Decatur Democrat, Volume 27, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1883 — Page 1

x VOLUME XXVII,

The Democrat, Official Paper of the County. A. J* HIJLC, Editor and Bwnlnogn Sl'jnasar-. TIRMH : ONE BOLI.AR AND FIFTY CBNTJ IN ADVANCE : TWO DOJ.LARS PIB TEAR IF SOT PAID IN ADVANCE. •B. Aixraoli, Prw’t. ~W. H Niblick, Oashlw. ». STVnKBAKBI, Vice Prw’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank ia now open for the tnnaao- ■ tion of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and Counsy Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSOX & HUFFMAN’ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DBCATUB, INDIAWA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining oeanties. 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 i 0. F. building. 26jy79tf E. H. COVERHALK, attorney at Luu, NOTARY PUBLIC, DXCATUB, IXDUIA. I Office over W elfley's grocery, opposite the Court Ilouse. I J T .FRANCE. Pros. Atfr. J.T. XKItKTM.AN. Notary Public. J -FRANCE & MERRYMAN,— Attorneys at Law, I PICA TUB, - - INDIANA. I OFFICE.#—Nos. 1 and 2 over Stone's Hardware Store. Collecting a specialty.—lo I B. IL FREEMAN. M. D. J. 8. BOYERS, MD. Drs. Freeman &. Boyers, DECATUR. INDIANA, practitioners of Medicine and Surgery. • 1 Calls promptly attended to day or night. I Office over Dorwin & Holt house’s Drug I Store. Residence on 1 hird street, bet ween I Jackson and Monroe streets. W. 11. MYERS, Trick Jf Stone .Mason I ontrac’i DICKICB, INDIANA, Jolieits work of all kinds tn his lino. Persons contemplating building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, v20n45m2. I ~ SEYMOUR WORDEN, TVuctioneer. I Decatur - - Ind. Will attend to all calle in this and adI joining counties. A liberal patronage soI licited. n.36tf. AUC UST KRECHTER CIGAR MANUFACTURER. I SKini, - - INDIANA. A full line of Fine cut, Plug, Smoking I Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes aud Pipes of | all kinds always on hand at my store, G. F. KINTZ, I Civil Engineer and Convey encer. i Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all l®gal I instruments drawn with neatness and dispatch. Special attention to ditch and grave 1 road petitions. Office ovtr WelfleysOroI eery Store, opposite the Court Hous*, De- | eatur, Indiana. 87-mfl I A> ° SHOES, I One Door west of Niblick, Crawford and Sons. I Henry DECATUR, IN Pt AXA. One of the best selected stock of Boots, I Sho<s. new and Seasonable Goods, etc., inI eluding everything ic his line, and prices I guaranteed as low as can be found in this I market. Come and see for yourselves. iPcSJffoR IS A SPECIFIC CUnE FOR ALL DISEASES ■ OF THE SKIN, ESPECIALLY SALT RHEUM OR [ ECZEMA, SCROFULA, SCALD HEAD. TETTER. ' HIVES, RASH, DANDRUFF. BAR3ER’S ITCH. [ PILES, BOILS, CARBUNCLES, ULCERS, I BLOTCHES, CHAFING AND SORENESS OF INFANTS AND ADULTS, BURN OR SCALD, ITCH. STIN33. PLANT.POISONiNO AND POIS- ' ONED WOUNOS, PIMPLES, ROSE-RASH, ITCHI ING OF THE SKIN, RINGWORM. SUNBURN, ANO FOR ALL SYPHILITIC ULCERS ARD ERUPTIONS THIS REMEDY IS A POSITIVE CURE WITHOUT THE USE OF INTERNAL REMEDIES. DAPfffi IS A SPECIFIC CURE "OR CA T AR RHacute or chronic, cold IN THE HEAD. HAY FEVER, SNUFFLES AND SNEEZING ALL DISEASES OF THE NOSE ARE CURED WITHOUT FAIL BY THIS SOVEREIGN REMEDY IT IS THE ONLY SURE CURE FOR HAY FEVER AND ROSE COLD. THE SKIN AND CATARRH CURE DO NOT SMART OR BURN. BUT SOOTHE AND HEAL AT ONCE. PUT UPON A RAW SORE, OR SCALDED FLESH IT RELIEVES THE PAIN P®ON IS THE MOST WONDERFUL COUGH MEDICINE EVER PREPARED. AN INFANT CAN TAKE A WHOLE BOTTLEFUL AND IT WILL NOT DO IT ANY HARM IT IS A SPECIFIC CURE FOR WHOOPING COUGH, AND BRONCHIAL OR WINTER COUGH- IT CONTAINS NO IPECAC. TARTAR EMETIC. PRUSSIC ACID, OPIUM. OR ANY DRUG OR CHEMICAL GENERAL DIRECTIONS IN TEN LANGUAGES r OR SALE BY DRUGGISTS PAFILLON MFG. CO , CHICAGO For salt 1-yA R PEAftti A- CO

The Decatur Democrat.

