Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 3, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 May 1882 — Page 1

WiBIaedthM? Kl.y, aai Hm., dear sourt; Too aeaaiif al t charm is to be broken, ATil,aMii.aaoieiniruVe spoken--And IfteB aWl J mat dnaau weald depart tnt much I lov my lever to consent ? To nttTgvMia In ike husband camaoapUEn, ' I lldi t btar torec Uij Rlcwtog face S row nniupafwUved and t llo?nt. InaVutof tho load momnsta of delight, Wki.ii km wU U ito aweataei yearning 61b, lei, d cot tears bear thee of MBa, br n Ikcc (Mttag lwK too BtgM. Ware aar tare o o bwntifol mad vaajrt. It I couM lovs tore Iraa, it weald not KM 3ada thing to aaerfflca Uw.lreaai WhJea, anonniitatad ia et loottoompiete. " ; Thta ia a ecxmaon age. Wlta m-xro and tor1 We aaawer lo Lifs poor need daj oa amy. Love waa not meant to harass to dan"; Hia fine Umba am not ttted for the atraia. Be let no ksep ear dream, and bj -and-by Eaihabu it wttfc. our tears wbez aBlaaatd, And, if the t kwrtr, let ua wed Wkere Acre at art ao aiacfc ef lew to die. BVa WTtcol.

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JillePlUon FaTr Devoted to the j5Ldanvoement of the Local Interests of Monroe County.

Established A. D., 1835.

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 18S2.

Sew Series.--VOlT. XVI.--N0. 3.

who wanted ti come ia and see tbaettr

nAiitand ur a little VUK witb metrofUitnit aiimtn aboat Sodom and OoaMErah. The good brother, with tba tad aaobel, boarded a, ttreet-ear for tba depot, and aat down to feed his mind port the imwr eonMtionaKfla of an bonaat ana. The little hand-bag waa crowded m3er the aeat to be oat of tba wm. 3 oontairfd tootb-brnaa, two absot aorandft-anwnonatvBeiilbr eatioe, with, perhan handkerchief or two, a box of trocW, and a vial flQed wi. ft aoijjp. for .park, Tba may bare been a shirt, wa oan'c aay for Bare, DatliaaajKaTtqsBionlngtbaaft fnHgrown eertaantr that the darieal garmaot known aa "dicker" had afnll

into the sachel, and brosght forth totite astonished gase of hia auditors pht cap with bine strings, and with the Other hand ho polled oat a long 0 of striped stockings and bunch og- lovelettera tid op with a red ribbon; For a moment reason tottered, bat dsfpefu tk nerredirts hand, sadagflfm ifdived'4 into that dreadful sacheL This time a box of lily-white, or some other sweet sity earns nybtoko and scattered it-' self all orer the blauk pantH of the pastor, and splAshed. into the eyes and month of the UIadr,Nrhotoa durob with amasement and ohokina for broatb

to enpawss:heraentmatsTvf tt shepherd t

wno-- wowa mm aronna wnn DOfnfce only fit for the lambs. Tho next grab filled ihej lafaf with flyina; bairnius. and

theti came a pair of tiny pink sllppora,

to small for mortal use, and with the cut

est little mites of heels. Great beads'

of trouble came oat and sat on tba min-

I isterial brow, and a sich that seemed. Idhtwrtifcrth wh rop Ihatlindanajt

broke came rrom. somewhere aowii in the basezcent of 'the parson's chant, and -then the ""good man's ohm dropped on his immaenlate dickey, aad a look of the moat desperate dejection pinned down his features and held them there

until the 'food" 'angel whispered in bis'

ear, and 'an his tronMee took wings aa he softly said, "Igstm pray." When the light-headed city girl who .had the ministerial sachel began maktag her preparations! that night for die. Tillage ball at which she expected td reign as ft Queen, and found nothing mere riafjtiTatig with whjch to embelbsh her cfiarmg hban a sermon an sanetification and a solvent for corns, the first ewihiag-Hew-of- her fife-had coma.' -

!. .SCIENTIFIC MISOELLANT.

fhe good man bad searoery taken hia aeatin the horse-car before he foond ldoMeU ia train of thought that didn't atop at way stations, bat when the car paftadap at the depot and the man with tra? boQ-panch opened, his face to the tallest possQiiliir and at forth, an tvalahehe of hnaky soand thai' meant MxnTieeooicyowTlbeleft" thepa. tor caak&baok to earth, took m the sitaataon, grabbed ap the little Mack sachel 'aad apsektr make his way into the de-. pot, aad theaoe into a' car, where he qmetty took poanrnsinn of a seat on the shady aide, proeaeded to pick his teeth and raminate on total depravity, with the ah of one wlio loves hia fellow man aad a good dinner, 'lit due time the tTam reached the erosa-roads station lor which he wMboond, and the minister got cot and shook hands with Deacon Parsley, who waa promptly oa hand wflh horse and yehicjetotake him home teentortaaimamt daring fhe term of rural ministration. Not to mention short season of jauaaiatraiiee with the deacon's hired man, who swore at the oxen aart whistled dawtanea with all the eanaestnesaof n impulsive aatore.-the

mvtAfktohn liking 'She deaecm and he 8 lira at 4am aa dbwa artark nttta awiiaaaSat anaf awaraa! I'lcva,

oat of tea, and the old htdy seemed to kncr everything abont cookery and the ayiriUaJ oondiUon of the neighborhood. The grown-np dawghfews didn't seem to be exactly at the top of the stairs in their ideas of fashion or the harmony of aolora, aat when it same to blocking oat pie tiiat eonld bring joy to the pate, or heenng off a sock that would fit without ft wrinkle, they were right at home with the front blinds open every hour in the day. The farmer's son bad a habit of asing has nose-tar oonvaaatinoal parposes, breathing bard and making use of fcfe tarjfi to shovel potiree down hia thToat,bnt be seemed to be asteady-

r yoane- awn. who oonld1lkto the

I in praywr roeHlDg and shuck more in a given time than any other

The doaoon'a venerable mother, who had corner t the fireside, wore speci that made her eyea water, and the poor oU aoril cooldn't hear thunder, unless everything else kept real still, bat .she believtI in pordittod without mar nonaeasetahoat it, ftqd had some ideas on theology that seemed to be oorered with raoe it foot thick. She had way of shooting. .her opAious.cto a. body in rwafitr sliotgaa style, and, though she didn't always(bii wbere she aimed, she gainltjfeaBajto - the feathers fty from Mf the flock, rte had long been too feeble to go to ehurcb. tedri was eonaeaaently ia ehnue state of spirit uid famsae, which foond ao relief, exeepton those.rara. occasions when a nreacher wu sanfto bide ft day or two "with the farmer. At aoeh times the o3 lady woaldlwiqraiaaitonherrjgM afII5rtionbhft theaarmon reSeariekat thefhw-sJde,ssaoonaa the table vM-etcarct np and the tea tbinga pnt away. On the pseaen t oocaatoa tteaarawirjgot ready to aatiTaet her dUrvtofW wiitbe hvinklood so

ansgry oaiea np m tarn

Ths Arizona Indian War. Sas Frasc-8co, Apnl 26. A Ixmbburg (S. H.) dispatch says a fight cnrred oa SiturJay at Horse Shoe canor, between Incnaas sad Indian aeont and troops, fhe 1 iter wen victozionii. Foot Indian ecouU iroro killixi and th'ee (oiak-rs; eleven Boldiora wonnde-1. A small band of host ilea vraa

