Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 24, 1881, Page 6

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY, APRIL 24,.1881—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. LABOR AND CAPITAL. weneral Strike of the Men Hired to Run the Street-Cars of St. Louis. Fraitless Attempts of the Man- agers of the Roads to Run Cars. flcbs Pelt the Cars with Mud and Rocks, and Obstruct the Tracks. The Sympathy of the Public with the Overworked and Underpaid Employes. A Deadlock Between the Striking Mold- ers and Employers at Cleve- land; O. No Change in the Situation of the Carpenters’ Strike in Cin- cinnati. Neneral Klovement Among the Workingmen Everywhere for Aore Pay. ST. LOUIS. Special Dispaich to Tue Chicago Tribune. St. Lovis, Ap! The genéral strike of the street-railroad employés was inaugurated this morning in real earnest. Considerable inconvenience to the public naturally result- ed, but the cause of the overworked men was so universally recogznized that nobody com- plained. There was trouble on all the lines save that of Franklin avenue, where the men were satistied with ‘both hours and wages, and refused to_join the movement. The managers of the Bellefontaine line ac- ceded 1o the demands of their men, and kept their cars running regularly. At an early hour this morning both sides of "Qlive, Pine, and Chestnut streets and Washington avenue, and all the cross streets were erowded with business-men walking down. Jokes and chaff of all kinds were frequent. The ladies stood on the door- steps and filled the windows, and as the pro- cession moved along bandkerchiefs were waved and greetings exchanged. Thestreets seemed 10 be alive with people, all interested in the movement. Occasionally a ‘car crept along, but the citizens refused to useit. In numerous instances men who were riding were callea off the cars by their _friends on the street, and joined the pedestrians. A great many ladies also came down from the West End, all walking. As the crowds passed by the car stables the strikers separated into lines on eitherside, took off their hats, and cheered and shouted Justily. An exciting scene occurred on Chestnut. street, between Fifth and Sixth, at 5:50 2. m. Car 24 had been run out from the Market sireet stables in charge of a driver engaged for this day only, and the_ little conduetor well known as * Unele Johnny.” Heisone of the oldest employés of the road, and the boys made no objection 1o his turning out. When the car reached the above-named place on the home trip bars of iron and rocks were found piled on the track and a large crowd had assembled. The driver asked the crowd to remove the obstruction, and was answered by shouts of Jaughter. Some fellow threw a stone which ‘broke in the front window. Another missile was thrown at the rear and struck *TUnele Johnny® in the head. "The laiter threw up his hands, and, exelaiming, “I give up,” stepped down from the car. The crowd or- dered the driver to unhiteh the horses and teke them back to the stable. He did so, Jeaving the car standing in the mid- dle of Chesmut street. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 people gathered together on Pine street, between Seventh and Fourth, to stop the Mound City & Gravois cars from running. There were none of tne strikers present, they being allin the convention at Turner-Hall. This was _ simply a popular demonstration. As the cars came in they were pelted with mud and sand, thrown off the track, and in several instances the windows were smashed in. The police ‘were notified, and Capt. Kenneth came to tne scene of the difliculty with a strong squad of police. The only way he could get the cars through was by putiing a cordon of po- lice about each one. The mob was in a very excitable condition. Car No. 24, of the Gravoi's line, which came at 12:15, had, as rough a time as any. The erowd threw it - off the track repeatedly, and so crowded upon and yelled at the niules that they would not pull. “The police had_been doing the driving, but here Capt. Kennett ordered thew to stop, After fificen winutes of hard fightine the car auuged to reach Sixth street. and was then deserted by the mob. Car No. 21, which followed, was of the Yel- Jow line, with @ cordon of police entirely surroundingit. 1t run the gauntletsto Eighth street and was there allowed to go. At 12:40 a_riotous demonstration occur, on the Ninth and Chestnut line, participated in to a considerable extent by boys. None of the strikers were present, orif they were they did not make themselves known. Two cars on the Union Depot line were stopped there and not permitted to go any further. Crowds gathered all around thewn. and began to push and litt with a view of turning the cars over. At the same time the boys began to hurlmud and macadam. There were several ladies 1 the cars, and they were hurried out as speedily as ble. The teams were changed and the cars took the back track. 1t was only by the liberal use ot the Jocust and some remarkably lively work that the police beat off the mob and got the ears v before they were thirown nto the gut- ter. The action of the mob was loudly cheered from the sidewalk, and the retreat- ing cars were followed for au block and pelted with stones mud. ‘The strikers are distributing circulars, of which the two following are samples: To th.e Public: Th rs arc run by “scabs and rats.” The drivers and conductors of the different street-raitroad lines of St. Louis bave resolved 10 be no lunrer slaves to corporations and monapolies. They ask you 10 aid them by every fuir means o accompiish their object: viz.: Twelve hours 1o constitute u duy's work, which {s surcly loug enough for any man to labor. You cin help them by a little self-sucri- fice on your part—uumely, by refusingjto ride on &ny car of any street raitrvad until our just de- mand that twelve hours shnlt constitute a day's work hus been complied with. Workingmen, help us in our just cuuse. To Conductors and Drivers: On Saturday morning, April 23, when you assembleat your varlous starting poiuts, be men. not slaves, and 1t s only u question of & very e tifl you sk, Remenibe 'y otner lubor union will buck ‘¢ as much interested in this Tight us vourselves. Be geulemen in every- thing you do. By .order of Exccutive Com- miuce. Tho following is a copv of advertisement inserted in the daily papers by the Presi- dents of the difierent rouds: T the Public: The demand made on us by parties assembied at_Turuer Hall, assuming to Tepresent tho employs of the street railrouds of our cty, ch nnot be acceded to by that if our men can re- ceive the proper - protection from our .city authorities we are prepured 1o operate our cars . Tegularly uad without interruption. Atthe afternoon sessionsof the meeting at Turner 11 nothing of importance transpired.’ "The men heard of the street-car managers’ detervination, and determined to stick out. At S o’ciock they proceeded on their parade, marching down Market street from Turner 1all to Fourth sireet, north on Fourth street 10 Washington ayenue, east to Fifth street, south to Cowrt-House, where the procession dispersed. It is extremely probable that no cars will'run to-night. The strikers ere not making any resistence, how- sver, all the interference cowing from out- side parties. - .CLEVELAND. 0. CLEVELAND, Apiil 25.—The Iron-Found- ers’ Association to-day determined under no circunstances to raise wages more than 10 yer cent above the March rates. The Mold- ers’ Ynion met this afternoon and positively . refused to accept less than 15 per centad- vance. They say they have money enough to hold out some time. The street-car strike is fading. cY Special Dispatch to The Chicaco Tribune. Quivey, Itl,, April 23.—Four’ blacksmith helpers at E. ML Miller & Co.’s carriage fac- tory, named Moore, Iluffman, Leithelm, and Powers, out on a strike, were paid off and discharged, and their places filled with new men. They threatened violence to uie ne‘l\; yés 1 continued at work, an §E‘l‘l)&l:;‘) fi\d’{hg:fiynrrusted and taken before Justice Mleirs, who to-day bound them over to answer to the Circuit Court for intimida- tion. JOLIET, ILL. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Jouier, [l April 23—The employés of the Water-Works Company, engaged in lay- ing pipesin the streets, to the number of about 100, struck for §2 per duy this after- noon. The pay has been SL50. A compro- mise at S1.75 offered by the workmen was re- fused by the Company. A TT. CINCINNATL, O., April 23.—The carpenters’ strike is complicated, some of the employers acceeding to the terms and others holding Some who contempiate building talk of postponing on_account of the increased cost. ‘The situation at present is unsettled and ‘somewhat embarrassing to bosses and builders. THE FIRE RECORD. AT COOPERSVILLE, MICH. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. GRAND Rarips, Mich., April 25.—A fire at Coopersville, Ottowa County; at 1 o’clock this morning, destroyed eight bulldings, in- cluding the following stores: Cleeland & Coles’ general store, K. D. McNaughton’s peneral store, 1L J. Hildreth’s hall and dwelling, Samuel W. Young's restaurant and grocery, 1. Russell’s barber-shop, ana Vanderven & Verplanck’s hardware store. ‘The total loss is from §25,000 to $30,000, and the insurance about $11,000. Cleeland & Coles lose $12,000 to $15,000, and have an in- surance of $4500. Vunderven & Verplanck lose 56,000, and have $2,900° insurance. The other losses range from S100 -to $2,000. Four - families lose ~their homes and most of their contents, The insurance was mostly in Holden & Aspinwall’s agency in this city. The fire is the worst ever suf- fered in that village, and is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. To the Western Assoclated Press. GRAND Rarips, Mich., April 25.—A fire ab Coopersville this morning destroyed five busi- ness houses. Total loss, $21,200; insurance, $8,500. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. GRAND HAVEN, Mich., April 23.—The fol- lowing buildings were destroyed by fire at Coopersville early this morning: The dwell- mg-house of O. F. Conklin, McNaughton’s store and exvress office, H. J. Hildretl’s, S. W. Young's, H. Russell’s barbershop, an ice- house contaimng thirty-tive cords of ice, Vanderven & Verplauck’s hardware store. Thefire originated in Cleeland & Cole's store, Amount of losses and insurance not learned at this writing. . AT BLUFFTON, IND. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. BLUFFTON, Ind., April 25.—A fire, origin- ated, it is supposed, by iucendiaries, de- stroyed J. E. McKendry & Co.’s stebles and storehouse connected with their stave estab- lishment. Three horses, numerous utensils, and valuable machinery were also con- sumed. Loss, §3,000 tly iusured. AT SALINAS, CAL. SALINAS, Cal., April 23.—The residence of 1. R. Ball, Mayor of this city, was burned last night. Mr. Ball was absent at the time of the fire. When the flames were subdued the bodies of Mrs. Bali and her two daugh- ters, lenrietta and Mary, were found in the ruins. Origin of the fire unknown. AT OGDEN, UTAIL Savr LAxe, Utah, April 23.—The Ogden, Vinegar Works were consumed by fire Thursday night. Loss on building, $13,000 insurance, 35,000, Loss on stock, SL600; surance, $600. AT SYRACUSE, Y. SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 23.—The salt mills and salt blocks of the Porter Manufacturing Company and the salt blocks of Martin Coo- ney wereburned this morning. Loss, $56,000; insurance, $40,000; AT DENTON, TEX. DEexNTON, Tex., April 23.—A fire here this morning burned an entire block on the west side of_the square, about twenty sinall build- ings. Loss about $40,000; jusurance light. TOWN BURNED. Sax Fraxcisco, April 23.—The Town of Greenville, Plumas County, burned to-day. Communication broken.. No particulars yet. SOUTH SIDE RAILWAY. The Employes Return the Compliment A meeting of the conductors and drivers fu the employ of the South Division Itailway Com- paoy wos held at 10 o'clock last evening fn Martine's Hali, No, 104 Twenty-second street. About 20 men were prescnt, and the mecting waus called to order by J. H. Jones. of the Cottuge Grove avenue line, and he was clected Chairman of the meeting. Mr. Edmunds was appointed doorkeeper. Frank Leonard, of the Cottage Grove line, made a few opening remarks, congratulnting his assoctates on the raise in wages. He thought they hud done right in asking for the raise, and felt that the Company bad puid thema great compliment by granting the petition. Almost all of the men had sigued it. A few bad refused 10 do 5o, but he did not believe any man should be atraid of his employer. us nothing could be guined by it, und a innn wou the respect of his employer by standing up and asking for hisdue. He tnought the letter of Mr. Holmes wasdvrit- ten in 2 manly, open style, and he was sure the men appreciated it. The abjeet of the meeting, 1o suid, was 1o return thuuks to_the Company, and he moved the appoinument of a comumittee of_five to draft suitable resolutions. ‘Thie motion was carried, and the Chiair appoint- ed us such committee Messrs. Leonard, Crosby, Hartwell, Foy, Dickens, and tho Chair. Mr. Brown, the barn boss at Twentieth streot, wus called upon for a specch. He was glad to see such ood feeling existiog among the men toward tlieir employers. He was sure the feel- ing was reciproeated on the part of the Com- pany. He had attended the mecting in the in- terests of bis burn men, and be could assure them that they appreciuted the raise as much ns couductors ana drivers. The spenker referred 10 the bad result of strikes, and suid he was xiad the South Side men had avoided one. Mr. Welch, Mr. Holines' private secretary, was then called upon. He said be wished to thank the men personally for the kindness they had shown him during the recent excitement. When the West Side inen had struck. he bad been authorized by the President and Dircctors of tho Compuny to post & notice of u raise, but, ns Mr. Holmes