Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 29, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 November 1880 — Page 2

4 ’6 ® ) ! The Zigonicr Banner, =] L J. B. vS'l‘OLL.‘Edltor and Prop'r. JIGONIER. : :’ : INDIANA

NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, Domestic. e THE excess of exports from over imports into the United States of merchandise, stated in specie values, for the nine . months ended September 30, was $73,760,430. The excess in the corresponding nine months of 1879 'was $161,498,336. The excess of imports of gold and silver coin and bullion during the nine months ended September 30, 1880, was $29,529,705; corresponding months of 1879, $25,481,732.. | ¢ : It was stated on the 28th that Sitting Bull ‘had made application to the War Department at Washington for terms of surrender, and that General Terry had been given full power to arrange the terms of the surrender, and to otherwise act in the matter. : ‘Tue Acting Commissioner of the General Land-Office has recently decided that when a person has commenced proceedings for cancellation of homestead entry in order to avail himself of the privileges of ‘the -act of May 14, 1880, helhas acquired such an adverse interest as will prevent contestee from making payment under the act of June 15, 18580, for the land embraced in the homestead; or, in other words, that-the right of entry conferred by said act of .June 15, 1880, is confined to cases wherein the United States and applicant to purchase are the only parties interested. ; . » Tue Chicago Tribune says a careful recapitulation of the ravages of the great storm of October 16 on the lakes shows that upward.of $500,000 damage was done to vessels and cargoes, and that ninety-three persons perished. - There were seventeen <otal wrecks, involving a loss of #153,900, and in all sixty-six vessels were damaged to a greater or less extent. , : . '

JESSE B. ANTHONY, a wholesale coffee and spice merchant of Troy, N. Y., and principal partner in the firin of J. R. Pettis & Co., of that town, manufacturers of Masonic regalia, also & Director in the Union National Bank of Troy, and President of the Troy Steam Heating Company, made an assignment on the 20th ult. for the benefit. of his creditors. The liabilities were placed at $lOO,OOO. On the same day G. W. Hayward & Co., wholesale coffee and dried-frudt dealers of Buffalo, alsomade an assignment, with liabilities of the same amount.‘ Both failures are attributed to the suspension of C. Risley & Co., New York. . IN his annual report the Postmaster-Gen-eral places the receipts during the last fiscal ‘year at $33,316,479.34, and. the expenses at $36,101,820.38. * There are 60,479 hames on the roll of employes. AN old lady named Mrs. Hemphill; eighty years of age,.who was too feeble to help herself, and twg little boys perished in a burning building/at Bridgewater, Pa., on thie 29th ult, : - TWoO PASSENGER 'TRAINS came into collisionon the Pan-Handle Road near Steubenville,. Ohio, on the 29th. ult., and the accident resulted in the killing of James Cunningham, Charles Cunningham, Michael Cunningham and Thomas Langan, who were in the baggage-car of one 'of the trains. Thomas Anderson, one of the firemen, was killed, and John Goudy and George Thompson were slightly injured. None of the passengers were hurt. L : TaE amount of United States currency outstandingjon the 30th ult. was $362,622,835. * CHIEF BrooOKs, of the Government Secret Seryice, returned to Washington on the 30th ‘ult., after an interview with the alleged counterfeiter, Dovle, at Chicago, and reports that counterfeit 31,000 six per cent. bonds, of the issue of 1861, have been hypothecated by Brockway and others, and are now in use as collateral ‘for loans. Mr. Upton, acting Secretary of the Treasury, says there is no reason to suppose any of those counterfeit bonds’ or coupons have been paid by the Treasurer, but that they are a most danger©ous counterfeit, and dealers in Government securities should be on their guard.

