Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

Th.e Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A. J. HILL. Editor and Business Manager. TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. ~a7g. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence t»n north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill. 25jy79tf ~W.II. M YERS? - Brick & Slone Mason < ontrac'r DJCCATUR, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates o* application, v25n45m8. IN WICKS, J. T. M ERR YUAN. VVICKS & MERRYMAN, •Attorneys al Laic ANh ileal Estate Jgents. Deeds, Mortgages. Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. 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 KITCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday of each month to treat all Chronic Diseases. C*'limitation free. Call and see him. All lifers of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua. Ohio, will receive prompt a't.iuion Write to him and make a statein ent of your case.—v2sn36ly. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SpectaclcH, ct?oBepairing done at lowest prices to guar antee good and sound work K B Atusos.PrM't. W. H. NtwUOT,Cartier. B. STVOASAaaa, Vice Pree 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 FIIUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBOATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining eaaaiies. Especial attention given to collecliaua and title* to real estate. Are Notariat Public and drawdeeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonabla terms Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. C O. F. building. 25jy79tf ~~FRANCE"4 KING. ATTORNEYS AT LA W, BICATUR.iI* DIANA. eYwicks, ATTORNEY AT LAW. DZCATUB, INDIANA. AH legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone's building gikdoor. v25n24 year 1. I . S. G HASTINGS, M. D. ■ HOMOEOPATHIST PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. DKCATUB, INDIANA. All calls day or night promptly attended I>. Office in StudaUker’s building, first i »»r south of Court House Square VoL 25 No. 14. THE DECATUR WOOLEN .. MILLS PUNNING AGAIN! \a T y Having purchased the Eicher Woolci Mills we arc prepared V 1 announce t . iLi- public generally that we have f... sale at Bottom Prices at our factory on the corner of let and Jefferson streets a tine line of strictly ALL WOOL .GOODS, Os our own Manufacture. We earnest , ly 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 suv exchange for goods. Cail and eeeom sW iTFT.’ONELS,BLANK- • ETS, SATTINETB, JEAN’S and ' >. STOCKING YARNS before ‘ c purchasing elsewhere, we promise to furnish : v-— ■■ LESS MOTET! Than you can buy anywhere else. 51 YERS BROS. Deoatu* 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. K. B. FREEMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwiu & Holthouse’s Drug Store Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calls promptly attended. V 01.25 No. 22. ts. HALL’S Catarrh Pure. ls Reoom,riended by P^yß,c,ans ’ HALL’S fiatarrhCure. Indorsed by Clergymen. Will l ure Any Case; Office ot A. X. Stewart A Co. Chicago, 111. Messrs. P. J. (Matey A- Q>., Toledo, O. une4 ‘ Gentlemenl taaeplea«areiniaformlngvon that I have use* Hall s Catarrh Core It baa cured mo—l was very bid—and don’t hesitate to sav that It wiUeur-eau; cuaeoHAtarrh If taken properly. __ Yo-jrstruly, J ,B. WEATHERFORD. Worth SKI A Hottie. K. Mihiray, Jackaon Mich, writes: Have had Catarrh for 20 years u all’s Catarrh Cure cored me Uonuidcrit worth #lO 00a bottle. <,. Han’s Catarrh Curetsaold by all Druggists at ot U?* M *uufactured and sold by F. J. HdENEY&LO. cole Proprietors, TOLEDO, OHIO R A. Pierce A Co., agents at Decatur. of graves 1 agJag’Sa* | annually robbed " their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures Impolcncy (caused by excesses of any kind ) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, a' 1 loss of energy, loss of memory, universal lassitude, pain in the back, dimness of vision, prcm.i'uie 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 In* igoiator is sold at fl 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 ( 111 M Y. Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce A Co., Sole Agents at Decatur

M 01ST K Y SAVED By buyingGroceiies of WILLIAM P. MOON. 0 —— I have just renewed my grocery establish* ment from Houston’s building, to the new brick blocVof Studabaker and Allison and have added k’vjely to mv stock of GROCERIES »nd will keep in slock ell the leading articles in my line of business. I take pleasure in inriting all my old customers and the 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 MB BEFORE PUR CHASING. I also keep in stock Glass and Queensware I wish to buy all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE for which I will pav the very UIG IIES MARKET PRICE. Remember my stock ie fresh and new and contaims everything usually found in a first class grocery. W. P. MOON. No. 25 —2B ts.

