Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. Crowds of students in Berlin celebrated New Year’s day by invading cases frequented by Jews, smashing the windows, and fobbing representatives of the unfortunate race. Dispatches from Lima, Peru, report a fight on the 4th of December in the bay. 'lhe Peruvian launch Urcos was attacked by three Chilian torpedo hnugjhes, and forced to seek shelter under the shore batteries. The Chilians were reinforced, and the engagement became general, After two hours’ righting the Chilian- re. rented for repairs. A fight occurred between the police and a party of armed men in tbe County rihgo, Ireland. Shots were exchanged, and one man was mortally wounded. In Dul-Ilii, two girls were injured by the explosion of a quantity of gunpowder, which had been placed a>j the window-sill of a private house. The Boers have entered Natal, and intend to oppose Sir George Colley's force on the Natal side of the Drackensburg. England has asked permission to march her troops through the Portuguese colony on Delagoa bay. It is officially reported that in the province of Surntoff, Russia, 75(1,000 peasants are starving, and in Samesa upward of 1,000,000 are in absolute want. The armories of the volunteers in the southern part of London are kept under slricguard through rumors of a contcmplateo Fenian raid. Dr. Schliemann has presented his collection of Trojan antiquities to the Emperoi of Germany, to be placed in the Berlin Museum. An effort is being made to induce the German Parliament to adopt custom war duties, whi.h it has hitherto refused to sanction. The deaths of Gen. Moriones, one of the ablest officers in the Spanish civil service, is reported by cable. It is believed at St. Petersburg that lhe Czar intends to confer equality of 4 civi rights on the Poles. A London dispatch announces the death of John Stunhouse, the chemist ; John T. Towson, the noted writer on navigation Baron Simon Von Oppenheim, the head of tin great London broking house of Oppenheim. 4 Bonn; and’ Dr. Frederick Jobson, the eminent Methodist di.ine. A military commissioner, who has been investigating affairs in Ireland, has made his report to the British Government. He apprehends ns organized rising, though such a catastrophe might have occurred had a doterarined leader taken the uecessaiy steps before the country was filled with troops. There is no occasion, in his opinion, to fear that the presence of additional troops will aggravate the disorders, and ho thinks the adoption of strict measures for toe repression of lawlessness will be followed by a peaceful solution of the difficulties, A mob near Claremorris, Ireland, dug « deep ditch to obstruct the passage of police, and threw stones at the officers. A bayonet charge was made, and four persons aro be-" tiered to have been fatally wounded. The funeral of Louis Blanqui, the Socialist, took place in Paris on' the 3rd inst. Thirty thousand people followed the remains to the cemetery, and large crowds lined the streets through which the cortege passed. The ship Indian Chief was wrecked near the entrance of the Thames river. Eighteen persons were drowned and eleven saved. Bonds of tlio Northern Pacific road, to the amount of $10,030,000, having beei put on the market in London, the subscriptions were found to quadruple the sum desired. The English steamer Harrelda and the Spanish steamer Leon collided off Cape Roca, and both sank. A party of survivors fron each vessel landed at Lisbon, but a large num ber were doubtless lost Tbe gun-makers of Dublin are doing an enormous business. Another of the men bayoneted by the police near Caremorris hat died. Thirteen members of the Muliirava branch of the Land League have been arrest ed for “Boycotting.” Largo quantities ot buckshot have been shipped twlreland fron. Loud n. The Pope has written a pontifical letter to the Arclibiohop of Dublin, expressirif. sympathy with the Irish Catholics, out urging them to strictly obey the laws. A care-taker has b< en brutally murdered near Parsonstown, County Louth. The Parliament of Great Britain met on the 6th inst The greater portion of the Queen’s speech was devoted to Irish affairs. - After referring to the prevalent distress and la wle.-sness, it recommends the further development of tho principles of the Irish Land act of ia7o, both as regards the relation of landlord and tenant, and with a view to effective efforts for giving to the people, by purchase, a proprietary interest in the sod. It al.-o annouiftKß that a bill will be submitted for the establishment of county government in Ireland upon representative principles. A dispatch from Borne says the Pope lias sent fresh instructions to the Irish Bishops looking toward the restoration of order. The Judge of Tokio, Japan, was assassinated in the street, on Dec. 17, by a man whose father had been condemned to death fifteen years ago. domestic intelligence. Hlswt. Two miners at Car bopdale, Pa., were taitautly killed by the fall of some coal in their mining chamber. Five members of the family of Samuel Krupp, of Montclair, N.J., died of diphtheria in one week. It was found that fetid gases permeated the sleeping apartments. Ne w lorK has had another fire horror. A tenement house in which eight families lived caught fire at midnight under the stairway, which formed the only means of ingress or egress. In a moment the whole flimsy structure was in flames, and there was no chance for the frightened inmates to escape save by jumping from the windows. Ten women and children were burned to death. Three children were saved by their brother, a boy of 15, who threw them from a third-story window to their mother, who stood in the yard below and caught them as they fell. The boy then jumped and was similarly caught. One oil woman, 80 years of age, jumped from a second-story window with her two grandchildren in her arms. Her leg was broken by the fall, but the children escaped uninjured. A young man gained access to the roof from an adjoining building, and broke lathe scuttle. A little girl who was carrying a baby reached her arm up to him, and he seized it, but the burned flesh parted from the bone, and she slid from his’ grasp back into the flames. Tho scene was appalling beyond description. The pews of the Plymouth (Beecher’s) Church, Brooklyn, were sold at auction, realizing $42,302.

