Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 7 June 1889 — Page 6

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

A tornado did great damage at Martinsburg, W. Va. Mrs. Grover Cleveland is taking lessons on the violin.

The English brewery syndicate has made several extensive purchases recentiy in Detroit And New \ork.

An editor arrested at Pembroke, Ky., for drunkennesss, attacked an officer with a sword concealed in his cane.

One hundred and three student# graduated from the Peabody formal School at Nashville, Tenn., Thursday.

General Jos. B. Carr. ex-Secretary o! State of New York, had a cancer removed from his right cheek, Wednesday.

The Connecticut House has passed— 65 to 59—the bill giving wouien the right to vote on the question of the sale of intoxicating liquors.

Decoration Day waB appropriately observed throughout the United States. President Harrison participated in the ceremonies at Brooklyn.

A memorial monument, erected by citizens of Chicago in honor t»f the policemen who were killed in the Havmarket riot in 1886, was unveiled, Thursday.

Denver has been seized with an epidemic o? murders aud suicides to an alarming exttnt. During the past ten days three murders have been committed, and as many suicides have been reported.

Joshua D. Grant, janitor of the Jefferson Democratic Association's building in Baltimore, and his wife, both coloied, were smothered to death Wednesday night by gas, which escaped in their room.

The schooner Isaac Houston is said to have foundered sixteen miles off Milxraukee during the storm of Friday. Sixteen lives are reported lost. The schooner was loaded with iron ore for Chicago.

There was an unpleasant conflict at Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Thursday, between Grand Army men and members of the Old Soldiers' "and Sailors' Association over who should decorate the graves of dead comrades.

Joseph Rice and Maggie Barnes, both full-blood Indians, living at Detroit, Mich.,tookouta marriasre license Thursday. Rice is a scenic artist of considerable abilitv. regularly employed at Whitney's Opera House, Detroit.

A churbh in southern Illinois is about to have a fair in which one of the features will be the pigs in clover, with real pigs. A large facsimile of tbe toy wili be built in the hall, and a prize will be givon to the man who pens the porkers.

A meeting of shippers and farmers of a number of counties in Missouri was neld at Jefferson City, Thursday, for the purpose of organizing a State association for better protection in railroad freight rates and other things in which they are interested.

Hundreds of miners are flocking into the ukon district, and trouble over the boundary line between Alaska and the British possessions is becoming a serions matter. As the question now stands the miners can defy the laws of either country.

Dispatches from Oklahoma report the finding of rich ii on mines a short distance from Guthrie. The ore is said to be very fine, and probably contains sixty-five per cent, of iron. A shait will be sunk at once and a thorough examition of the deposit made.

The storm which devasted the East was not confined to Pennsylvania, although at Williamsport, Pa., five persons were drowned, at Nipenose twelve, at Bakers Camp six. Nine drownings are reported from Maryland. Immense damage is reported from many points.

Ice a quarter-inch thick resulted from The cold snap at Cheboygan, Mich. Vegetables and tender plants were killed and fruit trees badly nipped. A slight fall of snow was observed at Indianapolis. In some parts of northern Michigan, snow fell to a depth of four inches.

Gov. Warren, of Wyoming, Monday, issued a proclamation for the election on July 8, ot delegates to the Constitutional (Convention to meet Sept. 2. The Governor, Secretary and Chief Justice had previously divided the Territory into districts and apportioned the delegates among the same.

Miss Lillie Hull, a highly respected young lady of Fairbury, 111., was brutally murdered Sunday night, by a former lover, Sam Jones, whom she had refused to marry. He met her in front of the Presbyterian church, and knocked her down and stamped her to death. There was great excitement, aud Jones had to be taken away to keep him from being lynched by the mob.

At Topeka, Kansas, early Tuesday morning, A. T. Rodgers and his wile were fatally shot by a burglar. During the morning the murderer was captured by the police and taken to the county jail. At 11 o'clock Tuesday evening a mob stormed the jail, and the wretch was dragged out and hanged to a telegraph pole. Rodgers died during the forenoon. He was a prominent citizen.

