Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. J. IIILL. Editor aud Business Jlnnatcr. TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDI AM A. Office ever Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day Charges reasonable. Residence on north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill. 25jy79tf ~WTh? MYERS, Brick k Stone .flanon 4 ontrac’r DECATUR, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, ▼25n46m8. E N. WICKg, j, T. MERRYMAN. WICK 8 & MERRYMAN, •Attorney.« at Law AND Rfal Estate •Agents. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. PaXition, settlement of decedent’s e»tates, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs in Stone s building—4th door. ▼ol, 25, no. 24, yl, DR. KITCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of (aoh month to treat all Chronic Diseases. Consultation free. Cail and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the home of#ce kt 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 an tee good and sound work B B. Alluon, Preen. W. H. NiBUCT.CMhier B. SrxmAßAKia, Vice Pree’t. THEADAMS COUNTYBANK, 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 &IfUFFMAN~ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining eeentiea. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0 0. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE & KING.” ' ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WECATUR.INDIAN A. E. k WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUB, INDIANA. AR legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone s building Alhdoer. v25n24 year 1. ” 8. G. HASTINGS, M. D. HOMO EOPA TH IST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DKI’ITUR, INDIANA. All calls day or night promptly attended to. Office iu Studabaker’s building, first do or south of Court House Square. Vol. 25 Na. 14. - “thelecatur WOOLEN MILLS RUNNING AGAIN! Having purchased the Eicher Wool ijn Mills 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 earnest )y solicit al] 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 pjy you the highest market price in cash for your wool, or make anv exchange for goods. Call and gee our stock of FLANNELS, BLANKETS, SATTINETS. JEANS and STOCKING YARNS before purchasing elsewhere, we I. . . promise to furnish you a better article for LESS MOUEY! Than yon can buy anywhere else. MYERS BROS. Decatul May 5, 1881. ts

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John T. Bailey, attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent Decatur, Indiana. Special attention given to collections.—nos2.tf. R. B. FREEMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin 4 Holthouee’s Drug Store Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calls promptly attended. Vol. 25 No. 22. ts. Qatarrh Pure. HALl’j patarrfiQure. Cure Any Case; Office 01 A. I. Sie»»rt A. Co. Chicago, 111. ZAw.t. P. J. Cuney <4> Ch., Tblrdo, 0, Ulle 1330. .V Geptleruvn:—l takepleMuretniaformln-you that I have used H.ll'a Catarrh Care. It bis cured mo—l was very bad-and doa'lhesttata to say that tt will cure any case at Catarrh If takan properly Yo-jratruly, J .B. WEATFRRFOKD. Sip a Bottle. E. Mmtaar, Jackion Mich, write.: Have had Catarrh for2oyeara llallACatarrbCurocuredme Oonaidarlt worth 810.00a boule. “.vuuio lit. Hall ’? Uatarrb Cure la sold by all Drupelala at Mamifactured and aold by F. J. ■dIENEY & co. Sole Proprietors, TOLEDO. OHIO R A. Pierce & Co., agents at Decatur of graves n!jHoLlJ are annaa lly robbed * t {ieir victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures IIM potency (caused by excesses of any kina.) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, luss of memory, universal lassitude, pain in the back, dimness of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circulars with testlmonals free by mail. The Invigorator is sold at $1 per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J. CHENEY, Druggirt, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce & Co., Sole Agents at Decatar MONEY S AE D By buying Groceries of WILLIAM P. MOON. o I have just renewed my grocery establishment from Houston’s building, to the new brick Studabaker and Allison and have added largely to my stock of GROCERIES and will keep in stock all the leading articles in my line of business. I take pleasure in inviting all my old customers and .he public at large to come and see me at my new quarters, assuring my patrons that they will get quoted to them the very lowest POSSIBLE FIGURES. and that I will make It to their interest i, they will CALL ON ME BEFORE PUR CHASING. I also keep in stock Glass and Queensware I wish to buy all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE for which I will pay the very HIG HES MARKET PRICE. Remember my stock is fresh and new and contains! everything usually found in a first class grocery. W. P. MOUN. No. 25 —2B ts. Daughters, Wines, Motas, I At Dr. jTbTmARCHISI, UTICA, N Y, DISCOVERER or DR MARCHIBIS UTERINE (’ ATHOLfCON A POSITIVE CURE FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS. Thin Remedy win act in harmony with the Fetnaiesvstem at all times and also unmed:atelv upon the abdominal and uterine mnrcles and restore them to a healthy and .Irons condition. Dr. Marcbisi's Uterine t athoHcon will rnn falling of the Womb, Leuccorrbcea. Chronic Inflammation and Ulceration of the womb. Ii eideo tai Hemorrhage or Floodins. Pa ntal. Suppressed and Irresrn’ar Menstruation. Kidney Comp a ut and is especially adapted to the Chaugv of Lire. Send for pamphlet, tree. All letter- of u-antry freely answered Addn f” a- a-«ove FOHUI-i: Bl all DH» fa.ivrs. Fr-cetl 50 per bottle. Be sure and a-k lor or. Ma hlsi's Uterine Catholicon. Take no ■■tie r.

