Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 October 1880 — Page 2

L . ¢ N | The Ligonier Banner, 2 : . - " J. B. STOLL, Editor and Prop’r. e —— LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA. sANIOI 0 A A R OTV ol YsßAeB e 3 0 A M TN TSTPR 1 Ve NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, g 7 8 e : ‘Domestic. : IN the General Episcopal Convention in New York on the 7th . a resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Canons to fnvestigate and report whether Right Reverend Samuel A. McCoskry, late Bishop of the Diocese of Michigan, had been deposed from the holy ministry and all the offices thereof, according to the laws of the church. ; TeLEGRAMS of the 7th report that the epizootic'was raging among the horses at Milwaukee and Detroit. At the latter city several fatal cases had occurred. : . For the year ended June 30, 1880, the issues of postage-stamps, stamped envelopes and postal-cards aggregated in value the sum of §32,087,342, being an increase of nine per cent. over that of the previous year.. . - Five yellow-fever patfents, seamen from Ban Domingo, were admitted to the Quarantine Hospital at New York on the Bth. - AT a National Convention of Ship-owners in Boston on the Bth resolutions were adopted favoring the.creation of a Department of Commerce, the Chief of such Department to be a Cabinet officer, and in favor of applying the Enclish system of measurement to American 'vessels. A resolution in favor .of free ships and one favoring a repeal of the Navigation law were defeated. A motion ‘for. the abolition of compulsory pilotage was adopted by a vote of 24 to 19. , Two MEN named George Lowrie and-David Thomas, of Nelson County, Virginia, recently assaulted and robbed a widow named Massie, of that placg. They were arrested and placed in the County Jdil, from whence they weré taken on the Sth by a band of armed men and lynched. * : Josepr MEHRENS and wife were riding home from La Crosse, Wis., on the Bth, when a spark from the former’s pipe set fire to the straw in the wagon-box, and both were- fatally burned. ; e WiLnie WALKER, a nine-year-old son of James Walker, a prominent farmer of Lancaster County, Neb., was found, the other evening, in a hog pasture, with an empty. pistol under him.. The hogs had mutilated his body' almost beyond'recognition. He had only been missing since morning, and was believed to have committed suicide, falling where he lay. : , A BRIDGE being built over the river at Chippewa Falls, Wis., fell on the Bth, and six men were precipitated into the river. One of them, William Brown, was killed. YouNG JAcksoN, who recently<shot and killed the Ute Chigf Johnson, has been found dead at the stake; having beén burned by the Indians. When last seen alive he was in the custody of three white men, one of. them a Government agent, who were taking bim to Gunnison’ City. It is thought that. these men surrendered him to the savages, who were clamorous for his blodd, without a protest. . : Luke Werss, aged. fifteen, of Baltimore, after being whipped by his father, hanged himself a few days ago. IN his report relative to the alleged census frauds in South Carolina Superintendent Walker says the investigation recently prosecuted “places it beyond a doubt, first, that the census of 1870iwas grossly defective, and, ‘secondly, that the census of 1830 was sub-. stantially well taken. In noinstancedid anything appear which bore a semblance of fraud in the returns made to this office by the enumerators of 1880.? ;

. FIrTEEN persons were killed and fifty others wounded, many of them fatally, in a collision on the Pennsylvania Road in 'Pittsburgh on the night of the 9th. One of the trains was crowded with people going:home from a Democratic demonstration in the city. ' ; At Monroe, Wis., the other day John Mulhem, aged sixteen, while ‘‘charivaring” a newly-married couple at the home of 8. Burkey, was shot by Burkey, dying in a short time. Burkey was arrested. - - :

FrENCcH & WARD'S woolen mills at West Stoughton, Mass., with contents, were- destroyed by fire -on the night of the 9th, and 800 operatives are.thus thrown out of employmeny. i : i i

GeoRrGE F. WiLsox, of Providence, R. I, formerly of the Rumford Chemical Works, has made an assignment. The amount for which he failed exceeds $500,000. :

AN extra freight train and a passenger accommodation train came into collision on the New York & New England Railroad on the night of the Bth, near Willimantic, Conn., causing a bad wreck and the deaths of the engineers and firemen of both trains, and fatal injury to Conductor Aldrich, of the freight train. i - : REPORTS were received on the 9th that Indians had stopped a United States surveying party in Washington Territory. Two Indians had been killed, and the surveyors and the upper settlements were in danger. -

Personal and Political.

FuLL returns of the election in Delaware on the 6th give the Democrats a majority of 856 for Inspectors, and a majority of 689 for Assessors. it !

