Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 28, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 October 1880 — Page 2

;e Lt W = The Zigonier Banner, | » \ : e J. B. STOLL, Editor and Prop’r. LIGONIER, : .: : [INDIANA, - NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, .‘oe o . ! . Domestic. - A FREIGHT TRAIN ran into a crowded excursion - train near Raleigh, N. C., on the 20th, wrecking the engine of the freight train, several cars of the passenger train, killing three men, and woundiéxfi fourteen others, three, it was believed, fafally. The conductor and engineer of the freight train were arrested. = ' INTELLIGENCE was received at El Paso, Texas, on the 49th to the effect that the Indian Chief Victoria had been killed by the Mexicans, and most of his tribe either killed | or captured. . f

Up to the 21st only six bodies of the lost on the lake steamer Alpena had been recovered. Pieces of the wrecked steamer were scattered along the Michigan shore for a dis~ tance of seventy miles. No complete list of the passengers on board of the Alpena could be furnished, owing to the fact that the Goodrich Company had no duplicate register of passengers. 3 ;

-Tue amount paid for conveying the United States mails by sea during the fiscal year ended June 80, last, was $196,634, of which $153,908 was paid for the trans-Atlantic mail gervicep and all to foreign steamship companies except $1,964, earned in sea-postage by the American line from Philadelphia. .

SECRETARY SHERMAN stated on the 2lst that under the Resumption act ' there was an accumulated fund for the redemption of outstanding legal-tender notes of ‘about $140,000,000, being about forty per cent. of the amount of notes outstanding redeemable on demand from that fund, and as small a sum as it was deemed prudent to hold for that purpose.

TrE value of the exports from this country of domestic provisions and tallow during the nine months ended September 30 was $103;722,559 same “period previous year, $81,919,055. ( . :

.GEORGE GOHEN, a fourteen-year-old pupik of one of the Cincinnati schools, . who had been reprimanded by the Principal of the school for truancy, shot himself in his classroomn on the 21st. He says the Principal called him a sneak. The ball entered the left breast and penetrated the lung. The wound was probably'no't fatal, unless inflammation ghould set in. ' : -

ACCORDING 10 the census report there are in Chicago and its suburbs 3,752 manufactories, which employ 113,507 persons, and require a capital of $80,692,102. The product for the year eunding with May last was $253,405,691, ; ' ‘ . o . A CIRCULAR recently issued from the Census Bureau places the population of Delaware at 145,654; 137,182 are native-born and 8,472 are foreign-born; 120,198 are white and 25,456 colored. In 1870 the total population was 125,015. - J !

THE railroad war between the Wabash and competing lines ended on the 22d in an arrangement by which rates would be at once restored. , - o

James B. DoyLe, was arrested in Chicago on the night of the 21st. On his person and in his gripsack were found a large sum of money and United/States bonds worth apparently $200,000. These subsequently proved to be counterfeit. -‘Simultaneously with Doyle’s arrest the Goyernment detectives arrested in New York the engraver of the wellknown $5O counterfeit plate, named Charles H: Smith. . .

THE National Board of Health has submit-ii ted its annual report to the Secretary of the. Treasury for transmission to Congress. The expenses of the Board to SBeptember 30 were. $325,830, of which $210,177 was expended by the Board, and $115,653 by the Southern: States. . P

TuEe distribution of standard silver dollars for the week ended on the 23d amounted to $818,990; for the corresponding week in 1879, $339,495. : : !

-Tae next Triennial :Convention of .the Episcopalians of this country will be held at Philadelphia in 1883. - Tae Gloucester Manufaeturing Company of Gloucester City, N. J., was forced to shut <its doors on the '23d; all the hands were thriown out of employment. On the same ‘dair the silk mill of Wright Smith, of Pater: son, closed by writ of attachment. = | A Fort REXO dispatch of the 23d says several more intruders in Indian Territory had been arrested, and would be escorted to the Kansas line. Wakeman, one of Gaynes’ agents, with twenty-five followers, . narrowly escaped into Kansas. The intruders were mostly from Kansas and Arkansas. ~ - AT Nasghville, Tenn., on the 23d Judge Key held that' where the owner of a distillery attempts to defraud the Government the distilled spirits in bonded warehouses are forfeited, without regard to the claim of wholesale liquor dealers who may have purchased them from the distiller and notified the Internal-Revenue Collector of the purchase. .

