Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 6 July 1883 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVII.

The Democrat, Official Paper of the County. A. J* HILL. Editor and Bußlnens Manager, <• - t TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENT® IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER I EAR IF NOT PAID LN ADVANCE. B B. AuaeoM, Fr*«*t. H Niblick, Cashier. D. Stvdabakbk, Vice Pres’t. THE ADAMSCOUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business,. We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf .PETERSON & HUFFMAN? ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. P 0. F. building. 25jy79tf E. H. COVF.RDALK, •Attorney at Lau>, —)ax»(— NOTARY PUBLIC, DXCATUB, ISDIAIA. Office over Welfley's grocery, opposite the Court House. J .1. tu a all. ri vs. aii » 3. i . Al r.ti li V UA N , Notary Public. -FRANCE & MERRYMAN,— Attorneys at Law, DECATUR, - - - INDIANA. t)FFI CE.r--Nos. 1 and 2 over Stone s Hardware Store. Collecting a specialty.—lo X. IL FREEMAN. M. D. J. S. BOYERS, MD. Drs. Freeman & Boyers, DECATUR. INDIANA, I petitioners of Medicine and Surgery. Cui Is promptly at tended to day or night, office over 1 orwiu N Holthouse s Drug Store. Residence on thirl street, bet ween Jackson and Monroe street*. W. 11. MYERS, trick ft Stone Mason € ontrac'i DECATUB, INDIANA.. iolicits work of all kinds in his lijie. Persona contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v25n46m3. SEYMOUR WORDEN, -A/uctic-neer. Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calls in this and adjoining counties. A liberal patronage solicited. n36tf. AUGUST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER, DECATCB, - - INDIANA. A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipes of ail kinds always on hand at my store. G. F. KINTZ, Civil Engineer and Convey ? ncer. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all legal instruments drawn with neatness and Jiipatch. Special attention to ditch and grave road petitions. Office ov»r Welfleys Grocery Store, opposite the Court House, Deeatur. Indiana. jgUU'IS' AinD SHOES? One Door west of Niblick. Crawford and Sons, Henry Winncs, DECATUR, INDIANA. One of the best selected stock of Boots, Shoes, new and Seasonable Goods, etc., including everything in Ims line, and prices guaranteed as low as can be found in this market. Come and see for yourselves. M 18 A SPECIFIC) CUnE FOR ACL DISEASES OF THE SKIN, ESPECIALLY SALT RHEUM OR ECZEMA, SCROFULA, SCALD HEAD, TETTER, HIVES RASH, DANDRUFF. BAR3ER S ITCH, FILES, BOILS, CARBUNCLES, ULCERS, BLOTCHES, CHAFIN3 AND SORENESS OF INFANTS AND ADULTS, BURN OR SCALD. ITCH, STINGS, PLANT-POISONING AND POISONED WOUNDS, PIMPLES, ROSE-RASH, ITCHING OF THE SKIN, RINGWORM, SUNBURN, AND FOR ALL SYPHILITIC ULCERS AND ERUPTIONS THIS REMEDY IS A POSITIVE CURE WITHOUT THE USE OF INTERNAL REMEDIES. IS A SPECIFIC CURE FOR CA . ARRH. ACUTE 0R CHRONIC, COLD IN THE HEAD, HAY FEVER, SNUFFLES AND SNEEZING ALL DISEASES OF THE NOSE ARE CURED WITHOUT FAIL BY THIS SOVEREIGN REMEDY IT WTHE ONLY SURE CURE FC HAY FEVER AND ROSE COLD. THE SKIN ANO CATARRH CURE DO NOT SMART OR BURN, BUT SOOTHE AND HEAL AT ONCE. PUT UPON A FAW SORE, OR SCALDED FLESH IT RELIEVES THE PAIN IS THE MOST WONDERFUL MEDICINE EVER PREPARED. AN INFAN' CAN TAKE A WHOLE BOTILEFUL AND IJ WILL NOT DO IT ANY HARM IT IS A SPiOIFIC CURE FOR WHOOPING COUGH. AND BRONCHIAL OR WINTER COUGH. IT CONTAINS NO IPECAO. tartar EMETIC. PRUSSIC AGIO, OPiLIM OK ANY DRUG OR GENERAL DIRECT ONG IN TEN LANGUAGES ®CR SALE DY C3UOOIST3. PAI-ILLOfI MFC. CO , CHICAGO For sale by A. B. PEAKCES CO.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED. TIIE EAST. Gov. Butler and Lieut. Gov. Ames attended the Harvard College commencement exercises, the Governor proceeding to j Cambridge in an open barouche, drawn by wx horses, escorted by the National Lancers, rhe Governor made a speech at the alumni ■ dinner, eulogizing the University, and particularly its war record... .Widespread ruin has been caused in Pennsylvania by continu ! ous heavy rains. Railways suffer through wrecked bridges and washed out tracks, and the loss in crops in very heavy. The animal boat-race between the 1 crews of Harvard jmd Yale was witnessed by an immense concourse at New London, Ct Ihe distance rowed was four miles. Harrvard won by fifteen lengths. Time, twenty-five minutes and forty six seconds The house and grounds of the late Cornelius I J. Vanderbilt at Haitford, which origiinliv I cost $325,000. Were sold at auction the other day for $40,80* k The glassware and pictures j went for a‘ s >ng.”... .Ithag been discovered ; that Tynan, the original No. 1, has tor three | ■ month* past been in the employ of a dry- ' I goods house at Rochester, but fearing a movement for his extradition he returned. 1 to New York, to be near his counsel* The wheat-growers of Berks county, Pa, have reason to be unhappy. The lies sian Dy is manipulating one portion of the Wheat plants and a small green worm is devastating the grain at the head Old fa* mere say a similar worm played havoc with the crop a quarter of a century ag ■. ... .A manager from Australia has cone’ uded arrangements with Mrs. Langtry for an engagement of four months next year, at £SOO per week. A coal train on the Rochester and Pittsburgh road, broke on a steep grade a few miles south of the viaduct at Kinzua, • Pa. Seven cars and a passenger-coach went down at the rate of eighty miles an hour, striking an approaching coal train Seven men were killed and several others were injured. A lady passenger states that the conductor and both brakemen on the broken train were asleep at the time of the disaster.... Maj. Phelps, the Philadelphia almshouse fraud, has been sentenced to five years solitary confinement in ihe county prison at hard labor A railway collision occurred at Hartford, CL, resulting in two locomotives being ! smashed, two cars derailed, and injuries to a dozen