Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 2, Number 39, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 30 December 1880 — Page 2

Utoppanee sMlg Jtim NAPPANEE. t • INDIAN A THE NEWS. ~ Compiled from Latejt Dispatches. Congress. The Senate was not In session on the 18th The Military Academy Appropriation bill ($322,125) was passed in the House. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill <sl,190,430) was debated in Committee of the Whole and reported back, when a vote was taken—--140 to 2—showing no Quorum present. The House resolution for a recess from December 22 to January 5 was Anally agreed to In the Senate on the 20th, by a vote of 33 to 28. Mr. Cockrell presented the petition of certain citizens of Missouri and Kansas reciting their citizenship, their desire to 'settle on lands in Indian Territory purchased by the Government, and their stoppage by United States troops, and asking for permission to settle on said lands and build up homes there. Mr. Hoar E resented the petition of a large number of usiness men and corporations of New England for a uniform Bankruptcy 1aw.... Bills were introduced in the House: By Mr. Dunn, providing that lands in Indian Territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and which are occupied by Indians, are public lands of the United States, and are hereby declared subject to settlement under the Homestead and Pre-emption laws; by Mr. Stevens, instructing the Committee on Agriculture to investigate the best mode of eradicating diseases of domestic animals; by Mr. Stephenson, extending to January 1, 18*2, the time for granting arrears of pensions; by Mr. Deering, repealing the law whicb limits the time for granting arrears of pensions; by Mr. Thomas Turner, to prevent fraud and corruption In election of President, Vice-Pres-ident, Senators and Representatives; by Mr. Frost, amending the Const so as to make a President ineligible to re-election; by Mr. Morton, for the repeal of the tax on bank cheeks and bank deposits. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was passed. A motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill to dispense with stamps on bank checks was defeated—l 29 to 68—not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. The Speaker made the following committee appointments; Mr. McKinley to the Committee on Ways and Means; Mr. Conger to the Committee on Rules; Mr. Taylor (Ohio) to the Judiciary Committee. Bills were introduced in the Senate on the 21str By Mr. Beck, to authorize the issue of legal-tender notes of tho United States upon deposits of gold; also to repeal all laws which impose taxes on capital of, or deposits with, banks and bankers and on bank checks; by Mr. Saunders, to establish an assay office at Deadwood; by Mr. Ingalls, for the admission of Ney Mexico as a State; by Mr. Whyte, a joint resolution proposing an amendment of the Federal Constitution, permanently Axing the number ot Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Vice-President submitted a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a communication from the Commissioner of Pensions setting forth the necessity for additional appropriations to the amount of about $lB,300,000 for the payment of pensions during the current fiscal year. Messrs. Pendleton and Dawes were appointed to All vacancies on the Civil-Service Committee ...Mr. Robeson introduced a resolution . in the House that the two houses assemble in February in the House Chamber to count the Electoral votes, but the members refused to consider it. Fernando Wood urged the necessity of passing the Funding bill before the holiday recess, and the House went into Committee of the Whole thereon, when Messrs. Weave?, Bland and Mills stated that they would oppose immediate action. A prolonged wordy warfare ensued, in the course of which Mr. Weaver denounced Mr. Sparks as a liar, and the latter retorted that Mr. W. was a scoundrel and a villain. Each then advanced toward the other in a threatening manner, but friends hurried them from the chamber.

