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LATEST NEWS.

Prussia Demands the Dismissal of a Papal Nuncio. Carlist Activity and Alphonslst Defeats. The Importation of American Potatoes Prohibited la fiemaey. Return of Hon. W. S. King, of Minnesota, from foreign Barts. Myaterioo* Marder of a German SaloonKeeper a Chicago. Miscellaneous .and General News. THE OLD WORLD. John Mitchel, the lately-elected member from Tipperary, Ireland, is alarmingly ilh According to late Shanghai dispatches all European troops had been withdrawn from Yokohama. Thirty persons were Injured near Litchfield, England, on the 2d by a railway accident. London dispatches of the moaning of the 4th report the wrecking of the steamer Gothenburg, on one of the Forneaux Islands, between Van Dieman’s Land and Australia. She had on board 170 persons, of whom only four were known to be saved. Ths Irish Rifle Association has fixed upon the 29th of June next as the date of the return match between the American and Irish riflemen. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 4th there was great indignation in that city over allegations of Russian misgovernment in Turkestan, contained in the report made by Mr. Schuyler, the United States Charge cP Affaires, and it was said Prince Gortschakoff had demanded his recall. John Mitchel was renominated for Parliament on the 4th.

According to dispatches from Berlin of the sth Bismarck had demanded the dismissal of the Papal Nuncio at Munich, and the cessation of relations between the Vatican and Bavaria. A decree has been issued by the German Government prohibiting the importation of American potatoes and the exportation of horses. \ According to Havana dispatches of the 6th several engagements with the insurgents had occurred, in which the losses on both sides had been about equal. The Spanish troops on Mora River, near Guantanamo, had been recently attacked by insurgents clad in Spanish uniform. The official dispatch from Spanish sources says both sides lost heavily. Lieut.-Gbn. Sir Jamis Hops Grant and Arthur Helps died in London on the 7th. Gen. Grant was sixty-seven years old and Mr. Helps fifty-seven. It is said that the famine in Asia Minor has decimated some districts to the extent of twofifths of their population. United States Minister Cushing, for his Government, has signed the convention between Spain and the United States for the settlement of the Virginias affair. Accordimg to advices from Figueras, on the Spanish frontier, of the Bth, an engagement had taken place between the Carlists and Alphonslsts near Figueras, which lasted six hours and resulted in the substantial defeat of the latter, whose loss was said to be over 300 killed. The Carlisle had also begun the bombardment of Oria. A report was current that Alphonso desired to abdteate in favor of the Duke de Montpensier. The province of Santander had been entered by the Carliete in strong force, and the Government had forwarded a large number of troops from Bilbao to oppoee them. The new French Cabinet under the auspices of M. Buffet has been formed.

THK SKW WORLD. In the Beecher case E. J. Ovington, R. E. Holmes and Mrs. Ovington were called as witnesses for the defense on the 2d. Their testimony was intended principally to reflect on Mr. Tilton’s character. I Accorbing to a Little Rock (Ark.) telegram of the 3d there was general rejoicing throughout the State over the action of Congress relative to affairs in that State. Joint resolutions had been passed by both houses of the State Legislature, thanking Congress and pledging the State Government to see that equal and exact justice is done to all men. .On the night of the 3d, at Memphis, Tenn., two colored men who had purchased tickets for admission to the dress-circle of the theater were refused admission and their money returned to them. The manager, it is said, will contest the constitutionality of the CivilRights law in case suit is brought by the rejected parties. Thb bill for the admission of Colorado as a State, passed by Congress xm the 3d, provides that the election for delegates to frame a State Constitution shall be held under proclamation of the Territorial Governor, to be issued within ninety dteys from the Ist of September, 1875, and thn the Constitution thus framed shall be*submitted to the people in July, 1876. Adjt.-Gbn. Lorenzo Thomas died in Wash ington on the 2d, in the seventy-second year of his age. According to a "Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 4th the President had refused to sign the bill for the equalization of soldiers’bounties. The Force bill was rpad a first and second time in the Senate. Beyond this the Senate took no further action. It was believed that the President would take no further action in the affairs of Arkansas, being influenced by the recent expression of the House against Governmental interference. 8. W. Kellogg has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second Connecticut District. The Democrats of the First District have nominated Geo. M. Banders. On the 3d, in the Beecher trial, Mr. Ovington was recalled and testified as to the money placed in his hands by Mr. Storrs for the benefit of Mrs. Tilton. He had found on looking ever his books that he had made a mistake, the amount being 11,245 in all. Mrs. Ovington’s evidence was continued, hut nothing of great InntataifDe was elMted. Mrs. Putnam

