Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

Queen Victoria has reigned for forty-four years No more Chinese can come to this eoun ry for twenty years. It requires the enormous heat of 3,500 degrees to fuse steel. According to the cable, “Fenianism is rampant’-' in Ireland. Judge Cox, of Minnesota, has been impeach d for drunkenness. Petitions to the president to veto the anti-Chinese bill are pouring in. The bond required of Mr. 8. P. Rounds, the new public printer, is $400,000.

The bond of the treasurer of the United States, who handles all the money, is only $150,000. New York City proposes to bring its water supply from Lake George, 225 miles away, and 322 feet above the city. The daughter of “Bonanza” Mackey soon to be married will receive as a wedding, present from her father $4,000,000 in cash. A colored lecturer in Chicago is claiming that Moses, Luke, Scipio, Hannibal, and other worthies of the bygone time were negroes Secretary oe~ War Lincoln lias ordered an army officer to join his regiment who has been absent from it for seventeen years. A Texas paper says that if the Mormon doctrine bad been set loose in the Garden of EJen, Adam would no have had ribs enough to go round. Rev. A. H. Gillett and Dr. J. H. Vincent, of Island Park and Chautauqua fams are holding a Sundayschool congress in St. Louis, Mo. The controversy between Senators Sherman and Wade Hampton is likely to be revived. The address of both is the United States senate. During the eight years which it has been in existence the postal card system has realized to the government a net revenue of more than $13,000,000. Florida is said to be more prosper ous than ever before. The raising of early vegetables promises to be as great an industry as orange culture.

On an island, nearNingpo, China, the Buddhist priests have a library so arge that twenty-one huge volumes alone are required for the catalogue. “Without exaggeration,” savs the Pall Mall Gazette, "General Skobeleff may be described as by far the most remarkable man of his years in Europe-” • The Cincinnati Gazette says: “It is safe to predict that the reputation of Indiana will not suffer so long as it Is represented by such meu as Senator Harrison.” Mason must not be pardoned too soon. The contributions to “Betty and the baby” would then fell off. The fund should reach SIO,OOO before subscriptions cease. Having finished up President Arthur to their satisfaction, a certain class of papers have now commenced ou his valet, whom they class as “immoral an important Atchison, Kansas, papers report a shower of pebbles at that place last Monday. It is evident that in spite of prohibition the Kansas editors “get em” very bad yet occasionally. The reported death of General Hurlburt, late minister to Peru, maydelay the investigation of the Peru-vian-Chili affair and may forever cover up some important testimony.

The astonishing statement is made that one hundred ami twenty-five farms in the county of Halburton, Ontario., have been abandoned and their former occupants removed to the western states and Manitoba. It is evident that we are annexing Canada very fast. A Venetain glass manufacturer has invented a glass bonnet for ladies. We look upan this as the great bonanza of the age. Every lady wil have one, as she can use it for a mir ror and also see just how she looks by gazing in the back of the lady s hea gear in front of her at church am. at the theatre. Dr. Ktkothek * Kentucky lecturer, is propagating the belief that the Garden of Eden was situated tn the Mississippi valley. His theory derives its chief support the B [° okl y n Eagle thinks from the fact that t e Mississippi valley is the section which has on hand the best stock of snake stories. -_

According to the report of the department of agriculture there is a heavy shortage in the wheat and corn now on hand compared with.the amount in 1081. The report covers the seven great corn and wheat pro states and indicates a compar d • fc h<>rtaee of 213,000,000 bushels, March 20,1881. and also a decrease of 28,000,000 bushels of wheat, or 44 per h ‘:f O X-M‘Xn. th Wi S eonsin ] nMin. esota-which are credited , h 75,00.v-)0 bushels as the crop of I 1881. - AUDITION of INDIANA CROPS. The Indiana bureau of statistics has , , ..sued its first bulletin of crop re- , J ° „ for the state. There is no ques- , bufethat great advantages will be

