Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1881 — Page 1

THE DECATJJOEMOCRAT. Official Paper of Adams County. S.n<;y 'CTZ'illxn.xixis, Projiriotor. Terms : One Dollar amd Fifty Cents Per Year.

J. T. BAILEY, ATT’Y AT LAW J. P., ■ DECATUB, I."ID! AX A. Will Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v24u29tf S. G. RALSTON, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, OK.XBVA, INDIANA. Office over Harrods Furniture Store. Profe««ional calls promptly attended to at all hours. 25jy79tf S. I’. Stevens..ll. tJ., Physician and Surgeon, PLEASANT MILLS, IND. Office in Gephe&rt's building, where he Will be found when not professionally eng*ged. aprlGt. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIAMA. 0251 X) in Houston’s Block, up-stairs. Will attend to all professional calls promptly, ajght or day. Charges reasonable. Residence on north side of Monroe street, 4th heuse eaet of Hart s Mill. 25jy79tf R %. Alusow, Pres't. W. U. Niblick, Cashier. I D. Studaeakb. Vi< e Prcs’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY DANK,| DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is npw open for the transactfes of a general hanking business. W« buy and sell Town, Township and Oaaaty Ordsrs. 26jy79tf t.t.mirt. e. o. Hscrxz Francs if Hooper, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DSCaTUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adsiae and adjoiniag •««<|tto*. UolLntions a specialty. Leeds, I aud other instruments of writing made with neatness and dispatch. Will buy aid «•!! real estate and pay taxes. F<cs raaameble. Otfioe error Stone s hardware •tort, »s.»t aide Seobnd Street. 31octT9 "pTc. SHACKLEY, ” taj SUii. anl Carriais Painter, And Ptepsr Hatter. Graining, Calsorninlng, Whitewashing, •to. Prices to suit the times. Sixteen yea?* ia Adorn* csanty. Giv* ms a call au-i snre money. Shop on southeast corner of Jefferson and Second eirtets. Decatur, Ind., Aug. 6, 1879. Baug79 PETERSON~I ifUl'lsl AN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DXCATI'B, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining coarv.iM. Especial attention givsn to collsetions and titi.3 to real estate. Ars Notaries I’nhlis and draw deeds and mortgagee Real estate bought, told and rented on reas.n.hle terms. Ulfice, rooms 1 ard 2. I O 0. F. building. 2fjy79tf Tratk Leslie's Weekly. The only Democratic Illustrated Newspaper published—will be sent postpaid, for five weeks (until end cf eampaigu) for thirty cents. Agents wanted in every town. Send thirty «ent» fur five weeks’ subscription or six cents in postage stamps for sample copy and illustrated catalogue. Clubs of four will be sent forfirc week.s f»r sl. Address F.a: ’. Leslie Publish ing Co., 15 Dey street New York. JOHN SHIREY, A LT C TIO K E II R , Wtihca tt say to the people of Ikcitur j cb4 ties ally that be is wk th* ouly pro- ! anetiou «cr in the county and that 1 will al all limes be ready to attend to •*.Hf ia lais line of pusinc**. Thirty-five ;4a,*ri ex peri race will enable him to giro faction beyond a doubt to all wboemaley him. Charges will be vary rraaonah->. Order* left at the Isw office of F;adce & Flapper will receive prompt attestion. jr*2mß JOHN SHIRTY. NOTICE TG TEACHERS. KaHce if hereby *iven that there will b a public enufloauen of teachers at the office of the County Superintendent, on the it*t Saturday es each month. Applicants fyr liesD!»e must present “the proper trustee’s certificate, or other satisfactory evi4*»ce of good moral character,” and to be *uecssjful must pars a good axamination in C .-thoyraphy, Reading, Writing, Jtrithme ti«, Ge«£raphy, English Grammar, Physio ttjy, and History cf United States. G. W.A.LUCKEY, Jkr«13,1379 County oap t. Great chance to make moDc ; SaQ W? We neek a person in etery town to take subscriptions for the | largest, cheapest and b™t illustrated fami- ; !y publication in the world. Any one can ta&ttae a B’sece-sful agent. Six elepuil werk* oi art given free t o subscribers. The priea ia so low tba-t almost everybody subOne ages’ reports taking 129 subscribers in a day. A lady reports making ®w*r S2OO clear profit in ten doys. All who ! jukke Qiuuoy fast. You can devote , all y<wr time to the business, or only your a; Hrs liras. You noed not be evray from i h-Jiito ever night. Gou can do it as well as o hdfs. Full djreicJ ions and terms free. Eleifaot syid expensive outfit free. If you want prettoble work send us your address at onffe. It cost* netbiug to try the businessNo one who engages to make great pay ' A&freM Geendx HTinbok A Co., Portland, ¥ aine. 4*2jy r«r, J. ». Simpsou’rt specific Medicine. Dr. J. B. Simpson’s Specific