Personal and Political. M=zs. LYDIA MARIA CHILD, the well-known American authoress, died at Wayland, Mass., on the 20th, aged seventy-eight years. ReGISTRATION ".closed in Boston on the night of the 19th with a total of names on the list of 58,067, an increase of nearly 8,000 over 1879. . - 'THE official returns from the Ohio State election were all received and footed up on the 21st. The vote on Supreme Judge shows that Mcllvaine, the Republican candidate, received 364,044 votes, and Follet, the Democratic candidate, 841,003 votes—a plurality for the former of 23,041 votes. The Greenback candidate received 6,578 votes and the Prohibition candidate 2,651. The total vote -was 714,276—the heaviest ever cast in the State. Townsend, the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, ran 4,045 votes behind his ticket. - . : Tae thirtieth anniversary of the first woman’s suffrage meeting held in New England was célebrated at Woreester, Mass., on the 21st. , Pl

TaE Episcopal General Convention, recently in session in New York, elected Rev. George K. Dunlap, of Missouri, Missionary Bishop of Arizona and New Mexico, Rev. Leigh Richmond, of Watertown, N. Y., Missionary Bishop of Montana, and Rev. John Houston Eccleston, of New Jersey, Missionary Bishop of Washing ton Territory. - Ar the Woman’s Suffrage meeting in Worcester, Mass., on the 22d addresses were ‘made by a number of persons conspicuous in the Association. Colonel Higginson said women were -not yet ready for the ballot, their failure to vote for school officers in New York and other places. where they are entitled to do so being proof of the assertion. Women must convert their own sex, and then the ballot will be freely given them by

men. .This speech was the general theme of discussion, women taking Stro_ng grounds against the position of Colonel Higginson. . A NEw ORLEANS telegram of the 23d says Mr. Cavanac, Supervisor of Registraticn for Louisiana, acting under orders of Governor Wiltz, after legal advice, had decided to keep the registration office in that city open until October 30. The Superyisor was arrested on a complaint of United States Supervisor Pearson, taken before: Commissioner Lane, and charged with {llegally registering voters, it béing claimed that the registration books should, under the law, be closed ten days prior to election day. ' THE registration of voters in New York City this year exhibits ‘a total of 216,974 names. The total registration in 1876 was 183,064. e |

THE official returns of the Indiana election show a plurality for Porter for Governor ot 7,557. o '

. . Norelan, c 0 Eriza LiNpsaxTt, the wéll-known German authoress, committed suicide at Cevita Vecchia, Italy, on the 21st. | , “ _ Dr. TANXNER, the faster, has made. arrangements with Dr. ‘Richardson, of London, to fast in that city. He received a cablegram on the 22d from England completing arrangements for a lecture tour there. It was announced from Paris on the 22d that the Bishops of .Volena and Montpelier had been summoned before the Correctional Police for treasonable attacks upon the Government. . ’ ; . Tpe Canada Pacific Railroad Syndicafe has at last signed the formal contract to construct the road within ten years, . - . ; Taur frauds perpetrated by W:‘zr‘sch;a.fsky, the Purveyor to the Russian army during the Turco-Russian war, who was lately placed under arrest, are said to have acgregated the enormous sum. of 22,000,000 roubles. Born, the chief Administrator during the late war, has also been arrested. e TaE Greek Ministry experienced a sudden check on the 22d in the election of the opposition candidate to the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. Subsequently they tendered their resignation.

Tue killing of the I ndian Chief Victoria, with sixty of his warriors and eighteen women and children, and the ecapture of sixtyeight women and children, was communicated to General Hatch on the 22d by the Mexican General Terrasas, who reported thirty of the band still at large.. There were eighteen hundred Mexican and eight hundred American séldiers on the southern border of New Mexico. o . '

BarON BErTINO RECASOLI, formerly Prime Minister of Italy, is dead. . .

" TuE Czar of Russia had an apoplegtic at~' tack on the 24th. -

THE miners in Denain, France, have struck for higher pay. . . ' A SEVERE storm recently prevailed along the Danish coast, and caused great loss of life and much damage to vessel property.

THE St. Petersburg Golos of a recent date says Russia, which usually exports 320,000,000 bushels of grain, will have to import some this year in consequence of the very general failure of the Russian crop. The prospects for future good harvests, moreover, weré not encouraging. An insect, which has defied all efforts to exterminate it, and which has proved the greatest enemy of the- Russian farmers, has made the fields its abode. Being sheltered by the snpows during the winter, it renews its work of destruction each spring. The prospect before the people is anything but pleasant. L

‘A MeEMBER of the British Cabinet stated on the 24th that the Government would stand or fall by its policy with respect to Irish affairs. Its action against the Land League was being severely criticised and many of its warmest supporters were being detached.

