Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat Official Paper of the County. a. J. 11l 1.1., Editor and Business Humn TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY PENTB IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. B B. AILMOW.rrMt. W. H Ntsuci,Cashier b. SrvrsailH, Vice Pres't. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, Thia Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We boy and sell Town, Township and Ceunty Orders. 25jy*9tf “~“PETERSO?i 4 HUFFMAN? ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DXCATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining cesnlies. 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. C 0. F. building. 25jy79tf j ’ FRANCE 4KING? ~ ) ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BECATUR. INDIANA. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DKOATVB, INDIANA. r* All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone s building *th door. v25n24 year 1. J T. MERRYMAN, Attorney at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. DCCATUB, INDIANA. Deeds Mortgages. Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn wlih neatness and dispatch. Partition, settlement of decedent's estates, and collections a specialty. Office : —Up stairs in Stone's - uikltng, 4th door.—vol. 25, no 24 ts. ’ E. H. COVERDALE, dltornty at Law, —}and(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUB, INDIANA. Office over Welfley's grocery, opposite the Court House. B. R. FREEMAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouses’ Drug Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calls promptly attended. Nol 26, No. 34. ts. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUB, INDIANA. Office ever Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wi) attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence en north side of Monroe street, 4ib house east of Hart’s Mill, 25Jy’9tf W?H. MYERS? trick fit Slone Jtaton I onlrac'i DECATUB, INDIANA. Jolicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a pointhy consulting him. Estimates on application, v20n45m3. SEYMOUR WORDEN, Auctioneer. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AU C USTKRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DECATUR, - - 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 8 ncer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dis* patch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office over Welfley's Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Decatur, Indiana. 37-md of grave* ■ § flare annually robbed • o f their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures Itnpolency (caused by excesses of any kina ) Seminal Healtnesi and all diseases lhat follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, Lts of memory, universal lassitude, pain in the bock, dimness of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circulars with testimonals free by mail. The Invigorator is sold at $1 per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J, CHEIiEY, Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States, ft. A. Pierce & Co., Sole Agents at De?atu> /T\ T A week made at home by the industrial I / f loos. Best boiine ■ dow before the public. / • / Capital not needec. We will start yoii. 11l f / Men, women, boys and girls wanted V|z I Am* everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. You can w< rk in spare time, or give your whole time to the business. No other business will pay you nearly as well. No one can tail to make enormous pay, by engaging at once. Costly and terms free. Money made fast, easy, and honorably. Address Tri e 4 Co., Augusta, Maine, DR. KITCHMtLLER ■ will b« at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Every second Tuesday stnd Wednesday <H each month to treat all Chronic Diseases. Consultation free. C«.ll and see him. Ail letters of inquiry received at the home of* fice i.t Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompl attention. Write to him and make a •tat* jaent of your case.—v2sn36ly.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. The New Jersey Fire insurance Com- ( ' pany, which has been In existence fifty years, has retired from the business. The steamer Burgnndia, from Mar- , tellies, bringing the remains of John Howard Payne, author of ‘Home, Sweet Home,” arrived at Brooklyn last week The box containing the body was placed in a hearse ami conveyed to the Governor’s room in the New York City Hall, where it lay in state until the following evening, and was then taken to Washington... .The body of ( harles Soeliner, a compatriot of Hecker and Schurz in the Gentian revolution of 1818, was reduced to ashes in the Le Moyne cremation furnace ut Washington, Pa The Vanderbilt coterie of New York society were thrown into a tremor over a report that the Socialists of that city, under the lead of Herr Most, had planned to break up Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt’s fancy-dress ball by throwing bombs through the "windows of the mansion, in revenge for the discharge of a numlter of brakemen from the New York Central's employ. Fori: young men, well known in New York society, engaged in a double prize- ' fight at Far Rockaway, Long Island, for ■ their own satisfaction and the edification of a party of congenial spirits. Some hard blows were struck, but neither of the combatants was very badly punished Harrington* Simonds, wool-dealers, of Boston, have Busneuded. with 575.0U0 liabilities, THE WEST. Indian Agent Townsend, who has recently passed through the Creek reservation on the way to his post-, reports that a state of complete anarchy prevails there in consequence of the animosities existing between the two factions of the tribe, work being neglected for marauding, and that the entiie population are badly demoralized. Agent Townsend urges the necessity of Government intervention to restore order.... From Nov. 1, 1882 s to March 1, 1883, there wore 425,400 hogs packed at Cincinnati Motana stockmen report that their herds have wintered unusually well, the losses not exceeding 5 per cent. Grass is coming up finely, and there is every reason to expect a favorable season... .The Cincinnati Price