Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 February 1881 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. ——-—.‘—*'v— & Important Intelligence from All Parts, % ; et : : Congress. ; _ THE credentials of Philetus Sawyer, of Wisconsin, and Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, were presented in the Senate on the Bth. Mr. Bruce, from the Committee on Education and ‘Labor, reported adversely the joint resolution to provide for the enforcement of the EightHour law, and its consideration was indefipitely postponed. Mr. Blair introduced a joint resolution proposing a Constitutional amendment prohibiting, after the year 1900, the manufacturc and sale anywhere within the United States of distilled alcohol and intoxicating ‘liquors, or any intoxicating liqudrs mixed or adulterated with. ardent spirits, or any poison whatever, except for medical, mechanical, chemical, or scientific purposes; also-: prohibiting thef ' exportation and /importation of such liquors, and their transportation through any part of the United States, except for medical and scientific uses, etc. The resolutions from the House announcing the death of Evarts W, Farr were considered and concurred in. The Pension Appropriation bill was further discussed and amended. ... The River and Harbor and the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bills were reported in the House and referred to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. | Briggs offered the customary resolutions relative to the death of Mr. Farr, of New Hampshire, and eulogies were delivered by Mesars. Briggs, Hall, Ray, Bland, Bowman, Updegraff (Ohio), Shellenbarger, Blake and Sherwin. . IN the Senate on the 9th a resolution, submitted by Mr. Wallace, was adopted, calling on the President, if not incompatible with the publiec interest, for the correspondence re‘cently passed between Spain and the United States in regard to the agreement of February 12, 1871, and more particularly with reference to the question of naturalization by the United States of natives of Spain. Mr. Windom introduced a bill authorizing the Mexican National Railway Com)i:my to construct a bridge. to the center of the Rio Grande River, or to the boundary line between Mexico and the United States. The Pension Appro;)riation bill was passed. After returning from the joint session held for the counting of the Electoral votes a preamble and resolution were adopted reciting the result and declaring that the two houses were‘of opinion that the Constitution and laws had been duly executed, and that no further declaration of the facts set forth was necessary....The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was passed in the House, and the Agricultural Appropriation bill was reported back from committee and referred to the Committee of the Whole. THE bill appropriating §200,000 for the purchase of ground for and the erection thereon of a hall of deposit for Government records was passed in the Senate on the 10th. Pursuant to a resolution offered by Mr. Pendleton and adopted, Messrs., Pendleton, Anthony and Bayard were constituted a committee to make arrangements for the inauguration of the President-elect on the 4th of March next. The Postal ApFropriution bill was considered, and sevéral amendments were agreed ‘to., The Legislative Appropriation bill was received and referred. Mr. Blair introduced a bill providing for a temporary increase of facilities for examination and adJjudication of pension claims. A few private Pension bills were passed.... A number of private bills were disposed of in the House. Mr. Murch offered a resolution, which was adopted, reciting the allezations that persons connected Wl'tll the Washington Gas-light Company were using the opportunities arising out of their connection with Congress .to influence members in matters pertaining to lighting the city and public buildings, and directing the. Company to furnish a list of all stockholders: and information in regard to dividends, the amount of cash on hand, ete. The River and’ Harbor Appropriation bill was taken up and debated in Committee of the Whole, and Mr. Reagan moved that the committee rise and report the bill to the House. Mr. Cox raised a point of order and demanded a reading of the bill for amendments, and the Chair ruled that, the reading being demanded, the motion could not be entertained. An {mpeulr being taken, the Chair was sustained—ls 2 to 6. IN the Senate on the 11th Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution, which was laid over, instructing the Judiciary Committee to consider and report whether the assembling at the seat of Government ot large bodies of organized and armed troops, not under command of otficers of the United States or other National authority, be not likely toprovein future daungerous.in practice, and whether any legislation or <opinion by Congress on the subject be desirable. Mr. Wallace was awarded the floor upon his Constitutional Amendments for the D'strict system and po;‘)ulm‘ vote by the plurality rule in Presidential elections, and spoke for an hour upon the defects which he claimed to be inhérent in the Brcs,ent system. The Post-office Appropriation ill was-further considered....The session of the House was mainly devoted to the consideration of private bills. About two dozen Pension bills were passed, as was glso a bill making Indianapolis a port of delivery. IN the Senate on the 12th Mr. Conkling presented the credentials of Thomas C. Platt, Senator-elect from New York, to succeed Mr. Kernan, and the Vice-President presented the credentials of Thomas F. Bayard, Senator-elect from Delaware, to succeed himself. Mr. Morgan, on behalf of the Committee to Consider the State of the Law Relative to the Election of President and Vice-President, stated that, though anxious to bring forward some proposition in referénce to this important subject, the committee thought -it would be in vain to do so at this stage of the session, and would therefore abandon the pending measure bgfore them. On motion of Mr. Davis (Ill.), the Seaate bitl to amend section 989 of the Revised Statutes, so as to extend its provisions to all officers of the United States in the performance of ofticial acts in which the United Statesisa party or has an interest, was tuken up and passed. The Postoffice Appropriation bill was taken up, and, after some discussion, the discovery was made that no quorum was present....ln the House the bill reported by the Interoceanic Canal Committee in aid of the Tehuantepec Ship-Railroad * Canal (Bads’ scheme) gave rise ‘to a noisy and disorderly struggle. over the question whather the report had been authorized; finally, on motion of Mr. Cox, the whole subject was laid on. the table by an almost unanimous viva-voce vote. The bill regulating the importation of the raw material used in the construction or repair of vessels engaged in tforeign trade, including the trade between Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, or built on foreign account. was amended and passed. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole.

