Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 January 1881 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts. | Domestic. < A WasnmixGTox telegram of the 20tu says the excess of exports over imports for the month ended. November 30, 1880, was §35,804,340; same ‘month in 1879, $28,826,794; eleven months ended November 30, 1880, $141,361,002;) same time in 1879, $230,279,987; twelve months ended Novembér 30, 188), $162,638,044; same time in 1879, 266,245,033, ToHE Westqm Union Telegraph Company has been for several wecks suecessfully using, between New York and Boston, an inveution by which five messages are simultancously sent from each end of a wire. , , HEAVY snow-storms were reported throughout Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas on the 29th, and the mercury|had in many localities dropped down several degrees below freezing point. No such weather had been known in those regions for twenty years, and business had been generally suspended to allow the people to enjoy the novelty of sleigh-rides and snowball battles. |At -Sherman, Texas, the thermometer registered five degrees below zero. MasSKED burglars entered the residence of John E. Kirby, a Deputy Sheriff in St. Louis, on the night of the 20th; chloroformed that oflicer and held his wife prisoner‘while they deliberately ransacked the rooms. ' A 1 New Albany, Ind., a few days ago the twin babes of William and Fannie Johnson were frozén to death.. The father went away to obtain employment, leaving his family without fuel.,. . { - JupGe FREEMAN, the legal adviser of the Post-office Department, declares that printed comercial papers filled out in writing are legally subjeect to letter postage. : Bisnop ELDER, the coadjutor of Archbishop Pureell, ia‘t Cincinnati, has issued a lengthy address to the pastors and people of his Diocese,. urgixfxg a - division of parishes, forbidding round dances, -and prescribing rules for the marriage ceremony. " ABe Rormscuinp, who was generally believed to have murdered Bessie Moore and cut her into [chunks convenient for packing, has been acquitted by a Texas jury. ' Dr. SmiLEY, of Plainfield, N. J., went out to visit a patient 01l the evening of the 29th ult., and was| frozen to death almostin sight of his home. . 0 ITis asserted at’ Albany, N. Y., that the costly State Capitol in that city, which was built upon quicksand, is likely to slide into the Hudson River. A BROKEN rail threw a train off the track near Rhinebeck, N. Y., on the 30th ult., injuring two persons and causing the destruction of several mail-bags by fire. - -J. W. MILXE, an employe of the Pocasset National Bank at Fall River, Mass., has fled to Canada, J:ld a shortage of $7,500 in his accounts hag been developed. A rew days ago a Fond du Lac (Wis.) physician ordered ‘that a warm flat-iron be applied to. the chestr of a woman who was suffering from pneumonia. Her drunken husband - used dn eight-pound iron so hot that it burned, its way into the cavity of the chest, and she died of the ingy . , - Ox the 30th ult. a Detroit book-keeper, named H. D. Wright, poisoned himself because a Canadian lady to whom he was en. gaged had changed her mind and refused to marry him. G e . AN emigrant train on the Union Pacific Road parted near Lodge Pole station on the 30th ult., wrecking eight cars and injuring five passengers. | ' S j

A FIRE occurred in New Orleans on the Ist, which caused a loss of $254,000. A dispatch of the 2d says that Isadore Levy, a wellknowp merchant, in whose store the fire originated, had become an object of suspicion, this being the third time he had beed burned out. ’ ' | THE roadhouse on Mount Bt. Vincent and the Central Park' Art Gallery, adjoining, in New York, ‘were destroyed by fire on the 2d, causing a loss of $125,000. 5 THE wife and infant child of M. B. Muller . were su(foca@ted by the burning of the Thomp.son Hotel at Madison, Wis., on the Ist. ~ - THERE were distributed from the United States mints 310,993 standard silver dollars for the week ended December 81, against 207,988 for the corresponding week of 1879. B. D.. Burorp’s great plow works at Rock Island, 111., were burned on the night of the 31st ult., causing a loss of $200,000. ; THE receipts of grain and flour at Chicago during the year 1880 amounted to a total of 165,594,682 bushels, against 137,624,833 bushels in 1879.- The shipments were 158,070,460 bushels. The receipts of lumber amounted to 1,555,487,000 feet. The number of hogs received was 7,055,229, . i ! Frery-NINE National Banks, with an aggregate capital of §7,274,170, were organized during the past year." Eleven-banks, with -an aggregate capital of $1,046,000, went out of business, and three banks, with a capital of $700,000, went into bamktuptcy, The net . increase of National Bank note circulation during the year was $2,258,727. ' A LAND-LEAGUE meeting‘at Boston on the 2d was addressed by James Redpath. Over 3,000 Irishmen participated. ‘ DRr. LYMAX, of Massachfisety/s, who is thorougly informed upon the cattle disease, fears 'no harm from the recent large shipment of " calves to the West. | : Tue Superintendent .of !gxe Census has made an approximate statement of the population of the States and Territories. It makes the total, exclusive of Alaska, 50,152, 559. New York leads off, with a population of 5,083,173; Pennsylvania follows, with 4,282,738; Ohio next, with 8,197,794, and Illinois takes the fourth place, with 8,078,636, - Tae $lOO,OOO residence of Mr. James A. Keene, at Newport, R. L, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 31st ult. : Tae Windsor Hotel and Dullmore House at Atlantic City, N. J., were destroyed by fire a few days ago. : ' . : Tue verdict of the Coroner’s juryin the case off the victims of the Alpena disaster has been rendered. It finds that the steamer was unseaworthy, her life-preservers “unfit for use, her life-boats rotten, her crew inexperienced, and that the holding-down bolts of the engine pulled through the bottom. In the opinion of the jury the Good--rich Transportation Company is responsible for all damages. e " " - . '. _ Personal and Political. Wlnm;{n-'w,: the eminent legal author, died at Johnstown, N. Y., on the 29th, of con_sumption. . el Sy (i . A, 8. Loeax, a lineal descendant of the celebrated Chief of the Mingos, has'been appointed to a position in the Interior Department. e {

