Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV

THE GRANT RETIREMEN T BILL. Senator Logan’s revival of his bill to place Gen. Grant on the army retired list ha« brought out one memorable fact, namely, that Grant himself is apparently prompting this measure. In that case, Gen. Logan sends Ulysses 8. Grant down to history not only as one of the sturdiest soldiers but as one of the most inveterate beggars in human annals. Senator Butler had declared his sincere belief that Gen Grant never could have asked for this charity; for the rank would give him no new honors, while it is notorious that he does not need the pay. But Logan quickly replied that “Gen. Grant through his friends has asked this,” thus claiming to speak as Grant’s mouthpiece iu the matter. This, then is the one new contribution to the debate. If Gen. Grant is not now General of of the army, the fault is his own. He left that post to accept the still more exalted and remunerative ofllce of President of the United States, the salary of which was doubled for his benefit. During the eight years that he enjoyed its large income, presents were showered on him. Then he went about the world, collecting valunable gifts of all sorts, and on his return received an independent fortune ‘in cash from the contributions of wealthy men. With his ebildrenall provided for by rich marriages, and while, in addition to his country seats and city houses and his cash reserve of hundreds of thousands of dollars, he is salaried heavily by corporations and capitalists who pay for his name and fame, yet the country finds him, according to the avowal of Gen. Logan, importuning Congress for that old salary as General which he had to give up in order to get the enormously greater gains be has since secured, but whose loss be has nona the less continued to bemoan! It has hardlv been worth while for the Senate to beat about the bush in qualifying what, if Gen Logan’s statement is correct, is so obviously an act of disreputable mendicancy. The cited cases of Lee and Col. Haller, restored to the army and then retired by Congress, as the result of undoing the -• ork of courts martial which were thought to be unjust, can have no bearing on Gen. Grant’s voluntary withdrawal from the army; nor can the eases of Gen. Ord and Gen. Meigs, who, being already in the army, were retired on a higher than th ir active rank, in order to secure them more pay. Even were Gen. Grant a proper object of charity, the army retired list is no place for him. Entrance upon that Het is limited by law to actual army officers, and he is a civilian. Even were he now on the active list, he would not have reached the discretionary retiring age of sixtytwo: nor cctrid he claim forty-five years’ service. He might be retired if disabled by wounds, but this he never has been. He might be retired if he were the prey of disease contracted in the service, but he is in robust health. To comply with bis begging request in the form presented by g his friend Lagan would be to set aside the stattues, audio tramplle on “ But K Grant needs no pension, clamoring to have public a'ms bestow ed upon him —

A POOH EXCUSE. The ground upon which certain South -rn Senators, calling themseves Democrats, voted to give Gen. Grant ten thousand dollars annually so the rest of his natural life U indefensible from any point of view. They said it became them to be magnanimous. W an,m " U9 Xj what? With the public money alone I<> pay u sentiment tionol sentiment, whether be charity or admiration, is bad as to appropriate MW-*"" i, »7“ , e , g , ":;Xu’ law for the support of the gov this betrayal ° f p reC eeded the much like that lit j ( ? a ] treason in stupendous actof potitm , R w& the same quarter i 1 , n jn Rwi d . magnanimous then t J boice for ling the “agnauimous nowpresident i on the public money. __ Conkbog In W ‘ ’ JLliupolitical, and he not n or as _ gnished meim>« insuUed orquarsemblv He and Justice Matr K lle<l of the Supreme Bench, have thews, of the P for years> ou not spoken attrO nts Conk . account of out g j jn & Senat()r . ling put upo tl notorioug that, he ial debate. antagonisms with had provoked biHer anug ofthe at least _bal hate d by a nl arMend has suggested to us thaMt might be a good thing for Mr. that it mig a nd morals is Conkling s ad some one wbe fashioned minister to him a so Wha ' in ,angle his gorgeous foretop, nose ? h \ 9 hat, roll him in the dirt to