Domestic. IT was stated on the 9th that the pursuit of Sitting Bull had been abandoned, and that Major liges would return to Fort Buford after securing a few hostile Sioux who were secreted in the Yanktonais village. | A PARTY of ten cow-boys in New Mexico recently routed a band of thirty-five Indians, and left six of them dead on the field. Every building at Pass Manchac, La., was swept away during a recent storm, but no lives were lost. 2 : Tae Treasury Department has recently credited to the conscience fund $5OO alleged to have come from a dying woman who stole the amount twenty-seven years ago. . Tae official fizures give Pennsylvania a population of 4,282,786, of which 85,680 are colored. Males, 2,136 635; females, 2,146,151. The native population is 3,695,253, and the foreign-born population 587,533. P. A. CoLLiNs, Pres dent, of the American branches of the Irish Land League, has issued an appeal to the . American people and the Irish in America for practical aid. Tue Post-office Department has recently made the following estimate of the total amount of mail-matter ' passing through the mails during the year 188): Number of letters, 512,981,224; postal-cards, 168,048 912; newspapers, 496,706,132; pieces of all classes, 1.605,593'5”‘ ; : : - T builders of Cincinnati have been notifled that a general strike of the trades connected with building operations will take place on the Ist of April.

Tae Southern Oil Works at Memphis were destroyed by fire on the morning of the 10th. Loss about $200,000. e Nuws was received on the 10th that Major Ilges had secured about, 100 hostile Sioux in the Yanktonais village, placed the Chief Little Assiniboine in irons, and taken his line of march to Fort ‘Buford. ; At aconference at the office of the Pennsylvania 'Railroad Company in Philadelphia on the 9th, in which Jay Gould, General Thomas T. Eckert and .D. H. Bates, representing the consolidated Teélegraph Companies, and officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with counsel, participated, it was decided to suspend all operations .in telegraphic litigation for the present. This action was intended to hold legal proceedings in abeyance until new terms could be agreed upon. Si el ' A PASSENGER train on the North Pennsylvania Railroad collided with a freight train at Rock Hill Station on the 10th. Two men were killed, four others fatally and five badly injured. The flag station was demolirhed, and the telegraph operator seriously: ii not fatally, hurt. The misconstruction of a telegram caused the disaster. : MiINNIE LEE, the little girl ‘'in New York who was attacked with hydrophobia, died on the 10th. ‘ ; .Tue value of the petroleum exported from this country last vear was $34, 505,645, against $37,235,467 the year belore. AN immense and enthusiastic meeting was held in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the night of the 11th, to express sympathy for Ireland. Mayor Prince presided, and Wendell Phillips and General Butler were among the speakers. Governor Loung, ex-Governor Rice and others sent letters sympathizing with the object of the meeting. ' :

