Ligonier Banner., Volume 13, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 April 1879 — Page 2

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~ THE OLD WORLD. _ ON the Ist, Gen. Kaufmann telegraphed to the Russian Government that the English Government had arranged to place Wali Mohammed, a cousin of the late Ameer, apon the Afghan throne, and would labor for the dethronement of Yakoob Khan. It was further stated that am Afghan tribe had late1y captured 700 British soldiers, mear Jellalabad, whom the Viceroy ransomed by the payment of £150,000. A PARis telegram of the Ist says a battalion of zouaves in Algeria was: caught in a snow-ktorm, on the 28th of March, between Sonaki and Sonkeltleta, and nineteen men perished. Fourteen men were in the ‘hospital. T

A ST. PETERSBURG d“fapa.tch to the London Zelegraph of the 2dsays that Russia had decide,d%o subsidize Yakoob Khan, and was preparing to make adiversion in his favor. A VIENNA telegram of the 2d announces the appearance of the rinderpest in over a hundred Bohemian villages. AUSTRIA has discontinued her quarantine against the Russian plague. , AccorDING to-a Lahore (India) dispatch of thei3d, Capt. Gough, at the head of a small British force, had lately defeated 5,000 Afghans, Killing 400. The British loss was three officers and three men killed and thirtytwo wounded. , In the British House of Commons, on the 3d, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that 'the estimated révenue of the country for the current fiscal: year would be £83,055,000, and the estimated expenditures £81,153,573, and that no additional taxes would: be laid. This announcement to the House caused surprise, and was received with deafening cheers. . 7! THE latest advices froéy Russia give alarming reports concerning the constant spread of reyolutionary ideas and purposes among the people, and the increasing audacity of the Nihilist donspirators. Among the latter have been found large numbers of persons of rank. — L THE German Reichrath has | adjourned until April 28. e TrRoOUBLE has arisen between France and England over the occupation of the Island of Matacony, off the coast of Africa. The former claims that the island was ceded to it in 1878, and the latter that it has had possession since 1826. ON the 4th, Isaac Fletcher, Member of Parliameut for Lockermouth, committed suicide by shooting himself. THE British Privy Council has rescinded its late order relative tothe importation of American cattle. ] ‘AN Egyptian force, numbering 3,000, ecently fought 11,000 Arabs convoying 10,000 women who were being taken into Egypt as slaves, and after a sharp engagement defeated them. The Arabsfled in disordery leaving 1,087 of their number behind them dead. A DISPATCH was received from South Africa, on the 4th, stating that messengers bhad arrived from King Cetewayo, asking for the esumption of negotiations with a view to a permanent settlement of all contested questions. Wl Tﬂé agent sent into Upper Egypt to inquige concerning the famine has returned, and reports that 10,000 persons died by starvation alone in Girgeh, Kena and Esna. , THE annual race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities was rowed on the Thames, London, on the sth, and resulted in a victory of the former crew. The distance was four miles and two furlongs, and the winning time twenty-one minutes and eighteen seconds. AN Alexandria (Egypt) dispatch says that on the day after the battle previously reported, 5,000 deserters came into the Egyptian camp. The latter followed the retiring enemy and Kkilled ten Chiefs and 2,000 more men, and were still in pursuit at last advices. The capture of all the slave depots was considered certain. ~ Work on the St. Gothard Tunnel has been partially suspended, the contractor. complaining that ke is receiving $60,000 less per month than his contract calls for, : THE Pope has sent an autograph letter to Queen Victoria, welcoming her te Italy. ' ; G

'THE French Senate has adjourned until the Bth, and the Chamber of Deputits to the 15th, of May. S : A LonDoON telegram of the sth says it was believed there that Catewayo’s wish for peace was a mere pretense to gain time until the harvest was gathered. Only unconditional surrender would be accepted. o THE Bulgarian Assembly has decided that Sophid shall be the capital of the Principality. : o A CareE Town (South Africa) telegram, reeeived on the 6th, announces the &aptureof Oham, King Cetewayo’s brother, with 800 warrfors. An insurrection had broken out in the Transyaal. e ‘ SEVERAL extensive cotton brokers, in Liverpool, have recently failed. _' OvER 25,000 coal miners, in Durham, Eng., struck, on the sth, g 5 THE Roumanian Chambers have: passed, by fa.rge majorities, a resolution affirming the necessity of revising the Constitution 80 as to remove the disabilities of the Jews, ?

