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NEWS OF THE WEEK

FOREIGN NEWS. Batoum, a Black sea port in Asia Minor, coded to the Romans by the Turks in the treaty of San Stefano, is being strongly fortified by its present owners. The death of Wieniawski, the celebrated violinist who, a few years ago, made a tour of the United States, is announced. San Domingo has another conspiracy, this time to restore ex-President Gonzales to power. The Liberal gains in the English Parliament in the elections on the sth inst. were five. The Liberal gain in England, up to the 7th inst., was sixty-five. This will be about the number of the Home-Rulers. An English bark which sailed from Mobile, on the 26th of February, had to be abandoned in mid-ocean after the loss of five of her crew. The ship Shannon, from Baltimore,. rescued the others, ten in all. Leon Say has been appointed French Ambassador to England, with special instructions to negotiate a commercial treaty between that country and France. The drunken King Thebaw, of Burmah, has died of small-pox. • Russian troops in Southern Siberia have boon ordered to march to the Chinese frontier. Emperor William, in his reply to Bismarck, refusing to accept his resignation, requests him to submit to the Bundesrath proposals calculated to bring about a constitutional solution of the difficulties of which he complains. The city of Paris is said to be now the principal center of Nihilism. South American advices rej>ort a battle between portions of the armies of Chili and Peru. The Cliilians were vanquished with heavy loss. It is thought that the worst of the Irish famine is passed. The Duchess of Marlborough reports that the distress is on the wane, and she believes the various funds now subscribed will be able to meet the necessities of the sufferers. The Russian Government has decided to make the Island of Saghalien a penal colony. Home 200 convicts have already been sent to that place. Famine is desolating Armenia, and appeals have been made to the Russians to save the people from annihilation. The non-Moslem inhabitants of Turkey are exceedingly well pleased over the fall of Beaconsfield, and predict that Gladstone will turn the Ottomans out of Europe. Seyen hundred men, women, boys rod girls have been burned alive in Rangoon, Burmali, as a sacrifice for the restoration of the drunken King’s health. There is a panic in Mandalay, and hundreds of people are leaving flic citv.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Kant. A shop belonging to the Bridgewater (Mans.) iron works burned down the other night, the loss reaching $77,000; insured to half the amount. A Philadelphia lad, who was bitten by a rabid Spitz dog eighteen months ago, is suffering from hydrophobia. Rear Admiral Thacher, of the United States navy, died in Boston recently. He was 74 years old. Government 4 per cents, sold in New York, a few days ago, for 107%, the highest price yet reached, against 99.65 one year ago. The New York Court of Appeals affirms the judgment in the case of Chastine Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Hull. A colored cfulet at West Point was attacked, in the barracks, by three masked men, the other night, bound hand and foot, and mutilated about the earn. It is believed that the outrage was perpetrated by classmates of the victim. Gen. James L. Reynolds, a wellknown Pennsylvania soldier and politician, is dead. He died at Lancaster, at the age of 58. Gold coins, hollowed out and filled with base metal, are in circulation in the East. Eugene Fairfax Williamson, the persecutor of Rev. Dr. Dix, of New York, turns out to bo a forger and swindler, and bad man generally. The Waterbury (Ct.) watch works have been partially burned. Loss, $75,000. A fearful explosion* is reported from Chewter county Pa., by which two- men were killed and ten were [wounded. The men were quarrying stone, when a large charge of dynamite suddenly exploded. The walk in New York city for the O’Leary belt came to an end on the evening of the 10th inst., Hart, the colored man being first; Pegram, second ; Howard, third ; aud Dobler, fourth. Hart made 565 miles, the greatest achievement in this line on record. The score of the leading contestants was as follows : Mile*. Milcu. Hart ..565 Dobler ......531 Pegram 543% Howard 534*4, Allen 525% Williams 509 *•„ Krohne 516 Honawaker 450% West. The white-lead works of Joplin, Mo., burned down the other day. The loss is stated at $250,000, with insurance of only $60,000. A snow-storm of great severity is reported at Emigrant gap, near Reno, Nev., on the line of the Central Pacific railroad. The Htorm continued for nearly three days, blockading the road and demolishing 750 feet of hiiow- > hods. Gen. Hincks, for several years Commandant of the Soldiers’ Home, at Milwaukee, has resigned. The Son Francisco Board of Supervisors have adopted resolutions to the effect that the peace of the city has been seriously endangered by the inflammatory harangues of Mayor Kalloch. They.authorized the Judiciary Committee to investigate the matter and report. It is thought that the proposed investigation is only preliminary to the impeachment of Kaloch. The directors of the Chicago and Alton railway have decided to issue new shares of stock aggregating a little over $1,000,000, to be offered for sale at par to shareholders in the proportion of one share to every ten. The money thus acquired will be used in the purchase of new rolling stock, etc. A block of buildings was totally destroyed by fire at Minneapolis the other day. The little city of Dixon, HL, has been visited by a disastrous fire, which burned three flouring mills and ope flax mill. During the progress of the blaze an explosion occurred in one of the buildings, which threw the walls to the ground with a crash, two men being killed and thirteen injured. The loss of property is placed at about $200,000. Ono million dollars in gold has just bpen paid into the sub-treasury at Chicago,

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME IV.

