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trtry mao.o/proffciiy, without f* |e*l to lila aft, oocht to make a will. Thla may *PP*Ar to ba tmuttrtt* i * § « * » , * * let «* look at It, I / to laa taewheit, a fcrmer, a mechanic, or erea a laboftr, be baa yoma method of 4o4af bwiiieaaan4 tome plat) 4of action wbtoh haa marie him a mtooeaaful MUL Nawi/bedieapuddenly or without i will, hta wita, If hf ban ono, U nmt «*n* titled to adminiater opois hi* taUto, ae*t Ma tow, If of a**, ami >*xt hla father, and to on, The law proridea thai time adminbrtrntoi* muat cotiiwt ike pewmal property Into money and arttle. the aetata within eighteen montha, tmd when perwmal property la mentioned. It inehidte botmahold furniture and all otiier chattel*.

a man makea a will, ha ran a man of eaperienrr to art an

Me tmeutor ^ d l r e e t htm m what mailer toerafr up the eaUle, ami the mm* car* and prudence which the man haa eaereimd In apft||Otilath tttff the property can be efceretar by the e«eetitor in aettlioff up the affaire *f thf eeta|* and1 with Weil eiprnm, fof Urn will rait ofatato full inetnictlona

, and authority to eompromlae oinhna, to ael! real aetata and to Invert, where* aa the administrator, where there U uo will, maet apply to the HnrKgat* for leare to eempranalaa, and cannot mil mat aetata exeept to pay debt*

Them are the reaeona, when a man 4mtrm hie pmperty tofo to bin heira and where there are no Infente*

WUr*£man deeUee^hbproperty to go to otheHNt|M hla helm at law, then of eouree he cenroHier* it the* f o ~

' without a will A grrat many men, 1 and eapaetaHy former*, whom wirea

earn by hard drudgery tlteir Juat half of tfarf property which etanda in their traaband'e name* die without a will. The law unfortonataly dpeanot glre to a woman thua situated what ahe do* aervee, although people In general may

' think It dote. They mjiaha gate her , tbtrde, Ym, but let us \pok at what

they ere. Her right of dower la simply a right to the Income or eetimated in*

, 'enaee of o n * third of the real estate her husband tfcay own at hla death. The other heirs own the real estate eubjeet to her dower; now we Will say she haa

. no other property, oron ly ono or two thoueand dollars, not enough to buy | her bueband'e farm. The other hrim get dlsmtistled and want to aril the fkrm. t h e can not prerent them, as In |aw they have n right to, and they oommeooe a m»U in partition to ' dlrldo

* up the farm, Then what la done? l i e farm is sold Tor two third* of its mine , the costs of the milt and mle a m than taken out, and not one third of the remainder paid to the farmer's wife, but a sum which i* estimated will be the Income^f the one third dur­ing th* pmhabl* itfittirfti. lifr of thfc wjife,« % ' *

An iilwrtrutlon of tills Iu tiifuree will show that out of a $10,000 farm aha will get a comparatlfely small

i share. The farmer should make s wlU giving hla wife the income of at least one half of all his property during lw*r natural life, and give the a&eoutor prtwer to sell and invest ncta-half for

* her support W h o is entitled, farmer, t/i a lir log from your property in per*

r fo&oee to your wife 1 Without a will . shAdoeenotget it; with a will, prop* * erty eiacuted, she does get It, .,

Another case where wills should always be made la, whecs there am in* fsni helm. By the will, tKe teatatnr eppoinU a suitable )ierson aa guard isn of these infants, aad therebjfyivce the oapense of a eepamta application there* forj and when the man owns* mat aetata It hi eepertally important thiit n will directing the sale of eml estate the lAher tuars cannot convey without an

, etnensive pertitkMrsuit, or an a*pen * sitk application to the court, (and

epcf lal gmunda must be shown thereon) farlmre osell.

The su'|>»rsition of the age has much to do with people making, or father not making wills. People, it 4*cms* have an Idea that they must of neces-

« slty die the day after they mtike a will, end hence when they nblly Intend to asake a will put it off until too lste, and their p^ipeHy gom whefe they do not Intend it, oris eaten up with ox* panaen and crushed out by the t^rhln-ely of the law until it 4or* the Mrs no good, The same men who will in euro their lives, with the exfertaney of dmtb, will not make a will for fear

' <^dtathtend yet the latter Is otyn of equal importance with the o t b ^ L A gteat deal tyaa hren mid abt>ut the Tittgatlon over estates where thern am wills, if a careful examination wee made it would show that this litigation does not ari<w from the contents of the twill, bul from the manner of ft* exe* jrutloa, To avoid this litlgatioif, the

' knanshouW not go to his neighbor, be 'he biarksmlth wheelwright or carpen­ter, but to a man who by his <%luca*

^lon la capable to draw one, mid have it executed properly, The great error Ike In i*o|»l* employing blacksmiths to repair wilches, It requires more

1 knowledge of law tb draw a will than to conduct ii home lawsuit, end men should govern themselvrsaecordingly.

