Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1881 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV.

Guiteau will have uo colored men , ou hisjury. The Boston banks bold fifteen tons of gold coin on deposit. Five hundred persons a day are "dying from cholera in the holy city of , Mecca. ■ft "" '■ * '■ A movement Is being agitated to furnish dental surgeons to the army and navy. A fast mail train from New York to Ban Francisco is now being discussed by the postofflce,department. The United States consumes more writing paper than aqy other nation, 'f’he tatio being eleven pounds tS every inhabitant Hon. B. F. Butler of Massachusetts will appear as attorney for the lowa farmers in their suit against the barb wire monopoly. A banker in Wisconsin has become disgusted with the business that has so iflany defalcations and bss taken to carrying the hod. The governor of Massachusetts writes his Thanksgivihgproclamation partly in long metre poetry and there seems to be no law to reach him. One talesman summoned in the Guiteau trial said he believed the assassin should be burned. It wasagreat mistake not to let that man serve on the jury. In this age of rapid railroad building, it is inteiesting to know that there is a road in Massachusetts extending from Dedham to B •ston over which no train has passed for thirty years. , Tint enormous advance in the price of provisions in New York is exciting alarm. Fanned fruits and vegetables have gone up TO per cent, over last year. Peas and bean- have advanced 80 to 100 per cent, Hour up $2 a bar- " rel, and buckwheat lOOper cent. The main question is however how long it will be before this “boom” will' reach the west. ■ THE FRENCH CABINET. Americans have had such stirring events in their own country to occupy their attention that they have given little concern to the great political upheaval in their sister Republic of France, where Gambetta is now the leader in the ascendant and with the power at last to carry out his cherished schemes. These consist of coulitutional reforms, a change in the senate, the introduction of the unit rule in the election of the chamber of deputies, the re-organization of the army, an entire change in the French graded school system, and the reorganization of the civil service. To carry out these objects M. Gambetta has selected a cabine* of his own special friends, two of its members being editors of his own political organ, and every minister a tool which the master workman can use to carve out the design he has in view. Knowing these purposes of Gambetta, a glance at his cabinet is of more than ordinary interest. To reform the civil service he has appointed as minister of justice M. Cazot, who has held the position many years and always insisted on the immediate and absolute removal of all judges of the courts who had the faintest sympathy with the empire. The reorganization or the army that is the pride of France and looked upon as the hope of some day re-taking Alsace and Lorraine, is intrusted to General Campenon, a soldier who has noother reputation than that he is a blind partisan of Gambetta. The minister of education, who will entirely change the school system, is M. Paul Bert, who is famous for his assault on the Jesuits two years ago when a member of the chamber of deputies. This appointment "will call down on Gambetta the wrath of Europe, for M. Bert is a liberal and an atheist. He believes in scientific education and of schools from which religion is banished and only science admitted. M. Bert also holds ex-officio supervision of the churches and proposes to in augurate the reign of his superior byattempting to crush out all influences of the churches and the priests. The posts of minister of fine arts and minister of finance —the first unimportant but the latter the most responsible position in the cabinet —M Gambetta has bestowed upon two of the editors of his special newspaper, M. Farge to the first position,and M. Antoin Proust to the second. For ten years the new minister of fidanee, M. Proust, has merely written the articles his premier dictated and knows nothing of the money affairs of a great nation and is much such an appointment as it would have been for President Arthur had hefriwned.the New York Herald and its managing editor secretary of the treasury. M. Rousseau, minister of the interior, held office under Napoleon 111., and with M. Cazot, is the only one of the new cabinet in public life previous to the war with Germany. The minister of commerce is M. Revier, a free trader and as he has the negotiating of all the new commercial treaties the industries of France will rapidly decline. Such in brief is the w eak cabinet which the leader of the French Republic has selected to carry out his proposed reforms and their course will be watched with interest. Free traders, infidels ami editors are a rare combination in-administering the affairs of state and France may be very thankful if they do not lead her into very serious trouble.