through the First National Bank, for the redemption of the Chicago and Pacific railway. This is said to be the largest cash payment ever made in Chicago. Gen. Hatch’s command, operating in Southern New Mexico, has had an engagement, lasting four hours, with Victoria’s band of Apaches. The savages finally broke and fled, leaving several of their dead on the field and considerable stock, which fell into the hands of the soldiers. Capt Carol, of the Ninth Cavalry, and seven troopers were wounded. A fanner and his son got drunk at Avilla, Ind., and left for home in the evening in a beastly condition. Their dead bodies were found in the road the next morning, where a runaway team had thrown them. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad earned $4,539,024 the past year. The Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, who are probably as near to being civilized as any in the country, have agreed to a division of their lands, to be held by them in severalty. After an allotment of a quarter section to each man, woman and child of the tribe, the residue will bo sold for their benefit. An engagement of one week only is lining filled at McVicker’s Chicago Theater by E> A. Hothern, the eminent English comedian, his repertoire being, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, Lord Dundreary in “ Our American Cousin;” Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, “ Dundreary’s Brother Sam,” and “ Dundreary Married and Settled.” He has a fine supporting company with him, and has lost none of his former mirth-provoking faculty. South. A Texas Postmaster has absconded with $4,000 belonging to the United States Government. Advices from Kort Keogh, in Montana, report the capture of several Indians belonging to Sitting Bull’s command. They were all young warriors, who had come over from Canada on a raid. They were well supplied with ammunition, which they said they had purchased from white traders. Two negroes were hanged, on Friday the 9th inst.—one at Leesburg, Va., for murder, and the other at Bennettsville, 8. C., for arson, the latter being the first execution under the new law. Joe Reynolds, a noted North Carolina moonshiner, whose boast was that he could could never be taken alive, has been killed by a revenue officer, after a desperate struggle. One man was killed and several other’s severely injured by a falling wall during the progress of a fire in Wilmington, N. C.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Ignatius Donnelly has written a letter to the Committee on Elections of the House, asking that the allegation that a friend of his wrote the anonymous letter to Mr. Springer making a corrupt proposition be fully investigated. William A. Howard, Governor of Dakota Territory, and formerly a member of Congress from Michigan, has just died in Washington. POLITICAL POINTS. Municipal elections were held in many Western cities April 5. In Indiana the amendments to the constitution were adopted. Senator Hoar has written to a member of the Massachusetts Legislature a letter on the Presidential question in which he advises strongly against the instruction of delegates to the Chicago Convention. He does not believe Gen. Grant the strongest candidate that could be nominated. The city of Chicago held an election for town officers and for one Aiderman from each of the eighteen wards, on the 6th inst. The town officers chosen in the South and West Divisions were Republicans, and those i i the North Division Democrats. Of the eighteen Aidermen elected, ten are Republicans, five Democrats, two independents, and one a Socialist. A very light vote was polled. The lowa Democrats and the Connecticut Republicans held State Conventions and appointed delegates to the National Conventions of their respective parties on the 7th inst. Tilden is said to be the choice of the delegates chosen by the lowa Democrats to go to Cincinnati, provided the New York split shall be fixed up ; while the Connecticut Republicans selected a delegation understood to be divided between Blaine, Washbume and Edmunds. The delegates received no instructions in either case. Rhode Island voted for State officers on the 7th inst., but failed to effect a choice. For Governor, Littlefield, Republican, received a little more than 10,000 votes; Kimball, Democrat, about 7,000, and Howard, Prohibition, about 5.000. Neither candidate having received a majority of the votes, the Legislature will have to make a choice, and, that body being largely Republican, Littlefield will undoubtedly be elected. The Minnesota Republican State Convention has been called to meet at St Paul, May 20. A Cincinnati gentleman who has just returned from Utica, N. Y., where he had a long interview with Mr. Seymour, reiterates the statement that the ex-Governor is determined to remain in private life. Mr. Seymour says that he is really unable to endure any excitement, physical or mental, and that his only lease on life is in strict observance of this rule. He said, in the plainest of terms. “Under no circumstances could I become a candidate, even if I thought the good of the party demanded it.” The Oregon delegates to the Cincinnati Convention are all said to be for Tilden. The Democrats of Oregon have nominated Congressman Whiteacar for re-election. Hereafter Indiana will hold her State elections in November instead of October, as heretofore. A State Convention of the Greenback party of lowa has been called, to meet at Dee Moines on the 19th of May.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS-Church-burners have been busy at Ottawa, Canada. The Presbyterian and Oath olic Churches of the city were set on fire early one morning and partially destroyed. Reports from Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky show that the wheat and fruit prospects in those States are excellent. The Straits of Mackinac are open. Steamers which had passed through the straits have arrived in Detroit. Exports from seaboard ports last week: Pork, 7,094 barrels; lard, 8,883,355 pounds; bacon, 17,168,510 pounds; flour, 72,865 barrels; wheat, 1,573,431 bushels; com, 8,130,089 bushels ; oats, 6,032 bushels; rye, 13,027 bushels; barley, 20 bushels. Grain in sight in the States and Canada : Wheat, 24,227,000 bushels ; com, 16,541,000 bushels ; oats, 2,994,000 bushels ; rye, 681,000 bushels ; barley, 2,228,000 bushels. Jay Gould is said to have leased the Great Western railway of Canada.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1880.

