Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV

THE NEWS IN BRIEF. Bracelet* of old eoiu are now the rage. Capt. Rankin, a well-known vessel owner, of Detroit, in dead. Jennie Cramer’s body has been resurrected for furthur analysis. The Mohammedans expect the coming of their Messiah this year. The Liberty Scorcher is the nam- o a paper published at Washington. The Kennebee (Me.) ice-men have put up 1,120,400 tons so far this season. John E. McDonough, the actor, is dangerously ill at Philadelphia. Cancer. Fifteen thousand Abyssinian troops have arrived on the Egyptian frontier. General R. B. Mitchell, of Kansas, an able cavalry leader during the war, is dead. The rivers at Pittsburg are at flood height, and the lower part of the city is flooded. Mrs. Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is in New York undergoing medical trertment. Strawberries that cost *4 a quart were served the other day at a New York dinner party. There are over 100,000 Southerners in New York city who have located there since the war. Hugh Peeples, the alleged Detroit murderer, has been admitted to Lail in the sum of $5,000. Mr. Blaine will deliver the eulogy upon the late President Garfleld, before congress, February 27. At Mansfield, La., Edward Belton (colored) was executed for attempted murder and highway robbery. Two hundred destitute Russian Jews have arrived at Hamburg, and ask aid to proceed to New York. Faro is played in N jw Albany, Ind , by a club whose members take an oath never to give testimony about it. Two Italians who were supposed to have been “chawed mj” by a performing bear at Lafayette, have turned up.

The statement of the bank of France shows an increase the past week of 32,000,000 francs in gold and 3,000,000 in silver. In the trial of Heilwager, at Rock Island, Ills . tor murder, the verdict of the jury was guilty aud the punishment hanging. A merchant in Mansfield, Ohio, was compelled to close his store and suspend business because one of his clerks got the small-pox. A poor woman, with two son«, living in Greensburg, Pa., has fallen heir to $500,000 by the death of a brother-in-law in Sweden. The pearl necklace of Mme. Blanc, widow of the Monaco gambler, was sold at auction to Alphonse Rothschild for his baroness for $134,000. The house postoffice committee will shortly introduce a bill for postal savings banks. It is believed that the minimum of deposits will be fifty cents. Mr. Francis B. Gowen, the new president of the Reading road, is talked of now as the next Democratic candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. A plot against the life of the king of Greece has beed discovered. It was to have been carried out while the king was journeying from Athens to Piraeus. De Freycine* has uddertaken the formation of a French cabinet. Jules Ferry will probably be minister of public instruction and Lean Say minister of finance. The lord mavor of Loudon has been conferring recently with eminent British Israelites with a view of furthering the immigration ■ of Russian Jews to America. The Rev. Dr. Paxton, of Washington has been offered $12,000 a year to become pastor of the West Presbyterian Church, in West Forty-second street, New York. Alexander Mitchell, the president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, is the heaviest taxpayer in Milwaukee. Last year he paid $24,000; this year but $20,000. By the explosion of a boiler in the Kennebec framing company’s establishment at Waterville Me., a sou of ex-Warden Rice was killed and several other severely injured. A large force of military and police raided for arms at Alheny and Laughrea, county Galway, Ireland. A number of treasonable papers were found and twenty arrests made. The corporation of licensed stock orokeis of Paris decided to contract a loan ot eighty million francs so as to securea satisfactory settlement between the membership and the public. France and Italv have hitherto produced sugar only from the beet root. The sugar-cane Las lately been introduced in both countries, and its rapid growth threatens the beet-root indusWaupaca Wis., the people of the state prosecuted two young men who reside in Fremont, for assaulting a gid -.nd robbing her of some raisins and peppermint drops. The jury disagreed. All but the extreme left newspapers in France heartily indorse the programme of the De Freycinet ministry, ar 1 the irreconcilables only grumb e against the postponement of constitutional revision. A family named Romans, living at Corinth, Ky., were poisoned at sup- ™ It ’is supposed arsenic was in the corn bread. Five of the tamily are lying at the point of death No investigation was made. Beckwith, the supposed cannibal, who recently murdered Vandercook Zt Austerlitz, N. Y., spent Thursday night at Westfield, Mass., where he told an acquaintance he hail been hid ing in a charcoal camp. Rewards , have been ottered for his captU At Disco, Ills., Mrs. 8. W. Miller beaming involved in her husband, seized an axe ano at to kill him. Failing in this she retired to another room, saturated her clothing with kerosene and set flretoherdress. Sh. was burned to death. v General Grant, wneu vne other evening where * d he wore at Lee’s surrender, answered, the New York correspondent of the nT re e X S To;;a d Xd aV I d?iwear one at the battle of Shiloh w cb j a „ i the iteld I believe Mrs. Grant has the blade. She is better at saving things than I am.

