Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 1, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 April 1879 — Page 2

The Ligonier Lanner, ; 3B STOLL; Ed.ltdx;anfd Proprietor. LIGONIER, : ¢ : . INDIANA.

EPITOME OF THE WEEK. .~ THE OLD WORLD. A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the 15th says the state of feeling in official circles in consequence of the recent attemptupon the lite of the Czar was one of mingled tefror, rage and mutual suspicion. It had been ascertained that the assailant of the Czar was one Solowjeff. It was also reported that the heads of the secret police were about to resign in consequénce of the discoyery that threefourths of their subordinates were in league with the Nihilists. - i : A LoNDON telegram of the 15th says many of the striking miners were emigrating ‘to the United States. ; A BERLIN dispatch of the 16th says Solowjeff, the would-be assassin of the Czar, had confessed that he was appointed by lot to shoot the Emperor, A pisearcH from Cairo, Egypt, of the 16th says the Khedive had recalled all furloughed officers and disbanded soldiers. ' A LowDON telegram of the 16th says the striking miners then numbered 40,000. A Care Town dispatch, received in London on the 16th, says King Cetewayo ‘had sent further messengers to Lord Chelmsford with overtures of peace. The Ekowe relief _column started on the 28th of March. On the 80th ult., in a fight with the Zulus, the British lost seventy-seven men. - THE fire-works factory at Angouleme, France, exploded, on the 16th. Seven persons were Killed, and more wére missing. A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 17th reports the assassination of the Chief of Police of the Town of Archangel. A special commission had been appointed to organize repressive measures against the Nihilists. The Chief of Police of the Town of Yelta, in the Crimea, had been arrested as a revolutionist. i ,

BERLIN papers of the 17th say that Russia had demanded of England the! extradition "of certain Nihilists domiciled there, and that the latter had declined to accede to the demand. ' ; . THE Turkish paper currency was: selling in Constantinople, on the 17th, at ten to one—ten dollars in currency for one dollar in gold. Great distress prevailed. . | AN explosion of fire-damp occurred, on the 17th, in the Agrappo coal-pit, near Mons, Belgium, and the wood:-work of the shaft caught fire and fell in. There were 240 persons in the mines. i ‘A UKASE was published in St. Petersburg, on the 18th, ordering the appointment ‘of a Governor-General for each of ithe six most populous districts in Russia, with despotic powers, exceeding that of a General in time of war. - ‘ RUSSIAN journals have been forbidden to make any further mention of the late attewpt on the life of the Czar. . A LoNDON telegram of the 18th says England’s trade with China would have to be abandoned, for the reason that- American opposition and enterprise had entirely killed English rivalry in that part of the yvorld. PAROLE, an American horse, won .the stakes in the Newmarket races, the other day. / o A PestH dispatch of the 18th says the rivers forming the Theiss had again overflowed their banks, /and were threatening several important Hungarian' towns. Some hundreds of square miles of territory were submerged. . = Upr to the evening of the 18th, eightynine of the 240 miners imprisoned in the Belgium coal-mine had been rescued. A PARils telegram of the 20th says the epidemic of glanders prevailed to an alarming extent in the cavalry' stables in Lyons. It was estimated that the value of the horses attacked by the malady, which had been slaughtered, was not less than 400,000 francs. _ THE Sultan has ratified the NoviBazar Convention with Austria. ' ‘A BoMBAY dispatch, received on the 20th, says, according to intelligence just received from Mandalay, the King had declafredto his counselors that henceforth he would neither listen to nor speak of proposals for an accommodation with England. | ST. - PETERSBURG dispatches of the 19th say a riot recently occurred at Rostay, ‘on the Don, which was only suppressed when the military were called out. The fighting was continued . during one night, and the residences of the Chief of Police and Town Overseer and the police station and police records were destroyed. Several policemen were killed. - . Y THE publisher of a Paris newspaper has been ‘fined 6,000 francs and sentenced to eight months’ impriconment for printing a scurribous attack on Catholicism. i A BELGRADE dispatch of the 19th says an Albanian force had taken possession of Kurshumlie and massacred all the Christian inhabitants. ; : A Carro (Egypt) :dispateh of the 21st says the Khedive had effected a. loan of $1,750,000, giving as his . security his wheat crop. ; : : i - THE Durham (Eng.) miners have resolved, by a vote of 22,633 to: 224, to cortinue the strike. About 7,500 colliers in Belgium have also struck. | ° i ‘THE Japanese Government has officially notified the United States Charge d’Affaires of its desire that ex-President Grant, when he visits Japan, shall be the guest of the Nation. ' A palace was being fitted up for the reception of the distinguished American; ' SERvVIA has requested the Porte to send troops to the frontier to prevent ahy turtherincursions of Albanians. HEeAvy snow-storms in Afghanistan have impeded hostile operations. 3 ¥ T : i . THE NEW WORLD. IN the absence of Vice-President Wheeler, on the 15th, he having been called away by sickness in his family, the United States Senate -elected Senator Thurman, of Ohio, President pro tem. The Republicans voted for-Benator Ferry, bf Michigan. | At bdpringheld, UL, about one o’clock on the afternoon of the 15th, some thief entered the office of the State Treasurer, and, while the clerk was changing a bill for him, reached over the railing and secured & package of currency coputainin‘%fi,flow Nothing had been discovered of the thieves up to infdnight, but two persons had been :arrested

