Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 25, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 October 1879 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banner, go 3o B éTOLL, Edltor-and Proprietors LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA.

EPITOME OF THE WEEK. THE OLD WORLD. ; A LIGHTER laden with gunpowder blew up at Marburg, on the River Elbe, on the 30th ult. The crew were all killed and the craft demolished. : THE suspension of the Hamburg hogffie of Wedstein is announced. o A VieENnNA dispatch of the 80th ult. says the health of the Czar had become very precarious. He was suffering ‘greatly from mental fatigue and was daily becoming worse. A RoME dispatch of the 80th ult. says the Belgian bishops had rescinded their late order with respéet to communal and nor.mal schools, and that the Pope approved the action. . ' . A BeErLIN dispatch of the Ist says the recent elections in Germany had resulted in the success of the Liberal party. = ' Five of the City of Glasgow Bank Directors were released from imprisonment ‘on the Ist, their terms having expired. They were received with hootings and jeers by the assembled multitude as they emerged from the prison gates. Sty : IN an agrarian fight near Castlebar, Ireland, on the Ist, two persons were killed. A ViIENNA dispatch of the 2d says the disturbances in Eastern Roumelia had degenerated in guerrilla warfare. . By order of the Governor of Kars all Armenidy parish schools existing under the aughority of the Turkish Government have been closed. o : - THE Health Commission of Lisbon has officially declared the Atlantic ports of the United States free from yellow fever, and removed all quarantine restrictions. LonpoN dispatches of the third say the tenent-rights and:. law-reform meetings in Ireland were receiving the seriotis attention f the Government. The authorities had reeeived information that the “Peep O’ Day Boys” contemplated rising throughout the country. These reports, while considered to adarge extent sensational and suggested by the fears of those making them, had yet led to the multiplication of police precautions, /and preparations for any possible emergency. - TeHE London T¥mes’ Simla dispatch -of the sth says the Indian Government had issued orders to shoot Afghan marauders on sight. ' ACCORDING to a Simla telegram of ‘the 6th General Roberts reached a point six miles from Cabul on the sth, and expected to occupy the city on the following day.

. THE NEW WORLD. 1T was reported en the 30th ult. that the excess of exports over imports in this country for the year ending August 31, 1879, amounted to $289,709,341. " i THE American Literary Bureau stated on the 30th ult. that the friends of Mr. Redpath had not heard of or from him since his - mysterious disappearance from New York City some time before. ok - THE United States Treasury Depart- , ment hasrecently d_ecided that the ¢ statute authorizing the redemption of called bonds whére clear -and unequivocal evidence has been furnished that they have been destroyed does not apply to coupons which, at the time of their destruction, were detached from the bonds.” In the case in question coupons had been destroyed after they had been detached from the bonds, and could not, therefore, be - redeemed by the Government. - ACTING SECRETARY BELL, of the Interior Department, has decided that no woman who occupies the relation of a plural or polygamous wife: shall be permitted. to make a homestead or pre-emption entry of public land. - ] , : - MARY SCHWARTZ, a servant girl in Milwaukee, used kerosene to light a fire a few ~ days ago. Her clothes were ignited and she was fatally burned. She’ ran shrieking through the streets into a saloon, where the flames were extinguished, but too late to save her life. B | ANOTHER Custer affair has occurred on the southern borders of Wyoming. It seems that Major Thornburgh, of the Fourth United States Infantry, was dispatched on the 14th ult. on an expedition against the Milk River Utes: When within twenty-five miles of the agency of the White River Utes the command was met by thrice their number of - :savages, and an engagement followed, during which Major Thornburgh and thirteen men were killed, and thirty-five wounded. Every officer in the command was shot except one. - “The Indians killed from 150 to 200 head of mules and destroyed a large' amount of property. The remainder of the command then fell back to the corraled train, made breast works of their wagons and intrenched themselves as well as they could. The Indians ~withdrew on the night of the 29th. An expedition has been serjt to the relief of the :command, which, it" was stated on the Ist, would remain within their. camp until relieved. Nothing had been heard from Indian Agent Meeker since the 27th of September, _ and it was believed that he had been killed.

