Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 4 May 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVII.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County.| A. HILI*, lEditor and Busin cun Manlier. < , > TT RMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS in advance : two Dollars per YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. U B. AtlBM. Pru’t. W. H Ntaura,C*ihter B. Stvdasakzi, Vice PrM't. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, Thia Bank ia now open for the tranaaction of a general banking bueineaa. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Ordera. 25jy79tf ATTORNEYS AT LAW, I’ . DECATUR, IBDIABA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are No taries Public and draw deeds and mortgager Real estate bought, sold and rented on rea aonabla terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2 I. O 0. T. building. 25jyT9tf eT HCOVERDALE, Jtlornry at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, DECATUB, SEDIAXA. Office over Welfley's grocery, opposite the Court House. B. R. FREEMAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN 4 SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouses' Drug Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe, Professional calle promptly attended. Nol 26, No. 84. ts. W. H. MYERS, IricA- A’ Slone Contract DKCATUK, INDIANA. Solicits work of all kinds in his lips. Person* ’contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, ▼25n45m3. ’ SEYMOUR WORDEN, .Auctioneer. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUGUST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DECATUB, - - INDIANA. I A full line of Fine cut, Plug. Smoking Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipes of all kinds always on hand at my store. G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey ancer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office over Weltleys Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Deeatur, Indiana. 8"-m6 -VOTICE TO BUILDERS. STONE AND BRICK WORk, Cisterns and Chimneys contracted for, or i built to order, and workmanship guaranteed. Orders and cotrespondence solicited. F. W. SCHAFER. And shoes. One Dooi west of Niblick. Ciawford and for s. Henry Winnes, DECATUR. INDIANA. One of the best telected stock of Boots, Shots, new and Seasonable Goods, etc., including everything iu-his line, and prices guaranteed as low as can be found in this : market. Come ai d see for yourselves. of graves KiiKßr ll are annuall - v robbed •• V W their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures Impolency (caused by excesses of any kind) Seminal Weaknew and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, a’ 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 pre.mfcitire grave. Bend for circulars with testlmonals free by mail. The Invigorator is sold at |1 per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F. J. CHEWEY, Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce St Co., Sole Agents at Decatu. Daughters. »♦ lie* au«< .Mothers. Dr. Ylarchi-i’- t’atliolii Female Keniedy. Guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded Will cure Female diseases. All ovarian troubles, i; H.imaticn and ulrelation, falling and displacements or bearing down feeling, irregularities, barrenness, change of life, luccor. lioea, e sides many weaknesses springing from the above, like headache, bloating, spina w.akness sleeplessness, nervous debility, palpitation of the h -art. etc. For sale by Druggists. Price $1 00 and $1 50 per lottie. Send t> Dr. J. B. Marchisi, Utica, N. Y., for painpli’et, free. For sale by Dorwin and Hvlthoitse. —N 0.2 m 3 Positre Cure tor l‘iles To the peopleof this country we would say we have been given the Agency of Dr Marchisi’s Italian Pile Oint nenl—warrat ed to cure cr money refunded —internal External. Blind, Bl ed’.nr or Itching Piles Price 50c a box Foi sale by Dorwin an.. Holthouse.—No. 2m3. Rnck Candy Coujrli Cure. Warranted to cure or money refunded Coughs, tods, Hoarseness, Thro*' anu l ung troubes. (also goad for children I Rock Candy Cough Cure contains the healing prope ties of pure »hue HocCandy with extract!, of Roots and net s •Only 25 cu Lirge bottles 0” • heapest to buy. Foi sale Ry Doi win and H< Uhouse. No. 2<nß

