Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. Editor and Boslnooi Kanaaer. > ' * TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK. DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSON 4 HUFFMAN” ATTORNEYS AT LAW, > DECATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoininc coanties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I P 0. F. building. 25jy79if i FRANCE 4 KING. 7 | ATTORNEYS AT LAW, D SCAT VB. IN DIANA. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, » DECATUR, INDIANA. „ •' AB legal business promptly attended *o. Office up stairs in Stone's buildins dthdoor. v26n24 year 1. JT. MERRIMAN, ' —

Attorney at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. DICATCB, INDIANA. Deeds Mortgages. Contracts end all Le- J gal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Pai tition, settlement of decedent's estates, and collections a specialty. OrricK : —Up stairs in Stone’s tuildtng, 4th door.—vol. 25, no 24 ts. "E. H. COVERDALE’ attorney at Law t —}asd(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Welfley's grocery, opposite the Court House. B. R. FREEMAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN 4 SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. I l Office over Dorwin & Holthouses' Drug .Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe, Professional calls promptly attended. No! 26, No. 34. ts. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, I DICATVB, INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co. Bsnk 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence sn north side of Monroe streets 4tb house east of Hart's Mill, 25jy79tf wTh. MYERS, trick k Stone .tlason lonlrac’i DNCATUN, INDIANA. Joliclts work of all kinds in his line. Persona contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n45m3. SEYMOUR WORDEN,” Aug tic ne er. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AU GUST~KR ECH TE R CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DICATVB, - - INDIANA. A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipes of *ll kinds always on hand at my store. G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey sneer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dis* • patch. Special attention to ditch and grave Toad petitions. Office ov»r Welfley s Grocery Etore, opposite the Court House, Decatur, Indiana. B<-mti 'ROBRED-S •■ W Baffin V o f their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN IN VIGOR ATOR • which positively and permanently cures linpotency (caused by excesses of any kina.) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, Lss of memory, universal lassuude, 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 with testlmonals free by mail. The In'i'lftorator is sold at fl per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, •ecurely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J, CHENEY, Druggist, J 187 Summit St, Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. B- A. Pierce A 00, Sole Agent* at Detatat rtx ”7 "'«■* ">»<!» »t borne by U ’ / fjous. Beet bwine s now before the Public--1B / 1 /C* P 1:»1 not needec. *’?'J! 111 f / women, boys .nd B> r '" , V • to work for us- Now »the 1 time. Yon can work in spare time. «-pre your whole time to the buainew. No other k _, My yon nearly aa well. No one can M W make enormous pay, by engaging at once. 4<*ll. •nd terms tree. Money made fast. “<> honor “My. Addreas Tack A Co- Angneta, Maine. DR. KITCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Mvery second Tuesday and Wednesday d each month to treat a’ll Chronic DiseasesConsultation free. Call end see him, All letters of inquiry received at the home of«ee at Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompt tUtnttaa. Write to him and make a its** B»at of your ease.—vJSbWlJ/

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. TH* EAST. ■ 7 T0,, ' r " NaU Association de- ’ ttsbUrghtore9urae «l>eration S ru n ; Xt re n7 ’ an(l agaiu ““ ' or * fort- & i B ’ lel, ' ess was "ported to be dull . a 'nemberof tetvri < ’ ,',r?h aI ' C{ ' nKI , ature - at Union. I I'rem-'urev Nnfv h ®t? 1 '‘ r< !. er of Assistant State -i aSESs-■a ' I Two students of Columbia Collerto, Robert Mahan and Cffiarlee M. Smith, hr i 7 ranged to fight a duel, but the former aud | p!ace oFS™ Bted u P° n Btartin g for the I A prize-fight of the moat stubborn ' character occurred in the jairiorof a wealthy I res, 7 nt ot Aitwnfi, 1-a, the ring being from ’ the " facT'U^the” 0 men^ O Sd ■>etn rivals m love. The fight lasted nearly two hours, thirty-six rounds being ThT h pb o'"; ?‘7 al I>rnveil thn ,J * tter mans rhe I hdadelphian wan badly used the Motor escaping with slight punishment A newspaper published at. Union- | town, Pa., alleges that perjury Can be proven ' against several members of the Dukes jury «vi™i a V On tn < ee . t “? 8 >»ve been held at nt w-m 1 f° wns , in the vicinity of Uniontown, at w hich resolutions condemnatory of the jury s verdict were adopted.... lire destroyed the white lead works at Washing! tX'tXXt • a'JJ’JD, with an insurance of Eighteen thousand persons partici- 1 pated in the benefit given at Boston to John L Sullivan, the pugilist, and thousands ’ could not gain admission... .A fire In the cotton mills of Caleb J. Milne A- bona Item ' *Gn l l i «3 l tre i’ t ' I k' aJelphui, caused a loss of SW.IKiO. Insured. i

the west. A correspondent who visited the Fcene of the terrible Diamond mine disaster, near Braidwood, telegraphed as folI lows on the 15th inst: *Since the sad mishap at the Diamond mine, on the ICth of February, resulting in the death of seventvtive men, the weather has been favorable and the prairie has dried as rapidly as could Ibe expected. Unfortunately, no' ditch or i provision has been made to earn- off the water pumped from the mine, hence the want of success. Only six inches have been made since Sunday night One conjecture is that there is underground water. This is founded upon the coldness and on the smell of the water taken from the shaft Another idea is, and it appears to be the most reasonable. that as the water taken from the shaft is allowed to spread itseif over the i of the water taken from the shaft. Another prairie it finds its way back Into the mine.’* i At Mankato, Minn., Carl P. Vinter shot Lizzie Levi and then himself. Vinter's ! wounds are mortal, but the girl mav re- ! cover. J I

