Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 December 1879 — Page 2

The Figonier Banner, J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietors - LIGONIER. : : : INDIANA.

! 1 EPITOME OF THE WEEK. CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE—On the 9th the bills for the interchange of subsidiary silver coins and to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to is/sue $10,000,000 of four-per-cent. bonds for the payment of arrears of pensions were reported from the Committee on Finance and indefinitely postponed.... A petition was presented and referred from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States; representing 5,000 churches and over 500,000 communicants, asking for a commission of inquiry concerning the alcohol liquor traffic ....A memorial was presented and referred from certain ex-soldiers, representing that they were paid in a deir'eciuted‘mxrrcncy, and .asking Congress to. make up the deticiency.... The nomination of Secretary: McCrary to be United Statesy Circuit {dJudge for the Eighth ‘Judicial Circuit was confirmed wi#hout debate or division. ‘ House. —A joint resolution was introduced and referred proposing an amendment to the Constitution providing that, after the 4th of March, 1885, the President and Vice President shall hold their offices for six years, and shall be ineligible for more than one term consecutively, and that members of Congress shall be elected for threc Iyem's.....Bills were introduced—to amend the laws relating to internal revenue; to retire National Bank circulation and substitute United States Treasury notes therefor; to repeal the Resumption act; declaring that after the Ist of Jannuary nothing but gold and silver coin shall be legal tender for debts thereafter contracted, unless otherwise expressly stipulated; for the protection of trade-marks; to })rohibit the further removal of Indians to the ndian Territory; to authorize the purchase of foreign-built ships: by 'United States citizens for use in foreign trade... Joint resog tions were introduced and referred expre ing sympath¥ for * the efforts now being made by patriotic Irishmen to ameliorate the condition of their beloved country,”” and requesting the President to ‘‘communicate .to her Majesty’s Government our hope that some Just arrangement may be early made by which the Irish peasants miay become the owners of the soil they cultivate”.... A concurrent resolution for adjournment from the 19th of December to the 6th of January was agreed to.. SENATE.—Consideration was resumed on the 10th of Mr. Davis’ (W. Va.) resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the-amount paid out of the: Treasury since 1864 on private claims growing out of the late war, and an amendment was accepted extending the time back to March 4. 1861. Mr. Morrill moved to further amend by ealling for a like statement of all such claims which have been presented to and rejected by or may be now gending‘ in, the Treasury Department, which amendment was rejected and the resolution was then adopted by a lfxau'ty : vote, the Republicans voting no....The House concurrent resolution to adjourn from December 19 to January 6 was adopted—36 to 21.... Mr. Morrill offered a resolution, which was laid over under the rules, similar to the rejected amendmeént which he had moved to add to Mr. Davis’ resolution of inquiry as to war claims paid by the Treasury Department.

House.—A joint reselution was introduced and referred proposing an amendment to the Constitution declaring that polygamy shall not,exi_st in the United States, or in any place subject to their (jurisdiction....A bill relative te Supreme Court reports was considered and amended in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House and passed.... A bill was introduced and referred establishing a government for the District of Columbia.. SENATE.—A joint resolution was adopted on the 11th authorizing the Secretary of the Interior, through a commission of five persons.to be appointed by the President, to negotiate with the Indians for their remova. from Colorado, but expressly dptipurating that the Indians shall not be settled in the Indian Territorg'....A bill was passed ap'{)ropriatin’g $200,000 for the erection of such military posts on or near the Rio Grande frontier as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of War for the adequate protection thereof. = House,—Bills were passed—authorizing allowances for loss, by leakage or casualty, of spirits withdrawn from distillery warehouses for exportation; providing that registry fees shall be paid by homesteaders already occupying eighty acres of public land when they select the additional eighty acres to which they are entitled l()ly law.... Resolutions were offered and referred—calling on the Secretary: of the Treasury to report what fraudulent claims have been paid out of appropriations from June 22, 1874, to December, 1877; providing for the appointment of a select committee of five to investigate the cause of the negro exodus....The Fortification Appropriation ($375,000) and the Invalid Pension Appropriation ($52,400,000) bills were reported, ordered printed and recommitted. | SENATE.—Not in session on. the 12th, having adjourned the day before to the 15th. o e : House. —Bills .were introduced—by Mr. Gibson, for the appointment of an InterOceanic Commission to determine the best plan and route for the establishment of a communication for trade and commerce between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the Isthmus of' Darien; by Mr. Gillette, in ogposition to the retirement of greenbacks and in~ favor of substituting them for National Bank notes, and for the free coinage of silver....The Pension and Fortification Appropriation bills were passed, as was also—l 23 to 76—a bill appropriating £20,000 as indemnitfy and compeénsation. to the widow and heirs of Henry Leef, in consequence of the ille%al seizure of the bark Mary Theresa by the United States Consul at Brazil.... Adjourned to the 15th. -

