Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. HILL. Editor and Business Manager. TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOI PAID IN ADVANCE. .'l'JlJ'fWy... _.LI IIL I lit B B. Aixwow,Pr®B*t. W. H. Nimtc*,Cashier. B. Stvdaiakbb, Vice Pres’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This B»nk ie now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tt PETERSON & HUFFMAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW, nSCATOB', INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No tariesPublic and drawdeeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. C 0. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE 4 KING. ~ \ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBOATUR.INDIANA. E. N. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DICATOB, INDIANA. r- All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone s building lib door. v26n24 year 1. J T. MERRYMAN, Attorney at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. DICATUR, INDIANA. Deeds Mortgages. Contracts aud all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Pai'tition, settlement of decedent's .stales, and collections a specialty. Office : —Up stairs in Stone's tuilding, 4th door.—vol. 25, no 24 ts. ’ E. H. COVERDALE, •Attorney at -)AND(NOTARY PUBLIC, DBCATCB, INDIANA. Office over Welfley's grocery, opposite the Court House.

B. R. FREEMAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouses’ Drug Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe, Professional calls promptly attended. Nol 26, No. 84. ts.

A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DICATVR, INDIANA. Office ever-Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charge? reasonable. Resi deuce an north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill, 25jy79tf

W. H. MYERS, trick k Stone Jlason I ontrac-i DECATUR, INDIANA. iolicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v20n45m3. “SEYMOUR WORDEN,” A-UCtioneer. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUGUST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DECATUB, - - INDIANA. A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipes of all kinds always on hand at my store. G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey a ncer. Deeds. Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Special attention to ditch and grave toad petitions. Office over Welfley’s Grocery Store, opposite ths Court House, Decatur, Indiana. 87-md of £ rnreß 8 3 arc annually robbed of their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures Impotency (caused by excesses of any kina ) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, loss of memory, universal lassitude, pain m the back, dimness of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circulars with test’monals free by mail. The Intigorator is sold at Si per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggist, or, will be sent frea by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J. C HEWEY, Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. A. Pierce St Co., Sole Agents at Decatur fh"7A A week made At home by i®di>stri- | Jons. Dest bneine snow before the pu.>iic. / ’ / Capital not tteedet . e will start yew. 11l f / .'Hen, women, boys and gins ts ■ “■everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. You can work in spare time, or give your * hole time to the business. No other b®?ines.* w ' ll Pay you nearly as Well. No one can tail to make enormous pay, by engaging at once. tO6 V y b ■nd terms tree. Money made f»H. easv. and honor ■bly, Address Tav« A Co., Augusta, Maine, _ DR. KITCH MILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday »< •»ch month to treat nil < hronic Disease*. Consultation free. Call and see him, AU letters of inquiry received at the home of®ce at Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write to him and make a StateMeat of your case.—r2Sno6ly.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THJC BAST. A New York dispatch of Feb. 2*£ states that the seventeenth victim of the New York school-house horror had died and several others were not expected to recover. In a Boston court, J. C. Knowles obtained judgment for $2,000 against a saloon keeper for selling Honor to a young son of the plaintiff, from which he became intoxicated. At Milford, Mass., the other day, thirteen children were thrown from a double runner, which struck a tree, and nearly all were picked up unconscious. The names of the maimed are: Mamie Murray, leg broken, amputation necessary; Edwin Hogan, leg broken internally injured; Lewis Crane and Willie Hickey; badly bruised, internally injured; Lucy Gleason, severe injuries to legs and back; Mary’ Doherty, badly injured on face and head/.. .The faculty sea. in the chapel at Dartmouth College were recently larded, and many Sophomores have been suspended for refusing to give the names of the offenders. Rev. Dr. Chadbourne died in New York the other day. He was President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and for three years was in charge of the University of Wisconsin. He served a term in the Senate of Massachusetts, and in 1869 made an exploring tour of Greenland..... Hatch A Peters, stock brokers at New York, suspended The failure was caused by their ceshier, George W. Tompkins, embezzling between $75,010 and SIOO,OOO of the firm's funds. Judge Donahue, of New York, refused an injunction against police interference with the “Passion Play. ” Salmi Morse went on with his preparations, and issued I,COO invitations to a rehearsal at his “residence.” Thirty officers were on hand When the high priest began to read from Genesis, Capt. Williams arrested Morse, and . the audience hissed Morse voiced his indignation, the “Hallelujah Chorus” was sung through, the drop curtain feH. and then the prisoner was taken away to give bail.... Attachments for $27,000 have been issued against the Augustinian Society of Lawr< nee, Mass. The institution * was founded by Catholic priests m 1870, and chartered by the Legislature. It received deposits and operated in real estate. The majority of its creditors are female mill operatives, and its liabilities are $510,000 Mr. Gilbert L. Crowell, manager of the Tailman estate in New York, is a defaulter for $601,00(1 He borrowed money from members of the family beside appropriating the funds... .The New York Centra] road paid Mary Daniels $29,000 for injuries received in the Spuvten Duyvel disaster, and gave A. B. Valentine* $10,(J00 for rhe loss of his son and daughter-in-1aw.... The widow of ex-Postmaster General Marshall Jewell died suddenly in New York, of heart disease... .An incendiary tire at Elmira, N. Y., destroyed three furniture stores and a drug store, causing a loss of •37.000. THE WEST. W. T. Allen & Co., wholesale grocers, Chicago, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The liabilities are $400,000 or $500,000, and it is believed they will be able to pay 50 or 75 cents on the dollar-. The difficulty of making collections from country customers is given as the cause of the collapse. The Chicago Tribune says: “Interviews with prominent Western cattle men go to show that the stories as to the destruction of stock by severe weather upon the plains have been greatly exaggerated It is true that there have been several storms in the far West, but the cattle were in extra good condition at the beginning of winter and have stood the weather wed ”.... Nathan Britton, residing near HL, concealed $530 in greenbacks in the grate of a cook-stove. His wife lighted the fire for breakfast, which fact will be regretted by Britton for some time... .Great damage and some loss of life is reported in the neighborhood of Vincennes. Ind, where the floods covered the entire face of the country. A recent telegram from Tucson, Arizona, says “there is great excitement over a remarkable silver discovery twenty miles south of Tucson in the Santa Rita mountains. The ore-crossing is 100 feet wide and over a mile long, w ith an average value of $275 per ton. The ore is a sulphate. There is also extensive rich sand Half a million is estimated to be In sight on one claim. The property has just been purchased by a Methodist minister. ” John B. Johnson and many other desperate convicts mutenied in the Missouri Penitentiary at Jefferson City. They seized and bound the foreman of the whip and collar shops, and Johnson set tire to a lot of ; straw, causing a total damage before the conflagration was stopped of about $300,00(1 Johnson made a futile attempt to escape, and when captured was placed in a dungeon and seven of his confederates are in dark cells... Manuel Lenhart, imprisoned at Newaygo, Mich., for murder, heard the sound of revelers enjoying a dance in an adjacent building, and, believing it was a party intent on lynching him, Lenhart died in his cell of fright.... The Directors of the Lackawanna road have arranged with the Nickel-Plate for a fast freight line from New York co Chicago, maintaining pool rates... .Mrs. T. E. White, nee Fannie Driscoll (#he poetess), died at the home of her parents in Milwaukee. John Gilbert, the actor who jumped from one of the windows of the Newhall House, a distance of sixty-five feet, to the ground, and whose wife, a bride of a day, died from the injuries which she received in ; the hotel fire, has entered suit for $‘20,000 damages against C. D. Nash and John T. Antisdel, proprietors of the h0te1.... The snow-storm of Feb. 22 in Wisconsin blockaded railroads to a greater extent than at any previous time this winter. In some of the cuts the snow was packed thirty feet deep... .Albert Jones Howell, a broker, suffering from insomnia, committed suicide bj shooting himself at the residence of a doctor in Chicago, where he was under treatment

