Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 31, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 November 1880 — Page 2

. . . ) : The Ligonier Bunner. | J. B. S';I‘OLL, Editor and Prop’r. LIGONIER, : -: '« INDIANA

NEWS SURMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts. /. Domestic. . IN his annual report General Pope, commanding the Department of the Missouri, expresses the opinion that there is little ‘probability of trouble with the Utes, the barrenness of their lands keeping away the ‘whites, but rezards the death of Quray as a public misfortune. “The Navajoés are the most formidable, mustering two thousand fighters. The General hopes for an early decision upon the right of white men to settle in Indian Territory. . : MassacHusETTS, according to the official census report, has a population of 1,783,085. The females exceed tle males by 66,044. The number of persons of foreign birth is 443,116, .and there are 19,004 colored . per80NSs. i ) .

By the embezzlements of a cashier named, ~ Berry the Bergen County Savings Bank and the Bank of Bergen County, ' New Jersey, have been forced to suspend. One hundred thousand dollars in funds and securities were - _missing on the 12th, and the dishonest cashier was sick and under guard in his home. "~ ADJUTANT-GENERAL Druy, in his annual report, recommends young men to enter military organizations during their school life. He says that the military duties need not’ necessarily interfere with their “scholastic ,studies, and that the advantages to,themselves and the N®tion from connection with * such organizations would more than compensate for-the time lost. -General Drum alse favors a uniform system of tactics, rules and forms for the regular army and the militia. - Two sMALL children left aléone by their mother in a house on Poplar street, Milwankee, were burned to death on the 12th, Tue Methodist Missionary Committee has fixed the round sum to be raised by the churches at $778,034, including a debt of $112,000, which sum . is divided up among the annual conferences. S :

"AccorplNG to the statistics compiled by the National Cotton Exchange, 1,507,945 bales of cotton of this year’s crop have been shipped from Southern ports or by rail to Northern manufacturing points—an increase of 167,781 bales over the shipments for the same period last year. - . LirE insurance policies in the Michigan Aid Association for &4,000 each, issued to Charles Olson and Olef L. Sanguest, inclosed in a bottle, have floated ashore near Muskegon, and are in possession of Governor Hoit. The holders of these policies resided in Chicago and are known to have been on the Alpena. _ . _ SPECIAL postal arrangements have been made between the United States and France, by which, after the Ist of January, packages of merchandise not exceeding twelve ounces: in weight, and of dimensions not exceeding twelve inches in lencth, eight inches i width and four inches in thickness, can be sent from one country to.the other through the mails. , ' DuriNe the week ended on the 13th there were 415,994 standard silver dollars distributed; during the same period in 1879 the number distributed was 291,499. e Ir is stated that the recent re-enumeratiqn of the inhabitants of St. Louis shows a to&& population of 840,360—an increase of 6,00 over the first gensus. o Tur Chicago & Northwestern Railroad earned last year a net income of $9,405,400. Five passengers were killed and five injured. A SPECIAL-train was run on the Fort Wayne Railroad on the 14th 104 miles in 105 m-fn-utes. . . ’ A “ LADIES’ STOCK AND MIiNiNG ExcraNer” in New York, which has recently collapsed, appears to liave been conducted by a Mrs. Warren on the same principle of Mrs. Howe’s fraudulent Women’s Bank in Boston. A good many women who were foolish enough to invest in it have lost everything. ~ GENERAL Orp, commanding the Department of Texas, reports that nine men were killed and two men wounded and one captured by the Indians since the Ist of October, 1879. The General complains of a large number of desertions from the ranks. IHe recommends that a large force be maintained ‘on the Rio Grande to prescrve order in that . : : - OepEN, Utah, will. have in operation in January, from a flag-staft on the court-house, four electric lights of three thousand candlepower, each of which is guaranteed to illuminate a milein diameter. .° -

- Personal and Political. A CorLumsus (Ohio) dispatch of the 10th states that Governor Foster had received the resignation of James A. Garfield as. member of Congress from the Nineteenth Ohio District.. The Nineteenth District, at the -time of General Gartield’s election to Congress, was not composed wholly of the same territory of which it is now constituted. The writ for an election to fill the vacancy was issued for November 80, and sent to those counties which. composed the Nineteenth District at the time General Garfield was elected, it being held that the territory composing that district has vested rights which cannot be abrogated by an act of the General Assembly. o A NEw_York dispatch states that in an interview with General ‘Hancock, at Governor’s Island on the 11th, the General denied that a letter purporting to have been written by him to an army officer at Washington, touching the New York vote, was written by him, and said that he was one of the few pefsons who could not discuss the Presidential election at the present time without indelicacy. He also said that if there was a letter in existence from him purporting to be of that tenor he was willing that it should be produced. - . L

