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Secretary of the Treasury to issue a duplicate certificate of deposit to the People's National Dank, of L&wrenceburg. for SIO,OOO. The pro amble to the bill sets forth that the bank deposited with the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Cincinnati, on Sept. 26, 1883, SIO,OOO, and received a certificate, which was lost or destroyed by the overflow of the Ohio river, in February last. Mr. Holman also presented a bill to pension Caroline Parish. Rills were introduced by other Indiana members as follows: By Mr. Kleiner, to pay John H. Dexter, of Evansville, $l5O for the loss of a horse during the late war. By Mr. Matson, to remove the charge of desertion from the military record of Allen I. Watcher: granting a pension to James A. Hanger. By Mr. Ward, granting a pension to Althea A. Frasier. M. Nye, of LaPorte. is at Willard’* TIIE FIRE RECORD. An Entire Block of Buildings Burned—Loss About .<IIOO,OOO. Vavceboro, Me., Dec. 15.—Fire broko out at Houlton, last night, in Tenney’s Block, and before it could be checked swept away an entire square, comprising the stores of E. Merrit & Soiu> and Gillin Brothers, grocers; Fredman and S. M. Simickler, clothing; I*. J. Hathaway and O. T. French, druggists: J. P. Tenney, dry goods, and Brcwn & Watson, hardware. The loss is probably $100,000; insurance about $62,000. Murder and Arson, Newark, 0., Dec. 15.— The origin of the fire at Johnstown, Saturday,by which seven buildings were destroyed and William Trout, a saloon keeper, burned to death, is believed to have been incendiary. A theory prevails that Trout, who was known to have in his possession between SI,OOO and $5,000, was robbed and probably murdered while intoxicated, then locked in his saloon, anu the building fired for the purpose of covering up the crime. Steps will be taken immediately to have the mystery cleared up. Fire at Falmouth. Falmouth, Ky.. Dec. 15.—Buildings owned by Kennet, Joseph, Wood head and John Pendergast were* burned yesterday. The total loss is about $20,000, the greater part of which falls upon liuio Brothers, clothiers. Insurance. $13,000. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The Catholic societies of New York are irrangeing for removal of the remains of Rev. Dr. Cahill from Hollywood Cemetery, Boston, to Glasneviu, Ireland. The Philadelphia Board of Trade has directed the preparation of a memorial to Congress, pray ing that the Spanish treaty be rejected. The Lowell bankruptcy bill was indorsed. The New England Society, in session at New York, elected Stewart L. Woodford, ex-United States district attorney, president of the association. The association has a fund of SOO,OOO. Telegraph operators from all the companies in Boston met on .Sunday and formed a pro tec live association. It is understood this action is in common with that of other operators throughout the country. At Baltimore, last night, in a difficulty between Alphonse Micheaux and his mistress, Matline Begat*, Micheaux became very jealous, and rage shot her dead. He then killed him-j-eli. Micheaux and the woman camo from Belgium iti September last. A freight train on the Pittsburg As Western railroad ran into a landslide yesterday, near Gevers station, thirteen miles from Pittsburg. The train was wrecked and engineer Daniel Costella, was killed outright, and the fireman, John Taterall. fatally injured. At the meeting of the board of Erin, at Chicago, the highest authority in the society of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the expulsion of Henry F. Sheridan from the latter body was ordered on the grouud that he had endeavored to convert it into a quasi-political organization.