was awny, he did ot feel wilting to nke the responaibility upon himself. Finully Mr. Cobb ‘wrote the notices posted in the barns some time o, Mr. Holmes heard nothing of the strike until he saw a ogh 40 paper at Green River. Hebud theu teléZruphed on asking if therc was auy trouble, and been neswered that there was none. The speaker met him at Brighton Crossing _Friday morning with n schedule of wuges, and before he went home to breakfast be signed the mnotices ordering a Taise, and wrote the kindly letter 1o tho mien. He wus sure Mr. Holmes had the interests of his uen at heart. {Loud applause.] While waiting for the return of the Com- mittee remarks were made by William Dart, Mr. Hurnis, Mr. Conner, Mr. Collins, Mr. Wilieit, and others. They ult suld that in the future the Compuoy would bave the support of their em- ployés. A coilection was then taken up to de- 1ray hall expenses, etc., and the sum raised was 1 renerous one, ‘The Committee returned to the hall shortly after 11 o'clock. and submitted the followinse: _To C. B. Holmes, Exq.. Superintendent -of the Chicayo City Railicay Company: At n meeting held at No. 104 Twenty-second Street April 23 by tho employCs of tho Chicugw City Railway Com- pany, the Tollowing resolutions were passed: Hesolved, That we, the employés of the sald Chicago City Railway Company, do bercby ex- tend o you our beartfelt thunks for the cordial and genurous muuner in which our request for an advance of wuges has been received and granted; and, be it further Hesolved, That we proimise an honestand faith- ful performance of the duties of our several posi- zons, and that in the discharge of these duties ft sball be our constant endeavor to contribute all 1o our power toward advancing the welfare of the road, and promoting the interest of the Company, and in so domng we ask your assist- e Tesonations tmous| e resolutions were unanimously ado and it was decided to send a copy to Mr. Bofi;e!g.’ i The meeting then adjourned amid cheers. IXUNDATION. Graphic Description of the Sgenes Attending the Flood at Ver- milion, Dak. The Water in the Missouri Riv- ° er at Omaha Still Rising. A Targe Portion of Council Bluffs and the Towa Bottoms Sub- merged. Grave Fears Enterteined that the Sny Levee, Near Quincy, L., Will Break. Continued Destruction of Property by the Rock River Flood. The Waler in the Minnesota River at the Highest Slage Ever Known. A GRAPHIC RECITAL. Speciat Dispatch: to The Cliicago Tribune. ST. Pavr, Minn, April 23.—The Ploncer- Press publishes the story of A. B. Doggett, who has just returned from Southern Da- kota, and who was at Vermilion at the time the city was devastated by the flood. lle says: *‘On the 24th of March 1was stopping atthe Chandler Ilouse, in Vermilion, with six other traveling men. We had been ex- pecting high water, but did not look for the inundation that took place. On the night of the 24th, as were sitting in the hotel, one of the party went to the rear of the building, ise, stepped off the lle AT ONCE GAVE THE ALARM, and this was the first intimation we had that the flood was upon us. It was then about 9:30 o’clock at night, and parties who had been walking along the bank ran to the school-house and rang the bells to give the people warning of the impending danger. The water rose very rapidly, and all the boats that were available were used to res- cue people living in onestory houses in the lower part of the town. Parties living in two-story buildings remained in them two or three days until the flatboats were got ready, when they were also re- moved. Part of the town is builton the bluff. Probably one-third of the houses are located there. These are clhuefly residences, the business houses being in the lower part of the town. A good many merchants ANTICIPATING THE FLOOD had removed the goods from the first floors of their stores to the bluffs.. During the n three days the water rose very rapidly, the people were removed to places of safety on the bluff. On the fourth day the water was twelve feet deep in the main street of the town. It was indeed a Western Venice. We could run our boatinto the main entrance of the hotel, and land on the fourth or fifth stair of the flight leadingz to the second story. The rooms above were provided with sheet- iron stoves, and on these we did such cook- ing as was possible. The swollen river rushed by the town with resistless force. The streams were filled with immense cakes of ice, and these were thrown against small houses in the lower part, and demolished them as completely as though they had been BUILT OF STILAW. About 800 feet-of the railroad track was washed out. A lot of 1,000 cords of wood just'above the hotel wus carried away. The ice-house, platform of the depot, and the water-tank were all swept down the stream. The St. Charles Hotel, one of the lurgest buildings in the lower part of the town, was moved off its foundations, and a large num- ber of small houses were either demolished or taken. There was no loss of life in the town, but above and below Vermilion there were many cases of drowning. Many novel sights were witnessed. On _one in mense cake of icea boy was seen. The cuk gorged below the town and the boy was rescuced, and is now kept as -A LIVING RELIC of the terrible floods. ‘The river hascut a new chanuel on the Nebraska side, and whereas Vermilion before the flood was on the channel it s now two miles from it. There were no regular gorges at Vermilion when we lefl. 1 don’t suppose one could tell the amountof loss. The farmers through out that valley many of their familicsescaping with scarcely any clothing. There is an abimdant tield for the exercise of charity. The people on both the Nebraska and Dakota sides of the river are destitute and will have to be ‘T'he ice gorge below Vermilion was nificent sight. The great masses of ice were piled in many places as high as thirty feet, making a spectacle that . BAFFLES DISCRIPTION. Words would fuil to_adequately describe the seene from Elk. Point. The distauce from Elk Toint_west to the river is seven miles. ‘The river is a mile wide, and then it is two miles to the blutts from the west bank. All this vast stretel, ten miles in width, was overtiowed, and resembled a_great inland sea. When we arrived at Elk Point we found that it was a mere island. The water in the smaller streams was backing up, and there was a good deal of exciteent among the citzens. ~ Mayor Shief and Messrs. Beggs and Freeman had flatboats constructed, and started out crews in different sections of the overtlowved district to rescue the people, The farmers of this Valley of Misfortune, with their families, took refuse generally on the roofs of their hoj and hoisted a sheet or sowething of the as SIGNALS OF DISTRESS. The crews on the flatboats would see these signals, and would go outand bring in the victims of the floods. Conductor Wiber fre- quently ran his train out three or four miles, that bein far as it could &0 on account of the overflowed condition of