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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25
A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
Burning Of n Cotton MIL at Fail
River, Mass.-SeYerai lives Lost.

Burning Of Cotton MIL at FAN
River, Mass.-severai Lives Lost.
By the burning of large cotton mill
at Fall River, Mass, on the 10Th several
operatives lost their lives and many
more were fatally injured by jumping
from the windows The operatives at
work in the fifth story were penned in
by the flames, and, bewildered, refused
to avail themselves of the fire-escapes.
A dispatch from Boston on the night of
the 10th gives the following particulars:
Mills Nos and 2, Of the Granite Works,
Fall River, had been running about twenty
minutes when the operatives in No. were
startled with the cry of fire and the escape Of
smoke from the fourth story. In this, next
to the upper floor, was the mule-warp spin
ming department, and there were nearly 100
girls at work, under a male Overseer, On
the upper floor, the fifth, about thirty girls
were employed, spooling and warping
cotton. These We're the youngest of the
seemed to leap to this attic, coming from the
windows below and up the great tower in the
center of the building, in which were all the
stairs communicating with each story The
fire caught in the mule-spinning room, in the
northwest corner Of the mill from friction in
mule-head, and spreading, by means Of
oil on the floor and about the machinery,
with great quckness, rushed toward the cen
ter tower, the only means of escape for those
In the fourth and fifth stories besides four fire
escapes, two on each gable end. Once get
| ting into the tower, the flames ran up to and
through the single entrance to the fifth story,
| lhen, sprlnglng to the roof timbers,
| nlled the two great rooms, 450X90
| feet, with dense black smoke and flame.
| While the hamcs Were making such ter
rible headway the operatives became fairly
wild. The oyerseers saw there was no way
possible to check the fire, and gave their sole
| attention 10 those whom they had at work.
| They called TO them 10 save themselves, and
| pointed ont ways Of escape, principally fire
| ladders. ihe overseer Of the spOolng-room
who remained till nearly suiiocoted,
states that the scene In his room-and it
must have been worse in the room below
cannot be depicted Children ran about cry
ing and begging piteously to be saved, yet
| wrenching themselves away when taken
forcibly to the tower while yet there was some
chance, or to the iron ladder that reached two
of the scuttle-windows OF the south end
opening upon the roof of the balcony
at the head Of the Twelfth street
hre-ladders. II was impossible Ia
get the great majority 10 take this method 10
save their lives. Some wanted clothing, 9th.
ers something else. AS the fire frightened
them away from these ladders they rushed &c
the windows at the south gable end, nearly
sixty feet from the ground, but dared mo-
jump down. Cotton ropes were pu
out for them to slide down by, bu
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.

