Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 December 1880 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. . e : e Important Intelligence from All Parts, 4 et : Congress. : THE credentials of Thomas C. Manning, of Louisiana, appointed by the Governor of that State to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Spofford, were presented in the Senate on the Tth. Bills were. introduced—by Mr. McDonald, to authorize: loeal taxation of legal-tender Treasury notes: by Messra, Teller and Hill, amending the bill to ratify the Ute ‘agreement; by Mr. Ingalls, authorizing the issue and providing for the exchange and redemption of fractional notes. A resolution was offered by Mr. Wallace .and adopted providing that the Standing Committees as constituted at the last session be revived and continued for this session, and that Mr. Pugh, of Alabama, be assigned to the Flaoos made vacant by the retirement of Mr. ryor, Mr. Blair to take the place of Mr. Ingalls on the Committee on Pensions and of Mr. Sharon on the Committee on Eduecation and Labor, ard Mr. Ransom and Mr. Lamar to exchange places on the Committee on Railroads, thus muking the latter Chairman of that Committee. A resolution, offered by Mr. Ingalls, was adopted calling upon the President for information in rognrd to the threatened invasion. of Indian Territory....ln the House a résoltu.tion, offered. by Mr. Belford, was adopted directing the Secretary of the Interior to inform the House under what law or warrant of authority Douglass, sub-Chief of the Ute tribe of Indians, was confined in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, and what steps, if any, had been takén by the "United States authorities to bring him to ' trial for alleged complicity in the murder of Indian Agent Meeker. Mr. Bicknell called up, as a question of privilege, the Senate resolution relative to counting the IZectoral vote, and, after a lengthy debate, the Speaker ruled that the matter was a question of privilege. Mr. Bicknell then demanded the previous ques‘tion, and, the Republicans refusing to vote, no quorum was indicated. Mr. Bicknell then withdrew his motion - for the previous question, and turther debate followed. MR. MoORGAN presented a Constitutional amendment in the Senate on the Bth, giving Congress authority to make rules for opening the votes of the Electoral Colleges, having them counted by theé two houses, and declaring the result of the election. Mr. Randolph gave notice of a substitute for the bllf for the relief of Fitz John Porter, authorizing his reinstatement in the army at a rank no higher than Colonel, without pay for the period since his dismissal. A bill for the sale of the Fort Larned military = reservation was passed. Mr. Paddock introduced a bill to enable the people of Dakota to form a Constitution and State Goyverament; and for the admission of the State into the Union.,. Mr. McCook (N. Y.) introduced a joint resolution in the House authorizing the President to place U. 8. Grant on the retired list of the army, with the rank and pay of General, a 8 a recognition of his eminent services. Mr. Stone introduced a bill torfeiting the public lands. granted the State of Michigan for railroad purposes. The Bicknell resolution concerning the counting of the Electoral vote was debated at considerable length; Mr. Robeson offered a substitute. providing that the two houses shall meet in joint session, the Vice-President. presiding, and that each house shall appoint two tellers to. make a list of the Electoral votes cast for. President and VicePresident, the result to be announced by the President of the S¢nite, the announcement, together with a list of votes, to be ontered o 3 the journals of the two houses. S MR. PeNpLETON introduced a joint resolution in the Senate on the 9th to -obtain the privilege of opening a highway through Brit-, ish Columbia to Sitka and Fort Wrangell, Alaska. After debate the Otoe and Missouri Reservation bill providing for the sale of the remainder of -the reservation of the confederated.. Otoe and Missouri tribes of Indians in Nebraska and Kansas, and for other purposes, was passed. Adjourned 30 the 18th.... Mr. Kelley introduced a. bill in the House repealing the tax on friction matches and on bank checks; capital. and deposits, Mr. Baker (Ind.) reported the Fortification Appropriation bill,which providels $lOO, 000 for the construction and repairsof fortifications and $£50,000 for the purchase of torpedoes. The day was mainly devoted to debate on the Electoral-vote resglution. } Tae Senate was not in session on the 10th. ....In the House Mr. Hubbell, from the Committe e on Appropriations, reported’ the Pension Appropriation bill, which provides $48,400,000 for. the payment of - army pensions; $1.110,u00 for the payment of nawy pensions; $250,000 for™ the payment of fees to examining surgeons: and $25,000 for the payment. of salavies, etc. Several bills ®of a private nature ‘were passed. Mr. Shelley reported a bill for lines of mail steamers to Mexican and Central and South American ports. 'The Speaker presented a communication from M., Gambetta, President of the . French Chamber of Deputies, in relation to thee xchange of documents. The House refused to consider the concurrent resolution (1)31t lghe Electoral vote, and adjourned to the