A NEw York telegram of fhe 11th says that Morey and Lindsay, alias O’Brien, had appeared before the Grand Jury of the New York Court of General Bessions and confessed that they had perjured themselves in the hearing of thePhilp case. Morey was held as a State witness, and O’Brien was indicted for perjury. ' - Wirh the exception of Judge Terry, who ran behind his ticket 205 votes, the Hancock Electors in California have a plurality of 122. : - ; Hox. OrssmMus CoLe has beern appointed Chlef-J'f\stice of the Bupreme Court of Wisconsin, vice Chief-Justice Ryan, deceased, and Hon. J. B. Cassody has been appointed Assoclate Justice, vice Cole, promoted. ' Tue National Democratic Executive Committee issued-an address on the evening of the 12th, denying that they ever took any action In reference to the Morey letter, or even saw it until after its publication. . _ THk official vote of Maryland for Presidential Electors is: Hancock, 93,706; Garfield, J8b615. - -i i

‘Tue official refurns show a total vote in Pennsylvania of 874,783, divided as follows: -Garfleld, 444,704 ; Hancock, 407.428; Weaver, 20,618; Dow and others, 1,983; Garfield’s plurality, 37,3765 his majority over all, 14,625. DRr. JoHN BucCHANAN, of bogus medicaldiploma notoriety, pleaded guilty in a Philadelphia Court on the 12th to the charge of having sold bogus academic degrees. . A 7 thelate election in Nevada, Storey County east 13 votes in favor of and 5,114 votes .against Chinese immigration. - . ‘ | Tug official returns from all the counties ' of Towa foot up as follows: Total vote cast, 328,842—an increase of 30,953 over the vote of 1876. For Garfield, 183,954; for Hancock, 105,928 for Weaver, 33,590; scattering, 470. Garfield’s ‘majority over Hancock, 78,12; over all, 44 066. o ; Tukt Granville (8. C.) Daily News of the 13th publishes a letter from Senator Hampton, in which he says he regards the Presidential election as settled, and . that he should oppose any -action looking to contest on mere téchnical grounds as revolu- , tionary. ! . :-}’ JUDGE Noan fi,\?\'lS delivered a lengthy decision in the Philpforgery case on the 13th. He held that it was fully and indisputably proved that the Morey letter was a forgery; that there was no such person in existence as H. L. Morey or &. 'W. Goodall; that the letter never’ went to Lynn; that the envelope was erased and doctored to make it appear that the letter went there; and thst the writing on the envelope, the body of the letter and the signature were.in the same-handwriting; and further that whoever wrote ‘it was guilty of a malicious libel.. He also held that those .who published the letter, knowing that it was not genuine;-or who had not pretty good evidence of its genuineness, were guilty of libeél. Philp was held for trial on charge of criminal libel. S : Lk

: > Forelgn: - BT. PETERSBURG dispatches of ' the 12th say that all ‘the Nihilists implicated in the plot against the life of the Czar had been convicteds five vreceiving sentence of 'death, eleven of hard labor in the mines from life terms to fifty years, dand three women of penal servitude for fifteen years. . A CoNSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 12th eays the Turks were making extensive preparations -for the expected % war. with Greece, and secret orders had been issued to behead any Greek in Turkey found to be aiding his countrymen. BANK notes of the value of 600,000 francs were stolen from a postman’ in Rue 8t Vinne, Paris, on the 12th. ' - - Mr. WHEELER, who was shot dead in Limerick County, Ireland; was not a land agent, as at first reportéd, but a young farmer: who took land from . which a -family had been evicted. His myurder seems to have been planned with considerable deliberation. The shot was fired from behind a wall after nightfall. o - . Tie Catholic Bishop of Cashel, Ireland, announces ‘that the Irish Bishops will subseribe liberally to the fund for the defense of Parnell and his co-agitators. - : ‘ A scarerry-of food has induced 3,000 citizens to\leave Dulcigno. . ' Tue Persians and Kurds recently fought a great battle near So Uj Balak, resulting in the defeat of the latter. The Persian Com-mander-in-Chief was killed, and a Teheran dispatch of the 14th says that 2,000 bodies.lay unburied on the battle field. = - Tue British Parliament will meet in regular session on the 25th of Janwary. - - ‘ A TeEHERAN dispatch received in Londen on the 14th says great excitement existed in Ourmiah, against the Christians, particularly the American missionaries, for their suppesed complicity with the Kurds. . : Tue Stellarton (N. 8.) codl mine, the scene of the recent explosion, was flooded with water on the i_fith in the hope of éxm’nguish-_ ing the raging fires, bt to no apparent good purpose. Another explosion oceurred about midnight, which blew the roof and gear of the fan shaft high in the air, and on the 14th still another explosion took place. Workmen were engaged all day on the 14th digging a Arench with a view of turning all the water in a neighboring stream into the mine. The loss of life by the explosion was about fifty.