The large retail dry-goods house of Charles Gossage <fc Co., Chicago, has been bought out by Carson, Pirie, Scott A Co., w ho will continue to run the establishment under the firm name by which it has so long been known. The consideration named is $1,000,000 . .George Scheller, who. kept the bar in the Newhall House, was last week indicted at Milwaukee for setting the hotel on fire. He was taken into court, pleaded not guilty, and bail was fixed at S10,000. Messrs. Nash, Antisdel and Night ( .erk Delaney will be indicted for manslaughter ... The‘lead mills at Bonne Terre, Mo., valued at over s2oo,(MOand employing several Hundred men, were swept away by fire....A. sister of ex-Senator Sharon, of Nevada, attempted suicide at the Palace Hotel at ban Francisco, by stabbing herself with a pocket knife.... Mai-v Burr, a servant, and three children perished in the burning of Peter Dennan’s nouse at Montague, Mich. THE SOUTH. The family of William Rusch, living near Corsicana, Texas, were accidentally poisoned last week. Morphine was administered through mistake for auinine. and four members or the family nave died, and two others, at last accounts, wprn not expected to survive Steamer Mono CsKtJe, X the Clyde line, New York and Charon burned at the last-named city. The loss is estimated at $200,000 on the vessel and »«0,000 on the cargo. Ihe crew escaped..... The bondholders of the defunct city of Memphis met in a Baltimore banking-house and agreed with representative citizen* to fund all debts at 50 per cent The emigration of negroes from North Carolina to Arkansas has grown to such proportions that the Legislature of the former State has been urged to apply J enl ®“ dial measures.... Ellis < raft, one of the fiends who participated in the outrage and murder of the Gibbons family at AshlamL Kv . in December, 1881, was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to death.

Mr. J. S. Rhodes, his wife and two children, and two mon, whose names are not given, were drowned at Wolf island, near Cairo, by the upsetting of a small boat

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1883.

A deplorable tragedy was enacted three miles below Helena, Ark. J. H. Gant has seventy-five penitentiary convicts employed on the levee below the city. It seems they made arrangements to capture the iruard and escape. One of the convicts was working, spading dirt, near a guard. He knocked the guard down. The other convicts then rushed upon the other guards. At this time Gant came upoii the scene, riding a horse. He fired at the convicts, but, seeing them armed, turned and retreated, when one of the convicts fired, the load passing through his body and killing him instantly. Seventeen convicts then made their escape... .A patient in the Western Lunatic Asylum, of Virginia, tampered with the medicines used, and five inmates have died and two are fatally poisoned. GENERAL. Informer Carey, of Dublin, named P. J. Sheridan, as an Invincible organizer. The latter is connected with the Irish World, in New York. He states that he never met Carey, but admits that he visited Ir land in the disguise of a priest, distributing money among evicted tenants in Munster..'.. .Susan B. Anthony sailed last week from Philadelphia for England. In the star-route trial at Washington, Rerdell testified that he recently went to the room of Dorsey at a hotel, and was threatened with a term in the penitentiary for forgery’ unless he made an affidavit to suit the ex-Senator. Serious disagreements among the members of the trunk-line pool are announced, all except the Vanderbilt roads being dissatisfied with the percentages temporarily fixed. The Lackawanna is nowjoffering serious competition, and the Chicago and Atlantic will soon enter the field..,.The business failures reported to R. G. Dun & Co.’s mercantile agency tor the week numbered 230, as compared with 254 for the previous week. Os these 68 occurred in the Western States. 54 in the Southern, 55 in the Middle, 22 in New England, 18 on the Pacific coast and in the Territories, 5 in New York city and 28 in Canada and the provinces... .The discovery of a telescopic comet in the constellation Pegasus has been made by the Rochester Observatory’. The world-renowned prestidigitataer, Herrmann, is exhibiting his marvelous feats of magic at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago. His great decapitation feat, the mid air slumber of Mdlle. Addie, a real Japanese Prince in feats of balancing, spirit mediums, and a dog circus, added to the wonderful sleight-of-hand tricks of the great magician, constitute a most fascinating entertainment. The freight steamer Glamorgan was wrecked in mid-ocean, the White Star steamship Republic arriving at New York with the survivors. Six persons lost* their lives. Great difficulty was experienced in taking the unfortunate ones from the sinking vessel An appeal has been made to the Massachusetts Congressional delegation to secure the passage of a law prohibiting convicts from doing any work for the United States. POLITICAL. The New Jersey House of Representatives has killed all the temperance measures pending in that body. The Indiana House of Representatives last week agreed to both the female suffrage and prohibition constitutional amendments, but tabled a motion instructing the Judiciary Committee to report a bill providing for the submission of the amendments to the people at the next general election.... .The President has appointed John W. Foster, of Indiana, Minister to Spain. WASHINGTON. In the star-route trial at Washington, Feb. 21, the defense attempted to offset the confession of Rerdell by quoting from affidavits made by him lost July, in which he furnished Dorsey and Brady with a clean bill of health. The witness declared that he made the affidavits under duress, Dorsey having threatened to prosecute him for perjury and to expose his relation with certain women if he declined to sign what Dorsey had prepared. The witness brought in the name of Congressman Belford, of Colorado, as the recipient of one of the star-route checks, but the insinuation was indignantly repelled by Mr. Belford in an interview had later.