NEfTEmBEH II, 1914.
NEW YORK.
CoTroN.-Middling upland, 1GA0t6Hc.
LIVE SToCK.-Beef Cattle-S TO- 15l112.I5. Hogs
Dressed, s9.2591OOO. sheep-Live, s4.25@
6.25.
BREADsTUFrs.- to choice, $3.50
Q5s5 white wheat extra, s5.s5G96iO Wheat
No. ? Chicago, S11401.16 Iowa spring, S1.15
91.17; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, S1.2l61.23 Rye
Western and State, 9O09sc. Barley-....0
.... Corn-Mixed Western aHoat, 9GQ97c.
Oats Western, 6506Tc
PRovIsIoNs.-Pork-Mess S24.OO025.O0. Lard
-142i6l15Ac. Cheese-11@l3Ac.
WooL.-Common to extra, 45QCGc.
CHICAGO.
LIVE -Beeves-Choice, s5.9O963O; good,
S5.2565.75; medium, S4.J095OO; butchers
stock, S25OG4.O0; stock cattle, S2.2jG3.75.
Hogs Live, S675G17.25. Sheep-Good to choice,
SO. 7504.5O.
PRovIsIoNs.-Butter-Ch 2sa3ic. EGGS
Fresh, 1401flac. Cheese-Ncw York Factory,
i3h@1lc; Western Factory, l21a@13hc. Pork
New Mess, S2325G23.5O. Lard-14is915c.
BREADsTUFFs.-Flour-W Winter Extra,
s55O17.5O; spring extra, S4.75a5.SO Wheat
Spring, No. ,, ash@99c. Corn-No. >, so
GsOl4c oats-No. ., 5Olaa51Hc. Ryo-No. 9,
91h@ 92c. Barley-No. =, Si.14@1.16.
WooL.-Tub-washed 45l555c.; fleece, washed,
4O6IlSc.; fleece. unwashed, 27J35c.
LUMBER,-First clear, S50,00G53OO; second
clear, S47.O0149.5O Common Boards, S1OOG9
11.5O; Fencing, S1O.OO0tl.5O; "a" Shingles,
s3.OO63.25; Lath, SaOO92.25.
CINCINNATI.
BREADsTUFFs. -Flcdr-S5 .2585.5O. Wheat
Red, Sl.10. Corn-S3dlS4c. Rye-9sc. Oats-iS0
SIC Barley-S11O01.2
PRovIsIoNs.-Pork -$2l.5O625.5O Lard--14
915c.
ST. LOUIS.
LIVE STocB.-Beeves-Fair TO choice, 5000
600. Hogs Live, S6.0O0775.
BREADsTUFFs.- Xxx Fall, s4,2594.75.
Wheat-No, Red Fall, S1.1Sh@1lSh. Corn-No.
?, S2G1S3c. oats-No. 2, 531aQ54c. Rye-NO. ?,
9GGeasc Barley-Sl O761.12h.
Observation-Disclosures, S2475G25OO. Lard
--143l015Ic.
MILWAUKEE,.
BREADsTUFFs s-Flour-Spring XXX, S5.256D55O
Wheat-Spring, No. l, S1.04@105; No. ,, 971
97%c Corn-No. 2, s39sic. Oats-No ?, 4s0
4shc. Rye-No. /, s9G9Oc Barley-No ,, St.1O
Q112.
DETROIT.
BREADsTUFFs Wheat - Extra, s1190119h.
Corn-s0GS1c. oats-50951c.
TOLEDO.
BREADsTUFFs.- Amber Mich, S1.09
@lO9l; No. ? Red, s1Os61.Osh. Corn-Mixed,
s2GS2Hc. oats-53G 53lac.
CLEVELAND.
BREADsTUFFs.-Whe Red, Si.116
lie; No. Red, S1.OG01.O7. Corn-S5ds soc.
Oats-53154c.
BUFFALO.
LIVE SToCK. - Beeves - S4750635. Hogs
Live, S6.O007.s0. Sheep-Live, Si.OOd5.0O.
EAST LIBERTY.
LIVE STocK.-Beeves - Best, S6256G15;
medium, S5.O0695.75 Hogs--Yorkers S6.jO0
$50; Philadelphia, SsOO0840. Sheep-Best,
S4.5OO5.OO; good, SiOO04.5O.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25

no sooner would rope be lowered
than there was rush for itlrom below Too
many would take hold, when II would break,
and all clinging to IL would come down In a
bunch. Similar scenes were going on IN tho
mule .spinning-room. The flames had as
cended rapidly to the entrance of the tower
on the fourth floor, cutting off their means
of escape, but the operatives had two
ladders Of the south gable directly
before them, and were urged by the
oyerseers and citizens below to take them.
Some did, but others rushed headlong upon
the balcony and dropped or threw themselves
from the guards There was ample time for
every one to have been saved had the girls
taken the course directed.
Fall River dispatches of the Goth say the
number of killed would reach twenty, missing
three, and wounded-several fatally-betwecn
thirty and forty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25