The Decatur Democrat

CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Washington. March 6.—Mr. Allison presented a memorial of the lowa legislature in behalf of a bridge over the Missouri above Omaha. Mr. Ingalls reported from the Judiciary committee the original bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States, embodying w’hat is commonly known as the “equity system,” conferring the jurisdiction upon district courts of the L nited States to hear matters in bankruptcy upon petition. Mr. Teller reported favorably the house bill to pension Mrs. Garfield, with an amendment including Mrs. Folk and Mrs. Tyler. The amounts specified are $5,000 a year from September 19, 1881. Mr. Garland offered a resolution of inquiry, addressed to the military committee, as to the propriety of increasing the one hundred tho .sand appropriation for the purpose of distributing subsistence s qres in aid of the relief of laborlire classes in districts overflowed bv 'lie Mississippi and its tributaii- ' ■ The Chinese bill was taken up and Mr Slater advocated it. The day’s discussion closed by Mr Dawes being awarded the flooi. Mr. Allison submitted the conference report on the immediate de flcieucy bill. Adopted. Adjourned HOUSE. The speaker announced unfinished business to be for consideration, the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill, on the passage of which the previous question was oidered Saturday. Bills were introduced. By Mr. Hewitt, of Alabama—To restore to the pension roll the names of persons dropped by reason of partici pating in or aidiug the rebellion. By Mr Washburn, of Minnesota — Repealing the law allowing the preemption of public lauds. A night session was ordered Friday for consideiation of the pension bill. ’ Mr. Jacobs of New York, introduced a bill to egulate the exportation of articles made in imitation of butterand efietse It requiries such articles to be distinctly marked with the word oleamargarine,” "susine,” “butterine,” ot such other word by which the articles may be known or designated. SENATE. Washington, March 7.—Mr. Sherman reported from the finance committee tire following original bill: That all certificates of deposit issued undsr the provisions of the act of February 26,1879, entitled an act to authorize the issue of certificates of deposit in aid of refunding the public debt, not presented for conversion into 4 per cent, bonds of the acts of July 14, 1870, and January 20, 1871, on or before the Ist of July, last, shall be converted only’ into registered bonds of said loan; provided, however, that the treasury of the United States may redeem at market rates at any time under such regulations as the secretary ot the treasury .may’ prescribe, any such outstanding $lO refunding certificates, with accrued interest to date, on presentation of the assessments, such redempl ions to be credited to the sinking fund. Placed on the calendar. The finance committee was discharged from consideration of the bill to cheapen transportation on railroads. Mr. George introduced a resolution authorizing the secretary of war to furnish temporary shelter to sufferers by the Mississippi overflow. Passed. The Chinese bill was again taken up, and Mr. Miller, of California, called attention to the recent popular demonstrations in California and Nevada in behalf of the bill. Mr. Edmunds defended the principle upon which the bill was based. After an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. The senate bill appropriating $20,006 for the erection of a statue of Chief Justice John Marshal passed. The house went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, and Mr. Kasson called up the tariff commission bill.

SENATE. Washington, March B.—Mr. Garland introduced a bill for the construction, completion, repairing and preservation of levees on the Mississippi river. Temporarily tabled subject to his call. , „ . . , Mr. Jackson reported the original bill appropriating $25,000 to continue the improvement of the Memphis harbor. , . . The bill for a commission on alcoholic liquor traffic came up, and Mr. Bayard’s motion, to commit it to the finance committee, was rejected. The Chinese immigration bill was then proceeded with, and Mr. Platt spoke in opposition to the bill. Mr Ingalls moved an amendment postponing the time at which the act shall take effect until sixty days after information of its passage has been communicated to China. Mr. Bayard referred to the importation of Chinese as traffic in human flesh as abominable as the world had eV On ße motion of Mr. Bayard the amendments were adopted to “ake the second section read as follows. ‘ That masters of vessels of whatsoever nationality who shall knowingly use such vessel to bring within the jurisdiction of the United Statesand permit to be landed any Chinese then recurred on the amendment offered by Mr. Barley that hereafter no state court or 1 nited States court shall admit Chinese to citizenship. Adjourned. HOUSE. Mr Hanis reported the bill authorizing the construction of vessels of war for the navy of the United States. Referred to committee of the whole. The bill authorizing the purchase nf thp F^e€d^lans , bank, at Av ashing?oSnd appropriating $250,000 theref<X’na^ Se bHl was passed directing the secretary of war to pay over to the society <>f the army of the Cumberland $7,500 to aid in the erection of a statue or monument to Geneia. James A. Garfield. SENATE. Washington, March 9.—A resolution was passed instructing the secretary of state to ascertain the cause for imprisonment by the British government of Daniel McSweeney, a citizen of the United States and late a resident of California. The calendar was taken up and the senate bill for a commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic was further debated. The pending i acndment, that not more than three of thefive membe’s of the commission shall be of the same political party, was agreed to Mr. Bayard moved to require that not more than three shall be 1 rohibitionists. Agreed to—.veas.B2 The morning hour expired and the Chinese bill came up.

