Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVII.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A- J* hull.. Editor and Baalnc** Manager* > * —— i FIRMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY (TINTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. 88. Aixnow, FrwCt. ~W. _ H Nirlj cm, Cashier D. Studaiaibi, Vice I’raa’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank ia now open for the tranaacSion of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and :County Orders. 26Jy79tf ~PETERSON 4 HUFFMAN" ATTORNEYS AT LAW, dxcatub, iwniAira. Will practice in Adams and adjoining eeanties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0 0. F. building. 25jy79tf E. H. COVERDALB, Jllomcp at Late, NOTARY PUBLIC, t>SCATHE, INDiAMA. Office over We'.fley's grocery, opposite the Court House. B. R. FREEMAN, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin Sl Holthouses' Drug Store. Residence on Third Street, between Jackson and Monroe, Professional calls promptly attended. Nol 26, No. 84. ts. W. H. MYERS, trick k Stone Jflason Contract DBCATUB, INDIANA, Solicits work of all kinds in hia line. Pereope contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v20u45m8. ’ SEYMOUR WORDEN, TVnctic-iieei*. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. nß6tf. AUCUST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DECATUB, - - INDIANA. A full iine 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 ? ncer. x Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office over Welfiey’s Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Demur, Indiana. 87-tn6 TO BUILDERS. STONE AND BRICK WORk, Cisterns and Chimneys contracted for, or built to order, and workmanship guaranteed. Orders and correspondence solicited. U F. W. SCHAFER. J)OOTS AftD SHOES. One Door west of Nibl.ok, Crawford and Sons, Hom*y ’W i'iiies, DECATUR, INDIANA. One of the best selected stock of Boots. Shoes, new and Seasonable Goods, etc., including everything in his line, and prices guaranteed as low as cau be found in this market. Come and see for yourselves. nßnnrf^ Tho ' ijand ’ of « raT ® 8 Kl|gStOf annually robbed ■ • their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently caret ImpOlency (caused by excesses of any kind.) Seminal Weakness and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse. as loss of energy, loss of memory, universal lassitude., pain in the back, dimness of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Bend for circulars with testlmonals free by mail. The I nvlgorator is sold at fl 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. CHE.VEY’, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. K. A. Pierce & Co., Bole Agents at Decatns Daughters. H ivesand Mothers. Dr. Marchisi‘« Cathollcon Female Remedy. Guaranteed to give satisfaction or money refunded Will cure Female diseases. All ovarian troubles, iuflamalion and ulceration, falling and displacements or bearing down feeling, irregularities, birrenntS’, change of life, luccor.hoea, besides many weaknesses springing from the abo\e, like headache, bloating, spinal weakness, sleeplessness, nervous debility, palpitation of the heart, etc. For sale by Druggists. Price $1 OP and $1.50 per bottle. Send to Dr. J. B. Marchisi, Utica, N. Y., for pamphlet, free. For sale by Dorwin and Hclthouse. — No. 2 mo Posit re Cure for Piles To the people of this country we would say we have been given the Agency of Dr. March isi’s Italian Pile Ointment —warrated to cure or money refunded —Internal, Externa), Blind, Bleeding or Itching Piles. Price 50c. a box. Fvi sale by Dorwin and Holt house.—No. 2m3. Rock Candy Cough Cure 9 Warranted to cine or money refunded. Coughs, < olds, Hoarseness, Throat, and Lung troubles, (also good for children ) Rock Candy Cough Cure contains the healing properties of pure white Rock Candy with extracts of Roots and Herbs Only 25 cts. Large bottles SI.OO cheapest to buy. For gaiety Dorwin aud H oil-house. Mo.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED, | THIS F AST. Reading, Pa., has thirty-five buildInij (WFttcfations, five of which are in a dee. i perate financial condition, and one haa j held no meeting for several months. The Directors of three others some time Agd caine to the conclusion that there wns semiI thing rotten in the managements and an exhaustive investigat on m ordered. The i climax came iast Weok, when a wart ant was sworn out against Osmund Geier, theSecre - 1 ’kree associations, charging hi in w'ith having embezzled *urte $25'0.0. He [ was arrested and held to bail in $5,000. His I books are reported to be in a terrible condii tion....At Mystic Bridge, Ct, during the ceremonies of the dedication of the soldiers’ monument, a salute was tired in honor of the Governor. Two companies us G. A R chanced to be passing at the time, and several of the men were seriously injured by the discharge of coarse powder.. James Nutt, son of Capt A. C. Nutu slain by Li. . Duko ® last Christmas dav. shot and tailed his father’s murderer at Uniontown, la, the other day, nutting four bullets into Duke s body, two after he had fallen to the ground. Young Nutt killed 1 hikes with the revolver his father earned on the day he was murdered. A sensation has been created at Bab timore by Rabbi Lilienthal marrying Miss Lotta Galloway, whom he recently converted to Judaism. The eeremOny was performed in Washington, nr- none of the Baltimore rabbis would officiate for certain reasons. AHm Galloway’s sister will take steps to hanul the marriage, and intimates that she possesses evidence damaging to Lilienthal’s character. The examiner of the books of the bankrupt Augustinian Society, of Lawrence, Mass., publishes a statement showing that since 1881 the deposits aiid other receipts of the concern aggregated $634,950, but he can throw no light on how the money was squandered... .The Seventy-first New York regiment, while bhcamped near Peekskill, was highly incensed by tne sermon of a Methodist minister denouncing the militia and urging parents to keep close watch on their daughters.... A blind pool in petroleum, with a capital of $15,000,’00, has been discovered by a Philadelphia journal, the pilot being a banker of Pittsburgh The figures at which to unload are $1.50 per barrel Up to June this year 9,942,810 tons of anthracite coal ha • Been mined, exceeding the output for the same period last year by 1,397,373 tons. An Italian saloon-keeper of Philadelphia, who had only been on (his side of the Atlantic long enough to declare his intention to become a citizen, has been r fused a license, and the County Commissioners will apply the principle to all aliens coming