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THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. Tn the Tewksbury (Maes.) almshouse inveetigatftm a witness testified to tanning human skins—presumably taken Troin Corpses from the almshouse—for various doctors, and exhibited a pair of uppers for slippers made from the skin of a woman. The banking firm of George F. Work A- Co., of Philadelphia, accused of embezzling something like 51,000,000 from the People's Passenger Railway Company of that City. Two members of tlie firm have been arrested ... .Whitelaw Reid gave a dinner at his residence in New York to ex-President Hayes Other prominent gentlemen were also present, A shocking tragedy was unacted in New York. William Macduff, a financial broker, shot hl's wife dead while she was preparing breakfast, entered an adjoining room where his son was sleeping in a crib, and killed him, and then shot himself. In accordance with the instructions of Gov. Butler, the Massachusetts Board of Health, Lunacy and Charities Ms Assumed ! control of the TewkabuVy Almshouse, appointing a temporary Superintendent... .The : eombihed anthracite interests of Pennsylvania haVw agreed to work three days during each of the first two weeks of May, and to carry on pr< duction upon full time during the remainder of the month... .Five hundred ’ moie pauper Irish emigrants were landed from the steamer Catalonia at Boston, having been assisted thither by the British Government. Albert H. Beals and A. P. Frickett, a Boston spice firm, engaged passage on a Sound steamer and occupied the same stateroom. Frickett arose in the middle of the night, and the noise he made in opening a window caused Beals to think an intruder was present, and he shot hi* partne.- dead. ... .An explosion occurred at the Keystone Colliery, near Ashland, Pa., by which several miners was killed and many others severely injured. The disaster was caused bv the collapse of a pillar, which preciptated an immense fall of coal and liberated a great volume of gas. THE WEST. Foil refusal to levy a special tax of $2,000, which had been ordered by the United States Court for the purpose of paying an installment on a judgment obtained against the county. Judge Krekel committed two of the Judges of the Lafayette (Mo.) County Court to jail for contempt.... From Albuquerque, New Mexico, comes the report that one of the chiefs of the Jm Apaches captured Prof. A. F. Bandelier, of the American Archeological Institute; S. F. Balden, of Tucson, and a Mexican, near the village of San Cristobol, in the State of Sonora. The Apaches took the prisoners into the mountains, and it is nearly certain that they have been murdered Prof. Bandelier has been engaged in the investigation of Indian antiquities of New Mexico and Arizona for several years. His father and family reside at Highland, Madisofi countv. Ilk, a few miles wafit Os Sl Louis.At L ivitt burg, Ohio, James De Lon<z, a widower, shot and killed a widow named Griswold, and then committed suicide. The woman had I refused to keep house for her murderer. * A dispatch from the West states that little Charlie McComas, who was cap- i tured by Apathies at the time of the murder ‘ of his parents in New Mexico, was subse- i J quently killed by the savages because he I ’ was un tble to keep up with them in their i j retreat to the mountains. ; ( The wholesale clothing firm of New- i burg, Frenkel <t Ca, of Cincinnati, has . , made an assiamment The liabilities,are es- ' timated at from I >so,Uiu to S4’ u,OOD. and the a««etß nt from $250,600 to $350,090.... The fathet of Gov. Foster, of , i Ohio, died at Fostoria, aged 83 years.... Charles F. Kring, the murderer of Mrs. Dora ! Broemser, of St. Louis, and whose neck was ! ‘ saved by a recent decision of the United ; ' States Supreme Court, has been released ort bail, after having been incarcerated eight years, during which period he was twice ; sentenced to lie hanged, and once to a prison term of twenty-five yearn A heartrending accident happened at Middletown, Ohio. The little daughter of John O’Connell fell into the canal. The father plunged in after it, but he was unable to swim. He was seized with cramps, and suddenly ceased to struggle, and went below the surfa< e for so long a time that his ■wife, who had been watching his efforts went to his assistance. She struggled with all the desperation of despair, but in vain. In two minutes after the father went into the water after the little girl, the father, mother and child sank beneath the water. The mother’s cries had been heard by a number of men in the vicinity, none of whom arrived in time to rescue*the drowning... .Between Olivet and Bellevue. Mich., the breaking of the pines connecting the engine with the air-brakes effected the stoppage of the passenger train on the Grand Trunk road, when a freight following dashed into its rear, telescoping two sleeping coaches, which were completely ■wrecked, and injuring thirteen persons, five mortally. Notwithstanding that the freight train was flagged, a heavy grade and bad curve precipitated the collision.... .Experiments with seed-corn in Wisconsin and Minnesota appear to establish the belief that the germinating quality of* the grain was destroyed by the severe cold weather of last winter. There is, therefore, apprehension that the corn crop this year will be short Agent McGillicpdy writes from Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota: “Red Cloud •wishes to inform the Great Father that his heart is good and his mind is tranquil, and also that he has discovered a gold mine on his reservation, and intends to t,o mining with his people when the weather becomes better. He does not wish to be disturbed in the possession of said mine for ten years.* ...At Newago, Mich., fire destroyed Brooks’ Hotel, the Exchange Hotel, two churches and fourteen ether buildings. Loss about . .Nine business places and the Oddfellows’ lodge-room in Fairheld. lowa, were consulted by fire, entailing a ! loss of $40,000, fully insured.. ..I rot. A f. Bandolier, reported killed by the Apaches, is safe at Fort Apache, A. T. The Scott Liquor law, just adopted 1 in Ohio, ha” been decided unconstitutional . by Justice May, of Steubenville. A saJoonist ( selling without the written consent of the landlord was arrested. The defense was that the law wa< unconstitutional, because it impaired existing contracts, lhe Justice gave the opinion that the law was unconstitutional because the tax was unequal and ' it also impaired existing contracts..... The jailer at Tuscan, Arizona, was tnurde ed bv two inmates of the |.nton. « ho had . . by some means obtained pistols and a k<y that let them out of the r cells mto the corridor .John Walsh, the murderer of Thomas Galvin, was taken from the tail at Lordsburg, New Mexico and lynched bv the Vigi ance Commi tie._ .. lhe supposed Indians who hate been s.eai ing stock from the Clows mar Bozeman Montana have been proven to be Deadwood ‘■rvstlers.” At Jaik-on. Ohio. Anderson Lackev, a well known old fanner, was murdered while sick in bed by two robbers. THE SOUTH. Robt. M. Douglas, lately United States Marshal for the Western district of North Carolina, having refused to surrender the records of the office to his successor, the District Attorney has been directed to bring action against him for abstracting officud The case is somewhat complicated bv the fact that the Judge before whom the suit should be brought >’D«“F'laA i flW Flames swept aw ax SJW,<JW w onn of business property on Common street. New Orleans. Eliza Pinkston, the negress whose testimony created such excitement before the “visiting statesmen” in Louisiana in IS.b, died in jail at Canton. Miss , the other day, and was buried in the potter sfield... -B. ■. R?.OP a prosperous farmer and miller lived S’.” Roon his wife, three children, and a «v-r’ant Thp house finally struck a tree pieSk A flash of lightning just then enabled Boop to see the Lt . IvviV Rp crrAjs'ned a mattress and tloatud Struck another trev. in which he remained until mora ”}g-;2 i The great trotting stallion Monroe chief

