Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 18, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 April 1876 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER;

C. DOAKE, Publiilur. INDIANA ITLMS OF INTEREST. lrr.al Literary, j Mrs. lr. Yampill, of Marion, S. ('., ! wlut Ii.ih Lcc:i in attendant u on lectures j at tin Women's Medical College of l'lii! i'l Ij'lii i, is tin lirst lady medical ( -t ti ! lit -t the Mate. Lin ma, t In' hi tig I 1 y i r whom the : ftiooii. J. nun. i" in, in- is named, i at ' prised a pupil :it a Chicago linishing .ch'M.I. Mie i, handsome, Lioiidf, ami ; the daughter of Hubert lbuec Chi.s-j holm, of LIgin, 111. I i K:ti h oluinc of V:ilt. Whitman'; new hook will contain tin- portrait ami 1 autograph f tin1 author, w ho lias done tno.-i of the manual labor of tin-work, j It is not often that an author is his own j printer, publisher ami booksclh r. ' Tin' widow of President Tjler is visiting in Washington. She is yet on j tho sunny side of no, ami has lost none i of the beauty ami sprightliticss which ' .10 year ngo made her tho belle of I Washington. She enjoys tin distinction ! of heiii th only woman who over marriod a 1"' vsiilent while he occupied the i While House. Mi- Anthony do-lares that the only ; class of hiimaii beings in the I'niieilj States man liin't iu;'iie with to-day is; the women. "A man," adds Mii A., j "can't argue with his wife, his il.iugh- j ter i r his own sister. When they commence an argument they got worsted ! arid always eml up hy -x I.ti i m in, 'Oh, non-ens,. ! What is the me of trying to ! r".:' vi h woDin.'" ; 1 hi- ln-,kl n t'.n'jh says of (Jen.! A. Ii: "A maii who "at mi) can ! turn his ham! to the translation of a; Latin p m iii, or who can turn out of lied at 4 o'i I'M k in the morning to go dink- j -hooting holding his own with the; hoy, t o -is a g I ileal of a man any way you t ike him." Albeit Tike, the genial Congres.tn'.n of ante-bellum days, will preside at the biennial session of tho Supreme I'oiineil (old degree) of the Ani ieiit ami Ai i i pteil Scottish Kite of Tree Masonry, to l-e held in Washingt"n net month. At the .same time the 7."!h anniversary of the institution of the order w ill be ceil bra'ad. Iiy the death f Miss Julia 11. Newberry," in Koine, ( hicago will eomo in f .r half the estate of the iato Walter L. Newberry, for tin- purpose ,f establishing : free public library. The value of tin- entire ( state is estimated at between f..!ir;.nd five million of dollar. The cit v newspapers term with plans forthc in' library, and see in perspective the l.trge.t publ'e' library iu tin world. Mrs. Laura ('. Hollow.iv, who ha already gained a distinguished position as a j 'lira ilist, h is made :i successful f'Ut a a lecturer. She delivered her lecture entitled "An Old I. nidge a New bi" in the l?rM.k!yn Academy of M i-ic, last week, t a large audience. I br subject i "Woman's Kight to a Si.are i' the ( lovernment," which she i said to Teat in a new manner. In- . ; .!t tit. ! I Church. A revival in Amle ist College hn reri;;'d in the conversion f : out f .:.'' students, of whom only o't are un'ol, cTted. - I Irs K v. Mr. (;;i,,.;.!( la'e p:.t;r 'f a liaptist chiiFch in Xa:.cv i!h', hi-, I lias i.ii'.umcd his f lith in the divinity: and atonement of t'hri-t, and ha, acrd r.g to the l'.r iii ) li t, j 'iued the I 'r.it.u lans. The 'cnteimi tl Ci'inmi'sioner have de ided t'i .t thcV l !."t feel :.Uthoried to gr.'