged the character
of the breaks in the level and determined to
stay with their homes and were seen living in
'the trees or on the roofs. Every roof was
turned into a place of refoge for livestock,
poultry, etc., but numberless houses have
been drifted from their foundations and carried
away with the irresistible current or demolished
entirely.
In the Sny levee district below Qufcncy,
HL, the situation was infinitely worse than
in the regions to the north. Tfee crevasse,
which completed the inundation, opened at
the upper end of the embankment and the
pent-up waters from the river poured
over tne vast tract of rich fanning land,
sweeping everything before tbem. The torrent
rushed down in a great wave several feet
high with a force which nothing oould with
stand. The towns of Fall Creek, Seehora
and Halls were mere islands and hundreds of
refugees were huddled together in limited
space. >
The damage to railroad property was
enormous, and it will be three weeks after
the water subsides before trains can be
running on time. Quincy was cat off from
railroad cominanicatian north, west and
south. The Quincy and Carthage track was
under water for a distance of several utiles.
The Quincy, Alton and St Louis track is
washed for miles, the bridges are gone and
telegraph poles down.
Owing to the great confusion it is impossible
to obtain detailed losses, but the aggregate
will reach fully $3,000,000 from crops
alone. The damage to the levees, houses
and railroads will approximate $600,090.
Beports received at Quincy. Ill, record
the drowning of Samuel Moore by the floods
in the Indian Grave levee district and of two
children of Wm. Johnson in the Sny district.
Two families living in the Sny district were
nnaocounted for and no trace of them could
be found. It is probable that many fatalities
will be recorded when all the facto regarding
the flood are tally Known.
A CHINESE LAWYER.
The First One of His Race Admitted
to Practice in America.
Among the recent successful applicants for
admission to the Bar of ffew York State was
Hong Yen Chang, of Brooklyn. He is the
only regularly admitted Chinese lawyer in
this country. In reply to questions of the
presiding judge in Poughkeepsie, before
whom hii application was made, he said be
was born in China, is 27 years old, and has
hoin in t.Viio winntrff flffcpAn Vfiam Ha
Btudied in New York City. He says he wai
refused admission at the General Term
in New York City, though the committee
composed of Erastus Ransom and
William Hornblower reported that he
had passed the required examination. He
Bays that Judge Van Brunt of Genpral Term
denied him admission for reasons which,
though he asked for them, were not given,
the Judge telling him that the Legislature
allowed the court discretion in the matter,
and all he know3 is that the court did not "in
its discretion" admit him.
Chang was educated at Yale, studied law
at Columbia College, and was recently naturalized.
The Legislature in 1887 passed an
act pemitting him to again apply for admission
to the Bar. In appearance he has a
decidedly Chinese look, but he speaks excel*
lent English. He is of medium height, rather
stout, and is a very blight young man. The
Examining Committee said he passed a very
creditable examination, and was deservedly
2?a ?
& vrcu ucu aui^iuuio.
THE LABOR^WORLD.
There are 2,000,030 electric lights in the
United States.
The annual production of coil tar in
France i3 60,000 tons.
About 10,000 men are employed in the
lumber business in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Sawdust need be wasted no more; there is
? demand for all that can be shipped to market
Baltimore gas companies have consoliiated
in defiance of the ordinance and put
up the price.
A monson (Maine) slate quarry owner has
begun the use of the waste slate for marbleized
purposes.
Germans use paper blocks for chimneys,
made of abestos, aluminum sulphate, chloride
}f zinc and resin soap.
? ??At n.-iis.
THE OOUiaera rouiuu uvuipaajr a ouu^d xu
Sacramento, Cal., where 2100 men are employed
will be enlarged.
The iron ore mines at Chestnut Hill, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, after being
worked for more than twenty-five years have
uecome exhausted.
Every striking "Q" engineer has lost $333
in wages to date, and has used up at least
1300 while idle. Each one is therefore at
[east $538 out of pocket.
Statistics appear to show that in England
iomestic servants are growing comparatively
fewer. In 1831 there were 1,000,000, but
in 1888 there are 1,250,000 only.
A Southern manufacturer says Southern
iron products are suffering from having gone
ahead pell-mell, booking orders right and
left at competitive rate3 which they cannot
furnish
The Quebec and Lake St. John Railway
Company, on pain of dismissal, prohibits its
employee from taking intoxicants while on
duty, or having them on the cars or premises
of the company.