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given to the farmers and producing classes by the facts this bulletin puts them In possession of, and which will be followed by a like report on the first of every month until the end of the cropping season. We briefly summarize the facts of the April report, which are extremely valuable to farmers: Returns have been received from eight hundred and two township trustees, an intelligent class of officers, representing about equally the whole number of counties in the state. The reports of crops are given on the basis of the following instructions so the reporters, viz: “100 represent the acreage of a year ago. The acreage of the present growing crop should be expressed by the same number if it is of equal extent, or by a higher or lower figure if it has been increased or decreased. “The comparative conditions should be noted in the same way, except that the comparison should not be made with the condition at the same time last year but with & fair average condition for any year, which should be represented by 100, by a lower number, if not a fair average, and higher if above an average condition.” With rare exceptions the reports were very intelligently made, and the tables show the acreage and condition by per cents. It will be noticed that the condition of wheat especially, is most excellent, equaling if not exceeding that of any previous year. The reports respecting condition of meadows and pastures show these not so good as that of wheat. The reports from many of the, counties state that the drouth of last jear seriously damaged the meadows and pastures, and give this as the reason for low per cent, of acreage and condition. This was more generally true of the southern division of the state than of the others. The reports in regard to the condition of apples and peaches are veryfavorable. The surplus wheat and corn from last year’s crops in farmers’ hands is repoited to be very small, viz: Per Cent. Per Cent. Divisions of es Wheat on Hand. Corn on Hhnd. Northern Division, twenty-seven counties, average 22 per cent, 29 per cent. Central D.visod, thirtyone counties, average. .21 " 22 ’* Southern Division, thirtyfour counties, average. .22 “ 15 “ Total average for State 21-3 *1 22 “ The condition of the live stock just at the close of the winter is always interesting to the farmers and in this bulletin is very fully stated. Ho ses are reported in fair to good condition; in the northern division of the state, twenty-seven counties, the per cent, affected by disease is 1.4 In the contra! division, twenty-one counties, 1 per cent., and in the southern division, thirty-four counties, 3.3 per cent, are affected by disease. Harrison county, in the southern division, reports that 21 per cent, of the horses are affected by “pinkeye,” and Crawford county, in the same division, reports 20 per cent, so affected. The other counties in that division run from nothing up to 8 percent. This division suffered greatest last year from the drouth and short crops, and in many sections feed was scarce. Relative to cattle the statistics are as follows:

Northern Division—Three townships of Marshall county,. reports three-tenths | er cent, affected by disease —“murrain” and “black leg.” All the other counties in this division report cattle in good condition. Central Division—ln Morgan county seven -tenths of one per cent, of the cattle are reported “starvation poor,’; and the balance in good condition. In Owen county one-tenth per cent, affected by “murrain.” and in Parke county, t wo-tenths per cent, by “black leg-’’ Southern Division—Lawrence county, two-tenths per cent, affected by “black leg;” Orange county, onetenth per cent, by "hollow horn,” and Pke county, seven tenths per cent, “very poor for want of food." In the northern division of twentyseven counties, 3.3 per cent, of the hogs are affected by “swine plague, or cholera;” thirty-one counties in the central division, 2.4 per cent., and in the southern division of thirty-four counties, 8.2 per cent, are so affected. Otherwise hogs are in good and healthy condition. The sheep affected in any way by disease is, northern division, twotenth per cent.; central division, twotenths per cent. ;and southern division four-tenths per cent. It will be noticed from this tha. live stock is in good condition. The southern divison of the state reports tiie lowest condition, and it must be remembered that it was here that the severe drouth of last season did the most damage.

Newspaper Advertising. The Madison Square Theater comhas several organizations on the road. It has been experimenting m test the value of newspaper advertising as compared to that of posters. It lies a whole page of a newspaper, unite frequently, in the cities its companies visit, and after this season abandoA the bill boards entirely, being convinced that money put in newspaper columns is used to the best advantage. A reporter got the following information on this point from Mr McGeachy, manager of the

“Professor” company: ‘‘The newspaper takes our announcements into parlors boudoirs, mercantile offices and the great hotels and wealthy homes of the land. Where is the sense of dodgers and handbills, which are usually distributed by dishonest boys who throw them into ash barrels and stuff them under sidewalks. Our large advertisements in the newspapers are neat and handsomely bound handbills scattered by the magic of the mails, and distributed through the energy of the newsdealers. Such a distribution could only be secured at the «pe«se of thousands of doll “”H" ’neramouut of money could do it. so per feetiy and effectually.

