Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1880 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Five thousand additional troops are to be sent to Ireland at once. At a Bdtuh Cabinet Council it was decided to request of the Queen the sub pension of d«j habeas corpus in Ireland. Baron Dowse, presiding at the Connaught assizes at Galway, has been threatened with death should he convict any member of the Land League. The Progressists and Democrats of Germany have won a great victory in the elections, which is partly due to tho new Corn lawn. Japan is making strenuous efforts to r-conomi/.0, and, in pursuance of this policy, has ordered the sale to privato individuals of tho factories which were formerly established by tho Government to stimulate native industries.

The preparations for the marriage of Victoria Woodhull to a London banker were suddenly stopped on account of Htories from America assailing ber character, a d she threatens to bury both continents iiftibel suits. Ttuporta from Ireland indicate no improvement in the situation. Healy und Walsh, indicted Land Leaguers, wero acquitted at the Cork Assizes, and a great demonstration by Iheir friends in celebration of the event followed. John Power, charged with being one of the party who slit the ears of a bailiff occupying the house of an evicted tenant near Tralee, County Kerry, was also acquitted at the Cork Assizes, notwithstanding ho was identified by the prosecutor. Parnell, Davitt, and Dillon have received anonymous letters threatening them with death. The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland vs taking stops to provido for tho protection of loyal men in tho remote districts. William Pence Jones, an Englishman and largo landoWnor, residing near Lissilare, County Cork, it Undergoing Boycott’s oxperionce. Ho lias

'"teen threatened with doath, and he is now being prevented from shipping his cattle to England for sale. The relations between Russia and China arc assuming a pacific phase. Josiah Caldwell, the great railway •constructor of London, has failed, with liabilities of #2,500,000. Paris dispatches say the success of the Panama canal scheme is enormous. A land meeting at Portadown, Ireland, was attacked by Orangemen, who wrecked the platform and dispersed the crowd. The Earl of Innoskil'cn, Grand Master of the Orangemen, has appointed a vigilance committeo to protect property in Ireland. Jonos, the latest victim of “Boycotting,” is quietly procuring an imed force to protect his laborers. He intends, ns soon as possible, to convert liis farm nto an immense pasture, and leave Ireland. Tho Liverpool firm to whom his sheep wore consigned refuse thorn, owing to the threats of tho Land League. Boycott appealed to Gladstone for indemnity for bis losses in Ireland, which he thinks should bo made good by the British Government. Tho Premier fails to take that view of tho matter. Tile foot and mouth disease is said to be spreading rapidly- among cattle in Great Britain. Railway employes in Great Britain have begun a movement for a reduction of working horns. An effigy of Parnell was burned at I’ortadowu, Ireland, amid wild excitement of tho Orangemen. Most of the troops sent to Ireland are to bo scattered through the West, which is considered the center of danger. In consequence of the refusal of Gladstone to assist Boycott, tho English public will be appealed to for aid, Frank Buckland, the eminent English writer on natural history, is dead. Tho Duchchkh of Westminster, whose husband is the richest man in the world, lias also passed away. Two thousand persons met in Berlin and resolved to buy nothing from Jewish shops, and to return no Liberal to Parliament who will not vote to suppress their liberty.

' XJOMLiSTIC INTELLIGENCE. Enfiit W. Knapman, of Lawrence, Sfass., f hot and killed Miss Avia Hinkman and then omniitted suicide. Jealousy. . The washing-machine factory of F. F. Adams & Co., at Erie, Pa., has been burned. A falling wall killed a fireman named George Smith, and seriously injured four others. The loss is $150,000. Edison announces that lie is preparing a test for tho subdivision of electrio light, by which the city of New York can be lighted for $2,000,000. A lire at Olean, N. Y., burned six buildings, and a woman and two children perished Two young men lost their lives by a boiler explosion at Latrobe, Pa. A cargo of Italians, among whom small-pox was raging, arrived New York last week, Most of them are without money or r change of clothing. A thorough investigation will be made to learn whether they are criminals or pauper's exported under publio auspices. Joseph Brown & Bros., wholesale drygoods merchants, of New York, have failed, with liabilities of $92,000. Charles A. Burt, an Albany maltster, shot Kate Smith, and then killed himself. Albin H. Bailey, who for thirty-two years has been connected with the Boston Transcript, has passed from earth. A woman named Ellen Moriarty has just died in New York at the age of 111 years. L. M. Myerj of Augusta, Ga., was robbed of SIO,BOO in a sleeping-car between Kiiladc*;i .md Jersey City.

Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague’s bill for divorce has been filed in Washington county, R. 1., the grounds being adultery, extreme cruelty, and neglect to provide. It appears that the ex-Governor has surrounded Canonchet with armed guards, and the Sheriff refused to serve & writ of replevin for Mrs. Sprague’s effects. The case will be tried in February. Foreign gold coin and bars to the amount of $6,151,400 reached New York last week. The receipts of Sarah Bernhardt’s two weeks’ engagement in Boston were $50,000. West. Hi: am S. Holbrook, local agent of the At lerican Express Company at Dubuque, shot himself dead in his bed, the bullet also lulling his little daughter. The Oklahoma invaders have delegated Dr. Wilson, a leading spirit in the enterprise, to proceed to Washington and present their situation to the administration. The colonists are camped at Caldwell, Kan., where provis.ons for six months have been offered them. While a number of Indians were disputing with each other at the Lower Brule Agency as to tho terms on which they would permit the Milwaukee and Bt. Faul Company to

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lay tracks through their territory, the pistol of Mr. Beveridge, the Agent, went off accidentally, and the ball inflicted fatal injuriaa on Medicine Bull, the Brule chief The population of Utah is shown by the recent census to be 143,907. A family named Hanseu, living in Chicago, have been stricken with trichinae, the result of eating uncooked ham. Near Napoleon, Lafayette county,Mo., Mrs. James Jones, wife of a well-to-do farmer, attempted to fill a lighted lamp with coal oil, and both can and lamp exploded, causing the almost-instant death of her two children—a babe of 6 months and a little girl 6 years old—and burning Mrs. Jones so terribly that she died in a few hours. The Omaha Indians have decided to sell 50,000 acres of their reservation in Northeastern Nebraska, and have asked permission to send ten head men and two interpreters to Washington to arrange terms. Two coaches of the Kansas City express train, on the Missouri Pacific road, were thrown from tho track, near Eureka, Mo., and about a dozen persons were injured more or less seriously.