.i t iiiv ;eo-' within the lim'.N of th" Kin .i; .on grounds for the ere' t .a i f a buii !ii g in v bi. h n ligiou sen iefs in. iv be enduried . The subject l.a been leferi ed b.lch to the I'oun--ilofth-i l'hil.i.h'h.iii.i htaiich of the Lvangi !. ai Alliai e. I ce condemnation which has b-en he ip.'d u;oii n.iuiel f.r failing while his'c.iiM ibiition of..'.'.o.isito the Method. t seminary bearing his name w a t t uiipa'. 1 is not a;tocther jut. The M-thhsl state, and gives the figure to prove, that lanifl ha already contributed fbi.H") jn cash to the Prcvv Seminary. It calls, therefore, upon the brethren not to forget what they have gained in regretting what they have l't. "Ldwin Hooth reali.el $.VJ,()m) from his southern tour," m say newspaper. The Southern MethMlit of the Mcmjdiis Conference aid their eighty pa-tori last year only t" l5,Hi. One man's btuinj for fifty night cost more than eighty niena nu htnj for a whole jear. "Hrvthreti of the laity, which nre the more in earnest, the people of the world, or the people of (JimI. U t s rr MttJulit. A school for the " aftcr-edueation" of young women has been opened nt IWlin. and ha now oW scholar.. Of thc-e, 25 are daughters if unall nhopkeeper!, 4i are daughters of miner and factory men, 37 belong to th working -lases, and 55 nre returned a. " rhildren of w idow' The nges of these ladie are given n var) ing between 1 1 ( in number) and '.M (only 2). The experiment of reaching t he non-ehurch-going poor of the citie goes on in Chicago with much promise of success. Tlie tlrtii pursued is to erect n buil!i;ig with stoic below ami a hall above, the stoics supplying from rent the reccssarv revenue. The llalstead Mission is of this kind, and is very sue cessful. " It come out," say the In(trior, " that the devil's poor' like to

attend church, and w ill turn out largely if the door is not barred by Miss MT'liuiscy V trousseau." Si l-lire mi Industry. Kentucky is siiipping black walnut to '.u rope. The statistics of tho National Hutter, Cheese ami Ilgg Association show that the total product is worth

f'.IMI MM! ! A tract of 7,hm acre of land on Maple Kiv er, I akota, has been iurchncd by Ka.-tc ru capitalists for a gn at j wheat farm. j A llcrlin paper says a stock coin-J pany is organi.ing in uiissia lor uiu introduction and development of the cultivation of cotton in Central Asia. Superintendent Cooper, of the Atlantic anil Cicat Western Railroad, says that a locomotive drew a director' car nine ami three-fourths mile on that line in seven and one-fourth minutes. The time was from a Hying start to a dead stop, and it is calculated that the highest speed was at h rate of 7 miles an hour. It was on a down grade. The only manufactory of gong and cymbals in this country is in Doston. From :;m to 10 gong and .VXt pairs cymbals per year are produced, the price depending upon the size cymbals of 12 tt ml 1 1 inches diameter ranging from y'l to s?;5, and gongs selling at fifty cents per inch in diameter. Ila nil THUIiapa, Two men named Tucker and Williams, were kilh d by lightning while seated in a house at Li Clare, Iowa, a few days ago. Miss .J. L. Lawrence, a schoolteacher at Coldvvater, Midi., died from t h elb'i-u of a narcotic taken to produce sleep. -lVterMuscuni was fatally injured' by the bursting' of a wheel in Hill' paper tniil at Middletoii, (). James lirown, one of the proprie tors of the Avoiidale coal mines, at! liv aiisyi'.lc, t.l ml., recently fell dow n through a shaft in the mine, a distance of lOo feet, and