Daily News, Volume 2, Number 154, Franklin, Johnson County, 17 February 1881 — Page 1

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W.uuriso'roii, Feb. 16.—The committee of the Houw appointed la attend tbe fu neral of Fernando Wood, left this evening for Pittsburg, where they will meet tha remain*.

WASHIKOTOH, Feb. 16.—Troops from every Slate in the union will be present in Washington, oh the 4th of March, and tbe military display will be one of the grandest feature? of the inauguration ceramonia*." I ",

WASHINGTON, February 16 —Contrary to tbe report, tbe death of Mr. Wood will have little or no effect, in the •Tariff Reform" question-as bis absence from his seat was sufficient reason to present the recording of his vote.

WiiSHUfOTOM, Feb. 16.—The Senate committee un fureigo relations to-day agreed to recommend the insertion in tbe sundry civil appropriation bill nf a clause which, if enacted, will enable the Presi dent to send a special embassy to Mexico ,to negotiate additional treaty provisions to promote the commercial relation* of the countries. •WASHINGTON, Feb 16.—A bill will be introduced in the ijeuate to-morrow to provide that nil the money due from the Pacific railroads, under acts of Congress for their construction, to the United States, »h«ll lie distributed as fast as paid in to the Turiou# States, Territories, and District of Columbia, in proportion to the population of each, and be applied by each to the purpose of general education, without regard to race or color.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Notwithstanding the endeavors of Conkling's adversaries in New York to create an enemity between himself and the President-elect, the cloud of doubt will be dispelled by the visit of the Senator to Mentor. On the return of Mr. C., from the President's home, the relation between New York and the Cabinet will become known, and the inteations of the Senator in regard to working for the administration will be ascertained.

discharge the committee on foreign affairs from all consideration of the subject of inter-oceanic canals and railways, and to press the resolution he reported to-day, in order that Congress may stand upon the decided ground in that resolution in favor of the right of the United States government to maintain control of the |«t|mus and canal and similar works.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—There is a great deal more opposition in the Senate to the finance committee amendment to the funding bill fixing the rale of interest of the new bonds at %X Pt'r cent, than has been supposed. A determined effort will be made to fix the rate at 8 per cent, and those advocating it say it will be carried. If the sH per cent, rate is maintained, it will be by a very close voie. The 8 per cent, senators are from the West and South.

WASHINGTON Feb. 16.—The Greenhackers are hard at work wilh a view of presenting a compact front in the next House, and there, hoidlng'the balance of power. The Republicans lack one of the number necessary to organize the House, and the Greenbackers will force the Democrats to join them to beat the Republi cans. Leading Republicans say that Bnjmm. of Pennsylvania, and Ford, of Missouri, will certainly vote with them In the organisation of the House.

Washthoton. Feb. 16 —Tbe fortifica tions appropriation bill, as reported to the Senate to day, has been amended by the committee on appropriations as follows. The amount granted by the House of Representatives for the protection, preser ration and repair** of fortifications is in creased from $100,000 to $900,000. The item of $400,000 for tbe armament of seacoast fortifications, including the conver sion of smooth bore cannon into rifles, and the manufacture of fear Improved breech-ioading, twelve-inch rifled guns. Is changed by tbe Senate committee by ro ducing the amount to $350,000 and striking out all reference to twelve-inch rifle®. The committee also add a clause providing for the creation of aboard of five army officers to examine inventions and improvements in heavy ordinance and projectik*

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Nrw To**, Feb. I«L—1« is reported that Jay Qottld and Ru#*ell Sage have obtained control of the New Jersey Oentrat, a»4 that the rand will be opened to Bin* hamptoa A consolidation wUl then be w»A* frith the Lackawanna, which it a! ready unkr the control of Gould TV Lackawann* extension wfll then be posh ed through to Bnflalo. and advantage he tafcen of the new line to Clevt^and froan Chicago to get into tbe latter city by fcottdinga short liae from Bnltato CSmriudL

VOL. a.—NO. 154. TERRE HAUTE. IND.. THURSDAY, FEB. 17,1881.

IlARiasnrHG, Fei» 16.—The Republi can anti-caucus men this evening decided to appoint a committee of 12, providing a like committee be appointed by the regulars, for the purpose of consultation in reference to the election of a suitable condidate, the result of said meeting to be referred back to the respective caucuses for approval, A lueeting of regular caucus followers has deen'called.

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OR WHAT TAKING PhACK IN (M?« HISTRR COITNTIIW.

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February 16.—Bee Commins and two companions, were arrested her* yester day, and lodged in jail for rioting. They will answer to a more neriou* charge when ihev are examined.

