Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 5, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 May 1879 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banwer, ‘3. B. STOLL, Editor and rr'cprmo’r{ LIGONIER, : & : INDIANA.

'THE OLD WORLD., ™ Hopkins, GILKES & Co., of Middlesboro, Eng., with a capital of $2,500,000, and Lloyd & Co., of the same place, both in the iron trade, suspendéd on the 18th. - - THE Trecent communal elections hroughout Spain have largely favored the Government. ‘ PRroF. GREISBACH, the distinguished German botanist, died on the 13th. o GeN. GRANT and party left Hong Kong, China, for Japan, on the 18th. : | NEws was received on the 14th of the burning of the Town of Uralsk, on the ~ Ural River, in Russia, by Nihilist incendiaries. ' - A Paris telegram 'of the 14th says France had peremptorily declined to -join England in efforts tosecurea loan for Turkey. A CONFERENCE was held at Barhsby, ‘Eng., on the 14th, at which 120,000 colliets were represented. It was decided to demand a 10-per-cent. increase of pay, and, it refused, to stop work throughout the country. THERE is dangerous agitation in Albania, and everything, it is said, forebodes revolution. THE cattle plague has made its apvearance in Bohemia. THE Town of Halas, in Hungary, has been inundated, and 300 houses in Kottori have been destroyed.. | . / ON the night of the 13th, Poonah, eighty miles south of Bombay, in India, was nearly destroyed by fire. - - . THE African Trading Company of. Rotterdam, having agencies in London and other points in Europe, failed, on.the 15th. Liabilities very heavy. A BERLIN dispateh of the 15th denies, on the authority of the United States Government, the statement made by a Socialist member of the Reichstag, that the United States | authorities had complained that letters from | the United States to Germany had been broken open or tampered with. | | THE International Congress to dis- _ cuss the various projects for a ship canal agross the Isthmus of Darien met in Paris, on thelsth. M. de Lesseps was chosen Pres- - ident: and Rear-Admiral Daniel Ammen, of the United States Nav_v, one of the Vice-Pres-idents. ‘

THE cattle plague has made its appearance in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. A UKASE h3s been issued forbidding Roumanian Jews to enter Russia. ‘ SEVENTY arrests have been made at Orenbung on charges of incendiarism. " TEE' Duke of Medina-Celli, of Spain, was killed, on the 14th, while shooting on hig estate, by the accidental disqharge}of his gun, s JAcCOB STAEMPFrLI, ex-President of the SBwiss Confederation, died” at Berne, on the 15th. : - A St. PETERSBURG . dispatch of the 16th announces tlie destruction by fire of the _greater part of Lublin, a city of 20,000 inhabitants, in Russian Poland. A LETTER -has been. received from Prof. Nordenskjold, of the Polar expedition, from Eastern Siteria, dated Sept. 25, 1878, announcing’ that all connected with the expedition were well and confident of accompiishing its object. ° ; ‘ A RoME (Italy) dispatch of the 16th says Garibaldi had decided to reside permanently in Rome. : o . /THE. Austrian Reichsrath was pro‘rogifed by the Emperor in person, on the 17th. A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 17th says the Porte had abandoned all negoitiations for a loan, and intended to refund and uhify its public debt under the auspices of a - French syndicate. ; ‘ A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 17th_says there were 30,000 prisoners waiting at Novgorod, to be sent to fiberia, as soon as the Volga becomes navigable. 2 THERE was another conflagration at Orenburg, on the 16th and 17th, which destroyed a considerable portion of the town spared by the previous fire. . | A CoNnsTANTINOPLE dispatch of ' the 18th says the Sultan had issued ano irade sanctioning the Eastern Rumelian Constitution. A rFirMAN of the Porte. has been lately read i Pristina and Novi-Bazar, threatening death to any persons who attack the Austrian troops. - ; o GARcIA; the famous gambler, who so often broke the banks at Homburg and Baden, has just died at Paris, : ] AT a meeting of the colliers representing forty collieries, at Consett, England, on the 18th, it was resolved to resume work.: A CarcurrA dispatch of the 19th says latest advices from Mandalay were to the effect that the King of Burmah had summoned fresh levies, and that ali foreigners had been forbidden to enter the palace. A SiMrA dispatch of the 19th says the Vice-Royal Council had been summoned to consider the draft of the Afghan Treaty. THE cholera has appeared in most -of the cities of the Punjaub, L