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A loss of $40,000 was incurred by the burning of the Phoenix pharmaceutical works, in Eighty-eighth street, New York. The residence of Elisha Sperry, in New Haven, was robbed of $45,000 in bonds, His nephew has been arrested on anapicion. The Dixon Crucible Company, of Jersey City, has suspended, the liabilities being about $1,000,000. Fowler, Crampton & Co., of New York, sngaged in the importation of chemicals, have made an assignment, their liabilities being $500,000. A fire at Lockport, N. Y.» destroyed the Hodge Opera House and the Gargling Oilbiulding, the loss being $150,000. In the latter structure there were lhe postoffice, internal revenue and telegraph offices. Gov. Porter, of Indiana, was married to Miss Stone, at the residence of the bride’s uncle, Mr. Walter 8. Gurnee, of New York. Only a few relatives witnessed tbe ceremony. By the explosion of a vat of varnish in tin brewery of Peter Dodger, in ew York, four men wore enveloped in slimes and scorched to a degree which leaves no hope for uieir recovery. By the explosion of a boiler in the Allentown (Pa.) rolling-mill, six mon were killed or fatally wounded, and five mon seriously hurt. A mail train on the Passumpsicroad was throw'n from the track, near Newport, Vt., by a broken rail. Mrs. Cushing, of Keene, N. IL, was killed, and twenty others more or less injured. The New York Steck Exchange has 1,100 members. A seat was sold the other day for $30,000. The county poor-house, near Dover, N. IL, caught tire about daylight on the morning of the 7th inst., and was totally consumed. There were 169 paupers in the building, thirteen of wdiom were suffocated or roasted alive. Those who escaped were clothed and sheltered by families residing in the vicinity. The building was an immense brick structure, and lhe pecuniary loss was $70,000, on which there 18 insurance to the amount of $25,000. ’I ho burning of a temporary factory belonging to tho Ansonii Watch and Clock Company, in Brooklyn, caused a loss of j-4(l, 0)0. The caso of Mrs. Sarah E. Howe and lira. Julia A. Gould, the managers of the Woman’s Bank, or Ladies’ Deposit, of Boston, .ns resulted in indictments against both parties. V Bernard McCune, of Philadelphia, vho d siiii-iit' J $200,000 in charities within the ..nir.t ten years, has ended bis days, leaving ;-30O,(‘0O more to forty beneficiaries. The Grand Jury of Washington county, Maine., has brought an indictment against Warren Lougntore, of Pembroke, for the murder of Freeman Wright. Longmore is only 9 years rid and Wright was but 8. vv e»!.. Maj. Ilges had a fight of an hour’s duration, on New Year’s day, with a hand of Uncapapa Eioux, when the latter displayed a dag of truce and formally surrendered. While engaged in dancing, at Addison, Mich., a Mrs. Canfield full to the floor, and her hand was so lacerated by her husband’s boot-heel that she died in twelve hours. E. W. Halford, of Indianapolis, has accepted the editorial management of tho Milwaukee Sentinel. Mrs. Harriet N. Cooper, a negress, who died at Cheltenham, Mo., was 115 years of age, weighed 400 pounds, and was the mother of twenty-five children. Gen. Charles B. Stuart, the eminent :ivil engineer, has just died at the Forest City House, Cleveland. The losses by fire in Chicago in 1880 aggregate $1,164,159. A passenger train on the Chicago, St. Paul and Omaha road, at a curve near Middle creek, Neb., crushed into a party of laborers engaged in enlarging a snow cut, killing six men and wounding one. Bowman & Bleyer, wholesale liquor (eaters in St. Louis, have made an assignment o Isador Bush. The firm owes $>130,000, and diows assets of nearly that amount Over 100 representative men of the It. Louis bar- have signed a petition urging the ippoinlment of Judge Cooley, of Michigan, to die United States Supreme bench. Two brothers named Heilman, at Iturgeon Bay, Wis., lost six children each by liphtheria. At Coal vale, Kan., the dress of Miss Davis caught fire from an open grate, and herself and her mother were burned to death. The Brown murder trial in Indiauapois has ended. Mrs. Brown was sentenced to the Female Reformatory for life. George B. Carpenter, manager of Central Music Hall, Chicago, is dead. A fire at Lancaster, Ohio, destroyed he drying department of the bent-wood works >f Messrs. Neil, Tippet & Killian. The loss ex•ceds $50,000, and 100 men are thrown out of work. Considerable damage was done on Saturday by the breaking up of the ice in the Ohio river at Cincinnati. Fifty empty coal barges were swept from their moorings and carried down the river from ten to twenty miles. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO to $150,000. Houtix. For the first time since its occupation by a civilized race, the ponds and creeks of Southwestern Texas afford good skating. Bishop Atkinson, of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, died at Wilmington last week A party of eight flatboatmen were found frozen to death on their craft, near Port Royal, 8. C. At Henrietta, Tex., the refusal of Mr. Rice to drink with Mr. Curtis brought about a shower of bullets. When the smoke had cleared away the latter gentleman was found dead on the floor of the saloon. Rice was taken for treatment to a doctor’s office, where an assassin finished his career by a shot through the window. Prince Hannibal, the son of an African King, was frozen to death in the recent storm at Warrenton, Va. He owned slaves before the war, and retained them after its close. His devotion to the South caused his imprisonment for some months in the Old Capitol at Washington. The insatiate Jay Gould has gobbled up the New Orleans and Texas railroad, running north from New Orleans to Donaldsonville, La. The cold weather has caused extreme suffering in Virginia. Several unfortunates living in the country have been frozen to death. In Loudon county a cabin was buriol under the snow, and an ol 1 lady and her grandson perished before assistance could reach them. WASHINGTON NOTUS. Gen. Lew Wallace, Governor of New Mexico, is in Washingion trying to secure a modificaticaa of the “posse ooraitatus”

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 18S1.

