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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

DIR. B. F. LAUGHLIN, Glide, Kan, writes I:
" Samaritan NerpiRe cures fits"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

SPICER says that "The buzz saw dses
business with curious people in an off-hand
way."-N Y. Ne,cs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

Buchu-paiba." Quick, complete cure, ali
annoying Kidney and Urinary Diseases, 81.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

There is but one best color for butter, and
that that is Wells, Richardson & Co.'s I'm
proved Butter Color, no candid investi-
gator doubts. 1t is the best butter color in
the world; is free from sediment or i'm,
purity, always ready for instant use, and
it inparts to butter that rich dandelion
yellow, without tinge of red, which is the
acme of desirability in any butter color.
WHEN girl proposes and is refused she
can always explain to her friends tina,
she was Just having little leap-year fun
C}erelGnd Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

ELEVEN bit factories are at work in one
Connecticut town. This augers well for
Observation-Disclosures CoNier-JourRdL
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

"1ts worth 81 ,0o0," he was cured Of cholera
morbus by NIX. Browns Ess. Jam. Ginger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

Nor n costly medicine-25 doses Piso's
Cure for Consumption for % cents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

Mother Swans Worm Syrup" for few.
srishness, worms, cOnstpation, tasteless. 25c
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

Skinny Men. wells Health Remover" re-
: ORES health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, 81.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

A CHARITY BAwL--" Gimme ten cents ter
buy or loaf er bread with"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

WHY don't YOU use St. Patrck's Salye9 Try
It. GslIh 25c at all druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

A WOMAN who has plenty of her own
hair doesn't have to become a switch
tender.-DetrOit Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

If the eyes were really windows to the
heart, green goggles would become ex-
tremely fashionable. - Whitehall Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

A BAD man shows his bringing up when
he Is brought up by a policeman.-N. O.
PicdyuHe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

3" Rough on Corns." 15c. Ask for It, Com.
plete cure, hard or soft corns, warts, bunaons,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

REDDINGs Russia Salve is the most woudsrs
full healing medium in the world. Try it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

IT speaks well for Michigan that lect.
urer was allowed to attain the age Of one
Lance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09

Haie's Honey of 1orehound and Tar
Wards or the grip OF pneumonia. Pixies
toothache drops cure in one minute.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-09
My Visitor.

One day while it was raining very
hard heard knock at the bedroom
door
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08

BRUTAL TREATMENT
OF Prisoners Falsely Accused. i'm Order
that n Congressman Might Raise the
Wind.

OF Prisoners Falsely Accused. i'm Order
that n Congressman Might Raise the
wind.
WASHINGTON, February &c. B. Vie
gand testified to-day before the House
Committee on Expenditures in the De-
partment of Justice in relation TO the
novel method of securing the funds to
conduct a Congressional campaign. The
aspirant was Paul Strobridge, whom the
Senate failed to confirm for marshal of
Alabama while Turner was United States
marshal of that State. The witness said
that Strobridge asked to be appointed
deputy marshal, explaining that he
was anxious to make a canvass for Con-
gress. He secured the appointment, and
with number at assistants went through
the district making arrests, that fees
might be obtained to defray the expenses
of the campaign. Strobridge was defeated,
and came to Washington and contested
the seat. The examiner said many poor
men were arrested in Alabama by the
deputies on the charge of chopping wood
on public lands. These men were COM
PEELED to sell their small possessions to pay
the costs of trial, taken, in some instances,
more than 100 miles, and forced to go on
foot and then discharged, allowed to re-
turn home as best they could. Some who
were arrested died from want of food and
from exposure while walking to their
homes. Their families also suffered, hav
ing disposed of their means for acquiring
sustenance to pay the costs of trials
of arrested parties. Instances were
cited when the examiner, in in
vestigating the officeso OF government Off
cials, was threatened. n. A. Wilson, now
receiver of public money, had at one time
attempted to shoot him. In Covington
county, Ala, witness said there was
scarcely man who had not been arrested,
and he could not recall a single case
where the prisoner had been convicted.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08
WIRE WAITS.