TELEGIIAI’IIIC. Indianapolis, April B.—Since the' mysterious disappearance of Arthur Mueller, the teller cf the Central bank of this city, experts have been examining the books of the bank. The examination was eon luded at a late hour last night, and the shortage, which at first was supposed to be $2,500, was found to be $30,000. The officers of the bank met in consultation at one o'clock this morning with their attorney, and upon information of the directors he advised the closing of the bank until a further examination could be made to verify the experts’ report. The record showing the accounts of depositors was investigated by Mr. D. M. Taylor, who has had no connection with the bank, and he has found that large amounts have been entered falsely, some of the creditors being charged with too much overdraft, while with others the amounts deposited were too small It was impossible to tell until all the accounts has been audited whether or not there was a shortage, so that while the investigation had beeu going on since Muller left the city nothing definite could be learned until Mr. Taylor had finished his work last night. When he reported the result of his investigation the directors met and decided that it would be best for all interested to close at once, and in pursuance of that decision the z bank will remain shut until rhe stockholders are leady to resume. Mr. Wi dman and Mr. Kennedy were very candid in their conversation, and the latter was sick at heart, because he stated in the press the shortage was only $2,500. He feared that the public might think he had attempted to mislead them. This he had not done. He said that he had given as nearly as he could the true account of the bank’s cendition, and that while it was not probable that that statement would be disproven, still it was then to all appearances and to the best of his knowledge and belief correct. None of the directors are acquainted with the clerical forms of banking, and being dependent upon the statements of their employes, they- have been made victims of misplaced confidence. They are not yet able to tell ’heir exact condition, but are positive that none of their depositors will suffer. Mr. Kennedy stated that the capital stock of the bank is put at SIOO,OOO, and that the amount of deposits is about $lO5 000. He also -aid that the amount < f cash now on hand was nothing like the amount that would be required if there should be a run on the bank. The assets he, however, said were sufficient to protect the depositors and other creditors, and was of the opinion that all the accounts of the bank could be closed up within a year from this time. It is inferred that the assets are very largely made up of bills receivable and real estate. The exact amount of the shortage could not be given, but the directors are confident it would not exceed $30,000, and was perhaps not so much as that. The proper figures will be announced as soon as they are received, which will not be for several days. There is no reckoning how long the bank will remain shut, and It is equally hard to tell whether the present organization will ever revive. Mr. Kennedy said .it would require, at least one year to properly dispose of the assets. This, no doubt, means that it will require careful work to make the assets meet the liabilities, and as there is apparently so little margin it is very probable that the bank will not survive the shock received by the defalcation of the missing teller. Fort Plain,N, Y., Aprils.—About 4UO Italians who have been at work here on the West Shore railroad, not getting their pay to-day as expected, congregated around the Zoller house, where the contractor was stopping, and commenced stoning and tiring into the house. The grand army post was called out and dispersed the rioters, but not before they had done considerable damage. None of the inmates of the hotel were seriously injured, though some of the Italians were wounded by pistol shots fired by the inmates. Trouble is feared tonight, as the Italians threated to burn the town Help from neighboring towns has been asked for, and when it arrives there will be enough to protect the village. St. Joseph, Mo., April B.—A private telegram was received here this evening from New York stating that two men from St. Joseph were arrested in the former city having in their possession SIOO,OOO of St. Joseph four per cent, bonds which they were trying to negotiate. The finance committee of the city council have been investigating the matter this evening and are still in session to-night. They have found that some of the new bonds to the amount stated have been abstracted from the register's office, and no satisfactory explanation can be made as to how they were obtained. The fact is not generally known in the city tonight, for the members of the council have endeavored to keep the matter quiet pending the investigation in progress. Your correspondent cannot give the names of the party implicated in New York, but it is said they are two men who have roomed during the winter in a building on Almond street, in this city. Kansas City. Aprils.—lt was reported to-night that Tucker Basham, who was convicted of participating in the Glendale train robbery, and who was pardoned out to testify against Bill Ryan, was assassinated some ten days ago in Kansas. The James gang swore to take his life, ami it is supposed they have accomplished their threat. Mrs. Basham has written to a lady friend inthiseity that her husband has disappeared, and she believes he has been spirited away and killed.

Norwich, Conn., April 12.—John F. Slater, of this city, has signified bis intention t > create a fund of one million dollars, to be known as the “John F. Slater fund," for the education of freedmen, the fund to be vested in a board of trustees which includes ex-President Hayes, Chief Justice Waite, William E. Dodge, of New York; Gov. Colquit, of Georgia; James P. Boyce, of Kentucky, and William A. Slater, the donor’s son. Mr. Slater explains: “The general object which I desire to have exclusively pursued is the uplifting of the lately emancipated population of the southern states and their posterity by conferring on them the blessingof the Christian education. The disabilities formerly suffered by this people, and their singular patience and fidelity in the great crisis of the nation, establishes a just claim on the sympathy and good will of humane and patriotic men. 1 cannot but feel the compassion due in view of the prevailing ignorance which exists because it is of no fault of their own. Mr. Slater suggests that the education of teachers for the colored race may be the wisest purpose to which

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the fund cau be’ put. If after thirty-three years three-quar-ters of the trustees shall for any reason agree there is no further use for the fund in the form of an institute, Mr. Slater authorized them to apply the capital to the establishment of foundations subsidiary to those existing in institutions of higher education, so as to make them more freely accessible to poor colored students under the present institution of the fund. He especially wishes neither principal nor income to be expended in land or buildings for any other pu poses than that of safe and productive investment foi’ income.

Little Rock, April 12.—A Gazette special from Dallas, Texas, says: A storm combination of rain and hail raged for four hours, commencing about 9 o’clock this morning. After last evening's hail the windows and roofs of the principal buildings of the city presented the appearance of having stood in front of a battery of Gatling guns in full blast. Every metallic roof is perforated and leaking. It has done immense damage to stocks of goods. The total damage in Dallas is estimated at $150,000. The worst of the sufferers are the Daily Herald. I’he damage to the press and, stockroom contents is estimated at SIO,OOO to $12,000. Littleßock, April 12.—A Gazette special from Texarkana, Ark., says: Judge Edwin Bancroft shot John Holtz in the face and head with small shot. The difficulty arose out of the active part Bancroft took in the prose-* cution of one Muzzio, a follow countryman of Holtz, a few days ago in the city court in a scandal case. Holtz is not mortally hurt, but it is feared be will lose both eyes. Bancroft gave bond in the sum of $20,000. Pittsburg, April 12 —The base ball season opened here this afternoon with a game between the Alleghenies and Clevelands. The attendance was large considering the cold weather. The score was: Alleghenies, 2; Clevelands, 11. Milwaukee, April 12.—Mrs. Ladosch found her grandchild, named Gogle, eating white powder and tasted of it to see what it was. Both died, and it was found the poison was acompond known as “rough on rats.” St. Petersburg, April 12.—Five thousand Jews were recently expelled from Moscow.