ACCORDING to a Vicksburg (Miss.) telegram of tbe 15th, the negro exodus continued, every St. Louis packet taking numbers of emigrants. Negroes were awaiting transportation at slmost every landing between Vicksburg and Memphis. /' . THE Refugee Relief Committee of St. Louis made a further appeal, on the 16th, for aid, stating that the tide of colored emigration from! the SBouth had again set in, and the committee were not only out of money, but were several hundred dollars in debt. 8o tar over 6,000 emigrants had arrived there, of whom ahout 2,000 were able to pay their way to Kansas. The remainder were sheltered, fed and partially clothed while in Bt. Louis, and their passage was paid to Wyandotte, Kan./ Aid in money or clothing may be sent to Rev. John Turner, 1512 Morgan street, or Rev. Moses Dickson, 1211 Morgan street. > .

TaE Towa Republican State Convention for the nomination of candidates for Governor, ete., will be held at Des Moines on Wednesday, June 11, - | ' THE full official veturns of the late Wisconsin election, show that Judge Cole, the Republican candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court, received a majority of 33,133 votes. ; T , Pror. Cyrus THOMAS, State Ento‘mologist of Illinois, has been offered and declined the position of Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, at- Washington. . : THE Illinois House of Representatives has discharged Frank E. Nevins, the recalecitrant reporter, from imprisonment. - To A j-ecent application for the issue of rationg to feed the colored people who have lately arrived at Wyandotte, Kan., Sec’y MecCrary replied that he had no authority to grant the relief ‘asked for, and suggested, application to Congress. The Citizens’ Relief Committee of Wyandotte has issued an appeal to the public for contributions to aid the suffering immigrants. THE Attorney-General of the United States hag affirmed a recent decision of the Assistant Attorney-General for the Postof fice Department, that a regular publication, designed primarily for advertising purposes, cannot be sent through the mails at rates charged legitimate newspapers. =

A NEw Yorxk dispatch of the 17th announces that a syndicate composed of banks of that city and Boston had subseribed for $150,000,000 4-per-cent. Government bonds and §40,000,000 funding certificates, this being the largest single subsecription ever made to a Government loan in this or any other country. The subscription, was made according to the terms prescribed by Sec’y Sherman in his circular of the 16th. HEZEKIAH SHAFFER, a wife-murder-er, was hanged at Chambersburg, Pa., on the 17th. He was carried to the scaffold in a blanket, the loss of blood consequent upon an atternpt at suicide, a few nights before, rendering him unable to walk. {7

' THE jury in the Olive murder trial, at Hastings, Neb., on the 17th, brought in a verdict of murder. in: the second degree against J. P. Olive and Frederick Fishe, and the Judge sentenced both the prisoners to' the Penitentiary for life. The crime for which they were tried was that of murdering Luther Mitchell, by shooting and burning, in Custer County, in December last. Four other parties were to be tried for the same crime. A TERRIFIC tornado passed over the lower portion of South Carolina, .on the 16th; causing great. destruction to life and property. Inthe Village of . Walterboro, more than one hundred dwellings and all the churches were swept away. Fifteen persons were killed and many others wounded. i A BURGLAR, attempting to escape from the police, was shot dead in the streets of Chicago, on the night of the 17th. -~ JAMES CARROLL (colored), accused of a felonious gssault upon a woman at Licksville, Md., was taken from a railroad train at Washington Junction, on the 17th, by a band of masked men, pulled across a field to the nearest tree and hanged. | ~ THE Philadelphia Commen Council has decided to send a committee to California to receive Gens Grant, and the New York Assembly has n;;ssed a resolution tendering the hospitalities of the State to'the ex-Presi-dent on his return from his fcreign tour. A REVOLUTION has occurred in Panama. There was fighting for fourteen hours in .the strects of that city, and many persons were killed. . THE President has set aside a very large reservation in Washington Territory for Chief Moses and his people, with such Indians as may afliliate and the Secretary of the luterior may send. oo

