Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1875 — Page 1

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LATEST NEWS.

Destructive Swtiquak# is Mexico. An English Surveying Party Massacred. Tremendous Powder Explosion lev Clove* load, Ohio. Miscellaneous, Political and General Hews. VHH OLD WOBLD. Gen. Cabrera, a Carlist chieftain, has lately issued an address announcing hie recognition of Alphonso as King of Spain. A Carlist proclamation has also appeared denouncing Cabrera as a traitor. A surVeting party, commanded by a British Lieutenant and consisting of sixtythree Sepoys and coolies, has been massacred in Assam %y the natives. Kino Alphonso has demanded that Don Alphonso, brother of Don Carlos, be extradited from Germany and Austria. Sbbioos difficulties have arisen between the Indian Government and the King of Burmah in relation to boundaries and the latter’s claim to sovereignty over several independent mates, The King ha* occupied the disputed territory and refuses to withdraw, and British troops are moving upon British Burmah. On the 18th, in the German Lantag, the main sections of the bill withdrawing State grants from the recalcitrant Catholic Bishops were adopted. Germ ant has sent the frigate Ariadne to Swatow to support the demand upon Spain for Indemnity for the plundering of a German bark. Accobding to a Paris dispatch of the 20th the Government of King Alphonso had adopted an arbitrary policy toward the press. The newspaper Iberia had been suspended and all telegraphic dispatches were detained and examined. A Madrid telegram of the 31st announces the defeat of the Carllsts before Olot. Over 900 Corlists bad been captured. John Mitcbxl died on the 20tb. On the 31st the Irishmen in London met in Hyde Park to the number of 90,000, and adopted resolutions demanding the release of the Fenian prisoners, opposing the coercive laws in Ireland and condoling with the family of John Mitchel. According to a Madrid dispatch of tha 22d Gen. Cabrera, in going over to King Alphonso, took with him eight of the Carlist chieftains. Castelar had resigned his professorship iu the university & consequence of the Government re-establishing in the schools and colleges the text-books prescribed daring Isabella’s reign and otherwise changing the mode of public instruction.

THE NEW WORLD, On tbe night of the 11th of February an earthquake of more than ordinary severity occurred in Northern Mexico. The town of San Cristobel was entirely destroyed, and seventy dead bodies were taken from the ruins. At the late New Hampshire election Cheney (Rep.) received 39,385; Roberts (Dem.) 39,163, and White (Pro.) 754 votes. For Congressmen, Jones (Dem.) was elected in the First District, Bell (Dem.) in the Second, Blair (Rep.) in the Third. In the Beecher suit, on the 15th, John W. Harmon, Archibald Black and Jackson S. Schultz testified, and the deposition of J. H. Drake, now in Europe, was read. The two former testified to the effect that the original charge against Mr. Beecher,'as told them by Mr. Tilton, was that of improper proposals. The evidence of the two latter went to show that Mr. Moulton had denied that Mr. Beecher had violated the seventh commandment, and that he (Moulton) had asserted on more than one occasion that Mr. Beeeher was a pare man. Several witnesses testified on the 16th that Mr. Moulton had denied the truth of the charges against the defendant. Mr. Beach said it was not necessary to call so many witnesses, as Mr. Moulton did not deny having used the alleged expressions and Jndge Neilspn suggested that Mr. Shearman should limit his witnesses, which he promised to do. Thos. M. Cook, journalist, of Detroit, testified that he had several interviews with Mrs. Woodhull and Mr. Tilton prior to the publication of the Woodhull story, and that Mrs. W. had, in the presence of Mr. T., urged him to write np the Beecher scandal. On the cross-ex-amination witness said he had corresponded with Mr. Shearman relating to the trial, and had received $l5O to defray the expense of two trips to the city made in connection with the suit, and that he had been engaged as a sensational writer for New York papers. Rev. Samuel P. Halliday testified that in October, 1872, Mrs. Moulton had stated to him, in answer to a question, that she did not know why her name was mentioned in connection with the scandal. She said Mr. Beecher was her pastor and she believed in him.

Th* Austin Powder Company’s mills, miles south of Cleveland, exploded on the 18th, and the works, composed of ten or twelve buildings, were completely demolished. Three men were killed, the rest escaping with slight injuries* Great damage was done to houses hi the neighborhood, and buildings in Cleveland were considerably shaken, the damage in the city amounting to $25,000 to $30,000. Thb following were the yeas and nays in the Senate on the resolution to postpone till December next the question of the admission of P. B. 8. Pinchback as Senator from Louisiana: Teat— Alcorn, Allison, Boutwell. Brace, Burnside, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron (Wis.), Clayton, Conovsr, Cragin, Dawes, Dorsey, Ferry (Mich.), Frelinghnysen, Hamilton, Hamlin, Harvey, Howe, Ingalls, Jones (Nev.), McMillan, Mitchell. Morrill, (ST), Morrill (Vt.), Morton, Oglesby, Paddock, Patterson, Sargent, Sherman, Spencer, West; Windom—33. Wavs—Bayard, Bogy, Booth, Caper ton. Chrtstiancy, Cockrell, Cooper. Davis, Baton, Goldthwaite, Gordon, Hitchcock, Johnson, Johnston, Jones (Fla.), Kelly, Kernan. McCreery, McDonald, Maxey. Merrimon, Norwood, Randolph, Ransom, Sanlsbory, Stevenson, Thurman, Wallace, White, Wither*—#). Messrs. Edmunds and Robertson (did not respond when their names were called. Messrs. Anthony and Wright, who wonld have voted in the affirmative, were paired with Wadleigh and Deans, who wonMhave voted in the negative. Mr.' Logaa said he wonld withhold his vote, ss he did not desire to vote against til his friends, but he thought they were making s great mis-