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'l4l J? TRIAL OF GUITEAU. ’ ninth day. Washington, D. U.. Nov. 23—The first witness for the defense, H. M.' Burton, testified he did not think , prisoner sb deranged as to be irrespon. Bible. H. AL Davis, of Erie, _Pa., tes* i titled as to th.' mental derangmneat of priKner’s aiintsK Dr. Jlohn A. jiinrtm, was a prjjMicing physician of 26 years.- Examined prisoner iu 1876, and came to the conclusion he was insane. His insanity was emotional. Had fold Guilftau’s friends that he ongttrf'rr be secluded. Witness did not qonskler, Guiteau’s fathef insane. Frank L. Union, of Boston, testified he hadiented a hall to Guiteau to deltv'er’i lecture in. There were about 59 persons at the lecture. At the end of half an liour the lecturer left the halL disgusted. After he hbd jqntrl|ie<u»d fence agreed he was crazy. *Hesafd he Was not crazy, but inspired that God was his father. He belonged to Jesus Christ & Co. Mary L. Stockwood, ofWashington, testified prisoner boarded at her Bouse in March, 1881. Did not .pay his board. Norwood Damon, of Boston, attended the lecture in the hall; all he could understand from the lecture, was that two-thirds of mapkind generally would go to perdition. George W. Olds, of Michigan, testified to the prisoner’s attempt at one time to take his sister’s life. That the prisoner had soaped hickory trees, declaring they were fruit trees. The cross examination was very searching and the story of the assault upon Mrs. Scoville being alluded to, Guiteau rose and declared it a lie. All through the day the prisoner interrupted continually, which of course tends to make the case drag along very slowly. * TENTH DAY. * Washington, Nov. 25.—The court room was crowded more densely this morning than during the trial, mostly with ladies representing the fashionable circles of Washington. When court opened Scoville stated that prisoner wished to make a statement and Guiteau read from a papera rambli'rig harangue; he stated that Deity, not he, fired the shots. He qnly bad did what the newspapers said ought to be done, and they and the doctors should take the blame; they must share the odiumjwith him. Last spring, he said, certain newspapers had published editorials, bitterly denouncing the president for breaking up the Republican party by improper appointments. He said he would like to have those papers republish those articles now and see how they would sound now. It has been published, he said, that lam in fear of death. That is false. I have always been a religious man and an active worker for God. He cited the case of Abraham and Isaac where God had commanded that a sacrifice sbquld be made. His entire statement was in this rambling s rt of away, and at its conclusion Scoville again demanded the printed slips taken from prisoner at the time ofhisarres'. Two or three witnesses were called who did not respond, when Charles H. Reed, an attorney of Chicago, was called to' the stand. He had known prisoner in Chicago; related his peculiarities, his borrowing money; his aspirations for the Paris Consulship; and being asked as to the insanity of prisoner, said I have no doubt of it. During the cross-examination of this witness, the prisoner interrupted to such an extent that the court was obliged to say that if he continued, he (the court) would order him gagged. A. B. Amerling, a lawyer of William*port, Penn., testified as to some of the peculiarities of the family. His answers on cross-examination were very amusing, as he was quite prosy and desired to explain everything he said. He was constantly interrupted by the prisoner, notwithstanding the threat of the court to have him gagged. eleventh day. Washington, D. C., Nov. 26.— Thomas North was closely crossquestioned by Davidge. Guiteau interrupted continually, contradicting everything he said. He (witness) remembered nothing regarding fight between Guiteau and his father. When the witness left the stand Guiteau took advantage of a moment and made a speech, asking court not to be influenced by the action Henry Ward Beecher was taking against him. Said that Beecher was a “crank” socially, and could not be relied upon. The next witness called was Senator Jebn A. Ijogan, who detailed two interviews he had had with the prisoner. He ' (prisoner) had come to his room uninvited and exhibited a speech which he (prisoner) said had elected Garfield.- The speech was entitled Garfield vs. Hancock. Prisoner had told witness at that time that he desired a consulship but that Garfield had declined to appoint him unless endorsed by Logan. Witness had stated to him at the time that he did not know him and could not recommend him. Witness teslified that he had formed the opinion that prisoner was a “little otl in the head” at the time of his. interview. John A. Morse, a colored attorney, had seen prisoner about the White House and considered him a erazy man. Mrs. Scoville then took the stand and gave a biographical sketch of the prisoner's life. She spoke of Ms going to school at Ann Arbor. She had afterwards went there to see himr found that he had given up his regu* lar studies and was devoting his euf tire time to reading the publications of the Oneida community. That slue afterwarns went to see him at tile Oneida community, but was not allowed to talk to him at the tirr\e alone. As a result of these conferences with him she had written back to her friends that she him crazy. She noticed he acted like a person who had been bewildered, struck on the head, or had lost his mind. Witness then related dfltohis admission to the bar, his marriage and separation from hie wife, everything to the time he had visited her'in Wisconsin in 1877. She noticeiat that time a great chan® in his petsonal appearance. He was very irritable and used to get in a hifalutin” state. She related the incF dent of his attack upon her with an ax. She said she was not as _ frightened at the ax as at the hornble expression on his face. He looked like a wild criminal. While the direct examination was going on the co«t adjourned. TWELFTH DAY. Washington, D. C.,Nov. 28—Mra.

