Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVII.

The Democrat, Official Paper of the County. A. J- HILL, Editor and Busin car I Huia«er, i 1 TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE I TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. U B. Aixnoif. Prw't. w. H KinunTcibler. B. Srvmiuni, Vk» Pni’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, Thl« Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tt ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DICATUB, IKDIAHA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are NoSeries Public and draw deeds and mortgagee Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0 O. F. building. 26jy79tf FRANCE & KINOT ~~~ r ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BBCATUR.INDIANA. " E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BICATCB, INDIANA. x All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone's building Atkdoor. v25n24 year 1. J T. MERRYMAN, Attorney at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR, INDIANA. Deeds Mortgages. Contracts and all Legal Instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Partition, settlement of decedent's estates, and collections a specialty. Office :—Up stairs in Stone’s building, 4th door.—vol. 25, no 24 ts. ~ r E, H. COVERDALE, attorney at Law, —)and(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Welfley's grocery, opposite the Court House. B. R. FREEMAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin St Holthouses’ Drug Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe. Professional calls promptly attended. Nol 26, No. 34. ts. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office ever -Adame Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Chargee reasonable. Residence an north eide of .Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart’s Mill, 25jy79tf WTh. MYERS, trick If Stone Mason Contract DECATUR, INDIANA. Jolioits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n40m3. SEYMOUR WORDEN, A-uicticiieer. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls' in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUCUST KRECHTER 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 sneer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office over Welfley s Grocery Store, opposite the Court House. Decatur, Indiana. Bi-m 6 R nTIP of graves K OS 8 ? fra a robbed ■ IM Ist IrralFof their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures IID potency (caused by excesses of any kind.) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, loss of memory, universal lassitude, pain in the back, dimness of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circulars with testlmonals free by mail. The Invigorator is sold at JI per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F. J. CHENEY, Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United Slates. R. A. Pieroe & Co., Sole Agents at Decatn, A week made *t home by the indnetrifn / flow. Best bueine .now befbiethe pwbU. -K / I /i nital not nee<le< . We will start yon. tjj f / Men, women, bye »nd girls »»IH' , I Vu f A. <T .,rywhen to work «"r n«. Now w the ' time. You can work in q»re wilt whole tune to the M to make pay you nearly ac well. No one can » enormous pay, by engaging at once. and’honorarid terms free. Money made fast,-eas .and honor ably, Address Tbvs A Co., Augusta, Maine, DR. KiTCHIVULLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Svery sscond Tuesday and Wednesday •< ••eh month to treat all t hronie DiseasesConsultation free. Call tnd see him. AJI letters of inquiry received at the home ot«ce at Pique, Ohio, will receive prompt •attention Write to him and m»ke • lU* (••ut of your case.—i*m36ly.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. DIE fcAST. Sincß the rendering of a decision by ft New York city court that policemen are entitled to pay during illness, • the alarming increase of sickness is demoralizing the force.... The centenary of Bishop Seabury, who was elected first American Episcopal Bishop Mateu 25, 1783, was celebrated March 2A, at Woodbury, Conn. Bishop Williams and twenty clergymen were present The gossips who have been making estimates of the cost of the Vanderbilt ball have givan publicity to extravagant and ridiculous figures. That upward of $1,000,000 was expended is entirely erroneous. The report that the fabulous sum of 320,0(K) had been expended for floral decorations alone give jilace to the truth of the matter; the cost of ther axe exotics that found place among the art-hanging of the sumptuous drawing-rooms is now placed at about $10»OOQ. The supper furnished by the chefs de cuisine of the combined families of Vanderbilt, aided in the matter of ices and pastry by Delmonico, cost, inclusive of service and incidentals, SIO,OCO. The sparkling beverages consumed are estimated to have cost SB,OOO, while the cost of the music by Lander and Gilmore is said to have been but $1,500... .Joseph Ijavery, crippled for life bv runaway horses, was awarded $.1,000 damages at NcW York against the Metropolitan Elevated road, he having proved that hot coals falling on the backs of the animals from one of its locomotives caused their stampede... .The Massachusetts House has passed a bill providing for biennial elections of State officers and for biennial sessions of the Legislature... .The Delaware House has passed a bill imposing an extra fine upon unlicensed salesmen from other States, the fine to go to the party making the arrest Witnesses testified before a Massachusetts Legislative committee that the Tewksbury Alms House authorities sold bodies to the Harvard Medical School; that some corpses were pickled and sent to Boston in pork barrels, and that funeral seivices had been held over coffins filled with wood. The investigation was caused by Gov. Butler’s charges, and he was present in the role of prosecutor. A New York telegram reports that •the continuance of fair weather is stimulating city trade immensely, and from a careful and extended inquiry it is ascertained that there are few of the down-town wholesale houses that are not as busy as they care to be. Many are in town, and their purchases, especially of dry goods, are reported to be quite as liberal as those of last season.” A party of Y’ale students, who attempted to create a disturbance at an amateur dramatic performance in New Haven, were roughly used by town boys, who dkl not regard the privileges of intellect... .A tow of thirty-seven coal barges broke from their moorings at Pittsburgh, Pa, and were swept rapidly down the river, colliding with several steamers, one of which was sunk, and a number of other barges, which also sunk. At last accounts