Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 11 November 1881 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV.

France possesses an area of country in Africa equal in area to that of the English in India. A. 8. Trude, the well known police court lawer, of Chicago, will assist in the defense of Guiteau. The Boston Pont thinks that if Anuanias had lived in these days he would have passed fora simple, guileless old man Vennob and the muskrats are out. The former predicts an open winter while the latter are preparing for a very severe one in their coats of fur and the construction of their residences. We think it is safe to het on he muskrats being right. At the recent wedding in Kentucky i>f Mr. Raphael Semmes, son of the commander of the pirate “Alabama,” the decorations of the church wherein the ceremony took place were somewhat remarkable, among them was a miniature copy of the ship “Alabama,” the famous confederate vessel commanded by the bridegroom’s father. The battle flag and pennant of the confederacy floated from the masts.

Miss Belle Hardin was eloping at Virginia, Illinois. Her father overtook the couple, and the swain was about to give up his sweetheart without a struggle, w'hen she coolly drew a pistol and told her parent she would shoot him if he interferred. The elopement proceeded. Any man who now says woman should not vote is a horse-thief and a villian. We demand forthwith the right of suffrage for the sex that will stand up like Miss Hardin did for down-trod-den, long-suffering man who it seems can no longer even elope with a girl in peace. _____ __ The millennium has at last arrived and ascension robes should be got ready without delay. We are led to this conclusion by the result of a trial in the circuit court at Greencastle, Indiana. A correspondent states that a most respectable old lady named Saunders, appeared as a prosecuting witness against Charles Summers, charged with being an accessary in an extensive robbery. Delano E. Williamson, the oldest practicing member at that bar, and a politician of some note, was employed for the defense, and in his speech for his client abused the old lady, repeatedly and vehemently calling her an old “liar.” The jury returned a verdict of acquittal, but accompanying it they sent a second verdict, against the attorney, as follows: “We, the regular impaneled jury, being men that love decency and courtesy toward our fellow-men, do say, that D. E. Williamson did, without any cause whatever, call a lady, Mrs. Saunders, a liar. We do say that we denounce all such conduct, and respectfully suggest that he be reprimanded by the court.” This is undoubtedly the first case in the world where an attornej’ was “found guilty” and his client acquitted. We trust that all juries will follow the example of their Greencastle brethren and continue the millennium so auspiciously inaugurated. SYMPATHY FOB IKELANB. While the sympathies of the American people are undeniably with the cause of the Irish people, yet at the same time it is not proper for the press or for our leading orators to indulge in wholesale denunciation of the English government. The expression of sympathy is all that we as a people can do in the matter. England is rifted by men who are our equals in all respects. lu wisdom and statesmanlike experience the English are the peers of the American. It will not be a safe proposition to advocate that the English lack in generosity, or in moral perception. They understand what justice is, and we will not venture to say that the great bulk of the English nation are anything else than disposed to do what is right, or what seems right to them in the affairs touching the Irish people. There are abuses that have been permitted to be practiced against the Irish people; and at the same time it also true that there has been a disposition to adjust these abuses, and manage matters in a manner to overcome and do away with them as fast as circumstances will permit. That the work of reform has not moved forward as rapidly as was expected is doubtless correct. But in charity it maybe asked, where do such corrections or adjustments meet with the prompt correction that is desirable? Usually reforms are the work of time, and are brought about slowly. The Irish people have made advances, and have secured benefits in the line asked; but not in so complete a manner as they deserve and have a right to demand. There is no occasion for them to be discouraged; let the work go forward; but for humanity’s sake let not force be resorted to, and let no one who claims to be friend of the Irish people

dvocate force or mob-law. Such a curse will put back the cause for which the people are laboring, and they will loose much of the ground already gained. The cause of Ireland is not a dead one The sympathy of the American people are with the Irish, and the English understand that quite well. There is nothing that softens the Englishman’s views on that question so much as the expressions of quiet sympathy on the part of our people for the Irish people. It would be such a Godsend to the hostile inclined Englishman to have fresh disturbances iu Ireland against unconstituted authority ; let this rot be done for the good of Ireland.

The Decatur Democrat.

