Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVII.

'The Democrat, Official Paper of the County. A- J. HILL, ftikiiiiur- and Ssginc®® i Manager. ! — • TERMS ; ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CWNY» in advance : two dollars per TEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. - 1 - - - - - — . — - - m,— B. Allison,Pres’t. w. H Niblick,Cashier D. SrvnaiAMß, Vic® Prea’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, TWt Bank is now open for the tnnszc* tlap of a general banking business. iWe buy and sell Town, Township and Order®. 26jy79tf _ PETERSON & HUFFMAN?" ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATUB, INDIANA, Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. 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 2,1. P •0. F. building. 25jy79tf FRANCE k KING? !■ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEtCATUIL. IN DIANA. HUn. wicks, | attorney at law, * i DSCAFCB, INDIANA. ■" All legal ! business promptly attended to. Office up Stairs in Stone e building Alkdoor. v25n24 year 1. JT. JIFjiRYMAJf, ’ " ! Attorney at Law, AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. DKCATUB, 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. E. H. COVERDALE, Attorney at X-aw, —Jand(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DICATVB, INDIANA. Office over Welfley’s grocery, opposite the Court House. B R. FREEMAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouses’ Drug j 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, f DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence an north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart's Mill, 2ajy79tf W.~H. MYERS, trick A Stone .Hosoit C ontrac'i DEOATDB, INDIANA. Jolicits work of all kinds in his line. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n46m3. SEYMOUR WORDEN, A_uctioiieer. Decatur - - Ind, Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUCUSTKRECHTER 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 di®« patch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office ovft Weifleys Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Deeatur, Indiana. 87-m6 honsand9 of graTes robbed ■ of their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures Impoteney (caused by excesses of any kino.) Seminal Weaknen 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, premalure 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 Im igorator is sold at fl per box, or six boxes for f 5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J. CHENEY, Druggist, 187 Summii St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce & 00., Sole Agents at Decatur /fl —7 A week made at home by the indnstri--I*l / f lons. Beat bueine 8 now before the public. /K / ' / Capital not needs*. We will start yo«. K 111 f / Men, women, boys and girla wanted ■ •■■everywhere to work for us Now is the | time, You can work in spare time, or give your I whole time to the business. No other business will I l»r mu nwrty ■» well. Wo one can tail to 1 enormous 4 >ay, by engaging at once. < <*<>? 5 ar.d terma free. Money made fast, easy, and hon.rI ably, Addreto Tati A Co., Augusta, Maine, DR. KITCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, I Every second Tuesday and Wednesday d I each month to treat all Chronic Diseases. | Consultation free. Call and see him. All I letter, of inquiry received at the home ofI fiw at Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompl I attention. Write to him and make a stateI Beat of your case.—v2sn36ly.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. j Peter Cooper, the founder of Cooper ! Institute, anti the promoter of mcitiy other j benefactions, died at hi* tome in New York I Dm Laving completed bis tv Entering manhood us a me- | ehanlo, his inventions and industry proved I a mine of wealth to him, and at the time of ms death, although he had given millions : lor the good of his race, he was nos essed of about «5,0D0,t00. Ex-Mayor Edward Cooper, of New York, Is a son, and Mr* j Abram 8. Howitt a daughter of Mr. vooper. I Mr. Cooper was the candidate o’ the Green-back-National party ter the Presidency in \ 10r0... .The failure of C. 8. Short, banker, at Marion, N. Y., caused much excitement His liabilities are between $25,01'0 and $50,i WO....David Torcheimer A Co., New York, natters, have failed for SIOO,OOO. The New York Chamber of Com* t merce resolved the other day that the trunk mes discriminated against the dry goods trade on west-bound traffic, and requested the Railway Commissioners to make an inquiry and report to the Legislature... .Barnum's elephant “Pilot” was killed al New r ork, having become intractable... .John A. Wilson, his wife nbd two daughters were burned to dr-ath in a house three miles froiA Hartwick, Otsego county, Is. V, . .Three co.orod children were burned to death at Elsbnry, N. Y. Harry Woodson, known as “the Black Diamond of Cincinnati,” aud Jim McLaughlin, a white man, fought seven rounds With hard gloves for a purse of s.soi>, near New York. McLaughlin was knocked senseless by a blow on the nose, snd the colored man was awarded the money and all the dubious honors attaching to the victory.... James 8. Lyon, who was concerned with City Treasurer Bork, of Buffalo, in the speculations that cost the city $500,000, has been convicted of criminally using tho city's money in his private business. The penalty 1R imprisonment from thtee to ten years and tine not exceeding five times the amount embezzled. funeral service# over the remains of Peter Cooper, hi New York, were attended by a large number of people of all classes of society, and the streets in t-he vicinity of the church where th** services were held were filhd with persons anxious to show their respect for the dead philanthropist Only one carriage followed the hearse bearing the corpse to tho cemetery... .A large mob of boys and girls gathered* before tho Salvation Army hall at Syracuse, pelted the officers at the entrance with mud, and indulged in inappropriate tunes. The New England M. E. Conference, in session at Boston, resolved against the introduction of the caste system in the Souths resulting in the establishment of churches for the negro population... .A junior member of the him of Williston Knight & Co., of New York. the largest dealers in buckles and buttons in the United States, made off with SIOO,OOO of the concern s funds, causing its suspension... .Geo. Palen A Co., wholesale dealers in hides and leather. New York, have made an assignment. Their liabilities are about S4UO.COO. THE WESL The Indians who have recently been