Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat 1 Official Paper of the County. A. J- HILI., Editor and Bualnrea 1 Manager. < , I ' J TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENT! ' IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER * TEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCB. B B. ALUKM, Preset. W. H NI iu CM, Cai tiler. B. Btvdasam»b, Vice Pren’t. THEADAMSCOUNTYBANK. I DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is naw open for the traneao- | tion of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy"9tf ( PETERSOX ¥ HUFFMAN? 1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW. i ■ f DECATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining 1 counties. Especial attention given to coi ' lections and titles to real estate. Are No ‘ Uries Public and draw deeds and mortgages ; Real estate bought, sold and rented on rea- I •onablo terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. C 1 0. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE & KING. ‘ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, < DKCATCR.INDIANA. E. N. WICKS, ' i ATTORNEY AT LAW, DBCATCR, INDIANA. All legal business promptly attended I to. Office up stairs in Slone s building lihdoor. ,25n24 year 1. ' J T. MERRYMAN, | 1 Attorney at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUB, INDIANA. Deels Mortgages. Contracts and all Le- - gal Instruments drawn wi'h neatness and dis,.ateh Paitition. settlement of decedent's ►states, and coileeiions a specialty. Officb :—Upstairs in Slone's uildtng, I 4th do >r.—vol. 25, no 24 if. E. 11. COVERDALE, •lltornty at Law, —)AND(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUB, INDIANA. Offiaeover Welfley’s grocery, opposite the Court House. B. R. FREEMAN. M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouses' Drug Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe, Professional calls promptly attended. Nol 26, No. 34. ts. ' A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil a’lend to all professional calls promptly, ; night or day Charges reasonable. Rest dence an north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill, 25jy79tf W. HTKfYERSr - tricl; ft Slone Mason t ontrac’i DECATUR,INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n45m3. SEYMOUR WORDEN7" A.ucticneer. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUCUST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER. DICATUB, - - INDIANA. A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking Tobacco, Figaro, Cigareites and Pipes of all kinds always on hand at my store. (TT KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey ? ncer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and die* patch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office ovrr WelHeys Grocery Store, opposite tha Court House, Deeatur, Indiana. 37-mti K JHKfr [Bare annually robbed ■ tw their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cure* Impoteiicy (caused by excesses of any kina ) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow a# a sequence of SelfAbuse. as loss of energy, kee of memory, universal lassitude, pain in the b<*ck, d mncss of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circulars with testlmonals free by mail. The Ini isolator ie sold at $1 per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent frea by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J.CIIEYEY, Druggist. 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce & Co., Pole Agents at Desatup /ft •—» /-v A week made at home by the indnstriljl /fl otis. Ik-st bueine 3 uow before the public. / • /Gt pi tai not needec. 'Ae will start )'•«. 11) / / Men. women, boys and girls wanted I everywhere to work for w. Now is the time. You can wrk in spare time, or give your whole time to the bu-inere. No other pay you w.rly a» web. No one can ail to make enorm >na pay, by emwrlng at 0n... Cost! y outM red term. too. Mon-y made fast. htni ' jr •My, Addreea Tbit. A Co.. Autuata, Marne. DR. KITCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every Becond Tuesday »ad Wednesday et aaeh month to treat all Chronic Diseases. Consultation free. Call and see him. All letters of inquiry received at the home of. toe at Piqui, Ohio, will receive protnpl attention.' Write to him and make a stataKent of your case.—v2sn36ly.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. In order to investigate, the management of the alcoholic wards of Bellevue Hospital. New York, a murder having been perpetrated there, the Coroner summoned a jury including Vanderbilt, Gould, Grant, Conkling and Villard among Its fifteen members. .. .Charles B. Sedgwick, who represented the Syracuse (N. Y.) district in the Thirty-sixth and Thirty seventh Congresses, died at his home in Syracuse. Two hundred or more gambling and policy shops in Boston closed their doors, in consequence of an order by the Police Commissioners... .Henry Bowie, of Jersey City, tsatiem ting thereat of eating four quail per day for a month. William E. Dodge, one of the foremost citizens of New York, died of heart disease. In 1831 he commenced the importation of metals, and prospered until he became one of the largest owners of timber lands In the United States, and was exten- j slvely engaged in the development of coal I and iron mines. For half a century he labored earnestly in the cause of temperance; he upheld Moody and Sankey for years, sent hundreds of young men into the ministry, and recently donated a building for a female inebriate asylum. He leaves a widow and seven sons,arid his estate is valued at $15,,000,000. In New York a new scarf-pin called “The Freddie” Is creating much amusement It is composed of a little gold donkey drawing a cart containing a dictionary and an English grammar... .Marshall Jewell died at Hartford, Ct, of bronchial pneumonia, aged 57. He spent his Carly years as a tanner and in constructing telegraph lines in the Southwest. He was twice Governor of Connecticut, I was Minister to Russia, Postmaster General, and at his death held the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. He leaves a mother, wife and two daughters. ... .Charles It Thorne, the actor, died suddenly in New York, at the age of 43. The Bay State Iron Company, of Boston has suspended. Its liabilities are placed at $750,000, but the plant is worth $1,000,000.... Snow fell in the vicinity of Barre. Vt, to the depth of three feet on Feb. U A water famine also prevails ip that section ...A gasoline explosion caused the destruction of 8. Blaisdell, Jr.. A Co.’s knitting mill near Amsterdam, N. Y., causing a loss of $50,00U THE WEST. A semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent, has been declared by the Chicago and Alton road, payable Mai ch 1... .The Hamline University building, located between St* . Paul and Minneapolis, took fire in them f' the < ther morning and was slowly consumed. ‘ All the students escaped, and the contents of : the structure were nearly all saved. The building was of stone and brick. five stories in height, and cost SSS,(XXI It will be replaced this vear bv an edifice costing sluo,UCU Several men were killed by a crazy Creek I dian at Okmulgee, Indian Territory, and the lunatic was in turn shot to death by I a part}' that essayed his capture. . A stage on the Sweetwater line, in Wyoming, was abandoned in the recent ; blizzard. A relief party found the driver standing dead in adrift; the superintendent was erect in the snow, unable to move, and a passenger was missing They had been out three days and nights.... : Robert Law has applied to the Probate Court of Chicago for a jurv to ascertain the mental condition of Perry 11. Smith, preliminary to the appointment of aconservator. Mr. Smith was lately Vice President of the Northwest- ■ era road, and is ranked a millionaire... .Price A Stevens’ stables at Sedalia, Mo., were burned, and about twenty-five horses and mules perished in the Hames... .The United States authorities have again arrested Oklahoma Payne and his followers. The entire party were taken to Fort R no. The lowa Board of Railroad Commissioners decided that shippers have rights to select the route by which they will forward goods, and that railroads must accept such freight and bill it as the owner desires. This decision will prevent railroads in lowa from making arbitrary rules as to ! receiving freight from connecting lines, and is an important victory tor shippers At Albuquerque, N. M., Milt Yarberry. a noted desperado, and murderer of four persons, was hanged. The culprit maintained his innocence and “died game.”