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was called to the stand, and soon after the beginning ot her testimony one of the jurors was taken with a sudden faintness, and the court adjourned. She continued her evidence on the 4th, and testified to and devotion Mrs. Tilton had evinced in her presence for her husband, and said she never had the power of living out her life in opposition to his wishes. Mrs. Tilton had dften made statements to witness which tiie latter did not believe, when endeavoring to hide her husband’s faults. While the witness was giving her testimony the juror who had been taken sick the day before sent word to the Judge that he was again unwell, and the court adjourned to the Bth. Thb third annual convention of the National Butter and Egg Association was lately held In Chicago. G. E. Gooch, of Chicago, was elected President, and Col. R. M. Littler, of Davenport, lowa, Secretary. A resolution was adopted declaring that the term “Western” should be dropped in the market reports, and it should be graded and stand on its merits as butter, without any reference to the locality in which it is made. There was over a foot of snow on a level in St. Louis on the 3d. According to a Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch of the 3d the town of Jasper, in that State, was submerged by a flood, and people were living in the second stories of their houses. The water was four feet deep in the Court-House. Many cattle had been drowned. Thb Eads Jetty bill, as passed by Congress, appropriates 05,250,000 to carry out the enterprise and indicates the Southwestern Pass as the channel. On making his appearance in the United States Senate on the sth Senator Johnson met with quite an ovation. The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention is to be held at Lancaster on the 26th of May. The Democracy will hold their State Convention on the Bth of September, in Erie. The next annual meeting of the National Butter and Egg Convention will be held at Davenport, lowa, the first Wednesday in March, 1876. Thb manager of xhe Public Library Hall in Louisville, Ky., on the night of the sth, refused admission to a colored man who applied for a ticket to the first circle. He was subsequently admitted to Macauley’s Theater, where he took a front seat. At Wilmington, N. C., on the sth, the case of a colored man who had been refused a drink at a saloon was brought before the United States Commissioner, and dismissed on the ground that the Civil-Rights bill does not apply to barrooms. On the sth announcement was made that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company had reduced the passenger fare from Chicago to Baltimore and Washington to eight dollars. The Arkansas Legislature adjourned on the sth. According to Atty .-Gen. Williams, President Grant had told members of the Cabinet, before the Equalization Bounty bill was passed by Congress, that he was opposed to its provisions, and would veto it in case of its passage, as he regarded the measure as involving an extravagant and uncalled-for expenditure of money.

It was reported on the 7th that persons arriving in New York city on the sth for the purpose of serving papers on Congressmanelect Schumaker, relating to the Pacific Mail subsidy, had found that he had just sailed for Europe. Hon. James Buffinton, member of Congress from the First Massachusetts District, died on the morning of the 6th, about one hour after reaching his home at Fall River. Gen. Sheridan left New Orleans on the 6th. Eight inches of snow fell at Cairo, 111., on the 7th, and fifteen inches at Memphis, Tenn. The Indiana Legislature adjourned sine die on the 6th, and the Governor issued a proclamation the same day for a special session to begin on the Qth. The Kansas snd Wisconsin Legislatures also adjourned sine die on the 6th. The bodies of over forty persons who died in St John’s, Newfoundland, during the past winter have been temporarily interred in the snow, which lay in such immense quantities in the cemeteries as to prevent the opening of the graves. Mr. Wheeler received on the Bth from New Orleans his articles of adjustment, signed by forty-four members of the Conservative caucus, an ample number to secure the desired result. He at once notified Gov. Kellogg to forward to the city of New York the papers in the office of the Secretary of State which were used in the contested election cases before the Returning Board in November last. Hon. Godlove 8. Orth has been nominated as Minister to Austria and Hon. Horace Maynard as Minister to Constantinople. Congressman Wm. S. King, of Minnesota, arrived in Washington on the 6th. He stated that he was going to St. Paul to defend himself against the suit of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. • The Tilton-Beecher trial was resumed on the Bth, the sick juror being in attendance. Mrs. Putnam concluded her testimony and was followed by Anna Augusta Moore, who at one time boarded with Mrs. Richards, at the time Mr. and Mrs. Tilton were members of the same household. Her evidence was similar to that of Mrs. Putnam, and mainly referred to Mr. Tilton’s shortcomings as a husband and chureh-member. Mrs. Oakley was next called to the stand, but Mr. Jeffreys became sick again and the court adjourned. A German saloon-keeper named Julius Wilcke was found murdered in his saloon in Chicago about nine o’clock on the morning of the 7th. The murdered man was an inoffensive person, and it is thought the crime was committed to secure the money supposed to be in his possession. OOireJBBSSIONAIM In the Senate, on the 2d, after the pas sage of a number of Pension bills, the Force bill was read * second time and laid over under the rule... .The House bill to equalize the bounties of soldiers wm amended and passed—3o to 30— the Vice-President riving the casting vote in the affirmative... .The Tax and Tariff bill passed as it came from the House—Bo to 29....8i11s were passed—to prevent cruelty to animals in the District of Columbia; amending the act to restore to home stead entnr and to market certain lands in Michigan. ...The report of the Conference Committee on tiie bill to provide for the incorporation and regulation of railread companies in the Territories wm agreed t 0... .Adjourned. In the House, before the conclusion of the all-night thb Sundry Civil Apprtfpria-

