Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 43, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 February 1881 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banuer, . .. STOLL, Editor and Prop’s, i LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA,

"NEWS SUMMARY. ’ ————————— Important Intelligence from All Parts. ; e - : Congress. . MR. MORGAN'S Electoral-Count resolutions, reported the day before as a substitute for . Mr. Ingalls’ proposition, were taken up in the Senate on the 2d and, at .Mr. Morgan’s suggestion, were amended in minor details so as to - make them concurrent, and to provide for two tellers instead of one on' thé part of the Senate; an amendment, offered by Mr. Edmunds, that the count take place in the Senate Chamber, and not in the hall of the House was rejected—22 to 85—and this wag followed by the rejection—27 to 33 ~of un amendment, offered by Mr. Eaton, providing that the tellers of the two houses shall make a list of the Electoral votes ‘*as the certificates shall be opened by the President of the Senate,)”instead of **as they'shall be declared;' the resolutions were ‘then adopted by a viva voce vote. The President’'s message concerning the Ponca Indian question was read... In the House a message was received from the President embodying the report of the Ponca Cominission, and urging the passage ot a bill in accordance with their recommendations. In conc¢luding, the President expressed profound regret for the injustice done to the tribe, and, without attempting to apportion the blame, says that, as Chief-Executive at theé time the wrong was consummated, he feels hiss own respongibility deeply enough to make him sincerely wish that they should have redress. The Speaker also presented a message from the President, transmitting for consideration and appropriate action of Congress a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, recommending an appropriation of $200,000 tor the establishment of naval stations on the American Isthmus. The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was passed. The Apportionment bill was called up, and Mr. Cox made a specch explaining its provisions and urging its passage. IN the Senate on the 3d on motion of Mr. Morgan the concurrent resolution introduced by him June 15, 1880, declaring the President of the Senate not invested by the Constitution with the right to count the votes of Electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, 80 as to'determine what votes shall be "~ received and counted, or what votes shall be rejected, was taken U{)‘ and, after some discussion, a motion by Mr. Edmunds to lay the resolution on the table was re;ected by a party vote—22to 32. At the expiration of the morning hour Mr. Morgan moved to postpone the regular order, which was agreed to—33 to 24— and a motion was then agreed to=-30 to 18—to r“.sume consideration = of the Morgan resolution. . After debate Mr. Edmunds moved an amendment 'to make the resolution read that, *ln the opinion of the Senate. neither the Senate, northe Senate and House of Répresentatives, nor the Presicent of the Senate, is invested by the Constitution | with the right to make the count,” which | amendment was voted down—lB to 29, a party | vote. An amendment oifered by Mr. In¢alls, to the etfect that the President of the Senate had the right to count the votes i]ix‘th(' sense of computing them, but had not the right to I count in the sense of determining judicially what were votes, was rejected without divis- | ion. A vote was subsequently taken upon{ agreeing to the-resolution, when the result showed 30 ayes to 1 in the hnegutive (Mr. | Whyte), the Republicans (except Mr. Conkling, who voted for the resolution,) abstaining from voting, thus indicating the absence of a quorum. The minority evincing a disposition to continue the: obstructive policy, a motion by Mr. Morgan to adjourn was agreed t0....1n the House the Indian Appro- | priation bill was reported with the Senate - amendments, some of which were agreed to. The Apportionment bill was taken up, and Mr. ‘Cox offered an amendment fixing the nun&)er of Representatives at 307, while Mr. Sherwin, of the Census Committee, favored 301. The debate then assumed a political cast, and the bill went over without action. Mr. King introduced a bill appropriating $20,000 for the distribution of seed corn. : . I~ the Senate on the 4th Conference Committees were appointed on the Indian and Na~ val Appropriation bills. The bill to provide for sending a vessel to the relief of the Arctic steamer Jeannette was passed, with an amendment increasing the appropriation to $175,000, and providing for the relief of any other vessels that may be found needing assistance. The House bill appropriating 26,000 for a National Museum was also passed. A motion by Mr. Logan to postpone the regular order of .business and take up the Grant-retirement bill was rejected—26 to 30—a party vote, exceptthat Mr. Hill (Ga.) ~and Mr. Davis (1ll.), voted yea with the Republicans. A motion by Mr. Logan to take up his Franking-privilege resolution was also voted down by a . party vote—2o to 34. Mr. Morgan’s resolution denying the right of the. President of the Senate to count the Electoral vote was taken up, and, after debate, was amended by adding the words: * And’that it is the duty of Congress, without delay, to institute measures to execute a due and orderly performance of said duty in future,” and the resolution, as amended, was passed--42 to I—Messrs. Allison, Blaine, Booth, Counkling, Davis (Ill), Hoar and Jones (Nev.) voting with the Demo-’ crats in the affirmative.....ln the House a bill was reported from ‘the Judiciary Committee, authorizing the States of Ohio, Indiana and Jllinois to commence and prosecute suits against the United States in the Supreme Court of the United States. An act for the sale of Indian lands in Kansas was passed, the rate being fixed at threc dollars per acre. Several private bills were also passed. A JOINT RESOLUTION was passed in ‘the Senate on the sth inviting the Government and people of France and the family of Lafayette to join the United States in the Yorktown Centennial celebration, and #20,000 were appropriated for the occasion. The Pension ApE‘ropria‘tion bill was taken up and debated.... he Senate Electoral-Count l'efoluticm was -taken upin the House, and, after debate, the resolution being divided, the first branch—providing for the meeting of both houses on the 9th, the Vice-President presiding, and for one teller on the part of the Senate, and two on the tpart of the House, to mgke .a list - 0 the votes as declared and to deliver them to the President of the Senate, whoshall announce the state of the vote and the persons elected President and Vice-President of the United States—was agreed to without division. The second branch-—%mvidingthat, if the counting of any votes of Electors given on any other day than that fixed by Congress for the easting of such wvotes shall not essentially change the result of the vote for President and Vice-President, the President of the Senate shall declare the result as it would be were such votes counted, and also as it would. be were they not counted: “put in either event —— is elected President of the United States;’’ and the result for VicePresident shall be announced in the same manner—was also agreed to—l 6) to 77—the Republicans as a rule voting in the negative, and ~ the Democrats in the affirmative: the following Democrats, however, voted in the nega- ' tive: Messrs. Acklen, Converse, Culberson, Hurd, Blemons and Young (Pa.), and the following Republicans in the atfivmative: Messrs. Belford, Bisbee, Bowman, Burrows, Calkins, Cannon.'Cargenter, Chittenden, Crapo, Daggett, Dick, Fenton, Field, Fisher, Hall, Hawley, Hal;{'es, Hdzleton, Heilman, Hiscock, Horr, Kelly, Killinger, Lindsey, McGowan, Ivfort‘on. “O'Neill, Prescott, Rice, Robinson, Stone and Taylor (Ohio.) The Apportionment : bill was taken up and debated.