Mr. Hawley spoke In opposition to the bill, and was folio’ I by Mr. Jones. The question then recurred on the final passage of the bill, and Mr. Edmunds closed the debate. A vote was then taken and the bill passed—yeas, 29; nays, 15. Adjourned. HOUSE. The bill was reported for the admission into the Union of the state of v*v ashington. Referred to committee of the whole. The house then went into committee of the whole on the agricultural appropriation bill. ’ The committee finally rose and reported the bill, to the house and it passed. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, March 10. — The chair submitted responses by the secretary of war to the resolution calling for information as to the additional works necessary at the falls of the Ohio river to complete the improvement there to serve the intersts of commerce of that river. Mr. Coekrell had read a letter from the merchants’ exchange of St. Louis, urging the assistance of the government to be continued in view of the discouraging reports received from the inundated districts. The resolution was passed. The bill for a commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic came up and was discussed upon the pending amendments. M.. Bayard said the suppression of pure alcoholic stimulants would increase the use of opiates and drugs. The bill was then reported to the senate from committee of the whole and the number of the commissona fixed at seven in order to diverse the sentiments on the temperance issue might be sufficiently represented, and the time within which the commission shall report was fixed at eighteen months. The bill then passed. The bill provides for the appointment by the president and confirmation by the senate of a commission of seven persons, not moie than tour of whom shall be of the same political party, to be advocates of prohibition, to hold office not exceeding two years, who shall investigate the alcoholic traffic, its relations to the revenue and taxation and its general economic, criminal, moral andkeientific aspects-in connection with pauperism, crime, social vice, public health and general welfare, and who shall inquire as to the principal results of license and prohibitory legislation. The commissioners are to serve without salary’ and report within eighteen months after the passage of the act. An appropriation of SIO,OOO is made for their expenses. HOUSE. The speaker laid before the house four memorials of citizens of Utah — one from 10,967 young ladies, one from 13,035 young men, one from 15,000 women and one from 12,378 men—for the suspension of further action on all bills relating to Utah, and for the appointment of a commission of honorable and unprejudiced men and and women to inquire into and determine upon the state of affairs in that territory. At the night session seventy-seven pension bills were passed and the house adjourned until Monday.

The Marine Bank. The only disappointment of the evening (of the President’s diplomatic dinner party) arose from the nonappearance of the Marine Band, who were expected to play during the dinner at the White house. They were notified through the President’s private secretary, that they were to appear in full dress at the White House at 7p. m. The leader of the baud reported the order to the Commandante, who waited for an order from the Secretary of the Navy, who knew nothing about such an order being necessary. The performers were banded together until 8 o’clock, and not hearing from Col. McCawley, of the Marine Barracks, who had not received any orders from the Navy Department, they dissolved, and each went off oil his own hook. The White House telephoned to the Marine Bar“Marine Band, has not arrived; where is it? What’s the matter? Answer—“ The order for the band mast come from the Secretary of the Navy.” Mounted horseman dashed upto the residence of the Secretary, who was just putting on swallow-tail and white necktie for several evening engagements. Tlie order was hurriedly written and taken to the White House. Again the telephone was called into requisition, and the proper order yelled to the commandant, with this replv: “Band dismissed for the night; can’t find a corporol s guard.” Result: The President had to march down the long corrider from the stair ease to the Hast room without keeping step to the music of “See, the Conquering Hero Comes.” I think thatpassibly all the red tape which now ties up the Marine Band arose from something which occurred during Mr. Lincoln’s Administration. One day Tad Lincoln asked his father to write his name on a scrap of paper, which the indulgent parent did; then Tad got his favorite orderly to write above the name of A. Lincoln an order for the Marine Band to come to the White House, and Tad sent the order t<> the barracks. Promptly the fifty-three men, with their instruments, repaired to the Executive Mansion, and drew up in front of the usual entrance. They had marched over two miles from their quarters and stood in a pelting storm awaiting further orders. Noone in the house knew why they had come, and Tad forgot his prank. At last the President came out, saw the men, and asked why they were there, and finally dismissed them without knowing that his son issued the order, which the commandant sent to him next day.—[Louisville Courier-Journal. Hon. John A. Kasson, of lowa, is said to be a most accomplished linguist, speaking several different language fluently. A storv is told at a recent luncheon he gave at his house some half dozen gentlemen were invited, one of them being congressman Pacheco, of California, a born Spaniard and a scholar; another being a member of the French legation,* third a German member of the house, and a fourth connected with the Italian legation. Some one proposing a trial of linguistic skill,Mr. Kasson consented,and the polygot conversation be-o-un. For some time there was a babel at the table. Kasson holding his own against the combine* forces of the enemy. At last, ordering the servant to bring a book from the libraryhe picked out a passage at random and declared that he could render it in all the four languages on sight, to the entire satisfaction of the linguist.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. MARCH 17, 1882