.... In the baggage-room of the Union Depot at Cedar Rapids a mail pouch was cut open and relieved of 140 registered letter s, among them being a remittance of SI,OOO fr om the Postmaster of the city to the department.... The loss of cattle' on the Colorado ranges by the recent storms will not exceed 5 per cent... .The damage to fruit and other trees in DeWitt county, 111, by the storm, it is estimated, will aggregate $1,000,000. Prominent wheat operators at Milwaukee express the belief that the crop of 1882 has been largely overestimated; that when it was harvested it went into granaries winch were completely bare of giam: that the hoods in America and Europe, accompanied bv rigorous weather, have materially injured the growing crop, and that higher figures for wheat may be justly anticipated.... At an auction sale of uncalled for packages in the express office at Pueblo, Col,, James Thompson risked $1 on a box which he found contained two gold bricks, worth over $11,0141 GENERAL, John G. Buchan Hepburn, sonofan English Baronet, was murdered by miners at Pinos Aims, Mexico, and on the ensuing day five of the criminals were tried and shot Most, the Socialist, Hartman, the Nihilist, and members of the International Society of New York, have held several conferences at Philadelphia, touching the coronation of the Czar Hartman is credited with saving that the coronation would be prevented... .The Boval Opera House at I o roiito, Ontario, was totally destroyed by lire last week. Loss, SIOO, COO. It has been discovered that a very large amount of gold coin recently minted : in New Orleans is deficient in weight, and i- will have to be recoined. A reassav shows that from »JO,OCfI to SIOO.CtX) worth of $lO gold pieces, representing the work of several months, is thus deficient, the shortage in each coin being aliout 25 cents. An investigation will be made. I The Mutual Union Telegraph Company, with 46,000 miles of wire between Portland and St Louis, has been leased in nernetuitv to the Western Union Company on a guarantee of the principal and interest o f f VOW), 000 in bonds and of 1 ! 4 percent yearly dividends on $10,u00,000 of stock. A consolidation of offices is already under discussion. WASHINGTON. Gen. Hazen opposes the transfer of the signal service to the Interior Department for the reasons that the chief of the serx i< c must have power to punish neglect; the work is done more cheaply than under a civil bureau, and the observers must be held by enlistment in ordei ito repay their instructor for the time spent in educating them . The Congressional committee, which niaue a trip to New Orleans to investigate the condition of the Mississippi river, mev at Washington last week to complete a. report Thev will unanimously pronounce the jetty works successful, but will not the outlet svstem. Bv a vote ofbto -it w.w decided that levees are not necessary to toe improvement of low-water navigation There will probably be three reports preseuted. and it is believed that an apPJopnationof »2,<X8,000 will be recommended for improvements below Caira The Judiciary Committee of the Senate has agreed to report in favor of paying George W. P. C. Lee 4150.0 W for 1 100 acres comprised in the Arlington estate. near Washington, now a national cemetery. THE SOUTH. Edmund J. Davis, a leading Republican politician of Texas, and ex-Govrrnor of the State, died of pneumonia at Austin. The 150th anniversary of the t. element of Georgia by Gem James Oglethorpe was cejebjattd at Savannah, Ga-, Feb. W

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1883. ■'* ’* . S. -4

The military parade was witnessed by M.OOO persons, anil Gov. Hopkins delivered an address. POLITICAL. Gov. Butleb recommended that elec-tion-day in Massachusetts be made a legal holiday, and that the sale of liquor be prohibited on that occasion. The House killed the proposition by a vote of 129 to 52... .The lowa Prohibitionists voted, at their state convention in Des Moines, to demand that the Governor call a special ses-iou of the Legislature to re-enact the Prohibitorv law. I ....The West Virginia Senate rejected the prof»osai to submit a prohibitive amendment ■ to a vote of the people. Gov. Bate’s message to the Tennessee Legislature is confined almost I entirely to the State-debt question. He suggests that the State debt proper, less war J interest. De paid in full, at the original j interest, and that the contingent indebtedness be settled at 5u cents on the dollar for principal and Interest, with interest at 3 per cent FOREIGN. The steamer Kenmure Castle foundered In the Bay of Biscay and thirty-two of the crew were drowned. Tt;e eight passengersand eight of the crew wore picked up by a French vessel, in a dying condition. AnotHeH European row is threatened. Montenegro has officially announced the rupture of diplomatic relations with Turkey, in consequence of the failure of the Porte to sgree to the cession of territory claimed by the mountaineers It takes very little to start trouble along the Danube, and the action of Montenegro, if followed by a demonstration in force, as it must be to have anv effect, may precipitate a war involving all Western Europe..., A committee reported to the French Chamber of Deputies that there was no cause for the republic to resort to the violent measures of the Expulsion bib. There are rumors that if the measure be defeated the Government will expel Prince Jerome and retire the military Princes... .The man Dowling was convicted at Dublin of shooting Detective Cox. with intent to murder him, and was sentenced to penal servitude for life. The police arrested a man whom they claim to be the car driver who figured in the Phoenix Park tragedy.... Tuc survivors of the wreck of the Kenmore Castle, picked up bv a French steamer, subsisted tor three (lavs by chewing flannel shirts... .Davitt, Healy anil Quinn, who were convicted of making inflammatory speeches, refused to give bail, and have entered upon a term of imprisonment in Kilmainham jail