, . 1 Domestic, . ; Flve men and a woman were killed and five others seriously injured by the explosion of a saw-mill steam boiler at Wendell, Mass., on the Sth. v JAMES PALvUGHT, an Italian, died in Chicago on the SBth. from trichinw, eaten’ in uncooked sausage. For thirty days he sufféred greatly. His wife, son and two daughters were in dan- | ger of death from the same cause. - -TWO HIGHWAYMEN attacked a stage-coach near Brownwood, Tex., on the nicht of the 7th, robbed the passengers of $165, cut onen the mail-bag, and took $350 from fegistered letters contained in it. ' : TREASURER GILFILLAN recently .received from the Assistant Treasurer at Cincinnati a counterfeit $5O note of the series of 1875. It is well calculated to deceive. e A MANIAC mother, of Marquette, Wis., nearly decapitated her babe on the 9th and then took her own life. / A FEW days ago an express train from New York struck a carriage at Stamford, Conn., killing Miss Harriet Davenport and injuring two other persons. ‘ D THREE negroes who recently murdered Mrs. Kennedy, in Clarendon County, S. C., have been lynched at the scene of the tragedy. DuriNG the .absence of the clerk from a New York drug store a few days ago the porter, Wittenbrink by name, waited upon a customer who wanted epsom salts. The porter gave him oxalic acid in mistake, and only the prompt attendance of physicians saved the life of a woman who used a portion of thé package{; - Wittenbrink was arrested. : -.JouN LyLes recently had a fight with his father-in-law, James Thomas, at Union, 8. C., which r‘ksulted in the death of both. Thomas’ sons, who assisted in- the row, received scalp wounds. . o AT the recent. annual meeting of the National Base Ball Leacue in New York, the championship flag for 188) was formally awarded to the White Stockings, of Chicago. Two MEN were killed 'and several others wounded on the 9th by the premature explosion of a blast in the Forman mine shaft at Virginia fy Ney. o o o . Tar National Council of the Union League -of America, in session at Philadelphia on. the 9th, adopted a report strongly urging the abolition by the Government of the tribal system, and requiring that the Indians be dealt with as individual citizens. 7 Tre anthracite coal interest in Pennsylvania hniagreed to mine but three days in each week this winter. ’ ‘ : Jouyx BTorY, a New York warehouseman, who had been. bitten a few days before by a small fly while handling a bale of Cuban tobacco, from which- the insect came, died from the effects of blood-poison on the night of the Bth. His sufferings for four days previous to his death were terrible.

It was reported on the 10th that the liabilities of /Arnold & Cp., the great. coffee mer-. chants who recently failed in New York, amounted to $2,000,000, with allegzed assets of the same amount. Bowie, Dash & C€o., anpther heavy coffee firm of the same city, eaught in the same lfeal which carried down Arnold & Co.—an attempt to get up a corner on coffee—also suspended on the 10th, with liabilities of £1,500,000. : NEar Huntsville, Ala., on the 9th a party of Deputy Marshals and a Deputy Revenue Collector came upon four illicit distillers for whom they had warrants. Deputy Marzhal John B. Hardiewas{ killed by Jefferson Culbreath, a moonshiner, and Deputy Collector Horace J. Bone was wounded in the side.. A force for the capture of the murderer was im-; mediately organizeq. Commissioner Raum at once ordered the seizure of every-illicit distillery in the district and the arrest of every moonshiner, and the Attorney-General sent similar instructions to Marshals. - THE jury in the case of Dr. Earll, of Chicago, indicted for criminal malpractice resulting in the death of ayoung lady named Etta Carl, after being out several hours, returned a verdict on the 10th of guilty, fixing his punishment at five years in the Penitentiary. 1 Tue Railway Commissioners of Georgia have recently ordered the reduction of fares on first-class roads to three cents per mile. TuE colored emigrants from North Carolina who have gettled in Indiana held a convention at Greencastle on the 10th, and adopted an address urging that one-half the negroes of the South emigrate to Northern s, o Tre Anderson (Ind.) Court-House was destroyed by firec on the 10th. The records of the School Superintendent and of the Sheriff were burned. . i ; o Tue distribution of standard silyer dollars for the week ended om the 11th aggregated $490,997: during the corresponding week last year the amount distributed was $390,984. : H. A.LAtoror’s knitting factory at. Sharon, Mass., was destroyed by fire on the 11th, causing aloss of #34,000. : JAY GouLp’s splendid counservatory at Islington on the Hudson, said to be the largest and most varied in this country, and which contained plants which can scarcely be duplicated for years to cdme, was burned on the- - Loss estimated at $150,000. INn.New York and Brooklyn on the Ilth agents of the Secret Service arrested nine men who had been manufacturing and circulating counterfeit silver coin. They were held in $lO,OOO each. L - A SINGULAR spectacle was witnessed at Hunniwell, Kan., on the 12th.| Payne’s Oklahoma invaders held divine service, conducted by the Colony Chaplain, the officers of the Federal troops participating, by invitation. The meeting broke up with cheers for the star-spangled banner, the President and the cavalry guests. . Fotrr cases of fatal freezing were reported froin New York City on the 12th. : A FEW ddys ago George Scott, a half-breed, was lynched dat Brazil, Ind., by a party of white men for an outrageous assault upon the wife of his employer. Five blocks of buildings in the heart of the City of Pensacola, Fla., being nine-tenths of‘tlhb business portions of the place, were burned ori the night of the 10th. All the public buildings, hotels and newspaper offices were destroyed.. The loss to merchants was very heavy, as they had just received their full stocks. The fire lasted eight hours. The flames might have been checked sooner, but the steam fire-engine, being out of repair, was in the machiné shop. The total loss was placed at over £500,000. : Two pErßsoxs named Ann Higgins, aged seventy-three years, and John Lyons, aged’ twenty-three, were burned to death in a fire in Philadelphia on the night of the 11th. . . JAMES Davis, a Deputy Revenue Collector, was killed, and G. W. Campbell, United States Commissioner, beaten nearly to death, in a fight with illicit distillers, near Cooksville, Tenn., a few days ago. Tue person who set fire to the Madison County (Ind.) Court House at Anderson on the 9th the next night set fire to the Catholic Church g¥ that place, and was detected and arrested. . He confessed his crimes, and said he was crazed by liquor. His name is Frank Moreland, and he is said to be a tramp. - At a fire in a building occupied by the Crown Manufacturing Company, in Cincinnati on the evening of the 11th, five firemen lost their lives by being overcome by smoke.