After a monthly advance in the price of nails since last fall, the Western Iron Association has, owing to the stagnation in trade, reduced the card rate from $4 to $3.20. Iron, which has been booming for the past few months, is now declining in price. A reduction of $lO per ton has taken place. There were 1,400 business failures in the United States during the first three months of the present year, against 2,500 for the corresponding period last year. Since the last disbursement of interest on Government 4-per-cent. bonds, when Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt was found to be the owner of $31,000,000, he has sent 820,000,000 additional to the treasury for registration. The tide of foreign immigration is setting in with greater volume than ever before. During the month of March, which is a season when few care to encounter the hardships and perils of a sea voyage, nearly 22,000 immigrants landed at New York and Baltimore.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On the opening of the session of the Senate on Monday, the sth, a communication from the Secretary of War was laid before that body, showing the necessity of an additional appropriation of $265,000 to pay certificates for arrears of pay and bounty. Mr. Pendleton presented a petition of the type-founders of Cincinnati against the reduction of the duty on type. A joint resolution providing that employes of the Government Printing Office be allowed holidays with pay Jan. 1, Feb. 22, July 4, Dec. 25, and Thanksgiving day was placed on the calendar. Bills were introduced and referred as follows: By Mr. Allison, paying certain railroads for the transportation of mails; by Mr. Williams, repealing the statute prohibiting farmers and planters from selling leaf tobacco directly at retail to consumers without a special tax. A bill to amend the Bevlsed Statutes, in relation to settlers’ affidavits in pre-emption and commuted homestead entries, was passed. The debate on the bill ratifying the agreement with the Ute Indians was continued, Messrs. Morgan and Dawes speaking, both in opposition to the bi11....1n the House, Mr. Springer made a personal explanation of his connection with the Washburn-Donnelly contestedelection case in the Elections Committee, and denying corrupt reasons for voting against his party In committee on the question of unseating Washbum. An anonymous letter had been received by Mr. Springer, which offered a $5,000 present to the wife of the Congressman for his vote in favor of the present holder of the seat, and Mr. Springer intimated that the proposition emanated from the contestant, or his friends, with the purpose of smirching his character if he could not obtain his vote. Mr. Townshend made a motion to discharge the Committee on Ways and Means from further consideration of his Tariff bill and to place it upon its passage under a suspension of the rules. This motion received 113 affirmative arid 80 negative votes, not two-thirds, and therefore failed. This was the bill for free paper. Mr. Weaver moved the suspension of the rules and the adoption of his financial resolution. After a short debate the resolution was defeated by yeas 84, nays 117. The following bills, etc., were introduced and referred: By Mr. Gibson, relative to the appointment and pay of the Mississippi Biver Commissioners; also, to entitle State banks to circulate notes on the same conditions as national banks; by Mr. Davis (Mo.), requiring the Postmaster General to mail, on the Ist of each month, to every member of Congress, an itemized statement of all-mail contracts made during the preceding month; by Mr. Chalmers, for the re ief of the heirs of colored soldiers; by Mr. Armfield, to reduce the tax on distilled spirits; also providing that producers of leaf tobacco may sell the same in quantities of not more than ten pounds at any one time without a license. Mr. Aldrich (Ill.) moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill to amend the statute in regard to the immediate transportation of dutiab’e goods. Agreed to. Bills were passed for tire erection of public buildings at Paducah, Ky., and Charlestown, W. Va., and for the repair of the public buildings at Cleveland, Ohio. The Senate refused to recede from its amendments to the Census bill, on the morning of April 6, and Messrs. Pendleton, Harris, and Morrill were appointed a conference committee. T joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to lend United States flags to the Centennial Commissioners at Nashville passed. The joint resolution to allow employes of the Government printing office holidays with pay I was passed. The Vice President appointed Messrs. I Hamlin aud Beck as visitors on the part of : the Senate to attend the next examination of the ! Naval Academy. Ihs Senate, in executive session, ! rejected the President’s nomination of John B. ; Lynch, the nominee for Supervisor of the Census ■ for the Third Mississippi district, and John Burton as a Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for that State, on the ground that both were too active in politics, and would use their positions to further their political ambition. The President nominated H. S. Lovejoy, of Nebraska, to be Beceiver of Public Moneys at Niobrara, Neb. .... In the House night sessions were ordered for Wednesday and Thursday of next week for the consideration of bills reported by the Committee on Naval Affairs, and on the 21st and 23d inst., for the consideration of the Municipal Code of the District of Columbia. The Senate joint resolution passed providing for the payment of the « ages of the employes of the Government Printin Office for legal holidays. Mr. F. Wood, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, reported back a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement ; of the rate of duty on importations for the last five i years, and what would, in his judgment, on each article so imported, have yle’ded a maximum amount of revenue, and it was adopted. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Army Appropriation bill. Vice President Wheeler sent word to the Senate, on Wednesday, April 7, that he should be absent for several days, and Senator Thurman was elected President pro tern. Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported adversely on two bills to provide for terms of United States Courts at Lincoln, Neb., and to divide Nebraska into two districts. A bill was introduced for a public building at Louisville, Ky. A long discussion occupied the whole day upon the Ponca Indian question. The President nominated W'lliam A. Newell, of New York, to be Governor of Washington Territory... .In the House, a large number of committee reports were made, the bills being either placed on the calendar or indefinitely postponed. Mr. McCook introduced a resolution in regard to the West Point case of outrage upon the colored cadet, but the matter was postponed for further developments. The Army bill was discussed in committee of the whole, the proceedings being enlivened by a personal controversy between Messrs. Sparks and Clymer, in which the lie was given by the former gentleman and afterward retracted. In the Senate, on the Bth inst., a resolution to lend flags to the Knight Templars’ encampment at Chicago next August was passed, as was another lending artillery, tents, etc., to a soldiers’ reunion at Central City, Neb. The House bill to provide for a public building for the United States Poetoffice, revenue offices and courts, at Charlestown, W. Va., passed. Bills were introduced and referred as follows: By Mr. Paddock, a bill for the relief of certain settlers within the late Fort Kearney Military Beservation, Nebraska; also, to authorize the Secretary of War to turn over to the Interior Department certain parts of Camp Douglas Military Beservation. Utah; by Mr. Baldwin, making an appropriation ter the erection of a lighthouse and fog signal at or near the entrance of Little Traverse harbor, Mich.... In the House a large number of bills were reported adversely from the Committee on War Claims and laid upon the table. Mr. Beagan reported a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information relative to an ice-harbor at Chester, Pa., and it was adopted. The House went into committee of the whole (Cox in the caair) upon the Army Appropriation bill, the pending question being upon a point of order raised against the amendment prohibiting any of the appropriations to be used for the subsistence, equipment, transportation, or compensation of any portion of the army to be used as a police force to keep the peace at the polls at any election held within any State. The Bepublicans were determined to force a political debate upon this amendment, while the Democrats wanted the rider passed without talk, and the whole day was used up in debate over the point of order. The House adjourned with a motion limiting the debate to four hours pending. In the Senate, on the morning of April 9, a bill passed appropriating $50,000 for the erection of a public building at Paducah, Ky.; Mr. Bayard’a resolutions appointing a joint committee upon internalrevenue taxes were passed. The House resolution for printing 300,000 copies of the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture ter 1879 was passed. All the session was passed in debate on the Ute treaty. The President nominated John W. Barr, of Louisville, to be United States District Judge for the District of Kentucky. Adjourned to Monday.... In the House, Mr. De La Matyr introduced a bill establishing a temporary Government ter Alaska. Beports of committees upon private claims were made. Mr. Newberry introduced a bill, providing that it shall not hereafter be lawful to transport imported goods, or any products of the United States, from one place to another when any portion of such transportation is made through any foreign country bordering on the Gulf of Mexico or on the Caribbean sea. except as the same is permitted by treaties of the United States with such foreign countries. Between fifty and seventy-five bills were reported adversely from the Committee on War Claims, and laid on the table. The Senate was not in session on Saturday, the 10th inst. ...In the House, the Senate resolution for a Joint committee to investigate the lose of internal revenue was concurred in. A debate (if debate it can be called where one party refuses to discuss a question) on the political rider to the Army Appropriation bill took all the time in committee of the whole for the day. The Bepublicans did all the talking, the Democrats having agreed not to debate tho measure,

