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tk brother-in-lavr who was of an unsteady ami roving disposition. He finally got down into Virginia about the lime t hat John Brown was preparing for his raid. He allied himself with Brown. He was captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged. Governor Willard asked and asked again of Governor Wise for a commutation of his brother-in-law’s sentence, for reprieve, tor anything in the nature of cleuaeuev, but Governor Wise would not listen to him. The man was hanged.” A GREAT STORM. Twenty-One Vessels Lost and Their Crews Drowned. Constantinople, Dec. 18.—A great storm has caused much damage to houses in the town of Abadia. Six large ships and fifteen coasting vessels were lost and the crews drowned. THE POPE AND THE PRINCE. deception of the German Heir Apparent by the Head of the Church. Rome, Dec. 18.—The Crown Prince of Germany, yesterday, requested Von Schlo?z u r, the German Miuister at the Vatican, to immediately announce his arrival to Cardinal Jaeobini, the papal Secretary of State, and express the Pi ince’s earnest desire to visit the Pope. Von Scluoezcr delivered the message, and Cardinal Jucobiui subsequently called at the German legation and left a card. The Crown Prince breakfasted, this morning, with Count Von £eudall, the German embassador to Italy. The Pope received the Crown Prince with ireat cordiality and affability. The Prince was visibly affected, and in the name of the Emperor. Ills gratification at being able to manliest liis respect for his Holiness. The private conference lasted one hour. The Crown Prince, nrou leaving the Vatican, appeared deeply moved. The length of the Prince’s interview with the Popo is much remarked upon. The Moniteur de Rome says the visit is the outcome, of Bismarck’s proi- ct for federating the conservative forces against the audacious Democracy, and the place of honor in the alliance has been assigned tne papacy as the first in influence in the world. The German Crown Prince received the grand dignitaries of Italy, the Presidentaof rhe Senate and of Deputies, :i<l the diplomatic body. He frequently expressed himself as beidg deeply impressed by The cordiality of his wel Dome. A state banquet was given in t-he Prince’s honor this evening, at which were present 124 persons, including members of the royal family, the Priuoe will depart from Rome on Thursday %vetiirig. _ THE EGYPTIAN REBELLION. departure of Raker Pasha on What Is Cou--Bid e red a Hopei As Task. Cairo, Dec. 18 Baker Pasha has started for Smtkim, and will reach Suez to-night. He will have supreme command in the Soudan. The Khedive has instructed him to endeavor to conciliate the tribes beiore resorting to force, the objeot of the expedition being to pacify the country between Suakim and Berber. The Khedive lias also Advised Baker not ;o begin operations until reinforced by black j-a P’s; and not to engage the enemy unless under the most favorable conditions. Baker Paslia, on departing for Suakim, received an ovation, swing ro bis popularity and the feeling that he has a hopeless task. A Suakim telegram says: Tokai s holding out weli, although short of nmmunirion. The town has been twice attacked. Si neat is short of provisions and in a precarious situation. An expedition is preparing to relieve the latter town.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY. IrUUmen Who Plotted Murder While Attending Maos. Cork, Deo. 18.—In the trial of the Mayo murder conspirators, Andrew Coleman, the principal witness for the prosecution, testified that the prisoners were plotting murders while attending in as 8. This testimony created a sensation. The Trials at Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Dec. 18 —At tne trial of McDermott and others for complicity in the dynamite ©nfrages'at Glasgow, the testimony went to JLuW that Featherston was seen in company with the prisoners, who purchased largo quantities of nitric acid and sulphuric acid and glycerine. A Threatened Duel. Paris, Dec. 18 —Owing to yesterday’s qnarrel D’Ornano and Charles Ferry have again appointed seconds. Efforts are being made to prevent a duel. * Eat Kit. —The tronble between D’Ornano and Charles Ferry nas dually been amicably settled. Great Fire at Lisbon. Lisbon, Dec. 18. —The government dockyard, severai warehouses, and the training brig! Campons, were burned to-day. Damage, £IOO,OOO. No lives lost. The Daly-Garnler Billiard Match. Lyons, Dec. 18.—The billiard contest resulted: Daly, 600 points; Gamier, 551. The score for four nights stauds: Daly, 2,400 points; Garmer, 2,1146. Cable Notes. The Pope yesterday gave audience to the American prelates in Rome. Eight thousand officers have offered themselves for service in Tonquio. Prince Victor, son o' Prince Napoleon, (PlonPlou,) has written his father, disavowing opposition to bun as the head of the Bonaparte family. In the lower house of the Prussian Diet, the Minister of Finance introduced a bill for taxation of inconi s derived from personal property. The bill was coldly received, aud its ultimate adoption is doubtful. A Wife and Brother’s Murderous Plan. PknvkH, Dec. 18.