', And though It may coat a few dollars i to have It properly dime, It will often wive yobr wifo from being turned out

' <if home in her old imc, or your chil­dren, when infants fr<V> being robbed.

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t' Mr, Peter Cooper, who VVh. Ifth be came nlapty-twu yearn of age, and looked ae if he might reasonably fYpeet.to enjoy many more birthday anniversaries, claims with apparent justice/So be the oldest of our Inhabi­tant* born in this city. * The lienor is wq}l worth e iu l t ing over ;f6r,»althoHgh peonie from other states and oountriee $U * + " York a setiefeetory city to

, gmaoki j*» thorn who wore born hem fee* sprtoktad over the union and the world wjih wnarkable Industry and

1 generally,with saomrni TbatanaUve who remains here can enjoy

* honor, profit and length of days, been proved conclusively by Mr* gfcofar, who never found hlmealf too

poor to mve money or too rich to use his money judiciously, nor haa lie oyer allowed plenty of nkmey to cause him to mat in Idleneee or many busi­ness cams to make bim unmindful of the cares and needs o ( others. The secret of eternal youth is in demand everywhere. Mr. Co6pjr seem* to have proved that ft can bo found in a combination of industry and gener­osity.

Peter Cooper1 said to some of the many persons who called on him, that lie could not think o^one of his asso­ciates In boyhood who is still living, and he believed that he was the only one left. It wasthis ninety-third birth­day, and he held an informal reception that lasted through the greater part of the day, though he went out to attend the funeral of his personal friend, Mr. Dodge. • ,

In the evening he entertained a number of his rolntiree and friends at a dinner party at his haudsonpe resi» dencef No..0 Lexington avenue. The can! basket on ^ k hall table was orer* flowing with the cards of those who had come to pay their r^epecU during the day, and in hla parloafcrero flowers that had been sent aa birthday offer­ings—some of them from the pupils at the Cooper Institute. M|r. Cooper is not In aa good health as he has been accustomed to enjoy, aild; U obliged to guard himaelf as far aa possible even from the excitement of conversation; but he still attends personally to con­siderable bttiinasa.«-tt V. HeroM.

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nsUltHsminsiMtanUy ri4#4s4. WlUinfOTOK, Ill.t Feb. 1T,-J-The

gmateat calamity that ever befell this ooal fleld occurred at the old Diamond mine, four miles from. Braid wood, at about 1 :SU r. H. yesterday. At that hour the surface water from an old sink hole broke through and caused a gene­ral caving-ln of the shaft, in which sev­enty Ave men and One or two boys were at work, and sixty-nlno men and' one boy were drowned. The wiater flooded all parts of the mine instantly, and only three or forfeit of whole force eecaped. Aiming thfc lucky ones am'D. Mackey, the mine superinten­dent, tad David nklune*. The water quickly reached a\depth of sixteen feet in the mouth of thVehafty, m ten feet above the tojp of the\rooiiti in which the minora were work

The scenes which f̂btlojwed the acci­dent am ahneet- imlfscnbable. Men, wftmenjffluohildren were almost fran­tic with grief over the disaster which roblM them of those they held most dfmr.X^ne man is reported to have rushed into the mouth of the mine to save his little son* and neither father nor son returned.

The sink hole that broke through is at the identical spot whore the break occurred three years ago. It was after­ward Ailed up with soapetopof'The grotitid sutroundj^^ls level, sloughy prairie, and, bav^Hnneo been mined, was not of a soli4PHracter. Holm of that kindjupLjeoninion, and running veins of ^ i e r underneath often render them must dangerous and liable to Het-tlo at any moment. . * • Thomas Smith, one of the miner* at Work in the mliiles, gave his experience as follows "I wont into the mine about 0 o'clock, and made m y way at once to the 'west dip,* about one mile from the shaft., When I arrived at my lay out 1 we^t to work, after making some otwervationH on the strength of the roof, aa it is my custom to do. With I trie there was working sr man whose name I di * not know, About \ 1 o'clock we ate our dinner and had just begun to make n new insertion into the seam when the voice of the driver, Joe Keel-ay, was hoard not far away calling out that the - water was coming into the mine, I had been In the mino when It was flooded In 1S80, and en I knew of the danger thafrltib must run if we stopped to block up our coal, as some of the men did, and so we made for the shaft, a mile dlttanl* at the top of our speed, As yet 1 had teen no water, and I Wits just beginning to think I would get out *afe ami dry, when I hoard a, rushing sound of 'moving water, and in a few seconds a wavo of water about one and a half feet high came rushing around us, compelling us to retirp beforo.it to a place not far from where we started and, where an­other side gallery let! to the airnhnft. Hpurmd on by the belief that escape was almost impossible? wo ran as hard aa we could down the crooked paesage, bobbing up and down on the undula-, ting surface of the roadway. When &t were ajxmt tOO feet from the main shaft tlfe water again struck us and quickly *AJL to a depth of three feet, so high indeed that it was utterly im-poessble for us to make any speed. Near the alrsh'aft them are several places whom the nasaago dipped and then rose again, fof ming a pit between each rim of the roadway. tVhen we reached this place the water wee so high that we had .to iwim across thene holes, and in doing so we jammed our heads against the roof, Almost faint­ing from eahaustkm, we at last camo out at the s i r shaft and were helped up the stairs by willing hands. I forgot to say that wlien I was nearly up to the shaft I came across two boys who were swimming in the.same direction t was going. They cried out to me to help them, for they were .tired out; but I knew my only hope was in a rapid move, and so I was compelled to leave them behind to perish.1* Smith whs t ho'last man who ever came out, of the mine alive, and he was as happy a man as could b» found anywhere.

