Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

E ■ ST r i he .Democrat. Official Paper of the County, A. J. HILL. Editor and Bunincas 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. Office ever Adams Co. Bqnk 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charge? reasonable. Residence an north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart’s Mill. 25jy79tf ~w.”h7M yers? Brick k Slone Jlaaon Lontrac- r DECATUR, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, ▼25n45m8. E N WICKS, J. T. MERRYMAN. yyiCKS & MERRYMAN, •Attorneys at Law AND Real Estate Jfttit9» Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and di<patoh. Partition, 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. Consultation free. Call and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write to him and make a statement of your case.—v2suß6ly. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, JS e o t a. clos, cfco Repairing done at loveat prices to guar antee good and sound work K B Alluox. rrm’t. W. H Nisuca.CMbier. B. STVOABAaaa, VicePrw’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank ie now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and Ceutfty Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ~~ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. 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, BECATUB,INDIANA. eTn. wicks, attorney at law, DICATUB, IKBIANA. All legal business promptly Attended tn. Office up eliirs in Stone’s building 4th door. v25n24 year 1. ' S. G. HASTINGS, M. D~ homoeopathist PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, DKCATVR, INDIANA. • All calls day or night promptly attended W. Office in Studabaker’s building, first door touih of Court House Square. Vol. 25 No. 14. THE DECATUR WOOLEN . MILLS I RUNNING AGAIN! Having purchased the Eicher Woolen Mills we are prepared to announce to the public generally that we have fur 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 ly solicit all former patrons of the Eicher Woolen Mills to come and see us, as we expect £: to reciprocate your patronage by 1 . honest, fair dealing. • We will pay you the highest market price in cash for your wool, or make anv exchange for goods. Call and tee our stock of FLA?: NELS, BLANKETS. SATTINETS, JEANS and | STOCKING YARNS before >, purchasing elsewhere,we : promise to furnish ' you a better article for LESS MOKET! Than you can buy anywhere else. MYERS BROS. , X>ecaMi< May 6, 1881- **

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The Reduction of Internal Taxes.l When Congress met last December, the Secretary of the Treasury wrote in his report as follows: “Meanwhile the daily receipts from the community by the Treasury continue, the surplus over its needs increases, and money Iles idle. It seems that the ]>lau most jijst for giving relief is to reduce taxation, and thereby diminish receipts aud surplus.” These wise words have gone unheeded. The Republican majority in instead of reducing taxation, have sought only to reduce the surplus in the Treasury by extravagant appropriations. They have never seriously considered any proposition for relief. They passed the Tariff Commission scheme, intending to prevent reform of the existing abuses, and to continue the system until after the presidential election at least, and as much longer as possible. Instead of cutting down expenses and taxation they have deliberately sought, by every act of this Congress, to augment both. They have added nearly fifteen hundred officholders to the present overstock, thereby providing so much new material for assessments for the Congressional campaign this fall. They will be worth fifty or sixty thousand dollars to Jay Hubbell's blackmailing committee. And now, at the close of the session, a bill is reported to reduce the internal revenue taxes by seventeen millions of dollars, ®f which the banks get $11,382,502 41, and the manufacturers of patent medicines, perfumery, and matches get, together, $6,121,848.52! The entire internal revenue system produces over $135,000,000. This about equals the estimated surplus for the next fiscal year, and therefore it was entirely abolished, the ability of the Treasury to meet its ordinary obligations would not be impaired at all. In all probability the time will come in this country when the most abused rulings of Chief Justice Taney touching the rights and no rights of the African, will be considered humane and reasonable compared with 'he official opinion of AttorneyGeneral Brewster, just given, that the transportation of 60,000 Chinese laborers through this country from Cuba to China cannot be granted under the law