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", THE MORNING NEWS. 1
I i'jtiiuuie 1860. iKOoaroaiUtilSM. >
j j. H.iamLL, President. )
ARIZONA A SEA OF WATER
y A T s THAT the loss of life
WELL PROVE APPALLING.
T ., ma Wiped From the Face of the
Earth V. ith the Exception of a Few
Scattering Hous.a on theHill3-The
Wiiter From Seven to Fifty Miles
Wide.
Denver, Col., March. I.—A'special to the
lim-ky Mountain News from Yuma,
Arizona. says that in that town over 250
bouses are in ruins from the flood, and
fourteen hundred people are homeless, and
not a single business house remains standing,
and it is feared that hundreds of lives have
been lost in the Gila valley. The telegraph
wires are down in the valley, and as all
bridges are gone and the roads are not
passable, no reliable reports can be
bad from there. The river about the
town is seven miles wide, and below the
town, in places, the water oovers the
country in one grand lake over fifty miles
acr ss. The railroad company will not
have the blockade raised !for west-bound
trains for four days, and it will be ten days
or two weeks before they can get east. The
town has provisions sufficient for eight more
days, and the Southern Pacific hotel is feed
ing 1.000 people a day.
DRIVEN INTO THE TREE TOPS.
Reports from Jakuno, fifteen miles above
here, aiv to the effect that the flood drove
the people into the tree tops, and many, be
coming exhausted from cold and hunger,
dropped into the water and were drowued.
Reports from i eliabie sources put the loss
of fife in the valley some
where trom eighty to 100. All
along the valley for twenty miles every
thing is in desolation. Costly houses and
barns have been washed away like play
things, while stock and fences have been
carried down by the flood, leaving the
country as hare ns n desert. Men who ten
days ago were j wealthy are now homeless
and paupers.
5,000 INDIANS IN DANGER.
Eighty miles south of here, where 5,000
Indians live, the country is flooded for
eighty miles square, and a< there are no hills
Tor refuge, it is reported that more than 100
have been drowned. The great valley of the
Colorado is one vast sea of water as far
the eye can see in every direction.
The river has fallen six feet six inches in
thirty-six hours, and is now nearly at a
standstill. The weather is thick and threat
ens a heavy raiu. The loss in this county
foot; up ft!,000,000, of which the railroad
will have to suffer to the extent of 1250,-
000. Old Yuma will never be rebuilt.
Tao town wiil go higher upon the hills.
A CAMP OP DISTRESS.
Yuma, Ari., March I.—Yumais a camp
of distress. Out of 150 houses composit g
trie town only si) remuin. The second bigti
water of the Gila river on Thursday was
more disastrous than that of Sunday. The
canals have been washed out, the ranches
destroyed and the lailroad; are under
water. The loss is $500,000, The cemeteries
are on the high land, aud many people
are camping in them. It is reported that a
Mexican family eight miles east of here
were drowned. One body, that of a man,
has floated past the town. The river here
is f. urteen miles wide. Many people aro
believed to be drowned in the country, but
no particulars l ave been received
FEAR'S THAT HUNDREDS HAVE PERISHED.
No word has been received from farther
than ten miles from town, a id it is feared
that hundreds of lives have been los up
the Gila valley, which is 200 miles in length.
Indian messengers have been sent out, but
have not as vet returned. It is known that
thousands of cattle, horses and mules are
drowned. The wires are all down east
and repairers could get only five miles east
to-day.
live miles of railroad are gone west of
here, aud it is known that sixteen miles ease
of hero are gone, and probably three times
ns much more. The Southern Pacific will
put every man obtainable at work to-mor
row.
ALL HUDDLED TOGETHER.
Every house on the hills has been thrown
oren to receive the homeless, and hundreds
are quarieredjiu tent sand the old government
buildings. The merchants have opened
their goods on the- streets in order
to help the sufferers. The water is
stiu high for 200 miles east
ot th.s point, and as all of this
must paes here many fear that the worst is
yet to come, especially if there should bo
auy further rainfall. The common loss baa
brought all o.asses of citizens together, and
all have worked with a will, first in trying
to save the tow u by constructing a rude
levee, which effort proved futile, and in
saving as much a3 possible from the ruius,
terrible loss of life.
A boat which has just arrived from Mo
hawk, sixty miles up t( . e Gj | a nveri brings
reports of terrible loss of life, all the country
being under water. The greatest sufferers
me the poor Mexicans, whose entire posses
sions have been swept away and who have
no reserves to fall back upon. There is
yet a vast stretch of territory to be heard
irom, and every one fears that when the
lull returns are in the loss of life will prove
°i appalling magnitude.
ONLY A CHURCH LEFT STANDING.
In this city the ruin has been most oom
riete the Catholic church being the only
uncling left standing on tho main street,
ue convent and adjoining school stood
■ e wear of the waves for many hours, but
nraiiy crumbled 1 ,to ruins.
he \ urns Sentinel moved its office four
mes. and finally succeeded in getting out
1 tl:ne to-dav. The Times was less fortu
&e, and its office and material went
uown in the wreck.
rears were entertained that the fine rail
tJ" bridge would be carried away, but
rtunately the piers stood the te't, and
lnri 8 some e *tra heavy wreckage should
oageon the superstructure and cause a
jam, it wifi not be materially injured.
