Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat Official Paper of the County. A. J- HILL, Editor and Busincsn Manager. ; 1 TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. L— " --‘■’'ii-.r-i".. 1 ... . _ B EAuaiW.Frert. W. n NiaucK.CaahUr K SrvnxJUiKß, Vice Pres't. THEADAMSCOUNTYBANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank ia now open for the tranaaction of a general banking biininesa. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf ““PETERSON k HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining 'coanties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notariea Public and draw deeds and mortgagee Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. C 0. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE A KIN(L ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BBCATVR.INDIANA. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DCCATVB, INDIANA. All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone’s building 4ih door. v2Sn24 year 1. J T. MERRYMAN, Attorney at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA. Deeds Mortgages. Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch Pai tition, settlement of decedent's •■states, acd collections a specialty. Office : —Up stairs in Stone’s cuilding, 4th door. —vol. 25, no 24 ts. £ IL COVERDALE, Mtonuy al Law t —jAsn(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUB, INDIANA. Office over Welfley's grocery, opposite the Court llouse. 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 2d, No. 34. ts. ’ A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co. Dank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence an north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill, 25jy79tf “wrfITMYERSr trick if Stone Jlason < onlrac'i DECATUB, INDIANA, iolicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v23a46tnß. ” SEYMOUR WORDEN, Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUGUST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER. DECATUB, - - INDIANA. A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes aud Pipes of all kinds always on hand at my store. ’ G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey ancer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dis* patch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office ©▼•r Welfley’s Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Dee&tur, Indiana. 8.-m6 13 ft S housands of graves BlUtsSsEL|j| are annually robbed ■ a - ih e j r victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently curei ImpotfllCV (caused by excesses of any kina ) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, of memory, universal lassitude, pain in the b<*ck, dimness of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity Or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circulars wiih testiinonals free by mail. The Invigorator is sold at |1 per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J. CHENEY, Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. K A. Pierce & Co., Sole .Agents at Decata? /T\ —y A week made at home by the industrial ■ / I lons. Beet burine • now before the public. tiK / • /Capital not needec. We will start you 111 f , Men. women, boys and girls wanted I Amm everywhere to werk for us. Now is the time. You can work in snare time, or give your whole time to the business. No other will pay you nearly as well. No one can tail to Bake enormous pay, by engaging at once, toatiy outnt ar.d terms free. Money made fust. easy, and honorably. Address Tata <t Uo., Augusta. Maine, DR. KITCHWIILLER will b, th* BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Ev«ry tecond Tue>d»y and Wednesday •< •*eh month to treat all Chronic Diseases. Conaultation free. Call and eee him, All letters of inquiry received al the home of. 4»e at Piqua, Ohio will receive prompt attention Write to him and make a alateMtnt »f your v24»881y.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THJE EAST. Mrs. ManK) ft Troy (N. YA clairvoyant, rwontty informed Samuel Hide- aged 77, that the spirits desired them to wed. The knot then tied was severed by the courts, and Hides’ conveyance of some property to Mrs. Mann was also canceled.. . Catherine A. Pollock sued the United S ‘<h Mutual Insurance Company at Philadelphia for SS,WO, her husband's policy, who died by accidentally taking poison. The Suprv me Court decided in favor of the insurance company, which was also victorious In o lower court.... Ex-Gov. Edwin D. Morgan died in New York •last week He wan a native of Berkshire county, Massachusetts. He commen < 1 businnAs in the metropolis in 1830, and acquired an immense fortune. He was twice Governor of New York, and declined the Secretaryship of the Treasury at the hannof Presidents Lincoln and Arthur... .Colled, der's billiard table factory at Stamfords Conn., burned to the ground last week, the estimated loss of property being $225,000. One hundred and twenty-five persons are thrown out or employment by the tire.... The extensive theatrical wardrobe of Edwin Forrest was sold at auction in Philadelphia at very low prices. At the funeral of Edwin 1). Morgan in New York, President Arthur, John Jacob Astor and Hugh J. Jewett appeared among the pall-bearers. The remains were interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford At the Mingo rolling-mill in Steubenville Ohio, the governor suddenly flew off the engine, causing the ruin of ten stones used to grind the knives of the nailmachines. Capt James Prentiss was instantly killed, and William Pert received serious injuries. The Buffalo grape-sugar works, employing 450 men, have been closed, the pro prietor giving the reason that he could not pay the city $30,000 per year for water.

