Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 50, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 March 1881 — Page 2

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NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intellizence from All Parts. The U. S, Senate. THE resolution to proceed to the election of officers was called up by Mr. Dawes ion the 24th. Mr. Dayis (I 11 stated that he should not, by his vote, delay proceeding to the reorganization of the Senate; that he thought the maJority which chose the committees was fairly entitled to choose the officers of the Senate, and he did not regret that the new Administration which has to confront the country with its policy should have control of both branches .of Congress; the majority was notlarge enough to indulge in rash experiments,and the minority wassufliciently strong to check any tendency to excess. Mr. Cameron (Pa.) asserted the determination of the Republican slde to sit the question out. Mr. Brown accepted the issue, .and stated his intention to sit there until De“cember, before he would consent to change - officers. After remarks by other Senators. and several dilatory motions had been voted down, Mr. Pendleton moved to ad journ, which motion prevailed—2B to 27. Mr. Mitchell was temporarily absent. and did not vote. nor did Mr. Davis (Ill.). Mr. Hale voted “No” in a tone too low tu be heard by the Clerk, and was not recorded—a fact which he did not discover until after the Vice-President had declared the motion carried. : - MR. INGALLS offered a resolution on the 25th calling on the Secretary of War for a list of all appointments, other than those in he army, made in his department since the Ist of December, 1879, to March 4, 1881, and under what provisions of law said appointments had been made: what changes, promotions, details and transfers had been made within such pe‘riod, and the reasons for such transfers, etc., - etc. Mr. Dawes called uphis resolution for the election of Senate officers, the pending motion being to postpone its consideration until the first Monday in December. After considerable debate roll-call tollowed roli-call on alternate motions, made on the Democratic side, to adjourn and to go into executive session. These motions were all defeated, genérally by a tie vote, but at gix o’clock so many Senators were paired that theSenate was left without a quorum, and an adjournment was agreed to. . IMMEDIATELY after the reading of the journal on the 26th Mr. Dawes demanded the regular order, being the resolution for the election of Senate officers. A wmotion by Mr. Pendleton to go into executive session was rejected—29 to 29—Mr, Mahone voting with the Republicans. After some discussion on the question of reorganization and the rejection—--25 to 21 —~of another motion for an executive scssion, Mr. Mahone took the floor and stated that he was somewhat indisposed and too unwell to review the speeches of the day before in which allusions had been made to Mn. Riddleberger and himself. Mr. Dawes interrupted him, and said if Mr. Mahone would prefer to speak on the 25th he would move to adjourn, which motion was agreed to. i Domestic.. Y Ture jury inthe case of young Kalloch, charged with the murder of De Young, of the San Franeisco Chronicle, after being out twen-ty-four hours, on the 24th, brought in a ver dict of not guilty, When he was released the horses were detached from Kalloch’s carriage and bhe was drawn three miles by a large crowd of his sympathizers who were present. Dir. JonN BUCHANAN, of Philadelphia, has made a full confession of his operations in the bogus medical diplom% line. He states that over 20,000 bogus diplomas are in use in this country, and over 40,000 in -Europe. He gives the names of the parties to whom his diplomas were issued, and the names of many other individuals who he alleges were concerned with him' in disposing of the bogus. documents. . THE number of immigrants arriving in this country during the eight months ended on the 28th of February last was 305,022, of whom nearly 83,000 were from Germany, 77,000 from Canada, 36,000 from England and Wales, and 80,000 from Ireland. , _ A LITTLE GIRL five and a half years old died in New York a few days ago from congestion of the brain, caused by excessive jumping the rope. o - ; SEvEN 'masked men entered the house of an aged couple in Catfish, Pa., a few n'ghts ago, bound and gagged them, and stole $5,00) coupon bonds, and between $5,000 and $lO,000 cash. Dx. Hamivrox, the Supervising Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service, has made a report to Secretary Blaine, in which he says trichin® have existed in European vork for the last fifty years, and have been discovered in pork raised there in agreat many instances, while the number of cases in which they have been traced to American pork is very small. * : | BURGLARS entered the post-office . at Bennington, Vt., on the night of the 23d, drilled the safe, and took $5OO in money and $1,600 in stamps. v i Tut Mexican Southern Railroad Company was organized in New York on the 24th. Ex. President Grant was chosen President, G. M. Dodge Vice-President, and Russell RSage Treasurer. A resolution was adopted requesting General Grantto proceed to Mexico to represent the intergsts of the :company. - : . A FEW days ago Major Kirby, of the Internal Revenue Service, had a bloody battle with the four Middleton brothers, whose illicit still is on the border of Virginia and Kentucky. Kirby had a posse of twenty citizens. Joe, Bill and Tom Middleton_were killed, and five of their men fatally injured. THE SBupreme Court of Illinois has decided, in an important test case, that the holder of stock in g defunct corporation whose capital stock was not paid up is liable to the amount " of his subscription for the debts of the company. 