Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 8, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 June 1881 — Page 2

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NEWS. SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, ' DVomestic. | Tae steamer Faraday has pald out aver nine hundred miles of the newest American cable, buoyed the end, and sailed for London. THE Franco-American Clims Commission has rejected the appeal of Joseph N. Perche, Archbishop of New Orieans, for $3,000 for property destroyed by General Butler during the war, on the ground that the Archbishop admitted having been naturalized. Turre are 3,687 vessels engaged in the lake commerce, with a registered tonnage of p 97,816. “THE vicinity of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was v‘isi@‘:d on the Ist by a tremendous hailstorm which wrought great injury to crops, fruit trees and vegetables. Some of the hailstones were two inches in diameter. I Tre largest grain elevator in the world has just been completed in South Brooklyn, N. Y. It cost over $2,000,000, and has a storage capacity of 2,5.0,000 bushels. IN' a boot factory at North Brookfield, Mass., Miss Nelile Murphy was recently beheaded by the descent of an elevator. 1 JESSE LITTLE, a destitute octogenarian, residing in Jefferson County, Maryland, df’ed on the 20. h ult. :Up to the Ist insurm%ce policies onf his life for $63,000, recently obtaned by various persons, had been p{resented for payment. > : : | THE conage of the various United Sfa.”'es mints dar ng May amounted to $12,228,550] of which $2,300,000 was in silver dollars. i TWENTY-SEVEN . barrels of gasoline o*x a railroad platform at Springfield, Mass., caught fire on the night of the Ist frodn a spark blown from a passing locomotive. Two explosions occurred, injuring forty persons more or less seriously. | A BoILER in Gaflney & Co.’s dye-works near Philadelphia exploded on the Ist) instantly killing three persons and serioysly ~injuring about forty others. An inexperjenced fireman was employed as eng,hm’er;[l Ox the Ist 4,363 immigrants arrived ay the port of New York. - L il THE jublic-debt statement issued on| the Ist makes the following exhibit: - Total |debt (including interest of $17,853,705), $2,/089;418,059. = Cash in. Treasury, 3'336,496?,058. Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,852,921,971. Decrease during May, $11,15,721.| Decrease since June 30, 1880, §89,250,323. | AT Frederick, Md., onthe 2d a monument was unveiled at Mt. Olive Cemetery “ovei“the graves of the Confederate soldiers

.who fell at Antietam and other battles fought . in that vicinity. The oration was delivered by Jas. A. Buchanan, of Baltimore. ®ever- " al thousand persons were present. | SIR EDWARD THORNTON on the 2d gave Secretary Blaine a draft on Lon.d(Pn for £15,000 to pay the Fortune Bay Fishery claims. 1 - ToE United States ' Treasury Department has recently issued a circular to inspectors of steamboats, containing stringent rules for their guidance in inspecting excursion steamers. ‘ : THE Bank of North America, Philadelphia, celebrated‘ its centennial on the Ist. THE new Constitution of the Episcopal Diocese of lowa permits women to vote at vestry meetings for officers of th¢ church and on all other questions, but does not allow them to hold office in the church. ' THE Post-office Department pronounces. unmailable samples of flour or other powdered substances, unless in transparent bags and tightly sealed. A CINCINNATI gambler has recovered a judgment against the Chiel of Police of that city because he destroyed a.faro lay-out - after it had been replevined. | ; It is stated that the Stockton gang in New Mexico has reorganized under the leadership of Charles Allison, and was re~cently engaged in robbing mail coaches and { plundering stores near Poncha Springs. . A FEW days ago Albert Clark, a recent . immigrant at Peru, Neb., became suddenly insane, cut his wife’s throat with a penknife, and then went out on the’ street with a shot-gun. Meeting E. N. Sargent, a har-ness-maker, he shot him dead. The madman’s next attempt was on his own life, in which he nearly succeeded. o A LAD named Strake, living gt Lancaster, Ohio, was recently stabbed to the heart with a pockét-knife. by a ten-yeai-old son of Michael Hellberger. | : GEORGE CLARK, once a wealthy barber of Cincinnati, drank’ twenty-seven glasses of * 'whisky—about three quarts—on the evening of the 3d. As he reached| the door he staggeéred and dropped as if dead. It was thought that he could not recover. : ASBURY