A BouBAY telegram of the 19th says armed bands of robbers were traversing:the Poonah District and indulging in murder, rapine and incendiarism. In a manifesto, issued by their leader, a price is et upon the Governor’s head and a repetition of the horrors of the Indian Mutiny threatened. ' A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 19th says the 'Tekke-Turcomans had utterly defeated the Russian army at Merv and compelled their retreat. They secured an immense quantity of booty. - o CoMPLETE returns of the popular vote in Switzerland give 191,197 votes in favor’ of and 117,268 against the re-establishment of capital punishment. | et ot £ ~ THE NEW WORLD. Tae House of Representatives, on the 13th, took a vote om the proposition to pass the Military lnterference bill over the Executive veto. The result was: Yeas, 127; nays, 97—nota two-thirds majority. - THE Secretary of the Treasury has given notice that the 5-20 registered and coupon bonds embraced in the ninety-fourth, ninety-fifth and ninety-sixth ecalls will be redeemed at the Treasury Departmeént, on the Ist of July next, with interest to date of maturity. - CoUNTERFEIT fives on the National

Bank of Pawling, N. Y., have been lately putin clrcuhf.lon. : | ! THE Secretary of War, on tbe 14th in conformity with the decision of Judge Dundy in the Ponca kabeas corpus case, directed that Standing Bear and the other imprisonea Ponca Indians should be released. A rirE in Lexington, Ky., on the 14th, destroyed the Phieenix Hotel and other property to the total value of $200,000. . ° ON the 15th, Jay Gould and the exSecretary of the New Jersey Southern Railroad Company were indicted by the Monmouth County (N, J.) Grand J urg for alleged fraud‘ulent transactions after the road became insolvent. - ks ' g 5 A WASHINGTON telegram of the 15th says the Secretary of the Treasury had stated that it was useless to send dispatches 2o the Department for tbe ten-dollar refunding certificates, as they would be sent in due proportion to all the diiferent offices authorized to sell them -as soon as they could be printed, and the supply would soon reach $2,000,000 a day.

IN a game of billiards in Chicago, on the 15th, between Jacob Schaefer. of Chicago, and George F. Blosson, of New York, for §l,000 and the Brumswick-Balke championship-of-the-world emblem, at the three-ball game, Schaefer made the unprecedented run of 690 points. He won the game in three runs, his average being 533)¢. Slosson made only 44 points in the entire game, an average of 1435,

THE report of the Department of Agriculture, for April, was issued ou the 16th. The acreage of growing w nter wheat was about 14 per cent. greater than last year: The crop of the country, taken as'a whole, presented a promise of atleast 2 per cent,. below the average. The rye crop was 4 per cent. below the average. The coundition of sheep throughout the country was'very good. Five public executions. by hanging, and one by shooting, occurred on the 16th—three in" North Carolina, one in Missouri, one in Louisiana, and one (that by shooting) in Utah.. The ropes of two of the culprits, at Hillsboro, N. C., were too long, and had to be readjusted after the trap wassprung. At Boonville, Mo., the rope broke, and a second hanging was neceesitated. i . THE New York Assembly has passed a bill maKing 6 per cent. the legal- rate of interest in that State. » ;

BENNETT AND FLAHERTY, two of the Commissioners of Public Works, in Brooklyn, N. ¥., were, on the 16th, found guilty of putting men on the pay-roll of the board'for the purpose of securin‘g their votes, and not ex.acting work in return. L > . EX-STATE éENATOR - CORNISH, of Belvidere, N. J., convicted of conspiracy to defraud the county of $lO,OOO, and J. H. Sweeny, Ex-Chief of Police, of Phillipsburg, N. J., convicted of ‘‘raising’” a county bill, were each, on the 17th, sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in the State Prison. It is reported that Frank James, one of the celebrated James Brothers, is encamped in the Wind River country,. north of the Union Pacific, with a band of outlaws and many deserters from the army. A military ‘company has been: sept from Fort Steele to arrest the deserters. A St. Louis dispateh of the 17th says the work of receiving and caring lor the Southern colored refugees was nolonger left -to local committees, but was im the hands of men whose names command respg'cfi, and who would not have been brought intoithe movement unless it were tolerably well” Yuderstoo that the exodus was about to assume new proportions, and to’ be carried on in g new way. Two foundries, capable of accommodating scveral thousand at a ‘time, had been rented, and from the measures taken to provide shel ter and food in abundance, it was apparent that a vast crowd of new arrivals was expected. _ v : THE ninth annual Conference of the -General Secretaries of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States and Canada metin Baltimore, on the 17th, to discuss certain preliminary guestions to be presented to thejbiennial Convention.