A Bid BILL OF DEFICIENCIES. The regular appropriations for the current fiscal year were much larger than they should have been, but, liberal as these grants were, they have been insufficient for the extravagant demands and the drain of the present Administration. Within a few days of the close of the fiscal year, a bill for nine millions of deficiencies is reported. It is composed of many remarkable items. State claims and other exceptional matters, that seem to have been dug out of the dark corners of the departments, help to swell this aggregate. They are hoary with age and with suspicion. As usual, the Navy Departmenthas an extra bill, and the one which has provoked discussion is certainly a specimen of unrivalled audacity even from the bureau that sent it in. The Navy Appropriation act for the year ending June 30, 1882, contains the following item: “Bureau of Construction and Repair.—For preservation of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary, purchase of material and stores of all kinds, labor in navy yards and ou foreign stations, purchase of tools, wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat, and for general care and protection of the navy in the line of construction and repair, one million five hundred aud fifty thousand dollars: provided that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this amount shall be immediately available for the purpose of repairing and converting the ships Brooklyn and Lancaster into flagships.” This proviso was inserted for a special reason, and the fund would have been probably reduced by $120,008 but for the conversion of the Brooklyn and Lancaster into flagships. And now, at the end of Jhe fiscal year this bureau, backed by the department and by the Appropriation Committee, have the effrontery to claim a deficiency of this $1,500,000, when the proviso was put in expressly to prevent any such contingency, and this sum was specially appropriated for a designated object. This trick is worthy of the palmy days of Secor Robeson. The quick and sharp discussion on this item encourages the belief that when the Navy bill pronercome up’the whole subject will he thoroughly explored. Mr. Whitthorne will then be present to take part in the debate. Mr. Hewitt showed that more than fifty millions of dollars had already been expended in repairs and so-call-ed improvements, and that, taking the list of ships which require repairs furnished from the department, it would take twenty-two millions and a half more to put them in passable condition. And he might have added, even then they could neither fight nor run away. CALLING IN THE PARTY ASSESSMENTS. The political managers have heretofore carried assessments upon officeholders to an extreme point. In 1880 they levied three separate aud successive “voluntary contributions” ou the clerks and messengers at Washington, including the poor women in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and in the Government printing office. The Hon, J. A. Hubbell of Michigan, Garfield’s “My dear Hubbell,” being Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, sent his agents through all the departments on pay day to collect these levies. Refusal was followed by prompt dismissal. That was the law of the party, enforced by orders of members of the Cabinet under the late Administration. “Undei the circumstances in which the country finds itself placed, the committee believes that you will esteem it both a privilege and a pleasure to make to its fund a contribution which it is hoped may not be less than . The committee is authorized to state that such voluntaiy contributions from persons employed in the service of the United States will not be objected to in atty official quar ter. Please make prompt and favorable response to this letter by bank check or draft, or money order.” This circular emanates from the Congressional Committee, and my dear Hubbell is the custodian of the fund thus extorted from the officeholders of every degree. The administration is in full sympathy with this mode of collecting money for the coming campaign, and it accepts the formula of “voluntary contributions” invented by Carl Schurz and the civil service reformers under Haj’es to cover their forcible levies in aid of Garfield’s election. In this respect there is no practical difference between the professional reformers aud the other wing of the party, who “spit upon tfie platform.” The former > turn up the white of the eye in horror at assessments, but they collect the same toll as the latter imposes, in the form of “voluntary contributions,” with a tax gatherer to call the roll, and to compel the payment of the two per cent. Candid men will remember that whatever his faults. Gen. Garfield had come in his closing years to represent a great principle, iu defence of which he met his death, and for which a grateful and admiring people will remember him.—Philadelphia Press. Will you please tell us what great principle Gen. Garfield represented in his closing years and died defending? General B. R. Cowen, formerly assistant secretary of the interior.who is a forcible writer and has had considerable journalistic experience, is to become editor bf the Ohio State Journal on the Ist of July. On the 30th of this month, it is believed, Guiteau will have another “inspiration.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1882

