Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1881 — Page 2

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Indianapolis Leade FUKL1SUEÜ EVERY SATURDAY ! BY BVBY &: CO., OFFICE, 13 MILLER'S BLOCK ;Corner Illinois and Market Ms. (J. D. BAGBY, Buiinesa Manager. Xnterd as second-class matter at the Foatofflc I st Indianapolis, Ind. term or scbscbiption. Single Copy, 1 ysar fc.00 I e month l.oo I 3 months M "M I ts 1 month... Ctnb of lx 1 year, each copy 1-7S " ten, 1 year, each copy.. 1.60 rpTTTO D4D17D ml found on si at In lo r AI rm gm. p. rowii acos Newspaper Advertising Bureau (lOSprae St ) kn iTrtuing contract ranj oe maa lor it id xiavt IUKK " .cA ,w m.r, fW. tb elevation of bis nee subscribe for the Leader: and let every white man who believes that slavery was a crme against humanity and that it ia the duty of the ruling race to aid the Negro in hw struggle for moral, social and intellectual elevation do likewise. I President McKeen, of the Vandalia Line was in the city last Tuesday. Senator Harrison paid his respects to President Garfield, at Mentor, last week. Ex-Scnator Simon Cameron will visit Cuba and Havti during his 90 southern tour. Senator Voorheea was in the City J last Saturday, and made an address trt the mn T Am'slnttmA vV m ti.w Louisville is Fettcre-ed with a de butante of the Mary Anderson style, tit V rv vwx-kmtcac r rk a atfhf ootnioo f4 I " "w r"iu.oto kv m Diai vuvod w i Hon. HarTav D. Scott, of Terre Haute was, on last Tuesday, appoint ed J udgo of the Vigo and Sullivan District by Governor rorter to sueceed the late Judge Patterson. A strong opposition has Grow(n) up in Pennsylvaniana to Senator Cameron. The latter gentleman is trying to 011iver('ate,) the grievances .ia.i.M. v.. .:tk o rrar, I Veagh-1 so far. TV Kill 4rf vaftmrlinr fViA To ?"Vr . 1, al debt in t&ree per cent Donas, nas passed the House of Representatives. I Many prominent thinkers are of the opinion that we can not float bonds at such a low rate of interest AVe are glad to welcome the re-ap Dearance amontr our exenanges oi a; The Louisianian, Gov. Pinchback's paper. Although it has been in a State Of suspended animation for the last few months, vet in its rescus ta- . . . , . m .. . , .. WOO 1L iubco nuuw ui "m-l,mu I vigor. J Hon. Stanton J. reelle, 01 this City, I and Hon. K. B. F. Peirce, of Crawfordsville, will be among the young est members of the next House of Representatives, at Washington. We predict, however, that they will be among the foremost in the delibera tions of that body. We are happy to know that there is a well authenticated rumor from Mentor, that General Garfield does not proposo to "pacify" the South by giving the . federal offices to Demo crats. He has been an intelligent observer of the results of President Hayes pacification policy. Mr. J. Q. Adams, late senior editor of the Louisville Bulletin, has retired from the active management of that paper to accept an appointment in the Internal Revenue Service. We desire tO Congratulate JOhn (J. On his a iv. Ho una r1rtKf V.nnAof VUUU JUVsrt. 11U Al MO tiJ AJUUV UVIIVDVo . iy Won niS spurs. v e are imuriueu tW hAfiidps Mr. Adams there are ' . . r. . . 1 j more tnan nail a aozen coiorea men serving as causers and Storekeepers lt 'Ml rv in the liOUlBVllle UlStriCt. In Germany l'ust now the Jews are the victims of a most merciless perse-. cution, which the Government seema ' ry,, utterly powerless to stay. The movemant against them IS popular all OVer the country, and it seems that the emigration OlthO persecuted people 4ka n,Jtr tKintr that will atnr it fn 10 O " "I this country wo very frequently find the Jews acting with the race proscribing element of our population, as embraced in the Democratic party. It makes all the difference in the world, however, as to whose ox is gored. Weak kneed Republicans who think the party couldn't stand seeing a colored man go into General Garfield's Cabinet, should remember that the party has survived worse things (in their opinion) than that. They laid the party couldn't stand Negro Suffrage, yet it survived the consummation of the idea of the advocates of that measure, and in

1872, two years alter the ratificatioi

of tho Fifteenth Amendment,- ncored a me greatest Presidential triumph that has ever marked its career. And this, too, notwithstanding a di vision among party leaders. Weakkneed, and timid Republicans should make a noto of this, to be used in momenta of reflection. Our daily newspapers and periodical PQblicalion8 have for number oi years, uveu tun iu uvemuffing will th til I a vnnnri nrf flnn winHr onaMilo. 7 ö - j a lions oi lgnuranii currespouueuui hiiu hnllAt.WriAd rtnnriita Knut ttm rm?rl A f . v ' . Arate at wuiuu iuo xiegru race iu uns country was dying ont. Far from sustaining these Dremature inaoiral.j . . -.'.. lions ot wisdom, in much ot which the wish was father to the thought, the statistics of the census of 1880, so far as perfected, have developed the fact, we are informed, that the Ne groes of this country are multiplying more rapidly by the natural laws oi increase, than are the white people K- t,,,!' W rn. - ' . gether with the accessions they are congtantlv receiving from foreign . . , nations. Y nat a tremendous quan tity of speculative wisdom as to the exact date when the last Negro, prev ious to cashing his ultimate checks, would,fiddle in hand, sit down on the threshold of his deserted cabin, and mournfully play the funeral requiem to the death knell of the American branch of his race, has been wasted on the desert air! A Washinoton special furnishes the figures showing the amount of 4, and 5 per cent, bonds held by private individuals in thirty of the principal cities of the United Bes. ine laouiatea staieiuein is as lui tl,.riiMMtiken in the order of population o per cents Citle. of 1881. 4. 4 and 5 per cento. New York 430.230,000 1176,724,550 4,460,850 26.457.450 5,953,500 19.968.950 2,953,950 6,130.200 4,815.450 BrOOklVn...... ........ ...... 328,250 Philadelphia..... . 