Won't Eat Solid Food. ScßjcnoN-, Pa., Dec. 15. Mrs. Catharine Montgomery, a wealthy widow of this city, has a six year old son. whose set notions about eatinq liavc puzzled the city physicians for some time. The lad. who is active and healthy, ha3 itood teeth, but he cannot be induced to eat any sort of food that requires chewing. The physicians threatened to pull out all his teeth, thinking that tliis would induce him to eat solid food, but the youth was as stubborn as ever, and the threat had no effect on his queer notion. Then, ail kinds food were kept from him for a time, but the attempt at starvation failed to make him take solid- nourishment. When his playthings were taken from him and ho was told that he could not have them again unless lie ate such food as tlve other children, he treated the attempt with the utmost indifference. lie would not allow meat, bread, cake, or pie, to enter his month. V arious other experiments were tried on the lad, but they all proved unavaling, and his mother finally concluded not to permit any more experiments to he made on him. So he continues to eat gruel made of papoma, soups, and milk and other liquid food, appearing to thrive on them as well as the older children do on meat, bread and vegetables. A School-Teacher Who Declined to Go. Louisvuj.e, Ky., Dec. 15.—The CourierJournal’s Horse Cave Bays. “P. J. Slocum,B a school teacher, incurred the ill-will of some members of the community, and has received several anonymous letters lately, suggesting that if he didn't leave town lie would be waited upon. He did not leave, and on Saturday night a mob of twenty surrounded his house. He fixed into the crowd and succeeded in driving them away. Wayne Crame was killed inside the yard, and John Long was w ounded in the leg. Several horses were wounded. Long claims the crowd was not a mob, but that they were riding peaceably along the, road when fired on. Slocum is being tried at Mnnfordvillo to-day for killing Craine. Orth H. Stein’s Bond Forfeited. Kansas City, Dec. 15. —Forfeiture was to-day taken on the bond in the case of Orth H. Stein, on trial for the murder of George Fredericks, a theatrical manager, over a year ago, the defendant being now ill at Chicago. Chicago, Dee. 15.—Orth H. Stein, a newspaper man of Kansas City, who some months ago killed George Fredericks, proprietor of a variety theater in that city, was arrested here to-day on a telegram from the authorities of Kansas City. His soeond trial for the killing was set for yesterday, hut he was ill in this city, and could not go to Kansas City. Trouble la a Catholic Church* Far. l. River, Mass., Dec. 15.—The opponents of Father McGee, pastor of the French-Catholic parish of Notre Dame de Lourdes, have possession of the church building. Yesterday morning they locked the doors and refused admittance to Father McGee, and prevented the eelebration of mass. At a meeting of the congregation last night the refusal of Bishop Hendrickson to re move Father McGee and appoint a French-Cana-dian priest was voted on, and it was concluded to send a delegate to Rome and lay their grievance before the Pope. A Shocking Tragedy. fIRfVWK'I-". Tex., Dec. 15.—Last night, Samuel Base!) culled on his wife and pleaded with Ir to take liilb hack, uftor having deserted her and remaining with a negro woman. Mrs. Kasr-li . 'used t.o recognize him ns tier husband, where lit on he called his six-year-old daughter to his aid- shot the child in the head, killing her, and then blew his own brains out. Workers and Eaters. It, is sound doctrine that, if a man will not work, neither hall he cat. And it is just as true 1 but, if any man cannot eat, neithercan he work. There ate thousands of people whose indigestion is so poor that they cannot, with any comfort, oat a square meal, llow can we expect such sufferers to do a fair day's work. Brown's Iron Hitters strengthens weakened digestion, tones up the whole system, enahles people to eat, to work, and enjoy prosperity. Any druggist will * apply yoo