***rs. ——♦ ♦ —tvlO-Uall W ' -v Scoville continued her testimony. She described his actions during his viMrto her in 1878. Said she had rtorf- ? sidered him avert" crazy man and thought that he should be put in aa : asylum. George Burroughs testified that he had been at Mrs. J lißjlsi* while |frls .per wae there visit., L inf h$ sisfei-Liuid M'ad - formed the ( opinion that he was either erazy or a , fool. C. 8. Joceyln, of the Oneida j community, testified that he tflblfght . Guiteau’s matkecj, ‘was . extreme egotism. _■ J«»lhi ■• W: , Guiteau, brother of the prisoner, testified that he and prisoner . bad not been on good-terms for some years. Had never thought him insane until some time.last October. I Had formed the opinion at tljat time . from some letters he had received , from him. He Believed, his brother , responsible for the crime though not sane. Responsible, because at some j time in his lifq he had given away to evil practices rather than goon. He ‘ remembered at one time when prison er was a boy that hie father had off). ) ered him ten cents to keep still . for five mini Mes. Prisoner did not earn the money The “prisoner was f then called to the stand to identify , some letters he had written to differ-' , ent members of his family at differ , ent times, and the court adjourned. THIRTEENTH DAY. Washington, D. C. Nov. 29.—Gui- ' teau was brought to the stand as a witness in his own behalf, closely guarded by policemen and marshals. He gave a history of,his early life, of his life in the Oneida community, of his attempt to s art a paper in New' York, of his attempt to buy the Inter Ocean and make it the greatest? paper in the West, of his legal practice, of his active part in the fMoody and Sankey protracted inertings. He spoke of a lecture he wrote on the sec* ond coming of Christ and of his signalfailure with it. He was very closely watched during the time he was ou on the stand until the court , adjourned. TELEGRAPHIC. •_ i Raleigh, N. C., November 25.— Thomas L. Lynch, an old and respected citizen, l>eiug niisijed from home,his spns made search, and found his body with his head .cryshed iu lying on the road and under abridge near by were found two negroes dividing money and property taken from themurdered man. The negroes are in jail. The people are greatly incensed ’ against them. Cheyenne, November 25, —The Leader's Sidney, Neb., special says: Hank Coan, a cowboy, fatally shot an unknown cowboy from on thanksgiving night while'ln a saloon. There was no provocation and it was a cool, deliberate act, 'three wounds being produced. His victim will die; and being unconscious his name has not been learned. Coan escaped but is being pursued by a large party. Chicago, November 25. —In the federal court, this morning, Judge Drummond decided that the patent for preserving meats, reissued in 1875 to Win. J. Wilson, and that the John A Wilson patent for the construction of a.can in which to pack and preserve meat, reissued in 1877, are both invalid." The amount said to be involved is $1,000,000. Cincinnati, November 25.—The Gazette’s Zanesville, 0., special says:. Wlfile William Young and family were temporarily absent from home last evening, thieves entered the house and carried off a trunk containing $1,500 in money and the same amount in bonds. No clue. Mr. Young thought uo one knew the valuables were iu the trunk. New York, November 25. —The report that Gould, Field and Sage have obtained a controlling interest iu t e New York & New England road is confirmed, and arrangements will be made soon whereby the trains of that line will enter the city by the Manhattan elevated system. Columbus. November 25.—A special to the Ohio State Journal from Newark says: A colored child two. years of age of Bailie Magrude, was ■ burned to deafffby falling into the fire. It burned to a crisp before itcould be rescued. New York, November 26.—The < Times' Washington special contains an interesting statement concerning the coming contest for the speakership of the house. The following are extn cts: As a survey of the field > shows that geographical lines run through the contest, and that the several divisions into which the Repub- ' licans are now divided will ultimately be massed into two grand divisions ' that’Will be known respectiv ly as ' the east and west, sectional feeling 'a ' not so pronounced among eastern and ' western representatives. Indeed, it ' receives very little consideration from’ eastern men as an element in the contest. The west can nominate their man if western representatives can be held ou sectional Hues, because it is pretty certain that J a majority of the southern votes will go to the- western ; candidates. But can a sectional is- ' sue be kMcceßstikUy maintained? ' Keifer, Kasson, Duntieli and other ’ aspirants affect to believe that it can 1 and will, aWthe Pacific slope men > under the leadership of Page, of Cali- 1 fornia, sayfihat it hiust be success- 1 fully mainßked ifxlie great west is to receive the that is de- 1 mauded by'liey great political pronii- 1 uetto#and her greater matatoel interTlie Times correspondent considers HiscogkTMds tbA oth?m in pjk-ent Strength, ai d will likely have sixty votes on the.flrst ballot. Keifer. of i Ohio, is not only a Stronc candidate but his canvass is i being managed] by so .ee office oldest and ablest of the republican members. He will start -with the fifteen votes of his state an 4 at least fifteen others from states west of the Missouri river. His friends claim for him ten votes from the south, and hj? is likely to receive a few votes. from other states. Robeson, ,of New Jersey, is an earnest supporter of Keifer, and has been very effective ‘inlhis interest. On the first ballot Keffer likely to receive forty votes, MQi< ther the scattered force* of the weet will ' be consolidated on Keifer or fcis-on after the first ballot is an •unknown problem, and upon its solution clings not only the. Tctiremeut of oue cf those two genth men but the final result of the contest, i, From the present indications the sue- 11 cess of Hiacock may be predb toJ, but | the contiuance of Keifer a- his “g opp*me*it wouldpress the New J YdHt membi»r« pretty 4*. ‘'Waswn I-

DECATUR. ADAMS INDIANA; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2,1881.

