Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

tokeign news. Heavy gales, causing much damage to shipping and considerable loss of life, are reported on the coast of Hcotland. Beaconsfield tendered his resignation to Queen Victoria on the 22d of April. The summons of the Queen to Mr. Gladstone, in response to which he has undertaken the formation of the new Ministry, marks the consummation of the Liberal triumph in Great Britain. It is a full recognition of the signiticange nt- the result of the Parliamentary elections, >»i<denotes the abandonment of any effort to gWiran evasive, half-way acknowledgment of tlifl^hivi-ysal of policy demanded by the nation. '' ” , The Brfjfsh. .forces in Afghanistan recently reptyU^f^.AMd-dispersed 3,000 native cavalrymen,.inflicting severe losses on them. Gen. Stewart’s recent victory at Ghuznqe t6 have been decisive, and the press of IndiS regards the campaign virtually at an end. A missionary at Bagdad reports that a dreadful famine prevails in Mesopotamia and Kurdistan, and that thousands of Christian converts are starving. A French' Deputy who recently cast some reflections on a brother of President Grevy has been excluded from the Chamber for fifteen sittings, and placed on half pay for two months, by order of Ganibetta, “ for insulting the President of the republic.” A London dispatch announces that the following Cabinet appointments have been made: Earl Granville, Secretary of State for the Foreign Department; the Marquis of Hartington, Secretary of State for India; H. C. E. Childers, Secretary of State for War; Lord Seiborne, Lord High Chancellor; William E. Foster, Chief Secretary for Ireland; Lord Northbrook, First Lord of the Admiralty.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Fast. The Western file works, at Beaver Falls, Pa., have been destroyed by fire, causing a loss of #400,000. Madison Square Garden, in New York city, has been the scene of a shocking accident, involving the death of several persons and the serious injury of many more. A fair was being held in the building, and many people were in attendance. At the portion fronting on Madison avenue a dancing-hall and art gallery had been arranged, and it was here that the disaster occurred. The Madison avenue wall fell outward into the street, and that portion of the roof was at once precipitated upon the heads of the dancers and the occupants of the art gallery, burying many people beneath the ruins. Several persons were killed outright, and a number maimed and bruised, some of them fatally. Ten thousand tons of ice, stored on the banks of Lake Champlaiu, slipped into the water, and the owners, who had contracted to deliver the stock to a New York firm, mourn the loss of #60,000. By a break in the Erie canal at Utica, N. Y., much damage was done by the overflow that resulted. The break is a very serious one, and will interrupt canal navigation for three or our weeks. Three men were killed in New York city, the other day, by the fall of a scaffold. Over 300 families have been rendered destitute in Ocean county, N. J., by the recent forest fires. They lived principally by the cultivation of berries. Frank Crill, a murderer, who was executed in New Jersey, last weak, was a very particular man. Just before, going to the gallows, he asked the Sheriff to warm the hand-cuffs and noose. A brass band played in front of the jail while the trapeze act was in progress. South. The boiler of a saw-mill exploded at Warmington, W. Va., totally destroying the mill and killing one of the employes. Graham Ormsby’s team became fractious while being driven upon the ferry flat at Wickliffe Landing, on the Kentucky river. His mother, sister and Miss Miller and the horses were plunged into the river and drowned. The young man, who was on his way to be married, narrowly escaped death. Forest fires are reported in the swamp regions of North Carolina. Vast tracts of timber have been destroyed and several people burned to death. West. By concentrating his forces Gen. Hatch recently surrounded, captured and disarmed the whole band of Mescalero Apaches, in New Mexico, numbering 460 persons. Just as the troops were preparing to escort their prisoners to a place of safety about thirty of the savages made a break for liberty, but a well-directed volley brought down fourteen of them, only sixteen of them making their escape. It is estimated that not less than 200 persons were killed and #5,000,000 worth of property destroyed throughout the West by the recent tornadoes. Seven men, who recently left Point Bte. Ignace, on the northern shore of Lake Michigan, in a small boat, intending to go to Black river, have been drowned. A Chinaman named Ah Lee was hanged for murder at Portland, Ore., last week. A body of forty masked men broke into the Moberly (Mo.) jail, and took therefrom three persons who were charged with having murdered an old man. They hanged two of them and set the third at liberty. A. B. Adair, whom the Greenbackers have nominated for Lieutenant Governer of Illinois, is a printer, and foreman of the Chicago Daily News. At Memphis, Mo., three men lost their lives by a boiler explosion. Western Kansas is suffering from a severe drought, and a partial failure of the crops is predicted. Charles De Young, one of the proprietors of the San Francisco Chronicle, was shot and killed in his office, on the evening of April 23, by a son of Dr. Kalloch, on whom DeYoung made a murderous assault, last fall. Nugent and Redemeier, murderers, were executed at St. Louis, Mo., April 23. The first named left a paper in which he protested his innocence and claimed that he had not had a fair trial. Both died without a struggle. Dennis Kearney will be given another hearing in the Superior Court of San Francisco, the Supreme Court of California having issued a writ of habeas corpus. The people of Marshfield, Mo., are to have 500 army tents to live in while they are rebuilding their homes. A Government life-saving crew at Huron City set out, a few mornings ago, to rescue the crew of an unknown vessel which had gout ashore during the night a few miles south of that place, but soon after leaving port the surf Ldat was swamped, and all but the Captain, six