JUDGE[ASA PACKER, the well-known coal magnate of Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia, on the might of the 17th. He was seventy-three yedrs old. . CoNCERNING the shooting at Provo City, Utah, of the murderer Wallace Wilkerson (who chose that manner of death in preference to hanging), a dispatch says the prisoner evinced great nerve, and sat in a chair facing three guns, distant about thirty feet, without either bandaging or closing this eyes. At a signal from the Marshal, three concealed marksmen fired. He leaped from his chair exclaiming, “Oh, God!” fell forward on his Tace, and continued writhing, breathing a few gasps, for twenty‘-seven? minutes, when the physicians pronounced him dead. . :

A RECENT telegram from Boston says Mrs. Freeman, the wife of the Pocasset Adventist, who killed his child as a sacrifice, as he claimed, by the command of God in a vision, had realized fully the enormity of the act, to which she consented at the time of its commission, and was constantly bemoaning the.death of her child. SBhe would take scarcely any food, and was said to be grieving "herself to death. Moy i

IN reply to certain remarks reported to have been made by Gen, Bheridan, Judge Dundy made a statement to a Omaha Herald reporter, on the 19th, in r,‘egard to the effect of his'decision in the {Ponca case, that such decision was based upon the fact that there was no United States law or treaty stipulations setting apartia reservation in the Indian Territory for those Indians, nor for removing them thereto, or keeping them thereon, and that they could not, therefore be removed there by force. It is not claimed in the opinion that Congress might not authorize such removal by law, or that a treaty might not be made which would justify a resort to force. It was not claimed that the decision would apply to those- Indian tribes having reeervations to which their treaties require them to remove and remain thereon.

Ix reply to a Senate resolution of inquiry, Bec’y Bherman reported to that body, on the 19th, that there had been redeemed in coin, since Jan. 1, 1879, legal-tender notes to the amount of $4,138,513. Under the provisions of the Resumption act, the coin reserve of the Treasury had been increassd to $138,000,000, that being about .40 per cent. of the notes ‘outstanding to be redeemed, and believed to be the smallest reserve upon which resumption could be prudently commenced and successfully mafntained. This reserve arose from the sale of $95,500,000'in bonds, and from surplus revenues, and it must, under the existing law, be maintained unimpaired for the purpose for which it was created. :

' CONGRESSIONAL, SENATE.—The House bill for the exchange of subsidiary coin for legal-tender money was reported from the Comniittee on Finance, on the 18th....The Legislative, Execntive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken: up, and,

uiter debate, a motion to strike out the clause directing the Becretary of the -flw&om es of pensions with the $lO,O mfl PO ot ee e T on uf sl ¢ L« was defeated —yeas, 25; nays, 7. = House.—Personal explanations were made by several members, after wlfioh) the previous question mdomanded on the passage of the Military Interference bill over the President’s veto, and the bill was rejected—yeas, 127; nays, 97—less %‘2‘“ uisite two-thirds in the afirmative. Ten ogm“hckmwted with (s, Bariow. Forariba and. Humel) 9id nos esara, ow, Fors an usse. nol vote at-a11....The bill relatiag to the Ooi laws and coin and bullion certificates m bated, and an amendment offercd that silver bullion which may be deposited for coinage must be the product of the mines of the United States. : ~ SENATE.—A bill was passed, on the 14th, to amend the Revised Btatutes so as to provide that if two or more persons conspire either ‘ to commit an offense against the United States or to defraud the revenue, and one or more of such: persons actually commit such crime, all parties to the conspiracy shall. oa conviction, be tined §lO,OOO, or imprisoned for a term of not more than two years, or both; at thediscretion of the Court... '.lyhe Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was further considered, and & _general debute ensued on the promsedrgpeal of the jurors’ test oath, etc. Mr. -Beck offered an amendient, which was agreed to. authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue immediately, in Fa_vment. of arrearages of pensions, $10,000,000 in legal-tender currency held in the 'reasury as a special fund tor the redemption of fractional currency, e’t‘c.‘; House.—Consideration was resunjgd of the bill to amend the laws relating to coinage and to coin and bullion certificates, and, after: considerable debate, Mr. Warner demanded the ‘previous question, pending which Mr. Killinger moved to lay the bill on the table. The yeas and nays wera ordered on the. motion, when a zn(étzion to adjourn was made ‘and carried—loo oPS i >