Nobel Bennett, a cooper, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., has driven his blind daughter to tiie county poor-house, after vainly edeavoring to induce her to commit suicide. Mary and Ludolph Torney, of Milwaukee, have died from trichinae. The State Grange of Indiana demands that the Agricultural Bureau bo raised to a Cabinet portfolio, and tliftt a national railway law be enacted, to prohibit discrimination in freights. William Perdew, of Leon, lowa, drank poison in mistake for whisky, and died. Robbers ransacked the residence of Mrs. George Tod, at Youngstown, Ohio, carrying off diamonds and jewelry valued at #7,000. William and Charles Mullen, owners of a farm near Santa Rosa, Cal., were killed by Albert and Frederick Quackenbush. The trag" edy grew out of disputed land olaims. Mrs. Hinz and son, ot Beaver Dam, Wis., have died from trichinae, and two memlicrs of Mr. Millarck’s family are prostrate. A piece taken from the dead boy’s arm was alive with parasites. The Mormons are crowding into Idaho with their quadruple families. Gov. Neil urges that Congress make polygamous cohabitation an offense, and asks Territorial legislation against those who preach the doctrino of plural marriage. Two masked men entered the bedroom of I)r. J. If. Mott, of Independence, Mo., covered him with revolvers, and forced him to sit on the edge of his bed while they took watches and jewelry to the value of #9OO. They then fitted themselves out with his clothing, burning their discarded garments in the grate, and bade him good-night. John C. Calhoun, a nephew of the famous South Carolinian, having been for some time an inmate of the California Insane Asylum, was about to be discharged, when he was drowned in the river at Stockton. South. The official figures give Jones, Greenbacker, a majority of 233 over Shepard, Democrat, for Congress from the Fifth district of Texas. Jay Gould is negotiating for the purchase of the Iron Mountain railroad. The explosion of a boiler in Fable & Son’s soap and candle factory at Louisville, Ky., killed Phil Hemp, fatally injured Conrad Spark and Lizzie Ott, and severely injured Peter Bolenboch, the fireman. A contract for a tunnel through Lookout mountain will soon be let by the Alabama Great Southern railroad. Daniel Keith, a negro, was hanged at Rutherfordton, N. C., for the murder of Alice Ellis. Two children perished in a burning building at Petersburg, Va. A prisoner confined in jail at Charlottesville, Va., wrapped his bedclothes about his neck, saturated them with kerosene, set them on lire, and perished from inhaling the flame. Mrs. Burk, of Austin, Tex., has obtained judgment for $25,500 against the Texas Central railway for jewelry, pictures, etc., burned in a car on that road.

WASHINGTON NOTES, Edgar Stanton, of Illinois, lias been nomiuated by the President for Consul General at St. Petersburg. President Hayes has promised to place Fitz John Porter on the retired list should the bill pass authorizing such action. The President has nominated Judge William B. Woods, Of Alabama, to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, vice Strong, resigned. Woods is now United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, comprising Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. He was appointed from Alabama, but is a native of Ohio. Cadet Whittaker has applied to President Hayes for a trial by court martial. In his application Whittaker asseverates his innocence in the strongest terms, and asks oniy for a fair trial on the accusations against him. The animal report of Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, shows that the United Statos surpasses every other country m tho magnitude of its exports of breadstuffa and provisions. Gen. Schofield’s new military division will comprise Louisiana. Texas, Arkansas and Indian Territory. The President has assigned Brevet Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard to the Department of West Point; Brig. Gen. O. C. Augur to the Department of Texas: Brevet Brig. Gen. Henry J. Hunt to tho Department of the South ; Brevet Brig. Gen. R. 8. Mackenzie to a new department, comprising Arkansas, Louisiana, and Indian Territory ; Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield to the new military division of tho Gulf, and Brig. Gen. N. A. Miles to the department of the Columbia. President Hayes has requested Gens. Miles and Crook, Mr. William Stickney, of Washington, and Mr. Walter Allen, of Newton, Mass., to proceed to the Indian Territory to investigate the complaints made about the treatment of the Poncas, so that justice may be done to that tribe.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Catholic clergy in Montreal have ordered their people to keep away from the Bernhardt performances. Seidenberg & Co., a well-known cigar firm of New York and Key West, employing 800 men at the latter place, has made an assignment. Their liabilities are believed to bo about $500,000. A negro revolt in Cuba was checked by the execution of several leading spirits at Santiago, About 500 acres of coal mines in Piet on county, Nova Scotia, are closed, and the families of the miners are threatened with starvation.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1830.

