Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 5, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 May 1880 — Page 2

@he Figonier Banuzr, ~ .B. STOLL, Editor and Proprfor. LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA.

NEWS SUMMARY. 5 . g e, -\ Important Intelligence ﬁ{om All Parts. Congressional. SEVERAL bills were reportéd in the Senate on the 12th, among. them the Postoffice Appropriation bill. Mr. Hill concluded his speech on the Spofford-Kellogg case. He read a number of alleged translations of 7 bhgr telegrams to and from Mr. Kellogg, and rseviewed the legal aspects” of ' the contest at great length....” Among the bills introduced in the House was one. by Mr.. Hooker, abolishing the Indian Commission, and one, by Mr. Wise, from the Committee on Railways and Canals; afpropriating $15,000 for the survey of & suirable water route to facilitate transportation between Lake Erie and the navigable waters of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. The Légisiative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole. IN the Senate on-the 13th Mr. Hampton spoke on the Kellogg-Spofford case, opposing the unseating of Mr. Kellogg, and argued that the Benate having once finally passed on the Louisiana contest, the question could not be reconsidered. Mr. Carpenter followed in a legal argument against the claims of Mr. Spofford. Senator Blair, in behalf of the minority of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the alleged frauds, etc., in the recent elections, submitted a report, taking issue with the findings of the majority as presented by Senator Wallace, in regard to alleged intim.dation of voters in the States of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The minority of the Committee deny that any alleation of fraud, misconduct, ** bull-dozing,” or fntimidation or attempted intimidation or political misconduct of any kind on the part of any Republican or any employer or manufacturer, or any person of any party, either in the State of Massachusetts or Rhode Island. was proven before the Committee. A resolution, submitted bg' Mr. Voorhees, was adopted directing the Secretary of the Interior to report to the Senate the names of all railroad corporations in the United States to whom grants of land have been made by compliance with the terms of the grants within the time specified . therein; also the number of acres of unearned lands claimed by each of such railroad corporations, and the period of time when their right to them expired under the limitation contained in said rants. The bill abolishing all tolls on the iouisvxlle & Portland Canal after July 1, 1880, and authorizing tone Secretary of War to draw upon the Tieasury for the actual expenses of operation and repuairing the same, was passed. ....Mr. Cobb introduced a bill in the House appropriating $9.000,000 to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the payment of pensions for tne present fiscal year. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was further debated in Committee of the Whole, and several sections /and amendments were disposed of. ! IN the Senate on the 14th Mr. Morgan, from the Select Committee on Counting the Electoral Vote, reported adversely on the Senate bill to fix a day for the -meeting of Electors for President and Vice-President to provide for coun.ing the Electoral vote, and for the decision of questions arising therefrom. Mr. Eaton also reported. from the same committee. a concurrent resolution adopting ajoint rute for counting the votes of . Electors for President and Vice-President. Mr. Eaton Rx‘esemed the memorial of Davis Hatch, of orwalk, Conn., alleging that he was in 1868 arrested, tried by couit martial and sentenced to death by the Government of San Domingo on the fulse charge of aiding an insurrection; that ’his sentence was commuted to expulsion - from ' * the country, but .he was detained five months in prison by the connivance of ,American officials interested in the scheme for the annexation of San Domingo to the United States, who feared:his comp.aints, if he were permitted to leave the country, woula tend to defeat that scheme. The petitioner prays for an investigation of the acts df these otiicials, andif they are found guilty he prays tor reparation for his injuries. Mr. Egton stated that he knew nothing ot the truth of the charges named. Messrs. Pendleton and Cameron (Wis.) spoke in opposition to the Kellogg-Spofford resolutions, the former expressing himselt as utterly o pposed to -the unseating of Kellogg, as contrary to law, precedent and. justice. Adjourned to the 17th....The bill making appropriations ($213,000)0 for the support of the Agrﬁcultum’l Department wag reported in the House, ordered printed and recommitted. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial A progriation bill was passed. It was voted—l'rd)z-} to "s—to_consider the resolution reported for a final adjournment on the Blst. A motion by Mr, Mills that the resolution be recommitted, with instructions to the Cominittee on Ways and Means not to re?ort it back until it had first rgported the bill for the free importation ;)lfﬁsal and printing paper, was bd'efeated—QO to THE Senate was not in session on the 15th.... After considerabie discussion in the House the concurrent resolution for final adjournment on the 81st was agreed to—l2l to 90 The resolution was vigorous]yg opposed. by some of the low tariff members and by the friends of some Pending bills not relating to the tariff. Nearly all the Reﬁublicans voted for the resolution, and many Democrats voted against it.

