Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 36, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 July 1881 — Page 2

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LOOMINGTON COURIER.

EL J. FELTUS, Puijusuer.

KLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA.

HERE AXD THERE,

The Emperor of China baa the small pox. Hon. James jS", Tyter appears to be "in for diirm."

Mr. Conkwko has given up bis rooms at Washington. There are 5,000 armed soldiers in the County of Cork, Ireland. The influx of Chinese into Australia is causing considerable commotion. Chinese immigrants axe still arriving at San Francisco in large numbers. ' The tail of the comet is four millions of miles long, but it don't Jwag the comet. Jesuit priests, expelled by order of the Government, are leaving Nicaragua in squads. It is' now reported' that European harvests promise more than an average crop of grain. The New York saloon keepers are organizing for the purpose of making their own. beer.

Gen. Foster has received notice of his appointment as United States Marsal for this State.

The British Parliament is giving three days of the week to the consideration of the land bill.

The Jews in New York are raising $10,000 for the relief of their persecuted co-religionists in Russia. an Anti-Monopoly League hss been established in every Assembly district ofthe State of New York.

Mr. Porter, a census expert, estimates that the National debt is owned by less that 100,000 persons. The commission of Judge Robertson a? the Collector of the Port of New York has been signed by the President. A Judge of election at Chicago has been found guilty of JTaud on the ballot-box, and sentenced to imprisonment. -k "s Col. Dubley has t:iken the oath of office, and entered upon he discharge of his duties as Commissioner of Pensions. The London, England, newspapers me crowded with the prospectuses of speculative companies recently organized. The King of Siam has just sent over a stone for the Washington monument, and the Legislature of Nebraska appropriated $1,000 to help along. The Grand Jury at Albany; N. -Y., has found indictments -for bribery against three Legislative lobbyists Barber, Phelps and Edwards. The Trades' Unioii New York are demanding a weekly half-holiday on Saturday afternoona, and employers

are generally opposing the demand.

the grand .jury at Albany, N. Y.,

has presented twelve indictments, of

which seven are sealed, and the names

of the persons indicted are not dis

closed. . "r

a pboposition - to abolish capita

punishment recently received 80 votes

in the English House of Commons,

out was defeated by 189 votes in the

native.

.:, Prof. Kim, of Kentucky, claims to have discovered the comet last September, and says it is the same visitor that produced a disj urban ce .of the ele

ment in 1783.

The rench astronomers say that the comet has no head worth speaking of, but a"n immense tail, which is seven million leagues in length. It Is to be visible about three weeks longer and then t disappear for seventy-four years. Minneapolis, Minn., is to have a monster flouring mill, requiring 10,000,000 bushels of wheat per annum to supply it. It will turnout rive and a half barrels of flour per minute, 333 barrels; per hour, 8,000 per day, and 2,400,0d0 barrels per year of 300 days. It was announced in the British House of Commons Monday that twenty-seven justices of the peace have been reported guilty of corrupt practices during the last general election, and fifteen have placed their resignations in the hands of the Lord High-chanoellor.

A csiiEBRATEB French physician says that tobacco smoking colors the bones. Think of that, yonng man, when you purl your cigar or cigarette. How can you bear to have your bones a sickly yellow or dirty brown, when they might be beautifully white ? Swear oft, y. m., swear off. A striking illustration of the depreciation in the value of landed property is afforded by a remark made recently by. one of the richest noblemen in England, who, in conversation on the subject, said he should be glad to get a return of one per cent, on the r -estimated value of his land. Because Mollie DeHart was only 13, her parents forbade her to marry Bruce Cooper, a young lawyer of Moorehead, Ky. The couple eloped, but had not gone many miles before the bridegroom was very sorry for what he had done, advised the girl to return home, and committed suicide by shooting himself. An English philanthropist is wearing himself out in New York city in an effort to confer lasting benefits upon this country by walking 6,000 quarter miles in 0,000 consecutive ten minutes. Such human tarians as this British hero and Griscom, the Chicago faster, are sure to receive more than their due of honor and renown from the great American public. General Sherman lately stated that Custer, previous to his last tight, had ridden his men so hard that when

they Mont into the right they were not, upon dismounting, able to stand, but staggered like drunken men, and in some instances were .merely clubbed to death by the Indians. Biding as they

rode, laden with amunition, they were

whipped before they could strike a blow. ' Astronomers are sill undecided as to the identity of the comet now visible in the heavens. Professor Swift, of Rochester, thinks it resembles Donatio comet of 185S, and is not the one of 1812. Professor Draper, of New York, believes it is not Gould's comet, seen about June 3, in South America, while Professor Stone, of Cincinnati, thinks it is the same one seen by Dr. Gonld, and also that It may be the comet of 1807, whose return was not expected for 1,700 years.

Jt is rumored in Washington that

the President is about to ask Attorney

General Mac Veacrh to resiem and that

William E. Chandler will probably be

offered the position,

The saloon license having been recently raised in Pittsburg, Pa., from $50 to 300, the salaonaties refused to

pay, whereupon 300 of them were in

dicted in one batch.

It is said that William Hernden, the

former law partner of Abraham Lincoin, is now a pauper, at Springfield,

111., in eonsequeneeof his intemperate

use or anient spirits.

The wheat harvest in Southern Kan-

sia is over, with an estimated average

yield of fifteen bushels to the acre, against sixteen bushels last year. The grain is of superior quality. In Oregon, recently, while a farmer was driving a drove of 1,110 sheep over the Blue Mountains, the sheep stampeded and leapt over a precipice, killing 850 of them outright . Aix the gambling houses of St. Louis have been closed, an act of the Legislature declaring the keeping of sueh houses a felony having gone into effect midnight Saturday. The maimed soldiers' and sailors' League of Philadelphia, has drafted a pension bill, fixing the pension of all combatan ts who lost a limb or the use of it, at forty dollars per month. At Merced, Ca! last week, a fire swept over 7,250 acres of wheat and other grain, destroying everything in its course, including many farm houses and a great deal of farming machinery.

