Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East The Flint Mills, at Fall River, Mass., were almost entirely destroyed by fire. The mills ran 50,000 spindles, and produced annually 13,000,000 yards of print cloths. The property was valued at SBOO,OOO, on which there was insurance for $600,000. The Eureka Cast-Steel Company’s works, at I,amokin, Pa., were burned. The loss. ($150,000) is covered by insurance. Tom Allen, ex-champion pugilist, through his backer, Richard K. Fox, expresses a willingness to meet John L. Sullivan in the ring for large stakes. The debut of Mrs. Langtry in New Yoi k was postponed for a few days by the destruction by fire of the Park Theater, in which she was to make her first appearance on the American stage. About four hours before the curtain should have raised on the Jersey Lily the theater took file from some unknown cause, and was totally destroyed with its contents. The loss falls heavily upon Mr. Henry E Abbey, the lessee of the theater, who suffers to tho extent of SIOO,OOO, and his insurance is but $I0;5'0. The total loss on the building—in which several s ores were located—and contents is $280,020. The Grand Opera House was immediately engaged by the enterprising manager for the debut of Mrs. Langtry. Gov. Cornell, of New York, has appointed Jennie Turner, of New York city, a Notary Public. This is the first instance of the kind in the State. • Judge Endicott, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, has resigned, ami will be succeeded by Judge Colburn, of the Superior Court of Boston. Pear treesand pea vines are in bloom in Boston suburbs, and one gentleman picked gr een peas a few days ago. The skeleton of a Frenchman named Goodenough, who disappeared in the vicinity of Moosehead lake, Me., last spring, was found a few days ago in a beartrap, in which he had been accidentally caught and starved to death. A loaded coal-car, on which there were a number of workmen, dashed down an incline from Mclntyre’s mine, twenty-five miles from Williamsport, Pa., resulting in the instant death of' three persons, the mortal wounding of two and the severe injuring of many others. Two heavy failures are reported from New York: Henry Graff, boot and shoe manufacturer, with liabilities of .$2,000,000, and Richardson, Boynton A Co., stove manufacturers, whose preferences amount to $634,0 0. Patrick Carey, a New York ’longshoreman, who was crippled for life by an accident in a Gurnard steamer, sued for $30,000 damages, and war awarded $15,020 by a jury. , William G. Ru sell, paying teller of a Philadelphia life insurance and annuity company, has decamped, his accounts showing a deficit cf $20,000. W est. While steaming north on Lake Michigan, in search of tows, the tug Wetzel, of Racine, Wis., exploded, instantly killing Cai t. Frank F. Lovell; the engineer, William Kelley, and the fireman, Tat White, the on'y persons on board. The accident occurred about sixteen miles north of Racine, and three miles off shore. A small board, bearing the name of the boat, was the largest piece of debris found in the water. The bodies of the victims were torn into shreds. After listening to the testimony of a large number of witnesses, a Chicago jury declared Mrs. Scoville, the sister of Garfield’s assassin, to be a fit subject lor a lunatic asylum. Seventy-five thousand dollars’ worth of lumber was destroyed by fire at East Saginaw, Mich. It was covered by S69,(XX) insurance. A great portion of the business section of Truckee, Cal., was destroyed by fire. The accident was attributed to carelessness of employes in Mink’s brewery, and there was some talk of lynching the proprietor. Judge Gresham, of the United States Circuit Court at Indianapolis; has given judgment against a railroad company for $6,1 (X) in the suit of a brakeman whose arm was ciu-hed in consequence of the coupling apparatus being out of repair. Judge Hunter,"at Salt Lake City, denied a writ of mandamus to oust polygamist officials under the Edmunds law, and great excitement has resulted. The Gentiles assert that Hunter has been purchased by the Mormons, and demand his removal. J. A. Arculetta, of Farmington, New Mexico, a prominent banker, merchant and Justice of the Peace, went to the neighboring town of Conejos on business, and, becoming intoxicated, got into a row with Deputy Sheriff Blanatt and killed him. Arculetta was arrested and jailed,from whence he was shortly after taken by a mob of Mexicans and hanged to a tree. Isaac Newsbaum closed his earthly career at Wabash, Ind., at the good old age of 107 years. Episcopal Bishop Talbot, of Indiana, finding himself Incapacitated for the performance of his official functions, has decided to offer his resignation to the House of Bishop 3. Frank James does not bear up well in confinement, and is looking pale and ill. There are three ind etments standing aga nst* him, but it is uncertain when he will be brought to trial. Reports from the States of Missouri, ’ Kamas, Nebraska and lowa indicate that the corn and hog crops of the present year will be materially larger than those of 1881. Judge Hayes, of the District Court of Davenport, has ruled that the lowa prohibitory amendment adopted by popular vote in June last has not been legally made a part of the constitution of lowa, chiefly on the ground that the records of the Legislature relating to the amendment are incomplete, and i hat material differences exist between the amendment passed in the Senate and that adopted by the House. Dr. D. F. Collins, of Minneapolis, whose brother was the scientist of the Jeannette expedition, and wl:o starved to death with the De Long parly, makes serous charges against Engineer Melville, and holds him responsible for the death of De Long and his party. Dr. Collins charges Melville with gross negligence and heartless indifference in failing to organize an efficient , and suitable party for the search and relief of the Jeannette survivors. J. W. Simonton, for many years gen-, er i ag nt <f tho Asso iated Press a‘ New York, d d sudd ny ;t Napa, Cal, o he rt dis tse. South.. Citizens of Texas, having walked into