i Domestic. Tae World’s Fair Commission has issued a circular announcing that.the States and Territories will determine for themselves the manner and character of the r expositions. IMMIGRANTS to the number of 8,076 arrived at the port of New York during the month of January of this year, being 2,399 more than during the corresponding month of last year. JOHANNA CALLAHAN. and - her eon William were burned to death in their dwelling at Dorchester, Mass., on the night of the 81st ult. AN alarming increase in the number of small-pox cases in New York was reported on the 2d. : ; , . Trae Central Square Baptist Church, in Cambridge, Mass., valued at $95,000, was totally destroyed by fire on the 3d. e CoLoNEL Bayrer, with a squad of Texas rangers, surprised a band of twenty Apaches near Quitman a few days ago and killed six and captured hree of their number. Tue failare is announced of Loomis & MeMaster, carriage manufacturers, of Bath; N. H., with liabilities of $llO,OOO.

JunGe BARRETT, of New York, has denied the application of Rufus Hatch for aninjunction to prevent the consolidation of the telegraph companies. The Western Union Telegraph Company announced on the 3d that it had taken possession of the properties and privileges of the American Union and Atlantic and Pacific Companies. : Tre Supreme Court'of Illinois has decided the Game law to be Constitutional. A FLY-WHEEL eighteen feet in diameter flew afart in the Russian mills, at Niles, Ohio, on the 3d andi two men were killed and several injured. | : OX the 3d at Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., the t,hermomet,crf stood at thirty-two degrees below zero. | . GEORGE BacuMaAY, the President of the American Sagh Balance and Lock Company, of Sandusky, Ohio, has absconded. Tnree men who brutally treated a young lady of Auzusta, Ark., were taken from the County Jail on the night of the 2d, carried across the river and hung. : HeNrY LAME, a colored man 123 years old, died at Mount Vernon, Ind., on the 3d. : CHEYENNE, stock-owners deny that any great number of cattle have perished on the stock ranges by reason of the severe winter, and allege. that thé*losses will not exceed ten per cent, | | CATHARINE MiLrLeEr and George Smith were executed at Williamsport, Pa., on the 3d in the presence of about one hundred and fifty spectatars. i GeoxGe W, Bisgor and Isaac W. Helm, well-known citizens of Baltimore, have been sentenced to five years in the Penitentiary for forg'ng the signature of a minor, named Frederick Ketchum, by which a fraud of $lB,000 was perpetrated. F o - THE amendments to the Funding bill as axreed ujon by the United States Senate Finance Committee on the 4th provide that the bonds shall bear interest at 814 per cent. per annum; that they shall be redeemable in five years and. payable in twenty; that the certificates shall be redeemable in one year and payable in ten, and shall bear interest not to exceed 34 per cent. per-an-num, the interest to be paid semi-annually; that the National Bank deposits, as security for circulation, shall be all in Government bonds; that there shall be an allowance of one-half of one per-cent. instead of onefourth of one per cent. for negotiating the new bonds. :