kedicine is a positive cure for Spermatorrhea, Impoiency, Weakness and all diseases rebuking freer Self-Abuse, as Nervous Debility, Irritability, Mental Anxiety, Languor, Lassitude, Depression of Epirits, and func’ional derangements of the nervous system generally, Paine in Back or Side, Loss of memory premature ©ld before. after. re and die ens jA.. M w ih»t Ind to f 5 an oorij grave or both. No re .tter how shat ered the system may be exteaaes ©f nny kind a ihort course cf Chis medicine will restore the lost functions a»d procure heakh and happinecs mH me before wm despondency and gloom. The Specific Medicine is being used with won4?.rfu4 succas*. PampMets sent free to all. Writo for them and get full particaiarß. Puce, 84 per package, or 3 pack age* for WiH be eent by mail on rai* pt of u»on«v. Address al! orders, J B.BIMP&GN S MEJUCILE CO. Jliw 404 and l&G Hain st Bwfiela. N. Y. Boid iu Lter<*t"r by d i BOLTLOUtiE »fcev79yl ;

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Stop Tliat Cough. If you are suffering with a cough, cold asthma, bronchitis, buy fever, consumption loss of voice, tickling in the throat, or any aficction of the throat or lungs, use Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption. This is th^great remedy that is causing so much excitement by its wonderful cures curing thousands of hopeless case". Oyer one million bottles of Dr. King’s New Die covery have been used within the last year, and have given perfect satisfaction in every instance. We can unhesitatingly say that this is really the only sure cure for throat and lung affections, and can cheerfully recommcntl it to ali. Call and get a trial bottle for ten cento or a regular size forsl. DORWIN & HOLTHOUSE, Decatur. Ind. i

crsr.no jan. i. The Chicago Weekly lews will bo sent. p**t:pai«l. i frewt <iate t* /an. lot I text. f«r 10«k-ut*. This S Ul»i mi’ scrip', ou will 3 enablo rvadftrf to beet ccnio afqi’febited with a the ch«Kpttt metro,l loliun lu the f I R. Independent Id j polltlos. ftli rhe news, J correctßiafkctrepovta, v six oottin!eted stnrlea j Mi even issue. A fuvor- ; He ftrr.lly pat er. S>eo<! i 1(1 reu'o (sliver) ut I once and rjot It until ’ Jan. 1. ISSI. Eleven tr al subsertpthirs for ?! uO. Kecuiar fwioe ia 7fi eta. n y< ar. Address PublL’ltCr Weekly ho »%•, UUicatfo, IU.

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.1 W'onder/tsf For the speedy cure c.f Consumption and all diseases that lead to it, such r.s stubborn Coughs, neglected Colds, Bronchitis, Hay Fever. Asthma, pain id the side ana chest, dry hacking cough, tickling in the throßt, Hoarseness, Sore Threat, and all chronic or lingering diseases of the threat and lungs, Dr. King s New Discovery hxs no equal and has established for itoelf a world-wide reputation. Many leading physicians recommend and use it in their practice. The formula form which it is prepared is ’tigbly recommended by all medical journals. The clergy and the press have complimented it in the moat g’owing terms. Go to your druggist and get a trial hottie for ten cts., or a regular size for sl. For sale by Dorwin & HoltLsuse. B THE NEW FOOD MEDICINE | HERE is no greater Blood Producer and Lite-nue-4 Friaclple in ttie norldo/gGcdaXHimedi--'fne than MA Li iilT prepared from U|iirrWM*nied .’Galt, liojs, and Qujuine. Tl.e£ f<«d the b»Miy and the brain, ruricb the blood, goliday thi bonrs. Imrden th<« uniacke. qui-t the nertea, chaer the mind, perfect bcwv'n. deii.-a ihe Lber and kidu-’V*. aildTitaiiie vRh n«*w *»;.i every fluid of t!iu body. Beware us Vnftotfe*«B fimilariy nai-i'd. !-• i. for trie C’-jncpu:’j z ’» lure which appears plan !yon the labrl f uv*r> bottb-. Boid every where. MALT BITT CO., Boston, Ma.’#. 24- 4. -tSaulaood; J’ Lost, Just published, a ne*r edition of DR. CCLVSH WELL’S CELEBRATED EASY on the rwJt-ai cur« (without medicine) of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal H'eakusss, Involuntary Seminal Losses, Impot.ency, Mental and Physical lucapneity, Im pediments to Marri tge, etc.; also, Con«umpiien, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by self indulgence or sex uni extravagance, &c. The celebrated author, in this admirable Etsay, clearly rtemmtjtrates, from a thirtyyeanf succrpsful practice, that the alarming consequence of belf-abuse may be radically cured without the dangerous use of internal mediuiue or the sppHcation of the knife; pointing out a mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no ronttor what his condition may be, may cure himself cheaply, privately, an! radically. Lecture should be in the bands of every youth and every man in the laud. Sent under seal, in n plain envelope, to any address, on receipt of six cts. or two postage stamps. The (’ulvcrwcl! ?Jo<lL'nl €•«.» 