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the nets set by swindling marriage-insur-ance associations, are holding indignation meetings to denounce those who have profited by the frauda Five children of different families living at Houston, Texas, picked and ate locust beans while rambling in the wooda All were taken violently sick, and died in a few hours. Sixty thousand people witnessed the grand parade at Richmond, Ya, on the eve of the opening of the Virginia State Fair. The display far surpassed all similar eventa Violent earthquake shocks lasting five minutes were felt at Fort Smith, Ark. The shocks were preceded by rumbling noises. Dick Liddel, tried at Huntsville, Ala., for conspiracy connected with the robbery of Alexander Smith, at Muscle Shoals, Ala., in August, 1881, was found guilty, although he proved that he was in a distant part of the country at the time of the robbery, which was committed by Jesse and Frank Jamea Ex-Gov. James F. Robinson, of Kentucky, died at his home in Scott county, that State. He was bom in the same county, Oct. 4,1800. The October crop reports for Tennessee are now roseate in the extreme. All farm products have yielded more generously than ever before.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Twenty-two persons were drowned by. tho stranding of the steamer Gulf of Panama on the shores of the island of Texel, lii the German ocean. The foreign mails sent ont of the United States during the fiscal year just ended exceed those of the previous year by 452,000 pounda The United States stands at the head of all countries in the number of its ppstoffices. An organization has been incorporated at Boston for the colonization and development of Palestine. The association believes it can be made the center of the world of commerce, as it is now geographically, and proposes to run a line of packets between Boston and its principtll ports. A construction train ran into a flat car ne.ir Charleston, IV. Va., and three men were killed. Madame Adelina Patti arrived in New York accompanied by Nicolini, to whom she was married in London for the sec md time a few weeks since, a previous marriage having taken place in the Greek Church in Paris about six years ago. Eddy’s and other mills, at Hull, opposite Ottawa, Ont., were swept away by fire, entailing a 'oss of $500,009.

WASHINGTON NOTES; A general naval court-martial has been ordered for the trial of Capt. Alfred Hopkins on the charge of unofficerlike conduct in having deserted his post at the navyyard of Pensacola upon the first approach of yellow fever. Judge Advocate General Swaim holds that officers of the army who refuse to pay their debts are liable to civil-law processes, and that where their acts bring discredit on the army they constitute sufficient cause for CTurt-martial. The Fish Commissioners have 1,000,000 carp ready for transportation. The estimates of the various departments for the next appropriations, says a Washington telegram, are very much later in being made up than usual. So far the only Cabinet officer who has sent to the treasury".complete estimates is Secretary Teller, of the Interior Department The estimates for salaries for most of the departments will be larger than last year, owing to the increase in clerical force. The estimate for the pension roll is just the same'as last year, being a round $ 100,000,000. There will also be a deficiency, but the amount is not yet determined. The increased apportionment considerably swells the expenses of Congress, estimates for which are made up. Commissioner McFarland, replying to questions of a land attorney, says, relative to the location of soldiers’ homestead rights on non-cont guous land, that the Land Office does not construe the law so as to require the trad s entered to be conliguous. In regaid to homesteads, he holds that it is a fundamental principle of law that the entries be made only 3 for the use, occupation and benefit of the homestead party. The annual report of Health Officer Townsend, of the District of Columbia, shows that the total number of deaths for the year reached 4,751; excess over the total of last year, 435; or at the rate of 1.64 per 1,000 of population. Of the deaths 2,353 were white and 2,218 colored, showing an annual death-rate of 18.91 per 1,000 per annum for white, 34.53 for colored and 24.23 for the total population. FOREIGN NEWS. A hurricane has almost completely destroyed the village of Grindelwald, Switzerland. Patrick Egan, Treasurer of the Irish Land League, enters a specific denial of the charge made by the Irish Times, of Dublin, that funds of the League had been wrongfully paid to members of the Irish Parliamentary party. The German Government is endeavoring to arrange an amicable understanding between England on one side and the Porte and France on the other, in regard to Egyptian affairs, in which it is proposed that France shall renounce her claim of a right to Interfere in Egyptian affairs, and in return for such remuneration France is to be compensated by the annexation of Tunis. Great excitement was caused in dramatic cit cles m Paris because the critic of the Figaro asserted in his paper that the actors and actresses of the French metropolis better deserve to be imprisoned in the galleys than to be decorated. Bernhardt’s husband sent the critic a challenge, and Sarah in isted that her son should also try his hand .at correcting the alleged defamer of the profession. The election in Italy resulted favorably to the present Ministry. The Dublin Freeman declares that it is the policy of the Irish party in the House of Commons to vote against any form of cloture. A storm on the coast of Southern Spain resulted in the wrecking of many vessels and the drowning of twenty-four fishermen, whose families are left destitute and helpless. Heavy rains in England caused widespread inundation, particularly in the Thames valley. Railway traffic was suspended, and the damage to property has assumed large proportions A ript in a Socialist meeting at Lille Is attributed to the Gambettista, who hope