TheTRlver aad*Harber Hill.

* W(y»KI!«!Tok, Feb. 1 3 , - l u the bouse the committee on commerce reported a river and harbot1 bill, which was ordered printed and recommitted. The appropriationsaggregato|7,937,00C. It appropriates 19,445,000 for the improve­ment of the Mississippi tiver; Buffalo' knrhor, fao.noo; Ogdonshurg, #12,000; Oswego, #30,(W; Kast river and Hell Qate, #150,000; Baltimore harbor, #175,000; Uharlostown harbor, #100,-000; 8avauhah harbor, #150,000; OVeat Kanawha river, #100,000; Tennessee river* #100,000; S t John's river (La.), #100,000; Ohio riverf #800,000; Hay Lake channel (Mich.)f #150,000; Fox and Wisconsin river improvement^ #150,000; Missouri river, #450,000; Oolumbia cascades, Orefon f #115,000; Mobile bay, #100,000; Oalrmton bay, •100,00ft . . . r

A boy in Mobile^ Ala., burned down two buildings to win tWo bets aggre­gating #4 that there would be two Urea fat Che city before certain specified dattn . v. ; •

A lady In Norwich, Conn., ee.ee two years of age, has just begun to take leesdtn on the pianoforte, greatly to her own pleasure, however it jnay be with the other members of far household. •

Plundering the public os bonk offi­cers does not pay in New Jersey. Tho president and cashier of the late c i ty bank oftfersey City, were sentenced to statyf>ri*°n, the first for ten years and the other for five. . . . . . . .

It will bejrememttorcd that at (he hist session of congress the house peamd a bill abolishing taxes on bank capital and deposits and all stamp taxes. This wan amended in the aenate by reducing the tax on manufactured tobacco to eight cents per pound,cigars to #4 per hundred and otherwise changing the internal revenue laws relating to the manufacturing of and dealing in tobacco, I t now looks as though a bill embracing theee pro­visions would pass. If it does, the an­nual receipts of the government, it is (Btimated, will be reduced about #40,-000,000.

For nearly tw^iity-flrre f*m Frank Hess had been bell-ringer of St. U-borius* church, in St . . Louis, 'and he attained the age of seventy-four years. Recently there was a funeral at the church, aud huMriends told him that he was too feeble to toll the bell. But, believing that no^pne could do the work aa well as he, ne went up t o the belfry and rang, the knell* He did not oome back as promptly as usual, and a friend going wp found him dead.

The railroad commission received its first complaint, presented by a ladv, who alleged that the ticket seller of the New York Central dc Hudson River Railroad company, at Syracuse had arbitrarily refused to soil her a ticket, and by that means she was compelled

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IPERRIBLE FLOODS t s h o u M ** •* th* hospital instead of at ; I this place." ^

Hundreds of Families v Destitute. > r-v

Ldalevllle aad Ci scUas t l Under the Water., Damage* of Millions.

iHOUXAPOKUe, Ind., Feb. 1ft.—A special dispatch to the Nett$ from New Albany says the ri+er is rising half on inch per hour* that it rose Ave and a half inches latjt night, and that more water is coming. One hundred W i s e s have gone down. There are 5,000 peo­ple homeless, 1,200 houses having been washed away. The loss is over #1,000,-000,v If the threatened wiud and rain should come the damage will* be greater. Conjfrces, the Legislature, and the people are appealed J? for.ahL The distress is very great, and cannot bo overestimated, but there has been

loss of life. The water is now above the famous

Immediate relief is

to wait in the depot for an hour after [ the departure of thf train which she desired to take.