Boston, February IA popular contri-
button has been started for the statue of Wendell
Phillips.
New York, February Mrs. Stratton,
widow of Tom Thumb, has applied to the mayor
for a license to open museum.
New York, February flames Gordon
Bennett, of the New York Herald, was elected
commodore of the New York Yacht Club to-day.
Paris, February THE Chamber OF
Deputies resolved to consider Gaudin's proposal
to establish system of official inspection of i'm
ported meats.
st. Louis, February 7.-Judell, Platt &
Moss, ladies' and gentlemen's furnishing goods,
40 40 North tlith street, were damaged about s4ooO
Bucharest, February THE residence
of Constantine Rosetti, a well-known journalist
and formerly Minister of the Interior, burned
with many valuable documents bearing on
history.
Galveston, February The first fence
cutting reported since fence-cutting was made n
felony is small pasture forty miles west of
Austin. Indications are that fifteen or twenty
mounted men were engaged in the outrage.
Hunters Point, l.. l., February An
persons arrested in connection with the trage-
dies and murderous assaults in the neighborbood
E 1S % @ ,ne be
lieve was the assassin in every case.
Galveston February ii. C. Wells, of
Lockport, n. Y, guest Of the St. George Hotel,
suieided by taking morphine last night He was
chant Of Lockport, but failed, and came to Texas
70 retrieve his fortunes.
Dayton, o., February Two burglars
entered the house of Samuel Norman, near Chill
licothe, Thursday night, and while ransacking it
one was shot dead by Norman. The other was af-
terward arrested. The dead mans name is Mar
tin Hendrick, desperate character, of st. Paris.
Mansfield, La, February THE Borden
case yesterday was the leading topic of converse
ton. The jury that convicted to-day demon
strated their doubt of sanity by signing petition
to the Governor recommending his immediate
pardon. 1t is understood the Attorney General
will also sign application for pardon.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08
HELENA, ARK.
No Cessation in the Rain-The Last Day
for the Payment of Taxes.

Special to the Appeal
HELENA, February There has not
been hardly ten minutes cessation in the
rain for the last thirty eight hours, and
that portion of the city situated in the low
grounds is flooded by the water from the
hills. The Midland railroad track at Lick
creek, ten miles from Helena, is under
water twelve feet, with the creek still ris-
ing. Fears are entertained of its seriously
damaging the road. Col. James B. Miles,
the conceded authority on the Mississippi
river for Helena, has predicted that the
river would be higher this year than it
was last. The levees surrounding Helena
are in fine condition, and we could stand
great deal more than last year; therefore,
the only trouble we anticipate will be in
the bottom on this and the Mississippi
side of the river.
The young negro who shot and cut him
self yesterday, died to-day.
Next Saturday is the last day for the
payment of taxes throughout the State,
hence the collectors offices are crowded
with dilatory taxpayers, who always put
off thing OF that kind until the very
last.
The development OF candidates has not
come up to the expectations of the average
citizen, who had expected ere this to feel
his warm and sympathetic grasp, blended
with his patent back-action, self-cocking
smiles However, there is hope that good
many fedglings will, upon little encour-
agement from the dear people, materialize
into full-blown candidates. One peculiar
feature of those aspiring to prominent
positions is their reticence about the tariff.
Most of them, though, quietly express
themselves as being for a tariff for revenue
only.
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And the Continuous Rains in the Wide
Area Of Country Between That
River and the Lakes
Is Swelling Its Tributaries and Those of
the Mississippi TO UnwOnted Pro-
portions.
A Long Chapter of Accidents-Cities
without Gas or Water and PatrOlled
By Policemen in Boats.
Relief Committees at Cincinnati, Pitts.
burg, Wheeling and Other Places
Relieving the Distressed.
NASHVILLE.
All LOWIands On the Cumberland Likely
TO be Flooded.