THE public-debt statement for Sep- . tember makes the following exhibit: Total _.debt (including interest), $2,261,981,131. Cash in Treasury, $234,778,679. Debt, less amount in Treasury, $2,027,202,452. Decrease during the month, $2,563,752. Decrease since June 30, 1879, $4,803. THE Presidential party were at Spring- ' field, 111., on the 80th ult., and arrived at Indianapolis, 1nd.,.0n the evening of the Ist. They were met and greeted- at both cities, and at many points along their line of travel, by many thousands of people. L THE Nebraska Bepublican State Con- " wention met at Omaha on the Ist. Amasa Cobb, present incumbent, was nominated by acclamation for Supreme Judge, and John L. Carson aud 'J. W. Gannett were placed in nomination for Regents of the State University. A “stalwart” platform was adopted, in which was a resolution weleoming the return of General Grant, and characterizinig him as * the ehampion of our Union, the jprotector of our Nation, and the hero of the great rebellion.” o it | GENERAL GRANT and wife, accom- | panied by a small party of relatives and Ariends, left Ban Francisco on the 30th ult. for a few days’ tour in the Yosemite Valley. (At Btockton they met with a brilliant reception at the bhands of the authorities and a large assemblage of citizens, . : : - DuriNG the progress of a race at the Fair Grounds in Adrian, Mich., on the 2d, the . grand stand gave way, and two thousand ~ people were precipitated to the ground. Six fiwm were killed outright and several oth--~ers were fatally hurt. A large number re“«eived hurts more or less serious. il

THE reunion of the surviving prisoners of the late war, held at Toledo, Ohio, on the Ist and 2d, was largely attended. The proceedings were of a very interesting character, consisting of addresses and reminiscences of war experiences, etc. A procession on the 2d had fully 2,000 soldiers in its ranks, about one-half of whom had: been prisoners of war during the rebellion.

A RECENT Washington dispatch says there was then in the Treasury but $6,179,000 -in gold in denominations of less than twenty dollars—an amount not sufficient to meet any active demand upon the Treasury for small coin. To supply this deficiency, it was said the Treasury Department intended to recoin most of the foreign gold received at the New York Assay office into five-dollar and ten dollar gold pieces. : THE Treasury. Department at Washington has recently issued a statement relative to the four-per-cent. bonds, to the effect that all the proceeds of the sale of such bonds had been paid into the Treasury, except the called bonds and coupons in transitu from the Government agent in London. ,The amount of called bonds outstanding, not yet presented for payment, was $28,971,800, all of which bonds were provided for by cash in the Treasury, except $697,050, for which an equal ‘amount of unsold four-per-cent. bonds was retained in the Department. The aggregate of the four-per-cent. bonds sold was $740,847,950. ' _ For the recent pedestrian display in New York Charles Rowell receives about $19,500; Samuel Merritt, $7,300; George Hazael, $4,200; Frank Hart, $2,700; George Guyon, $2,000; Weston, $1,400; Ennis, £1,100; Krohne $9OO. Rowell walked a little over 115 hours; Merritt, 117 ; Hazael, ninety-nine. .

At a meeting of the Council of the Massachusetts Medical Society held in Boston on the Ist, it was resolved to admit women to membérship. ; 1 WENDELL PHILLIPS has declined the nomination of the Massachusetts Greenback Convention as candidate for LieutenantGovernor. :

THERE arrived at the port of New York during August 12,881 immigrants, against 7,619 during the same month last year. The } total arrival of immigrants during the year ending August 31 was 108,507, against 75,035 ‘ duping IB¢B. =~ : i THE coinage of the United States 1 mints for September was as follows: Gold, ‘ $6,869,120; silver, $2,396,092; minor coins, | $14,694. The total number of pieces was 3,998,912, of the total value of $9,279,806, | THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat corre- ‘ spondent at Bunker Hill, 111., about thirty- | two miles northeast of St. Louis, writes that he saw Wise’s balloon pass that point about | 6:30 on the evening of the 28th ult., the day ‘ of the ascension. From there the balloon sookia course almost directly north, and was subsequently seen about ten miles away. A { son-in-law of Professor Wise denies that the balloon was old .or rotten, and says it was entirely new, had never been used before, i and was one of the best ever made. } THE Joint Executive Railroad Committee, in session in New York on the 2d, voted an advance in East-bound freights to a i basis of thirty-five cents on grain, forty cents for fourth-class and fifty cents for live hogs from Chicago to New York, to take effect October 13. ; UP to the night of the 8d the list of dead by the Adrian (Mich.) accident had reached thirteen, and there were said to be 224 ‘ sufferers under medical treatment. The | town was a scene of woe, lamentation and 1 mourring. : - ‘ ARREARS of pensioy claims to the amount of §20,734,507 had been settled up to_ October 1. The average anfount of arrears in | each case was $545. The "whole number of cases settled in September was 13,287. It is 1 estimated that there are still about 6,000 or 7,000 pensionerse entitled to arrears whose cases have not been settled. |