A terrible accident occurred at Danville, Va., Thursday. J. G. Penn was building a iarge brick tobacco factory on Btidge street, nearly two hundred feet long and six stories high. The walls had been completed and carpenters were at work on it. The wind was blowing hard, and about two o'clock that afternoon the entire building came down with a crash. Five men were instantly killed.

Memphis fcai a scandal, in which H. Clay King, a leading lawyer and writer of legal digests, and Mrs. Pillow, the widow of General Gideon Pillow, are the principels. King, who is a married man, has brought suit to recover all his property, which he deeded to Mrs. Pillow. The widow claims his large estate, and may turn hinr out of his home, since the two have quarreled and discontinued their relations.

Ward Gregory, postmaster of Ithaca, mi N. Y.. and editor of the Ithaca Drama, died Thursday of Bright's disease, at SK the age of forty-five years. He was a prominent Democrat. His term as mpostmaster would expire next April. Sift' Mr. Gregory acquired some notoriety years ago, by keeping Mr. Tilden's picture at the head of his editorial column all through President Hayes's term, with a legend declaring Tilden to be President and Hayes a fraud.

The Massachusetts 'Legislature 1MM appropriated $10,000 for the relief of

Johnstown. The Connecticut Lagtsla ture has passed a resolution appropri ating $25,000. The five thousand employes of the McKeesport Tube Works have given one day's wages. Drexel & Co., of Philadelphia started the Philadelphia relief fund with a subscription of $10,000. The total amount subscribed in the Quaker City, Monday, was $148,000. Five thousand pounds of chloride oi l'me was received at Johnstown, Tuesday morning, and will be used as a disinfectant under the direction of Dr, Lee, of the State Board of Health.

In the Joint Convention of the General Assembly, of Rhode Island, Thursday morning, the Newport counts delegates who were disaffected because _of the defeat of ex-Governor Wetmore for United States Senator, bolted the Republican nomination of Almon K. Goodwin, of Pawtucket. for State Auditor, and voted for Wm. C. Townsend, senior member from Newport. Oa the fifth ballot the Democrats abandoned their own candidate, Elisha Bucklin, of Pawtucket, and voted for Townsend, who was elected. The Republican leaders were completely surprised, and as they did not dare to proceed with further elections iiutil a conference had been held, a recess was taken.

FOREIGN.'

The'Czar lives in perpetual dread of Nihilists. A heavy storm prevailed throughout China for three days last week.

Prince Alois Schwarzenburg, of Austria, was fatally wounded in a duel. The new minister to Mexico, Mr. Ryan, was banqueted Thursday night at the City of Mexico.

At a meeting of 400 Panama Canal share holders in Paris it was decided to send a commission to Panama to inspect the canal work®.

At the meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbvterian church in Belfast, Monday, the Moderator took occasion to strongly denounce home rule.

The VicompteseChandon de Brialles gave a breakfast Wednesday in honor of Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill). Manv members of the leading families of France were present.

The Pope has suggested that mem bers of the Noble Guard should serve forty years, instead of thiry, as at pres enf," oefore being entitled to a pension. The proposal meets wit'i opposition.

Severe earthquake shocks were felt iD the Channel Islands, Friday. Also on the Isle of Wight and many of th« towns on the mainland of England and France were affected. No damage wat done anywhere.

Severe storms prevailed throughout France. The greatest damage \va* done in the departments of Seine-et Marne, Aube, Yenne, Haute-Soane and Ardennes, where in some places the country is almost devastated.

In the house of commons, Thursday evening. Sir James Fergussou, parliamentary secretary to the foreign office, denied the reports from Victoria, C., that three men-of-war in the Pacini had been ordered to proceed to Behrinp sea in June to protect British sealing vessels from interference by American men-of-war.

