Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. J. HILL. Editor and Business Manager. TXRMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER * YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DKCATUB, INDIANA. Office over Adams Co. Bank2ad door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Rest donee en north side us Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill. 25jy79tf ~~w.l lm yers - Brick A* Slone .11 anon Contract DECATUR, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in bis line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n45m3. 1 N. WICKB, J. T. MERRYMAN. WICKS 4 MERRYMAN, .Attorneys at Law AND Heal Estate .1 gents. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and ■Kjatoh. PaXition, settlement of decedent’s estates, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs in Stone s building—4th door. vol, 25, no. 24, yl. DR-KITCH MILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of •ach month to treat all Chronic Diseases. Consultation free. Call and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write to him and make a statement of your case.—v2on36ly. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, Spectacles, cfcoRepairing done at lowest prices to guar antee good and sound work b. Allison, Pre«*t. W. H. Nnuax.CMhler. B. Btvdava««b, Vice Prea’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSON & HUFFM AN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATUK, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining eauntie*. Especial attention given to collections and titlew' to real estate. Are No tarie* Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real ewtate bought, sold and rented on rea•onsbla terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2,1. C 0. F. building. 25jy7’Jlf ‘ FRANCE 4 KING. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR. IN DIANA. ■ E. N. WICKS, _ ATTORNEY AT LAW, DKCATUB, INDIANA. L, All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone's building filh door. v25n24 year 1. , 8?G. HASTINGS, M. D. I HOMOEOPATHIST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DKCATOB, INDIANA. N All call* day or night promptly attended io. Office in Sindabaker's building, first doer south of Court House Square. Vol. 25 No. 14. I THE OECATUB WOOLEN MILLS RUNNING AGAIN! Having purchased the Eicher Wool , en Milla we are prepared to announce to the public generally that we have for sale at Bottom Prices at our factory on the corner of Ist and Jefferson Streets a fine line of strictly ALL WOOL GOODS, Os our own Manufacture. We ea rnest )y solicit all former patrons of the Eicher Woolen Mills to come and see us, as we expect to reciprocate your patronage by honest, fair dealing. We will pay you the highest market price in cash for your wool, or make anv exchange for goods. Call and see our stock of FLANNELS, BLANKETS BATTINETS, JEANS and STOCKING YARNS before purchasing elsewhere, we promise to furnish you a better artiole for LESS HOKEY! Than you can buy anywhere else. MYERS BROS. Deeat-u J May 5, 1881. ts

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LOOKING FORWARD TO 1884. Half way between elections, some are beginning to trouble themselves about the side issues on which the Democratic canvass of 1884 is to be made. We observe especial animation in rinks oft lie Democrats who want free trade. Tariff for revenue only is tin issue for 18S4, says that clarion-voiced prophet of progressive politics, the editor of the Courier-Journal. Mr Henry Watterson seems to have been inspired and encouraged by the result of his experience of two years ago, when he was ehairman of the Democratic platform committee. Our distinguished friend Frank Hurd, of Ohio, who has been too long out of activ" politics, also wants to make the next campaign on the free trade issue. The Washington Post is led to remark that the tariff is about the only issue tlie Jeffersonian democratic partyjhas left. Now, tlie democratic paity all alone cannot make free trade an issue. It takes two parlies to make an issue; forjan issue is the presentation of alternatives between which to choose, if tiie republican party should dtclare its adherence to the principle of a tariff for protection as tiie chief and controlling proposition of its policy; and if the democratic party should set up free trade in tlie same way, then the democratic party might lie said to make an issue with tlie republican party on the question as between free trade and protection. But tliis is not likely to happen in 1884, for two reasons: First, the Republican party does not go for protection in any’ unqualified,exclusive way; secondly, the Democratic party does not go for free trade in any decided, exclusive way. There are Republican protectionists and Republicans free traders; Democratic protectionists; yet there are probably more Republicans than Democrats who are