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

e ( e : N L Che Zigonier Banwer, =) > : e e : ; J. B. STOLL, E(llto:{ii:p(l Prop»‘r. S LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA, NEWS SUMRKARY. : S e e L it ; Important Intelligence from-All Parts, _ : - Domestic. : A WasHixgToN dispatch of the 7th says the reports so far received from the census in Vermont indicated such a decrease in population that it seemed doubtful if she will have more than two -Congressmen under the next apportionment. Some counties show a falling off of from ten to twelve per cent. A FEW nights ago a farm-house near Franconia, Chisago County,. Minn., caught Mire, and the owner in his efforts to save it forgot all about his sleeping ' family, two members of which—girls aged three and eleven years, respectively—were burned to death; and a third aged seventcen was frightfully injured. : : It is estimated that the loss to farm-. ers by the recent break ng of the Sny leyvee was $200,000 on cdrn, €200,000 on wheat and $lOO,OOO on buildings, fences, ete. ; "IN the case of the. persons killed by the explosion of the boiler ()f[\"the steamboat Mary, at Lake Minnetonka, Minnes®&a, the coroner’s jury finds that G. B. Halstead, the owner of the boat, was crifmina]l'y negligent in not permitting an inspection of the hoiler by a competent engineer. e ONE of the-suits brought by a friend of Mayor-Kalloch for libel on that gentleman was dismissed by a San Francisco Court on the Bth. . The Judge declared it as his-opinion that the suit was not brought in the interest _of the people. ' - & THE official statement compiled at the ‘Post-office. Department showg that the issues of postage-stamps, stamped-envelopes .and postal-cards during the fiscal year ended June 30, last, foot up an aggregate of $31,932,519, being an increase of nearly $3,500,000 ‘over the total for the préceding fiscal yczir, or 122-10 per cent. . The greatest proportional increase is in the item of postal-cards, the is--sues of which amounted to $2,753.470 during the last fiscal year, as. against $2,217,970 for the pfi:vious year. The issues: of newspaper and periodical stamps inereased 15 1-10- per cent.y the totals belimz-£1,088,412 for the fiscal year 1879, and $1,252,903 for the fiscal year of 1880 i | i el

54¥* £ . \ TuEe Board of Managers of the I{omes s = pra d 3 31 S + ‘ 7 for Ihs:f?m\éoldwri met in Boston vn the Sth and ¢lected oflicers as follows: President,

General ’-"\:’illi:un B. Franklin, Connecticut

First Vice-President, Colonel Leonard A. — Harris, Ohio; Second Vice-President, General . Richard Coulter, *Pennsy lvania; Secretary, -General Martin McMahon, New Yorkeg - Tarry buildings in Tyrone; Pa., were destroyed by fire on the ‘morning of the Sth. ~ Loss, £125,000% insurance, $75,000. : DuriNG the month of June 13,676,~000 bushels of grain were shipped from New " York. [This exceeds by 5,000;0 0 bushels the largest monthly shipment ever before -~ made from that port. ; WiLLiaM MoGissoxn, a New York stock broker, has been arrested, charged with complicity with Jerome and Patchell in secreting the bonds recently lost in that city —by Braytoi, I“QS@% Co. : ; PrivAaTE didpatehes from Arkansas City, Kap., received in §t. Louis on the 9th,

say Captain Payne, at the head of 300 settlers, had evaded the vigilance of the United States troops and invaded and taken possession of a ~tract of land in the Indian Territory, contrary ~ to the proclamation of the President. It will be recollected that he invaded the Territory

last spring, in violation of the President’s proclamation; and was ejected by the military. Tt is-sa@kd he defies the authority of the Government,;and courts arrest and trial to determiue in the courts whether his act is in violation of any law. D Two mask&d men boarded a train on the MissourisPacitic Railroad at Winthrop Station, on the tmorning of the 9th, and robhbed the United States Express Company’s safe of ¥250. - ,-. ‘ : JAMES B. GEORGE, a wholesale boot and shoe merehant of Baltimore, fell from a Tourth-story windoW in his store a few mornAdngs ago, and was instantly killed. , - STEPHENS & WILCOX, dry-goods merchants of Omaha, have fuilcd\, with liubil‘ities‘ of $i5,000. - . fe a 0 _ SAN Fraxcrsco has af’-poplmof 283,066, including 20,549 Chinese. S SECRETARY - SCHURZ stated on the 10th that orders would be immediately issued

to employ all necessary military force to prevent wny occupation of the Indian Territory by the Payne expedition, er any similar unlawful intruders. Dl e

THERE were thirteen fatal cases of unstroke in. New York on the 10th.