George DaWson, for many years 1 editor of the Albany Evening Journal has passed away. Mr. Dawson was one of the early contemporaries of Thurlow Weed. He began his newspaper career with Mr. Weed in Rochester, before the Albany Journal came into Mr. Weed’s possession in 1830. A clerk in a hotel in New York city i found a guest nearly dead from the effects of coal-gas, taken with a view to self-de-struction. All attempts to restore him failed until a negro porter offered himself for transfusion of blood. A quart of the red . fluid saved the would-be suicide. Buffalo people are greatly excited over the case of Mrs. Alonzo Cottier, who I surrendered herself to the police as the murderer of her babe. She is the daughter of Alvah Church, the banker, and is a beautiful and accomplished woman. Physicians I differ as to her sanity, but the newspapers seem to agree that a mother-in-law caused all the trouble.... The three defaulting officers of the wrecked City Bank of Jersey City have been sentenced to State prison for ten, six and four years respectively.... Many stores and dwellings, comprising the best' portion of Bradford. Vt, were consumed, involving a loss of $75. WU THE WEST. Cincinnati dispatches of Feb. 15 report the water in the Ohio river at that date at sixty-six feet The city was practically cut off from railway communication, being surrounded by water, and all the railway tracks submerged Business was practically suspended all over tne city. Soup-houses had been established at various points. The Catholic churches were thrown open to accommodate the homeless. The j work of relief was going on vigorously, and many touching scenes were witnessed. I "Outside aid was pouring in freely. It was i ascertained that fourteen boys were 4 drowned by the bursting of the McLean avenue sewer. Louisville telegrams ! of the 15th represented the situation as extremely distressing. The river was rising at the rate of an inch an hour, and all along the city front for several miles houses were being undermined and were tumbling into . the angry torrent. Subscriptions were being freely made for the benefit of the thousands •of homeless ones. At JcffersonviHe, opposite Louisville, the distress was even relatively greater, the whole I city being submerged to the depth of from two to twenty feet. Many houses were ; swept away, and Hundreds of people had taken refuge in the upper stories of public , buildings and business blocks, food being ■ sent to" them in small boats. Filth from j hundreds of privies was floating* on the , waters, and the scenes of suffering were i described by an eye-witness as appalling. At : Lawrencebiug, Ind . north of Louisville, the people were suffering greatly, and car- ; ! loads of food were sent from other parts of 1 the State, the Legislature of Indiana having also appropriated S4O,tKM) for relief. Madison and other points along the river between Louisville and Cini cinnati also suffered more or I less from the extraordinary inundation. At j Fern Bank, below Cincinnati, a floating house was stopped, and in one of the rooms i was found a baby sleeping peacefully in its crib. The child was delivered into the care of the Catholic Orphan Society. I In the St. Louis Criminal Court, after an interchange of epithets, Joseph G. Lodge, law partner of Gov. Johnson, hurled a heavy j leather bookcase at James J. Mcßride, cutj ting a deep gash on the side of his head, I from which the blood flowed freely. The court officers were powerles . Lodge’s friends took him from the room, and the Judge continued the case until Friday. Dispatches from the overflowed districts along the Ohio river on the IGth insL state that “the flood at Cincinnati reached its highest stage at 4 o'clock yesterday it stood sixty-six feet and four inch* Contributions of $16,000 were received from various cities, and the lifesaving crew of Cleveland arrived with its apparatus. The Mayors of Jeffersonville and New Albany sent' dispatches to all the i chief cities, asking for aid for the sufferers. • Fire-damp or sewer gas caused an explosion 1 in a house at Cincinnati, shattering the structure, killing three persons, and wounding manv others. The rivers are rising at Pittsburgh and Louisville, and the M abasn, Muskingum and Licking are adding their quota to the inundation. Jeffersonville and New Albany. Ind., are entirely surrounded, and Marietta and Zanesville are also flooded.” Twenty miles south of Moberly, Mo., the Kansas City’ express train for St Louis was derailed, and John Lester. the engineer, was scalded to death, and the fireman, John Murphy, was quartered. An ice-gorge in the Maumee river, at Toledo, broke a few nights ago, and precipitated a great rush of water down the stream. Five bridges were swept away, and the total loss of propertv bv the flood is estimated at $1,000,000. At Cincinnati, on Feb. 19. the river had receded several inches, and business was being resumed. The houseless ones at New Aibanv 1 were suffering greatlv by the cold snap, and the condition of the city was deplorable. At Louisville the falling of the river occasioned general gladness, and no disasters had occurred. The loss by the flood at Lawrenceburg, Ind., was esti- i mated at more than $500,01)0, and at equally as high a figure at Jeffersonville. The damage bv the waters along the Ohio, between Cairo'and Pittsburgh, will not fall far short of $10,000,000. A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Tribune has been making an investigation | of the losses inflicted upon the cattle ranches of the far West by the recent severe storms. Reports from over 100 points in Colorado. Kansas. Nebraska. Wyoming, Montana, Utah aud Idaho give an aggregate loss of over S2,OiO,UUU The heavy snow-storms have completely covered up the grass, the intensely bitter cold has frozen the streams, and the cattle are stampeding tor the southern mountain ranges in search of food, water and Fh.-lter .. .The iron bolide founded in Chicago in ISV 1 hr H.re A Aver, which of late has been conducted by Herbert Q Aver, suspended payment last weex. The latter gentleman holds a controlling interest in the Brown & Bonnell Iron Compimy, of Youngstown. Ohio, employing 4.oob lw’Z- • •• • Dr H-L Glenn, the largest wheaMTL'Qr in the world, who ran for Governor * of CaLfornia cm the Democratic ticket in 1879. was shot fatally on his ranch at Jaonto. H. MWar. his bookkeeper, refused to surrender until shot in the knee by R- M. Cochrane. Glenn s Suparlntent mt. when he

DEC ATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1883.

An Indianapolis journalist, after travthe flooded section Os Indiana, estimates the damage to property in the State 'at $?,500,00(\ >»s follows: At Jeffersonville, *‘*.’s,ooo; New Aibanv, $73,000; Madison, $ AO-000; Aurora, $KO,(X)0; Lawrenceburg, $850,000; Intervening country along the Ohio, $300,000. This does hot include any calculation as to the loss from the suspension of business and trade, as the manufacturers cannot get to work for a month after the water subsides. Over six thousand residences are either swept away or desolate, and thirtyfl vo thousand neotilb are rendered dependent upon charity for food and clothing.. The damage at Louisville, Ky., he estimates at $1,000,000, and at Cincinnati at twice that amount. Cairo dispatches of Feb. 20 report the Lower Mississippi rising, and in the district immediately below Cairo much damage has been done, and suffering prevails in the Kentucky lowlands. The Mackinaw river, in Central Illinois, has caused great devastation, $50,000 worth of bridges alone being wrecked The Iroquois river, from the Indiana State line to the Kankakee river in Illinois, was reported as having an overflow’ of un-beard-of proportions. It had become a great bread lake, submerging farms and inundating towns and villages. The city of Wats eka. 111., was flooded The Kankakee river is also booming at a tremendous rate. The water at Memphis was eight inches below the danger line, but the interior was being flooded by old breaks in the levee at Trotter’s Landing. The Cincinnati Flood Relief Committee, having resolved to use funds sent from abroad only for the relief of neighboring cities, issued a circular stating that they had all the money they could judiciously use for; such purpose. Liberal contributions w’ere I made in the large cities, both East and West, j for the benefit of the flood sufferers. At an iron mill in Carondelet, Mo., where 1,000 men have for three months been on a strike, tlrc fires we: e started last week with non-union men.. Mrs. 11. M. Vaile, the wife of one of the star-route defendants on trial in Washington, living at Inde endence, Mo., died the other day under circumstances that clearly indicate silicide. The work of rescuing the bodies of the drowned miners in the Diamond shaft at Braidwood was being vigorously prosecuted on Feb. 20. The sufferers by the calamity number thirty-four widows and ninety orphans. A special committee has Issued an appeal for aid, and a bill was in- j troduced in the Illinois Legislature ap- ; propriating SIO,OOO to relieve the distressed. Adjutant General Elliott was sent by Gov. | Hamilton to inquire into the necessities of the families of the drowned, and found a pitiable condition of things. The Arch bish- { op of Chicago has offered to take charge of , the Catholic orphans. Cincinnati dispatches of Feb. 17 report a comforting condition of affairs consequent upon the marked subsidence of the waters. New Albany was in sore distress, and a special committee had appealed for relief. Along the Ohio southward many small towns were partly submerged. The j sudden thaw raised the rivers generally in the Northwest, and gorges caused’ rhe wrecking of bridges, two being destroyed at Joliet, and sections of the town inundated. Similar accidents occurred at other Illinois towns, and railroad tracks washed out Gilbert, the actor, who narrowly escaped death in the Newhall House fire at Milwaukee, by which his wife lost her life, intends to sue the proprietors for $25,000 dainagea If the Grand Jury indicia the owners of the ill-fated hotel suits aggregate • ing $300,000 will be begun... .Stephen Hem- ’ stead the first lawyer who settled in lowa, and the second Governor of that State, died of heart disease at Dubutiue. THE SOUTH, Maj. J. C. Wall, an associate of U. S. Grant, Jr., and Gen. John B. Gordon in Alabama coal mines, drowmed himself in the Tennessee river, probably ou account of losses by speculation. WASHINGTON. A bombshell was thrown into the camp of the star-routers when M. C. Rerdell. one of the defendants on trial, withdrew his plea of not guilty, owned up to his guilt, and took the stand as a witness for the Government against Dorsey, Brady, et a1.... The corre■ penitence between the Secretary of War ana the Chief Signal Officer in relation to the request of the latter for the appointment of a Senate committee to investigate the charges against the management of the Signal Service Department is published. Secretary Lincoln informs Gen. Hazen that the Government has provided courts-mart-al for army officers desiring investigation.