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in number, were drowned. The crew was a gallant one, and had a record for bravery and success second to none on the great lakes. A destructive tornado swept over a section of Central Illinois on the night of April 24, doing considerable damage to property and ■ causing some loss of life. In the vicinity of I Taylorville, Christian county, four persons were 1 killed and about a dozen seriously injured. In Macoupin and Adams counties many houses I were blown down and several persons injured. The reception of “The Tourists,” at Haverly’s Chicago Theater, at the opening of the present week, left no doubt of the financial ; success of the engagement of that talented party of variety actors. There are several parties of this kind now on the road, and, so far as known, all are doing well. The plan is to i give an old-fashioned variety performance, with just enough plot to hang the various acts upon, and it takes immensely with the public. This . troupe contains considerable first-class talent and several really fine singers.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The House is getting along with business very rapidly, and there is now some hope that an adjournment can be had the last of May. Speaker Randall still insists that Congress can adjourn by May 31, and it, no doubt, can do so if it attends strictly to the appropriation bills and ignores other business. Senator Ben Hill and the Washington correspondent of a Baltimore paper had a row the other day. The correspondent is a belligerent man, and, when Hill approached him on the floor of the Senate, and called him a scoundrel, he replied that the Senator from Georgia dare not go out into the corridor and rejieat the language. The death of the oldest pensioner on the rolls is announced from Washington. She was a colored woman reputed to be 110 years of age, the widow of a soldier of the war of 1812, and had been in receipt of a pension for over sixty years past. E. B. French, second Auditor of the Treasury, is dead. He was appointed by President Lincoln, in 1861. POLITICAL POINTS. Hon. Dewitt C. West, of Utica, N. Y.. said to be one of Horatio Seymour’s intimate friends, confidently believes that, while the exGovernor does not seek office, if the Presidential nomination is unanimously tendered him, he will comply with public sentiment and accept. The New York Democratic State Convention assembled at Syracuse on the 20th of April, and completed its work on the same day. It was oiganized in the interest of Tilden, the delegates being favorable to his claims by a large majority. Resolutions indorsing him were adopted without much opposition, and the delegates to the National Convention, although not instructed, are known to be firm Tilden men. A resolution m favor of the retention of the two-thirds rule in the national body was adopted. Seymour’s name was mentioned during a discussion, and was received with mingled cheers and hisses. A proposition from the Tammanyites for a reconciliation was returned with a chillingly courteous but evasive answer, indicating no disposition to harmonize with the bolters. The Tammany anti-Tilden John Kelly Democrats also held a State Convention at Syracuse at the same time. Lieut. Gov. Dorsheimer, Erastus Corning, John Kelly and Amasa J. Parker were the shining lights of this convocation. The latter presided. They adopted resolutions protesting against the one-man power as undemocratic, and stigmatizing Tilden’s career as selfish, treacherous and dishonorable. Delegates to the Cincinnati Convention were chosen. The Illinois Greenbackers held their State Convention at Springfield April 21. Delegates were appointed to the National Convention to be held at Chicago, Presidential Electors chosen, and the following ticket for State officers placed in nomination : Governor, A. J. Streeter, of Mercer; Lieutenant Governor, Andrew B. Adair, Chicago ; Secretary of State, J. M. Thomson, of Will; Auditor, W. T. Ingram, of Jackson ; Treasurer, G. W. Evans, of Jefferson ; Attorney General, H. G. of Jacksonville. Texas Democrats send an uninstructed delegation to Cincinnati, but express the highest esteem for Gen. Hancock as a friend of constitutional liberty. The Prolribitionists of Connecticut have nominated George P. Rogers for Governor, and selected a Presidential electoral ticket and delegates to the National Prohibition Convention. The Democrats of Vermont met in convention at Montpelier on the 22d of April A resolution instructing the delegates to vote as a unit at Cincinnati was adopted. The convention chose delegates known to be favorable to the candidacy of Gen. Hancock. The Republican Convention of Georgia, after a noisy session of three days, chose twenty-two delegates to the Chicago Convention, eight of which are reported to be for Blaine, eight for Sherman, and six for Grant. Nearly three-fourths of the delegates are negroes. The delegates from Oregon to the Chicago Convention have been instructed for Blaine.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Mr. Brown, editor of the Toronto Globe, recently shot by a discharged employe,, is more seriously injured than was at first supposed, and may not recover. His assailant claims that it was all an accident. A large section of the city of Hull, Ont., opposite Ottawa, inhabited principally by the poorer classes, has been destroyed by fire. About 300 buildings were consumed, and not less than 3,000 people are homeless. Two thousand French Canadians left Montreal for the manufacturing districts of Massachusetts during the month of March. Seven Eves were lost in the recent fire at Hull, Canada. The loss of property is placed at #2,000,000. The leaders of the woman suffragists of the United States have issued a call for’a “mass-meeting of all the women who want to vote,” to be held at Farwell Hall, Chicago, June 2. On the 25th and 26th of May a National Woman Suffrage Convention will be held at Indianapolis. Nearly 2,000 emigrants, who arrived in Baltimore on one vessel the other day, left im mediately for the West in four trains. They arc from Germany, Austria, Sweden, and Norway, and are going to lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Nebraska.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Monday, April 19, a bill providing that whenever Circuit and District Courts of the United States are held at the same time and place, there shall be but one grand and petit jury summoned to attend said courts at one and the same time was passed. A bill was introduced by Mr. Hamlin authorizing the President to make the necessary arrangements to carry Into effect any conven-

