Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 47, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 January 1884 — Page 1

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BLOOM 1 N ( JTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1881,

New Series. VOL. XVII NO. 47.

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SEVEN" TlsIKS OJTE. bv Eseixow. -r"so-ewlefto the daisies and defer, There' no rain left in ham, I've said my "seven times" over and over, Seven times one are s.veo. I am old, so old, I can write a letter; My birthday lesions are done; . Ttw lambs play always, thev know no better; They are tniy one times one. 0 moon! in the night I've seen von sailing And shining ao round and low; Sou were fright! ah. blight! bat your light is failine Ton are coining now bat a bow. Yen moon; have yon done something wrong in heaven That God has hidden yonr face? 1 hope It yon have youll soon ba forgiven. And elune again in yonr place. O velvet bee, you're a dostv fellow. You've powdered yonr led- with gold: 0 brave marsh murybnJm rich and yellow. Give me your money to h-Id.

O cotumhin:-, open yonr folded wrapper. Where two twin turtle di ves dwell! Ocuckooant, toll me the psrplo clapper That hang on yonr clear giein belt! And show mj yonr ant with ths young one

I will not ainal -t, awayt I mow! yi aj trust me -nt.

m. am seven tunes one to-ay. CASTLES IK THE AIR. BY MAY rOKBEST. Ob. vision that bannt me, waking. How ewittly do ye speed! Like a ripple over a lakelet Or a shadow acres a mead. Te dance, and gleam, and glitter Though fleeting, wondrons fair I would dwell in yonr ctoud-bnilt palaces. My castlca'tn the air. I would stand on yonr golden towers And gaze at the chaming west. Or lay my bead, at i u nrasr. On a pillow ot cloud, to rest; And thro 'ah the purple shadows Should floa a seraph 1 and. And my soul should drink the mask) Of the tar-on spirit-land.

RllNNIKB THE FORTS. Alex W. Pearson, of Yineland, N. J., writes a story of how Porter ran by Vicksburg. Mr. Pearson was paymaster on the steamer Bed Borer, attached to the Mississippi squadron. Be tells how the gauntlet -was ion i this manner: The ironclads were anchored in the Mississippi, just below the mouth of the Yazoo, in the order of procession they -were to take in passing the blockade. All seemed ready, and everybody was on the qui vire for the sfart. Past 10 o'clock that night we hoard the deep tone of the boatswain's mate, of the Louisville (he Lad a voire like a lion ) calling: "All 1 awls! I'p anchor!" "There! They aw off!" was the word, and we hurried on deck to get a parting glimpse of our 'forlorn hope." We breathlessly listened to the rattle of the chain cables cs they came in, and could distinguish the dark outlines of the iron-dads as they swung in the stream. Then there was a signal from the flagship, and again we heard the boatswain: ".Let go anchor!" The cables rattled out again, and all was still. We drew a long breath. ""They're not going to-night!" "Something has happened !m So 'all hands turned in. Thus, upon successive nights, was the fleet practiced in the preliminaries of departure, until all became so used to the performance that the movement was as mechanical as any other drill, and spectators ceased to regard it with especial interest. Meanwhile the three transports which were to go below were getting ready. Xt was decided to economize life by removing the crews from these steamers, leaving only two pilots at the wheel and two engineers to handle the engines. The duty .of guiding, these large and defenseless steamers through the tempest of fire they were destined to traverse seemed extra hazardous. The post of the pilot particularly, perched up in the sky-parlor, was uncomfortably isolated and distinguished when 100pounder shot and shell were flying about regardless of consequences. The - loneliness in itself was kind of "pokerish." Danger, like misery, loves company. To avoid the disagreeable responsibility of ordering chosen individuals to occupy these perilous positions, Admiral Porter called for volunteer pilots. Every pilot in the squadron ' volunteered! Even the two old Nestors who presided at the wheel of the Bed Bover got me to write an application requesting that they might be "permitted to have the pleas- ' ure" of taking one of the steam transports past Ticksburg. THE PILOTS or THE MISSISSIPPI. Here was another difficulty. All were ao eager for the post of honor that it was a delicate matter to make selection. I cannot forbear digressing here to place on record my humble tribute of respect and admiration for the pilots of the Mississippi river. Taken as a class, their gallantry outvies compar'son. Accustomed to grave responsibility in sudden emergencies, bred to decide and act instantly, when upon such action may depend the safety of hundreds confiding in their care, in the face of imminent peril deliberate yet prompt, with a 'courage which has stood all tests, their seeming recklessness springs not from legardlessness, but from a heroic contempt of danger and in the performance of what they understood to be legitimate' duty. 1 verily believe that the pilot f the Mississippi squadTon would h.ve volunteered to take the fleet of steamers over Niagara falls. Those who were so fortunate as to be "permitted the pleasure" requested to arrange their surroundings according to their judgment; that is, they didn't want any surroundings. Seasoning philosophically, that a cannon shot often does more harm by the splinters it scatters than by itself, they had the pilot house, which shelters the wheel on the lofty decks of these Western steamers, removed, leaving the wheel rnd themselves exposed. This settled the .splinter business, except such as plight come from a shot striking the ipokcs of the wheel. One of the pilots remarked to me when inspecting his post of duty and honor, "They'll have to take eenter shots to 'raise the hair on us now!" Still, there was im unusual nakedness about the elevation calculated to make one feel as I once felt when topping out a tall hay tack in the midst of a vindictive thunder-storm. I was "head center" just, then, and felt so. A COXSIfcEHATE ADXrBAX. When Admiral Porter was ready to tart on his ' excursion past Vicksburg we learned it on the hospital ship. Porter always had a fatherly care for and interest in the comfort and satisfaction of those of his comrades who had suffered by the fortune of war. He knew that the poor wounded and helpless heroes languishing in the ward of the Bed Bover felt a keen sympathy with him and w.th those he would like with him in this desperate undertaking, and he knew that all ageily wished to bee what might be seen of a spectacle which promised to be oneof tremendous import and ex-

