Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. J- HILL. Editor and Busuicss Manager. 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, INDIANA. Ofise »Ter A dams Co. Rank 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 W. H. :MYERS,’ Brick k Stone Jlason Contract DBCATUB, INDIANA. Solicit! work of all kinds in his line. Per•on» contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v26n46m8. ■ N. WICKS. J. T.M BUR YUAN. | WICKS & MERRYMAN, eMttomeyn at Law AND Uta! Estate genii. Deeds, Mortgages, Contractsand all La- i gal Instruments drawn with neatness and dkpatob. PabJiion settlement of decedent’s e»- | tales, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs in Stone s building—4th door. vol, 25, no 24, yl. ORTkn-CHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of taeb month to treat al! Chronic Disease!. Consultation free, t’all and see him. All ! letters of inquiry received at the home of- I Boe at Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write to him and make a state- i ment of your case.—v26nß6ly. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRT, Spec ta oles, ct?oRepairing done at lowest prices to guar antee good and sound work K B. AtuM>, PTMt. W. H Nisuca.CMhler B. Btuhabaui, VieePres't. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank ia now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and | County Ordera. 25jy79tf i ~ PETERSON & ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and title! 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. (* i 0. ¥. building 26|y791f FRANCE 4 KING. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, • BC A TUR .IN DIANA. E. 5. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DBCATUB, INDIANA. AU legal businoes promptly attended to, Office up stairs in Stone s building 4«h door. r25n24 year!. —■ — | s. G. HASTINGS, M. D. HOMOEOPA THIST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DKCATUB, INDIANA. All calls day or night promptly attended to Office in Studabaker's building, first da» snu b of.’ourt House Square V..1 25 N-. 14. IHE DECATUR WOOLEN MILLS FUNNING AGAIN! Having purchased the Eicher Wool- j {u Milk we are prepared to announce, to tl.« 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 L WOOL V GOODS, Os our own Manufacture. We earnest ly solicit all former patrons of the i Eicher Woolen Mills to come and see us, as we expect to reciprocate your patronage by honest, ‘ fair dealing. We will pay you tie highest market price in cash for your wool, or make anv exchange for goods. Call and •eeuur stock of FLANNELS, BLANKETS BATTINETS, JEANS and STOCKING YARNS before purchasing elsewhere, we promise to furnish f'*K, vou a better ar- * ' tide for LESS MOUEYI Than you can buy anywhere else. MYERS BROS. Deoaw» May 6,1881. 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 & Holthouse's Drug Store Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calle promptly attended. Vol .26 No. 22. ts. WALL’S Catarrh Pure. • • Recommended by Physicians. HALL’S gatarrhgure. Is Indorsed by Clergymen. * -- nm— Will Cure Any Case; Office ol A. X. Stewart Ji Co. Chicago, 111. Messrs. P. J. Cheney & Co., Tbledo, O. 41188 ®‘ Gontlem-n.—l take pleasure in tlformicg you that I have use* Hall aCatarrh Cure. It has cured me—l was very bad— and don’t hesitate to say that It will cure an y case o f Catarrh 1 f take u p roperly. . Yours truly, J .B. WEATHERFORD, . Worth SIO A Hottie. E. llrmr, Jackie o Mich, writes: Have had for 20 years toil's Catarrh Cure cured me Oonsldarit worth gio.ooa bottle. >. Oslarrb Carets sold by all Drt»gt,t ss t Maoufwtured and ,old by F. J. Ex & CO. Sole Proprietors, TOLEDO, OHIO! R A. Pieroe & Co., agents at Decatur Q ffj I®'!% Thousands of graves Kllunr IJ srP annually robbed •IWUKIwWof their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures IllipofPUCy icaused by excesses of any kind.) