Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 4, Ligonier, Noble County, 13 May 1880 — Page 2

Che Figonier Banzr, J. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprfi:‘l;r. LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA

NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts ; Congressional. In the Senate on the sth Mr. Wallace, from the Select Committee to inquire into the alleged frauds in the late election, submitted a report of the result of the investigation on the subject of denial or abridgment of suffrage in Rhode Island, which concliides as follows: ' Your Committee report that the right of suffrage to ‘ toreign born’ citizens of the United States is abridged ng the Constitution and laws of Rhode Island, and respectfully submit that, under the Fourteenth Amendment and provisions of the act apportioning Representatives to the' States, it would be competent for Congress at ‘this time to de%ri\'e Rhode Island of one of her Representatives in Congress, if satisfied that the applicaiion of the rule laid down in the Cgustitution would reduce the Representative basis in that State below the ratio looked to in the apportionment.”” Mr. Blaine stated that there would be a minority report. Mr. Wallace also introduced a bill providing that, in the future, *'in taking the enumeration of in* habitants in the several States, the Superintendent of the Census! shall ascertain the number of male citizens of the United States, twenty-one years of age and upward, whose right to vote at any election named in the Fourteenth Amendmen} .bhas been denied or in any way/ abridged by the Constitution or laws of ang' State, except_ a 3 authorized by said amendment.”....The greater part of the session. of the House was taken up with a discussion of the Post-office Atppropriation bill. Mr. Atkins, Chairman of the Committee on Ag(?ropriations, reported a bill upgmpriating $250,000 for carrying on the Public Printing-Otfice du--ing the current fiscal year. Mr. Atkins stated that the sum was the same as that appropriated by the bill vetoed by the President. The bill passed without a division. "IN the Senate on the 6th, in the absence of Vice-Prosident Wheeler, Mr. Thurman was chosen President pro tem. Mr. Morgan submitted a resolution providing a rule for counting the Electoral vote. Mr. Bayard introduced a bill to regulate-the appointment and pay of special Deputy Marshals, providing that the pay of such officers for services in reference to any election shall be $5 for each day of actual service, and no more, and that they ‘‘shall be appointed by the Circuit Court of the United Stdates for the distiict in whigh such Muarshals are to perform their duties in each year at tne term of Court next preceding any election of Representatives or delegates in Congress; but if from any cause there should be no session of the Circuit Court in the States.or Districts where such Marshals are to be appointed, then and in that case the Judges of the District Courts of the United States are hereby respectively authorized to cause their courts to be open for the purpose of ‘appointing such special Deputy Marshals; who shall be appointed by such District Judges, and all officers 80 appointed shall be in equal numbers from the different political parties, and be wellknown citizens of good moral character and actual residents of the voting precincts in which their duties are to be performed.” The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The bill appropriating $250,000 for public printing was passed....ln the House the Conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to. The report states that the main point of difference between the houses was in regard to the discontinuance of the Board of Indian Commissioners. As was finally agreed upon, the-com-mission is continued, but a proviso was inserted that no mone® shall be paid for salaries and expenses of the commission. The Postotfice Appropriation bill was considered in and reported from Committee of the Whole. A RESOLUTION was submitted in the Senate on the 7th, by Mr. Voorhees, instruct ing the Comrmittee on Public Lands to inquire into the expediency, propriety and public policy of declaring all lands- heretofore granted in aid of the construction of railroads, and which have not been’'earncd by compliance with tbe terms of the grants, open to ‘public entry and settlement, the sume as other Government land. The credentials of Senator James A. Garfield were presented and placed on file. Mr, f'l‘clle&))resented the views of the minority of the Wallace Committee on the subject of political assessments. -‘They- claim that it is no more dangerous for Federal officers to pay the expenses of camg‘aigning‘ than for persons who wish to be ederal officers to do so, and maintain that the mendsure contemplates the abridgment of the rights of a large class of citizens. Afg a substitute, they presented a bill providing heavy penalties forrthe compu sory assessment of officeholders, and for the intimidation ,of voters ut the pols. ‘Jhe Conference report on the Indian Agp.ropriation bill was agreed to. The KelloggSpoftord resolutions were further considered, aund Mr. Hoar offered a substitute declaring that, in the opinion of the Sente, the maiters reported by theé Committee on Privileges and Elections relative to the pending question were not sufticient to justity the reopening of the decision of the Senate. The bill to abolish the Fort Harker (Kan.) military reservation and dispose of its land to actual settlers was pussed.- Adjourned to the 10th.... The Post-office Appropriation bill was amended in the House by the insertion of a clause }n'ovidimz that all star-routes on which pay lor expedition shall exceed tifty per cent. of the contract p ice before such. expedition was ordered shall be relet, after thirty days’ advertisement. on the Ist of October next, and the b:ll as amended was passed. About twenty Pension bills were also passed, and the Senate amendment to the House bill for the relief of settlers on public lands was conourred in. ‘THE Senate was not in session on the 8th....1n the House_the Conference Committee’sreport on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was agreed to, and a few privdte bills were passed. The Pennsylvania contested election case of Curtin vs. Yocum was taken up, and Mr. Beltzhoover advocated the majority seport, which recommended the passa%e of a resolution declaring the seat vacant, but stated it to be his intention to offer ap amendment declaring Mr. Curtin entitled. to Ihe seat. Mo

