Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 45, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 January 1884 — Page 4

NEWS CONDENSED. Conelse Reeord of the Week. XASTEKH. "- The extensive sewerage system which. Boston has been several years In constructing an las tabbed, at eost of $(,500,030. The property of the New York and New England road has gone into the hands of a receiver. Its indebtedness is over 1,250.00. The Art Loan exposition in favor of the Bartboldi statue pedestal fund, New Tork, realized net receipts of $12,000. At a point on the river nine miles from Pittsburgh, the tog-boat I. N. Bnnton was set on Are by a collision with her tow. Most of the crew sprang overboard, and three are still missing. She, soon sank iu shallow water, as d d three coal-boots. The total loss is $50,000.

Ten thousand men, women and children gathered at Ksvada, Mo., to witness the

public execution of William Fox for the mur

der of Thomas Howard.

Petersburg, Ind., at a public meet

ing attended by the beet citizens of the place.

resolved that the lynching of Harvey was the

proper thing in the proper place.

During the last year 848 new business booses hare been established at Minneapolis, Minn. The population of that city Is now claimed to to IOU.000, an Increase of

10,000 during the year.

Two condemned murderers at Walla Valla, Washington Territory, knocked the Sheriff and Jailer sengoleaj with bricks, and when the latter became conscious they cut

him to pieces with a knife and then escaped.

A Commissioner of Potter county,

Dakota, has made affidavit that Gov. Ordway accepted a bribe of 15,600 for the appoint

ment of a fellow-Commissioner.

Salt Lake erected 9,000 buildings during the year, and claims a population of

88,000.

Ernest Dix, of Bloomington, III, died

of trtchlniasis the other day. His is the

second fatal case out of a party of nine who

ate uncooked sausage, and others are yet suffering. The recent terrible tragedy at Jackson, Mich., has been reopened by the suicide of Mrs. DstW Hotcomb, the eldest daughter

HW M vivova. smv mw worn wwij insane since the slaughter of her father and sister, and anally destroyed herself with poison. A serious railway accident happened on the Iowa division of the Illinois Central, near Sort Dodge. Three passenger-cars went down a fifteen-foot embankment. Mrs.

J. H. Smith, of Bureau county, 1U., was in.

stantiy killed, her infant escaping all injury. Seven passengers were wounded, some of them very seriously. The dam r.t the Huron mine, near Hancock, Mich-, bunt the other evening, demolishing two houses and a portion of a foundry, and killing six persons. The trial of Montgomery, Pettis, and

dementi, for criminal assault upon Miss Emma Bond, was brought to a conclusion at BiUsborc, I1L, on the id inst,, the jury rendering a verdict of not guilty, after several hours' deliberation. There was a good deal of dissatisfaction over the verdict in Christian county, particularly in

the neighborhood where the Bond

family live, and some talk of organizing a mob to lynch the acquitted parties was indulged in. Mr. A. D. Bond, an uncle of the

unfortunate girl, having lost his reason by the outrage and the prolonged excitement, hanged himself Just before the conclusion of tb trial. He was a highly respected citizen.

snd the event added greatly to the feeling

against the prisoners. In the United States court at Kansas

City, Judge Krekel ordered that Frank

James be given to his bondsmen in the Blue-cut robbery ease, the State tribunal having test gained possession of the pris-

SOTJTHEKH.

Two negroes, accused of shooting white men, were taken from jail at BrooksTille, Via., and shot dead. A gambler named Burns killed the night watchman at the end of the track on the Mexican Central road, near El Paso, Tex. Barns was hanged to a box-ear by a

Four colored children on a plantation at Summerton, S. C, in the absence of their mother built a fire, which consumed the boose and cremated themselves. A mob composed of 200 armed men

through the streets to the Jail at

Miss- demanded and received from

the jailer the keys Jo the prison. The object of their visit was to infilot summary punishment upon four negroes confined therein for the murder of Joseph Nichols and the Posey brothers a few days previous, and they did their work promptly and effectually. The mob first proceeded to the ceil of W. H. Ante. The door was forced open, and as one of the crowd entered be was struck with atand-iron from the flre-place wrapped in a towel, and knocked down. At this moment firing commenced andthe prisoner was instantly killed, being riddled by more than a dozen shots. Bobert Swaysee, another of the murderers, was taken from his cell, a rope placed around bis neck and thrown over the fence, and be was thus banged- They then proceeded to the cell in which Richard Gibba was Incarcerated, but could not open the doors with the keys. Gibbs appeared at the grating of his cell, and on being perceived was riddled with shot. A rope was passed into his ceil, which was placed around him by his cell-mate, and be was then dragged out and hanged from the outside of the building. The mob then went upstairs to Micajah Parker's cell. He was taken out, a rope placed around bis neck, and in the balcony of the middle corridor of the jail be was banged, the body dangling over the balcony. After this the crowd quietly dispersed. The victims were all negroes, and Foote was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for the district. The lynchers were young white men from the surrounding country. Ho effort was made to hinder them. Fritz Haider, County Treasurer at 'axoo, Miav, who was a peacemaker in the , tragedy, has expired from wounds re X