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tio* MU was passed....On reassembling bills were passed—for the government of the District of Columbia; to protect witnesses summoned to appear before. Congressional committees froni arrest on civil process: giving consent to tto Wisconsin Central Railroad Company to build its road between Stevens Point and Portage City on the line adopted Feb. 10,1875 ...The Senate amendments to toe Poetoffice Appropriation bill were considered—the one reviving the franking privilege in toe case of garden seeds and agricultural reports being concurred in—lß3 to 95—and the amendment allowing members to frank certain public docaments until Dec. 1, 1875, being also agreed to—llß to 65. The amendment fixing toe salary of the New York ''Postmaster at SB,OOO was not concurred 1n....A resolution was adopted rescinding a resolution adopted April 10,1862, censuring Simon Cameron for certain alleged irregular proceedings as Secretary of War at the outbreak of toe rebellion ....The Arkansas question was then taken up and toe resolution reported by the majority of the committee advising no interference with the present condition of affairs adopted—l 49 to 80 ..The Deficiency Appropriation oill (82,496,556) was considered in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 3d, the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was amended and passed ....Sundrr amendments were made to the River and Harbor Appropriation bill..,.Conference reports were concurred in on the Indian and Postoffice Appropriation bills and on the bill for the government of the army... .The committee reported adversely on the bill to remove toe political disabilities of Raphael Semmes.... A conference was ordered on the Bounty bi 11.... Adjourned. In the House, conference reports were agreed to on the Indian and Poetoffice Approprition bills, the bill in relation to the army, and toe bill regulating railroads in Territories.... The report on the Legislative Appropriation bill was non-concnrred in, and a new conference was ordered.... A conference committee was ordered on the Senate amendments to the Bounty bi 11.... Speaker Blaine was unanimously thanked for the manner in which he had discharged his duties.... The resolution reported by the Pacific Mail Committee of Investigation was adopted.... The resolutions from the Committee of Election declaring that Pinchbeck is not entitled to a seat from Louisiana and that George A. Sheridan is, were adopted—l 23 to 29—and Sheridan was sworn in.... Lawrence, the contestant for Sypher’s seat, was also awarded the place... .The bill admitting Colorado as a State passed—l 64 to 76—and the bill admitting New Mexico was rejected—ls 4to 87—not two-thirds.... The Senate amendments to the House bill in relation .to the navigation of the Mississippi were agreed t0...-The Senate Civil Rights bill was referred to the Judiciary Commit tee.... The bill extending the time for the completion of the St. Croix & Lake Superior Railroad was rejected. ...The bill to set apart a portion of the island of Mackinac for a National Park was passed... .The House was still in session at 2 a. m., on the morning of the 4th. In the Senate, on the 4th, the River and Harbor, toe Deficiency and other appropriation bills were passed, as were also bills—making an appropriation to pay the award of the Southern Claims Commission; for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers; granting pensions to the heirs of soldiers murdered by guerrillas in Central Missouri in 1861; removing the political disabilities of sundry persons.... A report was made from the Conference Committee on the Bounty bill, stating that the House had finally concurred in the Senate amendments, and it was tabled. Subsequently it was ascertained that the Viee-Presiaent had signed this bill as having passed, and the question was raised that he could not legally do so; since it was tabled....A resolution was adopted thanking the Vice-President for the impartial and courteous manner with which he has presided in the Senate.. .A message was received from the President that he had no further communication to make, and the Senate adjourned sine die. In the House, the conference reports on the Sundry Civil, River and Harbor, Legislative and Deficiency Appropriation bills were agreed t0....8i11s were passed—for the relief of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad Company; for the coinage of twenty-cent silver coins; authorizing a pontoon wagon bridge at Dubuque ....The Senate amendments to the Southern Claims Appropriation bill were concurred in ....Several private bills were also passed ....A resolution of thanks to the Clerks of the House was adopted....A committee having reported that the President had no farther communication to make to. the House, the Speaker, at the hour of twelve, announced the expiration o the last session of the Forty-third Congress and delivered a short farewell address, and the members dispersed.