persons, one-half of whom were women.....A tire at Pawtucket, R. 1., destroyed the Arcade building and the Dexter Yarn Company’s mills, involving a loss of $115,000.... .A Meadville girl named Jennie Roberts drowned herself to spite her parents, who had refused to let her attend a dancing party..... Twenty-three “assisted’’ immigrants were sent back to England from New York last week by the authorities... .The steamship Nevada, which arrived at New York hi t week, brought 680 Mormon converts... .In a coal shaft near Scranton, Pa., three men were suffocated by foul air. THE WEST. The editor of the Cincinnati Price Current publishes the result of an extended investigation through the producing States of the West concerning the corn and wheat crops. He places the aggregate wheat crop at 440,000,000 bushels against 504,000,0 0 last vear. The corn crop reported iu good stand generally, the acreage considerably increased, and the condition averaging well, though backward. Many sections now have drawbacks from excessive rains, which interfere with tilling. Seventy per cent of the returns report fair to good supplies of old corn on hand. The Supreme Court of Ohio, in sustaining the Scott law, holds that legislative power is ample to make laws absolutely pro- ; hibiting all traffic in intoxicating liquors. Saloon-keepers all over the State are paying the tax under protest The City Council at Columbus finds that the receipts will support the police and poor departments.... A secret convention was held in Indianapolis, I last week, to organize a company and issue $300,000,010 of stock to build double-track narrow-gauge roads from New York to San Francitco and from Chicago to New Orleans. | Hiram Blair and wife,of Keithsburg, 111. have for mouths lived so unhappily because of the attentions paid the wife by another man that the husband frequently w arned her that he would do some shooting. Getting into a fresh quarrel, the other night, he drew a revolver from his pocket and shot her in the right side, the ball striking a rib i and making only a ffesh wound. She started to run, but he caught her, 100 yards away, and lodged a b allet in her spinal column, indicting a death wound. The (. ity Marshal had just placed his hand on Blair s shoulder when the latter wheeled round and killed himself. The incorporators of the colossal narrow-gauge railroad scheme at Indianapolis claim that when $10,000,000 shall have been subscribed by the people California capitalists stand ready to take the remaining stock. A dispatch from Wilcox, Arizona, says: “The Indians reported at Ash canon, on the Arizona and New Mexican line, with the cavalrv in pursuit. are the Chiricahuas, who were to have been on the reservation several days ago. but who were deterred by the knowledge of the fact that they could not enter the reservation there. The hostile* are said to be greatly incensed a*, what thev consider a breach of faith. Another j murderous raid is anticipated. .. ..A iami«y of five persons were drowned in the On o river, twenty miles below Madison, Ind., by the upsetting of a skiff. J. H. Simes, a negro, who almost | killed Miss Kate Maguire in the outskirts of I Louisiana, Mo., having been partially identified by his victim, was taken from the jail at Bowling Green, by a party °f eight meiL and hanged to a tree by rope halters. He made a toil confession of his crime, and admitted that be had served four years in the penitentiary for a similar offense at bh Charles... .< n the Western Indiana track at at Fortv-lirst street, Chicago, a Wabash tram crushed a Stock Yards street-car into fragments Twelve persons were seriously mfnred three or more of them fatally. J THE SOUTH. A DISPATCH from Jefferson, Texas, says, that a column of 150 horsemen suddenly galloped np and surrounded the jail containing the negro Douglass, guilty of outraging a while woman. Mis. Rogers, for which his companion negro, named Lacy, had been lynched the day before. Ihe Denutv Sheriff with guards attempted re-istance but were instantly covered by the assailants and secured, the cell unlocked, Douglass pinioned and placed on a horse. The band then disappeared as quickly and mysteriously as it had arrived. The following morning, two miles from the citv, the carcass of Douglass vas found “hanging from a tree with tour bullet-holes through the h®* l :-- Three men were ki.led and one .a.ally wounded in a quart el at CoUtnsvt le. Ala. Tne participants in the tragedy were A. U I Hal. and son and John and Bob Mu.lens. Thev owned adjoining proiterty. and a dispute arose regarding the boundary Imo. Tom Hall built a fence which the Mullens claimed was improperly located, ana they threatened to remove it Hail said he would kill the man who touched it Bob Mullens went out to remove it and was shot dead by Hall His brother. John Mullens, who was present, was also shot anl fatally wounded. He, lo“ever, had strength to jerk out a pirtol, and killed Hall on the spot. Hall s father ??„„ «nnroached and was immediately MTed. SFullensthen fell mortally wounded. »it the parties are wealthy and promment, Y b. Hall being the senior member of Hail, Mackey A Co., a leading firm in North Ala- | bama. A BECTMBEST figure of Iren. Robert E. Lee was unveiled at Lexington, Va a procession marching to the cemetery and d<£oratmg the grave Jackson. and later that of Lee Ha “ ““ was Chief Marshal: Jnbal A. Laily. prist ! ing officer, and John W. D " ora T , Father Evan recited an original I’ 0 ® 'l- - ” Mrs. Pope, a residem of Milan Tenn., was st ng on the nose by a bee and died from the effects of the sting in a few minutes. She was apparently m good health at the time Mastix Joseph, colored, for the murder of Bud Stevens and wife. William H. Trn.-b for the murder of two soldiers., and a Creek Indian, for or Emanuel Cochiea, were hanged at Fort

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA; FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1883.