1 . . v " A FEW days ago a Louisville (Ky.) girl obtained a marriage license and was married in Jail to & young man imprisoned for burglarizing her father’s house, - ONX the petition of Henry Villard, President of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, the Buperior Court in New York on the 25th enjoined the Northern Pacific Road frém issuing the 180,000 shares of com‘mon stock proposed to be given to its projectors. It was believed that a large portion of these shares had already been thrown upon the stock market. ey A Heartn CoMMITTEE appointed by the State Legislature held an investigation in New York City on the 25th into the matter of the sale and manufacture of imitation butter “and cheese. Several dealers in dairy products were examined. All agreed that the manufTacture of adulterated articles was seriously ; affecting -the trade in genuine dairy prod- { ucts; that the use of the adulterated articles was injurious to health, and that some ineans should be adopted to restrict the sale of such stuff. b : . Taz last installment of the securities taken . by robbers from the bank at Northhampton, Mass.;, several years ago have been returned to the vaults. The plunder amountedto over | 81,6(!_),‘@0, of which $121,000 is thought to be utterly lost. al . - APEW days ago two brothers, John and Michael Sullivan, were enzaged in track re- | pairing on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near Demmler Station, when an accommoda. tion train came along. just as they had a rail raised up on a crowbar, the bar being wedged in 80 tightly that the train would eertainly be throwa from the track unless it (the bar)

were removed. - The men seized the bar and began frantically to pull and twist it about. The engineer of the train saw them, but could not stop. He says their efforts to free the crowbar and to. lower the rail were frantic and like the workings of madmen, and they seemed to forget thei¢ own danger. The bar was looscned and the rail lowered just as the train reached it, but the men who had done sonobly paid dearly for their daring. The engine struck them and killed John instantly, and mangled-Michael so frightfully that he died in a short time. ‘l'he men were married and leave families. . GENERAL PATRICK, Governor of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, Ohio, recently refused to permit James Redpath to lecture at that institution and organize a branch of the Irish Land League. Tue Treasury authorities at Washington are sald to have become convinced that under existing laws $150,000,000 of maturing bonds may be practically refunded at three or three and a half per cent., independently of the Treasury hoard or the surplus revenue. THE report of the United States Treasury Department on trichine shows that no country is without trichin® of its own, and demonstrates the absurdity of the idea that the American variety is more harmful than the European. IN the oleomargarine investigation at New York on the 26th H. K. Thurber testified that he manufactures weekly about 2,500 tubs of the article, of which he now exports only geven per cent. ‘ OLD ABE, the famous war eagle of Wisconsin, died at Madison on the evening of the 26th. . : GoLp to the amount of $221,000 arrived in New York on the 26th, and $1,150,000 more was shipped from Liverpool and Havre on the same day. S " A BauriMore & OHIO train was thrown from the track near Hover’s Gap, W. Va., on the 26th, by running over a horse. Peter Cooper, the engineer, was killed, and Richard Griff, the fireman, fatally injured.

Personal and Political. AMONG the nominations made by President Garfield on the 22d and 23d were the following: General Stewart L. Wo&ford, to be District Attorney for the Southern Distriect of New York; General Payn and General McDougall as United States Marshals at New York; William H. Robertson, Collector of Customs at New York; William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, Minister to _Austria; Edwin A. Merritt, of New York, Consul-General to London; Adam Badeau, of New York, Charge d’ Affairesin Denmark; Lewis Wallace, of Indiana, Charge d’Affaires in Paraguay and Uruguay; Michael J. Cramer, of Kentucky, Charge d’ Affaires in Switzerland; Willidam E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, Solicitor-General; Samuel J. Phillips, of North Carolina, Judge of the Court of Claims; L. A. SBheldon, of Ohio, Governor of New Mexico; Thomas M. Nichol, of Wisconsin, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Edward S. Meyer, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio; George W. Atkinson, United States Marshal, West Virginia; Bryan H. Langston, Collector of Internal Revenue, Fifth District of Missouri. THE Rhode Island Democrats met in State Convention on the 23d and nominated Horace M. Kimball for Governor; W. L. Segar for Lieutenant-Governor; John G. Perry for Secretary of State; F. L. O'Reilly for Attot-ney-General, and A. L. Burdick for Treasurer. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the “unmanly, dishonest and treacherous course of Senator Mahone in aiding and abet: ting the Republican party.” Ox the 23d. General Grant resigned the Presidency of the World’s Fair Commission, and Hugh J. Jewett was elected to succeed him. : : TaE State Committee of the Readjusters of Virginia held a mecting on the 23d and issued a call for a Convention to be held June 2 for the nomination of a State ticket. The course of General Mahone in the United States Senate was approved. ; By a vote of 132 to 48 the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has defeated a bill for the removal of the State capital from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. Tur Connecticut Legislature has repealed the law providing for the examination of railroad engineers and conductors so as to guard ayainst the employment of color-blind persons in those positions. . ! THE candidates for officers of the United States Senate nominated by the Republican Senators, in caucus on the 22d, are as follows: For Secretary, George C. Gorham, of California; Sergeant-at-Arms, Henry Riddlebarger, of Virginia; Principal Executive Clerk, James R, Young, of Pennsylvania; Chief Legislative Clerk, Charles W. Johnson, of Minnesota; Chaplain, Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland, of Washington. , THE negro voters of Maryland met in State Convention on the 24th and adopted resolutions insisting upon an equitable division of Federal patronage. ' ‘ THE Republican State Convention of Rhode Island met on the 24th and unanimously nom‘inated the present State officers for re-elec-tion.. ‘ ' ‘ e HoRACE MAYNARD, of Tennessee, has been chosen orator at the unveiling of the Farragut Statue in Washington on the 25th of April. : A WASHINGTON telegram of the 24th says Samuel J. Phillips had declined the Judgeship of the Court of Claims, to which he was appainted by the President. : CoMMODORE RoBERT W. SHUFELDT, of the United States Navy, has accepted the command of the navy of China, at a salary of $20,000 per year. " _ A BILL to submit a Prohibition Constitu~ tional amendment to the people was voted down in the Texas House of Representatives on the 24th, by a vote of 54 to 81—less than the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. ~ THE Rhode Island Greenback amd Prohibitory Conventions met at Providence on the 25th and nominated State tickets. - ‘ Tue Earl of Lonsdale recently arrived at New York in his famous yacht Northumbria. A.J. HAY has been appointed Bank Examiner for the State of Indiana; wice A. D. Lynch, resigned. i PRESIDENT GARFIELD made the following nominations on the 25th: Assistant Secretary of State, Robert R. Hitt, of Illinois; Assist~ant United States Treasurer at Ban Francisco, Nathan W. Spalding; Assistant Appraiser at Bna Francisco, Charles M. Leavy. ' Tae New York Senate has adopted a resolution thanking President Garfield. for nominating Senator Robertson as Collector of the Port of New York, and requesting the United States Senate to promptly confirm the nomination. ; . ‘Tur Democrats of Chicago have renominated Carter H. Harrison for Mayor. Alderman J. M. Clark is the candidate of the ReWb, 0 T ~ PrRESIDENT GARFIELD decided positively on the 26th that he would not issue a call for an extra session of Congress, atleast before next fall. e v s : Tre Republicans of the United States Senate held a caucus on the 26th and determined to adhere to their programme relative to the election of Senate officers. =~ =~

WiLLiam H. VaxprersiLr and Samuel F. Barger have resign=d as Directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Mr. Barger’s place has been fiiled by the election of Frederick L. Ames, of Boston. ' 5 ___.b.__—.. 2 ‘ Foreign. ; THE opera house at Nice, France, was destroyed by fire on the evening of the 23d. The fire started from an explosion of gas in the rear of the stage, just as the evening's performances were beginning, which set fire to the scenery. Thé flames soon surrounded the gas-meter, and the gas had to be cut off, plunging the body of the house in darkness. A terrible panic followed, and the crowd pressed madly toward the limited means of exit. The audience was large, and in the wild struggle to reach the doors hundreds were tramp'ed under foot. Up to midnight on the 24th a large number of bodies had been recovered from the ruins, and it was believed that many more would yet be found. Among the persons burned was the tenor, basso, baritone and a number of the chorus singers. - L

ON the 24th a female Nihilist, a friend of Roussakoff and Hartmann, was captured at St. Petersburg, and is said to have made some -startling revelations. - THE people of Nice have cortributed 100,. 000 francs as a nucleus for a relief fund for the benefit of the families of those who perished in the late burning of the opera house. . 'A dispatch of thér 25th places ‘the number of those who lost their lives in the catastrophe at eighty-tive. These were buried on that day.. - IN the Legislature.of British Columbia, on & recent debate in rezard to theé Pacific Railway, it was resolved to appeal to Queen Vietoria. One member expressed a desire to put a musket in every man’s hand to fight the _Canadian Government | PARNELL stated at a meeting in London on the 25th that money was flowing from America to Ireland at the rate of £4,000 weekly. AX unsuccessful attempt was recently made to asassinate the Governor of the Ruasian province of Baku. | Ox the 25th Earl Stanhope’s resolution protesting against the evacuation of Candahar i'by the British was defeated in the House of ‘ -Commens by a vote of 346 to 246. This expression of confidence in the Government was received with loud cheers by the Liberals. A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 25th says the Porte had announced that it would’ ‘neither cede Crete nor any part of Albania. TuE New York City authorities have been warned of the shipment from Bottstein, Switzerland, of two notorious young women . at the expense of that village. ; ‘ CouxT PEccl, a brother of the Pope, died on the 25th. RuporrH ZeIGLER & Co., rice merchants of London, have suspended payment, their liabilities being £lOO,OOO. TaE London News of the 27th claimed to have reason to believe that the fishery dispute between England and the United States was in a fair way of settlement. ‘ THE mortal remains of Alexander 11., of Russia, were deposited in the Imperial vault of the Church of Petropaulovski Fortress on the 27th, amid salvos of artillery. Turk plague has appeared at Kufa, ninety miles south of Bagdad, in Asiatic' Turkey. TuE Sultan of Turkey has asked Egypt to furnish a contingent of troops in the event of a.war with Greece. TrE Moscow papers of the 26th state that Roussakoff’s father had ¢ommittee suicide. PETARDS are beinz scattered around very promiseuously in Madrid. One exploded at the door of the Carmeiite Church in that city onthe 27th, and did considerable damage. . o