TELEGRAPHIC. New York, March 10.—There is a steady demand for staples, at remunerative pt ices, and in general merchandise the volume of spring trade, so far as present indications go, is likely to be satisfactory all round, with profitable results. The grain market at thecommencement of the week opened barely steady. This was followed by a sudden break which invited into the market buyers for export, but the recovery was so rapid but little was done in that line, and the market closed strong at prices nearly equal to those a week ago. In lard and pork the market was weak until there came a sudden and unexpected rise in values with rapid fluctuations for a day or so and the subsequent Joss of a portion of the advance, the market closing steady at someting above a week ago. Incitton, with the exception of one good rise above 15 to 18 points, the market ha» been steady and lacking animation. Estimators now’ think the crop the present year will be less than six million bales, and the bulk of estimates are now in and range from 5,500,000 to 5.800,000 bales. In the wool market finer grades of fleeces are strongly held at previous rates, but in other descriptions large purchasers could obtain slight concessions. The condition of trade is good. Petroleum is a shade easier both in crude and refined. In the latter there was some decline and the week closes unsatisfactory. Freights are dull owing in part to the falling off in the demand for grain room on account of improved prices in that description of produce. The iron trade was dull in every department. The demand for American pig was very light, and the transactions indicated that buy’ersare only supplying immediate wants. In Scotch pig trade has been insignificant and weak. The hardward tride continues fairly active but with little feature. There is a satisfactory demand for foreign hardware and prices are strong and unchanged. Spring trade in boots and shoes is opening pretty lively, and orders are coming in in goodly numbers. Buyers are cautious, howevi r, and are not taking heavy lots until they see how trade is going to shape. In the leather market prices are low but there is a good feeling in trade with steady sales pretty well distributed through all grades. The lumber market shows little change since previous reports, though by conservative dealers a fear is expressed that the high prices now existing may retard building operations. However, trade is good for the season and a healthy tone exists. In coffee the trade is moderate as yet, though a fair distributing trade is being done and prices are a shade firmer. In sugar no great amount of business is being’,done,and trade is waiting for a command from refiners who are doing a moderate business for the season. In finer grades of tea prices are firmer, but for low’er kinds concessions are made to buyers. The trade anticipates better prices soon and a steadier demand.

Omaha, March 10.—The situation of the strike is growing more serious hourly. Adjutant General Alexander arrived this morning to confer about bringing troops to protect the non-union laborers when they re sume work, and it is certain a number ot companies of regulars and militia are ready to enter the city at brief notice. The greatest fear arises from the. fact that some strikers are indulging in liquor and mav commit violence under its influence. Three hundred smelters quit without demanding higher wages and about a score of me” from the distillery and packing house. A majority of them informed their employers that they left under coercion of the laborers’, union and not of their own accord, and were anxious to return as soon as the state of affairs would permit At a strikers' meeting this evening, speeches were made urging the men to act upon what they claimed as their rights, without regard to the military. Chicago, March 10.—Mr. Scoville arrived yesterday afternoon. He says as soon as the bill of exceptions in the Guiteau case is ready he will retire from the case. There wil , he' says, be no difficulty in getting eminent counsel. He does not know that General Butler will manage the case. He has not even been spoken to yet. There are, he thinks, abundant grounds for a new trial. Guiteau has not broken down in the least, but is more unreasonable than ever. Mansfield, 0., March 10.—The saloon of William Morris, in theNiman block, was gutted by fire about three o’clock this morning. After the flames were extinguished two >r tiiree piles of kindling, only partly consumed were found on the floor in different parts of the room. The proprietor was ariested this morning at 10 o’clock on the charge of arson, pleading not guilty. He was placed under bonds of SI,OOO. His stock, which was insured for SSOO, would probably have invoiced for S2OO or S3OO, although he places his loss at $l,lOO. W. B. Niman, owner of the building, fixes his loss at SBOO. St. Petersburg. March 10.—The Czar, on receiving General Skobeleff, said: “I am displeased with you. You doubtless wished to glorify Russia. Look at the results obtained. Before your speech Russia enjoyed certain authority in Europe; now you see her foresaken. Austria irritated and France distant. Gladstone has his hands tied and the Russophobist English party triumphs at finding the foundation on which to base its invectives against what it regards as the bellicose disposition and grasping tendencies of Russia.” Cleveland, March 10.—Mrs. Tempy Davis' Sam was found late this afternoon lying dead in a dingy basement bedroom under a saloon on St. Clair, near Water street, with two frightful gashes in her left side. Her neck, face, hands, dress, bed and the noor were drenched with blood. There was an open razor on the floor where it had evidently dropped from her right hand. She was married in Cincinnati last July to a Chinaman called George Sam, having P™''” 1 '* 1 -' left her husband in Artansas It is supposed she feared* prosecution for bigamy. Wooster, 0., March 10.-The residence of Mrs. Aglesworth, on nortn Market street, was entered last mght and considerable amount of property consisting of money and valuables stolen. The residence of George W. Nichols was also entered, and thirty dol 1 irs take i. The former was entered bv turning the key in the front door, and the latter by prying open a window. No clue. Columbus, March 10. —Joint W. Defrees, of the Miami Union, at Pi-