Gen. Grant has given to a Washington correspondent his reasons for preferring the Nicaragua route for an interoceanic canal to that by tho way of the Isthmus of Panama. It is further north, out of the region of calms, and, lying along a line of lower levels, can be built at less expense. The General believes that this canal, when in operation, will pay 5 per cent, on an investment of $80,000,000. The Chilians have begun their longexpected advance on Lima. They captured Pisco on the 19th of November, and will move thence upon the Peruvian capital. The distance is 126 miles, and the march Will t>e resisted at every stop. Jay Gould has purchased of Thomas Allen, of Bt. Louis, and H. G. Marquand, of New York, 60,000 shares—a controlling interest —in the Iron Mountain railway. The money disbursed by Gould in this purchase is said to be $3,000,000. This new movement gives Gould, as nearly as possible, complete control of the Texas system of railroads, and secures to tho Iron Mountain road whatever is to be gained by a friendly alliance with hitherto-com-peting lines, and saves it from the losses usually resulting from sharp competition.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Louisville Courier-Journal publishes the official popular vote for President, derived from official sources. The footings ares Hancock, 4.453,198 ; Garfield, 4,400,249; Weaver, 307.993 ; Dow, 8,384 ; scattering, 9,579; total vote, 9,241,438. Garfield over Hancock, 6,751. John Kelly has issued an address to the Democracy of New York, in which he attempts to prove that, Tilden treacherously compos ed the defeat of Hancock. Senator Blaine is in favor of increasing the number of Supremo Judges to thirteen, and of appointing at least four Democrats. Gov. Foster lias been prevailed upon by friends to withdraw from the contest for the Ohio Seuatorsliip. This insures the election of Secretary Sherman to succeed Mr. Thurman.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The proposed restoration of Fitz-Johu Porter to the rolls of the army was tho occasion of au allday debate in the Sonate on Monday, Dec. 13. Mr. Edmunds made a vain attempt to limit the effect of the bill to one year. Mr. Carpenter held that Porter must be pardoned by the President. Nearly 100 bills and resolutions wero introduced in the House. A resolution by Mr. Crapo declares that the construction of tho Panama canal by foreign capital, through a charter from any European government, tannot 1« sanctioned by the United Slates. Mr. Meyers offered a resolution ending upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a detail d statement of the moneys paid U. S. Grant from 1801 to 1877. Mr. Calkins secured the passage of au expression of sympathy with the unhappy laboring classes of Ireland. Mr. McOoid presented a bill to regulate commerce by railroad, providing for a uniform rate of fare and freightage, and for a Congressional Committee of Inquiry and Enforcement. Mr. Deuster introduced a bill to terminate existing treaties between the United States and the North German Confederacy; Mr. Warner one providing for a commission of live Representatives, four Senators and five experts, to revise and readjust the tariff. Mr. Willis offered a bill to reduce the postage on letters aud letter-matter to 2 cents for each one-half ounce or fraction thereof; also, to reform the civil service of the Un ted States. The latter provides that all persons who have been In office four years shall relaiu their places during good behavior; that all future appointments be made from among those who make the best showing at competitive examinations; there shall lie no preferences for any class of citizens, but soldiers and sailors. The President will lie entitled to ten places in each department for such as he may choose. The credentials of Mr. Taylor, elected as the successor of Gen. Garfield, were presented. Objection was made to admitting him to a seat, the opposition claiming that, the State having been apportioned into new Congressional districts, the district was reconstructed, and waß not the same as that which Gen. Garfield represented. Mr. Taylor qualified, and tho credentials were referred to the Committee on Elections.

Senatort' Beck, Reman and Morrill were appointed on Tuesday, Doc. 14, a sub-committee to consider a bill which provides for the free purchase and register of foreign-built ships by American citizens. Mr. Williams introduced a bill providing for an appropriation of SI,WO. 000 to be used in preventing the dissemination or introduction of infectious or contagious diseases among domestic animals in the United States. Mr. Morrill offered a resolution virtually declaring that the existing telegraph lines interfered greatly with the business of the Postofßce Department, and inquiring whether the telegraphic service should in t be placed cielushely in tho hands of the Government. The bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was passed, being amended to provide that within eighteen months the President may appoint him to a Colonelcy on the retired list, without pay so • the time intervening since his dismissal. In the 11. use, Mr. Morgan introduced a bill for the incorp nation of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. Among the incorporators appear the names of Gen. U. S. Grant, E. D. Morgan, H. J. Jewett, Solon Humphreys, William Dennison, Howard Potter and others. Tho bill proposes that the capital stock shall consist of not ices thau 500,000 nor more' than 1,000,000 shares of SIOO each. Mr. Bicknell announced that 1 _■ would let the electoral-count resolution go over the holiday adjournment. A. W. C. Now lain was appointed Postmaster of the House. An hour was spent in committee of the whole in hearing vark us propositions for refunding the bonds maturing next tear. Messrs. Kelley, Buckner, Gillette, and McMillan offered amendments. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was reported, calling for $1,100,435; as was the Military Academy Appropriation bill, which appropriates $322,135. Mr. Young introduced a bill t > encourage American seamen, and to provide a home for permanently disab'ed seamen. Among the appointments sent to the Senate were the followihg: James Monroe, of Michigan, to lie Marshal for. the Western district of Mi lugan : Ez ikiel ff. Turner, of Tennessee, t • Ist United Slates Jud e for the Western district of Tenures e: A’exander Hughes, of Dakota, to be Reoeiver of Public Moneys ut Yankton, D. T.

A bill was simultaneously introduced into the Senate and House, by Senator Hill and Mr. Belford, of Colorado, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, for the gradual retirement of all greenbacks less than $5. The bill to devote to public education a part of the proceeds of the sales of public lands was supported by Messrs. , Burnside and Morrill, and warmly advocated by Mr. Brown, of Georgia. Mr. Pendleton introduced u Civil Service Reform bill. It provides that admistion to the service be determined by competitive examination, and that promotion Ehall be governed by examination, efficiency, "and experience. Mr. Pendleton has also introduced a bill to protect Governmen temployes Ifrom political assessments, l he Senate unanimously confirmed the nominations of Gen. Haven ah Chief Signal Officer and of Gen. Miles as Brigadier General. The House passed the Senate bill granting a pension of SIOO per month to the widow of President Tyler. YVhile the House was in committee of the whole on the Fortification bill, which finally passed, Mr. Baker, of Indiana, called attention to the fact lhat a foreign man-of-war could reach the docks in New York without injury from our defenses. Mr. Gibson reported a bill appropriating $1,800,000 for tho improvement of the Mississippi river.