THE Colonel of the Seventieth Austrian Regiment was recently murdered by * brigands, in Bosnia. ; | A Loxpon telegram of the 7th says the Khedive of Egypt had announced that he had repudiated the Franco-English financial scheme, and would hereafter manage his finances to suit himself. The English Minister, Wilson, and the French Minister, De Blegnieres, had Been dismissed, and a new Cabinet formed, under the Presidency of Cherit Pasha, composed exclusively of nativeministers. ' . EpwArp CrArx, the well-known London civil ‘engineer and contractor, failed, - on the7th, for $8,800,000. THE cattle plague has made its appearance among the animals connected with the British Army in Afghanistan, and threatens seriously to embarrass the commissariat. THE Cardinal Vicar of Rome has written a letter complaining bitteily of the establishment of foreign Protestant schools almost under the shadow of the Vatican, and * asking for contributions for the increase and/ improvement of Catholic schools. Lt

. THE NEW WORLD. THE total coinage of the mints for March was $5,577,086. The total coinage of standard silver dollars to April 1, 1879, was $28,774,950. e ; ‘AT the recent municipal election in Chicago ex-Congressman Carter H. Harrison (Dem.) was elected Mayor, by a plurality of about 5,000. The remainder of the Demoeratic ticket was also elected by about the same vote. Of the eighteen Aldermen chosen, eight are Democrats, seven Republicans and three Socialists. The -vote for Mayor stood about as follows: Harrison, 25,415: Wright (Rep.), 20,256; Schmidt (Socialist), 11,818. IN the Oliver-Cameron breach-of-promise case, in Washington, the jury, on the Ist, rendered a verdict for the defendant. The first vote stood three for plaintiff to nine for defendant; the second. one to eleven.

THE public-debtstutement for March makes the following exhibit: TotaFdebt (including interest), $2,447,887,728. ' Cash in Treasury, $420,787,458. Debt less amount in Treasury, $2,027.100,265. Increase during the month, $892,734. Decrease since June 30, 1878, $8,686,575. - ' . I'HE returns of the Wisconsin election, so far as they had been received up to the morning of the 2d, indicated the re-elec-tion of Judge Cole, Republican candidate for Supreme Judge, by from 5,000 to 10,000 majority.. The Cities of Milwaukee and Madison each elected a Republican Common Council, GEN. DANIEL CAMERON, an old and respected citizen of Cook County, 111., died of consumption in Chicago, on the 2d. Gen. Cameron was one of the “early journalists of Chicago, raised the Sixty-fifth Regiment of Illinois Infantry during the War, and has held several positions of trust and influence.

GeorGE L: SmiTH, Collector of the Portof New Orleans, recently indicted by the "Grand Jury for alleged fraud upon thé Government by carrying on the Custom-House rolls the names of parties not performing any services, was tried on the 2d and honorably ‘acquitted. AvMONG the ‘confirmations by the United States Senate, on the Ist, was that of Francis A. Walker, as Superintendent of the Census. On the 2d, the nominations of Andrew D. White, of New York, as Minister to Germany, and of C. A. Logan, of Illinois, as Minister-Resident to the Central American States, were also confirmed. - In a caucus held on the 2d, the Democratic United States ' Senatbrs unanimously agreed that the Senate should permanently retain Capt. Isaac Bassett, as Assistant Doorkeeper, and William John, as Keeper of the Main Door of the Senate, both of whom have been in the service of the Senate for forty years or more—and Amzi Smich, Superintendent of the Document Room,.together with two of the Acting Assistant Doorkeepers who are crippled Union soldiers. It was aléo decided that the Secretary and Sergeant-at- Arms of the Senate should exercise their own judgment and discretion concerning the personnel of their offices. TaE lowa Democratic State Convention is to be held at Council Bluffs, on the 21st of May. : < — CoL. BUFORD’s trial for the shooting of Judge Elliott, at Frankfort, Ky., will begin on the 28th inst., at a special term of court. THE Board of Military Officers who recently investigated the case of Gen. FitzJohn Porter report that they discovered, by new evidence placed before them, that the previous court-martial made mistakes in their conclusions, and that radically erroneous opinions were entertained by |Gen. Porter’s accusers: The board has decided that the General exerciged the ordinary discretion of a military Commander in not fully obeying the orders-of Gen. Pope. X ;