was killed instantly. Win. Keynolds.a wealthy cattle-trader, accidentally fell from the platform of a p isscnger-car while crossing the bridge over the Ohio Kiver at Steubeuville, on the loth, and was precipitated into the river, a distance of b'0 feet. (.'ha. Hunter, aged 11, of Valley Station, Neb., wa.s leading a horse and had the end of the halter wrapped around his wrist. The horse got frightened, ran awav, and dragged the boy a mile and a half and killed him. Wiihelmina Sehaperf.ui, 'he young daughter of a Orman widoA', residing in Warrick County, Iud., in attempting i to till a coal oil laui: upct t he can on the Move. An explosion followed, by which both were severely burned. The daughter lived but a few hours. Ionard Miller, aged -M, of Morris County, N. .1., w hile exercising on a trapeze in hi father's yard, placed the rope around his neck to see whether he could hang himself. The rope twisted and tightened, and when the parent discovered their son the body wa lifeless. At Leavcnwurth, K., a hoy named Morris Kerr, while attempting to unhitch a frisky hore from a buggy, wa kicked and instantly killed by tho animal. The brute then struck him in the face with his front hoof three or four times, mangling hir.i terribly. It was vvi:h ditliculty the body was n cucl from the infurtatiil heist. ShtMitinir accident.: David Ship ley, a tanner, m ing io nines norm i i oiuah a, while endeavoring to extract a cartridge from a needle-gun accidentally discharged the weapon, the charge taking llect hi the body of his wile, killing her instantly. A1 Rout's Station, Co iter County, Ind., Mr. Ilroailie' two little boys, aged Sand b jear, were plav ing with a gnu suppo-ed to be empty, when the chief boy received a full t harge in his side, causing a fatal wound. At Miifi-rd, Ind., lavid Sweet was putting a cap on hi gun when it was accidentally discharged, putting .... 1 M three large buckshot into the breast of i a friend named Stiekley. A young ni;tn j named John Hemic, aged K a resident j of Shetli. ld Lake, Lorain County, ().,! was killed by the accidental discharge j of a gun while hunting oigeon. Fred, l'.eiisoii, a young l id of Kanks, Mich., wa fooling around with a revolver, w hen he shot another boy named John McCay, the ball entering his breast. Suicidal list: James Pugle, of Kiing Sun, Ind., shot himself through the neck. .Fane Hunean. aged 1, of Uichland, I ml., took arsen'" ; disappointment in love. James M. Lambert, proprietor of the Kay House, Indianapolis, hanged himself; financial trouble. .John MrKea. of Cadiz, (., shot himself. Win. McCartv, of Newark, ()., hanged himself. ;. W. lhivi., Cashier of the National lixchange Hank of Albion, Mich., shot himself; supposed derangement caused by stopping the ue of opium, to which he had long been auitictea. Frank (Jarrity, a railroad man.of Detroit, cut his throat; want of employment. W in. Hammond, of Clay Center, K., drowned himself ; about one year ago Hammond shot and killed his wife, aecidentally as he claimed, but purposely as many" supposed, although he wa tried and admitted. Mrs. N. J. dagc, of Calamus, Iowa, blew out her brains; temporary insanity. Mrs. Mary J. (lannett, of Hoston, wife of Rev. (leorge (iannett, committed suicide by jumping from a bridge. Mr. Richard Jones, of Dayton, Ky., jumped from the ferryboat into the Ohio River and wa drowned. Ceo. W. Howes, a Philadelphia broker, hung l i.n-elf en account ot financial ditVicultics.

TJIK SAFlMtFIMiLAUV CASK.