It was announced from New York on the 11th that the current of ¢oin had turned away from our shores. The steamer Rheim would take to Hamburg $lOO,OOO in Mexican silver, and the City of Berlin had $50,000 in American specie among her freight. THe Michigan Avenue Baptist Church in Chicago was destroyed by fire on the night of the 12th. Loss about $380,000. SIX LABORERS were burned to death by a recent explosion in the Belmont mine, near Helena, Montana. : Tremumber of immigrants arriving in the United States during the month of January wa515,224. Durine the seven months ended January 31 the number was: From Germany, 77,4073 Canada, 74,839; England and Wales, 34,292; Ireland, 29,265; Scotland, 7,556; China, 3,213; all other countries, 63,345. - ‘DUurING the week ended on the 12th 12,495 standard silver dollars were putin circulation, against 136,997 during the corresponding week of 1880. ; A VOLCAXNO has been discovered in the Allegheny Mountains, in Fayette County, Virginia. Steam rises in considerdble volume, and stones thrown in were heard plunging down the abyss for several seconds. Hundreds of people have visited the scene. Tug extraordinary weather of the current season culminated on the 12th in one of the most furious snow-storms . ever known throughout the Western States, and in heayy rains, consequent floods and extensive d?inage in the Eastern States. The rains in/the East, following the partial thaw, caused' the rivers to swell, and all the principal cities along the Potomac, the Pennsylvania Riveérs and other streams had their streets turned into temporary canals. The extraordinary sight was witnessed in Washington City of tow-boats employed in transferring passengers along Pennsylvania avenue. At Toledo, 0., the water in the streets was five feet hich on the night of the 12th, and was thenrising. Boats, barges and schooners were caught in the ice gorges, and many 'of thém were sunk. Bridges on country roads and railroad bridges have been swept away by thousands through6ut Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. On the 13th the floods in the streets: of Washington and Toledo had partially subsided, and travel = was partially resumed. Deadwood reported three feet of snow and a blinding storm. On the Burlington Réad in Towa the snow was as high as the car-tops in places. ~An iron span, two hundred feet long and weighing four hundred tons, belonging to the Pennsylvania Railway bridze at Toledo, was thrown by the ice directly into the channel of the Maumee River. Tue Dutch colonists in lowa and Michigan are attaching their signatures to a memorial to the President, requesting that the United States tender its services as a mediator be. tween Great Britain and' the Boers in South “\frica. : T : ABouT three years ago George M. Roush, a wealthy stock-raiser living near Bloomington, 111., died of what was supposed to have been heart-disease. On the 13th a statement reached the Chicago Zimes that P:}ér‘ the second son of deceased, died recently:in P“l“lorthern lowa, after making the confession that he murdered his. father by putting poison in a glass of water standing at his bedside. - - It was stated on the 13th that all branches of labor in the mills at Fall River, Mass., had voted to strike, the date to be kept secret. TaE button shop of the Scoville Manufacturing Company at Waterbury, Conn., was burned on the 13th. The estimated loss is $200,000, and 200 operatives are thrown out of employ ment. :

Personal and Political. ~ CoxarEess assembled in'joint convention on r the 9th, in the hal of the House, to witness the counting of the Electoral votes. The tellers reported the whole number of Electoral votes to be 369, of which Garfield and Arthur received 214, and Hancock and English. (including the vote ot Georgia), 155; withou® the vote of Georgia the latter would have 144 votes. It was then officially declared that, in any event, Garfield and Arthur had been duly elected President and Vice-President of the ‘United States. | Tae twenty-first unsuccessful ballot for. United States Senator was taken in the Pennsylvania Legislature on the 9th. Oliver received 79y Wallace, 72; Grow, 53; Wolfe, 12; scattering, 16. Mr. Oliver subsequently formally withdrew from the contest. The Grow men held a caucus and decided by a twothirds vote to support Thomas M. Bayne, and about forty Oliver men resolved to vote.for James A. Beaver. | Tae lower house of the Ohio Legislature has defeated the b:ll to provide for local option in the sale of liquor. - A BILL has been introduced in the New York Assembly prohibiting the sale of oleomargarine and adulterated cheese. A CONCURRENT resolution has passed both houses of the Nevada Legislature condoling with the Irish sufferers. : TaE Governor of Idaho on the 10th sent to the Legislature 4 second message urging immediate and stringent measures to extirpate polygamy in the Territory. | | Ture remains of Thomas Carlyle were interred at Ecclesfechan, Bcotland, on the 10th, in the presence of alarge concourse of people. - AFTER an imprisonment of a year in the ruard-house at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Chief Dougslass, the leading spirit in the Meeker massacre, was recently released, and started oo his way to Fort Garland, whence J he would be escorted into his old hunting-

grounds. He was in charge of Captain Leife; and two soldiers. | o " luE United States Senate on the Ilth confirmed the nomination of ex-Governor John T. Hartranft for Collector of Customs at Philadelphia. : ; THeE Indiana State Senate on the 11th passed a bill to re-submit the Constitutional amendments to the people on the 4th of Aprl next. : : AT Atlanta, Ga., on the 10th Judge Woods rendered an important decision in favor of the Railroad Commission, deciding that the Legislature has the right to create such a Commission, and that said body has power to rerulate freight and passenger rates. PETER COOPER’S ninetieth birthday was celebrated in New York City on the 12th. A special commemoration took place in the large hall of Cooper Union, which ‘was crowded in every part. After an address by Prof. Raymond, a letter was read from Mr. Cooper to the Trustees of the Union, in which "he asked them to accept his check for $10,005 to be added to the $lO,OOO Go!den-Wedd'ng fund . established by him seventeen years ago, the interest of which had been annually given to institutions for aiding poor children. Mr. Cooper also presented his check for £30,000, together with receipts in full for §70,000 expended the past year on the building. } . O~ the 13th General Hermann Uhl, for twenty years business manager of the New York Staats-Zeitung. -while cleaning his revolver accidentally shot himself in the breast, receiving injuries from which he died-a half hour later. THE marriace of the Baroness Burdett Coutts and William L. Ashmead Bartlett took yplace at Christ’s Chureh, London, on the 12th, in presence of on'y relatives and intimate friends. In accordance with the will o’ the Duchess of St. Albans, Mr. Bartlett assumed the name of Burdett-Coutts before his own legal cognomen. The bride is sixtyseven and the groom about thirty years of age.