the runaway licet had not been captured. The damage done is estimated at $50,000, THE WEST. No more bodies were recovered from the Diamond mine, near Braidwood, March 27, the search for corpses being retarded by masses of earth that had fallen in the passages since the pit was flooded.... Two difterent camps, located between Clifton and Lordsburg, N. M., were attacked by Apaches the other night, and nine men were killed. A count has been made of the San Carlos reservation Indians, which demonstrates that that band is not responsible for the outrages. Gen. Crook reports that the marauders are a portion of the Chiricahua Apaches who were driven into Mexico last year. To these Indians Gen. Crook charges the murder of at least 1,000 persons during the last ten years..., A. Reavis has filed a claim with the United States Surveyor at Tucson, Arizona, for 5,850 square miles embraced in the Peralto land claim. The claim covers all the valuable mines of Arizona, except those in the Tombstone district. ?. . Russell Brown and Patrick McGlew, accused of the murder of Mrs. Gen. Dorris, Brown’s grandmother, at St Louis, entered a plea of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and were sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. A dispatch from Braidwood, 111., of March 28, says: ‘‘Despairing of being able to recover the sixty-eight corpses in the Diamond coal mine at Braidwood before decomiiosition shall have rendered their identification impossible, the owners of the mine are considering a proposition to close the pit permanently ana to erect over the entrance to iv a monument to the memory of the miners intombed therein. The suggestion is opposed by the friends of the dead men. No progress* was made yesterday in the work of clearing away the obstructions in the pit” The funeral of the late Postmaster General, Timothy O. Howe, was celebrated at Kenosha, Wis. Quiet and simple ceremonies were held at the Unitarian Church, after which the remains wc re removed to Senator Howe’s old home at Green Bay for interment A distinguished gathering of United States Senators and Cabinet officers. State and judicial officers of Wisconsin, and representatives of the Postoffice Department took part in the solemn rites. Eighteen miles north of Lortlsburg, N. M., Judge H. C, McComas, his wife and child, formerly of St louis, were overtaken by Apaches and all but the child killed The child is supposed to have been carried into captivity. The marauding Indians are much more numerous than earlier reports indicated, and their ravages cover a large section of country, extending from Magdalena to within a few miles of Tombstone, Arizona. The savages attacked Swing’s ranch, near the Gila river, in Arizona, and killed five men. The same band attacked Beach’s camp and killed two men.... .With simple but impressive film ral ceremonies, all that was mortal of the late Postmaster General Howe was laid to re... iu Woodlawn Cemetery, Green Bay, Wia All business w:s susper.ded in the tom of which Senator Howe had been so long an honored citizen, rnd thousands of the people av iled themselves of the 1. st opportunitv to pay respect to their dist nguished townsman Two colored men, Henry Ross and Henry Depugh, who were living alone in a house in Madison county. 111. were found dead in iied the other morning. Their heads were shattered bv a shot-gun. Then is no clew to the murderers. Depugh was the -on of the Rev. Isaac Depugh. a well known colored Baptist minister... .The YYesiern r-xport Association have decided to close their distilleries from June 1 until the amount of whisky in store shall have been reduced so that prices mav lie readily Controlled. In the meantime the selling rate has been used at SI 13. A Lordsburg (N. M.) telegram of the 30th nit, says: Three men were killed between Separ and Animas valley this mornin’ Capt Black and his rangers are following the trail. The Indians are doubtless m iking for Old Mexico, and fears ary entertained that they will reach there Vetere our rangers can overtake them....A lucsou ’Ari.) dispatch savs the troops arc all moving toward the Mexican line to intercept the Indians on their return to Sonora. Seven more bodies were discovered on the 30th ult in the Diamond coal mine at Braidwood, but so badly decomposed that it was impossible to take them through the narrow pUage that had been made in the debris cumbering the pit to the shaft The Dropoation to organize a volunteer search of miners was abandoned, no one being found willing to engage in the enterprise. , At Booneville, Ind.. Simon Williams Phot and killed Jackson Wallace and his son, Thomas Wallace, in a saloon. The men had been quarreling during fair had been settled to the satisfaction.of all, excepting Wallace, who renewed the quarrel at night....A slipping of the track (caused by recent heavyrains) of the Cincinnati road, forty miles from Mason, Wane* countv. Ohio, caused a great wreck, two sleeping cars rolling down an embankment the other coaches being thrown fj<> m T “ e tiack and one consumed. More than htty persons were wounded and several are thought to be fatally injured.

advices from the West reported that i-Jie Shakspeare Guards, of Shakspeare. N. M., were in close pursuit of the dejiredating Apaches, who had been obliged to abandon their horses and plunder and take to the mountains on foot. Cant. Thompson, with a detachment of the Fourth cavalry, would follow the Indians into Mexico if necessary. Capt Dougherty, who was in pursuit of the ho-tilies, had been ordered to take no prisoners... .The attorneys of the Northwestern Fuel Company, of St. Paul, Minn., attached all the rolling stock of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern railway to be found in Minnesota* i The railway company will not send any more cars into that State The boilers of I the towboat Polar Star, plying between Cairo and St. Louis, exploded while the craft was off Belmont, Mo., resulting in the death of six of her crew. Six corpses were removed from the Diamond mine, near Braidwood, HL, on the Ist inst, making thiHy-fiVe recovered up to that date. The bodies brought out of the death-pit were identified as being Ike Pearson, John Pearson, James Pearson, Thomas Rogers, Hugh Ramsey, and Andy Fulton. They were not identified by | their features, as they were unrecognizable. Wives, bxpthers, sisters and mothers were frantic over the unsightly i appearance of the bodies. The exploring I party that brought the bodies out were stupefied with whisky and quinine. This was on account of the*terrible stench that arose from the decomposed Another exploring party was to have gone down on the evening of the Ist inst, but they refused to re-enter the mine, on account of the peril- , ous nature of the undertaking. THE SOUTH, W. C. Woodward, a reporter, was arrested at Nashville charged with passing gold-washed nickels for $5 pieces He made a vigorous attempt to escape from the officers: but was captured. The Arkansas Legislature has enacted a law of considerable importance to printers, by which the public printing is to be given to the lowest bidder in or outside the city. Bids may be received from San Francisco or Portland, Me, and the work done at either place if the lowest bid Tills is considered very unfair to the printers of the State, and it' is likely the members of the Legislature will hear individually from the pres.