The testimony of Rerdell, one of the indicted star-route conspirators, who pleaded guilty and threw himself- on the mercy of the court, was of a most important nature. He told how he had lived under the same roof with the Dorseys, and how, after aiding them in filling out bids, he had been sent out West to establish “paper” stations and prepare the way for the “expediting service” that followed, and bv which the conspirators were enabled to rob the Government of hundreds of thousands of dollars. On the second day of Lis appearance in the witness box, he was engaged during the entire session of the court in identifying handwritings aud documents. Under ex Senator Dorsey's direction he manufactured the paper applications upon which the po tai routes were extended, forged the names of fictitious persons, and altered genuine applications. In the cashbook which Rerdell kept was an account with ‘•William Smith,” who he declared was none other than Bradv, the ex-First Assistant Postmaster General The testimony of the witness created a sensation at Washington. POLITICAL. Gov. Butler forced the resignation of Julius L. Clarke, Insurance Commissioner of Massachusetts, and will appoint to the vacancv N. A Plvmpton. of Worcester, treasurer’ of the Democratic State Committee. Clarke had accepted a present o $ 1,000 from an insurance company... .The Brooklyn Union-Argus has changed hands, Thomas Kinsella, it is supposed, being the purchaser. Tne Senatorial contest in Michigan approaches an end. The friends of Mr. Ferry held a consultation on the 15th inst., and it was agreed that all hope of ever electing that gentleman was over. It was accordingly decided to free the Republican members from their allegiance to the caucus rule, thus making the race a free-for-all contest.... E. F. Lewis, Democrat, was elected to Congress from the Sixth Louisiana district to take the place of Herron, deceased. At a meeting of prominent Germans representing all the Congressional districts in Kansas, held in Leavenworth last week, resolutions were adopted to the effect that the duty of the Legislature is to cany out the wishes of the maiority of the jieopie; that the people, by electing Gov. Glick, did cmphaticaUv denounce prohibition as a failure and a sham; and that therefore the prohibition amendment should be resubmitted for rejection. The sixty-five members of the lower house who voted against the resubmission of the amendment were denounced as cowards and recreant to the trust reposed in them, and the fifty-one members who voted in the affirmative were appropriately commended for their manhood and patriotism. A resolution lias been introduced in the Texas Senate for a committee to ascertain if the contract with Chicago parties for the construction of a Capitol cannot be annulled, it being alleged that the lands given for the purpose are worth from $lO, ■A , ,UOO to 3 i '-,000,1)00.... A bill fixing the maximum pas eager fare on railroads at 3 cents was defeated in the Arkansas Legislature. FOREIGN. The British Parliament reassembled feb. 15. The Queen's speech announced that the withdrawal of troops from Sgypt is proceeding as expeditiously as is prudent, and that the improvement; of the social condition of Ireland continues A proposal is to be submitted lor securing to tenants in England and Scotland compensation lor agricultural Improvements. Bradlaugh occupied bis seat in the House of Commons, aud Haitjagix-n taid the Government would la- ~ jduce a mil authorizing members 50 make affirmation. Pameii moved the appointment of a committee to inquire into the arr«it ot g»aiy,b« it was dowm J.uyla

McCarthy griV’t ifoflcfe that ne would InTro- | duce a bill to abolish the Irish v*ce-royalty. At the examination of the Dublin conspirators the other day, James Carey, Town Councilor, one of the prisoners, who had previously figured in the dock, appeared i on the witness-stand in the role ot au informer, and detailed the murders of Cavendish and Burke in Phoenix Park. Seven men participated in the tragedy, though the i ; cutting was confined to two, and I I Carey identified the prisoners who ! were engaged The testimony cre1 ated a great sensation, and the l silence in the court at intervals was oppressive. Carey confessed that several plots ' had been laid to murder Forster, but he escaped each time through accident:... A L»»n---1 don dispatch says that the rains and floods ; which nave been prevailing in all parts of ; Great Britain have now assumed proportions ' of a national calamity. Large tracts of land i are totally submerged. By this time of ' the year a considerable area of wheat should have been I sown, but scarcely an acre has yet been i seeded down in all England. The land is litj erally a morass, and winter wheat is rotting I in soggy ground. Whatever may happen I now, there cannot be a great liarvest this , year, even if it does not turn out one of thd I worst that England has ever known.... , France has again been temporarily without I a Ministry. President Grevy accented the resignations of his constitutional advisers, and Jules Ferry was intrusted with the formation of the new Cabinet... .Oscar Wilde is studying for the stage, and one of his first efforts will be Romeo. T wenty-one of the persons under examination at Dublin were committed, Feb. 19, to answer the charge of murdering Cavendish and Burke. Carey, the informer, was hissed by the spectators in the courtroom, and as he passed the dock James Mullett, one of the prisoners, struck at him. The result of the examination has caused intense excitement in England and Ireland. Great Britain, it is reported, has requested the extradition from the United States of P. J. Sheridan and Thomas Brennan, whom Carey implicated... .The Secretary of the British Legation at Teheran, with his escort, was attacked on the Turcoman steppes, eleven of the escort being killed and nine wounded... .The False Prophet, the leader of tne insurrection in the Soudan, has been made prisoner at Obeid. GENE KAI* When an International train pulled up at Webb Station, near Laredo, the conductor found the telegraph operator lying dead on the floor, having been butchered by robbers... .Campanini sent a cablegram to a Ne w York journal st announcing that he had signed a contract with Mr. Abbey. During 1882 there was consumed in the United States 4,968,000 tons of pig iron,

