Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1877 — Page 2

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The Dally Neva has the large*t circalation of esy paper in Indiana, and is read In nearly every town and Tillage tribatary to Indianapolis.

Civil service reform has not touched the poetoffice editors yet. Canada wants to try a protective tariff. Well, what is there to hinder?

Tbs Moore whom \General Boynton has stepped upon is W. B. and no£ J. S. Moore.

Thk Austrian minister of finance says that country has abandoned her intention of occupying Servia.

Since the Ohio convention, the Cincinnati Commercial has a good deal less to say about the silver dollar of the daddies.

Another editor has been appointed postmaster in Indiana. Will he* be compelled to drop all connection with political management?

Thi speech of Mr. West, republican candidate for governor of Ohio, excites a good deal of disgust east, and he is voted blind mentally as well as physically. While waiting for the re victualing of Nicsica it is comforting to know that Hayti has her usual revolution. Com trary to custom, threats are made that blood shall flow in‘certain events.

It is reported that the wicked Deacon McKee has prepared himself for suits by transferring his property, and that he thinks suit would not have been brought if the Globe-Democrat had not attacked the administration.

No choice of a capital city having been made at the recent election in West Virginia, the question will go over till the general election, a year from next October. The fight was between Charleston and Clarksburg, Martinsburg getting few votes.

Turret is about to make a forced loan of six hundred millions piasters. She can’t do it by issuing irredeemable money, having long ago passed that point when her paper was worth anything. There would be no trouble in converting the Turks to a belief in the silver dollar of tbe fathers.

Consider able interest is excited in political circles by Senator Conkling’s unexpected .return. It is thought there is some meaning in it, especially as George William Curtis is beginning to ha vaarumivarl oa*fha J-lwf iJVlU lOF the senatorial succession. Mr. Conkling’s growing conservatism has been so apparent for a year or two, that it is not easy to believe he has any intention of making war on the administration. If he does he may bid farewell to hope. But if be sees the tendency of the times and yields his support to the promotion of administrative reforms and the establishment of peace and sound finances, he will get more votes in the next republican convention than he did in the last. •* Evansville is in a worse condition financially than Indianapolis. Her appraisement this year is $21,599,180, or $1,428,684 less than last year. Her estimated expenses are $331,181, of which $25,000' will be realized from fees and licenses, the rest must be raised by taxation. But not more than $1.45 can be levied legallv, which will net about $305,000, leaving a' deficit of $26,000. The council has a hard problem to solve, and there is but one way to do it and maintain the city’s credit, that ia to cut down expenses. This will be the more diflicult as the mayor says most of the expenses have been contracted for already, but if the knife is applied rigidly it probably can be done. Of course one great item of expense is the interest on the debt. That is $116,310, or more than thirtyfive per cent. of the entire cost. That is more than we paid last year with a duplicate nearly three times as great Much of this debt has been accumulated by voting railroad subsidies, for which the people must now pay bysubxnitting to oneroua taxes for many years and still owe the principals. It is more than likely that low taxes would be of far more benefit in the long run thnn the railroads built

of blame for firing into the mob and places the responsibility on those who originally instigated unlawful proceedings. Verdicts do not restore life, wipe out bitterness or repair losses, but if they will prevent any of these things in the future they accomplish a good work and this verdict should be carefully pondered. Tbe man who struck for higher wages was within the law, bnt as soon as he seized property that was not his to enforce his demands, he was without the Isw and on him rests the consequences which came from that act. A man can not throw down the bars of protection and then say to what degree he will be responsible for wrongs that come from .lack of protection.* The law ia a protection, thrown around every man’s life, around his exercise of personal freedom, around bis accumulations by his labor, and whoever breaks down that protection to injure another is responsible if thereby a third is injured, and must Buffer if he himself is also injured. The same lew that -protects the rich man’s million protects the poor man’s mite; and the protection can hot be struck away from the million without leaving the mite defenceless. H, in restoring that protection, the man who tore it away is killed and his wife and little ones suffer the woes of want, his blood is on his own head and their cries go up against him. This is sober truth.