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS A Hancock County Man Drops Dead and Is Partially Eaten by Hogs. Additional Particulars of the Killing of the Unknown Man Near Evansville—Fatal Stabbing at Newbury. INDIANA. Hogs Feasting on the Corpse of a Hancock County Farmer. Special to the J jidia\.at>o?ia Journal. Orkknfield, Dec. 15.—‘Mathew Enright, a farmer firing in Buck Creek township, was found dead in his barn-lot at. noon to-day. Hogs had eaten his face and body so that it was difficult to reeoguize him. He left his house early in the morning to milk cows, and not returning, tl>o family instituted search., with the above result. It is supposed his death was caused by heart disease. The coroner will hold an inquest. The trial of James B. Duddinp, charged with committing an outrage on Miss Sarah Canady, caused a great stir to-day. ’Squire Anderson bound Dudding over to court in a bond of SBOO. Revival Meetings at Madison. Sporiol to the Indianapolis JournaiMadison, Dec. 15.—The union revival meetings. under the direction of L. W. Munhall, have entered upon the fifth week, with unabated interest. Notwithstanding the rain was coming down briskly at the time, the largq audienceroom at Trinity M. E. Church was crowded, at 3 o'clock, at the meeting exclusively for women. At night, though raining hard, an overflow meeting had to be held, led by Rev. J. H. Barnard, of the Second Presbyterian Church. The Bible readings, each weekday afternoon, are attended by large numbers of people. It has been many a day since the churches of this city wore so wide awake to the interests of the cause of Christ as now. Mr. Munhall gave his lecture, “The Great Cathedrals of Italy,” at Odd fellows’ Hall, on Saturday evening, before a large audience of our most influential people, for tho benefit of the Flower Mission. Over SIOO was cleared. The lecture was donated, in view of which fact the ladies presented the lecturer with a magnificent copy of the “Bible Gallery,” by Dore. 3liss Sadie Holliday, formerly of Indianapolis, daughter of Rev. Dr. F. C. Holliday, is president of the Flower Mission. Killing of ail Unknown Man. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Evansville, Dec. 15.—1 t has been ascertained that the unknown man, whose dead body was found on Sunday morning in German township, came to his death by gunshot wounds inflicted by August Lipper and Fred Wessellman, two respectable German farmers in the neighborhood. There is still no clew as to tho identity of the murdered man. Lipper and Wessellman, who are under arrest, say that late on Saturday afternoon the stranger made three attempts to effect a forciblo entrance into Lipper’s house, and. failing, withdrew with an open threat to take Lipper’s life. The latter summoned Wessellman, a near neighbor, to his assistance, and the two, armed with shotguns, started in pursuit At a distance of three hundred yards from Lipper’a house, failing to find the man they sought, and darkness coming on, they discharged their weapons into a clump of bushes just ahead, of them and returned to their houses. They say they fired to warn tho stranger, if he was within earshot, that they wero armed, and that they did not know tho man had been hit till Sunday morning, when the body was found. The grand jury will in vestigate the case.

Fatal Slabbing at Newburg, Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Evansville, Dec. 15.—At Newburg, Warrick county, at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Tilman Sargent, a young farmer, fatally stabbed George Casey in a saloon row, the wounded man dying at 10 o'clock this morning. Casey was known as a deperado, and had recently served a sentence of two years at Jeffersonville for robbing a store. Fire at Madlsou. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Madison, Dee. 15.—An incendiary fire in Henry itetzhauser’s saloon destroyed the liquors, bar and fixtures, which wero valued at S9OO, and reduced the building to a shell The stock was insured for SBOO in a Rochester agency. The building was insured for $1,200 in the Franklin Insurance Company, of rndianapolis. Minor Notes. William Barbell, one of the pioneers of St Joseph county, died yesterday morning, aged seventy-three years. Mrs. Sarah Barge, a respected widow, residing with the family of M. C. Garber, of Madison, fell dead on Monday night of apoplexy. Dr. N. Field, of Jeffersonville, one of the bestknown and most prominent physicians of Indiana, is seriously ill at his home at Jeffersonville. The Monroe Conntv Agricultural and Mechanical Association has organized, with John F. May as president, and Walter Bradfute as secretary. Henry Denison, an old resident of New Albany, was found dead in his bed on Monday; supposed to have died from grief for the death of his daughter on Thursday. Ho was seventysix years old. The Southern Indiana poultry show, with fine exhibits from several States, began yesterday at Evansville. Judge B. N Peirce, of Indianapolis, is scorer. He declared the display to be one of the finest and largest ho has attended. While Mrs. Charles H. Ankeny and Mrs. George B. Williams, of Lafayette, were walking along the street, at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. two men grabbed their nurses. Mrs. Williams hold on to her purso. Mrs. Ankeny’s loss was about twenty-flvo dollars. Tlie new Presbyterian church, at Vincennes, J. H. Stem, of Indianapolis, architect, was