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to profit politically by the disorders in Franca The disturbance was suppressed by the police before It had reached dangerous proportions. Coccapieller, the agitator elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, was until recently a circus-rider, and bears a bad character. Seven persons were arrested at Lyons upon ch rges of murder and the illicit manufacture of dynamite. The Paris workmen have decided to boycott som? trade pe >p'e. Parnell was granted a decree of ejection at the Wick ow (Ireland) sessions against three tenants on his Avon lale estate who owe four year? rent, am unting to £179. Trevelyan, the Irish Secretary, stated in Parliament that the reports of distress in Western Ireland were greatly exaggerated. The Government Board does not apprehend any privation among the people. Official denial has been made of the reports that the Sultan secretly connived at the actions of Arabi Pasha in Egypt. The Sultan desires an early and open trial of Arabi, and will not interfere in the finding of the court. A London journal announces that, in return for the support of the Irish members of Parliament on the cloture measure, Gladstone will introduce new legis ation for that country, embracing a system of pea-ant proprietary, extension of the franchise and a scheme for local self-govern-menl The Italian Ministry will have a majority in the next Chamber of not less than 400 votes. Twenty ships were lost and more than 100 sailors were drowned during the recent typhoon in the Philippine islands. Turkey is in a bad way financially. Next year’s budget will show a deficit of $50,(00,000. Things are shaping toward the possibility of another foreign control for a part of the Sultan’s domain. The southern and western sections of England l ave b en visited by a d va ta irt wind andrain-st rm, flooding th; country, washhfg away 1 ridges and railway tracks, and d mo ish ng dxelh gs. A declaration was adopted by the Opium Cc.n . r'S u I ond >n, affirming the right of the Chinese Gov mm nt to deal with tho op am question w thout being subject <1 to diplomatic pressure. A dynamite factory has been discovered by the French police at Charales. The great number of fires that have occuired in Russia of late has caused an advance in rates of insurance. Gibson’s amendment in the British Parliament making n£ces-ary a two-thirds vote to put the cloture in operation was defeated, and a simple majority only will now place the objectionable act in force. The Anarchist organ in Paris asserts that outcasts will soon bfi placed in the houses of the bourgcoise, where they will find food and clothing, and destroy important documents, particularly deeds, bills and titles to property, so that the owners can make no claim for compensation, and with beside, lose trace of papers connected with their estates.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Three hundred and ninety-five Mor - mon immigrants arrived at New York one day last week, in charge of twenty-eight missionaries. They left for Salt Lake in the evening. Last week’s business failures in the Un ted States numbered 151, and increase of, st venteen over the week e. ded Oct. 28, and nin teen more than in the corresponding pe. iod in 1881. Ten-dollar treasury note counterfeits, of the series of 1875, letter C, are very plentiful in the East The bogus bills are easily detected upon a little scrut ny. Kansas farmers have completed the sowing of their winter grain, which in some sections lias already sprouted, and is looking healthy. An in leased area has been sown. Mrs. B. Mitchell, daughter-in-law' of Alexand r Mitchell, died suddenly at the Newh 11 House in Milwaukee. Ex-Gov. Willard P. Hall, of St. Joseph, Mo., is dead. There are rumors among the acquaintances of the Seguin family in New York, that the receht tragedy was,the result of religious differences between Dr. and Mrs. Segu n. The doctor was a skeptic, while his wife was a professed Christian; and the theory advanced is that, hav.ng failed in her effort to bring her husband to accept the doctrines of the church, and fearing lest her children should grow up irreligious, she brooded over the subject until her mind became unbalanced. The Rev. Alexander G. Mercer,rector of Trinity Church, Newport, R. 1., died suddenly of apoplexy. The New England mackerel fleet captured during the season 332,675 barrels, an increase of 3,710 barrels over last year. While marrying a couple at police headquarters at New York, Justice Otterbourg had his pockets picked. Ex-Tax Clerk Hand, of Philadelphia, has made statements that $1,000,000 of State taxes was stolen during the term of a recent Philadelphia receiver. Six persons—all on board—were drowned by the foundering of a yacht in the English channel. Chilian journals are greatly opposed to American intervention in the Peruvian imbroglio. The Chilian Government has sold to Gibbs & Co. the nitrate deposits at Alianza for $269,000. Upon the French Premier being urged by a delegation to repeal the decree restricting the importation of American pork, he promised that the matter shou’d be again ex mined. Ex-Empress Eugenie has made her will in favor of Prince Victor Napoleon. The Senate Judiciary Committee has been discussing the question whether the land-grants of the Northern Pacific, Texas Pacific and Atlantic and Pacific railways have been forfeited by failure to comply with the provisions of the granting act, and is understood to be divided eight to seven in favor of the railroads. Rock Radford, aged 70 years, a farmer living near H q kinsv He, Ky., shot dead a tenant named Johnson, in a dispute about partners ip corn. Dick Liddell, who was convicted of -conspiracy in p nnection with a robbery commuted in Alabama by Jesse and Frank James, was not sentenced, and will be reserved as awitness against Frank James and other memlie s of the notorious band of outlaws. A Canada newspaper advertises the names of all the marriageable ladies in the town where it is published.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

MONSTROUS WORK.

