Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1887 — Page 2

THIS IXDIAjAPOLJS JOUIINACi. FIIIDAX. DmiEUK&li J, 188T.

circulation b hereafter charged only on the amoant leaned upon bonds deposited in xcess of the minimum amoant as

above. He also recommends that the national bank notes be eonnted as a part of the lawful reserve of banks. The existing provisions of law as to the responsibility of ofScers and directors or banks are modified so as to avoid heretofore existing obstacles to their prompt and certain enforcement. The restric tion npon banks as to making loans in exeess of 10 per eent. of capital to any one party is modilied in respect to loans npon collateral security. ana tne tetat limit is raised to 20 per cent. of capital and surplus. The provision as to re serve npon deposits is modified so as not to induce government deposits in the amoant upon which reserve is to be held. The pro vision as to btate taxation of national banks is also modified. The proposed code has been transmitted to every Senator and Representa tive, with a codification of all existing laws on the subject, arranged in sections parallel with, those of the. proposed code and accompanied by a letter explaining each of the more important changes, and giving the reason therefor. THE PUBLIC DEBT. An Increase of About 81,500,000 During the Mon tli of November. Washington, Dec 1. The debt statement issued from the Treasury Department to-day shows an increase daring the month of November in the publie debt of $1,490,350. The unu sual occurrence an increase in the public debt is attributed to the unusually large pension payments during. November, aggregating, as they did, $18,257,850. In November, 18S6, the pension payments amounted to but $12,500,000. ins net easn balance in tne Treasury to-day is $55,258,701, against $56,758,701 on Nor. 1. The gold coin aud bullion balance to-day is $211,880,525, an increase of $0,000,000 during the month. The silver coin and bullion balance Las decreased about $6,500,000 since Nov. 1. The store of silver dollars has increased aooui $i, uu.uuu during tne monm, ana now amounts to $21,882,443. Government receipts for November aggregated $29,123,567. The re ceipt from customs were $15,742,354, from internal revenue, $9,880,807, and from miscel laneous sources, $3,505,406, against $15,140,645, $9,689,251, and $2,746,205, respectively, from these three sources in November, 1886. The total expenditures of the month were $28,378,381, or nearly three millions more than in No vember, 1886. VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN. How the Figures Were Distorted to Produce an Apparent Democratic Majority. Washington Special. The final returns from the Virginia election how a decided Republican majority. The Virginia Democratic managers have been in a panie over the returns ever since it beeame evident that the Republicans bad carried the State on the popular vote. The Republican managers ascertained this fact before the Democrats bus pected it As soon as it was made publie the Democrats, who had access to the returns, im mediately refused to allow their further inspeo tion. Then they went into secret session over them, and finally found a form of return that would show an apparent Democratic majority. This was sent to the country upon the authority of the Secretary of State. It is significant as to the political morality of the Virginia leaders that the board of canvassers whioh cooked up these returns was composed of Governor Lee, the Auditor, Treasurer, Secretary and Attorneygeneral of the State. After much prodding, the Dispatch, which has championed the distorted retnrns; thus unintentionally explains how the resnlt was reached: "The board of canvassers did not pass upon what is denominated "the popular vote." Their duty was done when they ascertained who, according to the retnrns, were elected to the two houses. The comDUation and footings above were made by the Dispatch, and to ascertain the Democratic vote, the highest vote cast in a city or county for a Democratic candidate for the House was taken. The Republican vote, similarly, is the vote of the highest Republican candidate. No note is taken of the 'scattering vote. It was considerable two thousand probably but appears to have been drawn equally from the two parties. In a few counties the votes cast for 'independent Republicans' will be found in the Democratic column." The last sentence tells the whole story. The apparent Democratic majority of 426 was manufactured by classing all independent Republican votes, which, by the way, were unquestionably Republican, as Democratic, and by this method destroying a Republican vote of several thousand and appropriating it to swell the Democratic column. In one case a Republican Senator, named Causey, who had just served a term as a Republican, ran as an independent, and received 1,170 votes. These were wholly Republican, and yet this board of canvassers added them to the Democratic column. Another Republican vote of 563, east for a Republican in Norfolk, and still another of 1.221. in Scott county, all Republican votes, cast for independent candidates, were found in tbe Democratic coin nan. By this false, if not fraudulent classification, the board of canvassers was able to show a Democratic majority on the vote by cities and counties of 426. This is the best that could be done for Virginia Democracy, even by such methods and by a board which was evidently willing to do anything that could be done after tbe official returns had actually been fiied. Tbe Dispatch admits that the Republicans east 119,380 votes, and claims a total Democratic vote of 119, 80& Taking the 2.954 independent Republican votes (which the board coolly appropriated for th Democracy) from the Democratie total, and adding it to the admitted Republican vote, where it belongs, and the corrected vote stands: Republican vote, 122,334; Democratic vote, 116,852; Republican majority in v lrginia on tne popular vote, MINOR MATTERS. A Demand for Statehood That Will Come from an Unexpected Quarter. Washington, Dec. 1. A very unique and interesting demand will come from that little neck of country in the southwest of the Indian Territory, known as "No Man"s Land," as soon as Congress gets into operation next January. Down in No Man's Land they have elected a full complement of territorial officers, and they intend to come here in a delegation and demand territorial rights. At present No Plan's Land is governed like an Indian reservation, and stands only for so much space en the map, and as so much care to the Indian Department. Along with the calls for statehood from Dakota, Montana, Utah and Washington Territory will be tbe uncommon demand of this new Knocker at the doors of Congress. No Man's Land is so small that up to the present time it has been unable to attract much attention in Congress, although there are a lot of settlers down there and not a little civilization has been established. It is not occupied as an Icdian reservation, and yet it can scarcely be called a section open to settlement. It is a kind of 'Squatters' sovereignty." Mr. Springer, who will undoubtedly be chairman of the House Committee on Territories, predicts some legislation which will enable the people who want to occupy No Man's Land to do so and not be recognized invaders. A Vain Hunt for Office. Special to tbe Indianaoolis Journal. Washington, Dec. J. The new Senators have brought an army of men who want positions at the Capitol. It is said that one of tbe new men from the East has already here seven men who have been soldiers, and who expect to be placed somewhere on the Senate rolls. Another man from the West brought five office-seekers with him. The impression seems to prevail that there is to be a reorganization of tbe Senate and a new corps of employes supplied. This is altogether a mistake. There are no vacancies in the Senate, I am informed by the Sergeant-alarms, and those now on the rolls are in nearly very instance meo who are kept there by influence now in tbe Senate, and many of them are ex-Union soldiers who were wounded ia the service. It begins to look as if some gentlemen would be embarrassed by promises made or a surplus of expectation on tbe part of uninformed constituents. Indiana Pensions. 'Washington Special. Pensions have been granted the followingnamed Indianians: Mexican War Young J. Robinson, Ellsttsvilie. New Pensions Minors of W. P. Buzan. Washington and Sullivan; Dartbula Ferguson, Newton Stewart. II. P. Honsel, DeKalb. Increased Jonathan Warren, Martinsville; O. W. Boughe-. Covington; Wm. Rogers, Grsntsburg; Wm. MeCutcbin, Lexington; Bartlett MeCay, Madison; J. A. Wilon, Pendleton; Augustus Cain, Fort Wayne; W. H. Ramsey, Denning; Anderson Cook, Bird's-eye; Elihu Ciampitl, Ileltonville; Amos Miller, Cburubusco; Chas. Bell. New Haven; Geo. Litteral, Columbus: C P. Cox.

