Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 32, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 November 1880 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts. : oL - - Domestic, ; , Tmunmnu'prevails to an alarming degree in various sections of the Union. Wlole families have been attacked at Petersburg, 'Va., and Racine, Wis. . In the latter city four children were buried from one house. ' ACCORDING to statements made in the daily neWspapers manufacturing butter out of lard by means of chemical manipulation has recently become a regular -business in Chicago and other Western cities. .- Two womEeN and three children in Cleveland were recently fatally asphyxiated by the gas from a base-burning stove. AT a conference of magnates representing all the ' Pacific Roads and every Mexican grant conceding a railroad, held in New York’, on the evening of the 18th, and presided over by General Grant, it was unanimously resolved to fuse in one scheme all the interests represented, and a sub-committee was appointed, with General Grant as chairman, to perfect a plan at once. . . Tuere is a fuel famine 'i(n ‘San Francisco, and in some portions of 'Towa school houses have been closed for the lack of something to ourn, o . , ! Turer more of the inmates of the Minnesota Insane Asylum died on the. 18th from the effects of exposure and inhalation of smoke thé night the building burned.. The known deaths from that ' catastrophe numbered twenty-nine up to the morning of the 19th, and eight of the inmates were still missing, and there was little doubt they perished in the flames.. Governor Pillsbury had offered to advance out of his private funds the money required to rebuild the Asylum. . THE report of the Ohio State Board of Ag: riculture for November gives the total amount of the wheat product of. the State for 1830 as 52,522,794 bushels, an average yield of 18 3-10 bushels per acre, The yield for 1879 was 41,053,120, averaging 17 7-10 bushels per acre. TaE exports of breadstuffs from the United States for the ten months precéding the Ist. inst. amounted in value to $231,33%,038. For the corresponding period last year the aggregate value was $208,005,344, the increase for 1880 being $23,332,694. ; TuEe attendance at the Patrons of Husbandry Convention at Washington!on the 18th was the largest in the history of that organization. Thirty States were represented: The officers’ reports show that the association is gaining in numbers and otherwise. Joux SBaureLpt, of North Adams, Mass., was tried about two years ago for the murder of his wife. The evidence against him was not suflicient to convict. . The Sheriff at North Adams hag recently made the discovery that Shufeldt’s wile, for whose ‘murder he had been tried, was alive and well. Tue new census of St. Louis was completed on the evening of the ISth and shows a population of 850,915, a gain of 17,338 over the first enumeration. « | A Norta CAROLINA young lady recently committed suicide because her father was defeated in his race for the Legislature at the late election. ; , e . THE St. Louis Smelting Works were burned a few days ago. Loss about $lOO,OOO. THE Chicago Grain and Provision Exchange, a “bucket shop’ of more than ordinary pretensions, has sustained a loss of about $lOO,OOO on pork and stocks during the last ninety days, and failed on the 19th.. THE census of Philadelphia is officially reported at 846,980, divided as follows: Males, 405,899; females, 441,081;° white, 815,182; colored, 31,798. The colored include 80 Chinese, three Japanese and 25 Indians. BEDFORD AND QUEENAN, c,o]ored, were executed at Washington on the 19th for the murder of George P. Hirth in January last. It is said that these are the first persons ever executed in the District. ' Tue town of Jamison in Plumas County, Cal., was destroyeéd by fire on. the 19th. o A pispaTon was received at the Department of State in Washington on the 18th announcing that a treaty on the subject of immigration had been concluded between the United States Commissioners and the Goyernment of China. In the absence of Secretary Evarts from the Capital the State Department declined to make public the text of the treaty.” It was understood, however, that the Secretary regarded the provisions as highly satisfactory, and as covering the whole subject of Chinese immigration into. this country. y ToERE was a frost in Louisiana on the night of the 19th, which inflicted but slight damage to the sugar erop in the river parishes, but injured the cane im Bt. Laundry. A New Orleans telegram says ghe sugar cr(;p of the State, partially estimated, will be 237,000 hogsheads, an ‘increase of 71,000 hogeheads over 1870. The molasses yield will exceed that of 1879 by 810,000 gallons. - 'WaDE, who was sentenced to be hanged at Indianapolis on the 26th, was granted a respite by Governor Williams until.the 24th of February. His ex¢cution was postponed that he might be used as a witness against his accomplice, Mrs. Brown, the wife of his victim. Four men were killed and four others wounded by the explosion of a mill-boiler at Stevenson, Ala., on the 19th. - Ix a recent foot-race at Brockton, Mass., Kearns, of Natick, and Hoppeng, of Boston, each running half the distance, got over twenty miles in 1 hour 53 minutes 26 seconds, defeating the Englishman, Warburton, who ‘ran the entire distance. L .