Judge HcCrary, of the United States Circuit court, has tendered bis resignation, to take effect March 1, and will accept the post of general attorney for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway. Gen. A. A. Humphreys, who was retried in 18W. died suddenly in Washington last week. He was Major General of Volunteers, and afterward became a Brigadier in the regular army, serving as Chief Engineer

for twelve years. He was an honorary mem

ber of several scientific societies in Europe and America. Within the last three months seventysix fourth-class Postmasters have been raised to the Presidential grade. A strong pressure is being brought to bear to have the whisky bonded period extended two years. The petition is signed by whisky-men, bankers, and fcercbanta, from Boston to Denver. Mr. M orrisoa says he will be prepared to Introduce bis tariff bill In the Bouse of Representatives abeutthe ISth of January. Mr. Morrison says be has received letters from prom meat business men ef the Kast, saying that they are not alarmed St th prospects of a tariff lOftaioo. but they would like as bare the revision made at once. Congressman Browne, of Indiana, has received letters giving details of gross frauds

practiced by speculators In timber-lands on the Pacific. It is asserted that certain Senators and Representatives are interested in the profits. At the White house reception the question was decided as to whethor, in the absence of Mrs. President or Mrs. Vice President, the wife of the Speaker ranked the wives of the Secretary of State and Chief Justice as the first lady of the land. A precedent was established, for when the hour for the reception arrived Mrs Carlisle came in upon the President's arm and took hor place on his right. Following is the statement of (he public debt, issue I on the 1st inst. : Iaterest-hearinx debt. Fonr and one-halt per cents .. M0,000,00t Four per cents 737.fi32,7M Three per cents 2Ti.mT.sn Refunding certificates hi.i.im Navy pension fond li,ooo,ooo

Total interest-bearing debt $1,276,885,150

liS.t38.T95 .. 83,TJ9.8! 14,St,0M .. 2U0.93fl,5al 6,W.),423

Matured debt Legal-tender notes. , Certificates of deposit. , Gold and silver certificates.. Fractional currency

Total without interest $ 5J),219,065 Total debt (principal) $1, W,'.'4 i.S.X) Total interest , I!,l72,:cri Total cash in treasury ST.VST4.200 Debt, less cash in tressurv 1,498,011,723 Decrease dcrlnir le emb- r 11,743,SJ7 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881. 58,049,483

Cnrrent liablHUe Interest due and unpaid $ 1,930,331 Dent on which interest has ceased.. 15.138,7:14 Interest thereon JMS.lfls Cold and silver certificate S0O,03u,S3i V. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. l,5ji000 Total t 375,374,200 available iet8 Cash m treasury. $ 375,374,900 Bonds issued to Pacific railwsyeompsmes, interest payable by United tt.ePrindnsl outstanding $ M,S3LSll Interest accrued, not yet tiaid. 1, i x.Ttss Interest paid by United States 08,322,093 Interest repaid by companies By transportation service. $ 17,031.893 By cash payments, C per cent, net earnings, 6M4M Balance of Interest paid by United States. 4u.93S.M0 Tbo decrease In the public debt during December amounted to $11,718,337. The decrease since June 80, 1889, was 958,049,488. A Washington telegram says: The Bouse Commerce Committee, as It is constituted under the new order of things, will bo devoted almost entirely to the subject of interstate commerce. This is a question with respect to which party lines will bo drawn.

lOSCIXLAltXOUS. A Washington dispatch says the publication of the letters of C P. Huntington, disclosing the movements of the railway kings in Washington in connection with the Southern and Texas Pacific land grants and the Thurman Funding bill, has attracted great attention there. There can be little doubt that this publication will nave these results: First, there will be a searching investigation by one branch of Congress or the other into the various suggestions contained in the letters of undue influence; second, the publication will most unquestionably destroy whatever hopes or prospects the Southern Pacific magnates had of obtaining from Congress the ratification of the assignment of the unearned land grant of the Texas Pacific to the Southern Pacific. The failures in the United States for the past year numbered 9,184, with liabilities of $175,000,000. The year 18T8 developed 10,478 insolvents. Commercial failures : G. A. Constant Co., retail dry-goods, Chicago, liabilities, (125,000; Jeffords, Bailey & Co, lounge manufacturers, Jamestown. N. Y., liabilities S100800; F. J. Conklin & Co., tobacco, Bingbamton, N, Y. ; Wilnaui Carroll & Co., hats, New Tork city, liabilities 930,003; TJIIman Lamb, plantation supplies, Natchez, Mi., liabilities $20,000; Eager, Bartlett & Co., woolen goods, Boston, liabilities $30,000: Gillies & Bro., teas and spices, New Tork, liabilities 975,000 Delos Pratt, furniture, Toledo, liabilities 930,008; A. M. Church, Jeweler, Chicago," liabilities 910,000; J. A. Anderson, clothing, Atlanta, Ga., liabilities $35,003; John X). Leslie, grain, Elkhart, Ind., liabilities 930,000; Thomas S. Henard, notions, Cincinnati, liabilities 975,000; Bets Bros. A Co., fnnoy groceries, Cincinnati, liabilities S300,008; Isaac Beis, wholesale cigars, Cincinnati, liabilities 9300,000; C. W. Savage Sons, general merchants. Miles City, Montana, liabilities 9100,000; Jacob Jocoles, fancy goods, Nashville, Tenn., liabilities 940,080; H. E. Dueming, .hardware, ShelbyvJUe, 11L, liabilities 910,080; J. E. Musselwhltc, notions, Peoria, 111., liabOltiee 930,000; landrum tt Butler, dry goods, Augusta, Ga., liabilities 988,000; Gillison & Donalson, hardware, Minneapolis, Minn., liabilities 915,000; A: J. Defossez, operatic manager. New Orleans, liabilities 975,000. Keeeut deaths: Napoleon Joseph Ferehe, Archbishop of the Boman Catholic Diocese of New Orleans; Hon. John Proctor, one of the wealthiest citizens of New Hampshire; John M. Scully, of New York, a lead ing Irish Nationalist; Joseph Longworth, a prominent citizen of Cincinnati; George W. Lane, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce; Joseph D. Murphy, a well-known theatrical manager of Philadelphia; Bev. Francis Hawley, the aged father of Senator Hawley, of Connecticut. A local train on the Grand Trunk

