Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 14, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 July 1880 — Page 2

i g e . Y e i The Ligonier Banner, ;-D. - ! ‘ J. B. VST()L,L, Editor and Prop’r. - : LIGONIER, : @ INDIANA. : - NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, Domestic. . JACKSON, Miss., has "established land and water quarantines against New Orleans.’ _ CuastiNe Cox, the murderer of Mrs. Dr. Hull, was hanged at the Tombs prison, New York, on the 16th. He expressed sorrow for hiscrime and hope for forgiveness. - Apour 1,000 German immigrants arrived at Baltimore on the 16th. They left at once for ()lili(zétg:(). . ~ THE committee’appointed by Secretary Sherman to investigate, the truth or falsity of the.charges made against West India planters of artificially coloring the sugar sent 1o the United States in order td cheat the _revenue, have reported to the effect that such - frauds have been practiced even to a greater extent tlian charged. No secret was made of .the matter among the planters in Demerara and elsewhere. :

A ParLApeLpHIA telegram of the 16th says 11,000 of Dr. Buchanan’s bogus diplomas are current. throughout-the world. A list of those diplomas which were not antedated will be published, with directions for applying twenty-one different methods of\ detecting the ante-dated diplomas and establigshing their fraudulent character. The doings of the National Eclectic Medical Association, which, under Buchanan’s management, sold its diplomas for €5, will, it is said, also be laid bare. x - -

A VIOLENT wind-storm swept over the country in the vicinity of. Chester, Pa., on the 16th. In South Chester thirty-five houses were unroofed,, J‘sev”cn, " partl_yfix_xié;hed houses were blown down, and, many trees and barns were leveled with the ground. Two men were geriously injured. b Tue National Counci} of Educatioy at, Chautauqua, N. Y., or;::ifiized on the 16th by the election.of T. W. Bicknell, of Boston, as President; Prof. McCosh, of Princeton College, Vice-President, and Prof. Soldad, of St. Louis, Secretary. A

CoLONEL 'CAsH, the South Carolina duelist who shot Colonel Shannon, was taken before Judge Mclver, of the Supreme Court, at Cheraw, S, C., on the 17th, on a writ of habeas corpus, and was’ admitied to bail in the sum of $3,000. Previous to the hearing of the case Cash’s son attempted to shoot the editor of a local paper which contained some severe strictures on the elder Cash, but the editor’s friénds interfered and prevented thecrime. | - L / .

THE real estate of Californiais valued at $446,273,685, -and the personal property at = $118,304451. The- total. debt of the State s . $11,880,018. The . 'total yearly expense of . the- public schools of the State is $1,557,978, and the entire yearly tax for all purposes is $ll, 408,032, - |- _ _

A sHORTAGE of $4,300 has been discovered in the. secounts of the Richmond (Va.,) Postmaster. e

A CIRCULAR has been’issued by Secretary Sherman to the- sugar importers, informing them that any attempts to pass sugars below their grade w e_punished by the forfelture of the goods, .. = —— = Cropr reports from different parts o t}ic \Vcsi:, received in Chitago on the 18th, continued favorable as to ,wheat, oats, corn apdbay o o ;

Rumors of recent depredations by Indians'in the vicinity of ‘Deadwood were pusitively denied in dispatches of the 18th.

SI‘EC{A?I‘ AGENT SAWYER, of the Census Bureau of Washington, arrived at St. Louis on the 17th, ‘with authority to revise the work of Supervisor Salomon and make such additions to the census of St. Louis as are right and proper. ' DurinG the month of June there arrived in the United States 72,567 immigrants. Of this number Ireland furnished the largest quota, a—iid: Germany the next largest. The immigrant arrivals at the port of New York alone for thie year ending June 30. were 263,726, against 99,224 for the preceding twelve fonths. ”

“THE health authorities of New Orleans certified on'the ISth that there was not. then, and that there had not been during the summer, a case 'of yellow” fever in that gitv. | :

Two MEN while bathing in the Arkansas River, about forty = miles from Pueblo, recently discovered an iron pot containing $3,000 in gold and silver. A letter concealed in a buckskin purse found in the pot® is yellow with age, and is dated April 13, 1860, and says: “I stole the money in Chicago from a farmer. My partner died in Kansas City, March 15. lam going to New Mexico. If anybody finds this pot they can keep the monéy. A. T. T.”

Personal and Political.

TaE Republicans made the following renominations for "Congress on the .14th: Godlove 8. Orth. in the Ninth Indiana District; N. C. Deering in the Fourth lowa, and John A. Anderson in the First Kansas. The Democrats of the Sixth Mississippi Distrigt have renominated General James R.Chalmers.