THE Comptroller of the Currency reported on the 3d that the whole amount of additional National Bank ecirculation issued since the publication of his annual report in 1878 was $11,833,325. The amount of circulation issued in the months of Novembér and December, 1878, and in January, May, June, July and August, 1879, was considerably less than $1;000,000 for each month. The amount issued in February was $1,648,401; March, $1,081,0265 April, $2,018,634.. The amount issued in September, 1879, was $3,480,973— more than twice the amcunt issued during the preceding four months. The total average amount, of additional circulation issued the past four months has been at the rate of a little more than $1,000,000 per manth. A HERDER who reached Rawlins from the Ute country on the sth reported that a man named Taylor had told him that he had ridden around the intrenched camp of Captain Payne, and that, up to the Ist, he still held his position. Mr. Taylor reported that the country around White River was full of hostiles, including among others the Arrapahoes, - Shoshones, Snakes ,and Bannocks. Nobody at Rawlins doubted that Agent. Meeker and his family had been murdeted. North Park prospectors were leaving their clainis, having been ordered to gét out of the country within three days under penalty of massacre. : v A DENVER (Colorado) telegram of the 4th says the Governor had been notified that Lake City and Ouray were threatened by hostiles, and that troops and ammunition were wanted. e : i THE- Post-office Department has recently made a decigion which "has been adopted. by the Postmaster-General, and which, it is said, will be strictly enforced, prohibigng the mailing of letters to lottery compami€s or their agents; also, forbidding the sending of money to lottery companies by postal order or registered letter. The lottery agents in Washington are indignant at this decision, and think it can not.stand. It is said the lottery compames will take the case to the courts- and maintain their rights to the use of the mails.

A DISPATCH from St. Louis on the sth says a telegram had been received from ‘Girard, IIL, from a reporter who had accom‘panied ‘John Wise, Jr., to explore the Ma--coupin Creek hottoms!in search of the lost balloonists, to the eftect that they had found ‘no trace of the balloon or its océupants in ‘that section, and they did not believe they had come down south of Springfield. The balloon was seen Sunday night (28th ult.) by farmers east of Girard, very high in the air circulars were also found near Iliopolis. This explodes a theory advanced by some that the missing travelers had landed in Macoupin County. . ' g ' - A WASHINGTON telegram of the sth says there were then in the Treasury $31,560,000 in standard silver dollars, and $16,940,000 in subsidiary silver coins, ' e Tug O'Leary walking tournament begar’in New York at one o’clock onthe morning of the 6th. Thirty-five men started. MEsses. MOODY AND SANKEY began a series of revival meetings in Cleveland, Qbio, on the sth, | 4

.HE base-ball season closed a few days ago, the Providence Club securing the championship. This club won fifty-five out of seventy-cight games; the Boston Club forty-nine out of seventy-eight, and the Chicagos forty-five out of seventy-seven. AT San Francisco on the sth Professor Colgrove and C. H. Williams made a balloon ascension. When about two hundred feet high the balloon collapsed, and both fell to the ground, sustaining injuries from which they shortly after died. ; Ox - Robert Bonner’s private track near New York, the other day, John Murphy drove Rarus a mile in two minutes and eleven and a half seconds. Edwin Forest was afterward driven a mile in exactly the same time. A WASHINGTON telegram of the 6th says the Government Sub-Treaguries were all supplied with gold, and were paying it out freely on current ‘obligations. : - RETURNS received on the morning of the 7th from the election in Connecticut indicated that the Constitutional amendments providing for biennial elections for the Legislature, and extending the term of office of Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts to the age of seventy-five years, had been overwhelmingly defeated. THE Pennsylvania Supreme Court has rendered a decision in the riot losses in Pittsburgh during the great railroad strike, holding Allegheny County liable for the destruction of property in the case brought before the court. :