A parcel containing the lower portion of a woman's body, cut in halves, wa^ found in the Thames at Horsley Down, London, Tuesday. Another parcel in which were a woman's thighs was picked up at Batter street. They "were wrapped in pieces of a woman's clothing on which the name Fisher was marked. The trunk and thighs evidently belonged to the same body, which was oi a well developed person. The remains had probably been in the water for ten days. It is feared that Jack the Ripper has again been at work.

THL WAR IN HAYTi.

Hostilitie Ave Abotil Over ami llipjiolyte is Winner.

The warship Galena arrived in New York, Thursday. A reporter went aboard the Galena shortly after her arrival at the navy yard, and Admiral Gherardi spoke freely about the condition of affairs in the black Republic.

He said: "Tfie Northern party, led by General Hippolyte, had a most decided advantage when we left the sland, and I am of the opinion that the trouble will be settled in a very short time. When we first arrived at the island the Northern forces were confined to the province north of Astibonit) and were closely invested. They really had possession of less than half the northern portion of the island. Now. however, they have lifted the investment of their principal ports and have pushed their way to the south until the Northern army is within twenty-six leagues of Port-au-Prince. There" ware rumors when we left that engagements had been fought, and that Hippolyte's forces had made a still furtuer advance toward the capital, but I am not prepared to state how much truth there is in the rumots. 'The Northern people have made a proposition that hostilities cease, and that both Hippolyte and Legitime withdraw. When this is done, they propose that the deputies meet at some point where neither the Southern nor North ern forces preponderate and elect a President. They promise to abide by the decision of the deputies, even if a Southern man is elected President."

Admiral Gherardi is oi the opinion that the population of the northern part of the Island is more energetic than than that of the south. He attributes this to the fact that the north is more in the trade winds and the climate is not so hot. "It is an awful place," he continued, "and while we have had no yellow fever in the ship cases of intermittent fever were frequent and all hands suffered from the general debilitating effects ol the climate. Sometimes we were put to it to get decent iood, and I want to say right here that I am nnder lasting obligations to Mr. Clyde, of the Clyde Steamship Company. He did everything he could to make us comfortible, and he will always have a warm place in my heart.

Every officer was of the opinion that Hippolyte was practically in a position to dictate terms.

Cleared ot an Unjust Suspicion. Louisville Courier-Journal. The corkscrew found in the interior of a Kentucky catfish proves to have been dropped into the stream by a Pennsylvania prospector.

A COMPANION 01' FOOLS.

SHUN THE COMPANIONS OP PEO-

1PLE

OF LEISURE.

Mischief May Come to Jhose Who Do Not Care for "Work—Be Courteous and Firm—Plant a Christian Character and Reap an Upright Liife.

Rev. Dr. Talmage Preached at Brooklyn Sunday. Text: Prov., xiii., 20. He said:

Th«* companion of fools 6hall be destroyed. It is the invariable rule. There is a well man in the wards of a hospital, where there area hundred people sick with ship fever, and he will not be so apt to disease as a good man would be apt to be smitten with moral distemper if shut up with iniquitous companions.

We may, in our places of business, be compelled to talk to and mingle with bad men but he who deliberately chooses to associate himself with vicious people is engaged in carrying on a courtship with a Delilah, whose shears will clip off all the locks of his strength, and he will be tripped into perdition. Sin is catching, is infections, is epidemic. I will let you look over the millions of people now inhabiting the earth, and I challenge you to show me a good man who, after*one year, has made choice and consorted with the wicked. A thousand dollars reward for one such instance. I care not how strong your character may be. Associate with gamblers, you will become a gambler. Clan with burglars, and you will become a burglar. Go among the unclean, and you will become unclean. Not appreciating the truth of my text, many a young man has been destroyed. He wakes up some morning in the great city, and knows no one except the persons into whose employ he has entered.

