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THE NEWS.

Dispatches were received fit" Greenwich Observatory, London, on the 9th, announcing the successful observation of the transit of Venus in India, and at Cairo, Suez and Thebes. There were no observations at Shanghai on account of the unfavorable weather. The Government has directed the District Attorney to enter a not prot. in the safe-burglary conspiracy case at Washington, and the defendants have been discharged. Mias Proctor has compromised the libel suit against Moulton on the receipt of $5,000, the accrued costs. She swears that the statement is untrue so far as it relates to her, and Moulton swears that he made it solely on hearsay evidence. The news relating to the Vicksburg troubles received on the 10th was to the effect that the excitement was subsiding and business generally had been resumed. The observations in regard to the transit of Venus failed atOrmsk, Orensburg, Kasan, Uralsk, Astracban. Kertch and Tiflis, and succeeded at Teheran, Hobartstown, Adelaide, Melbourne, and at points in India, China and Japan. The Republican Gen. Loma on the 19th issued a proclamation calling on the Carlists to surrender within eight days, and threatening to lay waste the country occupied by them if they did not. The lowa Episcopal Convention in session at Davenport on the 9th elected Rev. H. C. Potter, of New York, Bishop of lowa. Mr. Potter telegraphed his declination, and on the 10th Rev. W. R. Huntington, of Worcester, Mass., was elected on the third ballot. On "the Bth the lowa State Grange assembled at Des Moines, about 200 delegates being in attendance. Grand Master Smedley delivered the annual address. The number of subordinate Granges in the State was stated to be 2,ooo—an increase of 162 during the year. The Treasurer submitted his report on the 10th, showing the receipts during the year to have been $88,393.82; expenditures, $81,507.71; balance on hand, $1,833.11. The State Agent reported the business of his office for the year, at $90,000. The saving to the Grange by the State Agency is over $27,000. The Committee on the Railroad Tariff Law reported that it had proved impracticable. According to dispatches received on the 10th the actual number of negroes killed in the fight at Vicksburg on the 7th is reported at 150, forty-eight of whom were buried in one field on the 9th.

Gov. Woodson, of Missouri, has ordered an election on the 26th of January for delegates to the Constitutional Convention. It transpired during the trial of Count von Arnim, on the 11th, that Bismarck had directed his secretary to act as a spy upon his conduct. The steamer Pelican was recently lost off the coast of England with all on board. The Administration approves of the course of Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, in the Vicksburg troubles, in endeavoring to supress the disorders without calling upon the General Government. The trial of Jesse Pomeroy, the boymurderer, was concluded at Boston on the 10th by a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The jury recommended that he be imprisoned for life. An earthquake shock was felt in New York and Connecticut on the night of the 10th. The trial of the case of Tilton v». Beecher has been postponed until the first Monday in January. Charlestown, W. Va., lost $200,000 worth of property by fire on the night of the 10th. Julia A. Garretson has been elected State Lecturer of the lowa Grange. On the ld!h the Frankfort (Ky.) Grand Jury found an indictment against Jones, Clerk of the Court of Appeals, charging him with usurping an office established by the Constitution, by being ineligible from the fact that he accepted a challenge to fight a duel. Jones gave bond in the sum of $20,000. Another cremation ceremony was recently successfully performed in Dresden. There was nothing offensive in it, it is said. The insurrection in the Argentine Republic is over and political offenders have all been amnestied. A total amount of $750,000 has been awarded on about 1,000 claims by the Southern Claims Commission. Tilton’s attorneys have appealed from the order of Judge McCue granting a bill of particulars in the Beecher case. A boy eight years old, named John Neville, was recently kidnaped from near his parents’ residence in West Hoboken, New Jersey. Some of the prominent citizens of Vicksburg have issued an address, giving a statement of the troubles there, in which they charge a vast amount of official corruption, and defend the action of the citizens in the recent warfare, claiming that they were obliged to take up arms in self-defenfee. King Kalakaua reached Washington on the 12th. The constitution of the lowa State Grange has been so amended as to reduce future membership to 100 delegates, and to provide for districting the State in proportion to the number of subordinate Granges. Five children of John Datterich, of Preakness, N. J., were drowned on the 18th by the breaking of the ice on the

THE JASPER REPUBLICAN.