Current publishes an elaborate report of the condition of the wheat crop throughout the winter-wheat belt of the West. Comparison with the condition last year, which is placed at 100 shows the present condition as follows: Ohio, 85; Indiana, 80; Illinois, 90; Missouri, 93; Kansas, 91; Michigan, 96; Kentucky, 70; Tennessee, 86. The winter-wheat sections of Wisconsin promise well, the general average being about 10 per cent, below last year Tho spring-wheat sections of Minnesota, lowa, Wisconsin am* Nebraska show no essential change in area compared with last year. The most notable sale of horseflesh which has occurred in the West in many a day was consummated at Chicago the 'other* day, when the great trotting stallion Jerome Eddv, which has a record of 2:1b 1 ?, changed hands, the consideration being $*25,000 cash in hand paid. The Cree Indians have been committing depredations in the vicinity of Fort Conrad, Montana, killing at one place seventy-five work oxen. A party of Piegans led by two* white men and Chief Little Dog set out in pursuit of the marauders, whom they encountered about daybreak. A tight ensued, in which two Crees were killed and , two Diegans wounded. The hostiles are reI treating down the Marias, and fears for the settlers are entertained... .NearCharh shown, Arizona, a party of prospectors, while engaged around some newly-discovered coalfields, were attacked by a band of twenty Indians without warning. and several men killed and three wounded. Roland Reed, one of the brightest and most-promising young comedians on the stage, appears at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, this week, in his highly-amusing play entitled “Cheek.” He is supported by an excellent company. A bloody affair recently occurred on the border of the Seminole nation's reservation in the Indian Territory. Brady Bretney, Eli Perryman, Billy Giimm tt and an Indian were engaged in a game of c uds, which finally ended m a fiee fight, in which the Indian killed Bietney and Perryman, and Grimmitt, who to »k no‘irrtive part in the fight, was accidentally killed bv one of the three during the shooing. The n xt morning, two brothers, Mose and Gal rel Marshall, fr erds of the dead men, fol’owed the Indian, who had t'el. and. coming up with him, riddled his body with bul ets.... The trial of the four men charged with the theft of ®IW,O ’ in bonds of the city of St Joseph, Mo., from the office ot” the* City Recorder, bids fair to comc’to an impotent conclusion. Two of the accused turned State’s evidence, the third was acquitted, and now the jury in the case of the fourth, William W. Scott, has disagreed... .Four men, one Frenchman and three Mexicans, were killed by Apaches in the White*tone mountains, Arizona, making a total of eight lives lost during the present outbreak. Timothy O. Howe, Postmaster General, died on the 25th, at Kenosha, Wis., of pneumonia. He contracted a severe cold the week before at Green Bay, and, though he was reported to be improving, sank rapidly, and expired at 2:-0 p. m. Sunday. Timothy O. Howe was born in Liver-more, Me., on the 7th of February, 1816. lie received an academic education, studied law in the same office with Senator Morrill, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. The first public office which he held was that of Postmaster in his native town. He remained in this position only a short time. In 1845 he was elected to the Maine Legislature, and the following year moved to Green Bay, Win.. which place had ever since been his home. He was chosen Circuit Judge of the State in 1850, serving in that position for five vears, when he resigned. Tn 1861 Judge Howe was elected United States Senator, and remained in that body tinuouslv for eighteen vears, his term of office expiring March 4,187 u The famous triangular contest in which the •lection of his successor was involved, and in which Judge Howe. E. W. Keyes and Matt Carpenter were participants—a contest which finally ended in the election of Mr. Carpenter—will be readily recalled. Judge Howe then retired to his home at Green Bay but was not permitted to remain long in retirement He was tendered by President Garfield appointment as a member of the Board of Commissioners sent by the Im ted States to represent this Government in the International Monetary Congress at Paris, his associates being ex-benator Thurman and William M. Evarts. He remained abroad aliout six months, and soon after his return began to be prominently | mentioned as a probable member of ITesi- ; dent Arthur’s Cabinet In December. ixM, | he was tendered the Postmaster generalship, which position he held at the time of his death... .Patrick Egan, tho Irish patriot, is in Chicago... .Four bodies had been recovered from the Braidwood mine, up to March 26. YOKEIGM. The Czar has extended an invitation to all the crowned heads of Europe to attend his forthcoming coronation, but not one of them will avail himself or herself of the honor of accepting the invitation bv attending in person. They will, however, be represented by Ambassadors or other proxies. Evidently there is no intention on the part of royalty to place itself in the vicinity of dynamite when any of its faithful subjects will answer the purpose.... Mr John Bright, in an address delivered to the students of Glasgow Uni verity made a remarkable declaration. He said that tne Declaration of Independence, the Revolution, and the English Reform bill of 1832 supplemented by that of 1 bo», transferred polit cal power from Kings people. With regard to Ireland, he said that if the treaty of Lmerick had been observed and freedom of religion had been granted the sad history ot Ire and m ght never have been recorded. He consiaera the East Indian question as the great problem of the future... .James RusseU Lowell, United States Minister to the Court of bt James, is mentioned a* a candicate tor i ine rectorship of St Andrew s University, the olde: tof the Scottish institutions of learning. While descending the stairs of the palace at Windsor, Queen Victoria slipped and fell, receiving an ugly bruise of the knee, and, as she persisted in attending tc

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1883.

