Daily Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1870), 1873-10-31

              '"'rr . - ' COttTMBUSRl DAY, MCTOBEH S li i 87 51 S ' - 7T,: ; COtUMBtJS,"FRlDAY, tiCTOBER Slf 1873: Offleet High, PMrl Mid hnpl St. a. w. nAKcnoo, COMtT SMITH & FBAJCISCO, . WBI.MIIBM AND PMPftlRTOM. JAMF.S M. TOMI.T, . Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THt CITY THE CELEBRATED , . CENTURY." Valuable and important improvements secureo by letters patent, poesea- i r scd by no other store: 1 ? ,'i Wrought Iran Oven, ; a Tile Fire Back (Everlasting), . Indestraetlfcle Centers, Only one Floe, Flame-Encircled Oven; Mpienoia Feed Door, . , Iow Down Beaerrolr, , U-'iu'-- Large Caat Iron Ash Pan. If you want to avoid a smoky kitchen and uuigy wbiib; h you want to avoid replenishing tire backs every few months; if you want to avoid warped up top plates;- if you want to avoid all:tho trying things connected who a poor coouing stove, call and Bee the O U 3V T XT H.T . For beatfng water for Bath Rooms, the 11 r uucit or me ueniury is unequalled. Call and examine, at ASTON, TAYLOR & HUFF'S, so A U Hill HIUH CTBBET, Hepioam COLPMBPg, O. Nast's Almanac is the funniest of all. Published by Harpers. For sale by Hub bard Jones. 2oc. . . - The Dayton Journal is of opinion that Old Andy is a regular old I-sore. Salvo pitdore cures such sores. ' " Bickham don't want to feel the phre nological developments of that town ship which gave no vote fer Noyes. We have an exceedingly eloquent and poetical account of an affair of great local consequence In Newark, on the second page this morning. It is somewhat lengthy, but surely every one who reads it will agree with us that there is nothing which could be stricken from it without marring the exquisite perfection of the whole. Thb Cincinnati Enquirer advocates a sort of general observance of the 8th of January, by Democratic Conventions, in order to get up a Democratic revival "all over." If the Enquirer really wants to secure a Democratic victory, for every year in the century, it should direct the Legislature to provide by law that every year shall be an "off year." Governor Beveridge seems to be earnest in his determination that no prize fight shall take place on Illinois soil. When the Hogan-AUen mill was about to come off the other day, he ordered muskets and ammunition to be sent to East St. Louis to be used if necessary in the enforcement of Illinois law against such amusements. The vigilance and pluck of the Governor entirely thwarted the little game of the bruisers, and are deserving of the highest praise. The Toledo Blade has some unhappy individual on it who has his milk and water constantly turned into whey by the sourness of his temper. Ho is miserable about Columbus and every thing that belongs to Columbus. With all this, however, he manifests a willingness to advise us as to the management of the State Journal, which would be serviceable as well as touching, if he would only show some capacity in the management of his own very dull Blade. ' The New York Tribune vents its sharpest Baraasm on Secretary Richardson for what it calls "his project to resume specie payment with the $250,000 silver in the Treasury." As the Tribune has been thundering for the last four years for resumption regardless of whether there was any specie in the Treasury, and has put the whole duty of man into the one phrase that "the way to resume is to resume," we are at a loss to undents d why it should waste so much satire on Richardson. The Inquirer's Beat Joke. Nobody need lay awake of nights in this State through fear that the inooming Democratic Legislature will beget bankruptcy. That Legislature will be eminently economical. It will cut down all the State expenses, sit sixty days, and adjourn rins die. We will have a Governor who can call an extra session when necessary. , . The Pacific express on the Chicago and Northwestern railway left Omaha Tuesday night with eleven of the directors aboard, and was ran into in the rear by a freight train west of Cedar Rapids, Wednesday morning.' J. B. Watkins, Superintendent of the Iowa division, who was standing on the platform, was caught between the directors' and Pullman car and killed. No one else was injured, and no cars were thrown from the track.' Thirtyseven mills at Fall River. Mass.. will run but four (days a week and eight hours a day after Tuesday next. The remaining two mills have November contracts. These mills employ fourteen thousand operatives, and their monthly pay rolls, when in full operation, amount to tloO.UW. Officers of the Central Branch of the Union Pacific railroad say they will ask holders of first mortgage bonds to fund the first seven coupons maturing subsequent to this date, and pay interest on them at six per' cent, from date of maturity to V u- 1 - Q?a Further conversation with the President by members of Congress confirms the statement already telegraphed, that he will favor the issue of a new bond bearing a low ratef interest, convertible into greenbacks at the will of the holder. nnurnuury rwnrniPUTii i m m ayn m a. m a i , , , -- hhbhh The Proposed Poatofllee Having BanksThe Honey Order Depart- , meat. v.-:.mv.-j JJ. . Tribune, Oct. 20.1 i cr.'siS mm J . General La Rue Harrison,'- Special Agent of the Money Order Department of the Postoffice, has been1 making a tour of inspection throughout the West 'Refer ring to the effect of the panto- upon the money order system, he said that the orders paid In St. Louis rose to tjii' amount of $21,000 in one day during the panio, and they now average $15,000 a day1, while formerly the average was only about $10,000. In Cincinnati $10,000 a day is the average, against $6000 formerly. In Chicago the number of orders rose from about 1000 a day, amounting to from $14,000 to $18,000, to 2000 a day, amounting to about $34,000. A similar increase had taken place throughout the rest of the country. ','1 With resnect to the Droiected Postoihce Savings bank, which President Grant' said that he would recommend in his next an nual message, General Harrison said that auring the panic a large number of offices held back their surplus funds, in stead of sending them to this city, from fear that the