clause in the Army bill so that he may call upon the troops to break up the bands of outlaws who infest the southern portion of the Territory. Col. Drael Vodges, of the First Artillery, has been retired at his own request He has served over forty yean. Following is the regular monthly public-debt statement issued on the Ist inst: Six per cent bonds* 202,266,550 Five per cents 469,651,050 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four ner cents , 738,42'),400 Refunding certificates 927,400 N avy pension fund.' 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,672,265,400 Matured debt.... .JTv-i..s 11,484,395 Legal tenders 846,741,761 Certificates of deposit... 7,005,000 Frictional currency (sl,5" 2,346 less amount estimated as lost or destroyed $8,375,934).... 7,147,530 Gold and silver certificates’ 52,211,010 I Total without interest 413,135,301 | Total debt 52,099,885,096 Total interest„.... 21,596,379 Cash in treasury 222,209,739 Debt less cash in trea5ury....51,899,181,735 Decrease during December.. .1 .....*... 5,699,430 Decrea-e since June 30, 1880 42,990,559 ' Current liabilities— Interest duo and unpaids 2,208,833 Debt on which interest has ceased 11,484,395 Interest thereon 856,885 Gold and silver certificates 52,241,010 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit.. 7.005,000 Cash balance available Jan. 1, 1881 118,503,615 Totals 222,299,739 Available assets— Cash in treasury■s 222,299,739 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstandings 64,623,312 Interest’accrued and not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States 47,589,861 Interest repaid by companies— Interest repaid by transportation o< mails 14,052,447 By cash payments of 5 per cent of net earnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States 32,882,214 Gen. Walker, of tho Census Bureau computes that in 1890 the United States wit! have a population of 64,467,000. ’ President Hayes has decided to retire six more army officers. It is understood that Surgeon Gen. Barnes and Judge Advocate Gen. Dunn are two -of the number. 4 Nathan Goff, Jr., of West Virginia, has been appointed Secretary of the Navy. He was Colonel of the Third Virginia regiment in the Union army, rising to tho rank of Brigadier General; was four years ago tho Republican nominee for Governor, and has for several years held the position of District Attorney for West Virginia. An important clause in one of the new treaties with China cedes to the United St; te the power to limit, at tbe will of the people, the kind, quantity and season of importation of Chinese labor. On tho other hand, the United States agrees to discountenance the opium trade. Superintendent Walker asks for an appropriation of $500,006 to complete the census work. The War Department has issued an order abolishing dress caps for officers and directing that hereafter helmets be worn, with trimmings to designate the different branches of tue service. Tho color for infantry will be wliite, cavalry yellow, artillery red, and signalservice orange. PObiHCAL POINTS. The Garfield-Morey Chinese letter conies to the light once more in the confession, on the part of the paper that published it to the world, that it is a forgery. The editors of Truth have addressed a letter to Gen. Garfield, in which they say: “ After a searching investigation, in which we have spared neither time, energy, por expense, we have traced the Morey letter to its origin, and ascertained that it is a forgery. This acknowledgment is due from the journal in which that letter first appeared. It is made voluntarily, and as an act of simple justice ; for, while we believed, as we did until a few weeks past, that you were the author of ths letter, no bribe could tempt nor threat intimidate us into m iking a contrary statement. But, having ascertained our error now, it is a gratification to us to give the same prominence to this acknowledgment that we gave to the forged letter itself, and thereby make all the amends in our power for the wrong of which Truth was the unconscious instrument. ’’ Secretary Evarts is reported to have said that Senator B aine will be Secretary of State in Gen. Garfield’s Cabinet. The other members, according to the same authority, arc; Secretary of the Treasury, James F. Wilson, of Iowa; Secretary of the Interior, D. O. Mills, of Oaliforpia; Secretary of War, Senator Don Cameron; Secretary of the Navy, a Southern (Republican; Attorney General, a New York Republican; Postmaster General, an Indiana Republican, Tbe Republican members of the California Legislature held a caucus, on the stb inst., and selected Gen. John F. Miller for the United States Benatorship, Newton Booth receiving five vote*. In organizing the Pennsylvania Senate, E. C. Coxe, Democrat, from Luzerne county, confessed his inability to take the ironclad oath, as he had used money in securing his election. After six informal ballots, the Michigan Republican Senatorial caucus, on the sth inst., nominated Omar D. Conger, who led John J. Bagley by only two votes. President Hayes has nominated Frank W. Palmer to be Postmaster at Chicago, and John B. Sikking at East Bt. Louis. Gen. Burnside is confident that Senator Don Cameron will be Secretary of War. A movement is on foot in California to secure that portfolio for Gen. MaDoweU. In California, Gen. John F. Miller lias been chosen to succeed Newton Booth in the United States Senate ;in Maine, Eugene Halo will succeed Senator Hamlin :in Nevada, James G. Fair will step into Senator Sharon’s shoes ; and hi Missouri, Senator Cockrell will be his own successor. Gov. Murray, of Utah, has issued a certificate of election as delegate in Congress to Alien G. Campbell, the Gentile candidate, on tho ground that J. Q. Cannon was irregularly naturalized. The latter received 18,568 votes ; the contestant 1,357. MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. It is estimated that our production of gold in 1880 was $33,522,182, and of silver $40,005,364. Statistics from the clearing-houses show that for 1880 San Francisco was the only eity showing no increase in business. An expedition of engineers has sailed from Havre to direct operations on the Panama canal, and machinery, provisi ms and labor have bee n ordered forward from New York and New Orleans. Daniel F. Sullivan and Patrick Hayes were hanged in Moyamensing prison, Philadelphia, on Thursday, Jan. 6. Frank Lammens and Margaret Merihoffer were executed at Newark, N. J., for the murder of the woman’s husband. Arthur Murphy was hanged at Pendleton, Qrs., for the murder at F. D. French.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