Personal and Political. * 1 GoVERNOR Davis, of Maine, has issued a proclamation declaring that 57,015 votes were cast in favor o, and 35,402 against, the amendment to the State Constitution, making only a plurality of votes necessary to elect a Gov-, ernor, and that the amendment has become a part of the Constitution. denn Tur New York Grand Jury on the 17th found an indictment against Kenward Philp for libel against General Garfield. ) Tae official vote of New. York City for President is: “Hancock, 128,015; Garfield, 81,686; Weaver, 610; Dow, 26. Total, 205,337. Hancock’s plurality, 41,329; majority; A 0,693. -Total vote of the city in 1876, 171,091. - SALVINI, the great actor, reached New York on the 18th. - [ e - Tug Alabama Democratic Legislative caucus on the 18th nominated James L. Pugh for United States Senator to fill the vacancy oecasioned by the death of Senator Houston. ~THE official returns in Kansas give Garfield 118,368 votes; Hancock, 58,684; Weaver, 18,945, Garfield’s plurality, 59,684; majority over all, 40,739. For the Prohibition amendment there were 89,072 votes cast, and 82,525 votes against; showing a majority for the amendment of 6,547. e » ’ TreE Grand Jury at San Francisco on the 19th indicted Mayor Kalloch for securing the

appointment of a clerk and demanding and receiving a part if *his salary. , THE vote-of Massachusetts, as officially declared, is: For‘i(}arﬁeld, 165,198; Hancock, 111,960; Weaver,~4,s4B; Dow, .682. Total vote, 282 38S. ?}arﬁeld’s plurality, 53,238; majority over allj 458,008 L GENERAL (}AHLH;LD celebrated the 49th anniversary of hjs birth at the house of his uncle, Thomas [Garfield, "at ~Warrensville, '()hj'o, ‘on the 19111. . It was also the 79th anniversary of the| birth of the %incle. The only participaut{s in the affair were members of the family; -of whom about thirty were present. | . ‘SiGNoR BLI'WL the famous;@v'entri'.()quist and sieight-of-hanid performer, was killed a few days ago by the-accidental discharge of his gun whilce dt&ck-huuting near Little Ferry, N. d. [ \ - ! ‘ Rev. J. HyaTt SMITH, member of Congresselect, Rev. Justin D. Fulton, Rev: Theodore Cuyler and other prominent gentlemen of Brooklyn, N. Y., have signed a petition praying Presjdent Huayes to restore colored Cadet Whittaker to his former position and place, on the ground that no act of wrong-doing has been proven against him. L THE official vote of Oregon gives Garfield 763 majority. L ; Ar the munpic¢ipal election in Chatanooga, Tenn., on the 18th, Hart (Republican) was, elected Mayor by 117 majority. Of the five 'Aldermen elected three are Democrats and two Republicans. . : . TuEe aggregate vote of Wisconsin for President this year was 267,162. Gartield received 144,399; Hancock, 114,653} Weaver, 7,982; Phelps (Anti-Masonic), 913 Dow, 37. Garfield’s plurality, 29,746; majority over all, 21,636. The total vote of the State in 1876 was 207,812, ; : . THE total vote in Virginia at the late election was 212,606. Hancock received 128,586 and Gartield 84,020. : Hancock’s majority, 44,-

0 Forelsn o - Bax DoMiNGo has invited all American Goverriments to contribute toward a monumernt to be erected over the Femains of Christopher Columbus, found there three years or 80 ago. - ! : _ ; Tug Pope has appointed Cardinal Jacobini Pontifi¢ial Secretary of State. e ~Tue schoorner Abraham Lincoln recently foundered off the coast of Liberia, thirty persons‘l?)nding graves in the sea. ; A DuBLiN telegram-of the 17th says there was no cessation of agrarian ouatrages inithat country. Onithat day the owner of anjextensive estat: in County Cork was reported to have been shot. o A TeneraN dispatch received on the 18th sap'é that a great battle took place at Ourmiah on the 13th, the loss being heavy on both sides. The Kurds were repulsed, but burned the village and massacred two hundred citifire . 9 L : THE natives in Northern Cashmere, India, have rebelled. ’ ] . A GaLwAy landlord was recently tarred and feathered by a band of igturiated peas: ants. ) : A LoxpoxN telegram of the 18th says Parnell, the Irish Land agitator, had announced a liberal reduction of rents to his tenants. A Bririsn regiment at Halifax has been ordered to sail for Ireland. - A HEAVY snow-storm prevailed throughout Scotland on the 18th. - . It is stated that the I»ish Land League has converted its funds into foreign securities and deposited them in a Continental bank to forestall geizure. e EIGuTeEN families were evicted from their holdings during a recent snow-storm. at Durham, England., . ! THE statement is made that-since the deposition of Ismail Pasha and the departure of General Gordon the Egyptian slave trade has flourished with all its old-time vigor. Couxt . Karorr, of Vienna, who killed Count Zichy in a duel, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. . o AN explosion of fire damp at Mons, Belgium, on the 19th killed twelve men and injured fifteen others. L TwENTY-THREE lives were lost by the recent foundering of the British steamer Mildred off the coast of Iréland.:

LATER NEWS, ; AX effiploye of a sausage factory at Weehawken, N. J.; was recently caught by the hair in the belt of a fly-wheel, and whirled about until decapitated. { ‘WiLLiam R. GrACE, Mayor-elect of New York City, took the oath of office on the 20th. WASHINGTON telegrams of the 21st state that it had been ascertained that the mew treaty with China is. a modification of that made by Minister Burlingame, and its scope is mainly to restriet. further immigration to this country—an object said to be equally desired by both Governments. It was believed at \Vashihgton’ that the new treaty will satisfy all but the most extreme of the antiChinese element on the Pacific coast. - SECRETARY RAMSEY estimates the expenditures of the War Department for the next fiscal year at $43,627,055. The .Eads jetties in the Missiséippi are pronounced h a success. The expenditures of the Department for the past fiscal were $39,924,773. The Secretary concurs in General Sherman’s recommendation that the number. of enlisted. troops of the line be increased to 25,000 men. DrriNG the week ended November 20 there were distributed 422,987 standard silver dollars. The number distributed during the corresponding week in 1879 was. 8346,491. ‘ IMMIGRANTS to the number of 61,312 arrived in-this country during the month of October. FleLp MARSHAL GENERAL SiR CHARLES YOorkE, a veteran of the Peninsuld and Waterloo, died suddenly in London on . the night of the 21st. He was ninety years old. ONE of the missing lunatics at St. Peter was found on the 20th in a pile of straw in a pig-sty, nearly dead from cold.

THE official vote of Mississippi fér President 'is as follows: Hancock, 75,842; Garfield, 34,844; Weaver, 5,783; scattering, 670. ‘Total vote 117,139. Hancock’s plurality, 40, 19985 majority over all, 34,545. GOVERNOR JAMES D. WiLLIAMS, of Indiana, died about noon on the 20th, at his home in Indianapolis. He was nearly’ seventy-three years of age. He was elected to Congress in 1874 and Governor of Indiana in 1876. } SIR ALEXANDER CQCKBURN, Chief-Justice of the Queen’s Bench,-died in London on the lnight of the 20th, of disease of the heart. ;He Was seventy-eight years old. L - FlvE persons were arrested near Loughrea, Ireland, on the 20th, for aiding in the reinstatement of an evicted family. Land meetings were held at many points in the country on the 21st, the parish priests in many instances taking an active Eart. A. B. MeacnAM, the Ute Commissioner, has been arrested by the atthorities of Colorado as accessory to the murder of Jgckson, the freighter. £ ' DuriNG the past year 60 boarding and 150 day schools have, according to the report of the Indian Bureau, been maintained among the variopns tribes, exclusive of the five classed as civilized in "the Indian Territory. ‘The number of Indians in the entire country is set down at 255,938, over 70,000 of whom are colonized in the Indian Territory.’

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. Ve LS ; Singular Blunders of Letter-Writers. ~ A FORMER clerk in the Dead-Letter Office relates some ‘interesting facts about people who blunder. He says: “A gentleman trav« eling on business sent a letter containing &1,500 to. his wife at home. He sealed the envelope and deposited it in the mail without any address whatever.. After the letter was opened- at the Dead-Letter Oilice we found that he had written but a few lines, announcing his determination to'go South, not mentioning any destination, and signing ‘George.” There wasnoclew to trace the wife and but a slight one to find the writer. After a long search ‘George’ was discovered on the hotel register, the only person out of thirty-two of the sume name who had merecly signed his name without saying where he was from. or whither going. . asE ** Another case, somewhat similar, was the following: ‘A letter was written, dated ' Astor House, New York, signed ‘Chauncey,’ inclosing two thousand dollars to a lady as a remuneration tor the care with which she had treated his parents. The letter stated he was going to Europe. Thelétter wds misdirected and was opened at the' Dead-Letter Oftice. The Postmaster of New York was instructed to make inquiries. at the Astor House for Chauncey, who, after some trouble, was found, and the money returned to him the very alternoon he left for Europe. ’ . “''he following are some of the singular superscriptions on dead letters: : *** Please hand to my mother, and oblige, Maoy * . e ¢ +dal, if you want to hean fror{n ?your bo, you had beiter come and get this letter. **¢ In this letter there is twenty dollars for Bob, and I send it this way so that the Postmauster won't steal it.’ ***Postmasters, please deliver this to the young lady living in the first house beyond the wallet factory, that wears a black dress and sick, white straw hat and brown face-trim-mings. Now don’t make a mistake.’”