9,730,900 143,300 3,652,250 74,800 1,625.950 940.U60 903,500 48,000 346.800 689.000 84.500 4,143,100 3H1.050 39,000 63,050 2l"80b 133,700 2,475.350 347,350 12,374,850 272,600 261,000 17.700 139,000 94,900 422,800 15,000 Boston. St Louis . Baltimore Cincinnati Ban Francisco New Orleans............. Cleveland.....-..-.-. 10.312,1 1,904.650 3.854.200 1,998,050 Plttsbun?.... 761,150 11,084,650 1,605,900 597,450 Washington....-. Newark . - Louisville . Jersey City .. 613,700 469.400 232,450 2,682.700 5,081,100 1,003,850 40,223.050 1,656,050 282,650 618.800 997,000 1,071,750 2,249,960 76,550 V mim Milwaukee...-. Providence... Albany Rochen ter.... Allegheny. I x- II... - Richmond. Va Indianapolis Lowell.. Worcester... Troy Kansas city . the WAR IN 80UTH AMERICA. war between Chili on the one side and Peru and Bolivia on the other, which began about two years ago, has been, for areft of exclusive of Patagonia, is about 133,000 square miles, and has a population of about 2,000,000. Bolivia has an area of 677,288 square miles and a population of 1,831,585. Peru lias an area of 500,000 square miles and a population of 3,417,000. It will be seen that Chill, with a population of about 2,000,OOO, has for two years been fighting countries ft popuiauon a66 5,000,000. and from the first has been victorif,. vr it nrirfn in a d smite concerning the right to tax the exportation of nitrates from the narrow belt of territory wing between the twenty-third and the twenty-fourth parallels of south latitude, at the foot or tne uoiman Anaes. a contem porary says : This Territory, which. Uke Bolivia, was once a part of Peru, was claimed both by Bolivia and by Chili. By mutual agreement the boundary was fixed on the twenty-fourth parallel. The territory north and south was formed into a Zollverein for a space of twenty-five years, Bolivia acting as Collector of Customs, and the receipts from taxes being dlrfcable equally between both parties. Chilian subjects resident within the same boundaries were to be exempted from any Increase of taxation, and Chilian imports were to enter duty free. Besides these concessions, BoU via was to pay to Chili an indemnity of such amount as the Emperor of Brazil might award in satisfaction of all further claims. This territory is a desert, and but for its minerals would be almost valueless, Chilian capital and Chilian enterprise develop these resources. They built the Port of Antofagaita and the mining town of Caracoles. From the vicinity of the latter town large quantities of eilver ores have been and still are extracted. These ores are brought down to the port and there amalgamated in large reduction works, erected by a Chilian Company. Between the port and the town are extensive deposits of nitrate of soda. The earth containing this salt is brought down by rail to the works of another Chilian Company, and there made to yield iu valaable constituents. Including. besides the soda, salt and iodine. These works I , . .... . . I produce some 5,000 tons of nitrate per month. I This supply competed with the Peruvian producuen- u was aniagonisuc to tne monopoly tne I flnvprnmcnt rf P lAiioltt In MlahHith. When I " - .-o-. .v. negotiations were going on between Chill and Bolivia as to the right of taxation claimed by BoUvia, Chili learned that a secret treaty of aUl.nPÄ ha(1 v,n -nt-rM into betwen Peru and Bolivia in relation to this territory. The basis of this treaty, it appeared, had been the refusal of Government, being desirous of securing the mononpoiy 0f the nitrate ot soda for the purchase of the Chilian works in Antofagaata, The Chillftns claim that it was in consequence of this refusal that the Bolivian Government made a I Ä ... 1, hv thrhn. j lans, the Bolivian authorities proceeded to levy the Ux by force and placed soldiers In the nitrate I wnrkl On innfil Ia tA rtillfin RAmmm latter promptly dispatched a superior force and ousted the Bolivians not only from the port of Antofagaata but from the mining town of Caracoles. When the news of the Chilian occupation reached Lima great excitement ensued. The militia were ordered to be enrolled throughout Peru for active service. Chili, however, was In a position to anticipate her rival from having made her preparations for war, and in order not to lose her advantage she demanded, by her Ministerin Lima, a definite statement from the Peruvian Governmental to the existence or non-existence of the secret treaty with Bolivia. The Government in Lima refused to answer the Minister, and required that the demand should be addressed to them through their Plenipotentiary in Santiago This reply was telegraphed to the ChlUaa Government, and was promptly foUowed by the dispatch of the fleet to blockade the coasts of Pern. Early in th war Chili effectually destroyed the PeruTian Navy, and blockaded all the Peruvian seaports. While she was gaining victories on the sea her land forces were not less successful. Arica, Ilo and

Callao were shut out from the commerce of

the world, and Arica was finally captured. Tacona, Pisagua and Pisco were captured, and finally Lima, the Capital, has fallen, and it is believed now if the terms of peace, which Chili will dictate, are not too severe the last chapter of the war has been reached. It is said that the strength of Peru gave way more than a year ago. The Kacional of Lima, in December, 1879, said: in the brief period ol forty days the sad Itiner ary (four disasters has gone very far. In that time we have to record : The loss of our naval power. The low of our best iron -clad. The loan ot the naval campaign. The low of Pisagua. The loss of Its fortifications and artillery. The loss of many of our soldiers, wounded or prisoners. - The loss of a military railroad fifty miles long, with the Important poslUona of Uosplclo, Dolores, Santa Catalina, Agua Santa, and among them the Impregnable and strategic heights of San Fran cisco. The low ot our ammunition, arm amenta and oaonon. The loss of our depots of provisions. The lo&S of