The Senate of the Forty-fourth Conress assembled in special session at noon on he sth, Vice-President Wilson in the chair.... The Presidential proclamation was read and the oath administered to the new Senators.... Mr. Morton offered resolutions—declaring Kellogg to be the legal Governor of Louisiana, and committing the Government to his support; declaring Pinchback entitled to a seat in the Senate from Louisiana.... The committee appointed to wait upon the President reported that he would communicate with the Senate on the Bth, and an adjournment to that date was carried. In the Senate, on the Bth, Mr. Morton spoke to his resolution for the admission of Pinchback as Senator from Louisiana.... After a short executive session the Senate adjourned. THE MARKETS. March 8,1875. Now Yobk.— Cotton—l6K®l6%c. Flour—Good to choice, [email protected]; white wheat extra, J5.40@ 6.00. Wheat— No. 2 Chicago, 81.1WJ4; No. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Rye— Western, 84@95c. Barfry— [email protected]. Corn— B4@Bsc. Oats Western, 67@69c. Pork— New mess, $19.12%@19.25. Lard— Prime steam, 13*4@13%c. Cheese— l2© 16c. Wool—Domestic fleece, 52@65c. Beeves—|[email protected]. Boas— Dressed, Western, $8.62!4© 8.75; live, |6.8TK©7.25. FMp-Uve, 86-00© 7.50. Chicago.— .Boeixa—Choice, >5.75©6.25; good, 85.25©5.65; medium, $4.75©5.00; butchers' stock, 8 3 -50©4.50; stock cattle, «3.00©4.25. Hogs— Live, good to choice, $6.50©7.25. dressed, [email protected]. Sheen— Good to choice, f5-00©6.25. Butter—Cnoice yellow, 30@36c. Eggs Fresh, 35©40c. PorkMess, new, |18.05©18.10. Lard- 113.15©13.20. Cheese— New York Factory, 17@17Kc; Western Factory, 16i4©17c. Flour—White winter extra, >[email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. Wheat —Spring, No. £ 85K©86c. Com —No. 2, 63M@64J<c. Oats—No. 2. 52M@52Hc. Pye-No. 2, 97@97%c. Barlev—No. 2, |[email protected]. Wool -Tub-washed, 45©58c; fleece, washed, 40© 50c; fleece, unwashed, 27@37c. LumberBint clear, 852.00©55.00; second clear, 846.00© 50.00; Common Boards, S11.00©12.00; Fencing, 812.00©13.00; “A” Shingles, $8.00©3.26; Lath, Cincinnati.— Ffattr—B4.9sos.lo. Wheat— Red, f 1.0701.10. Com—67@6Bc. £ye-|[email protected]. Oafs—s9@62c. Barley -818.b0©18.75. Z,ard-43M@i4c. St. Louis.— Cattle— Fair t* choice, $5.15©5.75. Hogs— Live, [email protected]. Flour—XX Fall, J4.40© 4.50. WAeaf-No. 2 Red FaU, [email protected]!4. Corn -No. 2, 64M065MC. Oats— No. 2, 56H©57c. Bye— No. 1, 99c©|1.00. Barley— No. 2, 21.20 Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard-13 ©l3Mc. Milwauk**.— Flour—Spring XX, 84.60©5.00. WAeal—Spring, No. 1,90M@91c; No. 2,86 M ©B7c. Corn—No. 2, 62*4@63c. Cate-No. 2, Rye— No. 1, [email protected]. barley— No. 2, |[email protected]. Cusvblamd.— Wheat— No. 1 Red, 81.10«© 1.11; No. 2 Red, 21.04%©1.05. Com —7l @72c. Oats-No. 1,60@61c. DBTBorr.—WAeat—Extra, |[email protected]. Corn Oats— 69@s9Hc. Dressed Hogs— Tolbdo.— WAeaf—=Amber Mich.,[email protected]; No. 2 red, [email protected]. Com—High Mixed, 69@69Kc. Oats— No. 2, 5@57>4c. Buffalo.—Dmms— [email protected] Hogs— Live, [email protected]. NAecp-Live, [email protected]. East Limbty.— Cattle— Best, M-25®6-75; medium, 85.40@« 1 .75. Hogs— Yorkers, [email protected]; 7 —An Alsatian iron manufacturer of Muhlhouse fame, Nicholas Koechlin, left his city when it was ceded to Germany and established his headquarters in Paris on the score that he could not live side by side with his hated conquerors. He has just died in his adopted city, and the Alsatians there attended en masse his funeral in the Protestant Church. His dying will was that he should be temporarily buried in Switzerland until his remains could be conveyed to his native Alsace whenever it should be recovered by France, if they had to whit a thousand yeaxh.

