Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 September 1880 — Page 2

- . . . . The Ligonier Banner. ot g e i : J. B. STOLL, Editor and Prop’r. LIGONIER, S : INDIANA. g B SR AR S AL ISN - NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, g o : ; Domestie, - » * A Mns. Grace, of Philadelphia, mother of two litfle girls. who were victims of the. recent railroad disaster at May’s Landing, “N. J., died a few days ago from the shock 'to her system produced by the death of her children. : : - DuriNe the year ended June 30, last, 185 pérsons lost their lives through steamboat accidents in the United States. The number for the preceding twelve months was 179. Brisrtor, R: L, celebrated its two hundredth ~ anniversary on the 24th, with appropriate exercises; .\ ‘ 5 : : . A GLOUCESTER (Mass.) dispatch of the 24th says Captain Charles. Martin, master of the fishing schooner Martha C., from a Grand ‘Bank eodfishing, voyage, reported that his vessel was recently twice boarded by hostile pirties of Ncwf‘ouxidlaffi'der& while the crew were rigging for squid, and fishing operations were forbidden. The invaders threatened on the latter occasion to drive the yessel from the greunds. Captain Martin dated them to interfere, and, continuing’ to fish, was not molested. He reports hearing several Newfoundlanders had been arrested by the local authorities for interference with the American fishermen.’ ‘ g . “THE Chairman of the Ute Commission telegraphed the Secretary of the Interior on the 24th that more than three-fourths of the male adults of the Ute bands had signed the treaty. As the law réquires the signatures of only threg-quarters, the Recretary would instruct the Commissioners in regard to the execution of the treaty. ; ' "A rvINE of twenty-five dollars has been imposed by a Chicago Justice upon Jere Dunn for eruelty to his fh()rse during the recent six- - days’ trial test between man and horse. Tae Anglo-American Cable Company announce that on and after October 1 the tariff from New York to the\United Kingdom will be advanced to fifty cents per word. . On ,and after” December 1 the tariff to France 'will be the same. : TraE steamer Florence Meyer, from Cincinnati, struck a snag in the Mississippi Tfiiver, near Natchez, on the 24th, and.sank. Five persons were drowned. The boat. and cargo are a total loss. - ' . . A WasniNaToN telegram of the 25th says " it had been recently discovered in the Treasury Department that, after the breaking out of the war, the New Orleans mint continued coinage for several weecks, and about #1,250,000 of gold and silver _of different denominations were coined from bullion on hand at the time. °lt is supposed the money fell into the _ hands of the Confederacy, and has all been ‘put into circulation. : ) " DurinG the-week ending on the 25th 640,992 standard silver dbllars were distributed by the United States Treasury, against 297,439 for the corresponding period. last year. The Cashier of the Treasury'is said to be shipping to different parts of the country, principally South apd West, $25,000 in fractional silver daily. d ] : , : | AT Saratoga on the 25th the single scull ' vace between Riley, of Saratoga, and Weisgerber, of Wheeling,: three miles and turn, $l,OOO a.side, was won by Riley in 21 minutes, 1314 seconds. . Weisgerbet’s time, 21:24. Two Boys in Reading, Pa., quarreled a few days ago over a game of marbles; one of them settled the dispute by killing the other . with a stone, . i

THREE men were scalded fatally and two others severely. by the explosion of the steampipe of the packet Maggie Harper, on the ‘Olio River near Necl’s Landing, on the night of the 26th, | : i ~ Ar Portland, Ind., on the afternoon of the 26th occurred the marriage by telegraph of A. H. Latham,; manager of the American Union Telegraph at, Albany, Mo., and Miss Linnie Faris, of Pennville, Ind. Miss Faris stood beside the Rev..R. J. Parrett, the officiatins minister, in the telegraph office at Portland while the ceremon y was transmitted. The services oceupied thirty-six minutes.

Personal and Political.

TaE Massachusetts Greenbackers met in State Convention at Worcester on the 22d and nommated.a full State ticket, headed by Generat Horace B. Sargeant for Governor. Resolutrons prohibitiny the use of lignor and tobacco, indorsing Solon .Chase’s bolt in Maine and cendemning General Butler for joining the Democratic party were! voted down. [ . .