PARK, N. J., has been selected . as the place for helding the assembly of Sabbath Schools of the Presbyterian Church of the United States, commencing August 2 “and closing August 12. | ; ' THE coal-mine -agents of Pennsylvania - met in Philadelphia on the 3d, and, to pre- - went overproduction, agreed to stop work - in'the mines six days in June and three days n July. - PROBABLY with the expectation of obtaining some valuable jewelry thieves recently broke open a vault in the cemetery at Canton, Ohio, which had been closed for a quarter of a century, and strewed the bones about. cal A : - DURING one week recently four children . met their deaths in Jersey City, N. J., by * Afalling from windows. : - “Tue Comptroller of the Currency report- " edon the 4th that of four hundred and sixty-seven banks which held $44,685,850 ot gix-per cent. bonds ail had been extended at three and one-half per cent. with the exception of two banks, holding $305,500. One thousand three hundred and forty-eight . banks held $169,406,950 of five-per-cents., all of which, it was estimated, had made application for extension, with the exception ;): banks holding from three to five millns. : . AT the Cabinet meeting in Washington on ~ the 4th the ‘‘Star-route’’ frauds were considered. Attorney-General MacVeagh referred to the crowded condition of the courts, and said hg did not think it likely that any of the cases against the * Starroute’” men would be tried before September next.. Colonel Enoch Totten and Shell- . aberger & Wilson, of Washington, have been mngxed by General Brady, ex-Second As- - sistant Postmaster-General, as counsel in ~any legal proceedings which may grow out of the pending *‘‘Star-route” investigation. '~ Personal and Political. © A WasmrNeTON Associated Press dispateh of the Ist says: ‘‘Star-route lightning hae

‘struck two more officlals. Secretazy Windom to-day sent for Mc@rew, Sixth Auditor of the Treasu-y, whose office {8 in the Postoffice Department, and whose duties are al conneected with that Department. ' Windom demanded McGrew’s resignation immediately. McGrew was astonished, as he believed he had avoided the starroute danger, and he asked W:dom, for ten days’ time. Secretary Windom repliel hat he could not give any time, as the Post-master-General and A torney-General had asked for the immediate removal of McGrew and his deputy, Lilley. They believe that the investization of the star-route frauds will be facilitated by having these men out of officlal yositiors. MeGrew resigned immediately, and Lilley, his deputy, was removed forthwith.” - THr lowa Greenback State Convention met at Marshalltown on the Ist. About 6vo delegates were present. W. H. Caihoun was made permanent Chairman, and O. A. Garrison, Secretary. A platformn was adopted demanding the abolition of all banks of issue, and the subsiitution of full lezal-tender Greenbacks iu lieu of their notes; opposing the refunding of the National debt or the issue of interest-bearing non-taxable bonds; demanding & graduated income tax; protection of the people from all unjust charges on the part of railroads; a revision of the i atent laws; equal jolitical rights for all men and women; that all land grants forfe ted by reason of the non-fulfillment of conditions by railroad companies shall be reclaimed by the Government, and henceforth that the public domain shall be reserved exclusively for homesteads for actual settlers; ete. It is slated that the liquor dealers in Nebraska entirely ignore the new Liquor law providing for licease fees of from $5OO to $l,OOO. An association of three hundred men has been organized to contest the statute. L : THE lowa Greenback State Convention on the 2d nominated the following ticket: For Governor, D. M. Clark, of Wayne County; Lieutenant-Governor, J. M. Holland, of Henry County: Supreme Judge, A. D. Dabney, of Madison County; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mrs. Mary E. Nash, of Polk County. Additional resolutions were adopted extending sympathy and encouragement to the Land League of Ireland in their resistance to landed monopoly, and also to the down-trodden people of the whole globe, and favoring the election of President, Vice-President and United States Senators by direct vote of the people. COLONEL W. A. CROOK, the special counsel employed by: the Governmént to prosecute those implicated in the ¢‘star-route’’ frauds, took the oath of oflice on the 2d, and went into an examination of the evidence so far gathered by the investigation under Postmaster-General James.

