Greencastle Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 April 1882 — Page 2

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THE BANNER.

O. J-l-Asoaiwu-F, PubUsher

GREEN CASTLE

INDIANA

UKltE AND THERE.

The Ohio Legislature was ia session three mouths.

It is believed that the session of Congress will extend into July.

Patti lias contracted her notes for next season for fifty concerts at $4,400 each.

Washington gossip “boobs" Hon. James N. Tyner for a foreign appointment.

Immigrants are arriving in this country at the rate of over 70,000 per month.

A two-year-old baby and its mother were found beastly drunk in Boston, the other day.

The labors of Harrison, the revivalist, in Cincinnati, are credited with 1373 conversions.

The fiiends of General John A. Logan are seriously alarmed about the condition of his health.

The Chicago Driving Park Association offers purses aggregating $52,000 fjr its summers races.

After a long contest, Miss Ada C. Kweet has been reappointed as Pension Agent for the Chicago district.

A movement l as been inaugurated in Philadelphia against pew renting, which is almost universal in the churches of that city.

It is shown in the pending tariff discussion that one half of the $85,000,000 worth of silk goods used annually in this country is manufactured here.

The council of the Russian Empire has been instructed to draft a law defining the position of Jews in that country.

There seems to he a fair prospect of the reduction of letter postage from three to two cents, at the present session of Congress.

sas, Va., where he was seen dressed as a little giri and cared for by a woodchopper. _|

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Railroad Commissioner

strong has Written a letter to Attorney General Brewster, recommending that the suit agaust the Central Pacific railroad be ptssed, and that suits be instituted aglinst all Pacific railroads for arrears >f contributions to the sinking fundpnder the Thurman bill,

and oe vigonjusly prosecuted.

If the United Htates Circuit Court of Charlestoi, South Carolina, the Grand Jury Aturued a true bill against David JameaKvinu and Henry J. Mo Lauriu, Comnisaiones of Election for Sumter county, or. an indictment charging theip with r< fusing to count three of the polls in Sumter county.

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Jacob BaiIier, a wealty retired merchant of Aew York, was supposed by his acquaintances and relatives to be a bachelol until after his death, when a womafi claimed that she had lived with him in Brooklyn as his wife for thirtyvftve years, he bearing the name of John Baker. The New York Court of Appeals has ju t sustained her claim to dower interest in

his estate valued at $135,00'!.

If a New York speciel rii t i can be credited, the name of Nano ibilt hai been suuli to lower depths < f < i-.-grace by the death of Samuel ('air, uncle of the hundred millionaire, in the Brooklyn poor house, at the age of 73 years. The Vanderbilts seem To have literal ‘‘hearts of gold” which are utterly incapable of human feeling.

It is claimed that the proposed Congress of the North and South American governmests, which has attracted so much attention recently, and the holding of which now depends upon the decision of the Congress of the United States, was suggested some years ago in the Senate by Roscoe Coukling.

3+>3.584—of which less than half a ture lias arranged for a series of agri-

million was specie. Speculation has put, and holds, main and cotton up to

figures at which they cannot be exported. The foreign demand for these staples is supplied from other sources, and the United (Stales is paying for its imiHtrts in gold and keeping its abundant products.

In a scathing criticism of sucu popular heroes as Sergeant Mason, “Betty and the baby," and Jesse James, the Indianapolis Journal pays just tribute to Robert Kelly’, the brave pilot of the steamer Golden City, and concludes witti eai nest protest and warning as follows: “Having in one mouth canonized a dead assassin, lionized a living pretender, and ignored a hero who nobly perished in the discharge of duty, it would seem that the American people are leaving little on record to excite a love for the good and true, while teaching the oncoming generation to applaud lawlessness when crow’ued with a glamour of false glory. It may be we are sowing the wind to reep a whirlwind. Vfe may rest assured that these pernicious lessons will not be lest: neither may we expect to escape t’.ie consequences of national folly."