All LOwIands on the Cumberland Likely
TO be Flooded.
Special TO the Appeal
Ma :LLE, February THE prospects
are th i. all the lowlands on the Cumber-
land river will be flooded. A large number
of upper Cumberland ferryboats have
broken loose, and are floating down the
river. An immense amount of lumber is
floating down the stream, and large
amount of damage is reported above Nash
vile. Two hundred families have been
forced to abandon their homes. Lumber
men are preparing for the worst, and are
removing lumber to higher points. 1t Is
impossible to estimate the damage. The
drift is exceedingly heavy; logs and fence
rails are coming down by the thousands.
1t is thought the rise will equal that of
1882. By tomorrow morning the river
will be far above the Signal Service dam
ger line. A great deal of suffering is re-
ported along the river. Many cattle are
being reported drowned, and people are
compelled to leave their homes in canoes
Tennessee and Cumberland rivers have
been backed up 100 miles by the rise in the
Ohio river. The damage by the overflow
will, probably, reach more than 81 100000.
The worst is not vet.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08
WHEELING.
Heavy Damage by the Water-The ISL
and Overlooked.

and OVernOWed.
WHEELING, February THE river is
fifty-one feet, and rising. Great damage
was done here by water. The island is
overflowed as high as the houses in some
parts. The weather is cloudy and cool.
NOOn.-The river has reached lifty-six
feet, and has not yet ceased rising. There
was great distress during the night, and
the steamer Belle Prince has this morning
been engaged in taking families off the
island, where, however, many still re-
main. Skiffs have also done good work,
and many casualties have been reported,
but investigation shows slight foundation
for most OF them. Many heartrending in
stances of sick people imprisoned all night
amid the waste of water came to light this
morning. The Bellaire (O.) Goblet Works
caught fire this morning from lime slack
ing in the water, but the flames did little
harm. The scenes about this city are I'M
precedented within century, and there is
four feet more water than in the famous
flood of 1882. Two or three feet more is
expected. 1t is impossible at this hour to
give an estimate of the damage. Business
is nearly suspended.
==12 O'Clock p. M-River fifty-one feet six
inches, and rising slowly. The steamers
Belle, Prince and Princess have been busi
ly engaged in bringing people from the
island. More damage to property than
ever experienced before. The fair ground
is a total wreck, and three houses came
down from above. Weather cloudy and
cool. Ten thousand people are homeless
and unprovided for here. Fully $1,000
were driven from their homes by
the flood, but one-third of them are
comfortably quartered at the hotels,
boardinghouses, or with friends. The
public houses and churches are thrown
open and the people are housed and fed
there. The water reached its highest
point at 10 o'clock, when it was fifty-two
feet. Since that it has receded a few
inches. The City Board OF Public Works
will build bateaux, which are to be used
as free ferries across the inundated dis
tricts. Telephone communication with all
the suburbs is cut off. The water and
gas works gave out to-day and tonight
the city is in darkness and at the mercy OF
fire, if one should start. The streets of
half the city are navigable only in boats.
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moved out, and have taken many necessi-
ties which in 1888 they did not have time
to take, so suddenly were they run out.
The water has not come over the cutoff
fill yet, and the point is thus far safe. The
water, however, will be over before night,
and the point inundated. Most OF the
people have found homes. The Board of
Trade started relief measures this morn
ing, and sent out boat with provisions to
the submerged districts. But little suffer
ing is reported yet. Jeffersonville and
New Albany are waiting patiently their
inundation, but have suffered nothing as
vet from water.
IL O'Clock r. P.M-The river is still rising,
at the rate of half an inch per hour. The
canal gauge shows thirty-one feet four
inches of water. The weather turned
colder since noon and stopped raining till
night, when it began to drizzle. Everyone
seems hopeful that the flood will not be so
bad as in 1888. At o'clock this afternoon
water began coming over the cutoff fill
above the city, and at 8 o'clock the fill
gave way and that portion of the city,
known as ''The Point" is now covered
with twenty feet of water. The
people had all moved out and
nothing serious occurred nor is ap-
pretended. The whole river front
is now inundated from end TO end. only
small portions of New Albany and JEFF
fersonville are inundated. No serious
damage is reported. Several hundred peo-
pie are thrown out of employment by the
shutting down of factories.
The COurier-JourndPs Frankfort special
says that at o'clock the Kentucky river
was stationary with twenty-three feetin the
channel, and that the reports from above
show the river to be rising slightly, with
light rain.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08
CONGRESSIONAL.
Routine Business in the House and
Senase-BiIIs and RESOLUTIONS.