EVERY SHOULDER TO THE WHEEL,
rrom tho first intimation of danger every
ne labored with a will to save tho town,
en the Indians working as they never
• rked before. The officers of Fort Yuma
aye done everything in their power to as
-13: Ibe sufferers und, fortunately, there was
eood supply of tents on band, and these
® r ® at once placed at the dis
-’ „ ,°* iho homeless families and much
mimng thereby prevented. Should there
omther rainfall it is hoped that there
ill be little further loss, and that with the
t,.ration of communication with the west
uihcient relief will be brought in from San
ru iciscoand Los Angeles to prevent any
*enous trouble.
I he citizens of this city have already sub
scribed over $2,500 to the relief fund, mid
ff 08 Angeles bas’coileeted about S3,(K& for
ne same purpose. San Francisco mer
chants subscribed liberally to the fund in
hat city, and a dispatch from there this
evening 6tatcs that a relief train will be
sent through as soon ns the railroad is re
paired.
V.ckaburg Wants a Wblte Postmaster.
Vicksburg, Miss., March I.—A mass
meeting was held last night at- the court
house, and resolutions were adopted pro
testing against the appointment of James
colored, as postmaster at Vioksburg.
x!)c iUflfning fto>£.
PARNELL ON THE BTUMP.
He Makes Speeches at Drogheda and
Navan.
Dublin, March I.—Replying to a deputa
tion at Drogheda to-day Mr. Parnell said he
was rejoiced at the proof of support every
where accorded him. This, he said, showed
his opponents that Irishmen would not
allow them to degrade the platform by i>er
mittiug them to strike below the belt under
a pretext of dealing with questions of public
moment. If the differences between the
two factions was not fought out upon
dignified lines, the blame would not fall
upouihis supporters. Tney woold strain
every point to accord their opponents a fair
hearing, but if their opponents outraged
the se .se of the people by going outside the
limits of decency, the people would justlv
resent their conduct.
THE MEN OF MEATH.
On arriving at Navan, Mr. Parnell ad
dressed a meeting in the Square. He said
that perhaps some day in the distant future
somebody would arise, privileged to address
them, not as men of Royal Meath, but as
men of republican -Meath. [Cheers.] It was
Meath which first gave him the opportunity,
sixteen years ago, to serve Ireland in
public life. [Chters.] At what moment
during that period had he ever been un
faithful to the principles then pledged?
[Cries of “Never.”] They had won a
hundred skirmishes together, and now he
wanted to be allowed to win tne battle with
them. Already they had put a snaffle in
the mouth of the landlord. By-and-by, with a
parliament in College Green, they would fit
these same mouths with a bit and bridle.
[Chsers and laughter],
EMP6E3B FREDERICK COOL.
She Felt No Alarm and A eked the
Kaiser Not to Get Excited.
London, March L — Ex-Empress Fred
erick wrote a letter to Emperor William,
last Thursday night, in which she said she
could not understand the necessity of short
ening her stay or avoiding publicity
in Paris. Every one with whom she
had been in contact, she said, had been very
polite to her, and, in fact, she felt grateful
for the attention she had received. She
begged her son to keep cool, saying she was
convinced that everything would come out
all right in the end.
THE GOVERNMENT BLAMELESS.
London, March I.—The Times' Vienna
correspondent says: “The German govern
ment, in a dispatch to Count von Munster,
the German ambassador at Paris, instructs
him to refrain from any initiatory action
and merely to reply, if questioned bv M.
Rib it, that Germany has no reproach to
make, but,on the oontrary, is quite satisfied
with the manner in which the French gov
ernment has endeavored to maintain the
rites of hospitality.”
GERMANY’S PABSFO*T LAW.
The New Restrictions Not Well Re
ceived Even at Home.
Berlin, March L — The action of the
government in regard to passports in
Alsace-Lorraine Is ill received by some con
servatives as well as by the freissinnige
party.
The Keichsbote hopes that the passport
measure is due to other reasons than the
conduct of the French chauvinists.
Tne Kreuz Zeitung speculates upon the
probability of war with France, and after
upbraiding the Germans for being of a too
patient and sluggish temperament, and
expressing doubts of the friendship of
Italy and England, it says thatJGermany,
having failed to secure the love of Europe,
ought to endeavor to obtain respect.
'I he Journal de St. Petersburg hopes that
efforts will be made on both sides to remove
the shadow on the relations between Prance
and Germany.
Allocution of the Pope.
Rome, March 1. —The pope’s allocution
is expected to be made public to-morrow,
dealing with Cardinal Lavlgerie’s policy in
France, and with affairs in Brazil. It
recommends Catholics to unite and act out
side of political parties, aiming solely to
obtain a regime of liberty.
Prince Napoleon’s Will.
Rome, March 1. —It is stated that Prince
Napoleon has made a will disinheriting his
son, Prince Victor, and Indicating Prince
Louis as the next emperor. Prince Napo
leon is reported slightly better. Ho took
joins food to-day.
DESPICABLE POLITICS.
Letters Diverted from Their Course
and Opened in Canada.
Toronto, Ont. , March I.—-Speaking at
a mass meeting of liberals in East York
last night, Sir Richard Cartwright said that
the government appeared to have adopted
the policy of letter-stealing, and went on to
make the following charge: "The other
day I noticed a letter which our
secretary had addressed to a gentle
man in Hastings, but which apparently bad
never reached that gentleman. The ad
dress was plain, but the letter had gone to
the dead letter office, been opened there and
seut, not to the secretary, as I think
the law requires, but to tne govern
ment candidate for West Hast
ings, who forthwith published it. 1
advised the secretary to set the law in
motion to ascertain how it comes to pass in
a country like this, where we might hope
that at least the privacy of the mails would
be respected; that letters addressed to a
certain place go to the dead letter office,
and thence to the political opponent of the
man to wnom they are addressed.