committing depredations in Arizona and New Mexico have escaped across the Rio Grande. There are apprehensions of an outbreak of the San Carlos Reservation In- j diana Blue Horse, a Sioux chief at the Pine Ridge, has not found the habits of civ- i ilization altogether pleasant. He writes to the great father at Washington that he has been trying to live in the white man's ways, and that, while cutting wood for his wife, . as a dutiful husband should, a slick flew up j and put out ooc of hi® eyes; n hareforel;« i desires the great father to send him another eye—a brown one—aud a cane, whereupon he may lean in his declining years... .Asahel Finch,’of Milwaukee, senior inember of the i oldest law firm in the United States, died last week, aged 74.... | Fred Ingram and Janies Green were lynched at Hastings, Neb., for the murder of C. H. Millet, a grocer of that place... .Local estimates of the crops in Indiana range be- j tween 50 and 70 per cent, of an average crop, on the actual investigation of specimen fields of wheat... .Greeley, CoL, has had a disastrous fire, the * loss from which is placed at al>out $150,0001 The Mormon temple at Kirtland, Ohio, built fifty years ago, but long abandoned to the bats and the rats, has been renovated by the Reorganized Church of LatterDay Saints, or Josephite Mormons... .Verona Baldwin, who attempted to kill “Lucky” j Baldwin, the California millionaire, a few months sinco, has been ac quitted by a Sau Francisco jury. The verdict was received by those in the court-room with applame.... Benjamin W. Raymond, who was Mayor of Chicago from l>4o to 1844, has just died in that city, aged 82 years. He has been prominently identified with the business and educational interests of the Northwest for more than half a century Twenty business houses were consumed by fire at Kentland, Ind., involving a total loss of $100,000; insurance about half. The Coroner’s jury, in the case of the Diamond mine disaster, near Braidwood, 111, exonerates the mine managers from blame, declaring that the accident was such as is liable to happen under the same circumstances at any mine....Tha billiard tournament at Chicago for the world's championship was won by Jacob Schaefer, he defeating Maurice Vignaux, the great French expert, in the final game of the series of contests... .The railroad companies doing business west of Chi- ; cago have reaffirmed the anti-pass compact, I fixing the penalties for violations of the ! agreement at SIOO for the first, S2UO for the second, S;XK) for the third, and SSOO for each subsequent offense... .Howard Underwood, a young negro, who brutally murdered , a colored woman about a year ago, paid the last penalty of the law at Cbarlefdon, Mo. A crowd of 6.000 people witnessed the execution, and the murderer made a speech in which he stated as a matter of fact that he was going direct to a better land where he “would walk up and down streets of g10rv.”... .The original Joe Smith Mormons, who’repudiate Brigham Young. John Taylor and the polygamic dispensation, have been holding a jubilee at Kirtland, Ohio, where their first temple was built. Joseph Smith, a son of the Prophet, was the central figure in the ceremonies. The Michigan Attorney General is called upon to decide the legality of the election of three ladies on the Flint School Board More than 1 women cast their ballots for them Mack Marsden ,ieader of a irang of hog ami cattle s'ealcrs who have infested the vic nity of Hillsboro Ma. and who waa suspected of the murder of two men, was lynched by his neighbors ... The trial ol Seth F. Crews, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, at Belleville. on the charge of obtaining money under la’se pretenses, resulted in an acquittal Mowbray’s flour mill at Stockton. MiniL, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $50,000. There is a great rush of immigrants to Northern Minnesota, Dakota and Manitoba. A recent dispatch from St Paul says: “Arriving and departing trains are taxed to their utmost to supply the demand for accommodation*, and the resources of roads centering at St. Paul are daily drawn upon to their farthest limit In conversation with railroad men upon the subject they express themselves as surprised at the daily accession* made to tne citv'B floating Nothing like > it wa« evfr before s ?en. At present it is thought that not le s than 10,0tv passengers are re- . ceived hero ■er week aud forwarded to Northwestern pouts byway of the| Pacific and Manitoba lines .. . Advict 'frora Arizona repoit that the people of Territory are much disappointed at the, iliac- , tionof Gen. Crock, and have about lost all hope of prefertion by the army. independent companiei or mne a and nrospectom have been organized, and ? ™ of extermination will be waged against the cop] er-colored pests....Benjagg F. Oookert D D„ LL n mental and moral philosophy 1* fitv of Michigan, and a roan of h gh -uraing as a preacher and author, is dead... 1 lie Atlantic Milling Companv, of St. Louis of which George Bain is President, has been i obliged to suspend temi orarib on account of dullness in the European market and an overstock of wheat. The Hon. Charles B- Lawrence, for- i

merly a Judge of the Supreme Court of Illi, i Dois, but mere engaged in the prficticfi of law in Chicago, died recentlv at Decatur, Ala., aged years. Judge Lawrence came within a few votes of being elected to the United Stater Senate in I.Si7, the successful perron at that time being Judge David Davis. THK SOUTH. The Sanitary Council of the MisSis'sippi Valley, in roFSuitstioii at Jackson, Miss. , prepared a petition to the President of the U nit rd States that, in case of an outbreak of yellow fever or other epidemic disease in the M ississippi valley, the fund of $1(10,000 provided by Congress be placed at the disposal of the National Board of Health....A boy threw a burning match into the manhole of sewer at Baltimore, which caused an explosion, killing two children, and damaging the street and houses $20,000 Judge Bond, of th'e I nited States Court, at Charleston, 8. C., has written to the Clerk, ’stating that hereafter no warrants for offenses against the United Slates should be issued upon mere belief or suspicion of any person....At West Union, XV. Va, Bernard Doyle, a grocery-keeper, and his little prirl were murdered. Another child Was fearfully injure!, but Identified the assassin, one Ames Harper, whose object was robbery... .R. C. M. Lovell, ioal dealer of Covington. Kv., has made an assignment His liabilities are $ 108,000. The President and party wer* received at Jacksonville, Fla, by the booming of