; citement. One day ho intimated to D t I Pu.lrtM.ir that Sia mtorhfc fnlrn flio TCnVAt

down to the bend abovo Vickburg to ward evening (just for an airing) and anchor there for the night. We know what that meant. And all the weary sufferers on board soon knew it, too. It was better than a dose of quinine. There is no tonic like going into action, or seeing your friend go in. At sunset we weighed anchor and stood down the river and took "orchestra seats" as spectators and auditors of a drama which would be lit by the lurid blaze of artillery and accompanied by the music of its thunder. II was a clear and splendid evening, but as the shades of night closed in the sky, though starlit, became hazy, and a gloom settled over the river, whioh rendered almost nndistingiushable the outlines of its shores. As the darkness thickened I heard the remark often repeated among our invalid boarders: "It is just the night for it." It was touching to see wounded

veterans who that mornuur would;

thought m impossible- te leave their cots, straining their crippled sinews to clamber up to the hurricane deck, where they might have the best viewoi the scene to be enacted. There was little conversation on board that evening. Anticipation was too busy for words. We were oppressed with that sense of expectancy of something undefined and fearful which engrosses the attention and renders language mute. The time seemed interminable. We thought the devoted squadron would never appear. We strained our sight to pierce the thickening shadows, and held our. breath to listen for the pantings of the steam. At last we tired of watching and waiting. Midnight was at hand and we began to fancy that something had caused a postponement of the movement, A SPEOTBAI. PBOCE8SION. Just then some one in the pilot house exclaimed, in a stage whisper, but which was hoard by all, so intently silent were we: "There they come!" We gazed up the channel and saw the dark form of the Benton evolve itself out of the invisible. Like Banqno's line of specters the others followed. There was no gleam of light, no wreath of vapor, no pulse of the paddle wheels, and no respiration of the steam. The long column swept by us in majestic but horrible

silence. There was a weird ghostliness about this death-like apparition more

tmpr.ssive and appalling than if it had shone with the flashes and shivered with the roar of the grim monsters we knew were frowning from those dusky portholes. I have witnessed wild and thrilling scenes, but all fade beside the memory of the awe-inspiring passage of that spectral procession. The transports came last, and defined against the glimmer of the sky we could distinguish the outlines of our friends the pilots, statue-like, at either side of the naked wheels. Not a man aboard ship but envied them the rapture of the fierce experience before them. As the shadowy squad ro i appeared so it vanished. It glided out of the night and departed into it again. It left us breathless, awe-struck. We rubbed our eyes and wondered if the vision had been real. Then there was another interval of excruciating suspense. We waited anxiously. The last scene was about to open. THE THUNDEROUS ERUPTION. At length we saw a single flash. Then another and another and another, then a whole sheet of flame, followed by the deep crashing thunder of the "dread artillery. The sky lit with the light of a conflagration; The enemy, provident for this event, had filled vacant buildings with combustibles, and now fired them to illuminate the river and give their cannoneers a better chance for aim. But the night was still, and the dense smoke of the burning structures and of the busy batteries hung like a lurid sheet over the surface of the stream. Everything was enveloped in a vapory veil, through which could only be descried the quick eruptions cf the volcano of guns as they hurled their iron tempest at the passing squadron. So bewildering was the storm that the pilot of the Tuscumbia lost his bearings, and finally turned his ship completely around, heading up the stream! While in this position, but without yet suspecting it, her commander, who was on deck, told me that he looked up and saw close above him the upper works of one of the steam transports as she swept by. The pilots, standing at the naked wheel, loomed out like gigantic specters! He hailed them to know how they were getting

on. "All right, by U d!" they shouted back, and on they went.

lhe passing of Vicksburg took not many minutes, but thev were capacious,

and had a good deal crowded into

them. We low one of the transports (the Henry Clay) and had another so disabled that she had to be towed out of range. Otherwise the damage was lesa serious than had been expected. Most of the enemy's shot were thrown away. Accuracy in shooting on the wing with 100-pounders when all hands are in a hurry is not easy. Hoon the glare of the conflagrations faded aeain

into darkness; the last echoes of artil

lery thunders rolled away over the Warrenton hills; the quiet of a summer midnight descended once more upon the troubled bosom of the river, and we knew that the gauntlet of Vicksbunr

defenses had been run. Philadelphia

Time. ' A Good Word for the "Bullhead." The United States Fish Commission

ers, while doing all that they can to

uisirwuxe uerman carp among larmers, recommend, at the s me time, the stocking of ponds, natural or artificial, with native fish. Among others, thev

speak very favorably of the "bullhead"

Horn eel pout or small eat-hsli. It is well adapted to shallow and somewhat

warm water, is, perfectly hardv, not

liable to disease, and propagates very rapidly. Its food consists chiefly of acquatic plants that grow without culti

vation on the borders of streams and ponds. It also devours many insects that are liable to be a source ef annoyance. It costs very little to prepare a pond for raising those fish, or for stocking it. The flesh of the cat-fish is regarded as a great dolicaoy in places where it is difficult to obtain it, and is now becoming popular in several Eastern cities. It resembles the flesh of eels, which is far more nutricious than the flesh of most kinds of fish. It requires to be cooked for some time in an abundance of hot fat. Many condemn this fish who have never eaten it or, held it in very low esteem, because it

is common. Chicago Times.

Old putty can be removed without injury to the sash or glass by passing a

hot soldering iron over it. The heat of the iron softens it readily, and permits its removal with a knife or chisel with

out much trouble.

The Wrong Mm Baptized. Stammering or stuttering is one of the most unpleasant things at times that a man can lie afflicted with. A man may be troubled with almost any other malady and bo cured or helped, but a man who stutters, though he mny at times bo free from the habit, nevor has confidence in his talking utensils. They may run all right for a time, but jnst ns he exports tno most from his vocal organs, and wants to do his best, they go back on him, and he flounders around, and can't express his thoughts to save himself. A stutterer is usually the best-natured man in the world. It seems us though nature picked out the jolliest fellow as a watch case to put poor vocal works into, so ther.i won't be any kicking. There is a gentleman living in this State who stutters just when he don't want to, but who can talk right along all right when there is nothing particular to be said. If he gets excited or interested and wants to ovate, ho gots stunk and

