Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County, i *• J. HILL, Editor aad Bwoioem Manager. TERMS ; ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENT! IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER TEAR IE NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. t —i ■■ —m_. .. i ■_ . _ II B AlXWO»,rr™t. W H Nttuca.Ouhler. B. STroiutll, Vice Pree’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, Thia Bank is no* open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf “ PETERSON 4 HUFFMAN. ’ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DleaTUB, INDIAItA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining cosnties. Especial attention given to collections and titles io real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0 0. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE k KING. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WECaTUB. INDIANA. —— E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DBUTUB, IMDIAWA, All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone a building ilk door. v25n24 year 1. J T. MERRYMAN, . Attorney at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. DKCATVB, INDIANA. Deeds Mortgages. Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Partition, settlement of decedent’s estates, and coilections a specialty. Office :—Up stairs in Stone's tuildtng, 4th door.—vol. 25, no 24 ts. ’ E. H. COVER!)ALE, JLllomcy al Law, —}ANO(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATVB, INDIANA. Office over Welfley'a 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, DBCATVB, INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence »n north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill. 25jy79tf W. H. MYERS, trick A Slone .Uason Contract DBCATCB, INDIANA. lolioits work of all kinds in his line. Persona contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v26n45m3. WORDEN, .Auctioneer. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUCUST KRECHTER ” CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DECATUB, - - INDIANA. A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipes of all kinds always on hand at my store. " G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey ancer. Peede, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and d:t* patch. Special attention to ditch and grave Toad petitions. Office over Welftey’s Oro- , eery Store, opposite the Court House, Decatur, Indiana. Bi-mo ftftft ft ff’*£'V TIOU, * ndß of tfltJoKtaJ are annuall y robbed ■ the i r victims, livee proloDged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively snd permanently cures Impotrncy (esused by excesses of any kind .) Seminal Weakness and all disease* that Totlow as a sequence of Self- j Abpse, as loss of energy, loss of memory, . universal lassitude, pain in the back, dimness of vision, premature old age, and . many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave Bend for circulars with testlmonals free ’ hy mail. The Im Isolator is sold al fl per box, or six boxes for <5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mall, securely eesled, on receipt of price, by »d---dreasiag, F J. CHENEY, Drusgist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. A. Pierce & Co., Sole Agents at Deoatur --r /<A week made at home by the indwtriU* / | Bous. Best buaine snow before the public. / 1 / Capital not needec We will start yoa. 111 f / Men, women, boys and girls wanted ■ ""everywhere to work for ns. Mow i* the time, Yon can work in spare time, or give your whole time to the bwsineas. No other business *»*• J*y you nearly aa well. No one can lai . to make enormous pay, bv engaging at once. Costly omm •rd terms tree. Money wade fast, •**J’*° d hocor ' "bly, Address JjHHB A Go., Augusta, Maine, DR. KfTCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday and Wednesday el : ••ch month to treat all Chrouio DiseMee. Consultation free. Call end see him, AU letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua. Ohio, will receive prompl fitteailoß. Write t» him and make a «i»»* Beat of year uh -viihsMlg. I

The Decatur Democrat.

TEE NEWS CONDENSED. THF SABT. The body of Henry Seybert, the Philadelphia millionaire, wax cremated In 1 Lemoyne's furnace, at Washington, Pa.... Mrs. Abram Wakeman, an invalid, and her daughter perished by suffocation in New 1 York, a tire having broken out in a Hat in | which they resided. The property loss la I estimated at 190,0001 The investigation now being made by a committee of the New York Legislating into the condition and management of the i State Lunatic Asylutns *• developing a very i Jeiioub condition or affairs. It is charged , I hat sn»r people were confined in the Utica Asylum; that patient* were beaten, badly fed, and abominably treated, and that whether sane or insane it is impossible for a person once committed to the asylum to get a discharge in lass than two* yearn.... Loomis, the Agawam mjirderer, was hanged lastMCek at Springfield, Mass. He made tuil confession of his crime, attributing it to mm. and died with composure Iriali Moyer was executed at Middleburg Pa . for the murder of Gretchen Kintzler in 1857. Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, appeared in court at Boston as counsel in a criminal case—the Westfield distillery miitea and made an argument for the defensA T he occurrence creates the greatest sorrow in Beacon Hill ihftt the gubernatorial offic e ij ho old be so disgraced.... .The Academy of I Music and Horticultural Hall at Philadelphia have been engaged for the Irish National Land League Convention, to be i he d April 25 and 26. Parnell and Davilt are expected to lie present... .Elliott, ! the prize-fighter, was buried in New York ! with distinguished honors. The remains , . were followed to the grave by 150 coaches tiled with admiring friends. Two boys were arrested at Jersey i City who were bound West to kill Indians. Four } tetols, two knives, 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and $lB4 in gold were found on them. THE WEST. Valuable deposits of iron ore have been found in the TenokOe range, on lands of the Wisconsin Central railroad. It is • claimed the deposits are heavier than those on the Menominee range.... The Rev. Dr. Nicholson, of St Mark s Church, Philadelphia, has been chosen Bishop of Indiana, to ; succeed the late Btshbn Talbott The selection by the Diocesan Convention is sub- , ject to ratification by the House of Bishops, ... .Peet A Keeler's malleable iron works at ■ Beloit, Wia, burned the other day. Seth F. Crews, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from Jefferson county, has been arrested under an indictment found in St Clair county for obtaining | money under fake pretenses..