Treasurer QilftlUu Will order no more of the new Qvo-cent p(eces until the secretary of the treasury has passed upon the question of their further issue. The point is now raised that theee coins do not meot the require­ments of the law because their value is not designated on the reverse side. The impression is general that if tho coinage of these pieces is not discon­tinued they will at least be changed so as to comply with the law. The pieces are still being coined at the Philadelphia mint, and can be ob­tained in packages of twenty dollars. No more will be put in 'circulation through the sub treasury until all doubt in the matter has been set at rsst.

Tho genius who contributes a column of Albany gossip every day to the Boston Evening Star is still incognito, although the shrewdest assomblyman has resorted to every strategem known to%rrtreal his identity; Here is a speci­men brick; "Rumored—That the Al­bany assembly is about to declare all the people of the statq in contempt; that the republican minority has no one capable for a leader; that Speaker Chspin's advocacy of a bill damages its chances of passing; (hat Chairman Maiming of the state committee finds the Inborn of party boss so wearing that he in about to seek rest in Cuba; that Assemblyman? Hunt considers himself a statesman t that since the bank at Watertown of which he was a director, failed^ he has joined the cora-ioune; that the fttate machine of both parties iu New York is in n rickety condition: that William M. Thompson is the Wag of tho Albany assembly; that there are several bone hunters in both branches of the legislature at Albany; that they arc growing hoarse shouting reform; that they are liecoin-iug very hungry.*1' — • . ,

. MR& VAILE KILLS HERSKU.

Usspendeat ever tier mastMUsd's Trial aiis Takes Majrphlps.. •

St. Lome, Fob. 1«,— Early' yester­day morning Mrs. IL M. Vaile, the wife of the defendant in the star route trial, and liping at Independence, Mo., d icd\ inder circumstances that, while they were suppressed and kept from publicity as Ipng A possible by the re­latives of the deceased, now clrnrly in­dicate that she committed (luicide. Unusual interest will attach totheeaqe from the fact that the suicide is one of the results of the famous star route trial. Tha#Vailea occupied the finest house at Independence atod were con­sidered in remarkably happy circura* stances until the developments that culminated in VnileV being made party to a Government prosecution. His wife, who was considerably past middle age, felt the disgrace keenly, and orcr since the first trial has been, greatly depressed in spirits Several times she has thrown out hints in her conversation that now have a peculiar significance, although nothing was particularly thought of them at the time. * Since Mr. Vaile has been sum­moned to Washington for the present trjal she has been more than usually despondent, and for the past week was suffering With a severe attack of jaun­dice. This probably had Or good deal to do with her dej^ted condition. ^ On Wednesday evening she appeared to be in better spirits,and calling in a ser-' rant girl who bad been attending her in her sickness she gave her a valuable ring, jtatar in the day she took a bath And remarked to a friend who hap­pened to he at the house. "It's strange isn't it, that no matter how clean one is they always wash them again after' tBiiy are dead,?" Karly the following morning her heavy breathing atr tracted attention, and she was found to be in an unconscious condition. There was a box by hef bedfcido la­beled "morphine," and^it had been filled with one-eighth of a grain pills. It was empty, and she roust have taken about si* grains of the narcotic. A physician was at once sent for, but he arrived too late to do any good, and a short time after s|io died with­out regaining consciousness. An ac­tive effort was made by the fr iend to suppress any particulars that would point to suicide, and the Coroner was in fact, not notified until last evening, when it became apparent that the secret could n6 longer be held. In one of the drawers of a bureau in the bedroom a letter was fouud addreeaed to Mr. Vaile. It was sealed, jmd no one has thus far taken the liberty of opening it, although the contents would doubtlees throw light uppn the tragic affair. Mr. Vaile wiis tele­graphed to at Washington and is ex­pected to arrive to-morrow morning,

t when arrangements for the funeral will be

nearly three feet flood of 1«31 called for, . % ; > ' ; • ' • <

GufenWATl, Feb 1 6 . - T h e waters are falling. The dark cloud which ha* so long hung over the Ohio valley begins to show a silvefclining. Yes­terday and khday have been balmy and springlike, mitigating somewhat the sufferings of the afflicted people. Disquieting reports came from above, but it is not believed that the volume of water still pouring out from the upper tributaries can do more than check the rapid decline. As the waters recede they leave behind sorrowful ev­idences of ruin and desolation, the Kill extent of which cannot be revealed until the river is ogaih within its banks,

| Tho only bright feature of the situa­tion is the universal sympathy and vol­untary tenders of substantial aid. Yes­terday George W, Ghilds and Jay Gould each sent t l ,000 and to-day, amid rounds of applause, * despatch was read on Change from Drexel Mor­gan & Co., giving instructions to draw on them for $5,000. These are only samples o f hundreds of message* re­ceived. * j ••• •'-

