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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
Perils of street-Car Travel.

The Third-street line of passenger street
railroads is the only route in the city that
has been absolutely abandoned by the Gin
cinnati Street Railroad Company. The water
covers the tracks of that line to the depth of
a dozen feet in several places, and at least
one-half of the entire route is submerged.
Despite the fact that the Eighth-street fill
was under water the cars running on that
street continued the perilous trips across the
food and to Price Hill Thousands of ven.
turesome people took their lives into their
hands and crossed the maddened waters yes
terday just for a sight of the overflow. A
rumor spread rapidly yesterday afternoon
that the piers OF the bridge crossing
Eighth street had sprung badly, and that
the bridge was in danger of dropping into
the mighty deep there at any moment.
A trip across Eighth street just now is a
mighty dangerous thing. The ill is made
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
Bishop Elders Appeal.

Bishop Elder has issued an appeal to be
read in all the the Catholic churches to-mor-
row, in which he says:
Animate the people of your congregation
to render without delay all the assistance
they can, by contributing money, provisions
and clothing, and by providing shelter for
the sufferers. The Chamber of Commerce
and the City Council have appointed com
mittees to receive contributions and to direct
the work of giving relief. You will accom-
plish most good by cooperating with those
committees.
81 desire you to appeal to the charity of
your flock, by taking up collections without
delay. In the city churches, where this cir
cular will be known through the daily
papers let the collection be taken up next
Sunday, Feb. IS. In other places where it
cannot be sufficiently made known until
next Sunday it should be made the follow
ing Sunday, Feb Is. Send the contributions
either directly to the committees or to Rev.
DIR. Moeller, to be transmitted to them"
In a circular. the Bishop adds:
'Since the issuing of my circular calling for
assistance to the sufferers by the flood, the
committee of relief have informed me that
the most pressing need of the day is clothing
and bedding.
They would like to have the ladies of the
various congregations make themselves
active in collecting clothes and bedding as
speedily as possible.
81 beg the reverend pastors to further this
desire of the committee by engaging some OF
the ladies of their congregations to apply
themselves without delay to the collecting OF
such articles.
"They should be sent to the headquarters of
the committee. No. 80 West Third street.
"All articles of clothing are needed, includ-
ing shoes, hats and caps for men, for women,
for children, and even for infants
Trad -niothipo md ha15in0 al oh
in demand-old blankets, comforts and mat
-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
RerdeH Continues His Interesting
Story of Star-Route Methods,
Little Chance for Passage of IA Tariff Bill
Hazen Wants InvestigatiOn--LeGisla-
tive Appropriation Bill Passed.
THE sTAR-ROUTE TRIAL.
Rerdell Proceeds to Tell All He Knows
kLout the Methods of the Gang.