road collided with a freight train when two miles outside of Toronto, Twenty-seven employes of the bolt works were killed or fatally injured, and a like number received

serious wounds. George Barber, conductor of the freight train, has been arrested for

running without orders.

Fixe losses: Burbank's fine jewelry

store and five other business houses at Saraaac, Mich., loss 975,000; the Jackson saw mfll. New Orleans, loss 935,003; a woolen mill at West Chelmsford, Mass., loss 9300,000; six stores and many other structures at Orangevllle, 8. C, loss 945,000; a woolen mill at 8eafortb, Ont., loss 955,000; the cooper-shop of the Dupout Powder company, Wilmington, Dei., loss 975,000; a flouring mill at Lodi, Ohio, loss 915,000; Chism's store, Mariana, Ark., loss 915,000; Quick's

fnrnifure factory, Burlington, Iowa, loss 9U,080; the Dakota house block, Jamestown, Dakota, loss 9100,000; Lambert & Bishop's wire-fence manufactory, Joliot, 111., loss 9825,000; the Bye Beach hotel at Williams' Bridge, X. Y., loss 935,000; four stores at Oxford, Ala., loss 935,000; several business houses at Tipton vllle, Tenn., loss 930,000; a hotel and fourteen stores at Whiteaboro, Tex., loss $35,000; twenty-five buildings at Howard City, Mich., Iocs $75,080; a block of business structures at Breckinridge, Minn., loss 950,000; a portion of the Scipp block, on Van Buron street, Chicago, loss 950,000; the -Etna flour-mills, Akron, Ohio, loss 975,080; the upholstering shops of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, at 8edaUa, Mo., loss 950,000; several stores at Tower City, Dakota, loss $20,000; a cottonnull at Thorndlke, Mass., loss 958,000; the business part of the village of Middlebury, Vt.; the court-house and records at Brookhaven, Miss.; nine business houses at Jacksonville, Oregon, loss 980,000; two stores at Longvicw, Texas, loss 918,000; an extensive flouring mill near Newcomers town, Ohio, loss $85,000; People's Hardware Store, Bismarck, Dakota, loss 910,808; tiro steamboats at St. Louie, Mo., loss 945.000; a hotel and railway depot at Bonvllle, Arizona, loss 930,000; a furniture store at Jollet, III., low $10,000; Judge Webster's residence at Bay City, Mich., loss 810,000; a building on Monroe street, Chicago, occupied by Bradner, Smith & Co., paper dealers, tho National Printing Co., and Shober Carquerilte, engravers, loss 9"0O,O0O. FOREIGN. tUnort has it that ODonnell. recently

executed, was on? or fonr notorious leaders

of the Molly Magi 1 1 res who bavo long been biding from American Justice.

At a consistory to be held at iiomein

AnrlL several Cardinals will tie created, and

the vacant sees In America will be filled. It

Is thought that Archbishop Gibbous, of Baltimore will bo mado a Cardinal. The Frenoh lost thirty-six offioers and nearly 1,000 men in the battlo of Sontay, and found $3,000,000 in the city. It is reported that tho Suiters' Company, ono of tho largest and most successful of tho London guilds, has decided to dispose of its Irish lands, and is now offering them to tenants on twenty years' time. Bctt, the public hangman in Austria, who was found dead in bed, is bol loved to have been murdered. Mass-meetings of Orangemen and Nationalists were held New Year's day at Dromore, Ireland, in full view of each otfaor. 20,000 of tho former turned out and about ?,000 of the latter. Pcvoral attempts at a collision were made, but the troops prevented bloodshed. Two men were wounded hy bayonets. That China desires peace is stated on I he best authority by The London TfnK. If Franco will abstain from further hostile notion on the Red river, a pacific itfrreoinont an easily he concluded. By the terms of tho Burlingamo treaty the rutted State is bound to offer its good offices whenever China makes the request. Aftoi- a battle, lasting ten hours, on lho heights of t-'lollon, Vugn's forces wore defeated by tho Peruvian nationalists, under command of Col. Iglculuj. An extraordinary scone is reported from Vienna. A Jesuit prcacbrd the wickedness of the workinimien, and twcn.y of his congregation began bombarding the pulpit with stones, creating a panic, in which three people were killed. Lord Rector Lowell has resigned his Lordship, finding some difficulty iu holdingsuch a title and at the same time serving as an Embassador of tho Vnlted States. Tho officials of St- Andrew's university are said to greatly regret tho resignation.