< .. .The bill f,>r a settlement of the debt of the late city of Memphis has been signed by the Governor of Tennessee. Provision has been made by the taxing district of Memphis for the payment of interest on the refunded debt J uly lot the current year. An act making it felony to keep gambling establishments, or the renting of houses for such a purpose, has passed the Tennessee Legislature. The penalty is imprisonment for not less than one nor more than three years in the penitentiary. The effect of this will be to banish the gambling | fraternity from the State. The Mormon elder, Morgan, left Chattanooga, Tenn, last week with 150 proselytes for Utah, gathered in all sections of the South A circus tent at Key West, Fla., fell during the performance, burying a large audience and creating a panic.' Four women and two men were dangerously injured and eight were fatally injured... .0. F. Hightower, an informer, who was conducting a posse of revenue officials to capture Illicit distillers, was shot and killed by the latter in the Saluda mountains, Greenville county, 8. C. A San Antonio dispatch reports that two white men, supposed to be CL J. Mildy and James McGrew, of Texas, and a halfbreed, were captured by six white men near Sabinas, Mexico. They’tied the prisoners in a ravine, and all were killed. The cause is unknown. WASHINGTON. It has been decided by Attorney General Brewster that the law making retirement from the army compulsory on officers who have reached 64 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. Dr. Hicks, who was Guiteau’s spiritual adviser, has sued the Baltimore American for $35,000 for stating he disposed of the assassin’s bones for a monetary consideration.. . The Grand Jurv of the District of Columbia have returned three additional presentments in connection with the starroute frauds. In one James T. Brady is charged with unlawfully receiving $5,000 from Price, the contractor: iu the second, ex-Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, and Brady are jointly accused of conspiring with Price to defraud the Government bv the expedition of routes; and, in the third, Kellogg, individually, 1’ alleged to have unlawfully received from Price •Uo,l 00 in consideration of the exercise of his influence in securing certain advantages for Price from the PostoffieeDepartment. The indictments were found upon the evidence of Price, who claimed to have made the payments to Brady and Kellogg in cash and postoffice drafts.... Acting Secretary of the Treasury French has ordered t he payment of the bonds embraced in the 120th call on April 4 and on the two following Wednesdays, not more than ? >,- 000.(00 being pavable each Wednesday. The bonds embraced in this call mature May 1, anil amount to J15.1K0.1X.X)... .The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued a circular to Collectors, giving minute directions relative to the allowing of claims for rebate to tobacco manufacturers under the new Tax and Tariff bill Ex-Senator Kellogg professes liis ability to disprove the allegations in the affidavit of Contr ctor Price, in a statement that he is preparing... .The President has forbidden the communication by his subordina’es of ; ny information about cases in which the executive clemency is invoked. Hereafter all such proceedings will be kept secret The reason as signed is newspaper misrepresentation of the President's action in certain recent pardon cases The acting Secretary of the Treasury has decided that the rate of duty, as between the old and new tariff, is to be fixed bv the date of the r rrival of the importing v' s=e! at. the ex'eiior port of entry, and that goods imported before the new act takes effect, and hipped to Western ports under ixomerliate transportation, will be dutiable under I he present tariff, un'ess they remain in publi ■ store or bowled warehouse when the act goes into operation.... The Postoftice Department ha - placed the following names on the 11 -t of frauds: YY. YL I'inton A- Co. and the Comet Publish ng Company, Bloomington. 111.; Western I aril Company. Normal. 111.; Union Novelty Company, Mount Pulaski, Ill.; Star Publithing Company. Atlanta. I'd., and Agon’s Guide and Guide Publishing Company, Lincoln, 111. An experimental farm and a hospital for the treatment of domestic animals is to be established near Washington, by the Bureau of Agriculture. It is designed to investigate especially the most common forms of contagious diseases of cattle and horses. POLITICAL. A bill prohibiting political assessments in the State of Pennsylvania was passed by the State House of Representatives. The Connecticut Legislature has passed a bill repealing an ancient law prohibiting the letting of carriages on Sunday for pleasure purposes; The House rejected by 113 nays to 76 yeas a bill allowing Sunday evening concerts.... The New York Assembly committee has reported favorably on the bill prohibiting the granting of free passes to certain State officials, and waking the granting of such a misdemeanor... .The Hon. Benjamin Butterworth. late Congressman fnom the First Ohio district, has been appointed one of the Government Commissioners for the Northern Pacific railroad. Mr. E. O. Graves, Superintendent of the National Bank-note redemption Division of the Treasury Department, has been appointed Assistant Treasurer of the United States, rice Wyman, jfromoted to be Treasurer. Capt .1. N. Burril, of New York, succeeds the late O. H. Irish as Superintendent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In the election at Chicago, for city and township officers, and member of the City Council, the Democrats elected Carter H. Harrison. Mayor, hr from 5. WO th 9,(W majoi tv over Judge Eugene Cai ey, .candidate of the reform party. It Is thought the enrr- Democratic ticket is eleoted... .In To leio, Ohio, the Republicans elected the Mavor and Police Clerk by small majorities, while the Democrats elected the Solicitor,

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1883.