Pittsboro; Geo. Bernhart, South Bend; Wra. Hittner. Mount Vernon; P. Johnson, Ortb; David Baker, Koleen; Samuel Arnold, New Castle; IL E. Crouch, Gosport; Anton Sol men, St. Joseph; Win. Bavins, Seymour. Th Agricultural Bureau. Washington, Dec L The annual report of the Commission of Agriculture states that the year has been one of prosperity and progress, and the operations of the department successful. Pleuropneumonia has been restricted to the cattle in smaller areas of territory than at any previous time in many years, and the continuation for another year of the present methods of federal and State action should accomplish its extermination. The seed distribntions have accomplished better results than heretofore, and the investigations of food adulterations have been extended. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. 1 Washington, Dec 1. Assistant Engineer W. II. P. Creighton, United States navy, has been ordered to duty as a professor at Purdue University at Lafayette. A marriage license was issued to-day to Frank Morrison, of Indianapolis, and Laura E. Lichty, of this city.

The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed William B. O'Rourke assistant inspector of steam vessels at New York. The Treasury Department to-day received a large quantity of paper money, which had been burned almost to cinders in a railroad smash-up and conflagration. Although to the unexpert there could scarcely be recognized even frag ments of money, the treasury experts expect to make out the denominations and estimate the value. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. Washington. Dec 21 a. m. For Indiana and Illinois Warmer, threaten ing weather, with rain; fresh to brisk southerly winds, becoming variable. For Ohio Warmer, fair weather, followed by rain; fresh to brisk southerly winds, veering to westerly and increasing in force. For Wisconsin and 31 ichigan Warmer, followed by colder, threatening weather, with rain, except in northern portion, partly as snow; fresh to brisk winds on the lakes; brisk to high southerly winds, becoming variable, diminishing in force Local Weather Record. Indianapolis. Dec.l , 1S87.

Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weath'r Rain. 7 a. M... 30.72 22 73 East. Oloar 2 p. M... 30.51 34 58 S'east Cloudy 9 P.M.. .30.39 30 63 SWt,Fair

Maximum thermometer, 35: minimum thermom eter. 20. Following is a comparative statement of the condi tion of temperature aud rain-fall for Dec. 1, 1887: Tern. Rain. Normal 36 O.OO Mean 29 O.OO Departure from normal.. ............ 7 O.OO Total excess or deficiency since Dec 1. 7 0.00 To tale xcess or deficiency sinee Jan. 1. 43 13.14 General Observations. Washington, Dec. 1, 9 r. h. Stations. Bar. jTher Wind. H.F. Weather -IKewYork citr...... Philadelphia, "Pa... Washington Citv. .. 30.86 24iNeast 24Neast 26 North 40 Naast Cloudy. 30.83 Clear. Cloudy. Cloudy. Rain. 30.86 30.56 Charleston. S. G... San Antonia, Tex.. Jacksonville. Fla... 30.02 66: South .16 30.42 42Nortli Cloudy. Clear." Atlanta. (J 30.56 36 East. 52 East. Peosacola. Fla..... 30.3S Clear. Titusville, Fla 30.64 30.46 30.30 30 42 54 56 56 North Fair. Montgomery Ala.. Vicksburg, Miss.... East. Clear. i S'east Fair. I Cloudy. T Rain. .04 Fair. New Orleans, La.... Shreveport, lis..... Fort Smith, Ark.. . . 30.28 East. 30.16 S'east 30.10 42, JS west Little Rock. Ark... 30.18 46' East. 64: East. 06 Rain. Galveston. Tex ...... Palestine. Tex ...... 30.16 30. lO Cloudy. Rain. Clear. Cloudy. Fair. Fair. 56; South 70' South 20; S'east 44 1 S'east 38S'east 30 ! S'east .16 Brown s villa. I'ex.. 30.04 Memphis, Term.... Nashville. Term.... Louisville. Kr...... 30.28 30.38 30.40 Indianaoolis. Ind. .. 80.38 30.44 Hazy. Cloudy. Clear. Clear. Cincinnati. O...... 32'S'east Pitt sour. Pa 30.62 30. SO 30.12 28 East. Oswego. N. Y. ... Calgary. N. W. T.... lO S'east 2 Calm. .02 Snow. Toledo. O 30.1S 24 ' S'east ....Fair. Clou y. T'Snow. .04! Snow. ....j Cloudy. ...-! Cloudy 06jSnow. ,02iSnow. .18Rain. .OSRain. Miunedosa, N. W.T. 30.06 3O.20 4!N'wst Escanaoa. Mich. .... 34 S west Prince Arthur sL'g. Chicago, 111. ........ 9.98 32 S'east 36 S'east 30.28 Milwaukee. Wis.., St. Paul. Minn..... La Crosse, Wis... 30.24 36 S'east 29 94 34 South 34 South 30.04 Davenport. Ia. ... . Des Moines, la..... Concordia. Kan.... Keokuk. Ia.. ...... 30.16 34 S'east ti9.94 29.96 38 !South 36 N'wsti 01 Cloudy. 30.12 38 S'east 50 South 38'South 4 2. S'east 38hS'east .14 T .04 T .44 .06 .10 "io Rain. Rain. Cloudy. Rain. Rain. Rain. Cairo I1L 30.26 30.24 Springfield, 111..... ht i.ouis. Mo.... 0.20 Springfield. Mo '30 08! Leavenworth. Kan. . oO.Ols 42 ! South 42;South Omaha. Neb 29.94 Rain. Cloudy. Fair. Cloudy. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Cloudy. Clear. Fair. Valentine. Xeb 130.04 22 West. Yankton. D. T. 129.98 22 N'wst 20 North Moorhead. Minn 29.98 .14 Ft. McKinney,W.T.'30.32 22: Calm Bismarcit. D. T. '30.10 Fort Baford. I30.06 4N'wst O; S'east 18!Neast 8!N'wst: Fort Custer. M.T.. 29.94 Qu'Anelle. N. W. T. 30.12 Deadwood. D. T 30.02 Cheyenne, Wv. T.. 29.96 North Platte, "Neb.. 30.00 Denver. Col 30.O0 - 24Swest 28 S west 32jN'wst 30 i South Cloudy. Fair. Clear. Fair. Foggy. Fogey. W.Las Animas. Col. 3O.02 Dodge City, Kan... 30.02 Fort Elliot. Tx 1 29 86 Fort Sill. 1. T 130.00 32 'South 32!Neast 52, South 521 South 54! Calm. 50' Calm. 40,South 30 i Calm. 24! East, j .10 Fort Davis, Tex 129.92 ... Clear. ... Fair. ... Cloudy, ... Clear. ... Clear. El Paso. Tex 30.00 SaltLakeOity 29.82 Santa Fe, N. M 30.04 Montrose, Col 30.04 faT. Traces of rain. Meteorological Summary for November. Following is a summary of tbe meteorological events at Indianapolis during the month of November, 1887: Mean barometer, 30.09; highest, 30.76,'30th; lowest, 29.46, 19th; monthly range. 1.30. Mean temperature. 40.5;" highest, 73-5, on the 3d; lowest, 3.8, on the 23th; monthly range, 69.7; greatest daily range, 47, on the 27th; leastdaily range, 5.3, on the 23d; mean daily range, 20.6. Mean temperature for this month in 1871, 38.6; 1872, 35.4: 1873. 