*. Daniel Woods. I aged 106, died at Indianapolis. He went all i I through the Duke of Wellington’scampaigna and was one of the guards over Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena... .Clarence Hite, I cne of the James gang of outlaws, recently ienteneed to twenty-five years’ imprisonment has been pardoned by Gov. CrittenI den, of Missouri A cremation society is to be formed in Chicago, with a capital of $100,090. It is intended to establish a regular crematory, as it is thought there are a large number of people in the Northwest who believe that the most decent and economical method of disposing of the dead is by incineration. By an explosion of oiynamite in “Dead Man’s Hollow’,” near McKeesport, Pa, one man was killed outright and three others received injuries that may prove fatal The accident was caused by ah attempt to thaw out some frozen dynamite by the heat of a stove A scow having on board thirty laborers was struck by a schooner opposite Jersey City, and seven men were drowned. A dispatch fram Deadwood, Dakota, says: “Fire was discovered last night in the large two-story boarding-house owned by Hood A Scott, in Drownsville, on the Homestake railway, nine miles from this city, and in less tbanthirty minutes the entire structure was destroyed. The following-named persons perished in the flames: Peter Hansen, Lewis Hansen, R C. Wright, Thomas Ftnless, Jas. Chalmers, Jas. Tennecliff, Sami Hayes, Fred D. Peters, Übas. Hammontreed, W. IL Andrews, Harvey Wood. Several others were burned and more or less seriously injured. The building was a long, low*, cheaply-construct«'d affair of pitch pine, | and burned with the greatest rapidity. The ; bunk-room occupied a loft, access to which was gained by means of one ladder at the end of the room. The fire undoubtedly I started near the ladder, cutting off all retreat Several of the deceased leave large fam--1 ilies, and ail were w ell known and esteemed. The remains of the eleven unfortunates present a most sickening sight, many being headless or limbless, and all charred and i blackened beyond possible recognition. The . Coroner will hold an investigation... .Rare liersistency in suicidal intent Was exhibited >v George Cookson, a cctichman at Evanston, 111, who shot himself five times with a small revolver, and, finding that means of self- i destruction tedious, completed the job by hanging himself in his employer's barn. Judge Phillips, of the Macoupin (UL) Circuit Court, has rendered a decision which will be of decided interest to bank Directors and officials Stated briefly, the decision holds that a Director of a bank is not an ornamental figurehead, but that it is his duty to keen posted as to the condition of the institution with which he is connected. In the case at bar a depositor in an insolvent hank sued the Directors personally and recovered a verdict. The insolvency of the bank was caused by the fact that its cashier stole the funds, and the court held that it was the business of the Directors to ascertain the true condition of the bank, and that : they could not plead ignorance when due diligence w’ould have discovered the facts. ... .J. D. Watson, for offering a bribe to Representative Bloch, of the Ohio Legislature, was sentenced at Columbus to one year is I tne penitentiary.... A railway train ran upon a hack near Crawfordsville, Ind., killing the , driver and two oassengera THE SOUTH, A telegram from Little Rock, Ark., ! of the Bth inst, says: La«t night the east- • bound train on the Little Rock and Fort ; Smith railroad was boarded by forty men. two miles west of Mulberry Station, Craw rford county, 140 miles from Little Rock. They ordered the passengers to throw up their hands, and began firing pistols. Conductor John Cain was in the rear, and was fatally shot The robbers rushed for ' the engine, but before reaching it Engineer i Rogers pulled out, and prevented a robbery. • Brakeman Lester was also shot during the i firing The robbers jumped off after the i train was m motion. Hu perin tend ent Harti man offers $5,000 reward for the capture of I the robbers. The funeral oLthe late Alexander H. Stephens was the occasion of a most imI pressive demonstration at Atlanta, Ga. I Robert Toombs, an early political rival of the dead statesman, and Senator Joseph E. I Brown were among the speakers. In all the j cities of Georgia and in many other places in the South memorial services were be.d rimultaneouslv with the burial at the State capital... Ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, and Mrs. D. 1 Calvert, of Greenbriar county, W. Va., w’ere married at Staunton, Va The house and ont-buildings of Simon Cronise. a wealthy farmer living near Frederick Mil. was destroyed by tire. His wife, one child, and a hired man, were burned to death in trying to save some other members of the family.. Bishop John Qmnlam of tne Catholic Diocese of Mobile, died the other . day at New Orleans A correspondent who recently passed down the Mississippi river from i Memphis telegraphed as follows to the St | Louis GMe-D>morrat: “There are not more than two or three spots of dry ground be_ tween Memphis and this point, snd scores of the best farms in Arkansas are in a complete state of wreck. Mo. t of them have been abandoned, the owners and ! laborers havimr tied to higher ground. At > ' Harbul’s landing eighteen colored men and women in two boats are moored to a jee on , | ths fiqoded bank, waiting for a steamboat, to I take them away. Tiers is not a foot of dry ; land in iortv miles. Skiff-loads of colored j i: vwiou« pwnwiv ground te

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH IG, 1883.