AmoSo the results of a journey across the Salrara, Dr. Offoai Iiauz reports that no depression below sea level could bj found. The schemes entertained for ft ceding the desert with water from the seaite therefoio hojMiless and misleading. Tiia remarkable disoovery has been madu by two German chemists that the life principle is callable of producing

chemical effeot , upon salts' of :- silver.

They report that living organic cells readily reduce solutions of silver, but the action-' oeases- when dead cells are

substituted for the living ones. .Da. yoj, FKirsoH.f of Halle, miiintains tnnt the canise of earthquakes must-exist near the earth's, surface, and .does not reach' ft-greater depth than ten or fourteen miles. They must be produced,he ;beljives, by the increase and decrease of volume of rooks nuder the influence of chemical and physical farces, and by. concuHsions due'to the opening of fissures in' the rocks. It eas lately been noticed that liquors kept in .colorless Jottl exposed-to the light soon acquire a disagreeable taste, chile those contained in brown or green bottles remain nuc.bftnged even if placed in direct sunlight. 1 The effect is due to the chemical aetion of light, and liquids liable to similar change should bo preserved in red, orange, ' yellow or green bottles these colon excluding the chemical rays. Insects are endowed 'irith much greater muscular energy, in proportion to their siBav thaa-other-anunals. Had a man of six feet muscular power proportioned to that of a flea, ho could leap more than 300. feet, and lift a weight of 10,000 pounds. A species of beetle supports 500 times its own weight; and another has been discovered which is stated, on good authority, to have gnawed a hole of an inch in diameter in the side of an iron canister by the power of its jaws.

In 1850 the B'oang H o Biver, of China,

ioirftWj.r thirty crowed tto Boatherffftt-P. nto the Yellow Sea; now this

ractne near nere early ttua morning,

goms n th t v U tbe Bono mine. McDound, a well-known oontrictor of tliU acetion, arrtTcd from the Gila river this mornuig. Ht aai ted in lrarying the bodioa-of twaotj- nun ymtcrday, and reports that several raonsare tLitng. Among the killed aro J. Kiiqne, a r.aio; young attorney of Silvar Cily ; vxpt. John L Lawson, mining snperintenlt nt ; Hr. Treaoott, AUuc Knox, S. D. Pinkardand Pinkard'a herdsman (umo onknowu). Tbe Indiana bomber over 300 buck, eqnatn and chikh-en, as shown by actual count while paatag Toi k's ranehe. Th Indiana are completely surroonded and oorralcd in Doubtly canon. All the mate citizens of xJetendorf, Shakspeve aid IrtjalmrK are ondsr arms.

The present Indian ontbress in Arizona is the most aUsastroas which has ever occurred in that Territory. Over sixty people have been kiHed by them so far. Looo, a uoted chief and son of the onee-dreaded Cochise, are with the band, which b composed of Chiri-

and the remnant of Tictoria's of Warm Ssxirar Indutna. and

numbers aboot 300 books and SOOsqnawa and i 185-

aaiiswifle.aiuit.sM.

With the aaohol on his knee the good atan wrpea his glsaaea, ebared his throat and rarooeeded to introduce his theme -with a few prefatory remarks aboot the beauty of a pare lib and a ttoal nnspotted with the taints of vice. The old lady adjusted her trumpet to oatch all tbe sound it eonld hold, and aerained the look that romped over the features of Dr. Tanner when that longdefentxt watermelon was planed before him. But it was some time before the preacher eonld find a key that would fit her tightly-looked ears, and again and again she bad him go back and try ftali over again- bat finally, when hia voice began to shake the -irindowa and make him red in the face, an understanding look poshed up the oild sain t's eyebrows, and she bade him hold it there and keep right on with hia improving talk. With b tonguostiataiaotkmand his eye on tbe old lady, the parson mechanicaJly opened the sachel and dived hia hand in tor the sermon. Falling oat a parcel, he waved it with a flottriah alma hia Is:: and said; "lly friends, tbe document I hold In asy hand has oust mo a great deal of labor, much time and careful study, and ft easbraoes, I might say, the ripened thooghtof alife-tisMi. A thease ofthts kind oooldnot be fittingly handled by a young man. Jteaaoaly be iisdentood and prepeila nuunpiikted by a person of rnaiar years oner swoastomed to go balow the aarfaee. aai-ahem 1 regardmmmt 4 sweiBty in their teas With that tba goad brother shook open the paper and diecjoaed what aaawad to be not a sermon on sanotiB-cation-but aboat tire poanaa and a half of radiant back haV theeohctsf ttotad briek. -trsaxbawMb fe hia eyas aad aU tlu color in hi fees aaat rfailiag- 11a aaa -aothar dtv

en-uren. vraey peotare tomr inumtwu or sl.yins every palelacu that rrossee. their nath,m retaliation fo tba three Indiana rcoontlv exennted at Fort Grant According to a tetegram (April 26) frcm Shskespeare, Haw Mexico, the town of OnalleysviHe m Arizona, jmt over the Kew Mexican line was baxned and completely destroyed by the su;ysges. Obirty-Dve white people were killed. The Indiana want scatterinz into small bands

and making for the Cbl' idahna mountains in

Mexico. Forailhe, with his entire command, wasinpnrsntt. Tbepursaing foree numbered fifteen oompan ies of cavairr. but the chances

of ovrrhanung the murderous wretches waB regard -d ss T8rj- smail, unless the Mexican Governnietit acted promptly m driving them back. Ajer. a small mining camp in Amons, was surronndod b; ISO hostile Indians, and three whites bad ben killed and one wounded. Stanislaus Met Us, aged V years, who escaped the massacre a : Surtax' aneep-eamp, tells the foDowtug atorj of that ghastly affair : " Before daylight the In bans attacked the oamp while weweraallaatien. Mr father and flvo other men attempted to set tbeir s-nns. hnt too lais