Litta, the prima donna, will wed Harry L. Cleveland, the tenor of the Slayton Concert Company. Captain Eads has returned from Vera Cm?. He has obtained from the Mexican Government a charter to build a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, and a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land. The newest monopoly is a match syndicate, with a capital of $2,500,000, and headquarters at New Haven, CL Ten large factories have been consolidated, with the intention of controlling the American market. They pay the Government $3,500,000 per annum for stamps. One of the most distinguished jurists at Washington pronounces arbitrary and unconstitutional the action of tho Governor of Utah in issuing a certificate as Delegate to A. G. Campbell. The British ship Laputa was wrecked on a reef near the Tillamook rock lighthouse, near Astoria, Ore., on the night of Jan. 3. It b thought that the whole ship’s company was lost The Manitoba wave vented its rage on Northern Mexico last month. The cotton crop of Durango is thought to have been destroyed. A rival syndicate has been formed at Toronto to construct the Canada Pacific road on terms much more favorable to the Government than those negotiated in England. The Government party claims that the scheme has for its object the forced resignation of the Minis try. DOINGS ’IN CONGRESS. On the reassembling of Congress after the Hoiffay recess, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, the Vice President submitted to the Senate a letter from / Ibn.'‘Garfield declining tho Senatorship from Ohio. Vlr. Ingalls Introduced a bill to provide for the sa’e of a Pottawatomie reservation in Kansas, and Mr. Whyte a jo'nt resolution for the purchase of the <wo-d of George Washington from the heirs of leot-ge Lewis. Mr. Butler offered a resolution calling on Secretary .Schurz for such information as may lie in his pos-ession with regard to the inveetiaden of the alleged census frauds in South Caroiua. Tho motion was agreed to. Mr. Kernan ini’rod need , a bill which provides that the Sccreary of the Treasury shall hereafter cause Co be .c-diied only such an amount" of silver dollars as he may find necessary to meet the l(-maiid-<or them, lhe bill for the relief of Ben iolllday was taken up, but the Senate adjourned without action thereon. In the. House Mr. Springer ntroduced a bill for a new apportionment and for minority representation. Fernando Wood being ill, the Funding bul went over, an-l the louse went into committee of the whole n the army appropriation, which wa« passed. Mr. Warner, of Ohio, assailed the President for the retirement of Gen. Ord. Mr. Reafau explained the features of his substitute for the Inter-State Commerce bill, lhe President nomluated Madison M. Hurley Po»tmr.'-t»r at New Albany, lnd„ and Frank W. Palmer at Chicago. Mr. Eaton reported the Diplomatic Appro’ riaticn bill to the Senate on the morning of Thursday, Jan. 6. The Army Appropriation was read twice and referred. Mr. Vest introduced a bi.l to authorize the construction cf a bridge across the Missouri at Howell’s F< rry, Mo. A prolonged deIrato took place on tbe claim of Ben Holliday, t he Senate, in executive session, took up Gen. Guff a nomination as Secretary of tbe Navy, and immeiiatuly confirmed it without the u-iial reference to committee. The House went into committee of the Alible on the Fiuidit-g I ill. Mr. Kelley insisted up ,n temporary loans rather than an extension of tiie bonded debt. Mr Chittenden favored the repeal of all taxes on the capital or depo its of banks, vlr. Weaver urged the application ot the silver hoard to the extinguishment of bonds. Mr. Chittenden expressed the be.ief that aii.ess the bunks were re.ieved of tax ths 3-pcr-cent. bond scheme would fail. Mr. Fliillips gave notice of i substitute to issue 3-per-cent. treasury notes, redeemable after next year, in regular series. <Jn the opening of the Senate on Friday, Jani, the Vice President subniittet. » request from the Secretary of War that the item fcr recruitiing in the krmy Appropriation bill bo increased to $97,000Vlr. Jonas presented a memorial from W. J. Moore, f New Orleans, stating that William Pitt Kellogg retired his seat by bribery, and asking o bo allowed to testify that he was himc'f bribed. Mr. Burnside introduced a bill to ■uthorize tbe retirement of Brevet Maj. Gen. VVII- - A. Averill, with the rank and pay of Brigadier 3eucial. Tho Consular appropriation, caifiug for JI, 19) ,435, was taken up, and pro.onged debate oc-.-urred on the item of $1,500 for rent of prisons for American convicts in China, which finady got ihrough. The sum of f4,oi)() was appropriated for a C-.aisui General st Bucharest, and tbe bill pa.’sod. Mr. Ferry introduced a bill providing for the establishment of seven additional life-saving stations on Lalies Superior and Michigan, and twenty-eight adilitioiial stations on the Atlantic coast The Senate adjourned to Monday. In tho House, Mr. Springer offered a resolution calling on the Secretar., of State for the fullest information in regard to ihe Halifax award. Mr. Newberry charged that u-auduient testimony had been manufactured by lintrti agents and accepted by the commission, and he party in power in England would willingly reipeii the question. A bill was passed for the relief of Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin. Tbe Senate wag not in Ression on Saturday, lan. 8. The House spent nearly all day in committee of the. whole on tho Funding bill. Fernando Wood, for the Committee on Ways and Means, tiered an amendment to fix tho rate of interest at 3 [ier cent. Mr, Claflin thought it would be dangerous to put a bond of that rate on the maikct Mr. Warner suggested that tho interest be fixed at 2M percent. Mr. Keifer offered an amendment to pay not exceedijig 4 per cent., which was voted down. Mr. Frye said he had lately become convinced that it would be utterly impossible to float a 3-per-cent odnd running iees than thirty years. Mr. Randall cniarked that the outstanding bunds vibrated be•*een e’ ;1 and 3 3 j percent. Fernand > Wood gave Secretary Sherman as authority for a statement that a short certificate could be Coated at 3 per cent Mr. Mills ihouglit $100,000,600 could be saved by letting tue matured debt stand and pay it in five years. Mr. Hawley said that at the present market rates of bonds ■t thirty-year 3 per cent was worth 94 to 96. Mr. Cdnvene thought a 3-per-cent. bond was qiiivalent to 6 per cent -on private loans. Mr. Townshend called attention to the sale of Northern Pacific s's at a p-emium of over 2yr per cent Mr. Felton thought it would bo criminal to perpetuate tbe debt. Mr. Bayne offeied an amendment that the Secretary of the Treasury sell the new bonds at the lowest rate of interest practicable, whie'i was lost. Mr. Hurd declared •pecie resumption a delusion and a snare. Mr. Gllette thought it shameful that Mr. Newberry should admit having received instructions from a national bank. When the committee rose, to limit debate, an adjournment was effected. The Indian appropriate n was reported, which sets aside $4.526 866, of which amount $259,000 is for the transportation of supplies.

Animal Lire Here and Hereafter.

A lively writer propounds and answers a question thus: “Who says animals do not have a future existence? Look at the chicken, for instance, who dies and is cooked, but his feathers on a lady’s hat become a bird of paradise, ” Aside from the humor of the foregoing, there comi s a question: Why should man arrogate to himself the sole right to live hereafter, while all the animal kingdom is to be utterly blotted out of existence? Animals have mind of a certain order, and many human ways, such as exhibiting their love, hate, belligerency, fear, disgust, and tendencies to fun. That delicate and exquisitely organized little songster who sprung from tlie warm clime of the Canaries, evinces intelligence of no mean order, and it is one of the certainties that its fair owner, with her sympathetic nature, does not believe in the annihilation of her pet Human beings kill and devour animals and generally think no more of them. Yet these animals have the same fear of death and the same love of life as man, and upon that very fear and' love in man is based his hope of another life. It is now generally agreed that what has been called instinct in animals is mind, for many of them seem to reason from cause to effect in providing for themselves and their young, and protecting the lives of each from assault. Naturalists are beginning to have some new ideas of criminal existence, and some of them think that when the Creator endows anything with active animal life He does not mean that it shall be utterly dostrojed..—

OUR POPULATION.