A bill authorizing the President tp enter the name of Gen. Ord on the retired list with his brevet rank of Major General was introduced in the Senate on the 16th Inst., by Mr. Maxey. The appearance of Gen. Grant caused a recess of ten minutes. Mr. Saunders presented a bill for the sale of part of the reservation of the Omaha Indians, in Nebraska, and Mr. Hoar a petition for woman suffrage in the Uerritoriss. Prolonged debate took place on the Educational bill, which went over. In tho House, Fernando Wood presented a concurrent resolution for a holiday recess of two weeks from the 22d, which was adopted. The pension appropriation was discussed in committee cf the whole, and subsequently passed. Nearly all the members of the House came to the Speaker’s desk and greeted Gen. Grant. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, introduced a bill to take from the treasury $100,000,000 in coin, and discharge that amount of interest-bearing debt at its maturity. The President nominated Theodore F. Singiser, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of Idaho Territory and Edward P. Champlin, of Michigan, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Deadwood, D. T. Mr. Wallace introduced a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy In the Senate on Friday, Dec. 17. The Senate refused to concur in the resolution passed by the House to adjourn from the 22d inst. to the sth prox. A motion to reconsider was-afterwards adopted. Mr. Blaine offered a resolution that the Judiciary Committee in quire into the expediency of increasing the number of Supreme Court Judges to thirteen. After prolonged debate on the Educational bill, Mr. Teller's amendment was adopted, providing that for ten years the proceeds of the Ales of public

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

The House of Representatives was ih session On Saturday; Dec. 18, an* paused the West Point Appropriation bill, giving $322,135. The Consular bill, appropriating $1,190,430, was discussed for hours in coninfiteee of the whole, until it was found that no quorum was present. lands shall be paid to the several States according to the proportion of persons over 10 years of age who cannot read or write. The measure was then passed by 41 to 6. The Senate passed the bill appropriating $250,000 to rebuild the Pensacola Custom House, recently destroyed by fire, and then adjourned to Monday. The House passed the Senate bill granting a pension to the widow of Gen. Heintzcffnan. Mr. Aldrich introduced a bill to give the city of Chicago title to the take front.

A SUPREME HORROR.

Los* of the Ship ffonanluiu, and the Frightful Fate that Befell Her Crew. [St. John (N. F.) Telegram to Chicago Tribune.] By the arrival of the royal mail steamer Curlew from Bt. George’s bay, on the west coast of Newfoundland, your correspondent has received tho full details of one of the most dismal and heartrending disasters that has ever been chronicled. Dui ing the terrific gftle of last week the ship Nonantum, of 1,000 tons burden, bound to Mar seilles, was lost near the Highlands of St. George's bay, and became a total wreck. Her whole crew, numbering seventeen, with the exception of two, perished miserably of cold, hunger and exposure to the inclemency of the winter skies. The two survivors are the mate and one of the seamen. As soon as the ship’s company discovered that there was not the Slightest hope of saving the ship they took to their boats, eleven taking refuge in the lifeboat and the remaining six in tho second boat. The third boat was stove in and swamped alongside the bark. Dr. Malcom, who attended the sufferers, tells the following story :

I was called on Thursday last to attend the two survivors, whose limbs were badly frost bitten, and will probably have to be amputated. During the intervals of their agony I gathered the story of their sufferings from the time they abandoned their vessel till I reached tlienp in tho hope of somewhat mitigating their pains. The names of the two survivors are George Kadger, first officer of the ship, and a native of Plymouth, England, and Patrick Dooley, an ordinary seaman, a native of Ca'rbonar, Newfoundland. “We had not long pushed away from the side of the wreck,” said Kadger, “when our boat upset aud we were all plunged into the water. We managed, however, to right her, but lest everything we had iu the boat, provisions, water, oars, clothing, and even onr rudder. Yet we were very fortunate in being able to right her at all. We were then in a terrible* condition. Neither compass, nor rudder, nor oars, nor bread, nor water, nor even a dipper to remove the water from the boat, now more than half filled. We were compelled to take our coats off to bale her out, which we succeeded in doing after some three or four hours of hard work. Wo were finally driven ashore, and tossed high and dry, without having sustained any serious accident or injury. After being on shore a couple of hours, our cook, a colored man, who had shown signs of exhaustion all night, died, and we buried him on tho seashore. The remaining ten of us climbed up the cliff iu the hope of seeing some sign or token that might lead us to a path or road that would in the long-run enable us to find out some settlement. When we reached the top of the cliffs nothing met our eyes but a long extent of low woods, across which nothing could be seen that would indicate any vestige of human life for miles at least in any direction. After traveling about in vain for six days without food or lire, and insufficient clothing, with the little strength that yet remained to us we mado a rude camp of evergreen boughs and lay down to die, believing that we scould never see a human face again, except during a few short hours our own haggard and hunger-pinched visages. After a little rest through the night, that brought little refreshment, we all determined to make one final effort to rescue ourselves from death in those solitary wilds.

“It was now Friday morning, and with shaking limbs and all the agony of hunger we rose one by ono from our chilly pallets and started once more in the hope of reaching some human habitation, but we were now a starving and broken-down crew. One by one dropped in the snow, to remain there forever. A few took a different course from us, but quickly disappeared, and we knev.’ that they had sunk down upon the cold ground, never to rise from it again. The Captain and myself and Dooley alone remained of the whole eleven who were washed ashore in the life-boat. The Captain did not stand long. Bis feet were frost-bitten so that he had to give up, and we left him behind. Dooly had no boots onnothing but pieces of canvas wrapped around his feet, and his feet were terribly swollen with the frost, and I was afraid I should be soon alone. But Dooley proved himself to be an iron man, and we held on till evening, when we lay down, but it was not long before the joyful view of two human beings approaching' us greeted our sight.” The two men proved to be two travelers from St. George’s bay. They were well equipped with food and other refreshments. A fire was quickly lighted, a refreshing cup of tea prepared, and bread and cold meat produced, which had an almost-magical effect on tho dying sailors. Kadger and his dying companion, Dooley, made a comparatively vigorous effort to get up, and the influence of a warm room had tho effect of reviving their almost-sus-pended animation. Kadger told, in feeble accents, to the welcome visitors the sad story of his own sufferings and tho.se of hri companions. He and Dooley had been ten days without food. They had left the Captain and four other seamen in a ravine some two miles distant. Kadger and Dooley, after being somewhat refreshed by the beverage administered to them, were brought to the nearest settlement and kindly cared for. Immediatelv a party was improvised to go in search of the Captain and the other seamen indicated by Kadger as lying half-frozen in the neighboring ravine. After a very diligent search the locality where these perishing wretches lav was discovered, but all save the Captain were locked in the rigidity of death. The Captain was badly frozen, but still showed sufficient evidences of vitality to warrant the hope that life might be spared. The bodies of the dead were as decently buried in the lone gorge as was possible with the meager means at disposal Capt. Johnson was then carried to the neigh* boring settlement by the rescuing party, but had hardly reached the warm hearths and hospitable homes of the dwellers amid the Highlands, when he died, after hours of protracted agony. It was noticed by the search-psMrty, before burying the companions of the Captain in the solitary gorge where they were found, that the arm of one man was completely eaten to the bone, as if the poignant agonies of starvation had incited the loathsome and abhorrent appetite of cannibalism. Kadger arid Dooley are both badly frost-bitten, and both are suffering from pulmonary congestion. They are likely to follow soon a fter their companions in suffering, and thus complete the round of this terrible tragedy.