Tor Bismarck 7ribune of the BJth ult. had reliableé information from Fort Keogh that at last the Indian warfare on the northwestern frontier was at an end. General Miles’ expedition had been indefinitely postponed and would not be necessary at all. Captain Huggins, of the Second Cavalry, who was sent out by Miles to receive Sitting Bull’s ultimatum had returned with . Spotted Eagle's camp and Rain-in-the-Face, with five hundred and fifty hostiles who had readily surrendered. Sitting Bull sent word to General Miles that he was negotiating, throuch Major Walsh, with some Canadians to exhibit himself in Canada and the United States. ; THERE was a riot of considerable proportions in Bt. Louis on the night of the 30th ult. During some speaking at Lucas Market a quarrel arose between a white and colored man, and the latter was killed. The shot was the signal for turning the market place into a pandemonium, and the negroes drew weapons and fired. Three policemen and two .other white men were badly injured and oné colored man was fatally hurt. ThE following is the President’s Thanksgiving proclamation: ‘ ** At no period in their history since the United States became a Nation has this people had so abundant and 80 universal reasons for joy and gratitude at the favor of Almighty God, or been subject to so profound an obligation to give thanks for His lowing kindness and humbly to imlploro His continued care and protection. Health, wealth and grosperity throughout all our borders; peace, honor and friendship with all the world; firm and faithful adherence by the great body of our population to the principles of liberty and justice which bave made our greatness as a Nation, and to the ‘'wise institutions and strong frame, of Government and society which will per-/ petuate it—for all these let the thanks of a happy and united people, as with one voice, ascc(sjnd"in devout homage to the Giver of all good. ‘ ‘I therefore recommend ,that, on THURSDAY, THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, the people meet in their respective places of worship to-make their acknowledgment to Almighty God for His bounties and His protection, and to offer to Him prayer for their continuance. * In witness whereofd have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. ; : : * Done at .the City of Washington this first day of November, in the ycar of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and-fifth, . R. B. HAYES, “<.¥J the President: : ; ; * WiLLiam M. EvARTS, Secretary of State.” e i : Personal and Political. SARAN BERNHARDT, the distinguished French actress, arrived in New York on the 2ith. Bhe was met by a party of French citizens some distance down the bay and welcomed to the United States, ’ - Bisuor DAGGETT, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his home in Richmond, Va., on the evening of the 27th. Mgs. LiNcoLy, the widow of thelate President, was dangerously ill ‘at the Clarendon” House in New York City on the 28th. SBhe:

arrived from France on the preceding day in apparent good health, and was taken ill immediately on reaching the hotel. : Ix the Christiancy divorce case in the Equity Court at Washington on the 29th ult. an order was entered reducing the alimony to §lOO per month. . Miss Frances E. WiLLAgrD, of Evanston, IIL, was elected: President of the Women’s National Christian Temperance Union in gession in Boston on the 20th ult. Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, of Ohio, was elected Recording Secretary. ' i ' _ * A MR. GEISBLER, a Supervisor of Election, who was arrested by a Chicago policeman while in the discharge of his dutieg,l was ‘ordered released on the 3lst ult. by‘flz}dge Drummond. who held that Federal laws and officers were superior to State or municipal lg#firs,_ ‘and that Marshals and Supervisors could not be arrested by city officers whiie properly discharging their duties. AT-its recent meeting in Boston the Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union adopted resolutions denouncing the sale of intoxicating liquors as a crime which the law should punish, and declaring that a Constitutional amendment prohibiting their manufacture is the only measure which will eradicate the evils of intemperance; expressing alarm at the increased consumption of beer; encouraging the establishment of coffee houses in larze cities to offset the free lunch of beer saloons, with a flve-cent cup of coffee and substantial accompaniments; pledging themselves, as temperence women, to use the edu.cational ballot for the temperance cause in all States in which it is granted. :

}‘ ] - Foreign. : jJ AT a meeting of the Government law:officers in Dublin on the 28th it was decided to arrest the prominent leaders of the Land League at once. It was expected that Parnell and Dillon would be among the first ar- ' rested. . ; ‘THE late Parliamentary election at Oxford, England, has been set aside and the borough disfranchised because of the bribery which characterized the contest. 1t is also stated that the Professors in the University who were conspicuous in the disgraceful ballotings will be dismissed. ‘ -_ .A VERY violent storm raged over the British Isles on the 27th and 28th. In the interior many villages and railroad tracks were flooded and there wete numerous disasters on ‘the coast. Twenty-eight,vessels are known to have been wrecked and thirty-one lives lost. ' ' - - Toe German Diet was opened by a speech from the throne on the 28th. ~ Tue British Government has been advised ‘ of the murder of a magistrate and two clerks while witnessing a war dance in South Africa. There is great excitement not only in Basuto“land but throughout England, and there is a 'general demand that troops be sent to the Cape. ‘ , o Tue inhabitants, of Dulcigno have accupied a bridge that cominands the approach to that city, and declare that they will resist even Turkish regulars. e - Ox the 29th ult. the French police executed the religious decrees against the Capuchins of Marseilles and Perpignon. In Ponnes and Avignon the Franciscans were also expelled. NEWCASTLE, Ont., experienced a brief earthquake shock on the evening of the 3lst it & L ey Rev. MR. DALE, the English Ritualist, has been arrested at Preston, Eng., for. viola.tion of the act governing public worship. A TeHERAN (Persia) telegram of the 38lst ult. says the Kurds besieging Ooromiah had been deféated with great loss, and had evac.uwated the district. : TuE Porte has granted to an Enclish company a concession for a railroad through Syria to India. Four tuousaxp European soldiers have been ordered to the frontier from Capetown. The Potamese are in rebellion as well as the Basttos. - ' Tug Earl of Bessborough, a leading land owner in Ireland, has joined the Land League. : ' : A 'NAPLEs dispatch of the 30th ult. says Mount Vesuvius continued in active eruption, .and streams of lava were flowing down the western side. "