Toe Readjusters of Virginia met in State Convention at Richmond on the 2d. Over 700 delegates, including 75 colored men, were present. Resolutions approving General Mahone’s course in the United States Senate were adopted. A platform was adopted declaring for a free ballot; denouncing the capitation tax as in conflict with the Fourteenth amendment, and reasserting. ‘‘our purpose to settle and adjust our State obligations on the principles of the ¢ bill to re-establish public credit’, known as the ¢ Riddleberger bill’, passed by the last General Assembly, and vetoed by the Governor”’—maintaining that this measure recognizes the just debt of Virginia. Two unsuccessful ballots for candidate for Governor were taken. ' a A JOINT RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the . sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors, has been defeated in the Penmnsylvania Senate. | .. Tue Virginia Readjuster Convention on the 3d nom¥inated Colonel William E. Cameron, Mayor of Petersburg, for Governor; ex-United States Senator John T. Lewis for Lieutenant-Governor, and Captain Frank S. Blair for Attorney-General. Mr. Cameron ‘made a speech of acceptance in the evening. GENERAL GRANT and Captain Eads arrived at New Orleans on the 3d from Mexico. The ex-President stated to a special correspondent of the New York 7imes that his mission to Mexicohad been highly successful, He got all the concessions he wanted, the only opposition being from subsidized railroads. - iy Tug will of the late. Colonel Thomas A. ‘Scott contains detailed provision for his family and relatives, but forbids the filing of an ‘inventory of his propefty in any public office. i

- ADDISON BROWN, of New York, has been appointed by the President United States Judge for the Southern Distriet of New. York, vice Judge Choate, .resigned. 'GENERAL SHERIDAN on the 3d formally announced .the resignation of LieutenantColonel Fred D. Grant as a member of his staff. Itis understood that Colonel Grant will devote his time hereafter to railroad interests in Texas and Mexico. . i BALLOTING for United Stdtes Senators was resumed in the New York Legislature on the 4th. Pairing reduced the total vote to 112. For successor to’ Mr. Conkling Jacobs had 31; Conkling, 29; Cornell, 18; Wheeler, 13: Rogers, 13; scattering, 7. To succeed Mr. Platt: Kernan, 31; Platt, 2(3; Depew, 23: Cornell, 8: Miller, 8: scattering, 16. 'The convention adjourned to the 6th. A NEW YORK telegram of the 4th states that John G. Saxe, the poet, the day before lost his only surviving daughter. His wife died last July, and he has buried his three daughters within seven years. He himself s a confirmed invalid, and is living in humble circumstances in Brooklyn. Mrs. Lypia L. DENNETT, who was prominently identified with the anti-slavery movement, and assisted in the operations of the underground railroad, died at Portland, Me., on ‘the 4th, aged eighty-three years. i

Foreign. . Ir is reported from Bt. Petersburg that Rocialistic piots in all the chief cities of Europe are to be watched by agents sent out from Russia for that specjal duty. A BeruiN dispatch of the 3llst ult. says Bismarck was confined to his bed by inflammation of the blood-vessels of the legs. ON the Ist Lori lard's Iroquois, an ®American horse, won the English Derby,%)ringlng nearly $2,000,000 to the pockets of his owner. The crowd was immense, amoug the spectators be ng the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Louise, the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, and the Duke of Cambridge. Iroquois is the first horse from America who ever won a Derby race. It is stated that he will now be a prime favorite for the Ascot. and Goodwood cups. - : SoME Land Leaguers at Kilby, Ireland, have been imprisoned for mutilating cattle. Eighty policemen assisted in some evictions at Bodyke, Ireland, on the 2d, and were fired upon from behind fences. They captured a house filled with armed men, obtaining thirty prizoners. One farmer was Kkilled by a blow with the butt end of a gun, and sever-