'Tue French Chambers have been convoked for the 9th of November. ,

~ A Laxp LEAGUE meeting was held at Galway, Ireland, on the 24th, at which 40,000 persons were present. Parnell and lothers spoke and indulged in violent attacks upon the Government. The remedy for the evils afflicting the country was declared to be the end of British misrule and autonomy for Ireland. 2 1 :

LATER NEWS,

A wipow named Mary Harrington has obtained a verdict under the Massachusetts Civil—Damage- law for $3,400, in a suit for 10,000 against Michael McKellop, a liquordealer of Holyoke, for the loss of her hus: band, who was killed by Michael O’Neil, in a drunken row, liquor being procured in the defendant’s saloon.

» PRESIDENT HAYEs and party arrived at, Shakespeare, N. M., on the 25th, . and -left at once for Fort Cummings. L RoBERT F. JouxsTtox, for twenty-five years: editor of the Michigan Farmer, and widely known throughout the State, died suddenly at Detroit on the right of the 25th. . Rev. H. W. TromAs has accepted the pastorate of ‘‘ The People’s ‘Church,!”” just organized in Chicago. The services will be held at Hooley’s Theater. . '

THE one hundredth anniversary of” the adoption of the Constitution: of Massachusetts was celebrated 'in Boston on the 25th by a display of flags, the deceration of the old State-House, and the firing of one hundred guns on the common. On the front of the old | State-House was displayed the motto: ¢ October 25, 1780.” . : , A BorseN (Prussia) newspaper editor has been sentenced to a fine of 500 marks or fifty days’ imprisonment for having published an article libeling and insulting Prince Bismarck and tending to render that statesman contemptible. L -

PARNELL, speaking at a banquet given in Galway on the 25th, said: “I feel convinced that if ever you call upon your countrymen in America for aid, and show them there is a fair chance of success, you will have their trained and organized assistance for breaking the British yoke.’” " | -ADVICES of the 25th state that cold, wintry weather had retarded the planting of the wheat crop in England. The thrashings during the previous week show that the wheat had been damaged in the stacks by the ex-ceedingly-wet weather of the summer and autumn season, and every day gave proof of the inferiority and shortness of the crop. AT a recent audience the Pope declared that the celebration of the anniversary of the occupation of Rome by Victor Emmanuel was an accursed fefe. o A LoNDON telegram of the 25th says Mr. Parnell and the Land League had decided -to abandon the poliey of exhorting the people. to preserve the peace. Affairs in the south and west of Ireland were in a very critical condition, and agrarian outrages were of daily occurrence. . ’

A rurious fight occurred a few -nights ago in a low den near Camp Sheridan, Neb., where a large number of cow-boys and soldiers had congregated. A dance was in progress, and poor whisky was consumed in large quantities. One man was shot dead on the floor early in the evening, but the festivities were continued until the whole party became involved in a shooting affray. Two men more were killed and several others fatally wounded. , : : L

- OCCURRENCES OF INTERENT. . . s 8 : o - Roasted to Death. i - ' CINCINNATI October 20. A FIRE resulting in the loss of five lives occurred about eleven o'clock to-day in the shoddy-factory of Benjamin Hay, corner of Second and Broadway. The fire cau?ht from greased rags falling upen the bales, and before the engines could be brought. to the gpot the ‘whole building, owing to the inflammable character of its contents, was in flames. Twenty girls and women, under the supervigion ot Mary Foren, the forewoman of the sorting department, were at work in the sorting and storage rooms on the third tloor. These women knew nothing of the prjsence of the fire until one of them saw smoke coming. through the cracks in the floors. | She at once called * Fire!” and started for the staircase in the storage-room. Most of the women at this time were in the storage-room, only eight then being in the sorting-room. The forewoman ran to the door between | the two rooms and told them the building was/on fire, and to hurry ous. Two of the eight immediately followed her, but the other Bix, ;unxious to save their clothing, stopped 1o take off their working drésses and put on those they wore going to and from work. The ‘coustquedce was when '}héy'returued to go down the staircase in the . storage-room - they found the flames had cut them off in that direction. - Then. turning toward the drying-room, all there was found to be in flames.. Their only chance was the windows. Only two of the six reached that point alive, Two, afterward identificd as Mrs. Rachel Doggett and Mrs. Catherine Jackson, were suffocated by the smoke, and fell almost at the thresnold of theidoor through whuich they had in vain endeavored to escape. Two| others, Miss Margaret Welsh and Miss Curran, fell notemore than ten feet from the window which Mrs. Eliza Barrack and Mrs. Mary Lyon reached alive. No sooner were their agonized faces seen at the window than a cry of horror went up from the thousands attracted to the vicinity by the fire. 'A number of citizens hastily rolled under the window a number of bales of rags, and called upon the women to jump. Mrs. Barrack, after turning ber head 4nd looking back at the flames rapidly increasing in volume, stepped upon the window-sill' and leaped down the forty or fifty feet, lighting on the bales, and 1n striking broke her left ankle. She was immediately picked up and carried to a neighboring store, whence she was .sent to the hospital. Mrs. Lyon, after seeing the accident which had befallen Mrs. Barrack, stood still in the window-sill, and, in response to a cry from Oflicer Bu;ke to ‘**Jump, for God’s sake,” was heard to say something which sounded like ‘tNo; no; I cannot.” Then, turning, she rushed back into the flames, and was seen no more until her dead and charred%hody was found lying near those of her companions.