THE OLD WORLD. -~ Sl. PETERSBURG dispatches of the 10th say the Czar had decided to-abandon for the present his Asian policy, and “devote his wisdom and strength to the development of home interests and the introduction of needed reforms. The police force in Bt. Petersburg had been greatly increased and the streets and passages in the vicinity of the Winter Palace were being incessantly patrolled. The Nihilists were very active and threatened further attempts upon the life of the Czar. FIrTEEN Spanish Generals resigned their commissions on the 10th. ‘ - THE Pope.has again advised the Catholic Bishops of Chili and Peru to exercise their good offices in the direction of peace between the two powers. ‘ It was stated on the 11th that the great Bt. Gothard Tunnel in ‘Switzerland only lacked 500 meters of completion. 3 For the first time since 1861 the River Seine was frozen over at Paris on the 11th. : . ' Lorp Lyrron, - Viceroy of India, narrowly escaped death on the 12th. He had returned to Calcutta from a tour of the . brqvinces, and while proceeding to his residence was twice fired upon. The would-be-assassin was captured and found to be a drunken native. Mt o SimLA dispatches of the 12th report that the engagement at Kotal was more important than first reported. The Afghans had inflicted heavy loss on the British, and at the date of the last advices each party held its ground. It was feared that the British would be forced to abandon the position. i . TRUE bills have been found against ~ Davitt, Killen and Daly for sedition. - . Arr the Spanish Generals on the Island of Cuba, including General Blanco, the - Captain-General, tendered their resignations on the 12th. ‘o ; A VIENNA telegram of the 12th says the Bhah of Persia had decided to send an ~ extraordinary mission to European capitals to seek recognition by Europe of the Persian Attrek frontier, which is threatened by

A PestH (Hungary) dispatch of the ‘l2th says that nearly all the rivers and brooks in Transylvania had overflowed their banks, laying under water vasts tracts of country, and destroying bridges and houses, interrupting communications, and sweeping away farming utensils, cattle and grain. In some cases the inhabitants were for days on trees and the roofs of houses, waiting rescue. Bix villages near Arad had been also destroyed, and many entire families , who had found refuge in neighboring woods were frozen to death. Several hundred persons were missing. GENERAL STEWART has sent a messenger to Ayoub Khan, the Afghan commander of Herat, requiring him to hold Herat in the- name of the British Government, and threatening the advancement thither of a British force in case of his failure to do so. SEVERAL large land agitation meetings were held in the west of Ireland on the 14th. ' , ON the morning of the 13th the British forces in Cabul, under General Baker, ctptured the heights of DBala-Hissar. The day before General MacPherson attempted to drive the Afghans from their position, but failed. During the three days’ fighting ‘the British lost forty-three killed and seven-ty-six wounded. ‘ ’ THE French Chamber of Deputies voted on the _l3th to appropriate 600,000 francs to prosecute the survey for a railroad across the Desert of Sahara. A Care Town dispatch, received on the 18th, says the Colonial forces had successfully stormed the stronghoid of the rebellious chieftain, Moirosi, who was killed with many of his followers.

