Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 December 1879 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banuer, J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. LIGONIER, :: : INDIANA.

THE OLD WORLD. AN unknown man forced himself into an apartmnent occupied by & medical board in Constantinople on the 2d, and made an indiscriminate attack upon the- member with a revolver. Before he could be seized four of the council were wounded. : A St. PETERSBURG dispateh of the 3d gives the details of the late attempt to assassinate the Czar.. It seems that the conspirators had dug a tunnel 150 feet long which extended from an unoccupied house to the middle of the railroad bed, and in this had placed wires connected with a battery ‘atoneend and a large quaantity of powder at the other. The train " bearing the Qzar. was following one - containing his baggage, but before reaching Moscow the position of the trains were reversed, and the explosion occurred just as the baggage train was over the plant. The train was almost entirely destroyed and several persons on board badly injured. So great was the force of the explosion that a hole was - created in the road bed five feet deep, sixteen long and eighteen broad. There was great -excitement, throughout Russia, and the Czar was constantly receiving telegraphic congrat ulatory messages. . ; It was announced on the 2d that the Czar had decided to form a Council, to be made up of nobles appointed by the Emiperor and members of the middle and peasant classes chosen by ballot. The body thus constituted will have advisory powers only. l THE British Government has removed the restriction on the importation of American sheep.’ ' ' : NEwsqhas been received that a war had broken out in Western Africa between sival ehiefs, in which two hundred persons had already been killed, and that all the prisoners on both sides were cooked and .eaten. o » THE pringipal Irish landlords are said to be actively engaged in relieving the distress in Ireland. ) By a vot¢ of 243 to 107 the French Chamber of Deputies, on the 4th, voted that the Cabinét had its confidence, and that of the country. .

It is stated that the famine in Upper Silesia has become so serious that in many villages over one-third of the population are starving. . - , . THE London 7tmes of a recent date says United States Government bonds were hardly to be procured there, and their prices were a mere reflex of those of New York. THE Governor of Senegal, Western Africa, hasbeén instructed by the French Government to'send an expedition to explore the region lying between the upper Senegal and Niger Rivers and report on the feasibility of the construction of a railway between thé two rivers, . L ' Accounts from Egypt, received on the sth, state that the Government was actively preparing for war with Abyssinia. SEVERAL of the Afghans who had been appointed by the British authorities to rule over the districts in Afghanistan have lately been murdered. ‘ A DISPATCH of the 6th says the Montenegrins at Velika had that day been attacked by several thousand Albanians. After a desperate fight, résTlltingr in heavy losses on both sides, the Albaniangs were driven off. IN consequence .of the sudden rise of the Koros River, in Mungary, the city of Crosswardein has been inundated and almost depopulated. THE news from St. Petersburg reports the Czar as being extremely depressed. His fits of melancholy have returned, and almost overpower him at times. DurING arecent cyclone in the Bay of Bengal a storm wave swept over Monkishkal Island, drowning several hundred persons. THOMAS BRENNAN, the person lately arrested for seditious language in Ireland, was examined on thej Bth dt Castlebar, and held to bail for trial in the sum of §l,OOO. A PARris dispatch of the Bth says a new line of steamers had been arranged for, to ply between Havre and New Orleans, touching at Baltimore. _ ‘ PRINCE ALEXANDER has dissolved the Bulgarian Assembly. ‘ THE cattle plague has broken out in island of by the i ‘ Cy?rus 53 : . ; THE NEW WORLD. TaE Democrats were successful in the municipal election at New Haven, Conn., on the 2d. : ; TaE United States Senate on the 3d voted to continue for the present the Standing and Select Committees appointed at the last session, with but two changes— Mr. Ferry to take the plage of the late Mr. Chandler on the Committée on Naval Affairs, and Mr. Baldwin (the new Senator from Michigan) to fill the vacancy, caused by Mr. Ctandler’s.death, on the Committee on Commerce. . / i ;