GENERAL GRANT, in’ 4 recent letter to ‘Mars‘?all Jewell, Choirman of the Republican’ Nationial Committee,; declines to preside at any more campaign méetings other than those for which arrangements had already been made. ' . G

Nx ‘the 22d Dennis - Kearngy sent a dispatch frpm San Francisco to Solon Chase urging a straight fizht and no fusion with the Democracy. : : 1 . - Tae following Congressional nominations were made. on: the 22d: Second Missouri District, M. ‘A. Rosenblatt, Republican; Seventh Alabama, Arthur Bingham, Republican; Second Wisconsin, J. C.. Gregory, Democrat; First New .Hampshire, A. H. Sulloway, Democrat; Fifth New Jersey, Augustus W. Cutler, Democrat. . = ' v AT the reunion of the Army of the Cum:berland in Toledo on the 23d LieutenantGenera] P. H. Sheridan was elected President; General H. M. Cist, Corresponding Secretary; Colonel John W. Steele, Recording” Secretary; General J. 8. Fullerton, @réasu-rer. Several Vice-Presidents were > also chpsen. Memorials were read in. com.memoration of the life and services of Gen< ‘eral Hooker, General A. C. Williams (Mich:. igan), General Jeff C. Davis and Colonel W.' H. Greenwood. e ;

- Tue follbwing | Congressional nominations . were made on the 23d: Third New Jersey District, W. L. Hope, Greenback; Sixth New Jersey, | Edward- Balbach, Jr., Democrat; : - Ninth Massachusetts, M. J. McCafferty, Democrat; Thirty-third New York, I. A. Balcom, Democrat; Thirty-second New York, Jonathan . Scoville, Democrat; Second Maryland, E. H. Webster, Republican: First Wisconsin, H. A. - Craig, Gfeenback. 7 e Tae Supreine Court of Indiana has overruled the petition for a re-hearing in the case involving the validity of the Constitutional © amendments. Th: State election will therefore be held in October. : - ° Tae ofiicial returns of the Vermont election give: Total vote, 70,709; Farnham, 47,804 Phel;s, 21,223; Heath, 1,578; scatterY ing 14, Farnham’s major.ty, 25,079. ‘ _'I?IHE Democrats of the fl‘liird Michigan Dis_triet have nominated Eugene Prindle for Con- . grees, wéf J. B. Bheldon, declined. Tae Republicans of the Fourth' Maryland District have nominated George Mounds for

Congress, and the Demeocrats of the Fourteenth Pennsylvania have nominated Grant Weidman. | o L ', A 84N FraNclsco telegram of the 24th an nounces tge’embarkation of the Presidemtial--party for Oregon. ~ Tue following Congressional nominations were made on the 25th: Third California District, A. Musselman, Greenback; Thirtythird New York, A. ‘R. Sellew, Prohibition; Twenty-eighth New York, Congressman Jeremiah W. Dwight, Republican. ;

. CLARENCE GRAY, a candidate for District Attorney in Santa Barbara, - Cal, recently shot and fatally wounded T. Glancey, an editor whp refused to support him. _ANNOUNCEMENT wag made on the 25th that J. B. Yeagley and Noah W. Parker, ¢andidates of the Indiana Greenbackers for Secretary OE State and State Senator, respectively, had withdrawn from the National ticket, 4nd would/act with the Democrats. ¢ THE official canvass shows that the Constitutiojal -Amendment repudiating a portion of the debt of Arkansas, recently submitted to the people of ‘that State, has been defeated by aboufs seven thousand majority. The total vote wias 140,000. o

THE publisher of the Western Rural, in behalf of the farmers and shippers of the United Staties, has called a National Convention to be held at Farwell Hall, Chicago, on.the 14th of October, for the purpose of discussing the shipping interests of the country, and to devise ways and means to secure inter-State regulation and Governmental control of railroads. The question of taxation will also be discussed. All the farmers’ societies throughout the United States are requested to send delegates ‘to take part in the proceedings. For full particulars write to James W. Wilson, 157 Dearbornstreet, Chicago. : A

Foreign.

Frorexce TiLroN, daughter of Theodore Tilton, was married to a Mr. Pelton, of Louisiana, in London on the 22d. SERrIOUS disturbances are reported in Canton, China. Europeans have been threatencd, and the Catholic missions attacked. In suppressing a riot the military had killed several of the partictpants and wounded many others. . :

TaE Turkish t'r"o‘ops near Scutari are dying of fever at the rate of 200 per day.

- Tue French Cabinet has been definitely reconstructed as follows: Jules Ferry, President of the Council and Minister of Public Imstruction; Bartlielemy St. Hilaire, Minister .of Foreign Affairs; M. Constans, Minister of the Interior; and Worship; M. Cazot, Minister of Justice; M. Magnin, Minister of Finance; General Farre, Minister of War; Admiral Clouet, Minister of Marine; M. Carnot, Minister of Public Works: M. Tirard, Minister of Commierce; M. Cockery, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. = - : ON the 23d the Porte issued a fresh note, protesting against the naval demonstration, and again declaring it to be the exercise of armed presstire contrary to the rights of the Bultan.: ; Trree thousand workmen in the factories at Jargevo, Russia, have struck against a redietion of wages and have committed great excesses.

IN consequence of the present tranquillity in Cuba 15,000 Spanish troops have been:ordered to be withdrawn from the island.