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lion between the United States >nd Nicaragua for the adjurtment of the claim* which may be duly concluded between the two Governments. The discussion of the Geneva Award bill then proceeded, Messrs. Carpenter and Blaine indulging in considerable personality, though not descending to abuse. The contest closed by Mr. Thurman remarking that the two Senators had set themselves right on the third-term question, which elicited a general laugh. Mr. Wallace submitted a majority report of '• the select committee on frauds in elections in regard to their investigations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island....ln the Mouse, bills were introduced as follow*: By Mr. Herbert, providing that the Preai- I dent of the Senate shall submit to the Senate and House, when assembled to count the votes for President and Vice President, all packages purporting to contain electoral votes; by Mr. Warner, declaring that the option of tender in payment ot moneys from the treasury belongs to the Government alone; by Mr. Weaver, asking whether or not the Treasury Department has at any time anticipated the payment of interest on the public debt; by Mr. Sanford, donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the education of girls; by Mr. King, providing for the appropriation of the lands necessary in the Improvement ot the Mississippi river; by Mr. Clark (Mo.), donating twelve condemned cannon to aid in the erection of a monument to the late Gen. Shields; by Mr. Hutchins, to limit to two years from the time tax is payable the time within which suits or prosecutions for violation of the internalrevenue laws may be brought; by Mr. Finley, to reduce to sl4 a ton the duty on steel rails; by Mr. Shellabarger, appropriating $150,000 for the purpose of beginning work on the public building in Pittsburgh, Pa.; by Mr. Culberson, for the discontinuance of the system of national banks; by Mr. Martin, of West Virginia, to declare forfeited to the United States certain lands conditionally granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company; by Mr. Gibson, appropriating $150,000 for ths erection in the public squares of Washington city statues of Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, John Adams, Randolph, Pinckney, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun. The bill for an international exhibition in New York passed, as did the bill for a public building at Pittsburgh. The bill to pension the Mexican war veterans was laid over, after debate. At the request of Mr. Beck, the House amendments to the bill for an exhibition in New York in 1883 wore concurred in by the Senate, on the morning of April 20. Mr. Farley, from the Committee on Pensions, reported adversely on the bill to increase the pensions of wounded soldiers of the War of 1812, and one bill iu relation to the compensation and expenses of Pension Agents, and they were indefinitely postponed. A bill for the extension of the Government building at Cleveland was passed. The Vice President appointed Mr. Allison a member of the special joint committee on the evasion of the stamp tax on tobacco, iu place of Mr. Voorhees, who had requested to be relieved. Mr. Williams introduced a’ joint resolution for the erection of a’ monument over the grave of Zachariah Taylor, situated near Louisville, n.y. The bill for the erection of a public building at Denver was passed. On motion of Mr, Harris, a bill providing for a marine hospital at Memphis was passed. The debate on the Geneva award occupied the day, no vote being had.... In the House the entire day was consumed in filibustering upon a question of allowing debate upon concurring in the Senate amendments to the Immediate Deficiency bill. The - Republicans demanded two hours to debate the bill, while the Democrats limited the time to half an hour, whereat the entire day was wasted in dilatory motions. In the evening a number of pension bills were passed. The bill as amended, to grant the pension of enlisted privates, was passed by the Senate on the morning of April 21. After a little miscellaneous business the Geneva Award bill was taken up, and, after debate, indefinitely postponed. The President nominated for Supervisor of the Census for Ohio Meredtih R. Willet, of Bryan, for the First district; John H. Little, of Springfield, for the Second district; Cyrus Cado, Sr., of Pleasantville, for the Fifth district; and William A. Hunt, of St. Clairvllle, for the Seventh district... .In the House, the Senate amendment to the House bill to repair and extend the public buildings at Cleveland, Ohio, was concurred in. Several speeches were made upon a resolution directing the Committees on Agriculture to report what can or ought to be done by the Government to better ad vance, encourage and foster agricultural interests. The wrangle over the Deficiency bill was continued, the Republicans leaving the House without a quorum when the previous question was ordered, so that the matter was left at night as it was in the morning. An evening session was held for consideration of a bill to establish a code for the District of Columbia. A resolution was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Morrill, on the morning of April 22, in regard to the “ poem ” of the Delegate from Wyoming, printed in the Record, but withdrawn on notice of the matter being taken up in the House. Mr. Baldwin introduced a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Detroit river. Mr. Harris presented a petition of the German Society, of New York, praying for protection to emigrants. The Senate then took up the Army Appropriation bill, and passed it in the shape it was received from the House, voting down all amendments, and the Republicans doing all the talk. The vote on the passage of the bill was 28 to 18. Jefferson’s desk was presented by Mr. Dawes. The Senate rejected the nomination of John B. Stickney as United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. The President nominated Edgar M. Marble, of Michigan, to be Commissioner of Patents, and Joseph K. McCammon, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Attorney General, vice Marble In the Hecord is the speech in blank verse, entitled “ The Immortals,” which is copyrighted by Downey of Wyoming, ana which purports to be in support of bis bill providing for the painting of Biblical pictures on the walls of the Capitol. Mr. Garfield called attention to this fact, and moved that the speech be referred to the Committee on Rules to inquire whether it is competent for a member to copyright his speech. The motion was agreed to. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President, informing Congress that the Coolidge heirs, of Massachusetts, desired to present the desk on which the Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, and transmitting a letter from R. C. Winthrop expressing, the wish of the donors to offer it to the United States, that it might have a place in the Department of State in connection with the immortal instrument which had been written on it. Mr. Crapo then offered a resolution thanking the donors for their patriotic presentation, and it was adopted. The Naval Appropriation bill was passed. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendment to the Fortification bill, and a committee of conference was ordered. The Deficiency bill was then taken up, and an hour given the Republicans for debate. An evening session was given up to discussion of the bill to regulate immigration. In the Senate, on the morning of Friday, April 23, the Post Route bill was taken up and passed. Mr. Ransom reported the Texas Pacific Railway Extension bill without recommendation. The bill authorizing a retired list of non-commis-sioned officers after thirty years’ service was debated. On motion of Mr. Cockrell, the House joint resolution, authorizing the Secretary of War to lend tents to the Governor of Missouri for the use of sufferers by the recent tornado in that State was passed. The Kellogg-Spofford contested-election case was debated all the session. Adjourned till Monday... .In the House, Mr. Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported back a joint resolution for the abrogation of the Clsyton-Bulwer treaty, as the unanimous report of the committee. Mr. Waddell alluded to the terrible tornado which had swept over the town of Marshfield, in his district, and which had left quite a large number of persons homeless and destitute, and introduced a joint resolution directing the Secretary of War to furnish the Governor of Missouri with 500 tents for the benefit of the sufferers. The joint res lutlon was passed. The Speaker announced the appointment of the following members a« a select committee to investigate the alleged corruption in regaid to the contested-election case of Donnelly vs. Washbum: Messrs. Carlisle, Bicknell, Reagan, Lounsberry, O’Neill, Updegraff (Iowa), and Butterworth. The Special Deficiency bill was P"' se ™,’ th , .^ enate amendment being non-concurred in. rue bill was sent to a conference committee The House then took a recess until 7:30, the evening, session being for consideration of the bill establishing a municipal code for the District of Columbia.

A Man with Two Hearts.

In Spain a man of wide sympathies is generally called “ a man with two hearts.” But it by no means follows that a man with two hearts is a man of wide sympathies. A Spanish peasant living in the vicinity of Madrid in a petty quarrel killed an aged woman, andwould have murdered her daughter also had not the latter succeeded in making her escape. Thinking himself robbed of a great pleasure by the girl’s escape, he revenged himself by repeatedly stabbing the corpse of the mother. Singularly enough, remorse preyed so quickly upon his mind that he immediately hanged himself. But the rope broke, and he would, in all probability, have survived his attempt at suicide had he not broken his skull in the fall. On a post-mortem examination the man was found to have two hearts instead of one; both being of regular size and presenting no peculiarity of any kind. Melissa Ann Woodbury was ready to go riding with a young man at Winchester, Ind., and sat waiting at the window at the appointed time. But, instead of keeping his engagement, the faithless fellow rode boldly past with another girl. That night his barn, containing his horse and carriage, was burned, and Melissa is under arrest as the incendiary,

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TERRIBLE CALAMITY.