YELLOW-FEVER NEWS, MOBILE, Ala., on the 30th wult. removed all quarantine restrictions against New Orleans. . ‘ . ONLY two new cases were reported in Memphis on the Ist. The deaths numbered three, two of them being outside the city limits, . THERE were eleven new cases (seven colored) and three deaths reported to the Memphis Board 6f Health on the 2d. Two cases (children) were reported seven miles south of the city, where eight persons had receatly died of the fever, and five others were still suffering from the disease. o THE summary of the yellow-fever reports in Memphis for the week ending on the 4th shows a material decrease in both deaths and new cases. The deaths numbered twenty and the new cases sixty-eight. ‘The total number of cases to date was 1,347; deaths, 403. These figures do not comprise the cases and deaths that occurred outside the corporation lines. Six cases (five white) and four deaths occurred on the sth. SIXTEEN new cases ‘(nine colored) and six deaths were reported to the Memphis Board of Health on the 6th. There were seven cases at Buxton Station, and the disease seemed to - be spreading in that locality.

How Quails Are Caught in Italy. THE Naples correspondent of the London Times writes: The Neapolitans have their shooting season as well as the English, and it is now at its height. If they cannot boast of grouse, they do of quails, and these are coming in by thousands. If you cast your eye round the bay you will see that along every mountain top is stretched a net, or series of nets, attached to poles of a great height. They have long been in course of preparation—perhaps since the 12th of August, for who knows when the foreign visitors will come in? They are as capricious as many human travelers, and are regulated by unseen atmospheric influences. A clear sky and a gentle southeasterly wind seem to be the best conditions for their journey, just such as we had last night; and as soon as it is dark the watchers and their friends assemble at the parata on which each net is erected, waiting with anxious expectation. It is a festive becasion, so much so that at times the jollity is greater than' caution demands. The wind is found to be somewhat too high, so down come the nets. But there is a lull, there is a rush in the air and up go the nets again, and one hears a ‘puff, puff’ as the poor birds are intercepted. Every now and then there is a haul down to secure the prisoners and then haul up. " This goes -on till the morning, when the enemy appears in double force. A crowd of peasants have assembled, who shout till they are hoarse in order to drive the birds into their nets, so that from the dawn of day there is no repose for anyone within a mile of the parata. Beside these there is an army of sportsmen armed with guns, many of which no prudent man would touch. But let them keep at a certain distance from the nets, as the law commands, or they will be denounced or receive some personal injury. Attached to every net is a cage full of blind quails as decoys for the visitors. - They have had their eyes pierced by a red-hot wire, and their melancholy plaints, mistaken for singini,' woo many a. bird to its doom. Iknow a priest who has one hundred and fifty of these mutilated birds, and is consequently one- of the most successful sportsmen of the locality. What a priest does cannot be wrong, and his example is pretty generally followed.”’

A Counterfeit Greenback. BusiNgss circles in this city were thrown out of balance yesterday afternoon by the discovery of a new counterfeit five-dollar greenback note, and the additional discovery that the city is flooded with them didn’t the least improve matters. Best informed business men, including bankers, are of the opinion that at least 1,000 of the spurious bills, or in all $5,000, are in circulation in Dayton and vicinity. That the bill is a good imitation may be inferred from the fact that up to a late hour yesterday they were received and paid out without question over the bank counters in Dayton. This spurious money was introduced. in this city last Monday, and, up to yesterday afternoon, passed currently. Its spurious character was discovered by James Ritty, who, to test the matter, deposited a sum of money in one of the banks of the city, placing one of the counterfeit bills in the lot. It was received along with the other bills, but subsequentl he called the attention of the banlz officers to the bill. The bill is of the new issue of the %reenba\ck (not National Bank), and of the denomination of five dollars. We have examined quite a number of them, each of which was of series ‘“C.”” Theface of the bill is remarkably well executed, and will readily deceive even the best judges.