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take. When the name es Ferry (Conn-) was called Mr. Eaton announced that ilia colleague he He' with the of postponing the resolution. Disasters have been caused in some portions of the East by spring floods and ice gorges. Several bridges on the Susquehanna, Delaware, and other rivers have been carried awav, and serious dtmage to property is reported. At Port Jervis, N. Y., the lower portion of the eity was inundated to the depth of ten feet, some houses being submerged up to the second stories. Ho lives were lost. The oew railroad bridge across the Susquehanna at Pitts ton, Pa-, was carried away about ten minutes after a passenger train had passed over. At Germantown several small houses weoe destroyed. Danville and Wilkesbarre, Pa., and other towns in that and adjoining States suffered severely by the floods. The Judiciary Committee of the New York State Assembly reported adversely on the bill to allow wives to testify against their husbands in civil esses, and the report was adopted- This bill was intended, it is supposed, to allow Mr. Tilton to testify in the Beecher suit The old man under arrest In Arizona admits that he is John Bender, but says be did not commit tike Kansas murders with which he is charged, but that his son and daughter, John and Kate, did. Qm the 18th the President withdrew the nomination of ex-Congressman David P. Lowe, of Kansas, to he Commissioner of Pensions and nominated him for Chief Justice of Utah Territory, in place at Isaac C. Parker, of Missouri, who was subsequently nominated United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas. Henry B. Brown was nominated United States Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. The evidence of Mr. Halliday in the Beecher case was continued on the 17th. He said Mr. Tilton had stated to him that the Woodhull scandal was entirely untrue, and that his wife was as pure as the light Mr. T. spoke of Beecher’s offense as being quite venial in its character Mrs. Lucy W. Mitchell, a nurse, who had been in attendance upon Mrs. Tilton, testified that Mr. Beecher was a frequent visitor at Mr. Tilton’s, and shtjhad never seen any Improprieties between him and Mrs. T. She was Mrs. T.’s house attendant at tbe time of her illness, when Tilton and Mr. Moulton were together in the house about the time the alleged letter of confession is supposed to have been written, and on the evening when the letter of retraction was furnished to Mr. Beecher, and her evidence was that Mrs. Tilton was very weak and ill on these occasions. Mr. Tilton had always treated his wife well so far as witness knew. Rev. John L. Gay, of Bloomington, Ind., testified to Tilton’s liberal doctrines on marriage and divorce as promulgated in a lecture at the State University, in that place, in 1863. James Taylor and Charles Forrester, of the New York Postofflce, testified on the 18th that Mrs. Woodhull’s Steinway Hall lecture in 1871 or 1873 was mailed in connection with copies of the Golden Age. Mr. Taylor talked with Mr. Tilton about it, and objected to the mailing of the speech in this manner, as it was not a supplement to the Golden Age, and afterward received a note from Mr. T., containing SIOO, to defray the extra postage. Mr. Halliday continued his testimony, and said Mr. Beecher had nothing to do with the decision by the church Deacons in October, 1872, that it was inexpedient to take any action on the scandal. Bessie Turner begun her evidence on the 19th. According to her statement Mr. Tilton was addicted to sullen moods, during which he would make himself disagreeable to all in the bouse, especially his wife, whom he would scold for hours at a time. She never saw anything improper between Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, and on his frequent visits to the house Mrs. Tilton treated him the same as other gentlemen visitors. Bessie repeated the story of having awakened one night and found herself in Mr. Tilton’s bedroom alone with him, whither he had carried her while she was asleep, and she indignantly left the apartment at once. She also repeated convenations which she alleged Mr. T. had had with her regarding affinities. On one occasion, when Mr. Tilton was shaking his clenched fist in his wife’s face, witness interfered in her behalf, and Mr. T. ordered her, with an oath, to leave the house, which she refused to do, and he struck her (witness) with his fist and knocked her down. In the continuation of her direct examination on the 22d Bessie Turner corrected some of her statements regarding dates, and identified letters which she had received at different times from Mr. Tilton while he was absent from home. She said Mr. and Mrs. Tilton sent her to a boarding-school, but nothing was ever said about her going away in connection with the charges against Mr. Beecher. A letter was then read, written by witness to Mrs. Tilton in January, 1871, stating that Mrs. Morse had endeavored to induce her to circulate stories injurious to Mr. Tilton, and also a second letter stating that the story that Mr. Tilton carried her from her bed was a wicked lie, which second note she said was written at the urgent solicitation of Mrs. Tilton. Witness was crossexamined as to her statement before the Church Examining Committee and stated that she had made some mistakes in her story there which she herself had subsequently discovered. Bhe would have then told all she had sworn to on the trial had Bhe remembered it at the time. She could not be certain as to the exact dates of several occurrences sworn to. Up to the time the came on the stand she had told her story substantially to a stenographer, Mr. Shearman mid Judge Porter; this was some time during the week of her first evidence on the witness stand; had previously told some of the particulars to Mrs. Oyington.