The Great Northern Railway Company of
England insists that its engineers shall take
at least nine hours' rest between the one
day's labor and another as a precaution
acainst accidents.
Several hundred miles of railroad have
been laid in South America under the direction
of the Government, and 700 miles more
are projected. The rails are bought in Eng
laud, and cost about $25a ton delivered.
The operators in the coke regions of Pennsylvania
are weeding out the Huns, Poles
and Swedes. One firm that employs 10.00C
men will discharge all employes who do not
speak English, and no others will be employed
hereafter.
A company has been formed at Pittsburg '
with a capital of $100,000 to manufacture
brick from blast furnace cinders. The industry
is successful in England, and the projectors
count on turning out 30,000 brick pei
day, which they expect to market at $5 pei
itousand.
Hj^^ucLOTnrNQ, as it is made in large
^Bfl^^^^der contract, is done in section?.
of girls make one part.
HEnBSH HBtejl Thus it is passe J
B^HRHBHu advertised t&
BHBi9i|Mi^paicl little.
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SUMMARY OF OOMBE33,
Senate ProceedIn**.
96th Day. ?A bill was passed appropriating
$17,500 to iflake the west end cr the
Smithsonian Institution fireproof... The
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
made favorable reports on public building
bills as follows: Newport News. Va , $100,D00;
Staunton, Va., $50,000?The following
bills were introduced: By Mr. Blair, to secure
to the people the enjoyment of the first
day of the weelc as a day of rest and to permit
its observance as a day of religious worship.
It provides that on the Loni's day no
person shall perform any sscu'ar work, except
in cases of necessity and humanity, or
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engage in am use mem, tu iuc ujaimi uauiv ui
others, nor shall the mails be collected or
delivered except when the life or death of any
person is concerned, nor shall commerce between
States be lawful on this day; to in,
corporate the American Historical Association
The Senate bill for the erection of
Postoffice buildings in place3 whera the Postoffice
receipts for three years preceding have
exceeded $3000 annually went over without
action Mr. Frye, from the Committee on
Commerce, reported back the River and
Harbor bill with amendments, increasing
the appropriation by fl,4?2.600.
97th Day.?A committee of conference on
the Pension Appropriation bill was appointed,
consisting of Senators Allison,
Dawes and Gorman....A bill to provide
pneumatic gun carriages for the War Department
was placed on the calendar....
These bills we*e passed: To incorporate the
National Academy of Dental Science; appropriating
$125,000 for a public building at
Faterson, N. J.; the Honse bill appropriating
125,000 for a public building at Bar
Harbor, Ma; the bill to establish a Department
of Labor.... It was decided not to con?fctar
the Fisheries Treaty in open session
The Senate Committee "on Finance ordered
an adversejreport on the Fractional Cur- I
rency bilL
98th Day.?The Hiddlebereer resolution
for open sessions was discussed, but not put |
to a vote The Senate then adjourned out
of respect for the memory of Senator Sawyer's
deceased wife.
Houm ProoMdlne*.
117th Day.?The debate over the Mills
Tariff bill occupied the entire days' session.
Immediately after roll call the House resolved
itself into Committee of the Whole,
with Mr. Springer in the chair. Mr. Randall
took the floor and made an elaborate argument
in opposition to the measure. He outlined
the Bcope of the bill he proposes to introduce,
the plan of which is" to remove all
internal reveifue taxes except upon alcohol
used in the arts, and to tax whisky fifty cents
per gallon, transferring the duty of collecting
this tax to the customs service. Then he
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would revise tne tanir ia iqb una \>l ?,ue
Democratic platform of 1884 Mr. Randal]
was followed by Mr. McKinley, who made a
lengthy speech in opposition to any tariff redaction.
The discussion was prolonged
throughout the remainder of the day's session
by a long address in support of the Mills
bilL delivered by Mr. Breckinridge.
118th Day.?The House resolved itself into
a Committee of the Whole on the Mills bill.
Mr. Springer in the chair, who announced
that with to-day's session would close the
long debate over the Tariff measure. The
entire session was consumed by the lengthy
speeches of Messrs. Carlisle and Reed, the
former supporting the Mills Tariff Reduction
bill and tne latter opposing it
119th Day.?The Senate amendments to
the Pension Appropriation bill were nonconcurred
in, ana a conference ordered....