An exception to the usual imbecility that characterizes the verdicts of coroner’s juries is the one rendered at Beading Tuesday. It acquita the soldiers

A workingman may be poorly paid and poorly fed but his condition is td be bettered, not by highway robbery but by moral force working upon the general sense of justice. The whole country is thinking to-day, the best intellect of it more earnestly than it ever did before, over tbe problem that shall so administer the laws of nature as to give to every human being food and raiment and time to culture his moral and mental nature. So far as human wisdom can, this end will be striven for. There are numerous difficulties to combat in the unequal operations and interferences of laws. Demagogues go up and down the land, appealing to the passions and prejudices of men, advertising like quacks, remedies for all the ills of the body politic. These disturb the conditions which it is neccessary to reach before any attempt at adjustment can be made. Then workingmen resort to unlawful methods and derange the whole fabric of society, congeal sympathy, harden against them the forces which are carrying on the life of the world, and «o the attempts are nullified, and set back and postponed. There must be patience; there must be universal cooperation. Men must be put in power by tbe votes of workingtaen who are fitted to deal with these questions. But if the voice of tbe demagogue is hearkened to; if charlatans whose only object is power and pelf are given place, the bettering of tbe condition of tbe helpless will be delayed, though not th wafted. It may be turned aside and the saving forces may have to work out the salvation of the workingman through bitterness and violence, and in spite of himself. But they will work it out. It is a question only of time. It can be hastened by tbe hearty help of those whom it is designed to benefit. Will they give it help? Vigilance committees ate frequently wurse than mobs. Generally they are tbe means of fighting the devil with fire and are a curse to tbe ednim unity where theyTfjn'Ce" get a hold. In this they are like mohs, that they are sought as a means of redress for every real or fancied wrong. They come from the law’s weakness as mobs pay be said to come from its strength, that is it conserves and forbids what organized violence demands. Vigilance committees seek to establish a reign of terror and to substitute their role for law, taking upon themselves the execution of their ideas of justice. In Scranton, Pennsylvania, a number of citizens organized to resist the mob which arose during the labor trouble, and to defend themselves and the law.. It was not a vigilance committee, as it has been called. The government or authority which ordinarily protected the lives and property of citizens had been overawed by lawless force, and to reinstate that authority the citizens armed themselves, and in enforcing that authority they killed several of the rioters. This was a misfortune not a fault. Tbe citizens did not proceed to try the outlaws before Judge Lynch, as vigilance committees often do, and* then hang'the condemned to the first lamp-post. They merely defended themselves, enforced order and put down the turbulent spirits who, if let alone, would have transformed Scranton into the howling wilderness it was under the Indians two centuries ago. With power put back into the hands of the law and a condition of society reinstated that would recognize its decrees, the same law, through a coroner’s jury in tbe person of one Mahone.an alderman by election and an Irishman by birth, or else his name belles him, finds a verdict of murder against the members of the committee for the rioters killed during the melee. This is an outrage without paraHeL We had the law in this state refusing to suppress outlawry but it did not reach the acme of villauny in punishing by the law thoee who enforced its demands. Sup-