Shocking Calamity.

Between twenty and thirty lives were! lost by the burning of the large wall-paper manufactory of M. H. Birge & Sons, in Buffalo. The structure was a five-story brick. 300 feet in depth and 80 feet wide. About iSO men and boys were employed in the building. A dispatch from Buffalo gives the following particular's of the sad disaster : About ten minutes before 6 o’clock one of the meu employed in the third ffcory reported to the foreman. Thomas Henry, who was 'on the floor below, that one of the printing machines was on fire. He speedilv made his way up stairs, and saw the press at; the rear of the room enveloped in flames, which had, by this time, spread to the adjacent woodwork, while the place was filled with dense smoke. As a temperature of 60 degrees is maintained continually throughout the factory, to assist the drying process, and as this had rendered everything as dry as tinder, Mr. Henry realized that the spread of the flames would be terribly rapid, and it was folly to think that anything could be done to avert it. He turned and ordered the employes to fly for their lives, immediately warning as best he could those who were in the fourth and fifth stories, they being principally boys. In the meantime an alarm had been sounded, to which & portion of the department responded, and a second and general alarm brought the remainder. The scene now presented was one that would touch the stoutest heart. The building was wrapped in seething flames. Employes jumped from the highest windows, while many boys in the two upper stories, who had been unsuccessful in their efforts to escape, or became too bewildered to follow the example of their companions, appeared at the windows with white cud terrified faces and frantically shout-

ed for help. But their torture was of brief duration, for, almost simultaneously with their cry for aid, they sank back, overcome by suffocation from the* smoke, and, within twenty minutes from the time the alarm was Hounded, the walls crumbled and fell with a crash. One small boy, whose name could not be learned, courageously jumped from the fifth story, and, catching the telegraph wires, which then gave way, slid down one of them, and escaped with badly cut hands. John Malone, aged 15 years, jumped from the fifth story, struck the sidewalk, and was almost instantly killed. John Fields, employed as overseer among the boys, jumped from the fourth story and was picked tip dead. John T. Berry jumped from one of the upper stories and sustained a fracture of the spine and of both arms. He will probably die, A number of otfiers saved their lives by leaping from the windows of the burning building, but nearly ail of them sustained injuries more or less s vote. As far as can bo ascertained twenty bo\s if not more, were roasted alive in the fire.

USEFUL HINTS.

A person Raving twenty warts claims to have removed them all by applying, two or three times a day, the juice of a common Irish potato. The Journal de Pharmacie gives the following receipt for a mucilage which will unite wood or mend porcelain or glass. To eight and one-half ounces of a strong solution of gum arabic add thirty grains of a solution of sulphate of alumina dissolved in two* thirds of an ounce of water. To renovate black lace mix bullock’s gall with sufficient hot water to make it as warm as you can bear your hand in, and pass the lace through it. It must be squeezed, not rubbed ; and it would be well to perfume the gall with a little musk. Rinse the lace through two cold waters, tinging the last with a little blue. After drying, put it into some stiffening made by pouring boiling water on a very small piece of glue. Squeeze it out, i stretch it and clap it. Afterward, pin it | out on a linen cloth to dry, laying it I very straight and even, and taking care i to open and pin the edge very nicely. | When dry, iron it on the wrong side having laid a linen cloth over the ironing blanket. Pretty window gardens may be made by taking the tin boxes in which mackerel is put up; paint them green or scarlet, and put in such plants as grow well together. When watering them do not use more water than will be absorbed during the day. A few experiments will then enable one to judge correctly in regard to the amount, and it is surprising to see how the plants will thrive iu utter defiance of all the wise things that are said about drainage. The tin or zinc cases in which thread is packed will also, when painted and placed in a stand, make very good window gardens. Water in wliich the gridiron and frying-pan have been washed is an excellent fer- • tilizer.

Keep some strong spirits of hartshorn in a ground-glass-stoppered bottle ; a ' teaspoonful in a table-spoonful of water will clean combs and brushes, and restore colors injured by acids. A weaker solution, applied to ill-smelling feet and arm-pits, removes the odor, and removes grease spots from carpets and clothing. A weak solution in water makes a good wash for the hair, and stimulates its growth when impaired by fever, and cleanses the scalp effectually. A weak solution, scattered over the leaves of plants from a tine, soft, limber brush,' gives new life to plants. Even if a little is sprinkled over the earth at their roots their growth is invigorated. Footstools and ottomans may be manufactured out of old boxes, peck, or half-bushel measures, or long store boxes. Nail old bagging loosely on the top, leaving one side open until you have filled it evenly and plumply with cotton, hay, moss or “excelsior” (a kind of popular shaving made expressly to pack furniture in). Then nail the canvas very tightly all around the sides and over the top, and cover with embroidery, or with material to match the furniture. Cover the edges with gimp or fringe. Nail a piece of oil-cloth over the bottom to make it slide easily over the carpet when moving it. The top may be fastened by a piece of strong leather or hinges to one side of the box and stuffed, and covered and trimmed as described previously ; thus not only the footstool or ottoman is secured, but a box for work and pieces, or anything required. In this case there should be castors on the bottom to move it without trouble when filled.

Singular or Plural?