qua, died to-day. He had been engaged in editorial work for forty years. Pabkebsbukg, W. Va.,March 10.— The steamer Sidney, en route from Cincinnati to Wheeling, when near Ripley landing, W. Va., twenty miles above Pomeroy,at 3 o’clock this morn - ing, burst her main steam pipe and instantly killed Mrs. Little and grandson, of Maysville, Ky., and fatally sca'ded Mrs. Stevenson, of Portsmouth. ()., and the wife of the pilot of the boat. The names of the others scalded and injured more or less are Wm. C. Mills, wife and son, badly scalded. Mr. Mills can not possibly live. They got on at Huntington and registered for Bel'aire. Mr. Faulkner, of Pittsburg, badly scaided. Mr. Caruthers, of Pittsburg, slightly sealded Mr. Warren, of Ohioville, Pennsylvania, slightly injured. Green Lusten, badly scalded. Toby Nash, a deck hand, badly scalded. Alonzo West, a deck hand, badly scalded. The steamer Emma Graham going down the river arrived one hour after the accident and immediately returned to Ravenwood for physicians and coffins. She returned to the disabled boat and took aboard Mrs. Stephenson aud the others who desired to be sent home. San Francisco, March 10.—A Lakeport dispatch rays: Marcis and Jefferson, two Indians who brutally murdered John Hendry last January, were hanged here to-day on a double scaffold. New York, March 10. —R. G. Dun & Co., of the mercantile agency, report the failures of the last seven days at 143, against 128 last week. The eastern states had 28; western, 41; middle, 21; southern, 44; Pacific, 10; New York city, 7. The most significant failure in New York city is William Rutter & Co., an old and respectable house iu the leather trade. The stoppage of Maguin, Guedin & Co., importera of watches, has long been expected. They carried a heavy and expensive stock of Swiss watches, which can not compete with American goods, and their business has been eating itself up for years.

Little Rock, March 11.—Lieutenant Satterle, of the Third United Slates infantry, has been ordered by the war department to proceed to the overflowed district and inspect the supply stations. Adjutant-General Churchill, of the governor's staff, has also been ordered down, and both leave to-mor-row for Arkansas City. A citizen of Arkadelphia arrived to-night from the overflowed country. He said to a Gazette reporter: Friday we went round the neighborhood of Arkansas City on an inspecting tour. While rowing through the woods in a skifl we came upon a half submerged log house. Rowing alongside an upper window we looked in, and a man and his wife and two children occupied places. The man, upon being questioned, said: We did not .expect a break in the levee. The other morning we awoke and found the water all around the house. That floor was lifted up by pressure and we had no means of effecting our escape. As we live a great distance from the river we have no boats, and did not think the flood would bebome so serious. I Lave been living here for ten years and have never before sufficed any inconvenience from the water. I didn't think it would become very deep as we could have waded out. We were foolish enough. I thought a break in the levee bad caused the overflow, and that other breaks would occur and distribute the water, but it kept on rising till we were forced to go up stairs for two days. We have not had any thing to eat. The water is gradually rising, and but for this timely deliverance we must soon have drowned. We took this family to land, about ten miles distant, and provided food. Memphis, March 11.—The Avalanche’s Helena special says: The river has fallen an inch but the overflow in the city has risen an inch. A careful watch is being kept upon the levee, and every effort is being put forth to make assurance doubly sure. New Orleans, March 11.—The river is stationary. The only levee news to-day was a report of the successful closing of the break in Hermitage levee, in St. Charles Paris, near Red church. It is now stated that many plantations in West Baton Rouge parish are protected by back levees, wbicif will prevent an overflow from the Point Coupee crevasse.

Cleveland, March 11.—The developments in the case of Mrs. Tempy Davis Sam, who was found yesterday with her thioat cut, indicated thatsbemay be right in supposing that her busband (Davis) boarded in the house above the basement where she lived. An examination of the book kept by the proprietor of the saloon and boarding house reveals that Edward Davis, a molder, who said he came from Springfield, Ohio, and obtained work here, engaged board for a week from Ma ch 1 in company with than or molder named Thomas Clark. Boeth men disappeared March 3. Cleveland, March 13.—Mrs. F. A. Reynolds, a widow thirty-five years of age, employed in the Cleveland hospital for the insane, drowned herself early this morning in a small creek running through the asylum grounds. About two years ago she removed from Vermont to Oberlin, where she attended college. Morbid sensitiveness appears to have been the cause. Mrs. Reynolds left a package addressed to be expressed to Miss Emma A. Hyde, at Grand Isle, Vt., and the following note, dated Saturday, to be mailed: “My Dear Emma —I send you a few books 1 have here and a little money. I knot* that to you, too, life must often seem dreary and death better. To me it has become unsupportable longer. I know that suicide is murder, but God lias abandoned me, and it matters little now what I do. I have tried to pray since I have been here, but could not. Do not mourn for me, dear, but stand in your own lot and be strong. Have ail the charity you can for me. Affectionately, F. A. Reynolds. The water where the body was found is only t‘:ree feet deep. She attended church yesterday and taught a class in Sunday school. During the three months she has been at the asylum she has often appeared melancholy and spoke uJoon.ily of her past life as if it had been one of sorrow and struggle against adversity. Panama, March 13.—Intelligence has just reached hereof an appalling earthquake in Costa Rica. Advices thus lar received state that four towns have been destroyed. These are Alajueia, San Ramon, Gricia and Heridia In Alajuela alone several thousand of those left alive are homeless. The loss of life has been something 1 fearful. Thousands of inhabitants were swallowed up and the destruction of property widespread.