A NUMBER of prominent colored men of Bt. Louis issued an appeal, on the 2d, to. all generous and charitable people throughout the country, for means to assist the colored refugees from the South, who were daily arriving in that city, fleeing from the South to seek homes in the fre¢ West. The colored people of Bt. Louis had not encouraged them t 0 come, nor had transportation companies offered them any inducements to emigrate, but the movement was : made in ¢he hope of bettering their condition. Many of them were very destitute on reaching St. Louis, and in great need of charitable help. Contributions may be sent to Rev. Moses Dickson, 1211 {Morgan street; Rev. John Turner, 1512 Morgan street; Rev. 8. P. Anderson, Eighth-Street Baptist Church; Rev. William R. Lawton, 1015 Christy avenue, or J. Milton Turner, ex-United States Minister to Iberia, 2513 North Tenth street. :

From the 31st of March to the;Bd of April, three feet of snow fell at North Troy, Vt. : s THE Republican candidates for State offices in Rhode Island were elected on the Ist. The [Republican ticket received 9,718 votes; the Democratic, 5,515, and the Greenback, 377. e JOHN P. PHAIR, who was to have been hanged at Windsor, Vt., on the 4th, was rey rieved by the Governor for six days. The announcement of the reprieve was received by telegraph, after all preparations for the execu tion had been made, ' e . It was extensively adveriised in New York, on the 8d; that an Indian would take part in a twenty-mile walking contest at Gilmore’s Garden, and a number of spectators .assembled to witness the affair. Bix entries were made.. The Indian proved tobe an Irish man, with a painted face. He collapsed after the seventh mili. : : THE Speaker of the lllinois House of Representatives', on the 4th, sentenced a Mr. Nevins, a correspondent of the Chicago Zvibune, to imprisonment in the Sangamon County Jail, for refusing to answer the questions of the Committee of the House appointed to investigate charges of bribery. He must remain there until he consents.to disclose what he knows about the matter, or until the adjournment of the!General Assembly, unless released by judicial process,’ : ,

Pror. C. V. RiLEY, the Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, has tendered his resignation. . T JUDGE JAMES R. STEWARD, Member of the Thirty-fitth and Thirty-sixth. Congresses, died, at Baltimore, Md., on the 3d. He was seventy-one years old. bry MIRAGOANE, in Hayti, was utterly «destroyed by fire, on the night of the 16th of ‘March., About 6,000 persons were rendered homeless, and property valued at $1,000,000 was burned. : ‘ A NEw YOREK dispatch of the 3d says a cutting on through rates of freight from the | West to ports in the United Kingdom and Continent. of Europe was going on almost uninterruvtedly, and rates were lower than “ever known before. This was owing principally toalarge increase in the number : of freight stcamers plying between New York and other portions of this country and Europe, and to severe competitica between them for cargoes. Provisions, by steam, were

quoted at 20s to 22s per ton from New York to the United Kingdom, and at 28s to 30s to the Coutinent. Wheat, for Liverpool, had been taken at 5)4d per bushel. Through rates on flour from the West to Europe was as low as 25 to 8s per barrel, and 18s 9d to 225 6d per ton for flour in sacks. Much eagerness was displayed to secure cargoes at these prices.

~ THE subscription to the 4-per-cent. bonds, on the 4th, amounted to $59,502,700, the greater portion being from New York National Banks. The Secretary of the Treasury issued a call for the balance of the 5-20 bonds of 1867, and it was stated that he would, on the sth, fssue a call for, all the outstanding 5208 of 1868—the total of both calls amounting to $59,565,700. The aggregate calls since Jan. 1 amount .to $349,565,700. No further ‘subscriptions for the 4-per-cent. bonds, ex_cept for the ten-dollar certificates, will be received until further notice. The 4-per-cents will in the future be sold for the redemption of 1040 bonds of the act of March % 1864, upon terms ‘to be hereafter presented by the Treasury Department.