before them,.. John Devoy, editor of the New Y< rk Irish Vat ion * was found guilty of criminal y libeling Aug st Belmont, the jury recommending “extreme clemency,' which Mr. Belmont seconded. THE WEST. Willi am Di rely, a negro, has been arrested at Columbus, Ohio, upon the charge of murdering three young people—Fannie and Robbie Gibbons and Emma Carico—at Ashland, Ky., Dec. 24, 1881, the crime for which George Ellis, William Neal and Ellis Craft were sentenced to death and for which | the first named was hanged by a m <b. Direly is alleged to have made ad mi sions of h s guilt and to have implicated two other negroes, Dobney Jones and Reuben Kendall, • in the crime. Eugene Casserly, ex-United States Benatf r from California, died, aged 61 years. He was an Irishman by birth, but came to this countiy whin quite young, ttudving law and teing admitted to the bar at New , York. He aban lened tl e lega' for the jour- I na stic profession, which h > fol owed, be h at the Ea-t and in Cal fond i, t) ' ich State he jem i; edin IST 0. He was elec cd to the United Stat* Sena ein i 8-9. but red.ned, on ant of ill-heath, before the expiration of hi--1 u rn... .Before the W- stern Academy of ■ Home* pathy and the Wucon.-m Homeopathic So :e y. Dr E. N. Ha’.e, of Chicago, read. : .n import-ni on ihe curative pioperties of lily of Jhe valley—plant and root—iu dlse. ses of the heart. A negro named Till Warner, who | had I rutally outraged a little girl named . Nettie Lyons, was hanged by a mob of 500 infuriated people at C’hel>oyga.n, Mich, “Everything was conducted so quietly,” says an ariount of the : :h;ir. ’that v ry little was known about it until the next morning, ’ but the e was no sunirise on learning the i result, as the town had been gieatly excited ever since the ciime was committed. The evidence against Warner va< very strong, as he could not acc< unt for himself on the night the outrage was perpetrated, and made false statements in many ways. This had the effect of arousing the citizens, | and large crowds gather: don the streets and wended their wav toward the jail. A few ma-ked men. with blackened taces, sheets and other disguises, walked up the steps amid applause from ihe immense thr. ng outside. The Sheriff opened the door of his residence, connected with the jail, and was seized by several masked men, who demanded the key. They unlocked the jail, opened the iron ce'l and took the pri ner out A ro. e was placed around his neck and he was taken to a railroad-crossing sign, where he was pulled up and then let down to see if hewoull confess, but he sa d the only harm he had ever done was to himself i in spending all of hi* earnings for liquor, and that he was not the guilty man. He was pulled up repeatedly, but he still pleaded his innocence. He was finally hauled up and left hanging.” Agent Wilcox has been requested bv a council of Indians residing on the San Carlos reservation to represent to the authorities at Washington the inexpediency of returning the renegade Chincahuas to the reservation, as it is only a question of time when they will again take the war-path, an event for which the entire tribe would be held responsible in a (.reau-r or lesser dcureThe nunlsh-ishm.-irt of the offending bucks is urgei . . The Harper High-!-cense »>iJl pas-ed botn bouses o tne Illinois Legislature, re - ived the executive signature, and is now a ;aw or the State. It impo e* an annual lax of ?AM upon retailers of spirituous uquors and upon venders of beer. A day of wild excitement was witnessed on the Chicago Board of Trade last week. We quote from the Tribune: ‘■Something dropped on 'Change yesterday. The bottom fell out of the lard deal The excitement which reigned intense during several weeks, latterly convulsing the commercial world with save charge ag.iinst manufacturers and strong tears of a colla] se, culmina ed in a season of agony not paralleled in this market since L Lard had weakened so badly Fndai as to discouruge holders, and their mahdltv to continue yesterdav caused a furth r drop of 2 cents per pound from the inside prices of ihe night A Co. the patties at the head of the longs are understood to have towned fu'lv 4*K' <**: tierces, and the panic v hich ensued while this found its way mto other hands caused the throwing <m the fully as much more, bes de large of pork, meatsand gram. Ihe storm car riTdown several otier sirom and undoubtedly made it diftcult for manv others to avoid commeicial shipwreck. The direct losses sustained hate been footed up at about W 0 dof which nearlv 82 UOO.U-O is supposed to la i to the CrnFR cart* on the part of tue prop plavi g Hamb t, was handed th ? ac “ e^e r - Lh-c as a sleeping potion to lender tog Juliet On removing the COT«, the ’1 uid took fire, and the vial w x handed over to the manager.. .. Th > new ' ime table that went mto ertect on S*e Utoon Pacific last week reduces the ti tie betv en Omaha, nd c „>>en twelve hom-8. and I tween Omaha and San Francisco twenty-four hours. .. The value of exports of deme-tic for ; he e , le ' e “ for the tame period last year. A new American play, by a French author, entitled "The Power of Money," was

tirodWced al McVicker’s Theater. Chicago, la t week, and will 1 e run for two weeks at that house. It is fu lof exciting situat’ons, the 8 cnerY is vt ry fine and the parts are in- . ter, iecd by excellent artists. The week of June*' McVicker’s Theater will be closed tor red f-oration nud tn give time for the re--1 hear'Uls of- Love and Money.” aho.w realj 1 s: • drama l.y Charles Reade arid Henry t I wi'.t, th>t Lto be pfoduced the"week follow ng by the Boston Theater Company. Ihe failure of McGcoeli, Everingliam ’ A Co.. of Chicago, was a heavier one than first reports indicate L It appears McGeoch i sunk Sl,'-, o (oo j n the deal and Daniel Wells, ► Jr. ;5 >.i o a total of $1,800,( 0u up to the i morning oi the failt re. The col apse in- > , vol <• ales of 51.G0’,(.0 in addition, equaily i div d d between them. A tabular state* m n of the actual Josses involved i in the failure now stands as folio,vst Sink u th d nl»- , i I’ tcfM ;>(» h $1,050,000 • I an cl Wells Jr 750,u00 1 Faile ' -er—• Be ! ?<’■•' : coch 800,000 J anicl WtllsJr i 800,‘>00 T« tai M Geoch and Wells B,u o 000 Oth* r failures - •J. M. B .11 ino,ooq Ell s a Lichtner 0/no «V Allen ......... j. •■<o T abor .v V. iisen *’ * jojujo M R.i -FUB.kCo 3J.0U0 I Mis d’anet'iis, to.al 50,000 Grand total $3,730,000 The recent heavy rains throughout D!ir.