fre Is over S300OO0 Further particulars
are given elsewhere. The Democratic
State Central Committee of Tennessee
have Issued an address condemn.
Ing all .acts of violence, whether committed
by whites or blacks. Of the Civil. Rights bill
they say: at seems to have been intended
to bring about the unfortunate state of affairs
which now exists in many Of the Southern
States, Tennessee among the numbern
Late reports from the plains say that the In
dians are becoming very bold and trouble.
some. Col Miles was ordered to protect a
surveying party, some OF whom were recently
massacred. One large train had been cap
tured by the Indians after desperate fight,
and the troops forced TO fall back 100 miles to
meet their supplies. On the 18th the redskins
attacked the town of Prairieville, Kan, and
burnt small store and a station-house be-
longing TO the Atchison, Topeka u Santa
Fe Railroad. .-r
TUESDAY, Sept. 22.--Denmark has di.
reeted its envoy at Berlin to demand explana-
tions from the German Government in regard
to the expulsion of Danish subjects from
Schleswig- Holstein. .Dockeray, the Amerl.
can who was arrested in Cubn and sent to
spain, has reached Santander, where he is
SAID to be imprisoned and cruelty treated. .
An official dispatch was received in Washing
ton on the 2lst from Gen. Emory, stating
that the temporary police force in New Or
leans had been replaced by the regular force
without any disturbance, and that he thought
the surrender was complete and in good
faith. "A conference committee of leading
members of the Kellogg and McEnery factions
in New Orleans, which has been holding daily
sessions for several days with the object in
view Of arranging for the Joint supervision
and control of the machinery of the Novem.
Der election, has finally adjourned without
having accomplished the end in view. E. The
McEnery parish officials at Franklin, La, who
had recently taken possession of the offices,
them to the Kellogg Government
on the morning Of the DIST All quiet there
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25

A MARRIED pair were recently divorced
by decree of the Supreme Judicial Court
of the State Of Maine on the ground of
cruelty. The true reason was that he
loved flowers, books, poetry, pets and all
the beauties of nature, while she con-
fined her thoughts solely to "biled vict.
uals" and the interests of the children.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25

WHEN you see a lot of fresh, healthy
looking sausoges selling at very low
price let them alone. Aniline red does
the business.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25

meiK ef Louisiana. Within Eve days from
date Of proclamation to the insurgents such
actloh. will be taken as the emergency may re-
quire."
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-19
Improvements in Cavalry Equipments.

Alter session of two months at Fort
LeavenwOrth, the board of army officers
appointed to report upon cavalry equip
ments met at Watervleit Arsenal. West
Troy, on the twenty-tftA of March. The
board has about completed its labors, and
VIII soon make Its report to the War De-
artment. This is the first board on cavalry
accoutrements ordered during the past
twenty-five years. 1t has adopted several
improvements, the most important of which
are given as follows in the Troy Times:
The saddle has been greatly improved.
The groundwork is the Mcclellan saddle,
but the tree is hereafter to be made in
strict accordance with explicit measure
ments, and not to be varied slightly. accord
ing to the taste OF the maker, as here otore
Instead of the saddle-bags now in use a
larger bag has been adopted which will
carry five days rations, thus doing away
with the haversack for cavalry. A dark
blue felt saddle-cloth has been adopted
The bit has been materially changed, and
is curb bit of bright shear steel. made
somewhat after the style of the English
Chitfany bo. The portable forge and black
smith and saddler tools and materials for
cavalry, which have heretofore been car
rleG III separate boxes, have now been
neatly and compactly arranged to be car
ried in a two-wkeeled vehicle after the pat
tern used in the Prussian cavalry. This
Forge wagon IS so arranged that one horse
goes in shafts and attached to the whitfle-
trees. The ammunition is to be carried on
the soldiers belt. in double row of car
fridge loops, which can be removed at
pleasure. and so arranged as to equalize the
weight. BY This arrangement a soldier can
carry larger amount of ammunition than
heretofore. An improvement has been
made in .side lines for securing horses
while herfing upon the prairies. The strap
extends from the front TO the hind leg on
the same side, so that the horse can not
run. The board will also settle the amount
OF material Heather, sewing material etc.
to be issued 70 a troop each half year. The |
question of the horseshoe will be decided
in few days. The commandment at Spring
field armory has already received orders to
manufacture the carriages for the Gatlin |
gun after the pattern recommended by the |
board. |
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-19
Why Women of lbeas Eail.