Domestic. GOVERNOR WiLTZz and the Mayor and other official of New Orleans published a card on the sth denying that yellow fever was prevailing in that city. They say. no case of that disease had occurred there this season. : : Seaie e CORPORAL ErNST WEISTHAL, of Company I, Thirteenth Infantry, was accidentally shot and iostantly killed at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, on the sth, by Lieutenant Davis, while target praeticing, the Corporal acting as marker, A pIISPATCH from Portland, Ore., on the sth states that while the fleet of fishing boats were returning, after laying their nets o' gosite Point Adams, at the mouth of the Columbia River, a squall came up and twenty boats were blown upon the bar and many swamped. Twelve fishermen, at least, were drowned. ' ON the sth Mr. Thomas Heermans, one of the proprfi:tqrs .of the Star and Crescent Mills in Chicago, fell through an elevatoropening from the attic to the basement of the mill, a distance of eighty feet, and ‘jas almost instantly killed. : e i Tae great wholesale ¢lothing house of Whitten, Burdett & Young, Boston, and adjoining merchants, suffered to the extent of about $400,00) by fire and water on the morning of ttie 6th. gt It was reported on the 6th that great damage was being done to 'the tubacco crop in Virginfa by a fly known as the tobacco-fly. The farmers were greatly discouraged at the prospect, and many were sowing pease and corn in the ground intended for tobs.%-o. - At a meeting in Piftsbargh on the 6th of the Western Lron. Association, after a full discussion of the question of the existing dullness in the iron trade, it was unanimously agreed to reduce the card rates from three and two-tenths to two and a half cents per pound. i e

ONE of the severest fires ever experienced in the Pennsylvania oil regions prevailed in the vicinity of Bradford on the 6th. The fire originated by an oil well which was being torpedoed overflowing and catching fire. The tackle of 900 wells, consisting of engines, engine-houses, boilers, tanks, belthouses and derricks. was destroyed. Each tank contained about 230 gallons of 01, and most of them were full at the time. Rew City, a village of some 500 inhabitants, in the oil region, was' entirely "destroyed, and two women and five children were burned to death. One repoirt estimates that about $1,500,000 worth of property was entirely de‘stroyed, and that thousands of men are thrown out of employment and rendered homeless. ; " THE Secretary of the Interior has ordered the census taken of all Indians on reservations. The work of enumerating will begin June 1. THE coke-workers in the Connellsville (Pa.) district struck on the 7th for an increase of wages, .and all the works except two or three were idle. - : ‘A COURIER from Magallon Mountains reached Silver City, N. M., on the 7th and reported that Tiernau, Hunter and their party, thought to have been killed by the Indians, were safe. : THE verdict of the Coroner’s jury in the cases of the victims of the Madison Square Garden ¥N. Y.) disaster eensures the Harlem Raijlroad Company for employing a civil engineer, who was not conversant with the construction of buildings,'as an architect, and the Department of Buildings for negligence. The jury recommend that the entire building be taken down, as they deemed it dangerous and unfit for the purposes of public assemblages. e At Galveston, Texas, a few nights ago John Keller, mistaking his wife for a burglar, shot her dead. ; | SECRETARY SCHURZ, receiving information on the Bth of another raid upon Indian Territory, called upon the President and aske\d him for help. Additional troops - would be ordered to proceed at once to the protection of the reservation, and those trespassers who had already entered the Territory would be driven out. : AN express train on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad ran into a wash-out near Bismarck, Mo., on the 9th, demolishing the locomotive and one or two cars, and Kkilling the engineer and fireman. (5 .