SENATE.—A joint resolution was introduced and referred, on the 15th, authotizing apd requesting the President to open correspond.ence with France, with a view of negotiating a treaty of reciprocity and commerce with that Government....The Legislative bill was again taken up, and, after remarks and explanations by a few Senators, Mr. Thurman took the floor and delivered a lengthy argument in favor of the political legislation contained in the bill.

‘Housg.—The motion to lay the pending Bilver bill and amendments on the table was lost—lo 9 to 126—and the previous question was then seconded—ll 9 to 107. The 'first section of the bill. providing thxt gold coins shall be a onedollar piece (or-unit) of 25 8-10 grains, a quartereagle (or $2.50), a $3.00-piece, an eagle and doubleeagle, was afireed to-105 to 94. An amendment to the second section making the weight of the silver dollar 460 instead of 41244 grains was, after debate, rejected—62 to 176—and the section was then adopted. The third section_providing that any owner of silver bullion may depesit the same at any mint, to' be formed into bars or into standard dollars of 412% grains, for his benefit, was then taken up, and a motion to insert after the word * bullion” the words * produced from mines in the United States” was defeated—los ‘to 130—as was also—ll 4 to 115—a motion to add a proviso that the Secretary of the Treasury may purchase silver bullion for coinage at _its market value, and that all gains and profits arising therefrom shall inure to_the United States.... Without further action on the bill, the House adjourned. , el : SENATE.—A resolution was adopted, on the 16th, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Senate what amount of le-gal-tender notes have been presentéd’ and redeemed in coin since the Ist of January last, and what amount of coin he considers himself authorized to retainin the 'Dreasg% to maintain specie respmption....The Legislative bill was further debated, remarks beinz made on the political clauses by Messrs. Eaton, Conkling, Butler. Voorhees, ete. . ; House.—A resolution was adopted providing for the appointment of a standing committee to which shall be referred all bills, resolutions, petitions, etc., affecting the traffic in alcoholic liquors....The bilk to prevent the repeal ofi contagious diseases among cattle was reported from the Committee on Agriculture, and made the special order for the 20th. ...The Warner Silver bill was taken up, and an amendment to the third section, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase withe out limit all the silver bullion, trade-dollars and foreign silver coin that may be offered for sale at the market value of silver, and that such pur‘chases shall continue as long as the 412% i;mips standard silver can be obtained for one dollar in legal-tender notes, was, after considerable discussion, rejected—s 9 to 156. Other amendments were offered and ordered printed.. ' SENATE.—On the 17th, a couple of amendments to the Legislative Appropriation bill were agreed to, one of them (recommeaded by the Committee on Finance) appropriating $20,000 for the Diplomatic and Consular service, to be expended at the discretion of the President of the Ifiaeited States—the reason given for the amendment being that there is now a movement in Europe with a view to arrange fora bi-metallic standard, and it might be thought advisable to send a representative thither to take part in the proceedings. b » ; Housg.—Consideration was resumed of the bill to amend the statutes relating to gold and silver coinage and coin and bullion certificates, and an amendment confining the privilege of free coinage to silver mined in the United States was finally rejected--87 to 1%0. Lo Ads journed to the 20th. 3 SENATE.—Consideration of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was resumed, on the 19th, and Mr. Blaine made a lengthy speech on the political legislation of the bill, Messrs. Bayard, Morgan, Hampton and Vance answering certain points made by the tsgea.kgr._ Mr. Logan offered an amendment in effect giving to honorably discharged wounded or diseased Union soldiers the preference for appointment to civil offices and positions in Government De(immnents, when qualified therefor, which amendment was ruled out of orderas changing the existing law. The bill was reported back to the Benate, and the amendments made in committee were agreed to, except one author;zuéfi the appointment of three adgimonél clerks in the Postoffice Derpe.rtment.‘ which was disagreed to—2s to 26, It was, then agreed that the vote on the so-called political part of the bill should be taken at four p. m., on the 20th. House.—Not in session. ¢