s time to walk around the bloek be

fore he can get tilings to working again. He was out in Iowa recently, and at a hotel where he was stopping, the tniv eling men were getting up a party one Sunday to go to a town a few miles distant, where a canip-meoting was in progress, and where thero were to bo a number of converts baptized, and they invited our friend, tho stutterer, to go along. "Not m-m-mueh," said he, as he worked at untangling a fish line, while a boy brought in a tomato can full of angle-worms, "If I- know m-m-my own heart, I don't go to no k-k-k-cauip-meeting where they b-b-b-baptize. I at-t-t-tended a baptizing scrape once, and my k-k-k-clothes have not got d-d-d-dry yet." "What was the matter?" said a drummer for a Chicago grocerv-house. "Didn't fall in the water did you?" "N-n-n-o," said the stutterer, as he stuffed a wad of paper down on top of the angle-worms to keep them from crawling out, "I didn't f-f-f-fall in, but I got in all the s-s-s-s-same. I was sna-sna-snatched in. If you won't tell any one, I will t-t-t-tell you abov;t it." The boys sworo they would never give it away ; and the stutterer went on. "Well, about twenty years ago I was editing ap-p-p-paperin Wis-k-k-eousin, and there was a revival at the town all winter, and in the spring they advertised to b-b-b-baptize all of the k-k-k-converts. Everybody wont, .and I w-w-w-went down to the k-k-k-creek to see them s-s-s-soak. They had a presiding elder, a stranger to me, to d-d-d-do the baptizing, and wheu they had dipped a f-f-f-few, I noticed the elder looked s-s s-sort of tired when he pushed the last woman ashore, and I th-th-thought he wanted to c .me out of the w-w-water, so I reached out my h-h hand to help him up the b-b-bank. Do yon know, he tuought I was a k-k-k-eandidate for baptism, and he took hold of my hand and was p-p-pulliiig me in, whon'l said, 'elder, don't p-p-p ' and before I could say any m-m-more he said, 'Have no f-f-fear, my young k-k-christian friend,' and he put -hi i arm around me and was pulling me right in. I wasn't as st-st-strong as I am now, and he had a g-g-grip like a prize fighter, and before 1 knew what he was about he was saying, 'I b-b-baptize thee in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy G-g-ghost,' and I was as weak as a k-k-cnt. I tried to get away from him, and tried to explain that I w-w-wasnt the foilcr, and that I had n-n-never been converted, but the naturally pious look on my face betrayed me, and I stuttered so l couldn't get in a word in time, and he put me under. Ab I went down I could seethe crowd on the b-b bank laughing, because they all knew I was b-b-bad, and that it was a mistake of the strange preacher. I came up strangling, and the first thing I said was, 'Elder, you have made the d-d-darudest mistake of your life,' and went out on the bank and shook myself. Ymu may talk about m-m-ministers not joking, but by gracious, I shall a-a-always think that Presiding Elder knew I was no k-k-ehristian. It was a picnic for the crowd, and they laugh at me to this day. No, gentlemen, I k-k-eau't go to the camp-meeting, for I shouldn't feel s-s-safe there," and the stuttering man took his fish-pole and angle-worms and went down toward the pond, while the traveling men went to the camp-meeting. Peek's Sun.

Grant in the Field. Gen. Grant, while moving "on to Richmond," messed with the nine gentlemen on his personal staff, dividing the expenses among the ton, not in equal proportions exactly, but in a manner that was satisfactory to all. There was not the s'.ightcst attempt at show or parade in the furniture and equipage. Everything was for use and economy of troublo and space. The crockery was scanty and of the plain est, and the fare, though sufficient in quantity, was just as homely as that of any thrifty and carofnl mechanic. A chop, with a cup of cofl'ee, for breakfast; a bit of roast l eef, with i otato s and "hard tack," confronting a' dish of pork and "greens," served for the 5 o'clock dinner, which was concluded without pastry or desert. A cup of tea and a bit of bread and butter at fi :30 o'clock finished up the day. The beds were simply camp cots, some with and others without mattresses ; and all tho toilet apparatus anywhere visible were a few tin wash-basins, a moderate supply of towels, a bit of looking-glass and a horn comb. At tho table neither distilled liquor nor wine was permitted. The General would not have either about him for liiu own or others' use. The inventory of the General's baggage, when he made his brilliant campaign in the rear of Vicksburg, is, I take it, well remembered a briarwood telescope and a iotitli-brush. In what relates to personal adornment, and, outside of the necessity of eating, personal comfort, he never eula 'ed h's possessions. His three stars indicated his exalted rank ; but, to soy nothing of the charm which, in soldiers' eyes, these glittering marks of rank possess, I doubt if thero was a commissariat officer in his army who was as plainly olad as he. His clothes were worn threadbare, and, despite the -toady brushing of l is servant, they would have an untidy look, due, no doubt, to the General's habit of going everywhere and soring everything for Himself. The General understands the relation between cleanliness and godliness: but, in his opinion, practically evinced, there is as much of either in a flannel shirt as in one of linen of drawing-room inimaculatenejs. Ben: Percy Poore. It is a standing joko in Italy that Salvini carries about wi h him the King's pardon, to be used in case his realism on the stage should carry him to the point of ao actual smothering ot Ome Desdemona.