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, loss of memory, universe’ lassitude, p-. n in the buck, dimness ot vision, preuriture 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 I ill isolator 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. (IIEYEY, Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce & Co., Sole Agents at DeoatUf MON K Y SAVED By buyingtiroceries of WILLIAM P. MOON. 0 I have ju«t renewed my grocery eatablirikmen! from Houston’s building, to th* new brick block'of 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 the public at large to come and s<-e 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 HEB MARKET PRICE. Remember my stock is fresh and new and contaims everything usually found is a first class grocery. W. P. MOON. No. 26 —2B ts. Daughteis, Wives, Mothers, Ag Dr. J. B. MARCH 181, UTIC A, N. Y, di!»covekbr op UR MARCHISI'S UTERINE CATHOLICOS * POSITIVE CURE FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS. This Remedv will ac in harmony with the Femalesvstem'at all times anti also immediately upon the abdominal and uterine muscles and restore them to a healthy and sarong concatmn Dr Marchiafa Uterine < aibolicutt win rim falling of the Womb. Leuccorrheea. Chrome Inflammation and Ulceration <>r the w.m.b, Inctden tai Hemorrhage or Flooding-. Palufn suppressed and Irregular Menstruation. Kidney Complaint, and is especially adapted to the Change of Life. Send for pamphlet tree. All loiters ot w.imiry freely answered Address a-a j>ve fomsalrrv hi. bricgists. Fr*se jl S' per bottle. Besnre awl A-k l«»r I Ma Mai’s Uterine Cathobcon Take >•«>«*■

BOQLETS FOR CONGRESS, Forty years ago Captain Wilkes brought home from the Pacific some curious plants, which were put by Congress in charge of a clerk under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. From this small beginning has grown the preposterous institution at Washington, the Botanic Garden. Down to 1873, the year of the salary grab, the back-pay steal, and various other plumdering achievements there was no law creating or recognizing this so-called Botanic Garden. Congress voted money for the care of the Wilkes collection and for additions to it, gradually increasing the sum. Finally the concern received the sanction of a specific appropriation for a Superintendent and assistants. It was these gentlemen who had managed the business throughout. Over half a million dollars has been expended on this collection of greenhouses, without the slightest benefit to the public at large. A botanic garden is described as "a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany.” This garden is mainly devoted to the work of providing bouquets for members of Congress. The plants grown there are ornamental, and there is not even a catalogue to describe them. It now costs $17,000 a year to keep up this Congressional bouquet shop. And it is not the only one of the sort. There is another garden for the same purpose under the care of the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, from which bouquets are regularly furnished to members of Congress, to the heads of departments, and to other influential persons. There is still a third garden attached to the Agricultural Department, but its flowers are reserved for the favor - ites and friends of the Commissioner. And the White House has an immense floricuitural establishment, maintained at heavy expense. Ail attempts to cut off this barefaced extravagance have failed. Reformers and advocates of economy have voted side by side in Congress with the reckless and the extravagant to continue their own privileges at the people’s expense. Mr. McCook of New York,Chairman of the Library Committee, which has hitherto controlled the bouquet business, moved on Friday last to transfer the Botanic Garden to the Agricultural Department, and to reduce the appropriation to $5,000. To the surprise of the House, Mr. Holman made a point of order on this carefully considered amendment. The bouquet statesmen, whose families are served with fine flowers, promptly and vigorously rallied around Mr. Holman. Mr. Hiscock, Chairman of the Appropriations, declared: “I am opposed to the amendment of the gentleman from New York [Mr. McCoook], much as I grieve to differ with him on any question. I atu in favor of a provision in the law making it incumbent on the Library Committee to discharge its duty, and making it incumbent on the Chairman of that committee [Mr. McCook] to do his duty to his fellow members, and supply them with bouquets when they desire them.” [Laughter.] This powerful appeal carried the House by storm. The Chair decided tiiat Mr. McCook’s amendment was in order under the rules, but that decision counted for nothing. The bouquet statesmen, led, curiously enough, by Mr. Holman, and sustained by others who usually follow in his footsteps, called tn their forces and voted down the amendment by more than two to one. Then they had a merry time over the victory, and amid much laughter they passed on to the next amendment, as if a good thing had been done in approving one of the smallest and meanest of the annual jobs.