Over $0,000 persons are being fed to­day by the Relief Committee in this city, The eases of iuffering are many. A meipber of the Relief Committee was s e n t i o investigate tho case of a family Kving in a garret in Cherry alley. M* had to climb over the mofs of several houses to get there, and found eleven persons in the dark apartment, even suffering for want of pure air, half starved and half frozen, with only 6n,e bed in the room. Last night as three patrolmen were starting in a boat from Vine street to go over their patrol, which covered nearly the entire bottom from^Oefitrai avenue to the Little Miami depot, two young women appeared,and asked to be taken to their home in front street, near Plum. They were taken into the boat, but on arriving* at tho house there was found to bo ten feet of water on the first floor, and the second story win­dows were six feet above tho boat. There were no steps, and the patrol* men had to lift the girls up to the window while friends pulled them inside, • • j

The interests of the business men in the flooded districts ore carefully looked after by the patrol. Every sus­picious looking craft is stopped, and if its occupants arc unknown tq the pa­trol they are compelled to give au ac­count of themselves. The streets are well lighted, and there is actually less probability of thievery being attempted thau flurittg ordinary times. The Masonic relief boats are all out to-day, patrolling their vnriotis district*.. ,

The work of prpviding relief has become well organised, and it " doubtful lftherc is now much su ing from hunger or cold. The peopi howoveV, arc still huddled by the bun-dreds in churches and sohool-houses, and aomk of them are sick from the long exposure.,

Men and boys occupied sbmo rooms and women and girls and babies in arms tho others. The men and boys were lying in rows on blankets aud comforters. At each place a detail of soldiers were on guard. Some of tho men have work during the day, but most of them have been robbed of em­ploy ineiit as well as of their homes.*"

Women are giving birth to children in these public rooms, A case is re­ported of a birth and a death occurr­ing in the same school-room at the same houiv Physicians have tendered thfir senices free; the drug stores arc fuhiisbing free medicine, ani ladies of social standing hare spent wttole days in nursing the sick. The s^oes in any one of the schoolhousee are repeated in all the W school-houses now oc­cupied by tlie homeless people, and in the churches, which have been put to the same use. At the Seventh District School-house last night: Sergt Ames and his detail of State Militia housed, and fed 300 of the sufferers. The sec-ond story rooms were thrown open, and while not more than half of the lodgers wero provided with cots, the others were given a blanket of two and stretched themselvea upon the floor. The men made pillows of their coats and the women used theirIduvwls,

Vflave they had all the provisions they needed?'* nskedtbe reporter of Sergt Ames who is in charge.

"Ye*, the food urns late in coming, j*ester<iay. but a lady across the street sent a fine roast of beef, and the pro­prietor of St. Clair House sent down roast pojjk and bean*. This with what bread and'coffee w*e had, answered very nicely until our apportionment of provisions arrived from relief head­quarters. Only tho women and chil­dren remain here during the day. The men go away and don't return until night We feed about 150 at each meal." ; . * V '''•' >

"Do you supply outside parties with food and clothingr 4

' •"No.: W e vnpuld have toTrob our-eelves to do that** W e send all appli­cants for supplies to Seventh and Mound streets, where there is a branch supply houses for this district' I un-derstabd they relieved over 100 families there to-day. The destitute of this district who still remain in the inun­dated housq are reached by supply boats. Many would rather risk their lives by remaining in their water-soaked houses than oome here Hud pass the night with a promiscuous crowd. Then, many Who are here to-night will g o back to their homes in skiffs to­morrow and remain until n i g h t By this constant changing nine out of ten hav? contracted severe oolds, and a few

A good manjr email buildings have fallen down; In Newport, buildings, the smalt homes of industrious work­ing men, have floated away. A float­ing house near Fern Bank was drawn into still water by some men in a yawl, when to their surprise, they found everything still iu good order on the inside and a baby sleeping in its crib. No one knows where the house came from. The fear is expressed that the foundations of larger buildings have been injured, which will make neces­sary their being torn tfown.

The water-works wero constructed ou the supposition that the mark of 1832 was the highest possible point the water could ever reach and the big Shields engine was built just above that line. A flat-boat containing coal and kindling was drawn up in front'of the water-works and as soon as the water fell below the furnace grates, firm were built and the Shields engine was started. In about half an hour, the engine, which behaved badly at first, settled down to work and now a flood of water is being forced up into the Thircf-street rieervoir.