•pr— ~ 1 — T—? . kU; will start witli tha-wue'votas of towa , aud may receive 9tk*otesa>n ttie first ballot. Kassonr-poftseues marked ability, is a ready debater has had 1 many years experience in the house, i is versedin4he-r(iles, is,a. [ cool-headed, ad r- >i t and das 111 »> g• 1 eaff- “ , er, is quick to perceive pajriiameu'ary advantage and swift til impjuve'Jt. Bwguiai u> saya-.theewary, qualities' i thai>a4n uiiivei'a*M><‘oitoeded 1,0 hup L are buing used W-fitteNßiit.Jiis eleeliou to the, -.pi^ieaker4u#.»., ft ' is uygeil that -tbe closenes*.; qf the iqajoritytin iheihouse and the-nc-i qestdiy for competent leadership.pn* the Rouublican side to meet the strong a*toy that will Im presented b.iutlie makes it wore important at the house on the floor than to ditoct its busiuesa from the speaker's, chair.. .There . .considersblp force id thw preseiit'aS* .tiou yf the ua*ej aud many .members who would, like Jo vote fq£.liu<i4iou will refrain from" doing so from a sense of duty to the.Bupubliyan.paity,- 1 and join in the belief that the can serve his country heat by assuming the leadership of his party on the floor. ‘ , - Hu-ntington, Tknn., Nnvemberdti. —William Hargraye. was. aijested here last, night and jaljefffor' jjiur-' •der ofjiisjuother-in-la\v, . ister, ujeajJUfitQden, yesteydayyyi'lie two were traveling together. 'Other parties heard shots fired, aud upon coming up found Register dying and Hargrrave standing over him! He ’Said Kegjstftr. h’ad shot himself accis fienataliy. He Salff he wbuld get a wagon al Camden, but, instead came, here, where he was attested. - . Cfii.VMßt’S, Ga.,. November 26.— kluringa ivstival Itr Bebb county last ■ mi: -hl, which was attended by negroes, . some of them became drunk and bnis--i .terous. Oliver Clark seized a gun tn stop the row. His wife struggled to keep him out of the room, when -tjie gun was discharged and his wife was instahtly killed. '"Louisville. November 26. —Janies Bradley, an extensive lumber merchant.has failed. Ejiabilittn»."Hso,ooo. The bunks of this city hold the principal portion of the debt. In Consequerice of the badly mixed condition of his affairs it is impossible to give •hia assets. The stock is in the bands jo tV. C. Hall, assignee. New York, November.. 26.—Dr. Samuel G. Armor, dean of the faculty of Long Island college hospital, Brooklyn, says in reference to Guiteau’s uundition, that the world is full of Guiteau’s illy-balanced mental monstrosity, compounded of badly arranged intellectual, forces, feeble moral faculties and euormous selfconceit. Such people are kinds of liuka between a low and irresponsible animal type of brain and the siwreiue ideal of perfect humanity. If such persons are pronounced irresponsible for their deliberately planned purpose of murder, society Uas no Joiwer any safeguards against the. worst elements of its population. . Compared with shell ’ insane. people are cofriptirativolv harm-’ less, for they are usually confined. LittLe Rock, November 26.—A registered letter pduch on the Iron Mountain train was robbed on "the night of the 18th near Knabel’s station. Deputy United States Marshals Wallace and Gray yesterday arrested John Morgan and Pat Donnelly, . railroad employes, as the guilty parties and brought them to this city. They will have an the United States eommissioper on Monday. Chicago, November 26. — John Gales, of Litzenberg, Germany, aboui eighteen months in this country, aged twenty-two. was arrested on Belmont avenue, Lake View, at 9 o'clock this morning, for the murder of Hoeszel, the bachelor farmer, at. North Evaiistgji. Money, receipts and clothing oftthe dead man was foufid on hnn. He admits ftie liiliing, . and has beeu taken to Evanston-to-await examination. Buffalo. November 26.—Further developments in the recent grave robbery at Forest Lawn, point" to more thana mere attempt at grave' robbery. It transpires the body exhumed was not that of Burnham, * as ‘sup- ; posed, but that of au old man, and an 1 examination of the body showed it full of strychnine. OrrinC: Thomas, from who?fe house the man was buried, has been arrested charged with the murder, and there are rumors of a conspiracy to defraud a life insurance company by the transaction. Wellington; Kan., November : 28—Danford, owner of the.banks at • Hnnneweil and Cardwell, lyhich recently closed, and Smith, bis cashier, were arrested to-"ay and brought to i thls etty on aeharge'of receiving tte- ■ posits after they knew the banks ‘te< 1 be' solvent ami must close. Aboui .’ fifty citizens of Caldwell air 'h.ere .’ awaiting the preliminary exatnifia•tion. The nio-t -bitter feeling pre- ' vails among the losers. ►•LajMi'-r- The C.aldwelJ ; men '! takdfi Danford and Smith from the , officers by force and are holding them | at'the Santa Fe- depot waiting for. a , special train from Wichita to darry , them to Caldwell. They claim they ) simply want to hold the prisoners until they disgorge, but it is conceited , by all there is great danger of their being lynched, Little Rock, November 28.—Pat Doneland and Jack Margor, the .two ' men arrest d for robbing a" regl’stwied- J letter pouch on the Iron Mountain railway near Kmffjle stat ion, confessed 1 the crime and wefe sentenced to-day, the forffier to one year in the Arkah- 1 sas penitentiary, and the latter to ' three years in the Detroit prison... The robbery took place en the 18th i 'st' ( • they were captured on the-25th, and ' tried and sentenced on tfie 28th. King Alphonse, wtj^return the visit" ‘ of the King of'Portugal About the ' middle of December. -. Laying Hands ou What Belongs to the Lord. On last Sunday morning,, an. o’d .Mormon whose, wife was sick* attempted to cook a breakfast op his own hook. He fouijd some eggs in the pantry, whiehQie proceeded to fry. It was pretty bard work to fry tiiqse eggs, but a good deal more of a job to eat. them. One mouthful was enough, and the old fellow.rushed up stairs with: ‘Betsy, what in thunder’s the matter with them eggs?” •’ . . “Did you get 'em in that oarthern. ; crock on tlie top'sliclf, just alongside i the sassengers ?”) . . ; i -• j “That's the piACe.’” - 5 1 "Oh. John, tfioje eggs have been under thmtdJien „tiyi?>.yeks. They < ain’t fog tabu- uap, .Them’s titbin . eggsf Join.-. Hjienl-ean/t liatolseggs I turn ’em over to the Lqrd.” ' I The old man then 'l*ugfie<Vifidrtli: < nately ap<j said that would be a goOU < joke on Tayio'r Penrose, et al; 11l * connection with the aliovo "rntfan- i choly exposure of the luke-warmness 1 in Israel, if is said that of iatp nearly i all of the eggs which eotoe into the i I tithing house are looked upon with I suspicion.—: Lake Tribune)