Our Republican Friends are hard to please. Whether the Democrats whip high or whip low. they are equally dissatisfied. In the matter of the enforcement of the Sunday laws in Cincinnati we had already been informed, first that the Democratic authorities would wot enforce them, and so would lose the temperance vote; next, that they would be compelled by public opinion to enforce them, and thus would alienate the German vote. Now we receive the sad news that by judiciously arresting all the Republican saloon-keepers who keep open on Sunday the Democrats are killing three birds with one stone — rubbing into the memories of the arrested ones the fact that the law under which they are harassed Is of Republican origin, increasing the profits of the Democratic saloon-keepers, who are freed from competition, and convincing the temperance men that the Sunday law is being enforced with exemplary vigor. An eminent Republican authority describes this as a “singularly happy policy,” thus allowing the generous appreciation of the politician to overcome the natural chagrin of the partisan and affording a beautiful exampie of “The stern joy that warriors feel Iu foemen worthy of their steel.” A Republican Paper in Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, is the first in the field. It “unfurls to the breeze the standard of Chester A. Arthur, of New York,” for the Presidency in 1884. The prudence of this operation in view of “the breeze” just now blowing through Pennsylvania may be open to question. The spring frosts totally ruined both vines and fruit in the orchards and vineyards around Vine Hill, Santa Cruz county, Cal. Apples were the only fruit that escaped. On the Fourth, in the Concord (Massachusetts) state prison, the convicts demolished the cell furniture because they were not granted the usual one hour’s recreation.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1882

TELEGRAPHIC, 0* St. Louis, July 6.—A Post-Dispatch special from Jefferson City says that Governor Crittenden pardoned John Hawley and John Black, the last of the gamblers in jail, this morning. Des Moines, July 6.—L. P. Sherman, a brother of General and Senator Sherman, fell from the roof of his house yesterday and was dangerously, perhaps fatally, injured. Herman Blackman, of Bloomfield, died last night from wounds inflicted by another farmer named Crane, Tuesday night during a drunken quarrel. Blackman’s father is said to have been a duke of the grand dukedom of Saxony. Crane is under arrest. Both families are eminently respectable. Mingo Junction, 0., July 6.— There were found this morning the bodies of Charles Swearingen,of Kensington, O.; Dan Thomas, the captain's son; T. P. Smith, of Wellsville, and also a man by the name of Dunhamer, or Durhamer, of Wellsville, Ohio. About forty men came down with skiffs and a cannon from East Liverpool, and are doing good work. By night they can secure about ten bodies more. ’ A great many bodies are placed in the engine room and under the bow, and the want of the necessary apparatus prevents the getting of the bodies. Boats and grappling tools, diving bells, etc., are on tile way from Pittsburgh, and when the wreck is raised ai least thirty to fifty bodies will be found. The missing are accumulating, and with what found dead will amount to sixty-five or seventyfive, and nearly all will be found in and around the wreck. Every hour brings people here hunting for absent ones and giving names not given before. The dead so far have been recognized and moved promptly to their late homes. Stewart Pipes, reported as found yesterday, has not been found yet. Pittsburg, July 6.—A Steubenville special says that four bodies have been recovered from the wrecked Scioto to day. Lincoln Beardmore, Thomas Beardmore, Thomas Scott, and Charles Swearingen. Friends of the lost ones are cutting through the state room floor and despoiling the boat generally to discovertheir bodies if possible. The steamer Welcome is still there. The boat will probably not be raised until to-morrow. The number of lost is now estimated at seventy-five. Chicago, July 6.—The lowest notch of the season for lake freights has been reached, the last charters of corn to Buffalo being one-half cent per bushel. Grain was taken as ballast, and there has been a dead loss at the figure named. Other freights are low in proportion, and the market is exceedingly dull. Chicago vessel owners claim that the supervising inspector of steam vessels should be stationed here instead of at Detroit, since 569 officers were licensed here in 1881, and only 471 in Detroit, this being in reality the test. An Atchison, Kansas special says that yesterday evening Columbus, Kansas, was swept by a tornado with hail and ram accompaniment. Trees were uprooted, stacks of grain were scattered, corn cut down and all property touched by the wind laid waste. J. C. Thomas’ frame house was completely demolished and six persons in the house were seriously injured, the worst being a small son who may die. Mrs. Ada Davis’ kitchen was blown dowi and the side of the house blown in. She was sick abed and a child was badly hurt. Best & Sons' new saw mill was partially destroyed. At Girard and Belknap much damage was done to farms and stations. Crawford county was visited at a much later hour, and the grain leveled. Peter Crawford and James Arrowamith are reported dead and their families injured by being blown away. South Chicago, 111., July 7.