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

Clay County. The coal operators of the county have called upon the YfovernOr for protection from the “ Molly Maguires” of the mining district. Clarke County, As Mike Land, a boy fourteen years old, was riding on the draw-head of an engine on the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad, at Jeffersonville, the other afternoon, he slipped and fell between the rails. His body was horribly mashed by the ash-pan of the engine, and death ensued before he could be gotten out. Dearborn County. The west-bound passenger train on the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad was thrown from the track near Lawrenceburg, a few nights ago, by a broken axle, and a tramp who was stealing a ride on the forward end of the postal-car was instantly killed. No other person was injured. Delaware County. • Efforts are being made to establish a wheel factory at Muncie. Mrs. Cline, the Mother of the clerk of the Kirby House, Muncie, was recently burned to death. On the day m question the old lady was up-stairs in her 'room, just over the kitchen, in which was Mks. Cline, her daugh-ter-in-law. The son went to the stable on an errand and was gone perhaps fifteen minutes. On entering the house he smelled something burning and soon found that it proceeded from his moth ear’s room. He rushed up-stairs and the rmim was dense with smoke and heat; he -could not enter it. Directed by a groan he found his mother within, lying prostrate and insensible on the floor, with every vestige of her clothing burned off and the body literally baked to a crisp. She lingered insensible and dying for about fifteen hours. \ David Vincent did not know it was lomled nor did Jonathan Blakely, at whom it Was playfully aimed, for he was too dead to know anything about it before the smoke cleared, away. The fool-killer should fcvisit Perry' Township. Elkhart County. An accident occurred on the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railway, near Goshen, the other morning, Which resulted in the ditching of seven cars. Fortunately no one was killed. The dry-goods house of Broderick Bros., at Elkhart, have made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Liabilities about 122,000; assets about 812,000. A party of Goshenites, consisting of Mr. Isaac A. Simmons and wife, Mrs. 8. McKibben, Misses Ida McKibben, Fannie Starr and Mary Denny, left the city a few afternoons ago, in a sleigh, to visit friends near Ligonier. When about one mile from their destination and while crossing a pond the ice suddenly gave way. The horses went under the ice, pulling the sleigh, with its occupants, after them. The shrieks of the women brought several men to the rescue, who labored faithfully and succeeded in extricating the entire party from the sleigh and a watery grave. Grant County. The Marion Democrat says that the body of the young man who froze to death several weeks ago is to be taken up and a post mortem examination held, as suspicions of foul play are entertained. Hendrick* County. The people of Danville are prospecting for some one to erect a woolen factory, and offer to take sufficient stock in such an enterprise to give it a good send-off. Howard County. A few afternoons ago in Clay Township, near Kokomo, Mr. Elsey Bird, a young man twenty-five years of age, met with a terrible death. Mr. Bird and James Heath went to “the woods to ent some trees. Mr. Heath was cutting at one tree and Mr. Bird at another, and when the latter felled the tree it struck and crushed him to death. Knox County. The following is from the Vincennes Sun: “ Last Monday night Mr. Hugh A. Emison, who lives on {Mantle’s dairy farm, near this city, and all the members of his household came to town to witness the celebration of Washington’s birthday. About 9:30 o’clock, the performance being over, they started for home. On nearing it they saw three of Mr. Emison’s best horses standing hitched to the fence and in readiness to travel. Mr. Emison’s hired man got out of the wagon, and, hearing a noise, went to the stable to see what was the matter, and discovered a man in the act ot putting a bridle on another horse. Pulling his revolver the hired man told him to let up. The man darted past him out of the stable and made quick time across the yard, and just as he was getting over the fence Emison’s man fired and ran after him. The thief got into the swamps, however, and he could not catch him. The thief was no doubt wounded, as blood was seen on the ground near the fence next morning.” Lawrence County. A shooting affray recently came off at Bedford which resulted in the fatal wounding of James Gaubear, a Prussian music-teacher of some local note. Marion County. Mrs. Rebecca Bayer, living at 85X East Washington street, Indianapolis, a few days ago induced a small boy to purchase fifty cents’ worth of arsenic at Hill & Neal’s drug store, one-half ot which she swallowed. She died from the effects. She was a young lady not over twenty-two years of age, but for some months has been suffering from internal cancer, and quite recently made two attempts to end her existence. Noble County. The steam saw-mill of L. B. Eagles, of Indian Village, was set on fire the other night and reduced to ashes. Pike County. The material of the Petersburg Press has been sold at Sheriff’s sale for 8500. St. Joseph County. James R. Davis, a young man who held the situation of book-keeper and collector in the law and abstract office of Andrew Anderson, at South Bend, has gone West to grow up with the country. About SBSO belonging to his employer went with him. John Shank, for some six years Deputy County Treasurer at South Bend, has been discovered to be an embezzler to the extent of about 82,000. Tippecanoe County. Mrs. Keller, of Lafayette, was fatally gored by a cow a few days ago. Vanderburgh County. The Evansville Courier ot a recent date says: “Night before last a number of dogs entered the sheep pasture of Pleasant G. Gentry, on Fulton avenue, near Dr. Walker’s

residence, and played great destructior among the lambs of the field. From the aj pearance of the animals it seems as if the dogs grabbed at the sheep’s mouth, and aftei securing It fast would gnaw its throat and suck the blood. In tills way twenty-two sheep were lost, eight having been found dead and the others dying. Singular to relate, the vicious dogs had not touched a morsel of the mutton, devouring only the life’s blood of the sheep.” Vigo County. A few mornings ago Oscar Church, who lives between four and five miles west of Terre Haute, on the National road, had both his legs broken by the fall of a saw-log. He was pulling it up on to the wagon, when it slipped, striking him on the right leg, just below the knee, and breaking it, and then breaking his left leg near the ankle. WMblngton County. There is not a single colored man in the county, and has not been for some three or four years. A large two-story house at Canton in which D. Gray & Bro. kept a general store and the postoffice was burned a few night ago. The total loss reached about 88,500. Wayne County. A miraculous escape from the jaws of death occurred at Johnson’s Station a few days ago. A Mr. Hinshaw, accompanied by his wife and child, drove on the track with a mule team, not noticing a train that was approaching and partially hid by the high banks on either side of the cut. Warned of his danger he jumped out to hurry the then unmanageable mules off the track, but unfortunately they detached themselves from the wagon, dragging Mr. Hinshaw with them. In an instant the train came thundering down on the wagon, completely demolishing it, while Mrs. H. and her child were thrown up dn the the embankment. Mrs. H. gained control of herself but the child rolled back to the track and would have been killed without a doubt had not the engineer in the meantime reversed his engine and checked its speed sufficiently to allow a brakeman named Michael Guthrie to jump and snatch the child up just \n time to save it. As fortune would have it the severe contusions that Mr. H. sustained in his struggle with the infuriated mules were the most serious results of the very precarious a cident Mrs. William Majors, residing on Cliff street Richmond, left two young children alone at home, a few days ago, while she made some purchases at a grocery near by. She heard screams of the children and returned to find that one of the children in at tempting to put some wood in the stove had set his clothing on fire. The mother made frantic efforts to smother the flames, but the child was fatally burned.

INDIANA STATE LEGISLATURE.