—Last Saturday Mary Kafforfl, called on Doctor Rose, a prominent rteutist, of Eeadville, and made a startling request that he furnish her with a poison which conld not t>e detected by an autopsy. She offered him S3OO ns compensation, reluctantly admitting that she wished to get rid of her husband, Hsus Kofford, in order that her husband’s brother, of whom she wan enamored, and herself might together enjoy an insurance, of $5,500 which her husband carried. After making an appointment to meet both persons at his office last evening, tlie doctor arranged with the police and several interested insurance men to be present but concealed at the interview. The •whole diabolical plan was made known. Tho pair were immediately arrested and placed in jail. The parties are Danish. The youngest brother is sixty years of age and the woman thirty-five. Death of a Noted Greek. Boston. Dec. 18 Prof. Kvangelinas Apostolides Hophooies, professor of Greek at Harvard College, died yesterday morning in Cambridge. He had been failing slowly for two years. He was born at Tzangarada, ten tniies southeast of Mt. Pelion, in Tbessalv, in 1807. His early life was a mystery about, which he always refused to talk. He spent several years in Mr. Sinai convent, chiefly in the Cairo branch, and then came in America. He entered Amherst in 1829, but kid not latte a full course, lie taught school at ■several places until 1842, when be was appointed tutor of Greek In Harvard. In 1860 he v. as made proiessor. Fire in a Lodging-House. Bt. LOUIS, Dec. 18.—The Occidental Hotel, a hirge lodging-house, used mainly oy night worker <. caught fire from a lamp explosion, between 4 and 5 o’clock this evening, and was damaged about $5,000: insured for $3,500. The flames spread so rapidly that two or three servant girls had to betaken out through windows and down ladders. During the fire Pat. Conway, a leading member of the pompier company,' fell from the roof of the hotel to the ground, striking on bis feet. He was severely shocked and bruised but not dangerously hurt. A Vile Slander Denied. New Yon®, Dec. 18.—The secretary of tho board of home mlssious of the Presbyterian church eays: Regarding tho mission and girls’ schools at Fort Orange, Alaska, that there has beru some difference as to the methods of work and some unpleasantness and excitement iu the eotaoola and town, which they deplore, but ihe iiccormt sent out from Bau Francisco alleging there had been prostitution in the schools, and That one of the missionaries claimed to be a sec*id Christ, is wholly untrue. A PNI7DENT man is like a pin, his head prevents Din* from going too far. To prevent a cough from going too far wo should say, use Dr. Bull’s l'o.uga syrup.

STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. A Quarrel That Came* Near Resulting in a Case of Murder. Death of a Remarkable Colored Man in .Jennings County—Fire at Farmland— The Kennedy Trial. The Illinois Corn Crop One-Third Smaller than That of Lust Year. Sensational Testimony l>y Prison Convicts in the Bond Trial—Close of the Evidence for the Prosecution. . INDIANA. An Exciting Quarrel, which Came Near Ending in Murder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. £Helbyville, Deo. 18.—While the KennedyMoCnrkle trial was progressing to-day in the seconl story of the court-house, a scene took place ia the auditor’s office, on the first floor, which came near ending in a murder, On last Friday the Daily Democrat, edited by W. Scott made a fierce attack on County Superintendent Douglas Dobbins, on the ground that Dobbins had filed a bill for $25 with the county hoard for services which, in the opinion of the Democrat, were illegal. On Monday the Bhelby Republican charged George Ray, brother of W, Scott Ray, with having gone to Dobbins shortly after his election to the office of county superintendent and asked for a list of the teachers’ questions for examination, to be used for mercenary purposes. This morning Ray went into the auditor’s office and had Dobbins called before him. When Dobbins appeared Ray called him into the vault in the office where records are kept, and shutting the door, demanded that he sign a denial of what had appeared in the Republican. This Dobbins refused to do, and came out into the room where there were several gentlemen. Ray then denounced Dobbins in abusive and profane language, all the time holdiug his band in his overcoat pocket. In 'the heat of the quarrel Dobbins started toward Ray as if to strike him, when the latter drew a revolver, and, pointing it at Dobbins, snapped it; the weapon failed to discharge. The affair has created considerable of a sensation. Death of a Remarkable Colored Man. Fpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Qi/kensyille, Dec. 18.—Janies Madison Smith a colored man, died on his farm near here today, t the advanced ago of about ninety years. Re was an ex-slave, a Democrat and a Catholic. He purchased his freedom about thirty-live years ago, paying SI,OOO therefor out of money earned by his own labor. After obtaining his own deliverance from bondage he accumulated S9OO, with which he purchased that of his wife, who survives him. By his thrift and industry he purchased a farm near here, of eighty acres, and subsequently one of the same size in an adjoining neighborhood. He could neither read nor write, but was a man of intelligence and character, and had some aiistoeratio ideas. He originally came from the blue-grass region of Kentucky, and had a wholesome contempt for ‘‘poh white trash,” whom he regarded as generally ignorant. *‘l oan make my way iu dis world wid anything hut ignorance,” he was accustomed to say; “but when I come to argue wid Ignorance, den it am jes no use.”