A correspondent of the New York Tribune protests against a “Cockney solecism” in the use of a plural form for adjectives, as “customs duties,” “burials bill,” “incurable drunkards act.” In English, he argues, an adjective has no plural, and usage is directly against giving it one. We neither say nor write “customs house,” “taxes collector,” “harbors and rivers bill,” “hats rack,” “fugitive slaves bill,” nor “rebels claim.” In England they announce “parcels and cloak room.” If a parcels room, why not a cloaks rooms? and it custom house, why not custom duties? This point would be worth considering if there were much probability of the habit’s growing, but with the single exception of “customs duties,” the combination in this country is not used. This is used probably because “custom” and “customs,” like “duty” and “duties,” have the same meaning, and are used indifferently; that is, the plural form has no marked plural meaning. In both cases it means the toll or tolls Jhat is to be paid, whether there be one or half a dozen kinds. We say either the duty on tea and coffee or the duties on tea and coffee, either an officer of the custom or an officer of the customs. It is certainly to be hoped that the awkward titles to bills, so common in English parliamentary legislation, will not become fashionable in this country. The consideration and division of boroughs bill, the reformation and restoration of eliminate bill, or the transportation and encouragement of emigrants’ bill are distortions of theEnglish tongue that ought not to be tolerated by civilized society.

A Good Snorer.

Gen. George A. Sherman, was journeying from Boston to Washington in a sleeping car, where he had a whole section. He was sitting on the lower birth in the morning, about to put his shoes on, when he was accosted by a kindlooking old gentleman opposite, who was also putting on his shoes, with the inquiry: “My friend, are you a rich man?” George" looked astonished, but answered the pleasant-faced, tired-look-ing, gentleman with a “Yes, lam tolerably rifih.” A pause occurred, and then came another question: “How rich are you?” George answered: “About seven or eight hundred thousand dollars. Why?” “Well,” said the old man, “if I were as rich as you say you are, and snored as loud as I know you do, I would hire a whole sleeper every time I traveled”.

A WONDERFUL COUNTRY.

rk« I>«iT«fopniFiit of lRe flMat Natural Becoarees of the tailed State*. At a meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in New York, Prof. Thurston delivered the address. ‘ ‘Much, ” he said, ‘ ‘remains to be done by the General Government in the development of the resources of this country. The new organization of the geological survey is such iu form and in the character of its administration that we hope to see the work of determining the value of our mineral resources done with maximum rapidity and efficiency. In tracing the progress in the various departments of American enterprise he said that ninety-nine years ago Samuel A. Slater started the first successful cot-ton-spinning mill at Pawtucket, R. I. To-day we raise 1,500,000,000 pounds of cotton to supply mills in nearly every New England State and in nearly every other State in the Union, which manufacture $500,000,000 worth of goods.. “From the day in 17,94 when the first rude woolen-mill was established at Newbury, Mass., our woolen manufactures have grown in extent and in excellence of product, until to-day our 12,000 or 15,000 sets of machinery, handled by nearly 100,00*3 of the most skillful operatives to be found in the world, produce $250,000,000 worth of goods, which in point of cheapness and excellence compete with the best work in Europe.

“We have seen the silk manufacture, after straggling with difficulties of every imaginable sort for half a century finally secure a foothold and enter upon a period of prosperity which is as marvelous as it is encouraging. The enterprise of the Cheneys during the past generation, and the steady persistence of the Paterson, N. J., manufacturers, have borne fruit in the erection of 250 mills, with a production of $30,000,000 worth of silk goods, which in strength and durability excel, and in beauty are fully equal to, the finest products of its French competitors at Lyons. “In the manufacture of iron and steel the story is the same. We have furnaces which are supplied with every variety of the best ores, and are making 2,000,000 tons of pig iron per annum. “By a wise policy of legislative protect ion we are practically free from that foreign competition which threatened to throttle our manufactures iu their infancy. We consume our whole product, and that is nearly 15 per cent, of all the iron used in the world. Of our enormous coal yield, about 50,000,000 tons a year, a large fraction is consumed in making and working this iron, 1,000,000 or more tons of which goes to market as wrought iron in a thousand different shapes. “The growth of our Bessemer steel production is even more marvelous. Twenty years ago this wonderful illustration of the marvels of chemical science was looked upon as merely an interesting and curious process, of no immediate value and of most uncertain promise. To-day a single establishment is making 100,000 tons a year. ‘ ‘The United States is looked upon as the'home of all ingenious and effective labor-saving devices. The Corliss engine has revolutionized the steam-engine manufacture of the world. The class of men from whose ranks the members of this society are principally drawn direct, and labors of nearly 3,000,000 of working people in a third of a million mills, are responsible for the preservation and profitable utilization of $2,500,000,000 worth of capital direct; the payment of $1,000,000,000 of wages; the consumption of $3,000,000,000 worth of raw materials, aud the output of $5,000,000,000 worth of manufactured articles. Fifty thousand steam-engines and more than an equal number of water-wheels turn the machinery of the hundreds of thousands of workshops throughout the country. ”

Fresh Air in the Bed-Room.

How much air can be safely admitted into a sleeping or living-room is a common question. Bather, it should be considered how rapidly air can be admttted without injury or risk, and at how low a temperature. We cannot have too much fresh air, so long as we are warm enough and not exposed to draughts. What is a draught? It is a swift current of air at a temperature lower than the body, which robs either the whole body, or an exposed part, of its heat so rapidly as to disturb the equilibrium of our circulation and give us cold. Young and healthy persons oan habituate themselves to sleeping in even a strong draught, as from an open window, if they cover themselves in cold weather with an abundance of bedclothes. But those who have been long accustomed to being sheltered from the outer air by sleeping in warmed and nearly or quite shut-up rooms, are too susceptible to cold to bear a direct draught of cold air. Persons over 70 years of age, moreover, with lower vitality than in their youth, will not bear a low temperature, even in the air they breathe. Like hot-house plants, they may be killed by a winter night’s chill, and must be protected by warmth at all times. As a rule, we may say that, except for the most robust, the air which enters at night into a sleeping chamber should, in cold weather, be admitted gradually only by cracks or moderate openings; or shouldhave its force broken by some interposing obstacle, as a curtain, etc., to avert its blowing immediately upon a sleeper in his bed. The ancient fashion, however, of having bedcurtains, which exclude almost all the air, has rightly become almost obsolete. No wonder that people dream horrid dreams, and wake in the morning wearied rather than refreshed, when .they sleep in rooms sealed up tightly on every side, breathing over and over again their own breaths, which grow more poisonous in every hour of the night. —American Health Primer.