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

YUBA BELL AND JEFF.

A Leaf from Bret Harte’e New Navel. The interruption of Jeffs “nightwatch ” was occasioned by an accident which prevented the progress of the Pioneer coach, which ought to have passed that point some time previously, but which, having been delayed by the storm, had finally been brought to a stand-still in about four feet of rushing water some 1,000 yards away from the inn. There were only three passengers —a thin, meek-looking gentleman, named Mayfield, with his wife and daughter. Jeff, on hastily springing from his bed and fesuming his boots, found Mr. Mayfield and the driver of the coach, Yuba Bill, appealing to him, each in his own fashion, for assistance. The driver had drawn up the coach into a safe position amidst the waters, and had taken out his team. He and Mr. Mayfield had then waded out, and made their way to the “Half-Way Inn,” and Jeff was now requested to lend a hand in fetching up the ladies. Mr. Mayfield’s company on this errand was felt to be unnecessary. Yuba Bill—who, by the way, is a decided character, with something of the quaint and oracular Mr. Weller, senior, in him, combined with Yankee smartness —with undisguised contempt for the city gentleman’s want of physique, summarily dismissed the idea of his lending any assistance. Accordingly, Yuba Bill and Jeff fetch the ladies. The meek man sat down helplessly in a chair indicated by Bill, who at once strode after Jeff. In another momeht they were both fighting their way step by step against the storm, in that peculiar, drunken, spasmodic way, so amusing to the spectator and no exasperating to the performer. It was no time for conversation, even interjectional profanity was dangerously exhaustive. The coach was scarcely a thousand yards away, but its bright lights were reflected in a sheet of dark, silent water, that stretched between it and the two men. Wading and splashing, they soon reached it, and a gulley where the surplus water was pouring into the valley below. “ Fower feet o’ water ’round her, but can’t get any higher. So ye see she’s all right for a month o’ sich weather. ” Inwardly admiring the perspicacity of his companion, Jeff was about to open the coach door, when Bill interrupted. “I’ll pack the old woman if you’ll look arter the darter and enny little traps.” A female face, anxious and elderly, here appeared at the window. “Thet’s my little game,” said Bill, sotto voce. “Is there any danger? Where is my husband ? ” asked the woman, impatiently. “Ez to the danger, ma’am—thar ain’t any. Yer ez safe here ez ye’d be in a Sacramento steamer ; ez to yer husband, he allowed I was to come yer and fetch yer up to the hotel. That’s his lookout!” With this cheering speech, Bill proceeded to make two or three ineffectual scoops into the dark interior, manifestly with the idea of scooping out the lady in question. In another instant he had caught her, lifted her gently but firmly in his arms, and was turning away. “But my child!—my daughter!—she’s asleep, ” expostulated the woman; but Bill was already swiftly splashing through the darkness. Jeff, left to himself, hastily examined the coach. On the back seat a slight, small figure, enveloped in a shawl, lay motionless. Jeff threw the bear-skin over it gently, lifted it on one arm, and, gathering a few traveling-bags and baskets with the other, prepared to follow his quickly-disappearing leader. A few feet from the coach the water seemed to deepen and the bear-skin to draggle. Jeff drew the figure up higher, but in vain. “Sis,” he said, softly. No reply. “ Sis,” shaking her gently. There was a slight movement within the wrappings. ‘ ‘ Couldn’t ye climb up on my shoulder, honey ? That’s a good child !” There were one or two spasmodic jerks of the bearskin, and, aided by Jeff, the bundle was presently seated on his shoulder. “Are you all right sis ? ” Something like a laugh came from the bear-skin. Then a 'childish voice said: “ Thank you, I think I am ! ” “Ain’t afraid you’ll fall off?” “A little.” Jeff hesitated. It was beginning to blow again. “You couldn’t reach down and put your arm around my neck, could ye, honey ? ” “I am afraid not! ” —although there was a slight attempt to do so. . “No?” “ No! ” “ Well, then, take a good holt, a firm, strong holt o’ my hair! Don’t be afraid ! ” A small hand timidly began to rummage in Jeff’s thick curls. “ Take a firm holt; thar, just back o’ my neck. That’s right. ” The little hand closed over half a dozen curls. The little figure shook and giggled. “ Now, don’t you see, honey, if I’m keerless with you, and don’t keep you plumb level up thar, you jist give me a pull and fetch me up all standing ! ”

A Horrible Sight.