Tue Greenbackers of the First 'Michigan District have nominated Lyman E. Stowe, of Detroit, for Congre’ss, and the Democrats of the Second Maryland District have nominated F. C: Talbot. o ;i

Pror. BENJAMIN PIERCE, the celebrated mathematician and professor at Harvard College, died a few days ago. : L D. P. DEwgs has withdrawn from the canvass as the nominee of the Greenback party for Judge of ‘the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. . St

TrE following Congressional nominations were announced on the 7th: First Rhode Island District, Nelson W. ‘Aldrich, Republican; Twelfth New York, M. 8. Gardaer, Greenback ; Fourteenth New York, Congressman William Lounsberry, Democrat. - - . THE oath of office was administered to Gov-ernor-elect Firnham, of Vermont, on the 7th, and he was duly installed. TaE Michigan Supreme Court has decided in a test case, that the Liquor-Tax law, passed five years ago, is constitutional. -

Trae Rhode Island Btate Republican Conyention met in Providence on the 7th and nominated Presidential Electors. ‘

| CoLoNEL JAMES M. STEWART, Postmaster of the House of Representatives since 1876, died at Alexandria, Va., on the 7th, = THE registration books in Milwaukee were closed on the night of the 7th, with 18,814 names on the list, a gain of 6,905 over the previous registration. o e GEORGE (). CANNON has been renominated a 8 Delecate in Congress from Utah.

A. A. RaxxeY, who declined the Republican nomination for Congress in the Third Massachiusetts | District, has withdrawn his declination and conseuted to run.

Tus following Congrestional nominations were made on the Bth: fecond Rhode Island District, Jonathan Chace, Republican; Fourteenth New York, Lewis Beach, Democrat; Twentieth Penhsylyania, Thomas B. Murray, Republican; Eighth Missouri, Colonel R. T. Van Horn, Republican. e Tromas HucHEs, the ditinguished Englisk writer and a benefactor of the Chicago Library, was banqueted at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago on the night of the Sth. DuriNg the progress of Republican and Greenback meetings at Shelbyville, Ind., ion the 9th ‘some drunken parties engaged in a fight, to stop which Sheriff McCorkle arrested two disorderly individuals. While on the way to the lock-up pm{%of the prisonere drew a revolver and shot the Sheriff, causing death in a few hours.

- 'THE Republicans of the Eighth and Eleventh New York Districts have renominated Anson G. McCook in.the former and Levi P. Morton in the latter for Congress. L. N. Hunt has been nominated -by the Rcpublicans of ‘the Ninth District. The Democrats of the Second Massachusetts Distric! have nominated Edgar E. Dean, and of tlie Tenth, Henry E. Alvord. Major N. C. Warneris the Demderatic nominee for Congress in the Fourth Illinoig District. :

Tue Massachusetts Prohibition State Committee decided on the 9th that the party in that State should present te the people complete Congressional and Electoral tickets. AN Augusta (Ga.) telegram of the 9th says Colquitt’s majority for Governor over Norwood execeds 60,000, and that two-thirds of the Legislature favor Brown for United States Seuator. : : :

Foreign,

. Tue Mexican House of Reppresentat!ves has 'passed, by a large majority, a resolution declaring General Gonzales the President-eiect of the Mexican Republic. His term is to commence on the Ist of December. ° It is stated that Russia has refused to reopen negotiations with China. The Russian Minister hag been instructed to present the ultimatum of his Government demanding the fulfililment of the'late treaty, and in the event of its non-acceptance he has been directed to use his fleet to bring the Chinese to terms. AN explosion recently occurred in a coal mine near Kattowitz, Prussia, which céaused the death of fifty-four persons. . n

- DE LEssEps has announced that operations on the' Panama Canal are about to be begun under the auspices of a syndicate composed of the principal financial establishments of Europé €nd America. | A CoxSTANTINOPLE ‘dispatch of the Sth says the Sultan had decided to arouse the religious fanaticism of his people’ to the defense of their temporal. and spiritual head, and enable him not only to drive back thie Christian hosts who were assailing him, but to carry an aggressive war intotheir territory. The Shieks from all Moslem centers had urged him to proclaim areligious war and to call upon his people to drive the infidel dog: from Turkish soil. Eo i : fo

A PROCLAMATION has been issued declaring Counties Galway and Mayo, in Ireland, in.a state of disturbance, requiring additional olicel | o

" A BeErwulN dispatch of the 10th says that the ‘report that the American Minister had resigned was unfounded. . | A Panis telegram of the 10th says the Government had decided that France yould not, under any circumstances, particixgte in the occupation of any Turkish fort, and that the French Ambassador had been instructed to so notify the British Minister of Foreign - Affairs. . | :