Before and After.

This is a year before marriage. He is making her a call. He is at the front door ringing for her. He has been thinking all day of her. There are his boots newly blacked, his collar spotless, his form ditto outside, his gloves drawn on for the first time, his hair newly parted and oiled, his face newly shaven, his heart palpitates for her, his neives are nexrvous for her, he fears she may be out or that her parents may object, or, worse than that, some other fellow’ "may be there with her. The door opens. She is there and alone. He is happy. This is a year after marriage. He is ringing at the door. His face is unshaven, his collar much worn, his boots unblacked, his hair unbrushed. He rings again in exactly ten seconds. He gives the bell a strong, petulant pull. He is thinking of her. He is grumbling that 3he doesn’t answer it sooner. He has not all day been tliinking of hex’. He has gone farther, maybe, Jand fared worse. Now she opens it. He pushes past her and remarks, “Takes you forever to answer that bell.” His unbrushed boots sound sullenly as he ascends the stairs.

$1.50 Der Annum.

NUMBER 46.

She follows meekly after. He thrashes into the room and round the house and sings out, “Isn’t dinner ready yet?” She bids him be patient for a moment. But he won’t. Because dinner isn’t ready within one minute after he gets home. Because this is the one year after marriage. Because the bloom is off the rye, the down rubbed from the peach, and various other considerations. Because it’s the way of the world, of man, of matrimony. O Tempera ! O Mores ! O Matrimony 1

POLITICAL GOSSIP.

If Mr. William H. English, of Indidiann, were Vice President-elect, would the Republicans in Congress be striving for the establishment of the theory that the Vice President, and the Vice President only, can ascertain and declare the result of the electoral vote ? First and last, Gen. Grant has drawn from the treasury of the United Sta tes as salary, in one position or another, half a million dollars. No complaint is made that he didn’t earn his pay, but a man who has had half a million ought hardly come back upon the treasury as a mendicant.

The President shouldn’t feel bad about Richard W. Thompson’s forgetfulness of the hostile attitude of the administration on the Do Lesseps scheme. Richard was lulled to forgetfulness by De Lesseps’ fixing his salary as President of the American branch of the Panama Canal Company at $‘25,000. Mr. Thompson, as a constitutional adviser of Mr. Hayes, has been receiving SB,OOO. Of all men, Hayes, who dearly loves a dollar, shouldn’t think harshly of Dick. A great outcry was made by the Republican organs when, the political complexion of the Senate having changed so that, for the first time in twenty years, the Democrats had the organization, they disturbed some of the ancient servants of the Senate who were Republicans, supplying their places with Democrats. This, they said, was an outrage; it was revolutionary, it was hoggish, it was unprecedented. The Republicans are about to take hold of both houses. Does any one, most of all an organ, doubt that the change will be sweeping and complete as to officers? The rural Ohioan sincerely and proudly believes in the superior fitness of the Buckeye for public station. One of them says : “My programme -would be to put Sherman in the Senate, Taft on the Supreme bench, Matthews in the Treasury Department, and to reserve Foster for Pendleton’s seat, and, if there is another place on the Supreme bench for an Ohio man, West would fill it admirably. ” The country has grown somewhat accustomed to this pretense, and is likely to hear more of it. What with the outgoing of Hayes, who will endeavor to make up lost time, and the incoming of Garfield, the Ohio man will loom apace. The Philadelphia Times thus concludes the recent correspondence between Conkling and Bayard : Conkling to Bayard—l hear that you called me a thief. Did you say so? Bayard to Conkling—l did not say that you were a thief. What I did say was that you assisted in the wrongful abstraction of money. Conkling to Bayard—l asked you if you called me a thief. Instead of a plain answer you introduce a new and irrelevant allegation. I demand to know if you called me a thief or not

Bayard to Conkting—l have already told you what I said. My authority will be found in the Congret-sional reports. If there was any mistake I shall be glad to be corrected. Conkting to the Press : Two months ago you Baid that Mr. Bayard had called me a thief. Thus far Mr. Bayard has not retracted the epithet which you said he used. T therefore call Mr. Bayard a liar, and my friends, Messrs. Arthur, Boutwcll and Davis, will assist me. The interesting correspondence is doubtless closed forever, as Mr. Conkling, following the method which, in common with young school-girls, he seems to think most effective, will resolve never to speak to that Delaware man again. The advocates of a nice, agreeable place on the retired list of the army for ex-President Grant, says the Chicago Timed, recall how Jackson retired from the Presidency poor in health and poor in pocket. “I returned home,” he writes to Mr. Trist, “with just S9O in money, having expended all my salary and most of the proceeds of my cotton crop; found everything out of repair, corn and everything else for the use of my farm to buy, having but one tract of land, beside my homestead, which I have sold, and which has enabled me to begin the year (1838) clear of debt; relying on our industry and economy to yield us a support, trusting to a kind Providence for good seasons and a ixrosperous crop. ” The illustration can lardly be said to make for Grant unless it can be shown that his successor in the White House—his personal friend, Mr. Van Buren—took the occasion of aix annual message to recommend that Congress take care of him, or that through his next friend he procured the introduction of a bill placing him on the retired list of the army. Gen. Jackson never permitted his friends to represent him as an object of charity. Shaken as he was in hie old age, he was a grim old soldier to the last, and would probably have regarded $7,000 a year, the income of Gen. Grant, as princely.

The petty partisanship of President Hayes in matters of official appointment has never been more conspicuously shown than in his retirement of Gen. Ord and his transfer of Schofield from West Point, to make room for O. O. Howard, of Freedman’s Bank infamy. No thoughtful army officer wanted Ord retired. He was doing excellent service on the Mexican border. Sherman begged for his retention. Gen. McDowell was an older and less active officer. If one general officer must go to make room for Miles, and thus remove him from the path of Hazen, why not retire McDowell, affording a meritorious Brigadier the chance of promotion? Why, but that Ord had sent a warmly congratulatory telegram to Gen. Hancock upon his nomination, and McDowell, on the contrary, neglected such duties as he had to perform, ostentatiously to make the long journey from San Francisco to New York to vote for Garfield. Schofield was removed because he was supposed to be hostile to the negro, and to supply his place Mr. Hayes selects—whom? The man who saw the negro defrauded of millions of dollars, the fruit of his saving and selfdenial, stood by placidly, and said nothing. The editor wrote “An evening with Saturn,” and it came out in the paper “An evening with Satan.” It was mighty rough, but the foreman said it was the work of the “devil.” Audit looked that way. A San Fbancisco merchant says that he picks up from six to a dozen bullets on liis flat roof every year, a striking illustration of the number of chance snots in the city,

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INDIANA NEWS.