The vault of Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church has caved in, exposing to view an immense number of bodies, the rotted coffins being broken by the falling bricks. Twenty or twenty-five years ago, when the age of sanitary reform began, the health authorities caused the vaults to be closed, and their use abandoned. They were then full. It was estimated that fully 5,000 bodies had been deposited in both. As shelf after shelf rotted away and fell, under its ghastly burden, the coffins were more closely packed, the space at the top grew larger, and room was made for more shelves. The topmost had reached the roof of the arch when the entrances were sealed, and the earth was filled in on top. Again and again, in after years, ,the rain made holes through the ground, and at the old entrance the arch caved in, but the holes were stopped, and no more thought of it. A big shed was built over the vaults, in place of the smaller one that once stood behind it, ahd fifteen or twenty tons of coal were dumped in it. The great weight weakened the arches, and tney fell with a great crash.— New York paper.

New Way to Catch a Burglar.

Dr. Thomas H. Andrews, well known as the demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson College, returned to his home, No. 1117 Spruce street, about 1 o’clock yesterday morning. He was about retiring when he heard a noise down-stairs, and, going to the head of the stairway, he discovered the figure of a man moving about the parlor. The doctor, having

juo revolver, was nonplussed for the moment how to frighten the burglar, if not capture him; but, noticing a small paper bag on a stand, he blew it up, and, catching it at the top, cautiously made his way down-stairs. When near the bottom of the stairs, he Saw the man coming 'from the parlor. The doctor brought the bag down on the railing, and it exploded with a deafening report. The burglar tumbled over on the floor in a fright, and in an instant Dr. Andrews was upon him. The man begged the doctor to have mercy upon him, and said he was shot. The noise of the encounter awakened the inmates of the house, and a servant was dispatched for an officer. The frightened burglar continued to beg for mercy, saying that he had a wife and several children. He said hifl name was George Campbell; he was a bookkeeper and lived in Camden. After a short struggle the burglar succeeded in making his escape.— Philadelphia Press.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Measles are prevalent among the students at Greencastle. Mica has been discovered in paying quantities near Madison. The State House contractors laid the first stone of the foundation of the dome the other day. Mabtin Somebs, while lying drunk on the track, at Knightsville, was killed by a passenger train. Oveb eight miles of water-pipe have already been laid at Fort Wayne—almost one-third of the entire amount. A bridge near Crawfordsville, which was contracted for seven years at $7,000, has already cost the county $21,000. The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that the sale of cigars on Sunday is lawful, on the ground that cigars are a necessity. The bridge of the narrow-gauge railway across White river at Worthington, which was washed away in January, has been rebuilt. Andbew Wallace, of Indianapolis, a prominent mine speculator, has been shot and fatally wounded by his insane son, at Pennington, D. T. Rochesteb boasts of a baby spotted and striped with red. The parents have been offered SI,OOO for the privilege of exhibiting it next summer, but refuse. Miss Ella Angleton committed suicide at Shelbyville, the other day, because the young man she loved was paying attention to another young lady. Fob seventeen years each successive Grand Jury in Howard county has condemned the jail at Kokomo as unfit for use, and nothing more has been done about it. The Logansport Journal says: “The scarlet fever still prevails in the city to a dangerous extent, and new cases are reported almost daily to the Board of Health.” A pabty of twelve in a wagon were thrown over an embankment two miles west of Terre Haute, a few days ago, drowning two ladies, a Miss Otterman and a Miss Hanna, The laying of the corner-stone of the new St. Vincent Catholic Church, four miles east of Shelbyville, took place last week. The building will be completed at a cost of about $25,000. The wife of John C. Prather, of Seymour, is making strenuous efforts to capture the man who obtained $167 from her last week by representing that Prather had sent him to get it. The ten-ton shaft of the steamboat Diana, at Indianapolis, which has been buried in the rolling-mill yard for more ’ than ten years, has been dug up and | will be molded into railroad bars. Plymouth’s new jail is now completed j and approved by the Commissioners. Its cost was $17,000. The next day after it was approved the roofing on one of the cupolas blew off during a windstorm. John G. Deckeb, a farmer living near Princeton, was departing from his home for a hunting trip, and, when passing through the gate in the back yard, the hammer of the rifle raised, which discharged the gun. Death ensued instantly. The farm residence of Mr. Holloway, near Silver Lake, Kosciusko county, was burned one day last week. Mrs. Holloway and her child, about a year old, were burned to death. Mr. Holloway had gone to Silver Lake to make some purchases. The fire occurred while he was absent. The bodies were burned to a crisp. A micbophone has been placed on the pulpit of Rev. G. J. Darby, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Evansville, and connected through a telephone in the pastor’s study with telephones in the houses of a number of infirm and aged members who are unable to attend church. By this means they are enabled to hear the entire service, organ, choir and preacher. Mbs. Maby Clem, of Indianapolis, will have in prison the companionship of Mrs. Longnecker, sentenced for life, in 1865, for poisoning her husband. Mrs. Longnecker claims that she had saved up S3OO to fee a lawyer to get her pardoned, and loaned it to Mrs. Clem on that business woman’s representation that she could double the money for her in no time. Mrs. Longnecker has not heard or seen anything of her money since, and is rather bitter toward Mrs. Clem. The 1880 State Fair. The Executive Committee of the State Board oi Agriculture have decided upon the following programme of races for the next State fair: Tuesday—To runners 4 years old and over, there is offered a purse of $150; Ist $75: 2d, SSO; 3d, $25.- Stallion trot, open to allstallions; purse, $100; Ist, SSO; 2d, S3O: 3d, S2O. Wednesday — h special attraction'll} the racing fine will be provided hereafter, in addition to the following: Runners under 4 years of age, one mile and repeat, $200; Ist, $100; 2d, S6O; 3d, S4O. Thursday—Trotters that have never beat 2:40; purse, $300; Ist, $150; 2d, $100; 3d, SSO. Trotters under 5 years of age; purse, $100; Ist, SSO; 2d, S3O; 3d, S2O. Friday—Entries confined to horses owned in this State; purse, $150; Ist, $75; 2d, SSO; 3d, $25. Runners’ consolation purse, for horses that have been in the preceding races during the Fan-—slso is offered; Ist, $75; 2d,'sso; 3d, $25. Saturday—Free-for-all trot; purse, $500; Ist, $250; 2d, $150; 3d, SIOO. Runners’ free for all, one-half.mile and repeat; purse, $100; Ist, SSO; 2d, S3O; 3d, S2O. All the races are to be mile heats, the winner to secure the best three in five. There must be at. least five entries, and three must start. Trotters and pacers to be in harness. The entrance fee will be 10 per cent, of the purse. The entry books will be kept open until 10 o’clock of the day the race is called, except the Saturday races, which must lie made by noon of the preceding day. No time or distance flag will be held. With this exception the races will be governed by the 1 rules of the National Association.