Osage, lowa, April 12.—Fire this morning destroyed nine buildings. Loss, $11,009; insurance, $4,000. Louisville, April 12.—The present cold spell is remarkable. Sunday the mercury was verging onto 80, while this morning, in the downward turn, it touched 28. Ice was formed both in the city and country, but no heavy frost has been reported. A slight frost is said to have occurred in the country this morning. A reporter has been around among the market people, and information secured is to the effect that young vegetation has been very severely damaged. All through the country strawberries have been killed outright and peaches and apples have been very much hurt. Small traits of all kinds have been generally killed. All kinds of navigation w*iil be put back several weeks. Wheat, has been benefitted. It was too forward in growth. The most serious result will be felt in tiie backset to early vegetation, as beans,peas and vegetables of all kinds were maturing, ami they have been frozen on the stem. Cincinnati, April 12.—Reports from numerous points indicate that the cold last night was quite as intense as on Monday night, the thermometer going down in some places to twenty degrees. Still there are many who maintain that peaches are not all killed. Tiie cloudy and windy with slowly moderating weather will prevent many of the buds from perishing. The weather is perceptibly mild er to-night. All reports agree that strawberries are ali.kil ed. Much fear is felt for wheat, which, in many places, is twenty inches high and jointed, and while many think the frost must kill it, the situation is so unusual that opinions are not final. Cambridge, Ohio, April 12—John Nassett, a farmer sixty-five years old living five miles west of this place, to-day shot his son, John E. Nassett, and then shot himself through the head with a revolver, causing instant death. The elder Nassett had been violent toward his family for years. A year ago he deeded his farm to his son on condition that he should maintain his father and mother during life. The son married and proposed to build a new house. His father said he would kill him if he did, but his son paid no attention to the threat. To-day while his son was dressing stone for the foundation of the house his father crept into a stable twenty five feet distant with a rifle and shot his son through the abdomen. He then went to a bed-room, and placing himself before a mirror shot himself through the head with a revolver. The physician thinks John E. Nassett cannot recover. He has a wife and an infant child.

Detroit, April 12.—At 3 o’clock this moaning the schooner Thomas Parsons, upward bound, collided with the schooner Clayton Belle on the lake ten miles north of Port Huron. The Belle was struck on the quarter and sank in a few minutes. The third mate, John Dillon, and William Sullivan and Thomas Kerwin, of the crew of the Belle, were on deck and were saved, but the eantain and three oth ers were lost. They were below, but came up and got into a small boat which was sunk by the waves by the sinking of the vessel. The names of the lost are Captain Frank A. Calvin, who leaves a family at Oswego, New York; first mate, Nathaniel Brotherton, who leaves a family at Battle Creek, Mich.; D. E. Brotherton, his son; the female cook, Kate Worth. The Parsons was picked up by a tug and was badly damaged. I'he lost schooner was valued at 410,000; insured for $6,000. Her cargo was pig iron, and was valued at $15,000; insured. Pittsburg Penn., April 12.—The western nail association held their annual meeting here this afternoon. The attendance was large, all the mills in the association being represented. The trade was discussed at considerable length and found to be in a very healthy condition. Stocks were reported light, although the .production the last three months was greater than ever before. The tnitlook for the year was also very encouraging, and it is thought that all the nails that can be made will meet with ready sale. In view of this it was unanimously decided to reaffirm the card rate of $3.40. The annual election of officers resulted in the re-elec-tion of those of the past year. The brewers and saloon keepers have resolved to unite in employing legal talent to test the constitutionality of the Pond bill, and an assessment of live dollars has been assessed on each saloon keeper in Cincinnati.