. - Crop Report. ’ WASHINGTON, November 18. THE following statement of the condition of corn, tobacco and potato crops was issued today by the I)opu:lment of Agrioulture. - - The crop of cornt shows no increase over that of last year, but rather a slight decline for the whole country. The Atlantic States all show an increase, particularly the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvaniaand Virginia. The Gulf States suffered from drought in the spring and too-much rain during the summer, except the State of Texas, which almost doubles her product. .In the States north of the Ohio River, Ohio and Miehigan increased their yield, while Indiana and Llinois decreased. West of the Mississippi River, lowa a'one increased her yield. On the Paeific Slope California shows an increase. o There was less land planted in tobacco this year than last. The decreasé was principally in‘the States of Maryland and Virginia. In Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin there was a decided increase. Early in the season’ the weather was not propitious, but in August and September it was very favorable. The average yield per acre, as reported November 1, i 8 740 pounds, against 795 last ‘year. The area planted in potatoes was this year about equal to that planted in 1879, but in the total crop there is ('].uite a decline. The yield per acre is reported this yéar at an average of 91 bushels, against 98 in 1879 and 69 in 1878. Only three States—Tekas, Arkansas and California—report an increase in the yield. All others repo‘rt a decline, more or less. Insect injuries sre not of general complaint, but drought is almost universally mentioned. {

Remarkable Memory of an Xldiot. ANidiot who, perhaps, surpasses all rivals in memory, and in capacity to make mathematical calculations in his head, was recently examined before the students of the Medico-sur-gical Academy of St. Petersburg. He is twentyseven years old. In his youth he was noted for his briliiant ability, but was addicted to-the immoderate use of liquors, and led a dissipated life. He was attacked by an acute disease. ‘When he recovered he was found to have lost all his mental faculties except memory: and the power of mathematical -calculation. These increased pr(')portionately as_ his understanding: and power of logical thinking vanished. Now he is a living phonograph and calculating apparatus. In the lecture room Prot. Merjevsky requested him to square numbers containing five or six figures, to extract the square roots of like numbers, and so on. All the questions were correctly anSwered by the patient in a few seconds. No mathematician present could do anything like it. Then the Professor requested some one to read poetry aloud for several minutes, and the patient repeated it as correctiy as a phonograph. The Professor declared to the audience that he was unable to explain this psychical phenomenon. The memory and the caleulating capacity of the patient are still growing, while in other respects heis becoming a more hopeless idiot.

A Terrier’s Fight with an Alligator. AN interestiné fight wag seen at the Water‘Works this morning. Superintendent Hamilton has a small terrier dog that knows every nook about the works and knows where things belong. This morning an alligator got out.of his cage and started for.the river. At the time: the dog was playing along the water’s edge. It saw the alligator as it was about to enter the stream, and immediately comprehended the situation. The alligator was out of its proper plade, but there was no time to give an alarm. The dog immediately started for thescaly trespasser and caught it by the tail. A bitter fight then ensued. The dog attempted to pull the alligator up the bank to its cage. It also appeared to try and give an alarm, but-seemed afraid .to openjits mouth lest its hold would slip and the alligator would get away. At this point in the battle the tide turned. The alligator caught the dog by the neck and gave him ample time and cause to raise an alarm. The dog did so. The men who had been witnessing the affray came to the dog’s rescue. ‘Their appearance frightened the alligator, which released its hold and endeavored to get away. The dog again seized it by the tail, pulled it to the bank, and held it securely until the men could putit into its cage.—lndianapolis Sun. . : Loy

Death of a Negré 120 Years Old. "CLEM CANADA, the oldest negro in Virginia, died a few days ggo at the home of his relat tives, near Guilford, in Loudoun County, Va., at the advancc:ﬁ age of nearly one hundred and twenty-one years. When Clem was middle-aged, ‘»‘about sixty or seventy years, he became the property of Mr. Lee, a wealthy citizen of Loudoun County.” He proved a worthy man and a faithful servant, and enjoyed the fullest confidence of his. master, who frequently int'm_sted him with large sums of money and the transaction of important business missions. At the death of the elder Lee provision was 'made.by will for the manumission of Clem, but, as the latter could not at that time accept his freedom and remain in Virginia, he removed to Pennsylvania, but soon returned to Loudoun, ,and; surrendering himself to the heirs of his late master, he was purchased by Mr. Matthew P. Lee, a son of his former master, for $lOO. He continued in the service of the Lee: family until, by the proclamation of President Lincoln, he was again set free. Had he lived until January, according to a record : still pregerved in the Lee. family, fxe would have been one hundred and twenty-one years old, et e — —The Harvard Divinity School has just received a bequest of $lO,OOO for the education of needy students intending to become clergymen. - ‘ el A : .—Mrs. Abriham Lincoln gets a Federal pension of $3,000 a year. ;