41 Ann St., New York, N.Y., Post Otbc Dox 4586. [2Cfebßoyl] DRESBMAKINGI Notice is hereby piven to the ladies of Decatur and vicinity that I have opened a Dressmaking Shop in Decatur,and am prepared to Cl’T A XI) JI A KE OR CUT A AS) FIT Ladies' and Children's Dresses in the latest New York and Parisian styles I do my cutting by the celebrated PERFECT-FITTING MODEL and am tbo oaly one in the o-ity so doing. Having several years practical experience I guarantee aatitfaction in each arid every instance, and I cordially solicit a share of your patronage. CHARGES REASONABLE. Shop OP 2nd Street, ovrr router & SlolthOßSe’s Slxoc Stere. JLKS. K. E- FEISTOE April 2, 1880. Given I p fcy Hie Doctors. Where doctors have failed to cura, and have given their patients up to die, Eclectric Bitters have often been used, and a cure effected, greatly to the astonishment of all. Diseases of tire Stomach, liver, Kidney, and UrinaryOrgans are positively cured by Electric Bitters. They invariably cure constipation, Headache and Billions attacks. Try them, and be convinced that they arc the best medicines evet used. Sold by B. W. Sbolty Decatur Ind. Trl ull rr> 0 w anti: i> ! sss <" I D»*r. For ju> tK'ulard ad.-iixM J , <’. .McC’t-R 1> ■ A VC?., Philadelphia, f*a.

Uxiclcrt a.ls.lij.g HISKEY & SPANGLER UNDERTAKERS Opposite Adams County Bank, Call the attention of the public generally to a large and comblete line of BURIAL CASKETS AND COFFINS. ) And to the fact that they arc using the M. & L ANTI-SEPTIC FLUID, For Embalming, Mummifying, Disinfecting and Purfuming the tiesh cf the dead, and cf Preserving the Features in a natural state. A fine lino of SHROUDS Are also kept on hand. In addition to (heir undertaking establishment they have the largest and most complete stock cf FIIRNITIIBF 1 Uli i’ll 1 U liiJ Ever offered to the people of Adams County. Dot’t j urobase one dollar's worth of Furniture before examining their stock and prices. HISKEY & SPANGLER. Decatur, Ind., Sept. 9, ’BO ly. THEBIADEPRISfiHG AND PAPER CO. Meet all competition, both as to Quality and Prices, in supplying BLANK BOOKS, PAPER AND STATIONERY At Wholesale. 154 SI. Clair SI., TOLEDO, 0. February 10. 1881.—45m3 Cray’s Speci&c iTScdSeine. TRADE MARX Thk Great TRADE MARK ENa LI ? H R EMki van unfaiD f ing cure for /y tfeminal weak p ness, Spur mabL, torrh ea.lm ten cy n d ;»l ? EEFSEE TAUKa.' iißea9es TAKIKB. toliow as a eor.seqiHnee of Self-abuse; as loss cf memory, Universal Laseitudv, Paiu in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Premature Old Age, and many other diseases that lead to Insanity, Consumption and a premature grave. 8@?"Full particulars in onr pamphlet, which we desire to send free by mail to ever?’ one. The Specific Medicine is sold by ali druggists at $1 per package, or 6 pack egos for $5, or will be sent free by mail on receipt of the money by addressing THE GRAY MEDICINE CO., No. 10fi Main street, Bbfpalo, N. Y. sale by Dorwin & Dollhouse. HEALTH IS WEALTH! Dr. E. C. West’s Nerve ak» brain Treatment: a specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Convulsions, Nervous Headache, Meatal Depression, Loss of Memory, Sp rmatorrhoea, Impotenoy, Inaoluutary Emissions, self-abuse, nr over-indulgence, which leads to misery, decay and death. One box will cure recent cases. Each box conlains one month's treatment. One dollar a box, or six boxes for five dollars; sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price. We guarantee six boxes to cure any case With each order received by ns for six boxes, accompanied with five dollars, we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to return the money if the treatment docs not effect a cure. Guarantees issued only when treatment is ' er jered direct from us. Address or call on Dorwin & Holthouse Druggists Decatur Ind. 6ms. Farm For Sale. The undersigned wishes to sell his farm in Root township. There ars 4(1 acres, 30 acres cleared, good farm house and barn, two wells of excellent water, good orchard and good land. Price, 850 per acre—one-half cash and balance in four years. For further particulars inquire of Dr. T. T. Dorwin, of Decatur, or address the owner at Fort Wayne, lud. Christian Eix, 47 m 3 Owner. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all kinds of Skin Eruptions. This salve is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction tn every case or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Dorwin & Holthouse.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUaNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 7, 1881.