CONGRESSIONAL. senate Washington, April 4. —Mr. Miller, from the committee on foreign affairs, reported favorably with amendments the bill to incorporate the Maritime canal company of Nicaraugua. Immediately after the receipt of the president’s message vetoing the antiChinese bill, the president pro tern, suspended the operation of business to lay the communication before the senate, and directed it to be heard. HOUSE. Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill amendatory of the apportionment bill, providing that no congressional district in a state shall contain 10,000 more population than another in the same state, unless such excess is necessary to prevent a sub-division of the county, but in no case shall the difference in population exceed 20,000, and until tiie states shall comply with this law representatives to tiie forty-eighth and subsequent congresses shall be elected from the same districts which elected them to the forty-seventh cougresa. Referred. The house then went into committee of the whole on the army appropriation bill. Pending action on the appeals the committee rose. The speaker laid before the house a message from the president transmitting a communication from the secretary of state witli regard to American prisoners in Ireland. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, April s.—Mr. Saunders, from the committee on territories, reported without amendment the bill ecentiy recommitted to that committee for the admission of Dakota into the Union. Placed on the calendar. The presidential count bill coming up as unfinished business, Mr. Farley moved to lay it aside and proceed with the consideration of the vetoed anti-Chinese bill. The Chinese bill was then taken up without opposition. On the question. “Shall the bill pass, notwithstanding the objections of the president?” the vote was ayes, 29; noes, 21. 8» the bill failed, two-thirds not having voted in the affirmative. HOUSE.

The h«use went into committee of the whole on the army appropriation bill. A long discussion ensued touching the merits of the court of claims and the quartermaster-general’s department as the tribunal in which claims should be adjudicated. It was enlivened by a brief speech by Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, who alluded to “rebel claims” as a bantling reared and fattened in a Republican tent until the Republican party lost control of the house Then it had driven the bantling to a seat at the door of the Democr >tie tent, and said, we will cry “mad dog,” and when we eome back to power we will feed you again. He intimated that the result of transferring claims to the court of claims would be to admit disloyal claims. The committee then rose and re ported the bill. The bill then passed and the house adjourned. SENATE. Washington, April 3.—Mr. Came, ron, of Wisconsin, presented a memorial from the Good Templars of Wisconsin, protesting against Mr Logan s bill appropriating to states the revenue from the liquor traffic as an educational fund. The memorialists assert that in their opinion “the measure will fasten upon the c untry a devastating and devilish traffic which has not a shadow of excuse for its existence except as founded in avarice, an unholy appetite and tiie determination of the devil to make criminals and paupers of a race and to increase tiie population of bell.” Senate bill to fix a day for the meeting of electors of president and vicepresident, ami provide for and regulate the cou ting of the votes for president and vice-president, and the discussion of the question arising thereon, was further discussed and passed by a viva voce vote. A recommendation was received from the secretary of war tor an appropiiation of $501,331 for deficiencies in the appropriation for army transportation amt supplies for the current year. HOUSE.

A bill w - passed appropriating $150,000 to continue work on the Washington u moment. Mr. Page, if Caii'oruia, made another atienq t to introduce his Chinese bill bill was again met with objection from Mr. Springer, who suggested the bill should first be taken to 11 a white house and submitted to the president for his approva but subsi q tently withdrew his objections. Mr. Pag thereupon introduced his bill, and i vas referred to the committee on education and labor. Mr. We les, of Kentucky, then introduced a bill to regulate, limit and suspend the immigration of Chinese laborers (fifteen years the suspension). R ferred to the committee on I education and labor, as was also the bill introduced by Mr. Berry, of California, to execute treaty stipulations in reference to Chinese (.sixteen years suspension). HOUSE. Washington April 7.—A resolution was adopted directing the committee on expenditures iu the war department to inquire what, if any, abuses exist or have existed in the adjudication of claims in the quartermaster general’s or the commissarv general’s departments, and the third auditor's office. Mr. Washburn, of Minnesota, submitted the conference report on the bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river within five miles of St. Charles, Missouri. Agreed to. The house then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Robinson in the char) on the tariff commission bill. Mr. Haskell, of Kansas, advocated the passage of tho bill, and when he had concluded his speech, the house took a recess. The night session is lor the consideration of pension bills. On Saturday. Leon Day, minister of financa informed a deputation that the stock brokers of Paris have now completely recovered their position. The losses were 130,01X1,000 francs. At Lyons thesituation is less satisfactory. Liquidation there is not completed, and the losses amount to 80,000,000 rancs. Irish government officers are deliberating as to whether they will recommend a continuance of a repeal of the coercion apt. By the destruction ofan elevator at Hawley, Minn.. 150,000 bushels of wheat were consumed. Loss on building and contents abou $200,000.