her ordinary dunes, swelling ana mnamnia- ‘ tionset in, which caused her considerable ' pain. A report gained currency in London ; that she was in a precarious stat e. which for a time caused intense excitement in England. I ....MountiEtna is in a state of eruption, and an earthquake has occurred in the vicinity. Several houses have bSen destroyed, and the people living thereabouts are greatly alarmed. ’A special dispatch from London to the New York Herald says: u Those likely to be best informed to-day regard the statement of Lady Florence Dixie as to the attack made upon her near Windsor as a purs lubrication. Not a trace of any struggU could be found on the damp mold on which the struggle is alleged to have taken place. Lady Florence herself is now bewildered about it, and it is unnecessary to say that she has the reputation of being half-mad. It is now known that she wrote to Parnell on his release, avowing herself to be a strong Nationalist, and urging him to act with her. ” A student who recently attempted suicide at St Petersburg confesses that ths Nihilists commanded him to shoot the Czar at the banquet and fete given by the Finland . regiment The student was present at the banquet disguised as a waiter. His courage failed him, and, knowing his fate from the Nihilists, he resolved to commit suicide.... A large employer at Birkenhead, England, has discharged nil of his workmen who are Irishmen, saying he would be disgracing himself by employing people who foster 1 assassins..,. An official of the Duchy of Kaxe- ' Coburg-Gotha has been assassinated by a person whom he had refused an apnointi ment. The murderer committed suiciae.... Lord Carlingford (Mr. Chester Fortescue) succeeds Earl Spencer as Lord President of the British Council, and also assumes the duties of Minister of Agriculture ... A St. Petersburg dispatch/says the Government has resolved to expel all Italians without permanent occupation. The Governor of Moscow has received a letter warning him that the Kremlin, where the Czar istobe crowned, will be blown up during the coronation ceremony if the Czar refuses to grant a constitution, ’i'wo dynamite depots have been discovered here. * Forty persons arrested. The week s arrests number 300, i including pupils of the military schools and railway officials.” A verdict of guilty has been rendered in the case of Nugent and his twelve associates in the Armagh (Ireland) assassination league. The crown counsel, in closing, charged O’Donovan Hossa, P. J. Sheridan, James Redpath and John Devoy with promoting a conspiracy.... An additional crater has openeil in Mount Etna, and the lava threatens many villages, from which the people are fleeing for safety.... .The inhabitants of some Roumelian towns, as a protest against the im- ; portation of woolen thread, nave pillaged and burned warehouses where it has been I stored. Public buildings in London will bo guarded henceforth by 2,G00 infantry, while the Parliament buildings and Buckingham Palace will be lyatcned by the Coldstream ! Guards... .The full of volcanic ashes at Drontheim, Norway, leads to the belief that there has* been an eruption from Mount Hecla in Iceland.. Bismarck is now suffering from sciatica.... Avalanches have destroyed several small villages at the foot of Mount Ararat One hunored persons have been killed and HO injured. WASHINGTON. It has been decided by Attorney General Brewster that the law making retirement from the army compulsory on officers who have reached 64 vears repeals the law which limited the number on the retired : list to 400. in accordance with this decision J thirteen additional officers have just been I retired, and a permanent increase bi the list i will follow. Commissioner of Agriculture Loring has called Dr. Salmon to Washington to make investigations into diseases of cattle, swine and poultry on land provided for the purpose and supplied with the necessary animals, proper buildings and apparatus for inoculation, autopsies and chemical analysis. The system of inoculation adopted by Pasteur will be continued, and the valuable discoveries of Dr. Salmon in this country will be applied. The investigation will be made especially in Texas fever, pleuropneumonia, and the hog and chicken cholera Dr. Salmon feels confident that he can ere long place in the hands of the farmer means by which these disease can be prevented or cured... .President Arthur has appointed George R. Gage United States Judge for the Southern district of Ohio, and D. B. Russell, Marshal of the Eastern district of Arkansas. He has also ordered the suspension of Everton J. Conger, Associate Justice of Montana Territory, against whom charges of drunkenness and gambling have been preferred. Paul Strobach has been designated to act as United States Marshal for the Southern district of Alabama, vice Osborn, suspended.... Mr. Mullett, ex Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, is urging before the Court of Claims his demand for $23,000 that he alleges is due him for salary by the Government... .The bill passed by the Fortyseventh Congress re adjusting* the salaries of Postmasters is inoperative because of the failure to provide in the Postoffice Appropriation bill for the payment of the increase of salaries involved. Washington telegram: “According to a report current here, Minister West has informed the State Department that he is instructed bv Lord Granville to say that the violent expressions which certain professed American citizens have given utterance to since the dynamite explosion in London may disturb the otherwise amicable relations existing between her Majesty's Government and the United Slates.”... .The fact has been^evelopedthat no effort has ever been made by the Bureau of Agriculture to gather statistics relative to trivhinai in pork. A rumor having gained currency that the relations between Great Britain and the United States were strained, in consequence of the failure of this Government to restrain plottings of Irish revolutionists in America against the peace of Great Britain, Mr. Sackville West, the English Minister afc Washington, has stated to an interviewer thar a better understanding never existed between the two Governments than there is at , present Secretary Frelinghuysen also | contradicts the report alluded to The President has appointed John L Parish, of Chicago, Consul at Chemnitz. Saxony, t© succed John J. Flinn, also of Chicago, who has been removed... .It is estimated that the income of the United States Government under the new Tax and Tariff bill the next fiscal year will amount to $405,000,000, against $403,500,000 this year. Price, the star-route mail contractor, ! refuses to testify in the civil action of Walsh against Brady, relative to what are known as the “Price*drafts," on the ground that his i evidence would Send to criminate himself. ‘ POLITICAL. The New York Senate passed the bill compelling New York city and Brooklyn telegraph and telephone companies to bury their wires after March 1,1885... .The Legislature of Tennessee has passed a bill pensioning all Confederate soldiers from Tennessee who lost an eye or eyes during the war of the Rebellion The Capital Punishment bill recently passed bv che Maine Lerislature tailed to specify a mode of execution, and is therefore inoper- i ative....A dispatch from Harrisburg ays ' “the sub-committee of the House Judiciary Committee decided to recommend the ex- ; pulsion of Nicholas L Dukes without a hearing. There is much feeling against Dukes”.,.. | The Legislature of Tennessee has passed a law requiring that executions l»e conducted hereafter in private... .The Rhode Island Democratic Convention has indorsed the nomination of William Sprague for Governor of the State. The Governor of Montana recently sent the following dispatch to the Post office I Department: “The vigilantes at Greenhorn, M. T.. have removed the Postmaster by hanging. Government fuel jnust be scarce, as he was caught barn-burning. The office is now , vacant” THE SOUTH, Wah Lee, a Chinese laundryman, ■ ha s sued the Louisville Cvwier-Journal and for libel, claiming $3,000 dam- , ages, for publishing evidence in a trial that the Chinaman kept an opium-den and house of ill-repute. i