THE NEWS CONDENSED the java Horror. The Grrutmt Dineter of Modem Tinies—--78,000 People Perish IA Roaring Waves, Seething Firn, Sulphurous Ashes. 1 he great volcanic eruption in Java and the adjacent islands overtops iu horror all the other calamities of this oilamiteua vr lr and in jtsrxteM is unqUMtmaMf one of the mo-t Natnie C knX! in W" ble . msnifest »N >n« "t nature Known tn modern times. London HisRn 21 e u? f 7" nlt ' ?i¥e tlie following ald't onal details of the awtulh .rror: Further unrticnU sol the vn-at volcanic eruption In Java which I th herefro ™ B»tavta»how that thi disaster was even more widespread and disastrous than was re. orted. At mSiiiSrtndav r-Jih'-S’th ”ir h n<l ??°£ k 8 ’ d P|lteei to have riached their height but Mtn In then rn on i a Vtol * nceof the.iisturii’XJhT? ’"‘Tease , and the Island seemed a b Ut betompleiely buri-d In Are and nnlph'jrous ashes. At toe same time enormous w aves began to dash with great to e? ution the ; shores, coming In some piae s far tip into the *nd great chasms ttpehedln the earth •nd thiefVeued P 6 Ingulf a larup nnnwr Ji'’'! us the p,WHe and hull lings. About S‘!^t b * 1 lho - frightful scene of J ~7i »*’ V 'j Sudden| y “tiormotis luminous tlouds formed over the Kand.mg range of mountains which skirt the southeast ( ,f the nnHHr , Th *" ? loud increased in site Uh J? tormed » canopy of Id,ld red. and whittaa’thTa’ni 1 M. de ot ‘errttorv. Dur,M.“* tbe ef "f tl bns increased, and aPRaS? incessantly down the N les of tha mountains into the valleys, swe«p---l?1tIhlng1 hlng b . efo , re ,hem - Here and ' . vre Btn Bin of l AV * -Id enter an arm of the -ea or oome in contact with the waa d!? tr ’ fh ? n lescen- lava w.tuld suddenly pro luoe Boilinff heat ami ra -i 1 Zh !7 > X a L io ?i' h I U t! ? e tai C <a-ion vnwF? ”’ o ' l w ould prevent any further conta t with the water. The fis<ur’n tnaj opened in this, their crust, as it aolidifled it lava * em itte i torrents of vapor Extending high in the air and miking a trein nCloua seething sound, as if a thousand Io omo- , tl\e< were simul aneously letting off st-eauj. One of the most singular freaks of the emfr- i tion was the carrying Tn the midst of the m dt-- ■ ei l ,a ' aof I a bed of solid ice of enormous -izb *n ch had been emitted from one of the craters. ' ir carried along by the current aud landed 1 on the extremity of point St. Ni hoi™, at the 1 north eaet corner of the island. The bed of ice Wae surrounded by a thick envelop of s&nd 1 and scorix>, which are n^n-conductors of heat. It is supposed this ice had formed the crust I , of some subterranean lake. About 2 o’cloik on Monday morning the great cloud suddenly broke into small sections and vanished. At the same time ftithtful rumblings were heard, an i the columns of tire and smoke over tbe southeast corner of the lai;»ml ceased to a&eend, while the cra’ers in other parts Os Java seemed to open their fipry throats still wider to let out the greatest quan- i tity of lava, rocks, pumice and ashes yet vomited 1 forth. The hissing of tbe sea became so 1• nd as to be almost deafening. The waves rush >d up on the shore to an unprecedented height. ' when daylight came it wks seen that an enor- j mous tract of land had disappeared, covering an extent ot territory about fifty miles siuare. ; Tins section of the island Was not So densely populated as * the other portions, and the John ot life was comparatively small, although it I must have aggregated fully 15,000 souls. The •ntlre Kandang range of mountains, extend ng along the coaet in a s -mi-<irole for about sixtyfive miles, had g n out of sight. The waters of j welcome bay, the Sunda straits, and Pepoer 1 bay, on the east end of the Indian ocean, on the ! eouth, nad rushed in and forme 1 a sea or turbu* ' lent water*. The debris of tbe submerged and ■ destroyed buildings was tossed hither and thither on the Water—the only sign 1.-ft, J that there had once been inhabited land there. , Th town of Tanerang, within twenty-five mil < of the city of I atavia. was swept a wav by a lava streak, and fully half of the po illation, mostly, Javanese, numbering about l.SOti, j>er* 1 Ished. At Speelwyk, near Point Salcis, the redhot rocks set tire to houses and swept away all ( tbe thickly-settled portion of the town. The river Ja atra, at the banks of which Batavia is ■ituated, was so completely dammed by lava •nd debris that its course was changed. Figel- I In nnig. wa* almost totally destroyed, and a I large number ot lives were lost there. The tal md o< Onius, five miles off the mouth of the Th*gerang river, and twenty milea east f Ba- ; u po^'St; j Java which disappeared, are < ut of sight, and not a vestige of them is left. The aggr ga e ■ i loss of life must be fully 75,000, but the n uriber of those who perished can never, of course, be i accuratelv known. A London dispatch of the 31st ult says | ■ th.it after the sudden subsidence of the dis- , tarbance In the kingdom ot Bantam, on Monday, the eruptions seemed to lose their force for ; a time, and the people of Batavia experienced ‘ a feeling of relief in the hope that the worst had I bet n j a*scd. The quieter condit on-* contlnu-d | until abou 10 o’clock, when the craters once more began t > s nd up great masses of destructive matter. although without the force of tlie I former action*. The eruptions seemed to be more violent at night than during the da . By 11 I o clock the 1 apaud iving, which is 7.034 f»** t high, was in a very active state of paroxysmal 1 erup-ion. It was accompanied by detonations sai 1 to have been heard many miles away in Sumatra. Three d.stinct columns of flame were seen to rise from the mountain t» a va<t hAuht, aud its whole surface soon ai peared air covered with fierv lava streams, which spread ’o gr a r distanjeft on all sides. St-on s foil for miles around, and the black fragmentary m t- ■ ter carri'si ir.t > the air caused total darkness. A whirlwind a/companied this erupti m by which hous -ro. fs. trees ami mm an 1 hors s were carried into th ■ air. The quantity of ashes ejected was such as to cover the ground and roofs of houses at Denam ■ to the depth ot several inches. Off Point Caay th' floating ' pumice on the sea tonne I a ’.aver two feet thick, i through which vessels forced their way with great difficulty. The ris >of vai>or produce i the appearance of a column several thousand feet ’ high, based on the tdge of ‘he crater. It appeared from a distance to consist of a m.ss of innumerable globular clouds of extreme whiteness, resembling vast balls of cott m rol ing one over the other as they ascended, im- ' i>ell dby the presence of fresh sup -in s inces- ' santlv urged upward by the continue i exp.osion. At a great height the cc.nmn dilat- <1 horizontally, and spread into a dark and ! turbid eirculai cloud shaped like an immense uni r’lla. Fork© 1 lightn.ng of great vividness am! beauty continually darted from parts ot the clouds. Suddenly the acene was changed. The mountain was split into i.arts without a moment’s warning, and where l a andavhighad st od alone there were now seven distinct je ks looming up to a great I height. In the seams opened could i be seen great balls of molten ,na |" ter From the fissures poured clouds of steam, and th? black ejected 'apiHo Jowed in steady streams and ran mountain sides, forming beds 2 ?5 -Ah feci, in extent. Exhalations of carbonic *id gas were so abundant that and animal, in large numbers were killed by it. and a few hl;man beings lost their lives in the same way • Thi< proved to be the turning point in the eruption, for the great Assures opened seemed tfi act as safety valves through which ths streams of lava gently flowed down into thvalievs. Tbe volcanic fires, thongh still £“5“ing at last advices, had les- most of ne-s and the steam izenerated found vent with-fc-jng forced through the comparative narn'wmoutte ot the 01. l .niters One ot the on.- r inci.ients was the sudden rising during F forenoon ot fourteen new volcanic ■“ £ tons of what had been the Merak and Mid - J„ed by the rnaemt« d^/W r I und ere helples- in t. e tace or me (jf , hl , THE EAST. A loose switch threw an express train off the track of the Philadelphia and ' Atlantic City (narr..w gauge) num) • Pleasantville Four passenser ears were Sed and thirty persona were senousJv I &?" 8 ed of dentffiy ki led by his own gun at Chamberj tail) Lake. Me. a Texas steer broke loose from a herd while crossing one of tbe Charlerton bridges to Boston. He threw one in the air and anomer into the water, ! “gain To Boston, tmally ■ re^nk r V«dv tnluxedl ..Bt Td b - ‘ aud ’ O The“ex ffior said he would and that his men wouM ab- ' , anyone who e JhS er &t l A.ston’ came tn Thirteen persons pryfes a. (ajUJtfc • but none, it K ere iniured. >ome ren .iuJy, oL ‘t7 FoISi

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY. INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 18S3.