Domestic. Two servant girls in Cincinnati, named Mary and Rosa Stegemann, have recently fallen heirs to a fortune estimated at from SBO,OOO to SIOO,OOO. Their mother committed suicide sixteen years ago, when Rosa w r as but a few months old, and the father shortly after went West and has never since been heard from. The children were then taken to the Catholic Orphan Asylum, where they remained until a year and ahalf ago, when places were found for them in families. The fortune comes through an aunt, the widow of Joseph Ruhe, of Philadelphia, and the Stegemann girls are her only heirs. Levi Pettibone, who was bom in Connecticut in 1780, celebrated his centennial birthday at St. Louis on the 17th. Charles A. Burt, an Albany malster, shot Kate Smith a few nights ago, and then killed himself. ABt. Paul (Minn.) telegram of the 18th says General Terry had information from Major, Btftthertou that Scout Allison started from the vicinity of Woody Mountain on the 11th with Sitting Bull’s camp of Indians, with the plan of going into Fort Buford to surrender. The Indians were said to be starving. They were few and in poor condition, and appeared to have but a small amount of ammunition. On the 17th Abraham Henry killed his uncle, Joseph Lewis, near Oxford, Ind., and on the 79th shot dead Deputy Sheriff Pierson, of Warren County, who attempted to arrest him. A recent explosion in a manufactory on Twenty-sixth street, New York, carried a fonr-thousand-pound boiler, almost unbroken, a distance of nearly two hundred feet, doing no damage on the route. The liabilities of B. G. Arnold A Cos., the bankrupt coffee firm of New York, are re* ported by the assignee at $2,157,914, and the assets at $1,571,198. The total population of the State of Maine, according to the returns made to the Census Office by the is 648,945. Os this number 324,084 are males and 324,861 are females; 590,076 are natives and 58,869 are foreign born; 646,903 are white and 2,042 are colored. During the week ended December 18, 418,995 standard silver dollars were distributedDuring the corresponding week in 1879 the number-was 434,990. - -, The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports the total values of exports of domestic breadstuffs for the eleven months ended November 30, 1880, at $256,762,380; same period in 1879, $230,791,604. Secretary Sherman on the 18th inspected the plates, seals and bills captured by SecretService officers with the Brockway gang of counterfeiters. Mr. Casilear, of the Bureau of Engraving, pronounced the work the equal in every way of that produced by the Government. The population of Montana TeEritory is as follows: Total, 89,157. Males, 28,180 males, 10,977; native, 27,642; foreign-born, ll t 515; white, 35,468; colored, 8,689.

On the night of the 17th the wall-paper manufactory of Birge & Son, at Buffalo, N. Y., was consumed by fire. The fiames spread so rapidly that egress from the building was cut off, and several of the workmen perished In the flames. On the 19th three corpses were recovered from the debris and five boys were still missing. It was thought that the loss of life was between fifteen and twenty. A few days ago Charles Slckler, of Scranton, Pa., gave his sick wife by mistake carbolic acid instead of hydrate of chloral. The wife died and Sickler became insane. Charles Jones was locked up in jail at Charlottesville, Va., for shooting a woman. On the evening of the 18th he* wrapped his bed-clothes about his neck, saturated them with kerosene, set them on fire and perished in the flames. On the 20th snow fell to the depth of five inches at Richmond, Va. Dispatches received from the Oklahoma invaders oh the 20th report that provisions were running short at Payne’s camp. Information had been received that a camp of thirty-eight wagons and fifty men had been established on the Cimarron within the limits of Indian Territory. Broadway, in New York City, from Union Square to Twenty-eighth street, is nightly illuminated by electricity. The Catholic Bishop of Virginia has induced thirty Catholic liquor-dealers of Richmond to sign a pledge to close their saloons on Sunday. Granville Harrell, a negro, who killed David Simmons with an ax, near Jackson, Miss., some days ago, was lynched on the night of the 18th by a masked party. Jones & McDonald and Ray & McLaury, two Chicago commission firms, suspended on the 20th. They had been operating heavily in wheat. Jones & McDonald’s liabilities were placed at $500,000. A horrible story comes from Monro County, Mississippi. Two fiends sought shelter at a farm house on the 18th, and during the night chloroformed the family, took all the money and valuables they could find, and then set fire to the house. Father, mother and child perished in the flames. One of the 4 men was captured the next day, and, on confessing his guilt, was tied tog tree and burnedf alive. Three negroes recently sold at Liberty, Va., under the Vagrant law have beeji discharged under a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that their cases did not come within the scope of the act Os 150 cases of diphtheria in Brooklyn, N. Y., during the week ended on the 18th fifty were fatal.