WiLLiAM HARRIS, one of the pedestrians who took part in the six days, contest at Louisville, Ky., died, a few days ago, in consequence of the exertions he made during the match, He walked a little over 300 miles. MApDAME ELIZABETH BONAPARTE, wife of Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, died at Baltimore, Md.,on the 4th, aged ninety-four years. Her estate, valued at $1,000,000, is left to her grandsons, Col. Bonaparte and Charles Joseph Bonaparte. ON the sth, the Army Appropriation ‘bill passed the House with the political amendments attached, substantially in the form reported from the committee. The ayes were 148 noes, 122. SEe e ‘GEN.| LEw WALLACE, the Governor of New Mexico, is not pleased with the situation there. .He writes to Sec’y Schurz that murders and robberies are so common that he is/discouraged at the outlook. : A moTiON for a new trial in the Oliver-Cameron case was denied, on the sth, ‘by Chief-Justice Cartter. | i W YELLOW FEVER has appeared on board the United States steamer Plymouth, and she has been ordered into quarantine at Portsmouth, N. H. : : : - THE Circuit Court of Sangamon "‘County, 111, on the evening of the sth, after a lengiby examination on a writ of. hiabeas corpus, declined to release Frank E, Nevins, the recalcitrant reporter of a Chicazo newspaper, confined for contempt of the Legislature, and remanded Lim to the County Jail. ON the sth, William H. Vanderhbilt paid §5%000 to the daughters of Horace Greeley, being the money the great journalist loaned to his brother Cornelius many years ago. 7 i et B - A FIRE broke out in the five-story building at the northeast corner of Crown ard Race streets, Philadelphia, early on the morning of the 6th, and extended to adjoining Buildings, destroying about $750,000 worth of property. One person was killed and ' three others. were severely injured by falling walls. ;

JOoHN LAMB, convicted of the murder of Police-Officer Race, in Chicago, has been denicd a new trial, and Judge Williams, on the sth, sentenced him to be hanged on the 2)th of June next. :

A Deapwoop (D. T.) telegram of 6th says straggling Sioux and other Indians were raiding the Yellowstone * Valley. "ﬂ;ey had run all the whites in the vicinity of Terry’s Landing into the military posts, and captured all the horses and cattle. One man was murdered and another badly wounded. Troops had been sent out from Fort Chester: A FIRE in St. Louis, on the night of the 4th, destroyed buildings and contents, on North Fifth street, to the value of nearly ~5500,000. Two firemen and another person were killed. . I THE New York World of a late date tells how one of its.reporters, an unmarried man, obtained from a divorce lawyer of that city a divorce from a supposititions wife, on the ground of incompatibility of temper. The divorce purported to be granted by the Circuit Court of Walworth County, Wis., and was signed by John 8. Wentworth, Circuit Judge, and Joseph 8. Scott, Clerk. A dispatch from Elkhorn of the 4th says that no Joseph 8. Scott has ever held the office of Clerk of the Court, and that, at the date the decree purports to have been granted, the court was -not in session. The present Clerk of the Court declares thedecree, signatures, seal and all are a bare-faced forgery. ° *AT the municipal election in Cincinnati, on the %th, Jacob, the Republican candidate, was elected Mayor by about 1,000 majority. Columbus, Ohio, also elected a Republican Mayor by about 1,700 majority. Sandusky elected a Democratic Mayor by over 600 majority, and Cleveland went Republican by about 1,500 majority. The entire National ticket, with the possible exception of Police Judge, was elected, in Toledo, by 400 to 500 majority. : - THE returns from the election in Michizan, received on the morning of the Bth, indicated the election of the Republican State ticket, headed by Campbell for'J udge of the Supreme Court, by about 10,000 majority.

| CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE.—On the Ist, the bill appropriating $200,000 for a yellow-fever disinfecting vessel was passed....A resolution was passed authorizing the Committee on Rules to take under consideration the question as to whether the Jjoint rules for the government of the business of Congress were in force, and to confer with the like committee of the House ‘on the subject. - House.—The Legislative Appropriation bill (between $16,000,000 and-$16,000,000) was reported with ‘several repealing clauses....The A A iation bill further debated in AR e foraesdo SENATE.—Several bills were ‘introduced, on the 2d, among which was one providirig for a treaty with Mexico... Mr. Hoar's resoi l\{titgn oond&mnﬁ:g as ntxiwonstitutional ajp.(} revolutionary the Democra gram e lation was laid on the mbfe?—rgb to Z)?.e. 5 ?Madolgi‘ta; and mmont{'reporm were made in the case of Mr, Bell, of New Hampshire, the former against, and the latter in favor of, his admission as Sen- | §§ﬁfe on the appointment of the Governor of his } -House.—All general debate on the Army Appropfiaﬁon bill was ordered closed at three o’olog 9. m., on the 4th, leaving the five‘minute debate still open....The discussion on ﬁ'fl })ill was continued in Committee of the Nhole. , SENATE.—On the Bd, Mr. Hoar srgued in favor of admitting Mr. Bell as Senator from New Hampshire,saying there was an nubroken line of precedents for so doing....A bill wis introduced to anthorize the President to appoint Gen James ‘Shields a Brigadier-General ‘on the retired 1i5t,.... Adjourned to the Teh. House.—The debate on the Army Appropriation bill was continued, several members taking part in thu discnssion. SENATE.—Not in session on the 4th. ~ Mouse.—The general debate on the Army Appropriation bill was closed, and the bill was considered under the five-minute rule, after which My, New, offered an amendment pro-