<rf . MLROuri, and other sections of the Wes. lave caused wide spread damage to c.oj s. I iclg- s, lallway tracks and other }ro ■, rty, Ihe grr-at volumes of water that .to l’ i*f 4Wollen the Western rivers, and 1 the*> is«issippi, at tbife w riting, is oh a boonq with i d cal.oils of a Hood second only to that <»f foriy Veats ago. A telegram from Seneca, Kan., says “News in begird to the rain-storm is Coining in. All the big streams in the county a - e overflowed and there is scarcely a bridge but what is damaged or carried . away. At Bakersford, Thomas Akins and fam ly attempted to leave their home, which was threatened with destruction by water and take Mr. Borari, wife and children along. There were eight in the wagon, which w’as caught in the current of Turkey Creek and upset. Eeven of the party were cteowned, Mrs. Borari alone escaping. She lodged in a tree, but was rescued fourteen hours afterward. Her babv was w’ashed from her arms and drowned. * The people of Steubenville, Ohio, were treated to a genuine tornado the othet day. It came bounding over the hills near the town, cutting a swath about 300 yards i w ide, and destroying even-thing in its path. The old homestead of the “Fighting Mo I Cooks' was wrecked beyond recognition* The ('linton paper mills were much damaged As the storm approached the river the scene was fearfully grand The air was tilled with boards, boughs and debris of all kind*, whirling and flying around an invisible center. As soon as the furl usly-revolving wind reached the river's edge it seized the water in its relentless grasp, whirling it into a I spout at least 10 > feet high. This phenom--1 enai exhibition swayed and whirled across the r ver. and broke on the West Virginia shore. The storm lasted about fifteen minutes, and in that time inflicted damage to the extent of $30,000... .Agent Wilcox, at San C irWs reservation, enters an earnest I protest against receiving 500 Indian prisoners from Gen. Crook, and predicts results of the most appalling nature from the enforcement of the scheme. Secretary Teller has instructed the agent to refuse to receive the hostiles.... Bither, J. L. Case’s driver, has resigned, owing to his employer's censure because he i permitted turfmen to time the trotter Jay-Eye-See at Cleveland. Budd Doble has telegraphed Case that he can drive Jay-Eye-See and beat any horse in the world... .James i W. Sheahan, who founded the Chicago Times, and who has been the leading editorial writer on the Chicago Tribune for many years, died m that city last week, after a lingering illness. He li*erally worked himself to death... .The bursting of the reservoir of a mining : company at Smartsvdle, Cal., is said to have raised the waters in the center of Yuba river 100 feet, and caused a of $75,000. ....Near Ravenna, Mo, three men were killed and two injured by lightning. They had taken shelter in a barn during a storm.

THE SOUTH. At Rockford, Coosa county, Ala., a negro named Jordan Corbin entered the house of a peaceful citizen named Benjamin Carden and shot him while he was lying in his bed. His wife jumped up and the negro shot her down. Carden’s son started to the door to give an alarm, when he wa-= also shot. All three persons were instantly killed. Six members of the Barnett gang, whom a mob attempted to take from jail at Mount Sterling, Ky., recently, to hang, were permitted to enter a p ea of guilty of the murder of Vaughn Hilton, and the court sentenced them to imprisonment for life.... Aaron Harris a colored boy who murdered a wine peddler at Enterprise, Miss., was taken from jaff bv a mob and lynched. He confessed his guilt... .A C. Jordan died near Chattanooga, Tenn., at the age of 107... .ExGov. Chai les J. Jenkins, of Georgia, is dead. The Mormon missionaries who have been proselyting for some time in the vicinity of Rutherford, N. C., made themselves vervmuch dis iked on account of the shameless manner in which they practiced baptism. The Adamite appearance of the converts aroused the indignation of the people who gather ed to witness the ceremony, and at its conclusion the Mormons were notified to quit the neighborhood on pain of summary justice. The libidinous Elders took the hint and left for Utah..., Koloman Hewett and William Hardee, colored, were hanged in the jail-yard at Conwavbnro, S. C., for the murder of Jeremiah Stalvev. an old merchant, last October..... Jordon Corbin, a negro murderer and wouldbe ravisher, was taken from the Coosa county (Ala.) jail and hanged to a tree. An editor at Dadeville, Ga., named Carter, forgot the Lyttonian aphorism, ‘ tha pen is mightier than the sword,”and undertook to fight an enemy with a pteto instead ot auuili. The consequence was that Carter was Gain, while his adversary escaped ■withouta scratch....J. Lane Borden, l’i_esident "t the female c'dleee in Man-field, La., was sh’t an I killed by the Rev. Ben T. Jenkins. Jr . who was ordained to the mlnis'ry about a year ago It is alleged that the reverend President had ruined a young ladv friend of the Jenkins family. TffE high-toned poker-players of Galveston are very much disgruntled. It is Stated that Maj- Wasson, the dstMtlttog Ami>■ Pavmaster, who lost tome S TO.O 0 of G vernnv t iimdsa the reductivfe tan e, tam 'd mform r, and-tquelled’ Rud and p n> - ■ m 1 he co'eric v. ithwh >m lie was ,n the haiator pla-.i: g audio whom ho a sorted h.th’.c kmt the money. Tins exro.e was n :..le u-e of to recover lite mon y, and it is atael that one lr.dividu.l who bad Je n a winner to '-he exiert of tarred t ver 810 0 ra her than line bis name g. t into 1 rint Otherso: lie win: <rs slate that they played at Maj li listen s r tern, at his rejue t, and tint; - feat the. a’e the victims of a polite lie kmatl rnnilte Warden, a colored C’tize.i of Drinca I Ark , was taken itora h bom ■ and barged bvamob for havingteslihedayainst a white man who sold liquor without a license. rOLITICAL. The Greenback party of Ohio held a State Convention on the IJthinst, at Columbus, adopting a platform and nomtoiting can'd dates for State offices, to be voted fo r in October Charles Jeakins, of Mahoning county, heads the ticket as the candidate for Governor. The Governor of Pennsylvania hassigned the bill abolishing the contract system in penal and reformatory institutions of the State. The colored Republican club of Washington serenaded & W. Dorsey Acknowledging the compliment, Mr Dorsey thanked the members of the club for their cot rage in paying meh an honor to one whom the Government had teen bending all its power to rum. and com; aied the trial just closed to th' i,n t e-:itmeat of W. rrea Has ings. Mr D a.-ey ha-- w.i : u an x : eajelv caustic let or t th t-e r.- ary o- the Republican Na i>. aj Committee, in which F a ’t services to the party and

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA, FRIDAY. JUNE 22, 1883.