A FIRE in Kinderhook, N. Y., on the night of the Bth destroyed the business| portion of the place, and caused a loss of $40,000. On %he 9th +thirty buildings, mostly residences, were burned at Allegheny City, Pa. CrarENCE DAVIS' trial in Chicago for bigamy énded on the Bth in a verdict of ggui]‘m’f the jury fixing the penalty at imprison‘ment for five years and a fine of $l,OOO. ,‘ - AN explosion of sulphur in a colliery ‘near Shamokin, Pa., on the Bth fatally burned five persons. GENERAL Fisk presented to the Methodist General Conference at Cincinnati on the Bth the report of the Commission appointed to adjust the differences between the Northern aund Southern branches of the Church. The report set forth that all the differences had been amicably adjusted; that harmony should be established, and the two. Churches should work together. - The report occasioned an exciting debate, but it was at last ratified. i , ANOTHER great fire occurred in the oil regions of Pennsylvania on the 9th, the aistrict devastated being in the neighborhood of Rixford. Eighty light' frame buildings, over thirty thousand barrels of oil-and forty derricks were burned. ' At Rochester, N. Y., on the Bth two boys named .Ray McCrosan, aged four, . and Thomas F. Garland, aged five, playing with matches in 4 barn, made a bonfire. The barn was burned, and the two boys were roasted so as to have no resemblance to human beings. D b i

Personal and Political. THE North Carolina Greenback State Convention mét at Greensboro on the sth and chose uninstructed delegates to- the Chicago Convention. THE marriage of Miss Eleanor M., third daughter of General Sherman, and Lieutenant Alexander M. Thackara, United States Navy, took place at the residence of the bride’s parents in Washington on the sth. THE Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on the sth denied the appeal of the widow Oliver from the rulings, of Chief-Jus-tice Cartter’s decision in favor of ex-Senator Cameron. It was announced that she would appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. g ¥

AFTER being out two days the jury, in the case of B. F. Allen, tried in the United States Court at Chicago on the charge of making false reports to the Comptroller of ‘the Currency, on the sth brought in a ver ~dict of ‘“Not guilty.” ~ Tee New Hampshire Democratic State Convention met at Concord on the sth -and chose delegates to Cincinnati, who are reported to favor the nomination of Tilden. THE Wisconsin State Republican Convention met at Madison on the sth and selected delegates'to the Chicago Convention. According to the Madison Journal they stand eight for Blaine, eight for Washburne, three for SBherman and one for Grant. : WiLLiaAM H. VANDERBILT has been re-elected President of the Michigan Central Railroad Company. ; - Tee Maryland Republicans met in State ‘Convention at Frederick on the 6th, and elected delegates to the Natioaal Convention who were instructed for Blaine. - TeHe National Convention of anti-third-term Republicans met in St. Louis on the 6th. Delegates were present from éleven States. SBpeeches were made by E. C. Hubbard, a delegate to the Chicago National Convention, Bluford Wilson, General John B. Henderson and others. Letters were read from a large number of prominent Republicans expressing regret at their inability to be present. Resolutions disapproving of the election of General Grant to a third term were adopted, and an Executive Commiftee was appointed. ' VlicE-PRESIDENT WHEELER left Washington on the 6th, intending to remain absent during the rest of the session of Congress. Mr. Thurmau was chosen President pro tem. of the Senate. ‘ - THE Ohio Democrats met in State Convention at Columbus on the 6th and elected delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. The de:ggatep were instructed for Thurman and the unit rule was adopted, TaE Delaware Republican State Convention met at Dover on the 6th and, after a stormy session, chose uninstructed delegates to the National Convention. They are re‘ported to favor the nomination of Mr. Blaine. AFTER a two-days’ session the Tennessee Republican 8 ate Convention on the 6th succeeded in choosing delegates to the

National Convention. They were nninstruected, but are reported to be mainly for Grant. ‘Alvin Hawkins was nominated for Governor. THE New Jersey State Republican Convention, which met in Trentdon on the 6th, elected delegates to the Chicago Convention favorable to the nomination of Blaine. Tae New Hampshire Republicans chose Blaine delegates to the National Convention at their State Convention in Concord on the 6th. g : ' THE Mississippi State Republican Convention adjourned on the 6th, after a three days’ session. The delegates to Chicago are reported to be six for Sherman, six for Grant and four: for Blaine. They" were uninstracted. : ~ Mgs. JosepHINE R. STONE is one of the delegates from the Fourth Massachusetts District to the National Greenback Convention. JAMES B. WEAVER, the Greenback member of Congress from the Seventh lowa District, was renominated on the 6th. ;