LETTER WRITING DANGEROUS.
“I have come to consider it a dangerous
thing, indeed, for me to send letters, as my
writing is tolerably well known to gentle
men on the other side of politics. More
than cne case has come to my knowl
edge where, by accident, I suppose, my
letters did not got to the dead letter office,
but the seals were broken as if somebody or
another had been making himself ac
quainted with their contents.” Referring
to Mr. Van Horne’s manifesto, he alluded to
Mr. Van Horne as a dictaior-iu-chief of her
majesty’s government in Canada. He con
demned the manifesto as a mistake.
A VOTE OF THANKS TO rEE 3.
It Is Pretty Certain That But Few Dem
ocrats Will Favor One.
Washington, March I,— Speaker Reed
has some friend3 left on the democratic
side, but none of them, not oven Mr. Mc-
Clammy of North Carolina, has yst had the
hardihood to prepare even a very meager
resolution of thanks to the speaker for his
faithful and importial administration of
his office. Speaker Reed, it is understood,
does not want a perfunctory
resolution of this sort from his
democratic friends, rightly believing that
the other democrats would make their pro
test the more emphatio because the propo
sition came fr m their side of the House.
He will depend upon his republican col
leagues to tender the vote of thanks which
las heretofore oorne from the opposition,
discounting philosophically in advance the
inevitable democratic dissent.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 2,18 M.
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
CARDINAL GIBBONS PREACHES ON
THE SUBJECT.
Separation Without the Right to Re
marry the Idea of the Church Unless
Reconciliation is Possible—a Warn
ing to the Advocates of Suffrage for
Women.
Baltimore, Md„ March L— Cardinal
Gibbons to-day preached his annual sermon
on “Marriage and Divorce.” During his
remarks be narrated bow Pope Clement
VII. refused to sanction the divorce of
Henry VIII. from bia lawful wife. Catha
rine of Arragon, and how Pius VII., when
solicited by Napoleon, refused to annul the
marriage between the emperor’s brother,
Jerome, and Miss Patterson, who were
married in Baltimoro by Archbishop Car
roll in 1803. He continued: “Christian wives
and mothers, what an immense debt of
gratitude you owe to Christ and his church
for your emancipation and the dignity
which you enjoy in the Christian common
wealth. If you are no longer the slave of
man’s passions, like the women of Asia, but
his peer and equal; if you are no longer a
tenant at will, like the wives of the pagan
Greece and Rome, but mistress of your
household; if you are no longer confronted
by usurping rivals, like Mohammedan and
Mormon wives, but if you are queen of the
domestic kingdom, you are indebted for
this position to the church, and especially
to the sovereign pontiffs, who have vindi
cated your honor when assailed by lustful
men.
WOMEN AND POLITICS.
"I said you are queen of the domestic
kingdom. If you would retain that empire
shun the political arena, avoid the rostrum,
beware of unsexing yourselves. If you
become embroiled in political agitation the
queenly aureola that encircles your brow
will fade away and the reverence that is
paid to you will disappear. If you have a
vaiu ambition of reigning in public life
your domestic empire will be at an end.
DIVORCES ON THR INCREASE.
“The subjeot of divorces is invented with a
painful interest in our time and country.
There are more divorces legally granted iu
the United States than In any other Chris
tian country—more, perhaps.’ than in all
other Christian countries combined. In the
space of twenty years, according to official
statistics, from 1867t0 1886 inolusive,36o,ooo
divorcee were granted in the United States—
that is to say. thirds of 1,-
000,000 persons were legally separated
during that time. The number of divorces
hai steadily increased since that time, and
beyond all proportion to the general in
crease of population. Divorces are granted
on the most flimsy pretexts, and throughout
the country divorce courts are established
which are very appropriately called ‘di
vorce mills,’ since they grind out divorces
with such rapidity and crush out happiness
from the domestic roof.
THE MISERY THEY CAUSE.
“Let the imngination picture t > itself the
number of homes made des date by this de
stroying angel; the number of husbands
and wives whose hearts are crushed and
whose spirits are broken; the number of
children that are cast upon the world bereft
of a father’s protecting arm and of a
mother’s love, who dare not oling to one of
their parents without arousing the jealousy
aud hatred of the other.
SEPARATION VERSUS DIVORCE.
"But is it not cruel and heartless to com
pel husband and wife to live together who
cannot so live in peace and who are entirely
estranged from one another? 1 answer
that ttie laws of the gospel do not oblige
soma persons to dwell together if there is no
hope of reconciliation between
them. They are allowed to live
apart and to obtain divorce from
bed and board. But, you will insist, is it
not cruel and unnatural to condemn such
persons to elife of forced celibacy afterthey
are separated? Would it not be more merci
ful to permit them to enter into the sacred
nuptials and enjoy the society of a congenial
partner in marriage?
MERCY Tb GOOD ORDER.
“You speak of mercy to the separated
couple; but is no mercy to be shown to the
peace and good order of society! Is no
mercy to be shown to the gospel of Christ,
which upholds our society? All laws are
made for the common good, and every law
has its personal inconveniences. If you
abrogate the law because of its
incidental annoyance, you undermine
all legislation. It is on that prin
ciple that the atheist objects to the
observance of Sunday when ho would pre
fer to work, and that the saloonkeeper ob
jects to the closing of his store when he
would rather sell. It is better that one man
should suffer than that the whole nation
should perish. Better, far better, that in a
few individual cases divorced people should
be forbidden to marry than that the foun
dations of the sacred edifice of society
should be undermined.”