i the reward he has received are alluded to with bitterness.... The Illinois Democratic State Central Oom . xnittee recently in session at Bpringtield, authorized the Hon. John H. Oberly its Chairm n. to appoint a committee of' four to act hi conjunction with himself and Mr. Goudv, the member for Illinois of th? Nd, tfonal ( omm.tiee, to secure the selection of JDmcago as the place to hold the next National Democratic Convention. The Prohibition Convention of Ohio, in session at Columbus, nominated a ticket as follows: Governor, Ferdinand Schu- ! macher. Summit county; Lieutenant Gov- ' ernor, H. T. Ogden, Hamilton countv; Supreme Judge (short term), Z. C. Payne, Franklin county; Supreme Judge (long term), D. C. Montgomery, Kliox county; Clerk of the Supreme Cburc, J. H. Beach Ford, Preble count!; Utorney General, J. W. Rosenbordugh. Fulton county; Auditor bf State, G.ersham Lease, Hardin county; Treasurer of Stat-?, V. M. Whitimr, Huron county; State Commissioner of Schools, H. A. Thompson. Franklin countv; Member of Board of Public Works, G. C.*Cruzeh, Hardin county. Ex-Senator Conkling is alleged to meditate the writing of a history of recent political events, in order to be on even terms with his old antagonist, ex-Senator B. WASHINGTON. Arguments in the star-route trial at Washington were brought to a close, and Judge Wylie delivered his charge to the jury on the 12th inst It was an exhaustive tevieiv of the questions at issue, and was attentively listened to; On the following morning a disgraceful spectacle was witnessed in the court-room. The jury, having been out all night, were brought into court to receive instructions on points of law. What followed is thus described by a Washington correspondent : “Crane, the foreman of the jury, and the brains of it, entered, looking .somewhat jaded from a night's confinement in a hot room. There came directly after him a short, dumpy, fluff y-faced man with puffed-up cheeks and a big brown mustache. His eyes rolled wildly about. He suddenly threw his arms high in the air, uttered a shriek which, in th? breathle.s stillness of that court ro in, seemed almost superhuman, and fell, striking his head against the table and the floor. 'I here was for a few sect.nds a scene of itie most intense excitement The Bailiffs shouted for a doctor. The lawyers on both sides acted as volunteer police to keep the surging crowd o:r the body. Judge Wylie, on the bench, alone seemed calm. A halfminute had not elapsed before he called the crowd to order, directed the Bailiffs to remove the fallen juror to the ante-room, pla ed him in charge of a physician, who sprang over the railing from the an*lienee, and quietly said to the lawyers, who urge I that a recess be taken, that he should wait to see wha: the result might be. Dick Merrick, at whose very feet the juror —Vernon—had fallen, had meanwhile shouted: ‘Give him some whisky! That's what’s the matter with him!’ while Bob Ingersoll excl aimed: Thro w some water on him, and tear off his cravat!’ All of these suggesti >i s were followed” It took about half an hour to sober the man up. Ihe jury requested instructions upon some questions of sac , which Judge Wylie declined to give. The Judge reminded the jury that this was the second trial of the case, which had been a most costly one to the United States, and hinted that he would be slow to discharge them before a verdict had been found. When the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia, at Washington, opened on on the 14th inst, the jury in the star-route conspiracy case reported that they had agreed upon a verdict of not guilty as to all the defendants, Brady, Dorsey and Peck Ti e vei diet was re orded, the friends of the defendants applauding the while. Five ballots were taken by trie jury before an agreement vas reached, the first showing three for con vic ion and nine for acquittal. Counsel for the Government stated that the other indictmente against Brady will be pressed. A comparative statement has been prepared by the Treasury Department showing the revenues of the Government fur the first eleven months of the fiscal years 1882 and 1883. It is as follows: For the eleven months ending May 31, from customs. $202,88 >,089; internal revenue, $133,322,58 ;; miscellaneous, $34,342,6821 For the eleven months ending May 31,1883, from customs. $192,932,366; internal revenue, $133,710,993; miscellaneous, $36,728,054* This shows a decrease in receipts for the present fiscal year to June lof $7,173/240. For the first quarter of tiie present fiscal year the receipts were about $5,000,000 in excess of the receipts for the corresponding period of the year 1881. There has been a gradual reduction since that time, however, which it is estimated will amount to nearly SIO,O 0,000 by the end of the p: esent fiscal year... .The disposition of the prisoners which Gen. Crook brought back with him to Arizona is likely to be a knotty problem. It is desirable to remove them so far from the border as to prevent a repeti tion of their recent raids and escapes, vzhile at the same time it would be folly to place them in the neighborhood of hitherto-peacc-ab e Indians wl om they might corrupt to their own loose ideas on the value of life and property. At this crisis Secretary Teller nas come before the public in a letter, adv Ring that the Indians be treated as i ri-oners, and held to strict accountability for their crimes. He also calls attention to the argument that i eace can never be established on the border so long as hostiles are permitted after each horrible atrocity to surrender to the nearest agency and be thereafter maintained at the public expense ... .Judge William Lily died ai Washington the other day of rheumatism of the heart. The President and the Secretary of the Treasury have formulated a scheme by which the number of internal-revenue districts in the United Stateswill be reduced from 126 to ninety-six without in the least impairing the efficiency of the service. The plan will go into effect as soon after i July 1 as the Collectors of the consolidated districts have perfected new bond*. It is expected that the scheme will effect a considerable saving... .The District Grand Jury has returned a fresh indictment against Thomas J. Brady for frauds in connection with the star-route contracts. Senator Kellogg intends to plead legal technical ties against the indictment charging him with complicity in the starrout e frauds. Plea< of abatement were presented These charge irregularity in the org mization of the Grand Jury, and the unlawful p resence of Mr Ker in the jury-room when he so peisisteutly urged the finding of the indictment It appears that Mr. Ker had not been appointed an Assistant Dist ict Attorney, and hence had no legal right to appear before the jury In that caj acity. GENERAL. In the section of country comprising the Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota, the cost of the star mail service for the year ending June, 1882. was $535,082, the mileage being 6,803,078. The cost of the service for rhe year ending June, 1883, was $:195.066, and the mileage 7,509,707, showing that there has been a reduction in the cost of the service the last year of about sllO,000, while the mileage has increased nearly 1,000,000. Orders have been sent to the Arch Bishops of the Catholic church in the United States to appear at Romo in September, either personally or by proper representative'. to receive "instructions relative to the plenary council to be held subsequently in New York for the purpose of reorganizing the church here and framing new articles of discipline. The business failures during the seven days ending June 16, as reported to R G. Dun A Co., numbered 186, as against 173 the preceding week. Os these the New England States contributed 24; Middle States. 26; Western, 53; Southern, 35; Pacific States, 18; New York city, 11; and Canada, 19. Heavy rains in Central Illinois, in Kansas, in portions of most of the Western States and in Penn sylvan a, have done immense damage to the growing crons, especiali v wheat. Several hundred head of cattle have been drowned by the sudden rise in the rivers, bridges have been swept awav, : and railroad travel-particular’'v over the Chicago <snd Alton, the Rock island and the Central Pacific—has been much interrupted. The f -rmers are much disheartened at the continued frequent rains. Their losses will undoubtedly be great