INDIANA. Rockport has fourteen telephone subscribers. Thirteen prisoner! in the Pike county jail. Street prostitutes nave disappeared from Rockport. The Pike county poor house contains thirty-four inmates. Twenty six new students have enrolled in the academical department at Purdue so far this term. Ex-Vice President Colfax, in a printed card, declares most pointedly, that he could not accept a term in congress. The barbed wire and metal post company have purchased ground neai the junction, Crawfordsville, and will erect extensive manufacturing works. Preston Fielding, an old citizen of New Albany, fell from his wagon, and received injuries that caused his death in half :iu hour. A woman Ifrom Indianapolis, who refused to give her name, became the mother of a child while being taken to the county asylum, at Crawfordsville. Another fire broke out at Ladoga, destroying a barn belonging to Samuel Gill, together with two valuable horses, a quantity of grain and farm implements. The residence and furniture of Charles Ogan, living southwest oi Wabash, were destroyed by fire. Loss $2,000, upon which there was not a dollar insurance. Presten Finley, an old negro man of New Albany, aged fiity-uiue years, fell from his express wagon and subsequently hied from concussion ot the brain. Norman Selby, a twelve-year old son of Jesse Selby, a farmer living near Shelbyville, was thrown from his buggy by u run-away Horse, in that town ami badly hurl. Eddie Fletcher, aged five years, living with his parents on Watt street, Jeffersonville, was impaled on a picket fence, and so very badly injured about the abdomen that the attending physician does not think he can recover. Among the old scraps purchased at the sleamjorge works at New Albany, was a loaded shell, which was placed iu a charge for the fuinace and about to be thrust into the flames, when the character of the missile was discovered and was removed. It is proposed to remove the shops of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago railroad to some more central point on the line, and Latayetle offers fifteen acres of laud and a bonus of $20,000 as an inducement to secure their loca'ion there. A definite settlement of the matter is not expected for some time yet. Michael Murphy, an aged man residing iu Greencastle, was bitten by a bulldog, and his life is now despaired of. The dog had beeu chained for years, and the old man had just loosened him to give him away, when the ferocious brute seized him iu the face, laceratiug it dreadfully. The neighbors ran to nis relief and killed the dog. Mr. J. D. Lovering, of Madison, will soon leave for Germany, for the purpose of procuring the extradition of “Prof.” O. R. Halpert, who swindled him out of $1,50U some years ago. Other Madfoouiaiis suffer id heavily at the same time.

Benjamin 8. Parker will retire from the New Castle Mercury after one more issue, to assume his duties at Sherbrooke, Canada. Mr. Elwood Pleas, formerly of the New Castle Courier, has purchased the Mercury and will hereafter conduct it. Ownie McCrary, aged fourteen years, was horribly mangled by a Lake Shore train at South Bend Sunday evening, and died shortly afterwards. He attempted to jump on <■ cattle car and fell under the rain, which cut his body in two at the hips.

Many persons owning land along the line of the Jackson, Muncie & Indiana railroad have, in building new fences, encroached on the land of the company and actually held possession of the land—some of them for years—and refuse to vacate when requested by the company. Becoming tired of that kind ot work, the company instructed Colonel Stanifer to bring suit against certain parties and on yesterday the supreme court decided in favor of tiie company, even where some of the parties have farmed the land for twenty years, and considered it their own by right of possession, if not purchase, from former occupants. This decision will cause the removal of a good many miles of fencing. M. H. Haskell, who resides near Madison, informs us that one of the heaviest hail storms he ever witnessed swept over that portion of the country in which lie resides at about noon the other day. Hail stones as large as hens’ eggs fell at his residence, and upon tiie river and hills opposite they seemed io be still larger and so numerous that the Ohio river was beaten iuto a white foam ou the surface, resembling a stream covered with a white fluffy frost. The descent of the heavy bail in the water made a terrific roaring l ike the “rushing of many waters.” In the soft mud on the Kentucky shore holes as large as goose eggs may yet be seen, where the hail stones were driven in. The area of the fall was limited to a few miles along the river and hence no damage was done- at least none has oeen reported.

Lieutenant William Hoffman’ Post adjutant at Fort Bennett, D. T., requests the Herald to publish the following singular announcement: •‘Beware! Beware! Beware! The prisoners is at Hunt him down! Hunt him down! Hunt him down! Druggists and apothecaries take special notice! At Fort Bennett, D. T., on the 16th inst., an infamous and dasatrdly attempt was made to poison an entire family - The fiend crept in the dead of night and scattered hatidsful of arsenic over fresh meat designed for the family use. Two persons were severely poisoned, and a fortunate accident only saved the entire family from a most horrible death. Various similar attempt have been made during th- past two years, and suspicion now amounts to a certainty, while proofs are accumulating. The poison could not have been obtained in this vicinity, and the indications are that it was obtained by correspondence and brought here in the mail, and all druggists and apothecaries in the land are hereby called upon the examine their records for the past two years for the name of any person at this post who may have given an order for any kind of poison. Any information on the sub-

ject addressed to the Post Adjutant, Fort Bennett, D. T , will be thankfully received. This is the cause of humanity, and in cases like this every individual owes it to himself, his family, and his kind to join and swell the hue and cry that should never be abandoned until the reptile is hunted to his death. All newspapers, far and wide, please copy.” SCIENCE. The friction of a belt is claimed to be double as much oh wood as it is on iron. The Mount Etna observatory,recently completed, is 9,953 feet above the level of the sea. Silver is the most perfect reflecting metal there is absorbing less than 3 per cent, of the rays of the light. To tin small castings boil them with scraps of block tin in a strong solution or ertam of tartar. If you wish to produce a glue that will resist water boil one pound of glue in two quarts of skimmed milk. The use of saliclyc acid for the preservation ot food has been prohibited by the French As injurious.