Tue Indians rn died in from all sides and over

powered tbea before a shot eonld be fired. The work of I laughter then began. An Indian pnt the-nuzzle of bis gnn against the bead of om man and fired, Mowing his brains af alnat the floor and .1L I saw them kit my mother and two little brothers by I eating their brains out with stonaa. Thej killed fire. They tied mv father and tortured him most dreadfully. He beosed them U snare him. but tbev onf v tor

mented him t ie more. When they tired of torturing him, me of them split hia skull with an ax. An Indian squaw, wife of one of the four friar.6 Apache sheep-herders, who worked with v. saved my life by holding me

mum us. ucggunj town io span me. When aU the llexioaus were dead exoepi me, the Indiana lef ." InteUigeneai rom Ariaona, conveyed through aTucarotelsapamof April 37, is to tbseffeet that Cot Totijth's eommand eneountered a band of tba bcrtfles near oW Camp Backer and kil -M snc of t ism. Four of the men were wounded ando ne killed in the akirmisb, after which the In bans scattered. Tbe Mexican flea. Poero waa marehing north from Janos to attack the Indians going into the Cbiracahua mountains. A font occurred between Mexican soMit and Indiana near tbe fronher in whieli nine of the latter wen slaughtered. The Amerioan mining camp at Wsrhnaetri, in fsonora, was raided; and all valuables caxri id away. At a Urge rcoeting in Tneson, revolt Uons were adopted to inform the President and Congress that nearly 100 pioneers had been murdered by Apaches within a few &.? Gov. Sheldon ordered the miHtia of Bet? Mexico under arms, and Gen. HeKemde, has gone to El Faro to arrange for tin co-operate pf the Government of Chi-

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wvu.u .o Mi J , uyu Hit; inci jiius a now channel opening to tho Gul of, Pochele, nearly 300 miles ntirfl! of its former outlet, and the stream tuned aside from its old bed at. a distance of more than 300 miles from the Coast.' Ibis is the lost of many changes, back and forth, recorded by tho Chinese during tbe past 3,000 years. .The changes begin ia floods oaued by rain in the distant Kueulun mountains. Natuue's fiat thar .iOcSn or late ail men must die, fails to satisfy a vast number of discontented human creatures who hasten tba execution of a stern decree by prematurely cutting short their own existence. Dr. Morselli, of Turin, has given some curious and interesting factti aud . statistics concerning suicides, frorti which it appears that the victims of self-destruction are rapidly becoming mor.j numerous in nearly all civilized countries. In France, for'instance, during tbe quarter century from 1827 to

the annual num ber of suicides

Crrisl y t Aaimars. The esuelt'cf loan to (die animals that labor for him, Hfford him pleasure, food, and the mate.-itds tor hi clothing, is often such aa to render it questionable, which is, aft w aU, tbe inferior beast. The estahlislmentof humane societies ia different states, cities and towns, however; is a step. toVord, the protection of dumb aninals from human barbarity. The shame is, that these are at all necessary in this toasted century of religious taaehing and general mtolhgenee. It ia a fact, howev er, that the invocation of stem htw ia yet needed to bring many a human tiger to a sense of what ia due even to the brutes be slaughters. The most fhigranli outrage that we have to note in tniadireetion, is afforded at the stock-yards, near this city. It is the practice of tltose whose business it ia to kill the cattle at the slaughter houses) to spear them wi th a knife in tbe neck, just back of the horns. Xt baa been discovered by the inneera of the humane society that whim the animals are restless and seek to evade the knife, the maddened butchers pierce the eyea of the victims that they may not see the approach of the death-dealing knife. Arrests of these inhnman monsters are being made, aad the proprietors of the packinghouses, to their credit belt said, are seconding the society in its efforts to put a stop to the horrid practice. Fanners, and farmers' boys and hired help, who shudder at the facts here presented, are you not guilty of a measure of cruelty, unconsciously, perhaps, toward your Work team, your cows, and other domestic animals, that yon may, as well as not, avoid ? Kindness and gentleness toward the lower animals, not only ennoble the master, but they par in dollar and eaata. at w4 Jar Ftmm,

gradually increased from A8 to nearly 63 ill . tr .. ,

per million ui iiiiuunwmn, una me number in later years is statod to bo 150 per million. Tbe causes which lend to suicide are of course various climate, religion and family relations being condition!! which exert a marked influence. Dr. Morselli finds that during the change from cold to heat in spring Miioides are monj numerous than at other seasons. Very curiously, euicutes are more frequent everywhere during the first third of sny month than in. the second, mid during the second third than iu the last Protostauts are far more inclined to self destruction than Catholics; men than women; uuninmcd than married; the young than the old. Suicides are most frequent among brnin-workers such as profcaaional men, soldiers ranking next. Drowirg and hanging are most often

the means employed by suicides.

Successful Speakers. A great chang!) has come over tho popn'ar lecturer. Formerly the much-tallted-ttbout man like Horace Greeley camii and bored an audience. Now tbe modern lecturer comes to entertain an audience. The clergyman talks thirty minuses. The successful lecturer will take four times thirty minutes and hold hisuudience like a five-act drama. He will instruct his audience, too. The first purpose of even a humorous speech is to persuade men. A great speech or lecture will , be talked about for weeks.' If a speech fa brilliant and eloquent, so much so tli at men will say of it "that is oratory" and go about thtdr businesssuoh a speech has not atruek the heart When men act as. if they had not heard a word of a speech, it is 'a failure, even if it is thought worthy of a place among "specimens of eloquence." "A great speech," said O'Connell, spetJungof addressee to a jury, "is a very fine tiling; but, after all, the verdict is the thing." Professor Mathews, from whose book on "Oratory and Orators" we quote O'ConneU's remark, insists that no one would discover the perfect orator, if Buoh there could be, while he waa speaking. He tells two anecdotes to illustrate hia assertions: ., When Chief Justice Parsons of Massachusetts was practicing at tbe bar, a farmer, who had often heard him speak, was asked what sort of a pleader he was. " Oh, he is a good lawyer and an excellent ooiiselor, but a poor pleader," was the reply, "But does he not win most of his causes?" " Yes, butrthat's because he knows the law and can argue woll: but he's no orator." A hard-headed bank President once congratulated himself, iu the presence of Mr. Mathews, on resisting, ta a foreman of a jury, the oratorical blandishments of Mr. Ohoate. "Knowirjg his skill," said the hardheaded man, "in making' white appear black, and black whito, I made up my mind at tbe outset that he should not fool me. He tried all his Arts, but it was of no use: I just decided according to the law and the evidence." "Of course," answered Mr. Mathevrs, "you gavs your verdict against Mr. Choate's client?" " Why, no ; we gave a venlict for his cliont ; but then we couldn't help it; he bad the law and tbe evidence on his Bidff." It never occurred to the bank President or to the farmer that Choate and Parsons were after verdicts, not admiration.And they got them, because they sunk the orator in S the advocate. A Damp Place. The island of Mauritius is a place wbere one can realize what it is to be a " damp, moist, unpleasant body." If any one asked rae what was the serious occupation of my life here, Ishould answer without het-itt ttion, -" airing my clothes, "and it would bo absolutely true. No one wb,o baa not tieen it can iron :ne