Gen. Shqridan has issued instructions to Gen. Terry at Rt Paul and Gen. Ord at Omaha, directing them, in the event of the mining companies organizing at Sionx City and Yankton trespassing on the Sioux Indian reservation, to use the forces at their command to bum the wagon trains, destroy the outfit and arrest the leaders, confining them at the nearest military post in the Indian country. At Port Deposit, Md., on the 19th, the water was from five to fifteen feet deep in the streets. r .s Of the Executive Council in New Hampshire the Republicans have elected two and the Democrats three members. Vasqxjks, the notorious California bandit, was hung at San Jose on the 19th. _ Acogbjung to » San Francisco dispatch of

OUR AIM: TO YEAR GOD, TELL THE TRUTH AND MARE MONEY.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH /26, 1875.

Urn 19th the crops wore in splendid condition and a large crop was sure, but if cbpious rains fell within two weeks there woUid be the largest harvest ever known. Asu iiwhlew nfeJM etteville, Tenn., caused an immense overflow of Morris Creek, and houses, furniture and live stock were swept away, and oyer SIOO,000 worth of property was destroyed. Tbe water-spout continued half an hour, until it fell congealed into immense lamps, which knocked holes in the roofs of houses mid killed many animals. Another water-spout occurred near Lynchburg, carrying away two distilleries and many outhouses. Postmasters have been oflMtaUy instructed that on all mailable matter of the third class, (which includes articles of merchandise and transient newspapers and magazines) postage must be prepaid at the rate of one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof. According to Gen. Butler, “the “CivilRights bill does not give any right to a colored man to go into a drinking-saloon without the leave of the proprietor,” and “ a bar-ber-shop is a private business in which the law does not interfere.” A New Orleans dispatch of the 21st says Gov. Kellogg had received the Wheeler award, but had not officially published it. It was understood, however, that tbe committee had decided that about eleven Conservative members not returned elected by the Returning Board were entitled to seats, and that about sir Conservatives whose election was claimed by tbe Conservative Committee are sot entitled to seats. Uader this award the House wBl be Democratic and the Senate Republican, with a small Republican majority on joint ballot. A tornado passed through portions of Georgia and South Carolina on the 20th. Residences and outhouses were demolished, and several persons were killed and others injured. John Parker has been confirmed as United States Marshal for the Western District of Michigan. The Elizabeth Life Insurance Company of Elizabeth, N. J., has failed. A resolution has been introduced into the New Jersey Senate requesting the Congressional delegation from that State to use their influence for the repeal of the amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill doubling the rate of postage on transient newspapers, etc. The partial restoration of the franking privilege was also condemned as granting free use of the mails to a favored few at the expense of the many. The Ouachita Valley, in Louisiana, haa been recently visited by a tornado which caused great loss of life and destruction of property. Smithland was leveled to the ground, and at Ray’s Point plantation buildings, fences, mules, horses and cattle were scattered for miles. The track of the tornado was 800 yards wide and extended for fifteen miles. On the 20th the South Carolina Legislature refused to adopt an address demanding the removal of State Treasurer Cardoza. The vote in the Senate was yeas 11, nays 18; House—yeas 45, nays 63. This was regarded as a vindication of Gov. Chambenain’s Administration and of the integrity of the present management of the State finances.

