Petersburg Index-Appeal (Newspaper) - February 4, 1881, Petersburg, Virginia PEAL DAILY EDITION J January W 1SSI To lite Editor of the FEBRUARY 4 1881 a t XSS 3 ivi a su providing for the Foderal regulation of immigration and favor its early In reply to some objections that hire been urged as to the alleged of the re rl 111 fha and in no serve only to the port of New York No doubt many thousands of immigrants landed at Boston Philadelphia and Balti more in addition to those recorded as having landed at the port of New York Is it not time Mr Editor that our people were earnestly looking about them to see if some plan cannot be to attract im migration to this part of our common coun try Only think that more than one thou sand immigrants each day of 1880 were landed upon our shores and that of this vast number only came to the Southern States MONROE THE INFLUX OF IMMIGRATION ANNUAL OF THE TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE The annual report of the Board of Com missioners of Emigration of this Stale for the year 1880 was to the Legisla ture The Commissioners say the business of th department was more extensive hist year than iu any previous year since the Board was This was due to the extraordinary influx of immi gration the largest ou record and it refuted in overtaxing the resources of the board to provide for this great mass of people As a rule the immigrants who came into tuis port were iu i and condition than who iu preceding years thu which have been to t lie railway companies to from the practice of pay iis on the de in Garden Com rill fail special With to for the ing commissions of emigrant transportation missioners express a Unit they inv suppressing the sys legislation is efforts ucd to m to aid they therefore r and the penalty might be remitted by tho courts or by the board but they insist that some such provision is absolutely necessary respect to other objections such as that the appropriation of a year for support of immigrants that it would be cult to admit claims which might be made under that clause by other States the board say it might be preferable to impose a par capita tax of ou each immigrant landed That they think would limit the expenditure and they ask the Legislature to adopt aud transmit to Congress resolutions embodying these views Editor Allow me to call the atten tion of your readers to some of tuo many errors of speech common among us 1 have examined a valuable little Sjo by Dr t ut the fact that errors of speech are so common even educated people Men and women who have ai colleges of no mean standing hun dreds of those who read this worus in common use and violate rules of grammar Even among eminent teachers you will frequently hear the wore pronounced recess with the acoen on the syllable of the second we hear people speak of au ad dress us a fine instead of That word that I have just now used is frequently pronounced ften instead o for tho t is aud the o is short climate instead of of the February 3 1881 and Mr F A the Philadelphia arrived here last night u their way south They left this morning ia tho aud Petersburg road Messrs Cameron and Burr expect to go as ar South as Orleans thence to Cuba by way of New Mexico where they vill be joined by General Grant aud with jini make an inspection of the route d for canal Cameron it is was called ou at the Exchange Hotel ast evening by State Senator J T Stovall of who spent a short time with llr Burr Camerons companion is the gen who came down here a few weeks before the last election aud made himself fa mous by attempting to divert the an vote from the Garfield to the Mahone lectoral ticket His project not suc ceed and he aud his colleague Mr Loveland eft on the first Northern bound train the day after the election Old Simon appeared Errors uf their the ria here iu foreign act ou the subject Fully Of all the immigrants who 1880 bui prepaid tickets to r destinations Tho entire oJ gern who into New from ports in Of then were aliens abd of wera steer ihu ot for iSso of 187J was Of the total immigrant arrivals went lo the Western States lo the Eastern Statas while remained iu New York State Tho Southern States drew but Canada Tho distribution Brants iu some other Slates was as follows Illinois Wisconsin Ohio Iowa Minnesota ka Michigan Kansas Tlie arrival of immigrants ut this of en How many say mate as they should Tho word is often Iu the won archives tho i ia long as in pine and tho cl is sounded as k Errors as to both points are frequently observed bade ou ht iu be pronounced these Tho wore bad W should the word boquet booka e whiu WASHINGTON