the damp and mildew which covers everything if it be shut up even for a few days. Ammonia iu the box or drawers keeps the gloves from being spotted like the pari! , but nothing seems to avail with the other articles of clothing. Linen feels quite wot if it is left unused in the alruirah, or chest of drawers, for a week. Silk dresses break out into a moasle-like rash of yellow spots. Cotton or muslin gowns beome livid, and take unto themselves a horrible oharnel-lidv.ee odor. Shoes and books are speedily covered a quarter of an inch deep by a mold which you can easily imagine would begin to grow ferns and long grasses iu another week or so. Good Word. Forestry Statistics. In some cantons of Switzerland there is a law forbidding the destruction of a tree without planting another to toko its place. This law is an outgrowth of necessity. It- has been scientifically demonstrated that the increase in violent storms, inundations, and landslides in Switzerland, scattering death and destruction ou all sides, is due to deforesting tho mountains.. Gradually the timber has disappeared until little remains, except on the high slopes of the mountains, and that little is of inferior size and quality. Unless tho process is arrested, the mountains of Switzerland will present as bold an appearance aa those Alps which divide Frimoe from Italy; and nothing more desolate and dreary outside the steppes of Asia, or the desert of Africa, presents itself to the eye of the traveler. Switzerland, compared with the area of the United States,' is but a speck, but if we have more acreage and wider stretches of timbered lauds, we are also consuming them more rapidly. A glance at the series of forestry bulletins issued by tho Census Bureau is -sufficient to alarm one for the future timber supplies ot the United States. The maps show the original extent of the forest lands and the area denuded by the remorseless ax of the lumberman. Take Michigan, the great pine State of the Northwest. More than three-fourths of the land, including the upper peninsula, lias been stripped of its timber. A fow statistics will sliow that the amount of white pine remaining on the. Saginaw and its tributaries, and in the basins of ''streams flowing into Lakes Huron and Michigan, is estimated at 29,000,000,000 feet, board measure. In the siuglo year ending with May, 1880, 4,068,773,003 feet were cut. At this rate tlw snpoly will be exhausted in

less than eight years. Of the same tim

ber on tho peniusula there were 6,000,000,000 remaining, in round numbers, and of this 323,438,000 feet cul -'ii one year. From Menominee and Delta counties the merchantable pine, says the

.Bulletin, has been almost entirely removed. The destruction of the hard woods has been ou the same exhaustive scale, y The maps ihow that along every navigable stream, and ou tbe rivers of the lakes, the timber has all been cut away, and each year tho lumbermen bare to go back further into the interior for their snpplii s, and the cost is mcr-asod by tho greater difRfctilty in getting the timber to market Wisconsin hns only 6,100,000,000 feet remaining of white pine. In the census year 540,9J7,000 fet were cut How long beforo Wisconsin will cease to furnish a supply of this valuable timber? She has Still 3,810,000 acres of bard wood forest ; but tho ravages ia that are

-hardly less" than in the pne lands.

Minnesota stui has lT.aiHJ.otKi.tiiw feet of pine, and some C. 775,000,000 of mix) pine and luird wood to boast of, hnt the out during tbe census year was 115,777,000 feet, and ouch year as the Mipplies in Wisconsin aud Michigan dwindle the demand upon Minnesota's rvsonrc?s will increase. In short, unless something is done to encourage tho replanting of forosis of pine arid fittrd wod'it wiH'not be twenty years befotie tbwtt will lm a timbvr famine iu tho "land, with prie'.w so extravagant a to put nu end to b iikling in wood and to the n-e of wood s fu-1. We need not dwell on the eftWt of deforestry on climate and temperature. This has been repeatedly done in those columns. It is tho universal trsliniony of mankind that it rei-ults iu dinr.nulion of rainfall, and the dwindling away of creeks and navigable streams, and au increase in sudden and devastating storms and violent hurricanes. We have the history of the old world before iisjtud if 'We" "do n it profit by tho warning example we deserve to bo punished for such a crini s against nature. Cincinnati Gommcrcitil.

JESSE JAMES.

ftegro Superstitions. Savage African beliefs, or superstitious, aa to tho interference of supernatural xwer in tlio affit.M of human life; prevail- every where aniorig the negroes f the South to an extent v Inch Northern people would scarcely imagine without tpccial bludy of tho subject This is not to be wondered at whtn we observe how largely prehistoric forms of thought su. vivo even in t-u'tivatcdNorth-em conimuiiitu-s. I think there are no negroes, poriiaps, except tho few educated young men, who aro free from the influences of tho general belief iu signs, charms, dreams, spells and magical incantations.Nearly every neighborhood has an old umn or women who possesses unearthly powers, and who is constantly consulted and appealed to for assistance ia connection with the love aft'; irs and the quarrels of the ct-lorod people, and in cases of protracted or mysterous siokuets. The beliif in the power of the evil eye is nearly universal, as iu the notion that persons, domestic animals, wells, mid particular places can be "tricked" that is, have a curse or malign spell put upon them by anybody who knows (i:-3 "charm," or method of proot dure which wi'l produce suoh a result A uait driven iuto the ground, with certain magical preliminaries aud accompaniments, is a potent means of dire injuries and revenges. In matters of love, courtship and marriage the negroes are usually extremely jealous aud su piaious, aud magical arts are commonly invoked to secni-e affection, to alienate those who nre alre ady attached to each other, and to protect aggressors from detection or punishment There are varioun spells of formulm for such purpoBos. They usually include the use of a scrap of some article of olothitig which has been worn by the person who is to lie tricked, or a shred of his hair, a piece of a finger-nail or toe-nail, or even some dust from his shoes. A volume might be written on the beliefs of the colored people regarding the super. naturcJ, and on this department of their folk-lore, and the subject would probably aa well repay attention as tbe idei and race chani uteris tios of savage tribes in distant parts of tho world. lfie Monthly. Ton berfe way to silence a talkative person is nover to interrupt lira,