Tue Chicago 7'ribume of the 12th says the latest telegraphic crop x:vport§ were conflieting.in character, and varied aecording to the different localities from which they came, In general, howevcf, the showiyig was not so, favorable” for the wheat harve’st as it was d few days previous. - :

Tux explosion of a boiler in an .iron mill at Pittsburgh on' the 10th killed the second engineer and one of the firemen, and damayed the property to the extent of

/A .SYrRIAN merchant doing business in New York is reported to have effected a combination whick will control the opium traffic of the world. The capital invested is said to be 75,000,000 . Agents of the combination are in the.East negotiating for the purclrase of the crop, wlich is said to be scanty this year. - ! aE : \

Personai and Political.

CONGRESSMAN W. D. WASHBURN has-been unanimously renominated by the Reputflicans of the Third Minuesota District. In the First District Mark H. Dunnell was renominated by the regular Republican Convention and W. G, Ward received “the nomination at the han® of a bolting faction. The Republicans of the Ninth Illinois District have nomipated John H. Lewis for Congress, and the Democrats of. the Fifteenth District John R. Eden and Williamn Gillmore, there being a bolt in tgne last-named District. - Tue Virginia Readjusters met in Btate Convention at Richmond on the %th, -adopted . resolutions relating to local issies mainly, but favoring Hancock, and nominated a full /Electoral ticket. 7They. also resolved to nominate candidates for Congress in all ’thé?lglstriats in the Btate. There were 600 deiegates, including fifty colored men, present. ! S ‘

~ Tue Republicans of the Twenty-sixth District of Pennsylvania have nominated J: D. McJunckin.for Congress. |

. THE Republicans of the Seventh Wisconsin District on the Bth renominated Hermay L. Humphrey for Congress. Cyrus C.

Curpent.er has been renominated by the Republicans of the Ninth lowa District, and ==- Congressman H. B. Strait has received the Republican nomination in the Second Minnesota ‘Congressional District,, CoroNeL W. T. PELTON, nlgphew of Samuel J. Tilden, died at the Everett House, New York City, on the Bth, aged forty-two years. e : & o ; . "JEROME AND PATCHELL, the highktoned young New Yorkers arrested for hayiig $87,000 worth of stolen securities in their vosgession, were examined on the Bth, ou a charge of grand larceny, and gommitted'lpr trial. ; : ; i " JEPGE WILLIAM LAWRENCE, of Ohio, has a¢cepted the position of First Comptroller of thg Currency, vice Judge Porter, resigned. A. H. PerrisoNe has been nominated for Congress by thre REpublicans of the First District of TcnnesseeZ\The_ Greenbackers of the Fifth Congressfonal District of Missourt have nominated R. B. Palmer. . Hox. Josepd R. CHANDLER, of Philadelphia, died on the -night of, the 10th, aged eizhty-¢ight -vears. ;{c was editor of the United Statey Gazefte for many years, and a member of Congress from 1849 to 1855. . YOUNG . JEROME, under arrest in New York for beiig in unlawful possession of stock securities, was released on bail on the 10th. MecGibbon’ and Patchell had not yet ‘procured bail.- o % T Republicans of the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania District have renominated W. 8. Shallenberger for Congress. A

KForeign.

- Tue Spanish Cabinet has decided to indemnify the owners of the American ateamer Octavia, illegally detained in Porto Rico waters. o : : ‘.

Tue Porte has sent three transports laden with troops and munitions of warto Thessaly, with instructions to disembark stealthily. e !

~ AT an official banquet at the Chinese Embassy in Bt. Petersburg on the night of the Sth representatives. of all powers e¢xcept Russia were present. ,

At a-Cabinet meeting in Washington on the 9th it was decided that the money appropriated for improvement of rivers aud ‘harbors should be spent under the direction of the War Department at the rate of $750,000 per month, the work in the Northern States to be done during the summer and in the: Southern States during the winte: months. - , ; o

- THE Earl of Kenmere, another member of the British Cabinet, on the 9th announced his intended resignation, in consewuence of his objections to the Government’s Compénsation bill. s

- A“’CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the Oth says the Porte had offered a,_money indemnity s Mor4anegro instead of territory. . A LARGE number of rifles have recently been seized near Loughrea; Ireland.

FAMINE FEVER prevails toa considerable extent in County Mayo, Ireland, and the Governmnent has sent a physician thither to inquire into its nature and extent.

THE Sultan of Zanzibar is on his way to England.

