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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Kant. The engagement of Gen. Beauregard and Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is mentioned in print in New York. , A new oil well yielding 1,000 barrels per day having been struck in Forest county, Pehn., the bottom dropped out of the market at Bradford and Pittsburgh, and almost a panic followed. The price fell cents. W. H. Vanderbilt appeared before the New York Senate Committee on Grain Corners to state that the system of dealing in futures has a bad effect As for himself, he said, he never bought a share of stock to speculate and never sold one short The ice gave way on a dam near Philadelphia where a large number of children were skating and four were drowned. Went. Snow has fallen to the depth of five feet in the region of the Straits of Mackinaw. W. F. “Blakeney, inventor of the turbine water-wheel, died at Dayton, Ohio. 'The County Bank, at Kinsley, Kan., tyas robbed of $12;000. Soslah A. Noonan, for many years a leading politician and journalist of Wisconsin, died, in the insane asylum at Wauwatosa Patrick Slattery, aged 22, shot his step-mother dead at their home near Mount Pleasant, lowa, and then put a bullet through his own brain. A note left by the suicide states the tragedy was caused by whisky. Whije depositions were being taken before a notary in St. Louis in the suit of Mrs. Slayback against CoL Cockerill, an affray took place between the attorneys, in which John M Glover seized Frank Bowman by the throat and sent him to the floor. The corner stone of the new Chicago Chamber of Commerce, which is to cost #1,500,000, and to be completed in a year and a half, was laid the other day with imposing ceremonies. A Cleveland jeweler was robbed at midday of SIO,OOO worth of diamonds by a stranger who called ostensibly to get a watch repaired. There is an epidemic of disappearances in Chicago. Within less than a month a dozen cases of mysterious disappearance of girls and young women have been reported to the police of that city. In Milwaukee a number of similar cases were rejiorted. South. A robbery of $(>0,000, by frauds, has been discovered in the office of the Tax Collector at Louisville. It is thought the total defalcations will reach $200,000. Capt. Ed Cox, who killed Col. Robert A Alston in Georgia four years ago, has been pardoned by Gov. Stephens. A serious riot occurred at Opelika, Ala, between the factions supporting the rival City Councils, in which nine white men and a negro were shot down. The Legislature has passed an act vacating the charter of the city and authorizing the Governor to appoint a local government Robert S. Crampton,Cashier and Paymaster of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad, has absconded, leaving defalcations which will exceed SIO,OOO. The iron and steel bridge over the Mexican Pacific railroad extension near San Antonio, Texas, collapsed, and seven men were killed. The Princess Louise and her husband will remain in the Southern States until February. A syndicate of British capitalists has purchased 100,000 acres of cotton land in Chicot county. Ark., and will go into the cultivation of the fleecy staple upon an extensive scale.

WASHINGTON NOTES. In his annual report the Commissionenof Pensions recommends the remodeling of the Bounty-land laws, and the granting of pensions according to disability rather than rank. At present there are 117 grades of pensioners. The Commissioner regrets the faot that no enumeration of the pension population was made in the last census’ bit an approximation shows that out of 2,(1-60,391 soldiers enlisted in the war of the rebellion, only 26 per cent have applied for pensions. The United States Commissioner of Railroads reports that at the end of June ]nst the Union Pacific Company owed the Government $63,620,570, and that the Central Pacific was indebted to the amount of $52,140,813. The ‘House Committee on Education has decided to report favorably a bill appropriating $10,OCX),000 annually, for five years, to aid the public schools A committee of citizens of Washington held an interview in the jail with a pair of convicted thieves, who related the circumstances of many robberies, including that of ex-Minister Christiancy’s diamonds, and stated the amounts paid the detectives for protection. It appears that the entire detective force of the District has received weekly dividends from the monte and bunko men. It is rumored that Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum will shortly resign. Fitz John Porter has a strong and influential lobby at work in his behalf. Senator Hoar thinks the Lowell Bankrupty bill will go through Congress. Postmaster General Howe has made arrangements for the manufacture of 2-cent stamps on an extensive scale. The House Judiciary Committee has adopted the Supreme Court bill framed by Senator David Davis, by 9 to 3.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Sir Hugh Allan, the great Canadian shipbuilder and vessel-owner, died suddenly in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was bom in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1810, and emigrated to Canada at the age of 16. The Mexican Go ernment has appointed Romero and Zamacona Commissioners to meet Grant and Tfescott in Washington to negotiate a treaty of commerce. ' Senator. Maxey says that only frontier protection, reciprocity and railways are needed to bring about cordial relations and a profitable trade. The steel-rail mills at South Ch’cago, operated by the North Chicago Rolling Mills Company, shut down the other day. It is alleged that this course was forced upon the company by the low price at which the Pj-< duct is now quoted. The Delaware rolling nftJl, at Phillipsburg, N. J., started up, after a ejispension of one month. The Ibven-ide rolling mill, at Newcastle Del., stopped on .account cf the dullness of aade. AH navy pensioners residing in the

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JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

agency districts of Chicago, Columbus, Des Moines, Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, Milwaukee and Topeka will hereafter be paid at Chicago. • The fierce rate war between the Northwestern, Rock Island, Omaha and St Paul, and Milwaukee and St Paul roads has been brought to a close to the satisfaction of all interested in these lines. The Western Union Telegraph Company has declared a quarterly dividend of per cent The Triton cotton-mills, of New Castle, Del, resumed operations, the workmen having submitted to a reduction of wages. For the twenty-fifth time, John W. Garrett has been elected President of the Baltimore and Ohio road. The male students in the Kingston, (Ont.) Medical College threaten to quit the institution unless the female students are expelled. The death of two centenarians is announced—Maria Appley, at Morristown, N. J., one of the thirteen girls who represented the States in George Washington’s funeral procession, aged 105 years; and Sarah Wood, at Buford, Ga, aged 121. The extensive cabin* t shops of the Remington Sewing Machine Company at Ilion, N. Y.; the depot and works of the Manhattan Beach Railroad Company at Bay Ridge, N. Y., with a large number of engines and passenger coaches; two hotels at Winnipeg; and a number of houses at Hickman, Ky., were dstroyed by fire, with great loss On orders from a London banking house, Baltimore brokers are buying Confederate coupon bonds of the face value of $1,000,000, for which they pay $8.50 to $9.75 per SI,OOO.