In a speech at Edinburgh, Trevelyan, , the Irish Secretary, said the Government was ready to aid the Irish members of Parliament in legitimate projects for reform. ... .Prince -T rome Napoleon was set at libertv. and returned to his residence. Count de i’hambord proposes to issue a manifesto after the adjournment of the French Chamber. ..-. .The Court of Appeals at Vienna has confirmed the sentences passed ui>on the manager and directors of the Bing Theater for neglecting to take proper precautions against fire... .Bismarck says he does not ■ expect ever again to enter the Iteichstag. The approaching coronation of the , Czar is regarded with more or less uneasi- j ness. and it is greatly feared that the confi- , dence of the Russian authorities is misplaced. The N diilists have mude no secret ot their intention to signalize the occasion of his coronation by some terrible demonstration, nnd there is already ample evidence of excitement created among them. ....A Dublin dispatch says that in the investigation at Kilmainham jail into the assassination of Cavendish and Burke a carman named Michael Kavanagh had turned informer, and deposed that on the dav of the tragedy he drove Joseph Brady and Timothy Kelly to I’ho nix Park, where he saw James Carey and Daniel Delanev sitting beside the road. A cab driven bv Firzharris soon came up vrith four men, aiid then two gentlemen walked along. One of Kavanagh s passengers said that the taller man of the two was to be assassinated. Kavanagh was ordered to drive further .-.wav and wait. He heard one of toe I victims cry out After the murder he drove three miles from the park and I let Tim Kelly off, and vas dismissed and paid by Brady at Leeson Park... .Edwin ■ Booth enacted Othello at Berlin the other evening, and during the performance, amid a storm of applause, was presented with a I silver laurel crowu and an address. John C. Calltonn. Mr. Calhoun spoke like a college professor demonstrating to his class. His position was stationary, and he used no gesticulation. His pale and livid countenance indicated the cloister. His voice was silvery and attractive, but very earnest. His eyes indicated quick perception. Starting with the most plausible premises, he would carry you irresistibly along with more plausible reasoning’ until you would be puzzled to know how much back-track it was indispensably necessary for you to take to avoid conclusions which would make it difficult to tell the difference between your views and those of a South Carolina Secessionist. After having heard all the Sbuators speak, if a stranger should select the one, irrespective of doctrine, who came nearest a saint, he would ; select Mr. Calhoun, and such he is held ' to be through most of the South to this 1 day. College professors in the South were his great admirers, and taught his doctrines to their students. Educated clergymen and all fashionable society there lost no opportunities of manifesting their admiration of him. “Have you seen Mr. Calhoun?” “Do you think of leaving without seeing Mr. Calhoun?” were questions invariably asked by Southern Congressmen of their constituents visiting Washington. And Mr, ■ Calhoun’s prestige was so worked up that Southern visitors, both gentlemen and ladies, were as much expected to call upon him as upon the President. At thff time of his death he was gaining a strong foothold among the scholars of the North, who seemed incapable of resisting the seductive reasoning of his perceptive, comprehensive and analytic mind. Senator John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, once came to my seat and said: “I am going to astonish you. Mr. Calhoun has just brought me a letter, which he said he had just received from President Nathan Lord, of Dartmouth i College, and asked me a great many questions about him and the college. He left me, asserting that President Lord i was one of the ablest thinkers and pr<> soundest reasoners in the country.” At that time President Lord was not onlv the head of the college, but of the I ( • ngregational denomination in New England. With, a bravery worthy of a better cause, he followed Mr. Cali hot Mi’s doctrines to their natural sequence. and he bail to give np his posii tion. No man ever exerted the influI ence upon this country that Mr. Calhoun did. All the calamities of the late i war were the legitimate outgrowth of doctrines of which he was the father, and to which the sincerity of his devotion was manifested by his advocacy of them in his dying hour. — lieminis- ! cenees of John JI enticorth. Mbs. Wm. J. Florence says that the i character of Mrs. Gen. Gilffory, the loud and vulgar American woman abroad, in the play of “The Mighty Dollar,” is copied from a living model—- ■ a tourist whom the actress met in Paris. Her husband witnessed the first per--1 formance and instantly recognized the likeness. Researches as to the origin of draw poker convince the Macon Telegraph that the game was invented about 1846 by John Kirkman, a Tennessee turfman.

UCTIMSOFSTEAM. Seven Men Killed by the Bursting of a Boiler at Taylorville, Ill.—The Bodies of the Victims Mangled in a Horrible Manlier. [Telegram from Taylorville, TIL] A boiler explosion occurred at the file works of Peter Neu & Co., that completely wrecked the establibhment and killed five men. As usual in such cases, the why and wherefore of the trouble are wrapped in profound mystery, nobody about the place, of course, having the least idea before it happened that it was going to happen, or being aware of any reason why it was going to occur, everything about the boiler being considered in tirst-class order, it was about 7:15 o'clock when the boilers burst, and had the explosion occurred a quarter of an hour before the loss of life would have been fearful. for at that time the boiler and engine rooms were filled with workmen warming up for their day’s work. At 7 o’clock the machinery was*set in motion, Ri d the men scattered to their reflective positions, leaving the proprietor, Mr. Peter Neu, and a few others in the engine room. At 7:15 o'clock two of the boilers let go with a shock and report that shook the country for miles around The establishment D «ir- 1 uated about a mile southeast of the business I art of the town and the explosion caused everybody to think an earthquake had occurred I’he fact was soon made known, and in a few minutes the entire populace vason a dead rush for the scene. Arrived there a spectacle of wreck and ruin presented itself, as the entire establishment was demolished, the large timbers and I heavy machinery being scattered about over a broad extent of territory. Ihe ruins took fire, but. being taken in time, the flames were extinguished befoire they gained any headway. Then the work of searching tor the victims began. It was found that five men had been killed outright, and two were lai.ally injured. J'e’.i r Neu, the proprietor, had both his legs broken and his head crushed beyond all semblance of a human cranium. John J nes. the engineer, was completely di-emboweled, both legs broken, and the body horribly scalded and mutilated. Samuc. Lenam, the fireman, was torn all to pieces, portions of his body being found in diherent places. * John McCollom was terribly mutilated Wibiam Deahel had his head b own off. Chris Neu, son of the proprietor, and Tonv Vandever were injured so that their death is onlv a Question of a few hours. CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. Born houses of Congress were engaged njHin the tariff on the 6th inst, though very little progress was made. In the Senate, the