A dispatch from Littlo Rock, Ark., reports that near Booneville, Logan county, i Sheriff Grady and posse attacked four men j supposed to be the Little Rock and Fort Smith train-robbers, A running fight followed, and one of the fugitives was fatally wounded. Capt. Ellington, of the Sheriff’s posse, was wounded. The book-keeper of the ’Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank of Montgomery, Ala, has lost J60,C00 of the institution’s funds ih 1 speculation... .Fire swept awaV a cotton warehouse at Columbus, Ga., causing a loss of $21X1,0110. A snow-stobm in Virginia on the 23d of March, accompanied by cold weather, it is feared has damaged the fruit crop. The Apaches at present committing outrages in Arizona are said to be from the San Carlos reservation, their number being estimated at 300. A band of twenty-seven Indians made an attack on the town of Winchester, Arizona, but were repulsed. Two white men were killed... .Judge David Davis and bride were the recipients of marked courtesies at Atlanta. Ga aENMKAL. It is stated as a fact that direct telephonic communication has been had between Cleveland, Ohio, and New York city, a distance of over UOO miles The annual meeting of the Holteins breeders of America was held at Syracuse, j N. ¥., with an increased attendunca During the year, 2.007 animals were added to the registry... .Ice gorges and freshets have caused' unparalleled floods In Nova Scotia Many bridges have been wrecked and railway tracks washed away. Argentine and Chilian troops fought on Patagonian soil, and many were killed and wounded on both sides The battle resulted from the invasion of Chili by tho Argentines... .The estimates laid before the I Dominion Parliament for the ensuing year aggregate $45,C0n,< , 00, of which $13,2’0.0110 Is for railways. The debt of the Dominion i Government ia $167,000,000. The business failures for the week, as reported to R ft Dun A Co., of the mercantile agency, numbered 195, as against 225 for the previous week, a reduction of 30, distributed as follows: New England States, 17; Middle States, 39; Western, 57; Southern, 88; Pacific States and Territories, 12; New York city, 8; Canada, 24... .On Good Friday, William Barks and Green thumingham were hanged at Lafayette. Ga; Jerome Holt at Graham, N. C.; Nicholas Walker at Little Roek. Ark.; and Prod. Waita at Franklin, Tex... .The official call for the meeting of the Irish National Land League of the United States and < 'anada, to meet at Philadelphia April 26, has been issued. The announcement is made that Parnell and other nationalists will attend. Fire destroyed the Williams sewingmachine factory, located near Montreal, involving a loss of $200,000, w'hich was entirely covered by insurance. Au oatmeal-mill at Ceater City, Ohio, was burned, the loss being $35 000. ...Rear Admiral Thomas Turner, United States navy, is dead. A Public Nuisance. It is strange, but it does not seem to have struck the generality of chewers and especially smokers, that their acts are worse than rude and ungentlemanly, that they are a positive offense against decency. Civilization has placed a barrier against eating in public even so much as an apple, or the most innocent and most inviting food, except under the stress of necessity; yet a confirmed tobacco user or cigar smoker will smoke and chew tho filtliiest of weeds, stifling and annoying persons in his vicinity with fumes and disgusting debris, as if he was privileged to be a nuisance and had a right to taint the air and pollute his surroundings, which i must cot be interfered with. Now, ! where does any man get the right? It I is his business in this world to improve upon himself, to make the world the happier and better and brighter and cleaner for his coming, to help others and not put obstacles or hindrances in their way; and the smoker does this; he sets a bad example to boys, who take up smoking as a manly habit, because they see men indulge in it, and are thus led" to drinking and every evil practice. There is a wide-spread feeling, to which women largely subscribe, that men need , a wide indulgence, that they cannot re- I strain their passions and appetites, that it is not to be expected of them that they should. But this ought noi j to be true, and is not true of men who have got beyond the savage, whose moral nature predominates, who have learned to exercise their better faculties, and whose strength has been tested ■ and acquired, as much in resisting evil as in yielding to it. This so-called necessity for bolstering up and stimulat- ' ing up, and strengthening up with vile decoctions and injurious narcotics is confession of weakness, not evidence of strength; it is a sign of inferiority and cowardice, not an evidence of courage or manliness. Women are subject to much heavier drafts upon iheir nerves than mon, but this would not be considered as any valid excuse for adopting their vulgar, unclean methods of solace and consolation. Are men naturally so weak they can not bear the ills of life without resort to such depraved helps to carry the burden? Are they so brutish as not to be able to sustain their place in the march of reason, intelligence and progressive civilization ? We do not believe it.— Demorest’i Monthly. •rne nog m roiines. A Cincinnati paper tells the story of Congressman Culbertson’s successful campaign in the Maysville (Ky.) district. After he had been nominated he said to the Republican State Committee: “This is a Democratic district by a considerable majority, but I can carry it if you will let me have my own way." They acquiesced, and fold him to let I them know what, he wanted in the way of speeches. “Not a speech in this district if I am to carry it,” he said, “but I | would like to have my associate in business, the man who buys the hogs, made manager of the campaign.” They nearly fainted, but acquiesced again. ‘ The Democrats sent their best speakers into the district, but nothing was heard from Culbertson and his hog-buying manager. It was noticed, however, that soon after the delivery of Democratic speeches in any part of the district there were fresh and large shipments of hogs from that locality. The hog-buyer followed the Democratic orators around, bought hogs industriously and talked to the people. Not a Republican speech was made in the district from the beginning of the campaign to the close; but the shipment of hogs to Cincinnati was unprecedented. When the votes came to be counted, ■ the Democratic majority of about 2.000 . had disappeared and the Republican candidate had carried the district by a handsome plurality. A German physician speaks highly ' of the use of soft soap as a local appli- i cation for sores or glandular swellings, ' abscesses, discharging canals and cavi- ■ tics, felons, etc. It is not a new remedy i by any means, but one which seems likely to be neglected where it might i be of real service. Quite a pleasant , preparation can be made by dissolving the soap in a little cologne water.