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CONGRESSIONAL. Senase. Washington, Febuary 1, —Petitions were presented for the suppression of poligamy. A bill was reported favorably appropriating $15,000 to enable the na ionaJ board of health to supply pure vaccine virus to the people at cost price. The senate then took up Mr. Morgan’s pending resolution, calling for au authentic statement of all tests made by the mixed commission in reference to heavy ordnance being built by the United States. After dismission the resolution was tallied without action. The senate then took up the three per cent bond bill. Au amendment ratifying the agreement made witli bond holders since tlie adjournment of the Forty-sixth Congress, was reported and bill so amended, went under discussion. Mr. Bayard finally yielding tr.e floor on the motion for an executive session. The house concurrent resolution fixing the 27th of February as the day for the Garfield memorial services, was concurred in. After an executive session the senate adjourned.

HOUSE. Mr. McKinley offered a resolution setting apart Monday, the 27th of February, for memorial services upon the late President Garfield. Addopted. Mr. Hill introduced a bill reducing the postage on letters and sealed packages. Bills for the erection of public buildings at Louisville, Minneapolis and St. Joseph, Mo., were referred to committee on the whole. The house then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Calkins in the chair) on the postoffice appropriation bill. Mr. Caswell explained the provisions of the bill, and a three hour debate followed. Mr Williams, of Wisconsin, advocated an increase in the appropriation for the compensation of railway office clerks and route agents, and an increase of the salaries of those persons. The general debate having closed, the committee, without further action, rose and the house soon adjourned . SENATE. Washimgtom, Febuary,2.—Mr. Ferry, from the committee on postoffices, reported back the resolution >f Oct. 13 introduced by Mr.Voorhees making inquiry as to the reasons for •he regulations in the Boston post-offices, Mr. Terry introduced a bill providing for the issuance of postal cards with a flexible cover to conceal the message. Mr. Morgans resolution for the printing of the testimony in regard to experiments with heavy guns and projectiles, and calling for a report of the mixed comm ission, etc., was adopted with some modifications. The 3 per cent, bond bill was then taken up the question being upon Mr. Plumb’s amendment. After some debate amendment was lost —ayes,26: noes, 27. The debate upon the ratification of Mr. Windon,s funding operation was reopened. Mr. Bayard moved to amend so as require the SIOO,OOO to be retained in the treasury shall be of standard coin value, motion was adopted—ayes. l7; noes, 14, The amendment by Mr. Hoar, declaring that Hie bonds bearing 3-j percent, interest, to which the bills refer, are hereby declared legal, elicited a continuance of the discussion upon the ratification of the funding of fives and sixes by ex-Beeretary Windom. After some debate of the amount (as originally proposed by Mr. Ingalls and modified at the suggestion of Mr. Hoar) was then adopt-ed-yaes, 43; nays 10. Pending a motion for an executive session, the chair submitted a message from the president, transmitting from the secretary of the interior the drafts of bills authorizing the disposal of dead and damaged timbers on Indian reservations, for a temporary increase of the force of the general land office, and making conditional provision of the expeuses of the tenth census. A motion for an executive session was voted down, as were also subsequent motions for adjournment by the opponets of the bill, Mr. Sherman declaring his intention to have the bill disposed of if possible. At five o’clock the friends of the bill manifested a disposition to prolong the session to reach a final vote. Mr. Voorhees then took the floor and proceeded to arraign Mr. Windom’s funding operations, but had not made material progress when a motion to adjourn prevailed.

house. Mr. Stephens, from the committee on coinage, weights aud measures, reported baek bills whieh were referred to committee of the whole; Mr. Dunnell, from the committee on ways and means, reported the bill repealing so much of section 3,380 of the revised statutes as imposes an export tax on tobacco. Mr. Belford, chairman of the committee on public lands, reported baek the bill to provide for the leasing of the arid ana desert lands in Colorado. Referred. The house then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Calkins in the chair, on the postofflee appropriation Mr. White, of Kentucky, offered an amendment, increasing the appropriation for compensation of clerks in post offices. Several other amendments of the same effect rejected or rmed out on points of order. Mr, Bingham, of Pennsylvan’a, of fered' an amendment increasing by one hundred thousand dollars the appropriation for expenses of the free delivery system. Mr Lord, of Michigan, advocated such increase by appropriation as would permit the compensation of letter carriers to be raised. The propo-itions male fixes the amount of the appropriation for the extension of tlie free deliv ry system at fifty five thousand dollars ana nrteen thousand dollars, tut pending a ▼ote the committee rose aud the house adj ourned.

SENATE. Washington, D. C. February 6. VIr. Morgan, from the committee on public lands, reported favorably, with amendments, the bill granting the right of wav over public lands in aid of the Gulf & Chicago air line railroad company. Mr. Plumb, on behalf of a minority of the committee, said he would present views in opposition to the bill hereafter. “ The bill directing the purchase by the secretary of the treasury for public use of the Freedman’s bank property and real estate and parcels of ground adjacent thereto, belonging to the Freedman’s savingand trust company ' *Bills were introduced by Messrs Garland, Hanley, Morgan Hoar, Hill and Vance. . . After the morning hour had ex-