viding that nothing 1n the section tnder discus!lgn%ould‘be construed as abridging the duty Hon, to.send troops o application OF the Tern: ion, 1o sen on applicution o e lature orExeontx%-of a %ta.te, Mr. Baker offered an amendment to the amendment making it unlawful for anyone to have on his person firearms, bowie-knives, clubs or bludgeons in the vicinity of a place where an election is being held. The Shau' ‘ruled out . Baker’s amendment, as not germane to an Army bill The committee rose, and the House ordered all debate on the pending measure to close at 12:30 on the sth. : - SENATE.—Not in session on the sth. House.—The Army Appropriation bill was further considered in Conimittee of the Whole, and a motion to strike out the repealing section of the bill was, after debate, rejected—yeas, 117: nays, 186. Other propositions were also rejected, when the'committée rose and reported the bill to the _House. The unimportant amendments to the bill were agreed to, without division, and the bill, as amended, was then faqed—lw to 122—a strict party vote. The folowing named Greenbackers voted with the Democrats in the affirmative; De LaMatyr, Ford, Gillette, Jones, Ladd, Lowe, Murch, Stevenson, Weaver and Yokum. Messrs. Barlow and Forsythe (of the Greenbackers) voted with the Republicans, in the negative....The House then, by a vote of 154 to 109, adjourned to the Bth.

. SENATE.—On the 7th, the Army Appropriation bill was received from the House and referred to the Committee on Appropriations... A bill was introduced for the. repeal of the Atlantic & Pacific ‘Railroad grant, except so far as the road shall be completed by the 4th of July nex%:.nd for the restoration to the market of all lands along tthe line of ‘the incomplete road, to qumoaed of in the same manneras other public lands....A bill was also introduced for the relief of tl?BOOent.ra.l Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad ‘Company....The case of Mr. Bell, ax;;nx;gnted‘ﬂénato: by the Governor of New Hampshire, was further considered.... A resolution was adopted authorizing the President of the Benate to appoint a Belect Committee of five to take into consideration all matters relating to the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company. House.—Not in session. -

: INVESTIGATION. THE WALLACE (FORMER TELLER) COMMITTEE IN ¢ WASHINGTON. The committee continued its investigation, in Washington, on the Ist. A Mr. Baker testified that no person in the Treasury Depart--ment receiving _%)eess than $1,200 per year was gsk%d to subscribe to the Republican campaign und. R. B. Squiers testified that he was an assistant messegggz in the War Department. He did not subscribe anvthing. Soon after receiving the. circular his salary was reduced to sixty dollars per month. His salary was reduced at the beginning of the fiscal year by action of Congress at the same time that other employes’ wages were cut down. George C. Gorham was recalled; on the 4th, and furnished statements previously called for, from which it appears that 732 circulars were sent to employes in Departments, 435 of which were responded to, twenty-five were returned and 272 resulted in subscriptions amounting to $3,247. He had found cases where circulars were sent to Eersqns receiving salaries of less than $l,OOO, and he wished to correct his previous statement on that point.. . - . John G. Thompson was called by the Republican members.of the committee, and detailed his connection with the Democratic Congressional Committee in 1878. ,No money was collected from employes of ;the House of Representatives. Witness devoted most of his time during the summer of 1878 to conducting the campaign. but came to Washington on the first of everv month to see to the disbursements of members’ salaries. Did not neglect his official duties. . Duncan 8. .Walke'é,‘Secreta.ry of the Pemocratic Congressional ommitteg\ in 1878, testified that the headquarters of the. committee for a Ewrmon of the campaign were xn the room of the ouse Committee on Agriculture. The amount collected by the committee was $4,695. The number of documents sent out was 1,031,700, The documents ~ were mnearly all folded in the room of the House Committee on PoAt-Roads and Printrln%s Large numbers of documents were sent out by the committee under frank of Members of Congress, but nothing not privileged. Posta%g. was paid on all documen&_not frankable. Witness read a statement showing that the ex%enses of the foldingroom for 1878 were only $20,698, as against larger :\o}ms. ranging up to as high ds $109,000 the last %‘Cobant. Captain of the watch in the Treasury Department, testified that he had charge of furnishing Pennsylvania voters in that Department with free transportation to their homes, and tax receipts, where they had failed to pay their taxes, both of which were furnished by Russel, acting for the State Central Repubhcan Committee.