- . Foreign, A Panrs telegram of the 7th says eighty cotton factories at Roubaix, Tourcoing and Rouen had been closed in consequence of the workmen demanding more pay and less ‘hours of labor. It was estimated that 25,000 operatives in those cities were idle. ! v THE man who recently murdered the contractor on a French express train has committed suicide by hanging himself with the bandages of the wounds he received in the struggle with his victim. : A'DuBLIN telegram of the 7th says ‘great:distress prevailed at Kilreed, County Galway, and that hundreds would perish unless food be sent immediately. THE inhabitants of the town of Bitlis, in Turkey, were in a state of revolt on the 7th because of the scarcity of food. ' *PART of the roof of the St. Gothard tunnel fell on the 6th, killing three workmen. o Most of the British iron-workers who were recently on a strike have resumed work at a discount of five per cent. on previous wages. : = DuriNG the last thirty years 2,000,000 persons have emigrated ffiom Germany, according to a late Berlin, telegram. - A LoxnpoN telegram of the 9th says the British' Government had issued a circular urging upon the Powers the execution ' of the Treaty of Berlin. THE Turkish assassin of Colonel Com‘meroff, of the Russian legation at Constantinople, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life, -‘the Czar’s consent having been gained on representations by the Porte that his exeeution would be likely to provoke a rebellion. THE Turkish Albanians have issued a proclamation declaring their independence. THE greater part of Western Hungary has been laid waste by a hail-storm. - . TaE Consul-General of the United States at Montreal, under date of April 30, reports to the Department of . State that a large emigration from Canada to the United States was going on. Two hundred and nine-ty-two families, or 2,119 individuals, by the official statement of the Inspector of Customs, emigrated via Montreal during the month of April. From the Consul at Bremen it is also learned that during the first two weeks of April 6,103 emigrants left that port for the United States, making over 15,000 emigrants since January 1, 1880. The emigrants were notably of a thrifty, forehanded class. o AN explosion of gunpowder occurred at Faido in the Bt. Gothard Tunnkl on the 9th, and eighteen persons were killed or wounded. HoN. GEORGE BROWN., editor of the Toronto Globe, who was shot a few weeks ago by a discharged employe, died on the 9th. INFORMATION was received in Washington on the Bth, by cable, that the Nicaraguan Government had granfed a liberal concession to Americans for an Inter-oceanic Ship Canal Company. :

3 LATER NEWS, THE sessions of the German Reichstag were adjourned by the Emperor without date on the 10th. The difficulty was the defeat of the Government on the proposition to modify the privileges of Hamburg as a free port. : SEVERAL thousands of dock-laborers in Liverpool struck on the 10th for increased wages. Steamers were much inconvenienced. CHIEF-JUSTICE WAITE, of the United Btates Supreme Court, on the 10th announced the appointment of James H. McKenney as Clerk in place of Mr. Middleton, deceased. A PETITION signed by many influential New Yorkers, asking the appointment of Postmaster James, of that city, to the position of Postmaster General, on the retirement of Judge Key, was presented to President Hayes on the 10th. ; - A DECISION was. rendered by the United States Supreme Court on- the 10th to the eflect that, as - Government, is organized partly with a view to the preservation of pubic morals, it cannot divest itself of the power to provide accordingly. The Court held lotteries to be demoralizing in their effects, no matter how carefully regulated; they are a species of gambling, and are bad in their influences. The giving of a charter to a lottery concern, then, is merely a permit subject to future legislation or constitutional control or witlidrawal. . THE Cook County (Ill.) Republicans met in County Convention in Chicago on the 10th. After an uproarious struggle.the antiGrant men captured the organization, whereupon the advocates of Grant’s renomination seceded and set up a Convention of their own. The regulars appointed delegates to Springfield favoring the nomination of Washburne and Bifine in the proportion of 58 for the former and 84 for the latter. The seceders appointed a full set of delegates favoring Grant’s nomination. k Four men were killed by the explosion of a boiler in the Merchant Iron Mill at Rome, N. Y., on the 10th. : ‘ A COMMUNICATION was received in the United States Senate on the 10th from the Secretary of thé Interior stating that Commissioner Bentley had ascertained that his estimates for the deficiency for arrears of navy and army pensions would be insufficient by $2,085,000, the new estimates aggregating $8,740,000. Mr. Hoar spoke at some length on the Spofford-Kellogg case, and Mr. Hill took. the floor, but postponed hisremarks until the 11th. The report of the Conference Committee on the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was adopted. Bills were introduced in the House—for the survey of lands within the railroad subsidy limits; to extend the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific Raflroad; to reclaim waste and arid lands; to revulate commerce by railway between the Btates. Further debate waq,hygd on the Cur-tin-Yocum eontest. ' 7 Roet el ER R e