‘TaE names of General R. B. Marcy and Colonel John B. Barnard have been placed on the retired list. -~ i : THE case of Whittaker, the colored cadet, was considered .in the (abinet on the 30th ult. Secretaries Evarts and SBchurz urged his dismissal, but the President thoughi he should be given a chance- to establish his innocence of the charges made against him. % court-martial was ordered to convene at West Point on the 18th of January, under the Presidency of General Miles. : 'Tue New Year reception at the White House in Washington is said to have been a very brilliant affair, The Marine Band was present, and the parlors were perfumed by flowers, Mrs. Hayes had several fair aids in receiving guests. Davip H. JEROME was on the Ist inaugurated Governor of Michigan, the oath being administered by Chief-Justice Marston. Erps SArGeNT, the well-known journalist and text-book author, died recently in Boston. - B 5

: - . Foreign. . Tar Albanian League has summoned to arms all males of military age in Northern Albania. 0 i i Tue remains of George Eliot were interred at Higheate Cemetery, London, «on the 29th. Tne Pall AMall Gazette charges the British Government - with- resporesibility - for the trouble in Transvaal, and says the war now beginning is a war of conquest against people whose injuries are admitted. : TreE French iron-clad frigate Richelieu took fire and sank at Toulon on the 29th. Tur Duteh Goyvernment has issued an appeal to the people of Great Britain in behalf .of the independence of the Transvaal Republic. - Ox the 30th ult. news was received of the wreck of the British steamer Garnet in the North Sea. Loss of life, seventeen. The English steamer Montgomeryshire was also recently wrecked off the coast of Portugal. In this last disaster thirty persons lost their lives. e e A DIsPATCH from Rome on the 30th ult. ‘asserts that the Pope had peremptorily ordered the Irish Episcopacy to abstain from creating the impression that the Vatican approved of the operations of the Land League. SrAIN has contracted for the construction in England of several war vessels, and is building gunboats and other fast craft for sérvice in Cuban waters. By the breaking of dykes in the Province of North Brabant, Holland, eichteen villages have been flooded and an immense amount of damage caused. : AN anti-Jewish meeting in Berlin on the 30th ult. was attended by such crowds and accompanied with such disorder that the police had to close the doors. i MaxgGas, the Apache - Chief, successor to Victoria, is said to have put upa flag at the place where Victoria was killed, on which is inscribed a pronunciamento to the Governor of Chihuahua, saying that no traveler will be harmed; but armed men are forbidden to march across the country. The remnant of the band, comprises fifty-three warriors and siX squaws. ‘ o ‘ . ‘ - TEWFIK PAsHA has been appointed Turkish Minister of Finance. . ; NEcoTIATIONS between the- Chinese Ambassador and the Russian Government have been concluded. It is stated that China is ready to open the Empire to the commerce of Russia. : : L Rev. Joux WESTRUP, who ‘was appointed by the Houston Conference as Baptist missionary to Mexico, was murdered sand horribly mutilated by twenty Indians, near Mon-terey,-a few days ago. The Mexican authorities gave chase, and captured three of their race who were concerned in the slaughter, and it was said they would be tortured until they were willing to tell what they knew. Louis AuGusTE BLANQuI, the noted French Communist, died on the 3ist ult., in his 70th rear. 4 )O.\: the 2d eight thousand Irish peasants attended a land meeting near Killarney. The meeting which was forbidden to be held at Drogheda on the 2d took place on the previous day, but two magistrates read the Riot act and the ten thousand farmers dispersed.. Monster gatherings were held at Bally Castle and Killaly: o ‘ _ !