‘ Foreign., - ‘ AN Athens dispatch of the 10th says Greece will accept nothing less than the terms of the treaty of Berlin. A decree summoning the National Guard had been published. ° DiLLoN, speaking in Manchester, Eng., on the 9th, said that if the English did not quickly change their temper toward the Irish, they (the Irish) would indeed be dogs and slaves if they did not longz for the day when they could join' the United States. Parnell, he said, within .a month would stand in Congress at Washington an honored and welcomed spokesman of their wrongs. DurixNg the recent floods in the Spanish province of Seville 18,000 cattle perished. 1T was reported from London on the 11th that the recent engagement of the British troops with the Boers in South Africa, instead of resulting in British victory, in reality . ended in British defeat. The British Commander was forced to withdraw under cover of darkness, leaving his wounded on the field. v It was stated on the 11th that there was good reason to -believe that Jay Gould had secured control of the Montreal Telegraph Company. j A TLoxpox dispatch of~the Ilth gives'a rumor of the discovery of a plot to blow up Windsor Castle, and states that Queen Victoria had delayed her return from Osborne. UxIvERsAL suffrage has been- demanded by a convention held in Rome on the, 12th. Garibaldi is in full sympathy with the movement, and was chosen President. ' A St. PETERSBURG dispateh of the 12th announces that since the late victory over the Turcomans the hostile armies had returned to their homes, and a provisional Government had been established. AN anti-Coercion meeting was held in London on the 13th. Addresses were delivered from three stands by Home-Rule leaders. At the close of the oratory the erowd marched past the chief club-houses cheering for Davitt and groaning for . Forster: ; i Durixg the week ended on the 12th thirteen Socialists underwent trial at Vienna, One ‘was convicted of hizh treason and sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, another to six months’ confinement, and eleven were acquitted.. , e

LATER NEWS., AX alarming increase ‘in the number of small-pox cases was reported in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 14th. . ) THE Pennsylvania Legislature on thke 14th took the twenty-seventh ballot for United States Senator, resulting in no choice. The vote was: Bayne, 33; Wallace, 27; Beaver, 27; sca‘tering, 2. : CoNGRrRESsMAN FErRNANDO WooD, of New York, died at Hot Springs, Ark., on the night of the 13th. His health had been ,failing for some time, and he went, to the ' Arkansas resort two or three wecks before his death, in the hope of finding relief. He was sixty-nine years of age, < : GENERAL GRANT and other pariies - associated with him have organized in New York the United States National Bank and will commence business on Mareh 1. H. Victor Newcomb was elected President. ; D. R. JoxES, Recretary of the Coal-miners’ ~Association, lately on trial at Greepmsburs, Pa., for conspiracy in inducing laborers to strike, has been found guilty. Ix the contest on the Thame§ on the 14th for the championship of England and £l,OOO, Hanlan defeated Laycock by four lengths. TuEg Treasurer of the Irish Land League cabled from Paris on the 14th that Parnell would return to his seat in Parliament to fight the Coercion bill, and thence proceed to Ireland to keep alive the agitation. A Dublin dispateh of the same date announces that ‘the League would invest £70,000 in the United States. A FEWw days ago a tornado_swept through the pine woods of North Carolina and crushed a rude hut occupied by turpentine-makers, killing ten of them and seriously wounding three others. : : SmALL-POX has made its appearance in the New Jersey State Normal School, and the institution has been closed. Durixe the 13th and 14th over 75,000 valentines were dropped into lamp-post boxes in Ohleago. . | o BismaArck has, at the request of Great Britain, consented to take a leading part in the negotiations at Constantinople on the Greek coutroversy. . ; It is stated that the new Spanish Ministry’ intends to push negotiations with the United States for a treaty of commerce. = : TaE Postal Appropriation bill was passed, with amendments, in the United States Senate on the 14th. A large number of petitions were presented for a Constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. A number of bills were reported from committees. A ‘message was received from the"{ House announcing the death of Representative Wood, and, as a mark of respect for the memory of deceased, the Senate adjourned. Among the bilis introduced in the House was one fixing the first Monday in November as the time for the assembling of Congress, and one to admit articles intended for the International Exhibition of 1883 free of duty; The’ death of Fernando Wood was announced, and a committee was ‘appointed to superinténd the funeral ceremonies. ot ZiT