The commit.ee of the House of Congress appointed to audit the exiieuses of the illness and death of President Garfield, has reported a bill which ajipropristes for the relief of Lucretia R. Garfield $50,000; less any sum paid the late President Garfield cu account of his salary as President. It pays Dr. Bliss, $35,000, Drs. Aguew and Hamilton, $15,000; Drs. Reybum, Boynton and Susan Edson, $10,000 each.; William J. Crump, 23,000; Uo the Secre-

A jury has been secured in the Jen- 1 nie Cramer case, at New Haven, j Conn., and now it is strongly hinted j that one of the jurors is “fixed" for the j defense. Ex-Senator Dorsey traveled all |

The value of pure shuit-horn cattle is still far beyond that of any other breed. At a recent sale in Chicago, the fourth Duchess of Airdrie brought $7,100; the second Marchioness of Kirklington, 31,525; the ninth Duchess of Hilhurst, $8,500; the tenth Duchess of Hilliurst, 87,100; the eleventh Duchess of Hilliurst, $1700; the eighth Duke of Hilliurst, $3,025.

the way from New Mexico to Wash- 1 ington to meet an order for his arrest, 1 and pleads not guilty to the Star Route incictments.

The New York dog show is in full blast, with over 1,200 purps on exhibition. Tney should pass resolutions of sympathy for the hard fate of their kindred in Indiana.

Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, expresses the be'icf that Frank James, brother of saint Jesse, is dead, and all the rumors about “vendetta” and “vengeance," are mere sensationalism.

The death of Mr. Darwin without the discovery of the “missing link” between man and his antecedent monkey, leaves the life work of the great scientist incomplete, if not inconsequent.

The committee of investigation a;pointed by the Cotton Exchange of New York, to examine into ti e charge that American cotton shipped to Europe Li-" year wai adulter&tid with sand, to increase its weight, reports that the frauds complained of arose solely from ‘be wet picking season of last year, whoa the staple v. as more or loss sandy.

Bishop Gilmour, of the Roman Uatholic Church, took part in a recent public meeting in Cleveland looking to the suppression of the liquor traffic, and enforcing a proper observance of the Sabbath.

President Garfeld’s grave on every pleasant Sunday, is visited by thousands of cjuiet people. The sentinels still pace about the vault, the bronze doors of which ate thrown back, revealing the coffin.

Horace Greeley devoted the better part of his life to fighting the Democratic i>nrty, but died a Democrat. His eldest daughter, recently dead, hail been a Protestant nearly all her life, hut was an ardent Catholic when she died.

A thief stole from the Senate chamber at Washington the old Bible—a venerable relic—which had been in use for the swearing in of Senators for the pa u t fifty-three years. It is thought that a relic hunting crank committed the theft.

Folks around here probably have cause to he grateful to Yen nor, the weather fraud, as he predicts a cold, wet summer for considerable portions of the South and West, and this section may he included iu the sure failure of his prediction.

The worst storm of the season of snow and wind is reported in the Black Hills region of Dakota and Wyoming Territories, having been iu progress for several days, and doing great damage. On the 17th of April the snow was twm feet deep on the level.

President Arthur has submitted the question of holding a Congress of tie independent countries of North and South America next November, in Washington City, to the Judgment of Congiess, and pn poses to be guidel in the maiter by ti e conclusions of that body.

Washington^* given a bad name as a very unhealthy place, on account of the frequent attacks of sickness upon members of Congress and visitors, attributed to malaria, even iu midwinter, but it is believed by those who are familiar with the secrets of social life iu that city that if whisky drinking, poker playing and other dissipations were abandoned, complaints of malaria would rarely he heard.