tUrn. Ilahrot k at the ltoltom of lit 'nnlrary Irillmauy of ol. Wlilllry mikI Milrt, Iht Muriel"'. (.'reH.inli'iii e of llw . V. TrlUum-.J W vsniMiioN, April 7. The true story of the 1 Mctriet of Columbia sufi-hurirlary , w hi rchy l oinblniuion of rascal som.'lit.l.y I lit- I'ominissioii of a crime, to ruin the eli.irueter of ft unit lem ill w lei hail hei-n e(.npiciioiih in inukiii knuw n lh Ir ill-h.net pracliem, ik ut la-t to reui ll Ihe put. lie. T here has never heen within rcuMMiuMc iiiemory n caw' i full of plot and mystery. It surpasses the moht Intricate romance, ami in its concept imi und rtuuHi' ntiiis it i one of the i.tn.t w i'IkIii f ul eases known in hi'tory. Within the plot were embraced some eiy li h I'M-al iiiid nutionul ottlceri-, itt.il beside I In in, woi Ltic burnt in hainl, wi re eiinv let ed thieves, house -breaker, forifers, and outcasts, all seekhix one ot'ject, the Uisirraee uinl eoh iciioii of mil man. Tho story I well known. Columbus Alexander, an old ami respected eitUen of the City of Washinulon, hmt been too prominent in opposing the old District Ui llt ftlld its friends. Ills ilisu'i .iee was soinriit and a plot to implicati him iu a robbery was ilevined. The safe of the Afistant I)istrict-Attorney ' ollice was to he robtted ami th document and impels were to be delivered to Alexander, Mini he was to he arrested with the iHiers iu his posse-sion, tried an I convicted and! sent t.l the Penitentiary. T'ue plot inicurrieif. The real burglar were dicnvered, i put upon their trial, a Jury packed, a di.t-Kret-uiciit following, and linallv a (li-on-linuance of the trial was ordered by the Attorney -d'l'ticral of the I'nitcd fr'aten. The cotnbimiiinn to dispose of this one t neiny of the old regime reached ill its line ;f ojerative from the lowcut irrade of hoiise-bi i-uk-ers to the ottiei.it family of the President of tlie Cniteil Mates. The itlii er of the (,i,y. eminent, under th lead of one who was sheltered hv the White House, lentthemsvlvea to a plot to rob a (ioverniiii nt safe ami swear the robbery oil a defenseless private eitieii, the t ;ocriimeiit paying tin whole bill. For years there has' been a wi IIprniinded eonv Iction in the mind of the people that the men tinder trial br the crime were iruiltv in tliein-elvi -, hut that the inspiral ion of the ci line had a higher origin, , reaching above detective, xecret service nieu, and -rsUtai-.t ditri-t-:'.t"rn-: but ... : l. .. .. .i .. I.uii. I 1.. ...I .lilisli t ! ' t I'J" ... n.ll II''. . m-hiu ' ....-. fact.. What was lacking then is now at A sub-committee of the fudiciarv Committee of the House, consisting of Mcsr. Knott, Ilurd and Lawrence, has had the subject under Investigation fur several la . and to-dav struck something substantial. II. C. Whitb y, late Chief of ihe .-ecret Service Division of the Treasury Department, wa indicted with llarrinvrton, e.-Asistaiit District-Attorney, and some others, for the safe-burglary conspiracy. The evidence was verv strong BL'iut all, but the jury failad to Bgree. Theteuj.oii Attorney-lieu-eral William stepped the prosecution. Widtlcy was examined by the Committee to-day, and for three hours gave the hi-iory of the conspiracy ami the manner of carrying it out. Hi testimony, if true, convicts!, en. O. K. IUU'tH.