LATER NEWS, Five members of the family of Samuei Krump, of Montclair, N. J., died of dightheria in one week recently. It was found that fetid gases permeated the sleeping apartments. . L Tae South generally was. enjoying a touch of genuine winter on the Bd. At Fredericksburg, Va., the municipal authorities had taken possession of all the wood in the city, to insure its sale at reasonable rates. At Atlanta, Ga., there was fifie sleizhing, for the first time in a quartér of a century. A severe frost had ruined the ungathered orange crop of Florida, and many of the young plants had been dgstroyed. Fpr t"h;e first time since its occupation by a civilized race, the ponds and creeks of Southwestern Texas afforded good skating. ‘ TuE Tennessee Legislature met on the 3d. The House organized by electing William B. Ramsey (Republican) to the Speakership. The Senate balloted twenty-five times for Speaker, without result. ; MaJor ILGEs had ‘a fight of an hour’s duration on New Year’s day with a band of Uncapapa Sioux, when the latter displayed a flag of truce and formally surrendered. A FARMER, named John Gamagher, was recently choked to death by'a piece of roast beef in a restaurant at Oxford, lowa. THE German colonists on the Volga in Russia are reported to be suffering for the necessaries of life. - e i THE Berlin students celebrated New Year's day by invading cafes frequented by Jews, smashing the windows and mobbing representativesiof the proscribed race. o A DusLIN dispatch of the 3d says that one thousand guns were each week surreptitiously sent to Ireland from Birmingham, and that ‘within three weeks five thousand Enfield rifles ‘had also been forwarded. CYPHNAN, the Italian communist, has been ordered to leave France. BorH branches of the California Legislature were organized by the Republicans on the 3d. THE public-debt statement issued onthe 3d makes the following exhibit: Total -debt (including interest of ‘521,596,379) $2,121,481, 475. Cash.in Treasury, $222,209,739. Debt, less damount in Treasury, $1,899,181,736. Decrease during December, $5,699,430. Decrease since June 80, 1830, $42,990,559. o o CoLONEL ISRAEL Vopags, of the First Artillery, has been retired, at his own request, after forty years’ service. =~ e IN Brooklyn, N. Y., on the night of the 3d James Walsh murdered Barbara Groenthal because she refused to marry him. : Mgs. THERESA REIMANSCHNEIDER, when recently arraigned in a New Jersey Court, pleaded guilty to the charge of marrying twelve-men within six years, only one of whom is dead, : A Corg (Ireland) cablezram of the 3 says that a party of Land Leaguers had visited the house of a man named Daniels, and inflicted dangerous wounds upon him, but that the victim refused to disclose their names or state the cause of the attack.