V. 8. SENATE-EXTRA SESSION. In the Senate, on the 16th, the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1874 was presented, and 1,280 additional copies ordered printed.... Speeches were made for and against the resolution for the admission of Pinchbeck by Messrs. Howe, Logan, Morton, Edmunds and McDonald. The further consideration of the resolution was then, by a vote of 33 to 30, postponed until the second Monday in December next....A resolution was offered approving the President’s recent action in Louisiana. Objection being made to its present adoption, it was laid oyer... .Executive session and adjournment. In the Senate, on the 17th, a resolution was offered authorizing the Select Committee on the Civil Service to sit during the recess.... The Hawaiian reciprocity treaty was debated 1u executive session.... Adjourned. The civil-service resolution was called up in the Senate on fee 18th, and the point of order raised that its consideration was in the nature of legislative action, and that it was therefore out of order... .A resolution to adjourn sins die was submitted and laid over under the rules .... The Hawaiian treaty was ratified in executive session—sl to 13—after the adoption of an amendment providing that during its pendency the Hawaiian Oovernment shall not cede nor lease any port, bay or naval station to any foreign power except to the United States.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 19th, the resolution authorizing the Special Civil-Service Committee to sit during the recess was agreed t 0.:.. In executive session several Presidential appointments were confirmed ...Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 30th, a substitute for the Prelinghuysen resolution approving the course of the President in relation to affairs in Louisiana was offered. A resolution to postpone its consideration until December next was lost—--24 to 80. After remarks by Mr. Bayard, a motion to strike out the word -‘approved” was rejected—--16 to 23. Messrs. Reman and Baton opposed the resolution, when M*- Johnson obtained the floor, and yielded to a motion session.... Adjourned. * In the Senate, on the 22d, Mr. Johnson spoke in opposition to the resolution approving the President's course in Louisiana, insisting that it could not properly be considered because it was in the nature of legislation. The speech lasted two hours and attracted considerable attention. .. .Messrs. Bogy, Withers and Randolph also opposed the resolution.... Adjourned. THK JSARKETg. March 22, 1876. NiwToxi .—Cotton —l6Xol6c. flour—Good to choice, $5.1505.45; white wheat extra, $5,600 6.00. Wheat—So. 2 Chicago, $1.1601.17*; No. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.1801.20. Ay*—Western, 90096 c. Barley—sl.Bool.32*. Com—B4oßsc. Oats—Western, 67@n9c. Perk— New mess, f30.70Q2Q.75. Lard— Prime steam, 14014X©- Cheese —l2o 16c. Wool— Domestic fleece, 52@65c. Reeves—slo.oool3 00. Hoat —Dressed, Western, $9.2 0 9.50; live, f8.00Q8.50. Sheep- Live, £1.0058.00. CHioaoo.—Bseess—Choice, $5.9006.26; good, f5.40Q5.76; medium, $5.0006.25; butchers' stock, $3.7506.00; stock cattle; f3.50®4.50. Hogs— Live, good to choice, $7.5008.26. dressed, $55009.00. Bheev-QooC to choice, $5.8006.50. Buffer—Choice yellow, 27082 c. Eggs Fresh, 27029 c. Pork— Mess, new, J19.75Q19.eft. Lard— 513.60013.65. Cheese— New York Factory, 17Q17Xc: Western Factory, 1644017 c. flour—White winter extra, $4.5006.76; spring extra, $4.2504.75. Wheat —Spring, No. 2, 95MQ95HC. Com— No. 2, 66X066XC. Oats— No. 2, 53X053V4C. Aye-No. 2, 9509714 c. Barley —No. 2, sl-0801.14. Wool —Tub-washed, 45058 c; fleece, washed, 400 50c; fleece, unwash sd, 27037 c. Lumber — First clear, $152.00055.00: second clear, i $46,000 50.00: Common Boards, $11.00012.00; Fencing, |1&01)@13.0 0: “A” Shingles, $3.0003.25; Lath, CnronnrATX. —PTeur—ss.ooos.lo. Whea f — Red, $1.1001.12. Com—6Bo69c. Rye- $1.0901.10. Oats— s9o6oc. Barley -520.75021.00. Lard—l4ol4XC. St. Lome.—Cattle —Fair to choice, $5.5006.25. Hogs—Live, $6.0008.25. flour— XX Fall. $1,500 4.80. WAoof—No. 2 Red FWI, $1.1101.12. Corn -No. 2, 65066(4c. Oafs—No. 2,68060 c. Ays—No. 1/11.1001.03. Aarf#y-No. 3, sl.lß 01.20. Port-Mess, $30.37X020.50. Lard- 18* 013Rc. MrLWAtTKis. — flour —Spring XX, $44006.60. Wheat —Spring, No. I, fi6o96Xc; No. 2 98V4 ©96RC. com— No. 2,6654007 c. Oats -No. 2,

■MllifliA*: 1 #i /yauJM Tiff rlrtf TtfWt* ’ * 1 « Toledo. — Wheat—Kraber Mich., $1.17*®1.18; No. I red, $1.1**91.14. Corn-High Mixed, «9©B9*c. Oatj-fioTs, 58*®5»c. Bufvalo.— Beevet — *[email protected]. Sogt—Uee, 27.7508.*. Sheep —Live, $5.5006.70. Mast Lib**t*.— Cattle— Best, *55007.00; medium, $5.50@V75 Hop*—Yorkers, $7.50@7 JO; Philadelphia. $8.9009.25. SAeep-Best, $6,989 6.75; medium, *5.2595 00.

The Destruetion of San Christobal, Mexico, by an Earthquake.