By the explosion of amill boiler at Kimmswick, Mo., on the 4th, John and Frank Schmidt and Charles Baker were killel and two othér men seriously wounded. RoBBERS recently took four mail pouches and the treasure bag from a stage at Del Norte. Col. : JosErH WADE, the Indianapolis murderer, has been granted a new trial, for error in the charge to the jury. : The Secretary of the Treasury in Washington on the 4th received a letter from Nashville, Tenn., inclosing sixty dollars, with a request that it be placed to the credit of the conscience fund. ot JENNIE RoBERrRTSON died at Nashville, Tenn., on the 4th. She was known as ‘‘Soldier Charley.”” Duringz the rebellion’ she donned male attire, enlisted at Chicago and served for several years in the Union army. JoEN Brow N’s Soxs, manufacturers of cotton goods in Philadelphia, have failed for B¥60,000: | - - : Tur Capitol Hotel at /Dover, Del., burned to the ground on the morning of the 4th. The guests at the hotel, including AttorneyGeneral Gray, the Speaker and several members of the Legislature, barely escaped with their lives. ‘ HArvArD CoLLEGe, Massachusetts, has received a donatvion of $lOO,OOO from an unknown friend, for the erection of a building far its law school. Lro R. voN HILLERN, a German Count, has been held for trial, under bail of $l,OOO, by a New York Court, for forging death certificates.of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. . v THE Reformed Church at Utica, N. Y.,. erected at a cost of $65,000, was " recently totally destroyed by fire. ‘ T grocery house of the Greeley-Burnham Company, the largest in St. Louis, caught fire on the evening of the sth from the breaking down of a shelf full of matches in cases. The building and contents '\Were speedily destroyed, and several adjoining establishments were - also * burned, causing a total loss of about $400,000. | IN a storm at Gervais, Ore., a few days ago a school-house containing one hundred pupils and teachers was carried eighty yards. Several children were badly hurt, but none were killed. - - : A spEcIAL dispatch from Charlotte Court House, Va., on the 4th states that a woman with considerable money stopped for lodging af the house of John Demps, in Checkertown. fhe wasdput in a room with Demps’ wife, but in'a different bed. Demps determined to murder the woman, and entered the room at midnight with an ax, and with two fearful blows he killed his wife, supposing her to be the visitor. | The screams of the other woman informed him of his mistake. She fled, and he, after burying his wife, was arrested while burriing the bed-clothing to conceal his crime. o . X : MarTIN DONLEY and wife, living on Big Run, near Williamstown, Olrio, died on the 4th within a few hours of each other, in great agony, giving undisputed symyptoms o trichinge. They had eaten of raw pork a few days before. ' A portion of the meat was examined and found to eontain large numbers of the fatal worms. - : A RECENT convention of California farmers resolved to form a WiLeat—Growers’ Association, for protection against middlemen, and to establish an agency at Liverpool. JoHN J. BERRY, an embezzling bank cashier of Hackensack, N. J., has been sent to the State Prison for five y ears. ; - SHocKs of earthquake were felt in portions ‘of New York and New Hampshire on the 4th. AvausT SCOHULTZ, a fifteen-year-old boy of Milwaukze, hanczed himself the other day through fear of punishment for having stolen five doilars from his parents. = Davip C. Bogart, who left-a railroadswitch open at Pennhorn, N. J., last fall, causing a collision and two deaths, has recently been tried at Jersey City and' convicted of manslaughter.

Personal and Political. Tae New York Assembly on the 2d, by a vote of 101 to 9, passed a bill to prevent the consolidation of the Telegraph Companies. Tae Woman’s National Anti-Polygamy Society, in session at Salt Lake City on the 2d, adopted resoluti'ox)g? ‘indorsing the action o!f Governor Murray fni ‘withholding a certificate of election from Cannon, and calling on Congress to indorse the Governor’s action, and not allow an alien and a law-breaking polygamist to continue as a member of that body. ’ ' . Fraxcis A. DURIVAGE, a well-known story writer, died in New York on the 3d.’ : A receNT New York dispatch says William’ H. Vanderbilt had paid the entire cost of t.rahs-porting'tho, obelisk, pedestal and steps trom Alexandria to New York and erecting them in Central Park. ; : ‘

THOMAS CARLYLE, the eminent Engfish hietorian, died in London on the morning of the sth, aged eizhty-six years. His death had been anticipatel for several days. *He was unconscious from and after five o’clock on the evening before his death. GENERAL THOMAS T. EcKHART, of New York, was on the sth elected General Manacer of the Western Union Telegraph Company under the organization of the recent consolidation. Jay Gould and Russell Sage are among the new Directors.