Ills Exploit a an Outlaw and NlglatHider Htilated by Mis Widw-A :eurtsblp Csurrled Amid Orent JHtilculties-Xbe Waaseria hud Precsurious) Kxinlcnco of rn.tr After Their IHiarrlKge. Kansas City Telegram to the Chicago Times. Mrs, Jusao James relates the following story of her hueband's career aa a bandit She is the daughter ot highly respeoted parents, who hare lived iu or near Kansas (Sty for over thirty years, and, a i she remarked, she had lived hero "over ncoshe could remember, until she married Jesse," Their courtship was a highly romantio one. They were first cousins, and their betrothal was bitterly opposed by her parents. She was sentimental, however, and expressed her determination to follow Jesse's fortunes wherever they might lead, and to prevent au elopement tho old people consented to tbe engagement. This was ui 186 jnsi, after jcuau had Leco. made an outlaw uiuler Uio civil code and a price set upon his person . Tiusr courtship lasted Uvo years, during which t un jesso f reqiiently visited his inamorata at the residence of her parent m thin city, and she aov.jriU times out to lus mother's, Mrs. Samuols', at Kearney, t)seo him by appointment. Dining one of t aese visits the two were together ui the yard at t ho Samuels residence when a pa rty of live men, led by one of I'lukcrton's detective, went to tho louse, and all the time they were searohine the jlaoo Jesso lay on tho ground within twenty'feet tf ihv (lour under the shadow of a rose-bush, rliile his affianced ass secreted iu a fenoj oorror. Mrs. James says that Jesse has frequently said B.ute that if ho had killed s couple oi those men it nugbt have saved his step-brother's life and his mother's arm, buk he retrained because to was afraid bis sweetheart might bit injured i:i tbe uiolcu. They wcro married April 2i, 187 1, at the rcfidtnoe or the bride's sister, Mrs. W. li. browder, of Kearney, the Hoy. William James, a eons.n, officiating, and the following mouth they went to Sherman, Tex., vhere a suitor of Jotso l.vei". There Mrs. Jaoiespassed ss a cousin of Jesse's sister, without giving any particular name, and be was ia snd out of tb4 city constantly, because he vas fearful of being followed by tho ollloers for the Hot Springs robbery, which was committed in January of that year, and the Gad's Hill robbery, which occurred in the same mouth. Tho lirat of these bo wa3 not iu, so lira, James says, but admits he wbs in the Utter, and as both were charged to him ho deemed ii wise to act as though ho really had been there. At this point Mrs. James took occasion to denounce the reported estimate of Jesse's stealings, which, il true, would havo made him a rich man at bis death. She decltxes that, so far from having hvi at any one tinu 000, 0U0, i.o nover had that sum in all his life, putting every sent into tho calculation. Tbe Gad's Hill affair netted abou t 43,000, of which he receive! one-fifth, and upon'Uiat they vent to Texas for their honeymoon. Tilings c rew hot iu Sherman, and they moved to Dallas la September, where they remained until tbe iriuter of 1874 and 1675, when Mrs. James returned to Kansas City and visited her sister. Mrs. Mebride, sad other relatives for several months, whtto Jesso went on a scout. It waa bout this time that tho Corinth, Miss., and

! IJunoio, Kan., robberies were committed, in

iiotn oi wnicu jesso parocipaieu, out me amount secured his wif o says she dons not know. When he relumed, iiowover, he had plenty of money, and they then moved to Edgefield, IVti,, a nninl) villain ni.f KT.alivill. a,il m

! rasiiod thore uutil the fall, when they removed to 1 Baltimore. It was ia EdgeScld that the boy

wno now begins to iook so mucn use ms lather was bora, and lire. James declares the child was but 9 days' old when the Huntingdon (W. A'a.) robbery took place, and that, instead of laung there, Jesse was with her acid the baby la Nashville at that time, livhur under the

! name of J. D. Howard. They removed to Bal

timore in November, lavs, and remaiuod there (ow year, or at least she did; bnt Jesse wa i way a good deal of the time, and she says she does not know where, except that ho was at tho Centennial one week, where he saw a crest

nanv oenlo from Missouri whom he know

I very well, but who did not know him. It ' was about thie time that tho Baxter ; Itpriucs. Kan,, and OttorviUe, Mo., robberies

were perpetrated, but she dischums all knowl(dge of Jesse's complicity iu them. In speaking of the Huntingdon affair, Mrs. Janes backs up tho assertion that Jesse waa at Edgefield at

mat time, on tue statement, wmcn sue says can lie veritied, that about that time ho bought two car-loads of Hour fronia Nashville miller named O. F. O'Nvil ou speculation, aud tcok it to Kh vftiuiflh. Ga.. where he sold it under the as-

! liuuied liauto of Howard. From Baltimore thoy

again returned to Davidson county, Toon., near Nashville, where they rented a small farm, and .''esse went into the faat-horse business. '.Chore they, or rather she, continued to live uutil Msroh last. Among the harass which he owned during that time, and which have since made a record for themselves, wore tho colls Jim Scott aud Jim Malon.i, tbe latter ot which he seld to John Gresnough, a druggist of Nashville, for $2,000, aud which won two valuable purses hi St. Louis the rear after, under the name of Jim GreenougL. During Urf time tbe noted bandit was also a delegate from this district to the Nashville Demooratio Convention which nominated Gov. Porter and a State ticket. Mrs. James remained on the farm In Divis county during the first Glendale mid Burlington raids (the Northfield one was made during thoir residence in Baltimore), and her girt wag' born daring her husband' absence on one of these. Bhe nays that Jetue always came straight homo after an u (fair of taat kind and remained there until i.ho bue and? cry was over, and that so far as Aoy knew, he was never suspected, as he' wag known ss a horse-trsdor aud speculator, whose ibsence from home nas not worthy of ccuuxiGiit Thoy concluded hi March of lost year .-bat, aa tbe search for Jesse was getting more "borough, the safest place for them would be -it home, and they uooordingH returned to Kansas City, where thoy rented a houso aud lived from June 1 to Sept 1 onder tho name of J. F. Jackson. It was in this house that the Blue Cut robbery was planned, aud to which most of the men returned after the affair. There they remained hidden for mora than a week, whilo tho officers were Boouring the eastern end of the county. Sept. 1 they removed, for fear that too long a resilience iu one place might result in discovery. The house was uot in good repair, however, and they lef tit in a month, fearing that it would blow nver.ss it almost did duringaaoverestorm. They then removed to tbe street where taey first lived, where they remained' month and two days. At tho end of that time, something having occurred to arouse suspicions on Jesse's part, thoy removed to Bt. Joseph, whore they uvea under their former alias of Howard. Thero they moved but once until the final tragedy ended the lobber chief's life. She did not attempt to defend her husband's crimes, but declared that he was charged with a thousand offenses he never committed, among which were the Kansas City exposition robbery, aud various stage robberies in Colorado ana Texas, A SOUTHERN CTCLOSE.

to 25 cents; while a loss ample meal can be had for sums ranging from 3 cents upward. Mexicans, who must, live at

J an astonishingly small cost

THF FEIttJYUJT IXYESTIUATIOIT.