FOREIGN. In the course of a speech before an audience of 20,000 people at Birmingham, England, John Bright said the large surplus revenue of the United States w’ould prove the Heath of the prbtectioii policy of this and predicted that the next Presidential elects n would be fought upon the tariff i-sue.... The explosion of the magazine, at Scutari, men ion of u hicb has been heretofore made, was caused by lightning. One hundred and fift. persons were killed and fifty-three wounded. Two bundled barrels of gunpowder and 6,000 cartridges were d stroyed. ....Reports prevail in 1 ails that American officers have a-ked leave to serve in the Chinese navy in case of war with France. The trial of the dynamite conspiracy base in London resulted in the conviction of Dr. Gallagher, Wilson, Whitehead and Curtin, who were sentenced to penal servitude for life, and in the ttcquitai of Bernard Gallagher and Atisburgh. The trial was a very brief one. During its progress. Counsel for one of the accused said that “it was a matter of common knowledge that plots existed in America tor th? manufacture of dynamite for use against Enzland, almost with’ the connivance of the American Government.” The Lord Chief Justice, rebuking the counsellor, said it was “only due to our friendly relations with the American Government that you unres rvedly withdraw your statement” The objectionable rema’ks were withdrawal... .Lora Granville, the British Minister of Fofeigil Affairs, is said to have tendered his services as mediator 1 etween France aiid Madagascar. The ocean cable brings the particulars of a most horrible accident, by which nearly 2K) innocent children lost their lives, at Sunderland, England. After the conclus on of a conjuror’s exhibition in Victoria Hall, and when the lower part of the hall had been cleared, a panic seized about 1,2000 children descending from the grllery. At a land ng where there was a door through which only one pen on could pass at a time, a cim h occurred, and, a child falling, others fell upon it, those behind trampling madly upon them Before order could be resto; eit, 186, ranging from 4 to 14 a ears of age. had been trampled to death Upon the facts becoming known in the city, a crowd of 20.0 0 peoj le assemb ed about the hall, so wildly excited that it was necessary to call cut a regiment of troops to restrain them.... The Duke/ f d eck, husband of the Queen • co; sin, Princess Marc- of Cambridge, is in financial difficulties, and will have to travel on the continent to avo d his creditors. Heavy losses on the turf, especially at the la t 2 scot meeting, have seriously involved him... ,P; rne’l sends out the an-.ouncement of his intention to visit the United States this fall. In the House of Commons, Northcote, the Conservative leader, moved that John Bright’s utterances at Birmingham* wherein he censures the Tory-Irish all ance against the G.» vernment be d claied a breach of privilege. Bright answered that he ought to have been mon* careful, but maintained that the action of the Iri-h and Conservatives to ham; er, irritate and destroy the Min stry was an innovation. Bright \as willing to withdraw and apologize for the word rebel, as applied to ihe Irjsh if the memb rs would disavow connection with plotters in America. The mas Power O’Connor referred to Bright's “vain old age ” whi 'h drew protests from the Ho. se. and Gladstone thought Bright's explanation was satisfactory, and that re had not been guilty of a breach of privilege. ANOTHER TORNADO. Steubenville, Ohio, and Vicinity Visited by a Terrific Cyclone. A Steubenville dispatch of the 19th says that that city was struck about 6 o’clock the previous evening by the most terrible storm ever experienced in that part of the Ohio valley. The path of the storm was about three hundred yards wide, and, coming over the high hills which bound the city on the west, it struck the northern portion, carrying everything before it. North of Seventh street hardly a house escaped damage. The large brick residence of Mrs. Harry Caldwell was entirely demolished, the roof being hurled* through the air for several hundred feet. The residence of the family of the well-known fighting Col. McCook, of rebellion fame, was also in the path of the storm, and was almost entirely destroyed, the chimneys being blown down, the sides caved in, and the roof blown away. All the houses in that vicinity suffered greatly. The upper end of Fourth and Third streets was also in the line of the cyclone, and houses fences, stables, out-houses, and chimneys, grape arbors, trees, etc., were also scattered in all directions. Several persons narrowly escaped death, and many are more or less injured. At the home of Mrs. Reynolds a large orchard of apple and pear trees was completely demolished, every tree being torn up by the roots and literally blown out Os Sight. A wins iho xooivlctivr or CXMayor Marion was blown away. At the Clinton paper-mills the storm was terrific and the mills are much damaged. The telegraph wires are down in all directions. When the storm struck the river the air was tilled with boards, boughs of trees, flying debris of all kinds, and when the water was reached the wind seized hold of the river and twisted and whirled the water into foam, forming a water-spout over one hundred feet in height, which gyrated across the Ohio and broke on the West Virginia shore. The storm lasted about fifteen minutes, but no rain fell. The storm took a straight course, commencing on Seventh street and going straight to the rirer, demonishing everything before it. of people are on the grounds vowing the ruins. To give some idea of the Mliwl, a team of horses standing on Ross staaet were lifted from their feet and carried across the street and up against the houses on the opposite side, sustaining serious injuries. The sight of the storm was magnificent, the huge clouds flying in all directions with fearful rapidity, and coming together with terrific force, making a noise like the rushing of many waters. Steubenville has been very fortunate regarding storms heretofore, high hills on every side giving the city shelter, and this one was virtually the first one of any magnitude that ever visited this citv. Tile tatal loss will reach $30,000. A Letter of Ethan Allen’s. The following is a copy of an original letter of Ethan Allen, now in possession of a citizen of It-itland, Vt.: Siu—This Hour, Capt Warren and mvself Arrived at Ticonderoga with the snid ery. Consisting of Sevm - ix men, include g officers. We met with a cannonading « f Gia, e Shot, the Mustek wa< both terrible and'de-ighLfid. We was across the Water at a di-tan-*e of St or I' Cio ’d-. tom 'ofo :r partv wa< Killed, the Regulars Broke their ranks but we Know Not as we Killed any of them. The Council of war have agre dto ir.mrn i atelv take Possession of the Isle of Noah, wh ell is Ten Miles this side of Saint Johns, and fort fy it and advance all the Tr ops thither we can spare iro n Every Station <n the Lake. This is therefore to ] e-re and Earnestly request you to Lay thi ■ ie!tor before Those of our friends, that are at your Station to repair here for the purpo e above Mentioned. I should think five or six men Sufficient to Occupy Your Station, ant forw:-rd Provision except proper l ands to manage the Water Craft for that purpo e. I de-ire you w< uld send all the Soldiers you can urge forward Provisions ami Ammunition Fail Not. Given under mv Hand the 21st Day of May, 1775. Ethan Allen, Commander of the G. M. Boyx N. B.