LATER NEWS, . Tur public-debt statement issucd on the Ist makes the following exhibit: ' Total debt (including interest of $18,464,637), §2,112,035,914. - Cash in Treasury, $203,545,486. Debt, less amount.in Treasury, $1,908,490,428. Decrease during October, $7,103,754. = Decrease” since June 30, 1830, $33,681,867. - ULYSSES S. GURANT, JR., second son of the ex-President, and Miss Fannie J. Chatfee, only child of ex-Senator Jerome B. Chaffee, of Colorado, were married in' New York on the evening of thelst. The wedding was private, only the immediate relatives of the bride and . groom being present. . PRESIDENT AND Mis. Haves arrived at their home, Fremont, 0., on the Ist. ; IN the examination on the 28th ult. of Kenward Philp, ‘an editorial writer on the New York Truth, charged with having published a criminal libel on James A. Garfield in connection with the alleged forged Gar-fieli-Chinese letter, a demand for the production of the letter of which a fac-simile had been printed was complied with by Hart, a witness and ome of the publishers ,of Zhuth, on the advice of Philp’s counsel. The envelope was produced on the 29th. .The whole of - that day was occupied in the examination of expert witnesses, who testified that the writing of the Morey-Garfield letter was similar to the acknowledged writing - ot Philp. - A number of Post-office employes testified that the post-marks on the envelope ' were not genuine, and two expert microscopists testified that the envelopes showed marks of erasure. The examination was not concluded. The examination was further continued on the 30th, and additional evidence was given to prove that the Chinese letter was in the handwriting of Philp, and that there was no resemblance between the -handwriting “of General Garfield and that in the letter. On the Ist Abram S. Hewitt testified that in his opinion the Morey letter was in General Garfield’s handwriting. The accused (Philp) then ‘took the stand and swore that he did not write the alleged forged letter, and that he believed the document genuine. The examination was adjourned to the 4th. : e 'AN anti-Chinese riot occurred -in Denver, Col., on the 31st ult., rioters to the number of over 1,000 attacking the houses ? Chinamen, tearing them down and im ng one of the occupants and badly injuring three others. Thirty of the rioters were arrested on the Ist, and the city was patroled by special policemen and deputy sheriffs. One hundred ; and thirty-five of the Chinese were in jail for protection. : o : AN aeronaut named August Navarre mace an ascent near Paris on a trapeze-bar attached to a balloon on the Ist, and when about 1,000 feet high lost his hold and fell headlong: to the earth. The body struck the ground ‘with such force as to make a hole two feet deep and rebounded four yards. It was crushed into an unrecognizable mass. =

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. The Boston *‘Ladies’ Deposit’’ Swindle. TaE Loston newspapers furnish 8 number of interesting details of the * Ladies’ Deposit’* swindle in Boston, and of the so-called President, Mrs. farah E. Howe, that have not been published in the T'imes’ specials. She and her agents have repeatedly. declared that their “bank” was no experiment; that it had been in operation:® for forty years in Alexandria, Va., where it had been founded by capital furnished from time to time by benevolent Quakers anxious to aid virtuous and unprotected women. The object of the Deposit was never to accumulate money, but to benefit humanity, especially its feminioe portion. Consequently, it was as willing to pay ninetyBix per cent. per annum as half a quarter of toat rate. At least threefourths of the depositors are asserted to live out of Boston, and never tee have drawn their interest when it had fallen due, which has materially helped the “bank' .to pay off city creditors. Tae fact has been revealed that a large number of Boston business inen have, singularly enough, raised every dollar they could by selling securities, household furniture and personal property in order to put itin the Deposit. While they:had no faith in its management or ultimate sotvéncy, they were willing to incur the risk, reasoning that, if the establishment should onlylast one year,they would nearly double their capital, and then draw out the whole amnount. The opinion that most of the deposits have been from the middle and lower clasgses is ‘entirely erroneous. Many of the first families in that ¢ity are declared to have intrusted Mrs. Howe with the care of their funds to the extent of from $l,OOO to $lO,OOO each, and to have sustained, us well as the business men, very heavy ‘losses. The house in East Brookline street, where the bank was situated, was most expensively, though tawdrily, furnished. So many costly articles were bought and carried there last spring, at the time of its removal from humbler gquarters, that the whole neighborhood wondered at such luxury. There are, ‘doubtless, various branches of ‘the Deposit, and not a few of the depositors are reported to be residents of this city. Mrs. Howe's record, which has been industriously traced, shows to extreme disadvantage. Her age is given at Bixty, and she is described as short, fat, very ugly, and so illiterate as to be/ unable to write an English sentence, or to gpeak without making shametul blunders. How’ such a woman could have been 80 successful aswindler defies conjecture.—N. Y. Times.

