Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TOIUQW llVft In Afghanistan Gen. Roberts is preparing to renow operatior s with the opening of the spring. He estimates the force of the enemy at 00,000 men. The Irish Relief bill has passed both houses of the British Parliament. Reports from Cuba state that the sugar crop is about 40 per oent smaller than lost year. The Moscow (Russia) Weaving Works have been destroyed by Are. Twenty-ft/cr persons were burned to death and twenty-nine injured. The actios of the French Government in refining to surrender Hartmans to Russia ie said to meet the approval of the principal European Governments. The Russians have abandoned the projected expedition against Morv. Paris is alarmed at a threatened epidemic of small-pox. It is reported from Afghanistan that Mahomed Jan’s army is increasing enormously. The natives are loud in their threats to exterminate the “ blarsted Britishers.” Gen. Melikoff was saved by a chain shirt when Viadeteky attempted to assassinate him. The bullet tore a hole in his coat, but was arrested by ihe protecting mail Advices from China report a revolt in the city of Pokin, and that Chung How, the late Chinese Ambassador to Russia, who negotiated a treaty which proved unpopular, has been beheaded. The Now York Tribune's special correspondent in Iroland telegraphs that men, women and children iu eome of the faminestricken portions of Ireland arc reduced to the last stages of nakeduess and dontitution. Families are huddled together without fire, food, clothing or beading, within a miserable hut or tbo former abode of animals. Thousands and thousands are begging, not for bread, but for tbo humblest, cheapest food that can be supplied for human use—lndian meal' All this exists, and thero is little prospect of much improvement until August. It appears that in some districts the distress is oven groatcr than it was in the appalling famine of 1817. The steamer Montana, of the Guion line, was wrecked off the coast of Waterford, Ireland. No loss of life. Distressing accounts are received of famine and starvation in Armenia and Kurdistan, Asia. Meantime the reoent reports of famino and pestilence in Brazil are pronounced to have been greatly exaggerated.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East Another human body was cremated iu the Lo Moyne furnace, at Washington, Pa., last woek. All of the Lewis will-case conspirators have been found guilty by a Trenton (N. J.) jury. C. O. Taylor, city editor of the Philadelphia Timm, shot and killed himself while temporarily insane. West. The Chinese agitation in San Francisco has been the sourco of considerable excitement, and not a little apprehension, among the business men in that city. The armories of the local militia regiments are closely guarded, and Gen. McDowell, commanding the Division of the Pacific, has been instructed by the President to move all available Federal troops in bis district to that city at ouce. Tho workingmen are considerably exeited ovor these movements, and many of them assert that the authorities are tryiDg to force a quarrel on them. Meau time the eastward exodus of the Chinamen oontinuos. Nearly every train oarries away a lot Most of them go to the manufacturing district* of the Eastern States; a few stop in Chicago, St. Louis, and other Western cities, while a few others are directing their steps to the cotton fields of the South. The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osawatomie has been destroyed bv fire. The Grand Central Hotel, at Oakland, a suburb of San Fransisco, Cal, has been burned. The loss by the fire is estimated at *250,000. , Chief Douglass, the captive Ute, made another attempt to escape from Fort Leavenworth the other day, but was discovered before be had proceeded far. There is stored in Chicago elevators 8,798,110 bushels of wheat, 5,256,902 bushels of com, 1,008,360 bushels of oats, 244,407 bushels of rye, and 054,581 bushels of barley, makiDg a total of 15,901,860 bushels, against 12,563,030 bushels at this period last year. There is, in addition, 2,435,566 bushels of grain in the holds of vessels lying in the harbor. The Citizens’ Protective Association of Han Francisco, otherwise known as the Vigilance Committee, has issued a manifesto declaring that the objects which it bos in view are the preservation of peace, the protection of life and proportv, the restoration of confidence, and the revival •of legitimate commerce, industry, and business; that the time has come when the manhood of Han Francisco should be asserted, and that all good citizens who agree with it and approve its purposes are invited to join themselves to the organization by signing the roll.

Reports from the winter-wheat districts show that the condition of the crop is generally favorable and the prospects flattering. In Illinois there are complaints of wet weather, snd in Kansas and lowa of dronght, but it is the opinion of good judges that there will be an unusually heavy yield. An uncommonly bold robbery is reported from Sidney, Neb., on the Union Pacific railroad. While Express Agent Allen, of that place, was gone to dinner for about an hour, the office was entered through a hole in the floor and 9125,000 in gold bullion, gold dust, and currency were stolen. It had arrived from the Black Hills the preceding night, and was transferred to the office for shipment East Search was made for the robbers, but no clew found; Several hours after the perpetration of the robbery, some parties, while examining a a coal-cellar, on Allen’s suggestion, as no one bad been observed entering or leaving the building, several bags of bullion and gold-dust were found under the coal, amounting to 9112,000. Two bullion bricks and all the ourrency, together amounting to 913,000, oould not be found. Mayor Kallooh, of San Francisco, has issued a proclamation in reply to the manifesto of the Vigilance Committee stating that the workingmen have proved themselves to be the law-abiding portion of the population, and that there is not the slightest reason to apprehend any disturbance on their part The town of Frank fort, Ind., has been the scene of a most horrible and destructive boiler explosion. The hands employed in the flaxseed mil's of Lehman, Rosenthal & Co. were

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assembled around the boiler, in the engineroom, at an early hour in the morning, waiting for the whistle to blow before beginning the day’s labjr, when ihe boiler exploded with a concussion that shook the entire town. The villagers rushed en masse to the scene of the explosion, and there beheld a sickening sight. The building was in ruins, having been torn to pieces by the explosion of the boiler. Bound about the ruins, from a distance of 50 to 150yardo, were scattered the mangled, distorted and lifeless remains of the ten men who but a short time before had ief t their hemes and stood ready to begin their daily work. They bad been hurled into eternity without an instant’s warning. The majority of them were so mutilated os to be beyond recognition. The most plausible theory thus far advanced is that the engineer had started the fire under the boiler as usual; that considerable steam had been generated, and as the engine was started the pump forced cold water into the boiler and the explosion followed. It ha* been a custom with the men to assemble at the usual time in tho morning, in front, or at tbe north end of the boiler, where they would remain warming themselves by the fire and talking with each other until the whistlo summoned them to work. Not a man wis left to tell the sad story of the terrible disaster. Dennis Kearney was arrested by the police in Han Francisco, last week, on two charges of misdemeanor, baaed on remarks at a workingmen’s meeting. He gave bail and was released from custody. At Lewiston, 111., when Judge Shope sontenoed a burglar to seven and a half years’ imprisonment, tho culprit seized a heavy inkstand and hurled it at tho magistrate’s head. His Honor dodged the missile, and the convict was hurried off to jail in irons. Indian news: 0. D. Richards telegraphs from Fort Buford, Dakota Territory: “Hitting Bull has lost all his former power in the hostile camp, and is on routo for this agency. Trouble is expected hero before spring.”—Advices from New Mexico reporta fight in the Sacramento mountains between twenty mounted men under Lieut. Oouline and a portion of Victoria’s band, in wbioh the latter were defeated, and a large amount of stock captured.—A report comes from Fort I'eck Indian Agency that tbe Y&nktonnai Hionx and Assiniboine Sioux, comprising that agency, had declaro 1 war against each other, and that lift on Yanktonnais bad been killed and many wounded, and about tho same number of Assiniboines.