NEWS SUMMARY. By'the sinking of a ship’s boat at Panillac, France, thirteen persons were drowned. Maroon, 111., is jubilant over the discovery of a six-foot vein of coal of superior quality. The reported arrest at Dublin, of Capt. Dugmore, late of the Sixtyfourth regiment, is not true. The French ministry declare that the reports of sickness in the FrancoTunisian army are exaggerated. Sexton has been given to understand that he is to go to France as the condition ol his release from prison. The London Times denies that the government resolved to enter upon more direct relations with the Vatican. Unfit for fast men: “Pay as you go” is good advice, and does very well for the man who doesn’t go very much. A Boston driver has named a horse car General Butler. He says it is the easiest car on the road to switch from one track to another. It is to be hoped that the foolish cadets of the Annapolis academy have been punished enough to get the haze seed out of their hair. Cardinal McCloskey, of New York, consecrated Dr. O’Farrell bishop of Trenton, N. J., in the presence of an immense congregation. Gambetta will shortly- make an important statement regarding his policy with reference to the government’s Tunisian policy. A colored man of Lancaster, Pa., has been accused of stealing a church. When a darkey gets religion he wants all there is"in the market. Os the 1,317 male teachers in the public schools of Maryland, 232 are colored men, and of tlie 1,755 female teachers, 157 are colored women. A dispatch from Marietta says: Mrs. Mary Earhart, wife of Captain Nat. Earhart, of the steamer Stockdale, committed suicide by hanging A New York firm prints an advertisement in a Chicago paper offering $2 50 per SI,OOO for from SI,OOO to sl,000.000 confederate bonds maturing in 1865. Heir J. Van Schaeffer, at present diplomatic agent and consul general ot Austria at Alexandria, has been appointed Austrian minister at Washington. Dr. Stoecker, the court chaplain of Berlin, is to be prosecuted by the Jewish citizens there for the part he took in inciting the anti-Semitic persecution.

The president has received a number of protests against the retention of Public Printer Defrees, urging the appointment of a younger and more active man. Peoria, 111., pays the largest tax on distilled liquors of any city in the United States. It leads Chicago a million and Cincinnati by three million dollars. Parnell has been unanimously elected chairman of the Cork chamber of commerce. He will be unable to preside at the meetings of the chamber for some time. The princess of Wales has invented a new dress. This may do for England, but what this country wants is an invention which will enable men to pay for new dresses. A Canadian paper says that Canadian girls make better wives than any to be found on this side of the border. Let 'em come over, then, and get husbands worthy of them. The emperor and empress of Austria, the crown prince and princess, Prince Leopold, of Bavaria, and Princess Grizela, will in May next return the visit of the king and queen of Italy. A signal station, to communicate with the United States meteorological bureau will be established on the Volcano Kilonan, and a series of observations taken. The London Truth says the late Baron James Rothschili incurred losses on the bourse in October amounting to 80,000,000 francs, and his anxiety caused the bursting of an eurism. The bark Princk Victor was dismasted and foundered fifty miles oft Cape Hawke in a gale. The crew took to the boats, and after great suffering effected a landing, except two, who died from privation. The Marquis of Lome had intended to sail for home Saturday, but has postponed his departure until the arrival of Sir Patrick Macdougal, commander of the forces, who is expected from England in about a fortnight. A. L. Steuben, Jr., who is contesting the will of the old Baron, is not one of party who came to America from Germany to participate in the Yorktown ceremonies. He is a native of this country, and resides in Allentown, Pa. Solvent lowa farmers are taking loads of spring-beds from glib agents, merely for storage. Os course they | gave receipts for the property, and of course, the receipts turn up in the hands of third persons as regular promissory notes. A sermon in six lines: A penny makes more noise in the contribution box than ass bill, and the man who gives the penny usually makes more noise than the giver of the bill when it comes to say “amens” or voting on church management. A dispatch reports the explosion of a portable steam sawmill boiler near Coalton, Jackson county, O. The mill belonged to Davis & Jones. John Davis, one of the proprietors, was fatally injured. David Griffith was seriously injured, perhaps fatally. At Adrian, a cake baked twentyone years ago at the birth of C. C. Hulett and hermetically sealed in a tin ean, was opened and eaten, it being Mr Hulett’s twenty-first birthday. The cake was found sound and sweet, though it had an old taste. A company of Davenport, la., sent an agent to invest $20,000 capital in Leadville mines. He put all the money into seven ventures that yielded nothing, while three others that turned out well proved to have been made on his own private account. The company has voted a lack of confidence in him Secretary Blaine now has in a good position on the wall of one of his parlors a fine engraving of Gladstone, sent him by Mr. Gladstone himself, with an au'thcgraph. The large photograph of General Garfield which was displayed on the catafalque in Cleveland, now hangs in Secretary Blaine t parlors.