The Town of .Vla.r-»li>ield, .710., Extinguished by a Tornado, and Nearly 100 People Killed. One of the most destructive cyclones on record visited the little town of Marshfield, the county seat of Webster county, Mo., at about 7 o'clock in the evening of Sunday, April 18. Marshfield is situated on the line of the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, about 215 miles from St. Louis, It is located on a plateau of the Ozark mountains, its population is estimated at about 1,000. It was a thriving little plade, containing a bank, two grain elevators, two newspapers, two hotels, etc. From the accounts of this dire calamity telegraphed to the daily press we glean the following particulars : A cyclone, coming from the vicinity of Springfield, passed through Green and Webster c junties between 6 and 7 o’clock last evening, leaving a trail of desolation and death in its wake. Its course continues northeasterly all the way to the Gasconade river, a distance of 110 miles. Thu* far, reports from it show that on no former occasion in this Western country have the furious elements accomplished such a sum total of misery and distress. There are . wrecked homes all the way from the starting-point, six miles south of Springfield, to the Gasconade. Marshfield lay in the path of the terrible whirlwind, and a sadder scene than is presented here could not be imagined. It was not until 8 o’clock to-night I that telegraphic communication was restored. All is confusion yet, and the people are in such an excited state that it is almost impossible to get any intelligible report Many families are homeless, and have taken refuge in the cars standing at the station. The front rooms of the Court House are still standing, and have been converted into a morgue. The school building is used for a hospital. Up to 7 p. m. we have a death list of seventy-eight, and prospects of increasing it before morning. Many are yet missing, and a number of people have been’ hurriedly buried and no record kept. But fourteen buildings are left standing, and not a house in town but is more or less damaged. One case of a house being visited in search of victims resulted in the finding of two children killed outright, and one other Iving with its leg under the fallen timbers and shattered so as to i require amputation. The elder members of the family were nowhere to be found. In another j case a woman was lost, and no trace could be found of her at all. These are only two of a great many instances similar in character, and to write a description of the horrible suffering of all would be an utter unpossibility. The violence of the storm was such’that trees three feet through were for a space of several hundred yards wide lifted entirely out of tho ground, limbs twisted off and split into kindling-wood, and the bark of trees peeled off as if struck by lightning. Telegraph poles were twisted off at the ground as if they had been’nothing. Wires were carried hundreds of rods into the timber, and knotted along the limbs, as if they were made of cotton yarn. No ideacan be formed of the looks of the country except byactual observation. Everythinga.is being done by the people of neighboring towns to relieve the distressed people. It is truly a terrible and | most heart-rending calamity, one which will not ! soon be forgotten, an 1 which will leave its mark j on these two counties for vears. Dau Good and Janies Kinney were conductor and baggage-master, respectively, on the train that passed through the ill-fated town shortly . after the calamity. “What we saw of Marshfield,” said Mr. Good to a reporter, “can give you no definite idea of the damage done, but it was the most terrible scene'my eyes ever rested upon. Olir depot is about 300 yards from the square, and, when we came in, the few- persons around it were mad with excitement. The passengers caught the fever, the ladies beginning to scream and the gentlemen to rush around as if they were demented. The storm was still raging, and I myself did not feel justified in keeping my train longer than was necessary. As I looked out through the darkness, only reached by the light of buildings burning everywhere, I could distinguish or make out little except that where a short hour before there had been a flourishing town of 1,500 inhabitants, there was nothing but a chaos of wrecked houses. The lightning was blaz-. ing over the whole in almost continuous flashes, and I could hear the noise and confusion made by shouts, screams, and groans. I never saw or heard the like before, and, please God, I never want to again. As for particulars, I could only learn that the storm struck the town at the southwest corner and went through, taking even-thing before it —churches, Court House, business houses and private residences—until the extreme northwest corner was reached. The loss o c life must have been terrible, and there is many and many a person who will never he heard from again. It being Bunday afternoon, the people were at their houses, anil the tires were all right for supper. The tornado came and overturned the houses on the heads of the occupants. Many of the buildings caught fire, and in the confusion which followed no one knew what to do or how to act to save himself or any one else. Numbers of the wooden buildings began to blaze almost immediately, and the wrecks of bricks probably caught before morning. Of many of the people who were in their houses there will be nothing left but charred bones. The storm crossed our track four times, the first time six miles west of Marshfield; then again at Marshfield, the third time at Conway, fifteen miles this side, where it blew down a house and killed two children. This side of Dickson. 132 miles from St. Louis, it crossed the track for the fourth time. There was a section-house standing there on the edge of the bluff, which, when the wind struck it, contained a dozen persons. There is not a tiling to show that it ever stood there, except a platform. The house was carried 300 feet bodily and set down in the hollow. The force of the shock tore it all to pieces, and, strangest of all, no one in it was hurt seriously. A little child had its leg broken, and that was all. Thirty miles from here, at Cuba, a new Catholic church, which had just been erected, was blown down, but it was empty at the time, and no lives were lost.

The storm which wrought such frightful havoc at Marshfield was of almost-unexampled scope and severity. It extended with more or less violence frorn Kansas and Nebraska across Missouri and Illinois, and north into Wisconsin. In the James river valley, in the vicinity of Marshfield, some fifteen persons were killed, and houses and fences were :swept away as if they had been chaff. The town of Granby, Mo., was very seriously damaged. The town of Barrettsville, Moniteau county, was badly shaken up by the cyclone—nearly every house in the place being wholly or partially demolished, and several persons killed. North Moreau, a small hamlet in the same county, was nearly extinguished, and ten or eleven people killed. Rock county, Wis., suffered severely from the storm. Dwellings; barns, fences and orchards were mowed down relentlessly by the cruel storm-king ; and, while the loss of life was light, the destruction of property was greater probably than- marked the course of the sfefcrit in ‘ Other sections- of Wisconsin also suffered, though in a somewhat lesser degree. was one of theseverest, aswellasmost widespread in its extent, that ever visited the Western country, and it would require far more space than is at our command to follow it in its work of destruction, and record even a fraction of the disasters left in its wake. On Lake Michigan many disasters to shipping are reported.

’'-Additional Accounts. THE APPROACH OF THE BTOBM FIEND UPON THE DOOMED TOWN OF MARSHFIELD GRAPHICALLY DEPICTED. Additional reports from Marshfield, Mo., place the kflled’at eighty-one, and the seriously injured at about the same figure. The survivors were entirely destitute, Ihit charitable people in the. neighboring towns are doing everything in their power to alleviate the suffering. The same day, but a few hours earlier than that on which Marshfield was annihilated, a tornado of scarcely.kiss violence swept through Christian county, Mo. Twenty-nine houses were destroyed in one settlement, and several people killed. Pineville, Cassville and other small towns were partially wrecked, and a number of persons killed and wounded. Licking, in Texas county, a hamlet of a few hundred inhabitants, was struck by a cyclone a few hours later, and half the village laid in ruins. Twen-te-five of the citizens were killed or wounded. The storm extended away down into Arkansas, and reports received from that State indicate that it lost none of its force and destructiveness by the expansion. The little town of El Paso, White county, was leveled to the ground, and eight or ten people killed. From many other points in the State come reports of loss of hfe and damage to property. A correspondent at Marshfield, Mo., gives the