THE NEW WORLD. Ex-SENATOR RAMSEY, of Minnesota, was nominated and confirmed as Secretary of War, vice McCrary, resigned, on the 10th. . ONE of the most violent storms in the memory of the oldest inhabitant occurred in ‘Dakota on the 10th. Snow’ fell to a great depth, and drifted to such an extent as to make travel impossible. ' ' Ex-PRESIDENT GRANT was pleasantly received at Louisville, Ky., on the 10th, and accorded a hearty welcome by the State and municipal authorities and the citizens generally. e : THE commission appointed by the insolvent court of Montreal to investigate the condition of the Consolidated- Bank of that city has discovered that everything was swept ajway by the mismanagement and “corruption of the directors and the absconding superintendent. A special of the 10th says the stock had been offered for nothing to those who would assume the liability of the call, the amount of which was still unknown. The capital sunk in this rotten concern was estimated at $6,000,000. . THE National Council of the. Union League of America met in annual session at Philadelphia on the 10th. Wm. A. Newell, of New Jersey, was re-elected President; Thos. G. Baker, of New York, Corresponding Secretary, and Samuel F. Gwynner, of Pennsylvania, Recording Secretary. A series of resolutions was adopted declaring it the duty of the Nation to execute the laws with force, if necessary; demanding protection by National law of all citizens in the enjoyment of all their privileges and immunities; denouncing Southern War claims, ete., ete. - PETITIONS to Congress for the repeal of the Legal-tender act have recently been circulated and extensively signed in New York, Boston and other Eastern cities. - ACCORDING to a Los Pinos telegram of the 11th Ouray had brought in one of the Indidns demanded by the C'ommlssioners, and had promised to surrender the others as soon as they were captured. It was stated that the Commission had decided to recommend that the White River Agency be abolished, and that the Utes of the agency be distributed between Los Pinos and the Southern Agency; that the loss of property occasioned by the outbreak be paid for out of the Ute fund now at Washington, and that the portion of the reservation lormerly occupied by the White River Utes be ceded to the Government. .

THE State Granges of lowa, Indiana and Ohio have recently elected their officers for the ensuing year, among whom are: lowa—E. N. Gates, Worthy Master; M. L. Devin, Treasurer; W. L. Carpenter, Secretary. Indiana—Aaron Jones, Grand Master, Ohio—President, J. H. Brigham; Treasurer. R. Stevenson; Executive Committee, 8. H. Elis, A. P. Axtell, D. Crouse; Business Agent, W. H. Hill. ) EX-PRESIDENT GRANT arrived at Cincinnati on the 11th. Great preparations had ‘béen made for his reception in that city, and the demonstration was on a par with those of other cities on similar occasions. The Muyor made a welcoming address, to which the exPresident appropriately responded. A banquet was given in the evening, which is said to have been the grandest affair of the kind in the history of the city. ' A FREDERICKSBURG (Va.) telegram of the 11th states that leading Democratic citizens of Richmond County, in that State, headed by Charles Pitts, their recentlyelected member of the Legislature, had petitioned Judge Jones to include within the Jury list such of the colored citizens of the county as the court shall think well qualified to serve as jurors. - THE readjusters of the Virginia Legislature have nominated General William ‘Mahone as their candidate for the United States Senate. : ¢ ' ON the 12th the New York Board of State Canvassers declared all the' Republican candidates elected except the State Engineer and “Surveyor. Horatio Seymour, Jr., the Democratic candidate for that 'office, is declared elected. ~ ReD ROCK, a town in Pennsylvania, near Bradford, was completely destroyed by fire on the 12th. The fire started from the accidental ignition of a quantity of petroleum, and the explosion of several tanks of oil completed the work of destruction. Three hundred families are rendered homeless and’ entirely destitute. L ‘ How. G. B. GriNNELL, of Towa, delivered an address before the National Agricultural SBociety in New York on the evening of the 12th in which he stated that in lowa $2,000,000 annually are lost by what is known a 8 hog cholera, and more than that sum by the insect which cuts short the wheat crop of the State. ‘“Towa asks in vain for our men of science and means to discover a temedy for these losses. People complain with reason that the total appropriation of $200,000, whicli is not more than the value of a cheap cigar for each of our inhabitants, is niggardly and out of proportion.”’ : o O~ the 12th Secretary Schurz received fnformation that the Utes, in demanding trial at Washington, only meantthat they wished to be dealt with by the Government at any point outside of Colorado. One of the savages remarked that the offenders might ‘u'%gn be hanged to trees at the agency as to be tried at Denver. 1 .