- INDIANA STATE NEWS. Taue following is the State Central Committce selected by the late Greenback State Convention: : First District—C. H. Wessler, Vanderburg, Second District—l. F. Parkes, Daviess: Third District—Moses Poindexter, Clark. Puurth District—Richard Gregg. Dearborn, Fifth District—R. M. Hazelett, Putnam. Sixth District—T. C. Campbell, Henry. SBeventh District—C. W. Brouse, Marion. Eighth Distriet—John L. Boyd, Parke. Ninth District—Peter Caldwell, Hamiltons Tenth District—Robert Gregory, White. Eleventl;DDistri'ct-—F.- F. Warring, Wells. Twelfth Di~trict—Christian Orff, Allen. Thirteenih District—A. R. Barlow, Marshall. The Committee was subsequently o:ganized by the choiee of C. C. Post as Chairman, F.D. Somerby as Secretary and John W. Richardson as .Treasurer.i : . q THE following is a full list of delegates to the Greenback National Convention from Indiana: ; ‘ . . At Large—James Buchanan, T. A. Allen, T, F. Milr(;g, William D. Thomas,, StFirSt istrict--Samuel Marick and Captain one. Second District—A. P. Anderson and Uriah Coulson. . [ Third District—John A. Greene and A. V. Hudson. : Fourth District—Richard Gregg and Benjamin Toolar. E Fifth District—Walter Conley and Levi Ferguson., : PSixth District—W. C. Jeffries and William ropps. g R.bieventh Dfstrict—Elias Neff and Reuben A. iley. : Eighth District—M. C. Rankin and W. A. Tipton. . ; Ninth District—W. R. Ellis and Henry Gore. Tenth District—Charles H. Price and M. H. Ingram. : ]gleventh District—Johh Studebaker and William Carroll. ] Twelfth District—L. 8. Stoner and B. F. Dawson,. | . : e Thirteenth District—Joseph A.Garner and L. N. Shedd. THE following is a list of the Presidential electors nominated at the recent Greenback State Convention: ‘ . For the State-at-Large—David Moss, Hamilton; Séxmuel Wallingford, Monroe. . First’ District—A. W. Selby, Pike. " Second District—D. I. Smith—Daviess. Third District—Not filled. -Fourth District—Wm. H. Green, Dearbora. Fifth District—J. Q. A. Newson, Bartholomew. Sixth District—B. B. Besson, Wayne. Seventh District—Captain Reuben A. Riiey, Hancock. Eighth District—Fred Robinson, Clay. Ninth District—John L. Miller, Tippecanoe. Tenth District—John B. Milroy, Carroll. . Eleventh District—Henley James, Grant, , Twelfth District —Christian Orff, Allen. Thirteenth District—John G. Maugherman, St. Juseph. GEORGE STEPHENSON was found two miles west of Anderson on the Bee Lineé Railroad track on the morning of the 6th, with his head severed from his pody and otherwise horribly mangled. He is supposed to have fallen asleep on the track and to have been run over by a freight train during the night. . JouN TAYLOR was drowned in Stoney Creek, Perry Township, Delaware County, on the 6th while hunting for turtles. ‘ JouN SmiTH, of Logansport, hung himself with a clothes line in a shed attached to his resilence on the sth. He had several times attempted suicide, and it is believed that his mind had become deranged. He had stolen a saddle some‘days before and for the offense had been indicted by the grand jury. This is supposed to have been the cause of the rash act. .