pired the house resolution, that the pension arrears hili ought not to be repealed came up as unfinished business, out was laid aside informally with tbe assent of Its author (In galls). The senate then resumed consideration of Mr. Ingalls’ resolution, declaring the pensions arrears law ought not lie repealed. Without action the resolution was laid aside for an executive session. Bills were introduced: By Mr. Harrison—Defining tbe powers and jurisdiction of Mississippi river commission, and authorizing an appropriation of land and material for the improvement of the Mississippi and its navigable tributaries. After an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Mr. Belmont offered a resolution calling upon the president further compliance with the house resolution of the 24th ult., to furnish the house with a trauseri t of the letters of Jacob R. Shepherd, of New York. Mr. Springer introduced a resolution calling on the president for information as to the right or authority under which the republics of North and South America were invited to send commissioners to a peace congress to be held in November, 18112. Adopted. Mr. Cobb introduced a resolution, calling on the secretary of the interior for all information concerning land grants to railroads, names of such roads, number of acres granted, how much granted, to companies which have completed the roads within the time provided by law. Referred. By Air. Spalding—To abolish custom house fees and for (the consolidation of certain districts. By Mr. Butterworth—A resolution calling on the secretary of state foi all correspondence on tile in his department relating to the perils of American missionaries hi Persia, and also information as to the propriety of establishing diplomatic connection with the government of Persia. By Mr. McKinley, of Ohio—To prevent the establishment of rules by public officers discriminating against honorably discharged soldiers in appointments to alike. Mr. Joyce, of Vermont, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill for the appointment of a commission on the subject of alcoholic liquor traffic. Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, demanded a second. The motion was seconded 72 to 60.

A vote was then taken upon the adoption of the motion, which was lost, yeas, 112; nays, 98; not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. Tliis was a strict party vote, except Messrs. Beltzhoover, Culberson, Jones of Arkansas, Ladd, Simonton and Yance voted with the Republicans in the affirmative, and Davis of Illinois, and Young and Guenther of Wisconsin, with the Demo rats in the negative. Adjourned. MAN AND BEAST. How the Hainan Face in Middle Age Often Takes on a Likeness to an Animal. A curious trait of middle age is that as life goes on some likeness to an animal is often apparent, even to an extent that might seem to countenance the Pythagorian idea of the transmigration of souls. Every one must know a certain number of persons will bear a striking likeness to horses and dogs. These however are the nobler animals, so that, in the case of such a comparison the likeness is perhaps more flattering to the human being than to the dumb animals. It is not oftert given, even to the soft, melting eye of womanhood, to have that look of courage, endurance and devotion which we sometimes meet in the eye of a hound. Dickens was true to nature when he described the dignified little hops of Dora’s bird-like aunts. Now and then the middle-aged lady is of the parrot description of bird, and possibly the human subject may be like a cat,or even like a monkey, A great many are like snakes; indeed, sneak and snake are different forms of the same word and the moral (act is as true as the etymological. When Cicero, in his oration, against Piso, attacks that Roman in an extremely personal manner he, is apparently likening him by a very common figure of speech.to a viper, “Beast,’’says Cicero ‘ there is no mistaking the evidence of that slave-like hue, those bristly cheeks, those discolored fangs; Your eyes, your brows, your face, your whole aspect, are the tacit index of your whole soul” There was a certain German missionary at Tennevelly who made himself extremely disagreeable to the European members of that community; As he observed different animals in the street be used to point out to his friends the likeness which existed between his friendsand these creatures. ,‘There,s your picture,” he would say to one pointing to a pig “There’s the likeness of your beastly soul.” he would say to another pointing to a goat. One day he made the usual inquiry after a friend’s health, who answered by mentioning some bodily ailiment. "I do not ask after your stinking body was the rejoinder; “but I want to know of your soul.” A very painful man! In the room which Voltaire had at Sans Souci there are certain delicate bits of satire upon him carved in wood. For instance, there is a monkey; a parrot,which conveys an idea of his volubility of speech; and a stork, to signify his migrations to and from Prussia, coming in summer and going away in winter. Wilson, the ornithologist, presumably by brooding so much over birds, became very much like a bird himself. He got the dark luminous eyes, and his nose was shaped like the very beak of a bird,Yes this is a curious fancy and in middle age tbe likeness to some animals may come on. It will be within the recollection of many Oxford men that a quarter of a century ago there were two great scholars at Oxford, both of them middle aged men. one of whom wss known by the name of the Sickly Vulture, while the other was the Debauched Crow.—London society.

The Ladies' University at St. Petersburg has a physical laboratory with 130 students, a chemical labratory with 60 students, and a physiological laboratory with 100 students. Tbe botanical cabinet has twenty microscopes, aud tlie treasury contained on Jan. Ist., 29,100 roubles. Tlie whole institution is maintained by private contributions and by entrance fees of $25 per year, the Ministry of Public Instruction allowing only $1,500 per year. The lectures are delivered by professors of tbe St. Petersburg University, and since last year the programme has been rendered quite equal to that of the male university; a special mathematical faculty was recently opened. The number of studentsat this Free Ladies’ University is 980 and 42 assistants.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1892.