LATER NEWS, AT a monster L and meeting held in Tipperary on the 27th Dillon advised the tenants not to pay unjust rents except at the point of the bayonet. . : . o THE threat’comes from Geneva that, if Sophie Peioffsky is executed, the Czar will perish. | ON the 25th a lady obtained a private audience with.the Pope and warned him that an hour hdd been fixed for the assassination of himself and Cardinal Pecci. By the breaking of the ice in the Missouri River at Pierre, Dakota, on the 27th, the town was flooded to the depth of five feet, and the inbabitants encamped on the bluffs. GENERAL GRANT, accompanied by his son Ulysses, his Secretary, Mr. Dawson, and Senor Romero, of Mexico, left New York for Mexicoon the 28th. . HueH J. JEWETT has declined the Presidency of the World’s Fair Commission, and it was stated on the 2sth that the Executive Committee would take no further action until the transportation ‘companies should come forward with the full amount of their subscriptions. S -Mrs, HENRY WArRD BEECHER was greatly improved in health on the 28th. * ' THE New York Legislative Committee continued its investigation of the subject of counterfeit butter and cheese on the £Bth. Gilbert T. Henshaw, produce broker, testified that he had visited a number of oleomargarin€ factories apnd found that oleomargarine butter was made from pea-nut lard, and ‘* oleo” oils, aium’and acids. In some factories the;:emplbves were exceedingly filthy. THE excess of exports of merchandise from over imports into this country ‘during the twelve months ended Februaty 28, 1881, was $225,453,012; during the twelve months ended February 29, 1880, $212,306,044; excess of imports of gold and silver coin and bullion for the twelve months ended February <B, 1881, $72,602,365; twelve months ended February 29, 1880, $68,791,266. /It was announced on the 28th that General Adam Badeau had positively declined the. position of Charge d’Affaires to Denmark, and that the President would withdraw the nomination. , ‘ (iN the 28th at lowa City, la., Mrs. Hattie Deuell, the starving lady, closed her thirtyfourth day by a sinking spell which bade fair to have & fatal ending; but she soon rallied therefrom. »- ‘ THE galleries of the Senate chamber: were crowded on the: 28th, in- anticipation of a speech by Mr. Mahone in defense of himself an@ the Readjusters of Virg'nia. He occupied three hours in explanation of his course and in reply to the charge of repudiation made against his constituents as a party. At the donclusion of Mr. Mahone’s speech Mr. Dawes, after stating that he trusted his friends on the other side would come on the 29th prepared to finish the pending business and go on with executive business, moyed to adjourn, which motion was agteed to. ‘

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- BURNED TO DEATH! Destruction of the Opera House at Nlee, Franee — Nearly One Hundred Persons Trampled Ol; Burned to Deutl;—Terrlblé Scenes. &= : : ‘ .LoNDON, March 24. A DISPATCH from Nice says: A ; The holocaust at the opera house lnst evening was caused by a gas explosion at the back of the stage, which set fire to the scenery. The flames spread with alarming rapidity, and soon enveloped the gas meter. The supply of gas being cut off, the body of the house was soon plunged in,darkness. The crowd presse-l madly toward the limited. means of exit. The audience was large, and in the panic hundreds were thrown down and trodden under foot, Those who endeavored to extricate the people. who were hopelessly jammed between the doorways and passages, describe the scene as terrible. The shrieks of the wounded mingled with the cries of those in the galleries, whose cvery means of escape was cut off. : Mme. Donadio, the prima donna, was saved, but the tenor, basso, baritone and a number of the chorus singers were burned. Up to midnight over eighty bodies had been extricated from the ruins. A man who escaped from the upper gallery by jumping declares that, with perhaps a dozen exceptions, every person in his part of the house was burned. Some sailors were lost. A number of American and English visitors rendered signal assistance in saving life. . : The scene in the town is indescribable. One lady, whose busband was burned to death, committed suiCide. The usual complaints are made respecting the defective means of escape and water supply. Although the Mediterraneéan washes the shore at the foot of the walls of the theater no water could be obtained when wanted, and the beautiful opera house is a complete wreck. The fire commenced soon after the curtain bad risen for the performaunce of “Lucia di Lammermoor.”” The subscribers for the orchestra stalls and boxes of the grand tier had mostly not arrived. A majority of the vietims belong to the working class. . : A detachment of sailors from the squadron in the harbor arrived on the scene and displayed great gallantry in rescuing people and combating the fire, which was subdued toward ten o’clock. . Strakosch the impfesario, was slightly hurt. . ' s One whoie family of five persons and another of three persons are known to have perished.