alothers were injured. On the same day Daniel Mac Sweeney, a Land-League President at Falconash, was sent to Kilmainham ail. He claimed to be an American citizen, and said he would appeal to the United States Government for proteetion. : A &LASGOW (Scotland) dispateh of the 2d states that nearly all the cattle which had recently'arrived from Boston by the steamer Pheenician were found to be affected with the foot and mouth disease. -ON the 2d, during artillery practice at Grandenz, Russia, three Captains and two gunners were killed by the bursting of a cannon. THE cashier and three clerks of a commer, cial house in Paris were imprisoned on the 2d for the embezzlement of nearly $500,000. PETROLEUM has been struck ona farm near Sarnia, Ont., at a depth of six hundred feet. : : . ARCHBISHOP CROKE has appealed to Gladstone to put a stop to evictions in Ireland. - BROAD streams of lava were flowing down the northeast side of Vesuvius on the 2d. THE census recently taken in London shows a population of 3,814,5671. A SENTENCE of three and oné-half years’ penal servitude and the loss of his civil rights has been imposed upon the leader of the anti-Jewish riots at Kieff, Russia, and his chief accomplices have also received ex~ tended terms. ' CoUNT vON EULENBERG, formerly German Minister of the Interior, died at Schonberg on the Bd. , ] IT is stated that a body of 1,000 stocking weavers at Chemnitz is preparing to emigrate to the United States. : A VIENNA dispatch of the 3d says Prince Milan, of Servia, had decided to assume the rank and title of King. THE Viceroy of Ireland issued a proclamation on the 3d commanding the 'unlawful assemblages at New Pallas to be dispersed by force. A flying column which left Limerick Junction found a bridge destroyed, but kept on its| way and made evictions, amidst the groans’ of the people. On the same day a soldier was stabbed and pulled off his horse in the streets of Dublin. IN the British House of Commons on the 3d Mr. Gladstone announced that the Irish Executive had decided to adopt most vigorous measures for dealing with resistance to law. : THE Mexican Government has paid $2,300,000 within the last two years in railway subventions. : . It is stated that, believing that the world would speedily come to an end, several extensive farmers in. Ontario had decided not to put in crops this spring. ON the 4th M. Brinzard, Inspector of the French telegraph system in Algeria, and an escort of twenty-five men were cruelly massacred by Tunisian insurgents. A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the sth says a fresh conspiracy against the life of the Czar had been. discovered, and that twenty-five conspirators had been arrested. DuBLIN dispatches of the sth state that there would be 380,000 soldiers on duty in Ireland by the end of the week. On that day a bailiff at Bally Brophy had killed one man and wounded several others. 'A TREMENDOUS mass meeting was held in Hyde Park, London, on the sth, to protest against the policy of the Government toward Ireland. Speakers held forth from three platforms, and resolutions were adopted urg‘ing the suspension of evictions, the libera‘tion of those arre-ted and the resignation of Forster as Secretary for Ireland. Parnéll ’ announced that serious responsibility would ‘rest on the Government should evictions continue. i JELLIL AGHA MUKRI, the principal instigator of the Mian Doab massacre during the } Kurdish invasion of Persia, was blown from the mouth of a cannon at Tabreez on the 4th. THE prisoner Boyton, under arrest in Ireland, sent a cablegram to President Garfield on the 4th, expressing the hope that no appeal to the benevolence of the British Government 'would be made in his case by the United States.