‘The general opinion is that the unfortunate victims are to blame for the terrible tragedy, the statements of the forewomen, many firemen and the girl, Annie Madden (who first gave the alarm on this iloor), being to the effect that they had ample time to escape after the alarm was given. - } L —— | . { A Faithful Messenger. . CHARLIE OWEN, express messenger on the train that was wrecked last Friday evening, was struck between the shoulders by a box, temporarily paralyzing his arms, but .when offered a glass of whisky by the physician he refused, and when the doctor urged him'he again refused. Insisting, the medical man and several others standing near told him he must take it to save his lite. ‘“No, wir!” said the young man, firmly refusing. *“When I went to railroading I promised my mother that I would never touch whisky, and I'll die here in my tracks, gentlemen, before I'll touch it.”” The young man mentioned is a brother of the agent at Knoxville. He is but nineteen years of age, and has been in the employ of the Southern Express Company for a few months only. He has been tried on geveral roads, and on account of his integrity, intelligence and close application to duty has been rapidly promoted by his -route agent to the position of “first class” messenger. He left Lynchinrg September 24 with a heavy “run” of freight and valuables. The entire train left the track near Big Lick, and the express car and contents were crushed and torn to splinters. Chirlie was dragged from under the wreck ecrushed and bruised, and was evidently suffering greatly. His first words were to call for his safe and two boxes of silver. When brought to him he extended his bruised body overthem. and watched his valuable ‘“‘run” through the long hours of the night.—Knoxville (Lenn.) Tribune. e i A Pitiable Sight. |

THE Chicago Times of the 2lst publishes the following .among many other affecting incidents growing out of the loss on Lake Michigan of the steamer Alpena:’ ‘A most pitiable sight is the grief of an aged Englishman named John Osborn, who, with anguish depicted in every lineament of a wrinkled face, has several times within the past. two days’ appeared at the desk of Secretary Wright. The invariable question, expressed in a plaintive tone such as would touch the stoniest heart, is: Anything yet?” Last evening, before the response was given, he turned away, sobbing out: ‘Gone, gone. All gone!” Down with the Alpena went his only son, daughter and two grandchildren. The downward course of his life is dark with clouds of sorrow. One of the affiicted is Mr. William Vandecar. With anxious face he walked into ‘the oflice of the Goodrich Company on yesterday morning, and broke out with the usual ‘Have you heard from the Alpena, sir?’ To the silent shake of the head of the clerk to whom the question was put, heonly said, *She’s gone, then!’ and, laying a paper on the desk, walked away. The slip read: ‘My wife, short, stoutly-built, several rings on her hands. Send me telephone if found. Wm. Vandecar.’” Rev. Farrell Hart and wife, of White Pigeon, Mich., are of the lost. They were on their way to a home in this city, and a peculiar interest attaches to _their death from the fact that they had just been wedded, and were enjoying & bridal trip.” x e | A Remarkable Reunion. JouN AND DANIEL MILLER, twins, were born in Adams County, Pa., in 1816. When they were four years old their mother was left a widow. Being destitute and in ill-health, she was unable to support herself and children. She sent Daniel to live with friends in Washington County. John fouad a home in West'moreland County. Daniel grew up and became a miller. John learned the blacksmith’s trade. They never saw or heard of one another after leaving their mother, and each supposed the other was dead. Over fifty years ago John Miller abandoned his trade and K became a toll-gate-keeper on the Butler turnpike, in Allegheny County. He holds the position still. One day recently, he went out of his house to collgct toll of an old gentleman who was driving through the gate. A neighbor of the toll-gate-keeper stood by. He made the remark that the traveler and the keeper looked enough alike to be twins. This brought about inquiries on the part of the two oM men. The traveler proved to be Daniel Miller, John’s twin brother. He had lived for years in Bradford, but a few miles away from the toll-gate, in another county. This wasthe first meéting of the brothers since they were four years old—sixty years ago. ‘ g @ e WE can't unaerstand why a pretty girl should cover her dress with jet trimming. A pretty girl dazzles enough without any such adventitious aid. ; . . b : RoBERT Toomßs, of Georgia, intends to build a cotton factory worth $200,000 at Washington in that State. e e ————— Bears AwiL—The patent shoe-stitch-ing machine. Bl ‘