At a joint* Republican caucus, held in Washington on the night of the 18th, the following Congressional Campaign Committee | was announced: Maine, Representative Lindsey; New Hampshire, Senator Rollins; Vermont, Representative Tyler; Massachusetts, Representative Crapo; Rhode Island, Senator ‘ Burnside; Conunecticut, Representative Wait; 1 New York, ‘Representative Hiscock; New Jersey, Representative Robeson; Pennsylvania, Representative Fisher; Maryland, Representative Urner; Virginia,{ Representative - Jorgensen; North Carolina, Representative Morton ; Mississippi, Benator Bruce; Louis-' iana, Senator Kelloge; Ohio, Representative McKinley; Tennessee, Representative Houck Indiana, Representative Orth; Illinois, —; Michigan, Representative Hubbéll; Florida, Horatio Bisbee; lowa, Representative Allerton; California, Senator Booth; Minnesota, Representative Dunnell; Kansas, Representative Ryan; Nebraska, Senator Paddock ; Colorado, Representative Belford; Washington 1‘ Territory, Delegaté Brengs; Dakota Territory, Delegate Bennett. ; : i

{ TEN MILLIONS of the 4-per-cent. United States bonds were shipped to Europe, on the 19¢h. 1 " THE Secretary of War has addressed ' a letter to Gen. Sherman, directing that, in ' case Bitting Bull or any of his followers cross from the British Possessions, they be held as prisoners of war until further orders from the President. L oo , ' TrE Néw Orleans tobaceo frand cases have bfén compromised. AN explosion of gas recently occurred .in a coal-mine, at Departure Bay, Vancouver Island, killing eleven men and seriously injuring fifteen or twenty more. £ * A COLORED convention was held in New Orleans, on the 19th, at which a resolu;tion indorsing emigration was passed unanimously. A committee was appointed to at‘tend a mass meeting in Mob He. % In an interview with Chief Moses ' and other Indians, at the Executive Manglon, on thé 19th, President Hayes said he } was glad to see them, and thathe hoped Sec’y ‘Bchurz would make a settlement with them ‘which would’ be satisfactory. The President -expressed a desire to deal justly with them, -and he hoped the Indians would always be ‘the friends of the Government, as the Government was their friend, Some of the Umatil-

la Indians, while at the officé of the Becretary of the Interior, expressed their dissatisfaction with the terms agreed upon on the iBth, but Chief Moses stood to the contract. A TRAIN on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad ran on the new bridge over V’Fiahl:E, Creek, near Kearney, Mo:; on the night of the 18th, the bridge having a short time before been set on fire by ‘a passing locom'ot.iv’d. When in the middle it gave ‘way, and the engine and thirteen cars loaded with stock werge precipitated a distance of twenty feet into the creek below. One man was burned to death and the trainmen were all of them more or - BriLrs to the number of 1,385 were introduced in the National House of Representatives, on the 21st, many of them relating to financial matters, , i o THE Secretary of the United States Treasury, on the 21st, issued the ninety-ninth call for the redemption of bonds; this call being for §23,566,300 of 10-40 bonds of 1864 Principal and interest will be paid on and after July 21, interest tocease on that day. . GEN. JoHN A. Dix died in New York, on the night of the 21st. He was eighty-one vears of age, and had been in failing health for some time. i A CAR-LOAD of colored emigrants from Canada have recently arrived in Nebraska, for the purpose of founding a colony on Plum Creek. Two hundred families will follow them during the present season. o A rFiRe at Kinsley, Kan.,, on the morning of the 21st, destroyed one-half of the business portion of the town. The lossgs aggregate about $75,000. "