THE Trécent - failure of the two banks at Hackensack, N. J., caused by the embezzlement of the cashier, is the cause of great distress in that community. Barry, the defaulter, has 'been sent to jail charged with the embezzlement of §BO,OOO or more. - GENERAL SHERMAN’3.report to the Secretary of War was made public on the 15th. Among other things, he jrecommends that the army be increased to 30,000 enlisted men, ‘and says that he agrees with General Sheridan in saying that the present army is overworked; he favors providing suitable armamenits for the forts which vuard the chief harbors of the country, and thinks that in view of the extension of railroads in the Western States and Territories, particularly the completion of the Pacitic Roads, many of the minor posts in these regions might be abandoned, and recommends that the soldiers be concentrated at strategic® points along the National front-ier, and at. points Wwhere railroads intersect, so that they could be moved to threatened points at the shortest notice. . CoMPLETE official returns from all the counties in Minnesota make. Garfield’s majority 39,078. - . . o . - Tue sculling-match on the Thames on the 15th between Hanlan, of Canada, and Trickett, the Australian Champion, was won easily by the former. s ; ¢ THE County Cork Land League has urged tenant-farmers to ‘poison all game on their respective holdings. Ll

~TuE Minnesota State Insane Asylum at St. }_ Peter was totally. destroyed by ‘fire on the lv evening of the 15th.. There weére 600 inmates, and it was feared that many of them had l perished in the burning building. ~ THE official count of the vote in Missouri shows as follows: Hancock, 208,589; Garfield, 153,587; Weaver, 85,185; Hancock’s plurality,’ 55,0025 majority, 19,867. ‘Lotal vote of the State, 397,311—aan increase over that of Pty 0 0 ; Tue official count of the election in Rhode Island gives Garfield 18,195; Hancock, 10,778; Weaver, 236; Dow, 20. - i ‘ It was reported on the 13th that Sitting Bull, who had recently evinced a disposition %o surrender, had since bid defiance to the United States Government, and stated that he would fight to the Dbitter end, and that he would die rather than surrender. - ! Tue Agricultural Department issued a statement on the 15th as to the condition of the eotton; wheat and ‘oat crops- throughout the country. In the States bordering on the Mississippi River the cotton crop had suffered. by recentheavy rains, and it would not be as good as last year.. In the Carolinas, Georgia and- Florida the crop promised to be from four 1o fifteen per cent. petter than last year, while in Texas 1t would ibe fully twenty per cent. better. The wheat crop of the country will yield about 31,000,000 bushels more than that of last year. The average yieldper acre was better in Minnesota and Caiilornia, but notso good in other States. ‘The oat crop was ot as good as that of last year. ]

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. _ - . Postal Statistics, ; : . WASHINGTON, November 11. Tae forthcoming report of Assistant Post. master-General Hazen makes an interesting exhibit of the operations of the registry gystem. The total number of letters and parcels registered throughout the country during the fiscal year ended June 30 last was 6,996,513, of which in round numbers 5,230,000 were domestic letters, 450,000 domestic parcels, third and fourth class wmatter, 268,000 letters to foreign countries, ‘8.5.,50 parcels to foreign -countries, and upwards of 1,00),000 letters and parcels of official matter, forwarded for the Government and by law exempt from the paymeént of registry fees. The amount of fees collceted were §395,774, an_iicrease of nearly thirty per cent. ever the preceding year. The increase in the number of letters and parcels registered was 1,567,491. The actual losses of registered matter during the year were 1,118 letters and parcels, which is at'the rate of one in about every 6,200. This is proportionatelyemaller loss than for the previous year. The newly-authorized registration of third and fourth-class mdttér (merchandise, etc.) is reported.to be still attended with extraordinary success; 153,523 pgrcels were registered during the fiscal year at the New York City Post-Office alone. . ‘ | : General Hazen, in view of the factthat most of the- losses of registered matter occur on tistar-service” routes, recommends that mail contractors on.starroutes be held accountable for losses directly traceable to carelessness or other fault of their agents, and suggests that in all contraects hereafter a elause be inserted providing for sué¢h accountability. . ~ Auditor McGrew's report shows the number of domestic money orders issued [for the fiscal vear to be 7,240,537, amounting to $100,352,519, The principal foreign money-order business was as follows: With Great Britain, 116,773 orders issued, amounting to $1,625,943, and 18,012 paid, -amounting to £338,090; Canada, 25, 895 orders issued, amounting to $511,617, and 23,213 paid, amounting to $422,730; Germany, 63,855 orders issued for $1,014,462, and 22655 orders paid, amounting to Slfj:}’:,lz'ifi'. The total .of net revenue to the Gove} nment from the money-order business of thejyear, $262,205.