NOTES AND GOSSIP OF 0 be in his usual good and spirits concerned stand just He does not seem to be at all concerned about how tho next Senate will now Mr rural admirers do not think that be ought to go into a uhg Those express the opinion to for Governor y the without opposition service tD the party ilia iin MAN AND WOMAN HANGED CONSOLIDATION DE CISION AGAINST AN INJUNCTION MEN KILLED NEWS FROM THE very inception thould him say to this reward There seems to be some disinclination on tho of some of the auditors friends for his for tho to be submitted to the intricate workings of a convention next winter A calling on tho colored people of Slate to assemble in convention on the Liud of February lias been issued The object of this conclave of the colored states men is to ou tha question sable patriots whose disinterested efforts in other campaigns have been marked secui to be very actively lit work to this movement a success Sir Arthur E Perrigo who was arrested several days ago charged with bigamy was before tho police court this morning and sent oa to the grand jury of the Hustings Court ills second victim u Miss of Boston iu court this mom and that tho accused 1ojniary The following sales wore gtal a consuls at 10 Columbia and Augusta railroad stock ut Mt NEW February 3 The market opened irregular but in mu k anil lower and before the first ion was unsettled with but comparatively Blight li however a and under good buying an advance ol to jer cent was recorded ill which the entire Western Union NEW J 1 M Stocks woik if 485 StatO bonds j II do consols iS tin a ilo iast due ya o en forties do 497 of i nud as follows Ireland Norway Bohemia were word should be is implied It is a charge to say of a mans speech It wa do How often we hea the ward pronounced aMy cornered or We frequently sec tho word caption used with reference to the heading of an article or page but such a usage is not sanctioned by good writers In the accent is on the unit syllable uot the second An eminent divine Petersburg insists however that while it L proper to say as a general rule you should speak of u mule as being 1 mention this bit of pleasantry only to impress the fact that the word should be accented on tho first syllable It your said the dentist to a patient tooth he had extracted Thank replied the patient you have done thai Ill ing married other one lives iu Ni come on ha accused is an cm that Wlr 1 The Bureau of Information to with discover or to themselves The hospital iti the Castle Gaida Depot in d patients in the vv 18 V fl i je tr has maintained by the German and Jrish Emigrant Societies the Commissioners nut having auy f available for I ha purpose meut for tho pro vided for oj of iu history Of these nud females if There is no yon word In tho whole number th were HJ males and 417 females who tid acquired seme skilled trade or occupation among them being architects r engravers I druggists 74 florists 10 fresco painters silk weavers 207 bakers 4 governesses aud 14 female silk ribbon weavers The wages for those got employment as farm laborers ranged from SO in December to iu April May and June for female domestic servants from in November and December to 610 iu May per month Tho demand for labor was at all times great enough to enable the bureau to supply work people employment uu to as nW but it is frequently used instead of We ought to say not In the word datn the first a is long as iu data incorrectly pronounced Not uncommonly we near the word pronounced The ladies often say instead of iad instead of tarlatan This word lias three two The word has the first o short as in Sometimes people speak of a person dying with say of it Iu the words and tho i is short and the accent is iu the second sylla ble It is quite right to say 1 my I nave a sum of they have cost physical or mental labor The word is often erroneously pro with the accent on the second syl lable Iu the word hov ei the o is The second i in the word is long aud has the accent say i short not not our not not atory onerous not paj rentes if spelled uor 2Mtron not uot but has n t is pronounced as il spelled not inquiry city An victims hardly be able to i Lo testify him The industrious man a very good enjoyed n good reputation ever sinco hs living hero Porrigo is about 10 years old five feet four high and weighs about 110 pounds He married a Miss Gann of this city shortly after ho came here The report of 21r Boulware lha of the Arlington Life Insurance Company speaks in very plain lauguage o the management of tho affairs of that Com puny and will bo likely to set policy holders to fin 1 as ACCIDENT