THE Michigan State Greenback Convention to iominate State officers and Presidential Electors has been called to meet at Lansing on the 11th of August. . :

AT an adjourned meecting of the National Démocratic Committee in New York on the 14th the following gentlemen were appointed an Executive Campaign Committee: William, H. Barnum, Connecticut; Frederick O. Prince, Boston; George T. Barnes, Georgia; William C. Goudy, Illinois; Austin H. Brown, Indiana; M. M. Ham, Towa; Henry D;' McHenry, Kentucky ; Outerbridge Horsey, Maryland; B. F. Jonas, Louisiana; Patrick H. Kelly, Minnesota; A. H. Sulloway, New Hampshire; ‘Orestes: Cléveland, New Jersey; Abram §. Hewitt, New York; SBenator Ransom, North Carolina; W. W. Armstrong, Ohio; William L. Scott,” Pennsylvania; Thomas O’Conhor, Tennessee, and B. B. Smalley, Vermont. Thé committee chosen then elected Mr. Barnun Chairman, Mr. Prince Secretary, and Duncan 8. Walker Assistant Secretary.

+ SENATOR DON CAMERON was in Washington on the 15th, and appeared to be in good healgh, having almost entirely recovered from his recent indisposition. . He is said to have stated that there was not a word of truth in the storiesabout his failing health.- ~ 'JUDGE LAWRENCE, of Ohio, had an interview with President Haves on the 15th, and decided to accept the First Comptrollership of the Treasury.. = .

~ Tue New Hampshire Republican’ State Convention is to be held on the 7th of September. o

THE Missouri- Greenback State Convention was held on the "14th. A full State ticket, headed by Luman A. Brown, for Governor, was nominated, and also a full list of Presidential Electors. ' The Convention adopted a series of resolutions, indorsing the platform and candidates of the National Greenback Convention and arraigning the Democratic and Republican parties of Missouri for various alleged wroncful acts.

THE Irish Republican Convention at Indianapolis effected a permanent organization on the 15th, by electing Colonel R. H. Huant, of Missouri, Permanent Chalrman, and Colonel T. McNamara, of Ohio, Secretary. Seventeen States were represented. Ann)Exccutive or National Central Comimnittee was appointed, cousisting of one from each State and Territory, and an address was issued to the Irish voters of the United States: - : e -

Tuae lowa Democratie Sbate Convention has been called to meet at Des Moines on the 21 of September. : ‘ o

. _Tue Republicans of the Fifth Indiana District have nominated W. B. Treat for Congress. The Democrats of the: Sixteenth lilinofs District have renominated Congressman Sparks; those of the Third Alabama District l have nominated Colonel W. C. Oates, and those of the Seventh Tennessee District have | renominated Congressman. Whitthorne. ,

Tuk Republicans of the Twelfth Indiana District have nominated Robert 8. Taylor for Congress. _

A YOUNG MAN, calling himself John H. Christiancy, and claiming to be a son of Minister Christiancy, has recently been committed to the Inebriates’ Home, at, Fort Hamilton, New York, on his own motion.

. GENERAL ARTHUR's letter of acceptance of the Republican nomination for the Vice-Presidency was given to the press on the evening of the 18th.

Foreign,

TaE Roman Catholic priests at Constantinople refused to sing a 4 Te Deum on the French fete day; but the clergy of the Greek Church consented. o e :

- A Paris telegram of the 16th, speaking of the absence of Marshal MecMahon from the great milirtary review at Lang-champs on the 14th, states that the veteran w?s in a deplorable condition; mentally and physically. "Ile was harrdssed by creditors, reproached by old friends, and saw life in such gloomy colors that he not long since seriously. contemplated suicide. - - . RECENT accounts from Mexico.indicate that none of the 'Presidential candidates received a majority of the total vote cast.in the late election. The choice of President, therefore, rests with the Mexican Congress. The election is described as the most orderly ever held in Mexico. o

MINISTER MAYNARD, recently appointed Postmaster-General, left Constantinople on the 16th for this country. *

- Tee Mexican Government has declined to allow General Hatch to follow Vietoria across the boundary, because, as it alleges, the precedent will be dangerous.

- THE French Government has in- | structed its l'epreseumtiveé abroad to. assist, with money and otherwise, any amnestied Communist residing abroad: and unable, for swant of funds, to return to France.

.HErRR WETTENDORF, . a German dfinancier, has beecn engaged to reorganize Turkish fip'ances. He receives a salary of 40,000 francs per year. e - .

A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 18th says Christians had been massacred in Adana, Asia Minor. = .