the track, taking the erews and boats that distance, and then they would proceed to the rescue of the people on top of the flooded houses. With one exception I heard no authenticated reports of loss of “life i the overflowed dis tricts. But I think when the water subsides it will be found a good MANY PEOPLE PERISHED. < ‘The exception Lallude to was the case of 2 tramp who passed through the town and went out towards the river. Ile was seen to ro through a hole in the ice, and his body was allowed to lie out there, as it was thought that as long as there were living people to rescue, it was not neces: out after acorpse. One striking in Irecall. Two litle children, with scarcely any clothing on their poor little bodies, were taken off a root of a partly-submersed house and brouzht by the crew of a fiat- boat to the car which had been run out of Elk Point. The little things were nearly frozen when they were placed on the car, and their hands were so 5titf and benumbed that they could not hold anything. The passengers showed the little sufferers every attention.” . & ind ROCHELLE, TLL. z Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. RocHELLE, April 23.—The hizh water at Oregon, on the Chicago & Iowa Railroad, has stopped trains on that line, and the Illinois Central, Dubuque Divisions, are compelled to send their travel over some other route. Trains from Chicago to Rockford over this line are making regular trips, but somewhat late. The Sterling and Cedar Rapids passen- gers on the Chicago & Northwestern are run- ning regularly through here from Chicago to Dixon. -Wagon communieation is almost en- tirely suspended. Bridges are gone, and low lands covered in some places to the depth of several fect. The snow in places 15 yet three feet deep, and we do not expect any comuiu- ifiglt‘mn with the outer world for a week at STERLING, ILL. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. - STERLING. [1l,, April 23.—Rock River is falling slowly at this point, and present indi- cations are that it will be a week or two be- fore the factories can run again. The Key- stone and Novelty Manufacturing Companies have steam-power and are running, the latter night end day. The damage to the water- power hes been small, nmpleprécautions hav- ing been taken to proteet it. The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company have hun- dreds of men a$ work east and west of the city repairing the great destruction to the road-bed. Nearly a half-nnle of track in one place was washed out ‘from its bed and lay in the ditch near the fence. Super- intendent Hopkins and Trackmaster Kitel are on the ground pushing the work with ail their well-known enerzfu 1t is thought trains will be runping by Tuesday next, makme one week ‘we have been without trains over this road. . The Chicago, Burlin, ton & Quiney Railway from here to Rock Island 15 seriously damaed, and much of it still under water. It will be some time be- fore it can be put in runniriz order. It has il{rgeu the highest water ever known in Rock iver. OMAIIA, NEB. Spectat Dispatch to* The Chicago Tridbuzts Ostaniy, Neb.,, April 23.—The Missouri River has been rising very slowly to-day, not over two inches, and is now nearly station- ary. It is sixteen inches higher than the previous flood, and is twenty-three feet and four inches above low-water mark. Railroad travel continues to be interrupted. This afternoon communication between Omaha and the East was cut off, owing to the inabil- ity of “eastern trains to run up to the Union Pacific transfer depot, and no trains left for the East. The water has extended over a vast extent of territory on the lowa bottoms, opposit this city, and has in- vaded a farge vportion of Council Bluffs, so that several hundred houses have been vacated by occupants. The Union Pacifie began agaiu_to-day to move delayed east and west bound trains, they havins re- paired the washout at Elkhorn River. Three trains arrived from the i West, but the pas- sengers are unable to go Bast. They may get out to-morrow. All nails, baggaze, and express are more or less delayed. The present condition of affairs 1 last several days. Iligh waler is doing some considerable dam- age, but itis impossible to estimate it now. 1tis liable to do much moreas it falls. Farm- ers on lowa bottows for many miles south of Council Bluffs are being driven: from their houses, and are losing much of their perish- able property, and it is feared some human lives may be lost. The river isata stand at Sioux City. ST. PETER, MINN. Special Dispatch to Tie Chicago Tribune. ST. PAuL, April 23.—A St. Peter special to the Pioncer-Press says: The river is now up to hizh-water mark and rising as fastasever. ‘The St. Paul & Sioux City depot is surround- ed and only accessible by trestle-work built to-day, ‘The last train ran into the depot to- night until the water has gone down. About one-fourth of a mile of, the main track of the St Paul® & Sioux City Road has washed out. and apartof the track between the dopotand Spring Lake bridgze will go to-night, as it is now ub to the rails, ‘There is no damage to report excent that considerable wood aud hay i At Minnesota Falls the jce car- he large bridge over Minuesota he er is higher than ever known before, and is rapidly rist Other bridges in this vicinity have been carried away. At Le Sueur the river is now within twenty inches of high-water mark, and indicates the greatest flood ever witnessed here. The railroad track four miles above here is llwc.l out, and the Henderson bridge is in veril. Ti River. MANKATO, MINN. Special Dispctch to Fhe Chicago Tridune. St. Pavr, Minn., April 23.—A Mankato dispatch says: The Minnesota has risen two feet and five inches in the last twepty-four hours. It now lacks eight inches of reach- ing high-water mark. The road leading from West Mankato to Mankato proper is three feet under water. A rope has been stretehed across the bridge to keep the vast crowd off. Andrew Friend, living at Garden City, had a warehouse with 1,200 bushels of wheat carried away this nunl{ng.aml another one containing 5,000 bushels swung around into the stream, and itisexpected to go at any time. The Chicagzo, Milwaukee & St. Paul Company have been busy all day rip- rupping their track from the_ old depot in West Mankato to the head of Ilickory street, | efforts have proved futile, and the being rapidly washed away. WAUREGAN, ILL. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunés Wavkegax, L., April 23.—The recent high water has done more damage in Lake County than has been done before by any freshet since 1851, No less than six bridzes have been swept away on the Aux Plaines River within the borders,of this county, and mm:ly of those left standing are greatly dam- aged. L SERVICE. C., April 24.—1a. m.