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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18

4dated year ago.
cat loss A boot from Evansville with
relief left 5000 rations. This will last but a
short time, as many country people must be sup
piled. Houses that have been Hooded before be-
ing occupied, must be cleaned of mud, plastered
and papered, with an expense that the owners
can i'll afford Should the water keep up long
many will crumble and fall when dry. Ne lives
are reported lost, though there have been several
narrow escapes
Troy, manufacturing town of 300inhabtants
loses greatly, on account of her factories being
almost entirely ruined throwing two-thirds Of
the people out of work. Only ten residences
suffered, as the others are on high land, scarcely
touched by the water.
Tell City, place of g; 900 inhabitants, is at
least one-ffth under water, but the people are
not in great want, as they are cared for by the
more fortunate.
Cannelton, a place of 1,S00 people, is one of
the greatest sufferers, as atAeast one-half the
city is buried by the food mainly residences
Many were swept away, The suffering here is
great and there being work, the people are
compelled to rely assistance. Many of these
places are without railroads and dependent on
boats, which are very irregular, to supply their
demands which added to the distress
Rome, a nice village of 500 people, down in a
fat on the curve of the Ohio. was one of the
first to meet with disaster Almost every house
is entirely orpartly covered, many leaving their
foundations. The loss is not less than $40 600
The stores are all closed and the people depend
ent upon charity Help is being received from a
large number of farmers and towns off from the
river. Provisions and clothing are in great
need These people must be cared for for weeks
as all the stock on hand was ruined.
Eeavenworth, the county seat of Crawford
has 1,500 inhabitants. Half her people are at
the mercy of the foods Here also many houses
we're taken from their foundations and more
IRE sure TO follow. Should the water continue
UP one-tfird the town will be washed down the
river. The large country district cannot en-
tirely care for the suffering No pen can exag-
gerate the terrible suffering that will follow in
the next week No work to do, without home,
food or clothing the people are at the mercy of
the public.
million dollars will not cover the loss in
property. Thousands Of farmers will be com
PEELED to live in tents and shanties for months.
Farming implements have gone and muchof the
stock OF the terrible story of desoIation and
destruction at Jacksonville and New Albany,
where the raging water carried all before it,
other correspondents will tell The fear now is
that the wind may rise. With the river at some
points ten miles wide the destruction by waves
would be awful, driving thousands from the
second stories ofhouses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18
THE PEOPLES CHARITY.
Contributions from Columbus and Other
Points-TweIve Destitute Towns.

COLUMBUS, Feb. 1.-THE State commission
for distribution of supplies to flood sufferers to-
day received ST. 900 voluata- -
here and other ~ .ry eon6nputions from
charc- ,,,lt1ts the Kentucky Stock Elk
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
How to Make Shad Soup.

Choose a large roe shad, and have it
carefully scaled and washed, but not
split; lay it on the side, on a board, and
cut through the skin and flesh, from the
middle of the head down to the middle
of the side of the tail, in straight line;
make this cut with a sharp knife, having
thin blade; then cut through the skin
and flesh just below the gills, from the
back of the head to the front; next cut
the flesh from the bones, beginning at
the head, using the point of the knife,
and pressing the blade fiat against the
large bone, in order to avoid mangling
the piece of flesh which is cut off; each
side of the flesh yields two good-siZed
pieces, those from the back being the
largest; when all four pieces are cut off,
lay them, skin down, on the table, and
remove the skin; do this by grasping
the smallest end of esch piece firmly
with the left hand, and cutting down
through the flesh to the skin; then
gradually turn the knife blade fiat, hold
ing the back toward the left hand, and,
pressing it fiat against the skin, cut the
flesh away from it. After the skin has
been removed, cut the flesh off the shad
in pieces about three inches square, and
fully remove the roe from the fish, with
out breaking it, and lay it in cold sailed
water until it is required.
After the roe is put aside clean the
carcass of the shad and wash it in cold
water; then cut it in two or three pieces,
put it into a saucepan together with the
skin and fins; add to it two quarts of
cold water, a small onion peeled and
sliced, a level tablespoonful of salt,
small carrot and a turnip peeled and
sliced, stalk of celery or a handful of
parsley and a palatable seasoning OF
pepper; set the saucepan over the fire
and boil its contents slowly for half an
hour. Meantime mix heaping table
spoonful each of butter and flour to
a smooth paste; when the soup has
boiled for half an hour pour it into fine
sieve; carefully pick out all the bones
and rub the fish and vegetables through
the sieve with a potato masher; put the
pulp thus obtained back into the sauce
pan, together with the soup which has
drained through the sieve and the paste
of butter and flour; place the saucepan
over the fire, stir its contents thoroughly,
let them boil once, and then add enough
milk to them to make the soup of the
of cream; let it boil once,
season it paIatably with salt and cayenne
and serve hot.-JULIA CoRsoN.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
The Federal SchOOI-Teaeher.