record 2:18J£ —was recently sold at auction in hmisvil'e Ky., for SIO,IOG, to an Arizona man.,;. Wllli&m Tauk, a wife-beater, wa< given twenty lashes in the jail at Annapolis, Md. Pink Bleeker, residing at Temple’s Mills, Fla., whipped his little nephew until the blood ran; then he tied him in the chimney, head downward till flesh hogan kJ rizzle, when hp took him down and poured water over him.... The Ministers' B:ate Temperance Convention of Kentucky has declared in favor of prohibition of the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors of all kinds. A train on the Cincinnati Southern railroad had just left Harrodsburg, Ky., the other day, when one of the passe tigers made a fierce assault upon another and drew a pistol on him. The man who was getting the Avorst of it ran out of the car, and while stand ing on the rear platform was shot through the head by his assailant It turned out that the murdered man was Walter Davis, a wealthy merchant of Harrodsburg, and his murderer Philip B. Thompson, Jr., Representative in Congress from tne Eighth Kentucky district The ailbged cause of the tragedy was undue Intimacy by Davis with Thompson’s wife. T he murdered man is said to be the seventh victim of Thompson’s pistol, every one of the slain men. as in the present case, having been shot through the head. A cyclone of tremendous power swept over a portion of Northwestern Texas ’killing a number of people and inflicting considerable damage to property. Its path was about 150 yards wide, and every movable thing within its course was ground to atoms. Hail and wind did considerable dam age to crops and buildings throughout d considerate portion Os Louisiana. A great hail-stfirm damaged buildings and broke windows at Hot Springs, Ark., and Ihjured growing crops... .A curiotts fact iri bor.nection with the cyclone at Wes on, Miss., is that of fifty Jewish persons taken out of the debris, none were seriously injured. At Glad water, Tex., two negroes were tried for a trivial offense, convicted, and ordered to jail An effort was made to rescue the prisoners. The attempt resulted in general firing, during which an officer and three negroes were killed... .Collision with a steer threw a Texas and Pacific construction train off the track near Fort Worth, causing the death of three men, and badly injuring three others....A cyclone in the vicinity of Meridan, Li., destroyed a number of houses and valuable property. But few persons were injured, none mortally. POLITICAL. A national convention of colored men is to be held in Washington, Sept 24, td discuss tke best methods of securing to thd face the full enjoyment of their social and political rights. So far as Ben: Perley Poore can judge the next Republican candidate for President will come out of this list: William B. Allison, of Iowa; Chester A Arthur, of New York; James G. Blaine, of Maine; Roscoe Conkling, of New York; George F. Edmunds, of Vermont; Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana; Joseph R. Hawh v, of Connecticut; Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois; John A. Lo- ■ gan, of Illinois; John F. Miller, of California; John Sherman, of Ohio- Wm. T. Sherman, of Missouri, and Wm. Windom, of Minnesota.... A stanch (’ameronian named Keim, of Reading. Pa, has been appointed Chief Examiner of the Civil Service Commission, The secretaryship of the commission has been bestowed upon a young Illinoisan, W. Woods White, recently an insurance agent at Atlanta, Ga.'Prohibition has been voted down by the Michigan Senate. The prohibitory amendment resolution failed to pass the Michigan House by not receiving a two-thirds vote. Gen. Green B Paw,*, r--six years and nine months Commissioner of Internal Revenue, last week tendered his resignation of that office to the President exiduining that private interests required his attention. The President expressed surpr se at the Commissioner’s decision, and , accepted the resignation with protestations of esteem for the rething officia'The senior Senator from Colorado, I Dr. Hill, has written a letter to Secretary Teller, with whom he has not been on friendly terms for some time. In this letter the Secretary is accused of discourtesy to the j Senator in removing officials appointed up- i on the hitter s recommendation. The Yellowstone Park lease is passed in review in a > manner that is calculated to impugn either ; the wisdom or the integrity of tie Secretary, ; and his distribution of the patronage ot the Interior Department is criticised unfavorably. WASHINGTON. Secretary Folger’s health still con- , tinues very bad, and his friends fear that he wi l be compelled to again relinquish his ■ duties.... The money-order sjstem will be | extended to additional postofhees in . July next, principally in Western and North- | western States. It has been decided by Attorney General Brewster that the law making retirement from the army compulsory on officers who have reached t* years repeals the ; law which limited the number on the retired [ list to 40(1 In accordance with this decision ; thirteen additional officers have just been retired, and a permanent increase ot the list will follow. A Washington dispatch says “there is good authority for the statement that the Government has sent secret-service age“t« to Philadelphia This would indicate e..tiier that the attention of our Government has lieen called to this subject by Great Britain or that the State Department expects communications from Great Britain. Secretary Chandler has issued instructions to Bear Admiral Baldwin, commanding the United States n aval , f °™e ß the European station, to proceed with bis personal staff to Moscow to at tend the forthcoming coronation of the Czar. A statement prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue show s that the aggregate receipts for March, ISB3, were SI 12.’’,121 greater than for March, The increase was distributed as foUows : On spirits $1,i3!i,975; on beer, 542,r->. 1 "'‘j'’ I \f-as a decrease as follows: On tobacco, •is ;r.|■ on banks and bankers, S.> . : am. miscellaneous, »'' ; .(ril It has been decided bv the Treasui v Department that cusI toms officers on the Rio Grande may arrest . smugglers as well as seize smuggled goods The Government, it is estimated, loses .500,000 annually by smuggling on the Southern border ... .While it is hardly probable that any international will arise out of the fact, vet the notification to our Government by the Mexican , Minister that Gen. Crook cannot pursue the 1 hostile Apaches into Mexico w ithout the consent of the Mexican Senate opens the door for possible differences between the two nations. general.