- INDFANA STATE NEWS. TaE following table comprises the official and unofficial pluralities on Governor from every County in the State: - . e Porter's Lander’s Counties. : - Maj Maj. AORINE . e s s e LSS Alen: . L 2,504 Bartholomew ... ........ ...... .., 265 Bewtog = o .. ... 9 Bldekford ~. ... . ... .. ... 201 Poone, =.. ... 37 s Brown ..o o 0L 840 Cerroll... L .8 oo il Ll 4 Cfl}f‘s.. . . 1m RIERG o 614 Oy 0 0 e e e 50 chaton ... .. ... ..o 0 L 214 Oantord .@oo 0 i i n L Zis Pavis o 0 o 0 L 27 Desxborn = . ... o 0 L 1,121 Deestar. .0 0. . 18 Delgalb: ... . . ... . "6 Delaware ... ... ../, .. ... 1080 Dubois,. ... .0 . 0. < 1,358 Elmaet. . - 0 58t Favette .5...0, .. .1... ... 515 s oy riloya. . .. .o 0 o 0 962 Youmtasn ... ... ... o 0 15 L L Frapkhn..... .. .. .0 o .. 1,476 ¥plton o .. 00 o L 80 Gibson...- = - .L 0 0 %) Gragb. ... oo e 000 Greelie: . ... Le . 1 e Hamilton. ... .0 .ol ..o .00 1,002 : HMsadock, ... .. ... ... ... ; ... 469 Harrison . ... ... .. .o o 0 - 408 Hendrieks ........ ........... 1.186 Hewbb . .0 o 00 LOE Hownrd ... . .. ... 1064 Huntington........ .. ... ..... 13i o JACGESON ¢ sGI e 1,017 Jagper. i 0 i b s JefterSon .. .. .00 .00 61D Jepnmes. ... . i 8] Johßnson. ... . o, .0 L 0 00l 451 HBox. . ... ... oo s L 802 Kosciisko ... ... ... ....s.co.. (80 Dagrange. . ..........00.. ... .. U 3 Lflke..................?......_... &57 i Laporte -oo oo s 285 ddwrenes. ... ... ... 40D g Madisan ... ol Llia ol LG 739 Mariod. ... ........... ... . 2165 Marshall... ... ... .0 ... ol - 326 Midmi o 0 Lccen it ol 117 Martin. &= .. L 244 Moywroe . . .. 6] Montgaomery ... .........0.... 102 Morgan: ... i ... .o 808 i Newton .. [ ... ..o oAO Noble (... . ... L. 84 ORIO. |OO o 0 il 107 OPRRIPE .00 0 i e 50 Owenm 1 .. 4 Parke | .. ... o D Perry e b L i e 103 Pike . 0 170 Porter .. .o 00 0 R Posey .. o oo s 0 0 419 Palgsicll, ... 30 tatnam . o 0 401 Randolph ... ............. ... 2165 s Ripley. . .. .. il L f 55 Rush .000 oo 810 Beotb: ) .o o s aail L s 351¢ Shelby ol .00 0 e 864 Speraer. . L L e . 58 Btirke 0o o OLo i, > 128 Btidomeph o 00 0 O Steubens. ... 0 0 LUO L Stufitvan: o 0 o 0L 0411 Switzerland.. .. 0.0 .. i HB Tippeeance...... . ...... .. ... 1004 Tipton g 00 Lo POt Uhion -5 .o 0 D L Vanderbure ... . .. ... ... 3580 Vermithon ... ............. ... 3815 Vigo ... 0 0 Wabash .. ..ol el 28 warren | L 0 cle o 808 Wirtiek: =.O s 260 Washinglon. ..o, ... .. oo 0 611 \V-:1.\'11e......'..‘....A......'.....;... 2:987 eooa Wella e | ... - 856 White 100 80 Wihitley s 0. 0000 0l 205

Tatale. ... ..o 0 30,460 23,319 Porter’s net majority..:... ... 7,141 - A cONVENTION has been called to meet in Indianapolis on November 10 of representative of all temperance organizations in the State. The &Bbject is to discuss and agree upon, if possible, -a bill regulating the liquor traffic, which shall bé urged upon the Legislature by the united temperance sentiment of the State. : - |