TELEGRAHPIC. New York, February 2.—The Herald furnishes tbe following cablegrams : Paris, February 2, 1882. to the Herald: The following impoitant dispatch was received direct this morning from Lieutenant Danenhower at Irkutsh; Our three boats left Semaosky island on the morning of September 12. bound for Borkin, fifty-five miles distant. We got clear of ice at noon. There was then a heavy gale from the northeast, and the boats disperse!. During the night the captain’s boat, which was loaded deeply, losts her mastsand sails. We made land on the evening of the 17th in shallow water. The boat was abandoned two miles from the beach and our party waded and reached the deserted village of Sogapp. We “coached” the log books aud proceeded south September 19. Lieut. DeLane’s last record whieh we have found, read as follows: Saturday, October 1, 1881.—Fourteen of tlie officers and men of the Jeannette reached this hut Wednesday September 28, and having been forced to wait for the river to freeze over are proceeding to cross to the west side this forenoon on their journey to reach some -ettlement on tlie Lena river. I have two days provisions, but having been fortunate enough thus far to get game in our pressing needs, we have no fear for the future. Our party are all well except Hans Ericksen whose toes have been amputated in cotseqei nee of frost bites. Other records will be found in several huts on the east side of the river, along which we have come from the north. (Signed) George W. DeLong.

Three other records have been found. Ericksen died October 7. The party were in great distress for want of food. Norah and Niudemann were sent ahead for relief October 9. They marched south fifteen days and were found in a starving condition October 24 by three natives, who took them to a settlement. Tney could not make themselves understood. News of them reached us October 29. Immediate search was commenced, and the party were traced to a wilderness on the west bank of the Lena. The natives refused further work and returned to Bolanenga. It was necessary to get Russian assistance on November 28. A large force is now searching, having to dig out everything as the ground is deeply covered with snow. The wilderness is devoid of game. Very prompt and efficient action was taken by the Russians. Everyeflort is being made. Jack Vole is tranquil te-day. He is violent only at times. He has softening of the brain. My left eye is ruined and my right one badly impaired. The other men are well. (Signed) John Davenhower. Cleveland, February2—A Herald special reports that as Deputy Sheriff Platt, of Mahoning county, was taking an insane man from the train at Canfield, to-day, to convey him to the infirmary, the prisoner suddenly threw the officer down and sta ped on his head, inflicting ugiy worn.ds with the hobnailed shoes he wore. The lunatic was secured by bystanders after a desperate struggle. Walla Walla, February 2.—Last night fire broke out in the farm house of Julius Misseck, five miles from this city. Mrs. Eliza Medler, aged 42, and her daughter Emma Isadore Meiller, aged 19, and her son Arthur, aged 6, were burned to death. The other inmates esea ped. New York, February 2.—At a meeting ot parties most interested in the Mexican National railway held to-day, it was announced that of the total of 729 miles 302 had been completed, including the Corpus Christi connection. Ties are provided and paid for for 582 miles, and rails and rolling stock are on hand ami paid for to cover tlie entire 729 miles; that inasmuch as the mileage was considerably more than was co - eied by previous subscriptions, it was decided to increase the stock of the construction company by three million dollars, one-third of which was subscribed a$ the meeting. The remainder was assured, but lias first to be offered pro rata to existing stockholders.

Nashville, February 3.—Kellogg’s hotel was totally destroyed by fire at midnight. The thiny-five people in it barely escaped in their night clothes, many jumping from the thiid story windows. James Swaft, nearly blind, and James Reardon, blind, en route for Cincinnati, escaped in their night clothes but were not hurt. Richard England, a boarder, had his foot badly cut in jumping from a second story window. James Neely, of Nashville, ankle spraine I. N. R. Summerhill, of Pulaski, Tenn., had his shirt and drawers burned from his person, but not seriously injured. J. A. Herndon, Chattanooga, back badly sprained. It is thought no one was burned. The fire took possession of the house, whieh is a frame, so suddenly that it was miraculous that any escaped. Columbus, Febt uary 3.—The Hocking Valley coal and iron railway company, capital one million, was incorporated to-day by General Samue Thomas and other local capitalists. The movement is in opposition to the Cleveland and New York syndicate owning the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo road. The road is to extend from Columbus to the coal and iron regions in Hocking Valley, with a probable northern outlet. Palestine, 0., February 3.—Wm. Murphy, of Beaver Fa is, Pa., who bad been drinking hard the past fewdays attempted suicide by taking a dose of laudanum. He is in a critical condition but may recover. Detroit, February 3. —The Free Press will, in the morning, publish a long letter Jrom ex-Minister Chrlstiancy, in whicli he declares his letter to Blaine, which has recently been published, was wholly personal and private, and was so distinctly designated. He complains that the printing of portions of the letter has placed him tn a false light aud gave a false express ion of his views with reference to tbe relations of the United States to South American affairs. Columbus, February 3. —A Portsmouth special says: John Q. Adams (colored) was bound over tn five thousand dollars for an attempt cioutrage Katie Bierly and Carnt Meale, aged nine and teu years. Strong feeling is manifested. Richmond, Va.. February 4.—lnformation received beiethis morning from the Midlathian mine disaster is of tlie most discouraging nature. There is no earthly hope that any of the entombed men are now alive Every effort is being made to enter the pit, but it is impossible to reach the point where men are for perhaps several weeks. The explosion destroyed all the apparatus, including