MISCELLANEOUS. Mississippi has 1,738 Indians* In Milan cremation costs $12,50. Spanish laces are largely Imported. Cincinnati sent 100,000 valentines. Florida has only three daily papers. Arkansas has only six Republican papers. Bonner, of the New York Ledger, is sixty. There are 207 chartered railroads in Texas. Wisconsin is to have a Garfield county. Yokes on nightgowns are going out of vogue. Black is much worn at Washington receptions. Turkey is preparing 150,000 soldiers for the field. One half of the world’s insane are in asylums. Wisconsin has repealed the antitreating law. Voile is the term this season tor nun’s veiling. Vem is a new coined word to signify vegetable diet. The poet Whittier is feeble and has grown quite deaf. The finger-rings of America are worth $58,000,0t0. Over 5,600 Bostonians live off the oyster and clam. New York city’s police made 1,210 arrests last week. The coronation of the czar will cost 13,000,000 roubles. The census of Egypt is to be taken on the 3d of May. Deafness is increasing in the New York public schools. Nashville is retailing Irish potatoes at three for five cents. It cost Wisconsin $301,181 to support her paupers last year. There are 1,216 convicts in the Georgia penitentiary. The winter has been strangely mild, even in St. Petersburg. Trained nurses readily get sls to S2O a week in New York. Last year there were 463 factories built in Philadelphia. Samarkand, in Central Asia,has the telephone in operation. New York city uses 4,263,000,000 gallons of water yearly. Boston’s census of voters by the police gives 83,197 names. There are 1,100 blacks and 115 whites in the Georgia penitentiary. The city of Utica, N. Y., will be fifty years of age on March 1. A soap factory has been found among the debris of Pompeii. New York State has 36,826 school teachers and 1,021,000 scholars. The semi annual dividends payable in Boston aggregate $3,840,836. Chickens at nine cents a pound are a glut iu the New York market. France has averaged a new cabinet once in eight months since 1870. The famous Vermont breed of Morgan horses has virtually died out. Ontario ship $1,000,000 worth of ice to our western states in lhe spring. Boston has 12,886 gas-lamps, and 7,586 of them were broken last year. A woman caught stealing turnips at Quincy, Florida, pleaded insanity. The United States mail service covers an area of 2,970,900 square miles. Champagne is drunk in the private boxes at the opera fn Philadelphia. The cabbage crop of Mobile county, Alabama, sold for $200,000 this year. The cost of the maintenance of the Canadian navy last year was $126,765. Massachusetts coast apples are claimed to have a specially fine flavor.

The odor of boiled cabbage is thought v aristocratic now, owing to the price. £ Mississippi will spend $50,000 for t the encouragement of immigation. f New Orleans pays $1,25 a pound for L a certain brand of Massachusetts butter. 1 In nine months Boston had fifty- ® four eases of small-pox, and only nine j fatal. There are 134,488 colored persons in t Maryland who can neither read nor c write. » West Virginia makes twenty-one 1 per cent of all the nails in the United ( States. j The decision of a Toronto judge makes Sunday shaving illegal in that city. | About 1,000 negroes have emigrat- t ed from Monroe county, Miss., this | year. I An English thief, on a stolen horse, ’ was captured by a policeman on a 1 bicycle. ] Our export ation of fresh beef to England is only about half what it was last year. A Denver witness swore he could drink a keg of beer a day without inebriety. A new national bank has been organized at Omaha, with a capital of $250,000. Forty-two hundred billions of words* ’arespoken in xhe United States everv dav. o ■ — The Freezing Care. By means of freezing parts may be rendered wholly insensible to pain, so that slight surgical operations may be easily performed. When the freezing is long continued the frozen parts may lose their vitality entirely, which will cause them to slough away. By this means, excrescences, as warts, wens and polypi, fibrous and sebaceous tumors, and even malignant tumors, as cancers, may be successfully removed. Small cancers may sometimes be cured by repeated and long continued freezing. Their growth may certainly be impeded by this means. A convenient mode of application in cancer of the breast is to suspend from the neck of a rubber bag filled with powdered ice, allowing it to lie against the cancerous organ. Freezing may be accomplished by applying a spray of ether, by mean's of an atomizer or by a freezing mixture composed of equal parts of pounded ice and salt, or two parts of snow to one of salt. Mix quickly, put into a gauze bag and apply to the part' to be frozen. In three to six minutes •he skin will become white and glistening, when the bag should be removed. Freezing should not be continued more than six minutes at a