on. At Sterling the colored people, horses and cattle are indiscriminately huddled in the upper Ftory of the only store there. M st or the fences and houses along the river bank are still intact, though manv of them have floated away. At Star landing the dwellings are full of cattle, and the gin houses full of negroea The water in St Francis river is still flowing down from the sunk lands and slowly rising at all points. The river is covered with saw Jogs. The suffering is intense, and many people are believed | to be dying for Want Os food.” Later advices report the Water declining at Helena, but rising below, causing breaks in the levees. A recent dispatch from Hubbard City, Texas, gives particulars of a most atrocious double crime. A dancing party was given at the house of a wealthy and respectable farmer named Landa. About midnight a young villain named Vardell induced one of Landa's daughters, aged about 18 years, to take a short walk with him. As soon as he thought they were at a safe distance he drew his pistol, threatened her with death, and committed a brutal outrage upon her. When the two returned, the young woman's sister, learning what had occurred, made an outcry over the exposure of crime. Vardell drew his pistol and made an assault upon her. At t ils point, the father. Mr. Landa, made his appearance, and ordered the girls into the house. Vardell turned tipoh him, shot him through the heart, and fired upon him again as he fell dead Vardell immediately made his escape in the darkness. ITie Landa family offer a large reward for the murderer... .Fire swept away several business structures at Nashville, Tenn, involving a loss estimated at $250.000... .Sheriff Dixon shot A. L. Johnson dead in the Court House at Texarkana, before Judge, jury and auditors. The men had quarreled on the suppression of gambling. Near Helena, Ark., the flood overturned a house, and four children were drowned Six adults were rescued, after clinging to the roof for three days. A Memphis dispatch says that “stock arc up to their throats in water in the St Francis swamps, and many carcasses of dead animals are floating about” Hereafter Dorsey county, Ark., will be known as DeSoto county, the State Legislature having enacted a law to that effectThe county, when created, was named for Stephen W. Dorsey, at that period a United States Senator from Arkansas... .Musselman A Co., tobacco manufacturers, of Louisville, Ky., have mad'* an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. WASHINGTON. During the progress of the starroute trial. Congressman Belford, of Colorado, who had just retired from the witness stand, asked permission to make a statement affecting his personal honor. The prosecuting counsel objected “Give me the poor privilege of making a statement ” pleaded Mr. Belford. “Well, sir,” said Judge Wylie, ; rather sharply, “this is not a public meeting. We are trying this case judicially, and that is ah we can do.” ‘‘Well,” declared Mr. Be’ford, “I state before the living God I never received such a check [alluding to Rerdell’s testimony} “I object, your Honor,” exclaimed Mr. Merrick. Judge Wylie, as soon os Mr. Belford's words were uttered, rapped upon his desk and Mr Belford started to leave the court-room. “Bring Mr. Belford here; come here, sir,” said the Judge. Belford turned to his place beside Mr Ingersoll. “What did he say?” asked Judge Wylie. Mr. Carpenter repeated the remark of Mr. Belford. “That,” said Judge Wylie, “is contempt of court, and the court imposes a fine of $100.” “All right,” said Mr. Belford. “I will pay it, and $500; no man shall assassinate my character.” “This is a law tribunal, continued Judge Wylie, “and this is a degree of impertinence I never witnessed in court.” Lieut Harber’s report of his search for Lieut. Chipp and party, of the Arctic exploring steamer Jeannette, in the Lena river delta, has reached the Secretarv of the Naw. The search began June 23 last, and continued without success, though .prosecuted with the greatest care, until Dec. 8, 1882, when Lieut Harber reached Irkutsk on his way home. The State Department having instituted inquiries as to the cause of the firing upon the United States steamer Valencia by the Dutch fort at Curacoa, in the West Indies, explanation has been made that the incident was the result of negligence on the part of the principal police officer of the place, and an unwarranted exercise of an > absolute regulation by the officer of the fort The offenders have been punished, and assurance is given that the occurrence will not be repeated. Secretary Folgf.r has under consideration the question broached relative to the case of Representative-elect Ochiltree, of Texas, whether the Treasury Department may withhold the nay due a member of Congress to offset a claim of the Government against him. Mr. Ochiltree was in default in his accounts as United States Marshal of Texas, and it was proposed to recoup the Government by withholding from him an equal portion of his salary as Congressman. It is stated from Washington that the new Tax and Tariff law underwent some remarkable transformations from the time it was passed in the Senate until it reached the President for signature, the responsibility for which does not appear in the records lu several instances the intention of the framers of the bill has been defeated by the transposition of a conjunction or a punctuation mark, and the probability it the Treasury Department, instead of being relieved in the matter of construction of the law, will have little time for any other business than explaining the purport of the act of 1883.... Judge Lilley, an aged Washington lawyer, called upon* Stephen W. Dorsey, at the latter's residence in Washington, a few nighte ago,and in the course of a conversation about the star-route trial Lilley made some remark that greatly enraged Dorsey, who struck his guest from the chair in which he wils silting, and then jumped upon, and kicked him, inflicting serious injuries. A Washington telegram of the 13th inst says: “Mr. William Lilley, the gentleman who was assaulted by ex-Senator Dorsev is in a very precarious condition from the effects of the assault, and his physician thinks his recovery i« a matter of considerable doubt He is unable to retain food on h stomach, and suffers a great deal of rain.” Extracts from the correspondence between Minister Lowell and the State Department relative to the enactment by the British Parliament of the law for the prevention of crime in Ireland have been published Ina lett r from Secretary Frelipghuysen regret is expressed that a nation whose history and traditions are so linked with the progress of human liberty as are those of the United Kingdom should have deemed it necessary to re-enact the provisions of the obnoxious Alien act. and the fear finds expression that the enforcement of the law may interfere with ihe cordial relations which have, hitherto existed between tlie British Government and the United States. The letter bears date Sept 22, 1882. .The President has been suffering for some time from a catarrhal affection, and is considerably annoyed at its tenacity. POLITICAL. The Michigan Democrats met in convention at the State Capitol on the 7th inst The convention put in nomination half a ticket, and authorized the Chairman of the State Central Committee to treat with the Greenbackers, who were to hold their convention the following day, for the other half, and, in case of failure to agree upon a union ticket, John W. Champlin, of Grand Rapids, was named for Judge of the Supreme Court, long term, and Arthur L Clark, of Sanilac county, for Regent of the University. The resolutions censure the Republican members of the Legislature for the prolonged and expensive Senatorial contest, and declare that any Judge who accepts a railroad pass should be impeached and removed from office. The Greenback Convention convened. according to programme, on the Sth, and unhesitatingly accepted the proposition of the Democrats for a union ticket The convention then proceeded to nominate Thomas R. Sherwood, of Kalamaxoo for Justice of the Supreme Court, and Charles J. Willett of Gratiot, for Second Regent of the State Univerritv. Resolutions were adopted reaffirming the Chicago Greenback platform of 1860- arraigning the Republicans for the long daiav ana consequent expense in electing • VsiMd 4encunr,ng