that used for ventilation, aud this has to be replaced before successful operations can be resumed. New York, February 4.—A special to tlie Post from Coalfield, Va., says the Gove shaft, the scene of the horrible explosion yesterday, is surrounded with women and children. Despite the fact tbat the ground is covered with snow and falling rapidly, hundreds are about tlie mouth of the shaft. The appeals of wives and mothers for assist an e in gettiag to their ioved ones are heartrending. A telegram from Coalfield in relation to the mine disaster at Midlatliian says: Superintendent Dodds and two others went down into the shaft about noon but returned before reaching the bottom. They found no indications of fire. Another party of five went down this afternoon to repair the biattice and restore ventilation, which was cut off by the brattice being tumbled in by tbe force of the explosion. This party remained below until after 4 o’clock, when they came up and reported there was a slight prospect of reaching that portion of the mine where tlie men were entombed. Tonight miners are still at wot k, however, and ventilation at 8 p. m. had been restored to the bottom of the shaft. This disaster has left twenty-’ seveu widows and one hundred and eight orphan children. A subscription has been started in this city for the benefit of the stricken families. The latest intelligence from the Midlathian mine disaster is that the miners at work clearing the shaft discovered one body, but the air was so foul tliey were forced to suspend operations and come out. It is not prob able anything more will be done tonight. Louisville, February 4.—During a matinee performance of Lotta, at McCauley’s theatre, this afternoon, an alarm of fire was raised in the gallery which came near creating a panic. It appears that a lady named Mrs. Brethtield fainted in the gallery, and a boy shouted, “Fire!” Every one started with the intention of vacating the premises, and had it not been for the presence of mind and cool behavior of about a dozen gentlemen in the audience, it would have been no doubt oue of the most disastrous catastrophes that has ever occurred iu Louisville. Mayor Jacob, who was present, assisted in a great measure in allaying the excitement. Lotta herself evinced great presence of mind, informing tlie audience from the stage that there was no danger, saying in her peculiar and comic way, in a most deprecatory voice, “sit down,” “sit down;” “oh, please s-i-t d-o-w-n.”

Paris, February 4. —Evening.—lnvestment deme nd continued excellent to-day, but the bourse otherwise was not so good as yesterday. There were numerous failures amongclieuts ot authorized and unlicensed brokers sufficiently serious to effect the market for some time. A deputation of licensed brokers to-day accompanied Banteaux and Feder to verify the books and examine the coffers of the Union Generale. The examination lasted several hours. Banteaux and Feder were then reconducted to prison. More arrests are possible. New York, February 4.—Mayor Grace to-day received a letter from Col. Von Steuben, expressing tlie thanks of the Von Steuben family for their kind and hospitable reception in America. Col. Von Steuben says he made a report of his sojourn here to the emperor of Germany, who was highly pleased to hear all the details in regard to the visit, and expressed great satis faction in tlie result of the journey. The German people felt that the distinctions were conferred upon the Von Steubens as Germans, and the interest for America which has always existed throughout Germany has been strengthened and made

firmer. New York, February 4.—2 a. m.— ; The snow is still falling fast and is a ' foot deep on the level. The wind is blowing a gale. The street cars are mostly laid up. Columbus, Ohio, February 6.— Daniel Goodridge and Elmer Guynn, the two pupils at the asylum for imbecile youths who confessed to setting fire to the building November 18, by which tlie state lost some $400,000, were arrested to-day and taken before a justice charged with arson. Jerry Tegner, another pupil supposed to have been implicated in tlie crime, was also arrested. Since the conflagration the boys have been kept at the institution by the superintendent. Bail was fixed at SIO,OOO, and tlie hearing set for Saturday. Nashville, Febiuary 6.—A desperate fight occurred at Rock Island, Warren county, last night. Four men attacked Jack Gribble, the ferryman, because lie refused to ferry them across the river, which was high and dangerous, and cut him severely. While retreating Billy McCarpenter pursued him and.snapped a pistol in his face, when Gribble shot him through the heart, killing him instantly. Cincinnati, February 6. —It appears that tlie report of an unfavorable turn in the health ot Archbishop Purcell whicli led to the publicatiou to-day that his death was imminent iiad no oasis of fact. Mr. Garland, editor of the Catholic Telegraph, has to-day received a telegram from a priest in Brown county, whicli sajs: “The Archbishop is remarkably well aud Intends to ride out as soon as the weather will permit.” New- Orleans, February 6.—The Chicago, Cincinnati and Memphis contingents arrived to-night Betting continues about even. During the day it was reported the governor would stop the fight, and his action