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. A Brass Brick Sold for Gold. POLICE circles are nonvulsed over the neat and complete manner in which one of the smart men of Chicago has been taken in by an old process. James B. Storey keeps a private loan and real-estate office in the Union Building, corner of LaSalle and Washington streets. He has always had the reputation of being somewhat shrewd, and was the-last person in the world who would be suspected of being soft enough to allow himself to be * played for B sucker.”” A sghort time since Mr. Storey had occasion to %o to the Hot Springs of Arkansas, that balmy locality where rheumatism is supposed to give up the ghost. He tock with him a large amount of hard cash and a considerable ‘sum in greenbacks, and left a fat bank account behind him as a reserve in case of emergency. Now it happened that some of the crack crooks of the country learned of the presence of Mr. Storey at the Hot Springs with ‘a barrel of money.” They immediately degided to ‘‘work him for all he was worth.” In this undertaking they were eminently successful. They tried the brass brick “racket.” They informed Mr. Storey that the brick in their possession was a very valuable one, all gold, and the mysterious manner in which they are said to have conducted the negotiations led Mr. Storey to believe all that they said. To make a long story short, the gentleman is alleged to have parted with $1,600 in cool cash, and to have become ‘the unhappy possessor of a fine brass brick,, tfius losing the entire sum invested. It is said that Mr. Storey is making every effort to recover the lost money, but thus far he has not met with any success.—Chicago Journal. .

T ie Depot Accident at Buffalo. - BurraLo. N. Y., February 8. SHORTLY after nine o’clock this morning the arched roof of the old New York Central Depot on Exchange street, overweighted with accumuilated Snoew and weakened by the re. moval of former offices which had formed a large portion of 'its support, fell, burying a number of cars and human beings beneath the tangled mass of iron, wood, glass, snow and brick. The number of narrow escapes was large. In the cars of a waiting train a few pussengersg perhaps fifteen or twenty persons in all, were seated. Not one of these were injured. Of course, all were much frightened, and, being inside the cars, could noc tell at first just what had occurred. They promptly realized, however, that they were virtually buried, but the roof and side wall falling had made a sort of ‘archway over the cars, protecting them. Passengers recovering from the first snogk and surprise had no difliculty in getting out in safety. The work of clearing away the debris was completed this afternoon. The killed are the _confidential clerk of Superintendent Tillinghast, Henry Walters, Captain John Mcßyrne, of this city, who was waiting to take a train for Erie; Wm. D, Wells, Car Inspector’s clerk; and Levi S. Huntington, clerk in the office of the Buffalo, Néw York & Philadelphia Railroad. Captain Mcßyrne is the only one of the victims married. The cause of the disaster is properly attributed to the weakening of the north wall of the depot by cutting openings and passage ways to connect with the new ~ structure, which ~attaches to the old, and ‘by the removal of a number of walls which formed. different offices .inside ~of . the old structure, and 'the immense body of snow which had accumulated, and was made additionally heavy by the recent rain and thaw. The scene presented by the fallen structure was a most ruinous one. Large piles of bricks, iron girders and heavy timbers lay piled in an indiscriminate mass, while the ragged walls tottered and fell in sections. The noise resembled that of an earthquake, and was heard a mile distant. The whole old depot was: 460 feet long; height of the walls, 26 feet; width, 100 feet, and height of arch, 76 feet. All but fifty feet of the walls and four arches are a mass of ruins. It was built in 1855-56. At no hour of the day ornight could the accident have happened without more terrible loss of life, as the depot at the time was comparatively deserted. The only: train made up and in waiting was the Lake Shore to Erie, which was awaiting the coming of the New York Central, and one from the East, both of which were behind time. The fast train went out about five minutes before the crash, and the Eastern train had been gone about an heur. The fast mail train, due about the time of the accident, was behind time, and also the heavy St. Louis and Pacific Express, No. 11. 0

: The Late Thomas Carlyle. THOMAS CARLYLE was born in 1795 at Ecclefechan, a small village in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, where his father was a farmer. At the age of fourteen he entered the University of Edinburgh and .passed through the regular course of study. He remained at the University seven years after completing the course, and determined to devote hislife to literature. He commenced his literary career in 1823 by contributing to the Edinburgh Encyclopedia some able articles of a biographical nature, and followed up his sucecess by articles for the Review of that city. Translations occupied his attention for some time, and he gave the public the geometry of Legendre and Goethe’s ‘Willhelm Meister.” The **Life of Schiller’”’ followed, being published as a serial in a London magazine. In 1827 he married. Between 1830 and 1833 he was engaged upon ‘“Sartor Resartus,” and in 1887 “The French Revolution” appeared. In 1840 he lectured on **Hero Worship,” which essays were afterwards published in book form. In 1843 appeared his * Past and Present;’’ in 1848 the ‘‘Latter-Day Pamphlets;” in 1850, his ** Life of John Sterling.” His great work was “Oliver Cromwell’s Life and Speeches,” which was published in 1845. In 1857 Mr. Carlyle was appeinted trustee of] the National Portrait Gallery. In 1864 appeared his **Life of Frederick the Great,” and in 1865 he became rector of the University of Edinburgh. In 1875 he declined the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. For the last few years he has beéh in frail hedlth, and has refrained from the severe labor of the student and author, contenting himself with visits from his admirers and his fame, which was worid-wide.