very Tbu Jlr .... .. exhibit, whkh is la’g'e ami artistic is attended by uatives in the.Y hoire ebstunie. Among the 1 products . ot Ire mid are a f-tonc cross weighing five tons and a model of the ti eat. - ; stone of Limerick. T e R jah who enterta ned Gen. < rant in India Las sent a cas . of i curious musical iiisirumenis. Music is fuir nished by the Victoria Rifles’ band, ot Montreal THE WEST. An lowa politician, says a Washington dispatch to the Chicago is authority fur the statement that a Des Moines law firm has speculated in the estate of the ihte B. F. Alien, and so manipulated the securities that the firm Will make 11,000,* 00. The firm controls nearly rill of the creditors’ i claims, which were bought at from 1 to 5 i cents on the dollar. The estate will probaI bly realize 25 cents... .Edward F. Joslyn, ’ e dost son of E. S. Joslyn, a leading lawyer of Elgin, 111, sh< t ahd kl led Miss Ittta , Bucldngftalh in that city. Young Jo Ivn then j shot himself, and fell dead beside ihe girt | Be wos a widower with two children, 6 and i S years < f age. His victim was an employe ! in the Nolting House, where the crime was comm ttedTbe Executive Committee of ; the Chicago and Northw. sterfi Railway C-*m- | pany has dec ated thb Usual quarterly divii flehd of k percent on the pieferred stock. The dividend will be payable Sept 27. Belle Harris, a polygamous wife at Salt Lake, refused to tell the Grand Jury the name of the father of her children, and has I since served a term of tlitee motiths In jail for contempt, knd made heiself a Mormon ! martyr. Rhe was released the other dav on the expira ion of the term of cou t, but I has crdeis to appear again in December.... A warning from tbe Prosecuting Attorney at Atchison, Kan., caused Slade and Mitchell to cease training and to abandon the proposed prize-fight The managers of the Atchison, j Topeka and Banta Fe rdad gave notice to | the people of Dodge City. Kan., that an I effort to reform the city must be made or i the track and machine shops would De rei moved. While several railway oflic ais waited in a special car, the Counc 1 ordered • tl e enforcement of the ordinances relative ito gambling and prostituti n and passed ' another prohibiting music in dance....Bv the exp>’<»Bion of the boilet of a thrashing-machine at Frankfort, Dakota, i four men were killed and five otheia seriously injured... Jason Downer, formerly ’ Assoc ate Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, died at Milwaukee, leaving a fortune i of $225,000. President Arthur and party arrived | at St Paul from the West on the 3rd inst, • and were lunched at the State CapitoL There I he made a brief c ngratulatory addre s to ' the assembled multitude, in the course of I which he expressed great surprise at the ■ genera progress of development in the Northwest aud the unbound! d resources of ! the < oimtry. He p) edicts for the twin cit es | ui paralleled grow th and jr* sperity. After . the sp ech the Pre ident received the people i ior a half-hour, and then departed by spe- [ e al train for L ke Mi- n tonka, where tee i nEht was s: ent Early the next m< ruing ! the di tinguished par y left lor Chicago, where age eral reception was given at the i i-rand Pacific Hi tel. and every body who felt jso disposed w r as given an opportunity of j shaking the Chief Magistrate’s hand. A RAG and paper warehouse on Walnut street, Cincinnati, was gutted by fire. Three girls jumped from the th rd story, one breaking a leg and receiving internal injuries. A man in attempting to escape fell unconscious on the stairway, and his head and face were almost b med to a icr sp A i reman tell from a ladder, and a ! spectator was crushed again-1 a wall by a i female em loyes * f the rug house are missing, and it is feared they perished in the i flames. The total loss is about $1 15,t00.... I A man who bo rd* j d a train at Smithfield, ' Utah, covered eight passengers and two trainmen with a revolver, robbed them of their watches and money, and escaped in • the darkn--sg....Redfie.d and Tuttle, who rol'bed the Riverside stage and killed the i express mes enger the night of Aug. 11, were hanged tae othei- day at Florence, Arizona The combo vs assembled in force, protesting against th ■ h nging.... 1 here were received iu Ch.cago in one day 2 233 car-loads of grain, of which 1,0) were corn. If placed in a straight line the procession would be fourteen miles in length. Henry Villard’s party of distinguished guests were given a gorgeous reception at St Paul aud Minneapolis, both cities being arrayed in a w'ealth of decorations The processions were large and unique, the different industries be ng represented in the ranks. At M nnea oils machinery in wagons wa 3 ke >t work’ng during the ent re mute, grinding wheat, sawing loas and t laning lumber, President Arthur aud party joined ti e touri-ts at ihe latter city, and w ere welcomed with unbounded enthusiasm. In the Hotel Lafayette, at Lake Xinueto >ka, a I auuuet was given, the spee- hee being lauda ory of the Northern Pacific system, the wonderful growth and resources of ihe Northwest, aud complimentary to the foreign gne..ts, THE SOUTH. The New Orleans correspondent of a Chicago wholesale house writes that the cotton crop in Florida, Alabama. Mississippi, Arkansas and bis own State does not promise well Tbe long-continued drought in the hill-lands especially has injured the plant I seriouslv. maturing'it prematurely and cuti ting off ‘tbe yield considerably. The < ater- ; pillar has hurt the plant in several States. I A New Orleans Grand Jury has made a report which is causing a sensation in the Crescent City. The document sets i forth that oflicebo ders are corrupt, that Vice advertises itself with electric lights, i that s.uggers abound, that tbe food of tue ' c tv is contain.uated through the filthiness iof‘the markets, aud that the capitalists evade the r taxes. The imi ding of a creinatorv is suggested in which to burn ! the dead bodies of victims of contagious disease. Esatt Smith, a negro, sentenced to be i hanged in October, 1875, but who escaped from tail and was not captured till last June, was executed'or his ctlme last Friday, at St Joseph, Ia At Marshall, Texas, a party of white men went to the negro headquarters to witness the organization of a colored military company, and were halted and fired upon. Shooting then became general, aft er which the negroes tied. Three hundr d w ite citizens organized and patrolled the I town all night There was a bloody encounter in Manchester, Clay county, Ky. Marshal Marcum, assisted by ex-Marshal A J. Hacker attempted to arrest Jud Links, when A Slivers interfered and morta ly wounded Hacker. Links fatally stabbed MaieunL “» «>on as they be rd of Hacker s death his brothers armed them elves and shot and killed Silvers. links was also shot and slightly wounded. POLITICAL. Gov. Crittenden, says a St. Louis telegram, is reported to be seriously considering tbe question of calling au extra sesl sion of the Legislature to et her amend the Downing Sunday law so as to make it apply to >t. LouK or to prepare and submit a prohibitorv amendment to the constitution at I the next general election The Governor, ■ iu a i ii.tervi w, s reported as follows: lam I an antbpi ohibitionist from tbe sole ot l my feet to the crown of my head, but I feel, l with the people of the State, that if the law is to be defied in St Lou s, and I have to choose between lawlessness aud ] rohibition, lam a prohibit omst Under such provocation prohibition will carry by 50,(XX) maionty tn the State The State Democratic Convention of Nebraska, which met at Omaha, was presided over bv Judge Kinney, of Otoe county. Ex-Judge James W. Savage was nominated for Justice of tbe State Supreme Court, and James W. Woodworth, of Douglas. Dr. Ji. R. p nieis. of Madison county, and Dr. G. W. Johns, n. ot Fillmore, were nominated tor Regents of the State University. Tne Comrniftee on PlntfornL the Hon J SterlingMorton Cha:.num. reaffirmed the platform of ast year as in national pouitcs and incorporated several new’ planks, the !?°o e being auo, led without the most important plauks are theset The Governmrntot the Vnlted tta’es lias no constitutional or other right to impose taxes I “ri ti»rew»le sxrer.t with the intent end result