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GIVING DINNERS AND (GETTING CONTRACTS. Feasting and frolic have much to do with legislation at Washington. Still, the average Congressman, though fond of the good cheer which the lobby dispenses freely on certain occasions, has an eye always to the main chance, and does not usually traffic his vote for a dinner. Indeed, he prefers to deal directly with principals In matters of business, and to discard intermediaries. A few years ago Norris Peters was a clerk in the Patent Office. Now he has all the externals of wealth, and he lives in such costly style as to throw the great dignitaries, foreign and domestic, into the shade. Plausible, unscrupulous, and managing, he has attained a remarkable success in a sjiort space of time. The most noted lobbyists look upon him with envy, and perhaps with some uncharitableness. All that profuse expenditure can buy is offered to the distinguished guests of this enterprising patriot. His numerous dinners at Weicker’s are ordered without regard to cost, and his company comprises prominent men of both parties, for Mr. Peters is too polite to be a politician. In these hot summer nights Mr. Petsrs sees to the comforts of his friends on the water with a hospitality quite as generous and captivating as that provided for them on land. As the associate and intimate of the undiscovered Capt. Howgate, Mr. Peters was one cf the conspicuous members of a yacht club, of which the former was President. The yacht Peters carries on the bosom of the Potomac the finest living freight about the capital. President Arthur, Speaker Keifer, members of the cabinet, conspicuous Senators like Allison, Windom, Anthony, Beck, Conger, Ferry, Henry Davis, and leading Representatives like Robeson, Blackburn, Butterworth, Cannon. McKenzie, and many others in both Houses relieve the cares of State on these charming excursions. These names and others are duly gazetted in the court journals. Mr. Peters is solicitous for the health of the Committee on Appropriations. He knows their arduous duties, and his great aim is to soothe labors that carry with them great-responsibility. Hence they are always preferred guests, because the wheels of legislation could not revolve smoothly without the lubrication of -these benefactors. Among the most profitable contracts in the departments are those of photo-lithographing, which are said in many cases to yield one-half of the face of the bills to the fortunate bidder. Mr. Peters serves his country and himself as a photo-lithographer and as he was once a clerk in the Patent Office, it is perhaps natural the sympathy of the bureau, which gives out contracts of more than a hundred thousand dollars a year, should lean toward a former employee of liberal ideas, and who himself knows what it ia to be pinched with a limited salary. For several years past the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial act has contained a curious clause in connection with the photo-lithographing of the Patent Office, as follows: “The work referred to in this and the two preceding paragraphs, is to be done under the supervision of the Commissioner of Patents, and in the city of Washington, if it can be done there at reasonable rates, and the Commissioner of Patents, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to make contracts therefor." Outsiders are excluded from competition. Insiders of disinterested virtue determine what are “reasonable rates.” The Secretary of the Interior does not interfere with the Commiasionei of Patents, and the machinery works without friction from being constantly well oiled. In the present legislative bill the appropriations for the work of the Patent Office aggregate $108,750. For the fiscal year 1881-’B2 they footed up $8»,00l) a little item of $20,750 in favor pf Mr. Peters, out of course without reference to his dinners or to his yacht entertainments. There is much photo-lithographing required in other departments. When the President and members of the Cabinet, and leading Senators and Representatives, and the Committees of Appropriations are seen dining and yachting with a citizen engaged in that business, it goes without saying he is likely to receive any contracts they can control. They naturally want to reciprocate his hospitality; and as it costs them nothing but a decided preference for one man over others, they give Mr. Peters the jobs, just as he gives them the tidbits in season. Considerable amazement has been occasioned at Piqua, 0., by the conviction of J. Manford Ken-, a prominent young lawyer, politician, author, and recently an editor, of a penitentiary offense. Mr. Kerr has been doing a real estate business for several years past, and he was indicted and convicted on the charge of selling land without a title. A few months ago he married an accomplished young lady, daughter - of a prominent business man in Troy. Kerr, himself an accomplished scholar, moved in the best society, and was entirely free from the petty vices to which young men are usually addicted. It is but just to Mr. Kerr to state that lie claimed-to have a contract for the land, but the paper had become lost. This fact was also testified to by Kerr’s brother and another witness, but the jury attached no faith to the evidence of tiie contract Public opinion is somewhat divided, with the preponderance against Kerr. Rumors are rife of other disho iest’ transactions perpet rated by Ke: r, but so skillfully that he did not come within the pale of the law.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1882