— For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee partly cloudy weather and oceasional rain in the southern portions, easterly veering to south- erly winds, lower barometer, stationary or higher temperature. For the Lake region, slightly warmer, fair weather, southerly winds and lower barom- eter. For the Upper Mississippi and Lower 3is- souri Valleys, southerly winds, fair weather, exeept po: 1y rain in the soathern portion, followed in the latter district by rising "'-k:g,_"v'"‘" the yelks of three ez rometer and ionary or higher tempera- wure, ‘The Missouri and Mississippi will con- tlntl_wl,lto rise and the Cumberland and Ohio to fall. ‘The chief signal officer furnishes the . fol- lowing special bulletin for the press: ‘The barometer is lowest and falling in the t on the North extreme Northwest, and highe: Curolina coast. Light rain has fallen since the last report ! in Tennessce, the South Atinntic, and the castern portion of the West Gulf States. rainfall of one inch and fifty-six hundi in eight hours Is reported from New Or- leans,” Elsewhere fair weather prevails. The temperature has risen from eight to fifteen degrees in the Northwest, The Missouri is seven [eet above the danger line at Omaba The - Mississippi _is five feet above the danger line at Cuiro, five teet and one inch at New Orleans, three feet five inches at Keokuk, and one foot at Warsaw. It is at the danger-line at Vicksburg and approach- ing it at Memphis. The Missouri is ata stand at Omala and the Mississippi contin- ues to rise slowly. The indications are that slightly warmer weather _will prevail in the Lower Lake region, in New the Middle lantic States du and prabably to souri and Aississippi will prubably continus to rise slowly LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. CHICAGO, AprTl 23—11:18 p. m. Bar. | Ther. | Hu | Wi, | Vel| 10| Weather 5 |8 1| W Gloar. 3 onr, 58S i Cenr. N IE 7). e, 7 4 |3 I3 49 |3. E. 4 Fiean barometer, Meun temperature, Mean hunildity, 4. Maxtmnm temperature, Gl Minimum temuerature, 46. OENERAL ONSERVATIO! CHIcaGo, April 2 Ther.| Tner, Stations. - | 28| 1zt Wind. (@l womer 0./ p.m. Albuny. i w BaRE: ESTHETIC COOKERY. The Last Lecture in Miss Cor- son’s Course Delivered Yesterday. Breaded Calves’ Liver, Mayonnaise Dressing, and Omelets Made to Order. ~ Evening Lecture to Wives and Daughe ters of Workingmen. Some Dishes Gommendable for Economy and for Savoriness. MISS CORSON. TITE SIXTH AND LAST OF THE COURSE of lussons on cookers was given by Miss Corson in Fairbank Hall yesterdny morniug, too ut- tendunce of ladies bolng much farger than on any previous day. ‘The first dish prepared was *CALVES' LIVER LARDED.” Said MissCorson: * Use tatsalt pork, as it is easier to lard with than pickled. For small birdsthe strips should be an inch and & half long and one-gixteenth of an inch thick; for chickens & quurter of an fnch thick; beef a la mode. half an fuch thick. These strips, called lardoons, are to be inserted in the surface of the liver with a larding-necdle. Wash the liver in cold water, and trim the loose pleces off, but not the skin proper. Lay it on a folded towel held in the hand, curve tho point of the necdle a little, take astitch in- the meat, work the necdle buck and forth two or threo times, fnsert the strip of park in the forked end of tho necdle and pull through, leaving half an inch or so cach side of the stitch. Dot the whole surfuce with this cullnury embroidery. Put the liver on a bed of a fow scraps of pork, a little carrot, turnip, and onfon in a baking-pan. In baking put a buttered paper over it until neariy done; then remove the paper, and let the lardoons brown.” The vewetables should be rubbed through a seive, and the drippings found in the bottow of tho pun used as a basls for BaUCe OF gTavy. IN MAKING ‘*TURBANS OF FIsIL,” she used flounders, though any fish would do. She cut tho ish_into tillets, which sue rolled around the end of oue of her fingers, catching the upper end with n brown stras. fier the turbans are rolled up,” shesaid, * you can stutl them, if you wis t,spread & teaspvonful of buttér over bottow of the pan. Senson with pepper and salt. Put tbem in the oven just long cnough to cook them so that they will begin to flake. They ure cooked in different wuys. Sometimes they ure breaded and rried.” Miss Corson then showed theclasshow tomake mayonnaisge dressing, which is used for chicken sulud, und tartar suuce, tne lutter bewny for the fish. * For a pint,” she said, ** use the yolx of one raw cge, o saltspooutul of salt, unless you ~ llke to have the taste of salt, In which c¢ase use u level teaspoouful; balf & saltspoonful of pepper, if you like it strony of pepper; if not, & quarter of a | sultapoouful; u dust of cayenne pepper—just as much as you would shake out of & bottle, shak- ing It once: a level teuspoonful of dry mustard; a teaspoonful of lemon-juice. which givesita nice taste, or vinegar if you huven’t the lemon. Mix these fngredients to u smooth puste, then begin to ndd sulud-oil and lemou-juiceor vinegar alternately, 4 tew drops at a time—bulf-a-dozen —until vou have u thick, smooth paste. Use in all toree gills of oil and four tablespoon- fuls of lemon juice or vinerar. Take cure to make the salud dressing in a cold place. It will sometimes curdle or breuk, the oil and vinegur separating, if it is too warm or if you add the | oll and viuegar unequally. If itsuddenly curdles first try to make it of the proper consistency by adding a very little vinegur—half a teaspoonful —und stir it.” 1€ that Isn't elfectual, putitina thoroughly cool piace, still unsuceessful, begin o 2 the curdied sauce, {mmng itin u tublespoonful ata time. That will generally bring it ail right. If you want vellow mayonnuise use the yolk, if white only the white of the exg. TO MAKE TAETAR sauce, mix with the mayonunaise a tablespoonful each of chopped green pickles, pursley, cupers, and n teaspoontul of choppod oniol This sauce was used with the turbans. Hol- lundaise no thicker than ‘cream wius a capital substitute for mayounngise on salads. *Instead of’ usingz plain vinegar that which comes on _cu- pers, epices, pickles, etc., can be used, the differ- ent vinegurs givl ¢ sauce aditferent tuvor.” ‘Therc was no reason why pennut or cotton-seed oil should not be used, If nice. A little piece ofy ment jelly—a couple ot teaspoontuls of stock boiled” until thick—could be added to the sauce to thicken it. Digressing a little, Miss Corson told how to make crumbs stick to smelts. * Have the smeits washed and dried,” she suid; *dip thom in llk, then in cracker-dust, then in beater exg, and azain in cracker-dust.” Iteturning to tho turban® she sald thoy were to be placed on the sauce, and the nayonnaise put on top of theni, not mixed with them. “FOR CHICKEN SALAD,” which wasnext on the bill of tare, * use equal quantities of chicken cut in smull pieces.—not cbopped fine, beeause if there was chopping nice ventor nice ronst pork inizht just as well be used; lettuce or celery. carefully washed be- fore being mixed with the chicken.” Two cup- fuls of cach would make cnough for six or ‘the and ns. eight ersons wherc other dishes were served. *Dress it with the phin French dressing. Put the salad in the centre of the dish, making it {nto a little meund, cover the surface with mayonnnise and decornte the outside with olives, eapers, pick- led beets, hard bofled or any of such things yon like.