Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — Page 3

WOMAN GOSSIP.

Trifles. There 'is no transcendent originality in the statement that life is made np of trifles. The fact has long been on the list, but the trifles vary with situations. The little things which made np life twenty years ago form no complement of to-day’s existence. This is embodied as a troth in another trite phraso, “The times are changed.” However, the trifles Of to-day are better worth our study than any preceding ones. Take the little arrangements of to-day’s home life. Many of them were unthought of a decade ago. They may come to seem fantastical to later generations. They are, however, founded in good sense and adaptation to our present convenience. Some years ago in this country the woman or girl who stands in the place of the household servant of to-day was simply a “help. ” She was one of the family, who sat at the same table and was taken into all that circle’s frolics and pleasures as well as its labors. The tide of affairs has now made this impossible. The agitators es the great problem of household service will have to change the whole social system before they can make any radical change in these relations of to-day. The custom of a gentleman raising his hat as a mark of respect to a lady friend has not always been in vogue. But to-day how much its strict observance stamps a man a boor or a.gentleman. A young lady remarked not long since, “That man never touches his hat when recognizing me on the street, and it hurts my self-respect sadly.” How mistaken she was. His neglect of .a common custom simply lowered his standing as a man in the eyes of any observer. "It did not affect hers so long as her own manners were modest and genteel. Such trifles stamp a character positively even if unconsciously. “I have offended a lady friend,” says a gentleman, “and 1 don’t know how I did it. How shall I find out?” He will probably never find out. It may be he remarked to her, “Now, when you and I were young,” or simply, “I took you for Miss Brown. This when Miss Brown is ugly enough to crack a mirror. A woman who is fat and rosy does not enjoy hearing her slender, cream-white sisters enthusiastically admired. A woman who tries to write does not like to have “blue stockings" ridiculed, even if she is sure she is lacking in 6trong-minded traits.

Ladies are sensitive. Gentlemen are equally so, but of course in a different way. A man who has large feet does not like to have a pretty girl sitting opposite in a car look at them inquiringly. The cheekiest masher will fidget under such ' scrutiny. One of these sensitive masculines broke a marriage engagement with an adorable young woman because he overheard her say she preferred kissing a man with big mustaches. He had an absnrd idea that because he wore no such ornament she should not be able to make such a remark. We might cite scores of such cases, but it is unnecessary. We all recognize the existence of the fact that trifles make up our weal or woe. You may be critical, sarcastic, or even impertinent; for them you may apologize; but if you have been guilty of any such lapses into idiocy, your case is hopeless. You never can be forgiven. * * * There is an idea in existence that adversity is good for human nature; that, until we are tried by its cruel winds, we can have no strength, no sympathy with suffering in our fellow-men. There is, however, much strong logic in an opposing argument. Happiness is certainly the end of our being; pain and misery are only incidental to it, or life would not be worth living. For this happiness Ve are largely dependent upon one another. Now, it seems more plausible to suppose that the persons existing in sunshine will be most able to reflect something of the same light into tho lives of others. Care and trouble are very absorbing. When we are shut up with them, although we may not realize it, we crush out what is best even in the simple matter of domestic affection. It raises a bar against all the graceful amenities of life and crowds out all the best and sweetest of our own impulses. They talk about the beauty and grandeur of the storm-beaten oak, and almost sneer at the luxurious hot-house flower. But which gives the most pleasure and healing —the gnarled and twisted branches or tho graceful, perfunie-shed.ling jasmine? * * “Little man, . If you can, Say what you will follow When you grow Into a beau And wear a might/ collar 1” “Uncle Ben, , Th> n, ah ! then You bet I’ll bo a hummer. Lemme see— Noise for me I think I’ll be a drummer." —New Yorlc Journal. “Little girl, Witu a curl, Say, who will you favof When you grow And have a beau, Your right or left hand neighbor?” “Then, ah! then. Don't sigh, Ben, I’m sure he 11 be no drummer. Let me see— Gold for me— I think he’ll bo a plumber.” * * #