against 4.‘.‘82,000 tons in 1881. At the beginning of the present year 417 furnaces were in blast, while lbß2 was ushered in with 446 furnaces working. Clara Barton. President of the National Red Cross Association, has notified all the Red Cross Societies in the United States to take charge of subscriptions for the flood sufferers. A report comes from Texas via St. , Louis that a powerful syndicate, composed of wealthy Mexicans and Americans, has been organized to purchase large tracts of mining, agricultural and grazing lands in Northern Mexico. It is said that there are in all about 7,000,000 acres, for which the syndicate will pay from 10 to 20 cents. It is stated that the grazing and farming lands are of about the same quality as those in Western Texas. The capital of the syndicate is placed at $A),0U0,(X)0... .The demiseis announced of Ann Gerry, daughter of a signer of the Declaration of Independence; John C. Mason, a banker of Worcester, Mass.; E. T. Carrington, a newspaper publisher of New Haven, and Rev. Lyman IL Atwater, of Princeton College. Charles Gillespie, a driver of a i coke wagon in Pittsburgh, went to Stock- ■ ton, CaL, three years ago, and paid a visit to a bachelor uncle. The latter's death i now gives Charles and his sister a fortune of $300,000. After Three Generations. The property known as the “Nashobah’ 1 estate, near Memphis, was sold by order of the Supreme Court not long ago. The property brought $11,717.40. It was the estate purchased by Fanny Wright in 1825, on which to try the ex- . periment of educating negroes. Fanny i : Wright was an accomplished, elegant woman, and very romantic; fond of the refinement and luxuries of Me, but possessed with a desire to remake the i world according to the Community pattern. She had a sister named Sylvia Wright, who also came to America. She was no orator, but quite as quixo-

tic as Fanny. She also bought a tract of land in the then far West and hoped to help humanity by some impossible ■ and grand agricultural scheme. Sylvia Wright’s solitary Western life naturally created a morbid, exalted state of feeling. Ono stormy night she was told that the chief of her farm hands was ; down with the fever. She went to his cabin, found him delirious and nursed ' him for several weeks. Owing to her : care he recovered. He was a great. ■ handsome, coarse animal, without education, decent breeding or good morals. Notwithstanding all this the refined. I beautiful gentlewoman, Sylvia Wright, I fell madly in love with this human beast. She married him I Os course | he treated her like a brute. It was the old story of “Titania” and“Bottom”with I her. After a few months she awakened from the horrid spell and loathed her miserable mate; lied from home; i went to Europe, joined her sister, who j adored her, aud died of heartbreak i aud mortification, leaving a baby ■ daughter. Francis aud Sylvia Wright, : who were left orphans at an early age, j were of gentle birth and had large for- I tunes. They were wards of the dis- ! tinguished philosopher Jeremy Ben- : tham, who had them educated according to his own peculiar crotchets, and I very eccentric women he made of them. Frances Wright married a Frenchman named d'Arusmont. She adopted her [ sister’s child and called her Sylvia d’Arusmont. This girl inherited the large fortune of her mother and aunt. After the death of her adapted parents Sylvia d’Arusmont employed Eugene Picault as her agent in American. Picault played the mischief. He obtained complete control over Sylvia, aud, abandoning his wife and children married the heiress. The guilty couple changed their name to La Guthrie. When they died they left three children. But in 1881 the real Mme. Picault had the marriage declared an act of bigamy and came into possession of her late husband's estate including the property at Nashobah. — Memphis Avalanche. Modern Principles. “I say, sir, do you want to hire a boy, sir?” said a bright-looking little fellow, a he stepped into a business office. “What can you do, sir?” was the respondent inquiry. “I can tell the truth, sir, was the bright reply. “Pon't want you. my little man; my business won't stand truth-tolling. ” “Better take the boy.” said a bystander. “1 1..-, w him. When he says he can tell Hit truth he lies like blazes. He cnn'i d> it. and hi mther *l»efore him coni In’t either.” Boy engaged ou modern bus> ness Frißi'd'fr-s-It is perfectly safe to compliment a ! woman upon her chiseled features, but ' she would hardly like to be told that : her head was turned.

WD IN A COAL PIT. A Frightful Disaster at Braidwood, IK. Nearly One Hundred Mineis Drowned by a Cave-in. [Braidwood Telegram (Feb. 16) to Chicago Tribune.] The most awful tragedy which has ever visited the Wilmington coalfields occurred to-day at the No. 2 shaft of the Wilmington Coal-Mining and Manufacturing Company, known as the Diamond Company, three miles and a half northwest of this city. The little village of Diamond is a scene of desolation calculated to wring the heart of even the most hardened to scenes of misery and woe. Sixty-eight men and six boys lie dead in the mine, and it may be weeks before even the melancholy satisfaction of recovering I their bodies is accorded. No such calamity has ever befallen this section of country, or, for that matter, nothing as horrible has ever been chronicled in the history of mining in the United states. The destruction occurred in an instant, and came with overwhelming force. In every home there is weeping and sorrow for the Braidwood miners who will return no more. The whole population of Diamond is devoted to mining, and this crushing blow carries ruin to a hundred families In several instances all the male members have been swept away, aud what will be the future of Diamond it is impossible to forecast. i The tragedy was as unique as it was devastating. A section of prairie-land, forty by ninety feet, over which the floods had extended until the water stood three or four feet deep, suddenly caved in, the result being the instantaneous flooding of a mine in which 3( om< n and boys were at work. Inside of half an hour the water had extended to ail ; arts of the workings, and to night it stands within five feet of the top of the main j shaft. Seventy-tour human beings were ■ choked to death in the grim recesses of the mine. All hope of the possible rescue of any of these unhappy beings by the opening of a driveway from an old’ air-shaft into the i workings was abandoned at dusk, when the water poured into the last-named shaft, and the workmen were compelled to abandon their la t desperate attempt at the salvation I of their fellows. The scene of the horror was the Diamond Pit No. 2, which has been operated for about