amendment of Mr. Beck extending the duty of ] 10 cents per pound laid by the bill upon “wools f of the firstclass, the value whereof at the last t port or place whence exported to the United j States, excluding charges in such port, shall be j 30 cents per pound or less," to such wools t valued at 32 cents or less per pound, was agreed to —yeas 25,nay524. Two or three other amendments were offered, debated, and lost. In the House, 1 Mr. Tucker moved to reduce the duty on the I cost of polished plate glass, undelivered, above i 24x30 inches square and not exceeding 64x60 i inches, from 25 to 15 cents per square foot This, f together with various other amendments offered { by Mr. Tucker, was lost. The consideration of J the metal schedule was entered upon. [ Mr. Kelley, under instruction from his I committee, moved to increase from 60 to "5 1 cents j>er ton the duty on iron ore, including f mamraniferous iron ore, also the dross or resid* a num from burnt pyrites. Pending action on Mr. 1 Kelley’s motion, public business was suspended j and appropriate resolutions upon the life and t public service of the late Representatives L pdegraff, of Ohio- and Hawk, of Illinois, were . adopted ana eulogies upon the deceased were • delivered. Similar memorial services were guna ' through in the Senate. Me. Lamab, of Mississippi, delivered a pre- j pared speech upon the tariff question in the Sen- ] ate on the 7th inst, taking strong free-trade i ground. The keynote of the speech was the un- ' natural and abnormal development of the pow’- { er ot the manufacturing interests. He said that . protection meant high taxes. He wanted the , J people to have the matter explained to them 1 clearly throuehout the breadth of the land. There ‘ was a demand for the reduction of taxes. He 1 wanted Congress to say to the country: "If you j want protection you must consent to pay the . cost of maintaining that system, ( and scorn the allurement of low taxes and cheap foreign goods; ■ likened the Dower of the manufacturers to that 1 < .i. .-irtve puwer ucioie iuc wui. ineian i j bII with a crash liecause its supporters were | blind to the future. The handwriting was on , the wall predicting the destruction ot the iriizantie monopolies which are now fastened upon the material interests ot the country, and he trusted that they would vet open their eyes to see before ' the inevitable ruin and downfall should come. A motion to put bpoks on the free list was, after ; discussion, carried—24 to 22-Messrs. Ingalls, Plumb and VanWyck, Republicans, j voting with the Democrats. A motion to put ( pulp fnr making paper on the free list was lost. The duty on bituminous coal was placed at 75 ; cents per ton, and emery ore was placed on the free list. The House tackled the metal schedule 1 of the Tariff bill, and after spending five hours on the first item without making any change in the rate of duty, the bill was laid aside for other business. Mr. Bingham introduced a bill for a commission of seven members to report upon the condition and value of the plant of the various telegraph companies, and what can be done to reduce the cost of communication. I'he tariff occupied the almost exclusive attention of both houses of Congress on the 9th inst. In the Senate, a motion to put jute on the free list was lost. A motion to add books, pamphlets, bound or unbound, and all printed matter not specially enumerated or provided for m the bill, engravings bound or unbound, etchings, illustrated books, maps and charts to the free list, was agreed to. The negative vote was wholly Republican. Messrs. Van Wyck and Ingalls voted in the affirmative with the Democrats. Mr. Allison off'-red an amendment, which was ordered printed, providing for refunding 90 per cent, of the duty paid on imported salt, used in curing meats exported from this country. Ihe House continued consideration of the metal schedule, and made some important reductions from the report of the Ways and Means Committee. The dutv on steel railroad bars was cut down from |lB to sls per ton; charcoal iron oars was fixed at $22 ]>er ton, and steel blooms at 45 per cent, ad valorem. The clause imposing a duty of 2'2 cents per pound on armor or other plate was struck from the bill. Mil Edmunds made a favorable report to the Senate, on the 9th inst., upon the joint reso- 1 lution to give notice of the termination of the , fisheries article of the Washington treaty, and Mr. Hale reported the Naval bill, appreprinting $15,727,3:14. The Senate spent ; several hours upon the Tariff bill, but made very little progress. In the House, Mr. Belford reported resolutions > against discontinuing the silver coinage, and in favor ot additional vault-room at seme point in the Mississippi valley. A pension of per month was granted to the widow of Represents- • five Hawk, of Illinois, and eight bronze cannon , w-'re donated for a monument to Gen. Lytle, at j Cincinnati. The Tariff bill was then taken up, and several slight reductions from the rates recommended by the Ways and M ans Committee were made. Mr. Kasson ot--1 sered a resolution that during the remainder of ■ the session it shall be in Older in any day after | the morning nour to move to suspend the rules so as to consider in the House anv regular appropriation or revenue bill which shall have been I reported by committee, and may then lie in coin- j inittee of the whole, or which may then be on the Speaker's table, and such motion thall l»e decided by a majority vote. The resolution was , |pT '»»rmd. • Consideration of the Tariff bill in committee of the whole was completed by the Senate on the 10th inst. The amendment proposed by Mr. Reck reducing the internal-revenue tax oil snuff, smoking and manufactured tobacco to 8 cents per pound was agreed to. On motion of Mr. Williams, the tax on cigars was made $3 per thousand, instead ot s4,as in the bill. Mr. Logan i moved to place salt on the free list, but it [ was decided to refer the matter to the Senate. ; The House discussed the Ways ami Means Cum- ’ mirtee’s Tariff bill. Mr. Maxey’s amendment fixing the duty on iron cotton ties at 35 per cent. : ad valorem was defeated, after a sharp discus* 1 sion, bv the close vote of 97 to 101, four Demo- • 1 crats — all of them from the Pennsvl- I j vania manufacturing districts — voting with the Republicans against the Ir< rosed reduction. On motion of Mr. ' j Jv Iley, a duty of P 4 cents per pound was im1 osed upon cast-iron vessels, plates, stove- ; j Inn s and iron, sad irons, tailors’ irons and hatters’ irons. Mr. Dunnell moved to redace the duty on cut nails and spikes from l x 4 to 1 . cent per pound, and, in advocating the motion, : spoke of the pending bill as giving too little reduction. The motion was lost, after a lively debate. On motion of Mr. Carlisle, the duty on railway fish-piat?s was reauced from IS3 to i l 4 cents per pound. Mr. Dunnell moved to reduce the duty on horseshoe nail«, hobnails and v ire nails from 4to 3 cents per pound. The motion was lost. The Senate spent the whole day, and a good part of the night, on the 12th lost., dis--1 eussing the Morrill Tariff bill. Much of the time was consumed in fighting over again the ■' pig-iron battle, lue Immediate bone of con ten--1 tion was the proposition of Mr. Shannas, of : I Ohio, to put the duty on 1 iron at $6.72. where it was fixed ;by the committee. He failed to get i the figure he wanted, but coaxed the Senate to I

vield so far as to place it at $6,50. The action of the committee of the whole in striking out luraber from the wood schedule was disagreed to by 29 t< 16. Lath, shingles, pine clapboards anu spruce clapboards, struck out in the committee of the whole, were also restored at the rates in th' bill -till- Senate refusing to agree to the action in committee by a vote of yeas 18, nws 32 Two hours were spent in discussing an amendment in 1' lation to vinegar factories. The tariff question also claimed the attention of the House, rii I precipitated one of the liveliest debates of tie session. The items under discussion were 1 those r-i’iting to the duties ou bars and rods trom which fencing-wire, trace-chains, horseshoes, nails and similar articles are manufactired. and steel used for making locomotive and other tires. Slight reductions were made in the material of which fencing wire, trace chains, horse shoes and nails are made, but the locomotive tire material was kept up. The House r-‘fnsod tn ra-s a bill for tlu*retirement of Alfred Pleasonton with the rank of Major General. Mr. Robertson introduced a bill to prohibit the transmission of lottery advertisements through the mails. DROWNED OUT. Thousands of People Driven from Their Homes by the Flood at Cincinnati—The Supply of Gas Cut