General Sherman’s. Annual Report. ; W ASHINGTON, November. 15. The annual report of General Sherman to the Secretary of War is given to the public to-day. After calling attention to various subordinate reports, the General says: ’ *I agree with General Sheridan that thearmy Is too small in enlisted men to fulfill the heavy duties now imposed on it, and is overworked. K therefore, renew my recommendation of thst year that Congress be asked to give 25,000 “ulisted men specifically to the troops of ‘the ane of the army, and to make a separate provision for detachments ‘of advance men, ‘engineer battalion,” ‘hospital stewards,’ ‘commissary | sergeants,’ *West Point - detachments,’ ‘detailed clerks,” ete., in the same manner as has already been done for the Signal Corps. In this connection I will ven-ture-to call your attention to the fact that the Revised . Statutes, editiopn of 1878, Sec¢. 1,115, detfining the organization of the army, limits the strength to ‘not more than 30,00) enlisted men,’ but subsequent appropriation bills by provisos have limited the expenditures to 25,000 enlisted men. Still the legal strength is 30,000 enlisted men, and that number is the least possible at which we can maintain the present organization of forty regiments in anything like good order, disciplineé and economy, and I infer this end can be reached by simply omitting the provisos in the next appropriation bill. : ; ‘** The prosperous times and easy -financial condition of the Treasury may now enable Congress to provide suitable armaments for the forts which guard the chief hurbors of the country,”’ - . : e _ Speaking of the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads, General Sherman says: - ' ** These railroads have:completely revolutionized our country in -the past few years, and impose on the military an entire chauge of policy. Hitherto we have been compelled to maintain small posts along wagon and stage routes of travel. These are no longer needed, because no longerused, and the settlements which grow up speedily along the new railroads atford the security necessary, and the regular stations built for atorage at convenient <Tistauices afford the necessary shelter forstores, and for the men when operating in the neighborhood. We should now absolutely abandon many of the smaller posts hitherto necessary, and concentrate at strategic points, generally near the National frontier or where railroads ‘interect, so as to send ()Jut detachments promptily to districts wheréemeeded. A * * * * 2 » . !

*ln my judgment the time has now come for the military authorities to select a suitable strategic point for permanent occupation and improvement, wherice detachments can be sent out for special service. As long as we possess and must care for these small posts it -is impossible to abandon them to waste, and we are forced to hold them, but if Congress will designate to the President, the Secretary of War and a Board of Officers the right to sell these posts and appropriate the proceeds of sale to strategic points, I am certain it will result in great economy and enable us to maintain large garrisons with increased discipline and‘better service. For similar reasops and because the commerce of the world is ¢arried on in ships of 3,000 tons and over, and because of the heavy draft of war vessels, most of our-sea-coast defenses are superfluous. We now have 50,000,000 people, and the idea of any hostile force Jlanding: on our coast is preposterous; yet our great commercial ports should be made o safe that even anapprehension of danger would not be felt. Portland, Boston, Newport, New York, Philadelphia, Hampton Roads, Port ‘Royal, Key West, Pen--Bacola, New Orleans, San Diego, San Francisco and Port Townsend should all be properly fortiﬁed and garrisoned. All minor forts should be sold or abandoned. An annual appropriation of $1,000,000 would in ten yéars put these forts in good order, and another.million a year would properly arm . them, and the Secretary of War and President should have discretion in the disbursement of this money.. Artillery officers should also be associated with engineers in constructing; altering and repairing sea-coast defenses, because the men' who have to fight these batteries should have sometﬂing to do in their construction.”™ Referring to the reports of General Schofield and Colonel Getty relative to West Point and the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, General Sherman says: *ln my judgment both these institutions are in as good order as possible, and both are an honor to the country. Educationmustalways _be the surest basis of National security and honor. The education and manly training imparted to young men at West Point have repaid the United States a thousand times their cost, and have more than verified the predictions of General Washington. From time to time periodical complaints have arisen to its prejudice, such as occurred last year in regard to the colored cadet, Whittaker. A thorough, patient, close investigation in the midst of a tumult of abuse resulted in the perfect vindication of the authorities of that Academy. Every cadet at West Point is an appointee of a member of Congress, each member having a cadet of his own nomination there, with only ten. appointed by the President at large. The corps’ of cadets is therefore a . youthful counterpart of our National House of Representatives. The game laws, the same regulations, the same instruction' books, clothing and food are common to all, and a more democratic body never existed on earth than is the corps of cadets. Prejudice is alleged against colored cadets. Prejudice of race is the most difficult to con- - tend against of any in this world. There is no more such prejudice at West Point than in the country at large, and the practice of equality at West Point is in advance of the rest of the country. The authorities at the Academy have no voice in the selection of candidates, and must receive, train .and educate such as are there, regardless of nationality, color, or previous condition. To discriminate in favor of a colored boy by reason of his color is asmuch a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution as to discriminate against him, perfect impartiality being the rule, and that, I believe, the authorities at West Point have endeavored to follow. In this connection 1 desire to state that in my judgment the requirement that all enlisted men of the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and of the Twentyfourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry - shall be colored men, while the officers are: white, i 8 not consistent with the amendment of the Constitution referred to. 'All men should be enlisted who are qualified, and assigned to regiments regardless of color or previous condition, Such has been the law and usage in the navy for years, ana the army would soon grow accustomed to it. No body of men on earth has more reverence for the Constitution and laws than the army, and I pledge my own and the good faith of all in the service to enforce faithfully every part of the Constitution of the United States, and every law made in pursuance thereof. General Schofield is abundantly able to enforce the laws and regulations of’ the academy.” . / . ek The report concludes as follows: *ln conclusion, I beg to state that the en-- | tire army is, in my opinion, as patriotic, as | patient, as willing to encounter danger and hard gervice, as at any formerperiod of our history. The rapid extension of railroads and mails has much improved the general condition and contentment of the officers and men, and.they simply suffer the usual fate of peace in slow promotion and the apprehension of changes which never come. The country is 8o large that regimental transfers and changes are costly, and the consequence has been many regiments have remained longer in remote quarters than seemed fair: but I have endeavored to make the regimental changes as fast as possible, consistent with the annual appropriations.” ; i g ———— e - THE flush times began with Eve's ‘ first blush. :