Senator Blair's educational bill before
the U. 5. Senate, ii it passes, will be, as
Its author terms it, one of the most i'm
portant measures offered in Congress
since the war. By the bill the Govern
ment proposes to give a sum of S1O5.-
OOO,O to the common schools of the
country, to be paid in ten annual in
stallments, beginning with fifteen mil
lions and dropping million
year. The first year under this
bill every State and Territory will
receive So for each person over ten wears
OF age who cannot read and So, Al for
each person who cannot write. The
distribution will be on the basis of the
statistics of illiteracy in the census of
1851. The disbursement of the money
Is to be entirely in the hands of States
and Territories, which are to render
yearly reports, however, and to be liable
to a withdrawal of the fund by the Exec
utlve subject to the action of Congress.
The bill prescribes that the money shall
be spent IN teaching common school
studies, but for the benefit of States not
really III need of help those receiving
small amounts are allowed to expend
them upon normal instruction, teachers
institutes, etc. The funds cannot be
used for building school-houses. One
feature of the bill which has caused A
great deal of discussion in the Senate is
that which requires States to spend dur
ing the first five years at least one-third
as much for educational purposes as the
amount received from the Government.
This has been criticised as too low a
figure, but the friends of the bill have
resisted all efforts to increase the
amounts raised by the States them
selves, on the ground, that the South
is poor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
Slipped an Eccentric.

Quite often, indeed, we feel as though
this old world had slipped an eccentric
and was only working one side. The
wicked man fourishes like a green bay
tree, while his honest neighbor gets
whip sawed every deal. The doctor pre-
scribes quinine for your chills, and the
druggist puts you mp something worth
less and cheap for So an ounce. There
are fifty-three authors of beautiful
Snow" and not one for the "Bread Win
ners." In Philadelphia one manufac-
tory makes nothing but century old
'grandfathers clocks" and furnishes
pedigrees for the same to the purchaser,
until TO own tall, antique clock is
proof positive that your family began
only with your father. In Chicago they
make violins that look 100 years older
than the most genuine Stradivarius four
weeks after they are made, so that now
an ancient, honest-looking, decrepit
violin is prima facie evidence of glaring
and outrageous fraud. There is milk in
the water of commerce and sugar in the
sand the grocer sells. We have rigors
where we used to have chills. "Old
Subscriber" is usually man who Dor
rows the paper from neighbor or reads
the copy pasted up on the bulletin
board; Constant Reader" never reads
anything in all his life save the pictures
on circus poster, and Taxpayer is the
signature of tramp. A struggling
genius writes poem with a soul of fire
that lives forever and day and dies in
tears and loneliness and poverty in hall
bedroom fifth floor back. The Queen
writes book that no living man outside
the Guelph family and the proof reader
could be hired to read, and has pie three
times a day, owns four dogs and has
India shawls to give to the flood sufferers.
-BURDETTE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
Has the Earth a Ring?