A Tape-Worm in a Man’s Eye. JOHN J. ANDREWS, amerchant of this city, was sitting blindfolded yesterday in the second-story frout room of his handsome residence, No. 608 North Thirteenth street. - Mr. Andrews’ shapely head was bound up with many linen bandages, but although his eyes were for the time being sightless he was in a happier frame of mind than he had known for years. He has been blind in the left eye for twenty years or more, and during the sast two years he has~at intervals suffered the most intense agony in the eye from which the light had gone out. Scores of doctors looked at and prescribed for the eye, but without doing it any good, until on Sunday last an eminent surgeon of this city removed from the eye a live cysticercus, or embryo tapeworm. This is the first authenticated case of cysticercus in the human eye that has ever occurred on the American Continent, although there have been a hundred or more cases reported. in Europe, particularly in Prussia. Mr. Andrews' case is in every way similar to the eunse of the *‘ snake’’ in a horse’s eye, which was reported in the Times about a year ‘aglg, except that in the case of the horse the ‘fa'ra.site in the eye was, the doctors said, a common long round worm, while that in the gentleman’'s eye was a larval tapeworm.— Philadelphia Times. » : b

—They were engaged in archery, and her attitude was very fine as aher{et fly the feathered arrow from the twanging bow. ‘“William, are you hit,”’ she softly murmured. *“Shot: throu%h the heart,” he answered. ‘¢ Do William,”’ she pleaded, ¢ do William Tell,” and thus it is that history repeats itself.— New London Telegram.

- INDIANA STATE NEWS. WirrLiaM P. BROWN, living near Fortville, in Hancock County, was thrown from his horse, on the afternoon of thellth, and fatally mjm % : i » - At Columbus, the other day, while two mei, Harry Milleson and T. 8. Baldwin, were performing on a trapeze suspended to a rope across Washington street, the fastening a* one end gave way, letting both men fall a distance of sixty feet to the street below. Milleson was horribly mangled, and bis recovery is consiGered impossible. Baldwin in some mysterious way escaped- with but a slight bruise. THE residence of Joseph Lowderbacks, northwest of Knightstown, was burned on the 13th. Loss, $3.000. THE commission, consisting of Representatives Works and Slceth and Senator Hutstiner, appointed by the last Legislature to investigate the Attorney-General’s office during the administrations of J. C. Denny and C. A. Buskirk, finished the examination of the accounts of Denny on the 13th. In their report, they state that, according to Denny’s own construction of the law, he is in default to the State about $30,000 on collections made during his term of office. About $14,000 of this amount is due on claims collected from the counties and the remainder in claims collected against the General Goverament. They find that a large amount of money which Denny in his reports stated had been turned over to the State had not been so paid. Gen. Wooler has been advised to bring suit against Denny for the deficit. The commission will investigate the accounts of ex-Att’y-Gen. Buskirk. i 3

‘Mgs. WiLLiAM LovE has asked for a special bailiff to summon a jury to try her case to recover §5,000 of Warren Tale, who killed her husband in the Indianapolis Court-House some months ago. | ; ; “ THE barn of Lee Perry, at Taylorville, anda brick dwelling adjoining, were burned, on the 13th. Loss, $B,OOO. : 2 . Hox. N. F. Broorick, of Elkhart, was found dead in his bed, on the morning of the 14th. i :

THE residence of Deputy Sheriff Richweir, at Anderson, was entered, on the night of the 13th, and robbed of $BOO in money and a suit of clothes. ! >

JoHN R. EasT, State’s Attorney, at Bloomington, cowhided Harry Durand, a law student, in the Court-House yard, on the Il4th. East accused Durand with having procured a young man to file a complaint against him charging him with intoxication while on duty. Durand prepared the papers against East. SCARLET-FEVER prévails at Evansville, although strenuous efforts are made to suppress excitement and publications relative to its prevalence. The physicians have been requested by the Board of Health to cowply with the ordinance relating to epidemics, and report every case coming under their observation within twenty-four Rours.