AN earthquake in Chili, 8. A., iu Augué% is reported to have destroyed the town of Illapel, with a loss of seme 200 lives. '

© WiLpiam J. TAvLor & Co., extensive insurance b*okers, - of England—located at New-castle-on-Tyne—have failed, with liabilities of over $350,000. . ' o

Tare Sultan has refused to order the surrender of Dulcigno unless the naval demonstration by the Powers be abandoned. -

- LorDp MOUNTMORRIS was murdered in County Galway, Ireland; on the night of the 25th, by unkunown parties, while oo his way home from a meeting of the County Magistrates. Hehad recently refused to reduce the rent of his teriants, and his relations to them were unsiitisfactg)r]y.‘ e |

Toe London ZTimes of the 25th says that England had decided practically to abandon the island of Cypfus. Lo

AN Athens (Greece) dispatch of the 25th says brigandage had greatly incregsed in Macedonia. : T | 3

Trr Democrats of the Second Missouri District haye nominated Hon. Thomas Allen for Congress, and those of the First California District. have nominatéd General W. S. Rosecrans. - : , Taz Irish. American Republican State Convention met at Saratoga, N. Y., on the 27th. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the platform and candidates of the Republiean party. ' AN immense swarm of grasshoppers passed over the country .in the neighborhood 'of Jacksboro, Tex., on the 27th, destroying all the crops ou the way, even eating up the cot-ton-leaves. The swarm approached trom the north, and was so deuse for a .time as to obscuré the sun. . e

THE United States Circuit Court at Louisville granted an injunction on the 27th restraining the postal authorities from enforcing the Department’s order prohibiting the delivery of letters to a local lottery company. - J. O. WRIGHT, cashier of Mr. Gauthreaux, late Civil Sheriff of New Orleans, has been arrested on the charge of having embezzled $83,000 in transfer claims due the city, and valued at $30,000. He is also"charged with having connived at the embgzzlement of $24,500 of the city’s money by. the Sheriff. - Tue United States Consul at Lyons, France, has informed the Department of State at ‘Washington that the cereal crop of France this year will amount to 102,000,000 hectolitres, an average yield. Nevertheless, there will be a.large demand for American wheat. In Germany the cereal crop is a mediocre one, and in Russia somewhat of a failure. . BisHor FEEHAN, of Nashville, on.the 27th received an official notification from the Vatican authorities of his elevation to the Archbishopric of Chicago. s A WasuiNeToN dispatch of the 27th says Captain Howgate had ordered the Gulnare to return to Washington, and he expected she would sail at once from Bt. Johns, Newfoundland. The expedition had been abandoned for this scason, but Captain Howgate proposes to repeat the experiment in the spring. - - EIGHT bodies of the men buried by the caving-in of the Jersey City tunnel were recovered on the evening of the 27th. Four of them were identified, but the other four were in so decomposed a state that they could not be recognized. :

Tae Utah Territorial Supreme Court has issued a mandamus to the Register of the County in which Salt Lake is situated directing him to show cause why he should. not strike from the poll-list the names of all women voters. i e !

DunriNg the year ended June 30 last 80,661 tons of newspapers and periodicals passed through the: United States mails, being an increase of 5,098 tons over the year ended June-30, 1879. The spostage collected on the same this year was $1,226,452, an increase of #122,266 over that of the previous year. Tue Pan-Presbyterian Council, at its session in Philadelphia on the 27th, decided to ilgblg its next meeting in Belfast, Ireland, in

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

AT the recent session of the Southeast Indiana M. E. Conference at-Greensburg, it was voted to meet next year at Shelbyville. The Presiding Bishop announced the following appointments for the ensuing year: -

Indianapolis District—J. K. Pye, Presidjn‘g Elder. lndinnai?ol,is, Roberts Park, S. M, Vernon; Fletcher Place, G. L. Curtiss: Central Avenue, J. N. Beard; Grace, J. W. Duncan; Third Street, T. H.. If?'nch: Pattison, R. D. Black; Coburn Street;, H. Harris; Edwin Ray -and Madison Avenue, A. Jamison; North Indianapolis Mission, P. S. Cook; Bean Blossom, supplied by J. S. Ruggles and J. P. Monfim; Malott Park, B. F. Morgan; Southport, Jesse Miller; Greenwood, W. S. Falkenburg; Franklin, J. 8. Reager; Nineveh, J. 8: Alley: Waldron, J. €. Gullett; Acton, W. Nichols: Hope, W. M. Grubbs; Hartsville, A. Murphy: Palestine. W. B. Clancy; Fairland, G. C. Clouds; Castleton, A. H. Reat; P. McNutt, Professor in Indiana Asbury University, member of Roberts Park Quarterly Conference; J. A. Maxwell, insiructor in Latin and _Histnr{' in Purdue University, member of Fletcher Place Quarterly Conference. . . Connersville District—E. L. Dolph. Presiding Elder. Connersville, F. C. Holliday: Rushville, R. Andrus: Glenwood, K. 8. Pottsand W. S. Hamlin; Brookwille, W. Harrison; New Trenton, Albert Cain: Fairfield, C. W. Hoyett; Mount Carmel, J. C. White; Shelbyville, J. G. Chafee; Milroy, W. H. Wydman and J. R. T. Lathrop; Clarksburg, J. Mc(aw: Liberty and College Corner, R. R. Baldwin; Brownsville, sus)ply._by J. W. Ryon; Abington, I. Turner; Milton, D. A. Robertson; Carthage, J. Machlan; Laurel and Metamora, J. W. Turner; Blooming Grove, G. E. Neville; Miltord, J. W. Dashiell; Saint Paul, J. D. Pierce; Morristown, G. S. Conner. . 2 e ;