POLITICAL POINTS. It is reported that Congressman Manning, of Mississippi, who ran against Chalmers, refuses to access certificate of election from the Governor of that State, as he believes he was not fairly elected. The Governor, however, still refuses to give a certificate to Chalmers, and says he will order a new election in case Manning persists in refusing the certificate. Albert Palmer, Democrat, was elected Mayor of Boston by 2,000 majority over Samuel A Green. Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, has announced himself us a candidate for the Speakersliip, and claims a majority of the delegation from his State. He says he is bound to defeat Randall, and professes not to know that Mr. Carlisle is a candidate.

FOREIGN NEWS. England is soon to bring from Egypt four battalions of troops and ship more marines to Ireland for police duty. The Prefect has ordered the police to expel all Jews residing with the municipal boundaries of St Petersburg without official permission. The Senate has decided that all Jews are incapable of holding landed property in Russia Parnell, through the Land Court, desires to dispose of his County Wicklow property. . William Galignani, of Paris, the last of the well-known family, and Sir Joseph Napier, of England, are dead. Gen. Lew Wallace, Minister to Turkey, has lately been to Jerusalem, and visited the Khedive at Cairo. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland commuted the sentence of death passed upon five participants in the murder of the Joyce family. London was visited the other daybyone of the dense fogs for which it is so uncomfortably famous, the result being that all traffic was stopped and numberless accidents occurred. A portion of the War Department Building at Madrid was consumed, twenty persons receiving severe injuries. A man who is suspected of having been the companion of the murderer of Detective Cox was the first to be arrested at Dublin under the curfew clause • of the Repression act. A Connaught (Ireland) farmer named Kilmartin has been sentenced to penal servitude for life for assaulting a bailiff. In Dublin, Patrick Higgins has been found guilty of the murder of the two Huddys and was sentenced to be hanged next month. Spain has offered to release the Cuban refugees under a pledge that they will consent to perpetual exile from all Spanish territories. The Sultan of Turkey has ordered a carriage which is to be bullet and grenade proof. Failures in the tin-plate trade in England and Wales, with liabilities aggregating $2,000,000, are reported. The metal trade at Birmingham and Sheffield is excited over the discovery of a process for the cheap production of aluminum. Earl Derby, who has just accepted the position of Secretary of State for India, in a speech delivered at Manchester rejected entirely the idea of an English protectorate for Egypt, and said England would remain no longer in Egypt than was absolutely necessary to restore order. English influence must preponderate, but it was not necessary to exercise such influence in an offensive spirit, nor to exclude a free and friendly consultation with France. By the flooding of a mine at Cheswick, Victoria, twenty-two persons were drowned. Mr. Gladstone has resigned his Premiership of Great Britain, and the Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers has been gazetted as his successor. Hampton Court, a palace fifteen miles from London, took fire on the 14th. Two rooms above the picture gallery were burned, the damage by fire and water being £30,000. Two men named Brady and Hanlon were arrested by the Dublin detectives for complicity in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under-Secretary Burke in the Phoenix Park. In a speech at Manchester, Lord Derby asserted that a few million pounds would be profitably expended in expediting emigration from Ireland He was greatly opposed to the Home-rule issue, and said the Government should refuse to listen to the claims of the Irish Nationalists.

When you see a patent-medicine puff credited to the “News,” you know right awav which paper it means, and where it is published, because there are only 157 pape s in this country bearing that name.— Norristown Herald. In Mi sachusetts smoking at the polls is prohibited by law.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22,1882.

A BURSTED BOILER.