Some Interesting- Statistics of Ike New Census. [From the Chicago Tribune.] Tbe total population (exclusive of Indians and the inhabitants Of Alaska) u 50,152,550. The United States is thus shown to be the second most numerous nation in the civilized world. Not counting the negroes, who are estimated to number 6,060,000 souls, the population of this country considerably exceeds that of tbe German empire. Russia only remains in the lead with 65,000,000 inhabitants in tbe empire proper. But these returns are half gue.-tr work, and might be largely diminished or increased by an official count. It is sale to s,y that, unless the growth of the country is checked by rotne unforeseen cause, the population of the United States in ten years will equal or exceed that at present accorded to Russia. The percentage of growth is far higher in tho former thau in the latter. In industrial, social and political [Xiwer tho United States is almost iuiinitely superior to Russia. Indeed, the American r- public fi'is no serious rivalry to fear Hom any quaiter. England is her only equal in financial resources and Germany in fighting lorce ; and tbe situation of the country is sucu that she can have uo apprehension of interference with her domestic affairs by any power or combination of powers. The following tables show the distribution of population by sections, and the relative increase in each division of the country in the last teu years. 'J he States formerly known as the Middle ritates and New England are bunched together. They make a group of nine Eastern States. It will be observed that the rate of growth in Vermont--one-halt of 1 per cent.— has been the lowest of any State m the Union, and that of Maine the third lowest, Nevada coining between. The table of Eastern and JLildie States is as follows : Ter~ Staten. Pop. 1870. Pop. 1880. Increase. Cent. Maine 626,915 648,945 22,03') 3% N.Hamps’ire . 818,300 347.784 29.484 9 Virmoiit.... 330,551 332,2841 1,735 % Hafßachu’te. 1,457,351 1,783,086 325,735 22 lUiodels.’nd 217,853 276,428 59,1’5 27 Connecticut. 537,454 622,683 85.229 16 New York... 4,387,464 5,08.1,173 695,709 16 1 N-c-.v Jersey. 906,096 1,130,892 224,796 25 * • ennsylva'ia 3,522,050 4,282,738 760,688 21>f Total 12.313,534 14,508,115 2,204,581 18 Ohio and all the States and Territories west to the Rocky mountains and north of Mason and Dixon’s line are included in the Second group. The rate of growth in the States apd most of the Territories west of the Mississippi has oeen very rapid. Tho other commumtius in what was formerly known as the Northwest have had a slower, but still healthy, growth. Montana shows a positive loss of population, as does also Arizona, which is included with the Pacific States. The soil of these Territories is for the most part worthless, and their mines have not fulfilled lhe promises that have been made for them. The group of thirteen Northern and Western States and Territories is as follows : oiates and Ter- I Per ritoriea. Pop.lßlo. Pop.lßßo. Increase. Cent. Ohio 2,665,260 3,197,794 532,534 20 Michigan 1,187,2341 1,634,096 446,8-2 38M mdiaua 1,680,637 1,978,858 298,221 18 Illinois 2,539,891 3,078.636 638,745 21 Ai.-consin 1,064.985 1,315,386 250.401 23X Minnesota 446,056 780,807 334,751 75 lowa 1,194,320 1,624,463 430.143 36 Nebraska 129,32 . 452,432 323,110 242 Missouri 1,721,295 2,16.1,091 447,796 26 Kansas; 373,29! 995,335 622,036 166 Colorado 47,164 194,649 147.485 Dakota 40,05! 134,0021 93.951 234 Montana. 39 89." 39,157 ‘738 - *3 Wyoming 11,51- 20,788 9,270 80 Total.. 13,140,92 7,615,494 4,174?567 34 • Decrease. Missouri is put with tho South, though geographically she belongs with tho North. Her social and industrial development has been the same as that of the other ex-slave States, and for that reason she is classed with them. Tho Territory of New Mexico, being the only distinctly southern Territory, is put in tho same group. The table embraces sixteen States and o lie Terri t o r v_: dates andl'er- ' I Per ritory. Pop 1870. Pop. 1880. \ Increase. Cent . I . —— Delaware 125,015 146,654 21,639 17 Maryland 780,894 935,139 154,245 Virginia 1,225,163 1,512,20:) 287,0,0 \Vcst Virginia 412,014 618,193 176,17!* 40 N. Carolina... 1,071,361 1,400,000 328.639 30X S. Carolina... 71)5,601 995,706 290,100 41 Georgia 1,184,109 1,538,98 - 354,874 30 Florida 188,248 266,560 78,318 Kentucky 1,321,011 1,648,599 327,588 Tennessee.... 1,25-,520 1,542,463 283,943 22X Alabama 996,992 1,262, <44 265,352 26 Mississippi... 827,922 1,131,89!’ 303,977 ‘M% Louisiana 726,915 940,263 213,348 29 Arkansas 484,471 802,564 318,09 > 65)4 Texas 818,899 1,597.509 775,6!0 95 New Mexico.. 111,303 118,430 7,127 6 Total 12,268.443 16,457,515 4,189,072 34 The States and Territories west of the Rocky Mountains, seven in number, are classed togother: States and Per Territories. Pap. 1870. Pop. 1880. Increase. Cent. Caifornia... 582,031 864.686 282,655 48M Oregon 101,883 174,767 72,884 71# Nevada 58,711 62,265 3,554 6 Washington. 37,43.' 75,120 87,688 100)4 Idaho 20,583 32,611 12.028 58 Utah 99,581 143,907 44,326 44)4 Arizona 41,710 40,441 *1,26!) ‘3 T0ta1.... 941,031 1 393,797 451,866 48 ‘Decrease. The District of Columbia does not belong to any section. It has a large floating population, which is composed pkrtly of Government officials. It is accordingly put by itself, and appears in the summary which i; appended : p er croup. Pop. 1870. Pop. 1880. Increase. Ct. Eastern 12,303,534 14,508,115 2,204,581 18 Northwestern.. 13,140,927 17,6151,494 4.474.567 34 Southern 12.268.44 ii 16,457,515 4,189,072 34 Pacific 941.931 1,393,797 451,866 48 District 131,700 177,638 45,938 35 38,786,535 50,152,559 11,366,024 29X Alaska...... .. 7u,68f .... Indian Ter... 68,377 38,925,598 .... It will lie seen that Alaska and the Indian Territory aro not included in the statement for 1380. There were in 1870 about 860,000 Indians sustaining tribal relations. None of these are included in the count for purpos. s of representation. When the Indians aud the inhabitants of Alaska are added, it is probable that tbe total population will be found to exceed 50,500,000. ■> The following table shows the relative growth of population in each group from 1860 to 1870, and from 1870 to 1880 : I’cr cent. t‘er cent, increase. increase. 1860-1870. 1870—1880. Eastern group .16 18 Northwestern group 64 34 Southern grouplo 34 Pacific group 9lX <8 District of Columbiaßß 85 General average 22X 29 M There has been a considerable addition, not only to the aggregate population, but to the rate of growth, though the lower average in the previous decade was unquestionably due partly to the war and partly to the defective enumeration in the Southern States. Tho latter cause also gives the South a better showing in the comparative exhibit .than that section under other circumstances wou d have.

Effect of Sunshine.

From an acorn weighing a few grains i a tree will grow for 100 years or more, i not only throwing off many pounds of i leaves every year, but itself weighing i several tons. If an orange twig is put i in a large box of earth, and that earth i is weighed when the twig becomes a I tree, bearing luscious fruit, there will Ibe very nearly the same amount of earth. From careful experiments made I by the different scientific men, it is an ! ascertained fact that a very large part ' of the growth of a tree is derived from i the sun, from the air and from the water, and a very little from the earth ; and notably all vegetation becomes sickly unless it is freely exposed to sunshine. Wood and coal are but condensed sunshine, which contain three important element.; equally essentia! to both vegetation and animal life—magnesia, lime and iron. It is the iron in the blood which gives it its sparkling red color and its strength. It is the lime in the bones whjvh gives them tire

durability necessary to bodily vigor, while the magnesia is important to any of the tissues. Thus it is, that the more persons are out of doors, the more healthy, the more vigorous they are, and the longer will they live. Every human being ought to have an hour or two of sunshine at noon in winter and in the early forenoon in summer.

CITY POPULATIONS.