1VATER MEWS ITEMS. Bobert Martin, aged 53, and James

B. Graves, 6 years, were hanged at Newark, N. J., for murder. Martin's crime was the murder of his wife, bslng drunk at the time he committed the do?d. Graves httd always becu regard -.d as a crank, and tho little boys called him "Monkey Graves." Ho had frequent quarrels with Eddie Sodcn, asred 13 years, and repeatedly threatened to kill him. On the night of Dec. SO, 1891, Kddle started out to perforin his duti03 as a lamplighter. Graves stea'.thlly followed, and, while tho b y was mounted on a lamp post, shot him down from behind. He was convicted Jan. 19, 1883, of murder in tho first derno. His defense was insanity. Dr. Spitkti, the medical expert who testified for Gultcau, assisted by six other doctors, examined into Graves' case. They certified that he was insane. The Court of Pardons refused to commute the sentence. The autopsy, made by County Physician Hewlett, Dr. Spltka and twelve other dootors, showed that Graves was insane. Signs of insanity more numerous and intense than are found in lunatics who die in Insane asylums were discovered. AU the doctors were agreed thai a lunatic had been hanged, dementi, one of the men acquitted of the Emma Bond outrage, went from the Jail at Hlllsboro to Irving, 111., whore the citizens gave him ten minutes to leave. Charles Deitzler, a barber, shot and killed a saloon-keeper at Weiser City, Idaho, for which he was hanged to a tree by a mob. Jacmel, Hayti, has surrendered, and the rebellion has been crushed. Currieu, an Alsatian, who threatened to shoot Prime Minister Ferry at Paris, has been sentenced to imprisonment for three months. The announcement comes from Paris that the present French ministry Is considering tho project of selling tho railways owned by the republic. The price named is $8i,000,000, and the bidders are the Bothsehilds. In the Dublin Weekly News A. M. Sullivan pays a tribute to Susan Gallagher, the woman who was with O'Donnell when he killed Carey, because of her love for truth in not swearing that Carey had a pistol, which would have been a great point in O'Donnell's favor. Mr. Sullivan dubs her the "Irish Jeaonie Deans." Friends of the measure express confidence in the speedy passage of a bill extending tho bonded period on whisky. The Attorney General has ruled that a Postmaster cannot take from the money order fund of his office sufficient to pay a clerk for issuing tho orders. James A. Wallace, cashier of the Bank of Hopklnsrille, iu Kentuoky, baa absconded, leaving a defalcation of $10,000 to $50,000. In the mountains in Arkansas, bear, deer, and wild turkey are exceedingly plentiful. A hunter in Searcy county recently had a desperate fight with a bear weighing 700 pounds, and came near losing his life. In a free fight in a saloon at Denver, Slode, tho pugilist, struck an oillcer, and was placed in tho station-house. John L. Sullivan undertook to take a revolver from a hotel proprietor, but was chased out of tho building. In the Ottumwa (Iowa) City jail, a person named Williams shot and killed a turnkey aud escaped. Ho also fired at tho Sheriff's wife, who endeavored to stop him, but missed her. At Winnipeg last week the thermom

eter registered 45 degrees below zero.

No work having been dono within tho prescribed time, the Mexican government has forfeited the concession made to Gen. Grant for a submarine cable connecting tho two republics. Gov. Hamilton, in his message to the Legislature of Maryland, vigorously denounces the praotloe of bribery at elections, which

he declares has reached the proportions of a

State disgrace.