WASHINGTON. the assassin’s case. Washington, November B.—ln the criminal court, this morning, Scoville, counsel for Guiteau, called the attention of Judge Cox to the motion made a few days ago in the case by Associate Counsel Robinson. Judge Cox said the motion referred in the first place to the postponement of the trial. While he was exceedingly anxious to accommodate the convenience of counsel, he did not see how he could postpone the trial without consent of counsel on both sides. In regard to the other part of the motion, to direct the district attorney to deliver to counsel for the defense certain papers, he said that in consultation with the district attorney- and Mr. Robinson, the district attorney offered to furnish any papers he had for the inspection of counsel. He did not see that the court could give an order for papers that might be in evidence on the part of the prosecution. On that score, however, there would be no difficulty. Scoville remarked the matter had hardly been presented the other day exactly in th < “ view which he had of it. There were three classes of papers in the possession of the district attorney, and he considered it very important that counsel for the prisoner should have not merely an inspection ot the papers in the presence or under the supervision of the district attorney, but should have the papers for consultation among themselves and with the prisoner. There could be no difficulty about the custody of the papers, because a receipt could be given for them and their contents could be ascertained and noted. In the first place, there were certain clippings from newspapers which had been gathered up by the prisoner during six weeks before the shooting. The reason why counsel for the prisoner wanted them, and why they were entitled to them, was that these clippings were evidence for the defense as to the influences that were brought to bear on the prisoner’s mind, and of the motives which operated on him finally in committing the deed. Ordinarily, of course, an application for things of this character in possession of the district attorney might not be proper, but in this case the defense consisted in the claim of insanity. It was extremely important, for counsel to ascertain and to be able to produce in evidence the influence which operated on Guiteau’s mind for six weeks before the shooting. Let him suppose, for example, certain letters had been written to the prisoner during that time by accomplices instigating him to act and understanding his mental condition. Would it be claimed that counsel for the prisoner were not entitled to their possession in or der to show the influences that were brought to bear on the prisoner, and how they operated on his mind? Instead of there being such letters addressed to the prisoner in person, there were, he understood, certain printed documents or printed letters addressed to him in common with the people of the United States, and counsel for defense were entitled to an inspection and examination of these papers to see how far they influenced the prisoner’s action and how far they were proper to be produced in evidence on the part of the defense. There was also a printed book, the property of the prisoner, which had been taken from him. During the six weeks before the act was committed Guiteau was, as he understood, engaged in making annotations in that book, noting all along the margins, making alterations and corrections, and putting additions to it on the margin. These things were important as indicating the condition of the prisoner’s mind and what he was thinking of, as bearing on the question of mental soundness and legal responsibility. Counsel for defense is entitled to them, and entitled to have them before the trial. They were not bound to look to the grace of the district attorney to obtain their evidence. They were entitle to it themselves, to examine it and to canvass it i n all its bearings so as to see whether it was the proper thing to produce in evidence, as they now believed it was. Lastly, three weeks ago the prisoner had prepared in jail a communication which he desireil to have published, and had seat it in an envelope with a note to himself (Scoville.) The warden had brought it to his room, but not finding him, he had left it with the district attorney, but that the letter and communication be had been unable to get. He had applied to the district attorney repeatedly for them, but had not been able to get them. He now submitted the matter to the court. He was not asking for anything as a favor, but he held that 1 e was entitled ts those papers without any qualificafton. Judge Cox said that in regard to these papers he should say that counsel for the prisoner was entitled to them, but in the absence of the district attorney he could not make any order as to the book referred to. The district attorney yesterday told Robinson that he would give him a copy of it, but a copy is not sufficient. Judge Cox says: I do not see that 1 have any power to order the district attorney to deliver any letters he holds and which he may desire to use as evidence. I believe he is willing to give an opportunity to examine everything he has. I do not think my order will be necessary. However, I will consult the district attorney as soon as he comes into court, and probably the matter can be accommodated without any formal order.

Subsequently District Attorney Corahill came into court and said the papers demanded by counsel for defence being in care of me, he would not concede the right of any person to them. He had never received any communication of any kind addressed to Scoville, and had nothing of the kind in his possession. Scoville said that he would to-mor-row present the affidavit of Warden Crocker in relation to the matter. TREASURY EXPENDITURES. A member of the senate committee on appropriations, which was directed to investigate the expenditures of the contingent funds by the different government departments, says the committee has laid out the preliminary work and will not do anything more till congress meets. The clerk of the committee on appropriations was instructed to go over all appropriation bills for ten years past and pick out the amounts appropriated to the contingent fuuds of eaeh »nd every department. The committee has addressed a circular to the head of each government bureau, calling upon him for a statement of the contingent expanses in his bureau for the past ten years. When congress meets the committee will take up these statements and see how the expenditures compare with the appropriations. This member said that, as the senate never has much work to do till after Christmas, as all