UN the *l2th Judge Virgin, of the [Maine Supreme Court, after hearing arguments in favor of and against the propriety of } graut/mg a writ of mandamus to compel the { Governor and Council to throw open the ‘election returns for inspection, refused to ~grant the application, deciding, in substance, that the Governor and Council had an official ~duty to perform, and for that purpose had the exclusive possession of the returns for a reasonable time; that during that time they were.acting under oath, and %hat while thus acting the court had no right to interfere. ON the 12th a petition in chancery was filed in the United States District Court at New Orleans to annul Mrs. Dorsey’s bequest to Jefferson Davis. The document accuses the great Confederate of unduly influencing a generous but weak-minded lady, and alleges that his intercourse with her from first to last exhibited a design on his part to secure her fortune by working upon her . political and religious sympathies. A WasHINGTON dispatch of the 12th says the Senate Finance Committee had postponed till after the Christmas recess the Warner Silver bill, the Trade-dollar bill, and Bayard’s resolution concerning greenbacks, on the ground that the subjects require fuller discussion than could be given by a committee before adjournment. ON the 13th the N?W York Produce Exchange voted—663B to 605—t0 adopt the cental system. ' There was great dissatisfaction at the result, and the minority threatened to secede and establish a new Exchange where business could be transacted upon the bushel plan. : Ho~N. Jam Mes M. Ebpmunps, Postmaster of the City of Washington, D. C., died on the 14th. . . . " A FIRE occurred in the livery stable of J. Gillis, at Little Rock, Ark., on the 14th. Mr. and Mrs. Gillis, who occupied rooms above, managed to save their childred, but in subsequent efforts to secure their own safety Mrs. Gillis perished and Mr. Gillis was fatally burned. A PARTY of engineers left New York on the 13th for Mexico to locate and superintend the construction of a railroad across the Isthmus of Tehauntepec. The promoters of this enterprise have formed a company, and it is said they hope, by completing their work ‘at an early day, to defeat the canal project. DurinG the four months ending on the 13th the amount of gold brought to New York from Europe was $71,672,950. The New York banks reported an aggregate reserve of $5,571,500 in excess of the legal minimum, but a decrease from the previous week of over $2,000,000. Their loans, deposits and circulation showed an increase. IT was announced on the 14th that the bark Monrovia was about to sail from New York for Monrovia, Liberia, with another cargo of megro emigrants for the Republic of Liberia. They had been picked up by agents of the American Colonization Society in all the principal cities of the South, many of them coming from North Carolina. TeE Virginia public schools have recently closed for one month for want of funds. - i THE committee appointed to make a sanitary survey of Memphis has recommended that measures should be taken to secure proper superintendence and subsequent careof the sanitary work to be undertaken by the city; that at an early date every house in the city should be opened, ventilated and chilled; that a large number of houses should be condemned, torn down, and the materials burned; that a system of sewerage be adopted which will carry tlie subsoil drainage into. the Mississippi River: etc., ete. .

: - LATER. ‘ CALCRAFT, the man who, during the previous forty-six years, had conducted the public executions in Great Britain, died on the 15th. ‘ . THE people in some portions of Persia and Turkish Kurdistan are said to be starving, and an American missionary has appealed to the world in their behalf for charity. MR. BUTLER introduced in the United States Senate on the 15th an amendment to the joint resolution introduced by Mr. Bayard withdrawing the legal-tender quality of greenbacks, providing that the proposed change shall not take effect until January 1, 1885. Mr. Voorhees presented a petition of %,000 ex-soldiers and sailors, praying to be paid in greenbacks the difference between the value of greenbacks, in which they were paid for services. to the Government, and the value of gold at the time of payment. Mr. Vest introduced a bill for the organization of the Territory of Oklohoma out of the présent Indian Territory. A bill to establish an income tax was introduced in the House by Mr.. McMillan, and one by Mr. Morse for the encouragement of American ship-building and manufactures. THE Department of Agriculture report says, regarding the condition of the cotton and corn, crops that the returns from correspondents for the month of November substantially confirm the report of the month previous. The weather had been favorable in all sections of the cotton belt. The corn crop, during November, depreciated through the imperfect ripening in our heaviest corngrowing Tregions, the States north of the Ohio River and Missouri, some States falling off ten per cent. This will reduce the average yield per acre of the whole country to 29.1 bushels,. which is exceeded by only one former year—29.4 in 1875. This reduces the aggregate production about 55,000,000 bushels from ‘the November figures but still leaves the crop larger than in any previous year by over 150,000,000 bushels. The States and Territories west of the Mississippi River return over. 100,000,000 bushels more than in 1878. : A SPECIAL dispatch from Augusta, Me., on the 15th says the Governorand Council had cut down the Republican majoritiesin both branches of the Legislature. In the House the Republican membership had been reduced from ninety to fifty-eight, and the Republican majority of nine in the Senate changed to a Democratic majority of seven. It is claimed by the Democrats that these changes were necessitated by informalities of ‘returns. The Republicans claim that the irregularities shown were the result of the sending out of blanks, by the Secretary of State, known to be irregular. A PHILADELPHIA dispatch of the 15th says William H. Kemble had stated that he had resigned from the National Republican Committee, and Senator J. Donald Cameron would probably be selected to fill the vacancy. : GENERAL GRANT arrived in Harrisburg, Pa., on the 15th, and was given an enthusiastic reception. ; o THE conservative debt-payers of the Virginia Legislature, in caucus on the evening of the 15th, nominated Mr. Withers, the present incumbent, for United States Senator. e . ; ; : o ~-«T'll meat you later,” was what the butcher said to a dog just brought to his shop. PR el