— Bradley & Terrence, of the Calumet iron and steel company, were seen at their mills this morning. They did not consider that they would be ac all aflected by the reported compromise at Bay View and some Pittsburgh mills. They will not grant any increase, and are making all preparations to do away with puddlers by converting their" mills so as to make steel instead of puddling. Many of the slrikers have left, as the prospects of resuming work with the union appear very small. Milwaukee, July 7.—lt is currently rumored and generally accepted as a fact here to-night that at a meeting of the officers and employes of the North Chicago rolling mill yesterday a compromise was made with the puddlers at $5.80 per ton, instead of $6.05 as asked. While this report is not official it is undoubtedly correct. St. Louis, July 7. —A Post-Dispateh special from Alton. Illinois, says that ab> ut dark last night at Jersey Landing, a little town on the Mississippi, about thirteen miles above here, Edward O’Hare, a farmer of about fifty years of age, probably murdered John Carroll and attempted to murder his wife. O’Hare had been jealous of Carroll for some time, and meeting him last night, in a wild fit of jealous rage began firing at him. Carroll ran, but was struck in the lower part of the back, near the spine. The ball penetrated the vitals, besides paralyzing the victim by contact with the cerebro. His recovery is hopeless. After shooting Carroll, O’Hare rushed to his home and attempted to murder his wife. He fired two shoots at her.butonly inflicted a slight flesh wound before he was surrounded and overpowered, although he made a desperate resistance, saying he had one or two men yet to kill. He was taken to Jerseyville, the county seat. He is the father of several children by his present wife, who has always borne a g od name. O’Hare is believed to be insane. Cincinnati, July B.—Two inmates of the city work house, who were imprisoned about the middle of June for till tapping, and who gave the names of John and James Murphy, were today Identified as Jack Costigan and James Higgins, charged with the murder of James Menney in St. Louis in May last. An officer from St. Louis will take them to that city as soon as warrants can be obtained from Governor Foster. Cleveland, Ohio, July B.—Some time about th«j middle of May a German named Lawrenc* Scharfinburg, en route from Cincinnati to New York, cut his throat on board a Bee Line train as it was entering the city, and threw himself from a car window. He struggled and writhed with a gash in his throat until it was supposed he well nigh bled to death. The wound, however, was sewed up, and the patient began to recover. But he seemed determined to end his existence, and jumped out of a third-story window of the city hospital one night. Strange to say the fall did not kill , him, bat he seemsd to be haunted

With a fear that some one was pursuing him to kill him, and was on June 29 removed to the insane department of the infirmary. It is customary to lock the patients of this department in cells at night, but as far as can be learned no night watch is employed to keep an eye on inmates, and this morning, when Scharfinburg's cell was unlocked, a horrible sight presented itself. He was lying on the floor beside his bed, with his head supported by a handkerchief, which he had attached about his neck and with one end tied to the bedpost. Having fastened the handkerchief, he threw himself out of bed, and by a determined effort strangled himself. His tongue protruded from liis mouth and his eyes seemed to be starting from their sockets. The body was still warm, from which fact it is inferred that he suicided some time after midnight. The deceased was about thirty-five years old. The causes which led to his insanity were never learned. St. Louis, July B.—The LaClede rolling mills start up again next Monday. A committee ol the men signed a contract agreeing to resume work under the Cincinnati agreement until a settlement would be made at Pitts- . urg. About 600 strikers will go to work. Thus on Monday all the mills in the third district will be in operation, except Helmbacker & Foye. Two hammers are being run at Helmbacker & Foye’s, and it’s believed that the men employed in the rolling mill department will soon return to work. Cleveland, July B.—The Amalgamated association of iron and steel workers held a secret meeting in Newburgh to-nigbt, and considered the advisability of allowing the strikers to return to work. President Jarret was present, and it is understood that he favored the plan. A number of wire drawers are expected to resume work Monday. An attempt will be made by the Cleveland rolling mill company to start up the hard steel mill Monday. Should the union decide to allow the members to resume their places the mills will doubtless start up on double time sobn. Wooster, C., July 10 —Quite a sensation in the village of Ruedsburg,ten miles west of this city, was caused by the elopement of Miss Isa Thomas, daughter of David Thomas, a wealthy farmer and prominent director in the national bank of Wooster, with a young man named Crosby Towney. They came to Wooster clandestinely last evening and took the train for Pennsylvania. WIT AND HI’MOR. The beehive is the poorest thing In the world to fall back on. There is some good left in the