LATER NEWS, | GRriscoM the Chicago faster, gained three-quarters of a pound in weight on the 6th, the tenth day of his fast. During the day of twenty-four hours he drank thirtytwo ounces of water. ] S . GEORGE GORHAM, a lawyer in Buffalo, N. Y., kept $106,000 worth of Bonds in the ‘Erie County Savings Bank vaults. One day he called,*¢lipped off some coupons, and left the bonds on the cashier’s desk, whence they. were stolen. A Baltimore lawyer named Whyte, agent for the thief, offered on the s¢h to return the bonds for a bonus of $50,000. ' : A ¥FEW days ago 2,000 armed Utes met the Commissioners at Los Pinos agency, and were informed through Chief Sapavanaro that the Government would enforee the treaty placing his people on a new reservation. %hiet Shavano, in a towering passion, demanded to know who signed &uch a treaty, and declared that he and Ouray’s widow owned the Uncompahgre valley. ‘Agent Berry notified five chiefs to accompany the Commission to select a new home, the Utes having refused to name a committee. - : THE employes of forty brewing firms in New York and Brooklyn struck on the 6th for an'increase of wages or a decrease of hours. A few breweries made the concession, but seventy-six firms declared that they would stop business rather than yield to the demand to close their establishments on Sunday. A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 6th says the National Board of Health had advices ‘that during the week ended on the 4th there were four deaths at Cincinnati, two at Evansville, Ind., and two at Indianapolis, from cerebro-spinal meningitis. OVER 3,000 immigrants landed at Castle ‘Garden on the 6th. During the week ended an the 4th the arrivals numbered over 18,000. ’ . THE International Typographical Convention assembled at Toronto, Canada, on the 6th. Delegates from all parts of the United States and Canada were present. A LAW student of Cincinnati, named Fred Schwarz, has been rendered deaf by smoking cigarettes. ' THE vote in the New York Legislature on the 6th for United States Senator was as follows: To succeed Mr. Conkling—Conkling, 26; Jacobs, 25; Cornell, 16; Wheeler, 14; Rogers, 13; scattering, 6. To succeed Mr. ' Platt—Kernan, 26; Platt, 23; Depew, 21; Cornell, 9; Miller, 9; scattering, 12. No choice in either case. ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL TYNER returned to Washington on the 6th, after a business trip to New York and Philadelphia. It was said there was no truth in the report that he contemplated resigning, and he is said to have stated that he had the assurance of the President that his resignation was not desired. e b

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Two small boys of Higbland Towmship, Greene County, were outin the woods. One of them suggested that the other eat spikenard as a remedy for his cough. The Loy ate what proved to be wild tarnip, and was dead in five hours. - ; Ax attorney of Lafayette has made the discovery that one of the members of the recent Grand Ju;y was not a freeholder. This has destroyed the virtue of nearly four hundred indictments. - il Ix the Federal Court atlndianapolis, Frsnk Rittenhouse, the veteran counterfeiter, has been sentenced to the State Prison South for seven years. ' DISCOURAGING reports as to the condition of the new wheat crop are coming in from all parts of the State. The drouth for some days past has affected it very seriously, but the devastations of the chinch-bug in the north part of the State have been even worse. Now from the northern counties comes the report that the most dreaded litile pest, the Hessian fly, has taken possession of field after field, and is doing a terrible work. An old grain dealer savs that some fields of wheat, both in this State and in Illinois, are being plowed up, and he did not believe they would have over a third of a crop. *Just at present,” said he, ‘ the prospects are decidedly gloomy for farmers.” THE large storace barn of Moses Fowler, located at Fowier, Benton County, was burned ‘a few nights azo. It i 8 supposed that the fire orizinated from the sparks of a locomotive which passed a few minutes before the flames were first seen, and, setting fire to the dry grass, spread rapidly to the barn. AT Terre Haute on the evening of the 29th ult. Eleazor G.bson shot and instantly killed William Hall. : ' 1y TaE State Superintendent of Public Instruction has sent out to all of the counties printed copies of the laws passed by the last Legislature, and now in force, relatinz to educational matters. The acts are three in number. One of them gives to cities baving 10,000 or more inhabitants the richt to establish free public libraries in connection with the ccmmon-schools, and defines the duties and powers of Bc¢hool Trustees in relation to the same. Another act provides for the appropriation of real estate for school purjoses, and sets forth the method by which any site thought desirable may be obtained by the School Trusteesin the same manner as land is obtain:d for the counstruction of railways. 