-k, late Private .secretary to the President, of having given the lirst orders that set the conspiracy at work, and of having had a knowledge and a certain participation in it to the end. Whitb y testined taat lien, l'.abcock sent for him, and in hi own house developed the service be wa expected to perforin. The particular were not uis,'ued at any length, but (ieu. HaScock directed Col. Whitley to go to Assistant Distnet-Attorney Harrine1"". frmu w hom he would get specific direct ion. This wathe b'sginning of the famous conspiracy. Col. Whitley said he had nothingto do except obey the order f rem the White House. He and Mr. Harrington, with the assistance of certain employees In the secret service division, and some profesional ra-ciJ organized the conspiracy. He was all ttie lime aureu 'i me siii on ami protection of the whole Adniinisttation, and In went on with the Jot in the same way in which he would obey order on any other duty. When the conspiracy failed and his safetvw.is endangered, he had frequent conference with Mr. Ilsrrington in regard to getting out of it. lie saw lien. Kiln-oik rarely. On one occ:iion after the failure of the robbing he saw lien. Kalx'ock, w ho told him that to and Mr. Harrington h ot made a verv bur.giing H of it. After Mr. llirruu:tsn's trial began, or shortly before, an arrarg'-tneut was suggested by whicli it wa thouglit thev would get free. Tlii was to be accoiiiplisheil through Mr. Harrington, bv the pa. kiag of Juries and other management with the way of which he wa fainiliir, on account of hi position in tbe court. Three men were to be Indicted, Mr. Harrington, Col. Whitley, and Miminerv iiie, the New York lawyer, who-e name will be r nn inhered by those familiar with Ihe ease at the time. The trial w;. to be postponed and set aside on one pn ten-e or another, and this wa done until tinally, by some irick or other, tln v were to be dismissed or got rid of. Col. Whitb y now think it wa Mr. Harrington' plan to keep the ce along until the statute of limitation could be taken adv antage of for himself, and then, at the l ist mom. nt, turn in and convict Col. W bit lev. When Attorney- icncnd Y illiam diini--e.l Mr. Kiddle." the I iovi rnniciit counsel, from the cue nfter the disagreement of the Jury, .Mr. Kiddle manifested a great deal of surprise. I J."'" t!u .lu-'ge William intimated in a-1 ions stronger than word that lie had order from the hite ue. The ex-Attorney. (ienerai will be called In-fore the Committee, and it need not surprise the member if he tell them that Ciin. lialx'.x k brought him the verbal or b r piurertinRto einie from the President, and I hat he acted on the order. If thi should prove to be the ease ll will probably be shown that that wa another cis w hen in I Jen. lUhcock assumed to act for the President without hi knowledge or ooiicni, and on a matter of which the President knew nothing. Mr. Sumnierville i now in Washington, and also ex-Solicitor It mtield. who w directly responsible for ta' secret service division. Col. Whitby did not Implicate Mr. Ilinfichl, although it la ditlicult to see how the whole secret service of the Department could le used In the safe-burglarv case without hi know ledge. A large number of w itnesses will be be summoned, and thi investigation promise to produce uore startling levelatioiis than any now in progress. llatx-mls'a lloiij-Unard. from Ihe totun Transcript llepuhllcan. J Mile, the lUrre Hank burglar, who U now in the Vermont Mate Prison on a sentence of 14 vear. ha made an Interesting confession. Mile I the notoriou Wahlugtou safe-burglar. He wa employed to do the Job hv Harrington, the District-Attorney of the District of Columbia, a he state, anil he also aver that General Italn-ock knew well all about it. According to Mile. Whitley and NeUleship lirst acpiainted him with the service required, and then mibseuuentlr Harrington and lUltcock were Interviewed bv him at W ashington with regard to the matter. Habcock at the Interviewpromised to make good all the assurance of Harrington respecting the transaction. Thi wa before the crime. Afterward, Mile snvs, he met P.hIm ih k on the train between Washington nnd New York, when the President' daughter wa married to Sartorl. and had some convci ation with the cx-Prl-

i Vte he. retary a to the comparative failure of the Job. It mat ti r little what the cine I Veratoii w!i.