Gov revenue uQ ot revenue advertised the I and pat work cu senator int of Mrs Sarah of w severely injured on Tuesday last by a fall The Society of tho University of is iu a very nourishing condition Fifteen hundred laborers aud mechanic aro to worL Railroad The amount of iron ore arriving iu Lynch burg for shipment over the Virginia Midland is HO great that it cannot be moved as fast as Efforts aro making iu Kappa hannock county to form a company for the manufacture of sugar from sorghum Most of the it is stated has been takea are informed that a merchant by the name of Smith doing business m Creek iu Craig county shipped three thousand rabbits io market last week all killed since the first dav of Herald Mrs Wm living near London Bridge Anno county was very burned ou Saturday last while cooking durner nearly all of ier doming baing burnt from her body It W AK WASHINGTON February today Internal 3615 customs 74 Secretary Kamsey returned to the city day and was nt tho War Secretary Sherman left his cilice a heavy cold which threatens to aim up for several The by tuo Committee of the tarili for four of course its postponement All of the bilK now reported by tuu except sundry ci deficiency bills ready by next i Thn aro now n apportionment will pass this sussiM llii j House having by a decided vote pro J to its over the interj State bili Tho prospect of the of the latter in tho House are uow not iii nil flattering Mr of Illinois a member of aud is of the ion that if the Senate funding to make a bond the House will agree to it It is reported Virginia hero that United Hughes of that State will shortly istmo an address to thy of Virginia counseling them to form an alliance with the A delegation of York druggists have arranged for a before the of revenue of tho Ways and Means to advocate tho taking off of revenue stamps from atent medicines today introduced a j to purchase r statue of Washington I made from easts nf the celebrated V VACUT OK LK AT MUK TO OK February Tho yacht Carrie of Havre de Grace owned by Mr W T of Philadelphia blow up at wharf foot of street Fells at oclock last night The upper purl of tho bout was totally de four men were killed The owner of tho yacht was not in the city and Captain II 1 Poplar her commander wad in Havre do Grace where he lives It is known that about J oclock last night thoro were on tho Carrie Messrs Edward Pop lar and 11 J Poplar aged respectively LL and 11 years sons of tlie captain Joseph Brown a hand on the yacht and Ellis a colored steward The boiler exploded with terrible force the noise being heard for squares around and the con cussion breaking tho in some of the vessels lying near by Police Sergeant Cook of the Eastern District aud a ber of policemen watchmen and others hastened to tho wharf which they found covered with debris from the vessel and the hull was sunk alongside tho wharf tho top being nearly on the waters edge The boiler had thrown from its position and lay against the wall of ft warehouse about lifty feet oil All of the upper deck aud liud been torn off Sergeant found iu thu wharf tho caso of a silver inuring to one of the young Pop i ho two young men lived with their in Havre do Grace Joseph Brown thirty ouo years old also i Li Havre ciu Grace where ho has 11 nd children Ellis u col man in Baltimore It is un known the explosion took place or from what cause Those bust informed tire of that tho crew had allowed Uie lo go und some of tuo pipes IN PENNSYLVANIA February Smith and Catherine Miller were this at Hi oclock They without a struggle About 2 A J A Bright of sey Shore visited Smith in the condemned coll At tuo VM administered which ceremony he seemed in excellent spirits Tuo night WM spent by both prisoners m religious and they wero much perturbed in their minds this morning Smith however said ho was prepared to die then speaking of Mrs Miller his accomplice stated that she was fully as much to blamo as he and that he murdered Miller at her solicitation A statement to this effect was prepared and was read from the scaffold At 11 oclock tho prisoners were led from their cells heard tho death sentence read aud then proceed to tho scaffold ed by their religious advisers aud the sheriff and his deputies As they approached the gallows tho woman showed such evident signs of weakness thai those who were with her were compelled to assist her in ing the steps Smith also was greatly tressed and exhibited unequivocal signs of physical and mental placed iu upon the scaffold the black cap who Ihv to thu boiler hud become frozen Oj on board they probably increased the iu order to heat