Horrible Performance of a New York Lady While Supposedly Insane. She Murders Her Three Children and Commits Suicide. The wife of Dr. E. C. Seguin, of New York, a specialist In diseases of the brain, murdered her three ch ldren and killed herself while, as is supposed, she was temporarily insane. Dispatches from New York give the following particulars of the horror: The ch Idren wre Edward D., aged 6 yeais; John Van Duyo, aged 5 yeais, and Jea in-tte 4 years. They were all shot through the head and ins antly killed Tho mother's death was as sudden as theirs. The trig tful feature of the tragedy is the manner of the murder. Mr 3 . S'gaintok the children t> an empty spire room at the top of a five-story tiou e in the ab ence of her husband, and while the servants were engaged in the basement, and locked herself in with them. The servants believed they had gone out for a walk. What happened in the room will never be known, but when Dr. Amidon, Mrs. Seguin’s brother, called, at 5 o’c ock, and, with his suspicions ar used by the long absence of the family, ma le a search of t e nousc, the mother and children were found dead, all shot through the head. The children’s hands were ted behind their backs with whipcord. They were blindfolded with handkerchiefs, and, from all appearances, they must have been shot while playing at blindman’s buffi with their executioner. They had been dead for at least an hour and a half, and were quite cold when discovered. Three pistols were found in the room, all of heavy caliber, and all had been u ed. Mrs. Seguin had been despondent from physical causes for some time, but she has shown no evidence of insanity. She was a small, slim woman of nervous temperament. Her domestic life was very happy, and there was no family trouble. Dr. Seguin is a noted specialist in cases of insanity. His father was equally so. His wife was the daughter of a Massachusetts farmer. The couple moved in the best society. The family jived in a five-story brownstone front English basement house, elegantly furnished. The room in which the tragedy took place is on the fifth floor, and is scarcely ever used by the family. The three servantsin the house noticed during the day that Mrs. Seguin was in the moody condition she had been in f<< several we ks, and which her brother, Dr. Amidon, tenned “the blues. ” About 11 o'clock he crflled upon her, and she said she did not feel well, and had written to Dr. Hemy Di aper, who had been invited to dine with the family, to defer his v.sit. This note she asked her brother to send. He took it, jokingly, and told her they would all enjoy themselves. Dr. Amidon called on hi< s’ ster at 3 o’clock, and was told she had gone out lor a wa k. He returned at 5 o’clock but Mi s. Seguin had pot yet returned. The hall-boy incidentally 'mentioned that the door of the spare room was locked and the key pone A sudden u picion se zed the doctor tha Mrs. Segun had gonj to the Central Park and drowned herself and tic ch Idr n. He cou d not expla n why he th ught t! is. He immed ately went up st irs and bur t the door of the room open. Tio l.orr bie s ght me: his eyes. Almost in t ein ddle of the floor lay the dead be dy of the e Ide st boy, Edward, in a pool of blood. Partly n a closet lay Mrs. S' guin, grasp ng in ler right hand a b'g p arl-handle 1> evolver. Inside the closet lay the boy John and the girl Jeannette. There could be no doubt the mother had taken the children into the room on the pretense of playing b'indman’s buff. She haej le 1 the two young' st into the closet, and locked them in while she murdered the oldest hoy. The pistol'with which he was shot was'a target-practice weapon, with a barrel eleven inches long. It lay beside him, and the bullet ]ay on the floor. It had passed through his head. The maniac mother then proceeded to the closet, and wiih a heavy thirty-two-caliber revolver, wiih which she afterward blew out her own brains, shot the other two children. Dr. Amidon cut the strings that bound the children’s hands and laid them on the bed. The police and Coroner we e notified at once. Nothing was found in the room to explain the motive for the terrible crime. The maniac had held the weapon close to her victim’s heads, for the handkerchiefs on their faces had been burned. The face of the little grl wore a look of innocent suri rise that cut more deeply than any other feature.of the dreadful deed. On the table lay a box of cartridges and a third pistol. Sudden insanity is the on y motive known for the deed. Mrs. Seguin was neatly drest e 1. The children were lovely little thing- - , and all the family she had.

THE NATIONAL DEBT.

Noticeable Points in the Monthly Statement. A Washington di-patch says: The publicdebt statement for the last month show's that the Government is still able to reduce the debt at the rate of $500,020 per day. The influence of the new law as to gold certificates is observable in the increased number outstanding. There has been an increase in the month in the available cash balance of the treasury, and it is now' a considerable sum in excess of the 40-per-cent. reserve for redemption purposes, which it has been the custom of the treasury to maintain. Following is the October debt statement: Interest-bearing debt— Three and one-half per centss 155,356,350 Four and one-half per cents 250,imm),000 Four per cents 738,520,6 0 Three per cents 2.59,370,590 Refunding certificates 423,75') Naw pension fund 14,000,000 Principal 1,418,<>80,200 Interest 10,040,211 Matured debt — Principal 11,588,9(5 Interest 382,813 Debt bearing no interest— Old demand and legal-tender notes. 346,740,396 Certificates of deposit 9,945,<)00 Gold and silver certificates 99,968,150 Fractional currency 7,026,185 Totals 463,679,731 Unclaimed Pacific railway interest.. 5,339 Total debt — Principal 1,893,348,87) Interest 10,528,365 Cash in treasury 275,386,199 Debt, less cash in treasury— Nov. 1, 1882 1,628,491,042 Oct. 1, 1882 1,614,120,223 Decrease of debt during month 15,629,180 Decrease of debt since June 30,1882.. 60,423,418 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaid 2,256,<>53 Debt on which interest has ceased... 11,588,945 Interest thereon 482,813 Gold and silver certificates 99,9.18,1-50 United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit.... 9,915,000 Cash balance available Nov. 1, 1882.. 151,145,237 Available assets — Cash in treasury 275,380,199 Bonds issued to Pacific Railways— Principal outstanding 64,52',512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 1,292,170 Interest paid by United States 55,344,682 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service 15,338,859 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings ... 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United States' 39,350,623 The receipts at the trea ury, says a Washington correspondent, continue so large that the surplus is growing. It was suppo ed that the bond calls, in addition to the heavy drafts on account of appropriations, would reduce it; but the receipts have gained so much more rapidly than the disbursements that the avai able surplus is $10,002,000 arger than it was last month.