37.0; 1874. 42.1; 1875. 40.0; 1876. 41.1; 1877, 42.8; 1878, 44.9; 1879, 45 5; 1880, 31.2; 18S1. 42.8; 1882, 43.3; 1883. 45.0; 1884, 41.5; 1885. 41.9; 1886, 39.3; 1887, 40.5. Mean daily dew-point, 26. l;j mean daily relative humidity. C0.8. gfflri Prevailing direction of wind, 7 A. m. , 3 and 10 p. M.. south; total movement, 4.458 miles: highest velocity of wind, direction and date, 32 miles, northwest, on the 27th. Snowfall, two days, 2.8 inches; unmelted on ground at end of month, 0.6 inch. Total precipitation, 3.71 inches; number of days on which .01 inch or more of precipitation fell, 8; total precipitation (in inches and hundredths) for this month in 1871, 3.52: 1872, 0.80; 1873. 3.46: 1874. 4.82; 1875. 3 04; 1876, 3.26: 1877. 3.64; 187S. 2 87: 1879, 5.82; 1880. 2 53: 188i; 9.35; 18S2. 2.50; 1383, 6.80; 1884, 1.46;. 1835, 2.71: 1886, 3.87; 1887, 3.71. Number of clear days, 13: fair days, 12; cloudy days, o; frost (lieht), 2d, .5th, 13th, 17th: killing, 12th, 28th, 29th. C. F. R. Wappenhans, Observer. Sharp Released on Bail. New York. Dec L Jacob Sharp was taken in a carriage this morning from Ludlow-street jail to the sheriff's office. He was accompanied by Warden Keatiag, a deputy sheriff, and his grandson, George Sharp. lie seemed very feeble and was supported on either side by the warden and deputy sheriff, while he also leaned heavily on two canes. The order eranting a new trial was settled before Jndge Barrett. By mutual agreement between District Attorney Martine and W. Bonrke Cochran, counsel for Sharp, it was decided that Sharp's bond should be fixed at $40,000. Tbe district attorney agreed to make no opposition to tbe application for his admission to bail. The bond was prepared, Isaae Hendrix and George Shepherd each justifying in tbe sum named, and a few minutes past noon Sharp was discharged and driven home. Doctor Parker Exonerated. Brooklyn, N. Y.. Dec. L At a special meeting of the Beecher statue fund committee tonieht resolutions were passed exonerating Dr. Parker from the charge of having improperly received any payment for his eulory ' upon Mr. Beeeher, and declaring that the misunderstanding about the affair was the result of conflicting cablegrams. Tbe resolutions characterize Dr. Parker as a most henorable. Christian gentleman. It is understood that Dr. Parker will aceupy Plymouth Church pulpit next Sunday. Steamship News. Philadelphia, Dec L Arrived: Switzerland, from Antwerp. New York. Dec. 1. Arrived: Stata of Indiana, from Glasgow. Southampton, Dec. 1. Arrived: Stale, from New York for Bremen. Queenstown, Deo. L Arrived: Wisconsin, Adriatic, from New York. There is not a case of neuralgia which cannot be at once relieved by the use of Salvation Oil. At all drug stores. Price only 23 cents a bottle.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of Various Kinds in the Two Stalest Important Cass on Trial in Ilnntinjrton County Elopers Come to Grief Fatally Injured in a Runaway Gleanings. INDIANA. An Important and Complicated Case Wlilcb Has Aronsed Great Interest. Special to the Indianaoolis Journal. Huntington, Dec L For three days the Circuit Court has been engaged in trying a most important and complicated case the suit of Huntington county against ex-Treasurer Beaver, for an alleged shortage of $12,000. Mr. Beaver was elected treasurer on the Democratic ticket in 1882 and 1884. In 1S78 the then treasurer, Daniel Christian (also a Democrat), sold $12,000 worth of gravel-road bonds, which he failed to account for. In 1883 H. C. Black, county auditor from 1875 to 1883 (also a Demo crat), discovered the failure of Mr. Christian to account for this money, and connived with Christian and Beaver to cover the money into the treasury without publicity. Three' fictitious entries, amounting to $12,000, were injeoted into the financial statement of the county in 1884, Christian paying over th $12,000 to Beaver, and it was bejieved by tbe coterie that this would make th county treasury whole, and no one would be the wiser regarding the stupen dous "blunder' by which Christian had retained the money for over five years. Here the matter would have rested, but in 1886 his last year m treasurer Mr. Beaver claims to have dissovered, in making up his financial statement, that be was th vistim of a double charge in the book-keeping, by which he was over-cbarged $12,000. In his settlement of that year, he refused to pay over that amount to his successor, and brought suit in the Circuit Court to compel the commissioners to eredit him with an error for $12,000. Judge Gould, of Delphi, beard the ease in the spring, and decided that ther was no error that th $12,000 retained belonged to tbe eounty. Mr. Beaver refused to accept this verdict as final, and the commissioners ordered suit against him for the amount retained, with penalty and interest. Tbe case began on Monday, Hon. Joseph Daily, of Bluffton, occupying the bench. Judge Sayler declinine to bear the case. The jury was impaneled on Monday, and th evidence was not ceoeludea until Wednesday night. A large number ef witnesses were examined, among them several expert accountants, including A. G. Fosdyke, John W. Coons, E. Ml Johnson, and T. K. Shepard, of Indianapolis; James S. Duret, of Peru, and a Mr. Ernest, ef Bluffton, together with several of our own citizens. To-day has been entirely occupied by the argument of opposing counsel, and th case went to the jury to-night. The interest has been intense, as the developments in the case were largely tbe eause, in 1886. of the defeat of the entire Democratic county ticket. The jury trying the case consists of seven Demoorats and five Republicans. Elopers Come to Grief. Special to the Indianaoolis Journal. Marion, Dec L An eloping couple from Summitville, in Madison county, came to grief here this morning. Last night John Richardson, aged thirty-three, and a farmer by