VOLUME I.

pond, near their father’s house, on which they were sliding. The New York Republic gut up the ghost on the 13th. Fears were entertained in New Orleans, on the 14th, of an attack by White Leaguers upon the Election Returning Board. r The attempt to introduce colored girls into the girls’ upper high school at New Orleans, on the 14th, caused the immediate withdrawal of fifty of the graduating class. Hon. Marshall Jewell was confirmed as Postmaster-General on the 15th. King Kalakaua was formally presented to the President and Cabinet on the 15th. A destructive fire broke out in Plympton street, Boston, on the night of the 14th, which consumed several large warehouses and their contents. About four o’clock on the morning of the 15th another alarm was sounded for the same neighborhood, when it was discovered that the fire had broken out in Wareham street, where sparks from the previous fire had lodged unperceived by the firemen. Owing to the combustible nature of the building in which this last fire started the flames spread in all directions, and in a short time Wareham .street was almost entirely devastated, everything being swept away that lay in the path of the fire between the point of starting and the wharf, except a large piano factory. The loss from both fires is variously estimated from $600,000 to $750,000. During the progress of the Boston fire, on the morning of the 15th, the neighboring city of Charlestown suffered a loss of $150,000 from fire. Two men were recently shot at Bay Ridge, L. L, while in the act of robbing the residence of Judge Van Brunt. Before he died one of them gave information which, it was thought, would lead to the recovery of Charlie Ross, who was kidnaped by the two men, and has since been in the possession of one of them. The Champion cotton-press and over 2,000 bales of cotton, valued at $250,000, were burned in Charleston, S. C., on the 15th. Early on the morning of the 15th, at Des Moines, lowa, a party of men to the number of over 190 forced their way into the jail and took possession of Charles Howard, sentenced to imprisonment for life for the murder in June last of John Johnson, in that city. They found Howard in bed, and when they undertook to lay hold of him his wife made desperate attempts to protect him, but despite her entreaties and agonizing screams they put a rope about his neck, led him into the street and hung him to a lamp-post.

CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

In the Senate, on the 9th, a memorial was presented, signed by settlers on the* public lands in Kansas, asking that the operation of the Pre-emption laws may be extended in consequence of the grasshopper invasion. The standing committees of last session were reappointed, Messrs. Dennis and Davis ehanging places on the Committees on Claims and Agriculture. Bills were introduced to ascertain the cost to Kansas in resisting the Indian invasion of 1874, and providing for the payment of arrears of pensions... .In the House the Omaha Railroad Bridge bill was postponed until Feb. 12. The President’s Message was appropriately referred. The bill to continue the Board of Audit for the District of Columbia was amended and passed. Adjourned. In the Senate, on 10th, the Hon.Geozge Bancroft was appointed one of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institute. The House bill appropriating 230,000 to purchase scales for the Postofflce Department was amended and passed. After executive session the Senate adjourned to meet on the 14th ....In the House, the Commissioners of the Freedmen’s Bank were directed to declare an immediate dividend and bring suit against all persons indebted to the institution. The Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was made the special order for the 23d. The Senate amendment to the bill providing for the purchase of scales for the Postoffice Department was concurred in and the bill passed. The Speaker announced sundry appointments to fill vacancies on committees, after which the House adjourned. The Senate was not in session on the 11th ....Bills were passed in the House—allowing homestead and pre-emption settlers whose crops had been destroyed by grasshoppers permission to leave their lands until May, 1876; Senate bill appointing Hon. George Bancroft to be one of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institute. A resolution was adopted directing the arrest of Richard B. Irwin for contempt in disobeying the summons of the Committee on Ways and Means to testify in relation to the Pacific Mail subsidy investigation. Adjourned. On the 14th a petition was presented to the Senate from colored citizens of Indiana, asking that the proper law officer be directed to appeal to the Supreme Court for a reversal of the recent School law decision of the Indiana Supreme Court A bill was passed directing the Land Commissioner to modify the Hqmestead law in favor of the grasshopper sufferers. Messrs. Cameron and McCreery were appointed as a committee on the part of the Senate to receive King Kalakaua. .. .In the House, bills were introduced: For free banking and to retire legal-tender notes; reducing letter postage to one cent; for the relief of the Southern States by compromise and the settlement of their debts; to repeal the law requiring prepayment of newspaper postage; to aid in the construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from tidewater to St Louis and Chicago; making appropriations for lighthouses in Michigan; for free banking and the resumption of specie payments. A resolution for the investigation of the recent “safeburglary” affair was defeated for want of a two-thirds vote in the affirmative. A committee of five was ordered to be appointed to report upon the recent Vicksburg troubles. Messrs. Orth, E. R. Hoar and Cox were appointed a committee on the part of the House to receive King Kalakaua.