as it now stands. If the law as it now stands forbids anj- gnumber of foreigners from passing through any part of this land, from one country to another, the law has a very recent and a very flimsy foundation. And the spirit of it, and of Mr. Brewster’s opinion, is more worthy the days of slave-hunting and the burning of witches than of these days- Certainly the law, if it so stands, and the interpretation of it are utterly opposed to the letter aud spirit of the Declaration of Independence; contrary to and subversive of the aim and scope of the Constitution of the United States, and utterly opposed to the genius and destiny of this great nation. The twelve Republican Senators who voted squarely against the Administration on the Penn Yan postmastership case, did so with their eyes open and with full warning from Timothy O. Howe that their opposition would be taken as an affront at the White House. The twelve were: Aldrich, of Rhode Island; Dawes and Hoar, of Massachusetts; Blair, of New Hampshire, Frye, of Maine; Hawley, of Connecticut; Sherman, of Ohio; Morrill, of Vermont; Harrison, of Indiana; Mitchell, of Pennsylvania; Van Wyck, of Nebraska, and Miller, of New York. If we except Blair, who, like his constituency, is an extremely light-weight, intellectually and morally, this list is about the strongest that could be made up from the Republican side of the House. Some of the men in it are not above suspicion—notably Sherman —but there is no denying the fact that they represent the dominant sentiment of the great mass of Republican voters. Now THAT THE NAVY DEPARTMENT has shown by a letter which Admiral Nicholson wrote before Sir Beauchamp Seymour began to bombard Alexandria that the "massacres” which afforded the pretext for this bombardment were of “accidental origin,” and began with a dispute between the Greeks or Mal.ese and the Arabs, it is to be hoped that Mr. Chandler will lose no time in getting Admiral Nicholson to explain why during this bombardment and after it he should have taken such pains, as the English press assures us he took, to put the American flag side by side in a sort of alliance with the English against the bombarded city. “This Congressional Campaign Committee,” the historian of the current year may have to say, “assessed the Republican party out of its majority in the House, by raising political blackmail from Federal offlee?.oldc rs in defiance of the principles and promises of the party and the protests of its best members.” The latest Half Breed objection to President Arthur is that his hours for breakfast and luncheon are variable, while Garfield always breakfasted at a. m. and the Fraudulent President took his first meal at B*4 a. m., showing (perhaps the argument is) a fixity of purpose in the smaller acts of their lives. Now, if it should appear that the President does not fold his napkin after meals, the Half Breed historian may begin his political obituary. Foja a Congressman who wants to be re-elected next fall to a ss,ooo;place for two years to ask a day laborer or an errand boy for a few dollars off his pay to help carry the election, is, when you come to think about it, as small a form of political selfishness as cun be measured.

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DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1882

TELEGRAPHIC. Cincinnati, July 26.—A Muscagee, lowa, special says that great excitement prevails in the western part of the Creek nation over the killing of a light horse captain named Seott by a party of loyalists or Sands men, who made the attack to rescue one of their members held as a prisoner. Captain Scott was shot and torn in the most shocking manner, while one of his nieu was fatally wounded. Chief Chicot has called for volunteers to keep the peace, but the Sands men are desperate and the citizens fear a bloody encounter. A letter from Monticello, Kentucky, says that George Bates was fatally shot there on Saturday by Robert Southwood aud Manuel Russell, from the effect of which he died Sunday. A Times-Star Bucyrus (Ohio) special says that in the case of John Smith, alias James Hogan, on trial for the murder of David Snodgrass, marshal of Crestline, the jury returned a verdict of murder in the second degree, and the prisoner was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Chicago, July 26.