Just to Give It a Color.

Fogg had allowed no opportunity to escape where he could poke fun at his milkman. The thing had become wearisome to the vender of the lacteal liquid, and he said one morning: “It’s all very well for you to talk that w ay, Fogg, but supposing you had to get out of your bed at 2 o’clock in the morning ? You’re a lair man, Fogg; what d’ye say ? Don’t you think you’d put a little water in the milk occasionally?” “No, sir,” replied Fogg, drawing himself up in conscientious pride; “no, sir, I

wouldn’t, but I might put a little milk into the water—just to give it a color, you know', but not a drop more.” — Boston Transcript.

A MOB FOILED.

The Would-Be Lynchers Fired On and Numerous Peaceful Citizens Shot Down. Five People Killed Outright, Six Seriously Wounded, and Seventeen Others Slightly Hurt [Telegram from Ashland, Ky.] Wm. Neal and Ellis Craft were convicted some months ago at the Catlettsburg (Boyd county, Ky.) Circuit Court of the murder of Robert and Fannie Gibbons and Emma Carrier. They were granted a new trial by the Supreme Court. George Ellis, an accomplice, who confessed and was sentenced to imprisonment for life, was hanged by a mot at Ashland, last summer. On Monday last Neal and Craft, guarded by 220 State troops, with one section of artillery, arrived at Catlettsburg from Lexington, where they have been held for safekeeping, to stand trial. Yesterday Judge Brown granted a change of venue to Carter county. Last night a mob at Ashland stopped a train on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, and searched it for the prisoners. This afternoon at 2:30 Sheriff Kountz, with the State troops and prisoners, boarded the steamboat Granite State for Maysville, intending to go thence by rail to Lexington to the jail to confine the prisoners untl trial The mob at Ashland, which is five miles down the river to Catlettsburg, seized a ferryboat and stood out to intercept them. The Granite State, under full headway, steamed around the ferryboat, when, seeing they were about to lose their prey, the mob opened fire, w hich w'as returned by the troops with fatal effect. The ferryboat party, finding the troops were in earnest, withdrew, with one killed and several wounded. The battle was for several minutes pretty hot, but the steamboat rapidly got away and out of range of the shore in front of the Aldine Hotel. The fire of the troops was severe, the shots passing over the ferryboat and killing five spectators and wounding twenty-one others. Among those ki led was a woman an J an infant in her arms, whose brains were dashed out by a stray shot. In the m : dst of the excitement a runaw'ay team and wagon dashed into the struggling mass of citizens as they fled from the murderous bullets, altogether making a i rightful scene. The community is very much excited and threats are made to go to Lexington in Jorce and execute vengeance upon the prisoners. None of the passengers were hurt by the fire of the mob. The following is a partial list of the killed and wounded:* Killed—Col. Rippart, George Kener, a child of Henry Dunlap, James McDonald, John Baugh. Seriously wounded Charles Bolinger, Will Charles Bolinger, Wi lies Serrey, Will Springer, Moses Serrey, Gerham Randall and Robert Pritchard. Slightly wounded—Mart Dunlap, Alex. Harris, John Gallagher, Julius Sommers, Thomas Bird, Mrs. B. Butler, A. H. Dickson, Thomas Demerera. N. E. B 11, Dr. Gills, Martin Gear, Robert Lowther and J. W. House. CoL Rippart, numbered mon? t e kil ed, was an old and bg ly respected citiz not 70-odd years, un ver - ally 1’ v d and a fav rite of b th old and y ring. H - was f-t icr-in-law of Col Douglass Putnam, Jr,, Superintend n of the Ashland Coal and I on Railway Company,.and well-known in Marietta circ'es. Mrs. Butler, numbered among the wounded, was attending a meeting held by the ladies cf the tow'n for the purpose of organ zing a public re iding-room in a room donated for the purpose in the Union depot, which is situated on the river front at least a quarter of a mile below the scene of the shooting. Mrs. Butler is the wife of the Auditor of the Chattaroi railway. Other bullets striking the depot and penetrating the walls caused its occupants to seek healthier quarters. The list of wounded inc’udes all ages and both sexes, and .amputations in several cases will be necessary.

A BLOODY COMPACT.

Suicide Followed by a Murder. A recent telegram from Little Rock, Ark., says: “Several weeks since an old man named Isador Cazat, for thirteen years stationary engineer at the St. Louis and Iron Mountain railroad machine shops in Argenta, oppo ite I his city, was discharged for a frequent neglect of duty. Since, he repeatedly said he intended to suicide, and about 2 o’clock this afternoon he rose from the dinner table at bisre-idence on West Markham street, bad > h s family good-by, put the muzz e of a pistol to his temple, fired, and fell dead. An hour later his son, Deno Cazat, about 27 years old, but who was not at home at the time, crossed the river to Argenta, determ ned to avenge his father’s death. He entered one of the ma hine-shop offices and inquired for Master Mechanic Richardson, who had discharged his father. R chardson was absent, but George F. Barnes, his clerk and timekeeper, was there. Cazat began cursing him as the cause of his father’s discharge, drew his p'stol, and ordered Barnes to get on his knees and beg pardon. Barnes expostulated. Then Cazat excla’med he would kll him anyhow. He counted, “One. two,” and wnile pronouncing the word “three” thr st the j istol into Baines’ face. He then counte I “one, two,” and fired as the victim. sudden L’s ooped in an effort to dodge; the b let struck Barnes n the forehe id, c lining out at the right eye. Ba - nes die 1 sho> tly after’eceiving the fatal shot. C izat fled and hid in a clump of willows near the river’s edge, where he was arre ted and brought over to this city. Barnes wa,- - a youn ; married man. There is no doubt that it, w s Caz t’s intention to kill both Richardson and Barnes. A ht ange fea’ure of the affair came out in the testimony of Mrs. Cazat before the Coroner. She stated under oath that an agreement had been entered into in her presence between her hutband and son that the former shou’d commit suicide and the latter kill Richa:dson. She b lieved the compact was the result of a frenzy and idle, but it was stiictly carried out. Barnes’ remains were shipped to his f rmer home in Bunker Hill, HL

FORTIFICATIONS.