William Henry Hurlbert, editor of Ihe Now York World, and brother of the late Minister Hurlbut, appeared before tlio Foreign Affairs Committee on the Peruvian matter on April 29. The clerk read from Shipherd's testimony his

! description of theiinterview between himself

fStupherd;. and liurioett, lawmen, mo taner is accredited with saying be lid seen and held in ms nands a aispatch from Blaine to Minister Hurlbut, on which waa written a marginal note. " Go iu, Bteve,"or "Go it Stove." The witness said : " The whole narrative of this conversation with me is an absolute and profound misrepresentation of facts. He sought an interview with mo and stated his cae and (rave me a lomt narrative of his relations with

; Blaine, and complained bitterly that he had not been well treated by the Secretary. There is j no truth in tho. statement that I told him I had I seeu suoh a dispatoh with a marginal note," j Witness said bis relations with Biaina were ot ! a friendly character. He bad several eonverI aations with him. The Secretary failed to con

vince witness that he (the Secretary) was earlying out tbe policy of President Garfield. He failed to convince him because of hia ways and methods. Witness continued! "The Secretary always suggested to me something in tha nature of a pontical flirt As a Democrat I had never much faith in his methods, though personally I liked him, and my brother seemed to have great oonfidenoe mhun.n Mr. Blaine appeared before tha House Foreign Affairs Committee April 4, andmado a sweeping denial of the statements of Jacob It, Sbiplierd. "His employment is ftUcliood perjury his pastime, " was the words used by Mr. Blaine to characterize Shipherd. Blaine stated that their orst interview lasted but fifteen minutes, and they did not meet again for three months. Tbe reason why Shipherd waa not at first kicked out of the department was tbat ho was introduced by a Senator and had three ex-Senatora and an cxSecretary of the Treasury as counsel. Hr. Blaine produced a letter from Henry W. Blair, denying that be heard Shipherd state to tha ex-Secretary that Minister Hurlbut bad been offered 250,000 in the stock of the Pern visa Company. Mr. Blaine at ono time expressed the opinion tbat Shipherd should be sent before tbe Grand Jury for perjury. Mr. Blaine waa again before the House Foreign Affair Committee, on the -26th of April. He expressed his obligations tot an opportunity to state tbat no important dispatches in regard to South Amerioan affairs were proparcd daring President Gaiflelds' siokns. He stab a, with much earnestness, that the English bondholders ' put up a job of war on Fein for booty that Chili and England were now dividing spoils amounting to $60,000,000, and that history will hold the United States responsible for the dismembermout which has taken place. Mr. Blaine alluded to the effort! which have been mads to fix upon him fBbiae) the resnonsi-

I bility for a certain policy toward the

sown American states wmcu mi calculated to involve this country seriously, and continued : " I don't desire to assume that President Arthur is responsible for any euch effort. I acquit hira entirely ; but I desire at this timo to place this matter before the committee corrccily." Blaine then produced the original draft of tho instructions which were given TretcoU, which he read, and pointed out corrections which bad been undo by the President, sonic of them at his (Blaine's) suggestion, aud commented on tbe corrections and their merits and demerits. He added: "I do not by any means find fault with the President for changing bis mind; but this is the original draft of instructions to .which President Arthur gave his assent, aud Which, following precedent I kept. I desire to siate most solomnty that the assumption that I ever interpellated a lire or syllable in a dispatch after it was agreed to by the President is aa false a lie as tbat which waa circubvied over the country tbat I was during the President's sickness blocking out a foreign policy of my own." Mr. Belmont, of the committee, propounded a series of questions in regard to the terms " good offices " and "officially," and a somewhat lively tilt ensued between examiner and witness, which was suddenly brought to a eumax by Blaine's remarking, will some emphasis 'I hone. Mr. SelmonL von will be a mm.

tlenun. I shall be one, and shall treat you a

sueh, I am not in a Fohco Court to' bo badgered. I must answer my questions in my own wr.y, and you must not undertake to correct me.' Belmout disclaimed any lack oi courtesy

j or desire to badger.

A Town tn miaaitwlppl Swept. Away tr ss Tornado, and Eleven Peawoia Killed. Montioello, Hiss., twenty miles east of Brookhaven, wa completely destroyed by a cyclone, only three house in the entire place being left They were dwelling-houses on the edge of the storm. Nothing like it was ever seen in that section. Eleven persona were killed instantly, five whites and six colored. Out of a population of about 150 very fow escaped without some injury. Between fifteen and twenty wore soriously injured, some fatally. The store of Colin, after being blown down, was struck by lightning and burusd. There was not a tree left. The track of the oyelone waa estimated to be half a mile wide. Ono lady was blown away and no trace of her ran bo found. H. W. Dale, proprietor of tha MxmlireUo Advocate office, which ia a wreck, was killed, The old Planter's Bank, a rtiio of flush times, aud tho Court Douse, a vary substantial building, were level sd to the ground. Tbe Courthouse was one of the oldest landmarks. The Legislature met there when Mississippi was a Territory. The houses of Mr. Carlisle and William Butler were caught up and dropped in the center of thw river. Mexican Restaurants. Opou-oir restaurants make n feature of all Mexican towns. In tho larger cities they open at night under the great "portales," or covered streets, which almost invariably surround the plazas; at any time from sundown to tbe following sunrise ono may get thereat a ery good meal of fried chicken, tortillas and coffee for a sum varying from I'2J cento

New England Churches. Abont the year 1700, the meetinghouses in New England were plain wooden structures, in most cases without steeples. The windows were glazed with diamond-shaped glass, the wtills unplostered, and this interior without any means of heating. Through tbe storms of winter the congregation shivered in the cold during public worship. -About a hundred and fifty years ago, in the interior of one. of these rough edifices could be' seen the families of New England. The men were drersed in the fashion of the age. They wore broadbrimmed hats, turned up into three corners, with loops at the side; long coats, with large pockets and cuffs, and without collars ; tho buttons cither plated or pure silver, and of the size oi -half a dollar ; shirts with bosom aud w:ast ruffles, and with gold and silver buckles at tho wr'st united by a link ; the neckcloths of fine linen, or figured stuff, embroidered with the ends hanctnir loosely.