orders next day would exhaust their funds, the receipts not beine equal to the emergency. At times, therefore, the New York postoffice had a very small balance, but all demands had always been met. The confidence created by this promptness and safety of exchange through the Postoffice. under-circum stances the most adverse, had caused great interest in the proposition of Postmaster ueneral lireswell lor a postal savings bank. General Harrison visited Canada lost month to examine the workinis- of ine similar institution' in the Domin ion, wmcn . is modeled after the English syBtem. The postmasters at Montreal and Toronto, who are virtually assistant postmaster eenerals. as sured him that during a long series of years tne system bad proved highly satisfactory. The plan of the Postmaster General is for Congress to establish a na tional savings institution, of which all first and second class monev-order offices shall be branches.' In these offices money Mnn l.- . ! 1 1 . - J i.aii uc ucjfUSllCU Ml BUIUB Ol. &UU Up- ward, the depositors having the amounts regularly recorded in bank books, and the Government paying a stipulated rate of interest iour per cent, tor instance tor cue use ot tne money, line money will be transmitted to the nearest assistant treasurer for deposit, to be used bv the Treasury Department in the payment. of me puouc aeDt and current expenses. In this way the poor . man, like the bondholder, can become a creditor of the Gov ernment. . The'immense amountof money now noanied m the country by persons who are afraid - to deposit in savings banks,, but would trust the Government, would then, it is said, be put into circu lation; and it is also suggested that the Treasury would, like certain savings banks, eventually accumulate a large reserve fund from unclaimed deposits. The chief advantages which would accrue to the Uovernment from the plan, as urged by its promoters, would be the circulation of money now idle, and the retention in this country or money which would otherwise be sent abroad. The bonds now held largely in Europe, on which the Government is paying six and seven per cent, interest, would, under this plan, be called in as soon as legally possible. The cost of maintaining the system, with the nec essary increase of clerks and other extra expenses, is estimated at threefourths of one per cent, on the deposits, the present cost of the money order system being about uineaixieeninB 01 one per cent. The Mempnia Death Hate. Now York Evening Post. The following table gives the number of deaths in Memphis during the height of the yellow fever : Other Feror. Causes. Total. Dato. 'Member 14 11) :l 1:1 Soptember 15 8 ... S September 10. la - .11 18 Suptemlier 17 l'J H 27 Soptember 18 V2 8 20 Soptember 10 24 8 :a September 20 12 .8 . ' 20 September 21 8 ' 4 " 12 September 22 1(1 10 20 Sentember 23 11 ll 20 Soptember 24 10 8 ' 24 September 25 20 10 ' : September 26 r 21 September 27 21 o :io September 28 21 SO September 29 21 1G 110 September 30 15 ll 24 October 1 18 111 ill October 2 28 17 45 October 3 18 . , 21 . 40 October 4 :t4 20 M October 6 4" 20 71 October a 37 17 At October 7 4:1 In . AS October 8 31 10 41 October 4H 11 r.s October 10 rw 7 02 October 11 45 u 51 October 12 40 11 67 October 13 38 o 47 October 14 41 10 51 October 15 41 11 52 October 10 20 11 37 October 17 30 8 .18 October 18 30 2 32 October 19 17 3 "20 October 20 2.1 7 30 October 21 27 10 37 October 22 27 :i 30 Total .1004 373 1377 The remarkable feature about this re cord is that the deaths from other causes varied with the violence of the yellow fever. Thus from September 29 to October 15. including the time of the greatest mor tality, the number of deaths from ordi nary causes was more man aouoie tne av erage before and after that time. The suggestion is natural that the euect ot the fever was greater even than has been represented, and that many of the cases nnder the "other causes" were remotely attributable to this terrible pestilence. A Gory Paymaster Waata lo Know. Cleveland Plmndealer.) "When General Samuel Fenton Cory." says the ensanguined gladiator of the Ohio State Journal, "comes to the end of his earthly career, he can lay his hand on his manly breast and swear that, though he bears a sanguinary title, he is guiltless of ever having been the cause or the sub ject of bloodshed." As there is no know ing when "Ueneral" Vomly may teel called upon to join the "Innumerable caravan," in which event his friends will need the information to aid them in fixing up a suitable obituary, will that gentleman be so kind as to inform ns how much gore he i i i j : l: Li i -i 1MB bucu uurmg uib uiuuuy career i rf Due the General is about it, we should feel obliged if he would be minute in the calculation giving us the amount all the way down from rivers to hogsheads, barrels, pailfuls, gallons, quarts, pints, gills and fractions of a gill; and particularly (this is a eerw important point) whether it was his own or other people s blood. Mike McCoole has been arrested at SL Louis on suspicion of having killed Pat-sey Manley, a horse trader, who was to have fought Martin Broderick in the same ring in which Alien and Hogan were expected to fight. Manley waa found dying Wednesday night in a street opposite McOxmVb saloon, shot through the left breast He had been drinking, and is said to have quarreled with McCoole. Other parties nave also been arrested on - - r : i: .i . BuapiviuH ot uuuvauu in uic uurucr. BY TELEGRAPH 10 THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL THE SPBAGUES. Snapenaloa or their Mew York Hook -.Condition of the ' Providence Firm. Providence, Oct. 30. It is understood that A. & W. Sprague, in this city, do not suspend to-day, notwithstanding the niiureoi me .new low nouse. Messrs, Sprague state that a committee of Investi gation into the affairs of the A. & W. Bprague Manufacturing company, appointed by representatives of citv banks. will be Prepared at a meeting: to-morrow morning to make a report, which it is thought will be highly satisfactory to ereuuorsoi A. K w. Bprague and Hoyt. "SsCo. . ,. , , , The surplus of available nrnmriv. nf low valuation, over all outstanding liabilities upon the firm of Hoyt, Sprague & it is eiawa. win no not i&ui thnn eleven millions. A plan will be presented at the meeting, accompanied with a de- tatljul . ..C .1. . 