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February 16.—While .lumes Hendersoj a drug clerk, was corking snmll vial of creosote, the vial burst, throwing tbe contents into his face and eyes. His eyesight is greatly impaired, if aot totally de stroyed. _____

MA I)!TON.

February 16 Henry Schriber commit ted suicide, yesterday, by jumping into a cistern and drowning, at his residence in Hanover township. The deceased was a wealthy farmer, aged sixty. He leaves a wife and four grown children.

February 16.—Mr. Beach, general su perintendent of the Western Telephone Company arrived in the city, to-night, for the purpose of establishing a telephone exchange in Madison.

RICHMOND.

February, 16.--Richard Jucksou secretary and treasurer of the Chase Piano Company, died at his home at Lincoln Hill early this morning. His death resulted from acurious ease of blood poisoning which he believed was caused by accidentally mashiug a potato bue in his hand and touching the inside of one of his ears with it. His head gathered and he had it operated upon here, and after wards in Cincinnati and New York sev eral times, without securing relief. The poison finally pervaded his whole system.

A store of Knowledge.

Did you ever take an inventory of Madam Gossip's store of knowleaee? 8ba knows everything uKwWflyr wjr eVef^frrcrrct/urti, would, should, can not, will not, or never shall happen, and ia aware of all things that have ever taken place, and of a great many things that never have done so. She is much better informed of you than you are of your self knows your morals better than your oonfessor your constitution better than your doctor: your income better than your sanker, and the day you were born on better than your mother. She is om niacient and omnipresent, microscopic and lelescopic she speeds as many interrogations as a telegraph instrument, and has as many mysteries as the agony column of a "patent inside" newspaper has all to all the mysterious problems of neighborhood and, wtia*. is very comforting, always knows everything for "certain." She knows that Mr. Spoopendyke starves his servants because he is oor, and likes to save on the butcher and aker ehe knows that Mrs. Piety's great rrandmother's second cousin was hanged or some awfully, awful crime she knows that Mattie Perrewinkle's silk stockings have cotton tops, and because—hush—a— ah, so very shocking, she always (whisper, whisper, whisper,)—oh, indeed, it is perfectly true—dreadful. Incredible, but perfectly true.

In point of fact, she knows everything of inteteit, and never fails to tell peop.e that first-class Clothiftg and Gent's Fur nishing Goods are obtained at wholesale prices, at Owen, Pixley & Co's., 10 Main street, Terre Haute.

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Gats have fared very differently indifferent countries. In Ertp* in ancieni times they were worshipped, and in Turkey the people, ausdfai« Mehamnedfr ed partiality for the animal, since treated cats with distinguished sktaratfoB. On the other hand, they ia tbe mi4dle ages regarded in France ftends incarnate, a view of t£ten not seldom taken here and in Paris an St. John's day, the** was a iUtiM botacawt, when sacks and t*sket* fall of cats were braagbt to the cents* of the Pteea d* la Gmva, where the sovereign Wit a torch to the pike of wood asrid whfch th«(f mmm hwnt slive. The hrisswdRR whotoakim this ncmaotty was the Grand Menains* hanaeiil CMina2 Rkh^ien ww»sra«li addicted to csta, aj^hMlaa A ngon. hi» Pdnstant companion, oa which ha lavished the tar dss?A earranes^ while Colbert had Wf a doom wrawmd hip feat the ilMaiotettained hy thesetasttwsnt torn fcrcatain IMCtkn^Ht does not man to have toltlM to totsifat to nave the la gftsweat titt*. hldasnw jtenlni,^

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Crossing the Atlantic eastward, towards the islands of the Azores, the main stream gradually becomes lost and its current spent but a portion of it contiuues northward towards the British Islands. Long after the current itself is lost, the neighboring seas continue veiy sensibly affected by the warm waters which it has brought down. It was stated by Commander Chimmo, at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, that in one hour's sailing into or out of the current of the Gulf Strer a, the temperature changes no less than from twenty to twenty-five degrees} and that a ship may be so placed that her bow and her stern are floating in the water the heat oi' wtu.-h differs ereatly.

It is important to hear in mind the distinction between the actual current of the Gulf Stream and the heated waters which are brought down by the agency. The range of the latter extends some hundreds miles after what is properly termed the On if current has ceased. The waters of the stream often bring cocoa-nuts and other tropical fruits to the shores of Europe, and some have at times been left in this manner upon our own coasts.

The waters of.the Gulf Stream are distinctly traced bynheir color, which is of a deep blue, contrasting strongly with the cpreen of the seas with which it eventually mingles. The difference of temperature between the waters of the stream and those of the Northern Ocean leads to the melting away of icebergs brought down from the Arctic Regions on the breaking up of the winter season.