: Domestic. : DuriNG an amateur theatrical performance at Atlanta, Ga., on the afternoon of the 12th, a young lady’s dress took fire from the footlights, and in the panic which ‘ensued the clothes of two other girls were ignited. All of them were severely and probably fatally burned before the flames could ‘be smothered. = Several other young ladies were burned about the face, arms and hands in their efforts to extinguish the flames. NEArLY $60,000,000 worth of silk was imported into this country during the past year. This.is 30 per cent. in excess of the amount imported the previous year. ' . ON the,l3th nearly one hundred persons were indicted by the Louisville Grand Jury for violation of the Sunday law. The ~ indicted persons are of nearly every calling, from saloonkeeper to church-chorister and journalist. : Tre Chicago Board of Education passed a resolution on the evening of the 13th abolishing corporal punishment in'the schools, and calling for the resignation of Mr. Vaile, a School Principal ' who was concerned in ‘a recent severe whipping case. THE village of Stuyvesant, Columbia County, N. Y., was visited by a very serious conflagration on the 13th, pver a mile square of the best portion of the. village being burned. The loss was estimated at $200,000. THE three murderers of old Raber, at Levanon, Pa.,, and Edwin Hunt, of Bridgeport, Conn., who killed his aged father, were executed on the 13th. ' : A POWDER-MILL situated in the Mahoning Valley, near Pottsville, Pa., exploded on the morning of the 13th, causing the death of one man and severely imjuring five others, ON the 13th a member of the Cleveland Base-Ball Club fractured one of his legs by coming in collision with another player while running for a ball. : : i AN IRON-MINE shaft near Norway, Mich., caved in on the night of the 12th, burying sixteen miners. Thirteen of the men were taken out alive, after mach digging, but the three o hers were crushed to death. Any discharged soldier of the United States who has not made applieation for pension on account of. wounds or disability received while in the service must do so before Julyl, 1880. After that tima pensions will date only from the time - of application. The same is true regarding applications for dditional bounty yei claimed by many oldiers. L g e Axexpress-train, drawn by a new Jocomotive with but one six-and-a-half-foot driving wheel at each side, wasrun between Philadelphia and Jersey City on the 14th, a dis-

tance of ninety miles, in ninety-seven minutes. The return trip was madein ninety and a half m nutes! : ' A DEeNvVEE (Col.) telegram of the 14th, announces the formation of an organization there whose object is the exploration of the Gunnison region and the driving out of the Utes from the mineral portion of their reservatiof. ' A FIRE broke out about noon on the 14th in a railroad car factory at Milton, Pa. Owing to the prevalence of a strong northwest wind, it was not got under control until the entire business portion of the town was destroyed. Among the buildings burned are ‘the principal hotels, the theater, the banks, the newspaper offices, the railroad depot, the gas'works and the Reformed, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Evangelical and Catholic Church. buildings. Over 400 buildings in all were destroyed and 250 families rendered homeless, many ‘of them destitute. The loss of property was estimated at $1,800,ouo, - and the insuravce at $BOO,OOO. Governor Hoyt has appealed to the Mayors of cities in Pennsylvania to solicit subscriptions for the sufferers. : ‘THE American Bible Society held its sixty-fourth annual meeting in New York on the 13th. The annual reports showed receipts of the year at $608,342. ! : THE Crow Indians have agreed to; sell to the Government 2,000,000 acres of their reservation in Montana for $30,000 per vear for twenty-five years, and the Shoshone and ‘Bannock Indians, of the Fort Hall (Idaho) Reservation, have signed an agreement ‘disposing of 400,000 acres of their reservation for $lO,OOO pér;year for twenty years. The Indians willremain upon certain portions of their reservations. . THREE boys living at Muskegon, Mich., the oldest being only twelve years of age, were recently arrested for setting fire to and burglarizing the post-office at that place, ON the 14th 800 Chicago brickmakers struck work because the manufacturers refused to advance their wages twenty-five cents per day. - ‘ o A STATEMENT issued by the Chief of the Bureau of Statist cs on the 15th shows that. the total value of exports of domestic breadstufls from the United States during April was $21,679,115, and. during April the previous year $14,168,630: for ten months ended April 30 last, $207,306,615; for the cbrresponding period the previous year, $149,085,266. . SECRETARY SCHURZ on the 15th reported to Congress the names of eight Indian ‘Agents whom he had removed or suspended on account of corrupt practices and fraudulent transdctions. : e CONSIDERABLE amounts of money, food and clothing had reached Milton, Pa., ap to the 15th, but much more was needed. Over 60J houses were burned to the ground, and nothing remained but the smoldering ruins. Owing to many attempts of incendi--aries to fire the buildings which were left standing, the Governor had been called on to send some companies of the State militia to protect the town. So far as known only one person, an old gentleman of eighty-five years, perished’ in the flames. One woman had since died of fright. i