Observations through Northern Ohio, Southern Michigan and a portion of ; Indiana, says the Chicago Times, excite anxiety for the winter-wheat crop, the ' winter and spring having been unfavorble. The conditions are propitious for a large yield of cotton the coming season. rUKKHT Vlll, van, buucivu ocverely by fire, the greater portion of the business houses being destroyed, the loss reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. One man was burned to death.... Property of the value of $72,000 was consumed by fire at Bloomington, Ind., the insurance being $20,(X>0.... ( During the past twelve months Chicago >. packers slaughtered 4.222,780 hoga The summer packing footed up 1,064,057, and the winter packing 2,557,828. Tne above figures show a decrease of 877,704 hogs as compared with the packing operations of the corresponding previous twelve months. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has purchased 400 acres of land in two tracts, one in and the other near St PauL Upon the tract in the city there will be erected a Union Depot, and at the other stock yards, and slaughtering and packing houses will be established other improvements are also planned by the company.... Oby E. Owen, who embezzled something over |200,(W from the Third National Bank of St Louis, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment... .Pattison A ('aidwell’s Miami Distillery at Hamilton, Ohio, i was burned, involving a loss of about SIOO,- : 000. A barn with a quantity of stock, the property of a farmer living near Helena, i Mont, was destroyed by fire, and there was j reason to believe that incendiaries had been at work. A vigilance committee appointed ! itself, and with little delay fastened the crime upon two men dwelling in the vicin- . itv. The committee quietly and deliber- , atelv hanged the two men, and delivered I the’ bodies to the authorities at Helena... .Flames swept awav Lintzeni berger’s flouring mill and several I other buildings, at Lafayette, Ind. causing a loss of $50,000; a number of business i houses at Sheridan, Mich, valued, with their contents at $50,000; Mann's warehouse and contents at Dudley, HL, ’ entailing a loss of $30,000; and THE SOUTH. I Senator David Davis was married ’ j to Miss Addie E. Burr at “Tokay,” the resiI dence of Col. Wharton Green, near Fayette- | ville, N. a The marriage was private, no ! one being present except the members of the familv and relatives from Boston, Ma-s. I The suite of parlors were thrown into one, ' and the wnole house was decorated with holly. Judge W. T. Otto, of the United I States Court of Claims, was best man, and I Miss Sadie Green, the daughter of Congress- ! man W. J. Green, was the brides ttendant. i The bride and groom stood at tr nead ot tne parlor, in front of a marble stetue of Psvche, and under a wedding bell CoL Green gave the bride away. The bride was . i attired in a traveling dress of brown silk and a rlush hat to match, with plumesof ostrich f -athera Her trousseau is magnificent, it includes fifteen dresses, several by Worth. ' The gifts were very numerous and valuable. H F. Crocker, a notorious horse I thief, committed suicide in the Granbury l (Tex.) jail He left a written statement teat i he was born and well connected m Georgia; that he had killed three men and one I woman; that be regretted that he could not 1 kill two men more who had I "J“ re< ? B asked that his body be thrown The attornevs for Marshall T. Polk, tneaefaulting State Treasurer of Tennessee, have n ade a proposition for a full settlement of his deficit to the State. The iron furnacemen of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia have formed a combination to control the market for pig-iron. It is alleged that all distinctions as to price i will be ai .olished, the object being to C< all furnaces to turn out iron of a uniform quality.... The burning of a compress and SOO bales of cotton at Texarkana. -Vk., entaileda lossof »!<»,«», on which the insurance was $35,00U During a performance in a tent i known as Faranta’s Summer Pavilion at - New Orleans, a panic took possession of the I audience, consisting of about 5,100 peop e Loss, 450,000, insurance. A' dispatch from Austin, Texas, says that Max Thompson, the young boy who assisted in ribbing a train near there, a few weeks ago, has oeen captured. • All four-of , WASHINGTON. . , Thomas J- Brady, one of the j aats tn th* rt*r«*«** «“•' P i,e,d °°

the stand to testify in his own behalf. His exmAinatibh Will hfrt through several days and will probably yield the most interesting developments of the trial. To-dav Bradv ' thst , w “J«4was a liar, and that the Mcteagh, Janies and every other Government witness was false in the whole or in part. He testified that Dorsey and he were never intimate until they were i s Persec “tion made them friends iieraeU he regarded as a messenger of low rad * v Ra *d that he never conspired with Dorsey or anybody else fur unlawful purposes. He conspired with Dorsey in 1880< Jt for the purpose of carrying Indiana tor the Republican party. An interesting Interview with Secretary Teller in regard to the scandalous encroachments on the public domain is published. The Secretary of the Interior is personally opposed to the entire land-grant system, but is compelled to administer the law as he finds it, and complains that the executive branch of the Government is greatly hampered in its efforts to control and correct the evils of the sy’stem by Supreme Court decisions and the dilatoriness ot Congress... .Charges against Supervising Architect Hill, in connection with the disliursements for the new Govern- ! ment building at Philadelphia, have been filed with the Secretary of the Treamrv at ' « ashington. These are indepetident of' the charges preferred through Congressman Murch, of Maine. It has been decided by Attorney ! General Brewster that the law making retirement from the army eonipulsory on officers w-ho have reached W years repeals the ; law which limited the number on the retired list to 400. In accordance with this decision : thirteen additional officers have just been retired, and a permanent increase of the list will follow. Ax investigation of the consumption and distribution of corn and wheat to March I has been completed bv the Department of Agriculture. It makes the stock of corn on hand at that date about 580,0' O.OCO bushels I ' or 3(1 per cent of last year's crop. The proportion of wheat on hand March 1 was 28 ■ percent of the crop, or about 140,000.000 bushels The proportion of the last five years at that date w as nearly- the same.