OUR AIM: TG FEAR GOD, TELL THE TRUTH AND MAKE MONEY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1874.

On the 15th, in the Senate, a bill was introduced limiting the time for applications for bounty land#. A joint resolution was offered to retend the Constitution by providing that the President and Vice-President shall be elected by direct vote; that the term at office shall be six years, and that the President shall be ineligible for re-election. The bill for the relief of the grasshopper sufferers was reported upon favorably....ln the House, bills were introduced—for a narrow-gauge railroad from Like Ette to toe Missouri River; regulating the prosecution of libel in the District of Columbia; directing the Secretary of the Interior to pay for the appropriation of certain lands for Indian reservations. The following select committees were appointed: To visit Vicksburg—Conger, Hurlbut, Williams (Wis.), Speer and O’Brien; on Louisiana and the Southern States—G. F. Hoar, Wheeler (N. Y.), Frye, Foster (Ohio), Phelps (N. J.), Robinson (HL) and Poster. The Legislative Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cottom.—Middling upland, 14XQWXCLivuStocx.—Beef Cattle—Slo.oo®l3.oo. Hogs— Dressed, $8.50©8.62X; Live, $6.50Q7 J 5. Sheep— Live, 54.78Q8.55. BaaxDßTtrrrs.—Flour—Good to choice, $5.05© 5.75; white wheat extra, 55.75Q6.25. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago, 31.10Q1.12; No. 2 Northwestern, gI.HHQI.IS; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.14Q 1.15. Rye—9sQ9Bc. Barley—sl.46ol.sß. Corn —Mixed Western, 90Q93c. Oats—Mixed Western, 68Q68XC. ' Pnovisioxs.—Pmrk—Western Mess. $20.00© 20.25. Lard—l3XOl3XC. Cheese—lSHQlsKC. Wool.—Common to extra, 43Q65c. CHICAGO. Lire Stock.—Beeves-Choice, $5J0Q6.00; good, f4.25Q5.00; medium, $3.75®4.25; butchers’ stock, $2.5003.50; stock cattle, $2.50© 3.50. Hogs—Live, $6.75Q7.25. Sheep-Good to choice, $4.2505.00. Pbovuioxs.—Butter—Choice, 31Q88c. Eggs— Fresh, 24Q25c. Cheese—New York ihctory, 14H©15c; Western. 14Q14Xc. Fork—New Mess, $1».50Q19.60. LardBBUADSTum.—Flour—White winter extra, $4.25©6.50; spring extra, $4.00®4.75. Wheat -Spring, No. 2, 89M©89%c. Corn-No. 2,74 X Q74Mc. Oats—No. 2, 53X058% c. Barley—No. 2, $1.28Q1.28X- Rye-No. 2, MQ94XC. Wool.—Tub-washed, 45Q57c.; fleece, washed, 40©47c.; fleece, unwashed, 27Q34c. Lumbbu.—First Clear, $50.00Q52.00; Second Clear, $46.00Q48.00; Common Boards, SII.OOQ 12.00; Fencing, $11.00012.00; “A” Shingles, $3.00Q3.25; Lath, $2.0002.25. CINCINNATI. BBBADSTVm.—FIour—SS.OOQS.SO. Wheat—Red, Corn—New, 73Q75c. Rye—sl.o9Ql.lo. Oats—sß362c. Barley—No. 2, $1.3001.35. Pbovisioms.—Pork 12MOlS%c. ST. LOUIS. Lire Stock.—Beeves—Fair to choice, $4,500 5.50. Hogs—Live, $6.5005.75. Bbbadstujts.—Flour—XX Fall, $4.70Q4.80. Wheat—No. 2 Red Fall, SI.OBXOI-09. Corn-No. 2, New, 60070 c. Oats—No. 2,57Q57X«- Rye—No. 1, $1.0001.03. Barley—sl.32Xol.Bs. Provisions.—Pork—Mess, $19.37X019.50. Lard -12XQ12MC. MILWAUKEE. Bra adstows.—Flour—Spring XX, $5.25Q5 58. Wheat—Spring No. L 91%Q91Xc; No. 2,88X0 89c. Com—No. 2, 7»X@7Bc. Oats—No. 2,52X0 53c. Rye—No. 1, 95XQ96C. Barley—No. 2, $1.28 Q1.28X. DETROIT. BraADsrurrs.—Wheat—Extra, $1.15Q1.15X. Corn—74XQ7sC. Oats—ss©ss%c. TOLEDO. Bmadstuvfs—Wheat—Amber . Mich., SI.OBX 01-08 M; No. 2 Red, $1.05X01.06. CornMixed, New, 69X070C. Oats—No. 1, 55Q55XC. CLEVELAND. Bbxadstutts—Wheat—No. 1 Red, SI.IOXO I.UX; No. 3 Red, $1.05X01.06. Com—New, 71XQ72C. Oats—s7XOsßC. BUFFALO. Lire Stock.—Beeves - Live, $6.50Q7.40. Sheep—s4.ooQs.2s. EAST LIBERTY. Lire Stock.—Beeves—Best, $6.50Q6.62%; medium, $4.75Q5.00. Hogs Yorkers, $6.60© 6.70; Philadelphia, $7.45Q7.65. Sheep—Best, $4.90Q5.15; medium, $4.2504.75.