: Population Statistics. - W ASHINGTON, March 20. ACCORDING to the tables of the Census Departnmient, the white population of the United States has increased since 1870 from 83,592,245 to 43,402,408, or nearly 2) per tent.; the colored population from 4,886,387 to 6,577,497, or nearly 35 per cent., and the Chinese population from (‘>3,2§4 to 105,679, or about 67 per cent. The following tabie shows the number of whites, negroes and Chinese in each State and Territory: STATES. , White. Colored. Chinese. Alabama... ........- 061,986 600,141 4 Arlzona ... ... ... 30,178 138 1,632 Arkan5a5........... b59L611 210,622 134 California . ......... 67,260 - 6,168 75,122 Colorado... ..., ... 191459 2,459 610 Connecticut, .. .... 610,884 11,422 130 Dakota.. ... ... 183170 - 881 238 De1aware............ 120,198 26,456 Dist. Columbia..... 118236 59,378 18 Klorida ... 4. ... ... M1L249 175282 18 Georgla ... ..... 814218 434 664 17 ddabgo. .o oo o 36T 29,011 3,378 Hhinols .. ... ...... 18851714 46,248 214 1ndiana............. 1,939,044 ° 38998 37 Towa. . ............ 1614510 9,442 47 Kansas.... . ....... 952058 43098 22 Kentucky....x..... 1,377,077 271,462 10 L0ui5iana........... 435,063 . 483,898 483 Mame. ... ... 0. 616008 1,427 8 Marviand... .. ...... T2AYIS & 209.897 6 Massachusetts...... 1,764.082 18,644 = 258 Michigan. ....... ... 1,615018 14,986 , 29 Minne50t........... ‘776,940 1,558 54 Mississippi.......... 479,371 650,337 52 Migsouri. ........... 2,022,568 145,046 94 M0ntang..........;. 35,468 202 1,737 Nebraska ........... 449,805 2816 18 Nevadn, ... .. 53,571 485 5,423 New Hampshire... 846,264 ° 646 14 New Jer5ey......... 1,091,856 38,796 . 182 New Mexicu... .... 107,188 907 it 5Ha New Y0rk........... 5010142 64,943 942 ‘North Carolina...... 867,467 531,318 1 0h10................. 8,118,814 79,665 117 Oregon;. ....... ..., 163,087 493 9,508 Pennsylvama....... 4,197,106 85,342 170 Rhode 151 and....... 269,933 < 6,503 27 South Carolina..... 391,258 604,325 9 Tennessee ... ... .. 1,189,120 . 402,992 . 26 Texas. ... .. 1192495 844007 142 Utab .. .00, 142881 204 . 518 Yermont.. ... . ..... 331243 1,032 Virginda.......0..1... 880,739 631,996 6 Washington........ 67,349 - 637 3220 West Virginia...... 592,438 25,729 14 Wi5c0n5in,.......... 1.309,622 ©= 2.7 16 Wyoming ../ ... 19,436 279 914 T0ta1..........®. 43,402,408 7,577,497 105,679 In California the Chinese population has increased in ten years from 49,310 to 75,122; in Arizona. from 20 to 1,632; in Oregon, from 3,320 to 9,503; in Washington Territory, from 234 t 03,227. In Idabho the Chinese numbered 4,274 in. 1870. and 3,378 in 1880. : :

An Old Note Paid, - @ : e & IT is not an, every-day occurrence that we have to note, and it is not without many prec_edents, though the instance differs in some respects from similar deeds which are recorded to the honor of business men. In 1837 a firm failed owing a note held by a New York bank, which bore the indorsement of a Boston firm, which also stepped payment during the panic. A few days since the bank in New York was called upon by a representative of one of the indorsers with a statement of the transaction, which, upon referring to the books of the bank, was found te be correct. The gentleman, to the astonishment of the oificials, stated that he was authorized by the Boston gentleman to pay the principal and interest, and thereupon handed a check for $12,000, which was found to be correct. The bank officers say that they had no legal ciaim to the amount, that the bank had changed its charter, and had itself experienced firancial difficulties, but the gentleman assured them that his orderS were peremptory, and the money was accepted. The name of the gentleman was not made public for many reasons, but it is a deed worthy of being recorded.—Boston Journal. ——— Prizes Awarded to Vermont Boys. TaE award of prizes offered to Vermont boys under seventeen years of age, by tweo of the Trustees of the University and State Agricultural College, has been made. The first prize of $25 and a scholarship in .the University, (worth $5O a year for four years), for corn was taken by Frank J. Hubbard, of Whiting, and the first prize of the same amount for potatoes, by Lewis S. Breed, of Goshen. The secpgnd prize of §2O for corn was taken by Edgar J. Tuthill, of Newfane, and for potatoes by Frank J. Hubbard. The third prize of $l5 for corn was taken by J. T. Goodenow, of Montpelier, and for potatoes by Burt Royce, of Williamstown. The fourth and fifth prizes for corn were taken by Edward N. Casey, of Whiting; and H. E. Thayer, of Guilford; and for potatoes by Rugene Plastridge, of Northfield, and George R. Powers, of Lunenburg. No less than 303 boys competed from 146 different towns. The best yield reached was at the ra'e of 192 bushels of dry shelled corn to the acre and 422 bushels of potatoes to the acre. As the average production of Vermont farms is estimated to be 89 bushels of corn and 140 of potatoes to the acre, it will be seen that the results secured by the boys are quite encouraging.~—Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. v : s , —Emerson was at first the only read- | er who praised ‘‘Sartor Resartus,”” and 8o Carlyle said: I hear butone voice, the voice from Concord.” A —A reporter’s notes may be passa~ ble. but they are not negotiable.