protectionists; and probably more Democrats than Republicans who are free traders. So far as tlie tariff question is concerned tlie Democrat who is in favor of a tariff for revenue only is the brother and ally of the Republican who wants free trade, while he is the opponent and political enemy of the Democrat who believes in a littie protection. Ts, then, Messrs. Watteson and Hurd succeed in making free trade tlie issue in the next Presidential contest, they will succeed in breaking up the Republican and Democratic parties, and in forming two new political organizations, different in purposes and professions from those that, now exist. Now, are Mr. Watterson and Mr. Hurd and the Democratic free traders able to do that tiling? And if they finally break away from the Democracy on tliis issue, as they are certainly’ capable of doing, will the Republican free traders and their ablest organ, the New York Times, go with them ? Will even the semi-indepen-ent Evening Post, the most constant of tlie trade journals, withits array of able editors all free traders, leave the Republican party to go into a free trade party in whidli Democrats and ex-Confederates predominate? We shall watch with interest for the answer which facts may perhaps make to these questions. Besides, if Messrs. Watterson and Hurd should be able to create a new party, a free trade party and, put themselves at the head of it, in the summer of 1884, would they succeed or would tlie be defeated in tiie fall of the same year? Are there more protectionists than ree traders now in tlie United States, or are the free traders in the majority ? That is another question to which facts may perhaps give an answer. Meanwhile it is certain that an important political issue two years lienee will be the issue of honesty or dis honesty, economy er extravagance in tlie administration of public affairs. If any party wants to make a show in electing tlie next president, it behooves that party to get on tlie right side of this dividing line without much delay. The supreme court in Ohio has pronounced the Pond law unconstitutional. This doer away witii the special tax on saloon men. The Smith law, or the law enforcing the closing of the liquor traffic on Sunday, is still in tact, and cannot so easily be swept from the statute books. The efforts to enforce it will doubtless be pressed with vigor. When the present constitution of Ohio was submitted to tlie people a clause was voted on separately for license or no license. Never in the history of affairs was their such unanimity between the saloon men and the strong, ultra temperance men Both voted “no license,” and the proposition was carried by a stroug vote. But the temperance men woke up to the fact that they were out-generaled. No license meant free trade In whisky, and saloons from that day paid nothing for the privilege of driving a flourishing business, and never will until the old constitution : s changed. Is suicide increasing in this country? A tally kept from the 15th of February until May 30, reveals more than two hundred eases, the majority young men under thirty and young girls under twenty-three—that is to say in the consumate flower and bloom of life. It is bad enough for the old and distressed to take their lives, but who can explain why those on the sunny side of existence should seek a self inflicted death? Two hundred new bills were introduced In congress the other day.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, Lb JIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1882

TELEGRAPHIC. Cincinnati, June 8. —At the session of the supreme lodge o' United states Ancient Order of United Workingmen, iu this city, tiie following officers were elected for the ensuing year to day: P. 8. M., W. J. J. Upchurch, of Missouri; 8. M IV., W. H Baxter, Michigan; 8. F., M. W. Kish, Colorado; 8. 0., T. A. Case, New York; 8. 11. R , 8. 8. Davis’ Ohio; 8. R , M. W. Socket, Pennsylvania; 8. G., R. H. Flanders, Georgia; 8. W., R. M. Cotton, Ontario; 8 trustees, Learvy and Russ, New York. The next session was appointed to be held at Buffalo, New York, in June next. Cairo, 111., June B—i urg ars entered the postoffice at Columbus last night by the use of skeleton keys, blew the safe open with powder, and secured about $2,0 0 in government checks and a small amount of postage stamps; also 150 or 200 watches. The policeman on the beat heard tiie explosion, but thought it was a pistol The burglars were accompanied by two women, and are supposed to have escaped by skiff. As yet no clue has been obtaiiiiai as to their identity. La Crosse, Vvis., June B.