Off, and the City at Night Shrouded in Darkness. [Cincinnati (Efib. 12) Telegram to Chicago. , Times.] The Indiah may have witnessed such a volume of water in the Ohio, but his white successor never before saw such a flood. It has not come upon us with a rush, or this rich, beautiful valley would become a wilderness with its subsidence, but has slowly swelled from a fair river, a useful servant, to a silent yellow sea that has sent its waves into the marts of the city, and with their quiet lapping put a stop to business, to . manufactures, to traffic, sent thousands on thousands adrift without shelter and without food, and in the aggregate inflicted damages that may directly and Indi- | rectly amount to millions of dollars. Within a space of twenty-five miles tributary to the city, thousands *of people ai d houseless, many of them as destitute as when they were born, at least for the time. If they stay in their houses, they are isolated, and must depend on chance for succor. If they leave, a host of river pirates will despoil the deserted dwellings. The Ohio river flows west between Cincinnati on the Ohio side and Newport and Covington opposite: in Kentucky, the latter i cities divided by the Licking river. A mile and a half below' the Licking river Mill creek empties into the river on the Ohio side The Licking has been swollen by its tributaries to a raging torrent Narrow and deep and swift ordinarily, it is now out of its banks for miles, covering points of ground never before reached by the floods Along its hanks are many factories.

large and small, rolling-mills, and 1 furnaces. All these are flooded, i their fires out, and their workmen « idle. Mill creek forces its way to the river j m the western part of the city, flowing : 1 through a wide valley, along which for five ’ miles are not only dwellings, but pork-pack- ; ing houses, slaughter houses, divers manu- ‘ facturing establishments, and hundreds of ’ market gardens, together w’ith several rail- * road tracks. All these are under water, , and, while the gardens are ruined, { great damage is also done the factories, 1 pa-/king-houses and contents, but to what . extent is simply impossib eto even approx- , iniate. The front of Cincinnati ter several - streets is low. Here is done the heavy 1 wholesale business of the city, and there are ; located many large factories of all sorts. 1 ma< kine-shops, coal-yards, etc. All this is under water from a few inches to several feet, while cellars for two or three streets far 1 her back are flooded. In some of these streets a steamboat could make its way without a particle of trouble. On Sec nd street the current runs like a mill . race. Where there is but 1 tile water, if the ! business is of a kind to warrant it, clerks and parries wade in rubber hip boots , but'mwsi are pfliipiy in chargta o*-1 watchmen. Most of them had removed | their goods to upper stories or higher ground. 1 In streets back and higher, hundreds of I hogsheads of tobacco, sugar, etc., are piled on the sidewalks from the flooded districts, j In the upper poition of the city, along the , river bank, live many poor people 1 and most of the lawless class of the 1 citv. Thev are drowned out, and per- | force invaded the central portion of the town and the fashionable streets, so that the the crowds were more diversified than ever before. The gas-works supply Loth of this citv and Newport has been shut off, and their fires were put out yest* rday afternoon with onlv a slim night's supply on hand. Today the lamp stores drove such a trade as never before, and candles were as common as 10U years ago in the centra! city of the Union.* Three hundred thousand people art? cut off from their regular supply of gas to-night. The streets aie in darkness save for an occasional electric light. Theaters and other halls had to supply them selves with electric lights, oil lamps or can die”, and the audiences blinked their eyes under the unwonted light, and were hilari ous and jolly, as they could not have been otherwise. The water-works have about five davs’ supply in the reservoirs. Under the most favorable circumstances the works cannot resume in time to more than keep consumers scantily supplied, and. should a great fire occur, rhe result . is disheartening to contemplate. Should ! it occur in the ovei flowed business district. < the department would be simply powerless, and the flames would run unchwkcd Onb. one railroad, the Cincinnati,. Hamilton and Davton, is above water. 1 here are ten ieet of ' water over the track leading into the new Union Denot, and on the lower ground j the water runs over the tops of some freight cars that were left on the The stage of water at Frank fort and Louis- : viile. Ky., and at New Albany and Law , renceburg, Ind., is unprecedented. Thous- ■ ands are without employment, many axe shelterless, and much suffering prevails. He Talked United States. As Chicago and I were strolling down the Louisen Strasse we heard rapid footsteps behind us, and suddenly a young man ranged himself up alongside of us and said: “Beg pardon, gentlemen. I heard you speaking English, didn’t I ?” Although somewhat astonished at the suddenness of the attack, we hastened i to assure him that he did, if he heard us speak anything. Drawing a long sigh of relief, our accoster said: “I’m mightv glad to hear that, you bet. I’m an American. Name’s Armstrong. I’m from Kansas. Came here to enter the University. Been wandering around for two days trying to find out something about things. Can’t speak the lingo. Mighty glad to have found you, gentlemen. Americans ain’t you? Thought so. Here's my card.” He looked like a pretty decent sort of a fellow, so we exchanged cards with him, and asked him if we could help him in any way. “Yes,” said he, “you can do me a great service. I’ve been here two days, and stopping at a hotel; and I want to , get out of it and hire a room. I tackled three or four old women, but we couldn’t seem to make much out of each j : other's talk. And I’d about give it up for a bad job. I*m awful glad to have met you two. I haven’t heard a good, honest American word for nearly a . week. I tell you what, a man doesn’t really appreciate how good his own language is until he don’t hear it for a while. Then he just lays awake nights and talks to himself; it sounds so good after hearing nothing but a confounded lingo he can’t make head or tail of.”— Berlin Correspondence. A New York man has SIOO,OOO invested in the gathering of stale bread from the hotels of that city, grinding it into food for pigsand poultry. He employs nine teams in the business. He pavs the Astor House, for instancs, sboo a year for its stale bread. It is Lard to personate and act a part long; for, where truth is not at the bottom, nature will always be endeavoring ; to return, and will peep out and betray ! hers Alf one time or other. — Tillotson.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. The Senate, on the 7th, passed the bill making city taxes payable in twtf install- : ments, giving towns and cities the right to ‘ invest their funds in Government and State bonds, and the bill for the Government of 1 the Soldiers’ Home at Knightstown. Mr. Spann introduced a bill for a Constitutional 1 Convention to be held in June next, the ■ delegates to be elected at the April election. The House spent the day in discussion of the Decedents’ Estate bill, which abolishes master commissioners, and the bill concern- > ing the negotiability of promissory notes. 