time, as the tissues may be hardened, though usually no harm results from repeated freezing, if pr per care is used in thawing the frozen part. It should be kept immersed in cool water or covered with cloths kept cool by frequent wetting with cold water, until the natural feeling is restored. Felons may often be cured, especially when they first begin, by freezing two or three times. Lumbago aid sciatica, as well or other forms of neuralgia, are sometimes almost instantly relieved by freezing of the skin immediately above the painful part. We have cured some of the most obstinate cases of sciatica by this means, after other remedies had failed. INDIANA. Miss Herman, of Jeffersonville, has now fasted fifty-two days. She car last but little lone Attica is to hav new fruit canning factory if tin . izens will assisi the enterprise to th amont of $2,500 A son of Nathan Upham, Dublin had three fingers badly mutilated by a revolving cutting box. Thomas Dunn, of Richmond, an engine-wiper, in the C. A. AC. shops was run over by a switch engine aud killed. •‘Uncle Billy” Williams, the last survivor of the occupants of Fort Hadden, in the war of 1812, died al his residence in Owen county, las' week. The republican party of Hamilton county ask the republicans of tne ninth congressional district to honor Joseph R. Gray with the nomination for congress iu the coming conven tion. A little girl named Garred was at taekedby a vicious dog, while pass ing along the streets of Richmond, yesterday, and badly torn. She was wounded in the elbow and side. The dog was shot by a policeman. Lambert |Byer, aged thirty, got entangled in-the machinery at Pattie’s mill at Madison, losing one arm and breaking a leg; he was terribly and probably fatally injured. He has a wife and two children. A little five-year old eon of Wm. Lewis, of Monroe’s Hill, was attacked by a vicious sow and almost killed before he could be rescued. His clothes were torn off and his arms and body gouged by the tusks of the savage brute. Absalom Flora, a farmer living south of Bedford, found in a fodder stack in bis field a sample case of Jewelry and notions belonging to a traveling agent of Charles Mayer & Co., < f Indianapolis, aud which was stolen from J udah house during a recent tire. Workmen engaged in tearing away some stalls at the fair grounds at Centreville found hidden beneath a manger a lady’s fine gold locket, a beautiful pair of gold bracelets, a lady’s gold watch, a large revolver and a pair of fine shoes; also, ladies’ clothing. Judge R. P. Davidson, of Lafayette, awoke and discovered a burglar standing by his bedside. The judge sprang to his feet and grappled with the man who after a short and sharp conflict succeeded in breaking loose and getting away. Wm. Brizendine, living just north of Greenfield, while engaged in hauling logs was accidentally caught between one of the io«» on the wagon and a tree, and had one of his legs broken in two places and terribly erushed near the thigh. He will probably lose the limb, and possibly his life. Lawrenceburg bobs up serenely from the “header” she took in the Mississippi recently, Jand announces that “she is not seriously hurt. No town in the state has a larger proportion of people who own homes and business property, She does not rest on borrowed capital. The wheels will begin to turn at once.”

The remains of a mastodon, estimated to measure thirty-six feet from the tips of its to the tip of its tail, have been discovered in a bayou two miles and a half of the city, by workmen engaged in excavating for a fish-pond. But a few pieces have yet been discovered, and (the ground is freezing so deep that the work will have to be abandoned for the present. I While Jessie Whitney and Lizzie | Hubbard, who lives in Aderson township, Warrick county, were going home from church Sunday night Lem Hubbard Lizzie’s brother, slipped up behind Whitney and stabbed him in the back with a large pocket-knife, j cutting a gash six inches in length j and two inches in depth, Whitney | is not expected to live. Hubbard has I objected to Whitney paying attention i to his sister, and took this manner of showing it. The body of Abigail J. Knight, who it was supposed, drowned herself in Patoka creek in Orange county some three weeks ago, has been found in a pile of diift wood twenty miles from the place where she was drowned. The skull was mashed in, the face bruised and nose broken, and a distinctmark around her neck, as if made by a rope, used to stranggle her. It is therefore thought by some was murdered, but as she had attempted suicide before, it is ’. elieved that the marks were made by the heavy drift in which she had been in contact for so long a time. It was the same old story at the saw mill of Wesler & Barnes at Stone’s station, four miles north of Winchester. The pump was out of repair, the water was allowed to get low in the boiler, and a rousing fire was Kindled. An explosion followed. The storv is a ghastly one. The body of George W. Wesler was found wrapped around a post, with all the large bones broken, his head split and a great bar sunk in in his face. Robert Randall’s head was mashed flat and one eye and the temple gone. Hudson Clark had his throat cut with a piece of iron or a splinter, and the back part of his head was pinched off. William Yankee’s brad was in the same condition, and his brains ran out on the ground. A piece of casting from the engine penetrated Louis Mann’s side, and lacerated his entrails. John White and Trumbull Yankee were wounded on the head, and Granvilie Barnes has a cut on th* lip. .