—A Lordsburg, New Mexico carrier, from Clifton, reports that a large party of Indians attacked a wagon train three miles this side of Clifton yesterday morning, killing two men. The teamsters, seven in number, stood oft the Indians for two hours and mortally wounded one Indian. The teamsters in the face of a heavy fire, rushed out and dragged a wounded Indian into the ca inp, and when the fight was oversralped him and roasted him alive. The dirctorsof the board of trade this morning announced $1 10 as the present price of No. 2 spring July wheat, for marginal purposes only. The July option has been cornered for a long time and has nominally been $1 20, though regular July sold at about a dollar. Under the decision the buyer can be compelled to margin down to 09 cents and the seller cannot be called on for a margin above $1 21, or 10 per cent each way from $1 10. Columbus, July 26—Robbert Garrett and sons, ot Baltimore, Maryland, to-day, filed in the United States court a bill in chancery against the Steubenville & Indiana railroad company and others, asking that the liens on the road be marshaled and sold. The plaintiff claim a first lien, which including interest, amounts to over $200,000 which is the balance due on a former decree. The road is now operated by the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis railway, and extends between Newark and Steubenville. Hon. A. C. Wales, of Massillon, member of the state board of agriculture since 1879, died to-day. He was a member of the Ohio senate during several sessions of the general assembly. Chicago, July 27.— A. terrific explosion of giant powder took place shortly before 6 o'clock this evening at the stone quarry on the northwestern outskirts of the city, about six miles away from the business center. The shock of the concu-sion was plainly felt ail over the city, and the detonation must have been heard many miles. A workman went to the powder-house, a wooden structure containing the stated 1,000 pounds of giant and 1,500 pounds of blasting powder, and took out a twenty-five pound can. The front door was open and setting it on the ground proceeded to open it with a cold chisel. The result was a spark struck and the can exploded, throwing the workman, John S. Obeli by name, about thirty feet and setting fire to his clothes. Spark from this enteied the powder house, where some of the cans stood open, and caused a second explosion, which tore the building into such minute fragments that the pieces did no damage as far as heard from. People were knocked down by the concussion many blocks away. Many windows were broken, and plaster knocked oil, aud some houses several blocks away unroofed. It is stated that a thin pane of glass in a drug store, at Thirteenth and Ind.iana avenue, nearly seven miles away, was broken. No one was killed. 8. Obeli, the workman, was burned about the face, breast and arms, but will probably recover. John Anderson, another workman, was thrown a considerable distance by the second explosion and bad his shoulder crushed. Michael Britton, a teamster, cording wood some distance away, was thrown to the ground and his arm broken. Mrs. Young and two children, four blocks away, were badly rut by broken glass. A large number of other people were ore or 1 ss seriously shocked, bu it is believed none dangerously. It is impossible to estimate thet'ital loss, Chicago, July 27. —At Kensington, 111., the strike among the Puilmas brick makers was brought to an end ing this morning by the discharge of about thirty shavers, dumpers and truckers, the originators of the strike. The company has supplied their places with new men, and ten of the eleven machines were started up. There are about two hundred and forty men at work at the old wages, and the company does not .anticipate any further trouble. About one hundred Canadians are among those at work.

Chicago, July 28.—Johu Roper, a young Englishman, for years in the employ of James Allen & Co., jewelers on State street, has absconded with about S3,OCX) shortage. He was.the chief book keejier aud the firm trusted him implicitly. He bad lost the sight of one eye, and his stealing began when ne s.'emed likely to lose the other. It is supposed that he lias gone to England, where his sisters live. An East Tawas, Michigan, special says that forest fires to the northwest and south are burning fiercely. Fields of grain, and farm houses, fences and orchards, together with immense tracts of cedar and pine are burning. The hemlock roads east ofhere are impassable and no correct list of losses can be given, as the accounts conflict. Brown’s Camp, Hope creek, burned yesterday, with a lot of sleighs and lumber equipage. Reports are received that horses, cattle and other stock are burning, and farmers are deserting their homes. At 5 p. m. a heavy thunder storm set in lasting and hour, and will tend to check the fires. The fires above Oscada threatened that town to-day. Kinkerdale’s places is reported entirely destroyed. Nbw York, July 28.—1 n the proceedings bronght by Attorney-Gen-eral Russell in behalf of the people vs the New York Central <t Hudson River railroad company, and the New York, Lake Erie & Western railroad company, for man lamuses to compel the railroads to receive aud transport freight as eommpn carriers, a decision was rendered to-day, granting a motion to quash the writs of mandamus. In his opinion, the judge says, if the power existed at all to change the law in the matter fixing the rate of wages, such power rested iu the