Many woman wears herself out in her
very prime-puts all the wine of her life
into one hasty beaker, and empties it in
sacrifice at the feet OF her destiny, and has
never thereafter anything more so good to
give; the rest is all dregs, made up of
broken spirits. impaired nerves. fretful
cOmplainings and truitless aspirations
Women have grand ideas, earnest inteu-
lions and very noble aims One means to
be great author, another is in love with
science, another has taken upon herself TO
prove that women are meant to reform
political science. They go at work SPLEEN
didiy. What dash-what enthusiasm
nerve l look on admiringly, even
though my admiration is broken in
how, in most cases, it is all going to end.
For lack OF pluck, OF industry. OF stability!
NO. Simply tor a lack of a judlcious in
vestment of time and strength. 1t really
does seem that when woman gets an idea
into her head she hasn't room for any other
beside it. Her project takes possession of
her. 1t eats with her. walks up and down
with her, and fills every place. Now the
human mind is not 80 constituted as to be
able to stand this sort OF thing often or
long. II either drives ordinary people
crazy, or breaks them down mentally or
physically. Men have the common sense to
this fact. do not like to affirm
that they have more consecutiveness
than women, but l do affirm that
this faculty in them is cul-
tivated and trained while women
with oceans Of time to do everything in as
A rule, are never up to time. Yet they are
Always tagging away at the grand idea. A
nan has certain hours in which to do his
work, and when those hours are over ne
outs on his hat, leaves his business in the
'tfice, and goes off somewhere for change
plays with the children, visits friends or
.oes to the theatre-and after that to bed
nd to sleep. Consequently he comes fresh
o his work the next day, takes it up where
e left it Oft, and is much better able to
lick knotty problem than if he had been
III the time worrying over it, There's much
more in unconscious celebration than most
t Us believe.-Hoecard Giyndon, IN New
2Ork Mnn
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-19
Ascension Parish.

We learn from the Donaldsonville Chief
of the eleventh instant, that the police jury
OF Ascension parish has taken prompt action,
almost in anticipation of Governor Kellogg's
letter Of instructions:
The police jury met this noon, in response
to petition of freeholders and entered into
an arrangement with leading planters to
keep the levees in good condition to meet
the coming food. The plan is this: Messrs.
+. Jones Mccall James Teller, Ben. Gibson
and A. 5. barrow are appointed superin
tendents of ieyee work, the two first named
tor the right bank of the river, the remain
ing two for the left, with authority to call
out as large number of laborers as may be
required, and any laborer refusing to work
when called upon is subject to fine OF 81
per day pending such refusal. The superin-
tendents, above named, agree to paw these
labOrers at the rate of 81 per day, and the
police jury bind themselves to make the
amount expended good as soon as they are
able to do so. We have no time or space
tor comment now, but will simply say that
the arrangement seems as wise and Judi
cious as could be desired to insure the pub.
lie safety.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-19

As is well and disagreeably known. our
levee matters are in the hands of corpo.
ration. We pay taxes-yery heavy ones by
the Way-which the company receives, and
Id return are guaranteed or rather prom.
lsed sufficient levee protection to ensure us
against overflow. How this contrac, ia full.
nlied has been notorious ever since the for
nation and incorporation of this company
On our part the payments have been
prompt and unremltting-On the part OF
the commissioners levee building has been
the exception rather than the rule. 1t has
been thus from the very first. We hope
the Climax is now arrived at,
/, Two or three weeks ago. for instance,
there was beautiful embankment in Tensas
parish, known as the Kemp levee. II was
an IMPOSING structure. When it was COM
pieted Professor FOrshey, then the chief
engineer OF the Levee Company got on top
VI IL ana made speech. He said there
never was and never would be such levee;
IL was an everlasting monument to the lib
crafty and fidelity of the corporation under
whose auspices it had been built. The
planters felt edited and cheered the learned
gentleman loudly. They went to work, in
vested money, put their fields in order, and
In short, risked everything they had upon
the strength of that levee. And then, when
the river rose the levee melted away like
some vision of the night, and was discov-
cred to be a cheat fraud and an imDosi
ton.
The other day crevasse occurred at Thi.
bodaux. General JEFF Thompson, the then
engineer in chief, rushed over to Lafourche
got up on the levee, looked around, smoked
cigar, and returned to New Orleans tho
same day, saying there was no help for the
people of that section. Everybody knew
better; Any overseer in the neighborhood
could have closed the break if material and
money had been furnished. But General
zen sad nothing was possible, and left La
io1rcne 10 us rate without another word.
The levees everywhere in the State are fee.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-19