'The third of the three statutes referred to provides that loans can only be made from the Common School and the Congressional Township Fund upon land which the County Clerk and Recorder shall certify has no encumbrance. It is said that an error or interpolation has been made in an amendment to Sec. 84 of the Tax law, allowing express companies to deduct from their gross receipts the amount ot wages paid to employes and the amount paid for the purchase of tangible property, aithough it had been rejected by the Senate, as the journal .and the Drapier reports show. How it crept ip is only explained by’ theories, but the fact that the engrossed Senate amendment on -file in the Librarian’s office has the interpolation, and that it appears in the law as published, makes it the law, at least until the next legislature assembles. The statement that there is a loss to the State of from $30,000 to $50,000 is erroneous, as the tax is 1 on a hundred, and it is likely the loss will be in the neighborhood of $lO,OOO. TeE wife of Washington Carpenter, the railway eng neer who was kiled at Lafayette about five months since, has broucht suit against the railway company for $5,000, claiming that his death was caused by the imperiect machinery of the {defendant. Carpenter was knocked out of the ecab and down a high embankment by the breaking of side rod.

THE following change has been made in the law of Landlurd and Tenant relating to farm crops: The former law gave the landlord z lien upon the crop without providing any way of enforcing it. The law of 1881 gives the landiord the right to sell the crop tor nonpayment of rent, in the same manner as a mortgagee of chattels can sell the chattels ‘named in the mortzage; in other words, he can sell without bringing any suit. There is also a section in the new criminal code which makes it embezzlement on the part of a tenant to sell the landlord’s part of a crop. TeE new Drainage law of Indiana is now in full force and effect, and it is the duty of Township: Trustees at the time they select Road Supervisors, to name six Drainage Commissioners, and from these the Judges of the respective Circait Courts will appoint two. FArRMERS in Huntington County complain of damages done to the corn by wire #nd grub worms, in many cases necessitating entire replanting. THE saw and grist mill at New Bethel, eight miles north of Indianapolis; was burned on the 28th ult., the fire originating in the engine-room., The property was owned by Lewis Weslev & Green Toom, who estimate ‘their loss at $2,000. No insurance. . - AT Indianapolis on the 29th ult. John O’Brien, -alias Thomas O’B.ien, fell upon his: face in a drunken stupor and was suffocated to death. He was an eccentric and beastly customer and for years had subsisted upon beer-slops and free lunches; JERRY SULLIVAN fell from a hand-car on the evening of the 30th u't , while returning from work on the railroad east of Valparaiso, and was run over by two hand-cars following and almost instantly killed. Ox the even ng of the 30th ult. the bagging. factory of John Caseley & Son, at Knightstown, empioying seventy-five hands, wus struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Loss $26,000. THE Valparaiso Woolen Mills were damaged by fire on the night of the 3Jth ult. to the extent of $3,000. The cause of the conflacration was the catching fire of the cotton pickings. 3 INDIANAPOLIS and vicinity were visited by a dangerous electrical storm on the night of the 3Jth ult.. accompanied by hail and a tremendous fall of water, which flooded the streets and caused great damage to public and private property by the overflow. The daughter of Hon. J. B. Connor was prostrated by a shock and remained insensible for seyeral hours, and Mrs. Cole, an aged lady. was rendered instantly deaf. A number of trees and exposed positions within the corpoiate limits were struck by lightning. IN removing two bodies from contiguous graves in the cemetery at Idaville, it was found that nothing wasleft of one but bones, while the other had turned to flint and weighed three hundred pounds. At Indianapolis on the 381st ult. James Murphy attacked his wife with an iron bar, and, after knocking her down, kicked the woman in a savage manner. Mrs. Murphy was dangerously wounded about the head, the skull being laid bare for several inches. After the assault the husband was arrested for attempted murder, and he endeavored to excuse h mself by claiming that his wife was intoxicated and be:an the fight. He admitted, however, registeriny a vow to murder her for the reason that her conduct con-