Police Judge, Police Prosecutor. Trustees ot Water Works and Cemetery, three Police Commissioners, Justices of the Peace and four Constables... .John Farley. Democrat, was elected Mayor of Ch;veland by nearly 1,000 majority. (nu&RAift American artists at Paris are excited over the increased tariff on works of art passed by the last Congress, and will petition for its repeal... .The movement among cigar-makers for an increase of $1 per thousand in the price for making cigars after the Ist of May is extending, the Boston union having taken action in the matter. The manufacturers at Milwaukee are preparing to assume an aggressive position in the controversy, and, if the de- , inands of the workmen are persisted in, will close their shops for a season.... .The record of deaths includes the names of Charles Stetson, ex-meipber of Congress, of Bangor, Maine, aged 82 years, and the R* v. Daniel Inthrdp, a prominent Presbyterian divine of Jackson, Mich., aged £5 years. During the year 1882 the loss by fire in the United States was $81,505,024, and in ; Canada $5,605,940. In the etoht years past, beginning with the record"f 1875, the I losses in the United States were $593.- i 447,609, and in Canada $78,779,390, j lor the great total of $672,266,999.... ] Prank Byrne, the Irish suspect recently ar- > rested in Paris, but whose extradition* was i refused by the French authorities, has arrived in New York, accompanied by his wife, whom the approver Carey also charged with participation in the Phoenix Park assassination conspiracy. Recent deaths: Gen. N. B. Buford, of Chicago; Jerome Leland, proprietor of the Sturtevant House, New York, at Cleveland. Ohio; CoL Charles IL Gill, ex-Attomey General of Wisconsin, at Madison, and Nathan H. Dearborn, of St Charles, 111, who came West in 183& It is stated as a fact that direct t telephonic communication has been had between Cleveland, Ohio, and New York city, a distance of over 600 miles. Mrs. Meaker was hanged on the 30th ult, at Windsor, Vt, for the murder of her niece. She slept soundly during the preceding night, and in the morning, at ’ her special request, was permitted to seethe gallows, the machinery of which she inspected closely. To her husband and daughter she sent word that she was “to be murdered to-day,” and to the last proclaimed her innocence. She evinced no fear on the scaffoli, and died without a struggle. Charles W. Beaver (colored) was executed at Leesburg, Va.. for outraging a little girl, and Oliver Bristow Buffered the extreme penalty at Camden, S. C., for murder..... Sir Leonard Tilley, the Canadian Finance Miinster, delivered* the budget speech, showinglhe financial condition was excellent, and that the Government, after redeeming the debt falling due, beside meeting other expenditures, had a balance of $2,333,840. Several changes in the tariff were announced.... .Fire caused the total destruc- ; tion of the Crown distillery at Pekin, HL; 1 loss, $40,600. Half the business portion of the village of Deerfield, Mich., has been destroyed. At Galesville, Texas, property of ; I the value of $50,000 was burned..... At a meeting in Jay Gould’s office in New ! York, it was determined to build a railroad ! from Quincy, 111., to Chicago, to furnish an independent outlet for the Hannibal and St. j I Joseph road... .The busine. s failures in the United States for the week nding March 30 numbered 170, being twenty-six less than for the we«’k ending March 23, an excess of forty-one over the corresponding week of 1882, aiid fifty-eight more than in the same period in 1881. The potters have discovered that the reduction of duty 0.-x crockery and earthenware contemplated by the new Tariff law may be eluded by a liberal construction of the* provision for the appraisement of invoices contained in the ninth section of the act..... The amount remitted to Germany from : the United States for the relief of sufferers bv the Rhine floods is $152,376.... .A tire broke out in Cate street, Montreal, and before it could be extinguished SIOO,OOO damage had been done. FOREIGN. Six additional members of the Armagh assassination society were found guilty... .Alfred Clint, the marine and landscape painter, has just died in London.... Twenty-six arrests nave been made at Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland, for supposed complicity in a murder that was perpetrated in 1880. John Brown, the well-known attendant of Queen Victoria, is dead. His death occurred at Windsor Castle. As the favorite attendant of the Queen, John Brown was probably better known to the world at large than any Lord in waiting or aristocratic hanger-on of the royal court* He was a familiar figure on the box seat of the royal carriage whenever her Majesty rode out among her London subjects, and when the royal lady betook herself to her Highland home he was her faithful attendant and humble friend It is a well-known fact that Queen Victoria, as well as her late consort, were much more disposed to unbend and be familiar with such men as John Brown, the humble Highland gillie, than with persons m horn the etiquette of court compelled them to be gracious. In the Queen’s “Journal of the Highlands,” published some years ago, frequent mention is made of John Brown. He was a favorite gillie of Prince Albert, accompanying that would be sportsman upon ail occasions hen he sought the moors. After the Prince Constat’s death, the Queen, knowing her Late husband’s attachment to this faithful servant, promoted him to a place in her own personal ictinue. Knowing her Majesty’s tastes and weakness—and Victoria is said to have her share—John Brown proved himself a U canuy Scot,” accumulating, it is said, considerable property... .Two shocks of eaidbjuake haVe been felt at Mlskolez, in Hungary In agent of T. T. Barnum is in Paris negotiating with Louise Michel for a lecturing tour in America. A Senator’s Advice to a Young Man. A voting workman of Columbus, Ga., sent Senator Brown a pair of shoes of his own making, and received the following note of thanks: “Please accept my sincere thanks for the present which you have sent me of a pair of gaiters, I suppose they are called, made with your own hands. You state that you are 17 years of age, and that they are made by yourself. I trust that tliia speaks well for your future. If many thousands of the youth of the Southern country would engage in useful pursuits of this and like character, in- ' stead of passing a great deal of their time in idleness, as some do, the country would be in a better condition. Al--1 v ays recollect that all labor that is useful* is honorable. In whatever position a young man is ])laced, if he has health, he has it in his power, by his labor, to 1 make himself useful and respected; and j I delight to see the young men of Geori gia laying aside all false pride on this ' subject and going to work manfully to ’ i make a good living and make themI selves useful citizens. I trust you may ' become distiuguLshed in your trade, or I profession, and may not only make . I yourself useful to others, but that you 1 i may be eminently successful in buildI ing up your own fortune.”— Neic York k i Tribuni?.. — Uh links of Wisdom. 1 ■ “Better is a dry morsel and quietness 1 therewith” than a banquet washed ' ■ down with Jersey lightning. “A wise * servant shall rule over a son,” but a [ ! servant doing housework shall boss the * whole family. “Excellent speech be- . 1 cometh not a fool,” yet if he is rich his ; i words are applauded all the same. “A fool hath no delight in understanding” I the path to knowledge. “Better is the , poor that walketh in his integrity” than th ft rich that rideth a foolish hobby . “Rob not the poor because he is poor,” - but slam society’s a door in his face because he hath no money. not , thyself of to-morrow,” neither b$ , : shamed of what you left undone yes- , terd^y, — H'hitehatl Times,

