Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 46, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 March 1881 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, s e e 2 % - Congress. - o In the Senate on the 23d the Conference re port on the Pension Appropriation bill was adopted. The Fortifications Appropriation bill was passed, with amendments. Bills were also passed to extend for two years the time for filing claims for /horses and equipments lost by officers and soldiers of the United States, and providing for a new building for the Congressional Library, fixing the site for the same upon six squares on the east front of the Capitol grounds, and limiting the cost of lands and damages therefor to $1,000,%00. A Conference Committee was appointedupon the Post-office A(Ypropriation bill.... Some of the Senate amendments to ‘the Post-office Appropropriation bill were, and others were not, concurred in by the House. Mr. Cox called up the Apportionment bill, and Mr. Conger moved the consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. The Republicans, with one or two exceptions, refrained from voting on this question, and the point of no quorum was raised. Mr. Frye stated that the Republicans were not ready to act on the A;l)portionment bill, and requested Mr. Cox to allow other business to intervene. Mr. Cox consented, but gave notice that he would call up the bill on th 24th. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was then further considered, and several amendimnents were.disposed of. THe death of Senator Carpenter was announced in the Senate on the 24th, and appropriate resolutions were adopted. After. the appointment of a committee to attend the funeral and accompany the remains to Milwaukee, the Senate adjourned as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased ...In the House gBomo of the Senate amendments to the Fortifications Appropriation bill were, and. others were not, concurred in. Mr. Cox demanded the regular order, being the consideration of the Apportionment bill. At first the Republicans refused to vote, but upon the second roll-call they, at Mr. Conger’s suggestion, ¢ast their votes in the negative. The result was: ‘Yeas, 144; nays, 68. So the House determined to congider the bill. A vote was subsequently taken on_ ordering the main question, which resulted 136 yeas to 10 nays—one less than a quorum. The Speaker then cast his vote in the affirmative, thus making a_quorum. The Republicans who voted were Dick in the affirmative, and Robinson Kitlinger, Washburn and Taylor (Ohio) in the negative.- The Republican members then sought by dilatory motions to prevent action on the measure, and finally on one vote the House was found to be without a quorum, and the Sergeant-at-Arms was sent in quest of absentees. The session continued throughout the night, the time being decupied in submitting and defeating various propositions. SECRETARY SHERMAN'S credentials’ as Sena-tor-elect from Ohio were read dnd filed in the Senate on the 25th. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was passed, with amendments. The House bills constituting Atlanta, Chattanooga and Indianapolis ports of delivery were also passed. Mr. Wallace. from the Select Committee on alleged fraudsin the late élection, submitted a majority report, which was received and ordered printed. A Conference Committee was appointed on the Legislative Appropriation bill. Mr. Beck introduced a bill authorizing the issue of circulating notes of denominations. not less than $2O, in exchange for,gold coin in sums of $lO,OOO or more, the gold to be held in the Treasury for the redemption of the notes, and for no other purpose, the notes so issued to be legal tender for all indebtedness....The House remained in session all night on the 24th without coming ‘to an understanding on the Apportionment bill. Several propositions were made by one side orthe other, but all were rejected. Finally, about daylight, a compromise committee wag afipointed, and a redess. taken until 10:30 o’clock. After recess, resolutions of respect to the memory of Senator Carpenter were adopted. After the session of the 25th hegan the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was taken up and -further considered in Committee of the Whole, the most of the debate being nn & motion, by Mr. Goode, to insert an item of $200,000 to establish coaling stationsion the Isthmus of Panama. ; A RESOLUTION, offered by Mr. Butler, was adopted by the Senate on the 26th ult. instructing the Jugdiciary Committee to inquire and report by what authority and under whose appointment ‘R. M. Wallace was exercising the duties of United States Marshal for South Carolina. Messrs. Cameron (Wis.); Conkling, Logan, Pendleton and Cockrell were constituted a committee in relation to the obsequies of the late Senator Carpenter. The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of tho Whole, reported to the Senate and passed, with amendments—32 tol2 ~.The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Sundry Civil- Appropriation bill, and the amendment appropriating $200.000 for the establishment of naval coaling stations on the Isthmus of Panama was debated and finally agreed to—B2 to 65. Othemr proposed amendments were disposed of, after which the committee rose and reported the bill to the House. The previous question was then seconded and the main question orgered, but nofurther action was had. It was ordered that ‘the ceremonies fixed for the afternoon of the 27th in commemoration of the late Fernando Wood be postponed until the evening of the 28th. The Speaker announced the appointment of Messrs. Lapham, Tucker, Robeson, Carlisle and Page as a committee on the part of the House to attend the tfuneral of the late Sendtor Carpenter.