occupation, and Mrs. Margaret Anderson, wife of Samuel Anderson, came to Marion and put up at a private residence. John J. Sair, father of the woman, overtook them this morning as they were about to board a Panhandle train for the West. Warm words led to a flourish of revolvers. and for a time a tragedy seemed imminent, . but bloodshed was averted, and Richardson was marched off to jail by th msrshal to .answer to the charge ef drawing a deadly weapon. He will be detained, pending efforts to induce the deluded woman to return to her husband. The prisoner has a wife and three children, whom h& shipped to his wife's parents in Kentucky teiy days ago. Before leaving Summitville withy Mrs. Anderson, Richardson sold this stoek, farming implements and furniture, and converted everything he had into cash. Mrs. Anderson is a very handsome woman, and swears she will stand by Richardson. Carslnger Acqnitted. Sbecfal to the Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, Dea 1. Last July a fishing party of some half dozen persons from Edinburg was encamped on White river, near Azalia, in this county. They brought down from Indianapolis two prostitutes, named Mollis Howell and Rosa Shutt, and th next morning, after the arrival f the women, Molli Howell was found dead in the river, near th camp. Some of the parties are highly connected, and th affair created a great sensation. They were all arrested and indictments found against four of them. They were arraigned for trial Nov. 21. and the case of Ivory Cutsinger taken up. as they demanded a separate trial. It closed this morning with a verdict of acquittal, after the jury had wrestled with it forty-three hours. It is generally conceded that the verdict is right, according to tbe evidence, but public sentiment is divided as te whether the woman was murdered, committed suicide, or was drowned accidentally. Fonnd Guilty of Rape. Special to the Indianaoolis Journey Greensburg, Dec. 1. The case of the State against Benjamin Ruble, charged with rape, was completed to-day. Th defense introduced a large number of witnesses to show both that Ruble was not present when tbe Gibson girl was outraged, and also that she was a willing victim. The jury, however, believed the girl's story, and breueht in a verdict of guilty, and fixed the punishment at six months in jail. Fatally Injured In a Kim away. Bwein.1 to the Indianaoolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Dec. 1. A frightful runaway accident occurred here to-day. Henry Niebergall was thrown from his wagon and received a fracture of the skull; one arm was broken and other injuries inflicted. He has been unconscious sine the accident, and physicians say tonight that he must die. Killed by a Fall. Special to the Indianaoolis Journal. Lafayette, uee. i. ureaencK ocnaiDie, an employe of Theim & Wagner's brewery, to-day stepped from a plank, and falling a distance of seven feet, was thrown with such violence against a heavy timber as te cause concussion and the rupture of an artery. He died in a few moments. Minor Motes. Amos R. Stalenp, tbe oldest merchant of Elnora, made an assignment on Tuesday, to CoL S. H. Taylor. Assets, $25,000; liabilities, three times as much. Dr. J. H. Johnson, formerly of Plymouth, while driving through Huntington, Wednesday, was thrown te the ground by his burgv upsetting. His injuries resulted in death at 2 o'clock Thursday morning. The Connersville Co-operative Society, an organization of workingmen, have turned their store, which has been running for the past six months,' over to Alex. M. Moyer. who is to sell out the stock and pay the creditors out of the proceeds. Estimated assets, $600; liabilities, $800, with some preferred creditors. Th Board of Commissioners of Clinton county was up before Judge Snyder, at Crawfordsville, this week, for contempt of court, in not obeying the order of court to place upon the tax duplicate some $30,000 as a donation to the L, D. & C. railroad. They were mora fully shown their duty in the matter, and are now expected to do as directed. The people living along the line of the New Richmond free gravel road, in Montgomery county, held a meeting at Crawfordsville, yesterday, and presented a protest to the Board of County Commissioners, who had ordered a reassessment to pay for the building of the road. It is claimed that the sum of $19,300 had baen paid in taxes for the building of this road, aud that the cost of the same was only $13,000, the balance of th money having been misappropriated. The commissioners had ordered a reassessment of 50 per cent. ILLINOIS. Methodist Minister Run Over and Instantly Killed by a Train. Iroquois, Dec. L The Rev. Mr. Grubar, of the Methodist Church, in attempting to get out of the way of a freight train, yesterday afternoon, got in the way of a passenger train, which

ran over him, crushing his skull and terribly mangling his body. Brief Mention. David Bellman, a farmhand employed by S. S. Sorin. near Marshall, was killed on Saturday by lightning. Rev. J. F. Tneker was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Mattoon last evening. Revs. L Tompkins, of Chicago, Green, of Centralia, and others were present and conducted the serviees. The body of Edward Dougherty, an old residont of Elgin, who had been missing sine Saturday night, was found in a mill-race on Wednesday. It is supposed that bis death was accidental. He leaves a large family. LABOR INTERESTS. The Anti-Powderly People Issue a Circular as to Their Intentions. Chicago, Dec L A morning paper says'the chief movers in the attempt to organize another order ef the Knights of Labor have issued a circular which is addressed to th local assemblies of the Knights of Labor in Cook eounty, requesting the local assemblies to eo-operate in reorganizing the order of the Knights of Labor on an honest and substantial basis. Tbe dan

