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Evening journal., 1892-08-01
N. Y. Clothing House
Wilmington, Monday, August !, 1892.
Meetings For This Evening.

Washington Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
Delaware Lodge, Ind. Order Odd Fellows.
Herman Lodge, /. o. o. f.
Christine Encampment, l. o. o. f.
Minqua Tribe Improved Order Red Men.
Apollo Castle, Knights Golden Eagle.
Chosen Friends Castle, X. G. f.
Wilmington and Brandy'ne Council, GUAM.
Lady Franklin Home Communion.
Thomas A. Smyth Post, G.. A. Il.
Garfield Camp, Sons of Veterans.
Delaware Conclave, Heptasophs, S. W. NJ.
Temple Lodge, Order of Tonti.
Delaware Lodge. Shield of Honor.
Diamond State Encamp'nt, X. of st. ]. and NJ
Germania Encampment, X. Of st. ]. and NJ.
Camp 3, p. o. S. A.
Division No. 0. A. o. II.
Blue Rock Council, r. A.
Operative Plasterers Union.
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The exchanges Of the Wilmington banks a
the clearing house to-day were Total, SIS,
Gs2. AZ: balances, S2s, 1881.
Evening journal., 1892-08-01

Strictly one price and If dis
satisfied with your purchase
we will return your money.
Evening journal., 1892-08-01

Philadelphia Clearing House.
The exchanges Of the Philadelphia banks at
the clearing house to-day were; Clearings,
Ss,752G 600; Balances, Sl.6lS3i.
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New York Herald Forecasts.-The warm
waven in the West will probably move east
wardly and be felt considerably in this sec
ton tomorrow. The depression now in or
near the lake region may possibly cause local
rains on the Middle and East Atlantic coast
to-day as il advances eastward.
Evening journal., 1892-08-01
This Date in History-Aug. 1.

ilos-Columbus discovered the
Island Of Trinidad.
i5s9-Henry III Of France was
murdered by the fanatic
Jacques Clement.
i79S-Battlc of the Nile; Nell
son destroyed the French
fleet.
1sis-Maria Mitchell. astron-
omer, born in Nantucket,
Mass.
is33-Birthday of Senator Red
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[By Telegraph TO the Evening JournaLl
WAsuINGroN. Aug. Forecast till p. m.
Tuesday. For Delaware, Eastern Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland; showers this afternoon
or night, Fair Tuesday; slightly cooler by
Tuesday night; variable winds.
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N. Y. Clothing House.
316 Market Street.
MAX EPHRAIM.
wANASIAKER's.
Philadelphia, Monday, August l. 1892.

The weather to-day is likely
to be cloudy.
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Sussex county Prohibitionists are
organizing for the campaign.
Evening journal., 1892-08-01
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES.

FOR RECEIVER OF TAXES AND COUNTY
TREASURER.
JOHN T. DICKEY,
of Wilmington Hundred.
Evening journal., 1892-08-01

On Saturday, September II, the Repub-
Leans will nominate their Legislative
candidates
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14
A TOTAL ABSTINENCE MANUAL
The Catholic Church's Stand as to the Ap-
plieants for Lioenke.

plicants for License.
America has just issued manual on total
abstinence. Some of the greatest minds of
the Union has been employed for some time
upon it, notably Bishop Cotter, of Winona,
Mimi, and DR.. Conaty, of Springfield,
Mass The little book takes the form of
question and answer after the style of a
catechism. Among the good things in it is
Cardinal Manning's famous expression,
Temperance is good, but total ab-
stinence is better" and that of
st. Augustine, s'The man who gets drunk
does not commit sin; he becomes sin it
SELF" Gladstone is quoted as saying: 'Tn-
temperance brings more calamities on the
world than the three great historical
scourges, war, pestilence and famine, COM
bined,"
Statistics are used to prove the evil is in
creasing. Much stress is placed on the in
herited tendency of children OF
drunken parents to intemperance and
immortality generally. Attention is
called to the dangerous practice of treating.
The concluding chapters are devoted to
hygiene, the saloon and remedies for intem-
perance. The declaration of the third
plenary council is quoted to show the posi-
tion Of the Catholic Church on the subject:
''We call upon ali pastors to induce any of
their focks who may be engaged in the sale
of liquor, to abandon as soon as they can
the dangerous traffic, and to embrace more
becoming way of making living"
1t is expected to circulate the manual
among school children generally, but it is
especially interesting in Pittsburg just now
on account of the applications for license
now being fled.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14