CONGRESSIONAL, | SENATE.—On the 15th, the Secretary read a note from Vice-President Wheeler announcing his summons home because of the dangerous illness of his sister.... Mr. Baza.rd offered a resolution that Mr. Thurman be chosen President pro. tem. of the Senate. Mr. Anthony moved to substitute the name of Mr. Ferry, which was disagreed to—yeas, 18; nays,, 28—and the resolution was passed. Mr. Thurman was then conducted to the chair by'Mr. Ferry and returned jthanks fcr this mark ot confidence. ... Bills were introduced and referred—to provide for an increase of the army in an emergency; to provide for the speedy completion of a line of railroad and telegraph between the ports of the Lower ‘Mississippi River and the southern frontier of the United States, and to aid in the construction of the same, and for other purposes.... Mr. Hoar ‘asked to be relieved from service as_a member; of the Committee on .Agricultureé, and Myt Cameron (Wis.) asked to be relieved from service as a member of the Committee on Rout.s to the Seaboard, and Mr. Bell was appointed to fill the vacancies thus occasioned. ....Mr. Lamar was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Committee on Education and Labor....The Army Appropriation bill was taken up, and Mr, Logan spoke a%unst the proposed le;igslatlon enacted by the House; Mr. Beck replied to Mr. Logan’s remarks. : ‘ House.—The Senate bill for the puri chase or construction of a refrigerating ship for the disinfectién, of vessels and cargoes was passed with a ‘rifling amendment....A petition was filed by Mr. De LaMatyr for a bill preé;ared by him for the substltutlog, of United States leggl-tender paper money for National Bank no’_:%s. ...The Legislative Appropriation bill was further debated in Committee of the Whole, and A motion to iusert a clause rt‘a:’%ea.lin_z the law créating the Southern Claims Commission was finally rejected—s 3 to 107. - : SENATE.—A bill was introduced and referred, on the 16th, providing for the establishment of a steamship mail-service between the United States and Brazil.... Mr. Beck concluded his remarks on the Army bill, and wasa followed ‘fi; Mr. Dawes, who replied to the arguments of Mr. Beck. ... Wade Hampton was sworn in and took his seat as Senator from South Caro- _ ‘na, taking the modified oath. . HouskE.—A bill was reported from ' the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, for interchange of subsidiary coin for le-gal-tender money, in sums of ten dollars and multiples thereof, and making coin a legal tender in all sums not exceedn)fi ten dollars; the committee stated that the bill was based upon petitions, and the point of order was raised that no bill on the subject having been referred to a committee, the committee had no right to make a re(fort,.’ which point of order was overruled by the Speaker,...A bill was passed relating to the organization of the National Board of Health. ... The Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up in Committee of the%Vhole, and a proposed amendment to repeal the acts establishing the Southern Claims Commission, and directing the transfer of all pending cases to the Court of Claims, was rejected, All the bill was disposed of except the portions especially reserved for general discussion, being the provisions in respect to the mode of selecting grdnd and petit jurors, repealing the j%‘ors’ test oath, and in respect to Bupervisors of Elections and Deputy Marshals.” An effort to_limit the sd)ee.ches.to thirty minutes each failed. and the Jhair said there were ninety-six names in the list of those desiring to speak. Mr, Lewis opened the debate, and was followed by Mr. Sanford. after whom Mr. Kelley obtained the floor, but_he yielded to a motion that the committee rise, which motion was adopted. . -

SENATE.—The discusdon of the Army Appropriation bill was continued, on the 17th, Mr. Voorhees advocating and Mr. Teller opposing the proposed political legislation 'contained in the bill as passed by the Homnse. HoUseE.—A motion to refer to the Committee on Banking and Currency the bill, reported on the 16th, providing for the exchange of subsidiary silver coin for legal tendersin all sums not exceeding ten dollars was. rejected—BB to 97—thus bringing the bill before the iiouse. o A motion was agreed to—l3l to 91—that the de-. L +te on the Legislative bill should close on the 2 th....1n Committee of the Whole, the Legislaive Appropriation bill was debated by Messrs. {elley and Carlisle. :

- SENATE.—A resolution, offered by Mr. Wallace, to alter the rules so that rémovals and appointment of offcers of the Senate may be made by the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms, respectively, without the approval of the Presi4 dent of the Senate, was considered, on the 18th. ....The Army bill was further debated, Messrs, Randolph and Groome speaking in favor of the proposed legislation repealing the:law author--Izing the use of the army at elections.... Adjourned to the 21st. : House.—The morning hour was dis. pensed with, and the Subsidiary Coin bill was not taken up....The Legislative Appropriation bill was again taken up in Committee of the Whole, and speeches were made by Messrs, Mes Kinley, Blackburn, House, Burrows, Gibson, Ooffroth and Dickey, Mr, Price obtaining the floor just before the committee rose. SENATE.—Not in session on the 19th. ~ House.—The Subsidiary Silyer Coin bill came up as unfinished business, and a substitute was offered by Mr. Mills, providing for a silver dollar of 412 Y% grains, half dollars of 206% grains, quarters of 103}, dimes of 41% and half dimes of 207 grains, and that all of them should be legal tender for anvs whagtsever.-An emend-~ ment offered by Mr. Gaxl'ggld was agreed to, sub« stituting the words °* lawful money of the United states” for ! legal-tender money."” An amendment was also agreed. to, increasing the legal-tender quality of the subsidiary silver coin to twenty dollars. Several other amendments were offered, and the bill. with. the pending amendment and Mr. ‘Mills substitute, went over without action....ln Committee: of the Whole, an expiting personal debate occurred between Messrs. Frye and ]fiackl’gum during the discus+ sion of the Legislative bill: Messrs, Steele ‘and - Price also delivered speeches on ‘the fimding measure. ... A motion.to adjourn over. Monday was dqieatea—39 to 67. | SENATE.—Consideration wasresumed of the Army Appropriation bill, on the 2ist Messrs, Bayard; Blaine and Maxey taking part in the discussion. relative to the use of United ‘Btates {roops to keep peace at elections....An Executive session was held.