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Tui expenses of the Southern Prison dur. ing February were $9,501.90, and the earn’ tags were $6,650.65. J. C. Wnxis, of Indianapolis, has been ap pointed Dean of the Land Department of the Little Bock University. Chaelbs Gbiewank, of La Porte, dealer in harness, saddles, etc., has male an assignment. Liabilities, $3,500. The residence of Fountain Childs, three miles west of North Vernon, was burned. Loss, $2,000; no insurance. The Methodist people of Rensselaer are preparing to build a new church and parsonage the coming summer. Mas. J. W. Dcmble, wife of tho editor of the Meigs County Jlepubliean, died of pneumonia, at Middleport, on Tuesday evening. Mas. Fuse, wife of Thomas Flisk, of Jeffersonville, fell dead on Wednesday night with neuralgia of the heart, at her borne in ■ the west end of the city. I» a suit at Wabash for malpractice brought by Oscar Carothers and his wife Rose against Dra Gillen and Holmes, the jury brought in a verdict of $2,5W damages, $5,000 being the amount sued for. A few nights since the store of William White, at Dagonla Springs, four miles from Booneville, was burglarized of a large amount of goods and money. Captain Kiekpatbick’s SIOO,OOO bond as Collector of the Eleventh Revenue District, vice Wildman, has been approved. The headquarters of this district will be changed from Anderson to Kokomo. The reports of the Department of Agriculture show Indiana to be the first wheatgrowing State. The yield is 1,316 bushels to the square mile, and 18.04 bushels to the acre. Ohio ranks next and Illinois third. The publishers of the Elkhart County Journal have begun the issue of a daily. The paper is a neatly-printed four-page sheet of twenty-four columns, and gives evidence of careful work on the part of its editors. A telephone line is now being erected between Crawfordsville and Ladoga Arrangements are being made to run lines to Wingate, Darlington and Smartsburg, which will give Crawfordsville direct communicatton with all parts of the country. The Clem family, notorious in the criminal, record of Indiana, are once more before the public, the husband, William F. Clem, having instituted proceedings for divorce from his wife, Nancy, who is at present serving out a sentence in the penitentiary for perjury. The Sheriff of St. Joseph county has closed the store of C. W. Stephens at Walkerton, by order of Chicago creditors. Mr. Stephens lias for years conducted a large mercantile i business and was regarded as solid. Ho is postmaster of the town. Liabilities axe from $30,060 to $45,000; assets unknown. Rev. J. P. Stratton, LL D., for the last seven years pastor of Center Presbyterian Church, of Crawfordsville, has accepted a cadi to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church at Circleville, O. Bev. Stratton is an eloquent and scholarly gentleman, and his removal is universally regretted Several days since a child of Janies Henry, residing south of Wabash, ran a sharp stick into its eye, inflicting a painful wound. The parents called a physician, but the baby was not considered in a dangerous condition. A day or two after, however, the child became worse, and died from the effects of the wound A wrll-known horticulturist in the vicinity of Greencastle gives the following as the result of his observation and inquiries concerning the fruit outlook: Peaches killed, and cherries partly so. Grapes uninjured Berries of all kinds look well. Apples, pears and other fruits cannot be forecast till budding time. A TotruG man named Grimsley, of Big lone, Ky., while visiting at Rising Sun, was jut on a lark on Saturday night, and was shot at by some person unknown, and but for a plug of double-thick tobacco and a memorandum book in his breast pocket, the shot might have proved fatal. As it was, the ball went through the tobacco and lodged in hifi no<-’kefc. A new stock company ha« been formed at Plymouth, and it has been registered in the office of the Secretary of State as the Plymouth Plow Company. It is composed of four of our capitalists, and is considered a very sound combination. The President is E. R. Wheeler; Secretary, D. E. Snyder; Treasurer, James A. Gilmore, and Wm. J. Adam, Superintendent of Works. George Douglass, a farmer living near Newport, made a desperate effort, on Tuesday, to commit suicide. The weapon used was a common peu-knife, and when found he was leaning over to prevent the blood from dripping on his clothes. The cause given for his attempt to kill himself was a reverse of circumstances, as he was once the possessor of considerable property. A failure ot the owners and workmen to agree as to the price of labor has caused the rolling-mill at Brazil to suspend operations. The difference originated over the district price for puddling which was to be paid, the owners claiming that it is $5.50 and the puddlers that it is $6. The men propose to return in a body to Cohoes, N. Y., the place from which they came. The mill is not expected to lie idle long, as arrangements are beimr max]” to procure other workmen. The Board of Trustees of Purdue University, the Indiana Agricultural College, held their session at Lafayette. The resignation of E. E*White, President of the institution, was accepted. Dr. White, it is uudrstood, will remain until the close of the present collegiate year. A successor will not at present be elected. The board will not act upon the appointment of a gentleman to succeed Dr. White until at the close of the term. Quite a number of names are mentioned in this connection. A report of another prayer cure comes from Elkhart. This time it is Miss Frances Stephens, a young lady of 16 years, daughter of John B. Stephens, a well-known citizen. She has been a confirmed invalid for fourteen months, unable to leave her bed. Hearing of the cures in this vicinity effected through the instrumentality of a Boston minister, he was written to, and in reply stated that at a certain time and date she would be healed. When the time came she arose and walked as of old. Maj. Menzies, of Mount Vernon, has in hi possession a very fine specimen of the bald eagle family. The bird was caught opposite Mount Vernon from a cake of ice, after a desperate struggle to take it alive. The bird had been wounded by some hunter, probably in the mountains of Kentucky along the Kentucky river. It had made its escape to the ice and ha<U floated from where it “lit” to opposite Mount Vernon, where it was captured. z James E. Clemens brought suit against Cordory Bruce in Esquire Johnson’s court, at Sparta, to recover $176 damages. Bruce, it was proved, poisoned some fine catt’e belonging to Clemens at Wilmington several days ago. After being out for four hours the jury returned a vordict granting the plaintiff $145 damages. A large number of farmers of this part of the county attended the trial, and manifested much interest in the proceedings.