artillery and the cheers of the citizens. No President has ever before visited the ’ Floridans. An unsucssfucel attempt was made to wreck a train on the Missouri Pacific railroad near Denton, Texas. A negro found in the vicinity xvns arrested on suspicion. It is Supposed the wreckers had designs upon a train which was to carry SIOO,OOO to Mexico, j This was the second attempt of recent date at train-wrecking in that vicinity... .A l boiler explosion at Newbern, N. C., partly I demolished the factory of George Bishop, ; killed two men. and wrecked Isaiah Wood’s house, ICM) vards awav, fatally injuring Mrs. . Wood. A bill regulating railroads has passed the Texas Legislature, and the law goe® into immediate effect It provides for a State engineer who shall inspect the roads and the manner of operating them, so as to secure the safety of the public and prevent any unjust discriminations, under a penalty of a fine of SSOO for each offense. It fixes the passenger fare at 3 cents per mile for .adults and 2 Cents for children under 10 years of age.... At Greenville, Texas, End’s Hotel, a threestory brick building, fell with a terrible Crash at 2 o’clock m the morning. The shrieks and cries of the inmates startled the city. Fire broke out, spread rapidly, and soon the flames hushed all pitebus human pleadings. Thirteen people were cremated. • One man cut his throat when he found the flames consuming him. A relief train from Sherman made the time of a mile a minute in running to the fire, but could render no assistance. The cau*e of the calamity is uLcertain, but it is thought that an explosion of powder in the hardware store 1 lew out the west walls. causing the entire building to fall. Several adjoining buildings were destroyed.... President Arthur arrived at Sanford, Fla, and was given a hearty reception by prominent citizens. He went thence to Kissimee .City, where he made a brief stop, goingfrom there to hunt and fish... .While intoxicated at Nashville, Tenn., Dudley Porter, son of ex-Gov. Porter, provoked ’a quarrel with James Grundy a drummer for a Cincinnati house, and in' the tight which resulted the latter was fatally cut.... Nine and a half inches of rain fell at New Orleans in one day. A considerable portion of New Orleans was submerged, as a consequence of recent heavy rains. The Mississippi river reached the highest point ever known, wash ng over the levee at several pointe. One of the citv cemeteries was under water, and numberless headbo; rds were washed away... .There were eighty-six deaths from small pox at New Orleans last week. WASHINGTON. The President has appointed Judge W Q. Gresham, United States District Judge, of New Albany. Ind., to the position made vacant bv the death of the late Postmaster General Howe. ' Judge Gresham is a native of Indiana. He was a soldier who served with distinction under Grant .and Sherman, and his appointment enables the administrarecognize the soldier element. He was a friend of Gen. Grant It has been decided by Attorney General Brewster that the law making retirement from the army compulsory on officers who have reached tn years repeals the law which limited the number on t he retired list to 400. In accordance with this deci-ion thirteen additional officers have just been retired, and a permanent increase of the list will follow. President Arthur left Washington on the 4th Inst for a brief tour through the orange-groves of Florida He was accom panied by Secretary Chandler and one or two other prominent personages. The Postoftice Department has declared the Marion Trust Company, of Chicago and Indianapolis, to be a fraudulent concern ... .Joseph K Barnes, Brigadier General of the United States army, retired, and lately Surgeon General of the army, died at Washington, of Bright's disease, in the C-fith year of his age. He was one of the surgeons in attendance upon the late President Garfield in his last illness. A Washington paper charges the Civil Service Commission with practices in direct opposition to the theories to which it was appointed to give direction, a compe- | tent stenographer having been displaced to make room for a protege of a New York politician. The Department of State has been strenuously endeavoring to obtain a hearing for the seven Americans arrested at Panama in January, on suspicion of robbing the Panama Railroad Company of $50,100, intended for the payment of the officers and i crew of the United States steamer Lacka- i wanna. Many obstacles have been encountered, but the Consul at Panama reports • that the men will soon be heard in court and represented by competent counsel The Secretary of the Interior has de- , cided to offer the Otoe Indian lands in Kan- j sas and Nebraska for sale May 1. The appraisers have valued the land at from $4 to 310 an acre... .Comptroller Knox ba> authorized the establishment of the following national banks: The Vineland National Bank New Jersey, capital, $59,000; the i Third National Bank, of Sedalia, Mo., capital, $100,ObO; and the Merchants' Na ieual i Bank, of Amsterdam. N. Y., capital, SIOO,OUI rorrriGAJU Through blunders of the Wisconsin Assembly bookkeeper many acts of the House in which the Senate non-concurred were sent to the Governor, duly signed by him, and published a< laws Both houses of the Ohio Legislature have agreed to a resolution providing for the submission of a constitutional amendment giving the State Leg Mature unrestricted control of the liquor traffic by the imposition of taxes and penalties... .Bourn is elected Governor of Rhode Island by 3,000 plurality over Sprague and 2,000 majority over all.’ The Republicans also elect eightyfour of the li 8 members of the Legislature At a conference of Anti-Monopolists at the . Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, it was decided to issue a call lor a mass-convention in that ■ citv June 6. The object is to start the Anti- 1 Monopoly movement in Indiana A bill was introduced in the New ; York Senate, and immediately ordered to a , third reading, to prevent any attempt to personate or represent Jesus Christ by any show, play or dramatic i epresentation, , whether free or with au admission fee. A Boston newspaper has been collecting opinions from all sections of the country as to the availability of B. F Bui let | as a Presidential candidate. The’result is I not altogether favorable to the Governor, though Senator Brown, of Georgia, says he ; would vote for him if he were nominated, ’ and a Souther- ?orrespondent expiesse® the ] belief that he would divide the colored . vote. *

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1883.