The Pennsylvania Legislature

passed an act making bribery, corruption or frauds at primary elections and delegate conventions misdemeanors, and punishing them accordingly. Baron Magnus, the German- Minister at Copenhagen, who was summarily dismissed y his Government some months ago because of his doing honor to Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress, is now a lunatic. Professor Pecer Litchpielw, the Hamilton College (Utica, N. Y.J astronomer, saya tfce dark line through the center of the comet is the shadow of the nucleus: He does not believe this is either the comet of 1800 or that of 1812. : A stone fifteen feet wide, twentyfive feet long, seven inches thick, and weighing twenty tons; has been quarried in New Jersey, and will? be laid in front of the New York residence of W. & Vanderbilt, '

A census expert estimates the distribution, of the bonds as follows: "In the absence of exact figures, I should say that the New England States own about eleven per cent, of them, the Middle States about forty-three per cent., the Southern States a trifle oyer two per cent., and the Western States nearly eight and one-half per cent., while the banks, insurance companies, and other corporations own about thirty-five and one-fourth per eent." The latest ill news from Russia is that there is a famine in various departments of the empire. The condition of the population in these districts is said to be wretched in the extreme. A.t the same time typhus is reported to be raging in a deadly form among the garrisons of Uraisk and Kalmikowa, in consequence of the bad food supplied to the troops. Tainted fish and meat are said to .have been furnished by contractors. The condition of the Jews in Russia is impzoving somewhat. In one village in the district of 3Cieff the peasants have voluntarily compensated the Jews to the extent of 800 rubles for the loss they had suffered, the

amount of money, though Insignifi-J

cant, being evidence of a return of human- feeling. Good effect is also expected from orders given by the

Metropolitans of Moscow and Kieff to f the clergy of those districts to preach J

against the persecution of the Jews.

The new Rhode Island liquor law provides that no license shall be grant

ed for any place situated within 400

feet of a public school, and that a ma

jority of the land owners within 100 feet

of the place for which the license is

asked shall be sufficient to prevent the

granting or tne license. The liquor interest is furious and breathes vengeance against the members of the

Legislature who succeeded in passing

the law.

weak, he took the chair, aud was regarded with astonishment " by the Southern delegates, some of whom asked, "What is there about that man to recommend him for Chairman?" Presently Mr. Lue began to speak, and in the flowery manner especially pleasing to the Southerners. At the end of his speech they rushed over to the Indiana delegates, enthusiastically shaking hands, and one exclaimed, in the exuberance of his joy, 1 'Heavens! hes old Demosthenes! Have you auy more men like him in Indiana? '

The Census Bureau gives us the grain product of the United States for the year 1S79. From these tables we learn that from 62,327,952 acres planted in corn there were raised 1,772,909,846 bushels; from 35,478,065 acres in wheat the y ield was 287,745,626 bushels ; 36,150,611 acres of oats produced 407,970,712 bushels; 2,005,466 acres devoted to barley gave in 41,149,479 bushels; the 1,844.321 acres sown in rye brought fourth 16,91 S,795 bushels, and the 856,304 acres of buckwheat gave a return of 9,821,721 bushels, The total acreage for cereals in 1S79 was HS,66o,619, and the yield nearly 3,000,000,000 bushels, or an average of fifty -four bushels to each individual of our 50,000,000 of population.

The New York workmen iu many trades who have been trying to secure a half holiday on Saturdays are, contrary to first reports, meeting with considerable success; and if they are not too greedy the chances are that their "demand" will be generally conceded. Some of the employers are willing to give their men two hours of leisure on Saturday, but say that an entire half day would jeopardize their business. It is thought that the men would do well to accept this offer, aud not make it the pretext for a foolish strike. If they get two hours tbis year, and are grateful for so much, they may get more hereafter. This movement is a reasonable one, aim considerate employers will not frown upon workmen who ask for a few hours of leisure once a week.

The emigration statistics of Germany are engaging the serious attention of the Imperial Chancellor, who has submitted to the Buudesrath tables showing that during the yearlSSO no fewer than 11,454 young men liable to military service quitted the Fatherland for America. As the exodus during the past year was nothing bay on d the common, whereas this season the numbers are assuming alarming pro portions, it seems likely that the military service will be deprived of at least 20,000. young men. The worst feature of the case, of course, is that the emigration of this class means a twofold loss to the country the sinew and backbone of the land axe leaving it, and the aged, infirm, and children are left behind. The chief exodus seems to be from Prussia. Bavaria, with a population equal to one-ninth of the whole of Germany, only supplies one-twentieth of the emigrants, seeming to demonstrate the fact that life in the south is not so unendurable as in Prussia itself.

The Iowa Republican Stato conven- T of the riot, several Genu a us were stab-

lion had a protracted season of nominal ing a candidate for the Governship. On the twelfth ballot ex-State Auditor Slier man received 510 votes, or one vote more than a majority, whereupon his nomination was made unanimous amid great eulhusiasm. Mr. Brown, private secretary to President Garfield, who was entrusted with a private mission to United States Minister Lowell, relative to the Irish land troubles and the part played thereiu by Irish Americans, is returning with a large and lengtby report gleaue I by United States Consuls in Ireland. Mr. Euler, a fire works dealer, was fined live shillings in Philadelphia Thursday morning for a breach of the anti-fire works act, passed in 1721 (against the peace of our sovereign Lord, his most gracious Majesty King George the First of England.") The magistrate iusisiiug on the fine being paid in shillings, the defendant bought them of a Third street broker. T. J. Gould, a retired business man, was murdered while traveling on an express train from London to Brighton and his corpse thrown out at Balcombe Tunnel. A reporter named Lefroy or Mapleton is suspected, aud robbery is believed to have been the object.. The English railway carriages are divided into sections or compartments of half a dozen seats, and the doors of these sections are locked between stations. Several notable murders have occurred in railroad carriages. On Saturday evening William G. Whitney, a son of the well-known litigant. Mrs. Myra Ciark Gaines, was murdered by his brother-in-law, James Y. Christmas. The two men and their families, who lived with Mrs. Gaines in the Catacazv mansion, Washington, had been in business together, and the quarrel which caused the murder was in regard to the settlement thereof. They left the dinner table together, aud'as they passed into the hall Chrismas drew a revolver and shot Whitney through the heart. The murderer has been arrested,