: . orelgn, THERE was great excitement in the British House of Commons on the 3d. Secretary Hircourt refused to inform-Mr, Parnell what conditions of his ticket-of-leave Davitt had violated to cause his arrest, the Irish members shoutinz ‘Shame!” and the others cheering. The speaker refused to hear John Dillon, who continued to talk, and a motion for his suspension was adopted, and he was forc bly removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms. When Gladstone rose to speak, O’Donohue l moved to adjourn. Paruoell. proposed that Gladstone be, no [longer heard, whereupon the former’s suspension was moved and carried, the vote being 405 to 7. On bis refusing to leave he was, escorted out by six-officers, the Home-Rulers |waving their hats. F.nnigan was then suspended, and, as twentyseven Home-Rulers refused to vote, they were suspeuded in a body and removed singly by the Sergeant-at-Arms. The House did not adjourn until, on Mr. Gladstone’s motlon, the bl for the protection of life and property n Ireland had been declared urgent. ~ NEar the town of Canete, in Chili, gold has been found in muggets, some of which weighed four tosix ounces. Thirteen hundred claims have been taken up. , - IN the Prussian Diet on the 4th Bismarck ‘ announced that he must have larger resourcés, and considered tobacco as the most suitable thing from which to obtain them. It was intimated that he intended to establish a l Government monopoly of the weed. ‘ REv. Dr. ScHAFr, Chairman of the Ameri- } can Committee of Revision of the Bible, has recently received a dispatch from Oxford, ;Eng., stating that the publication of the revised New Testament has been postponed until | May next. A LoxpoxN tBlecram of the 4th says.the Government had stationed two gunboats: at yTarbert, on the Shannon.. The arrest of leading Land Leaguers was expected to follow closely after the passage of the Coercion bill. | Davirr, the Land Leaguer, arrested in Dublin on the 3d for violation of the conditions of his ticket-of-leave, was taken on the 4th before the Chief-Magistrate at the Bow Street Police Station in London, and sen- ‘ tenced to {inish his term of servitude at Pen- | tonville prison, ‘ » ~ FRrANCE has renewed its proposal to Ger“many for an International Conference on the silver question. ° o Iris stated that Russia intends to place her ‘hew loan on the American market. A CoNSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the sth says ' the Porte was preparing to increase the land tax and bave it paid five years in advance. A forced loan from the inhabitants of Constantinople, on the ground of their exemption from military service, was also proposed. Twue King of Ashantee has declared war against England, and stores and ammunition lhave been ordered to the Cape coast from Madeira. | T MegeTiNGs were held throuzhout Ireland and in some parts of Encland and Scotland on the 6th to protest against the passage of the Coercion bill. . The meetings of the Land League were generally prohibited. - A Beruix dispateh of the 6th says that General Garibaldi’s son Meno’ttihadfieen offered the command of a volunteer c&rps for the Transvaal. | ‘ It was stated on the 6th that the fund of the Irish Land Leéague had been deposited in France, in.the names of Parnell, Davitt, Dillon and Egan. Egan had gone to Paris to escape the operation of the Coercion act. f TarEee policemen; of Edinburgh, Scotland, were shot on the sth by two men whom they arrested for lurking about the custom-house. One of the latter subsequently committed ‘suicide. - - : .

LATER NEWS, IN a recent interview with a New York reporter Jay Gould stated that the consolidation of the Telegraph companies was completed and could not be disturbed by any legislative or judicial action. He said the object of the consolidation was to carry out a plan of developing in the United States an efficient system of cheap telegraphyon a grand scale, both by sea and by land. A general cable and telegraphic circuit around the world was contemplated, with New York for the center. s : Ox the 7th a larce portion of New Orleans was under water, owing to a crevasse in the new and old canal levees. . AUNTY JACKSON, a negress, azed 112 years, died at Normal, 111., a few days ago. Tre New York State military authorities have foroidden the use of armories by religious sects, as also parades by the National Guard for their benefit. 1 Our authorities in Alaska are making earnest efforts to suppress the manufacture of ‘‘hoockerso,” an intoxicating beverage of Russian antecedents. In one raid over 200 stills and 1,500 gallons of mash and liquor were destroyed. The merchants of Sitka have adgpted a resolution not to import any molasses or Sandwich Island sugar, from which the drink is distilled. s A BERLIN telegram of the 7th says the Emperor William had sent to the Sultan an autograph letter declaring that Germany would .do her utmost to prevent war. A DusLIN dispatch of the 7th states that ‘the Home-Rulers had decided to carry into the great towns of England and Scotland the agitation against coercion. ' It was announced from Dublin on the 7th that tenants on several estates whohad been refusing to pay rent had begun handing in the money. | L Ix the British House of Commons on the 7th the Home Secretary announced that Davitt would not be subject to ordinary’ prison labor, but would have to wear a conv.ct’s dress. - ResoLuTioxs have recently been adopted by the New York Board of Trade and Transportation calling for the improvement of the canals and the abolition of all tolls on Westbound freight, to enable boatmen to compete successfully with ‘the improved Canadian canal. ; S : A BILL has been introduced in the Legislature of Wisconsin for the apprehension of female tramps. : : I~ the United States Benate on the 7th, on motion of Mr. Morgan, Messrs. Hamlin and Thurman were appointed tellers for the Senate in the Electoral-count proceedings. The Pension Appropriation bill was further amended. In the House the Speaker announced the appointment of Messrs. House and Crowley as tellers on the part of the House to make a list of the votes declared for President and Vice-President on the 9th. A motion to suspend’ the rules and pass the River and Harbor Appropriation bill was defeated—l6o to 86, not the necessary twothirds in the affirmative. G