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. 'l'hg Population of Our Clties. 4 . TRE following is a list of 168 cities of the United States, with their population in 1880, compared with ten years before: s Albany, N. Y...|..,.......w.. 16816 G 04% Abentown, Ya. |..............0 A5B 13,843 AIOONRN, TR L 0 b 1998 10,610 Allegheny, Pa.... ............ 784752 53.180 Ananta, GR. ... ... ... 45000 21,978 Attleborough, Mass iiveeeevee JRIOS - BTN Athens, Qo ... .0 o, 18100 10,008 AUStRLTERaR (L. e 11000 - 4,428 AubUML N Y L 0 oL 8892 17,225 AUSara Ll oo s e 11,162 Baltimorel Md. .. ......onmieee S3HOOO 266,504 Bay City, Michigan........... 20,660 13,690 Hehevelle dll. .. ....... ...... 10702 8,146 Binghbmton, N0X........ L 0 1.0 12:6682 Bloomingtony 1, ....... 0 ... 17,289 14,590 Boston, Mars.. .. ....., . ..... 3830665 250,530 BreoßKiyn, N. Y ...... ... ..., 054,465 206,099 Broeson, Mass..... ............0 125688 8,007 Bulfaly BN, Yo ooi oD 000 117,714 Barlington, lowa. ............ 1897 14,950 Cambridge, Ma 55.............. 01,698 59,631 Cainden, N. J..... Divdesrpeee. 41,714 20,045 Cedar Rapids, T0wa.,.....;... 10,178 5,041 Charieston, 8. C.......... ... 49,027 48,665 Chespr W.oL v o 16038 9,485 Chicopee. Mass. ... ......... .82 96 Chicawo i - - ........ /... BUSUs2 @ 2pRYhT Chillicothe, 0hi0.........c.... 10,782 8,920 Cincinngti, 0bi0...;.......... 255.804 218,280 Chattanooga, Tenn.... ....... 13,580 6,193 Cleveland, 0hi0............... 159,404 92,829 CONOS Mo X2LI v iove 20122 - 15,8567 Coltmines, Ga ..o ... .0 o 10 7,401 C01ambu550bi0.......... ..., L 3387 8124 Coneord N H &0 0o 18,88 12,241 Council Bluffs, lowa. ........, = 18,509 10,020 Dallag Texas, .. i........... 83,408 4,500 Dapbury, Conn ... ......... 11,810 8,764 Davtors Ulhio. 0. 00l 89000 3040 Davenport, T0wa............. 21,885 20,078 Des Moines, 10wa......... ... 22,298 12,035 PenyeriCal .......«..0... 8, 33,719 4,759 Detotts Mich .. ... ... 119508 79,577 Dovers NolE. o 0 oo b LG9 9,204 Dubugue, lows. ... .........0. 22216 18434 East Suginaw, Mich.... ...... 19,065 11,350 ISR T L R 119,645 BRI LL sl 10,040 - 7,000 BlLizobeth N. di.iooveei vives . 23241 20,830 IS NCY i aaeecns. oo 20008 15 REB Fond agu Lac, Wi5............ 13,5684 12,764 Pall River, Mass: ..,.......... 47,883 - 98768 Kort Waysie, Ind ... ... ..... 26,018 17,718 Gilesbuee, 10 .0 L. 11481 10,158 Grand Rapids, Mich......... 02,037 . - 16,507 GRiveston, Texn5......c...... 12360 13,8138 Hamilton,Oßio . ......0...... 22,300 11,081 HarrmiSbare. Pa. ... ... ... 80412 23,1056 Hartford, Conn, ~ ....c.i..... 42024 37,180 Hounston, Texds. L............ 18664 9,382 indianapohe, 1nd............. 75,081 48,274 Jackson, Mich. ... ... ... 16,600 11,447 Jacksonvilie. 1H.............. 11,009 9,203 Jersey City, N. J...... ... ... 105,000 82,546 XKalamazoo, Mieh............. 12,078 ° 11 750 Kansas City, Mo .............. b 6,946 32,260 ACCORUR, TOWR <. v.ios..aisen 12,006 = 12566 Ringston, N Y ..o, 18306 Bydnt Knoxviiie, denm. ... .i....... 13928 . B@ARD L Croßney WikL: .. Joccon ... 16068 -11 OIP Lawrence;, Mass. ............. 395400 28,921 Lancaster, Pac.i. .. . . ..., 25.848 20,233 Lalpyerte, Ind i~ o 0 ...000 000 14091 13,506 Little Roels, Axk,. ... ......... 15000 12,380 Lineoln. Neb. .. . ............. IZ7d 2,975 Logansport, Ind.. .ii...0:...0 1179 8,950 Louisville, IBy ... ...........; 126,566 #60:000 Lowell. Mass .. .......... ... 6L200- 40,978 Los Angeles, Ca 1.............. 11850 5,728 -Lyhas MASS o 0 el BB3BT 28,233 {:lynchburfl'. MR e s IR3DY 6,826 Madison, Wi5................ 10427 9.176 Manechester, N. H............ 82473 23,536 Malded, Mass . ...... .. 0.0, 12004 7,367 Maoon A, L 1260 10,810 Mariborough, Ma 55........... 10,141 8,474 Memphas: Penn...........-... 33200 40,226 Meriden,Conn... ............. 18,108 . 1589 Milwaulbee, Wi5............. 180,000 71,440 Minneapolis, Minn............. 48,523 12.068 Moblle Aln. ... .00 BEOaT 32.03: Muskegon, Mich............. 11800 8,5@ Nashville;, Tenn:..i...o. ... 4387 25,860 Nashugs NoHL . ... .00 13,468 10,543 Newark N J.. ... ..., 135983 165,059 Newbirg. No Y. ... o 0 00011800 17,014 New Albany, Ind . .........0 .. 11500 15,896 New Haven, C0nn..:......... 63,000 50,840 Néw Orleans, La.............. 215,123 191,418 New York: NY. ........... 0,200,507 08%200 Nopwallk, g0nn:.............. 14000 12,120 Norristown, Pa............... 13,200 10,753 New Castie, Pa. &.. .......0. - 10,292 7,599 New Brunswick, N. J. ...... 17,311 15,055 Oakignd Ol ... .00 0000 86,000 10,500 OmahayiNeb . 2000 a 890,608 16,083 COSWREOLING No s O 20,910 Opdensbure, N. Y. .......... 16307 10,176 OshlkGsle Wias: .. . ..cc 00 107168 12,643 PRGOrSeRe N, J 0... .0 53,000 38,579 Pawtuecket Ro L ... ......... 19,680 12,000 Poearist gl o oo s BLAOB 22,859 Philadelphin, Pa....... . 0.....7 847,648 81.622 Pittsbureh Pa. ... 0. ... 121977 86018 PosvHle Pa o oo 1807248 12,354, Portiand, Me.. . .......0 .00 336 a . 31498 Poughkeepsie, N. Y.... 0 oaos. 0 20,203 20,080 Providence: 8.1.............. 104600 68,904 Quincy. Mass: - ..o 10571 1,442 Quinews M. ... oo 21408 24,052 Racine, WIS .. ... .ooooaoae oy 16,042 - 9880 Readings Pa . .., .. .. ... . 48,280 33,930 Riehmond, Ya....... 00 000, 62600 51,038 Roek island, L10....c........0 11614 74899 Roekiord, Bl ....0.0.00 0. 18088 11,049 Roechester, N. X', ... ..., 89488 . §2.359 ROMEIN. ¥ o oiiindio o 12,086 - 11.000 Ruttands Wt.. .0 ... ..., 12008 6,000 Sandose tal 00l 12688 9,089 Sacramento, Ca 1.............. 21,352 16,283 San Francisco, Ca 1............ 233,066 149,478 San Aftonio, Texa5.......... 20,594 12,556 Sanduskg,- Olo:...Looi ... 15D00 13,000 Stamtorad; Conn. ........eov. ¢ 115319 9,724 Springteld, Il ... 19,688 17,364 Springfield, Chi 0.............. 20,500 12,652 Saginaw City, Mieh............ 10430 10,004 Salt Lake Utah.............. 0 0 11,000, . 12:000 Savanuahs Ga. .oo ... 80BT 28,235 Seranton, P& .. .............. 45,756 35,072 South Bend: 1nd.............. 13492 7,156 Springfield, Ma 55:............ 83,139 26,703 St.Eowds, Mo .......:...¢.... 850,816 310.864 St Paul Minn. .o . 41619 20,030 St. Joseph, Mo :............... 35900 17,565 St. Augustine, Fla. ... ....... 2050 11.780 Syvracuse, N. ¥ ............... 52210 43,051 Btocktom, Gal.. ... .....i..c.. 10,086 - 40.000 Terre Haute, 1nd............. 26616| 16,103 Toleda, Ohio. .. .......~..,.. D 8,635 31,584 Trenton: M. J.. ..o .80 80,08 - =22 8q Troy NG ¥oo oo oo D 669 - 48 A, Utled, N Yo . . ..o licciin. 000 38983 28,804 Viecksbure, Miss. .. ..:... ... 11660 12,443 Waltham, Mass., .i.......... 11800 9,065 Washington, D. C............. 160,000 109,199 Wheeling, W. Va............. 81,600 19,280 Weymoiith, Ma 55............ . 10,660 9,010 Wateitown. N. Y............, 10815 0338 ‘Woonsotket, R E............. 16,000 11,527 Waterbury, Conn. ... ....... 0 22,000 10.828 Wilkesbarrey Pa....,.0..... .00 23,840 17,264 Wilmington, De 1............. 43,000 30,841 Wilngington. NO. ..o v, 15,008 13,416 Winona, Minn. ... .o veaeenn. 20,180 7,200 Worcester, Ma 55.............. ' 58,233 . 40,105 Wobdtn, Muss .. ... 0. 10980 8,550 Yonkers, No¥Y 4 ... 0000 18004 17,269