1 1 1 1 MMiva icpurb VI tue BllUHUUD, WHICU Will, it is believed, if carried out, make the emDarrassment of A. & W, Bprague and xioyi, sprague sc u. ot temporary duration.New York, Oct. 30. It is reported that the New York house of Hoyt,Sprague & Co. could have obtained all the assistance necessary to keep them afloat through the present trouble, both from friends and creditors, if similar forbearance had been shown to the Providence firm. Great sympathy is expressed for the firm, and a gentleman well known in Wall street said to-day that he thought .the creditors of the house . in Providence had adopted a very shortsighted policy in refusing assistance to a house upon which thousands of persons depended for employment, and whose em Darrassment was, so lar as he could judge, only temporary. 1 This important failure has created great taiic in nnancial circles, ana Its immediate effect was a heavv decline in stocks in the Stock Exchange, and de pression outside. Considerable paper of ine nrm is neid in this city, it being estimated that $3,000,000 of their notes has oeen discounted bv banks, bankers and in dividual capitalists here. Some of the loreign banks are mentioned as sufferers. probably in the way of cotton operations lor the mills. The Express savs the stianension nf tloyt. Bpramie & Co. is one of the worst records of the panic. No statement is out of the amount of their acceptances, but it is several minions, ana ita,wv,uuu ot it is said to be held br New York banks. bankers and private buyers. Their paper has always been attractive to buyers. There is no doubt that the antagonism of 1 e t 1 i. T l i i i i . nvai uriua in jinuue isiana una mucn 10 do with the suspension, and the publica tion ot tne epragues is accounted lor in this way. Arrangements were perfected which would have carried the firm through, but for these publications. PHHADELPHA. Railway Kews Snspenalona Conali- . luuonai onvenuon. Philadelphia. Oct. 30. A meeting of the stockholders of the California and Texas Bailway Construction company to-day adopted unanimously a resolution providing for the sale of the company's first mortgage bonds to the comnanv'a own stockholders at low rates, to secure a roper . location to the road. . Thomas cott presided at the meeting. for ten days past there have been ru mors of differences in the management of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, and to-day a report was revived, with some degree of credit, that Mr. Thompson, President of the company, authorizes a statement to be made that the rumors are entirely unfounded, and that the chief officers of the road and its directors generally are acting in entire accord and harmony.At a meeting of the City Council this afternoon the subject of investigation of the accounts of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad company was indefinitely postponed. This ends a matter which has been hanging fire nine months. Un account of the death ot uol. ijiddle, U- A .l.l..l .L. Alw n.m.. kllO AgV CB.U kj 1 lOll 111 CI 1 L i MIO L vmiu- cratic paper in Philadelphia, is now advertised for sale. The dry goods house of Morgan. Young, Altemees & Co. have suspended. Liabilities $600,000. Will be able to pay 75 to 80 cents on the dollar. The house sold upward of $2,000,000 worth of gooda an nually. The suspension of William M. Lloyd, banker of Allentown, is reported here. Although Mr. Lloyd has some half dozen banks throughout the State, his failure is not very heavy. rpi r .!....! i i- I... 1.11V VUUBMlllllUIItU VUllYCUblUIl 1IBO agreed upon the second Tuesday of De cember as the day for voting by the people upon the Constitution. The Convention will adjourn this evening, but previously will appoint three Commissioners to conduct the election in the city of Phila delphia. In other portions of the State regular election officers will conduct the election. The Convention will reassem ble after the election to canvass the re turns. THE CROPS. sjoatparativa Statement of ttraia Production. Jacksonville. III.. Oct. lit). Reports dated October 15th, received at the office of the National Crop Reporter, Indicate the condition of thia year's crops as compared with those of 1872, as follows : - On corn, in States producing half the entire crop, a loss of 20 per cent.; on wheat, in States producing over 40 per cent, of the entire crop, a gain of 6 per cent.: on oats, in States producing 4U per cent, of the entire crop, a loss of 7 per cent; on hay, in States producing over onethird the entire crop, a Iobs of 7 per cent.; and on swine, in States producing onethird the entire crop, a loss oi n per cent. The indications are that a largely in creased acreage of winter wheat has been own this fall, and with few exceptions the condition of the growing crop is above the average. Renorta of the condition of the corn crop lead to the conclusion that the estimated losses, will be further in creased as the extent of the damage be comes better known; l he proportion ot soft corn is very large. The report of the condition of fattening says reports from sections where corn was most damaged by frost indicate that the average weight will be less than last season, by reason of the flattering quality of the grain and the belief among farmers in higher prices for corn, leading them to dispose of their stock in a corresponding immature condition. Reports from Iowa and Illinois indicate increasing lueses from hog oholtra. " sTIre at Bteae, Nevada, Sax Francisco, Oct. 30. The whole business portion of the town of Reno, Nevada, two blocks, is in ashes, with the exception of tbxra ot four fire-proof buildings. Loss estimated at over one hundred thousand dollars; very little in surance. TBtLOW FEVER, The Nitnatioh1'- dt - Ae'miHis-Hell ' ''''jtHl;BI!ed." ; MEMPKi9,'TEK.Jtr.30:..'e weather is moderating:. 