Official returns just made public show that since Jan 1, 1882, the United States Government has paid 9115,854 as fees to special counsel in the star-route cases Os this sunt George Bliss received, up to Jan aiid M e ai m e^g?s n St Wr C drew $20,000, the last payment being made in Octobr, 1882, and Ker’received $23,912 up to Dec. 21, 1882 How large the additional claims of these gentlemen mav be is not stated, and what their bills will reach to bv the time the trial is ended—if It ever shall end—cannot even be guessed at In addition to the amount mentioned above there is the cost of court expenses, pay of jurors and witnesses, mileage and a bundled other items to be reckoned in. POLITICAL. Washington telegram: “Republican members of the Ohio Legislature write to friends here that there is a movement at Columbus having for its object the nomination of Senator John Sherman for the Governorship next fall The idea is that if he should be elected Governor he would be a prominent candidate for the Presidential nomination in the convention of the next summer.” ... .A N. Wyman has been appointed Treasurer of the United States, vice GUfillan, resigned. Mr. Wvman has for a number of vears occupied the position of Assistant Treasurer... .In the Pennsylvania Senate Senator Emery slapped Senator McKnight’s face, and the other returned the blow. McKnight was charged with dodging a vote £>tiC*ut:’V’vdr4 cltertAi **C -rivirtri ow Augustus 0. Bourne for Governor of Rhode Island. New York merchants who are dissatisfied with the new tariff are broaching the theory' that the Senate transcended its functions in “originating” the bill, which is therefore null and void. There is talk of testing the question in court... .William Sprague was nominated for Governor of Rhode Island by the Independent State Convention that met at Providence. The lower house of the Connecticut Legislature, having in mind the abominable orgies which attended the funeral of the murderer McGloin in New York, has passed a bill placing the funerals of executed criminals under the control of the Sheriff of the county, with the proviso that the deadhomicides’shall be decently and quietly buried at the expense ot the State.

cenkrai. It is stated as a fact that direct telephonic communication has been had between Cleveland, Ohio and New York city, a distance of over 600 miles The Mexican Central railroad has been completed to a point two hundred and eightv miles south of Chihuahua... .Lieut. Harber has been authorized by the Navy Department to continue the search for the missing boat's crew, commanded by Lieut Cliipp of the Arctic steamer Jeannette, through the approaching summer, if, m his opinion, such search is advisable. Superintendent Snowden, of the Philadelphia Mint, says the new nickels will not be called in, and that the dies for the alterations will not be in readiness for two or three weeks yet Capt. Horace E. Mullan, the commander of the United States war steamer Ashuelot. recently lost in Chinese waters, is to be tried by court-martial. rOKEItm London dispatches of the 16th inst. report that “an explosion occurred last evening in the local Government board offices, Westminster, which is attributed to an attempt by Fenians to destroy the building In one room a trench ten feet wide by | three feet deep was torn in the ground, and the walls were badly shattered, stones being thrown a considerable distance, one tearing | a large hole in the side of the King street police station. The only persons inlurcd were two children sleeping in a building near by, who were thrown from their bed, suffering severe cuts about the face. The explosion occurred while the members of the House of Uo? 1moil® were at dinner. The Duke of Edmburgh was in the House of Lords at the moment. and the none of exploston cauwd him to exhibit some indications of alarm Two men have been arrested on suspicion of being connected with the affair. An insignificant attempt is alleged to have been made to destroy the Tunes building. .... The evidence of James Mullett, the Irish coni splrator. is alleged to be or suefi a.cßaraeter as to warrant the arrest of 1 atnckl-gan ti r complicity in the Phoenix Park assassmations should he return to British B hho™ of Halifax, Charleston and Grand Rapids were appointed by the Pope at the consistory in Rome, in accordance with the recommendations from the clergy of their respective dioceses... .In the University boat } race on the Thames. Oxford beat ( ambndge ' bv three lengths. At the start the betting was 7 to 2 against Oxford. The railway general passenger agents of the United States have resolved that hereafter a physician's certificate must, accompanv every corpse carried, to prevent the £>read of bonwion... .There is no foundatiou for the report started sometime since that the Prince of Wales intended visiting the United States. DR. Cramer, Minister to Switzerland, i has incurred a mild reproof from the Swiss federation. It appears he had complained to the cantonal authorities of Berne regardI ingmme persons who had created a disturbI anec at the Methodist Church, which he ati tends, whereupon he has been reminded that he is accredited to the federation and not to the cantons, and that whatever yimmunication he has to make should be made I““ the federation.... A Berlin dispatch savs the decree has been gazet- ' ted prohibiting the importation of American hog products. including : ridesrXmandwusmres. The decree goes into force one month after its promulgation. Th“ assent of the Reichstag is not requisite. The semi-official press represents the measure as purely a sanitary one. The Liberals denounce it as protective ui its character... .Parnell's amendment to the land act which Gladstone stated virtually ' remodeled the bill, was rejected in the Commons—2so to 63. . . Kami Marx, th* Soaaliatie th*OTi*»

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1883.