Full telegraphic reports from eleven Western States show that wheat is generally in excellent condition. Tho winter lias been a remarkable one, but, everything coneidored, not unfavorable. It is estimated that the yield will be 6J per cent, greater than last vei r. The Wisconsin Legislature has adopted a proposition for a femalo-suff ago amendment to the Slate constitution. Gen. Miles reports that Sitting Bull is south of tbe international boundary line, near Round buttes, on Milk river. Daniel O’Leary, of Chicago, scored 516 miles in a six-days’ walking match at San Francisco, his competitor, E. P. Weston, marking 490 miles in the same poriod. B. F. Benson, one of the proprietors of Grand Central Hall, Oakland, Cal., has been arrested for stealing the valuables of guests duriDg tbe fire which destroyed the building, and which appears to have been incendiary in its origin. A resolution in favor of a prohibitory Liquor law has been voted down in the Wisconsin Senate. The Ohio and Mssissippi railroad has restored the wages of employes to what they were previous to the reductions in 1877. Two girls, 8 and 9 years old, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed their father’s farm-house near Denison, lowa. Boutlx. Efforts are being made by Mississippi planters to get Chinese to work on the plantations in place of the negroes, who are leaving in hordes for Kansas and other States North. The trial of two of the notorious Gullys, charged with the murder of John P. Gilmer, was commenced at De Kalb, Miss., last week. The Postmaster at Annapolis, Md., is under arrest for stealing *3,000 worth of postage stamps. A former employe of the Tennessee Penitentiary has been sentenced to seventeen years’ imprisonment for assisting an express robber to escape from that institution. There were three executions in the South on Friday, March 12, all the victims being colored jnen. John Mayfield was hanged at Florence, Ala., for the murder of another colored man; Sidney McFaddin was executed at Washington, Ark., for the murder of his negro wife; and Dan Brigherly was strung up at Thomasville, Ga., for rape on a white woman. Hundreds of Kentucky negroes are leaving that State for Kansas. The Mayor of Louisville, Ky., narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of a discharged Btreet foreman, who discharged a pistol at him at a distance of three feet. The Supreme Court of Texas has declared the Saloon Bell-Puncb law constitutional.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Louisiana Democrats will meet in convention April 12, to select delegates to Cincinnati. The eases coming np from Ohio and Maryland, involving the constitutionality of the Federal Eleotion law, have been decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. State Judges of Election, having inter'ered with National Supervisors and Marshals, were sentenced by Federal courts to fine and imprisonment The Republican members of the Supreme Court affirmed the regularity of the proceedings and the constitutionality of the law under which they were had. Justices Clifford and Field dissented, holding that it is not competent for Congress to punish a State officer for the manner in which he performs the duties imposed on him by the laws of the State, and that the Federal Eleotion law is clearly unconstitutional. At. a charter eleotion in Middletown, N. Y., five women were elected members of the Board of Education over five men. State Conventions of the political parties have been called as follows: Greenback—Michigan, March 17; Pennsylvania, Maroh 22. Democratic— Nebraska, March 31; Texas, April 20;'Virginia, May , 19; Wisconsin, May 19; Kansas, May 26; Illinois, May 29; South Carolina, June 1; Alabama, June 2; Arkansas, June 2; Tennessee, Jnne 8; Indiana, June 9; Kentucky, June 17. Republican Rhode Island, March 18; Texas, March 24; Kansas, Maroh 31; Connecticut, April 7; lowa, April 14; Massachusetts, April 15; Oregon, April 21; Virginia, April 21; Georgia, April 21; South Carolina, April 29; Tennessee, May 5; Wisconsin, May 5; New Hampshire, May 6; New Jersey, May 6; Maryland, May 6; Nevada, May ll; Florida, May 12; Miohigan, May 12; West Virginia, May 12; Illinois, May 19; Alabama, May 20.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 18S0.

A bill making women eligible to the . office cf County Recorder has passed the lowa Senate. A mass meeting of Republicans opposed to the nomination of Gen. Grant to a third term was held in Mercantile Library Hall, St Louis, one night last week. Ex-Senator John B. Henderson was the chief spokesman. Tbe following resolution was adopted: That it is ihe sense of this meeting that the nomination of a Presidential candidate for a third term is unwise, inexpedient and subversive of the traditions of the Government, and likely to endanger the success of the Republican psrty.” The Ohio Republican. State Convention, for the choosing of delegates to the National Convention, has been called to meet at Columbus on tho 28th of April. The Democrats will hold their State Convention •on the 6th of May. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, has writteu a letter to M. L. Scndder, of Chicago, stating tsat he is a candidate for the Presidency with tho purpose neither to press anyone to support him nor to decline such friendly aid as is offer jd him. He says l he does not think it necessary for him to belittle or srraignGen. Grant, Senator Blaine, cr anyone else, and he will not use his official position to promote 1 io candidacy. The Washington Post prints a letter from Utica reporting interviews with Horatio Seymour, which sets forth the excellent condition of his health ard other similar elements of fitness which a candidate would like to have known. On the question as to whether he could be prevailed unou to run, the letter is as good as an announcement that he is willing to enter the race. A State Convention of the Republican party of Arkansas has been called for Aprij 28. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John B. Hawley has resigned for ihe purpose of prosecuting the canvass for the Governorship of Ulnois. The Now York World is informed that ex-Gov. Seymour has never, in any way, expressed or entertained an id 9& of allowing his name to be presented to the ueople as a candidate for the Presidency, nor will he allow it to be so used under any circumstances whatever.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Count De Lesseps explained his canal project to tho House Committee on the Inter-oceanic Canal last week. He claimed that his plans were quite feasible and practical, and argued that, in the interest of American commerce, he should be aided and encouraged rather than cnecketl pud thwarted in carrying forward his scheme. De Lesseps, the projector of the Isthmus canal, affects to bo pleased with the Executive message upon that subject, “ because it would certainly be advantageous to have the protection of the United States during the progress of the work and after the opening of the canal.” He sent a message to his son in Paris stating that tho President’s declaration assures the political safety of the enterprise. The Southern Claims Commission expired on March 10 by the terms of the act creating it. In its last report to Cbngress, now in type, it is shown that since tbe organization of the commission, in 1871, 22,298 claims, amounting to over *60,000,000, have been filed, of which all but about one-twelfth have been rejected. The Secretary of the Treasury says he intends every week to invest all the revenues, lees the actual expenditures and a proportionate share of the accruing interest of the public debt, in the purchase of 5 and 6 per cent, bonds on publio offers in New York. Gen. Charles Adams, who conducted the negotiations for the surrender of the Ute murderers, was offered by President Hayes his choice among all tfce vacant positions in his gift, and he hss chosen the mission to Bolivia. It is now stated that a thorough canvass of the Senate before the Fitz John Porter bill was laid on tbe table showed that there was a majority against it. Porter is hopeless of anv action at this session.