House.—A large number of bills were introduced, among them the following: For the distribution of the unexpended balance of the Geneva award; to prevent the further increase of the bonded debt of the United States: for the issue of fractional currency: for retiring the trade-dollar, and for the redem&k)n of the fractional silver coin; in m&atd to the observance and enfarcement of the Eight-Hour law; lating the ,exchmifae:’ of silver bullion fo! &‘;tmaitd silver dollar, and providing that

Egld and silver Jjointly, and not otherwise. shall a full legal-tender; repealing the tax of 10 per cent. on State banks—and several other bills reiative to finance, and several relative to the Pacific Railroads; authorizing the Sec:ebarg of Wazx biomi o i mg:f’mfl s e e in | : prial Wfog flt purpose. ...Speeches were n'a':!é: Tp mn_ntéee o{) iltll:e ghfi, on %’reo Legislative propriation wne, New, FMa?ndDeuster. £ e, 2

; T" LRt : 4 - INDIANA STATE NEWS. AT the recent session of the Northern Indiara M. E. Conference, at Goshen, the following appointments were made by -the . Presiding Bishop: = A el Fort Wayne District—A. Marine, P, E; Fort Wayne—Berry Street, L. A, Rettas Wayne Street, A. E. Mahin; Centenary, F. L.- Wharton; Third ‘Street, supplied tfir James Woolpert; Huntertown, D. P. Hartman; Harlan, D. M. Brown; Auburn, H. J. Norris; Garret, H. Sutherlin; Leo, 1. M. Wolverton; firemont, E. 8. Preston; Angola, C. G. Hudson); New Haven, J. W. Lowry; Coesse, Reuben Taoby; Arcola, A. G. McCarter; Decatur, J. B. Carnes; Decatur Circuit, to be supplied; Monroe, J. A. Lewellen: Geneva, Beneville Sawfier; Sheldon, A. H. Kistler; Mong)evine. C. H. rown; Ossian, Y. B. Mercdith; Bluffton, J. E, Ervin; Bluffton Circnit, H. C. M{ers‘ Roanoke, William Lagh: Markle. R. H. Smith: I-funtington, i o La‘ci'. W. F. Yocum, President of Fort Wayne College, member of Wa.fvue Street Quarter--11; Conference, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Addis Albro, rofesgor Fort Wayne College, member Berry :Street Quarterly Conference. ° ‘ Goshen District—A. Greenman, P. E.; Goshen, N. H. Phillips; Mishawaka, A. Cone; Osceola, E. Hall; Elkhart, ¥. T. Simpson: Elkhart Circuit, 'W. 8. Stewart; Bristol, C. H. Wilkinson; Middlebury, Joel Rush; Van Buren, F. A. Fish; La Grange, C. E. Desbro: LaGrange Circuit, to be supplied; Lima, J. K. Walfg; Orland, W: M‘fime Sivike; Waterloo, C. W. Church; Butler, H. M. I amport; Hamilton, C: W. Paschall; Corunna, J. Johnston; Kendallville, N. Burwell; Wolcottville, C. King; Wawaka, H. C. Kl%el; ‘Ligonier, R. N. McKai% New Paris, G. B. Work; fiilfotd. 2.8 Cook; Napanee, to be supplied; Albion, J. Grier. J. P. Nash, moral instructor of State Prizon, North, member of Ellshart Q&artefly Conference. Warsaw District—J. W. Welch, P. E.; Warsaw, W. S. Birch; Silver Lake, L. J. Smith; Wabash, J. C. Mahin; Wabash Circuit, W. E. McCarty; Marion. C. W. Lynch; La Fountain, W. K. Collins; North Manchester, B. A. Kemp: South Whitley, M. H. Mott: Columbia City, W. H. Dasniel; Larwell, M. H. Smith ; Piérceton, S. J. McElwee; Leesburgh, N, B. Shackelford ; Webster, R. Reid ; Bourbon, F. A. Robinson; Inwood, Hosea Woolpert; Lincoln, A, C. Gerard; Perrysburgh, J. H. McMahon; Mexico,d. H. Ford; Palestine, su%plied by M. Swaderner; Akran, supplied by J. B. Allman; La Gro, J. W. Lewellen; Antioeh, E. P. Church; Warren, J.. W. Miller; Mount Etha, J. T. Fitro; Marion Circnit, supplied biv_ g D. Thorp; Huntington Circuit, to be supied. - e : Rokomo Dist-i R’ ¥ Robmioh 'p. B£Y komo. E. Holdstock; Miami, J.J. Cooper; Pern, WJ. Colclazer; New \\'avcg}{y, William Peck; Logansport—Broadway, M. Mahin; Market Street, C. P. Wright; Wheatland Street, A. S. Wooten: Walton. O. D. Watkins.: Jerome, John Harrison; Zenie, A. H. Currie; Santa Fe, J. 8. McElwee; Tipton, M, 8. Metts; Russiaville, supplied by E. W. Oshory ; Sharpsville, D. D. Powell; Westfield, W. D. Parr; New, Briton, R. B. Powell; Boxiey, supplicd by Alvin G. Mendenhall: Alto, V. M. Beamer; Cicero, W. C. McKaig; Noblesville, Frost Craft; Point Isabel, J. B. Cook; Elévood, P. J. Albright; Kempton. L. J. Naftzger; Shielville, supplied by S. M. Hathorn. ! : Muncie Distriet—E. F. Hasty, P. E.; Muncie, Clark: Skinner: Winchester, W. O. Pierce; New Burlinieton, A. M. Pattison; Selma, M. A. Teague; Farmland, A. J. Lewellen; Dunkirk, J. ¥. Pierre; Pennville, J. W. McDaniel; Montpelier, D. F. Stright; Hartford City, E. M. Baker; Albany, D. (‘,.‘Woolpcrt; Eaton, J. L. Ramsey; New Corner, H. C. Smith; Jonesboro, C. E. Bacon; Alexandria, A.J. Carey; Anderson, A. W. Lamport; Anderson Circuit, J. H. Jackson ; Perkinsville, J. W. Smith; Fishershurgh, T. H. C. Beal; Pendleton, R. J. ‘l;agfif;; Fortville, I. N. Rhoads; McCordsville, T. . Elkin. ; ;