The latest immigration report issued by the Treasury Department shows a large falling off in the immigration for the month of January, as compared with the same month last year. In January, 1883, the arrivals were 12,940, while in January, 1882, they were 18,489. There arrived from England and Wales 1,935, Ireland 668, Scotland 266, Austria 839, Belgium 95, Bohemia 50, Denmark 72, France 179, Germany 3,026, Italy' 1.113, Norway 32, Sweden 165, Dominion of Canada 2,046, all other countries 2,250. Os this number, 8,464 disembarked at New York. The Court of Alabama Claims has just rendered a decision in regard to powers of attorney and assignment of claims for war premiums It was held that the claims are against the United States and not the Geneva fund, tne money having been covered into the treasury, and they are governed bv the law of 1853, All transfers made after June 5, 1882, and before the allowance of claims and the issue of warrants were decatred null and void.... Washington dispatches state that the British Government has demanded the extradition of P. J. Sheridan, who was accused bv the informer Carey of being one of the “invincible” organizers, and that the Secretary of State has issued the required warrant. FOREION, An English adventurer, representing himself to be the Earl of Cantyre, of Scotland, recently married a daughter of a Canadian lumber king, the late John Chaney, of Perth. He chartered a special train and took the entire family to the carnival at the citv of Montreal, where the marriage ceremony was performed. As false reire.'entutions had been made in regard to the Sri’s age, the contract can be annulled The arquis of Lome was the finst to denounce the swindler.... During the progress of a political meeting at Thrasher's Grove, Ont, the floor of the hall gave way, precipitating the assemblage to the ground Sixteen persons were severely injured, but none were killed. The new French Cabinet is composed of Ferry, Challemel Lacour, Waldeck Bousseau, Martin Feuillee, Ch. Brun, Meline, Herrisson, Cocherv, Bavnal, Tirard and Gen. Thibedau. Ferry is Premier and Minister of Public Instruction. and Lacour is Minister of Foreign Affairs.. A Hong Kong dispatch reports the sinking of the United States steamer Ashuclot and the drowning of eleven of the crew. The Ashuelot was built in 1863, and Had seen its best davs. ... .Since Carey turned informer at Dublin many farmers sons and Irish-Americans have left for she United States. It appears that the first letter of condolence received by Miss Burke after the murder of her brother was from James Carey.... The Bundesrath at Berlin has given its approval to the bill to prohibit the importation of American pigs, pork or suasages. During a debate in the British House of Commons, Forster, late Secretary of State for Ireland, declared that recent disclosures had increased the suspicion that the Land League was connected with the Phoenix Park murders. He charged Parnell with heading the organization which started an agitation that promoted outrages and incited murder. Parnell, he said, had reaped advantages from the agitation ; and, although he did not plan the outrages, he connived at their commission. O'Kelly, at this point, shouted “It’s a lie” several time® He was promptly named, and by a vote of .305 to 20 was suspended. Forster reiterated his charges, and declared that the wretches who committed Hie Phoenix Park murders had acted in the spirit of Parnell’s speeches althougn not following the letter of them. There were loud cries for Mr. Parnell, who was in the House, in replv to the arraignment of Forster, but he did not respond... .The programme of the new French Ministry includes the removal of the Princes from their military posts. The foreign policy would be peaceful, but the honor and rank to which France is entitled would be sedulously guarded.

In the House of Commons, on the day following Forster’s bitter attack upon the Land League and Parnell, the latter took the floor, amid breathless interest, to reply. He said the utmost he desired to do was to make his position clear to the Irish people at home and abroad. Forster, he said, ought to be ashamed for traducing him. He declined to reply to Forster’s questions, and charged that gentleman with having asked him (Parnell) to disclose the secrets of his associates. If Forster had believed that the articles published in the Irish World were likely to incite crime, why had he not stopped the circulation of that paper? He compared the responsibility of Forster, who had read the articles and believed what the result’would be, to that of himself, wh» never read them, though they were brought against him The heart and vital parts of the late Pope Pius IX. were removed from their transient resting place in the Vatican the other day, and placed in a marble urn near the tomb of the Stuarts.... The prisoners in Dublin charged with the assassination of Cavendish and Burke are furnished meals from a public-house, and a stranger calls weekly and pays the bi 115..... The formal announcement is made of the decree which expels the Orleanist Princes from the French army The St. Petersburg Golos, having dared to mildly criticise the condition of public affairs in Russia and to suggest that possibly some additional reforms might prove acceptable, has been suspended for six months, which is equivalent to its entire confiscation .... Societies to destroy the rights of property and exterminate the middle classes were* discovered in Andalusia, Spain. Belgian police have unearthed a plot affecting many European countries. Mr. Parnell offered in the House of Commons, on the 26th ult, his amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne, and in so doing made a bitter attack upon the Coercion and Prevention of Crime acts. He charged that the power of making arbitrary’ arrests had been abused; the Judges appointed for political reasons were therefore unfitted for trying political cases, and had become simply agents of the crown, and that juries were packed to convict He protested against the proclamation of meetings and the persecution of the press, and said that Mr. Chamberlain was the only member of the Ministry who correctly appreciated the Irish question The Attorney General for Ireland replied, denying the charges of jury-packing, and the amendment was rejected by a vote of 133 to 15.. .The police of Brussels claim to have discovered a plot to murder the Czar on coronation day’. The papers seized will lead to the airest of Louise Michel, the Parisian agitator. The Swiss Method.