- Personal and Political. THE Presidential Electors for Georgia, who did not cast the vote of that State on the day appointed by the law of the United States, met at Atlanta on the Bth, the day fixed by the statutes of the State, and. formally cast their eleven votes for Hancock and English. _ GENERAL ORD, on being notified of his retirement from the army, vacated his office at the headquarters of the Department of Texas on the Sth, ordering the Assistant Ad: jutant-General to report to General Sheridan. Tt is said he will go to Megico and live with his son-in-law, General Trevino, Minister of War. CipralN HOWGATE, of Arctic expedition fame, resigned his position in the army on the Bth. ' e GENERAL D. 8. STANLEY has assumed command at San Antonio, Texas. . Tae Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, Va., on the 9th indicted B. B. Foster, James F. Galloway and Samuel Logan, the last named colored, the Manchester (Va.) Judgesof Election, for refusing the right of, suffrage to voters in the Presidential election who presented themselves to vote' with capitation tax receipts alleged to have been illegally issued from the State Auditor’s office. v THE Republicans and anti-Tammany. Democrats of New York have for some time -been arranging a combination to wreck John Kelly, the head and front of Tammany, and on the 10th it was successfully accomplished. Mayor Copper nominated Allen’Campbell for Comptroller, and after a vigorous opposition he was confirmed by a vote of thirteen to eight. Other nominations dividing the chief offices quite equally between the fusionists were quickly approved. v A WasniNeTON special of the 11th states that Secretary Thompson, who had just returned from New York, had decided definitely to accept the Chairmanship of the American Branch of the Panama Canal Company, with a salary of $25,000 a year, and had noti: fied the President of his intention to resign from the Cabinet. L JUSTICE STRONG, of the United States Supreme Court, has resigned and accepted the position of counsel for the Philadelphia & Reading Kailway. . A Five more Election Judges were on the 11th indicted by the: Grand Jury of the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, Va. e <ol s ‘ Foreign. Ax evidently-inspired article in the St. ‘Petersburg Journal of the Bth pledges to the Liberals of England the sympathy of Russia. - Ox the Bth. Dillon, Biggar and other Land Leaguers telegraphed to Secretary Forster that Lord Rossmore had reached Enniskillen with troops, intending to attack those atterd-

ing the land meetings, and demanded proteotion from the Government. = - It was announced from Paris on the 9th that Spain had taken 50,000 shares in the De‘Lesseps’ Panama Canal enterprise. Mg. FORSTER, Chief Secretary for Ireland, on the 9th issucd a memorandum to magistrates pointing out their duties under the unsettled condition of things. A Dublin dispatch of the 9th says the officials, agents and landlords dare not enforce the law. : A Pagris dispatch of the 9th announces that the Porte had ceded the Island of Crete to Germany. — THe Grand Jury at Cork hasindicted Healy and Walsh for intimidating Farmer Manning: e . FLOGGING in the British navy, the Lords of the Admiralty say, must henceforth cease. TrE Bank of Edngland has raised the rate of discount to three "pt‘zr cent., its purpose being to stop gold exportation to the United States. : e : A CoNSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the 10th says the Porte had threatened to break off negotiations with Greece unless she accepted the proposal that Janina, Metzora and Larissa should ‘rema n Turkish territory. The Greek Premier had declared that no negotiations were possible. : - A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the 10th says that Russia contemplated the construection of an iron-clad of 12,000 tons burden. - LorD GRANVILLE, the British Minister of Foreign Affairs, has written a ‘letter to United States Minister Lowell, in which he admits that the destruction of the nets of American fishermen in Fortune Bay, off Newfoundland, was utterly indefensible, and c%xprgsses a willingness to make suitable reparation. ) ' A MADRID journal of the 10th says that, if the United States will reduce its duties on Cuban sugar and Spanish fruit, Spain will take similar action on American cereals and flour. - ' Tue Governor of Albania is taking steps to disarm the people, and has compelléd the leaders of the Albanian League to pledge obedience to the Sultan. - ‘ 3 A MoNTREAL (Can.) 'dispatch of the 10th says a number of members of the Jesuit Order, recently expelled from France, had arrived in that city. : r . A Paris dispatch of the 10th says there had ‘béen 1,200,000 applications for the 590,000 shares in the Panama C anal scheme. A DusLix dispatch of the 10th says Judge Fitzgerald had received a letter threatening him with death unless he charged fairly in the Limerick cases. : ‘ AN explosion in the Penygrieg colliery in “Wales, early on' the morning of the 10th, shook the ground for miles aroupd. Over eighty miners perished. Four men were rescued, but thirty-four corpses were discovered by an exploring party. e o “Tue British Geographical Society is preparing for an Arctic expedition by way of Franz Josef Land. . ‘ g :

