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WASHINGTON.
The Mississippi Overflow.
GEN. HANcocK's TESTIMONY.

New YORK, March 4.-Gen. w. S.
Hancock, who has just returned from
a southern journey, gives faithful ac-
count of the destruction wrought by
the floods in that section of the coun-
try. The people are in great need, he
says, and he adds:
We must face the problem of feed
ing, sheltering and clothing these
people until such time as they can
raise food and shelter for themselves.
The southern people viii do what they
can, but the northern and western
people must also come to the rescue.
Even if it were right to throw the bur-
den of such an unparalleled calamity
upon the southerners alone, they have
had the means of charity swept away
with the means of livelihood. We
must help and help at once. 1t is bet
ter to send money to Memphis, Mobile,
New Orleans and cities where pro-
vision and clothing may be bought,
than to wait to send the food and
clothing. 1t is possible that more may
have to be paid there than here for the
supplies, but | tell you the people
cannot wait for the provisions to
reach them from here. There are
thousands of negroes who are homeless
and starving, and they must be fed.
There is enough food in the South that
can be bought to keep them a going
until we can send more from the North.
1t should be sent by rail. Steamers are
too slow. Relief committees should be
formed. Money should be sent at once
to remove the most pressing wants.
Arrangements should be made with the
roads to forward the supplies at once
on through freigh. trains, to carry moth
ing else, and to put them through in
the shortest possible time. The news
papers should give the widest publicity
to the great and pressing need of relief.
Gen. Hancock recommended that a
bill be introduced into congress provi-
ding for survey of the Mississippi,
Missouri and Ohio rivers, as well as
their principal tributaries, such as the
Arkansas and White. The survey be-
ing made, plan of levces should be de-
vised which would be sufficiently strong
to protect the country. Whether the
government, the States or parishes build
them, they should be constructed on
the same general plan. This, the gene
raj thinks, would prevent these over
flows in the future.
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GENERAL NOTES

ILLINOIS has 400 convicts in the Joliet
penitentiary, and 3S4 at Chester.
A party of gamblers from Fond du Lac
backed by magnificent luck, have broken
four faro banks at Milwaukee.
THE president has nominated Walter
A. Smith, to be United States marshal for
Colorado.
IT is authoritatively stated that Ami
Louise Cary will be married in the sum
mer and retire from the Stage.
Born houses of the Iowa legislature
have agreed to the amendment to strike
from the constitution the word male"
A MISSING maiI-pouch, cut so rsggeoly
as to suggest that a train had run over it,
was found in the yard of the st. Paul and
Duluth road in the former city.
AFTER three operations upon his tongue
for cancer, Senator Ben Hill finds the az
Fiction extending to his throat, and his
recovery is deemed impossible by his
physicians.
THE supreme court of Ohio finds that
the railroads in that state purchased by
Vanderbilt and consolidated undor the
name of the Ohio railway are competing
lines, and the grouping is declared illegal.
A BRONZE cast of the face and left hand
of President Garfield has been made in
New York for his family, and the mold
broken to prevent duplication. 1t repre-
SCENTS his features after death, and plainly
dipicts his sufferings.
THE supreme court of Pennsylvania
sustains the validity of the deferred IN
come bonds issued by the Reading rail
road company, and it is believed that
kr IL II 1,a
the concern out of the hands of the re-
ceivers.
THE common council of Milwaukee has
passed resolutions to erect a city hall, at a
cost of $3.50 900, on nearly the same plan
as the present courthouse.
REV. II. w. Beecher had large audi
ence in Chicago the other evening, bat
grew faint and was unable to finish his
lecture. After being taken to his hotel he
rapidly recovered strength, and does not
expect to cancel any dates.
CHARLES ALBERT READ, who died re-
Gently at his home in Newton. Mass, left
$4,000 TO the treasurer of the United
States, to be applied to the reduction of
the war debt. To the attending physician
of the testator 5000 is given, on condi-
ton expressed as follows: THAT my head
is severed from my body, as have great
horror of being buried alive"
THE Standard Coal and Iron company,
with capital of $25, 900, 900, has been or
ganized in Boston by james G. Blaine and
Eugene Hale of Maine, Governor Foster
and other capitalists of Ohio. and Oliver
Ames of Massachusetts. 1t is chiefly
consolidation of coal and iron companies
in the Hooking valley of Ohio, and repre-
SCENTS thirty thousand acres OF mineral
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a Valuable Work.
THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE CENSUS PUBL
N, -

THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE CENSUS PUBL
CATIoN-WHAT IT CONTAINS.
WASHINGTON, March THE first and
most important publication, embody-
ing the results of the tenth census, APP
peared yesterday in a handsome quarto
volume of nearly four hundred pages
containing the final tables ofpopulation,
with Introductory remarks, colored
maps, diagrams, computations, and
copious notes designed to assist the
student of the tables The first of these
tables show the population of the United
States in the aggregate, by sexes, Dativ-
ity, and race; the aggregate populations
at each census of each State and Terri
tory as constituted at the date of that
census; the percentage of increase, the
density of population, the aggregate
population, and the colored and
foreign population, in relation to topo-
graphical features, to elevation above
the sea-levei, to the mean annual tenn
erature, to the mean temperature of
July and of January, to the maximum
and minimum temperature, and to the
annual and the spring and summer
rainfall.
Table 2 shows the population of each
State and Territory by counties in the
aggregate and all censuses, and presents
a record of changes in country organi-
cations since the last census. Table 3
shows the population of civil divisions
less than counties, including cities, in
the aggregate, at the censuses of 1880
and 1870, and presents record of
changes in these divisions since the last
census. The tables are introduced in
a chapter prepared by General Francis
a. Walker and Mr.. Henry Cannot, Civ
ing an epitomized review of the pro-
gress of the Nation at the end of each
decade from 1890 to 1880. The intro
duction also contains chapter relating
to the settled and unsettled area in 1881,
the Indian population the centre of
population, elements of population, the
physical features of the country and
their influences upon the distribution
of population etc.
A most valuable feature of the vol
ume is its illustrations by numerous
colored maps, showing its distribution
and density of population at the several
censuses from 1890 to 1880, local excess
of males and females in the distribution
of total population of the colored and
foreign population, a hypsom etric
sketch of the United States, a mGp
showing the distribution of the lines of
mean annual and maximum tempera-
ture for July and January; the distri-
button Of the annual rainfall and of
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Bracing up n Belle.
GROOMING AND DIET FOR WASHINGTON
WOMEN.

GROOMING AND DIET FOR WASHINGTON
WOMEN.
WASHINGTON, March President
Arthur held an informal reception to-
night. Thank heaven for lent said
mother in q quiet conversation. We
can go to the informal receptions dur
ing lent and get rested. Us mothers
can stand it but our daughters are
being killed off by the exactions of So
ciety.
The institution of lent brings rest for
the weary, swollen feet which last week
danced day and night from Monday to
Saturday. Chow does your daughter
stand it?' | asked of mother whom
met at the Bachelor german last Fri
day night. She answered by telling
me that the same woman who took
charge of her daughter when an infant
still had the care of her, and always
waited until her young mistress return
ed from ball; then she undressed
her, gave her a sponge bath, rubbed
her well, and, after administering a
cup of hot beef tea, tucked her in bed,
and left her to sleep until nooday, or
longer if she was so inclined.
awoke she was fed with beef tea or
some food equally nourishing; in short,
she was treated exactly as she would
be if seriously ill, and in that way she
kept fresh for the afternoon dancing
receptions and the germans at night.
Nothing was expected of her but to en-
Joy herself and rest when she was tired
so she could continue to participate in
the gayeties while the dancing season
lasted. Tuesday night this young lady
danced until two o'clock at the german
given by the Tuesday Club; Wednesday
night she danced at the german given
by Miss Dora, the daughter of Senator
Miller, which lasted until four a. M;
Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Miller mad
dancing at her regular reception, and
Thurday night was divided between the
ball given by Commodore and Mrs.
English and the charity ball, which kept
up until four o'clock; Friday afternoon
she danced at Mrs. CarrolPs, and in the
evening at the german first mentioned;
Saturday afternoon she danced at the
reception given by the Misses Fox, and
rested Sunday SO as to be ready for the
german given tonight by Mrs. White,
daughter of Senator Sawyer, and the
ball given at the British legation. Tues
day afternoon Judge and Mrs. Mac
Arthur give a reception from three to
six p. M, and there are dozen things
for the evening. Washington Core
spondence of the Courier Journal.
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GarfieId's Murderer
THE BILL OF EXCEPTIONS.