Singular Cases of .llydrophobla. . A LATE Providence (R. 1.) special to the Now York Sun says: Last Monday a little son of James Molyneaux, of this city, was taken down with symptoms of hydrophobia. On Tuesday the.disease was clearly defined. The child is nine years old,"and had been bitten, as nearly as his parents could learn, some three weeks before by acur on the street. All of the more violent symptoms of hydrophobia set in. His convulsions produced the choking noise that is sometimes likened to thesnapping of a d?g,fflnd there was the attendant foaming at the mouth. While his father and mother were tending him. he bit them both, and it being impossible to care for him at home he wus sent to the Rhode Island Hospital. ~ Last evening Mrs. Molyneaux, the mother, -without the slightest premonition exeepting a fecling of lassitude, was suddenlyiconvulécd., She was sitting at the time with some friends at her residence on' Ship street. The spasms became more violent;, frothing at the mouth and other symptoms that had been noticed in the boy were observed. It was impossible for the friends*to control her. They say she snappedat them whenever they approached, and that this action-caused them to remember that she had been bitten by the little boy Harry. Mr. Molyneaux was away, and the police were therefore notified. An officer cautiously entered the room and approached the bed on which Mrs. Molyneaux was lying. She seemed to have gone there in a moment of temporary relief, but. the moment she saw the officer she sprang at him. The officer for a few minutes had a terrible struggle. .- He could | have - mastered . the woman easily, -but he feared that in the struggle that would be necessary she might Bite him. He seized the bedelothes and wound them in a great bunch around his arms, and thus protected himself. He also shouted for help, and shortly three officers arrived, ‘Mrs. Molyneaux’s house being but a short dis. tance from the station. The officer then, using the bedclothes to protect himself,.forced Mrs. Molyneaux as gently as possible bagk to the bed, and threw the.blankets quickly over her face. In asecond the other officers, with the police surgeon, who had arrived with an ambulance, had secured Mrs. Molyneaux, and she {vas taken to the hospital. Sergeant Runkin, of the police, says he never saw a more terrible sight than was this woman’s condition when they were binding her. He describes ‘her utterances g almost perfect imitations of the growling of & dog, and says she would set her teeth and sfiap as dogs do. The most painful partof it all was that Mrs. Molyneaux scemed fully conscious, and her mental sufferings were gredater than the physical. - Mr. Molyneaux, the husband, who was also bitten by his son, wuas ‘at his place of business, being employed in some capacity at niglit in the steam-mills. He did not know this ‘morning of his wife’s condition; and the officers of the mill were anxious to kecp the fact from him. o ; ; - Some years ago, when there was what might almost be termed an epidemic of hydrophobia in the Connecticut Valley, a man in the last paroxysms bit his attendant. The physicigns watched the attendant for some months, intending to make a carveful - study of the disease, but the attendant was never the worse for the bite. . . :

Curipus Election Bets.' - Tae loser in a Memphis bet is to stand, on his head five minutes, in a public square, with & Garfield banner suspended from his feet. ; e In Oswego, N. Y., a groceryman bet his store against a neighbor’s meat market that Hancock would be elected.” He turned over his wager like a Tman, but the butcher declined to accept it. L | 5 : In Ogdensburg, N. Y., William Alger bet hig’ mustache against A. A. Babcock’s whiskers: that Garfield would not be elected. The other ‘morning he had his mustache cut off and sent to Mr. Babcock. 7 : : George P. Knawls, of Racine, Wis., won from Edwin Childs, of Dakota, one §ection of good farm land, six hundred and forty acres. The bet was $3,000 against a certain described section that New York State would give Gar field from 1,000 to 5,000 Republican majority. A combination bet was made by ten Democrats and ten Republicans in Houston, Tex. The losers were to harness themselves to a ptage-coach and draw the winners through the Pprincipal street.” In both parties were some of the foremost men of the city. i A wheelbarrow bet in Baltimore resulted in more of a show than was expected. The loser: was annoyed, while wheeling the winner over the stipulated route, by the taunts of the latter, and followed up the payment of the wager by whipping him soundly. = ‘Joseph S. Miller and Henry Kleindients, of Rochester, N. Y., bet on the election, the loser to walk a block at noon attired in his wife’s night-dress. Miller lost, and at noon, a few' days ago, appeared and walked in Mrs. Miller’s night-gown, followed by a crowd of men and boys. . e A Harrisburg man was caught by the tricky offer of a wager that one city in the United States of over 100,000 inhabitants would not. give 500 votes for Hancock. The stake was a supper for the Ward Campaign Club of the winner. The city named was Washington, where there i 8 no voting for President at all. The victim gmd nothing, except to name the time and the place for the supper. On that occasion the viands looked.all right, and were | Just such as the written terms of the bet | called for; but they were found to be seasoned with snuff and other unpalatable substances. : Sn o v < e e Tae man whose judgment is biased is prone to have a cross way with him.