Rerdell Proceeds to Tell All He Knows
kbout the Methods of the Gang.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-Rerdell continued
his testimony in the star-route trial to-day.
paper purporting to have been signed by
]. W. Dorsey was shown the witness, but he
said it was not in Dorsey's handwriting and
Dorsey was not where he could have signed
it at the time the paper was dated. A letter
was read from J. w. Dorsey to his brother
He Enclosed blank drafts according to in
structions, and has no doubt the
route bismarck to Tongue river)
will pay him or some one else over
100000 per annum. Witness said S. W
Dorsey instructed him to prepare afidavts
on the Toquerville and Adairville route, and
remarked that it was only necessary, in
making calculations to reserve a portion of
LOU or 2UO per cent in allowing for the in
crease. Witness had number of blank atfi-
davis. hut they were taken from his office
Immediately after the verdict in the last trial
When the witness was released from Jail he
found his desk open and the papers scattered
about. s. w. Dorsey was the only man,
besides himself, who possessed key to the
Office. Among the papers carried off were
the letters which had passed between s. w.
Dorsey and himself, and between S. w. Dor
sey and J. w. Boser
The record in the case of Rerdell VS.. Vale
Miner Co., was read and the letters from
vale to 5. w. Dorsey, in which Vale says:
Rerdell has sued US, and if the case goes
on 1t Will expose our private affairs in which
you are interested. 1t will draw out who are
the real partners of Vale, Miner Il Co. Vale
suggests that Dorsey induce Rerdell to with
draw the suit at once"
S. w. Dorsey gave the witness instructions
concerning the entries to be made in the
books. Holding the papers in his hand, the
witness said S. W. Dorsey instructed him to
open an account with the names on that
paper 1t is headed ~. S. Senate
Chamber, Washington, 1877; accounts of
cash loaned Dorsey and Peck: S. w. Dorsey,
S10500;" under the head of Dorsey" 80
900; under the head of Peck" $4,000;
William Smith," $1S,000 John Smith"
So, 900. The name of John Smith has been
scratched and the name OF Sam Jones sub
stituted.
The witness said he wrote "Sam Jones"
under John Smith," because S. w. Dorsey
called attention to the fact that there
were two Smiths, and said he
had better make one Sam Jones"
The witness was asked to explain
the meaning of these entries, and said that,
subsequent to receipt of the paper, S. w.
Dorsey asked him if he had charged Brady
with certain amounts-$5, 900, $500 and
81, 900. The witness answered that he had
no account against Brady. Dorsey replied:
why, damn it. he is William Smith. L
thought you knew who William Smith
wasp
All the accounts above mentioned were
then charged to Brady,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
GOYERNNIENT AID.
Indiana Members of Congress Opposed to
Granting 1t.
Snecial TO the IndiananOlis Journal.

Indiana Members of Congress Opposed to
Granting It.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-Letters and tele-
grams are beginning to pour in
upon the congressional delegations
from Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois asking congressional
aid for the flood sufferers. kilograms from
New Albany and other river towns in Indiana
were considered by the Indiana congressman
yesterday, and as a result of the confer
ence q telegram was drafted and sent
to Governor Porter, at Indianapolis, which
will have a tendency to discourage the send
ing of such petitions to Washington.
The Indiana congressman to a man
will oppose the giving of congressional
aid to States in which the Legislatures are
in session. They hold that Indiana and the
other States devastated by the Ohio
river food are abundantly able to take care
of their own people without aid
from the government, and they maintain
stoutly that their State shall not be
put in the attitude of mem
dicant. The two senators and nearly all
of the Indiana members have forwarded con-
tributions to the relief fund, to show that
their expression of sympathy is not'mereiy
cheap talk.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17

ground, and it may stand the pressure and it
may not. That is problem that can only
be solved when the bank gives way and les
few souls into the dip. The police were
threatening TO stop the cars from running
yesterday, and last night gang of men in
the employ of the street-railroad company
were busy building a switch near Harriet
street, which will be the terminus of the
route if the order is pushed
There was considerable excitement in the
far West End yesterday, particularly about
that portion known as the fill. Property
owners were scared and rushing around in
terrible plight, lest their houses should slip
off their foundations. The idea seemed TO
prevail that the running of street-cars over
the dangerous ground only added to the
threatening evil, and as the water covered
Western avenue from Dayton street to Bank
street in several places. the population
Whereabouts piled lumber across the
avenue and blockaded the track.
This cut of the Baymiller and
Sixth-street line and the Clark
street and Cumminsville line. The drivers
and conductors were fought in their efforts
to remove the distractions. and the police
and military had to be called upon. The
cars were ordered back and the crowd dis
persed. After this exciting incident the cars
of these two routes were compelled TO take
the Freeman-avenue tracks north from Lib
erty street. The Clark-street cars ran as far as
Cooks factory, in Camp Washington. Both
the Central avenue and John-street and the
Freeman and Linn-street Lines ran on time
and without Interruption, as, of course, did
the Avondale line The East and West End
cars curtaled their route to include that
portion between Fourth and Broadway and
the Clifton Inclined Plane, at the head of
Elm street. A number of the Seventh-street
cars ran over the Colerain-avenue route,
which carries all the passengers who take
trains Mt the stockvards for the East This
latter line is doing the biggest business
known since it was built, over year ago
The view of the bottoms from Colerain
avenue is q good one. IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. l6.-Mr. Townshend, of
Illinois, has succeeded in making himself
supremely ridiculous by trying to pick a
quarrel with Haskell of Kansas. The former
is light-waisted, staggering fellow from a
malarial section of Egypt, and Haskell is a
manly man, who treats the effervescenty awp
of the Shawneetown statesman with con-
tempt Nothing will come of the wild talk
which is afoat tonight of a duel Ii Town
shend persists in making himself offensive,
he may, however, subject himself to the hui
initiation OF personal chastisement at the
hands of the Kansan, SO the lotter's friends
say.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17