the first campaign by land. The low of Iquique with it fortlfioaUons and artillery, its twenty-six miles of railroad and IU telegraphs. And the loan of Patillos with its railroads and and telegraphs as far as Lagunos. AU this means that we hsfte shffered: Tne loss of our territory to the nineteenth degree of latitude. The loss of more than 1,800 square leagues of Peru's area. The loss of the entire Department of Tarapaca. The loss of nearly 200,000 souls of our population. The loss of our railroad and telegraphs for over 200 miles, worth more than twenty millions of hard dollars. The loss of the three ports of Patillos, Iquique, Pisagua and their corresponding Inlets and smaller ports. The loss of $20,000,000 worth In hard money of nitrate factories. The loss of 2,800 miles of nitrate lands, amount Ids to 28,000.000. or 1 40, OC 0,000 hard dollars. The less of our guano and nitrate revenues, netting 10,000,000 hard dollars per annum; and, lastly. The loss of the Integrity of our Territory and of the dearest rights of Peru as an independent and sovereign Nation. Through all the pores of our organization there flows the blood of our shame and ot the opprobrium which a handful of incompetent officials have cast on the Republic. The indication are that - Chili will be severe in her demands upon the conquered Republics, in which case the fighting may be prolonged, but it is probable that Pern will submit to humiliating demands for the sake of peace, which the longer it is post poned the more it will cost her in money, low of territory and humiliation. THE COAL ROAE ELECTION. Indianapolis Sentlnel.1 On Monday, February 7, 1881, the election will be held in this Township to determine for or against the appropriation of $100,000 by Center Township to aid in the construction of the Indianapolis Coal and Southern Railroad. At this election every legal voter is entitled to vote at his Ward or Precinct poll, under the same rules and restrictions that govern other elections. No other proposition except the one of making the appropriation in aid of the In dianapolis Coal and Southern Railroad will be submitted to.a vote on that day. "While the enterpneing cities of Chicago, Cincinnati and St Louis have constructed coal railroads into the Indiana coal fields, Indianapolis, with these immense coal beds within fifty miles of her factories, has never contributed one cent to secure cheap fuel. The proposition to be voted on is the most liberal one ever offered to the city of Indian a pol is. One hundred and sixty-five miles of new road, and only $100,000 of donation proposed; and this not to be paid until sixty miles of the road is built, nor until a guarantee is given that coal will be brought to the city 33- per cent, less for freight than it is now costing. The following are the conditions named, and which must be complied with before any part of the appropriation is paid: "The money bo appropriated not to be paid until said Company shall have completed its railroad and run cars thereon a distance of sixty miles from the city of Indianapolis; nor until said Company shall have entered into an agreement with the County Commissioners to construct and maintain repair shops in or near the city of Indianapolis, and to transport coal for consumption in said Township at a rate not exceeding one cent per ton per mile; and transport coal over the line of said road from coal fields not more than seventy five- miles distant from the city of Indianapolis, at a rate not exceeding sixty cents per ton." The Indianapolis Coal and Southern Railroad is designed: 1. To supply the city of Indianapolis and its factories with cheap coal, and thereby foster and build up a great manufacturing center and great city. 2. To open up to the trade of the city a vast section of country not now supplied with railroad communication. 3. To connect the great cities of Indianapolis and Evansville with a direct and indeendent line of railroad. 4. To make the city of Indianapolis the Northern terminus and this road a link in the most direct line of railroads from the great cotton-producing sections of the South and the great cattle-raising sections of Texas and the Southwest, and part of the great Texas Pacific Line. It is susceptible of mathematical demonstration that the advantages to the city will be more than $100.000 a year for fifty years to come. The projectors of this enterprise are all Indianapolis men, and generally large property-holders and tax-payers, who expect no profit to themselves in the enterprise other than such as may come to them as citizens and property-holders from the new life that may be imparted to business and enhanced value that may be given to property. Ihe following are the names of the incorporators of the Indianapolis Coal and Southern Railroad Couijuny: Thomas A. Morris, Thomas H. Sharpe, Ingram Fletcher, E. B. Martindale, Austin II. Brown, Wm. Wallace, S. A. Fletcher, Jr., N. S. Byrani, II. R. Allen, John W. Murphy, Hervey Bates, Fred Baggs, Arthur L. Wright, T. A. Lewis, W. W. Johnston, D. P. Krwin, John C. New, J. C. Shoemaker, Henry Jordan, J. H. Vajen and Thomas Davis. There is not one of these incorporators who would not like to see a coal road built without taxation, or who would not do as much in this direction as any one who may feel called upon to oppose the appropriation, but they know, and others know, that the defeat of this appropriation means the defeat of the road and no reduction in the cost of coal. The enterprise is presented upon its merits, and upon its merits it . must ' go before the people. If the voters of the city are satisfied with the present price of coal; if they are satisfied with the want of growth in

manufacturing; if they are satisfied, to look

