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Logansport Weekly Journal (Newspaper) - February 10, 1883, Logansport, Indiana Weekly journal. Vol. 35.logan8port, Indiana saturday february 10, 1883.-10 pages. No. 6. Washington specials accuse or Blaine of having a hand in the defeat of senator Windom. V the proposed severe penalty for the crime of rape is abandoned by the a Sis lature on account of fears that it May be in conflict with the Constitution. Jeff Davis must be Potung for the democratic presidential nomination in 1884. He has written a letter in which he Deniest height of the majority to Rule. The committee on coinage of the House of Congress opposes the discontinuance of the coinage of Silver dollars and recommends that additional vault room f9r the coins be provided. The senatorial contest in Minnesota has been settled by the election of Hon. . 6abin,a leading business Man and manufacturer of that state. The Windom men went to Sabin and Bis election in probably As Good a Compromise As could have been made. Several Bills have been introduced in the legislature proposing a heavy License tax and wholesome restrictions on the liquor traffic. It is Safe to say however that the democratic majority under the control of the liquor Bosses will not permit such legis tion. The House of the legislature la tuesday by a vote of 52 to 35 declared the constitutional amendments to be legally pending in the general Assembly. The effect of this vote will be to keep the amendments As a huge Corpse in the Way of the introduction of any other amendments. Judge Jeremiah Black the great democratic lawyer and Leader made an argument before the House judiciary committee the other Day against the Bill to prevent bigamy in the territories introduced in tue House by or. Mulits. Judge Black argued that the Bill or any such Bill is unconstitutional. Judge Black also said he believed the territories have the right to make whatever Laws they please concerning the marrying of wives. A weighty and unanswerable argument against the liquor traffic is presented in the statement of the Chicago news that Quot one of the Saddest and most significant circumstances connected with the failure of the Union Iron and steel company of this cite is that it is now charged there Are in the neighbourhood of the works some Twenty saloons that thrive almost exclusively f n the lavish Louapre of the workmen that these workmen have monthly liquor Bills Ruu lung All the Way from $15 to $1 k that a number of the workmen admit that the Saloon rec Eivid the larger part of the Money paid out As wages and that nearly All the 8ajoon-koi�peis in the Vicinity Are raps Day . And Are now owners of re u Ati Ite. Of the Joii tical situation in be i sly Vania the Philadelphia times says Quot Taro weeks a go tie Republic Atis has a Power i us and ably led minority of independents in their ranks waging War against tiie re Publ Chin boys sys system and the of pub Jie office to the ment of personal obligations. Of it Day the lie publican independents have been driven to make common Caute with the Republican regulars to wage War against the democratic bobs system organized on a lower Grade of political rewards for personal services and the democracy formerly uni Teil against the Cameron spoils men has now a powerful minority if not a positive majority ready to hoist the Independent Flag Gamst the Cassidy Tae Republican independents find themselves Quot out of the frying into the the democrats in the House of Congress have been compel Letl to unmask by the Republican majority and boldly avow their d termination to defeat the Tariff Bills pending in the House and Senate thus preventing any Tariff revision at the present Sersion. Nothing will suit them of that subject and if they were Given the privilege of framing a measure they could agree upon it. They can Only play the part of obstructionists and dogs in the manager but Munfor Izoar by they have it in their Power to bad Lii and defeat the majority. Home of their number realize the probable consequences of this reckless course and or. Sumuel Randall Tays it will overwhelm the democratic party in defeat in 1884. The Quot rope Quot Given in the v elections last fail is tightening Aro uus the necks of that party in the process it of its rapid self destruction i a mass meeting in savor of the Protection of american Indus tried was Hele in new York recently at which Peter Cooper presided assisted by a number of distinguished men from All parts of the to anti. Or. Cooper and others made speeches and resolutions were adopted in favor of a Tariff Bill based on the recommendations of the Tariff commission. Or. Cooper if known and recognized by the people of this country As a self made honorable and successful business Inan and also As one of the greatest humanitarians and friends of labor in the country. His words Are therefore entitled to great weight on such a subject As Baric Protection. On this occasion he said substantially that he was glad to seethe attention of the american people fixed on the question of free Trade and Protection. The free traders of other countries have tried to persuade us to adopt their teachings. Should they be adopted our mechanics would be for Ceil to work for