The temperature of this stream, being so much higher than that of the surrounding seas, exercises an important influence on the atmosphere above. It carries with it a vrarm, moist air, which, coming into colBston with that of colder regions, produces strong winds and frequently •iol«nt^mpests. Ihe neighborhood of the Gulf Stream is well known to sailors as pecnMniy the region of storms and in their passage across the ocean they avoid it as much as possible for this reason. Whenever, from any cause, the current is of greater volume and force than usual, these storms are proportionately increased.

This leads us to notice a plausible theory which was stated to account for the partioticularly mild winter experienced in 18689, in combination with a aeries of violent galea. The frequent occurrence of earthquakes in the southern seas, recorded a few months before, gave rise, it was asserted, to a more than ordinary influx of waters from those seas towards the Mexican gulf. Tbe volume of the Gulf Stream was consequently largely increased, and its effects were therefore felt more powerfully than usual upon our shores, both in the mildness of the season and tbe frequency of storm*. We record this a remarkable theory, put toward with confidence in some quarters but it is only fair to say that it has be«a questioned by many of o«ur scientific men. mmmmmnmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Ih decorating ihe home married people should be carefal how they arrange tbe chromos and pictures. The former ornament should be hung high enough to be oat of range of such articles as tbe hn»* band and wife stay see fit to throw at each other while ia the heat of passion. Jtooccurred inacerwas thrown, completely demolishing "God Bless Oar Home,* a beautiful wo» of art printed in nine color*. "Peace Be Unto Thta Hoass" was also wrecked by a mud) read wis

w— roeotly a mlsnndfer^andjbMoccui tain home, and the UunOy Bible

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The Gulf StreaMi.

Among the wonders of physiea] gbof^ raphy, few are more interesting in their relation to this country than what is known as the Gulf Stream. This is an oceanic current of great extent, which takes its rise in tbe Gulf of Mexioo, whence it derives its name. The peculiar formation and poaition of this gull renders it a receptade for the waters of the Atlantic, which sweep across the oorth-eaeitern ooast of? Sooth America and, on arriving in the gulf, they beoome warmed to a much higher temperature than is anywhere found in the surrounding ooean. The summer temperature of the waters in the Gulf is about eighty-eight degrees, while in the open Atlantic, in the same latitude, it is seven ty-eight

Thus wanned the waters pass out of the (Sulf northward, in a deep strong current, through the coast of Florida on the one side, and the islands of Cuba and the Bahamas on the other. Ihe steam progresses here with a velocity of five miles an hour. It rolls like a mighty river along the shore of North America, widening as it flows, until it nears the banks of Newfoundland, where it iB turned aside, partly by tbe formation of the coast, which here projects boldly out, and partly by the encounter with strong and adverse currents from the North Atlantic. At the point where it is turned aside, it stretches almost across the Atlantic: the currant itself, according to some, being about two hundred miles in width, and the warm waters of tbe stream extending in all more than twice that distance. In the latter part of its course it leaves behind it that remarkable drifl of sea-weed known as the Mer de Sargasso.

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a considerable degree. While placco situated in the same latitudes, both to the east and to the west, are frozen and comparatively unhabitable during a large portion of the year, our islauds, as a rule, er^joy a temperate climate and this feet is attributed in a great measure to the beneficent influence of the warm waters brought down by the Gulf Stream. The peculiar verdure of the "Emerald Isle," and'the mildness of our own seasons wheal Labrador and the regions round the Baltic are locked in ice, are thus believed to be the effects of an oceanic current which sets out more than four thousand miles away.

Is China the names of children are given aecMdug to dmutstaaM associated with the time of their birth. If a child ia born at midnight, its name may be Midnight if the M3MOB be rainy, the child's same Rain if a birth occurs oa the birtlrday of

K&*tive that reiative^i age may be the of the new bora, and so there mm ttf Thirty, Fifth, One, and other ntsmbess. bet there a» even more cmioos names. Ifthe pcrmt* desired a bqy, »d a girl is bom, ter aaaw may ha Oi*ht*^W*-Boy.

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The artless maimers and rustic prettinen of Lucy Porter had won Johnson's youthfal heart, when she was on a visit to the Rev. John Hunter's, master of the free school, Lichfield, in Johnson's youthful days. The peculiar appearance, however, of Johnson, could not tempt the lady to a return of his passion and at length she returned t6 her parents at Birmingham. Business required Johnson's presence in that neighborhood on the death of his father, and calling upon his former mistress there, he found her parent dying. With that affectionate friendship which icular situations always experienced him, he passed all his leisure hours at Mr. Porter's, attended his sick bed, and few months after his death, asked Mrs. Johnson'^ consent to his marriage with the widow.