INDIANA STATE NEWS. DURING & storm on the momiing of the 9th, William Deal, aged twenty-five years, was struck by lightning and instantly killed, while engaged felling a tree five miles cass of I_ndian'a.pglis on the National Road. The tree was shivered, Deal’s father’s leg broken by a falling limb, and a laborer prostrated by the shock. ; : ON the evening of the 9th B. F. Bentley, proprietor of a saw-mill in Carthage, six miles south of Knightstown, narrowly escaped death. He was caught in the shaft, and be fore aid arrived both legs and arms were broken. . Tae BState Superintendent of Public In struction decides that when a school has been established for colored: children none such can be required to attend it unless they reside within convenient distance, and that, in every case, the same rule is to be applied in deciding this matter as would be used in the case of white children. THREE children of Robert Craig, at Union City, have been poisoned by eating cabbage over which Paris-green had been sprinkled while growing. It is contemplated to have the corner-stone of the new State-House at Indianapolis laid next summer with imposing Masonic. ceremonies. : Mgs. KLEICKNER, a patient at the Hospital for the Insane, at Indianapolis, made a rope by tearing her night-dress into shreds and hung herself in her,room, on the morning of the 10th. ! : J. H. SMART, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, has received reports of the County Superintendents of all the counties in the State, and has compiled the following report for the year ending September 1: Total number of children admitted into the schools within the year: : Whiteomdle . oLO L o 8R9.008 White, temale. .. -0 o 0 0000 oo 9839 Motal v 0o S o cii s 406068 Uoloredemale:. .o oioo o e QGRS Coloredifernale: ;.0 oo 000 il SIRER " Total white and colored. ... ........ 503,892 Average daily attendancein theschools 812,143 Number of districts where schools were taaght oo v ia9 Number where no schools were taught. 33 Number of colored schools taught withINTHe VeaY .ot sl soB e 124 Number of district graded schools. . ... 358 Number of township graded schools. .. 180 Average length of school taught withintheyear,days: .. ..., .. .c...oishis 182 Number of white teachers employed in schodls, male: - .. 0 v e 043 Femdle sno voo v L g RSO Totalee: .o o 0 il sLo LRSS Colored teachers, ma1e.................. 73 Colored teachers; female.... ........... - 42 Average compensation of teachers per day: In Townships— Males oo s e 3188 Remgles. (.00 sl s s i 1 B In Towns— : : Males.. -oo D T 8 IRemales (v o 0 aniios s s e g 9 In Cities— Males: > Lol seiinia ei S D aaaa s 8 6e Kemales 000 o nini s eol 91D Account of revenue for tuition: Amount on hand Sept. 1, 1879......%1,976,504 69 Amount received in February, 1879 1,341,418 28 Amount received in June, 1879..... 1,469,404 11 Miscellaneous receipt 5............. 114,736 62