of action is that each assembly shall refuse to pay further tribute to the General Assembly unless an itemized account of the receipts and expenditures of the General Assembly be presented to the local assemblies. The circular is sent out from the headquarters of th provisional committee, of which Chas. F. Seib is secretary. In the preamble th members of tbe committee say that they wish to sever their connection with th order because they are 'Indignant at the usurpation of power and the gross violation of the law of our order by those high in author ity; disgusted with those whose loyalty to the present ring has been gained by the pickings they receive as a reward for their services; Incensed at the fawning sycophants who crawl on their knees in slavish submission to th most corrupt, th most hypocritical, th most autocratic and tyrannical oliqu that ever controlled any labor organization." Following this all sorts of charges are made agaiast th general officers and General Assembly. It is claimed that th order is run by a ring, the members of which care nothing for workingmen. The ring, or conspiracy, as the circular says, is banded together for the purpose of holding the salaried position in and under the General Assembly. Collapse of a Conspiracy Prosecution. Chicago, Dec L The first attempted prosecution under the recently enacted Illinois statute, known as the Merritt conspiracy law, collapsed to-day. Two striking job printers were charged with conspiring with other members of the Typographical Union to injure the business of Poole Bros., one of the firms composing the Typothetae, an organization of employing printers. The offense of defendents lay in joining in a concerted abandonment of work and taking part in tbe usual tacties to prevent others taking the vacated plaoes. When th prosecution rested their ease, this afternoon, th defense submitted it to tbe court' without defense or argument. Another attorney for the prosecution then denounced the union men as having conspired to injure the complaisant, whereupon the attorney for th defense, Alexander Sullivan, stated that if that were tbe case there wort two sets of conspirators, the Typographieal Union and the Typothetae. The ooort discharged the strikers. Appealing? to the Press. Philadelphia, Dec 1. A committee of the striking eoal-miners from Pottsville to-day called on the editors of the leading papers in this city, and requested them to use their influence toward securing a settlement of the strike in the Lehigh region. They were well received, and as the result of their interviews the committee will reeommend to th miners that a statement of their case be. prepared and furnished to the press. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. A telegram from Paris, Tex., reports the killing of Clark and Moses Harrison, brothers, who were chopping wood near there. Two negroes have been arrested on suspicion. William Ralph Lee, of Chicago, who shot his step father, banker Rawson, was again brought into court yesterday. He waived a hearing, and in default of $10,000 bail was remanded to jail The missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday bought the property at Fifth avenue and Nineteenth street. New York, for $87,000, and the Methodist Book Concern bought the property at 152 Fifth avenue for $225,000. The new stockyards at St. Joseph, Mo., comprising 440 acres and ample pens for all kinds of stock, were formally opened yesterday. They represent an outlay'of $1,000,000, and are complete in every particular. The water supply and drainage system are perfect. A Bonham. Tex., dispatch reports the brutal and unprovoked killing of Charles Mosely and an unknown man, both colored, in the Indian Territory, just across the river from Tulip, Tex., several days ago. Wm. Dunnegan and two cotton pickers have been arrested on suspicion. Harrison Tutt, a negro fifty years old, and bearing a good reputation, was shot dead at Wyandotte. Kan., yesterday, by Edwin E. Weldon, a whit teamster. Weldon came from Indian Territory, where he was" a cowboy, and he has a bad reputation. The murderer was arrested Dan Swigert, of Lexington, Ky.. proprietor of Elmendorf stud, yesterday purchased from Dwyer Bros, the great colt, Tremont. for $25,000. Tremont is by Virgil, dam Anne Fife, by Alarm. This is the largest price ever paid in this country for any home-bred thoroughbred for stud purposes. Alexander Taylor, a driver of one of the New York mail wagons, was arrested yesterday for wholesale robbery of the mails. In one batch he secured drafts for $2,011, $600 and $125. respectively. One letter contained thirteen drafts from a down-town bank. He confessed his guilt and was held for examination. He had been in this country only six weeks, and had been driving the wagon three weeks. A Trick iii Kifle Shooting. Bnffalo Courier. "No, sir, I do not claim to be an expert at fancy shooting." said Capt. Jack Crawford, in answer to the writer's inquiry. "There is too much trickery a sort of sleight-of-hand business connected with it. I do pretend to be a crack shot, and to excel in accuracy and rapidity with a Winchester rifle. The Winchester Arms Company have offered repeatedly to back me for $5,000 against any man in the world in that sort of skill. I have fired twelve shots in three and one-half seconds. But here let me enlighten you as to one of the neat little tricks used in fancy shots. Here the scout produced what appeared to be, as he held it at a distance, a brass shell tipped with a leaden balL "Looks like a bullet, don't itl" he said, with a laugh. "Well, it isn't. It is simply a papier-macho protuberance appropriately colored to look like lead. Now, I'll show you what's behind it" Picking open the end he disclosed to view a quantity of shot about two hundred, he said, wero in the shell, with just enough powder at the butt to do the work. "How are these used! You have probably witnessed the feat of cracking glass balls thrown in the ait by shooting at them with a Winchester, and while riding a horse going at a gallop. Well, that's the kind of a 'ball' cartride that is used, and the spectators look on with wonder and admiration, supposing that it is done with a single ball; and that is something, my boy. that no man in the world has ever done or will do, because it is a physical mpossibility." 