ELLA BLANNERMAN, of Greenwood, arrived at Crawfordsville a few days ago, and left in the evening for Indianapolis. Her actions having excited suspicion, search was made in the woods adjacent to the junction, into which she had been observed to go, and an infant child was discovered wrapped in a shawl. A policeman went to Indianapolis, arrested her and brought her back to Crawfordsville for trial. She says that her husband directed her to Kill the child, but that she lacked the nerve to commit the deed. She evinces utter indifference as to the support of the child. Dr. J. R. Goopwix, of Brookville, was fataily shot on the 3d by his brother, Colonel R. N. Goodwin, until recently an inmate of an insane asylum, : ~ Durixg the months of February and March there was prevalent in the country around Bt. Paul, Decatur County, what was supposed to be typhus fever, but later developments—the death of Samuel Sweezer, aged thirty-five years, and a post-mortem, with mieroscopical investigation—revealed trichina spir:lis. In a piece of flesh the diameter of an eightly of an inch twelve of these trichina were found. Sweezer in February took violent cramps, with nauseousness, and continued for some bime to be treated for typhoid fever.. The patient grew emaciated to an extreme, his appetite be.ng; however, of an enormous éxtent. He gradually grew worse and died. AN incendiary fire at Indianapolis on the 2d destroyetl the stable of Joha 8. Duncan, with its contents, including a horse and carriage. The family had just returned from church, and the animal had not been in the stall more thanififteen minutes. Lossabout slvsoo- : : : ; THE enumeration of school-children for 1880, just completed, shows 26,522 within the corporate limits of Indianapolis, which, with 267 transfers from outside, makes 26,788. Last year the total resident school population was x 6 039, showing that the increase has been less -than two per cent. This is the smallest rate observed for years. At Lafayette on the morning of the 2d John Foster, his wife, child and mother-in-law ate by mistake pokeroot for horseradish, and were badly poisoned. All will recover, though they werein great danger for a time. THE statement was made from Indianapolis on the 7th that Hon. John C. New and his associates had purchased the I[ndianapolis Journal, paying therefor the sum of $85,000. ALEXANDER LYNN committed suicide at Milton, in Wayne County, on the night of the sth. He was despondent, because a young lady had refused to marry him on account of his intemperate habits. |

JouN W. ARNOLD, seventy-three years old, of Indianapolis, was found dead on the evening of the sth in an outhouse near Trafelgara. A large revolver was found by his side, but none of the chambers were discharged. H. is supposed to have died from heart disease. G. W. Hoss, L L.D., has resigned his chair in the Indiana University, to take charge of the Kansas Educational Journal. Tue Indianapolis grain quotations ate: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn,, 8624@ 87c; Oats, 324@3414c. The Cincinnati quotationsarc: Wheat, No. 2 Ked, [email protected]%; Corn, 4015@4034c; Oats, 85@35%c; Rye, 87@ (@M Barley;_F_Jé_ctv*n Fun. 90a aiLe. ~ TrE Rochester Democrat narrates that a countr‘yman went to a Troy hotel the other night to remain all night. The clerk ofl‘erea him a check. for iis overcoat, but was rather astonished when the countryman, eyeing him 'stextx;'l;y for a moment, broke forth with ¢ No, I'll be goll darned if Lon git my ¢t for that ;%iece of'brass. You can't fool me. 1 fiaid Toby Stark, of‘Benningtdn;f{four‘do ars for that er eoat, and it's 'worth six dol= larsof any man’s money—no youdon’t.” 5 b ey st 47 % THE poor’' woman who thought she could make a cotton dress wear aslong: as a woolen one, was worsted in the at< tempt. - Syrocuse Sunday I¥mes. -

. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. - _ —The General Assembly of the Presgyterian Church (Southern) will meet at harleston, May 20. o —Moody and Sankey are on an extended tour for the purposé of obtaining needed rest. They have journeyed as far as Texas, and will soon push toward New Mexico. ; —Of the 14,000 Methodist Episcopal ministersin this country there are, ac-cordin%t-o the Methodist, only eleven who have blots on their names, and three of these have been condemned unjustly. - —The air must have been very bad in a certain unventilated church, when the minister said to the sexton that if such foul air were used for blowing the organ it would put the instrument out of tune, —Wisconsin spent $2,513,301.83 on her public schools last year. Of, the school population of 483,453, 293,286 attended school, leaving nearly 200,000 children without instruction. =~ - ’ ; & —A Lutheran preacher of eminence in Berlin complained in a recent sermon that one-third of the scholars in the higher schools of that capital are Jews, though they form only five per cent. of the population. —Now that the subscriptions necessary to pay the debts of the Southern Methodist Publishing house at Nashville have all been taken in, the agent has begun the work of turning them into available cash. The total amountis $200,000, and it is to be hoped that there will not be much shrinkage. -~ : —Mr. Weatherwax, the new State Assessor in New York, says that there is more property under church control in the State than is necessary for strictly religious purposes, and that he does not see why this surplus wealth should be exempt from sustaining its share of the public buwden. : ; —Germany spends more money per capita for school education than either England, Austria-Hungary, France, Spain, Italy or Russia. The expenditure is about 70 cents a head of the population; England’s, about 44 cents; Aus-tria-Hungary's, about 40 cents; France’s, about 36 cents; Spain’s, about 32 cents; Italy’s about 20 cents, and Russia’s, about 6 cents. ‘