Senate, March 2.—The Committee on Lost Bills reported that the most important one had been returned, and asked to be discharged, which was agreed t 0.... The bill to provide for the organization of camp-meeting associations was passed over the Governor’s veto—27to 17.... The Special Committee to investigate the affairs of the Northern Prison reported that they had found everything correct, and recommended the retention of the present officers.... The bill fora new StateHouse was indefinitely postponed by the casting vote of the Lieutenant Governor .... Bills were passed—changing the date of delinquency on the second installment of State and county taxes from the 15th to the first Monday of November; relieving certain counties from suits by the State for unpaid taxes assessed by the illegal Equalization Board of 1869; authorizing the Auditor of State to make good the title to certain lands in Madison County to Delass Root, of Marion County; incorporating the State Grange. Patrons of Husbandry; changing the statute of limitations in case of nonresidence; limiting the power of Township Trustees to contract debts; allowing recovery of damages by reason of animals running at large, without reference to the legality of the Fence law; giving landlords a lien on crops to the amount of ground rental; regulating the matter of opening streets and assessing benefits and damages; providing for support of illegitimate children of minor women; allowing cities to levy taxes on the basis of the county assessment, and giving thirty days for the redemption of personal property sold on execution.... Adjourned. House. —The committee to investigate the charges of irregularities on the part of certain House employes reported that five persons had drawn pay as fictitious officers to the amount of $1,075, and recommended their dismissal, and that they be compelled to refund the money... Bills were passed—levying for 1875 and 1876 for each year a tax of five cents on SIOO and fifty cents on each poll for general purposes, three cents for the payment of interest on school-fund bonds ana two cents for the building of one insane asylum; providing for the transfer of school children from outside districts to city or town schools without property of their parents being transferred for school-tax purposes; providing that wives of insane husbands may sell and convey property held by them in their own right; providing that municipal incorporations shall not incur debts in excess of 5 per cent, of the taxable property therein; also the Appropriation bin. ....In the evening, bills were passed—amending the Savings Bank act so that in cases of runs on banks securities shall not be sacrificed; providing that administrators shall file their reports annually or else lose their fees in case of the second failure, and that upon SI,OOO estates administrators shall have but 6 per cent; providing for appeals from Boards of County Commissioners; to prevent forfeiture of policies of insurance in cases where premiums have been paid in part; an act to legalize acts of Town Trustees when elective officers fail to file statements; providing for the appointment of shorthand reporters in certain courts of counties containing populations of 70,000 inhabitants.... A resolution was adopted directing the investigation of the charges of Cruelty preferred against the management of the Insane Asylum... .Adjourned. Senate, March 3.—The report of the Committee on Fees and Salaries that the House bill on fees and salaries lie on the table was concurred in.... The Railroad Tax law vote was reconsidered, and an amendment adopted extending the time in which roads may claim and receive aid voted by tax from three to five yean, and the bill then passed—26 to 16....8i11s were passed—providing for service of process on officers of steamboat companies on rivers; to allow the setting off of a widow’s portion of land so as to sell the remainder on petition; making the theft or concealment of a bill a felony; allowing the Indianapolis Widows’ and Orphans’ Home to change its name by dropping the word “Widows’”; grovlding for continuance of the office of ounty Superintendent, at a salary of $4.00 per day; making the drawing of deadly weapons a misdemeanor; ceding titles of certain lands td the United States for lighthouse purposes; providing for opening streets and assessing damages and benefits; making gaming by any apparatus a misdemeanor; amending the General Redemption laws; allowing divorced persons to remarry at any time after granting, the decree; allowing corporations to buy in property at judicial sales updn which they may have mortgages (

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allowing appeals in cases asking for receivers ... .The following were nominated for Trustees of the Normal School at Terre Haute: Wm. D. Byrum and A. C. Hopkins ... .The minority report of the Committee on Corporations, recommending the repeal of the Gravel-road law, was ordered to be engrossed ....The Senate met in the evening, out, no quorum being present, an adjournment was carried. House.’—The veto by the Governor of the bill permitting the organization of campmeeting associations was sustained—67 to 26 ... .A resolution was adopted directing the Attorney-General to collect ana cover back into the Treasury all sums illegally drawn by such employes of the House as were holding appointments unauthorized by 1aw.... The House Fee and Salary bill was substituted for the Senate bill and ordered to a third reading.... Bills were passed—directing County Commissioners at each regular meeting to thoroughly inspect the books and accounts of County Auditors and Treasurers; directing the transcribing of Assessors’ reports directly from their books to those of the Auditor; restricting Township Trustees from contracting debts beyond the funds on hand and the amount levied by taxation until permission is obtained from County Commissioners; making seduction of a minor female a felony, punishable by fine and imprisonment.... In tie evening the majority and minority reports of the Joint Bunding Committee were submitted.... Bills were passed—providing for the sale of turnpike roads to satisfy claims; to reimburse certain counties for taxes illegally assessed and collected for State purposes in 1869.... Adjourned.