Lightening of railroad trains generally in Germany by means of electricity is eonsid re lto be merely a question oi lim. , As to the discovery by Professor Ragazzoni of human remains in tertiary deposits at Castenedolo, in Italy M. Gabaiel de Mortilet has expressed the opinion that the bones themselves belong to a later period than the beds in which they were found. A patent recently granted in Vienna and Berlin uses bands of steel, which are tempered and hardened,to transmit motion from one pulley to the other, the facer of the pulleys being turned perfectly flat and then faced with a varnish of rosin, shellac, and asphalt. Considering that all the sulphur used in this country is imported, the New York Mining Record says that it seems strange that little or nothing has been done to develop our sulphor deposits, such, for instance, as the rich sulphor ores in the copper region of East Tennesee, which contain 40 to 50 per cent, of sulphur. J. A. Stair, in the Canada Pharmaceutical Journal, has shown that one drop of lager beer in 500 drops of distilled water will discharge the color, of the peimangated solution very rapidly. Even one drop in 1,000 drops discharged the color,but more slowly. If water be braught for analysis in beer bottles it might be condemned unjustly by this test. a Vienna chemist has recently discovered a new variety of glass. It does not contain any silicia, boric, acid potash, so la, lime or lead, and is likely to attract the attention of all professionals on account of its peculiar composition. Externally it is exactly similar to glass, but its Isutre is higher and it has a greater refraction of equal hardness, perfectly white, clear, transparent’ can be ground and polished, completely insolluble in water, neutral’ and it is only attracted by hydrochlooic or nitric acid, and is not aftectqd by hydrofluoric acid. It is easily fusible in the flame of a candle and can be made of any color. Its most important property is that it can be read fused on to zinc, brass and! iron It can also be used for the glazing of articles of glass and porcelain. As hydrofluoric acid has no effect in the new glass it is likely to find employment for many technical purposes.” Some researches on the development of eiptogamic vegitation within and without hens, eggs have been made by M. Doreste. Such vegetation he found on most of sixty eggs submitted singly to artificial incubation in a small vessel hermetrically closed with a caoutchouc stopper. The sqores had properly entered the egg during Its passage from the oviduct. The resulting vegetal ion may prove fatal to the embiyo in certain circumstances.

At a meeting of the Royal Society, Edinburgh, last month, Dr. D. J. Hamilton read a paper on the circulation of the corpuscles of the blood. The rapid gliding central motion of,the colored corpuscles and the slower rotational peripheral motion of the colorless carpuscles were, lie held, to be explained by the fact that the lat- j ter were specifically lighter than the bliod plasma’ while the former were, of the same specificfic gravity as the fluid in which they were born along. In Remann’s process for rendering cloth waterproof the fabric is passed slowlv by machinery through a tank divided into three compartments’ the first containing a warm solution of alum,the second a warm solution ot lead acetate, and the third pure water, which is constantly renewed. The cloth on passing from the latter is brushed and beaten to remove the salt adhering to the surface’ and finally hotpressed and brushed. In this case lead sulphate is deposited on the fibres. “Ozone,” says Mr. R. B. Warder, “has been largely advertized within a few months as a new kind of preservative for all kinds of animal and vegetable substances. The gas is produced by the combustion of a fine dark powder of cinnamon odor. This substance consists of sulphur mixed with a little carbonaceous matter. On burning, only .09 per cent of ash remains. The so-called “ozone” is sulphurus anhydride, whose destructive action on the germs of fermentation has long been well known. To destroy the black-points, fleshworms or comedons which are found on the face, and especially near the nostrils, Dr. Unna prescribed the tollowing : Kaolin, four parts; glycerine, three parts; acetic acid, two parts with or without the addition of a small quantity of some etherial oil. With this pomade the parts affected are covered in the evening and if needs be, during the day. After several days the comedones can be easily pressed out. of the skin. Bandaging with vinegar or lemon-juice or diluted hydrochloric acid gives much the same effect.

A Story of Two Virginia Crows. The following crow story is vouched for by a reliable gentleman who dwells in the marshes of Totuskey: Daniel Thompson, a colored man,was driving along the road on Monday when his attention was attracted by two crows that were apparently engaged in mortal combat. Taking in the situation at a glance the old fellow crept quietly up to the scene of action and deftly placed his bag over the combatants,both of which he bore off in triumph. One has since died from his wounds, but the other is still a captive in 'Uncle Daniel's cabin. Samuel Twine, colored convict from Cincinnati, was caught in a belt at the Columbus prison shops <*•' killed. ' nf-