BILE and defective. For several miles above
New Orleans they are protected solely
through the enterprise Of the Jackson Rail
road Company and Morgan's Louisiana and
Texas Railroad. Elsew here the planters
are left to take care of themselves, And,
occasionally, scattered here and there, cases
in desert of imbecility and neglect, we see
one stretch of good levee, just to show that
the company remembers something beside
the collection of taxes and the announce
ment of dividends. They are few and far
between, but they have served-thus far, at
least-to keep up the illusion anu to pre-
serve the Lsvee Company monopoly.
We wonder, new, whether this state of
affairs is to last forever. Il it possible that
we are never to have a Legislature brave
enough and honest enough to demand
better arrangement for protecting the agri-
cultural interests of the State! Let the
people bear this in mind next tall, and let
them make the l-vee question an element
IN their platform. IL is nearly time for
party lines to be ignored in behalf of great
questions which involve the very existence
OF our dearest nterests.-Brdshear Necs.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-19
Pnblication OF Army Records.
The Washington correspondent of the st
Louis Democrat saws:

AAo w dSuiuS tOu correspondent OF the 81.
Louis Democrat says:
Senator Logan, chairman of the Military
Committee, is considering a proposition
looking to the preservation of the records of
the war by printing those portions which
are essential to full and impartial history.
At the close Of the war Congress directed
this work to begin, and quite a mass of
records were copied and sent to the printer
Before any were put IN type, for some rea-
son not fully understood, all further steps
were suspended. Twice since, the largest
part of those records. including Confederate
archives, have been seriously endang ered
by fire, and as none are in tire.proof rooms
or buildings, the risk of their destruction is
very great. Aside from this, the custom
and rules of the War Department do not
permit any inspection of those records for
other than official purposes. Several per-
sons OF staining, DESTROYS of preparing a
history OF certain campaigns or battles,
have found 1t impossible to obtain access to
the proper official documents. This diff
Guilty does not arise from any desire on the
part OF the authorities to conceal them, but
such history is distributed through reports,
collection OF telegrams, orders. ETC., be-
long to the papers OF the Office and of many
headquarters, and such search as would
be required can not well be made for indi.
viduaIs.
Aside from the question of the preserva
ton OF the records, it is regarded as just to
all who served in and all who supported the
war to have its real inside history known.
At this late day 1t is held that no one could
be injured by such publication, except such
as deserve to be, while countless unjust
things done would be rectltied. A large
part of this history is contained in the teie-
grams now collected and arranged in the
War Department. These, with the execu-
tive orders and kilograms, and the CORE
spondence recorded in the headquarters
letter books and the reports of general off.
GERS, indicate the character OF the records
which are embraced in Senator Logans
plan The Confederate records we're care
fully arranged and indexed by the late DR..
Lieber, and the printing, if ordered, will, in
the end, include these also. The appropria-
ton needed to begin the work will be mod
crate.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-19
The Proposed Change in the Method of
Electing President and Vice Presi.

The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections will hold a meeting tomorrow
morning to discuss the question of reform
in the method of electing President and
Vice President of the United States. This
subject had been considered at one preyi-
GUS meeting of the committee, when all of
the members seemed to favor the plan pro.
posed by Mr.. Morton, which was, briefly. to
divide the States into districts similar to
the present congressional districts, and al.
low the electors to vote directly for the
candidates for the offices. In canvassing
the election, the vote in each district would
count one. As this plan would deprive the
States of their direct representation in the
matter, Mr.. Morton proposes that each
State shall be entitled to two additional
votes, the political complexion of which
shall be the same as that of the majority of
the districts. Another important feature in
Mr.. Mortons plan is to establish tribunals
1or the settlement of disputes growing out
OF the voting for President and Vice Presi-
dent. The United States District Courts
nave been suggested as proper tribunals
tor the reference of these questions Wash
mgto,s Correspondence Neu York Tribune,
april 10.