foot channel all over the lakes. Thus the
largest lake carriers would be enabled to
navigate from Duluth, ''the Zenith CITY OF
the unsalted SEAS" to New Orleans, the
Horizon City of the Father of Waters
There would be continuous stretch of
over 200 miles of fresh water navigation,
the longest on earth. 1t would render pos
sible multitude of schemes which would
naturally be declared crazy ones. Think of
shipping a cargo of cotton direct from
Natchez to Buffalo, or boat load of copper
from Marquette to Galveston! Salt loaded
on ship st Saginaw might be unloaded at
Nashville or Wheeling or Sioux CITY, War
vessels stationed on the Mexican frontier
could hasten to repel an invasion at Sault
Ste. Marie, on the Canadian frontier
a Very Big Undertaking.
To accomplish all this would require the
removal of 2, 1872, 5SS, 800 cubic feet of earth,
not counting in the hills and hollows on the
route and counting out the present canal bed.
1t would necessitate the removal of hundreds
of large warehouses and manufactures built
upon the canal banks in Toledo, Defiance,
Troy Dayton, Hamilton and Cincinnati
In some places railroads have secured the
right of wav along the canal bank, and to
widen the channel the State would have to
fight a legal battle with them. Nearly
every foot of the way would have to be
bought, except in some of the large cities.
Here the State is supposed to own 80 feet on
each side of the canal However, it has
long been appropriated to private uses and
1t would take much litigation to recover q
good title.
As to the supply of water in the case of
the Ohio canal it is believed the natural
feeders tapped along the route would be
ample. The same streams and lakes
which furnished the supply when James A.
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expended upon it Ever since its construc-
tion, which commenced in 1887 and ended
in 1S42, it has been the second largest canal
in the United States, che Erie alone exceed
ing it. It extends from the heart of Toledo,
about six miles from the mouth of the Mau-
NEE river, to the heart of Cincinnati The
distance is pa miles The first part is 60
feet wide, feet deep and 66 miles long,
between Toledo and Junction, in
Paulding county. The next part, ia
miles, between Junction and Dayton,
is 8 feet deep, and so wide. The remaining
part, "a miles long, is 4 feet deep and 40
feet wide. The Ohio Canal is also about the
GAME average size.
Size of she Proposed Waterway.
The proposition for the new canal is that
it be 150 feet wide and 90 feet Deep The
proposed canal would therefore be about II
times as large as the present one 1t would
undoubtedly be the greatest canal in the
world, all points considered. The object in
making it Do deep is to keep in step with
the demands made upon Congress by the
Detroit Waterways Convention for 90
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the Nallionding to almost, If not entirely.
equal it. This would provide a splendid
outlet to the immense coal production there.
vessels would be enabled to float through
cleveland, Akron, Canal Fulton, Msssillon,
Canal Dover, New Philadelphia and hun
dred thriving villages, to Coshocton, where
the Waliionding leaves the parent water
| way. Then for 40 miles they would pass
| only coal mines and what might be coal
mines. Their cargoes would be handled
but once, and the ship, laden with fuel for
have plain sailing.
But what if Duluth and Chicago and a
hundred other cities should prefer coal from
Pennsylvania famous mines?
MI. Gears bill provides the way. The
canal would be enlarged to Dresden, where
the millions expended by the State on the
Muskingum, make it navigable to Marietta,
at its mouth. GAINESVILLE and McConnells-
vile would be the only large cities passed.
Vessels destined to Pittsburg would wind
past them, up the Ohio, passing Bellaire,
Wheeling. Steubenville, Wellsville and
East Liverpool to the Iron City. Cargoes
of wheat, -four, lumber or iron would be
brought, for they find a market in the East
Pittsburg could send her products straight
to the great lake ports, paying only the
small freights which have long been the
bane of the railroads which have to compete
with lake rates.
A Short Cut for Pittsburg
The proposition to sell or lease the minor
canals would also give an opportunity for
good waterway in and out Of Pittsburg. 1t
would be the improvement of the old bed
which runs from East Liverpool through
New Lisbon, Hanoverton, East Rochester,
Bayard. Minerva Malvern and Wavneshor
ough, joining the Ohio Canal at Bolivar, on
the line between Stark and Tuscarawas
counties. The distance by water between
Pittsburg snd Cleveland would be about 175
miles. Without this short cut it would be
425 miles or more The benefits to be de-
rived from such inland navigation are incal-
culable, and should Ohio once complete
what Mr. Gear has planned for her to do,
inland commerce viii receive such an i'm
petus as it never had before.
The enlarging of the Miami and Erie Canal
would entail by far the greater expense. |
The projectors of the bill estimate that two- |
thirds of the S2S 10000 would have to be
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leaving but six for the entire 107 miles be.
tween there and Cincinnati. 1t is the mos
tedious part of the whole canal for travel
ers For lake vessels it would be the hard
est part of the trip, although modern en-
gineering would reduce the number of lockl
by at least two-thirds. At Sault Ste. Marie
vessels are lowered and raised 20 feet at one
lock, and 1t is believed that similar lock,
would be practicable in Ohio, if water
enough can be gotten to ELL them
The water supply for the Ohio river rise
comes from Lewiston reservoir, a body
nearly round and about four miles in diane.
ter. 1t is in the northern part of Logan
county, and is one of the natural sources oi
the Miami river Having only six locks te
supply there is no question but that il
would be never-failing. The water from IL
carries canal boats through Troy, Piqua,
Dayton, Middletown and Hamilton. The
easiest navigation on the whole canal is the
part between Dayton and Cincinnati.
What was once the southern terminal of
the M. & e. Canal is now owned by Cincin-
natl, which purchased it for sewer purposes
Green scum and floating filth now have the
right of way and canal boats stop long be-
fore they reach the Ohio. The engineers