1 II Baking Powder! ths PUREST AM) REST i.y rm: .is.in it. et. SSOO.OO Vl’iH be paid ferany zlhiEa, Terra Alba,or oilier impurities Found ia This Powder! Sold in Tin Cans. Try It I SOLD ONLYbyJ.WELFLEY, Decatur, Indiana. NATIONAL BAKING POWDER CO., 51 ARION, OHIO. March 17, 1881. SOciS L. C. FELLERS, CONTRACTOR AND BUILOEII, And Waaler ia Building Flom. Brick, Masonry, &c.. JLad Pr«prtes«r V TEIK DECATUR Steam Pressed Brick AND TILE WORKS. I would respectfully inferm the citiiens of Ad&ms am* adjoining counties tbxt I have located a Sltam Erick and T-ilc Works in Occatur, and will is'-nnfacture a superior quality es Brick an i Tile, and will bo prepared by the 15th of May, nud freti that tiiai eu, lo furnish parties Ktiildhig Urick, Sidcicalk Sewer Siricii and Tile of every desired caliborby the rod, at very low prices. Call aS the A'ard and examine Stock anti Prices. Contracts for all kinds of stone and brick work will receive preinpt altonticu. March 3, lUI. 48k6 Gr?’* o. ED, wUiwS a bU/i ui B bi sj y ’O u I frr QUALITY CF TONE, ReatiliftG Itiusieal EJFects! SfrestyS.’t amt Durabiliy ! BEAUTY DESIGA ! Thsy will »utls»t all common, cheap Organs. while thair musical aa<l niwhanieal qualities commend th«m to all wka wish a strictly high grads iuitruraijnt. Agenls Wanted in this Vicinity. Address, GEO. WOODS & CO<, Camltriiigeporl, Jtatt. CITY MEAT MARKET. C.Weibler, Proprietor. In Luckey’s building, Numbers block. —:o: — FRESH MEATS of all kinds always on hand, —:o - — SHOP Neat and Clean. •©"Give me a call. C. VVeiblbr. Dcsatur, Dec., B,'Bo. 6mn36. I’engelly’s Wwsnan's Friend for Maiden, liife and Mother. In a test of nine years ia thirty different States, has proved itself rightly named. It needs no Balderdash and Puffery, but only a plain introduction into a community, and always after it lives and grows through the good words of those who use it. It is a remedy for those complaints (no mention needed); peculiar to women, young or old. Potwin & Holthouse agents.