The Recent Express Robbery on the Kansas Pacific Read.

Last evening just as darkness was settling over the city there came a report of the robbery of the Wells, Fargo &*Co. express-car on the Kansas Pacific Road, which occurred scarcely two hours before—a robbery so boldly planned and successfully executed as to completely pale any frontier exploit which time has yet recorded. The scene of the robbery is the village of Muncie, a small flag-station on the Kansas Pacific Road, twelve miles distant from Kansas City. Yesterday afternoon a short time before the train was due there a party of five men rode into town and deliberately hitched their horses. As the train caine in view one of the party stepped out upon the track, and, untying a scarf which he had worn about his neck, waved it to the engineer, who at once began to slacken the speed of the train. While this was going on the remainder of the party were placing a railroad-tie upon the track. As soon as the train came to a stop a shot was fired and the engineer was at once ordered to the ground and told to uncouple his engine from the express-car. This he did, but the robbers at once discovered that they had made a mistake and hurriedly ordered him to couple again, which command he also obeyed. They then ordered him to uncouple the ex-press-car from the coaches, which being done they boarded the car, while a portion of them ordered the engineer to his post and told him to pull away from the train. The distance gone is not ascertained definitely, there* being some conflicting statements in regard thereto. Two men effected the robbery. They presented their revolvers at the head of the messenger, Frank B. Webster, and ordered him to open the safe and deliver the contents, which he thinks amounted to some $30,000. As near as can be ascertained, all of the men connected with the affair were large in stature and powerful, except one who was rather short, but stoutly built. They rode bay horses, which seemed to be in an exhausted condition, and the entire party were armed with revolvers and Henry rifles. They were dressed in ' dark clothes, and their manner of execut--1 ing orders showed they were alanped

Md excited. They made bo attempt to disturb the mail, leaving the registered letters <• As soon as the train arrived at this city Gov. Osborn, of Kansas, was notified of the robbery, as were also the officials of the railroad, and in. less than an hour rewards were offered as follows: By the "Wells, Fargo & Co. Express Company, SI,OOO each for the perpetrators, dead or alive; $5,000 for the recovery of the property; by Gov. Osborn, $8,500 for the robbers; and $5,000 for the same by the Kansas Pacific Road. — Kantat City (Mo.) Timet, Dec. 9.

A Murderer Lynched.

Associated Press dispatches of the 15th give the following account of the recent lynching at Des Moines, lowa, of the murderer, Charles Howard: Monday afternoon, in the District Court of Des Moines, Charles Howard was.sentenced to imprisonment for life in the State Penitentiary for the murdeY of John Johnson in this city in June last. This morning at three o’clock some 500 Vigilants, with their faces blackened, surrounded the jail, overpowered and bound the jailer hand and foot and took his keys, and then overpowered in the same manner the Deputy Sheriff and the special guard of five men who had been detailed by the Court to guard the prisoner; unlocked the doors and made their way to Howard’s cell, where he was in bed with his wife, the latter being now under indictment for complicity in the murder. The woman, seeing them coming, threw her arms about the. neck of her husband, but was soon thrown off, and a rope placed about Howard’s neck. He was immediately jerked ont of bed, six or eight Vigilants leading him with the rope. At the door some twenty more took hold of the rope, and he was dragged, with no clothing cm but an undershirt, through the hall, down the steps, and out through the Court-house yard, the jail being in the basement of the Court-House, and' hung to a lamp-post at one of the gates. The whole thing did not occupy fifteen minutes. They stood near the body about five minutes, when they departed. The night being very dark, they were soon out of sight. When the policemen reached the body life was extinct. It is supposed the lynching was done by three anti-horse-thief societies in this county, aided by accomplices in the city, but nothing definite has been decided yet. The excitement which has led to this foul outrage has been growing for some time, several mysterious murdershaving been committed here recently—seven in the space of four years.