At Cleveland, Ohio, during the auroral display of Sunday, several |>ersous were much affected by the prevailing electrical conditions, particularly those troubled with nervous disorders Rev. O. 1.. Binkley, pastor of Prospect street M. E. Church, was prostrated in the pulpit while praying, by what was at first supposed to be paralysis. Indies fainted iu churches during service, and people complaiutd generally of strangely oppressive sensations, similar to those attendant upon earthquakes.

tary of the Navy, $10,882, for expenses,

etc.; Wm. R. Spears (undertaker), ! *](H),(XX) worth of bank paper in Aus-

cultural institutes in the Congressional

districts of that Htate.

Indictments have been returned against thirty-eight citizens of Barnwell county. South Carolina, for vio-

lating the election laws.

Circulars offering a reward of $0,000 for Howgate have been issued. They contain a good photograph in descrip-

tion of the fugitive.

The Apaches at Ban Carlos Agency, A. T., are on the war path. The territorial officers and military are pre-

pared for them.

Arizona dispathes give rumors of excesses committed by the hostile Indians, who are being closely pursued

by the military.

Lake City, Minn., was visited by a destructive fire early Saturday morning. Loss about $350,000. Insurance

about $100,000.

Deputy Sheriff’ Ki»g, while attempting to arn st a horse thief named Bond, at Freeman, 111., was shot and mor-

tally wounded.

Burglars 'rol>l»ed the post-office at Angola, Ind., of 12,000 postage stamps and then stole hand-car, with which

they rode out of town.

Twenty-five houses in Carrollton, a suburb of N'-w Orleans, were ruined by a tornado on Wednesday, and

fifteen persons wore injured.

Father Kea'.y, priest of St. Patrick’s Church, Lawrence, Mass., and treasurer of the new church building fund,

lias disappeared wi’h the money.

The body of Lizzie Hardy, of St. Joseph, Mo. aged seventeen, who disappeared on the 16th of December, was lound in the river the other day. Mr. V. Davis,-Superintendent of the United Slat-s Mint at New Orleans, is alleged to have been guilty of fraud on the government involving large sums. A Bohemian named Mosig has been arrested in Texas for having forged

toe Hawaiian reciprocity treaty. ».rn! denounce the veto of the auti-t hineae bil!. The dress pattern made for Mrs. Garfield by the Woman’s Silk Culture Association of the i iied States, contains twenty-two yards of bro-'-ui-u satin. It was made from fifty pounds of cocoons, presented from fourteen States, and weighs fourteen poun Is. A dispatch has been received by the New York Herald from Irkutsk, Siberia, announcing that the search steamer Rodgers had been burned and sunk and that Lieutenant Berry, and the officers and crew are at Tlapka, near ( ape Serdze, iu need of immediate relief. At St. Joseph, Mo., the Ford boys, who murdered the bandit Jesse James, were tried and convicted of the crime and were sentenced to death. Whereupon Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, granted them an unconditioual pardon. A most diabolical outrage is reported as having been jierpetrated near Fremont, O., on Sunday. Theodore Morzke went to town to attend church, leaving a son age<i 11, and a daughter aged 9. at home. During his absence a strange man appeared at his house. He scattered a lot of loose powder on tiie ground ami compelled the children to stand on it. He then touched it off, the liash setting fire to the children’s clothing and burning them in a shocking manner. It is thought the boy's eyes are destroyed. There is no clew to the perjiettabor of the hellish deed.

TABLE TALK.

$1,835; to C. N. Jones, of Elberon, $1,912; and to various merchants and others sums varying from 50 cents to $1,000. It provides that when Surgeon-General J. K. Barnes he retired form active service, lie be placed on the retired list with the rank and pay of Major General. It further pro-

tiiu two years ago. lie will he extra-

dited.

The Unites! States steamer Iroquios, now at Mare’s Island, is to be sent to tiie relief of the crew anil officers of the seirch steamer Rodgers, in the

Arctic circle.