Messages by the President, 1 THE PONCA INDIANS. : IN the National House of Representatives on the 2d a message was received from the President relative to the removal of the Ponca Indians to Indian Territory. After quoting from the ‘reports of the Secretary of the Interior, Agent E. A. Howard and the Senate Committee upon the subject the President says: . : ‘* The report of the Commission appointed by me and the testimony taken by them add very little to what was already contained in the official reports of the Secretary of the Interior and the report of the Senate Committee touching the injustice done the Ponca Indians by their removal to the Indian Territory. Happily. however, the evidence reported by the Commission, and their recommendations, point out conelusively the true measure of redress which the Government of the United States ought naow to adoot. The Commission in its conclusions omits to stdte an important fact as to the present condition of the Poncas in Indian Territory, but the evidence they have reported shows clearly and conclusively that the Poncas now residing in that Territory, 521 in number, are satisfied with their new home; that they are healthy, comfortable and contented, and that they are freely and firmly decided to adhere to the choice announced in the letter of October 25, 1880, and the declaration of December 17, 1880, to remain in the Indian Territory, and mnot to return to Dakota Territory. The eyidence reported also shows that a fragment of the Ponca-tribe, perhaps 150, which is still in Dakota and Nebraska, prefer to remain on their old reservation. In view of these facts, I am confident the recommendation of the Commission, together with the declaration of the Chiefs of December last, substantially followed, will afford a solution of the Ponca question which is consistent with the wishes and interest of both branches of the tribe, with the settled Indian policy ot the Government, and as nearly as practicable with the demands of justice. Our general Indian policy for the future should embrace the tollowing ideas: ‘l. The Indians should be prepared for citizenship by giving to their young of both sexes that industrial and genecral education which is requisite to enable them to be self-supporting and capable of self-protection in civilized communities. ’ : ** 2. Land should be allotted to Indians in severalty, inalienable fgra certain period. *3. Indians should have fair compensation for their lands not required for individual allotments, the amount to be invested with suitable safeguards for their benefit. ‘*4. With these prerequisites secured, the Indians should belmade citizens, and invested with therights and charged with the responsibilities of citizenship. : : “It is, therefore, recommrended that legislation be adopted in regard to the Ponca Indians, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to secure to individual members of the Ponca tribe, in severalty, suflicient land for their support, inalienable for a term of years, or.until the restriction on alienation may be removed by the President. Ample time and opportunity should he given members of the tribe freely to choose their allotments, either on their new or old reservations. Full compensation should be made torlands to be relinquished and for losses to them by the Sioux depredations, and by reason of their removal to Indian Territory, the amount not to be less than the sum named 1 the déeclaration of the Chiefs maae December 17, 1880; in short, nothing should be left undone to show the Indians that the Government regards their rights as equally sacred with those of its citizens. The time has come when the policy should be to place the Indians as rapidly as practicable upon the same footing with other permanent inhabitants of this country. I do not undertake to apportion the blame for the injustice done the Poncas. Whether the Executive, or Congress, or the public is chiefly in fault is not now a question ot practical importance. As Chief-Executive at the time when the wrong was consummated, I am deeply sensible that enough of the responsibility for that wrong justly attaches to me to make it my personal duty and earnest desire to do all I can to give to these Indian people that measure of redress which is required alike by justice and humanity. : : “ RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.” F

NAVAL STATIONS ON THE ISTHMUS. On the same day the Speaker also laid before the House a message from the President, transmitting for consideration and approriate action by Congress a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, recommending an appropriation of $200,000 for the establishment of stations on the Ameérican Isthmus. The President Bays: : *ln thi§ paper the concurrent testimony of prominent otficers of this Government for a long series of years, as to the feasibility and necessity of establishing such stations, and the great advantages to flow therefrom to the naval and commercial interests of the United States, i 8 cleariy set forth, and the considerations adduced cannot but commend themselves, I am confident, to the earnest and careful attention of Congress. Convinced of the wisdom and propriety of the suggestions thus presented, I recommend to Congress an appropriation of the sum named by the Secretary of the Navy, to be at his disposal at once for expenditure, as soon as suitable arrangements c¢an be made to the proposed end. X i ; *R. B.:HaYES.” : —_—— o — How a Long-Lost Mother Was Found. For flve years ‘“Grandma’’ Hamilton had lived at the Home for the Friendless—blind and feeble and, wanting to die. She was too good to go to the poor-house and had no money to go to the Old Ladies’ Home: so the management gave her a room and the fairies orthe other good angels brought the old lady a comfortable rocking-chair and other articles of furniture, and there she sat rocking and knitting life to its close.. = One day a lady, in sealskins and jewels, rang the bell and asked: ‘‘ls Mrs. Hamilten in?” No, they said. There was no Mrs. Hamilton there. The lady could not mean * Grandma’’ Hamilton? In all the five years gone nobody had called forher! But, yes; the richly-dressed lady would like to see * Grandma,” and, while they went for her, sat and sobbed on the sofa. When they led the old lady in, the lady in sealskin and jewels burst into tears, and throwing her arms around her neck, sobbed out: ‘* Mother, mother, don’t you know Louisa?” *Oh, no,” said the old lady, peering with her blind eyes and shaking her head, ** my daughters Louisa and Lizzie are both dead, and you cannot be Louisa.”’ g ; : ‘¢ But, indeed, I am; and Lizzie is living, too, and for a year I’ve been looking for you everywhere, and now I've found you’--and while they wept on each other’s necks, Mrs. Grant, the Superintendent, and Miss Bowman, the matron, withdrew and left them to talk it over. . S This was only a short time ago, and next day the lady camein a carriage again, and “Grandma,” having taken the night to *‘get her things together,”” bade good-by to the Home and went away all wrapped in fur-lined robes, to wait in ease and happiness till Death comes to bid her cease her rocking and her knitting. And the explanation of it all is that fifteen years ago Louisa married and went to California; Lizzie stayedin Ohio, and “Grandma,” with a little ' competence, came to Chicago. After a while, by one of those inexplicable combinations of imistakes that sometimes obtain in this mysterious world they all came to believe each other dead, and. ‘* Grandma,” having lived out her cnm})etence, drifted to the Home for the Friendless. Louisa's husband grew rich in California, and last summer there came to her the faintest whisper that ‘* Mother’” was not dead. She started to search for her, and, after going all through Michigan and Ohio where they bad lived—and where, by the way, she found Lizzie still Living—hshe at length found a family in Englewood (a suburb of this city) who had seen *Grandma’’ Hamilton at the Home for the Friendless—and thus she found her mother.—Chicago Journal. : il AR . THE telephone now boasts seven own apd only inventors. =~ . :