Terrible Accident at Shawnee own. 111., by the Explosion of a Boiler. Eight Men Killed Instantly, and Another Employe Probably Mortally Wounded. Eight men were instantly killed and one fatally Injured by a boiler explosion in the saw-mill of Vincent & Son, at Shawneetown, TH The remains of the victims were shockingly mangled, and the mill was completely wrecked. A telegram from the scene of the disaster furnishes the following particulars: It appears that the men were seated around in various positions in the cicinitv of the boiler, eating their noon luncheon, when the boiler exploded, creating terrible destruction. There were eleven men in the mill at the time, and of these the following eight were instantly killed: William Montgomery, Charles Bloss, Henry Hughes, Charles Baker, George Price, W. P. Grove, James McLaughlin, Samuel Kennedy. Several of these were blown into fragments. The sawyer was blown to pieces, so that scarcely a common pailful of his remains could be picked up. One corpse was blown into the river, and two others were thrown a distance of fully 200 yards. Wade Kee, another employe, was thrown a long distance from the mill, and had his legs and arms broken and otherwise injured. He was picked up shortly afterward and died in less than an hour. The other two men are hurt, one probably fatally. The mill is a complete wreck, portions of the boiler lying in different directions and at various distances, ranging from 100 to 600 feet. The accident is the worst ever recorded here, and has created great excitement Several of the victims leave families, some of them in comparatively destitute circumstances. Nobody is left to give any clew as to the probable cause of the accident, and nothing apparently can be'known but that the disaster is appalling and complete.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A fire at Toledo, Ohio, totally destroyed the Ball block, at the corner of St Clair and Jefferson streets, the finest business structure in that city. The main occupants were Taylor, Rodgers & Co., shoedealers; L. S. Baumgartner, notions; and Wood & Acklin, grocers. The building had fallen into the hands of the Connecticut Mutual Life-Insurance Company, and the total loss is $650,000. The jury in the case of Teresa Sturla, charged with the murder of Charles Stiles, at the Palmer House, Chicago, returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, fixing the penalty at one year in the penitentiary. Three of the men convicted of participation in the butchery of the Joyce family were bunglingly executed at Galway by Marwood. Five hundred Egyptians, charged with incendiarism and massacre at Alexandria, were released on account of insufficient evidence against them. During the week ending Dec. 15, the business failures in the United States numbered 230, being a decrease of seventeen from the previous week, but sixty-five more than in the same period in 1881. A laborer in Brooklyn said to a restaurant waiter that, although a good Catholic, he had a Protestant stomach, and within a few minutes he was strangled by a piece of meat lodging in his throat. Parks Lemaine and his two sisters, all young persons, while returning from a prayer-meeting at Tipton Station, Pa, were killed by a locomotive. Jay Gould appeared before the New York Senate Committee on Grain comers, and testified that he thought uneven transportation the main effect of corners, but they gave producers better prices. He believed that millions of dollars were lost by those who engineered the grain comer in Chicago two years ago. Speculation in grain surely benefited the home dealer. Vanderbilt testified before the - same committee that he thought speculation in futures had a bad effect The steamer Kate Kinney, with a valuable cargo, burned at Ferry Landing, La. Many buildings in the town were consumed, a high wind carrying blazing brands from the Kinney inland. The crew and passengers lost all their baggage. Three murderers were hanged on Friday, Dec. 15. James L Gilmore, whoha e had the day for his taking-off seven times appointed and has been five times respited, met his doom at Deadwood, Dakota. John Redd was hanged at Searle, Ala., and Peter Thomas (colored) at Mansfield, La The cotton report for December shows a large percentage of increase in some States of the cotton belt, and approximates the crop at 6,700, (XX) bales of 460 pounds each. Dan O’Leary failed to organize a pedestrian contest in Paris, and has sailed for Australia Three days’ continuous rain caused great floods in Washington Territory and Oregon, mills, houses and bridges being carried awav.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

Mr. Pendleton gave notice to the Senate, at the s'-ssion of the 9th inst, that after the Bankruptcy bill was disposed of he would move to take up the Civil Service bill. Mr. Jance se" cured the passage of a resolution directing the Secretary o: the Treasury to furnish a detailed s atcinent of the cost of collecting internal revenue in each district. Mr. Haw ey intoduced a bill to prevent officers of the United States from col ecting subscriptions or assesiments from each i ther. A brief executive session was hold. Petitions from tobacco- ■ i a rs v e e presented for a rebate equal to any reduction that mav be made in the tax. In the llou-o of Representatives, Mr. Page reported a resolution ending on the Secretary of War for informs io.i whether the funds set aside by the River and ITarbor bill were appropriated for work-; n t of interest to commerce or navicao-. i-nd, it so, requesting that specifi- ai- ns be furnished. An exciting debate t> liowi-d, in which McLane and Robeson supported re resolution and Cox and Kasson oppc.H d it, but it was adopted. Mr. Kasson report cd a bill to improve the civil service. A bill rvas pu-sed to rectify the title to the military post >-t Ei Paso. Mr. McCoid introduced a biU to r-'eu'.ate in erstate commerce. Mr. Slater introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 11th inst, to forfeit the unearned lauds of the Oregon Central road. Mr. Ferry presented a measure to increase the pension of soldiers and sailors who lost an arm or leg in tho service. Mr. Van Wyck offered a resolution of inquiry whether a railroad is being constructed across the Niobrara military reservation w-ithout authority from Congress. The Bankruptcy bill prepared by Judge Lowell and recommended generally by Eastern Boards of Trade and Chambers fit Commerce, was sub-.lituted for what is known as the “Equity bill.” which was championed by the Western and Southern Senators. The vote stood 34 to 3' and the substitute was sent to the Judiciary Committee for revision. A motion to take up Mr. Pendleton’s Civil Service bill was carried; but the Senate dismissed and defeated a scheme to release the Memphis and Little Rock road from its obligations to carry troops free and mails at a reduced rate. The Senate confirmed the nominations of Gen. Pope and Col Mackenzie, to be Major General and Brigadier General respectively. In the House, Mr. Springer introduced a joint resolution providing for an

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

amendment to the constitution which shall extend the terms of the President and Vice President to six years and render them ineligible for re-election. It also fixes a threeyears’ term for Congressmen, and provides that, beginning with the year 1885, the Congress elected in November previous shall meet on the first Wednesday of January. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, introduced a resolution reciting the efforts of certain railway managers to prevent the construction of competing lines in the Northwest, and directing the Committee on Commerce to report a bill to prohibit and punish such combination. Mr. Waite introduced a bill to stop the coinage of silver dollars until the stock is reduced to $50,000,000, and Mr. Ellis offered a measure to authorize the State «of Louisiana to establish quarantine stations. Mr. Dibrell presented an act to abolish internal-revenue taxes and allow a rebate on whisky and tobacco, and another to reduce the specie in the treasury to $150,000,000. A bul was passed to authorize brevet commissions for distinguished conduct in Indian campaigna A memorial of the Chicago Board of Trade in favor of the Lowell Bankruptcy bill was submitted in the Senate on the 12th inst On motion Mr. Hoar, the Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury were directed to transmit reports made on the administration of the Federal offices in New York. Bills were introduced to grant a pension to the widow of Gen Revere; to pay certain Indian war bonds of Colorado, and to prohibit officers and employes of the United States from contributing money for political purposes. Mr. Vest offered a resolution instructing the Committee ox Territories to report what legislation is necessary to protect public property, preserve the game and enforce the laws in Yellowstone Park. Mr. Pendleton explained the provisions of his Civil Service bill, and an extended debate took place, participated in chiefly by Messrs. Sherman, Allison and Pendleton. ‘ Numerous amendments were offered, but no definite action was taken. In the House the Postoffice, Military and Agricultural Appropriation bills were reported and referred to the committee of the whole. Mr. Randall offered a resolution requesting the President to furnish a complete statement of the expenditure for the improvement of rivers and harbors since the beginning of the Government The Congressional Library bill was not taken up. It was agreed that the building shall not cost in excess of $2,000,000 and that it shall be erected on land belonging to the Government.