A Remarkable Case. o TRERE died on Tuesday last at Bayview Asylum one of the most singular persons that hasever lived—a female with & woman'’s head and the body and arms ot a child. Visitors to Bayview have noticed this singular case, and it has attraoted largely the attention of medical men. Her name was Kate Dashields. She was received in the old County Almshouse in 1832 with her mother. The latter died of the cholera and the child has been cared for ever since by the city. On the separation of county and city and the erection of Bayview Asylum for the city poor Kate was removed to the latter place. During all the time she has been in the institution her head has grown with each day and year until it be: came the ‘head of a woman, but below the neck nature was at a stand-still. She occupied to the day of her death the child’s chair she occupied when three years old,and slept in the same cradle. Her arms and hands were beautiful, and she would show them with great pride to. each visitor. This vanity was about the only wdfnanly trait she exhibited, and with the exception of being alive to remarks complimentary to the whiteqess and perfection of her hands and arms, she seemed to be insensible 10 all else passing round her. This singular creature was subJject to epilepsy, and this is what caused her wonderful condition. She ato and slept well, and seemed in her usual health up to fifteen minutes before her death, when she was seized with an epileptic fit, from which she never recovered. Katie was forty-eight years of age at the time of her death. Forty-five of these she was cared for at the county Alms Eouse and Bayview Asylum, and it is perhaps attributable to the care and treatment she received in thoseinstitutions that she had survived so long.—Baitimore Gazette. ‘ . Railroad Casualties. e THE Railroad Gazette of a recent date has.a record of 124 accidents during September, whereby 15" persons were killed and 54 injurel.. Eleven accidents caused the death of one Or more persons; 22 caused injury but not death, while in no less than 92 or 3.6 per cent. of the whole number, there apoears to have been no injury. to persons serious enough tor'record. As compared with'September, 1879, there was an increase of 46 accidents; of 7 in the number killed, and of 7 algo in that injured. For the year ending with September the record is as follows: ) e Number : s of Accidents. Killed. Injured. Octoher. .0 o 0 Uk 35 96 November,....... ...... 86 v+ 16 64 Pecember, ;... .l ... .0 B 0 g "2 Japunry: ...l ... .68 11 =BO Febrmlry. .. OoL ca 16 49 MHren o oo L U 0 G 33 Apeile 000 T 11 o 4h MAN L e 40 30 107 GuEe o D 0 15 s SOy o L o K 8 21 100 TUETE i NS R e | 49 214 Beptember ... ...l 124 15 [ 54 otalny ... 00 0990 246 961 Totals same months, Weng. ... . 0 d 200 689 The averages per day for the month were 4.13 accidents, 0.50 killed and 1.80 injured; for the year they were 2.5% accidents, 0.67 killed and 2.63 injured. The average casualties per accident were for the month, 0.121 killed and 0.436 injured; for the year, 0.263 killed and 1,026 injured. i :

Public Recognition of Xerolsm. | {ON the afternoon of- the Seawanhaka disaster, last summer, three boys, Fred H. Wightman, Herbert H. Dean and Edward L. Lamb, were fishing in a rowboat near the float of the Knickerbocker Yacht Club. As they saw the burning steamer coming through the Gate, they sprang to their oars, and rowed pluckily to the rescue. They reached the shore of Ward’s Island just as the steamer grounded, and theirs was the second boat on the spot; the brave boys succeeded in rescuing fourteen persons, among whom was the Captain of the steamer. The matter came to the attention of the Irving Club, an association composed of prominent residents of Harlem, and it was unanimously voted to make a public,recognition of the gallant conduct of the boys by pregenting to them gold medals. The medals are handsome pieces, made by Tiffany. On one side is a representation of the boys in their boat in the act of rescuing a person.. Around this was the inscription: ‘Presented by the Irving Club of New York City.” The reverse side bore the following: *“For bravery displayed at the burning of the Seawanhaka, June 28.”—N. Y. Cor. Utica Herald.