The news that the pumps have started has brought untold relief. The reservoirs were down to 80,000,000 gallons, which was a short three days1

sapply, under the most favorable cir-cumstances, and a stubborn fire would have required a large proportion of that small amount ^ ^ j L night all the fire engines, except one that was placed early in the week upon a floating raft to guard the submerged district, were taken to the fire-plugs, near the water's edge, and an s^tem^ was made to re­verse the usual process, and pumping water from the river, force it through theee plugs and connecting pipes to the town reeervoir. The strain was very heavy upon the fire engines, but they accomplished something toward recov­ering the supply which had been drawn off day by day, These engines are still at work, and will continue pumping until it is certain that the water-works are once more equal to the emergency. There must tie a further fall of three and one-half feet before operations can be resumed qt the gas* works. Last night oil-lamps were placed in the gas-lamps in the princi­pal streets, and light was further af­forded by the placing of candle* and lamps In the windows of residences.

The crowds which have been drawn to the water's edge through furiosity are not seen in large numbers to-day, although the river i* still higher than it has been in century. They speak of it aa having fallen so low as to be without interest

The real danger to property will come, it is feared, when the waters re­cede. Many persons have put their goods in the top stories of Iheir build­ings, and when the flood subsides the buildings may be crushed by the heavy weight ' A cold snap is much dreaded for should the water freeze, breaking the ice, it is feared, would crush many buildings, and the lorn would be many millions of dollars* A high wind is also muchdearded, and upon, the absence of these unfavor­able conditions depends the saving of propertv* V * ;

Malicious uirsons hate been cutting the cables j^hich hold houses and other property in Pendleton. A police force has been put on guard, with orders to shoot anv.ono caught in the act. * The railroads havo not suffered so severely as migfit have been expected. The Little Miami announces a partial resumption to-day. The Cincinnati Southern and the Cincinnati Northern are tho only roads that run trains with­out" transfers or using other tracks. The Louisville and Nashville (Short line) is still running its daily morning trains and takes on passengers and freight on the bridge. Trains arrive daily from the South. The Bee line arrives and departs from the stock" yurds. The New,. York, Pittsburgh and Ohio resumed operation today. The Ohio and Mississippi makes con­nection by steamer at Aurora. * The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis road runs through express trains from the Marietta Stock Yard station. The Marietta andCiucinnati Railroad is running ^trains regularly leaving the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton depot ..\ .j

In Cumminsville, a Cincinnati suburb, five hundred pianos have been rnnnied. In Newport the loss from this source alone is estimated at over •soiooo.

At Lawrenceburg, Ind., more than 5,000 persons have'beeu driven from their homes, with nothing but the clothes they wore. More* than 200 houses have .been overturned, and many swept entirety away. The loss will reach fully 1500,000, and hundreds of poor persons are perfectly destitute, losing everything they' possessed. Last, night one end of the furniture /ware-rooms of K. B. Dobel fell in with a J crash, carrying all the floors with i t About thirty persons were m the upper stories, and altbeugh they went down with tho crumbling building not a life was lost Th* warerooms Were four stories high, 100 feet front, and stored with $20,000 worth of furniture. Tho loss will be almost total. THe market house was filled with $10,000 worth of furniture, am} it and its contents were swept away. The losses of stone xorks and various manufacturing establish­ments will aggregate many thousands of dollars. About on^fourth of an acre of ground is all that is -visible in the two towns.

Chairman Ingalls of the Cincinnati Relief Committee announced to-day that the city had appropriated $75,000 for the relief of the flood sufferers, and that $50,000 had been donated by in dividual* for the samo purpose, mak­ing a total of $129,000. He also said that there were 5,000 destitute families in Cincinnati, and that the committee could use about $500,000. **,,

l2CbtAHAPOU8v--Capt. praden, * a m e n r a of the legislature, and one of iteflaod relief oommltteo, has just re­turned from Lawrenceburg. He re­ports that there are 331 refugees, mostly women ibd children, in the court bouse there all suffering for food; many of them actully In the last stages of starvation, and many more miserable with sickness and cold. The severe weather yesterday brought ad­ditional pangs of suffering to them.

With but few exceptions they have slept upon the bare floor there five nights. The atmosphere waa foul from their having doeed doors and windows to keep the Cold blasts o u t 8everal deaths have occurred among &*>*« and they were obliged to thru w the

deed bodies out of the windows into the flood. Tbr*ro are several cases of pneu­monia and scarlet fever, Five wo­men have given premature Slrths since they were obliged to seek refuge m the court house.

He found that the force of the flood there has been so terrific as to have torn away hundreds of houses, and in every ptreetsthc current is running 25 feet deep, and eight to ten miles an hour. In every house placed above the general level of the town, scores of people are Middled together.

THE RIVKin^lLLED WITH HOC8tS. He says that out in the Ohio he saw,

* In one hour fully a hundred whole houses go flying past, rolling, turning and pitching like autumn leaves'in a mountain brook.*1

• l4If these people are not soon re­moved,'* he says "nine-tenths of them will be lost/'

LotiBViLUC, Ky.< is flooded with water. Over 1,000 houses are uadef water and many lives have been lost

The scene is awful and the suffering great Eight thousand people have been driven from their homes. A square mile of territory in the city limits is under water.

