Indianapolis Journal, Volume 2, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1872 — Page 3

THE EVENING JOURNAL: INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1871

RAILROAO TIJTT? TABLE KES EPJiCT ON AND APTEKraMBER!) m Trains Depart. Train, Arrive "C-, C., C, & INDIANAPOLIS K. W. (uEE3 LINE.") Szprera 9:55 a aiExpress 7:15 a a 3: p M ; ts 1 J -sxpr-s 7:55 p m. Express &45rM PXrrSBUEO, CISCIXSATI & ST. I-OUIS RAILkOAD. atLine 4:15 a MiSoatlicrn Ex.. 8:25 am Mail Express. . . 9:45 a xjExpresq (daily). 8:35 A Express (daily). 6:43 pjrFalt line. 10 pi iDaily except Mouday TIBRE HA UTS, V AND ALIA A ST. LOUTS HAILROAD. Pacific Ex daily 3:20 a MlFaet'nF L daily 3:45 am St. Louis day Ef 9: A iMail 10.00 a 11 Evansville Mad 1:?') p arTcrre Dante Ac 5:30 r v St. L. night Ex. 8:00 p mi Atlantic Ex.... C:0Opm INDIANAPOLIS & ST. LOC13 R'-TLEOAD. Bay Express.. . 7:45 a MiLiab'n;; Ex... 3:55 A K Mattoon Ac... 1:30 p xJXV-nt Ex 9.25 a m NightEx 8:00paDjyKx 6:10 pm CINCINNATI RAILROAD. Chi. St. L. F. L 4:05 am St. L. AO. Ex... S.OOam 4-y !v! v V V - 10 :05 A Chicago Ex 1 :05 V 11 Chic.Fat vine, 4:23 PS,St.L A If. Er... 7:rx Dau " 7:10 p'CtlL FaatLincMliOTrK LAFATSTTB RAILROAD. Accommodation. 6:35 a a Chi. Fast Line.. 3:40'am Chic. Hail & Ex 1:20 pm Mail 9:40 am Chi. Fast Line. 11:10 PM.Chicao Kx. . 4:10 pm INDIANAPOLIS, BLOOMINGTON A WESTERN H. K. Fac,M. Ex. daily 3 :3 a m Night Ex. dwir . j :sr, a m pa.vEr 1:45 pm Express....-'.. 9:50am Night Ex 7:55 p MpaciSc MailTx. 6:50 p X CINCINNATI JUFCTION RAILROAD. "Mail.. lV-tt A xjMail, 1:20 pm JSipreea 3:55 p m 'Express 8:i0pm VINCENNBS RAILROAD. Vincennes Ac.. 6:23 a m Spencer Ac 130 am Mail and Ex.... 1 :25 p m V incenn? Ac.'. 5:50 p m EwerAc 3:55 p , Mail andlU.... 6:10 pm PERU & CHICAGO RAILWAY. Mail T.AC. Ex. 7:00 a Jr'KokomoAChiKx 4:00 a x led,? Su9Ex VfSl v;De'1 & Chi- El- 7:53 A De t & Chi. Ex. S:00 P m 'Toledo Ex pre 10:55 a n Mail,T.AC.Ex. 5:15 PM JErrHRSOSTILLS MADISON RAILROAD. IiO':i!.villeEx... 3:45 a MLoaisvHle Kx.. 3:10am 7 AM. M.daily 8 C0 a m ColnmbusAc. .10:30 am Columbus c. . 3:20 p MLouisviile vx 1-20 p m LouisvilhiEx... 6:50 p m!,L & MExdr.iy". 7:40 pm INDIANAPOLIS A FORT WATNE SHCIiT LINE, VIA BEE LINE. FU Wayne Mall. 9:55 a jrFt. Wayne Ex.. 10:15 A V Ft. Wayne Ex.. 3:45 p m, Ft. Wayne Mail 5:45 p m

EVENING JOURNAL. INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1ST! LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. Saturday. Dec. 7, 1S72. Senate. The Senate met pnrsnant to adjournment. Senate Bill, No. 88, the drainage bill rai reported hack from the committer on corporation with direct amendments, and Trade their special order for next Tuesday af tersoon at 3 o'clock. Senate Bill, No. 6, to regulate frel-ht and paseenper ta ilTs was reported hackly the committee on tho Judicia-y with au amendment, laakfug its provixiona apply to all common carriers, and was made the f peciol order for next Monday moj nin; at 10 o'clock. The following new bill were introduced : By Mr. Hall, No. 1 J) ; to eatablieh a State Sanitarium, providing for the care and custody of .inebriates :; By Mr. Scott No. 133 ; to make thj Indiana University, the Pur due University aDd the State Normal School col dinate branches of the general system of education throushant the State ; to create the 2titb Comuioa Pleas District, consisting of tho counties f Lawrence, Murroe ard Morgan : By Mr. Gooding. N . rw ; to make tho county of Vanderbusrh constitute the Third Judicial Circuit. By Mr Taylor, No. 138, lirai.lcg notions founded on judgments or decrees of courts to ten years. The remainder of the day was consumed in routine busirie?s, the reports of committees, reading House tills, etc. Hoi: ?e. The following bills were reported Dack from committees: From th Judi.iary Committee Kilt lis, forbidding members of City Council, etc . to become interested in contracts; hill 171, prescribing tho manner of selecting petit jurors; bill 112, amending the act providing for the incorporation of railroads; bill 151, to amend tho act drrl.i'ing abandoned certain unfln'shed railroals; bill