Total revenue for tuiti0n........54,902,163 77 Amount expended since Sept. 1, 88 eal e s S 00RIbTT Be - Amount on hand Sept. 1, 1879....51,926,161 ¢4 Account of special school revenue: Amount on hand Sept. 1, 1873......% 141,626 06 Amount since received ........... 1,565,832 93 Total. ... ... B Amount expended since Sept. ‘l, ISR it e ien s G AT U Amount on hand Sept. 1, 1879. .. T$ 945,854 34 Number of school-houses: Stone. i e sl 85 Briek. i i s 1,997 YRNG. .ooois s st 7,452 Lo .o vbo si e 108 Estimated value of school proper- . erty, including grounds, seats, ‘ e L IRO BT Estimated valué of school apparatus, globes, maps, etc.......... 265,496 50 Total estimated value of school property.. .. ... ....00000 . SILBTO6 3T Total estimated special school tax 511,013,203 0% Number of volumes in township : Hbraries... . ... iioiui s 242,141 Amount paid trustees for managing educational matter 5......... $788,i23 07 Number of school-houses erected durin%tlge YORr. . ioaooiiicll 394 Va1uethere0f...................... $885,123 23 The number of private schools taught is 6335, with 678 teachers and 14,434 pupils, with an average daily attendance of 8,867, at an average cost of tuition per month per pupil of $1.15. e TaE Richmond Board of Health sent an officer to the region north of the city said to be infected with milk sickness, and diligent inquiry failed to disclose any signs of it. The -ases which had beén reported to the Board were found to be malarial fever. J. A. SwIHART was drowned ia White River on the night of the 10th, while at work upon the bridge between Perry and Decatur townships, Marion County. He and Harry Cole and Lewis D. Lyons attempted to cross the stream in a boat, which was driven by the strong current and broken in two. Cole and Lyons were saved. Mgs. O’NEAL, while crossing the Indianapoiis & St. Louis Railroad bridge across White River, on the 11th, carrying her son his dinper, fell into the water and w&s drowned. When midway across the bridge a pony engine came thundering along. The engineershouted to the woman, and she dropped herself between the ties and hung by her hands, but the concussion of the engine loosened her hold and she fell fifteen feet to the water with the result stated. A wHOLESALE druggist at Indianapolis remarks that the present year was not a profitable one to the trade. The amountof sickuess throughout the State has been only onefourth as great as the previous year, and the character of the sickness has been less remunerative to the dryg trade. Last year the prevailing illness was chills and fever; this year it is typhoid fever. In the one case quinine preparations were sold; in the other gkillful nursing is all the medicine required. He had not sold one ounce of quinine this year to flve last year. : ON the night of the 18th, George Hiney, a Noblesville grocer and confectioner, fell down a stairway leading to a barber-shop, breaking his skull, from the effects of which he died next morning. TuE following are the Indianapolis grain quotations: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 41@411gc; Oats, 37@8%c. The Cincin nati quotations are: Wheat, &[email protected]; Corn, 41@44c; Oats, 388 40c; Rye, 88@90c:. Barley, 95@95c¢. e '

+ Wild Beasts in India. SOME very interesting statistics are üblished by (Government regarding the »gestruction of wild animals and venomous snakes in British India, and of the number of human beings and cattle killed by them. The general results of the reports from various local Governments show that the number of persons killed by wild animals in 1877 was 2 918, and in the followin% year 8,444; by. venomous snakes, 16,777 and 16,812 in the same gem re:]pecfively. Cattle killed by wild animals and snakes in 1877 and 1878 numbered 58,197 and

48,701 inTTeach year. In 1877 22,551 wild animals were destroyed, and in the following year 22,487; and of venomous snakes, 127,295 in the former and 117,958 in the latter year. The amount of rewards paid for the destruction of wild beasts and poisonous snakes was, in 1877, 103,017r5., and in 1878 98,189 rs. The general results, therefore, are that the number of persons killed has increased, while the number of cattle so killed, the number of wild animals and snakes destroyed, and the amount of rewards paid show a decrease. The increase in the number of persons killed by wild animals is attributed to a great extent to the deaths from wolves in the Northwestern Provinces and Oude, which have increased from 380 in 1877 to 624 in 1878. The Lieutenant-Governor has invited the attention of district officers to the subject with a view of more effective measures being taken for the destruction of these animals. With reference to deaths from snake-bites, the number of persons thus killed has decreased from 16,946 in 1876 to 16,812 in 1878, while the number of cattle has decreased from 2,945 in 1877 to 1,825 in the year under review. The returns showing the number of cattle killed are doubtless, as observed by the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, less trustworthy than those of ‘‘persons.”” But his Excellency the Governor-General in Council trusts that the reports of the current year will show the extent to which the suggestion that municipal bodies should offer rewards for the destruction of snakes in towns and large villages has been acted upon, and with whatresults. This matter is one of importance, and should not be lost sight of.—T%mes, of India. '