Boat riding in the street* of Cincin­nati is one of the novelties of the season.

CAIRO, III., February 1$.—The river measures 45 feet .8 inches, and is rising rapidly, Only lacking 8 feet 5 inches of being as high as last year. No ser* ious damage is apprehended from the overflow, unless a heavy rise oomee from the Mississippi. The weather is fair and warm. The Wabash and S t Louies Narrow Gauge Railroads have suspended business on account of tbeir tracks being overflowed.

J . XX v> »4t W MAIN STF&E?, GfcUVERSEUR,'?! . Y.

Great Closing Out Sale of Winter Goods, Wolf Robes, Bed Blan^ kets. Lumberman Blankets, Comfortables, Horse Blankets, Knit Jackets, Hoods, Nnbies, Leggrins, Wool Mittens, Men's Scarfs, Hand Baskets, School Bags, to be sold a t Cost to make room for Spring, Goods., v • '• ' . . • .••••• T. ;.. v •:'.'-.•,.•••'.••'.-.• •.•

NEW SPRING GOODS! Hamburg Edgings, Hamburg Insert ing-s, Fancy rhfess Buttons,

Lamberquin Fringe, Nottingham Curtain Laces* .••••• \ .-., • y * 3,000 yds Calicos 41-2 cents a'yard, and upwar4sw Best brands

of American Silks, Quality and Price gruaranteed/Kest brands of Foreign Black Dress Silks a t Bottom Prices. Finest linte of Dress Fabrics in the market, consisting of Jersey Cloths, Chudder Cloths, Black and Colored Velvets. In fact we have a very large and com­plete stock of Spring and Winter Goods which we will sell as low as any Dry Goods House in this county, j r\

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\ . Death of Eminent men.

. ALBANY, Feb. 17.—Gdorge Dawaon, the veteran journalist, died this morn­ing. *

I AKOTHBR EX-aOVERltott. CHICAGO, Feb. 17—Ex-Governor

Stephen Hemstead, of Iowa, died at Dubiftiye last eveniug of heart disease.

j * GORTSCHAKOFT. N I Q E , FRANCE, Feb. 17.—Gortscha-

koff, for fifty years a prominent Rus­sian statesman, is very low at a hotel here, where lie has tarried some time. His death is hourly expected.

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! The Newhall K * W Fire.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. , Feb., 17.—Mr. John Gilbert, the actor, will file papers in the circuit court hei% in a suit for damages to the amount of $85,000 against C. D. Nash aftd the Nbwhall House company. Gilbert lost his wife in the Newhall House Are and was nearly killed himself. ° A. number of other suits will be commenced a s soon as the grand jury completes its work. A city lawyer alleges that he knows of suits for damages, tbe claims of whieh will aggregate iu amount over $300,000, that will be commenced if the grapd jury indicts tho owners of the hotel. /

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I Tbe Blne^Laws.

The famous blue laws of Connecticut, about which so much is hdard, are as follows: They were enacted by the people of the "Dominion of New Hav­e n / ' and became known as the blue laws because they were printed on blue paper:

The governor and magistrates con­vened in goneral assembly age the su­preme power under God, of this in­dependent dominion. From the de­termination of the assembly no appeal shall be made.

No one shall be a free man or give a vote unless he is converted and a mem­ber of one of the ch^fches allowed in the dominion. • •.< .- ;

Each freeman shall swear by the blessed God to bear true allegiance to this dominion, and that Jesus is tbe only king. „ No- deserter from tho established worship' of this dominion shall be allowed to give a vote for electing, of magistrates or any officer.

No food or lodging shall be offered to a heretic. • . * •/•

N o one to cross a river oil the Sab­bath but authorized clergymen.

No one shall travel, rook victuals, make beds, sweep houses, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath day.

No one shall kiss his or her children on the Sabbath or on fasting days.

Tbe Sabbath day shall begin at sun­set Saturday,

Every * ratable person who refuses to pay his proportion to support the min­ister of town or }xiri*h, shall bo fined five pounds and live shillings every quarter. V

Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold, silver or bone laoe, above one shilling per yard, shall be presented by the grand jurors, and the selectmen shall tax the estate three, hundred pounds.

Whoever brings cards or dice into tbe dominion shall pay a;fine of five pound*. ' v , I

No one shall cat mmee-piei, dance, play cards or play any instrument of music except the drum, trumpet and jewsharp. ,

No gospel minister shall join people in marriage. The magistrate shall join them in marriage, as he may do it with loss scandal to Christ's church.

When parents refuse their children convenient marriages, the magistrate shall determine the point

Adultery shall be punished with de^th.