Excrisn fammers to the number of 1,430 went into bankruptey last year. A LAND. meeting was held at Ballinai, Ireland, on the 12th at which resolutions werr passed protesting against = Chief-Justice May’s presiding at the trials of the indicted Leaguers. _ ‘ ] THe Brazilian Senate hLas passed a bill opening the Chamber to Protestants, naturalized foreigners and freedmen. = LaTe Chilian advices announce that'seventeen transports carrying 9,000 men had’sailed to attack Lima. - : Tur death of Mme. Thiers, widow of the late President of the French Republie, occurred at Paris on the 12th. ‘ ExGLAND is forwarding troops to Basutojand, where the rebellion has assumed a serious phase. : { A scunoow -at Lennoxville, P. Q., has been recently closed on account of typhoid fever. TwENTY-TWO lives weré lost by the wreck of an unknown vessel in Pleasant Bay, New Brunswick, on the 11th. - ' A Loxpox telegram of the 12th saysthe demand of Secretary Forster for two additional regiments for Ireland seemed to alarm the people of Great Britain, the force already sta‘tioned there being equal to the British legions at Inkerman.

. LATER NEWS, Tne motion to quash the indictment against the four persons connected with the Truth newspaper, charged with criminal libel of General Garfield, was denied on the 13th, in the Court of General Sessions, New York City. The Judge transferred the case for trial to the Court of Oyer and Terminer. ' | THE late census gives Utah a population of 143,907. Of this number, 74,471 are males and 69,436 females; 99,974 are of native and 43,933 of foreign birth. : GENERAL AND MRrs. GRANT arrived at Washington on the evening of the 13th.. They were met by the Marine Band and an escort of the Boys in Blue. They were the guests of Geheral Beale. : : Tue President on the 13th designated Secretary Ramsey, of the War Departmeht, to take charge of the Navy Department, pending an appointment to the vacancy caused by the resignation of Secretary Thompson. IN the case of the Rev. T. Pelham Dale, o the Church of England, who was recently tried, convicted and sent to prison for a violation of the Public- Worship law of England, by adopting high-ritualistic practices in his church services, the Court of Queen’s Bench, to which it was appealed, gave itseleeision on the 13th, sustaining the verdict and the penalty of the Ecclesiastical Court. THE Treasury Department in Washington on the 13th issued $400,000 in silver certificates upon deposits of gold in New York. Ix the British Cabinet Council on the 13th it was decided to request of the Queen the immediate suspension of the habeas corpus in Ireland, and to ask of Parliament an act of indemnity for such suspension. - BaroN DE FRIEDLAND and his’ wife, the latter being a daughter of the Duke de Persigny, have been arrested in Paris upon the charge of forging her grandmother’s signa‘ture to dcceptances for 198,000 francs. A WASHINGTON telegrain of the 13th says it had been finally determined to appoint General O. O. Howard to succeed General Schofield at West Point. The latter would be sent to command a new military division with headquarters at New Orleans. General Miles would probably succeed General Howard. ; - THE bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was taken up—3s to 15—in the United States Senate on the 18th, and argued at considerable length, & motion by Mr. Edmunds limiting to one year the time within which Porter’s restoration to the army could be .madé being rejected by a strict party vote, except that Davis (Ill.) and McDonald voted aye. Seyeral bills were introduced. Nearly one hundred bills and resolutions were introduced in the House. Mr. Townsend (Ohio) presented the credentials of E. B. Taylor, as memberelect to succeed President-elect Garfield, from the Nineteenth Ohio District,, which were referred to the Committee on Elections. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Calkins and adopted expressing the sympathy of the House ?or the unhappy laboring classes of Ireland. The Electoral-count resolution was further debated. S :