congress for its failure to meet the public ‘ demand for revenue reform; favoring the i election of all Federal officers, including Senators and Postmasters, by the people, denouncing monopolies, and advising a full representation from Michigan at the proposed Anti-Monopoly gathering at Chicago, on the 4th of July next The National Civil Service Reform Association, in session at New York, adopted tesolutioils Condemning the transfer of Naval Officer Burt, of New York, to the position of Examiner of the Civil Service Commission and the appointment in his stead of a person who is hostile to the principles which Mr. Burt has sought to put in practice during his incumbency of the office. The Territorial Legislature of Dakota has passed the bill providing for the removal of the c apital from Yankton and appointing a coniimsion to select a site. The archives and appurtenances are to go to some place which will grant 160 acres of land and not less than SIOO,OOO in order to secure the benefit of having the Legislature brought home to it At Carson, Nev., it is understood that Mi*. Fair will resign the United States Senatorship, and that Gov. Adams, resigning the executive office, will be appointed by his successor, the present Lieutenant Governor, to succeed Mr. Fair.... .The New Jersey Senate, by an almost unanimous vote, passed a b II prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or tobacco to minors, and imposing a fine of | for even’ violation of the law. GENERAL* It is stated as a fact that direct telephonic communication has been had between Cleveland, Ohio, and New York city, a distance of over (i<)U miles. The business failures for the seven days ending March 9, as reported to R. G. ’ Dun A Co., numbered 252, as against 272 for iirevious week, distributed as follows: New England States, 21; Middle States, 40; Western, 80; Southern, 57; Pacific coast and Territories, 17; Canada and Provinces, 27..... Three murderers paid the renalty of their crimes on the ‘Jth inst, two being hanged in New York city and one at Clayton, Ala. The storm foreshadowed by Wiggins, the Canadian crank, failed to pan out A good many people throughout the country had prepared themselves for the worst, and pome were rendered insane from fear and ; apprehension. There was no unusual atmospherical disturbance, though there w’ere local storms in several sections of the country, as usual in March. None of them, however, took the form of a tornado or blizzard. There were strong gales and heavy rains on the East Atlantic coast On the Nova Scotian and New Brunswick coasts a heavvgale prevailed, but the damage caused was trifling. A great snow-storm raged in the region of Waterloo, Quebec. The loss to the Gloucester fishing industry’, occasioned by the refusal of fishermen to go to sea on account of Wiggins’ false prophecy, is estimated at not less than $150,000. Ten acres in the Yellowstone National Park have been leased by the Secretary of the Interior, in seven tracts of from one to two acres each, so located as to command the hotel and other privileges in the vicinity of all the most attractive natural I curiosities in the park. The lease is looked upon as‘excessively favorable to the lessees. On the arrival of a steamer at Boston Patrick Levy, a passenger from Queenstown, was taken into custody on the charge of i murder. During the voyage Levy confessed i to the officers of the steamer that he killed Patrick Harley, a farmer at Mullingar. Ireland, two years ago. He sa’d that Harley rented a farm over the head of an evicted tenant and that he (Levy) waspaid £2O by a person whom he refused to name to kill Harley. On being arrested he denied that i he was hired to do the murder, and said that the crime was committed in a drunken quarrel. He will be held under surveillance I until advices from England are received.... Wiggins alleges that his storm prophecy was literaUy fulfilled, and believes hundreds of thousands of lives have been destroyed on the shores of the Bay of Bengal by’a tidal wave, a small edition of which, he claims, struck this continent. He asserts that he is able to foreteU storms, heat, cold and high tides. FOREIGN. Lady Florence Dixie charges Parnell and Biggar that they, as trustees, have not accounted for £152,000 of the Land League’s money... .Frank Bvrne, who was accused of complicity in the Irish assassinations. has been discharged from custody by the French authorities... .Two hundred faclorv girls started last week from Limerick, sreland, to take situations in New Hampthire. The steamer Navarre, from Copenhagen for Leith, foundered during a gale in the North sea, about 200 miles from Christiansand, and of the eighty-one persons on board sixty-five perished. * Most of the passengers were emigrants. It is charged that the Navarre was inadequately provided with life-preservers, and some of the survivers allege that the Captain of the steamer was intoxicated.... The Parisian police forcibly suppressed a Socialist meeting which was announced to be held on the Esplanade des Invalides. An attempt was made to form a barricade with paving stones, but the municipal cavalry charged on the mob, and a large number of arrests were made. The appointment of Gen. Blumenthal as Prussian Minister of War has been revoked, and Gen. Von Schellendorff has been selected to fill the post The outcome of the affair is that Prince Bismarck, although nominally tick, has triumphed once more.... Smuggling is more rapidly increasing than trade in Switzerland, and is carried on by a band of Swiss and Italians who are aided by trained dogs. Prince Gortschakoff, with whose career the history of Russia the past quarter of a century has been intimately linked, died the other day at Baden-Baden, in the 85th vear of his age, after haring been for more than sixty years in official employment, beginning as a legation attache, and ending as Chancellor of the Russian empire Virtually his last service to his sovereign was rendered in the Comrress of the Powers in Berlin in 1878, at the close of the Turco-Russian war; and the issue of that memorable con- | gress is evidence that the intellect of the octogenarian was then as keen as that of the great statesmen with whom he was brought into contact... .The Prussian Government has forbidden the introduction into Germany of the Xiennn Zcitmig... .Couva- f oundourons. the well know n Greek statesman, is dead. A Dublin dispatch states that the murder-conspiracy prisoners have been notified that their trial will begin April 9, and that they will be tried on three counts—namely: the Phoenix Park murders, attempted murder of Juror Field, and conspiracy. The Lime-Kiln Club. The Secretary announced the following inquiry from Union Springs, Ala.: “What do you think of a colored man who keeps thirteen dogs around his cabin, and lets his wife go barefoot all winter? There is exactly such a case in this neighborhood.” “At fust sight one may call it a case of brutality,” replied the President, “but de mo’ he looks at it. de mo’ he doan’ know. Mebbe dari am no market fur dogs in dat locality dis winter, an’ dat cull’d man can’t sell, if he wants to. Ab’ den some vnmin am mighty onsartin. I’ze seen some who would hoe cotton in kid shoes, an’ I’ze seen ’em go bar’fut de y’ar ’round to gin deir feet a chance to grow. It’s jist as a family feels about it. Some prefer shoes to dogs, an’ agin some doan’ make no ’count of dress, in case dey kin have three dogs under each bed in de house an half a dozen waitin’ at the back doah fur orders. If dat man was a member of dis club I shouldn’t feel authorized to reprimand him until arter consultin’ his wife. ” Brooklyn has sixty-six public schools, 200,000 scholars and 1,343 teachers. There are beside about 25.000 pupiU to private sobooto.