A Guadalajara letter to the New York Herald contains the following account, given by a correspondent, of the destruction in February lash of a Mexican town by an earthquake: San Ghristobal is situated, or rather was situated, at the bottom of the beautiful valley which crosses the greater part of the north of this State, the waters of the Grand River nearly touching the foundation walls of our houses, and was a most picturesque place, for the high rocks upon the opposite side of the valley and in front of us appeared hanging over our heads. We lived tranquilly, for our commerce was not great, and earthquakes in former years had never been severe with us and had occasioned us no alarm. On the 17th inst., at 8:35 p. m., a rumbling sound came from the earth beneath us, the: precursor of a tremendous earthquake. The animals instinctively manifested their surprise; the dogs howled, the horses turned down their ears and snorted, the cattle which were lying down jumped up terrified and assumed their attitude when fearing to be eaten up by wolves; all were prepared for the danger which was about to come upon them. An instant afterward came another subterraneous rumbling, and then began the catastrophe. The earth swung back and forth from the northeast to the south* east, rapidly succeeded by oscillations from the east to the west; it seemed, so to speak, that the earth had been wounded by some electric shock. A frightful whirlwind followed, after which all was confusion. Even the river itself seemed to be frightened, dashing from side to side, its current being lost. I happened to be in the edge of the town and proceeded toward my home, but the rapid movement of the earth threw me down twice, and a moment afterward I was immovably fixed by a terrible noise occasioned by the falling of the houses and the doleful screams of nearly all the inhabitants. A cloud of dust covered the whole town and the air was suffocating. I ran with precipitate haste toward the spot where my house stood, meeting in the way a number of men and women, many of them but partially dressed, wildly gesticulating, alternately calling upon God to have mercy upon them ana making use of certain Superstitious orations. My heart almost sunk within me as I rushed forward in the hope of seeing my family, for, to add to the horrors of the scene, the groans of many persons tended to prove that each heap of ruins would also be a sepulchre. Arriving at the spot where my house was I found but a heap of rubbish. I called lustily, so as to ascertain if possible if there was anyone alive beneath, but I received no response. I then ran off to another part of the town, and there discovered that -my family, fortunately, were away visiting at the time the house fell, and were thus saved from destruction. After some hours had been lost the work of searching for friends and relatives known to be beneath the ruins was commenced, but it is impossible at this time to state exactly how many perished, partly because a great many people took to their heels and ran into the forest, and partly because the darkness prevents a perfect search for the bodies. 8o far, in a few hours, thirty-seven bodies have been dragged out. It is reported from Ahuacatian that a little while before the earthquake was felt, the volcano of Ceboruco was covered with reddish clouds, and that continued subterranean noises were heard. At ten o’clock at night there was a shower of sand which lasted for more than five minutes. At a quarter past eight yesterday morning the volcano of Ceboruco was observed to be throwing out fire with great activity.

Peculiar Fact in the History of Babies.

Though the sight of a dog almost always changes the passive state of hydrophobia in any animat to the active, raging condition there is one recorded fact which points to the probability that an animal afflicted with this disease is thrown into a violent state at sight of an individual belonging to the particular species from which the poison was received. A horse inoculated with the rabies obtained from a sheep and exhibiting the terrible symptoms of the malady showed no disquietude whatever at sight of a dog. When one was thrown to bim he pushed it away with his nose, but a sheep being placed in the Bame inclosure he became frantic, and in a dreadful paroxysm of rage he seized it and killed it with one movement of his powerful jaws. This case is in direct opposition to the usual coarse of things, for animals suffering from rabies have in all other known instances been excited to madness whenever a dog showed himself. It may be that the constancy of this phenomena is due only to the fact that the inoculation is almost lways inflicted by a dog.— Oalaxy. ■ —There is a striking personal resemblance between JohnW. Hart and Edward L. Ayers, of San Francisco. Ayers forged an order on a banker for twenty dollars, and got the money. The crime was discovered, and the hanker, misled by the likeness, accused Hart of being the man to whom the money was paid. The identification was positive, and Hart protested against arrest in vain. Doubtless he would-have been convicted, as he was unable to clearly prove an alibi, had not a detective arrested Ayers on suspicion, and induced him to confess. —Laura D. Fair appeared as a witness in the Ban Francisco Police Court the other day, and testified that she owned 1.668 shares in the Silver Column Mining Company. The Chronicle says that she mounted the witness-stand with the gleeful skip of a lighthearted schoolgirl. She still wears a buckskin pocket In her dress.

INDIANA NEWS ITERS.