starvation wages or abandon their trades and become competitors of the agricultural labourers of the country. Our country would if those theories were adopted be reduced to the condition of Ireland Spain and Mexico. We would produce the raw materials and others would do the manufacturing. Such a policy would bring ruin upon hundreds of thousands of american workmen who have nothing to sell but their labor. Should the Tariff be reduced 25 per cent it would Cost us at least f1,000,000,000. Free Trade in England produced a Condi Ion of wretchedness among the working people and ave them barely sufficient to sustain life. The effect in America would be Simi Lar. They Are killed. The prohibitory amendment is dead. Doubts of its Ever living Are yield. It was born in the brain of fanaticism and brought Forth in the minds of scheming Policianos. It Wafi killed too after having been born in the brain of fanaticism by these Verajr scheming politicians who pretended to give it i e. The party in Indiana which placed Loose swaddling clothes upon the Prohic i tion infant did not and dare not openly Champion tiie change in the Tate Constitution proposed by this amendment. Tie demo i Atic party is opposed to prot i by t Ion from principle. Opposition to prohibition and like Laws that invade the personal rights of the citizen is a Corner Stone in to lib Structure of let Emo race. Take that principle away and tiie whole fabric is weakened. That grandest of Lisman documents penned by the immortal Jefferson declares Quot that All Luen Are endowed with certain in alienable rights among which Are Lile Liberty and the Pursuit of upon this democracy is builder. In the last canvass in tills state tie i democracy made a Square fair open Light against prolix Bitton and won a signal Victory. It was a fight in Ali Iii was joined with Kepp Bli a in deceit. It was a Victory Over fanaticism and Republican cowardice. The democrats were right in voting the measure Down in the Senate. First because a he record of the last legislature is defective. Second because a majority of the people Haven right to say what the minority Shalley to drink and Wear. Every Man is Bel ter off by being Tempe ate in All things and the right is accorded Triem of being so. Laws that Force people to be temperate live always been Lail urts and always will be. The above remarkable production appeared in the pharos of wednesday Jan. 81st 1883, and is reproduced in the journal More for pure sea of future reference than pres ent comment. Iti it statement of facts is exceedingly Loose and inaccurate. The amendment tip were born of the Radical Temperance sentiment of the state represented by voting petitioners of All parties. They were killed by an Alliance Between tie Lii for trafic and democratic . The Quisti m of prohibition has not fat pen before the people of Indiana except in tie minds of a few Sperger viewable democratic servants of the lieu Ltd a Pratlie. The liquor and their do Moc Ratie allies were afraid to meet the question before the people hence Thev killed it on a pretext of a Legal defect. The Point of interest in the above production however is it emphatic a formation of the democratic doctrine that Quot a majority of the people Bave no Light to say what the minority shall eat drink and in other words that a majority of the Pei ple have no right to med tue with the liquor traffic which Furni Hei. Liquid damnation As meat drink and clothing for a Consi Lerable minority. This doctrine is the main slay of the of the Lii for True he. If it is the Truf doctrine the traffic should Kie As free and Urier ameled As any other less of t using and Selling. If it by false there is no limit to the Power a majority Over this monster evil us the a is. For the pro sent the journal is Content to assert its doctrine in of it position that in this country the people Rule and there i a no limit to the Power of a majority exercised within its sphere of action. For All govern Ovental purposes Quot the voice of the people is the voice of god ? Henry r. Winklebleck Supply agent for the handle has a very Siek Man at Royal Center. The person is Cue do Vid Bell a Man of about thirty. He has the Braiu fever and no Hopes of his recovery Are entertained. He came to Logansport from Frankfort about a year ago and entered the employ of or. Winklebleck. At no time during the year has he Ever referred to any relatives or friends whom be might have and now that he is sick nigh in to death no clue to his history can be obtained. He was a Man that had Little to say and made few friends. Everything that can is being done to relieve his sufferings and his friends or relatives if living Are trying to be found. _ from the daily of it Bruaw a 8 or. Samuel f. Wilbarger departed this life yesterday Forenoon at his rooms aver Tanguy amp Psi Theisel s store. He has been very sick for the past five weeks having been troubled with Throat disease and other ailments contracted during his service in the late War. He was in his sixt fifth year and leaves a wife and eight children. He moved with his family to this place about a year ago from Auburn Indiana but was formerly of Elkhart at which place his family resided during his absence while on duty in the army. He served three year