—Thereal name of Powhatan’s daughter was Matoaka. Their tribe: hag a superstition that any person whose real name was unknown could not be injured by an enemy. They therefore told the English that Matoaka's name was Pocahontas. ;

—Miss Nellie Calhoun, a relative of the old Calhouns of South Carolina, will soon make her debut as Juliet in San Francisco. ; :

WHISKY is about the only enemy man has succeeded in loving.

: INDIANA STATE NEWS. g . AT Anderson a few mornings ago James Motto stabbed and fatally wounded his father-in-law, Isaac Cummings, in front of the West~ ern Union Telegraph office. Motto plunged a long-bladed knife into the body of his victim eight times. Thinking Cummings dead, he fled. After a short chase and a desperate 3.:ht he was overpowered and ironed, and brought back to where his victim lay." Cummings said: * That’s the man that dome. it,”” and fell back upon the sidewatk prostrated from the loss of blood. After being safely jailed Motto expressed himself satisfied, but was somewhat sorry thke old man hadn’t been killed instantiy. The facts leading to the terrible affray are substantially as follows: Cummings happens to be the father-in-law of Motto, and has been the main influence in the separation of Motto and his wife. Thinking Motto a disgrace to the family, he worked with his daughter until, finally, she procured ‘a divorce from her husband: This enraged Motto, who swore he would kill Cummings at the first opportunity. - ‘ JaMES M. RAaY' is the only living citizen x¥ho voted at the first election held in Indianapolis in 1322, when he was choseén County Clerk. - - ALBERT STOXE and Frank Dupee, colored residents of Bucktown, fouzht a duel the other day because of some family disagreements. The weapons used were a razor and ' a pistol supplemented with stones. Dupee . was shot through = the lungs and will die if he be not already dead. Stone was horribly carved, 'and he is believed to have been fatally hurt. : SoMe days ago a Logansport hardware store was robbed, the burglar making good his escape, leavinz behind him no clew. The other morning four boys, aged from ten to s'Xteen years, who had been missing from home, returned and said that Ed Sullivan employed them to watch while he was boring through the shutters and then put one of the boys through the opening to undo the fastenings. After securing all the pocket cutlery he could carry away, Sullivan took the boys to St. Louis, where he deserted them.' The boys are connected with respectable fam lies, who were astounded to learn they had been in such business for some time. ; AT Butler, a few days ago, an altercation occurred between Thomas McCurthy .and Frank Lucas, which resulted in McCarthy cutting Lucas’ throat with a razor, inflicting a fatal wound. An old grudge existed between the parties. McCarthy was arrested and lodzed in jail. ; - Tue aunnual report of the Treasurer of State shows a total receipt of &3,130,180.69 from counties for the December and May settlements. The amount is about $120,000 less than it has beén for the past six years. : ALL the bricklayers will be taken from the new capitol at Indianapolis in about two weeks. The carpenters and stone-masons will work on all winter. P ; Frep JAacosy, aged nine years, was killed by a switch encine at the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis yards on the 25th. He was climbing on the cars with some other children and feil beneathg the wheels, cutting off both legs. ‘ THE Secretary of State has com pleted the compilat on of the official returns of the late election and announces the following as the result:

‘ - GOVERNOR. Porter B ... 0 o b 231408 Fandersi .o oo nos L 224 45D Grece - 00 Do g b 14,881 Portens Pluraliby oo o 0 00, c 0.0 ' 76,953 ‘ SECRETARY OF STATE. i HawhoH o 0 0o o, 00229068 Bhanlklm D 0 ae L 221,819 Waßng, N s eao 16,093 Huywh B Plarality, oo 0000 0 0 .00 5188 SUPREME JUDGE. HHhotb M. o 0 cai oo oo s 001 230,881 Seathy B ol o i L 22400 THpeon We o L 0 e i L 1606 vßiMott s Plarality ... ... ... ... ..., 5,85 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Hunna.R..................................229,643 (S D S e s s G L i DuehuelersN. .00000 il L 16,202 Hannms Plurality, - o 0 000 ol 407550 : AUDITOR OF STATE. . ~ Wolla L. o 000 e iL, 220,808 MBUSOR Yel oo b 224 830 Demared. N.O oo ssy 1682 Woltes Plurality, ... .7 .. ... ... 4774 TREASURER OF STATE. - HL R b b 2291985 Blenmngl Dr 0.0 i o b 224088 Ullerye . 0 10 0 . 160346 Hhll e dtharality: o 0 o 0 nlo L BiBEY ATTORNEY GENERAL. . Baldwiny B .. .. 00 L 22906509 Woolen. Do o L A5B Millof NE: . o 0 oo 0 163364 8q1dwm'5P1ura1ity.‘................... 4,754 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. BlogE IRO, i g nen sine L 2200 Goodwinl D, o - nise o n o 2240819 Pleas NG L e e 1673 D Bloss Blurality o 50l 0 il B 8 REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT. lees R & i e 0. 920,680 Martin I s 224eT MarsughbEN .Lel i o L 16i425 Dlees IBirality oo a 8 - CLERK OF SUPREME COURT. . Royse Bl ol 00l o 0229408 sehmue .oL i 22400 8 WeßsEHer Nl e L 15458 Royse s Plurality 0000 00l 000 ... 4,760 JUDGE OF FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Wonds. W o ooires s L 290 839 Mitoßell D Lo e e L 224,613 Bender ING 00l e .. 11856 "Wopdsi Blurslity.. 00l 00l Bl Average Plurality of ticket.............. 5,264 Tue following are official pluralities of the’ Congressmen elect, as indicated by the official returns: First District, - Heilman, Republican, 299; Second Dist_:rict. Cobb, Democrat, 3,767; Third District, Stockslager, Democrat, 4,307; Fourth District, Holman, Democrat, 1,747; Fifth District, Matson, Democrat, 915; Sixth District, Browne, Republican, 9,460; Seventh District, P:elle, Republican, 804; Eighth District, Pierce, Republican, 2,296; Ninth District, Orth, Republican, 802; Tenth District, DeMotte, Republican, 1,018; Eleventh District, Steele, Republican, 533; Twelfth Distyict, Colerick, Democrat, 770; Thirteenth District, Calkins, Republican, 1,164 ; : - SoMeE months ago the Indiana National ‘Bank at Indianapolis cashed a check for a fg'uest of the Circle House, a smooth-tongued rascal named Miller, who was vouched for by the proprietor, Mr. Wilz. The check proved to be a forgery, and Judge Holman has given the bank judgment against Mr. Wilz for ' Tae Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 41@ 4124 c; Oafs, 81@31%4c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, $1.02(1.03: Corn, 43@43'%c; Oats, 33@3314c; Rye, 0@ 9lc; Barley, 90@9 4. -

- —Leprosy exists to a considerable extent in the Parish of Lafourche, La. An attempt to make an official investigation was lateliylr resisted with arms, the lepers and their friends believing that the sufferers were to be isolated on an island in the ocean. The report of the physicians is that the disease is not gaining ground.

- —The fame of French skill in cookery is centuries old, for at the siege of Leith, in 1560, a Gallic cuisinier is said to have made forty-tive dishes from one quarter of salted horse, and ~—'-dis%uised mule meat so well that it was believed to be venison. .

SCHOOL AND CHURCH. —The Methodists have ,ga‘ined during the last four years 117,743 members. —During the present year six new churches have been erected by the Presbyterians in Utah. —The value of the Church property owned by the Baptists of the United Stq.teg, is estimated at $80,000,000. ~ ~—After a delay of nearly three-quar-ters of a century the foundation stone of a University for Siberia has been laid at Tomsk. i L —Mrs. Read, of Wilmington, Del., offers to contribute $15,000 toward an Episcopal Church at Nice, Switzerland, as a memorial to her husband. - —Professor Gilchrist, of the lowa State Normal School, says that co-edu-cation in that institution is ** a decided success,”’ and adds: *“ We experience: none of those dangers which are imagined by its opponents.”’ . —The British Methodist - Episcopal Church of Caunada, a small body with' one Bishop, has united with the African Methodist Episcopal Church ofithe United States, from which itseparated some years ago. ; . —Brooklynites have decided to build a church wherein ¢ the truths of Isra-. el's identity, as found in the word of God, will be persistently advocated.’ Dr. Wild will be installed pastor of the *“ First Identity Church of the World.” —ln England there are five hundred branches of the London Young Women's Christian Association. These branch associations have been useful in helping young women to employmeut and in preserving them from the pernicious effect of bad company. They hold stated meetingsfor prayer and Bible study.