made necessary a change of place for ' . .. . tlie fight. It looked at one time as if * runny Bill From an Artist, the “mill” would be postponed, but I came across a copy of a funny old late in the evening Sullivan agreed bill from a painter, sent to a noble to the choice of a place beyond the lord, a professed connoisseur and Louisiana line. He would not, how- large collector of pictures. I give the ever, sign new articles. A very large items verbatim for the amusem nt of crowd assembled at the Mobile depot your readers, from the copy, whicli this afternoon to witness the depar- reads more like a comic effusion than ture of the pugilists, Ryan and his a poor man's claim for artistic work: seconds, James Dunn, of Brooklyn, To filling up the chink in the Red and TomjKelly.ofSt.Louis, who left on Sea and repairing the damages of the the train, intending to lay over at Pharoh’s host. the station on the line and take the To cleaning six of the Apostles and train in tlie morning. Sullivan re- adding an entirely new Judas Iscarmained here. Both are in fine con- tot. dition and say they are ready to en- To a pair of new hands for Daniel ter the ring at any moment. in the lion’s den, and a set of teeth Chicago, February 6.—St. Paul for the lione-s. specials say Grant County, Dakota, is To an alteration in the Belief,mend- i embroiled in a county seat war. Tlie jug the Commandments and making county records are at’Big StoneJCity, a new Lord’s Prayer. in defiance of an alleged judicial de- To repairing Nebuchadnezzar's cision that Millbank was designated beard. as the county seat last November. To inending the pitcher of Rebecca. Lately two county commissioners i To a pair of ears for Balaam, and tried to remove tbe records to Mill- ma inga new tongue for theass. bank, supported by 200 to 300 armed To renewing tlie picture of Samson citizens, iut similar action for Big in the character of a fox hunter, and Stone pn vented them. The specials substituting a whip for the fire-brand, say fully 300 armed men are now at To a new broom and bonnet for the Big Stone threatening to shoot who-1 Witch of Endor. ever attempts to remove the safe. To a sheet-anehor, a Jury-mast and They have a barricade and have In- along boat for Noah’r Ark. dians to help them, aud defy dislodge To painting twenty-one new steps meat. to Jacob’s ladder.

GUITEAU. THE END. Washington , February 4.—As soon as Judge Cox entered the court room, court was formally opened. The prisoner went to his place in the dock and did not repeat tbe request of yesterday to be allowod to sit at the counsel table. Scoville asked for postpone ment of sentence to which Corkhill objected, and Judge Cox immediately began to read from manuscript his decision upon the motion, reading from various authorities bearing upon the case. At the termination of the reading, and in response the second demand of the Judge to know if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, the prisoner arose, pale but with lips compressed, and a tiesperate determination stamped upon his sea tures. In a low but deliberate tone he began, but soon his manner became wild and violent and pounding upon the table he delivered himself of the following harrangue: "I am not guilty of the charge set forth in the indictment. It was God’s act, not mine, and God will take care of it and don’t let tbe American people forget it. He will take care of it and every officer of the government down to that of marshal, taking in every man on that jury, and every member of this bench will pay for it, and the American nation will roll in blood if my body goes into the ground and I am hung. The Jews put the despised Galillian in the grave. For a time they triumphed, but at the destruction of Jerusalem, forty years afterward, the Almighty got even with them. lam not afraid. I am here as God's man. Kill me to-morrow If you want. lam God’s man and have been from tlie start.” After a few remarks in brief review of testimony, and au assurance that the prisoner would have due opportunity of hvaing any errors the the court might have committed impressed upon the court iu banc. Judge Cok proceeded to pronounce THE SENTENCE of the law: “That you be taken hence to the common jail of the district whence you came and there be kept in confinement, and on Friday, the 30th day of June, 1882, you be taken to the place prepared for the execution, within the bounds of said jail, and there between the hours of 12 o’clock noon and 2 o’clock p. m,, you be hanged by the neck untill you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on you soul.” During the reading Guiteau stood apparently unmoved and with his gaze fixed upon the judge. When the final words were spoken he struck the table violently and shouted; “And may the Lord have mercy on your soul. I would rather stand where I do than where that jury do and where your honor does. I am not afraid to die. I stand here as God’s man, and God Almighty will call to account every man who his had a part in rendering tins unrighteous verdict. Nothing but good has come from Garfield’s removal, and that will be the verdict of posterity on my inspiration. I don’t care a snap for the verdiet of this corrupt generation. I would rather a thousand times be in my position than that of those who have hounded me to death. I shall have a gloriods flight to glory; but that miserable scoundrel, Corkhill, will have a permanent job down below where the devil is preparing for him.” After apparently talking himself out, the prisoner turned to his brother, and, without the slightest trace of excitement, conversed for some minutes before being taken from the eourt room. Upon the arrival of Guiteau at jail he was at once taken to his cell and a guard placed over him. This precaution is always observed in the case of prisoners under sentence of death, and will be rigidly adhered to in Guiteau’s case both by night and day.

In tlie pocket of a drunkard who died a few days ago in the city prison of San Francisco was found a curious document, purporting to be in brief the autobiography of a man who began active life with more than the usual share of ambition and glory. In the worn and almost illegible page was found the following description of the famous charge at Balaklava, the writer, at the age of sixteen, having apparently beenoneof tiie immortal six hundred: “The bugles rang out their shrill calls to charge, and we went right at the centre of our foes. The shock was a fearful one. As we struck against the enemy, a Muscovite cavalryman, with a look as black as hate on his face and his eyes blazing, aimed his lance at my heart. I parried his blow and struck his weapon down, and then dispatched him. But it must have been from him I received a wound, for at night I found my left I oot full of blood, and a lance wound right under the knee-cap. In striking down his lance, the point of it entered my leg, but in the excitement of the moment it passed unnoticed. I never could tell how weever broke through the Russian lines, but we did. When we appeared on the other side I came to my senses. Then we met another lineoftheenemy, but our spirits were up and we passed through them like a sheet of lightning. It was a terrific work, aud our troops suffered heavily. The wound ■ under the knee pan was ail I received I during the bloody work of the Crimean campaign. It fires me up a little, even now, when I think of those times, just like an old war horse at sound of a trumpet; but I don’t think I would care to see or pass through them again. I went into that charge a private and came out a corporal, besides receiving two distinguishing marks for bravery and good conduct.”