- A LoxNpvox telegram of the 11th says | that, acting on the advice of England :md‘f, France, Greece would postpone' calling out | hcr‘rcserves, soo as to-give 1o pretext to thcflJE Porte to resist the demandg-of the Powers. . | ~ Ax official decreé was published in | the Paris newspapers of the 11lth granting | full remission to all personsconvicted of par- | ticipation in the infurrection of 1870 and 1871. | and all subsequent ins’firréctions. : 5 ‘M phylloxera has . appeared in | Switzerland. - ; - Two mEMBERS -of the Upper House of the Hungarian Diet recently fought ‘ MMWGPC arrested, and one was con- x demned to six weeks' and the other to two | weeks’ imprisonment..: = ' A BErLIN telegram of the 11th says thiat Russia’s efforts to induece Portuga!l :md;? Japan to aid her.in the event of war with China had proved fruitless. i

LATER NEWS,

AMONG the recent appointments by the President is-that of Orange Judd, of ihe American Agriculturist, New York, to be a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, vice Barstow, resigned.

A YOUNG SEAMAN on a vessel recently from Rio de Janeiro died "at a New Orleans hotel on the 12th, of yellow fever. The ship and the remainder of her crew were immediately sent back to the quarantine station, The Board of Health have taken every precaution to protect the health of the city.

Dr. TANNER completed a fast of fourteen days in' New York on the 12th, and expressed confidence of completing forty days: His ‘weight was 133 pounds, showing a loss of 2414 pounds. The doctor in attendance said, though outwardly Tanner remained thesame, his request for more blankets, his desire for more sleep ‘and his pulse and temperature showed him to be: weaker. - :

INFORMATION from Indian ’lQerritory_ l received on the.l2th represented that parties were going to the Territory from Téxas as ‘ well as from Kansas, and that great e.\jcitcz\ ment prévailed. . i ; Mgs. Browx, who with her parg- - mour Wade had been accused of the: irlu.rgr & of Mr. Brown, was found guilty at Indianapt ‘ olis on the 12th, and was sentenced to be hanged. Wade, who was tried previously, is - also under a similar sentence. : 1

THERE were #ive cases of ‘sunstroke at Milwaukee on the 12th. The thermometer ranged in that city from 100 to 103. : CoLONEL CAsH, the South Carolinian who recently killed Colonel Bhannon in a duel, was arrested on the 12th, on the charge of murder. : I

. HeNRI KOCHEFORT, the éxiled Communist, returned to Paris on’ the 12th, and was welcomed by 6,000 of his confreres, who sang the ‘Marseillaise’’ and cheered him loudly. S 4 . "RAILROAD communications between Denver and Leadville were completed on the oth,

GENERAL GARFIELD'S letter of acceptance was given to the press on the evening of the 12th. He cordially indorses the platform of the Chicago Convention; rejects the doctrine of State supremacy; declares that the United States is a Nation; that every elector should be permitted to cast his . vote unintimidated; that every civil and political right guaranteed by the Constitution and laws should be enjoyed by. all citizens, and that popular education free from sectarian influences should be encouraged; congratulates the people on the suceess of resumption and the. deerpase of the public debt; favors a continuance of the policy of internal improvement; ,declares that the Executive should seek the advice of | Congressmen in the selection of men for ap--rointmenh to Federal offices; favorsthe modfication of the Burlingame treaty and such legislation as will decrease the evils of _C-fiinese immigration ; ete. o

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

TrE Governor has commuted . the death sentence of Andy Moynihan, sentenced to be hung at Logansport on the 25th ulf., to imprisonment for life. The crime for which Moynihan was sentenced to be hung was the killing of John R. Jackson in the suburbs of Logansport last Sept ember. i

Ox the morning of the 4th Ex-Lieutenant-Governor Sexton» died at Parsons, Kansas, whither he had been called by the sickness of his brother. Mr. Sexton was elécted Liet-tenant-Governor in 1872, and in 1876 was elected to Congress from the Fourth District. PEzER PEVERLIN, an old resident. of Dunkirk, got on a 4, Pan Handle hand-car on the morning of the 6th to go out berrying. While the car was running at-a rapid rate Peverlin fell.off backward in front of the car and broke his neck and leg. He died almost instantly. i 7 i 2o

WaILE two little boys, sons of Rev. Mr. Vigus, of Riclimond, were celebrating with.a toy cannon on the 4th, it was prematurely discharzed, and one of the little fellows had both of his eyes blown out. >

DuriNG the recent hail-storm at Pleasant Hill, in Montgomery County, one hundred and twenty panes of glass: were broken, and i some places the hail was a foot deep. ; WILLIAM GALLOWAY was struck by a passenger train-on the Indiana, Blogmington & Western Railroad, near Crawfordgville on the morning of the sth, and instantly killed. Mr. Galloway was eighty-two years old. ; , THE death of Dr. Erastus T. Bussell, a well-known Indianapolis inventor, is announced, | i %