: King’s Mountain. » The people of Charlotte and its vicinity, and, indeed, of all the upper counties of she Carolinas and northwestern Georgia, recently joined in celebrating the hundredth anuiversary of the 'battle of King's Mountain, fought the 7th of October, 1780. ‘ : King’s Mountain was, with the exception of the gallant repulse of the fleet of Sir Peter Parker from Charleston Harbor, in June, 1776, the first victory of importance gained by the colonial forces at the South ‘during a war which had been going on for five years and a half” In the winter 0f’1778 the British overran Georgia and Florida and captured Savannah, which they held to the close of hostilities. The: following spring at Brier Creek on the Savannah, the Southern troops under Lincoln were beaten by the British. General Prevost and lost about two thousand - men. -In June Prevost defeated them again at Stony Ferry, near Charleston. . In' October an attempt of the combined French and American forces to capture Savannah was repulsed with a vigor that broke the attacking army to fragments. Pulaski being among the slain. In May, 1780, Sir Henry Clinton besieged and captured Charleston, making prisoners its 6,000 defenders, and taking 400 cannon and all its provisions and stores. Then he overran South Carolina as he had Georgia and Florida. The entire Southern army having thus disappeared, except for a few hundred. partisan rangers under Maurian .and Sumter, ensconced in the swamps, Washington sent another army . to the rescue, composed of most of his Maryland, Delaware and Virginia troops, und>r Gates; who had the prestige of Saratoga to help him. Cornwallis, with an inferior force, met Gates’ army 4t Camden, in South Carolina, and routed i | : Such was the prelude of King's Mountain. Duaring two years the patriot forces atthe South had been defeated wherever they appeared in the field, except, perhaps, in minor skirmishes. Two armies, the army of Lincoln and the army of Gates, had been destroved; all the chief cities were in the hands of the British, and as much of the interior as they chose to occupy. Cornwallis found nothing more to do with his troops except to invade North Carolina, and deliver it into the hands of -the Tories. While executinz this purpose: he detached Major Ferguson, with a force of about 125 men, in advance, on the same errand. But in arousing the loyalists of the mountain region Corn‘wallis more effectuaily arvoused the patriots. The latter collected from all quarters, to the number of about two thousand, and the best armed and best. mounted half of these undertook to intercept Ferguson. Alarmed at the uprising that officer was hastening to rejoin Cornwallis, who had occupied Charlotte, in North Carolina. Ferguson was overtaken at King's Mountain, an eminence in South Carolina close to the northern border. He had now something over a thousand men with him, mostly recruits from the loyalist inhabitants. These latter seem to have been of little assistance to him, and in a few hours’ fighting on the afternoon of October 7, 1780, nearly the ‘whole ‘body was surrounded and captured, about 450 of-them being killed or wounded. ' The American loss was twenty-eight Killed and sixty wounded: " The action at King’s Mountain, then, was an engagement of a secondary order, the cutting oft of a detached body and not a pitched battle of main armies. Nevertheless it had a vast effect on the conduct of affairsin the Carolinas. It gave a check to that Tory enlistment which was going on with rapidity and threatened to swamp the patriot | cause at the South. It caused the postponement of Cornwallis' plans in North Carolina. . It aroused the mountain regions to take part in the conflict which ad now been brought to their neighborhood. Above aIT, it was the _hgrst; success at the South after years of uniform disaster.—New York Sun.

—Juvenile delinquents in England are now to be whipped in most cases, instead of being imprisoned, and supplies of birch rods are being sent to all the police stations. A physician must always be present at a whipping, a precaution never taken at English public schools of the Eton, Winchester, Charterhouse type, it. may be observed.

—Oyster Pie.—Make a paste as for pie crust, line a shallow pan with it, put in a layer of oysters. seasov with crumbs of butter and salt, add a layer of breaa or cracker crumbs, and so on; then add the liquor and a little milk; cover with crust and bake. : :

'~ MISCELLANEOUS. —~The broad-heel shoe is becoming: fashionable for ladies’ wear.” =~ - -—The missionartes in' China find the opium traflic their chief hindrance. It is estimated that three million people a year perish owing' to their inveterate Labit of consuming this. drug. The city of Ningpo has'twenty-seven hundred opium shops. =~ : —What will be the next device in fashionable jewelry no one can predict. The little gold elephant is now treading upon the Eeels; of the jewel-eved pig; and the spider, with his ‘body of pearls and legs of silver, is crawling in among the latest noveltiés. At L b - —At Rockeastle, Ky., a féw days ago, a clergyman went to the house of one of his breshren to pass the night. He had just got-seanetywhen a hen flew into the house and attempted. to alight on a rifle that hung on the wall. The weapon tipped over, falling onthe lock, _ and was discharged, the ball taking eflect in the thigh of the preacher, and 'Sausing finally lockjaw, from which he lea. . : : e