following graphic picture of the awful storm king as he bore down upon the ill-starred -town : “About 5 p. m, a heavy bank of black clouds ■gathered in the southwest, aud, as they concentrated, it was evident a storm was imminent But none suppqf jd that results so horrible were to follow. Within a few minutes of 6 p. m. many were startled by a loud roar in the southwest, and, upon looking, a cloud was seen, funnel-shaped, revolving from west to east with terrible velocity. The base of the cloud was black as night, the center being lighted up as by electricity, causing many at first sight to think it a burning building. This awful besom of destruction came on with great rapidity, struck the town at the southwest corner, widening and branching in its course, and, within thirty seconds, where stood our beautiful little city there was nothing but a mass of ruins filled with the dead and resounding with the cries of the wounded, and the lamentations of the survivors. The cyclone proper was preceded a few minutes by three mild shocks resembling an earthquake, which was quite apparent to those who observed the phenomenon closely. The few minutes that preceded the coming of the storm after its character was apparent gave an opportunity to many to seek places of as great safety as possible, but the majority wrere unaware of the proximity of danger until it was upon them, or were so struck with terror as to be unable to help themselves. The cyclone occupied about ten seconds in passing a given point, its most terrible havoc being at the immediate base, covering a surface from 250 to 300 yards wide, but drawing into and spreading devastation over a much wider surface. As soon as the survivors were assured of their safety the energies of all were turned to the saving of the wounded and the recovery of the dead, and the horrors attending this search words are inadequate to express. Whole families were buried under the ruins of their late happy homes, crushed and mangled beyond the semblance of human beings; others, maimed and wounded, shrieking or moaning over the dead bodies of their kin, or in speechless agony caressing the mangled forms of those they loved. To add to the horrors of the scene, a few moments after the storm passed fire broke out in a portion of the ruins, but, fortunately, it was confined to buildings from which the inmates had fled, so far as known. A cold rain set in a few minutes after the cyclone passed, and added much to the labor of search for the victims of the calamity, the darkness being intense except as the. weird and horrible scene was lit up by the flames from the burning ruins. Every house in the town that was left with a roof was turned into a hospital, and the Court House, <rf whi h the walls of the lower story were left standing, into a morgue. “ One young man was taken out who had passed the entire night beneath a network of beams and rafters. His legs were beneath a heavy iron post, and a large log lay across his chest. His head was free, and he could see about him. Once the ruins took tire, and the young man saw before him a fate most horrible, and he shrieked with the energy of despair. Several men hurrying by in search of missing friends were attracted by his cries, and stopped long enough to put out the fire by tearing the burning logs away. They tried to extricate the young man, but found it impossible, and were forced to let him remain until morning. One of his legs was broken, and he complained of a terrible pain in his chest where the log had lain. His must have been a night of terror,. Some say this visitation was a tornado-and not a whirlwind. It was unaccompanied by rain or electric phenomena. The tops of timber in the county for three miles west of the town are twisted off. Dead horses, cows, hogs and dogs are found all along the path of the storm, and fowls were killed. Some of the bodies of lighter animals were blown a great distance. Ywftng trees are barked completely, either by the force of the wind or the contact of the debris that tilled the air. The path of the tornado averaged about a quarter of a mile in width. It was an immense cloud of a conical shape, looking much like the smoke from burning oil. It was densely black in the center, but lighter on the edge. It rolled along with a roaring noise, and by its centrifugal force scattered tho debris of the wreck it was creating on either side. The air was fairly tilled with billions of pieces of plank. One man who saw it said that it was in shape like the little funnel whirlwinds which are frequent in March, carrying little pieces of paper and wood round and round. The rolling motion of the cloud is shown by the trees, the tops of which are not broken, but actually twisted off.”

AN EDITOR MURDERED.

Particulars of the Killing of Charles De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle, by the Son of Mayor Kailoch. At 8 o’clock on the evening of Friday, April 23, Charles De Young, sc dor proprietor of the San Francisco Chronicle, entered the business office of the paper, at the corner of Kearney and Bush streets, in that city, and engaged in conversation with Edward Spear and E. B. Read, who had been transacting some business. He stood with his back to the counter, facing the Kearney street door, add had been so standing for a few minutes when the swinging door was rapidly pushed open, and Rev. Isaac M. Kalloch, son of Rev. Isaac S. Kalloch, Mayor of the city, pushed rapidly in, raising a revolver as he entered. Mr. De Young, upon catching sight of the pistol and the man, turned and ran to the brass gate leading behind the counter outside. Kalloch then fired, and a second afterward fired again as Sir. De Young was passing through the gate. A third shot followed immediately. As Mr. De Young turned to flie left and passed through the gate, he stooped so as to protect himself behind the counter and tried to draw a pistol. While he was in this position, Kalloch leaned over the counter, placed the pistol close to his face, and fired again. This was the fatal shot; but, in spite of it, Mr. De Young stepped back to the cashier’s desk, Kalloch tiring a fifth shot as he stood next it. Mr. De Young partly raised liis pistol, but was unable to tire, the blood gushing in a stream from his mouth, over the desk as he raised it. Kalloch turned and ran to the door, and Mr. De Young, shaking his head and staggering, fell backward into the arms of Elias DeYoung, his half-brother, who laid him down on the floor. He was unconscious, and remained so for ten minutes afterward, when, medical effort being unavailing, he breathed his last. By this time a tremendous throng had gathered in front of the office, blocking up Kearney and Bush streets. Kalloch was received at the door by two officers, and gave himself up. He was taken to the city prison and locked up. He had nothing to say, and refused to make any statement whatever, though he was as cool and composed as if nothing had transpired. No words passed between the two at the time of the shooting. The deadly act had been threatened by Kalloch in a public speech during the late election campaign, but it was supposed that the bravado of his speech had been forgotten. Mr. De Young-was at the time about to go to trial for his shooting of Kalloch, Senior, for the foulest possible slanders of his mother, and there was very little doubt that he would have been acquitted. Young Kalloch, when arrested, was perfectly cook He still carried the smoking pistol in his hand, which he surrendered to the Officer on his way to the station-house. He observed strict reticence, and, on being shown to his cell, positively refused to have any intercourse whatever with the representatives of the press. An autopsy was held on the body the following morning by physicians. One ball was found which entered the mouth, breaking two teeth, and finally lodged in the interior of the jugular, which was not entirely severed, the bullet lying in the vein partly flattened. The cutting of this vein almost instantly exhausts the blood from the brain, producing insensibility. One of the immediate causes of the tragedy is believed to be the recent appearance of a 'pamphlet entitled the “Only Full Report of the Trial of I. S. Kalloch, on the Charge of Adultery.” This pamphlet contained a portrait of Kalloch and the woman with whom he was said to be intimate, and pretended to give a full history of the affair, the doings of ms church, Kalloch’s pulpit experience, arrest, arraignment, trial and result. Its imprint was “Boston: Ederlam & Co., 1857.” but it was generally regarded, with how mucn truth it is now impossible to say, that its reappearance was due to De Young, who was known to have gone East some time ago to hunt up the facts in the career of Kalloch. The pamphlet was extensively circulated, and the Kalloch party was wrought to quite a state of desperation. De Young continued his vigorous assaults on Kalloch, and, as the time for his trial for the shooting of the Mavor drew near, he became more aggressive, and Kalloch’s friends became correspondingly exasperated. The funeral of De Young occurred on Sunday, the 25th. The remains of the murdered man were followed to the grave by a large concourse of people.

THE SLANDERED SOUTH.