OxE of the murderers of Dr. Parsons, the American missionary, has been sentenced 't{o death, and two to fifteen years’ imprisonment. : ' e '

Tue succession to the Roumanian throne has Dbeen definitely settled wupon Prince Charles Anthony, third son of Prince Leopold, of Hohenzollern. e |

Tug Prussian Parliament will meet on .th:é 28th of ‘November to consider Prince Bismarck’s.economic measures. - R

Tue British Secretary for Ireland informed a deputation of landlords on the 9th that, unless outrages in that country ceased, the writ of habeas corpus would be suspended. |

- LATER NEWS, - ApVICES from the | Aretic regions received at San Francisco on the 11th are to the effect that therevenue cutter Corwin had not yet found any trace of the missing exploring steamer Jeannette |and the whalers. The Corwin had made several trips to Herald Island, but had been unable to make a landing there, on account of the ice. A CONSTANTINOPLE ftelegram of the 11th says the Porte had decided to cede Dulcigno without delay, but avould. maintain its position with respect to the naval demonstration. The Sultan had threatened to abdicate if the fleets came to Constantinople. - DR. R. R. LivingsToN, Democratic Candidate for Congress in Nebraska, and S. H. Calhoun, Democratic candidate for Lieuten-ant-Governor, have resigned, the former because twenty-five years ago he challenged J. Sterling Morton to fight a duel, and became thereby Constitutionally ‘ineligible. T. J. Hamilton has been_uojninated‘ in Calhoun’s place. e : 3 ' JUDGES BraTcHFORD and Choate, of the United States Circuit Court of New York, rendered a decision on the 11th dismissing anorder granted on the 9th directing Chief Supervisor Davenport to show cause why he shotld not be removed from his office on the ground that he was not faithful or capable in the performance of his duties as Chief Supervisor. The charge against the Supervisor was that he had seized and taken from one John Walsh and others naturalization 'papers in ‘their possession, on the claim that such papers were fraudulent. L Ar. the recent annual conference of . the Mormons at Salt Lake City John Taylor was formally elected President of the Mormon Church, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Brigham Young. George Q. Cannon and John F. SBmith were elected First and Second Counselors. . o '

THE requisition for. the money to be paid the Ute Indians for their lands was signed at Washington on the 11th. ; Tue Republieans of the Eleventh Massachusetts District have renominated George D. Robinson for Congress. : THE celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 'existence of the City of Baltimore was begun in that city on the 11th. ‘One of the features of the celebration was a procession many miles long and numbering many thousand men. =

In its review of the British grain trade for the week ending on the 9th the Mark Lane FExpress says that, in consequence of the continued wet weather in England, the remnant of the harvest-left standing out had been rendered worthless. Wheat in stacks had also suffered somewhat, and thrashing had been suspended. In consequence there had been a slight advance in all kinds of grain, British and foreign. American wheat advanced one shilling per quarter, and showed an upward tenden((',iy.- During the week some 875,571 hundred-weights of wheat and 168 hundredweights of flour were imported into Great Britain, most of which was from America.

PASSING EVENTS.

Death of a Victim of Hydrophobia.

ANOTHER painful case of hydrophobia is reported. The death of Joseph Moorhouse, of Elizabeth, N. J., which occurred Monday night from hydrophobia, is said by the attending physicians, eight in number, to have been the most rapid on record from that ‘cause, the victim dying in twenth-four hours after being first attacked. Moorhouse, while playing with a pet mongrel dog in May, was bitten in the wrist. His arm was swollen for a few days after Dr. Pickett, of Elizabeth, cauterized the wound, and Moorhouse thought no more of it. After sawing some wood Friday, Moorhouse said he felt a pain in his arm, but thought it was rheumatism. Saturday he said to [ his sister that he felt a tingling sensation about the wound. Sunday morning he attended Fulton Street Methodist Church, where he led the ehoir. When he returned home he said his shoulder pained him.so he decided to stay away from church that night. He was single, living with his two sisters in a cottage on Broadway. When his sisters' returned from church at night they found him gitting in the kitchen. There was a wild look in his eyes, and he said he could ndt sleep. The escort of oneof the sisters volunteered to sit up with him. Toward morning he became excited and called for water, buf when water was taken to him he pu’s‘hed it away, and complained that he was choking. Early on Monday morning Drs. Renan and Mack were called in. Finding the man intensely excited, they injected morphine, and hastily calied in Drs. Brown and Pickett. After consultation four other physicians were sent for, uri'd in joint consultation they agreed that Moorihouse was attacked with hydrophobia. In the meantime the man became violent, and a great quantity of morphine was injected, bul it was of no avail. The spasms did not set in until toward night. Between the spasms Moorhouse constantly called for water, which, while looking away, he would try to drink, but, could not. Once he escaped into the street, and, being brought back, he sat down to the piano and wildly played a hymn. Then rushing to the organ, he played a t'a.‘vorivto hymn of his, **Nothing but the Blood of Jesus Will Cjczmsc Me,” ending by falling oif the stool in a violent fit. The physiciaus, -fearing he ‘would get beyond control, held him' while chloroform was given through his mostrils, They then bound him to the bed. Severul times the drug was applied, the attendants not being able to hold him. The fits now becae terrible, the man frothing at the'mouth and snapping, but not barking or snarling like a dog. A little after eleven o’clock he sank into & stupor which was thought to be the effects of the powerful drug, bt it was death coming to his relief. He died a few moments before midnight. Moorhouse Was formerly a fireman on the New York Central/Rdilroad of New Jersey, but lately he had been carrying on the business of a blacksmith. He wasa strong, healthy man, weighing one hundred and sixty pounds.—New York (Oct. 5) Special to Chicago Inter-Ocean. |