On motion of Mr. Dunn a resolution was
adoDted directing: the Committee on Mer
chant Marine and Fisheries to investigate
the fur 6eal fisheries of Alaska.... Mr. DaTzell
made a personal explanation in regard to Mr.
Scott's speech The following bills were introduced
and referred: Placing on the free
list articles of merchandise the production of
which may be controlled by trusts and combinations;
permitting the Park Commissionera
of New York to improve Governor's Island,
in connection with a public park to be
laid out on that island and on connected land
.... The Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation
bill was passed The bill to establish an
executive department known as the Department
of Agriculture was passed....The District
of Columbia Appropriation bill was
considered in Committee of the Whole and
passed by the House.
120th 1)at.?The bill introduced by Mr.
O'Neill, Chairman of the Labor Committee,
to confine the sale of the products of convict
labor occupied the attention of the House all
day. It was discussed by Messrs. Cannon,
Butterworth, Plumb, Long and O'Neill, but
the matter went over without final action.
121st Dat.?The House devoted its whole
time to the consideration of the Postoffice appropriation
bill, which makes an increase of
cfi rvv> rmn on t,h? umml ftrmronriation for thi-t
purpose. When the bill came to be discussed
in detail it was found that a proviso had been
inserted authorizing the Postmaster General
to allow rent, light and fuel to third-class
postmasters, who hitherto have had to pay
their own rent This provoked such lengthy
discussion that the entire measure went over
as unfinished business.
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
The Raging Mississippi Causing
Widespread Destruction.
A dispatch from Quincy, 111., says that the
Mississippi River had risen nine inches, and
was higher than ever before known, excepting
during the great flood of 185L Rail
communication with the West was entirely
cut off, the tracks of all the roads on the
Missouri side of the river being flooded.
Bridges and tracks were held down by trains
of flat cars loaded with railroad iron. Nearly
every levee in that section is broken, and the
loss to farming interests will be enormous.
All the mills and factories along the river*
am onrl chnfr. rlnwn MrTIV
fishermen's bouses and other small buildings
were floating down the river, and men were
out with boats towing them asnore.
Hogs, cows, and horses could be seen swimming
in the flood until they came in contact
with some obstacle upon which their bodies
would be mangled. The smaller houses in
the bottoms are wrecked.
Many hundreds of cattle were drowned, so
suddenly did the flood come upon the doomed
farms and pastures. Many rowboa's and
flat boats have come to Quincy containing
such household effects as the
unfortunate inhabitants of the flooded
country could hastily get together,
farmers with their wives and children finding
this the only means of reaching a place of
safety. At Carton, 111., fifteen miles above
Quincy, school houses and churches were
filled with refugees. A largely-attended
meeting was held in Quincy to provide means
of relief for the thousands of suffer* *8 along
the lowlands.
FOUR PEBSOKS SUFFOCATED.
A? A 1Tf/v*Mavi nn/1 TTnf* Thrflft
Alt XX |4 CU ft VJIIIUU MUM uva *M?WW
Grandchildren Perish.
"William Llewellyn, a letter carrier left his
pleasant little home in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday
evening; in compahy with his wife, and
when they returned a few hours later, they
found the house partly consumed by fire,
while in the parlor, surrounded by a crowd
of firemen, lay the bodies of Mrs. Llewellyn's
mother and three children of the family, all
suffocated to death by smoke.
The alarm of fire was turned in about
eleven o'clock. The firemen were not aware
at first that any one was in the building, and
when they became aware of that fact it was
too late to save the unfortunate inmatex
In a rear room were found the bodies of
four victims. The aged grandmother was
lying on the floor, with the youngest child
clasped In her arms, having evidently perished
while endeavoring to make her escape.
The boy was in bed, dead, while the fouryear-old
girl was on the floor, behind her
crib, where she had fallen in her struggles
for life.
Their names and ages are as follows: Mrs.
Elizabeth Lewis, agod sixty-eight years; Albert
Llewellyn,aged six years; Fanny Llewellyn,
aged four years, and Nellie Llewellyn,
aged eighteen montrn
Ik a recent fire near Tower, Dakota, a girl,
barely sixteen, saved the lives of two small
children by rushing through fiames to their
bedside, and dragging them to where she
could throw them to the earth without
danger, and herself leaping after.