in the War and was a member of the third Indiana Battery. His children Are expected Here this morning after which the time of the funeral will t e announced. Another View of it. Or. 8. P. Sheerin writes to the journal taking it severely to task for its few words unfriendly to the project of procuring the location of an Asylum for the insane on the Smithson College grounds of this City. He says that the Smithson College build my and grounds Are admirably adopted to the proposed purpose and the journal s talk about Quot howling maniacs Quot is Quot the merest Balderdash Quot As there is nothing about insane asylums Quot to make them objectionable to the very nearest he says further that i Gator Magee representative Thomas and himself Are prepared to work hard to secure this Benefit for Logansport and have Good Hopes of Success if they Quot receive proper encouragement from the journal has no objection whatever to the giving of such encouragement by persons who regard the establishment of an Asylum for the incurable or other insane in this City As a Benefit neither will it it a Straw in tie Way of those who May choose to work for such supposed Heue fit. Our people would one and All be glad to see the 8mithson Cohage building and grounds put to some use that would Benefit the City and if an insane Asylum is the Best Trtat can be done and the people want that kind of an institution the journal will not Toni Plain. Hiah Waters. The usual Quantity of rain acid melted Snow within the past few Days and the Cou sequent rapid Rise of w Ater in the Rivers naturally Ujj guest a a coat Parison with former periods As a Means of measuring the Quantity now i Assing Down the Channel of the Wabash especially. The Rise of 1875 has been referred to As a very Good Standard. As explanatory of the situation then the following extract from meteorological memoranda made of the 2d of August 1875, by one of our citizens May contain some facts of interest to the general Reader Quot the Watash River is very High higher than at any time since january 1, 1s47. At 12 o clock to Day the water was Only about Iii teen inches lower Thau in 1847. There is probably More water in the Channel now than Ever before except perhaps in the fall and Early Winter of 1s27, when All the lowlands along its Mai Iii nearly from h iad to Mouth were submerged. A the liver has to Rise about two and a half feet in the last 24 hour. U was nearly at a stand still to night at six o to present the matter More Lully it May a stated that at 12 o clock noon of saturday the last Day of july 1875, a heavy rain began to fall aggregating 2.95 in chef within eight hours. During the following night 1stanother Day succeeding 2.22 inches additional was precipitated. From that time until ten o clock on monday August 2tl, 0 67 inches More fell making a total of 4. I4 of rain upon every Square Inch of surface in All the adjacent territory whose Waters give tribute to the demand of the Wabash. An immense volume truly much larger no doubt than three Days by chewing a flannel experience of the sur Riv ors of the Quot Ken Jnore the flood subs line to Day. Pittsburg february 8.�?the flood in the Monongahela River reached its highest Point Twenty eight feet at 8 o clock this morning and soon after began to recede. Owing to the cold Wea her which shut of the Small streams the water did not reach the High Point anticipated by several feet. The damage Here is almost wholly from inundation but the loss from that is considerable. All the Mills along both Rivers Are submerged and operations suspended. Many stores in the lower portion of the two cities Are under water and hundreds of families on the South Side and in the Allegheny have been compelled to leave their Homes until the flood subsidy dispatches from the towns along the Monongahela report great damage from inundation. The water at All Points is subsiding and no More danger is apprehended. Cincinnati february 8.�?the Ohio River is rising along its whole length. At Wheeling there is thirty six feet in the Channel and still rising. Boats cannot pass Ulder the Bridge. Marietta is flooded More than Ever. The Railroad track Between Marietta and Bellaire is still under water. The times Star special says Catlettsburg is already flooded and More damage is expected on account of the great Rise in the Bandy River. At Portsmouth the River is fifty feet Aud rising. A considerable portion of the City is under water. The Scioto rivet in also rising above the Railroad track in North Portsmouth. At Underwood the nver keeps Riding being fifty two feet eight inches at 1 p. M. Newport ky., suffers most at present. Very Many houses Are already invaded by the water and people Are moving out. The Anchor Iron and steel works it he Newport Iron and pipe foundry and the greater part of Swift s rolling Mills Are compelled to Stop. Merchants along the River front of this City Are Busy removing go tis from the cellars Aud first floors. No further damage to Coal b urges. No railroads Are submerged but they will be tomorrow if the Rise keeps on. The River is now 52 feet 8 inches and rising three inches an hour. It is top cited to reach to feet. Found his Seii Seii in chichi Jim a a. Pittsburg pa.,february monday evening Jau. 22, j. W. Fulmer