the vessel nud the after had all u rest Tha Carrie been at this about weeks She was originally built for n tug boat but had been purchased aud Jilted up for a yacht aud for duck shooting iNo serious injury was done to tho wharf or to vessels Iving byn some of tho other was very severely felt b on board aud the of tug Gilbert slated from bed by tho thj This morning a Lumber of to woik on tho wreck ia a short timJ iu recovering the bodies of TopUr and Brown thu Utur being found wedged in between the limbers of a wharf fully feet oil It is that tbo remains of will be found during the day O and L G Lowry steamboat investigating tho cause of the but nil on board were killed their will have to bo based chiefly on was adjusted and fitted around their necks were then begun and before they worts well finished tho drop was sprung at There was scarcely tiny perceptible struggle by either no mishap occurred of any kind Several hundred persons were assembled in the jail yard to execution Tuo crime for Milter and Smith wero executed today wiis committed ou March 18th lust at Jersey Shore PA Miller the womans husband wu discovered hanging to n beam in his bam with his skull in Alter uu invent the coroners jury found he met his death at thu bauds of aud that uiller his wife amour was un accessory both before and after tho fact Both subsequently confessed but oven up to tho last accused tho other of having planned the murder THE COLDEST TonoNTo average at tho observatory here during tho pma wus III degrees above is t degrees lower than the average of for io years Early yesterday morning tin lered di S grees ut midnight NEWS Mrs Hubert of o wants status in the artist who mado for it WASHINGTON February Kirkwood from on fices and Post reported back Logans joint resolution providing for the extension of the franking privilege to received by members ot Ccu gress from on busi ness of their constituents iu said the com were equally divided ou the of the proposition and had concluded to report it back without and asked that it be placed the Ko inUr i LONDON February Daily News has Ihe following a meeting of the Conservatives yesterday it was direct to Mr Glad not bo an should be to amend Lord lias sanctioned this course and advised tho opposition to refrain from themselves by pledges to support the There w the posing tho air will movo today A muu was found to on farm 10 miles from this city Oa Tuesday Afternoon ho started after an i colt and il IB supposed that ho was by ness getting to house which resulted fatally TUB STATE HALL AT OTTAWA Tho 8UW ball at the Government last night a magnificent affair It largely attends cd about 700 ladieu being present The costumes worn by tho were very rich A W LIVES SAN V dispatch from Carson Nev that ut this of at strongly op Sir Stafford itd b for a select to into for last There was a and dented demand during the year for families with children fo work if mills and down to the close of the year orders for that class cf labor The demand for furnace aud skilled workers iu iron generally as well as for farm hands in the earlier mouths of the year was of the supply the number of un Ward Island of this city to u new with a capital stock of stated further that this amount has been and subscriptions that is to now is to procure of j News On instant Di F GOV the right of way through the Fort to the JUio Granda nad ij Company was referred to tho on Foreign Affairs Sir will ask iur lor an early day on which lo discuss the conduct of tho Speaker Tt is understood that tho Government is iu favor of such a proposal thinking it due to thu Speaker that tho House should share in his responsibility Hii Stafford has notice of the following amendments to Gladstones That tho minister shall declare urgent that after the words a the words which majority shall consist of not less than onehalf of the and that for the words until i the House shall declare tho stato of business afternoon thu dam of thu reser voir Lurst Tho rower voir was a mile long of a mile wide and fifty fett deep A few hours before tho bursting the people of moved their household effects The Virginia railroad apprehensive of danger tapped the dam aud were drawing water oil when it broke It went all at once A swept down by tho resolution any motion to ao longer urgent bn substituted the words On motion of Mr Margin tho t j until ho shall declare that the state of public resolution by him June 1 1 j business is no longer urgent declaring that the President of the Senate is i THE SCARE IS LONDON LONDON February says We ought to say placard with the to count the that notwithstanding