Accidentally Killed by TTis Brother. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Sullivan, Dec. 18.—Little Johnnie Keene was instantly killed by his brother to-day in the following manner. Wesley, an older brother, attempted to take a loaded gun out of the house. In passing out of the room the hammer caught on a table, and the *un weut off, killing the little fellow, aged five years, who was standing near. The boys arc both adopted sons*of John Dever. A Serious Charge. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Spencer, Dec. 18.— Samuel Dyar, living in Jefferson township, Owen county, was lodged in jail this morning on a grand-jury warrant, charged with burning his own house two years ago. He is a widower with three children, two of them being deformed or badly crippled, and who were burned with the house, the third making his escape. The Kennedy Murder Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Shelby ville, Deo. 18 —ln the Kennedy murder trial, t o-day, the special venire of one himred mni was exhausted. A second venire for fifty men was called, and soon exhausted, and a third venire was issued. By to-morrow the jury will probably be made up, and the introduction of evidence will then commence. Attempted Suicide of a Prisoner. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Dec. 18.—Joe Adams was convicted to-day of robbery, and sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. He attempted to commit suicide, in jail, with morphine furnished by his wife, but an emetic saved him. Fire at Farmland. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Muncie. Dec. 18.—At Farmland, this county, last night, the dry goods store of 8. P. Brnndage wis burned. The 1068 is estimated at $1,700; insurance $l,lOO. Minor Notes. President Smart, of Purdue University, has been-selected to direct the national educational exhibit at Madison, Wls., next July. Mrs. Mary C. Hnmaston, of Terre Haute, a dealer in toys and confectionery, has, by the death of her father. John Hadcox, of Madison county* New York, fallen heir to a fortune of $20,000. Lafayette boasts of the smallest and largest girls of their ages in tho world. Annie Toole, at. Bt. Elizabeth Hospital, aged twenty-one, is less than thirty inches tall. Lettie Weygoid, twelve years of age, w eighs 211 pounds. The trustees of Purdue University have secured tho services of Mr. John Purseli, of New Haven, Conn., a practical wood-carver and designer, ns an instructor in the department of industrial art in the University. Win. H. Lynn, a heavy stockholder and a director of the Citizens’ National Bank of Crawfordsville, died very suddenly at hiahomeon Monday morning, of neuralgia of the heart. The deceased was about forty-five years of age. Samuel O’Conner, of Zeros, Jennings county, registered on Sunday night at the Kelly House, and was found dead In his bed on Monday morning. The clothes were saturated with blood, and It is supposed that he died from hemorrhage of the lungs. Ho is a brother of Hon. Hiram O’Conner. Excitement prevails at Fowler over a confession made bv a twelve-} ear-old girl named Labags, to tlie effect that for the past year an improper intimacy has existed between herself and Luke Bisett, her uncle. Bissett has been held to answer in the sum of SBOO. The little girl is bright and intelligent, and states that her uncle first approached her a year ago and, through threats, accomplished his base purpose, since which time he has frequently, by the same means, repeated the act. Bissett has hitherto borne u good reputation, and is one of the most prominent Frenchmen of the county, Philip Lee, of Rockville, who was arrested for enticing Miss Manila Duree, a fanner’s daughter, from home, under a plea of marriage when a divorce could be had from bis present wife, has been held for trial, charged with abduction for prostitution. The girl’s evidence showed that Luo had raped her by force, threatening to shoot

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liei 1 with his revolver. Lae admitted the girl’s testimony except the revolver part. He was bound over to court in the sum of SSOO, iu der fault of which he went to jail. James Etnison, of the Atlas Mills, Vincennes, seriously injured on Monday by a gas explosion. He discovered that the gas had been leaking in the engine-room of elevator A, and went down into the pit. to see about it, when the gas exploded, severely burning liis hands and face. # Wm. Johnson, now under arrest at Louisville, Ky., on a charge of an outrage upon a mne-year-old girl, will fight the charge to the bitter end. He resides near Pekin, Washington county, and is known as one among the best citizens of tnat county. Senator Voylns, Sheriff Mclntosh, the county auditor, county treasurer, representative and other prominent citizens of Washington county, have visited Louisville in his behalf, and desire to go on his bond, should he be admitted to bail. ILLINOIS. The Corn Crop Deficient by One-Third as with Last Year. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Springfield, Deo. 18.—The State Board of Agriculture to-day issued its report, made up from all the counties of the State on the corn crop of 1883. It shows the total acreage to have been 7,304,596; average yield per acre 25*3 bushels; total product, 186,583,558, and average quality 69, or 31 below a first-class yield as to quality. The counties producing the highest number of bushels are the following: Bureau, 5,304,060; Champaign, 8,506',600; Henry, 3,102,588; Iroquois, 5,853,141; Kuox, 3,306,472; La Salle. 3,959,496; Livingston, 4,227,560; Logan, 4,448,276; Macon, 4.234,912; McLean, 6,563.889: Montgomery, 3,600,294; Morgan, 4*0a.5, 724; Piatt, 3.388,110; Sangamon, 6,324,682; Vermillion, 4,236,704; Warren, 4,405,840, and Will, 4,454,319, the others declining from 2,000,000 all the way down to 186,000 for Pulaski, 136,500 for Hardin and 62,766 for Franklin county, the lowest figures on the list. Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Monroe, Piatt, Warren and Washington report a product of forty bushels and upward to the acre, and thence the decline is downward to fourteen bushels in Coles and Effingham, twelve in Grundy and fifteen in Richland county, as the lowest on the list. Five counties only produced corn up to 100, oi over, in quality, to-wit: Gallatin, Jasper, Massac, Randolph and Union. All these couuties, however had small yields, nearly or quire all of them being affected by summer drought. The total yield is greatly short of the Btate’s average, and great difficulty is experienced in some parts of the State in saving the corn in the crib, on account of the large percentage of it which is soft and wet.