ten years, and in which anywhere from 200 to 400 men were regularly employed. This morning from 290 to 300 went to work, and by noon one-fourth the number were dead. The escape of the majority was almost by a miracle. The country around the mines is an almost dead-level prairie, and the recent tremendous rains have covered the whole country with water. Hundreds of acres of land are honeycombed by the mine-work-ings, manv of which have been worked out and abandoned. It was through a break in one of the abandoned workings that ’the flood poured in to-day. The Diamond shaft No. 2 is ninety-two feet deep. Above the coal lies from seventy to 110 feet of earth. The coal-vein varies in thickness from two feet nine inches to three feet four inches. Above it is a layer of soap-stone, and it rests on a bed of fireclay. The vein winds and dips a good deal, and thus some parts of the mine are a good deal lower than others. About 11:30 the rumor spread among the population of the mining village that the ground had caved in over the main roadway in the Diamond Shaft No. 2, and that the water that had stood in a large pond on the surface of the prairie was rushing into the passages of the mine, cutting off the miners and holding them in the passage. Upon the spreading of the rumor large crowds or miners’ wives, with children in arms, rushed toward the scene ot the c ta. trophe, anxious to hear of their husbands, brothers and sons who were employed in the minea When the crowd reached the main entrance they found everything in a state of the utmost confusion. Around the shall were a crowd of anxious men and women, eagerly rendering any assistance that was poss/bio to the half-drowned miners who appeared at the bottom of the shaft To the north could also be seen a crowd of men collected around anair-shaft, who were likewise fishing our the almost perishing miners who h d climbed to the top and would have sunk buck exhausted upon the ground had it not been for the assistance of the willing hands. Women wrung their - hands, as, one by one, they anxiously viewed each new face that appeared above ground, but found not the father or son who was missing, and for whom some fell down upon their knees and prayed. The news was upon the lips of every one. Friends anxious for the safety of some lost one hurriedly paced back and forth, trying to devise some means of salvation for the poor creat-

ures who were penned up never to be rescued .olive. Little by little the terrible character of the catastrophe became appan nt Then it was that the heartrending scenes occurred. A wife bent over the shaft as her husband was cllinb ng the ladder in the airshaft his young son dead in his arms, and extended her arms to receive them, but ; she was doomed to disappointment, for the i man. worn ou’ with the deFj erate struggle which he had undergone to save the body of his son, fell back into the pit a lifeless corpse, ; and has not since been seen. A young German maiden saw her lover . brought out of a shaft in almost a lifeless condition, and, falling upon her knees, sho smoothed back the hair and thanked God ! that he had been saved. I Mrs. McQuistion, who was on the ground 1 when the news came that her husband and ! three sons were dead in the mine, was taken 1 with nervous prostration and had to be removed from tne ground. She is now in a precarious condition and her mind is permanent! v injured. The following is the story of John Huber; an eye-witness of the whole affair, ana a man who was in the mine at the time of the : accident: “I was working in one of the west sections of the main corn dor, and had just got my car ready for transfer, when I heard a voice which sounded weak at first saying, 'Look out; the water is coming,’ For a lew moments [ did not comprehend the awful meaning of the language used, and so went back to ! block up the coal, when I heard the same , warning again and again, aud a small stream 1 of water running down the center of the 1 track. The truth at once flashed upon me I that I was in danger, and that the water was ' coming from some unknown locality. I 1 rushed as fast as the nature of the pa -age would allow me to W’here I thought my two sons were at work, but found that they had gone. I then yelled at the top of my voice to the men near me, and made as fast as I could for the air-shaft, where I knew there was a ladder, and that I could get out By this time the water was i up to my armpits? and I had a hard time to I set up the shaft, so exhausted was I wi’ li ! the rapid run I had made in the j stooping position. When I got home, great God! What did I see! There upon her bed lay my wife, tearing her hair and wailing in almost a crazy condition. *O, John,’she said, ‘where are the boys?’ The truth then flashed upon me that perhaps thev were dead. I went back as fast a- I could, and found that my horrible anticipations were only tou true, and that the Loys had not been seen since entering the shaft in the morning.” The situation at the scene of the Diamond Mine havoc was thus described bj’ a correspondent of the Chicago Times, Feb. 19: There have been no new developments today, and nothing could afford a ray of comfort to friends and relatives of the miners buried in the watery sepulcher. Instead, it is feared that further homes may be made desolate when all the victims are discovered it the recovery of all the bodies is ever accomplished. It has been learned other * persons were likely to be in the mine beside those represented on the company's books. Not an hour in the day passes but the miners have friends from other painta g. j. o- under ground to see them, and it is feared that some of such may b.-. .eb'- nin the Diamona when the torrent of rushing water burst through the mine. Many of the miners, mainly Gormans, have been in the habit of taking countrymen with them who desired to get work, but were i not familiar enough with mining to obtain employment from the company, [ and teachirg “them the It has I often hapnened that in the chambers or tpunj i.e > v. dcA tnrae men ore requfrea tq ao t£e ■ work half a dozen would be found, th© regi ular workman havin< au ooual number of

Itiends, whose identity’ the coal company had no mean** of estaldishing. One of the most experienced pit bosses in this region expressed the opinion to-day that the total number of victims would reach a hundred, and practical miners concur in this opinion. This estimate may be exaggerated, but there is every reason to believe that there are several miners amor" the victims whose identity is unknown, and that the full extent of the calamity is not appreciated Ali nrgnt tne men worked around the main shaft, preparing the buckets to be used in pumping on;, rigging the donkey engines, and generally gettiiig things in shape for the work of ‘recovering the bodies of the dead. In the main and all the air shafts the water now’ stands within three feet of the top, and may possibly overrun some of them before morning. In other words, every crevice and cranney in the mine is filled with the water w r hich has poured into it from the vast surface deposit. The faint and almost fantastic hope that somewhere in the mine an air chamber might have been found in which a few of the poor prisoners might have sought refuge has faded from the mind of even the most sanguine. The seventy-odd men and boys j.robably passed into eternity within an hour iroin the time the first alarm was given. The work now before Lhe mine-owners and the people of Braidwood and Diamond is the opening of the mine and the recovery of the corpses. 'J here is but one wav in which this end can be accomplished. To attempt to pump out the mine while jt continues to act as a receiver for millions of gallons of water from the adjoining prairie would be like dipping water with a sieve. First of all. a dam must be built around the break through which the water pours into the mine as through a funnel; then pumping can begin, and, with proper machinery, such as will undoubtedly be used, the mine can, in the opinion of competent judges, be cleaned out in a week. Others, perhaps equally competent from long experience to judge of the volume of water, believe that it will be nearly a month before it is gotten out.