—The Republican Leader lias reports to day from La Crosse. Vernon, Monroe, Tremption, and Buffalo counties giving a statement of the condition of the crops, and an estimated the probable yield of the coming harvest. The unusually late frosts experienced this year have haa a disastrous effect on fruit, and little is looked for even by the most sanguine. Owing to the partial failure of the pastyears, the farmers retired this crop to the back ground this year and are turning their attention to other cereals. In other counties from the reports received, corn, oats, and barley are in the ascendant,while sugar cane comes next. An increased acreage of potatoes is also reported. All correspondents agree in estimating average yields. Pittsburg, June B.—There are no indications as yet that tlie action of tlie manufacturers'meeting yesterday in resolving to resist the granting of any advance whatever over the present scale of wages will soon cause any material change in the iron situation. The iron workers seem to have lost no confidence in their final success, notwithstanding the united stand taken by the manufacturers. To-day most of the mill owners departed for their homes. Mr. McDonald, of the St. Louis Iron and Steel company, who was the only manufacturer who voted no to the resolution last night against granting an advance, said this afternoon that for unanimity of action and a determination to take a stand for mutual protection, be had never expected to see the iron men of this country’ as he saw them yesterday. In spite of all that has been said to the contrary, the Pittsburg manufacturers are an absolute unit in the determination to resist tiie demand for an advance, and to combine for protection in the future. The question of employing union or non union men did not come up at all. The plan in general adopted seeks to provide measures which will relieve the mills oppressed by a strike aud to make common cause against the unjust demands by tlie laborers. Another meeting of the new created association will be held in July, the exact date not being fixed. Coal troubles are quiet, aud the operators are taking matters quite easy, while the miners are making preparations fir their summer camp near McDonald’s. It is expected that 3,000 miners will participate, and a general uood time is expected. The miners at Scott Haven, on tlie Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, have all goue to work, having signed an agreement to work lor six months at the reduction. At other points the situation is unehanged. St. Louis, June B.—Two corps of engineers left here last night for Springfield, Missouri, to survey a road from Springfield to Harrison, Arkansas, a distance of oue hundred miles. This road is being constructed by the St. Louis and San Francisco line, and will open a rich agricultural and mineral country in central and northern Arkansas. It will be pressed to completion as rapidly as the road can be graded. It is proposed to extend it to Yellville, Arkansas, and then southeast to tlie interior of Arkansas. The road is built as a feeder to tlie 'Frisco line, and to draw the trade of Arkansas to St. Louis. A dispatch front Dallas, Texas, says a large company of well to do representative negroes, from Mississippi, passed through last night, en route to Chihuahua, Mexico. They will prospect in the mining and agricultural regions, and if the country suits and they can secure property cheap, and the Mexican government is friendly toward them, will settle there, aud be followed in the fall by 200 of the best colored families in Mississippi. Tlie plan is to establish a colony. Evansville, Ind., June B.—The Evansville will be repaired here. The outside flue of her larboard boiler collapsed while she was discharging freight at Calhoun, at 3:30 Tuesd' y a. ni., blowing out both ways. Three of her crew have died. Frank St. Johns, the fireman, Henry Ewing (white) and Harris) n Mallory rcolon d), musters, ami George St. Johns (white)’ fireman, Jeff Da\enport, Perry Porter and Wes Burch (colored),musters, are seriously injured, and some of them are expected to die. Eight or ten others were more or less seriously injured. Owen Yitmore, the mate, was blown overboard witii two hogs heads of tobacco, aud slightly scalded and somewhat bruised. He walked off the boat here and will recover. Chief Engineer Baker was blown overboard, but escaped uninjured. None of the officers except the mate, and none of the passengers were injured. There -were many narrow escapes. The Bowling Green will take her place Saturday. Sr. Louis, June 9.—A Post-Dis-patch special from Richards, Va., says: Armstrong Gray (colored), was hanged about noon, at the Powhattan court-house. The execution was private, and a high barricade was built around the scaffold to keep out the spectators. Thousands thronged the streets. Gray slept well last night On going to the goaffohi lie said he was ready to die. Only two reporter-, u>ne clergyman and the county officers, fifteen in all, were admitted. Gray killed his son, a boy of fourteen, for stealing molasses out of a can. Delchos, 0., June 9, —One of tiie large mogul engines, No. 15. in charge of Engineer Barney Dennis, while shifting cars in the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis yards here, this afternoon, ran off the track into the ea- ‘ uai, crushing the canal bridge to atoms and sinking the engine to tlie bottom. The engineer aud fireman both jumped from the cab while she was sinking. San Francisco, June 9.—A San Jose dispatch says that Mrs. Guade-