INDIANA STATE NOTES. Mrs. Berkemier, of Knox county, Indiana, died at the age of 109 years. Charleston citizens are moving in the interest of establishing a National bankin that place. Marion Lafollett has been elected Superintendent of schools in Boone county, in place of T. H. Harrison, resigned. Recently a large quantity of bogus gold coin—s2.so, $5 and $lO pieces—has been put in circulation in Southern Indiana. Frank Nuwsone, of Azalia, died from the effects of an accidental gun-shot wound received while hunting rabbits some weeks ago. The second annual convention of the Thirteenth District W. C. T. U. will be held at Plymouth on Wednesday and Thursday, March 21 and 22. Lafayette is about to have a street railway. The Council has given the right of way for this purpose, and the construction of a road will soon follow. William Smith, who was arrested at Taswell, Crawford county, upon a charge of having in his possession a die for making bogus nickels, has been acquitted. Daniel Woods, of Indianapolis, is dead at the age of 100. He served in the English army under the Iron Duke, was at Waterloo, and accompanied Napoleon to St Helena. William Faucett, a soldier under the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo, died at his home seven miles east of Hagerstown, Tuesday night. He was 90 years of age. Hop Riggs and a mannamed Hulgan, wellknown citizens of Jennings Township, near Connersville, were both seriously hurt a few days since by a mule, which kicked them simultaneously. The Bloomington Progress suggests that Monroe county appropriate by a general tax not less than $50,000, to be used for the immediate erection of necessary buildings for the State University. Fred Donull had his clothes almost entirely torn from his body by being caught in the machinery of Gaff, Gent A Thomas’ mills at Columbus. He is seriously injured, but will probably recover. The case of the City of Connersville against the Hydraulic Company is back from the Supreme Court and docketed for another trial. It involves the question of offsetting water rents against municipal taxes. George Phillips, an old farmer, was instantly killed on his farm, about eight miles from South Bend, by the roof of a hay shed falling on him. His head was crushed to a jelly, and his brains spattered all over the ground. The Henry county commissioners have granted the petition of Knightstown for a substantial bridge over the Blue river, southeast of that town. The county will pay about $6,000 and the corporation of Knightstown $3,000 of the cost. At the session of the State Board of Education, D. D. Banta, of Johnson county, and Robert W. Miers, of Monroe, and Robert D. Richardson, of Vanderburg, were re-elected Trustees of the Indiana University for the term of four years, beginning April 1. The Evansville City Council has contracted with the Brush Electric Light Company to light the city by electric light for a term of five years. The company is to erect twelve towers of 150 feet in height, for which the city is to pay to the company the sum of $16,000 per year. W’illiam Farlet, of Putnam county, who escaped from the Southern prison last fail, where he was serving a sentence for larceny, and who, after making a call upon the Governor, voluntarily returned to prison to finish his sentence, was Wednesday pardoned by the Governor, as he had only a few months to serve. John C. New, George B. Williams, of Lafayette. and W. H. H. Miller, of Indianapolis, have been appointed a commission to select sites for the Government buildings at Fort Wayn' and Terre Haute. They will perform their duties during the present month. The appropriation for Fort Wayne is SIOO,OOO and for Terre Haute $150,000. The Drive-well Association, of Laporte county, met at Laporte recently. The finance committee reported the fund swelled to $1,900, and active work going on in all the townships. Tho committee to employ counsel was reappointed. The test case will probably come up in the United States Court at Indianapolis next month, but may be continued. Five years ago Charles Kremer, a wellknown German, disappeared from Jeffersonville, leaving his wife to struggle for a support for herself and family. Kremer went to Chicago and other points west, where he succeeded in squandering all he had, and was greatly reduced. Recently Kremer returned home and was taken in by the good wife, who during his absence had made money selling liquor and beer. Kremer was installed in the bar, A collection of archaeological, mineralogical and geological specimens, owned by Dr. H. H. Hill, of Cincinnati, which the late General Assembly refused to purchase for the Indiana museum at less than half its cost, has been bought by Dr. Collett, the State Geologist, for $1,500. The collection is the finest of the kind in the West, and is valued at $5,000. If the next Legislature desire to obtain possession of the cabinet, Dr. Collett will place it in the museum for the amount of its act ual cost to him. The town of Fairland, with a population of some 500 people, is in considerable trouble. Not long ago the voters, by a decisive majority, voted to dissolve the corporation which bound them together as a town. The County Treasurer has advertised for sale, to satisfy delinquent taxes, at least one-half the town, the time of sale being next Monday. The County Treasurer has refused to accept orders against the town organization in payment of the taxes, desiring something more substantial in the shape of money.— Ind. Journal. 10th. Word was received late on the night of the 9th of the horrible murder in Pike township, near Indianapolis, of a widow named Lucinda Forman, aged $6, and her maiden daugnter, aged 50, who lived alone on the Lafayette pike. The body of the daughter was found in an orchard, the head severed from the body, while that of the mother, terrible mutilated, was concealed under a carpet in the kitchen of the house. An ax, which was about the premises, is missing, and it was no doubt used in the bloody work. Robbery was the object of the murder, as the house had been thoroughly ransacked. The murdered women are not believed to have had any considerable amount of money. The excitement is intense. The murder was committed Thursday evening, but tke bodies were not found until late Friday evening. Mr John O Hardesty, until ie?ently proprietor of the Terre Haute Courier, has purchased the Saturday Review of Indianapolis, from Dennis A Metcalf, its proprietors, the consideration not being made public. The formal transfer took place Monday, and Mr. Hardesty intends to moke the paper the organ of the young Republicans of the State, ls well as a general literary and family aewtpapar Ha haw Urge exparienef in