SENATOR HEARST'S FUNERAL.
It Will be Held Thursday, and the Body
Will be Taken to California.
Washington, March 1. —The funeral
services over the remains of the late Sena
tor Hearst will be held on Thursday morn
ing. They will take place at his late resi
dence, and will be brief and simple.
The time of the funeral was de
layed until Thursday, so as to enable
the members of the Senate and
House who desire to attend the funeral to do
so without interfering with the pressing
business that demands their attention dur
ing the few remaining days In which con
gress will be in session.
TO BE TAKEN TO CALIFORNIA.
Thursday night or Friday morning, the
exact time not being determined upon as
yet, the remains will be taken to the rail
road station, deposited in a private car at
tacbed to the regular train, and be started
on their way to San Francisco, where the in
terment will take place. Mrs. Hearst and
her son and possibly some intimate friends
of the family will accompany the remains.
Many persons called at the house to-day to
express their sympathy with the family,
and a number of telegrams of condolence
were received. Vice President Morton was
among those who called. The honorary
pal lbearers have not yet been selected.
NEWLY-GREATffD JUDGES.
Harrison Not Apt to Nominate Them
Before the Adjournment.
Washington, March I.—lt is not ex
pected that the I’resideut will send the
names of the five land oourt judges or
of the nine judges for the cir
cuit courts to the Senate before the ad
journment of congress. This fact has
given rise to a rumor that
he will call an extra session of
the Senate t> c infirm these judicial ap
pointments, but Senator Edmunds said yes
terday that an extra session would not be
necessary for this purpose. Neither would
it be necessary for the President to delay bis
action until next December, as the Senate
would undoubtedly confirm any appoint
ments made during the recess.
WOMAN’S COUNCIL.
The Resolutions Adopted at the Final
iression of the Board.
Washington. March I.— at the final
business session of the board of the National
Council of Women there were present the
five general officers, and representatives of
twelve associations now duly entered on the
council lists. The board considered un
finished business and passed the following
resolutions:
Resolved, That the National Council of Women
of the United States send a memorial to the
clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
askiug, inasmuch as hi percent, of tne member
ship of that denomination has already, by
formal ballot, expressed a desire tnat w’umeu
be admitte 1 to the general conference, that the
clargy shall, in accordance with tne will of the
laity, grant the aiunssion of women to that
body.
2. Tliat the council ask that women he placed
on the Sunday school lesson committee, and on
all the committees appointed in tne various
churches for revision of their creeds.
i. That the council urge upon the National
Reform Divorce league the eminent fitness and
consequent obligation of plsoing women on its
board
4. That the National Council of Women shall
prt-se tto the proper authorities a formal re
quest that in all departments of its service the
government shall pay its employes equal wages
for equal work, and cuat both in engaging and
promot.ng its employes It siia 1 consider eifi
ciency and not sex, and thus set a standard for
the country.
SJ. That inasmuch as the Columbian exposition
of 1883 will aiford exceptional opportunity for
couveuing represents tares of nil countries, tire
officials shall invite the international council of
women, Miilioent Garrett Fegrcett, president,
to hold its first meeting in Chicago in tne sum
mer of 1688.
THE MARY WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
The council also resolved to furnish a
block of stone or marble, suitably inscribed,
to place in the monument to be erected over
the grave of Mary, the mother of Washing
ton, and voted to commend to all organized
bodies of women the object* of the Mary
Washington Society. The following reso
lutions were also adopted:
Resolved, That the general officers shell ap.
point a committee of women, whose duty it
shall be to report within a year suggestions
for a business costume for women, which shall
meet the demands of health, comfort and good
taste.
Resolved, That the council approves the
movement for preventing the slaughter of
hirda for the solo purpose of ornamentation,
aud tnat it asks American women to imitate
the example of the Princess of Wales, who has
forbidden the use of the plumage of singing
birds ia her toilets.
CUBA AT CHICAGO.
The Island to Make a Fine Exhibit and
Anxious for Trade.
Washington, March L—Mr. Curtis of
the state department, who has charge of the
Latiu-Amerioau department of the Chicago
exposition, has just returned from a
visit to the West ludiea] in the interest of
the exposition.
In his report, which was forwarded to the
committee on foreign exhibits yesterday,
Mr. Curtis unnouuces the appointment by
the captain general of Cuba of a board of
thirty commissioners to represent the island
at the exp isition, and to seenre a oolieo
tioa illustrating its rewfiiree®, prod
ucts and] industries for exhibition
there. This board, he says, lnoludes
the most prominent, enterprising and influ
ential men iu the colony, ten of the thirty
bearing the rank of excellentlssimo.
Among the others are the mayor of Havana,
rector of the uuiversity and the editors of
the princlpil Cuban newspapers.
ANXIOUS TO TRADE WITH US.
The desire of the people of Cuba, the re
port says, "especially the sugar and tobecco
planters aud manufacturers, to promote
their commercial relations with the United
States, amounts to anxiety, aud several
commercial organizations of the islorni sent
to Madrid a committee of prominent oiti
tens to impress upon the ministry andcorbes
the absolute necessity of negotiating a
liberal reciprocity treaty with the United
States.
SAN DOMINGO WANTS RECIPROCITY.