legislature and not in the judicial bench of the country. He says he has come to the conclusion that the neglect or refusal of a railroad corporation to recieve and transfer freight tendered it by citizens of the state was a private wrong, for which the citizen is entitled to recove in an action at law such damages as he has sustained, aud that it is not such a public wrong as will authorize the issuing of a writ of mandamus. Fall River, Mass., July 28.—The manufacturers are discussing the ad visability ot giving the help a two weeks’ vacation in August. In the present condition of the market it is claimed to be almost impossible to manufacture print eloth at anything like a reasonable profit. Another is tlie complaint of the operatives, which is due as much to the weather as anything else. The spinners in Slade’s mills struck on account of dissatisfaction with the weight of the boxes in which yarn is weighed. The boxes are supposed to weigh six pounds. Some boxes become broken by long usage, aud the deficiency in weight is being made up by putting in a piece of leaf. These pieces frequently drop out aud the weight of the boxes are thus reduced. The spinners union and executive committee met to-night to authorize Secretary Howard to confer with the treasurer of the mill aud effect a settlement. Pittsburg, July 29.—A Franklin, Pennsylvania special says that quite a flurry was created in this city this forenoon by the announcement that JohnG. Croft, cashier of the Ex; change bank, was a defaulter to a large amount. The exact sum cannot be stat: d, but it is said to be between $15,000 and $20,000. It is said. Croft lost heavily on the oil market, and used the bank’s funds to cover the losses The stockholders of the bank are individually liable and are prepared to meet gall demands made upon the bank aud will continue business as usual. There is no indication of a run on the haul, and the depositors are confident that they will ba paid one hundred cents on every dollar they havu Uepooited. Croft la a deacon in a Presbyterian church, and enjoyed the confidence aud respect of our city to the fullest degree. St. Louis, July 28.—1 n the criminal court the ease of Captain John Carroil against Commodore William J. Kaur.tv, of Pittsburg, for libel, was decided to-day. Kountz was indicted by the grand jury over a year ago,and the case has been pending in court ever since. Both men are prominent steamboat men. Kountz, it was charged, caused a libel ous statement to be inserted in the Allegheny Sentinel that Carroll was a defaulter. There was much bitterness between the parties, and this article was the outcome of it. The judge found Kountz guilty aud ordered him to pay SI,OOO fines and costs, which are considerable. A motion for a new trial was at once tiled. • St. Louis, July 29. —On the 7th of this month, Guy Smith, the twelve year old son of Milton Smith, living near Kirkwood, in St. Louis county, about twelve miles from this city, quarrelled with his brother Louis, and bis father gave them both a whipping. The boys were milking cows at the time and after finishing, Guy went into the kitchen, washed his hands, then went to his grandmother’s room, got a shot-gun which was kept there, returned to the kitchen where his father was and emptied one of the barrels of the gun into his body, inflicting a wound from which be died in a few hours. Guy was arrested, and yesterday and to-day his trial for murder in the first degree progressed at Clayton, the county seat. This evening the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the child will probably be sentenced to be hung. The sentence was a surprise, and the case throughout has been singular, and hasexcited great interest. The boy is not thirteen years old yet, and has been a strange child since birth. His head is abnormally large and high and runs almost to a point like a cane. He has a quick, strong temper and physicians say has always been liable to water on the brain. He acknowledged en the witness stand that he meant to shoot his father or hurt him as badly as he (the father) bad hurt him, but did not intend to kill him.