Tue Kellogg-Spofford Investigating Committee closed_its labors in New Orleans on the 3d, and adjourned to meet in Washington to prepare their report. el New OrLEANS dispatches of the 3d claim the election of Wiltz ' (Democrat) for Governor by 20,000 majority. The new Con , stitution was believed to have been adopted by a majority fully as large. = . Tme Camadian Government has de- . eided to appoint a Minister Resident in Loni don, and who will also be a member of the Cabinet, and it was stated on the 2d that Sir - A. T. Galt had been appointed. . Tag Catholic Bishop of Boston, in a comraunieation published on the 2d, urges the faithful to send their children to perochial tnstitutions' when possible, and if such schoolsdo not exist, to establish them, but he does not recommend excommunication or other severe measures in the cases of those " who disregard his adviee. . Tue Trustees of Rev. Mir. Talmage's ~church in New York have voted to withdraw from the Presbytery because of the alleged “ persecutions to which their pastor has been rnbjected_." ’ . ¢ Sa , ' Ourver WeNDELL HorMEs' seventieth birthday anniversary was celebrated at ‘Boston on' the 8d by a breakfast, at which Emerson, Longfellow and a number of other men of letters of note gathered to do houor to the man and the occasion. - , SECRETARY SHERMAN has recently issued a ‘circular inviting proposals for the 1 sale to the Government of $1,000,000 of the Bix per cent. interest-bearing bonds of the United States, known as “sixes of 1881." The bonds thus to be puschased will be applied to the sinking fund. e e

ANDREW TRACY was hung at Smith- l port, Pa., on the 4th, for killing Mary Reilly, | whom the rules of the Catholic ‘Church for- | bade him to marry because they were first ‘ cousins. The first attempt at the hanging was a faflure, Tracy’s fall causing the knotto | untie, thus allowing him to fall to the ground | uninjured. The knot was readjusted, and this time he was satisfactorily executed. '

A MAN named Upton, of Ansonia, Conn., returned home drunk, a few nights ago, and threw at his wife a lighted lamp, which fell into the cradle, and a child was burned to death.: The wife, in endeavoring to save sthe child, was also fatally burned. APPLICATION was made on the 4th to the Maine Supreme Court, upon the petition of Andrew R. G. Smith, Senator-elect from Lincoln County, and Nathan T. Hill, Senatorelect from Hancock County, asking the court to issue a rule of court to the Secretary of. }‘ State, commanding him to appear before said court December 9, and show cause why he ‘ should not give said Senators access to the returns of the Senatorial votes of their respective districts, and an’opportunity to examine the same, and for a writ of mandamus to issue against said Secretary. The Judge issued the order. : ' THERE being a great demand for onecent bronze pieces the Philadelphia Mint turned out over 3,000,000 pieces of that denomination during November, and the demand still continues. = L : THE flooring of a grain and flour mill at Brookton, Mass., gave way on the night of the sth, precipitating three men and about 5,000 bushels of corn into the cellar beneath. The men were buried up in the grain and suffocated. Their bodies were recovered in the course of the night. ' IN his testimony before the Commission on the sth Jack claimed that the removal of the agency was the commencement of the frecent troubles; that, at an elevation of 8,700 feet, with frost every month in the year, farming was impossible; that he and his band received no rations for a year, which he claimed was a violation of the treaty of 1868; that his engagement with the troops was a fair fight. He called Douglas a squaw-man for having attacked the agency, and insisted that a white man would, under the same circumstances, have fought Thornburgh. THE Board of Managers of the | New York Produce Exchange have recently issued an order that the cental system, so far as it relates to grain, shall go into effect on the 31st inst. ; ' , A comMITTEE of Republican Senators appointed to decide upon a financial policy for the party during the present session of Congress came to an almost unanimous decision aa the sth to recommend that no action whatever be taken affecting paper money. ‘THE Secretary of the Interior has recently decided that the benefits of the Tim-ber-culture law may be secured by planting cotton-wood trees. This decision reverses the former rulings of the Department. ONE of the buildings attached to the Bellevue Hospital in New York was destroyed by fire on the night of the 6th, and three children were burned to death and several fe'male patients' were severely injured by the flames.