A recent itorm on the Maine coast
washed hundreds of lobsters ashore at York
Mo3t of the large ones were dead, having
been crushed by the wavee. One citizen
picked up 150 email live ones in a few
minutes.
Several rich deposits hare been discovered
in the olckwater course beds of Southern
Florida thatproilv$e^^^^i^5tate with
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The Baron'^H^H|M?9|^^B|
Gameke<SRBn^H9HHS
Emil KreitmeyHMNH^^BB^^^^^^Hfl
ployed at Ecoaoi^HB|^HH8H^BHH|^H^B
past as. a farm
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be has
nouncement that hHHEHS^HH^^HHBBm
and that be ^HHn^BO|^^HHj
title of
Oberamt
berg, Germany. ''
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epondent, contains s'^HMEunffl^RflMSEMflR
dozen novels and ^^^mNHHB^^E^|B^HH[
unquestionable, as
substantiates hiseve^H|H^^^H9H^H^SHfl|
production docuii^H^BHH^H^HH^KH
most unimpeachable
Kreitmeyer is the
Baron of the same bafl^^^HHH^^KHI^Hg
father's estates in the
named forty-eight
ing his majority he ^H^BQBflHKfiSHHj
with Wilhelmlna Freit^^H^MHBHfl^H^HHH
ter of his father's hM[H0BH|HEHB|^^fl
oyed, rosy-cheeked, buj^UHn^^HHWM
whom at length hecla^H^HuB^H^BB^^HflQ
When the concealm'^HBMfl^KH^R^H^H
riage was no longer
Emirs noble father
pronounced aii&themn,'JH3BHBH||^^^H^Hn
on for having disgraoe^^B9^H|^KH[HHn|
alliance with a peasani .SE^HH^B^^BESUUfaQi
of doors and forbade hrB|^H^HHnBH
the threshold of the
Thus cast off by his fathix
aristocratic friends.
phickily resolved to taki^l^BHHnBHH|HSra
the sea and endeavor toj^K^^^BHUfl^HHB
living for her by the lat
New World. During i ^HmRnHnflD
sen ted him with a son f Hj^D9NMB8HHH
mother and child died
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Meanwhile the ^nsofgHB^nnni
booming, and when
New York he found thf
excitement Having bef.^H^^HgMHlMIH
father for the army,
home as an officer Of
and having no other pn,c^^K^BH^M^H^^M
employment KreUmev^^^M^^RjHES^Ufljf
in a New York regimentQ^H^H^HHE^BflBB
of Bull Rnn he was carrie.
a Confederate bullet in
long weeks afterward h(? HHHBBHHB
Washington hospital
recovered to leave * l^HH^^KHHHRpjK|
returned to his
lantly until the very end. of a
again twide wounded, and
a Confederate sharpshooter
in hiu head, continues therc^^Bj^^H^BgHMRn
day. For a time he did sp^^HHHfl^EHnfafl
messenger at the headquarterM|^nflBHH|^K|
Dowell, and in this capacity
into contact with many of
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tinguished individuals of that
eral of whom he received 8ubHn9flMB9|HHH
of regard.
When mustered out of Berv^HEK^BRS9j|R|Bt
surrender, Kreitmeyer, havin^H^EffiHH^B^MB
stemious life and carefully s^HMHUDHM
found himself the possessor
and with this sum he determii^HD^^H^^H|M|
the water and pay a visit inc^^MQU^HHHHK
neighborhood of his old home^BM^^B^BHBfii
he had never received a ^vo^HBB^HflBKflMQI
gence since leaving it morMBfK^8SMR89
years previously. On
Oberarat Maulbronn he
wended hia way, by the road7HHHR^^BSj|B|
well, to the lodge in the forest
estates, whence he had led
long ago. Making himself
father-in-law, the old gamekee>
from him that both his parenK^fBMl^^BnBB
and that his elder brother was
the title and estates.