Thompson and Ruth, President and Cashier of the Washington (Pa.) Hav-

vides there shall be added to the medi-1 j n jr S Bank, have been arrested on a

cal corps of the army one Surgeon, with the rank, pay and emoluments of Lieutenant Colonel, and authorizes the President to promote James J.

Woodward to that posh ion.

charge of conspiracy to defraud Hie

creditors.

Y $: 'i £ Wl&WoTi’.

A Washington dispatch says that Hon. John C. New is acting vigorously to protect clerks in the Treasury Department from the money sharks, of whom they are at times compelled to borrow money. Tiie custom of some of these brokers has been to charge 10 per cent, a month, and, iu case of nonpayment, to go to tiie Treasury and try to have the sum due stopped on the nay rolls. Mr. New has given the brokers notice that they will hereafter have no protection from tiie officers of tiie department.

Askeg\kds the new comet, it is learned from correct data prepared by those iu charge of tiie National Almanac at the Government observatory at Washington, that its nearest approach to the eartli will be iu the latter part of May. The comet will reach its perihelion June 12. It will not be visible to tiie naked eye before fho 10th of May. It gives indications of being very large. It will first appear in Hie north, about 30° above the horizon, about 8 o’clock in tiie evening. The increase of brilliancy will probably be very marked from May 2-5 to June 12.

Three ttiousana dollars reward is o^erel for the recovery of the little son of W. W. Dickinson, abducted last November from a smalt', town in Wiicousin. He was traced to Mauas-

The foreign trade figures of the port of New York, for March, bear testimony to the depressing influence of speculation and “corners." With ocean freights way down, and vessel agents iu some cases paying for the privilege of carrying grain as ballast, exports, exclusive of specie, were more than $10,000,000 behind those of tiie same month last year. The value of exports (including $4,339,008 specie) was $29,928,501, and of imports $45,-

Hc-me liotvis. Ex-Senator Dorsey is in poor health. The smull pox is spreading at Atlanta, Gu. An earthquake shock was felt at Fredericksford, Texas. Iowa will vote on the prohibition question on the 27th of June. The Connecticut Prohibitionist! have put a ticket in the field. A water spout Hooded Garner, Miss., doing considerable- u imrge. Three thousand Chinese hove just sailed from Hong Kong for America. A free religious conventio. will be held In Chicago May 10th m:*' 11th. The direct cable between Germany and the United States is open for business. The horses in Chicago are suffering from an epidemic disease similar to pinkeye. Oscar Wilde will spend the summer with Henry Ward Beecher ami Julian Hawtbore. General Fitz John Porter is preparing another petition to Congress for reinstatement. Governor Cullom is declared to be out of tiie race for tiie Benaiorship to succeed David Davis. Montleello, Miss., was destroyed by a tornado Sunday, ten persons being killed and many injured. Tiie wife and daughter of Nana, tiie Chief of the Apaches, have been arrested at Fort Stanton. A Chicago firm was fined $100 and costs for manufacturing spurious Worcestershire sauce. Tiie wife of B. Pierce, of Dallas, Texas, strangled her three children and then hung himself. Lexington, Ky., has put in a bid of half a million for the removal of the State Capital to that city. The choice of seats at tiie Cincinnati May Musical Festival, was sold to A. Burkhardt for $75 premium. Sunday night’s frost killed the cotton iu some parts of Tennesse and Arkansas, necessitating replanting. Several thousand dollars worth of beer was spoiled at Grand Forks, D. T., by the overflow of Red River. In New York a machine has b een invented which will facilitate the separation of gold dust in placer mining. Harrison, the Evangelist, was compelled to cancel bis engagement at Tiffin on account of physical exhaustion. The Governor of Iowa offers $5,000 reward for tiie apprehension of the murderer of Mayor Stubbs, of Polk City. Judge Gary fined a number of Chicago gamblers in sums varying from $1 (X) to $500. They all gave bond and appealed. Miss Lizzie Barton, who has just served a term lor horse-stealing, is iu love with Patsy Devine, who is to be hanged May 10. Shipherd, tiie Peruvian manipulator, declined to state the mimes of the directors of the Peruvian Company or of its stockholders. The Illinois State Board of Agricul-

Tbe new (Ga: field) Chris ian Church at Washington, to ccst $40,000, will lie commenced at once. The West will be asked for $15,000 to complete the

&i tou n t.