NISOELLANEOtTS GLEANINGS. A procession containing 6,000 or 7,000 torch-bearers greeted Parnell and Dillon on their arrival at Montreal. Eight men were drowned off the coast of Newfoundland by the wrecking of the bark Eblana. Parnell, the Irish agitator, has gone back to England. He says he will return to America after the Parliamentary elections. The annnal report of the operations of the Union Pacific railway shows that the surplus earnings during 187* were *7,786,574. The total value of exports of petroleum and petroleum products from this country for January, 1880, was *3,528,070; for January, 1879, *1,897,802; for seven months ending January 31, 1880, *26,014,179; and the same period in 1879, *27,453,673. In British Columbia the snow is from three to four feet deep, and live stock of ail kinds is dying so rapidly that bat few animals are expected to survive until warm weather.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On the reassemnling of the Senate on Monday, March 8, Mr. Kirkwood offered a resolution, which waa adopted, calling lor an itemized list of expenditures of the Government on account of the late war, brought down to the present time. The bill for the relief of homestead settlers on pnblic lands, amending the homestead laws in several particulars, was passed, as was the bill to amend the law relative to the seizure and forfeiture of vessels for breach of the revenue lawsThe morning hour having expired, Mr. Bayard spoke in favor of the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. A message was received from the Presi-. dVnt, relative to the interoceanic canal. Mr. McDonald obtained the floor, and, after executive session, the Senate adjourned... .In the House, the Speaker announced the new rules so operative today, and called tne States for bills, etc., beginning with Alsbama. Mr. Samford introduced a bill to reduce the tariff on certain articles, A discussion ensued as to what committee the bill should be referred to, but the bill was sent to the Ways and Means, as was another, introduced by the same gentleman, placing type and material used in its construction, and paper and its material upon the free list. Bills were Introduced and referred: By Mr. Nichoiis, lo reduce the duty on wood and straw pnlp, scda-ash and other chemicals used in the manufacture of paper, and to reduce Ihe duty on unsized paper t) 5 per cent, ad valorem; by Mr. Speer, making it unlawful tor any officer of the regular army to order inspections, dress-parades or concerts on Sunday; by Mr. Morrlaon, to reduce the duties in excess of 50 per cent, ad valorem on various articles; by Mr. Fort, granting pensions to all soldiers and sailors of ail the wars who are incapacitated to labor, and who nave no means of support; by Mr. Gillette, appropriating 950,000 to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to encourage the manufacture of sugar from corn-stalka and sorghum; by Mr. McKenzie, abolishing all duties off agricultural machinery and implements; by Mr. Caldwell, to equalize at 99 per month all bounties for total disability; by Mr. King, placing on the free list paper material; by Mr. Brewer, to regulate the const nction of pnblic buildings by contract; by Mr. Dunnell, to reduce the price of public lands within railroad limits; by Mr. Hatch, to provide for the Importation of salt free of duty; by Mr. Cox, to repeal the tax on bank checks, matches and legacies; by Mr. Covert, to admit chromate of iron free of duty; also to punish blackmailing In ihe District of Colombia; by Mr. Young (Ohio), to define the laws in regard to the length of service In the army; by