Convicts Testifying in tlie Bond Case. Hillsboro, Deo. 18.—After two or three unimportant witnesses had testified this morning in the Bond trial, Burrell, a convict from the Chester (111.) penitentiary, serving a terra for burglary, was put on the staud. He testified that lie was in jail at Taylorvllle, and got acquainted there with Montgomery, Pettns and Clementi, who were all in a cell together. He says he heard a conversation between them in which Clementi said he had let his toe-nail grow long, but had lost it shucking corn in June. Montgomery said: “You couldu’t loso it shucking corn in June.” Someone road from a paper a statement that Miss Bond’s rnderclothes were torn. Clementi said: “It is a lie; they were not torn;” and Montgomery said; “Shut up; what do you know about It.” At.this point Judge Thornton, of the defense, said to the attorneys for the prosecution: “You may just as well rake hell for witnesses, as take them from a penitentiary. The introduction of a witness convicted of a high crime, to testify against men of good standing, is infamous. Such testimony is wholly incompetent.” He moved to exclude the whole testimony. After an hour and a half of argument, the court overruled the motion. The cross-examination of the witness elicited nothing important. Charles Meyer, a life convict for murder, from the same prison, was the next witness. He was in the Taylorville jail fourteen months; waa there when the defendants were brought in. After the officers left them they had a private conversation, part of which the witness heard. Montgomery said; “We must all tell the same story; wo have to understand one another now.” Montgomery laughed over Drennan’s fitting a piece of cow-horn to his toe nail. Clementi said lie had lost a piece of toe-paring. “Yes,” said Montgomery, “I suppose you lost it husking corn in June.” Clementi read from a paper about Miss Bond’s clothing being torn, and Pettns said it was a He. On cross-examination, the witness said be first told this story to Judge Vandever, his counsel, when he was tried for murder. I did not tell Joseph Peyton, another prisoner, that Judge Vandever promised me mercy if I learned something which would fasten guilt on the defendants. Judge Vandever did not promise mercy, but merely intimated that I would get it if I obtained evidence against Montgomery and the others. Judge Vandever had aporoached him but once; he then said that lie (the witness) could honorably tell what he heard tho defendants say; it would be of great importance to the prosecution, and would do him no harm, but good. He denied that during his trial he had said the prosecution was pushing him hard, and was sorry he and Burrell had made up a story on the defendants. He never said he had put up a Job on the defendants. Jerry Ferguson testified that he was a member of the grand jury that indicted the defendants; tli at before the jury met be had a conversation with John Montgomery, in which the latter asked him for Miss Bond’s statement in writing, in consideration for a sum of money. When crossexamined the witness said he never received money from Montgomery. Montgomery uses his right hand more than his left. O. Harlaud testified that he heard Clementi say during the preliminary examination that he was not guilty, but knew who was. Isaac Ward testified that. John Montgomery told him he was at the school-house on the day of the outrage. The prosecution then rested their ca3e. Assignment of a Commission Firm. Special to the ludianapolis JournaL Bloomington, Dec. 18. —W. H. Payn & Cos., commission dealers of this city, made a voluntary assignment to-day to W. H. Whitehead. Their liabilities are $3,250, and assets S7OO. The firm consists of W. H. Payn and W. N. Payn. The former is a son of the latter. They came here from St. Louis about a year ago. School Building Burned, Special to the Indianapolis JournaL Bloomington, Dec. 18.—The city-school building at McLean, this county, was burned this afternoon. Loss, $7,000; insurance, $4,000, Brief Mention. The Presbyterian church at Lacon hns been destroyed by lire. It was the largest and finest place of worship in the town. The loss is estimated at about $9,000; no insurance. On Monday, soon after the regular train passed Oakford, Jack Atterberry, a young man, sat down on the edge of the platform, when an extra official train struck him. He died in a few hours. Dr. C. C. Symonds, of Clay county, has been held in $5,000 bail lor collecting and appropriating a pension belonging to the heirs of a dead veteran. The Doctor was captured in Arkansas. whither he had fled. Judge J. C. Allen, Senator Lemma, Representative scurlock, and Mayor Ingersoll, all of Curbondale, called on Governor Hamilton, on Monday, and presented arguments favoring a special legislative session to make an appropriation for rebuilding the Southern Normal School at that place. The Governor has the subject under consideration. The Attorney-general, in reply to the general question whether, when a village board issues a SSOO license, they have a right to receive the amount in quarterly payments, says that licenses issued only for a quarter may be paid in advance at the rate of sooo a year, but for all licenses issued for a year the whole fee of SSOO must be paid in advance. A Proposed Compromise, Atlanta Constitution. We are entirely willing that Tennyson should have another promotion, or anything ho wants, lr ne will only stop writing SI,OOO poems on spring. Suppression of the menses may be relieved by a dose of Ayer’s Pills, which produce the desired effect through sympathetic action.