In Geneva and some other parts of Switzerland a very practical custom exists for the rapid punishment of a certain class of petty offenders. A policeman w ho sees a publican keep his house open after closing hours, a cabman driving after dark without his lanterns lit, or a servant shaking a carpet out of a window overlooking the street, does not summon the transgressor before a magistrate, but serves him with a card, which, setting forth the nature of the offense, adds: “If you acknowledge yourself to have committed the aforesaid breach of police regulations, you are to pay a fine of 5 francs at the police office on such a day. If you deny your guilt, you are hereby summoned to appear on such a day at the tribunal of police, where you will have to answer to my charge.” By this systeA the expense, waste of time, and worry involved in attending at a police court to meet a trivial charge are avoided, and no injustice is done, since the accused has the right of appeal to a magistrate if he thinks he has been improperly fined. Take tradesmen who adulterate their goods. Last year there was opened at the prefecture de police in Paris a laboratory for the analysis of food and drink; and here for a small fee anybody may cause wine, butter, milk, etc., to be examined, and may receive a report on them. Armed with such document, the victim of trade roguery has only to lodge a complaint at the police office of his district, and in less than two hours the offender’s shop will be visited by inspectors who will commence an examination of his whole stock, and carry off all adulterated merchandise there and then in a cart. In some places it is still the custom to pour adulterated liquids in the gutter in front of the vender's house, but this has been discontinued in large cities because women used to hasten with jugs to ladle up the condemned wine or spirits, not caring if they were poisoned, so long as thev got the poison for nothing. Foreign magistrates thoroughly understand the importance of protecting the public against noxious food, and for this reason there are inspectors whose only business is to go and visit the kitchens of hotels and eating-houses to see that copper saucepans are kept free from verdigris and that no tainted meats are used. The grandest hotels, like the lowest beef shops, are liable to the visits of these inspectors, who will never scruple to inflict a fine when they meet with a careless cook. Odd Names Among the Coal Miners. A man at EUangowan Colliery flourishes under the name of Paul WhygO. The Christian name as a Polish look, but an unmistakably English sound. Another working at the same place is named Peter Mosquito, and as he is the father of quite a large family there is no lack of Mosquitos there, even in winter. “Cabbage” is a favorite affix. There is Matthew Moreoabbage, fbr instance, and Simon Dabelcabbage, Stony Ballcabbage and Peter Yesyoucabbage. Igo is quite a common name in the region, but Wliygo is seldom met with. Among the other odd names might be mentioned Luei Cusecabbagge, \ aroust Mehigh, Auberry Yrnitwli. Youmamick Augrew, Mycate Powat. Phelix Cowtcouski. John Crowbait, Emmanuel Nitehikoski. Chas Cheek. Ed Bytheway also works at the EUangowan, and so does Patrick Brotherboom. Bill Overcoat lives at Mount Carmel. When he signs his name he signs it Overcoat Bill. He has never disclosed his reason for so doing, and so far as known has not attempted to have the idea patented.—Allentown il’a.) Register. —• ■ A Down-Easter’s Trade Philosophy. “Let me tell you, a fellow’s got to have a poor thing to sell a good one by," moralizes a Lewiston trader. “I always try to sell the poor stuff first. I always show it to a customer first. When I show' him the good thing I'm sure to put a darn good price on it, so he will lie liable to take the cheaper article. When a man comes into my shop and asks for a good barrel of apples, for instance, I show him some of those small ones which I can sell for $2.50 a barrel. If he says he wants a fancy, bang-up article, I ask him if he means business, and show him that handsome fruit over there that I’m getting $3.50 for. There’s just as much ‘ ehaw ’ in the $2.50 barrel as in the other; but when it comes to settin’ 'em on the table before company, they're no stood.”— Lewiston (Me.) Journal. One American port weekly ships 1.V'.000 pieces of chewing-gum to Englund.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. An exciting scene occurred in the Senate on Feb. 21, upon the introduction of the Congressional Apportionment bill, which was extremely distasteful to Senator Brown. and he moved that it be rejected. In the discussion which ensued he was extremely insulting toward Senator Bell, of Allen county, who, when annoyed beyond endurance, petulantly exclaimed; “Don't interrupt me any more. You are drunk, and I am addressing myself to gentlemen. Brown jumped up and exclaimed in a loud voice: “You are a lying , a brainless coward, and a hound." The greatest excitement ensued, as the chamber was full of ladies, who plainly heard the remark. Senator Bell kept cool, and did n>t resent the insult, saying that the Senate Boor was no place for a scene. After the quarrel, the bill was rejected by a vote of 24 to 23. The Senate, by a vote of 33 to 14, adopted the minority report of the committee, naming Evansville as one of the places for the location of an asylum for the incurable insane, the other two to o o located where a commission of four men, to be 1 appointed by the Governor, shall determine. The special committee appointed to visit the flooded districts reported adversely to further aid being voted, but Gov. Porter scut in a message recommending a further appropriation. The committee rei>orte<l that no person was found in all their travels suffering for the necessities of life. The committee visited New Albany, Jeffersonville, Aurora, Lawrenceburg and other places, where about 14,000 persons altogether were receiving supplies of the necessities of life, which number would speedily be reduced so as to need no further help. The message and report were referred to the ; Committee on Finance. In the House, the Ways and Means Committee reported the Specific Appropriation bill, which provides for the payment of claims amounting to $184,000. The report of the House Committee on Prisons was made concerning the Southern Prison. The Brown bill reorganizing the benevolent institutions on a Democratic basis passed both houses over the Governor’s veto by a strict party vote. Born houses of the Legislature passed tho bill for the relief of the sufferers by the Ohio flood to the amount of SOO,OOO, in addition to the $40,000 previously appropriated. In the Senate. Mr. Lockridge's bill making it a felony for public officers not to turn over to their successor's all the moneys on hand was passed, as was also the Voyles bill making it a cause for removal for ; county officers to charge illegal or constructive I fees. The Senate also passed the bill to proi rl<ie for the erection of three $200,000 hospitals for the insane, one of which shall be located at Evansville. Mr. Youche introduced a bill to create a commission, consisting of the Governor. Attorney General and two residents of the Kankakee valley, which shall have control of the drainage of that reirion. There was a lone discussion in the Senate of Gov. Porter’s veto of the bill reorganizing the House of Refuge which turns the Republicans out of office and puts the Democrats in, and it was finally passed by a party vote over the veto. In the House, Mr. Antrim's bill compelling railroad companies to pay employes at least once in thirty days was passed, with a provision that in case the companies should be able to show in the court a reason why the money should not be paid in the time specified, an extension of sixty days should be granted. Mr. Jewett’s bill placing promissory notes on the same basis as bills of exchange was also passed. The House declined to adjourn in honor of the memory of the "Father of his Country." A resolution was adopted by the Senate, on Feb 23, authorizing the summary removal of the Secretary of the Senate, A. F. Kelly, of Terre Haute, and the Doorkeeper, Capt. W. M. Edmunds, and their employes, which was done by the Republican minority, aided by Senators Hill, Marvin, Howard and Davidson, and Cyrus T. Nixon, of Indianapolis, and Vincent T. Kirk, of Marshall county, were elected to till the vacancies, the former being a Republican. The cause of the revolution goes back to Feb. 1, when Kirk was deposed as Doorkeeper by Messrs. Duncan, Mclntosh, and Benz, who voted with the Republicans to that end, on the ground that Kirk had abused his trust in appointing too many doorkeepers. Kirk, however, was succeeded by Edmunds, a onearmed ex-soldier and a Democrat. Kirk’s friends had been wanting to get even ever since. The Senate spent much time in discussing the bill to abolish the contract system of letting out convict labor. The claim of Mrs. Edwin May, widow of the architect of' the flhjL r-p.ii rfiMFi iw7T j, fpr Hio extent of SIO,OOO, for loss sustained by tm* death of her husband previous to the completion of the work, on which he was engaged, also excited a protracted debate. A long letter was read from President White in the Senate, announcing his resignation from the management of Purdue University. An evening session of the Senate was held, at which a compromise was made among the Democrats, by which Mr. Kelly was reinstated as Secretary, Mr. Kirk to retain his position as Doorkeeper. In the House, the Specific Appropriation bill was under consideration, no other business being done.