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appropriation bills must originate in the house, this time of the coming session will be devoted to this investigation. The members in talking this morning said the committee propose to make the investigation thorough and sweeping, no matter whom it may strike. He said the committee will insist upon having tlie testimony taken by the treasury committee, and ex-Custwdian ofthe Treasury Pitney will be called as one of the first witnesses, and that Assistant Secretary Upton, Chief Clerk Power, and all treasury officials who are supposed to have any knowledge of the expenditures of the contingent fund will be called, and that the country will be satisfied with the thoroughness of the investigation. ARGUMENT RESUMED. Argument in the star route cases was resumed, and Brewster, of Pennsylvania, addressed the court at length in support of letting the information stand, and making a close legal argument. He made the same point made by Bliss, that while it was more desirable to proceed by indictment found by the grand jury, the necessities of the case rendered the filing of the information perfectly proper and legitimate. He characterized the pending motion as an effort to shirk and sneak out of observation, an effort made on the part of a man whose honor was impeached by his being charged with official embezzlement and public robbery. THE RUSSIAN MISSION. It is stated upon good authority that President Arthur some time ago promised the friends of John C. New, of Indiana, that he should be recognized by this administration, and that the president has decided to offer New the appointment of minister to Russia, made vacant by Foster’s resignation. New’s friends say he will accept. GARFIELD’S EFFECTS. All the personal effects of President Garfield, stored in the east room of the white house, where to-day removed to the Baltimore & Potomac depot for transportation to Mrs. Garfield at Cleveland, Ohio. They included ail bi'oks, pictures, household decorations, etc., brought to the white house by General Garfield and purchased by him while there, Mrs. Garfield’s dresses, etc. There are about thirty boxes. The Alderney cow presented to President Garfield was also placed on the train of special cars, which was placed at Mrs. Garfield’s disposition by the Pennsylvania company. The goods will all be taken direct to Mentor, but the cow will be taken to Cleveland, where Mrs. Garfield has her residence for the winter. The horses purchased by General Garfield have been left in care of General Swaim, and tiie carriage stored with Mr. McDermott. ELECTION RIOT. Fierce Fight Between Whites and Blacks in Mississippi. Meridian, Miss., Novembers.—Four white men were killed and two sevcrily wounded by negroes to-day at Marion station, this county. The negroes opened fire on the whites at the polls while the election was going on. The whites had no arms, consequently r.o damage was done the negroes. One man was killed, A. T. Harvey, democratic candidate for countyjassessor. The sheriff with a posse from this place found aboutlOO negroes barricaded in the dwelling house of their leader, Ed Vance, and were fired on by the negroes as they approached the house. Another armed body of men have gone from here to the scene to assist the sheriff. Otherwise, the election in this county w’as quiet and orderly. A sheriff’s posse consisting of about 100 men, surrounded Ed. Vance’s house to capture the instigators and perpetrators of the murders at Marion station this morning. They demanded a surrender, which was refused. John Vance, age 21, son of Ed. Vance, who was riding up pointing a gun at the posse, was killed instantly by a shot fired from inside the house Ed. Vance and the negroes escaped. Several ne i roes while escaping were shot at and wounded. Will Vance, aged about 30, son of Ed Vance, was captured and lodged in jail. The sheriff received a slight wound from a spent bullet. Henry Jones, of the posse, was slightly wounded. Vance and the negroes have fought desperately all day from inside the house, and thus having all the advantage it was difficult to capture them. The names of those killed at the falls this morning are. A. J. Harvey, Joseph Barnett, Jeff Pegars and Vince Segars. Jas. Hodges and Levi Moore were wounded, th# former seriously and the latter slightly.

The (dirts in the Government Printing; Office. Madison, Ind., November B.—The Courier will publish the following today : Office of the Public Printer,) Washington, D. C., Nov. 6. j ToM. C. Garber, Jr. Editor of the Courier: Mv Dear Sir—l thank you for your notice of the infamous and malignant libel upon the ladies employed in this office. There are over seven hundred of them, and they will compare favorably with the usual number of employes anywhere. Many of them have been well raised and educated, but are compelled to labor for the'r daily bread. It is an infernal shame that they should be traduced by a low grade scoundrel in the vain hope of injuring me. There never has been a charge made against this office that did not originate with some dead-beat that had been discharged from it. Yours truly, (Signed) John D. DeFrees. P. 8. You may print the above if you see proper. J. D. F. Witnesses for the Assassin. Boston, November B.—The United States deputy marshal to-day summoned for the defense in the Guiteau case the following named witnesses; Norwood Doman, David Ershine (in whose houses the assassin boarded), and Frank Leeneon. The witnesses are to report in Washington on the the 14th inst. John W. Guiteau, the assassin’s brother, was enjoined to bring thirty-six lettersand two family Bibles to be used in evidence. Dead. Canton, 0., November B.—Mr. Porter Chapman, a prominent citizen of Watkins, Ky., died here this morning of paralysis, aged seventy-eight years. He was visiting his son, Mr. W. P. Chapman, of the firm of Vandusen, Chapman A Melville, railroad contractors, of this city. The remains were taken to Watkins this evening. Mot for Mew. New York, November B.—The ru mor that John C. New, of Indiana, is to be appointed minister to Russia is authentically denied. President Aithur has not made any foreign appointment# »ineo hi# arrival here

THE ELECTIONS. NEW YORK. From returns received up to midnight, Tuesday night, it would seem that New York goes Republican except Huested, State Treasurer, by a very small majority. By a more careful counting, and returns from places not heard from at that time, the vote may be materially changed. Democratic gains are reported from almost ail over the State. MASSACHUSETTS. The vote throughout the state was unusually lightand there was but very little interest taken in the election. It is estimated that Long (Rep.) for Governor is elected by from 25,000 to 30,000 majority. CONNECTICUT. Complete returns from the state show the following result: House — republicans, 166: democrats, 98; greenback, 1. VIRGINIA. The returns so far indicate that in the legislature the democrats will gain eleven members and lose one. On the other hand the secretary of the readjuster state central committee claims the readjusters estimate their majority for Cameron in the state at 1,200, and that as far as heard from they have gained five members of the house of delegates and only lost one. They are jubilant and assert their victory is certain. Minnesota. Both parties claim thevlctory, but the probability is that Hubbard’s rep. for Governor gains and losses will offset each other, and that be and the whole republican ticket will be elected by a majority somewhat reduced from last year. At Minneapolis the whole republican ticket is probably elected. WISCONSIN.