Sectional Animosity Rebuked from the Pulpit—Republican Lies Laid Bare in Burning- Language— Sermon by Bev. T. Be Witt Talmage, of Brooklyn, N. Y. A few weeks ago, to meet engagementss in nine of the Southern cities, and to catch a glimpse of tho Southern springtime, and to see how that region is recuperating from the desolations of the war, I started south, equipped with a mind full of questions and hungry for information on all subjects, social political, moral and religious. I started on the tour with no partisan predilections and no prejudices, and resolved to tell on my return what I saw, whether it might be generally approved or denounced by one or both sections. 1 had no political record to guard or defend, for my chief work in the ministry has been done since the war closed. My admiration for. the Democratic party and the Republican party, as parties, is so small that it would take one of McAllister s most powerful magnifying glasses to discover anything of it American politics are rotten, ana that party steals the most which has the most chance. I had all the doors of information opened to me. I talked with high and low—Governors and water-carriers, clergymen and laymen, lawyers, doctors, editors and philanthropists, with the black and the wliite; old residents of the South and new settlers from the North—and I have found that there have been the most persistent and outrageous misrepresentations in regard to the South by correspondents of secular and religious journals, and by men who, overbearing and dishonest in their behavior at the South, have had intimation given to them that their company was not desirable. If a man go South and behave well, he will be treated well. There is no more need of vigorous governmental espionage in Atlanta, Augusta or Macon than there is in Boston or New York. The present disposition of the South has been so wrongly set forth that I propose now, so far as I am able, to correct the stereotyped slanders concerning it.

First, it has often been represented to us that the South were longing for the old system of negro slavery. So far from that being true, they are all glad to have got rid of it. The planters told me that they can cultivate their lields with less expense under the new system than the old. A gentleman who had 125 slaves before the war told me that the clothing and feeding of them, the taking care of the aged who could not work, and the provision for helpless colored children, was an expense and anxiety and exhaustion. Now the planters have nothing to do but pay the wages when they are due; the families look after their own invalids and minors. So they all say without one exception that I could find. If at the ballot-boxes of the Southern States, the question should now be submitted, “ Shall negro slavery be reinstated ?” all the wards, and all the cities, and all the counties, and all the States would give a thundering negative. They fought i to keep it eighteen years ago, but now there is universal congratulation at its overthrow. Thank God that North and South at last are one on that subject. And this effort of our Northern politicians to keep the subject of slavery rolling on is as useless and inapt as to make the Dorr rebellion of Rhode Island or Aaron Burr’s attempt at the overthrow of the United States Government the test of our fall elections. The whole subject of American slavery is dead and damned. I inquired every- j where", “How do the colored people work under the new plan?” The answer was, “Well, very well. We have no trouble. Just after the war I there was the disorganization that naturally came of a new order of things, but now they work well. They work far better than Northcrnjlaborers that come here, because our colored people can better endure our cli- | mate, and on a warm summer’s day at the nooning they will lie down in the field to enjoy the ! sun.” My friends, all that talk about dragging ' rivers and lanes of the South to haul ashore black people, murdered and flung in, though seriously believed by many people at the North, I is a falsehood too ridiculous to mention in a religious assembly. The white people of the South feel their dependence on the dark people for the cultivation of their lands, and the dark people feel their dependence on the white people for their wages. From what I have observed here at the North of the oppression of some of our female clerks in dry-goods stores,and the struggls of many of our young men on insufficient salaries, which they must take or get nothing at all, I give as my opinion that to-day there is more consideration and sympathy for colored 1 labor at the South than there is consideration and sympathy for employes in some of the j stores on Fulton avenue, Brooklyn, or Broad- I way, New York, Washington street, Boston, or Chestnut street, Philadelphia. All the world over there are tyranical employers, and for their ! maltreatment of subordinates, white or black, they are to be execrated ; but the place for us to begin reformation is at home. Another misrepresentation in regard to the j South 1 cure when I say that they are not antagonistic to the settlement of Northern men within their borders. We have been told that Northerners going there are kukluxed, crowded out of social life, unrecognized, and in every way made uncomfortable. But the universal sentiment of the South, as I found it, was “Send down your Northern capitalists; send down your Northern farming machine; buy plantations; open stores ; build cotton factories and rice mills. Come—come right away. Come by tens of thousands and millions.” Of course they have no more liking for Northern fools or Northern braggarts than we have. A man that goes South and sets dowp his valise at the depot and goes upon the nearest plantation to say by word or manner to the planter, “I have come down hero to show you ignorant people how to farm. We whipped you in the war, and now we propose to whip you in agriculture. I am from Boston, I am. That’s the hub. You look very much like the man that I shot at South Mountain. I think it must have been your brother. I marched right through here in the Fourth Regiment of volunteers. I killed and quartered a heifer on your front stoop. What a poor miserable race of peoplg you Southerners are. Didn’t we give it to you? Ha, ha I” Such a man as that, to say the least, will not make a favorable impression upon the neighborhood where he comes to settle He will not very soon get to be deacon in church, and if he" opens a store he will not have many customers, and if he should happen to get a free and rapid ride on that part of a fence which is most easily removed, and*hould be set down without much reference to the desirability of the landing-place, you and I would not be Protestants. Any moral man who will go South and exercise just ordinary common sense will be welcomed, made at home, and, coming from Brooklyn, will be treated just as well as if he came from Mobile. I might give many illustrations—l give one. A member of this church moved to Charleston, S. C., seven or eight years ago. He went without fortune. By his mercantile assiduity he toiled on up. Was he well received ? Judge for yourselves, as I tell you that when, a few days ago, his body was taken to the Episcopal church of which he had become a vestryman, for the obsequies, the members of the Board of Trade, the orphan children of the asylum of which he was a director, and a great throng of the best citizens, assembled amid a wealth of floral and musical tribute, all making an occasion, described by the Charleston Courier, as almost unparalleled at the obsequies of any private citizen. This side of heaven, there is no more hospitable people than the people of the South. And now I bring a message from all the States of the South which I visited, inviting emigration thither. The South is to rival the West as an opening field for American enterprise. Horace Greeley’s advice to go West is to have an addenda in “go South.” The first avalanche of population thither will make their fortunes. It is a national absurdity that so much of the cotton of the South should be transported, at great expense, to the North to be -tranformed into articles of use. The few iketories at the South are the pioneers of the uncounted spindles which are yet to begin the hum of their grand march on the banks of the Savannah, theAppalachicola and the Tombigbee. There stands Georgia with its 58,000 t quare miles, and South Carolina with its 34.000 square miles, and Alabama with its 50,722 square miles, and North Carolina with 50,704 square miles, and the other States, none of them with more than 10 per cent, of their resources developed. When will the overcrowded populations of our great cities take the wings of the morning and fly to the regions where they shall have room to turn round and breathe, and expand and became masters of their own cornfields, or rice swamps, or cotton plantations, or timber forests ? Land to be had there in the Southern States from $1 to S2O an acre. Only sls required to get there, if you are not too particular as to how you go. Do you say the climate is hot? The thermometer everv summer runs up higher in New York than in North Carolina and Georgia, though there the heat is more prolonged. Afraid of the I fever ? The death rates of Michigan and Geor-

$1.50 ver Annum.