yesterday afternoon, well-dressed and intelli-
gent He was paralyzed on one side, and to
judge from the amount of food which he
punished, his appetite must have been stimu-
lated by hunger for some considerable time.
He was thankful for having found place to
satisfy his hunger, and was invited to call
regularly for his meals. His boardiDg-house
was in the deepest flood, and for the past few
nights he had slept III one of the school
houses He said he WAS making 81. so a week,
but the food had put a stop to his employ
ment.
Yesterday afternoon Captain Devine, Lieu
tenant LangdoD, of Walnut Hills, and Lieu
tenant James Dunn. of the Hammondstreet
station, took boat at the foot of Broadway
and launched forth among the flooded
houses, making careful investigation as far
rs Pierson and Sixth streets. Many houses
were visited, and the inmates of all were
found comfortable. There was not found a
single instance of distress. The people show
ed disposition TO be pleased and many
said they had enough of provisions to last
until tomorrow.
The description given of the Lower Market
soup-house may be applied to the other
Soup-houses established in different parts OF
the city and under the direction of the
Chamber of Commerce committee and Union
Relief Society. The same busy scenes were
repeated at the Church of the Atonement,
Third and Central Avenue; at Lackman's
brewery, Sixth street near c., H. q ID. rail
road; at Cumminsville; at Eighteen's engine
house, Delta Station; at Fulton police sta
ton; at Bradford Mills, foot of Price Hill.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
General Hazen Insists on an Investigation.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16-General Hazen
evidently does not believe he has enough,
for to-day he replies to Secretary Llcoln's
peppery letter, insisting on having con-
gressional investigation into the charges
made on the floor of the House by Congress
man Beltzhoover. The Secretary has not yet
answered the last epistle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
How People Navigate in the Overlooked
Districts.

The silver lining begins to appear in the
dark cloud of loss disaster and watery doom
that has so long hung over Cincinnati, and
at present writing the prospects are favora-
able that the worst is over, The fine weather
OF yesterday brought a vast crowd, who lined
every nook and corner where views of the
moving flood could be obtained. Some pa
tiently watched all day long, standing look
ing aimlessly at wrecks that were on every
side, yet a portion secured skiffs, when it
could be done, and with their friends rowed
ali about the submerged district. Others,
and they were the major portion, contented
themselves with securing passage TO the Gov
ington bridge approaches, and sauntered idly
over the bridge, pausing to note what there
was of interest.
The crowd was a most good-natured and
amable one. 1t seemed disposed to take
every thing in good part, and the jokes OF
the watermen. as well as by-play that passed
between acquaintances elected loud laughter.
Walnut and Vine streets were thronged
with skifts Junk boats and yawls whose
owners drove an enterprising trade at %
cents a head Some of the boats contained
chairs plain wooden affairs, but most of
them possessed nothing which would avail
for even a passable seat, and the occupants
were josted about rudely enough. The
boatmen piled their long poles, steering
with dexterity that was marvellous, and
worthy their famous prototypes, the water
rnen OF the Thames. The hats of many of
those standing in the boats were occasional
" knocked off by the ropes, and not in
frequently the poles of the river men came
uncomfortably in contact with chignon or
fancy bonnet evoking merriment, though
sometimes not relshed by the ladies hit
Occasionally stove-pipes and stiff-brimmed
hats were knocked into the water, and inva-
riaby pulled within the owners reach after
a thorough wetting, and perhaps a hole in
the crown. BY nightfall the bottoms were
deserted by all except few straggers who
peered at the dark waters, and those en-
gagged in protecting the property, while the
various lights, stationed at regular intervals,
cast weird gloom over the scene, as the
muffled roll, roar and rush of the mad waters
recklessly moved on to the Gulf.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.