1 Mortuary report to noon: twelve from yellow (ever, "five from other causes;1 Several deaths'' hae occurred of old cases of relapse : that . have lingered a long time.7?he WaHhall'.iimrmary has ciosea, naving qiscnarged .an nut three patients. . it is probatne wise ttiii theater will operi iiext Monday, VithMrs; Bowers-. To-morrow's' Appeal 'will contain the following : ' v;j;' ' tSMwiZT -...J i. '"The undersigned 'desire io.' announce to 'the generous people throughout the enure cuuniry wno nave; pome to our assistance with more than rjrineelv liberal ity, that while, as declared this day by our Board of Health, yellow fever no longer exists in an epidemic form, there is nevertheless great need of funds for the twelve hundred persons now sick Or convalescing, and for the relief .of hundreds of families who haVe" been left destitute, and tiiat this necessity wtu.Bo doubt continue to, exist for many weeks to' come, Any future contributiohs 'of' money'- or supplies win ne tnanmuily received and property appuea. . .., , ...... "John Johnson. MaVor:: J. J. Bdsbv. Chairman Citizens Belief committee: A. n r pn-j.n rr.i i i' uaugrau,. 1011WIJ. UVDMU OHWIB tion; A. E. Fran klan J, Secretary Belief Mr. Collver states that he was prompted to telegraph to New York that Memphis naa enougn assistance" or individual statements or bracers ot the Uttizemf .Be lief committee arid the Howard AsSoeia, tion. - - y ' Montgomery. ' Ala.; Oct. 30. There have been no' deaths from fever during tne past twentytour hours. The heaviest frost of the season occurred this morning. There are a few old cases, one or two of mem very severe, out no-pew cases. Dennisoh. Texas. Oct. -'30. The yel low fever is abating at Calvert. Marshal and Columbus,' Texas, and has disappeared entirely in other places; Weather cool, with heavy frosts every night. Marsh Aix. Texas. Oct. 30. Ice and frost this morning give bromise of the abatement oi yellow lever. JN o new cases; sick nil doing well.. Sevetal Btores reopened to-day. Aid for the Mnirerei'H.- ' Neiv York, Oct. 30. Tbo resolution of the Board of Aldermen, donating $50,-000 in aid of the Memphis sufferers, came up for confirmation in the Board of Assist ant Aldermen this afternoon. The following telegram was read : , "Memphis, Tens., Oct. 30. To Morris K, Jessup, President Young Itien'B Christian Association. . "A telegram in the morning papers here Bays the New York City Council has donated $50,000 to Memphis. If true ought you not to see Mayor Havemeyer and say that Memphis has enough for present necessities '! Citizens are returning fast. "VINCEST UOLLYER." Several members of the Board said they desired very much to confirm the donation, and thought that although sickness is disappearing, the necessities of the sufferers will not end with the fever, and believed there would be suffering there all winter. The donation was then confirmed, all except two voting for it. Boston, Oct. 30. Robert C. Winthrop. at the request of E. S. Broadstreet, of Cincinnati, is urging different towns in Massachusetts to lorward lunds nromntlv for tharelief of thaeleven hundred orphans in Memphis. The Board of Trade is also actively at work. - , s NEW 70BK. THE MALFEASANCE CASE. New York. Oct. 30. In the suit against Officers Irving and Farley, of the police, for alleged malconduct in the arrest of the Bank of England forgers, the charges against the officers were prepared by Chief Clerk Hawley, and among the specifications it is recited that McDonnell, being in their custody, delivered to them a package containing $17,(00 in U. S. bonds, a letter of credit for five hundred pounds, and a diamond ring valued at four bund- red pounds, with the express understand ing that they were to be used in the defense of McDonnell, and that in pursuance of this understanding they redelivered $6000 worth of bonds to McDonnell, having good grounds for believing and knowing the bonds were the property of the Bank of England. It is alBO asserted that the othcers charged were in communication with McDonnell by mail and telegraph, and had entered into the conspiracy to defraud the Bank of England. Counsel for the Bank of England refused to go to trial on all these specifications, on the ground that they had never been included in the charges made bv the Bank. After argument by counsel the specifications were amended and testimony was taken. RECONSTRUCTION OP THE UNION TRUST COMPANY. A meeting of the trustees of the Union Trust company was held to-day to examine its affairs. Its capital remains unimpaired, and thero is considerable surplus. The President, officers and committee of the company tendered their resignations, with the view of reorganization. Resolutions were adopted increasing the capital stock two millions, double the present amount, new stock to be of fered to present stockholders to Novem ber 15th, to an amount equal to that now held by each, 2o percent, payable .November 20th, 25 per cent. December 10th, the remainder on call after November 21st, upon twenty days notice. ' It was resolved also to resume business on or before December 1st. Committees were appointed to carry into euect the above resolutions. BRITTON V. BUTLER. The suit of William E. Britton sgainst Benjamin F. Butler, to recover $15,000, the amount of two drafts seized by Gen eral Butler in 18C2, while he was military Governor of New Orleans, came on to-day before Judge Woodruff, in the United; States Circuit Court. LOTTERY DEALERS INDICTED. A large number of indictments has been found against lottery dealers. The Indiana t'oanly Beat War. Richmond, Ind., Oct. 30. There is a threatened raid from the western portion of the county to aid in the recapture of the Oenterville jail from the guard. Fifty deputies did not take the place last night, aitnougn at ten o'clock, we learn from a reliable Cambridge City source, that a party were going from there. Warnings to the same effect had been previously sent to the authorities here, and were the general theme of street discussion. There waa not the slightest disturbance at Oenterville last night, and to-day a force 200 strong has been employed there, suitably protected by guards. t'anadlaa Bailway ttema. Ottawa. Oct. 30. The last of the Can ada Pacific railroad surveying parties for this year left uoiungwood thia morning for Neipigom territory. Fort Erie, Oct. 30. The last span of the Great International railway bridge was snccesBluuy placed to-day. -In consequence of the saspension of Lloyd, Hamilton t Co, of New York, Wis. M. Lloyd i Co, bankers of Altoona, renn suspended payment yesterday. rOBKION. 