(JOfiGBESSIONAL SUMMARY. The Senate worked seven hours upon its Tariff bill on Feb. 13. Sugar was the main subject of discussion. The New England men, who wanted reductions in the lower grades; the Southern men, who wanted reductions in the higher grades, if any reduction were to be made; the men from the Middle States, who were opposed fb any reduction, but preferred reductions in the higher to reductions in the lower grades, made over again the sjieeches they had made in committee of the whole. At times the debate was exciting. The outcome of it all was a compromise, offered by Mr. Bayard, with which everybody seemed to be satisfied. The tobacco item was then taken up, and also excited a spirited debate, which was likewise entiea Dy a compromise between tne Connecticut and Havana tobacco interests. The House was engaged all day upon the metal schedule of the Ways and Means Committee hill. Among the important changes made wae an amendment to prescribe a duty of 45 per cent on all steel not specially enumerated, the duty in no case to exceed cents per pound. The duty on nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is the element ot chief value, was reduced from 25 cents to 15 cents per pound. A duty on quicksilver of 25 per cent, ad valorem was inserted. Bronzfe powder was reduced from 25 per cent, to 20 i>er cent., gold leaf from $2 per package of 500 leaves to $1.50, and shotguns and all other firearms not provided for in the act were reduced from 35 per cent. to 30 per i cent. A duty of 35 per cent. was placed on pistols of all kinds. The duty on j penknives, pocketknives and razors of all kinds ! was reduced to 4') per cent. Th • .'■riff on metalI lie pens was fixed at 12 cents a gi ss instead of 45 per cent. There was 9 little personal spat between Messrs. Townshend, of Illinois, and Haskell, of Kansas. The former charged 1 that the measure under consideration was the I work of hired lobbyists. The latter resented . the charge, and some hot words followed, w hich for a time relieved the dull monotony that usuj ally attends tariff legislation in Congress. The amendment made in committee of i the whole, raising the duty on bituminous coal I from 50 to 75 cents a ton, came up in the Senate . on Feb. 14 and gave rise to a long debate. It was i concun ed in by a vote of 23 to 18. There was also I a lively discussion concerning the duty on books, ' wii:- h\vas fixed at 15 per cent, ad valorem. Mr. I Blair introduced in the Senate a bill to prevent j the ihc of convict labor upon works of the ' United States. The House wrestled the whole I dav with thetariff problem. An attempt to re- ! duce the duty ou all iron wares not enumerated 1 in the bill was defeated, every amendment lookI ing to that end being promptly voted down. A I proposition*offered by Mr. Cox, ot New York, for j the admission of foreign-built ships on the paymentofaduty of 30 per cent, was lost, three 1 Republicans voting with the Democrats in the ! affirmative. Mr. Holman moved to place Inm- ,! ber on the free list, which gave rise to a long l and animated debate. This, together with several other amendments looking to the reduction j of the duties on hubs, wagon blocks, etc., were promptly squelched. A night session, was held ; to consider the Legislative Appropriation bill, at . which Mr. Butterworth made an earnest effort to I secure an hour for the consideration ot the bondi ed whisky bill, was beaten. Mr. Joyce declared ttha the measure should not have one minute during the session. Nearly all the day of Feb. 15 was consumed in the Senate by discussion of the tariff, j and the Senate bill was pushed through the seci ond reading. Mr. Cockrell presented petitions from the officers of several educational institn- ■ tions in Missouri for the appointment of ; a practical astronomer as Superintendent of the Naval Observatory. Mr. Morrill handed in a remonstrance against any reduction ! of the tariff on books below 25 per cent., signed • by Oliver Wendell Holmes, T. B. Aldrich and John G. Whittier. In executive session Mr. Edi mnnds offered a resolution to admit to the floor 1 only such private secretaries as are engaged in : the performance of duty. In the House Mr. Williams submitted a conference report on the Jaoanese indemnity fund, to retium the $785,000 received, to pay $140,000 to the officers of the ■ Wyoming ami Takiang, and cancel the bonds I composing the indemnity fund. This was agreed to. The sugar schedule of the Tariff bill was under discussion, and all amendments were voted down by large majorities, and the committee bill was substantially unchanged. The Japanese Indemnity bill. w.:ich had i previously passed the House, was taken up and i p ssed by the Senate on Feb. 16, after which the j Senators tackled the Tariff bill, but did little I work. The House laid aside the. Tariff bill and 1 took unir.id pa« d flic Legi.-lafh <• Appro-ria- | tit 11 bill. '1 he v.orking hours of the <lovcrument * clerks were fixed atsevenand one-half io win; ”, : and eight in summer. The clerks fought vainly , f-:r a “softer job.” The whisky men rn-:de an ' effort to secure the consideration of the “Bonded Period” bill, but were promptly dcfeai•■<!. Bills were introduced to appropriate an 1 $500,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the flood | along the Ohio and Mississippi. 1 he Senate made little or no progress with ’ the Tariff bill on Feb. 17, although a good deal of talking was done. Mr. Sherman presented a prvpusi lion looking to an increase of the duties on certain kinds cf steel. A very i lively debate followed, in the course of which I Mr. Beck intimated that the Ohio Senator’s substitute was inspired by the steel manufacturers, who three weeks ago were satisfied with the tariff that had l>een substantially agreed on. but now were clamoring that poverty stared them in the face. Sherman denied the accusation and said ■ that tlm Senator from Kentucky c-ould not bully him. Mr. Beck retorted that he would see to it that the Ohio Senator should not bully the Senate. There was an exciting discussion in the House of Representatives of the I Tariff issue. Mr. Dunnell (Rep.) arose and dei dared that it h; 1 been determined by the Re--1 pul dicans to abandon the bill, and reflected severely on his party colleagues for deluding the people. Mr. Kasson, in reply, laid the blame of delaying the bill on the Democratic side, which statement was recei\Td with derisive exclamations from that side. Mr. Hask* 11 immediately moved that the committee rise, and. the motion being agreed to, moved that all debate on the pending and succeeding schedules of the bill be closed in one hour. Mr. Carlisle raised the point that the motion was not in order. The discussion < n Carlisle’s point of order was carried on amid a good deal of contusion and excitement. The liepnblicans, led by Mr. Kasson, continued to charge upon the Democratic side of the passage of a tariff measure. Mr. Morrison, on behalf of the Democrats, protested against putting through Congress so important a bill without due consideration. “If you will give us a bill making a 20 per cent, reduction,” exclaimed Mr. Morrison, "we will pass it before night." The discussion was interrupted 1 v the Speaker who announced the hour for special order—“the eulngi: s on the late Representative Shackelford"—had arrived. Mr. Blackburn and other Democrats, with an air of defiance, urged immediate decision of the point of order, but the Speaker did not yield to their demand, and the prayer of Wellington at Waterloo (for night or Blucher) was touchingly quoted by Mr. Tucker. The Senate devoted nearly thirteen hours to the Tariff bill on Feb. 19, being in session from Iv o’clock a. m. till two hours past midnight. The whole time was given up to two or three item-* in th*' metal schedule. The effort to give tbe bill such form that it could successfully run the g.ilot bohwoen the extreme hightariff man on the one side and ’.h - * mon on the other resulted In a sort of coxuprc misc that was not very satis factory ’o eitit-'r siU'. Mr. Sherman’s raising tL - m * ei v.: . dlfied and adcr di'• i. • M 'P. ; r-i-sca v< ti d with Che Republicans and Mr. Van Wy with tue Demcarats. Mr. Cameron 01 Pennaylvauu mad« • vigorous speech iavoxiag