On Monday morning, Dr. John, of Asbury University, took his class in practical civil engineering up to the dome of Meharry Hall to explain to thorn the construction of the ceiling, the center of which is forty ieet from the floor. While moving about, one of the students made a misstep, and falling, broke a large bole through the ceiling, but saved himself by catching on a ratter. The plastering, in falling, broke several lamps ' on the main chandtbiAr The little son of Harvey Smith, of C(m- i nersville, died on Wednesday. The boy, on Tuesdayj was playing with a box upon which had been glued, for ornament, pieces of shells, one of which he picked off and I slipped into his ear. It soou caused great pain, and about 10 o’clock child was taken to a doctor, who probed awhile without success, and toward morning another ' physician was called, who also failed to re- | lieve the little sufferer. Water-works in Wabash are now a cer- ' tainty. Outside capitalists have signified a : willingness to take hold of the matter, and . three bids are being prepared. One, that of Dukes & Co., of Peru, was presented to the ' City Council last Monday evening, and the others will be later. Dukes & Co. will agree to construct and operate the works providing the authorities will grant them the sole water privilege of the place, and contract for seventy fire plugs at SIOO each per annum. The subject will be finally disposed ; of as soon as the other two bids are sub mitted. a remarkable divorce suit was called up ' in the Circuit Court of Union county, recent- i ly. The plaintiff, Jane Spahr, is 73 years old, and the defendant, Samuel Spahr, has reached the age of 80. Their marriage dates back to 1824, and after experimenting with matrimony for almost sixty years they “give | it up,” both demanding release, the plaintiff by her complaint charging cruel and inhu- | man treatment, and the defendant by a cross complaint equally vigorous. During their pilgrimage they nave accumulated considerable property, a good share of which the wife now demands. At Indianapolis, H<aniet Mason demands a divorce from Robert Mason, alleging frequent abandonments, drunkenness and other abuses. She charges that the defendant has numberless times collected her wash-bills, and that he has represented her to be dead and awaiting burial, and has secured contributions under pretense of paying funeral expenses, which he spent for whisky. Also, that in February last he applied some drug to her head which caused all of her hair to fall off, and incited such aches and pains that she has since been unable to work. The people of Knightitown were thrown into great excitement, a few days since, by a heavy sound like an earthquake. After investigation, it was found that the boiler of John Caseley <t Son’s flax-mill, situated at the north part of town, had exploded Mr. Con Cleary, the engineer, was killed instant- ■ ly. He leaves a widow and two children. • Mr. Frank Broaius, an assistant, was so terri- | bly mangled that he died two hours later; I he leaves a winow and five children in destitute circumstancea The cause of the explosion is supposed to have been low water. The loss is estimated at $2,500, with no insurance). Another liquor case of seeming huge pro- ; portions, is now on the docket of the Fayette Circuit Court, at Connersville, on change ot ; venue from Henry county. It is entitled Benjamin Caldwell vs. W. W. Bartlett et aL Caldwell, the applicant for license, applied : | to the Commissioners of Henry county, but was met with a remonstrauce signed by j Bartlett and eighty other citizens. The Com- ! missioners refused the license, and Caldwell appealed to the Circuit Court and then took a change of venue to this county. If those | included in the “et als.” all come to the trial with their witnesses, it will look like a temI perance mass-meeting. John W. Murphy, V. T. Malott and John P. ! Frenzel, the newly appointed Police Commissioners of Indianapolis, forwarded a short, crispy, business-like letter to the i Secretary of State, in effect, “We accept.” ; Under the arrangement made Mr. Malott : serves for three years, Mr. Frenzel for two years, and Mr. Murphy for one. The new board will immediately address the leading ' cities operating under the metropolitan po- ; lice system for copies of rules and regulations, in order to collate a set for home use, and notice has already been given by them that no personal applications for appointment will be entertained. All application! must be in writing and accompanied by testimonials. New Albany special: “In the City Council a petition was received signed by a number of citizens, setting forth that as Bloomington, Ind., was one of the first cities to send aid to New Albany to relieve flood sufferers, and as that town has been visited by a terrible conflagration, one of the three • unused steam fire-engines be presented to Bloomington. The council promptly granted the request and instructed the committee on fire department and the chief to select an engine and present it to Bloomington at the earliest possible moment. The committee met to-day, and determined to send the Sanderson & Selby engine, that cost the city $5,000. She was ordered in the shop for complete repair, and as soon as completed will be sent to Bloomington in charge of a committee of the council ” the nttie town nr Mexico, near Peru, is in a terrible state of excitement. One of its citizens has mysteriously disappeared. Allen Brown is missing. Some time since he sold his property, realizing a neat sum, and, with his wife and only child, removed to Kansas. The country was not such as pleased him, and, after a short trial of Western life, the family returned to their former home in this county. About two weeks ago Brown started for this city to seek work. He had about his person a considerable sum of money at the time. Days passed by, and the father and husband did not return. The anxious’ waiting wife became alarmed, and the people about Mexico have been searching ravines, dragging the creeks and rivers, fearing that he has met with foul play. Brown has always lived happily with hie family, and there could have been no possible reason for the desertion of his young wife and child. Captain J. B. Conner, Ex-Chief of the State Bureau of Statistics, appeared before the Board of Trustees of Purdue University, during their recent session at Lafayette, and proffered to turn the Indiana weather ser- , vice over to this institution. He gave a brief history of the organization of the service, and stated that stations had been organized in seventy-five counties of the State, and ps his successor to the bureau had concluded not to continue the service, he desired the to take it, and . that such an action would be approved and receive the hearty co-operation of the Meteorological Department at Washington. The Board cf Trustees decided unanimously to accept the service for the University and carry it forward as originally begun and prosecuted. So, hereafter, Purdue will be the headquarters of the meteorological and weather-service work of Indiana, to which all the Indiana stations will report and from which the reports will go to the department at Washington.