TORTURE!?. The Agony Wlsicli the KUsers of the Czar Were Compelled to Undergo. [New York Sun.] According to a dispatch from Geneva, Russakoff and Jaliboff, the killers of the Czar, have been mercilessly put to_torture in the presence of General Louis Mclikoff. Russakoff was eclectricized by powerful batteries, and forced by the intolerable agony he suffered to answer the questions put to him. Park Benjamin, the scientific expert, said yesterday : “The idea of torturing criminals by electricity is not original with the Russians. It is a British invention, and was first suggested, about five years ago, by an English mechanical journal, in commenting upon the execution of criminals by electric shock instead of by hanging. The English writer wanted to do away with the cat-o’-nine-tails, which is administered in England to garroters and other criminals of certain classes, and use the ’electric battery, as he somewhat grimly expressed it, so as to produce absolutely indiscribable torture (unaeeoinpanied by wounds or even bruises), thrilling through every fiber of such miscreants. There was an American inventor who had a design for inflicting this species of punishment. He fitted brackets of iron on the arms and thighs of the criminal, and placed in them wet sponges.. When connected with a current of electricity the shock would by this system pass through the legs and shoulders, and avoid the vital parts of the body. “The torture inflicted by electricity is of two kinds —by contraction of the muscles at rapidly recurring intervals and by burning with sparks. The tortures of old days, when not done by fire or compression, were the straining and tearing asunder of the muscles. Os this kind were the rack, scavangcr’s daughter, and the cages of Louis XIV., in which a man could not stand up or lie down. The electric shock exactly reverses these conditions. It produces an enormously rapidly contraction in i the body of the muscles at very short intervals. The degree of pain produced is about the same. The force of I the electricity has to be nicely graded, !as a too powerful shock would numb or kill a man. The other method is by condensing a number of intermittent sparks on the i flesh. This burns the skm, and at the same time produces contractions of ' the muscles. If put to the side of the i jaw it would make every tooth ache. A distinguished surgeon, of whom questions were asked concerning the machine, said: “The best way to explain it is to give you actual experience ; then you will know exactly how it feels. Here is a Faradio induction coil. I pull out this tube a little way. Now let me place this electrode to your hand. There." “Oh 1” exclaimed the inquirer, as a tingling, thrilling sensation ran through every finger, and his hand closed in an involuntary grasp. “Does it hurt?" asked the doctor. “A little.” “Well, we'll try again. Now, you see, I pull this tube further ot>. 1 again tuch it to your hand “Whoop ! ’ shouted the victim ; “take it away 1” The feeing was as if the hand was crushed in a vise. Every nerve ached and trembled with pain. “That hurt, did it?” Why, that’s nothing. Here's something of a very different sort. Ho fastened to one wire a small wet sponge, and to the other wire something like a paint brush, with the brush part made of fine wire. He put the sponge into the visitor's hand, and then touched the back of the hand with the wire brush. The pain was unbearable. The surface of the skin was scorched, and the muscles of the hand was contracted in a violent manner. “That is called the electric scourge," said the Doctor. “If it was dark you could see the sparks fly from each wire. Imagine the effect if the electricity were ten times more powerful. “Could any man bear that torture ?’’ “I think not; any man would confess under it, but it is a question what confidence could be placed iu such a confession. A man would confess anything to escape the agony.” “What would you compare the pain to?’ “It would be the same as burning alive." “Would it injure the man?” “No—not unless the pain drove him insane. If the battery was too powerful it would kill at once. Applied to some parts of the body the scourge hurts more than on ether parts.” • Town Sliding ISown ZSSBI. [Virginia City (Nev.)Chroui«le.] Last Saturday night, at the lime of the water main on Union street, a large plate-glass window on C street was also cracked. Upon examination it was found that the ends of the broken pipe were two inches apart, the lower part of the hill having settled that much. At the office of the Water Company they think the sudden settling was due to the cold weather. All along the side of Mount Davidson, from Bullion Ravine to Carson street, just below the Water Company’s ditch, there is a crack in the earth that is constantly increasing. In some places it is two and a halt feet wide, and extends downward to an unknown depth. The \\ ater Company people say the entire town is gradually settling to the east and north. The rate of the sinking is slowly increasing, as the frequently pulling apart of the water-pipes indicates. Any extreme of heat or cold seems to bring on an unusual movement in this way. Gray hairs are honorable, but few like them. Clothe them with the hues of youth by using Ayer's Hair Vigor.