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THE LITTLE FOLKS. Hovey Kxpuilits. "Oh. nauKhtv little Hovryr Haid mamma, "to try to llt Your dearest Irion I! I'm very sure You knew it. wax not. riuht. What made yon At It, larlimr':'" The b.il)y-l)0 locked nine. While a world of mischief sparkled In Mis beautiful, blnek eye-. And, "Mt didn't mean to hurt him. Oh! ro. of course me timldu't," He answered, "bur me loved him so Mo thonght mcM oat him up, you k ow - And tl.o me thonght mo wouldn't." -tioo'i ( In-,; What Will Yon i.-f Wp see two bovH standing side hy side. Doth are intelligent looking and kind looking; hut one becomes an idle, shiftless fellow and the other an intlti:ntial and useful man. Porhajis when liter were boys no one could h we ueen much difference between tliem ; when thor were men the contrast was marked. One becamo dissolute, step by step; the other beeamo virtuous step by step; as ono went up the other went down. It is a question of great moment What will yon bo? Ono determines he will do right and improve his powers and opportunities to the utmost. He is industrious, learns his business, becomes a partner or proprietor, and is known as a man of influence and power. Another does not determine to be bad, but in lazy and neglects to improve his opportunities. lie -shirks work, ho "fools around;" next ho is seen with tobacco, aud probably beer and whisky follow; his appearance shows lie is unhealthy; he does not do his work well, ho loses his position and becomes intemperate and probably a criminal. There are many to-day who are standing at tho parting place. You can take ono path and yon will go down as sure as tho sun sets. If you prefer hanging around a saloon to leading good books at home, then you at e on the road to ruin. If you do not obey your parents, if you run away from school, if you lie, if you swear, you will surely go down in life. If a boy steadily improves his time, tries to learn his business, obeys his father and mother, is truthful and industrious, is respectful and pleasing toward others, he will succeed. Xo one can stop his doing well in life. He has determined that ho will be a noble specimen of a man, and every good person will help him. Scholar's Companion. Ileruo und the Hears. I have been in u city full of bears over here in Switzerland, children, and when I was there I thought I should have to write and tell you about it, for it was a queer old place. Although Ihero were bears everywhere in the stores, in the hotels, in the streets, on fountain!, on clocks, in dens, on bridges and almost everywhere you looked, 1 was not one bit afraid. Shall I tell you why? Deenuse most of them were made of stone, or wood, or porcelain, or ivory, or ginger-bread, or sugar-cake, and they could not hurt me; and tie few fierce old fellows who were alive, like those which yon have seen caged in some of our parks at home, or in a menagerie, were in dens, and, although they looked up at us with hungry eyes, and perhaps were wishing they could just get their teeth into our little children, and have a dainty little supper, they could not reach ns, so we weren't afraid of them either. Do you know where Berne is? Look on your atlas, and you will find it the largest city in Switzerland, and Switzerland is a republic like America, you knew. And this city is tho capital of it, where the President lives, and where the laws are made. If n Swiss marries a foreigner he is obliged to have the ceremony performed here in the capital, so there are a great many weddings in the hotels in Heme, and bridal parties coming and going quite often. The people vote for tho President just as e do at home, which seems a strange thing over here, where nearly all the other countries are ruled by Kings, ov Emjierors, or Czars, or Queens. A queer way it was that the people named this town! Many, many years ago, when the plaee was a small hamlet amid dense woods, in which hunters found tine game, there wore only a few persons there, and they sat down ono day to talk over a name for the town. One man wanted one name, and another another, and they got to quarreling about it, for each man was determined to have his own way, f.o that finally they all agreed that to settle the dispute they would go hunting, and would name the town after the first animal that was killed that day. The first ono killed was a bear, so they called the town Berne, which is the Swiss word for bear, and ever since his figure has been on the arms of the town, and the people have his image everywhere. " The city is beautifully situated.and is considered the honds.on.est iu Switzerland. It is built on a high promontory nearly 2, (XK) feet above tho sea, and the swift, broad river Aar surrounds it on three sides. The river flows between very high banks which slope gruduatly to the water's edge, and which are laid out in beautiful terraces, and flowergardens, and shaded walks; while above, on the heights, is a promenade and a drive some miles in length, through avennes or great linden trees, which are as beautiful as our maples. Here the people, rich and poor, come at ovening to walk, or to sit in pleasant arbors, taking their onptiers, or to

drive on tho n enue, from which you have a fine view of the lovely Bernese

Alps, winch, when the snu is setting,

and to'tching their snowy summits in

roseate hues, is n delight to behold. The city itself we should hardly call handsome, with its long streets of' rows and rows of high, massive, stone, silentlooking houses, resting upon arcades, and all lined with shops, with roofs that project many feet beyond the houses. The covered walks under these arcades are pleasant when the sun is hot, or in rainy weather, but they make the shops dark and damp and gloomy. Certainly these houses do not compare with our avenues of beautiful homes, set apart from each other, bright and sunny, aud awav from tho shops aud the noise and tialic of tho bnsy streets; but we see none such iu Europe. There are many fountains in tho publie squares of tbi old city of Berne. Ono of thorn is a lioar in armor, with a sword, a belt and a banner; another has a bear as a crossbowman attending a squire, and another still is 11 large st.itno of an ugly old ogre, eating up little children. He has pockets full of them, and sonw are crouching down behind him, others on In shoulders, and ono poor little mortal is just slip1 ing down his throat. I should think the little folks would want to ko?p away from that street. There it an ola clock in one of tho towers of tho city, and when tho hour is about to strike, a little brouzo bear strikes it on a bell, and immediately a number of bears omo from tho in'orior of the clock, and each in succt ssion bow to one who siti npiu a throno with a scepter in hit hand. It is amusing to watch them. At o 10 end of the city there is a Bear's Iitch where a menagerie f bears are kept, which have been trained In dance, to fau themselves, and to perform many tricks which afford great eutertaiument for tho children. At all hours of the day you see children, and grown people, too, leaning over the Htonc wall which surrounds this den, watching these creatures mid fe.-'ding tJieni. They tell the story that some years wince two British officers who leaned over loo far, lost their balance aud fell inlo the don and were, torn to pieces and devoured by the