Ill'MUK. A TAiLon s goose The dude, A frame of mind Tho skull. "What does 'lux' mean?" asked Bppwn. " 'Lux' means light," replied Smith. "That's what I thought, said Brown. "But I wasn't certain. I know my luck's light, however." A piFFEBENVE : A friend of mine, when told of tho death of a well-known stock dealer, repliei: "Why, he's worse off than I am. I'm dead broke ; but he's a dead broker." "Wnvrareyou laughing at, my dear?" asked Mrs. Jones of her husband, who was chuckling over his morning paper. "Something I saw here," he replied, "but it's hardly funny enough for two." Ose of the greatest unexplained physiological mysteries is why a plow handle blisters a boy's hand in such a short time, while a base-ball club never does. Another is why a boy will walk seventeen1 miles in tho hot sun hnnting a few doves, without becoming exhausted in the least, and yet that same boy will groan like a horse with the colic if he is asked to letch a glass of water from an adjoining room. Texas Sifting. A Beatfort bachelor so greatly admired the way in which his housekeeper prepared coffee that ho proposed and was accepted, only to hnd that the coffee was made "by the hired girl. Texan Sitings. There is very little difference between on inmate "of a penitentiary and the average husband. The latter is always found out, and the former would like to be. Carl rrelzeVs Weekly. Dm you ever see a woman throw a brick at a chicken ? It is just lots of fun for the chicken. The woman usually hits herself on the foot, and gets so mad she can hardly talk straight, while the chicken holds its head to one side, clucks softly, a' d looks as though it wondered what under the sun the fuss all meant any how. Toothpick, Wife "What arc you doing, dear?" Husband, in a reflective attitude "Thinking." Wife "Aro you thinking of your little wife, love?" Husband "No, I was thinking of something." Merchant Traveler. Little Aoorc's sister had invited her best young mau to tea. Thero was a lull in tho conversation, which, was broken by the inqnisitivo Aggie: "Papa, is dose fedders ober Mr. Wobinson's mouf ?" "Have you made your peace with the world?" asked a minister of a dying man. "There's only one thing, sir, I'd like to do and I could die happy," was the faint reply. "What is it, my friend? Speak quickfor you luvo but a few moments left on earth." "Well, I'd like to kick the stutlin' out of Zeke Brown for beatin' me in the last boss trade. I I " But tho spirit went out into the blank unknown, leaving the work of the flesh undone. Merchant Traveler. "Why don't yon feed that dog?" was asked of an old negro." "Why doan' I feed him ?" "Yes, whv don't von feed him ?" " Why doan' I feed myse'f ? I'se as hungry as de dog is, an, 'sides dat, he's got de 'vantage ob me. He ken go out nn' pick up a piece ob meat an go "bout his business, an' de white folks doan' say nuthin', but ef I picks up suthin' tor cat da wants ter slap me in jail, sah. A nigger uin't got de chance ob a dog, nohow." Arkansaw Traveler. How Carolina Became a Bice State. The destiny of South Carolina was changed by a single lucky experiment. In lt)Ui, when the colony was more than 30 years old, the pioneers were s-till engaged in buying furs from tho Indians, extracting rosin, tar, and turpentine from the pines, cutting timber for shipment, and growing slonder harvests of grain on the light soil along the coast. Attempts had already been made to grow indigo, ginger, and cotton; but these had not answered expectation. A small and unprofitable kind of rice had also been tried 'in 1M8. But one Thomas Smith thought that a patch of wet land at the back of his gardeu in Charleston resembled the soil he had seen bearing rice in Madagascar. It chanced in lo'JIS, that a brigantine from that island anchored in distress near Sullivan's Island, and the captain, an old friend of this enterprising Thomas Smith, was able to furnish him a bag of Madagascar rice suitable for seed. It grew luxuriantly in the wet corner of the garden, and the seed from, this little harvest was widely distributed. In three or four years the art of husking the rice was learned. African slaves were easily procured in the West Indies, and tho face of society in tho young State was presently changed: South Carolina became a land of great planters and of a multitude of toiling negtoes. Smith wasTaised to the rank of landgrave, and made Governor of the colony three years after the success of his rice-patch." The new grain was at first grown on the uplands ; but the planters afterward discovered that the neglected swamps were more congenial and less exhaustible. The cruelly hard labor of separating the grains from the adhering husks crippled the strength and even checked the increase of the negroes ; but in tho years just preceding the Involution this task came to le performed with mills driven by the force of tho incoming and outgoing tides, or turned by horses or oxenl; 40,000 barrels of Carolina rice, '.if 400 or 500 weight apiece, were annually exported before the war of independence. Through tho example of it Governor of Georgia, the culture of rice spread into that colony, and completed the ruin of tho silk business. Edward Jujlyexton, in the Century. Card Dames of the Last Century, In tho early part of the last century, says London Truth, the British Parliament sought to deal with the baccarat elubs of that day. The fashionable games were, at tho end of the seventeenth century, "gleek," "primere," and "in and in," To these succeeded tho "ai-c of hearts," "furo," "basset," and "hazard. " In 17-iU an act was passod making all of thes gumes fraudulent and unlawful, and enacting that any person who placed them in any place excopt where tho King resided should forfeit i'50. Tho law was scarcely made when it was eluded by the iuvention of other games, the principal of whioh was called "passage." To prevent this, it was enacted tho ensuing year that this and every other game invented, or to be invented, with one dio or more, or any other instrument of the sanio nature, with numbers thereon, should be subject to a similar penalty. A pit aye man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury; for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to tho otlwr by forgiving it. Pqj8.

STOCKS AND BONDS.

Decline in the Quoted Value of Bailway Securities.

Since July, 1881, says tho A'cw I'orh Tribune, railway stocks and bonds have suffered an astonishing decline. Including only about half of tho Flocks alone that are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, tho loss in priod sinco tint time has boon about $000,. 000,010. Tho following are a fow of tho moat oousolouous exauiplog: : Stock Pea Lobs. New fork Centrl..$ 8.e!tyx -jafi 36.191,133 bake Blioro 4'.'. W.600 3S?i 19,477,4tt Micultan Central.. 2J,,Ki,tKKl 29 8,4o,00 Cm -da S uibern.. 15,0 .owi S.i 4,asx,'00 Koitbwcstern 21.504,75 15? 4.20;,lt) fit. Paul W.804.SA1 36K 11.2U.4W

I llurUiist' n.c(jutney (W,H14,191 6054 H3,4:0,70a llio klsliuul 41,U,0 xi 1J,612,'.KKJ

ocuvcr Jilo U d. . 3b,xi,ou an,u75,oJii Union Pciue 6,Ho4,!05 6(i SO,4,o98 JltMsouiil'acirte.... 3","S,(H) 27?S 8,212,51.0 Mo., Kan. A. Tex.. 4fl,505,"'00 31 H,77,JM Texas & Pacilio :i2,lil,5u 6I9.( lo,65,n.i9 WaHBsh, CO urnou.. 27,1S;200 424 li,0t8.'U0 WhIiokIi, 1 rofoireil. ,nt,'i 66!S 15,S17,T13 C, C, t'. I H,'.Wl,0ll 3Sii 6.2tW,7.Col., t'hto. .fcl. C... 13,9Sll,823 Jl4 4,U8,63i Ohio Mle 3o,flfli,o09 2:1 4,00 ,000 Peoria, 1). K 8,4 0,1100 43tf a,37a,i 00 Intl.. H West... HV'O'V'OO 385-4 3,825,000 K. Tenn.. Vt Ga, 27,5 0,000 lsy 4,1M,750 Il.iniillml & St. Jo. !,16S,7in StTi S,i:U.32l Louisville iV .Nasi).. 25,00n,0"O G5 16,2Nl,2jO Ontario .te Western. W.113,982 22' j l3,S2S,fi45

r.nc 77,17,(100 is,oij,--o ' Lackawan- a 26,Joo,0(io 13 a,i44,oo 1 Westosn Cmon ',nft-,ion 211 16,oii,n00 I On nil Pacini- s,275,5tfl 39'4 23,iiV,C:!4 ' Northern Pacific... ,i, si li.f"i7,S00 i Xoth'.-rnl'acpTd. 41,74 ,43 Wi'-t 1-V,716

urcz-'iiaavication. 24,000,0110 K4 bo,2 ',uwi Or.Traneco Uaeul. 4-i,000,(KiO 52?4 21,100,000

Total,32stOck.$l.lS)0,0RS,070 .... $43l,24.220 Tho nominal value ot all railway stocks in fliA nunrn itt slionf thrAA rimns that of Iho

i eomiiaulpb quoted, and tho decl.no in value since Jul v, 1S81, has been probably not less I than $1,000,100,(00. In addition, those freat 1 corporations tiavo a still larger amount of ' bonds outstanding, though the decline in these has not boon on tho whole so great. If

it has been loss than half as great and this is apparently a sale estimate, Judging from such securities as aro nuotcd tho apparent

loss in tho valuation of securities wl hiu two

years and a half has been over Sl,UW,00o,uW

OUR GRAIN COMPETITORS.

The Wheat Product of Europe and the United States.