Colonel liroadhe.id tistihed before the I ongrc ssiotial inve.tigatlt.g committee, yesterdav, that a limernnii nt detective reported to him, w hile the trial Was in pro gress, that the l itter had two professional safe-hiirglar In M. Louis for t he purpose of I stealingevidi are from the District-Attorney, j T hese burglar were called iii one account I W hitley "s favorites. " Tiiev were driven from m. ' Luiii bv the detect iv e, after st.it- ! ingth.it Habc.M k paid them sjou. I I'.abciM'k. if not criminal, is singularly unf .rtnn.ite in hi ussiH lation. He ha pro- ' ed more careless of his good name leav ing it in the keeping of professional vilL.in t ban any American w no ever before occii- ; pied a prominent position. He appHrently ! bad a body-guard of burglar to do his c p -j cial bidding, and w hose sen ice were coni slant ly necessary to pp-vint hi exposure I and ruin. The iffnouftiifut ha at last come, I ami either he i the victim of h gigantic buri gtariiuis conspiracy, set on foot hy detective j oncn in hi employ, or guilty of act for w hu h the penitentiary would he a paradise i a compared with a unisimeiil coiiimeiisurate to hi atrociou misdeed. In the light of these development, how must President I irant be commiserated for exhibiting sii' ll lamentable inability to discover the true character of one upon whom so inn. li of the success of Id adinuiistrat iou depended! If I'.clknap's ofticial profligacy elicited so manv fleer at Kepublicai.liri on i the other side of the Atlantic, how will these be Intensified when the advocate of irresponsible tyranny learn that the President's private secretary was for nearly two year the consort and friend of burglars! Here, at home, among the intelligent and incorruptible masses, the indignation aroused t.y the shameless condition of u Mail's now laid hare will deepen and strengt ben the popular determination that the Infamous crew nt Washington and those in any way connected with them shall be forever banished from the public confidence. Mr. Blaine Please plain. Rise and Ki Krorn the New V.rk fun. Iocs not matter in the least whether lt Mr. M '.!"?'! 'r M friend are responsible for the statement, whicli wa published in Indianapolis on Tuesday, connecting Mr. Klaine with a moneyed transaction of a very suspicion character. Are the fact substantially true a reported, or ha Mr. I'laine been slandered!' That I the imc-tion, and an answer that will be satisfactory to 1 he country can only be obtained through it full and searching investigation, such a the Judiciary Committee of the House i emowered to make, and which we assume Mr. tine will Immediately demand. The published statement de not cover the case, a it has long Im en understood in political circles; but whether correctly or incorrectly, remain to he determined. Iti alleged that Mr. Maine became osesed In Im or l.sTU d Lllllc K n k and Tort tni'h Railroad bond to the amount of tl.Vi.nou. These bond d"preeiated in value and were comparatively uusiilable. Iti further alleged that ft., of them were deposited with Ihe I'nion Pacific Railroad a collateral In 171, foran advance of about v.non mado by the Company through Morton. Itli-.A: Co. for the tenelit of Mr. Hlaine, though he may not have jK-rsonally appeared lu the business. The minute of the Kxecutive Co'nmittee of the 1'nioii Pacific Itoad of Dec. !, lsTl, are said to show that s4,isu of the coinI pany' money wa paid out, without an ex1 .I...W.. a-. In.l s t ,,a ...nil... pUIIRlUll 1 LU. II' I . AMU v .lie .'sum. meeting of the d rector In 1TJ. it is alleged that Mr. .1. C. Harrison, a Government director, proposed an inquiry, widen he subsequently withdrew at the urgent rnpiest f F. II. Rollins, w ho is reported to have said, ' Maine pot that money. ' Thi is the common