' Domestic. ¢ 1 At an_early hour on the morning of the 23d flames broke out in a four-story frame building at East Liverpool, 0. Egress was soon cut off, and the wife and six cnildren of - William Sloan perished in the structure. - ' Lewis T. SHEPPARD; while under treatment at Camden, N. J., for small-pox, recently left his room in a delirious condition, . andhas since visited nearly all the towns in that section of the State. - THOMAS BLACKWELL, employed as blaster . in a mine at Ishpeming, Mich., was recently blown into fragments by the explosion of one hundred pounds of nitro-glycerine and a I quantity of giant powder.. | BY an explosion in afire works factory near Jersey City on the 33d, three boys were dan- + gerously injured and four men badly burned. Tae parade of the Knights of Momus at New Orleans on the 24th, on the occasion of the opening of the carnival season, is reported to have been exceptionally brilliant. Four lottery-dealers in New York have been fined and sent to the Penitentiary. THE Court-House and County records at Greenwood, Ark., were' destroyed by fire on the 24th. : 7 : ON the 24th President French, of the New York Police Board, marshaled all the Captains of the force at the Central office and in- - formed them that the evidence necessary to convict gamblers must be obtained, under pain of summary dismissal. . . ON the 24th a mail train on the New Jersey Midland Road was wrecked by a broken rail, two cars being thrown down an embankment of twelve feet and set on fire by the overturning of the stoves. Reveral persons ~ were injured, but none fatally. _ THE money market in New York remained in a panic-stricken condition on the 25th. The withdrawal of bank circulatiofi, ageregating, up to the close of business on that day, $13,712,815, was the answer of the banks to ‘the clauses of the Funding bill which were offensive to them. They refused to loan money to the best business men, and in one instance a premium of one and one-half per cent. per day was paid for accommodation. Temporary .loans were called in right and left, and stocks ‘fell from three to seven per cent. Foreign - exchange was utterly demoralized. In addition to the call for $25,000,000 of bonds made on the 24th the Secretary of the Treasury authorized the Sub-Treasurer at New York to disburse $10,000,000 for five and six per cents.

at par and accrued interest, and on this order $3,694,300 was paid out. | ; LIEUTENANT GEORGE B. BURNETT, of the Fourth Cavalry, who was a cadét at the West Point Academy at the time of the Whittaker mutilation, was examineq on the 24th before the Whittaker Court-Martial. Being asked to describe hbw Whittaker was tied; he proposed to give a practical illustration. The Court dssenting, he first tiéd his feet together, and afterward bound his wrists. He. then tied his feet to a bedstead, which had been.brought in for the purpose, and lay down on his right side in the position in which he said Whittaker was found. The performance occupied about seven minutes. By request, he showed his ability to reach bis ears-with his hands, and to reach an Indian club placed at some distance on the floor, and finally untied himself without any. assistance. The performaunce was watched with' the closest attention by the Court and audience. o - Tre Governor of Massachusetts has appointed April 7 for a day of fasting and prayer. oy : Joux C. Moorg, a real-edtate broker of Indianapolis, committed suicidle a few days ~ago by shooting himself with a revolver. He was brother of the man who, four years ago, destroyed himself at Lafayette by means of a guillotine so constructed that a burning candle severed a string and let fall the ax. It was stated on the 25th that the lottery and policy dealers in New York had actually been forced to suspend business. Another 'dealer.had been fined $l,OOO and sentenced to the Penitentiary for six months for selling lottery tickets. “: ; A wlipowEeß/in Massachusetts has forced the Supreme Court of that State to affirm his right to the remains of his wife. : . PREPARATIONS were made at Fremont, 0., on the 25th for:the execution of John Welsh, who murdered Antony Gottsacker. Just ten minutes before the time set for making the bhangman’s noose an attorney reached the jail with a reprieve for one week. : - NEw YORK telegrams of the 27th ult. state that the threatened: panic in that city had ’been averted. The purchase of bonds, by | order of Secretary Sherman, ti&xrew $3, 000,000 -to $4,000,000 on the streets and loosened the 'money market, and the arrival of several millions more from outside cities had almost completely restored confidencje. Atthe close of business on the 26th there had been a sharp recovery in stocks, and money was comparatively easy. 1 ‘Tue Catholic Orphanage at Scranton, Pa., was burned on the evening of the 27th ult. The bodies of seventeen children were re--covered from the ruins. i b TuE number of deaths in New York City from January 1 last to February 26 was 6,348 —a very large increase over any previous season. : : L IN the recent trial at Darlington, S. C., of Colonel Cash, for killing Colpnel Shannon in a duel last summer, the jury failed to agree. TuE excess of exports of merchandise.from over imports into this country for the twelve months ended January 31, 1830, was $237,452,160. _ | FAusTINE GUITTERO, another of the murderers of Colonel Charles Porter, the- Government agent sent out to collect mining statistics for the Interior Department, was cauzht and hanged by a Vigilance Committee at Albuquerque, N. M., on the night of the 25th ult., making the fourth of the gang who have been put to death Without trial for ‘the crime. : ~; * A coMPANY has been organized with a capi_tall of $3,000,000 to build an elevated railway in Chicago. : i ' At afarm-house about three miles from Bloomington, lil., on the 27th ult. Will Lowrey, while cleaning a revolver which he believed to be empty, pointed it at his sister Mary and fired it. She fell, mortally wounded, and he was only by the utmost vigilance prevented from taking his own life. . Tuz Superintendent of Bchools at Little 'Rock, Ark., reports that many pupils carry loaded pistols and dangerous knives. = A FEw days ago Charles [Merrill, of China, Me., killed his mother in a*barn, concealed her body in the hay until frozen, then cut it - into pieces, part of which‘hp burned, burying the remainder in the snow.