The paper is of good, though- not the best, quality; it is rather thin and light not having quite the body of the geni uine, and the bills have the appearance of being somewhat worn. Its spurious character, however, is readily discovered upon inspection of the back of the bill. Eetween the vignette in the center of the back and the left end is an unprinted space which ‘in the genuine is filled with silk fiber, apparently woven or molded into the paper. In the counterfeit there is none of this fiber, but instead a neatly executed representation of the same, made with ink. Itis, all in all, one of the most dangerous counterfeits in circulation.— Dayton (Ohio) Democrat. :

TERRIBLE DISASTER AT ADRIAN, _, - MICH. = The Stand at the Fair Grounds Breaks Down and Two Thousand People are Precipitated into the Ruins—Six Persons Killed and Many Others Injured, Some Fatally. ADRIAN, Mich., Octobeg 2. This was the great day of the Len-awee-’CounSr Fair. The weathér was all that could have been desired, and the city was early crowded with a greater number of visitors than ever assembled here before. This afternoon at three o’clock the grounds were a perfect jam, and the grand stand, newly erected, was packed with people to witness the exercises on the track. A class of gentlemen’s driving horses, double teams, had just been sent around the track, and the band, occupying the front and center of the grand stand, ‘had just begun to play, while the judges were affixing premium ribbons, when, with a terrible crash, the: stand broke down.. It gave way first in the center, then the front fell outward to the track, and the back fell into the river. At once ensued a scene of indescribable confusion. - Buggies were overturned, horses dashed frantically up the track, only to meet a crowd of people flocking to the scene of the disaster. Those who were only slightly injured came crawling out of the mass of ruins, showing numerous contusions, and then began the work- of dragging from the debris those who were more severely injured.. There were in the neighborhood of - 2,000 people on the grand stand, and a large crowd were in the space beneath. , As soon as possible the Opera House was opened, and many of the dead and wounded taken there. The following is a list of the casualties as faras can be ascertained, but many of the injured were taken directly to their homes: : .DEAD. M. M. Merck, German, city; Mrs. John Hubbard, of Jasper; —— Hyde, a boy about twelve years old; —— Mosher, a boy about the same age; David Plumadore, Petersburg, aged eighteen; Wm. Mulle, city, aged about twelve. WOUNDED, : Laurga Lambkin, Franklin, badly hurt in both limbs; Jack Wenn, cit.{r, hurt abéut head and arm, not fatally; Mrs. Velder, living five miles north of the city, leg broken; Justus Wright, Fairfield, badly bruised; J. B. Goheen, leg broken; George Carter, Fairfield, external bruises; Jerome Camp, Fairfield, back injured; Walter Merritt, Franklin, badly bruised on left temple and internal injuries; Lewis Adams, Madison, leg badly broken; Will Cramer, head cut badly; Miss Callahan, city, leg broken; James Hyde, Palmyra,toes broken and hurt on chest; John Hurlbut, lower part of leg crushed; Mr. Hunt, Fairfield, hurt about- the head; B. F. Reynolds, Franklin, badly hurt, but nature and extgnt of injuries not known; Mrs. Robert Carpenter, Madison, arm broken; Ed %lume, Medina, hurt in hip; his wife was ruised, but not seriouslf; Maria Hume, Medina, hurt.badly in shoulder; Henry Hart, city, left shoulder believed to be broken, head bruised, and thought to be badly injured internally; Miss Stuart, aged fifteen, severely injured internally, unconscious and could not give residence; Unknown, a man about thirtyfive, terribly wounded internally; Frances Gimbert, city, injured about head severely; Burt Morey, of Macon, badly hurt on the head and body; Robert McWilliam, Ridgeway, leg broken, injured internally and abéut head; Jesse Warren, city, leg broken; a daughter of the same, badly hurt; Mrs. William Shephard and her son, seriously injured; Mr. Frank Chamberlain, city, leg badly hurt; a daughter of Martin Holloway, city, badly injuredé Mr. Crossler, Fairfield, badly hurt in back and injured internally; Henry Bowen and Messrs. Burdan, Nichols, Russell and Snow, of the band, more or less injured; Mrs. Hiram Burt, Medina, and daughter, badly hurt; S. Bradner, Clinton, injured in’ the shoulder and across the chest; Miss Rachel Mosher, Springfield, badly bruised; Joseph H. Claysen, Cambridge, hurt badly on knee; H. S. Cole, Mo~ renci, arm broken and hurt inlimb; Mrs. Mary Perkins, Rollins, hurt badly across lungs; Charles: Smith, Fairfield, dangerous scalp wound; two painters engaged in lettering the back of-the stand were buried beneath the debris and badly injured; Miss Lillie -Orendorf, iives east: of the city; very Dbadly hurt on the back and shoulders; Mrs. J. H. Gates, Morenci, limb dislocated; J. H. Gates, slight bruises on head; Maggie Cicotte, Raisin, shoulder and back bruised; George Hirsch, city, hurt inwardly; Colonel French, hurt across the chest; Mrs. Hoyt, city, back and internally; W. R. Taylor, city, cut in head; Woolston Comfort, Raisin, arm broken; W. S. Stow, city, arms and legs bruised; William Kedzie, son and two daughters, Deerfield, all injured; Josiah Westerman, Riga, shoulder broken; Miss Redftield, Cambridge, leg broken.