lV.t, to amend the Practice act as to attachra-nts; bill 179, to amend ths Practice act; bill 167, to provile for pre.;rvin.r 'thefrtriginal MS. journals of the General Astembly; bill 130, to amend the Prac ice act nil v.ith recommend ition that they pass. Bilis were ordered engrossed. The saie committee reported adversely on the following: Bill 112, riving lessors a lien in certain ca'cs; Bill 141, to amend the practice act; Bill 135, to amend toe act providing for redemption of real estate fold under execution; Bill 125, to amend the tct providing f..r calling special sessions of Boards of County Coaimiasioiiers; Bill 1(5, to amund tho 'act providing for the.'opening of highways; Bill 175. rjbtinif to m rtgages on real estate. The vote on concurring in thj report ou bill 145 was rtconfridtrcd, and tho bill referred to Committee on Koads. lill 3, to repe .l tho Kankakee Drainace Law, was reporied on f-vorably and laid on the table for debate. Committee on Organization of Courts reported adversely on thj till to abolish th 3 grand jnry system. Concurred in. Same committee reported favorably the bill to fix time of ho ding courts in tho Fir- t Judicial Circuit. Committee on Banks reported favorably on bills amerdiag the act providing for organization of savings banks, and for establishment of legal holidays. Ordered cngrosaed. commitree on Fees and Salaries reported formally on the per dieu. bill, an 1 it was put o Its passage and d.feated; y;?s 41. naya 45. The bill to fieflne a id punish thecrimeof wife-whipping, was repvrtedback by the commit ee on bights and Privileges, and referred t the committee ou Ju iciary. The committee on Corporation 9 reported a sub titute for the bill to amei-d the gjr.cral incorporation act. The same committee reported bck the Mil amending the charter of Noire Dame University, and it was referred to the Jud riary Committee. The comm tteo on Cif.es and Towns reported favorably on the bill to anvnd the act regula ing the incorporation c.f cities aud towns. The comm ttee on Public Expenditures reported in favor of allowing the ciaTms of th witnesses in tac Carroll C-j iuty ca-e. Th z Select niinittee made a favorable report on the biil fixing the time of holding courts in the Sixth Judicial District. The following new bills were introduced To legalize sales by guardians In certrin cases; to divide the State into Congressional Districts; amendingthe act organizing the Supreme Court; providing for pemi annual co'ljetion of laxes; relating to fencing up railroads at d cattle guards; denning the misdemeanor of keciinj a honsc of ill-fame; toameadtho act establishina female prison (two bill). Resolutions .v re adopted offering a premium of $ l,C0O for a lu for a new State House, and giving the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House $100 each for indexing their journals. The bi l repe'ingthe act e:tablihir!g the Twcntysevtiith Judicial Circuit was reported back favorab'y, and laid upon the table to be debated. House adjourned till P. M. Monday. MUG BYJ UNCTIOnT A letter from Rugby, England, has this paraafrraph: Kugby alio derives an interest from the pen of another writer, Charles Dickens, the ecne of whese "Mug by Jutction" is laiJ here. The ladies who manage the refreshment room at the 6tation are the same ones whom he ridicules in tho Boy at Mugby," and, naturally enough, they are rather tender on the subject of this etcry, and do not care to talk about it. Nor is it for sa;c in the book stand in the fetation. But no" great is the power of ridicule! Dickens fo ad the restaurant here an uncomfortable, inhospitab le place. He has lilt it the bes; railway eating house of England, e; far as I cave seen. Many of tLe French delicacies to which he eo feelingly al hides, are row to be had here, and I have ecu them nowhere else. Littie lunches till ready to take into cr, unall wine bottles, whLu can be put right into the pocket, good sandwiches, and, in fact, a great variety of nicely prepared viands ; ay now be fouud here, and the English public i-.aj thank Dickens that it is so.