1 Both bills were favorably considered and i will probably pass. The latter requires j purchasers of notes to make inquiry as to the signature of the author. In both the Senate and the House, on the Bth, there was a call of the counties for the introduction of bills, and about forty new ; propositions were brought before the Legis- ; lature during the morning’s session. Most of them had reference to subjects as to | which similar bills are already pending, and contained no features of special « interest. Senator Graham and Repre- | sentative Howland introduced to their respective houses bills providing as to the care of abandoned and orphan children. Their intent is that when a father abandons his child for one year the mother shall have full authority and control of her child thereafter, In the ca*se of a boy until the age of 21 years, and in the case of a girl until the age of 18. Senator Willard has a bill providing that | railroad companies shall be liable for all damages sustained by their employes, even though the same may be the result of carelessness or negligence of other employes of the same company. The bill amending the decendents’ estates act has been ordered engrossed to the House. The principal changes | in the present law made by the pending bill are the abolition of the 1 office of Master Commissioner; the Probate . Court docket allows an administrator to pay all claims of SIOO and under; gives him the power to distribute the money among the heirs: removes administrators and executors who leave the State; leaves it to the discretion of the Court to remove an administrator who has left the country in which the decedent was situated, and reduces the allowance of clerks to 25 cents for tiling a claim. Representative McCormick has introduced a bill to restrict the term for which a warden of either of the State prisons can be elected to four years, and render the officials ineligible for re-election. He thinks that the perpetuation of a prison warden in office is an evil, and seek to remedy it. The bill reorganizing the management of the Plainfieli House of Refuge, changing its .... - ... . T>

name to the Indiana Reform School for Boys, and electing a new Board of Trustees, passed the Senate on the 9th inst. The bin tor tne reorganization of the Northern Prison also passed. Both measures were put through by a strict party vote—27 to 21. The Senate passed the bill to amend the Decedents’ Estates act, upon which a special committee has been at work for three • weeks. The bill does away with the useless and expensive cash accounts, and provides for notice of partial settlements only when in the opinion of the administrator they are proper or necessary. The whole purpose of the Lili is to simplify the setUement of estates and make the same less expensive. It cuts off the bad provisions of the act of 1881, and leaves the best parr of the law in force. It abolishes the office of Master Commissioner, so far as it applies to the settlement of decendents’ estates, and cuts off the expenses of an examination of inventories, settlements, etc., by such Commissioner. as required by the present law. i It provides that no action shall be brought by complaint and summons against ahv estate, but all claims shall be tiled : with the Clerk of the Court, or ne executor or administrator, at the option or the person holding the same. All claims filed with the executor or administrator shall, if not flowed by him. be filed in the Clerk's office, and irq upon the docket and be tried as other cases. I'lu* claims tiled in the Clerk’s office, notallowed, shall*take a similar course. All claims not filed within a year shall be prosecuted at the cost ot the claimant, and if not tiled thirty days l>efore final settlement shall be barred. All claim tiled in the Clerk’s office shall be put on the claim-docket and allowed or dis- | allowed by the administrator. All claims i tiled with an executor or administrator shall be reported by him to the court, in his settle- . ment. The bill requires executors to aid administrators to make settlements within one ; vear from the date of the anixiintinent, and final settlement within six months thereafter, unless otherwise ordered by the court on good cause ■ihown. In the House, the Metropolitan Police bill was reported by the Committee on Cities and Towns, the majority recommending its passage with the amendments. The minority rec'inmcnded its indefinite postponement. A morion to table the minority report was at < nee interposed so as to cut off all possibility of a discussion of the principle of the bill, and adopted by 52 to 33—a strict party vote—and the majority report was concurred in. The General I Appropriation hill came to a third reading in he House, and it was passed by a vote of 86 to 0. The bill appropriatf's for the general expenses I »f the State $1,254,120, and that of 1881 ap- I propriated the sum of $1,211,380. Representative Antriern has introduced a bill providing that | al! companies and corporations shall make set- j llenient and payment in money to their employes at least once in thirty days under penaltj’ of SIOO per day for non-compliance. The State University Endowment bill, after being amend- j -1 upon the recommendation of the Committee , on Education so as to make the special tax 1 cent per annum for twelve years instead of 2 ; cents tor six years, was engrossed and ordered to a third reading. Early in the session of the Legisla- J I tore Hon. John H. Winterbotham, of Michigan j City, presented a memorial asking that legisla- [ live action be taken concerning alleged election i abuses in the Thirteenth Congressional district, 1 claiming that the employes of the Studebaker | wagon-works, Oliver chilled plow-works, and j other large manufactories were compelled to vote j the Republican ticket, whereby the memorialist 1 ‘ (Winterbotham was defeated for Congress and I bisopponent (Calkins) was elected. In response 1 ! to this Messrs. Studebaker and Oliver presented 1 a j»etition emphatically denying the charges and I demanding a full investigation of them. The communications were refeired to the Committee l un Elections, authorizing them to send for per- ! sons and papers, and to make a full investigation In pursuance to a notice served Senator • McCullough, Chairman of the Senate Election ; Committee, on the 10th inst.,moved to reconsider the vote by which the investigation was anthori ized, and to relieve the committee from any fur--1 ther consideration of the subject. In support 1 of his motion he said that the committee had ! not time to make the investigation; that it i would l>e necessary to examine the several ! hundred witnesses, or that, at any rate, it re--1 ferred to a matter entirely beyond the jurisdicI tion of the Senate—the election of a Congress- : man. This aroused the Republicans, and a heated political discussion followed. Senator 1 Fonike vigorously denounced, such a course as i proposed. He said it was not fair, just nor honorable to make such charges on the floor of the Senate against Messrs. Studebaker and ! Oliver and then deny them the opportunity of proving their falsity. Other speeches, pro and con, followed, but action on Mr. McCullough’s motion was postponed. Nothing else worthy of i note occurred in either house on the 10th. The discussion of the motion to discharge the Committee of Elections from the duty of investigating the charges made by J. H. Winterbotham against the Studebakers and Olivers, of South Bend, of bulldozing and intimidating their employes into voting contrary to their political preference, was continued and concluded in the Senate on Feb. 12. The motion was opi>os«‘d by Senators Fonike, Spann, Bundy and Campbell, and advocated by Senators Brown, Bell and ■ McCullough. The previous question on ; the motion was ordered, but adjournment came I before a vote was taken. Mr. Vogler introduced : in the Senate a bill to establish a home for | soldiers’ orphans and