who have recently been looking over the
Ioutc Say Vic UcsG way Is w lOch Tie caual
into Mill creek, seven miles up from the
river.
Must Dredge the Ohio.
After having finally reached the Ohio,
Mr.. Gears elaborate scheme would seem to
have been carried out, and his hopes full
filled. They would be in the spring and
summer, but along about dog days, when
farmers are threshing wheat, the Ohio
rapidly subsidies. The floods with which
Cincinnati contends every spring are away
down in the Gulf of Mexico, and only
few feet of water is left. The Ohio is only
A to 6 feet in depth at Cincinnati in Sep
tember-the time when the great grain crop
of the West is on the move, and thus the
canal would be rendered useless at the very
time when wanted the most. The only way
to obviate the difficulty would be to dredge
a channel in the river which would always
be 20 feet in depth.
The probability of the passage of Mr..
Gears bill is much greater than would be
at first supposed. He is virtually
the Democratic leader of the SEN
ate, and would probably be backed
by his party in the House. Independent
of politics. the proposed improvements
would greatly benefit u counties, which
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oulred to complete the work, and every
ID VIII be made to get the measure
through this session of the Assembly so that
the surveyors may complete their work
during the coming summer The bill would
have been introduced last winter had it not
been Tor the great rush over Senatorial and
Congressional district matters
The part of the Ohio Canal tn he inn
proved is that between Cleveland and Dre,-
den, about 20 miles. Dresden is at the
head of navigation on the Muskinrum river
A vast amount of money has been spent in
making this river navigable, and with a few
hundred thousands more the LARGEST l.ke
carriers could twist around its MANY shoals
and bends. The canal part is a gentle slone
from the highwater TO the lake. A reservoir
perched up among the hills supplies water
for the raising and lowering of vessels. The
feeders to this reservoir are believed
TO be never-falling. The Walhond
ing, formerly the Mohican and Wal
honding, runs into the Ohio and is
by far the most picturesque of anv canal in
the State. 1t follows the valley of the Mo.
hicsn river around hills and across plains
to the famous Walhonding coal mines. It
was for this industry that it was built. The
narrow canal boats carried food and cloth
ing to the miners, who, save for the canal.
were isolated from the world. To reach
them the boatmen had to twist and turn in
all directions. The horses walked on path
of stone, in places hewn out of the solid
hIllsides
Opening Up Coal for the West.
This is one of the canals which Mr. Gear
the father of the bill, proposes to have sold
or leased and the proceeds expended on
making great arteries of commerce He be-
lieves that by making the Ohio Canal 20
feet deep private capital will soon bring
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Garfield followed the towpath are still
strong and abundant. But the Miami and
Erie Canal has to depend on reservoirs.
There are three of them, one for each of the
levels which have been established. The
first level is from Toledo to New
Bremen. ia miles; this is called
the Lake Erie rise. The ascent is 11S
feet, and to make it 49 locks are
required. Several of these, however,
are used to drop into valleys where the ad-
vantages of some navigable stream may be
utilized. This level is fed principally by
the St Mary's reservoir. Several streams
which flow into the Maumee at Defiance
ana Ft Wayne assist somewhat in helping
out, but the great volume of water comes
from the reservoir.
The Great St. Mary's Reservoir.
The latter is the largest artificial BODY of
water in the world. 1t is II miles long and
has an average width of miles. 1t is To-
Gated at the sources of the Little Wabash, st,
Mary and about dozen of smaller rivers
lne site was once vast swamp. The State
built big bank around it, allowed the
streams which came down from the high
land around to flow into it and retained the
natural rainfall as fast as it came. In this
manner an average depth of six feet was OBJ
tanned
Ine nrst level ends at New Bremen where
the summit level commences AT this point
the canal is 512 feet above the Ohio river
and llS feet above Lake Erie. A gorge or
canon l19 feet deep would allow the water
of Lake Erie to flow into the Ohio river
and the canal problem would then be for
ever settled. The gorge need extend no
further south than Lockington, at the
southern end of the summit level. This
hxes the length of the level at 23 miles 1t
has no locks, the south end being at the
same altitude of the north end. The water
supply is obtained from Laramie reservoir.
Inns is a. pool about two miles long
and half mile wide. There is considerable
question as to how long this reservoir
would w hold out when great ships drawing
70 feet of water passed through the locks at
the Southern end The reservoir is so I
small and ITS feeders are SO spasmodic that
i i is unsafe to depend upon them. Greater |
1ralns would be made upon the Laramie |
reservoir than any of the others because of
me great incline at Lockington.
Atthis village alone there are 43 locks,
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that a ship canal be constructed from Toledo
to Cincinnati by merely enlarging the pres
ent Miami and Erie Canal. The fact that
Ohio had another canal connecting the lake
and the Ohio river excited the jealousy of
the portions of the State through which it
passed, and the attempt died with its agita-
tion. To get around this the new bill pro-
vides that both canals shall be SO enlarged
that the largest lake vessels may navigate
them.
BY its provisions the State is to appro-
pirate SOS, 900, 900 for the canals. All the
other canals in the State-the Licking,
Walhonding, Wabash and Lake Erie,
Warren county, about three-fourths of the
Ohio and over a dozen short ones-are to be
sold to private corporations. If they can
not be sold at good figure the State is to
lease them. The fund thus raised goes into
that for the improvement of the two re-
naming canals
To Be Surveyed Next Summer.
It is estimated that five years will be re-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14
A Full Blood White With a Dark Skin.