>T. pi?U&CQEB. '• • ' -** ' The FlMi and the Tongue of the Reins deei-Aziidbits of the Esquimaux. • The reindeer cannot be dismissed without mentioning hie fl 'eh as an article of diet. The tongv is a great flejjeagy, and there is robably no • meat more dainty and succulent titan that qi' pne of these animals, not too .old; but it lias one pecularity—in order to have it in perfection it must , be eaten very soon after being killed ; the sooner the better, for it deteriorates in flavor the longer it is kept. I have lately dined on tresh trout from a Siberian lake, y qupg wild ducks as fat as squabs, ayil’reindeer, any of which delicacies could not be had in the samepwleution at Delmon jco’s of any simitar establishment in New Y<»k,follow < nu>D'y., itmustnot t* supposed that the seal, whale ami walrus constitute the envre rood supp/.y..0f this parj, of the world. There . is scarcely ayy,better eating in the way‘of. flesh- than, the coregonus—a qew species. discovered at Point Barrow by flje Corwin-mp l vgrlalply nq more dainty game exists than Um j young wild geqse and ptarmigan to be found in countless numbers in Hotham Inlet. At the latter vicinity ■ doubtless the warmest inside . the ’sttaitS] arq foupd quantities of cranIjfeh'ietf about lhe size of a pea, which mt-kq a valuable accessory to roasted .goose. Large quantities of eggs are also procurable, but in most cases Uiey.aj^pujjtffi l - The Esquimaux, wljq .no scruples about eating Jjieni. partly hatched', .seem never to . comprehend our fastidiousness in the mutter, and why our tastes are so different from theirs'in this Tespfeot. Thpy will break an egg containing a yopug.duek or goose, extract the bird . by,one leg and devour it with all the feltah of an epicure. Gull’s eggs, however, arp in disrepute among them, for the*women—who, by the way, have the same frailties and weakness of their more civilized sisters believe that eating gull’s eggs causes loss of beauty and brings on early decrepitude. The men, on the other baud are fond of seal eyes, a tidbit which the women believe increases their amorousness, and feed to their lords.after the manner of ‘ open your mouth aud shut your eyes.” Game as a rule is very tame, and during the moulting season, when the geese are unable to fly, it is quite possible to kill them with a stick. At one place, Cape Thompson, the Esquimaux Were seen catching birds from a high cliff with a sort of scoop net,-and 1 saw birds at Herald Island refuse to move when pelted with small stopes, so unaccustomed were they to the presence of man. I also saw a wild duck sit in a pond and allow himself to be tired at twentythree times with a revolver before he was madq aware of what was going on, apparently thinking that militiamen- were around." This remurk does not however, apply to all cases, for occasionally a nock of geese is very jshy, having, doubtless become familiarized'with the sportsman .in their migrations south. Game keeps so welHn the Artic that an instance is known of its being perfectly sound and sweet op tin English ship after two years Keeping. We manage ty keep a quantify' hanging hi the rigging most of the time, out have to keep a sharp lookout on two tame foxes, who prow! around the decks in a crafty manner, and the Smithsonian collector,'both of whom, With different motives, have on m~re than one occasion despoiled the mess bymak-L ing off rtith some choice fish or bird. A ship’s mess in the Artic, with, a good cook might be made quite endurable with the resources at band were it not for that greatest of deprivations, the absence of fresh milk and vegetables. If one were like a Chinaman who never uses milk, that very nauseating substitute, “condensed,” might atone foj- ,fhe' absence of the genuine fluid, k-hile the place of vegetables can be supplied by canned stuff and sour krout, which by the way, is passably good when not seasoned by Blata-Germanic:). It is a pity that so much game food should be wasted, and that some of fh'e resenreek, notably th? vast quantity of granite and ice; eatinht be utilized. Often have I thought on seeing.masses of ice from pner-quarter to a half a :njle jn extenttjw-iiat a-happy idea-it • would bain tfieaw.v W-an'in vestment if it were possible for some enterprising individuafto tow it up New York harbor and es'thblish a beer garden, on it during the heated term. There is an indescribable something in the atmosphere of this domain of ice that produces what is called the , “Northern craving fordrink," even among persons who care nothing for .it in temperate latitudes. Being of Orbits, I would not for , the anything to favor intemperance, bu.ffacts warrant in testi- , ’ ying to the undeniable good effects of small quantities of whisky when served out to the crew after unusual flaiigup and exposure; -and I knoa of no taSceJ Circumstance or conditions under .which such such beverages as beer or claret are more palatable or or more valuable from a hygienic point of view than when taken at meals during art Artic Jinyage. «—<— The Most Thrilling Naval Battle of the Great Rebellion. Mr. W. E. Howard, one of the men on board the Alabama' in her famous .fight with the Kearsarge off Cherbourg, writes the following graphic account of the action: The vessels were as evenly matched as possible, the tonnage of bolh-iwing about equal. The< Alabama drew more water than the Kearsarge, owting to tlie fact that her coal bunkers contained a much larger supply of black diamonds. The captain of the .Kearsarge bad, however, taken the .precaution to protect tfle weakest spot—his empty bunkers—aud traced tgble.chaiu up and down the entire waist,.the starboard side being the .only side visible during the action. ’ The official reports credit the Kearsarge with two 11-inch rifle-guns, which did terrible execution; one 30poumter rifle, and fourjlight 32-pound-ers, smooth —making seven guns in all. The Alabama had the advantage in armament. Her battery consisted of one 110-pourider rifled pivot, one 68-pounder andsix-32-pounders—mak-ing eight guns; whose united caliber exceeded her opponent’s. The Kearsarge, in the otTictal report of Capt. Winslow, numbered Itfei men. The number claimed by V'apt. Semmes is. conflicting, one report making less than 130 ail told, and another statement a little above that number. Actually there was little if any difference in the number of the crew. The Alabama being the faster vessel, compensated for her apparent disadvantage in being laden. Both commander? wbre on their mettle. The officers of each veer el were alert aud active. *' Rlimor, which can never be choked, had'spread abroad the fact that it was the intention of Semmes to tight his ship. The prospect of a fair fight was soniething to look foiward to. Ou the evening of June 18 the packing-' cases, containing chronometers aud