To Cuke Beef.—For a small family, where only a small quantity ol beef is cured, this a most, excellent way. Take for twenty pounds of beef one pint of salt, one’ teaspoonful of saltpetre, dividing the ingredients in. to three equal parts, rub them well into the beet on three successive days; the meat is ready to hang up in one week; in this way we dispense with pickles altogether. Watkins Glen, the favorite resort, w»s sold at auction by the sherjs>*'? other day and brought $50,000

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FOR THE CHILDREN. The Merry Fiddler. Someuwes It you listen—listen When the sunlight fades to gray, You will hear the strange musician At the quiet close ot day. Hear the strange and qu.dnt musician On his shrill voiced liddisplay, He bears a curious fiddle On his coat of shiny black. And draws the bow across the strings In crevices and in erack; *"111 the sun climbs up the mountain And flood the earth with light. You will bear the strange musician Playing—playing all the night! Sometimes underneath the hearthstone. Sometimes underneath the floor. He plays the same shrill music. Plays the same tune o’er and o’er; And plays sometimes in pasture, Beneath a cold gray stone, He tightens up the sinews And fiddles all alone. It may be in the autumn. From the corner of your room You will hear the shrill voiced fiddle Sounding out upon the gloom: If you wish to see the player, Softly follow up the sound, And you’ll fine a dark backed cricket Fiddling out a merry i ound!

Success in Life. “Do you see that nice farm house Just over the creek? ’ said Mr. Franklin to his son Amos, as they were riding along the road, to town, one fine June day, “Yes. father. What of it?” “Well, that house and this fine farm of two hundred acres belongs to a man who was once in the poorhouse.” “Oh, father you are trying to get one of your jokes on me now. You nave been in the poor house too, and so have I, but we didn't stay there only long enough to look through it.” “Yes, but Mr. Pierson was an inmate for four years, and was taken out when ten years old and bound to a farmer in this neighborhood.” “Had he no father or mother at home?” ‘ His mother was dead and his father was a miserable drunkard.” “How did he ever make so much money?” asked Amos. "By industry, economy and keeping his eyes open. He went to school six winter terms while he lived with Mr. Dawes, and when he was twentyone he received S2OO and a new suit of clothes, which was the agreement. He woiked the next year at sl6 a month, and the following year he enlisted in the army, getting S7OO bounty. When lie left for the seat of war he had SI,OOO which he loaned at a good Interest. He was in the army two years, and when he returned his SI,OOO had increased to $1,200, and he had S2OO besides, which he had saved from his wages as a soldier. Then he rented the farm he now owns, and managed so well that in three years he bought it, paying half the money down. “There was only an old log house and barn on it then, and the farm had run down under bad management. Well, there were good times for the next eight or ten years, and Mr. Pierson made money fast. He kept steadily at work, day in and day out, took several papers, kept|posted, and let no one cheat him of his earnings. “He payed for that farm in less than five years, and since that, has bought another one adjoining, and put that nice house and barn. And what is more, he is highly respected, and one of the most influential men in the county. He is Master of the County Grange now, and there is talk of sending him to the Legislature. “So you see, my boy, that there is a chance for every one in this country. The poor boy became a rich man by pluck, determination and intelligence, and becomes respected and influential by being honest, brave and true.”

Schools for the Circus. When, at the beginning of an exhibition season, after passing the manager’s inspection, an athlete of any kind gets into the ring, he represents a vast amount of hard and thoughtful labor and instruction. He has been in “winter quarters.” of some kind, but he has also been at “school,” and the younger he is, the more he has had to endure from exacting and often severe teachers. * The larger shows and more enterprising showmen often set up “schools” of their own, connect, it may be. with the establishments wherein they keep and train their quadruped performers. In every such school of the circus there is a good deal of machinery, as well as experienced professor of the are of doing impossible things. There are kept on hand every kind of gymnastic apparatus for the development of activity and muscular strength. These latter vary, of course, with the nature of the lessons the pupil is learning, and at last he is confronted with the very things he is to employ in the presence of watching crowds. By the pitiless severity meted out to all needless failures made in the presence of his exacting trainer, the “school-master,” he is made to understand at an early day that he must never make a failure in the presence of paying spectators. The trainer represents the keeneyed public, and also the demands of his employer, the manager, and he must give a good account of his time and money expended upon the school. llf any boy should be seized with a I “fever” to distinguish himself in the “ring,” nothing would be so likely to cure him as a week or so under a careful and faithful teacher in a winter school for the circus. In nine-ty-nine cases out of a hundred, the scholar would forever afterward be contented t« remain outside the rope circle.

“Let's have some fun with Chinee.” The Chinee thus alluded to turned arouid and remarked; “ You foolee.” “What’s that?” inquiied the hoodlum in a voice of counterfeited thunder. As he strutted up to the heathen, the latter set down bis basket and landed his right in the hoodlum’s eye, knocking him square on his back, with: “Oh, you sonnagunna!” The hoodlum picked himself up from the mud, and remarked in a very moderated tone: “Now, if you don’t pick up v«ur things and walk, I’ll murder you'.” “Me leave basket at washee house, me come back three minutes, mebby two; you stay here.” Tlie Chinese started toward the washhouse to place his basket in safe hands, and was back in less than the appointed time. Meanwhile the hoodlum was nearly a quarter of >» away.—[Salt Lake Tribunes—encedhquHfKhion o f a erus£ vejitjffle, keep an oyster shell in it. /fie shell attracts all thestouv par•tides to itself. '