The Missouri Land Frauds—A Gigantle . [From the Washington Post, March 19.] -~ The press dispatches which have been published regarding the recent arrest of the land swindlers in St. Louis give noidea of the extent of the fraud. The officials in the General Land-office in the city regard it as ! the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on the { Government, and its immensity can only be ‘realized when all the facts in the case are known. Its inception dates back to the year 1854, more than a quarter of a century ago. In that year, on the 4th of August, an act was passed by Congress graduating values of public lands to actual settlers and _cultivators from $1.25 to 12 1-2 cents per acre. Just after the passage of thisacta ring was formed in Missouri to obtain public lands by illegal methods. Some of the men who engaged in the scheme are still live ing, and it is believed at the Land-office that the Government officials must have been in collusion with the swindlers. The latter pre- | pared and brought to several of the Landoffices in Missouri a quantity of false evidence, alleging that the public lands for which patents were desired were actually gettled and caltivated according to law. This was sent to Washington by the Registers and Receivers, and on the presentation of this alleged proof patents were issued for hundredsandthousands of acres of land tothe | swindlers. All their well-laid plans seemed |to prosper. Then the war came, and all Southern and Southwestern Missouri, the scene of the swindling operations, was ina state of confusion. During the time it is believed the swindlers made the most of their opportunities and abstracted as many patents as they could find. When everything had . quieted down they commenced to sell off the patents in a manner that was as plausible as it was successful. It was as follows: Mr. A came to Mr. B with a United States patent for a certain number of acres. It wasa genuine patent, though obtained by fraud. Accompanying it was a deed purporting to be made out by the person whose name appeared on the patent. That deed was a forgery. To obtain their end the swindlers had committed two. crimes. Some idea is thus given of the enormity of the fraud. First hundreds of affidavits that the signer had actually settled and cultivated the land were prepared, when the person whose name was afiixed never existed. Page after page of some of the entry books in the Missouri Land-office have been found to be filled with the names of fictitious persons to whom patents were issued. Then, having secured a patent to the land by fraud, a deed which was not worth the paper it covered was written and handed to the guileless purchaser as bana fide evidence that his title to the property was complete. There was another and more careful way in which the skillful swindlers worked. Mr. A appeared to Mr. B, ! who wishe;‘d to purchase as the agent of Mr. C, a third party. “Mr. C wishes to sell this land,’’ said Mr. A to the victim, ‘“‘and will probably accept your offer. Call around tomorrow at 1 o’clock. In the meantime [ will see him.’” It is needless to say that this third party was a ‘‘straw man,’’ who never existed. YWhen B appeared next day A showed him a deed signed with C’s name, but which really had been drawn up by A ' within an hour after he had'left the day before. As if toguard againstany possible detection of fraud, the swindlers used .what they called a ‘“smoked deed.”” This was a deed discolored by smoke or coffee, and made to appear of sufficient age to corre= spond with the date it bore. They grew so expert at the practice of smoking freshlyprepared deeds that the deception escapetl discovery. The investigation which led to the exposure of the gigantic swindlers was instigated a little over a year ago by a letter | received by Secretary Schurz. ‘This stated ’ that one Robert P. Lindsay, of St. Louis, Wwhose father had once been in charge of the Land-office at Ironton, and who had thus had access to the contents and records of the office, possessed one or two boxes filled with United States land patents which were certainly genuine, although Lindsay might have obtained them by questionable means. The letter alleged that he kept these boxes concealed or moved them by stealth, and had queer dealings with queer people. The writer, who professed to be fi? friend to Schurz, suggested in conclusin that it might pay to look inte the matter. The statements of the letter were deemmed of such importance that the Secretary'at once secured . Special Agent D. P. Terrell, of the Treaéury Department, to work up the case. His experience during the thirteen months he has been employed would, if published, read like a novel. He has been in nearly every .city in the country, under assumed names. He has figured in the pine woods of Missouri as a saw-mill owner or prospector, and in the Western cities as an Eastern cap- ' italist who wanted to buy a large quantity of land in the southern part of Missouri, and was on an anxious search for theé real owner ' of the property. In his investigations he 'found that the ramifications of the swindle extended to Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other cities. His labors were at last crowned with “ success. “A few days ago a number of per''sons, including Lindsay, were arrested in St. Louis or the cities named. They have all given bail or are on trial. It is stated at the Land-office that the ring has obtained fraudulent titles to more than a million acres of land; the larger proportion of this vast area they have sold to innocent settlers, who are now living in peace around happy hearthfires. Legally they have no title to the land they occupy, and the Government can cause it to revert to the United States. = Will this course be pursued? is a question which can | not now be answered. Government officials ‘who were conversed with to-day- say that it will rest with the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney-General to decide whether . civil suits shall be begun at once to vacate the titles to these lands. It is believed that, whatever is determined upon, it will be so arranged that the blow shall not fall too heavily upon the thousands of duped settlers ‘whose hitherto undisputed titles to their | homes have been rendered valueless at one swoop by this exposure.