~ Ox the afternoon of the sth Dr. P. M. Hills, a well-known physician of Covington, in Fountain County, committed suicide. James LEwIS, aged twenty-two, committed guicide at Bt. Paul, Shelby County, on the sth. Cause despondency. - - THE minority opinions’ in the. case of the Constitutional Amendments were tiled on the Bth. Judze Niblack savs: -

_tlthink it may besafely stated as arule | of law in American.clections that wheére a ma- , jority vote ig necessary’ to carry an election a mujority of all the votes cast is sufficient, | unless there be some statutory or Constitutional provision'to the contrary. The amend- | ment in question was submitted at: what was | asto it a special election. "True,/it was sub- | mitted on the first Monday in Aypril, the day | of our township elections, and the mzu-hin-}j ery, 80 to speak, of those elections was used | i’ obtaining & vote upon it; but a separate | ballot was required and used in voting both I ‘for and against it, and separate . and distinct returns were requested and niade asto the vote | upon it to the Seccretary of State. Granting | that we are required in proper icases to take , tjudicial notice” ot each census ot the State | and/of the number of persons voting at cach | of our generul elections, we are still unable to, | estimate from these with even proximate cer- ‘ tainty the number of persons in the: State Eh _titled to vote on the first Monday of last | April. T canuot agree that the act of March ! 1, 1879, submitting the amendments to the | electors of the State, 'was defective in not J providing for a count of the aggregate number ot votes cast at all the elections throughout. the State on the same day the amend- ! “ments were voted upon. No such provision is contained in the precedent legislation of this | State, and no suen provision is found in any | of* theranalogous statutes of other States to whichrmy attention has been dirvected. 1 find nothing anywhere to sustain the- Court in holding that such a provision was-necessary to the validity of the act in quegtion. In 'f{'cj spect to suchraprovision the act of March 10, ! 1879, stands on the same feoting with the act of January 28, 1873, submitting the: Wabash and Erie Canal amendment. The conclusions reached ag to-the ratification of that amend-“ment-have been acquiesced in for more than -Beven years. The court admits that that . amendnrent cannot now be disturbed. In that 1 fully concur; but for a different reason than _that assigned by the Court, and thatis because ! a Taajority—of votes at a fair election ! were cast in favor of it The legislation. and | subsequent proceedings on that -amendment z furnish what seemed to me to be a practical and substantial precedent for the legislation ! and other proceedings which have been had | on the amendment before us. If the first- | named amendment.was legally ratified 1 am | wholly at loss to see any good ren.sonrgor ! gaying that the latter has not also been. The | act ot 10, 1879, afforded every elector of | the State an oppos ity of voting separately I for or against each ome—et the proposed amendments. The returns show that-—upon | the particular amerndment in controversy | there was/ an aggregate of 321,734 votes cast. - Of that number there was a majority of 17,222 F Vvotes in favor of ‘its ratification. Beyond “these returns we have no right to go in estimating the number of electors of the State with reference to that vote. Beyond these returns it was not obligatory upon the Legislature to require us to go. For the reasons | given I am constantly led to the conclusion | that the amendment béfore us has been law- | fully ratified by the clectors of the State.” : - Judge Scott argues: ** The manner of de- 1 termining the question as to the amendment | -is involved in this case. Did it receive the | | requisite number of votes to make it a part of the Constitution as fixed by the act of March i 10, 18797 That act submitted the amendment, ’ with others, in accordance with the method prescribed by Section 2, Article 16, of the Con- h ’stitution, and was fully complied with, and | when the Governor, in compliance with such | - act, issued his proclamation declaring that the | i amendment had received for its ratification } - 169,479, and against its ratitication 152,362 votes, that was an end of the question, and this | court can not, in my opinion, go béhind this - pelitical act of a co-ordinate branch of the State Government and hunt for information | upon which to base ‘a judgment. 1t is ob- | jected that there was. nothing in ‘the act'of - Marchlo, 1879, authorizing the Governor to | declzka‘e the amendment as having been ratified and a part of the Constitation, and that,’ i therefore, the act was incomplete. It -is con~ - ceded that if the act had, in express terms,. authorized the Governor to issue his procla- . mation declaring the amendment ratitied, and he had done so, that act would have been conclusive. lam unable to see any force in this position. When the Governor had issued his proclamation giving the number of votés for and against the amerrdment, that was all he was required to do, and the Constitution i itself fixed the conclusion that such amend- | ‘ment had become part of that instrument. | The question of the validity of Section 7 of ‘Article X. of the Constitution was certainly not before the Court for its judgment. If it be true that the Constitution requires a ma- ' , jority of all the electors of the State to. vote affirmatively din’ favor of a proposeéd | amendment to make it a part of the Constitu- | tion, then the doctrine announce 1 in this por- | ‘tion of the opinion of the Court would permit -the executive and legislative departments of ; the State government to invalidate the Constitution by’ pronouncing an amendment to have passed, when in point of fact it had not, and make this act. of usurpation binding on the Eeople of the State. Courts ‘take judicidl nowledge of the proclamation of the Gov--ernor of the State, und the facts therein stated are taken as true; but I cannot assent to the proposition that a proposed amendment may become a part of the Constitution because it may be so declded "and proclaimed by the executive departments of the government. The amendment became a part of the Consti- ' tution by reason of its having beenratified by a majority of the votes cast for and against it, and not by reason of the ‘Governor’s proclamation, which was and still'i¢ the evidence of /ts ratification by a.majority of the electors of { the State.”