WASHINGTON, March al spent all
of yesterday l could and nearly all OF
to-day looking over the bills of excep-
tions," said District Attorney Corkhill
to-day when asked about the Guiteau
case. "The task requires a tedious
comparison of testimony to see that the
exceptions are correctly stated. The
settling of the bill of exceptions in
wolves in this case questions that have
never risen before. All can say now
is that il will take some days to exam
inc the various points raised" Mr..
Scoville to-day procured couple of the
records in the case from the attorney
generals office to file with the bill.
This afternoon he procured formal
order from Judge Cox extending the
December term in order that the excep-
tions may be filed.
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Laying the groundwork of Health

Without vigor there can be no healthful regu-
larity in the performance of the bodily functions.
1t is to its invigorating influence, that Hostetters
Stomach Bitters owes a large proportion of its
popularity. The people of America find in it the
virtues of a commanding tonic, and have learned
by experience that it is an efficient antidote to
the poison of malaria, whether in air or water.
Also that it conquers biiousness and constipation
and remedies nervous debility. Few family rem
edies have a more comprehensive scope, and as
suredly there is none the merits of which have
been more widely recognized by the press, the
pnbhe and the medical profession. Travellers and
emigrants use it with advantage against the vicis-
STUDIES of climate, and influences of an unhealth-
full nature existing in water or food, and mariners
miners and others so counterfeit the effects of ex-
posure and hardship.
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wHAr HE SAYS or Els DEFEAT.

New YORK, March I'm an inter
view Rowell says: 'It is no use cry
ing over split milk. 1t had to be done.
| never was so i'll in my life before. /
was affected by dryness OF the throat
and tongue that was almost fit to choke
me. My tongue was like lump of
lead. My throat vas fairly pafched, /
could swallow nothing. Then was
very dizzy when was going about on
the track / felt perfectly sure of win
ming; ] didn't feel bit worried about
the result; ] never felt in better trim to
make good race than did before /
got sick. The strain of walking $50
miles the first day by no means ex-
hausted me. | said I'd do it before |
started. got over the distance with
out any trouble. was fresh enough
and in good enough shape to do.as well
after it was over. / was prepared to
make 625 miles in the week. thought
could hardly do less. do not regard
myself as beaten now. An accident
happened to me. / could not help
that. have never been beaten.
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GUIrEAu keeps large Bible on
table filled with papers. Saturday an
officer suggested to him that he ought
to read it. 81 do read it," he replied.
"You ought to get here in the after
noon. 1 put in my time early in the
day. See here holding up the book,
the motto is Love God and do right
That's a good motto" After showing
some of his photographs, he said: 81
disapprove of my sisters letter to the
senate protesting against Mr.. Conk-
ling's nomination, and have request
ed she write no more letters about me.
The autograph and photograph bust
ness is good, and 1 amwell and. happy"
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Confiscating Railroad Property Law.