The United States Supreme Court has recently decided that an individual stockholder of an insolvent National Bank cannot be compelled to pay more than his full proportionate share of the bank’s liabilities in order to make good a deficiency caused by the inability of other stockholders to pay their proportionate shares. One of the heaviest snowstorms experienced in many years occurred in New York, New Jersey and the northern part of Virginia on the 20th and 21st. Railroads were blockaded, locomotives buried and great trees broken down by the weight of the. snow. Eighty feet of the great ocean pier at Long Branch had been w ashed away. A Buffalo (N. Y.) dispatch of the 21st says there were a large number of cases of diphtheria reported In that city, and in one section the public schools had been closed. The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided that a Telephone Company cannot lawfully discriminate against any person or corporation in putting up its instruments. Nauson, Bartholow <fc Cos., a grain cornmiss.on firm of St. Louis, failed on the 21st, with liabilities of $50,000. The firm was “long on wheat.” On tho same day the Chicago firm of Gardner, Btone & Cos., the head of which is an ex-Governor of Massachusetts, failed for about SIOO,OOO, and for substantially the same cause. On the 21st the San Francisco authorities reshipped to Hong Kong fourteen Chinese lepers lately arrived from that country. A delayed express train on the Pennsylvania Railroad ran Into a party of passengers on the track at Bristol on the 21st, and fatally injured four of the number. Personal and Political. The Ohio State Grange, by a vote of 86 to 4, has adopted a resolution asking the Ohio Legislature to pass a Local Option Liquor law. The American Woman’s Suffrage Association, at its recent session in Washington, adopted resolutions urging Congressional action and asking State Legislatures to grant suffrage to women in Presidential elections under the provisions of Article 2, Section 2, of the Federal Constitution. Dr. Mary A. Thomas, of Indiana, was elected President for the ensuing year, and Lucy Stone, Chairman Executive of the Committee. By direction of the President a general order was Issued from army headquarters on the 18th assigning Brevet Major-General OO. Howard to the Department of West Point; Brigadier-General C. C. Augur to the Department of Texas; Brevet Brigadier-Gen-eral Henry J. Hunt to the Department of the South; Brevet Brigadier-General R. S. Mackenzie to anew Department corrfprising Arkansas, Louisiana and Indian Territory; Ma-jor-General John M. Schofield to the new military division of the Gulf, and Brigadier-Gen-eral N. A. Miles to the Department of the Columbia. The official vote of Tennessee has recently been declared, and is as follows: For Hancock, 129,569; Garfield, 197,677; Weaver, 5,917; Dow, 43. Hancock’s plurality, 21,892; majority over all, 15,932. Kate Chase Sprague has filed a petition for divorce from her husband, William Sprague, In thC Washingtou County fR; L 7 Court A Washington dispatch of the 18th says the certificates of the Electoral vote had been received by mail from every State in the Union. The Louisville Courier-Journal of the 19tb gives the following as the footings of the official popular vote for President, derived from official sources; Hancock, 4.453,498; Garfield, 4,461,249; Weaver, 307,998; Dow, 9,834; scattering, 9,579. Total vote, 9,241,156. Garfield over Hancock, 6,751. President Hates has requested General Crook and General Miles, of the army, William Stlckney, of Washington, and Walter Allen, of Newton, Mass., to proceed to In-

dian Territory and investigate the Ponca question. Governor Foster has withdrawn from the contest for the Ohio Senatorship. An oil portrait of ex-Speaker Jonathan Trumbull has been presented to the National House of Representatives by the General Assembly of Connecticut. The New England Society of Brooklyn, N. Y., had their first annual festival on the night of the 21st Prof. B. 1). Billiman presided. Among the guests were General Grant, President Hayes, General Sherman, Secretary Evarts, etc. Foreign. A building which was being repaired at St. Henri, Canada, fell the other day. One man was killed and several others-Racily injured. O# the 19th 