dedicated on Sunday. The new building is of brick, trimmed wirh ent stone, and in the pure gothic style. The dedicatory ceremonies were eonduct'-d by tlie Rev. E. P. Whallen. The congregation is perhaps the oldest in the State, having been organised in 1800. On Saturday night Albert P. Bass, of Winaroac, wa3 enticed to Jefforsou township, Cass county, by letters written by a lewd woman named Fannie Crafton, a former acquaintance, who is now living with a innn named Henry Suter3. On his arrival the woman and her paramour set upon and beat him with clubs until be presented a bloody and sickening spectacle. His recovery is doubtful. Suters and the woman are now in jail at Logansnort. Cora Varner, of Shelbyville, an inmate of tlie Home for Friendless Women at Richmond, attempted to destroy that building on Sunday night. Sho kindled a fire by moans of kindling and furniture in the corner of her room, which was fortunately discovered and extinguished before much damage had been done. In the meantime it was found that she had escaped, and procuring a horse and buggy had driven to Centerville, where she took the train for Indianapolis. It is thought sho has returned to tshelbyville. After tlie morning service at the First Presbyterian Church, of Locansport. on Sunday morning, the secretary of tho church session reported that an investigation of the charges against the pastor. W. E. Loucks, justified the report that they wero utterly without founda

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tion. The session announced their belief in Rev. Loucks’sj Christian character and purity, and asked that the church and congregation give the minister their earnest support in his suit for slander against B. F. Louthain, the editor of the Pharos. ILLINOIS. Alarming Facts Concerning the Disappearance of l>avl(l Sliolty. Spec ial to tho Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, Dec. 15.—Alarming facts regarding tho mysterious disappearance of David Sholty, a well-to-do and eccentric farmer of this county, have just tratispired. Some weeks ago Sholty, who is about forty years old and unmarried, wont to Mt. Pleasant, la., to visit B. C. Kaufman. Word received from Kaufman says that Sholty left there, a sow days ago, ostensibly to go home, and after his departure a letter signed by him was found, stating that bo had more trouble than any other man on earth, and that he would end his miseries by drowning himself in the Mississippi river. Sholty never reached home, and nothing can bo learned of him. Ilis friends are inclined to believe that he has committed suicide. He has property here valued at SIO,OOO. Brief Mention* John A. Kidd, a deserter from the Seventh United States Calvary, stationed at Fort Meade, D. TANARUS., has been captured at Atlanta. Fred Oberly and George Eidniiller. two boys living at Pekin, went hunting for rabbits. Oberly accidently shot his companion in the leg. No rabbits. Patrick RoWhan, a farm laborer, under the influence of liquor, lay down upon the 0., B. & Q- track, near Quincy, and was run over by a train and killed. Rev. W. R. Morton, of Cambridge, Mass., has accepted a call to preach at the Free Congrega tional Church, at Bloomington, and has entered upon the pastorate. John Nichols and Charles Eskeridge, professional burglars, who broke into a store and three residences in Decatur, are in jail having been caught at Farmer City. A young man, whose name is supposed to be Murray, a resident of Lawrence county, was drowned on Sunday morning, while attenuating to Cross Muddy creek, three miles west of Noble.’ At Clinton, Henry Teal, for the killing of Bruce Ailsbury, at Waynesville, a year ago, was given one year in the penitentiary. The verdict was a surprise. The prosecution has entered a motion for anew trial. At Morrison, John Miller, on a plea of guilty, has been sentenced to the State prison for life, for the murder of August Ahlin with an ax, on Oct. 3. Miller was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is thirty-six years old. At Elmwood, yesterday morning, as the eastbound C. t B. &Q. passenger train was passiner through, J. P. Reagan* aged thirty-five years, deliberately placed his neck upon the rail and was run over and beheaded. Ho leaves a family. Gains, the convict who Was so brutally cut to pieces by Kelly, his convict cell-mate, at the prison a week ago, ha been granted a pardon by Governor Hamilton. Gaines i still in a very dangerous condition, and should he recover it will be weeks before he can be removed his bed in the prison hospital. The wounded man’s aged mother and his brother are at tho prison awaiting a favorable crises in bis case so a3 to carry him to his home at Brooklyn. N. Y.