This does not comprisé over one-half the casualties, as many wounded were carried off by their frantic friends as soon as could be, and until nightfall carria(%es containing injured men, women and children were noted passing out into the country. The excitement in the city immediate1y succeeding the accident was indescribable. Parents were " frantically looking for their children, and children looking for their parents; women went into hysterics, and strong men cried on the streets as they heard the te-rible news. Many of the injured are among our best citizens. o A grand concert was to have been given at Floral Hall this evening, but that, of course, is abandoned, and the gloom cast oyer the city by the sad oceurrence is heightened by a heavy storm which has set in since dark. . Up to this hour, eight p. m.. drugstores have been busy with all available volunteer help filling prescriptions and meeting the wants of the wounded, without question or compensation. Rumors are rife as to the insecurity of the structure, and rigid investigation will be demanded. : ’ S et~ —A Dutchman, the proprietor of a Colorado line of stages, was collecting two dollar a piece from the passengers, by way of fare. All had paid except one, and he, drawing a larie revolver, pointed it at the head of the collector and hoarsely asked: ‘¢ Won’t that pass meP*” Perfz;ctly unmoved the Dutchman said: ‘‘Oh! nd; we eats dem tings here. Two tollars, please.’ o

THE Arctic Ice Company, of Boston, is turning out between 10,000 and 12,000 tons of artificially-made ice per day, which it is under contract to deliver at one-half cent a pound. ;

—lt is not safe to pronounce a man perfect until he is dead. He mais(r do something at any moment to break up his good réputation. L

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Nicuoras DRAYER, a farmer, brought aload of grain to Richmond on the 29th. He con:plained of cramp and colic, took medicine, and an hour afterward was found dead in his wagon on the street, having failer from tue seat and broken his neck. - How . AT Richmdnd on the night of the 2Sth John Kahle, sixty-seven years old, ate suppcr in usual health. At eight o’clock he was stricken with apoplexy, and at nine o’clock he was dead. GEORGE ROGERs and two other miscreants have been held to bail in the sum of $l,OOO cach at LaPorte, to answer to the ‘charge of placing an obstruction upon the track of the Lake Shore Railway: i AT Indianapolis on the Ist, J. Fred Will killed his divorced wife, and then shot and killed bhimself. Early in the morning he sneaked into his late wife’s kitchen where she was-kindling a fire, his feet being encaséd in a pair of rubbers, so that his approach could not be heard, and, without a word, plunged a black. horn-handled hunting-knife .to the depth of eight inches into her abdomen. The poor woman sank, crying for ‘help, her intestines protruding through the awful wound, and died. Will then ended his own worthless life by shooting himself through the head, dying about three hours afterward. The murderer and his victim were. found weltering in their gore shortly afterward, by the neighhbors. : G