4 Table Showing the Suinber of Inhabitants in ICS of Our Cities. ! The following is a list of 163 cities of the United States, with their population in 1880, compared with ten years before : ’ 1889. 1870. Albanv, N. Y 76,216 69,422 ABiUtown, Pa 18,162 13,883 Altoona, Pa 19,987 11,611) Allegheny, Pa. 78,472 53.181) Atlanta, Ga 45,iHk) 21,978 Attleborough, Mass 11,H 5 6,769 Atuens, Ohio 16,100 10,006 i Austin, Texas 11,000 4,423 Auburn, N. Y 33,929 17,225 Aurora, 11l 12.007 11,162 | Ba timore, Md 331,000 2'>7,304 t’ay City, Mich 20,650 13,690 I Belevi.lc, Id 1<»,7J2 8,116 i Binghamton, N. Y 17,110 12,692 i B.oomingt.iu, Hl 17,280 14,.V0 B H-tcn, Mass 863,565 250,536 Brook.yn, N. Y 551,465 806,0-J'J Brockton, Mass 13,598 8,007 Buffalo, N. Y 14'.),5-K) 117,714 Bur inztun, lowa. 18;975 14,91.0 Cambridge, Mass.. 51,693 39 631 Camden, N. J 41,714 20,045 Cedar Rapid-', lowa 10,176 5,041 Chariesto.i, 8. C...‘. 49,’-27 48,965 Chester, Pu, 15,038 9,485 Chicopee, Mass 11,327 9,607 Chicago, 11l 503,1’53 298,907 Chillicothe, Ohio 10,972 8,920 Cincinnati, Ohio 255,801 116,289 Chattanooga, Tenn 13,580 6,193 Cletehmd, Ohio 159,404 92,8.0 Cohoes, N. Y 20,122 12,357 Columbus, G" 10,1.12 7 4 1 Columbus, Ohio 51,337 31,2.4 Cone, rd, N.H UMI 12,241 Cauncii Bluffs, lowa 18,..09 10,0.0 Dal as, Texas 33,466 4.50 ' Danbury. Ot 11,610 Davti n, Ohio 39,0' C 80,473 Davenport, lowa 21,885 20, .78 Ocs Moines, lowa 22,698 12,035 Denver, Col. 85,>19 4,7;>9 Detroit, Mica 119,700 79,577 Dover, N. H 17,693 0,2*94 Dubuque, lowa 22,27 5 18,134 East S.iginuw'. Mich 19,1*65 11,351) Erie, Pa 27.222 19,646 Elgin, 11l l'Y'4o W» E izaheib, N. J 28,2il 20,830 Elmira, N. Y 20, >7B 15,863 Fond du Lac, Wis 13,564 12,761 Fail River, Mass 47,883 26,76(5 Fort Wayne, Ind 26,048 17,718 Galesburg, 111...., 11,451 10,158 Grand Rapids, Mich...... 32,0'37 16,507 Galveston, Texas 2a, >SO 13,818 Hami.ton, Ohio 12,300 11,081 Harrisburg, Pa. 30,412 23,105 Haittord, Ct 42,024 87,081 Houston; Texas 16,694 9,-.82 Indianapolis, Ind. ... 75,03 1 48,274 I Jackson, Mich 15,500 11,447 Jackson vile, 111... .. 11,0'39 9,203 Jersey City, N J 105 o’o 82, 46 Kalamazoo, Mich 12,078 11,750 Kansas City, Mo 56,946 32,'J00 Keokuk, lowa 1'2,170 12,766 Kingston, N. Y 18,376 2 ,4.4 Knoxville, Tenn 13.928 8,682 La Crosse, Wis. ...•■>.•••. 16,054 11,01'2 Lawrence, Masq. 39,100 28,921 Lancaster, Pa 25,816 * 20,233 L’faye te, lud 14,791 13,50 a Litt e Rock, Ark 1 >,OOO 12,380 Lincoln, Nob 12,771 2,9 5 Logansport, Ind H,172 B,J>o LoSisvile, Ky 120,506 100.000 Lowell, Mass «‘,2UO 40,9'28 Los Angeles, Cal 11," >0 5,728 Lvnn, Mass. 38 387 28,783 Lynchburg, Va 16,300 6,826 Madison, Wis . 10,427 Manchester, N. H 32,173 23,5 <> Malden, Mars 1‘.’, ,; 04 'i,:)6> Macon, Ga L,695 10.810 Manboiough, Mass 10.141 8.47 a ' Memphis, Tenn 33,203 40,223 I Meriuen, Conn 18,108 15,595 Milwaukee, Wis 13 ,000 71,44-) Minneapolis, Minn 48,3’23 12,066 Mobile, Ala 35,037 32,034 Muskegon, Mich 11,300 Nashvi le, Tenu 48,377 2 >,86.> Nashua, N. 11.. 13,453 Newark, N.J 135,983 10.> 059 Newberg, N. Y 18,075 17,014 Near A.bauy, Ind 17,509 15,386 New Haven, O nu 6:-<,otio 60,810 N’-w Orb an“, La;... 215,123 15)1,418 New York, N. Y 1,2>-6,577 942,292 Norwaik, Conn 14,'i00 1'2,120 Norristown, Pa 13,2'0 10,75 > New Castle Va 10,292 ,y , - > 99 New Brunswick, N. J 17,311 l-a,055 i Oakland, Cal 35,000 10,51)0 Omaha, Neb 30.605 1< ,08: Oswego, N.Y 20,732 20,'910 Ogdensbmg, N. Y I'i,2i7 10,176 Oshkosh, Wis 15,758 1'2,643 Iphrson, N. J 58,000 38,5,<j Pawtucket, R. I r>».-30 1 2.000 Peoria, (1) 31,708 2'2 859 Philade pbia. Pa 847,552 074,622 Pittsburgh. Pa 121,977 86,076 Pottsville, Pa.... 13,246 J?> : >34 Portland, Me 33,765 Poughkeepsie, N. Y 20,203 20.080 Providence, R. I J04,"'00 68,914 Quincy, Mass 10,571 ',-132 Qu ncy, 111... 27,428 21,052 Racine, Wis 16,043 Reading, Pa 43,230 *®,9-»0 Richmond, Va 62,500 »1,038 Rock Island, Hl H.« 14 L 89.) Rockford,! 1 13,088 ll»049 Rochester. N. Y 8 Rome, N. Y 12,045 11.000 Rutland, Vt 12,223 . *O9O San Jo-e, Cal 12,6.15 9,089 Sacramento, Ca 1...- 21,352 ]6,28i San Franci-'CP. C il 233,066 Hp,478 San Antonio, Tex 20,594 , 1 7 > 5'>6 Sanduskv, Ooio 15,000 lj (XX) Saginaw C.tv, Mich 10,430 10,0 '4 Salt Lalo, Utah 11,000 r_ 12,000 ! Savannah, Ga 30.767 28,235 | Scranton, Pav. 45,756 35,072 I South Bind, Ind 13,492 7,196 I Stamford, Conn 11,319 9,724 I Springfield, 11l 19, 83 17,361 I Springfield, Ohio 20,500 12,652 Springfield, Mass 33,139 2(5,703 St. Louis, Mo 350,915 310,861 St. Paul, Minn 41,619 2 •,<> HI St. Joseph, Mo 3">,‘.’09 17, >65 Bt. Augustine, Fla 20,350 11,75-1 Syracuse, N.Y 52,210 43,031 Stockton, C<L> 1",066 10,000 Terre Haute, Ind 26,516 10,103 Toledo, Ohio 53,635 21,584 Trenton, N. J 30,500 32,874 Troy, N. Y 56,594 46,465 Utica, N. Y 38,923 ' 28,8 ‘4 Vicksburg, Miss 11,(560 12,443 Waltham, Mas”, 11,801) 9,055 Washington, D. C 160,000 109,199 Wheeling, W. Va 31.600 19,280 Weymoirth, Mass.. . 10,560 9.010 Watertown, N. Y 10,615 9,336 Woonsocket, R. 1..... "16,000 11,527 Waterbury, Ct............ 22,000 10,826 Wilkesbarre, Pa 23,340 17,264 Wilmington, Del 43,000 30,841 Wilmington, N. C. 17,603 13,41(5 Winona, Minn 10,187 7,200 Worcester. Mass 68.233 40.105 Woburn, Mass...'. 10,782 8,5' - >0 I Yonkers. N. Y 18,924 17,269