NAsHvILLE, Feb. ia bill to be flee
in the Chancery Court of Rutherford
county was presented yesterday to Judge
Ridley, and he granted decree for an in.
junction. Joe Bartlow, who, the bill al.
leges, is of dark complexion, is the COM
plainant. He claims to be the son of K. C.
and Locke Barlow, white people, now de.
ceased, and claims to be full brother OF
Jack and Mary Barlow, who are white.
He alleges that by mere unaccountable
freak of nature he was born with dark
skin, but he was recognized by K. G. and
Locke Barlow as their lawful son, and was
treated IS a member of the family.
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ANUfAH'NIIIN|Nl|NNINIA|tIIE1iINbIFlN!!NMN

Sizes Of the Projected and Present Canals
alone have 4Imembers of the Legislature.
These, with a few friendly votes which
could be easily obtained. would send the
bill through whooping. The shallowness
of the Ohio in the autumn is the greatest
drawback, and if the project is failure,
this will be the main reason for it. A
second handling of the grain at Cincinnati
would perhaps be adopted.
The large map shows the ideal waterway
system connecting the great lakes with the
Ohio, Mississippi and the Gulf on the South
and the Atlantic sesboard via the Erie
Canal on the East The proposed canal
from Pittsburg to Erie and the Chesapeake
and Ohio outlet, with which readers of The
DISPATCH are familiar, are not shown on
the map.
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of this kind has long been sought in the
field of mechanics, railroading, bridge build
ing, ETC., etc. Constant attention and
great expense is entailed in efforts to keep
bolts and nuts frightened and many life
has been sacrificed through their becoming
loosened. The new loeknut is being put to
a practical test ON several Of the railroads
in and around Pittsburg, as well as at the
Homestead Steel Works, and so far they
have fully sustained the favorable opinion
one forms at first sight. Mr.. Bullion, one
of the inventors, is cousin of Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie and a manager in his Homestead
plant.
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PICKETs FIRED UPON.