forward to the probability of a dead city, they will vote against the appropriation. If, on the other aide, they desire cheaper coal; If they wish for an increase In manufactures and a new growth and new life and greater commercial activity in the Capital City, they will cast their votes for theppropriation. ' La on Fifth avenue, in the City of New York, Is worth $1,000,000 an acre. Old John Jacob Astor, who had faith inland, purchased it for $250 an acre. Land-ow new In and around Indianapolis should hang on to their land. ' J at an has got a railroad costing $20,000 per mile, including rolling stock, buildings, etc As noon as Yankee methods of build ing railroads in Japan are introduced, the coat will run up from $20,000 to about 00,000 per mile. ' ' Stobky, of the Chicago Times, has got an idea In his head that he can beat Bennett in publishing a big newspaper, and to carry it out he will estabiah news bureaus throughout Europe, and do several other big things. CURRENT MOTES. OEMUiiSuEtSAS has a new little granddaughter, presented by his daughter, Mrs. Thackara. Jay Gocld is aald to have paid 8271,000 for the World, "along with a heavy sUce of Texas Pacific" Rev. Hem by Wakd Beeches, says that he has Just declined an offer of $300,000 to lecture for one year. gexkbal Fitzhcgh Lis la to give an oration at the unveiling of "Stonewall" Jackson's statue at New Orleans next May. Bro, good-natured Senator McDonald, of Indiana, la one of the most popular men in Washington. So says the New York Herald. ' Jay Gould Is said to have made $10,000.000 by the recent flurry in telegraph stocks. One woman's spring bonnet seems to be assured. The oldest of all the Cardinals of the Roman Church is Catterlni. He is eighty-five years of age and has been a Cardinal for twenty-seven years. Sänket told somebody in San Francisco that "the Bostordans have a great deal better opinion of themselves than the Lord has of them." And Sankey was right. Edwix Booth Is said to possess a portrait of his first wife which Is kept entwined with flowers by his present wife, and under it Is written : "From Mary on earth to Mary in Heaven." Mr. Blaine, when Speaker of the House of Representatives, used to break several gavels at each session. Vice President Wheeler, as Pret.1 dent of the Senate, has never broken a gavel. The body of the Confederate leader, General Richard Taylor, arrived at New Orleans from New York on Saturday night, and was burled without ceremony in Meterie Ridge Cemetery, near the former city. It Is proposed to erect a memorial to thelate John A. Sutter In Sacramento. The memory of the broken-hearted old man la an honored one In California. Sutter was the first to discover gold in California. General Gasfielo will travel to Washington in a special car. We are gradually getting to think more of our Presidents. Until within a few years special cars were reserved exclusively for trottlng-horses. Miss Mary Lee, General Robert K. Leo's eldest daughter, visited the private gallery of tbe United States Senate the other day. She was attended by Senators Ransom, BuUer and Randolph, and Rep resentative Tucker. Hon. John B. Bowman, of Kentucky, founder of the free University of A6hland, and one of the Commissioners for the removal of the Utes, is one of the distinguished Southern men urged for a place In Mr. Garfield's Cabinet. The Messenger of the Maryland Electoral Col lege received from the Treasury Department the smallest amount of mileage paid for the duty of conveying the vote It was only $10.50. The Ore gon Messenger received the largest sum 8063.75. Hiram Sibley, of Rochester, is mentioned as the largest farm owner in the world. He has more than 400 farms In New York, Illinois and Michigan. Although past his seventieth birthday, Mr. Sibley is still absorbed in business. Ma. Vaxderbilt recently received $1,200,000 as Interest on his 4 per cent. Government bonds; but it is understood that he has already squan dered a great part of the money, It being an open secret that he has twice hired a livery-stable horse and sleigh during the past week. Senator Logan wears an Immense white sombrero, which adds to the Indian-like pictur esqueness imparted by his long, straight black hair and his formidable mustache. Senator Id galls can always, it is said, be recognized among the other Senators by his necktie, which Is usually of a brilliant cardinal or solferino color. A school friend of George Eliot says that while Marian Evans was the plainest-looking girl and the poorest in the aristocratic Edinburgh school, she was universally respected as Intellectually their superior. The school girl of sixteen was of a sensitive and retiring disposition, and far before her companions as a writer of prose and verse as well as In her various studies. George Euot is called by the Athreueum probably the most accomplished woman the century has seen. She had a complete mastery of French, German and Italian, and serviceable knowledge of Latin, Greek, Spanish and Hebrew. She was widely learned in science and philosophy, and deeply read In history; and she had an Intimate knowledge of music and painting. Ma. Gladstone is said to have one faculty In a supernatural degree that of mastering the con tents of a book by glancing through its pages. A friend says of him that he can master any aver age book in a Quarter of an hour. He has a sort of instinct which leads him straight to Its salient points, and after a quarter of an hour's study he will be able to t 11 more about It, and to argue more conclusively on Its thesis, than the average reader who begins with the preface and reads through to the last page. The late Auguste Blanqul made several at tempts in the early part of his career to escape from prison. At Belle Isle, h and a companion lowered themselves with a rope into a pit. The rope proved too short; but, after being suspended tome time up to the waist in water, they succeeded In scaling tbe walls and reached a fisherman's hut, but the fisherman, Instead of taking them to England, betrayed them. On another occasion he had removed to the Infirmary for a pretended Ulness, crept through the sewers and bid himself In a fig tree, but was discovered before he could venture further. A quaint quadrille is to be danced