THE NEWS.

a

The Chief of the Bureau of Statis

tics reports that the total values of the

exports of petroleum and petroleum

products from the United Stales d ur

ine: the month of April, 1881, and dur

ing the ten months ending the same,

as compared with similar exports during the corresponding periods of the

previous year, were as follows: April,

1881, $2,752,716; April, 1S80, $1,995,182;

ten months, ended April 30. 1881, $31,-

401,223; ten months, ended April 30. 1880, $32,607,997, A Bia fight is organizing against that most tyranical of all monopolies, the Standard Oil Company, which has for some year3 absolutely controlled the petroleum interest of this country. Many of the oil refinery firms and companies of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, are combining for mutual protection 'against the Standard Company's despotism, and to aggravate the hatefulness of this despotism, it has been discovered recently that the Standard Company has been cheating by a shortage of from one to four gallons in the contents of its barrels. . Or the late Henry S. Lane an old friend relates, he was chosen Chalrmaniof the Pb iladelphia Repu bl ican Convention in '56, just after a severe

attack of illness. Pale, cadaverous and

Home Items. The Board of Agriculture of the State of Ohio estimates the wheat crop this year at 44,000,000 bushels. Saturday evening the Jews in one New York synagogue raised $1,500 for their persecuted co-religionisfcs in Russia,

Mrs. Antony, wife of a clergyman at

Shelbyville, Tennessee, fatally shot

herself while attempting to shoot hawk.

In a quarrel between two lads, aged

13 and 16, respectively, in Boston, the

younger one shot the other, inflicting

a ratal wound.

Buffalo reports the arrival of the

largest tow of lumber from Michigan

which ever passed through the great

jaKes. it consists of 3,2oO,000 .feet.

Mrs. Miller and her young son were

instantly'killed by lightning on Sunday

evening at Sturtevart Station. Ala,

The infant in her arms was uninjured.

John G. Saxe, the wit, is becoming

a confirmed hypochondriac, partly

from want of exercise, and partly from

ujuuuiug over me joss oi nis cnuuren.

Hostilities have been opened be

tween the Gould and Vanderbilt railJ V. . J ;' - w .

roau comDinanons. may it be a war

to the death. "When rogues fall out,"

eic.

The finding of the Whittaker court

martial, with a full account of the pro

ceedings, comprising 7,500 foolscap

pages, nas oeen ior warded to washing-

xon.

There are 44.497 oostoflioesi in the

United States. During the year 2,894 were established and 1,408 discontinued. The number of postmasters comm ission ed is 1 0,441 . , Commissioner Rauni has decided that the sum of $165,445 07 is duo the United States Government on evasious of tax by the three Canadian banks doing business in Chicago. Attorney General MacVeagh insists that there will be no ulet up" in the Star Route prosecution, the President and the Cabinet being determined to go to the root of the busiuc ss. ' The sleeping Hungarian, wto has been in a camatose condition for 185 days at tho Lehigh (Pa.) county poorhouse, has . spoken a few words, and may, therefore, be said to be awake. Parnell has not yet decided as to the date of his visit to this country, the ob

ject of which i3 . to discourage the exertions of that pestilent blatherskite, O Donovan Rossaaud his skirmishers. The international pigeon race was flown on Saturday from different par Is of (lit United States and Canada, the distance to their homes being 250 miles; the winners made that distance at the rate of a mile in two minutes.

A youth of seventeen, named Frank Fritz, of Columbuf, Ohio, having no funds to pay for a meal at a Cleveland restaurant, drew his revolver, and fired twice at the restaur nieur, George Williams, almost inUantlv killing him. A game of base ball was played at Albany, N. Y., Wednesday, by Stal wart and Democratic mem uers of the Legislature, for the benefit of the families of the men who w re killed while working on the new Capitol building. There were seven innings Democrats, 58; Stalwarts, SB. A contract has been, made in St. Louis for an experimental shipment ol 30,000 bushels of Spring wheat from St. Paul to Glasgow, Scotland, by barges to New Orleans, thence by steamer. If the shipment proves successful others will follow. The rate for the first shipment was 28 cents per bushel.

Foreign. That San Diego Tichborne is a fraud, at least so his neighbors say. The Mexican government proposes to establish a National bank.

Thirty thousand nail-makers in Staf

fordshire, England, have struck for 30 per ceut. higher wages. There are no prospects of a good English harvest, a'ld doubts are entertained of even an average one.