Among the recently announced deaths are those of Charles P. Kellogg, a leading merchant of Chicago; Edward Nock, at Youngstown, Ohio, the first man in the United States to puddle iron; Roswell Hart ex-Congressman. at Rochester, N.Y , anil Solomons. Gray, of Natick, Mass,, the pioneer manufacturer of paper collars. The United States of Colombia, Central America, have been visited by an earthquake of the liveliest description. In Antioquia the old cathedral was badly dtunagetl atid in Santa Rosa, Yarimal, Aquidas and Abeiiral the churches, prisons, town-nalis and many houses Buttered severely. Ihe volcano of Ometepe, near Lake Nicaraug ta, is in active operation tor the first time in history, and a large island tn the mouth ot the Atrato river has disappeared entirely. The Canada Pacific Railroad Company and other capitalists of British North America offer to transplant 5.000 families, agmegatinv 2 > (X 0 persons, from Ireland to the Canadian Northwest territory if the British Government will loan £l,‘ <*’,o * thou* interest for the purchase of farm ng outits for the colonists, the loan to be guaranteed bv the railroad company and its associates in the .enterprise. They would , also provide for the settlement of 50. G. o per- • sen' Oikthe same terms The Government, : according to Lord . Carling fold. regards the proposition favorably.... Jem Mace and Slade, the pugilists an i Mme. Patti, salt d from New York for Europe in ’ < the same steamer.. . Adelina Patti has ; I signed a contract with Col. Mapleson to sing

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1883.

under his management next season for the hiodest sum of $5, DOO’a night Henry D. E. Bosny was hanged at Elizabethtown, N. J., for the murder of his 1 wife. He slept well the preceding night, I and ate a hearty breakfast, after which he smoked a cigar, and then inspected the gal- ] lowa Taking hold of the rope, he said M j the Sheriff: “I am afraid I will break that rope. You ought tc . have soap on it”... .Frazier Copeland, the murderer of William Hunnicut, was 1 hanged at Walhalla, S. C. The gallows was of the old style and located in the jail. He ! protested innocence, said he didn't fear 1 death, and was prepared to die. Henry ] Revells was hanged at Lake Providence. East Carroll parish, La., for the brutal murder of Henry Hyams, Oct 5, 1878. The exe- ‘ cution was public, and a large crowd was j present, but there was no disorder. The Central Labor Union of New’ , York has indorsed the use of dynamite as a t means of extorting reforms from govemments... .Yellow fever has broken out nt Vera Cruz, Mexico. The black vomit has i claimed victims already. | Mr. S. W. Tallmadge, Secretary of I the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, has received official reports concerning the con- | dition and prospects of both winter and spring w heat in every whe it-growing State in the Union. From these reports he has made a table of the probable crop in each State. This table is not a matter of mere speculation, but is based on the reports of the Agricultural Departments, Secretaries of Agricultural Societies, Commissioners of Agriculture.ahd other Officials whose business it is to obtain first the information desired, especially in regard to winter w heat. Concerning spring wheat, the estimates are l.a<ed tai the reported acreage and on the supposition that there will be a good season. Os course, should the season not prove good, the yield will fall below the estimates reached. The following are the figures: Bushels. Bushels; Maine 500,0f0 Kentucky .... 9,000,000 New Hamps'e lOT.uooi Ohio 26,000.000 Vermont 400,0001 Michigan24.ooo,ooo Massachus’tts 40,000 Indiana 30,000,000 , Connecticut... 60,000 Illinois 35,000,000 New York.... 12,000,000 Wisconsin.... 16,000,000 New Jersey... 2,oo<\oro Minnesota.... 32,000,000 Pennsylvania. 20,000,COKiowa 22.000,000 Delaware 1,500,000 Missouri 23,000,000 I Virginia 8,0110, oeo Kansas 23,000,000 , N. ( aiolina... 5,500,i<00 Nebraska 16,000,000 S. Carolina .. 2,000,000 California 26,000,000 J Georgia 3,500,000 Oregon 13,000,»»00 Alabama 2,000,000 Colorado 2,000.000 ‘ Texas 5.000,000 Territories ... 20,000,000 Arkansas 2,000,000; Tennessee.. . s,ooo,o«0' T0ta1400,600,000 West Virginia 4,<Hjo,ooo|Last yr’s t0ta1500,000,000 McGill University, of Montreal, has made the Marquis of Lome a Doctor of Laws, in recognition of his literary acconiplishments... .During the month of April twenty-nine new national banks w’ere organized. FOREIGN. A speech by Gladstone in the Commons, on the Affirmation bill, is thought to be one of the best efforts of his life... .Sixteen cabinet-makers were burned to death by fire in a workshop at Warsaw, Poland. , For the second time the jury which , held in its hands the fate of Timothy Kelly ] one of the men accused of complicity in the 1 Phoenix Park murders, has disagreed. The ; informer Carex; swore as stronglv against Kelly as he did in cases where capital con- ; victions have already been had, but 1 the defense put in a well-fitting alibi, and both juries refused to convict the prisoner. The case was temporarily postponed..... The ship British Commerce, for Melbourne, was sunk in collision with the ship County Os Aberdeen, from Calcutta, and twenty-five ‘ of her crew were drowned ld ,„^ev x qp .IttpjnI’? ”.11 at v pres< ‘nfincapacitated from work by illness.. .Helen Marcqvitch, who attempted to kill King Milan, of Servia, has been sentenced to death. • The examination of the alleged dynamite conspirators of London, Birmingham and Glasgow was resumed in the Bow Street Police Court. London, on the 26th of April. A Police Inspector testified that early in the month Bernard Gallagher had offered himself as an informer, and related what Gallagher had told him regarding his connection with the conspirators, both in the United States and in Great Britain. Ihe movements of himself and others of the partv, Gallagher said, had been directed by his brother, Dr. Gallagher. The latter had ! a poor opinion of the dynamite schools at i New York. Another witness testified rej garding Whitehead s purchases of acids to use in the manufacture of nitro-glycerine at Birmingham. Devine, a Fenian informer, detailed i at Dublin the plottings of that party against ! Judge Lawson, Juror Field and the police ! leaders, and stated that one of its membeis 1 had been senteiiced to death by the clique for not obeying orders in commit ingamur- ! der The evidence was presented at the 1 trial of Debnev and Kings:on for conspiracy I to murder... .Michael Fagan was convicted 1 at Dublin of complicit v in the Phcenix Park I murders, and will hang May 2> He declared i that he wasa Fenian and would die one, but I protested his innocence of the chaige f r (which he was condemned... .Frederick I William, Crown Prince of Germany, was corI dia’.lv welcomed at Vienna by the Austrian Emperor... .The German Government, to be 1 prepared for an emergency in transporting I troops has determined to lay an additional I track on all railroads leailingto Russia.