Personal and Political. AT a confetence of the Republican members of the Pennsylvania Eegislature, held on the evening of the 22d, John I. Mitchell, member of the Forty-sixth Congress from the Sixteenth Pennsylvania . District, was selected as the compromifse candidate for United States Senator, and the thirty-fifth ballot, taken on the 23d, resulted in his election. The vote was; Mitchell (Rep.), 150; Wallace (Dem.), 92} scattering, 2. Trr Michigan Republican State Convention was held at Lansing on the 23d. Isaac L. Marston was renominated for Judge of the State Supreme Court, and James F. Joy and ex-Governor Austin Blair for Regents of the State University. The resolutions adopted closé with a declaration that * when the people by petition manifest a desire to alter or amend the Constitution they should receive that consideration to which they are entitled, as coming from the source of all political power.”’ L . Tue Republican members of the National House of Representatives held a caucuson the evening of the 23d, and almost unanimougly adopted a resolution by which they agreed to vote for no Apportfonment bill which fixes the number of Representatives at less than 319. : i ' THE divorce case between Katherine ChaseSprague and her husband, ex-Governor Sprague, was called in the Supreme Court at Kingston, R. L, on the 23d. The respondent filed his answer, denying the allegations of the petitioner, and counsel were authorized to select a day for trial. 'When the counterpetition of Governor Sprague was called, a continuance until June was asked, which the Court took under advisement. " TuE dead-lock in the New York Board of Aldermen was broken on!the 23d by the election of Alderman Patrick Keenan, an antiTammanyite, as President. : Tae New York Assembly on the 28d adopteda resolution directing the Attorney-Gen-eral to institute quo warranto proceedings to prevent the watering of stock by the ‘telegraph companies. - SENATOR MATTHEW. H. CARPENTER, of Wisconsin, died in Washlpg?on on the 24th, after .several weeks of suffering from Bright’s disease of the kidneys. ' His wife, son and daughter were with him at the time of his death. He sank quietly away without a struggle, simply dying from exhaustion incident to the disease that had spentitself upon ‘his system. He was fifty-six years of age, and was born in Vermont, moving to Wisconsin in 1848. : ‘ j Bora branches of thé New York Legislature have adopted the resolution to abolish canal tolls on-w.est-bou;erd freight. - Hexry D. Cooke, one of the old firm of Jay Cooke & Co., died in Washington on the 24th, of Bright’s disease ot the kidneys. He was formerly Governorl of the District of Columbia. L Trr Ilinois SenateAcTn the 25th passed a Compulsory Education bill. It provides that every child between the azes of eight and

fourteen years shall be sent to school at least twelve weeks in each school year. THE funeral of the late Senator Carpenter occurred in Washington on the 27th ult. and was attended by officials representing all the departments of the Government and the leading foreign legations. The Episcopal service was read by Rev. Dr. Paret. Senators Cookling and Logan headed the pallbearers, and the funeral procession comprised two hundred carriages. The remains avere deposited in Oak Hill vault, to rest until the Senate could arrange for the official funeral in. Wisconsin. v - Tue Legistature of Nebraska, which closed its session on the morning of the 27th ult., fixed the price of liquor licenses at $5OO to $l,OOO per vear, and provided that saloonkeepers must give bond in 85,000 and be responsible for civil damages. A bill was also passed making it a misdemeanor to treat a man to alcoholic drinks. :

Foreign, . Ox the 23d the Italian. Chamber of Deputies voted to abolish forc(;d? paper currency. NINETEEN natives of India have been convicted of conspiracy to murder the European residents of Kolapore. A MASSACRE is reported at Lona, in the Samoan Islands, where the opponents of King Malietoa killed five men, a woman and four children. The King dispatched a body of troops to the scene, who slayed several of the murderers. : O~NE of the Azores Islands has recently suffered thirty-six successive. earthquake shocks. Several persons were killed and two hundred houses wrecked. Ox the 24th General Ney, of the French army, a grandson of the famous Marshal, was found dead at Chatellon, having killed himself with a revolver. ~ WHILE alighting from his carriage in London on the evening of the 24th, Mr. "Gladstone, the British Premier, fell and was severely injured, his head strikingz the step of the vehicle. f B TiE suspension is ar Pounced of James Lyall & Co., East India »"Jierchants, of London, with liabilities of £25),000. . A GREEK man-of-war has reached Pirseus with a cargo of muskets and torpedoes, and Turkey has ordered thirty million cartridges from the United States. : By a vote of 281 to 36 the British House of Commons on the 25th passed the Government Coercion bill. -THE Montreal banks have notified brokers of their intention to immediately call in all temporary loans. L PrivaTE telegrams received in London on the 25th announce that peace had been concluded between Chili and Peru. A Loxpox dispatch of the 25th announces the departure of Parnell for Paris. He was suffering severely from nervous prostratioun;