helpless ex-soldiers of 1 Indiana. Under the provisions of the bill the Gov--1 ernor is to appoint t hree Commissioners who shall each give. *s,ooo bonds.and who shall select a proper location in the Third Congressional district of not more than 300 acres and build a house on the site. The capacity shall be I such as to’accommodate at least 350 occupants. } The bill appropriates $42,000 for the purpose. In the House Mr. Mock introduced a bill pro--1 riding for the election of a Board of Regents for . the State University. Nothing else was done but to listen to reports from the Committee on Judiciary, and on its recommendation indefinitely postponed forty or fifty bills, most of them 1 relating to the Decedents’ Estates act. The Senate, ou the 13th, by a strict party vote, decided to make no investigation of the charges contained in the V 5 interbotham memor al- The House, by a similar vote, passed the Brown Benevolent Institutions bill and the Metropolitan Police bill. The latter as amended applies only to Indianapolis and Evansville, and requires two of the Cr; idencxs to ba Dumocxa^Haud. one 1122publican. The rest of the time was spent in advancing various bills. INDLINA STATE ITEMS! A special Diocesan Convention is to be held at Indianapolis on March 6, to elect a successor to the late Bishop 1 Talbot,

Henry Keller, engaged in chopping wood near Fort Wayne, was instantly killed by a tree falling on.him. He was about 28 years of age and unmarried. The Northern Lake lee Company shipped two hundred car-loads of ice to Louisville, Ky., this winter. The company have the finest ice that they have ever cut. Blaclford county is all astir with religious revivals. It appears to be universal all over the county. At least GOO people have united with the different churches, aud the good work still goes on. The insurance companies have completed the adjustment of losses by the recent burning of Conn’s horn factory in Elkhart, and Mr. Conn has begun clearing away the debris preparatory to rebuilding at once. Rev. T. C. Stewart, a form er preacher at Niles, some years ago married a couple too poor to pay the fee. The other day he received, at Brazil, where he is now located, SIOO in recognition of the long-forgotten service. Seymour is excited about a number of graveyard insurance policies that have been issued by a one-armed agent for the Indiana Mutual Aid Association, who has been “taking the lives” of a number of old, consumptive, bed-ridden or dying citizens. The books of the Indianapolis Rolling Mill Company show that since the mill went into operation in 1859, 294,861 tons of new rails have been turned out, and $7,635,912 have been paid for labor and material. The out-put for the first year was 2,000 tons, and the largest year’s product was 23,000 tons. Here is another trick of the sharper that needs attention. A farmer receives a circular through the mails stating that a new and improved variety of winter wheat has been discovered and that seed will be furnished him free of charge until a full crop is raised on condition that he sends $1 to pay for postage and packing. After the farmer sends his dollar he hears nothing further from the money or wheat.

In a brief review of the general economic geology of the State, Dr. Cellett states that "the quarrying interest* promises to become on important feature.” During the year 1880 the capital invested in the operation of quarries was $613,500, and the output of mineral was 8,413,827 cubic feet, worth $633,775, or about $20,000 more than the total capital employed. To effect this result required the labor of 1,788 men and 542 horses, and the use of 13 steam channellers in quarrying, 107 derricks and cranes in hoisting, 14 saw-mills and 42 gangs of saws (3 per mill) in dressing, while 5,757,225 cubic yards of space were excavated, in doing which $2,300 worth of powder and dynamite was used.

The Indiana coal fields, which cover an area of about 7,000 square miles, are simply inexhaustable. The State Geologist reports that there are twelve seams, at depths ranging from the surface to 300 feet below. Five of these seams varying from one-half foot to eleven feet and averaging five feet in thickness, can be operated at all times. The block coal is well adapted to use in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. A careful te.»- of the compartive merits of coal from Greene county and from Pittsburgh was made by J. J. Turner, superintendent of the Indianapolis & Vincennes railroad, as used by the locomotives on his line, showing the Indiana coal to be the more economical. Indiana now stands sixth among the coal produing States. During the last year 5,000 men were employed, to whom were paid wages amounting to ovei $1,500,000. In the mines was invested a capital of $2,500,000, while the product was 1,500,000 tons of coal, worth at the n ile $2,500,000, a sum’equal tc the capital invested.

The annual report of the Board of Trade of Indianapolis shows that the average increase in the wholesale trade of 1882 over 1881 in this city was about 17 per cent. The following aggregate of wholesale business is given: Dry goods. $6,000,000; groceries, $6,300,000; hardware and iron, $2,350,000; drugs and oils, $2,000,000; boots and shoes, $1,575,000; queensware, $700,000; hats and caps, $385,000; toys and fancy goods, $525,000; confections, $540,000; coffees and spices, $140,000; clothing, $420,000; millinery, $725,000; saddlery and carriage goods, $575,000; leather and belting. $610,000; produce, $1,075,000: ncTicw'tur ’ ’-'-erv -M,51)0,000; giving a total in these lines of $25,420,000, against lor xoal; a gain of $4,105,000. The Custom House has proved profitable to the Government and beneficial to the merchants. The value of the goods imported during the year was $213,119; duties paid, $81,513. There are twelve banks in the city, six National and six private, having a total capital of $2,880,000; average surplus of National banks, $340,000; the average monthly deposits, $11,435,000; total clearances for the year, $101,537,523. A Light-House Keeper’s Life. The keepers of the light-houses lead, as a rule, very monotonous lives. Their duties are to see that the lights are carefully trimmed and cleaned every day, and to repeat this operation as many times during the day as the case mav’ require. In stormy weather the lights must be trimmed more frequently than in fine weather. Some of the smaller lights have but one keeper each. He is expected to sit up till 11 o'clock at night, in which case, if the w eather is good aud the light is w orking properly, he is allowed to lie down for three or four hours’ rest, After examining the light at about 3 o’clock in the morning he must be up and extinguish the light. At 10 o’clock he is expected to begin cleaning up the light and putting things in order for the ensuing night. In some of the large lighthouses four keepers are employed. When there is more than one keeper the men divide into watches, and at least one of them is always on duty during the night. When the lighthouse is on some reef, surrounded by deep water, the lonely keepers are often worried with a fancy that the foundations are crumbling beneath them. This is more apt to be the case during the prevalence of a heavy storm, when the furious gusts of wind make the tower seem to rock on its foundations. The men can occasionally obtain a few davs, leave of absence. The keeper-- are paid in proportion to the importance ol their lights and the amount of labor required. Their wages range from $2! per month upward, and they are alsc supplied w ith food.—.Veic York Timea, The Chinese Sunday-schools in Nev York have o:: ‘h i;- rolls, withal average .! ’> Forty ar i professp. ’ e.:g

NUMBER 46.