COLOR BLINDNESS.

Testing the Vision of the Employes of the Pennsylvania Pursuant to an order of Superintendent James McCrea, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the arduous task of examining 5,000 employes attached to the line and working on trains and ferryboats, with a view to discover to what extent color blindness prevailed among them, was commenced yesterday morning in a room at the depot in Jersey City. Eight or ten men were called in at a time, and were tested in the first place for acuteness of vision, the testcard being placed at a distance of about twenty feet from the observer. It was ascertained by this means whether the men’s eyes were sufficiently sharp to read small type at the distance mentioned, the result in each case being carefully noted. The next test was for the purpose of discovering whether the men were able to judge of the relative distinctness of objects seen in different positions, and to obtain an accurate knowledge of this the men were directed to look at a quarter-inch aperture in a screen twenty feet distant -with a strong light behind it, and were then called upon to state in what shape it appeared to them. The test, however simple it may appear to the reader, was by no means so to some of the subjects. What appeared oval to one seemed triangular to another, and vice versa. The color test was then proceeded with, and sixteen of the men who had passed successfully so far came to grief. Three skeins of woolen yarn were used, one being light green, the second rose, and the third red, and were marked respectively 1,2, 3. Each of these was placed on a table in front of the person examined at a distance of three feet, and, with the vision of either eye obstructed by a spectacle frame, the man under examination was requested to name the color. He was also directed to pick out a similar shade to the one in question from different skeins of woolen yarn, numbered from one to thirty-six. One young man correctly designated the test skein as red, but on being told, to select a similar shade from the skeins before him he picked three shades of blue, two of yellow, and one of red. He could distinguish no difference, and the same thing happened to half a dozen others who followed him. The skeins on the row 1 were then divided into three sets, with twelve numbers in each, and the men were then examined as to color blindness. Some were able to distinguish all the shades of green, but failed lamentably in picking out the different shades of red. The work of examination occupied the greater part of the day, but the importance of the subject has impressed the directors greatly, and it has been decided to apply the test /to all engineers, firemen, and brakemen in all the branches of the railroad. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railway Company, as well as the Erie Company, have the subject under consideration, and it is likely the system will be adopted on their respective lines. —New York Herald.

Russian Vital Statistics.

The fourteenth number of the second series of the Slattsticshe Jahrbuch, lately published, gives some interesting details concerning the population of Russia. A careful series of investigations extending over years gives the average annual number of births in Russia as 3,163,405; of the children born 1,619,108 were males and 1,587,297 females. The average annual deaths, 2,382,196—viz.: 1,214,566 males and 1,167,729 females. This gives a net annual average increase to the population of 781,209, which, assuming the population in the fifty Governments to be about 65,000,000, would be a mean increase of 1.2 per cent. The man-iages average annually 646,917. If the present average rate of increase be maintained during the next fifty-eight years, the population of Russia will, at the end of that period, have been doubled. The corresponding increase goes on much more slowly in some other European countries. Thus, for example, according to the present rate of increase in the several countries, the population would be doubled in Sweden at the end of sixtyeight years; in Belgium at the end of seventy-nine years, and in Austria at at the end of ninety-five; but the same result will not happen in Italy till the end of 141 years, and in France till 165 years have passed. The greatest increase is to be observed in the Western and Southern (Polish) Governments, where it is over 1.5 per cent., while the least, or less than 1 per cent., is in the Northeastern aud Baltic districts. In the Governments of Esthonia and St. Petersburg there is actually a decrease of population amounting to about 0.6 per cent, in the former district, and 0.33 per cent, in the latter. Three per cent, of all the children born are illegitimate, which is only one-third of the proportion existing in the neighboring Sweden. The greatest number of births occur in autumn, and the least in spring. In the mass of the population the proportion of boys to girls is 102 to 100; but among the Jews the state of things is reversed, there being 128.9 girls to every 100 boys.

Absence of Mind.

“Speaking of absence of mind,” said the Rev. Sidney Smith, “ the oddest instance happened to me once in forgetting my name. I knocked at a door in London, and asked if Mrs. B. was at home. 4 Yes, sir; pray, what name shall I say?’ I looked in the man’s face astonished—what name? Aye, that is my question—what is my name ? I believe the man thought me mad, but it is literally true that during the space of two or three minutes I had no more idea of who I was than if I had never existed. I did not know whether I was a dissenter or a layman; I felt as dull as Sternhold or Jenkins. At last, to my great relief, it flashed across me that I was Sidney Smith. I heard also of a clergyman who went jogging along on the road until he came to a turnpike. ‘ What is to pay ? ’ ‘ Pay, sir ? for what ? ’ asked the turnpike man. 4 Why, for my horse, to be sure ! ’ 4 Your horse, sir ! what horse ? Here is no horse, sir ! ’ 4 No horse! God bless me ! ’ said he, suddenly looking down between his legs, 4 1 thought I was on horseback ! ’ ”

Display in Housekeeping.