| INDIANA STATE NEWS. _ 1;\ GEORGH GLASS was shot dead at Madison the other night by George Watson or Fred 'rench. It is allegzed that Glass hurrahed for Jeff Davis, and in the altercation that followed Glass shot Watson in the leg, and it i supposed Watson returned the fire, killing Glass. L , | THE suit of Mary A. Peters vs. Josiah Locke whs decided at Lafayette on the 15th by Judge Vinton. The suit was to set aside a tax sale f«}r alleged illegality. The points of alleged illegality ' were, first, indefinite and insufli-ci;tntvdesch-iption of land in the assessment, notice of [sa’le, and in the sale; second, that owner had plenty of personal property in the counity O\tt of which ‘the—taxes might have been made. It was also averred that the pur. c(h}ase, money and insgrest had been tendered to the purchaser and the County Treasurer, :alixd‘the tender was kept good by bringing the ldoncy 'i.qigo" Court. No deed had yet been made to the purchaser. The Court held the sale invalid, and decreed that the certificate of nurchase be declared void. The right of a purchaser at tax sale who held a deed was nbt passejd upon or affected by this decision. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. |- o Tue Sujpreme Court finds itself in a most etnbarrassing situation, growing out of a rid‘('ulous blunder in the opinion reversing the judgment of death against Mrs. Brown, con‘v%ctcd with Wade of the murd:r of her husband.. The Court reversed the judgment upon the ground that Benjamin Tyner and Jickson Dawson were not competent jurors t&) serve in.thd case, having prejudged the dpfendant upon information obtained by reading the reports of the Wade trial. Exdmination preves that neither Tyner nor Dawson served übon the jury. having been challenzed peremptorily by defendant’s couns¢l a:ter the Court had -overruled a challenge for cause on the ground named by the Supreme Court.. - : g 0 'Tue through express train on the Indianapolis & Bt, Louis Railroad, due in Indianapolis ofi the morning of the 15th, was thrown from the track near Greencastle, and badly wrecked, No one was injured. 'H exity ConLEZ, of Columbus, whose serious condition from the effects of a rat bite about one year_gugo has heen heretofore noted, died a/few dayssince’in great agony. | Goveryor WiLLiams is seriougly ill from ilLﬁummation of the bladder. o