and organizer of the international Society of Workingnieh, died in London, after a long illness, in the 65th year of his age. He has lived in a very secluded maimer for some years past, and his only attendant during his last sickness was his friend, Dr. Engel. His funeral will, in compliance with . his own request, be conducted in private and without any rebgioua ceremouies.... 1 races of phosphorus were found in the Internal organs of the late Prince Gortschakoti He had given his mistress a written ■ promise of marriage "London and whole United Kingdom,” says a cable dispatch from the British metrojxilis, “have a new and startling sensation in the shape of the reported attempt to assassinate Lady Florence Dixie, who has for a year past or’more been constantly nagging the custodians of the Land League and insisting that they had misappropriated large funds. The details of the attack are thus given: Sir Beaumont and Lady Dixie were walking in a favorite part of the grounds of their residence near Windsor, when Sir Beaumont pushed on ahead: leaving Lady Florence alone. Immediately afterward two disguised men. who it is supEosed had been following her, assaulted ady Florence. One of the men stabbed her in two places in the breast, but the steel ribs of her corset deflected the point of the knife and prevented her from be ng wounded. During the struggle that ensued Lady Dixie fainted, and on regaining conI sciousness found that the men had disappeared. Ladv Florence says that one of the jiien thrust filth4nto her mouth, preventing her from making any outcry. Sir Beaumont i Dixie says he frequently received threatening letters while living in Ireland.”.... A treaty between several of the European« and South American Governments, to secure to the citizens of the various states the same rights as to trade marks, patents, etc., as each country accords to its own subjects has been arranged. Great Britain. Russia and the United States hold aloof for the present.. . .Rowells, awaiting trial in connection with the Phoenix Park murders, died in an epileptic fit in Kilmainham jail... .Byrnehas resigned the Secretaryship of the National Land and Labor League of Great Britain. A London dispatch says that “no solution of the mystery surrounding the al-

leged murderous attack upon Lady Florence Dixie has yet been reached Lady Florence adheres to her first statement of the affair; but a gardener working at the time within thirty yards of the t;pot where the assault is said to have occurred says he heard nothing unusual... .The police and the detective a augmented, owing to the recent outrage* by alleged Fenians... .The Archbishop of T**m, in replying to Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant, on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, writes that the action of the Government in insisting on extending relief to the distressed people through the work- 1 houses is an outrage on humanity, and a covert system ot exterminating the native race. Some Curious Things. There is a curious clock in Japan. This clock, in a frame three feet high and five long, represents a noon landscape of great loveliness. In the foreground were plum and cherry trees and rich plants in full bloom; in the rear a hill, gradual in ascent, from which flowed a cascade admirably imitated in crystal. From this plant a thread-like stream glided along, encircling in its winding rocks and tiny islands, but presently losing itself in a far-off stretch of woodland. In the sky turned a golden sun, indicating as it passed the se^hs 8 !/ exquisite plumage, resting by its wings, proclaimed the expiration of each. When the song ceased, a mouse sprang from a grotte near by, and, running over the hill, hastily disappeared. I Haroun al Raschid, the principal i hero of “The Arabian Knights Enter- 1 ' tainments,” sent to Charlemagne, in the eighth century, a water clock, in the dial of which a door opened at each hour, and when at noon the twelve doors were thrown open, as many knights on horseback issued out, paraded round the dial, and then, returning, shut themselves in again. Vaucanson, a mechanical genius, made an automatic flute player and piper in 1738, which were the wonders of their time. The flutist was a figure five feet high, standing on a pedestal, within which were nine pairs of bellows, | worked by clockwork. The motion of the fingers, lips and tongue were all imitated by this figure, which, by various arrangements of valves, tubes, levers and wheels, is said to have produced music little inferior to the performance of a skilled flute-player. The piper was constructed much on the same principle. The bellows of his instrument required a fifty-six pound weight to produce the highest note. As the fatigue of playing the pipes usually causes the performer, when playing rapidly, to slur over some of the notes, the mimic piper, impervious alike to wear n ’ss and shortness of breath, is accredited with having excelled a living one in the clearness of the notes. Millardet, a Swiss mechanician, exhibited in London, in the last century, a female figure that played eighteen tunes on the piano with all the motions of natural life, the eyes following the movements of the fingers on the keys, the pressure of which produced the notes. Durability of Briek. It is a noticeable feature of the New York architecture of the day that for the preferred material the builders of that city are returning to the briek es which their Dutch ancestors made their homes. Iron rusts and scales, and stone scales and wears away in that severe climate; brick alone withstands the gnawing tooth of time, and some of the oldest houses in the city are still the best. At last there seems to be some hope of a national architecture in America, judging from the new buildings which are going up, the first step toward which is takqn in building houses for use and wear, instead of for show. These brick houses, finished on the exterior with stone and terracotta, and in the interior in natural woods, have a genuineness that makes one feel quite as much at home as under a tree. It is a luxury for Americans to build a house for the way they are to live in it, and not what the carpenters and neighbors think of it. Brick is, of course, partic- ! ularly adapted to some climates, and if a severe one it is almost necessary to nse it. In mild climates the builder can please his fancy with stone or wood or iron; but if he have the good of posterity in view, and would like to erect a home and monument simultaneously, he can keep his work before the eyes of men longest in the shape of brick. Augustus imposed a fraud upon subsequent humanity when he made that famous declaration of finding Rome a city of brick and leaving it a city of marble. He did nothing of the sort, and there was no necessity of putting on airs about it if he had. The Roman brick, of which many edifices, and some of the finest even in the time of the Emperors, were built, was irregular in size, though usually quite thin, and of remarkable j density. It was rather more like our terra-cotta, both in color and quality. The square brick of Ninevah, about the size of those with which we of the present day lay hearths, bears witness to the power of man to make with fire and clay i a substance whieh shall outwear stone.