1-f i'J a-.v '' ' Art'EAL FROM m'M'AIION. '. Paris, Oct. '30. President' Mc'Mahon has issued an order of the day to the army in which he alludes with severity to the insubordinate condition of, the men at Bellamarre, and appeals to the patriotism of the soldiers to maintain discipline And support the laws. 7 A BOURBON. WHO EETRAOTS-NOTHISCS , Curtails nothing cHAiinoHD's pan- '., ACEA FOR -FRENCH TROUBLES; , Count de Oaambord has written a letter to M. de Cheoaeborg, one of the delegation from the Kight which recently waited on him. - The Count says misapprehensions have arisen tending to obscure his policy, which is sb clear as day. He owes the whole truth to the country. He is asked to sacrifice his honor. He em phatically declares that he retracts nothing, curtails nothing, of his previous declarations, la&iros ot yesterday foreshadow what would be exactedto-morrow. He cannot inaugurate a strong reign by an act pf weakness. ITo energetically refuses tojelinuuish the white flag, and indignantly1 repels insinuations that ne mistrusts the valor oi the soldiers. Un the contrary he seeks to confide to them all he holds dear. He ignores none of his country's glories, and continues:, i .We have a great work to accomplish. which I am ready to undertake any time. This is why it hi my wish to remain entire ly as I am. Were I enfeebled to-day, I would be powerless to-morrow. The issue at stake is the .reconstruction of society. and energetic insurance of law, order and prosperity. - Especially should . we not fear to employ force in the service of order and justice. Conditions and. guarantees were not spoken . of, nor were any required by the Count of Paris, who came to me spontaneously, at the dictates of patriotism. I preserved intacLour traditions and liberties, and have a right to reckon on equal confidence." The letter concludes as follows : "My personality is nothing, principle is everything. France will see an end to her troubles when she understands this. I am the necessary pilot, alone capable of guiding her into port, because i have the mission, of authority. France Cannot perish, because tllirist still loves her." ; iiazAine's trial. :);,' y,'; In the Ba.airie court-martial (o.duv. a woman named linbeit testified that she carried three dispatches from' Mots to Thionviile on the 1st of August. The President of the-court complimented the witness on ner courage and patriotism, ; FAILURE OF A LONDON HOUSE, i' London, Oct 30. The failure of a house dealing inlErie is announced. The Pall Mall Gazette says that house lately received an order for Jay Gould to sell BU,0U0 shares of ihrie, and took the con tract personally as buyers. : .:! BRITISH INDIA. "' IMPENDING FAMINE. Calcutta. Oct. 30. Advices from the Province of Bengal show that the crops are failing, and an impending famine can not be averted. bPAin. the loss of life, Madrid. Oct. 30. Sixtvsix lives were lost by the sinking of the Intransigaate vessel t ernando et (Jatalico. . .. 'VBiau., THE EMPRESS DANGEROUSLY ILL. Vienna, Oct.' 80. The Empress of Austria is ill Here. Her condition onuses alarm, FOET WAYNE. How theCity Treasurer Overreached the Council A Nice Specimen of Sharp Practice. Fort Wayne, Oct. 30. It is now two weeks since a report was made to the Citv Council bylan accountant whom the Fi nance committee had employed, that there was a deficiency of nearly $6000 in the accounts of John Devegmyer, the Demo cratic treasurer ot the city. Mr. Ll. said if the Council would wait two weeks, until their next regular meeting, he would explain the matter satisfactorily. The two weeks were up on Tuesday night, When Mr. u. asked lor two weeks more. In the meantime it had been discovered that Mr. D.'s bond of $25,-000, which the city clerk read to the Council after his re-election last May, was a forgery, having been penned on the old bond and read as though all the signatures were attached to the new bond, although the latter contained only one signature, the Treasurer himself not having signed it. . Affidavits were presented to the Coun cil charging the Treasurer with fraud, and he was suspended from office by the Council. He still refuses to hand over the books and the office to the Mayor until the trial comes off, which is set for next Tuesday. There is good authority for saying that Mr. D. was not worth a dollar when he took the office last May, having previously been clerk in a clothing store on a small salary. During the summer he has been engaged in building a $50,000 house, and on a $2200 salary, all of which is said to be in his wile s name, lie has been considered heretofore a pleasant, kind- hearted Uerman, lond ot lager beer, but supposed to be above stealing. The in dignation against him is intense. Ine artesian well now being sunk here is about 850 feet in depth. WASHINGTON. NO DI8UHARUE OF NAVY YARD EMPLOYES. Washington. Oct. 30. The telegram published in Tuesday's papers announcing that from 300 to 400 mechanics, and about 1000 laborers had been discharged from the Washington Navy Yard within the last two weeks, is an error, a portion of the dispatch having been omitted in transmission. The discharge alluded to was by contractors of the public works and private establishments. Not more than twentyfive or thirty nf nil classes have been discharged from the Washington Navy Yard. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. The forthcoming civil service examina tions in New York will be held about the 13th of November: in Cincinnati, on or about the 19th of November, and in St. Louis on the 26th of November. Appli cants for these examinations may address beads of all uovernment Departments, including the Commissioner of Agriculture, excepting the Secretary of State, who does not appear in the list of those to whom applications may be sent. Applications for examinations in New York will probably be too late if they don't reach Washington as early as November 2. Applications for examination in Cin cinnati should reach Washington as early as November 8, and for 8t. Louis as early as novemoer 10. No Work la Beaton. Boston, Oct. 30. The Superintendent of the Young Men's Christian Association announces that it ii useless for the poor and laboring classes to seek that citv for employment: that remunerative labor cannot be furnished to one ont of fifty of m now rate thousands. CBDORt AND OAJ0AXTTES. 