Mr. Parnell has expressed to an American newspaper correspondent hia perfect satisfaction with the work of the Irish convention at Philadelphia He believer that the desire of the people ot Ireland for self-government is uncon< u°iah e, and that in opposing it Great Britain ie committing a heinons political crime. Mr. : Paine 1 further states his belief that nothing can Ire hoped so at the hands of Parliament... A riot between Greeks and Arabs at Port Said is reported. British troops and sailors protected the Greek church, while the Greek Consul took refuge on board a gunboat. A general massacre of Europeans Is said to have been averted by the landing of the British forces Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, wit nessed the embarkation of a large number of Irish emigrants at Belmullet, and by expressions of kindiv interest created a favorable impression upon those who remained, as well as upon the emigrants... .It i is stated the British Government will make a request on the United States Government fur the extradition of about a dozen Irish j conspirators. Eight officers, including a Colonel, i have been arrested at St Petersburg on susj pieion of being connected with the Nihilists. Sixteen officers were also arrested at Smolensk. It is stated a widespread military conspiracy has been discovered. Documents were found at Smolensk showing the coronation of the Czar would be undisturbed. but something very serious would happen immediately after.... I O'Donnell, in the English House of Commons charged Clifford Dovd, an Irish prnice official with altering affidavits, and had laid on the table evidence to support his accusations The Government refused to answer the question whether they would telain him m office... .The importation of American pori into Greece has been forbidden by the Government of that country

Draining the Dismal Swamp. The Dismal swamp in Virginia is much reduced in extent compared to what it was twenty years ago. It now contains, says a recent visitor there, some of the best farming land of the State. A railroad runs across it ami it isonitsway to final extinction.” The drainage of Lake Drummond, a central body of water lying higher than the average level of the swamp, would make the whole area fertile. This is a project of Gov. Benjamin F. Bntler, who once had surveys made, but at length abandoned it. The one great industry of the swamp is lumbering. It is penetrated by small ditches in connection with the larger canals, and by rude trsmroads, over which the logs are hauled to be sawed up into shingles, railroad ties and fencing. The lake, however, with its fringes of cypress and its projecting roots and stumps, is just as ! dismal as ever.— Scientific American,

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The Caloric Brick and Tile Company, of Vincennes, has been incorporated. Capital, $16,000. A postoffice has been established at Cates, Fountain county, with W. H. Cates as postal aster. All the fingers on David Boyden’s right hand were ripped off at Indianapolis by a buzz-saw. Improvements to the amount of $150,000 are being made at Rushville in residence property. An inclined railway is to be built up the “knobs” at New Albany, with a view to making a pleasure resort. The Indiana Pharmaceutical Association will meet in Indianapolis May 22d, and continue in session three days. Rev. E. Hall, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of Washington, died suddenly of paralysis of the heart. He was 68 years old. U.tder the new law only two Peace Justices are allowed in each township, and one in addition thereto for each incorporated town therein. The Excelsior Mutual Aid Association, of Anderson, is the first to comply with the new insurance law, and it has received the first charter issued by the State Secretary td tedch Albert B. White, late of the Lafayette Journal, now of the: Parkersburg (W. Va;) Journal, has taken entire ownership of the latter newspaper, having bought the interest Os his late partner, C; F. Scott A man named Peter Deardoff was badly injured in a saw’-mill near Hagei-stown Somehow the saw’ struck him in the face and cut off a portion of the jaw and a part of his tongue. His injuries are very severe. Interesting to town corporations is the fact that the new law permits but one voting precinct at town elections, unless the Township Trustees may direct to the contrary. The law applies to the coming May election. Major W. W. Carter, the recently appointed Revenue Collector at Terre Haute, has forwarded to Washington his bond in the sum of SIOO,OOO, with the proper suritiea. He will not take charge of the affairs until the Ist of May. The State-house “stone-mill” has closed down, and all the cutters and fine carvers have been discharged. Only fifteen men are at work upon the ground, and they will be dismissed as soon as the present supply of sawed stone is exhausted. Miss Philhomena Musty, of Harrison county, a young girl of seventeen years, was engaged* a few’ days ago in burning brush on her father’s farm, when her clothing caught fire, and she was literally roasted before assistance could reach her. Lee O. Harris, of the Greenfield Republican, whose house was robbed by burglars the other night, remarks: “The only thing of value taken was a rubber coac which we had borrow’ed from a friend and had in temporary possession. To him we tender our sincere condolence/ that some one had pre-einptied her burial lot, in Greenlawn, and had buried the bodies of several unknown persons over the remains of her kinsmen. She accordingly sued Flanner A Hommown, undertakers, for SI,OOO damages, and a jury awarded her S2OO. Bert and Fred Higley, of Elkhart respectively 9 and 13 years of age, were arrested at the instigation of the Postmaster for robbing the mails. They had been accustomed to call fcr mail for different parties, then selecting what w’as valuable and throwing the rest away. They confess and implicate others. The Hamilton County Medical Association has expelled Dr. W. H. Cyrus. The charge made against him was knowingly, persist, ently and intentionally violating the code of medical ethics established by the American Medical Association, in consulting with Mrs. Dr. J. F. Hobson, of the Eclectic School ot Medicine. While engaged in trying to procure a ticket to the circus, at Rushville, William Carney, a prominent farmer, was relieved of his pocketbook, containing «160. At the same time and place a lady was robbed of her pocketbook, with SIOO in it, and a valuable watch and chain were stolen from Charles Mulvahill.