version of the transaction, for the exactness of which we do not vouch. That Mr. Hlaine knew of this story and prepared for it, i attested by hi recent absence from Washington and the almt simultaneous apcarance w ith It publiction. of two letters intended to counteract It effect. After reading these letter of Mr. Kollin, Trea-urer of the I'nion Phi i!ic, and Mer. Morton. Hli & Co., we are not able to discover that they touch the real point at all. They were prepared In-fore the ease wa made public, and upon "inipilrie" formulated by Mr. Itlainc hiinclf. Kveiy word written hy these parties may he technically and even' literally true, and yet their sta'teiiient are wholly worthies "a an ex plan at i"li of the Indianapolis cbarue, because they do not cover it. Mr. I.Iaine has not bettered hilllelf !V this secret pre paration, o- by withholding the form of injiiiry which he addri-ssud to hi correon.lent'. A public man with a g.nd chtracicr mik'ht at least afford to w ait for a vindication until hi conduct or hi act were as-ailed. Thi Kaste to forestall: Hsible afills.itii.il, which had not taken definite or responsible shape, ha an u; ly look. Mr. lilaine i one of the fortunate pitrioti. who went into Cotigres poor, and ill go out rich. lie controlled the legislation of the House during the I'orty-tirst, Kortvsecomtaud Forty-third Congresses as t-ak-er. more absolutely titan did the majority, who obeved hi orders, submitted to hi dictation, and surrendered their own Judgment to hi despotic will. He selected all the ecmniittecs to suit hi policy, chose Ihe leaders on both sides, and required every bill nnd resolution outside the ordinary routine to Im submitted to hi pproval bwfore he would recognize the mover. The eriod of hi .peakerhip i regarded a the carnival of corruption. ..rdicalit v. an 1 exees of fartisan power. Re construction, carpet hag-gee, jobbery ill all form. Credit Mobilicr. luonojioiics, si-ecial legislation, and Ring flourished v ithout restraint. IK ruled as if master of all lie surveved, and there was nne to dispute hi authority. That Mr. Hlaine name wa frequently mixed up vi;h the scandal of those time, is well know n. b i a hypocrite and more daring than hi predecessor. Colfax, he had the reputation of profiting by hi opportunities! on a verv large scale, ami of ae.juiring a great fortune suddenly. Hi manner of life at Washington ami at home, w hen contrasted with hi former condition, perhaps favored thi belief. W hen the Ai made the Credit Mokilier investigation Inevitable, Mr. Maine wa shrewd eaough to take the lead, by b uing the chair and moving the resolution. He wa not ignorant that hi own part iu that matter wa the subject of much comment, which to thi day ha not been fully explained. Although he moved the Investigation, he wa the most active and tbe nnsst Influential means of defeating it professed purioe, ami of white-waiung me nepunliean leader who were caught with Iiocket full of scrip and fabiilou dividend. If lie had been on trial himself, he could not have exhibited more anxiety for an acquittal than he showed for hi friend who sought exculpation through hold perjury. Ame said at Ihe time that Hlaine hid more reason than himself to be concerned for the verdict of t tie House, for if he wa expelled, the flood gates won ut be openeii. tr course Ame and Itrook were let off gently. Nobody wa hurt, and bv wsv of rejoicing t tie House pacd the salary grab a few il.v after. Now, it is possible the ex -speaker may

Imve been wronged by all these report Tbl is a good time for him to put them to rest. Mr. Illaini) cannot atlordtob.se thi opportunity to secure a strict investigation of every charge or allegation atlectiiig hi standing for integrity. In (hi way only can he silence dUtrut and deserve respect.