world after all. The man who invented spotted stockings lost money ou them. A little girl, noticing the glittering gold filling in her aunt’s front tooth, exclaimed: “Aunt Mary, I wish I had copper-toed teeth like yours.” There is a fortiiM In store for the genius who shall produce a boiler-iron shoe for the small boy. Something warranted to last two weeks is what is wanted. Two ladies meet. Says No. 1: “Why, do you know what, I heard about you?” “I’ve no idea.” “I heard that when your husband was sick and not expected to live you went to a picnic.” “It’s a vile slander; it was only an excursion.” Boarding house chicken soup can be made, it is said by hanging up a hen in the sun so that her shadow shall fall into a pot of salt aud water. The only trouble is that ou a cloudy day the soup is liable to be weak. A gentleman who married a widow complained to her that he liked his beef well done. “Ah I I thought I was cooking for Mr. Browu,” said she, “he liked his rare. But, darling, I will try and forget the poor dear.— Troy Tima. A gentleman saw an old darkey down on a Galveston wharf fishing. “What luck, uncle?” he asked. “No luck at all, boss. Fish is gittin’ skurser and skurser ebery yeahr.” Then they used to be more plentiful?”— ‘•You bet dey was. In 1842 1 cotched in Galveston bay sometimes tittv redfish in an hour, and when dar wasn’t my fish at all dar, I neber cotched less than twenty-five.” It. is well t» look at all sides of a subject before you indulge in au opinion. Curran once said to Father Leary : “I wish, reverend father, that you were St. Peter, and had the keys of Heaven, because then you could let me in.” The shrewd and witty priest saw the sarcasm, and turned its sharp edge on the skeptic by replying: “By my honorand conscience, sir, it would be better for you that I had the keys of the other place that I could let you out.” She wept, the poor laundress, on returning five shirts, where her patron had intrusted her with six, and confessed that she had burned a hole iu the shirt while irouing. “Never mind,” says the customer kindly; ■Christmas comes but once a year, aud that will be all right. How much do i owe you?” “Six shirts at twelve and a half cents —seventy-five cents.” -But you burned oue of them up.”— ‘Well, suppose I did? Hadn’t 1 washed it before I burned it? Go along wid ye, trying to chate a poor dissolute widow.” A certain young Boston bachelor, wealthy but modest, was taking his bath one morning when his telephone called him. He sprang from the tub and was horrified to hear that a lady, wife of a distinguished New York banker, wag al the other end of the wire a mile away. It would never do for him to carry on a conversation with a lady in his present condition. “Excuse me. A thousand pardons!" he cried, aghast. He donned his dress-ing-gown and then repaired to the telephone and conversed without fear or molestation. Little Robby, aged 3 years, has attended Sunday School oue or two months. He is an apt scholar, and gives early promise of bearing rich ethical fruitage. At play with an older brother, the other day, his original Adam so far got the better of him as to cause him to clincb bis little fists end strike his brother. Brother Tom was about to retaliate with his more formidable weapon, when Bobby cried out: “No, no, no! Teacher says oo mu’t strike back when oo is hit." Crops along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad are in splendid condition. The same is the case along the line of the lowa and Minnesota Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, except corn, which is backward.

congressional SENATE. Washington, July 3.—The bill authorizing the sale or timber on certain lands reserved for the use of the Menomanee Indians, in Wisconsin, was passed. Senate bill to amend section 2,325 of the revised statutes of the United States touching the issuance of patents for mineral land, was passed. The remainder of the day was consumed in discussing the deficiency appropriiation bill. HOUSE. Washington. July3.—Bills introduced and referred. By Mr. Robinson, of New York, a resolution of inquiry. It recites the constitutional provision which prohibits any senator or representative from being questioned for any remarks spoken in debates, and states that on the 25th of Januaay, 1882, Leonel Backville West, the accredited minister of the British monarchy, in this city, called upon Secretary Frelinghuysen and questioned the remarks delivered in the bouse the day before by Mr. Robinson, and expressed his disapproval of the resolution of the committee on foreign affairs, and closes with the following resolution: Resolved, That the secretary of state is directed to inform this house, without reference to it- incompatibility with the public interest, whether the said British minister suggested any punishment for those words spoken in the debate of January 24, without his leave. Whether he suggested the appointment of a British censor to revise before publication the spe’ecnes delivered in the house and senate. Whether he suggested any person as best fitted to administer soothing syrup to the British lion when disturbed by the eagle’s wings. Whether he suggested the official recognition of the New York Tribune, founded by Horace Greeley, a member ot the Irish directory of 1848, as the British organ in the United States, in manifest justice to the equal claims of the Times, and whether the said British minister suggested that as we had saluted the British flag at Yorktown, he thought that we had permanently pullt.d down ourown, together with as full a report as possible of the conversation which passed between the said minister and the secretary of state an the 25th of January, 1882. -Several other bills of minor importance were introduced and referred. SENATE. Washington, July s.—Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill amending schedule E, title 33, of the revised statutes, so as to levy upon all manufactures, etc., made from hoop, band or scroll iron, or of which hoop, baud or scroll iron shall be the component materials of chief value, the same duty imposed on hoop, band or scroll iron from which manufactures are made, etc. Referred. Mr, Cameron, of Wisconsin, moved to dispense with the regular order for the purpose of taking up the bill for the relief of Ben Halliday. The senate refused to table the motion—23 to 29—and agreed to consider tl.e bill—3l to 24. Motions to postpone were then supported by the opponents of the bill, headed by Messrs. Cockrell, Plumb and Butler, who disclaimed any factions opposition, but desired to utilize the time for more important business. Notwithstanding these motions were regularly rejected the minority obstinately adhorred to their dilatory tactics and declined any campromise. The bill finally went over until tomorrow. The" bankruptcy bill then came up and on motion of Mr. Ingalls was made the special order for the first Wednesday in December next. Senate bill to create the territory of Pembina was taken up, the senate refusing—2l to 22—a party vote, to table the motion calling the bill up. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, voted with the Republicans. No action was reached. HOUSE. Washington, July s.—The house spent the whole day in discussing the noval appropriation bill. SENATE Washington, July 6.—The senate, after an ineffectual effort by Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, in behalf of the Ben Halliday bill, took up the river and harbor appropriation bill. The day was consumed in discussing the bill. HOUSE. Washington, Juiy 6.—Mr. Belmont called up the motion to consider the vote by which the house refused to order t<> a third reading the joint resolution authorizing the president to call an international conference to fix on and recommend for universal adoption a common prime meridian. The vote was reconsidered, and the joint resolution passed. The house resumed consideration of the naval appropriation bill, and adopted in gross the amendments agreed to in committee of the whole. The bill then passed. A bitter personal controversy took place between Messrs. Whitthorne and Robeson, in which each was characterized as “thief,” “perjurer,” “liar,” etc. Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, asked leave t* put upon its passage the bill for relief of Lucretia R. Garfield, but as it would give rise to debate, Mr. Hiscoek objected. The house then went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Kasson, of lowa, in the chair, on the sundry civil appropriation bill, but without action adjourned. SENATE. Washington, July 7.—The senate resumed consideration of the river and harbor bill, the question being upon the Hennepin canal project reported by the senate committee. Without action on the subject the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July 7.—The house went into committee on the sundry eivil appropriation bill. Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, made a speech in reply to Mr. Bayne’s criticism of the present administration. Mr. Deuster, of Wisconsin, introduced a bill to regulate the carriage of passengers by sea. Referred. Mr. Kasson, of lowa, introduced a bill to repeal certain additional duties on sugars. Referred. (It repeals so much of the act of March 3, 1875, as imposes an additional duty of 25 per cent, of the amount of duty heretofore imposed.) SENATE. Washington, D. C., July 8,1882. The senate joint resolution to allow the employes of the government printing office pay for time lost during the Garfield obsequies. Passed. The river and harbor bill was taken up and the Hennepin canal bill further discussed, the question being upon the amendment providing for an additional survey and report upon

the cost of construction. annual i maintenance and use of the canal. The debate continued at some length, and without action the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July B.—Mr. Crapo submitted the report of the conference committee on the bill to enable national banks to extend their corporate existence. The point being sustained the conference report was withdrawn, but Mr. Crapo will endeavor ts get it before the house during the afternoon. The house went into committee on the sundry civil appropriation bill, the pending amendment being the striking out of the proviso restricting the investigations of the national board of health to the diseases of cholera and yellow fever. After debate the amendment was rejected. A WATERY GRAVE Feund br ■ Party of Excursloalata on the Ohio River—The Accident Caused by a Pilot's Carelessness Mingo Junction, 0., July s.—The steamer Scioto, with about 500 passengers, collided with the John Lomas in the middle of the river tonight, sinking the Scioto in fifteen feet of water, only the pilot house being visible. The excursionists are arriving, but are so much excited that there can be no definite information as to the number lost. Wheeling, W. Va., July s.