The directory of Butler University have 1 resolved to establish a theological depart- I ment in connection with the University, ! over which Dr. Allen B. Benton will preside. 1 Dr. Benton will retain the chair of mental and moral philosophy, and the Greek department will be confided to Prof. D. a Brown, who is now perfecting himself by a regular course in the German universities Some months ago a large number of the members of the congregation of the Christian Church in Bedford withdrew in consequence of the younger brothers and sisters introducing an organ into the choir. Notwithstanding many efforts have been made to effect a reconciliation, and prominent I elders from distant places have aided in try- 1 ing to unite the factions, nothing has been reached in that line, each maintaining its position with a most stubborn pertinacity. The anti-oritan members worship in the Presbyterian church building, while the I “organ folks” use the Christian church. At Madison, the other afternoon, Jeremiah , Lewis, fireman at Speed’s lime-kiln at Utica, and who is of intemperate habits, went to his home while intoxicated and demanded | the reason why his dinner was not ready. , His wife replied that dinner was waiting for him. He called her a liar, and struck at her | with a piece of wood. Missing his aim, the : blow fell uj on his 1-year-old baby, 11 ling it instantly, in the presence of its horrified mother. Then, in his drunken frenzy, and probably maddened at the bloody work of his hands, he rushed outside of the house, | returning in a moment afterward armed i with an ax, with which he dealt his wife a fearful blow just back of and above the right ear, inflicting a mortal wound. Supposing her dead, he walked out of doors, and soon thereafter was arrested by local officers. A case of official crookedness hat come to I light at Green Castle, which seriously affects the good name of Adam Hanna, late TownI ship Trustee, living inthat city. He took : receipis for moneys paid by him as Trustee, and then altered or raised them to larger sums, so that in his settle- , ments with the County Commissioners he was credited with more than he had paid. Some thirty or forty receipts of this kind have already been discovered, and it is thought that others will yet come to light. Mr. Hanna held the office for two terms, and enjoved the almost unlimited confidence of all parties. He was also Treasurei of the Building and Loan Association until the disclosure, when his bondsmen asked to be released, and a vacancy was declared in the office of treasurer Hie accounts, however, were found to be corre.t, Hanna s . friends assert that be is non compos mentis.

Oni.y seven “beneficial” associations oper- I ating in this State have reported to tiro j Auditor as required bv recent legislative ! act, and each County Recorder “will t>9 call* ed upon to report nt once those organiza tioiis operating therein. The Brakeman. The brakeman is a man who is employed by a railroad company to stand upon the top of the freight car, and w ork both hands at the engineer, and to help stop the train when it is necessary. Next to being a bareback rider in a eircus the small boy pants to be a brake- : man, so he can sit on the wheel of a brake and chew tobacco while the train is running at J till speed. The fact that a brakeman is often seen pegging broad- j cast over the land on a wooden leg, or minus one arm, often causes people to , believe that he is an old soldier, or has served a term in a base-ball club. There are two kinds of brakemen—the passenger and freight. The passenger brakeman is a gentleman of considerable leisure, and by the nonchalant way in which he comes through a car ‘ and tramps on the passenger’s feet is i often mistaken for the conductor. He does not have much else to do but j slam doors, growl at the porter, and, when the train arrives at a station, to yell “Ponooyah” when he should say “Pontchatoula.” The freight brakeman is an entirely different man. He is grinl, silent and dignified. He seldom speaks except td eurse the green hand on the rear end Os the tram, whfim he affectionately re“ fers to as a “pudding.” Despite his faults, however, he works hard and very often arises to a position of inlportance, unless some day he tries to Use his body as a coupling-pin and fails. At night, when a freight train is sidetracked at a meeting point, and all his companions are squatted an a pile of cross-ties, the brakeman is in his glory. He then discusses ad libitum the affairs of the road, and criticises every one from the President down to the most humble official He does not hesitate J to say that if the President can’t run a ' toad any better than he does he should I go off somewhere and drive a canal boati The brakeman is to be admired sot the remarkable inanner in which he gets wind of various and sundry plans I which the management intend to place in operation and wish to keep quiet. The brakeman will sit on the end of a cross-tie, swap opinions concerning ; the wisdom of the President in concocting such a plan long before the la-de-da | clerks in the general office obtain the merest inkling of it. If an appointment is to be made he will tell you the name of the man and the time the appointment is to go into effect. — Neu: Orleans Democrat. . > X. The Modern Arab. No matter how old an Arab may be, how many suns and moons have rolled over his head, he remains to the day of Was 'Vi’flHt inrtr"tae-wbflti. "ivdt-oriiy does he not know how to read and write, but he does not know his own age; he cannot tell the day or even the year of his birth. I doubt if one of Otir Beda* ween could tell his age within five, even if he could within ten years. Indeed, he has no idea of time any more than of distance. Ask him how far it is to such a wady or such a camping-ground. He will answer, “A good way.” Indeed, he never measures distance by miles, but only by hours, and even of these his ideas are of the vaguest kind. Ask him how long since such a thing happened, and he will answer, “A good while ago.” As’be has no clear memory of the present, so he has no forecast of” the future. Like a child, he lives only in the present. Like a child, he acts wholly from impulse, upon the feeling of the moment. Like a child, listening to them. The tales of the “Arabian Nights” are simply a series of brilliant pictures of what may be witnessed still when a group gathers about a story-teller in the bazars of Cairo or Damascus, or around any camp-fire on the desert. A people who are thus but children must be treated like children, not like full-grown men. It is useless to present to them formal propositions or arguments. I should no more think of reasoning with a Bedawee than of reasoning with a baby. Give him backsheesh, and that he can understand, but argument he cannot understand. Try to govern him by appealing to his conscience or his common sense, and yon will make a dismal failure. He has little power of reflection or of judgment, ami a very imperfect germ of moral nature. The ordinary standard by which he measures men or actions is by the amount of backsheesh they give. A good man is one who gives “plenty backsheeshhe who refuses this is to be accursed. — Dr. H. If. Field's ’’ On the Desert.”