pose that Saturday morning it had become necessary for the armed citizens here to march to the depot, and that in starting trains a fight had ensued and rioters had been killed; then, with law re-insta]led,£the citizens had been arrested under the charge of murder. This is what has happened at Scranton. The crying need of the hour is a tightening of the bands of law, its enforcement, not its prostitution. Its enforcement, because it is a law, not whether it meets our sympathies or’not; and the prompt and sure punishment of those who defy it and thoee who commit crimes in its name. TBE QVBaTJOM IJf OHIO. “One of the few things left,” says the New York Tribune, “to which the “republican party could ‘point with “ ‘pride’ was that it had not. engaged in “the ‘Blue Jeans’ business.” We of Indiana, who know so well what a losing thing the “Blue Jeans” business is, realize perhaps more acutely than the Tribune what a disastrous embarkation the republicans of Ohio have made in the nomination of a man for governor who announces for his personal platform communistic doctrines concerning the rights ot property. We condemn it as unsparingly as the Tribune, but look at the desired outcome differently. The "Tribune argues for the success of the 'republicans in Ohio as vigorously as Mr. Greeley ever did, on the grounds that although that success compasses the election of a person as unfit as Judge West has shown himself to be, it is better so, for it will be an endorsement of the policy of the administration; that in this sense republican success in that state has national importance, and for this reason the democrats should be overthrown; that the election or defeat of Mr. West is of little siguificance compared with the effect of a vote of confidence or lack of confidence in the administration. To this doctrine The News can not yield assent. It is a doctrine set to the key note, “do evil that good may come,” which we hold to be false in principle %nd vicious in practice, invariably. The News does not believe in Apolitical “necessity.” It was this that bestrode Louisiana and South Carolina with the rule of ignorance and corruption, and against which none made a more manly or effective fight than the Tribune. As to the question of continuing tbe government in republican hands or turning it over to democracy, The News is with- the Tribune. Indiana has had an experience with democracy during the recent labor troubles, which fastens untrustworthinees more firmly than ever upon that party. In a time when the question is simply law vs. lawlessness, a party which is prominent on the side of the defendant, whose political newspaper organ champions mob rule, many of whose chief officers figure oh rioters, bonds and were prominent iu their sympathy for them, is not to he trusted with administration. But is a party whose candidate publicly avows communistic doctrines, in this of all time i the most dangerous, to be put in place ia spite of that? Four years ago Judge West might have talked as he did last week and have been written down like Abou Ben Adbem, as one who loved his fellow men, hik utterances the mistaken philanthropy of one why had tender sympathy for misfortune, a blind man. But coming on the he$la of the lawless outbreak which locked this land from ocean to ocean, it is knavery or imbecility, deinagogiam of the most pestilent sort. And the fact, that he has since acknowledged that perhaps he made a mistake, and will keep quiet daring the rest of the 'campaign, makes it all the worse. It does not better it either to say that his opponent, Mr. Bishop, though he has not avowed such sentiments, may be at heart a worse demagogue than Judge West. Had Mr. Bishop uttered such sentiments would not the Tribune, have swept him aside with overwhelming scorn and contempt, and made that sufficient cause lor the defeat of the party he represented? We think so. We think it would have been right, too; and we think the republican party Can not come before this country again as the law-abiding party and ask for the votes of law-abiding citizens, if it now elects a man to execute law who has declared the sentiments Judge West has. The administration of-Tresident Hayes is in need of no endorsement that must he gained at such a sacrifice.

A Itemedy for Idle Labor. [Lafayette Dispatch.! Take off the tariff which prevents our competition in foreign markets and instead of selling to only tbe forty millions of Americans, we can soon fill the markets of tbe billion of outside bargains a bo do not have our labor saving machinery. Hardly to be Realized. (.Springfield Republican.] This year’s platform of tbe Mississippi democratic party would bare been an incendiary document in that state 20 years ago. exposing its authors and circulators to state prison, if not hanging on the nearest soar apple tree. It Has Indeed. [SoutliBend Tribune.! Tbe strike has shown that cities want to te more careful in selecting timber for mayors. Egyptian Distrust. fCineinnati Commercial.] Tbe khedive has four of hia sons in hia cabinet. He lacks confidence in brothers-in-law.

A Solid Democratic Paper. I Vincennes San.] ®. at ? hf* no such contracted notion* as to think that nobody Is a laboring man but bs who doea manual labor. Any editor who works sixteen hours out of every twenty-four, U just as much of a laboring man ss tbe farmer or tbe mechanic. Not every blatherskite who talka on the street corners and bowls from goods boxes about Labor vm. Capital, is a laborer. In cur country all men start even in tbe race. One men has a small patrimony aud rpends it in riotons living, and perhaps then he will commence ranting about tbe oppression of capital; while another man without any patrimony will aspire to a true manhood, will educate himself, and by assiduous industry and sensible economy will win tbe esteem and confidence of bis fellow-men, and eventually acquire a comfortable oompet- nee. Then the man who was prodigal will cry out against the man who woe economical and call him a robber, and in the true communistic style will insist on a division of property. During the late strike the Sun was the only paper in Vincennes that bad backbone enough to enpaess an opiniem on either side, end it feaslessly counseled tbs railroad boys to do nothing that would be a violation of law, that such a coarse would not remedy their wrong. TbeSau will always be found on tbe aide of law and order; while it has not a particle of sympathy lor villainous railroad monopolies and their tyrannical opprenion; still, railroad property is as much entitled to protection as farm property, or the hardearned cottage of the poor mechanic. Every man, also, be he a granger or a ‘ railroad king,” has the right to peaceably pursue his daily avocation without being molested by any other man. If not, then our boasted liberty ia nothing, and a farmer will have to ask his hired man, “can I plow to-day?” the merchant his clerk, “can 1 rail goods to-day?” and the editor his printers, “oan I issue a paper to-day ?”