There are all kinds of rings in the
business and political world, but the
greatest ring of all is the one which
some astronomers say is forming outside
the atmosphere of the earth. There are
people who gravely maintain that the
extraordinary sunsets and sunshines
which have been noticed for months are
due to the formation of ring or rings
around our earth, similar to those re-
vealed with the telescope encircling the
planet Saturn. No scientist of note has
dared, as yet, to seriously consider this
theory, but these sunsets are, neverthe-
less, as great mystery as ever. That
they are due to moisture in the atmos-
phere, or to dust hurled up into the air
at the volcanic eruptions last summer in
Java, is now discredited. A lady has
yentured the surmise that the red SUM-
sets are due TO an effect on the part of
the sun to adjust itself to the new stand
ard time, but, of course, this is a joke.
1t is clear that there are more things in
heaven and earth, unexplained, than are
dreamed of, not only by the philosophy
but by the science of modern times.-
DenlOTests MontHIy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
Stephen Aliens Advice.

"Never be idle. If your hands can
not be usefully employed, attend to the
cultivation ofyour mind. Always speak
the truth. Make few promises. Live
up to your engagements. Keep your
own secrets if you have any. When you
speak to a person, look him in the face.
Good company and good conversation
are the very sinews of virtue. Good
character is above all things else. Your
character cannot be essentially injured
except by your own acts. If any one
speaks i'll of you, let your life be SO that
none will believe him. Drink no kind of
intoxicating liquors. Ever live, misfor-
tune excepted, within your income.
When YOU retire to bed, think over
what you have been doing during the
day. Make no haste to be rich. Small
and steady gains give competency with
tranquility of mind. Never play at any
game of chance. Avoid temptation
through fear you may not withstand 1t.
Earn money before you spend it. Never
run into debt unless you see way to
get out again. Never borrow unless
you cannot possibly avoid it. Do not
marry uatil you are able to support a
wife. Never speak evil of any one. Be
just before you are generous. Keep
yourself innocent if you would be happy.
Save when you are young to spend when
you are old. Read over the above max
inns at least once q week"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
The Bottom Sliding Down.

The Mississippi is said to be subject
to new danger. Its bottom is said to
be moving toward the Gulf of Mexico.
OF course not the bottom for the entire
length, but the ooze and mud for many
hundred miles is sliding down, as it
were, and making the river shallower at
its outlets. Should this continue, and
man be unable to control it, the river
would in time be confined, as banks
would be formed at its mouth. This
would make a great lake out of portions
of Louisiana and Texas. Of course new
outlets would be formed, but in the
meantime vast changes would occur in
the Mississippi Valley. Great cities
would be submerged. Lakes larger than
Superior or Ontario would cover regions
now occupied by farms and towns.
Still this need not concern the present
generation. 1t would take many hun
dreds, if not thousands of years to effect
these alterations, and then, perhaps.
mechanical science and human resources
may be so developed as to enable man to
overcome, or at least modify, the slow
operations of nature. 8
MoufHIly
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
The Star Fish and the Oyster.

The large internal capacity explains
the gluttony of which the star fish is
capable on occasions. The destructive.
ness of these yoracious pests has been
long recognized alike by naturalists and
fishermen, and many years ago the En-.
glish Admiralty Court laid penalties Oh
oyster fishers who did not destroy all
the star fish they drew up, ''because
that fish gets into the oysters when they
cape and sucks them out" Modern
science and observation have proved
that when the "star" concludes to have
oysters, scallops, or other mollusks fol-
dinner, having met his destined victim,
he treacherously embraces him, folding
all five arms about the unhappy victim
of his deadly caresses. Protruding his
strong, muscular ring about the mouth
of the stomach through the mouth, he
seizes the newly grown edge of the
shell called the ''nib" or chill" and
breaks it off in bits until an entrance is
made. The burglarious star forces into
the opening thus made the distensible
mouth of the stomach and seizes upon
the body of the oyster within, which he
at once begins to draw into his stomach.
AS the process goes on the stars stom-
ach is pushed farther and farther into
the shell of the oyster, until, if the lat
ter is especially large, the auxiliary
pouches are brought into requisition,
and by the time the large oyster is con-
sumed the star has practically turned
himself inside out. These pests have been
dredged up while engaged at dinner,
with the stomach hanging out half the
length of one of the arms. If put into
a bucket of salt water he will gradually
resume his normal condition, but if used
with any violence he will throw away his
dinner and draw in his stomach in
stantly,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
THE LAND BILL.
Union Soldiers who Want to Get 100 Acres
of Land Apiece Before the Dukes Get il.