BROWN, BOXNKLL & CO. Defeat of a Shrewd Attempt to Secure the Discharge of the Receiver. Toledo, Dec. 18.—Argument in the case of the Brown, Bonnell & Cos. receivership was heard and passed upon in the United States Court in this city to-day, by Judges Baxter and Welker, in the presence of a large number of attorneys and others interested. Judgment for $5,100 buying been taken last February, in the United States Court in Cleveland, against Brown, Bonnell & Cos., of Youngstown, a.t the instance of a certain Michigan iron company, a receiver was appointed in the person of Fay Browne, of Cleveland. Atterward other claims to the amount of $1,250,000 were proved upon an order for sale and general distribution. Meantime certain creditors procured confession of judgment for $540,000, and their attorney, going to Cleveland and paying off the original judgment of $5,100, asked that proceedings be discontinued and the receiver discharged. This motion was argued at lengtli to-day by Henry Crawford, of Cnicago, in support of the motion to nismiss the receiver, his line of argument being that the court had no jurisdiction, and that the original papers did not set forth grouuds sufficient for the appointment of a receiver. Judge Ranney, of Cleveland, spoke in opposition to the motion. Judge Baxter announced his decision, saying that the property should be held in trust for ail the creditors alike, none of whom could be discriminated against by the judgment creditors in a State court; that if they undertook to disturb the property of the company under the judgments obtained at Youngstown, he would enjoin them. The motion was therefore overruled, the jurisdiction of the United States Court affirmed, tne proceedingc would bo continued, and the property of Brown, Gonuell & Cos. held in trust for all the creditors, and the proceeds of it, when soid, be distributed to all pro rata. Affairs of Ferdinand Meyers & Cos. New York, Dec. 18.—The schedules In the assignment or Ferdinand Meyers & Cos , clothiers, have been filed. The liabilities are $2,760,992; actual assets, $1,769,374. Os the liabilities $281,181 are contingent. The schedules -i” I'ne assignment of J. H. Morreil, warehouse man, were also filed. Liabilities, $20,311; actual assets, $2,347. Failure at Fargo. Bt. Paul, Dec. 18.—Brac'streets report that H. <fe M. Raymond, wholesale grocers, of Fargo, have closed. A chattel mortgage to the amount of SJ>9,OOO has beeu foreclosed by the First National Bank, of Fargo. The debts are due in St. Paul, Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Cleveland. The firm did a business or more than $200,000 per annum. Minor Failures. McKinley, Horn & Cos., of Philadelphia, notion dealers, have failed. Liabilities, $35,000. Judgments aggregating $21,000 have been confessed b£ George McDowfell & Cos., wholesale stationers. The Goodwillie-Wyman Company, of Boston and Now York, dealers tn printing presses and paper-cutting machinery, is embarrassed. It is stated a receiver will be appointed. Liabilities, $50,000. The American Carpet-lining Company, of Boston, has failed. Creditors are offered 50 cents on the dollar. A SERIOUS EXPLOSION. A Half-Dozen Employes Seriously Injured, Three of Whom Will Probably Die. Pittsburg, Deo. 18.—An explosion of the boilers in D. P. Reighard & Co.’s oil refining works, to-day, resulted in the severe injury of six persons, three of whom may die. Three men were sitting in a shed with tnelr backs against the boilers, two were at the door, and one was some distance away. Without warning a terrifio explosion occurred. The concussion was great, and followed by the noise of escaping steam. The Doiler-hoqse, a brick and frame structure, was completely demolished, and hot ashes, flying bricks and fragments of iron were scattered in all directions. The remains of the shed were Ignited and the lire companies were summoned to the scene. The fire was soon extinguished, and attention was then paid to the work of extricating the injured, whose names are: John Lee, engineer and fireman, scalded seriously and cut about the head, believed to have inhaled steam, injuries supposed to be fatal; Wesley Roup, machinist, badly scalded ami injured internally, probably fatally; Wm. Fisher, electrician*, head cut in several places, severely burned and inhaled steam, recovery doubtful; Samuel Hendersou, boiler-maker, head cut and badly bruised; Jobnny Ronp, boy. burned on the face and neck and cut in several places by flying bricks; Emil Schmidt, foreman, nose crushed and head cut, but not seriously. There is a difference of opinion as to the cause of the explosion. The boilers were In good condition, and were allowed to carry sixty-five pounds of steam. The gauge registered sixryflve pounds shortly before the explosion. Pieces of iron recovered are burnt, and this leads a majority of experts to believe the explosioo was caused by low water. Loss, SB,OOO.