TELEGRAPHIC. New York, July 14.—The published report that President Villard, of the Northern Pacific had issued an order that the company’s lands west of the Missouri river should be sold to actual settlers and in quantity not to exceed 110 acres, is wholly untrue. The directors of the company long ago resolved that purchasers could buy to the extent of 360 acres, or an entire section if a guaranty was given for immediate cultivation, the intention being to secure cultivation and prevent large tracts from being absorbed and held by speculators. St. Louis, July 14. —A Post-Dis patch special from Shreveport, Louisiana, says that John Godwyn killed W. Windham’s dog. Windham followed Godwyn and his brother-in-law Marion witli a shot gun. He shot and killed both, but was himself wounded and died within an hour. Collinsville, a small town on the Vandalia road, about nine miles from East St. Louis, was the scene of a tragedy last evening. As John Dooley (colored) was riding through the streets on a mule, he was shot y Nelson Cooper, also colored. Dooley fell to the ground, when Cooper rushed up, placed the gun against the former’s head, and again fired. Dooley died almost instantly. Cooper then coolly gave himself up to the city marshall. The cause of the murder was that Cooper was convinced that his wife had lavished her affections on Dooley. Natchez, Miss., July 14.—J. S. Montgomery, county superintendent of education, has decamped, having defrauded various parties by forging names to teachers’ warrants. Scranton, Miss., July 14.—The cases of the two men sentenced to be banged here to-day appealed to the supreme court and their execution was deferred. New - York, July 14.—Last night’s meeting has shown its effect in handling freight this morning. The strikers are jubilant, and the companies said to be depressed. Os the great number of Italians and Russian Jew’s liereiofUi ccm plnyod • »-» tho TilskPtAkg the strikers not one third are at work to-day. Success for the men is predicted confidently. Very little freight was received and hardly any handled. Owen Sound, Ontario, July 14. —A fire this morning destroyed the following buildings: W. B. Stevens, hardware; Creighton Bros., general drygoods; M. Forham, jeweler; M. Gilson, saddler; Mrs. McCauley’s residence; Mrs. Shaw’s fancy goods store; G. T. Miller, boots and shoes; D. R. Robbie, insurance office, and R. Wylie's butcher shop. Loss, $50,000. Cincinnati, July 15.—Wm. Todd, of Pittsburg, a steamboat man, was fallen upon this morning by the inmates of a gambling house on Longworth street, and stabbed in the back, groin and side. The wounds are regarded as serious. The assailants escaped. A Times-Star Little Rock special says that thirty bodies ha\e been recovered from the ruins of the building at Texarkana. The funerals of the victims to-day were attended by great crowds. The work of searching for the missing is going on. Three bodies taken out were burned to a crisp. Fifteen persons are still missing, and are supposed to be under the ruins. At Clarendon, Monroe county, Arkansas, James Green (colored) was beaten to death with a club in the hands of John Riseberg, who escaped. He is the same man who recently committed a murder at Friar’s Point, Mississippi. St. Louis, July 15. —The body of a man supposed to be John Doehn, who dropped dead on the street Thursday, as telegraphed, and which has been in the morgue since, was recognized last night as Albert H. Pease, a well-known pianist. Pease, who is well-known in the east, came here about the middle of May from Chicago. On May 31st he disappeared, and has been missing since. He registered under the name of Doehn at a cheap hotel, foursquares from the police headquarters, and drank heavily all the time. Rewards were offered and a search made, but the police and friends were unable to find him until discovered in the morgue by a reporter, after lying there two days. The cause of death was congestion of the brain, brought on by intemperance. Pease made his headquarters at NewYork and had been engaged to accompany Nillson on her American tour in the fail. Toledo, July 15. —The jury in the libel suit of Hon. N. M. Howard against the Sunray Democrat, in which $25,000 was claimed, gave a verdict this afternoon for the plaintitY for $2,000, after being out twentyfour hours. The plaintiff, an ex-mem-ber of the legislature, and a prominent and wealthy citizen, was charged with adultery with a fascinating soprano singer in the