—This Express is by the agreement of the Council of War. To Capt. Noah Lee, Commandant at Skeensborough. To be Stereotyped. Usual interview of reporter with recently arrived prinia donna: Piima donna—“Oh, I am delighted with your country.” Interviewer ? Prima donna—“Yes; everybody has been kind to me. Very kind, indeed. I am surprised to find Americans so kind. I expected to find them ugly, ferocious and hairy, possible black.” Interviewer — —? Prima donna—“l think I shall return and take up my residence in America.” —yew York Graphic.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Thk Morristown Herald announces its suspension. Lack of business is the reason given. Charles L. Reymond and Miss Lydia J. Chamberlain, were married in Wyandotte Cave, a few days ago. One of the pioneer women of Harrison county, Mrs. Polly Richards, died, a few days ago, at the ripe age of 89 years. A young son of John L. Good, a farmer living near Boonville, chopped all the toes off his left foot while fooling with an ax. Oscar Pond, son of William Pond, a proranent citizen of Marion township, caught his hand between the cogs of a cutting-box, mangling his atm in a horrible mannef. At a meeting df the Methodist ifinisteriil Association of the Frankfort district, a resolution was adopted declaring in favor of constitutional prohibition, both State and National. At Greencastle, the junior primary contest in oratory for the C. W. luundie pri»e, was held June 15, with the following result: T. Gavin Chambers, first; Frank Lodge, second, and Will Switzer, third. Miss Dora Strain, a young lady of well-to-do parents, six miles north of Clinton, Shot herself through the temple, dying almost instantly. Cause, unrequited love t as she expressed it in a note. The State University conferred the degree of LL. D. upon Judge Andrew Wylie. If the old man isn’t a doctor he’s a daisy, anyhow, when it comes to what may be termed the red-eyed law.— lnd. Journal. Mr. James McCormick, who was 100 yean old March 20 last, was in Tetre Haute on Tuesday, on his return from a visit to his daughter at Davidson, 111. He was with Harrison at Tippecanoe.— Ex. The boiler attached to a saw-mill belonging to Cottrill <fc Kennedy, and located near Fortville, exploded with terrible effect Mr. Cottrill was so severely scalded that he will die, and his partner, Kennedy, was instantly killed. The mill is almost completely wrecked. A New Castle correspondent says: “The agents for an alleged sickle sharpener are at work in this county selling farm rights, which, after the honest granger contract® for, he finds to be a combined order for a number of sharpener and an ironclad Dromisarv note.” At Vernon, Win. Lockwood, who beat an old man by the name of Mathena to death, on account of a dispute as to a division Iron fence, was captured and had a preliminary hearing before the Mayor. He was bound over in the sum of $5,000 to appear at the next term of court. At Sullivan, Ed. Bolinger, a young man of about 17 years, while handling a cartridge, was fatally wounded by its explosion. The brass shell passed upward and entered just below the eye, lodging in the skull. 'The shell has been removed. He lives about two miles northwest of Sullivan. The temperance ladies of Greenfield have opened a strong fight against granting licenses to saloons. Two licenses have been granted, but one applicant, becoming scared, withdrew, and there have been several complaints against J. T. Farmer. The ladies expect to revolutionize the traffic. As the construction train was passing through Brewersville, Mick Hannon, an employee of the company, fell off the train, and ten car> passed over his body. He was cut all to pieces. His remains were taken to North Vernon, and the Coroner returned a verdict ui accordance with the above facts. While William Floyd, of Lafayette, was repairing a pump on a farm, three miles from that city, he went into the well to exame some flaw in the stock of the pump. There he was overcome by the “damp” and fell on the braces which supported the pump, a little above the water of the well, and there expired from suffocation. A commandery of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States is being organized for Indiana Eligibility is limited to officers of the Union army during the late war, and the membership is transmitted from father to son. The date is not yet fixed, but the Philadelphia and Washington commanderies have decided to attend as a body. There is no need of Indianapolis merwmpiaTning of dull times. The clearings of last week at this point were $2,264,100 an increase of 30.3 per cent over the corresponding week of last year. There were but two cities that did better, Pittsburgh and Kansas City, while the next below was Syracuse, with an increase of 26 per cent— Journal. 1 The State Sunday-school Association held its annual session last week at Muncie. The following officers were elected: President, William H. Levering, of Lafayette; Secretary, Charles H. Conner, of New Albany; Treasurer, Charles D. Meigs, of Indianapolis, and twenty-four district Presidents. FrankJin. Johnson county, was selected as the place for the next meeting. The question of the annexation of Cochran to Aurora is attracting considerable attention, and, with the consent of the O. A M. railroad authorities, who have their machine shops located at Cochran, the result would soon be brought about. The railroad authorities have heretofore opposed annexation because of the increased taxation il • would impose on their property. A correspondent writing from Muncie says that the other afternoon during a heavy thunder-storm, which passed over the northern part of that county, lightning struck a tree under which were sheltered a large herd of sheep, belonging to Henry Lewis, and nineteen were instantly killed. They were of a valuable breed, and insured in the Ohio Farmers’ Insurance Company. At Elknart a military company, to ba known as the Elkhart National Guards, has been organized and mustered into the State militia by Assistant Adjutant House, of Indianapolis. The company numbers about 80. The following were elected officers: John Vogel, Captain; A. F. Leahart, First Lieutenant; Herbert Compton, Second Lieutenant: H E. T. Conrad, Orderly Sergeant Two young men living near Montezuma were paying their attentions to the same young lady. One of them, becoming tired of this state of affairs, paid his rival $25 in cash as an inducement for him to withdraw. The offer was accepted, the money paid, and it was supposed bv No. 1 he had a clear track. Instead, however, the young lady, hearing of the bargain and sale, repudiated the transfer of her rights. Alexander Collier, late secretary of the Marion Trust Company, one of those so-call-ed beneficial accociations which number'd its victims by the hundreds, has been returned to Indianapolis to answer an indictment charging him, in his capacity as secretary, with having embezzled the funds of the institution. He was arrested at Quincy, lIL, to which point he migrated after being driven out of that city and Chicago. The Marion Trust at one time numbered 5.000 certificate-holders, and Collier's profits are supposed to have reached many thousands. Much of this was spent in fighting the pre&, and, when he found the odds too heavy, he attempted a “bluff” by filing a s3o.<kX> libel suit against the Jo i and then skipped out.