the business, and will enter upon his new enterprise with the best wishes of every body. The Review was started by the late George C. Harding and Mr. Dennis, and, since the death of the former, Mr. Dennis has had the exclusive management, efficient assistance being rendered in the editorial department by Mrs. Gertrude Garrison. The paper was ably edited, its original matter being of decided literary merit, while its selections were interesting and readable. Neither Mr. Dennis nor Mrs. Garrison has decided plans for the future. The Philadelphia says of the election of Rev. Isaac L Nicholson to be Bishop of Indiana: “The Rev. Dr. Nicholsou received with great surprise last night the an nouncement contained in the dispatch. To a Times reporter he said that he was very uncertain about accepting the distinguished honor so unexpectedly offered to him. ‘I would have been thankful,’ he remarked thougfilfully, ‘if this had not come to me. I do not feel that I could positively say tonight what I shall do. My work in St. Mark's is of such an important character and there are so many responsibilities growing out of it that it cannot easily be laid down. It is not as if it were a small parish, with few cares. We have large projects for church extension under way, and our numerous charitable organizations, with their attendant financial interests, have grown into my life so completely that I really do not see how I can abandon them, In any event it will take two or three weeks for me to arrive at a decision.’ * * * If he should finally accept the bishopric of Indiana he will be the youngest member of the Episcopacy of his church.” The Governor approved the new Life Insurance bill, and it is now a law. Considerable interest has been manifested in his action upon the matter by members of the secret fraternities through the State, and pending its consideration numerous telegrams were received urging him to veto the bill, as it was feared that under the common interpretation of Section 18 it would seriously interfere with the working of the Masonic Benefit Association. The Section in question reads: “The provisions of that act shall in no case apply to any secret or fraternal society or lodge or association which, under the supervision of a grand or supreme lodge, secures its membership through the lodge system exclusively and prov;des insurance to its members.” A committee of gentlemen representing the Masonic organization of the State, including Col. U.S. Robertson, of Fort Wayne; T. C. Huntin, of Teno Haute; H. H. Lancaster, Austin 11. Brown, James W. Hess, A. D. Lynch, Judge Elliott, of the Supreme Bench, and Judge R.S. Taylor, were in consultation with the Governor, and carefully considering the somewhat ambiguous section. The conclusion was reached that it “did not apply to an\’ secrot or fraternal society,” Governor Porter deciding that by punctuating it with a semicolon after the word “society,” the benevolent or fraternal associations would be exempt. The committee agreed with him in tills view, and the bill was signed The section will not affect the insurance organizations of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and others which are under the control of grand or supreme lodges. The Masonic Mutual Benefit Society, however, is distinctly separate from the grand lodges of the order, and it was upon this point that the question arose. The apprehensions of the friends of the society were quieted and the matter satisfactorily adjusted by the Governor's insertion of the semicolon. Playing Chess With a Thug. The announcement that a clergyman in the North of England is about toplay a game of chess on his lawn with living pieces supplied from the children of his parish, recalls one of the most amusing of the "Contes Eccentriques" of Adrien Robert. The Thugs, according to the French writer, who ■wished to have it all their own way in India, having made five attempts to stab, poison and blow up the Governor of the East India Company, attributed their want of success to a talisman in the shape of his felt hat, unknown till then in India. His passion was chess, and it was determined by the chief of the sect to challenge him at the game. The stake was the Governor’s hat on the one side and tho sm-render of the ringleaders of the Thugs on tho other. On the plains of Barrackpore a chessboard 100 yards square was marked out There were elephants for- the eastles, and knights in armor, and living pawns. The Governor’s men were supplied at £25 apiece by his rival. The game lasted all day. for all the pieces were killed ns they were taken. Just as tho Thug queen was in danger, having taken the white queen, the imperturbable Governor adjourned to lunch, where he staid two hours. His rival was in anguish, for the queen was his own wife. On the return of the Governor the white king advanced to take her, but the magnanimity of the Englishman stepped in, and he took her prisoner. The generosity so demoralized his opponent that in a few more moves the game was over, the conspirators handed over to the mercies of John Company, and India saved from perishing.— Fall Mall Gazette. The Mocking Bird. The mocking bird commences to sing at the age of 7or 8 weeks. The first notes are low and unfinished, but as he grows older his voice increases in volume and compass, and his aptitude for learning is greatly developed. His natural song is sweet, bold, varied, and in his native woods he surprises every competitor. He is the great artist; the other songsters of the grove are only the chorus. During the utterance of his song he appears to be in a perfect ectasy of delight; his constant graceful motion, expanded wings and tail, and flashing eyes add to the music a vivacity and elegance of rendering given only by this wonderful bird. His notes are sweeter in his wild state than in his captivity, owing to absence of harsh noises which he so often hears when confined in the habitation of man. He loses none of his power or energy of song in his confinement, and his opportunities for mimicking are much enhanced by the variety of the new sounds which he constantly hears. He improves every chance offered him, and takes as much delight in imitating a buzz-saw or rusty pump as he does in imitating the sweetest of flute notes. His repertoire is unlimited; he will repeat anything, from a snatch of the latest grand opera to the infinitesimal twitter of the humming bird. He siugs the songs of other cage-birds with a superiority altogether mortifying to them, and his clucks oftentimes can make the lost chicken forget its mother. Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century the world had no window glass, •nd it can readily be guessed that the •tone-throwing boy had no fun in hie.