War and Inflation, [Cincinnati Commercial.! The country seemed rich and flourishing in war time, and yet every day’s work that was lost through military service, every bit of bread and meat that the soldiers consumed when upon their unproductive errands, helped to impoverish the nation, and to cause those manifestations of social decrepitude that are at last so conspicuous. It does not follow because war made things lively that it is the duty of the government to make war in order to enliven and occupy the people. An Incident of the war was the suspension of specie pay men is and the issue of legal tender paper. In other words, out of war cameinflation. People paid their debts in depreciated dollars—paper dollars, instead of gold and silver dollars—and then rushing into debt farther and further, according to the extent of the infiaTlon mania, fancied that they were rich. Now when greatly cat down or quite gone in bankruptcy,. they are prone to think more paper money would help them. It is a mistake. A country can not be enriched on paper money. Industry may be confneed, speculation promoted, gambling become fashionable, but nothing is gained. We may bloat our currency with paper in vain. There is no prosperity in it. Like war, it disturbs and destroys the true relations of industries to each other. It develops a feverisn activity, bnt there is no health in it War is as rational a remedy as paper money for hard times. Our way out of the difficulty is to be found only in an increase in the industry that is productive.'and the education of the people in thrift.

“Bank Closed.’’ [DetroikPree Press.] * About 11 o’clock yesterday forenoon a man walked np and down Griswold street for a few minutes, carefully scrutinizing the exterior of the several banks, and finally entered one of them and deposited *13. It was his very first dealings with a bank, and his bat slanted ovsr a trifle moce then usual when he came out. About a quarter after 12, finding that he could deposit two or three dollars more and still make his purchases, the man came down town again. The beak was closed, according to custom, and the nsaal sign of “bank shut” hung against the glass. As the farmer pnshed on the door he saw the sign, and was only about ten seconds growing as pale aa death. As he made another attempt to open the door a boy came along and calleh out: “You can’t get in there—ehe’s shut ap!’ “Took my $13 and then busted!” gasped the depositor as he backed off and looked at the sign. “Bhe’ll open again at 2 o’clock,” said the boy as he passed along. “I dotibt it—I donbt it!” mattered the man as be wiped off the perspiration; “bnt Til wait and see.’ He sat dnwn on the steps, knees weak and chin trembling, and ne didn’t move an inch till 2 o’clock. When the bank opened he walked in, presented his certificate of deposit and said: “I’ll be fi thousand times obleeged if you’ll let me dAw out my $13.” It was handed out and the man braced np instantaneously. Counting the money over twice, he put the bills iu his wallet, walked out, and as he reached the walk he said: “That’s the closest escape I ever had in my life, and I won’t make a' fool of myself again 1”

Blackberry Jam. To every quart of blackberries, allow one pound of white sngar. Crash the fruit with the sugar, put into the preserv-ing-pan, and set it over a gentle firs for three quarters of an boar, stirring almost constantly: if agreeable, add a small winsglassful of brandy to every.quart of fruit a quarter of an hour before it is done; then pour the whole into jars, and when cold cover with brandy paper and tie it closely over. A <>rl(ty Uoreraor* When somebody recommended Gov. Yohng of Ohio to call upon the nat onal government for help daring the ralroad troubles, he answered: “I will never call for United States troops until every man in Ohio has been whipped.” Take Less Time. INew York World.l It begins to look as if we might get news one of these>mornings about the Russians crossing tbe Danube again. If they do they will probably consume less time in the operation. Kerosene Explosion. [Country Gentleman.] A tablespoonful each of fine salt and pulverized alum, to two quarts of oil, is said to be a perfect safeguard against accidents by kerosene explosion. Increasing in Number. [Louisville Commercial] Kentucky republicans will be more □nmerons in the next legislature than lot several years past * Too Great Discrepancy. [Cincinnati Gazette.] Family flour is altogether too high as compared with wheat Consumers ought to ‘striks.”

If Yon Want a Kiss, Take Kc. There’s a Jolly Saxon proverb That i* pretty much like this. That s man is half in Heaven When be hat a woman’s kiss. But there’s dsn«w ia dolayint. And the sweetness may forsake it; Bo I tell yoa. bashful lover, . If yoa want a kiss, why take it Never let another fellow Steal a mareh on yon in this: Never let a lanshinr maiden _6*e yon spoiling for a kiss.