A Paris dispatch reports the appear

ance of a new and terrible contagion resembling leprosy at Toulouse. The Journal de St, Petersburg offi

cially denies the report that Russia intends to act belligerently towards

China, It is believed that the negotiations between France and England foi a new commercial treaty will fall through. ' This y ear the emigration from Sweden to America will reach 70,000, which is about one-sixtieth of the entire population. , At the attack of Alegian insurgents on the Spanish faction, at Saida, 100 were massacred, and 400 wounded and taken prisoners, Spain has fallen on prosperous times, which is proved by an improvement in internal affairs and a large diminution in the national debt. Further particulars of the electric railway of Siemens and Halske, the inventors, tried in the suburb of Berlin, state it to be a success. A report from Piedras Negras states that several American engineers have been killed in Mexico in consequence of disputes regarding right of way. Ennis, the policeman, who killed a farmer named Maloney during a writ riot near Dublin, has been committed for trial on the charge of murder. Russia thinks that if England can

protest against the action of Fenians in America, something should be done by European powers to limit the conspiracies of excited Nihilista. The German authorities are taking measures to hinder the large eniigration from the fatherland. A bill with this object is to be introduced into the next session of the Reichstag. McAulifie. a process server who gave evidence against the president of a

local land league, was. shot dead at his residence near Castle Island, County Kerry, Ireland, Tuesday evening. In the Henley regatta, which commenced Thursday, the Cornell crew were "a bad third'1 in the race for the Steward's Cup. The Americans are said to row in a cramped, jerky, slow style. Bon Amana, the rebel chief of Oran, Algeria, is said by spies to have murdered the French soldiers captured by him, and spared only thirty-three of

the Spaniards whom he took prisoners

near Saida.

The Right Rev. Dr. Nulty, Bishop of

Meath, Ireland, speaking at Multifour-

ham, indorsed the Land League and

desired them to pay the expenses of

evicted persons wiua me am oi i

Irish Americans.

Soain is discussing the question cf

free trade versus protection. The pro

tectionists, at a ireetinsr held in Bar

celona, pointed to the nourishing con

dition of the United States as a power

ful argument in their favor.

A Montenegrin officer, who went to

the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, to

obtain an audieuce of the Princess of

Montenegro and was refused that lion

or. stnbuou tne omceron uuty. wnere-

upon another officer shot the Monte

negrin ueau.

The leaders of tte Black Division of

Nihilism informed the government in

their letter that it was unnecssary for

hem to repeat their criminal enter

prises, as the measures oe mo new

Ministers were last driving the coun

try into revolution.

A .land-slide is in progress above

Lake Thurn, Canton of Berne, Switz!

erland. On the land are meadows and

louses, aud the whole is gradually

sliding into the lake. In tne Canton

iu Unsons 1 .300 sheep wan meirshep-

lords were overwhelmed by an ava-

anehe.

A St, Petersburg correspondent as

serts that the policy of the present Russian Ministry is to show that the milder rule of tho Melikoff Govern

ment was a fai lu re. To do this th ey pretended to discover plots and conspiracies to alarm the Czar and to intimidate and coeroo the journals. At Marseilles, two oil mills and a manufactory where Italians were employed, have been in cen diarized. Damage estimated at 0,000,000 francs. At Turin, Messina, and Milan antiFrench demonstrations were made, which were quelled by the military. Colonel Oregon, who was commissioned by the Mexicau Government to inquire into the cause of the Morale Bridge disaster, has reported that the sole onuee wai tho defective eonsti notion of the bridge. Collections are being made m the City of Mexico for the relief of the suite rers. At Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a festival of German students was in-

bed. Next day the Bohemians again

attacked the German students, when more stabbing occurred. This interlace quarrel will , no doubt spread throughout Bohemia. The Constantinople court which tried the persons implicated in the murder of Abdul Azfcs, the late Sultan of Turkey, have passed sentence of death upon Midhat, Mahmoud and Nouri Pashas, Fahri Bey, All Bey, Nedjib Bey, Hadfi Mehmer, Mustapha the ,, wrestler," and Mustapha 1 1 the gardener." ... Izzet Pasha and Zyda Pasha received ten years' penal servitude. Thk Canada have lost 120,0)0 inhabitants by emigration to tho United J5tate3 during the last year, and now there is an effort making to induce the Irish neonle. who are determined to

(lee irom the o

UkUI V WJU J.JJ1 l

cato on Canadian soil. To this end,

Sir John MacDonald, who is in Lon

don, is turning his persuasive powers. He hopes to reach the ear of the Irish

peasan try, and secure a favorable con

sideration mainly through the influence of the Catholic priesthood. THE STATE.

" 1UI Ul t UUIVI 1111111.14 . VW oppressions indicted upon ISnglish landlords, to lo-

There aro 623 convicts in the State

prison south. The number is decrejuj-

ing.

Tins corner-stone oi a new library hall at Ft. Wayne has lust arrived

from Ireland. It weighs two tons.

The County Superintendent of Allen county has been convicted of criminal

libel and fined twenty-five dollars.

The Ohio Falls car company, at Jeffersonviile, now has on its pay roll 1,400 men, not including the contract

ors.

oxe nunureu ana lorry -seven new

memjbers were received into theSec-

ond Presbyterian church at Indianapo

lis last Sunday.

A stone forty-two feet long, four feet

wide and three, foet thick, was quarried in flie Dark Hollow quarries, near Bed

ford the other day..

The corner stone of the Lutheran

church, about five miles south o Wa

bash, was removed and robbed of about

four dollars in coin the other night.

A horse got loose in a car aud jumped

out while the train was iu rapid motion, near Cambridge, and took to the woods,

but was captured uninjured and sent

on his way.

Dogs are creating great havoc in the

Northern burying ground at New Al

bany, digging into the graves in such

a manner as to overturn the tombstones

in some cases.

On Wednesday, cogressman George

W. Steele, while mowing grass with a

scythe at his farm near Mar ion.se veiely

cut his knee. The injury is considered

serious.

The Howards have 300 men employed at their shipyard at Jefferson vIIIg.