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

Mr. Warner, to gnat loads to soldiers; by Ur. Clymer, granting a pension to tbe widow of Oen. George A. Custer; by Ur. Overton, to provide for promotions in tbe retired list of the army; by Mr. Ward, to protect original inventions; by Mr. Davis, appropriating *360.000 for tbe Chi cago harbor. Mr. Davis (Ul.) offered a resolution for tbe appointment of a committee to ascertain tbe terms on which the State ot Illinois will cede to the United Btates the Illinois and Michigan canal. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President in regard to the Interoceanic canal. Mr. Edmunds stated to the Senate on the 9th of March that hereafter he would object to the reading of memorials. Mr. Cameron (Wit.) presented a joint reeolntiun of the Wisconsin Legislature praying for legislation regulating inter-state commerce. Bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Kern an, giving to aU religious denominations equal rights and privileges to Indian reservations; by Mr. Edmunds, for the erection of s monument in Washington to Custer and the men who fell with him. Mr. Bailey submitted a resolution, ordering the Judiciary Committee to examine and report in regard to an alleged contract between the Pacific railroads and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and what action is necessary to protect the public interest. After the morning hour, Mr. McDonald spoke in favor of the bill for the relief of Ben. Porter, his speech not being concluded at adjournment, fbe President nominated William Ware Peck, of Wyoming, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico; 8. Newton Pettis, of Pennsylvania, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming.... In the House, a number of bills were reported from committees and placed on the calendar or recommitted, after which the Political Assessment bill was taker, up, and Mr. House made a long speech In favor of the bill, lasting till adjournment. A message from the President was laid before the Senate, on the 10th inst, containing tbe agreement with the Ute Indians, requesting ratification. Mr. Thurman, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported adversely the Senate bill to reimburse the several States for Interest paid on war loans and for other purpose!. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Davis (Ill.) stated that there was a minority report on the bill. Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Judiciary reported favorably the House bill to define tho terms of cilice of the Chief Supervisors of Elections. Mr. McDonald then continued his remarks upon tbe Pilz John Porter ease, and occupied theday. At the conclusion of his speech a motion was made to refer the bill to the Judiciary C mmittee. The Senate Tejected the nomination of William B. Brown as Census Supervisor for the Eighth district of Illinois. This nomination was rejected by a party vote upon the ground that at least one of the eight Illinois Supervisors should have been selected from the Democracy... .In the House, Mr. Kesgan offered a substitute to the resolutions on tbe Panama canal, asserting this country’s determinat on to control such communication. Mr. Whitthome, from the Na-al Committee, reported a resolution, which was agreed to, appointing a commission to examine our ironclads, with a view to their completion and repair. Consideration was resumed of the Political Assessment bill, and a discussion ensued, participated in by Messrs. Young (Ohio), Bichardson (N. Y.), Crowley, Bice, Hays and Butterworth. An evening session was hpld, at which fifteen or twenty pension billa were passed. Iu the Senate, on Thursday, March 11, the bill for the reclamation of arid and waste lands pvssed. It authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to contract for the sinking of two artesian wells on the plains east of the Bocky mountains, the wells to be the center of & reservation or four rquare miles. Mr. Jones,* f Florida, spoke upon the Porter bill, and, after the coucluston ot his remarks, the bill was laid on tbe table subject to be ta>ien up by a majority at any time. Tbe Fortifications Appro priation bill was taken up and tbo Senate adjourned. .. .In tbe House, Mr. Kelley roset • a question of privilege, and denied in emphatic lauguage a reported conversation in regard to the tariff on sugars, in which corrupt motives were attributed to Mr. K»lley. The regular oid-r being demanded, consideration of the Political Assessment bill was resumed, and the bill was put upon its pa-sage, when no quorum voted. Tbo Bepublicans filibustered nearly the entire session, when the bill was laid on tbe table fur the present and the House adjourned. At the opening of bnsiness in the Senate on the 12th inst., Mr. Williams presented a joint resolution of the Kentucky Legislature, instructing the Senators from Kentucky to urge the passage of a bill reducing the salary of the President of the United States. The bill for the relief of the widow of Gen. Custer was Indefinitely postponed. A little discussion ensued about the Panama canal project. The following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Beilins, to provide for the ascertainment of tbe claims of American citizens for spoliation prior to July 1, 1861; by Mr. Teller, to enable Colorado to Belect land under the acts making the grant of land for the benefit of agricultural colleges and mechanic art*. A resolution calliftg for information in regard to Government technical schools was adopted. The Fortifications Appropriation bill was passed, with amendments. Mr. Kellogg rose to a personal explanation, and called for an investigation in regard to the newspaper report that the attack upon Senator Hill, of Georgia, had been planned by Kellogg to influence the contested-election case, and the woman, Miss Baymond, had been brought here by Kellogg for the purpose of slandering Senator Hill. Mr. Thurman announced that he should move to lay the resolution for an investigation on the table. The Senate then adjourned to Monday....ln the House, the hi 1 *uthoiizing the Secretary of the Interior to deposit certain Indian trust funds in the United btates treasury in lieu of investment was passed. The morning hoar was dispensed with, and MoMahon reported back the Deficiency Appropriation bill from the AjJpropriation Committee. The House went into committee of the whole, and discussed the bill for most of the day and rose without action. The following bills were introduced and referred: By Mr. Covert, for Hue suppression of pleuro-pneumonia in neat cuttle; by Mr. Scales, to accept and ratify tbe agreement submitted by the Ute Indians for the sale of their lands in Colorado, approximating *380,000; by Mr. Osmi r, to accept the titie to property iu Erie, Pa., and establi-h a Home for Indigent Soldiers and Sailors. Tbe Housj adjourned to Monday. .

Coming of Age.

It is common to say that a young maa “ comes of age” at 21. This means that he is then old enough to manage his own property, to do business for himself, and to be made to do as he has agreed; also to vote. Before he is 21, if he has any property, his father or guardian manages it for him; he is not expected to do butiaees on his own account; and if he makes foolish bargains, he can say “ I have changed my mind.” There are several other ages which.are important; indeed, a person may be said to be “coining of age” for different purposes fit different times all through his life. From his very birth he is of age to be owner of property, and to be protected from violence and cheating. At 7 years he becomes of age to be punished for a crime, if it can be shown that he was a bright, intelligent lad, had been tanght somewhat, and knew that the thing he did was against the law and would be punished. These things are not taken for granted until he becomes 14. From and after 14 it is supposed that a youth knows enough to refrain from attacking people, or stealing, or setting houses or fire, or things of that kind. At 14, also, he is of ago to be asked, if his father should die, whom he will choose as guardian; and of age to marry; but, that if he does so, he cannot retract afterwards, and say he was too young. At 18 years he is of age to be a soldier. At 21 years he becomes independent of his father, and may vote; these things are so much more important than any of the others that reaching 21 years is commonly called “ coming of age,” as if it were a magic date for everything. At 25 years he is of age to be Representative in Congress ; that is, after that the people can elect him, if they choose; before that they cannot. After 30 years he can be elected Senator, and after 40 President. At 45 years he is of age to be excused from going as a soldier. —Christian Union. Lawyers Allen and Taylor, the latter an ex-Jndge, had a quarrel in court at Newark, Ohio. While Taylor was riding home, Allen invited him to dismount and have his bide tanned with a whip. Taylor got off his horee, took off hiß coat, and challenged Allen to attempt the job. Allen tried, but failed, and -was badly beaten by the ex-Judge. Spcjrgeon violently assails the foieign policy of the British Government.

SCANDALS OF GRANTISM.