DispATCHES of the 6th announce that Secretary. Sherman’s proposal to purchase $1,000,000 of the bonds known as 6’s of 18381 for the sinking fund had elicited offers of $1,470,000, at prices ranging from 106.35 to 106.87. ' SEVERAL shirt and collar factories at Troy, N. Y., were burned on the 7th,-causing a loss of about $350,000, and throwing nearly 2,000 men and women out of employment. OVER two thousand packages of oleomargarine are said to be sold as dairy butter in the New York market. ’ : JUDGE KETCHAM, of the United States District Court of the Western District of Pennsylvania, died in Pittsburgh a few days ago, of apoplexy. - | SOME excitement was created in Cincinnati on the night of the 7th by the action of the Police Commissioners in closing the Sunday theaters and other places of amusement. The question of the constitutionality of the action of the police authorities is to be tested in the courts. 'CONGRESSMAN ALFRED M. LAY, of the Seventh Missouri District, died at his hotel in Washington, on the morning of the Bthy of paralysis. - . - THE Commission appointed by President Hayes to investigate the yellow-fever scourge in Cuba have made a preliminary report to the National Board of Health, in which they state that the fever prevails in all places in that island from which reports had been received, provided those places are of any commercial importance and contain any considerable number of unacclimated persons to furnish food for the disease. L SPECIALS received in Denver on the Bth from Los Pinos say that some decidedly animating episodes distinguished the meeting of the White River Commissioners on the 6th. The Commissioners demanded the surrender of twelve Utes who had been proved to have been concerned in the agency massacre. These, after consultation, the Indians refused to accede to, and Ouray, in an arrogant speech, declared that he would surrender them provided they could be taken to Washington for trflal. ¢ - DE LEssEps, ' the promoter of the Panama Bhip-Canal scheme, sailed for Aspinwall on the Bth.

CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE.—On the 2d Mr. Gordon introduced a joint resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, declaring that the Government pledges to accord full and entire protection to the Company which should be granted concession by the Government of Nicaragua for the construction of an Inter-Oceanic Canal in that country, and will secure to said Company the peacefui enjoyment of the rights so conceded. ....A bill was introduced and referred to protect life and property and to prevent accidents and delay of mails on railroads and steamboats ogerated under the jurisdiction of the United States.... Mr. Burnside made a syeech on his resolution of the previous gession reaffirming the Morroe doctrine in connection with the proposed Darien Canal. Howse.—-Mr. Ellis introduced the same joint resolution offered by Mr. Gordon in the Senate relative to the Inter-Oceanic Canal, and it was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs....A preamble and resolution were offered by Mr. Price and referred declaring that sound policy demanded that no change be made at this session of Congress in regard to the Speeie-Resumption measure, the law &mvidmg for the circulation of $350,000,000 of reenbacks and the BSilver-Coinage law, but that *“imn view of the present fProsperous, condition of the ecountry financially we should let well-enough alone.” LM ‘Thon:iuon (Ky.) introduced a private War-Claim bill, and wished to have it referred to the Judiciaay Committee, but it was, on motion, rederred to the Committee on War Claims, by a vote of 114 to 111, nine Dem‘ocrats voting with the Republicans in the affirmative.... Mr. Fort offered a resolution, which was referred, declaring against any attemp¢ to withdraw or change the legal status and quality of any of the Paper money issued by the Government.... Billse were introduced, among others, to remove the Ute Indians from Coloradoy relating to the crime of bigamy; pro~ hibiting dvess parades of the army on Sabbath ila;;s; equalizing the bounties of soldiers of the ast war, i T