They; are now buildiug two SOO-feet boats. foi .the Anchor line, besides other smaller work. James Barclay, of Butler township, DeKalb county, charitably kept a tramp one night last week, and the scamp rewarded his benefactor by stealing $175 from him and decamping. Thefcorgan factory at Fort Wayne is soon to be enlarged. The present capacity is forty organs per week. With the new addition seventy more skilled workmen will find employment. TAn eighty pound pig of iron fell on the hand of Paul Neaskufcjki, an em ploye of the Oliver chilled plow works, at South Bend, mashing it 1erribly,and running a splinter through it. The national camp meeting for the promotion of holiness will begin at Warsaw, August 6th, and last for ten days. Revs. J. K. Inskip, Wm. McDonald, J. A. Wood, and others will be present. The New Albany Forge works has about completed the extensive addition to iis works. The company has recaivdd a 36,000 pound pair of shears, capable of cutting a four inch square cold bar of iron. Frank Jennings, of Washington, a boy 17 years old, was shot through the leg Thursday night by some unknown

nerson. He will be a cripple for life.

No ca use is known as to why the shoot

ing was done.

Doc. Eagan, of Attica, was being

hoisted out of a well he was cleaning,

and when near the surface the windlass

slipped and tie fell forty-five feet,

and alighted in two feet of water, re

ceiving but little injury.

James Brown, of Browns town, aged 18, has been paying attentions to the

daughter of J. D. Womack, much

against the latter1 wishes, and the

young man was so informed Sunday

morning. He immediately retired to

a secluded spot aud shot himself

fatally.

A iz&'Og of three robbers set upon W.

H. Bollmau, of Lopaz, St. Joseph

county, tied and gagged him, and robbed his house of $50. He was rer leased by a -passing stage driver, and

On Monday evening at Hoaglaud.

nine miles south of Fort Wayne, men were working on an unfinished church,

Murtv feet from the ground, wheu a

a storm struck the building, tearing it

to pieces. Two men were seriously in

jured, another had (us thigh broken in ' . t .. i ... ,i,im

two placts ami nia arm oroneu u the shoulder. Mr. Ken lie tt, a resident in the near neighborhood or Osgood, went coonhunting a few evenings since, taking with hiui his six year old son. While crossing an open field the child was set upon by a large and ferocious dog, which flew at the child, biting it about the face and body so terribly that the little fellow's life is despaired of. Mr. Kennett fortunately shot the dog and aved his child. At a dance at New Amsterdam, Har risou county, Tuesday night, HalJeck Mathers and Clay Cunningham fought about a women, and Mathers cut Cunningham's hand nearly off at the wrist with a knife. A free fight followed among the crowd, iu which Charles France was stabbed in the shoulder by an unknown party and it is thought fatally hurt. William Brennou, living in Martin county, ten miles north of Shoals, a rough of desperate character, had a difficulty with his son-in-law, John R.

Huff, and threatened waylay aud kill

him. Next day Brennon was round

dead in the road, with a revolver and a

pair of knueks near by. it is hah eyed

that the parties met and Huff was compelled to shoot hi 3 antagonist in self-

defense.

Charles Waite, a gardener living two

miles west of New Albany, placed

some bread and bu tter, poisoned heavily with arsenic, in a bucket in the door yard of his residence, to poison dogs that annoyed him at night. He arose

early next morning, forgetting to remove the poisoned bread, and his two

year old daughter ate it, causing her

death tne same afternoon.

Theodore Pfeaster, of Lafayette, got drunk and insisted on marrying Miss

Maiy MeOlsen at once. She agreed and they rode to the Clerk's office and

got a license. They then proceeded at

break-neck speed, in search of a justice.

In turning a corner, the vehicle went

over, and tne prospective bride received

injuries in the spine and head that may prove fatal. The wedding was post

poned.

jEvausville is built over a four foot

vein of bituminous coal, and three

shares lust outside tne city limns are

operated by three different companies. For one hundred miles to the north.

east, south and west this coal stratum

is , con tin uous, varying in thickness

from lour teet to eieven leer, ana. rang

ing in quality from the best bitumin

ous to the purest and only block coal

in the country, and is reached at the

depth of from eighty to two hundred

and eighty feet.

The New Albany Ledger-Standard mints a new theory of the Mauck

marder which occurred nearly two

years ago in Washington township,

Harrison county. It is that other parties known to be bitter enemies of tne

Muucks, committed the murderous assault upon Mrs. Mauck and Sarah

Vaughn, and then murdered;Mauck on

his-way.. home from the lime-kiln after

he had been informed of the murder.

The - theory gains strength' from the

fact that although Mauck was crippled

by lime-sores on his fett, and unable to

move rapidly, the' most diligent searcn was unable to find him, and his where

abouts still remain a mystery.

About Animals.

On a hollow tree being thrown down some weeks ago in England, two

owlets were found, for whom their

considerate parents had provided two

young rabbits, two good-sized rats

more than twelve mice, and several

birds.

A farmer at Kickapoo, Illinois, had

a dog that some time ago disappeared.

The other day he returned a mere

skeleton. It was then discovered that

the dog had dug into a gravel and

sand bank for a skunk, throwing the

dirt behind him. and after he had

caught and killed the skunk he found

himself iu a tomb, from which it took

him sixteen days to dig out.

. A shepherd dog on the farm of Mr.

Thomas Main, at tteeley viiie, renn.,

attracted attention la3t winter. He was seen repeatedly to drag a large piece of bark ud a steep hill back of the

farmhouse, where a truck crust had

formed, then deliberately seat himself

on. H and slide to the bottom of the

hill. Many people have witnessed this

strange freak of the dog's. After coasting down the hill several times the

dog would carry the bark sled to a

place of safety until he needed it again.

A western Massachusetts farmer last

summer found a nest of young crows

and at once killed them. Upon open

ing them to see what they had been fed upon., he found ouly potato beetles. Now, if the crow is acquiring a taste for potato beetles, will not the farmers regard him with more favor? Will they not overlook, to some extent, his past trangressions and his fondness for a little green corn, and consider anew his claims to public favor? Let the crow have a chance to redeem his character. If he is the enemy of the potato beetle he deserves to be regarded as the friend of the farmer. The hook and ladder compauy of Oswego own a dog named "Truck," whose services are esteemed more valu

able than those of any of the hremen.

an opportunity Is presented to them of

terruptcd by Czechs, and, iu the course I getting werk as.d making something.

headed a party who captured tho rob- Recently tho alarm sounded while the

men were a block away ana outoi hearing. But .they heard the dog barking furiously and knew what he meant. Hastening to the house aud opening the door, they found "Truck" greatly excited, with his lamp in his mouth, running to and fro between the horses

and the door, to iuform them that an alarm had come in. The men under

stood ami hurried to the fire, the dog running as usual with lautern in his

mouth.