Madison District—L. G. Adkinson, Presiding Elder; Madison, Trinity, R. Roberts: Wesley Chapel, C. C. Edwards) Madison Circuit, J. W. Mellender; Canaan, A. Scott: Moorefield, G. W. . Wilson; Vevay, T. B. McClain; Sugar Branch, J. ‘W. ‘Allen; Patriot, B. W. Cooper; Manchester, J. Cotton; Lawrenceburg, E. A. Campbell; Lawrenceburg Circuit, C. W. Lee; Rising Sun, S. S. McMahanj; Hartford, A. M. Londoun; Dillsborough, W. g{ Lathrop; Vergailles and Osgood, S. A. Bright; Delaware, Charles E. Line; Moore’s Hill, A. W. Adkinson; Wilmington, E. B. Rawls; Aurora, M. L. Wells; Greensburg, First Church, C. Tinsley; Greensburg, Centenar{', J. H? Doddridge; Greensburg Circuit, G. W. Winchester; Salem a'id Otter Creek Mission, J| S. Barnes: J. P. . John, President of Moore's Hill College; George Cochrgneé, Professor in Moore’s Hill Collecge—members of Moore's Hill Quarterly Conference. - . SRS

Jetfersonville Didtrict—G. P. Jenkins, Presiding Elder. Jeftersonville, Wall Street, J. S. Tevis; Port Falton, to ‘be supplied; Utica, F. A. Hester; Charlestown, J, A. Sargent: New Washington, A. B. Cluckner; Edinburg, E. H. Wood; Fluth)(zk,‘ H. Morrow; Taylorsville, D. C. Benjamin; Columbus, S| Tincher:; Se¢uth Bethany, supplied by J. M. Norton; Asbury, Alex. (fmn\})bell; Henryville, T. W. Connor; Vernon, W. W. Reynolds; Butlerville, R. L. Kinnear; Seymour, ‘A. N. Marlatt; Crothersville, J. T. O’Neal; Vienna, A. S. Wade; Holman, A. E. Walker; Kent, W. W, Snyder; Paris, 'W. H. Burton: Brownstown, V. 'W. Tevis;. Freetown, Thomas W. Northeott; Jonesville, T. S. Brooks. 8. Tincher transferred to the Holston Conference.

WHILE Drs. Flion and Lomax, of Marion, were returning home from a professional trip | the other evening in a buggy their horse ran | away a,nd_seriously, if not fatally, injured the two by throwing them out. Lomax is in a precarious condition. i 0 { - THE Indianapolis Board of Health report fifty-four deaths in the first half of SeptemE ber, twenty-fourqunder one year of age. ; A BLACK snaké four feet long was killed near the State-House yard in Indianapolis the other day. deoio / o A ‘ CaLviN Puipps, living near Bedford, Lavrence County, consumed a gallon of whisky ' daily for a- month, and was found dead the . other morning. . i | Numsers of women call at the Indianapolis ' Jail to see Mrs. Brown, under sentence of i death for murder, and are denied‘admittance. ‘ A FEW days ago at Valparaiso Mr. Seth | Winslow, a resident of Porter County for +forty years, ‘dropped dead in the ‘street of | heart disease. e ;

Hexry W. GARTH, a brakeman on the Grand Trunk Railway, fell off a moving freight four miles west of Valparaiso the other morning, and was instantly killed. = His head and right arm were completely severed from his body, and he was otherwise terribly mangled. | : G

Arlndianapolis recently John Rivels shot, and probably fatally wounded his brother-in-law, Ol Scott. ' Tliey are, colored, and belong to one of the most notorious gangs in the city. The affair grew out of a dispute over some dishes, which Scott accused Rivels’ wife of having stolén. Scott’s charge attracted Rivels’ attention; and taking down an old musket he met Scott at the woodpile, and fired, the -entire .charge. taking effect in Scott’s right side, penetrating ‘his.lungs and abdomen. As ‘soon as he had fired Rivels started into his house, closely pursued by another of his brothers-in-law, Wade Scott. The pursuit was very hot. Both were well armed and determined. Scott had gained admittance to Rivel’s house, and was looking for the would-be assassin, when he was sprung upon, and had his left arm almost chopped off by an ax in the hands of the infuriated man. As soon as he could recover fram the shock, he again started in pursuit but Rivels jumped out the window and escaped. - : L