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Cincinnati desires the location of the new mint. James W. Rosier, the well-known Pennsylvania politician, died'suddenly at Carlisle from an attack of apoplexy. H. Russell’s fur store, at Detroit, was robbed by burglars on Monday night,of between $1,500 and $2,000 worth of sealskin aacqueeand hats. Workmen in Graff, Bennett & Co’s Clinton Mill, at Pittsburg, last night accepted a 10 per cent, reduction of wages. The firm operates three mills, and the reduction will extend to all. In Morgan county, Kentucky, on Thursday last, two brothers named Dulmsk, while working in a field became involved in a dispute, when the oldest, aged fourteen, shot his brother through the heart, killing him instantly. Three hundred pounds of giant powder which a number of miners wre warming near a stove on Lion mountain, Clinton county, New York, exploded, considerably damaging tiie company’s buildings. The miners narrowly escaped. The Commercial Hotel, at Islipeming, Marquette county, Mich., burned on yesterday. The loss on tho hotel and contiguous property is about SIO,OOO. It is rumored that two Hebrew peddlers were burned to death iu the hotel, but t he report is not confirmed. Asa B. Baker, of Brockton, Mass., was arraigned for trial on Tuesday on charge of the murder of his wire,* in August last. He pleaded not guilty, but later enterod a plea of gifllty of murder in the second degree aud was sentenced to the State prison for life. General William J. Reese, brother-in-law of General and Senator Sherman, died at Lancaster, 0., in bis eightieth year, after twenty years of affliction and suffering, tiie result of a paralytic stroke. General Reese was, in early days, one of the most zealous and prominent Masons in the country. John Wilton, a Brooklyn restaurant-keeper, charged with the ruin of a girl named Julia Pedding, is also charged by his viotiro with being the murderer of Jennie Cramer, for which crime he was paid SI,OOO by the Malley boys. The girl says Wilton told her all about the murder. He said he helped Walter and James Malley to choke Jennie before she was thrown into the water. Mrs. Jack Daniels, tho wife of a noted outlaw, killed herself near Cedar Glades, Ark., on Friday, out of remorse for her husband's career. The woman loaded a rifle, and, placing the butt end of the weapon in a fire, calmly waited its discharge. Tho ball passed entirely through the abdomen, and the woman died almost immediately. She leaves a large family of small children. A patent-medioine firm in western New York mailed a gaudy-covered circular a few days ago to the address of every name in the Boston directory. newspaper mail was encumbered wirh thirty-two bushel sacks of the documents, and the carriers were in despair at tho prospect. Special Agent Field, however, discovered that each of the pamphlets contained also a circular advertising a lottery. The case Was referred to the Postmaster-general, aud he directed that the entire lot be returned by express to Buffalo at, tho expense of the firm mailing them. It is not improbable that prosecution will be made iu the United States Court. Arrest of a Youthful I>e-perrvdo. Paoi.a, Ks., Dec. 18.—George Orr, the boy who killed the old blind man, Trimble, near here, a week ago, was arrested at Columbus to day, after a severe struggle, by Deputy-sheriff Pete Fish, and brought here this afternoon by Bheriff Long and Deputy Gano. They were met at the

depot by a Isrge and angry crowd, but the officers safely lodged (he prisoner in jail. Orr confesses tho oiirne. He says ho shot Triiuble in self-defense, the okl man having raised a heavy cane to strike him. He then beat old Mrs. Trimble because she attempted to shoot him. Robbing the house was an after thought to obtaiu money with which to make his escape. This is one of three stones the boy tells, and it is not believed. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department. ’> Office of titb Chief signal On-fkjer. > Warhington, Dec. 19, l t m. ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Rain and snow, followed by colder, clearing weather, northerly winds, higher barometer. For the Lake Region—Generally colder fair weather, northwesterly wiuds, higher barometer. Local Observations, Indianapolis, Dec. 18. Time. Bar. ITh. | Hum. Wind Weather R’f’l 6:24 a. M. 29.83 31.8 78 NW Cloudy. 0.02 10:24 a. M. 30.09 16.6 61 NW Fair 2:24 P.M 30.11 18 53 NW Fair 6:24 P. M. 30.21 16 58 NW Cloudy 10:24 P. M. 30.24 12.8 75 N Cloudy Maximum temperature, 35.0; mioimuin temperature, 12.3. General Observations. War Department l Washington, Dec. 18, 10:25 p. m. 5 Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. ' S 3 s 7ff $' 1 i a l = £■ 1 1:32. S station. sr a : : z r* •S ® J J c J ! rt ! I £T : j • • OB • ! • ! ! od • Bismarck, Dak... 30.44—16 NW Clear. Cairo .30.19 23 N Tbrt’ng. Chattanooga *— Chicago 30 32 5 NW Cincinnati 30.24 24 NE Cloudy. Davenport, Ia 30.38 7 NW Clear. Deadwood 30.29 12 Calm ..... Clear. Denver 30.12 20 N .....Cloudy. Des Moines 30.43 6 NE hair. Dodge City ....... 30.32 14 NE .09 Lt. Snow Fc. A-einniboine.. 30.28 4 NE .02 Et.snow Fort Buford 30.47 —ls NW Clear. Fort Custer 30.26 9 NE 1.07 Et.snow Fort Elliott 30.22 18 Calm Clear. Fort Sill (lalveeton 29.93 61 NW Fair. Indianapolis 30 25 12 N Cloudy. Indmnola Keokuk 30.41 7 NW Cloudy. I.a Crosse 30 37 —1 NW Lclear. Leavenworth 30.36 18 NE 'Cloudy. Little Rock, Ark.. 30.04 35 NE Sleet. Louisville 30.19 20 N j. 06 Cloudy. Memphis 130.02 30 N .08 Lt. rain. Moorhead 30.40 —2O NW Clear. Nashville 30.05 33 N .41 Sleet. North Platte 30 34 19 N .02 Cloudy. Omaha 30 45 13 N Cloudy. Pittsburg 30.20 28 N Cloudy. Ban Antonio Shreveport... 29.94 47 N Cloudy. Springfield, 111.... 30.36 9 N Cloudy. St. Louis 30.30 14 N Cloudy. Stockton 30.03 43 S Clear. St. Paul 30.37 —1 W Clear. Vicksburg 29.87 65 S .30 Clear. Yankton, D. T 30.40 8 NE Clear, New Orleans 29.96 66 S .04 Fair. Las Aniiuas. 30.15 14 E [Lt.snow Fort Smith 30 10 39 N Cloudy. Balt Lake City 30.02 35 N Cloudy. Fort Billings |