__Richmond District—M. H. Mendenhall, P. E.; Richmond—Pearl street.W.J.Vicus ; Grace Church, H. A.Butchtel; Centerville, Patrick Carland; Cambridge City, O. 8. Hariison; Dublin and Lewisville, E. 8. Frceman; Knightstown; N. Gillam; Charlottsville, M. Wagman: Greenfield, J. F. Rhoadsg; Philadelphia, William Anderson; Williameburg, 8. W. Howe; Hagerstown, J. M. Mann; New Castle, Thomas Stabler; Spiceland, W. 8. Boston; Middictown, T. Sell; Cadiz, J. Thomas; Whitewater, 1. J. Bicknell; Fountain City. W. H. Peirce; Lynn. J. 8. Cain; Trenton, W. R. Wanes; Union City, H. J. Meck; Ridgeville, James Leonard; Portland, W. §. Morris; Portland Circuit, supplied by E. F. Albertson. J. E. Earp, Profesgor in Indiana Asbury University, member of Grace Church C%uartcrly Conference, Richmond, Indf,; W. F. Walker, J. H. Pike, Chen Ta Yung and Te Jui, missionaries to China. . REV. JOEN SCHRADER died at Poseyville, on the morning of the 15th, aged eighty-eight years. He was generally known' as Father Schrader throughout Southern Indiana, where his life had been spen:. and where he was greatly beloved. He was ordained into the Methodist ministry about sixty-five years ago, and was the first circuit rider in that seetion.

THE State inter-collegiate orsorial contest will be held in Indianapolis, on. the 10th of Moy S Ar Clark’s ' Hill, on the 16th, an old man named Hudson attempted suicide by stabbing himself several times in the neck and abdomen. He was alive and conscious at last accounts, but no hopes were entertained of his recovery. . He states that financial trouble is the cause. He had been robbed of about $5OO at Lafayette a faw weeks since. He formerly lived in Hendricks County. - : THE Governor has vetoed the bill passed by the late Legislature codifying the Schoal law of Indiana. : : g

| MarizpA WApDING committed suicide at the Insane Asylum, on the 12th, by hanging herself. . ; . ? . THE planing mill of William H. Rifenburgh, at Hobart, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 12th. Loss, $lO,OOO. 3 A PROBABLE fatal ‘encouuter occurrred nea Hope, the other morning, between two farmers named Thomas Hill and Levi Webb, in which the former was seriously, if not fatally, stabbed. It seems thatthey had had some harg words in reference to some land, when Hill struck Webb several blows with a hoe, whereupon Webb retaliated by stabbing his antagonist in the side, near the heart. B A mMAN named McKissick, visiting his sister at Waterford, three miles south of Goshen, committed suicide, a few nights ago, by cttting his throat from ear to ear. el Ervis ByraM’s house, near Liberty, was burned on the afternoon of the 13th. Loss, $1.500. o ;

AT Indianapolis, on thel3th, James Ingram (colored) died from the effects of a wound on his head, eaused by being hit with a flatiron by his.white wife two weekg before. - THE wife of Fravk L. Bixby, the Indianapolis lawyer who recentlyran away with a Mrs. Dwinnell, and returned repentant, was granted éa?dlvorce from him on the 17th. | | "RICHARD BEAVINGTON’S barn, near Mont_pelier, was burned to the ground on the night of the 16th. Loss, 3,000, . = . JAMES A. WHITE, in Jail at Goshen, charged with conspiracy to defrand Lewis Hoops, at New Paris, out of $B,OOO, escaped on the night of the 14th, s J. W. Scorr & Co.’s store, at Fairmount, Grant County, was robbed, on the morning of the 14th, of about $2,000 in money, notes and goods. ot : e At Evansville,: on the 18h, Alexander James, a wood-chopper, stabbed Patssy Hartdegan, in a drunken spree. The weapon used was a keen knife, and it penetrated the left side into the chest, just missing the heart, after which it was withdrawn, and the victim slashed over the face and shoulder, THE latest reports from Indianapolis give the following as current prices for leading staples:’ Flour, Family and Fancy, $4.00@ 6.00; Wheat, No. 2 'Red, [email protected]¢; Corn, 35@3514¢c; Oats; R6@We; Rye, 54@bilgc; Pork, [email protected]; °~ Lard—Steam, 6@ 6gc; Hogs;tfi[email protected]. Fug a 8 Org