— - -• . TELEGRAPHIC, New York, N. Y., June 16.— The impression regarding the trade situation, is more hopeful, it being the result of the continuously favorable weather, the good promise for crops and the improved demand for seasonable goods. The apprehension thot a crisis was impending seems to have diminished in contemplation of the vast sum to be realized from the almost unbounded production 'which we seem to be on the eve of. The money market still coatinues easy at rates a little better than last week. Loans on call are 2% to S% per cent.; on time, to 4 per cent. Stocks are l ather lively, especially since Wednesday, when the bulls |made a decided hoist upon those who had short interests out, and the market has since been pretty well maintained, though the permanence of the improvement is uncertain. In the dry goods trade generally some chilliness prevails but things are not as bad as even the present croaker makes out. Collect’ is are reported very good, and although the volume of business is less than last year at this time, it is business of a perfectly legitimate and healthy sort. The outlook generally is thought to be encouraging. The grain market Is weak and the tendency is generally downwatd. In w'lea’ there has been considerable decline, especially in June options. Corn and oats are more stable. They have worked somewhat in accord with wheat in prices, but the declines have been slight ana prices have been unexpectedly well sustained. The lard and pork market is strong with gradual advances. Fluctuations are slight, and the upward tendency is quite steady, and the market closes firm at advanced rates. In wool there is nothing of special interest to note. A stock of Texas and California wool is accumulating, and there is some softening in prices, but in other kinds they are firmer. A quiet firmness still prevails. In petroleum, the last week's improvement in prices has been entirely lost. The market has dropped rapidly, reaching the Jow point of 52c and a fraction for crude oil. The volume of business is quite considerable, and the market closes with a little more firmness and at a slight advance. Freights are quiet without any material change in prices. Something is doing in petroleum room, and there is rather more inquiry for grain tonnage. In the hardware market business has been as a rule dull, though some report a fair trade, but it looks as if the trade would be restricted until fall, except for the immediate consumptive demand. Prices are unsettled. The boot and shoe trade is reported very fair for the season, retailers being busy and constantly in the market replenishing. The manufacturers are busy, with a steady inflow of duplicate orders. The leather trade is quiet and unchanged. The market for American pig iron is quiet, though there is a fair demand for raw irons, aud prices are firm. The effect of the strikes are haidly felt here. Then* is a good deal of inquiry for Scotch pig, though actual sales are light. Prices are firm, with no pressure to sell. In coffee the New York market is slightly improved, owing mainly to local causes. The consumptive demand is fair, but it is believed that in view of the new crop coming forward and the enormous amount of coffee held in Europe, that even the present low prices cannot be maintained long. Holders of raw sugars in face of the light demand are making concessions to some extent. The time for refiners to buy largely is approaching, and after the canning season opens there will be more stiffness in prices aud an active business. The tea market is dull and trade is only fair. The cutlook is not encouraging for either importers or jobbers. Increased arrivals of butter caused some accumulation here and prices are not as firm as they were a week ago. Twenty-six cents may now be regarded as the price for creameries. There seems to be a (, ood deal of speculative feeling, and many are putting away in cold storeage, with hopes of better prices later. Arrivals of cheese within a day or two have been very large, but the make so far this year-is behind the corresponding period of last year. Arrivals have averaged 3,000 or 4,(MM) ooxes a day, for the past week, and prices are now three cents lower than they were seven days ago. The lumber trade shows increased activity and the volume of business so far in June is satisfactory. Some weakness in low grades of pine is apparent, but better qualities hold firm. The general outlook for the summer is fair. Hard woods firm and in good demand. Cahoes, N. Y., June 16.—One hundred and fifty women operatives in the Harmony Mills boarding house have been notified to look for other quarters at the expiration of the time secured by the rents paid in advance. Their appeals for aid meet a generous response. Provisions are distributed on Monday aud Friday of each week, and money distributed at all times where needed. Quiet prevails and the strikers are hopeful. Memphis, June 16.—Major M. J. Waldron, formerly superintendent of the railway mail service of the southwestern division, and who was indicted here in June, 1881, for bribery in connection witli the star route cases, was tried this morning in the United States district court and acquitted of the charge. New York, June 16.—The business failures reported for the week are one hundred and nine against one hundred and six last week. The eastern states had 13; western, 29; southern, 25; middle, 20; Pacific and territories, 12; New York City and Brooklyn, 10. The failures in New York, though numerous, are not heavy. New York, June 17.—The strike of the freight handlers, which was inaugurated Monday, assumed larger proportions to-day. The strikers assembled at St. Johns pack depot and resolved to take steps toward haviug the freight handlers of the other railroad companies join them. They went iu a body and persuaded the men employed by the Baltimore <fc Ohio railroad, at pier 34, North river, to leave oft work. They then visited the Star Union line, where the men also promised to quit work and join the strikers. Later, they started down town and visited other places, but were dispersed by the police. Later they visited several other pier* and were successful in inducing the men to give up work. In many instances the strikers demand an increase of from seventeen to twenty cents per hour. The strikers called this afternoon on those employed by the New York Central and Hudson River railroad, at pier 5, North river, and requested them to quit work, but they were driven away by the police.