From the New York Telegram.
While the State of New York is still
celebrating as to the desirabillty or
the feasibility of regulating railroad
managem emf by statues. other States,
and notably several of the Central
Western States, have been with varying
success trying the experiment. Proba-
bly, the experiment IS worth the trying
and worth all the laundering that it has
thus far cost. The principle that it cor
porate citizens, like any other citizens,
should be subject to legislative author
ity, is a sound one. The assumption
that the law-making power has the
disposition and the ability to do justice
is at the base of all organized society.
1t is better that railroad corporations
should be placed cat the mercy" of the
State than that the State and Its people
should remain at the mercy of railroad
CORPORATIONS. OF any conflict that may
impend between the respective doc
trines of state sovereignty and railroad
sovereignty, there can be but one out
come. Yet, Tor the very reason that
the principle of railroad regulation by
the state is a sound and necessary one,
any manifest injustice in the way O..
such railroad regulation is the more to
be deplored.
The other States that have exerted
their authority in this direction have
either avoided all ground for serious
charges of injustice, or in the light OF
experience, have SO modified their
statues as to relieve them of such
charges. Illinois has not. In that State
alone the worst principles, or rather the
worst blunders of the first crude and
unenlighted attempts to regulate the
details of railway traffic still remain In
force. The Railroad Commissioners OF
that State under their singularly abb
solute powers, have recently, indeed,
established new schedule of freight
rates, but this new tariff, taken as re-
duction of the tariff of 1873, by almost
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THE CLOSE PLACE THE BILL PUTS SPEAKER
KEIFER IN.


KEIFER IN.
WASHINGTON, March Those who
are most intimate with Speaker Keifer
say that he is in Straight betwixt
two" on the bill which proposes to re-
appoint Gen. Grant in the army. He is
met on the one hand by Gen. Sherman
and his friends, who are known to be
very influential in his own state-Ohio
and he is very anxious to favor them,
while senators Logan, Cameron, and
other stalwarts, to whom Speaker
Keifer confessedly owes his election to
the speakersnip, ARE demanding in COM
pensation for their service that he per-
form some parliamentary legerdemain
by which the bill can be taken from
the table and placed upon its passage,
even though Brother Holman may
stand up on his desk and yell at the
top of his voice, 81 object" The re-
suit is that the speaker is said to have
panied Charley Foster ct al, who
are trying to get positive assur-
ances, before they will consent that the
bill be passed, that retirements always
retire. The proverbially ''silent man.
is said to be proverbially silent on the
question, much to the annoyance of
the much-annoyed parties in interest.
The situation is somewhat more COM
plicated now by the uncertainty of
what is to be the fate of the Conkling
nomination. Were it certainly known
that the ultimate designs of the stall
warts was to overslaugh Gen. Sherman
by the reappointment of Gen. Grant,
then the friends of Gen. Sherman
would retaliate by keeping Conkling's
nomination before the senate; but
while they feel very bitter toward
Conkling and would rejoice at his de-
feat, they feel that while they have
their hands in lions mouth they had
best keep quiet. But then if they
must, they must
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insurgents, and defeated them. Two
Austrians were killed and six wounded.
In the British house of commons, Sir
Stafford Northcote carried resolution
that Bradlaugh be not permitted to go
through the form of repeating the words
OF the oath. Majoribanks gave notice
of bill amending the law in regard to
the oath.
In the British house of commons, the
motion of Lord Churchill that writ be
issued for Northampton was rejected. A
motion of Lyons, of Dublin. that Brad
laugh was guilty of proclamation, and
therefore incapacitated from sitting as a
member, was withdrawn. During the de-
bate Bradlaugh passed the bar and took a
seat, whereupon Northcote moved his ex-
pulsion for contempt of the house, the
vote standing 29l to SO. Bradiaugh then
left, and new writ was issued.
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Our Honor Abroad.
CONSERVED BY PATRIOTS AT HOME