NUMBER 12.

gia are equal, while the death-rate, according to the last census, is less, according to the number of population, in Georgia than in Connecticut and Maine. Whether you go West or South, you will probably have one acclimating attack. It is only a different style of shake. There is no need that England or Ireland or Scotland any longer suffer for room or bread. The tides of emigration now pouring into this country are greater than at any time in history. Twentyone thousand six hundred and fifty-eight emigrants last month arrived in New York, 5,000 emigrants last Tuesday in and around Castle Garden. This is only an intimation of what is to come. Make two currents. While you put on extra trains to take them West by the Pennsylvania, Erie, and New York Central, put on extra trains on the Baltimore and Washington and Chattanooga and Atlanta and Charleston routes to take them South. There are tens of thousands of fortunes waiting for men who have the enterprise to go ana win them. The South beckons you to come. Stop cursing the South and lying about the South, and go and try yourselves the cordiality of" her welcome, and the resources of her mines, her plantations, and her forests. Perhaps that is the way that God is going to settle tliis sectional strife. There will be hundreds of thousands of our brightest, most intelligent, most moral young men who will go South for residence, and they will invite the daughters of the South to help them build homes amid the magnolias and orange groves, and their children will be half North and half South, half Georgia and half Vermont, half South Carolina ana half New York ; and thereafter to divide the country you would have to ’ divide the children with some such sword as Solomon sarcastically proposed for the division of the contested child, and the Northern father will say to the Southern mother, “Come, my dear : I guess we had better put this political feud to sleep in this cradle. ’’ The statement so long rampant at the North that the South did not want industrious, useful and moral Northern settlers among them I brand as a political falsehood, gotten up and kept up for political purposes. • Again, I have to correct the impression that the South are bitterly against the Government of the United States" The South submitted to amis certain questions, and most of them are submissive to the decision. There is no fight in them. We hear much about the fire-eaters of the South, but if they eat fire they have a private table and private platter of coals in a private room. I sat at many tables, but I did not see anything of that kind of diet. Neither could I see any spoon or knife or fork that seemed to have been used in fire-eating. Why, sirs, I never saw more placid people—some of them with all their property gone, and starting life at 40 or 60 years of age, with one leg or one arm or one eye, the member missing sacrificed in battle! It is simply miraculous that those people feel so cheerful and so amiable. It is dastardly mean to keep representing them as acrid and waspish and saturnine and malevolent. I have traveled as much as most people, in this and other lands, and I have vet to find a more affable, delicately sympathetic, whole-hearted people than the people of the South. They are to-dey loyal and patriotic, and if foreign foes should attempt to set foot on this soil for the purpose of intimidation and conquest, the forces of Bragg and Geary, McClellan and Beauregard, Lee and Grant, would come shoulder to shoulder, the blue and the gray, and the cannons of Fort Hamilton, Sumter and Pickens would join in one chorus of thunder and flame. The fact is that this country has had a big family fight; but let a neighbor come in to interfere, and you know how that always works. Husband and wife in contest, the one with a cane and the other with a broomstick, if some impertinent individual attempts to come between them he gets both cane and broomstick. I have sometimes thought the North and South would never understand each other until the approach of a common enemy compels them to make a common cause. If foreign despotisms think we have no cohesion, no centripetal force as a nation, they have only to try it. The fact that instead of thirteen colonies we embrace everything from Atlantic to Pacific oceans implies no weakening of national grip. By steam and electricitv our country is within easier control than at the foundation of the Government. It took two weeks to get official communication across the country at the start. Now it takes two minutes. San Francisco and Galveston and Des Moines are nearer to Washington now than Richmond was then. There never was a time when this nation was so thoroughly one as to-day. Would to God we might more thororoughly appreciate it. You see the whole impression of my Southern journey was one of high encouragement. The great masses of the people are right. If a halfdozen politicians at the North and a half dozen at the South would only die, we would have no more sectional acrimony. It is a case for the undertakers. If they will bury these few demagogues out of sight we will pay the entire expense of the catafalque and epitaph, and furnish enough brass bands to play the rogue’s march. But time, under God, will settle it. The generations that follow us will sit in amazement at a state of things which made the national graveyards of Murfreesboro, Gettysburg and Richmond an awful possibility.

Troops at the Polls in 1880.

The Republicans fought desperately in the House of Representatives to defeat the mild provision attached to the Army bill, which declares: That no money appropriated in this act is •appropriated or shall be paid for the subsistence, equipment, transportation or compensation of any portion of the army of the United States to be used as force to keep the peace at the polls at any election held within any State. This was the compromise between Congress and the Executive at the extra session, over which the Republicans rejoiced as over a victory achieved. They then taunted the Democrats with having surrendered the principle on which the prolonged contest had been made, and with accepting terms against which they had proclaimed war to the bitter end. All the Republicans but twelve voted for this amendment as their own cherished bantling. When the same proposition was before the House on Tuesday they voted directly against their previous record, after having factiously opposed it for days. Some of them hail decency enough to abstain from such an exhibition of partisan violence and unblushing inconsistency, but leaders like Hawley, Baker, Cannon, Conger, Hiscock, Monroe and others of less degree, willingly stultified themselves, after threatening a veto. The false pretence of this opposition was that the section was a “rider,’’and, therefore, ought to be resisted as irregular legislation. But this sham was soon shattered by proof that the amendment was in the interest of economy, as provided by the rules, and germane to the bill itself. Mr. Hawley was particularly conspicuous and vehement in denouncing “riders” on appropniation bills as revolutionary and in monstrous violation of the constitution. In closing the debate Mr. Ewing exposed Mr. Hawley’s course as a member of the Forty-third Congress—one of the worst Congresses in the history of the Government—when he voted for fortyfour different riders on appropriation bills, every one of which was political. In twelve years the Republican party mounted 387 riders on the backs of appropriation acts—more than thirty-two every year—and that, too, when they had majorities of two-thirds in Congress, and could have passed any independent legislation they wanted. The real underlying motive of this opposition is that the Republicans desire and intend to use troops at the elections this fall, and to repeat the outrages of 1876, when they were employed to intimidate voters in Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida, and to aid in consummating a fraudulent court, if necessary. Hayes is a subservient instrument of the machine leaders. He is quite willing to obey any orders they may give. When Mr. Evarts was sent to New York, last October, to speak in the name of the fraudulent administration and to kiss the rod that had scornfully smitten the whole concern, he bore witness to' the self-abasement to which he and his associates had descended, in order to

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propitiate Conkling’s good will and to bo permitted to walk in the ranks of the stalwarts. The stalwart leaders were not content with this voluntary humiliation. When Grant visited Washington, after having refused to be a guest of the White House, among the first to rush forward with professions of devotion and homage on his lips was the de facto Secretary of State. No demand can be made on the present Administration to which cheerful response will not be given, in order to conciliate the stalwart chiefs. Hayes and the Cabinet will go even further than the extremists would do under like conditions. They want recognition, and are ready to purchase it by menial work and degrading sacrifices. The army will be utilized at the coming election, and every other engine of power that can be brought into requisition, to make Grant President by force or by fraud. — New York Sun.