ACCORDING {0 a Constantinople dispateh of the 18th the Montenegrin difficulty had been settled. ‘ -

THREE years ago a party of Oka Indians are said- to ‘have burned the Roman Catholic Churech at St. Chatastique, near Montreal.. They were/arrested, for tlfe oftense, but the authorities have been unable tofind a jury which would convict them. The fourth trial, recently ended at- Montreal, resulted in a disagreement and the dismissal of the prisoners. . L "

LATER NEWS,

A BROKEN RAIL caused a very serious accident on the Wabash, SBt. Louis & Pacific Railway on the night of the ISth, at Knox Station, about twenty-four miles east of Fort Wayne. The train, cqnsisting of si¥ toaches filled with excursionists from Indianapolis, Peru and other Indiana towns, was completely wreeked. One man was instantly killed, three others were fatally injured; and fifteen persons were seriously ‘and twentyone slightly wounded. -

‘RoBBERS entered the apartment of General Grant at a Manitou (Col.) hotel before daylight on the morning of the 19th, and carried away $4OO worth of jewelry and some money. ' ‘ . :

MME. SKOBELEFF, mother of the noted Russian Geneéral, hag been murdered in Turkey, where she was organizing schools and hospitals, ' o

‘Tae Chief of the Burean of Statistics reports that the total values of the exports of domestic breadstuffs from the United States during the month. of June, 1880, were S2S,049,859, and for June, 1879, $17,210,710; during the twelve months ending ‘June 30, 1580, $207,226,762, and during the same period-in 1879, $201,776,499. e . Mzs. NesmiTH, wife of a Lieutenant in the navy; and two children were drowned while bathing at Atlantic City, N. J., on the 19th. . . .

~ THE population of Providence, R. 1., is reported to be 104,760—an increase of - 35,856 in ten years. ’ . :

THE steamer Dessouk, bearing the Egyptian obelisk presented .to the United States by the ex-Khedive of : Egypt, arrived off New York on the 19th. 5

Dr. TANNER comvleted his twentyfirst day of fasting in New York on the 19th, and neither lost' nor-gained in flesh during the previous twenty-four hours. His weight was 134 pounds, pulse 72, temperature 99 and respiration 15. !

Ir issaid the sureties of the Richmond (Va.) postmaster will make good the defi. ciency in his accounts, and there will be no eriminal prosecution. . - JOSEPH BRINKERHOFF, author of the original draft of the celebrated Wilmot pro-vigo,-and for many years Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court, died at Mansfield on the 19th. : THERE have been excessive rairw in England, and farmers are complaining that there is danger ahead for their crops.

A LONDON newspaper gives currency to the rumor that Lady Burdett-Coutts and Ashmead Bartlett, M. I’., are soon to be married. :

MemBERsS of firms controlling: the English cattle-trade are making a strenuous effort to secure a modification of the!orders of the Privy Council relative to the importation of cattle. . Notwithstanding the restrictions, it-is said the importation of American cattle has steadily increased. :

General Arthur's Letter of | Accept~ o .~ ' ance. : \ 1 . : Nr_iw YORE, J Aly 18. ~ Following is the letter of acceptanee of General Arthur: Ll

DEAR Slr: I accept the position assigned me by the great partyiwhose action you announce. This acceptance implies an ayproval f the principles declared by the Convention, but recent usage permits me to add some expression of my own views.” .- - : " The right and duty to secure honesty \and order in,p()!)ulur elections is a matter so vital that it must stand in the front. The authority of the National Government to presdrve from fraud and force elections. at whichl|its | own officers are chosen' is a chief fuint on which the two parties are plainly and-intensely oppused. Acts-of Congress for teu years have in New York and elsewhere done much eurb the violence and wrong to which the ballot .and count have been again and agaipn subjected, sometimes despoiling great cities, sometimes stifling the voice of a whole Statel " often placing not only in Congress,.‘but on the Bench and in Legislatures, numbers, of| men never chosen by the people. The Dem- ‘ ocratic party, since gaining possession of the | two Houses of Congress, has mude these ! laws the object of: bitter, ceaseless assault, | and despite all resistance has hedged them with restrictions cunningly contrived to baftie .and paralyze them. 'l'his aggressive ma- | jority boldly attempted to extort from the ‘Executive his approvalof various enactments, destructive of these election laws by reyolutionary threats that a constitution:l exereise of the veto power would be punished by withholding' appropriations necessary to.carry on the Goveinment, and these threats were actually carried out by refusing needed appropriations and by forcing an extra session of Congress lasting for months and resulting in concessions to this usurping demand whiech are likely, .in. many States, to subject the majority .to the lawless will of a minority. Ominous signs of public disapproval alone subdued thiis arrogant power into & sullen surrender for the time being of a part of its demapds. The Republican Yarty has strongly approved the stern refusal of its representatives to suffer the overthrow of statutes believed to be salutary and just. It has always insisted, and now insists, that tße Government ot the United Stdtes of America is empowered and in duty bound to effectually protect the elections denoged by the Constitution as national. . More than this,.the Republican party “holds as the cardinal point in its creed that the Government should by every means known to the Constitution protect all American citizens everywhere in the full enjoyment of their civil and political rights. As a great part of its work of reconstruction, the” Republican party gave the ballot to the emanecipated: slave as his right and defense. A large increase in the number of members of Congress and of the Hlectoral Colleze from former - slave=haldiiig States was the immediate result. The hisfig;'y of recent years aboundg ' in evidence thatiin many ways and in many places, especially where their number has been great enough to endanger Democratic control, the very meén by whose elevation to citizenship this increase of representation wds . effected have been debarred and robbed of their woice and their vote. It i 3 true that .no | State statute. or Constitution in 0 many words denies or abridges the exercise ¢f their political rights, but bodics employed to bar their way are no.ess effectunl. It is a suggestive and startling thought that the increased power derived. from the enfranchisement of a race now denied its shar¢ in governing the country,- wielded by ' those whbo lately sought the overthrow of thcaGm'ernmerm, is now the sole reliance to - defeat . the puarty which - represented the sovereignty and nationality -of | the American peaple in the greatest |[crisis of our history. Republicans chervish none of the resentments which may have animated them during the “nctual ¢ontlict of arms. They long for a full and real recongilintion betwéen the sections which ‘were needlessly and lamentably at strife. . They sincerely offer the hand of good “will, but they ask in return a pledge of good taith. They deeply feel that the party whose. career is so illustrious in great and patriotic, achievements will not fulfill its destiny until ‘peace and prosperity are established in all the and, nor until liberty of thought, conscience and action, and cquality of dpportunity, shall not be merely cold formalities of the statute, but living birthrights which the humble may gunfidem»xy claim, and the 'powerful dare not eny. [ :