—lt is said that no rhymes exist in ‘the English language for the words silver, orange, month, kiln, bilge and gulf, and yetin the face of this well‘known impression, the ingenuous, clever and patient puzzle editor of the London 7ruth advertises that he will give £2 2s. to the one who best rhymes the %ireatest number. of the stated words. “‘He calls it a *¢ go as you please’’ rhyming match in which no conditions are laid down, save that the best rhiyme will win. e g Bl G —New-Mexico, however fruitful in natural ‘wonders, has just presented another which is to erown all that have gone before. The city architect, or the official who holds the post correspond‘ing to that in Las Placitas, has made thie marvelous discovery that the pavements ~of ‘the streets contain a very large proportion of gold. The place is constructed on a ledge of rock which it isestimated can be made to yield from $3,500 t 0.55,000 worth of gold per ton. . Th¢ vein is calculated to be eighty-four paces widé by 9.000 feet in length, and if the estimate is borne out by the resultsof the crushing and amalgamation, an enormous- quantity of gold will be extracted from the site of t%le village. - —The correspondent of the London Times accompanying the Montenegrin army writes: ¢ The Montenegrins, instead of being the ruthless savages they have been described, arerough, honest, and ecourageous peéople. - For ruthless and bloodthirsty savages, too, the education of the Montenegrins is very remarkable, as up to quite recent times there were Government schools in-every small "hamlet, and every man, woman and child learned to read and write. Unfortunately, however, the drain on the exchequer has been so enormous of late years through constant wars, conducted nowadays on more expensive European systems, that many of these have fallen into abeyance.”” , . —ln a recent heavy work on primary. education and apprenticeship in France, M. Splicer, a naval officer and cantonal delegate, referring to the distaste for manual work of the children who leavethe elementary schools of Paris, says : ‘“ These little. bureaucrats come to the end of their'school course‘with but one fear before them —that of .being forced to become workmen and workwomen ; and but with one wish—the boys to become clerks, tfie girls shop women. Hence this undefined; uncertain, overstocked class of bookkeepers, cashiers, salesmen, clerks, agents, scorning cap and blouse, and the corresponding class. still more to be pitied of ¢ young ladies,’ of no shop, perhaps, and with the coveted attire, but, alas, how procured !” . —ln an interesting article on Indian transport animals, the London Z7imeés gays: ‘‘Camels. on the march are usually told off'in strings of four, under the charge of one attendant or sarwan. This man should lead the front camel ‘by his nose rope; the nose rope of the second lis- attached to the crupper of the one in front, and so on. The four animals in string cover a distance of about fifteen yar&_é.' If animals can be. trained to follow .their leader, it is far more merciful to attach the leading rope to the head collar than to the nose. When ™ camels..are properly fed 'and looked after they are the cheapest of all pack carriage.” Four good camels, with one attendant, will carry as much as nine mules or ponies with three attendants. and will eat considerably less. If this ‘proportion_is applied to transport. animals by the thousand; 1t will be seen that, assuming equal staying powers and freedom from disease, there is a very great advantage in favor of camel transport.tl oL o o 8 e

The Remarkable Fasting Achievements. » of aCanada Girl. ' There is within a mile of Meaford a young woman whose achievements—not underbaken for the sake of notorrety or profit—are more "a§_tonis'hing than the forty days’ water diet of Dr. Tanner. The young woman is- now under Dr. Maclean’s care, and from him the profession may learn more of the case by and by. About a year ago last February this young woman gave up ‘eating, not. on accoynt of ill-health, but simply because she felt no desire for food, and for: six months thereafter she took albisolutely nothing but a cup or two of buttermilk once or twice a week, with an occasional drink of water.. At the end of six months she began eating and ate regularly - and - heartily. for about six months, when she again repeated her fast of half a year under like circumstances. A little over three weeks ago—not hayving yet broken her second fast —she was p‘%a,eed under Dr. Maclean’s. professionai care, and for nineteen days thereafter, though offered food frequently, but at the same time being carefully. watched, nothing passed her lips but a. cup or two Qf'_colct’iwvater daily., During this time she lost weight at almost ex-. actly a half pound per ‘day. - On Saturday last she was persuaded to eata very little of watermelon, and for the next. three days hei loss was only half a. pound in all. The girl is under themedium height, but when: eating like other people is unusually fat. She now weighs ’e?hty—ni’ne pounds, but is in as ?Qod condition as most girls of her size, ooks and is cheerful, walks about the: house a little weakly, but without as--sistance, and -does some light work.— Meaford (ont.) Monter., -~ o