The trial of Howard was protracted and exciting, the jury being out for nearly four days,- finally compromising on a verdict of murder in the second degree. It was feared Howard would be lynched last Friday night, the jury net then having agreed, and it being generally thought they would agree to disagree. But precautions were taken to prevent it then, and on Saturday morning a verdict was returned. Monday afternoon he was sentenced, and Judge Maxwell imposed upon him the extreme rigor of the law, imprisonment for life. Everybody here in the city seemed satisfied, and the lynching fell upon the city to its surprise and horror. But Howard’s behavior during the reading of the sentence, laughing in the face of the Judge and receiving his doom with firmness, and his attempt to smuggle a revolver into the court-room for the purpose, as avowed afterward, of shooting the Judge as he was delivering the sentence; his boast that he would escape the Penitentiary before six months, and return and kill ail who had appeared against him in the trial, and the appeal of his case to the Supreme Court —all these reached the ears of the Vigilants last night, and the result was as stated above. The wholfe proceeding is most bitterly felt by the citizens here, and the perpetrators are denounced in the most unmeasured terms.

A Vagabond's Paradise.

Crime has its compensations, and criminals occasionally live in clover. Deer Island, in Boston Harbor (“Dear Ireland,” as the Irish call it), is one of the great reformatory institutions of New England, and is the exclusive property of the city of Boston. It is here that the vagabonds and petty thieves of the city are sent to revel in the cool breezes of the summer season, or bask in the sunshine in the interior of the building in the cold winter. The structure, fitted up in sumptuous style, having all the modern improvements, with a magnificent farm attached, cost over half a million dollars. There are at present on the “ Island” nearly 1,200 inmates, including 1,000 men and boys and 200 women and girls. A large majority are foreigners, and a majority of the foreigners are of the Irish persuasion. A majority of all who are sent down once come back again, and 25 per cent, become regular customers. The sens of rich and prominent men are frequently committed here on complaint of their fathers, to tide them over, a protracted drunk. Hundreds of men and women, vagabonds, commit some petty crime for the purpose of being sent to the “ Island,” where they find a comfortable temporary home. — Boeton Cor. Chicago Journal.

—Lard mixed with sulphur and applied occasionally to the necks and backs of young and old turkeys is a very good safeguard against the ravages of foxes.— »f»aohusstte Dloughmn.

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

AUe* Cewaty. Joseph Glade, an old resident at hrtxAt., was recently attacked by drunken Philip Holland. Glade was severely injured, his leg being broken. Joseph Treve, a farmer living near Fort Wayne, the other day fell to the floor of his house, and instantly expired. Organic disease at the heart was what killed him. A sickening monstrosity was left in the barnyard of a farmer near Huntertown the other night. It was wrapped in a coarse coffee-sack, and was about the height of a year-old child. Its head was of a pale lead color, the body appearing cut and bruised. The nose was inverted, and under the neck. Instead of two arms, a crooked limb, similar to an arm, projected from the back. This could be moved backward and forward, but not sideways. Where the feet and legs should be was a long, round, tube-like member, apparently hollow. The body was ribbed and grooved at regular intervals. Cass County. Jn an altercation at Logansport, the other morning, between Charles Kerns and David Schumach, Kerns stabbed Schumach, inflicting a fatal wound. Clarke County. Two negroes, named Chapman and Graycropt, got into a dispute at a Jeffersonville pork-house the other day, which resulted in the shooting of Dan Carter, a negro who was standing by and who was not concerned in the fracas. Clinton Connty. The corn crop in the county is immense. It is estimated that there will be $300,000 worth of corn, $200,000 worth of wheat, and $350,000 worth of hogs sold in the county during the present year. a Elkhart Connty. Five gamblers were recently arrested in Gqshen and locked up. They came from Elkhart. A few evenings ago a man named Aaron Cromling, in the employ of Thomas & Stafford, millers at Goshen, started with a lighted candle from the first to the third story of the building, for the purpose of oiling the machinery. He had been gone but a few minutes when Mr. Stafford, who was in the office on the first floor, felt an unusual jarring of the machinery. He hastened to the second floor, but, discovering nothing wrong, repaired at once to the third story, when an awful sight met his view. On a cog-wheel two feet in diameter was the lifeless remains of Cromling. Wrapped around a shaft which connected a small cog-wheel was every strip of