AT Mungcie a few mornings ago William Updyke complained - of ague symptoms, ibought quinine, and took it. Next njorning he felt better and went to work, but soon ‘was ill avain, and, borrowing ten cents, went to the drug store and bought what he supposed to be quinine. . He took a dose of this, and soon complained of drowsiness, quit work and - went to his room, where he slept continuously for three days, when he died. Jonx BEvVINS, aged fourteen, endeavored to jump on a moving train the other ‘day at Indianapolis, and, falling under the wheels, was _ground to pieces. | ' GEORGE LUNDA committed suicide a few nights ago by hanging himself on a door in his house at Loogootee. l?runkenness and family troubles were the inditing causes. GEORGE F. FARMAN, son of the Indiafiapolis contractor, went to his father’s residence, corner of South and Mississippi streets, the other afternoon, and with: an ax battered down the door and threatened to kill the entire family. = A policeman entered the house to arrest him, when he assaulted the officer with the ax, but fortunately did not succeed in infl_icting‘gany injury. He was taken to the station-house and booked for. malicious trespass and assault with intent to kill. - Two LARGE barns rnear the Indianapolis stock yards were destroyed by an incendiary fire a few nights ago. Loss, $3,000. ‘ - Tae Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 9124@91%4c; Corn, 3914@ 40c; Oats, 30@31c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 95@96c; Corn, 4@ 443¢c; Oats, 32@33c; Rye, 92@93c; Barley, 922@92%ec. : I

It is rather strange that one of the youngest church edifices in America should have the oldest steeple, but such is the case. An Episcopal Church was erected in Tacoma, W. T., recently. The building is of logs, and for a tower they have utilized a tall fir tree which has been cut off forty feet from the ground. On top has been tixed a cross and bell. The rings of the tree show that it is nearly 300 years old. )

AFTER traveling.one hundred miles through the Wod@g and crossing several streams, a cat that had made the journey in a box escaped and found its way home in British Columbia.

FROM ARCTIC SEAS.

Return of the Schwatka Franklin Search Party to New Bedford—Terriblée Deprivation During Their Two-Years’ Sojourn in the Arctic Reglons—The Records of " Franklin’s Expediticn Destroyed by the " Natives—The Coldest Weather Ever Endured by White Men Experiened by the " Search Party. i ; BosTON, Mass., September 23.

' The bark George and Mary, Captain Baker, has just arrived at New Bedford from Hudzon's Strait, bearing news from the Arctic regions. - The Franklin search party, under Lieut_emm.li[rederick Schwatka, U. 8. A., are passengerq;bn board the George and Mary,and have beeg she recipients of much kindness from Captain Baker and his subordinate officers and men. ~ After returning-to Depot Island, from a sledge journey of over 3,000 miles, occupying eleven months and four days, they were reduced to the verge of starvation through the rascality of Captain Thomas F. Barry, of the whaling schooner Eothen, of New York, who stole their remaining provisions to fit out his vessel for an additional whaling voyage. Had it not been for the timely aid offered by Captain Baker they would Lave suilered extremely, as the native Esquimaux with whom they were living were short of provisions, and had, been reduced to the necessity of eating some of their dogs on two previous occasions during the winter while on King William Land and in its immediate vicinity. | o o

During the summer of 1879 Lieutenant Schwatka's party established the fact that the precious records of Sir John Franklin's expedition, which perished there in the year 1348, were entirely destroyed by the Notchillik'Esquimaux, who found them in & sealed tin box, which they broke open and whose contents they scattered to the winds more than thirty years ago. ol e o

The party have secuged many interesting and valuable relics and identified the remains of Licutenant John Irving;‘ third officer of the Terror, by a silver prize medal awarded to him by the Royal Naval College in 1830, which they found in %is opened grave, During the return trip the search party encountered the scyerest cold ever experienced by white men, while traveling, and lived upon th 2 same fare; such as raw or boiled reindeer meat, and fish, as did their native Esquimaux assistants. } i {

| The party left New York on the [9th of June,'lB7B, in the schooner Eothen, and proceeded direct to Camp Daly, as it was called, in North Hudson Bay, latitude sixty-three degrees forty-seven seconds north. longitude twenty degrees west, huying had a pleasant passage up. Here the supplies were landed, and the party established themselves and made preparations to engble them to endure the rigors of .the Arctic winter, which they knew was fast approaching. Skins were pro-cured-from' animals slain, and soon the party were warmly clothed and ready for business. Abundant supplies of food, arms and ammunition had been provided through the munificence of American merchants. So far the procese of slaying animals was greatly simplified to the practiced marksmen. The summer of 1879 was passed in agtive research for more light on the fate of Sir John Franklin and his crew. 5 :