The Senate devoted the greater part of the day’s session, on Feb. 24, to the discussion of the Prison bills—the one by Mr. Campbell providing a more equitable plan for the letting of convict labor, and the other by Mr. Johnson, providing tor its abolition altogether. The special committee, consisting of Johnson, of Tippecanoe, Fonlke. and Ernst, to which the bills had been referred, reported in favor of the abolition of the contract system, but the Senate decided to enerross the Campbell bill, with amendments that the bill should not apply to existing contracts. The amendments requiring the labor to be let at not less that 75 cents a day and requiring goods to be stamped as con-vict-made, were rejected. In the ■ House, the constitutional amendments were taken up, and each was agreed to, the vote on t • Female Suffrage amendment being 51 to 40, and that upon the Prohibition amendment 57 to 36. Then Mr. JVwctt moved that the Judiciary 1 Committee be instructed to report a bill to submit the amendments to the people at the next general election. Upon this proposition the , Republican and Democratic submissionists split, apd the motion was tabled by a vote of 58 to 30. The House passed bills req uir- ( inu the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to set apart SIO,OOO of his next annual apportionment of the school fund to the State 1 Normal School, and annually thereafter. Also t authorizing County Commissioners, on petition, to straighten the course of streams. The House , passed a resolution requesting the Senate to inform the House at least twice every day what changes had occurred in its organization. Senators Spann and Brown appeared and announced the rc-el ection of Secretary Kelley, which. Spann stated, was due to the unreliability of Democratic pledges. In the House, February 26, Mr. Frazers Appelate Court bill was defeated. The bill abolishing the office of City Treasurer of Indianapolis was passed. Also the bill prohibiting stock from running at large during the crop seasons of 1883 and 1884, because of the destruction of fences by the recent floods. The Conference Committee on the House and Senate road bills reported in favor of the Benz bill, and the report was concurred in and the bill passed. It substantially re-enacts the old Supervisor law. The Senate concurred in the report of the Conference Committee on the general appropriation bill. Mr. Bundy offered a resolution for an inquiry’ as to whether the Treasurer of State was* com] dying with the law in keeping ail the funds of the State in the vaults of his office instead of loaning it to banks. The resolution was defeated by a party vote. * INDIANA STATE JOTTINGS. President White, of the Indiana Agricultural College, has decided to resign his position. Oscar M. Goodwin, the defaulting Logansport cashier, is a waiter in the Northern Prison dining-room. Bayless W. Hanna, ex-Attomey General of the State, will shortly remove to Crawfordsville and take editorial charge of the Ha'iew. The Indiana, Bloomington and Western Company is said to be buying in the old back-pay claims, which are now quoted at 85 cents. Suspicions of foul play have been aroused over the death of P. J. Inley, of South Solon, Clark county, and a post mortem examination will be made. A Valparaiso young man named Ames has got himself into serious trouble by fraudulently obtaining from the Valparaiso postoffice mail matter directed to Mias Alice Detmor®. The State Fireman's Association will meet in Michigan City the early part of next month, when the place of holding the next tournament will be decided upon. The last annual meeting was held at Shelbyville. Uncle Jake Taylor, an ancient darkey, who spent his earlier days as a body servant of General Andrew Jackson, was who has been a conspicuous figure-head in Vincennes ■ for half a century or more, has just died. There seems to be a more or less wellfounded suspicion that Oliver Beatty, who fell from a winow of the National Hotel at Indianapolis, was pushed out after being robbed. The coroner is investigating the i matter.