The- -reight handlers of the Erie railway have joined the strikers. Police are distributed all along the river front to prevent any interference with the men still at work. LiMAaO., June 17?—John Stewart, a young man who stele a horse from his father and sold it, was arrested yesterday and tried to day. He was bound over to court in the sum five hundred dollars for the theft, and three hundred dollars on a peace warrant for shooting at the officers. While three ladies were out riding this morning, Mrs. Schultheis, Mrs. Doepkin and Mies Doepkin, the horse ran away and threw them out. Mrs. Schultheis, it is said, is fatally injured, but the others escaped with only slight injuries. St. Paul, June 17, —Tw» burglars raided the residence of Revenue Collector Beckel, but were baffled and escaped to tiie woods, whither Officer Dennis O’Connell followed them and was not again seen alive. His body wa.s found, however, at 7 o'clock this evening, with a bullet hole in his temple. The fatal shot had been fired at such close range that his head was powder-bu.ued. The burglars and murderers have not been arrested, although several persons have been run in on suspicion. A reward of SSOO is offered for their apprehension. Cleveland, June 17.—The Garfield monumental fund to-day received $730 from the Kansas schools, forwarded by Governor lit. John. During a thunder storm to-day-noon John Burns, aged seventeen,and JohnF. Lyons, aged fourteen, took shelter under the gable end of a barn at the corner of Clarke avenue and Burton street. Lightning struck the barn, killed Burns and prostrated Lyons It is thought the latter is not fatally injured. Pittsburg, June 17.—The authorities of Columbiana county, Ohio, are hunting up Weedin and Maloney, on account of Thursday’s prize fight. Weedin left this city for Philadelphia yesterday, and Maloney is hiding some place. It is probable that the Campbell-Walling fight, which was to come off on the 26th, will be interfered with. The principals will be notified that they cannot remain in training in Alleghany county. What they will do about it is another question. Lowell, Obi t, June 17.-The remains of a man ( badly decomposed was found in the Mahoning river near here this morning. He had on a brown vest, brown striped pants, a pair of boots, but no coat. It is supposed to be the body of a man named Mast, drowned in Youngstown in September, 1878. Indianapolis, June 17.—This afternoon the remains of Charles H. Herman, the ninth victim of the Pogue run catastrophe, were found floating in White river. There was a severe wound in the back of the head, supposed to have been received in passing through the culverts. Boston, June 17.—Fire this evening in’Cambridge burned the large stables of the Sawius express company. Two hostlers, asleep in the hay loft, and thirteen horses were burned to death. A number of wagons, harness, etc., were also destroyed. Boston, June 17.—Bunker*HiIi day was observed in much the usual holiday manner, by the suspension of business, decoration of buildings, aquatic, athletic and other sports, exercises at the monument, military parade, and fireworks in the evening. The most prominent feature of the day’s proceedings was the Irish mechanics’ fair, under (he auspices of the Irish-American Society of Massachusetts. Although many of the more prominent speakers, including Michael Davitt, did not put in an appearance, the attendance at the mass meeting exceeded 5,000 and the proceedings were characterized by much enthusiasm. The gathering was essentially a land league affair. The chairman in opening the meeting stated it had for its object the extension of sympathy and substantial aid to the downtrodden people of Ireland. Ex-Mayor T. O. Prince presided, and On the platform were many prominent Irish-Americans. The principal address was made by Senator Jones, of Florida. Resolutions were adopted extending hearty sympathy and assurances of moral and material sup port to the tenantry of Ireland, and letters of regret read from John A. Logan, W. W. Rice, D. W. Voorhees, John F. Miller, James G. Fair, Henry W. Lord, Waldo Hutchins, C. Carpenter, Henry S. Neal, R. W. Townshend, Roscoe Conkling, John Kelly, T. P. O’Connor, Justin McCarey, W. H. Calkins, and others. Chicago, June 17. — The driving park has arranged a match race between St. Julien and Trinket, to be trotted Thursday, July 20th, during the regular meeting, for a special purse of $2,500, both to go to sulky, St. Julien to draw not to exceed twenty-five pounds more than Trinket. The exact handicap is not yet fixed, but is left for Secretary Hall to decide after seeing the animals tried, Cleveland, June 17. —As Barren Kyle was driving through the village of Almsted Falls yesterday, when passing across a rifle-range, forty rods beyond a target at which some young men were shooting, he was struck by a stray bullet, which lodge! near the heart, inflicting a probably fatal wound. Pittsburgh, June 17.