A case has just been tried at Kutland

wherein damages of $50 were wanted

for the poisoning of a cow. It was

testified that the creature ate old meat,

bones and soap-suds, and that upou

one remarkable occasion one of a party of men who were whltewasniug the

railroad bridges, having left his overalls, stained with paiut aud lime, on

the borders of the ineld. returned just

in time to see the second leg disappear

ing down her throat, the rest of the garment having been already swallowed. She suffered no material dam

age from the meal, and it is supposed

that the jury could not make up their

minds that au ounce or so or Pans Green could have arTected a cow of

such omnivorous propensities.

A letter-writer says: After the battle of Fredericksburg it

fell to my duty to search a given district for any dead or wounded soldiers their might be left, and to bring relief.

Near an old brick dwelling I discovered a soldier in gray, who seemed to be

dead. Lviing by his side was a noble

dog, with head flat upon his masters

neck. As I annroached, the dog raised

his eyes to me good-naturedly, and be

gan .wagging. his tail; but- ho did not change ins position. The fact that the animal did. not move, but more than

all, the intelligent, joyful expression of

his face, convinced me that the man

was only wounded, which proved to

be the cas e. A uuitet naa pieroeu ins

throat, and, faint from the loss of

blood, he had lalien wneav no lay. tua

dog had actually stopped the bleoUing

from the wound by laying hut hej.d

across ii ! Whether Hum warn cnnsal or

not, l ean not say, bid the shaggy coal

of the faithful creature was completely matted with his master's blood.

A huu tor says : How many ti uses,

be rs after wounding one of the them in

six pi aces, and put them to jail.

AJbold robbery occurred near Charles-

town on Friday. Mrs. Mary McCoy, a

widow, was robbed of $1,900. At the

time the money was taken the family were at supper on the porch in the

back part of the house, and the thief

entered by the front aud escaped be

fore the theft was discovered.

jonnson juoxwcu, a young man

working on a farm in Van Buren

town? .tup, Grant county, while out

hunting, climbed a tree to got a squir

rel, and leu a distance or forty feet,

breaking his leg ana receiving other

serious injuries. The bono in the leg was driven through his flesh and

clothes.

John White., a resident of Luce

township, Spencer county, was struck

by lightning ou Wednesday and killed

He was caught in the storm that day,

aud sought re! age ami a change of

clothes at the house ol Jas. Parker near

Kiehland. While chancing his clothes

the hehfning struck tho house aud

killed him.

Col. Charles Don by and George W

Shank 1 in, one of the editors of the IS v-

ansvnie courier, got into a row over a law suit. They were staudiug a store

door and knocked each other through

the windows on each side of the en

trance, ami continued the battle on the

inside until they were separate:!. Both

were considerably punished.

The friends oi Hanover college, the

faculty and the trustees, seriously con

template erecting acomoclious hotel on

one of the beautiful points at .Hanover

commanding the magnificent view of

the river, and keeping it, conducted in

first-class stvlojor a summer resort aud

as a home for the students during the

sessions of the college.

Henry county is agitated over the al

leged oi uel management of its; comity

asylum. The officer are charged wi th

whi 1 r i u g t lie nu u pi rs w it h a wa go i i -

whip, giving old and infirm .women in-

suiHcient food, and with detaining the able bodied ones, able to wori. when

witnessed the poor kangaroo wnen

hard pressed by the honnds-r-nasiuy

pull from her pouch the almost hair-

less and utterly helpless niue joey aa its ollsnring is called) and cast it, whilst

at full speed,, into a tuft of high grass,

or clumw of thick fern plants, as me

last resource whereby to save herseu

from the ruthless fangs ol uer nungry pursuers. Aud hundreds of times have I seen our magnanimous dogs spring over the Joeys, as if such puny prey were unworthy of their notice, and continue in hot pursuit of the poor panting mother, who, if so fortunate as to outstrip the hounds, in one hour's time would instinctively return to the spot where, she had left her young one, and, on recovering her dear Joey, would hurriedly replace it in ifs sanctuary, and retire far away, amidst the hills and valleys, for many successive weeks. But Master. Joey is frequently captured by the huntsmen, reared up by hand, "and invested by a bright

scarlet collar to distinguish him from his uncivilized brethern. I brought up one which formed a great source of mirth and admiration to . us all. To witness gentle, unsophisticated Joey turn out of his warm crib at daylight, and join the. hounds and a half a dozen huntsmen, displaying his great agility aud delight by clearing dogs, buckets, and iron pots at a single bound, added considerably to the fun and goodhumored wi tticism which always enliven an early hunting party, even iu the green forests of the antipodes. In the heat of the chase, gentle Joey arrived at the age of two years could keep pace with the swiftest of our pack ; invariably took his place, leaping in the midst of them, and was always in at the death. A remarkable piece of canine iustinct was lately witnessed in Wiiliamsport, Pa. A lit tie child of Mr. S. J. Drink water, not two years old, was out in the street, and a dog oelonging to the child noticed a horse hitched to a carriage coming along at a rapid pace aud on a line with his little friend. Apparently thinking that the driver would not turn out, the dog jumped into the street and threw his front Tegs around tho child, and endeavored to pull it to the sidewalk. Finding that he was unable to accomplish this, he pulled the child down and spread himself over it, with his four legs outside, in which position he remained until the horse and carriage passed. This act was witnessed by the child s mother and others. Does it not look as if he possesses reasoning powers, and