boars, but I cannot vouch for tho truth, of it. I am sure you ail M ould he amused to loo'.: into the shop windows there, and see betr.i painting Alpine seem s with an easel in one hand and hi-anlics in the other, aud quite an artist's pose to their beads as they look at their work; others playing 011 pianos, flutes, violins and guitars; others standing up in a church to bo married; others carrying groat baskets on their liaeks, or umbrellas, or parasols, or walking with canes, and in fact all sorts of attitudes, ami fixed up like peo;ile every when!. After seeing the city, you could never think of it without remembering tho bears. Cor. Chit-ago Simulant. Our Hoarding House. '"Mrs. Gimps," said the law i,inleut., as the party seated themselves at tho suppci table, ul was born, raised and brought up in an orthodox Methdist family, and since I have became an iumato of your hashery I have sorely missed my t ible d 'votions. Why do you not h tvn some 0110 return th.iuks at your table V "I'd like to know what for," interposed the hungry freight clerk. "Well, Mr. Bills." said the landlady, who was busily pouring tea, "if you wan t to say grace you can do it in any way cr language that yon please." "Thank you, Mrs." (limps, I will. PaIre nuestro, que extas en los cielog" "Oh, say, now, Bills, what do you call that?" interrupted the grocery clerk. "That's a Spanish prayer. Whotdid you suppose it was Choctaw?" "Well, let up on it any way; don't you see vou are frightening the young ladies?"' "Well, as I was going to say - -" "Please pass the butter," from the counter skipper. " It is manifestly proper to always say grace" "Urease, you mean," said the grocer's boy. " Before meat, and tho memory of my holy childhood is too fresh " "Want some Bait?" "My friend, mi old Italian proverb says: "(live neither counsel nor salt until you aro asked for it,' so please subside. As I wai saying, the memory of mv childhood cliugs to me still." " "Ladies and gentlemen, as an ardent lover of athletic sports, I would propose a little diversion for this company," iuterpo-ed the counter-skipper. "What is it?" asked the milliner. "Let us have some feats of strength between this butter and tho codfish balls. Do vou understand, Miss Oiggs?" "Suf-fish-ently well." "Oh, spare us! spare us this is, worse by far than the hash !" groaned the grocer's boy. "5Iy friends," again ventured tho law student, "by yonr ribald joking you have sought to throw me from the thread of my recital. I was about to say that though as a child I was snrrouuded by religious influences, my every wish was gratified, and I had everything I wanted." "I saw a quotation the other day that will just fit vour case, I think, Mr. Bills." "What is it?" "Here it is:" "Ul ve s child all be shall crave, And a ler while his tail doth wave. You 8Uall nave a fair doa an I a foul knave." "Ah, Mr. Scales, since you are so versed in no thank yo 1, Mrs. Gimps, not any more succotash in poetical quotations, lie kind eno:igh, to explain tho meaning of what Oloster says in Richard III. : "Whv. what a la-vvidi fo il wa tint ot Crete, Who t mailt l.i .ou th-s otti x of a fo 1. " "Do you understand it, Mr. Scales?" "Verv well." "What is it?" "He wanted hii son to be cock of the walk that's all." "When I read that," said the milliner, "I thought it had some reference to base ball. Thev have 'fouls' in base ball, don't they?" "I'es," said the grocery clerk, looking at his crippled fingers. "Yes, Miss Giggs, they have some tough fouls in base ball." "Any tougher than we have on this table occasionally V "No, not quite so tough." "Gentlemen," augrily exclaimed tho landlady, "this is sc.tudalons ! Yon in suit me and my vittnls right to my face. Now you've got to let up or pay what you owe." "Well lot up." Fori Wayne Jloosier. Children's Magazines. The subject of literary entei tainment for the young, and especially for children, will be as prominent as any other in the discussion o' holiday books, now already well upon us. It is matter of common remark, and has been any time these dozen years, how great attention is paid to the' classes of juvenile readers, not only at this particular season, but all the year round, and every month and week in tho year. We have found much to say in this respect, and the demands upon our consideration have grown with equal step in the development of magazine entertainment for tho young aud for tho mature. But with continually increasing emphasis the question recurs whether this extra attention mossails the real value of the provision thus made for children. The great fault of tho children's magazines is that they give the least possible quantity of sense to the greatest possible quantity of amusement. Now ti is well to be" amused, and the lightening of the reading of childhood by the riches of various folklore, the invention of new fairy and fantasy, the infusion of poetic beauty, and the ornament of art all these aro most praiseworthy in due bounds. The objection is thnt there are no boucds ; that trifles have the whole field to themselves, aud in fact that tho principal constituents of the ehild's paper or magazine are mush .and molasses, cake and candy. Now, wo do not feed our children after this sort at their homo tables. We give them milk and bread and meat and fruit the sweet stuff is n mere occasional luxury. Why should we allow their finer being, their mental quality, t bo demoralized any more readily than their physical? Wo aro now greatly improving in physical hygiene why should we lower the intellectual conditions? We shall not lie suspected of tho tiradgrind spirit if we declare that 75 per cent, of nonserso is too much to present our children in a month, and oven 0(1 per cent., which we are persuaded is the modern average, is too great for their mental health. We do not deny tho valuo and the necessity of cultivating the imagination. The Arabian Nights needs succession and sustainmeut, and when so great tin original geuiut as Frank Stockton appears, we scarcely desire to limit his appearance, for we bhall seldom in a generation find his equal. The flood of American production is not in the fashion of Mr. Stockton though he has imitators at a distance- -but in the general lino of fa'-eiful trash and silly fiction. It really affords mo a grave sense of comfort to open an English juvenile like the ('ltrittrrlio.r, with its honest dullness, its pragmatical moralizing and its plain old-style woodcuts. Tho mention of wood-cuts leads to another cousiderat ion, and that perhaps tho radical one. It is that our American ehild's magazines, paper and books, are written and illustrated t;io generally above tho heads of their ostensible audience, -UprUujJ'ieM publican,

GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

A Candid Proposal. Hove you, love yon! lore yon! !yot confess A consciousness of trifling docs come o'er me When all tlio other chopes of loveliness To whom I've said the same thlnx rise before me. They were, vou arc, tho idol of ray heart; An idol it must have which must be kissed Hence, That wliiuli was once but of my life a part Is now my whole exluteiico. I see a scornful light avow In yonr eyes. And yet they Bltlno like stars half hid by mists Wasnifiociitl Yon arc the fairest prize My errant heart o'er fouzht for in love's lists. You see, I'm candid: you have bowled me over. And now 1 drink, and dine, and bathe in love; C mtasled half an hour just to discover The perfume of your glove: But now all empty was this heart of mine; Borne woman must he In It. With that rose, (live me yourself, and walk into the shrine Its sovereign goddess. In short, I prnposc Sly I Won't tho Jolmson-Mowbrays be enraged! This summer's changed the lot of many a rover I That you and I lie genuinely engaged Until the season's overt Why She Went with Charley. "I have got two invitations for tomorrow," said Clara. "Charley wants mo to go with him, and Fred also sent me an invitation. I hate Fred, and the place he's going to I don't like one bit. "Then you will go with Charley?" suggested her friend. "No; I shall go with li'red. The tickets to his excursion are $1 apiece, while tho tickets to Charley's aro only 75 cents. " Sho Was Not Mistaken. He was a masher holding up the corner, and as a very pretty girl came along he spotted her, and made a break to mash her. "Ah," he said, with a greasy smile, tipping his hat, "I beg your pardon, but are you not Miss V But before ho could continue she interrupted with : "Not mis-taken in thinking yon are a fool? No, Idon't think I am, and she sailed past, while he fell up against a lamp-post and gasped as the crowd standing around gave him the laugh till it made him bick in fourteen languages. lhe Woman Question in Sweden. Before the en tensive use of steamboats on the waterways around Stockholm the Dalecarlian girls were accustomed to come to tho capital in great numbers each season to row tho passenger boats from point to point in the neighborhood of tho city. This custom still exists to some extent, and the visitor may be rowed by a buxom peasant girl to an island restaurant, or across an arm of the lako. The girls have lost none of the moral independence

and the remarkable physical strength which have since the beginning of Swedish history distinguished their ancestors. In the large cities they are found to-day mixing mortar, carrying burdens and rowing boats quite as easily as the men, and quite as acceptably to the employers. The most famous boatwomen are the girls of the parish of Battvik, whither wo had rambled in the search of the mythical mid-summer dance. Frank 1). Millet, in Harper's. S.jglng as a lrofesslon Mrs. Imogen Brown, the leading soprano of St. Bartholomew's church, has a salary of $1,000 a year, and, it is said, a further emolument of $2,000 a rear provided for her by subscription. Miss Thursby, when the leading soprano of the Broadway Tabernacle church, ret dived, it is said, similar rewards. But such instances are exceptional. The average pay of the soprano of a church quartet choir is not more than $000 a year, and $350 is considered a very fair remuneration. Her duties are to sing one rehearsal night a week, and at two services on Sunday, and

she must lie a cultivated person with a good voice, and accustomed to the service she performs. If her voice is unusually good, and has had some intelligent" training, sho may begin at P'200 or $300 a year, without the preliminary experience. A young woman with such a voico obtained such a position a short timo ago. and within a few days after signing her agreenient received three similar offers at increased prices. In two years she will probably command 600, $800, perhaps $1,000 per annum. Tfio position, too, has certain perquisites. It bt'iugs to her side the social influence that will exert for her its own valuable kind offices. It leads to other engagements for instance, to engagements to sing at private entertainments a practice much in vogue nowadays, during the fashionable season. The fee on such occasions is usually $25; but singers like Miss Beobe receive more, and an entertainer like Mr. Yanderbilt might give a cheek for almost any amount. Social influence can secure for our young artist engagements in the concert hall, where she will bo in the receipt of from $25 to $100 a performance. Mr. Theodore Thomas usually pays his vocal soloists $100, but theso aro almost always professionals, amateurs getting no pay save tho honor of having been invited to sing. By a professional is meant a singer who' has been before tho public for some time, and who makes singing, or the teaching, her entire business. By an amateur is meant - almost anybody. But if our young artist asks what annual income she con depend upon, what moneys she may be sure of receiving month by month, the answer is that she can be sure of nothing at all. An engagement in a church choir may be depended upon while it lasts, and so may a series of paying pupils, if one has them. But opportunities to sing at private parties and in the concerthall come and go like the birds of passage that they are. There are so many singers, so many teachers, that the mass are left out iu tho cold. Opera is a different field altogetherdifferent in its social aspects ; for while in the church choir, the private party, and the coreert hall our young singer is among h 'r friends end among Americans who will protect her, in the ot era house her associates are for tho most part foreigners, some of whom have littlo regard for a woman's character or reputation. Yet a groat many of our best siugers and truest women have reached the heights of the r present positions through the chorus of the opera. Only, where I he danger is greater our youug artist will exercise the greater care. A chorus sitiger in English opera receives about $15 a week; in Italian opera, from $15 to $20 a week Her costume in English opera she usually pays for herself; in Italian Optra tho manager usually pays for them. A leading singer in Italian opera receives from $100 to $100 a month for tho lighter parts ; for tho principal parts, from $500 a iuonth to $2,000 a night Madame l'atli's salary last winter of $4,500 a night and itest winter of 5,500 n night is, of course, beyond all genoi-ali 'tttioti, and stands apart. Madame llerster received about $4,000 a mouth when under Strakosch; Madame Lucca about tho same. Miss Gary's terms t ere $500 a night. The scale is very sliding, ami tho great prime donne command almost as much as they ask. - Harper Basar. A sjuut "Aleck" on the West Side bet $5 that he could put a billiard ball in his mouth. So far tho Doctor's efforts have been to no r fleet, and it is thought that the only way that the ball can bo gotten out is to drill a hole in it and fill it with powder and fuse, and blast it out ; and then there are doubts whether the patient tan stand the operation, as he is very weal;, not having eaten anvtliing for seven days, Carl PreUel's Weekly. i