Tue Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 98@99¢; Corn, 35@3614c; Oats, 27@30¢. The Cincinnati quotations are : Wheat, No. 2, Red, 99@#51.02; Corn, 39@40c; Oats, 29@30c; Rye, 73@75c; Barley, New, Fall, 85@90¢c. AaER e

A NEW standard for determining sobriety was formulated by a witnessin the ctiy court of Bridge}o'ort., Conn., one ‘morning_ recently, © “Was the man drunk?’ the lawyer inquired. ¢<He couldn’t have been drunk.)" was the rereply, “for he knew when the other man hithm'. . .

AN old Judge of the New York Supreme Court meeting a friend in' a neighboring village exclaimed, “Why, what are you doing here?’ -“l’m at work, trying to make an honest living,” was thereply. ' ““Then you'll succeed,” said the Judge, ‘for you'll have no competition.” ek S

THRILLING ADVENTURE. A Maniac Capiain and a Cabin Roy Afloat on Lake Ontario in an Open B(n‘nnt. On Saturday morning about six o'clock the Captain of the steamer Empress of India, in coming up the lake, and when about fifteen miles east of Toronto, sighted a small boat to the southward. In the boat were discovered two persons who were waving their coats in theairand shouting at the top of their voices, evidently with the object| of attracting the attention of those on board the steanter. The Captain at once called the mate and headed the steamer for the craft, out of which they quickly got the occupants, whom they took on bouard the steamer. They then bore away for this -city, whither they were bound, towing ' the small boat astern. 'Tne rescued’ ones ‘proved to be Captain Maurice Fitzgerald, of the schooner Mercie E. Hall, and a lad about seventeen years of age, named William Clarkson, one of her ‘crew, and the boat was the yawl of that vessel. They both seemed quite exhausted and completely drenched with water, the boat being almost half filled when they were picked up. Captain Fitzgerald and his companion were as quickly as possible provided with fefreshments, of- which they partook in a .manner that hetokened a long fast. . After the cravings of hunger had been satistied the Captain commenced a wild and incoherent story. -

He averred that he had been chased while in the yawl by pirates, who kept up a steady fire on him with needle guns. He had seen a light on the lake, and heard voices calling, ‘¢ Sailor, come here!”. ¢There is one of the pirate boats now!’ he said to the mate, Mr.

- Ackerman, who, however, failed to see the object pointed out by the strange Captain, who,” moreover, stated that while on his own schooner his crew had ’ conspired to rob him of one hundred and fifty dollars and then murder him 1. afterward. Some of them were in favor of cutting him up and packing him in - a barrel, while others. less ceremonious, were for simply throwing him overi'board. All these statements he called upon the boy to corroborate, cautionI ing him to tell the truth, even if he - (the boy) should implicate himself, and ~even if it would ¢ rub him pretty. | hard.” . R . The boy, who was nearly scared to " death when picked up, told an entircly | different tale. of which the following is ‘"fim_snb”stnm%wwmfi