o ‘The October Evening Stars. > THREE brilliant planets ¢hine in the October evening sky. Jupiter heuds -the l&t, for he passed his perihelion, or nearest point to the sun, on the 25th of Sepicmbcr,\ and reached his opposition, or nearest point to the carth, on the 7th of October. He is now forty-six miilion miles nearer the sun, and one hundred and eighty million miles neaver the earth than when at the most distant point trom each.’ Nearly twelve years must pass before he will agnin be in as favorable conditions for observation. Therefore every lover of the stars should watch the moveméents of this supe’rb plariet as p‘e comes darting above the eastern horizon: as soon as the daylight fades, beaming like a young moon and casting a perceptible shadow. He now reaches the meridian about midnight and sinks in the west as the sun rises in the east, being visible throughout the night. He is s 0 near that his moons may be seen in an opera-glass, and his telescopic appearance is beautiful beyond expression. The ruddy spot still ‘marks the comniotion agitatirg his surface, and his belts are painted in radiant hues of purple, pink and blue which far outshine terrestrial tints. 'Khisplanet now rises about six o’clock, but at the end of the month will rise about four.

Saturn is next in interest, foflowing closely in the footsteps of Jupiter, a tew degrees.to the northwest of his rival, and rising a halfhour later. He is traveling slowly toward perihelion, which he does not reach till 1884, and, - 88 his perihelia oceur at intervals of about thirty years, few observers see him more than once,or twice at his brightest phase during a lifetime. Saturn reaches his opposition on the 18th of October, and is then at His nearest point to the earth, being in a line with the earth and sun, with the earth /in the center. He is not nearly =o brilliant as-Jupiter, but no observer will fail to recognize him, or note his fine appearance, for his usual murky tint has .given place to a soft, pale yellow. This, as well as his-increased size, is due to four causes, his oppdgsition. his approach to perihelion, the nearly wide-open presentation of his rings, and his northern declination. -He' meay now be seen coming up in the cast about half-past six; at the end of October. at half-past four. One other planet divides the evening honors with Jupiter and Saturn. This is Venus, and very bright-cyed observers may now pick her up shortly after sunset in the glowing wost. She has passed her superior conjunction with the sun, and is now coming toward us. She sets about three-quarters of an hour after the sun; in the evenings of late October she: will: linger above the horizon for about an hour and a quarter after the sun has disappeared. But while Jupiter and Saturn will soon be on the wane, she will increase in brilliancy, and prolong her stay in the west. Before November closes, she will eclipse them in the brightness of her shining, reigning during® the winter months the most radiént star in the firmament, the acknowledged quecn of the shining host that stud the sky.—Youth’'s Companion.