—A1l the window and green bottle glass houses will shut down for the summer in about ten days. Although there has been no special demand in the trade during the past season, it has generally! been a good one. The shutting down of the factories will stiffen priaes and have a good effect on the market. By the closing of the twenty glass houses of this description in Pittsburgh and vicinity, about 3,000 men and boys will be added to the number of idle working people. New' York, June 19 - —A special from Matamoras, Mexico, says that a dispatch from Chihuahua to-day states that twenty-seven Apache prisoners, captured in the recent fights with the Jesus and Maria bands, were taken out iu a field yesterday and shot. They behaved with wonderful bravery, each one meeting liis fate with remarkable coolness aud looking defiantly at the executioners. Upper Sandusky, 0., June 19 — George Altenburger, a boy sixteen years of age, residing with bis parents in this city, fell from the roof of the new paper mill this afternoon and received serious if not fatal injuries. Register Armstrong, of the United Sta es land office, at Huron, D. T., is in Chicago, and gives some interesting facts in regard to the future great state. Bettsville, Ohio, June 19.—Miss Lillie Wagner, a young lady returning home from church, last night dropped dead from fright at an approaching storm. The Ohio corn crop is reported to be in bad shape. This has been the eold-1 est corn planting in twenty years. I

CONGRESSIONAL senate. Washington, D. C., June 18,1882 A bill to appropriate money f _>r the benefit of southern mail contractors was laid over until to-morrow, at the request of several senators who desired to examine it. Bill to raise naval officers who had served 35 years to rank of commodore, rejected 10 to 35. Mr. Brown’s resolution, supplyingeach senator with a $1,200 clerk, wase rejected—yeas, 20; nays, 28. Messrs. Plumb, Dawes and Cocks rell were constituted conferees on th district appropriation bill. The Japanese indemnity bill wa considered in committeeand Morri IP amendment ordering a destructio n o the bonds in wnich the fund was invested pre vai 1 ed—yeas, 27; nays, 23. The only notable feature of remainder of the proceedings in the committee of tiie whole was a speech by Mr. Logan, denunciatory of the principal of prize money, of allowing interest upon it for the benefit of the Wyoming, after the payment of interest on the money which Japan bad refused. The prize money claim was reduced more than SIOO,OOO by deducting the accumulated interest. The bill passed—yeas, 35; nays, 13. The bill as passed authorizes and directs the president to pay to the government of Japan $785,000. Section 2 directs the secretary of the treasury to pay from the treasury $140,000 as prize money to the officers and erews of the United States ship Wyoming and steamer Tokiang, or their legal representatives, for services in the straits of Shjmonoski, in 1863 and 1864. No payment to be made to tiie assignee of any marines, but to the mariner himself, his legal representative, or his or their duly authorized attorney. Adjourned. house. Washington. June 13.—The joint resolution passed authorizing the secretary of war to erect, at a cost of SIO,OOO, a memorial column at Washington’s headquarters at Newburgh, New York; appropriating $15,000 to aid in defraying the expenses of the celebration to be held there in 18S3. Mr. Cox, of New York, delivered an address on the question of political assessments. After a lengthly debate the amendment was rejected. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, offered an amendment reducing letter postage to two cents. Ruled out. Mr. Springer offered an amendment providing that the reporter of the United States supreme court shall cover into the treasury all receipts from sales of reports in excess of $2,500 per year. Adopted. Pending a long discussion upon the last section the house adjourned. SENATE. Washington, June 14.—The senate resumed consideration of the senate joint resolution to pay mail contractors in various southern states amounts due them on their contracts for 1859, 1860 and 1861, and reappropriating $375,000 for that purpose. The vote upon proceeding with the bill was—yeas 39, nays 24. This was a party vote, Davis, of Illinois, voting “no” with the Republicans. After discussion the bii|l went over. A long struggle ensued for precedence of regular business, but finally a motion by Mr. Bayard to take up the bonded spirits bill prevailed—yeas, 36; nays, 21. Without action the senate went into executive session and soon adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, June 14.