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that tbis dog resolved to sacrifice

'own life to save that of the child?

his

The albatross attempting to rise from the water, (he is supposed to be unable to rise from the land or a ship's deck.) flaps his wings Violently to get his body out of the water; at the same time paddling with his webbed feet, he acquires a degree of momentum sufficient with outstretched wings, to carry him forward and upward upon an easy incline. During this first rise, he will

generally give a few heavy, lazy naps,

and then stretch his wings steadily to

their full extent. As he rUes,.he must

gradually lose hi i acquired momentum When H suits him to acquire more mo

mentum, by a movement of his tail he

takes a shoot downward at any Jangle

that suits his convenience, still with outstretched wings. By this move

ment his velocity is rapidly increased,

and he soon acquires a sumeien 1 mo

mentum to carry him. to a height equal

to or greater than that from which he

s tarte d to take his downward fl igh t.

By this wave-like motion he willjtrav-

el day after day for hundreds of miles,

perhaps giving at long and irregular

intervals a few lazy flaps with his im

mense wings.

A Bald-Headed Man Buying Drugs.

Milwaukee Sun. . ---... -..-

There are two mad men in Milwaukee. One is a bald-headed man and

the other is a druggist. The bald man

told a doctor that his iras falling

out, and asked him ii he didn't know

something that would stop it. The doctor said he would fix him, so he wrote out a prescription, which was as

follows:

Chloride of sodium ..1 oz. Aqua pura....: ..J 8 oz.

The bald man went toa druggist and

had the nrescnption put up, paying 1

for it. He asked the druggist if he wasn't a little high, but felt ashamed

when the druggist asked him if he knew how much aqua pura cost a gallon. He said he didn't, but supposed it came high. The druggist told him that aqua pura was one of the most penetrating drugs in the store, and as for chloride of sodium, there was nothing like it, and the war in Peru had sent it up- a kiting. He said if the trouble in Chili kept on there was no knowing how high it would be. The bald man used the medicine, and felt as though it was doing him good. His wife noticed little new hairs coming out, and he felt good, so when it was gone he took the bottle to the store and had it filled again. . The chap who filled it this time was another man, and when the baldheaded man threw- down a dollar the druggist said: t6h, never mind; we won't charge anythiug for that." The bald man asked how "that was, when the druggist said: ' Why, it's only salt and water, anyway. The salt is only two cents a poundi and the water is pretty cheap this year." The baldheaded man sgave one gasp, and said: "I naid SI for filling that bottle before,

and I want my money back. It's a

bald 'headed swindle1. I thought that

Peruvian story didn't look plausible."

The druggist gave the man a box of cigars to keep still about it.

hunter says:

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on my hunting excursions, nave x

An English Tale, of American Life

Bradford (Eug.) Observer.

Jack Fin eh art had one love affair.

and only one; It was his sole romance

in life, and he was. very chary of talk

ing about it, But I learned the tacts,

and they lorm.a startling commentary

on border life and the character of the

man.

He and his brother both fell in love

with the same girl, t he niece of an o ulcer in the regular army, then stationed

at Cam p Douglas, I . tah. J aek could hate as well as love, and he could make and keep a promise. He and his brother came to an agreement by which both men pledged' themselves never

again to see or spes.k to the young lady, the penalty for a violation of the contract being that, t he offender should die at the hands of' the other. The brothers shook hands over the bargain, and each went his way. Six years after, Jack sought out his brother, traveling over 2,000 miles to

do so. He told him quietly that he had broken his oath, and wan ted the compact kept. ' Tho brother remonstrated, but Jack w:L'?ftr-m as adamant. He had forfeited a pledge, and he was ready to die. The end of it all was that the two brothers met on the bank of the Vlatte river cue lovely summer evening. Jack drew a heavy, derringer, cocked it, and handed it to: his brother. The latter drew oft a few paces, leveled the wsaoon, and looked once more at Jack, - "leau'.t do it," he

said. r 4 . ". - - Finehart stood there, solitary, tall, his arms folded, and an expression of quiet mela nchoiy on . his face. i4I am ivady."' was his sole reply. The brother leveled the pistol, took deliberate aim aud pulled the trigger. The cartridge did not explode. Jack took one long quiet look at it, and seeing his brother about to lire again, once more gazed at the ri ver. Suddenly the brother raised his arm. and the deadly

weapon wjnzzeu tnrough the air and found a 'ant resting ilaee. beneath the turbulent waters of the rushing stream. J aek advanced in anger. ? You arc a perjurer," he said: fl would have killed you," and disdaining the proffered hand of his brother he strode rapidly away. Tho two never met again.

An En gl ish woman h as lately been apppointed a church warden. ; Minnie Palmer, the. actress, is under $5,000 bonds to her m&nager not to marry for five years. , -s The audience which gathered in Rochester to hear Talmage lecture -was so small that he refused to appear, ' ; : It is asserted that the German Government is anxiously endeavoring' to devise measures to arrestthe-enormouss. flow of emigrants. . San Francisco still rejoices over its one pound and a half baby, and mothers and physicians seem equally 3leasv ed and astonished. The child is well formed and in good' health -; , The subscriptian to the Hungarian , conversion loan is the greatest financial success ever achieved by Austro-, Hungary. Twenty- five , . times ,the

required amount was ottered. . ' - The original of Mr. Millais's two . exhibition pictures this year "Cinder- . ella" and "Sweetest Eyes Ever Seen?' is Miss Buckstone, the" clever and pretty daughter of the liondpn tnanaf ger. . . 'r"; . According to Herr Fuohs's annual report on the subject of volcanic erup- -tions, the activity of volcanoes in 1880 was rather small; the only remarkable eruption was that of Mauna Loa, on the island of Hawaii on Nov. 5, ; y . The Baltimore boy who wanted tb please his mother and therefore stole money from his father to give her as" bis own earnings, has been sent to the Reform School- It looks as though another great railway manager uad been spoiled. There are many prehistoric ruins inu Arizona. A writer in the Tucson Citi-.. ; zen says that six miles north ot CampLowell, at the base of the Santa Cata Una Mountains, there are the remains of an ancient towmcoyering an area of . about 60 acres. , j : : - - ? f It is said that the wife of an English officer has written to tell him that, having embraced Buddhism, she,, in right. of her new faith, divorces '-jointf