To mending the pillow stone. To adding some Scotch cattle t Pharoh’s lean kine. To making a new head for Holofer nes and cleansing Judith’s hands. To giving a blush to the cheek- of Eve on presenting the apple to Adam. To painting Jezebel in the character of a huntsman taking a flying leap from the walls of Jericho. To painting a new city in the .land of Nod. To painting a shoulder of mutton and a shin of beef in the mouths ol two of the ravens feeding Elijah. To an exact representation of Noah in the character of a General reviewing his troops, preparatory to their march, with the dove dressed as an Aide de Camp. To painting Noah dressed in an Admiral’s uniform. To painting Samson making a present of his jaw bone to the proprietors of the British Museum. To making Congress of America, as in 1784, and the Tower of Bable companion prints. To repairing Solomon’s nose and making a new nail to hts middle finger.

INDIANA. Asbury University has 431 students enrolled. As the result of Dr. Marshal’s labors at Elkhart, 264 persons have thus far professed conversion. Noonday afternoon and evening meetings are eld. Dr. A. J. Tillotson, coroner for Lake county, and a councilman of Michigan City, was stricken with apralysis and now he lies in a very critical condition. All the I’.arties implicated in the murder of Walton have been committed to the Greensburg jail to await the action of the grand jury, which will convene ten days hence. The new court house at Rockville will be completed in a few days. The dedication ceremonies will take place on the 22d of February. Its total cost well be about SIIO,OOO. Thomas Scott formerly of Seymour, sustained injuries while making up a train near Sedalia, Mo., from which he lost both his legs. He was once an Ohio and Mississippi conductor. James McNamarra, a brakeman on the Louisville,New Albany & Chicago railroad, was killed instantly while coupling ears at Bedford. His home was at Broom Hill, near New Albany. Messrs. Cook & Speaker will establish a stove works at Huntington; they will also manufacture hollowware and all kinds of tron castings. They expect to have the works running by the Ist of June. Sherman Hammond has received the appointment to West Point trom the fifth congressional district. He wa, third on the list, but those above him did not come up to the requirements and were dropped. Frank Chambers and wife living a few miles west of Edinburg, attende I church last Saturday night, taking their four-weeks-old baby with them When they reached home it was dead from supposed heart disease. Santford W. Markland, an ol i citizen of Beck’s Mills, Washington county, was in the act of getting into the wagon when the team started, and he fell on the wheel breaking two ribs and otherwise seriously injuring him. The residence of Samuel Daniels, at Otter Creek Junction, was entered during the absence of the family, and a gold watch with chain and charm, a revolver, breast pin and a pair of bracelets,abstracted. The thieves were seen, but eseaped. Mrs. Alvin Gregory, residing at Springfield, a short distance from Mount Vernon, was fatally shot in the back of the neck. Her husband has been arrested < n suspicion and his bond fixed at $1,500. The woman’s father went his bail.

On Wednesday night, a tramp, under the influence of liquor, laid down on a pile of cross-ties on the Eel River road, near Chili, and went to sleep. The ties, as it appeared, were afire, and before the tramp could get up and away, he was horribly burned. The next morning his dead body was found near the fence. A dancing bear, which had been in charge of two Italians, escaped from its keepers, just outside the limits of Lafayette, and was killed by a family it had attacked. The Italians are missing, and from the discovery of bits of their clothing in the vicinity,it is hoped that both are killed. Charles Slif-r was very badly hurt while working at a new iron bridge, which is being constructed across Green’s fork, at Washington, Wayne county, a rope broke, letting fall a heavy piece of timber. It cut a gash in his head four inches ir. length, and broke both bones of the right leg just below the knee. The charter of the First national bank of Lafayette will expire on the 2d of July when the bank will be wound up. A new organization will be perfected at once, but probably with different stcck holders. It will be policy of the new organization to have no stockholders except those who give the bank business. The county poor house and poor farm, situated five miles east of Goshen, having been condemned as too poor to be useful, the county commissioners have purchased a farm three miles east of Elkhart containing 450 acres, turning over the Old farm as part payment. The citizens of Goshen have served an injunction. Dr. J A. Schwartz?!, secretary of the Vincennes board of health, has instiuted suit against the Vincennes Commercial company, asking $5,000 damages The Commercial in its last issue accused the M. I)., with perpetrating a steal from the city by vaccinating Miumberiess paupersand presenting a bill to council for $200.50 for such work.