Cleveland, July 29.—A Steubenville special to the Leader says: This afternoon John Harte , of the St. Cloud hotel, being enraged at one Dr. Johnson, boarder in the house, sought to attack him in his rooms. Harter’s father attempted to pacify him, at which John drew a revolver on him. A younger brother named Ed. ran to his father’s assistance and rushed between them just in time to receive in the left breast, near his heart, the bullet fired at the old man, and Ed. died almost instantly. A bystander named Josiah Solomon tried to take the pistol from John and was shot iu the lef' hand. John was finally jailed. The murdeied man was under indictment for killing George Aldridge, a few months ago. Peckia, Ills., July 31.—P. W. Crowe, of dynamite fame, has returned to this city from Chicago, where it is reported a convention was held last week, which was attended by a number of prominent Irish Americans from different sections of the country. The report was confirmed by an interview which a reporter of the Transcript had with Crowe this evening. The proceedings were kept secret so successfully that no intimation of the meeting being held was conveyed to the press. It now leaks out, however, that some arrangements were made, the immediate returns from which, Crow says, will be heard in a month or less. Among those who are said to be pr sent were Major Horgan,of New \ ork; Pat. H. Collins, of Boston; several friends from Fall River and a delegation from the Pacific coast. It is described as having been a union convention of the clan nagael organization aud dynamite faction. Crowe, upon being interrogated regarding the matter, replied that the foregoing statement is in effect correct. The understanding is that the “dynamite school” referred to therein is nothing more nor less than a laet >ry for the manufacture of bombs and other explosives to be used by the Crowe— Rossa dynamite faction in its war against England. Chicago, July 31.—President Jarrett and about 250 delegates from the various iron aud steel works throughout the country are here to attend the annual convention of the Amalgamated association of iron workers, beginning to-morrow and lasting probably a week. The sessions will be secret. There will be an election of officers and several changes in the constitution will be made. All the delegates seem more than ever determined to stick out for their original demand and feel confident of success. They state that twenty-three mills have resumed work at their terms and only one with non-union men.

CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Washington, July 25.—The senate indulged in an hour’s debate without action upon printing the reports of the tenth census, when the conference report on the river and harbor bill was presented and adopted. The revenue bill was then proceeded with. The pending amendment was agreed to—yeas, 34; nays, 25. Mr. Harris moved to substitute for the section a provision for the reduction of ten per cent, on all imports after July 1, 1883, and ten percent, additional after January 1, 1884. Without acting on the amendment an adjournment was carried —27 to 26 —all the Democrats, with Messrs. Hoar, Ingalls, and Kellogg, voting aye. HOUSE. Washington, July 25.—Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania, made an answer to the recent attack of Senator Butler. His remarks elicited applause from the Republican side. The speaker announced the regular order of business to be the further consideration of the bill allowing a drawback upon imported material used in connection with domestic materials in the construction of vessels for foreign account, and the pending question to be the motion of Mr. Kelly to recommit the bill to the committee on ways and means. Agreed to—yeas, 100; nays, 70. Mr. Page, of California, presented and explained the conference report on the river and harbor appropriation bil . The house refused to agree to the report—B2 yeas, 79 nays. Mr. Strait, of Minnesota, moved to reconsider, and Mr. Cox, of New York, moved to lay the motion on the table, pending which the friends of the bill as it now stands mustered their forces and carried an adjournment. Th’e conference report comes up tomorrow, on a motion to reconsider. SENATE, Washington. Jniv 26.—Mr rv>n. ger,trom the committee on commerce, reported favorably the house bill to regulate the carrying of passengers by sea. Laid over until to-morrow. As soon as the routine order of business was disposed of, Mr. Hale moved to postpone all present and prio r orders, including the revenue bill, and take up tlie naval appropriation bill. A long discussion followed and the bill was taken up. The senate then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Harris in the chair), and Mr. Haleqin charge of the bill, addressed the committee. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the naval committee, at the instance of that committee, moved to recommit the bill, with instructions to the appropriation committee to eliminate all its provisions relating to the organization of the navy. Discussion followed. Pending an executive session the biii was laid aside until to-morrow, without action, on motion of Mr. Cameron. Mr. Frye introduced a bill to remit the import duties on materials used in the construction aud equipment of vessels to be employed in the foreign carrying trade. Referred. Alter an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July 26.—Mr. Hiscock presented the conference report on the generall deficiency appropriation bill. Mr. Hiscock moved that the house recede from its disagreement to that item. Lost--yeas, 65, nays, 115, and a new conference ordered. Mr. Page called up the conference report on the river and harbor bill rejected yesterday, and the house voted —yeas, 114, nays 27, to reconsider the —« hrr wLi n h *t r—fused to agree to the conference report. The conference report «as then agreed to —yeas, 111; nays, 82. The house proceeded to the consideration of business under the “Pound’ rule. Passed. On motion of Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, a joint resolution was passed authorizing the secretary of war to loan tents to a colony of Russian Hebrews in Foote county, Kansas. Joint resolutions also passed grant ing the widow of Hemy Highland Garrett, late minister to Liberia, an amount equal to her husband's salary for one year. Adjourned. SENATE Washington, July 27.—Mr. Williams offered an amendment to be proposed to the sundry civil bill, directing the attorney-general to ascertain what would be just and reasonable compensation for the services rendered by Charles H. Reed in the defense of Charles J. Guiteau, and to make allowance therefor not exceeding $5,000. tief-rred. After further discussion a vote was taken and Mr. Cameron’s motion to recommit the bill was defeated —29 to 34. The bill then went over without action until to-morrow. The conference on the Japanese indemnity bill reported their disagreement and a new conference committee was ordered. After an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July 27. —On motion of Mr. Davis, of Illinois, the bil passed fixing the salary of the collec tor of customs at Chicago at $7,000 per annum. Mr. Kasson, from the committee on ways aud means, reported back the bill recently introduced by Mr. Dingley, adjusting the duty on imported hay at 20 per cent, ad valorem. Referred to committee of the whole. Senate bill to amend the statutes in i.elation to copyrights passed. The floor was then accorded to the committee ou Indian affairs, aud Mr. Deering called up senate bill granting right of way for the railroad and telegraphic purposes to the St. Louis and Sau Fraucisco Railway Companies passed. Mr. Williams from the committee on conference ou the Japanese indemnity bill reported disagreement and further conference Was ordered. A proposition to adjourn over until Monday received but a few votes. Adjourned until to-morrow. SENATE. Washington, July 28.—House bill in regard to the pay of letter carriers passed. Senate bill to provide for the publication of the tenth census reports passed. The senate then took t?p the naval appropriation bill, aud the bill was read for action upon the committee amendments. Adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July 38. —Senate bill passed establishing ports of delivery at Kansay City aud St. Joseph, Missouri. A resolution providing temporarilj (until August 2d) for the expendi tures of the government, passed. Adjourned)

SENATE. Washington, July 29.—The senate —25 to 17—took up the house bill to regulate the carriage of passengers bysea. The bill passed without objection. The house bill to regulate immigration passed without objection. The house bill passed granting the widow of Henry H. Garnett, late minister to Liberia, an amount equal to her husband’s salary for one year. The senate then resumed consideration of the naval appropriation bill, the clause under discussion being that with reference to double-turreted monitors. Mr. Beck offered the amendment of which he gave notice yesterday, reducing from $1,000,000 to $400,000 the amount of the appropriation for completing the Miantonon.ah and the launching cf the other four monitors, prohibiting the completion of those vessels until further orders from congress, and directing the naval advisory board to report as to the advisability of their completion. After a long debate Mr. Beck’s amendment was adopted-r-yeas, 33; nays, 19. Mr. Miller, of California, moved to strike out the danse abolishing the grade of commodore. Agreed to — yeas, 27; nays, 22. On motion of Mr. Butler the amendment was adopted striking out the clause providing for the condemnation and sale ot such stores aud supplies belonging to the several bureaus of the navy as shall be unserviceable, and inserting a clause directing the secretary of the navy to make a report of such stores and supplies to congress. After coming to the arrangement that a vote should be taken upon the bill at 3 o'cleck Monday, the senate adjourned. senate. Washington, July 31.