The republican leaders are surprised at their losses, but don’t admit the loss of the state, although they say the result is doubtful. The prohibition ticket has defeated the republicans, if they are defeated. Their vote is probablyls,ooo. At the very latest on last Tuesday night Secretary Payne, of the republican state central committee, expresses strong belief that the republican ticket is elected. MISSISSIPPI. A very small vote was cast throughout the state. All the indications point to a sweeping democratic majority. NEW JERSEY. Probably democratic, but a very light vote cast. PENNSYLVANIA. The republicans claim a majority in the state of 15,000 for Bailey over Noble, based upon the increase of the republican vote in Philadelphia and that of Lackawanna county and a few of the interior counties. The democratic chairman is not willing to concede Noble’s defeat, but thinks the republican majority in Philadelphia will be overcome by laterreturns from the state. The independent, or Wolfe element, claims 65,000 to 75,000 votes for Wolfe. CHICAGO. Gary, elected Judge of the Superior Court unanimously. He was on both tickets. Stephens (rep.) for Clerk of County, elected by 2,012 majority. Mattocks and Sommer, (dems.) for County Commissioners, both elected. Swindler Arrested. Cincinnati, November B.—A man, giving the name of Samuel Solomon, but who says he has traveled under the name of John Godfrey, was arrested here to-day on a warrant sworn out by William Carter, of Toronto, Canada, who claims that the prisoner is A. L. Freundlich, and is wanted in Chicago on a charge of having concealed ten thousand dollars worth of goods from his creditors when taking the benefit of the bankrupt law several years ago in that city. The manner of the arrest was peculiar. Carter, a short time ago arrested a man in Toronto named A. L. Friendly as the man wanted in Chicago. Friendly in turn arrested Carter for libel, and sent Commissioner Warner, of this city, to take the deposition of a man here, who, Friendly said, would swear he was the A. L. Freundlich wanted in Chicago. Solomon duly appeared to-day before Warner to testify, but before he had done so Carter caused his arrest. Solomon now says the man in Toronto is the one wanted. He will be put on oath on the matter to-morrow before Commissioner Warner. — — Death from Damps. Upper Sandusky, Novembers.— Coroner Heym has just been notified of the sudden death of a young man named Kisor, who was seized with damps this evening while engaged in digging a well on the farm of David Bechtol, residing five miles east of here on the Oceola road. He died before assistance could reach him, and was taken out of the well a corpse. Minister Found Dead. Lima, 0., November B.—Rev. Mr. Wright, of the United Presbyterian church, was found dead in bed at Mr. Hoover’s, in West Newton, this county, this morning, supposed from heart disease. He had been in the the ministry for several years. His family’ live in Rushsylvania, Logan county. The Tiffin .11 orderer. Toledo, November B.—Chas. Madden, who murdered Phoebe Bernard at Tiffin on Thursday last, was brought to this city to-day and was lodged in the county jail for safe keeping, attempts at lynching having been made at Tiffin while the prisoner was confined in jail at that place. ——"♦♦ ♦ , — — Failure. Columbus, Ga., November 9.—M. C. Garden, dry goods, of this city, has suspended. Mortgages amounting to $25,009 were foreclosed. The stock is now in the hands of the sheriff. Liabilities over $60,000; assets estimated at $50,000. Secretary Folger is 64 years of aga and looks like N. K. Fairbanks.