“I may also mention in this connection a
matter of news I learned at Havana, which
is that the commercial organizations of the
republic of Ban Domingo have raised
a put‘B6 to pay the salary
and expenses of an envoy to
be sent by the government to Washington
for the purpose of negotiating a reciprocity
treaty with the United States. A similar
spirit pervades the entire group of West
Indian colonies, and'will, I am sure, stimu
late their representation at the exposi
tion.”
While in Havana Mr. Curtis secured for
the historical section of the exposition
plaster casts of the tomb of Columbus aud
the famous statue of Columbus iu chaius.
EXTRA SSBBION DANGERS.
The Slightest Republican Chicanery
Would Precipitate One.
Washington, March 1. —Johnny Daven
port is still here, and now that the demo
crats have lost two votes by death he is
actually talking of a resumption of the force
bill. He is enoouiaged in this by tbe utter
ances of tbe force bill senators, lie also
gets comfort from an alleged remark of
Senator Cameron, that if tbe democrats of
the Henate jeopardize the subsidy bill by
delay that he (Cameron) will vote with the
radical republicans to attempt the passage
of the force bill. This is but part
of tbe outgivings of the sub
sidy men to-night. They do not
hesitate to say that the Senate must choose
between an extra session and the subsidy
b.ll. Senator Gorman says there is time
enough to pass tbe appropriation bills if iho
Senate attends strictly to that business, but
that republican chicanery of any sort
would precipitate an extra session,
INGALLS’ BUGCEiSDH.
Senator Manderson Selected President
Pro Tempore.
W ashinoton, March I.—A conference of
republican senators was held to-Dight at
the capitol for the purpose of selecting a
president jjro tempore of tho Senate, in the
place of Senator Ingalls, who has held that
office for some years, but who resigned the
position recently in order to give the
Senate an opportunity to elect bis
successor before the session closes.
Tnree senators were nominated for tho po
sition—Messrs. Frye of Maine, Hoar of
Massachusetts and Manderson of Nebraska.
Six or seven ballots were takeu, and on tbe
last bsllot Senator Manderson received
twentv-or.e votes, which was a majo.ity of
the votes cast. On motion of Senator Frye
the nomination was made unanimous. No
otbor business whatever was transacted by
the conference.
A Force BUI Rumor.
Washington, March 1. —Johnny Daven
port is authority for the statement that the
President proposes to send a special mes
sage to comtress to-morrow urging tbe
passage of tbe force bill. Nothing could be
learned about it at the white house to
night.
A Boy’s Log Out Off.
Atlanta, Ga., March 1. —Charlie Carter,
a D-year-old white boy, had his leg cut off
while attempting to board the front eud of
a s’reet car to-day. He was oue of a crowd
of boys who have been annoying the car
drivers a good deal by stealing rides.
CONGRESS IN’ A BIG RUSH.
IHE SEN AT-a HARDER POSHED
THAN T E HOUSE.
The Senate Appropriation Committee
in Session all Day—Many of the Con
firees Also at Work Hard and Inces
tant Work Necosary to Avoid an Ex
tra Session.
Washington, March 1. —Speaker flood'*
congress did not break the Sabbath in its
efforts to make up some of the time wasted
on the force bill, but its adjournment last
night until to-m rrow mormltig was out of
respect to the memory of Senator Hearst,
and not out of respect to the Sabbath. The
loss of the session proposed for to-day will
compel close work to get the remaining ap
propriation bills through by Wednesday
noon. Chairman Allison says it can be
done by sticking to it. It will also make it
difficult to get the subsidy bill through.
Tho purpose of the subsidy seekers now is to
get the subsidy matter into conference,
where they can fix up a.bill such as Speaker
Heed failed to pass through the House,
comprising both the mall pay and tonnage
features.
VBRY ANXIOUS ABOUT IT.
Their anxiety about it is shown by Sena
tor Frye and the proposed amendment to
the postofflce appropriation bill covering
the mail pay provision. The subsidy seek
ers say, however, that they hope to get the
subsidy bill into conference in an hour to
morrow morning. They cannot do it iu a
day if the opponents of subsidies stand firm,
even against the threats of the subsidy seek
ers that they will foroe an extra session
rather than let the subsidy bill fail. Ho far
the opponents of the bill have prevented the
hasty action wbiob the subsidy seekers hoped
for, some of them saying Friday night that
the bill would bo in conference’ by noon of
Saturday.
WORK OF TIIK COMMITTEE.
(Bu the Associated Press.)
Tho appropriations committee of the
Senate has been at work the whole day get
ting the appropriation bills in shape, and os
the committee was not subject to the usual
interrupt bus that necessarily occur during
sittings of congress, good progress was
made. It is believed that the condition of
business is such as to make an extra
session very improbable. Three appropria
tion bills, viz.: The postofflee, agricultural
nnd general deficiency, have not yet passed
the Senate, but the first named was well ad
vanced toward final action when the Sen
ate adjourned last night, and the other two
bills will be reported to the Senate to-mor
row morning.
CONDITION OF THE OTHER BILLS.
The condition of the other appropriation
bills is as follows: The army, military
academy, fortifications and naval have
either become laws, or merely want the
President’s signature to become laws; the
consular and diplomatic, pension, Indian,
District of Columbia, sundry oivil and
legislative, executive and judi iai bills are
In coufereuce, und on some of them the con
ferees have made substantial progress to
ward agreement.
WORK OF CONFEREES.
The oonferees on tho District of Columbia
bill met to-day, and will probably be able
to report an agreement to-morrow morning.