SNAKE-CHARMING IN LONDON. The eminent England yooloTift. Mr. frank Bucklmid, editor of and Water, tells the following extraordinary story in his newspaper Sn?.kes are regarded with horror and repagnince by the generality of mankind "Mankind, and for this reason their nab its and instincts hav; not LVeu sufficiently studied. Snakes v:i? be oroadly divided into poisonous and nsl poL-onous. As a rule, poisonous fna:2 will get out ot a man's wav if it itUcked or ineulted. I do not re omi'end people tryiDg to tame poi-onons Snakes, nor do I rdvise them to charm them after the fashion of the Indian .ip.fTlers, tiicuirh, as has been often shown, these poisonous suakes are generally "doctored." a regards their fangs, before the exhibition takes place. Theie is nowin London a gentleman who has a charroinp family of pet. snakesharmless, c-f Louise. TMj gentleman nam'o is Mann. !(e is a professor, oj mrisict and lives in Caviuy Walk, Chelsea. Mr. Maun called on ine a. day or tviro tgo at &y oiiiee, and requested me to ive him assistance, as he has got into a bother with his neighbors atlout keeping his bnakes. Auxious to be of service to t hi- cnUcroan, I called at his house to eadliie his snakery. He placed in the njd.!c oftheroem a large box, whic h wf carefully locked. He told me the dot ras always locked, unless he or his wife took out the enakes to feed or examine thea. Ine rrc he produced frora th boS was a Very nse Common British ennke f Oolnlrr twtrfr His Snakes have all ret names, and this one's 'n?.m was Julia. Julia had Ion aro lai i thirty-six eggs.which wcra hatched Out suecessfully. The next wa- s!s.) 4 tomracn British tnake. The rint around the neck was very bright in this sn.-.ke. She rejoices in the name of Sylvia. Sylvia is very cood at frogs; lately she ate nine fro;;, seven large frogs and two small, at ons meal, one after the othef. iMr. MaSh has also two other tnakes, whrb names are Proteus aud Beatrice, o- f ht; Of the golden hair. ThU modern choke -charmer then dived hia hand iutO the box ar.d brought out n exceedingly llvtly brown-colorpd inake. The head is remarkably pretty and lizard like, and it has the power of mcviag the head very quickly from side to side; the eye is also remarkably brilliant. The snake is also n rnarkably " brilliant. This snake was brought from Jamraph; it is called a I.;iccrtine, and comes from tne coast of Mogador, in North Africa; it is perfectly harmless. Mr. Mann has had the Lacertine about twenty months. It is a pretty, elegant creature. It feeds on white mice. Mr. Mann theu showed B?e thd gem of his cf-liection. It is . rtriarkabiy handsome Brazilian bo, iUeusnrinr; between five and six feet ions, and weih;ng from twelve to fourteen pound3. The name of this snake Is C!eo,short for (Jteopatra. Continual handling and petting has caused this snake to become most remarkably tauie, and I think thre can be no doubt 6he knows individuals. W'neu placed upon the table Cl. o would not come to me at all, but jlluicd away to her master, who was sitting at the side of the table, tnd, stretching her body frora the tabic to the chuir, gradually pulled her long length on to him. Shetben glided up his right side, and folded her coils round his neck, placed her head close to her nnst'jr'a face, aud lay there some minutes, quivering her black, forked tongue with evident pleasure. Mr. Mann's two little children, aged live snd six respectively, then came into room. They immediately ran to the snake and began l-li'ying wiih if, kisicg it H':d pulliug it, calling it ''Cleo, dear Cieo!" Geo was then nude to gl'de upon the floor. Toe children ran after ber and picked her up, and the little trirl, picking her up, put her round her r eck like a boa. (I wonder If this was the oilgin of the word boa?) Cleo evidently enjoyed the fun as much as the children. It was very curious to see those two little children encircled ia Cleo's pondrous folds, rmindirjg me much of the celebrated statue of the Laocoo.i; aud, if I recollect righMy, the marble children in the statue are represented a9 about the same age and size as Mr. Mann's two children. Cleo is a particular favorite of Mrs. Man's, and I saw a very nice photograph of her, with Cleo coiled around her neck. I subsequently saw Mrs. Mann in tnis attitude with her pet snake. Cleo has shed her skin several times, and it is curious to remark that she 6hed her akin ten timers in two years. Mr. Mann has the latt skin shed. It is quite perfect, and as thin as tissue paper; and I should think would make a gooi pattern for fancy lace-work. Cleo fetds principally on pigeons. If a pigeon is put into her cage, and she is not hungry, she seems to make friends with the pigeon, and will Lever attempt to eat it. Sho ld, however, a fresh pigeon bputintoherc;ige she will devour it instaut ly. She feeds once a f ortnig ht.aud two pigeons will about last her for this time, Mr. Mann has observed that, when letleose Cleo always tries to climb upward, whereas the Lacertine ftlways 6etks the ground. Cleo most certainly knows her master and mistress. Onee,when they went out of town, Cleo was left behind. She pined and would not feed during their absence. When Mr. and Mrs. Mann returned alter six weeks abseuce, Cleo, on hearing her mistress' voice, instantly rushed out of her box, coiled herself round her, :u.d kissed her face. 8he evidently recognized her kind friend and protector. Mr. Mann has aiso another large Indian python, but this snako is not very large, and has private apartments to itnlf in a leather carpetbag. Ti.e shakes will feed out of Mr. Minn's hand. The common snakes eat frogs, and frogs only; the Lacertine eats white mice; the python deiigtts in guir.ea-pigs. Altogether, I was exceedingly phased with Mr. Mann's collection of Enakes. By his very niccessful snake tarn ing he has opened up quit? a new chapter in natural h'story, and has 6hovu what preserving kindness will do in taming snakes, poor creature?, hich have hitherto been thought to have illtle or no intelligence.