I’HE Michigan Senate has passed a measure in which it is specified that if a newspaper prints, in good faith and without malice, stories which are subsequently discovered to he unfounded, the publication may not be deemed libelous if a thrice-re-peated retra •ti.mis inserted, with a full exI planation of the circumfttrnces The report of the Pool Commissioner f the l.’ni)«»’»>if JL uarudai.ietn makes a striking exh bit of the growth of the earning trade in the territory of the association. The first year of the existence of the association’ 1876, the business done aggregated $4,000,000, while in 1882 the revenues amounted to $10,000,000.,*. A policeman in the eastern Parliamentary building at Ottawa kicked a battle lying. on the staircase, ahd&ii explosioil tiisu'ed that r’iuf od some damage to the woodwork, but made no impression upon the officer’s boot The explosion is attributed to a Fenian conspiracy to blow up the building. Panama advices report severe and continuous rioting has taken place along the line of the canal works, originating in a race hatred between the Jamaicans and Carthage nians. and some twenty of the former have been murdered. The Government finds itself unable to restore order. De Lesseps had left the isthmus for New York. He insists that the canal will be finished in 1888. j ....Fire at Iquique, Peru, on the loth ult.; destroyed tan blocks, including all the churches, the railway offices, and a number of large business’ establishments. One thousand houses were consumed, and the ; total loss is placed at $10,000,000..... , The Marquis of Lome has expressed a desire to have his term as Governor General of Canada extended for another year....A sii’ >w-Btoim,the second largest of the season, prevailed al SL Johns* N. F.* on the sth and I 6th of April. The business failures in the United . States, for the week ending April 6, as reported to the mercantile agency of R. G. Dun A- Co.. New York, numbered 197. ascom- , pared with is? (he previous week. The distribution of failure* was a* follows: NewEni gland States, 11; Western, 58; Middle, 26; Southern, 4'>; Pacific States and Territories, , 1T; New York city, 13, and Canada, 20. The date of the annual meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland has been* changed from Sept. 19 and 20 to Oct 24 and 25, at Cincinnati The beautiful domestic drama of “Hazel Kirke,” which has been played over 2,500 times by the Madison Square Company makes its appearance at McVicker’s Theater, Chk ago, this week There have been some changes in the company since last season, but none for the worse. Mr. Couldock is still the Dunstan Kirke, but Miss Bijou Heron, daughter of the late Matilda Heron, has supplanted Miss Effie Ellsler as Hazel FOREIGN. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: “The date for the grand ceremony at Moscow, at first represented as having been set for April or May at the latest, may now be nut off till June. One thing is certain: the date has now been left blank in the invitations forwarded to foreign powers. Precautions of all kinds are continually invented, in hope of thwarting the’ es- - forts of the Nihilists.”... .Despite the assurance telegraphed from London that the accident to the Queen weeks since was of a trifling nature, she is still forbidden by her physicians to walk, but is permitted to take the air in her carriage... .Michael Davitt is out in a letter ondemnatory of the dynamite plan of redeeming Ireland from English tyranny, a policy which he says will only exasperate the English democracy Booth played Othello at Vienna, and was loudly applauded. The critics were dissatisfied at hrs enactment of the closing scenes. The London police arrested four men, one of whom, Dalton, had lately arrived from the United States. In their possession were found quantities of explosive liquid stored in rubber bags, while in the clothing of one of the four a large sum of money was sewed, a part of which was American coin. The police claim to , have had information that agents of the dynamite section of the Irish revolutionists had been dispatched to Windsor, and accordingly extra guards have been placed about the person of the Queen. At Birmingham the police unearthed a dynamite.factory which was being operated upon an astorindingly large scale. At Newry, Ireland, an attempt was made to blow’ up the magazine at the barracks, but without success,...lt has been definitely decided that neither Parnell nor any other members of tho Irish Parliamentary party will attend the Land League Convention at Philadelphia ... .The statement of Mr. Childers. Chancellor of the Excheqer, in the British House of Commons, shows a reduction of the national debt during the past year of £7,100,060, beside the payment of £7,850,( 00 war charges....A p-hotograph of “No. 1,” the Irish Invincible, has been found. His name is Tynan, not “Tyner.” \ powder depot at Passo Correse, Italy, exploded, killing fortv persons and wounding several... .The St Petersburg police and all others w’ho contributed to the comfort of the crews of the Jeannette and Rodgers, have been decorated by the Czar.

The West Prussian villages, Neufache and Bohnsack, have been inundated by an overflow of the Vistula, and the residents, who sought shelter on high ground, are suffer’ng for food Many cattle have been drowned... .Prince Bismarck announces that the remaining years of his official service will be devoted exclusively to the financial department of the ’ Government.... The four men arrested in London for having nitro glycerine in their no-session were arraigned in the Bow Street Police Court on the 6th inst One of them claimed that the liquid found in his lo’dgings, and claimed to be nitroglycerine, Was only hydrate of chloral It came out in * evidence that the men held letters of credit from the United States. Featherstone, one of the three mei arrested at Cork for earning explosives, announced in court that he was an American. and had applied to the United States Consul for protection. The London police claim to have received information that a quantity of dynamite has been consigned to the division of the city including several of the leading theaters. A man named Kirton, claiming to have only recently left the United States, was arrested in London for connection with the nitro glycerine plot Bernhard Gallagher, a brother of one of the men arrested in London, has been taken into custody at Glasgow on suspicion of having been concerned in the recent explosion at the gas works there. He also claims to have lately arrived from America. The house of an avowed sympathizer with the conspirators, at Birmingham, was mobbed, and the man was obliged to seek safety in the police station. A contrivance was found in the lodgings of the London prisoners for filtering sulphuric acid into chloride of potash, which would cause a disastrous explosion... .A cartridge containing dynamite was placed in a cavity in the tow’er of Chateau Plessis, near Paris. The cartridge exploded, but did very little damage... .An American named Ansburghe was arrested at London, in connection with the dynamite plota A. M. Sullivan has denounced the dynamite faction, and O'Donovan Rossa has warned him to be careful of his utterances.... Minister Lowell spoke at a banquet of civil engineers at Kensington, and in the course of his remarks assured his hearers that “no American any more than an Englishman believes assassination is war or dynamite the raw material of policy. ”.... Prince Bismarck’s famous appetite has failed him, occasioning his physicians great anxiety. Mr. William Vernon Hkrcourt introduced in the British House of Commons a bill t-o amend the law in regard to explosives. and it passed through the committee of the whole without opposition, was reported to the House and passed, being sent immediately to the House of Lords, where it was adopted The bill imposes severe penalties for causing or attempting to cause explosions imperiling life or property, and for the unlawful making or keeping of explosives, accessories being held to account equally with principals. The bill also enlarges* the power of the police and vessel Captains in searching for explosives, and auth rises the seizure of such compounds or ingredients thereof... .Brady, one of the Phoenix Park conspirators, was placed on trial at Dublin on the Iffih inst., and pleaded not guilty. Dr. Webb Adams was assigned to defend Brady by the court....