Smith, Ark. All admitted their guilt,and said they were prepared to die..,.Tony James (colored) was hanged at Darien, Ga.‘, for the murder of Prince Anderson. The execution was public and was witnessed by a large crowd, white and black. The condemned was rec nciled to his fate. George Lake, colored, was hanged at Cambridge, Md., for a felonious assault upon Mrs. Stewart C. Simmons, in April last. Two Virginia editors—W. 0. Elam, of the Richmond IVAC/, and R. B*. fceirne, of the Richmond Staten— fought a duel at New Hope, Ya, The distance was eight paces, the weapons revolvers, and the carte) provided that after one round, if no one should be hurt, firing should begin again, both parties advancing and shoe ting >at libitum. At the first round neither man was hit. The second shots were fired, and Mr. Elam staggered, supposing he was shot in both thighs. He had how- ver. received only one wound, though a Verv s ‘rfoufrone. Mr. Beirne t! en raised his hat to the little group of Elamites, and retired quickly from the scene. Mr. Elam was taken to ihe house of the Lieu enantrpovernor of the State, n ar by, where the doctors extracted the . POLITICAL. The lowa Republicans met in convention at Des Moines, and was temporarily presided over by Hon. John A. Kasson, Col. D. B. Henderson being made permanent Chairman. Gov. Sherman and Lieut Gov. Manning were renominated. Judge Reed, of Council Bluffs, was pla e 1 on the ticket for the Supreme Bench, and John W. Akins for Superintendent of Public In-structa-Jii. Among the Vice Presidents of tl.e convention was Addis u Rhede*, a negro who had been sold or. the auction bio *k. The Republicans of Minnesota a st mhled at St Paul and renominated Gov. Hubbard. C. A. Gilman was nominated for Lieutenant Governor, Fred Vorbaumback for Secretary of S ate, Charles Kittleson for Treasurer" VV. J. Hahn for Attorney General, and J. H. Baker, Railroad Commissioner. Washington telegram: “The statement made at the Internal Revenue Bureau as to the complaint In lowa as to the removal of Collector Sherman is that Sherman was not pbydcally capable to perform the duties of his office, and that he would have soon been compelled to retire on the ground of ill-health.” WASHINGTON. The Government has a judgment of SIO,OOO against Tom Ochiltree, which he is very anxious to compromise for SSOO. A Texan friend of the Congressman has offered to give $5,000 for the claim. Congressman Charles O’Neill, of Pennsylvania, says that there will be an investigation by Congress of the reasons for closing the Philadelphia navy-yard; that Philadelphia gave the ground to the Government tor the purpose of a navy-yard, and that it is a violation of good faith to close iL ....David B. Parker declines the ap- , pointment of Postmastt r at Washington, . tendered him by the President President Arthur has modified his order for the consolidation of internal-re-venue districts, by which the present Collects r of Utah,*Orlando J. Hollister, yields the office to Thomas I’. Fuller, of Montana, on account of the greater collections in the northern portion of the district... .The commerce of the United States with other countries for the year ending May 31, as shown by the Treasury reports, makes a very favorable exhibit The excess of exports over imports is nearly $100,( 00,000. A Washington telegram says: In regard to the fact that notice is to be given by President Arthur to the Canadian Govern- { ment of the abrogation of the fishery clauses ' of the Wa hir.gton treaty, Prof. Hind, of N*R:. DBS addressed a n t€ on the subject to Sir Staff ord Northcote, i easserting I former statements touching the falsity of documen presented to the Fisheries Commits. on in IS7B, and making affidavits thnt the Canadian Government officers undertook. for certain reasons, to tamper with and bribe the United States representatives. GENERAL. Some weeks ago it was discovered that Maj. James R. Wasson, United States Paymaster, had stolen nearly $6,0C0 of the Government money which had been placed in his hands, and had tried to account for tbe deficiency bv asserting that he had been robbed. He was tried by court-martial, and the sentence, which has just been approved by the President, is that he be disnonorably discharged and that be be confined at hard labor in the penitentiary for eighteen months, and that the facts respecting his crime and its punishment be published in lowa, the State from which he was appointed to We army. ! Wasson was graduated ar West Point in ISil. i Having resigned from the army soon after 1 graduation, he became a Professor of Matnematius m a Japanese college. He after- ' ward attained the po ition of Chief Engii neer in the Japanese army, and was j decora: cd for his services in the Formosa ' campaign. Before returning to this country ! he was made Professor of Civil Engineering :at the Imperial University of Tokio. In 1876 he was appoint ed a Pay master in the 1 United States army, and for five or six years I he has been stationed in Texas. A New York commercial agency has compiled and published a table of the bus- ; iness failures over the entire country-for the ' first half of the present year. They indicate a marked increase in the number and extent | of liabilities a* compared with correspondi ing periods of the two previous . years. I l or tbe first six months in 1881 the failures ■ were 2 862 in number: the first ! six months of lbß2, 2,397; the first half !of 188.;. 4,637. The liabilities show a greater I increase in 1883 L The liabilities for the first ' six months were $40,000.(W: in lsß-‘,550,0( 0,- • 00 ; the first six months of 1888, $6< : ,000.0 0. I The in< rea e in liabiliies the last half of ths I vear is attributed to the large speculat ye i failures in the We-t. but even deducting the ! indebtedness springing from this c iu-e. the in rea.se in failures and liabilities is veiy marke I. Ther. ■ yvere 165 failures during the week ending July 1, thirteen less than tbe preceding week, twelve more than the coriesj ondmg week of 1882, and sixty-two more than the same week of A firp at Winnipeg, in Manitoba, extended to • a building containing powder and coal oil, and the sj e tators were treated to a terrific explosion, which injured ten persons seriously, one of whom soon died. The glass factories in the neighborhood of Wheeling, W. Ya, have closed for six weeks’ rest This involves the idleness of some 1,2 t 0 men, 2,0.0 boy > and » 0 girls, and the snspensbn of a w’eealy pav-roll of some i.Montreal report- the arrival of 18,000 immigrants during June. A depot similar to Castle Garden is about to be established. There is deep feeling among members of the Masonic order in Canada on account of the decision that under the laws the acts of the Grand Lodge of Quebec are illegal and that all who have t nited with it can be subjected to heavy penalties. The question will pass into the Dominion courts end th”n be appealed to the law Lords of England....By the capsizing of a boat off Prince Edward Island, one man and five women were drowned. FOREIGN. Cable dispatches report that the panic over the plague tn Egypt has spread throughout Europe. The German Gove:n--I'iei’t has sent medical experts to Dam etta to invesliga e and report wlreth -r the fatal rnaladv nmv rmiingfhereis veritablecho. -raTh Turkish, French. Haliiin aid Auunn Governments have or level s .rict qnrni fcne against ail venss arnvug ftom As lean ports. A dispatch f.om I am.et a lavs that ct. is being rapidly deserted AU steam bin berths tor a week hence are a'iearly engaged One hundred a::d eighty refueees fr in th’ r ■ .