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Harry Francis, of the Michigan City Dispatch, is a candidate for the mayoralty of that citv. The Vigo Iron dompany, at its last annual meeting, reduced its capital stock from $125;(XX) to $50,000. The mail-carrier service between Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, and Rising Sun, Indiana, has been abolished. Ninety indictments and thirty criminal oases await the conclusion of the GougarMandler trial at Lafayette. The Woman'sChristain Temperance Union of the Sixth Congressional district holds a convention at Newcastle, April 10-12. The large and handsome residence of Mr. A. J. Montgomery, in Lawrence county, was burned recently, involving a loss of $2,500. Professor E. E. Smith, Principal of the Academy at Purdue University, has been favorably named in connection with the Presidency. Sixty-seven thousand, four hundred and nineteen dollars was paid out for grain of all kinds at the Bryant elevators during the last twelve months. William 11. Pate, son of H. S. Pate, Esq., a citizen of Rising Sun, eloped on Monday with a wldew by the name of Ami Hamilton, mother of six children. The following Indiana Postmasters have been appointed: Frances Macartney, Angola; Humphrey Forsha, Ben Davis; John G. Saxton, Bengal; Martin W. Trent. CarrolL At Springfield, the mother of Rev. L. A Parker, pastor of the M. E. Church, formerly of Danville and Bloomington, fell down stairs and received very dangerous injuries. James W. Watts, of Terre Haute, a deputy under ex-Sheriff Stepp, has been indicted by the grand jury for embezzlement He is said to be short in his accounts to the amount of $1,500. The Indiana State Holiness Association will hold its annual convention in the Centenary M. E. church, New Albany, May 2. This association is wholly undenominational In character. George Motsinger, while operating a spoke mill at Farrabee's Station, on Monday* was hit by a flying piece of spoke timber in the abdomen, wounding him so severely that he died on Wednesday. While locking up his drug store at the close of business the other night, Dr. H. B. Durgin, of Newburg, dropped dead with heart disease. He was the leading business man of that town. Burglars entered the store of J. K. Snyder, at Fountaintown, in the northern part of Shelby county, a few nights ago, and blew open the safe, securing money, valuables and goods amounting to S6OO. A large number of horses and cattle have been poisoned within the past few days, in the vicinity of Pekin, by linseed oil cake shipped from St. Louis. Several horses have died and several more will die. In a collision on the Vandalia line, near Brazil, William Stewart, a fireman, was instantly killed, and William Brannan, an engineer, was perhaps fatally hurt. The loss to the railroad companv is large. John A. Howseb, a prominent farmer, living near Atlanta, died of lockjaw, brought on by accidentally wounding his foot by the discharge of a gun some days ago. He died in the greatest agony. At Delavan, Peter J. Anthers was found dead in bed, at his home in that place, with a pistol hole in his head. He had lived in Delavan for sixteen years, and was a native of Ohio. He was about to move to Dakota. He leaves a large family. The Jeffersonville Xeirs says there is a farmer in Clarke county who owns over 1,500 acres of land. He can neither read nor write nor make figures, yet if you buy a bee* or fat hog of hinilie can tell you quickly to a cent hew much it comes to. The authorities of Mitchel report that all danger of small-pox is past. The panic has caused a severe loss in business, but the revival has already set in. Every precaution to rid the town of the disease has been taken, and no further trouble is anticipated. Geobge Armstrong, over 80 years of age, while waging on the Pan-Handle railroad bridge north of Galveston, was run down by a freight train, the pilot striking him. He was precipitated thirty feet below, seriously injuring him, but it is thought not fatally. Mrs. Lizzie Wood has commenced suit for $25,000 damages against the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad Company by reason of injuries sustained by her in being jerked off she train by a conductor while in motion, by reason of which she has been rendered acripple for life. No Lim.E excitement was created at Sullivan by the announcement that J. A. Hayes had sold the Union, the only Republican paper in that county, to Uriah Caulson, who for five or six years past has been an Independent or National. Hayes has also resigned the Postmastership in favor of Caulson. A few nights since, in Butler township, Miami county, Solomon Fegley met his death under horrible circumstances. He lived alone in a log house. The house took fire, and in endeavoring to save some money from a trunk in the loft of the house the old man was burned to ieath in the presence of his neighbors. The Hartzell Bros, have forty-eight cows Ln their dairy near New Haven, perhaps the best four dozen milkers in Allen county. They have one bossy that yields six gallons per day and another that has given 1.100 gallons in the past year. The firm propose to add butter making to other branches of their business. Gideon Smith, of Curtisville, five miles from Windfall, was instantly killed the other day in the heading factory of Lee Goodwin at this place by a circular saw bursting, a piece striking him, cutting the top of his head off. He leaves a father, mother and Bister in a helpless condition, who were dependent on him for suDDort. Jefferson Uixert has been arrested and is on trial this week in the Circuit Court, at Greensburg, on the charge of blowing up saloons at New Palestine. The saloons were blown up four times, and no clew could be obtained to the jierpetrators. There is much interest manifested in the case. Later advices announce his acquittal Carlon A Haixenbeck, printers of Indianapolis, have 1,500 New Testaments on hand. They have brought suit .against Prof. C. A Shortridge and Anna M. Tillson, alleging that the defendants contracted with them for 5,000 Testaments, each page in paralied column, showing the King James and the new version, and that they still owe $1,542.46 therefor. 3,500 copies appear to have been disposed of. The Rolling Mill Company at Indianapolis has been experimenting with a new process of puddling, whereby worthless old iron can be made into the best quality of iron or even steel The process has not been altogether satisfactory, but has nevertheless developed some new facts in rail-making, and will be given further trial. The process includes the w» Id ng successfully of a steel head to a first-rate quality of iron rail.