1 OCCWRWS OF INTEREST. A Desperate Struggle with Two Bears. ~ LoTTIE Mxmfuu,. the female hunter of Wayne County, Pa., has just had another adventure worthy of record, and one which camex 80 near ;co‘sting?her her life that she will probe ably in the future never resume her masculing sport. ‘A few days ago, just after the great sleet- storm which swept over the country, Lotuie determined 1o go deer hunting. Don- - ning her snow shoes she started to cross Drig’ Swamp, a densfe mass of scrub-oak and laurel. - When she had reached the center of the marsh “she dis¢overed the foot-prints of a very large bear on the crust. She followed the trail out 1 of the swamp:for about two miles, when she ~discovered the%.den which the animal inhabited. Entering the cave she found two little cubs on a bed fof leaves in one corner. The cubs were about the size of kittens and were easily captured. : S - Lottie was just emerging from the gave when she was met by an immense she bear. The bear had heurd the cubs yell and was - making all possible speed to rescue them. Before Lottie could draw her ritle to her shoulder the animal was upon her and, grasping her in | her pa.}vsfgave her such aterrible squeeze that she fainted, when the bear, thinking heridead, released her grip. She tfortunately regidined consciousness guickly, and when the old bear was playing with her cubs the plucky hunter drew her rifle and shot her in the side. 'Lhe bullet did not strike the animal’s heart, and as the brute dashed at her again Lottie drew her hunting knife }und with one bold stroke nearly severed the belar's head from the body. . * Lottie wus just congratulating herself on her stflcceséful§ escape when the dead bear’s mate made his appearance. Lottie's ritle was unloaded and she was totally unpreparcd for a second enco:_unter. but determined to ** fight it out,”” The struggle was a long one. Fortunately the ybunx lady was not incumbered in her motions by petticoats, for in all her hunting exper(,fitions she wears pantaloons of doeskin witha 'long blouse. When, finally, Lottie thought the bear was dead she stooped over to cut hi§ throut, and the animal, with one stroke of his monstrous paw, tore the clothing almost completely from her body. | During the priotracted struggle the bear had ‘ reached the edge of a ciift fully 100 feet high 'and sloping at an angle of more than 45 degreegs down to the Wallinpaupack “Creek. As the animal grabbed Lottie he com- | menced sliding on the slippery crust down | this almost perpendicular slope. Lottic was carried with him, and every foot of distance traversed added to their velocity. When they reached the foot of the slope they struck - against a tree; completely killing the bear and breaking two of Lottie’s ribs, her left arm and one of her limbs. She managed, however, to ‘erawl about ai,milo to a house, where she received medical treatment. The first bear killed weighed when dressed 453 pounds and the male one 484 pounds. Lottie, who is| improving slowly, has the cubs in her possession, but she says it will be some time before she . will take angther expedition of this kind.— Damqs%us (Pa.j) Cor, New York Times. B { —— e ; L Destiltutlon in Minnesota. ‘ A Sr. Por/(Minn.) special of the 4th to| the Chicago T-r_ibujnc say 3: * A gentleman who came from Waseca last night says that the greatest destitution exists on the Winona & - St. Peter Branch of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, beyond Sleepy Eye Station, a point about forty miles west of St. Peter.” On Wednesday a Mr. Burke, a roadmaster on the section located at Burns, the next station be- ‘ yond| Sleepyl Eye, @ discovered a whole family frozen to death. Mr. Burke, whilé” —at | work with ~ his men ' n thie road under his charge, noticed a shanty tlose by from |which no smoke issued. Seeing ’evidence that the place was inhabited, ‘the - party visited the premises and forced open the ' door, when a horrible sight greeted their eyes. ‘ Upon a squalid couch and on the floor of the wretched hovel lay father, mother and children, evidenffy a whole family, frozen istiff in _death. Word was at once sent to the nearest town, and arrangements made to care for the ' remains of the unfortunate family. Universal destitution islreported among the farmers west | of Sleepy Eye. It is stated that no trains -car- ' rying fuel have passed Sleepy Eye since De~cember 24. The country is a broad expzmsel ‘of prairie, with hardly a stick of timber with‘in miles of the railroad. Settlers have rushed. in, taken cfiims, and, deluded by the mild winters of the past few years, have not made | | sufficient pr¢vision against the severe cold - of the past three months. They have been obliged to;| burn fencing, furniture, pieces of b;')ards from their houses, and even the woodwork on their farm machinery. One man reported to H. J. Wadsworth, the station agent at W aseca, that he could not ob- ' tain fuel andhmd burned much of his furniture, and that the cabinet organ would have 'to go next. It is impossible to reach many of the settlers, as the railroads are drifted and ' the wagon roads impassable, and it is feared that many will starve or be frozen to death before help can reach them.”’ 1