1 1 s I I To make oyster salad drain the liquor from a quart of oystersand cut them into dice. Cut the white part of one bunch of celery into pieces of similar size. Beat two eggs light and add a teaspoonful of powdered sugar, then whip in a great spoonful of salad oil, until it is a light cream. Rub the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs to a powder; mix with them a small teaspoonful each of salt, pepper and made mustard. Then beat-these with the whipped yolks and oil. and add half a cupful of vinegar, two or three drops at a time, and whip lightly for two or three minutes- Mix the celery and oysters together; pour half of the dressing over them; toss up with a silver fork, and pour tho rest over them. Decorate with the inner leaves of the celery, and set on ice till served, which should be as soon as possile. For a cake pudding sprinkle lightly with water any kind of cake you may happen to have and put in a hot oven for ten minutes; if the cake be stale it will bear more wetting. While it is in the oven make a clear sauce, as follows: One cup of 6ugar, a teaspoonful of butter and a tablespoonful of flour, creamed together in a bowl. Pour on a pint of boiling water, and boat hard three minutes. Serve hoi. An experienced traveler says: "Th most troublesome oompanion a person can hav while beiag away from borne is a cough, aud I would advise everybody to preeure a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup before starting."

TOE FIRE RECORD.

The Loss by the Mrbrldge Fir Now Estimated at $300,000 to 8500,000. Cincinnati, Dec L At 1:30 this morning a general alarm sounded, and called the entire fire department to the Strcbridgo Lithographing Company's great bcilding on the northeast corner of Elm and CanaL The flames devoured the entire building, and in less than forty minutes the walls fell in. The loss is total, and will probably be not less than $250,000, but by some it is estimated as high as half a million. Strobridge& Co. have insurance of $150,000 in forty companies. The fire started in the second story, but no one knows how. There is a bare suspicion of incendiarism. The Strobridge company have an office in New York and one in London, England, but their trork is done her. Th building was a fine structure, five stories in height, and fronting over a hundred feet on the north side of tbe canal. It was filled with costly machinery, including fifteen lithograph presses Its stock of paper and of finished and partly finished work was very large, estimated to be $100,000. Most of the winter work for theatrical companies was finished, but a large portion was still in the bnilding. and a number of theatrical companies will be without material to properly bill their plays. Amonr those suffer.ng in this way are Charles A. Hoyt's three companies, 'The Tin Soldier." "Rag Babv and "Hole in th Ground." "Michael Strogoff." Kiralfy's ''Aladdin," Montgomery Phister's "Soap Bubble," and Forepaueh's and Barnum's circuses. The worg for the latter, however, had not advanced very far. Th seen dnrine the fire was startling. The height of the bnilding. tbe combustibility of its contents, and tbe substantial style of its structure served to make the fire fierce but comparatively slow. It burned floor after floor, and the falling of the heavy lithographic stones gave sounds like the discharge of a battery. Later the falling of the walls sent sheets of flame and showers of sparks high into tbe air. During this part of the catastrophe a fireman, John Shuler, who was on a ladder thirty-five feet from the ground, missed his footing and fell to the ground. He was taken to the hospital with injuries that may prove fatal. Ihn business is probably the largest of its kind in the world. One hundred and twenty-five men were employed. Mr. Hines Strobridge, president of tbe company, says he thought the building was fire proof, and is astonished that it should go as it did. Within the building, as tenants, were James Barclay, job printer, and the Halstead Stocking Company. Their loss will be about $10,000 each. The best estimate that can be made of tbe total loss is about $300,000, on wbich tbe insurance is $150,000. but the loss on business during the time of enforced idleness cannot be accurately estimated. The building may be regarded as a total loss. The portions of the walls left standing are worthless. The fire is still burning slowly at 10 A. ax., and engines are throwing water on it. Other Fires. New York, Dec L Fire in a tenement-house at No. 345 West Ferty-third street, early this morning, caused a panie among its inmates. All escaped uninjured except Joseph Jacobs, aged five, who was burned to death. The damage to the building will amount to $20,000. Duluth, Minn., Dec L Fire early this morning in the Metropolitan Block damaged the building slightly, while water damaged the drygoods stock of I. Freimuth to the extent of nearly $10,000, and contents of law and other offices nearly $2,000. The Dnlnth Press Club rooms were flooded. Tbe losses are covered by insurance, save plans of E. Humble, architect, which are valued at $1,000. Freimuth had $24,000 insurance on his stock. A COLONY OF RUSSIAN FANATICS. Religionists in Whose Home th Cry of a Babe Is Never Heard. John P. Jackson, in New York Mail and Exnress. Ten miles from Yakutsk is one of the most remarkable colonies of that most remarkable eect of religious fanatics who renounce tbe joys of life; in whose home tbe cry of a babe is never heard; whose "brothers and sisters" do not provide for descendants in this world. The village is called Marshka, and the communitv numbers 1C9 men and 124 women. I paid a visit to tbeir village, and