—The Brooklyn bridge, if what is testified be true, is to be a failure when a high wind prevails and crowds press uponit. - i ' —The flute-player stops when he loses his teeth. The fiddler goes on forever. e N Oh EYOMUNNE, . & i

A Tired Mother’s Victory. A LITTLE timely gentleness sweetens a parent’s recollection in after years with a thrill of gratitude; whereas the memory of hasty severity to little ones must brmE‘ a pang. This tender story of a mother’s experience, published in the Christian Weekly, is a beautiful lesson in itself. The mother had laid her table with great care and pains for a company o% distinguished guests, when her little zirl accidently overturned a tureen of gravy on the snowy cloth., What should I do? It seemed a drop too much for my tired nerves—muny drops too much for my table-cloth. I was about to jerk my child down angrily from the table when a blessed influence held me. -

I caught the expression on her face; such' a sorry, frightened, appealing look I never saw, and suddenly a picp~ ure of the past:came and stood out vividly before my mind’'s eve. My child’s face revealed feelings which 1 had experinced twenty years before. I saw myself a little nervous girl, about eighi ‘years old, in the happy home of my childhood. It was a stormy afternoon in winter. It was when coal-oil lamps were first introduced, and father had bought a very handsome one. The snow had drifted up against the kitchen windows, sO, although it was not night, the lamp waslighte(%. Mother was sick in bed up stairs, and we children were ‘gathered in the kitchen, to keep the noise and confusion away from her. o I was feeling very important helping get supper; st any rate, I imagined 1 was helping, and in my officiousness I seized that lamp and went down-cellar for some butter, I I:riedE to set it on the hanging shelf, but,'alas! I didn’t give it room enough, and down it fell on the cemented fioor. i I never shall forget the shock that it %ave me. Iseemed almost pa.ralgzed. didn’t dare to go up-stairs, and I was afraid to stay down there, and to make it worse, I -heard my father’s voice in the kitchen, He had cantioned us all, again and again, to be careful of that lamp, and now there it lay smashed to pieces! ; But his voice seemed to give me the impetus I needed to go up and meet the scolding or whipping, or both, which I felt sure. awaited me, and which I really felt 1 deserved. So I crept up over the dark stairway, and as 1 entered the kitchen, I met father with such a stern look upon his face that I was frightened. = i

I saw there was no need to tell him what had happened. He had heard the crash, an@ if he hadn’t, I guess my face would have told the story. The children stood silently around, waiting to see what father would do, and I saw by their faces that they were horrorstruck, for that lamp had been the subject of too much talk and wonder to be smashed without a sensation. As for me, I felt so frightened, so confused and sorry,that I couldn’t speak. But upon glhncing again at father, I saw the angry look die out of his eyes, and one of tenderest pity take its place. : ‘ ; I doubt not that he saw .the same look in my face then that I saw in my child’s face to-day. In a minute he had lifted me in his arms, and was hugging me close to his breast. Then he whispered, oh, so kindly! ¢ Never mind, little daughter; we all know twas an accident, but I hope you will take the small lamp when you go down cellar again.” e : Oh, what a revolution of feelings I experienced! It was such a surprise to me that I was suddenly overwhelmed with feelings.of love and gratitude, and burying my face, 1 sobbed as if my heart was breaking. No punishment could have affected me half so much, and nothing can ever efface the memory of it from my mind. ' ' How I loved my father to-day, as the sight of my own little girl’s face brought it all so freshly before me! Will she love me as dearly, I wonder, twenty years or more from now, because, moved by the same God-given impulse that stirred my father’s heart in that long-ago time, I was able to press the little frightened thjn% to my heart, and tell her kindly that I knew she didn’t mean to spill the gravy, and that I knew she would be more careful another time? Will she be helped by it when she is a mother as I have been helped to-day? i :