2,000 persons met and resolved to buy nothing from Jewish shops, and to return no Liberal to Parliament who will not vote to suppress the liberty of the proscribed people. A child named Mary E. Gurd was killed by a street car in Toronto a few days ago, and her mother, on viewing the remains, became hopelessly insane. A Dublin dispatch of the 19th says that Mr. Downing, a Justice of the Peace in County Mayo, had been compelled to flee to Dublin for having issued writs of ejectment Police with drawn bayoners alone prevented the wrecking of his residence by a mob of two thousand persons. A London telegram of the 20th savs a Republic had been organized at Heidelburg, in Africa* by the Boers, who numbered five thousand, and a detachment of Colonial troops had been sent to the scene of the revolt. It was thought in London that Wolscley would be dispatched thither with a British army. A Berlin dispatch of the 20th says the task of improving the finances of Turkey had been abandoned as hopeless by Herr Wittendorf, a Prussian. f A late conflagration at Rangoon, in Burmih, caused damage estimated at $13,000,/XX). Dublin dispatches of 4he 20th say that British troops were daily landed at Queenstown, and that the tni&les in Ireland were as pronounced as ever. The constabulary had been instructed to use the utmost vigilance to protect bailiffs and care-takers. The Empress of Austria announces that, owing to the disturbed condition of affairs in Irelaud, she shall forego her usual hunting season in that country. Rev. Mr. Delabekk, Vicar of Prestbury, Eng., has been suspended for six months for ritualistic practices. The British Postal Department announces that it is prepared to establish telephonic facilities in any town in the Kingdom. An enthusiastic demonstration of Orangemen and Protestant farmers took place at Coleraine, Ireland, on the 21st, at which resolutions were passed energetically denouncing the Land-League agitation and the inaction of the Government relative to affairs in Ireland. A tenant-farmer named Mullen, while returning from Ballinrobe market on the night of the 20th, was fired upon by six men concealed behind a wall on the road to Hollyraount. He died immediately, all the bullets taking effect. The public debt of Canada was Jncreased $9,500,000 during the last fiscal year. In a railway collision near Leeds, Eng., on the 21st, -one man was killed and fifty injured.

LATER NEWS. The United States Senate on the 33d confirmed the nomination of Judge Woods to succeed Justice Strong as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Poison absorbed while slaughtering a diseased cow recently caused the death of John C. Allen, of North Reading, Maas. The surgeons first amputated his lingers, then his right hand, and finally the whole arm, without staying the disease. A safe weighing nine hundred pounds wr.s removed from the Erie Hallway depot at Chester, N. Y., by robbers, a few days ago. While standing on the steps of a banking house in Cincinnati the other day, an Ohio farmer was robbed of 41,000. Tub Mdburn Hotel, at Toledo, O., took fire on the morning of the 21st, and Henry Seaman lost his life by leaping from a third-story window. A. L. Ackerman, United States AttorneyGeneral during the first Presidential term of General Grant, died at Cartersville, Ga., on the night of the 21st, of inflammatory rheumatism. The New York Stock Exchange has secured the arrest, ou the charge of obtaining muney under false pretenses, of the officers of the “Mutual Stock-Operating Company,” who have been duly indicted. On the morning of the 22d a twenty-inch water-main burst in the city of Buffalo, N. Y., and seriously damaged seventeen large warehouses. A section of pavement sixty* feet square caved in, leaving a lake nine feet deep. The people of Austin, Texas, having faith In His professed reformation, have elected aa City Marshal Ben Thompson, one of the most noted desperadoes of the Lone Star State. The United States Senate on the 22d passed the House bill for the relief of settlers on restored railroad lands. A number of private bills were also passed. Adjourned to January 5. In the House Mr. Bowman alluded to the disorderly proceedings of the day before, and offered a resolution for the expulsion of Messrs. Wearih* and Sparks; Mr. McLane