-re quarant nedin the vicinity of Fort Said Mans fa al ca-es ..f cholera are reported IT an Port ra d, Il s la mid Maus uah A commi-son lias been formed to jaovide means for protecting A . inndria against Ihe malady. NE’I 'TIATIOXS between Russia and the Vatican have ended aatisfactorilv. the Catholic heirarchy in the Czar s domain being g:.en freedom on matters of faith, butiu'er--1 ere nee iu the que lion of t< mi oral power is lorbiddeu. In regard to the r cent protest o- the Pope to President Grevy. the French Government permits the Pre-ident to answer the circular personally, and the reply will be conciliatory. The question of the deportation of

paupers from Ireland to tbe United States at the expense of Great Britain w-as brought up in the House of Commons. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, was interrogated by Mr. Cowen, and entered a general denial. He said the em giants shipped l»y the Commissioners had been supplied with funds and no paupers had oeen scut by the Board of Guardians..... The Chinese Legation at London has received a telegram from Shanghai stating that the report of a settlement of the Tonquin question had no foundation. It is s.a ed that the French Embassador at Shanghai behaved w-ith great rudeness toward Li Hung Chang, who refused to meet the French Embassador again. Li Hung Chang has returned to Tientsin, because he sees no chan, e of reaching an understanding.... | The Austra’ian colonies are about to adm ssion to the Universal Postal Union, which will leave Bolivia the only country with an organized service outside the union. •... .The British Lords rejected the bill permitting marriage with a deceased wife’s sister—l4s to 146. Within twenty-four hours there were , 107 deaths from cholera at Damietta. Seven deaths from the plague occurred at Mansu- j rail. A vessel from Bombay, with cholera on board, arrived at Havref Fiance, buk sailed again. Spain is greatly alarmed at the outbreak of the disease in Egypt, and a Paris journal condemns ihe British Government for not taking steps to prevent the scourge gaining a foothold on British soil, ] as it would then be impossible to keep the , contamination from the continent.... | It is stated in London that the Marquis of Lansdowne, Chairman of the joint commit- | lee on the project of tunneling the channel . between England and France, will report favorable on the scheme. A minority report, backed up, by a lot of military opinions, | will be s.iLxnitted in opposition...“. Germany • is convert ng Custrin, as a point to cover Berlin from Russian invasion, into a firstfortress, capable of sheltering 50,000 j troops. A cable dispatch of the 2d inst, ’ says that 119 deaths from cholera occurred at Damietta in twenty-four hours. Most of the physicians becoming panic-stricken at the horrib’e mortality had lied the city. Pe:sons att mpfng to pass the sanitary lines in Egypt had been ordered to be shot. The French Government has decided to quarentine all vessels suspected of having cholera on b ard, as the Brit sh authorities have been known to grant clean bills of health to ships from infected ports. The annual pilgrimage to Mecca nas been prohibited by the Governor of Algiers. Every precaution has 1 >een taken to guard the British troops in Egypt. It is thought the breaking out of the cholera will cause a panic in the British grain trade, the speculators of England having made large purchases of East Indian grain, which the prevalence of the plague there will prevent being handled Under these circumstances America, it is presumed, will be called upon to supply European wants. ... .Gladstone’s latest plan for nullify ing the influence of Irish Nationalists in the House of Commons is to abolish a number of the small boroughs, ‘ cutting down the representation of Ire and in the Imperial Pari lament by about twenty votes.... A conflagration in the city of Aix-la-Chapelle, in Rhinish Prussia, yesterday, destroyed twenty houses. THEMARKET. NEW YORK. Beeves t 3.60 6.T2 Hogs « M @ 7-12’4 Ftoun—Superfine 3.40 4.26 Wheat —No. 1 White 1.14M@ 1.15 No. 2 ReU 1.17 t<a 1.1714 Cons—No. 2 .62 Oats —No. 2 40?j® .41 Pork—Mess 17.75 <017.87.-u Lard CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers., 6.00 @ 6.00 Cows and Hellers 4-60 ® 5.10 Medium to Fair*. 6.40 <<v6.»--Hoos 5 -7 o<3 6.06 Floub—Fancy White Winter Ex. 6.00 ® 6.25 Good to Choice Spr’g Ex. 5.50 ® 5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring. 99 No. 2 Red Winter 1.06 & 1.06:2 Cobn—No. 2 sou.® Oats—No. 2 325-4® .33 Rte —No 2 5514® .651 s Barley—No. 2 68 ® .70 HurrEß—Choice Creamery2l ® .22 Bogs—Fresh 14’4® -15 Pork—Mess 15.87'’„.®16.(i0 Lard -9’4® .9% MILWAUKEE. Wheat —Na 2 9612® .96M Corn —No. 2 51'2® .51/s Oats—No. 2 32'..® .3254 Hye—No. 25214® .534 Barley—No. 2 66J4® .66;4 Pork—Mess... 15.90 ®16.60 Lard -W ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06L@ 1.08 Corn—Mixed 44 ® .41’2 Oats—No. 233 @ .3412 rye 4744® .474 Pork —Mess17.40 @17.50 Larp ■■■ • • • 9 ® • CINCINNATI Wheat —No. 2 Red. I.o® @1.06’4 Cobs 62 @ .62’4 Oats .364® -3654 rye674@ .58 Pork—Mess l7.oo @17.00’4 TOLEDO. Wheat —No. 2 Red 1.06'4® 1.064 Corn 53’4® .6:14 Oats—No. 2 33i>4@ .34 DETROIT. Wheat—No. 1 White 1.12 @ 1.14 Corn —No. 255 @ .55 Oats—Mixed 45 @ .46 Pork—Mess 20.e0 @-21.<hl INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat —No. 2Red 1.02 @ 1.024 COBN-No. 2 .48 @ .48' . Oats—Mixed -324® .324 EAST LIBERTY, PA. . Cattle—Best '’.l° @ 6.2-t Fair 5.85 @ 6.00 Common 5.25 @5.75 Hogs 6- 5 l) @?