Hayes aiß<! the Wine-Cap. [Washington Cor. I’hiladclpia Times.] A preacher named.Lanahan, the pastor of ex-Mr. Hayes’ church here, has published a letter in St. Louis or somewhere else, saying Mr. Hayes is a teetotaler or total abstainer, and f uriously denies uty frequently published statements in the Times. How does Lanahan, know that Mr. Hayes never drinks anything? He knows he never saw him drink—that’s all. I know a good many men and women, too, just as good as Lanahan, who says he does drink. Lauahan, if he goes at it quietly, can find a score of people right here in Washington who have drank wine with Mr. Hayes, and some, I am sure, who have drank whisky and brandy with him, I will go further than this. If Dr. Lanahan will come to me I will give him the name of a lady (privately and not. to be used by him) iu the highest circles and of the highest respectability who was offered first claret and then sherry by Mrs. Hayes herself in the White House. Still further, I will give him the name of a gentleman who offered to give Mrs. Hayes a cask of whisky shortly before she left the White House, which was accepted. Whether it was delivered I do not know. Still further, I will give him the name of a gentleman in West Walnut street, Philadelphia, who entertained Mr. Hayes at breakfast, where several kinds of wine were furnished. I will give the name of the gentleman who sat beside Mr. Hayes, and he will tell Dr. Lanahan what he told me, that Mr. Hayes drank more wine than any body else at the table, which was a good deal. One more step and I am done. If Dr. Lanahan will call on me I will show him a copy of Colonel Forney’s Progress of last August, iu which is printed the following, in large type: “R. B. Hayes, the last time I saw him in Philadelphia, joined me in a glass of champagne at the Union League." There has been too mtielt hypocrisy about the Hayes family. They are gone now, and Dr. Lanahan had better let the record stand. Mayor’s Cuurf. [Dayton Herald.] Chris Doupnin, the gentleman from Germany, whose somnolence we allude to above, was asleep in Dutch when he was hustled up stairs in Yankee. “Look here, Chris, ’ said his Honor, “sprachen se Touch ?" “Nix ferstay.” “I mean, Chris, can you talk English ; savey 1” ■•Nicn.” Well, look here, this show's got to go on. You are charged with being drunk. How many times have you been here before ?’’ “Mien.” “Nine I good grashus ! Nine ! Say, now, I don’t rememberyou. Were you drunk, as charged ?’’ “N’ien.” “Well, my friend you're good at figures, anyhow. How many glasses of beer did you drink ?’’ “Nien. “Nien.; well I’ll just put you on the record. How many glasses of whiskey?" “Nien." “Two nines are eighteen—should it be is or are?” he asked of the gilt-edged one—“no matter. Eighteen. Well, how many of brandy?' “Nien.” Did you drink any wine ? If so, how many glasses ?" “Nien." “Good heavings! my friend, I don’t wonder you are charged before me with being drunk. Do you know how many drinks that makes?” Nien.” “Nien." “No, sir—thirty-six ! “Nien.” “Look here, young fellow, don’t dispute this court. When it comes to figures, this court is boss, if she knows herself. There were nine beers, nine whiskies, nine brandies and nine wines Can’t you tell how many that makes ?" “Nien.” Then his Honor began to get mad, shed his coat and eye the stove poker suspiciously. “Do you know how many lives a cat’s got?” “Nien.” “That’s right. Well, that's just the number of lives I'm going to knock out of you, if you contradict this court again.” Just here an interpreter came in and explained the situation. His Honor cooled down somewhat, but we coaid see his eye glisten yet. “Pin going to send you to Castle Wiggim for ten days.” “Nien,” said Chris. “No, sir, ten ; and I’ve a good mind to make it ten years. Towns of Green [island and { Vermillion Swept Away Great Eosses to steamers, Etc. Sioux City. March 31.—The town of Green Island, opposite I’ankton, has been swept away. The inhabitants could be seen from Yankton dinging to the houses as they floated off. A large amount of stock is supposed to have been drowned. All the Bot-tom-lands were flooded. All were well settled. The river steamer Western sunk at Yankton, and the steamer Fontenelle six miles above. The boats in the harbor at Yankton ara so broken by the ice none will be ready for service for sixty days. The names of the boats lost so far are the Western, Fontenelle, and F. Y. Batchelor. The Western belongs to the Coulsen Line, Fontouelle to the Peck line, and the Batchelor to Joe Lighten, of St. Paul. All are total wrecks. The steamers above Yankton are in bad shape on the bank by the subsiding water. The river is now falling at Yankton and points above. At Vermillion, thirty-five miles northwest of this city, the water is ten feet deep in the principal street. At noon to-day all the inhabitants have gone to the bluff back of the town. '1 he gorges hold at last ' accounts. The river is running across the bottom land. The river at the city is rising slowly. A rescuing train for the inundated districts will leave this city to-morrow. Happy Thought, Sitting Bull wants to come back to the United States.and Dennis Kearney, another useless, wants to get out of it. Why not glue these two parties together. hang them over a fence and keep them as curioities? By this means people would know where to find them. I and what they arc fit for. —Great IFcst. I