A STEEPLE-CL LM B EIl'S ADVENTURE. A NARROW ESCAPE FROM A TERRIBLE DERTU. But once, sir, I was frightened, and I ain't afraid to acknowledge it. I was working on a church which had a spire of a staps which ain't common. What kind of architecture it is, 1 have been told, but forgotten. It goes up ever so straight, and ends with a kind of swell, like an ouicn or a turnip, and I had to wo; k on the under side. The party as was repairing the church wasn't paid what the job was worth by the congregation, and things were being paired dewn line. I wauted a scaffoid, but they wouldn't etand the two or three extra days' work it would have cost to rig it, so I thought I'd do it with onlv a rope. It wis the slatiug that had been badly done, snd the wind was ripping them off, so that the Work had to be patched up at once. It was mighty high uj, and as tough a job as I most ever worked on. I studied it up, as I mostly does all the jobs I have, and I was obliged to work from the top down, and crawl under the lower pirt. I let myself down with anew iach and a quarter rope, and, setting my feet against the largest part of the round, pushed off a little, lowering myself some six feet, so that when I swung in 1 should get to the under part, when I would get a clutch and hoid on to a couple of big iron oands and get a secure footing. Though a ticklish job, I had dene the same before, aud eo I got all right after the first trial. Well, I worked away cteady, taking out the old slate and putting in the new, and nailing down those that were loose. I must have been two hours at work, when I wanted to go up for more nails.so I commeuced to haul away, kicking myself from time to time clear of the swell of the dome. So far 60 good. When 1 was almost half way up, I thought I'd stop just a minute to take breath, as it was a hot, sultry day, and warm even up as high as I was. My toe was on a level with cue layer o" 6late when I thought that I notictd 1 was lowering an inch orso, when it stopped; then it began again, and I went dcn-n eight inches; then stopped again for a minute, and lower I went by half a course of slate. I was thoroughly alarmed. Of course I reasoned, it could only arise from one of four things either the rope was stretching, and that wasn't possible, 01 the double hitch I had given round the rope at the head of a staircase, was slipping, which again, too, wasn't possible, it being contrary to the rule of knots, or the suitcase was getting pulled out, which wasn't lively, or what was worse, and which struck me must be a fact, the rope was cutting and I settled on that. I watched to see If there was atiy inclination to twist the rope, but could not sea it. Now I knew that if i made any violent motion, I might increase the damage. I tlutched all I Could to the sides of the sutes, trying to take advantage of even a nail that might be sticking up, but I couldn't get mora hoid than agin' glass. I was now under tho largest pait of the swell of the dome, with

a hundred feet'clean under me. To get below to Where I had been working was Impossible. I wss afraid to swing otit ori , the rope dow$ which would hav caused ft jerk. It was nb nse to h'ollci', for no one could have heard me, and there was no Use of making 6igna a I was on the side away from th& street, and nobody k1i tea me. Up I must gOj aliu may be, I thought, if the rope will hold I may get up yet. Slowly I went up, with a quitt, steady pull. It was about sundown, and as 1 got up, inch by inch, I saw the sun shine on a bit of jagged tin. about twenty feet above me, and I 6aw It was that which ha'l been cutting slowly but sHrely Into my rope. With the strain I had gives it4 three or fotlr of the strands looked as if thev h;xd been cut through with a sharp knife, and 1 wis hftHgisg now by may be a trand. All along had held fast to my tools; now I let go my hammer first, and then some twenty slates; and I heard them smash with a clatter below on the tombstonps. Slowly I crept up, nearing the riolat a little whre the rope was cutting. Just thn I rot iny head over the top of the rounj. I nad a pretty strong knife in my pocket, so I jabbed it in between the edges of the slate, until it took a hold in the woodwork, and I braced my heel againtt it. If I had had two knivea I could have managed first-rate, using one for one foot aud the other for the other, so as to take the strain off the rope. I tried all I could to throw the ripe of the tin, bui4 Seeihg it was su'i nnder a ttra!n, with my heft to it, I could tot bude it. Well, I never should have known to this day how I would have pulled through if it hadn't teen for a woman who just then stuck her blessed old head out of a little window in the church below me. "Mister," says 6he, "don't you know your trade better than to be throwing down slate and things that way? Aud ray child, came as near as could be having bis head epiit open with a slate, and I'm the sexton's wife, and just 6ee if I don't report all about It to the vestry as meets to-night." Says I, "For God's sake don't scold, for I am here in a scrape. My rope is cut, and getting cut all the tiino that I'm talking to you, and you are just likely as not to be the last per80J as will hear my final will and testament." "Lord a mercy," s?ys she, "I'll scream." "Don't" eay3 I. Is there any men about here." "Not a soul but me. What fcball I do?' "Got any rope; no rope in the church?" "We don't run this church with bells and there ain't no bell ropes, and there ain't no fihops as keeps anv around here." "Well, see here," says I, "it is a matter of five minutes, or ten at most, with me." "Iv'e got a clothes line. 1 dry the clothes sometimes iu the loft up there, but it ain't no new line, nor it ain't very long." "That will do," says I. "Now come up, and be quick about It, with the clothes lin?." She was gone a minute, ai d presently I could hear something moving