‘The resolution referring to the public service seems to me deserving of approval. Surely no man should be the incumbent of an office the duties of which he is for acause unfit to perform, who is lacking in ability, fidelity or integrity which a proper administration of such oftice demands. This sentiment would doubtless meet with general acquiescence, but opinion has been widely divided upon the wisdom ahd practicability ot various reformatory schemes.: which have been suggested and ol .certain proposed regulatiohs governing appointments to public office. The efficiency ot such regulations has been distrusted muinly because they have seemed to exalt mere educational: and abstract testa above general business capacity and even special fitness for the particular work in hand. Itseems to me that the rules which should be applied to the management of the public service may be properly contormed in the main to suchas regulate the conduct of succe stul private business. Original appointments should be based upon ascertained {itness. [The tenure of office should be stable. Positions of responsibility should, so far as przxctlc?ble, be tilled by the promotion of worthy and etticient otficers. The investigation of all complaints and the punishiment of all cofficial misconduct should be prompt and thorough. These views, which I have long held, repeatedly deciared, and uniformly applied when called upon to act, [ find embodied 1n theé resolution, which of course I approve. I will add that by the acceptance of public oilice, whethier high or low, one doesnot, in my judgment, escape any of his regponsibility as a ¢itizen orlose or impair any oi his rights as a citizen, and that: he should enjoy absolute liberty to think, and spgilk,»:md‘m:t‘ in political matters according to his own will and conscience, provided only that he howrovably, faithtully and tully discharges ali his oflicial duties. The resumption of specie-payments—one of the fruits of the Republican . policy—has brought a return of abundant prosperity and the settlement of many distracting questions. The restoration of sound money, the large reduction of our public debt and the burden of interest, the high'advancement ot the publie credit—all attest the ability and courage of the Republican party to deel with such financial problems as may hereafter demand solution. Our paper currency is now as good as gold, and silveris performing its lezitimnate function for the purpose of change. Theprinciples which should govern the relations of-these elements of the currency are simple ‘and clear. There must be no deteriorated coin, no depreciated paper, and every dollar, whether of metal or paper, should stand the test of the world’s fixed standard.

The value of popular education can hardly be overstated. Although its interests must of necessity be ehiefly confided to the voluntary effort and individual action of the several States, they should be encouraged so far as the Constitution permits by the generous cooperation of the National Government. The interests of a whole country demand that the advantages of:our common-school system should be brought within the reach ot évery citizen, and that no revenues of the Nation or the States should be devoted to the support of sectarian schools.

‘Such changes should be made in the present tariff and system of taxation as will relieve any overburdened industry or class, and enable our manufacturers and artisans to compete successfully with those of other:lands. The Government should aid works of internal Improvement, national in their character, and should promote the development of our water courses and harbors wherever the general interests of comnmerce require. .