Numerous petitions to fix the tax on tobacco and to increase the pensions of soldiers who lost an arm or a leg in the war, were offered in the Senate on the 13th and referred Ingalls introduced a bill to compel the prosecution of proceedings in bankruptcy to a final decree. The resolutions offered by Mr. Beck and Mr. Hale to investigate political assessments were referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Pendleton’s Civil Service Reform bill was taken up. Mr. Logan secured an amendment providing that examinations shall be practical in their character, and Mr. Sherman caused the defeat of the permanent appropriation for the expenses of a civil-service commission. Mr. Garland introduced a bill to grant a right of way through the military reservation at Fort Scott for the St Louis and San Francisco road The President sent to the Senate the name of J. C. Bancroft Davis to be Judge pf the Court of Claims. The House, on motion of Mr. Springer, passed a joint resolution athorizing the payment of S2S,<XX) from the Virginius indemnity fund to Mrs. Eliza Dunn, of Chicago, the mother of Gen. W. A C. Ryan, who was slaughtered in Cuba The Congressional Library bill was recommitted, with instructions that it be changed to provide for the erection of a building on Government land in Washington. The Military Academy Appropriation bill was passed A resolution offered by Mr. Randall was adopted, requesting the Secretary of the Treasury to report the estimated amount paid for ocean freights during the fiscal year. Mr. O’Neill presented a petition from tobacco jobbers, asking a rebate equal to the reduction to be made in the tax. The session of the Senate on the 14th inst. was devoted almost wholly to debate on the Civil Service bill introduced by Mr. Pendleton. Mr. Hoar expressed a belief that the passage of this bill would mark an important era in American politics, and would be regarded in the future as almost equal to the adoption of a new and better constitution. Mr. Brown opposed the bill, and did “a little plain talking to the Democrats.” The object of the bill, he said, was to give the Republican party a permanent tenure of office, and the Republican party was clearly a minority of the people of this country. Mr. George thought there was reason in the objection that the bill did not permit competition by nil for offices of every grade, and expressed his regret that Mr. Brown had broken its force by coupling it with an argument that the bill would do the Democratic party ini'ustice. He was not so confident as Mr. frown appeared to be of Democratic triumph in 1884, and he thought the reverses of the Republicans this year were to be attributed in a large measure to that party having occupied the very position upon this question which Mr. Brown now wished the Democrats to take. He agreed with Mr. Brown that this bill, if passed, would not prevent the Democratic President, when he did come in, from following Jefferson’s rule. In a colloquy between Mr. Brown and Mr. George, the latter admitted that he would have the Democratic President turn out every office-holder who had responded to political assessments in the last campaign. The House consumed the day, in Committee of the Whole, in considering the Postoftice Appropriation bill After adjournment the Democratic Senators held a caucus, and resolved to oppose the admission to the Union of any new Territory at the present session of Congress. . -x. The Pendleton Civil Service bill again occupied the attention of the Senate on the 15th inst. Mr. Miller advocated the passage of the bill, saying that if the evils of the present civil-service system continue to increase in the same proportion as in the past, the Government could not outlive another century. Mr. George thought the adoption of the measure would inaugurate a most important and necessary reform. Mr. Bayard supported the bill, and spoke of the demoralizing effects upon public men of the “spoils system. ” The bill was amended to provide' for the confirmation of the Commissioners by the Senate. The French Spoliation bill was amended and passed. In the House Mr. Reed presented the memorial of James H. McLean, who was elected to the present Congress to succeed the late Thomas Alien, of Missouri, and who was refused a certificate because the Second district had been legislated out of existence. After considerable debate it was resolved, by 144 to 15, to swear in Mr. McLean, and he took the oath. The Postoftice bill was taken up, discussed and amended.

Pleasure of Planning a Home.

When one sees a pretty cottage going up he instinctively stops to look at it, speculates as to how it is intended to be in the end and criticises this or that detail. Then he wishes he could build a house once and show people how it could be done. And very charming, too, is this bran new house with its fresh coat of paint, its gables and towers, its dormers, verandas, balconies, and, better than all, its plate-glass windows, clear as the light itself, as it standsjjomplete and beautiful from the hands of the workmen. What pleasure it must be to plan the various rooms, their size, location, arrangement; how to get them all to front the rising, set-ting-or noonday sun; how to get the most picturesque effects, and yet preserve simplicity and economy; how to obtain the pretty and avoid the bizarre; how to secure light, heat, ventilation, comforts and health. Then there is the laying out of the yard, the planting of fruit trees and shrubbery, etc. A thousand pleasant avenues for thought and study open up the most casual glance of the subject.— Terre Haute Mail. It has been found in New York that nineteen-twentieths of the drugs sold at retail are adulterated, but no one knows what they are going to do about it.

A TERRIFIC BLAZE.