A Street-Car Scene.

An amnsing incident occumfd on a street-car the other day. A woman of fifty, made up to look about twenty-five years old, got aboard at a crossing to find every seat occupied. She stood for a moment, and then selecting a poorlydressed man, about forty-five years of age, she observed: “Are there no gentlemen in this car?” “Indeed, I dunno,” he replied, as he looked up and down. “If there ain’t, and you are going clear through, I’ll hunt up one for you at the end of the line.” There was an embarrassing silence for a moment, and then a light broke in on him all of a sudden, and he arose aud said: “You can have this seat, madam. I am alius willing to stand up and give my seat to anybody older than myself. ” That decided her. She gave him a look which ha will not forget to his dying day, and, grabbing, the strap, she refused to sit down, even when five seats had become vacant.— New York Herald.

Boys as Mechanics.

Almost all boys are naturally mechanics. The constructive and imitative faculties are developed, in part, at a very early age. All boys are not capable of being developed into good, practical working mechanics, but most of them show their bent that way. There are few cases in which the boy has no competent idea of the production of a fabricated result from inorganic material, but such cases are. Given the proper encouragement and the means, and many boys whose mechanical aptness is al-

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lowed to run to waste, or is diverted from its natural course, would become good workmen, useful, producing mem bers of the industrial community. The mechanical boy ought to have a shop of bis own. Let it be the attic, or an unused room, or a place in the barn or wood-shed. Give him a place, and tools. Let him have a good pocket knife, gimlets, chi els, gouges, planes, cutting nippers, saws, a foot rule, and material to work. Let the boy have s chance. If he is a mechanic it will come out, and he will do himself credit. If he fails he is to follow some calling that does not demand mechanical skill. .

TRUISMS.

Never laugh at an indecent jest None but a fool is always right. He that sips many aits, drinks none. Withhold not the wages of the poor. To fear the worst, oft cures the worst. Some persons mistake noise for argument. They that govern most make least noise. He who too much fears hatred is unfit to rule. Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo. Mediocrity deals much in relating stories. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Envy shooteth at others and woundeth herself. “They Say,” is often proved to bo a great liar. Better face a danger once than be always in fear. Slight small injuries, and they’ll become none at all. He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. Thought is the poetry of those only who can entertain it. Simpering and boisterous mirth are alike disagreeable. Fortune’s favorites, like cats, light forever on their legs. The young will sow their wild oats; but prevent it, if possible. A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men. Let not the stream of your life always be a murmuring stream. A straight line is the shortest hi morals as well as geometry. Politeness is the just medium between form and rudeness. Never be offended at the presentation of a bill; that is business. The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. There are always two sides to a story; hear both, and then decide. Hope is the dreeam of a waking man: if hope be lost, all seems lost. An honest man is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. Borrowing money is a bad habit; and borrowing trouble is no better. He who buys what he does not want will soon want what he cannot buy. Characters never change; opinions alter; characters are only developed. Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them. Difficulties between step-mothers and children are often aggravated by outsiders. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them. The conditions of success are threefirst, work; second, concentration; third, fitness. Make a conscience of promptly returning borrowed books, and umbrellas, especially. Friends should not be purchased with gifts; when you cease to give their friendship will cease. * Thei|e are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. True politeness consists in doing to others what, in like circumstances, we would have others do to us. The government of a nation demands a certain harmony like 4 music, and certain proportions like architecture. Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, and with this we are too apt to satisfy ourselves/ We blame inconstancy in woman, but only when we are the victim. Wo find it charming if we orc the objext. There are some persons on whom their faults sit well, and others who are made ungraceful by their good qualities. He who has no taste for order will be often wrong in his judgment and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. Those who, without knowing us, think or speak evil of ns, do no harm; it is not us they attack, but the phantom of their own imagination. The nice arrangement and proper appropriation of time is a science almost as valuable as any of the seven, and as important to acquire. Strength of resolution is, in itself, domination and ability; and there is a seed of sovereignty in the barrenness of unflinching determination.

Well, What of It?

A Galveston man deposited several thousand dollars in a local bank, and drew dh it as he needed it Yesterday he happened to meet his banker, and that gentleman stopped, and said rather excitedly : “You have overdrawn your account by several hundred dollars/’ “Well, what of it? It is my account. I reckon I can do what I please with my own account. This iß>* free country.” “Yes, but you owe me several hundred dollars.” “Well, suppose I do. You owed me ten times as much for ever so long, and I didn’t make a fuss about it.” The depositor passed on, leaving the banker standing on the sidewalk in a dazed condition of mind.— Galveston News. Germany leads all nations in forest culture. Italy has a system of forest laws. Austria has adopted a system of forestry. The French forests are under the care of the ministry of finance. The cantons of Switzerland are planting trees. Great Britian has planted thousands of acres with oaks. Russia proposes to re-forest various sections of barren country. Sweden has several laws regulating the cutting of timber. Even India has reserved and made inalienable large tracts of Government forests. Can we not take a lesson from the experience of these nations, and begin without delay to do our duty in this line of tree planting? Let our Legislators tire subject {intention.