Terrible Faie of a Father and Six Children. | LOUISVILLE, Ky., February 2. THE Courier-Journal has the following special from Spring Lick, Ky.: Wiley Embrey, an old and respected farmer in Butler County, and six of his children were burned to death on Friday night, the wife and eldest daughter escaping witfiout injury. The particulars of the burning dre as follows: On the night referred to Embrey and his family retired between seven: and eight o’clock, and' at ten >’clock the wife and husband were awakened by the roaring of a fire, which they discovered was up-stairs, and in a room where six of their children weré¢ sleeping. Embrey rushed to the stair-door, opened it, ind started up-stairs, when he was met by the flames jssuing from above, and fel} prostrate on, the floor. His wife and their oldest daughter, who were sleeping in the same room, realizing' the peril of their ‘own lives, rusheq out of doors, leaving behind them the old man and six children to perish in the house, ithe roof of which was then falling in. The'old lady and her daughter began screaming at{the top ot their voices, which soon attracted several of their neighbors to the horrifying scene ot disaster, but they ar rived too|late to render any assistance. Language is wholly inadequate to describe the wails m]ad moans of the grief-stricken mother and daughter, who stood by gazing on all that was dear to them on earth perishing in the angry, flames. The fire was not extinguished until everything was consumed. Among the r&;abris particles 6f the bodies of the father and children were found. but not in sufficient quantities to be identified. Wiley Emmey was a farmer, and, by dint of hard work and thestrictest economy, managed to save up enough to live easy and comfortablé for the remainder of his life. The whole country is né¢ariy paralyzed over the horrible death of Mr. Embrey and his six children. It is not be}ieved that Mrs. Embrey and her daughter wil‘ gurvive the shock.

" [Cheolera Predicted. A RECENT Cincinnati telegram says: “An interview fis published with Dr. Blackburn, of } Kentucky, who is one of the most experienced cholera physicians in the country. He says the country is pretty sure to suffer from cholera the comit_’xg season. He says it is now in Chicago, under the name of ‘cholerine.> His theory is that it never failed that a cholera epidemic foliower] upon the heels of an influenza epidemic. We have just had that. Men and horses have suffered from it. The influenza epidemijcs are due to the too great pro--portion of ozone in the atmosphere, and the deficiency| ot it is the condition for cholera, Nature is constantly running to extremes, and the excess of ozone is followed by a deficiency. ‘I certainly have,” continued the doctor-Governor, ‘been expe¢ting cholera to make its appearance in this section, and now that it has jappeared in Chicago, it is more than likely that we shall have it. But,’ said he, ‘there isan infallible preveative for ghole"ra.,v ____ . i e Frvebrothers, of the name of Buzzard, lead a Pennsylvania gang of thieves. ! e 2 R