-—• — — — '■ ■< —• —— i other valuables, aud the private appropriations of those in authority ; were transferred, a pbrtion onboard of the yacht Deerhound, aud the . rest sent ou shore. The important ‘ day at length dawned, bright and ' glorious. The sun beamed in the 1 harbour. A siight breeze to sea- ’ ward of the breakwater and a gentle ' westerly wind dissipated any excess * of heat. At early daybreak boats ' from the shore, the yacht Deerhound 1 and the French war vessel Courounne ’ were alongside, and after the cabin j teemed with visitors. Hammocks L were stowed into the nettings, the * men were piped to breakfast, and at ) 8:30 the crew inspected at quarters. * The guns were pivoted to starboard, 1 the magazines opened; and everyJ thing cleared for action. This looked like business, and exI hilaration spread among the men. Capta.n Semrnes spread among the ' men. Captain Semmes seemed con- ' fident, and expressed his ability to “blow the yankee out of the water at 1 long range before she could get a ' I chance.” Lieutenant Kell was busi- ’ I lyinsi>ecting and overlooking every- ‘ thing. All the gunners trained on ’ 1 board her Majesty's ship Excellent, ' were eager to try their prowess and ’ display their skill. The visitors de- ' parted, and at 9:20 the Alabama slipped her cable, and steamed out to where her opponent lay, some miles ’to'seawiftti, followsd by the steam yacht Deerhound, owned by Semmes’ friend and aid, Mr. John Lancaster, of Lancashire, member of the Royal Yacht Squadron of Cowes, and and also the Royal Mersey Yacht Club (likewise by the French plateih man of war, Couronne, who' accompanied her that no violation of the laws of nations or infringement of neutralization was indulged in, The Kearsage steamiM away to seaward until about nine or'ten miles from the breakwater, when she veered and headed direct for the Alabama That stopped the chaff the boys had been passing around about her having weaken and turned tail, and each one seemed to realize at last that this was to be no play in the end. By i this time about three miles intervened between the beligerents which was rapidly' being decreased. When within a mile and a quarter from the Kearsarge the Alabama veered, presenting her starboard broadside, and opened the ball by firing her 110pounder rifled pivot at au elevation for 2,006 yards range, followed almost instantaneously by a whole broadside. The guns were worked and served with the utmost rapidity, ana in a few minutes another broadside was , poured iu, when tne Kearsarge, being by this time about 800 yards distant, , presented her starboard battery and the' firing.became general. The spirit of barnage had begun to animate the crew, and the desire to be the upper dog iu the fight, stirred each man to emulation'. A few broadsides pas ed when the ' Kearsarge, under a full head of steam, ' forged ahead, steering so as to pass ■ the Alabama’s stern, and rake her fore ' and aft, aud also get between her aud 1 the shore. This maneuvre was cheek- 1 mated by a port helm causing both 1 vessels to move in a circle revolving ' around a common center, distant from each other about 500 or 600 yards. '

The firing, meantime, continued with unabated vigor. The steady directness of the fire from the Kearsarge now began to be felt. The 11-inch shells poured into the ill-fated Alabama with sickning regularity and -precision, dealing death and destruction at every hand. Guns were dismounted and their crews decimated by a single shot. Earlv ir the action a shell struck the blade of the fan, breaking it short off and injuring the rudder. Another landed in the en-gine-room,and tore thingsail to pieces, damaging the machinery, making a hole in the boiler and flooding the stoke-hole with boiling water. On the deck the prospect was no more eheei-ing. Men dropped dead, cut in twain by shot and shell, while the groans of the wounded, struck by the crashing and flying splinters, mingled with the muttered curses of tfie seamen and hoarse orders of the gunnersand officers.' At 12:30 Mr. Kell had jib and foretop sails hoisted, and attempted to stand in toward the Shore, distant by this time tbout five miles. This was prevented by her opponent ranging up and pouring in a rakfrig fire of shot and shell. Word was passed aft almost immediatrly that the vessel was sinking, whereupon a flag of truce was suspended from the quarter and the new officer (Sinclair) sent in a boat to surrender 1 the vessel. During his absence the whaleboat, dingy and three cutters were launched and preparations made to desert the doomed vessel. Before they could be perfected, however, she ‘ settled by the stern, her head rising out of the water. ' t The mainmast, which had been ’ already badly shattered by the firing I went by the board, and a few seconds sufficed to engulf the shattered hulk ' of the late scourge of the seas. Strug- i gling in-the vortex were many of her I crew, and the efforts of Sinclair, who t had received permission from Cap- ’ tain Winslow to return mid rescue the survived, were sohn ably ■ sled by the -boats of the Deerhound, two cutters front the Kersarge and two French pilot-boats, who were near the spot. The whale-boat and dingy of the Alabama, with the boats of tire Deerhound, well-freighted, made quickly for the yacht which immediately steamed to the northbearingsafely away from captivity, Capt. Bemmes, and a majority of his best bow ers, while