at the ball concluding the festivities attending the wedding of Prince William of Prussia. The fifty couples who are to take part la it wUl wear the costume of the period ot Frederick William I. The gentlemen who are to impersonate the giant Grenadiers of the Soldier King wlU be arrayed in the ancient lace coat unllorm of the Prussian Guards, with gaiters, sugarloaf helmets, and cumbersome leather straps and belts. Those selected are all officers In the present Foot Guards, and no unworthy representatives of the olden time, the smaUe8t person admitted measuring five feet eleven Inches in height. Of the ladies, many are said to suit their towering partners admirably In height and sire. BESUME OF THE WEEK'S NEWS. WASHINGTON AND CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. The attention of the Senate was largely taken up by Mr. Williams, of Keutucky, on Thursday, who spoke in favor of his measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease among cattle. The matter was finally referred to a Special Committee. The refunding bUl passed the House finally, en Thursday, substantially as reported from the Committee of the Whole. - The Convention of commercial men from all parts of the country had a hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the House on Thursday, strongly advocated tbe adopUon of Judge Lowelrs bill for a common bankruptcy law. In the Senate on Thursday the blU for the grant

ing of lands to the Indians in severalty was considered, but no action was taken. ' In the House the bill appropriating $14,461.000 for the Navy, the usual Naval appropriation bill, w as passed. The Government Auditor has notified the Direc

tors of the Central Pacific Railway that they must cancel their recent 3 ier cent, dividend. 3ir. lnompson last week advanced further arguments before the lloune Foreign Affairs Committee in support of the De Lesseps Canal scheme. Captain Eads appeared be;ore the Committee on inter-uceanic canals in support 01 ms manne railway. Mr. Conkling earned the applause of a number of the memoers of the National Woman's Suffrage Association who were present in the Senate yesterday by sarcastically championing a bill in their favor. A batch of correiMndenee between Mr. Evarta and the Canadian Government in reference to the reciprocal rights and privileges of American ana Canadiau ship-owners in the Inland waters of this continent, has been published. The Indian appropriation bill was pattsed finally in the Henateon Friday. In the House ihe Senate bill for the retirement of General Ord was passed on Friday. Mr. Loring. tu Massacnusetts, wnose seat nan been contested, was last week declared entitled to his seat In the Lower House. The question of the Speakership of the next House of Representatives excites much interest at Washington. The Houie of Representatives wasted ten hours on Friday night in an attempt to hold an evening session. The members were unfit for business on Saturday and nothing was accomplished. The Senate on Monday debated Logan's bill to place General Grant on the retired list, with the pay 01 a General. More new bills were introduced into Congress on Monday. Miscellaneous News Items. An earthquake shock was felt at Baltimore on Thursday night. An Ironclad la reported on the coast of Ireland, to prevent the landing of arms. A Genera (Mich.) farmer murdered his wife on last Thursday, and then killed himself. At Albany Thursday, several illegal voters were sentenced in the United States District Court. A bill legalizing Church Fair raffles was introduced Into the New York Legislature last week. For the week ending Saturday there have been distributed ?114,918 standard silver. The corresponding week in 13S0 there were 1104.407 dis tributed. It is stated that Justice Swayne, of the Supreme court, win resign early this week, and that exSenator Stanley Matthews, of Cincinnati, will be nominated. The residence of Christ Hamrlcks and contents. half a mile east of Belleville. Ind.. was consumed by fire Friday night. Loss, $7u0; insured in the orth American. At Leesbuiv. Ohio. FridAV evening, an eighteen months old child of Carter Lambs was seriously. If not fatally, burned while lying in its crib in front of the fire. Nebraska fs governed by the "boys." Forty members of her Legislature are less than thirtyfive years old. "Growing up with tho country" ana with its pontics. General Garfield was visited on Thursday by representative Southern Republicans, who urged him to strengthen the party in the South by giving patronage to Republicans. In the storm Friday night at Blair, Neb., the crowing of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad. two trains collided, and a brakeman named McLannen was instantly killed. The Chilian Representatives at European Courts have advices of the surrender of Lima to tbe Chilians. General Baguedano, who commanded the Chilians, bad 40,000 men. Weetervelt, the brother-in-law of Mosher, the abductor of Charlie Ross. Is lust out of Prison, He Inclines to the belief, that the boy is alive, be cause he has "never heard oi his aeatn. William Williamson, of Detroit, Mich., choked to death Saturday while eating. He was a sufferer from asthma, and his suffocation was due to his disease aud not to too large a mouthful. At Philadelphia, Saturday, much excitement was caused by the uncovering of a pile of sixty coffins by men digging a trench near the Alms House. The cothus contained the remains of vic tims of the cholera 1849. Friday, near Rensselaer, Ind., John Knight, about tweniv vears old. a farm laborer, shot him self through the right lung, using a revolver for the purpose. A critical case. Was despondent. but is now anxious to recover. The pronohed establishment of triennial im perial budgets, which Bismarck has again in troduccd in the Buudesrath, causes great opposition in the pref s. The resignation of Herr Bitter, Minister of Finance, is considered prob able. At Fort Wayne, Ind.. Saturday, tbe Wabash exprefS from the West struck