AN onio (HAST. Some of His Wonderful Feats of Strength. [From the Cleveland Herald.j The late Abner C. Mcllrath was in many respects an extraordinary man, physically speaking. He was a giant in his build, as he was six feet six and a half inches in height, and his average weight was about 264 pounds. As an athlete he probably did not have a superior in the country, certainly not since the days of that great muscular man of Northern New York, Joe Call. In addition to his athletic characteristics he was a great fox hunter, and many are the stories told of incidents connected with Iris chase after reynard. He was gifted with tremendous long wind, and the story has been told that he would frequently chase after a fox on foot and run it down! In spite of of his great weight, large bones, and apparently ungainly size, he was remarkably quick as well as marvelously athletic man. He once lifted with his hands from the ground an iron shaft weighing 1,700 pounds, which would be equal to lifting double that weight were lie harnessed with straps to weights and allowed to lift under the best advantage. Two men would hold a string two inches above his head and he would step back two or three steps aud jump over it without touching it, making the leap about six feet nine inches in height. He has been known, rather than to lead his horse around to I the other side of the barn, to put his long arms under a horse and lift it up to the floor of the barn, which happened to lie three or four feet above the ground. Some forty years ago a gang of rowdy sailors, a dozen in number, went out to “Ab. Mcllrath’s Tavern” on purpose to have a “muss with him.” Uncle Ab. was a most peaceful sort of a man, and would submit to a great deal of abuse before resorting to the last argument, but on this occasion his ire w as exceeding excited at the perposterj ous idea that a dozen ordinary men | could run over him in his own domicile. The result was that he went among i them, and,in spite of their all piling upon him, he took them one by one by the j coat collar and seat of the pants and threw each some distance out of the door into the snow! The soilors thereupon retreated, the most disgusted of Jack Tars at being whipped by a soli- ' tary man. He told the writer that duri ing that “scuffle,” as he called it, he did ! not dare to double his fist and strike I for fear of killing. He had a very good I opportunity in 1839, when he was 27 i years of age, of testing his athletic abilj ity, which proved very conclusively that ! at that time he was probable the strongI est man perhaps in the wqrld. He I met in Buffalo, Charley Freeman, who ' was then a sailor, and was known as the American giant, he being about i seven feet in height. These two giants | had a w restle to find out which was the “smartest man.” The Cuyahoga giant I was two much for Freeman, for he ! threw him at ease. Three years afterj wards Freeman went to England as the champion of America, and engaged in | a prize fight with the champion of Eui gland, known as the "Tipton Slasher,” i and easily’ defeated him. These facts ! will give a good idea of “Uncle Ab's” ‘ great muscular strength and activity. Like Joe Call, he literally never met with his match, and never doubled his fist on a man for fear of killing him. Anyone who had ever seen his tremendously long, heavy-boned arms, encased i in muscles of iron, with his sledgehammer fists, realized perfectly that a ■ blow from him partook of the nature of ! a kick from a horse, and it is not at all surprising that Mr. Mcllrath never i doubled his fist on a human being. Several years since he gave a grand fox hunt, in w hich many of his most intimate friends participated. He had : captured an extremely large and vigorous fox in the wild hills of Euclid township, and held him in captivity for ■ this especial event. AA'hen the morning of the chase arrived, the hunters, all mounted on fleet-footed steeds, put in an appearance at the old hotel, eager for the anticipated sport. Reynard was brought out and released, and away he dashed, taking a straight course for the lake, with a pack of hounds baying in his immediate rear, and the hunters following as fast as their horses could carry them. The time was December, and the winter king held all nature in his frigid embrace. The terrified fox kept flying over the frozen fields, and through thick woods, while the clatter of hoofs in his rear only goaded him on in his dash for life and liberty. Finally the banks of old Erie were reached. Reynard took one comprehensive view of its frozen bosom, and in another was bounding away over the vast expanse of ic?. When the hunters reached the bank they all pulled up with one exception, and that was Unci# Ab. With his eye firmly fixed on the rapidly disappearring fox, he dashed the spurs into the sides of his panting steed, and to the horror of his companions, started across thetreacherous field of ice toward the Canadian shore. Oi he flew’, at the top of the reliable old black’s speed, until he disappeared from the sight of his terrified companions, I who were satisfied they would never see him again. Several hours elapsed, and the party of horsemen waiting anxiously on the bank had about given up all hope of Ab's, return, when a black speck made its appearance away out over the lake. Nearer and nearer it came, until the manly figure of Uncle Ab. filled the anxious watchers on the shore with feelings of unbounded joy. He was still in pursuit of the fox,and riding like a demon, nothing could stop him ; the weary fox took to the woods, bnt Uncle Ab. followed, cheering on the hounds, and in a short time he returned with reynard’s lifeless body hanging from the horn of his saddle. The Ideal Home. The ideal home is a haven of rest ! where the husband and wife both have ' , tin >ir own way in everything; where the children never cry; where the servants are models of honesty and industry; ' where the dinner is never late and is always well cooked; where there is no perceptible washing day; where the sweeping and dusting are done when noliody knows it; where selfishness and ’ bad temper are never known; in short, a little heaven upon tenth, inhabited • by thorougbly-angelie mortals. Homes 1 of that kind constructed upon a scien- ‘ tific basis and served het. like steam • through subterranean pipes, would ’’ meet a long-felt wa-.‘. Neatly every ? family would subscribe for one.—A’eW ‘ York Tribune. > A horse habitually walks into sa- > Joons at Fort Wayne, Tex., stands up • st the bar like a man, and drinks glass after glass of beer as long as the byv slanders will pay for them. He close# n his lips over the top of the tumbler, ■e lifts his head and the beverage gurgles down.