As he goes into the store all the clerks mark him,measure him and discuss him. The upright young men of the store wish turn well, but perhaps wait for a formal introduction, and even then have some delicacy about inviting him into their associations. But the bad young men of the store at the first opportunity approach and offer their services. They patronize him. They profess to know all about the town. They will take him any where that he wishes to go—if he will pay the expenses. For if a good young man and a bad young man go to some place where they ought not, the good young man has invariably to pay the charges. At the moment the ticket is to be paid for, or the champagne settled for, the bad young man feels around in his pockets and says "I have forgotten my pocketbooR." In forty-eight hours aiter the young man has entered 'he store the bad fellows of the establishment slap him on the shoulder familiarly, and, at his stupidity in taking certain allusions, say: "My young friend, you will have to be broken in." and they immediately proceed to break him in.

Young man, in the name of God 1 warn you to beware how you let a bad man talk familiarly with you. If such an one slap you on the shoulder .familiarly, turn around and give him a withering look until the wretch croutches in your presence. There is no monstrosity of wickedness that can stand unabashed under the glance of purity and honor. God keeps the lightnings of heaven in his own scabbard, and no human arm can wield them but God gives to every young man a lightning that he may use, and that is the lightuing of an honest eye. Those who have been close observers will not wonder why I give warning to young men and say: "Beware of bad company."

First, I warn you to shun the ekeptic —the young man who puts his fingers in his vest and laughs at your oldfashioned religion, and turns over to .some mystery of the Bible and says: "Explain that,my pious friend explain that and who save: "Nobody shall scare me I am not afraid of the future I used to believe in such things, and so did my father and mother, but I have got over it." Yes, he has got over it, and if you sit in his company a little longer you will get over it, too.

Again, I urge you to shun the companionship of idlers. There are men hanging around every store, and office, and shop, who have nothing to do, or act as if they had not. They are apt to come in when the firm are away, and wish to engage you in conversation while you are engaged in your regular employment. Politely suggest to such persons that you have no time to give them during business hours. Nothing wonld please them so well as to have you renounce your occupation and associate with them. Much of the time they lounge around the club-rooms or the doors of engine houses, or after the dining hour stand upon the steps of a fashionable hotel or an elegant restaurant, wishing to give you the idea that that is the place where they dine. But they do not dine there. They are sinking down lower and lower, day by day. Neither by day nor by night have any thing to do with the idlers. Before you admit a man into your acquaintance ask him, politely. "What do you for a living?" If'he says, "Nothing I am a gentleman," look out for him. He may have a very soft hand and very faultless apparel, and have a high-sounding family name, but his touch is death. Before you know it you will in his presence be ashamed of your work dress. Business will become to you drudgery, and after a while you will lose yonr place, and afterward your respectability, and, last of all, your soul. Idleness is next door^to villainy. Thieves, gamblers, burglars, shop-iifters and assassins are made from the class who have nothing to do. When the police go to hunt up and arrest a culprit they seldom go to look in among busy clerks or in the busy carriage factory, but they go among the groups of idlers. The play is going on in the theater when suddenly there is a scuffle in the top gallery. What is it? A policeman has come in, and, leaning over, has tapped on tho shoulder of a young man, saying: "I want you, sir." He has not worked during the day, but somehow has raked together a shilling or two to get into the top gallery. He is an idler. The man on his right hand is an idler and the man on his left hand is an idler. back from idleness in yourself and others if you would maintain a right position. No man is strong enougli to be idle.

Again: I urge you to avoid the perpetual pleasure seeker, believe in recreation and amusement. 1 need it as much as tnfesd bread* and go to my dally e*frcifl* with as conacientlons a purpxeaal go to, the Lord'd suppar,