Sufferers
Special to the Indianapolis journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The Ohio members
are in cordial sympathy with the flood relief
views of their Indiana brethren, but the Ken
lucky delegation is mixed. They say there
is no way of providing relief for sufferers in
their State excepting by general legislation
by Congress, and for that reason they are not
violently opposed to the proposition to APP
propriate $500 900 for the desolated districts,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
KENTUCKY SUFFERERS.
Tho Destruction in Newport-Desertion of
the Barracks.

Yesterdays bright and joyous weather
brought into striking prominence the ruth
less destruction of the water in this city. II
was one of the centers of attention and inter
est, and from daylight to sunset hundreds OF
ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all
ages came from adjacent cities to view the
picturesque scenes that greeted the eye on
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
Gloomy Prospect for the Passage of
Tariff Bill.
the Indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON Feb. lG--The Senate takers
are still killing time by wearisome discussions
on threadbare topics The members who a
few days ago were confident tariff bill
would pass are again losing faith, and they
now say the prospect is gloomy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17

SUPERIOR to Emmett, greater than Murphy,
that talented and handsome yonug actor, VIM.
]. seanlon. Grand Opera-house, commencing
Monday, Feb, 10.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
FLOOD SCENES ON THE OHIO.
Expectation that High Wind Will
Cause Incalculable Damage.

Scenes and Incidents in the Overlooked Dis
trlct at Cincinnati-The Soup House
at the Lower Market.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-17
TRY IT.

Apply by the littia
finger into the nostrils.
By absorption it eff
fectually cleauses thu
nasal passages Of ca
The Portland daily press., 1883-07-23
THE CHOLERA.
The Disease Still on the Increase Over a
Hundred Deaths Daily at Cairo

The Disease Still on the Increase Over a
Hundred Deaths Daily at Cairo.
ALEXANDRIA, July 21.-There were seven
deaths from cholera at Damietta yesterday, 90
at Mansurah, IA at Chobar, IL at Samanoud
A at Chirbin, 2S at Ghizeh, 146 at Cairo and
26 at eight small villages.
Quarantine has been established throughout
Egypt except at this city and in the province
of Fayoum, where it is maintained at the
request of Sir Edward Malet, the British con-
sui general A revised list OF the deaths at
Cairo yesterday gives the number at 242.
Among the victims were four Europeans.
LONDON, July 21.-The Cairo correspondent
of the Central News says that the actual mum
Der of deaths during the last twenty-four hours
was 6C3, and the official figures underestimate
the number of fatalities The Gordon around
Alexandria has been moved nearer the city.
Cases Of cholera are reported in places which
have not hitherto been affected by the disease.
LONDON, July 22.-Queen Victoria tele-
graphed to Cairo today Tor information in re-
gard to the health of the British troops. She
has received an ans yer that they are we'll.
There have been several cases OF cholera at
Ismalia.
ALEXANDRIA, July 22-The number of poor
aud infirm persons who are being maintained
at Damietta at the expense of the State is
rapidly increasing. Relief committees are be-
ing formed
The European volunteer committee have
discovered that canal which supplies a
crowded quarter of the city with drinking wa
ter communicates in the native cemetery with
place used for washing corpses.
Deaths from cholera Saturday numbered
301 in Cairo and its suburbs, 80 at Mansurah,
II at Samanoud 26 at Mehalls, 90 at Chibir,
% at Chobad, 80 at Ghzeh, at Damietta, ii
st Stitch, at MeBzoeh. and total of "a in
six villages.
CAIRO, July 22.-The cofins in which vic
Tins of the cholera are buried here are covered
with only few inches of earth. The minister
of the interior declines to interfere to com pei
better interment of the bodies.
The Portland daily press., 1883-07-23
Tourists Gazette.I
About HammOcks.