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. Jell; Pomeroy’s Latest Attempt to Escape. TaE fact that Jesse Pomeroy, the notorious boy-murderer, hags within a month made another effort to secure that liberty which out~ raged law denies him has been made publie, but the methods employed by him to seeure his release have thus far remained unknown. They will be better understood after the cellin which he is confined has been described. It is on the ground floor of the Concord Stute Prison, in a short wing extending westward from the main’ building between the west wing proper and the Kkitchen. It is twice the size of those for prisoners of the ordinary character, measuring ten feet by eight on the floor lines and being eight fect in height, and it is lined with boiler iron fiveeighths of an inch in thickness, except at the ‘window and door space. The former space is filled with thick hammered glass and heavily barred; the latter is so thoroughly grated that no prisoner can, unless a person on the outside be exceptionally near, commit any of those scrimes' that are all tpoo common with felons ot desperate character. The cell is precisely like those in which Whelton, Brown and several others who are considered unsafe are confined. They are all separated from the outer air by their rear wall, and lighted from large windows that open from the wide corridor upon which they face. . . The boiler iron with|which they are lined is fastened in the rear to a brick wall eighteen -inches in thickness, in which are imbedded stout steel rods that form a ciage, whose bars are less than six inches apart, by bolts an inch in diameter, their heads being an inch and|a half across. These bolts are near the tloor and the céiling, and upon thé upper row Pomeroy operated successfully. By some means, at present nnknown, but scarcely uncertain, he obtained several saws not more than tkree inches in length. With these he cutoff the hecads of eighteen. bolts and sawed from the plate & ' plece measuring about eighteen by twelve inches, which ‘he could remove at any time with .the shears that he uses in brush making. His operations were discovered long before he had completed them. The night watchman hedard him sawing weeks before he was warned to desist, but he was allowed to proceed in‘order that he might see of how little use itis for him to try to effect his own release. When at length he was told that he had gone far enough, he said to thé Warden that he would escape sonie time. 7To this General Chamberlain replied: **The minute you put your head into the yard there will be a bullet put through it,” a remark that seemed to discourage Pomeroy more than the discovery of his work had done. His method of concealing his operations was as ingenious as his perseverance in it was remarkable. © As soofi as he had removed a bolthead he fashioned a substitute for it in soap, ‘which he placed upon the wall. He was allowed a can of paint and a brush to keep-the interior of his cell fresh to the eye, and by the use of these he would color the soap so that it could not be told from that which it was intended to represent. The cut in the plate was filled with the same material and stained in the same manner, thus preventing the detec‘tion of the unsoundness of what might be considered an almost impregnable interior. : ; Warden Chamberlain says of Pbmeroy that he is not insane; that, on the contrary, he has got the most level head of any convict in the prison, and that his perseverance in attempting to escape isas wonderful as his shrewdness is remarkable.—Boston Journal.

——— O —————————— s The Terrible Tragedy at Chester, 111. A CHESTER (I1l.) special to the Chicago Times of the 9th gives the following account of the horrible tragedy recently enacted in that place: ;i ‘Last Friday Louis Tockstein, a man twen-ty-six years old, a farmer living about a mile east of this city, showed signs of insanity and was brodght to town and placed in jail for safe keeping. Sunday his brother took him home. In the afternoon, when left unguarded, he forced his sisters out into the yard, making them kneel down and pray, but was surprised by the return of his brother. After getting! into the house he became violent, gnd had to be tied down. Monday he was delivered to the Sheriff, tried by the County Court, and ordered committed to the ‘lnsane Asylum at Anna, 111. He had to be held until Tuesday noon for transportation. The Sheriff placed him in charge of. James Waters and his brother, Louis Gerlach, locked in a room in the St. Charles Hotel, on the ground floor.. The . prisoner was very quiet throughout the night and was awakened to wash for breakfast. He .got up pleasantly and started to wash, when suddenly he threw the water into Gerlach’s face and jumped for the window. Waters ¢aught hold of his coat, but did not succeed in holding him. He and Gerldch pursued him, but the maniac.bounded over fences and ditches like a deer, and was. soon out of sight. He ran west down a long, gloping hill. At the foot of the hill on a little plat of ground stood the house of Thomas Ryan, a small one-story whitewashed house, about one hundred yards from any neighbors. The occupants on Tuesday morning were ‘Thomas Ryan, an old man, weak and feeble, between seventy and eighty years of age, his daughter, Mrs. Smith, about thirty-five years old, Mrs. Smith’s daughter Sarah, aged twelve, and Ryan's grandson, Arthur Bardoff, ten years old. The maniac stopped on the hillside and took off his boots. Thern he jumped a railfence and plunged bodily through the window, | smashing the glass and sash. Ovérturning the table, he rushed into the bedroom of old man Ryan and commenced to pull him out ot bed. The bey, who slept with his grandfather, woke up and, crawled over the foot of the bed, ran out-doors, and passed his aunt and cousin at the corner of the house, his aunt holding an ax in her hand. He kept running, and gave the alarm to the neighbors, who hastened to thé scene, but too late. Ryan, the woman and little girl were weltering in their bloed, great Btreams flowing from ther heads and throats. The head of the little girl was cut entirely off, leaving the chin attached to the bedy, the head being carried away by the murderer. The neighbors were horrified and stood stunned upon viewing the remains, while the maniac bounded over the hills, swinging the bleeding head in defiance. Gaining the woods, he disappeared from view, tearing the clothing from his body and scattering the pieces asheran. He cleared the woods and came out at the back part of Dr. Gordon’s premises. Leaping the fence he rushed into the kitchen, the child’s head still in his hands. The hired girl, Mary Hight.come, had just built the fire, when Tockstein struck her with the head, knecking her down. He then rushed into the bedroom of Mrs. Edward Gordon, pulled her outof bed, and would have murdered her, but the screams of both ‘women brought the hired man, Louis Hornbeck, to their assistance, who, after a desperate struggle, succeded in downing Tockstein. Dr,’ Gordon.and Hornbeck tied him securely with ropes. The madman struggled desperately to get the head of little Sarah, saying it was his gister’s head, and he wanted it. He Was]ngain remanded to the carc of the Sheriff. | “ The Times reporter visited the scene soon after the murder, and viewed the bodies and the premises. Ryan’s body lay about ten feet from the corner of the house. To the right lay the body of Mrs. Smith. About five feet on the other side of her lay little Sarah Smith, the head having been returned to the body. The sight was horrible. Great pools of blood saturated the ground in heaps of human gore. The gory ax, on which the hairs of the old, gray-headed man were still sticking, was there between the bodies, and the gold dental plate knocked from the mouth of Mrs. Smith with her two teeth still attached. The ax showed of the yellow clay on the outside ot the house. There were no signs of . any struggle. They were killed on the spot where they urdoubtedly knelt to pray.” - : - THils year sees the earliest closing of the Mississippi ever known.