A FEW mornings ago thieves entered the residence of Jacob Cassel,an old resident and prominent farmer, about three miles west.of Oxford, and, while one of the thieves held a nevolver at Cassel’s breast, the others ransacked the houg‘e, carrying off everything of value that they could find, »An hour -or so later five horses were stolen from stables in Oxford. Four were taken from Jasper McConnell, and C. H. Zets lost one. At Zets’ they took in addition to the horses his delivery wagon and harness. e ' THE other afternoon a farm hand employed on the farm of ‘Daniel Geiger, in Jefferson Township, Whitley County, was instantly killed'by a tree which he was chopping falling on him. The deceased was eighteen years of age. : : . ' .

IN the Circuit Court at Muncie recently Mack Williams, son of * Virginia Bill” Williams, a well-to-do farmer residing in Perry ‘Township, Delaware County, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for highway robbery. On the night of August 14, 1880, Williams shadowed Jonathan McArthur, an old farmer living in Perry Township, from Muncie, and while he was passing through some dense woods, pounced upon and robbed him of his money, amounting to nearly 30 in coin. L - Youne Jim Vogus, the parricide, who so brutally mardered his father in a saloon in Kokomo on the 18th of last June, had a hearing in the Howard Criminal Court on the 21st. He plead guilty to murder in the second de. gree, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. He was spirited awa%“' on the first train for Michigan City, lest the outraged citizens should reverse the jury’s verdiet and make it in accordance’ with the populur ex pression, and hang the wretch without benefit of clergy. GEOORE MESSER while firing a salute on the arrival of Governor-eleet Porter at Madison on the 21st, had both his arms blown off and his eyes blown out by the rremature discharge of the cannon. He was fatally hurt. AT Madison the other day Mrs. Rea, while sitting in front of a fire-place, nursing a young babe, was seized with a fit and threw the child into the fire, fatally burning it. D. M. DE WirT, a prominent business man of Acton, recently committed suicide by taking hydrate of chloral. : Two YEARS ago the Indianapolis total vote was 16,260. This &ear she cast 19,964 votes. roo e

Miss ELLa FrRAWLEY, a middle-aged lady of Lafayette, having come into possession of $2,000, invested her money in a house. and furniture and then developed signs of insanity. P » TaE new Governor, Porter, is a widower of wealth. His only child isa daughter, and one of the prettiest girls in Indianapolis. : TaE Indianapolis grain® quotations are: Wheat, No. 2, Red, 97@98¢c; Corn, 40@40145¢; Oats, 30@3134e. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2, Red, [email protected]; Corn, 43@43%4c; Oats, 33@33%gc; Rye, 89@90c; Bar ley, 90@%0%¢. ;- -

—A singular suicide was that of Asa G. Farnum, a farmer of Tolland, Mass. He left home in the morning with a load of cranberries and potatoes, disposed of his stock, and meeting an undertaker told him that he was soon going to die, and gave directions as to the style of coffin that he wanted. When Farnum reached home in the evening his wife, not expecting him for one or two days, did not have supper ready, and, after some words with her, he went out to the barn. Not returning when called, his son made search and found his father hanging to an apple tree behind the barm, dead. ' :

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

- —*There Are No Birds in Last Year's Nests’ is'the title of a song. Probably not. If it were equally sure that there are no rats in last year's rat txoles the public mind would be more at rest.—Philadelphia Record.

. —The saddest country in the world is . Alas-ka.—Steubenville Herald. Wrong. The saddest country is Wales.— Yawcob Strauss. Wrong again. The saddest country is Si-beria.—Keokuk Gate City. How about Crimea?—Marathon Independent. - ‘ : —There is & man out in Montgomery County who is running for oftice, who wishes that he had been born an octopus 50 that he could shake hands with six. men while he paid for the drinks with , the other two. Two hands, of course, ou understand. There' isn't much .gmmmar in that sentence, we will admit, and yet we are free to say there is a great deal more grammar than there is truth. —Burlington Hawk-Eye. | —A big, fat colored woman came to the Galyveston Chief of Police and told him that her stepson had run away and she wanted to know where he was. “It | bodders me to know why he left. He had everything he needed to make him ‘cumfable. I done all I could for-him,” she observed. ‘¢ Has he any marks by -which he may be recognized?”’ _*Well, . I don’t reckon all de marks I made on him wid a bed slat, while de ole man was holdin’ him, has faded out yit.”— Galveston News. . ;

- —Thefond parentsofthe ten-years-old boy thinkit extortionate on the part of the country landlord to charge as much for their darling’s board as their own; and seeing that the average ten-years-old boy seldom eats more than two plates of soup, three helpings of fish and four of meat, a quart of pudding and half a pie, three saucers of cream, with such trifling additions as sweet and white potatoes, turnips, onions, beets, carrots, cabbage et vd genus omne, with perhaps half a loaf of bread and half a pound of butter the frugal repast! washed down with a pint of milk, it does seem rather hard to place him on a par with grown folks especially as his abstemiousness at meal time forces him to make incessant raids on the cupboard and orchard from morn to noon, from noon to dewy eve.—Zßoston Transcript. , . '

What Constitutes a Fashionable Man of the World.