Four masked men blew tiie outside doors off the safe of tiie Farmers’ and Drovers’bank, at Somers, New York. They were defeated by time-locks on tiie inner doors, and got nothing. Tom Smurr, a married man with grown-up children, was up for hearing

on Wednesday, at Lancaster, Ohio, be-

'bite, charged with raping

lore Judge White, charged

Mary Sbuttlewortb, an 11-year old

girl.

Judge Wylie lias granted tiie motion to quash the indictment against Riedell, one of the Star Route conspirators, on the ground that the fail name should have been set out in the indictment. In Vermont women who pay taxes have tl.o right to vote for school officers, and to be electe d such officers, but it is said that only five women iu the State exercised the right to vote this year. President Arthur promised to attend the opening of tiie National Mining and Ii.d 1st rial Exposition at Denver, Col , Aug. 1, unless prevented by public business of emergency. A tornado visited Saline county, Mo., Tuesday afternoon, destroying a large portion of tiie town of Brownsville, killing eleven persons, and ruining a number of farms in the vicinity. Depere, Win., was destroyed early Sunday morning by tire, which originated in a saloon, where a man who was intoxicated was burned to death. The loss was $130,000, with insurance of about $43,(XX). The wife of Rev. 8. J. Gray, a colored preacher of Lexington, Ky., recovered a verdict for $1,000 against the Cincinnati Southern Railway Company fur refusing her admittance to a lady's car on a first-class ticket.

Since . e autum of 1878, an act closing saloons has U-en enforced in Ireland, and it i- claimed that the result is a decrease of $15,00 1,000 in the smou it expended for intoxicants and 22,00-j’fewer cases of drunkenness. Five hundred and fifty bricklayers, of Canada, have been engaged to work in Pullman City, 111. They are paid $05 to $s) a month, for a six-monts’ term, ami furnished transportation to and from their destinalicn.

The House of Congress has settUd tiie Utah contested seat by declaring it vacant. Pending the action, seventynine of the. Democratic members manifested their sympathy for polygamy

by Voting to seat Cannon.

The newspapers in Wisconsin are urging tiie propriejy of applying tiie Logansport plan of requiring all persons sentenced to imprisonment in the

jails of that Htate, to he employed in breaking stone for use on the public

highways.

In Cincinnati tiie saloou-keeiiers and whisky dealers held a meeting to devise ways and means to fight the Smith liquor bill, which requires tiie closing of saloons on Sunday. At Columbus and Toledo, Ohio, the new law will he obeyed. The high-toned circles of the city of Denver, Col., have tiie biggest kind of a sensation. The wife of Lieutenant Governor Tal or, worth Ida millions, lias instituted a suit for separate maintenance, charging gross marital infidelity on his part. The Republicans of Oregon have nominated M. C. George for Congress and F. B. Moody for Governor. The platform demands the abrogation of

Foreign. Ce'ewayo will soon visit England. A book printed iu 1457 sold in Loudon for $3,950. Tiiere were 531 outrages reported iu Ireland'last moudi. The dreaded Asiatic plague has appeared in Persian Kurdistan. Under Ignatieff's orders 600 Nihilists have been arrested iu Russia. By the West Stanley, Eng., colliery explosion, twenty persons were killed. The people on the Labrador coast, both Canadians and Indians, are iu a state of starvation. On her way to Nice, the tx-Erapress Eugene was met at Paris by a number of well-known Bouapartists. A Bombay dispatch states that twenty regiments of natives of the AngloIndian army will be disbanded. .Spain is suffering from an unusually long drought. The government is helping the Audit usian pasauts with

work.