iAT the recent session of the Grand Lod:e I, 0. O: F. the following Grand officers were electcd; |Grand Master, Wm. Cumback, Greensburg; Deputy Grand Master, N. P. Richnond, Kokomo; Grand Warden, S. P. Oyler, Hranklin; Grand "Secrétary, B.” F. Foster, Ituli_mm.polis; Grand Treasurer, T, B laughey, Indianapolis; Trustees of Graud Lodge Hall, J. B. MeChestey, William Wal lace. and A. Metzgzer, Indianapolis; Representatives to Sovereign Grand Lodge, D. W. ]itahn]lette, New Albany, two years; Enoch Cox, Delphi, one year. The work of the order ft)i'f'flm vear ending June'3( is summarized: Number of lodges, 536; number of members, 25404; increase, 7T42; reject ons, 109;" past grands, 8,515; ladjes receiving degrees of Rebekaly, -360; resources of lodges, $1,203 - 103.11; orphan fund, $305,572 04; paid for relief and chdrity, $35094.11. The receipts of the Grand Lodge were $7,274.10; expenditures, $7,693.68; balance on hand, $7),461.71. The assets of the Grand Lodze are $43,261:71. The Grand Lodge Hall fund amounts to $3,929.66. The Mutual Aid Association’s receipts were $15),865.94; expenditures, $106,978.70, of which $96,314.06 were for the benefit on forty-three deaths. Net gain of memnpers.one. o : : .- Rev. C. N. Simg, who has been elected Chancellor of Syracuse University to fill the yacancy occasioned by the election of Chancellor Haven to the Episcopacy, is a native of Union County. Before entering the ministry he served as President of Thorntown Academy, which comprisés his educational experi‘cfmce, although he has ‘been prominently talked of to take charge of Asbury UniMerpdty. b ‘ “ TraMPs sought refuge in the brick schoolhouse No. 1, in Muncie Township, located two miles northeast of Muncie, on the night of the 17th. . By careless handling of the stove, during the| night, the building was fired and burned with all its contents. Loss about $l,ZOO; no insurance. The tramps have not been apprehended. : . WHILE oiling shafting in a saw-mill at Columbia City, the other day, John Brown was &:aught in the fly-wheel and dashed to pieces. | ATTORNEY (GENERAL BALDWIN has appoint‘ﬁ‘d W. W. Thornton, of Logansport, deputy. Traveling deputies to make collections will bot be appointed until after the inauguration of the new State officers. '

- WiLLiam SwmiTH, a painter, was instantly killed a few days ago by falling from a ladder while at work on the residence of Governor [Porter in Indianapolis. - Up to date $332,00C has been expended upon the new State-house at Indianapolis, and it is estimated that work will be ad lvanced hereafter 4t a rate which will involve the expenditure of $400,000 a year for the next three years. | | SCARLET FEVER in its most virulent form has broken out ameng the ‘children in thet&eastern part of the city of Richmond, and is 'spreading rapidly. The death-rate has in‘creased largely with a few days. ' Tue annual report of Trustees and officers .of the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb for ithe year ending October 31, 1880, was filed |with the Govefnor on the 18th. The Trustees | devote most of their space to proving that, ‘under their management, the institution isrun 'very -economically, the -average yearly. cost ‘per pupil having been reduced from $198.89 \in 1877-8 to $154.83 in. 188). The clothing ac- | count was redueed from. $3,698.51 in 1878 to [51,052.97 in 188). The expenses in the past | year were $56,529.41, and $6,332 were covered ‘ into the General Fund from appropriations ‘iand eariings of the pupils. The appropria- | l tion forthe ensuing two vears is recommended at $55,000 per annum, besides a specific : sum for adding to the accommodations which are necessary. During the year there were forty-nine deaths. The present population [is 349. . : . { Tae Indianapolis grain quotations -are: | Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 43@ | 44c; Oats; 31@3114e. The Cincinnati quotagtionS'are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; . Corn, 46@1614c; Oats, 8214@33c; Rye, 92@ | 9214 c; Barley, 95@9%6c. [ WHILE some men were recently at ‘work loading sacks of wheat under a very large tree near Red Blufl, Cal., a large limb of 'the tree dropped where ‘the men had just beenstanding, cutting 3%”.throu%h a number of bagli of wheat asthough it had been a knife. Not a I breaﬁi of air was stirring at the time. i The limb upon examination proved 'sound and firm, and the cause of the o S ‘ | 'occurrence could not be guessed. i

ErLizABETH GREEN, while traveling by rail from Manchester to Bolton, Enland, looked out of the car window. ghe was struck by a passing train, and the top of her head was knocked off.