- A@e-AAN.
A company of Onion veterans was Or
ganized in New York and mustered into
the Union Veteran Army. Col. George
n. Tibbles, the Commanders in. Chief,
said that the army had been organized
in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and other
States, and it was intended to include in
its ranks all ex-soldiers of the Union
armies who desired 20 join. The object
is to further the passage by Congress of
the Union Army bill, which provides
that preference shall be given in civil
service appointments to the soldiers;
that every soldier shall receive from the
Government a land warrant for 160
acres of public domain, and that soldiers
who suffered imprisonment shall have
pensions.
Commander TibbIes deprecated the
monopolzation of the public lands by
corporations, capitalists, foreign noble
men, and alien paupers. He said that
among the persons living in Europe,
Asia, and Africa who had seized great
territories in the United States to the
exclusion of the soldiers and citizens
were Sir George Reed, 100000 acres;
the Earl of Dunmore, 100000 acres; the
Earl OF DunraYen, 6O,UUO acres; the
Duke of Sutherland, 1000. 900 acres;
Phillips, Marshall & Co., 1900, 900 acres;
Sir W. Murphy, 100000 acres, and
Lord Diston, 100000 acres. Col.
Tibbles urged combined action by the
800, 900 Union veterans still living to Sc
cure the passage of the bill before Con-
gress.
Other speakers said that there was
enough land to give every Southern SOL
der home for himself and his posteri-
ty, in addition to providing for the
Union veterans.
The new company was mustered in as
Company A of the Fourth Regiment of
Union Veterans. William E. White was
elected Captain. Thirty thousand names
have already been signed to the petition
to Congress in favor of the pending bill.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
NEW YORK MARKET.

NEW 1OIsh mAnhEI.
The Wholesale New York market nuotation,
show:
BEANs-Prime, S4.20@s435; fair to good
So. 550$2. 60 per busheI-
BUTTER - New York sold at 34(036c. fol-
choice in pals, and 25928c. common TO good
Western Creamery sold at 33D34c., and the
common Western at 23025c.
CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 14@141zc; dc. fail
to good, 12913c.
EGas Quotations ranged from &c. for or
dinary to 2Sc. for New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
$3.7060$6.75; extra New York. 50. 50@$6.00.
HAY Shipping. 45@50c.; clover, 4O@50c.,
SALT Coo; straw, 50@55c.
HoPs-New York, 26@27c.; Eastern, 20@25ei
yearlings, lS(925c; Odds, % =
PETRoLEUM- Refined, 79s6; crude, 6Js@7skc
in bulk; in barrels 85sc; naphtha, 654c. in
shipping order. and IL 6012c. in cases.
PoRK-Clear back. $19.50@$2O.25; dressed
hogs, SO (0S}Sc.
Wheat Spring No. 8, $1O2@S1.O6; Mil
waukee, No. 2. $1.O5; amber, $1.32@$2. 40;
white, $l.O3@$1.1094.
CoRN-Ungraded Western Mixed 51@6Oc
Steamer Mixed, 5715@581fc. in elevator Gle.
delivered; No. 2, -053$4c. in elevator, CLIO
6219c, delivered White Southern. 60c. de-
livered.
RYE-State 74@7516c.
WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
XXX, 45G046c.; Xxx, 42@44c.; x, 42@43c. No.
l, 45047c. No. 2, 3S@40c. common, 336D35c.
New York and Western and X, 39@4515c
No l, 44G45c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
FLoUR-State family, 46O@$L 80; rye flour,
$350@S3.6O wheat, State, $-.-0$L 1616 =;
amber, $1.43; corn, yellow, SIC; mixed States
Gle.
PETROLEUM. Refined, 1896; crude go.
WooL-State and Western Xxx, 46@50c.; K,
47@4Sc.; medium, 50@5lc.; coarse, 45c.
BOSTON MARKET
FLOUR - From $3.O0@$325 for low and
medium, to $4.25@5.75 for choice Minnesota
Corn. 6419 06615c. for mixed and yellow.
BUTTER = Common, tic. CD20c. Vermont
dairy, 23@30c.; choice creamery, 30@36c
CHEESE-13GO1515c
BEANs-$4 000$4 so.
HAY-Choice, $15@$16.
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality, S. 5OG
$685. hogs, fair to good, $700@$7.20; best,
$7.45.
EAST LIBERTY. PENN.-Best CATTLE SC. ESQ
1878; medium to good, So. 250$6.O0; common
to fair, $5.00@$6.00: Hogs, Workers, Sc 500
$685. Philadelphias, $750@$7.S5. Sheep
$5.250S5.50.
WATERFOWL, MAss.-Cattle choice, g.
@$l0.25; extra, $800@$9.O0; first quality,
$7:00@$7;5O second quality, $5.OO@$650 i;
third quality, $4.00@$4.50. Sheep and lambs
wool sheep, $2.5O@$4.5O; extra, $4,000
$500; spring lambs, 5@6$4c.; Veal calves,
31ac@71ac. IA
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
What Made Him Hate Cards.