Mrs. Porter has been represented as very fat, with a red face, and indifferent features, and in her speech and manners affected, and bordering on girlish levity while Jdhnson, on his first introduction to her, exhibited an appearance yet more singular. He was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, while the scars occasioned by the scrofula were deeply viable. His hair, which was straight and stiff, he wore separated behind and he often had, seemingly^ convulsive starts and odd gestulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule. Mrs. Porter, however, was so much engagod by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages and expressed to her daughter: "This is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life."

Johnson's mother, as might naturally be ex pected, expressed her surprise at a request so imprudent and extraordinary, both on account of her disparity of ye^re and want of fortune. "No, Sam," she said, "my willing consent you will never have to so preposterous a match. You are 25 and she is turned of 50. If she had any prudence, this request would never have been made to me. Where are your means of subsistence? Porter has died poor in consequence of his wife's expensive habits. You have great talents, ut as yet have turned them into no profitable channel." "Mother," replied Johnson, "I have told her the worst of me—that I am of mean extraction, that I have no money, and that I have had an uncle hanged. She replied that she valued no one more or less for his descent, that she had no more money thai' myself, and that though she had not had a relation hanged, she had fifty who deserved hanging."

After some little lapse cf time, howevei^ matters were brought to a conclusion, and Derby was fixed on as the place where the ceremony should be performed, on the 9th a^aTaiv- 1833, ibr which plaoe the bride on the nuiZSLPVL* well in the doctor's own words to him: "Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and that she could not keep up with me, and when I rode a little slower she passed me and complained that I lagged behind. I not to be made the slave of caprice, and I reeolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight the road lay between two hedges, so I was sure that Mte could net miss it, and I contrived that she should soon come up with me when she did, I observed her to be in tears."

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Dr. Johnson's Marriage.

it mnst be allowed, was a singular

beginning of connubial felicity yet he proved a moet affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment ef his life. He once told Tophan Beaclery, with much gravity, "Sir, it was a love match on both sides and in his Pray era and Meditations we find very remarkable evidence that his regard and fondness for her never ceased, even after death.

Learning to Write. single sysana that a

We believe that there is no tem of mechaniqne for writing, child belonging to the educated classes would be tAnght much better and more easily if, titer being once enabled to make and reoognhee written letters, it were let alone, and praised or cbided not for ita method, but for the result.

Let the boy hold the pen is he likes, mm! make his strokes as be likes,—hurry, of course, being discouraged-—but insist tVf. his copy wall be legible, dean and shall approach the good copy set before him, namely, a well written letter, not rubbishy text on a single line, written as nobody but a writing-master ever did or ever will write until the world's end. He will make a muddle at first, but he will soon make a passible imitation of his copy, and ultimately develop a characteristic and strong hand, which may he bad or good, bat wilt not be either meaningless, undecided (Mr illegible.

This hand will alter, of course, very greatly as be grows older. It may alter at 11, because it is at that age that the range of the eyes is fix*, and short-sight betrays itself and it will alter at 17, because then the lystem of taking notes at lecture*, which ruins most hands, will have cramped and temporarily spoiled the writing, but the character will form itself again, and will nrer be deficient in cteainea# or decision.

The idea that it is to be clear will have stamped itself, and confidence will not have been destroyed by worrying little rotes about attitude, and angle, and slope, which the very irritation of the pupil ought to convince the teachers are, free? some personal peculiarity, inapplicable. Tjelad will write,« be do«es anything else that be cares to do, as well as be am, and with ft eertain efficacy sad speed. Almost every letter he gets w01 igve him

some

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andthema&ei^ranoQflteaacesoabisilicgihility will be attended |o, like any^ other oration given in the oaataal»ai^--&ew

PAJJts Gkxcs.—Great cure should be ohmrved ia ka»dling Psris Groan. A ease it TOOOtded when ft young maxi who was tftixing the poison ftw tbe purpose of killing potato bnga, robbed bis item serous his sweaty forehead, aad ia ft

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ThurMiaj and Friday, February 17 and 18.

FirM appearance Se thUcity of

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I ndt-r he maiui£«ment of Brooks A Dickson, will bo jtn^lncet with aU its wealth of attraction* and mmui'c ••tTeore

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By tbe following celebrated artista:

Constantin Sternberg

The great Russian Pianist,'

Letitle Louise Fritch!

The charming Prima Donaa Soprano.

—-WITH

AUGUST WILHELMJ!

The world-renowaod Violin Virtuoso, HU farewell appearance previous to his departure for Snropc.

Max Vogeicb Musical Director.

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