If you want a kiss, why take it. Any feol may face a cannon— Any booby wear a crown; Bnt a man mast win a woman If he’d have her for hi* own. Woald yon have the golden apple? You mast find the tree end shake it; If the thing is worth the bavins. And yoa want a kiss, why take it Who would barn nnon a desert With a forest smiling by? Who would give his snnny summer For a bleak and wintry sky? Ob, I tell you there ia magio, And you can not, can not break it. For tbe sweetest port of Kvins Is to want a kiss and—take H,

“SCRAPS.” Iowa is overrun with tramps. Hippopotamuses are selling for $5,000 •piece. Wade Hampton has put down lotteries in Booth Carolina. Th* San Francisoo negroes are organizing anti-coolie dabs. Madam Janauschek and Fechter will appear together this season. The father of the late Gen. R. E. Lee n>-. ceived fatal injaries in a Baltimore riot. H. C. Stone, the man who shipped the first cargo of wheat from Chicago, died lut week. Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, is a member of Dr. Hall’s church, and a firm Presbyterian. The publishing house of Hesaerlards, at Stettin,Germany,has been in existence for three hundred years. General Grant is at Lake Como, sun • burnt, behind a big cigar and in a linen duster. Dost like the picture? According to the Philadelphia Press, “No one ever dreamed of rioting until Gail Hamilton began writing.” “Melon” was recently entered at an Alabama horse race. He must go at a sort of a canter lope, we suppose.—[Ex. What ig the difference between a post hole and a speaking trumpet? One ia hollowed out and the other is hollered In. —[Exchange. The News is read in all par!? '■[ the state tributary to Indianapolis in tr [3. It has large lists of subscribers in u 1 .he towns and villagea. John'Rogers, the famous author of Rogers’s groups, has grown rich, aud employs a workshop of men to carry out kis designs in sculpture. A man from Pittsburgh was in the city yesterday, but he was manfully ashamed, and lied about it, and swore he was from g-town in the tar district of North CarolinA—[Burlington Hawkeys. In a Cincinnati block-‘-“Josh, who is the new lodger on the fifth fioor ?” Jani-itor-“Well, I dunno. I seed him making faces oaten a pile of mud. Guess he must be a sculprit.”—[Commercial. The callousness of the modern sou-in - law, observes the Detroit Free Press, is shown by the coolness with which Lieut. Fred Grant stands by and permits his father-in-law to fail for two millions. War rumors.—Artful assistant: “Yes mum, these are real. Turkish towels; can’t get any more when these are sold, mum. Ail the towel makers have been called out now to fight the Russians.”— [Ex. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, Is reported to be a hearty supportar of President Hayes’s policy and a strong advocate of civil service reform. The correctness with which he sounds the current of phbtfSTopinion is a credit to his sagacity.' —[Graphic. A peculiar way of discharging printers exists in Dayton, O., offices. Each compositor has a nail to hang his coat on, and when the foreffian concludes to dispense with the services of one of the hands, he takes a hammer and drives the neil in to the head.—[Rutland Hwaid. ? The fifteen savings banks of Ban Francisco have deposits of $62,230,923 and 78,741 depositors. The loans and investments are $63,409,863, and the capital and reserve fund but $40,09,135. The ordinary dividends range from 4 to $ per cent, and tbe term dividends 814 to 12. What Coroner Fitzhenry, of Albany, said to the strikers who proposed to pass the guard at a railroad bridge: “I am put here to shoot, and I get thirty dollars lor a corpse. II you don’t leave I’ll put a ballet through yoa.” The constituent, as he had avowed himself, withdrew. Ida Lewis,'Who baa recently been ill, in consequence ol her exposure in rescuing two drowning men some time ago, is to have an effort made next winter to secure her a pension. Ida was married a few yean ago, but found her husband ashiftless fellow and wouldn’t live with him. An Englishman is advertising “Nose Machines”'in New York. Tbe advertisement states that “the Nose Machine applied to the nose for an bonr daily so directs the soft cartilage of which the member consists that an ill-formed nose is quickly shaped to perfection.” Price $4. The papers of the country seem to be in error concerning the condition of Mr. R. H. Newell—“Orpheus 0. Kerr” His health is now really better than when he went to Europe, and is slowly improving. He has suffered from the effects of the heat this summer much less than last.— [Graphic. . Insects In Flower Pots. Watting the aoil thoroughly with boiling water, previous to putting it in pots, always proves a aura preventive of worms In pots Lima wates will kill insects In pots without injury to the plants. A tablespoontuJ ol ammonia In a pint of water is good lor the same purpose.