Hugh Gladstone, a cousin of the i’Umo Mid ister of England, and a member of the Liverpool firm of J. M. Gladstone A Sons, committed suicide by taking strychnine.,.. .Serious frauds have’been unearthed in the accounts of the different Russian Ministers during the last ten years, but as several Ecrsonfl of distinction are implicated it is robable the matter will be . hushed up.... * he Czar aB(l CzarinA t6Bk r dri v 8 throng r the streets of St Petersburg in an ojjen carriage, •without the usual military escort.... The ultramontanes of Germany are preparing for an imposing celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the consecration of the exiled Archbishop of C010gne..../!. Vienna dispatch says that In consequence of the success of Edwin Booth, in King Leatr-the engagement will be renewed. Interesting F®cts About Hatft Whether tho hair should be cut I never could quite satisfy myself. As a physiological practice, I seriously doubt tlie propriety. Every cutting is a wounding, and there is some bleeding in consequence, and waste of vital force. I think it will be found that most long-lived persons wear their hair long. The cutting of the hair stimulates to a new growth, to supply the waste. Thus the energy required to maintain the vigor of the body is drawn off to make good the wanton destruction. It is said, I know, that after the hair has grown to a certain length it loses its vitality at the extremity and splits or “brooms up.” Whether this would be the case if the hair should never Be cut I would like to know. When it is cut a fluid eXndeg, find forms a scab or cicatrix at each wounded extremity, indi- ; bating that there has been injury. Women and priests have generally worn long hair. I never could imagine why this distinction was made. The ancient priest was very often unsexed or devoted to a vow of celibacy, but I cannot surmise whether that had anything to do with it. Kings wore their hair long, in imitation of Samson, and the golden Sun-God Mithias. I suspect from this that the first men shorn were slaves and laborers; that freemen wore their hair unmutilated, as the crown of perfect manhood and manliness. If this be correct, the new era of freedom, when it ovet shall dawn, will be characterized by men unshorn as well as women unperverted. I wish our science and our civilization had better devices for preserving the integrity of the htir. Baldness is a deformity and premature whiteness a defect. If the head was in health, and the lx)dy in proper vigor, I am confident that this would not be. lam ap i prehensive that our dietetic habits occasion the bleaching of the hair; the stiff, arsenic-prepared hat is responsible for much of the baldness. Our hats are unhealthy, from the tricks of the hatters. I suppose there are other causes, however. Heredity has its influence. Certain diseases wither the hair at its roots; others lower the vitality of the skin, and so depilate the body. I acknow ledge that the shingled head disgusts me. It cannot be wholesome. The most sensitive part of the head is at the back where the neck joins. That place exposed to unusual cold or heat is liable to receive an injury that will be permanent, if not fatal, in a short period. The whole head wants protection ; and the hair affords this as no other protection can. Men have beards because they need them, and it is wicked to cut them off. No growth or part of the body is superfluous, and wo ; ought, as candidates for health and long i life, to preserve ourselves from violence and mutilation. Integrity is the true manly standard.— Dr. Wilder, in Medical Tribune. Emerson’s Words. The publisher of the Literary News offered prizes for the six most striking and characteristic sentences from Emerson’s writings, those four persons whose sentences were the most frequently quoted by all the competitors to have a prize. There were forty-nine competitors. The highest number or ' votes given to the wme sentence was twenty-four. The following seven sentences received from twenty-four to eleven votes, each in their order: 1. “Character is higher than intellect.” * “A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think.”— The American Scholar. 26. "His heart was as great as the ' world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”— On Lincoln. 43. “The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the wall of your chamber.” —Society and Solitude. 48. “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” — Essay on ; Domestic Life. 19. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”— Essay on Circles. 7. “There is no beautifier of com- I plexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.” — Essay on Behavior. 54. “The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.”— Essaij on the Superlative. Tho Game of “Shadow Buff.” This is a very amusing affair, and requires little preparation. It is usually played by placing a strong light behind the spectators, allowing those who take part in the game to pass between the light and the white wall, or a sheet hung up for the purpose. Those who thus cast their shadows can disguise themselves as they please. Ah other and better method is to have the shadows thrown upon a transparent screen, If a house has folding doors between two rooms, a sheet hung over the opening gives abundant space for the display of shadows, but an ordinary door will answer. Stretch a sheet lightly over this. The room containing the company is to be dark, while on the other side of the sheet is to be a single ' strong light. A number of amusing tricks can be played with this. By placing the lamp high enough to give a shadow of the face, a capital game of “Shadow Buff” can be played. By setting the lamp upon the floor at proper distances, wonderfully distorted shadows will be thrown upon the screen. J f one steps over the lamp, to come between that and the screen, he will be seen by the spectators to drop from above in the most wonderful manner, and if he steps back again, his shadow will appear to go upward in a manner equally I mysterious. Two persons, one as a . policeman apparently chasing a thief, can make a great deal of sport in this ' shadow’ game.— American Agriculturist. The smallest church in England is srid to be Pilham. County Lincoln, twenty-six feet by seventeen feet nine inches. Population ninety-one.