A couple went to the clerk of the court at Lawrenceburg, to obtain a marriage license, the woman swearing that she was a disinterested witness, and signing the affidavit. They afterwards went to a justice and were married, the woman giving a different name, Committing perjury. She was a widow with several children, while the groom was said io be wealthy. The Normal School just established at Vernon has been formally opened. This is to be a permanent institution, and gives promise of becoming one of the best normals in the State. Over fifty students were enrolled, and many more have signified their intention of attending. Vernon is as well situated for such an institution as any town in the State. At a lonely wood-chopper's cabin, on The line of the Peru, Fort Wayne and Chiengd j railway, seven miles west of Fort Wayne, was found the body of Louis Laurent, aged 22 years, with his head gashed with an ax, which was found with the body in the cabin. He had been paid S6O by his employer three days before. The Sheriff arrested <vie Sam , McDonald, who lias been working with Laurent. A telegram from Monon, Indiana, says that the Louisville, New Albanv and Chicago Railway Company have located their general machine shops at Monon, it being at the crossing of their lines from Louisville to Michigan City aqd Chicago to Indianapolis. Monon is beautifully situated upon the banks of the stream which bears the name of the town. The town will furnish the amount of money required, and with this and other enterprises that will follow, it will be one of the most flourishing places in Northern Indiana. Daniel T. Hedges, an old and well-known citizen of Covington, met with a frightful death at the depot. A loaded coal train from Stringtown was passing down the grade in two sections, and it is supposed the I old man, who was very deaf and nearly blind, thought the first section was all the train and started across the track, when he was caught by the second section and f ground to a shapeless mass. The remains were gathered together, inclosed in a casket and taken to the Methodist church, of which he had been sexton for most of the time during the last twenty years. Still another of the many “insurance companies” operated on the assessment plan, of which the late lamented Marion Trust, under the management of the saint- 1 ed Collier, was the pioneer and chief ex- | ponent—the “Amicable Investment Com- ■ pany”—has succumbed to the inevitable, [ after making a brave stagger to pay the first maturing certificates, and has acknowledged its inability to make everlasting fortunes for its members. Not only has it done that, but it has publicly announced its intention of “winding up its affairs,” as the officers are please to term its retirement from the field. Jeremiah Wampler died on Monday at his residence in Bainbridge, at the age of 102 years, nine months and twenty-five days. He was born at Wytheville, Wythe county, 1 Va., in 1780, and was married to Miss Rebecca Hall, of Wytheville, Va., Sept 4, 1812, after which he emigrated to Bedford, Ind., where : his wife died leaving him to care for seven children. He subsequently removed from Bedford to Gosport, Owen county, where in a short time he married Miss Elizabeth Moorehead. From Gosport he came to Bainbridge, Putnam county, where he re- ; mained working at his trade until a few days of his death. He was a veteran of the war of 1812 in Captain Lewis Hail’s company of Virginia militia. Notwithstanding his age, he could read and write without the use of glasses. The physicians of Jeffersonville are just | now puzzled over a singular phenomenon—the birth of a child by a woman with confluent small-pox, and the child does not show any signs of the disease. The case occurred at Watsou, a little station on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, six miles north, Mrs. Craig being the mother. Just 1 before the child was born the mother was taken ill, and <he physician pronounced it confluent small-pox. In due time the child was born, and there were no signs of the disease. The physicians regarded this as a very singular* case, and arc puzzled to ac- i count for it The child was vaccinated at once, and the case will be watched with pe- i culiar interest. There are six cases of small- j pox at Watson, and the little town is greatly excited over the spread of the disease. The Executive Committee of the State Board of Agriculture has determined that second premiums shall in every instance be one-half of the first premium; that the pre- i miums for long-wool sheep, two years and under three, shall be for one buck and two ewes; that first and second premiums shall be offered for mares with colts at their sides. The committee also concluded to prohibit the exhibition of sewing-machines; to increase the premiums in the women's department to *800; to strike out premiums for fish anti living birds; to offer premiums of $lO and $5 for the best collections of American woods, twenty-five varieties, and $5 to $3 for war relics. The Superintendent wits directed to erect twenty additional buildingsfor stock at the cost of $3,500. Pre- j miums on hogsand sheep were slightly reduced Additional premiums will be offered j for sorghum sugar and syrup, owing to the , growth of this manufacture and in response • to general demand. The annual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Indiana, took place at Indianapolis with nearly 300 delegates in attendance. T. J. Carnahan presided, and Commander-in-Chief Vandervoort, of Nebraska, was present as a dis- ; tinguished guest. In his address, Comi mander Carnahan reported that the posts in : the State since December, 1882, had tncreasi ed from forty-six to 155. Ben D. House, Ad- • jutant General, reported sixty-two deaths j during the years. Receipts, $6,604.41; exI penditurcs, $4,941.29; balance, $1,663.12; as- ■ sets, $2,800; total membership. 6,0:’>8. Of- | ficers elected: Jas. R.Carnahan,lndianapolis. I Commander; Edwin Nicar, South Bend, i Senior Vice; Paul Hendricks, Junior Vice; i Dr. James S. Gregg. Fort Wayne, Medical Director; Rev. J. M. Whitehead, Washington, Chaplain; Ben D. House, Indianapolis, Assistant Adjutant General; G. H. Shover, Indianapolis, Quartermaster; Governor Tom j Hanna, Greencastle, Judge Advocate; R. S. I Robertson, Fort Wayne, Chief Mustering Os- , ficer; A D. Lynch, Indianapolis, W. D. McI Cullough, Brazil, J. M. Story, Franklin, Harry Dean, Goshen, J. W. Watts, Delphi, Coun- , cil of Administration, and M. I). Manson, i Crawfordsville, Charles L. Holstein, Indianapolis, N. C. Welch, Warsaw, J. P. C. Shanks, Portland and R. S. Robertson, Fort Wayne, delegates to the National Encampment; WH. Armstrong. Terre Haute, Delegate-at-large. Poor little Emma Smith wedded big, : burly John Brown. The latter, on bei ing asked his business, replied with the | air of a man who was telling the truth, j “Im an Em-bosser.” The faculty of Amherst College, Massachusetts, has forbidden its students to take part hereafter in iirterooli legiate athletic contests.