—Arthur McNulty, who lives at Cross Creek, was an eye-witness to the whole matter. He was standing in bis door immediately opposite where the collision occurred. It was about 8 o’clock. The Lomas while passing the island chute whistled for the preference of sides, and, as near as he can judge, it was three minutes before the Scioto answered, and neither of them appeared to sheer off, and almost immediately the collision occurred. General confusion followed, and I saw the people jumping from the hurricanedeck and all parts of the steamer. As far as I could see the Lomas struck the Scotio forward, for the water fiew I over the bow of the Scioto. The Scioto sunk almost instantly, and the Lomas backed up as soon as possible. The Lomas ran to the Ohio shore and landed her passengers, and then returned to the wreck. The crew and officers of the Lomas then exercised every effort to rescue the unfortunate passengers, and succeeded In landing over 400, making several trips, ana continued to work as loug as there were any who desired to leave. As soon as I saw the accident I jumped into my »kifl and started for the wreck. When I got there I got five persons within a distance of twenty-five feet, and there were other skiffs below me picking them up, but I don’t know how many they got. They were hallooing all over, now,and there appeared to be a great many in the wreek, but it was too dark for me to tell the number. I then took the parties I rescued to the Ohio side, and oy that time the Lomas had landed their party and returned to the wreck. I had just come home from work as the boat came past, and I couldn’t tell how many were on board, but from what the parties who had landed told me, there were from sixty-five to seventy on the boat. From the run of conversation of those who had been landed, I gathered that from 500 to 550 were landed. Three women were carried ashore and died after they had been rescued. Two little boys and the assistant engineer of the Scioto were rescued and stopped at Cox’s. The assistant engineer told me that he thought many lives were lost, as the lower decks were crowded and the boat sank instantly. Mingo Junction, 0., July s.—The names of those found dead are: C. E. Spriggs, of Hammondsville; Miss Belle Bradon, Dave Fago, Sarah Riddy, Stewart Piper, Joe Connor and a boy by the name of Ed. Smith, all of Wellsville; R. E. Beardman, E. P. Burke and Miss Mollie Shields, of East Liverpool; Ed. Thomas, the captain’s boy, and it is likely about fifteen more dead bodies will be found. Among the missing known are Willie Booth, John Prosser, Charles Davidson, Lewis Harper and Charlie Leith. It looks now as if from twenty-five to fifty will be found dead, as people at East Liverpool and Wellsville are missing, ana their friends, who got on the boat between East Liverpool and Wheeling. When the boat is raised many bodies will be found. The party seemed to be equally divided between gentlemen and ladies. Tnus far the bodies of but three ladies have been found. Wheeling, W. Va.,July 5. —The scene at the wreck of the Scioto today almost beggars descriptien, the anguish of those looking for lost ones adding to the wails and sobs over the inanimate forms of dead loved ones recovered from the waters. The associated press reporter arrived at the scene at noon, at which time only nine bodies had been recovered. Both banks of the river were lined with people, making a crowd of 2,000 people. The work of dragging in the vicinity for bodies is still going on. William Mulholland, of Wellsville, under whose auspices the excursion on the ill-fated Scioto was given, said the boat took on about 200 passengers at East Liverpool. and 250 at Wellsville. The boat was very much crowded, and refused to stop at other points where tickets had been sold. Taking his statement with the others it is safe to say that 500 seals were on board at the time of the collision. Captain Smith, of Imorten’s Ferrry. who was on the John Lomas, says that when some distance from the Scioto he noticed the boats were going to come together, and made his preparations for the shock. Both steamers had on a full head of steam; the Lomas going down stream at the rate of fifteen miles an hour and the ascending Scioto at the rate of twelve miles an hour. It seems to be theprevailing opinion that the collision resulted from a misunderstanding or confusion of signals. Up to 7 o’clock this evening ten bodies had been recovered. They were David Tago, aged twenty-one, of East Liverpool; H. E. Beardman, aged twenty-one; E. P. Burke, aged thirty; Ellis Smith, aged seventeen ; Miss SaJlie Kiddey, aged sixteen; C. Sprague,aged twentyfive ; Miss Belle Bi annan, aged seventeen; Joseph Connor, aged fifteen, all of East Liverpool, and an unknown aged man and a boy, who are as yet not identified. A number are missing, and several bodies are known to be in the wreck. The steamer Welcome, of this city, left for the scene of the accident this morning to render aid in the recovery of bodies and raising the sunken steamer. Mrs. James A. Spaulding, wellknown in society circles in Dubuque, suicided by morphine. Emperor Francis Joseph,of Austria, will receive the decoration of Nicbani Imtiaz from the sultan.

NUMBER 15.