* Muyonaaise could bo kept a long time in n corked bottle or covered bowl. An ‘omolet soutlle” was the Inst dish. said Miss Corson, **mixed 1o a cream, with six taublespounfuls of powdered sugur, and one tablespoon- ful ot any fHavoring esscnce; and tho whites of six egRs beaten to a SUIT froth. Jix tho two' together very- gently, 8o that you don’t break duwn the whites—not muko them liquid; put them by the tablespoon- ful in the pan, which you may butter a little; dust them over the top with powdered sugur, and buke tho omlette about ten minutes fu o moderate oven. Buke it until ivis light browo allover, and then have It eaten as quickly as possibl ‘e omelet, when done, was passed around, and some of the Indies who tasted it, though they more than warmed their tongucs, pro- nounced it excelient. The othor dishes were also_nspected, and much admi 1f the pupils accompiish the samc results s the Teacher, the grown-up male members of many a family o Chicago may be in better humor next week than they have been since thoir courting duys. THE FREE LESSON. A TALK TO THE WIVES AND DAUGHTERS OF WORKINGMEN. The free lesson in the evening for the wives and daughters of workiogmen was attended by about 130, who were delighted. As muterial, Miss Corson had two pounds of perfectly lean meat, a couple of medium-sized carrots, a little butter, tlour, scasoning, about a quarter of a pound of sult pork, a pound of rice, and half & dozen apples. “Let ussee what we can make,” said Miss Corson. She first prepared “meat balls with Georgia boiled rice.”” A pound of meat was cut in slices about two inches wide and three or four inches long. *Season with salt and pepper. Put a smal piece of salt pork about two inches lony and balf an inch thick oo each piece, and roll it up. Put the rollsin the bottom of a saucepun or kettle with about o tablespoonful of mice meat drippings, or abouta tublespoonful of butter. Brown them all over. Then put a tablespoonful of tlour umong them,and stir them around. Cover them with bot wuter. Add a teaspoonful of sult und npinch of pepper. Put the rolls on the fire e thy vilf cook very slowly until they ure qu tender. Serve themn with the gravyin which thoy have been cooked, using with them boiled potatoes or rice.” ‘With the other pound of meat she made A “IHOME STEW,” cutting the beef Into slices and covering it with hot wuter, and then pulting in & currot cut _into fancy picces. These were stewed uutil tender. muk¢ 0 brown sauce or gravy without meat,” said 31iss Corson, *tuke u tablespuonful of perfectly sweet meat dripping or butter and a tublespoontul of tlour. Put the anucepan on the fire, und stir the butter und Hour until the butter melts snd Is _ smoothly mixed. Then put o o pint of boiling water, balf 2 cup full at a time, stirring until smoother. Let it boil two or three minutes. and then season with salt and pepper.” Tais was excetlent with baked potatoes und bread for children when moth wunted to give them u ligat but excecdingly. nutritious meul, b A very nice dish could be made of POLK TENDERLOIN. *“Cut it up,” she suid, * brown with a little fat like the beef, und cover It with water; cook it until about balf done, and then put withit in the summer-time green peas. or corn cut from. the cob, or string besns—almost uny vegetable which pand plentiful. Potates are very nice when you want o little more hearty me Season with sait and pepper. Suge I8~ alwa, nice with pork.” Rice was buited In the same way es the other day, the same result, of course, beini produced. —separate grains, s white as snow and dry. In preparing it Milunaise style sho first browned 1t with butter,—a teaspoonful to a cup. Drip- pings could be used. Theu she covered it with hot water, pouring in tho water glowly, season- Ing with ealt and pepper and onlon, and ‘letting it cook about twenty minut & She gave this recipe for cooklng SPICED RED OR WIlITE CABBAGE. “Cut it up,” she sald, **ns If you were golng to malke cold slaw. _Put in the bottom of u pot for 2 medium-sized cabbage ‘hall a teidcup- ful of vioegar, n heaping tablespoonful of any kind of sugar, o _teaspoonful of whole cloves, tenspoouful of wholc pepper, o table- spoontul of drippings or butter, and about 2 teaspounful of salt. Put the cabbago on top. and cover the pot tight. Zuke care that it doesn’t burn. Stir it once in about fifteen minutes to see that it doesn't stick to the bottom. It willbe donc ‘in about an hour. A flank steak Is very nice with catbago prepared in this way. Stuff the mesr, if you wish. roll it up, and brown it If “very lean. put some drippings in the bottom of the pau. Cover the wmeat with water, season with salt and pepper, and Jet it cook slowly until tender. When done. which it will be in about two hours, serve on a platter with tho spiced caobage.’ TUE DESSERT i was “ Apple black caps.” After peeling an coring ;:)'x’na apples she filled the centres with sugar, Any spice, however, could be ust “wpPutr a small piece of butter on each,” sbp said, *and plice them in the overyand let them buke until tender, but not broken. Then take them out and bincken the tops by putting them in front of a hot fire or holding & hot poker near them. This ended the bil? of fare. but Miss Corson gave a recipe for peasoup. ** Put tho peas.” she said, * in cold water, and when they begln to boil ndd & cupful of cold water every tifteen minutes until they arc done, which will be in about two hours. After they are tender put-in the seit,—not before, because it would prevent them from getting soft. Then rub thewm through a fine colander. Sumetimes a slice of onion is fried a light-brown in a tablespuonful of drippings, and the peas put on top. and then the water, the cooking to be finished in the way specitied. - Sometimes, -instead of onlon, sliced carrot i3 cooked with the peas und rubbed through the colander. Mix in u bowl for four or five quarts of soup, & spoonful of flour. until you bave a firm soft paste. Stir thls into the Soup, as it will permit settling. Serve the soup with little squaure pieces of broud Init. Fried bread is tnuch nicer thun tumsted, which whil becomes soft.”” The same recipes werc good for any kind of peas or beans. Tho turtle bean made an excellent soup, butq chopped boiled egq and two or three slices of lemon should be placed fn the soup turecn and tho soup poured over tnem. Miss Corson will remain in the city all of this week, giving lessons fn tho popular course every evening, and in the epicurean course every aft- ernoon. ESTHETIC COOKING. Some Novel Recipes by a Jan Who Can Vouch for Them. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cricaco, April 23.