A fashionable man of to-day dresses very plainly. He wears a morning suit of the roughest possible material. He puts on a frock coat at four p. m., and changes. it at seven for evening dress. He wears no jewelry, except a heavy gold ring on the small tinger of the left hand, w'th one or three stones set flat. The most fashionable stones are cat’seyes and sapphires. Diamonds and rubies are discarded. Nothing is used in the shirt bosom but.a sing?e pearl, black or vink pearls being preferred to white ones. The scarf-pin for the morning must be-a light, fancy one. . the afternoon a big pearl, a clover,drfle ancient engraved stone is required. Extravagance is admitted only in sleeve buttons, which may be of great value, but they must look plain. ! -

In the arrangement of the house the main tendency of fashion is toward pictures and books. Bric-a-brac is being given up, as having been conducive to a vulgar and ignorant craze for collections. _ o -

In France the spread of republicanism has led to an increased civility towards servants. A man does not take his hat off either in a shop or in d7cafe, but he does take his hat off should he meet a lady’s maid or a milliner on the stairs of the house. He is also quite affable with the men servants and has a word or two for every one of those whose faces are familiar. Lo

It is absolutely mawvais genre to talk of money matters, to ask the price of anything without being asked. Thisis a point to which many péople in this country should pay more attention. Thoroughly well-bred men never ask the price paid for a horse or a picture. They admire or criticise it without the slightest references to the price. They also never enter into any kind of bargain with a friend. . Everything that is sold and bought goes through the usual business channels and in the open market. It is very fashionable to be close at bargains. Making numerous purchases, without showing much attention to the price, is regarded as the characteristic of an upstart. It is accordingly considered good taste to make purchases alone, without being accompanied by anybody; for if one has with him a friend, iesgecially a lady, he cannot bargain and has to give the price asked ior‘, however extravagant it may be. P .

The basis of European bonton is to be sought in the system of education through which a man has passed. This has, of course, very little reference to this country. No man is considered a thoroughbred homme dw monde in Europe unless he has a private tutor up to his college years, and terminated his studies either in one of the English universities or with the Jesuits or Dominicans in France. As a matter of course he must be an accomplished horseman, fencer and sportsman and yachting must ke as much of a favorite pursuit with him as lawn tennis and polo.—AN. Y. Sun. i ‘ L

‘—Most people use or hear the words “Mrs. Grundy,” as applied to gossip, and meaning the temale part of society according to fashionable slang, without knowing their origin. ¢ What Mrs. Grundy says'’ means ¢ what the gossips say.”” The original Mrs. Grundy was the wife of President Van Buren’s Attorney General, the Hon.. Felix Grundy of Tennessee, and she ruled aristoeratic society in Washington with a rod of iron. HV;r edicts were law, her presence was indispensable to the success of all fashionable §atherings, and such an authority she became on social topics that the expression ‘¢ Mrs. Grundy says’’ became so common as to outlive her fame. / :

- —Andrew Johnson and his bride were on their honeymoon journey. He a,;oke‘ her in a sleeping car, on the New York Central Railroad and told her to take care of his revolver, as he did not like to have it within reach. She put it into a satchel and fell asleep, to be again aroused when her husband killed himself. L i :

Slang and Bad Grammar.