Another (numb r is reported from Ireland. A bailiff of Lord Leconfleid, who had been guilty ot serving writs, was the victim. On Sunday the Temple Theater at Bolton, Lancashire, one of the largest places of amusement iu England, was destroyed by tire. At Paris thieves robbed the Postoffice of letters, mostly from abroad the contents of which are estimated to be worth $1,000,000. Herculo Huob, a clerk in the Queiiec post office, has been sentenced to three years iu the penitentiary fir stealing money letters. General Melikofl has been summoned to Kt. Petersburg, to advise measures for seemiug the personal safety of the Czar during his coronation. The London Times notes the fact that four months elapse before hi--American friends put in the insane plea on behalf of Dr. Lamsen, the murderer. A London newspaper slates that the Irish-Americau ‘'suspicts" will be allowed to return to the United Htates this week. Threats have been made to blow up the government buildings in Glasgow, because of the arrert of a prominent membtrof the Kcotch “No-rent’’ party. The Sultan of Turkey is so slow in settling the Russian indemity that the Ambassador from that county threats ened to leave Constantinople, and the Huitau was obliged to conciliate him. A number of prominent persons, exCabinet Ministers, and army officers, have been arrested at Cairo, in connection with the plot to as.-,ussinate Arabi Bey, the Egyptian Minister of War. Smith, who is implicated in the-xa tensive postofHce robbery iu London, was about to start for St. Petersburg ] with $15,(XX) worth of plunder when lie was rearrested with two accomplices. '’'he French Cabinet C-cmci! approved the I)e Lesseps scheme for cutting a canal through the land which divides the Ouif of Gabes from the salt marshes north of the Great Desert of Sahara. It will coet 05,000,000 francs. Chili, according to a Washington special, had for an object iu the war with Peru the annexation of Tarapaca, iu which the guano and nitrate deposits are located. It now transpires that the prize is not nearly so valuable as anticipated. Iu an interview between Mr. Lowell and Mr. Foster, the latter renewed tiie offer to release tiie Irish-American suspects provided they left Ireland and remained away during the operation of the coercion act. T he suspects now claim that they are Americans; but it is asserted that several of them were never out of Ireland. The trial of McLain, tiie man wlio fired at Queen Victoria, was held at Reading, Berks (neat Windsor Castle). Lord Chief Justice Coleridge presided, and Mr. Montague Williams defended the prisoner and pleaded insanity for him. The jury returned a verdict of “not guilty, on tiie ground of insanity.’’

Several business men of New York having identified ex-Governor Moses, of South Carolina, as a swindler, his picture has been placed in the rogue’s

gallery.

A Spanish company of bull-fighters has arrived at Vera Cruz, and will travel through the country showing the natives how they kill bulls in Spain. The lesthetlcs epeaa of work as leis-

ure.

Tennyson has been a laureate for 8$; years. Hour krout is peddled iu Philadelphia streets. Tiie lightest shade of green is called lichen. Long Island has over a hundred troui ponds. General Butler is a firm believer in the Chinese. A vase was sold for $11,500 in London the other day. Proctor Knott aspires to the govenorship of Kentucky. Cin-sonata is the musical way of pro* nouuciug that city. Colored waiters are getting -earee in New York restaurants. The Texas cattle drive of this season is estimated at 300,000 head. The New York cotton exchange building will cost $800,000. Rome, Ga., taxes traveling retail salesmen fifty dollars a month. A $90,000 statue to John C. Calhoun will soon be erected at Charleston,8. C. A landlord expects 2 per cent, more rent where the street is called an aven-

ue.