- A Submarine Volcano. A R&ECENT Washington special says: *“Comsmander Huntington, iof the Unijted States steamer Alert, in a report to the Navy Department, just received, says that while on a surveying cruise in the Pacific, south of Fortsizio and Bovin Islands, on approaching the Island of San Alessandro, his attention was called to the strange appearance of the water apparently ten miles distant. A volume of vapor was rising as though some vessel were blowing off steam. This was followed by the appearance of breakers, and wkile some of the ofiicers were discussing the probable cause, some thinking it was the blowing and breaching of # school of whales, the question was definitely settled by the upheaval of an immense black mass. As the 'ship approached the submarine voleano ‘the black masses thrown up were distinguished as mud and ashes. The upheavals were accompanied by dull reports like those from submarine mines, and by the odor of sulphur. Several days were spent in making a reconnoissance. Commander Huntington says he did not think it prudent to approach the volcano in the Alert, but. a boat was lowered and pulled within 100 yards of it. A reef or island is in process of formation. Soundings were obtained in trom five to twenty-nine fathoms. The water was full of ashes and mud, and some of this and one specimen of theé bottom were brought on board. The volcano' bears north forty-four degrees west, distant three miles from the landing place on the southwest end of the island. - At night flames were noticed issuing from the volcano. The reportof Commander Huntington has been referred to Captain DeKroft, in charge of the hydrographic section of the Bureau of Navigation, and the change will be made on the charts.” WHERE to go when short of money---Go'to work, | e v

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

W. H. Cox’s barn, ten miljes west of Indian« apolis, was burned on the 4th, involving aloss of $1,500. '

MIKE MARTIN, a bra_ken“iap on the Jndianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Railroad was fatally crushed at Indianapolis the other day while coupling cars. = | = - L AT Lafayette a few days ago some scapegrace threw a rock which struck a seven-year-old son of J. T. Merrell in the bowels. The doctors say he will be a cripple for life.

FoR the first time since her arrest last February, Mrs. Brown, under sentence of death at Indianapolis for the murder of her husband, was the other day pfar'mitted to see her children, who visited her in jail. i

ANDREW SMITH, a Laifayette blacksmith, was discussing politics in a saloon a few days avo, when he suddenly fell dead. - _

Tue hardware store: of ' Michael J. Keoney in Freemont, Steuben County, was enffiereq by burglars a few ni-gh'_t%s ago. They put a heavy charge of powder ‘ip the safe, but did not succeed in blowing it open. The concussion however broke out the plate-glass front of the building and did several hundred do!lars worth of damage. |~ Do ' At Muncie a few nights ago Willilam Gordon, aged forty-five, was found lying dead in the back yard of his résidence, on Wést Main street. His death is shrouded in .mystery. For several years he had led a life of dissipation, but it is thought death was the result of a beating received a few days since. The post-mortem examination revealed numerous bruises on his body. His life has been a checkered one, and on account of his eccentricity he was known to almost everybody in the county. | -

ADAM SHELLAR, a wealthy resident of Delaware County, was thrown from his wagon a few days since, and fatally injured. On the same day Phineas Tuttle, a resident of Perry Township in the same county was fatally hurt by falling from an apple tree. THE body of a young colored woman, name unknown, was found.updn the track of the Indianapolis & St.- Louis Railroad, near the poor-farm, Terre Haute, the other morning. From the wounds upon the bedy it issupposed that she had fallen from a train and had been dragged for a considerable distance along the track. "

A FEW days since Joseph SBimpson, a farmer and general daylaborer, well known about Muncie, forty years of age, while cutting wood on John Fullhort’s fs{rm,' three and onehalf miles southeast of Mubcie’, was killed by lightning. While at work rain came up, and he took shelter under a tree, which was struck by lightning. The electri(; current passed down the body of the tree and struck Mr. Simpson, Killing him insta’n&tlv. Deceased was first cousin of General U. 8. Grant, their mothers being sisters.

A rew evenings ago while pleking apples on the farm of William Douglass, in Clay Township, Cass County, a man named Peter Biugs, fell from the tree and broke his back. HENRY SCHOMENL, a German boy in the employ of Wiliiam Hoffman, a Terre Haute saloon-keeper, shot himself in the head with a pistol a few days ago, and died almost immediately. He feared he was about to lose his place and did not know where to get another. S L

Tue Indiana University begins the year with an enrollment of 370 studenfs—the largest beginning it has ever had. TeE State Fair just closed has been the most successful in the history of the RState Board. The receipts were ilix the . neighbonrhood of $22,000, of which $lO,OOO remains as profit. . ey AT the recent yearly mekting of the Quakers at Richmond it was voted to cut Earlham College loose from the denomination and accord to it an iudépendent existence. o oot

Mgs. Lauvra KNEcHT, wife of a Logansport saloon keeper, dropped dead ‘the other day from heart disease. ! :

By the carelessness of a lo&:umotive‘ engineer in Indianapolis on the 6th, two men were killed, George Royer, lenginéer, and Lewis Doerr, brakeman, of the Cléveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad. They were leaning a,gaqinst a coal car on the side-track, when a switchinx engine made a running switch with two empties, which struck the coal car with such suddenness and force as to knock 'tl‘ye -mén down and drive the three cars over |them. Royer was insensible from the blow; and died in a few minutes. Doerr had both|legs and one arm crushed and several ribs broken. He lived some time after beingcarried to his home, near by. ) 5