ofTret time mosey into tfie public tressw with I which to pay the debts und provide for the common defense an l general velfaie of the Lnited States, aud all tariff tax» j a called jiotecrive, laid wit* tar different intent and result, ought to be utterly abolkhrd. 2. I h t “j ro ecti- n," so-called, derives no I part ot its impulse or maintenance from reasoni ing or common sense, but is wholly a s heme ot | a few eineh men ior their * wu aggrandizement at ihe expense of the mas.-* s of the people, and, i lie the late River and Harbor LUI v toed by | President Arthur, t 1 e worse a protective tariff Mil the mo e Hk< ly it is to be enacted, because l the log rolling for it is the fiercer and more shameless. Ji dge HoaDLY, Democratic candidate for Governor fit was compelled last week td leave for Philadelphia, being afl feted with malarial troullefi and nervous prostration. He went t.nOugh the advice of his family phician....Congressman Carlisle, in an intervi- w at I ran.xfort, Ky., stated that he felt pietty contiden. of being eiected speaker of the next H< useof Re resentatives. He has now, he s «ys, many more pledged votes than any other candidate, and near y enough to secure the nomination. He thinks Randall has no chance. WASHINGTON The tlnited States of Colombia are again in trouble. Dom Pedro Solear Mart nez has set up a little Government for himself at a town in the interoi, and President Ota ora has marched with I,UOO men to overthrow the insurgents The following is the public-debt statement for August: Interest bearing debt— Three and one-hah percentss 21.404,550 Four and one-half per cents 250.000.000 Four per cents 737,6.v.f 50 Three ]>er cents 305, >2 . * 0 Refunding certificates Navy pension fund 14,0u0,000 Total in tereat-bearing debt..... .$1,3.8,H7-,950 Matured debt.* 6,583.165 Legal-tendernotes 346.7 ; >.M)I Certificates of deposit 1.,115,000 Gold and silver certificates 175,*44, ;.l Fractional currency 6,907,796 Total without interest $541,587.408 Total debt (principa1)51,876,989,523 3 ot al interest 11,038,227 Total cash in treasury 351,50 >,986 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,536,5i5,7e5 Decrease during Ausrust.. 6 5"1,‘51 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1883. 14*572.442 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaids 2.047,262 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 6,583,165 interest thereon 3>3,347 Gold and silver certificates 175,* 44,721 1. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 12,145,000 Caso balance avauaoie Aug. 1 154,73* ,4 0 Total $351,503,980 Available assets— Cash m treasury 351,503,986 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United h(a e—- — outstandings 64,6 3,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid 4 ,735 Interest paid by United States 69,222,093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation services 17,009,223 Bv cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings.. 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 41,557.670 Chief Postoffice Inspector D. B. Parker tendeied his resignation, to take effect in October. His successor will be Alonzo G. Sharp, of Tennessee. The collections of internal revenue for the first months of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1882 and 1883, were as follows: Receipts, 1882, $11,875,577; in 1883, >9.161,‘.'4B; decrease, $2,713,629. The principal items of decrease were manufactured toi.-acco, >1,064,685, and banks and bankers, were spirits~dißtdled 'frJm materials other than app’es, peaches or graces, >490,915, and fermented liquors, $149,972. GENERAL. The business failures tiiroughout the United States and Canada, as reported to New York, for the seven days endind Sept 1. were 181). as compared with 165 the preceding w ek., showing an increase of 21. The 1 ailures were distributed as follows: New England Stales. 26; Middle Stales, 2*i; Southern, 31; Western, 53; Pacific States and Territories, 22-. CabaJa and Provinces, 28; New York City, 1.... Fire destroyed the planing-m.ll oi Eldridge Son, at lore Howard, Wia, valued at >201,000; the Marcelin chemical works, located near B idgeport. Ct, worth $ o.UUO, and the City foundry at Bel eville. HlTwo assuted ’ Irish imm grants we e sent back to Canada :rom Burta.o 1 ist week. They reported that 1,100 ot.er ‘•assists” came with them to Canada, and that it was the British Governments purpose to ship from there to the United States. . .Ten thousand men are employed on the Panama canal, and tne c mpun feel sure of opening it in five years. The sanitary condition of the workmen is excelent The fishing fleet at the Grand Banks of Newfoundland was scattered by a fierce tempest that came suddenly and without warning. A schooner which narrowly escaped the fury of the s orm and rode into St. Johns reports that for thirty miles ot her course wieckage was encountered on every side. Many dories were seen botto u up, and cars, fish boards and other material In 1 rge quamiiies were passed from time to time. One French fishing-brig a one lost four dories with all h -nds. A g neral es imate puts the loss of ite at from sixtv to eighty souls, while the damage to the fleet is incalculable. Articles for a 3,000-point balk line, billiard match have been signed at New York by the representatives of Schaefer and Vignaux. Tea er won the bpt.le-ground. aid n. m d th Grand Hotel case in Faris, wbi e Schae er desired to play in Chi :: go. ihe game will • ccupy the nights, and will be played late in November. In Santiago, Chili, a-bill has been passed proxiding for interments in cemeteries rega.dless of creed, whereupon the eccle iasticalauthorit.es threatened to curse tbe genera, cemetery as soon as the law is promulgated. In consequence, a large n mber ot bodie-* have been disinterred and reburied in church chapels. FOREIGN. The Dublin Freeman's Journal intimates that startling disclosures about the d' naniite conspiracy and McDermott s connection therewith will soon be made. The arrival of many Irish-Americans at Liverpool and the re eipt of alarming telegrams from the United States, is thought to portend trouble at that city when O’Donnell, the slaver <f In ormer Carey, arrives. . Admiral Mever, commanding the French naval division in Chinese waters, has orders to arrest every Chinese boat earning arms or troops, and in the event of a rapture to make an immediate attack on Canton and other ports.... The King of Denmark ha been entertaining at Copen agen the Czar and Czarina of Russia, the King of Greece, and the Princess of Walea The wildest disorder continues in Hungarian and Croatian towns. At Egerseg, Hungary, the shops are closed aud the Jews have tied. In the