inside the little dome, and soon she was at thi window. "Now," says I, "stretch out your cord, and just where the middle i3 pass it three times round the upright at the head of the staircase, make a good double knot at the loose ends, just as you would on a douUe thread when you ar sewing, and throw the ends to me." How the poor, old woman flustered and wiped her face with her face wi.th ber apron, and tow that old clothes line, for I could see it plain, was all tangled and twited! Presently i.ll was ready, and taking good aim at me, she Hung the knotted end toward me. It wouldn't reach me bv nearly three feet. I managtd to get my knife-blade some few inches higher up, but even this exertion, and the strain I had given on the rope, stretched out its lluers. It wa3 a jump I had to make, and it required nerve to make it, snd thank God I had it, and got a good hold, with one hand, of the clothes line. In a second I was up ten feet and above the cut in the rope, and now I was all right. Tnat old lady she was worse off than I was when I was by her side she kissed me first and then went oil into a conniption. After it was all over I hauled in my old rope. You have heard tell of the man who was In the mine, as was lowered down by a rope, then left hanging natil his strength gave out, and at last he let go, thinking he was to be smashed to atoms. When they did pick him up he had fallen six inches, but was in a dead faint. Well, sir, my case wasn't like this. I hauled up the old rope, and the old lady took hold of one part and I of the other, and when she jerked it &he snapped the last bita of the strand like darning cotton; and that was all I was hanging to. a HORACE GREELEY'S BARN. If we were asked to name in'what point our Southern farming is most deficient, we should say in barns. It would be easy to write an extended essay on this injurious defect, but sound practice and philosophy are often best taught b example. Mr. Greeley 6ays: "My barn is a fair success. I placed it on the 6belf of my hill, nearest to the upper (east) s!de of ray place, because a barnyard is a manufactory of fertilisers from materials of lesser weight; and it is easier to draw these down hill than up. I built its walls wholly of stone, gatht red or blasted from the adjacent slope, to the extent of four or five thousand tens, and laid in a box with tarn mortar of little lime and much sand, filling all the interstices and binding the whole in a solid mass, till my wal's are nearly one polid rock, while the roof 1j of Vermont slate. I drive into threo stories a basement for manures, a 6table for a l'mals, and a story above this for hay, while the grain is pitched into the loft above, from whose floor the roof rises 6teep to the height of sixteen or eighteen fett. There should have been more windows for liuht and cir; but my barn is convenient, impervious to fro-d, and I am confident that cattle are wintered at a fourth less cost then when they shiver in board shanties, with cracks between the boards that will admit your haids. No part of our rural economy is more wasteful than the habitual exposure of our animals to pelting, chilling 6torms, and to intense cold. Building with concrete is still a novelty, and was far more so ten years ago, when 1 built my barr. I could now build better and cheaper, but I am fflad that I need not. I calculate that this barn will be abidingly useful long afcer I shall be forgotten, and that had I chosen to have had my name lettered on Its front, it would have remained there to honor me as a builder long af 1 1 r it had ceased to have any other signification." While not doubting that the concrete walls of Mr. Greeley's three-story barn will be dura bl? and proof against the dampness and hard freezing of his northern climate, we speak from considerable experience when wc give the preference to hydraulic lime and sand to common lime and sand for cementing fragments of rock in making solid wall Tennessee abounds in excellent cement, as well as in good limestone. As basements for barns, slables, dwelling houses and springhouses, cement wal s and floors ar very valuable. Wc have used three parts of coarse, eharp, washed sand to one of hydraulic cement. A cellar laid in such cement tuorar, the walls well plastered in?id. and the ground well covered with this cement, will keep the cellar dry, though inclined to be wet raid unhealthy. Skill and evonornyin constructing farm buildings, are ma ters not sufficiently studied. Thousands of families live on indefinitely in dilapidated and comfortless houses, with barns and staples a littlo worse, because they dread the expanse of building swmethlng better. The waste of food In fee ling corn, oats and foddr to keep stock warm in cold weather, will about pay for making warm stables new every year. No matter how cold the weather is, you must heat the blood of horses, cattle, hogs and sheep up to V5 deg , or thry will certainly di ;. The more heat they radiata into space, aiid throw off ia breathing, the more crn ai.d roughness they must eat and burn to keep them warm. Hence, to exclude uncomfoi table cold from domesticated auimali, and persons is to save va:uable provisions, promote health, longevity, and happiness. Science in war leads to rfcstruction; science in peace leads to the practice of construction. Let us rebuild and repair on our old plantations, if they need it. Make cultivated common sense," not pride nor vanitv, the architect we employ to plan our improvements. There should be at least 100 good barns and farm houses built in Tennessee, where there is one now, take the State together. Xashuille Union.

THe morning pas&enger train over the' Worcester and Nashua Kailroad was thrown from the track about a mile north of Worcester Saturday morning. Three cars were thrown on their sides, but though there were 250 passengers on the train, no one wa9 seriously Injured.