A BROKEN rail on the Terre Haute & Loganspoit Rbad recently threw an engine and five freight cars from the track at Oak Grove, a small station near Rockville, and caused a bad wreck. The fireman, Frank Tucker, was almost instantly killed. b ; A BOY sixteen years old, son of D. T. Klingerman, living near Bourbon, wz‘}s standing at the heads of a team in an orchard the other day, when the horses became frightened and ran against a tree. | The tongue of the waron entered the boy’s side, instantlyt Killing him. A BOX containing 112 pounds of dynamite was recently found under the dam across the Wabpash River at Pittsburgh. F#rmérs living up-stream whose lands have been flooded by the back-water have repeatedly attempted to blow up the obstruction, and the present dis--covery shows that they are still of the opinion that the dam must go. . * A FEW days ago Henry | Besse}man, an old farmer living four miles from Richmond, drove home from a political rally in apparent good health, but dropped dead on stepping out of the wagon. | | = :

FrRANK CHURCHMAN, an Indianapolis banker, was recently attacked by a vicious dog in a court at the rear of his building &nd terribly lacerated. folo A FEW nights azo four footpfids knocked down and robbed Pat Ryan, a |resident of Cowan, Howard County, on an unfrequented street in Muncie. Thirty or forty dollars were taken. - Next day Ryan ‘identified Bill SBimmons, Thomas Thomas and Thomas Donohue, and upon a warrant_swornj out by him the police arrested them and lodged them in jail. : e i e

Tae Indianapolis -grain quothti'ons are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 95@97c; Corn, 40@41c; Oats, 32@33c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 98:u9%c; Uormn, 42@43c; Oats, 34@35¢; Rye, 8815@89¢; Barley, 90@ 90, - : L e

Mr. GEORGE SKENE DuUFF, a celebrated deer stalker of Scotland, brought down on a single day, in the Forest of Mabhr, the property of his nephew, the Earl of Fife, and with a rifle which he began to eémploy half a century since, no less than eight antlered monarchs, three of them with Irogal heads, a fourth with eleven tines, and four of scarcely inferior rank. ‘ o

THERE is said to be a man at Jericho, Vt., who is always called upon to break the news to the family when anybody is accidentally killed there, and he does it in such a neat manner that they are almogt glad it happened. . s

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

—Spring poetry: The metrical advertisement of a . patent mattress.—N. Y. News. | Pl :

~_—A girl baby! The impudence of the young thing in being born.—King Alfonso, in® Chicago Times., 5

'—Amid such a raising of clubs in the political world, somebody will get hurt. —Boston Transcript.

—*¢ Are we extravagant?’ asks the Boston Commercial %ulletin. If you pay five cents for a cigar ‘when you can beg one, you are.—Norristown Herald. —lt rested ‘tween two rows of corn, - And wildly to itself it said: : * How can I help but feel forlorn— . " I’'m nothing but a pumpkin head}” o : — Detroit Free! Press.

—Never despise humble beginnings. What at first you might call an old stick in the mud may in time grow to be a beautiful willow tree, shading the brook.—New Orleans Picayune.

'—A hotel is to be built at Quebec over the place where Montgomery charged —and the charges in the future there will probably be a long way ahead of Montgomery’s.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. | , L —Three Niagara hackmen tried an argument With_f oseph Cook, whom they took for an ordinary white man; and at the end of thirteen minutes one was so insane that he has done nothing since but murmur ‘¢ protoplasm,’” and the other two vetired to weep in mortification. Who says culture isn’t of any use to a man?—Boston Post.

—* Any letter for me?" asked a young lady of thefemale Postmaster, in a country town. *‘No,”*was the reply, “~Stran%'e,’;’ said the young lady aloud to herself, as she turned away. ‘¢ Nothing strange about it,”” cried the f. p., through the delivery:window, ¢ you ain’t answered the last letter he writ ye!’—CCincinnati Saturday Night. :

Limekiln Club Proceedings.