Blade Friday and Its Memorable History. [From the New York Sun.l I Ulysses 8. Grant entered upon his duties as President of the United States on the 4th of March, 1869. At tbe previous election the States of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texaa were disfranchised, and Congress threatened to throw ont the votes of Louisiana and Georgia, but decided to count them when it was foand that it would not affect the general result After his election and before hiß inauguration, Grant continued to hold the office of General in the army, that he might reoeive its emoluments and name his successor. In his inaugural address he announced that he Bboald havyjo-poliey to enforce against the will of the people. If he intended this remark as a sneer at his predecessor it was undignified; if he meant it as a forecast of his work, it was false. Within forty-eight hoars he requested Congress to repeal a law made to protect the public interests, and which had stood unquestioned since the administration of Washington, because it happened to block the way to one of bis capricious appointments. Charles Sumner refused to heed this foolish request, and was marked for political persecution from that day forth. The first summer of Grant’s administration was devoted to seaside loiterings and purposeless journeys, undertaken in the pursuit of idle pleasure. It was on one of these jaunts that he made tbe acquaintance of Jay Gould and James Fisk, Jr., who subsequently used him as their tool or confederate in the financial conspiracy which cu’minated in Black Friday. On the evening of the 15th of June, 1869, a gay party, composed of Ulysses S. Grant, Jay Gould, and Jim Fisk, each accompanied by his retainers, left New York for Boston on one of Gould’s highly ornamented steamers. The ostensible object pf the trip was to attend Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore’s peace jubilee. The arrangement of the details hat been intrusted to Fisk. At supper on the steambeat tho conversation was deftly turned to the “state of the country.” Gould, in his sworn testimony before the Garfield committee of the Forty- first Congress, describes this supper and says of the conversation: “The President was a listener. The other gentlemen were discussing. Some were in favor of Boutwell’s selling gold, and some were opposed to it After they had .all interchanged their views, some one asked the President what his views were. He remarked that he thought there was a certain amount of fictitiousness about the prosperity of the country, and that the bubble might as well be tapped in one way as another. That was the substance of his remark. He asked me what I thought about it I remarked that I thought if that policy was carried out it would produce great distress and almost lead to civil war; it would produce strikes among the workmen, and the workshops to a great extent weuld have to be closed; the manufactoiies would have to stop. I took the ground that the Government ought to let gold alone and let it find its commercial level; That, as a matter of fact, it ought to facilitate an upward movement of gold in tho fall The fall and winter is the only time that we have any interest in. That was all that occurred at that time.” The key to Gould’s conversation is found in the fact that those who accompanied him were his stool-pigeons. The talk was arranged beforehand for the purpose of ascertaining Gram’s opinions, and approaching him at points where be appeared most vulnerable. He was in the hands of trained gamblers, and they, in the parlance of their trade, were “playing him for a flat. ” A deadhead journey to Boston, a free supper, and an abundance of champagne, constituted the vulgar bait thrown out to eatofa the Chief Magistrate of the American people. And he was caught. IL In June, 1869, about the time of the Boston Peace Jubilee, Mr. H. H. Van Dyck resigned his office as Assistant Treasurer at New York. Jay Gould undertook to name his successor, with a view to controlling the treasury when the time should come to “corner” the gold market. He had already formed an alliance with Abel R. Corbin, tho brother-in r law of Grant Corbin was a ready writer and a man of some ability. He had been unsuccessful in business, and was willing to trade on his inflaonco at the White House. Years before he had served an apprenticeship in the lobby at Washington. He oould talk politics and finance with great fluency, and Grant frequently sought his counsel. The fact that he was not strictly honest never interfered with the cordiality of their relations. Robert B. Catherwood, an eminently-respect-able man, who had married Corbin’s stepdaughter, was suggested for Assistant Treasurer. Gould and Corbin talked with him on the subject, and urged him to take the place that the three might operate together and make a great deal of money "in a perfectly legitimate manner.” Mr. Catherwood..in his testimony, says that his ideas differed from theirs as to what constituted a “legitimate manner,” and he declined the office. It was then decided to confer it upon Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who, when this design was made known to him, wrote a letter thanking Mr. Corbin very kindly, hoping that he would exercise his influence, as he had previonsiy done, and saying that he was under many obligations to him, and that he trusted he would be successful Tbe work in which Cor bin expected to be successful was in cornering gold through the aid of the Assistant Treasurer. In due time Gen. Butterfield was commissioned, and Corbin’s standing was measurably increased in the eyes of Gould and Fisk. Mr. Corbin had first appeared to Gonld as a suppliant for favors. On the strength of liis relationship to Grant he wanted to be taken into some enterprise where he could make money. It was then that Gould suggested the feasibility of advancing the price of gold, which was then among the thirties, to the forties or fifties, provided the Government could be induced to assist them. His theory was that a rise would facilitate the exportation of grain, bat he hastened to add: “We could make money both ways, by buying it then and selling it on the rise.” Gould adds this compliment in speaking of Corbin:. “He was a verv shrewd old gentleman. He saw at a glance the whole case, and said he thought it was the true platform to stand on; that whatever the Government ceuld do legitimately and fairly to facilitate the exportation of breadstuffs and produce good prices for the products of the West, they ought to do. He was anxious that I should see the President, and communicate to him my views on the subject.” It was because of this preconcerted anxiety that the deadhead excursion of the 15th of June was arranged. Of coarse Corbin was among the invited guests, and the subseqaent proceedings seem to show that he Improved the opportunity to impress his brother-in-law favorably with his friends Gonld and Fisk.

m. When Grant returned from Boston he went directly to Corbin’s house, where he held a protracted interview with Jay Gould, during which, according to testimony, Grant said to Corbin: “Boutwell gave an order to sell gold, and I beard of it, and countermanded the order.” This was the first positive declaration the conspirators had received that they had’ won the President over to their side, or that they could count 'on his co-operation. Gould was so pleased that he immediately tendered to Grant the free use of a special train to take him to Coiry, Pa, and thence to Philadelphia. This offer was greedily accepted. On the 19tb of Augnst, Grant went to Newport, where Jim Fisk went to see him. Fisk, m his testimony, said: “I think it was some time In August that Gen. Grant started to go to Newport I then went down to see him, I had seen him before, but, not feeling as thoroughly acquainted as I desired for this purpose, I took a letter of introduction from Mr. Gould, in which it was written that there were 300 sail of vessels then on the Mediterranean, from the Black sea, with grain to supply the Liverpool market Gold was then about 34. If it continued at that price, we had verv little chance of carrying forward the crop during the fall I knoW that we felt nervous about it I talked with Gen. Grant on the subject, and endeavored, as far as I could, to convince him that his policy was one that would only bring destruction on ns all. He then asked me when we should have an interview, and we agreed upon the time. He said: ‘During that time I will see Mr. Boutwell, or have him there.’ ” It is interesting to know that the lamented Fisk, with steamboats, railroads, terpsichorean divinities, and other affairs to manage, still found time to give the President of the United States lessons in finance; and that, backed by Gonld's letter of introduction, he succeeded in his mission and induoed the President to adopt a fallacy so absurd that its bare statement condemns it—the fallacy that an unnatural premium on goldla essential to the maintenance of onr foreign oommeroe.