SENATE.—A bill was introduced on the 3d to authorize the payment of customs dutics in legal-tender notes.... Henry P, Balawin, of Michigan, was sworn in as the successor of the late Mr. Chandler... . Mr. Bayard introduced a joint resolution, which was referred, providing that Treasury notes should be receivable for all dues to the United States except duties on imports, and should not 23 otherwise legal tender.... Mr. Ingalls th offered a resolution; which was laid on the table and ordered %rinted, declaring that the present volume of United States notes should not be reduced, and that they ought to continue to be a legal tender for debts....A mo- | tion oftered by Mr. Davis (W. Va.) calling on the Sceretary of the Treasury for a detailed statement of expenditures since 1863, under the permanent annual appropriations, was agreed to. e . House—Bills were introduced--to limit the rate of interest on bonds yetto be issued under former acts of Congressto three and one-half per cent.; directing investigation into the removal of the Ponca Indians; for the reliet of soldiers and sailors who servedin the late war, and to restore to them equal rights ‘with the holders of Government bonds: for the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department; authorizing the : Washington, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad to construct a narrow-gauge railway from tide-water to St.Louis; to facilitate the refunding of the National debt. . SENATE.—A number of ‘private bills were introduced on the 4th....8i11s were also introduced—to facilitate the funding of the National debt; te provide for the sale of the remainder of the reservation of the confederated Otoe and Missouri tribes of Indians in Nebraska and Kansas; to make an additional article of war, prohibiting gambling by officers or soldiers, or in post stores.... Mr. Carpenter offered a resolution declarimg that, in the”o;‘)linion of the Senate, any legislation during the present session materially changing the existing system of finance would be inexPedient....Mr. Davis (W. Va.) offered a resoJution, which was laid on the table and ordered printed, callini; on the Secretary of the Treasury for a tabulated statement showing the total amount paid out in each fiscal year from 1866 to 1879, inclusive, for claims growing out of the late war.... Adjourned to the Bth. ' .HoOUSE. —A resolution was introduced by Mr. Gillette and referred, declaring that Congress is not only opposed to any reduction in the volume of United States legal-tender notes, but, on the contrax;;, is in favor of substituting greenbacks for National Bank notes; and that it is in favor of the free and unrestricted coinage of the 412%4 grains silver dollars.... A petition of the National Grange and Patrons of Husbandry was presented, asking for the enactment of such laws as will relieve the country from the unlawful exactions of transportation companies engaged in interState commerce.... A bill was introduced to return to the freedmen of the South their savings deposited in the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company.... Adjourned to the Bth. SENATE.—Among the bills introduced on the Bth were the following: To authorize certain improvements in:the channel of the Missouri River; providing for the removal of the Indians from Colorado; to encourage and aid the education of the colored race in the several States and Territories..... A resolution was adopted, directing the Secretary of the Interior to give information to the Senate as to the number, and where located, of mining camps which have been established on the Ute ‘lndian-reservation in Colorado, and what efforts, if any, have been made to remove such camps, ctc.....Resolutions were offered by Mr. Voorhees (Indiana), ordered printed and laid on the table, expressing astonishment and regret at the proposition of the President and Secretary of the /’i'reasury “to inaugurate a new and uncalled for financial agitation, with a ' view to the ‘destruction of the most necessary currencies now in use in the hands of the people,” and declaring that the truerinterests of the country require unrestricted gold and silver coinage, and thatit is part of a wise financial policy to maintain the Greenback currency and its legal-tender quality in a volume not less than now exists....A message was received from the House announcing the death of Representative Lay, and the concurrent resolution for a committee to arrange. tor the funeral was agreed to and the committee. was apgointed. and, as a mark of further respect, the Senate then adjourned.'- | , * House.—Mr. Clark announced the death of Mr. Lay (Missouri), and resolutions of regret were adopted and a committee was appointed to arrange for the funeral.... Adjourned. ; : B

‘ - A Novel Vehicle. AN English publication contains an illust-rateg description of a curious vehicle which was one of the novelties of the late Royal Agricultural Show. It is called the eudromon (from two Greek words meanin;fr ‘¢ well-run-ning ’’), and is practically a horse-car that carries and lays its own track. This track is composed of plates of hard-wood, faced and strengthened with metal, and attached to two paralel endless chains, which pass round revolving guides or drums at the ends of the vehicle, and both over. and under the ' wheels. ““The chief point in which this arrangement differs from others of a similar character is the gain of a fixed rail without loss of power by friction, the endless chain of | plates resting on the top of the wheels, and being carried forward by them, In this way a free and noiseless action is secured. The under carriages, constructed on the bogie princip%e, lock simultaneously, thus causing the front and hind wheels to run in the same track, and also enabling the vehicle to turn a very sharp corner. The shafts, however, can be fixed at either end, so as to avoid the necessity for turnin% ig‘ narrow or inconvenient places. he body of the vehicle projects over t’;hg= wheels, thus giving an increased capacity of over thirty per cent. A light four-wheeled cart fitted with this apparatus, and loaded up to‘one ton weight, may easily be drawn by one man; and over very heavy or plowed land the gain is proportionately greater. In this latter case the plates of the endless chains are’constructed of asufficient width to cover furrows or ruts.”” The first two vehicles constructed under this patent (a farm wagon capable of ca‘n’yin% from seven to eight tons, and a vehicle for goods or passengers, suitable for high speed) ‘attracted much attention ‘at the exhibition mentioned above. The plan really seems a practical and promising one, and we do not see why it may not be applied to street cars in localities where it is not convenient or expedient to lay the ordinary tracks, as well as to agricultural vehicles and heavy machines that need to be transported from place to place.