- “If I had a son dat war gwine out in de world to seek his fortin’,”” began the -old man, as a hush crept down tfie hall, ‘I should say to him not to talk too much, nor yet to be too silent.. Dat class of men who am allus shootin’ 'off de mouf am no wus dan de class who sot an’ sot an’ look as wise as owls, but hev nuffin’ to say. De one talks bekase he doan’ know how to keep still. De odder keeps still bekase he doan’ ‘know nuffin’ to say. If dar eber was a time when a man who sot an’ rolled his eyes an’ puckered his mouf an’ kept his tongue still was taken to be some great gun of a filosofer, dat time has skipped an’ will neber return. I neber bet on a man who talks too much, an’ I neber trust de man who doan’ talk at all. What I sarch fur am de happy middleground. Dat is, fur a man who knows when to talk an’ when to keep his head shet, when I find him I hitch right to him wid chain an’ padlock. We will now ambulate according to de reg’lar programme.’’ ” . SO UNDERSTOOD. *“Did I understan’ de President to use de word ambulate?’’ inquired the Rev. Penstock, as he suddenly bobbed up in hisseat. - . S “Yon did, sah? = . “ Ambulate?”’ o ‘¢ Yes, sah, ambulate.”’ : ¢ I —l—hardly—"’ ik . ““You hardly bettah sit down, sah! “Dis Cha'r knows de difference |between ambulate an’ ambulance to perfexshun, and sich interrupshuns of de meetin’ at dis airly hour should be frowned down by all good members.”’ . ~ Several hisses were sent across the hall at Penstock, and he dropped down to be heard of no more. - ' | . BLECTION. | _ . A trip of the bean-box resulted in what Giveadam Jones termed the *‘ensanguinous eleckshun’ of the following named gentlemen: Glasher Smith, Colonel Fox, Rev. John Pickadyke, Altitude Snowball, Christmas Johnson, Samuel Hoots and Treadwell Stone. CAN’T HARMONIZE. Lo ~ The Committee on Peace and Harmony reported that they had been actively engaged in an effort to bring about harmony and good feeling between the men who pack six quarts of peaches intp a four-quart basket and sell them for a peck, and the general public who buy, but thus far all their work had gone for naught. They had wrestl¢d with grocers who dump a peck of halt decayed pears into a bushel basket and cover them over with sound fruit, but they could not say tliat their influence had been felt. They had worked hard, accomplished nothing and were clear discouraged. - ‘ln dischargin’ de committee from frirder considerashun of de report,” replied Brother Gardner, ‘“ I would say dat I hadn’t de faintest hope dat dey would succeed in makin’a change. Jist so long as we lib in dis world we will obsarve dat de man who has an old cow to sell will be lookin’ for some way to take de wrinkles off her horns an’ deceive de buyer. When a church deacon in good standin’ am privileged to file oft de teef of a hoss nineteen y’ars old an’ sot his aige back to seven,too much mus’ not be ’spected from de common run'o’ folks, who wouldn't hev to piug up worm-holes in apples if Natur’ hadn’t cheated us by puttin’ em dar fustly.”

Several of the committees were rubbed up about future work and as the clock struck the hour for closing the Presiident rapped for attention and said: ““ We may make mistakes an’ we may err in judgment, an’ circumstances may sometimes put us in a false posishun, but none of us kin eber hev de leas’ excuse for forgittin’ dat half of de road belongs to de odder waggin. De pusson who am eddicated *nuff to know his own rights neber tramples on de rights of odders. When you find a man so puffed up an’ swelled out wid his own ’portance dat he ecan’t see nuffin but ribs in his fellow-men, make up your mind dat dar will be a ’sploshun and dat he will be de only pusson hurt. We will now sarch out our hats, wake up Elder Toots and let this hall relapse into silence.’’— Detroit Free Press.

- —Fgrmer Stouffer, of Chambersburg, Pa., shot and killed a neighbor whe was stealing his corn and potatoes. Stouffer was infiicted for murder, but has been acquitted. Pennsylvania has no law authorizing anybody to shoot a thief, ‘but in this case the prosecution was 'purposely weak, and the jury agreed without quitting their seats. ;

Republican Consisteney.

When in the sixteenth century the Vicar of the parish of Bray, near London, who had lived :through the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth and Mary and into the reign of Elizabeth, was reproached with his frequent. changes of principle, he _made this famous answer: ‘‘Not so, neither; for if I changed my rubries 1 am sure I kept true -to ‘my primeiple. which is to. live ‘ and, die the ‘“Viear of Bray.” Possibly Flanagan, of Texas, the Chi--cago delegate who frankly admitted that he was after the offices, can claim. descent from this ecclesiastic. Several generations have had their proverbial fun at the expense of that Vicar of Bray; and yéet he still survives in every member of . the Republican party’ who supported Fremont in 1856 and who supports Garfield in 1880. Follow down the political history of any one-Repub-lican—and there are manv such—who.