. INDIANA STATE NEWS. ' TuEe building, at an early day, of the longage ptoposed Evansville, Seymour & Lake Erfe Railroad, which is to traverse the counties of Vanderburgh, Warrick, Dubois, Orange, - Washineton, Jackson, Decatur, Franklin and Union ig likely soon to be consummated. ‘ , et Joux T. RewArp and Elder A. B. Chase, of Wabash, were examined at Indianapolis on the sth on the charge of ha¥ing voted illegally at the recent election. Both prisoners were released upon the Government's case, ‘the District Attorney admitting that no offense had been committed.' e Jony FisHER, an old Quaker gentleman, voted, in Union on the 2d, his seventeenth Presidential ticket. ~ . ' MArTIN McEvoy, an old resident of the county, fell dead from heart disease at Oxford on the Bih. He had no premonitory symptoms and died instantly. L THE body of Andy Milier,” the seventeen-year-old Sevastopol.boy who was misged from home on the 3d, has been found in a corofield five miles north of Richmond, a double charge of bird-shot in his heart. He had evidently gone hunting and was Treloading the gun after havirg shot a quail, when the hammers caught on a corn-sta.lf( and slipped back on the caps, exploding both barrels-and seuding the contents into his heart. - i Sxow fell to the depth of six incheg at Oxjordon'the6th. 't | 4 L CHARLES J. JONES, a prominent gotel man of Richmond, is missing, and his disappearance is shrouded in mystery. . He sold his half-interest in the Huntington House about two weeks ago, to his brother and partner, Robert, and a week ago did up sl,ooolin an envelope and expressed it to- his wife at Kenton, Ohio, inelosing with itanote saying that he would meet her at Kenton next day. The next morning he started for Kenton, by way of Cincinnati, taking with him between $2,-000-and $2,500 in cash. Since boarding the train all trace of him has been lost. - RENTAL agents at Indianapolis report that there are fewer houses torent at preserit, in that city, than at any time for seven years. This will apply to all classes of “property. Rents, however, afe not more than ‘sixty-six per cent. as high as in 1873. . c HAarrY Yost and Buddy Colling, boys of fourteen years of age, residing at Mitchell, had a quarrel a few evenings ago over sn apple, which resulted in Yost' stabbing €ollins twice in the abdomen and once in the back. e ' = Miss JEANETTE B. PRrESTON, of Greencastle, is announced as a candidate for State Librarian. 1