• <0 Sheer -t- 50 ® 5,60 A Reminiscence of Alex. 11. Stephens. Col. L. A. Brandebury, now a clerk in the Pension Office at Washington, tells the following: “One evening in October, 1865, President Johnson asked me to take a small parcel to Alexander H. Stephens, then stopping at Willard’s Hotel, and who had been released from Fort Warren, Boston harbor. I found the gentleman surrounded by many distinguished callers. After the company had left I handed Mr. Stephens the envelope. He took it and with a nervous hand broke the seal (the envelope was an official one, and bore the line, ‘From the President of the United States,’ on theuppei right-hand corner, and his eye caught these words as soon as he received the packet), an i after a few moments, during which time his countenance seemed to say ‘I am permitted to go home,’ he turned to me and said: ‘I have had many callers, many persons that I was glad to see, but I am more glad to see you, my young friend, than ail of them.’ Taking a receipt for the papers (orders for his 1 transportation to Crawfordsville, Ga.), I left him. Seventeen years later I called on him at the National Hotel. When I said to him that he had expressed so much pleasure at seeing me the last time I called that I felt encouraged to call again, lie replied with a puzzled look, that he could not recall my face or my former visit to mind. M hen I handed him his old receipt, given me in 1865, he was not long in saying that, while 1 had outgrown his recollection, he had never forgotten the visit. Leaving a written request for an autogiaph letter, I withdrew, and never saw bun afterward.” He soon received the Autograph with a kind note. Waste Basket.—Cut three pieces of pasteboard the same size and shape; cover them with brown Holland, embroidered with any pretty design, and lino witli turkey red. Sew them together in a triangular box and fit a pasti-boiu-d for the bottom. A scarlet cord sewed round the edge ami tassels at the corners will finish the boi prettily. Lost wealth may be replaced by-in-dustry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; biit | lost time is gone forever.— Samuel I Smiles.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Public Money to be Expended in This State During' the Coming Year. fFroxn the Indianapolis Journal.} Under a practice “as old as the hills,” the Government dates its fiscal year from the Ist of July. This is the period from which all calculations are made relating to monetary matters, and all disbursements are also commenced, for the sake of regularity, from the same date. As a consequence of this, the various departments will be spending money in one half of the calendar year of 1883, in what is termed the fiscal year 1884, because the year ends on the 30th of June in the latter year. This was introduced for convenience, as Congress meets only one month previous to the ending of the calendar year, and it would be impossible to prepare the appropriations in so short a period; indeed, with the present lengthy sessions, the money bills are frequently not completedjmtil the beginning of the fiscal year. A. a matter of current interest, I intend to tell the readers of the Journal what they can expect from their Government, now the new fiscal year is at hand. One of the most important direct favors asked of the government is a public building. Almost every place of any size wants a granite building as the quarters of the government officials located therein. In the State of Indiana two places will be thus favored in the new fiscal year—Fort Wayne and Terre Haute. At the former place there will be available for the work on the structure intended for a Court House and I postoffice $50,000. This building is to cost | an even SIOO,OOO, and to complete it Con- j gress will have to allow at the next session i $50,000. Terre Haute proved a little more ambitious, and will have a hundred and fifty thousand dollar structure, of which amount there is now on hand $75,000 to carry forth the project. Os course, to finish it a like sum will have to be provided by the next Congress. As there has been some trouble in procuring proper sites for structures of this kind, a law now exists by which the Treasury Department is authorized “to acquire by purchase or condemnation the necessary lands for public building.” It might be mentioned, also, that these buildings are to contain fire-proof vaults, and to render them secure from attacks by fire are to be isolated from adjoining houses by a space of at least forty feet. Even after the government acquires the buildings it cost not a little to keep them in condition for use. Expenses arise on | every baud, and the miscellaneous expeadi- - tures are not inconsiderable, as can be seen | from the following statement of such items ; connected with those in Indiana. The es i timates of the Treasury for the new fiscal 1 year are as follow: For the building in In- ‘ dianapolis, fuel. $1,650; light, $5,060; water, - $400; ice, $l4O, and other miscellaneous ex- j penses, S2BO. Besides this, the care and la- , borof this building costs, annually, $4,620, | which includes the pay of janitor, engineer, > labor, etc. In the case of the Evansville j building the expenses will be: Fuel, $7 .>SO; i light, $1690; water, $250; ice, $315, and other • incidentals, $158.50. The care of this building costs $2,580, and even the cleaning of iu. tfxp ueiglibLrhuvd, $250, ‘ It may not be generally known,.hut still it is a fact, that the government annually pays an annuity of $l,lOO to Indiana Indians* The tribe is the Miarais, of Eel river. The expenses of collecting the revenue from customs are met by permanent appropriations. Within the limits of the State of Indiana there are two collection districts— ; Indianapolis and Evansville. Under the re- : vised estimates of the Treasury commission, approved by the Secretary, the expenses of collection at the port of Indianapolis will be : $4,418. This is a reduction of SBOO in the salary account. In the Evansville district the expense is $1,400. Under a scheme of ' consolidation as devised by the Secretary of the Treasury, the latter district would be abolished, and all the business concentrated in the single port of Indianapolis. This would also reduce the expenditures to $5,120. In support of this scheme of consolidation the Secretary says that there are many districts in which no duties have been collected for years, and there are others in which the duties collected are not sufficient to pay the cost of collection. The labors of ».alo officers in these districts are confined almost entirely to making up monthly and quarterly return, often of “no transactions,” to the department. It is well known that Congress at the last session failed to make any appropriation for the continuance of work on the river improvements throughout the country, but nevertheless small balances remain on hand from former appropriations to continue work, on some of these projects. In this favorable condition, under all the circumstances, are placed the river and harbor improvements of Indiana. To enable the projects to be carried on there will be