INDIANA STATE NEWS, i - - Tub Hancock county bee-keepers have organized an association. Lxtnu Viscbnt, a loose woman, took her own life, by means ot laudanum, at Evansvtllii At Vlneennea ground has been broken for the oonstruotion of a street railway. W. 8. Hack has retired from the Versal les Rfpubliran, and W. G. Wood takes entire control of the paper. Charles Mxpptit, s 12-year-old boy of Blackford county, was killed by a falling tree. The German Lutheran Church and parsonage at Logansport burned lately. Loss ♦30,00a A school building at Marion caught fire, and 200 pupils escaped without a single casualty. Tub Beach Medical College has just been Incorporated at .Indianapolis Both sexes are admitted toelT, dep,jtni3uts. A lttelb colored boy at Indianapolis had both feet frozen some time ago, and has had them amputated. He will recover. The saw-mill and machinery of David Camniick, located near Muncie, were wiped out by the flames, Inflicting a loss of 95,000; insured for 92,000; Fbanx L Gkubbs has sold the Knightstown SfiMd to B, F. Brewington, who announces that the Shield will be consolidated with the Jianner. Mas. McFadden, residing near Scottsburg, undertook to adjust a pulley connected with a well, when she lost her balance, fell into the well and was drowned. All the machine manufactories throughout the State report a great rush of spring trade, and the various works are running full forces of men. Ma. John Sellers, of Sellersburg, has discovered a valuable mineral spring upon his farm. He will purchase machinery and commence working at once. John Simons, of Vincennes, while shooting 1 fish, pulled his gun toward him by the muz- i instantaneous. Fora men made a dastardly attempt to j wreck a train on the Ohio and Mississippi i road, at Richland, and were successful in ditching several cars ot a freight train. 1 A skmi-wxsklx mail route has been estab- * fished between Barren, Harrison county, via < Hancock’s Chapel, to Fredericksburg, Wash- • ington county. i Thb Citizens’ Bank of Hope, Bartholomew f county, has been incorporated. It has a S capital stock of 925,000, and the directors t are John E. Bobbins and the Kennedy 1 brothers, of Greensburg. i Almost the entire one side of Main street, r

in Michigantown, has been consumed by fire. All were wooden buildings Loss in goods and property, 97,500, with but little insurance. Bbv. N. Carr, Financial Agent ot the Franklin Baptist College, has undertaken to raise an endowment of 9200,000 for the college, and is said to be meeting with great success —. um> nninqn George Wells Both are young men, and stand well in the community. Johnson is almost crazy with grief. Greene and Sullivan counties are now one judicial circuit Hon George W. Buff, of Sullivan, is the new Judge. His term ot office will expire in 1888 Capt John D. Alexander will be the Prosecuting Attorney until 1884. Gov. Porter has pardoned William Farley, who was sent to Jeffersonville penitentiary from Greencastle for four years, for burglary. Farley is the convict who escaped and came in person to Gov. Porter to ask a pardon, failing to obtain which he returned, unguarded, to the prison Thb first annual report of the State Board of Health has just been completed by the printer. It is a book of 315 pages, and contains a vast amount of information The report contains the names of 6,000 physicians in the State, giving the address of each. About a year ago Peter Grass, of Columbus, was terribly injured by a train on the J.. M. .t 1 railroad, losing both feet and one He brought suit against the company for 950,000 damages, and the case has been compromised, the company agreeing to pay him 96,000. William D. Van Horn, Patrick McAdams, Herman Strauss, James W. Carrico, Jr., Daniel Davis, Warren Gridder and George « Carrico, all practical miners, have leased a tract of coal land near Cannelburg, ot James W. Carrico, Sr., and will sink a shaft and commence work at once. The Board of State House Commissioners has instructed Architect Scherer to commence work on the new plans for the completion of the building, the purpose being to prepare for the emergency and relet the contract without unnecessary delay, in case the present contractors should throw up the job. John Dbardutt, an old bachelor living three miles and a half north of Hartford City, was robbed of 9106 in money. A party named Aaron Rhoten was in his dwelling at the time. A man disguised entered th* dwelling and struck the old gentieman on the head, and then secured the trunk containing the money and fled. The “good time” law passed by the Legislature it seems is not retroactive as applying to all who are in prison, but only to those sentenced after Ihe law takes effect, which is from and after its passage. 8o the wholesale deliverance it was expected to work will be honored in the breach instead of the observance. Emma J. Carver has brought suit for 95,(XX) damages against the Indiana. Bloomington and Western railroad. She broke I her arm February sth by stumbling over a pile of the ice and snow thrown from the | Indiana, Bloomington and Western track ' upon the sidewalk of the Market street ' crossing by the employes of the company. The Adams Chilled Plow Company, of Ply mouth, sold the personal property belonging to the company to W’m. J. Adams for 92,459. The company will pay about 10 per cent on the dollar. Many of our citizens lose heavily by the failure. The failure is looked upon with suspicion, and some of the Btockholders threaten to investigate the matter. . William Terhune, residing with his parents in the north part of Franklin, went to the bam the other morning for the purpose of feeding stock. Not returning in a reasonable time, his father went to learn the cause of his delay. Upon entering the barn he discovered his son lying on the floor a corpse. It is thought he died of heart disease. He was 20 years old. A terrible accident occurred at Crawfordsville, on the crossing of the Indiana, , Bloomington and Western railroad and the Alama pike. The hack which carries the daily mail between that place and Alama was I struck by the west-bound passenger-train, and the driver, John Green, and two passen- , gers, Mrs. John Clark, of Waynetown, and • Milton Rush, ot Alama wer* iaatantly killed