Ix a desperate battle which occurred in South Africa on the 27th ult. Gen. Colley, the Commander of the British forces, was killed *and his command nearly decimated. It appears that on the preceding night, with twenty-two officers and over six hundred men, he marched up Majola Mountain. = The fight commenced on the morning of the 27th, and after four bloody charges by the Boers the British were forced to retreat for lack of ammunition. Wounded soldiers who reached Newecastle reported that not over one hundred of the British escaped, and that General Colley was slain. . THE marriage of Prince William and the Princess Augusta occurred in Berlin on the} evening of the 27th ult., and was followed by a grand court’reception and state banquet. , i - COLONEL BRIDGELAND, American Consul at Havre, cabled to an Indianapolis firm on the 26th ult. that the French order against the importation of pork from the United States would soon be rescinded. o " At a Land-League meeting in Tipperary on the 27th ult. Dillofl urged tenant farmers, in spite of the Coercion act, to Boycott those who violated the laws of the Leagcue. IN the ceremonies connected with the celebration of the birthday of Victor Hugo at Paris on the 27th ult. a procession, estimated to number three hundred thousand, marched ! past the residence of the author and were saluted from the window. _ T

LATER NEWS. THE seventeen victims of the Seranton (Pa.) Orphanage fire on the night of the 27th ult. ranged in age from three to ten years, fourteen of them being boys and three girls. They were suftocated by the smoke, having been locked in their dormitories a few minutes before the fire broke out on the floor below their rooms. Tbere were forty children in the institution, one of the Sisters succeeding in rescuiny twenty-three of them. A DUBLIN telegram of the 28th ult. says a party of fifty men had visited several houses in Kerry, Ireland, stolen forty cuns, and compelled the farmiers to swear that they would pay only Griffith’s valuation. It is announced that General Roberts, the hero of Cundahar, will succred the late General Colley in the command of the forces operating against the Boers in South Africa. THE deposits on the 28th ult. of legal-ten-ders from National Banks for the purpose of retiring circulation were $2,267,050, making a total of $18,069,970 since the 19th of February. ) | PRESIDENT-ELECT GARFIELD and family left Mentor about noon on the 28th ult., and ‘Went by special train over the Lake Shore Road to Ashtabula, and thence over the Pennsylvania Road toward Washineton. The entire population of Mentor and the neighboring villages assembled at the depot to witness the departure, and the General received a grand ovation as his carriage drove up. i pTHE start in the six days’ walking matchin New York for the O’Leary belt was made on the morning of the 28th ult., in the presence of several thousand people. There were sixteen contestants. : THE outstanding United Statescurrency on the 28th ult. aggregzated $362,585,258. THE credentials of William Mahone, Sena-tor-elect from Virginia, were presented and filed in the United States Senate on the 28th ult. The Conference reports on the Legisla~ tive, Post-office and Indian Appropriation bills were adopted. A Conference Committee was appointed on the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. In the House the Conference reports on the Post-office, Legislative and [ndian Appropriation bills were agzreed to, and a Conference Committee was ordered and.appointed on the Senate amendments to the River and Harbor Appropriation bill. The agreement on the Indian Appropriation bill restores the Indian Commission, butstrikes out an appropriation of $lO,OOO for the expenses of such Commission. At 4:15 Mr. Tacker moved that the House proceed to the tonsideration of business on the Speaker’s table for the purpose of taking up the Funding bill. Mr. Price raised the point of order that the Apportionment bill (as unfinished business) must be first disposed of. The Speaker ruled that the question of consideration could be raised, and an appeal from this decision was laid on the table—l2l to 93. At the evening session eulogies were pronounced upon the late Fernando Wood, and the cusyomary resolutions were adopted. ‘