J. It. Dodge, Statistician of the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, has furnished a statement of tho cereal products ot Europe and other matters connected therewith, which is of gouoral mtorcst. This report Is especially valuable as showing the countries that cotno most largely into competition with tho I'nited States in supplying wi.oat. Tho crops for lSi aro in part estimated, but the figures approximate accuracy. The comparison for the last two crop years Is as follows: 1882, bushels. lS33,buu'ls. Austria 44,548,149 83,413,680 Hungary W-J.is1.24j 77,7C2,;i89 Delirium 21,'H,38 21.592,137 Penmark i,m.ki 4 .w.oon Ftanco. 34",4'.',7i 2xfi,lM32 (ierroany SVS-V 4 72,77:i,9.o Great l.ritain. ?,:iss,9.5 68,73S,6J2 Ill-land 4,101,324 2,.V.il,654 Greece 3,t'2,8.4 6,102,84 ItalV li2,2H,l(W 12M72.V7B Nethe.lauds d.V-xo 5,700,100 Portugal 7,2"m,K"l ,i0,OOU Koumauia 3,o V 20,flo,oo Hu8la 2u.',97,7;i ltifl.ooo.ooo riervia. f,sin,7c 4,sv.otio Spain 85,114,li00 120,1" 0,'KXI Sweden a,7-J:',K84 8,381,862 Norway 2J.3i2 2W,.1-J Huit.'tland ".. S.U 2,14V2S Turkey. 40,ss7,200 40,807,200

THE CURRENCY. Plans for Legislation Regarding National Banks Pending: in Both Homes,

Washington Dispatch. The Finance committees of tho two houses have entered upon tho consideration of the Important subjects referred to thorn. Last wiutcr, when tho bill extending the national bank charters was passed, it was the general opinion that tho qnest'on of tho existence of the banks was settled for at least twenty years, but, under exiting conditions, tho limo can be easily calculated when tho basis of the system wi 1 have reached Its vanishing point. Two countering propositions are now l.eloro the Finance committees. One looks to giving to tho national bunks a more stable basis; the object of tho other is to ultimately supplant the present system by treason- notes. The Senate Finance committoe has under dlseusian the bill of Mr. Sherman, which, In bviof, i.rojio.-e8 to allow national banks to Issue circulation 10 an amount within 10 per cent, of tho market value of the bonds. Provision is made that in the cv ntof shrinkago the f-oe'retary of the Treasure shall have the power to call upon the bunks to make good their margins. Tho meetings of tho committo havo not been attended by all tho members, Messrs. Allison and .Aldricb (Republicans) having l oth been absent. Enough has been said, however, to show that the Democrats will oppose the Sh mum piun, while the liepul 11cans are not all prepared to support it. The Democrats are not prepared to go further t linn to agree that the banks may issue circulation equal to the par of tho bends. This is an Increase of 10 per cent, over tho existing law. They may also voto for somo reduction of the tax on circulation. Tho Itepublicans of the committee are not all agreed to tho plan of the Sherman t ill. Senator Aldricn proposes to introduce a lull of his own which provides for the exchange of the 4-s for 3's. with the difference to be pa d in cash. Thon he would allow tho banks to issue circulation e iual to 100 per cent, of the value of tho bonds. Instead of 90 pjr cent, as under existing law, or 0 per cent, of tho market value, as proposed by Senator Sherman. He thinks that a bill like tho one be wilt introduce will s-ttle tho banking quest on favorably to the banks and tho country for twenty-three years at least, whioh ho dees not bel.evo will bo achievod by Mr. Sherman's proposition. The suggestion of tbo Secretary of tbo Treasury, that an additional appropriation will bo necessary If ti.e printing of the SI and 83 notes is continued, will furnish a now text for tho discussion of tho fliinnelal question. Some of t to silver men indicate their urpoi-o to take advantago of this su- gestion to refuse an appropriation for the SI and 88 notes, tho expectation being that if those notes shall bo retired the offeot will be to force the silver dollar into circulation.

A MINE OF WEALTH Worked to Exhaustion by the StarRoute Lawyers.

Total for Kurop-!...l,370,ifl7,l-JI 1,066,088,688 The total crop in the United States for 1883 was 43 i.l 4.500 bushels. It is thus seen that tho United States produces sometulng over 20 per cent, as much wheat as he entire product 01 Europe. According to tne foregoing thero was a doflelency in last year's crop in Europe, as compared with 1$3. of 10 1.000,000 bushels in round numbers. The dellcieney In the United Sta-es was about 75,l0i.O 0 bnehols. It will be observed that Franco was next to the I'nlted States in product, tho yield being 285,613,833 bushels, yet it Imported largely, wh lo Kassia, which produced much loss than France, exported heavily.

STBANGE SCENE.

Why a Bridegroom Failed to Appear at the Proper Moment Happy Denouement

Philadelphia Telegram, Tho strange scone has bo?n pvesoutod here of a elergyman of a fashionable church join" ing in matrimony u father and daughtsr. Tho details have just become known, and the story is now tho chier topic ot society go-sip. Im itations wero issued to a ltinto number of I'biliidelphla's most fashionnblo people to bo present at the Church of the Epiphuuy to witness tho marriage of Wilson Mitchell, a young society gentleman, to Miss Fanny Kessler, tho daughter of Mr. John Kessier, Jr. The wedding bad been arranged In tho usual English stylo, und the bride was to have been mot at the church steps by the groom. The groom was expeoteil to cotno through tho door of tho vestry-room, bOt tho door showed no signs of opening. The clergyman evidently did not understand the situation, though it was evident from the ripp o of excitement that eomothing was wrong. The bride turned pale and clutched her father's hand convulsively. The awkwardness of tho situation was increased when in solemn tones tho minister began to read the marriage service He had reached tho middle of the service when t.ho door attl-e foot of the nave was thrown open, and Mr. Mitchell, attended by his best man, rame rushing up the aisle. IS' some means tho vestry door lied been looked, and tho two gentlemen wero thus prevented from making their entrance. The oeremony was again begun, but tho young lady received a severe shock.