A Silver Tube anti an Iron Halter. There is a ease mentioned by Vandorkiste of a woman who kept a house | of call for thieves, and who was con- : demned to death for passing forged : bank notes. Her friends caused a silver tube to be inserted in her throat . sometime before the rope was adjusted. Thus strangulation was prevented. Her friends got jKtssession of her body, and. with surgical aid, succeeded in bringing her to. Richard Johnson, of Shrewsbury, agreed with the Sheriff that his body should be put in a coffin after execution without being stripped. Cords had been twisted around his body, connected with a pair of hooks at ; the neck, and all concealed under a double shirt and periwig. If the man had kept still his life might have been < saved; but he showed signs of life, and was hung again the next day. A man named Kelly was sentenced to death at Trine Ireland. Early on the morning of the fatal day he managed to cut his blanket into strips about four inches wide, join them together with a stout woolen thread, forming a double string. This he passed under his arms, fastened the ends at his neck, and there provided an iron halter to receive the noose. He bribed the jailer to draw up close to the pullev, and lower him gentlv when dead. Kelly had not allowed for the stretching of the blanket by his own weight, anil the point of the hiwik caught in his windpipe, causing 1 great pain, so that his struggles were terrific. He hung until dead, when the sling machine was, of course, disI covered. The Navajo Indians in Arizona have 900..'00 sheep and 200,000 goats, the result of an investment of $30,000 for them by the Government two or three years ago. This heretofore expensive trilie required an appropriation of only s’>,ooo a year and are now considered self-sustaining. They occupy an immense tract of land, however, which is ' held for settlers.

GQSSIP FOR THE LADIES. I Sparking. When the doors are shut and the windows Mured,Then ci/freathe. sprtrklfitf hour; TheSlent kiss, the stolen Hug Arc mighty in thdt jiower Daylight for birds, and flowers ihfnes That poets write about; Give me a caudle short and thin— An I a wind that puts it out. Beaui/fut Tntiton W<6n*ih Many half-breed Cheroirt* *«W to the Indian Territory are cultivated id mind,*lieautiful in person, industrious i in habit and will compare well with the more favored woman in the North and East. They have magnificent heads of hair, long and black, »H their own, and j with jet black eyes and pdflfly teeth, i dressed in that fashionable attire if which they all love to appear, they ■ would not" be recognized in Eastern ! drawing-rooms as that part of the orig- : inal inhabitants of onr country Known as squaws, a name long since repudiated. I Let it be known, then, that white men of worth and character are popular , among the beauties of the Territory, and four out of five who come to make , a home among them marry these dusky ' maidens, get a citizenship, surround themselves with ample acres and the I Comforts of life, participate in the | affairs of govefnnienf and become the most active and wealthy citizens of the Territory. A chief trait in the Character of iriany white inen both in this Country ami ottf of it is to get possession Os its productive lands. By cotomitting matrimony, they can kill two birds with One stone—get a wife and farm too.— Cor. Pittsburgh, Chronicle. The Homely Woman. “What ladies are the easiest to wait ’ upon ?” “The homely ones,” replied the clerk, I emphatically. Seeing a look of incre- 1 dulity upon the reporter’s face he son- | tinned: “It’s so; I’m not bracing you a bit. I The prettier they are the harder they ! are to please. A handsome girl has been so flattered and cajoled and petted, [ from her youth up, that she has lost j her head. She enters with a flutter, ■ and hlUst be shown half n hundred cos- j metics. Then she settles down to a I steady twenty minutes’ gossip between them all. bile is changeable, fluctuat- | ing and peevish, and if you venture to ' make a suggestion she skips from the j store as though fired from the mouth of | a cannon. Now, on the other hand, a homely girl has a mind of her own. i She is not constantly cloyed with admiration and petting from her admirers, and has drunk but precious little from the golden bowl of adulation. But she knows what she wants, asks you for it decisively, and leaves you with a smile that Would be charming if her mouth was only a yard and a half smaller and her teeth a little less like elephant tusks. God grant us a prosperity of homely girls. Life would still be endurable WS’il lose md timiitu 1 vht-s. Woman’s Work. The cptiet fidelity with which a worts ' an will dishwash her life away for her ; I husband and children is a marvel of . | endurance. Here is the servitude of | ' woman heaviest—-no sooner is her work done than it requires to be done again. i Men take jobs, work on them, finish i them, and they are over for good and j all. The prospect of ending them and I drawing pay for .the labor is alluring, , but no such allurements are held out for the wife. She washes Monday after j Monday the same garments Until there is nothing more of them to wash; then they are replaced by others of new material just like them, and the rubbing and wringing goes on forever. She mends the stockings with tireless fidelity, the same holes meeting her gaze j week after week, for if there is a darned I place in a sock “he” invariably puts his I irrepressible toe through it. Every j morning the rooms are put in order, only to be in the wildest disorder by the time night falls. There are no jobs, each one different, no terms, no pay. The same socks, the same washing, the same room every time. There is too little brightness in the lives of women in the country. They have too little help in their domestic occupations. The “nurse” in a house where there is a baby to care for ought to be set down as one of the regular expenses as much as the potatoes for the family. A . mother’s health both of body and mind I is worth more than additional acres of i land, or finer live stock. The heart ■ should not be allowed to grow old. Life s'mnl' l m>f 1,..-.-. lost itsyha’-m H.q heart its spirit, and the body its elasticity at 40 years. And yet how many women are faded and wan, and shattered in mind and health, long before they are forty. All the joy of life is not in youth’s morning. If we so will it, we can. to the last moment of life, be at ■ least negatively happy.