—The house went into committee of the whole on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriations bill. A bitter personal controversy ensued between Messrs. White, of Kentucky, and Kelly, qf Pennsylvania, which culminated in both gentlemen apologizing to the house. The bill then passed by a vote of yeas, 125; nays, 45. The river and harbor bill was then taken up, but went over without action. Mr. O’Neill, from the committee on appropriations, reported the invalid pension appropriation bill. Referred to the committee of the whole. The total amount appropriated is SIOO,000,000. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, June 15.—The joint resolution to reappropriate $375,000 to pay the mail contractors for service in the southern states prior to these states going into the rebellion, again occupied the time reserved for the calendar. Mr. Morgan submitted a resolution, which was laid over temporarily, for investigation during vacation by a select committee, into the labor Grikes, their causes and remedy. The committee to examine persons under oath. Tiie house bill relating to the bonded period upon distilled spirits was again up as unfitlished business. Mr. McMillan moved to postpone the bill and amendments indefinitely. The motion prevailed—yeas, 32; nays, 24. Adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, June 15.—The house went into committee of the whole on the river and harbor appropriation bill. At the close of the general debate the first and second paragraphs of the bill were read, but without action the committee rose aud the house adjourned. senate. Washington, June 16. —Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to provide for the performance of the duties of the office of president in ease of the removal, resignation, inability or death of both the president and vice president. It vests the succession to the presidency in the members of the cabinet in the order in which they were named in Washington’s cabinet, beginning with the secretary of state and con2_uding with tiie secretary of the Interior, aud excluding cabinet officers not previously confirmed by the senate. The bill to reappropriate $375,000 to pay southern mail contractors for services prior to the secession of their states was taken up, but went over without action. The bill to enable national banking associations to extend their corporate existence was read for action upon the committee amendments. Pending a motion for an executive session, the bill was laid over without action until Monday. HOUSE. Washington, June 16.—The senate amendment to the house bill authoriiing the Sioux City and Pacific railroad company to construct a bridge across the Missouri river was agreed to. The house went into committee on the river and harbor appropriation bill, aud the rest of the day was devoted to discussing the measure. The house at the evening session passed seventeen pension bills (including the one granting a pension of SBO a month to Betty Taylor Danderldge, daughter of Zachary Taylor,) and then adiourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE. Washington, June 17.—The hous< went into committee and resumed consideration of the river and harbo> bill. Several amendments were offered some of which were adopted and others rejected. The bill then passed—yeas, 119; nays, 47. Mr. Robeson, from the committee on appropriations, reported the naval appropriation bill. Ordered prinie'l and recommitted. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, June 19.—Mr. Pendleton presented a protest from the Board of Trade of Cincinnati against the House bill to amend the patent Jaws. The senate, on motion of Mr. Conger, took up the house bill to regulate tfie carriage of passengers by sea. Passed without dissent. House bill to exte id the charters of national banks came up as unfinished business, with Mr. Hawley temporarily In the chair. A message was received from the president transmitting from the secre tary of the interior a draft of the bill to enlarge the Pawnee Ind an reservation iu the Indian territory. Ad journed. HOUSE. Washington, June 19.—Bills introduced: By Mr. Kelly, to abolish the internal revenue tax on tobacco, snuff, cigars and cigarettes. By Mr. Washburne, authoriiing the removal of obstructions from the navigable waters of the United States. By Mr. Rosecrans, to prevent discrimination in transportation over the Pacific railroads. Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, under Instructions from the committee on foreign affairs, moved to suspend the rules and pass the joint resolution accepting the invitation of the British government to the United States government to be represented at the international fishery exhibition iu London, May, 1883, and appropriating $50,000 for the purpose. The joint resolution passed. Adjourned. Irregular Warfare in Africa. On the night of Sunday, the 20th, it was resolved to strengthen the front by cutting a deep ditch, 10 feet wide, through the road, so that cavalry or artillery attempting a rush must halt under flank fire, and, that this might be more effective, it was arranged to make the trench angular, the apex being toward the enemy, so that the fire toward this apex, which would be well in front of the position and 200 feet below it, would sweep from both flanks along the obstruction, making a cross-fire in the middle of the road. It has been said by ignorant critics that the Boer works were ill laid out and worthless. Here is the explanation. When the trace was made it was discovered at midnight that in the whole Boer camp there were but 20 spades, no shovels, and not one pickaxe of any sort or shape. Regulars led by regular officers under such circur (stances could and would have done but little. It would take weeks to send- to the rear for tools, but defense of some kind was necessary. They determined to throw up false screen', with their faces reversed so that ro enemy attacking could know what to make of them. Accordingly ground was “broke,” but at three feet hard rock was come to, and the labor of 400 men relieving each other with but 20 garden spades over an intrenchment intended to be 450 feet long was found to have been useless. Another new and very irregular plan was adopted. The Boers determined to throw up behind the crest of the “Nek” hills, where the ground was soft, several mock redoubts and redans of clay, not to be held by riflemen, but for the purpose of humbugging the scientific officers opposed to them. It was fairly enough calculated that artillery would invariably be instructed to pound away at anything like intrenchments stopping the line of attack. Field cornet's flags were therefore collected behind the false earth-works, to be placed conspicuously at intervals along them in ease of a general advance, but no men were to occupy these positions. They were ehosen only to "draw fire.” while Abe defenders of the line were plaeeirat distances of 2UO yards on either or both of their flanks, to fire on storming parties, and also where they would be most useful to defend them against turning movements which regular troops almost invariably make. This trick was never even thought of by the forces under the late Sir George Colley. Hence, special correspondents and others, when they did get a sight of the line of defense, could only come to tiie conclusion that these redoubts and lines were badly laid out by men ignorant of their business—[Fraser’s Magazine. Caught in a Bear’s Cave. Henry A. Hall, one of our most popular letter-carriers, is in New Brunswick enjoying a short vacation. Mr. Hall is quite a nimrod, and with rifle and fishing-tackle is making havoc among the denizens of the forests and lakes of New Brunswick. From a private letter we are permitted to make the following extracts: “I cannot close this letter without telling of a little close rub I have had since here, though you may think I am exercising a Yankee privilege of bragging. Last Monday when out in the forest about twenty miles from town, I came across a camp of Frenchmen, where I hired a young boy to guide me into the woods. About two hours after we started we cam- to a cave, and I sent the boy in out of curiosity. He called out there were some bear cubs inside. Just as he did sol heard a crashing and growling beside me, and had just time to bring my trusty rifle to my shoulder and fire at a black mass that tumbled past me, and as it plunged into the mouth of the cave I realized Bruin had come back. I don’t know how I ever did it, but I have an indistinct recollection of dropping my gun, drawing my bowie-knife and jumping into the dense darkness of the cave. It is as a dream —horrible—and like a night-mare in which everything is mixed. I remember plunging my knife again and again in the body, the warm jet of blood! the tearing of claws across my body, the hot breath in my face, a close embrace—the darkness. When I revived I was lying outside the eave and the Frenchmen were cutting up the monster, which weighed, when dressed, 450 pounds. Petit Pierre, my boy guide, had been in the cave during the combat, and when the bear fell on me in his death struggle he crawled out of the cave and ran back to camp. lam all right or shall be when the marks of the brute’s claws are healed. I shall bring his skin back with me, and I wish I could give you a piece of the beef.”—Augus ta Journal. A German Liberal journal main aiu that in the retirement of Iguaieflan intriguer against European harmony has stepped down and out.

NUMBER 12.