‘Lieutenant Schwatka, in his report of the sledge journey, says: ‘lt is the longest sledge journey ever made, both in regard to time and distance, having beep absent from its base eleven months and twenty days, and having traveled 2,819 geographical or 3,251 statute Jmiles. Itisthe first sledge journey tbhat has been undertakefiuby white men in the Arctic midwinter, but’l know of none before this encompassing the wholci duration of the last unfavorable months of that season, and, in fact, they have been generally very short, and ‘under circumstances where comfort commensurate with the exposure could be easily attained from sonje suitable base. It experienced the coldest teémperuture ever recorded by white men in the field. Not only was a . single observation 71 degrees Fahrenheit January 3, 1880, but also in regard to protracted cold, there being no less than sixteen days when the average shows oné hundred degrees below the freezing point, and twenty-seven days when the thermometer stood below Bixty degrees Fahrenheit, during very nearly all of which weather the party prosecuted its journey without severe frost bites, and even in gomparative comfort. It is the first Arctic expedition whose sole reliance for the subsistence of itself and its draught animals has been placed in the game of the locality, and w hose experignce in that respect has been spread constantly over every month of the year, haviqg started with less than one month’s full rations for thé' consumers, and having been absent for a period alreudy stated. It may mot be amiss, however, tc state that it was -also the finest armed ‘party that ever entered the Arctic regions, which fact placed it on almost favorable footing for such an experience’ It was the first expedition wherein the men of the party lived solely upon the same diet, voluntarily assumed, ‘aB its| native allies, which fact, coupied with those already stated, shows that white men are not only able to live the same as Esquimaux in the Arctic region, and with equal comfort, but also to prosecute any projects that their superior intelligence may dictate or their ambition may desire, and under all circumstances that the natives themselves would similarly venture to undertake far dess laudable objects; and it might be further added that the prosecution of these sehemes nced not be limited to. such particularly favorable seasons of the year us the experience of the Arctic expedition would lead qne to infer. { - E | “The party was the first to make an extended summer tour over the ground ‘covered by the unfortunate crews in their explorations, although a glance at the map will show that their base was in a far less favorable position for such an undertaking than that of the great majority of the nhmerous searchers who preceded them. It perforimed the Igst sad rites for the few remains of the lost crews. Owing mainly to the favorable circumstances of a summer sojourn, and from the thoroughness of the search and the conspicuous contrast of the bleaching bones with the brown clay stones composing the flat coast of King William Land and the adjoining maip land, I do not hésitate to state that not a single unburied man ‘of Franklin’s unfortunate expedition probably exists. Where nature had not an? ticipated my_party, which she had in the greater majority of cases of the 105 men known to have /abandoned the ships, or the retreating crews themselves pertformed the burial, my party completed these sad offices. From the incompleteness of the skeletons, their inextricable confusion and widely-scat-tered condition, it is hard to place a close estimate upon the number interred, which, roughly speaking, varies between twenty and forty. It established theloss of the records of the Franklin party beyond all reasonable doubt, as these alone have been the main incentives to the many expeditions since Dr. Ross, in 1854, who established the loss of the party. This success, although unfortunately of a _neg'ative nature, is of no small character, since this loss, coupled with the loss of the prrty and the burial of their dead, must necessarily settlgghe Franklin problem in all its important aspects,”’ ‘ g :

- AN Eastern girl; visiting Colorado fell in love with a desperado. She became romantic, had a. scarlet saddlecloth for her fine broncho, agreen dress for herself, with a gold-mounted leather belt and a sheath-knife. In the band of her Derby hat she wore a smaller knife. She discovered that the man had several wives, who had mysteriousy disappeared. Her rdmance was unone, and she wanted to go home. -

.~ DARWIN must be right. Half the people of the present are talelbearers

A Forger Ran Down. Lk -

- Silas M. Waite, defaulting President of the First National Bank of Brattlehoro, Vt., was arrested here to-day by W. H. H. Llewellyn and W. H. Shields, special agents of vhe! Department of Justice.. Waite absco-nde<f about the 10th of June last, and ‘it was for some time supposed that he had succeeded in getting out of the country, and was a tugitive in Europe. “He had, ‘it is claimed, uttered forged paper amounting to upward of $£500,000, the result being a flood of suits against the directors, brought by stockholders, and ruin to many poor people.- It was believed by many and by the directors that he had taken a large sum of mioney with him, how much could only k¢ determined by searching investigatiomThe forged paper included the Connectieut River Railroad Company for . abdut $50,000; Frederick Billings, = $20,008; Irenor W. Park, %20,000; Lyon ¢ Healy, of Chicago, $20,000; Taunton locomotive-works, about $12,000; C. J. Amidon, Hinsdale, $15,000; Vermilye & Co., New York, some s7s,Qb{), and others. N : : .