The woman who boasts of her excessive neatness is not the most commendable of housewives. We have little confidence in that neatness which is practiced with a flourish of trumpets. We have had occasion to know that a display, an effort to call attention of everyone to wonderful labors and surpassing neatness resulting therefrom, is very likely to be found after all not more than an outside show. The work that is too loudly blazoned will seldom bear a rigid examination. That which is done thoroughly, but quietly, is the work that has unassailable foundations, and is perfectly finished in every departmept. With

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the pleasant consciousness that everything in her house will bear examine tion, the mistress of the family need have no fears. Guests who may come to her unexpectedly will not disturb her equanimity. She is well assured that the home machinery is in perfect working order, that there need be no uneasiness or excitement. She knows her table, however simply provided, will be neat, and tike food which is to be set before her husband will be the best she can afford. What is good enough for him who furnishes the means of providing is good enough for any guest, however honored. Unexpected guests may increase the labor, but not materially; and the hostess is able to devote time and thought to their entertainment.

A Remarkable Family.

In the fall of 1809 James C. and Jedediah Lawrence, with their five children, were residing on Nantucket, when the father, thinking to better his circumstances, conceived the idea of removing to Alexandria, Va., where his parents resided. Putting all his possessions on board a vessel, and taking with him his eldest child, a girl, he set sail from here, leaving his family to await his return in the spring. Shortly after leaving here a violent gale sprung up, and the vessel was never heard from. On the 25th of December the mother gave birth to triplets, who were named Francis, James C. and Mary L., respectively. Realizing her destitute condition with seven little children on her hands, she laid the helpless trio in a row on the bed, and remarked, “ Somehow or other a living will be provided for all of you.” Being a woman of remarkable energy, she immediately set about earning a livelihood. Kind friends rendered her what assistance they could, but she relied principally on her own exertions. She opened a store for the sale of d4| goods and small wares, and prospered; She also varied her occupation by taking in washing and keeping boarders, always managing to support herself and children comfortably, and gave each of the seven a good common-school education. The triplets are all living to-day, and have each reared a large family of children, Francis residing in California, James in Wisconsin, and the daughter, Mary, in Nantucket. The parents were strict Quakers, and the children were brought up by their mother to attend Friends’ meeting, though none in after life identified themselves with that denomination.—Nantucket (Mass.') Journal.

Howto Help the Children Grow Erect and Stately.

William Blaikie, the author of “How to Get Strong and How to Stay So,” spoke before the Brooklyn Teachers’ Association recently on “Physical Edu cation.” “ I want,” said he, “to see if in an informal talk, we can’t hit upon some way in which we can bring the physical education- of school children down to a practical basis. Our children, who are healthy and buxom when they begin school-work, come out pale, sickly and with round shoulders. If you require the children under you to sit far back on a chair and to hold their chins up, you will cure them of being round-shouldered, and the lungs and other vital organs will have free and healthy play. Another simple plan is to have the children bend over backward until they can see the ceiling. This exercise for a few minutes each day will work a wonderful transformation. If a well-qualified teacher could be employed to superintend the physical development of the children, the best results would be seen. Dr. Sargent, now the Superintendent of the Harvard Gymnasium, who formerly had charge of a gymnasium in New York, has no equal as a teacher of simple, efficacious means by which the weak parts of one’s laxly may be developed. I think it would be well for you to send some competent physician to him to take lessons, and then the exercises could be taught to your teachers. The first step should be simple and economical. Exercises of the simplest kind can be begun without any apparatus.”— New York Tribune.

People Who Do Not Read Books.

Those who have to deal with the education of the young get revealing glimpses into the state of culture in the households of our highly intelligent country. A professor in one of our leading colleges told me, not long ago, that a Freshman came to him, after he had been recommended certain books in the literature class, and said he had never read a book in his life. This was literally true; except his text-books, he had never read a book; he had passed a fair examination, but of reading he knew no more than a Kaffir. Another professor in another college, also one of the highest in the country (both of them are Eastern colleges, in the center of the best culture in America), told me more recently that a Sophomore who stood well in his class came to ask him where he obtained certain facts which he referred to in the class-room. It came out that the young man never had read a book, didn’t know what the sensation was, or how to set about it, and had not the faintest conception of literature. He had no notion of the pleasure or profit to be got from reading; the world of books was absolutely beyond his imagination, and he could not conceive what people found in it. The professor at length induced him to read one of Scott’s novels, but the boy found it a very tedious and uninteresting occupation. These two instances are extreme, but only in a degree; a taste for literature is not common, and ignorance of it is common even among college undergraduates. —C. D. Warner, in Christian Union.

Anti-Tea.

* In 1743 there was quite an anti-tea agitation in Scotland, where it was pronounced by the famous Duncan Forbes to lie “in many respects an improper diet, expensive, wasteful of time, and calculated to render the population weakly and effeminate.” During that time there was a vigorous movement all over Scotland for abolishing the use of tea. Resolutions were passed by Town Councils and the inhabitants of villages •condemning it, and advocating beer. Sir William Fullerton’s tenants in Ayrshire entered into the following bond: “ We, being farmers by profession, think it needless to restrain ourselves formally from indulging in that foreign and consumptive luxury called tea; for, when we consider the slender constitutions of many of higher rank among whom it is used, we conclude that it would be but an improper diet to qualify us for the more robust and manly part of our business; and therefore we shall only give our testimony against it, «nd leave the enjoyment of it altogether to those who can afford to h? weak, indolent, and useless. ”

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What Hayes Costs.