THERF has been a surprising development of the gold fields of Geor%‘ia. From a yield of $lOO,OOO in bullion four years ago the yield is now over $1,000,000 per annum, and is rapidly increaging. = New mines are being opened and new veins discovered. The mining operations extend from Oglethorpe and Wilkes, on the right, to the Alabama line on the left, leaving little doubt that the whole of upper Georgia is rich with gold-bearing quartz.

—Mr. John E. Keith, of this city, has presented us with a vegetable curiosit§) in the shape of a squash which, on being cut open, disclosed that all the seeds had sprouted inside and had roots from an inch and a half to two and a half inches in length. We never saw or heard of the like before.— Cloverport (Ky.) News.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. ‘THE faculty of Butler University has forbidden the attendance of young ladies upon the literary societies. A general mutiny is imminent, the members of the societies declaring that they will shut them up unless the objectionable order is rescinded. In this connection it might not be inappropriate to state that Butler University boasts of being the first literary institution in the West to open its doors to students of both sexes on an equal footing. * INTERNAL REVENUE CoLLECTOR P. P. CULVER, of the Lafayette district, has tendered his resignation. ey THE lightning-rod swindlers' have. come their game over the State of Indiana. With their usual false pretenses of ‘‘costing but little,”” they obtained. permission to rod the l Insane Asylum. They perfectly girdled the institution with ten times as many rods as necessary, at forty-seven and a half cents per foot. Their bill was £6,000. The State refused to pay and is fighting against paying for more lightning rod.. - : THE report of-the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home and Asylum for Feeble-minded Children was filed with the Governor on the Ist. It shows 236 inmates on October 381, of which only four are feeble-minded, the reception of that class having only just commenced. During the past month, however, about fifteen of these unfortunates have been received. The report shows the expenditures of the fiscal year to have been $33,585.43, of which amount $6,980.60 has been expended on building and improvements during the past seven months. The new building, which will accommodate 100 inmates, will soon be completed. H. H. WALKER has served notiees upon the Governor and State officers that he is not satisfied with the award made by the State Treasurer in the matter of the $200,000 tem_porary loan bonds. These bonds, it will be remembered, were sold at a premium of two per cent., and Mr. Walker claims that he made a bid of two and one-fourth premium, and was therefore entitled to the award. The State officers in reply allege that Mr. Walker’s bid was not sent or received until l’after the date named in the advertisement for receiving bids, and thercfore was not en ’ titled to consideration. . -

~ MRs. MARY CHEW, an Anderson dressmaker, attempted suicide with poison on the Ist. Cause, domestic trouble. . THIEVES robbed the ticket office at Russiaville the other night of a small amount of cash, and one hundred tickets reading ‘‘ Russiaville to Forest.” [ ‘ Hox. SaMuEL E. PERKINS, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who has been suffering several weeks with an affection ol the brain, was taken suddenly worse at a late hour on the night of the 4th, and at midnight his physicians thought he would not live till daylight. He was first made Stupreme Judge in 1845, and has been on the bench almost continuously ever since. He is in the sixtyninth year of his age. b : The condition of the public debt of the State October 31, 1879, was as follows: ‘ : FOREIGN DEBT. Five per cent. certifi- . cates, State stock... . $14,469 99 Two and one-half per cent. certificates, State : ‘ : Stock ... 2,925 13 War loan bonds, 6 per ¢ ; cent......... ... . 18900000 B Temporary loan bonds, - S 5 per cent., due April ; Bodsße e i 510,000 00 Temporary loan bonds, registered 6 per cent., : due December 1, 1879.. 200,000 00 Temporary loan bonds, held by Purdue University, 5 per cent., ; due AFril 1, 1881....... 200,000 00 Internal improvement - bonds, .o oo L L 2960000 - ——sl,o9 -5 1¢ , DOMESTIC DEBT. g School fund bond No. 1, e January 1, 1867........ $709,024 85 School fund bond No. 2, . e Jamuary 20, 1867....... 2,658,057 30 . School fund bond No. 3, " May 1, 1868.. ... .. .... 18423100 ‘School fund bond No. 4, January 20, 1871....... 177,700 00 ‘ School fund bond No. 5, Mayvd, 1878, . e 195767 OF = §3.001 YB3 %2 Total debt.........0c.eenn....... $4,998,178 34 TaE following is a summary of the report of the Auditor of State of the receipts and expenditures of the State during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1879: Net cash receipts during year...... 53,187,221.37 Deduct net cash disbursements durmgyear' ... 0 i 312182591