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST. How a Little Girl Was Unjustly Punished. : : New YORK, Feb. 25. LitTLE ANNIE CRAWFORD, the child so cruelly punished by her father and step-mother, who suspected her of stealing small articles which she denied, and which thefts were subsejuently ascertained to- have been committed by a .gervant girl, Mary Dooley, was in the Supreme Court to-day and told her story to Judge Donohue. Annie des¢ribed the death of her ‘mother five years ago, how she had attended gchool regularly, and continued: October last Mary Dooley, .a servant, was employed, and shortly after her step-mother began to miss various small articles. She was accused of thefts, but denied her guilt. New-Year's day a fire was discovered in aroom. Mary Dooley and Annie were accused of it. ' Her father, after it had occu rred, whipped her with a horsewhip. He was standing about three feet from her. After, whipping she was tied for the night, and next morning her arms were strapped and she was tied to the door knob, About January 15 her father tied her wrist and took her to the station house, and told the officer in charge that she was so wicked he could not ,kecp her. The officer said she was too young to be taken in, and she was brought back home. Not long after that afire in the kitchen occurred. She was again punished Her arms were again strapped to her sides, and she was again tied to the door knob and kept there for a week. et

A Young Huntress’ Terrible Fate. A FEARFUL tale is told in the Port Jervis (N. Y.) Unionof arecent date of the ftate of Lottie Merrill, the young huntress of Wayne County, Pa. According to this account she_ had met a most tragic death, having been attacked in her hut by six bears, killed and eaten by them, and her body burned with the carcasses of some of them in her cabin. A party of hunters, it is said, at the-close ot the day on which the horror occurred found her cabin still burning, and the proofs of the horrible death she had died. It appears that she had been hunting that day, and had killed a line buck deer, which, after removing the entrails, she bad dragzed home on the snow. Six hungry bears, drawn by the smell of blood, bad foilowed the trail to her hut, and, after devouring the carcass of the deer, attacked the huntress, killing her and devouring her body. The girl had evidently made a heroic defense. An examination of ithe carcasses of the six bears in the cabin showed that she must have killed two of them before being overpowered. ‘The carcass of one bear had fallen against the closed door and ‘imprisoned them all within the cabin, which took fire and burned the others to death, In thecabin were found one of the huntress’ heéavy boots with the foot still in it, a bent hunting knife near the bones and the antlers of the deer she had brought home, which with the carcasses of the bears furnished a complete key to the mystery. Her funeral took place the next day. At least 300 people were present, and the old preacher, William Budwick, preached the sermon, relating the story of her death and extolling her bravery and virtue to the skies. The remains were buried near her burned gabln, and over her grave was placed a pair of ntlers and a hemlock slab with this rude epitaph: ; ; . “Lottie Merrill lays hear she dident know : iwot it wuz to be ateered but she has hed: :her last tussel with the bars and theyve:: :scooped her she was a good gicl and she is:now in Heaven. It took six big bars to get: :away with her. She was only eighteen: syears old.” :

Eight Persons Burned to Death. PIiTTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 23. INTELLIGENCE has been received here of a terrible conflagration at East Liverpool this morning at 1:30 o’clock, by which a family of eight persons named Sloan were burned to death. About the time stated flames were seen issuing from a four-story frame building owned by Frank Stewart, and occupied as a drug store, feed store, grocery and dwelling, the proprietor of the drug store, William Sloan, with his family, living in the upper portion. Assoon as the flames were discovered by Mr. Sloan, he aweoke all, and telling them to follow, picked up his three-year-old daughter and started for the stairs. The flames had cut off their retreat by this time, however, and, turning to the window, he leaped out, at the same time telling his wife and children to do the same. 1t is supposed that before they had time to follow his advice they were overcome by the stifling fumes from .the drug store,. as no otbers escaped. The building burned like tinder, and, having numerous elevators to the upper floors which opened a pathway for the flames, was soon in ruins. A search for bodies was begun at an early hour this morning, and soon all were recovered. They were charred beyvond recognition, and it was only by the size of the remains that the grown persons were distingnished from the children. The scene about the burning building tosday is sorrowtul in the extreme, and all that is left of a family of ten.are father and one daughter, whom he carried with him when he made his leap. The following is a list of those who perished: Mrs. Wm. Sloan, aged thirty-one years; Luella Sloan, aged thirteen; Clyde Sloan, aged twelve; Lizzie Sloan, aged eleven; Alexander Sloan, aged nine; Paul Sloan, aged five; another child aged eighteen months, -and Wilbur Skeels, a brother-in-law of the unfortunate woman. : L