Croatian towns the people have fought so persistently against the public use of th * Hungarian language that the satraps of the conquerors rre afraid to put up the proclamations which c aused the trouble. At Zagorien three officia s were wounded and four pe< sants killed. The pe sants ha e tied to the high hi 115.... Tne coffin-plate of the Count de Chambord bears the fegend: ‘Henry the Fifth, by the g.ace of God, Kingot France and Navarre.” . ..France has conquered Anam. The treatv has been signed, giving he invaders al t ev asked. Piepara ions for war are reported in China... .Lieut Boutelle No es, U. s. N.. was killed at Yokohama, Japan, by falling from a topgallant Dispatches from Batavia report that fears of further eruptions in the Island of Java within the immediate future have subsided, and all tbe efforts of the Government and the people are concentrated on the work of burying the dead ani preserving •the health 01 the jiving. All along the shores from Point L impon to the Biver Pa quid e on the Northern coast, and from the River I m mderie to Isipank-k. od the sou hern coast, tnere are found corpse* thickly strewn In the forests of the Ulterior from the Fiver Tied 1 into the hive.- T-ietaruip dead bodies are lying a short intervals apart, in some instances . par at ly burned m the s ulphurous white I mud or the hardened lava that flowed

from she eyupti.ye craters. I-arge forced of meji arfc busy 4? work iri all directions di gitig out bodies from beneath the beds of lava end rocks. The Captain of a steamer which was in the Strai sot Snnda during the eruptions reports that ashes fell op the de :k of bis ve*sel 10 tbe depth of eighteen inches He i assed masses of floating pumice stone seven feet in depth. That which Shakspeare feared is about to take place The Vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon has signified his willingness to allow the remains of the poet to be taken un so hat expert may compare the «kn 11 with the btistß. putttreg .artd masks which were left tb sorely puz.de humanity. Queen Victoria sent a bouquet df lilies and roses to be placed on Count de Chambord’s casket. Tbe Papal nuncio at Vienna consecrated the remains, and placed iu the coffin a certir.cate of death. Three thousand Frenchmen journeyed to Frohsdorf to attend ti.e funeral... .Mary Andcr.-on made her debut before a London audience, and met with a warm recension. The play was ‘lngomar,’’ and aS Parihenia she rece.ted many recalls.... F'urther arrests of conspirators impiica ed in the dvnamite plo s of last spring have been made. Six men were apj reh* nded in G asguw. all Irish ... .Two thousand peasants invaded the Hungarian to wn of Krapma to tiaek the Jews. The troops fired upon them, killing one man and wounding thre ■. ... At a meeting df IHshmefi iii Lohdoil money was subscribed to pay an eminent so i itor to defend ' O’Donnell, who killed the infoimer Carey Tne foot-and-mouth disease is increasing alarming y am ng t le cattle in England.... Sime the ouibieak of the epidemic tbe total deaths in Egypt from cholera have reached 27,318... .ouch is the condition of affairs in Zululand that Cetewavo demands protection by the British At a mass-meeting held at Cappalore, Ireland, Michael Davitt delivered an address, stating that by the tyrannical operations of landlordism in Ireland 6,000 householders had been deprived of their homes within the quarter ending July 1. Davitt contended that the question of the complete abolition of landlordism mast be kept before the people. Ihe Land act, he stated, if not a failure at the present time, wa* rapid y becoming so, and not one-sixth of the tenant farmers of the country ha.e vet succeeded in having their rents fixed, ile urged the people to be resolute, calm, and not lose sell-control .The obsequies of the Count de Chambord took place at Goritz, Austria, in the presence of 50.0U0 foreigners. The funeral car was drawn by six horses, and was followed by a vehicle laden with wreaths. Five thousand French Royalisis were in the procession, and delegations of workmen fr- mFaris and Lyons..... While a number of people were waiting for a fain at Bteglitz, Germany, an express dashed into their mid-t. killing thirty-nine persons The corpses were mu ti.ated in a shocking manner Serious anti-Jewish rioting took place at S. igetvar, Hungary, the mob committing terrible havoc upon property. One person was ki led and four wounded The D uleronomy manuscripts have been officially d •dared forgeries and efforts a e being made to trace the author, wh • is suj posed to be a clever artist and coun erfeiter of Moabitlc characters Near Naples, it dy, a I ooded house crumbled, ki Ung eleven inmateslvan Tourgueneff, the Russian novelist, is dead. MARINE ACCIDENTS. The Loss of Life and Property for the Year Ending June 30, 1883. [Washington Telegram.? The Sujjervising Inspector General of Steam Vessels reports that dining the fiscal year ended June 30, 1883, the total number of accidents resulting in loss of life was thirty four, of which twelve were from ex j logons, five from file, eleven from col litions, and six from snags, wrecks aud sinking '1 he total lives lost by ae identa iioin various causes during the year were < ;.M. of wuich sixty-nine »ere from the ex- I plosion or a cidental es. ape of steam eiglitytwo from collisions, forty-live ir<»m fires, fifty from wrecks or founder, thirtv-tree from ace dental drowni g, and five from other causes As compared with the previ* us i.scai year the number of accidents to sieameis was less, while the loss of life was greater, as the following tables w’iil show: Total number of accidents to steamers result ng in loss in 1852, 41; m 1883, 84; deci ease, 7. ' . Total number of lives lost in 1882, 20.); m r-s , -8-1 increase, 79. The main increase occurred in accidents caused by collisions, forty-eight lives being lostin excess of the numbei lost in ISJ2. ihe next gieatest wiu* in loss by s. ip are k, being forty-four more than the previous year. . lie in rease by explosions was eighteen. '1 he loss of life by fires, accid n al drowning, etc., was iess than tbe previous year. The most serious single accident of the year was caused by the codi ion of >he steamer Scioto aud John Lomas, which occurred on the Ohio river near a place called Mingo Junction Jmy 4, re ul ting in a loss of liftv eight lives. Acad reflection in connection w?th (he loss of life on the Scioto is the sac that notwithstanding the sinking of that vessel very few lives i eed necessarily have been lost, as the sa oon deck of ihe steamer, where most of tue p ssengers were, was only submerge 1 to the depth of prob bly not exceeding two and a half feet, while the hurricane de k was from four to five leet ab've the water’s t dge. The gre <t loss incurred must therefore be attributed to tbe fright and panic natural to such acci ents, causing ihe passengers to thiow themselves overboard. THE MARKET NEW YORK. Beeves f Hogs Ct* 6.7a Flour —Superfine 3-85 (S» 4.50 V\ heat—No. 1 White }W g l.uOg No. 2 Red I.l* ® Corn—No. Oath—No. 2 •J®’* Pork—Mess CHICAGO. or BEEVES—Good to Fancy Steers.. 6.05 @6.35 Common to Fair 3.80 gt 4. JO Medium to Fair 5.00 5.6) Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 5.75 @ 6.00 Good to Choice Bvr’g Ex. 5.00 & 5-°0 Wheat—No. 2 Spring No. 2 Red Winter 1.06&® 1.06 2 Corn—No. ’fi'd Oats—No. liYE—No. 2 56 (£. .•’6/4 Barley—No. 2 64 .6a Butter—Choice Creameryl9 if? .21 rlOGS—Fresh 16 PORK-Mess- 12.00 @12.!0 Lard . MILWAUKEE. Wheat —No. 2 LOO 1.0056 Corn—No.2 -48 & .48’2 t ) AT8 —New -2« -2«'i IYE—N \ 2 54781® -55 iARLEY — No. 2 , -<>s .