has happened to be @ delegate to every National Convention of his party since the first onethat was held at Pittsburgh - in February; 1856. Atthis éarliest Convention such a Republican found himself an opponent of *‘the imposition of test-oaths as a condition of the right of | suffrage and office,”’ and on what he called the centralizing and jimperial aims of the Pierce - -Administration against ‘“ the right of a State to exclu- - sively determine its own domestic afs fairs,”’ and le also then found himself opposed to ‘“the wuse 'by the Federal Government of Federal officers and of the Dbayonet in originating and - aiding - interferences with the freedom -of - State elections.”! At the: Fremont Convention of June, 1856, such a Republican found -himself denouncing * the :plea that ‘“administrative right makesgovernmental right,”” - and denouncing those ‘‘spurious and pretended legislative or judicial orexecutive officers who were ‘then set.over: Kansas and who were sustained by thef! military power of the Administration.”.| In 1860 at the Chicago Convention such a Republican was found pledging himselt to - ‘‘maintaining . inviolate the, richts of each State in ordering and in controlling its own domestic - institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, as-the balance of power on . which the perfection/ana enuuranee of our political “fabric ~depended.” He ° was also there and thén found’denounecing the ‘‘enforcement of pretensions of a purely local interest through the ‘intervention of Concress and of the Federal Courts, as well -as the unvarying abuse by the Federal Administration 0% power intrusted.<to it’ by a confiding people,” and denouncing as well ¢‘the systematic plunder of the Treasury by. favqered partisans and the frauds and. corruptions av the Federal metropolis.”” At the -first inauguration of President Lincoin this- Republican was found ap--plauding these sentences of the inaugural address: **The mystie . chords of . memory - stretching from ‘every living heart and hearthstone all over thiS‘broacßl . land will. yet swell the chorus of the Union when -agzain touched, .as surely they will be. by the betterangels of our nature.’ - o e e Atthe Convention of 1864 such a Republican was found. résolving to.maintain the integrity of the Union and: to prosecute the war until rebels ** return- . ed” to their just allegiance, ' At. the close of the Democratic: Convention of August, 1864, such a Republican not only forgot what “the Republican Conventions had:insisted upon, but sneered at that part of the Democratic platform which denounced the direct interference of the military authorities in the elections of Delaware and Maryland. - - During 1866 the- Republican party urged the restoration” of the Southern: States to.the Union and supported the measures of Thaddeus: Stevens for readmitting the Senators and Representatives of those States to Congress when-. ever the States: ‘ modified ‘and . conformed” their Constitutions'to the new amendments dnd their. laws to the results of the ¢ivil war. In 1867, when | our typical Republican ascertained thatthe ‘“carpet-bag whites” were not likely to return. solid, representations of Radical Congressmen, he dropged the phrase ¢‘restoration of States’’ and adopted in its place the phrase *‘re- . construction of States.”’ -In 1868 he had come to regard all the Southern States as in the nature ‘of colonies on which territorial organizations were to . be imposed and from them mew State Governments ultimately- to be -.constructed. In . 1872 he was fanning the embers. of ‘camp fires that he had agreed seven years before to extinguish. In 1876 he was willing to regard the Southern Siates as: erring sisters that could be forgiven if they would only cast electoral votes for Hayes. And in 1880. he is found urging that a solid North should arrange a political punishment for a South thatis. likely to be solid for the candidase of the Union. Thus, after many ‘administrations. the Republican partisan who has faithfully followed his party platforms during a quarter of a century finds in 1880 that he is bidden by his latest platform to occupy the position of sectional * hate . and jealousy which he alleged: in 1860 that this Southern neighbor occupied. - ~ Such a Republican gives us a new illustration of a story three . centuries old. The modern Vicar of Bray: may answer the unfeeling people who twit him with his inconsistency that though his platforms have changed -and. even been reversed his principle is the same, and that alike while protesting against - military interference in elections and while upholding military interference in elections, while deprecating sectional feeling and while making his sole appeal to sectional, feeling, he has been true -to ‘his principle * and has never failed to pursue the offices. When Flanagan hears of the Vicar of Bray the heart of the Texan statesman will grow warm within him, and he ‘will in-imagination stretch out his hand across the gulf of generations to greet a Kkindred spirit.—N. Y. World.

-——The Republicans choose' to represent the Democratic party as the Southern party. Why it is such it would puzzle them to tell. At the last Presidential election the total Democratic vote in the Southern : States, according to Returning Board count, was 1,614,160. The total Democratic vote in the Northern States was 2,671,430. The ' Republicans are only -1,057,270 wide of the truth. It is a mere trifle in comparison with some of their misses. —N, . Express. . . 00l Siaeaag