Cine. Com County. Max Eberberg was walking beside a wagonload of wood, at Logans port, a few days ago, when the whole load slipped from the wagon, burying him beneath it and injuring him so badly that he died shortly after. OteyCoutjr. The wife of George Babbitt, of Brazil, committed suicide a few days ago with morphine. They had been married bat a few weeks. Clarke County. As William McCoy, of Jeffersonville, was lately sleeping himself into sobriety on the floor of the station-house some malicious scoundrel poured sulphuric aeid upon bis face and clothing, burning furrows in his face and ruining Ms wardrobe. Clinton County. Some days ago some young men, comprising the fire company at Frankfort, determined to get new uniforms. To do this they instituted a lottery and the citizens liberally encouraged them In it. Hardly had the tickets been sold when the Grand Jury indicted the 150 ticket-holders. Some of them went before a Justice, plead guilty and were fined one cent and costa. The rest will have to face the music to a much larger sum and heavier penalty. Payette County. The farm residence of Louis Sparks, situated about two miles south of Coaftersville, was entirely consumed* a feW afternoons since. He was smoking hams in the cellar, and from this the fire undoubtedly originated. Loss about $3,000. Floyd County. Six banking institutions, with nearly $2,000,000 capital, furnish the sinews of commerce to the citizens of New Albany. An organization of citizens at New Albany has been effected to start for the gold-bearing regions of Arizona. Greene County. At Worthington, a few evenings ago, a young boy named Merritt Osborn, while play, ingabouta freight train, accidentally fell in front of the locomotive and was horribly and fatally mangled. Jackson County. A brakeman on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, named George Marsh, was run over and instantly killed, at Seymour, a few days ago. His body was horribly mutilated. Vefftereon County. The new directory of Madison contains 3,640 names, which, on the basis of three and one-half, gives the city a population of 12,740. Lagrange County. The Township Trustees in the county have paid $686.71 on account of sheep killed by dogs daring the past year. Madison County. In a recent drunken brawl at Anderson a saloon-keeper named Gates received a cut on the neck, extending nearl>all the way around, and a man named Bates was knocked down and nearly stamped to death. Marlon County. During the storm, on the 15th, the brick chimney at the Capital City rolling-mill, Indianapolis, fell, killing a tramp named Potter, of Jackson, Mich. Tbe Indiana coffin-makers recently held at convention at Indianapolis. It was a solemn affair. Monroe County. At a spelling-match near Ellittsville, lately, a pistol in. the overcoat pocket of one Gray was accidentally discharged and the ball struck the foot of another young man named Sims. This occurrence broke up the spelling-mutch. Montgomery County. Waveland was recently stirred to its profoundest depths by the shooting of a railroad man by J. D. Haley, the proprietor of a boarding-house. Several men were taking dinner at Mr. Haley’s house and one, being very boisterous and noisy, made some remark reflecting on Mrs. Haley. She very naturally took exceptions to this, when the brute in reply grossly insulted her. Mr. Haley drew his revolver, declaring that he would allow no such language to his wife, and ordering the man to leave his bouse in three minutes or take the consequences. This the man failed to do, and when the allotted time had expired Haley fired, the ball entering the left breast. He was fatally injured, it was thought

Mrs. David Brown, living four miles north of Crawfordsville, was murdered a few nights ago. According to the statement of her husband, she was sitting by the stove opposite a window, trying on a pair of shoes, when a shot was fired from the outside through the window, entering her forehead just above the left eye, and coming out immediately over the right ear, and tnat he was sitting on the opposite side of the stove from her, and that the ball passed close by his head before it struck Mrs. Brown. Scott County. James Taylor, a negro hoy, recently got into a quarrel with James Crawford at Scott-, burg. Crawford chased the boy, drew a large knife and plunged it into the boy’s hack, and then beat him terribly. The boy rallied, got away from Crawford a short distance and fell, and died instantly. St. Joseph County. Merritt H. Baker, book-keeper for the Birdsell Manufacturing Company at South Bend has been indicted for embezzlement. The latest embezzler at South Bend is the Secretary of the Eagle Manufacturing Company, who has been indulging in had bookkeeping to the extent of about $5,000. Tippecanoe County. D. H. Robinson was seriously injured near Lafayette the other morning. He started from home with an ax on his shoulder to cut some wood. When a short distance from his honse he slipped and fell in such a manner that the blade of the ax cut a gash in the back of his head, inflicting a wound nearly as wide as the ax and clear to the sknlL Had the wound been three inches lower it would have severed the headfrom the body. . Lafayette has a nice set of juveniles. Their latest exploit was that of trying to throw a train off the Toledo, Wabash A Western Road. Vico County. During the prevalence of the high wind on the 16th the roof was lifted bodiiy off Hulman’s United States bonded liquor warehouse at Terre Haute. Loss about SI,OOO. A woman netted Eve Peters, an old maid living alone in Mlgville, a suburb of Terre Haute, was found deed In her house a few

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mornings ago. Her hands were chained behind her and she was tied by a strap around her neck to the bed. ;■?; Ex-Township Trustee E. H, Beldenridge, of TL. AA . A,,t-.il -i -U. 'i .k I t 1 _ towijfcafp, neretotore ft &!piiy-re< toweted citizen, has keen arrested tuns the charge of forging signatures to vouchers aim altering figures on the same. Wayne Councy. Hugh Rogers, living near Chester, had a promising S2OO colt killed recently by the limb of a tree falling on It and injurthg the spine so seriously that it died in consequence.