INDIANA. Mt. Vernon is to have a stave factory. The Vincennes Sun calls for the passage of a cow ordinance. The Rockport Sentinel has been enlarged and otherwise improved. Harvest hands in most of the counties command $2.50 per day and are scarce at that. Four additional teachers will be provided for the Mt Vernon public schools next year. Some well-informed farmers express the opinion that there will be a larger surplus of wheat and Irish potatoes in Orange county this season than was ever in it before. William Nox, who is a wealthy farmer of Lost River,Orange Co., recent, ly had a revelation by which he was directed to kill some body. It chanced that it came handy to practice on his wife, whom he killed last Thursday night as she lay asleep. He is now in jail at Paoli. The first new wheat of the season was received in New Albany the other day. It came from Boone township, Harrison county, and weighed slxtytwo pounds to the measured bushel, and was a part of a crop that will average thirty bushels to the acre. It sold at a premium, bringing $1.30 per bushel—the regular price being $1.25. The saw-mill owned by Everson & Hanks, Whitesville, burned Monday. The origin of the fire is unknown, but there are strong suspicions of incendiary work, as there had been no fire in the mill for ten days. The firm will probably rebuild. Loss, Including a little lumber, SI,BOO, with no insurance. Matilda Webb, a colored woman, who has been an inmate of the New Albany County Asylum sixty years, died in that institution on Monday, aged 115 years. Matilda Webb came from Virginia to Indiana with George Rodgers Clark, and remembered many of the incidents of those early days. She lived many years in Harrison county. There is a good deal of excitement over the supposed abduction and • seduction of two young girls living near Mitchel by two men connected with Cole’s circus. The girls are named Rose Stroud and Lillie Burgess, and are about fifteen years old. Parents and friends have gone to Vincennes to make at attempt to recover the girls. The Height-Adams scandal investigation at Vincennes has ended in the entire exoneration of Miss Adams. The professor’s conduct was found to be reprehensible, but Miss Adams was not to blame for it. The board are contemplating the propriety of call ng her to her old position, as an act of justice to a victim of illtimed popular clamor. A little daughter of Toomas Price, of Xenia, was horribly bitten by a vicious sow on her father’s farm. It seems the little child approached the pen in which the sow, with her litter, was confined, carrying a small kitten. It is presumed the animal mistook the kitten for one of her brood and attacked her. The poor child was horribly mangled before the parents could reach the scene, and is now lying at the point of death from her injuries George Bevan has received a letter from the absconding cashier of the Logansport National Bank, Oscar Goodwin. Bevan refuses to reveal Goodwin’s whereabou's. A reporter was permitted to read a line or two of the letter, to this effect: “You will hear all kinds of talk about me, but you can just bet I’m all straight. I am alive, well, and broke.” The letter in uuestion was dated June 26 and arrived July 1, so that it must have traveled quite a distance. It is believed that the writer is in the far West, and that his exact location will soon be known. Ira Irwin, an eight-year-old son of Wm. Irwin, of Clay township, Howard county, while going through a pasture on Mr. Irwin’s farm after a cow, wasaftacked by a sow and dangerously injured. The sow caught him by the right ami and then got him down,tore his right ear off, bit him in the right leg, and cut through the lower part of his bowels. His Clothes are torn into shreds. The little fellow fought hard to save himself, and finally succeeded in getting away from her and managed to walk about 100 yards from the fence, when he fell exhausted and where he was found by his mother. He was resting easy at last accounts and his recovery is probable. The trustees of Purdue University find themselves much embarrassed by the effect of the recent decision of the Supreme Court, and, in ordei to obtain a more explicit statement as to the bearings of the decision, have adopted a resolution instructing their attorneys to “file a petition for a rehearing, in the Supreme Court, to the end that all doubts respecting the authority of the trustees be removed, and the Hon. D. P. Baldwin, Attor-ney-General of the State, be requested to assist on behalf of the State, the said counsel on said petition for a rehearing.” The faculty, it is alleged, are very anxious to have the court remove all doubts respecting the authority of the trustees, which, it is claimed, is not now the case. The faculty claim the right to still require students to discontinue active connection with Greek fraternities, and want to enforce that rule, while the attorneys for the students construe the decision to mean that no pledge can be required of them, and threaten that suits will be brought if it is attempted to apply such rule. Admiral Porter's office at his $60,000 house in Washington is quite a nautical curiosity shop. There are some old pieces of furniture, a few books in cases, a number of drawings and photographs on the walls. In one corner are half a hundred models of torpedoes, with very harmless tin tubes and pine stems. On a stand on one side M the room is a working model of the steamer Alarm. Lit tie brass guns and bits of shins, papers and documents and books scattered over thrde desks, a case of stuffed birds and countless things of interest catch the eye. Mason Boynton, a Louisiana planter, not liking the way in which one old negro woman was working, went out into nis beta to whip her. She defended herself with her hoe, and lie went back to the house and got his brother to come and help him whip the old woman. Then the woman’s husband, Sam Simms, came to her defense, and Boynton stabbed him in the breast with a knife. Then Boynton mounted his horse, rode to town, and made affidavit against Simms for an assault with intent to kill.