Exit Keifer. There has never been a more inglorious Congressional career than that of Keifer, late Speaker of the late Congress. Miwiy men in public life have done more mischief, it is true; but in such cases certain brilliant qualities have made their personal reputations more enviable than Keifer’s. There are few men who would not rather figure in history as Aaron Burr than as J. Warren Keifer. The latter is so ini significant a personage that he would be beneath notice if the quasi-greatness thrust upon him had not been a dis- ; grace to his party and an irritation to the country. In this respect he re- , sembles Hubbell, of official blackmail ' notoriety. Hubbellism and Keiferism ■ are terms which have already lost their significance in political literature, but for a short time they were so full of meaning that they were more efficient than any other agency in bringing about the defeat of a great party during an important campaign. Neither Keifer nor Hulibell will be remembered long, but in their brief day.they inspired a degree of popular contempt rarely achieved by men of such mediocre ability. Keifer was about the last man in Conj gress to have been selected Speaker on I his merits. When Garfield was elected President, Keiferwas seized with acer- ; tain dull ambition to assume the Republican leadership in the House. The short session of Congress intervening i between Garfield’s election and inaugu- ■ ration served to reveal the impertinence ’ of Keifer’s pretensions. He developed a capacity for blundering which was simply astounding. He never opened his mouth without putting his foot in it, and the dimensions of both these organs made the feat rather remarkable as a gymnastic performance. He was a finished dunderhead. When this sort of fellow announced himself as a candidate for : Speaker, a broad grin spread over the entire expanse of the American continent. The country refused to take a serious view of the threatened infliction. Yet Keifer was elected. A I corrupt combination was formed under the auspices of certain jobbing members from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio to control the Speakership, and through the Speaker the committees and Keifer was chosen as a pliable tool. He served the clique to the extent of his abilities. He appointed three Pennsylvania representatives of the high- : tariff interests on the Ways and Means Committee. He placed the notorious Robeson in a position to revive the old scandalous navy jobs, which had been repudiated and rebuked by the people. He ignored seniority and fitness alike in the selection of the committees, and insulted pointedly some of the best men in Congress. It was evident from the very first day that he took his seat that his preferment had been purchased at the price of his own independence and the public welfare. It is fortunate for the country that Keifer’s intelligence proved to be of even a lower grade than his political honor. He was willing to serve his masters at every point, but he was un- ' equal intellectually to the satisfactory performance of his contract. His faculty for blundering was the only quality of i genius he possessed. He could not deliver himself of a clear sentence in formulating some of the remarkable decisions he was instructed to make. Turmoil and confusion reveled in the receptacle usually occupied by brains. As a presiding officer, he was a curious mixture of the country pedagogue, the police-court Dogberry, and the Chairman of an Irish ward meeting. His career would have been entirely rid . iculous if it had not imposed such villanious impediments to national legislation and such barefaced outrages upon individual legislators. He goes out with the malodorous flicker of a tallow dip. Hubbell’s disgusted constituents refused him even the vindication of a renomination ; Keifer was re-elected by a paltry majority of a hundred or so in a | district which is Republican by several thousand votes. But one is not more politically moribund than the other, and the only regret is that cremation has not yet become the fashion.—Chicago Tribune. The Beauties of Protection. While the packed conference committee of Congress was settling down to its work of murdering tariff reform, two great protected manufacturing establishments in different parts of ths country suspended business and made assignments involving aggregate liabilities of about half a million. The more important failure, in a money point of view, was that of the Taylor Paper Company, of Chicago, with liabilities of nearly $400,000. The more interesting to us here in New York was the failure of Samuel H. Fox, of Durham, Oneida county, proprietor of the largest glass manufactory in the State. Mr. Fox was the defeated Republican candidate for Congress in the Oneida district last fall. His large establishment at Durhamville has long afforded the eulogists of high protection a favorite example of the benefits of that beneficent institution. He was the ideal employer, patriarchal in his concern for the welfare of those who worked for him, generous more often than strictly just in the matter of wages, and markedly progressive in his efforts to work by the best methods and the most improved appliances. He fails for something like $150,000. Why should he have failed, if protection really protects? The tariff taxes the importation of wares similar to his with duties ranging from 57 to 80 per cent. In the year 1881, for example, we imported from Europe window glass to the value (European price) of $1,425,363. Upon that glass we paid a total duty of ?‘J'J!l,o66i—which raised the gross cost to $2,424,429. The price at which Mr. Fox sold his glass to Americans was settled by this foreign price, of which seven parts were actual cost and five parts tax. Yet even with this enormous contribution of five cents bonus out of every twelve paid him by his . customers, Mr. Fox is unable to continue his business! Is it not time to ask ourselves in all seriousness whether we cannot find a better use for our energies and earnings as a people than to tax them in this way to bribe men to do a losing business?—d/hany JourThe Tariff Abortion. Congressman Abram S. Hewitt, in an interview in New York, said: “I was ready to vote for the Senate bill, which was to tome extent a neaenre of reduo*