‘ORK-Mess 11.87 2(«12.00 Lard • 8% ST. LOUIS. Wheat —No. 2 Red 1.03?8@ 1.04 ,OBN—Mixed4s} 4 <® .46Ja i) ATS—No. 225 .26 Pork- Mess 12.50 u 7y 4 (<£ . 8 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06 @1.07’2 CORN 61 .51’2 )ATS.' -29 .29)2 55 (3i .56 *OlK—Mes< " . 13.00 &1&25 cm ■ 8 & TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.v9 ® 1.09% Corn .53’j OaTS —No. 2.... .28 DETROIT Flour 4.00 6.75 WHEAT- 0.1 White 1.10 @ 1.10*4 CORN—No. 254 .5412 I)4T." —M *ed .35 <S> .36 I‘oiiK Mess 13.75 (3.14.25 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat -No. 2 Rea 1.041.05 CORN-N v. 248 <4l .49 Oats—Mixed EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle—-Best 5.>5 @6.85 Fair 5-50 5.75 C ommon 4. 5 @4.75 5.5 1 ’ @5.65 • EE? 715*) 5.0*) Xew York city consumes 4'4.0D0.nn0 gallons of milk annually, and almost one-half of this amount is brong it i from Orange county. The State his 1.437,855 milch cows, and 46,154 of them are in Orange county, which sells more milk than any other county in the State.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. There isl evety indication that the Gldssblowers’ Association of New Albany will not go to werfc this yfcar at any reduced price. Charlestown and Jeffersonville continue their rivalry. The former boasts of a whitehaired negro baby, While tbe latter chips in with a red-headed one. There will be a reunion of members of the 33d, 40th, 63d, 71st, 72d, 86th, 116th, 135th and 150th regiments at West Lebanon on Wednesday and Thursday, September 19 and 20. Geoßue W. Ledgerwood, trustees of Stockton township, Green county, Is a defaulted to the amount of >2,000. He is a farmer, but bad crops led him to the use of the public money. A Delaware county woman just before the ceremony which was to make her a wife, discovered that the btidegtoom was charged with some offense against the law, and declined to proceed until his reputation should be cleared of stain. Thieves broke into the barn of Cyrus Kimmell, two miles south of Legonier, the other night, and carried off eight hundred pounds of wdol. The theft was not discovered until about 10 o’clock the next morning. Nd clue to the thieves. AN aged and highly-respected Scott county farmer named Theophilus Wilson had a dispute with his son Frank over the division of some land, during which the old gentleman became Very greatly excited, and afterward went to his room, laid ddwil. and soon after was found dead. Adolph Seifert, aged 16, son of Charles Seifert, was fatally injured by a large circular saw in the mills at Webster, near Versailles. Young Seifert was employed for the day only to remove the saw-dust from the pit. A gash thirteen and a half inches long was cut by the saw, from the chin to the crown of his head, tearing out the right eye. A Correspondent writes from Delphi: Last spring large quantities of Kansas seed corn was shipped into this county and planted. It now transpires that it is too slow in maturing for this climate, and this, combined with the fact of a -continued drought and cold nights, places the crop in no condition to receive a frost before October. Farmers are very much dejected at the prospect. Adams, Earl A Co., Lafayette, the oldest grocery and jobbing house in the State, was Boid to J. Frank Byers. The latter was a creditor to the amount of $19,000 and the firm owed other parties about $16,000. It was rumored that Mr. Earl was embarrassed, and that gentleman said to a reporter that his creditors would lose nothing, as he had ample means to meet every dollar of indebtedness. Joe Gaston, a negro employed on a farm east of Evansvilee, blasting stumps, was fatally injured, on Friday afternoon, by an explosion of powder. He was sitting on a log, eating dinner, when a fellow-laborer came up smoking, and, a spark falling into the powder-can sitting beside him, it exploded, tearing his right arm aw ay and mumorning

Two boys, aged 8 and 12 years respectively, living some eight or ten miles southwest of Bloomington, went to town the other evening, driving tw’o fine black mules in a buggy. The larger boy appeared I to have plenty of money, and purchased two new saddles while in town. Going to Clear Creek Station, four miles below, they offered | the mules for sale, and they were bargained for by a gentleman who suspected something WTong, and the boys induced to return to town for the money. Here they met Mr. Breeden, father of the larger boy, in search of the boys and mules. It is said the boys ;were preparing to go w r est to fight Indians. The following patents have been issued to residents of this State: William Burket, of Etna Green, for an excavator and grapple; C. L. Carter, of Union City, for a post-hole digger; R. E. Ellis, of Muncie, for a folding carriage; Aug. Fisher Buck, of Marion, for a sulky plow; R. L. Keith, of Brazil, for a carriage top; John Latshaw. of Indianapolis, for a sand-mold-ing machine; M. W. McCann, of Posey, for a cultivator; N. P. Handling, of Indianapolis, for a coat; S. R. Sargent, of Terre Haute, for a sewing machine. J. C. Weaver, of Cutter, for a stock car, andH. M. Wheeler,of Smithson, for an apparatus for utilizing waste heat of stove pipes. The large dry goods house of Kloepfer & Bofinger, doing business in Michigan City and at Plymoth, made an assignment Saturday, which was brought about by the reckless manner in which the Michigan City house has been conducted. The liabilities as scheduled reach $26,000, but this amount will be increased to fully S2B,(XX). The assets. as given in by the firm, are >24,000. Os the total amounts the Plymouth house shows up SIO,OOO assets and only $4,000 liabilities, while the house here has only $14,500 in assets and $22,100 liabilities. The liabilities heretofore mentioned are sums owing by the firm, and not their individual indebtedness, w’hich is large. On this nothing will be realized by the creditors, but it is thought that tbe creditors of the firm will realize fat" least 50 cents on the dollar. John V. Farwell A Co., of Chicago, are the largest creditors, having >5.000 invested. A Shelbyville correspondent relates the following water-melon story: An acciden- ■ tai shooting scrape occured in Sugar Creek township last week that may terminate ( fatally to at least one of the wounded men. Mrs. Ruth Huntington is the owner of a patch of ven- tine watermelons, also the mother of four very nice boys, all young men. The Huntington boys, with four cronies, Elmer Lee, John Boles, Frank Holden, and Will Follis, concocted a scheme whereby they proposed to have a fine old time scaring the life out of tw’O of their friends. The last-named boys were to induce Jim and Frank Blake to go with them to the melon-patch of the Huntingtons, where the Huntington boys were to be concealed, and at a given signal commence tiring shot-guns in the air. To add to the fun a hired hand was to throw- a dynamite cardridge after the boys when they started to run. The plot acted to perfection in most particulars. When all the boyw were in the midst of the patch the signal was given and bang, bang, went the guns. The report was follow-ed by a series of cries that told that something had happened. The Huntington boys, instead of tireing blank loads into the air. had their guns heavily charged with No. 8 shot. The two boys that the joke was being played on escapes unhurt, but three of the perpetrators were sereously hurt. John Boles received several shot in the head, Frank Holden has almost 200 shot in his back and legs, and Will Follis got tbe greater part of one of the loads in his right arm and side. The dynamite cartridge was also thrown, but fortunately did not explode The affair has created a great deal of excitement, but as the accident * ; was only a loke,~ nothing will be heard of it. The boys are all i> bad condition, and if inflamation set in the wounds may prove fatal All the partioi- | nanti are of the very best families