. A Woman Jockey.” | IN a certain London boarding house, not far from Regent’s Park, the guest who comes in late at night will sometimes see a side saddle lying on the floor in the lower hall. Usually it has disappeared before he is down in the morning. If not, a finely-formed, healthy young English woman will be one of the Anglo-American company that gathers at the breaktast table. She is its .owner. . This boarding house is her home. Riding horses at races and sales is her occupation. An orphan of respectable parentage, obliged to support herself, the avenues to a livelihood that opened before such a younF girl as she, in the crowded, elbowing life of England, were few and unpromising. She had an Englishwoman’s love of animals and out-door occupations. And she had dauntless, magnificent physical courage. So she drifted .into this strange life. X

She finds employment from one end of England to the other. One morning she is off by cab, her saddle beside her, for a horse market in the east of London. The next, perhaps, she is hurrying from her early breakfast to take the train at King’s Cross for Doncaster: There is no horse so vicious that she hesitates to mount him. He may fall with her; he cannot throw her.

She is sent for to ride horses that men dare not or will not; horses that-have killed their riders more than ‘on¢e, and that will do their best to kill her. But she has a reputation that, for bread’s sake and shelter’s sake, she cannot afford to lose, and she never declines to mount a horse because it is dangerous to do sp. One night she comes home bruised and weak—her horse fell on her to-day. Another, her face flushes with satisfaction as she tells her kindfriend, the landlady, that her horse won the race. : :

Often she does not eat a mouthful from her early breakfast, before the rest of the house are up, until her day’s work is done. Success depends on her being able to command every particle of nervous force she possesses; she can spare none of it for the process of diFestion; She is intelligent and womany—just as womanly as if her work kept her in an office or behind'a counter, instead .of among' stablekeepers, jzeickeys and sporting men.—Chicago mes. | s

—Rev. Abel Manninﬁ, Congrega iionalist, of Goffstown, Mass., is now ninety-one years old. Hehas preached 5,000 sermons, delivering 300 in one year. He ridicules the idea some ministers advance, that there should be but one sermon a week. .

} _—Mr. Russell, recently elected as a 'Greenbacker to Congress in North Car~olina, is a precocious J}erson, He was ‘a Confederate Captain at seventeen years of age and a member of the Legislature at nineteen. He is now thirtythree years of age. A

INDIANA STATE NEWS. - JOHN SCHRIENER attempted to commit suigge. at his home in Evansville, on the 25th, but was arrested-before a fatal shot was fired. In his parlor was found a coffin ready to receive his body. | | : . THE dry house connected with Peck & Abbott’s stave factory, at Lafayette, was burned, on the evening of the Ist: Loss, $4,000. : :

AN excellent State authority says: It ia now possible to form some correct estimate of the damages done to the fruit during the severe weather of January last. On investi‘Zation I find the prospect for the coming fruit crop far from promising. The grapes are damaged. The plums are seriously injured. Pears promise the best, but somevarieties will produce little or no fruit. It is no easy matter to decide certainly concerning the grape, plum and pear, l}u_t one thlng is sure, they will disappoint many who are expecting an abundant yield of| fruit. -Surely cherries are damaged beyondﬂll hope.” ! . Wu. CANADA, a Newcastle barber, committed suicide, on the Ist, by taking two teaspoonfuls of arsenic. Family troubles-are said to have induced the act.. : it WM. H. GOODHUE, one of the original proprietors of Michigan City, died, the other day, of heart \disease. He had‘ lived thers over forty-three years.. ; AN old colored woman died at Shelbyville, recently at the advanced age of 111 years. She well remembered' the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. SBhe claimed to be 115 years old, but her granddaughter said she was not quite so old. = - : ' AFIRE in the cooper-shop of the BState Prison South, on the evening of the Ist, destroyed property belonging to the State valued at $l,OOO. Ryder & Hyatt, the contractoré, lost $4,000 on machinery and stock. THE Board of Directors of the Northern Indiana Prison, Messrs. Dykes, Baker and Wile, met at the Prison-in special session, on the Ist, and: orgamized by the eélection of Simon Wile as President for the ensuing two years. ; o 2 ; THE motion for a new trial for Knight and Jackman, the Terre Haute train wreckers, has been overruled, and,the miscreants go to the Penitentiary for life. ¢ e Dzr. F. C. FErGUsON’s house, at Brownsburg, in Hendricks County, was burned, on the morning of the 31st ult.. Loss, $2,000. THE residence of John J. Watts, near Leesburg, was burned, on the night of the 30th ult. Loss, $1,500. F. N. RorLiy was arrested, on the 81st, at Terre Haute, for the theft of a harness, and placed in the police station. Soon after he took strychnine, and died very shortly in horrible convulsions. :