It is feared that her chauge of faith will be extensively -tallowed if it be ound

to carry with it suclr privileges, f f Mexico is becoming the favorite field for missionary enterprise. The Methodist Church South appropriates $82,500 this year, and other denom iuations are showing increased energy in that direction. Mexico, will at this rate, soon. . outrank China and Africa in missionary estimation! -V: .'......... $ A swarm of bees lately made their appearance in the Strand, one of the " m os t crowded thorough tares o t .London and settled on the Army ami Navy Gazette office. A gentleman l)elongiug to the field hived them successfully. Had thiP occurred in days of old tfte Delphic oracle would havebeetf ik request. ., .y, ? V .vV --'V s Punch records the following converv,5 sation , "How uncommonly well; the Tories have treated Brad-laugh." What treated him, well I; Why, they don't allow him to enter the House." "Exactly. They spare him all the A. boredom of debates,but let him go into f the smoking and dining rooms, where all the fun is." ,.. " ... ; r The Whittaker will ' forgery by means of which a Philadelphian. millions was all but secured by the criminals, is being fully described in their trial by one of their numbef. Seven persons were concerned in the plot, and the actual, forging was done by au expert penman, who was hired for the purpose, while the body, of the document, comprising thirteen pages of foolscap, was written by a lawyer. A San Francisco undertaker made at . contract to bury the city's pauper dead for sixty cents each; As that price would not begin to cover the cost of the regulation cornn and digging of acrave, much curiosity arose as to. the expected source of profit; The matter is now clear. He advertises for. rela- j tives or friends of every paup-er whodies, and keeps the remains as long as possible for recognition. In half the . cases somebody comes forward to pay well for a burial elsewheua than 4in the Potter's Field. ' ? ' George Gottung of San Francisco had a young wife, who liked to go to .balls and picnie3, while he preferred t5 remain quietly et home. He resolved toi reform her by punishment. He began by boxing her ears, next - kicked her, and at the third offence gave ' her a, sound thrashing." Still she was not' obedient. As soon as the black marks were gone from her lace she went to a garden party. George thought thafc a L i little stabbing, not decp enough to kill, might have the desired effect. He followed her with a sharp knife inbis j hand, and prodded her several times in the manner intended, but finally

struck a deeper blow, and she died on -

the spot. His defence is 1 that me

homicide was accidental: .

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A Hint to Wives.

New York 3rNost. .

Almost every one has had occasion

some time to wonder how certain mav-r,, t

ried people cf their acquaintance ever cqneiuded to go through life together.

so little do they appear to have in common in middle age. It is patlietic and"

yet at the same time there is somer? 1

thmir ludicrous about it. It is truly a.. e

curious spectacle to see a husband and4 wife who have positi vely no thine to; .

say to each other, who communicate,

to be sure, in regard to the common-

places of every day life, but who are: m.

dumb so far as a n y real in terchange of

thought is concerned: who sit through

an evening's, entertainment or .ride a

hundred miles side by side, with nothing to indicate ;eyond the fact of their A ?

proximity that here are two-people

who have cnosen eacn otner out of alt

the world (according to the common superstition ) to be companions. It they drift apat the husband is almost always blamed, while iu many cases h' fbe wife is in fault. Wliile her hmu baud in his work comes in contact with men (f ideas, and becomes a parP of the life thai Ls ymkiag ori into' a -M-

different plane, and so is brightened and broadened evea while he li wea-? ried by it, he allows herself to beab-3 sorbed in the little detiiils of her work,5 and at length her moughts do not rise above them, and vhileshe rehearses her little vexations; and dwells, upon' them, she fancies taat .he is free from, annoyances, unlessindeed it is some grea t trouble worthy of women who know no more of t;e real life of their,, husbands than they do of, a perfect6

stranger. That there is no ned of thia

i3 shown by countle3S examples. . PiOri tore Mrs. Carlisle, as Mrs. OHphahi1

describes her,incessactly occupied with fliA ) it t Jj r-iroi Vfa 1yM1-1v .Itl' whaVv

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ui i ia. vvi i w rwii 1 1 1 1 I u mill 1 1 u r r M mem m r

things for her husban? comfort, but al so to in veu t eon trivacces to save him little troubles,and yet althe same time was possessed' . of a mad capable of & appreciating his greatest work and -of '1 correctly estimating his tharacter, and . . was withal so interested in all that" concerned him that tie half bourse 5 spent in quiet talk witheer, her hus band leclares to have fcfeiv'the moet "4 delightful moments of hs Hie ! There

need be no jyi-eater dimronortion b&-

t ween a h uaband and wfe whose circle v 1 1 is smaller and whose aiility is far less. ; Some of the most beaitiful examples of devotid .dfeotion and ' completf

companiousiup are notcoia or in magazine articles, they are'ioing on before

our very eyes in hum Me homes, and y the truth is there appreciated that in order to be all thai: ore ought to be there needs to be that ''renewing of . the mind1, of which ; Hnertoii speaks in the fn tollcctiKd 'IzlteJ No man am ;

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j woman who gives thought to this mat ? ter can poWchido ihat' it h wise to dm w

continual iy upon the capital .with'2 which they starts , but will try to in crease it by fresh thoughts, and by making themselves cmtantly interesting and helpful to eaca other, :