INDIANA NEWS.

Nine students have been expelled from Asbury University for pool-playing. Three children of James Dorsey, of North Vernon, were badly poisoned by eating dock root Sarah Roberts, a widow, living at Middleton, Harrison county, went out to tend a brush fire, and was burned to death. Branson Swain, for several years J ustice of Knightstown, accidentally shot and killed himself while cleaning his shot-gun to go hunting. Lawyer Walls, of Boone county, former Prosecuting Attorney, has appealed to the Supreme Court from ,a decision expelling him from the bar.' The Remy Hotel, Indianapolis, has been sold to David Nicholson, a farmer of Marion county, for $72,000. There will be no change of management. The will of Joseph Bat tell, a bachelor millionaire, has been probated at South Bend, disposing of $700,000 in bequests. One item is $50,000 to Yale College. About two weeks ago Clara Mason, at Indianapolis, had two teeth extracted, from the effects of which inflauimatipn set in in her neck and chest, and caused her death. The remains of the late Gen. Jefferson C. Davis have now been interred at Crown Hill, Indianapolis, in a lot immediately opposite the grave of S ‘iiator Morton. Charlie Lincks, an Evansville child of 5 or 6 years, stabbed a little girl of 5, named Mary Bleicher, and is rep rted to have attempted to stab several others at various times. J. Kino, a farmer living two mil ’s north of Wabash, while attending his horses, was bitten on the neck by one of them, from the effects of which ho cannot live. Joseph G. Breckenridge, formerly clerk in the Fort Wayne postoflice, now serving a two year term in the penitentiary for rifling registered letters, has been pardoned. A decree in favor of tin 1 First National Bank of Indianapolis has been placed in the hands of the Sheriff for -the sale of the entire personal property of the Shaw carriage- w<irk s. Three brothers named Felsopp, all cripples, were walking on the track near Huntington when they were overtaken by a train. One of them, a paralytic, lost his head, and another was badly in - jured. Fire Insurance. The following record of fire insurance companies’ receipts ami losses during the year 1879 is founded upon the official figures reported to the Auditor of State for taxation: Name of Company. Receipt*. Lmuiex. JEtna, Hartford ? 72,364 $44,118 Amazon, Cincinnati 6,557 7,893 American, Chicago 117,331 61,171 American, New Jersey. 1,307 .... American, New York 87 .... American, Philadelphia 10,473 6,165 American Central 5,182 2.452 Aurora, Cincinnati 12,996 6,208 Buffalo, New York 17 .... Buffalo German, New York.... 11,813 4,636 British America 20,242 8,724 Clinton, New York 2,013 269 Citizens’, St. Louis 2,225 535 Columbia, New York 1,345 23 Commercial, New York 2,812 1,170 Commerce, New York 403 773 Commonwealth, Boston 4,448 773 Commercial Union 11,059 9,470 Connecticut Fire 7,615 2,339 Continental, New York 100,976 68,588 Detroit Fire and Marine 1,152 12 Exchange 787 10 Farmers’, York 4,636 2,511 Farmers’Home 44 .... Firemen’s, Dayton 9,380 4,758 Firemen’s, Newark 3,112 1,010 Firemen’s Fund, California 11,812 12,338 Fire Association, Philadelphia... 32,758 9,771 Franklin, Philadelphia 19,660 8,422 Franklin, Indianapolis 34,936 12,081 German American 28,448 17,073 German, Pittsburgh . 340 .... Girard, Philadelphia 12,052 2,024 Glen Falls, New York 8,290 6,998 Globe 105 Guardian, England 2,501 .... Hamburg-Bremen 3,459 461 Hamburg, Magdeburg 4,520 565 Hartford 71,839 33,448 Hoffman 1,767 29 Home, New York 122,627 44,902 Howard, New York Imperial and Northern 12,369 7,384 Insurance Company of North America 51,124 20.856 Knickerbocker, New York 105 .... La Caisse General 17,713 5,761 Lancashire, England 13,898 5,442 La Confiance, Paris 435 .... Liverpool ana London (Kobe. 16,998 7,863 London Assurance 8,387 3.840 Lorillard 2,162 242 London and Lancashire 4,990 .... Louisville. Underwriters 411 . .. Manhattan, New York 7,091 3,324 Manufacturers and Builders.... 105 ... Mercantile, Cleveland, Ohio 4,990 630 Merchants', New Jersey 6,704 2.104 Meriden, Connecticut 5,819 1,046 Metropolitan Plate Glass 1,486 1,095 Milwaukee, Mechanics’ ;.... • 8,504 2,<MM> National, Hartford 8,558 2,815 New Hampshire 3,252 1,298 New York Bowery 787 .... New York City 1,702 808 Newark Fire 5,499 407 Niagara, New York 24,588 18,285 North British and Mercantile... 29,319 10,164 North German 4,160 5,005 Northwestern National 6,282 6,490 Northern, New York 5,124 4,323 Orient. Hartford. 4,073 4,323 Ohio, Farmers’ 24,84 1 6,453 Pacific, New York 363 .... People's, Trenton 8,172 5,236 People's, Newark 3,973 4,376 Phenix, Brooklyn 60,637 19,924 Pho-nix, Hartford 61,432 27,926 Phmnix Assurance, England.... 655 .... Pennsylvania Fire 15,319 8,545 Queen, England 14,595 13,894 Royal, England 56,072 22,788 Rochester German., 2,641 840 Royal Canadian 2,755 1,264 Springfield. Fire and Marine.... 31,734 19,430 St. Pau! Fire and Marine 6,807 3,122 St. Nicholas, New York 1,033 106 Standard, New York 1,714 .... Star, New York 5,491 ... Scottish Commercial 11,481 5,901 Sterling, New York 105 Traders’, Chicago...- 4.586 2,450 Tradesmans’, New York 1,447 1.799 Transatlantic, Germany 2,338 .. Teutonia, Dayton 4,701 1,110 Underwriters J S aT> o?e? 40 ’ 853 17 ’" United FiremeU . . . 2,815 250 Watertown, New York 21,176 12,423 Westchester, New York. 11,284 6,852 Western Canada 18,943 1,643 WitliameburghCity 3,629 3,358 Total receipts from 105 companies $.1,448,540 Total losses of 105 companies,.. 684,320 . Premium receipts, less losees... $ 761,220 ' State tax .03 $22,926.60 —State tax being 3 per cent, on receipts, less loss e!>.