proposed that the offenders be required to make an apology to the House; Mr. Weaver then expressed his sorrow M having used such language on the floor of the House, and, Mr. Sparks said he owed an apology to the House, and freely tendered it Mr. Clymer, from the Appropriations Committee, reported the Army Appropriation bill (226,190,800), and it was ordered printed. Adjourned to January 5. A train on the Carolina Central road broke down a trestle near Llncolnton, on the 22d. David Bloom, a mall agent, and J. W. Goodson, a passenger, were disabled and subsequently burned to death in the wreck. TnE police stationed at Milltown, Ireland, were reported to be actually suffering for food en the 221, the Inhabitants refusing to sell them provisions of any kind. It is stated that orders had been Issued to station 30,000 British soldiers In Ireland.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The general store of Jostah Lawrence, at Hartsville, was destroyed by fire ou tho morning of the 15th. The loss, including the three adjoining buildings that were burned, was in the neighborhood of $6,030. James Fethers, of Indianapolis, has sued a former rival and his father-in-law for alienating the affections of his wife. He thinks that he has been Injured to the extent of $10,030. C. O. Lipb, the local agent of the Singer Sewing Machine Company at Columbus, has been arrested on the charge of embezzlement. He is charged with selling machines for cash and reporting them as credit sales, and appropriating "the money. Mrs. Oliver P Morton visited Postmaster Holloway’s office, in Indianapolis, a few days since, and examined the model of the monument and statue to be erected to the mt mory of her husbanjl. She was not entirely satisfied with the bust of the dead Senator. Mrs. Clem has been in prison at Indianapolis nine months, so that the boast of her attorney that the Supreme Court would Soon Bet her free has not been realized. A few days ago a live-year-old son of Madison Kisiter, of Boone township, Cass County, accidentally ewallo wed a large two-cent piece, and since that time every effort has been made by physicians, • with medicines, to relieve him of it. Thus far they have been unsuccessful, and fears are entertained that the child will be poisoned from the copjjer unless the Burgeon’s 'knife is resorted to. On the morning of the 15th at Fort Wayne, Henry Gellner r . a switchmau, was struck by the ebst-bound express in; the yard of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, and fatally Injured. Gellner was forty years of age, and had been sixteen years in the employ of the road when killed. He had $550 on his person. At Lafayette early on the morning of the 15th Police Officer Neville, in the discharge of his duties while making an arrest of “Punch” Jones, a noted rough, shot him through the breast. It is doubtful whether he will live. Muss Addie Hay was engaged to teach school near Jeffersonville, and when the school-house was burned the District Trustees failed to provide other quarters. Miss Hay has now, by process of law and a Supreme Court dieision, obtained her salary for the entire term. Miss Mattie Lafoi.lette, only daughter of Judge D. W. Lafollette, of New Albany, has been adjudged insane from injuries to her spine by being thrown from a buggy a few weeks since. After several years’ experimenting with costly rfiUchinery and apparatus, the Indianapolis School Boiird has been compelled to direct the Committee on* Building/ and Grounds to investigate and report the oost of fitting Up the'buildings now heated by steam with stoves. Steam-heating has not proved satisfactory either in ventilation or the distribution of heat. The Commissioners of Madison County are considering the sfibject of erecting anew Court House. The members are divided in opfnion as to how expensive a building should be put up, one of them, at least, not being willing to go beyond $70,000. Pr is stated that there is enough fencing in the State of Indiana to dirde around the world thirteen times. The total length of fence is 111,080,391 rods, or 344,201 miles. Durins the year ending November 30, the Indianapolis Rolling-Mill Company turned out 22,8i7 tons of rails, being an iucrease of 8,840 tons over the product of any year In its history.