available for the improvement of the Wabash river <20.000. of which one-half will be used below Vincennes, and the other half from Vincennes to Lafayette. To improve White river the balance is $5,000, which will be spent on the inner harbor. The time and money is now at hand when a few postal routes deemed necessary in Indiana for better postal communication can be established. This comprises all the disbursements to be made in Indiana, the salaries of the government officials alone being excepted. If the list is not so large as can be desired,it must be remembered that there is still luck in the future, and, perhaps, in the next fiscal year a greater prize will be drawn. Hon. George W. Levathout, one of the oldest and most prominent attorneys of North Vernon, is dead. Rochester is trying to raise SIO,OOO to start a woolen-mill enterprise in that town, with fair prospect of success. Hon. Grorge W. Swarthout, one of the oldest attorneys at the North Vernon bar, and a man of great prominence, died suddenly the other day. Mrs. Janies H. Hill, of Indianapolis, administered a dose of laudanum to her child, instead of given paregoric, and the youngster barely escaped death. There is a movement on foot to commence the publication of a newspaper in the interest of the Greenback party in the Third Congressional district. Sheriff Ross, of Wabash, arrested David Watkins, Marshal of Lagro, that county, for beating his wife. Watkins was bound over to appear at the September term of court. A Shellbyvtlle correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal writes, June 29: One of the most heart-rending accidents ever recorded from this place happened about noon yesterday, resulting in the death of little Percy Jeffers, aged 10 years, daughter of Silas Jeffers. Percy and Harry McClain were fn the warehouse playingnear a wheat bin. From the bin extended a . spout through which the wheat passed into the cars. W’hile there a car was run up and the spout opened. Seeing the wheat running down, Percy jumpc .1 into the sinking wheat and was soon drawn dowm some eight feet, the grain failing in upon and smothering her to deatfc.

A man aged about 65 years of age, named Binelien, from Lafayette, bound for Germany, died suddenly on a train the other night, near St. Thomas. A draft for $4,000 and $l5O in cash were found on his person. On Thursday morning a freight train on the Logansport division of the Vandalia ran into a hand car on a curve near Frankfort. All the men jumped except John McHenry, the foreman, who was killed. Two years ago an SBOO draft for William Holtsclaw, a pensioner of Greene county, was wrongfully mailed to Hendricks county, and after wandering from one post to another it finally fell into the hands of a man of similar name, who was applying for a pension on behalf of his father, a soldier of the Mexican war. The draft was afterward taken up by the Indiana National, and was cashed by the First National Bank. The original pensioner in time brought suit, with the pension agent and bank named as de- I fendants, and the case dragged along untq *ast week, when Judge Taylor held on demurrer that the Indiana National was responsible for the collection. The Fort Wayne <fc Indianapolis Railway Company filed articles of incorporation with tbe Secretary of State last week. The proposed line will extend from Fort Wayne to : Indianapolis, through the counties of Allen, Wells, Huntington, Grant, Tipton, Madison, i Hamilton and Marion, a distance of 106 miles. The capital stock of the company is $50,000, and the directors are Edwin Evans, Henry M. Williams, William Rogers, Mont- | gomeiy Hamilton, August C. Trentman, i George W. Pixley, and Chalies McCullough. ; The same stockholders also filed articles 1 incorporating the Fort Wayne, Peoria A Galesburg Railway Company, which is or- ; ganized for the purpose of building a road extending from the Indiana and Illinois j State line to Fort Wayne, running through the counties of Newton, Jasper, Pulaski,Ful- ' ton, Miami, Wabash, Whitley, Huntington i and Allen. The length of the line will be 147 miles. The capital stock is $50,000, and the directors are the same composing this board as the Fort Wayne A Indianapolis I company. Waiter O. Williams, time-keeper, Fred , Gardner, bill clerk, and George Fiscus office-boy, atE. C. Atkins’ saw-works, I Indianapolis, were badly injured by an explosion of gas. The previous evening a gas-jet was left burning in the safe, and was not noticed when the safe was closed for the night. The oxygen in time was consumed, putting out the light and allowing the safe to fill with the escaping gas. The apparent leak was no- ' ticed in the morning, and the three abovenamed employes stepped into the safe and struck a match, with a view of discovering the leaky pipe. A loud explosion immediately followed, blowing Williams and Gardner nearly twenty feet out into the office, badly burning them about the face and arms and bruising them most painfully. Young Fis- ' cus, who was in his shirt-sleeves, received ! the most serious wounds. His shirt took fire and he was wrapped in flames, w'hich burned the skin so that it peeled off with : his clothing. The injuries will probably not result fatally, but will necessitate close attention for several weeks. India napolis correspondence of the Cin- : cinnati Enquirer: “In the case of Mrs. Eaton v£ the A. O. U. W., mentioned yesterday in the proceedings of the Federal Court, there was an important question passed upon which heretofore has escaped comment The Ancient Order of United Workmen issues a policy of insurance in the usual form, agreeing to pay the Rum of $2,000 on the death of tin insured. By the statute law of Indiana for the organization of stock insurance companies a company is required to pay a loss within sixty days after notice, under pealty of 10 per cent, for every thirty days that the loss remains unpaid thereafter. The law for the organization of mutual insurance companies puts them under the same duties and liability, and mutual life insurance companies are held subject to the same duties and liabilities of mutual insurance companies. The plaintiff in her complaint charged that this was such an insurance company as would be under the penalty, and demanded judgment for such penalty. During the trial before Judge Woods the defendant showed its methods of doing business by subordinate lodges and by a connection with a Supreme Council, which was supreme to tbe Grand Lodge. This case, by agreement, was withdrawn from the jury and submitted to the Court, there being substantially no difference between counsel as to facts. In ruling for Mrs. Eaton, the Court allowed her the full amount named in the policy and interest thereon, but held that the