THE fifteenth. annual Convention of the State Sunday-School Uwuion is announced to .be held at Richmond, on June 25, 26 and 27. TaE Board of Commissioners of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane have appointed Dr. J. C. Rogers, of Madison, Superintendent of the hospital, in place of Dr. O. Everts, who has filled the position for the past sixteen years. : i s . A MEETING of the State Red Ribbon Association was held in Indianapolis, lately, at which the following officers were elected: President, H. W. Harrington, Indianapolis; Vice-Presidents, J. C. Kensall, Fort Wayne, . Walter March, Muncie, G. M. Otterman, Terre Haute; Treasurer, R Frank Kennedy, Indianapolis; Corresponding Secretary, James S. Walsh, Greenfield ; Board of Managers, D. T. Smith, Bluffton, R. T. Long, Galveston, Drj Pitchlynn, Greencastle, William Franklin, Rev. John. Wymann, Evansville. The committee to which was referred the question of the basis of organization reported the following conclusions, which were concurred in: 1. That it is not practicable to dissolve the existing temperance organizations or secure one which shall supersede them all, and make no recommendation to that effect. : 2. We recommend that this Union perfect its organization and conduct itg work in its own way—not as the rival but the helper of all ather temperance bodies. . 3. We recommend that the Executive Committees of all the Sttae Temperance organizations in Indiana hold a joint meeting on the call of the President of the Union and agrce on a plan ol operation for the concentration and expression of temperanee sentiment and work. : i 4. We rccommend that this' co-operative executive meeting call a mass meeting of the temperance people of the State atsome time during the proposed La Porte Temperance Camp-Meet-ing. e R -

The next meeting will be held on the second Wednesday in November next. Taomas ‘WILsOX, having declined appoint ment of Btate Mine Ingpector, Gov. Williams has appointed Herbert H. Richards, of Sullivan County, in his stead. : Ex-STATE TREASURER SHAW, of Indianapolis, head -of the SBhaw Larriage Company, has suspended. Among the holders of his outstanding paper ‘are the following: - Indiana Banking C0mpany......:........550.000 First National Bank. . .suiie st e 45,000 oAy Bleteher &% Co. oo L 0 h s 20,000 Meridian National 8ank.................. 10.000 PrLAacArDS were posted up in Campbellsburg, the other night, notifying ' the proprietors of drug-stores and saloons that if they sold any more liquors to the husbands, fathers, brothers or sons 'of the women of the town, their whole possessions would be destroyed by fire. Great excitement prevails. Dr. RicaArpD OWEN and Prof. G. W. Hoss have resigned their positions in the State University. At the annual meeting of the board during commeéncement week there will be three chairs to fill ; those of history, belles lettrés and oratory, and natural science. ‘ THE Board of Trustees of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb_have appointed Willjam Glenn, of Muncie, Superintendent, in place of Thomas Mcintire. He is a native of Pennsylvania. was educated at Allegheny College, and served in the Legislature of “that State. The board also appointed Dr. J. E. Lockridge, of Indianapolis, Physician, vice Dr. 7. M. Kitchen, removed. s 5

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD son of City-Treasurer Marshall, of Greencastlé. was run over and fatally injured by & street car, on'the 16th. | THE latest reports from Indianapolis give the following as' current prices for leading staples: Flour, Family and Fancy, $4.00@ 8.00; Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 3514 @36%c; | Oats, 29@31c; Rye, 51@52¢; Pork, [email protected]; Lard — Steam, 6@ 63€ c; Hogs, [email protected]. . , , o

Sliding Dewn the Balusters, TBE six-story commercial building at 128 Nagssau street has a continuous stair-case around the four sides of a square. - The balustrade is also e¢ontinuous, and is rounded at the corners. The janitress, a widow, Mrs. Grimes, and ner five children, lived in rooms in the topmost story. Nellie, the old-' est, was over five me of age when her mother. moved into the rooms eighteen years ago. She began sliding down the balusters from top to bottom. Her mother tried to dissuade her, but the girl persisted wuntil she

was as much at home on the balusters as.on the staitrs.danShe laughed at every sufi%vs, tion of - er,. ringing at full length upon th% balu:t?r on an upper landing, with her head upward, her feet downward, her hands on. the slippery rail, she shot down like a flash. Year after year she slid downstairs until Saturday last. Mrs. Grimes started with Nellie to go down stairs from the top story. Nellie both slid and walked until the two had arrived at the top of the second story. Mrs. Grimes had just said: ¢ Now,. Nellie dear, I wish you would not do that. You'll get hurt sore time.” But the girl mischievously sprang upon the baluster, and, with a shriek, toppled over and fell with. a heavy thud. She was picked up unconscious, and on Sunday she died. She was buried yesterday. She was twentythree years and six months of age.— N. Y. Sun.