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tion; but when, by a jrick, the whole subject was confided to the decision of a packed committee representing only special interests and not the interests of the people, and when this scheme produced substantially increased taxation upon consumers, I could not give it my support. I find the conference committee made no reduction in any case where reduction would decrease the price to consumers or cheapen tlie article. It blundered in two striking cases into reductions of duty which wi 1 cheapen certain manufactures, but even then not to consumers at large, because these very manufacturers are so highly protected under the tariff that they have a monopoly of the market. The conference committee raised the duty in all cases where protected articles had the inside track or the ear of the committee or they could manage it. This legislation will fail of its intended effect, for the reason that the industries of the country are suffering, not from foreign competition, but from the domestic competition arising out of the protection we have had for the last twenty years. The result of this long period of protection is an excessive production at home, for which no market can be found, because we have no access to foreign markets, as other nations who have free raw materials. The result of this pernicious system is that failures in every branch of business have already begun and will continue with accelerated rapidity until the weaker concerns, which cannot compete with their stronger neighbors, are driven to the wall. The only sensible and possible relief that could have been extended to manufacturers would have been to free raw materials from destructive duties, so that goods might be produced at lower prices and thus find a wider market at home or abroad. I think the pass'!" b'll makes the fundamental issue between revenue reform and unprotected protection so clear that the organization of the next House will be determined by it and by it alone, it is, in my judgment, tne beginning of the leal revenue reform demanded by people of this country.” Randall Has a Hard Road to Travel. The closing hours of Congress were enlivened by a little colloquy between Randall and Hewitt, in which the New Yorker gave the Pennsylvanian a pretty thorough overhauling. Mr. Hewitt urged Randall to vote against the conference Tariff bill, when the latter got out of temper and told Hewitt that he had been fighting the battles of the Democratic party for twenty-five years and wanted to be dictated to by nobody. Hewitt replied: ‘Yes, sir, I understand how you have been fighting the battles of the Democratic party for years. If packing and assisting to pack the Ways and Means Committee in the interest of monopolies and against tariff revision and tiie people for years means fighting the battles of the Democratic party, you have been doing it. You have done more, sir. to keep the Democratic party out of power than any other man in the country, and I tell you, Mr. Randall, you will meet your Waterloo in the Democratic caucus which assembles to elect a Speaker for the Forty-eighth Congress” With Hewitt and Cox, who will be influential in the New Y’ork delegation, against him; with the New Englanders dissatisfied at the cut on the wool tariff; with the West urging either Morrison or Springer, and the South united on Carlisle or Blackburn, Randall’s road to the Speakership is up hill all the way there. Our Fire-Trap Dwellings. Let me show you how a wooden house is built. The sills and joists of the first floor are comparatively safe, because they are not boxed in with dry boards, and even with furnace and ash pits in the cellar there • would be little danger from a fire down below if it were not for the careful provision made for carrying it into the upper part of the structure. This provision, however, is most effectively made by means of the upright studs and furrings that stand all around the outside of the building and reach across it wherever a partition is needed. Aacordingly every wooden house has from 100 to 1,000 wooden flues of a highly inflammable character, arranged expressly to carry fire from the bottom to the top, valiantly consuming themselves in the operation. Furthermore, they are frequently charged with shavings and splinters _ < wood, which, becoming dry as tinder, will respond at once to a spark from a crack in the chimney, an overheated stove or furnace pipe, or a matchin the hands of an inquisitive mouse. They are likewise so arranged that no water can be poured inside of them till they fall apart and the house collapses, for they reach to the roof, whose sole duty it is to keep out water, whether it comes from the clouds or the hose pipe, but which, for economical reasons, is made sufficiently open to allow the air to pass through it freely, thus insuring a good draught when the fire begins to burn. To complete the system and prevent the possibility of finding where the fire began, the spaces between the joists and the upper floors communicate with the vertical flues, and these highways and byways for rats and mice, for fire and smoke, for odors from the kitchen, noises from the nursery and dust from the furnace and coal-bin, are also strewn with builder’s rubbish, which carries flame like stubble on a harvest field.— E. C. Gardner, in Cur Conlinen t. A Satisfactory Response. On February 22, last, the American flag upon one of the United States naval vessels at Newport, Rhode Island, was by mistake hoisted “union down.” The officers of the station, noticing the error, at once telegraphed to headquarters at Washington: “The ship is lying at anchor here, union down.” Headquarters, of course, saw the joke, and telegraphed to the officer in command of the vessel: “Officer , ship is reported at anchor at Newport, union down. Who’a dead?” Quick as thought, on reading the message, the officer returned the reply: “George Washington.” This completed the correspondence satisfactorily.— Editor’s Drawer, in Harper's Magazine. The revolt in the Manitoba penitentiary was led by Fasit, a thief from Portage la Prairie. He fired five shot* at Wai den Bedson, but all missed their 1 aim. Every one concerned in the outi break will lie gouged. A Kextucct farmer lost four daugh* ■ ters in not dvy—by marriag*.