I lupe Flares was assassinated on the street at Los Gatas last night. Her former husband, John Waverly, rej cently released from the penitentiary, I is supposed to have murdered tier in revenge for her having obtained a divorce and remarried during hiS incarceration. Wilkesbarre, Pa,, June 9.—The mine of the Lehigh and Wilkesl arre Coal company is on fire. One liuu--1 dred men are engaged in fighting th . flames. At the time tire Are was dis- . covered, a large number of miners were in 'be shaft, and were com- . pelled to travel through some abandoned workings in order to make their escape. This is the third time ’ the mine bas been on fire, and it is known as an extremely troublesome ’ colliery. St. Louis, June 9—A Post-Dispatch I special from Kansas City, says the I bank robbers, four in number were , surrounded in the woods about ilnr- . teen miles northwest of Kirksville, at ) 6 o’clock tliis morning, and finding I resistance useless, surrendered. They I were taken to Kirksville and from , there will be taken to Brookfield, at , 2p. m., under a heavy guard. Two of the prisoners are recognized as Fox ) and Morris, but the other two will . not give their names. Friends of the robbers are congregated at Kirksville, ' and say the piisoners shall not be . taken to Brookfield. A fight is looked , for. Chicago, June 9. —All the landlords arrested for renting rooms to gamblers have been discharged, together with nearly’ all the gamblers themselves, it being said iu court that there was no evidence to be obtained that would make a case against them. New York, June9.—Notwithstanding tliat business still shows a very restricted volume, there is an evident improvement in feeling in commercial circles, because ol the near approach of the harvest, under circumstances continuously favorable to a large yield. The chief drawbacks to the present situation are the strikes at Pittsburg aud elsewhere. Wheat declined in tlie early part of the week, but at the close it was one • to two cents higher, and yesterday’s deliveries of winter goads for export were ■, little stronger, and a fair amount of speculation. Corn has been more active on speculation, but at irregular prices. Oats has been unsettled, but closes steady with more speculative busines< and quiet on local wants. In lard and pork the trade has been better and a good speculative demand is reported. Higher prices are indicated by advices from the west. The feeling in the cotton market is unsettled. In wool the tendency is a little upwards, though the feeling is unsettled as to new crops. Stocks of desirable wools are now very low. The petroleum market is active and unsettled. Refined is a little lower. Exporters, in view of the large production. are indifferent. In the freight markettthee _ e is considerable inquiry for petroleum room, but otherwise it is very quiet. The cheese market is very firm, notwithstanding the large arrivals. Yesterday was the biggest day of the season, and over 20,01)0 boxes came into market. In butter the situation is not changed. The dry giods trade has been light, and new business not extensive. Tlie country trade buys captiously. The seasonable weather is likely to improve the demand and the outlook is belter than last week in all departments of trade. In boots and shoes a fair trade is reported, but not very active. Retailers are busy and stocks will have to be replenished soon. The manufacturers are still active and have large orders ou hand and plenty coming in. Altogether tlie prospects are pretty good. The leather trade is without feature, a steady business being done at old pticeg. The strikes are having < ut little effect upon trade in American pig iron as yet. Transactions are numerous, and the volume of trade is no smaller than before tiie strikes. Scotch pig is quiet. Iron and steel rail business is quiet. Tea, coffee and sugars dull. Cincinnati, June 10.—At 9 this morning a committee of workmen from the iron mills met the proprietors of the iniljs and made an agreement w’itli them to eliminate the word “forever” from the contract, and to go to work on Monday, under the terms of the compact of last October thus amended. Prices at present will be the same as paid when they quit, aud will so remain until a scale is fixed at Pittsburg, when that will be tlie Cincinnati scale. Davenport, June 10.