EDUCATED OBSERVERS. , tn a recent address, of which a synopsis was fdrnishedtd dur readers Professor Agassiz, in Impressing upon a San Francisco audience the value to their city of a College wbere science 6hoUld.be special cultivated,- more particnj lirly erpptiasiied tne 6cfriceS of stich an institution iti training a corps of skilled scientific observers. It is the history of all modern success in scientific inquiry, that is proportioned to the accumulation of carefully ascertained facts. The men of extraordinary capacity for f:eneralization,who atoccasional "intervals seize hese factSi fuse them in the fire of their genius, antl present the world with the refined truth of great natural laws, axe born not made. They come in their own good time, and we can not hasten their advent. But we can prepare the material for them; and to do this, thousands of accurate, patient, painstaking, men must test, .observe, record, tie phenomena cf nature. Of the nicety f observation which science requires, it is difficult to convey to the uninitiated any idea. A man who has never before looked through a telescope would not probably be able to see Biela's comet, upon whose vagaries hang so much speculation, if he gazed through any of the instruments by which the observations on it have been obtained. The best microscopists, in approaching the more difficult class of investigations, prepare their physical systems by fastiug and rest, so that even the'r skilled eyesight may give a purer service. Alreadv men are training themselves in certa'n specialties of observation, with reference to the few minutes of work they expect to perform, two years hence, at the transit of Venus. Considering the absolute need and great value to the country cf skilled observers, it is a cause for congratulation that the Signal Service Bureau is engaged in training a large number of them at Fort Whipple. The punctilious exactitude of tho art of war gives a stringency to the details cf duty required of the men who are there taught the use of instruments aud the uccepted theories of meteorology, so that when they have passed certain Bevere examinations they become competent to take charge of a signal station and attend to all its duties, including telegraphy. It is not many years since one who 6houli make it a business to observe the weather especially to predict it became the subject of gibes and ridicule. Now, the success of observations and predictions, which at least prevent numerous 6hipwrecks, is assured; for, since the eignal service has been established, no great storm has traversed the territory of the United States, or swept its likes, gulf or seacoastF, without the sigual of its approach Doing exhibited at the pons where danger to shipping w as probable. The extension of these observations to Canada, it is hoped, is but the first step toward an international Suual Service that will encircle the globe. The librajyand reading room of the free public library at Worcester, Mass.. was opened to the public to-day, in accordance with a vote of the directors, opening the library on Sundays. About one hundred aud fifty people patrouized the Library during the afternoon. One of the heaviest failures cau-Hd bv tke preat Boston fire was the firm of Ileuiield, Wentworth .t Co., dry goods commission merchants, on Franklin street. Their assets are plated at $l,fiS3,liO, and liabilities nt $'i,o4,S6X). The firm proposed a settlement at sixty cents per dollar, to be paid within a year without iutcrest.

NOTHING BETTER For Home or Parlor Amusement than a STICREOSCOPK. Call and examine the large and varied collection of AMERICAN AND FOREIGN VIEWS, FN ALL STTLE, WITH STEREOSCOPE AT ALL PRICES, AT CA1HCART & CLELAXD'f?, af re m oct22-3mc 26 East Washington street. BARTHOLOMEW & PICKEKILL, 70 ICast Market Street, Offer for sale a large list of CHOICE ntOPERTY, consisting of Vacart Lots, Houses and Lots of every variety of price from 1,500 to $25,000. Also valuable and cheap Suburban Property, In large and email lots, improved and ur I'D proved. Also a full list of Farms and Farming lands In Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, and Texas. Also a large tract of choice timber land In Illinois, on railroad, at f 25 per acre, which we will exchange for city property. Also, for a few days, we offer four lots soath of Hill avenue on Orange avenue, and running to Bellef ontaine Railroad. A most desirable location for a manufacturing establishment. Below market price. Also six lots south of Tinker on Hill avenue and running to Sheldon at 950. A rare chance for bargains. CALL AND LEARN THE FACTS. eepl2 e 8m. novieod Romberg & Steinmetz, PRACTICAL UPHOLSTERERS, Manufacturers and Dealers in all Kinds of FURNITURE, 117 Ulast WashiriKtcm Street, INDLANAPOLIS, IND. "Particular attention paid to Repairing at short notice g ep24 3me USE THE AMERICAN FIRE-KINDLER, MAXVFACTCBED by P. G. JORDAN, Headquarters at FruP Stand, comer of Delaware and Waohirgton streets Orders from Grocers promptly filled. sep27e3m