tho fact that the term ed to the Governments serious that they buildings and railway wa House of Corn Vernon Harcourt tho morning hour one hour shall be set aside l homo secretary replying to Mr during which members ask for unani said that Mr Davitt was arrested his action was considered incompatible with his Mr asked what conditions Mr Davitt had violated There this question Tho Irish shouted I and other cheered tremendously Tho scene suri all description The Speaker called upon Mr Gladstone to his resolution Mr Dillon rose b1 tiie Speaker refused to hoar him After mous consent for tho pa sage of bills air of fen fn Thu division i which i ii sum of and servants during ar as held from them y In respect of Hie of tin Miy i iV tlie tho jear i ISM havt heon expended adv The board for of for next year as iu items total The present follows On n the Un of I1 but it is a senseless superfluity of ju this kug article it is and tor me to that has The obly to such words asto tho pro i of which Webster aud It is quite to i be criticised ou a word with which you have the all your life and yet the man that thf does it isn it this arti shall help anyone lis r I shall not regret having it Yours truly W A not of tue ou rors 10 by i rty the city is Mul tin in Stim I its to tr tho Stilt tin their ru v blj twil ht Ml my U my It given tho truly a wonderful r Finn an boy old in thu gutter iu i for The lud tho of tlu check Ihu ot went thither aid re him property for UM honesty trouble by si of V llV J and Northwest r ly coll the cxp ter At C western mercury t Hat X ot i M o a lo ult fuv nt I our you will lose no in ou your for H ii nort th vilh f till Hurd resolutions Mr Fryo tho was carried Yeas i Nays Mills und Mr of voted yea WHS v Mr ou account of Mr Frye then moved to ter consideration of tho resolution weeks from today which was iii r to Air did not vo on this ia Mr livo from th a lor Mr iv the tile east of of contains a floods ilio original as i s by a voto of Mr Frye theu that Mr d to report to tho i by th i ion ol Uic the Speaker named iir fus Hatch restraining nd moved his suspension j tho American Union cries of shouting shamo THE HOUSE for ihy suspension of Mr a by a vote of to Ion refused to withdraw from the lid forcibly removed by the y the order of thu speaker of by tho Irsh dozen men were and escaped by being cast upon the side of the ravine No lives were lost Tho water it the narrow portion of tho ravine was one hundred feet high When tho town was reached houses went before the Hood like chafF The town was only ti cluster of It was almost totally destroyed Nearly all of the railroad track was washed some of the rails were snapped in Jii N thia locality early yesterday morning there was a second shock which appeared more like a heavy report Many people imagined it to bo a heavy blow on roofs of their houses tho report being so loud as to awaken them The thermometer at tho time stood 22 grees below aaro and the temperature was tho same a week ago when tho other shock was felt IOE BLOCKADE IN YOKK NEW February to noon to day all the westward bound sound steamers wero blocked by ico above Harts Island with little possibility of soon reaching their docks in this city Moro staunch craft blockaded aro struggling to break a passage through tho ice is little of any of the Boston or Connecticut boits going oat hero this I SIXTEEN AT February Tha lOch ballot for U S Senator was taken today us follows Wallace 78 Oliver Grow Phillips 1 Scho field Baird 1 Hewitt 1 1 don 1 Agnow 1 A resolution to take ballots daily was rejected l0 to and the convention until to morrow TIIE ON NEW YORK February Barrett has denied tho injunction asked for by Western the Atlantic aud Pacific telegraph from ST detailed account of the storming of shows assault was mada simultaneously by distinct col aud that tho final breaches were made by the explosion of mines Several hundred Tekko Turkomans were buried in tho i sion Tho hand with the tho criminal tho wall lasted overall hour Biter us W Bishop ex i which there was in the and of the or j fortress Tha day was finally decided by Isaac lit liu convicted i tho capture of tuo hill redoubt of forged tho 11 minor half teppe Over four thousand corpses fortress of il i t v Mr Viv no i j lo Iho last two years IM j o nu 1 rwo Inborn looking ln m uy a tho Maryland Iii li as Uy two U 1 ill of llin u has in tho i of city I trenches wuro also filled corpses Nurn weru killed during tho pursuit Four thousand families ia and hundred so to good health 10 K ariy oua Syrup will cents i lab give Of f of Dr sin in r i tiv i 10 K n V Ko but