DAILY WEATHER HDLLETIN. Indications. War Department, ) Office or the Chief Sional Officeb, > Washington, Dec. 16, IA. M. ) For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee —Generally fair weather, lower temperature, north to west winds in northern portion, variable in southern portion. For the Upper Lake Region—Local snows, followed by clearing weather, lower temperature, north to west winds. Local Observations. Indianapolis. Dec. 10. Time. | Bar. JTher Hum. Wind. Weather Etain. 6:24 a. m. J 29.99 2C.9 9!) W Cloudy. .10 10:24 A. M.. 30.08 25.3 98 W Cloudy 2:24p. M-. 80.1135.0 84 W Cloudy. * 6:24 p. M.. 130.21 25.1 83 W Cloudy. 10:24 P. M.. 30 25 23.5 88 SW Cloudy. *Msited snow too small to measure. Maximum temperature, 35.2; minimum temperature, 23.5. General Observations. War Department, 1 Washington, Dec. 15, 10:24 p. m. f Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. — w g w 5 S T 00 T ? 13 h r§* | STATIONS. §■ 2 ■ I 2 ~ 9 p ® '• * 5‘ ! : Tii dp : • • . • ct- • Bismarck, Dak.,. '‘JO. 14—12 NW .01-Cloar. Cairo. 111.. JO. 3t> E ..... iCloui.y. Chattanooga, Teun Chicago, 111 .'40.0 4 15 W Clear. Cincinnati, 0 30.28 28 W jOloudy. Columbus, O. Davenport, Is 30; 21 lt> NW : Clear. Deadwood, Dak. 30.30—13 Calm .00 ; Clear. Denver, (Jol SO.U’Ji 20 N jClear Des Moines, la. 30.2;>j 8 N Cloudy. Dodge City, Kan.... 30.09; 25 SE .. .. (Clear. Ft. Assiniboine, Mta 30.51 —l4 8W .*.)! Fair. Fort Buford, Duk.. 30.49)—13| W Clear. Fort Custer, Mont.. 30. 48'—2<’ N Clear. Fort Elliot, T0x.... 30.18 i 2,; S Clear. Fort Gibson, lud. T ' ! Fort Sill, Ind. T ! Galveston. Tex.... 3(4.2t>! GO SW ... . Fair. Indianapolis, Ind.. 30.2Gj 24i SW ..... Cloudy. Indianola, Tex ! Keokuk. Ia 30.20 15 NE Clear. La Crosse, Wis 30.17 8} W Lt. snow Leavenworth, Kan . 30.08 231 S Clear. Little Rock. Ark 30.24 40;Calm Clear. Louisville, Kv...... 30.28 33 W .... Clear. Memphis. Tenn 30.27 4 4 S Cloudy. Moorehead, Minn... 30.35—11 NW Clear. Nashville. Tenn 30.20 30 W Cloudy. North Platte, Neb.. 30 20 1 N .01 Lt. enow Omaha, Neb 30.25 1 L N Cloudy. Pittsburg, Pa 30.1-4 30 W Cloudy* San Autonio. Tex Shreveport, La 30.20' 41 Calm Clear. Springfield. 11l 30.251 211 W Clear. St. Louis, Mo 30.2 4,1 32 NW Clear. Stockton, Tex St. Paul, Minn.... 30.10! P 4 NW Cloudy. Vicksburg, Mise.... 30.26 j 45( E Clear. Yankton, Dak 30.38i 1! N .Ol,Lt. snow Now Orleans. La.... 30.24 50' NE Clear. Las Animas, C 01.... 20.99 19 Fort Smith. Ark— 33.21 1 33 j 15 .... Clear. Salt Lake City,U.T. 29.90; 43| 8 Threat’g El Paso, Tex 30.2 4- 431 NW I Fair. The Cost of the State-House. Lafayette Sunday Times. It is said at Indianapolis that an effort will be made by the contractors for the new State-house to get an appropriation of $250,000 from the next Legislature, to reimburse them for losses which they claim to havo incurred in tho construction of tho building, on account of an unexpected rise in the price of material, and because the commissioners havo exacted from them better work than the specifications re quire. It is said that there will be a remarkably strong lobby to procure the appropriation, arid that the measure will bo championed by a Democratic senator who was a leader of considerable influence during the last session of the General Assembly. The Times has not the name of the senator, but it will be given to tho tax payers of Indiana as soon as ascertained. A Democratic steal of this dimension cannot bo carried through without somebody getting hurt. Better not do it. That Railway-Inspection Commission. Chicago Times. The three newspaper men whom the President has appointed to inspect a uQwly-cojnploted section of the Southern Pacific railroad i'll California have started upon their important and delicate mission. They have probably provided themselves with several boxes of cigars, a number of jugs and bottles, a half-dozen strong and reliable corkscrews, and other implements necessary for s-uch a task, and as some of them perhaps already possess a knowledge of railroad