Destruction of the Greater Part of the City of Kingston, Jamaica. The Loss of Property Estimated at $30,000,000 —Hundreds of Families Rendered Homeless. [London Telegram to Chicago Daily News.] Advices were received from Kingston, Jamaica, announcing that a terrible fire destroyed the entire business portion of the city. The aggregate loss is estimated at not less than $30,000,000. The origin of the fire is not known, but the flames gained such headway that the efforts of the firemen to subdue them were without avail, and the fire only stopped when there was nothing more to burn. Beside business houses many dwellings were destroyed, and hundreds are homeless. All the wharves, warehouses, stores and banks burned, and all the provisions in the city have been destroyed. In consequence, food and supplies are sadly needed bv the people, who will soon be in most destitute circumstances unless relief is sent to them speedily. Immediately after the fire a local Relief Association was organized, with W. K. Azbill as Secretary. He has sent out telegrams to this country and America appealing for aid. Among the buildings swept away by the flames are the large victoria market and the public landing place at the foot of King street; the Court House in Harbor street, which was a handsome building; the public hospital; the law library; the Chancery Register’s office; the court of the Vice Admiralty, and the public library and museum, all in East street There were but two banks in the city, and both are destroyed—the Colonial Bank and the Government Savings Bank. The city was built on a plan which rises with a gradual ascent to the foot of the Liguanea mountains, and the business portion was packed closely together along the shore. The wholesale houses were close together on Port Roval street and the retail establishments on Harbor street The buildings ]yere without any means of protection against fire, and burned like tinder. THE CITY. Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, is built in the form of an amphitheater, "with rude and irregular streets; the houses mostly of two stories, are solidly constructed of. brick or wood and painted green and white. The houses in the center of the city formed blocks or squares and in the principal streets were furnished with verandas below and covered galleries above. Among the notable buildings are the English church, a Scottish, several Methodist, and a few Roman churches, a penitentiary, theater, barracks arid jail, but none of them possess much architectural beauty. The town was founded in 1693, after the destruction by earthquake of Port Royal. It has before suffered from conflagrations. It was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1752, and was visited again bv another disastrous fire in 1562. The population of the place is about 50,000. It is an important commercial point, and its exports and imports aie large.

PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES.

National Agricultural Convention. The third annual meeting of the American Agricultural Association was held at Chicago, lasting four days. The attendance was large, embracing representatives from all sections of the country and of all branches of agriculture. President N. T. Sprague, in his annual address, advocated the extension and development of free water communication and the enactment of a Federal law. regulating inter-Scate commerce that will remove the evils resulting from inharmonious State legislation. He approved the bill for the appointment of a National Railway Commission, to whom all questions of difference between the people and common carriers shall be referred He also pronounced in favor of a modification of the tariff, and directed the special attention of the convention to the evils of adulteration of food Papers of interest to agriculturists were read and many valuable ideas presented by various speakers. _____ Street Railway Association. Representatives of the street tramway interest assembled in Boston and formed an International Street Railway Association. Moody Merrill was elected President, and said there were 415 street railways in the United States and Canada, which employ 35,000 men, run 18,000 cars, and carry annually 1,212,400,000 passengers. The captal invested exceeds $150,000,000, and the tracks operated cover 3,000 miles. Commercial Traveler*. The national convention of merchants and commercial travelers was held at Baltimore. The association desires the abrogation of State taxes upon “drummers” and the effecting'of free trade between all the States. State Grange Meetings. The State Grange of Michigan met at Lansing, and Grand Master Cyrus G. Luce delivered an address pointing out the necessity of legislation to protect the producers against the extortions of railroads. The movement is making headway in Michigan, and new granges are being formed. The Wisconsin State Grange convened at Madison. It is reported that the grange is about holding its own in the State, there being now 131 subordinate granges, with a membership of about 4,000. The Ohio State Grange held its annual session at Mansfield. The reports showed the order to be in a flourishing condition and growing in membership. The Pennsylvania Grange met at Harrisburg, over 100 delegates being in attendance. At a public meeting, addresses were delivered by Gov. Hoyt and others. The grange throughout the State was represented to be in a healthy condition. The ninth annual session of the Maryland State Grange was held at Baltimore, lasting several days. Every' county in the State was represented, and the delegates were enthuriastic over the flourishing condition of the order, as shown by the reporta Thebe was an Important gathering of the Mississippi Valley Cane-Growers’ Association at St Louis, representatives being present from all the Western and Northwestern States, and from New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The address of President Coleman reviewed the sorghum industry, which, a delegate claimed, would keep $60,(XX),000 to $80,000,000 yearly in the country if its culture proved to be a success. Reports were presented in relation to the growth of sorghum and the manufacture of sugar and sirups therefrom. It was shown that great success had already attended the production of sirup, and that’ there was no. difficulty in finding a market for the product at remunerative figures.

The Voice of a Panjandrum.

A little western rhetoric now and then is relished by the soberer eastern men, for instance, such as Col. P. Donan, of the Fargo Argus, addressed to a county fair in Dakota. He claimed to be “a real silver-plated panjandrum of orchard, meadow, field and fold, a regular old he-Ceres and Pomona melted into one, with a Pan or two thrown in to boot,” and “was transported into duck-fits of transcendent rapture at the opportunity to overwhelm an astounded universe with an avalanchean exhibition of what I know about farming.” For the rest of his advice to the people from where*“the famous Red rolls its golden flood along our eastern shores to where our royal ore-ribbed western mountainpeaks punch holes in the sky with their cloud-wreathed noses, see the original paper. ' _ Louise Michel, the famous French Socialist, travels hundreds of miles i eekly, and delivers on an average three lectures every day. *

INDIANA FINANCES.