A Brave Engineer. : Tue bravery of locomotive engineers has often been dwelt upon, and many heroic acts by the brave fellows have heretofore been chronicled.: One of the most heroic deeds on the part of an engineer yet recorded was performed recently by Engineer Bond, of Wabash Engine 327. His engine left Toledo Sunday at $5:55 p. m., pulling the No. 3 west-bound passen-ger-train. When nine miles west of Defiance, ‘Ohio, one of the driving-rods broke in twain on the engineer’s side. The fragments tore up through the cab, and threw Bond, stunned and bruised, back on top of the coal in the tender. There was great danger of the broken driving-rod throwing the engine from the track and wrecking the train. The broken rod kept chopping up through the very spot where the whistle-cord hung, so that ‘prakes-down” could not be called. The momentum of the train gradually increased, and the danger of ditching the whole train was paramount in the engineer’s mind: As he recovered himself a happy thought struck him. The train was supplied with automatic airbrakes. If he could but cut the pipe and allow the wind to escape the brakes would set themselves. He put his ideas into action by putting his penknife between his teeth and climbing down the rear end of the tender, and getting between that and the first coach; he reached down while the train thundered along at fifty miles an hour, ani at the risk of his life sueeeeded in cutting a slit in the brake-hose. The brakes, faithful to their duty, set themselves and’brought the train to a halt without any further damage. Of course the passengers, when they heard of their narrow escape, were loud in their praises of Bond’s bravery.—Chicago T'ribune. o i et il Al A CALIFORNIA young mén of twentysix years has recently married a widow of seventy-two. B : . ———————— Y-— ~ ; - GeNERAL OrD will be presented with a residence in San Antonio, Texas.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. . QuiTE 2 number of suits are pending in the United States Court at Indianapolis] brought by alleged innocent purchasers of notes against farmers who cannot read and write and who signed the notes with the understanding that they were signing a contract securing to themselves the exclusive sale of some agricultural.implements. * AN ‘itinerant Sullivan County preacher ‘preached on a recent Sabbath taking as his topic Sara. Bernhardt, the well-known French actress, whom he referred to somewhat euphemistically as *3al Buckhart.® At Williamsport, Warren County, on the 23d two men entered the store of Messner Bros., ouly one of the firm being present. and asked the price of several articles, finally desiring to be shown some handkerchiefs. About the same time one of the strangers . asked for tobacco, and while Messner was in the act of getting it he was dealt a terrible blow with a sandbag. The men then fastened the door and tried to get into the safe. The outer doors were open, and they secured about $6O in money. They were unable to open the inside doors, and, returning to Messner, who had now become partially conscious, demanded to know the combination. He refused to give it, when they beat him nearly to death and then left the store by the rear door. ‘The Town Marsha!ll happened along about that time, and finding the front door locked and seeing a man lying on the floor, forced his way in, reléasing Messner and giving an alarm. JACOB SHIRLEY stabbed the City Marshal of Clinton, a town just north of Terre Haute, in a ballroom on the night of the 24th. " Sherley was disorderly, and the Marshal, Mr. Fitzpatrick, in attempting to put him out, was stabbed in the heart and died instantly. The murderer has not yet been arrested. ' AT a meeting of the Evansville School Board on the evening of the 23d Prof. James H. Smart, present State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was elected to fill the office of Superintendent of the Evansville city schools. The aetion of the members of the Board, who are all Republicans, in appointing Prof. Smart when there were many of their own political proclivities aspiring to the position, has caused considerable comment. Prof. Smart is an experienced educator and possesses a National reputation both for his literary and executive abilities. * THE announcement is made that Hon. Al‘bert G. Porter, Governor-elect of Indiana, is soon to wed Miss Stone, a lady well known in Washington society as the guest of Judge Schofield for the past two seasons. i It is charged there are keno-rooms in New Albany into which boys of from fourteen to eighteen years are admitted, and permitted to playand drink. A LITTLE son of Mr. Thomas P. Moore, of New Albany, fefi on the icy sidewalk and bit his tongue nearly off. He is in a critical condition. s ;