construction, acquired by frequently taxing tho railroad track when walking was bad on the turnpikes, they will doubtless make a report highly creditable to themselves and satisfactory to the public. BUSINESS AM) WAGES* Reasons Why Iron-Workers Must Accept Reduced Wages Next Year. Pittsburg, Dec. 15.—Manufacturers say the iron-workers who are members of the Amalgamated Association must submit to a reduction next year, or there will boa shut-down. The scale will not be signed until next June, yet tho question of wages is being freely discussed. President Weihe, of the Amalgamated Association, left for the East several weeks ago, and nothing has been given out by members of tho association as regards the object of his trip, except that it was on business for tho association. To-day it was learned that Mr. Weihe was working up the order in the East, and is making a desperate effort to get all iron-workers into the association before the scale is presented next year. The Eastern district is said to bo the weakest point in tho organization. A large number of New England mills are run with nonunion men. A prominent manufacturer said that he did not see how the iron men of this district could ask for the present prices next year. The price for puddling was $3.25 to $3.88 in the East, and Western manufacturers have been compelled to do business at a disadvantage from this reason. Ho says there are a number of mills in this city that are not able to run and pay present prices. This, he contends, is the cause of irregularity in the trade hero and of spasmodic depressions. The Edgar Thomson Steel Works Shnl Down. Pittsburg, Dec. 15.—Notice was posted at the Edgar Thomson steel works, at Braddocks, today, ordering a suspension of work to-morrow in all departments for an indefinite period. The order, which was a complete surprise to tho workmen, was caused by lack of orders and great depression in the nail business. The firm is unable to say how long tho works will remain idle. Resumption might bo ordered in a few weeks, and perhaps not for months, as all depends on the market and the demand. About 1.600 employes are directly affected by the suspension, but, indirectly, between 3,000 and 4.000 will suffer. The monthly pay-roll amounts to $150,000. The feeling over the sudden closing down of the Edgar Thompson works i9 very gloomy. That thriving town (Braddocks) depends entirely upon the prosperity of the establishment, anil the withdrawal of SIOO,OOO, which the employes spent every month, will seriously affect all branches of trade. A member of the firm, in conversation, to-night, said this was the first time since the mill started, in 1875, that tho works had shut down for a like cause; never since has there been the same dullness and depression in trade. The suspension will bo severely felt by the railroads, as the average daily freight traffic, to and from the works, was 5,000 tons. The Public iron works, on the South Side, resumed operations to-day at 10 per cent, reduction in wages on all employes, excepting Amalgamated scale men. Failure of a Schenectady Bank. Schenectady, N. Y. t Dec. 15.—The City Bank of Schenectady suspended this afternoon. Tho bank had a paid-up capital of SIOO,OOO, and its last statements showed a surplus of $15,000; undivided profits of $27,000. Charles G. Ellis, president, and E. N. Shoonmaker, cashier. The bank sustained heavy losses by the failure of the Jones car works, Feb. 12, 1884. When the bank superintendent directed the stockholders to make good in ninety days a deficit of $49,000 in the capital stock, the bank had a judgment of $49,000 against the Jones car works, which the Bank Department would not recognize as assets. The deficit was nearly subscribed on Saturday, when the directors, at a meetieg, failed to agree, one director refusing to give his- share. The depositors will probably not lose anything. Deposits wero made within an hour of the suspension. Reductions at IJayview. Milwaukee, Dec. 15.