CLEVELAND, 0., March 19.—George Linn, one of the men arrested for complicity in the land swindle business, was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000 for appearance omn the 25th for hearing. Itihas been decided, contrary to some expectation, that apreliminary hearing will be held here, Detective Tyrrell being’ the princi,i:l witness. ;, The United States Attorney has been visited to-day by large numbers of purchasers of Missouri lands, who suspect the validity of their titles. One deed to eight hiindred acres; in the possession of a prominent citizen, was found, on examination, to be even without the acknowledgment of a notary, and worthless. On the reverse side was found an abstraet showing that the grantor had sold the land at different times to three different parties. —t @ e —-As we grow old we grow more foolish and more wise.—La Rochefoucauld.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. = EXTRAX SESSION. : SENATE—On the 21st less thana guorum put in an appearance, but the time was spent in considering the bill relating to. publie officers - and offices. o Housg—The time was. mainly . devoted to routine work. The Wife Whipping bill failed to pass by want of a Constitutional majority—the vote standing 35 to 34. . . : SENATE—On the 22d a proposition to adjourn sine die on April 4 was voted down after a lingering debate, in which both parties charged bad faith and with delaying public business. A resolution was adopted ordering | night. sessions. Reso.utions were ofiered prohibiting the sale of liquors, and providing for female suffrase. which were referred. Awnother amendment was -suggested empowering women to. practice law. Numerous new bills were .introduced. -among others billsempowering married women toapply tor ahmony; ‘making township trustees superintendents of roads, and providing subjects for dissection.. A Conterence Committee was apppinted to confer with the House: l on Tax-bili mmendments. Consideration of the biil relative to officers and oftices. took up the rema nder of the afternoon and night session. House.—The Senate amendments to the Tax biil were voted d)wn and a Conference Committee wa® appointed, which -resuited in the Senate receding from the clauses abolishing the publication of delinguent lists, and taxing .fore.gn insurance companies on grogs receip 8. The House agreed to the amendment prohibiting the employment of ferreis, and - ‘the report was unanimously accepted. A bill was passed providing tor a special May election in Indianapoli¢; authorizing the erection -of a market-nouse in Indianapolis. The bhill abolishing constructive mileage for Sheritfs .on serving notices passed—t6t6to 11—and a resolution in. memoriam of the late ex-Speaker, John N. Pettit, of Wabash, wag unanimously adopted. A bill was int roduc%v- prohibiting cities: on rivers from charging dockage or wharfage. A bill was also introduced prohibiting corporal punishment in schools, s.nd providing that pupils may be. suspended for habitual idleness, insubordination, or gross immorality, = . o e ; . SENATE—On the 23d the Senate concurred iu the report eensuring the management ot the Institute for Feeble-Minded Children, and accepted the result of the . conference on the . Tax bill. | A bill passed repeualing the act estublishiug! a Superior Court in Cass County, but the one against “hay-fork’” swindlers and others ot that ilkk failed for want of a Constitutional mijority. Consideration of the bill relative to otlices and officers absorbed the afternoon. An amendment was accepted regquiring County Commissioners to tile a £5,000 bond. A bill passed amending the Discount act so that the capital of a bank may be reduced at any time. 2a g House—A bill passed: remodeling the road Bystem of the State, creating a Road Superintendent for each township, assessing $2 . on each able-bodied citizen in lien of labor, . and exempting inecorrorated towns and cities ’ from road service. A medieal bill aiso passed, being a complication of several biils pending i in-the House, and differing from the Senuate bill in every matevial respect. All physicians ’ must gecure license by -June, 1882, from the Circuit Court. The Board of -Exandners pro~ ‘vided by the Senate bill were thrown aside. The bill providing for the appointinent of Fish Commissioners passed—66 to 15. The StateHouse Tax bill ‘was engrossed; .appropriating - $lOO,OOO from the general fund, and authoriz- ' ing a levy of two .cents on each $lOO for 1881 and 1882, The Jury bill raising the per diem of jurors to §2 pér day, and allowing five cents mileage, was puassed in lieu of the one vetoed by the Governor. . e - S SENATE—On the 24th bills passed—providing for the survey of drainage'routes in the Kankakee swamp lands; legalizing the incorporation of the Baptist Association in Gibson County and the Union Christign College in Sultivan County. . The Indiagapolis Police Judge bill