Leaves excess of receipts over . di5bur5ement5...................$ 59,395.46 Add balance cash in Treasury Oct. SN 0 0 D 524 35846 Makes cash balance chargeable against Treasury Oct. 31, 1879... $583,751.92 A sHOOTING affray occurred at Marion, Grant County, on the night of the 4th, between John Horn and William Stemler, in which the latter was fatally wounded. DaNierL MILLER has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for two years for attempting to wreck a Lake Shore train near La Porte in September last. ' : THE residence of Silas T. Bowen, of Indianapolis, was entered by burglars on the night of the sth, and robbed of about $l,BOO worth of jewelry and other valuables. He was dis‘covered a few minutes after he got into the hguse, but escaped, though he dropped about $7OO worth of stuff in his flight. FRANK P. THOMAS, a young married man of Winslow, in company with two companions, all drunk, started to drive home from Owensville the other night, and whipped the horse into a fast gallop on a rough road. Thomas was thrown out on his head and instantly killed. v ALvis HOTTENGER, a well-known wagonmaker, of Goshen, has unaccountably disappeared. Itis thought that he has committed suicide. e THE State Teachers’ Association will meet in Indianapolis on the 29th inst. Governor Hendricks will deliver the opening address. JoHN ROWE, a wealthy farmer living three miles north of Hagerstown, Wayne County, was poisoned on the 6th by the inhalation of vapor from red oak timber with which he was working. After. suffering the agonies of death for a long time he died next morning. THE following are the current prices for leading staples in Indianapolis: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 3714@88c; Oats, 33 @34}¢c; Lard, 7@7}gc;, Hogs, [email protected]. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, $1.28 @1.305 Corn, 40@48c; Oats, 34@35c; Rye, 385@87c; Barley No. 2, 93.a95c; Pork, $11.50 @12.50; Lard, Y@73gc; Hogs, [email protected].

Mark Twain Protests Against What He Calls the New Postal Barbarism, + THE new postal regulation adds quite perceptibly to my daily burden of work. fi\sedlessly, too—as I think. A day or two ago I made a note of the. addresses which I had put upon letters that day, and then ciphered up to see how many words the additional particularities of the new ruling had cost. me. It was seventy-two. That amounts to just a page of my manuscript, exactly. If it were stuff that a maagazinezwould enjoy, I could sell it, and gradually get rich as time rolled