Romantic Marriage of an Aged Couple. KiNGsTON, N. Y., February 15. LATE advices from the adjoining mountain ‘region contain the particulars of a somewhat romantic elopement, which, if not in high life, seems to have been al least in advanced life. ‘Away back in the mountains, at the little hamlet of Broadhead, the existence of which few people have any idea of, two elderly people, becoming impressed with the charms and attractions of each other, and being opposed in their plans by an undutiful son of the prospective bride, suddenly took it into their heads torun away and get married, despite all opposition. Nash Bush, an old, stalwart mountain farmer of seventy-five years, spent in single blessedness, thus takes unto himself a wife in the person of Mrs. Lockwood, a blooming widow of sixty-fl‘ve. He is a man of rugged build, weighing over two hundred pounds; she a petite blonde of less than a hundred-weight. The opposing son, with whom the bride and mother lived, finding the nuptials consecrated in spite of his wishes, becomes gracefully reconciled, and takes the happy couple in. ———eetll s THE total amount of sales under the Encumbered Estates act in Ireland exceeds $260,000,000. The act came into operation 31 years ago. —————— THERMOMETERS reform late in . life; they never become *‘temperate” until nearly sixty. @ ' A cLIPPED horse does not always turn out to be a clipper of a horse.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. SENATE—On the sth bills on the calendar were generally tdvanced -a stage. Bills were introduced—increasing the pay of the Speaker of the House to $lO per diemi: appropriating $20,000 annually to Purdue University; establishing schools for pauper children: creating a board of thirty inspectors for benevolent institutions, ete., ete. L HoOUSE—A resplution providing for the adniission of /Gegrge Menser to the Soldiers’ Home was hotly contested but finally adopted. He was disabled after the war while firing a salute at a Republican meeting. A bill was introduced requiring courts to commit girls ot Sixteen years of aze to the Female Reformatory instead of the County Jail. ‘ ! SENATE.—On the Tth the various bills relating to Constitutional amendments were debated at length and a vote ordered to be taken on the Bth. The House resolution providing for a joint ballot on Prizon Directors was laid on the table. The bill giving the Governor power of appointing the Directors and Trustees of benevolent institutions was ordered engrassed over the recommendation of the Committiee that it lic on the table. I:%USE—The first reading of bills occupied the House for the major portion of the -time. Bills were illtrj)duccd—-increasing the duties and salary of the Attorney-General and fixing his bond at $0,000; abolishing the Grand Jury system; providing the whipping-postfor wifebeaters; establishing a $1,500 homestead exemption; creating a State Geological Department, etc., ete.; A resolution passed directing an inquiryinto;tb%possipility of establishing a State Board of Visitors for the benevolent institutions whien ¢omplaints are made against the management. A resolution was adopted favoring the eyualization of bounties. The Attorney-General was directed to report upon, the status of the suits against ex-State Auditor Henderson. A bill was introduced for the filing of objections against the marriage of weak-minded persons or those of criminal habits. { SENATE—On the Bth a resolution was adopted appomnting the 11th as the day for the joint election of Prison Directors. The bill repealing the * Locomotive Whistling act’”’ came up, but was recommitted. Half a hundred bills were advanced a stage. A bill relative toa Constitutional ,Convention and the resubmission of the amgndments was postponed until the lith. The bill repealing the Provoke law was-laid on the table, and the one inflicting heavX penalti‘eg for bribery at elections was indeflnitely ppstponed. The bill fixing a bushel pf corn jat seventy pounds, as asked by the Board of Trade. instead of sixty-eight, was rejected—lB to/24. The bill allowing women to vote at Presidential elections was made the special order for the 15th. The bill cutting down Peace Justices throughout the State was killed. An inyvitation was accepted to visit the Normal School at Terre Haute on the 10th.