INBIAJSA. Tne aew directory of Evansville contains 15,339 names, against 14,039 last year. In the list of cities which circulate the most daily papers in proportion to their population. Indianapolis stands seventh. David Cramer, in attempting to gee off a moving train at Belden, Wabash county, fell and fractured his skull. He will probably die. Probably 'he oldest Sunday school in Indiana is the Methodist Episcopal, of Corydon. It has been in operation for sixty-five years. The shipment of strawberries from New Albany now averages 5,000 gallons daily, and will reach 10.000 in r few days. Tbe crop is immense aj the fruit very fine. X Wilson Fleming, while putti' an awning at Shelbyville, fell the ladder upon which he was ss— . ing, dislocating his ankle and al wise bruising himself up consid iy. Jacob Baltz, of Spencerville, DeKalb county, assaulted Dr. Houghton, of that place, and beat him so terribly that he can not recover. The trouble grew out of a joke which offended Mrs. Beltz. The annual quarrel over the election of city school trustees, at Greensburg, is on again, and will only terminate with a strongly-contested lawsuit. The main question now seems to be as to which band shall control the school funds. The coming military encampment at Indianapolis, in July, has had the effect of arousing martial ardor among the young men of that city and vicinity. Applications for admission into militia companies that design taking part in the encampment are numerous. The wool clip of Southern Indiana is larger and the wool better this Spring than of any previous year. Prices range at 18 to 20 cents per pound for the commonest; 20 to 22 cents for second class; 24 to 25 cents for fine fiber, and 28 to 33 cents for fine and tub-washed. A German saloon-keeper at Indianapolis was summoned before the grand jury the other day, and told at the door that he must wait a few mo ments until they had examined another witness. He said: “Better I go my home back den. I dond was got der dime for dese foolishness.” He remained, all the same. John Ryan, who was badly beaten recently by Michael Grogan, at Vincennes, is lying at his home in a critical condition, his injuries being much worse than at first believed. His jawbone was literally crushed to splinters, and the inflammation is so great that his physicians are really apprehensive of fatal results. A four year old biy whose parentsreside in Brown county, is wonderfully precocious. He can give the number of States and Terr to ies, name their capitals, give the number of counties and townships in each, the names of the principal cities in the world, and other feats of m‘mory equally surprising. The parents, of course, are very prou 1 of their infant prodigy, and take great pride in exhibiting his knowledge to others. The bond of Mrs. B. F. Batchelder, indicted for fornication, was declared forfeited the other day in the criminal court at Indianapolis. The defendant is the woman arrested at the Hotel Brunswick some weeks ago, upon complaint of Mr. French, of Chicago. The latter also tried to include Dr. Batchelder at the same time, but he eluded the constables and escaped. Mr. French was present to prosecute bad the accused appeared. A west bound passenger train was thrown from the track Hear Brownstown by the removal of a rail on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. The ears went down an enbaukment fifteen feet into Hough Creek. Chas. Rogers, a tramp from Boston stealing a ride on the front part of the train was instantly killed. E. E. Recker express messenger, had an arm broken and was bruised. No passengers were hurt. It is thought the motive of the persons who removed the rail was robbery, but none was attempted. Thomas Lamb, of Madison, who worked is the cooper shops of Chess k Wymond, at Louisville, met with a peculiar and fatal accident. He was walking across the “soak trough." upon which narrow planks were laid, like ties in a railroad bed, when one of them broke under him, letting him fall upon the sharp end of one of the stakes set up in the trough to separate the bundles of poles belonging to the different workmen. The end of '.he stake penetrated Lis abdomen several inches. He drew it out, erawlsd back to his birth and fainted. He was taken to his boarding house and surgical aid summoned, but it was ‘mpossibleto do anything for him. He died on Sunday. On the day after the news was received of Hancock,s defeat for Presilent a wealthy citizen of Jefferson .'ille, named Harry Anderson. Jumped 'rom his seat, placed $4,000 in his ooots and disappeared, from home in »demented state of mind, nothing was heard of his whereabouts until I'ueeday last, when he was arrested at Chattanooga by officers for larceny, and $1,700 found on his person. Mrs. Kate Wallace, of Jeffersonville, arrived there on Wednesday and took charge of him. They left that night for his home. He had been wandering over the country ever since Hancock’s defeat. He was a strong Democrat, and it is supposed the result of the election caused his derangement. The chambermaids of Austria appear to be more tender-hearted than their superiors. A young German gentleman went to Vienna to propose for a charming girl he bad met at one of the Bohemian watering places. He alighted at a hotel, where one of the chambermaids, to whom he had scarcely ever spoken beyond asking gravely for his boots, fell violently in love with him. He could not make a similar conquest of the parents of the young lady he came to court, so he committed suicide. The soft-hearted chambermaid declared she could not survive the handsome German. A few days after a young girl was seen on the sill of an upper window, struggling with another woman who strove to hold her back; but she finally broke away, and, leaping from the window, smashed her skull. Tbe Ohio board of publie works has employed Judge Haynes, of Dayton, to prosecute the C., C., C. & I. railroad company for trespass on the bed of the Miami & Erie canal, near Fianklin, Warren county. The Savannah Cotton Seed Oil mills burned. Loss $50,000.