A REMINISCENCE OF ISftt What Senator Beck Thought of John rissey an a Presidential Candidate* Senator Beck, of Kentucky, furnishes innumerable newspaper stories. He is a clever, whole-souled and bright’ minded man, and can tell a story himself about as well as anybody in the country. The following, in relation to the Kentucky Senator and his visit to St. Louis during the convention of 187*1, comes from one who heard and saw all that is related: Mr. Beck was in St. Louis, but whether as delegate or speculator is immaterial. He stopped at the Southern Hotel. It will be remembered that another distinguished guest of the Southern on that occasion was the Hon. John Morrissey, ex-prize-fighter and ex-Con-gressmau of New York, who was here as the friend of Mr. Tilden, and the opponent of Tammany. t’robably no man in the great crowd of visitors who filled the city then attracted as much attention on the streets as Mr. Morrissey. _ _ ! (hi one occasion during his stay, Mr. Beck, having kept very late hours, rose late in the morning and found himself quite unfitted for the day’s routine. So he went into a room in the rear of a saloon on the southeast corner of Fourth and Walnut, and, finding a j comfortable-looking sofa, stretched j himself out for a rest, which afterward became a sound sleep. It must have been about 2 o’clock in the afternoon when he was suddenly awakened by loud shouting on the street. It was in behalf of Mr. Morrissey, and was done by a crowd of men and boys who bad | followed that gentleman into or out of Gregory’s “Winter Garden” near by. ! Everybody on the street seemed to join 1 in the chorus, “Hurrah for Morrissey I” | Mr. Beck, about half asleep and half I awake, rushed to the street, and the first person he chanced to meet was Col. Tom Nelson, of Terre Haute, Ind., | a Republican in politics and a wag in j practice. “Tom,” said Mr. Beck, rubbing his eyes, “what do these fellows mean by hurrahing for Morrissey?” , Just then there was another shout for the big New Yorker from a crowd surging toward the Southern Hotel. Nelson looked at Beck for a moment, and took in the situation, as manifested in his drowsy eyes. “Haven’t you j heard the news’? ‘Why, Morrissey has | been nominated,” said he to the Kentuckian. “Nominated for what?” eagerly inquired Mr. Beck. “For President of the United States, | by the national Democracy in convention assembled,” said Mr. Nelson, in a tone of voice and with a manner of | which he alone is the master. “Great God!" said Mr. Beck. “You don’t mean to say that they have nomi- I nated John Morrissey for President?” “I do say it; and that’s what all this hurrahing means, ” replied the gentle- | man from Indiana. “The masses of vour party are for Morrissey, Mr. Beck.” I Mr. Beck had by this time opened his eyes a little wider. As another ' “Hurrah for Morrissey” greeted his ears, he said to Mr. Nelson : “M ell, ! the masses may be for Morrissey, but his nomination will play with the ' doubtful States.”—b't. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Has a Fight Young Mulkittle sat on the fence, hooting like an owl, when the butcher s son came along. “Hello, preacher,” said the butcher’s son. “Hello, calf,” said Mulkittle. “I ain’t no calf.” “I ain’t no preacher.” “But your father’s a preacher; but don't you call my father a calf or 11l | whale you.” •

“I will call him calf if yon say much.” I “I dare you to. Take a dare, steal a sheep and eat his hair.” “Calf,” exclaimed Mulkittle. The i butcher’s son pulled him off the fence, boxed his ears, choked him and tore his | clothes. “Is my father a calf, hah ?” “Guk-guk!” “Old man's a calf, hah?” “Guk —g’waynow!” and the preacher’s son freeing himself, climbed back to his perch on the fence. “Let you know not to call my father a calf.” “I know what your old pa is, anyhow.” “It wouldn’t do for a preacher to fool with my old man. My old man could chop a preacher in two at one whack.” “Yes, and my pa could send your old man to the bad place.” “Why don’t you say hell? You are ’fraid to, that’s what.” “No, I ain’t.” “Let’s hear you say it.” “I don’t want to say it now. But I know what your old man is.” “What.” “Calf, that's what,” and young Mulkittle jumped over into the yard and ran. The butcher’s boy climbed up, looked over the fence, and yelled: “Hi, coward; hi-i-i.” When Mulkittle’s boy went into the house, his father asked: “What's the matter with your face, sir what tore your clothes?” “That old cow hooked me.” “That’s a muley cow; she can’t hook. She hasn't got any horns.” “But she had horns just now and she shoved 'em out at me—” “Come here to me, sir; come here,” ami the reverend gentleman took down a rattan and proceeded to spread it on the boy. Mrs. Mulkittle, lying in bed and having just been aroused with an I imperfect understanding of the conver- ; sation, said: “Willie, don’t go near the cow.”— Arkansaw Traveler The Kimi of a Dealt Owl He Was. It was in September. The owls bad killed some of our most valuable fowls. One night I was aroused by loud squalling and cackling among some fowls that roosted in some cedar trees tin t stood almost under the window where I slept. I jumped up, seized my gun and ran out. I could hear tl.e owl as I j ho darted at his victim, but would fail to strike it, but I could not see it in the darkness. 1 throw up nr.- gun and I touch both triggers—a splendid snap ■ shot—l hear something strike the ground. Walking up to tl.e tree there lie ■ a turkey, and further m a chicken. —Birdo. in Forest and Stream. An I nparalleled Carver. “I remcmlier once, when I was in the East Indies, I carved a duck—and a duch isn't an easy thing to carve, let me tell you—l carved a duck on shipboard during a cyclone that blew so hard, by Jove, that the people at dinner had to : eat lying flat on the floor and holding on Ito the legs of the stationary table. I That's the sort of s carver I am.” Im-