choir in his church. The publishers pleaded justification, and attempted to prove the charge. The trial engaged the ablest lawyers in the city, lasted three weeks, and the court costs alone amounted to about $1,5C0. Efforts will be made by defendants to secure a new trial. Dayton, 0., July 15 —Two deaths from lockjaw occurred in the city last night, both cases being boys of about fourteen. Both were injured by slight wounds in the hands, received from toy pistols on the Fourth of July. The wounds were slight and not considered alarming until several days after, when the poison spread through the system. All efforts were made to save the lives of the patients by the best medical aid, but proved unavailing, the boys dying after prolonged suffering. Springfield, 111., July 15.—Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, who for several months past has been making her home with her sister, Mrs. N. W. Edwards, is reported to be failing greatly m health. During the last few weeks in addition to other ailments she has been greatly troubled by numerous large boils, which completely cover her back and sides. She is at present confined to her bed, but soon intends, if her health will permit, to go to Ocean Grove, near Long Branch, where she hopes to be benefitted by the sea air. Cincinnati, July 17. There have been fix deaths from lockjaw in this city and Covington within the past three days. The victims were all boys, who were wounded in the hands by toy pistols on the 4th of July. In most case the wounds were apparently trifling. Dunkirk,O., July 17.—The residence of Cyrus Flack, of this place, took fire to-day while the family were at church and was only saved by the firemen tearing a portion of it down. The loss to the house and goods is perhaps S2OO. Fully insured. Cincinnati, July 17.—A Gazette Chautauqua special says that during

a sudden squall to-day a row boat containing Dr. A. P. King and wife, of London, Ohio; Professor Leland, of St. Louis, and a young lady from London, was capsized opposite the assembly grounds. After an hour’s struggle' Professor Leland and the young lady reached the shore, but Dr. King and wife were drowned. Mrs. King’s body was soon recovered and a vain attempt made at resuscitation. Mrs. King, nee Smith, formerly lived in Mansfield, and had been married less than a year. Chicago, July 17. —An extended survey of the corn outlook in southern Illinois shows that section to be much better than the northern and central portions. The prospect is very good and there will be an average yield with a little rain during the present month. Corn is rapidly improving further north, and the situation is far from being as gloomy as it was two weeks ago. In northern In diana the crop is doing excellently, and in southern Indiana and Illinois there are large crops of wheat ami oats. Minnesota reports the prospect of wheat very favorable and improving. Corn is a little backward there. An Atehinson special says that the Kansas wheat harvest has closed and there is a most satisfactory yield over the entire state, which average twenty-three bushels per acre. Delphos, Ohio, July 17.— Chas. H. Hilton, in charge of the St. Paul, Minnesota & Manitoba locomotives, Nos. 143 and 144, destined to St. Paul, Minnesota, had his foot badly crushed in this place to-day by his engine running over it. He was under the engine examining the machinery when the train suddenly moved and caught him. He was left here and the engines taken to Fort Wayne, Hilton is employed by Lovell’s locomotive express, of Boston, Massachusetts. Hie home is at Everett, Massachusetts, where he is a member of South Frankingham Odd Fellows lodge, No. 450. He has been taken charge of here by the Odd Fellows ana he is receiving every attention. THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH. Freaks and Fam :' * of tlio Imperia Diana ot Austria. Paris Letter to the I’aii Mall Gazette. On entering office the president of the re public resolved never to let anger dominate him in the exercise of his public functions The force of this self-imposed law was tested during the recent sojourn at the hotel Bristol of the empress of Austria. There are cogent reasons why Fi ance should keep on good terms with Austria. M. Grevy was advised last week by M. de Freycinet, and prompted by his own feeling and reason, to call on the Empress Elizabeth. He had twice previously gone to see her while she was halting in Paris. The line he took was not to pay a visit de puissance a puissance, but to give a mark of courteous deference tc the imperial lady. She was to some extern incognita, her traveling title being Counter von Hohenembs. M. Grevy did no* attempt to force her out of intrenchment. His attitude was one of manly kindness to a womaiillustrious by her birth and charming by her beauty, to which the president is by nc means insensible. His calls on her were short. Their implied object was to ascer tain in what way he could oblige the exalted visitor. As the empress was a mere bird of passage, and