Personal and Political. PrROCEEDINGS for divorce were begun in Washington on the 12th by ex-Senator Christiancy against his wife. ' .THE nomination of Robert M. Wallace to be Marshal of South Carolina was re_jected by the Senate on the 12th, by a strict party vote. : TaE Wisconsin Democrats met in State Convention at Madison on the 12th. The delegates to the National Convention were uninstructed, but are claimed ¢o be for anybody but Tilden. The Convention favored continued adherence to the two-thirds rule. THE West Virginia State Republican Convention met at Wheeling ot the 12th and elected ten delegates to the Chicago Conyen“tion, who were instructed to vote for Blaine. ~ THE Florida Republicans met in State Convention at Gainesville on the 12th and } adopted resolutions instructing delegates to the National Convention to labor for the ‘nomination of Grant for President and Thomas Settle for Vice-President. ~ = . THE Michigan Republican State Conveution met at Detroit on the 12th and elected i a delegation to the Chicago National Convention, who were instructed touse all honorable 'means to secure the nomination of Blaine for President and Senator Ferry for Vice-Presi-dent. o : : TaE Methodist Conference at Cincinnati on the 12th elected four Bishops, in accordance with the' resolution adopted the previous day. The newly-elected dignitaries are:” Rev. E. O. Haven, Chancellor of the Syracuse University and at one time:President of the Northwestern ':University at Evanston; Rev. H. W. Warren, of Philadelphia. Pa.; Rev. Cyrus D. Foss, President of tte Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., and Rev. John H. Hurst. The Conference also adopted resolutions approving of the proposal to call an Ecumenical Council of the Chureh at London in August, 1881. : A COLORED MAN was on the 13th admitted to the New York Bar by the Supreme Court of the State. 7 s AN interview with Mr. E. 8../Washburne was published on, the 13th at Portlend, Me., where he was visiting his brother. He is reported as stating that his candidacy was out of the question; that he was for Grant first, last and all thetime; that he repudiated all combinations, and that he would not be a candidate under any circumstances. He denied the charge of dupl.city;e:nd said the result in Cook County was a g ater sur?rise to him than to anybody else. { . THE Florida Republican State Convention reassembled on the 18th and nominated 8. B. Conover for Governor and General W. M. Ledwith for Lieutenant Governor. Electors were also nominated. : ‘THE Vermont Greenbackers met in State Convention on the 18th and appointed ~delegates to the Chicago Convention. They were uninstructed. ; ~ PRESIDENT HAYES on the 14th nomi‘nated N. G. Ordway, of New Hampshire, for‘merly Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatiyes, to be Governor of Dakota Territory. | i % . A WASHINGTON telegram of the 14th states that Postmaster James, of New York, had written a letter declining to be a candidate for Postmaster-General. ; SANFORD E. CHURCH, Chief-Justice of the New York Court of Appeals, died suddenly at his residence in Albion, N. Y., on the 14th, of apoplexy. ¢ : ° THE California Baptist Convention onthe 14th, by a vote of 46 to 86, refused to pass a resolution condemnatory of the Kallochs. .| ; = e AT a caucus of Democratic Congressmen held on the night of the 15th it was resolved, on motion of Mr. Springer, that the vote by which the House agreed to adjourn on the 818 t should be reconsidered, as many important measures were pending: before

Congress. It was also resolved that the Po-litical-Assessment bill should be called up in the House at an early day and pressed to a yote. . : : ‘THE Republican and Democratic Na~ tional Committees have been petitioned to afford accommodations at their National Conventions for delegates from State and National Woman-Suffrage Associations. THE Whittakeyinyestigatlon was continued at West Point on the 15th. Whittaker hims¢lf was cross-examined, but his testi-, mony did not materially differ from his first statement. Suppressed portions of the- reports of experts were then read by, the.recorder, ehowiﬁng that eaeh expert had fixed upon the handwriting of Cadet Whittaker as the handwriting of the person who wrote the note of warning. The experts’ statements all bore heavily against him; one of them testifying that the note of warning was written on & piece- of paper torn from a sheet on which Whittaker had commenced a letter to his mother. Wh:ttaker still protested his innocence, in spite of this testimony,.and declared that the cadets all use the same kind of .writing-paper, and that the person who wrote the note of warning might have come to his room and taken a piece of his paper and, with several samples of his handwriting as a guide, .might have forged the note. - Tue Wyoming Territory Republicans met-in convention on the 15th and elected one Grant and and one Blaine delegate to the Chicago Convention. .