Tue following is the composition of the next Legisluture: s Senators—Gustavus V. Menzies, Posey and Gibson; William Rahm, Jr., Vanderburg: 7. B. Hart, Warrick and Pike; Henry Kramer, Spencer and Perry; John Benz, Crawford, Harrison and Orange; William A. Trayler, Dubois, Martin and Lawrence; Moses Poindexter, Clark and Scott; E. R. WilsefrrJefterson; Francis M. Howard, Deécatur and Shelby; Suinuel B. Voyles, Floyd and Washington; S. E Urmston, Franklin and Ripley; Levin J. Woollen, Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland; Jason B. Brown, Jackson and Jennings; Richard Ee ‘Coftey, Brown, Monroe and Bartholomew; '+ J. Hefron, Greene and Daviess; F. W. Viehe Knox and Sullivan; Francis V. Bischowsky Vigo; Isaac M. Compton, Clay and Owen; Ol ver P. Davig, Parke and Vermillion; Dani¢: W. Comstock, Wayne; M. C. Smith, Randolp} and Delaware; Eugene H. Bundy, Henry, De'aware and Randolpnh; Charles L. Henry, Gran’ and Madison; Milton Garrigus, Howard and Miami; Henry M. Marvin, Boone and Clinton; Theodote H. Ristine, Montgomery; Arnet R. Owen, Fountain and Warren; Byron W. Langs don, Tippecanoe; George Majors, Benton, Newton uand Jasper; Thomas J. Wood, Lake and Porter; William B: Hutchinson, Laporte; David R. Leeper, St. Joseph and Starke; William H. Davidson, Marshall aiid Fulton; Charles Kahlo, Cass; Warren G. Sayne, Kosciusko and Wabash; David H. \Vhitc,? Elkhart; Henry Hostetter, Lagrange uand Noble; Francis Macartney, Steuben and DeKalb; T'homas J. Foster, Allen; Robert C. Bell, Allen and Whitley; Abner H. Shaffer, Huntington and Wells; Thomas S. Briscoe, Adams, Jay andißiackford; Jacob Keiser, Carroll, White and Pulaski; Flavius J. VanVorhis, Marion; George H. Chapman, Marion; Simeon P, Yancey, Marion, Hancock and Shelby; Simpson F. Lockridge; Hendricks and Putnam; George W. Grubbs, Morgan and Johuson; Robert Graham, Tipton and Hamilton; Jesse J. Spann, Rush, Fayetteand Union.. = Representatives—John Walz, Posey; G. C. Mason, Gibson; John H. Relken, Vanderburg; Jacob W. Messick, Vianderburg: James W. Cabbage, Warrick; Samuel Hargrove, Pike and Dubois; Wilson Huff, Spencer: Joseph F. Snizer, Perry; Hamiiton C. Hammond, Crawford and Orange; Jonathan Hottell, Harrison; Samuel H. Mitchell, Washington; James E. Walker, Dubois and Maxtin; George H. D. Gibson, Clark; David McClure, Clark, ‘Scott and Floyd; Samuel B. Kerr, Floyd; William J. Johnson, Jettferson; Howard Robinson, Ripley; Stephen H. Stewart, Switzerland and Ohio; Edward Jackson, Dearborn; Albert Miller, Franklin: John T. Shields, Jackson; Smith Yawter, Jennings; John W. Buskirk, Monroe and Brown; Joseph Gardner, Lawrence; Clement Lee, Daviess; Enoch Fuller, Greene; Henry 8. Gauthorn, Knox; Charles T. Akin, Sullivan; Jacob P. Mclntosh, Knox, Sullivan and Greene; William H. Melrath, Vigo; Dick T. Morgan, Vigo; George D. Teter, Clay; Bernard Schweitzer, Owen; Ira H. Gillum, Parke; John F. Compton, Vermillion; Henry C. Meredith, Wayne; Halleck Floyd, Wayne; Wm. E. Murray, Randolph; Thomas McSheehy, Marion; Vinson Carter, ‘Marion; James S. Hinton, Marion; John M. Furnace, Marion; Isaac N. Cotton, Marion; Thomas J. Lindley, Hamilton; James G. Miles, Hendricks; David Wilson, Morgan; Wm. H. Barnett, Johnson; Edmund Cooper, Shelby; Morgan Chandler, Hancock; Patrick H. McCo;'mickl, Bartholomew; Stanley W. Edwins, Madison; Isaac Franklin, Madison, Hanicock and Henry; Nelson B. Berryman, Marion, Shelby and Bartholomew; James B. Robinson, Decatur; Jesse W. Smelcer, Rush; James N. Huston, Fayette and Union; William M. Bartlett, Henry; John W. Ryan,' Delaware; Andrew J. Wright, Grant; Daniel Fall, Wabash; Wm. D. Frazer, Kosciusko and Wabash; Nathaniel R. Linsday, Howard; Charles A. Cole, Miami; IThomas M. Hamilton, Boone; Wm. M. Ridpath, Clay, Putnam and Hendricks; DeWitt C. Bryant, Clinton; John L. Wilson, Montgomerys; Willis G. Neff, Putnam; Andrew Marshall, ‘Fountain; Harveiv ‘Wesftall, Tf}ppecanoe; John Kelly O’Neal, Tip{;ecanoe; ohn P. Carr, Benton and White; William W. Gilman, Newton and Jasger:' Thaddeus 8. Fancher, Lake; Samuel S. Skinner, Porter; Eugenius W. Davis, Laporte: Samuel Beatty, St Joseph and Starke; Thomas J. Wolfe,” St. Joseph; Jacob L. Benham, Franklin, Dearborn and R%pley: - Thomas Sumner, Marshall; Simon Wheejer, Fulton and Pulaski: James A. Adrian,'C%ss; Wm. M. O'Brien, Kosciusko; John E. Thompson, Elkhart; John Gregory, Warren and Benton; Oscar B. Ta%')lor. Lagrange; Venorris R. Taylor, Noble; Daniel D. Woody, DeKalb; Lycurgus 8. Neel, Allen; Hiram C. McDowell, Allen; Samuel E. Sinclair, Allen: William Carr, Whitley; Daniel H. Roberts, Steuben; James B. Kenner, Huntington; Benjamin F. Cummins, Wells and Blackford; David F. Kain, Jay, Adams and Wells: David V. Baker, Adams and Jay; Win. H. Weaver, Carroll; Hiram Iddings, Elkhart, Noble and DeKalb; George W. Ham, Tipton. . Tar Indianapolis grain quotations are: ‘Wheat, No. 2 Red, $1.04@!.041{; Corn, 43@ 44c; Oats, 31@31%4c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 46@16'5c: Oats, 3214@33c; Rye, 92@& 92i4c; Ba ley, 95@%ec. ; :

—Justice Smith said on opening his court at Connorsville, Tenn.: ¢ William Henry Smithis arraigned for assaulting his father.” The magistrate had on the prévious day knocked his father down with a club, and it was himself that he wasnow arraigning. He continued: *“The evidence is conclusive, and I’'m not sure but I ou]§ht to send myself to jail for ten days. But, this is my first offence and I certainlf had a good deal of provocation, I will simply impose a fine of ten dollars.” E L —The engagement ring is just now out of style, and the engagement bracelet is the proper thing.