HouseE—A resolution passed enlarging the scope of the investigation of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. A lengthy debate followed on the Compulsorly Education bill, a majority of the committee reporting thereon making & special fight against the per diem to be al‘lowed children where they are the sole maintenance of indigent parents, but no decizive vote was reached. 'The Prison Investigating Committee was granted leave to visit Jeffersonville. . . : , SENATE—On the 9th bills passed—authorizing counties to establish schools for pauper children; authorizing counties to construct free gravel roads by issuing bonds to be redeemed by an assessment on the property benefited; limiting the time that cities may contract with water-works companies to five years. and authorizing a tax fevy for water gurposes of twenty cents on the $lOO. The ill empowegng the Governor to appoint Trustees and Directors of the various benevolent and reformatory institutions was defeated. The Insurance Commission submitted a lengthy repoitt and bill making an entire change in thelaw concerning the organization and management of home insurance companies, the effect being to favor the organization of home c{ompanies at every point. House—After a lengthy debate on the Com. pulsory Education bill, the House rejected the minority report unfavorable to its passage and recommitted the bill for further amendments. The'vote on rejection stood 47 to 35. The six-per-cént. interest bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and was made the special order forthe 11th. The bill giving women the right to vote at Presidential élections was favorably reported upon and ordered engrossed, ‘and the one making women eligible for'School Trustees was set down for the 11th. The House declined to abandon the one long session for twio each day. The Governor gave ‘notice of theé reappointment of Marcus R. Sulzer, of Jeffersonvilie, as Ohio River Commissioner. He was first appointed by Governor Williams, but removed by Governor Gray. SENATE—On the 10th the bill relating to guardians and wards was passed. The report of the Revision Committee on the Civil Code was made the special order for the 16th, and the resolution consolidating the two Prison Boards went over indefinitely. Bills were introduced—abolishing eapital punishment: giving the wife ¢f an insane husband control of their property; authorizing cities and towns to vote aid to. manufacturing and mining interests upon petition of two-thirds of the residents. The hill for preventing stock running at large failed to pass. The Educational Committee was directed to inquire into the necessities of Puritle University.. A bill was’ presented regulating the cost and transportation of freight in the State. A dispatch was received announclng the serious illness of Senator Keiser, of Pulaski. ' House—The Attorney General reported that the suits against ex-Auditor Henderson had been removed to Johnson County, and would be pushed toltrial. The State Auditor repgrted the total cost to the State for the past six years of Purdue University, the State University, and the | State Normal School as $353,665.27. ' A bill passed giving three months’ additional time to perfect the transfer of railroads purchased in good faith. A number of bills of minor importance passed to third readings. The proposition to exempt indebtedness from the tax schedule was laid on the table. A bill passed, authorizing counties to appropriate twenty-five cents per day for the maintenance of children in orphan asylums. SENATE—On the 11th the bill creating a State Commissioneér of Fisheries was ordered en. grossed. The special order was the bill resubmitting the Constitutional Amendments, and several hours were consumed in an argument in oppgsition. The friends ¢f the measure forceg the issue, and Monday, April 4, was agreed upon as the date of the election. On the final passage Senators Viehe, Wood, Davis and Poindexter voted. with the: Re})ublicans, the roll stanqing 28 yeas, 21 nays. ' The bill ordering a Constitutional Convention failed to ‘pass by a simiilar vote. _ : 0 House—ln Committee of the Whole a resolution was adopted recommending the passage of the bill making women * eligible as School Directors. bill was introduced authorizing. Notaries Public to perform the marriage ceremony. The Bix per cent. interest measure was called up, and an effort made to increase the rate to seven per cent., and also providing against interference with existing contraects, but the amendment failed—4s to 39. The Female Suffrage bill was made the special order for %fie 16th, and the Free-toll Road bill went qul%' until the 17th. Bills were introduced tecting wild game; in relation to the fees;g’(}lerks and Recorders, and relinquishing Jhe title of the State in the bed of Beaver Lake, in Newton County. In the afternoon both branches met in joint convention, and by a party vote elected Joel J. Finney, ot Wayne, Director of the Prison South, and A. C. Belson, of Randolph, W. T. Horine, of Lake, and Leopold Levi, of Huntington, for the Prison North. ; : i

~ « INBIANAPOLIS MARKET. Tee Indiapapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]¢; Corn, 40@ 4]c; Oats, ' 32@33c. The Cincinnati quctations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, $1.05@ 1.051¢; Corn, 4215@43c; Oats, 37@38¢; Rye, 96 @9Bc; Barley, 97c@#$1.00. ; e @ THE ghaost of Vasquez, the Mexican bandit, is said to haunt cell No. 1 ot the San Jose Jail, and the prison authorities play upon the terror of offenders in order to emforce discipline. The other day a young man who had been sentenced to the chain gang refused .to work on the streets, but after one | night's -confinement in cell No. 1 he was glad to accede to any demand. He claimed to have had a terrible midnight experience with the'dead brigand. e e@ e B - WHEN you ask & Boston girl for a kiss she replies, ‘‘l have no objection to a platonic osculation, but permit me, first, to remove my glasses.’’ s