protection. In the House, Mr. Kelley made a motion to suspend the mlos and pass the bill to induce internal-revenue taxation — being the House Revenue bill of last year, with the Senate amendment reducing the tax upon tobacco to 8 cents per pound. Mr. Springer raised the point of order that the bill had not l>cen before the Committee on Ways and Means, and that, therefore, it was beyond the power of that committee to move to suspend the rules ami put it. on its passage. The Speaker overruled the point of order. Jn support of his motion. Mr. Kelley said every line in the bill presented had received the approval of the Senate and the committee which he represented; therefore, he believed., while doubt and uncertainty might prevail as to ten’if legislation, there was an opportunity offered to mitigate our excessive revenue te» the extent of $40,000,000. Mr. Morrison said the people were paying into the treasury sßo,*m>»,ooo of imimst tax under war ratesand twice <so,(M)o,0OO in bounty to manufacturers. The internal revenue had been reduced one-half, and to-day, twenty years after the war, impost taxes remained as they were. Notwithstanding this, here was a bill brought to relieve the banking capital of the country and tobacco chev < is at the expense of the people. It was offered here in order to give a quid of tobacco to some people with every likelihood of their biting at the bait. Mr. McKinley asserted that the surplus revenue in the treasury could be with safety reduced $60,000,000. Even* one admitted, whether the tariff were revised or not, this internal revenue must be reduced. Mr. House called the attention of the country to the spectacle presented to-day. For the last month, day and night, the House had been discussing the Tariff bill; and now came back to the same old propositions of the last session, the old scapegoat which had been expected to bear the sins of the Republican party into the wilderness. That party had gone before the country with that proposition, but the people had thrown its bank checks in its face, burnt its matches and broken its bottle "ready relief” over its head. Let the Republican party go before the country, if it dared, with this bill in answer to the demand made at the last election for relief from taxation. The motion to suspend the rules and pass th 2 bill was defeated—yeas, 162; nays, 92—not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. INDIANA STATE JOTTINGS. De Pauw college has nearly one hundred pupils enrolled. Grantsbubo, Crawford county, will set her claim forth before the County Commissioners of that county tor the county seat. Frank Stahl, of Jeffersonville, baggageman on the Ohio and Mississippi road, has fallen heir to $4,7U0 by the death of a relative in Germany. Edward G aran, a young man residing in La Otto, was instantly killed by a tree falling on him that was being felled by some associates the other afternoon, about nine miles southwest of Fort Wayne. South Bend Tribune: A disease called Michigan sore eyes, and quite prevalent in the border counties of that State, has reached this vicinity, and a great many are afflicted with it. The disease is not so dangerous as it is annbying. David McKinzey, of Greenfield, has received a telegram from his brother, informing him that they had fallen heirs to an estate at Newport, Penn., valued at several million dollars. McKinzey is a farmer and a deserving man. The stockholders of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road re-elected the Board of Directors, wifch the exception of Colonel Crawford. R. S. Veech resigned the Presidency, which will probably be given to Colonel Bennett H. Young, of Louisville. The fox drive at Judge Ramsey’s place near Fairdale, Harrison county, the other day, was well attended, there being about five hundred ladies and gentlemen present to witness and participate in the exciting sport. There were about four hundred men in line, but nary fox was scared up. There are forty acres of tillable land belonging to the State near the penitentiary, north, at Michigan City. During the last year there were raised upon these grounds 800 bushels of potatoes, 250 bushels of tomatoes, 250 bushels of radishes, 106 bushels of beets, 30,000 head of cabbage, and 40 bushels of cucumbers.

Malinda Mubphy, a washerwoman. over 50 years old, brought suit against Indianapolis, asking JIO.OOO damages for injuries received in a peculiar way. She was wheeling some laundry in a baby carriage through Cincinnati alley, and one wheel sinking into a rut, the carriage was about to tip over. Attempting to prevent it, the plaintiff claims to have strained her back, permanently injuring herself. The State Board of Agriculture met recently, and announced the following appointments of Department Superintendents for the fair of 1883: Horse, W. A. Banks, of DeKalb county; cattle, S. W. Duncan, Johnson; hogs, D. Jones, Ripley; sheep, S. N. Davidson, Montgomery; poultry, T. W. Sunman, Ripley; agriculture, H. Latounette, Fountain; mechanical, R. M. Lockhart, De Kalb; horticulture, J. W. Graham, Delaware. Indianatous yews: Local ice-dealers have stiffened prices, owing so the great destruction of the ice crop by the Ohio flood, and are now reported as adverse to making any contracts for summer delivery. Meanwhile, packing continnes. The breweries are laying in immense quantities, and, judging from the loads hauled through the city daily, the ice is twelve or fifteen Inches in thickness and of more than average quality. The Reporter in Literature. Mr. Osgood, the Boston publisher, said that when Mr. Diehens wanted to come to read in America, a few years before has death, lie was very sensitive about the reception he would hai e after his lampooning the country in 1812. So he sent his agent. Dr. Dolby, ahead, who called on Fields & Osgood and asked them to take the agent io the newspaper offices 111 Boston and New York. Among other places he was carried to the office of Janies G. Bennett, the founder of the Herald. The old man listened to the questions Dr. Dolby put. When he was asked if Dickens’ comments on America long ago would injure his reception, Bennett said: “No; the American people are great enough to overlook the errors or impudence of a young man who meant to sell his wares about us in England.” After Dolby got through, however, old Bennett remarked: “ Who is this Dickens, anyway ? He is nothing but a reporter. I have got four or five men in my office who are better reporters than Dickens.” The old man was perfectly serious about it, too. After Mr. Osgood told this story a gentleman present said: “Do you remember that at the Dickens dinner George William Curtis, who made tiie best speech there, described Dickens as a reporter all the way through, and said that the reporter’s faculty in all great literary men was the foundation of their power? Even in Hawthorne, who became a reporter in garrets and back yards, among the bugs and cobwebs. and rays of light, instead of out among the crowd. ” “Well,” said Mr. Osgood, “I could not help feeling that the strong points of Dickens were, as a reporter, closely observing the dialect and behavior of men. Tome, the “ Pickwick Papers” remain tin- most delightful tiling Dickens ever did. and they are reporting throughput. ” — Gath. A veterinary surgeon of Binghamton, N. Y., successfully removed onehalf of the tongue of a" valuable horse, upon which was an epijffihytical cancer, without much blood or trouble Co the horse.