Henator Vest, of Missouri, started in life as a rejiorter for a Louisville newsp*qier. The Masonic temple at Adrian,Mich, was sold at auction for $20,000. It cost $80,000. Virginia has a greater number of green pea vines than were ever before planted. Charles D. Williams has been postmaster at Naccochee, Geo , fur fiftyone years. The blessed work of helping the voiid forward happily does wait for - - e*r.. The Pennsylvania rail road's summer excursion book will lie very handsome, costing $21,(100 Fogy says Ids minister preaches anything but the Bible. He merely goes to it for a pre-text. Tiie Wisconsin legislature u ijouined aftera session of eighty days, iu which 340 bills were passed. General Stoneman, the famous cavalry commander, is talked of for governor of California. A black Guiteau fired sixt-^en shots at tiie President of San Domingo, lately, but without effect. Ex-Postmaster General Key, of Tennessee, is lecturing in the south on “Our Yankee Cousins.” A piano an hour is the present product of the manufactory of Messrs. Chickering & Son in Boston. Tiie late Jacob Abbott found time to write 180 hooks, besides mazagius articles, addresses, etc.,innumerable The London fashion fa versa) hums in which there are nhotograpbs of hands, and palmistry becomes the season’s 'ageL Barnmn, it is said, would pay Jay Gould $1,000 a night to ride around the ring on Jumlxi, and show hi- $63,000,000 of secuiities. “.Stubborn clients build fine houses for lawyers,’’was tin sage n nmi k mode at a legislative bearing iu Coiiuecticut tiie other day. It is estimated tiiat in Great Britain 378,151 pt soiis are engaged in underground work,conducted iu galleries i xtendiug 58,714 mi!; s. Ikwton pays more per capita for the education o( her outh than any oilier city in iho union. Cincinnati comes uext and Chi ugo Ibird. Four acres of laud arij-iuing the Royal rivvrat Yarmouth. Maine, slid Info tiie rivn r last >veek with trees and brush all standing up.ight. The first part of Mr. Foun le’s biography of Carlvosle, covering the first forty years of his lie, is very favorably received in England. In Paris the bride who is past her youth does not wear pearl gray or lavender. these hues belonging to the widow who marries again. During 1881 there were 13,830 deaths iu Chicago. Paris decides against flat sleeves with a puffed elbow. The largo old-fashioned polonaise has iieen revived iu Paris. Aleck Stephens lias never entered the senate chamber at Washington. Vemior, the Canadian weather prophet, is laid up with rheumatism. Switzerland is about to pass its first patent law. The patent rubber tip on pencils yields an iudeiHMideut income. The cottage President Arthur has engaged at Long Brancli lias forty rooms. In hisj 32 years’ service an engineer on the Reading railload has traveled l^fil.GtK) miles, The Baldwin works celebrated the golden wedding of their first locomotive, November 23. A tinman devil at Central park garden threw a lighted cigar down the throat of tiie buffalo caged there, causing tiie poor brute intense pain. Atlanta men are working up a southern Chautauqua, or ceutearl campmeeting ground, for all benevolent institutions of toe south. Pianos afford a new field for amateur painters, and their smooth, fine surfaces are freely decoroled with striking but simple designs. At a house where they do a great deal i-f fancy work and keen a white (xiodle, an innocent gentleman asked: “Who knit the dog?” Tiie Rev. Hirman P. Arms, who died at his dome, in Norwich, Conn., a few days ago, was pastor of the First Congregational church for fifty years. Anna Dickinson is said to look not a bit queer or sfong-minded on tire street. Hiie dres. es fasionably in silk and velvet, wears a j oke bouuet and is very stylish. Tichborne claimant is sawing wood and unloading timber in the dockyard at Portsmouth. He weighs about 16 stone, as against 2-5 when lie was first sentenced, but is in good health. Although American butter has established an excellent reputation iu Europe, where it is relatively as high us the best bra, d of home manufacture, the epicurean citizens of Brazil do notaooordit the same position. In Rio Janeiro the Danish and French butter has the preference, though persons who have tested lh« different qualities in that country assert Uiatlhe preference is simply one of prejudice,

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