Four yearsago, as now, the Nation stood on the threshold of a Presidential election, and

the Republican party, in soliciting a continuance of its ascendency, founded its hope ;of success, not upon its promises, but upon its history. Its subsequent course¢ has been such as to strengthen the . claims which it thén made to the confidence:and support of the country. On the other hand, considerations more urgent than have ever before existed forbid the accession of . its opponents to power. Their .success, if success attend them, must chietly come from the united support of that section which sought the forcible disruption of/ the Union and which, according to all the teachings of our past history, will demand acsendency-in the councils of the party to whose triumph it will have made by far the largest contribution. There is the gravest reason for the apprehensiod that exorbitant claims upon the public Treasury, by no means limited to the hundreds of millions already covered by bills introduced in Congress within the past four ears, would be successfully urged if the %emocratic party should succeed insupplementing its present control of the National Legislature by electing the Executive also. There is danger in intrusting the control of the whole law-making power of the Government to a party which has in almostievery Southern State repudiated obligations quite as sacred as those to which, the faith ‘of the Nation now stands pledged. o Ido mot doubt that success awaits the Re-lpu-incan party, and that its triumph will assure a just, economical and patriotic administration. . I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, : G C. A. ARTHUR. To the Hon. George F. Hoar, President of the Republican National Convention, ‘

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Wirriam DuNuEAM, an insane convict, b:oke out of his cell in the insane department of the State Prisun South a few: days ago. Armed with a-long bar of iron, he made an onslaught upon the guards who went in pwrsuit, but, fortunately, he ‘did not burt any of them. The desperate convict was driven in range of the dummy engine. used in the prison, when ths water was turned upon him with such force that he was knocked down and recaptured. : CasPER CEECH, Mathias Merz, Perry White and an unknown man' died in Indianapolis on the 13th, in consequence of the intense heat. . - DrriNG a thunder-storm at Oxford on the 10th, 2 remarkable display of lightni®s took place near Kiger’s saw -mill, striking no less than thirty-six trees, one after another, within a space of ten acres.” At the same time it struck a large wheat rick-on the Little farm, near by, destroying every sheaf. : Ox'the IZ2th at Terre Haute, Frank Lockmar, while in a drunken condition,” seated ims¢lf upon the Vandalia Rallroad track, lear the depot, and wis run over by a passing rain. He received injuries from which he ied before niglit. ' : LorixG REID JOBES, a _niné‘-year-Q]d son of Gporge, O. Jobes, druggist, of Indianapolis, wis fatally shot.on the 10th by the accidental digcharge of a shot-gun in the hands of Jerry Gdtes. The boys, had gone out to hunt tuntles, and, finding one, Gates was putting-a caplon the gun, when the hammer slipped, sendling the whole load of shot into Jobes’ abdomen, . ' . THomAR Parsoxns; of Angola, committed suicifle the other night by taking morphine. Financial embarrassments and ill health are the alleged causes of the act. Mator HARrRISON'S hominy mill at Evansville was degtroyed by fire a few mornings ago. Loss $lO,OOO. _ & Mgs) SEFTON, the wife of a farmer living near (ireensburg, ran a rusty nail in her foot the otherday, and died afterward from lockjaw. - . - A woMaN named Schauss, living in Posey County, went away from home the other day, leaving her eleven-months-old babe sleeping in a crafle in charge of her five-year-old child. During her absence the babe awakened, andlin its struggles fell outof the cradle through :Xx opening in the side where one of the rounds was out. Its head was caught in some niant er, and the littie one hung there unti,l"fnum§_ dead by its mother. . - NywmpuU { BASSITT, a Shelbyville farmer, wis killed by lightning on the 10th. , Tue following are new money-order postoffices in Indiana: Elwood, Geneva, Knox, Nappanee, {North Judson, Otterbern, Palaka, Rilver Lake, Walton. ‘ TnE night lexpress train ‘on the Vandalia Road, due at|lndianapolis at four o’clock on the morning of the 14tk van off an open switch at Amo, Hendricks County, causing a bad wreck. Thé engine and postal-car were damaged most; being almost totally demolished, whiie the rest of the train was comparatively damagied only slightlys Nick Dodson, ‘engineer, had|a leg crushed, and the occupants of the postal-car miraculously escapeg with no more than a fewe scratches -and bruises. None others, with one exception, were injured, although a lively shalkng-up was administered -to .the passengers and train-men. A ftramp who was riding between the postal and express cars was crushed about the legs and hips, and fatally hurt. :

EBOX the evening of the 14th, during a heavy thunder-storm in the northetn part of Dela“ware County Shalatia Barclay, a farmer, was _struck by a bolt| of lightning and instantly killed. Severallmen standing.near hins were prostrated, but hey will survive. o i SixcE June 2.685 dog licenses have beén issued in Indiauajolis. : : = "MRr. GAR.\'ET‘I%)A-\'IDSO}:, the miller %t Carpenter’s Mills, Rainsville, went in bathing on the 14th and was drowned. - JoserPH REMABLUS was fatally sunstruck on the 14th while stiacking wheat at the farm of Mat Burlage; of [Earl Park. . ‘ FrED.FLYNN, twenty-two years old, living at Larwiill with |his parents,’ was almost in.stantly killed ou |the night of the 13th, while stealing 4 ride from Warsaw to Larwill on a freight train. He was trying to hide from a brakeman, and féll between the cars, cutting both legs .com: letely off.. He-died in a few minutes. = . . . ‘ .