ths ush of tobacco. How Ils Use DeletcrioUsly th. velopments of Boys. The use of tobacco by growing boys is so generally recognized as pernicious, that it is extraordinary that measures ate not urged upon those having the care of firath to prevent the habit, ! Already it lias been proiiibitSil fa ths United States Naval Academy at An- , napolis, at the United States Military Academy at West Point, in the Phillips Exeter Academy; New Hampshire, and in various bthet enlightened educational inititutions. This was not the result of prejudice ! or hobbyism. If any set of men are free frhfa these vices of learning, It w the naval surgeons, Unit it was especially from them, and particularly from Dr. A. L. Gillon, U. S. N., that this attack on ths weed began. The indictment laid against it charged: 1. That it leads to impaired nutrition of the nerve centers. 2. That it is a fertile cause of neuralgia!, vertigo and indigestion. 3. That it irritates the mouth and throat, and thus destroys the purity of the voice. 4. That by excitation of the optic nerve, it produces amaurosis and other defects of vision. 5. That it causes a tremulous hand and an intermittent pulse. 6. That one of its conspicuous effects ' is to develop irritation of the heart. 7. That it retards tho cell changes i bn which the development of the ado- ; lescent depends. This is a formidable bill of particulars and yet each of these charges is ■ preferred by the best authority, and, ■ what is more, each is substantiated by i an abundance of clinical evidence. Testimony is also adduced from the class records of schools and colleges, which indicates very positively that the f effect of tobacco on the mental faculties is deteriorating. The best scholars are not tobacco users; non-smokers take ' the highest rank in every grade, and whether we look at the exceptionally bright students, or compare the average of those who use and those who re- j train from the result shows the same. With these facts staring us in the face, it becomes the duty of every schoolmaster and every parent to set himself resolutely against the beginning of this injurious indulgence. It is, indeed, no easy matter to pro- ! hibit it successfully. There is a cur- | ious attraction about this nauseous plant which has never been explained. A habitual consumer of it cannot explain its fascination. It has extended over the world with marvelous facility. Nevertheless, we believe that the I youth of America are intelligent and ! ambitious enough, in the aggregate, to be trusted. If the consequences of to-bacco-using are plainly stated by an au- ! thority that a fad respects, it will often ; lead him to drop the habit, or to rej train from beginning it, when threats and punishments would not. Tho latter he regards as an exercise of arbitrary power, the former appeals to his ' reason aud good sense. It is the duty j of a physician to express himself plainly ' J on this subject, and he can only do so by condemning the habit in boys, at any rate.—Cincinnati Lancet ~ and . i Clinic. Metals and Their Uses. There is a difference of opinion among practical chemists as to number of existing metals. Prof. Youmans affirms that there are at least fifty simple metals, nearly one-half of which are of I little importance. Other scientists make the number considerably less, i The greater number of metals are rarely or never found in nature in a simple I state. They exist in compound forms, : and are useful only in such conditions, i Os the more important metals iron is the king. In its production Great ; Britain leads the world. From her [furnaces and mills in 1879 were taken I 5,995,337 tons of cast and pig-iron, and 1,344,297 tons of steel, a ton consisting ! of 2,240 pounds. During the same year the United States produced 2,741,853 j tons of iron, and 1,440,121 tons of steel; Germany, 2,161,192 tons of iron and 800,000 tons of steel, and France, 1,344,759 tons of iron and 561,691 tons of I steel. Os the production in the United j I States, Pennsylvania furnaces yielded I about one-half, and those of Ohio about : one-seventh. Copper has been in use from early times. Often among the bones of primitive jpan are found utensils beaten out of this malleable metal. I At present it is mined extensively in Wales, Germany, Australia, Upper Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, and to a small degree in ! various other localities. Tin is found ; either as rock-tin, in veins with rock I and other ores, or as stream-tfa in alluvial deposits. The principal mines ire in Cornwall, Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Mexico and Chili. -Not only :is it used in the manufacture of tin- ! plate, but also in the composition of i various valuable alloys. Zinc in the ! form of a carbonate- or silicate, is obl tained from mines in Silesia and Bel- ! ginm, and also in small quantities in . | Wales, France and this country. Like tin, it is used in the composition of vari- ; ous alloys, as well as in the ordinary i form of zinc plate. Until a recent date, ’ i the value of nickel was not known. The Germans, who, out of derision, gave it its name were accustomed to cast it i aside as a spurious or base copper. The mines of Germany and Wales produce nearly the entire amount, although a little has been obtained from mines in i Pennsylvania. Its use is mainly conj lined to its alloys, such as German silver, white metal, and a few minor coins. Platinum, which, owing to its high fusive point and its lack of allii<ty for acids is peculiarly adapted for them anufaeti lire of chemical vessels, is found iu Brazil, and also in Russia. In the pro1 duetion of gold the United States leads I all other countries. Mercury is ob- . tained either in the fluid state, inclosed ‘ in the rocky receptacles of the earth, or is derived by roasting its sulphate. In Southern California and Mexico, and also in Austria and Spain, productive mines are worked. It is valuable fa the construction of thermometers, barometers, pendulums, etc., manufactures, and also in refining metals by : amalgamation. Titles in Brazil. The titles of “Baron” and “ Baroness” are cheap in Brazil. They cost ala u* I SSOO each, and can lie purciuised by any native. Fathers who . end their sons to ■ school in England or the United State I —a few are able to afford this advant- ■ age—cominonly purchase titles fortheir young men liefore sending them abroad I in the hope of their being able to “catch" seme blonde and confiding heiiess of ! those wintry climes. Au English lad) [ recently appeared in Rio Janerio in 1 quest of a missing noblemau husband, I