Daring the weeks preoeding Black Friday Grant was very frequently in New Yoik, and n-nally in tbe company of Corbin. His intimacy with Fisk ana Gonld began to attract attention, but he paid email heed to the ciiticismß passed on him on that account On the 2d of September he went to Saratoga, leaving poor Rawlins, his Secretary of War, who had been his mentor and guide through all his military career, to die unattended in Washington. He woe recalled on the 6th to attend RawlinT funeral, but on the 10th he again appeared in New York. Gen. Rawlins left no property, and a fond was rased for the benefit of his family. Gen. Grant subscribed *1,0.0 to this fund. Gould and Fisk not only gave a larger amount, bat they paid Grant's subscription for him. He accepted their gift with unblushing promptitude. The plotters were resolved to make hay while the sun of official favor shone upon them. On the 2d of September, Jay Gonld, havt g thoroughly oonyinced himself that ha could rely on brothers-in-law Corbin and Grant, bought for Corbin *1,500,020 i j gold at an average price of 132J4- Gould was afraid, however, that Bontweli might interfere. He says that some of those who were short of gold had arranged to give the Secretary a dinner, and he was solicitous os to what the effect might be. He sought out Corbin again, who assured him that the President was all right; that at his (Corbin’s) house Gen. Grant had written a letter directing Bontweli to sell no gold without consulting him, and that he had intrusted this letter to Butterfield, who afterward told Gould that he had delivered it Nothing now remained but to put the President safely out of the way in some remote corner where the rising storm of public indignation would not reach him nor compel him to recognize and perform his duty. IV. The little town of Washington, Pa , was accessible by rail in 1869 only by way of Wheeling, W. Ya. It was cut off entirely from telegraphic communication, and it was, perhaps, tue best place in the United States in which to seclude a man whose absence was essential to tbe snccesß of a financial conspiracy. To that point on the 13th of -Septemoer the President made his way. He explained that he wanted to visit a family of the name of Smith, a distant relative whom he had not seen for thirty years. The country .was on the verge of financial disaster. Merchants, importers, all who bought and sold, began to feel that they were at the mercy of a clique of sharpers and gamblers who were bent on driving the gold preminm np among the eighties or nineties, that they might clear *39,009,000 at the expense of every legitimate interest of trade. They knew that this premium was fictitious and speculative; that under an honest and intelligent management of the treasury it could not exist. Bat what were the relations between the Government and the sharpers? That was the question which sorely disturbed the minis of honest men. Gonld was deep and taciturn, but Fisk was shallow and talkative. In warning his friends, in threatening his enemies, he blurted out the secrets of the combination. He swore he would carry gold up to 200, and when he was told that the Government could block his tame by selling gold, he answered: “The President is wiih us ” This revelation threw a aew light on the intimacy between Grant and ihese gamblers. Men ot high standing hastened to the oapital to tell the President what langerous persons his new friends were, and to point out to him tbe necessity of immediate iction. When they got there they were gravely told that Grant was gone. Gone where? To an unheard-of town, ont of the line of communication, but he had left orders to sell no jold. They came away disheartened. The conspirators were j übilant. Fisk tes tiled that abont the 16th of September he bought ?old to the amount of seven or eight millions. Gould made much heavier purchases. The price was forced above 140, arid the syndicate controlled from fifty to sixty millions of it On the 20th of September, Gould said to Fisk this is sworn testimony): “ This matter is all iixed np; Butterfield is aH right. Corbiri* has *ot Butterfield all right, and Corbin has got Grant fixed all right; and, in my opinion, they ire interested together.” Fisk says that was a ooint he did not take into consideration. He lupposed Corbin had convinced Grant by argument that forty-five was the proper gild premium at wh ch to move the,crops. He did iiot bfel eve up to that time that Grunt, or anybody ntarer to him than his brother-in law, bad a stake in the scheme. When Goutd suggested it, he was startled, and resolved immediately to see Corbin. He said to Gould: “You give me a letter to him, so that he will talk coulidentiaTy with me.” He got the letter, and he gave under oath, before the Committee on Banking and Cunency, this ac. eount of what followed: “ When 1 met him he talked very shy about the matter at first, but finally came right out and told me that Mrs. Grant had an interest; that *500,000 in gold had Been taken by Mr. Gould at 31 and 32, which had been sold at 37; that Mr. Corbin held for himself about *2,000,600 of go’d, *5(!0,0il0 of which was for Mrs. Grant and *500,000 for Porter. I did not ask whether he was General or not. I remember the name Porter. This was given out very slowly. He let out ju.-t as fast as I did when he found that Mr. Gould had told me about the same thing. I said: ‘ Now, I have hid nothing to do with your transactions in ODe way or the other. You can make your pathway clear and straight by emptyingjt all out to me, because Mr Gould and mjself stmd together; we have no secrets from each .other; we have embarked in a scheme that looks like one of large magnitude. Mr. Gould has lost as the thing stands now. It looks as if it might be j retty serious bnsiness before getting out straight again. The whole success depends on whether the Government will unload on to us or not.’ He said: ‘ You need not have the least fear.’ I said: 4 1 want to know whether what Mr. Gonld toll me is true; I want to know whether you have sent this *25,090 to Washington ashe states?’ He then told me that he had sent it; that Mr. Gonld had sold *500,000 in gold belonging to Mrs. Grant which cost 32 for 37 or something in that neighborhood, leaving a balance in her favor of abont *27,000, and that a check for *25,000 had been sent. Baid I: ‘Mr. Corbin, what can yon scow me that goes still further than your talk?’ ‘Oh, well,’ the old man said, ‘I can’t show yon anything; but,’ Baitl he, ‘ this is all right.’ He talked freely, and repeated: ‘I tell yon it is atl right.’ When I went away from there I made up my mind that Corbin had told me the truth.”