The Adams Chilled-Plow Works, at Plymouth, have failed. Assets nearly sufficient to meet liabilities. The cause of the failure was in the small percentage of the stockholders meeting the expense of assessments. The Stewart Paper Company, of Brookville, purchased last week of the Western Union Telegraph Company 9,600 pounds of old and undelivered telegrams. The special agent who accompanied the goods remained until the stock had been converted into pulp. Mrs. Sallie Ourill, aged 75, an old and well-known resident of Madison, who has for sometime been an inmate of the county asylum, three miles below town, fell into a sue and burned to death the other uight, in a fit of epilepsy. Her son, Leander Orrill, lives in Jeffersonville or Louisville. Professor J. A. Lyons, one of the best known educators in the country, was severely injured at Notre Dame University, last Thursday, at the Washington Birthday exercises. A premature explosion of powder burned his hands and face very severely, and probably destroyed the sight of one of his eyes. A A. Hargrave, of Rockville, has been appointed by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions Superintendent of the printing house at Oroomiah, Persia. He will also have control of the financial affairs of the Mission. The appointment is for ten years. The time for his departure has not yet been determined. Lieutenant W t . R. Hamilton has been relieved from duty as military instructor at Ashbury University, and is superceded by Second Lieutenant James B. Goe, of the Thirteenth Infantry, who is expected to arrive by the Ist of April. He is a graduate of West Point, and is highly recommended by Senator Harrison. Jack Leonard, a firemen on the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis railroad, was knocked off the tender of his engine by a water-tank spout while crossing a bridge two miles north of Seymour. Leonard fell from the top of the tender through the bridge, a distance of twenty-five feet, and struck his head and shoulders on some rocks. Strange to say he was not killed, though he sustained dangerous injuries about the head. On Sunday, the family of Martin Cashma, of Frankfort, were seized with violent vomiting und purging, attended with severe rigor and convulsions. His wife and son are not expected to live. The sickness is caused by eating diseased pork, in the shape of recently made headcheese, poison in some way having been introduced in the manufacture, or the hogs were diseased. Some other families who purchased and ate the headcheese are affected in the same way. A peculiar case has been filed at Shelbyville, in which one Oscar Williams, a wellknown fanner, appears as plaintiff, and the Shelbyville and Brandywine Turnpike Company as defendant. Mr. Williams in his comp'aint claims that during the past six months the defendants have failed to keep their road in repair, and asks for a forfeiture of their charter. Mr. Williams has the aid of over one hundred substantial men, who wittxitfoi'oii to Lo J>oe['Onolbl4 £ua’ *JI ouotw that may arise. The charter is a very valuable piece of property; and as the Company is a rich one they will stubbornly contest every inch of the trial.

The State Treasurer calls for a halt in Leg Islative expenditure, for fear the genera 1 fund will become exhausted. On the 10th ol the present month there was $514,214 on hand, but since then the expenditures have been: Legislative, $430,600; flood sufferers (possibly), $140,000, with demands, including Coghlen bonds, $139,000; five ten-year bonds, $10,000; Purdue University bonds, $4,25'.’, and a public defense bond, $1,050. This makes an expenditure in sight of $450,000, leaving but a small margin for emergencies and current expenses. The public defense bond (of 1861) was a surprise. It is presented by Fred Ratzie, of St. Louis, and i is the last one out. Its number is 556, and it was supposed to have been stolen or lost when the other bonds were paid. Says the Indianapolis Journal: With a common-sense appreciation of the necessities of the farmers of Indiana the House of Representatives has appointed a committee to draft a bill for the temporary keeping up of all stock, so that farmers whose fences have been washed away shall not be compelled to expend hundreds and thousands of dollars in building fences against roaming cattle. The Senate, however, rejected Senator Yancey’s bill for a similar purpose, some fellow putting in the ■ everlasting twaddle about the poor man's cow. We have heard that old song in this ■ city until it has become tiresome. The myth of the poor man’s cow has kept Indianapolis a cow pasture for a quarter of a century, and has cost the city and its citizens more than the value of all the cows •wned in the city and vicinity twice over. - _ Shattered Love. “Give me the ring.” Lurline McCaffery stood in an oriel window with the sunlight beaming in warm, golden waves above her slight form, and at her right, his hand outstretched in eager expectancy, while a half imperious, half pleading look shot from his big brown eyes, wa% Marmaduke Short. The girl had been standing there nearly thirty seconds without ! speaking, the light streaming in upon ■ the soft waves of hair, the fathomless eyes, and the calm sweet mouth. It was not a youthful face; the bloom and flush had faded long ago, but it was so grand und womanly, there was such an I-know-how-to-do-up-my-hair look upon it, that in comparison mere girlish prettiness lost immeasurably. At this moment Pansy Perkins entered the room. She had twisted an azure-hued scarf around her shoulders, and her yellow hair fell about her like a cloud. Throwing a kiss to Lurline, whose silence she did not at all understand, Pansy flitted away to the piano at the other end of the room and began to lower rents in the vicinity. Snatches of the soft, murmurous music filled the air, and made the place seem strangely sad. The twilight was approaching, , and as the dark shadows fell the music sobbed and surged tlirough the > room. Lurline listened intently, and , finally she spoke: “You really wish to break our engagement then ?” she asked. Marmaduke spoke no word, but the inclination of his head showed that the ’ girl had not guessed amiss. “And you will marry Pansy?” Again the head was bowed, and the dimpled chin hit his shirt front. ‘ Then I give you the ring with 1 pleasure,” said the girl; “I could wish 1 for no sweeter revenge.” “What do you mean?” asks the man, his face pallid with an undoubted fear. 1 “I mean,” she says, her every word i falling upon his tinted ear as fall the earth-clods upon a coffin, “that in adi dition to playing the piano she someI times sings.”— Tribune*