penalty did not apply to such organizations as the United Workmen. If the penalty had. been given, it would have amounted to $7,200, and together with the principal and | interest due. would have aggregated $9,650. At the State Convention of County Superi intendents, held at Indianapolis last week, ' papers on technical subjects were read by Prof. Thompson, of Purdue University; Prof. J. W. Howke, of Jay cous.ty, State Supt. Holcomb, and others. The following was adopted relative to the gradation of teachers' licenses under the new law, as amended in 1883: A license for six months shall be granted on a general average of 70 per cent., ■ not falling below 60 per cent in any of the eight statutory branches or in theory of teaching. A license for twelve months on a general average of 80 per cent., not falling | below 65 per cent, in any of the eight ! branches, or iu theory of teaching, or in suci cess. A license for twenty-four months on a general average of 90 per cent., not falling | below 75 per cent, in any of the eight branches, or in theory of teaching, or in suc- , cess. A license for thirty-six months on a general average of 95 per cent., not falling i below 80 per cent, in any of the eight i branches, nor below 90 per cent, in the theory of teaching or in success. Special scale for teachers of graded schools of cities and i towns. No person shall be admitted to the benefits of the provision in behalf of teach- | ers in graded schools except on presentation of a written request of a toum or city school board with a statement that, said board desires to employ said applicant for a certain . grade or work named or described, and that the expediency of complying with such requests shall be left to the discretion of the , County Superintendent. The following offiI cers were elected: State Superintendent John W. Holcomb, President ex-officio; S. P. Harlan of Marion and Chas. R. Mcßride of Floyd, Vice Presidents; Michael A. Moss, of Franklin. Secretary ; Win. R. Wilson, of Henry. Treasurer. City nwerifnffs. The following table is of interest as ! showing the proportion of houses to population in the ten leading cities of the Union: Population, No. Persons to a D-o. Dwellings. Dwelling. New Y r rk1,206.2-.)9 73.G54 16.37 ’aklpllU... 847,170 14G.412 5.79 Bri .kl’-n 5«g*63 62.233 9.11 ChiCJUfb 303.185 61.069 8.24 : } JT.2,H39 43,944 8.26 Sr. Lotus w5»‘.518 43.0-J6 8.15 La Liw? .... 332..H0 50.833 6.54 i ... 25..139 25.017 9.11 S ii I-; Kvi<CO. 2 -.’59 34.110 6.86 I Nev.-Olkans... 416,030 36,347 5.93

tiOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Rather Sensible Girl. Two lover's sued for a maiden's hand, And a bonnie lass was she; With a modest mein, Bright, merry e’en, And a heart both light and free. And free, And a heart both light and free. "I know which one I love,” she said, "As any maid should do;; But I’d like to know > Which gallant beau Would be most kind and true, And true, Would be most kind and true. "Ah, I wish I only knew to-night Which sweetheart loves me best. Arid to find this out Without a doubt I must put them to the test, The test, I must put them to the test.” So she whispered in the ear of each: "Give me the parson’s fee. I'll keep the same In the bridegroom’s name; For a wedding there shall be, Shall be, For a wedding there shall be.” The first he placed a ten-ponnd note In her hand so white and fair. "Small price, my love, My precious love,” He said. "For a gem so rare. So rare, For a gem so bright and rare.* Then the other gave a one-pound note, Though he had gold galore. “My dear,” he said, “Tire parson's paid, My rival comes no more, No more, M y rival comes no more.” "Your rival is the man,” she cried, "Who shall the bridegroom be? For the tenderness You both express Is shown in the parson’s fee; You see W’hich one is the man for me!” The maiden got the nun she loved, And her way with bliss was paved, While the man bereft He smiled and left, For his one-pound note was saved, Was saved, For his one-pound note was saved. A Little Incident by the Way. A traveler saw a woman take a man Ly the collar, yank him up the steps into a railroad ear, jam him down into the hot seat next the stove, pile up a valise and two big brown baskets with loose covers and long handles at his feet, shove a baby into his lap, and say: “Now, sit there until I help Mary Jane on the cars, and don’t you move until I come back.” When the woman reached the car door, the traveler said to her: “Is that man your husband?” “Naw-w-w!” roared the woman; “he’s my daughter’s husband, and she hasn’t spirit enough to say her soul is her own 1” This true story teaches us that some travelers have not enough sense to diagnose a family party when they see one. WTxat Dress Is to Women. Dress and address comprise the science of life, especially for women. They form that indispensable social science whose practical influence pervades daily life. A woman’s duty does not by any means end with her appearance, bu.t_.it certainly begins there. Mrs. Madison’s rule—to remember yourself in your dressing-room and forget yourself in the drawing-room—is a condensation of the ethics of the toilet. It is, indeed, a woman’s duty to be beautiful if she can, and pleasing if she cannot be beautiful. Nor is it altogether a matter beyond control. Care in the toilet, thoughtfulness about the effects of costume, is far more determining than the original endowments of nature. No woman need give herself up as a hopeless case. Health is the first requisite. Good taste and care do the rest. — Boston Traveller. Harmony in Size and Colors. A frivolous young lady demanded a voice with the rest of the family in the selection of a new parlor carpet, writes a correspondent of the Boston Herald. “I don't care so much about the colors,” said the g rl, “nor whether we get a regular carpet or a rug; and most of the pattern may consist of small designs, if you like, so long as there are a few figures of oblong shape, and about eight by fourteen inches in size. I really must insist on the dimensions, and I want the outlines to be distinct. Why am I particular about these points ? Simply because my feet are rather large. My knowledge of art is sufficient to teach me that the eye judges of size by comparison. If my foot is put out for view on or beside a figure in a carpet that is smaller than itself, don’t you see that it shows for all its actual dimensions; bit if it rests on a distinct d< sign of three or four times its own area, it is apparently reduced. So our carpet must have a few big figures in it for my personal use. As soon as you have made the selection, I will know by the colors how to make my purchases of hosi -ry for the season. The exactions of dress nowadays require harmony of hues.”