of this City disappeared mysteriously and nothing was heard of him for a whole week when a letter was received from him saying that he was Les tit Ute in Chicago. He returned Home last week and tells the Story of hit win Dorisi Sas follows Quot i Rita Rod from Home at about s o club intending to my rent Ard make some Pui chases after a which i started for the South Side on business but turned Back. After i reached me Street All my faculties left we suddenly though i had an indistinct rec election of having been knocked Down As i h Ive now a sore leg which i did not have when i left lome. The next thing i found was that i was on Clark Street in Hii Eago on Friday morning. M. Lock Hart Book keeper for r. P. Wallace amp co., said be met me on Liberty Street about 11 o clock Anil that i appeared All right except that i was in a great Burry and said i was going to the depot to meet my brother. He said i was by myself. The doctors say from the sensation i bad when i awoke it a Earseil As though i was drugged. The first thing i did when i came to my senses in Chicago was to look for my Money. I found that i was almost Penu Ilesa. All the Money i Hud had been take from me. Papers that would have identified me were gone was the revolver which 1 had when i left Home. I went to a Telegraph office Aud tried to get them to a Dit Paich to Pittsburg but they of Eft it Eil to do it As they did not know me. I spent the rest of the Day trying to final some person from Pittsburg who knew me. After wandering around fill saturday i wrote Home for Money. When i left Home i had a full l eard and Long hair and when i looked into the Mirror i found i Nad Only a Mustache Aud Short hair. I am As Muen puzzled As any person else about my trip to Chicago and i have not the slightest idea what took place from the time i fell on Vine Street in Pittsburg until i found myself in Chicago. The Only reason i can imagine is that some person who wanted to go to Chicago and did not have Money enough to the fare put me under the influence of some drug and made me buy him a Fulmer is about thirty years of age and before he left he had As he said a full Beard. Now be is smooth faced. Some of the papers have declared that Fulmer has been insane but there Are no grounds apparent in his manner to warrant such an explanation. Mew York. New York february 8.�?about five Hundred very tall men answered the advertisement of j. H. Haverly for 200 tall men for Quot her few of them had not the remotest idea Why Quot her atonement Quot needed 200 tall men. One big Pilgrim from the nth Ward modestly asked Quot what is an atonement Quot Quot it s kind of throwing up the sponge promising to do better then not doing it Quot replied a neighbor. The inquirer looked thoughtful and acted As if he Rould like to Start a Little atonement of his own. It was announced to the 500 tall men that they were not to do any Ato Hemenc that Day but had been called Ting other simply to be Eio Joyed As stage Soldie Furne careful measuring was Nec-i3sary. The would be soldiers were put out into the h2<ll and sorted out into Bunches of five each. A scene sifter got a step ladder while another tied a Yard stick on the pole with which the Gas jl3 in the ceiling of the theater Are Lii Ted Aud Tbs measuring process fees Ian. The work West along very i til the Tille it Mai in the g Iturri g came up. He was found to Lee several Para songs in length Aud altogether too a tended to l d a sol Lii it. Mot of Al the tail men were Euga de. I Iti Nirh i Adieu be i visit Way. Dublin february 8.�?the trial of Dowling for the murder of policeman Cox began to Day. Archbishop Mccabe is better but still very feeble. Parnell in a communication asking the attendance of the members of the House of commons at the opening of parliament next week say that events of the greatest importance to Ireland will be discussed. A preliminary meeting of the party will be held on the 14 a to consider the action of Irish members during the session. Parnell writing to Joseph Walsh concerning a possible vacancy in the representation from county May Depre Caces the election of a member who will refuse to take his seat. If the time came for the Irish members to retire from the House of , he they should do so in a Hody. He earn stay advocates the Adt it it Ltd <4/ svit m of pecuniary compant Ailiin to mean Bers. If the constituents do not make an Niiori in that direction he would be obliged to consider whether he could persevere in the thankless task of endeavouring to keep together an Independent Irish party. Sli Ltd to by new Phi ate a air Lurk. New York february 8 a Sun Deuly awakened by a noise in the hallway of the residence of William c. Mooville 255 Totth Avenue Brooklyn William Bass the Coachman opened the door of his room this morning to ascertain the cause. Ott Taining no reply to Lis a i lesion of Quot who s there Quot he stepped into the Hall where he was confronted by two burglars one of whom he seized. The second burglar cried Quot shoot him Quot a suggestion which the other adopted sending a Bullet into the thigh of Bass. The other burglar also fired the Bullet blowing a Furrow in the Coachman s Scalp. Stunned by the shot Bass released his prisoner Ald the two thieves escaped carrying with them $180 in Cash belonging to the Coachman which they had take from a Bureau drawer. They also 8tcure< $25 belonging to the servant girl. During the struggle one of the burglars drop Ped a watch valued at $175, belonging to bus which had also been secured. In the hurried exit the thieves left a pistol behind them. No arrests have yet been made. A Nii Nierel Sta up min a ius Washington february 8.