Avert disastrous fire occurred at Bloomington, Ind., on the Ifith, entailing loss to - the extent of nearly 9100,000, with only about 925,000 insurance. A Humber of pefr sons were seriously injured, among therti . being Hon. R. C. Foster, who was buried in the ruins ot a building, and when finally • rescued was suffering such agony that he begged the bystanders to cut his throat and i end his misery. , A Columbus (Ind.) dispatch says: “Last spring this township voted 975,000 aid to the ! C., H. AG. railroad, and the first installment ■ falls due in April. The levy was registered as being illegal, and the Base in now pending in the Supreme Court No wotk has been done on the road in this township, and now the Commissoners have ordered that the collection of tax be suspended until the suit is decided or work completed. ” A genuine case of trichinosis exists at Lincolnville, a small town ten miles southeast ol Wabash. Six weeks ago Marcus Copeland, son of a farmer, ate a large piece of smoked ham. Last week he began to , notice that he was growing stiff, and now he ts confined to his bed, with his arms and shoulders drawn up to his head. Whenever ! he is touched he suffers the severest pain, and it is doubtful whether he will recover. L. P. Dollison, who Is Operating the electric light which now illuminates the streets of Wabash, has entered into a contract with the city to erect three masts in the eastern, I western and central portions of the city, j Upon each staff will be hung Jenny lights I of 12,000-candle power. This will give the city electric lights of 49,000-candle power, I and it is expected that the streets will be brilliantly illuminated. The annual cost to the city will be 93,000, and the contract is , made for two years. In April, 1880, Miss Anna L Hoffman, of | New Albany, was run over by a railroad j train, and her right arm and left hand cut off. Through skillful treatment her life and ’ her left arm were saved. A reporter who visited her a few days ago found her in good I health, cheerful, and making herself gener- ; ally useful By aid of an arrificiak *AV,A AH.AA3.A, OAAV V<*lA jj QUlp (111(1 COITy water, bring in coal, write a good hand, and play the piano almost ai dexterously as an unmaimed person. The New Albany Ledger man has the following beautiful tribute to a member of his family: *Oh, the hog, the beautiful hog, curling his tail as he watches the dog; defying the law for his bread and meat; roaming at large through every street, hunting, grunting, nosing around, till the open front gate is sure to be found. With its hinges 1 broken and ruined quite by the lovers that ! hung there Sunday night, it won’t stay shut; > it won’t hang level; in walks the hog and 1 raises the—Old Nick with the flower beds J and other things.”

>AFATKTrE Courier'. *By the failure of the General Appropriation bill, Purdue University is left without a dollar, except about $2,500 per annum to cover the salaries of the Secretary, Treasurer and Trustees, as provided by law. About $20,000 will be absolutely required to meet expenses until the next regular meeting of the Legislaof the Haute, has advanced the money required j to run the iState Normal School about tnree weeks ago John Tate, a farmer residing near Rich Valley, Wabash county, was approached by two well-dressed young men, who told him they were thinking about establishing a large manufacturing concern in Wabash. They proposed to send him a catalogue of the agricultural implements they intended manufacturing if he would furnish them with his name and address. One of the sharpers then pulled out a card, and the uns’uspecting old man wrote his name thereon. The other day the same fellows called on him, and told him that, he must pay a note calling for $l4O, which he had given them three weeks ago. He protested and ordered them off his premises. In an instant one of the sharpers pulled a revolver and threatened to shoot him unless he settled. Just at that time a son of Tate’s arrived with a gun, and as soon as the swindlers saw him they skipped. Greencastle Banner: “At last it has been determined to accept this munificent offer (to endow Asbury University), which will eventually amount to several millions of dollars, and a meeting of citizens and the faculty was held at East College Friday evening to organize for that purpose. An executive committee was appointed as follows: AM. Lockridge, J. C. Ridpath, Thoa. Bayne, F. P. Nelson, J. F. Darnall, R. Z. Lockridge, G. H. Williamson and J. E. Earp. This committee is to have charge of the work of raising the funds required by Mr. DePauw as a prerequisite to his donation. President Martin and others made addresses showing the importance of the matter to Greencastle and Putnam county, and at the subsequent meetings of the committee an enterprising an liberal spirit has been developed which gives promise that the movement will be a gratifying success.” A correspondent of the Cincinnati quirer at Indianapolis writes: “An astonishing condition of things has been revealed today in regard to the affairs of the Marion Trust Company. This was one of those organizations which worked the cirtificato ' swindle, by which persons who purchase • certificates and who paid up their dues were • promised dividends in a short period of time of several hundred per cent on investment Last Wednesday the Court, on petition of one of the holders who had not been paid the money promised on maturity of certificate, appointed Martin V. Adkins receiver. When Adkins took possession of the office he ■ found no visible assets beyond the safe and I some furniture, all not worth more than ! S3OO. He went to work on the books, and I has discovered that within the year since I the company was organized nearly $20,000 I has been collected from cirtificate holders ■ from dues and original payments, and less ; than $5,000 paid out. It is found the company has operated extensively in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Alabama and Mississippi Since the receiver was appointed claims of duped certificateholders have been pouring in upon Judge Heller, the attorney employed in the first i suit, and he has now over 200 of them to I urge. The manager of the concern was I Alex. Collier, formerly a butcher in this city, whose son, eighteen months ago, while employed as a street-car driver, killed the Carney brothers, who assaulted him. Collier has disappeared since the suit was filed, and is supposed to be in Chicago. He ! has sent no word here to the receiver, who has not been molested, and has been ali lowed to burrow about the place at his will. The figure-heads which were put up by ColHer as directors have long since dropped i out, leaving the company to consist only of ' Collier and his son. The original directors ' were not financially responsible persons. Criminal proceeding are likely to be undertaken against Collier if he can be found. | The fraudulent practices of the company were first attacked by the Journal ot thia ' city, which was at once sued for $50,000 damages by the company, though it never pressed the suit, and it was filed simply as a bluff. ”