1 Railway Aecldeat la Iatrh-'An OIH. i-.-ii,. eer ef Bead Hllledi ' van.i HUIH), lA.i 1 "V. HIS 1UI" lowing are the circumstances of the accident ori the Chicago and Northwestern raHroad herVthis morning, by Which John B. Watkins, Superintendent of the Iowa Division, was 'almost Instantly killed: The regular Pacific express -train" from the West; due at Cedar Rapids at 5 a. mi, bed attached to il the General : Superln tendenfR car, In which were1 AlMrt Keep; president of therosd; James Howe, Gen-rl Manager; Marvin Hiighett, General Superintendent; John B. Watkins, Superintendent of Iowa Division1; : N. Johnson, Chief Engineer, W. W. Ferry, Director, rw! It... H'.'IK- T) jj i i, .... unnw 1- lllldlll,-, X CBlUCIl L OI U1C Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad company, who were on a tour of inspection over the road. - ' : ' When the train arrived at a point three nines wesioi inis piece, tne engine broke uown ana tne engineer stopped the train so as to disconnect one side of the engine. Immediately upon stopping he sent one of tne nraicemen up the track with a lantern, it being yet dark, to signal freight train No. 14, which was about ten minutes behind the passenger train. It soon came thundering round the curve about a quar- wi- ui b nine duck oi wnere ine express stood.- The engineer seing danger ahead, at once ' reversed his engine, but being on a down i grade, the wheels sliding on the track, throwing out a blaze of light all the way down until it reached the passenger train, which it struck with such force as to drive the coaches about two hundred feet along the track before they stopped. The freight engine was a total wreck, and the tender and first freight car were completely telescoped. , The engineer jumped off just before the collision and escaped unhurt; the fireman remained oH the enrtne and was thrown into the tender, narrowly es caping with his life. " .K- ...,- .. .I! Mr. watkins, hearing the freight approaching, jumped from his sleeping berth, calling on Mr. Keep and others to follow him, and while standing on the third step of the front plstform of the Directors' car. the engine struck, and the platform breaking to pieces, Mrr Watkins was crushed between the Pullman and Directors' car, the iron railing striking him just above the hips, cutting his loft leg nearly off just below the trunk anil forcing out his bowels.' lie lived about twenty minutes, and was conscious almost to the last. He could not be extricated from his fearful position. and breathed his last pinioned between the two cars. ' , Mr. Keep had a very narrow escape. He followed Mr. Watkins on the platform, and wan thrown with great force through the door of the Pullman, receiving many slight wounds on different parts of his uouy. ine rest oi tho party escaped un hurt. Planter Murdered The Murderer Drowna Himself. Cairo, III., Oct. 80. The dead body of a Mr. Milner was found in his cotton field near Fulton, Ky., yesterday. He had evidently been murdered with a club, which was found near his body. A negro named Joe Bradshaw, who was sent to the field in the forenoon, was suspected of being the murderer, and parties pursued him to Paducah, where he was arrested to-day. He broke away from his captors while on the way to jail, ran aboard the steamer Idlewild, and finding that he would be recaptured, jumped into the river with hand-cults on and was drowned. ' Weather Probabilities. Washington, Oct. 30. For Friday, in the Gulf States, southeasterly winds, veering to the north and northwest, witn lower temperature and cloudy weather. For the South Atlantic States, southeasterly winds, cloudy and hazy weather. For the Middle States, southerly and southeasterly winds and cloudy weather, possibly with rain. For the New England States, easterly winds, threatening rainy and windy weather. For the lower lakes, winds, veering to the northwest, and clouds and snow. For the upper lake region, rising barometer, northwesterly winds, nnd cold, clearing weather. ;llmllh Nnld lit PiMalrarir, Pittsburg, Oct. 30. TheGoldsmith Maid and Gloster exhibition trot, purse $3000, took place to-day at Friendship Park. Goldsmith Maid took three straight heats in 2:33, 2:25. and 2:32. The track was very heavy and the weather unsuitable for last trotting. BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. Boston wearies of her Common and yearns for a park. The failure of Hoyt, Sprague & Co., of New York, is announced. Gold has been found in Blount county, ten miles west of Maryville, Tenn. St. Paul, under a new census, has a population of 35,210; Minneapolis, 27,284. Hon. N. P. Chipman. delegate in Con gress from the District of Columbia, is HerioUBly ill. Joseph Arch was tho guest yesterday of Demos Barnes and Henry Ward Beecher, in Brooklyn. There will be no sale of gold or pur chase of bonds by the Treasury Depart ment next uiontn. The trial of Boss Tweed, on what Is known as the "big indictment." has been set for next Wednesday. , Lloyd, Hamilton & Co., of New York, have suspended. They were largelv in terested in Pennsylvania. Prof. F. V. Havden. United States Ge. ologiBt, has been elected a member of the .National Academy of Sciences. General Butler proposes to introduce a bill to prohibit newspaper correspondents irom oeing cierKs oi iongrcss committees. A merchant in Atlanta. Ga.. had $600 stolen from his drawer yesterday while wawiung ironi nis iront door a passing cirons. Captain Daugherty, chief clerk in the Wilmington, Del., postoffice, has been held in bail to explain deficiencies in his accounts. The meeting of the Civil Service Commission, which was to have taken place in Washington to-day, has been postponed until the 5th proximo. . Two freight trains collided on the Erie railway yesterday, near Port Jarvis. Both engines were badly smashed and eleven cars, with contents, were burned. The report that a mob had attacked the fuard who were guarding the Centreville, nd., jail, is