Small clothes were in fashion, and only

reached to the knee, where they wera ornamented with silver bookies of largo size ; the legs were covered with long gray stockings; the boots had broad tops, with tassels ; shoes went some worn, ornamented with straps aud silver buckles. The women had black silk or satin bonuets, gowns extremely shortwftisted, with tight sleeves, or else very short i-leeves, with an immense frill at the elbow. The ministers wore large gown and powdo'ed wigs. The Kind of Van to Harry. Let us look at another case. A young man, receiving a small salary, determines to put asido each week a certain sum as a foundation for the pleasant home he some time hopes to hove. It forces him to make many sacrifices ; he eschews

jewelry aud cones, soda water and oigars, and carries an unperfumed handkerchief. When in this semi-rustic plight, and wearing a suit (perfectly preserved) two seasons old, he calls on a maiden whose company ho desires, she looks with scorn at the dowdy dress, and is suddenly otherwise engaged. Discouraging as this may be, he plods on iu. the chosen path, and finally lays his heart before a quiet maiden who has read : " I see a man : I do not see his shabby dress, I see biiu in his manllnexa; I see his ax, I aee his Kpado, I see a man that (iod has nude. If inch a man before you stand, Girt htm your heart, givo him vour bead, And thank your Milker for such men : Thoy make thin old earth young again." The beginning of their wedded life is devoid of much of the splendor that attended the other pair, bnt to them thero is no rude awakening to misery and woe. Their affection having never been trifled away, but reserved, each for the other. S roves a ooustant joy and ever present alight Tub Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the storekeepers' profits on dry -goods, boots and shoeo, lUid many of tha standard groceries, :-uroly exceed, when the wholesale aud retail profits are added together, 15 per cent On the other hand, on teas, iipioos, and in some instances on fresh meats and provision, th.e gajna run over !16 m Oeflti

PARTY ISSUISS.

From tha Chicago Tr-buita. Thero is always more or lens desultory talk about abstract party ist inesj and it baa oomo to be the fashion oil late years with some people to contend that the Republican party has performed its mission ; that it has no new ideas to advance, and that it ought quietly to disband and die. The so-called independent in politics is conatoaiily ventilating this notion, audit may be worth while to expose its vacuity. It is certainly a blessing to the country that there are no such startling issues before the country as slavery and secession wijrti. It would lie a most unhappy condition of things if party lines could only t drawn upon differences that shake the-very foundation of the Government In. a period of political quiet aud material prosperity a party lives and thrives, or languishes and struggles, v wording to its traditions. Party organization ooutinues its usefulness in itai discipline and in the responsibility whioh is imposed upon its rrabho men. If it be conceded that there are no important issues, it certainly does not follow that the Republican party should give way to some new organization to administer the Government under the laws and in the Bpirit whioh it has lmplitnted in the American system. Exciting issues, whether of section or class, are not so desirable that parties should be encouraged to invent them. On tlie oontnuy, if it were certain thai a dinruption of old parties and - the construction of new parties would lead to a- struggle over new issues, that prospect vrould be an excellent reason for holding: fast to the lines whioh now exist The coonfary can w'll afford to enjoy peacefully the finite of Republican work in the pant a nc ited eonntry, manhood suffrage, universal freedom, the resumption of specie ;psyments, and the assurance of permaniinoy which a wise system of ltws give to tbe republic. The people do not long lor nervous aud exciting contests. No theory of expedience can suggest that the Republican party should supinely resign the field to make room for

the Democratic party. Wlu.t issues are presented ou that side whioh promise progress and development? The only headway which has been made by the Democrats at any time within the post twenty years has been duo to their adoption of Republican ideas. Once every four years the Democrats produce a platform which is more or less au imitation of Republican platforms of earlier campaigns. Ii tho Democrats have oue distinctive issue it is their adherence to the pernicious and dangerous doctrine of State sovereignty. The popular sentiment of the country cer tainly does not favor n return to that obsolete theoiry. Whenever the Democrjts have been temporarily restored to power (and they had absolute control of Con

gress during four years) they have failed.

to initiate any measures ot import or publie importance.-' They were never able to agree among themselves as to any measure of tax reform or public olibcfti advancement There is nothing in the Democratic record to inspire a hope that universal blessings would follow upon a committal of the Government into their hands. But if here is no reason why the Republican party should give up the ghost in order that the Democratic party may bertssurrecttid, it must be confessed that a party which is strongly intrenched iu the public confidence is better prepared to take np and work out any live and burning 'isstaea that may arise than would bo a now party whioh might, bp constructed to await their comingi As a matter of fact, tlio Republiosa party always finds something to dp, and generally dpes it promptly and ' eiently. . Tho present Oingross has uU

I ready accomplished in oue session mors I , 1 . i L . l 1. -

uneiui pnoiic uusiuess uinu mas ueau done by all the Congresatis that have intervened since the Republicans controlled both houses before. By ti9 timo the present Congress shall bar adjourned, effective meat-urea will havs been taken to repress polygamy, to restrict Chinese immigration, .to regulate tho oonnt ot the electoral vote Jin suoh maimer as to avert future dissension, and probably to inangunite the schema for readjusting the tariff upon mon equitable and enduring basis. Any ono of these accomplishment is of - more valuo to the people than all the legislation to whioh the Democrats can point while they were in control of Congress. It ia folly to contend, therefore, that the Republican party is out sf ideas or that there is nothing for it In do. In spite of some distressing factional troubles, it actuslly does more t'lau the Democratic party, which is united in tho common purpose of scouring the spoils. Aside from all this, thoro is one issue which will give the Rs publican party vitality and force so lon as that issue shall be in doubt iu any section of tho country viz. : the freedom of the ballot So long as the Democratic part' in tha South shall refmie to ncogniio this essential of free government, just so long may it be confident) y expected that the Republican party will boon hand tobattleforit Race prejudices, class distinction, State sovereignty heresy, fraud, intimidation and violence as the ruling elements of a popular election, and all the staling features of Bourbonism at the South must be definitively and honestly foresworn before the Republican party will retire from tbe field. In the meantime this parsy organization, which on more than ono occasion has developed tbe rare faeuky of correcting its own mistakes and pan- ! isliing its own offenders, will continue to protect its past achievomants, whioh are ' represented in the constitution and laws ot the country, and will bo quick to an- j

propnate all new issues tooting ,to uio ; welfare of tho American people, j

THEREFORE, RESOLVED. A Platform That Majr C ton. identlv Ba Expected One f TDmsm Iinya. I From the Now York rribtino. It is understood that at. a special meeting of the Democratic NitionalOommittee.shortly to be held in tlio sand lots at San Francisco, tlio following resolutions will be unanimously adopted, mid rapturous applause : Jiesolvid, That if tha Damooratio party is to stay the Chituimau mast go. Unsolved, That when wo have oswer ted in our platforms, as aa have so frequently, that we welcomed all men of idl climes to America's great opportunities we did not mean all We always uuulu a distinct mental reservation in favor of any foreigners whose exclusion from out shores might furnish us with more or less party capital. Jienolved, That believing we can make votes by sottiug out faoos like flint against the Chinese, we Accordingly set our faces like flint against them. Jteohcd, That iu taking this position