a track laborer named John Walters, who did not hear it approach. He was badly bruised about the head and body. It Is thought his injuries wlU prove iatai. The Jury have given a verdict for 915,000 in the action of Mrs. Deputy to recover 525,000 from ex-Commiseloner Hazard, of Brooklyn, whom she charges with ejecting her from his homestead with such violence that she is permanently lamed. John Butt, of DonelBon. Marshall County. In diana, was instantly killed three miles , west of South Chicago, Saturday morning. He was brakeman on a freight train on the Fort Wayne Rail road, and while running over the top of a train, fell between the cars. The Cuban Home Government has decreed that the Importation duty free for fish under foreign flags shall cease. It Is reported that two American vessels trading between Key West and Havana with fish have already changed the American for the Spanish flag. The President has directed that the foUowlng officers be placed on the retires list: Brigadier General William Dunn, Judge Advocate General; General Stewart Van Vliet, Assistant Quartermaster General: Lieutenant Colonel Hamuel Woods, Deputy Paymaster General, and Major Joseph II. Katau, Paymaster. The main outlines of the arrangement between Russia and China are that Russia shall restore all of Kuldja, reserving a small territory in the northwest of 111. China will pay a substantial amount over and above the .S.OüO.OOO roubles stipulated by the Treaty of Lividia for the expenses of Russia's military preparations. Late Friday evening William RIggler, a white man. and William Womack, a colored man, employed at the Ohio Falls Iron Works, at Jeffersonvilie, Ind.. met with a very serious accident. While pushing a car in the yard they were caught between the side of the car and a fence around an Iron crusher, and both were terribly jammed and taken out nearly lifeless. RIggler was badly crushed in the breast and bowels, and Womack about the thighs and legä. At Boston. Mass., Saturday night, Charles H. Jetsup, aged thirty, son of a well-known confectioner, aud a prominent member of the Independent Order of Elks, committed suicrde in a barber-ühop under very peculiar circumstances. In a spirit of bravado he put a bottle containing poison to his lips, declaring he was not afraid to drink It. lie was apparently carernl not to allow any of it to pass into his mouth; but soon after laying down the bottle it was discovered . to be empty. He had completely drained it, and died in fifteen minutes. The second wife of Oliver Parker, living four miles north of Fort Wayne, Ind., was arrested on Saturday and lodged in Jail upon the charge ot murdering her step-daughter, Llllie, a girl fourteen years of age. Last Monday the girl died, having been seen the day previous by the neighbors, all of whom were cognizant of the Ill-treatment of tne dead girl by her fiendish step-mother, and they, feeling suspicious, demanded an examination into the cause of her death. Tbe body was exhumed and taken to Fort Wayne by the Coroner, where it was examined at a Medical College, and such marks of violence revealed as to cause the examining physicians to shudder. The head and face were badly bruised from blows. There were lumps on the arms, which, when opened, emitted a quantity of putrid matter. There were thirteen wounds on the face and forehead, tbe principal one being in the center of the forehead, in which pus was found. Her whole body was one mass öf welts and bruises, some made recently, and some old. THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR. FOUR MCRDERS IN A DAY. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 22. A special to tbe Courier-Journal from Chattanooga says: "A few nights ago, in an adjoining County, 6ome one fired a hay rack belongiug to Henry Yarneli. While Yarneli. after he had extinguished the tlamea, was searching for the incendiaries, aenieted by a man named Howe, the report of a gun wan heard and Yarneli dropped dead, shot through the brain. Howe was also shot in the mouth and dangerously, perhaps fatally, injured. The next day two men, named Brookj and Griffin, were arrested on suspicion, and being some distance from Jail, they were confined in a blacksmith ohop, where they were guarded by two men. During the night a noise was heard at the windows, and almost simultaneously two rifles were fired, the bullets entering the brains of the two prisoners, causing Instant death. Tbe greatest excitement prevails in tho County, and several parties have been arrested and have been removed to auother part of the country for fear of lynching. There are no positive froofsof the cause of the murder of Yarneli. but t Is believed that it Is the result of an old feud. It is believed that the two prisoners were killed by friends of Yarneli. A "BOLD ROBBERY. Chicago. Jan. 24. One of the boldest and most successful burglaries ever planned and executed In this city, occurred about 7 o'clock last evening, at the office of the South Chicago iron and Steel Works, on Ashland avenue, near Thirtieth street, but was not reported by the police until 2 o'clock this morning, it was then learned that three masked burglars had forced the office door, bound and gagged the janitor. Charles Brooks, and, while one stood guard over him with a pistol, the others drilled a hole in the safe, blew open the combination, and bidding the old watchman a cheerful good night left, taking with them J1.600 five-dollar gold pieces and 150 In coin, together with (9,000 in bills done up In envelopes ready to pay the help to-day. Tbe above facts are given by Brooks, but the police regard some things about the affair as sufficiently suspicious to implicate him, aud have accordingly arrested him and his son. He told somewhat contradictory stories. His unruffled clothing and unprepossessing appear--ance raised doubts of his accuracy and integrity. Paddy Cavanaugh, a notorious character, was also arrested.

SNUBBING. The Art Ably Diagnosed by an Evidently Capable Critic.