The Self-Made Girl. The American girl long ago perceived that while for domestic purposes mothers were invaluable, for social purposes they might be of little use. In other countries it is an uncommon thing for a girl to go into society whose mother has not been through the same career before her. But this is an every-day occurrence with us. New York (says The Evening Tost) is full of mothers who never would have had a glimpse of society had it not been for the enterprise and dash of their children. Socially, such children must be self-made, in the sense that they must pick np their social standards and ideas, not at home, from their parents, but at school, on the avenue, at Delmonico’s and ' other public places. Their humble mothers can do no more in a positive I social way for them than his father can for the self-same man. In making their career there reigns an absolute equality among girls, like that among men under the constitution. An ambitious. industrious, long-headed girl may, without any family, have a much greater success than a girl whose ancestors have lived for two whole generations in the same house, and who can even tell her grandmother's maiden name. These facts explain in a measure the popularity of the Delmonico balls—an institution unknown in other countries—where the relation of parent and child is not thrown in a girl’s teeth, and the chaperoning is done apparently by contract. The'' meet the crying want of a self made girl—society without a mother. , Women in Journalism. Mrs. Gertrude Garrison, long identified with the press of Indianapolis, beffig about to remove to New York, i was invited to a lunch by her admirers. I Mis. Garrison made the following re-

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spouse to the sentiment, "Woman in Journalism: ” As I am out of journalism just now, 1 am not the woman referred to, and am in a position to speak my mind about the one who is meant. Think of her sacrifices! She gives Up all that were once considered woman’s most precious possessions and dearest privileges. She forsakes the “fireside,” that noble institution invented by our remote forefathers on purpose for women to adorn and look after. Instead of the delicate shovel and tongs designed by heaven for her fair hands, she grasps a huge pen and boldly launches her opinions. She is obliged to forego the manufacture of the zephyr lions and crochet tidies. She gives up the frying pan; : she deserts the wash tub and hangs up the dust brush. She denies herself the intimate compauionship of poodles and parrots; she has no time for gossip, and loses her taste for neighborhood quarrels. She gets out of her “sphere,” another instii tution designed for her especially. Oh, there's no end to the sacrifices which the woman in journalism is bound to make! And what does she get iu r«- | tarn? Fulsome notices of her ability an 1 overwhelming descriptions of her personal appearance in the exchanges; the undying hatred of little minds, the jealousy of mediocres; speculation about her ago among the women wjio are not considered brainy; romantic, little fictions in regard to her personal history in other newspapers; hurts from the heartless, malice from the mean, stings from the cowards, and depressing criticisms repeated to her by fool friends. Yes. and she will be spoken of by the silly editor as the “ fair writer." She will be asked by her nextdoor neighbor, every day or so, what paper she is connected with, and “what name” she writes under. Some worm n will ask her why she doesn’t do her writing at her house, and hint that that would be the proper tiring. If there is anything in the paper that she specially disapproves of, and didn’t conrtspct, and wouldn't under any circumstances, the town will unite in giving her the credit of writing it. Her satire will be called spleen, her humor conceit, her logic false and her force spite. She will not have such a rosy time as the man in journalism, but when it is all summed up, if she is in her rightful place, she wouldn’t exchange the pen for the darning needle under any circumstances, and she is buoyed up through all by the hope that in time it will be said of her that she writes like a perfect gentleman. George Eliot's Hands. George Eliot was not a beautiful woman, but she had beautiful hands, one of which was a little wider and plumper than the other. In conversation with her friends she would explain this peculiarity. It had a pleasing and honorable significance. When she was 15 years of age she began (to use her own affecting words) “to be acquainted with the unspeakable grief of a last parting in the death of her mother.” ■Soon after, her elder sister married and removed to a new home, and then her brother Isaac (the “Tom” of “The Mill on the Floss”) did the same. Being thus left alone with her father, who carried on a farm and lived in a rather large house, she became his housekeeper and general assistant. This was her own choice, as her father was in liberal circumstances, and offered to hire a competent woman. He was dotingly fond of his daughter, whom he used to call his “little wench,” using an ancient English word which was still employed in remote country places as a term of endearment. The future authoress, the first genius of her age, was now initiated into practical life and labored for some years, chiefly with those beautiful hands'of hers. “ She was dairy-mistress, housekeeper. gardener's assistant, seamstress and occasionally even bore her part in the harvest field, without ever quite laying aside her books, and in winter studying bard. i She w ould point, in late years, to her broad right hand and mention, with some pride, that its breadth bore testimony to the great number of cheeses and pats of butter she had made and assisted to make in her earlier life. Sim spent five years in this way before her father gave up his farm and office to his son. How much she derived from her practical experience no reader of her works need to be told. Beside strengthening her mind and giving her an essential part of education, it supplied her with the raw material of many of her most vivid and life-like scenes. —Youth’s Companion.

Good Manners. Good manners imply more than mere ceremony, me e attention t established forms. The habitual observance of certain conventional rules and usages does not make a lady or gentleman. Some degree of formality is necessary in conducting our relations and intercourse one with another, but there must be with it some heart, me genuine love for our kind; otherwise we can neither be the instruments or recipients of enjoyments in the midst of the social circle. To impart or receive pleasure in society there must be at least “the flow of soul,” if not the “feast of reason.” We may admire this or that person for special accomplishments of manner, style and conversation; but if the-e are seen and felt to be merely artificial, not at all involving the affections, we can ne'er love the same. No gifts of mind, nor elegance of person, nor propriety of personal bearing can compensate for the want of heart in company. It is only the heart that can touch and impress the heart. A warm confiding soul is the element of all enjoyment and pleasure in the social world; and where this is there can be no stillness, no studied formalism of manner or language. An Old Paper. A sac simile of the London Times for Oct. 3, 1798, is in possession of President Tuttle, of Wabash College. It consists of four pages, being twentythree inches by seventeen in size. One of the news items states a gre it achievement the fact that Mrs. Siddons performed at Brighton, Bath and London within the incredible short space of ninety-six hours. To-day she might play, if she were living, in the three places within the space of sixteen hours. In the same paper Nelson's victory on the Nile is first announced, which had taken place two months before. —— ■ -sr »• - There is something barbarous and repulsive in the fashion of making cripples of Chinese women by lacing their feet. Would it be more humane to make perpetual invalids of them by lacing their bodies?— Hall’s Journal of Health.