- ! In Geer township, Boone ctV*ffty f while a church festival was in progress iif tb+ion ! Uhapel, a party of roughs from Gibson county, intdtttt-fM *nd broke the affair up into a row and a fight The ehtireh people combined against the Gibson cbtnrty Roughs, and aftef * hot contest, in which cltlbw, shots, chairs and tfther Weapons were freely used, succeeded in routifl* them. Fred Cook, who had charge of one of the booths At th* festival, was the only one seriously in jured in tliC fteht, he receiving severe wounds on the head by being hit with a slung-shot. An Evansville correspondent relates the following accident: Chas. Hear, a coal-cart dritef, aged 18 years, got on a switch train in tile It. F. and St. L. yard to ride about until a coal car should be run down to the dump. Through some mischancU, ffheii near the junction of the L. E. and Bt. L. and E. and T. H., he fell between the first car and engine tender. The engine was backing at the time, and no one saw him fail. He was caught by Mie brake rods of the tender and the fird-brbr of the engine and fearfully mangled. His body was thrown out from the cow-catcher just as the Mt Vernort branch train passed on the E. and T. It. Captain George Newitt, of the police, saw ' the body come from under the cow-catcher of the branch train, and jumping off hurried to the boy. Life wafi Oltinguißhed so suddenly it is thought he never knew what hurt him. No one on the switch train was aware of the accident until recalled to the scene by Captain Newitt. Thb following remarkable story comes from Connersville • One year ago John Ingles, a well-known and wOll-to-do farmer of Posey township, this county. Bold otit, pre- I paratory to founding a new home in lowa. On the eve of starting, he was taken down with typhoid fever, and died in ten days. The widow and children buried their dead, and went sadly but bravely among stranger 8 tn the West. Within two or three months they received tidings of the death by violence of James Ingles, a brother of John, in California, and of Boone Ingles, another brother, in another county of this State. A month ago the eldest daughter, Mary, was taken sick with typhoid fever and died within a few days. The mother and brothers started back here with the remains, and had hardly buried them, when they learned that a younger girl at home was at the point of death with the same disease. They prepared to hasten back again, when the mother was stricken down in the same way, and has been lying for several days in a very critical condition at the home of a relative near Fairview. The brother went back to lowa, and within the last day or two has reported the sufferer there as improving. As a coincidence of this story of sorrow, it may be added that the purchaser of the Ingles farm in this county, a man named Driskel, died last fall, within a day or two after moving upot it Product of Precious Metals. The subjoined statement will exhibit the production of the production of the precious metals throughout the world in 1882,__carefujly compiled from the AMERICA. C'luntrh s. GvM. Silvt-r. Total. } Alaska.l $1'66,000; $.50,0001 $150,000 British C01...1 3,000,000 100,000| 3 100,000 United States. 32,400,000 46,950,000! 79,350.000 Mex CO 600,(KM) 24,000.0001 24,690.000 Guatemala.... 600,000 4(0,000; 1.000,000 Honiutas! 2«i(».Uo<» 150,(MM) 350,000 . 1 San Salvador.; 300,00()i 200,000 5U0,000 ■ Nicaragua..... j 200,000| 176,000| 375,000 I ; C) ta Rica.... 150,(MM) 100,000 250,000 I Columbia WKUiuu zuu,i>uo, I Venezuela.... 125,i««j' 3r..>,iio.i | Guiana iTS.ote ii«>,<ixr 275,'U0 Brazil s.'>o,ooo Bolivia. 11)0,00'1, 8,0oO,o<)0 e,ino,i«« Cbili ew.Otei Argentine Bep .’OO.OOoi 4'»>,too WO.ikO Patagonia....! ino.teo 2O.'«x> lao.oeo | Oth. countries 100,0001 50,000 150,000 Totals.... I s4l,ooo,iHloi tS2,2W,«te;»I»JW,OW i EIIIOPE. Russia I $30,000,000! $500,0001 $30,500,000 Austria! 1,500,000 225,000| 1,725,000 i Prus ial 1,000,000 j 275,000! 1,275,000 j France I 175,000 400,000 j 575,000 i Brain I 225,000 j 2,000,000; 2,225,000 ! Oth. countries ioo,ooo| 400,000 oiw.ooo Totals ... J $33,000,p00l $3,800.000| $36,000,000 'ASIA. Jjjjan S6OOJKX)| $-2,<hiii,ik«i $2,600,000 Borneol 800,000 525,0001 1,335,000 Chinal 700,000 ; 475,0 w; 1,175,000 Archipelago... 000,000 3,000,000; 3,w0.000 , ■ ... 1Totals.... $3,000,000| $«,ooo.oool $9,000,000 Australia $32,000,0te ' $5M.000( $52,5-.r..000 New Zealand. 6.000,000 476,0<i0! 6,475,000 Atiica 2,000,000; S)HI,<HHI 5,600,000 Oceanica 1.0w.w0 450,000 1,450,00 u Grnn 1 total- rns.ooi'.oi'o $ >4.i)iio,iK«ii*2l2.<ioo.ow I The annual product of the precious metals attained its acme in 1853, since which date the annual product of gold lias decreased one-half, while that of silver has doubled. Pressed to Death. In early times it was considered that criminals accused of felony could not 1 e properly tried unless they consented to the trial by pleading and putting themselves on the country. After reading the indictment to him the question ; was put: "How say you —are you guilty : or not guilty?” If he said “Not guilty,” the next question was, "Culprit, how will yon be tried To which the prisI oner had to answer: “By God ami by my country.” If he willfully omitted either portion of that answer he was I said to stand mute, ami a jury was | I sworn to say whether lie stood mute of malice or mute by the visitation of God. | If they found him mute of malice, that ; was equivalent to pleading guilty in cases of treason or misdemeanor; but . I in cast's of felony he was condemned. I after ranch exhortation, to the peine forte et dure —that is, to be stretched 1 naked on his back, and to have iron laid upon, as much as he could bear, and more, and so to continue, fed upon bad bread and stagnant water on alternate days, till be either pleaded or di d. | This strange rule was not abolished till I ; the year 1772, when standing mnte in cases of felony was made equivalent to a conviction. A case actually occurred as late as 1726, when one Bnrnwater, ! acepsed at Kingston Assizes of murder, refused to plead, and was pressed for ! an hour and three-quarters, with nearly 460 pounds of iron, after which he pleaded not guilty, and was convicted and hanged. In 1658 a Maj. Stranev ays was pressed to death. The ol>ject of refusing to plead was that, as in that case there was no conviction, no I forfeiture took place, and the property of the accused person was thus preserved for his heir— Black»'Oo(l. xo tbeit sprains give the effected part rest and apply warm fermentations. If inriamaUon has set in put ou leeehf- and cooling applications, which miv 1 e removed at intervals if neeesmv .. Whin the infiamation aulcides use friction end stimulating liniments or ]x>nlt ices made of bread, vinegar and water - . a watchmaker, speaking of what be found in watches, said : “Small piece.of iron, tobacco, splinters of wood, aud ' once I found a loute Hairs frequently get into watches. I have found them coiled up and drawn tightly about the i wheels.”