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY, r. Akter six weeks of consideration, the Senate passed its Tariff bill at 2 o’clock on the 20th Inst. No bill is remembered by old Senators as having consumed an equal amount of time* The bill finally passed by a handsome majority —42 to 13. Mr. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, was the only Republican who voted against it, but he would have been joined by his colleague, Don Cameron, had not the latter been paired. Thirty-three Republicans, eight Democrats and David Davis voted for it. One Republican and eighteen Democrats voted against it. The last day of the debate was far from interesting. The day was consumed by various last efforts of Senators to amend the bill into the form’hey wanted it to assume. Mr. Sherman failed by a large majority to get the duties on wool raised, though there were on his side three Democrats—Brown, Camden and Pendleton, and Senator David Davis. Except Sewell of New Jersey, and Mitchell of Pennsylvania, all the Republican votes came from the Northwestern and Pacific coast States. In ether words, Senators from the sheep-raising States voted with Mr. Sherman, and Senators from the woolen-mill States voted against him. Galvanized iron was leveled up to 2'«* cents a pound. April 1 was fixed as the date when the sugar duties w’ere to go into effect,and an amendment offered by Mr. Windom adopted, whereby it is provided that the bill shall not interfere with any existing treaties, but when the treaties expire the bill shall become operative. A reduction of duty on common bottles was rnadij Th* Hrai«e devoted the day to consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill in committee on the whole. The River and Harbor bill was handed jn from the Commerce Committee. The Army and the Fortification Appropriation bills, and the joint resolution notifying Great Britain of the desire of the United States to abrogate the fishery clauses of the Washington treaty, were passed by the Senate Feb. 21. Mr. Edmunds called up his Supplementary AntiPolygamy bill, and some progress was made with it. The House discussed the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill in committee of the whole, when Mr. Bcltzhoover proceeded to make a very bitter attack upon Gen. Hazen and the Signal Service Bureau. Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, in reply, defended Gen. Hazen's integrity and criticised Mr. Beltzhoover’s action in making an assault upon that officer in a speech which was not openly delivered, but was printed in the Record. The resolution offered by Mr. Garland for the appointment of a special committee to examine and report upon the methods of improvL.g the navigation of the Mississippi river below Cairo was adopted by the Senate. Feb. 22. The Naval Appropriation bill occupied the attention of the Senate <luring the remainder of the day. 'lhe bill was practically completed. It was dcided that the limit of repairs to be made to old wooden vessels should be 20 per cent, of the cost of new vessels of the same size and material. Republican members of the Senate held a caucus at which it was informally agreed to take up the Shipping, Pension and Bankruptcy bills, and those providing for the division of Dakota Territory and to give precedence to the appropriation bills. In the House the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole, and an amendment offered by Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, cutting down the appropriation for the Geological Survey, was rejected after a spirited debate. Mr. Pound, of Wisconsin, offered an amendment repealing the pre-emption laws altogether, with all laws authorizing the filing of declaratory statements for entry of public lands by agent or otherwise. The amendment was adopted, after Mr. Washburn had been given an opportunity to denounce the land-sharks and adventurers who had abused the laws so as to shut out actual settlers from the privilege of entering Government lands. A caucus of House Republicans was held in the evening, at which eighty Representatives voted to non-concur in the Senate tariff measures.

The Senate passed the Naval Appropria.tion bill,Feb. 23,with clauses providing $1,000,000 to continue work on the Robeson monitors, sl,- ’ 300,000 to begin the building of t hree steel cruisers and a dispatch-bdht. The Utah bill was discussed without action, and the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was reported from the committee by Mr. Allison. In the House, the Senate amendments to the Army Appropriation and the Fortification Appropriation bills were non-con-curred in, ana conference committees • writ! a>ppvtixtwn nunaiy ctrrix Appropriation bill was completed in committee of the whole, and reported to the House. Amendments were adopted prohibiting any lease of the Yellowstone National Park, and authorizing the Secretary of War to detail troops to prevent trespassing. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was before the Senate on Feb. 24. Upon the provision increasing the salary of the Public Printer to $4,000 a discussion arose as to the influence of the Printers’ Union upon the management of the Government Printing Office. Mr. Rollins asked whether this association did not also dictate who should be employed by the Public Printer. Mr. Anthony said that if any person not belonging to the Union was employed all the members of the Union would leave the office. Mr. Hale thought the Senators must be startled at hearing that a great Governmental establishment, upon which millions was spent annually, was hopelessly in the hands of a private, and, for aught we know, a secret association, which controlled its management and monopolized its employment. Mr. Hale thought the Public Printer ought to weed out from the office every man who belonged to the Union and employ non-Union men. Mr. Voorhees said that, from the talk in the Senate for the last half hour, it might be supposed the printers were very dangerous people. That was not his view. He knew of no more conscientious, painstaking, hard-working class. It was admitted that th*' printers in the Government Printing-Office did their work well, and did not receive too much pay. Mr. Hawley said the printers, like any other class of laborers, had a perfect right to form an association for their mutual benefit, to agree upon the price they would ask for their labor, and to say they would not work for less, but they had no right to say another man not a member of the association should not work for less than their price if he chose to do so. The amendment increasing the Public Printer’s salary was lost. The bill then passed the Senate. In considering the Legislative Appropriation bill, the House of Representatives decided not to pay $5,000 to the heirs of Messrs. Updegraff and Herron, whose term of service as Congressmen would not have commenced until March +. A resolution was passed censuring the Secretary of State of Nebraska and Mr. Majors, an aspirant to an additional seat in the House, for falsifying census figures. A bill was passed to prevent the importation of adulterated teas. The bill to prevent the importation of spurious teas passed the Senate on the 26th ult. A resolution was adopted requesting the President to give any information in regard to the agreement ot' European Ministers at Lima to , make an effort toward peace. Pensions of SSO per mont i were granted to i lie widows of II ar Admiral Beaumont and Gen. Warren. The President sent to ihe Senate f the nominations of 8. G. W. Beniamin as Minister to lh rsi.i; Wickham Hoffman. Minister M Denmark; l.nvinsH. Eoote. Minister toCorea: I an I Dwight T. Reed, Consul General at Madrid. In the House, a resolution reported from the ■ Commune on Rules by Mr. Reid, by which the Tariff bill could be taken upand passed without debate, precipitated a warm partisan debate. Mr. House, ot Tennessee, denounced the propo- 1 sition as a crime against the American jteople, I and Mr. Blackburn said so jealous were the , founders ot the Government of control ot the taxing power that they provided that nowhere on the continent should revenue bills originate exc< pt in the American House of Commons. Yet this rule promised that a revenue bill shall originate in the Senate, and the representatives ot tie people be denied an opportunity to discuss it. Mr. Cox denounced it as anoutrage upon the American people. Other denunciatory siieeches followed from the Democratic side ot the House, when the resolution was brought to a vote. The Democrats retrained from voting, lints breaking a quorum, and deferring further action on the resolution. Mr. Townshend introduced in the House a retaliatory bill to prevent the importation of deleterious wines : from Germany. Mr. Robinson presented a joint resolution to secure the cession of Ireland to the United States by purchase or otherwise. Loss of Confidence. A shepherd was eating his dinner i beside a spring when a wolf walked out of the forest and coolly inquired: “Well, how is the wool and mutton I business?” “Pretty fair,” replied the astonished I shepherd. ; “I have come to tell you.” continued the wolf, “that the hyenas have formed a plot to break into you sheep-fold tonight. and to offer mv services as a'prij vate watchman.” “You are ever so kind to give me this ; warning.” And yon just leave the gate open and go to lied feeling perfectly safe. The I first hyena wh. comes fooling around ' your mutton « ill find his heels breaking I his neck.” After some further conversation it was agreed that the gate should l>e loft open and that the wolf should stand | guard. Darkness was scarcely an hour old • when a great outcry was heard at the i fold and the shepherd ran out and dis-