The Sago Tree. It seems a little curious to eat the solid trunk of a tree, but there is a tree in the East Indies which makes a very agreeable and wholesome food for thousands of people. A full grown tree is cut down close to the ground. A strip of the bark is then torn off, laying bare the pith, which is about as soft as dried apples. With a club of heavy wood, pointed at the end with sharp quartz rocks, the natives cut out th s pith, which is carried to the water side, and, being mixed with water, is kneaded and pressed against a strainer till the starch is dissolved and passed through the strainer. The water holding the starch in solution is then passed through the trough, where tne sediment is deposited, and the water is drawn off. It is then put up in cylindrical cakes, of about 36 pounds weight, and sold as raw sago. The raw sago, to prepare it for use, is broken up, dried by exposure to the sun, powdered and sifted. The flour is made into cakes, easily baked, which are not only eaten hot, but are often dried in the sun, and put away in bundles for future use. They will keep good for years, it is said. The food is extraordinarily cheap, costing much less than rice among the Hindoos, or potatoes among the Irish. A good sized trunk of sago tree, twenty feet long and five in circumference, will make at least thirty bundles ot thirty pounds each. Each bundle, it is computed, will make sixty cakes, allowing three cakes to the pound, and five cakes are considered by the natives sufficient for a full day's food. A single good sized tree will, therefore, furnish food for a native for an entire year, and many of them live upon it almost exclusively. One needs to labor only a few days to secure this supply of food for the year. A man can reduce a tree to a powder in ten days, and a woman, in the same time, can reduce it all into eakes. By steady labor for twenty days, there fore, provisions maybe laid up fora year.—[Youth’s Companion. A Man for S»pp»-. While about fifty of the boarders at the Railroad Junction Hotel at Deming, N. M.. were at the supper table on the evening of the 28th ult., a “rustic,” who had been making strenuous efforts to “run the town,” left the table hastily, and a moment later two quick heavy shots were heard on the platform outside. As the town had lately received a new influx of roughs, everybody knew that the shots meant business. The ball was at once in commotion. About half of the boarders sank upon their knees behind the ruble—not in prayer—while others thshed from the tables, some drawing their revolvers ready for fight, and lae head waiter dropped his napkin and in a flash rushed to the defense of the house with his Winchester; Other citizens with guns passed through the end of the hall, and Sheriff Tucker came quickly into the light and thrust two cartridges into a double-barreled shotgun and darted out again. On reaching the platform the guests were relieved to find tha't nothing more serious had happened than the of a man by the sheriff'. The desperado, who claimed to be a Texan ranger, had succeeded in awing many unarmed citizens, struck a prominent business man, Mr. Winchester, on the heal with his revolver, inflicting an ugly wound, and was around for “some who is on the shoot,” when Sheriff Tucker took his shotgun and pursued him. He refused to surrender and drew a large knife, but Tucker was too quick for him, and a dead desperado lay stretched upon the platform. This is not the first outlaw the Sheriff has put out out of the way, and many cowardly ruffians would be glad to end Tucker's existence if they could get a shot in his back, but none have yet dared to face him.—[San Francisco' Chronicle.

“I’ll Pay You For That.” A hen trod on a duek’s foot. She did not mean to do it, and it did not hurt much, But the duck said, “I’ll pay you for that.” So the duck flew at the hen; but, as she did so, her wtng struck an old goose who stood close by. “I’ll pay you for that!” cried the goose, ana she flew at the duck; but, as she did so, her foot tore the fur of a cat who was just then in the yard. “I’ll pay you for that!” cried the eat, and she flew at the goose; but as she did so, her tail brushed the eyes of a sheep that was near. “11l pay you for that!” cried the sheep, and he ran at the cat; but, as he did so, his foot hit the foot of a dog who lay in the sun. “I’ll pay you for that!” cried he, and he ran at the sheep; but, as he did so, his leg struck an old cow who stood by the gate. “I'll pay you for that!!’ cried she, and she ran at the dog; but, as she did so, her horn grazed the skin of a horse who stood by a tree. “I’ll pay you for that!” cried he, and he ran at the cow. What a run there was! The horse flew at the cow, and the cow at the dog, and dog at the cat, and the cat at the goose, and the goose at the duck, and the duck at the hen. What a noise they made, to be sure! “Hi, hi! What is all this?” cried the man who had the care of them. “1 cannot have this noise! You may stay here,” he said to the hen. But he drove the duck to the pond, and the goose to the field, and the cat to the barn, and the sheep to her fold and the dog to his house, and the cow to her yard, and the horse to his stall. “I’ll pay you for that!” said the man. Kerosene and Salt for Diphtheria. A correspondent of the New Y'ork Sun say’s: “In 1862, on a plantation in South Alabama, where there was great difficulty in securing good medical advice, I saw a whole plantation of blacks, as well as the white members of a large family, successfully treated for diphtheria with kerosene oil and salt: used thus: Every patient was given a lump of rock salt about the size of a boy’s marble, and instructed to keep it in his or her mouth, swallowing the salty saliva. At the same time the throat was rubbed with kerosene oil, and a flannel saturated with kerosene kept around the neck until the symytoms were abated cr entirely gone. If neccessary, mild cathartics were given. Not a ease was lost, and there were fully 120 in all on the plantation.” Bismarck, in response to the message of condolence on the result of the elections, sent him by an antiGermiticclub of German students at Leipzig, said he was neither surprised nor discouraged at the result. In the annual repor of Genera Bennett, chief of ordnance U. 8. A., he states that $1,637,593.79 were expended, and wants the appropriation increased this year. He thinks the well-being and efficiency of the army requires the retirement of officer! a‘t | the age of 82