- Foreign. MRr. BRADLAUGH, the member of Parliament from Nottingham, has by advice of his constituents consented to waive his scruples and take the oath required of members of the House of Com mous. ; DuriNG the week ending on the 18th twenty-two steamers sailed from British ports for the United States with full’ loads of emigrants on board. ' It is asserted that British Columbia, in giving the Dominion Government a twenty-mile strip on each side of the pro‘posed line of the Canada Pacific Railroad, included valuable mining and farming land south of the American boundary, THE Russian Government has directed that the great iron-clad Peter the Great be sent to the Pacitic, accompanied by four other men-of-war. JAPAN has rejected the proposal of China to enter into an alliance against Russia. ' ' SERIOUS rioting in connection: with the strike occurred at Loubaix, France, on the 14th. The soldiers were forced to charge the mob. A CaßuwL dispatch of the 14th says it had been learned that the Zurmat tribe had fortified Altenor Pass, and were holding it with 9,000 men to repel the British. LA PERE, the French Minister of Justicé and Worship, and Osman Pasha, the Turkish Minister of War, have resigned. A CarcurtA dispatch of the 16th says the British would abandon Cabul as soon as the new Ameer was chosen. A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 16th says the Sultan had begged the Czar tc consent to the non-execution of Colonel Cameroff’s murderer, but that the latter was inexorable. ‘ AN American Jew has been expatriated from St. Petersburg by the Russian authorities. : THE London papers of the 15th say is was not George Eliot but Mrs. G. H. Lewes, the legal widow of the deceased philosopher, who was the lady recently married to Mr. fhoss. ' FrEsH inroads of Bulgarians inte Eastern Rumelia were reported on the 15th. Six Turkish villages were sacked. The invaders were guilty of great atrocities, and British Consuls had received orders to meet and confer about the matter in Constantinonle. : A BOILER explosion in a Londqn iron foundry on the 15th Kkilled twenty-five persons and seriously injured sixty others, some of whom would probably die. o

LATER NEWS, ’ M. ConsTANT has ‘been appointed French Minister of Public Worship vice La Pere, resigned. THE Home-Rulers in the British Parliament have selected Mr. Parnell as their leader, instead of Mr. Shaw, who has led them heretofore. THE employes of a large shoe-manu-factory at Glastonburg, England, 1,400 in number, struck on the 17th, because the proprietors refused to discharge the American ’Superintendent and abandon the use of American machinery. - } Tar-Governor of Illinois has issued a ‘ proclamation, recommending the. ggneral ob- ’ servance of Saturday, May 29, as *“ Decoration Day.? IN the United States Senate on the 17th Mr. Bayard, from the Committeée on Judiciary, reported a bill regulating the pay and appointment of Deputy Marshals. The Post‘ofﬁce Appropriation bill. was amended and passed. A message was received from the { President transmitting the report of the iSecretary of State upon the Fortune Bay Fisheries question. In the House a motion ‘to suspend the rules and pass the River and l Harbor Appropriation bill was agreed to—-179 to , 47. The President’s message rela‘tive . to the Fortune: Bay affair was received and ‘Treferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, together with the accompanying documents, one of which is a synopsis by Secretary Evarts of the correspondence between this Govern‘ment and that of Great Britain in relation to ‘the Fortune Bay outrages. President Hayes ‘and the Secretary agree that it is the im‘perative duty of the United States' to consider what measures should be taken to maintain the rights of Americans un‘Eder the Treaty of Washingion, and to ob;tain redress for the denial of those rights. Mr. Evarts advises the President to recom‘mend that Congress re-enforce the duties on fish and fish oil, the product of provincial fisheries, as they existed before the Treaty of Washington came into operation, to so continue until the two Governments shall arrive at an agreement regarding the interpretation of the treaty. ; b & . IN a pastoral issued by the Archbishop of Quebec on the 17th, excommunication is threatened against all Catholics who attack or conspire against persons willing to work. A LATE special from Fort Davis, Tex., says that the Indians had attacked g wagon train _en route to New Mexico, near that point, and kilied a man and a woman. Eleven other persons in the vehicles took to the hills and made their escape. o Penoey A DEADWOOD special of the 17th says a party of twenty-five men from Deadwood had come up with a band of seventeen Indians who recently murdered a herder near that city and then stole his cattle. Foir of the Indians were killed and seventy-seven horses were taken from them, o