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PLUMBERS, GAS AND STEAM FITTERS, NO. 6 BATES HOUS BLOCK. Fountain", Lead and Iron Pipe, Pumpa. Sheet Jead, Bath Tuba Water Closets, G-as Fixtures, Hydrants and all kinds of Plumbers and Gran Fitters Material constantly on hand. Prices reasonable and all work warranted. Jobbing promptly attended to. aatS-lytpSdp

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At R. S. OARR fc SON'S. No. 3 Palmer House. . p2H 4em TUKKEYS, CHICKENS, AND THE FIXINGS TO GO WITH THEM AT THE FAT MAN'S GEOCEEY. 151 West Washington Street. K5T"Coors also has the beat BUTTER in the City. aepST e3m

INDIANAPOLIS SAYINGS BANK, Yohn's Block. 13 .Meridian St, ro NEW DEPOSITORS SINCE JULY 1, 1872. O O " Ope n Monday and Saturday Nights till eight o'clock. Entire net earnings divided January and July 1st among the depositors. WILLIAM N. JACKSON, President. JOHN W. RAY. Secretary and Treat-. eep23 3me LIQUID LAUGHING GAS. NITROUS OXIDE GAS, under aressnre of 600 pounds to the square Inch, liquifies and throws off all imparities. It may then be taken with PERFECT SAFETY And the greatest ease, producing no feeling of suffocation. Extracting 1 tooth, (gas) $1 00. Full half eetartincial teeth, (rubber), $10 00. A. E. PURSELL, Dentist, Inventor and sole pro prietor. Martinddo Block aepl2 e 8m. GEORGE P. ANDERSON, REAL ESTATE BROKER. 0FHCE NO 1 GAS COMPANY'S BUILDING. COR. PENNSYLVANIA AND MARYLAND 8TS. I keep a large assortment of Desirable Property For Sale, DWELLINGS, VACANT LOTS, FARMS AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY, Some of which are for exchange or trade. For full information p-lease call at my office. To those having property that you want to sell, I would say t to you, if you have not time to call at my office, send me a descriptive list with your price and ternu, and I will use my best efforts to realize your wishes, and will consult with your personal! in regard to negotiations. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. sepl0-8me REAL ESTATE FOR SALE -by-JOHN M. TODD & CO., (OTEB INDIANA BANKING CO.) Lots 68x184 feet at $200 and $300 each. Acre Lots, $500. Two Acre Lots, $1,000. Fonr Acre Lots, $1,00 to 1,800. Ten Acre Lots, $3,500. One-fourth cash, remainder 1, 2, 3, and 4 years at six per cent. The above lots are In that beautiful euburb, Malott Park. Four daily trains each way from Union Depot. Fare 12 cents. 120 Acre Farm 12 miles North of Madison, Indiana, 2)4 miles from Kailroad Station. Price, $3,000; to exchange for Stock of Merchandise. Stock of Fancy Groceries; all sew. In good room and location Will invoice $6,000. For sale er exchange for City Property. Choice lots with east fronts on Delaware and Alabama etreets; in Allen and Root's Addition. JOHN M. TODD, scp 17 e4m ISAAC M. hHIDELER. EWICK & BRADLEY'S REAL ESTATE AND COLLECTING OFFICE 85 East Washington St., Up-Staibs, INDIANAPOLIS. Three houses and lots on West Third street; four rooms each, Price, $1,000 each. Bellefontalne etree'. Fram Cottage of eight rooms; cellar, gas, well, and stable. Pri, $4,000. One story fiame house of seven roms, cellar, wood hon(e, bnggy sr ed and stableoNorth East street. Price, $4,000: terms easy. Eaot Pratt street. Brick house of three rooms, snmmer kitchen, ceil-.r, well, and cistern. Price, $3,000. A cottase of three rooms and pantry on West North street Price, 21,290. Two nice frame cottages of five rooms and cellar nadereach. All in good order. Price $2,500. Lockerbie street. Vacant luf s in all additions for sale or trade cheap, crbie stret. EWICK & BRADLEY, 85 East Washington s. LOOK OUT FOR BARGAINS ! 85 LOTS, IN DR. SMITH'S & PURCELL'S 8UBDITI8ION, Northwest of Indianapolis, AT LOW FIGURES AND LONG TIME. Fine Business Lot, corner of St. Joe and Illinois streets. Price low, and long time 4, 5, or 6 years. House and Lot on North MisiUsippl, near First street. Houre two-story , frame, 6 rooms. Price, $3,500; terme easy. nouses and Vacant Lots In various parts of the city on good terms. Patronage solicited. J. ELDRIDGE & CO., novl4 ely lfltf Wet Washington Street E. X. BRIGGS. H. A. REED. . J. W. MCB.FHT BRIGGS, REED & MURPHY' REAL ESTATE AGENCY, No. 3t)tf West Washington Street. FOR SALE. story House of 8 room on Cherry street; $7,500. FOR TRADE. Two-story Brick House of 9 rooms, located northeast. Lot 54 by 135 feet. Everythin? in complete order. Price $8,0( 0. Will trade for a stock of orugs or flry goods worth half the amount. FOR TRADE. Two-story Frime Uous, of 9 rooms, on Plumb ?-'reet; gas and evrythingtn comp ete order; eat frbnt. ixt 40 by 140. Will exchange for bouse and lot or vacant lot betwe n Alabama aad Illinois streets. Worth J 4.000 to $5,000. FOR SALE. Som of the choicest Vacai t Lots In Oak Hill Ad-dir-on for $6o0. Only $75 Cash required. De k Room for rent in a convenient office. FOR SALE. A number of fine Building Lots northwest, ranging from $400 to $1,000. oct23 3me HOME FRUIT AND SHADE TREES, SMALL FRUITS. GRAPE VINES, SHRUBS, FLOWERS and ROSES, All true to name, ar d one-third cheaper than Eastern tree. We sell trees as good, one-third cheaper than Eastern nurseries. Nursery at Plainfleld, Indiana. B. F. BUSHONG, Agent, coreer Fayette aud Walnut streets, Indianapolis, Ir.d. sep24 eSm W. K K I L M A N, PROFESSOR OP MUSIC, INDIANAPOLIS, IM). Instruction given on the Piano, Cabinet Organ Great Organ, and in Singing. No. Ill East Washington street, opposite Cour Goose, Room No. 1, up stairs. apao ly