we are not treating tha Chte any worse than we treated the bbvek men o our own beloved country befora I860. ' liewtottfi That if w vmW Iry; doing -be sure of electing oar tfoket in 1884, we would advocate the erection of a picket finoe forty foot high around Ireland, with a sentinel perched on every picke t to shoot down any aad nil natives who attempted to break; throujjh and emigrate. -.',; Ketolved, That 'that l fh S arty that weare-r-oar sdjstract belieta o not at all affeijt our actions; our-"convictions" tire one thing, anil we- iurve plenty'of them, but we never laW' our convictions to interfere with practical pipe-laying. JSemlved, -That iu Denis Kearney we Mcognijse a statesman of the. :tique mold, and that we will lead wbere he will follow or follow where he will kad in a campaign against the Ohinaoiapt JResoleed, That a copy of these resolutions be careuhtted on the Pfcoifie ooafct,, ooupled with aa earnest request that those who read them will, vote early and often for the Domoorat ticket in 1881. The South Caroltaa Balldarsrs. United States District Attorney Mel. ton finds 8oo& Carolina aehiejal paoa In whioh to perform the duties of hia offioe. Bu prosecution of Bate .anil others, accused of obsbmcting a "Tnited State Supervisor in the discharge of his doty, and of stuffing a ballot-bof in Acton precinct at the general elootiou of 1880, whioh resulted at the dose of last week in a verdict of guilty on two counts, so enraged the good' citieenn of Columbia tbat they aerionaly Mnsplered the propriety of burning him in efy, but better counsels finally previiiled, and, according to a.f oorrasjwDdent of the Charleston Newt Okd&uAeK " tha eouflagration will be dalayed until tho work can bo more effectively done by that interesting individual who is aid to keep a lake of fire and brimstone for ready me in all suoh emergeticies.' The lines of OoL Haskell, however, one of the Attorneys for tbe defense, have fallen in pleasant places, for at Cberaw, immedietely on the receipt of the paper containing bis speech to the jury, "a beautiful bouquet of chaSjie flower wue forwarded to him Kith ia card atttshed, bearing the following words : "xo ColJohn C. Haskell, from admirers in Gheraw for hia manly and patriotic defense of the persecuted tjitizena of tho 3tate.l"-JifetoaJt... ,.-,. . ' ISMASiA ITEaU. Akotheu flour mfll is to be opened in New' Albany making the 'fifth. " A Fins at Lawrenooburg swept away 925,000 woikc4prperty in thebusiness section. .' .. . . Tbb number of - siioaeisiful pension claimants in the Seooi4 district ia 1,867, and they have securedf281,809. A lauiPHONK cable wmneotingE vansvilla with the Eentuoky shore ha been laid and is now in working order, AxMtiaicie, Charles Carter, a farmer, was shot by burglars who atanptod to enter hia house, and vill die. The burglars fleL No dew. '! -.'. Wimuk DauiT, a fanner of 'Lagro township, Wabash .sounty, .about a month age) left home, tduoe which timo no tidings have been looeivod front iu. EvANSvrtii.E needs fHXMXW to run tho government till September, and the banks refuse to loan her $15000 because Bhe has already reachod the legal lunitation. j A Warsaw man bus been sent to jail to work out' a nee of 1700 and costs for keeping a disorderly fiilooa. Xt widtske him 73s days to hqtudate, unless he sooner pays down the money. The Madison Slewing Company turned- out twenty 'ions of beautiful block ice the other day, m a result of their first run- in the proof as of ioe-

Th Marion county ComiDiseioner have passed an order loplaoe at the disposal of thoatyStiwiConuniHaionersof Indianapolis all prison era oonfined in the jail, that they may ci service on tha streets. A committer of oituens of ' Kew Albany have given notion that they will Anntasit. in f vurrta ill a YtAvmontV Ra

the city to the Game well fish. Alarm telegraph of. the $2,100 for three bell strikers. -.- f . . - - . DbvSo&ohoh Stoma, of 'Waterloo, pension examiner rargeoa. baa .bean bound over to t -e Uiutoo! States eourt in the sum of &t,t00, on ..the charge of demanding and aociting bribes from pensioners. i- v - - GAitaiEti GoDFBOv, a ehiefof the Miami Indians, has been elected Suparintendent of Roads in Batter township, Miami county. Godfrsy ia worth $lti0,000, and is one of tbe teaoUngreaidente of the township. - ,i FATHKR"VfeioHiLvs, rormerly pastor of one of the Catholio churches in Fore Wayne, has gone into the ice business on an extensive scale at Warsaw. In Company with one or two others, 'be owns loor large ice-houses. , ' - Gsoaaa H. AvBm iaaa'bean aent to fhe JeffersonviUo prison froan Madiabn tor five years, for for(j?ry. Ho waa a licentiate in the mimttry, and but for his unfortunate fall might have 'been admitted into the regular minisiry thia year. Ah egg, abont the aim ot a goowagg, with vrith a thia, but not aoft shell, with a pif eotly-fortned eglt of oidinary iae and ordinary shell witliin the large egg, wsa htytbyaOravdavino hou, Tha larger egg was foil of Vbta, but no yelk outaide of tho inner egg. lowi Diuxiisr., a rrotntoeai'larmer living neai" HrjitingtoD, while drr-'ing home in. tiis wion iavl oroeaing the track of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, was ran into iy a freight train, thrown out and very serkroaly iojitred about the head and shouldera, Mas. Ida Bah-bt, of Oolambaa, who has for the past fow wk been, ill, and pronounoed by two of the. best physicians as h'ojielessly sic!:, has, since thair visits have been dn continued been

steadily improving, and her friends have reasonable .hopes of-he;t recovery.

It was ilooided. at a meetioiir of rep

resentative Methodists at Induvnapspa, to celebrate the semi-centauinial of- the first Methodist Coufertinoe in Induna.

which met in Kow A bany in 18S3,'y holding a State Methodist Con veu tion in Indianapolis for three lays, June 27, 28 and 29. A HOH8TKB looomotive baa. jtwt been finished at the Fort" W: lyne shops of the Pittsburgh, Fori W:me -and Chicago railway. Its dead wei)diT aeparat from tiie tender, and without fuel or water, ia 73,700 pouuda. The empty tank Weighed 22.400 pounds. One day last Week too

giant was fired up and waa run into the yard, where it scahxl the surprising weight ot $2,950. The tank, with fta sapply of coal and watt, weighed 4o,9QQ pounds. Sak SAinianta, who tat soma yearabaa been a terror to the paopla oi. Windfau, Tipton county, in a clranken row, aba) other night, had bis head peawksd with tones, and waa aapptted to be daadi for awhile, but rallied and vked three ' mile to the ountry. The Xext day physicians wera calted, who inwaouheea him fatally injured, OauexsvusK blew open th.s aalo' in. Britton & Brewor's uur storrt WaKfnetown, Montroniery ooonty, apt eonrod a small s lm of money , A thbtaaand dv4 inrs, held by Mr. Britton, Trinsurer oi the town, had j ost been removad, - (hi . makes ihe fourth time in tba past .iirot . months thati sales have bean tobtwtl- ia that oonaty. It i tba work of katni) talent,