Successful Prophecy. By far the most accurate estimate of future population ever made in this country, or any other, was made by a man named Watson in 1515. . As his predictions were published that year there can be no doubt of the genuineness of his ‘‘guesses.” He predicted that the population in 1880 would be 56,450,000, His propheciea were made in 1815, and here is the striking manner in which successive censuses have shown their accuracy: i Watson’s Census of Predictions. that Year. 182 ol i vaia s i 9,625000 9,623,000 1800 k RS R 000 12,864,000 (RB4O Lol o e 5 I 168000 17,069,000 800 iioaiila n s B IR 000 23,191,000 WOO i s BRI 31,443,000 As General Walker says, in speaking of this matter, it almost staggers credulity. ‘‘That man, & mere human being,”” says General Walker, ‘““should be able to predict fifty years in advance the number of inhabitants in a rapidly-growing country within a fraction of one per cent. seems wonderful—almost beyond belief.” Had the. war not intervened . it is Dbelieved . that Watson’s predictions would have held good in 1870, and also in 1880. But in 1870 he was ahead ef the census nearly 4,000,000, and in 1880 nearly 5,000,000. The losses of the war, direct and contingent, we can never know, but Watson's figures, almost absolutely accurate up to the war period, would show it to affect us the present year te the extent of nearly 5,000,000. That is, had there been no war, the present population of the United States would be about 55,000,000, Watson predicted that the population in 1900 would reach 100,000,000, but General Walker does not believe it will be over about 80,000,000, —KExchange. . ! e —— g ’ Statistics of Suicides. THE following are Prof. Bertillon’s statistics respectingethe increase in the number of suicides in different countries. In every ‘million of personssuicides have increased annually : In Italy fr0m........1864 to 1878 from 80to 37 8e1gium..............1831 to 1876 from 89 to 68 Gt. Britain and Irel’d 1860 to 1878 from gg to 70 Sweden and Norway . 1820 to 1877 from to 80 Au5tria............... 1860 to 1878 from 70 to 122 France............... 1827 to 1877 from 52 to 149 Pru55ia...............1820 to 1878 from 71 to 133 Denmark:............1836 to 1876 from 213 to 258 United 5tate5........1845 to 1878 from 107 to 183 Minor German Stat’s 1835 to 1878 from 117 to 289 —California sent to the East $1,000,000 worth of fresh fruit last year. &

: INDIANA LEGISLATURE., SENATE—Not in tession. ‘ Housr—Bills passed—repealing Section 12 of the Game law; compelling hotels to provideall possible arrangements for escape from fire. ’ i ; SENATE—On the 21st the Senate was largely occupied in the cénsideration of the bill remodeling the road system of the State by abolishing Supervisors and making Township Trustees Superintendents of Roads. . The measure eventuaily: passed to a final.reading. The bill regulatin% and improving the practice of medicine was under way at the time .of adjournment, and wias meeting with strong opposition. A Jesolutgon was adopted setting off the afternoon session for consideration of the report from the ngdiflcation Committee. - Houseg—A large number of bills were introduced. The bill ffr the purchase and conversion of toll roads into free roads was the cause of a wrangle for several hours, after which it was referred to a .committee. The Judiciary Committee submitted a number of reports, among them one’% recommending that the bill fixing the liability of employers for injuries to employes be ameénded so as to provide that the carvelessness jof company seivants is no bar to recovery {of damages. and declaring that all contracts between corporations anc employes, where the latter shall‘not bring suit for damages, Be null and void. This ameundment was- accepted and the bill ordered engrossed. ‘; SENATE—On the 22d the bill establishing a Board of Examiners and prescribing who shall practice mediciné - was consideréd during the morning session, land numerous amendments were suggested ljy the opposition. , The proposed amendments to the civil code consumed the afternoon, and a section was incorporated admitting women to practice law, but afterward voted down/on reconsideration. HOUSE—Duri,ng the forenoon the House considered the six pér cent. Interest bill. All attempts to amend by :allowing higher rates either on short ldans or on contracts were defeated. Eventually the bill was ordered engrossed, 46 to 44, with ten absent members. The Women's Sl{flfrage bill came up on special order and, was defeated, 46 to 43. The after noon was 'passed{ in_gonsideration of the Tax bill as reported by the Codification Committee, and the measure/finally passed with but slight amendments. ’ : SENATE—On the 23d the Medical bill was amended and ordered engrossed. Cousideration of the Civil ¢ode consumed the afternoon, but it was order¢d that the House Tax bill be taken up.as soon as printed copies thereof are distr.butel. The Governor sent in a notification of the appointment ot Samuel Green, of Rush County, Trustee of the State Institution’ for Feeble-minded Children. A telegram was received from Booneville, Warwick County, announcing the idangerous illness of Senator Ha:t. i | ; - HousE—Senate¢ bills were referred. Senate bills passed —-prdhibiting pool-selling; relative to decedents’ estates: enabling County Commissioners to establis® schools and asylums for indigent children, and providing for the gayment of arrearages to the Indiana Legion, 'he General Tax bill, authorizing a levy of ten cents on the $lOO, was' introduced. The vote on the resglution favoring the taxation of United States Treasury notes was reconsidered and then the resolution was indefinitely postponed. House bills passed—repealing the sectiom reguiring separate polling places_i;n:iu_cor;l)lbrated towns; relating to legal practices; authorizing and legalizing the recording of pater}ts issued by the United States in the State!of Indiana. The bill authorizing threé-tourths of a jury in ecivil cases to rendei'] a verdict was rejected. A bill was introduged amending the new StateHouse Tax law,jand providing for a tax of two cents on each $lOO for 1881 and for each successive year to and including 1888, all the money 8o raised to be kept separate and constitute a part ofithe new State-House fund. In case the tax shiould not' prove sufficient the Governor, State Auditor and Treasurer to borrow money, provided they do not borrow more than $50,000 during the present year, $200,000 in 1832, gIOO,OOU in 1883, $lOO,OOO in 1884, and £150,000 in 1855, in all $770,000. 'ln order to do this, ten-year bonds to be issued. i SENATE—On the 24th the majority report of the Temperan¢e Committee recommending the passage of \yhat is known as the Temper. ance Council Lpcal-Option - bill was taken up and a free discussion, lasting several hours. resulted in a recommittal with instruections to strike out the emergency clause and report on the 25th. Consideration of the Civel Code was resumed in thelatternoon, ending with the engrossment of the bill as mainly proposed by the Codification Committce. : House—The Ways and Means Committee introduced a bi{ll providing for theusual one per cent.tax forinterest on the temporary l%n, and authorizinfi a four per cent. loan of §200,000 to replace the bonds now faliine due. Bills were presented—providing that none but physicians shall hjold the 'office of Coroner, and giving them jurisdiction over insanity cases; to define, .suppress and punish tramps; to prohibit | the. taking .or receiving of life-insurance policies upon the ‘l'ontine plan. The bill authorizing County Commissioners to say what animals, mileh cows excepted, slmlli run at large was voted down, a 8 was also the bill abolishing the Grand Jury system, the latter failing by a vote of 59 to 22. By a vote ot 59t0 33 the House. refused to instruct the Temperance Committee to report favorably upon a Local Option bill, a resolution to that etfect being referred to the committee named, without action. Reports were made by sundry investigating committees, and the afternoon was deévoted to the consideration of the Criminal Code. e ;