on—as it isn’t, I lose the time and the ink. I don’t get a kcent for it, the Goyernment %’rows no wealthier, I grow poorer, nobody in the world is benefited. Seventy-two words utterly wasted—and mind you, when a man is paid by the word (at least by the page, which is the same thing,) this sort of thing hurts. Here are one or two specimens from those addresses—with the unnecessary additions in italies: . : Editor * Atlantic Monthly,” Care Messrs. Houghton, Osgood & Co., . Winthrop Square, . ¢ £ ; Boston, : e | Mass. Nine words wasted—l use only the first line and the word ¢ Boston’— and until the letter-carriers lose their minds the additional nine words can never become necessary. : Messrs. Arnold, Constable & Co., 3 : Cor. 19th & B’way, ‘ : New York, ; ' N. Y. Six unnecessary words. 0 Gilsey House, ] Cor. 29t;1, &Bway, | New York, & iy i Six unnecessary words. Even the dead pepple in Boston and New York could téll a letter-carrier how to find * these prominent houses. That same day I wrote a letter to a friend at the Windsor Hotel, New York —surely that house is grominent-f enough, ain’t it? But I could not precisely name the side streets, neither did I know the name of the back. street, nor the head cook’s name. So that letter would have gone to the Dead-Letter Office sure, if I hadn’t covered it all over with an appeal to Mr. James to take it under his person‘al official protection, and let it go to | o : : | that man at the Windsor just this once, and I would not offend any more. Now, you know yourself that there is no need of an official decree to compela man to make a letter-address full and. elaborate where it is all necessary—for the writer is more anxious that his letter shall go through than the Post-master-General can be. And when the writer cannot supply these minute details from lack of knowledge, the decree cannot help him in the least. So what is the use of the decree? As for those common mistakes, the misdirecting of letters, the leaving off the county, State, etc.—do you think an official decree can do away with that? You know yourself that heedless, absent-minded people are bound to make those mistakes and that no decree can knock the disposition out of them. = : . Observe this—l have been ciphering, and I know that the following facts are correct. The new law wfil compel 18,000 great mercantile houses to employ three extra correspondents at $l,000 a year—ss4,ooo,ooo—smaller establishments in proportion. It will compel 80,000,000 of our people to write a | daily average of ten words apiece—3oo,000,000 unnecessary words;’ most of these people are slow—the average will be half a minute consumed on each ten words—ls,ooo,ooo minutes of this Nation’s time fooled away-every day—say 247,400 hours—which amounts to about 25,000 working days of ten hours each; this makes 82 years of 300 Workirg; days each, counting out Sun’dla\}ys and sickness—B2 years of this Nation’s time wholly thrown away every day! Value of the avkrage man’s time, say $l,OOO. a year—now, you see ?—582,000 thrown away daily; in round numbers, $25,000,000 yearly; in ten years, $250,000,000; in' a hundred years, $2,500,000,000; in a million years—but I have not the nerve to go on; you can see yourself what we are coming to. If this law continues in force there will not be money enoufgh in this country, bgf and by, to pay for its obituary—and, you mark my words, it will need one. Now we come to the ink. No, let us forbear—in fancy I already see the fleets of the world sailing in it. Isn’t it odd that we should take a spasm, every now and then, and go spinnin% back into the dark ages once more, aiter having Xut in a world of time and money and work toiling up into the high lights of modern pro%'ress? For many years it has been England’s boast that her postal system is so admirable that you can’t so cripple the direction of a%etter that the Post-Office Department won’t manage some way to find the person the missive is intended for. We could say that, too, once. But we have retired a hundred years, within the last two months, and now it is our boast that only the brightest, and thoughtfulest, and knowin%est men’s letters will ever be permitted to reach their destinations, and that those of the migh‘y majority of the American people—the heedless, the unthinking, 4he illiterate—will be rudely shot by the shortest route to the Dead-Letter Office, and destruction. It seems to me that this new decree is very decidedly unAmerican.—Mark Twain, in Hartford (Conn.) Courant. 1 e

A FIGHT FOR LIFE.

Battling Unarmed in a Cage with a - Siberian Blood-hound, : Some time ago ex-Judge Troy, of Brooklyn, became the possessor of the Siberian blood-hound ‘¢ Satan,”” known to sporting men throughout the country as a terrible fighter. But the dog was so treacherous in his disposition that ex-Judge Troy turned him over to a clerk in his office, Mr. E. Haering, who, having been an athletic gerformer in a number of circuses, had become accustomed to entering the cages of wild beasts, under the instructions of a number of animal trainers. Mr. Haering agreed to take the dog to his father’s premises in Atlantie, near Alabama avenue, Kast New York, providing that ex-Judge Troy would pay for the animal’s keeping. Mr. Troy willingly consented to this, and a cage ten feet long, seven feet wide and ten feet high was constructed in Mr, Haering’s garden, and ““Satan’’ was placed in it. %ne Wednesday, two or tg.ree weeks aio, ““Satan’ began to howl, as was his custom when he wanted fpoi or water. ‘Haering went into the garden to feed the dog, accompanied by half a dozen persons, curious to see the brute After giving the.dag meat, Haering procured some water, stelpped with it into the cage, and then bolted the cage on the outside. He usually went into the cage to feed the animal, and always, on such occasions, carried a heavy, loaded ridin .«fWh;ii;,‘f On this occasion he had ng;iecte‘ | to take the whip with him. Haering set the pan