WASHINGTON, February 7.-House.-Mr.
Dockery, from the Committee on Ac-
counts, reported a resolution declaring
vacant the positions of stenograph-
ers of committees, and providing that
hereafter, on the request of the commit
tees, the Speaker employ a reporter at the
compensation fixed by the Committee on
Accounts. Adopted,
Mr.. Hammond introduced a bill to au-
thorize the withdrawal from from distillery
warehouses without taxation alcohol,
ether and spirits based on the manufac-
ture of drugs, medicine and other chemi-
GALS Referred.
The chairman OF the Agriculture Com
mittee reported resolution directing the
committee to inquire into the manufac-
ture and sale OF oleomargarine.
The House then proceeded to the con-
sideration of the resolution making the
rules of the Fortv-sixth Congress as
amended by this House the rules of the
Forty-eighth Congress until further orders
of the House.
Mr.. Weller, in vehement manner, ad-
vocated the amendment relating to the
printing OF bills and reports. In the course
of his brief remarks he managed to aim a
blow at the national banking system and
to condemn the action of the Republican
party in demonetizing silver, and express
a wish for Democratic success at the next
election, and to state that throughout the
country Randall was looked upon as the
friend of monopolies. This last remark
elected laughter, in which Randall good
humoredly joined, and contented himself
with replying he had lived long enough to
bear such misrepresentation.
Mr.. Belford offered an amendment
granting a clerk to every member of Con-
gress, not the chairman OF 4 committee
and raised laugh by asserting that a
member opposing it had not sense enough
to comprehend the bill, and he wanted tc
help him out by giving him clerk who
would illuminate him.
The amendment offered by Mr.. White
[Ky.] for a Woman Suffrage Committee
was lost by vote of 81 to 102. Itwas almost
party vote, the Democrats voting in the
negative.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08
THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI.
Fears Entertained of IA FIOOd-Prepar
ing for the Worst.


ing for the Worst
LITTLE Rock, February There has
been light rain all day. Arkansas river
rose six feet four inches since last night.
Advices from Desha and Chicot counties
are that another overflow OF the Missis
sippi is feared, and apprehension is felt
that Opossum Fork levee, now building,
cannot be finished in time to avert the
disaster, should the rise continue few
days longer. All railroads running out of
Little Rock are making schedule time, but
Manager Sibley, of the Memphis and Lit
tie Rock, fears that portion of the track
on the east end of his road may overflow
within ten days if the rains continue
above, and is preparing for line OF boats
on st. Francis river in that event.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08

The Mississippi River Convention ad-
journed sine die yesterday, after three days
of careful consideration of the work be-
fore It and the adoption of report that
summarizes the purposes for which it was
assembled and the desires of the people Of
the Mississippi Valley, whom its members
represented. The River Commission is
emphatically indorsed and its method OF
river improvement declared TO be beyond
the region of experiment and no longer
a question to be debated with per
sons like Leathers and Cowdon.
The unanimous action of the con-
vention, taken in connection with
the recent legislation of Congress, is con-
elusive OF the whole question, which is
thus removed from the domain of argu-
ment TO that of practical eNempiiReation.
The river and hSrbor bill will provide for
the continuance of the work after the
81 100000 recently appropriated has been
expended, and in few years the COM
IN, of the great valley will be tloated
without trouble from st. Paul to Eew
Orleans, and the dream OF the West thus
be realized
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08

AND now comes the Rev. Leonard
WoOlsey Bacon, and in a Unitarian pulpit
in Worcester, Mass, wearing, let US add,
the white surpliee OF that denomination
and declares emphaticaily, in referring by
way of illustration to the history of Jacob
and Esau, that ne consideres Jacob a
hypocrite and sneak, and Esau by nature
much the best type of man of the two,
and Rachel a designing, scheming, unjust
woman. DIR. Bacon, it is presumed, had
forgotten the genealogy given in the Cos
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08