Mexican Railroad Projects. ; President Diaz has signed contracts with two American companies for international lines, one to the Texan frontier and one with. branches to the Pacific, but Congressional action is still needed to validate either or both. : ' The contracts were signed by President Diaz under the act of June 1, 1880, whereby the Mexican Congress empowered the Executive to grant definite eharters for railway construction. The scheme of the system embraces, first, the completion of an interoceanic line from the Gulf of Mexico across the central portion of "the country from Vera Cruz, via the Capitol City of Mexico, to the Pacific coast; and second, an international line ‘opening the channels of commerce by rail cominunication between: that country and -the United States. 'The companies to which the concessions have been made are the Mexican Clentral Railroad Company, a corporation organized; under a charter from the State of Massachusetts, and the National Mexican Railway Construetion Company, a corporation made up of the Sullivan-Palmer party,. which has hitherto been connected with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. The stockholders of the Mexican Central Company are capitalists of Boston, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Buffale and Cincinnati. Thomas Nickerson, of Boston, is President.. He is now the President of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, and is-known as the late President of the Atehison, Topeka & Santa Fe Road. Mr-Rudolph Fink, who is a vounger brother of Pool-Commissioner Albert Fink, and was-lately General Mthger of the Memphisand Little Rock Railroad, has been appointed General Manager of the company, and left to assume charge of the work of construction by the steamer City of Washington for Vera Cruz. ¢ L The Mexican Central Company has been engaged during the past six months in constructing its line of road from the City of Mexico northward to the City of Leon. a distance of 262 miles. Until the new law was promulgated this line was the extent to which the Company had a right to build. The work is now well forward. About thirty-five niiles, from Selaya to Salamanca, are in operation, and the section extending from the City of Mexico to a distance of: about thirty-seven miles is expected to be|, opened about November 27. On November-30 Diaz retires from the Presidency, and every effort is being made:to have the section ready for a formadl inauguration by him before. that date. . ; ' iy

The new concessions gives the Mexican Central Company the rizht to ex‘tend its line from Leon to E! Paso del Nowte on the Rio Grande frontier of New Mexico, where it will meet with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, the Southern Pacific of California, the Texas Pacific, the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio, and the Sonora Railway now being constructed from the Port of Guaymas in the Mexican State of the same name on the Gulf of (‘alifornia. The company is also authorized by this law to construct a line ‘to the Port of Mazatlan on the Pacitic Const, in the State of Sinaloa, from any convenient point on its line from the City of Mexico between the cities of Leon and. Arguas Calientas, passing through the city of Guadalajara. The total mileage thus authorized is estimated to. be about 1,400 miles. The mountain ranges of Mexico extend the length of the country north and south. The north-and-south line is estimated to cost $ll,OOO per mile, but the seacoast branch will be very expensive at the mountain passes. A subsidy of $9,500 per kilometre is granted by the concession to the company. It is payable from six per cent. of the entire Custom House receipts -of the Mexican Government by means of Government certificates. All importers are compelled by the terms of the law to use these certificates in the payment of their duties, to the extent of .six per cent. of the payment, under penalty of twiee that per cent. in cash. For instance, if'the duty is $lOO, then $6 must be paid in certificates or $lO6 will be exacted. The road from Vera Cruz to ‘the City of Mexico, which is owned by an English Company, was subsidized in a similar way, and thus far it has been assisted by the Mexican Government to the extent of about $13,000,000. The lines of the company will all be of the standard-gauge. "To the Ndtional Mexican Railway Construction Company (the SullivanPalmer party incorporated) another concession grants the privilege of build - ing a road from the City of Mexico to the Pacific coast at the port of Manzanilla, passing through the Cities of Toluca, Morelia and Zamora. To aid this line a subsidy of $7,000 per kilometre, equivalent to about $11,200 per mile, is granted. The same cempany is also granted the right to build a road from a point on the above-mentioned line in the State of Michoacan, west of the City of Mexico, northward through the Cities of Celaya, San Luis Potosi, Saltillo and Monterey to a convenient point on. the Texan frontier between Leredo and Eagle Pass on the Rio Grande, where a connection is expected with the International & Great Northern ‘Railroad, now constructing the ‘exten--sion of its line south of Antonio, and with a probable branch from the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antenio Road in its extension to El Paso for a connection withehe Southern Pacific, Mexican Central, Sonora, and other roads. The subsidy to this line is fixed at $6,500 per kilometre. - All the subsidies to this company are payable from the customs receipts in a ‘manner similar to that provided in the case of the Mexican Central-Company, but because the lines are to-be narrow-gauge, only to the extent of four per cent. thereof.—N. Y. { World. -

—An elephant is used in a spectacular play in Philadelphia. He ‘'is kept in a stable several blocks away'an(f taken to the theater every evening at the proper point in the piece. One afternoon' he took it into his head that the time had come to perform. Throwing his keeper aside, he burst into the street, overturned 2 wagon and several street stands on his way to the theater, smashed a door and took his usual place on the stage. The absence of lights and audience seemed to con‘vi’noe'%)i_hl that he had made a mistake and he suffered himself to be led back to the stable.