.~ INDIANA STATE NEWS." l THE second annual report of the Trustees of the Asylum for Feeble Minded Children ‘ and the Soldiers’ Orphan Home havé submitted their report for the fiscal year ended Oc. t<lber 31. The expenditures of the firstnamed institution were $764.98, and for the last named $29,893.79, being $3 less than the appropriation in he one case and $106.21 less in the other. Duringthe year therehave been 209 inmates, of which 83 have been discharged, died, transferred and have had hpmes procured for them. The Trustees estimate that $21,000 will have to be appropriated next year. ’ .Ox the morning of the 6th David Roperand Al!ugust Ovértree', two convicts in the State Prison South, were let out of their celis to prepare breakfast for the other convicts. Shortly after they procured a ladder, and s¢aling the grim walls effected their escape. Later in the day seven other convicts scaled the walls and escaped to the woods near by, but the last lot was recaptured. | = ‘» WiLLiE EDWARDS, aged twelve years, died a, few days since of lockjaw, in the New Albany Poor House. Willie had no father or rfilother, and, like Topsy, he just grew up and happened in atthe County Poor-House, where He has boarded for three years past. Not Ipng since he was sent out on a bleak day to Husk corn, and was found nearly frozen to fieath. ! e : | GENERAL JOoHN ScoTT, an old and honored resident of Terre Haute, died on the morning of the 7th, aged eighty-eicht years. General Scott was bornjin Suratoga County, N. Y., in ]12;793. He was in the battle at Sackett’s Harbor, and was pensioned as a soldier of the war of 1812. He emigrated to Vigo County in'lB23, where he has since resided. i" Tae house of JQSeph Fisher, at Friends*'ood, was burned a few nights ago. - Loss, *6,000’. j o j | THE extensive dry goods e#tahlishment of oot & Co., in Fort Wayne, was visited by §urglars at some hour unknown on the sth, nd $2,000 worth of silks, seal-skin sacques fnd other goods taken. . There is no clue to. the robbers, though the police incline to the fpini(’m that Chicago cracksmen are respon‘sible for the job. The firm offers $5OO refri"ard for the recoyvery of the goods. te I MArION JOHNSON; aged seventeen years, son of Alvey Johnson, a section employe on ihe Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Rail‘way, met a horrible death néar®unkirk a few daysago. Young -Johnson boarded a west--1)01111(1 freight train, and when about one and }bne-half miles west of Dunkirk fell from the top of the train under the cars, which chopped him up into small pieces. An engineer on an east-bound train passed the scene some time after, and noticing the pieces of the boy strewn along the track reported the same to “the section hands. The boy’s father was un Ible to recognize him until he had examined \the clothes. - | . TrE last Legislature of Indiana having neglected to vote an appropriation for the expenses Inecessarily attending the meeting of the Legislature in January next, the Attorney Geni,ieral of the State has been asked for his opinlion if there is any way out of the dilemma. ‘jThat official tells the Librarian substantially 'to go ahead, and says ‘the State certainly ‘;will never refuse to sanction or refuse to pay ‘an appropriation, any reasonable bill for' the ‘accommodation of its Legislature, in healthy ‘and appropriate roorts.”. | o | Ox the 4th Judge W.. Q. Gresham, of the jaFédeml bench, addressed a note to General George H. Chapman, one of his principal 'supporters in the Senatorial race, stating very ‘briefly that he had withdrawn from the con- | test, for the: United States Senatorship, and ‘wished this fact given general publicity. No reason was assigned for the action. - S .~ Goverxor JaMes D. WiLLiams, it is said, left an estate of 4,000 acres of ‘land and $25,1000 in money.. ‘There is a will but it has not ' been probated. | Our of 1,272 school -corporations in the State, Superintendent Smart reports 1,000 of ‘them entirely without indebtedness. o THE following table shows the number of coal mines in the State, men 'employed; ‘tons mined and the ecapital ysed: .