INDIANA STATE NEWS. JOLINSKI, the drunken Polander who tried to hang his wife several weeks ago, has been tried by the Circuit Court at Laporte, and sentenced to thirty days in the county jail. Wife-hang'ng is evidently a cheap luxury in that section. ' RiLey C. HOOVER, living ten miles northeast of Logansport, in Adams Township, retired to his bed in perfect health on the night of the 9th, and next morning was found stone dead. He was aged thirty-five years, and was a strong and apparently hearty man. The cause of his death was heart disease.

WuiLe Wilson Dunn, a farmer of Luce Township, in Bpencer County, was haulinga load of shingles home from Rockport on the 10th, a bunch fell off the wagen, frightening the mules,. which ran away. Mr. Dunn was thrown from the wagon, breaking his neck and dying instantly. ot AT Richmond, the other day, a five-year-old boy named Nelson fell from a second-story window and disjointed his neck. A physician was called; who twisted the vertebr® into position, and the child is rapidly recovering from the accident. This is one of a very few such cases which have ever come under the notice of the medical profession, and is well authenticated. THE school enumeration of = Logansport shows that there are thirty-six hundred children of school age in that city, five hundred less than last year. : THE school census of Michigan City gives that.place a population of seven thousand. THE State is divided by law into the following Supreme Court districts: First District—Posey, Vanderburg, Warrick, Spencer, Perry, Dubois, Pike, Gibson, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Orange, Sullivan, Greene, %\ionroe, Clay, Owen, Morgan, Parke—l 9 counies. . Second District—Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Clark, Washington, Scott, Jefferson, Switzerland, Ohio, Lawrence, Jackson, Jennings, Ripley, Dearborn, Brown, Bartholomew, Decatur, Shelby, Rush—l 9 counties. Third District—Vigo, Vermillion. Fountain, Warren, White, Tippecanoe. Montgomery, Putnam, Hendricks, Boone, Clinton, Tipton, Hamilton, Marion, Johnson—ls counties. Fourth District—Franklin, Fayette, Union, Hancock, Henry, Wayne, Madison, Delaware, Randolph, Howard, Grant, Blackford, Jay, f_luntinsrton, Wells, Adams, Whitléy—lB coun--I€eB. ) Fifth District—Dekalb, Steuben, Noble, Lagrange, Wabash, Miami, Kosciusko, Elkhart, St. Joseph, Marshall, Fulton, Casgs, Carroll, Pulaski, Starke, Laporte, Lake, Porter, Newton, Jasper, Benton—2l counties. ; I~ the Superior Court at Logansport on the 12th Simon Oppenheim, a prominent clothing merchant, escaped payment of a note for $318.50 by proving that he had given it in payment of a loss sustained by him in a game of draw-poker. It seems that in September, 1876, Oppenheim visited Philadelphia on business, and while there got into a game of cards with Samuel Piser and several other parties at the Mansion House, and as a result Oppenheim found himself in debt to Piser Jjust $318.50. Piser sold the note to Goldstein & Son, bankers, of Philadelphia, and they broyght suit to recover. When Oppenheim proved conclusively how the note was made, the plaintiffs withdrew the suit.