the cutter transferred its cargo to the Kearsage. One pilot-boat turned over tlu.se she had rescued to the same sheltering care, while the other one stood for the shore, and aided in the escape of those who were lucky enough to get on board of her. The Kearsage had picked up and had transferred to her decks a total of five officers, six-ty-three men and one dead body. Bemmes, on board the Deerhound, reached Southampton with thirteen of his officers and nearly thirty of his I crew and petty officers. The pilot ; landed quite a number, and the , 1 killed and wounded were never ac- ) counted for. Surgeon Alfred was in the cock-pit j when the vessel sank, and was un- i doubtedly drowned, as were many of the wounded who lay there waiting his ministrations. Os the many who came on board a short time previous , to the action, no report had been is- , sued that included either them or their fate. , A mulatto bandit in Havana, who i | had escaped from his guard, killed one of the guards who were seeking to recapture him, and mortally wounded two others. He was finally killed. The best part of human character is the tenderness and delicacy of feeling in little matters, the desire to soothe and please others—minutiae of the social virtues. I Boston has delegated twenty-fixe men to attend the dairy convention at I Cedar Rapids, lowa. I

—_ — • — . INDIANA C. W. Tyler, of Indianapolis, for • bill-file. G. H. Zechech, of Indianapolis, for a saw guide. David Wiser, of Plymouth, for a spark-arrester. To G. T. Drake, of Indianapolis, for a wheeled plow. The following patents have been issued to citizens of Indiana the past week. N. H. Long, of Muncie, for a rainwater filter; also, for an eaves-trough hanger. A full grown wild deer has been seen several times lately near Bloomingdale glens, Parke county.. The Wabash and the Chicago & Indianapolis air line roads will uuito in building a union depot at Delphi. Ticket “scalpers” in Philadelphia are exercised over the arrest of B. T. Wilson for selling cut-rate railway tickets. There arc newspapers printed, or issued in 175 towns in this State.' There are forty-four dailies, two triweeklies, one semi-weekly, 373 weeklies, eight semi-monthlies and t wenty six monthlies. Total, 454. The Coroner at Indianapolis is examining into the cause of the sudden death of Jacob S. Jessup, aged sixtythree years an employe of the Udell Ladder Works, who became ill and died while being taken home. "Two employes of the Western Union Telegraph Companies named David Cronan and William Dogan were instanlty killed near Vincennes. They were running a hand-car on the E. & T. H. Road, and were struck by the south-bound passenger train. George Shies, a Lake Shore brakeman, was caught in a frog at Elkhart, while coimling cars aud had both legs cut off. He was for a long time with Barnum’s show, aud was well known, throughout the profession as au acrobat. He was a general favorite among the railroad men. South Bend Tribune says: Mr. T. P. BuiU has wheat on his farm that is now two feet high and growing rapidly. His brother John has blackberry and raspberry vines with fruit on them half grown. A second crop apple, as large as a hulled walnut was left at this office by a farmer from Michigan. Henry Angeli, an Italian, was instantly killed near Wanatah, by being run over by a freight trjiin going east. He was employed on tlie Fort Wayne Road as a laborer. He did not notice the approach of the train, the remains were taken to Valparaiso for burial. He leaves a wife and one child. United States Marshal Dobbs arresed at Greenfield, Hancock county. A E. Teal and his son William, on a charge of counterfeiting. About $506 in spurious halves aud quarters Were found in the garret of Teal’s residence that part being used for tlie purpose of manufacturing the “queers”; a man named Halpin, an alleged accomplice, was also arrested.

Charles M. Shoal, a well-known citizen, has disappeared from his home in New Albany, under circumstances that cause hie family to suspect foul play. Shoul bad been at work iu Louisville and drew' his week’s wages November sth, since which time be has not been seen or heard of by his family. The Supreme court of Indiana has decided that any billiard saloon in which the loser of the game pays for the hire of the table, is agambling house, and that its proprietor is liable to prosecution and punishment. The brilliant idea of a division of the expense between the players is suggested as a means of “getting around” this decision. Probably the oldest man in Indiana lives in Wabash county. His name is Jacob Neusbaum, and he is 105 years of age. He is yet, able to move about without the aid of a cane or crutches His mind too is remarkably clear for such an old person. If there is an older man in the State he has not yet come forward. Walter B. Thomson, a young farmer, from Salem. Ind., was robbed of $31.75, at Crawfordsville, by Mike McClure and Thomas Taylor. He was induced to take a social drink which soon left him helpless. They carried him to a lumber yard close by the saloon and relieved him of his money. He reported the facts of the 'case to H. P.Eusminger, chief of police, who hail the thieves arrested. An unknown man, a G°rman, about 66 years of age, committed suicide In the Catholic cemetery, in Seymour, by shooting himself through the neck with a 22-caliber revolver. Deceased was a large man, dressed in a black suit, black hat and heavy boots. In a memorandum book found .on him, under the heading of Joseph H , was the statement that deceased tired of iif , was unable tojdo anything, and wanted to die on sacred, soil, claiming to be a devout Catholic, saying that he had two sons in America. Henry Feldman, of Evansville, a clothing drummer representing a Cincinnatti firm, was arrested iu Vincennes upon the charge of obtaining money under false pretnse. Last June he sold a suit of clothes to Edward Linder, of Vincennes,representing that he traveled for Frank Fisher, of Evansville, and received $25 in part payment. The purchaser did iiot receive the clothes, and learned that Feldman did not represent the above-named house in June last. Upon this information he was immediately arrested. He isan intelligent young man of an excellent family. A True One.