and all persons of tanguine.temperament must have amusement and recreation,

God wonld not have made us with the capacity to laugh if he had not ictended us sometimes to indulge in it. God hath hung in sky, and set in wave, and printed on grass many a roundelay but he who chooses pleasure-seeking for his life work does net understand for what God made him. Our amusements are intended to help us in some earnest mission. The thunder-cloud hath an edge exquisitely purpled, but, with voice that jars the earth, it declares: "I go to water the green fields," The wild flowers under the fence are gay, but they say: "We stand here to make a beautiful edge for the wheat field, and to refresh the husbandmen in their nooning." The stream sparkles and foams, ani frolics, and says: "I go to baptize the moss. 1 lave the spots on the trout. I slake the thirst of the bird. I turn the wheel of the mill. I rock in my cradle muckshaw and water lily." And so, while the world plays,it works. Look out for the man who always plays and never works. You will do well to avoid those whose regular business it is to play ball, skate or go a boating. All these sports are grand in their places. I never derived so much advantage from any ministerial association as from a ministerial club that went out to play ball every Saturday afternoon in the outskirts ot Philadelphia. These recreations are grand to give us muscle and spirits for our regular toil. I believe in muscular Christianity. A man is often not so near God with a weak stomach as when he has a strong digestion. But shun those who maae it their life occupation to sport. There are young men whose industry and usefulness have fallen overboard from the yacht on the Hudson or the Schuylkill. There are men whose business fell through the ice of the skating pond and has never since been heard of. There is a beauty in the gliding of a boat, in the song of skates, in the soaring of a well struck ball, and I never see one fly but I involuntarily throw up my hsnds to catch it and, so far from laying an injunction upon ball playing or any other innocent sport, I claim them all as belonging of right to those of us who toil in the grand industries of Church and State. But the life business of pleasure seeking always makes in the end a criminal or a sot.

Such men will crowd around your desk or counter or work bench or seek to decoy you off. They will want you to break out in the midst of your busy day to take a ride with them to Coney Island or to Central Park. They will tell you of some people you must see, of some excursion you must take, of some Sabbath day that you ought to dishonor. They will tell you of exquisite wines that you must take of costly operas that you must hear of wonderful dancers that you must see but before you accept their convoy or their companionship remember that, while at the end of a useful life you may be able to look back to kindness done, to poverty helped, to a good name earned, to Christian influence exerted, to a Savior's cause advanced—these pleasure seekers on their death bed have nothing better to reyiew than a torn play bill, a ticket for the races, an empty tankard and the cast out rinds of a carousal and as in the delirium of their awful death they clutch the goblet and press it to their lips, the dregs of the cup falling upon their tongue will begin to hiss and uncoil with the adders of an eternal poison.

Cast out these men from your company. Do not be intimate with them. Always be polite. There is no demand that you ever sacrifice politeness. Always be courteous, but at the same time be firm. Learn to say no as if you meant it. Have it understood in store, and shop, and street, that you will not stand in the companionship of the skeptic, the idle, the pleasure seeker.

Rather than enter the companionship of such, accept the invitation to a better feast. The'promises of God are the fruits. The harps of heaven are the music. Clusters from the vineyards oi God have been pressed into the tankards. The sons and the daughters of the Lord Almighty are the guests. While, standing at the banquet, to fill the cups and divide the clusters and command the harps and welcome the gueBts, is a daughter of God on whose brow are the blossoms of paradise, and in whose cheek is the flush of celestial summer. Her name is Religion.

Decide this soon, oh, young man, what direction vou will take. There comes 6uch a moment of final decision —why not this?

Bribery in Rhode Island.

In the Rhode Island General Assembly Friday morning a report from the Committee on Elections concerning the Block Island election cases was read. The report stated that seventy-five to one hundred men were bribed to vote for John C. Sheffield, Jr., (Reoublicau) who holds the seat, and that $25 to $l0O were paid for votes. Tbe corruption revealed by tbe report was almost impossible to believe. The Republicans made counter charges against the Democrats of similar proceedings. With the report was a resolution that Sheffield was not legally elected and not entitled to his seat in the House, and that Christopher E. Champlin was entitled to the seat held by Sheffield. The House voted 40 to 21 to continue the matter to tho January session,

Probably the sharpest fight for office under the present administration has been that for the Marshalship of Utah. It is still waging, and there are no indications as to when it will be terminated. Seven active and open candidates have entered tbe field from time to time since the 4th of March, and how many more have secretly sought the appointment only the President and Attorney General can tell. Messrs. McBride, Connor, Ireland, McGregor, O'ShaughnesBy, Parsons and Nebeker are the well known aspirants. The first two and the last are said to have come to the conclusion that they are out of the race. All of these candidates have been here at the same time, and all but two are here how. Fresident Harrison did think of appointing a man who had never lived in the Territory, but it is stated that he has come to the conclusion that it will be best to select one who understands the local situation, and is a resident of Utah. .*''?•

Make Way.