denied. It is now said that no disturbance has occurred, and that the work of demolishing the jail is quietly proceeding. A fire at Freehold, New York, yesterday, destroyed the postoffice, court house, jail, offices of the County Clerk and Surrogate, and several lawyers' offices and Btores. Loss $150,000; insurance about half that amount The trial of Captain Irving and Patrolman Farlev, of the New York detective police, has been begun before the Police Commissioners. The Bank of England claims the return of $6000 in bonds and a certain diamond ring. Millueam, Schmidt A Co., produce ex- porters of New York, hava mDfuinJi Having drawn against a large amount of grain which they had forwarded to Europe, and being unable to obtain suspension was inevitable. , :;A fire at Eeno, Nevada, Wednesday night, destroyed an entire block and tnreatened the destruction of the whole town, it was still raging when the ope-rator was obliged to move hi nffino nJ instruments to a place of safety. Since .L -I 1- I 1 ! i. ' mcii mere nas oeen no lurtner news. .Judge Davis in his charge (o the New York grand jury, yesterday, said complaints would be made against petit jurors iut nutation oi tneir oath, and against court officers for negligence and corruption. This is supposed to have reference to acts in connection with the Stokes trial. It is now said that Allen and Hogan, the St. Louis prize hVhtein. will aim ar ticles of agreement to fight in about three weeks at some paint in Canada, near TV. trait, with stakes increased 'to $2500 a side. This appears to have resulted mainly from the fact that the bruisers became satisfied that they could not fight in Illinois, owing to the vigilance of the authorities who, under Governor Beveridge's instruction, were on the alert in five counties up and down the river from this point. The Governor even went so far as tn order 100 muskets and ammunition to East Nt. Louis Wednesday, to be used in defense of Illinois law it necessary. STATE NEWS. Farmers get together now and talk about loader. ' Now doth the wild goose wend its flight southward. , f, Buckwheat cakes and pumpkin pies are now themes of discussion with country euiiors. Theodore Wick, the defaulting TreaBU rer of Clarke county, is on trial for em bezzlement, i" :: A farmer in Montgomery county raised corn thia year averaging a pound and a half to the ear. ' The vote in Mahoning county on the county-8eat question was pretty much all in favor of removal. , , iV citizen of Dayton has remitted about $1500 to California in postal money orders within the last month. It is said that more iron ore is at pres ent upon the Cleveland docks than ever before at this season of the year. Hie Cumberland Lutheran Conference will convene in Trinity Lutheran church, at Circleville, on Sunday, November 4, to remain in session two days. , , ; A man named Taylor, on Saturday night last, in a row at Sandusky City, stabbed a man named Daniel Crowley, au employe of the steel works. Crowley has since uiea. . . ,. The Tuscarawas Chronicle - says ' the Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley Railroad company has control of the Uhrichs- yilie lair grounds by a purchase of a ma-jority of the shares, and are already ex. tending their Biding nnd switches into the grounds. A twelve-year old,' boy passed through London on the Little Miami express train the other day, billed from Atchison, Kansas, to Waterford, Ohio ! The boy was in the express car, and had on a regular tag, on which waa written : "Water and feed." And whenever the messenger iook ins rations tne ooy was invited in. Ine liondon Enterprise says: "in a little more than a year the bodies of three of our citizens, who died abroad, have been brought home, viz.: Watson Cryder, wno accompanied uapt. Hanson to Europe and died soon after arriving there; Cant. Robert Hanson, Consul to Bremen, and Lieut. E. MacCormack, U. S. Navy." The Grand Jury of Ross county reports that the jail of that county is bo constructed and in such a condition as to ventilation and other arrangements for health and comfort, that no amount of care can make it a fit place for the confinement of human beings, and that in their judgment the said jail is a public nuisance which ought to be abated. Pronunciation of Either anil Neither. . Richard Grunt White, in tho tialuxy.J : ( Referring to what is said in "Words and their I sea" as to the best pronunciation of those words (eiMer and neither), Dr. Hall lays down the law thus : 'On the contrary the analogy of eider height, and kujht favors the pronunciations Wier and mlAcr,- and o either and nettser are, perhaps, most frequently sounded by cultivated Englishmen and Englishwomen. And in what sense are these pronunciations a 'British affectation?'''This complex dijudication divideth itself into three contingent particulars; whereof the first arguetb from analogy; and the second declareth a usage; and the third, by way of interpellate interrogation, denieth that the pronunciation i-thcr, ni-ther is a British affectation. Now as to the first, it in the finest exhibition of what has been called brazen-facedness, then brass, then face, and then, by refinement and particularity of metaphor, cheek, that I, in the course of no small experience of that quality, ever confronted. For of theso three words cited as the ground of an argument from analogy for the pronunciation of et, the first is a foreign word as much as theik, or chamois, or nylghau; and the second and third are anomalous exceptions, which have their pronunciation from their connection with high and fly. And these three words, thus iu the very nature of things out ot court, are, among the very many in our language containing the syllable ei, all that have the sound of long i. There is not one other. Dr. Hall under these circumstances having produced these three, we may from that manouver judge with what degree of candor he deals. To the direct contrary of his assertion, there are but two analogical pronunciations of the ci in either .