Annual Report of Gen. Wright. Gen. H. G. Wright, C/ief of Engineers United States army, in his annual report, gives a detailed account of the condition and needs of all fortifications. On sea-coast defenses the report says: The defense of the United States against maritime attack for many years must depend upon the finishing of the barbet battteries designed long ago, but with such modifications as will adapt them to the reception of the twelve-inch rifled gun recently proposed, with its enlarged carriage, and at the same time give greater security to the magazines; also that it will be necessary to make ready without delay to apply one system of torpedoes to all harbors, preparing bomb-proof electrical operating-rooms and deep masonry galleries, extending therefrom to the low water-line needed for the purpose. Our unpreparedness for war is shown, and it is stated that, however powerful in numbers and valor our army may be, without the aid of fortifications and their accessories they cannot prevent the destruction of our seaboard cities by the ships of the maritime foe; and that, while reliance can be had in no other mode of defense, a defense by fortifications and torpedoes is most efficient and least expensive. An amateur company in Allentown Pa., is rehearsing “Pinafore” in Pennsylvania Dutch, and will produce the opera in that dialect during the latter part of November.

INDIANA ITEMS.

The Evansville electric-light works have commenced supplying consumers. Thebe are eighty-four Masonic chapters in Indiana, with a membership of 4,500. Delaware county has sold $12,000 in free gravel-road bonds for S7O premium. David Shilling, one of the bestknown farmers of Allen county, blew the top of his head off with a shotgun. A tramp huckster named Davenport assaulted and fatally cut a man named Baysinger, at Maxville, near Terre Haute. Mrs. Sarah Pope, residing near Shelbyville, was instantly killed by a kick in the neck from a cow she was engaged in milking. Fred Gaumer, of Madison, has a bean vine which has produced four crops of beans this summer, and is again in bloom. Henry Gbeen, a well-known citizen of Crawford county, has become violently insane upon the subject of spiritualism. Mrs. Nancy J. Sistore, of Jefferson county, raised a beet which measured thirty inches in circumference and weighs fifteen pounds. Two stock companies were organized at Seymour, the other day—one for erecting large spoke-works and the other for starting a tulu factory. Samuel H. Robinson, of Delhi, has presented the State Museum. with a plate made in England some time during the latter part of the eighteenth century. At Elkhart, a boy named McMann, while riding on a log-wagon, was thrown off, and the log rolling on him he was dangerously aud probably fatally crushed. Burglars entered the residence of Samuel Kerr, near Newtown, Fountain county, and succeeded in capturing Mr. Kerr's pataloons, in the pockets of which were S2OO cash and a check on the Attica Bank for SBOO. Charles F. Barcus, of Tippecanoe county, has begun proceedings in the Superior Court of Lafayette to have set aside the decree of divorce lately granted his wife, alleging fraud and conspiracy,on the part of the lady and her relatives. The owners of the old Wabash and Erie canal have conveyed to the 1 ort Wayne, Lafayette and St. Louis road the canal bed for a distance of ninetytwo miles, between Lafayette and Lagro, and the railway will be built on the tow-path. Kate Thompson was so eager to marry Andrew Van Horn, at Hope, Bartholomew county, that she eloped with him; but when, within an hour of the ceremony, he got hilariously drunk, she was so eager to get rid of him that she went home alone, and has sued for a divorce. George Haggard, who now languishes in the Steuben county jail, had to wait outside until the Sheriff could be found to let him in. He therefore gave utterance to the humorous remark that he had often been locked in jail, but that during all of his checkered career he had never been fastened out before. The work of the Chicago and Atlantic railroad, near Huntington, is progressing rapidly. The iron is now laid from that point eastward a distance of fourteen miles. The grading is almost completed. The work on the shops and roundhouse is well advance.!, the foundation of all the buildings except the engine and boiler-room being in, while the walls of the roundhouse are halfcompleted. Side tracks are being built in £lie yards. Planaforrtlie depot have been received. Thte gapJbe tween Huntington and the point to where the iron i& laid west will, apon be laid, and the work of ballasting that portion will commence. Indiana has 15,289 citizens on the pension rolls, who receive annually sl,638,325. With the arrears added tin y received last year $3,106,817. Only four States exceed these figures, Indiana being fifth in rank on the pension list. In a consideration of the pension payments by Congressional districts, we find that the Second district bears the palm, having 1,367 who draw from the treasury annually $148,368. Last year, together with arrears, they were paid $281,899. The Third district comes next, with 1,336 on the pension list, who receive $142,876, and last year, together with arrears, $271,464. The Thirteenth district has the least number, 856, receiving $91,628; with arrears, $174,094. When the counties are reached we find Marion at the head of the list, with 939 pensioners. They received $100,517 last year; with arrears the payment was $190,982. It will be seen that the arrearages add largely to the regular annual payments. Indiana Crop Report. The final crop bulletin of Indiana for 1882 has been issued by the Bureau of Statistics. It presents the following: The wheat crop amounts to 46,928,643 bushels, grown on 3,063,348 acres. Last year the crop was 30,625,668 bushels; acreage, 3,201,547. The average production per acre in the northern division of the State was 11.42 bushels; in the central division, 16.87; in the southern division, 16.70. The corn crop of this year is 115,699,757 bushels; acreage, 3,312,683. This was a great surpi ise to the bureau, so mubh so that after the reports were in and tabulated pains were taken to verify them. Last year the yield was 71,387,075 bushels, from 3,135,178 acres. The aggregate production of oats is the largest even known in the State. The acreage was 684,622, and number of bushels 19,615,516; last year the production was 14,398,617; in 1879, the largest crop grown previous to 1882, the yield was 15,599,518 bushels. Rye is one of the minor crops of the State; the acreage was 36,695, and yield 548,405 bushels; in 1881, 15,839 acres were planted, producing 208,912 bushels. Barley is also but slightly cultivated compared with the staple productions. This year there were grown 1,138,717 bushels on 44,242 acres; last year the yield was 526,364 bushels from 26,238 acres. Flax is raised in seventy-five counties, and 13,784 acres were sown, producing 905,451 bushels of seed. Forty-two of the ninety-two counties in the State have more than 1,000 acres apiece. Wabash is the banner flax county, raising 82,118 bushels. The area planted in tobacco this year