—The magazine of the Oriental Powder company was struck by lightning last night and exploded witii terrific force. laiss $1.00(1. The stones were hurled in every direction, one weighing eighty pounds a quarter of a mile. A horse was killed at a distance by’ another. One was thrown into a house and striking a bed where two children slept. Tiie windows were broken miles away, and the report and jar was noticed eiglit miles off Pittsburg, June 10.—The iron situation continues without important change. The manufacturers have been spoken to this afternoon and say that a settlement of the troubles in Cincinnati and resumption at that (glint on Monday will not affect the situation there. The amalgamated associations are getting ready for a labor demonstration on the 17th inst. The procession w’ill be oue of the largest that ever marched in Pittsburg. Delegations from Ohio, New York, West Virginia and Kentucky will participate, and it is expected that from 20,000 to 25,000 men will be in line. Upper Sandusky, 0., June 10.— About three o’clock this morning the extensive chair factory, with dwelling attached, of Fred Bieders, situated in Marseilles, this county, was disovered to be on fire aud by day-light the large structure was entirely consumed, together with tlie contents. The aggregate loss is upwards of $5,000, on which there was little or no insurance. It is thought to be due to the work of an encendiary. The arrangements have been completed for holding a celebration on the grounds where Colonel William Crawford was burned at the stake by the Delaware Indians one hundred I years ago. The spot is situated about eight miles north of here, on tlie I’ymoclitee creek,and near a town beating the name of (.’rawford. Tlie celebration begins to-morrow am’ : will continue overßuuday, under the ; management of tlie Crawford post, G. A. R-, of Carey, who will hold acamp tire to-morrow night. Several neigh- ] boring posts, including the one at; Toledo, have signified their intention j of being present. Ex-President Hayes, Generals W. H. Gibson and C. M~. C. Lee, and Moody, the evangelist, will be present and take part in the exercises. Excursion trains will be run and an immense throng is expected Sunday.

? CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. ' Washington, June 6.—Mr. Slater 1 introduced a bill prohibiting and 1 making it a misdemeanor lor government employes to accept bribes for political purposes Referred to the committee on civil service. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, offered a resolution, and it was adopted, requesting the committee on postoffices to report upon the propriety of reduc ' ing the rate of postage on letters. The armyappropriation billwasagain considered, the question being upon ■ the compulsory feature of the retire- ' merit clause. Agreed to. Tlie remaining committee amend- ‘ ments were agreed to, except one striking out the appropriation for i ammunition, tools, etc., for target practices. 'The total of this item, as ■ passed by the house, was $lO9 000. Mr. Hawley moved to allow SIO,OOO for the purpose. Agreed to. Mr. Logan moved an insertion of an item appropriating $ 100,000 for the erection or an army and navy hospital on the government reservation , at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Adopted. Mr. Plumb offered and advocated an amendment authorizing the en- . iistment of LOCO men for frontier service in emergencies. Ruled out, as involving general legislation on the appropriation bill. the previous discussion upon excepting General Sherman from the compulsory retirement was reviewed, upon a renewal of the former motion by Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, and by Mr. Hale to except General Sheridan. The latter motion prevailed—yeas, 29; nays, 22. A party vote, except that Messrs. Fair, Cockrell and Butler voted aye with the Republi - cans. The whole subject was then tabled, yeas, 31; nays, 18, and the bill passed—--42 to 11. Mr. Hale submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to the bill for the admission of Dakota. It provides for the speedy and efficient collection of all existing municipal debts or liabilities within the limits of the proposed new state. Referred. Adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, June 6.—The report of the committee on ways and means submitted upon the resolution offered by Mr. White, relating to the passage of the bill extending the bonded period for distillers’ spirits, was ordered printed and laid on the table. A bill was reported to suspend the issue of silver certificates, and limit the coinage of silver dollars to the requirements of the people. House Calendar—Mr. Page reported back the river and harbor appropriation bill. A report was submitted upon the Northern Pacific railroad land grants. The bouse then, at 12:40, went into a committee of the whole, with Updegraff, of lowa, in the chair, on the i general deficiency appropriation bill. The bill was immediately read by sections for amendments. Mr. McCook, of New York, called attention to the clause appropriating $32,328 to meet the liabilities incurred by the Yorktown centennial commission. After some further debate (in which it was disclosed that the bill had already been paid) Mr. Cobb moved to strike out the clause. Rejected. The house then, in committee of the whole, considered the general deficiency' appropriation bill. On a point of order raised by Mr. Holman, of Indiana, items aggregating $11,500, for the payment of clerks in the offices of the secretary of the treasury, register of the treasury, comptroller of the currency, and tirst comptroller of the treasury, were struck from the bill. Mr. White, of Kentucky, moved to strike out the clause appropriating $210,000 for deficiencies in the internal revenue bureau. Rejected. After some further consideration of the bill the committee rose and the house adjourned. SENATE. Washington, June T.—The bill providing for a public building at Clarksburg, West Virginia, passed. A resolution from the committee on privileges and elections to pay the administratrix of John C. Underwood $5,000, for time and expenses in prosecuting the claim to the seat in the senate from Virginia, met with considerable opposition. Messrs. Cockrell and Saulsbury disputed the assertion in the committee. Mr. Sherman, of the committee recommending the bill, said he had not ■ been aware of that fact,and intimated that he regarded it as fatal to the claim The bill was then laid aside. Consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill occupied the remainder of the day. After an executive session the senate adjourned. ‘HOUSE. Washington, Juhe 7.—Mr. Sparks apologized to Mr. Cox for his remarks made yesterday while the debate on the deficiency bill was going on. Mr. Cox accepted the apology in the same kind feeling in which it had been tendered. The bouse then went into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the general deficiency appropriation bill. After conducing the consideration of thirty-two of the sixty-three pages of the bill, the committee rose. Eulogies on the late Representative Allen, of Missouri, will be delivered June 23d Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, June B.—The senate resumed consideration of the district appropriation bill. The committee amendment remitting about $40,000 unpaid taxes. The committee was sustained in each instance, and no further change was made. The bill passed. Mr. Hawley reported from the military committee a joint resolution appropriating SIO,OOO, or so much thereof as may be needed, to furnish food to the .people made destitute by the Mississippi floods in the slate of Mississippi. The joint resolution was passed. Adjourned. HOUSE. Washington. June B.—The bill passed increasing to forty dollars per month the pension of any person who iq the late war lost an arm, leg, hand or foot, or received disabilities equal thereto. The house then went into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the general deficiency appropriation bill. The only discussion was upon the clause to refund to Missouri the payments made to officers and privates of the militia. It wns finally agreed to, the amount involved being $234,594. The committee rose and reported the Hill back to the house. The bill was then passed—yeas,ll6; nays, 57. A joint resolution passed to loan ■ 1,000 army tents for the shelter of the I Russian Jewish refugees at Vineland, ’ New’ Jersey.

Mr. Galkins, of Indiana, chairman of the committee on elections, submitted a report in the matter of the r expense accounts of parties to contestI ed election cases. Referred. It re commends that in no case shall the r appropriation exceed $3,00) to meet B the expenses of the contestant or contestee. Adjourned. 1 SENATE. Washington, June B.—The senate ’ resumed consideration of the distric' appropriation bill. The committee amendment remit1 ting about $40,000 unpa'd taxes. 1 The committee was sustained in each instance, and no further change was made. The bill passed. Mr. Hawley reported from the mili- ’ tary committee a joint resolution ap ■ propriating SIO,OOO, or so much thereL of as may be needed, to furnish food * to the people made destitute by the Mississippi floods in the state of Mis--1 sissippi. The joint resolution was passed. ' Adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, June B.— The bill passed increasing to forty dollars j per month the pensionv>f any person who in the late war lost an arm, leg, hand or foot, or received disabilities equal thereto. , The house then went intoeommittee of the whole and resumed consideration of the general deficiency ap ■ , propriation bill. The only discussion was upon the ' clause to refund to Missouri the payments made to officers and privates of the militia. It wbs finally agreed to, the amount involved being $234,594. The committee rose and reported the bill back to the house. The bill was then passed—yeas,ll6; nays, 57. A joint resolution passed to loan 1,( 00 army tents for the shelter of the Russian Jewish refugees at Vineland, New Jersey. Mr. Galkins, of Indiana, chairman of the committee on elections, submitted a report in the matter of the expense accounts of parties to contested election cases. Referred. It recommends that in no case shall the appropriation exceed $3,000 to meet the expenses of the contestant or contestee. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, June 9.—The senate joint-resolution refunding internal revenue taxes illegally collected from the Detroit house of correction passed. The Japanese indemnity fund bill was taken up and discussed and again went over without action. After a short executive session the senate adjourned till Monday. HOUSE. Washington, June 9.—The house went into committee on legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. A long discussion ensued upon the proposition made by Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, to equalize the salaries ol the house and senate employes by a reduction in the salaries of the latter The proposition was agreed to by a vote of 68 to 3. The item appropriating $2,300,000 for the salaries and expenses of the internal revenue agents was taken up. After finishing forty of the 100 pages of the bill the committee rose. Re- ’ cess. At the evening session twenty-five pension bills were passed. Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE. Washington, June 10. — Representative Townsend under instruction from the committee on commerce has prepared a report upon the inter-state commerce bill recently agreed to by that committee, and will submit it to the house at the first opportunity. The bill provides for the establishment of a board of commissioners of inter-state commerce as a bureau of the interior department whose duty , shall be to thoroughly investigate and report upon the bearings of proprosed legislation. Numerous amendments were offered and rejected, and the committee after consideration of eighty of the hundred pages of the bill rose and the house adjourned Found Him Sociable. 1 Not long since a young lady of New York City took it into her head to get married without paternal consent. ■ The young man whom she loved was objected to by her father on the ground that he was not well enough off so far as the world's goods were concerned, to take care of his daughter, and although he had never seen his inten- ’ ded son in law, he asserted that he was not competent to earn for her a respectable living. In spite of opposition, however, the wedding fook place at the time appointed, and it is needless to say that the father was not numbered among the guests. The ' young eouple found a modest home in the neighborhood of the parental mansion, and still the father refused i to recognize thorn. But he was not i of an unsociable nature, and he was noted for making acquaintances on the horse cars on his w ay to and from business. It was not strange t'nlirefore,that he entered into con vernation with a sociable'young man at his side ' on his way home the other evening, but it was a little surprising, as be ' was rather cautious, that he should have been so entirely fascinated by 1 the young man’s remarks, “why” he 1 said, “you’re a person exactly' after my own heart; you display in your ; words a remarkable busine'ss tact and 1 aie destined to be a rich man. If it is not an impertinent question who are you and what is your name?” “I , am your son-in-law,” quietly observed the future Vanderbilt, motioned to the conductor t° sto *' the car. Pearl Fishing on an American Coast. i Pearl fishing on the coast of Lower California is an important industry, no less than 1.000 divers being em- . ployed in bringing up the costly black pearl, which is found hi a great state i of perfection in the deep waters of . La Paz. The pearl oysters are found . from one to twenty-one fathoms deep. Merchants provide hats, diving ap- , paratus, etc., for the prosecution of the business, on condition that they can purchase all the pearls found, at prices to be agreed upon. These boats, . which are usually of about five tons burden, sail up and down the coast from May to November searching for i treasures The product of a year's work is ab ut $'.(K) 000, estimating the , pearls at their first value. (From the , Alta Californian.) It is said that the fashion of wear- , ing eye-glasses has seriously injured . the sight of four-fifths of the Russian , army officers. An order has been issued forbidding their me by officers in uniform, exoept on a medical certificate declaring them to be necessary. In the midst of the marriage festiv- ; ities of Prince Leopold, of England, the news arrived of the death of Prini cess Marie, of Wurtemberg, sister of s the bride. The court rejoicings were , changed into mourning. The sisters were much attached to each other.

NUMBER 11.