A Remedy for Diphtheria. The New York Herald of a recent date prints a communication from Mr: Shishkin, the Russian Minister at Washington, by which he desires to make generally known, for the possible benefit of people here, the fact that great success has attended in Russia the treatment of diphtheria with the ben- | zoate of soda. The Herald says: ‘“ Recently many parts of Russia have suffered as from an epidemic of this malady. Only afew days since we published a statement of its widespread ravages and remarkable severity in Russian towns. Diphtheriais a disease due directly to foul emanations, but which attains its maximum of activity in a humid atmosphere. In the wretched homes or hovels of the demoralized poor, where there is a general indifference to cleanliness and where drainage and ventilation are unknown, it flourishes most; but it also flourishes in the homes of the rich and invades the palaces of Princes whenever ignorance of sanitary science results in the production of those conditions favorable to its development which are always present in filthy tenements. Dampness, however, is as important a factor in its production as are poisonous gases, and an atmosphere surcharged with moisture has the same distinct relation to its prevalence as the heats of summer have to intestinal troubles. Perhaps its ravages in Europe this year may be fairly regarded as attributable in great part to the saturated state of the soil, due to the unusual rains and the extensive inundations of low districts. But, let sanitary science do what it may, the time is yet very remote when it can hope to extirpate diseases whose cause is distinctly known, and consequently | the knowledge of an effective remedy is of the very greatest value to the people. Our doctors should %are a fair trial to the remedy of which Mr. Shishkin writes. Little has been said of it, though in fact a full catalogue of the medicines that have been tried in this disease would include almost the whole materia medica. Gum benzoin and the benzoate of ammonia have been used in a solution which was applied to the thgoat as a varnish to prevent the access of air, and the latter on the general principle that all the combinations of benzoic acid have a stimulant effect on the mucous membrane. It is very probable that the combination with soda may have some specific influence.” - Mr. Shishkin’s letter is as follows: IMPERIAL RUSSIAN LEGATION, % | WASHINGTON, November 16, 1879. To the Editor of the Herald: ; In view of the increase of diphtheria in several places of the State of New York I hasten to communicate to you for publicity a very simple remedy, which, having been used in Russia and Germany, may prove effective here. Out of several others, .Mr. Letzerich, who made extensive experiments in the application of this remedy, has used it in twenty-seven cases, eight of which were of a very serious nature, all of which had a favorable result except in one case, when the child died from a complication of diseases. For children of one year he prescribes the remedy, for internal use every one or two hours, as follows: ; Natr. benzoic, pur. 5.0 solv.in aq. distillat aq. menth. piper. ana 40.0 syr. cort. aur. 10.0. . For children from one to three years old he prescribed it from seven to eight fifammes for one hundred grammes of istilled water, with same sirup; for | children from three to seven years old he prescribed ten to fifteen fiammes, a,n(f) for grown persons from fifteen to twenty-five grammes for each one hundred grammes. Beside this he uses also with great success the insufflation on the diphtherial membrane through a glass tube in serious cases every three hours, in light cases three times a day, of the natr. benzoic pulver. Forgrown people he prescribes for .garglix‘lfi a dilution of ten grammes of this pulver for two hundre§r ammes of water. - -~ The effect ofgtr:liae remedy is rapid. After twenty-four or thirty-six hours the feverish symptoms disappear completely and the temperature and pulse become normal. This remedy wasused also with the same success by Dr. Braham Braun, and Professor Klebs, in Prag; Dr. Senator, in Cassel, and several gfixers in RusaiaandGerman{. Lo ee ae | Hopinf that the publication through your widely-read paper will prove beneficial in the United States, I remain yours, very truly. - N. SHISKIN, ~ Minister of Russgia to the United States.,

—One of the most interesting siths in life is that of a spiritual young lady sharpening a lead pencil with a tableknife, T