Washington Telegram to Chicago Tribune. ! Tho statement of tho expenditures of tho

Department of Justice in tbo star-route cases has been furnished to tho Senate In response to tho resolution of Mr. Van Wyck. The document Is about tho size, shape and weight of an unabridged dictionary, without index, summary, or condensation, and with little

! clew to the vast mass of vouchors. But tho

bookkeeping methods aro not so crude that tho astounding extravaganco of the Department of Justice oan bo kept 6corct. The

information shows how tbo Treasury

VUll uu piuuweiTCi 1(1 uiu jiuiuw v. rviuiui, illtcwster, Attorney-General, rocoived $5,000 as attorney iu the star-route cases, tho last voucher for 2,500 having been approved a short time before ho became Attorney-General. W.lliam A. Cook receives $1,000 for services in the Howgato case. This did not result in disclosing tho whereabouts of Howgate. Ho also receives 80,000 in the starrouto oases. Tho leading counsel -in the star-route cases, who was paid tho least, was Ker, of Philadelphia: yot tho vouchors show that in 1883 ho charged $29,000, of which ho receivod $21,000, an unsettled balance being in dispute. In addition ho receives $5,250 for his eor vices in the Kelt )gg ease, although tho case has not yet hot n brought to trial. Tho total charge in: do by Kcr lor tho year's work was $32,500, most of which has been paid. In addition to this, tho junior counsel, while drawing enormous fees, presents his board bills regu srly, and the Attorney General approves one, for instance, of sixty-one days at 87 per day, amounting to $127. Dick Morriok, who happens to live hero, did not chane for board, but. Ker and Bliss, besides drawing from $60 to $100 each per day. charged for everything apparently from a bootblaok to a shave. Mr. Merrick charges his uniform ratos at about $100 a day and gets them. Ccorgc Bliss presents the champion foos and gets them allowed, but he has not secured all the money, owing to the fact that tho appropriation was exhausted. The details of ono of his bills would served as a model for a ohantery lawyer in the Jarndyce suit. He charges far waking up in tho mornina, for eating bis breakfast, for walking to court and back, lor

I the plaeo where he sleeps, for tho man who ! brushes his coat, for tho boy that briuvs hit

books. Bliss' fees average $100 a day, and he crowds a great many days Into a year. Hill Wood, tho detective, gots small sums. Allan Pinkortou gets larger ones, having rece ved iu about a year somo 88,000 for the services of his operatives. No names are furnished of tbo persons shadowed.

GLUCOSE.

Its Value and Kffect on Health. Washington Telegram. Ponding tho discussion of tho bill to tax glucose or grape sugar, before tho Ways and Moans committee ot tho Forty-soventh Congross, the Commissioner of Internal Uevenue was requested to furuish suoh Informal, on as bo possessej as lo tho elloct of glucose upon In. man health. Gon. Haum in turn referred the mutter to the National Academy o Sciences for an opinion. A committee of the academy was appointed to examine Into and report upon tho subject. Their report has been sulmitled to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and a copy sent to a Congress. Tho committee consulted upward of 2,600 volumes and pamphlets, and learned that for the manufacture of starch and sugar IM patents wore issued from Mav 8. l-55, to Nov. 15, 1 .. Tho committee visited many at tho large siisar manfactiirlng estoblishments throughout tho country and examined can-fully into the chemical properties of tho products of each. Tltt-y Hud that while starcli-so(.-ur is not as rich in sacoharim- properties as cane snsur it Is as free from any deleterious suhtitanco as anv sugar made, and that while thero is no do-ibt that staroh-sug.ir is ire iiiently used to adulterate cane-sugar, sometimes to the ex-t-nt of 20 percent.. Iu all samples of canesugar examined in New York nn-l other t-ltios not a ruse of adulteration with glucose was discovered. BANKKlTTCy. Prospect of Legislation by the Senate. A Washington coi respondent telegraphs: A gentleman who has given some atlent on to the subject of bankruptcy legislation, pen-ling the discussion now In progress belore the committees, gives the lodowing as his views reguril ni? the prospects of the passage of a bill: Tho Senate sub-committee, con-dstlngof Messrs. Hoar, lnga ' and Gat land, which has the matter midi 1 - n i i.-i a tion. will p o! in lily sul ni it to tho iu'1 ciim-nl. tee both the Lowell bill and tho in n l l'-l Introduce! by Mr. Infiallp. Mr. 1im champion of the former, wliilu Mr. It,at: s in, of course, in favor of his own 11 -i tin-, and Mr. G-j-Iand is opnosed to any ! -iniw-u on the subject.

ORANtiElSM IN IRELAND.

Rossmore and the Magistrate. London Dispatch, The agitation in Ireland based upon Lord Bcsstnore's recent Orange protest, is briskly maintained. Three-fourths of the magistrates havo already publicly placed themselves on record in opposition to the platform which Lord Hossmoro has laid down as the only one on which loyal Irishmen can stand. In tho County Cork alone 148 magls'ratcs have declared that loj-alty and Oransrclsm are incompatible, and that thoy will not bo crcreod Into inaction or submission by the braggadocio of tho anU-Cathollo partisans. The Orange societies are making arrangements for a series of meetings to bo hold in England and Scotland, but the off oris of the rival religious factions to create a culturkampf for Ireland excite suoh small Interest outside ot that country that these meetings will probably fall Eat.

Judge McCrary's Successor. Washington Telegram. From all Indications there Is going- to be an interesting struggle for the position to be vacated by Judge. MeCraryas Circuit J udgo of tbo I'mted States the 1st of March noxt. Besides Moa Ha lott who is backed by the Colorado delegation, and Jud.o McMillan, ot Minnesota requests have con e to mcniters oi the Kansas delegation invoking their aid In behalf of D.J. Brewer, ssoolate Justice of the Supreme court of that State; the Hon. A. L. Williams, a prominent attorney of Topoka, and Judge (.'. O. Fo-ter, of tho United Slat -s District court for tho custom portion of that State. '1 ho do egatlou of Kansas will no doubt be divided In their support of the sevcal candid ites. yet will present tbo names of tho various aspirants.

Cattle Diseases. The Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury has transmitted to Congress tho report of the Cattle commission, consisting of James Law, K. F. Thayer, and J. II. Sanders. The commissi! n recommend that tho National Government 1 rovent shipment northward, out of the area infected with Texas fever, all cult's whatsoever, excepting from the beginning of November to tho bcglunlug of March. A si-ANiBL belonging to Will'am H. Baylies, of Providence, saw a horse that bad broken loose from 11 hltelilnj-post fall into Lob n's Pond. Tho horso was loo bewildered to and Its way out. '1 he spaniel plunged in, swam to the horso, seized tho bridle with his toeth, and gradually pulled tho horso around and (iuided hint to the shore.

n. Mti.-zo Haves, of Kittery, Me., for-in-t to : pi nklo meal on his horse's noon-day lo.io t ( '.sentry ho heard a groat, noise In tin- -ni-... .ind found the horse with the pall ! :ii itUn,mm"oml, fur lifting M) tj 1: mauiior. j