In the multitude of items that make up the Deficiency bill, which passed the House of Representatives a few da;< ago, is one “for contingent expenses o. the Executive office, including stationery therefor, $1,000,” for the current fiscal year. There is no excuse for any deficiency in that office, and this loose practice of voting away the people’s money on false pretences deserves tip severest reprobation. Before Gen. Grant became President the sum voted for contingent expenses was small, yet abundant for the object. Until the last year of the civil war SI,OOO per annum was appropriated for Mr. Lincoln. In 1864 the appropriation was raised to $2,000, on account of exceptional demands od the Executive office. The Republicans in the Forty-second Congress not only doubled Grant’s salary, in violation of the precedent which had stood untouched from the foundation of the Government, but they increased the pay and emoluments of all his surroundings, and voted $6,000 a year for “contingent expenses of the Executive office. ” or three times as much as the highest sum ever received by Mr. Lincoln. Last year Congress appropriated “so/ contingent expenses of the Executive office, including stationery therefor, $6,000.” And now, before nine months have passed away, this money is all gone, and the fraudulent President asks for SI,OOO more. We undertake to say, and all experience justifies the assertion, that $6,000 a year cannot be legitimately expended for proper contingencies of the Executive office, because the only expense to lie incurred is for ordinary stationery and postage stamps. I'nis money is practically an addition io the salary of the Executive, and was so utilized, partially, by Grant. Hayes has tinned rally three-fourths of it into the fund for maintaining his personal household, and in that way has saved so much of his regular pay. No num ever occupied the Executive Mansion heretofore who made a business of converting the office and its opportunities to moneyhoarding, as Hayes has done, and that, too, by the meanest of contrivances. The cant about temperance, is a mere dodge in the line of economy, for it is notorious that the scruple disappears when the expense falls on somebody The cost of keeping up the Executive establishment has increased out of all proportion to any necessity that exists for the expenditure. It is not the dollars and cents alone that provoke criticism upon this extravagance, but the far more serious consideration that it is a departure from the simplicity of the fathers, and is an attempt to imitate the pomp and parade of monarchical Government. Take the items of 1879 as an illustraConipensatlon of President $ 50,000 Compensation of private secretary 3,250 Compensation of assistant secretary 2,250 Compensation of two executive clerks at $2,000 each 4,0(h) Compensation of stenographer 1,800 Compensation of steward 1,800 Compensation of messenger and usher. 1,200 Compensation of furnace keeper 804 Compensation of night watchman 900 Compensation of one night usher 1,200 Compensation of two day ushers at $1,400 each 2,800 Compensation of two doorkeepers at $1,200 each 2,40<) Compensation of one clerk 1,800 Compensation of one clerk 1,400 Compensation of one clerk 1,200 Compensation of one telegraph operator 1,100 Compensation of four messengers (to wait on the three clerks and telegraph operator nominally, but really servants) at sl,2(h) each 4,800 Two horses for messengers, to l>e furnished by the .Secretary of War, nominally for use of messengers, but really for Secretary’s carriage, cost not given. New item Contingent expenses (>,OOO Grounds of Executive Mansion 5,000 Refurnishing, repairs, and greenhouses 25,000 Total $119,904 11l addition to all these charges, fuel and light are supplied free ; there is a large kitchen garden attached to the premises, and -there are grounds that urnish hav for the horses. In fact, the occupant of the White House is at no expense but for the food and dressing of his family, and most of the former comes from the Commissary Department of the army, at wholesale prices for the choicest articles. This is the bill for one year of a fraudulent President, who is believed to have invested over $125,000 of his pay and perquisites since March 4, 1877.— New York Sun.

Dangers of Centralization.

During the discussion, in Congress, of the bill to define the jurisdiction of the Federal courts, Representative- Townshend, of Dlinois, delivered an able and. logical speech upon the dangers of centralization, in the course of which he said; Ab I have already intimated, this question brings up the old issue, which has ever been the true line of demarkation between the Democratic party and its opponents —the question of home rule and of centralization ; the question of the Government of the many as against the rule of the few; the question which.divided Jefferson and Hamilton. The long life of the Democratic partv is mainly due to the position which it has ever occupied upon that great, question. In my judgment it has been enabled by its fealty to the true Jeffersonian principle on tills question to survive so many disastrous defeats, and it will by means of its adhesion to this position live as long in the future as it furnishes brave and true men to lead in the battle for the freedom and happiness of the people. It is strange that while all Europe is now advancing toward constitutional liberty there is a strong party in this country seeking, by desperate means, fair and foul, to turn this home of freedom back toward centralization and despotism. While the wires down under the sea bring us tidings that the Czar of Russia, the most absolute of the monarchies of the Old World, contemplates calling the notables of the empire together for the purpose of framing a constitutional form of government we find on this floor successors to John Hancock and Samuel Adams advocating a doctrine which is destructive of our constitutional form of government. When the old Federal party, the progenitor of the present Republican party, first a strong centralized Government, we had strong, brave and true men, like Jefferson and Madison, who, by the help of the people, were able to crush it. Would to God had such men in our midst to-day, in place of some of the timid time-servers who have neither the courage nor the inchnation to denounce in fitting terms tins the constitution and the nghta of the people of the States! We see the Federal judiciary men cringing before it and talking abou temper of the opposition party no attempt should be made to * eßlßt K tion the unpending disaster. Was tins the language of Jefferson when he saw at commencement the stream which has since into such a volume as threatens to ingulf the constitution? No, sir. Let me read those who lack courage the utterances of that tearless apostle of liberty. He said in 1821: It has long, however, been my opinion, and I have never shrunk from its expression, ™ germ of disaohiUon of our Federal Government tain the constitution of the Federal judiciary, an sible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scarecrow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaintag a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief over the fieldlot jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. f ■ , ■ And again in 1822: The foundations are already deeply Hd by their decisions for the annihilation of constitutional State rights and the removal of every check, every counterpoise to the ingulfing power of which themselves are to make a sovereign part,