clothing worn by the unfortunate man before he was caught in the jaws of death. Mr. Stafford stopped the machinery by shutting off the water, and sounded the alarm. It required the united efforts of several men to extricate the body, which was horribly mutilated. The right leg was completely tom off, a portion of the body and his skull crushed. He must have been killed instantly, as the wheels make sixty revolutions a minute. Fayette County. Eli Shepheard & Son, extensive millers and grocers at Connersville, failed recently. Franklin County. Mrs. Wm. Bresbe, of Brookville, recently gave birth to a child weighing only two pounds, and having two perfectly formed teeth. At last accounts the babe was doing well and promised to live. Howard County. A son of Joseph Emery, living near Oakford, was recently dangerously injured while hunting. While standing on a tall fence the gun slipped from his hand and the hammer struck a rail, causing the load in the barrel to go off, the Whole charge striking him under the left arm and going completely through his shoulder. Johnson County. The court-house at Franklin was totally destroyed by fire the other night. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Kosciusko County. Jerome B. Carpenter, the bigamist who had been confined in the County Jail at Warsaw, was recently tried, found guilty, and senteheed to three years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. A five-pound cancer was recently removed from the breast of Mrs. Daniel Yockey, living near Hepton. la* Grange County. The La Grange Standard says there is a school district in the county which refused last year and again refuses this year to have more than three months’ school, though the Trustees offered it eight months each year. Shortly after leaving Lima, the other evening, the passengers on the train noticed an emigrant fall from his seat, as was supposed, in a fit. Upon going to his assistance it was found that he had stabbed himself six or eight times in the region of the heart with a common pocket-knife. Nothing is known of his name or nationality or what caused the deed. The car was full of passengers at the time but so quietly was the act accomplished that nothing wrong was suspected until he fell from his seat covered with blood. Madison County. Passenger brain No. 10, bound north on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & BL Louis Railroad, recently struck a hand-car a short distance north of Anderson. Engineer C. D. Luce, who was on the front of the engine fixing the head-light at the time, was badly hurt about the- feet and legs, and received a gash on the head. The hand-car was taken from Anderson by unknown parties, who deserted it when they heard the train approaching.

The Silsby Fire Engine Company has sued the eity of Anderson for >IO,OOO, the contract price of an engine which the complaint alleges the City Council had accepted. Marion County. . 8. Joseph, an Italian, recently had >BO stolen from him by one of his countrymen residing in Indianapolis. George Baker,(who lost a leg while on duty for the IndianSpOHs, Cincinnati & Lafayette Bailroad, some thne since, has sued the road for >IO,OOO. A few days ago Abraham Clark, an employe of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railroad, while engaged in switching a train caught his foot in a frog of the track and feH under the brain, which cut off both legs above the knees, producing death within two hours. He was a single man about twenty-one years of age. The total value of property in Indianapolis is valued for purposes of taxation at >74,029,696—an increase of >5,900,000 over last year. Martin Burke, a section-hand on the Vandalia Railroad, was knocked under the wheels