The dlfTcreucss between the two houses
on the sundry civil bill wore gone over in
conference this afternoon and many points
adjusted, so aa to leave only a few matters
yet in and sprite. Ttie world’s fair paragraph
had not been reached at the close of the
conference this evening.
On several of the appropriation bilD in
conference there are radical differences of
opinion between tho Senate and House, but
there is no reason io apprehend that one
side or the other will not yield after it has
made stubborn resistance and finds it
necessary to give way in order to avoid an
extra session.
THE COPYRIGHT AND POSTAL BILLS.
The oopyright and postal subsidy bills are
in the conference stage of procedure, and
vigorous efforts will bo mads to onaot thorn
into laws in some shape before the final ad
journment. The conferees on the oopyright
bill will probably agree on thp Senate sub
stitute, with some amendments regarding
lithographs and similar productions, and
the friends of the subsidy bill, It is under
stood, will accept the measure passed by tbe
House, on the motion of Mr. Cannon, if it
be found impracticable to secure a more
liberal law.
Action on the unfinished appropriation
bills and conference reports, and on the
questions of copyright and subsidy, will
consume substantially all of tue time of the
Senate between now and noon of Wednes
day. What little time is otherwise con
sumed will probably be devoted to proceed
ings in executive sessions.
THE HOUSE IN BETTER SHAPE.
The work of tbe House is considerably
further advanced than that of the Senate,
and In addition to acting upon conference
reports, it will very likely give some atten
tion to the Boarmsn imp-achmoot resolution,
to the special report of the Kaum investi
gating committee and to sundry minor
matters.
THE SUNDRY CIVIL CONFEREES.
Washington, March 2,1 a. m.—The con
ferees on the sundry civil appropriation bill
met to-night and wore still iu session at 1
o’clock. When the paragraph making ap
propriations for the World’s Columbian ex
position was received, each side stated its
position and the matter was discussed at
some length. It was finally passed over
temporarily, to be taken up again when
other disputed items of tbe bill are out of
the way.
HENNBSSSY’S SLAYERS.
Two Witnesses Identify Three of the
Prisoners.
New Orleans, La., March I.—The
Hennessey assaaii nation case was resumed
yesterday before Judge J. O. Baker, Geo.
Mascare testified that he passed by a cob
bler shop on Girard, near Basin
street, about J 1 o’olock on
the night of Oct. 15, 1890.
He saw a light in tho shop and beard voices.
[Noto —This is Monasterio’s shop—the
place where the assassins were in hiding
when the chief came up.]
Continuing, tho witness said that ho also
saw five or six men standing under the
grocery shed opposite, recognizing two of
them. The witness then l lentifled Bcaifedi
and Monastery ns two of the men he taw
at the corner. The identification caused a
profound sensation in the court.
IDENTIFIED BY A NEGRO.
Zachary Foster, a colored "man, said he
was returning from a meeting at ll'o’clook
that night and saw three men with shot
guns, or long pistols, pointed as if to fire,
standing in front of tbe alley way near
Mouasterio’e shanty. They fired at a man
in light clothing approaching. He stopped
and saw the man in the light
clothes brace ; himself against the
wall and fire back at the four men who
were shooting at him. The faces of three of
these he saw distinctly and identified them
as Bcaffedi, llarchesi and IVliiz. Several
other witneso, testified that they hoard tbe
shooting and saw the ine:i.
LBB AND SBEBMAN.
Hayes Tries to Prove That the Latter
Wae the Greeter General.
Fremont, 0., March I.—Memorial ser
vices were held here to-day for Gen, Sherman
and Admiral Porter, Ex-President Hayes
was the principal speaker. Of Gan. Sherman
as the greatest commander, Gen. Hayes
said: “Gen. Wolseley speaks of him in terms
that are altogether complimentary. Says
Gen. Wolseloy, however, ’Lee was a great
fenera', and next to him was Shorman.’
would change tho order.
I admit Lee's great character, aceom
plish meets as a soldier, and ns a man praise
worthy iu every way except bis unfortu
nate lack of wisdom. I do not speak of
motives. Place where Sherman was.
Place Bherman where I,ee was. Place Lee
at Chattanooga. Even with Sherman’s
army would he have found his way to At
lanta, aud at Atlanta cut loose from his
base of supplies ana entered upon a wild
march for the sea, three hundred miles
away I I believe no man lacking the genius
of Sherman would have entered on that
march to the sea. But come nearer home.
i.ee's alleged opportunity.
“Lee had the same opportunity, only it
was teu times better than that Sherman had
at Atlanta. Suppose Sherman had been in
command of the army of Lee. Washington
at that time lay wholly within the power of
au enterprising and daring commander,
and with Washington captured interven
tion from übroad would have
come. 1 do not predict final
defeat, for throughout all action the finger
of God was present, guiding and directing.
I oannot believe that uuder any circum
stances tho cause of liberty and union oould
have failed, but at Washington was the
chance of victory and Lee failed to take
it. Mors than that, he went to the Poto
mac, crossed it, and our disorganise 1 army,
without commander, being divided between
Pope and McClellan, was ten days behind
hlin and he marched on into Pennsylvania,
and what did he do and what would Sher
man havedone?
AFRAID TO OUT LOOSE.
“Leodid not dare lose communication
with his baso of supplies, and was driven
back from Antietam with a divided armv.