—A Methodist gentleman who owned a farm of one hundred and twenty-five acres near Rhinebeck, N. Y., has given it for the purpose of building on it a number of cottage homes for worn-out Methodist preachers. The cottages are to be as cozy as possible, thus making the old gentlemen who are to live in them far more comfortable than if they were lodged in the little square rooms of a seven-story asylum in the suburbs of some great city. ! : —The Christians in Armenia appeal to the civilized nations of t;-ile world to save them from threatened extermination at the hands of the Turks. They are denied the rights of citizenship, their lands are wrested from them on trifling pretences, their homes are ravaged, and their women treated with the utmost brutality. For all this there is no redress. The Turks call them ¢¢ Christian dogs,” and treat them accordingly. Since the Crimean war the Christian population of A rmenia has been reduced one-fourth, and in some of the cities and towns there are no Christians left. —Mr. El Kery, a native of Samaria, educated in England, and a returned missionary-physician, discovered a Synauogue Record, kept at ancient Sychar, that reaches back hundreds of years before Christ. He learned that the priest in Christ’s ‘time was named Shaffeer. On searching the Record for some possible note of Jgesus’ visit, he found instead the following important testimony to his crucifixion: ‘“ln’ the nineteenth year of my priesthood, and the 4,2815 t year of the world, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Mary, was crucified at Jerusalem.” -

The Rush of ¢¢ Tenderfeet” to the Colorado Mines. : I found all the hotels at Denver overflowing with pilgrims bound for the mineral regions, and who are rushing in thus early in order to pick up the fortunes which are lyinfi around loose, before somebody else shall get along and gobble them. Cunning ‘“eafly birds” are these fellows; they propose to catch the matutinal silver worm before the dew is off the grass, and while other predacious birds are lazily sleeping in * their warm, eastern nests. . g And so they are coming; thousands a day, all bound for the mining regions and a fortune. The hotels are full, and the landlords sleep their guests two in a bed, three beds:in a room, and, besides, have rented all the vacant bed-rooms in adjacent houses. I was fortunate the first night. Our whilom fellow citizen, David Gage, seeured me abed, in aroom a block or so away down the street. There were three beds in the room, and two occupants beside myself—two gold hunters, who all the night'long snorted, and snored, as, in their dreams, they dragged the shining ore from its mountain caves, and climbing the tortuous eanons in search of further wealth.

Denver has the biggest mine on the continent. Itisin the silver' dug from the pockets of the onrushing crowds, and which is a more profitable mine than any other which is being worked in the ranges of the ‘* Rockies.”’ | Denver is a smart town—a Chicago on a reduced scale. Itis getting on, and ‘will continue to get on without any suggestions from outsiders. : ~ Istaid in Denver a few days to get ready for my trip into the mountains. I had various flattering offers to be letinto a ‘‘ a sure thing you know,’’ for a mere trifle, and was shown at least four different men who have made their pile in lucky strikes. ‘ YL T The four or five hundreds who have failed to make any strike, and who were hanging around with about one clean shirt and five dollars in cash to each fifty of them, were not pointed out to me. I have found it to be the rule in Denver, and all through the mountains, that the most attention is given to those chaps who struck it rich There is wanti.n% that attention to the majority—the great crowd of dead-brokes—which one would: expect in a democratic community. At Denver the trains coming in over. the Kansas & Pacific Railway bring each day from three hundred &nd thirty to. four hundred and fifty passengers, ninety per cent. of whom are bound to the min:m&:;rggipns_{in search of sudden wealth, ./ Thetrains of the South Park Railway;. leading from ‘Denver towwrd‘nendhfli.