found it remarkable for its order and cleanliness. All around were fields carefully fenced in with rails, and in the village itself two windmills, evidence of an industrial farming population not found elsewhere on tbe Lena. Enter one of these Skopzi homes, in tbe court cr farm-yard, and you will find that the ereatest neatness and order prevail, not an implement or a sled that has not been carefully cleaned and put in its proper place. Enter the bouse and you are at once surprised with the order and cleanliness and comfort that prevail. The Skopzi themselves are as kindly and gentle in tbeir ways as girls. They neither drink intoxicating drinks nor smoke tobacco nor eat meat. Their voices are not so effeminate as I imagined I should find; beine not much different in tone from tbe ordinary run of Russian peasant youth. It seemed, indeed, as if tbey had retained the voice tbey possessed in early youth at the time when they were received into the sect. Of thewomen I only caught a glimpse of two before they went out of sight. Th "sisters," as tbey are called, did not show themselves in tbe houses. They seem to be as earefnlly shielded from the vulgar gaze as are tbe houris of a Turkish harem. Those that I caught sight of were young, not over twenty-five at most, fair and comely to view. Of children, of course, I saw none. From my notes, written at the time, I call the following data, supplied to me by Dr. Capella, a physician of Yakutsk, who bad spent nearly all bis life in Governor TchernaiefF capital. Most of the men had joined a sect at the age of nineteen or twenty. Why thus early in life tbey renounce the pleasures of the world, the flesh and tho devil,' Dr. Capello was not able to sav, but be was inclined to think the reason was frequently from remorse after a debauched life, and' sometimes from the melancholy produced by disease or abuse. Of the actual joys of life such a young Russian peasant at twenty knows nothing that is elevating. His life is spent in an atmosphere that is morally diseased, and he easily eucoombs to the persuasion of members of tbe sect or other penitent like himself to undergo mutilation. A gentleman told me that his coachman, who joined the sect about four years before my visit, gave the following reasons for his doinsr so: With a companion he bad lived a low and debauched life for some years. One day, after a debaueh lasting longer than usual, the twain found themselves in a condition resembling a recovery from delirium tremens, and without a kopeck in their pockets. Said tbe other to the coachman: "Come, let ns give up this life and become Skopzi. Then we shall know no more temptation, and, besides, we can get some ready money if we join." So they agreed to turn Skopzi. They made their request known, and after an interview with the elders of the community, declared their readiness to submit to the ordeal. The women joined the sect probably for the same reason as the men in some cases; in others from the desire to be rid of temptation and the inclination to the world and its griefs, quickly and forever. Pitiable cases are those of tbe younger members of the sect, who have been initiated into the brotherhood or sisterhood by their financial parents or relatives long before they could understand anything of the meaning of the rites which they were compelled to undergo. In each case the Rueian government interferes, taking away the children, and looking out for emplopment for them. These have all their rights as Russian citizens given them, while their parents or relatives are outlawed or exiled. The sect is kept up solely by new converts and has increased in numbers s'nee 1859. The Skopzi. however, are a remarkable people, judge their practices as we may. Wherever they settle they seem to be able to wring prosperity out of the most unwilling soil. It mar be, as General Tchernaeiff pointed out, that tbe reason it is not to be sought in the virtues of Skoptzism so much as in tbe fact that these Skopzi exiles came from a race of peasants in Russia noted for its industry and agricultural skill. Certain it is that thirty years ago Yakutsk had to get all its supplies of grain from the district near Vitimsk, a thousand miles up th river, but a few years after their arrival, in 1859, the Skopzi were enabled to supply the entire grain and flour demand of th capital and tbe district for miles around Before they came they had been exiled to the Yenessei, near Turcbuask the country all around Yakutsk was a dreary waste, but these people wroucht a change in a few years in the desert quite as remarkable as that effected by the Mormons around Salt Lake Even sparrows have gathered near tbeir farms and cbirup and hop about the trees and barns, and never leave their new home, though you will not find any more ot the species until you get 1,500 miles further to the south. A Homely Art. Housekeeper in Conn try Gentleman. I once knew a very wealthy lady who took great pride in her ability to patch and darn neatly. Sho, did not do this from any parsimonious motives, as the garments so repaired were generally given to the poor; but. being a very sensible woman, she did not disdain to wear her own handiwork if she saw fit. I have seen her darn a rent in a silk dress, or cloth jacket of one of her children, so exquisitely that it would take a very sharp eye, indeed, to detect it. After all, the people in this world who get beyond the necessity of patches are extremely few,

and if one must wear a patch. I do not know of anything that gives raore satisfaction than a garment neatly mended, nor anything that looks worse than a patch slovenly applied. In the first place, it. is necessary to have a piece of goods exactly like the garment to be mended, and in buying ready-made clothes for small boys, do not forget to ak for a piece of the, cloth. Cut a piece of the material a quarter of an inch larger all round than the worn place to bo covered; if there are stripes or figures.