At Terre Haute, on the 81st ult., Levi Fosig, brother cf the Police Superintendent, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. Cause, il health and temporary insanity resulting therefrom: A TOBACCO SHED, belonging to Israel Ulrich, -at Cambridge City, was burned a few days ago. Loss, $5,000. THE editors of the Wabash Courier have been acquitted on the charge of contempt of court, after ‘a five-days’ trial. They were charged with saying that the foreman of a re‘cent Grand Jury was an incompetent, illiterate person. As the issue of this trial leaves it, they either didn’t say so, or if they did, it was no contemnt.

‘WHILE several children were playing together in Fortville, the other day, a little son of George Wallsmith had his hand cut off with an ax. CoL. THOMAS CARR, an old resident of Clark County, has become deranged from financial difficulties. Mr. Carr was at one time Sheriff of the county. - NEAR South Bethany, recently, a young man named James Barnett was fatally injured by having his face blown off. Mr. John Litze was engaged in blowing out stumps in a field, when young Barnett came along. After lighting the fuse, which failed to perform its duty, young Barnett went to the stump and commenced blowing the spark, when the. explosion occurred. - , STATE TREASURER FLEMING has negotiated a sale of 510,005 of two-year 5-per-cent bonds at % per cent. premium: - THE miners in the block coal district are out over a disagreement with the operators. The latter notified the miners that after April 1 the summer schedule of prices would take effect. ' The miners refused to accept the reduction. About 2,500 are idle in the Qistrict affec ed. i : MILLARD MESANDA, living near Austin, was found dead, on the 4th, in a shallow pond of water near his residence. g LEeIB Bros., dry-goods dealers, of Goshen, suspended; a few cays ago. Liabilities, 12,TrE L. N. A. & C. warehouse and elévator at Westville, in LaPorte County, caught fire from a passing train, on the 4th, and was en« tirely consumed. Loss, $4,000. - INDIANA farmers are hiring hands for the year at from $l2 to $lB per month. b THE latest reports from [ndianapolis give the following as current prices for leading gtaples: Flour, Family and Fancy, $4.00@ 6.00; Wheat, No. 2Red, [email protected]%4; Corn, 3444@35¢; Oats, 27@281¢c; Rye, 47@48c; Pork, [email protected]; Lard—Steam, . 6@ 6¢c; Hogs, [email protected].

THE LEGISLATURE., ' SPECIAL SESSION. . SENATE.—On the 31st ult., a joint resolution for the payment of the expenses of the Insane Asylum investigation was adopted. Sundry select committees made report. The Attor-ney-General was instructed to examine the books of his predecessors, and take such action as may. be necessary to recover any moteys :wron%ﬂms collected by them. Senator Viehe . was declare President pro tem., and then, after adopting several resolutions. relative to the closing u? of the. session, Lieut.-Gov. Gray made a few feeling and eloquent remarks, and declared the Senate adjourned sine die. . . HousE.—A resolution was adopted authorizing the appointment of a special committee to continue the investigation of the AttorneyGeneral’s office, and (}iré,cti!ll_é a 8 to what they should in’vestiliate and regui ing all officers they may call upon for informa on to impart the same to them. After the adoption of resolutions of thanksand the concurrence of several Senate resolutions, several of the members made farewell speeches. The Speaker, aftera few ﬂtt;ing remarks concerning the work of the sessions; and after retnminﬂxis thanks to the members, at noon declared the House adjourned sine die. S