NUMBER 47.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. In the Legislature, Feb. 14, a bill passed both houses under a suspension of the rules appropriating $40,000 for the relief of the Indiana sufferers by the overflow of the White, Wabash, and Ohio rivers The vote in the Senate on the measure was 39 to 7, and in the House 84 to 4. The measure w itb various amendments and changes proposed occupied nearly the entire attention of noth houses during the day. It gives the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary ana Treasurer of the State the custody of the fund, and directs them to dispose ot it iu what manner may seem to them best, ine Senate fina ly passed the Brown bill reorganizing the benevolent institutions, the Hiliig.us bill to allow County Commissioners to purchase toll roads, and the Benz bill re - enacting the road law repealed last session. The Yancy bill, preventing the running at large of all kinds of stock, was defeated oil account of the lack of a constitutional majority—v< ‘as 22, na vs 21. The House ordered engrossed the bill providing for an Appellate Court, with a peculiar amendment, Ihe bill originally provided that the court should consist of three Democrat s and two Repub- , licans, but to-day Mr. Robinson, of Clay i county, the only Greenbacker in the assembly. offering an amendment that one of the judges should be a Greenbacker, which was carried by a vote of 63 to JU. The County Superintendent's bill, which proposed that these officials be elected by popular vote, came up for discussion on the 15th, and, after several amendments as to the number of days that County Superintendents should be paid for had been voted upon, amotion by Mr. Jewett to Jay the bill and amendments upon the table was adopted by a vote of 53 to 37. It may, therefore, be accepted as solid that the office of County Superintendent will not be interfered with by the present Legislature. Mr. Jewett, at the opening of the morning session, obtained unanimous consent for the introduction : of a bill making a further appropriation for the relief of the sufferers in the flooded districts of SIOO,OOO in add. t ion to the $40,000 voted yesterday. The rules were suspended ’ and the bill read. There be.ng a disposition on the part of the House to wait until some more definite information as to the amount required before the bill was further adI vanced, a motion to refer it to the Ways and Means Committee was adopted. Air. Tuley moved the adoption of a resolution asking for an appropriation by Congress for the relief of the sufferers in the flooded districts along the Ohio river and throughout the entire valley, which was unanimously agreed to. : The House Prison Committe has agreed to recommend a change in the system of keeping the accounts of receipts and purchases at the Southern prison, and the adoption of the same plan of keeping the hoardinghouse at the Southern prison a* has been adopted at the Northern, vesting the directors with the sole power to make purchases I of supplies, and instructing them to buy m the lowest market. Mr. Huston, ot the i committee, moved that Warden Howard should be severely censured for neglect of dutv, and that the directors be urged lo remove him at once. The motion was not acted upon, but Howard’s friends were sufficiently alarmed to telegraph him to come atones. The Senate spent the entire afternoon session in considering the general appropriation bill, the point under discussion being the rider to compel the faculty or Purdue University to abolish its restrictions against the existence of secret societies in that inst tution. The Magee bill, which abolishes the present Statistical Bureau and recreates it, but consolidates in one office the present statistical and geological departments, was passed by the Senate Feb. 16, after a long and animated debate, the Republicans opposing and 1 the Democrats advocating the measure. Mr. Bell, from a majority of the Committee on ■ Elections, submitted a report, - igned by himself I and Messrs. Fletcher, Sayers, Spann amt Lock- : ridge, that all the specifications in the contest of Johnston vs. Overstreet, except the charges of bribery, are not sustained by sufficient evidence to entitle the contestor to a seat in the Senate, and that the legal effect of the evidence as to tho charge of bribery is not such as to sufficiently sustain the direct charge of bribery, and, believing the contest was made in good faith, the report recommends that the contestor be allowed per diem and reasonable expenses. Mr. McCullough, Chairman, reported with the majority as to all charges but bribery, but that the charge of bribery is made out and sustained by the evidence. The General Appropriation bill was under consideration, and the attack upon President White, of Purdue University, was successful bv a large majority. The appropriation for the institution was increased from $12,000 to $20,000 coupled with the provision that none of it shall l>e used until the regulations against members’ secret societies were removed. The House indefinitely postponed the bill to repeal the State Board of Health act, thus insuring the continuance of that department. It also passed the bill to reorganize the House of Refuge. The Legislature adjourned until the afternoon of the 19th in order to allow those who desire to accept the hospitalities of Logansport in behalf ot the location of the proposed asylum for the incurable innariA. and others to visit the flood. The Senate finished the general appropriation bill on the 19th. Mr. Brown made an effort to get the Metropolitan Police bill out of the regular order, but failed after a long wrangle had taken place. The House received a large number nf reports from committees, and various bills were ordered to engrossment. On February 20 the Senate, by a vote of 20 to 23, refused to suspend the rules and. pass the bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for tho relief of the flood sufferers. The bill was read the first time and referred. A long discussion took place over the bill for the erection of a new insane asylum, Richmond and Elkhart putting in claims for the new institution. The bill was finally referred to a select committee to determ ne upon the proper location. It consisted of Messrs. Voyles, Magee,. Rohm, Campbell, Bell, Foulke and White. It is und< rstood that the committee will recommend an appropriation of $300,000 for each of the years 1884 and 1885 for the building of not more than three additional asylums, the locations to be selected by a commission to two Dem ocrats, two Republicans and tue Governor. In the House, the prohibitory amendment was ordered engrossed and the others introduced, the House refusing, by a vote of 58 to 38, to suspend the rules in order that they might be advanced to engrossment. The bill for the reorganization of the Knighstown institution was passed. The bill for the endowment of the State University was defeated.

Boston Baked Beaus. A Boston paper laments the decline of Boston baked beans, a dish famous in Yankee legends and newspaper p.ara graphs. It has not been generally known that Boston baked beans wer» slowly but surely passing away. Such however, appears to be the sad fact The Boston paper says that within the past few years the co-t of beaus, ol pork, and of labor has increased, ‘‘while the price of the classic products, hot from the place of cooking, has been raised but slightly.” As a consequence the Boston bean-cart is not so profitable nor so common as it used to be. This is a very distressing state of things for the people, to whom the flatulent bean is as “dear as remembered kisses after death.” The bean-pole is the axle on which the Hub revolves. The bean is the gentle stimulation of the mind that results in Boston lecture-courses. It is the food which Boston culture lives on. It provokes the Boston bard to song, and the Boston seer to transcendental revelation which no one but habitual eaters of the venerated Boston bean can appreciate or unde-stand. To deprive the Bostonian of his native dish would be to revolutionize his character. The Bostonian of the future would probably be as uncultured as the persistent consumer of hog and hominy of the west. Boston baked beans must be restored to their pristine vigor. Once upon a time, say the storytellers, “Ouida” asked Charles Reade to suggest a name for her new pct dog. “ ‘Tonic,’ ’’ quoth he, im.tui.ter. ‘for it is sure to be a mixture cd bark, steal iid whine,”