of “water on the floor, but the dog seemed disinclined to drink, refused to: be petted, and walked restlessly up and down the cage. . . : - Haering saw that .“Satan” was in one of his worst humors, and turned to go out of the 'ca.gig. He bhad no sooner turned his back than the ani--mal sprang upon him. Haering threw himseg to one side, but the dog’s paw struck him on the shoulder, and dogand man fell to the floor together. Haering sprang quickly to his feet, and the dog jumped at him and sunk. his teeth Into the man’s right arm. Haering, quick as lightning, pitched! the dog over on his back and was just going to &'ump on his-g)aws,.as the brute: recovered himself and sprang for Haer--ing’s throat. With one hand Haering grasped the dog’s le%; and with the other caught him by the upper eyelid, and did not let go his hold until he had torn the anima.%’s scalp to the back of the head. The doo fell back with Haering on top. 3;'-,l§oth fiot‘their feet ‘and Haering sprang for the gate of the. cage- 2 ,‘~ = /‘ ~ The dog dashed at him agsin, and’ Haering clinehed the brute, and tried to set his teeth into his shaggy neck.. He failed, but caught the dog?s ear with. his teeth; and held on until he had cut it off, and then he hurled the brute to the floor and fell himself. ; | The dog rushed at Haering again, just as he was getting up,;and bit him in the left hand.. Haering thrust his. hand into the brute’s. throat and tried. to smother him. In the struggle both fell a%ain, and the dog lacerated Haering’s left hand. o . “Unbolt the gate, quick!’’ shouted Haering to the men, who were standin fifty feet away; but no one dare% come to the restue. - Haering then threw himself on the dog and set his teeth into' his throat. and at the same time grasped the do(f;by the upper jaw with his right hand, %)ressing down the lower jaw with his eft arm until the flesh at the sides of the dog’s mouth was torn by the strain. Dog and man struggled about ‘the cage for dt least five minutes. At last they reached the door. Haering;, still keeping his teeth fixed in the ani‘mal’s neek, lifted him up and pinned him against the side of the cage. Then with his right hand he unbolted, the door of the cage, and _%:)t outside, at the same time c?rawing ‘the dog’s head through and closing the gate on his neck. Then he pressed upon the gate with all his might. He held the dog in this way until zfié felt his ‘strength %ail—_ing, and then, detting go the dog’s neck with his teeth, he opened the gate: slightly, and, with a quick kick, he knocked the dog inside, and closed and locked the gate. - e ' Both Haering and the dog were covered with blood. Haering’s lacerated hand bled fast, and blood was running from the brute’s throat. Dr. Allen was sent for, and he dressed Haering’s wounds. Four of the veins in his hand | were found to have been torn, and they have begun-to bleed afresh twice since they were dressed. Haering had to be removed to Dr. Allen’s house for constant medical treatment. He was rapidly improving at last accounts. He says he regrets that a member of the family poisoned the dog, for if it had recovered from the wound in its throat he intended to enter the cage, armed with a beavy whip, and beat t%e animal into submission.—N. Y. Sun.

—A rich and ingenious mechanician constructed a safe which he declared to be burglar-proof. - To convince the incredulous of the fact he placed a $5OO note in his pocket, had himself locked in the safe, with a liberal supply of provisions, and the key cast into the river, declaring that he would give the money to the man who unfastened the door. All the blacksmiths and carpenters in the country have been boring and blasting at that safe for a week with every kind of tool and explosive mixture known to_science, and the man is there .iet!’ He has whispered through the ey-hole that he will double the reward if somebody will only let him out. He has convinced everybody that it is the. safest safe ever invented. Fears are entertained that the whole concern will have to be melted down in the blast furnace before he .is released, and efforts are to be made to pass in through the key-hole a fire-proof jacket, to protect the inventor-while the iron is melting. —N. Y.Evening Post. , T—Horse-blankets with sleeves, accompanied by some eight buttons, like saucers in size, are paraded in the form of overcoats. - - e | ——ell < (—Uneasy lies the man' who has already been caught at it'once or twice.

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