TaE dwelling of Hon. Christopher Girton, near Flat Rock Station, Shelby County, was consumed by fire: on Christmas, with the household goods. Cause, a defective flue. Loss, $5,000; no insurance. : AT Avon, near Indianapolis, on the 24th Rudolphus Caywood “shot aund ‘mortally wounded a young farmer named Edward Fawcett, the alleged cause being the illtreatment of Caywood’s sister. : A MARRIAGE gf deaf mutes by a deaf-mute minister, in the sigmlanguage, attracted a large audience in a New Albany church the ‘ochet evening. | : ~‘ THERE Have been an unusual number of rabbits sold in' Indianapolis this year. One commission firm shipped to New York during the first two weeks in December 3,650 of the rodents. Lo : MRgs. DorcAs BURCHFIELD, a Gibson Coun. ty widow, recently shot Thomas Burchfield, her brother-in-law, with a twenty-two caliber revolver, the ball entering near the right nipple and inflicting presumably fatal wounds. It is said to be a case of too much whisky and a little jealousy. Mrs. Burchfield says she did not intend to shoot and did not know the pistol was loaded. ; ‘A YoUNG son of William Harmless, of Jackson Township, Parke County, received a toy pistol for a Christmas gift, and thought it would work better to put powder into it, which he did, and it still failed to perform as he wished. 8o he put the muzzle in his mouth and blew into it, and it worked immediately, discharging its contents, nearly taking his head off. He may recover, but it is believed to be doubtful. - A HoxN. RoBERT GRIFFITH, ex-County Auditor of Sullivan County, died at Sullivan on the 28th ult. ’ } Two YEARS ago William D. Fogarty and Edward Murphy were sent to the Penitentiary for an offense committed in -Cass County. A few days ago Fogarty died and Muiphy confessed that he alone was the guilty party. _ At Logansporton the 28th ult, a tailor named Benjamin®Sparks died suddenly at his rooms in the McTaggart Block, with what was supposed to be heart disease. Suspicious circumstances regarding the death led to a postmortem examination by the Coroner, when it .-was found that Sparks’ breast-bone was caved in, and two ribs broken, seemingly by a heavy blow from a blunt instrument. The wife’s story is that Sparks, coming in from marketing, fell forward as if seized with a fainting fit, and struck the corner of the table with the breast-bone, receiving inju'riqe from which he died in fifteen minutes. HamirTroN KERNEY, an old citizen of Coatesville, shot himself the other evening at the Baughman House. The cause of his act is unknown. - ; e

Miss ANNA SPARKS, an estimable young lady of Shelby Township, Jefferson County, attended the wedding of a friend a few days ago in usual health. While returning home, in company with her lover, to whom she was soon to be married, she was seized with sudden hemorrhage of the lungs, fell to the ground and immediately expired. Ox the 27th ult. C. B. Murray, an old citizen of Hagerstown, fell a distance of thirty feet, striking on his head and crushing his skull in a horrible manner. He was employed at the Louisville Ice Company’s house in that city. His recovery is doubtful.- j Tae Indianapolis -grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 9824@99c; Corn, 37@38c; Oats, 31@33c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 4214@43¢; ‘Oats, 35@36c; Rye, " 96@96%4c Barley, 97c@%51.00., . s :

—A Chicago tenant informed the owneér of the house he occupied that the drainage was defective, and demanded repairs, which were not made. His daughter barely escaped death by diphtheria, and the physician declared that she was poisoned by sewer gas. A suit for $5,000 damages has been brought against the landlord.

—~-A-blind boy at Montreal has built a miniature house inside an ordinary fourounce bottle out of forty pieces of wood neatly glued together. It would puzzle a person with good eyesight to get the parts into the bottle, to say nothing of putting them together.