THE corner-stone of the Capitol at Indianapolis will be laid, it is thought, late in Au. gust, at the time the Knight Templar Masons are returning from the conclave at Chicago, This will enable a large number of Knights, not only from Indiana, but from Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, and States further south, to take part in the ceremonies. JUuDGE BIDDELL, of the Supreme Court, succeeds to the duties of Chief Justice by rotation. A FIRE in the round-house and machineshops of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company, at Indianapolis, on the morning of the 12th, destroyed property worth $4,000. MixNIE WHIPSTAIN, a domestic in the family of Mrs. Whiteman, of Logansport, took a dose of corrosive sublimate at a late hour on the night of the 11th, and when a physician was called he found the girl in the very jaws of death. The trouble was that the damsel’s lover had neglected her, and she concluded that without him life was not worth having. THE buildings belonging to the White Water Valley Coffin Company, of Connersville, were entisely destroyed by fire on the 13th. But a small part ‘of the stock was sawed. Loss, $73,000; insured for about $12,000. : AN old fruit grower hasinformed the Lafayette Journal that there never was a finer prospect for a good fruit crop than at the present time. From personal inspection he finds that the buds and blossoms are free from the slightest indications of decay, and the only question with him is how the trees, vines and shrubs are going to be able to bear up under the prospective load of fruit that the prospects indicate. { Mgrs. JoEN PAuLus, of Goshen, dropped dead a few days ago. 4 A FEW nights ago thieves blew open the safe of J. N. Booth, coal merchant, near the ‘Wabash Depot in Logansport. The safe contained $1,300 of stock of the Kngctts Silver Mining Company; $2OO of stock of the Citi-/ zens' Silyer Mining Company of Topeka, Kan., and $4,000 stock of the Hocking Valley (Ohio) Coal Mining Company. A MAN by the name of Miller, purporting to be a stock-dealer from Fort Wayne, has recently played a bold and successful confidence game in Indianapolis. Miller, it appears, had become very intimate with Kitz & Liepziger, his landlords, and a few days since asked them to indorse checks on a Fort Wayne bank that he might have them cashed there. They innocently complied with his request, and he received thereby $1,700. When the checks were presented at the bank at. Fort Wayne it was discovered that no such person was known there, and that the paper was wholly spurious. o " T Indiana State Eclectic Medical Association recently met in Indianapolis and elected the following officers for the eusuing year: President, Dr. C. Hestor, of Rochester; First Vice-Pres.dent, Mrs. Dr. Hobson, of Noblesville; Recording Seeretary, Dr. D. Lesh, of Indianapolis; Corresponding Secretary, G. W. Pickerill, of Indianapolis; Treasurer, W. H. Kendrick, of Indianapolis. The Association voted to recommend the establishment of an Eclectic College at an early day. The next session will be held in May, 1881. s Tup Indianapolis grain quotdtions are: Wheat, No. 2, Red, $1.18%[email protected]; Corn, 87 @37%4c; Oats, 33%/@B4c. The Cineinvati uotations are: Wheat No. 2, Red, $1..13@ 11-3% ;. Corn, 37@875¢; Ofts; 85@35%4c; Rye, 94@dse; Barley, Extra Fall, 90@92c. : _ DurinGg March, 83 vessels left the Mersey with: 18,363 passengers. « Of these, 12,167 went to the United States, 812 to British, North America, 170 to South America, 23 to Australia, 67 to the East Indies, 21 to the West Indies, 62 to China and 36 to the west coast of ' Africa. The nationalities of the emiants were: English, 5,053; Scotch, 55? Irish, 2,287; foreign, 5,614

LovE, undying, solid love, whose root is virtue, can no more die than virtue itself. ! ; 0 e e fikd g : . FLATTERY is & bad sort of ‘money, to . which our vanity gives currency.

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. —The woman question—** Whi did ypt;”stay out till this unseemly’ hour, sir : : —The mathematician who wished to borrow some cash, wrote: *“ I will } to ask for a 1.”” : —The Elmira Advertiser says that self-made men are usually more thorvughly made than other men. —People do not like to acknowledge that they are poor, except to book agents.—New Orleans Picayune. —The reason ¢ the boy stood on the burning deck’ was because it was too hot to sit down.— Waterloo Observer. —There ain’t nothing that will sho the virtews and vices of & man, in so vivid a light, as profuse prosperity.—Josh Billings. : —Hackmen are opposed to cremation. A long string of carriages at a poor man’s funera% is something too good to be lost to sight. —-Before marriage a girl frequently calls her intended *‘ her treasure,” but when he becomes her husband she looks upon him as * her treasurer.” —The dates for college 'base-ball games in 1880 have already been decided upon. The interest in the education of our youth is not abating.—Boston Post. : —The average boy among his fellows soon finds that he cannot play the tyrant with a high hand. He learns to knuckle down as soon as he commences playing marbles. —Two ragged urchins stood one day Beside the great church door. - : And watched the folks in rich array From out the temple pour. “My eyes! but ain’t they tony though! And don’t they sport the dress! What be they, Joe?” 0, I dunno— They’re (Ehristian folks, I guess.” “They be! Then, if we had the cash, And nothing else to do, . And washed, and dressed and cut a dash— Should we be Christians too?”?