Hexry F. BLope=tT, a well-known citizen of Lafayette, died on the 13th from cancer in the face. : ; :

IN a collision on the evening of the 12th on the Wabash Ro“adF near ?cl’u, Matthew John- ; son was instantly killed, and a number of cars wrecked. b e ‘ | SHORTLY beford noon on the 12th Saralr C. Thompson, of L:\lfayette, ‘was granted a divorce from: Wallhce Thoinpson, and before one o’clock John 1'1‘}101111)5011 had secured the necessary document authorizing his marriage . to the same Sarah|C. Thompson. o Tromas H. Jouxsox, of Crawfordsville, whose son Toda \\fias recently killed by a toypistol in the hand%; of 4 playmate, has entered suit for $5,000 damages azainst George Binfqrd, proprietor of a variety. store at which the pistol was bpught. Itis claimed that under the statutes of Indiana prohibiting the sale of fircarms -t?) minors damages can be recovered. L . ProrPLE at Madison, who some years ago subseribed to 2160,000 stock in a Chicago insurance company that has since failed, are now writhing undfi:r a liability for double the amount. [ ‘ A ) THE arrests for| drunkenness .at New Albany are increasin at a rate of late to indicate that intoxication is largely on the increase, especially axfiong_ young men and boys. = 0 L ‘ - WHOOPING ¢oUGH and measles combined are very prevalent among the children of New Albany;. and a good many cases are proving fatal. | ¢ | - THE surviving members of the Box family, near New Albany, supposed to have been poisoned three. mzpnths ago, are slowly recovering. Paralysis of the arms still remains, though in a‘much mitigated form. The case is still shrouded ih profound mystery, and the real cause of the poisoning may never be developed. b 4 ‘ ' Tue Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2Red, 97@9714c; Corn, 87@3714c¢; Oats, 28@31c. The|Cineinnati quotations.are: Wheat, No. 2, Red, 97@?S¢c; Corn, 4@ 4lc; Oats, 31@35c;|Rye,- 76@30c; Barley, New, Fall, 85@SGe. Gl - - THE ensuing epigram was suggested by the oratorical ‘exploits of a lawyer' in court who had a: fluency of tongue without a' counterpoise of brain, and, a 8 a consequence, uttered more than he knew or the court could understand. Some one who ligtened to his ambitious eloquence in behalf of his client and witnessed the nervous gymnastics with which he scratchied his back as he proceeded, wrote as|follows: : When Nature formed Simpkins she called for her shoars, Dg L . ¢We mustishorten this fellow,” she said, ‘“‘in . the ears.” i But added atlast *We will det the. ears pass; ‘What is ’l’ong' for aman is just right for an ass.

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

—The good that men do lives after them——until the lawyers can break the will. — Detroit Free Press. .

- —Ladies have the right to bare arms, and they must also be furnished with a good supply of powder.—N. O. . Picayune. o i —The. man ‘who went on a fool’s errand was probably performing one of his own commissions.— Boston Transseript., | ; .

- —Why is Hymen always represented as bearing a torch? —Boston Post. Because only light-headed people think of marriage.—New Haven Reguster.

—A story in an exchange says: “The boy stood with bated breath, waiting for his father.”” Had his mouth full of fish worms, we guess.—Philadelpa dem. L , ;

- —The girl who, overcome by her emotions while reading one of Marion Evan’s novels, burst into a flood of ' tears, was mopped up by her mother and wrung out inté the sink.—Graphie. =~ - —Many persons ‘who rake through another’s character with a fine-tdoth, comb,to discover a fault, could find one ‘with less trouble by going over ‘their own - character with a horse-rake.— Whatehall Times. ~

—A writer on poultry raising says: ““Fowls must have ample range to do well.”” . Give them range of the kitchen and dining-room and a chance at the garden and the flowers beds, without ¢ shoos” at.them, and they will do splendidly.—N. 0. Picayune. b - —>Said Angelina, .suddenly breaking the oppressive silence, * Don’t you feel afraid of the army worms, Theodore, that are coming so rapidly this way?"’ The question was such a strange one that Theodore’s surprise caused him to look right at. Angelina for the first time in his life. - Why did she ask that, he wanted to know. \*‘O, nothing,”’ she replied as she toyed with her fan;*‘only the papers, say they eat every green thing wherever they go.”’—Boston dTransenpt. . , - —¢Gem’len, in closin’ dis meetin’,”’ said Brother Gardner, as he nodded to the triangle sounder, ‘‘dar am some few, things dat it am well to b’arin mind. De cowcumber wasn’'t made to eat widout peelin’, and de harvest-ap-ple contains more deviltry to de squar’ rod dan all odder fruits in de land. Be moderate in your eatin’, sensible’ in what you drink an’ doan’ ’spect dat de Lawd kin porshun you out" jist de kind of weather you want an’ leab de crumbs to your nayburs.”’—Detroit Free. Press.