Charles Bannister, a young man about j 21 years old. was standing on the depot plat- I form at LaFontaine, SOttth Wabash, when I an excursion train was backing in. He was 1 suddenly seized with an epileptic fit, td which he had been subject, and fell between two cars, two wheels passing over his body [ before the train could be stopped. Bannis- j ter’s body I’varf ttlftHgled fearfully, and life was extinct when he was picked up.One of the Indianapolis, Peru and Cliibfigd I mail cars was run into the shops last week I to undergo general repairs, and in overhauling it several letters were found that had worked in between the ceiling and outside of the car, one written by J. A. Bently, Commissiontr of Pensions, Washington, March 31, 1877, addressed to Nutt N. Antrim, Peru. Fof inote than sil years this letter had traveled up and down the road between tndianapolis and Michigan City every trip made by this mail-cat. It had doubtless passed over the entire length bf the road more than 1,800 times, a distance in the ag - gregate of nearly 300,000 miles, and was finallj’ delivered to Mr. Antrim with the seal unbroken. A Noblesville dispatch says: “A strange shooting affray took place four miles north of here the other afternoon. Joseph Copper, a mute, fired four shots at his brother’s wife with a revolver, three of which took effect, two in the back of her neck and one in the side of her face. She is in a precari- j ous condition, but may recover. After shooting her, he attempted by Shooting himself twice in the forehead and once in 1 the left temple. Such was his fortitude that < while his brains were oozing out he arose, - washed, lit his pipe and began smoking. ; Copper is a crank, and at one time was con- | fined in jail. Jealousy is the assigned cause of the deed.” A case was decided at Logansport recent- i ly that will attract universal attention, from | the points at issue. The city of Logansport pumps the water for its water-works from Eel River, and the sewerage is so vranged that none of the water is returned to that river. Below the water-works on Eel River is a mill-dam owned by Uhl A Co. They brought suit to enjoin the city from pumping water from the river on the ground that the failure to return the water to the river lessened their power and injured them. The case was bard fought The Circuit Court has granted the injunction, but gave the city ninety days in which to arrange matters with the Uhls. It is thought the city will now take steps to condemn such part of the water as they maj- need. , The general arrangements for the unveiling of the monument over the grave of the late Governor James D. Williams, on the 4th day of July next, are as follows: A special train will leave Vincennes for Wheatland at 8 o’clock a. in.. at excursion rates. Comveyances, both public and private, will be provided from Wheatland to the cemetery. The ceremonies will commence at or soon after 10 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Hawes, as chaplain. 'The opening address will be delivered by Hon. I). W. Voorhees, and he will be followed by ex-Governor Conrad Baker, Senator Harrison, Ex-Governor Hendricks, ex-Senator McDonald and other distinguished persons who have accepted invitations, and are expected to be present. Appropriate music will be provided, and others will doubtless deliver addresses. The presence of military companies will be web corned and their services gratefully accepted. The suit of Johnston, Erwin A Co., against the Union Railway Company, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati A St. Louis Company, the Cincinnatit, Hamilton A Dayton Company, and the city of Indianapolis, which has been on trial for five weeks past in Judge Taylor’s court, terminated by a verdict of the plaintiff for SIO,OOO damages. The suit was brough to recover damages done to the plaintiff’s dry goods’stock by the overflow of Pogue s run last June, and the case has been stubbornly contested, there being a formidable array of legal talent on each side. The jury were out about three hours, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff against all the defendents for SIO,OO0 —the amount demanded in the complaint being $10,195.16. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court on questions of law. Should the decision be Af»rtne»d, them fa pruDaDlllty that a score of similar suits will be brought j by persons whose property has been dam aged by some of Pogue's Run's numerous overflows. A savage attack was made on Sheriff Me- ! Kinney last week by Sanford Toll, a farmer who lives near Eaton,twelves miles north of Muncie, while arresting him. Toll is the ! terror of his neighborhood, where he runs i things as it suits him. He was arrested the other day and taken before an Eaton Jus- I tice He compelled him to close court, after which he went peacefully home. He ; made life so miserable for a neighbor whose j farm adjoins his that the neighbor sold out i at a sacrifice and went west to grow up. At last a warrant was put in the Sheriff’s j hands, who arrested Toll for trespass. The ! Sheriff found him in town and started to the Court House with him. when Toll pulled I a 38-calibre, self-cocking revolver and attempted to shoot him. He was promptly ■ knocked down by the Sheriff’s son, the I hammer of the pistol catching on his thumb 1 and preventing an explosion. A desperate struggle ensued, it taking several men to overpower and disarm Toll, who fought like a wildcat, striking, kicking, butting,scratching and biting his antagonists. Finally he was locked in jaib He will be indicted for assault with intent to kill Sheriff McKinnev. David Thomas, the colored man who shot freight brakeman Frank Rogers, of Indianapolis, surrendered to the authorities at Templeton Station, fifteen miles west of La- ■ fayette, at the junction of the Lake Erie A ■ Western and C., 1., St. L A C., last week, ; and was brought to the latter city and lodged in jail. The whole country, prairie and woodland, was scoured by the county and city officers and fanners who aided in search for the alleged murderer. It v. as a fruitless undertaking; the man could not be found. The greatest excitement existed at Templeton and vicinity, where the fugitive from justice was known to be hiding. Friday Colonel Jack Templeton was approached by a colored man, who asked, “Are you de Marshal?” “I am,” the Colonel replied. “Den I give myself up,” said the negro. “Are you the fellow who shot that brakemanr” asked the Colonel, “I is,” was the answer. The half-starved negro gave up his revolver and threw' up his hands. He had had only one meal since last Saturday night, and was on the verge of starvation. He claims he shot in self defense, and a tramp now n custody sustains the negro. His name is Thomas and he is from Richmond. Ind., and was on his way to Jhicago when the shooting occurred. “Lamartine is puffed up with conceit,” exclaimed one day the author of a long and tedious epic which had fallen stillborn from the pi ess; “he imagines himself to be the best poet of his time.” “In any case,” replied one of those present, “he is not the worst, as you ought to know. That place js already taken!”