William Thohntoii. a brute In human form, who li res in Gibson county, became enraged, recently, at his hojse, because it had as mulish and stubborn a disposition ae hie own, and was addicted to balking, and for revenge upon the animal Thornton cut out its tongue. The suffering of the animal W'aa terrible. Thornton was arrested, and now languishes in jail for his infamous misdemeanor in default of 8500 bait Episcofamanb throughout the State will be interested in the following brief account of Bishop-Elect Nicholson's present charge: •St. Mark's church is one of the leading Episcopal churches of Philadelphia. By a charter provision, morning and evening service is held every day In the year. The key of the door is never turned against the public except at night. Any person can enter the church at any hour of the day for private meditation and prayers, as well as for public worship. The membership Is so large that holy communion is celebrated at 7, 8 and. 9 o’clock every Sunday morning. Upon every Thursday, and upon all the Saint days. In addition to the worship of St. Mark’s, its charities are extraordinary. It maintains a hospital for the sick, and numerous guilds among the men and women for the poor and needy, and for missionary work at home and abroad. Dr. Nicholson superintends ail these parochial charities in person. He has four clerical assistants to attend to the daily services, and to aid in ministering to the sick and sorrowing members of the flock. ” Indianapolis Journal.- 'During the time that Indianpolis was exerting itself for the relief of the suffering by the Ohio river flood, the ladies of the Second Presbyterian Church forwarded several boxes of clothing and bedding to Lawrenceburg. They were sent to Rev. S. N. Wison, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church there, to be distributed, and he did the work so unselfishly that his own family, who were without sufficient and proper raiment themselves, was unprovided for. Their wants in this regard, however, were supplied by the ralief committee, when the Governor and Board of Trade Representatives were at Lawrenceburg. Ten days ago the condition of Mr. Wilson was mentioned, and Mayor Roberts promised to investigate and report He did so, and his communication was read at prayer-meeting in the Second Church, last night, by H. S. Watson. It stated that all the furniture belonging to Mr. Wilson was destroyed, the house absolutely denuded, and his needs listed. A prompt response was made to the appeal, and this morning sufficient furniture will be shipped to make the family at least comfortable” An Anderson dispatch says: “One of the saddest cases of juvenile depravity ever witnessed in this city was at the Mayor’s Court this morning. Ina Tyra is the handsome 15-year-old daughter "of a widow residing in the eastern part of the city. Her mother is a member of the church, and always tried to teach Ina to do right, but she seemed willful and disobedient, and at last the sad fact was brought to the mother that her child was keeping disreputable company. The girl was arrested and pleaded guilty to being a prostitute. Her mother was with her In court, and her agony at the ruin of her child brought tears to the eyes of many of the spectators. His Honor Major Dunham aud Prosecutor Kittenger compelled the girl to give the names of the young men who had coaxed her from her honor, and andwhen four of them were brought into court, His Honor, after giving them a scathing lecture, fined each 810 and sent them to jail for ten days, with orders to the Marshal to work them six hours each day upon the streets The young men all move in good society, and were each able to pay the fines, but putting them in jail broke their hearts.” W. P Thuockmobton, of Romney, Will Phfaler, of Greencastle, and John Green, of Waynetown, students of the Wabash College at Crawfordsville, were arrested, a few days since, on a charge of arson, they being implicated in the recent attempt to burn various portions of the college buildings of late. In I’hfaler's trunk were found several revolvers which were identified as the property ot Tinsley 4 Morton, whose hardware store, after being robbed, was set on fire and damaged to the amount of 85,000 a short time ago. Young Green fainted when arrested, and after reaching the station house made a confession, acknowledging that he and Phfaler were the parties who attempted I to burn South Hall, and that Throckmorton assisted them In burning one of the college outhouses whleh were recently reduced to ashes. Green also acknowledges complicity in the robbery of Tinsley & Martin’s hardw are store. I hey all waived examination and wepj bound over to the next term of court, Throckmorton to one charge, Phfaler to two, and Green to three. They all gave bail to the amount of 8500, 82,000 and 83,000 respectively. The general impression is that the bail will be forfeited, and that the young viliians will never be brought to trial. Wiluam H. Collier, arrested, charged with receiving money belonging to the Marion Trust Company, and not turning it over to the Receiver, was sent to jail in default- of 88,400 bond, was released under habeas corpus on the evidence of the Misse g Ginnis, clerks in the office, who testified that they had seen Collier, since the appointment of a Receiver, get several letters containing postal orders and drafts made out in the name of his father. They did not, however, read the letters. The drafts and orders were for amounts all the way from 85 to SIOO. They did not see any money received Judge Taylor, after hearing the evidence, stated he had no doubt that, whatever may have been the primary purpose of the Marion Trust Company in its organization the effect of its operations was to swindle and deceive. He stated, also, that he believed Collier had been put into prison by the attorney of the certificate-holders acting in good faith, but he was unable to order Collier’s detention in prison on the evidence elicited. He, therefore, directed that Mr. Collier be discharged Judge Taylor, after leaving the bench, called to Collier, who was about leaving the court-room, and told him that if he was receiving any money he should at once return it to the persons who sent it; otherwise he would be guilty of criminal conduct Collier made no reply. Put Tills into Your Pipe. An English workingman, just past the middle age, found that his pipe, which for many years had been a great comfort to him, was beginning to seriously affect his nerves. Before giving it up, however, he determined to find out if there was no way by which he might continue to smoke without feeling its effects to an injurious He accordingly wrote to a melical journalTmd was recommended to fill the bowl of the pipe one-third full of table-salt an 1 press the tobacco hard down upon it. as in ordinary smoking. The result was very satisfactory. During the process of smoking the salt solidifies, while remaining porous, and when the hardened lump is remo ed at the end of the day's smoking it is found to have a >sorbed so much of the oil of tobacco as to be deeply colored. The ■alt should be renewed daily.