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of a freight train, at Indianapolis, the other morning. Both legs were cut off close to the hips. • In the Indianapolis Criminal Court the other morning Judge Jordan ruled that no penalty can be attached, under the Baxter law, for sales of liquor after midnight, in violation of the nine o’clock section. ’• The grave of John Spear, an old resident of the county, was recently discovered to have been opened and the remains removed. An Indianapolis livery-stable keeper recently purchased a horse that was stolen by the seller, William Taylor, from his own father. The young man decamped with the money. Mrs. Betsey R. Parr, visiting in the family of Mr. Shadrick, of Indianapolis, died recently from the effect ot an attack of epilepsy. In a single day, recently, the Sheriff of the county made twenty sales under foreclosure and execution at Indianapolis. James F. McLeland, employed on the new depot at Brightwood, fell from a scaffold, the other day, and fractured his skull. In a saloon row at Indianapolis, a few days ago, William Enness was severely shot in the head. Posey County. The other night, as a young man named Reynolds was returning from church with a young lady, near the Illinois line, he was waylaid by a rival named Morton, who shot him three times, from the effect of which he died the next day. Morton fled. Randolph County. The remaining two of Riley Stetson’s quadruplets have died. The Winchester Journal tells the following Enoch-Arden story: “About twenty years ago a man named James M. Thomas married the eldest daughter of Zimri Moffitt, and after living with her a few years, a daughter was born unto them, deserted her. For years the deserted wife heard nothing of her truant lord, but at last came the apparently well-authenticated news that he was dead and had been buried. Shortly after receiving this news the lady was married to Thomas Spencer, with whom she has lived happily and by whom she has had one child. About two weeks since a man called at their house in the south part of town, introduced himself as the long-lost busband, and longed to clasp his wife to his bosom; but she preferred the new love to the old, and wouldn’t clasp worth a cent. The consequence was a small-sized row, and the long-lost was brought before ’Squire Reed and fined for an assault An application for divorce has been filed, which will doubtless be granted, after which Spencer and the lady will be legally married.” Ripley County.

Miss Mattie Hatfield, of Osgood, has sued Ell D. Hunter for $15,000, for failing to fulfill a marriage promise. Rush County. As a party of young men, consisting of two brothers named Stephens and one named Heiser, were leaving a spelling-match at Fayetteville, recently, three miles south of Vienna, their horses, from some cause unknown, became unmanageable, throwing their riders, breaking the arm of one of the party and severely bruising the others. The most curious part of the affair is that two of the horses ridden by the party were found dead a few minutes after the accident. Tippecanoe County. Mr. H. B. Cochrane, who lives near Lafayette, has lately lost - a half a dozen head of valuable cattlC in a rather mysterious manner. The animals were apparently as well as ever until within a few moments of their death. In some cases they dropped down dead without ftn y premonitory symptom. The only explanation which has been suggested is that there may have been leeches in the mud at the bottom ot the pond at which the animals drink, and the water being low they may have been drawn into the mouth and swallowed by the animals. The tin store of Bennewltz <fc Co., of Lafayette, was recently entered by burglars and goods worth $250 carried-off. Jacob Huber, of Lafayette, has died from the effect of the injuries received by falling over the railing at the side of the Heath Bank building some days since. Vigo County. The Terre Haute Bank, which made an assignment some weeks ago, has been thrown into bankruptcy. The liabilities are $46,000, including $20,000 to depositors. William Dodd, of Terre Haute, died a fewdays ago under an amputation of the leg, performed as the result of a runaway accident about three weeks since. Adam W. Regney, living near Terre Haute, recently committed suicide by hanging. He had lately been expelled from church because he refused to abandon the Masons. Wayne County. A son of James Miller, while coming to Richmond the other morning, had a loaded gun in the bottom of his wagon. The moving of his foot accidentally raised the hammer, and the contents of the gun inflicted a serious wound in his arm, the ball glancing and entering the right eye, making a wound which will probably prove fatal. The county-seat war has finally ended by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court affirming the judgment of the lower court in favor of Richmond.

The Vicksburg Massacre.

That a false account of the slaughter of the colored men in the neighborhood of Vicksburg has been spread over the country by those who are sympathizers with the aggressors, guilty of needless and most wicked bloodshed, we are not at liberty to doubt. . We have, from a source that commands confidence, a statement that is due the country. Our information is that the active whites of Vicksburg had some time since determined to ** clean out ” the present officeholders. Three of those officeholders were indicted at the last term of the Grand Jury. Crosby, the Sheriff, was the one especially aimed at. It was determined that he should be put out of office. ■ The papers insisted upon the Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday of last week and requiring Crosby to give good bond. A meeting of that body was called, and it is known that the intention was to require Crosby to give a good bond. But the citizens, headed by a hotheaded and irresponsible set of men, put out an incendiary circular calling for a meeting of the citizens of the county