Propping Up Washington’s Monument,

THE foundations of the stub of Washington’s Monument, in Washington, are being strengthened, at a cost of $lOO,OOO. The aim is to underpin the structure and distribute its wei%lht over-a greater area, and in doing this it becomes necessary to undermine the monument and to replace the eafth to a considerable extent with masonry. ‘This is a delicate operation. Only a thin, vertical layer about four feetin width is tunneled at a time, and every preeaution is taken to prevent an unequal strain upon the structure. The tunneling of one of these deep narrow trenches takes about twe days and a half.. Ten hours is then occupied in filling it with Portland cement con‘crete, which, when it sets, becomes as hard as stone. It is placed in the trench in layers about six inches deep, and pounded into a solid mass, When the trench is nearly filled, an improvised battering-ram is used to drive the conerete firmly and snugly into the ends and tops of the opening. Finally the cement concrete, reduced to the consistency of cream, is introduced by pipes running to'the end of the trench. Thts liquid forces itself into and fills every crevice of the concrete mass, and hardens into stone with the rest. Eight of these tunnels have been made and filled. -Seventy-two will be necessary. When two tunnels al corresponding: distances from each corner, and one abgut the center of each face have leen made, the work will go on more rapidly, as the structure will be comparatively well supported, and it will be safe to digf‘tWO trenches at once. The present i%ging - looks like rather ticklish business. The workmen burrow: under a mass of stone weighing nearly 82,000 tons, which has_ already shown that it does not stay where it is put. It is expected that the work of underpinning” will remedy the slight

depression discovered to exist in the level of one. corner of the monument. ‘Though every precaution is taken to make the work ‘secure and prevent a toppling of the monument, the means of disecovering such a toppling, if one occurs, are not neglected. Levels are taken twice a day at the four corners, and a wire plumb-line falls over 150 feet from the top to the bottom of the monument, the plumb-bob, weighing twenty pounds, being suspended in molasses to prevent- vibrations . after the movemenfiw}nic%he bob indicates has ceased. If the “monument moves in any direction a distance equal to the thickness of a sheet of paper, it wiil be readily discovered. Vghea all these trenches have been dug and filled the base of the monument will be incased in a foundation of stone, resting on incompressible sand, and its weight will be distributed over 15,876 square feet, \insteadgtof. 6,400 square feet, as at present. This new base will extend eighteen feet under the outer edge of the foundation, and five feet under the. outer face of the shaft at its lower joint. The center of the monument will also be supported by a mass of concrete, the excavations 'for which will be made when the central trénches are dug, as the latter will be carried from one side of the monument to the other. To lock the old foundation with the new, and distribute the pressure more uniformly, a supporting mass of concrete, like a continuous series of butiresses, is to be carried from the upper surface of the new foundstion up and under the other portions of the shaft.—Washington Paper.-

The Punishment of *¢The Leather e Glove.”: . h THE Governor of Haha, the largest and most important Province:in the Empire, which long - maintained its independence of the Sultan, had hereditary claims to the Government of the twelve Shellali tribes who make up the population.. Although miserably fallen away from its ancient prosperity-— in the time of Leo Africanus (in the sixteenth century) there were six or seven populous town where there. is now nothing but a village—the Province still furnishes much agricultural produce and live stock, and sends hides, grain, oil and other merchandise for exportation to the portof Mogador. The Governor, at the time of our visit, had long held his office; by liberal contributions to the Imperial Treasury he had kept himself in the favor of the Sultan while amassing vast wealth. Powerful and feared, he might have maintained his authority unbroken, but that, by a continuous course of oppressionand cruelty, he at length stirred up the spirit of resistance among hisown people. Vengeance, however atrocious, for acts of revolt, is so fully the admitted right-of men in authority in Morocco that it did not seem to count for much in.the indictment against him thaton one. occasion he infiicted on several hundred—some said a thousand—prisoners the terrible punishment: of the ¢ leather glove.” A lump of quicklime is placed .in the victim’s open palm, the hand is closed over it, and bound fast with a piece of rawhide. The other hand is fastened with a chain behind the back, while the bound fist is plunged in water. When, on the ninth day, the wretched man has the remaining hand set free, it i 3 to find himself a mutilated object for life, unless mortification has set in, and death relieves him from further suffering. But, in addition to- such acts as these, the Kaid of Haha was accused of capricious deeds of ferocity that revoltei’) the consciences of his people. Among the other stories of the kind, we were told that on somie occasion, when he was having a wall made around his garden, he happened to see a youth jump over the low, unfinished fence. Feeling in some way annoyed at this, he ha,g the unfortunate hoy’s right foot struck off as a lesson not to repeat the experiment.—Front ‘ Journey tn Movoeco.” - - - v b :

~Mr. Stanford, the California railroad capitalist, owns a farm of 2,000 acres near San Francisco. Upon it are sheds and stables stretching for a mile, containing 800 thoroughbred ' horses, worth more than $209,000. - - - THE amount of fire-risks written in, Minnesota during the past year wa5564,655,661, $64,655,661, against $60,157,488 inl 1877—an increase of over $4,500,000. THERE are in Spain 8,120 performers connected with the stage. = - e

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