From the New York Ecening Post we
learn that the author of The Bread Win-
,leys has written letter, which will appear
in the March Century, in which he says:
"My motive in withholding my name is
simple enough. l am engaged in bust
ness in which my standing would be Sc
riously compromised if it were known
that / had written a novel. / am sure
that my practical efficiency is not lessened
by this act, but l am equally sure that
could never recover from the injury il
would occasion even if known among my
own colleagues. For that positive reason,
and for the negative one that l do not
care for publicity, resolved to keep the
knowledge of my little venture in author
ship restricted to as small a circle as possi-
bile. Only two persons besides myself know
who wrote The Brad Winners"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08

THE statement which appeared in the
APPEAL Of yesterday, touching the insur-
ance of cotton, is susceptible OF con-
struction not intended, and which might
prove injurious TO many reputable mer-
chants if not corrected. The methods of
insurance therein explained are not gem
eral in Memphis. Full lines of insurance
are carried in nearly every instance for the
projection, not only of the planter
and the country merchant, but the
factor himself. Besides which there
is the advantage of immenss and
almost fire-proof warehouses and extra
precautions against possible fire by spon-
taneous combustion or any unlooked-for
cause. In no city in the country is the
cotton business so carefully managed
or are the rules of legitimate trading so
carefully observed. The strict and rigid
enforcement of these rules by the Cotton
and Merchants Exchanges is a guarantee
that strengthens the confidence of the
outside public in merchants who, against
unusual odds and many reverses, have
maintained the prestige of the place, and
have every year made steady gains upon
. large and diversified commerce.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08

The telegraph, in addition to increasing
doleful news from the Ohio river, brings
us the information that the Cumberland
is a raging torrent, carrying destruction to
the property along its banks and that ap-
prehensions are felt in Little Rock that
the Arkansas, too, may overflow its banks
and play havoc. 1t would seem from all
this that a flood in this region is immi-
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08

THE Republican party in South Caro-
lima is in a very bad way. A Columbia
correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle
says the death of Congressman Mackey
virtually leaves the Republican party in
that State without leader, all the former
prominent leaders Of the party having left
the State, and there is no man with ability
enough to take Mackey's place.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08
POMEROY, O.
Water Two Feet Below tho Flood of Last
Year.

PoMERoY, February AT s O'Clock to-
night the water was but two feet below
the flood of last year. Business houses on
Front street have an average of five feet
of water. There is six feet of water in the
of residences are flooded. Schools are
suspended. Court adjourned till Monday.
No mails for ten days. Damage will be
much less than last year.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08
} Jake MICKEY 5 pIace.

NOTHING ever uttered in either House
of Congress fell so fiat as the Outrage"
speeches of John Sherman and Billy Ma
hone. By common consent OF Republi-
cans as well as Democrats it has been
concluded that the investigation these
worthless proposed would be a campaign
of folly, fruitless of any results not already
given to the public by the press of the
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08

The growth of manufactures at the South
is marvellous, and in 1890 the people of
the whole country are going to be aston
ished at the totals. Now and then we
get figures to that effect that tax the Gre
dulity OF sanguine men. The most recent
example is furnished by the Charleston
Ne'rs and Courier, which shows that South
Carolina has increased her cotton spindles
in ten years 10 per cent, and doubled
her miscellaneous industries. While the
Piedmont region of Carolina is exception
ally prosperous, the progress made by that
State is an indication of what its neighbors
have dome
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-08

ME. HENRY MONTGOMERY justified his
election US a member OF the Taxing-Dis-
triet government by the introduction yes
terday of an ordinance to compel the
owners and lessees of the Theater to
building and provide substantial platforms
and stairways. Everybody who attends
the Theater-women especially-will
thank Mr. Montgomery for so thoughtful
and timely a measure of legislation. We
take it for granted that the Council will
pass this ordinance at its next session, and
that Mr.. Hadden will make it a special
care to see it enforced.