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covered the wolf ill a trap lie had set : within the pen. “Is this the kind of confidence you had in me ?" howled the wolf as he struggled to get free. “I had plenty of confidence in you,” replied the shepherd, “but more in tlia trap! Prepare to die.” Moral: Don't lend the horse and saddle to the same person. “Gall” Wins. One of the mysteries in railroad operations is that so much is done in the way of courting the non-paying theatrical business. A reporter chanced to be in one of the local outside offices when one of those cheeky advance agents of a theatrical troupe came in. The first thing he called for was a railway guide, the looking over of which, laying out his route for a couple of weeks, occupied fully fifteen minutes. He then began to talk business. His first request was a pass for himself and his lithographer to a point 384 miles away, with a dozen stop-offs. Then, in a few days his programme distributor would be along, and he wished a pass for him and some 800 pounds of baggage. Then, at the same time, there would be boxes weighing 1,300 pounds, which he wished sent through to the terminus of the route laid out, free. This was all consented to. The ad- ' vance agent then remarked that there was 25 cents a day storage on the lastnamed box, which he wished the local agent would arrange with the baggagemen to throw off. He then asked for an order for the treasurer of the troupe for thirteen tickets, in which the amount (1 cent per mile for each) would be stated. Then the matter of connection was brought up, and it was found necessary to hold the train thirty to forty j minutes at three points, that they might fulfill their engagements. This was all arranged. Then the advance agent remarked that their scenery was bulky and probably it would be necessary to put it on a special car to carry it. Just then a sturdy farmer, who proposed to emigrate to a Kansas point, came in, stating that himself and his wife, and his wife’s sister and seven children w ere to emigrate there and he wanted the lowest rates. The local agent named the rate, which was 2J cents per mile per head, carried this side of the Missouri river, and an arbitrary rate was added on the west side. Here the baggage question came up, and it was found that it would cost him $lB to get it through, owing to excess in w eight. The farmer, who was going west to furnish produce which would be carried over these very roads, accepted the situation, called for the tickets, but, as lie pull out his pocket-book, said : “Look here captain, can t you put a little chap we have, about six years old, through free?” “Well, no; but I tell you what I will do —I will get him through on half-fare.” The farmer paid his money and left without a murmur, but the advance agent was still there using the paper of the railroad company and writing two or three teleiirjuns. which I 1 he wished sent free. ' Th'e' reporter left at this juncture, thinking that were he a general manager the theatrical party should pay high rates and the hornyhanded fanner should be the favored one of the two.—lndianapolis Journal. The Chickadee. The chickadee, or black-capped titmouse, is a very small bird, with the top of the head and throat black, beneath a light ash color and brownishwhite on the sides. This bird is universally known; it confines itself chiefly to the w oods in summer, and in the winter pays frequent visits to the garden and orchard for certain insects which are abundant in the fruit trees. Prompted by hunger, it sometimes enters our inclosures and picks up crumbs of bread and meat from the ground. These little birds seem more numerous in winter, because hunger renders them more familiar, and the absence of the summer birds and the leafless condition of the trees make them more conspicuous and cause their voices to be more audible in the greater silence that prevails in this season. We marvel at the power of resisting cold in birds so minute as the chickadees; but they are thickly clad in downy feathers, and constantly hi motion during the day. At night they resort to the hollows that contain their nests, where they find warmth and protection ; but in the daytime they seem mindless of the severest cold. They seek fatty substances, like other winter birds; and, if a piece of suet be nailed to a tree or post, the chickadees and other small birds will frequently peck from it. This contributes to their animal heat. The benefit conferred upon agriculture by the chickadees from their consumption of insects is immense. They are exclusively insectivorous, and. being permanent residents, their good work never ceases. Each individual, according to computation, consumes annually nearly 500,000 of insects with their larvie. This seems to me a moderate calculation. The companions of the chickadee join in the same good work, and are equally useful in proportion to their numbers. The least valuable species as checks to the multiplication of insects are the granivoreus birds. The English sparrows, especially, confine their foraging to the little [esthetic mounds that temporarily adorn our streets and roads, and to those resthetic coverings which are spread upon the inclosures of fanciful people who are especially neat in the management of their lawns.— Wilson Flagg, in ths i ! Boston Transcript. i | . ■ >. Australian Convicts. It was noted in Australia, in her convict days, that the ticket of leavers who went into trade were much more punctiliously honest than the average tradesman. They felt that they w ere the objects of jealous notice, and that numbers were waiting to catch them tripping, and exclaim, “Didn’t I tell you so ?” Looking at the heavy percentagc of these men who become exemplary citizens and fathers of worthy t families, it is a matter for profound reI i gret that the system had to be abandoned. The convict in England today is, as here, continually driven back against his better self into crime and - breeds a criminal family. Australia today has thousands of citizens wealthy, i honored and highlv educated, who but - I for their fathers Laving been sent to 1 | the antipodes would be thieves and ’ i outcasts. t Rev. Robert Collter says that t nothing bnt a love of reading saved him 1 from following in liis employer's foot- ! steps and dying of drink. 1| — — e Sin is a droll old wag teho wears i- i many guises,