The Language Which Secured Davitt’s Indictment for Sedition. - The Dublin ecorrespondent of ' the London 7%mes has sent to that gaper a report of the language testified by a short-hand reporter to have been used by Michael Davitt on the occasion of one of the recent £ubllc demonstrations in Ireland, and -for which Davitt has been indicted on the ‘charfie of sedition. The words were as follows: ‘* Why are we here to-day, on the Monday of the nineteenth century of civilization, protest--ing against an immoral system of land laws that has been swept away from the t'glath of every other civilized people? I say Bis. a question we should put to ourselves to-day, and we should dg'ive no indefinite answer. But, if it is true, I deny that you should draw upon that in this year, with impending famine and dire misfortune before us, in order to satisfy the greed and avarice of the landlords. If you have it, then I say look first to the neces-- . gity of your children, of your wives and of your homes. If you have a charitable disposition to meet the wants of ‘the landlord, give him what you can spare, and give him no more. > . “Tam one of those peculiarly constituted Irishmen who believe that rent for land in any: circumstances, prosperous tim<s or bad times, is nothing more nor less than an unjust and immoral tax upon the industry of a people, and I further believe that landlordism as an institution is an° open conspiracy - against the ~well-being, prosperity and happiness of a people; and I say that anything that is immoral, whether it be arent or an open conspiracy of landlordism, has to be crushed by the people ' who suffer in consequence of it. “Look at it from a purely commercial point of view, and how does it operate sgainst the geople in the country? Say that the 600,000 armers in Ireland earn on an average £1 10s each week, and some earn a great deal less. However, we will put £1 108 as-the average weekly earnings of the farmers of Ireland, and that would produce an aggregate sum of about £45,000,000 a year earned by 600,000 farmers in Ireland. Of that sum of £45,000,000, how much do you think 3,000 individuals, called landlords, exact for themselves every year? Mind, 3,600, about one-third the number of persons Present at this meeting. Well, the 3,000 rish landlords pocket the neat sum of £20,000,000, or nearly halt .the entire earnings of the- 600,000 Irish farmers. But not only that. Not a single one of them ever puts a foot to plow or hand to spade to earn a penny of it. The farmers must labor from morn till eve to support thems#elves and their children, when in steps Mr. lazy, unproductive landlord, and demands almost halt the money so earned to sustain. himself in the licentious and voluptuous life he very often leads—not in Ireland, but away in London, Paris and elsewhere. Not only does this system rob you of half your earnings, but it robs Ireland, it impoverishes Ire-: land, and goes away to another country to enrich another people who never earned it; and are we going to:tolerate any tinkering of this system? Are we -here to listen to anF proposal of fixity ot temure at fair rents, with periodical valuations? : = ‘I say that, in face of another impending , famine too plainly visible, the time has come when the manhood of Ireland will spring to its feet and say that it will tolerate this system no longer. Isay we are here to-day to proclaim eur determination to work unitedly and to work unceasingly until all the restrictions that militate against the proper cultivation of the soil of Ireland and against the happiness and contentment of its people are swept away once and forever. . o g ~ “We had got to stand on our just rights as given to us by Almighty God. He created this fruitful land of ours,and decreed that those of His people who should inhabit it should live on the land by the fruits of their honest industzéy and labor. If they:'propose to iyou to send you out to Canada, or to Australia, or to Zululand, tell them you will not go; point to your own fruitful valleys and everlasting hills, and say that you will keep a firm grip, not. only’ of your homesteads, but of Ireland, and this be your answer to these emigration schemes. Mr. O’Connor told you that it is probable the Government snig.ht have Zululand in its eye when its officials and its organs talk about an émigration scheme, but I will tell you why Ido not believe they meant that. There is a great similarity between the Irish-Pike and the Zulu assegai, and the English soldiers whowent out to civilize the Zulus at the point of the bayonet found that the savage Africans knew how to handle the assegai almost as well as our ancestors knew how.to handle the pikein ’9B. In conclusion I would ask you not to be content with coming to these meetings and applauding sentences in connection with landlordism or the misgovernment of Ireland; but fo work—to co-operate together, in clubs and in protection societies, until there is such an overpowering organization throughout the whole of Ireland that will not only break down landlordism, but every other barrier that stands between the people of Ireland and their just rights.” : o The only questions asked this witness by Mr. Davitt were whether he was ever obstructed in his duty, and whether his notes were accurate. To the first he answered in the ne%atlve; and to the second he said to the best of his ability they were. :

WHATEVER may have been the cause in past times, it ils -evident now that Brooklyn has nq legitimate right to the distinctive name of ¢ The City of Churches.”’ Fi%lures derived from the census of 1870 show that she is far behind other cities of - this country in proportion of churches to population. Of prominent cities there are at least ten that go. ahead of her. She has only one church for every 1,721 of population, while Washington, which deserves the name that Brooklyn wears, has one for every 932. Cleveland has one for every 1,044; New Orleans one for every 1,345; Cincinnati one for every 1,350; Baltimore one for every 1,412, and Boston one for every 1,666. St. Louis is nearly as well off for churches as Brook,ifn,» having one for every 1,852 of population. : i ) et —Some men pay attention who never pay anything else. - : :

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