Senate, March 4.—The Committee on Public Buildings reported on the condition of the prison buildings at Jeffersonville, and recommended the abandonment of that prison at an early day... .The Committee on Benevolent Institutions reported in favor of substituting the Senate bill for two Insane Asylums in place of the House bill for one. The report was adopted and the bill passed.... The Senate Fee and Salary bill was substituted for the House bill and passed under a suspension of the rules.... Bills were passed—allowing Boards of Aldermen for cities of 12,000 voters and over; relieving stockholders of companies from personal liability for debts of such companies; providing for a public warehousing system with grain inspection; allowing gravel roads to operate ana collect tolls on extensions of the roads....ln the evening the House bill to abolish the Criminal Court in Clark and Floyd Counties failed to pass for want of a constitutional majority.... The House bill providing that legal notices shall be published in Gfennan newspapers when such papers exist and where the population is 15,000 and over passed. ...Adjourned. House. —Bills were passed—providing that in case suit is brought by a city it shall not be necessary to bring in proof of the passage of its ordinances unless the same is denied on affidavit; giving Judges during vacation power to revoke temporary injunctions granted during vacation; extending the time for making application for new trial to not exceeding ninety days; reducing the number of Indiana Reports furnished each county from three to one; defining libel and prescribing a penalty of 81,000 and six. months’ imprisonment for each offense; providing that all orders on counties remaining unclaimed for five years be turned over to Township Trustees for the benefit of township libraries; prescribing the manner of levying assessments of lands for turnpike purposes; repealing former acts providing for entering of records for satisfaction of judgments in Circuit Courts; empowering Justices of the Peace to tax costs against complaining witnesses; providing for the removal of such county, township, or municipal officers as fail or are incompetent to perform their duties; defining the terms of auction and autioneers; fixing the salary of the Attorney-General at 82,000, with certain fees and 81,000 for clerk hire; authorizing the establishment of county Grange agencies; requiring complainant to give an indemnity bond to the Sheriff or constable before said officers can make levy; providing for the appointment by the Governor of Justices of the Peace in cases of vacancy; giving exclusive junsdictionto Justices of the Peace in civil cases involving 8300, and concurrent in cases involving 8600, and permitting confession of judgment to the amount of 81,000; also exclusive jurisdiction in criminal cases where fines do not exceed five dollars, and concurrent where fines do not exceed twenty-five dollars; making payment of taxes in one or two installments optional with the payer, and providing that if the first installment is not paid by the day it falls due the whole tax shall become delinquent; also extending the time of payment of the second installment from Oct. 15 to Nov. 15, and prohibiting County Auditors from receiving any additional per centage for collection of taxes in two installments: providing for additional replevin bail in certain cases; for the better protection of Justices of the Peace, and requiring certain State and county officers to make out annually statements or fees collected by them....ln the evening bills were passed—amending the Practice act; providing for the appointment of additional appraisers of property on execution in case of failure to agree; providing that when the land of a decedent is divided and sold and the heirs do not appear to claim it the proceeds can be paid into the court, and then if not claimed it can be carried into the treasury; authorizing the acquirement of land titles by condemnation to facilitate improvements on the Ohio River; reducing the number and salary of Prison Directors....Adourned.

Senate, March s.—The House Temperance bill was taken up, amended in several important particulars and passed on third reading—3o to 18... .The General Appropriation bill was considered by sections, amended and ordered engrossed... .Bills were passed—incorporating the town of Martinsville; making null and void the proviso in promissory notes for payment of attorneys’ fees, legalizing the official acts of Town Boards and regulating the making of town assessments; authorizing the incorporation of boards of trade; allowing the incorporation of cemeteries already partially occupied.... The Judiciary Committee reported a bill changing the date of the genecal election to November, which passed under a suspension of the rules— 44 to 2... .In the evening bills were passed—authorizing Judges to issue injunctions or restraining orders in vacation; offering a reward for the destruction of wolves, foxes and other destructive animals; providing for the levy of a tax to purchase gravel roads by counties; to protect wild pigeons in their roosting-places from destruction; to supply in the absence of Judges from any cause from the bench of Superior Courts; to amend the process of attachment; providing for judgments on sworn accounts in cases of default, without, further proceeding; providing for the purchase of all stationery for public use by County Commissioners; providing penalties for irregularities and peculations.... Adjourned. House.—The Specific Appropriation bill was passed.... Bills were passed—authorizing incorporated cities to construct and improve harbors and condemn property; empowering railroad conductors to arrest and eject any disorderly passengers and those engaged in gambling.... The Speaker read a parting address, and a vote of thanks was carried.... In the evening bills were passed—authorizing the organization of stock-yard associations; requiring railroad companies, steamboat owners or other carriers of passengers to repurchase their unused tickets or coupons, and making it a misdemeanor for anyone to resell, except persons actually purchasing: authorizing transferring of the county seat ofßenton County to thMown of Oxford; establishing city courts in cities havings population of over 6,000 inhabitants; providing that in selling timbered school lands the first payment shall be equal to the value of

ADEVRTISING BATES. One Colamn one Year .|6O 00 One-half Colamn one Year 86 00 Ove-quarter Colamn one Year M 00 Businbss Cards, five lines or less, one year, 85.00, payable one-half in advance. Legal Advxbtiskmzntb at legal rates. Local Notions, ten cents a line for the first insertion, and five cents a line for each additional nsertion. Bbgular Advebtisembnts payable monthly. A change allowed every quarter on yearly adver tisements. Communications of general and local interest solicited.

the timber; providing for the election of six Trustees of Purdue University, instead of eight; compelling gravel-road corporations to publish sworn statements of their financial condition; authorizing Circuit Courts to change the names of corporations; requiring County Auditors to publish all items of expense allowed by Commissioners....Ad, journed. Senate, March 6. —The following bills were passed: Requiring suits on promissory notes to be brought in counties where drawer resides; incorporating the State Horticultural Society; providing for ditching and draining of lands by corporations, under direction of County Boards; providing for short-hand reports of evidence im courts; providing that corporations may hold real estate acquired by foreclosure of mortgage: authorizing Sheriffs to advertise sale of real estate in any paper in the county, instead of the paper nearest the land; appropriating 88,000 to the State Geologist; permitting pupils outside of corporations to attend High School by paying a tuition fee.... The session having expired by limitation, the Senate adjourned sins die.