- Toe Indiana State bankers held a State Convention at Indianapolis on the Ist, and formed a State association. The following were elected officers for the coming year: Judge J. B. Howe, of Lima, President; M. L. Pierce, of Fayette, Vice-President; A. W. Dayvis, of Indianapolis, Secretary, and T. H. Haughey, Treasurer. -, . ‘ A sMALL son of Mr. Neals, of Whitestown, while engaged in grinding corn on the lst; was caught in the mill and had his hands and arms crushed to atoms. ; Jack McMILLEN and Andrew Moynahan have been indicted for the murder of J. Raymond, who was recently beaten and robbed at Logansport, and subsequently died of his avounds. i i > WHILE the Edinburgh ticket agent was at diuner on the 2d, a light-fingered. gentleman entered the office through the rear door, and relieved the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad of $76. s Tuieves broke in and stole §2OO worth of goods from Moore’s hardware store, and $6OO worth from Gundelfinger’s clothing store, at Brazil, on the night of the Ist. Tne mangled body of James Hefferman, conductor on the Indianapolis & SBt. Louis Railroad, was found early on the morning of the 3d at Warwitt station, on the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad. It-is supposed he fell thr«uch between the cars of his train. He died while being taken t& Mattoon. AX altercation between Di. Ennis and his brother-in iaw, George W. Reed, took place at Madison on the 2d. Beth drew pistols and fired at each other. Reed was struck in the l left side and suffered a severe wound. Ennis was not hurt. : ; S It is evident that the State will soon have to make some provision for the care of the incurably insane. ‘There is scarcely a week but that some unfortunate is sent home from Irdianapolis incurable. : ‘WHILE on the road home from Rushville to Williamstown on the afternoon of the 34, Leon Brison and Willis Toole got info a quarrel, when Brison shot at Teole four times, three balls taking effect, one in the right hand, one in the bowels, and one grazing the forehead. The second will prove fatal. Brison is now in the county jail. ALEXANDER ComMßs shot and instantly killed a farmer named George W. Olinger, (liying in the eastern part of Howard County, 'on the 3d. Combs was jealous of Olinger’s attentions to his wife. :

Cuarres F. TIFFANY, bigamist, who had just been sentenced to the State Prison for three years, hung himself with a towel in his cell at Lawrenceburg a few days ago. : DuriNGg the races at the Elkhart County ‘Fair the other afternoon, a terrific storm of" ‘wind and rain suddenly burst upon the grounds, which are covered with heavy timber. A large oak tree, towering above the grand stand, was wrenched off and fell with great force, creating a panie Emoug three thousand people, eight hundred of whom were in the grand stand. Teams were frightened and ran away, injuring two ladies. Intense excitement - prevailed, and many women fainted. A handsome bay team belonging to Christian Henderman, of Goshen, valued at $4OO, was crushed to death under the tree. It was greatly feared that the grand stand would give way under the extra weight thrust upon it'by the excited people, many of whom were women and children; who rushed pell-mell on the seats when the storm broke. John Simons was knocked down by a runaway horse, and, besides internal injuries, hig left shoulder was dislocated. Frank Gibson was badly injured by being throwp from a sulky, a ’ horse stepping on lis head and neck, cutting him frightfully. Many miraculous escapes ! and smaller accidents are reported. A DARING attempt was made by incendia‘ries to destroy Leesburg, inKosciusko Co., a few nights ago. At nine p. m. the large and handsome Christian Church was discovered on fire in the belfry. The interior of the church had been saturated with oil by incendiaries, and the belfry burned down rapidly. Several other fires broke out in different parts of the town almost simultaneougly. * A large barn filled with grain, etc., in the east part of Leeshurg, belonging to George Armstrong, was burned at two a. m., hdving been fired in the mow. By this time the inhabitants of the town were bordering on insanity, and everybody turned out in seax&h of firefiends. So intense was the excitement that had any suspicious persons been caught who . could not have told a straight story they would have been lynched. The church cost § 3,500. . g : ; :

TaE following are the current prices for leading staples in Indianapolis: Flour, $4.75 @6.00; Wheat, No. 2 sßed, [email protected]; Corn, Mixed, 38@3814c; Oats, 27 (@2B4c; Rye, 63265 c; Pork, [email protected]; Lurd, 634 @6Y%c; Hogs, [email protected]. The following are ‘the Cincinnati quotations: Flour, Family, [email protected]; Wheat, [email protected]%; Corn, 4114 @42c; Oats, 28@31c; Rye, s7@69c¢; Pork, [email protected]; Lard, 64@63c; Hogs, $2.75 (@B.BO. i —_——- . ; el . Alpine Climbing. i Nort a year passes without the occur-. rence of frightful accidents to adventurous men who find pleasure in climbing the precipitous and snow-clad peaks: of the Alps. A false step at ‘a critical point sends an unfortunate climber over a precipice to meet death in the valley below. ; L e The saddest event of the present {ear is the loss of the life of a brilliant young Ameriean, a physician of Boston. He was an expert climber, who had been several times through the Alps, and had ascended some of the most difficult peaks. NG o