A map who strikes his wife shall be fined ten pounds. j .

A wonuui who strikes her husband shall be punished as the law directs.

No man shall court a maid in person or by letter without obtaining the con­sent of her parents; five pounds penal­ty for the firstWence, ten for theeec-ond, and fori the third imprisonment during the pleasure of the court.

. . V <St» j HOMAN BLOOD.^-On the purity add

vitality of the blood depend the vigor and health of the whole system. Dis­ease of various kinds is often only the sign that nature is trying to remove the disturbing cause. A remedy that gives life &nd vigor to the blood, erad­icates scrofula and other impurities from it, as Hood's 8arsaparilla un­doubtedly does, must be the means of preventing many diseases that would occur without its use. Sold by deal­ers.

Attetlea gale* the tataslfssd wishlag to go *«! , win stti st

psbtte snotloa, os t*s form of IteJ. Disks, oas hrf mlfctsatfaof UutsBew, on Tustdsy, t^y

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J. H. Rutherford's Cash Store, No. 28 Main Street, Gouvernenr, N.-YJ

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Is daily receiving s largo Uo* of

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FALL AND WINTER

CLOTHING

FINfc WOOLpS;

AND GEKTJT FFBNIMHING GOODS.

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Ready-Made Clothing

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IMMENSE BARGAINS !

Call sod exssMbo otir Goods tod get Wees before \ msldns your partes***. Remember everyUiiac New nod N o W in Clothing wUl be found st

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IMMENSE STOCK OF STOVES t o BE SEEN AT

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S a f e a n d Look Co.

S i T S E N D FOR CIRCULAR

THE; REASON WHY

W. K. SCDM, te *njn& TiMM vtd Organ* lower than any other ileaior l»* not only that lie buja tharn fur cwab but that be haa no Agent*, nor road men to par out of the low price be get*.

THE REASON W H Y • ' - . . - • . • • • , . . - • ; ' • -

He talk fetter InrtrumcnU tbtm tnoet other deal-er»,> that h e > bimaetf competent to teat them In every ̂ aspect, while nine-teiitbe of the dealers are utterly incompetent to tell a rood ltintrumeot from ao Inferior ooe. .

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The organ* he netti are toperior to and unlite all other*, ia becauee they are mad* to kit order and direction »y the belt maker in the troHo*,

E. P. Carpeitfir, Worcester, Mass, He aetla tho H e n r y F* HHller, W e k e r f anal o i a o r F t a a o a aad keepa on haod ail kind* of

f McawAL Mxacaijrpias, from a jewaharp to a fraud pUno^watth ft,400, aad aella both organ* aad plaaoa, when aeaired, oa awathlj iaatall-meata, or rent* them uatft aWaaat payt for them, aad oaatomers wOl readtfj perceive

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LATEST AJT0 Wt*1 fOE PUJfO TWUM KATIOHAX SCHOOL TO% PIANO.

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BOARDMAN & CUTTING'S , You will find all of th<? Latest Styles and Patterns, at • • • . . ' * . • > . - • ' • . - *

PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION ! W e have the l a t e s t aSfl^rtment en*r offered iu this or adjointog towns, apd

have bargni b« to offer. Also, a complete assortment of y ,

HARDWARE OF ALL K I N D i ! CROS8 CUT "SAWS. KILES, I X E S , LOia CUAtSH, AC. B E 8 U * E

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•-AS THE SPRING OPENS • - . ' * • • • . • . " v , " ; : . j - • ' - : • • " •• . ' • " • " • • • ' •

And Building Begins I: THE INQUIRY WILL ARISE,

WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE"

TO BUY WINDOW GLASS •i

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DRUG'Alto BOOK STOREl, . ' • • • • • . ' . • • • ' . , • ! • • • • \ : • • ' * • . - . • " . • • - • • • - .

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Ueavlost Stock.land Best ' Assortment cjf Window and Picture Glass ever broughjt into town r both single and Double tbic]^.

SPECIAL RATES I Given on Large Bills, and Builders who havfe Jobs oil hand will do well to get niy terms before sending away, as I can compete 'witp

Any House in: Northern New York 1+

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I H A V E ALSO A LARCiE A>T) VARIED ASSORTMENT OF

Picture Frames and Mouldings ' . • . ' " • . ' • ' • ' ' ' ' ! • ' . ' • ' ' • / • • • ' • ' " : ; - . • • ' • ' •

Together witli an Elegant Line of Steel En gravings, which are framed in the Best Style, and on Short Notice.

Bring your Picture here to be Frameo" an<)l i I guarantee your entire satisfaction.

Remember the place, Which you canfeasilV find by looking for. the name and numbe^ just below the window.

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* Proprietor of the Old Reliable Drug ancjl Book Store, 16 Main-st, Gourerneur, N. Y.

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