Ten years ago the eccentric.indivdual who
wanted to test the comforts of that produc-
ton of tropic lands, the hammock, was
obliged to prowl along the wharves until he
found West Indiaman, when he might, if
good fortune crowned his efforts. succeed in
buying one strongly impregnated with tc-
bacco, perchance, from some needy sailo-.
He then took It hoiae surreptitiously, and
swung i: away round in the back yard, out
of sight, where the hired girl was sure to
trip over it when she hung out the clothes
When he ventured to swing in it, he some
how felt as though commission of lunacy
might be called by his friends, and he al
ways insisted that it had been sent to him
as present by a traveller in distant lands
who didn't know any better. Now, howev-
er, it has come about that the hammock Tor
two of them) is an institution in every we'll
regulated dooryard, and we, who have no
door-yard bigger than a postage stamp,
comfort on summer nights. There is but a
single drawback to the hammock, and that
is the fact that after you have been dropped
suddenly by something giving way that
ought to have been stronger, and punched
the vertebra of your spinal column all out
of shape upon rough and projecting roots or
stray croquet balls, you never feel quite hap
py in your hours spent in its rest-giving
meshes. Therefore, be sure in the first
place to hang your hammock over soft
place. See that the fastenings (which
should be strong leather straps, if suspended
from trees-ropes won't do, they gall the
bark, are properly secured; and lastly, in
vite some fellow who weighs fifty pounds
more than you do to try it first.
The Portland daily press., 1883-07-23
The Grave Of Garfield.
rCleyeland Herald.


The final resting place of the late Presi-
dent Garfield, and the site for one of the
grandest monuments ever erected in the
United States, has at last been determined
upon. The view from this hill is the most
beautiful imaginable. 1t is indescribably
grand, and undoubtedly the most magnifi-
cent spot in the State. 1t is in Southwest
ly direction from the original Garfield Knoll,
about 100 feet higher, and near it is clus-
ter of trees. Looking in Southerly direc-
tion, rich, rolling, farming land, bordered in
the distance by dense woods, is visible.
The cemetery, with its countless monuments,
is Immediately at the foot of the hill, while a
straight look ahead discloses to view beau
tiful landscape, with old Erie in the back
ground. Cleveland, with its many spires
and domes can be seen, and an unimpeded
view as far west as Rocky River Point OBJ
tanned, with Wade Park and Adelbert Col
lege standing prominent on the foreground
of the picture. The village of Collinwood is
plainly visible in northeasterly direction,
while countless homes, farms, lovely gar
dens, winding roadways and Lake Erie, dot
ted with boats, can be seen at glance.
The work of improving these grounds, three
of five acres of which, or whatever shall be
deemed necessary, is to be given by the
Cemetery Association, will begin immediate
ly. Convenient roadways, easy OF access,
will be laid out. Trees, flowers and shrub
berry are to be planted, and it is thought
that the work on the structure will begin in
about one year. That part of Lake Erie
chosen is quite distance from the ceme-
terry proper.
The Portland daily press., 1883-07-23
brooklyn Union-i-
What the Matter Is.

Such tedious contests as have lately been
seen in Minnesota and Michigan and S n
terminable struggle as that now going on
in New Hampshire give evidence of the deg
radiation of the Senatorial Office, but they
also contain the promise of improvement.
The source of nearly all that is vulgar and
corrupt in the United States Senate of to-day
has been its control over patronage. The
talents required to gain political strength by
he distribution of postmasterships, the ap-
pointment of Internal Revenue collectors
and the choice of Custom House officers
were not precisely those likely to be associa-
ted with commanding intellectual ability.
They were not absolutely incompatible with
it, but even men of indubitable ability be-
came constantly liable to confound the acci-
dental prerogatves of their position with
its highest functions, and to be good deal
more watchful over the Executive selections
for petty officers than over the great public
interest involved in legislation. A genera
tion which has seen grave party cri-
sis turn on the appointment of a
Collector of the Port of New York
may, without striking injustice, be
ranked by posterity as one of barren poll
tics and ignoble ambitions Mr.. ConkliDg
left in the Senate which he quilted in DIS
gust few ADLER men than himself, but no
more contemptuous estimate could have
been made of the true place and influence
of member of the upper house of Congress
than was involved in the assumption that
his chief duty to his State was to see that no
Federal office should be filled in 1t without
his approval.