hurried as well as incognita, no exchange of civilities was thought of. On the occasion of her last halt in the Place Vendome her imperial majesty practically threw aside the fictitious title which she was in the habit of adopting when abroad, and paid as well as received visits—but not to the president of tne republic. She did, however. so honor the German ambassadress. The Princess Hohenlohe, whom she went tc tee, is one of her few high-born friends, and stands in the relation to her of upper servant, she being connected with the empress’s household. M. Grevy felt nettled; but he reasoned away his annoyance, and after the reception of a telegram of thanks from the emperor, who hojied at some future time to give them a verbal repetition, made another call. The inqierial is hardly to be blamed for such actions. She has renounced the throne for the - saddle, and emancipated heraelt from all the irksome duties of ner station. With the most transparent frankness she asks w hat more, in heaven’* name, can be demanded of her/ For a woman of her limited power of reflection her self-knowledge is surprising. ’She is aware of her incapacity to 'kal with any state affair and of her’crass ignorance of politics Pictures, fashions, the drama and most other tbiugs which interest polite society are to her matters of perfect indifference. She is attached to her father and mother, sisters, grand-children, dog.--, horses, and some sporting and circus cron io-, whose advice she ask» when she has thoroughbred colts to train for the hunting-tield. Her capacity to hate i* rery limited. She ignores most persons and things that she find' excite her antipathy or anger. Still she has a few pet aversion* Bismarck is one of them. She took en grippe the Petites Dalh-s in Normandy because she ras told some secret service agents of hi# •vent down after her. 11 is true that pea* ants also menace<l her v. ith stones and stickjbecause she galloped over their potato-field* Pomp and ceremony she abhors. When she ras quite new to regal lite she took a child hh sort of pleasure in magnificent dress. Sh* no* hates French modes and millinery, and thinks simple raiment the most becoming ot any The habits she wore in the Bois wen of the coarsest woolen tweed, and her ha’ Was a featherless Tom and Jerry. M. Grevy found the empress very pleasant She had taken a liking to him, although in a general way she hates the republic that he represents. Her sisters take care to keep her in this state of mind. One of them is the exqueen of Naples, “the heroine of Gaeta,”the other the Comtesse de Trani, and the third the beauteous Duchesse d’Alencon, who is as fond of hounds and horses as the empress, and as indifferent to fashion. Nothing, 1 believe, was further from the thoughts of the empress of Austria t han to deliberately snub M. Grevy. She is a woman of few ideas, one of which ie that presidents of republics neither can nor should regard themselves as the equals of anointed sovereigns. The empress, through her mother, is a near relation of the king of Bavaria, and she has his manner of “taking her head.” Her father, the duke of Deux-ronts, is very odd. Not being rich enough when his five daughters were growing to hire iadies to attend them,, he simply confided them to the charge of dogs. With canine guardians they were free to roam wherever fancy led them. The eldest, Helen, was to have been, as old Duke Max put it, the queen bee of Austria, and was educated for the function. She received special care, in which she was unfortunate. Archduchess Sophy was delighted with the results of her training, and thought her a paragon of courtly dignity and grace. But when Francis Joseph went to propoae for her he was chilled by her imperial manners, which he thought imperious, and proposed for Elizabeth, whom he bad first seen roving in a forest attended by a mastiff. She was a lovely wild being. At first she was dazzled by the imperial crown, very much in love with the emperor and very sorry for Helen, who fell back on the prince of Turn mid Taxis. But the wildness and willfulness got eventually the upper hand; Vienna and ite’ceremoniuus etiquette became intolerable. For some years the empress attempted to please the stiff and stately folk. But she was always making blunders and getting herself censured. The f u ily Ircle. the nobility, and the bourgeoisie misunderstood her. which as she was very proud, she silently resented. An Irish lady, who can say what she likes to her, once complimented her on the lieauty of her eyes. The empress said: "The poor eyes! It is a wonder that any lustre is left in them. If you only knew what floods of scalding tears have poured from them ” The apparent breakdown of her constitution restored her to liberty. Health returned with freedom. It will coat $25,000 bring the bodies of DeLoug and his comra<ies from Lena river to Washington. The naval board has decided that the bodies will remain untouched and much as they are now until removed. The time of removal has not been fixed.

CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Washington, July 10.—Mi. Morrill, from the finance committee, reported amendments to the house bill reducing internal revenue taxation. They repeal, after October Ist, 1882, the additional duty imposed in 1875, of 25 percent, on all molasses and on sugars, according to the duties, imported from a foreign country; the fixed duty on steel railway bars at S2O per ton, and makes the "duties on manufactures fr m hoop, band or scroll iron the same >-s those imposed upon the material from which it is made. The senate resumed consideration of tiie river and harbor bill, the ques tion being upon the amendment appropriating $500,000 for the improvement of the Potomac fiats, without action the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July 10.—Mr. Crapo submitted the conference report on the bill to enable national banking associations to extend their corporate existence. A bill passed authorizing the transfer of the property of the nt tional soldiers and sailors orphan home to the Garfield memorial hospital. Mr. White introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the abridgement of the rights of citizens of the United States on account of sex. Referred. After completing fifty-nine of the eighty-five pages of the bill, the committee rose. SENATE. Washington, July 11.—Mr. Mor rill, from the finance committee, reported favorably senate bill repealing so much of section 3,385 of the revised statutes as imposes a charge upon export stamps on tobacco. Calendar. Mr. Groome, from the committee on pensions, reported a bill to prevent the payment of double pensions. The conference report on the bank charter extension bill was presented ana agreed to. Consideration of the river and harb' r bill was resumed, but no action HOUSE. Washington, July 11.—The house west into committee on the sundry civil bill. After completing the consideration of sixty-eight of the eighty-five pages of the bill the committee rose. SENATE. Washington, July 12.—The river and harbor bill was taken up and various suggestions were made by Mr. McMillan and others, with a view to securing a final vote upon the bill to-day. The Hennepin canal proposition, as amended, to provide a supply for surveys and examinations, was considered and passed, house. Washington, July 12.—The house went into committee on the sundry civil bill. The clause appropriating $2,400,000 for public printing and binding gave rise to a general discussion on the subject of deficiencies in the public service. Messrs. Atkins and Randall contending that such deficiencies arose through executive maladministration. Messrs. White, Hiscock and Robeson maintained that they arose through necessity and not through any violation of law. The bill went over without action. senate. Wabkington, July 18.—Mr. Mahone, from the committee on agriculture, reported back the house bill to establish a bureau of animal industry, and to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and the spread of infectious and contagious diseases among domestic a- imals. Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution directing the committee on library to enquire into the expediency of purcl using, editing and publ shing the unpublished manuscript papers of AndrewJJackson. Adopted) House joint resolution passed appropriating $50,000 to enable the United States to take part in the international fishery exhibition at London in May, 1883. After an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July 13.—The house went into committee on the sundiy civil appropriation hill. Without action the house adjourned. SENATE. Washington, July 14.—0 n and after Monday next the senate will meet at 11 o’clock a. m. Mr. Logan, from the committee on appropriations, reported the * pension appropriation bill. Printed and laid over. A number of pension bills passed. The house pension bill was amended by the adoption of a general provision prohibiting the payment of double pensions. The tax bill was then taken uo and Mr. Bayard reviewed and criticised the measure. He said that for the first time in the history of the country the senate had originated a bill to change the tariff because party exigencies demanded it. Mr. Beck offered an amendment reducing ten cents per pound the tax on manufactured tobacco. Pending discussion the matter went over for the day. Atter an executive session the senate adiourned till to-morrow. HOUSE. Washington, July 14. —The house proceeded to the consideration of the remaining senate amendments to the deficiency appropriation bill, which had not been concurred in yesterday. A large majority of them were noncoucurred in. Few of them gave rise to debate except the one appropriating $33,0C0 for the payment of mileage to senators who attended the special session of the senate, convened October kith, 1881. Mr. Townshend characterized this amendment as a little salary grab, and hoped the house conferees, when appointed, would not yield to the senate on that point. The amendment was uon-concurred in. The last amendment in the bill was that constituting a board of audit, consisting of the first and second “omptiollers of the treasury and the treasurer of the United States, to whom shall be referred all claims and determine all allowances to be made growing out of the illness and burial of the late President James A. Garfield. Debate followed. Finally a vote was taken and the senate amendment was non-concurred in—yeas, 78; nays, 83. The house went into committee of the whole on the senate amendments to the river and harbor bill, but as the amendments were not printed the committee rose and they were ordered printed. The house then took a recess. The evening session will be for the consideration of pensions. The house at the evening session agreed to the senate amendment to