The number of persons -who habitually use language freefrom slang and bad oramhmar is very small.: And the reason of thisis easy to see.. Those who have never studied grammar of course make havoc of their mother-tongue cohtinually, and very many of those who have’ studied it have studied itas a theory, or because it’s the proper thing to study grammar and not because they wished to ¢ speak and write the English language with propriety.”: Many of those who understand grammar and know theoretically how to use the moods and tenses, afdverbs and adjectives, numbers and cases, are so fettered by habits of incorrect speaking and by the usage of those about them that it is next.to impossible for them to root oyt errors from their speech. We know a teacher of considerable distinction who invariable says, **l doneit,”’ ** They done it,”’ “ We have went,”” and a number of such solecisms, -not because he doesn’t know better but:because he has never taken pains to correct errors, .and/has no kind friend to insist that he should do so, and to help him'in the task., If professional teachers habitually use bad orammar-what can we expect from:puplst,. b ~ Itis not-unusual to hear people who are what are called good Greek and Latin and French and German: scholars use -very “bad English, and- use it too, with a manner as though -they said, *We know well enough ; how to talk, or we might know if we took the 'least pains, but you see we’ve been busy with other stuilies and haven’t had time to bring up our:English.” A Himsy excuse this, certainly. -7 o F R Then as to slang. ‘What a’ vast amount of it-is in.use! Itis the common spice in the talk of those svho decline to use profane expressions. as common as cinnamon or nutmeg in apple pie.. We hear it on the street, in the drawing-room and sometinres in the pulpit. With slang a great deal of dia~ lect talk has become mixed in our-com-mon speech. There is ‘no valid ebjection to dialect talk if we don't have too much of it. We know a teacher whose ‘whole stock of wit was invested in the use of funny negro talk and she carried it so far that she used it unconsciously on all oeccasions and infected the family of the principal of the school ‘in which she was' teaching to such an extent that they insensibly fell into the same habit. Surely there is no beauty in this that one should desire'it. But is no one ever to indulge in pleasantries of this:sort? Neot tosuch an extent as will dull their appreciation of clear, correct, plain English.. 1t is a reproach to us that the purest English is spoken by educated foreigners.” It ‘may be that .even they speak ‘as much slang and bad grammar in their own' tongue as we do in ours, but it is a pleasure to hear from their lips the unadulterated, well composed English that ‘¢ sounds like a book.?? ' ¢ Lo

Many persons haven't the courage to speak correctly when ' those around - them speak incerrectly. It seems like affectation of superiority. As well might one refuse to keep clean in thé midst of dirty people, to keep pure amid vicious. - surroundings,” to ‘keep honest among - thieves. The principle. is ‘ the same. When we set out to attain excellence in any one branch we must of necessity disregard all unreasonable adverse crit-. icism. If my friend laughs at me for being 'a purist in A_speech‘file is welcome to the laugh. I have the best of itin the speech. Any one who really undertakes to weed out doubtful and bad and ‘slang and ungrammatical expressions from his language.can find help at small expense and with little trouble. All our common text books on grammar contain the ordinary solecisms .in - use with their corrections.: Then when one reads, ~careful observation of the. constructions used and the words selected to convey the writer's thought, will be found helpful. Moest eflicient of all aids is'a kind and judicious friend to rebuke errors: and aid in their correction. e . ‘

- Teachers by the ten thousand are now - superintending -the education of pupils. All that these pupils will ostensibly carrvy from them will be crystallized in their speech. A good teacher is a power in the family of every child he teaches. . Through the child he will, ilsensibly perhaps, but none the less surely, reach the parents and influence them to a - greater or less degree. It seems a very hopeless and up-hill task to attempt the reform of an entire neighborhood .in habits of speech, but the. teacher ' who 'can establish habitual . correct speéch in his pupils will inaugurate such a reformation. He may be looked upon by some invidious soul as an innovator, but that should not deter him in his work. The generation to come will appreciate it and be bettered by it. - ¢ o . o . & - Writing compositions, writing for the press, writing letters, all these may be used as corrective of one's errors and mistakes -of various kinds. = What escapes the eyes in manuseript is often glaringly ‘conspicuous in print. For this reason there is no better discipline for aboy or girl than type-setting. The type-setter Tearns spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, expression, all in one lesson, especially if an expert. in these things looks over the ** proof and marks the errors. -~ - '

- Fine langdage, -like fine manners, clings to the educated and refined as closely as his skin, and can no more easily be laid aside.- It may be covered for a time for a purpose, but jt is never laid aside.—N. Y. Tribume. =~

—-The experiments begun ten or twelve years ago for maturalizing in certain parts O_,f'Tn'dia’. ‘the best varieties of the cinchona or Peruvian bark tree have been-attended with the most remarkable success, and there are now in various stages of growth probably millions of cinchona plants already yieldingthe Peruvian bark so plentifully and so perfectly that'the price of quinine has fallen considerably in Ceylon and other parts. There is every probability that in slx or seven years the Indian produc-; tion of quinine will be so large and the price so low that it will become a considerable article of export. ~ -.

—Soft Corns.—Dip a piece of linen cloth in turpentine and wrap ‘it around the toe on which the corn is situated night and morning. The relief will be: immediate, and, after a few.days, the corn will disappear: --~ =