A Boston Lawyer Overruléd by a Ver- ‘ . mont Squire. i There was a certain Vermont farmer named Brown, who owned a large sheep farm and who, once on a time, finding himself in difficulties, came down to Boston and consulted his brother-in-law, who was a lawyer, as to ways and means of raising money. Thelawyer, who was a keen man of business and had money to spare, agreed to lend the faxmer such - sums as he required, provided the latter would give him a first mortgage on the sheep farm. The farmer assented to this, the mortgage was duly made and recorded and .tie farmer returned home to Vermont with ‘money in his pocket. Time went on and the farmer paid interest promptly, the same passing - through the hands of one John Smith, who was a man of mark in the farmer’s neighborhood and had accordingly been deputed by the Bostonlawver toreceive the interest and forward the same to ‘him. ; Sl Yo At length, however, farmer Brown, finding little market for his wool and having invested in . certain worthless outlying: farms, again fell into difficulties, an(i§ this time sought the advice and | assistance of his _nei«er‘or,iSmith, who, after looking over trl-')e matter, agreed to advance Brown certain sums and take security, by mortgage of the farmer’s carts, wagons, horses, sheep-shears and other personal property, the farm itself being already mortgaged to the Boston lawyer. . S L ‘ But Brown still failed to prosper and at length could pay interest neither to the lawyer nor to. Smith. Then it was agreed that his assets should be fairly divided between the two mortgagees, and Squire Joyce, a Justice ot the I?eace : in the neighborhood, who was a member of the same church as Smith, was selected to act as referee. The parties met at' the ’Squire’s office and each spoke for himself;, the lawyer first. Said he: ‘I have a first mortgage on the farm, duly executed and recorded, and of course the farm must belong to me.”’ ¢* Not much!”’ said Smith. - ¢ I have a mortgage later than yours, on the personal property, and if that isn't enough to cover my debt 1 shall grab thé farm too. My equity is superior to yours. Isn’t that so,’Squire?”’ v .. The 'Squire hemmed and hawed and finally said ‘to the lawyer: You consented to Smith’s mortgage, didn’t you?"” ““ Never!’ said the zI-’awyer'. 3 , - “That makes no -difference,”’ interrupted Smith, 1 did it for you!” ““Jes’ ‘so, jes' so!”’ said the 'Squire; “I remember, The whole business was mighty simple. You jest consented as this Boston man’s attorney to Brown’sl making a mortgage to you.”’ i *“But what of it,”’ cried the lawyer. “He couldn’t give any binding assent to make his mortgage better than mine.” | S : . ¢ Perhaps 'mot ‘in law,” said the ’Squire, ‘¢ but ‘in' equity, in equity, my dear sir; we go by equivy here in VerYhont ' e S o ““Yes, I call it inequity,” said the lawyer, sotto voce. e ‘“ Besides,” said the ’'Squire, ‘I am inclined 'to believe that it was the intention as between Smith and Brown that the mortgage of the carts and fixings should include the farm, too—though the writings don’t jest say so. Wasn’t that so Smith?’ . o “Certain!”’ said Smith. : - ¢ But that makes no difference,’’ cried the lawyer, ‘‘you must go by the record! I’ve authority on that point,’’ and he produced a bag full of books. “Young man!”’ cried Justice Joyce severely. “I'd bfve you know that this court isn’t hide-bound by precedents. I sit here to do equity as I understand it. Zquitas non sequitar legem. Ahem !, : e *That's so in Vermont, by jingo!’ cried the lawyer, waxing wrath. ‘ ““Order in the court!’ cried the ’Squire. ‘‘Besides, I mean to make it arule in my court that the last mortgage shall always have priority. It's so with wills, why not with mortgages? Answer that, you Boston chap!” - » Lo The lawyer was dumbfounded. , “I find on the whole case,” said ’Squire Joyce, summing up, ‘that the farm and personalty must be sold and Smith’s debt and interest paid, no matter what becomes of this Boston man. And Smith, as you say you have an interest in the wheelwrights, and black‘smiths’ shops up to the village and Brown owes a running account at both places, you just bring in those bills and mebbe—l don’t say certain; but mebbe —we can fix those up if there's any balance.n : e The ' lawyer took his books back to Boston a wiser man. Smith grabbed the farm and sheared the sheep and said tauntingly to the lawyer, ¢ What are you going to do about it?"’—Springfield (Mass.) Republican. ]

A Sad Case. ¢ The wife of J. Lloyd Haigh, the wealthy wire contractor, who is now imprisoned at Sing - Sing prison for crimes committed in connection . with the Brooklyn bridge, died Thursday night at her home in New York. She ‘'was but thirty-six years old, and the daughter of a wealthy New York merchant. She is said to have been a most estimable woman, and her devotion to her husband through the long period of his disgrace, trial and imprisonment. never wavered or faltered. She never uttered a word of complaint or reproach and to the last was busy with thoughts of what she could do to mitigate the severity of his punishment. He is said to have been ,equally attached to her, and the case is one of peculiar sadness. It was proposed to make application to the Governor to permit the unfortunate convict to visit his home, im company of guards, to attend the funeral; but there is no law that would authorize such a procéed‘in% and the attempt must fail, The forger Giiman, the Sunday-school superintendent who was pardoned the very day his wife died, is cited by some, under a misapprehension, as a precedent. Mrs. Haigh leaves. seven children.—Albany (N. ¥.) Argus. —A Boston bugler may blast away to his heart’s content for hoursand nobody calls him to account, but let a Boston drummer simply say ‘“Darn it and somebody’s feelings are injured at once. - ~The man who died game was never known to quail, but he woodeock his gun at the wrong time, and! now he is an.angel without a shooting jacket.