SENATE—On the 25th the:oal Oil bill was ordered engrossed, after striking out the section offering rewards to informers and providing that all adulturated oils shall be #sold for the benefit of the State. The Woman’s Suffrage bill eame up on special order, and under an amtin‘dmcnt relieving women of foreign birth from the restrictions of naturalization, the discussion assumed a scope wider than the provisions of the bill, cousuming the remainder of the morning and nearly all of | the afternoon before a vote was reached. | The bill was defeated on final passage—llB to 25. The appointment of Mrs. Rhoda E. Coflin, of Richmond, |as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Female Reformatory was confirmed. | ; ; ‘ - House—Bills were introduced—to license druggists by payment of five dollars annwally, but prohibiting them from selling intoxicants excepts upon physicians’ orders; empowering Circuit Courtsito make allowances to Grand Juries in cases where presentments have besn’ made to subject of action for dameges. The ‘Committee on| Education reported the Common School Codification bill, and after a spirited debate the word ‘‘white” in Section 5 was stricken out. so that in effect Trustees will be compeiljed to furnish educational facilities forall children in the townships, irrespect--ive of color. (The bill then passed. The Committee also feported approving the management of 'the Purdue University at Lafayette, the State Normal School at Terre Haute,: and the State University at Bloomington,! and recommended an. appropriation of $60,000 for the mutual benefit of these institutions. The Criminal Code came up for consideration, and some time was spent in trying to ichange the present method of challenging jurors. The General Appropriation bill was gltroduced. The State-House Tax bill was called up in,Committee of the Whole, but went over indefinitely. The bill providing for a ten-¢ent levy on the general tax was approved, aswere also bills providing for the payment of the war loan bonds of 1861, and ordering a one-cent tax for the payment of the temporary loan debt. After the Committee arose, & member introduced a bill dissolving the Provisional Board of Commissioners of {,he énsane isylum, and adjourmsnent folowed. ]

INDIANAPOLIS MARKET. Ter Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]%4; Corn, 39@ 40c; Oats, 81@32c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 421¢@43c; Oats, 3614@37c; Rye, sl.oo@ 1.01; Barley, [email protected]. —— A PHYSICIAN at Atlanta, Ga., who contemplates removing to New York, says that he compared the operations he performed in Georgia, last year, with the prices charged by a prominent surgeon in New York, -and found that at New York prices he had done seventy thousand dpllars worth of work. How little he was paid is not told. : VENNOR, the weather prophet, is described as ‘“‘a red—headecy man of about thirty-five = years—a weather-beaten fellow, who has been surveying and explorin% in Canada since 1865.”" He isa naturalist 4nd is now engaged in getting up a book on *The Birds of Canada.’