PENSIONS WANTED. It Weil. Take $200,000,000 to Meet the Demands Before Congress

Washington Telegram to Chicago Tribune. Tho most dangerous attacks on the Treas" ury are te bills proposing additions to the pension rolls. Each bill is backed up by petitions which apparently oome from oxsoldlers. The largo part of them aro collected by claim agents, ono of whom has gathered 80,000 signatures or alleged soldiers asking for additional pension legislation. Aside from the general b-lls which involve bf official calculat.on over $200,000,000 there have already been introduced neatly l.i 00 prlvaio pension bills. Many originate w.tli attorneys, who send bundles of them to members, with a request to present them. They then charge those Interested $25. Not one in ten or this class can over pass. Many have no merit. Few seat In bream agents arc over followed further than the fee. The proposition to equalize bounties has been introduced by a dozen members. Thero have been seri ofllcial calcolat ons made of theamount "iloh tho passage of suoh a bill would ro luiro. Tho Paymaster General estimated that it wou Id take as a minimum $1 57,000,000, and that the amount mi.-bt run up to $te3.000,000. No official calculation places tho sum at less than $125,OU0.ObO. At least 250 additional clerks will bo needed to make tho settlement. The noxt scheme in tho order of magnitude is the one for removing all limit upon granting arrears of pensions'. This also Is strongly supported by petitions which pension agents have procured. A bill which is being urged with great persistence Is the bill lor pensioning all who were prisoners of war for two months; without regard to tho question whether or not they suffered thereby in health, this is an insidious measure since few politicians have the courage to take even an apparent stand against pensioning those who suffered as prisoners, and tbero are very many deserving cases. Added to those are tho bills to pension all who served fourteen days la the Mexican war, all who served in tho various Indian wars, and tho two extraordinary bills of Price, of Wisconsin, and Peters, of Kansas, one providing for pensioning alt who served la tho Union army upon their reaching the ago of 45 years, and the other providing for pensioning all who served sixty days for tho terms of their natural lives. For all except these lost schemes thero Is a great pressure here. Telegram te New York Herald. Although tho Forty-eighth Congress has been in no uol sess on only three weeks, the hills already introduced wculd. If enacted, absorb all the surplus revenues of the Government for several years to oome. No regular appropriation bill has yet been ronortod, but nearly every measure presented contains an appropriation direct. Indefinite, linpl cd, or oblique. An attempt has been made to classify tho most important bills and estimate tho probable amount involved, so that the pub'ie may sea how their representatives in Congress would like to dispose of the public moneys. A. recapitulation of the amounts proposed Tto be appropriated by the bills shows this startling- result: Public buildings and grounds 1 12,000,000 Biverand harhor improvements 6,000,000 Public education ICS,000,00 New bureaus, c mmissions, etc i,000,oo Soldiers' Home in Kansas 200,000 Equalizing bounties (official estimate! 100,000,000 Pensions (estimated) 175,000, 00 Priio money, etc S63.64 Deserters, nurses, eto. (estimated)... 2,250,000 Half-piy for Revolutionary 0 ulcers (cstimatedi 25,000,000 Depredations and spoliations (estimated) 10,000,000 Private bills (estimated) 2.1,000,000 State claims (estimated) 30,000,000 Drawbacks, rebates, etc 3,975,540 Miscellaneous items (estimated) 5,000,000

Grand total $500,700,194

' MKttSTiat-LOWELI. - 1

Congressman Robinson Hears that He Wears Knee-Breeches, in Violation of Law.

A resolution has been Introduced in the House by Mr. Robinson, of New Vork, calling upon the Secretary of State for information regarding the dross of American representatives in foreign countries as they appear on public occasions. It has exclusive reference to Mlnis'er Lowell, who is reported to wear knee-breeches upon state and other occasions. Wheu Sunsot ox returned Irom Europe ho reported that Mr. Lowell was arrayed in knee-breeches and buoklo shoes when ho called upon him, and that our Minister made a vain bat IneBectusl attempt to hide his calves under a table. "What is the object of your resolution'"' was asked of Mr. Bobinson. "It is to ascertain if any of our representatives abroad are roaiy acting llko dudes," he replied. -I am told that in some countries our ministors and cousuls dress like fops, that they don fanoy coats and big brass sabers and Imagino themselves kings and princes." "Have you any instances?" "Yes, sir. I -am told that reoontlyour Minister Lowell could not bo seen because he was dresstntr for a roccptlon. It is said that our representative to Persia had to take off bis boots not long since and approach the Pasha in his baro feet. Such proceedings are beneath tho dignity of an American citizen. He ought to have applied his boot to the Pasha." Mr. Kobinson said that tho Cnlted States would not tolorate any "monkey business," as ho nut it, on the part of the representatives abroad; that there was a statute enacted iu D33 for the express purpose of requiring American Ambassadors to maintain the recognized customs and etiquette of their own country, and that If Mr. Lowell bad been guilty of a violation of this law he should be recalled. It is a matter or notice that Mr. Lowell is a subject of unfavorable comment In al: quarters in Washington at this time A leading fiepublicau Senator said the other day that toe aping tcndoucles of Mr. Lowell, whioh at first produced only ridicule, are likely to he so seriously regarded in the end ta to necessitate his reoall MINISTER LOWS-IS nBCTOKSaiP. Washington Telegram to Chicago Herald. Tour correspondent has definitely ascertained that Minister Lowell received a polite, but peremptory notldcation from the Department of State that his acceptance of the Rectorship of St. Andrews was regarded as an act inconsistent with his obligations as the representative ot tho American Government at a forciun court. Tho lottev to Mr. Lowell called his attention to tho prohibition put upon American ambassadors as to tbeir acceptance of titles, honor, office, eta, from foreign potentates.

Trying to Reform Washington. A wave of so-called moral reform, says a Washington tologram, has evidently begun to roll through tho departments. Following the warning of Commissioner Dudloy that ho would discharge any employe who visited a gambling room, or who was in the habit of going to saloons, 1 os'mastor General Urosham has issued un ordor threatening to discharge any clerk who buys a lottery tioket. It is said also that the Postmaster General has severely lectured one of his chief assistants, whose doftness as a poker player is appreciated at one or two leading club-rooms cf tho capital. The Bonded Whisky Hill Boomed. The friends of the Bonded Whisky hill, says a Washington correspondent, fear that it has fallen Into unfriendly hands by its reference to the Committee of Ways and Means, hut, undor tho rules, no other committee has jurisdiction of bills relating to ttt atlou. They havo only faint hope, irom the reputed temper of tho cooiuilttco toward It, that It will tie reported to the House. But If it should come baok with the Indorsement of

the Ways and Means Committee it would bo ! mot with tierce opposition by some of tho ' strongest meu in tho House . I

Cold-Ware Signals. A Washington dispatch says the following will bo inserted iu tho office regulations of the Signal Bureau by direction of Gen. Hazcn; A white Uag with a blaek center will be used to indicate n cold wavo is c-pproaob-ing. .Whenever tho anticipated temperature fall is decided!)- below normal, the assistant In chatgo of tho indications division will send telegrams to the ob -or vers at Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Nashville, and Cincinnati: "Hoist cold-wave, signals," and will si-.-, i u:!iii V crer) when bo rrpr.rt anjrn litis rttiuihtMi,; uMtaui;ii.