The Very Hard Case of Thomas Moi ran. ; : IT is not often that a pauper-con-vict has the honor of drawing the notice of the British House of Commons all to himself, and on two occasions. Yet assuredly the case of Thomas Moran merited the exceptional-attention which it received. Wpedo ‘not remember to have come upon a more cruel and pitiable instance of the oppression of poverty by the law.. On the 23d ult., Thomas Moran, a laborer, with a lunatic wife and 'six young children, was summoned before the Magistrate of the Policé Courtin Chester, the county town of Cheshire,: and the center of Knglish squirearchy. The prosecuting ofticer of the Chester Union charged this hapless workman with having willfully neglected to contribute toward the support of four of his children, who were living in the Workhouse at the expense of the ratepayers. - All six of the children were taken into the institution on Sept. 11. Two came out after a short stay, and since then have been maintained, in whole or in part, by the father. The others remained at the Poorhouse, and Moran eugaged to pay the authorities $2.50 per week toward their sustenance. Butup to the date of the summons, though often asked and always promising, he had only handed in $3.50 all told. The prosecutor haled him before the Magistrates for punishment under the provisions of the Vagrancy aet. The official story ran straight enough, as beseemed a page from the short and simple annals of the Poorhouse. : : ,

The defendant’s plea, however, put a very differentface upon the delinquency, Moran proved his inability to pay by the records of the court that was trying him. He showed that on Sept. 18, just one week after the admission. of his children to the Union, the police found him lying in the market square of Chester, bleeding from a ruptured blood-vessel, and carried him to the hospital on a stretcher. - After his discharge from the infirmary he was for 'some time so weak that hécould not obtain employment. Thénahard frost ‘set in, and threw him out of all chance of work for three months. Thus, of the eight months since September, he had passed nearly six in compulsory idleness. Naturally he had fallen in debt for his own subsistence and the partial support of thetwo children who were living with him. He - owed $2O for food and clothing. He could earn no more than $5 per week, even when employed every day, and, on the average, his earnings did not exceed $4 or $4.25 per week. The police describe him as a steady man, always ready to turn his hand to any work that presented itself. Moran closed his pathetic defense by an impressive declaration: “] -asked the Guardians for a few weeks, that 1 might get a cottage and a few sticks together and take my children home. But they said I must come into the Workhouse myself. As the time was: just coming on when I could get work, I did not want to do that. I'll pay regularly in the future any sum which the Magistrates think I can afford.””. The reader will probably conclude that the worthy Magistrates wiped their gyes and drew out their portemonnaies. Well, not - exactly. They put their heads together, and, after that momentary formation of a pavement, the Mayor of Chester announced their decision and sentenced Thomas Moran to imprisonment for one month, with harg labor. The ‘wretched laborer burst into tears, and cried out: ‘For God’s sake! gentlemen, give me a chance. I was never in prison in my life. If you send me there I'shall lose.my work. Give me time, and I’ll pay it all”> The second appeal, like the first, fell upon deaf ears, and he was removed be‘;gw, still pleading for mercy. ; But the reportérs of the press were neither deaf nor unmoved. The Chester Chronicle published a full account of the trial. The correspondents of the Ldndon journals informed the metropolitan press of the disfiimcefui' decision of the Cheshire Magistrates. Public opinion took fire at a flash. In Chester a subscription list was ogéned under the auspices of the reverend precenter of the cathedral, and a considerable sum was ,Xledged for the relief of the imprisoned man. In .Londonfiie Magisterial outrfi.e was brought up in Parliament by Dr. Kenealy, on the 25th ult., the member for Stoke, and Col. Beresford, the member for Southwark; snd on the 28th tlt. Mr. Cross, the Secretary of ‘State for the Home Department, although he refused to' admit that the decision of the Police Court was indefensible, stated that he ¢had thought it right that the man ghould not %@q;sg:fibgtull sentence of ‘imprisonment passed upon him.” Thus, through the agency of the press, Thomas Moran, ere_this, has received both . release and relief. As for-the .Ma%iggratep, ‘we are glad to sa{ zhag at the last advices they were feel ngv,,_ Ty uncomifortable over the eigi'ess ons of indignation ¢ which poured - in -upon them from all quarters.—Boslon Herald. : B '

A cynical writer says: ¢ Take a com}m.n'y_ of boys: chasing butterflies; put long-tailed _coatsfionnfiie boys, and turn the butterflies into sovereigns, and you have a beautiful panorama of the world.”