HuDseqaently, before tbe Banking and Currency Committee, there appeared a witness who was ready to swear that he had examined the money-oeiivtry book of Adams Express Company, aud that he had seen the entry of a package sent from New York, some time in September, 1869, to Mrs. U. H. Grant, White House, valued at $25,000. The majority of the committee, under Garfield’s lead, refused 10 receive this testimony. The Manager of the express company, Samuel ill. Shoemaker, privately told Mr. Garfield that no such entry appeared, and he was called to the witnessstand to substantiate this statement. He produced his money-package book, assuring the committee at tue same time that it contained no delivery to Mrs. Grant Mr. Samuel S. Cox, of the minority of the committee, asked to examine the book. It was handed to him, and, running his eye down the page, he read aloud this entry: “He, tomber, 1869, Mrs. U. S. Grant, White House, money package, value #25,000.” Garfield jumped to his feet in unfeigned astonishment, while Shoemaker appeared to be overwhelmed with surprise. He studied the book for several minutes, and finally said: “After careful examination I am satisfied that it is #250.” He explained that by inserting before the last two ciphers a period, which had been accidentally omitted, it would read #250 and no cents. Mr. Garfield adopted the imaginary period in his report and declared the President’s family were vindicated. -Y. Jim Fisk was too impetuous. He wanted not only the “old man’s” assurance that “it was all right” with the Grants, but be insisted that Corbin should write a letter to the President urging him to stand firm and not to sell gold on Government account under any circumstances. Poor Corbin was already in the job up to his ears, and he readily wrote the letter. Fisk caused it to be delivered by a special messenger, who left Pittsburgh at 1 o’clock in the morning and rode twenty-eight miles on horseback to Washington. Pa. He arrived at the house of Grant’s distant relative at about 2 o’clock in the morning and delivered the letter. The President read it carefully, and, after holding a consultation with his wife in regard to its contents, he said to the messenger: “It is satisfactory; there is no answer.” Bat from that moment he < took the alarm. The ramble and roar ! of the great financial Btorm had actually penetrated his remote hiding place. Another messenger came to him direct from the capita] telling him be must rpturn; that imperative business demanded his attention; that another day’B absence might destroy his fame. Then it was, according to Corbin’s testimony, that Mrs. Grant wrote to Mrs. Corbin saying that the President was greatly distressed to learn that her husband was speculating in Wall street, aud expressing the hope that he would immediately disconnect himself from anything of that sort This letter appears to have fnght-

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oned Corbin, bat his fear did not get the better of his shrewdness. He sent for Jay Goald, and told him that he (Corbin) mast go oat of the matter: that it had created a great deal of feeling in Jiia own family as well as on the part of the President, and that It mast end immediately. Bat he wanted 9100,000 as his share of the profits in a partnership where he had invested bit brother-in-law against Gould’s money. Goald says, under oath: “I told him 1 would give him 9100,000 on account, and that, when 1 sold, if he liked, I would give him the average of my sales. I did not feel like baying any gold of him then.” Corbin’s fright, the return of the President to Washington, the growing excitement in financial and business circles, warned the speculators that they were approaching the end of Iheir rope. On Thursday, the 28d of September, they knew that Wall street could not bear the pressure more than one day longer. On Thursday night Gould, as usual, was saturnine and Fisk mercurial. VI. Black Friday came. The business of the metropolis stood still at the audacious command of a clique of sharpers. Every artery of trade, eveiy nerve of enterprise, felt a shock as of paralysis. Merchants rose from sleepless ♦xda to make thtir way to Wall street, hoping against ho] e that they might find some way to pu» chase the gold required to meet their contracts. Bankers who had faith in the honesty of the administration, and who had invested heavily, ia the belief that the fictitious prioe could not last, grew wild with excitement when they found what preparations were making to corner the marker. On the previous day gold had ri>>en to 144. If it remained there, or went higher, thousands would be irretrievably ruined—not speculators alone, but honest, business men, with whose honor and credit these jugglers oif the street were playing their game. Gould and Fisk were early on the ground. They operated through a number of brokers, directing that all gold which was offered should bo purchased till the “comer” was complete. Gould himself kept out of sight. He was known to be in liis office, but he was careful that his orders should be issued through some third party. He was playing with loaded dice. If be won, ho intended to pocket the profits. If he lost, he could repudiate his contracts. All through the forenoon the excitement increased in intensity. Hundreds of telegrami were sent to Washington, appealing to the Pr( sident to sell gold on Government account, and thus break tne conspiracy agaiast the public welfare. Those appeals were accompanied by plain hints that delay would be accepted as proof that Grant was in league with the gamblors. At noon the order came to sell 94,000,000 in gold for the Government. The order was communicated to the Assistant Treasurer by telegiaph. and was immediately made known to Jav Gould and Jim Fisk, who, beiug thus forewarned, set to work to save themselves from the wreck in which they had involved the street. Among the brokers operating on their account was Albert Speyer, who had formerly been a brewer and had accumulated a handsome fortune. Throughout the forenoon he bought largely, bidding as high as 60 and 65 tor gold. When the news reached the Gold Room that the Government was selling, tho premium immediately declined to 35. But Speyer kept ou buying at 60, obeying implicitly the orders he had received from the chief conspirators Whon he was loaded down with more millions than he could count he rushed wildly to Gould’s office to report progress. He was received with the cool remark, “We don’t want any of your gold.” Poor Albert Speyer staggered out of the place, and before the close of the day was insane. When n ght fell on Black Friday New York felt that all the conditions of her commercial prosperity had been rudely assailed. The non inal transactions in gold for that one day aggrega'ed #500,000,000. Fifty houses failed outright, and more thao throe times that number w« re rendered insolvent by their losses. The Gold Exchange did not opeo its doors again fbr business till the 30th of September. Tlier demoralizing effect of the conspiracy spread far and wide.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.

Ke-enunciatlon of the Monroe Doctrine. To the Senate: I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State and accompanying papers in response to the resolution adopted by the Senate on the 11th of February last, requesting “copies of all correspondence between ihis Government and any foreign Government since February, 1879, respecting a shipcanal across the isthmus between North Amer- - Ica and South America,, together with copies of any project of treaties respecting the same which the Department of State may have proposed or submitted since that date to any foreign power or its diplomatic representatives.” la further compliance with the resolution of tbe Senate, I deem it proper to state briefly my opinion as to the policy of the United States with respect to the construction of an inter-oceanic canal by aDy route across the American isthmus. Tbe polioy of this country is a canal under American control The United States cannot consent to surrender this control to any European power, or to any combination of European powers. If exis'ing treaties between the United States and other nations, or if rights of sovereignty or property of other nations stand in tbo way of this policy—a contingency which is not apprehended—suitable steps should 1/ taken by just and liberal negotiations to promote and establish the American policy on this subject consistently with the rights of the nations to be affected by it The capital invested by corporations or citizens of other countries in such an enterprise must, in great degree, look for protection to one or more of tbe great powers of the world. No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem inadmissible. If the protection of the United States is relied npon the United States must exercise such control as will enable this country to protect its national interests, and maintain the rights of those whose private capital is embarked in the work. An inter-oceanic canal across the American isthmus- will essentially change the y eographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacifio coasts es tbe United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world. It will be the groat ocean thoroughfare between our Atlantic and our Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the coast line of the United States. Our merely commercial interest in it is greater than that of all other countries. While its relations to our power and prosperity as a nation, to our means of defense, our unity, peace and safety are matters of paramount consideration to the people of the United States, no other power would, under similar circumstances, fail to assert rightful control over a work so closely and vitally affecting its interest and welfare. Without urging further grounds of my opinion, I repeat, in conclusion, that it is the right ana duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and an'hority over any inter-oceanic canal across the isthmns that connects North and South America as will protect our national interests. This, I nm quite sure, will be found not only compatible with, but promotive of, the widest and most permanent advantage to commerce and civilization.