—A reduction of 12 per cent, in the wages of tho men working by the day or week at the North Chicago Rolling-mill Company’s works, at Bay view, will be made on Jan. I. The reduction will affect about 500 men, who will submit to the reduction. The company give as. a reason for the cut that they are forced to it by competing institutions which have for several months been making reductions in tho cost of their labor.

Assignment at Dayton. Dayton, 0., Dec. 15.— Frank Snyder, a civil engineer and iron bridge contractor, and chief engineer on Governor Hoadly's staff, made an assignment to-day. James Krebs, a grocer of this city, has assigned. Nearly all the creditors reside hero. Heavy Failure in New York. New' York, Dec. 15.—Henry Levy & Son, importers of fancy goods, have made an assignment to Wm. Gellshenner, with preferences of $(>6,000. The liabilities are about $300,000. The unsecured liabiiities are mostly foreign. A Grocer Fails. Lancaster, Pa, Dec. 15. —Joseph Herzog, grocer, failed to day, in consequence of an execution, for $14,000, issued by Dana Graham. Liabilities, $30,000; assets, $15,000. The J. I. Case Flow Company. Racine, Wis., Dec. 15.—Tho inventory in the J. I. Case Plow Company failure shows assets of $440,000; liabilities $740,000. Success of the Carpet Weavers. Philadelphia, Dec. 15.—Two carpet factories surrendered to the strikers to day, and work was resumed at the old rates. Assignment at Chicago. Chicago, Deo. 15. —Frederick Rassow, a planing mill owner, assigned to-day. Liabilities, $20,000; assets, SIO,OOO. ARTHUR AND BLAINE. Significance of McCulloch’s Appointment as 'Secretary of the Treasury. ‘•Gath’s” New York Letter. The Arthur .administration has been taking a reef toward Bourbon times, and has declared war on Mr. Blaine by putting Hush McCulloch in the Treasury Department. Mr. McCulloch was an Indiana banker, who came into the Treasury as Comptroller of ihe Currency. Mr. Johnsoa made him Secretary of the Treasury, though he may have been a little before. A Delaware man. Lorenzo Thomas, was put into the same Cabinet as Secretary of War. in place of Edwin M. Stanton, of Ohio. The Delawarean brought on the impeachment trial. McCulloch, after he left the Cabinet, went into business with Jay Cooke and took charge of the London house of that firm. Ho has written tho only paper in Arthur’s administration which anybody is likely to remember, a general recommendation to turn aside from the protective policy of the last twenty-three years. Almost simultaneous with this paper comes in the Spanish treaty, which is a mixture of Blaine’s policy, but with a false application, and of anti tariff. The false application lies in considering Cuba as a native American state, whereas it is the Ireland of the New World, perpetually kept down by Spain, and treated by her for revenue purposes like a conquered province. The sugar cultivation in Cuba, and tho tobaccogrowing there, havo made a good deal of business with New Y’ork, but most of tho manufacturing of tileso products in Now York has been organized under the protection system, tho theory being that the superior products of Cuba could ho brought in raw and made up by American labor aud machinery. Spain has levied an export duty on almost everything going out of Cuba, as well as upon everything coming in. The new treaty reduces somo of tho duties on things going into Cuba, and increases the sales of Cuban stuff to America. Meantime, under the old condition of things, tobacco has been cultivated all over this country, ana especially in tho Northern States, like Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It is probable that some of the cigar manufacturers