—8i1l passed to prevent counterfeiting within the United States of the securities of foreign governments, and providing a penalty for the circulation of such securities. Mr FTerrv o -Ji reeling the committee on pensions to report to the senate a bill granting pensions to those who have lost an am or leg in the servi :e of the United Stales. Referred. The naval appropriation bill was passed. House bill restoring the Fort Benton military reservation to the public domain, and for other purposes, passed. Adjourned. house. Washington, July 31.—The bill restoring the Fort Benton military reservation to the public domain passed. Mr. Rice, from the committee on foreign affairs, reported the joint resolution, providing for a new mixed commission, in accordance with the treaty of April 26th, 1866. with the United States and Venezula. Referred to committee of the whole, and leave granted the minority to file a report. Mr. Harris reported back the joint resolution, instructing the secretary of the navy to convene ajeourt of inquiry to investigate the circumstances of the loss of the steamer Jeannette. Calendar. Senate bill, to provide for tlie disposition 'of Fort Larned military reservation pass d. Senate bill for the retirement of Ulysses 8. Grant, late general and expresident of the United States,having been reached, Mr. McKenzie, of Kentucky, moved that it be laid upon the table. Lost —yeas, 77; nays, 83. The bill was then referred to the committee on military affairs. Charles Keaitc Converted. Charles Reade, the novelist, is now 66 years of age. Whatever secret leanings he may have had towards rationalism, he has always been nominally a religious man, preserving his membership in the Chprch of England and his fellowship at Oxford. When his conversion was announced it was a matter of doubt among the newspapers whether to announce it as a conversion from rationalism or from ritualism. However I hat may be, the conversion.is said to be of thoroughgoing character, and the novelist lias taken up his new religious convictions with the enthusiasm natural to his character. It is his purpose to preach the faith that is in him, and he will do it, if lie retains his old literary methods, iu away to make scoffers exceedingly uncomfortable. The Rev. Dr. Stanton lias recently given an account of Reade’s conversation held with the novelist on the subject. He traces the change of heart to the influence of Mrs. Seymour’s death. She was the lady who presided over his household, and was treated by all his friends with the respect and consideration that would have been due to a wife, though the exact nature of the relations bet ween her and Mr. Reade were not known. Their connection had been endured for years and it is to Mrs. Seymour that the world owes the publication of Reade’s stories. She found two or three of his completed novels lying iu his desk in manuscript form, was pleased with their perusal and insisted upon publishing them, in spite of the author’s protest. In this, as in all other matters, her influence over hint during life was complete. And even in death it appears that she has not lost her control, since it is grief lor her that has led Reade to the realizing sense of the beauty of the doctrine of another existence, nobler aims aud services and i&oi e enduring companionship. The owl Whirs Three Men.—A son of a farmer of Marhamchurch has been admitted into Straton hospital suffering from severe in juries inflicted upon him by an owl. A pair of owls had made their homo in an olm tree, and as they made raids on the farmer's chickens to supply the wants of a inmerous family of young owls, one of the farmer’s sous ascended the tree and secured two of the young ones and kept them fulsome days, feeding them by band. He bad one of the young owls in his hand showing it to a friend, when one of the parent birds suddenly pounced upon him and struck him heavily on the head. He dropped the fledgling and defended himself with a stick, but the owl renewed the attack and wounded the boy in the eye so seriously that the sight has been destroyed. The father, who udnesspd the attack, immediately killed the two young birds, whereupon the parent owl attacked him and another of his sons, inflicting wounds iu the neck of both. The farmer then went for his gun, but the owl escat>ed. —[Pall Mall Gazette A Philadelphia woman who has lost her husband and children has long been insane from grief. Bheimagine> that the spirits of her departed dead have transmigrated to the bodies of the English sparrows. Daily, rain or shine, she trudges to the public square to feed the little birds. She calls them by the names of her lost children and they seem to know’ her. They eat from her handsand perch feuiiossIv upon her shoulders. With them she is happy; without them the keen look of sorrow and sadness is ever cn her face.

NUMBER 18.