i ; { RS COUNTIES. i€ ‘ s | @ l £ e e S & R R Clay....veuieunse.-|| 89] 1,651 502,209 $475,110 Daviess.... .......|| 141 t 4021 165,555 104,512 Pubois. oo Sl -9 65 450 F0untain....1.....|l 5] 444 165817, 145,400 Greeno. ... ... 188 a3l s 1,890 Gih50n...v......‘....l % T 200 250 Kn0x..............| 8l 1011 380,17 20,050 Martin... i cosi | @ 10| T 600 Parke: . .oioiaine LG 9501 9991510 86.E60 Piße: i 18y 46 6,452 5,475 Perry ..o snan 01l 54 10,675 177.475 Suilivan ...l 180 880 21985 90195 Spencer; ....i... . 19 438 6,270/ 13,225 Vermillon....o.o. 9 45 l:l.lz‘i)i 6,550 NVigooo ol 8 msl 34,256 24,750 Vanderburg.......}| 2 93" 85,879 36,350 Warrick, ....... \ 9 112| 21160, 87,4C0 ;——-—}———f———-—-‘__.._____ T0ta1..........||177] 8,459 1,196,430/$1.135,562 A CURIOUS sult is to be instituted against the city of New Albany.. A citizen had a house destroyed by fire in a part of the city where there were: no fire cisterns or water plugs for the suppression of conflagrations. He.'is ‘a heavy tax payer to the city, and claims that the loss of his ‘house was caused by the neglect of the city to provide facilities for extinguishing fires, and demands that the city pay for the building destroyed. THREE stone-planers have been purchased by the State-House contractors at a cost of $15,000, which will greatly facilitate the progress oi the work next season. ' A ToE coal mines in the southern part of Indiana, and notably in Daviess County, are giving out-and new shafts wiil have to be sunk. | : - AT Lafayette on the evening of the 9th a fire broke out in the center of one of the prineipal business blocks on the south side of the public square. The block was damaged about $l,OOO and McHugh’s dry-goods store suffered to the extent of "$5,000. Several adjoining stores suffered to a slight extent. - ON the 9th a broken rail wrecked a freight train on the Wabash Railroad, aboutsix miles east of Logansport. Four cars ",wer'e badly broken up, and the track, for a considerable distance, was torn and twisted into all manner of shapes. » : : TeE Indianapolis grain quotations are: W’l{;eat,‘ No. 2 Bed, [email protected]; Corn, 403{@41c; Oats, 32@33c. The- Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, $1.03@ 1.08%; Corn, 48@50c; Oats, 37@37%5c; Rye 97@98c; Barley, 95¢@351.00.

"['aE latest trick of the intelligent telegragh operator was played with a dis= patch from the scene of hostilities with the Indians. It said,. ¢“Troops all scalped,” when it should have been ‘“escaped.” A railroad conductor sent a telegram that was equally distorted. He wrote, <“ We killed a deaf mute,”’ but it was received, -‘* We killed a dead mule?’? | b ! i

AN addition has been made to the Enghh, or more properly speaking, to the IPish language. It is the verb *‘to Boycott.” -'fixp term *“ Bovcotty’ will have a niche in the vocabulary next to our own elegant word ‘¢ bulldoze.”’