TELEGRAPHIC CRIPS Col. I. N. Ross, of Holden, Mass., was cremated last Thursday. John F. Brown, a wealthy lumberman of Big Rapids, Mich., is dead. The Lake Shore and Michigan road will declare a dividend of 2 per cent. Princess Caroline, widow of hereditary Prince Ferdinand of Denmark, is dead. At Philadelphia, $200,000 were realized from the sale of Jay Cook & Co.'s estate. The physicians and keepers of the Michigan Insane asylum have been reremoved. That scandal did it. Turbulent cowboys shot Sheriff Kearnes, of Oneill City, Neb.,last week and wounded his deputy. The experiment of lighting London by the Brush electric light last Thursday night was entirely successful. John McCullough made his farewell appearance at Memphis last week, and was tendered a banquet. He goes to Europe. In the Whittaker case, Henry D. Hyde, a lawyer, was examined, and testified to Southworth’s incompetency as an expert. Mrs. Albright, a widow living near Youngstown, Ohio, hung herself. Her uncle. John Elzers, fell dead on hearing the news. One hundred and seventy thousand bushels of wheat were shipped from St. Louis to New Orleans, for transfer to European points. A desperado named Tom Ryan attempted the assassination VV. H. Michaels, an attorney of Cheyenne, because of his having prosecuted Ryan for attempted murder. Half of Chicago was lighted by the electric light last Thursday night, at 20 per cent, below the cost of gas. It was a great sight, and, notwithstanding the snow and it being a permmanent arrangement, the people turned out enmas3e and had a picnic on the lighted streets. t'arij le’s Reminiscence*. “By special arrangement” with the American public, the Literary Revolution will issue immediately a beautiful Acme edition, elegant clothbinding, of the “Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle,” price 30 cents, postage G cents, and it can be had of the nearly 2,000 booksellers who are agents of the Literary Revolution in all parts of the United. States. Thomas Carlyle, more than any other man of the nineteenth century, taught the American public, and people of good sense throughout the world, to dispise pretense and humbug whether exhibited by monarch or menial. Sensible people who want a good book at an honest price will buy it where they find it. There is in this country no law which gives to a foreign author, as it gives to an American, the right of the monopoly of the publication of his book. If publishers choose to pay a foreign author anything, they can do it only as a “donation,” because he can give them in return no protection from competition. Readers have the privilege of making such donation, if they choose to do so without paying it to the publishers and trusting to the possibility of their paying it to the author for them. There is no donation included in tiie price abuve named. Readers who want to combine a possible do- i nation, and a positive price, can get an edition of this same book from other publishers at from two to eight times the price. Address for catalogue, American Book Exchange, Publishers, New York.

The New York Sun in answer to the qustion whether it could give the exact popular vote for Hancock and Garfield, says: No. There is no official record of any popular vote for Hancock or for Garfield. The popular ) vote was cast not for the candidates for President, but for the candidates for Presidential Elector. Some Electors received more votes than others on the same ticket, so there is no exact index of the vote intended for Hancock, or of the vote intended for Garfield. You can estimate it in every State, and then add up the totals, but the result will be only approximate. You can estimate Hancock’s popular vote, for example, in a given State by putting it at the figures of the Democratic Elector who got the highest vote on the ticket; or you can es imate it at the average of the votes for all the Electors in that State ; and then when you come to Maine, where Dem- | ocrats and Greenbackers voted a comI binati m ticket for Electors, you ean ' estimate it any way that helps out your favorite theory. These incertitudes explain why some artihmetieians are able, without falsifying the returns, to reckon up a small popular majority for Garfield; while others can perform the same entirely superfluous sevice for Hancock. Trouble among the military : The discipline of the military organisation i that attended the Galveston Mardi Gras i is very rigid, and was maintained durj ing their stay in Galveston. One of I the privates, rniehow or other, got under the influence of strong beverages and was parading Galveston avenue, when he saw his superior officer approaching. The soldier fled into an alley and hid behind an ash barrel, i The officer passed on, but the next day ' ho called the soldier to appear before i him. and asked,‘'Howdid Iconic to see you hiding behind an ash barrel?” “How did you come to see me? You happened to see me because 1 was bigger than the barrel. If the barrel had been bigger you would never have seen me.' ‘ When you get home I will have you court-martialed, sir, and shot. Yes, sir. shot to death by musketry.” “If you do, I’ll be darned if I don’t resign and bust up the company. Now you just trot out your musketry.”— i Galveston News.