Chicago Tribune.

"Make way here, gentlemen," said the officious policeman, clubbing the crowd right and left. e*ve got to have more room. There's an English-man-coming with a pair of new spring pants on."

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Incendiaries incite alarm at Huntington. Jeffersonville is killing off surplus canines,

Squirrels are plentiful in Montgomery county. Patricksburg White Caps are an annoyance.

Three residents of Indiana dropped dead Monday. Muncie proposes an enforcement oi the Sunday law.

A Tariff Reform League has been organized at Marion. Floyd county strawberries netted the growers $25,000 this season.

Two Mot-toon missionaries are proselyting in Washington county. Several Virginia deer have been placed in the Scott county court house park.

Free land, free gas and free water awaits every factory removing to Jonesboro.

There are only fourteen divorce cases pending in Elkhart county. An unusually small number.

The recent frost destroyed the nutmeg and severely damaged the watermelon crop in Jackson county.

A six foot vein of potters' clay, covering an area of sixty acres, has been discovered near West Union.

Farmers in Grant county are complaining of smut in the wheat, many fields bein? seriously affected.

A rich deposit of iron ore is believed to have been discovered on the farm of Samuel Grey, in Madison county. "Center Grade," a $10,000 four-year-old trotter owned by U. S. Treasurer J. N. Huston, died at Cambridge, Wednesday.

Instead of dealing harshly with men intoxicated at Michigan City, the new Mayor proposes to punish saloon keepers who sell to persons already drunk.

James Bennett lost his grip and fell sixty-eight feet to the bottom of a well in which he was being lowered. His leg was broken. This at Crawfordsville.

Polk Vestal, of Madison, was bitten by a horse afflicted with hverophobia one day last week, and he is now suffering with what seems to be blood poisoning.

A cow war lias been on for some time at Martinsville, Tuesday, some one sprinkled Paris green on the grass and several of the cows died from tbe poison.

F. M. Andrew.*, a patent right agent is wanted at Peru for alleged lorgery. He was selling a patent gate roller, and now comes the alleged patentee, declaring the sales void.

Ezra Murphy, of Montpelier, lunched off four dozen" and two eggs, washing the fame down with two drinks of whisky, and he supplemented this by eating the "meat" of four cocoanuts.

P. M. Fudge, evidently a professional sprinter, who has been loafing around Ladoga for several days, finally inveigled J. E. Welch, a local sprinter, into making a match for $200 in a 100-yard dash, and won the race with ease.

Hope for the safety of the wife of Gen. Lew Wallace is given up. She was on one of the fated trains at Johnstown on her way east, and is believed to have perished. She was a woman ot great intelligence and sterling qualities, uwd was beloved by all who knew her.

The peach crop of Southern Indiana will be heavier and finer this season than in any previous year, and in every large orchard forces of men are now at work thinning out the fruit, the earliest of which will reach the market between June 15 and 20.

The great drainage contract, known as the "Little River Ditch," will soon be completed, by which work it is expected to reclaim 20,COO acres of land in Allen. Whitley and Huntington counties. The task was begun three years ago, and it will cost $137,030.

School teachers should know that for each teachers' institute held after March 2,1889, they are entitled to full pay—a regular day's wages—provided they attended such institute during the entire time it was in session and did the work aoc.ioned them by the township principals

At New Albany, Wednesday evening, Frank Davis, aged six years, was persuaded by his comrades to smell something lying on the ground, and, as he stooped over what proved to be gunpowder, one of the little rascals applied a match, and an explosion followed. Frankie's face was terribly burned, and he will loose his eye-sight.