Steamship News. New York, Dec. 18.—Arrived: Bohemia, from Hamburg. Philadelphia, Deo, 18.—Arrived; British Prince, from Liverpool. Queenstown, Dec. 18.—Arrived; Alaska, Devonshire. American. London, Dec. 18.—Arrived: Lessing, Devonis, Trinacria, W. A. Schoiten, Oiler, from New York. An Unexplained Death. St. Louis, Dec. 18.—W. J. Pearson, postmaster at Batesville. Ark., was found dead in his room at the Hotel Barnum last night. Ir is supposed he commuted suicide, but an autopsy to-day revealed nothing leading to that conclusion. The postoffice authorities here say he was some $4,000 short in his accounts, aud that his whereabouts bad not been known for a week prior to finding him dead here. Frank James. Kansas City, Mo., Doc. 18.—The Criminal Court at Gallatin yesterday fixed bail at $5,000 in the case of Frank James, for the murder of Cashier Sheets, in 1869. The defense asked that the prisoner be remanded to his sureties in this county. The court took the request under advisement. The prisoner was returned to jail. A Forger Captured. City Marshal Larimer, of Greenville, 0., and G. W. Moore, of the firm of Fort, Johnston & Cos , arrived at the station-house last evening at 6:30 with an important prisouer. He waa registered as Frank Kennedy, alias John Zeigler, and will be remembered as the artist who six weeks ago made a remarkably neat and successful deal in cattle by representing himself as a member of the firm of Fort, Johnston & Cos., and, by forging the name of that house, victimized Elijah Swaokhamer, of Frankfort, this State, out of two carloads of cattle worth nearly $2,000, and, after selling the cattle at the stockyards here, disappeared with his ill-gotten wealth and anew overcoat. Swackhamer and Fort, Jonnston & Cos. united in offering a reward of $l5O for the swiudler, but for nearly five weeks nothing was heard of the much-de-sired Ziegler. The first intimation of his whereabouts came to Major Robbins, a day or two before that gentleman retired as chief of police. It was a lofcter from the marshal of Greenville, asking a description of Zieger. A description waa sent, and upon a second communication from the marshal Mr. Moore went over to Greenville to identify the man the marshal had under suspicion. Ziegler was not at Greenville, but the man, who called himself Kennedy, and who answered the description, was said to be at St. Paris, buying bogs. On arrival at St. Paris, Kennedy was fonnd to be absent, having gone into tho country to look at some noers. Mr. Moore, the marshal, and two others who had joined the party, waited for him m tiie hotel, and in the evening (on Monday) he came in, and Mr. Moore recognized him as the man he wanted. He was told to hold up his hands, the bracelets were nut on him, and here he is. He lives at Miami City, Ohio, from which place it seems he came direct to this city and arranged the forgery that swindled the Frankfort parties. Previous to coming to Indianapolis he had committed a sixtr-doUar forgery on a farmer, drawn on a bank at New London, Ohio, and it was with that money that he came here. After getting paid for the Sch waokhamer cattle, and two heads bought of another farmer near Frankfort, he weut to Kansas, where he found an invalid brother, whom ho brought home to Miami City. In explaining his flush condition at home, he said that he had had great luck at Chicago and St. Louis playing faro bank. To quiet things near home he hunted up the farmer and squared tiie Blxty-dollar transaction, and with the proceeds of his Indiana transaction he was doing a legitimate business. He will bo taken to Clinton count}' for trial. The Fortville Fire. The flro which threatened the destruction of Fortville, Hancock county, on Monday night, was got under control yesterday morning at an early hour. The sufferers were: L. N. Chappie, loss, $2,000; insurance, SI,BOO. Rash <fc Lefeber, loss, $4,500; Insurance, $3,500; 8. T. Yancey, loss, $800; insurance, $575; N. Lake, loss, $600: insurance. $225. Gray <fc Roberts, loss, $2,500; insurance, $1,500. M. Moroney, loss. $250; insurance, S6OO. Journal office, loss, $600; insurance, $325. William Torrence, loss, $600; uo insurance. Put His Foot in It. Philadelphia Call. They were returning home from the theater, and had nearly reached her home when the young man observed: “Isn’t the weather cold and raw?” She must have misnuderstood him. “Raw,” she said, rather hesitatingly. “Yes, I like them raw, but,” she continued, looking sweetly in his eyos, “don’t you think they are nicer fried?” What could he do?