¢¢ References Required.”

Between eleven. and twelve o’clock yesterday forenoon a - middle-aged man stood on. the steps of a Congress Street boarding-house with an old grip-sack -in his hand and a cobble-stone and a lot of old papersin the grip-sack.. The papers and the cobble-stone are mere suppositions, but they were doubtless in there all the same. When the stranger’s ring was answered he indulged in bows, scrapes and smiles and announced his readiness to take room and board in the -house until he could transact some very important. business which called him to Detroit. e ; e

| “Yes, we keep boarders, but well, vou know—we_ have to’ be so careful, you know. T presume you have references?”? . : . S

¢« References! madam, I have a thousand: lam delighted to find that you are so choice of your guests. I presume you have heard of Senator Smith?”’ - ** Smith! Smith!”’ She wasn’t quite sure. : L

- ¢ Don’t know Senator Smith!’’ he exclaimed as he held up his hands. «« Well, you Western people are so sin--gular. llve, been in swimming with Senator Smith a thousand times. We used to run a bank together. I'll have to tell him when I get home that 1 found. a lady in Detroit who had never heard of him. You must have heard of General Sherman?”’ , Ly . ‘e O’ ‘yes.” ' : . : ¢ Well, Sherm and I sleep in the same bed when he can get an excuse for being out all night. We are always out strawberrying together when I'm in Washington. The day 1 left he came down to the depot and wanted to pay me an old debtof $l,OOO. but I wouldn’t take it. Just drop a line to General Sherman and ask him if he knows Judge Collins.” . o " She seemed to study over the matter ‘and he presently continued: - - - ¢« Maybe that would be too much trouble. ,Do you know the Mayor of Buffalo?”’ S o « No.”? ’ ; -

“ Sorry, . very sorry, because it wouldn’t take ten minutes to telegraph him. We rent the same pew in church and our wives look like twin sisters. Nice, man, he is, and I can’t imagine how he would look if some one was to ask him if Judge Collins was all right. Perhaps you know the Governor of Indiapa’’l & . o

She seemed ashamed to- confess that she didn’t. - G

““Really don’t know him?”’ he went on. ‘¢‘How unfortunate, as lam just from his house, where he obliged mé€ to tarry for three weeks. The f{ast thing he said to me at the depot yesterday was: ‘“ Now, Judge, when you get to Detroit don’t go to any of the first-class hotels, where all is bustle and confusion, but put up at some quiet, modest boarding-house, where they are very particular about their guests and where the landlady has the appearance of a genuine aristocrat.’ That's what he gaid and that’s why I am here.”

Some women would have softened under that, but she had had two men climb out of a back window the night before, owing her eleven dollars, and the flattery didn’t soften a line in her face. She asked if he could give local references. . ; o

“Why, madam, how can I?" he replied. ¢lam a stranger here. I came here to transact about $50,000 worth of business with one of the banmks, secure plans for a nYw block on Woodland Avenue and pethaps set my son-in-law up in the wholesale dry-goods trade, but several days must necessarily elapse before any one will come to know me for what }7am.” - .

~ “Our rule is to require references,” she said as she noticed his six-days-old paper collar and almost buttonless vest. ~ “Madam,”” he replied, as he backed down the steps,” “I am both surprised