The fatal result-came because he was over-confident of his powers. He climbed the Matterhorn, as a great many Alpine tourists had done beéfore him. Not regarding the task as a particularly perifous one, he chafed under the restraint.of the rope. with which, as is well known, mountaineers are connected in ascending and. descending the mountains, © © .- ¢ - : He gained the top of.the peak. Then, after descending®part way, he insisted upon releasing himself. Not long after he vaulted over a projecting rock, stumbled and tell wpon the snow beneath. Unfortunately the snow was frozen, and although he tried to stop himself with his elbows, and almost sueceeded, he continued to slip and was carried over the craggy precipice. His body was found two thousand feet below the spot from which he fell. - Of course, all accidents in the Alps are not fatal. We have before us, in the London Times, a thrilling account. of an accident and almost miraculous escape by a Swiss porter, who was accompanying a Geirman mountaineer in the ascent of the Schewhorns. Except in'its results the story reminds one of the accident we have just narrated. The party had safely -climbed to the summit and were returning. The porter of the party, having a weight of seventy potinds on his shoulders, had once made a false step, and insisted upon being untied from the rope, saying that he might slip again, and that he would endanger no life but his own. Shortly afterward. h& again lost his footing. The party were at the moment on a steep ice slope. (Gisler, which is the name of the porter,’slid with fright-. ful swiftness=down toward a crevasse forty feet deep and six feet wide. Being a man of powerful frame and great presence of mind, he contrived, as he neared the awful chasm, o spring to his feet, bound across the crevasse, and gain-a footing on the other side. Nothwithstanding. the hazardous nature of - Alpine climbing, it is not likely to become a less.popular- pastime. In itself, if the danger attending it could be removed, it is one of the most exhilerating and health-giving forms of exercise. It is a favorite vacation pastime for many of the most learned and profound thinkers of Europe. - .. = Those who practice mountaineering find that it trains their nerves and muscles, and restores vigor to a wearied mind as no other exercise will do. Prudence, steadinéss and alertness remove a large part of the danger to climbers. The peril which remains %ives excitement and -imparts a zest to the pastime. For this reason there is- a constant temptation to foolhardiness. - There are many men who deem it brave to risk their lives in doing some rash acts, which may be accomplished safely, but which ®is sure to cause their death if they fail. It is this spirit of bravado which brings disctedit upon a spert which is highly useful in its way, and as unobjectionable in its aims and purposes as hunting or yachting. - Professor Tyndall is a famous moun--taineer. He has derived, so he asserts, .vast benefit from his annual tours in the Alps. As he practices mountain climbing, it is proper and wise. As those practice it who tempt fate by rash ven--tures where failure is certain death, it is the height of folly.—Youth's Com-— panion. : : ] : |

AMONG the chemicals of American manufacture which have superseded for--eign articles may be mentioned tartaric acid, the importation of which last year - reached only 183 pounds, against 500,000 not long ago. . Of citric acid, 27,018 pounds were imported, against a previ--ous annual importation of 250,000.. The lime-juice from which-the acid is made is’still imported, on account of the small growth .of limes -and lemons in the %‘nited States. _lf Southern agriculturists gave attention to these fruits a new industry,‘in extracting the juice, could be developed. Last year but, 3,492 pounds of borax was imported, owing to the working of new borax mines. Formerly from 600,000 to 1,000,000 pounds was annually received. = Of # cream tartar, none was received in 1873 from abroad.” About six years ago -the receipts were 95000,000 pounds annua.tlly. - L -o— - . —A correspondent of the Troy Times gives the following explanation of the origin of ‘¢ hurrah:” *¢Hip, hip, hur--rah was originally a war-cry adopted by the assailants of a German city, in which many Jews had taken refuge. The place was taken, and they were all put to the sword, amid shouts of Heiro--solyma est perdita! and from the “first letters of those words an exclamation was contrived.”” B =~

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