ffemotrafif §tnfinei JOB PRINTING OFFICE fim better tacilltiM than any office In NorthweeUr* Indiana for the execution of all brauchaa ol * JOB FFIINT INTO, PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prlce-Idet, «r frm f nuiphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plain or laucy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Thursday, Jan. 6.—Senate.—-The Senate was called to order by Aui.it tof State Manson, and immediately after the new Senators were sworn in. Sen itor Vieho, of Knox, Democrat, was elected President pro fem., only one vote in the negative and one other not voting. On the ballot for Principal Secretary, Rico received 25 votes and Wilson 25, Davis and Majors voting with the Democrats and Pomdexter with the Republicans. This continued for four ballots, and then the Senate adjourned until to-morrow morning. House.—Julge Elliott, one of the recently •looted Judges of tho Supremo Court, administered the oath, after which the caucus nominees were duty elected, as follows: Speaker, W. M. Ridpatb, of Clay: Clerk, Cyrus T. Nixon, of M rion; Assistant Clerk, Clinton C. Ihley, of Marion; Doorkeeper, Owen Evans, of Henry. The Democrats cast their votes f<r the officers of the last session. CTho count of the ballots showed the strength of the political organizations to be as follows: liepnlilicans, 58; Democrats, 41; National, 1. Assist-ant-Secretary liiley made the following appointments: Minute Clerk, James F. llrver, of Logansport; Journal Clerk, Richurd W. Dormer, of Richmond; Copy Clerks, W. W. Gainer, of Knox, and E. 0. Johnson, of Union. Friday. Jan. 7.—Senate.—The dead lock in the organization of the Senate still continues, though several attempts at compromise were made. Senator Bell, of Allen, introduced a resolution which provided for the election of Janies H. Rico as win -ipal Secretary, Robert Spars, of Vermillion, as Assistant, and C. Y. Monroe for Doorkeeper. The resolution was lost by the usual tie vote—2s to 25—and, nominations for Secretary being m girder, Rice and Wilson were again named, while Poindexter, Greenbacker, varied, the monotony by nominating Charles W. Brouse. The vote stood 25 for Rice, 24 for Wilson and 1 for Brouse—no choice. Another ballot was taken with a similar result, when an adjournment took place until 2 o’clock. Upon reassembling, Senator Brown, of Jackson, offered a resolution that the nominee receiving the highest number of votes should bo declared the Secretary. Tins was lost by n tie vote. Three members were appointed to assist in preparng for the inauguration. An effort to adjourn “hen failed, when Senator B 11 moved that Greenbacker Brouse bo*.chosen Clerk, the vote standing 27 to 23, Benz and Brown, Democrats, voting uguinst bun. A second ballot resulted similarly, when the Senate adjourned. House.—The time of the lower House was occupied jirincipally in a discussion of the, contested-election ease of Hazlewood-Hun-niond, from Crawford and Orange. It was finally referred to a comniittco of five. An appropriation of $125,000 was voted for the expenses of the sesdon. Clerk Nixon announced for Reading Clerk, W. L. Taylor, of LaGrange ; Registry Clerk, Thad Butler,’of Wabash. Saturday, Jan. B.—Senate.—After tho-ap-pointment of two or three routine committees, Senator Foster, a Democrat, made an iuo ffoctual effort to pins hik re ohition for a committee of three Democrats nnd three Republicans to propose a eiknpromise candidate for Principal Secretary. Senator Menzies, Democrat, nominated Joel P. Hoatwale, a Republican. Heatwale was defeated by a vote of 18 to 28. Tnoa Charles W. Brouse, tho Greenback call iidate, was put in nomination. Then Heatwalo was again nominated by a Democrat, giving tho Republicans a second opportunity to elect a Se rctaiy, but tuev voted lor Wilson. On tho next baiiot Mr. Benz voted with his Democr itic associates, electing Brouse by a vote of 25 to 23 cast for Wilson. After Brouse’s election tho two remaining offices were quickly filled, * Robert B. Sears, of Vermillion county, the only candidate nominated, was elected Assistant Secretary by 45 votes, 2 being cast for Mr. Robbins. Mr. Sears was nominated from tho Democratic bonobos. Allen W. Monroe, nominated from tho Republican side, was elected Doorkeeper, recoiling 30 votes, Mr. Rich Hiiuciieou, Mr. L. D. Attunson, and Mr. J. K. Gowdy, each received 3 votes, and Mr. Ed Hawkins 2 votes. The Senate, having organized, adjourned to meet at 2 o’clock in joint session with tho House to hear the message of Gov. Gray.

A Desperate Threat.

A wag, having held a nice fat office for many years undisturbed, suddenly found himself called to account for some trifling discrepancies, and dismissed. Ina terrific rage he left tlib scene of his disgrace, and, shaking his fist at the witnesses against him, exclaimed: “Thisis not tho end of it I Tho consequences be upon your own heads if this results in murder ! ” He was at once arrested for threatening the life of a witness, but was released amidst shouts of laughter, when he explained, saying: “ Gentlemen, I am a regularly graduated physician. In the t wenty years I have held office my profession has been sadly neglected. In consequence ol present necessity I am forced to resume that profession to support myself.” It is sale to say that he did not win patients from among his audience by his frank confession, if ho did get the laugh on his enemies.

How to Be Nobody.

It is easy to be nobody, and wo will tell you how to do it. Go to the drink- * ing saloon to spend your h isure time. You need not drink much now-just a little beer or some other drink. In the meantime, play dominoes, or something cli/e to kill time, so that you will be sure noK to read any useful books. If you read anything, let it be the cheap novels of the day ; thus go on keeping your stomach full, and your head empty, and yourself playing time killing games, and in a few years you will be nobody, unless you should turn out a drunk aid, or a professional gambler, either of which is worse than nobody. There are any number of young men hanging around Bar-parlors, just ready to graduate and be nobodies.

Precautionary.

As the Buffalo express was whirling along the Erie, a queer looking old man, who might have escaped from the curiosity department of the Historical Society, got up from bis seat in the sleeping car and shouted: “Is there a doctor in the car?’’ Commotion and excitement immediately ensued, and us there was no medical man in* that particular car, several passengers hurried through the train and finally found one. “What's the matter?” he said to the little old man. “Nothing,” said he, “but in case I’m sick and yell out like thunder in my sleep, my bunk’s numbered twenty; now don’t you forget it!”

Boarding-School "Edification."

“Where is that boy of yours?” asked a lady of her colored servant. “Bill is requirin’ his eddification al a boardin’-school. ” “I didn’t know thero was u colored boarding-schixil in Galveston!” “Bill didn’t know it nudder (ill he sassed de teacher. Ho foun’ it out my' quick den, for de teacher yanked a board often de fence and whacked Bill till de nabors ’lowed dar was a safe being blowed open.”— Galveston News. Tire new Warner observatory which is being erected at Rochester is attracting much attention in social and literary as well as scientific circles. The new telescope will be 22 feet in length, and its lens 16 inches in diameter, thus making it third in size of any instrument hectoforc manufactured, while the dome of the observatory is to have some new appliances for specially observing certain portians of the heavens. It is to be the finest private observatory in the world, and has been heavily endowed by Mr. Warner.