Several prominent and prosperous Rush Cbunty farmers, aftgr living upon their farms for*many years and expending large sums for improvements, find that their titles are fatally defective, and that others are likely to reap where they have sown. The Attorney-General has just given the following decision, which is of considerable public interest, in response to an inquiry from a County Auditor: Your question is this: The County Auditor makes a school-fund loan on real estate. DefaulAeing made in the payment, the State advertises the property and acquires title. After the date of the loan, but before the forfeiture to the State, taxes—city, State and cofitnty—assessed against the loanee, accrue. Is the real estate in the hands of the State, or a purchaser from the State, liable for such taxes? i answer: First—As to • State and county taxes, the land, while held by the State, Is not liable. Such tuxes must be collected, if at all, off of the other property of the loanee. Such taxes are liens, and liens which the State creates for moneys due her from the citizen. The Ststo afterward acquires, through the school-fund mortgage forfeiture, the fee simple to the land. I think that proceeding merges the lien for State and county taxes, for the State cannot hold both lien and fee at the same time. Second—As to city taxes, the ease is not so clear. (Jnlike State and county tuxes, city taxes are collectedly and in the name of the city. Section 36 or the act governing cities says: “All (city) taxes on real estate shall be a lien to the same extent as a judgment of a court of generul jurisdiction, and shall have preference to any privute charge upon the same." I think the State's claim under a prior school-fund mortgage does not fall under the head of a “private charge." I think it is, on the contrary, a public charge, and that city taxes accruing subsequently thereto are junior encumbrances, and cut out by a forfeiture under a school-fund mortgage proceeding. Third—As to theliabillty of a subsequent Surchaser from the State, I do not think such tate or county taxes could be enforced against the land in his hands. These taxes are merged by the State’s taking the lee anterior to bis purchase. lam aware that Sections 169 and 170 of the tax act make taxes a perpetual lien, and provide that “ such lien shall not be affected or destroyed by Rny sale or transfer of such real estate." J construe these sections as applying to sales by citizens and not to sales by the sovereign power—the State—and I think the same rule applies to city taxes. City-tax sales are governed by the provisions of the general tax act. Sec. 222 of that act prescribes the effect of a tax deed. It says: “Which deed shall vest in the grantee an absolute estate in fee simple, subject, however, to all the claims which the State may have thereon for taxes or other ileus or encumbrances.” . Tbis_clearbi preserves the State’s priority under a school- - fund loan, and also the priority of a title taken in the enforcement of that loan. I have eome to the conclusion, therefore, that a purchase title from the State after the State has acquired title upon a forfeiture of a school-fund borrower and mortgagee takes the Brecedence to any tax deed or lien, whether tate, city or county, for taxes that accrued subsequontAo the school-fund loan. Os course there uro no taxes prior to such loan, for neither County nor State Auditors loan school money upon lands in any way encumbered by taxes, mortgages or other liens. The Indianapolis gram quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 41<g 41#c; Outs, The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 45(<z46c; Oats, 87@Wc; Rye, Barley, 95c(<g*1.15.

<f Poor and Content is Rid, and Rich Enough.” “ A leetle money will bny wood an’ 'taters an’ bacon, an’ shoes an’ cloze,” began Brother Gardner, as the meeting opened. “Lots of money will buy silks an’ satins an’ jewelry an’ white bosses. De man wid a leetle'money seems to believe dat de man wid lots of itr am takin’ all de comfort. I used to have dat ideah, but Ise got ober it. It am my solumn belief dat de man who sots down befo’ his own lire, wid bis wife on de right an’ J his chill’en on de left, an’ de ole cat an’ a panfull o’ apples in de mujdle, am in posishun to take jist\s„fflrt!ch comfort as if he lived in a house wid golden sta’rs. Take de world frew an’ you’ll fin’ dat de humblest homes am de happiest. De man who has steady work, a savin’ wife an’ healthy children wouldn’t be a bit happier if he was to draw $50,000 in a lottery. If he doan’t take comfort it’s his own fault. It’s her own fault if his wife isn’t happy. Sometimes my ole womam gits de blues an’ blows aroun’ kase she sees odder folks ride out in deir keeridges an’ dress up in deir satins, but I build up a good lire, git out de apples, cider an’ pop-corn, draw up de big rockin’-cheer, an’ she can’t stan’ it ober ten minits. De blues begin to fly away, an’ she pats de bald spot on my head an’ says, ‘We has a cabin of our own, plenty to eat, a leetle money in de bank, an’ I ’spect we kin sot down an’ take as much solid comfort as if you was Guv’ner, an’ I had ten silk dresses.’ He who makes de most of what he’s got am fittin’ hissclf to enjoy better. No situashun but what could be made worse. Ebcry dollar made by honest work ought to bring two dollars’ worf of solid comfort. Wid dese few remarks, called forth by overhearin’ Samuel Shin growlin’ aroun’ bekase he couldn’t have mashed ’taters at ebery meal, we will now eradicate the usual order of business. —Detroit Free Press. Certain unscrupulous Havana cigarmakers haye for some years past been giving large orders to a’ paper factory in New York State for a peculiar kind of straw paper. The Havanose thoroughly soak this paper in a solution of refuse tobacco boiled in water, and then press it in a stamp constructed to give it the exact appearance of the finest tobacco leaf. Millions of cigars are made of this bogus tobacco and exported to America and Europe. It is stated that this tobacco leaf is so good an imitation of the real article as to defy detection. Tho only way of discovering the fraud is by weighing the cigars, the spurious being somewhat lighter than the real. Tne profits made by the rascally Havana merchants are enormous, as the first cost of these paper cigars is next to nothing.