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BT'SKlRK$DUyCAN, Attorney, Of-! Il e in tlin Mntiortal Bank corner, up- . stnira. Will prnctieo in all courts of the J Stnte. Special attention givonto Probate j business, and to collection and prompt ro- j miltanco of all claims. LOUDEN J MIERS, Attorneys. Offiee i over First National Bank. All bust- ; ness of a legal nature given careful attention in all courts. Seal eetato Titles care-1

fully examined by aid ol Louden 3 Abstract. A ppecialty mado of tho collection and remittance of claims of all kinds. F MEDLEY, PEARSON 4- FRIEDLEY, Attorneys, Office over HcCalla's Store. Settlement of estates a specialty. Collections promptly remitted. Capt.G.W. Friedloy or Judge Pearson will be in attendance at each term of circuit court. MVLKYf PITMAN, Attorneys, will practice in the various courts. Espocial attention given to collections, and to probate business. Office, Fee's comer, opiwstte tho Progress Office. ROGERS $ JI Elf LEY, Attorneys and Collectors. OiBee In Mayor's Office building. Special attention given to settling decedents' estates, and to all kinds of probate business. Also, abstracting. EAST & EAST, Attorneys, at Law, Bloomineton, Ind. Office, in Waldron's Block, north sido square. Probste business and collections given prompt altenion. Will practice in courts 01 all adjoining counties. Business solicited. JAMES F. MORGAN, Attorney. Office, Boe Hive Block, up-stairs. To the probate and collection business he will give special and particular attention. Business attended to in courts of surrounding counties. WILLIAMS .j- MILLEN Attorneys, Offieo live doors south of Hunter's corner, up-stairs. Do a general collection and probate business. Will practice in courts of adjoining counties.

C R. WORRALL, Attorney. Office .in New Block, upstairs, over McCalla & Co.'s. Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to Pension Claims and probata business. RA. FVLK, Attorney. Office in Al- , Uh 4' McSarys new block, up-stairs over corner room. Special attention will be given to probate business, and to the prompt collection of claims. J077.V GRAHAM, attorney, Teal estate and insurance agent, abstracter of titles, and claim collector. Office upstairs, over corner room in tho Allen 4 McXary Block. Business solicited.

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M CALL ON & LEW. H. ANDERSON, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Books, Cards and Novelties, ALSO Cigar and News Stand, Car. College Ave. and 4th St., (One Block SoAh 1st National Bank,) BLOOM INCnrON, ISID. N. B. Any Book or Periodical published furnished at Publisher's price.

PENSIONS. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Farms and Town Property bought and sold. Money loaned on Real Estate at 6 per cent. Five years' successful experience in obtaining Ponsions. Can hurry your claim through; blanks always on band. Blunks for conveyancing, all kinds. Deeds and mortgages, and all writing, promptly and correctly executed. Oood Firo Insurance, cheap. Businces solicited. Call and see me. No charge for consultation or advice. C. R. WORRAIiL, Attorncy,wst sido square, over McCalla's.

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Opposite the Depot, Bloomington, Ind.

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elegant Parlor Coaches and eomfartaN Day Coaches, all running THRO COB WITHOUT CHANGE. Only 10 Honrs Time Between Cincinnati and St Louis, or St. Louis and Louisville. But Four Hours WGfBeticeeii Cincinnati and Louiseilh. The Ohio & JHIsKlsslppl R'wajr is the .only Line between Xjouiis and Oi ucinnati Under one management, running all its trains through ,lSOLID," and in consequence is the only recognised first class route between those cities, its Easy Grades, Its Splendid Motive Power, Steel Bails, Straight ' Track, and Solid Road Bed Enable the O. & M. to mako faster average time-than any other Vstcrn Road. S&"Ask for Tickets via O.& M. K'y."j For sale by Agents of connecting lines East, 'West, North and South. W. W. PEA BODY, Gen'l Sept. W. B. SHATTUO, Gen Pass. Agt. .CINCINNATI, OHIO.

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Bloomington, Ind., March 31, 18).

LIVERY and SALE STABLE. North Side Public Square, Bloom ing ton. mHE undersigned take pleasure in callJL ing attention to the fact that they Bavo The Latest Styles of Bagglea and Carriages, and good, steady bono for singlo and double driving. We are prepared to furnish Carriages for Wedding, Funerals and Parties, and swift team for Commercial Travelers. Farmer' bono fed cheaply. WORLEY A MAT.

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Wo have tbo largest and best stock of Furniture in town, and can give you battor price than any housu in town. Coma aud tee us in our new room, with our new goods, and learn our price before jrou buy. tclTRoom on West Fifth Street, in Allen & HcNary Block. .op8-33-y