THE EASTERN WAR. Rnsslan Reverse*—Bore Troops Crossing the Danube. It is slated that large numbers of Russian troops are crossing ths Danube on pontoons to the neighborhood of Turtuki. The porta bra informed ths English embassy that after two days’ hard fighting at Lovats the Russian* suffered a severe defeat. Two regiments of Russian cavalry and a battalion of Infantry hav* been re» pnlstd»in two attacks on Jaslar, south of Baagrad. The battle was bloody on both sides.* 1 The Rnsslan troop* around Plevna have been reinforced, and now number 70,000. ▲ Roonfianian army, numbering 25,000, now passing continually to Nikopol is, .will form the extreme right of this force. On Angust 6th 5,000 Turkish cavalry attacked the Russians between Lascar village near Plevna, and the river Rusioa. Tbe Russians, who occnpied the fortified tins, and Who now outnumber the Turks, repulsed them without difficulty, but made no attempt to follow them, as the Grand Duke Nicholas does not wish to waste the energy of his troop* in partial ecgagemejita The Ttrainia Convention. Ths conservative convention at Richmond, which had to adjourn yesterday morning on ncoouatof the pressure of outsiders, reassembled at 2 o’clock,-Twhen ths temporary chairman, William .’jamb of Norfolk, began a speech on preserving credit The confuaflBn became so great that be was forced to deeist Committees were appointed amid great disorder, and a recess was taken. After ths recess Marshall Hanger was made permanent chairman, and the convention adjourned till to-day. Kentucky Pastime*. Ben Darling was shot and instantly killed: Julius Darling was shot through ths left shoulder, and taro other participants were seriously wounded at the election riot near Harrodsburg. In the Gardiner fight, in the same county, another fight took place in which John Bhirley was shot through the head and killed, and three other parties, Sidney Caae, Gardiner and Neaaton, were wounded. No arreats are reported in either

Suaesner Vegetables. Vegetablet, tbe edible parts of which ripen under ground, such as potatoes, carrots aad parsnips, are hsat-produclug; while those that ripen above ground are cooling. Tbe letter, including especially asparagus, lettuce, peas, beaus, tomatoes, corn, and all fruits, should be fraeh eaten in summer time. Meat should not bs eaten oftener than twioe a day at most, and lean is preferable. Tomatoes are particularly healthy as a summer diet. Administration Vacations. Secretaries Thompson and Sohnre will be tbe only members of ths cabinet who will be in Washington next week. McCrary, Devens and Key will go with ths president Everts is already in Vermont, and Sherman will start for Ohio in a day or two. Thompson will take his vacation in Indiana during September. Sherman will go to Ohio, it ia said, to marshal his forces with a view to succeeding Stanley Matthewa.

The Indian Fight In Texas. Official information has been received that in the recent Indian fight in Texas two officers and 26 enlisted soldiers were killed. The remnant of the party continued its msrch after having suffered this lose, and has since reached Fort Condor, with an additional nmnbar of 5 privates and 40 horses and mulee. The unfortunate command was withoat water for 88 hoars, end tbe sulferinn they endured la consequence were terrible. *“ — • • Tndergrotmd Telegraphs. Au underground cable for telegrams has just been laid between Berlin and Mayence. The cost is about six times as mnch as the same number of overground wires would cost. Germany now possesses seven underground lines between its capital tnd its western frontier. Boston’* shrinkage. The averege shrinkage of real estate at Boston since the dull times has been about 33 per cent, tbe greatest loss being in the ontlying lands that were hut up into building lots and sold at absurdly high prices about six years ago.' Railroad Accident; A broken rail threw two cotobes and two sleepers of tbe western bound treth from the track of tbe Missouri PacHSo near Centerview yesterday morning. Thirteen psrtons were injured, but none sariBitting Bull’* Outlaw*. Besides Sitting Bull’s band at Winnipeg there Is an equal number of Sioux refugees from ths Minnesota massacre of 1862 3, over whom Bitting Bull seems to exercise much influence. ^ -

■trike Nipped. A sheriff’s posse dissipated an incipient riot and Mrikeat Mahonoy City, Pennsylvania, yesierday. Two of the leaders ware arrestsd.

Bioting in Ireland. The rioting was renewed lest night at Belfast, and the military was again called oat

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F. M. HKRRON, Jeweler, Id West Weabln*'*'”’ Street Indianeeelis

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