Tennessee Soldiers Preparing for Further
Trouble With Miners.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 13.-A num-
Der OF drunken men, supposed to be miners,
fred upon the pickets of the State troops at
the Coal Creek convict camp. about 10
o'clock Thursday night. The Gatling gun
was turned on them, and two of them were
wounded.
Commander Anderson has telegraphed to
General Carnes. at Memphis, for more am
munition and arms Crowds of men are
seen among the hills in and around Coal
Creek, and the operator there predicts an
other attack soon.
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A Messiah Born at New Jerusalem

DUBUQUE, la, Feb. 13.-News comes
from Iron Hill, or 'fNew Jerusalem" /" as it
is called, in jackson county, that the Free
Methodists of that section have gone wild
over religious craze Revival meetings
are being held. The climax of excitement
wss reached when the announcement was
was made in 'sNew Jerusalem" that child
had been born which the promoters of the
meetings declared was none other than 4
second Messiah.
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STRIKING BACK AT THE cLAFLINa
Cincinnati Merchants, Acquitted OF Embei
element, Sue for Damages.

Ne1uent, sue TOT DamaGeS.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 13.-Charles s. Wealth
erby and w. E. Stevens, doing business as
Weatherby & Stevens, were arrested some
days ago at the instance of s. B. Clafin &
Co., of New York, on the charge of enbez-
tried before justice of the peace on. spe-
cifc charge of embezzlement of $40, 900.
1t was shown that Weatherby & Stevens
were agents for Claflin & Co. upon salary,
and at the termination of the agency there
was disagreement as to the state Of the ac-
count. The magistrate who heard the testi-
mony decided to-day that there had been no
embezzlement and dismissed the accused.
Now it is said they will bring suit against
Clafin g. Go. for damages.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14
WESTERN FLOUR FOR RUSSIA.
An Order From Philadeiphia's Mayor for
5000 Barrels Filled In Six Hours.

5000 Barrels Filled in Six Hours.
MINNEAPoLIs, Feb. 1S.-Mayor Stewart,
of Philadelphia, Chairman Of the Russian
Famine Relief Association, yesterday
placed an order with local milling COM
pany for 5000 barrels of flour, and the train
of 80 cars required to carry it left at 8
o'clock this afternoon.
The company turned out the -four in six
hours. The train was handsomely decor
ated and placarded and marked ''rush." 1t
will 60 from Chicago on fast time via the
Pennsylvania Railroad, arriving at Phila-
delphia February II, where it will be
loaded on the American Line steamer In
diana, which sails February 20. The vessel
will go direct to Russia and will sail under
the American flag.
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PROJECT ha.
turned up in the
shape of a bill
soon to be intro
duced in the Ohio
Senate whose OBJ
ject is to form a
continuous wa
terway from the
Mississippi river
to the ocean, via
the Ohio, Lake
Erie and the Erie
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14
A Pennsy Strike rha. May Spread.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 13-The strike of
the Panhandle machinists is still unsettled.
The men now declare that unless the COM
pany grants their demands every machinist
on the Pennsylvania system between In
dianapolis and Altoona, Pa, will be
called out.
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A NEW LOCK-NUT.
Two Homestead Men Discover What No
chanies Have Long Wanted.

The. illustration shows nut-1ock which
has just been patented by Messrs. Leo Bull
lion and David James, of Homestead, Pa
After the nut A is drawn into its proper
position on the bolt the split pin is in
serted through the slots in the nut and the
hole D in the bolt it Is impossible for the nut
to turn and become loosened. A safe nut
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14

Canal 1t is quite similar TO the scheme
sgitated in Ohio in 1887. 1t lacks, how
ever, some of the Objectionable features
then urged. AT that time it was proposed
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14

For any trace of antipyrine, morphine,
chloral or any other injurious compound in
Krause's Headache Capsules. All drug
gists. wFSSu
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No Candidate Against piax.

CRY OF MEXICO, Feb. 13.-Eighty news
papers are supporting President Diaz for re-
election. There is no other candidate