Abstract of the Annual Report of Auditor Wolfe—lnteresting Facts ami Figures. [Fromthe Indianapolis Sentinel] Col. E. H. Wolfe, Auditor of State, has submitted his annual report for the year ending Oct. 31, 1882, to Gov. Porter. The document is an exhaust' ive one, and the many figures it con' tains regarding the State’s finance are enough to make a person’s head swim. Among other things contained in the report is an itemized estimate of the needed expenditures for the years 1884 and 1885. The probable receipts into the State treasury during the two years named is likewise given, which shows ample means to meet the ordinary expenditures of the State. In his suggestions to the Legislature the Auditor calls notice to the condition of the debt of the State, and calls attention to the fact that over $500,000 of the debt is fast approaching maturity. The Auditor further ventures the belief if the expenditures of the State are not increased to any great extent that one-third or one-fourth of the State debt can be paid in April, 1884, out of the general fund, but it is more than likely that before th it time the State will be called upon te pav the Coghlen internal improvement bonds, now awaiting a decision of the Supreme Court to determine the amount of interest due. The report further suggests to the General Assembly the propriety of levying a sinking fund of 2 cents on the SIOO, which in a few years, with the unused balance in the treasury, would provide funds to pay off this entire part of the debt and result in a saving of $30,000 in interest. Suggestions are also made in reference to amendments and corrections needed in the revenue and assessment law. The Auditor devotes quite a large portion of his report to wildcat and moonshine insurance companies, and the Auditor makes reference to the numerous swindling concerns that are now operating in this State, and asks the Legislature to consider these corporations. It is thought the report will be printed and published and ready for distribution before the beginning of the new year. The following is an abstract of the financial condition of the State, and will undoubtedly be of interest to every citizen in the commonwealth:

RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. Statement showing a condensed exhibit of the balance in the State treasury by funds Nov. 1, 1881 ;also amount received and disbursed from the several funds during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1881: Amount of cash,in the treasury Oct. 31, $740,650.72 The above amount was the aggregate of balances belonging to the various funds of the treasury, as follows: Balance in general fund 5278,228.22 Common school fund 92.20 Seliool revenue for tuition 149,396.08 College fund 17,856.14 College fund interest 157.28 Three per cent, fund 1,995.40 Unclaimed estates fund 12,435.49 Escheated estate fund 1>365-;U Swamp hind fund Sinking fund in excess of bids 2,088. >2 New S.ate House fund 271,46.>.30 $740,650.72 Receipts from all sources during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1882: To general fund 51,260,401.61 To school revenue for tuition 1,863,219.64 To college fund 12,467.21 To college fund interest. 6,400 71 To swamp land fund.... 6 5.99 To the unclaimed estates fund 817.46 To common school fund. 125.02 To the new State House fund. 358,062.02 Total amount of the Treasurer’s rec’pts filed during year... $ 3,502,130.49 Deduct amount of ttansfer warrants as follows : School revenues for tuitions 234,2 6.99 New State House fund... 2 0,00 '.Ol Leaves net cash receipts to the treasury during the year 8,067,843.50 Add . cash balance in treasury, Oct. 31, 1-81. 740,650.72 Makes total receipts including balance $3,803,494.22 The amount ot warrants drawn on the State Treasury (including transfer warrants! from the several funds from Nov. 1, 1881, to Oct. 31, ■ 1882, were 3,544,711.90 Deduct amount of transfer warrants as follows: School revenue for tuition fund $24,286.99 New State House fund... 200,000.00 $ 434,286.99 Leaves net cash disbursements from the treasury during the v ©ar 3,110,424.70 Which being deducted from total receipts leaves cash in treasury Oct. 31, 18-2 698,069.52 The balances of cash in treasury, Oct. 31, 1882, over the balances of the various funds are as follows: In the general fund $101,729.21 Common school fund.... 3,217.22 School revenue for tuition fund 132,889.44 College fund 18,648.35 College fund interest.... 187.33 Unclaimed estates fund 1,365,97 Sinking fund excess of bids 2,088.51 New State House fund.. 423,236.84 The total receipts to the general fund for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1882 $1,260,401.64 Receipts to common school fund... 125.02 Receipts of the school revenue for tuition fund'. 1,863,219. 4 Receipts of the college fund 12,467.21 Receipts of the college fund interest 6,400.71 Receipts of the swamp land fund.. 635.99 Receipts of unclaimed estates 817.46 Receipts of new State House fund. 35“,063.' 2 Total receipts to all the funds during the year53',502.130.02 DISBURSEMENTS. Total amount of warrants drawn on general funds 1,436,900.65 School revenues for Trustees 1,879,726.08 College fund 11,675.00 College fund interest 6,370 66 Fund of unclaimed estates 723.42 Swamp land fund 29.00 Three per cent, f und 1,995.40 New State House fund 207,291.48 Total amount of warrants issued during the year on allthefnnds.. 8,544,711.60 Deduct ain’t, of transfer warrants. 434,286.99 Leaves net disbursements from treasury during the year $3,110,424.70 SUMMARY. Balance cash in treasury Nov. 1, 1881 $74‘,650.72 Add cash receipts during the year' 3,067,843.50 Makes total of receipts and balance $3,808,49-4.2! Deduct net cash disbursements during the year.. ■ ’,110,124.70 Makes cash balance chargeable Bgn’st treasury, Oct. 31,1882 $698,069.52 THE STATZ DEBT. The following st itement shows the condition of the foreign and domestics debt of the State, Oct 81, 1882: FORI lON DEBT. Five per cent, stock outstanding.*...s 14,469 90 Two and one-half per cent. sto ks outstanding 2,355.’13 Five per ce it. bonds held by a d piyable to the Brooklyn Savings Bank, of Brooklyn, N. Y.. due Dec. 1, 18.89, but payable at the pleasure of the State I after April 1, 1884 209,000.00

$1.50 oer Annum.