tinuously provoked him; and, when told of the probglbillty of her recovery, regretted that he had not struck harder. Murphy is aged seventy-five, owns his residence property, and some years ago was a wealthy man. WhaiLE hunting along the banks of Sugar Creek, south of Colfax, the other day, David Street carelessly dragged his gun on the ground, when it was discharged, shooting him in the face with probably fatal results. His teeth were blown out and his face horribly lacerated. _ Tue wife of John L. Eurich, of Indianapolis, filed a suit for divorce on the 27th ult. and took refuge at her father’s hom-. Oa the moin ng of the 30th uit. the enraged husband sought her and shot her in the Tight ‘eye, following it up ty putting a bullet into the arm of her father. He then shot his wife in the right lung, and, believing her dead, killed himself. Eurich was a saloonkeeper anl a very dissipated man. A FEw days ago Henry Horner, a prominent young farmer of LaGrange, while bathing in Long like, near that town, was taken with cramps and drowned before heip could reach um. He was twenty-seven years old, and had been married two yeais. AT Greenvilie on the 30th ult. Miss Jeanette Preston and her infant niece were seriousiy injured, the infant probably fatally, by a runaway horse. : Mgs. Gramam N. FircH, wife of ex-United States Renator Fitch, died at the residence of her son-im-law, Chas. Derby, in Evansviile on the evening of the 30th ult. Her remains were taken to Logansport for interment. AT Elizabethtown a few evenings ago the four-year-old son of Wiley Burns, while riding on a londed wagon with his father, was thrown to the ground by the wagon running iato a rut, the wheels passing over his chest, inflicting fatal injuries. | ‘HARRY SARBORN, the four-year-old son of A. Sarborn, was walking over the balustrade of the West street bridge of the canal in Indianapolis on the eveuning of the 2d, .when he fell in and was drowned before aid could be secured. e < Tue Indianapolis Himiny-mills, owned by Messrs. Holmes & Claypool, were partially burned at an early hour on the morn- ‘[' ing of the 2d. The fire originated in the third floor from a hot journal. The loss is estimated at $15,000, of which $3,500 is on stock and the remainder on building and machinery. There was $2,500 insurance on stock and 6,000 on machruery. : WHEN the Sheriff went to serve a writ of ejectment on Dr. Thomas Rose, at Richmond, which his wife had taken out against him, he began to cry and fell out of his chair on the floor. He lay all day in a comatose state, and there were no signs of returning consciousness by midnight. ' e THE ‘Attorney-General holds that County Commissioners have no authority to make a levy in June for Road tax under the new law, as this law will not be in force until July. Practically, therefore, the old:law will remain in force until 1882. ]

Tune current expenses of the House of Refuge for May were $38,700; for the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home for April and 3ay, $3,951.44, and for the Deaf and Dumb Institute for May, §54,450.85. - THE receipts in the State Treasury the past month were $1,464,029.42, which added to $718,009.29, balance on hand on. May 1, made the total for May $2,282,038.71. The payments for the month have been $670,454.11, leaving the balance in the Treasury on the Ist of June, $1,611,5684.60. THE wxsthetic craze which is devastating the East is also being felt in Indianapolis, and it is said that a club of young ladies has been formed with the motto, ‘‘ To the ®sthetic soul the intense is the unconditioned,’’ whatever that may mean. Among the favorite forms of expression which are necessary to express the intensity of the thoughts of these young w®sthetes are the following: ¢*Too too-ly too;’” “‘too awfully quite quite,’’ and ‘‘the uttermost utterance of the unutterable utter.” If this thing continues, the Journal says, it will be necessary to make another addition.to the female department of the Insane Asylum. ABOUT 600 Indianapolis