Farm Notes. One cord of birch wood weighs 2,368 pounds. Worms infest the lungs, the intestines, and the kidneys of pigs. Soft soap differs from hard in having potash in place of soda as an alkaline base. Water in which flax has been steeped not only kills fish but is injurious to vegetation. The Chicago Packing and Provision House kills 10,000 hogs every day, a day being ten hours. The first one or two litters laid by pullets are not so good for hatching purposes as those laid later. Andrew sprague, of Easton, Me., raised 200 bushels of very large sugar beets from forty square rods of ground. The average price of the corn crop of Illinois for 1880 is thirty-three cents per bushel, which is six cents less than the average price for the last twenty years. Do not be in too much haste to set your hens, unless you have a warm place, not only for them to set in, but also for the young chickens after they are hatched. A couple of ounces of catholic acid to three quarts of water, sprinkled on the poultry house through the fine nose of a small watering pot once in three or four weeks will destroy lice and other parasites. An exasperated Pennsylvania farmer, who had lost a great number of sheep, placed some poisoned meat where he thought it would do the most good. Ilisrage was considerably soothed the next morning on finding the dead bodies of eighteen sagacious dogs. Nothing is equal to tallow for large cog-wheels, but a good grease may be made of twenty-five pounds of tallow, twenty five pounds of tar, fifteen of soda, and three or four gallons of water. Boil the soda and water till the former is dissolved ; then add the other ingredients. Instead oil which thickens and makes whetstones dirty, a mixture of glycerine and alchol is used by many’. The proportions of the mixture vary according to the instrument operated upon. An article with a large surface, a razor, for instance, sharpens best with with a limpid liquid, as three parts of glycerine to one of alchol. Ifyou wish to be successful with trees do not plant large ones; they cost much more than small ones, you lose a larger percentage of them, and the tops of a number die down, while even those which do the best are much longer in starting than smaller ones. Os two persons planting two lots, one of large trees, the other of smaller ones, in a few years the small trees will bo the best value. On account of a lack of sheds and other means of protection, the winter in the Northwest has been very destructive to sheep and cattle, but more particularly to the former. Two young Scotchmen, who went into the sheep business about a year ago with a herd of about 4,000 sheep, has lost them all this winter, and are financially ruined. It is not a wise policy to have all the eggs in one basket. A recent improved recipe for preserving plants with their natural colorals to dissolve one part of salicylic acid in 600 parts of alcohol, heat the solution up to the boiling point in an evaporating vessel, and draw the plants slowly through it. Shake them to get rid of any superfluous moisture, and then dry between sheets of blotting paper, under pressure, in the ordinary manner. Two prolonged immersion discolors violet flowers, and in all cases the blotting paper must frequently he renewed. The novelty appears to be salicylic acid. The air buble or air cell in an egg is |at the round or blunt end. It contains the air which is to supply the chick during the process of incubation. It is known to contain a greater proportion of oxygen then the air wc breathe. As the chick incr eases in size the air buble.grows larger, and when on the point of hatching it occupies one fifth of the whole egg. The slightest perforation of this air chamber will prevent its success to hatching out. About the nineteenth day cf incubation the air cell is ruptured and the chick breathes with its lungs. It is at this date that the lively movements seen in eggs placed in water are observable. Still They Mill »o St. “I want to see the villain that wrote this article. Where’s the proprietor of this paper ?” “He’s out.” “Where’s the managing editor?” “He s out. “Where’s the city editor?” “He’s out.” “Where’s the reporter?” “He’s out.” “Where’m I? ’ (Ricke ty-siam -bang-j am ! Two panes of glass broken. “You’re out.” Man found on the sidewalk and carried to the hospital. Verdict—struck by lightning. Still they will do it.— ATw 1 nrk Dispatch. A Big Sell.—D. Sullivan,Malcolm, Ontario, writes: “I have been selling Dr. Thomas’ Eelcctric Oil for some years, and have co hesitation in saying that it has given better satisfaction than any other medicine I have ever sold. I consider it the only patent medicine that cures more than it is recoin mended to cure. Sold by Dorwin & Ilolthouse. “Mr Kingdom For a Horse.”—M. Sheehan, of Oscoda Mich., writes: “I have used Dr. Thomas’ Eclectric Oil on horses for different diseases and found it to be just as you recommended. It has done justice to me every time, and is the best oil for horses I ever used. Sold by Dorwin & Holthouse. The largest plate glass ever manu- ' factored in the west has just beeu I turned out at Jeffersonville. It is 144 by 220 inches, or 12 by 18J feet, and contains 183| square feet of glass. I Sick headache cured by Rinehart’s j Liver Dills. Only one for a dose. Sam- | pie dose free.

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