House.—The following were among the bills passed: Making Allen County a separate Judicial circuit; establishing a Superior Court in Tippecanoe County, and abolishing Criminal Court; fixing the time of holding courts in the Tenth Judicial Circuit; providing that City Assessors may take their assessments from the books of the County Auditor; legalizing the assessments and collection of taxes since 1872; compelling School Trustees of cities to reorganize the School Board each year, and changing the time of election of Trustee from April to June; providing for the incorporation of State and subordinate Granges; providing that loan associations may not be compelled to dissolve ana reorganize every eight years; providing that city orders shall draw Interest from the time of their presentation until notice is given by'the City Treasurer that funds are on hand to pay them; repealing the Railroad County-Aia law, but allowing townships to vote aid; extending the time in which railroad companies having received aid from counties may complete their lines from three years to five years; fixing the time for holding courts in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit; authorizing County Commissioners to appoint Justices of the Peace whenever vacancies occur; providing for apprenticing of inmates of the Manual-labor Schools of the State; amending Sec. 269 of the Assessment act; providing for the removal of public officers on account of drunkenness; authorizing the sale of certain lands • belonging to the State in the counties of Hancock and Jennings; reducing the price of “ Indiana Supreme Court Reports” from 85 to 83 per volume, and prescribing what cases shall be reported; providing for the incorporation and continuance of building and loan associations; providing that when the appointment of receivers is asked or made appeals may be taken; prohibiting the importation into the State of Texas cattle except from the Ist of November to the Ist of April; limiting the power of Township Trustees to contract debts until permission is obtained from County Commissioners; changing the name of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum of Indianapolis to the Indianapolis Orphans’ Asylum; authorizing criminal Judges to issue writs of habeas corpus-, admitting girls of sixteen years of age to the Female Reform School; providing for service of process on Presidents of steamboat companies or their agents.... Adjourned sine die.

Postal Changes in Indiana.

The following are the postal changes in Indiana for the week ending Feb. 20: Postmasters Appointed—Carbondale, Warren County, John 8. Howland; Ely, Warrick County, Austin Young; Marmont, Marshall County, George W. Miller.

A Voice From the Black Hills.

There can be no doubt that an authentic report is now heard from the invading party of adventurers which is known to have been ensconced in the heart of the famous Black Hills of Wyoming all winter. Two men belonging to the band have arrived at Sioux City, lowa, whence they started last fall and which is their place of residence. One of them is an elderly man named Witcher, who has been well known for many years in the West as a freighter, but latterly has settled down as a cattle buyer and shipper in Sio.ux City. His report is of great interest, since it seems to be the first voice from the veritable center of the country over which so much speculation has been indulged in for a great number of years. He says that after the expedition of twenty-nine persons (one woman) and six wagons left Sioux City last October it went across Northern Nebraska and struck the Niobrara River 120 miles from its conjunction with the Missouri, and thence went across the countiy intervening between the Niobrara ana Cheyenne Rivers,and entered the Black Hills, which were penetrated nearly to the base of Harney’s Peak, where the company threw up a stockade and went into winter quarters. They were over two months on the trip, and met only one small party of Indians, which offered no resistance to the invaders. In the mountains the expedition found plenty of timber and an abundance of wild game. In prospecting for gold twenty-five pits were sunk, and gold quartz found in every Instance, but the richest specimens of ore were silver, instead of gold. Mr. Witcher and his comrade, a Mr. Gordon, left the Hills Feb. 8, with the intention of reporting progress to their Eastern friends and of forming another expedition in the spring. They rode on horseback the entire distance in less than thirty davs, were not met by any Indians, and subsisted on the provisions they started with and deer killed by the way. The snow was deep and the cold intense, but the hardy fellows reached home well and in good spirits. Mr. Witcher brought specimens of silver ore and gold quartz, and says the expedition is sanguine of success in mining operations. The party left in the Hills has plenty of provisions and ammunition. Nothing was seen, of the two Government expeditions which were sent out to dislodge them from Indian soil, but which were forced to turn back by the severity of the weather. —Chicago Journal, March. 1.

One of the most important railway lines in Bavaria has for many years been worked with turf, or peat. The material is obtained from the bogs of Haspelmoos, abundant in quantity and of the best quality attainable. The method pursued in its preparation is that devised by M. Exeter, and which is alleged to possess superior advantages on the score of adaptation and cheapness. The turf, as dug or dredged, appears commingled with a considerable proportion of earthy matter; from this it is separated by grinding up, large, dilution with water, and decantation «of the water bearing the light peat particles still in suspension from the heavier earth matter which has deposited. This is left to dry in layers exposed to the air, and compressed in molds by power. —Paradoxically speaking, mist is neve* mist when it is missed.