and'grieved. I had intended, before leaving your house, to give you a set of silverware which the Governor of Con-" necticut presented me last Christmas, but your hesitancy shows that you suspect me. Suspicion is. something that touches me in a tender spot. I am now forced to go: to a first-class hotel-and the silver will probably go' the cook. Adieu, suspecting woman!” - - Maybe she feels bad over it and maybe she doesn’t. She probably doesn’t if she heard. him ask ‘a ‘boy he met on the corner if there was a penny restatrant in Detroit.—Free Préss. . ,’ - % 7.e Monsoon Has Burst.” & birof telegram. from India announcens an oceurrence whiel is among tl» most magnificent and. beneficial phicnomena of nature in -the Eastern world. The message is laconie in thé: extreme; merely cemmunicating that ‘“the monsooti. has burst.”” Yet in those four words le the ¢ promise andpotency’’ of renewed -life and fertility this coming year for Western India; for what the rising-of the Nile is to Egypt, such is the- breaking of the summer monsoon to the Malabar coast and ‘its adjacentregions. . . -As the Nile sometimes fails to reach its annual high-water mark, -so ' the. great cloud gathering of the Indian Ocean occasionally disappoints the anxious people of the peninsula and passes away with ihsufficient gifts of moisture. It is, however, of _exce%lent -omen when ‘as in the present season, the sea-born - vapors collect thickly andin good time, ;and break with a vast convulsion of the -atmosphere. ' There .is no longer any i such mystery about this yearly phenomenon as prevailed in old. days, when Sinbad navigated' the Arabian waters, o when Hippalus ‘the. Greek made bold to spread his sail before the strange wind which blew so steadfastly to!ward,Muzex‘is, the ¢ port of “spices.'’ ' The southiwest monsoon is now as | well | understood by science” as the | movements of a church clock, -If the equatorial regions of the earth were covered with water the trade winds ' would blow . steadily right round the f. globe, following the sun’s course with ' a northward delléction from Deeember ‘ to June and with a southward slant from June to December.” But the hot months of April and May heat the surface of southern Asia so’ that the atmosphere _above it expands and rises.: “The colder air from the Indian Ocean thereupon ‘ flows up tosupply the vacuum. To the north of the equator the revolution of ' the earth lends this: current a westerly i deviation and the result is a long and steady stream of wind; whiclladen with the clouds raised from the wide Arabian ! Sea, drives and piles these ~water bear- ' ing masses in serried ranks against the | Western Ghauts of India, where, about the beginning of June, they gather in a i dark canopy, covering the sky far and near. Cate e B e e

‘On the Coromandel coast of the peninsula it is the northeast monsoon which renders the same service of the reversed ;})eriod of the year for that side of India. There the life giving clouds are brought up from the Bay of Bengal to break over the Eastern Mountains and refresh the fields of Orissa and Madras. The snows of Himalaya, periodically - filling: the channels-of the Ganges and the Brahmapootra, ¢omplete the water supply of the Indian continent, which would be a desert like the Sahara weére it not for the mountain reservoirs and for these ¢ mausims,”’ or never-failing seasonal monsoons, by whose ‘recurrence the land is watered from ‘the sea, Indra and Narayen keeping alive the children of the sun.—ZLondon. Telegraph. - =

Easier Maintained than Regained.

The original farmers ot New England cropped thieir lands severely and as production waned sought the valley of the Mohawk; of the Genessee, the fresh soil ot Ohio and eventually the {fertile prairies further West.. In the South the millions of acres-of old fields abandomed to sedge, then'thick with’ young pines which rapidly become a forest, tell the talé of exhaustive husbandry of pioneers, and exhibit nature’s method of recuperation. “The wheat growers of Minmnesota and Dakota exhibit an thtensitied rapacity under the name of enterprise and the soil-robbers of California are among the boldest of their race. -Already signs of . exhaustion’ appear 1n spots before the plow has subdued more than a moiety of available area and the wisest cultivators ‘are calling for an abandonment of the vicious system. The story of Genesee is familiar and was most effectively told a' few weeks ago by oar - valued : contributor, the Hon, F.. P. Root. - Famous once for wheat-growing as ‘a specialty, a single generation saw the decline of fertility from_continuous cropping without use of manure. The :change to mixed husbandry was not made_tfil necessity compelled it. ~ With the reducc! fertility came the wheat-midge, misfortunes that are naturally associated, as parasites’ infest weak animals and fungus starved plants. It was seen that a greater va, riety of crops must be grown and that theg must be consumed mainly on the farm. Thus came 1n theindustries of wool-growing, fruit-raising, dairying, cattle feeding - and - sheep-fattening. With this diversity rotation was naturally suggested. . Corn, oats, wheat and. clover, the first on manured clover sod, with a dressing of commercial fertilizer for the third was a common system, varied by equivalent rotations of other ‘crops to suit the needs of the grower orthe peculiar requirements of soils.. ‘ F(?llowing this course. of improvement, the neecessity: of draining appeared and the means for accomplishing it grew out of ¢nlarged production.. Thus step by step resuscitation proceeds, until larger yields of wheat are obtained than ever by the most skillful, but on a smaller breadth of -the total area under crop. . Occasionally a pioneer adopts a rational practice and shows how much easier and more profitable is keeping fertility .than regaining it, but he is a rare evis and affects but little the general tenor of the prevalent practice. Experience is a dear school—and the pioneers rarely learn in any’ other.—N. Y. Pribume s i o " —When Ohio people see a couple of medical students with -'shovels, though the boys may be 'going“:_- to get fish worms, nothing will prevent the people from passing the night in the cemetery, arme’«f,with shot'gtlns.é—;%@ton’ Fost. . .