NUMBER 47.

Five per cent, bonds payable on the same conditions through Winslow, Lanier <fc Co., of New York city 385,000.00 Five per cent, non-negotia-ble bonds, held by Purdue University, due April 1,1901 340,000.00 Twenty-fonr internal improvement bonds, past due 24,000.00 Six 5 per cent, internal improvement bonds, due July 1,1886, held by the Unite ! States 6,000.00 Total $ 971,835.12 DOMESTIC DEBT. Six per cent, non-negotiable bond'’, due the common school fund, interest payable semi-annually, April io and Oct. 10, to the school revenue for tuition fund 3,904,783.22 Total debt of the 5tate54,876,608.34 The Auditor’s estimated expenses for the years of 1884 and 1885 is, for the executive and administra ion expenses in 1884, $68,170, and in 1885, $68,770; judiciary expenses for 1884, $187,200 and the' same for 1885. The estimated expenses for educational institutions is $28,500 for 1884 and the same for the following year. For the benevolent in-: stitutions it is estimated that it will, during each of the two years take $317,000 to maintain them. The penal and reformatory institutions are set down with $211,500 each year. For public printing and advertising it is estimated that $12,000 will be necessary for 1884, and $24,000 for the year 1885. For miscellaneous expenses, including interest on non-negotiable and temporary loan bonds, it will take $281,000 in 1884 and the same amount in 1885. It is estimated that for fuel, light, w’ater and the State Board of Equalization there will have to be an outlay of $8,500 in 1884 and the same sum for the year 1885. For Legislature in 1885, $120,000. The above estimated expenses foot up for the year 1884, a total of $1,113.87, and in the year 1885, a total of $1,246,470. The appropriations made by the last Legislature were in every instance sufficient, except that of the office expenses of the Supreme Court, public printing and Sheriff’s mileage, which last appropriation was $20,000, which was found to be sufficient to convey convicts to the two prisons. Not a single account of the 160 accounts was overdrawn.

SAM HOLSTON.

Some Recollections of the Hero of San Jacinto. [George Alfred Townsend.] “In whose administration was it that he returned to Washington?” “It was in the middle of General .Jackson’s administration. You renjember that about that time he committed an assault on a member of Congress from Ohio, named Stanbery.” “What were the circumstances of this assault ?” “Well, Indian agents were cheating the Cherokees in these times, and Houston had five of them removed from office They were like the Star-route ring in these days, mendacious and influential, and they pestered him in all sorts of ways, and got this fellow Stanbery to make imputations on his integrity on the floor of the House. Houston just got a stick, and met Stanbery on the way from the capitol and whaled him. Old General Jackson remarked that he had served Stanbery right. Jackson remitted the fine of SSOO that was levied upon him by the courts, and Houston was brought before the bar of Congress, where he had once been a member. He got so disgusted with this character of fussing that he went back to his wigwam on the Arkansas river. He had had a taste, however, of public life again, and in a little while he turned up in Texas.” “What is the truth of the tradition that General Jackson told him to go to Texas?”

“Well, I think there was something in it. Jackson, who had made all his reputation as a military chief in tho southwest, thought he saw an opportunity for a bold man to repeat the experience in Texas, and, sympathizing with the Texans, the best of whom were from Tennessee and pc r >onally known to him, Jackson thought Houston was just the person to bring that young State out of her dangers, and he never chose a better man. “As soon as he got to Texas he was made a delegate to the convention to make the constitution. The moment he appeared in that convention everybody seemed to defer to him. He chose the post of general, and, although picked at by a dozen little scamps from the southwestern States who had come to Texas to be great men, he laid down his rank and was again elected by the Republic with but one dissenting vote. He took charge of an army composed of 374 men. The Alamo hail been taken, and Goliad was about to fall—everything looked disaster and ruin. At the approach of Santa Anna, when the Texan camp was seized with panic, Houston restored order to it, made a long and careful retreat, knowing that as he approached the east he would be getting reinforcements from the American States, and finally, at San Jacinto, with only two six-pounder guns contributed by the city of Cincinnati, and a little army of about eight hundred men, Houston overturned Santa Anna’s army of twice his numbers, composed of the best veterans in Mexico, and the astonishing number of 630 were killed and only 208 wounded, while Houston lost just about the same number that Jackson did at New Orleans, eight killed and five wounded. He was shot in the ankle, however. His wound mortified and nearly killed him. He, seriously, did not want to be President of Texas, but the popular feeling compelled him so have the office. He was inaugurated President of Texas in 1836, only seven years after he had laid down the ofiice of Governor of Tennessee—a very remarkable resuscitation of a man’s fame in a short time.

Dhuleep Singh.

Dhuleep Singh, who seeks an election to the British House of Commons, has had a romantic and tragic life. He began his career as the Maharajah of the Punjab, possessor of the Kohinoor and other almost boundless wealth. After ruinous wars, and equally ruinous treaties, he now bids fair to end his caYeer in the position of ’Squire of the Elveden, a quiet English country gentleman, without the Koliiuoor. or anv of bis vast possessions, save an annuity from the government of $125,000, which, by his luxurious habits, he has already reduced to $65,000 per annum. True, he has purchased estates and built magnificent palaces in England, Elveden Hall having cost $300,000, but by act of Parliament all these must be •old at his death, leaving the heir only the name and the memory of the son of “the Ljop of the Punjab.”

glemornifq gtnfind JOB PRIHTIIB OFFICE Km better teeflittM ttumaay ofieeta lortoiteto Indiana for the exeenttan «< all branehM roa FRiNTiNa. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anythtec, from a Dodger to a Priee-Ltet, «r treat • Cemphiet to a Boater, Mack or eotored, plain or fan<9> SATISFACTION GVAKANTEED.