A Pennsylvania- Bear Story.” Three years ago, sheep, pigs and occasicnally ‘a calf belonging to people living about Guyon Settlement, Warren County; were missed from pastures and pens. Itwas at last discovered that an immense black 'bear made the havoe.. The men of the place went after him with guns and-dogs.. He was hunted for weeks. ‘He was seen several times and- shot at. ~Onece he came suddenly out into a road where George Root was standing, rifie in hand. Root fired and hit the bear. The: bear turned on the hunter. Root -dropped his gun and climbed a tree. The bear waited under the tree for hiy until dark. - It was late in the fall and. very cold. When the bear walked off - into the woods Root was neardy frozen, and had diflicuity in reaching home; three miles away. A week afterward the bear was attacked by two degs that were with a party of hunters.. Before any of the men arrived on the scene both dogs were killed and the bear had disappeared in the swamp. A ldrge steel trap was baited with honey and set in a place that showed signs of the bear’sfrequent presence. The men-'who went to look at the trap next morning.found it sprung. It held the fore paw of ‘a bear. The size of the paw 'i_n(Yicatéd that the' animal to which it had bélonged was of great size. 1t appearéd to have been gnawed from the leg. A trail of blood led from the trap to-the swawmp. That was the last ever seen or heard of the big bear.: L Three weeks ago the sheey, pigs and calves of Guyon Settlement began to be mysteriously thinned out again. One day a bear Wwas' seen to cross the road near the place by some school children. George Watson and. A. R. Root, Jr., took two dogs -and went out with ritles to kill the bear. The dogs struck a track on the mountain in less than an hour-and they came tip to the bear in a very short time. When. Root and Watson arrived they found the dogs engaged in a fight with a very large specimen of the game they were s¢eking.. When the bear saw the men it knockeéd one of the dogs with its fore paw and threw it twenty feet away. - It did not return to the cantest. - The bear then rushed for the hunters. - Root - stopped it. witha ritle; ball. It made a second attack. and Walson_sent-a ball into it. It arose the third time and endeavored to reach the men, who had retreated to a safe distance, but fell after making a few steps-and died. The bear had but three feet. Omne ofits fore paws was missing. For that reason theresidents of Guyon Settlement believe that the dead bear was 'the one that was in the neighborhood three years ago. - The hear was very thin, but was the largest iever killed in that region. In'good condition it would have weighed 500 pounds.— Tidioute (Pa.) Cor. New York Sun.

| TheFooke = o It is the glorions and inexjensive i privilege of birds and most beasts to go ‘ unshod. . The horse is the only exception. Even the horse, in his wild and, as some term it, *‘ natural’’ state, pre- - fers to go -sheeless. Boys. and even girls, ata very early age show' a similar tendency: - The first continement of the foot in Zeather is irksome. - Pride and - vanily at last come to the wearer'sre- ! lief, and ' what at first was deemed a fetter becomes finally a source of delight; and -the wearer is willing to endure misery so that the shoeis a perfect * fit. The natural tendency of the footis democratic. Its inclination is to rebel against the shape given it by the .shoemaker. No matter how deftly fash--ioned, orhow patrician and high arched the instep, nor how smoothly it conceals . the uncouth, knobby and bunioned - foot of the wearer, every boot will intime assume that shape which best suits its. own ease and convenience. Asin all cases of age, wrinkles will appear. The gradual curving fall from ankle to toe will become more or less abrupt or disappear, and a number of hummocky -rilges take its place. The sides lower down will budge out and ‘perhaps slop -over.. The foot may suffer less misery bitt the great object for which boots and sltoes are worn, <. e., to show, or profess t¢ show, shapely feet, is lost. The ctieaper the boot the. sooner does this result. Few boots after being ‘worn retain any dignity of appegrance. Regardthe boots put without the hotel room doors for brushing.—New York Graphic.

A Polyglot Beggar. . . _ Citizens who have had business on . Chestnut, Eighth, Arch and Spring Garden Streets cannot fail to have noticed a German of medium build and middle age, dressed, as a general rule, in lightcolored clothing and wearing ‘a - dilapidated white Derby hat, whose vocation is alms-seeking. = He is a persistent fellow and will not take a rebuft. He has a habit of slidingup to gentlemen beforethey are hardly aware of his presence: and accosting them with ‘“Sprechen sie Deutsch, mein herr?”’ Perhaps iou do and perhaps you don’t. If not he will. try you with,. ¢“ Parlez vous Francaise, monsieur?” Maybe you den’t speak . French and then he' will fire several other langusges at you, which you don’t. understand. At last he says: ¢ Mein : vriend, I speake a leetle English,”” and strikes you for a small amount to help him and his family along. —He is, ac-. cording to his story, a poor working-. man out of employment and sométimes. - a stranger in a strange ‘city. One gentleman asserted‘ yesterday that he had actually been haunted by this. man, as he had been met by -him on ‘seven different occasions in - seven different places on seven successive days and unmercifully assailed with seven different languages. The name of this beggar is Charles Wagner. He was arrested. about a year ago, but was released on promising that he would discontinue his mendicant career. On. Saturday he accosted a gentleman on Chestnut Street and was handed over to the police. When taken before Mag--istrate Smith he said he was a teacher of languages and promised to leave the city if released. V.l‘-)Ie was committed to: the House of - Correction.—Philadelphia.

—A paragraph headed A Lion at: Large,”’ inserted in the papers by the managers of a menagerie, though a hoax, kept the Fopulatibn of avast area in southern London for three -days in a. state of terror and alarm, many of .them. being afraid to walk the roads.