Several of the Miatna Indians in the vicinity of Wabash are making arrangments to go to the Indian Territory immebiately after receiving payment of the principal sum due them from the government. They will identify themselves with the Miatna anb Peoria band of the Quapaw reservation, aud become part owners, by purchase, of a 15,000 acre tract of land there. Two earthquake shocks were distinctly felt in Attica at five o’clock last Tuesday evening. The loud and rumbling noise was followed by a shock which shook doors and win dows, and gave a very unpleasant sensation to those who felt its effects. The occunants at Sam Clark's and Mrs. Levman’s residences were considerably shaken up, and the shock was /erceptible at Porter’s store. ♦

FOR THE LAMES Six shades of red are often seen . one round hat. Esthetic dress grows more and more in favor in England. Plush is mure fashionable as a lining for wraps than for the outside. Square-necked Pompadour chemises are more in demand than any other. Kerchief < of white, pale tinted and black crepe de chine are much worn. Raised laces, showing the petals of flowers in additional pieces, are in demand. Blaek silk velvets or plush and lace combination suits have panels of blue sasin with trimmings of white and gold lace. Lace, if black, is considered suitable for second mourning on the other side of the water. Tan-colored long gloves with loose wrists are worn on all sorts of occasions and with any kind of dress. Collars for morning wear are straight bauds of linen fastened in front with a small gold button or stud.

The latest freak in fans is a sort of frame-work tilled with natural flowers so as to form a sort of flat bouquet. Ella Tunney ran heedlessly into debt for fine clothes at Seymour, Ind., and then committed suicide because she oouid not pay. There will be an unusual demand for beautiful women next summer, as nearly every circus will make one the feature of its street prosession. Breakfast caps for young ladies are very fashionable. There is a jaunty, coquettish appearance about this bit of finery that is very fascinating. Shoulder-knots of white satin or watered silk ribbon, fastened by a rose or delicate spray of flowers, take the place of the floral epaulets worn last winter. Not a single male student attends the course of lectures which are being delivered at the University of Cambridge, on the History and Science of Education. A new French bonnet exhibited in New York has the tiny putted crown completely covered with multi-color ed butterflies, made of chenille, silk plush and gold tinsel. All trains, no matter how rich and heavy, are lined with white crinoline muslin, and protected and adorned with a balayense of lace and muslin, or lace alone. The circumference of the waist is visibly contracting to set off the punier drapery. When this can not be done satisfactorily the desired effect is gained by padding the hips. A Philadelphia woman took away her “poor, dear, pretty bo&by,” an ugly, tailless owl, because the taxidermist kept no private watchman to preserve Bobb from the burglars. Hatin boots, with velvet tops, Spanish insteps, and Chinese toes, and fastened with tiny jeweled buttons, are worn with handsome dinner or evening toilets of satin and velvet. The monogram, etched in indelible ink, and sometimes .within a design or pen-sketch of real artistic merit, is the latest fashion for marking gentlemen’s and ladies’ handkerchiefs.

Bodices are alarmingly on the decline. All full-dress costumes are made low-necked and without sleeves. For theaters and dinners they are made high, but open in aV, or a triadgle, with fillings of lace, embroidery or passementerie. A few desks in the reading room of the British Museum are set apart “for ladies only," aud one of the standing jokes of the room, perfectly supported by fact, is that they are never occupied, the ladies preferring to be with the gentlemen. The bodices of woolen dresses are sometimes ornamented with velvet collars and cuffs embroidered in gold. They are called officers' and prefects’ collars, and are high and straight about the throat; with them are worn double ruches of yellow lace. Large pelisses are made of odd fabrics, resembling in color and design the very ancient Bagdad shawls—tiny palm and screll patterns on black or red grounds. The sleeves are in the pagoda style, and they have a plush bordering ten inches deep. A Newport police officer who procured and returned to a lady a watch stolen from her at a hotel at Narragansett Pier last summer, is feeling somewhat indignant because the lady refuses to refund to him the sum of $9 40 which he paid out for expenses. The taste for embroidery as a dress trimming increases. This is the open Madeira-work done on the dress goods and used as panels, borders or as scantily-gathered flounces. This is done on the richest velvets, on satin, silk, cashmere and nun’s veiling. Toques and turbans, Rembrandt, Vandyke, Rubens end Devonshire hats, Fanchon, cottage, Directory and poke bonnets, are all fashionable, aud all are worn by fashionable women. A fashionable modiste now advises her customers to select handsome black gros-grain, predicting that it will not long hence be restored to the favor it lost when lustrous satins became the fashion.

A new skirt is coming in favor in I arts called the fourrean. Untrimmed, save with a huge niche of ths material around the bottom, it will be a violent reaction against the overwiiru 110 ' 1 now universally —— Escape of a Nun From a Convent. This morning, December 27, a novice belonging to the convent of the sisters of Christian Love at Graz was rescued from a deep moa' surrounding the garden of that establishment. On recovering consciousness the girl stated that her mother had forced her to enter the convent, and that to day she had resolved at the risk other life, to get away by swimming across the moat. She is at present under guard of the police. The superior of the convent has claimed her back, but the authorities have refused to deliver her up. Great indignation prevails among the population, and when the superior made her appearance at the police station she was hooted by the crowd outside.—London Standard. Colorless asd Cold.—A young girl deeply regretted that she was so colorless and cold. Hei face was too white, and her hands aud feet felt as though the blood did uot circulate. After one bottle of Hop Bitters had een taken she was the rosiest aud healthiest girl in the town, with a vl- ' vacity and cheerfulness of mind gratifying to her friends. ,