From ths Queoo. Everyone can be rude, forbidding, in solent and snubbing; but to only the studious and gifted few ia it given to wound a fnend'a self-love with so light a touch and io fine a point as to be almost imperceptible at the moment the only thine certain in the matter being the wound, which remains. It takes no artistry to contradict flatly. to sneer openly, to put down an Interlocutor u a fool who mav or may not know his own folly. 'This is the bludgeon style of walfare, the savage a method of braining his foe and of cooking his food in the ashes of. the fire. The art consists in the grace with which the weapon is usea; me lightness of hand with which the thrust ia made, the smallness of the visible aperature and the depth of the cor responding wound. The man or woman who has attained perfection in these methods has ever in pogseeslon one of the most deathly of all those poisonous needles, the scratch of which festers to the death, while invisible to all eves but the sufferer's. You have lately learned a quite new fact, whether in the physical sciences or in historical criticism it does not signify; but it ia new, has not yet been published, and your authority is incontestable. You are in the proßence of a snubber when you bring out your lately acquired treasures, and make a present of it to all around. "That all? I knew that long ago," says the snubber, who has never heard , the question discussed That la no such wonderful thing to tell. If, now, you had told us of the elemental principle of life or who was the man in the iron mask if you could explain why a tree grows and who was Junius you would be worth listening to. But this this is not worth the time it takes to tell I" And as all persons, save the exceptionally kind-hearted and the exceptionally generous-minded, like the sport of snubbing as much as fox hunters like cub hunting, you are at once set down, amid a shower of small sneers, as a mere retailer of second-hand goods as one who tries to pass off old lamps for new, wilo "offers stale facts, "which every school-boy knows," as the latest discoveries made by the great leaders in the world of mind all to get for yourself the kudos which belongs to the chosen vessel of communication. Sometimes you are snubbed by a dead blank silence. You have said something for which it is desirable you should be put down. So you are put down by the crushing force of negative disdain. "What ycu have said is not worth the trouble even of a reply, still less of contradiction. We do not answer the cat when she mews, nor think it always necessary to convince our polly that crying 'Go to bed, Jackl" at noon is a futile exhortation. You rank no higher than the cat or the parrot, and what you have just said bears no more weight than the mew of the one, the prate of tne other. Ana as you can not talk with no one to listen and no one to reply, the snub does its work, and you are wounded, as it was meant you should be. And sometimes you are snubbed by direct and uncompromising contradiction. It may be very nicely put if your enemy be well-bred, or it win De Drutaiiy ana rudely nung in your face if he or she be ill-mannered. Whether nicely put or rudely flung, you are contradicted all the same beaten back by the surging waves wmcn sweep your own strand bare, but bring no substitute for that which they take away. Cousin-german to the snub of silence is that of ostentatiously changing the conver sation. You are assumed to have flourished a red flag in the face of your companions, and good breeding rebukes you to a sudden diversion and wheeling round away from your poet, so that your aggressive flag shall not be seen. 1 ou really are too impractic able, thev seem to sav. There ia no modus vivendi possible with you; you have never learned to run curricle, nor to fall into step; and the only way to treat you is to change front rapidly and leave you plante in your isolation, lney must prove to you that they are not with you, though they are too kind and well bred to say so openly. Hence they snub you with a courteous 6mile, as their sole reply to what you have said, and immediately open another topic of con versation, miles away from that which you had begun. Somehow or Other. eaoaOK BETSB. Life has a burden for ever j man's shoulder. One may escape from its troubles and csre; Miss it in youth and 'twill come when we're older, And fit us as close as tbe garment we wear. 8orrow comes into our lives aninvlted. Robbing onr hearts of tbeir treasures of song; Lovers grow cold and frlendiare slighted, Tet somehow -or other we worry alon. Everyday toll is everyday blessing. Though poverty's cottage and crust we msj share Weak is the back on which burdens are pressing, Bat stont is tbe heart that is strengthened by prayer. Somehow or ether the pathway grows brighter Just as we mourn that there are none to befriend; ti ope m tne neart makes the burden see lighter. And somehow or other we get to the end. On Picket. Detroit Free Press i ne reiiei is going out irom tne reserve picket. Between the reserve and the camp, where 10,000 men are slumbering, half a mile of wood, fields and broken ground. Between the reserve and the enemy is a thin line of pickets a man stationed here and there to give advance warning of any movement. Follow the relief and you will notice how cautiously the men tread. The dark line winds around through the trees, flits across open spaces, ana naits nere ana mere tor a moment to relieve the old picket. Musket snot away are tne picxei ot the enemy, and a loud word may bring a volley of bul lets. The line might pass you twenty feet away and you would hardly catch a sound. Sit you here on this bank where you can look down upon me picact aye, almost touch him. A little creek runs between you. There ia an open space of thirty feet, and all around it are trees, stumps, logs and brush. It would be a lonely place in which to pass two long hours even in times of peace. There is a warning in the midnight breeze as it rustles the branches, aud the waters of the creek have more than once been colored with blood. The lone picket takes his station under a tree. In the dark shadow you can hardly make him out. As he finds himself alone his eyes are constantly searching the darkness in front, and his ears catch every sound. They tell of men found asleep on picket. It must be a strange man who could close his eyes in sleep with the night wind whispering in his ears: "Beware! beware! In the bushes to the left is a foe!" and the waters of the creek plainly saving: Keep watch to the right! right! right! right!' That man has been in a dozen battles, and has been wounded three times. Don't call him a coward, and yet he trembles and turns pale before he has been fifteen . minutes alone. The skirmish line with its deliberate murder is not as bad a place as this. If that man is dead when the relief comes again it will be worse than murder. Call that babbling creek company 7 Hark! hear what it is saying to him, every word as plainly spoken as if their language was the same: ''Look outl -Look out!- There is a fiercefaced guerrilla crawling through the bushes toward yout He has a knife in his teeth, and he ia coming to assassinate you!". If the creek did not say so, and if the picket did not understand, why did he give that sudden start and change his position? Why does he kneel to get a clearer look around hira? . "Why does he keep his eyes fastened upon that stump until the intensity of his gaie brings out every knot and splinter? If fifty men were asleep in that space and one other were awake he would feel the loneliness and danger. By daylight a