NONsEhNED IA IALhlOlS Al HUME.
WASHINGTON, March THE house
was the center of attraction to-day. Di-
plomacy was the subject under discus
sion, and the spectators in the gallery
had an opportunity to hear the leading
men of both parties on this subject.
Mr. Springer offered an amendment, in
which it was proposed to consolidate a
number of European missions. This
did not meet with favor from either
side, and was lost by decided MAORI
ty. Sunset Cox favored the amendment
for the reason, as he expressed it, that
it would do away with much of the
'tomfoolery" of diplomacy, which was
not necessary for upholding either the
honor or the credit of this country
abroad. The proposition gave rise to
an animated debate, during which a
number of patriots howled and poured
in their efforts to show that this, the
greatest country, needed diplomats il
stead of standing armies and power
full navy to look after its interests
abroad. The proceedings during the
entire day We're characterized by scenes
of disorder to which the habitues Of
the house are gradually becoming ac-
customed, and Mr.. Rice of Massachu-
sets, who occupied the speakers chair,
found himself at times powerless to
quell the tumult.
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A CHICAGO dispatch says Scoville will
return to his home in that city, having
severed his connection with the Guiteau
case. The action was not altogether
voluntary on his part, but is said to be
the result of quarrel as broad and
deep as the entire Guiteau family, who
are inclined to question his legal abil-
tiles. 1t is claimed that Ben. Butler
is to take the case in hand. and in view
of the new evidence claimed to have
been discovered. viii bend his energies
to secure new trial for the assassin on
the plea of insanity. Mr.. Butler has
been seen on the subject, and does not
deny the truth of the statement. Mr..
Reed will probably be retained.
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The high price of material and the
outrageous demands of workmen have
caused the stoppage of work on the
grand opera house, corner of Broadway
and Thirty-second street, New York.
The estimates fall short 100000,
the deficit in iron alone being 800, 900.
Vanderbilt and others projected the en-
terprise, but will not pay $3.50 to stone
cutters for nine hours work.
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The walking-match in New York
ended at 10 Saturday evening, when
Hazael completed mis- 600th mile, and
Fitzgerald his 577th. The champion
was given the jeweled whip at the
scorers stand. There will be $4,000
gate money 20 distribute among the six
men who were in at the finish.
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THE people of Pulaski county, in
Southern Illinois, on the Ohio river, are
asking for portion of the Congression-
al appropriation recently voted for the
relief of the sufferers from the south
western river overfows. 1t is now
thought that another appropriation of
100000 more will be made by Congress
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Mr.. CALKINs, of Indiana, has intro
duced bill in the House to regulate
the coupling of cars on the various rail-
roads which will attract considerable in
terest. 1t provides that all cars shall
have bumpers and couplings of the
same height above the top rail, 50 that
there may be no danger in measuring
by the eye the couplings when brake
men step between cars to couple them
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IMPOSING demonstrations against fur
Their Chinese immigration took place in
all the large towns in California and
Nevada Saturday, business having
been suspended. The San Francisco
gathering is estimated at thirty thous-
and. Resolutions We're adopted urging
upon Congress the absolute necessity of
speedy legislation, to make effective
the treaty with China to restrict the
advent of her citizens on the Pacific
coast
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GRAIN statistics at the port of New
York show steady falling off in ex-
portations by sailing vessels. For ex-
ample, during the past fourteen months
not sailing vessel loaded with grain
has sailed from New York to Europe.
The sailing ship evidently has had its
day in this trade.
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A SOLICITOR has been retained by
friends of MacLean, who shot at the
queen, to defend him at the forthcom-
ing trial. According to Mac Leans
own account he has sister married to
Harris, lessee of the Drury Lane
theater.
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The official statistics show that 1884,
919 bushels of potatoes, valued at $780,
461, have been imported into the
United States since last March from
Ireland, Scotland Nova Scotia and
Canada, and without these we might
have had a potato famine.
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THERE is a disposition on the part of
the internal revenue department to
urge the settlement in some way of the
question of reduction of internal rev.
enue taxes, as the present unsettled
condition results in reducing the in
come $4,000 day.
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The prospect is that the "Chinese
must go' for sure this time. All adj
vices from Washington agree that the
pending bill will pass. Poor Johnnie is
not voter, and has no friends. And yet,
since he insists upon being heather,
and refuses to become Americanized, it
serves him right.
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JUSTICE MILLER, of the United States
supreme court, has affirmed the decis-
ion of Judge McCrary against the ex-
press company monopoly, and holds
that no railroad can lawfully carry the
freight of one express company to the
exclusion of others.