—Seriously esteeming it the duty of every scientific cook to aid in the noble work of instructing housekeepers in the artof preparing food palatably, and yet in 2 manner fitting it for easy digestion, Ihave the honorto submita few practical hints for the guidance of the ladies now un- dergoing instruction at Fairbank Hall. A lifelong study of the subject has con- vinced me of its importance. Cooking is not only a science, but a fine art, requiring years of time and an infinity of practice to reach its perfection. One reason of all the trouble caused by bad cooking, perhaps, is the obscure language in which professors of the urt couch their writ- ten teachings, and the perplexity thus bru- tally entailed upon the reader of even the best of recipes. For example, an esthetic student of mufiin architecture will be instructed somewhat as fotlows: *One cup of yeast, half a cupful of sugar, seventeen handsful of flour, rubbed up with a dash of salt and a sprinkle of salera- tus. Add threecups of milk and whip up with a spoon. Fill the rings, bake in a quick oven, and serve hot with butter.”” Now that seems as simple as three-card- monte, ana 1z Just is. A miserable victim of the cooking fever deliriously imagines that this straightforward statement is 2lmost too simple to be good, and starts in on the super- human task with her sleeves tucked up and asmile of blandest confidence. She. orders the cup of yeast, and Bridget returns from the corner grocel with the tin quart cup tull of a villainous mixture that looks like nitro-glycerine and smells like a brewery. Meanwhile she has measured out the sugar in her pet keramie, a coffee-cup, whose capacity is four-thimble power, and employed baby to measure some of the sev- enteen handsful of tlour,—the bnlance being hoisted in by scoops into the barrel by Briaget. Then ensues o powerful confer- ence_over the definition of *dash” and “sprinkle” as terms of mensuration in salt and saleratus. On the testimony of some family recollections by Bridget, two table- spoonsful of the former and & pinch of tha latter are decided to be the correct wrinkle, and then the ** rubbing up” goes on until every arm in the party is infested with acute rheumatism. The milk is then red out in the gquart cup, and educes the mixture to the thin consist- ency of hospital gruel, which ruus out from under the rings as fast as_poured in, and brings dismay toall hands.. The only salva- tion being to add moré flour, Bridget shovels it in until the protoplasmic muflins resemble paste, and then it is evident that more yeast, or milk, or something is needed. Finally, the correct thing as to viscous condition is attaiced, the rings are micely filled, and the stove stocked: with wood until it is red hot all over. which Bridget declares is the proper interpretation of ‘‘quick.” ‘Then the tri- umphant wife, with many cautions, leaves to Bridzet the tremendous responsibility of “serving hot with butter,” and tiptoes up- stalrs, and before her mirror, with hereyes full of dreamlight and her mouth full of hairpins, fancies how surprised hubby will be when he comes home and finds that he has for supper real muflins, made -all by her little self. As a rule, he is surprised. Just in the middle of supper Bridget enters with a grand flourish and sits down a platter of poker chips swimming in brown grease. ubby tries one, breaks a front tooth, swears, grabs up his hat, and rushes down-town, and the peace of another household is scattered to the winds. Believing, therefore, that there is much noble missionary work to be done in_ Chi-. cagzo, in the way of imparting correctculinary doctrines, I submit the following recipes. Ir will ted that I confine myself to shmple expressions which everybody can un- derstand. HOW TO MAKE BEEFSTEAK TENDER. ‘The best and most thorougly certain way to make your beef tender is to stand in with the boy who drives the butcher’s wagon. discovered this while living next dvor to a millionaire who dealt with the samne meat- man that supplied me. The boy driving the wagon was corruptible, like the steaks he served, and 15 cents or so would transter the tenderness ot the millionaire’s 40-cents-a pound porterhouse to my bundle of 8-cent round. Then I would whet my appetite listening to the wmillionaire’s hired girl walloping the other cut with rolling-pins, ete., as advised by Mrs. Leslie. By chatiging butchers us often as the millionaire did, L secured tender beef until my lease expired. Tio weeks before this, however, the miflion~ aire died with lockiaw, induced, the doctors said, by attempts to chew tongh meat. JLUE ISLAND DOCGHSGTS.—Take two pounds best rubber, melt over slow tiro with two cups full of kerosene, and stir la one and u balf handfuls of chofve glucose. When cold, cut into chunks as bigasa walnut and blow up to uired size with s pair of bellows. o DeTECT 13AD EGGS AND OYSTERS.—TO df tect a very bud egg, breuk the shell. In ha; fever scusou you mny bave to taste tne coi tents, but genernlly this IS not necessary. Heulthy hens luy unquestionnbly fresh eges us a rule. and therefure, it you are certain that no epidemic prevails umong your neighbor’s - poul- try, you may borrow eggs from under his hens fir the durk of the moon with perfect -safety. Your own depraved eggs should then be care- fully laid by until next election. Bad oysters are very easily told. Place those you suspect upon the plate of any poor relaton that may huppen 1o be visiting you at the time, By closely watching. his or ner face when the suspected mollusk goes to taw,'in case anything is wrong you can gencrully see it Caure should be takeu next time, however, that the poor re- lation doesn't swup plates ' clindestinely with either sour rich uncle or yourseif. BrEAD PUDDINGS AND PourTICES.—Having coliceted a sutlicient quantity of uld bread, rusp oIf the crust, and put tho rest to soak sver nighL. Throw in lots of sugnr next noon, and serve the thing up warm. This is the bread-pudding- recipe. Make bread-poultice exactly tlie same, but serve cold. To Discoven TRICHINE. — Having invited your mother-in-law to duger, load ber up cupi- ously o the pork you have' goud resson to sus- pect. Bundle herolf home nxain before twenty- four hours, and stund olf the doctor and under- tuker by deeding ull property to your afficted wite. - The' experiment may then be conducted with your poor relutions und prineipal ereditors, oue ut A time. To Serrir COFFEE.—Boil your mackerel or codtish in with the cotfee. Fiitertne coffee thew, and wipe the grounds off the mackerel. There is doublegconomy in th's. for whosver takes tish won't want uny colfee, und whoever takes colfee Won't want uny fish. Another way to obtain coffee well settled, i3 to pay your sufferlng gruecr. ‘This, however, is 3azalnst the average conscianco, CanrETON, A FRIGHTFUL PLUNGE, + A Passenger Car on the Denver g Rio Grande Railroad Jumps the Track. = - Its Plunge Down an Embankmonl One Hundred and Fifty * Feet. Seven Passengers Instantly Killed gy ALl the Ochers Badly Injured, A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT, AxToNITO. Col., April 15.