school-girl mUzht weave a romance from the babble of the waters. Hark I Is there any remance in this: "Be ware I beware! Timttnau with tangled hair, fierce eyes and t-avage face is still advancing! Be on your guard watch listen!" Coward? Count the ? cara on his bodylookup his record I No, not a coward, and yet his pale face cornea to you from the darkness almost like a candV light. If it was fear, he would crouch down. If it was cowardice, he would hide or desert his 'post. No, it is not fear, and yet he thinks

it a feeling unworthy ot mm, and he braces against it. lie turns a deaf ear to the whis pera of the creek. He refuel to hear the warnings of the br?7. l ou can almost see him as he shuts hia teeth hard toeether aim tries to lorcc nis thoughts into other channels. Look outl lookoutr whifpers the creek, but he refuses to hear. Something is moving over tbe ground behind him. You can see it from where VOU sit. It is something darker than the dark ground beneath. JSow it moves now it halts now its fierce eyes almost light up the darkness, as it makes out the mumed form of the picket leaning against the tree. Olurderl Murder! Murder!" gurgle the creek. You hear it, but the picket is thinking of home. A thousand miles away is a quiet farm-house. If the same night wind biows there it kisses the apple blossoms and lulls the wife and children to deeper slumbers. You see that dark something coming nearer. It is creeping up behind him. A tiger would rustle the leaves or snap a twig, and his victim would have time to call God's name before the spring. This ia a human tiger. God put mercy in his heart, but it was driven out by hate. ' "Save him! Save him!" cries the creek. You start at the call, but he does not move. Hi is thinking of the wife whose tears wet hia cheek of the curly-heads who cling to his arms of the miles and the dangers between him and them. That something rises up behind him. That terrible knife is transferred from mouth to hand. "Murder! Murder! Mur !" but it was done. Not a cry not even a groan. The dead sank down with only a sigb. Tho picture of wife and children was hardly hidden between earth and Heaven. "One less!" hissed the human tiger as he peered into the blanched face, and with a gurgle in his throat, as if he had lapped at the hot ll-Kxl flowing toward the creek, he crept away to seek another victim. This U wari" whispered tha creek as it shrunk away from the blood, ''and war is murder!" Can Celibacy be Kxcused. New Toek Times. Young men are continually advited and urged, privately and publicly, to take a wife, the supposition being, whether erroneous or not, that young women are very willing to be taken under almost any circumstances. The postulate that mrriage is always desirable is obviously false. It is only desirable when such conditions exist for and between the couples are as far from common, and frequently attainable. The prospect of connubial misery would seem to be quite as good as the prospect of connubial happiness, and no amount of foresight or discretion will insure any pair against sharp disappointment and bitter discontent. Even body is aware of this it la little less than a truism--and yet on all sides preachments resound in favor of universal matrimony. Many persona do not wish to be married, and moro generally those anxious to be are not fitted for the Etate. Good wifehood or true hucbandehip is not inherited with birth ; nor does it appertain to the multitude. Thoee whe rannot live alone cannot as a rule live together. Connubial adaptation is evidence of self-discipline, or forbearance, of individuality. The best wives and the best husbands are doubtless they who, with a variation of their destiny, would have been model maidens and model bachelors. Nor is ;t improbable that many who would have been the noblest patterns of wedded domesticity are to-day enjoying themselves in singleblessedness. 25 YEARS' EXPERIENCE! THS Indian Botanic Physician LATE OF LONDON, EX8LAND, The mot successful catarrh, long and threat doe. tor Id America, is permaueiitly hratd at ths corner of Illinois aud Louisiana utrretn. IndianapoUs, Indiana, where be will examine all diseases, and tell tbe complaint without asking a Mngle question. "Consultation 7ree, in either German or Zagllsau PEBHAJfBSfT CUBES I Dr. Reeves warrants a penuaiMnt cur öf tk following diseases: Piles and tumors, itching and protruding, cured without pain or Instruments; cancers cured ia all tbeir for tu without the knife or sickness of the patient. The Doctor has cured hundreds of this dreadful canker of lbs human body, which has baffled tbe accumulated skill of ages. His remedies excel anything known to medical aeK ence. He defies tbe world to brirgc him a case where there Is sufficient vitality to susteia tbe system, that he can not cure. Auj person wishing furtbtr infor mation or treatment, should ylve bin a call. fche. matism cored and warranted to stay cured la every case. All forma of Blood And Skli . are Permanently Cured i Such as tetter, salt rheuui. scrofula or sypklUtte sores, stricture, armlnal weakness or spermatorb, primary and secondary syphilis, gonorrhoea, or chronic veuereal, kidoejor urinary diseases of either sex, young or old, no matter hew bad. He challenge a couiparioou with any physician in America ia cur . Ing these diseases. Loss of manhood restored. Tbe Doctor can refer to hundreds thus affected whneredii tbeir present existence to being cured by hint. All moles, birth-marks and frt-cklrs removed. Also, all the various diseases of the eye aud ear. FOBTOE UÜ1THOHLT! - A lady, at any period of life, from childhood to tbe grave, may, if ill, suffer rom on or more of the following disease, which tb Doctor will positively curs: Liver complaint, indigestion of tbe stomach nervous weaknesses, lung.dlseas, etc., prolapsus of tbe vagina or womb, leueorrh or whites, antevecslon, retroversion, antlplexloo. retroplexiou, or ulcer-' atlon of this organ, sick headache, rheumatism and sciatic pains. Dropsy permanently cured ia a short time without tapping. Cmil or write to ik s ftlee, cor. Illlavols and kiOaialKna street, lidf amolf Indiana. Private medical aid. All diseases of a secret aatur speedily curd. If In trouble call or writ prfectlj confidential. ANT. CASE Of.W HISST HABIT CÜE XW , , TXX CATS.

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