Some Curious Instanfes of Criminals ~ Trusting in Heavenly «Aid. An old example was that of the wife of a famous forger and counterfeiter now in State prison. Her letters, found amon§ his effects, contained some extraordinary minglings of religious injunetion and incitement to roguery. ‘“ Make a good haul this time, dearest, and be sure when you come on to bring the’ new Bibles for.the children;”’ I exult in your great sugcess. darling husband, and hope, with heaven’s blessing, you will soon be-able to retire.” ‘“ Won't it be lovely when we are quite independent and can all drive to church in our earriage on a Sunday?’ These and many other as refreshing and unctugus sayings werg scattered through a series of epistles that must have been highly edifying to/ the estimable member of society who received them. - Another instance in point turned up yesterday in thi? city. Two thieves, George - Giles, from England; and Thomas Hill, of New York, who had been convicted in the United States Circuit Court of passing counterfeit money, . were manacled together and taken from Ludlow Street Jail to the Postoflice building to be sentenced by Judge Benedict. Just as they reached the corner of Park Row and Mail Street these fellows made a desperate effort to escape. Hill slipped his free hand into his trousers’ pocket, withdrew his hand filled with red pepper and dashed the fiery stuff fell into the eyves of Deputy Marshal Jones, who" had him' in charge. At the same instant Giles, who had contrived, it seems, to slip his handcuff, vaulted over a pile of loose paving stones and in the corffusion got off in safety. Mr. Jones, although blinded and suffering agonies of pain, held on resolutely to Hill, and, after a savage and protracted tussel—during which a large crowd stood by openmouthed and never offered to help the struggling officer—and with the help at last of a gentleman, Mr. Whitlegge, who mainly forced his way through the throng to the Marshal’s assistance, the rascal was secured. = . : Later on in theday Hill was searched and letters were found in his pockets which showed, not only that the plan to get free had been concerted some' time back, but the moment fixed and other details of the project had been commu-. nicated to a correspondent. This person, a woman evidently attached to Hill, addressed to him, in one letter among others. the cheering and edifying words that follow: - **DeAr Tom My—l hope you will succeed in your undertaking on ‘Wednesday; but I think, Tommy,. it is very da%erous, as youn may lose your life in the attempt. Tommy, you don’t know how glad I would be if you only suc--ceeded, only it is such a risk to run. I will pray for your escape from now until I hear from you that you escape safe. Place yourself in the care of God and he will bring you|out all right.’” Mr. Hill’s judicious use, under Providence, of his pocketful of red pepper shows with what remunerative care the instructions of his pious adviser were carried into eéxecution. It must, however, be admitted that, in spite of this romisink beginning, Mr. Hill was not Etjought out all right. On the contrary, he was put in again in a way that he no doubt thinks is all wrong.—N. Y. Evening Post. F | : :

Joaquin Miller’s Utopian Community. I once belonged.to a little association fermed solely for/this purpose. Nearly ten years ago we' talked this- over and over in London. The idea has deep root there. We used to turn our faces toward our imaginary ¢ Utopia’’ as a sort of Mecea of the club. And then we would fall to quoting ¢ The Ancient Mariner.”’ For you know Coleridge very nearly came over the sea for this same; purpose. ‘ Finally, when the King of Italy confiscated the property of the Chureh, and offered the monasteries for sale on easy terms, all of/a sudden our ideal object seemed about to become a fact. Some members of ‘our club chanced to be wintering in Rome, and one of them ‘bought a large estate, with a city already built, ?{owq below Naples. : What a happy and hilarious party we. were that rode down to.take possession of the old haunted convent and half-de-serted city on a hill!' We were %oing to invite all the Bohemian world. There should be no houseless wanderers any more. . Here were houses 'enough certainly to shelter all the poets, painters and musicians out of doors. We were going to lead a river from a neighboring mountain down through the streets of this deserted and dirty old eity, and wash it clean for the first time in a thousand years. But we soon discovered that the place was stricken with fever. And that was why it had been so long deserted. The people had died! Only a few miserable monks in brown, who rather preferred death 'to life, and the hideous marshbuffalo, groaning and wallowing through the mud-lakes under the hill—these seemed to be the only! satisfied inhabitants of the whole region; and finally, with the fever in every one of us, we went back to Rome and %ave it up, satisfied that our only fit field of operations was in young and healthful America. But our enterprise had created some stir in the Eternal City, and soon after our return the King gave us an audience. His Majesty was over-kind, and triedto encourage us to go on. But our bright young leader was still very ill and hardly able to get out, and we had but little heart le%t. He died soon after, and as the hot weather came on the others of our party scattered like birds, going whither each one’s fancies or fortunes led or allowed, in search of health; for we were all suffering more or less from the malaria—and we never met any more. . e : L - A few years after, I laid my If)lans before the EmpermT of Brazil.- He was at first enthusiastic, and generously offered all the land required. At a subsequent interview, while liinsisting on giving a large tract of land, he quietly hinted that I had better bring alt the people I wished to embark in the enterprise from my own country. I 'saw clearly that he had little faith in the work. And perhaps he was quite right, so far as his own people are concerned. The luxurious South American certainly possesses but little of that Spartan self-denial required to establish a community of this sort.” ! e ‘The cnte-yrise was abandoned this