NUMBER 52.

THE FAMILY CHICLE. Conversation’ at Home.—The topics and tone of conversation might be in many families far more intelligently guided. Parents ought to study the art of interesting their children in noble and inspiring themes. If the ordinary and daily talk at the table and in the drawing room be sordid and selfish, or snarling, or only goseipy, or about potatoes, and cabbages, what can one expect of the children’s minds or hopes ? When will parents learn that their words are seed-corn, and will bear a future harvest, each after its own kind. Heroes and saints are made by talking of heroism and sainthood, just as merchants and farmers are made by talking of commerce and agriculture. Children. —Some children are more prone to show temper than others, and sometimes on account of qualities which are valuable in themselves. For instance, a child of active temperament, sensitive feeling and eager purpose is more likely to meet with constant jars and rubs than a dull, passive child; and, if he is of an open nature, his inward irritation is immediately shown in bursts of passion. If you repress these ebullitions by scolding and punishment, you only increase the evil by changing passion into sulkiness. A cheerful, good- tempered tone of your own, a sympathy with his trouble, whenever the trouble has arisen from no ill-conduct, are the best antidotes; but it would be better still to prevent beforehand, as much as possible, all sources of annoyance. Never fear spoiling children by making them happy. Hold On, Bovs. —Hold on to your tongue when you are. just ready to swear, lie, or speak harshly, or use an improper word. Hold on to your hand when you are about to punch, strike, scratch, steal or do anv improper act. Hold on to your foot when you are on the point of kicking, running off from study, or pursuing the path of error, shame or crime. Hold on to your temper when you are angry, excited, or imposed upon, or others are angry with you. Hold on to your heart when evil associates seek your company and invite you to join in their mirth, games and revelry. Hold on to your good name, for it is of more value than gold, high places or fashionable attire. Hold on to the truth, for it will serve you well and do you good throughout eternity. Hold on to virtue—it is above all price to you in all times and places. Hold on to your good character, for it is aud ever will be your best wealth. —lllustrated Christian Weekly. WB CAN MAKE HOME HAPPY. Though we may not chance the cottage Fyr a mansion tall and grand. Or exchange a little grass plat For a boundless stretch < f land— Yet there’s something brighter, nearer. Than the wealth we’d thus command. Though we have no means to purchase Costly pictures, rich and rare— Though we have no silken hangings For the walls so cold and bare — We can hang them o’er with garlands, For flowers bloom everywhere. We can always make home cheerful, If the right course we begin; We can make its inmates happy, And their truest blessings win; It will make the small room bright If we let me sunshine in. When Ave gather round the fireside When rhe evening hours are long, We can blend our hearts and voices In a happy, social song; We can guide some erring brother, Lead him from the path of wrong We may fill our home with music, And with sunshine brimming o’er, If against al! dark intruders We will firmly shut the door— Yet, should evil’s shadows enter, We must love each other more. There are treasures for the lowly Which the grandest fail to find; There is a chain of sweet affection Binding friends of kindred mind— We may reap the choicest blessings From the Doorest lot assigned. The Problem of Spelling Beform. Prof. Lounsbury, of Yale, in a forcible article on this subject, in the Cen° tury magazine, illustrates as follows the evils of English orthography: The fundamental principle does not lie in the existence of useless letters, which in so many cases are, in addition to their uselessness, the records of fictitious history or perverted etytoology. This is something that needs especially to be insisted upon, because it is against these “interesting encumbrances and anomalies,” as the London Times calls them, that efforts at reform are naturally at first directed; and what is onlv a side issue, though an important one, becomes to the minds of many the main issue. Th’s fundamental evil, as it is generally stated, lies in the fact that our language, as at present spelled, had a multitude of signs for the same sound, and a multitude of sounds for the same sign. But an abstract statement of this kind means little or nothing to the mass of mena few- examples may make it mean a great deak Let us take, for instance, the vowel-sound, which is seen in the words met, sweat, any, said, say, and jeopard. Here is one sound, that of short e, which is respesented in these various words by six different signs,by e, by ea, by a, by ai, by ay, by eo. Take again the vowel-sounds heard in rude, move, rood, routine, rheum, drew, shoe, rued, and burise. Here the same sound is represented by nine signs; by u, by o, by 00, by ou, by eu, by ew, by oe, by ue, and by ui. Take again the sound which we call “long e," which was originally with us represented by i, and which is still so represented in other languages. It is found in meet, mete, meat, machine, grief, receive, key, people, agis, and is thus denoted by the nine different signs of ee, of e, of ea, of i, of ie, of ei, of ey, of eo, of ce. This will do for one side of the shield; the other cannot lie said to present a more attractive view. The sign ou has six different sounds, according as it is found in the words sour, pour, would, tour, sought and couple; the sign ea has five different sounds as seen in heat, sweat, great, heart, and heard. What is true of these vowels, or of these combinations of vowels, is true of all the others, and of the sounds denoted by them. Kind, for illustration, can be written keind, for in tnis way is written height; it can be written kuincl, for so is guile; it can be written kynd. for so is eye; it can be written At/nd, for so is type; it can be written kuynd. for so is buy; it can be written kaind, for so is aisle; it can lie written kiend, for so is relied. The whole vowel-system is in a state of chaos; and if confusion existed to the same extent among the consonants, the acquisition of English orthography would ba the w ork of a life-time. THE use of coke on locomotives is one-third more costly than coal. The fact that there is no smoke will not compensate for the extra coat of coke.