How much of the paper was used by Waite as collateral upon which he may have raised large amounts for individual use the directors were unable to say, but Springfield and Boston bunks were vict‘imize«i’ in this way. OnJune 17 the directors of the bank offered a reward of 85,000 for the capture of the fugitive, and in addition to the incentive thus offered, the offense having been against the United States as well as others, At-torney-General - Devens took active measures for the detection of the absconding banker, and has left no stone unturned to effect his capture. It became known that he was still in the United States. He fled by way of Duluth to the Winnipeg country, and at one time the oflicers were only thirteen miles behind him, and knew they were on his track. He traveled under sever--al aliases, one of which was Knight, another Estelle, the latter being his wife’s m‘ajdgn name. From Winnipeg he went to Wyoming, and, it is said, /was engaged in locating a large ,cattle ranch’ there, which he had already “began to stock with fine cattle. A few weeks ago officers were hot on his trail at Bismarck, and followed him up until Sunday last, when he was definitely located in this city, where he was stopping at the house of a well-known ecitizen, whose wife and his own are sisters. Mr. Shields had been for several days stopping at the Canfield House, and his . character and ! business here ‘were unknown to all. ‘A ;day’s delay was made to get the papers all in shape, and this morning the officers, after waiting until ten o’clock, when his brother-in-law, I&lr. Truman Buck, and family had gone, to the fair, proceeded to the residence of the latter to arrest their man. They took with' them/Charles Sweezey, and posted him at the alley at therear, whiie they went in the front way. Waite saw them coming and ran out the back way and down cellar, but, seeing that he was discovered by Sweezey, who jumped aver the fence after him, he ran out acain and around to the front door, where he brought up in the arms of the officers. *He made no further resistance, and was at once taken to the County Jail. 'He entreated the officers to allow. him to ecommit suicide, but they were inexorable, and took trom him anything that could be used to take his life, a knife and button-hook being all he- had on his person. The: officers at once telegraphed the news. of their capture East, with information that a large sum of money in bonds and stocks was also recovéred, or would be, and asking what disposal should be made of them. It is -said that $20,000, telegraphed him within the past few days, are now lying in one of the banks in this city. | . . Shields left this evening with Waite for the- East, via the Chicago & Rock Island Road. This oflicer has had a long chase after the prisoner, and has doné good work. Waite acknowledges his guilt, and says he will plead guilty to ¢verything. In his tlight he went to Toronto, June- 16; had’ his hair cut there, thence to Detroit, Chicago, St. Paul, Duluth, Brainard, Fargo, Yankton, Omaha, thence to La Crosse, Glendon, the Winnipeo co untry, and back to Omaha, and then back and forth among Western cattle ranches. The cattie ranch which he now virtually owns is located on the Niobrara River, in northern Nebraska, and was bought in the name of another man and his own sen, young Waite.—Omaha (Sept. 21) Special to Chicayo, Tvmes.

REGULARITY and constancy in the pursuit of exercise are important, says The London Lancet, if pertect health is expected toresult from its employment. Itis far better for men tolead altogether asedentary life than to be irregularly active. This cautionis the more needed since the transition from sedentary habits to arduous and exhausting physical labor isof frequent occurrence. Again, the transition from active habits to sedentary pursuits is generally accompanied by a marked disturbance of health, since organs roused to full activity by the stimulus exercise gives to them are liable to be functionally deranged when that stimulus is withdrawn. This, perhaps, would not be so frequently observed, if instead of relapsing immediately, as is frequently the case, into idle habits as far as exercise is concerned, an attempt was made to engage regularly, forhowever short a time, in some pursuit which would insure brisk. muscular movement, so that the health acquired by exercise during the vacationshould not be lost; and, moreover, that the body when the next holiday period comes round should be found in fair condition to undertake the increased physical strain threwn upon it. L

AT Barnes, Surry, England, is a church, on the south side of which, enclosed by wooden rails are a few rose trees. They are cultivated in pursuance of the will of Mr. Kdward Rose, who died in 1635, and bequeathed £2O to the Parish of Barnes for the purshase of an acre of land, the income of which was applied to the cultivation of a succession of rose trees, the surplus funds to beigiven to the poor. Roses are much used for funeral decorations in England, where it is supposed that the Romans introduced the custom.

TuE French revenue for 1880 is over $15,000,000 above the estimates. -

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

. —ltlooks suspicious to see a):'m'an always take a clove before answering the™ telephone. —Chicago. Times. '

' —Anna Dickinson once set ount to leatn German, but afrer spending %15 for books, s£2ofor a teacher and $4 for a pair.of wooden shoes she stopped on ‘yaw,’-and is there yet.—Dctroit Free Pressi - obainaim g

. —The Aquenuckaquewauks, a isocial tribe at Danbury, Conn., had an excursion the other day. There is only one [njin in the tribe " who can . pronounce its name and he dislocates-his jaw most everytime.—Graphic.. -~ Gow oo - —When a man agrees to deliver a letter to his friend’'s sweetheart and forgets about it andleaves it in his pocket where his. avife finds it.- he may just as well save himself the trouble'of telling her the facts.. They won't be believed.— Boston Post.: '« .-