The exchanges seem never to tire ringing the changes on the Pulitzer-Howard encounter. Their columns groan with accounts of how bald-headed Joe Howard, Jr., was fisticuffed in the World’s office by its owner. Every woman pencil-shover who is too discreet to do so openly is at least secretly clapping her hands with glee. And she has a perfect, indisputable right so to do. Howard is the very unmannerly creature who once said women were nuisances in a newspaper office. Of course, his saying so did not make it so, or even make any levelheaded person think so, but still it was a very unpleasant remark, and he should have suffered for it at the time. It is probable he was washing a gentlebanded woman owned and managed the World about the time Puiitzer gave him that love tap under the ear. Pulitzer is no weakling; be is not even a swell athlete. He has trained, as he himself delights to boast, with Ihe big-muscled biceps of our roving tourists who travel by foot. He is a self-well-made man, and quite able to attack the blood of all the Howards. The only other occasion upon which the

arrant uncbivalrous Howard came near getting his deserts was at the hands of an unprotected but enterprising woman. Joe, Jr., though a bald-headed veteran who attacks women who enter and succeed at his own occupation, aspires to be something of a gallant. Oh this occasion he met a lady of pleasing appearance on a Brooklyn ferry boat, and in live minutes by the watch he was giving her some choice specimens of his fascinating conversation. The lady was equally jeager. The antique scribe swelled with Be3f-complacency at his mashing capabilities. Suddenly with a killing glance she drew from her sachel a suspicious book and began an earnest appeal for a subscription. To say bis beaming countenance fell would be inadequate, his whole mental organization took a tumble. He had been caught by a book agent, and all through his own overweening vanity. Was not that retribution dire enough to satisfy any narrow female mind? It is said, when that boat landed, Joe Jr. was the first one ashore and never stopped his pace until safe within the inner sanctum sanctorum of the World.

Tributes to Women. Confucius —Woman is the masterpiece. Herder—Woman is the crown of creation. Voltaire—Women teach us repose, civility, and dignity. John Quincy Adams—All that'll am my mother made me. Lamartine—There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. Whittier—ls woman lost us Eden, such as she alone can restore it. E. S. Barrett—Woman is last at the cross and earliest at the grave. Eichter—No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. N. P. Willis—The sweetest thing in life is the unclouded welcome of a wife. Voltaire—All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. Beecher—W omen are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. Leopold Schefer—But one thing on earth is better than the wife—that is the mother. Shakspeare—For where is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman’s eyes? Michelet—Woman is the Sunday of man; not his repose only, but his joy, the salt of his life. Margaret Fuller Ossoli—Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

Sugar Among the Ancients.

It seems almost impossible to imagine life without sugar, so absolutely essential is its use to the comfort of living. There is no mention of sugar among the ancient Greeks and Romans, althogli sugar or “sweet” cane was made known by the conquests of Alexander the Great, whose Admiral, Nearchus, found it in the East Indies. It is mentioned as a remedial agent a few' years before the birth of Christ—“a honey called saccharon, having the appearance of salt.” It is known, also, that Galen often prescribed it as a medicine. The juice of the sugar-cane was used by some of the Oriential nations as an intoxicating drink. The Arabians used sugar in large quantities, and it is related that at the marriage of Caliph Maskadi Benrittale 80,01)0 pounds of the sugar were required to prepare the comfitures and ornamental sweets for the wedding banquet at Bagdad. Sugar was introduced into Europe by the crusaders. In 1166 the King of Sicily gave the monks of St. Benedict’s cloister a mill for expressing the juice from the cane and granted them the right of manufacture and sent them skilled workmen. In Germany, even as late as the seventeenth century sugar was so costly that only the wealthiest families could afford to use it. In 1745 Marggraf, a celebrated chemist, read a paper before the Berlin Academy of Sciences concerning the juices of certain native plants, especially the beet, in which was a substance identical with cane sugar. He showed by samples of his own preparation that the manufacture of sugar from the beet was not only possible but profitable. The chemist’s colleagues, however, laughed the project to scorn, saying that sugar wa3 never produced from beets, and it came to naught. When Marggraf died, in 1788, it seemed as if Ins discovery would die with him. A chard, his pupil, at the close of the century, being director of the academy, found the treatise of his master and determined to establish a manufactory in Silesia for the production of beet-root sugar. In spite of the ener gy of the chemist and the assistance of the crown, the project was not succes - ful, although the suganwas perfectly satisfactory. It was nft until 1> 41, near v one hundred years after Marggrat’s first essay, that the production of beet sugar was an accomfilished fact. At the present time beet sugar is the sugar of Europe. It is scarcely distinguishable from tlie cane sugar. It s perhaps less brilliantly crystalline, and is by many thought to be sweeter than its Indian rival. —New York Commercial Advertiser.