Oswego on Thursday last, “flying Light.” bound tor this port, and the variable and adverse winds she met so retarded her progress up- the lake that it took her until Friday evening to get within the distance of some fifty miles of her destination. The Captain, the boy went on to say, had been drinking very heavily for about two weeks, and. had left Oswego with scarcely any provisions, so" that they subsisted on the passage almost entirely on potatoes.. At eight o’clock on Friday evening the Captain came on deck, went forward, picked up a ‘norman’ '(a large iron bolt to insert in the windlass to keep the cable in its place thereon when. they “let go anchor,”) and, walking aft, also seized an ax. He then went aloft the main rigging to the crosstrees, where he kept waving the ax and norman in either hand, vowing that he would kill any one who would attempt to come near him. He also threatened to cut away the main halyards and let the sail down by the run.. After some considerable time, the box narrates, the Captain m@m&eekrani,wpwenty minutes to two on Saturday morning, ordered him into the . yawl. He then commenced to cut the tackles which suspended the boat to the davits. The mate tried to prevent him, but got knocked down with the norman, so the man succeeded in getting the boat into the water, not, - however, without partly - filline her with . water. At first the Captain tied him (the boy) to the bow of the boat, but after a time released Him, saying, ¢Oh, this is you, is it, Willie?*” - The boy at once went aft and seized the only oar they had and sctlled for dear life for the north shore in the hope that he would be picked up by some vessel. The podr lad was nearly exhausted when rescued, and could hardl&éhave held out much longer. Under the circumstances he behaved very coolly; for he was in fear every moment that the Captain would brain him with the ax or throw him overboard.

Captain -Fitzgerald was arrested, as appears in Saturday’s police report; and was remanded until to-day. The unfortunate man was suffering from an attack of delirium tremens, which-accounts for his extraordinary conduct.— Torohlo Globe. . e S

THE driver of a San Buenaventura stage, in California, lately had an adventure which he will not soon forget. While making his trip up, a passenger, who was on the roof seat above and behind the driver, suddenly became insane, and declared that he was pursued by two men. Drawing a small, new hatchet, he held it over the driver's head, threatening to bury it in his brain if he did " not ‘drive faster. The driver, utterly helpless, ran his team at full speed for some seven. miles, and finally drew up at the Newhall House, where'the lunatic sprang down and took to the hills. - SEan

- ATRAMP meek and lowly with a gentlemanly air asked for bread at a Norwich residence. 'The kind-hearted lady of the house dusted a. chair for him in her parlor, and went into the kitchen to prepare a nice laneh for him. When she returned with napkin, tray and dainties the parlor was cmpty. The gentlemanly tramp had rum away,. taking with him her gold watch. . .

A NEw JERSEY farmer heard a strange noise among his hens one nifht seventeen years ago and he fired a shot-gun from his bedroom window. The other day he received $5OO from ‘an unknown man, who stated that having his legs filled with bird-shot had made an honest man of him, and now as he was about-to die he desired tore‘ward the shooter,

_ RECORDER (to witness with bandaged™ head)—Did he have any provocation when he struck yon? V&itness———He may have had something of the kind concayled on his person, but it was a brick he struckme wid.

THE NARRAGANSETT DISASTER.

Interesting Facts and Incidents Connected With This XYost Beplorable Calamity. o o = :

[From Various Eastern Papers.]

An interesting story relating to the disaster is to the effect that an Englishman, a passenger on the Narragansett. saved the life of a little girl thrown fromx the burning steamer into the water' near him. He swam to the -little thing and lifted her up in the water, but she slipped from his’ grasp. He tried it.again, but the same. thing happened, and was again repeated. Finally he 2ot her on a plank and succg¢eded in keeping her there till the two were picked up by a life-boat and transferred to one of the steamers near at hand. LOST HER YHREE CHILDREN:

Mrs. George K. Thayer, of Pleasantville, Pa., was one of fhe saved. She states that after ‘the shock the oflicers went from room to room and advised the inmates to dress, telling them at the same time there was no danger. She says that the men in charge of the raft that rescued her were forcéd to let one poor woman sink, because to take her on-would have periled the safety of its occupants. A woman with three children clinging to her ‘clung to the side of a boat near the raft on which Mrs. Thayer was. The woman tried in vain to put her children in the boat, and after repeated attempts they were finally drowned, while she was saved. SAVED BY A BALE OF COTTON.:

A telegram from Mr. George Osgood, who, with his wife, was a passenger on the Narragansett, ‘states that -he and Mrs. Osgood remained —on the bout until the heat became unbearable, when, though e was unable to swim a stroke, they leaped into the dark waters together.. A bale of cotton was fortunately floating by and husband and wife succeeded “in grasping this and clinging to it - until rescued.. Mr. Osgood was on his way to Newburyport, his native place, from Nebraska City, by reason of ill-health. i : .