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was 17,234 acres, which produced 13* 593,386 pounds, against 6,565,782 pounds raised last year on 13,615 acres; only twelve counties report no tobacco grown. Warrick and Spencer have over 4,000 acres each, and Pike and Dubois over 1,000 acres each. There were 984,982 acres in meadow, producing 1,599,949 tons of hay, the largest crop in the history of the State. Last year's figures were 988,560 acres and 1,303,217 tons. Fruit, especially apples and peaches, was largely short of an average crop. Apples are reported at 28,180,683 bushels, and peaches 2,063,636 bushels. There are 233.082 pear trees of bearing age in the State, 112,222 plum trees and 51,933 quince trees. Irish potatoes are a large crop, much above the average. The area planted was 72,934 acres, and production 7,264." 830 bushels, against 2,396,350 bushels last year on only a little smaller acreage ; in 1880 the crop amounted to 4,148,034 bushels, with about the same area as this year. Sweet potatoes are reported at 696,245 bushels, from 10,506 acres; last year, 239,511 bushels. The home value of the crops is estimated as follows: Wheat, $44,582,211; corn, $57,849,898; oats, $4,492,344; rye, $411,304; barley, $910,974; flaxseed, $950,723; tobacco, $2,718,697; hay, $22,3999,286; apples, $12,108,410; peaches, $3,095,454; Irish potatoes, $3,632,415; sweet potatoes, $696,245 ;total, $153,847,961.

A Ghostly Purchase.

Mrs. Jones was down townmakiig some purchases, and among other thin js bought a luminous match safe, which could be seen in the gloom of the darkest night, the manufacturers announced. It represented a face with open eyes and mouth, and looked simply like a china mask in the broad light of day. Mrs. Jones took it home, hung it up on the wall at the foot of the bed and forgot all about it. That night Jones came home late; he had keen kept out on business by a customer who wanted his goods invoiced, and he had told Maria not to sit up for him. About midnight he came in, remarked with chattering teeth that it was turning cold, or he had the ague, turned down the light which had been loft burning for him, and tumbled into bed. The next moment he would have been snoring but he happened to open his eyes and he sat up in bed with one terrific whoop of “Good Lord!” “Are you saying your prayers, Jeptha?” asked Mrs. Jones sleepily; “you needn’t be so emphatic. Oh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h gr-a-c-ious g-o-o-d-ness! it’s a ghost!” she screamed as her eyes opened on the ghastly face at the foot of the bed. Never did two people make such time getting out of any place as they did in vacating that room. Then they sat down on the top of the stairs to consult as to the next course of procedure. “It was the ghost of my father,” said Jones, shaking life a leaf. “I recognized the features instantly. Oh, Maria, what can it mean? It must be some awful warning. I—l don’t feel well, Maria; I—l really don’t.” At this moment Bridget the valiant appeared. “Did I iver hear the loikes of this schramin’?” she exclaimed, as she explored her way with a kerosene lamp. “Phats got yees now?” They told Bridget as well as they could, and that female answered composedly : “The divil will fly away wid yees yet; if it's a ghoost me own two eyes wad like to see it,” and she marched into the bedroom, gave a vide yell, and came out in triumph with the illuminated match safe in her hand; Mrs. Jones laughed hysterically, but Jones was downright mad. “Women arejMjch fools,” he exclaimed savagely; “bought the thing herself and hung it up, and then took it for a ghost; I’m thankful I’m not a woman!” —Detroit Post.

He Knew His Failings.