1 INDIANA. A June overflow is now predicted. Petersburg has four millinery t stores. • The kite mania has struck Oakland. Boonville is to have another saloon. Untagged dogs are numerous in Hazleton. The Petersburg telephone exchange paid SSB in April. The woods of Pike County are alive with young squirrels. Horse stealing is becoming an industry in Pike county. Boonville has elected lady member of the school board. Dr. V. H. Gregg, of Connersville, had Ills leg broken by a horse falling against him. The Indiana State wool growers’ association met in annual session at Indianapolis. New Albany dealers in harvesting machinery have been having a heavy trade the past two or three weeks. At Indianapolis, Smith Emery, janitor at Hadley & Roberts’academy, fell from the third story window, and was fatally injured. On Sunday evening Andrew Shartle a saloon-keeper, of Harmony, d i opped dead. He is supposed to have died of heart disease. The proprietors of the new Commercial exchange at Indianapolis report upward of nine hundred persons who have asigued an intention to join. William Peake, of New Albany, lately married, has mysteriously disappeared. He has probably gone West, though some fear he has met with foul play. On Saturday, John Bower, a tenyear old son of Clinton Bower, of New Washington township, Clarke county, was thrown from a horse and received fatal injuries. The city clerk of Indianapolis issued five hundred dog cheeks one day last week. The constables are killing at the rateol thirty dogs a day that have not township checks, A drunken German tramp made three attempts to commit suicide at Morristown, by throwing himself under the train, but was saved by some workmen on a bridge near by. Henry Johnson, employed at the steam saw mill at Farrabee's station, on the L., N. A. & C., fell upon a circular saw and lost his right arm. It was split from the elbow to the wrist. Miss Sarah Bassett, daughter of Prof. Bassett, of Wabash college, who six years ago, went as missionary to Persia is on her way home, having lost her health. She was to have remained ten years. The Evansville telephone exchange has absorbed the Nashville exchange anil all its connections. The Evausvi.le company now owns and controls thirteen exchanges and has others in view. The members of Ellsworth post, G. A. R., at Seymour, are organizing a militia company. A number of the Seymour Light Guard will unite with them. It is the intention of the company to attend the militia encampment at Indianapolis, next month. The Light Guard Silver band will unite with the new organization. George Anderson, aged 76 years, was found dead in his room at Sunman, Ripley county, the other morning. He had eaten a hearty supper > the night before, and had felt as well as usual. It is supposed he died of heart disease. He is the last of his family Jour daughters and a wife having preceded him. The population of South Bend in 1880, according to the census, was 13,279. That year the vote was 2,504. At the city election last month the vote was 3,511. This indicates a population, as compared with the vote and population in 1880, of 18,629, and a very flattering growth. The church at Everton, four miles northeast of Connersville,which had been whitewashed, was found next morning iu a shameful condition, one ide being smeared with offensive metter from the ground to the roof. Among the victims of lightning rod -harpers in Miami county, are Mr. Hiller, of Clay township, $200; Mr, Knights, of Sama Fe, amount not stated, but large; John Springer, $208.66. Many others have been victimized, but as there is no help for it they say nothing about it. A toy enginewith home-made boiler attachment, exploded at Martina viile very seriously injuring Joseph Majors, Joseph Farr, Clinton Farr, each about fifteen years of age, t’lie Majors boy and Clinton Earr are very seriously, but it is not thought ecessarily fatally, scalded. Tin- army worm, which has beea Gating havoc in the southern pevion of the state, has reached Courtland, and has taken possission of Wna Robertson's farm, His clover and cheat fields are black with them, rbe people are greatly alarmed, and a king all the steps possible to rtd ■ "I, . I y. h of the pest. A Story For a Sunday School Bosa It pays to do well that which should be done, and little duties unperformed are liable at times to result in great damage. A letter carrier in one of our large cities a few months ago found, cm reaching the postoffice, after a long round of delivery, a letter in his bag that he had overlooked. ’lt would have taken him half an hour to return and deliver it. He was very tired and hungry. The letter was an ordinary, unimportant looking missive. He put it in his pocket and delivered it on the first round next day. What consequence followed? For want of that letter a great firm had failed to meet their engagements; their notes had gone to protest, and a mill closed, and hundreds of poor workmen were thrown out of employ ment. The letter carrier himself was discharged for his oversight and neglect His family suffered during the winter for many of the necessaries of life, but his loss was dr small account compared to the enormous amount of misery caused by his single fait are in duty. Superstition in Whitehall. A significant sign appeared above our village on Sunday evening. In the fire that raged on the brow of Skeen’s mountain appeared the form •<t a large horse shoe. The sight was witnessed by many, the vision being interpreted as the beginning of an era of prosperity in affairs of the town.— Whitehall Times.