CONDITION OF THE STONINGTON. The Stonington has been hoisted into the dry-dock, foot of Pike street, and. many people are visiting her. Hér bows for nearly twenty feet aft and above the water-line are completely demolished, and to prevent her from filling with water, canvas and blankets had been nailed, over the hole, Her stem-pipe was completely shattered and the main deck leading back to the forecastle was twisted andstorn up, showing ‘that the shock was very severe. It was believed by some who examined the bows that the damage showed conclusively that the speed was greater than the law allows in a fog.” Upon the upper deck forward was strewn- the torn, soiled and drenched clothing of the rescued passengers, consisting of shoes, stockings, underclothing andovercoats. . A COFFIN FOR A LIVE MAN. ' . The report from New London that William Noyes was alive and :well in. New York was confirmed on the arrival of the New York mail express at Stonington from : Boston. On the train camie Mr. L. M. Thayer, of the Hotel Dorrence and Nathaniel Grant, both of Providence, R. 1., who are personal friends of Mr. Noyves. They brought with them an elegant casket to place the body of their old friend in, but before reaching the undertaker’s ~estabJlishment were surprised to lean from a Herald reporter from New London that Mr. Noyes was alive andall right. They were loth to believe, but, on viewing -the body,instantly and positively decided that it wias not Mr. Noyes. L "EVERYTHING UNHANDY. * A passenger says the pcople experienced great. difficulty in getting the boats looge. They were ~t,i,e(?in alt sorts ‘of ways, and only by liftine and pulling this way and that could they determine’ where the fastenings were. Not an officer came to help thiem; neither did the deck hands come around. If they had he has no doubt but that the life-cars could have been- readily lowered .and many lives saved. He could have saved the children locked up in the stateroom if an ax had been at hand. o A STRICKEN CITY. : The residents of Attleboro “are more deeply interested in the:Sound disaster than any other town in the State, because so many of the jewelry manufacturers are constantly traveling on that line in the prosecution of their business.’ Since tlie receipt of the intelligence of the disaster all business has been suspended, and groups collecton the corners of streets to learn any new things. All were saved except E. J. Horton, Fulton and the two children of Stilson. Fulton’s body and thé ‘two chil(%ren were found yesterday. The children were in the state-room where they had been locked ip by the mother as she left ~the room to ascertain the cause of the noisé. The ladies arrived here last evening and were received by a large crowd of people at ,the depot. The mother is completely prostrated by her afliction, and it was feared last Sunday that. she would die,. but she is now much improved. Expressions of sincere sorrow at the loss of Mr. Horton are heard on every side, and the inhabitants feel that they could more easily have lost other men. He was an enterprising manufacturer of jewelry, was fifty-two veats old last December, had lived in town from his boyhood, represented the town in the last Legislature and was quite wealthy. He leaves a widow and one child. The flags in .the public squares and buildings are at half‘mast. Fulton was a resident ¢f Attleboro Falls and was a salesman. So great is the ipterest maintained by the public that onqthe; appearance on the street of any of the survivors they are besieged by crowds of eager listeners, 'and are ‘obliged to recite their experiénces.

Supporting the Guus---A Graphic Battle Picture. e i 1

Did you ever see a battery take position?

It hasn’t tue thrill of a cavalry charge nor the grimness of a line of bayonets moving slowly and determinedly on, but there is a peculiar excitement about it that makes old veterans rise in the. saddle and cheer. e ; L

~ We have been tighting at the edge of the woods. KEvery cartridge box has been emptied once and more, and a fourth of the brigade has melted away ’in\‘deglasngi wounded and missing. Not a cheer is heard in the whcle brigade. We know that we are being driven foot by foot and that- when we break back once more the line will go to pieces and the enemy will pour through the gap.

Here comerhelpl: .0 = ki - Down thé crowded highway gallops a‘battery, withdrawn from some other position to.saye ours. - The field fence 1s scattéred while you could’count thirty and the guns rush for the hill behind us. Six horses to a piece—three riders to each gun. - Over dvy ditches where a farmer 'would' not ‘drive a wagon, through clumps of bushes; over logs a “foot thick, every horse on fhe gatlop, every rider lishing his team and yelling—thie sight behind us makes us