Mrs. Harriet Walter.;, of Andersonville, ) while on a visit to her son, who lives in Metr amora, and is an employe in the William Kay i Handle Factory, went into the factory to I see the working of the machinery, when her t clothing was caught by one of the saws used ' for twining handles, and before assistance i reached her her clothing was almost tom I from her body; but strange as it may appear, she was not seriously injured, although i ; badly frightened. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, through their attorneys, Harrison, Hines <k Miller, have filed a suit for SIOO,OOO in the United States Court, at Indianapolis, against the Chicago and Indianapolis Air I line and Louisville, New Albany and Chicago ! Railroad Companies. The plaintiff avers that on February 10, 1880, the Ait Line Comi pany, through an Eastern broker, contract ted for and purchased from the plaintiffs 4,000 tons of new iron rails at $66 per ton. The iron company shipped to Harry Craw. [ ford, of the Air Line, 250 tons of rails, which he received, but refused to take any more. One year later he consented to take 350 tons at *45 per ton—a loss of $23 per ton—i and they were delivered, the aggregate cost being $80,500. It is claimed that this sum has not been paid, and that the Air Line and ! its lessee, the Louisville, New Albany and i Chicago; persistently refuse to pay the same. Judgment is thefore asked for SIOO,OOO. From the Richmond Palladium is taken the following letter from Rev. J. L. Nicholson, rector of St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, and the newly elected Bishop of Indiana, to Rev. j J. B. Wakefield, rector of St Paul’s Church, 1 Richmond. It is the first utterance of Dr. ! Nicholson, and, while uncertain as to i whether he will accept or decline the proffered honor, the inference is that he will ■ come: Rev, and Dear Brother—Your very kind letter is here. I mu«t also thank you for the affectionate tone of the telegram received by me on the night of last Wednesdav. I cannot tell you of the woe and pain which since the matter of this election was put before me. It yet reads to me only as a dream and vision. And even now I am loth to believe that indeed this call to the office of a bishop, and one who shall represent out Lord Christ to his church and people, does really rest upon me. What urges me to say ’’yes' to this call is the strange unexpectedness of it in every wav, both to the church in Indiana and to myself. But wffiat on the other hand staggers me, is

my utter lack of experience, my unknown name in the church and my age. To say that I love my people here, and have nothing but tender and sympathetic hearts all about me is, I know, saying nothing unusual, since that Is one of the many blessings God is ever giving to his priesthood, and so many others in the cure of souls can say the same. But when I say, too, that I deeply love my Work, even the hard and grinding parts of such work, as one has to meet in a parish so large as St. Mark’s, I am then saying what will be a terribly hard thing for me to give it up. I am yet in painful anxiety as to what is the will of God; I can only write at this moment that my one and only longing is to do His will, whatever that may be. lam half persuaded to let Easter and the large helps the resurrection brings to us settle the matter for me. I also am haif in mind to act upon week think of going away, lou must p«o> me, and remember me in the way one roest loves to be remembered. I do hope the good brethren of Indiana will not think me insensible of the great honor they have placed upon me. But indeed I fear that my moral fright is so great and my courage so weakened that only the sense of a dread responsibility rests weightly upon me. One thing let me frankly say, that if God calls me to this work I shall come, and if I come I shfll try to love all my people, and will be willing to toil and work and even die in their service, and for the Mystical Body of Christ. Very affectionately

yours, “J. L. Nicholson. The Rev. J. B. JVakefteM, D. D., Rector St. Paul’s Church, Richmond, Ind." I In connection with this matter, it will be of interest to know that Rev. Dr. Runcie, so long connected with the diocese of Indiana, continues still to take the deepest interest in its prosperity. He writes thus of the i bishop-elect: “Your special convention has made a grand selection. I have known Dr. Nicholson for some time. He is a strong man, using the : word in its strongest sense—strong intel- j lectually and strong in devotion and earnestness. There is nothing small about him. i He is among the manliest of men. I do hope that he will accept, although his doing so will be a great personal sacrifice. Hie management of St. Marks has been the admiration of all who love good, aggressive telling church work. ” A Humbugging Monkey. The anthropoid apes are a somewhat taciturn race, but a chimpanzee’s murmur of affection is very expressive, and quite different from his grunt of discontent. A sick orang-outang sheds tears, moans piteously, or cries like a pettish [ child; but such symptoms are rather deceptive, for the orang, as well as the chimpanzee, is a great mimic, not of men only, but of passions and patholog'c il conditions. Two years ago I took temporary charge of a young chimpanzee who was awaiting shipment to the Pacific coast. His former landlord seemed to have indulged him in a penchant for rummaging boxes and coffers, for whenever I attempted to I circumscribe the limit of that pastime I my boarder tried to bring down the house, metaphorically and literally, by | throwing himself upon the floor and | tugging violently at the curtains and bell-ropes. If that failed to soften my heart, Pansy bee ime sick. With groans , and sobs he would lie down in a corner, preparing to shed the mortal coil, and adjusting the pathos of the closing I scene to the degree of my obstinacy. One day he had set his heart upon exploring the letter department of my chest of drawers, and, after driving him off several times, I locked the door and pocketed the key. Pansy did not suspect the full meaning of my act till lie had pulled at the knobs and squinted through the key-hole, but, when he realized the truth, life ceased to be worth living; he collapsed at once, and had hardly strength enough left to drag himself to the stove. There he lay, memoaning his untimely fate, and stretching his leg as if the rigor mortis had already overcome his lower extremities. Ten minutes later his supper was brought in. and I directed the boy to leave the basket behind the stove, in full sight of my guest. But Pansy’s eye assumed a far-off expression ; earth had lost its charm; the inhumanity of man to man had made him sick of this vale of tears. Meaning to try him, I accompanied the boy to the | staircase, and the victim of my cruelty gave me a parting look of intense reproach as I left the room. But, stealing back on tiptoe, we managed to come upon Ijjm unawares, and Pansy looked rather sheepish when we caught him in the act of enjoying an excellent meal.—Dr. Oswald', in Popular Science Monthly. A man may enew tobacco ever so hard for fifty long years and then have the mortification to discover that he still lacks a few pounds of half a ton.