The revised enumeration of Fort Wayne is 26,917. There were $60,174.64 in the Fort Wayne treasury on the Ist day of December. Governor-elect Porter has appointed as liis private secretary Frauk H. Blaokledge. Mrs. Peele, the State Librarian, reports an expenditure in two years of $1,27^ for new books and binding. The oldest man in Washington county is David Voyles. His age is 98 years; and lie lias been a resident of the county since 1816. The widow of the late Gen. Jeff G. Davis has contracted for the erection of a monument at New Albany similar to the Wool monument at Troy, N. Y. Three stone-planers have been purchased by the State House contractors, at a cost of $15,000, which will greatly facilitate the progress of the work next season. Col. Robert M. Goodwin, of Broolcville, has been convicted of the murder of Iris brother, Dr. John R. Goodwin, and will be sentenced to imprisonment for life. An invalid soldier at Madison lias just received $2,800 back pension, and gave the whole of it to liis sister, Mrs. Harry Hoagland, who lias cared for him these many years. Miss Mattie Lafollette, only daughter of Judge D. W. Lafollette, lias been adjudged insane from injuries io her spine by being thrown from a buggy a few weeks since. The old Johnny Fisher homestead, in the suburbs of Craw'fordsville, comprising twelve acres, was sold, a few days since, for $50,000, and will be laid off in town lots. The new’ reservoirA)f the New Albany water-works has been filled, and is ready for use. Its capacity is 6,000,000 of gallons, giving the company a total reservoir capacity of 9,000,000 gallons. Samuel Funk and wife, who had been married fifty-three years, moved from Harrison county (where they bad been early settlers) into New Albany, a few weeks ago, and both died there on nearly the same day last week. The Marion County Court House lias been arranged for the accommodation of the Legislature—one of the Circuit Court rooms for tho Senate, and the room of the Criminal Court for the House of Representatives. The directors of the Prison South met last week and elected officers. Capt. A, J. How’ard, the present incumbent, was re-elected Warden for four years. John Craig was re-elected Deputy Warden, and Matt Huette, Clerk, for four years •ach.

The State Grange met last week, when an annual address was presented by Aaron Jones. Eighty-five delegates were present, representing fifty-seven counties. Statements show nearly 400 lodges in the State, with a membership of 8,000. The Twenty-sixth Indiana infantry held a reunion last week, and celebrated the eighteenth anniversary of the battle of Brairie Grove, Ark., in which engagement the regiment lost in twelve' minutes 202 in killed and wounded out of a total strength of 444. Miss Addie Hay was engaged to te xch school near Jeffersonville, and when the school house was burned the Trustees failed to provide other quarters. Miss Hay has now, by process of law and a Supreme Court decision, obtained her salary for the entire term. The managers of the Female Prison and Girls’ Reformatory report that the number of inmates at the beginning of the year in the penal department was 41; number admitted, 34; total, 75; discharged by expiration of sentence, 22; pardoned, 1; died, 3; number remaining at the -close of the year, 49. In the girls’ department at the beginning of the year there were 147 inmates; received during the year, 42; returned from ticket-of-leave, 4; total, 193; number discharged, 16; released on ti ket-of-leave, 24; escaped, 4, of whom 2 were recaptured; number remaining at the close of the year, 151. The total amount received from the State ti’easury during the year was $22,556.22; the total expenditures were $21,500, leaving a balance in the treasury of $1,056.22. The managers ask additional appropriations of $7,500 for 1880-’Bl, of $40,000 for 1881-’B2, and for 1882-’B3 of $30,000, beside an additional amount for library and sewerage. The Commissioners of the Boys’ Reform School have reported showing that since 1868 the number of boys admitted has been 1,384 ; the number admitted for the year ending Oct. 31, 1879, was 107, and for the year just closed, 149 ; and the number remaining at the close of the year, 338. The appropriation for the year wis $40,000, which, with the earnings of the institution, made a total of $43,544.55. The cost of support, schooling, and maintenance was $35,857.49, which, deducting the amount of accounts held against counties filed with the State Treasurer, leaves the actual cost of the institution from the State treasury only $15,994.87 for the support, clothing, and schooling of the 338 boys, which was the average number present during the year. The board asks liberal appropriations for repairs and for some improvements, but no sum is fixed. The cost of keeping each inmate for the next year is estimated at SIOO.

The report of the Trustees of the Indiana University has been prest ided to the Governor for the years ending October 31, 1879 and 1880. The report for 1879 shows that there was remaining in the treasury at the last annual report $3,000.47, and the amount received since is as follows : Oh account of interest on lands in Newton, Pulaski, Knox, White, Dubois, Martin, and Jasper counties, $1,068.37 ; by endow'raent fund interest, $7,900; semi-annual appropriations, $23,000; contingent fees, 1,669.50, and small sums from other sources, making a total of receipts of $36,487.40. The total warrants drawn during the year amount to $27,951.08, leaving a balance in the treasury of $8,536.32. The total receipts for the last fiscal year, including balance, were $25,466.56, and the total expenditures $24,856.05 ; balance in treasury, $610.51. The Finance Committee of the board recommend the following appropriations for the next year : For salaries of President, professors and assistants, $18,000; purchase of books for library, $3,500 ; salaries of officers of board and janitor, $1,500 ; sa’ary of Trustees, SI,BOO ; lecture fund, SBOO ; contingent expenses, $2,000 ; buildings and grounds, S6OO ; department of natural philosophy, $200; department of chemistry, $000; total, $29,000.