The Centlivre brewery is located outaide the limits of Fort Wayne, on the St. Joe River, just above what is known as the Rudisell dam, and the company built a street car lino and fixed up a pleasure resort, which was overfiowingly patronized on Sundays. The Foit Wayne Street Car Company wants to purchase this line, but the brewery company refuses to sell. The President of the former company, however, holds a similar relation with the company controlling the dam and contingent water privileges, and accordingly the water has been let out of the dam, and the brewery company boats are high and dry. By this means there is an attempt to force the biewerv to terms.

The Evansville,Fort Wayne & Chicago road, incorporated Tuesday, is to run from Evansville to Fort Wayne, and will pass into or through the counties of Vanderburg, Posey, Warrick. Gibson, Pike, Daviess, Knox, Sullivan, Green, Clay, Putnam, Montgomery, Fountain, Tippecanoe, Carroll, CMS, Miami, ^Wabash, Huntington and Allen. It is to be constructed on or near the line of the old Wabash & Erie Canal from the point where the same crosses the northern line of Warren county to Fort Wayne. The estimated length is 330 miles. Directors: Milton Shirk, Peru Charles B. Knowlton, Logansport R. A. Edwards. Peru A. N. Dukes, Peru T. J. Immel.Logansport Henry Jamison, Indianapolis, and G. R. Chamberlain, Peru.

Patents were Tuesday granted Indianians as follows: James M. Davis, Hudnut., table Rudolph W. Dunmoyer, South Bend, wheel tire Winfield O. Gunckel, Terre Haute, boiler feed regulator Jesse F. Kester, Terre Haute, detachable brush holder for dynatnoB, armature core for dynamos, regulator for dynamos, electric machines or motors, and brush spring for dynamot John T. Obenchain, Iiogaiwport, boiler ^cleaning apparatus John J. Ruddick, Richmond, non-inter­

fering fire alarm signal box Gottlieb W. Schroeder, Huntington, stock pump Marmaduke M. Slattery, Ft. Wayne* electric meter for alternate currents Jesse Warrington, Indianapolis, bolting reel Otto G. Zerse and b. T. Yount Lafayette, vaginal syringe.

The May apportionment of school revenue for 1889 was made by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Monday, and found to aggregate $1,050^ 482.80, the number of persons of school age being 770 728 and the per ci.pita $1.85. One year ago the apportionment was $1,030,677.45, the number of children 55G,989 and the per capita $1.81 showing a substantial increase in each instance for the present year. Of the $1,060,482 80 to be distributed, 10,000 will be paid to the State Normal School and the remainder will go to the countie?.

THE STATE_CAPITAL.

Governor Hovey, Friday, appointed John Worrell, ot Clayton, State Statistician. to succeed W. L. Peele. who has held the office for four years and was re-elected by the last Legislature, lhfe Governor maintains that the last Sn-: preme Court decision does not settle the question as to the right of the Legislature to appoint officers, because the Legislature can not determine for itself what are its rights and powers under the Constitution in the matter of making appointments. Mr. Worrell is a farmer of prominence in Hendricks county.

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Sim Coy completed his sentence of eighteen months,Satuiday, and returned here, Monday. He was enthusiastically {, received by his admirers. He is still a member of the Council, and attended its meeting of Monday night. He at* once assumed the reins of leadership

The State Auditor has calculated th apportionment of the big school fuL ', loan to the different counties. Marion county will receive $255,427.92 Allen, $112,301.13 Vigo, $91,743 8t. Joseph, $75,732.20: Tippecanoe, $69,173.40 Stark county receives the smallest sum, $12,855.20. The entire amount to be distributed is $3,904,783.22, which is $7,284 for each vote cast for Secretary of State at the last election.