whom she had met in LonaOl! at one of tho receptions given by the Brazilian ■Minister, She had given him her legacy ;of Jt3,*’OO, and ho hud fled. She was much surprised 1” faarn at Rio that her absent lord, the Baron, nothing more than a journeyman barber, Uno i had bought his nobility. Budd of San Joaquin. Congressufar Jsnpes H. Budd, of . San Joaquin, the political sailor, whom a lucky chance cast upon the Democratic billows and landed safely in the haveii i of success, is a young man of 32 sumj mors, genial, jovial, jolly and careless. The troubles of the world sit lightly ; upon him, and he never allows the lai bors of hfa attorney’s office to interfere with a proper appre'fciation and enjoyment of whatever pleasures may be cast |in his way. He has a great fondness for variety eutcrtofamenis, fa which he has sometimes taken a pat'll A circumstance which happeCetl in j Stockton will illustrate the liberal and happy-go-lucky qualities of the man. A negro-minstrel, who had been playing ’ ill a variety theater similar to that now i in Sacramento, had fallen upon bad i Itiek, tvas sick fa bed with the rheumatism, and his purse was its flabby as his pulse was feverish. Jim Budd—as ev- ; erybody in San Joaquin calls him—had been rather a constant attendant at ths ! theater in question, and had become i: timately acquainted with the sick performer. ‘Hearing of his illness, the Congressman-elect went to see him. After the passage of the usual remarks i of condolence, Budd asked: “Well, , how are you fixed?” “Oh, I’m all right, Jim,’.’ was the answer from the sufferer, who was probably too proud to let his condition be ■ known. Casually remarking that he knew a sight better, Budd went down fa his pocket, pulled out a S2O piece, ! threw it on the bed and left the room without saying another word. When [ the minstrel was able to rise he was still in sore straits. He desired to have a benefit by which he could raise money, but he was refused the theater unless he could pay for it fa advance. Budd rented the theater for him, hired the orchestra, attended to the advertising and got the fire department —of . which he is a prominent member—interested in the matter. Not only that, but on the night of the variety entertainment, at the benefit in question, Jim Budd blacked up and appeared on ; ■ one end, with the beneficiary on the | other. And that is the reason why the ' variety performers in this city worked I for him on election day, and why the ‘ ! young minstrel whom he had so much I benefited loudly proclaimed himself for Jim Budd first, last and all the time, even if there were not another ballot east for him.— California paper. An Address by Artemus Ward. Artemus Ward, after delivering a lecture once in New London, Conn., was asked by the principal of a young ladies’ high school in the place to pay a visit to her institution the next day. He went like “an amoosin eftss,” and made the girls a speech. While walking to the academy, a street runaway occurred. A terrified horse went tearing over the . pavement, with what Artemus called “the fore-quarters” of a wagon clatter--1 ing at his heels. This incident Artemus ingeniously utilized in his address, i Said he: The vehicular elopement which has just taken place, young ladies, has furnished us with a timely topic of discourse. Young ladies’seminaries are j ever exposed to runaways. Once, when J traveling with my show, I came upon a female institute. There were ladders, ■ and lads too, as to that, at every win- ; dow. Manly perpendiculars carrying fainting horizontals to the ground. “Fire!” I shouted. "None of that,” replied a solemn voice from the orchard. “There aiu t no fire; these are only young fellows running oft' with their sweethearts.” There is moral entertainment for man and beast in this runaway No horse, if attached to a wagon, that is, if sincerely attached to it, will run away with it; but the more a young man is attached to a young woman, the more he will run away with her, leaving no trace, in fact none of the harness, behind. Young ladies, since I have stood before your beautiful faces I have lost something, and .1 you or the boy that sweeps out should find a red object looking like a breastpin that has been stepped on, you may know it is my poor, busted heart.

Fifty-three Hard-Bulled Eggs. “Talk about eating sixty quail in thirty days; that is nothing. 1 can eat two quail a day the rest of my life, if anybody will find’em; but I’d a little rather try it on yellow-legged snipe,” said Mr. Charles F. Murphy, the fishingrod maker of Newark. “If Dolph Jakes was alive he could eat a bevy every day. He was the fearfulest gormandizer I ever saw. Did I ever tell you how he beat me out of $2.65?” "No, Murphy; how was it?” said the : listener. “Why, I was settin’ in the Astor Innch one night and in came Dolph. He walked up to the bar and took a drink. There was a big dish of hardboiled eggs at one end of the bar, and he began going for the hen fruit. He picked up an egg, cracked it on the bar, picked the shell oft', aud ate it. But lie didn’t stop; he ate another and another until he had swallowed five. I was watching him, and it made me real mad to see him so greedy. So I said: ‘Dolph, you had better eat ’em all, hadn't you?” “ ‘So I will, Charles, if you’ll pay for ’em.’ said lie. " ‘Go right along,’ said I; ‘l’ll pay if you finish the dish.’ “He never stopped until lie had eaten twenty-five more. He then took a drink, ate an oyster stew, a plate of crackers, ami finished the dish of eggs. There were twenty-three more. Fiftythree eggs was what he ate, aud they had the cheek to charge me five cents apiece for ’em—just $2.65 I was out. I never spoke to Dolph again. I wouldn’t associate with him after that.”— The Gastronomer. Indians Never Kill a Dellant Man. “Indians are like children,” said Mr. Kirkpatrick, in recounting his adventures to a reporter of the Philadelphia Times. “If you gain their confidence you can do what you please with them, i never made a promise to an Indian that I did not keep, and that is why I made plenty of friends among the tribes. They likb bravery, too, aud will not hurt a man who shows no fear when overpowered. When the Indians get you in a corner, if you stand up and bare your breast, and tell them to shoot, they wdl never do it. I have had to do that twice in my life, and so speak from experience; but I never knew them to ' kill a prisoner who defied them.”