Mr. Charles A. Donaldson has been , more or less in the show business for > years, aud of late has prided himself j on having one of the best circus side- , shows traveling. All things come to , an end, and so does the circus and j side-show business, ami Mr. Donald- , son hied himself to St. Louis with a , view of opening a “museum.” He , nit up at the St. James Hotel on < Friday, he and one of his pet auace- j das, having made professional terms . for himself and his snake. Ordinarily they occupy the same lied, as Donaldson is not a married mau, aud consequently has no better-half to | “kick”- at such a small matter as a I serpent being coiled up on her hus-| band’s manly breast. Donaldson says it is too cold to sleep without the anaconda now, particularly as he is opposed to fires or hotel bills for the same, .hence the man and reptile dozed between the same gheets. On Friday morning, however’, Donaldson gathered up his snake in his arms, kissed it good-by, and put it in a box, which he deposited in the checkroom of the hotel, as he expected to remain ■ a vay until a late hour. About SA. I M. he got back to the hotel and went

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to bed, but had not got to sleep before he heard some terrible yells, and pres- . entlyaloud rapping at his door. He sprang out of bed, opened the door, and found a bevy of chambermaids, ' with skirts at half-mast, screaming and pointing to his pet snake, which feeling cold in the check-room, had wriggled its nine-foot body out of the box and started up stairs to seek his ’ master’s warm bed, which was on the third floor. He was discovered on the top step of the third landing, and Donaldson folding a sheet around his ' graceful form stalked forth and rescued his bed-fellow from the sensitive chambermaids. —[St. Louis Republican.] THE WOMEN. Great latitude Is permitted in the shape of sleeves. Coldwater has shipped 10,300 barrels of apples this season. A new bonnet ornament is a golden and bronze wish-bone. Worth fastens his long winter cloaks with elaborate frogs. By the laws of Kansas women have the same property rights as men. Many of the handsomest midwinter wraps are lined throughout with plush. Gilt, pearl, steel and mock-ruby .buckles are all fashionably worn on dresses and hats. A slashed or open sleeve worn with mourning dress is supposed to indicate that the wearqr is a matron. The empress of Austria wears a train thirty feet long. Probably there are no train-robbers in Austria". A mean man down in Kentucky had a girl arrested for simply appropriating the tail-feathers of bis red rooster to trim her hat. Pink gingham has been worn to such an extent in London that the good-natured princess has been forced to fly to the rescue and wear blue. Clara Louise Kellogg, since her return from abroad, affects the Spanish style of dress, and wears quantities of black lace and a stiletto in her hair. The revival of hoop skirts ought to increase the number of marriages. The hoopskirt can be transformed into an excellent hot-weather hammock for the baby. The eyes of peacock feathers are massed to make the argus turbans in which young girls delight, and wings of a single dark color are added at each side of the leather bands. An English association for the improvement of dress calls, itself, with great modesty, 8. E-G., which letters stand for “simplicity, elegance and grace.” A new sleeve, designed by Worth, has one seam that comes under the arm, and is shirred into a point at the ba< k, with the fullness between the back and front of the waist Edmund Yates flies to the defense of “bangs,” and says that “a fringe on the brow of a graceful lady is a thing of beauty, and that many faces will look bleak enough without it.”

New chatelaine bags are made of I fine importe 1 feathers. In the center ofthebag is set the tiny head of a bright bird. They are suspended from the belt by a slender chain of old silver coins. The patents issued in America to women for the year ending July, 1880, numbered seventy, ten more than the average. Most of the inventions of women have to do with household appliances. Striped velvet for trimming are among the novelties; the design is not especially new, but there is a peculiar lustrous finish which is an additional beauty, giving a softness and warmth to the"entire material. Cloth dresses are still plaited to the knee, with scarf drapery or wrinkled apron above the kilt. The waist for such dresses may be either a plaited jacket or a jacket basque, with a collar or cuffs of velvet or plush. Stout women are in despair over the very bouffant Imported costumes; they are wonderfng wken their turn will come, for between the clinging robes of the (esthete and the much panniered gown of the Parisienne, they are having a hard time of it indeed. Never probably in the history of dress have there been so many beautiful articles. From the richest material to the daintiest aud most transparent mists of muslin, mull or tulle, there is everything that is rich; Goods were never finer or more artistic in design. Searfs are as popularly employed as overskirts as < ver, and are used singly for heavy materials, and in as many as four scarfs for thin, embroidered gauzes. The fronts are usually drawn together iu shirs or plaits, as this is oue of the best means employed of making bouffant sides or panniers. Austria seems to be taking the lead in the emancipation of women. The conductor of the orchestra at the Josephstadt theater in Vienna has given the violin parts to them. All are pupils tpid graduates at the conservatory, and they are required to appear “iu black." Buttons are works of art, marv-els of artistic carving in wood or pearl. A costly set has the head of Queen Bess done in cameo, but ev’en more exquisite is a perfect Marguirite, white, with a yellowish heart, in a smoketinted background. A tiny bouquet of blossoms, with leaves, is carved in open-work of tinted pearl, framed in a carved rim, while pearl and steel buttons are as beautiful and popular as ever. A great many metal buttons are used enameled, xvrought in relief or simply shaded.

A French authority takes a lofty view of the dressmaker’s vocation. She must have the artist’s eye to judge of the effects of color, the sculptor’s facility for form that she may soften the outlines, turn the figure to the best advantage and arrange the drapery in harmonious folds. She must know history, in order to take from different epochs particular details suitable to various styles of beauty, and to be sure of making no mistake in tbe matter of accessories; and she must be a poet to give grace and expression and character to the costumes. | Asiatic cholera has appeared in | northern Egypt, and, worst of all, at Alexandria, thus threatening dissemination to the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. Ttie dreaded plague has a; peared in Lazistan, and Turkish troops are being employed to isolate it. The emperor of Germany, aceord- , to a Berlin dispatch, is not ill enough > to occasion great anxiety. He has 1 merel a bad cold. But it must he t rememliered that the Ifaiseriaelghty- ■ four years old anti bis death naturall ly cannot be far distant.