Had Sherman been at the head of that
army and that distance between him and
the pursuing forcos, he would have gone to
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Cleve
land, Cincinnati and then cut his
road back into Virginia. A little
band of 4,000 men under Morgan wont
through Ohio aud Indiana, and Lee, with
his great army, with nothing before him
but wealth and supplies, and cities able to
Eay tribute for not being burned, is not to
e compared with Sherman."
LABOR AND THB FAIR.
Refusals to Pay Bu -ascriptions to be
Carried Into Court.
Chicago, March I,—Chicago organized
labor is in arms over letters from Treasurer
Seaberger of the world’s fair direotory as
to unpaid stock. The circular received by a
Mr. Meagher reads: “My col
lector reports that you, in oomznon
with a number or person* evidently of the
same family,decline to pay tbo installments
due on your subscription to this company
because you want first to le&rn wether or not
the work ou tbe fair building is to be done
by union or non-union labor. I want t<> in
form you that tuts has nothing whatever to
do with the question, but even if
the question were absolutely fixed as to
whether union or non-union men were to
be ompioyed it has nothing whatever to do
with vour obligation to this subscription
list. Tills company does not propose to
have any ono dictate what shall or what
shall not bu done. The names of delinquents
are being handed over to the collecting at
torney, aud you will find that such excuse
will notavail."
labor’s demands ignored.
Contrary to exnectation, the world’s fair
directory has taken no action on the demands
of the labor unions. At a meeting of the
the trades assembly to-day the subject was
warmly discussed and a delega
tion was ►elected to meet a com
mittee of tho state Senate
which is to assemble in Chicago to-morrow
to investigate the world’s fair labor
troubles. The demands are an eight-hour
day, $1 50 to be tho minimum wages, total
exclusion of alien labor, and as far as
practicable of non-unionist labor.
ECATI ERJ.D TO THB WINDS.
The Ashes of a Dead Man Thrown Into
the Air from Bedloe’a Statue.
New York, March I.—A committee of
four from ihe Staten Island Hehuotzen corpr
appointed to carry out the request of Henry
Meyer, proprietor of the Puck hotel, at Port
Richmond, that his remains be scattered to
the winds from the top of the status
of Liberty on Bedloe’s Island, fulfilled their
mission today. When the Lop of toe pedes
tal was reached by tbe committee a metal
uru that contained the ashes of Meyer was
opened and each committeeman put a por
tion of the contents, which weighed about
four pounds, into a paper bag.
•A BRIEF ADDRESS.
The delegation then olimbed tbe stair
case leading to tho crown of the statue,
where a brief address was mudo by the
master of ceremonies, after which the four
committeemen, each holding one
of the bags containing the ashes
in his right, hand. pronounoed
these words together: “Here goes the last
of Puck Meyer. Happy days,” and then
scattered the ashes to the four winds. Tho
cersmo y was conch tied by tbe opening of
two Pottles of champagne and drinking to
tlie memory of “Puck” Meyer.
LEVBiiS AGAIN IN DANGER.
Tho Water in the Mississippi Higher
Than Last Year.
New Orleans, La., March I.—Con
cerning the condition of the levees and tbe
uneasy feeling produced along the lower
Mississippi by the continued rising of the
water, information has been received to tbo
effect that the present condition of
the Mississippi river and its tribu
taries threatens a disastrous over
flow from Memphis to New Orleans. The
main river, as well as tho tributaries, are
higher than at this date last year. Tbe
greatest apprehension is felt by all living in
the Mississippi valley. The hard light of
1890 is being repeated, with the rivers
higher than iast year, and still rising at an
alarming rate.
BIRMINGHAM'S 810 -BN OEMS.
A Man Who Offered to Return Them
for a Reward Under Arrest.
Birmingham, Ala, March I.—A man
named Q. W. Martin, alias Tom Long, was
arrested to-day charged with being im
plicated in the Rosenthal diamond rob
bery. He offered to secure tbe stones
for a reward and asserted that he had over*
heard a plot to rob the store. He was ar
rested and told conflicting stories. Parties
who saw the robber assert that Martin re
sembles him in appearance. AU of the
I one stoues have been recovered. About
$3,009 in rings is missing.
I DAILY.SIO A YEAR. )
4 5 GKNTS A COPY.
( NIULY,J!.A YKAR f
GOTHAM'S TEN PLAGUES.
NOAH’3 VINEYARD A BAD THING
FOR THE WORLD.
The P anter’a Over-Indulgence in Hia
Home-M ide Wine-Old-Time Intoxi
cants Not in it When Compared
With the Modern Jersey Lightning.
The Evils of Intempjrance.
New York, March I.—Dr. Taimage con
tinued to-day the series of sermons he com
menced last Sunday on the “Ten Plagues of
New York nnd the Adjacent Cities.” The
plague which he places second on the list is
intemperance, and on that subject he dis
coursed this morning in tbe Academy of
Music, Brooklyn, and this evening in New
York, At the close of the service In the
New York Academy of Music, Dr. Taimage
went over to the Union square theater,
where his son, Frank DeWitt Taimage, ws
holding aa overflow meeting, and briefly
add re sed the crowded bouse. Both the
New York servioes are under the auspice*
of the Christian Herald, of which Dr.
Taimage is editor. The text of the doctor’s
sermon was taken from Genesis ix, 20, 21:
“Noah planted a vineyard: and he drank of
the wine and was drunken."