How Distance Mitigates Our Horror at , a Calamity. L IMAGINATION ministers but grudgingly tothe feeliaﬁ of sympathy between man andman. Weneed to se?theghastlg spectacle of mangle‘dﬁe_ma ns, to hear the groans of agony and the shrieks of despair, to have some menace of loss or danger brought home to ourselves or those with :ﬁmm we have some bond of connection closer than that of universal brotherhood, in order to realize the horror of a great disaster and, feel for its victims. The touch of nature that makes the whole world kin is one

of universal selfishness. Perhaps it is a beneﬁcent;{perisidn that saves us from the strain upon our sympathies, which would make life miserable if we . were forced to share in all the suffer--inﬁg'and calamities of the race. - The appalling disaster that overtook the Hungarian City of ,Czefedin last week was full of multiplied horrors,. and had it taken place on the Passaic River it would have filled the columns of our newspapers almost to the exclu--sion of everything else, blanched every cheek with a sense of awe, filled every heart with pity and dread, and made every.task but that of succoring the hapless victims almost impossible. But. it 1s 4,000 miles. away. It touches notus.. We read of it-with a sorkof listless: wonder at the magnitude of‘%&‘ calam--ity, but the most sympathetic naturefails' to be at all deeply or keenly affected by the recital. Andyethuman life is as precious in Hungary as in New York. Death and bereavement are aspitiful there asanywhere; loss of home, - of . friends, of relatives, and of the.means whereby men do live, brings thesame pangs of suffering, the same deso--lation, an% the same Iﬁight upon life. A city of 70,000 inhabitants is over--whelmed in the tremendous flood of waters as the dikes that held the swollen and straggling river with its. confines give way, at three o’clock in. the morning. Nearly 10,000 housesare swept into ruin, hundreds upon. hundreds of its occupants are drowned,. and the rest are driven out in the cold winter night in terror and dismay, toseek refuge from the pitiless flood. Theneighboring country issubmerged, 2,000 farmhouses are swept away, and a season’s -~ crop well-nigh »gestro ed. There is pitiful suffering from lp.ci of shelter, from want of food, from'death in fearful forms, and time cannot repair the consequences of the terrible‘misfortune. Yes, we say, it is awful; but'we do not feel it, we cannot realizeit.—N. Y. Times.. . .= .

Horrors of a Prairie Fire. : ANOTHER terrible prairie fire is reported from Bittle Creek, Lincoln Coun--ty, Kan., which 'destr(g{ed everything in its path, and resulted in the death of three persons. It appears that about four o’clock in the afternoon Mr. Montgomery, one of the well-to-do farmers: of that county, and his son, a boy of about twelve, were in the field at work, when they discovered a fire coming from the west.- They stopped their work to keep the fire from the hedge, when the wind suddenly changed to the north, blowing very hard and cold, and bearing before it a second fire, ‘which came with the fleetness of a. horse. There were two fields near on: either side, and seeing their danger; the boy started to: one field -and the father to the other. The boy wascaught in the flames and fell to the ground-instantly. - A neighbor, Isaac %faﬁ‘, who was passing near'on a mule, galloped up to Mr. Montgomery and induced him to mount the mule behind him and ride to the field. Mr.. Montgomery mounted, but Seeing his boy all, lost all presence of mind and threwhis arms around Mr. Pfaff, catehingthe bridal-reins and holding the mulestill while they were enveloped in the flames. Both men drogpe‘d- to ‘the ground and the fire passed over them. The mule ran a short distance and fell dead. . e caniae bcG e ~ The two men arose to their feet, and the wind and fire took their clothing from them'as they walked to the nearest field, about one hundred yards dis--tant. Mr. Pfaff’s feet were so hadly burned that his boots fell from him as he walked. A Mr. Manning came to them from the nearest house with a couple of quilts, which he wrapped about the two men, and carried them to the house. He then carried .in: the dead boy. Both men were perfectly rational, - and conversed freely with those around them up to within a few hours of their death. Mr. Montgomery lived about two hours, and Mr. Pfaff lived until about eleven o’clock that night. Mr. Montgomery leaves a wife and seven children, most of whom are grown. Mr. Pfaff leaves a wife and one child.—S{. Louis Globe-Demo--erat. i Eofaesd a R e

__—The Sunday law just made by the North Carolina Legislature provides against the loading of freight and the running of trains on the Sabbath between sunrise and sunset. It does not apply to mail trains. - - B

—A small boy and a gun are harmless when apart, but they make a terri--ble combination.—Puck. o

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