INDIANA STATE NEWSEvobkk 80 per, a farmer near OreeDcastlo, killed himself. He was formerly in the Hospital foe the Insane. An ear of eorn encased in a husk containing no rent, lap, or seam, is a curiosity found recently on a farm near Fountain City. Lavavbttb has furnished three Cnlted 6tatcs Senators, vte.: Albort 6. White, John Petttt and Joseph B. McDonald. Bov skating on Bel rlvei, near Logansport, discovered the body of . woman under tho ice. It proved to bo a Mrs. Whitney, wife

of a commercial travel.

-As old German tailor of Mount Vernon takes his baths In the Ohio river as regularly as the day rolls around. His usual hour is Ha.m. " ' Thc Commissioners ot Jefferson county have voted $10,000 stock in the c-otton-tnill at Madison, In behalf at the county, making (85,000 now surjsoribedj'aOKi insuring the suoeess of AW ental-f Tub Commissioners of I unaware county have informally decided to i-rc..-i e new courthouse. They will probably issue bonds in March and build the foundation, completing it the following year. Johk B. Gehhakt, who served a term lo the Indiana penitentiary for robbing the malls when a postal olerk on the route between Chicago and Toledo, killed himself with strychnine at South Bend. Dr. Doaks and William Holland got into a -luarrcl at White Oak school ho-iso, Pike :ounty. Both drew revolvers, and a man named McCormlck attemjiR-u to separate them. He was fatally shot. Wnca Lee, a hideous-looking Chinaman, and Nellie Burton, a handsome girl, eloped recently from Louisville and wero ma; r.t!lv Justice Douglas, of JeftVr-onvUlo. Wmg came In style, having a carriage and attendants. . Goshen ha a plucky watchman at one of its factories. The other ni-rht a crowd of roughs attacked him, shooting him fatally, as It is thought, but after beiny shot he showed light, and seriously wounded two of hir assailants, who have been arrested. Jct.uk Montague has been legally do. dared dead by the Circuit court of Allen county. Ho has been absent over nv yor-. and his whereabouts is unknown. His estate will be divided among bis kindred. Geo. W. Tcdellv negotiated the sale of a lot of bonds for Lawrence c-"'J nt y Tho COnmissioners allowed him 81,81 0 for It . Some of tho tax-payers resisted,' and the court has held that the allowance was in violation of law. Mas. Elizabeth Wilsok, of Muncte. S3 years old, and for a long time an almost

helpless invalid, has been Cuicc of rheuma

tism by tho laying on of hand . The cure was effected by a gentleman who was at one time a Beading Clerk In the Legislature 13. H. WAlDUOSf, of Lafayette, is organiz ing a joint stock company for the Importation and sale of blooded cattle. The articles of association have been complete!. He expects to leave shortly for tbc jrey islands, Scotland, and Holland, and will make Heavy purchases of choice thoroughbred Jerseys, polled Angus and Holsteins. " A BEstAKKAwtE cometdeuce oeourred' near Monticello, in which William HreckHu and s sou of James McKinley, both farmers, each had his right leg broken while chopping wood. About three months ago these samatwo men each suffered a broken leg, and on tho same day and about the same time They live fivo miles apart. A xvxiusR of fanners of Fayette county are shocked ou the presentation of their promises to pay, several calling for near $200, when they had, as they say, only given small noto to a traveling insurance agent who promised them indemnity for Ave years. He sold the notes to banks, who, under Indiana, law, are Innocent purchasers. The makers will be required to show up or pay UPProbaulv tho oldest person in this section is Mrs. England. She is a 103 years old, and as spry and active as many others who are not over 00. She often walks and osrrieg her basket from tho depot to Mr. England's, which is at least three-quarters of a mile. She 16 sprightly and happy, with a clear room or-. She saw Cincinnati and Louisville long before they began to put ou city airs. Jtmlteon Herald. Ma. Tbokas Stevens of New Albany, was born hi 1804, moved to Ha rrlson county, Ind., Iu 1811, and married Hiss Olive Orandall in 1822. Nine children wero bom to Chora and she died. He married Mrs, Nancy DeanNino more children were the result of this marriage. Mr. Stevens Is now living with hi third wife He has 100 grandchildren and TO greatgrandchildren. His oldest dav fMartha Dewess, is on visit to hie -Texas. In the grave-yard at Soutfeport lie ti;; tes of Bryan, the nephew of the famot" ' tel Boone, and wife Bryan was the 1 of Bryan's station, about the first whi.t. -tlement in Kentucky, and his wife, who, with her husband, came with Boone from North Carolina, was the first white woman known to have set foot north of the Cumborlaml river. Mr. Bryan at bis death was nearly M years old. A MtraoBR was committed at Munolo sixteen months since. A family named Jenkins lived for several months In Perry township: they were poor. During t heir residence there a child was missed who .was never reported slek or burled, and It has now developed that Jenkins and his wife were not married at all, and she is said to have refused to marry him unless tbo boy was disposed of. A daugh er says that the boy was afterward brought in and kissed by all, when he was not seen again, and It Is feared he was murdered. Tho Coroner and assistants found a supposed grave but no bones were discovered, and the search is not over. Impudence of Shoplifter. Ono of the coo'est oases on record took plaoo at an Indianapolis dry-gcods store recently. A well-worn hat was foun-t or a counter mixed up with new bats. On ! . . . ligation It was discovered that a high ; r ! hat was missing, tome of the ctoro-. n - seen a woman go out ot the store we - u now and stylish hat, but supposing - V been bought and paid for, sfao had l-eee lowed to go out without question or hlo - -In the afternoon a woman with tho iu . stolon hat cn her head came Into tho -i" marched up to the bat-counter and ai -v the discarded piece of head wear. S!. 4. er sister had left it there In tbo - , wlillo purchasing a hat. When char. :i.

the theft of the bat she then wore ! - -ly denied having taken it, but entd -bought it elsewhere The feacher h ..: changed from one side to the other, . trimming had been rearranged, tuttl -were positive as to the has. A vieii other establishment failed to aubstaji'claim, whon she broke down and . t edged having taken the hat, but with t'- -tentlon of paying for It. She asked of It, and when told $0.50 attempted ' down the price, but finally paid for it i w on leaving she declared it didn't f, complexion wasn't at all toe kiud et .

s- Inu i.qou to get, and Uhj t H she would w ear it at alt.

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