The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias met here Tuesday and Wednesday with a representation of 350 members. The total receipts for the year were $15,889.C6 disbursements $7,136.12. Number of lodges at last report 181 organized since 24 suspended 1 net total 204. Total membership Dec. 31, 1888, 14,657. The condition of the subordinate lodges at the close of December, 18 8. was as follows: Total receipts, $102,276.39 paid for relief and burials, $16,585.84, current expenses, $41,125 05 tota1 expenditures, $57,616.89. Cash on hand at the close of year, December 31, 188S, $44,665.50 investments, $58,357.37 value of lodge property, 294,855.04 widows' and orphans' fund, $36,867.85 total resources, December 31,1888, $234,745.70. ,%| Paid for relief of widows and orphans'! during the year 11,029 98.

The following officers were elfcted^ Graml Chancellor—.Iudsre J. G. Suit, Frank- ,1 fort.

Grand Vice-chancellor—A. G. Hawkins,Lvana-jfe. -1 ville. 'M-l (rrnnd 1'rolatc—Klmer l*\ Williams, Terre. Haute. j, I

Grnnd Master of Kxelicquer-f. F. S. N'eal.^ Lebanon. .' iirand Keeper of Records and Segl^y^j,^ Bower*, New Castle. rand Warden—1[. C. SiteR, Ft.AVavne.

Urand Trustees—K. (I. IIerr. Goshen: George I W. Howe, Indianapolis, aud L.

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Burnett, Dan­

ville. Supreme llepresentative—Char es I. Shiveley--Cambridge City.

This city claims a population of 159,S 000 under the new school enumeration^

The Pythian Sisters is an organization' a composed of ihe female relatives of tbe^ members of the Knights of Pythias, and^ the first Grand Lodge in the United*^ States was organized at Indianapolis': Tuesday. The Pythian Sisterhood been in existence but a short time, bl there are in Indiana seventeen lodge with a membership of over eight hun dred.

The State Superintendent has prej pared the following statistics: Amounts of school revenue collectsd from coun ties, $934,987.89. State's semi-annuaj interest on non-negotiable bonds, $117, 143.49. Amount in treasury from al other sources. $8,928.18. Total on hand $1,061,061.56.' Amount apportioned $1,050,482,80. Balance now remaining in treasury, $10,578.76. This amounti to $1.35 apiece for each child of schoo age in the State, as there are 770,72S them.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Tracy is vigorously pursuinf his policy declared at the beginning his administration, of pushing to rapi completion the vessels now under cor struction or authorized to be built. Th Puritan was recently taken to Nev York to becompleted, and, orders havnow been issued to make ready th Amphitrite, another uncomplete* double-turreted monitor lying at th Harlan & Hollingsworth Ship Yards^s Wilmington, Del., to be towed League Island. She will be complete' at tbe Navy Yard, greatly to the disa? pointment of the Virginia people, wb have been endeavoring to have th work done at Norfolk, to make goo-, the loss of the Puritan. -j

The Potomac river was a wide, roa» ing, turbulent stream Sunday. Th streets of south Washington are floodec The rising of the water has eclipsed fcbV high water mark of 1887. The loss w/i be enormous. The wharfs and busine houses below the aqueduct bridge as Ii as Rock creek have sustained serioi damages.

The National Museum at Watihingtc, has just received from A. C. WinslO^f of that city, who was Superintendent the Mechanical Division of the Treafal from 1866 to 1877. the first key to tl| National Treasury, made by Alexand| Hamilton.

Justice Gray, of the United Sttf Supreme Court, and Miss JeuxneJ Matthews, daughter of the lirte Justf Matthews, ware married at the briM residence Tuesday evening. A 1«k number of distinguished guests lfj nessed the ceremony.

President Harrison presided at aJ lief meeting at Washington, Tueputt at which $10,000 was subscribed.

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The first official act of a woman m#| of Kansas is reported to have beenraif man '$5 for a plain drunk. On1 same day she made "two aprons, set a hen a tid- returned calls,' Could a man do better?