- SCHOOL ANV CHURCH. = —The First Congregational Church in New Mexico. was organized at Albuquerque, October 17th, by thé Rev. d. - M. Ashley: ° omo L R . —The Rev. Dr. S. P. Parker, the oldest Protestant Episcopal clergyman: in Western Massachusetts, died recently, at Stockbridge, Mass., after a brief illness. . L me i e F —Messrs.: Moody and Sankey spent eighteen daysin Salt Lake City, on their way to San Francisco,-holding crowded meetings daily and making & strong impression upon the Mormons. : —Rev. G. K. Dunlop. for many years: rector at Kirkwood, Mo:, was conse-| crated Bishop of Santa Fe, at St. Louis, a few davs ago. Bishop Whipple con"ducted the ceremiony... = oo ¢ —The Cumberland Presbyterians, on account of the refusal to admit them to. the late Presbyterian Council in- Philadelphia, are now didposed to pay. no at-tention-to t_;h‘éAllizm‘E:e and not to send delegates.to the Council at Belfast, Ireland.’ A elad ~Dr. Sarah E. Wilder, of the classof '79, of Boston University of Medicine, and Kate G. Mudge, of the class of 'SBO, of the same ,eofi-ege,j are in Zurich, Switzerland, studying the German language, - before going to Vienna, to engage in hospital and dispensary work. . —A voung American named Richardson, of Brookline, Mass., who récently was graduated in his olass at Harvard College, ‘has just -entered Baliol College, at Oxford, England, ranking first’ of all the applicants, and receiving the usual honorary reward of £5OO, with a choice of the best apartments in the gift-of the college. .o i - —The Congregational Council, at its recent session -in- St. Louis, adopted a resolution to the effeet that the Couneil place itself on record as deploring the alarming increase of divorces throughout the land, and calling upon the ministry to use their earnest etforts to preserve the sanctity of family relations, and labor to prévent divorces except upon the ground - sanctioned by the chreh.” 0 oov e —Crisman’ Hall, the new college for colored youth at Atlanta, Ga., has just been opened and ‘is nearly filled with pupils.. It ‘has-a President and five teachers, who: are paid by the Freedman’s Aid Society, and the price of tuition is very small.” Mrs. Chrisman, of Topeka, gave $lO,OOO for the establishment of the college and the rest of the $40,000 which it cost came from the Freedman's Aid Society and from Bishop Haven's efforts to get private subsecriptlons.: o e 0 —A congregation of full-blooded Indians gathered at Cane CreeK.Chickasaw Nation, a few months ago: by a Cumberland Presbyterian missionary, gave on au reeent -Sunday upwurd of four dollars for foreign missions, which they had never heard:of until the day the collection was taken. Dr. Crisman says they worship in’ the forest and live in primitive style. Hé took dinner at one of the cabins aud there was not a chair or a stool to-heiseen: . i

- . Uncle Esek’s ‘Wisdom, © The heart never ldgses its memory, A man! backs: up his faith with his pocket-book; a woman supports hers with her soul. S o Errors are like counterfeit bills. It is. only when they are well executed that they are dangeérous.. ~ Exaggeration “1s like a rope—the further it is 'stretched the weaker it beeomes. ; : - Eccentricities can add . nothing to a man’s reputation.- If they are natural, they are biemishes, and if cultivated, they are ulcers: . - : The child who has ledrhed to obey has obtained half its education. . = Tha 'weakest man is he who has never been fempted nor imposed upon. ¢ ‘Fine clothes have a certdin kind of. valué:! but no man ever asked a real gentleman the name of his tailor. - . More womén’s hearts” are captured by surprise than by siege. o - Ifaman hasa good article of religion there is no troublein finding a creed tofitat, b : “ Prudence is worth possessing, but a man may have too much of it, and so spoil all his other good qualities. ¢ - Aman who is not in earnest cannot. beeloquent; oo 00 . 08 The devil never-enters a busy man’s. door without knocking. .. -.. . & There is no man on earth to whom we owe so much, and whom we pay so grudgingly, as the school-master. - Selt-reproach is often the most subtle kind of egotism.. ... = = a 8 It is the little mote in our eye that. enables us ‘to see the big beam: in our brother’s eye so plainly. - = If ignorance is bliss this world is a. paradise of fopls. = . - B : The great mistake made by many who havé determined to lead virtuous. lives is that they want their pay in ad-vance-—Scribner’s Monthly. - ;

A Commercial Traveler's * Sueccessful. G e Ruse. - Some comfnercial travelers, says the Providence Press, understand human nature pretty thoroughly. One of them who had been through the South and West pretty extensively, but had never been KEast, .came to Providence recent--ly. Going down one of the principal thoroughfares quite early—he saw an establishment dealing- in . his kind of goods. Hestepped in, inquired for the: proprietor, and handed kim' his card. The proprietor gruffly informed his visitor. that they wanted nothing; had moregoods in the store than they could sell infive years. ‘“ Who asked you to buy anything?” said the traveler. I am: a stranger here, and not feeling very well, I want a glass of brandy. Ithought you might be able to tell me where I can get one.”” The proprietor suddenly became very affable and offered to go. with his visitor. When they had re-. turned to the store they sat down and talked ‘¢ about the weather,” and vari---ous other things, but not a word about business - did 519,‘ commercial traveler utter. An hour or more passed in that ‘way, and then the proprietor questioned his caller about his samples. ' The lat--ter was apparently very reluctant in, showing them, but was finally Erev‘a.iled upon to do so. Before he had left thestore he had taken orders amounting tos about nine thousand dollars. His stratgy wasa suceess.: . o ol 0