me nouse mu granting a pension u> Augustus Miller. This amendment prohibits the payment of double pensions. Pension bills then passed to the number of forty, among them the senate bill granting an increase of pension to the widow of General Custer. The house also passed bills granting seventy-five condemned cannon for monumental purposes and then adiourned until to-morrow. SENATE Washington, July 15.—Mr. Anthony introduced a bill repealing so much of the army appropriation bill as provides for the retirement of General Sherman and Lieutenant-Gener-al Sheridan. Referred. On motion of Mr. McMillan, the senate irtbisted upon its amendments to the river and harbor appropriation bill, and a conference committee was ordered, consisting of Senators McMillan, Jones, of Nevada, and Ransom. The senate at 4:50 adjourned until Monday. HOUSE. Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, reported back from the foreign affairs committee the resolution offered by Mr Cox requesting the president to communicate any information in the possession of the state department in reference to any modification in the stipulations under which the French cable company were permitted to land its catile upon tiie shore of the United States to the effect that it was not to combine with other companies to raise the rates, without congressional action to prevent consolidation. The house went into committee of the whole on the senate amendments to the river and harbor appropriation bill. The first Hind the seventeenth amendments were concurred in. The Hennepin canal amendment gave rise to a discussion, in the course of which Mr. Hutchins, of New York, expressed hope that the house would give such an emphatic condemnation to the scheme that it would never show- its head again. The amendment was advocated by Messrs. Henderson and Springer. The remainder “oT’t'tie amemtmems were non-concurred in, the whole number being 150. The committee then rose, and the house non-coneurred in all the senate amendments. An unsuccessful effort was made tn have an hour spent in hearing requests for unanimous consent. Adjourned. FRENCH WIT? A cartoon in Le Charivari rcpresen s the Sultan sitting on the Dulcigno shore fishing and saying, with reference to the fleet of the combined powers: “It ought to go away; it scares the fish. In New York. First citizen (gazing at the Albermarie hotel through an opera glass) — Do you tell me that Sarah Bernhardt is on the balcony? I see nothing. Second citizen—Precisely! That is she. Apropos of Victor Hugo’s latest work. Pagesus is represented to be in a towering rage because an ass can carry a poet to immortality as well as he. The other day on leaving the cemetery, where he had been visiting the grave of liis wife, a bereaved husband addressed a friend who accompanied him: “Now what shall we do with ourselves this evening?” “I don’t know.” “Let’s go to the theatre. She always loved the theatre.” Z. is so short-sighted that In the streets he runs against lamp-posts and begs their pardon. He was married the other day. On the evening of his wedding he returned home, not with his wife, but with another woman. Fortunately he discovered his mistake—the next morning. “Yes, she is a very good housekeeper,” says one, “but she always has her lovers.” “Lovers! What a slanderous world this is! I never knew her to have but one lover in my life,” replies another in defense of her absent friend. The faithful and unambitious servant. An old gentleman one day told his valet that he intended to leave him a snug fortune in his will. "But,” added he, “in order that you may not wish for my death, I shall each day put away a little sum for you. This shall be added to your legacy, and hence you will desire me to live to a fine old age.” Six weeks afterward the kind-hearted old gentleman dies of poison. Suspicion falls on the faithful servant, and he is arrested. At the trial he pleads guilty, and when upbraided for his villiany and ingratitude, says to the court: “Your honor, I am a man of very simple tastes; I was willing to be content with a modest income. Guiballord clerical. “I am pleased with myself,” he said the other day. “I was asked to contribute aid for the barefooted friars.” “And you did so?” • -Immediately. I sent a pair of ne v shoes.” “Have you seen my daughter's new baby?” asked a proud grandmother of a neighbor. “Yes. It is a handsome baby, bi t how very little it is.” "Oh, that’s not surprising. The doctor who attended her was a homoeopath.” “My watch is a perfect treasure,” said A. the other day. “It never varies a second." “It must be like my thermometer,” returned B. “That never varies a particle.” An actress had just finished dressin ; herself for her part, anti is going on thj stage, when her mother bursts upon her in tears with an open letter in her hand. “My dear child, do you know whet has happened? Your sister is dead!” “Oh. my. how can you say it—how can you say it just when 1 have made up my face, and can’t cry? Why couldn't you have waited till sifter th) third act?” The members of the advisory commission selected to consider the question of the adjustment of freight rates on the trnnk line railroads leading to the Atlantic seaboard ports, consisting of ex-Benator Thurman, E. B Washburne and Thomas M. C<Xez y. met in New York to complete, ’’heir report. The round-house of the St, £ ouis A San Francisco railroad, at Vinita, Indian territory, with two engines, burned. Loss, $50,000.

NUMBER 16.