- A Blunder and Its Reward. DurinGg his first' visit to Paris, M. Lasalle, a distinguished German, presented himself at the house of a wellknown lady, to whom he had sent letters of introduction in advance. When the servant opened the door and received. his card she conducted him to the boudoir and told him to be seated, saying: “ Madame will come immedipbelg;?’ ! _ Presently the lady entered. A She was dishabille and her feet were bare, covered only with loose slippers. She bowed to him carelessly amf.aaid: ¢« Ah,. there you are; good morning.”” = She threw herself on u sofa, let fall a slipper, and reached out to Lasalle her very pretty foot. - . s - Lasalle was naturally completely astounded; buj he remembered that at his home in Germany. it was the custom sometimes to kiss a lady’s hand, and he supposed it was the Paris mode to kiss her foot. Therefore he did not hesitate to imprint a kiss upon the fascinating foot so near him. but he could not avoid saying, ¢l thank you, madame, for this method of making a lady’s acquaintanée. It is much better, and certainly more generous, than kissing the hand.” e The lady jumped up highly indignant. ‘* Who are you. sir, and what do you mean?’ . ke e He gave his name. - ~ ““You are not, then, a corn-doctor?”’ . ““lam charmedto say, madame, that {amnot ° - CRE ' ‘‘But you sent me the corn-doctor’s gapd.’’. . . G . It was true. Lasalle, in going out that morning, had picked up the card of a corn-doctor from his bureau and put it in his pocket. This, without glancing at, he had given to the servant, who had taken it to sher mistress. There was nothing to dofit laugh over the joke.—Forney’s Prodress. S

- How He Won Her. : A RADIANT youni fellow shook our hand with & vise-like grip yesterday, as he ejaculated, in voleanic words: ‘Congratulate me! congratulate me! I am the happiest man this side the Elysian Fields. - ‘At last, at last! Why, I am a walking Io {riomphe! What is it? Won alottery prize? Faugh! Ske has consented—she promised to ‘marry me—the prettiest girl in Kentucky—the girl who jilted me seven times before she said yes.. Fivelong yearshave I loved her. I wooed her ardently, tenderly, gallantly. I had money; I was young. 1 was not.bad-looking. But she refused me.. I sought honors and eminence in my profession. I gained them; I laid them af her feet; she declined them. Seven separate times had I addressed her, and seven separate times had I been refused. I was in despair; I was losing my own respect, and probably hers; and U de-’ termined to quit, to go away, o look upon her face no more. ' I packed my trunk for Leadville. I started out to buvy my ticket, when a plan flashed to me—a plan, a plar, a plan! I went back. Itried it. 1 won!’ ¢ And this plan?’’ ¢ T hiredmyself to her father as a coachman!”’ — Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. ! AL

—A moist a;; sphere ‘of a high temperature acts injuriously upon domestic animals; it relaxes and weakens the organism by exciting the activity of the skin without absorbing the perspiration, and by increasing the functions of the lungs, not seldom to such an extent as to cause the breathing to become more or less difficult, and, in consequence, the decarbonizatien of the blood imperfect. The effect produced by a humid atmosphere of a high temgera_ture upon an animal organism iffers in so far from that produced by a dry atmosphore at' a high temperature as the former is unable to absorb the moisture exhaled: by the lufiis and perspired by the skin.—Cor. Chicago

- —A¢t last it._has been digcovered ‘“ How to keep a boy on the farm.’” The plan is to kill him and bury him six feet deep in the barn-yard. This rule does not apply in :Ohio, however, where body-snatehing makes it extremely doubiful where the boy would he a week after burial.—Norristown Herald., - S Fei g

—An exchange says: ‘“The most notorious girl of the period is Em Bezzle.”” She generall ,kegfls company with a fellow -calle_d? 1. Mizzle.—Reno . Gagette. - 7 e '

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