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MERRILL, BOYS WELIS W. WRIGHT & CO. SUCCESSORS TO CARTER, WRIGHT & DENNY, REAL ESTATE AGENTS No. 14. North Delaware St. LAJtMDALB'S BXOCK. THIS LIST CHANGED DAILY. FOR. RENT. A house of 7 rooms, corner of Meridian and Michigan streets, at $35. A house of 7 rooms, 836 South Alabama street, $25. A house of 6 rooms on Park avenue, $28. A house of 12 rooms on North street, $50. A house of 5 rooms on Elaff road, $13. A house of 9 rooms on Mississippi street, $50. A house of 12 rooms on North street, $60. A house of 12 rooms on Mis eisslppl street, $40. Office room, South Illinois street, $15. Office, or sleeping room. South Illinois street, $8. Double office room.'very large, $20. ' IMPROVED CITY PROPERTY FOB BALE. No. 528. Frame house of 7 rooms, cellar, well, cistern, stable, carriage and wood house, all la complete order, for $4,500, on North East street, In a gcod neighborhood; $1,500 down, balance In 1, Sand 3 years. Desirable. No. 521 . Frame house of 8 rooms, cellar, cistern, well, stable, fruits and shrubbery, very large lot, east front, on Broadway. Price $5,000; $1,500 down, baJ ance In 1 and t years. No. 520. New frame house of 4 rooms, cellar, well , &c Lot 40 feet front; alley side and rear. Price $3,000; one-third down, balance In 9 and 18 months Situate on Broadway. No. 519. New frame house of 5 rooms, on eur avenue, comer lot, goed cellar, well and cistern, $2,500; $1,000 down, balance In 1 and t years, is cheap. No. 511. Fraxfle house of six rooms and pantry cellar. Ac., on Vine street. Price $3,700. New neat and desirable. No. 529. New brick house of four rooms and sr Tn mer kitchen, good well and ciatern, large cellar, f r, i iucuijr ui u mm, uu n esi nonn sireeu i rice one-half cash, balance In 1 and 3 years. IMPROVED FARMS FOR SALE Several of the best farms In Marion county are now offered at great bargains. Call and learn full particulars. Also several well Improved farms In Hendrisks county, on good terms. VACANT LOTS FOR BALE. In L N. Phlpps' "Sprlngdale" addition, fronting on Washington and Market streets, and on Arsenal avenue. J. M. Rideoour's "State avenue" addition, fronting on Washington street and State avenue. J. M. Rldenocr's "Highland Home" addition, fronting on State avenue, Sturm and Carter streets. These lots are all In the eastern part of the city, and are very desirable. Six lots In Kaufman's subdivision, fronting Wash Ington and Oriental streets. Several corner lots suitable for business purposes. We offer them on such terms that almost any one can buy and have a home. Four lots on Rhode Island street. In the northwe stern part, at low prices. Six lots on Sheldon street. In the northeastern part, on favorable terms. Also In Johnson's heirs addition. Root and Allen's addition. Southeast addition, and other additions. MICK BROTHERS, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, XOJf ICast Washington Stx SOOX 7, UP 8TAIE8.) The very best inducement in vacart lots is rew of fared to purchasers In that well knov a plat. ARSENAL HEIGHTS. This beautiful ground is situated so well that none doubt but that it will enhance in lalue more rapidly than any o'hr grouLd lying the earn riltance from the city. Adjoining that beautifus ground, WOODRUFF PLACE, As It oes, where lots are selling at $75 per frnt foot, there is no doubt that Arrenal Heights lots will before next spring sell for $30 to $10 pr foot. Now Is the time to purchase these lots, as they are rapidly growing in value, and may not long remain in the market t preseit price. We also Oder that fine subdivision known as HIGHLAND PARK, Just east of the above ground. These lots are large. caeap ana very desirable, -run east ar west fronts. Call and make selections soon. marl ly REAL ESTATE. T7OR SALE A nice brick bouse, 8 rooms, well. X? cellar, ci-tern, stable: size of lot 6(x180: full rf fruit trees; corner lot near Noble, north of Virginia ave. Price $4,000; one-half cath, balance in 1, 2 and 3 years at 6 per cent. By ARDEN & nARLAN. 36 North Delaware street, opp. Court House. FOR SALE New hcue of 3 rooms.pantry, cWbes press cellar, well; let 2"b5. Prict. $!,mto, in payments by Alto. ,N A HARi AN, 36 North Delaware street, opp Court Bouse. FOR SALE A house acd !t on North Winston st. Price $, 100, in paymeatt It rents for $15 per mo'-tb readily, which pays a big inter-it on invest ment, by ARDEN A nARLAN, 36 North Delaware str et, opp Court House. I7OR SALE nouses and lots on most k the street in the city at all prices nd terms, some very rheap; alsovacam l.j a, some of which we can sell at 25 per cent, less than mkrket price. Aleo a number of desirable farms for sale or trade, and tny amount of Western land to trai e, by ARDEN A HARLAN. M North Delaware street, opp. Coin House. cct2WSme