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A TOLLGATE‘KEEPER named Baldwin attempted to brain his wife with a stick of wood, athalton before daylicht the other morningj while under the influence of liquor. She felk senseless to the floor, and has remained uncon~ scious since, with little prospeect of her recov-~ ery. Baldwin is said to be a terribly vicious. man. : o A FEW nights ago James Buckingham, of Snoddy’s Mill, upon retiring .at. the Cirele: ‘House, in Indianapolis, blew out the gas instead of turning it off. Next morning -at. daybreak -his° room was broken into and Buckingham ‘was found almost breathing hie. last. : iR S Isasc HaywortH .and John F. Holloway were arrested at Indianapolis on the 31st ult, for circulating counterfeit silver coin. The Federal authorities consider the capture an important one.- g » ; - SoME time ago Jackson Goodrich, of Boone Township, Cass County, found that his flock of about forty sheep had all been killed or crippled during ‘the “previous mgl_ilt by dogs. This fired his anger, and, arming himself with gun and ammunition, he started out, resolved to kill every species of canine that crossed his path. His first victim was his own Newfoundland dog—which, by the way, was en~ tirely innocent of the charge of even disturbing sheep. - After this Mr. Goodrich kept on in his work until he had the scalps of twentythree doxs dangling from 'his belt. At last reports he was vfim engaged in the dog-killing « business, and determined to rid his township of the pests, as he characterizes them. - Tugr Indianapolis ‘grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, §[email protected]%; Corn, 4@ 4lc; Oats, 3215@3415c.. The Cineinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, $1.06(@1.0614; Corn, 41%4@413{e; Oats, 354@361¢¢c; Rye, g@95815c; Barley, [email protected]. - ) : THE LEGISLATURE. . SENATE—On the 31st ult. a bill \ga's; introduced abolishing the office of President/of the benevolent institutions.” The: Committee on Education was-instructed to report upon the feasibility of consolidating the various educational institutions under one' management. The bill to prevent marriage of drunkards, insane people and felons, was referred. The joint resolution ‘*‘that the sympathies of the people of Indiana are with the masses of the people of Ireland in their present legal struggle to reform the system of land laws at present existing in that country,”” was adopted. House—No quorum present and no business transucted. S : SENATE=On the Ist no business of importance was transacted in .the Senate and it adjourned early for an excursion to Purdue University. BidabE i House—Resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy with the people of lrelandin the legal struggle. for relief;and thanking Congressman Calking for ‘his efforts in turtherance of the cause in the National House of TRepresentatives. The report-of the committee recommending the passage of the bill empowering nine jurors to return a verdict was concurred in, - Bills were introduced—amending the act regulating genéral elections; authorizing owners ¢of wet lands to drain and reclaim the same; prohibiting minors from loit--ering in saloons,'and providing no exemption for married ‘women from taxation. The House thenadjourned to join with the Senate on the excursion to Purdue University. ; SENATE—On the 2d sundry legalizing and amending acts were passed. The bill for the establishment of a State Board of Health was defeated, and afterwards reconsidered and referred to the Health Committee: A resolution instructing the Congressional delegation to secure an appropriation to make the Kan--kakee River navigable was adopted. The bill for licensing engineers was discussed and recommitted with instructions to amend. The vote by which the bill, amendatory of the Railroad Bridge law, was ordered engrossed was reconsidered, and the bill recommitted. The various medsures relating-to a Constitutional Convention weré made the special order for the afternoon of the 3d. : o HouseE—Bills were introduced—regarding liquor licenses; for the election of County Superintendents by a.papular vote. The bill for refunding city indebtedness was referred for amendments restricting the limit’ of bonds, and changing the provisions in other respects.. Sundry local bills were passed. : SENATE—On :the 3d.James F. Harney, Trustee of the Feeble-minded Childrens’ Institute, sent in a demand for v'an investigation of his official acts. The bill authorizing the deduction of indebtedness from assessments was referred. The House resolution ordering an investigation of the Insane:Asylum was adopted. Bills'were introduced—prohibiting the sale pf firearms to children under fifteen years of age; providing for payment of expert witnesses. The' contested election case of W. R. Brownlee. vs. Charles L. Henry, from Madison County, was settled by the acceptance of the committee report, that the lastnamed retire from his . Senatorial seat. A resolution was introduced expressing the sentiment of the Senate that the ridiculous features of the famous Whistling bill, passed two years ago, was due to careless enroliment and engrossing. Senators Shaffer, Bell an Jayne were placed upon the joint Committee to investigate the Insane Asylum, and Sena: tors McCartney and Howard were appointec to look atter the »House‘ of Refuge. 4 0 HoUSE—A resolution was adopted to investigate the State Insane Asylum. The- bill authorizing the purchase and conversion of toll. roads into free routes was favorably r(iiported upon, but was..afterward recommittéed with instructions to amend so that a majority of the legal voters of the county. are necessary be#)re purchass is made. A sharp debate was had over the passage of the. bill establishing a Superior Court in. Vigo Count{, but it finally passed--54¢ to - 33, . Clark County presented a claim of $4,000 for the prosecution and convietion in 1874 of William -Kennedy, a conviet who killed one of the guards in the Prison South. - i Ce e SENATE—ON the 4th a large number of bills werejdisposed of by indefinite postponement in accordance with committee recommendations. The bill providing for the establishment and maintenance ot public libraries in connection. with publi¢ schools in cities of over ten thousand population passed under a suspension of the rules—42 to 5. A bill was introduced providing for-a commission of five lawyers to be appointed by the Supreme Court to expedite the pending litigation before that tribunal. The afternoon was occupied in the discussion of the various propositions relating to Constitutional amendments, but no vote: was reached and further discussion was postponed uatil the 7th. e 5 < House—Several bills were reported from' Committees including the measure proposing the abolition of city and town assessors, which was amended by omitting the City of Indianapolis from its operation. The bill was thef engrossed. - The Fish Commission bill was re--ported favorably, with amendments reducing the number of members of the board to six, and the Eropo’s_ed appropriation from $5,000 to $2,000. The bill repealing the act authorizing counties and townships to vote aid to the construction of railroads, was reported t‘avorabl{ from the Committee on County and Town busi--ness, but an attempt to engross the bill was unsuccessful and. eventually, the . bill was referred to the Railroad Committee by a vote of 59 to 62. Upon the motion to engross the bill to establish & board to manage both the Stateprisons, a motion was made to have.the Governor’s nominations of Direetors confirmed by the House 'instead of' the Senate, but it was voted down, by 45 t 043. ' An amendment that the nominations be confirmed’' by the Houseand Senate in joint gonvention, was referred with the bill to the Prison Committee. Thebill for the payment of non-resident witnesses in State cases, wxlsreferred;w .the Committee on Feesaud Salarles. -~ - oo -

~_--'The average heat and cold vary but little from year to year. The average ‘ of the highest daily record in. 1878 was \gixty-one and a half and in 1879 was fifty-eight and three-quarters, which shows an extreme of the change within ) five years. The average of the lowest daily record for the year 1879 was fortyfour and one-eighth, and for 1878 forty--six and one-quarter, representing the extremes on that side.. g j : L - —Mr. John H. Inman, of Danbridge, Tenn., came out of the Confederate: army at twenty with less than $lOO, and. | %Ot a place in a New York cotton firm. - He is now seputed. worth $1,500,000.