Completely overcome and
news of hiq mother's death,
sought a reconciliation with hifJ^HHHHH|H^H|
the new Baron declared that he
forgive the disgrace which Emil
upon the family name by his
th? gamwWwr'firiaTiflhtarAnrt ^ WBW^
example oI his father he anatber^^HHnC^HBBg
returned soldier and turned hilM|^BN^^^9|
the second tima Feelint^M^Hj^HBM
friendless and alone in
Kreitmeyer came to the conclusionM^HBBMjHjjH
best thine he could do was to get
as possible. Accordingly he enlii^H^^H^H^R|
Prussian army, and continued in
for a period of fifteen years,
time ne passed unharmed through
Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prus^^^M^nBH|
though on more than one occasioi^H|flRK|BBBj
was shot under him.
He left the army in 1880 resolved^^^EH^MB^H
to the United States; bat bis seconH^^HHB^^H
this country was not so fortunate
Many of his old friends and patt^HBSHH^HSH
dead, while others had retirea fr^M^^DHBU
life and were scattered in various
country, and he experienced cqSHHRHH^Z
?1Lja--u" tami?
uiincmty m oTrnmrm^?|
After wandering about for*
time from city to city, . tt^Hfl^H^9R|
his band to any odd jobs he coula? (3HHMnVHS
be at length drifted to Economy an^flO^^B^^KBHK
employment as a farm laborer, in
pacity he has continued for
Some three or four months
out mentioning the matter
one, he answered an advecttafl^HMjflH
in a German newspaper for infgrpi^HR8K9^H
concerning Etail von Kreitmeyer,
barony and estates of Von
Oberamt Maulbronn, Wurtemberg,
?the last incumbent, Emil's brotherjflfc^BKaNKSl
recently died. Considerable corresptat^HRfl^^HH
passed on the subject, and Kreitmeg&flHwHjS
received a letter with a German
from the family solicitors, enclosing
on New York for a sum sufficient tdjgg^BSfl^BB
all his wants' and enable him to travwnn9QH^^BH
gentleman to Oberamt Maulbronn,
title and estates await him. SHhHBHB
PROMINENT PEQPLI^^^B
The Sultan of Turkey gets
annum.
The ^Shah^of Persia has a privatelra^HJ^MH
United States Senator dajpbimijhjhflm
ing picture of Garfield.
Edison, the inventor, says he would gnjjjHBB^Efi
all his fame to recover his hearings -' :
General Crook, the Indian fighter
been thirty-six years in the service. '.7?^iHBR?b|
The ex-Empress Eugenie, of France,
again be Queen Victoria's guest at OsbotE&HBH^B
this Summer. BhHR
Abdul Hue, who entered the Engili^^HH^nj
Government service in India at $150j^^^HR^H
month, has saved S2.50u.000 in six or sein^^HHK
yearn jSMHES
A Monumental statue of Lord BeacojW HH
field is to be erected at Maidstone, Englan? NHH
which place he represented in Parliament wRBfl
nore than fifty years ago. 4 |
The Queen of Sweden is just now
Bournemouth, England. She rides daily
a small and gentle donkey, and is attende^^HDH
by two or three men servants. tHgjHfl
It was while staying at the late Matthevs^HHjm
Arnold's house at Harrow, England, tbat^HB^H
Prince Thomas of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, ro-^KCZK
ceived and declined the offer of tbe crown of^KS^nj
Spain. H|^n|
Miss Linda Gilbert has devoted fifteen HH
years and most of her fortune to prison reform.
She has established twenty-two libraries
in the prisons of different States and
found employment for $0000 convicts. nHREj
The Prince of Wales if he has won money
on a race tilts his bat over his eyebrows, and
talks rapidly to any one who .vmy be with
him. If he has lost ho takes his hat off, wipes JHBM
bis forehead w th his handkerchief and main- !3^hB
feino a catwro cilon^a
Sin Charles Tilson* Bright, one of the clHB
projectors of the first transatlantic cable,
who has since been prominently identified vH(
with the extension of submarine telegraphs
throughout the world, died at London a few
days ago, aged fifty-six. jHB
Mics Gabrielle Greeley, the daughter
and only surviving child of the great editor, the^B
is living a quiet and useful life at her country tje:
home near Chappaqua, N. Y. She is a well
developed, strongly built young woman with <
a brignt and beautiful face. r. 9
Ezekiel E. Smith,who has been appointed. Jm/MM
Minister. to Liberia, is a person of
and importance among the
North Carolina. He is thirty^HHMM^^^^HQ
was born a slave and has an
tion, which was obtained in
difficulties. He has received
Master of Arts from Shaw