�?a com Mission has been appointed by the of the Treasury to investigate the circumstances attending the loss of the numeral stamp figure 1, used in printing internal Revenue Stamps which has been missing from the Bureau of engraving a and printing since january 31, Las the commis Sion is to determine where the Respi it a Sivility for the loss rests and whether the use of the set of numerals to which the lost stamp belonged shall be disco tinned. Expert bar Lari capt Rcd. Kaa Hville tenn., february 8.�?two men giving their names As Lambert and Simpson were arrested at the depot this morning on suspicion of being the burglars who blew open the Post office Safe in Birmingham ala., last week and took from it $7,000 in Stamps currency and jewelery. They had in their Possession 12.500 in Cash $900 in postage Stamps several Diamond rings and a number of watches. A Complete kit of the latest improved burglars tools was also found in one of their Valise. A ring that had been taken from the Safe in Milsom a Saloon in this City was among the jewelry. Lambert is a Fine look my Man dresses in the latest style is 6 feet High and weighs about 100 pounds. Simpson is Low in stature weighs Ifo and is 42 years old. They will be taken Back to Birmingham. Small pox Lamb ring a. St. Paul miun., february 8.�?the 2,000 lumbermen in the Camps on the upper Mississippi Are panic stricken Over the terrible ravages of Small pox and threaten to leave their Camps thus scattering the dread disease throughout the state. At Caldwell s lamp Itaska county eight men have already died of i mall pox and Many More Are Siek. In Alkin county nearly every Camp is adult feed. The governor has been asked to take Steps to prevent the men from spreading the disease and he will make the subject the basis for a message to the legislature. Patent Luceial Matiun. Washington february 8.�?the Otise committee on patents has aug Horid or. Vance to prepare a Bill too Amend the revised statutes applicable to patents As to provide that american patents shall run fifteen years from the time the invention is patented in a foreign country making All patents of whatever class to extend seventeen years not to revive any american Patent now dead or to extend any living Patent however but to apply Only to patents hereafter granted. Terrible Efferine at sea. London february 8.�?the survivors of the late disaster of the Steamer Kec Mure Castle which foundered in the Bay of Biscay on the 21 lust existed three Days by cd Ewing a flannel Vest. The third officer became starving mad and j impede overboard but was rescued. _ a i stink in a Holt a cur Unerv jury. New York february 8.�?ex-mayor� Hall Ely Grace Cooper and Wick Ham Gen. Grant sex senator conk log William h. Vanderbilt and Jay Gouhl hive been summoned As a Coroner s jury in the Case of George Yahoo who killed a fellow patient in in Lleve Hospital sunday. In a lib in Ulm a oui tar i. Dimiti in february s a Davitt a Taney Antl a ii Iun arrested sometime ago for Iii King Cuil Maraat try speeches have r to give Tuil Aud. This morning were lodged in Kilt Aicham Jil for a term of six months. A Rouin for the to Nuzik it. Washington february 9.�?the h Iusco joint re Olu Tiou ps8? to admit free of duty a Monument to George Washington to lie Ira Porte it i by the Philadelphia society of Ciu Cannati. _ a a Xei Titio Iii re. Xeres Spain february 8.�?a party of socialists Here condemned and murdered a peasant. Fourteen persons accused of complicity in the crime have been arrested. Wholesale Llody Sui it Hins. Montreal. February is stated Chat 150 bodies have been stolen from Neil Ibong graveyards this Winter and brought Here an j one half sent to the Light Lush of Stock. Galveston. February 8.�?the loss to Stock men throughout the state by the recent cold snap will not exceed 5 per cent. John g. Buchau Hepburn son of an English Barwatt was murdered last Sunda by miners at pinos Altos Mexico and of monday the e of the criminals were tied and shot. The Mark its. Lurf transport february. 7. Provision a butter per Ontl Kii is per do7.eu, cd i soc fou toes per t>u8tiel, 35 i550c Sweet potatoes per to unto 3 <45c onions per Bush tic Chilli us alive per Dosen 3 ��<a3 00 Chi Ilieus Drew flt Elt a per Pound s#10c . Alive per Pound a 47c turkeys Dresselt per Pound. 10012 0litird,per Pound i2 ai5c hams a Ltd my boulders 8#l0c i fifes 10 i inc pork per my�5 00� i 50 Salt Pei Birrel $1 50 h1de�-dry Flint per Pound. To it to dry salted Grey a or Imine a Green untrimmed pc Byuk and a tags Otner Lse Iain aged a lib in veal Call. »>�0 Green veal Kip. He rhe rungs la Iobe tallow 7o. Rain wheat new Juc Cora 40c out new aug flax Beed j1 of Clover set d. U a a. Wool Una sized 1520e fleece washed i5�i tub and pit Kelt a. Is jaw Bleak. Oaire 4u�o fleece a Rowa lower l

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