NUMBER 2.

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE. To clean a spiee-mill grind a handful of raw rice through it. A gridiron should always be heated before putting meat on it to broil. Fish may be scaled much easier by dipping them in boiling water for u , minute. The best way to bang up a broom is to screw a large picture-ring into the j top of the handle. To measure corn in a crib, ascertain the number of cubic feet the crib contains, multiply this number by thirteen and divide by eight, and you have a close approximation to the number of heaped ear bushels. Benzole and common clay are used to clean marble. Grease spots can bo removed from marble by the application of a paste made of crude potash and whiting. Brush it all over the surface to be cleaned and polish off. To preserve bright grates or firesides f*«m rust, make a strong paste of fresh lime and water, and with a fine brush smear it as thickly as possible all over the polished suffice requiring preservation. By this simple means all the grates and fire-irons in an empty house maybe kept for months free from harm without further care or attention. The following is stated to be a nearly correct rifle' for measuring corn in cribs: Having leveled the earn to the crib, measure the length, breadth ami depth, and multiply them together, and deduct from the product one-fifth, ami you have the number of bushels in the ear; for shelled corn take one-half of this. To be strictly correct add half a bushel for every 100. To Tan Rabbit Skins.—Wash them in cold suds; then dissolve pulverized saltpeter and alum in hot water, add cold water, and soak the skins in it all night >then hang them over a pole to drain; when nearly dry sprinkle with powdered saltpeter and alum; fold the flesh side together, lay them where they will not freeze, turn every day until i dry, then scrape the flesh side with a blunt knife, and rub with pumice stone j and the hands. A cheap, black paint or varnish for iron work is prepared as follows: i Clear, solid wood tar, 10 pounds; black or mineral black, 1J pounds; oil |of turpentine, 5 j quarts. The tar is first heated in a large iron pot to boilj ing, or nearly so, and the heat continued for about four hours. The pot is then removed from the fire out of doors, and while still warm (not hot) the turpen- ■ tine, mixed with the black, is stirrid in. I If the varnish is too thick to dry quickly, add more turpentine. Benzine can be used instead of turpentine, but the results are not s<3 good. Asphaltum is. ! preferable to cheap tar. Sacred Monkeys. Victor Jacqnemont estimates that the Bengal Presidency alone contains 1,600 j monkey asylums, supported chiefly by I the very poorer classes of the populai tion. In the rural districts of Nepaul the hanumans have their sacred groves and keep together in troops of fifty or sixty adults, and, in spite of hard times, these associations multiply like the monastic order of mediaeval Europe; i but they must all be provided for, though the natives should have to eke out their crops with the wild rice of the Jumna swamp jungles. The strangest part of the superstition ■ is that this charity results by no means from a feeling of benevolence toward I animals in general, -but from the exclusive veneration of a special sub--1 division of the monkey tribe. An orthodox Hindoo must not willingly take the life of the humblest fellow-creature; ■ but he would not move a finger to save 1 a starving dog, and has no hesitation in stimulating a beast of burden with a dagger-like goad and other contrivances 1 that would invoke the avenging powers of the Society for the Prevention of i Cruelty to Animals. Nor would he ’ shrink from extreme measures in defending his fields from the ravages of low-caste monkeys. Dr. Allen Mackenzie once saw a swarm of excited natives running toward an orchard, where the shaking of branches betrayed the presence of arboreal marauders. ' Some of them carried slings, others clubs and cane-spears. But soon they came back crestfallen. “What’s the matter ?” inquired the doctor; ‘ ‘ did they get away from you?” “ Kapa-Muni!” was the laconic reply, ‘ ‘ sacred monkeys!” Holy baboons that must not be interrupted in their little pastimes. They had expected to find a ; troop of common makaqnes, wanderooS or other profane four-handers, and returned on tiptoe, like Marryat’s ser- ■ geaut, who went to arrest an obstreperous drunkard and recognized his commanding officer. Unarmed Europeans cannot afford to brave these prejudices. Capt. Elphinstone’s gardener nearly lost his life for shooting a thievish hanuman. A mob of raging bigots chased him from street to street, till he gave them the slip in a Mohammedan suburb, where a sympathizing Unitarian helped him to escape through the back alleys. i The interference of his countryman would hardly have saved him, for the crowd increased from minute to minute, and even women joined in the* chase and threatened to cure his impiety with a tnruip-masher.— Felix L. Oswald, in Popular Science Monthly.

The New Member. The new member remained in town. “I tijj yon what,” he says, “the President is a trump. I went up to the White House the other day to see about making Mariar Price's daughter Postmaster at North Fork: and the President, he was takin’ a lot of other fellers in to lunch * with him. So he says, kinder friendly-like, ‘Come, won't you jine us and take some lunch and a glass of wine ?’ Sol bowed and I said, Tm your man, Mr. President.’ So we went in and sat down, and they had some of them pesky finger-bowls with lemon in the bottom of them. When the raw oysters came on they seemed mighty stingy with their lemon, so I took a nutcracker and I picked the lemon up and put it on my oysters. They had been tellin’ about the way the President used to whoop up the boys in New York, and. when they see me goin* for the lemon, some of them fellers stopped and began snickerin’ and laffin'; but » next tiring the President he fetched up his lemon with a fork and put it on his oysters, and them chaps stopped laflin'. and looked as solemn as a funeral after that.”— Washington letter. An epidemic of vandalism is said to be playing the mischief in and about tin-national Capitol. The colossal statue of Washington is reported to be minus, a big toe; Roger Williams has lost a little linger, and the Indian woman in the Columbus group all five fingers of her • right hand.