—A special Pas senger-train left Antonito for Chama yester. day 2t 11, and when near Ozier, N, 3. 38 miles from Antonito, a passenger coach jumped the track and rolled down gy embankment 150 feet, Killing seven males and one female, and injuring all the of passengers. The following are the killed: Mrs. C. Declododt, residence unknuwn: James Lynch, Jamestown, Kas, D. G. Bowers, Springtield, Mo, G. Hall, Indianola, Iowa. L. Isaacs. Terra Amoorila, N, 3, D. C. Wilson, Leavenworth, Kas, D. C. Shoales, Lawrence, Kas. One unknown. ‘The remains are now awaiting di from friends. The wounded wllfba ::E:n‘; Denver. The passenger coach was Smashed to pieces. The cause is supposed to be the softening of the ground caused by the late heavy rains., The wounded are: George Inman, Malone, Kas., broken leg. '(Jieorge R. Page, Pleasanton, Kas., brokey rib. 4 D. R. Brewer, Marshfield, Mo., bruised, A. J. Brewer, Marshfield, o., badly bruised. Several others were slightly hurt. Ta wounded are under the care of the rallway surgeon and two assistants, and will all prob- ably recover. The railway people are very reticent and it was impossible to ‘obtain par. ticulars before. 1 A DORRIBLE DEATH. Special Dispatch 10 The Chicago Triduna, MILwAUKEE, April 23.—A terrible acele dent vccurred at the tannery of the Wiscon- sin Leather Compauy to-day, situated iu the South Division of the city. In the tannery are a number of r 1z drums used in drying hides. A workman named John Bauer was at work near onue of these drams at 8 o’clock this morning, when his left arm caught in the drum, drawing bis body into the nachinery, crushing the trunk so badly that the man’s death resulted in a few moments. 'Uhe body of Bauer was taken to his home, where his wife and fawily were grief-stricken at the terrible loss tiey had ectedly veen called 10 sustain, Bauer was 40 years of age, and a steady quiet man. A FATAL LEAP. ALLENTOWY, Pa., April 22—John Guym- phere, the Hungarian who has beenasleep at the Poor House forseventy-two days, and who awakened for the first thine yesterday, arose again this morning, bolted his roowm door, and jumped out of the window, falling twenty-five feet. When picked up it was found that two of his ribs were broken and his spine was injured so badly that he Is not expected to live. THE ALBANY BRIDGE DISASTER. Speetut Disputch 1o The Chicago Tridune. MILWAUKEE, April 23.—It transpires that one of the parties killed in the Albany, L, bridge disaster Thursday was Edzar Bowles, a son of Assemblymun J. B. Bowles, of the Tu\n\n‘uf Utica, this State. He was on his way Vest. OBITUARY. HENRY S. KOIN Henry S. Kohn, an old and highly-re spected citizen, died at his late residence, No. 2540 Michigan avenue, at, a early hour yesterday morning, after a lingering and painful illness, in the 67th year of his age. The deceased came here from Bavaria, Germany, in 1847, where he was born, and up to two years ago, when his health began to fail him, had been prominently identi- fied with the business of the city, He first engaged in the dry-gouds trade - at . No. 85 Lake street, as a member of the firm of A. & . Koln & Co., and was_subsequently connected with the firm of Kohn, Wineman & Co. In 1854, hay- ing by industry accumulated considerable means, he embarked in the wholesale cloth- ing business with the firm of J. Kohn & Bros., and was uwmong, the pioneers in that branch of trade in the West. The followinz vear he married Miss Iannah Kohns, of New Vork, who bore him four children,—two Dboys and two girls,—who survive him, and all of whom he leaves in comfortable cirewn- stances. . Mr. Kohn was an unostentatious gentle: | man, and wide and favorably known, and his demise is mourned by a farce circle of friends and acquaintances, who were en- deared to him for his many excellent quali- ties. {le never held any public position, but was identitied with numerous good works, prominent among which was the founding of the Anshe Marir Congregation, now wor- shiving at the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Indiana avenue, of which he was one of the trustees at the tume of his death and had been since its formation. His interest in the congregation was deep and abiding, and no- where ¢lse, outside of his family circle, per- will his wise counsel, constant’ zeal, ‘mg devotion, and self-sacritice be mord sioly und sadly missed. The immediate cause of the death of tha deceased was a tumor in his throat which first appeared there yearsago. 1t grew quite rapidly at_first, but did not become alarmine until about nine months ago, whgu it was operated upon and removed. For a while aferward he felt that it had disap- peared not to return, and with his otherwise vigorous health, his friends had reason to believe that his useful life was to be greatly prolonged. But hope was_agaiust hope, for time proved that the root of the disease Sti lingered In his _ system, and a few months ago his ~ condition again became _ alarming as the tumor bezan to develop anew to such an extent as to interfere with- his taking food. From stage to stage it progressed, and as it grew in sizé he grew weaker and weaker for want of nourishment, and_finally became speechiess, and had to-commnunicate his wants to his at- tendants in writing. 1lis sufferings were in- tense, and had be¢n for some days, yet he fully conscious to the last, and his mind was unclouded and as firm us ever. 1lis funeral will oceur to-morrow morning at 10 o’clock from his late residence, and his remains will be interred in the burying- ground of the congregation of which he was a member. JUDGE M. J. FERGUSON. CINCINNATI, April 23.—Thedeath of Judgs - M. Ferguson, at Louisa Court-House, Ky~ oceurred night before last.. He was Colonel of the Seventeenth Virginia Confederate Regiment, and distinguished himself at Get- tysburg., ——— A BIG FAILURE IN ARKANSAS. - . PocAnoNTAS, Ark., April 23.—Hecht & Co. have failed, and put their liabilities at ~ above $100,000; assets, not stated. 1t is sald to be the greatest failure in the State. The gredx’(ors are principally in cities West outh. LirTie Rock, April 23.—Leir, Hecht & Co., m nts at Pocahontas, failed teday. The liabilities are nearly §200,000. The assets consist of real estate, ete., vaiue not given. They have creditors in New_York, Philgdel- phix, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, Mews phis, and New Urleans. S o IN THE LOCK-UP. 3 D. B. Mitchell, who has for tho last nin® months served a8 a porter at the stove-store Gribben & Sexton, Nos. 75and 77 Lako street was arrested yesterday by Detective Simmons by the heads upon cowpliint made oy of the trm by which he was em- ployed. itchell acknowledges that bo has repeatedly sent out zoods tostensibly wlfll“ citsers) to_ second-hand dealers and divided with them the procceds. He says that a few bundred dollars will cover his peculations, but the tirm thinks differently. 1t i probable % he will not be prosecuted, perhaps because b8 - [ bas & wife and children depeadent upon him for - support,