''No, it wasn't poker that made me
hate cards" said a man who had seer
better days, ''but a quiet game OF
seven-up. Shortly after the close of the
war my partner and myself had a nice
place in Philadelphia and were doing q
big business. We had habit whenever
business was slack of sitting down in
the Office and playing a game of old
sledge for the beer or cigars. [ used to
drink beer in those days, but L quit it
long ago. One day he and and man
who worked for us were playing game
for the cigars-three for quarter. 1t
was very close, and at the end of it I had
it in my power to give the game to
either of them. L thought my partner
could stand 1t better than the fellow who
was working on salary, and so [ stuck
him.
"Well, sir, he got mad and abused me
so that got mad and chucked the cards
into the stove. That made him madden
still, and before night we had dissolved
partnership, paying him a big bonus
to get out. Then he went-and rented q
place next door and started in opposi-
ton to me and we went to running each
other. He thought he could run me
out and 1 thought could run him out,
and we kept thinking so until we both
went broke. The sheriff sold me out
didn't even have the mermaid left. |
haven't played a card since that game in
Philadelphia. They're altogether too
expensive a luxury. st. Louis Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
PROTECTION FOR LABOR.
The New Jersey House of Assembly on I'm
pOrtatiOn of WOrEmen.

The following is the full text of the La
Dor Bill, which after heated discussion
passed the New Jersey Legislature by q
vote of 38 yeas to IL nays:
WHEREAS, The protective tariff of to-
day was enacted presumably to insure
high wages to the American mechanics
and protect them from competition with
the cheap and pauper labor of Europe;
and whereas certain capitalists in New
Jersey and other States, by means OF
their capital, have defeated the spirit
and intent of protective tariff by con-
tracing in Europe with laborers not
citizens of the United States, agreeing
to pay for term of years wages far be-
low that upon which our citizen laborers
live and educate their children, and thus
prepare them for the duties of citizen
ship; therefore byit.
ResOlUed, By the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey,
that we earnestly appeal to our Senators
and Representatives in Congres to labor
diligently and vote for the J as sage of
some such bill as that introd iced by
M. A. Foran, to prohibit the importation
or migration of foreigners and aliens
under contract or agreements to perform
labor in the United States; and be it
Resolved, That the Governor be re-
quested to forward copies of these resolu-
tons to our Senators and Representa-
tiyes in Congress.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
What Ruined Him.

One remarked that he had been ruined
in Wall street, another was busted il
oil, third was cleaned out on wheat
and so it went around to the old man
who slowly observed:
''GentIemen, the Quartermaster- Gen
eral of the army in 1868 busted me-"
GLOW ?" asked half dozen voices.
"Well, [ wanted to introduce cheese
as a ration, and brought such infu-
ences to bear that the Quartermastel
finally agreed to make contract with
me. / went to buying. cheese, of course,
and didn't stop until I had invested
every dollar could raise, and bought tC
the limit of my credit. 1t was all nice,
new cheese.
"Well ?"
"Wen, he wouldn't take pound of
it."
"Why ?"
"Because he wanted old cheese, you
you see: he wanted something which
could be driven right along with the
army, and thus save the cost OF trans
portation 70