met with strong @spposition, and went over until the 25th. An Aimendment was adopted adding physician of fhe poor duties to the Health Officer without fadditional pay. A joint committee was instruéted to visit the Kankakee région to inspeect and report upon the drainage question,: v House—The pending Temporary Lodn bill was amended by Jbroviding that the maturing bonds now held by Purdue University shall b¢ replaced by the State with bonds bearing dnte April 1, 1381, running ten years with tive per cent. interest. - The bill was then engrossed. Numerous bills were passed, amonyg them a bill increasing, the bond ot poor-farm superintendents to $5,000; enlarging the limit of taxation to forty-five cents on the $lOO in Marion grgunty{: prohibiting - th& destruction of wild deer and making the killing a crime at' any season of the year, and compelling railways to fence tracks against stra) ing cattle. “SeVveral hours were given to . the Civil Code bill and 280 seections were disposed of, leaving 600 to be considered. Amendments were accepted making change of venue in cases where local prejudiee is alleged discretionary with the Judge,and prohibiting the payment of special Judges’ services save where the regular Judge iz incapacitated by sickness from attending court. The Mechanies’ Lien bill passed, being: a coditication of all the old laws, with additional provisions enlarging the rights ot mechanics and empowering & mechanic having a lien to file netice with the County Recourder instead of employing an attorney. ... o SENATE—On the | 25th a bill was introduced for the establishment of Appeilate Courts, The Indianapolis Police Judge bill was amended so as to leave the appointment of such officer diseretionary with the City Council The House resolution -relating -to relaying the coruer-stone of the new State-House consumed several hours. An amendment finally prevailed, directing the Commissioners to erect a tablet commemorating Indiana’'s part in the war of the rebellion. The Revision Committee was directed to report a bill providing for holding fieneral elections on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. ‘A mendments were made in the Public Offices bill requiring all county offices to open at eight a. m., and re= uiring them to report a‘.?lechanics’ Lien bill. %‘he bond of Notaries Public was reduced from, $2,000 to $l,OOO. Notice was given of the dan~ gerous illness of. Colonel James T. Darnall, Journal Clerk. o L House—An améndment was ‘adopted to the Civil Code bill allowing Judges in property' trials to grant changes of venue at discretion, A bill was introduced permitting rdilway corporations to conmsolidate lines in this State upon a vote of three-fourths ot the stockholders interested. A .concurcent resolution was adopted directing the Trustees of the Institute for Feeble-Minded Children to dismiss the present Superintendent, Dr. B. F. lbach, as per reif;ort of the Committec. The Senate bill passe abolishing the Superior Court in Cass County. A bill wasintroducedimposing heavy penalties for adulterating = ‘milk. Bills passed—conferring upon city Judges when ° elected the judicial powers now exercised by - Mayors of cities, also authorizing: Circuit Judges; to appoint Commissioners to select the anel of grand and petit jurors: also limiting Fitiga.ti_on before Peace Justices to one change of venue, and authorizing the mortgage of the State Fair Grounds, and appropriating $l,OOO per annum for gayment of interest qn the debt. About one hundred sections of the Civil Code were passed upon. gt

INDIANA ITEMS. ‘ ON the 15th Hon. William H. s Morrison, President of the First National Bank of In‘dianapolis, died of erysipe as of the throat, He left an estate valued at $700,000. A. D. Lynch, SBtate Bank Examiper, has been chosen as hissuccessor. . ' THE grave of Jonathan Jennings, the first Governor of Indiana,-is uncared for and unmarked by any stone. Some years ago a bill wag introduced in the Legislature appropriating $3OO for a monument to his memory, but it was crowded out, and never mentioned afterward. . ; s Tur Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 43@44c; Oats, 85@36c. Cineinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, $1.08%@1.09; Corn, 47@ 4714 c; Oats, 38@38%c; Rye, $1.1:@1.13; Barley, [email protected]. - . b —New Orleans has grand operaevery winter, not for only a week or two, but for a season of three to five months. The singers are not of the first rank, though the general averageis good, and the performances are satisfactory. The support of the enterprise comes almost entirely from the French residents. ; : o - e i % - —White lying is pronounced generally sinful by the Methodist, but it adds: +¢The puzzle of moralists has been to either justify- or entirely condemn a a class of such mendacities. For ex?miple, what shalt we do with the hopeful word of a physician who has no Haper= . - cl el e