Women's Noses. The nose is the most prominent feat- | i uro in the face, and is a more faithful : ! indication of the character than is gen- i ' crallv supposed. In dress, it gives the ■ I key-uote to the whole structure by its | size or shape. “Every woman is, or ought to lie, a eat hedral.” says a poet of yesterdav, and M. Blanc also compares dress to a kind of architecture, throughj out which a primary idea should be j i consistently carried, and no mingling of styles allowed. When a woman possesses a Roman nose she must be extremely careful as to her style of headgear and liair-dress-i iug. Neither of these must belong to the frivolous or coquettish order. Neither must be inadequately small. If the wearer of the Roman nose fall into this error, that useful organ will look larger than ever. Our aristocracy are | given to large noses. The air of pal- ’ aces seems to be favorable to the development of that salient feature, and, ■ were there to be no mesalliances, the I highbred type of nose would soon reach ! a very terrific size indeed. I always look on the bright side of things, and j when I hear a mtin of gentle birth marrying a bar-maid, or a modern Copetua and beggar maid, I always bethink me of the probable modification of the fordIly noses of the next generation. With a Greek a woman may wear almost anvthing. She will lie sure to have the taste to divine what is suitable and becoming, and grace enough to put it on straight—an accomplishment more rare i than might be thought. But, alas! i Greek noses are not exactly iti fashion. Our national taste has proved degeneri ate. and our fickle fancy has turned to the nez retrousse, which has even found . I its way into the poets. “Tiptilted like a flower, ” says our Laureate of such a . nose. If the cogitative nose appear in ( full development on a woman’s face, she I will probably be strong-minded and ut-

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terly careless of chiffons, if not of her own looks. Os the Jewish nose the same observations arc true as with regard to the Roman nose—that is. when the nose is large. Occasionally —though not very freqth'Mlv—this nose is beautifully formed, and not. too large for our modern notions of feminine loveliness, It mav then be treated as I have suggested in remarking on the Greek var-, letV ’ . The tlffD-ttp nose may be adorable, or it mav be a trial! Much depends on its complexion; iducb on the precise degree of upward curFfl< This curve slKotld I* l similar to those at the corners of tlto Bps, and, when it is, what a piquant harmony is the result! On, luckv girl with such a nose, what a queen of hearts you may bel Add but the instinct cd coquetry to this nose and you have a creature as dangerous as Helen to the peace of man. It must not Ito » shaky, fleshy, flabby,tiling; a. curt decision and a spice ofdafnty : elf assertion must characterize it. It was sneh an ideal nose that inspired the *ollowing sentiments: "We confess a lurking penchant, a sort m sneaking affection which we cannot resist, for the Celestial nose in a woman. It dogs not command our admiration and retoiect like the Greek, t° which we could bow down as to a goddeS-S but it makes sad work of our affections. The snub, too, is not so unbearable as in A man. It is a great raarrer of beauty, undctouterui ; but, merely regarded as an hide” of weakness, it claims our kindly consideration. A woman, moreover, has generally tact sufficient to conceal (often to their entire annihilation) those unprepossessing characteristics of the snub and the celestial, which in a weak man become every day more and more strongly ttlarked. A celestial nose in a woman is frequently an index of wit.” And this, be it remembered, was written long before the apotheosis of the turnedup nose. And wbat style of arcMtecture are we to construct our dress upon ? ask the owners of such noses. Anything coquettish and airy, frivolous and quaint. Severe simplicity consorts not with the snub. A little Insolence of ornament suits it; floating ribbons, a rampant aigrette ; a head “sunning over with curls;” a flounce turned back and forth; a hat twisted north and south, east and west. Such as these would be incongruous with the Greek, an insult to tho Roman, an injury to the Jewish, and a flat contradiction to the cogitative. With the “tip-tilted” they make a happy harmony. W no Is iho Gentleman .’ He who can boast of nothing but a name, on which dishonor lias never thrown its leprous poison. He who can lie down upon his pillow at night knowing that he has done his neighbor no injury; whose |ieart never closed to pity, and whoso arm is nerved to • redress the injuries of the oppressed; who smiles not at misfortune, and who mocks not tho affliction of his fellows. He who looks upon all men as equals, and who fears wd. £i£axuS in tlu> UTPSPIIi'n fit it al honor, and not obliged to have laws made for his observance. He who has true democracy in his soul—who desires and gives to every man the enjoyment of his own opinions, provided those opinions do not influence the decrees of justice in its most rigid sense. Such a man. and only sneh a one, should dare to lay claim t«> the proud appellation of a “gentleman.” Thank God! we are in a country where the field of honor and renown is open to all. The lowest freeman in the land is in part tho governor of its proudest officer. He who tills the earth, walks erect in the proud dignity of natural right, knowing that he cannot be oppressed while he respects himself. There should be no distinction of classes here — the farmer, merchant, mechanic, the Senator and the President, all should hail each Other as “gentlemen.” —CUy and Countru. Brotherly Love. A boy of twelve summers went up Austin avenue at such a rate of speed that everybody who saw him was fully persuaded he was going for a doctor, particularly as there was a scared expression on the boy's face. A kindhearted man caught the flying boy by the arm, and asked him: “Sonny, is there anybody very sick at your house?” “No, but there will be, if you don t turn me loose.” “Who is going to be sick?” “Well, it’s my brother Bill. He will be a remains before night if I don't get there right away. We have oysters and things for dinner, and if I ain’t there to get my share lie will try to eat for us both, and he will founder him- \ self, sure. Please, let me go, so that I ! can save my little brother’s life.” — Texas Siftings. the new moon indicates dry weather, but what it may do when it begins to get full there is no telling. Moons and men are alike uncertain, under certain circumstances. — New York Mail.

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