SCHOOL AND CHURCH. ’ —Germany has twenty-one Bniversities and two thousand Professors. —Thomas Harrison, who is called the ‘ boy preacher,” although heistwentyeight years old, is. now at work in New Haven. o s/ - —The Maryland school fund #rds just been distributed to the amount of $124,500. The colored schools get out of this sum $24,500. - - - y —Dr. J. L. M. Caurry, of Richmond, Va., who has succecded Dr. Sears as agent of the Peabody fund, was before the war a member of Congress from Alabama. He -thoroughly knows the Southern States and is a man of experi- | ence, judgment and engaging manners. - —The school attendance in Georgia has- increased from 49,576 in 1871 to 226,627 in 1879, nearly 80,000 of this latter number being colored. A similar educational progress is noticeable in Tennéssee, w]ljne're- there has been an increase of fifty ‘per cent. in the average daily attendance at the schools since 1875. , B i —~Colonel Charles H. Lewis, of Boston, has arranged to pay the salaries of at least six professors, endow scholarships, and erect new buildings for Lewis College, at Northfield, Vt. This - institution was formerly known as the Norwich University, and it received its - present name in honor of Colonel Lewis, who has guaranteed financial assistance. —Miss Susie Blow, daughter of the late Hon. Hen¥y T. Blow, Minister to Brazil, while in Europe made herself familiar with the kindergarten system, and upon her return to St. Louis induced the School Board to allow her to establish kindergartens at the expense of the public school fund. These schools have since flourished and multiplied so as to beeome quite a distinct feature of public education in St. Louis. - . —A féderal council of the three Illinois dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church' has: been organized. The object of the preliminary meeting has been to draft a plan to be proposed to the dioceses of Illinois, Quincy and Springfield - respectively, at their next. conventions; whereby the three dioceses may enter into federal relations in accordance with-a provision made by the Gendral Convention. . : -—R emodeled regulations for the elementary schools in France shave just been issued. They forbid corporal punishment and provide that the wish of the father shall always be consulted as;. to participation in religious instruction; that children shall not be sent to church for catechism or- service exeept out of class hours; that the teacher shall not be bound to take them or watch over them there; that Sundays and Thursdays shall be holidays; and that punishments shall consist of bad marks, reprimand, partial: privatiou of recreation, ~detention after.school homs and temporary exclusion not exceeding two days.

- How Innuits Kill Bears. These Indians live by hunting bears, moose, wolves and reindeer, and trap mink and foxes. ' In the summer they hunt- with guns; in the winter, when game cannot run fast on account of snow, the bow and arrews.are used. Black bears are killed with a knife or spear.. It is considered disgraceful to shoot them. When an Indian meets a black bear he approaches within a few feet; the bear stops, fuces him and rises on - his haunches prepared to give him a hug. The Indian then draws his knife with great deliberation and addressing the bear, says: **l Kiow you are not afraid; but neither am I. I am as brave -as youare.” Then advancing cautiously he improves the first opportunity when bruin is off his guard to give him a thrust with theljls{nife in a vital spot, and the savage has one more deed of valor ‘to boast of to his friends when they gather in their dance houses to ‘‘ ung-to-ah,”” a ceremony whick consists of dancing around the fire and relating, in a kind of song or chant, to the music of a drum. their deeds of daring in the past and indulging in promises of still more glorious ones in the future. The result of the conflict, however, is not always in the Indian's favor; the bear sometimes getsthe bestof it and handles the savage very roughly. . We saw several natives who bore the marks of very severe scalp wounds received in encounters. One seen at Hotham Inlet was terribly mutilated. Polar bears are found distributed over nearly the entire ocean. They are generglly on the ice or in the vicinity, although instances are recorded of their being found at sea fifty miles from any land or ice. They grow to an enormous size. Of six killed by us during the eruise the .smallest would weigh at least 900 pounds and the largest some thousand pounds. They swim rapidly when pursued, and seek to escape by diving, butcan remain under the surface only a few 'seconds. When wounded they almost invariably turn and show fight.—Captain Hooper. : ] ————————————————— . The Lizard as a Thief’s Ally. In the Police Court at Allahabad we saw arraigned at the bar of justice a Hindoo for robbing a Mohammedan grave of its tombstone and using it for grinding eurry. Curry is a mixture of various condiments, and is ground to the proper consistency by being rubbed between two polished stones. Next came into Court a stalwart dacoit or thief. The Hindoo thief's manner of scaling walls is very ingenious. It is by means of a huge hzard, which he carries with himr in his nocturnal rambles. The process is as follows: The lizard, which is perhaps a yard in length with great claws and flattened feet and suction powers like those of a fly, is made fast to the dacoit by a tough. cord tied to its tail. When the dacoit is pursued and comes in his hasty flight to a wall, he quickly throws his lizard over it, holding fast to the other end of the cord. By means of suction powers the lizard fastens himself to the wall on the opposite side and the thief draws himself to the top and jumps lightly down. By choking thelizard it is made to release its hold.—Cor. San Francisco (Chromicle.. .« - oy 5 o '~ —Where the making of new lawns is contemplated all available manure should be A.sgrlead'?’bm_@fie; surface as. soon as possible. The winter rains and snows will carry th@fi%fl&ble parts intothe wilandgrepare them- for immediate assimilation’ by the young grass roofs. . - e e : LR e L L ; 4