- one re, the common and regular sound; the other ay (name-sound ot a). There is besides, however, a col loquial abbreviation of these sounds, Of the first, like deceive, ceiling, etc., and of the second, like tight, freight, heir, obeie-once, etc, examples will occur to every reader. Of the third are counterfeit, sttr- Jeit, foreign, leitnre, etc. There being thus positively and absolutely no analogical support whatever in the English language for the pronunciation of either and neither with the ' vowel sound, what shall be said other than what I have said of Dr. Hall's "bluffing" pretensions io that respect.Next as to usage. Dr. Hall asserts that "so (with the i sound) et'lAer and ncttAer are, perhaps, most frequently sounded by cultivated Englishmen and Englishwomen." Valeat quantum. The "perhaps" shows some doubt and a not unwise cautionary provision. On the other hand, I have said, not exactly to the contrary of Dr. Hall's assertion, but that persons of the best education and highest social position in England generally say tether and neether. I let the assertion stand by the side of Dr. Hall's. As to orthoepical authority, which is of value no less as a record of the best usage than for its weighing of analogy, it is arrayed in a solid mass against Dr. Hall's position as to t-lhei- and ni-ther. For on the side of eether and neether, without alternative, are, n with three exceptions, all the orthoepists in the language. u.i.i The Curtain Fixture. ' Danbury News J . Hf: ' The most exquisite article of domestic torture is the modern window-curtain fix- " ture. Years . ago, before the desecrating hand of inventive genius was reared, the; ' window covering was either a green shade hung by hooks, or a simple piece of muslin nailed firmly to the upper casing. ' Now the curtain is uniformly of cloth, i with a flat stick at the bottom and a round stick at the top, and a complicated lot of brass COgS and ratnhata at rha It isn't much trouble tn fit In tb Hot sticks, because they can be measured the right length on the floor, but it is getting the proper length of the round sticks or rollers that plays the mischief with a man's temper. We are not quite certain but that it could be done without much bluster were a man's wife to go off to the other end of the town and stav there until the operation is over.- She doesn't, however. She keeps right close io mm, ana enlivens the performance with such observations as her judgment and experiences teach her are' best calcu lated to turn his head. The window curtain is generally put up in the evening. This is partly because the man has then more time, and partly attributable to his desire to put off the evil job until the last ' moment. The first thing to be done is to separate the parcels and borrow a saw. Every family keeps iu own screw-driver (point broken) and hammer (handle : loose). You instinctively saw the flat , pieces first, because that is the easiest, and afterward fit the rollers, which is more difficult. Then the curtain is tacked to the rollers, which keep turning over and breaking the tacks, and oatobing your fingers under the hammer. This done, you are ready to plant your feet ; on J the best cane-bottom chair "in the house,' . and put up the fixtures. , Here your ' wife says, "Well, if ever I saw anvtbiin, quite as idiotic as' r ." You then get right down, while she starts for a wooden 1 article, and by way of showing that yon have no feeling in the matter, kick the cane scat into the middle of the room. Once mounted on the wooden chair,- the 'i brackets are put up. To do this requires . i that you extend your arms the full length, and while in this condition, with acounle . of screws and a screw-driver in your mouth, the hammer in one hand, the other hanging to the fixtures, and the curtain witji the unwieldy roller aoross your shoulder, you make the sickening discovery that you have got nothing with which ', to punch the hole for the Bcrew. - Then you get down to the floor again to remedy ' the defect, and, find there is nothing for . mai purpose out tne advice ot your wife to drive the screw till it setB. You mount again, she holds the lamp so she can see if the woman has cleaned the corners ' of the glass, . and as you have your .mouth too full of hardware to artieu- , late with any freedom, you find yourself obliged to kick her elbo'w to indicate that ' you actually demand some of the flame to set the screw. The artifice is lost upon her, however, for, likely as not, she will set down the lamp to rub her arm, and aBk you what you mean. No one has yet set a bracket to a curtain fixture without either dropping some of the implements or a remark well calculated to engross the attention of the party holding the lamp. The awful strain on the arms, the wonderful vacillating humors of the screws, the incomprehensible imbecility of the screw-driver, the obstinacy of the roller, and the astonishing perverseness of your wife, who will persist in moving the light at the wrong' time, make putting up a mod-erncurtain fixture the most subfile of domestic grievances. And when the curtain is finally up, and secured so it won't fall on your head when vou touch the string, and you take hold of it to draw it up, the experience as it waltzes off to one Bide, and tries to stand on its drunken head, and failing in that, settles right where it is, and obstinately refuses to budge either way, has never been truly analyzed. Weeks after, when you are leaning back in your chair engrossed in memories of the dead past, that curtain will suddenly come thundering down upon you, causing you to spring out into the , air and lifting your very hair almost free from the scalp. i New Advertisements. ALWAYS ON TIME. JOHN SCHNEIDER, 1 DRALEB IN Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, SILVER tX PLATED WARE. A LABCE AHSOKTUENTOr PB OTAOIiSS . . . or tub nsar quality, NO. 135 SOUTH HIGH STREET WnERE YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND Ladies' and Uentlemen's Fine (fold and Silver Watches, Bracelets, Ladies' and Gents' fine Gold and Silver Kings, fine Gold and Silver Chains, Silver and Silver Plated Knives and Spoons, Spectacles, Breast Pins, Society Pins, Silver Thimbles, and a great variety of other articles, all of the best quality, which he will sell at prices that cannot fail to please. ' oc22 3m THE0. P. 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