ESTHETIC LUNACY.

The Fishpole and Circular-saw Style of Decoration Denounced. [From the Chicago Tribune.) A well-known New York publishing house, through their various publications, have become or affect to be the organs of the new esthetic craze and the esthetic world of Postlethwaites and Bnnthornes and their angular admirers, as well as the yellbw-hued followers of the Cimabne Brown school, who paint their fences in three colors, so as to ■give a dado and frieze to the wooden barriers which seperate them from their neighbors, fly to these publications, for instructions as to the last homely or awkward affectation. A pronunciamento from one of these oracles informs young ladies how to fit up their rooms, and lays down its conventional decreps with a Draconian rigor that is amusing, and even intimates as the penalty for not following these decrees that the young woman who does not obey is hardly fitted for good society, and has had serious deficiencies in her early training. First of all, she is informed that she must not have gas at all, for gas is low and vulgar. She must have lamps or candles. It would be curious to know why gas is low and vulgar, but the oracle does not enter into a discussion of the subject or inform ns why gas is more vulgar than kerosene, tallow, or wax, or why a clean, inodorous light is more vulgar than a lamp which smells badly at its best estate, or a candlo which is greasy, and has to be snuffed. The explanation probably is that the lamp and the candlestick are medieval, but if a young woman must have a medieval lamp or candlestick in order not to be low and vulgar, why should she not be compelled to burn medieval oil or tallow instead of the greasy, unsavory compounds sold by modern dealers, and why should she not demand that her grocer or oil-dealer should bo arrayed in the vestures of the medieval mercer? But to return to the young lady’s room. She must have long mirrors, and the furhiture must l>e of ormolu, with a profusion of roses and blue ribbons. If she has these things, we are informed that her interior (the room's, not her own) will “breathe the spirit of Pompadour.” Why should it breathe the spirit of Pompadour? Why should a young lady’s boudoir breathe the spirit of the mistress of ono of the most sensual Kings living in ono of the most sensual times of the world? Her room must also bo festooned with pink and blue silk, covered with lace or tufted satin, let into the walls. Notice, this is not a conditional decree; it is not a suggestion that such a roorti may bo dependent upon the purge; it must ba done or the young woman cannot belong to the fashionable world. Anything less than a boudoir breathing the spirit of the Pompadour relegates her to the sisterhood that is not fashionable and breathes the spirit of simplicity, economy, and old-fashioned duties. But this is not all. The oracle gives us more things that are essential. The first of these is a branch of peacock’s feathers. Fortunately these have now become so common that they are in tho hands of every street-peddler and can be had for almost nothing. Second, she must have “a brass potful of cattails.” Why the pot should lie .of brass is one of the mysteries, but it is evident that unless the pot is of brass the young woman cannot completely live up to it and be medieval. Why it should be filled with cat-tail 1, rayj'r than with canepoles, or bagi-ball clubs, or umbrellas, or faggots, or curtain-rods, all pf which are more beautiful and graceful than cat-tails, is equally mysterious. Finally, she must have a medieval candlestick. Evidently it is not necessary that there should be a candle in it, or it would have been mentioned. It is a little remarkable that the oracle did not insist that a peacock’s feather or a cattail should be stuck in it, rather than leave the medieval candlestick without a tenant. These things are the essentials. Then there are a few optional things which wo are given to understand will high ten the general effect. These are, first, Japanese fans, probably because the Japanese fan is the most hideous fan ever made; second, an easel, probably because the young woman paints flowers; third, a few straightbacked chairs, probably because they are uncomfortable; fourth, a brown curtain embroidered with sunflowers, probably because that is as ugly a thing as can be made; and last, but not least, a Persian cat. Why Persian, when a Persian cat is not medieval, we are not aware, or why it should bo a Persian rather than a Maltese or tortoise shell or plain old Tabby or Thomas. After the yCung woman has secured all these things and dumped them into her boudoir or bedroom higgledy-pig-gledy, for it is low and vulgar to have a few really beautiful things tastefully arranged, we are informed that the effect is “simple but choicel” And this room without a really beautiful thing in it, without o curve or a beautiful line in it, filled with a promiscuous aggregation of awkward, angular rubbish, supposed to bo medieval and beautiful liecause it represents a period when people knew nothing about art and beauty, is essential to preserve one from tho contamination of contact with the low and vulgar. W»‘ submit that the effect pf all this would lie .Lightened if tho young woman herself could only be arrayed or painted in some manner to represent a human dado, intermediary, and frieze. In no other way could she faithfully live up to her astonishing boudoir.

Value of the Sunflower. The sunflower is worshiped by the Chinese, and deserves the devotion of that materialistic people from the fact that it is the most useful of all vegeta'bles. seeds is made oil unsurpassed as a lubricant, and soap unequaled*for softening the skin. Sunflower oil is greatly used for adulterating salad oil, and it burns longer than any other vegetable oil. Sunflower cake is more fattening than linseed cake, its flowers supply the best l>eo food, and its leaves are much used for adulterating tobacco. Its stalk yields a fine fiber used in Chinese silk, and the best yellow dyes of the Chinese are produced from its flowers. Several acres are to be laid down with sunflowers in the Thames valley next year. —Live Stock Journal. The London Lancet says that people who sneeze often are the healthiest. A sneeze sets the blood circulating, and throws off a cold which is trying to settle. ' Mont'NA has over 1,000,00'3 head of cattle grazing on its fertjle past uses. In Massachusetts smoking at the polls is prohibited by Iftw,