Evolution of the Prop. These, nnirnals, in tho course of their development, ,'o through it very singular series, of metamorphoses comparable to tho. by which a grub is converted into a buttorJlv . At this season of the . . . ... j ear every- jiomi w aiiuosi certain to contain froir-tipawn, masse. of transparent iilburiiiiious matter with numberless im bedded iir''s ,onitin;,of yelk, black on one hide and white on the other. A few hour. after the egs are laid the proi ens of development begins by the formation of a shallow groove which m j (pear qtiickly on the black, more slowly on the "white hemisphere, and is just such a "groove as would be pro duced by drawing a blunt instrument along tbe equator of a soft globe. J he eg-g is thus divided into two masses. A second form appears at right angles to the first, dividing the whole egg into four; others appear, in delinite onler, cutting it up inlo smaller and smaller masses until the whole yelk becomes granular, or formed of microscopic ells. J wo ridges then appear on the surface of the eg-g, and, uniting in the middle line, enclose a cavity, the lining membrane of which is converted into the brain ami spinal cord. Tho head gradually becomes dillcrentiated, and the mouth appears on its under side; the tail grows out, and the little crea ture gettmij t'o long for the egg be comes coiled upon ittelf.atnl, before long, ruptures the egg membrane ami make-) its exit from its mass of jelly. It is now to all intents ami purposes a lish ; it has no limbs, its mouth is provided with horny jaws, mid il LlCttLts by means of a pair of plumose, gills. It further iliil'ers from the adult frog, in being hcrhivoruus, feeding on water plants, to which it attaches itself by means of two suckers near tho mouth. The tadpole grows rapidly, ami before long a fold of kin appears on each side, which gradually closes over the gills, leaving, however, for a considerable time, a ninall opening on the left side. In the meantime the limbs appear, and the lungs are developed, the tadpole breathing for a time, both by lungs and gills; the latter eventually disappear, the tail shortens, the limb 'lengthen, the horny jaws are replaced by teeth, and an in-siect-eating, taillcus frog is formed, the adult air-breathing form having thus iecn attained bv a wonderful series of changes, in which the fish U-pidosiren, perennibranehiate, and trlon are all represented. One wouhl be inclined to infer from these metamorphoses that, on tracing the amphibia back in time, the story of their origin should be told, but as a matter of fact pal.contological history telLs a different story altogether. Abundant remains of frogs and toads are found in the Miocene deposit, some of which are of so fine a character that even the tadpoles are preserved ; but these tertiary frogs nnd toads do not differ in any important particulars from those of the present day, and the same is true of the tritons and salamanders. Some of the latter attained a very greit size, and one of them a near ally of the great Japanese salamander t the present day has had a very singular fate, having been described about the middle of the last century as a fossil man by the Cerinan naturalist Scheucher, who named it "Homo diluvii testis," the man who saw the tlood. In the wcahlen and l'ur-bt-ck formations no amphibia have as vet been discovered, but from the lower l . . ... lias to the carboniferous they turn up again in remarkable numbers and of great size, but di (Ter ing lioiu existing forms in some important peculiarities, an4 ivtl'ording no help w Judevcr to our iiupiirics as to the origin of the existing or the tertiary frogs, toads and salamanders. Under the throat these gi gantic amphibia had a remarkable shield of three bony plates, a well as a series of plates along the belly. Their teeth were large and povvctful, and presented an extremely tomplicHted structure, whence the group has received ibs name of L:brirUhjdonta. Xuture. How I'rlhery Is Punished In (.recce. Tho High Court of Justice at Athens has sentenced M. lhtlasopoulotis, a former Minister of Kcclesiastical A flairs, to one year's imprisonment, deprivation of political rights during three years, and to give the tlO.UKJ he received as a briU to the Poor-house. M. Nikolopouski, a former Minister of Justice, . w as sentenced to ten months' imprisonment. The Archbishop of Copalinia was fined flO,.HJ; Archbishop of Pat res, $4,400, and Archbishop of Messene, 4,000, being double the amounts they received as bribes. All were im peached for corruption. I he history of the investigation is as follows: On the overthrow of the IJulgans Ministry, the late opposition sought to retaliate on those who had ridden rough-shod over the rights of their fellow Ih puties. The Public Prosecutor of the Court of Appeals in Athens, a friend of the prunent First Minister, petitioned the House to inquire into the conduct of the Minister of Justice and the Minister for Kcclesiastical Affairs, with regard to the appointment of four Archbishops, setting forth the ground of his belief that their practices had In-en corrupt. A committee of five nicniliers was forthwith appointed to investigate the truth of the allegations and as prosecutors iu the event of the defendants being committed for trial. Witnesses were examined before the committer, ami the exMinisters were arrested on the L'th of November lat.