Don't Say It.

For one thing, the American, before he began to fashion himself after foreign models, was more ceremonious and polite in manner than he permits himself to be at present. The word “sir,” for example, was used very commonly, as the French use “monsieur;” whereas, now, to say “yes, sir,” and “no, sir,” instead of the curt British “yes” and 4, n0,” is recognized as a badge of social inferiority. Let us all, therefore, beware of appearing too civil, remembering that in these matters a virtue misplaced is no better than a vice. —Boston Past.

Shameful Ignorance.

,A bachelor, upon reading that “two lovers will sit up all night with only one chair in the room,” said it could not be done unless one of them sat on the floor. Such ignorance is positively shameful. — Texas Siftings.

Old Newspapers.

They are of more use than would appear at a first glance. We subscribe to the daily newspaper because we must be informed on all the affairs of the day. Then many think the next thing is to relegate them to the kitchen in order to provide kindling for the househo d fires, and it must be confesstd that Bridget makes very free use of them in that way. But they serve so many excellent purposes besides that it seems a pity to let Bridget have full sway, though she may try to convince you that it is impossible to get the breakfast w thout even using those of the very latest dates. It has been several times suggested by economists that newspapers can be made to take the place of blankets in guarding from co’d, and it is a fact well worthy of notice that they have been proved very satisfactory in making light, convenient, and warm bed covering when others cannot be had. Travelers would do well to bear this in mind when far from the region of hotels, and not throw their paper out of the car window, or leave it on their seat in changing cars, for there is no telling how useful it may prove in some emergency to ward off co d. As a preventive of that fatal disease, pneumonia, a to ded newspaper laid beneath the outer c otliing across the chest is said to be infallible. A 8 a preventive of cold feet, a pioce of newspaper folded in the sole is quite equal to if not so elegant or so expensive as cork or lambskin soles, being light, soft, and easily renewed. If you wish to test the power of a newspaper in excluding cold, try tacking one, doubly folded, between your window and your stand of plants, and see how nicely they will be protected, and how frosty the window will consequently be. Newspapers will in the autumn, before severe black frosts come on, effectually protect greenhouse plants, before you take them up, from cold and wind.

The writer remembers once driving up about dusk to a country place, and being startled at seeing what looked like a platoon of ghosts drawn up in white array before the house, which turned out to be, on closer inspection, rows of tender plants all tied up in newspapers to protect them from the sudden frosts incident to the season, that in one night might cut them all down. We have known tomato plants protected in the same way, and made to ripen in the open garden much longer by this inexpensive, easy precaution within every one’s reach. Old newspapers are admirable as floor coverings under carpets, or even spread under the Kensington squares, retaining all the dust which neither remains in the carpet nor sifts through to the floor; then they can be so easily removed that it is a great saving to use them in this way, especially as, the dust well shaken out, tho papers are equally serviceable for kindling purposes afterward, so can do double duty besides the legitimate one of heralding the news of the day. Weather strips are now almost universal, as well as double windows, for securing warm rooms; but where, as in the case in some old-fashioned country houses, they are not procurable, newspapers can supply the deficiency very well by being cut in long strips, neatly folded over, and stuffed in the interstices, and so most effectually exclude the cold outer air. Old newspapers are excellent to clean windows with; slightly damped, then rubbed till dear, they serve the purpose much better than even linen cloth, for there is no lint to rub off. Newspapers xvrapped around the feet under tlie stockings are an effectual protection against mosquitoes, as with all their virulence they cannot bite through paper. Old newspapers are faithful mirrors of the past. As they increase in age, the very advertisements become curious. Therefore those who have no use for the modern newspaper in all the various ways we have pointed out must find intellectual profit in storing them away till the time when some circumstances may drag them from their longforgott n hiding-places to claim an interest in human eyes, which perhaps they never had to such an extent before.