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AIRY FAIRY LILLIAN. THE LATEST CHICAGO TRIBUNE NOVEL “Can jou save him, doctor?” “Damflno.” Winsome Lillian McGuire looked up with her rare blue eyes, dewy with tears, into the luce of. the young physician who had neen summoned in hot baste from the restful quiet of a poker game to the palatial residence of Stuyvesant McGuire in Older t at his skill and knowledge— he fruit of years of study and toil —might if possible bring back to health the grayhaired old man who now lay tossing in mortal agony. Lillian McGuire had known Aristides W. Hennessey since the days when they were botli little children, and not six months agone she had stood before him in all her recal beauty, her velvety eyes draped io a mist of tears, and while the soft, pear y flesh of her beautiful arms touched his neck with a pulsing warmth that would make your head swim, had said that she could never lov- him, uxevpi as a bro; tier. As Aristides had three sisters, and had passed the greater por'ion of his life sparring with them, this statement did not strike him favorably, and he went away witli a dull, dead feeling in hisyoung, blithesome heart, and a large chunk of plug tobacco in his merry spring pants. And now he was back again in the house —that house from which tie had erstwhile so often stolen silently and sadly aw«y when the proprietor was unexpectedly found at home, and which he had left, as be supposed, for good, in the balmy daysof June, when the sweet-scented breath ot earlysuramer was kissing into life the myriad forms of flora! beauty that lie with such silent sweetness upon the veT-dure-clad bosom of the earth. These thoughts had surged through his mind as he mounted the front steps in obedience to the hasty summons of a liveried servant. He saw the old familiar door-mat with the word “welcome” worked in its center—that fateful word that had gleamed up at him in all its lurid distinctness and mockery, one night when old Mr McGuire opened the door in response to Aristides’ timid yank at the beil, and said, in the cold, county Antrim tones he knew so w’ell how to use, that Miss Lillian was not at home and probably wouldn’t be for seven or eight years. In the hall stood the hat raek, beside whose gaunt form with its spectre-like arms he had so often lingered in the mellow half-light of the turned-down gas, with Lillian's head resting trustfully above his liver-pad and her coralinecorsetpulsing gently against his suspender. All these scenes came back to him with vivid distinctness as he stood by the 1 edside of the sick man and looked tenderly down at Lillian, who, with paleface and rumpled bangs, had knelt by her lather’s side, and buried her nose in the pillow which supported his head. Presently she looked up al Aris.ides with a weary’ yearning, St Louis look,that would have melted Charles Frances Adams. The young man bent quickly forward. "Liliian , my love,” he said can it be possiible that ” “Kneel by my side,” said the girl in tender, porterhouse steak tones that thrilled his very blood. Unmindful of the bagginess in the knees of his pants that such an action would certainly produce, unmindful of everything but the fact that he loved Lillian McGuire with a wild, passionate, Dearborn avenue love that leaked not of matinee tickets or ice-cream, Aristides knelt by the girl’s side placing his strong arm around her tapering waist, lie Kissed her tenderly just aft of her starboard ear. It wasn't a very easy job to settle this young man. “Do you stilt love me. Aristides?” .said Lillian, making a bluff to blush as she spoke. “You know I do,” was the reply,” and that I would risk my very existence to gain your love in return.” The girl smiled a glad six button smile. 1 believe you,” she said“and I tell you now here in the presence of sickness.perhaps death, that if you save my father’s life my darling, idolized, sour-mash papa, 1 will marry you ere the crocus sprouts.” “Enough,"replied Aristides, rising to his feet. “Your father shall be saved. I swear it, by my halidom. I don’t know what “aiidom means, | and like enough I haven’t got one, but I swear it all the same. Bring me a bottle of Riordan’s Railroad Relief.” The medicine was brought, and the sick man quaffed it. In two minutes he was well. ,‘You have saved him,mj’ darling!” said Lillian, kissing Aristides, fondly, “and 1 will redeem my promise. But tell me, sweetie’what ailed the old man” “Colic,” was the reply, and with a wild, mocking laugh Aristides fled intothedark ness.

Married Folks Would be Happier. If home trials were never told to neighbors. If they kisi ed and made up after every quarrel. If household expenses aver. proportioned to receipts. If they tried to be agreeable as in courtship days. If each would try and be a support and comfort to the other. If each remembered the other was a human being, not an angel. If women were so kind to their husbands as they are to their lovers. If fuel and provisions were laid in during the high tide of Summer If both parties remembered that they were married for worse as well as better. If men were as thoughtful for their wives as they were for their sweetheart. If there were fewer silk and velvet street costunes, and more plain, tidy house dresses

If there were ewer ‘please darlings’ in public and more common manners in private. If wives and husbands would take some pleasure, a« they go along, and not degenerate into mere toiling machines. Recreation is necessary to keep the heart in its place, and to get along without it is a big mistake. A gentleman in Paris owns a bandsome and valuable dog named Bismark. He recently received a note from the German Embassy inviting him to remove the name' from the dogs Collar aud to cease calling the animal by it under pain of proseeu tion upon the ground that the patronymic belongs exclusively to the Ger- • man Chancellor and the Embasip* cannot allow it to be publicly a»"' to a dog * ’T,In a Denver (,<!“’ James MuH'reflect'-