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1 pressed by this story, his host, the next time this' expert carver is dining out. asks him to curve the fowl. The expert carver applies himself to the task with vigor, but with a deplorable lack ot success. His fade grows red as any beet and great beads of perspiration stand out upoii Idh forehead. “And yet there is no cyclone blowing!” remarks one of the diners solemnly. “By Jove, that a it!" exclaimed the carver; “1 never could carve when it was.calm. It takes a cyclone to evoke the resources of my nature. That’s the sort of a carver I am!”— Esrhange. k Session of the Supreme Court. When twelve o’clock comes, there are perhaps a dozen lawyers sitting at the tables within the bar, and a score of spectators waiting on the crimson plush sofas for the court to open. A rustle of silk is heard from the open door leading to the retiring-rooms. At the other side of the chamber sits a young man at a desk, who has been listening for a few minutes for that sound. Ho rises, and announces in a clear voice: “ The Honorable the Chief Justices and Associate Justices of the Supremo Court of the United States,” whereupon lawyers and ! spectators all get up on their- feet. The rustling sound approaches, and there enters a procession of nine dignified old men, clad in black silk gowns that reach almost to their feet, with wide sleeves and ample skirts. At the head walks the Chief-Justice, and the others follow in the order of their length of service in the court. They stand a moment in front of their chairs, and all • bow at once to the bar. The lawyers return the salute; then the judges sit down, the Associates being careful, however, nos to occupy their chairs before the Chief-Justice is settled in his. Now the young man, who is the crier, exclaims, in a monotonous fashion: “Oyez! oyez! oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the court is now sitting, j God save the United States aitd this | honorable court I” Business begins promptly and is dispatched rapidly. First, motions are heard, then the docket is taken up. I The Chief Justice calls the case in order in a quiet tone, and a law yer is on the I floor making an argument, while you are still expecting that there will be some further formality attending the ! opening of so august a tribunal. The proceedings are impressive only from their simplicity. Usually the arguments of counsel are delivered in low, conversational tones. Often the judges interrupt to ask questions. In patent cases, models of machinery are frequently used to illustrate an argument, and are handed up to the judges I for examination, or a blackboard is used . for diagrams. Were itnot.for the gray | hair and black gowns of the judges, you ' might almost imagine at times that the gentleman at the blackboard, with | crayon in hand, was a college professor i lecturing to a class. Or you may hapi pen in when a lawyerin charge of a case I is leaning over the long desk in front of the judges, holding a conversation with j one of them on some intricate point in a mechanical device, and you would hardly think that the conversation was ■ the plea in a patent case involving perhaps a million dollars. The bench has long been only a tradition in all our courts. Each Justice of the Supreme Court has a chair to suit his own notions of what constitutes a comfortable seat. Some of the chairs have high backs to rest the head, some have low backs; some have horse-hair cushions, some velvet, some no cushions at all. Chief-Justice Waite sits in the middle of the row-.— E. V. Smalley, in Century Magieine.

Evenings on the Fa™.—There- is no more real enjoyment in this world than the winter evening entertainments and instruction on the farm with parents surrounded by noble sons and daughters laudably seeking knowledge and moral power. The larger the family the greater the variety and spirit which can be thrown into such evening entertainments. And near neighbors can frequently be brought into the circle. This amusement and enjoyment can be mingled with intellectual improvement. But fun and frivolity should not be indulged in to the detriment of the main object—a preparation for the great duties and battles of life. And while it is advisable to have a course of readings from the most instructive and scientific books, care must be taken that they are not too protracted, nor of such a character as to be uninteresting to any member of the family. The parents should take the leading part in these exercises and make instruction amusing and cheerful, so that home to the children, as well as parents, will be the most pleasant place on earth. Children raised by such surroundings and under such influences never < ause their parents to mourn over their conduct, but will grow up honorable and useful members of the community. And this costs nothing, nor detracts in the least from the home comforts and pleasures. But a house which is dark and gloomy, one head of the family dozing aw ay the evening or absent, no one knows where, and the other head uneasy, peevish and unsociable, the boys will soon seek enjoyment elsewhere, probably beyond the reach of parental influence, and the girls as a necessity will accept the company of young men not suitable companions for them. — Des Moines Fey ister. Questions for Husbands. How many husbands remember, when eating their orange or banana, the first of the season, that these are choice damties in the estimation of their wives? How many husbands] forgo their cigar, their julep, their costy luxuries, that their wives may have the little pleasures that mean so much to them? Men complain of the toil that wears down upon them, because of the mouths that have to be fed. Who has the greater toil in caring for the food, the clothes, i the wants beyond number, that are repeated each day, and of which a man knows comparatively nothing? The truth of the matter is, that the mother does nine-tenths of the toil that concerns a child; that is, most mot hers do. i — Will Fuentres in Indianapolis Her- , aid. A very colored New York man who entered complaint against another for assaulting and battering him upon the head, was told by the justice: “I don't see any marks.” “Does ye s'pose he hit me wid a piece of chalk ?” was the indignant rejoinder. The gase proceeded. Des Moines has a pretty milliner who has been the cause of four di- | voices.