time, rot at all becanse of the Emperor's irdifference, but largely because just about that time the British Government had to send out a ship to: bring home certain colonists who had. from a failure of crops and other misfortunes, become destitute and dissatisfied. Clearly, the climate and fates were against it here.—7%e Californian, . : . " 'The Cear Yatmt. = It is the very ideal of all yacats—neither more nor less than a floating palace. - There are large saloons -an§ tiers of verandas. The floors are laid with parqueterie and carpeted with Axminster. Two Jablokoff electric lights hang from the eceiling, and numerous candelabra are fixed to the walls. A marble fountain stands at one end of the hall, and a richly gilt and mirrored cabinet at the other. The hangings are of crimson velvet, and the chairs of hand-brocaded satin. This is the state apartment of the vessel, and below it is arranged accommodation for the imperial family. - Sumptuoys apartments, panelled with tapestry, and in some cases with rich green: velvet, are provided for.each member of the house. The Czar's private rooms are provided with every comfort and luxury that a dwelling could afford. 'A similar series of apartments) were set apart for the Empress. ' The Grand Duke is‘accommodated on the awning deck with a whole series of Tooms for himself and the captain of the ship. The furniture and ‘decorations equal in richness those of the apartments for the imperial family, and below there is a grand dining saloon for the suite of the. 7};1'311(1 Duoke, . Extending from this are two ranges of apartments, all furnished with brass bedsteads, walnut. wardrobes; marble washstands, and green leather-covered chairs. - The richly draped French windows, opening on verandas, the Axminstercarpets and, above-all, the absence of rolling, quite upset the ordinary no: tionsof a ship, “v..ox il e

A Professional Beauty. . - The ¢¢ professional ‘beauty’’ business has broken out in New York. Her name is Mrs. Rennie, and she is the wife of a mining . expert. - Everywhere she goes admiring eyes are fixed upon her, and it has beenso since her arrival in New York several weeks ago. Admiration has incfeased into -furor, and she is now *‘allthe rage,”’ being advertised to appear at the opera, at charity entertainments, at bazaars, and other places as an attraction. The lady is in general request in . the more exclusive circles, and all Fifth Avenue is making a lioness of her. At the operathe other evening General Grant was presented to the lioness, and afterward Governor Cornell and Samuel J. Tilden: Her friends say that adulation has not spoiled her; that she ‘is amused by i, and disposed to enjoy .it in all proper ways; that she has brains enough to prevent her from beeoming vain; that she is devoted to her husband and not the least bit inclined to flirt.” - Certainly her demeanor in public life is modest and gracious, thoughshe takes no pains to hide herself from ‘the general gaze. Professor Rennie is a man about forty vears of age, very proud of his wife and not at all inclined 'to be jealous. -The only particular in which he has interfered with the furor was to prevent the sale of her photographs. He is a mining expert from Nevada, and married his beautiful wife in lower California, where she was born of Spanish-Mexican parents. Sheis only seventeen and is a. bride. Her height is about five feet seven, and she has a faultless figure—just full enough to be round, with pleasing swells and tapers, and a perfectly graceful carriage. Her head is held proudly, but without stifiness. Her hair is coal black and naturally abundant. Her complexion is as dark as a quadroon’s, but without a tinge of yellowness, being as bright and clear as that of a blonde. The richness of her color is something - marvelous. - Her eyes are large, black and the most passionately expressive I ever saw. Her features are precisely -regular, except. that her lips are rather full, though shapely.— Chicago Inter-Ocean. =

- .. Unsinkable Ships. The problem of rendering ships unsinkable has from the -earliest times received careful attention from inventors and others and various propositions foreffecting this object have been advanced from time to time, although, so far as we are aware, none ot them have ever: been introduced in practice. This question has found another advocate in Mr. Lamb, of London, who has had a steam launch built to illustrate his system. This launch was inspected, and a short run ‘was made in her at North Wool--wich by a party of gentlemen interested in - steam navigation. The principle consists in- attaching to the sides of the hull of a vessel a series of flat air-tight metallic cylinders or drums, the inner heads of which are built into and form a part of the framing and inner skin of the vessel. The drums project on either side of the ship and are cased in, the under sides of the casings normally resting upon the surface of the water, and becoming slightly immersed under a load. The result is a light draught with great freeboard and'it is claimed that a greater stability under canvas and a higher rate of speed under steam or sail are thereby .attained, besides several - other contingent advantages, The principles of the system and the construction of the launch, which has no . pretentions to beauty, were explained to the visitors during a short. run, in which a fair speed was maintained, the vessel moving very steadily. There can be no question of| the safety of such a vessel :nder most circumstances as regards-her immunity from sinking, although in 'appli.yi'ng the principle in practice several questions of detail will have to be met which have not been considered in the launch question. - It is, however, only fair to state that the vessel is the first of its kind. and so far is only experimental. = - : e e et i o —The laté ‘President Orton, of the Western Union '_Tel:gtaph' Company, once said that English was twenty-five-per cent. a cheaper language- for telegraphing than any other. .It is one-. third more concise than French. = —A Kentucky hamlet, is spoken of as tbhe horse-swappingest village. in theState. ot T r o e S R e