NEW YORK FASHIONS. Novel Costumes—Sew Hats anil Bonnet* - Beads and Combinations — Gloves. Never have plaitings been so fashionable. Some new skirts are entirely in side plaits set to a yoke; others are plain with two broad box plaits at lhe back. Again we see rows of side plaiting around the bottom, or the material can be set in box plaits so wide that nine encompass the entire skirt—a rich example in this style having been a dinner costume made for Mrs. A. T. Stewart of black watered silk and plush. The skirt was of silk, while the upper portion, also of silk, was a Frodora polonaise, arranged to appear like a basque and overskirt in front and gracefully draped in the back. The sleeves were close-fitting and a shoulder cape completed the design. The trimming was plush, laid in bands on the edges. Gathered flounces, nevertheless, are quite an idea of the time, so much so that plain woolens and silks are brought out in dress patterns where successive flounces are wrought in floral figures. Often a flounce is added at the waist and also around the neck. Striped silks or woolens are in like manner S laced as flowers on plain goods, asques differing from the skirt are still in favor. Plush or watered silk is the first choice, yet striped goods are much liked. Brocaded basques are worn by those who have them, but new ones are not made up. This is because small figures are going out and large brocades are manifestly unsuitable. For sake of contrast the skirt must be of plain goods. A spectacle the most “UTTERLY UTTER” is the new huge hats They spread out in aradiusof half a foot each way; equally surprising are the crowns—high and conspicuously pointed, rising like peaks encircled by forests of ostrich plumes below. Borne times these hats are set far back on the head, the brim poised in halo sfvloagaip thev over me brow, causing a search for a pair of eyes below, or the wide brim may be caught on the left side. Akin to these are the high pokes, the mark of relationship being the high pointed crowns. But these are bonnets and tied under the chin. A gloomily prophetic soul might query as to how the average mortal is to hear or see anything at a church or theatre; a too imaginative spirit might figure out a row of ladies all wearing such hats and wonder how unfortunates in the rear not only are to get along, but how they themselves are to turn their heads. These, however, are morbid forbodings; nine chances to ten that row will be broken by masculine pates, while most encouraging of all is the fact that, as yet, the large hats and bonnets are in a noticeable minority. Feather turbans are carrying the day. At other times, we thought turbans adapted to young ladies only, but now the observer can discern beneath the mask veil which is a favorite accompainment, both wrinkles and gray hairs. Nevertheless the wearers are not what we call elderlv. They linger still in the shadowy land of middle life, a land however of much larger limits than in smaller towns, since fifty often corresponds with thirtyfive elsewhere, etc., etc.

BEADS AND COMBINATIONS. Beads, beads, beads are the order of 1 the day. We have beaded passemen- ' taries, beaded fringes, independent ■ ornaments made of beads, and beaded 1 net works that take the place of overskirts. 1 hey shine in a shaded glitter from pale to dark in cashmere co- 1 mingles. So you see that the results must be sometimes quite rich, 1 to such a degree really that oftentimes they take place of brocades as a combination for plain velvet, plush, satin or silk. Nothing certainly can more efficiently contribute to the restoration of the mode in black silks than an experience of the ' superiority of the Bellou fabrics that ' are J no 'L bro . l 'g ht prominently forward. Both in wearing qualities and ■ in finish, they rank pre-eminent. For wool goods, a combination of material is preferred to beads and the the pretty results accruing from unitings of plain and striped material, quite defy the powers of my calcula tion. Mark the word “striped,” for it has a meaning, to-wit: that small floral brocades are going out except in case of the flounced dress patterns mentioned above. The Mirabel is a 1 stylish model for a flounced costume, I l having a plain, round wasit finished i with a sailor collar and full bishop l sleeves. If, however, you should prefer one of the pointed corsages now so much liked, the Lucinde basque could be substituted. This is a pointed back and front, with half long sleeves shirred above the elbow and ' finished by a ruffle. GLOVES. This winter you are nothing if not ' well gloved. “Well” is here synono- ' mqus with “stylish.” The loose, wrinkled gloves are of course fashionable, but in the eyes of many people are an abomination. More to mv way of thinking are the improved Harris seamless, very durable and beautiful in fit, with hook and laced cord fastening, They commence with five hooks that are equal in length to three buttoned; lengths increasing to fifteen hooks, corresponding to eight buttons. The Delmont is a handsome glove in the same style but lower priced; beginning with three hooks, corresponding to two button, and running to twelve hooks, corresponding to six buttons. Another desirable variety of moderate priced glove is the Felix, also with hook and laced eord fastening and about the same lengths as the Delmont. The three are brought out in all new shades and black and white as well. Lucy Carter. Two Noblemen. Among the passengers of the steamer Scythia, on which I returned from Europe, was an English Earl, a quiet gentleman, in no way remarkable or interesting, who comes to our country almost yearly to hunt in the West The obsequious homage of the captain and officers of the ship in the presence of the little great man and 1 the paiuful, cringing deference of the ' stewards were almost as disgusting ' as was the ineffable s’illiness of one or ' two American women, who became 1 oblivious of the commonest rules of ' good breeding in their raptures over a live Earl. There was another gentleman among the passengers, a nobleman in the highest sense, but untitled, and of the people—Sameul Marley, Member of Parliament a grand man, a philanthropist, finding his hanpiness in work for the race. His charities are unbounded, his contributions to the .emperance work of England alone amounting in some vears to 20,000 pounds sterling. But white officers and stewards gave to him, as to all passengers, the most courteous attention, thare was in their manner an utter lack of the sawing and self-ef-facement so conspicuous in their behavior toward the Earl. One was an hereditary nobleman by birth—the