INDIANA. Shelbyvi’ a '8 revel'/ug <n fresh oysters. Stock hogs are ver? scarce in Owen county A colored camp meetin; began at Laporte Saturday. Bass fishing is uii ommonly good in Wayne county. Beer-drinking among the women is getting fashionable. Henry county’s wheat crop is estimated at 1,000,000 bushels. Peru is to have a military company under the military code of Indiana, Parke county corn could not look better where it has been well tended. The last Ohio regiment got $1,300 for camping at Glen Miller, Kich- ! mond. A son of Samuel Kits, of Hardenberg, was fatally kicked, Tuesday, by a Horse. Henry J. Powell, a Shelbyville grocer, has closed his doors. Liabilities, $1,600; assets about S3OO, The wheat crop in Hendricks county, so far as heard from, will average about twenty bushels per acre. Mr. Alex. McLeod, formerly of the Southern, has taken charge of the Ohio & Mississippi at Vincennes. Ed. Dillon,who absconded from Hart township, Warrick county, last Saturday, it is now known, carried with him money to the amount of SIB,OOO, which he defrauded the farmers of that county of. In an altercation Sunday afternoon at Alvord’s feed yard, at Peru. Frank Hathaway stabbed seriously one Elbertson and ran for the woods. He was overtaken and placed in jail. The assault was unprovoked. The liabilities of the firm of Masters & Ferguson, clothing and boot and shoe dealers $12,000 to $15,000. The heaviest’creditors are merchants of Cincinnati. On Saturday, near Goshen, a three-year-old son of Joseph Weaver followed some of the older children to a field without their knowledge. They had to pass through a gate with a broken hinge, and when returning found the child pinned down by the gate, and dead. Mr. Alex Ferguson, of Hanover township, near Madison, while driving a horse hitched to a hay-rake,was thrown from the rake by the running away of the horse, and received severe injuries. He lay in the field for some time before he was discovered and carried to his home. The United Brethren of Reedsville, have just finished their new church and on Saturday mounted an SOO pound bell of superior quality. The building will accomodate 500 people and cost $1,500. Uncle George Muth age eighty-three; is pastor, a regular old father in Israel. Catharine Stattier, aged seventy, was terribly injured on Saturday, near New Albany, by her horse runrunning away with the spring wagon in which she was sitting. Her right knee was broken, right hip dislocated, breast bone broken and shoulder dislocated, besides serious bruises. The house of Thomas Newman, a wealthy farmer in Miami county,was burglarised Saturday night of a large amount of valuables. The robbers spent some time in the house, going intoevery room, and although a large number of people were sleeping in the rooms, none were disturbed. Saturday afternoon, while Wm. Goodrich was rumdng a rip-saw at Courey, Waller & Deprez’s furniture factory, at Shelbyville, the piece of wood he was cutting slipped, throwing his right hand against the saw. It was lacerated in a fearful manner, part of the bones adhering to the saw. John H. Lawson, of Greensburg, was at Lawrenceburg Junction sitting on the platform so near the track of the railroad that a passing freight train struck him, crushing in the skull. He was taken home on the passenger train, but died soon after. He has a wife and one child, a boy about nine or ten years. The dwelling of William Hogin, of Marion, was burglarized, and his vest and pants, with their contents carried away. A small amount of change and his store key was the burglars reward. The key is supposed to be what they were after, with a view to entering his store house, which from some cause they failed to do. The dry goods store of G. J. Roth & Co., and the hardware and grocery stores of F. C. Hepp and Gus Schrieber, three of the leading business establishments of Boonville, were burglarized early Saturday morning. The money drawers of each store were forced open and rifled of contents,and more or less of goods in stock carried away. Charles Eppinghousen, of Terre Haute, has brought suit against Patrick Shannon for malicious prosecution, with damages placed at $150,000. This suit is an outgrowth of the court house war some time ago, as a result >f which Shannon sued Eppinhousen for libel, and afterwards dismissed the cases. Alvie Wilson, of Muncie, was at work on a top of a straw stack, and having completed his labors, slid down the side of the s ack to the ground. Standing against the stack was a pitchfork, handle upwatd on vhichhe alighted, which entered the i ody to a depth of more than twelve inches. His injuries proved fatal, and he died in nine hour Getting a Policeman on a String. Yesterday evening a man met Oftice.c Solomon on the street and told him that he wanted him to make an arrest, and come with him immediately. The officer hurried with the man to the theatre, and when inside the latter pointed to Mlle. Addie, the lady who performs tho serial suspension act, hanging in mid air. “That’s the woman I want taken in.” said the man. “Playing without a license?” “Oh, no, she’s got a license.” “Then I suppose an immoral show. Woman in tights. I’ll snatch her right oft’ the stage if you have the warrant” “Haven’t got the warrant yet, but I want to make a charge of vagrancy against her.” “Vagrancy? Why look at her diamonds. Vagrancy, what on?” “No visible means of support,” said the wag. with a twinkle in his left optic. The officer left the theatre and swore audibly all the way to the police station. —Sall Lake Tribune. At Nevada City two little boys are missing, supposed to have burned up with their father’s dwelling.