Indiana Postal Changes.

The following postal changes were made in Indiana during the week ending March 13: Established Joliettville, Hamilton County, John W. Lane, Postmaster. Postmasters Appointed—Blountsville, Henry County, C. F. Bartlett; Decatur, Adams County, Jameß M. Hamilton; Monroe, Adams County, John W. Hendricks.

Who Is Bessie Turner ?

The Lee correspondent of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, after investigating the story that Bessie Turner’s real name is McDermott, and that her father is now living in the Berkshire town, writes that, while the evidence is not conclusive, everything that has thus far come to light confirms the story that Barney McDermott is the girl’s father.-. Barney is an Irishman, about sixty years' old, of moderate intellectual power, hut apparently truthful in his statements. He says that the death of his first wife, which occurred at Brooklyn, some twen-ty-two years since, left him with three children, James, William and Mary Ann, aged respectively eight, six ana four. Being poor and having no housekeeper, he put them into the Brooklyn HalfOrphan Asylum. Not long after he removed to Lee to work in the Hubner quarry, and in a year or two married again. The second Mrs. McDermott was willing to take the step-children into her family, but on going to Brooklyn for them he found that they had all been put out into different families and he could not ascertain their localities—probably did not prosecute his ideas very intelligently or perseveringly. Some ten years since his son William, who has been well brought up in Orange County, N. Y., incidentally hearing that there were some McDermotts in Berkshire CoUUty, came there in quest of his father, and while' waiting at Bridgeport, Conn.., for a change of cars asked a milkman if there were any McDermotts in that city. The man replied: “I have a James McDermott in my employ. “I have a brother by that name,” said William, “ whom I have not seen for years. Where can I find James?” “ I will have him here in ten minutes,” said the milkman. Of coursej the two brothers did not recognize each other, but their stories were convincing proof of their relationship. Both had served in the army during the war. William came on to Lee and became satisfied that he had found his long-lost father, but the one being a Protestant and the other a Catholfc, and having been separated so long and educated with such different tastes, there was not the sympathy between father and son that might have been expected from the relationship. Both brothers, however, moved to Lee and William bought a house on Main street, and, being a bachelor, let it to his brother James, who was a man of family. The brothers subsequently removed to New Jersey, William to Bricksburg and James to East Long Branch, where the latter now lives and keeps up a correspondence with his halfsister in Lee, Sarah McDermott, a miss of nineteen, the only child of the second marriage, who has reeivede a respectable education iu the common schools and is the main-stay of her prematurely infirm parents. Barney says the age and description of Bessie Turner correspond with his remembrance of his lost daughter, and although Tilton testified that tbe name of the waif whom he brought into his family some fifteen years since was Lizzie McDermott he feels very hopeful that Tilton was mistaken, and that her real name was Mary Ann. Further inquiries are now being prosecuted. If Bessie Turner is really Mary McDermott she need not be ashamed of her brothers nor of her halfsister, although the latter lives in a miserable old shanty, with few of the comforts of life around her. She is a bright girl and a most dutiful child, devoting the four dollars which she earns per week in a paper-mill wholly to the comfort of her feeble father and half-blind mother. She walks over two miles a day to earn this money and seems to take great pleasure in her self-sacrifice and independence. Her father works, summers, in the quarry, but in the winter is not able to stand the rough weather and rough work, though he contributes his mite by doing light jobs for the support of the family.

The Whistling Lunatic.

There are few of our readers who have not heard at early morning and during the evening a peculiarly shrill and long-continued whistling, unvaried in tone and monotonous from its persistent and changeless note. On a still night and at frequent intervals on Sunday the sound is heard by people in all quarters of the city and to the distance of a mile on all sides. This whistling proceeds from a lunatic convict confined in the State asylum for insane criminals. His infernal screechy whittle, besides nearly distracting some people who fail to become accustomed to it, has given rise to numerous speculations as to its antecedents, and many theories are advanced thereon. A Bulletin reporter has taken the trouble to make up some facts relative to the screecher in the hope of interesting our readers who may have suffered or speculated or remained in ignorance as to the whistler. His name is Michael Casey, horn in Ireland, and aside from his crimes and tne noises he makes there is nothing remarkable about him except that he is brutalized and entirely lost in incoherent madness. He was convicted of burglary in the first degree and larceny at Clarkstown, Rockland County, June 18,1868, at the age of twenty-eight years, and sentenced on two indictments to twelve years in Btng Sing. He was transferred to Auburn, and on the 17th of June, 1870, was placed in the asylum as a lunatic. Three months after be was transferred bade to prison, where he worked on the shoe contract; but after eight months bad a relapse and has usee, from May, 1871,