Illustrated papers are very useful in adorning the walls of rooms, covering up unsightly wall paper or obnoxious boles, the delight of children as well as their instructors, affording gleams of clieerfulnesi and pleasure in else gloomy apartments. They are of such infinite variety, too, with their lovely illustrations of poems, stories, natural history and comic sketches, as well as portraits of be mties and notabilities, that they continually educale the public taste, and give the impecunious a glimpse of real art they cannot else afford. — Harper's Bazar. The Sultan of Morocco is fond of tricycling, but too lazy to work the pedals himkelf, so he lias had a gorgeous machine constructed, propelled by slave labor. He sits cross-legged upon an embossed coucb, curtained and canopied with silk and s.lver and gold. At Iris right hand is a clock, and at his left a compass, in order that when beyond the reach of the muezzin’s call the faithful Mohammedan may observe the exact hour of prayer and the exact direction in which his orisons are to be addre. sed. A down-town policemau found a loafer last week on the wharf asleep, with his mouth wide open. Being at a loss what charge to make, the sergeant suggested that he charge him with keeping a rum-hole open without a license.

WORK OF CONGRESS.

Summary of Measures that Have Become Laws or Been Defeated. The Number of Bills, Resolutions, Etc-, Introduced in Both Houses. [Washington special.] The total number of laws enacted by tRe Forty-ninth Congress was, approximately, 1,431, of which 1,093 originated in the House and 338 in the Senate. Two hundred and sixty-four of these became laws by the expiration of the constitutional ten days limitation. Fifty bills failed to become laws, owing to the adjournment of Congress, nine of them at the close of the first session. There were 132 bills vetoed by the President, or twenty-one more than had been vetoed from the foundation of the Government down to the beginning of this Congress. Of the vetoed bills ninety-four originated in the House and thirty-nine in the Senate. But one private bill, that granting a pension to Joseph Bomeiser, and one public bill for the erection of a Government buildlug at Dayton, Ohio, succeeded in passing both houses over the Presi- j dent’s veto, although several others obtained I the requisite two-thirds vote in the Senate, only j to fail in the House. Of the 1,053 House hills which became laws, j 275 were of a more or less public nature. Of the I remaining 778 bills (granting pensions or relief to specially designated persons), 150 became laws without the approval of the President. The following is a list of more important House bills which have become laws : To forfeit the Atlantic & Pacific Kallroad land grant; to increase the pensions of widows and dependent relatives from $8 to Sl2 per month; the Dingley shipping hill; to require the Pacific roads to pay the cost of surveying and conveying their land grants and subject the land to taxation so soon as the companies arc entitled to them; to increase the naval establishment; to pension the Mexican war veterans; the oleomargarine act; to authorize the transfer of Highwood tract, near Chicago, to the United States for military purposes ; to proteot homestead settlers witnin railroad limits ; to enable national banking associations to increase their capital stock and change thoir name and location ; to grant a license to towing vessels to carry a limited number of persons in addition to their crews; to forfeit the “Back-Bone" land grant; to reduce the fees on domestic money orders for sums loss than $5; to extend the immediate-de-livery system; to prohibit the passage of local or special laws In the Territories; to provide for closing up the business of the Court of Alabama Claims ; to establish additional life-saving stations; for the construction of additional lighthouses ; extending the freo-delivery system to towns of 10,0U0 inhabitants ; for the sale of the Cherokee reservation in Arkansas ; to amend the statutes so as to require brewers to give bonds for three times their estimated monthly tax; for the issue of postal notes in sums less than $5 ;to validate the general laws of Dakota regarding the incorporation of insurance companies ; to provide for the inspection of tobacco, cigars, and snuff, and to repeal section 3151 of the Bevised Statutes; to make St. Charles, Mo., a port of entry; to allow underwriters to be recognized as consignees of merchandise on abandoned vessels ; to restrict ownership of lands in the territories to American citizens ; to amend tho act dividing Missouri into two judicial districts, and to divide it into eastern and western divisions ; to prohibit Government employes from hiring or contracting out the labor of United States prisoners ; to amend the duti-able-goods act so as to allow merchandise to be transported in bond on passenger trains in safes, pouches, and trunks, and in parcels; to amend the act prohibiting the importation and immigration