are crammed to the brim—the seats are filled, every berth taken, and men are stretched out in the aisles as thick as swine in cattle-cars. Every stage. line which enters in Leadville comes in jammed, . coach after coach, scores of them each day, and hacks and other})rivate conveyances to the number of dozens pour out their human céntents which they have gathered up at the various railway termini. within reach of the Leadville regjon.,* -y p Lo on s Are these thousands who are daily pouring into the Gunnison and Leadvyille regions from the Eastern States—are they mad? We shall see in the course of this correspondence. On the train from Emporia, on which I took passage, the' six coaches were crammed to their utmost limit; in the sleeper there were three passengers beside myself. ' 'This little fact vlszfil afford some indication as to the amount of capital which was represented on the train. During the five hundred miles which ‘divide Emporia from Pueblo, I had op‘portunity to cultivate the acquaintance of many of those who filled the six coaches. There was a young fellow from somewhere in Illinois who, in company with a party of three others, was bound to the Gunnisen region. He was a healthy-looking person of twentyfive, and from his conversation had evidently lived on a farm all his life. I had several conversations with him, which, in no essential respect, differ from a dozen or twenty which I had with others. I said: : ‘“ What are you going to do when you get in the Gunnison?”’ “0, 1 don’t know.. I'm open for anything which will turn up.” : “%lave you any trade?”’ ’ + ¢“No, only I understand farming.” -~ ¢““But do you kiow there is no farming in that mountainous region?? ‘““No, I don’t know much about it. I only know thére’s-silver there, and I'm goin% out to look for some.”’ : ¢* Did you ever mine any; do you know anything about prospecting, or anything of the kind?”’ SENo s i ; : I found that the party of four had their fare paid to the town of Gunnison, and that the entire party had remaining less than thirty dollars. They had no blankets, food, mules, picks or outfits of any kind.. They were going naked, as it were, to encounter g_ne tremendous hardships of the unsympathizing mountains. Their faces were young, fresh; their eyes eager and hopeful, and I could not bear to overwhelm their hopes by telling them the truth. And, besides, it is doubtful that they would have believed me, it I had told them. ' And yet it is certain that untold suffering—starvation, cold, and disease, if not death, awaits: these four, and many of the otherthousands who are now rushing into the Gunnison -country, as it is that night follows upon day.—Cor. Chicago Times. ' Dl

Winnipeg, Manitoba. @ Morning light revealed to us the metropolis of the Northwest. We saw a broad main street bordered with high - wooden sidewalks, and rows of shops of every shape and size. - Some were rude wooden shanties; others were fine buildings of 'yellow brick. = High over all towered the handsome spire of the Knox Church. Several saw and grist mills sent up incessant puffs of white steam into the clear air. - The street was full of bustle and life.. There were wagons of all descriptions standing before the stores. Long lines of Red River carts were loading with freight for the interior. The sic%ewalks were filled with a miscellaneous crowd of people: German peasants, the women in dark blue gowns and head kerchiefs, the men marked by ther little flat caps; French half-breeds, with jaunty buckskin jacket, many-colored scarfs * around their waists, and their black hair shining with oil; - Indians, dark, solemn, gaunt, stalking along in blanket and moccasins; Scotch anza English people, looking as they do all the world over, but here, perhaps, a little quicker and more energetic. The middle of the street, though there had been but a single night of rain, was a vast expanse of mud-—mud so tenacious that the wheels of the wagons driving throu%'h it were almost as large as mill-wheels; and when we dared to cross it, we came out on the other side with much difficulty, and feet of elephantine proportions. - = Sy : The city of Winnipeg, which eight years ago was nothing more than a cluster of houses about the Hudson Bay Company’s fort, now contains over seven thousand inhabitants, = It-is the distributing center for a large region, a place of great business activity, and so situated in relation to the back country and the facilities for ' transportation that it is sometimes called ¢ the Bleeder's Paradise.”’ - It is built on a clay bank at the junction of the Assiniboine with the Red River. The nature of the soil is such | that it is difficult to find a ggpd founda-tion-for a house, and many o?tl;e farger . buildin%}s “have settled and: cracked.— | Henry Van Dyke, Jr., tn Harper’s Magazine for May. [l e ety <

"To .Prevent Wheat Smut. - Olmsted. Flint, of Delaware County, N. Y., tells the dmerican Rural Home how he prevents smut in‘*wheat. ‘Take a washtub, fill it half full of water, put in a 8 much salt as will dissolve, then put in the wheat, till it comes within two - inches of the top of the brine. Stir the wheat thoroughly, then skim off everything that rises to the top of the brine, turn off the brine, then turn your wheat into a large box, or on the barn floor; sprinkle on air-slaked stone lime and stir with a shovel till the wheat is all coated with the lime; then. you can put oneommon” tand plaster, and stir the same as you have the lime. It will prevent the lime eating ‘{)Qurf:hands when gowing, and will be beneficial to the wheat, Take the.wheat to the field and Sow it soon afterit is prepared;if you do not, some o? the gérms may be destroyed by “the lime.” He has prepared his wheat in that way for upwards of thirtyfive years, and has had no trouble with smut. He thinks the same application would Be equally good for oats, but would not make the brine: more thay half as strong as for wheat.! .«

i -~—The-great problemof dife is for-each man to do his s%afre;“of “the world’s work ot fopwae ic Bl ReE TR | .. —The most terrific. Storm of real woe in a'man’s heart rarely flings its Iroth ‘and'foam as high as his lips. "