Pranks of Telephones. There is no silver lining without a cloud; no blessing without a bother. All great inventions for the benefit or improvement of mankind are accompanied by a train of disasters. With the introduction of locomotives came railway accidents, collisions. track-jump-ing, brid%e-breaking and a host of minor casualties. Complicated machinery for manufacturing purposes has been swelling the death and accident list of the country ever since its inception, and the marvelous triumphs in agricultural implements are fast providing for us one-legged, one-armeg, ﬁno'er%ess, toeless and otherwise mutilated yeomanry. The use of the telephone in San Francisco has been attended by a series of ludicrous, embarrassing and startling complications. The hundreds of wires, forming an- aerial net-work above the city, sometimes become strangely confused and entangled, to the bewilderment and amusement of the human beings at their various termini. A prominent educational official whose office is on Sansome street, has been somewhat troubled by the vagaries of his telephone wire, which has, during the late stormy weather, acquired a strange faculty for hobnobbing with all sorts of undesired and undesirable acquaintances, or carrying a stream of gossip to its owner’s ears. : ¢ls Mr. —, member of the School Board, there?"’ slowly and deliberately asks the owner. : A muttered answer is construed into a favorable response. .. » “ Do you know Miss S——, a teacher in the schools, recently thrown out by consolidation of classes? She has a first-class certificate, and also a certificate of approval.”’ o R ‘¢ Genuine high-stepper; brown coat?’’ comes the singular query. ) *“She has a dignified gait, and now you speak of it, think she wore a brown cloak. But I think your language—excuse me—somewhat inappropriate. She was in here this morning, and I think she deserves the first vacancy.” / ¢« She’ll beat them all and no mistake.”” :

“I think you are wrong. ' She certainly has a reputation for good discipline, -but I ‘hardly think she would resort to corporal punishment except in a case of extreme necessity.” = - ! ‘“And, by the. way, Blikins, those races at Sacramento next week’’— comes more distinctly to the ears of the bewildered gentleman, who begins to suspect that he has been interrupting a conversation between two gentlemen of jockeyish proclivities. A signal reaches the office of a wellknown physician.. : - ¢ My dear,”’ comes a musical voice over the wire, which he at once recognizes as belongin% to his wife, ““meet me at the Oakland boat at twelve o'clock. We must be on the other side at a quarter to one, without fail.”” The doctor was just starting out for an important round of visits, but this peremptory summons was not to be disrearded. There was little time to spare. %iving some hasty directions to his as-. sistant he spun away to the ferry. The lady he sou‘%ht did not- mak;r{er appearance. When the whistle had sounded and the boat slowly receded with the last passenger on board, a.sudden, jealous suspicion seized him.. Could it be possible that his wife had intended the message for some other man, that they had eluded his observation? In a tumult of dread he drove speedily home. If she were gone then: there would be some foundation for his suspicions. He burst into the house and hastened to his wife's room. A grieved and anxious face met him on the threshold. ¢ 0, my dear, I am so glad you have come. Baby is having such a terrible time with that ‘eye-t;ggx. He has been screa.ming the whole forenoon.” “Didn’t you speak to me threugh the teleﬁhone o N - ¢ I? Noj; baby hasnot been out of my arms sinece you left. O, dear, perhaps it was some one of your lady friends whom you mistook for me.” 4 The arch, laughin%lglance which she gave him, with smile of wifely trust, giero’ed his heart like a dagger. He uried the secret of his own suspicions in his guilty breast, and drowned his remorse in alleviating the sufferings of his little son. - 11 o The telephone itself is not at fault. It is man who is fallible, rash, thoughtless, dis‘rosed to speak without consideration, an vaju&np at conclusions: - The educating influence of telephone practice in