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.

Executive Mansion, March 8,1880.

The Mysterious Messenger.

An orderly officer arrived at the Winter Palace, in Bt. Petersburg, in great haste, and demanded immediate admission to the presence, stating that he was the bearer of a most important dispatch to the Czai from Gen. Gourkho, the Military Governor of S;. Petersburg. Something in the man’s manner and appearance, although he was duly uniformed and accoutered, struck the Aide-de-camp .on duty in the imperial ante-chamber, who, asking the officer to wait while he inquired whether or not the Emperor could receive him, hurried into an adjoining bureau, and sent Go rkho au order to come instantly to the palace. Ten minutes later the Gen-eral-made his appearance in the antechamber, where his soi-disant orderly officer was waiting, and, npon being informed of what had taken place, at once denounced the travestied conspirator as an impostor. When the latter was secured and examined, he was fonnd to be possessed of concealed firearms; and it is not doubted that he intended to assassinate the Emperor. Mobs than $85,000,000 worth of tobacco was consumed in Germany lat# yfcar.

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INDIANA ITEMS.

The State House Commissioners now have $248,000 on hand. Many Indiana papers are agitating fish cultnre by the State. The stock for the Columbus starch works has all been subscribed. Thomas Wallace, one of the Knox County Comnpissioners, has died of typhoid pneumonia. Mount Vebnon has settled with her New York creditors, and the town now stands on a firm financial basis. Evansville has probably more steamboats leaving her wharf every day than any other city on the Ohio except Cairo. Sullivan and West, charged with murdering William Miller, near Hazleton, Gibson county, have been acquitted. Scarlet fever, measles and whoop-ing-cough are raging to a great extent in and around Shelby ville. Several deaths have occurred. Measles are afflicting the people of Dublin, Wayne county, to a considerable extent. Among those Bick with the disease is a Mr. Hastings, an octogenarian. Gen. Lew Wallace, Governor of "Now Mixico, is visiting his home at Crawfordsville. This is the first time he has been home since his appointment to the Governorship, in 1877. Ernest Morris, the young South American explorer, in a short letter to his father, at Shelbyville, written in January, stated that he had been seriously ill with the fever for a month. The Indiana Supreme Court holds that a person injured by railroad 1 rains while walking on the track is guilty oi contributory negligence, end therefore not entitled to damages. The beby of M r. Daggett, who lives about eight miles west of Muncie, was shot in it’i mothei’s arms by some unknown person, who is supposed to have fired at a dog. The child will probably recover. A 3-year old son of George Linger, of Milton, Wayne county’, about two weeks ago swallowed a piece of a nail one half or three-fourths of an inch in length, and died last week after much suffering. A 15 year-old daughter of Mrs. Ramsey, twelve miles west of Mitchell, was accidentally shot in the abdomen by an older sister, while fooling with a Sharp’s revolver. The wound is dangerous, if not fatal. , Gov. Williams has remitted another fine for selling liquor on Sunday, and it is said there are fully SIOO,OOO of similar fines scattered about the State, which should be collected and turned into the school fund. The State House Commissioners appointed Adolph Scherer Supervising Architect, to till tho vacancy caused by the death of Edwin May. Mr. Scherer was May’s draughtsman, anil is very familiar with the plans and work. Thieves broke open a loaded freight, car of country produce, at Columbus, a few nights since, and, after carrying off a large amount of the eggs and butter, got into other tubs of butter and eggs with their leet and destroyed them. The dry-house belonging to the stave factory of George H. Marsh was consumed by fire at Shoals, last week, to gether with twelve cars of heading. The fire arose from the carelessness of the fireman, and was under such headway before found out that it could not be extinguished. Loss about $15,000; snfall insurance.

At a writing school in Butlervillo, Jennings county, a few evenings since, two boys, aged each about 13, the sons of El jah Davis and Stephen Voyles. got into a quarrel, which resulted iu Yoyles cutting Davis across the abdomen with a knife,. causing the bowels to protrude. It is thought Davis cannot recover. A carpenter at Madison lias a piece of timber in the fibres of which ii firmly imbedded a ten-penny nail taken from the heart of an immense oak. The growth of the wood around the nail is fully eighteen inches, showing that it must have been driven into the ireo many ; ears “ before the flood ” in Crooked creek. Jessie Beasley, residing near Bryantsville, Lawrence county, was called out of the house of his father-in-law, William Fulton, and mortally shot through the loins His brother John is suspected of the crime. The cause is said to be a family feud and a lawsuit between the brothers over the settlement of their father’s estate. As the steamer Gen. Lytle was leaving the Carrollton wharf-boat, one < f the crew, who ha’d been talking to a friend on shorr, attempted to get aboard of his boat, and, missing his footing, dropped into the river. He drowned before assistance could reach him. He lived in Cincinnati, and leaves a small family. The Carrollton wharf seems singularly fatal to those who miss their footing. A large number of persons have drowned there. On the 29th day of July, 1879, the starch and glucose manufactory of J. H. & J. A. Cunningham, located at Vincennes, was destroyed by fire. Tbe Cunninghams have brought suit in the Circuit Couit against tbe E. and T. H. Railroad Company, charging said company with setting fire to their establishment with sparks from a passing locomotive on their road. Damage claimed $200,000. This is the largest suit ever brought in Knox county.

Trappng Game in Russia.

In St. Petersburg and Moscow, of one hundred pieces of game so'd only one has been shot, the ninety nine others havej been entrapped. Each peasant has a path iu the woods, which is his exclusive property. This path is sometimes thirty miles long. On each side of this path traps of all sorts and sizes are set; wolvep, foxes, martens, sables, badgers, hares, squirrels, rabbits, purtridges, quai', grouse, etc., are caught. As it often happens that the owner of the ptih is weeks wi lout visiting it, numbers of these auima's perish iu the traps without benefit to anybody. As these traps are set all the year round the destruction of animals in breeding person is fast ridding Russian forests of every sent of game. There are ninety-five lakes in lowa, covering an area of 62,000 acres. Should these lakes dry up, as some of them are doing, the laijd mil belong to the Government.