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on the same day the Board of Supervisors were to meet. And every one knew full well that it was the intention that the Board should be forced to do what was wanted, or personal violence used. So the country members failed to put in an appearance. But the citizens held their meeting. It was attended mostly by the younger men and irresponsible parties spoiling for a row. During the session a committee of five lawyers were appointed to report if all legal means to oust Crosby haa been exhausted. A minority report wee made by two young limbs of the law saying that all legal means had been exhausted, and that the time for action had come. By “ action” they meant force, and by force they meant the rope. No concealment was made in their talk about hanging, etc. A committee was appointed to wait upon certain officials and demand their resignation. The meeting adjourned to await the report. The officials who could be found begged time to consult their lawyers, butfailed to reply in the time given them. On the reassembling of the meeting in the afternoon, and hearing the report of their committee, they resolved to adjourn in a body to the CourtHouse and demand the resignation of the officers. On reaching the Court-House all the officers fled but Crpsby. He signed a resignation. No one concealed what his fate would l>e if he had not done so. He would have been hanged on the spot. As soon as he got out of the clutches of the mob he wrote a letter to Judge Brown, of the Circuit Court, stating that he took back hto resignation, as he was compelled to sign it to save his life. He was then out in the country, on his way to Jackson. The morning after this row Judge Brown tried to hold court, but the parties left in charge of the Court-House refused to let the deputy enter the courtroom, and so court has been adjourned from d-«y to day since then. On Friday a rumor got abroad that Crosby was about to make a good bond by placing his office in the hands of some person or another acceptable to the people and retiring, leaving all control to such deputy. Two or three good parties agreed to take the position, and arrangements had been made with their friends to make a bond that would be ample and beyond dispute. When this was heard a meeting of the citizens in the city was called, which resolved to frown down any such effort. The next morning the papers contained notices warning white citizens from being on the bond, and this, too, in the face of repeated assertions that no charge was made against Crosby except his failure to give good bond. On the streets the threats were numerous that no man’s Hfe would be safe who went on such bond.

Crosby returned from Jackson on Friday, with instructions from the Governor to take possession of his office, and to call in the aid of the militia to sustain him. He sent news to the country for the negroes to come in Monday and report to the Coqrt-House. .They camewere met at the Cfty limits, and slaugh, tered—simply slaughtered and butchered. They were chased through the woods and fields and shot down like dogs. Many were shot after they gave up, and some were shot on their knees while begging for mercy. The spirit of demons was in the people. It was not safe for any one not in full accord with them to be on the street. One poor old negro by the name of Ambrose Brown was ordered off the street by Capt. Cowan, a former rebel battery commander, and being tardy in going Cowan deliberately shot pirn. Many prisoners were taken and kept in the Court-House, and taken out in the morning. With winks and nods and laughter and jest it was reported that three of the most obnoxious made their escape, which means they have simply been murdered while prisoners. This is unquestionably the truth of the massacre, and the people of the nation should fully recognize all its enormities. The worst of it is that the person's who have been guilty of this wholesale mur-' der fully justify themselves upon the statement of facts that we have given, and we are bound to add they are animated by the conviction that there has been a political revolution in the North, and that their time is come.—Cincinnati Commercial, Dec. 11.

Important Capture.

For several days the Chief of the Se cret Service Division of the United States Treasury has been registered at the Palmer House. In his apartments there was on exhibition last evening the fruits of some recent raids upon counterfeiters. Piled high upon a table was SIO,OOO in tens, fives and fifty-cent scrip. The different denominations were neatly tied up in packages, just as is the custom at the Sub-Treasuries. The ten-dollar bills were on a Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) national bank; the fives were on the Traders’ National, of Chicago; and the fifty-cent fractional currency was of the description bearing the vignette of Secretary Stanton upon one end. All this money was captured in Wisconsin, and was taken from a dealer in the spunous stuff. The operations of the gang have been extensive, and six of them have already. been captured, although there are several more at large who will doubtless soon be bagged. The plate of the Poughkeepsie tens has been secured and destroyed, but the plate of the dangerous fives on the Traders’ National is still being used. One of the men now under arrest says he will deliver the plate from which the bills are printed to' the Government if he can be allowed to go free, but t\is proposition is declined. The tens are poor imitations of the genuine, while the fives and the fifty-cent notes are well calculated to deceive. The country has been flooded with this money, and the Government officers are to be congratulated on their success in so far breaking up the “ queer” comhination.—Chicago Inter-Ocean, Dec. 10. The Denver New» records this incident for the benefit of those who doubt woman’s constancy: “ A man was about dying in this city, and an acquaintance sent the following telegram to his wife, who was in Chicago: ‘ Your husband is dying. Come quick.’ She coolly replied: ‘ Can’t go now. If he dies hand him over to the Masons; he’s one of them.’ The man died. The wife hasn’t been heard from since.”