of foreigners under labor contracts; for an additional associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming ; providing for the location of a branch soldiors’ home west of the Rocky Mountains; for the relief of the .Jeannette sufferers ; amendatory of the act dividing Illinois into judicial districts, and providing for the holding of terms of court at Peoria ; relative to contested elections; to loan articles in the Government departments to the Minnesota Industrial Exposition ; to regulate the jurisdiction of United States Circuit Courts ; for the adjustment of land grants and tho forfeiture of unearned lands; to add a number of cities to the list of national bank reserve cities, and to allow a part of the reserve to be kept In cities other than New York; for the relief of settlers on the publlo lands in Kansas and Nebraska; to provide for bringing suits against the Government; for the erection of public buildings at Los Angeles, Cal., Springfield, Mo., El Paso, Tex., Santa Fe. N. M., and Jefferson, Tex.; to increase tho limit of cost of public buildings at Peoria, 111., Galveston, Tex., Clarksburg, W. Va., Keokuk, lowa, Chattanooga, l’enn., Detroit, Mich.; for the completion or improvement of public buildings at Dallas, Tex., Des Moines, lowa, Jackson, Tenn.. and Hannibal, Mo., for the purchase of additional ground for the building at Fort Wayne, Ind.; for the purchase of a site for a Federal building at San Francisco, Cal. Forty House joint resolutions became laws, the principal ones being as follows: Directing the Commissioner of Labor to make an investigation as to convict labor; authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to use certain unexpended balances for the relief of the Northern Cheyennes of Wyoming ; to authorize tho President to protect American fishing and trading vessels and American fishermen in Canadian waters; authorizing an investigation of the books, methods, and accounts of the P&cifio railroads. Of the total number of bills which passed the Senate 320 became laws, Including 115 of a public and 205 of a strictly private nature. The following is a list of the more important: The Presidential succession bill; the interstate commerce bill; for the retirement and recoinage of the trade dollar; tho electoral count bill; for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians ; to repeal tho tenure of office act; to increase the annual appropriation for the militia; to establish agricultural experiment stations ; to legalize the incorporation of trades unions ; authorizing the transmission of weather reports through the mails free of postage ; to increase tho pension for loss of an arm or leg; to indemnify the Chinese for lossos sustained by the Rock Springs (Wy. T.) riot; for the relief of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California, Kansas, Nevada, Washington Territory, and Idaho; authorizing the salo of certain Government property in Chicago; for tho holding of terms of the United States Courts at Bay City, Mich.; to remove the charge of dosortion from the records of soldiers who re-enlisted without h iving received discharges on account of first enlistment; to establish two additional land districts in Nebraska; to amend the laws relating to patents, trade-marks, and copyrights ; to extend the time for the completion of the records of the Court of Alabama Claims; to credit Kansas with certain money on ordnance account; to bridge the Mississippi River at St. Louis; to allow receivers of national banks to buy in trust property on the approval of tho Comptroller of the Currency; to prohibit the importation of opium; for the erottion of public buib ings at £au Antonio, Texas, Houston, Texas, Oshkosh, Wis., Fort Smith, Ark., Owensborough, Ky., and Milwaukee, Wis.; to increase the limit or cost for public buildings at Oxford, Miss., and Denver, Col.; for the completion of public buildings at Fort Scott aud Wichita, Kansas. The Senate bills vetoed xvero thirty-nine in number, eleven being of a public and twentyeight of a private character. The public bills vetoed were as follows: To quiet the titles of settlers on the Des Moines River lands (passed over the veto in the Senate, but failed of the necessary two-thirds in the House); for the erection of public buildings at Zanesville, Ohio, Lafayette, Ind., Sioux City, lowa, Dayton, Ohio (passed over the veto in both houses), and Lynn, Mass.; to extend tho provisions of the immediate transportation act to Omaha, Neb.; to grant railroads right of way through the Indian reservations in Northern Montana. The ninety-three House hills vetoed included eighty-seven private bills and six bills 'of a public nature. The public bills vetoed were : . For the erection of Federal buildings at Springfield, Mo., Duluth, Minn., Asheville, N. C., and .Portsmouth, Ohio; to distribute 810,000 worth of seeds among the drought-stricken people of Texas; to,, grant pensions to dependent soldiers and dependent relatives of deceased soldiers. _ _ x