This Noah did the best and the worst
thing for the world. He built an ark
against tho deluge of water, but introduced
a deluge against which the human race has
ever since been trying to build an ark—the
deluge of drunkenness. In my text wo bear
his staggering steps. Hbem and Japhet
tried to cover up the disgrace, but there he
is, drunk ou wine at a time iu the history of
the world when, to say tho least, there was
no lack of water. Inebriation, having en
tered the world, has not retreated. Abigail,
tbe fair aud heroic wife, who saved the
flocks of Nabal, her husband, from
confiscation by invaders, goes home at
night and finds him so intoxicated that she
Cannot tell him the story of his narrow
escape. Uriah came to see David, and
David got him drunk, and paved the way
for the despoliation of a household Even
the church bishops needed to be charged
to be sober aud not given to too much wine,
and so familiar were people of Bible times
with the staggering and falling m ition of
the inebriate, that Isaiah, when becomes
to describe the final dislocation of worlds’
says: “The earth shall reel to and fro like
a drunkard."
Ever sinoe apples and grip >s, and wheat
grew the world has been tempted to un
healthful stimulants. But tho intoxicants
of the olden lime were an innocent bev
erage, a i armless orangeade; a quiet syrup,
a peaceful soda water, as compared with the
liquids of modern mebriatiou, into which a
madness and a fury, and a gloom and a fire,
and a suicide aud a retribution have mixed
aud mingled. Fermentation was always
known, but it was not until a thousand
years after Christ that distillation was in
vented. While wo must confess that soma
of the ancient arts have been lost, tbe
miristlau ora is superior to all others la the
bad eminence of whisky and rum, and
gin. The modern drunk is a
hundredfold worse than the ancient
drunk. Noah iu Ids intoxication beoame
imbecile, but the victims of modern alcohol
ism have to struggle with wbolemenag
ones of wild beasts und jungles of hissing
serpents and perditions of blaspheming de
mons, An arcb-flcnd arrived in our world,
and he built an invisible caldron of tempt
ation. He 1 uilt that caldron strong und
stout for all ng iS and all nations. First he
squeezed into the caldron toe juices of the
forbidden fruit of I’aradise. Then be gath
ered for it a distillation from the harvest
fields and the orchards of the hemispheres.
Then he poured into this cauldron
capsicum and copperas and logwood
and deadly nightshade aid assault
and battery and vitriol and
opium, and rum, and murder, and sulphuric
acid, and theft, and potash, and cochineal,
and red carrots, and poverty and death and
hops. But it was a dry compound, and it
must be moistened, and it must, be liquefied,
and so tbo arch-fiend poured iuto that
caldron the tears of centuries of orphanage
and widowhood, and he poured in the
blood of twenty thousand as-urinations.
Aud then the urcb-tiend took u shovel that
he had brought, up from the furnace
beneath, aud he put that shovel
into tills groat caldron and began tu stir,
and the oaldron began to heave, and rock,
and boil, aud sputter, and hiss,
nnd smoke, and tbe nations
gathered around it with cups and tankards
and demijohns and kegs, and there was
enough for all, and the arch-fiend cried:
“Aba! champion fiend am L Who has
done more than I have for coffins and grave
yards and prisons aud insane asylums, and
the population of the 10.-t world? And when
this cildron is emptied. I’ll fill it again,
aud I'll stir it ogam, and it will smoko
again, and that smoke will join
another smoke—the smoke of a tor-
ment that asoendeth for ever and
ever. I drove fifty ships on the
rooks of Newfoundland and the Hkerries
and the Goodwins. I have ruined more
senators than gather this winter in the na
tional councils. I have ruined more lords
than are now gathered in tbe House of
Peers. The oup out of which I ordinarily
drink is a bleached human skull, and the
upholstery of my palace is so rich a crimson
because it is dyed in human gore, aud the
mosaic of my fl yrs is made up of tbe bones
of children dashed to death by drunken
parents, and my favorite music-sweater
than Te Doom or triumnhal march—my
favorite music is the cry of daughters
turned out at midnight on the street
because father has come home from the
carousal, and tbe seven-hundred-voiced
shriok of the sinking steamer, beoause the
captain win not himself wneu he put the
ship on tbe wrong euu.se. Champion fiend
am 1! I have kindled more fires, I have
wrung out more agonies, I have stretched
out more midnight shadows, I have opened
more Golgothas, I have rolled more Jugger
nauts, I have damned more souls than any
other emissary of diabolism. Champion
fiend am I!”
Drunkenness is the greatest evil of this
nation, and it takes no logical process to
prove to this audience that a drunken na
tion cannot long be a free nation. I call
your attention to the fact that drunken
ness is not subsiding, certainly that it is not
at a standstill, but tiiat it is on an onward
march, and it is a double-quick. There is
more rum swallowed in this country, and
of a worse kind, thau was ever swallowed
since the first distillery began its work of
death. Whore there was one drunken
home there are ten drunken homes. Whore
there was one drunkard’s grave there are
twenty drunkards’ graves. It is on the in
crease. Talk about crooked whisky—by
which men mean the whisky that does not
pay the tax to government—l tell you all
trong drink is crooked. Crooked otard,
crooked Cognac, crooked schnapps, crooked
beer, crooked wine, crooked whisky-*-be
cause it makes a man’s path crooked, and
his life crooked, and his death crooked, and
bis eternity crooked. If I could gather all
the armies of the dead drunkards and have
them come to resurrection, and then add to
that host all the armies of living drunkards,
five and ten abreast, and then if 1 could
have you mount a horse and ride along
that line for review, you would ride that
horse until he dropped from exhaustion, aud
you would mount another horse and ride
until he fail from exhaustion, and you