ON THE BRIDAL TOUR. What a Conductor Says About Brides and Grooms. Philadelphia Record. “Can_ I generally tell a bride and groom when 1 see them on a train? Can I? Well, I should rather say so. I haven’t been rulinin’ a Pullman car five years and not learned that little trick,” and the parlorcar conductor who made the above remarks tilted back in his chair in the reading-rooni at the Broad-street station yesterday afternoon, and chuckled softly" to himself as he blew out a cloud of cigar smoke into tha air and gazed at it as though he saw tliera visions of young married couples on their travels. “Yes, sir,” he continued, after two or three vigorous puffs, “it must be a pretty sharp pair that can fool me when they’re on their wedding journey, though about half of ’em plays their little game very nicely, and the rest of the passengers don’t tumble to tha situation at all. Os course, there are different sorts of bridges and grooms, just as much as there are different sorts of other people; but I’ve found that, as a rule, the brides don’t care to be taken for such, and try their best to hide the interesting fact from the rest o£ the car. Others don’t appear to care a rap, spoon away as though there wasn't any one within a mile of ’em; but sort’s rare, and generally gets on at some country station.” "How about the men?” ‘‘Oh, they are altogether different, and nine times out of ten it’s the man who gives tho tiling a way. You see, they’re so tickled at being married, and so proud of tneir wives, that it is as much as the ladies can do to make them act in a disinterested enough way to pass for a friend or a relation, or a husband of long standing. It has to be a powerful strong-minded fellow who can pas3 several hours in a car aud not give any signs of his recently-acquired happiness. Some of the brides, who are afraid "to rely on their own acting and the promises of their new husbands ‘to behave,’ carry old valises and handbags that don’t look at all bridisli; and I’ve seen several very young ones that rnada their husbands tow along a big bundle of school-books, to make people believe that their brothers or cousins were taking them back to boarding-school.” “Have you many this season?” ‘‘Scores of ’em; scores of' ’em, sir. It’s a great time, this and the spring, though the lively season’s about over for the present. If you’re going down to Washington some day take my train, and if J’ve got any on board I’ll point ’em out. Good-day.” And the genial discoverer of brides knocked the ashes from hi3 cigar and went out. WITH THE MOONSHINERS. Baying Illicit Whisky of the Distillers* Pretty Daughters. Letter from North Carolina. It is not so easy to buy illicit whisky as one might imagine. This is the way it is often done: The purchaser puts his jug or bottle in the hollow or stuntp of a certain tree, with the price of the liquor. Returning the next day he finds the jug filled and the money gone. There is also what is called the “horn racket.” Alongside the road is hung a big horn, attached to the linth of a tree by a string. If you want to buy the corn-juice you blow a blast, and pretty soon a girl comes out of the bushes and puts a bottle in your hand; you give her the money and without a word site disappears. To flirt under the circumstances would be dangerous, as a six-foot “moonshiner” is, in all probability, in point-blank range with his hand on the trigger of his favorite persuader. During the two years I have spent among the Carolina “moonshiners” I have seen half e dozed girls who, in beauty of face and form, would discount most of your New York belles. These girls are as quick as a steel-trap, too, as the following incident will illustrate: One of the distiller’s daughters went to a dentist in Columbia to have four teeth extracted. They were back teeth, and big ones, so the dentist induced the girl—who was particularly pretty—to take nitrous oxido gas. As she was such a handsome “subject,” the dentist, who was an unmarried man, could not resist the temptation of stealing a kiss for every tooth he extracted while she was unconscious. The young woman was not so much “under the influence,” however, as he thought, and she determined to pay him back in a novel manner. On arising from the chair she said she had forgotten the money, but would send the amount—s 2 —by her father next day. The next mornings six-foot “moonshiner” came into the dentist’s office and presented the dentist with a bill from his fair customer, in which she gave him credit for extracting four teeth ($2), and charged a dollar each for the foul kisses, adding at the foot of the bill the significant words: “Pa will collect the balance, two dollars.” The dentist sized “Pa” up at a glance, from the bowie-knife in his boot to the navy six-shooter iu his belt. lie paid the bill. _

An Experiment with Pigs. New England Farmer. The Wisconsin experiment station has been making a series of interesting experiments to ascertain the value of sweet milk for feeding pigs. Two lots of pigs were fed separately; one lot upon corn meal, the other lot upon milk, the latter being given all they would take. After twenty five days tiie milk-fed pigs had gained fifty and one-haii pounds, against forty and three-quarters by the meal-fed lot. The lots were then, reversed. the milk-fed pigs being put on meal, and the meal-fed lot being given milk for twenty-five more days, at the end of which time the milk-fed had made a gain of seven-ty-nine pounds, and the meal-fed only sixty* due and a half pounds. The weight of both lots of food were recorded, and showed that 500 pounds of corn meal made a pound of pork, and that 1,900 pounds of milk made the same quantity of .pork, live weight, so that when live hogs are worth five cents per pound, milk is worth about half a cent per pound. Other experiments in feeding meal and milk together showed very much more value in the milk, ranging from forty cents to ninety cents per 100 pounds. At the latter rate the value per quart would be one and three-fourths cents. This is surely a pretty strong showing in favor of butter or cheese making, instead of sending milk oif to the cities at only two cents per quart, the price at which much has been sold within the past few years. Rich Men in the House. Washington Correspondence New York World. A number of members of the present House have received large fortunes with their wives. Among these are Hitt, of II!i-* nois; Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, whose wife was a daughter of the late Peter Cooper; Wadsworth, also of New Y’ork, whose wife is a daughter of “Bill” Travers, the great stock speculator; Bayne, of Pennsylvania; Stewart, of Vermont, and Frank Hiscock, of New York. Mr. Hiscock, however, has a fortune independent of his wife. Two of the Massachusetts members have large fortunes. These are Morse, who has an immense clothing house in Boston, and Russell, of Lawrence, who has large manufacturing interests both in Massachusetts and Vermont. William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, is another very rich member. He is a comparatively young man, and inherited <i portion of his property. Frank Hurd, of Ohio, inherited a fortune from his father, and makes a large income besides from his law practice. Maple sugar beaten up with half its bulk of butter makes a very nice pudding sauce ■ . ■ o ii; Horsford’s Acid Phono***' AS A BRAIN FOOD. Dr. 8. F. Newcomer, Greenfield, O . avs: “In cases of general debility, and torpor of mind aud body, it does exceedingly well.”