match them exactly, and cut accurately by tho thread. A crooked patch with unshapely corners will look badly no matter how fine the stitches with which it is applied. Turn in a narrow fold all round, lay it in place outside the worn part aud baste on. Fell it neatly and remove the bastings. Turn the garment on the wrong side, and cut away the worn part so as to make an exact square of that also; fell it down nicely, and when the work is finished lay a thin piece of old muslin over it and press with a warm iron, slightly dampening the mended part first. Mend worn flannels in the same wav, but do not turn in the edges. Leave them flat, and herring-bone them all around Sheets and table-cloths that are too weag to patch must be darned. There is a soft, fine cotton that comes for the purpose. Darn half an inch beyond the worn place, or the mended part may break with, the first wash. Use a long, fine darner; take one thread and miss two uniformly, and going straight across. Leave a loop at the end to allow for shrinking; turn and go back again, keeping your stitches on a line with each other. A CHRISTMAS PLEA FOR THE RICH. A Large Measnr of Sympathy Due to the Wealthy Who Are Not Always with Us. -Charles Dudler Warner, in December Rarper. Christmas is supposed to bean altruistic-fes-: tival. Then, if ever, we allow ourselves to go out to others in sympathy expressed by gifts and good wishes. Then self-forgetfulness in the hajmmess of others becomes a temporary fashion. And we find do we notl the indulgence of the feeling so remunerative that we wish there were other days set apart to it. We can even understand those people who get a private satisfaction m being good on other days besides Sundav. There is a common notion that this Christmas altruistic sentiment is particularly Ihown toward -the unfortunate and the dependent bv those more prosperous , and in what is called a better social position. We are exhorted on this day to remember the poor. We need to be reminded rather to remember the rich, the lonely, not-easy-to-be-satisfied rich, whom we do not always have with us. The drawer never sees a very rich person that it does not long to give him something, some token, the value of which ia not estimated by its cost, that should be a consoling evidence to him that he has not lost sympathetic touch with ordinary humanity. There is a great deal of sympathy afloat in the world, but it is especially shown downward in the social scale. We treat our servants supposing we are society better than we treat each other. If wo did not, they would leave us. We are kinder to the unfortunate or the dependent than to each other, and we have more charity for them. The drawer is not indulging in any discriminate railing at society. There is society and society. There is that undefined something, more like a machine than an aggregate of human sensibilities, which is set going in a season,'' or at a watering-place, or permanently selects itself for certain social manifestations. It is this that needs a missionary to infuse into it sympathy and charity. If it were indeed a machine and not made up of sensitive personalities, it would not be to its members so selfish and cruel. It would be less an ambitious scramble for place and favor, less remorseless toward the unsuccessful, not so harsh, and hard and supercilious. In 6hort, it would be much more agreeable if it extended to its own members something of the consideration and sympathy that it gives to those it regards as its inferiors. It seems to think that good-breeding and good form ara separable from kindliness, and sympathy and helpfulness. Tender-hearted and charitable enough all the individuals of this "society" are to persons belovw them in fortune or position, let us allow, but how are they to each other? Nothing can be ruder or less considerate of the feelings of others than much of that which is called good society, and this is why the drawer desires to turn the altruistic sentiment of the world upon it in this season, set apart by common consent for usefulness. Unfortunate are the fortunate if they are lifted into a sphere which is sapless of delicacy of feeling for its own. Is this an intangible mattert Take hospitality, for instance. Does it consist in astonishing the invited; in overwhelming him with a sens of your own wealth, or felicity, or family, or cleverness even, in trying to absorb him in your concerns, vour success, vonr nosees&ions, in simply what interests youf However delightful all these may be. it is an offense to his individuality to insist that he shall admire at the point of the social bayonet How do you treat the stranger? I$o you adapt yourself and your surroundings to him, or insist that he shall adapt himself to you? How often does the stranger, the guest, sit in helpless agony in your circle (all of whom know each other) at table or in the drawing-room, isolated and separate, because all the talk is local and personal, about your little world, and the affairs of you clique, and your petty interests, in which he o she cannot possibly join us? Ah! the Sioux Indian would not be so cruel as that to a guest There is no more refined torture to a sensitive per son than that. Is it only thoughtlessness? It is more than that. It is a want of sympathy of the heart, or it is a lack of intelligence and broad-minded interest in affairs of the world and in other people. It is this trait absorption in self pervading society more or less, that makes it so unsatisfactory to most people in it. Jus! a want of human interest; people do not come in contact. Avid pursuit of wealth, or what is called, pleasure, perhaps makes people hard to each other, and infuses into the higher social life, which should be the most unselfish and enjoyable life, a certain vulgarity, similar to that noticed in well-bred tourists scrambling for seats on top of a mountain coach. A person ol refinement, and sensibility and intelligence, cast into the company of the select, the countryhouse, the radiant, twelve-button society, has been struck with infinite pity for it, and asks the drawer to do something about it. The drawer cannot do anything about it. It can only ask the prayers of all good people on Christmas day for the rich. As we said, we do not have them with us always they are here to-day, they are gone to Canada to-morrow. But this is. of course, current facetiousness. The rich are as good as anybody else, according to their lights, and if what is caUed society were as . good and as kind to itse as it is to the poor, it would be altogether enviable. We are not of those who say that in this case charity would cover a multitude or sins, but a diffusion in society of the Christmas sentiment of good-will and kindliness to itself would tend to make universal the joy on the retr rn of this season. Shrinkage of Corn. Professor Seoville, of Kansas has been experimenting to ascertain the shrinkage of corn after it is ripe and placed in the crib. Reports of bis tests are given in the Kansas City Indicator, from which we learn that six different varieties weighed Oct. 6, and etored in a room without any artificial heat, showed an average shrinkage of 15 per cent, thirty days after storage. One variety showed a little over 8 per cent., while with another tbe less was 25 per cent. On Feb. 28, 145 days from the date of gathering, the lot was weighed, and tbe average loss on the whole amounted to 21 2-3 per cent., and in one variety, called the Mammoth, th loss was exactly onethird, or 33 1-3 per cent. From the above th farmer may make a very close calculation as to the advance in price of corn, which he most obtain in spring to make it equal to the loss sustained in shrinkage during the winter. Most rooms are too much cumbered up with bows of ribbons on chairs, and scarfs tied on sofas, and tea cups on little tables, for a man, if he is more than a carpet-knight, to be comfortable in them long. Angostura Bitters are indorsed by all the leading physicians and chemists for their purity and wholesomeness. Beware of counterfeits, and ask your grocer and druggist for tbe genuine article, prepared by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. Allow your Clothing, Paint, or Woodwork, washed in the old rubbing, twisting, wrecking way. Join that larcre armv of , a y sensible, economical people, who from experience have learned that James Pyle Pearline, used as directed on each package, saves , labor, rubbing, wear and tear. our Clothes are worn out more by rf ashing than wearing. It is to your advantage to try Pearline. JAMES PYLE, New York. old Everywhere.