forget the foe in front,. The guns jump two feet high as the heavy wheels strike a rock or log, but not a- hotse slackens his paee, not a cannoneer, loses his seat. Six “guns, six caissons, sixty horses, . eichty men race for the brow of the hill | as if he who reached it first was to be - knighted. - il e A moment ago the battery was a confused mob. We.look again and the six guns are in position, the detached horses hurrying away, the ammunition-chests open, and along our line runs the command: ‘*Give thé¢m one more volley and fall back to support the guns!” We have searcely obeyed swhen boom! boom!: boom! opens. th¢ battery, and - jets of fire’ jump down and scorch the green trées under which we fought and despaired.”® - g ~ The 'shattered ‘old : bricade has ‘a chance to breathe for the first time in three hours as we form a line of battle - behind-the guns and lie:down. What grim, cool fellows thpse cannonecrs.are! Every man is a perfect machine. Bullets plash dust into their faces, but they do not: wince. Bullets sing over and arounnd them, but they do not'dodge. There goes. one .to the earth; shot through the head as he sponged his gun. .The machinery loses just onebeat—misses just one cog in the wheel, - and then works away again as before. . Every gun is using shert-fuse shell. = The ground shakes and trembles —the® roar shuts out all sounds from a battleline three miles long and the shells go shrieking into tlie swamp to cut trees - short off—to mow great gaps in the bushes—to hunt "out ‘and.shatter and mangle men until their corpses ¢annot be recognized as human.- You. would think a_tornado was: howling' through the forest, followed By-billows of fire, and yet men live through it-—aye! press forward to capture the battery! We can hear aheir shouts as they form for the rush: ° e s s Bt

Now the shells are‘changed for grape - and cannfiter, and the guns are sérved so fast thgtall reports blend .into one 6 mig}Thc shriek of Ja shell is the Wikedest sound in war, hut nothing mukes the flesh crawl like the demoniac sirging, purring, whistling grape shot and. the serpent-like hiss of cannister. Men’s legs and arms are not shot! through, but torn off. Heads are torn from’ bodies, and bodies cut'in two. A round shot or shell takes two men out of the ranks as it crushes’ through. Grape and cannister miow a swath wud pile the dead on top each other. :

i Through the smoke we sge 4.. swarm. of men. "It is-not a battlé line.. but a , mob of men desperate enouzh to bathe their bayonets in the flame of the guns. . The guns leap from the ground, almost, as they are depressed on the foe, and . shrieks and screams and ‘shouts blend into one awful and steady cry. Twenty - men-out of the battery are down, and the firing is' interrupted!. 'The foe agcepts it as a sign of wavering and come rushing on. ‘They are not ten feet away . when the guns give them a last shot. - That -discharge picks living men off their feet and- throws them into the swamp= blackened, hloody mass. . Up now, as the enemy are among the guns! There is a silence of ten seconds, and then the flash and roar of more than three thousand muskets;-and a rush for--ward with bayonets. Forwhat? Neither on the right. nor left, nor in front of us . is a living foe! There are corpses around us which have been struck by three, four and even six bullets, and no where - on this acre of ground is a wonnded man! The wheels of the guns..cannot move until the blockade of dead is removed. Men cannot pass.from caisson to gun without climbing” over winrows of dead. : Every gnn and wheel is smeared with blood—every foot of grasshas its horrible stain. . e fo

Historians write of the glory of war. Burial parties saw murde# where historians saw glory.—Detroit F'rec Press,

An Ingenious Art Critic.

The nice old lady from Otsezo, with her neice Nancy, was in town Saturday and visited the Assembly Chamber when the members were all ahsent. = = ““You see,”’ she said; -confidingly, to the reporter, ‘‘l come;down now often» er than usual, ’C@\&é‘z,,. il, my son-in-law, has got a place, and\l can stop at his bo:u‘fiing-pht,ce sandCsee how he's treating my ° darter. THere- are the great pictures I hear about, e¢h?”’ o «Yes'm; those are Hunt's greatest efforts.”’ : Ll G e .

¢ I reckon yes.: He must have had a powertful long brush to reach up there. I know that picture first thing. Seen the chromo it's tuk from“-Washington Crossing the- Delaware. We have one up in the kitchen, - hain’t we, Nace? That ’ere picture I don't remember.”” * “ That, madam, is ‘called the ¢ Flight of Night.” It is considered a great work, representing- something important, but just. what-1 don’t know.”” .~ - . = | - ¢ ¢<The Flight o' Night." ' I reckon it. refers to the colored exodus from the Sonth: 21 . Sl ]

- After some further remarks, in which the old lady protested as she counted the gas standard that there were too many hat-racks in the house, she withdrew, becausé, as Gil told her, if she went around the I.egislatare much some of the reporters would put her in the papers.—dlbany (N. ¥.) Times.,

A Buddhist Fable.

Bodhisat was a tradesman who went from village to village to dispose of his ‘wares. One day when at the house of . a carpenter, whose head was bald like a copper porringer, a musquito alighted thereon and the carpenter called to his | son, who was ‘near, to drive it away. ’ The son taking a sharp ax for this pur- | pose, aimed a blow. at the insect, but | split his father’s head in two and killed him. On seeing what he had done, Bodhisat said that an enemy was betterthan a foolish relative or friend. >

—The Jewish Gazette, a_religious newspaper published in New York City, is printed wholly in Hebrew. =~ .