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, HOW WE ore. f The Mental State of the Dying Dependent y Upon the Disease from Which They Have r Suffered. 1 [From the Philadelphia Press.] , Consumptives very frequently die in , teraphic joy and peace, for their pass- . (ng away is not only comparatively , painless but is consequent upon a thorough exhaustion of the system, such as robs even the imagination of all power I of vivid action and leaves it in a condi- , lion to receive only faint and negative 1 impr'ssions. In death from old age I and kindred causes, where the mind ■ ; has free scope and is neither harassed • j nor disturbed in its action by physical | i pain, the comforting assurances of a i : genuine religion are most ci'arly manii fest. As a rule, in acute cases, interest ; in personal danger is seldom felt, .'Mid i : there is a manifest indifference, excepting with regard to bodily suffering, or I to some duty the dying man desires to I perform. Cholera, peritontis and like I complaints rob the soul of life and plunge it in the deepest desprir. In dysentery, diarrhea or fevers there is usually a mental ennui that amounts almost to positive and absolute indifference. Those who die by the sword or any sharp instrument preserve peaceful countenances, ind enting an insidious stealing aw ay of life’s ebbing tide On the contrary, gunshot wounds produce great pains and lamentations, and most h deous visions. A rapid death by steel is almost painless. A bullet lacerates, but a saber edge or poniard point divides the nerves too quickly to enable them to transmit to the failing brain distinct and definite sensations of pain. Death by drowning is proverbially peaceful. There is a gradual blotting out of consciousness. The soul seems to soak up the water like a sponge, deriving no torment from the process, and the faculties are severally swallowed up as naturally as when sleep approaches. Intense cold nicatioiTby tne nerve's, union c i?d?i9ufc torpid and lose their conflicting powers. The imagination and consciousness are alike preserved from rude shock. A cut throat hurts, of course, but not to an agonizing degree, although it would appear otherwise to those who have heard the sad, shrill voice of the pig in like extremity. Os

all acute and protracted diseases smallpox is oftenest attended by the extremes! torture, physical and mental. Especially in hemorrhagic cases, the patient loses control of his senses. It not infrequently happens that delirium precedes death, and the unfortunate sufferer, springing from his bed, ns-hes out into the open air, uttering shrieks and beating his body. The sudden exposure brings on speedy Yellow fever, having run its course, merges into black vomit, and lassitude and exhaustion lull the victim into unconsciousness. Death is comparatively painless, or, rather, the torment of the nerves does cpil, as they do. under the influence of mating pains. joroncinui onuuwvuu inmate in despair. Death by hanging mav, or may not, be paiilful, according as the miserable wretch drops straight and cracks his neck, or twists and strangles. Choking is the worst agony of all. The blood departs from its regular channels, and pours through the body, a fruitful source of a million pains, each minute, but well defined. Hydrophobia, from its cause, gives rise to fearful agony. In brain fever the nerves, whose irri-

tation is the source of all pain, are seized in their mighty multiplicity, and miles and miles of acute pain traverse the body in endless succession, with the rapidity of light. In lockjaw the longer life is sustained by artificial means the more peaceful becomes the period of final dissolution, where the heart becomes diseased, and suddenly ceases to exercise its functions, except one sharp, short, horribly-hot thrust, like that of a dagger, which blinds like a flash, and leaves behind no lingering memory to torture. Apoplexy is painless, as is dropsy, in the final stages. Pyaemia is not positively painful. One Arm and One leg. One of the most remarkable men in Camden is a one-legged and one-armed colored man named James Weeks. He is a strong, healthy man of about forty years of age, and evidently enjoys life as much as his more fortunate and physically supplied brethren. The strange part of the thing is that, although both his left leg and his left arm are gone entirely—they having been taken out at the sockets —lie is able to drive a cart, i loading the vehicle as quickly and as well as they who have all their limbs, with sand or brick, and doing fully as i much work as any cart driver in the city. When asked how he came to lose ! his limbs, ho showed his ivories, as a ; broad grin spread over his rather generous mouth, and said: “De war took ’em off. You see, boss, I was shot down at Port Hudson. I laid dere for hour arter hour, and finkin I, Jim, you’re a cooked nig, shush, ’case I only had a piece of my let’ arm and none of the lef leg worf mentionin’. Putty soon, when de scrimmage was all ober, de men come along for to pick up the wounded, and I seed Dr. Gross, a son of de old professor at de Jefferson College, I tiak he was. He jus’ looked at me an’ den passed on. ‘Hold on, surgeon,’said I, ‘can’t you help a fellah ? Don’t gone foah to lebe him heah when he can’t walk.’ ‘Why,’ said the doctah, ‘you’re j dead! Dere ain’t no use tendin’ to you.’ But I sisted dat I was better’n two dead men, and he ’cided to see what could be done. When I came out ob dat hospital I was jus’ like you see I is now. Dey took liofe limbs out foam de body at de sockets.” He draws a pension ot $lB a month from the Government, and says he has no trouble making a living and a little i extra by driving a cart. Twice each year since the close of the war, Jim goes to Philadelphia to see Prof. Gross, who exhibits him to the students at the Jefferson Medical College as “Old Ironsides." That world-re- ' nowned surgeon says that it is one of the most remarkable cases that has ever ' come to his knowledge, and he does not , believe that there is one man in a million who could have gone through what . he has and still live. One-third of his body was taken from him and the whole , course of the circulation of the blood , changed. “Jim” gets around with ease j on his crutch and the remaining leg, it J mattering very little whether he uses it . under his right arm or leaning against his left side, when. the arm-socket only now is.— Camden (N. J.} Post. > — s Among the graduates of Bowdoin s College are 250 who are now pastors oi 1 churches in Maine.