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—An American-Belgian Horse Association, comprising many of the leading importers of horses in various parts of the country, has been formed at Wabash. The object of the association is to encourage the breeding and importation of heavy draft horses, more particularly those of Belgian blood. The officers for the first year are: President, Hannan Wolf, Wabash; Vice-President, Dr. A. G.Van Hoosebelse, Monmouth, Ill.; Secretary. J. D. Conner, jr., Wabash; Treasurer, U. M. Engleman, Rich Valley, Ind, Directors, J. W. Wilcox, Peru, Ind.; R. A. Moss, Palmyra, Mo.; W. L. Kester, North Manchester, Ind.; W. K. Kennedy, Tilman, Ind.; Charles Shillinger, Roann, Ind.; Reuben Lancaster, Virginia, 111. Executive Committee, D. C. Storoman, Denver, Ind.; David Kercher, Gilead, Ind. —There is considerable excitment among the inhabitants of the northern part of Jasper County over the discovery of what is supposed to be an underground river. About two years 6ince several head of cattle were lost in a current that ran underground toward the Kankakee, and now tho same current is lowering the waters in the adjoining swamps, which are known to hunters and trappers to be nothing more than wide areas of floating sod. A trapper reports that the water on the Kankakee marsh has raised several feet, tho result of the flow from tho region about McKune’s settlement, near which tho rushing waters make a loud noise. Many are preparing to leave for higher ground. —Mr. Noah Hall, an old resident of Muncie, was standing on the track of the Lake Erie and Western Railway, looking at one of the big gas wells, and was so absorbed in the sight that he did not notice a train which was rapidly approaching. The engineer saw the man on the track, and whistled loudly (o give him warning, but he did not seem to hear it, for he stood on the track until the train came along and ground him under tho w heels, mashing his left leg and right arm terribly. He was taken to his home and surgeons summoned, but they could do nothing but relievo the sufferings of the unfortunate man, and ho soon died. He loaves a widow and daughter. —The boiler of the Litchfield shaft recently exploded near Carbon. Tho boilerhouse was completely demolished and the boiler thrown nearly three hundred yards. Willie Phillips, a boy about 15 yenrs old, who was standing near the boiler, was killed; William M. Boling, engineer, and Frank Cunningham, were severely injurod. Boling has both arms broken, but it is thought his injuries are not fatal. William Hopkins was near by at tho time, but was not hurt. As there were but few men at work, and they were not hoisting coal, a much more serious accidont wus avoided. The works will, in all probability, not be rebuilt. —Henry Kenner, a farmer residing near Mt. Vernon, in Posey County, accidentally shot and killed himself. He was handling a double-barrel shotgun, and in endeavoring to find out if it was loaded put the gun to his mouth to blow in the barrels, at the same time holding the hammers back with his foot. His foot slipped, tho hammers discharged tho gun, and the top of Kenner’s head was blown off. The deceased was 34 years of age and loaves a widow and two children. —Recently several fatal cases of lock-jaw have occurred near Brazil. Otis Blair, aged 18 years, got his hand mashed between car-bumpers, but neglected to have it amputated in time. L. O. Rector, aged 15 years, suffered the loss of a foot under the cars some days ago. He died from, lockjaw. James H. Beaton Borne days ago ruptured an internal organ while drilling for coal. He lived four days in much agony and died. —Recently there was born to William and Anna Armstrong, of Coal City, near the Clay County line of Owen County, a daughter, perfect in all other physical respects, but eyeless. The external parts of the eye, the cilia, and the eyelids are perfect, but the eye-ball is entirely wanting. The eyelids are closed normally, never opening voluntarily, but they may be separated with apparently little effort.

—Tho Thirteenth Indiana Veterans’ Association will hold its fourth annual reunion at New Haven, Allen County, on April 7, the twonty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Shiloh. All letters on business pertaining to the reunion should be addressed to Jasper N. Ohlwine, Cromwell, Noble County. —The members of the Muncie Board of Trade have selected officers for- the ensuing year as follows: Mr. Joseph Goddard was chosen President; Will M. Marsh, Treasurer, and S. A. Wilson, T. F. Bose and John lii McMahon, first, second, and third Vice Presidents, respectively. —The quarry company at Salem is running a fulilforce of hands. Many improvements have been mad&. The traveler trestle is now 4(k# feet long. New buildings for the planer and cutting machinery are going' up. Thaee hundred men will be employed this yeaat —Richard Tankersley, a young man living a fear miles east of Colfax, went to Clarjr’s Hill, and while boarding the train to conw home, slipped and fell, the wheels passing over ouo leg just below the knee, necessitating tho amputation of that joint. —At Hartford City, Blackford Ceuuty, naturrd gas hasheen struck at a depth of nine hundred feet. The volume of ga& is equal to that of any well drilled in the Stale, the pressure being about three hundred pounds. —Joshua Whittaker, of Morgantown, Morgan County, a prominent, citizen, dropped dead of heart disease. —Emory Copeland, residing near Spice-