I used to often wonder whether the proprietor of a railroad eating-house of the third-class order ever racked his brain to imagine what a man thought after having chewed away at a piece of bull-beef, broken a tooth on a sandwich, and disgiis'e 1 his stomach with a cup of slop, at being told that the charge was 75 cents. The wonder ceased last spring while making a trip through Virginia. The table was covered with flies, the meat and coffee cold, and the butter was frowy and the milk sour. Not one of us ate six mouthfuls. I was the first to pass out, and as I approached the cashier, he said: “Bad dinner —mighty bad.” “Yes.” “Toughest beef and sloppiest coffee you ever saw?” “Just so?” “Flies thick enough to disgust a rhinoceros?” “Exactly.” “And a perfect imposition on the pub’ lie to charge 75 cents?” “You bet it is!” “You’ll take care to warn your friends not to stop here ?” “If I don’t may I be shot!” “All of which,” cooly continued the man, “is repeated over and over every day in the year, and with all of which I perfectly agree. Seventy-five cents, please.” “For dinner?” “No, sir—for taking up my valuable time and to help pay my rent to the railroad company.” Those who came after me called his place a “hole,” and called him a “slouch,” and his table a hog-trough, and he agreed with each one and collected 75 cents just as easy as rolling off a log.— M. Quad. An Arkansaw man secured a free pass over a railroad. He was very much pleased at first, but, after discovering that if injured in an accident he could not recover damages, he approached the Superintendent and said: “Look here, how about this thing?” “What’s the matter with it?” “What if I get killed on the road; my wife wouldn’t recover damages.” “No, sir.” “Then I don’t want the pass. I ain’t got no wife nor no relations, but I want to feel that if I had a wife she’d get pay for my death. I’m much obliged to yer, but recken I’ll have to walk. ” — Arkansaw Traveler. That architectural impertinence, the bay window that overhangs the sidewalk, has been judiciously condemned in Philadelphia, as “an unjustifiable encroachment O| the public highway, prejudicial to tlie interests of the community and the rights of property owners in the city-”

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SELECTED MISCELLANY.

Where children are, there is the golden age.— Novalis. We must learn to infuse sublimity into trifles; that is power.— Millet. The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.— Hannah Moore. Action may not always bring happi ness, but there is no happiness without action. — Beaconsfield. Slumber not in the tents of your columns. The world is advancing, advance with it.— Mazzini. All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before one single word—faith.— -Napoleon. To correct an evil which already exists is not so wise as to foresee and prevent it.— Chinese Proverb. Next to an effeminate man, there is nothing so disagreeable as a mannish woman.—Charles Dudley Warner. Be courageous and noble-minded; our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.— Schiller. Common sense, does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it, and plays the game.— Wendell Phillips. Pleasure may bo aptly compared to many very great books, which increase in real value in the proportion they are abridged. We think our civilization is near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.— Emerson. There were never in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most univereal quality is deversity. Nothing makes the world seem so spacious as to have fiiends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.— Thoreau. Ie you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be; but put foundations under them.— Thoreau. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once may breathe out his life in idle wishes; and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal. Character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.— George Eliot. Nothing so increases reverence for others as a great sorrow to one’s self. It teaches one the depths of human nature. In* happiness we are shallow and deem others so. Talk to women as much as you can. This is the best school. It is the way to gain fluency, because you need not care what you say, and had better not be sensible.— Beaconsfield.

Lacquer.

How many people who are lost in admiration at the exquisite skill of the eastern workman know anything about his methods of work or are able to appreciate the labor and perseverance required for the production of his delicate wares? Some curious information in one at least of the trades may bo found in a newly-issued report of one of the British consuls on the lacquer industry of Japan, in which are described the various processes through which lacquer passes from the planting of the tree to the completion of the decoration. Much difficulty has been experienced in procuring the information, ns nlay well be believed when we are told that a large manufacturer was quite unaware of the method of tapping the trees, and had never seen the wood itself, while his head workman hardly knew the name of a single article of his trade. Ono of the most interesting parts of the little blue-book is that dealing with the cultivation of the tree itself. Growing in all parts of the main island, it flourishes principally from Tokio northward. An average tree ten years old should be about ten feet high, with a trunk three inches in diameter, the best lacquer being obtained from trees from one to two hundred years old, though the usual age at which they are tapped is ten years. The process of tapping is a tedious one, occupying many days, and requiring a number of tools, such as a bark-scraper, a scraping-sickle,a spatula, and a pot to hold the sap. After the sap from the trunk has been gathered the branches are lopped oft’ and tapped in their turn, the bark also being utilized. After the sap has been taken the exhausted tree, which remains the property of the seller, is cut down by him and is used for firewood, for building purposes, or for making boxes. In the northern provinces very old and large trees are met with in considerable quantities. These were kept for the sake o f their berries, from which the wax used for the Japanese candles was obtained. A good workman is expected during the season to tap an average of 1,000 trees ten years old, the annual yield of lacquer being about 130,000 gallons. — Philadelphia Telegraph.

The Young Preacher Does Not Sing.

A sad thought fills my mind. It takes the form of a question. Is Methodism resigning its power of song toothers? It looks as if she was. There is little singing at family worship even- when there is such worship among our people. May be when one of the veterans comes along that was brought up under the old regime he will sing, but hardly the smart young preacher of these times. He will take a hand with the girls at the piano or organ, and give a good bass to some modern ditty—l mt that hearty praise of God in song regularly in the houses of our people and among their children and servants, where is it? Let us seek for the old paths. They were safe and pleasant paths, and ■ our fathers had much delight in them.— St. Louis Christian Advocate.

Purity of Ice.

Besides the fact that the ice is lighter than water, there is another curious thing about it which persons do not know, perhaps—name’y, its purity. Ice melted always become purely distilled water. Water in freezing turns out of it all that is not water —salt, air, coloring matter and all impurities. Frozen sea water wakes fresh water ice. If yon freeze a basin of indigo water it will make it as pure as that mado*of pure mn water. * When the cold is very sudden these foreign matters have not time to escape, either by rising or sinking, and are thus entangled with the ice, bit do not form any part Qi it.