rNDIAAA. The small pox flag in the city of In diairapolis has been taken down. Young quails are plenty in north* era Indiana, so the farmers report. The net profits of the State Prison at Michigan City for last month were $2,000. There is some talk of moving the great Lake Shore shops from Elkhart to Toledo. The corner-stone of the new court house at Anderson will be laid on the 17th of August. A big ten-day temperance campmeeting at Seymour is attracting a good deal of attention. The losses by fire at Indianapolis during the past six months foot up $66,875,070; insurance thereon, $437,409. The people of Muncie have now before them another offer lot king to the location o! an extensive manufacturing establishment. She has lived nearly all this time without taking more than a cracker each day, ami frequently she has been in the habit of refusing all nourishment. It is a fact that all of the military companies from the south, at the Indianapolis encampment, wore the clue, while several from the north wore the gray. One farmer down near New Albany raised 190 barrels of potatoes on a little over an acre of ground, and sold them for three dollars per barrel, $570 from one acre. It is alleged that J. F. Williams, Superintendent of Instruction in Martin county, has been selling the list of questions prepared monthly for the examination of teacners by the State Board. On a farm near New Albany, the potato crop turns out two hundred barrels on each acre and a quarter, and this is about the average of the crop on all the good land in Floyd couutv. The closing of the saloons at Indi anapolis, last Sunday, not only demonstrated that the law could be enforced, but it diverted the beer-seeker and sucker to less harmful enjoyments. The river bank swarmed with fishermen. On Monday night L. V. Teete, of Silver I<ake, was drowned while swimming in the St. Joseph river. His body has not yet been recovered. He was but twenty years old. A reward has been ottered to the one finding him. One thousand dollars is being expended in repairing the Wabash Co. jail, from which there has been two deliveries since March. Although but two years old, and built at a cost of SIB,OOO, it has been but a light task for prisoners to escape from it. On Saturday two young men from Boston township, mounted on fleet horses, engaged in racing the animals through the streets of Richmond. Joanna Dinkle, who is sixty years of age, was crossing a street, when she was struck by the horses, knocked down and trampled so seriously that her injuries are considered fatal. Wabash county can boast of a person who has fasted longer than Dr. Tanner. She is the daughter of a farmer living southeast of the city, and began to refuse food fifty-six days ago. She lias had physicians in attendance almost constantly since her fast commenced, and they all consider it an unfathomable mystery. C. B. Lynch, of Darlington, has a patent on a new process for weighing grain, which will be of important practical utility to grain dealers. It is an instrument which can be attached to the spout in elevators, warehouses and mills, and will weigh any kind of grain accurately, no matter how slowly or rapidly it may run through. In the circuit court at Lafayette, on Saturday, Judge Hammond granted an injunction restraining the board of commissioners from building a court house by day’s work under their own supervision, as proposed, holding that the law plainly required such work should be let by contract, and it was their duty to obey the law, whether they T approved it or not. The military encampment at Indianapolis was a thorough success. The State artillery prize was won by the Porter Light Artillery, of Michigan City. The Chickasaw Guards, of Memphis, Tenn., were given the infantry prize of $1,500, and the Crescent City Rifles, of New Orleans, getting the SI,OOO purse. The receipts of the encampment were $35,000; the expenses, $25,000. William Lewis fell desperately in love with a maiden of Utica, Clark county, and proposed marriage. Objections were raised by the parents of the girl, and he became so desperate that he went home, loaded his shotgun, and placed the muzzle to his ear. Just as he was getting ready to kick the trigger his mother came upon him and the discharge only took away a part of Willie’s ear. Foiled so far, Willie determined to take arsenic, and secured the drug, but this was taken from him. On Tuesday Charley Cain and Will Denins, two boys of New Castle, about fifteen years old, were shooting in the vicinity of the L. Id. A W. trestle work, at the edge of town, one using a target-gun and the other a revolver, when Bert Gordon, another boy, walking the trestle in front of them, was shot through the heart and killed instantly. It is thought to have been an accident, but the result of .gross carelessness on the part of the boys. Railroad Travel. . » Despite all the accidents of railroad travel, it is the safest kind of transit yet devised. A French statistician, who is mt connected with railroad journalism, has shown that in France previous to the existence of railroads one passenger in every 835,000 was killed and one out of every 30,000 wounded, whereas between 1835 and 1875 there was but one in 5,178.890 killed and one ir 550,450 wounded. From this is inst ed a diminishing tendency to accidents which must be set down to the credit of railroads. lima Beanb. It is a mistake to plant Lima beans two inches deep,as mo-t books at d writing instruct uetodo. The Lima loves warmth, »nd it is therefore worse than ageless to plant them eitbei while there isdangerof fronts, or deep in the ground, which excludes them from the first warmth of the soil, and induces many to. rot. One inch is deep enough. Plant the eyes down, and four about < acts st ike, making rhe four points of a square, la-t the stakes be set firmly, using a crowbar for the purpose, four feet apart each way. Spread a small forkful of tine manure in each bill, and cover with soil. Then plant he beaus, one inch deep and no more.