NUMBER 23.

MAKING tT MEALS. How a Tramp Keeps Count ***“ AH the FM» wern He Has Missed. He was a ragged and unkempt looking person, and Very profuse in his thank." for the coin which the New York Tribune reporter had just given him. “Thank yon, sir, very sincerely—this will bny me last—Tuesday—week’s dinner, I think.” Then, after a pause, “Yes, 1 had Tuesday week's breakfast yesterday afternoon, and this will bring me up to Tuesday night. You see, I’m near on to a fortnight behind now, but that ain’t much.” “What is not much? I don’t quite catch yotfr meaning.” “Why, being a fortnight behind ain’t much. I’ve run as much as four weeks iu the rear before now, bnt that’s bad, and I was pretty well done up, I can tell you/ j Seeing, however, that the reporter still looked rather puzzled, he set to work to explain himself. “Well, it’s along this way. I allows myself two tueals a day. Two meals a day is what a man really needs to keep in any kind of trim, and if he can get ’em reg’lar so much the pleasanter, but if he can’t,' why it’s his duty to make ’em up when he can. If J only get one meal on Monday the other stands over to Tuesday, and if I am one short on Tuesday again, that leaves four for Wednesday. And do I really keep a score and work off arrears when I can? “Why, of course I do, but its hard work sometimes,” he continued, meditative-' ly, “with the scoring, and the eating off’ arrears is hard. You see one’s very apt to get mixed carrying the count in one’s memory from day to day—and I don’t rightly know whether I ever had Saturday fortnight’s breakfast now, but I had a meal late at night on last Thursday which I think was Saturday fortnight’s breakfast,but I never felt-sure it wasn’t only Friday fortnight’s dinner. But I don’t like getting mixed; it makes one awfully hungry’ and uncertain like about one’s stomach, not knowing whether one has had a meal or not. But what’s worse is getting into new a month. I don’t feel so bad eating last week’s victuals, or the week’s before — but when it comes to last month’s it’s hungry work. That’s why it is," he explained, “I’m always kind o’ low the first few days of a month.” Here he grew sad, as if pondering on some harrowing memories; then slowly—“I only once turned the year in arrears, and that was in ’79. As a general rule I manage to pick up a bit about Christmas and work oil’ all old scores before the Ist of January. But somehow or another that year money didn’t seem very plenty, and I had to begin the new year with a fortnignt's meals on mv mind, but not in my stomach. It s a terrible thing, sir.” he said, bitterly, “to have the new year opening when you ought to be full of hope for a fresh start, and to lie dragged buck by being twenty-eight dinners and breakfasts in arrears! May you never know what it means sir, and thank you again;” Tllbtady wedirt oinffer;— —’’ Starving to Death on a Mounfnhi Peak. When the train emerges from the Baton tunnel into the daylight of New Mexico, and off on the arid plains you see the bald-head of Starvation peak, you feel that nature did as much as man towards drawing the line yon have just crossed. The peak tell s a story of Indian cunning and inhumanity. An Indian raid years ago on one of the settlements was followed by flight to the mountain. A gang of Mexicans, in swift and angry pursuit, were decoyed to a point from which retreat seemed safest in the direction of the peak. Then in sudden and fierce attack the Indians bore upon them. The peak was sought and gained by the natives, who thought perhaps that they might destroy the enemy by fighting them from above. A single narrow and dangerous way affords the only access to the peak or descent from it. The Indians scattered themselves among the boulders that guard the approaches to this pass. They could neither be reached nor seen from above, and both courage and men were lacking to trouble them from below. The Mexicans discovered soon enough that they had been trapped, bnt too late to help themselves. Like snakes the Indians lay in wait for the prey, and so keen was their watch that whenever night or day a human form entered the pass it ' fell under a shower of venomous arrows. Provisions carried to the peak, scant at first, soon gave out, and the • band who had ruslied forth to punish the ravagers of their homes, lingered under a blistering sun and through the ' chilling nights until the smell of rotting bodies released the savage blockade, and the Indians mounted the peak to gloat over its corpse-strewn hideousness. And so the mountain took its ghastly name.— Cor. Buffalo Courier. John Pluenix at Ynma. <’al. Poor Lieut. Derby, who whiled away the weary hours there, as well as at all other posts where he was stationed on ' the Pacific coast, in concocting the rare drolleries he gave to the world under the num de plume of John Phoenix, ; completely ruined Yuma’s reputation as a summer resort by the famous joke . about the soldier stationed there who died and brought up in the infernal regions. which he found so chilly by contrast that he found it necessary to send Lack for his blankets. Since that period it is said that “sin-hardened invalids repair to luma to die, with a view ‘ to becoming inured to the great trials ! of the hereafter.” It was also Lieut. Derby who, being j left in charge of one of the San Diego papers at one time for a few days during the temporary absence of the editor, changed the polities of thepaj>er,to the horror and chagrin of that trusting victim of misplaced confidence. It was also he who, on being presented to Gen. Augur and family for the first time, expressed his pleasure in the meeting, and then, looking down earnestly upon the children, said. “And these, I snp- ■ pose, are the little gimlets,” for which untimely exhibtion of humor, it is said, j the General never forgave him.—Let- | ter in Cleveland H'-raid. A Dangerous Doctrine. I “I’m getting to be considerable of a believer in the Darwinian theory," said i a well-known joker, as he sat convers--1 ing with a group of cronies. “I certainly believe in the theory of the survival of the fittest. ” - ’’Youdo!” exclaimed a friend, in an 1 incredulous tone of voice. “Yes, Ido!” s “Well, of all things in the world, , that is the most foolish for you to be--1 laeve. It s suicidal, man!” r How so?" i ‘ Whv, if that plan were in operation, a you w ould live just about two minutes longer. ”