NUMBER 12.

HUMOR. How to beat your grocers ou eggs—succumb. What is a house without a baby? i Well, comparatively quiet. At the Zoological Garden: “Mamma, is that a gorilla?* “No, child, it's only a ‘dude.’” “Sweet are the uses of adversity,” ' exclaimed the receiver as he pocketed 6(1 pkt Cent, of the estate. • A coNfEirfoRARY publishes a poem addressed “To Assassin.” That’s right. Assassins deserve punishment; address your poetry to them. Since the railroads have been ranning into the interior of Mexico ox-bank casiiiers are to be found in almost every town in the sister republic. Deaths by violence average over 40,000 a year in Russia, there being an average of ten murders a day. About >,250 are frozen to death entry year. We often hear the expression that ' “the fire had gone out." And it is I said that in some of our large places you can actually see the fire escape. It’s just as well to be refined in your conversation. Say: “Those who indulge in terpsichorean recreation are under obligation to remunerate the violinist.” “Take care of the useful, and the beautiful will take care of itself. ” This is what the fond and numerous father remarked when he married oft his uglist daughter first. * It takes but thirteen minutes to lead an elephant on a train, while it takes twenty for any sort of woman to kiss her friend good-by and lose the checi of her trunk.— Rome Sentinel. We hear of a woman who applied for a situation as car-driver. Being asked if she could manage mules, she scornfully replied: “Os course I can; I’ve had two husbands.” That woman should go to Congress where there are plenty to manage. Diogenes, finding the water in a public bath dirty, asked: “Where can one go and wash on coming out?” The Tahiti women, after a swim in the sea, always went and rinsed themselves in a fresh water brook, to preserve the smoothness of their skins. A visitor in the country seeing a very old woman dozing at her cottage door asks a little boy of 6 or 7, who happens to be playing near by, how old she is. “I can’t say, sir,” replies the child, politely; “but she must be Very old. She has been here ever since I can remember.” In addressing a Sunday-school a while ago, a speaker said to the boys: “Always be kind to your little sisters.” “Now,'l never had a little sister, and I once tried to be kind to some other fellow’s sister; but she had a cruel father, and he hurt me helping me off the front steps. ” “Can you tell me,” said a frugal wife, to the herd of the family, as she handed him a pair of trousers of her own manufacture, “can you 6ell uw Abe <liff-.fr ence between your wife and an Irish peer?” “Go on, dear,” was the reply; “proceed and do your worst.’ “Ti e difj I ference is that one makes the daddy’s pants and the other makes the Paddies i dance.” On Montcalm street, in Detroit, a boy was leading a goat by a rope, when a pedestrian asked if he wanted to sell the animal. “Course not; we just got him,” was the reply. “What do you want of a goat?” "Nothing much. We bought him to get ahead of the Browns, who have a fox. but they’ve gone and got even again.” “How?” “Why, three of the family have been mesmerized, and Johnny has had two teeth filled.” A Boston honeymoon: They were a Boston couple, who had been married but a few weeks and liad just gone to housekeeping. As the husband stood at the area door one morning, with ths market-basket in his hand, his bride threw her arms around him and said: “Do vou indeed love me so very much, U” “Hnnlroi- Will * may fall,’’he answered with enthusiasm, I “but mv love will always stand.” ‘ Well, then,” she exclaimed kissing him, “don't : forget the beans.” The vicinity of Austin is very hilly and rockv, and abounds in rabbits. A. little boy, who had not been long in the place, undertook to capture a rabbit. He chased the animal up a steep hill, but when he undertook to follow it down the other side he lost his balance and got a bad fall. M lien the boy came home in a used-up condition, his mother asked him what he had been doing. “I had such a nice race with a rabbit.” “Well, which of you won the race.” “Going up the hill the rabbit was ahead, but in coming down on the other side I beat the rabbit. Texas Siftings. One of the Boys. Aurora has a little jackass that enjoys a drunken spree and will drink liquor until liis ears can no longer wag. W hile under the influence of wine or whisky he will perform many amusing tricks. One day a number of Bodieites visited Aurora. After drinking all they could conveniently carry, the Bodieites turned their attention to the jack. He was escorted into a saloon and the champagne ordered. The jack took his “medicine” like an old-timer. After the second quart had disappeared the animal be- ! came frisky and wanted more. He tried to climb upon the bar, and when intimidated he displayed a bail temper by kicking a county official in the abdomen and biting a lawyer’s leg. Not until he had drunk a pint’ of whisky did tl*e intemperate jack quiet down. In the morning he was found stretched out near a deserted building. A cocktail revived him, and he was ready for another “run with the boys.”— Bodie (Cal.) Free Press. The English gentleman Somehow in England, as nowhere else on earth, a man who is not a “gentleman” cannot pass muster as one. The standard is everywhere present in England. The English gentleman is unique. His bearing is unmistakable. There is a nameless air about him that stamps him as a gentleman before he speaks. The English gentleman is reserved, quiet, speaks in a low voice, seldom dogmatizes and when he does it is in epigrams. He always dresses suitably; never violates the proprieties or begrudges the amenities of life. Under no conceivable condition of temptation do she ever “swagger.” Death were to him more desirable than the suspicion of being unreal or a humbug. Berconsfield had literary instinct in his veins He had the manners of a gentleman from the first. So it was that the aristocracy of England accepted Lim as their leader. He vas the greatest political genius of this century.—. London Correspondency.