hero in New York would like to obtain tho Cuban tobacco, and manufacture all of it with lesser admixtures of American-grown tobacco. Sugar will go on tho free list in this country after a while, and some think that the Cuban treaty is to stave off free sugar, while others think it means to assist a sugar syndicate to market their stuff in tho United Statas. Wo certainly occupy a strange position as a great nation when we permit a company as far off as Spain to manage every item of tho Cuban revenue, not for the interests of Cuba, but for Spain’s. The neighboring territories of Great Britain have their own governraentjand their own revenue systems, modeled very much on the systems of America. Cuba has neither eyes nor ears, nor smell, nor feeling. It is a mere Samson set to work by Spain in her last temple in the new world to grind sugar for the delectation of the old grandees,* who have long ago been driven out of Mexico and South America, and who were stripped of Jamaca by Cromwell, and of Havana by the English and Americans during the last century. Lawyers have managed the interests of Spain for Cuba with the United States for years, and greatly enriched themselves. McCulloch, although taken into Arthur’s Cabinet, was the chief supporter of Johnson when he undertook to break down the Republican Congress. His Speeches w'-re the most revolutionary of any from Johnson's Cabinet, and one of Johnson’s secretaries told me, near the close of that administration, that he regarded Mr. Me Culloch as having done more injury to Johnson than any person in his Cabinet from his intemperate counsels and declamations. HUMOR OP THE DAY. A young man who wont to skate in the rink All of a 6 nddon sat right down to think! Ho sat down so hard That the building was jarred. And through the floor ho wanted to sink. Ho put on tho rollers at seven, And before tho clock sounded elevon, His feet they wore flying, As if ho wore trying To kick out the blue dome of heaven! • —Norristown Herald. Where tho Money Rad Gone. New York Graphic. “As I was coming home from the lawyer’s today I noticed the most beautiful sealskin sacque. It cost only $300.” “Why didn’t you buy it, my dear?” “I was just coming away from the lawyer’s, I said.” “Oh!” Cool Even for Boston. New York Graphic. “I notice in the report of tho ball that Miss Do Silver wore nothing but diamonds and pearl jewelry,” remarked facetious Mr. Smith. “I hope she wore something else.” “Certainly she did,” replied Mrs Smith. “What else, pray?” “Her eye glasses. ” He Hung It Up. Now York Graphic. “When you go to bed you should always hang up your watch. It is better for it,” remarked Wilson to his son. recently. The next night he asked the young man what time it was. “I don’t know,” replied the youth. “Where is your watch?” “I hung it up, sir.” Lacking Harmony, Now York Sun. Lady (in a book-storo)—Haven't you a copy of Shakspoare bound in red, instead blue? Clerk—No, madam; wo have them only iti blue. Lady (laying the volume down regretfully)—l am sorry. 1 wanted it to lie on an ebony center table, but a blue book and a black table would be too inharmonious in color, I think. Preferred B*3 to Nothing. Detroit P* st, “Well,” he said to the minister at the conclusion of the ceremony, “how much do I owe you?” “Oh, I’ll leave that to you,” was tho reply; “you can better estimate tho value of the service rendered.” “Suppose we postpono settlement, then, say for a year. By that time I will know whether I ought to give you SIOO or nothing.” ’ No—no,” said the clergyman, who is a married man himself, “make it $3 now.”

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