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been an inmate of the asylum, where he occupies a cell on the east end. ' In the dav time he has the liberty of When his raving fits come on he will kick his window sash and cell fixtures to pieces with a celerity that is usual to first-class lunatics, and make things fly in a manner to astonish all not, familiar with that class of animals. As soon as Whistling Cases is locked in bis cell he inserts his bent forefinger in his capa* cipus mouth, and with the aid of a powerful pair of lungs produces the shrill and resonant blasts that pierce the surrounding mile of space. His open window per. mits the one note of his wind-shriek to permeate the air and pierce the tired ears of all who are within its sound. On the approach of the street-cars on Wall street the lunatic stops whistling and launches out into an address for the benefit of the passengers, but bis incoherent language is untranslatable. Then he resumes his note, and keeps up his usual succession of whistles, as many as thirty or more per minute. It is explained that the burglar, on the eve of his last robbery, gave a similar whistle as a signal to his confederate, who failed to respond, and he fancies in his crazy mood thst he is again signaling his pal of so many years ago. It is a singular case, and no meaoures have been round effectual to stop tbs- diabolical whistle. —Auburn IN. Y 1 Bulletin

A Generous Cat.

Urged by a feeling of gratitude my own cat, “ Pret,” used invariably to give his mice to me. He used to kill the animal in a most curious manner, t. e. : by taking it, while quite unhurt, by the tip of the tail, carrying it to the top of the house and dropping it down the well of the stair-case. After repeating the process a few times he would bring the mouse to me and while I stroked and praised him would keep rubbing himself against me and purring hi 9 content. He then took the mouse played with it for a while, and then brought it back to me. If the study door were closed and be could not gain admittance he always left the mouse on the mat, previously having bitten off the animal’s head. He had a straDge fancy also for putting the mice into my bed; and once, on leaving my room in the early morning, I found no less than nine mice laid in a row just eutside the door.. Afterward when we moved into the country and he took to catching rats instead of mice he acted in precisely the same manner, sometimes bringing me three or four rats in a single day. Now in both these cases the motive was one that..would show credit to humanity. There is nothing that cats like so well as a mouse, and yet, just because thev thought mice the most precious object in the world, the cats gave their mice to those whom they loved. Affection, self-denial, generosity and gratitude were thus exemplified, all being qualities which of necessity belong to the spiritual and not to the animal nature. Pret was also remarkable for generosity toward his own kindi An example of this trait of character is given in my “ Glimpses into Petland,” published by Messrs. Bell & Daldy. The animal was then living in London: “ When he was a few months old he began to scrape acquaintance with other cats, and used to meet them in a backyard, which, by common consent both of cats and householders, seemed to be the feline club-house of the neighborhood. Now it was very well of Pret to be social in his habits, but when he took to hospitality the question became serious. “It is true that he never allowed strange cats, no matter how big they might be, to enter the house; but then he was fond of entertaining his friends in the yard, and was in the habit of bringing his dinner to the club for the bene'fitof his acquaintances, and then wanting a dinner on bis own account in the evening. He even went so far as to be disgusted with the meals furnished to a neighboring cat, thinking that cat’s meat was not fit for feline consumption. Acting on this supposition he was seen to take away the cat’s meat as soon as it was bought by the itinerant purveyor, to carry it into the cellar, bury it under a heap of small coal, and to take his own dinner up-stairs for his fiiend. “ Even these proceedings might have been pardoned; but Pret’s generosity developed so rapidly that we should have been obliged to devise some effectual check had not a removal to another house put an end to the acquaintance. “Findingthat his own meals were not sufficient to entertain his friends in the liberal manner in which he thought himself bound to act, he took to ransacking the larder, in'o which chamber he contrived to gain admission in spite of many precautions. In vain did we keep the doors shut and the windows fastened, so as to exclude any animal larger than a mouse, for Pret always managed to enter the forbidden precincts whenever he chose. At last we found out that he achieved the feat by hiding under the servant’s dress, and stealthily creeping in when she had occasion to visit the larder. “ On one occasion I heard an odd sort of a bumping sound on the stairs, as of some one who was dragging up a burden which could with difficulty be lifted. On going to investigate the source of the unwonted sounds, I found that they were caused by Pret, who had made a raid on the larder. He had contrived to drag out of the dish, and half-way up-stairs, the entire bone of a leg of mutton, resting on each stair in order to get his breath, and then hauling the hone up the succeeding stair. The ant pulling a stick over rough ground presents .an exact resemblance to Pret dragging the heavy hone up-stairs.” It must be remembered that this labor was not undertaken for his own. selfish purposes. He had not the least idea of eating the meat which he was carrying off, but intended to give it all to his friends. — Harper's WeMy.

—What literary journal would print such lines as these from an ordinary writer? I, Alphonso, live and learn, Seeing Nature go astern. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote them. That one of the finest of American critics should make Nature “go astern,” as though she were a sailor or a steamboat, is simply absurd. —The last one was Mrs. Papin, of Essex, Vt. She was the mother of twentythree children, the grandmother of a multitude, and she passed away aged CIV.