A Galveston man went to the market to get a fish for dinner. The price asked wad high, and the fish did pot look as if it was quite fresh, and he so told the fish dealer; whereupon that worthy pulled open the fish’s gills to show they were red, which is regarded as an unfailing test of freshness. “ 1 see they are red, but a fish that had been dead a week would blush to hear the price you ask for it. Miss Edmonia Lewis, the colored sculptor, is very happy in her Roman studio. In early life her name, given to her by her Indian mother (of the Chippewa tribe), was “Wild-fire,” and she roamed with that tribe for fifteen vears. Her father was a negro. She became a Roman Catholic. Among her best friends is United States Minister Marsh. Contentment is ever so much better than riches; but somehow the stupid world never falls down and worships the contented man; nor do mammas with marriageable daughters run after him. —N. 0. Picayune. THE MARKETS^ New York, December 23,1880. LIVE STOCK—Cattle $8 00 @sll 50 Sheep 400 @ 700 _ Hogs 450 @ 485 FLOUR—Good to Choice 505 @ 600 White Winter Extras ... 510 @ fl 75 WHEAT-No. 2 Rod 1 16 @ 117 No. 2 Spring 115 (ft 116 CORN—No. 2 ' 57 @ 67*4 OATS Western Mixed 40 (ft 43 RYE—Western 04 95 PORK-Mess 13 25 (sl3 50 LARD-Steam 8 97% @ 900 CHEESE 10 C<fj 12*4 WOOL-Domestic 37 (ft 52 CHICAGO. R BEEVES—Extra $5 80 (ft's6 50 Choice (ft/ 5 75 Good ... 45) © 4 75 Medium 375 (ft 425 Butchers’ Stock 240 © 326 Stock Cattle 260 (ft 335 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice 450 (ft 500 SHEEP—Poor to Choice 350 (ft 600 BUTTER—Creumeiy ... 32 @ 35 Good to Choice Dairy 21 (ft 28 EGGS-Fresh . 26 @ 27 FLOUR—Winter 500 (ft 650 Springs .... 400 (ft 625 Patents... 700 (ft 825 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Spring 97%<ft 07% Corn, No. 2 37%ft 87% Oats, No. 2 29%(ft 80 • Rye, No. 2 .. 83 (ft 83% Barley, No. 2 109 @ 1 09% BROOM CORN— Red-Tipped Hurl 5 @ 5% Fine Green 6 @ 6% Crooked.... 3 <ft 4 PORK : 11 60 (ft 12 87% LARD-Steam 840 (ft 8 42% LUMBEKCommon Dressed Siding,. 17 00 @lB 50 Flooring 25 00 <ft 82 00 Common Boards 10 00 (ft 14 00 Fencing 10 50 (ft 13 50 Lath 200 (ft 225 Shingles 25 ) ft 825 EABT LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best $5 10 (ft $5 50 Fair to Good 4 25 ($6 00 HOGS—Yorkers 445 (ft 455 Phlladelphlas... 475 (ft 490 SHEEP-8e5t......... 400 @ 575 Common 300 (ft 350 BALTIMORE. CATTLE-Best $4 50 (ft $5 75 Medium 300 <a 426 nOGS—Good 550 (ft 660 SHEEP—Poor to Choice 350 © 6 12%