o e HORRIBLE! . .~ f The Buening of a Portion of thé iliﬁunt Acylum .at 8¢ Peter, Minn - Terrible Fate of S3everai of the Inmates---Appaliing ‘and Heartrending Scenes. - e . St. Fo7n, Minn:, November 16, A bulletin to " she Pioncer-Press, from St. Peter, says: . . & o 0 o : . The number of lives lost by burning and freezing in tue Insane Asylumr are variously estimated from twenty to fifty. Loss on building, $300,000. = -~ A special dated at four a. m., says: ** The scenes at the burning of the south wing of the hospital were heartrending in the extreme. "So appalling a sight. has rarely been witnessed, and, I trust in. God, may ‘mever be again. . The K:xtients in the annex wing were males. lany of them refused to leave the building at all. They ran up and down the halls sereaming and erying and acting like the Bedlamites they were. Of course those who could not be coaxed nor forced out of the building became the unhappy victims of the flames and suffered a horrible ‘death in the pit of -fire, others. were saved by- ladders, and some by leaping from the windows: .some- weré nearly nude, same shocless and hatless, and all were exposed to. -the exceeding cold of the night. Many of the poor, demented and erazed inmates. fled as if for their lives, and could hot be overtaken or confined. Their sufferings in this frightful - condition can better be imagined than described. The whole catastrophe is a fearful one to contemI)lut.o.' and one impossible to describe. The poor, dazed inmates of the asylum who had escaped the tlames were at large half clothed, and ‘were to be seen in' all directions flying in wild fright from those who attempted to save them. The air was bitter cold, and the poor wretches with halfs nakeéd -bodies and bleeding feet were flying about - hiding in alleys and dark corners. It was a sight once seen never to be forgotten. ! “For some time the' capacity of the building has been tried to its utmost. There were: about 600 patients, and every inch of:space was utilized. What will be done with these poor ereatures turned out in the cold, and their malady increased by the excitement; of the occasion, is a “serious question. 'There are two other buildings situated in the town which are used, but they are already crowded to their full capacity. The. asylom at Rochester is full, and ‘will doubtless-be unable to provide accommodations for any of the inmates at St. Peter, turned out in the cold by the terrible catastrophe.” = = Another: spécial - says: ¢ While the flames, were steadily- progressing. the Matron of the female department made all haste to get the inmates out, many of them ran shrieking ® in_-their nights clothes in the snow’ drifts, even burying themselvesin the snow, and had to be dragged “into the barns and sheds. ~while those near. by-wrapped Dblankets and shawls around them. Hence, intense suffering could not be avoided, as they had to’ be taken about fifteen or twenty rods through the snow to the nearest shelter, which was' on the hill immediately in the rear of the south wing.” Yet when we turn to the main apartments our- blood runs cold as we gaze into those. burning walls and realize what. ‘was .the. doom. of more than one poor demented man to-night! “Those who crowded into the long corridors of the south wing stood around there moaning and s_hiverin;_ri like poor dumb’ brutes. The- actual number burned cannot™ be goiten at in any way at the present time, as many, are khown to-have wandered away in the intense excitement that prevailed throughout the whole premises.. Several bodies were taken out of some of the rooms and ‘hails, and several persons taken out = into the . halls seemed determined to return to the fire, like a horsé that is being led from the flames; One room, occupied by two, was broken into, and while one was dragged out the other was determined to remain in his warm bed; and when drageed out insisted on waiting to be "dr'ess'-'ed’. : * The principal cause of delay in getting a stream of water on the fire from the hospital hose was the almost utter ‘uselessness of the hose, from the fact that it had not been‘in use for so -long that it required to be wet from the end with hot water poured on the outside of the hose. -Meantiiie the flames spread very rapidly from the casement, ﬁlli:}% the halls completely full of smoke, a making it* impossible to do -anvthing at saving the inmates of the. north wing, only by putting up ladders and -prying off the fire screens from -the doors, taking them out, -and actnally” bringing them doewn in their arms, without clothing, in many cases. At the other windows there were three or four begging to be saved from death, while the flames were bursting from the adjoining windowsatthem.” 2ieof o 0 = 8 A special from Sft. Peter at 3 p. m. says: *‘lt is still difficult to get at the names and particulars of the awful calamity that came upon us last night, as all is terror and excitement, and the orim ruin and slowly rising.smoke strike ‘the heart as sullen reminders of the shocking fire. To get ata complete list of those killed and hurt is not now among the possibilitiés. I have just seen Dr. Bartlett, of the asylum, and he says there are not more than twelve lives lost, and yrobably as many more hurt and suffering from the bitter cold of last night; _imfeed.,more people are believed to be hurt and- dyipg from exposure to ‘the weather than from burns received. Other people say that as many as twenty insane people either perished in the flames or died on the cold hills: 'duvr..ip%l the night. - So many of the patients have disappeared that it cannot be told who are ‘Eeadfand who TANAWAY. Lo s e

‘« The suffering has been terrible, and no pen can describe it or human mind realize it. Hundreds of the patients are as helpless as children, and are seemingly shocked and dazed so as to render them almost insensible. ‘“The real damage to the hospital building ‘will amount to $200,000. The center %uilding and south wing have been preserved and the ruins of the other portions of the building are being overhauled ‘as fast as possible in the search for the dead. The officers of the institution are making every effort to discover the whereabouts of missin atients and take care of those stiﬁ Egre. Arrangements will be perfected before ni%ht closes by which a% will be comfortably cared for.” 1. GAMRETTA, fearing nicotine poisoning, has given up smoking. = .~