~—Some men and all hoys seem to thipk that a slat fence is made to rattle a'stick on. :The music of the stick as it merrily trips from slab to slab is very sweet to the owner of the fence, 'especially -when' the fence is newly painted.—Boston Transeript.’ . - :

- —MWe notice in the: Cleveland Herald some verses by Miss Annie Beauf«i)rt..-, entitled, *“Why Do-I.Sing?” We are not dead certain on' this point, Annie, but ‘it is probably because your pa has paid 2500 to a music-teacher for spoiling ' a- good stocking-darner:— Qhicago. Trabune: i sgo = £

—Protessor Reed, of London, has fioured out thie exaect age- of the '\'VOrla.v' which he sets at 600,000.000 yvears; -but as he neglects to give- the dayv of the,

month at which it'started, there is very little encouragement to try to get ap-a centennial-celebiration.— Boston (Gisbe. ~—A Galveston merchdant is-in the habit of imposing-on the: credigous by brigging about the extent of ‘his business relagions. Whenever ha hears or reads of -a failure in-the commereial world, he shakes his head ang sdys: L lose tive thousand doilars, se-help me jeminy gracioust © A few. days, agd a

centlemaun,, in passing; asked him: [ say. John; how.mueh “would. you have lost i Dr. “Tanner<had failed?” -~ Nog wore than-a.couple of thousands,’™ replied the unsuspecting John, who, not: redading the paper, ’supposed. that: Tan-ner-was very likely a New York leather firm <> Galveston News,. - @

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- “The latest marvel in applied science - is the discovery by the inventor of the Bell-telephone-and Sumner ' Taintor of Witertown, Mass., that ¢ sounds can be produced by the action of a variable lichtfrom substances of all kinds, when in-the form: of thin ‘diaphragms.” In other. words, a ray of lightis substituted . for the connecting wire, and ‘sgunds at t one station are reproduced at another. -As is well known the action of the telephone is ‘due to variations in an eleetric ‘eurrent, caused by .a diaphragm set invibration by the voice, the current thus. nmodified reproducing its variations on a senditive diaphraghm at the other end of the circuit. In the ‘‘photophone,’’ as the new inverition is called, the changes in the electric current are made during its passage through seleaium, a: substance heretofore known only as . a chemical curiosity, but with the strange property. of conducting electricity more éasily when exposed to light than when ‘in-the dark.. -A steady light allows a current to pass through an even resist‘ance; a. vavied light -varies the resist- - ‘ance, so:that the current is stronger or weaker after passing ' through the selenium, and its variations are easily turned, in a telephone, into vibrations of' rsound. - Professor Bell and = Mr. Taintor have already spoken . between points about six -hundred- feet apart, and they.believe that the result can bé obtained as far a 8 a beam of . light ean be flathed, The simplest apparatus of many devised consists of a plane mirror of flexible material, as silyered micro‘scope glass-or mica, whieh - wilt quiver with vibrations: of ‘sound. On this is . gathered. through a lens a’'beam:of light from - any . source, ~success ‘having ‘been found with a kerosene or candle- flame. °~ The parallel ‘beam reflected from the plane mirror is thrown to a distant concave mirror and focussed onaa piece of selenium, glectrically connected with a telephone. = The vioice throws the plane mirror into vibrations which modify in intensity the ray of light, which rapidly chénges the resistance of the distant selenium, this varying the electric current in the telephone as the voice now does directly. Another means of affecting the beam of light is by a disk, perforated with slits,’ which is rapidly turned, producing in ; the selenium a continuous musical tone, whose pitch varies with the rapidity of the disk’s rotation, a silent-motion thus ‘producing a sound. A strange thing is that some substances placed in the beam of light do not-cut oft the sound. A sheet of ‘hard rubber, for instance, . ‘made the beam invisible, but the musical note was still heard. Other exper-- , iments suggest the possibility of doing entirely without the electric current in the telephone at the receiving station. Many other substances were substituted for selenium, the affected ray of light focussed upon them and the musical note was heard without the aid of a telephone of battery. Onl§ carbon and thin glass failed to give a sound. Some minor details of the difficulties encountered and overcome in using selenium in the apparatus for speaking from a distance are of interest.* A small bar of selenium has a resistance to electricity equivalent to that offered by a telegraph. ‘wirelong enough to reach from the earth to the sun. Even the cold light of the moon lessens this resistance and suych a brilliant light as that of burning magnesium wire halves it. But Bell and Summner had to work long to reduce this resistance within manageable limits. No selenium crystal was ever known to - measure less than 250,000 ochmes of resistance in the dark. They have made cells measuring only 300 ohmes in the dark and 155 ohmes in the light, by melting selenium to brass conductors, a chemical union beingformed which lessens the resistance at the point of contact of the .t'WO,s‘ubét@_x‘ices._f ‘Their fifty - forms of apparatus are based on one of two princi}olgs,f—pither' to control the source of light or to modify the beam tself, the second being the.most pracical.—Springneld (Mass.) Republican.