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I other,every inch a nobleman by birth--the other, every inch a nobleman, without a title—and this made the difference. IN DI AKA. It is said that Brazil has enjoyed an increase of 100 babies within the past three months. On Thursday the contract for building the New Franklin County jail at Brookville will be awarded. Considerable excitement exists In Scott county over reported gold discoveries near Vienna and Summit. Jeffersonville is to have a street railroad. A company to construct it has been incorporated, with a capital of $50,000. Rev. Newton Burwell, of Wells county, while hunting a few days ago, captured alive an Albino squirrel, with white fur and pink eyes. Will Higgins, a boy who runs a traction engine wood saw, at Shelbyville, had two fingers cut off with the saw’ and his hand badly lacerated. Owen Blackmore, aged eighty-eight, a soldier of the war of 1812 ana a pensioner, died at the residence of his son David,near Kingston, Decaturcounty Stanley Ellis, aged eighteen, was fatally injured in a mill in Frankfort, by being struck on the neck by a lever, thrown by some part of the machinery. Over thirty business rooms have been built at Rushville, Ind, this -earson, and tbe population of that city has been doubled in the past fifteen months. Mrs. Maria Reeves wrs sentenced to three months in the county jail at Vincennes, aud fined SSO for recently passing files into the jail with intent to aid her hnsband, an alleged horse thief, to escape. A farmer named Ballenger, living near Hagerstown, was a lew weeks ago stunv op tfi“ v,-- 1... wn»ielace became covered with hideous sores, and as a result of the sting, he has become insane.

Abe Strauss, of Wabash, recently shipped a car load of cattle from Miami county to Buffalo on the Eel River Road. When the train arrived at South Whitley three escaped through the insecure door of the car While a little daughter of Samuel Fanning of North Manchester was carrying an infant child across the floor, she stumbled and fell, throwing the baby into a tub of hot water. The baby was horribly scalded, and died soon after. A girl named Louella Gravity, at Jeffersonville, aged fifteen, who was bitten by a dog in August last, has developed a case of hydrophobia in the past two days. The victim bites and snaps at her attendants, and has several spasms each day. Her sufferings seem to be intense. George W. Stephenson, president of the Muncie school board, was arrested on Saturday on a charge of bribery sworn to by Joseph Davis and Joseph Hill, councilmen from the Third ward, and Cam Hill. The charge is that Stephenson gave Hill SIOO to vote for him as commissioner. The Miami tribe of Indians,having reservations in Wabash and one or two counties adjoining, will receive their final payment from the government next month. The descendants of Charles Godfrey, the celebrated war chief, will share largely in the money. The total amount to be disbursed is $221,250. Hon. Calvin Cowhill, of Wabash, will be one of the paymasters. The case of Kokomo’s murdered Mayor has been before the court ol that city for some time. The officers who shot Cole, while in discharge of their duty, were arrested, and a terrible pressure brought to bear to prove that Cole was unjustly accused of the crime of stealing. The trouble ended, when the judge dismissed the case, and stated that there could not be found any evidence to sustain the indictment. A corps of United States engineers is camped a few miles north of Bedford, engaged in establishing the thirty-ninth parallel ot latitude. The work has been going on the past two years, having been commenced at a point on tbe Pacific coast near Ban Francisco. Numerous detachments have been emplpyed, one taking up the work where another would leave off. The present company began on the border of Western Missouri, and will carry the survey to the eastern boundary line of Ohio. The gold discovery excitement still continues in Vienna township, Scott county, and a large number of persons visited the James Collins farm in the southern part of the township, where two shafts have been sunk to a depth of about fifteen feet, from which fine part icies of gold have been taken. The gold is found in the black sand—that is to say, the supposed gold. Many persons who profess to be experts, pronounce it pure gold. Similar discoveiiesbave been made at Summit, on the J., M. & I. road, six miles south of Scottsburg. For a number of years it lias been claimed that gold existed in Scott county.

Within four weeks Fountain county has furnished to the criminal annals three murders. Hathaway murdered his tenant, south of Harveysburg; a mysterious killing at Attica, and now Comes the news from Jacksonville that William Spining has killed Ezra Glore. Glore, it seems, went into Spiniug’s drug store and slapped the clerk and spit upon the goods. Spining came upon him, and as some accounts claim, struck him in the back of the head with a slung-shot and then clinched him and threw him out. In the melee he received his death wound, and died in a few minutes. This is the second man Spining has killed, having, some years ago, when but seventeen years old, cut an old man by the name of Russell to pieces. A Truly Deveted Wife. A woman in New Orleans found her husband lying in a state of intoxication in an alley. Instead of being exasperated she gently turned him over to a comfortable position, and running her hand in his vest pocket, extracted a S2O bill, and remarked: “I reckon I’ve got the dead wood on that new bonnet I’ve been suft'erin’ for.” She made a straight streak for the nearest millinery shop. Strong men wiped the moisture from their eyes at her heroic devotion to a husband, who had, by strong drink, brought himself so low as to neglect to provide his wife with the common necessaries of life. -•Esthetic maiden: What is bric-a-brac. Anything in the crockery line that is absolutely useless, set upon the mantel where it will be in the way. Rochester, New York, is to bare a 11 new lire-proof palaea hotel so cost > 1 »*oo,ooo.