developing the traits of forethought and caution is no slight factor in its utlhz and beneficial effect upon mankin Some experienced telephone operators, saddened and chastened by months of blundering, become wise and wary. When they desire to communicate with a friend they open the conversation in a crafty, wily manner, parley and procrastinate until they become convinced that there is' no question as to the identity of the spedker at the other pxtremity of the wire with the person called, and not until then plunge into the business with assurance. When a call comes to them over the wire, and the gong-like bell sounds its note of warning, they 4pproach it with the same caution exhibited by an army advancing to meet an enemy in an unknown country. Then a system of crossquestioning is carried on, sometimes very amusing to a disinterested listener. In the office of a prominent lawyer on California street, a gentleman noted forhis sagacity and keenness, a specimen ?icene of this kind occurred the other ay. . : E “ Ding! ding! ding!”’ went the telephone. ‘ _Thelegal gentleman slowly arose from his easy chair, approached the apparatus with a suspicious air, and applied his ear to the instrument. ’ ‘* You there?”’ : * “ Depends upon whom you mean,’” was the guarded response. ‘I mean Mr. 8., the lawyer.”> - ¢ Who are you?? . ; ¢ Judge C—." : ¢ What’s your Christian name?”’ : " “I have no time for trifling, I am ina hurry. Have you got the papers in that case—"’ ‘“ Where and when were you born?”’ continues the imperturable attorney, relapsi{\)ﬁg into professional: habits. - ‘“ My dear sir, what possible bearing—" - " : : ““ You can't remember, eh? Just as I thought,” declared the strategic legal gentlemen in an aside, ¢ Tryinlg to evade an answer. It's that rascal Tom, or else L——,” naming a professional rival. “Butlknow how to puta quietus on the matter. ' Halloa there!” addressing the telephone anew. ¢ Well,”” came the response. ¢ Allow me to read you an interesting document written one hundred and three years and nine months ago, and dear to.the hearts of all American citizens: pas o When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the politieal bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the learth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of — ¢“lshould be very much obliged if you would postpone your elocutionary practic until the fourth of next July, Mr. B.,”! came dcross the wire in dignified displeasure and a tone of decided judicial severity, unmistakable to the hearer. The joker was discomfitted and hastened to make due apologies for his blunder. : L The possibilities of the telephone have not yet been fathomed. The day is approaching when it will seem quite as natural to conduct business transactions, arrange affairs of State, examine wit~ nesses, havesocial chats, sing songs and make love through its agency, as face to face. But the peril to statesmen, financiers, rogués and lovers will be so increased by reason of the rare facilities for discovering secrets afforded by tapping the wires, that mysterious forms of speech will become as common as cryptograms in telegraphic communications. Never until then will the nation be secure.—San Francisco Chronicle.- .

New Mexican Studies. ; Mrs. Governor Lew Wallace finds in New Mexico what she calls a ¢ subtle Spanish essence’’ pervading everything. Even the names of the commonest persons she meets are poetic. She says in a letter to the Independent: ¢ Perfectio (perfection,) a worthless peon in Navaho blanket, sweeps the sidewalk; Benito (the good,) a shambling Mexican boy, watching his chance for a spring- at the spoons, brings the daily mail; Mariposa (butterfly,) the silliest . of Slowboys, pushes the baby wagon; while Angellus, an angel whose f%rm has lost its original brightness, lazily watches her. Three old witches, whom we familiarly call the Macbeths, were baptized Feliciana, the happy; Rosita, little "Rose; Hermosa, the beautifuly” Mrs. Wallace adds that most of the people she meets have Indian blood in their veins, and not a few are a mixture of Spanish, African and Indian. Here is her picture of a Santa Fe woman: ‘¢ Quite out of reach of the shady trees, in the fiercest blaze of the sun, sitting - on a fragment of the Rocky Mountains, is a statuesque figure, which might represent the oldest, the most furious of the Furies. It is Blandina, the fair one, the soft one, of Santa Fe. Her face, like one of her own foot hills, is worn into gutters and seams. Not like them so molded by the action of water, but by exposure to sharp sunlight and withering wind, destructive to%)eauty, which make even young persons appear old. Her skin is a parchment, ngch looks as though it might date back to— I was about to say the flood, but that would imply that at some prehistoric era she had felt the sanitary influence of a shower bath.” . ————tl e A Skeleton in a Tree. : ‘A startling surprise, after the fashion of the story of Ginevra, was experienced not long aﬁo by a party of Styrian wood cuttersin the forest of Drommling. They began to fell a venerable oak, ’whicﬁ they soon discovered to be quite hollow. Being half decayed it speedily came tothe ground with a crash, disclOsilllz;g a skeleton in excellent preservation. Even the boots, which came above the knee, - ‘'were almost perfect. By its side was a powder: horn, a porcelain "ﬁipe, bowl, and a silver watch on which was en%mved the name, ‘¢ H. von Krackowitz, 812.” The teeth were perfect. It would seem to be the skeleton of a/ man between thirty and forty Kﬂm ofage. It is conjectured that while mﬁd in hunting, he climbed the tree for some pur%ose, and slipped incautiously into. the hollow trunk, from which there was no release, and he .probably died of savation. Gl b s ¥ £ s W-, e | Indolence grows on us with sufferance. It bﬁﬁins.,by tying us with silken threads, and’ ends by feftering us with cart-ropes. : S