Germans met the other evening and resolved to ignore the order of Mayor Grubbs prohibiting all kinds of Sunday-night performances. : AT Charlottesville on the Ist a two-year-old girl named Pitts was roasted alive in a burning s_traw-staz‘ii, fired by a nine-year-old brother while at play. THue old Wabash & Erie Canal bond (No. 283), in regard to which Henry Coghlan, of England, has for some time -been in litigation with the State of Indiana and obtained a final judgment from the Supreme Court, has been paid, principal and interest. Whether the decision in this case will be accepted as binding upon the State as to the payment of the other twenty-four outstanding bonds held -by Coghlan has not yet been decided. There is a difference of opinion among the State oftlcers as to this matter, more especially for the reason that the amount required to pay off the bonds cannot be raised without a loan of about $100,000; and it is regarded as doubtful whetaer there is any power to make the necessary loan without special authority from the Legislature. It is stated, however, that, if the bonds be not paid, there are likely to be serious complications, and a prolonged litigation in the United States Courts, as Cogulan’s attorneys are disposed to enforce their rights by a’ foreclosure of the mortgage upon the old Wabash & Erie Canal, which the bonds represent. | : ’ THE barn of ’Squire Price, of Posey township, was burned down a few days ago. Five hundred bushels 0f wheat, four tons of hay, a reaper and mower, carriage and harness were consumed. It was the work of an incendiary who is said to be known to Mr. Price. Loss, $1,800; about half the amount being covered by insurance. ) THE Valparaiso Woolen Mills caught fire a second time on the Ist, involving a loss of about $2,000. This time it started in the drying-room. The cause is not positively known, but is supposed to be from spontaneous combustion in consequence.of the stock in the dryer getting too dry and hot. It was with great difficulty that the flames were quenched, and not until the roofs of the drying and engine-rooms were burned. MORGANTOWN, a little village ten miles east of Martinsville, has again been vigited ‘with fire. About half-past seven o’clock the other evening the large planing and sawmill and stave factory of Mr. J. S. Coleman was discovered to.be on fire. It is not known how the fire occurred. The mill had been running during the day, and had not been shut down over an hour anda half. A heavy storm was approaching at the time of the ignition and much lightning prevailed, and possibly the fire may have caught from this source. The loss was about $lO,OOO. Tre lndianapolis grain qndtd’tlofih“fie’: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 4@ 443/c; Oats, 37@40c. Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, qa%@t&%cv-‘»@w 42@#2%c; Rye, $1.21@ 1.21%; Barley, [email protected]. Sl o

R R R R EEE———————————— The Winner of the Berby. - Ax American horse hus come to the front again in England, and has won their most famous of all races, the * Darby.” Asit is in order to reioice. over human triumphs of Americans vs. Englishmen, it is none the less in order torejoice over the equine. We have little doubt that any American animal can beat an English animal, but in this case it is unusual cause for congratulation that it is an American horse, noblest of all animals, that bas shown his heels to th» whole English pack, and that Iroquois, while he isB not the first horse that bas won a race in Epgiand, is the first horse that has won the De. by. and thefirst to really settie the vexed quest.on uf the superiority of the Americah ‘over the English: thoroughbred. o . The stable which Mr. Sanford sent over several years ago did little except to make a creditable exhibition, but did not alarm the Englishmen as to the superior:ty of their horses. In 18.8 Mr. Lorillard sent over a detachment of bis horses, with Parole at their head, which ghanged the views of Englishmen. They began tosuspect, after Parole hal won a series of handicaps, that something gcod might come out of America in the way of a horse. Last season the Americans were unfortunate. Parole was handicapped so heavily that nothing could be done with-him, and he wzQs sent home. Mr. Lorillard’s Mistake apd Sly Dance made a. good exhibition, and Wallenstein p.-oved unreliable for steady work. Mr. Kceno's stable was afflicted with a malignant epidemic, but - towards the close of the season his Foxhall . and Don Fulano did some very cred.table work. This season, however, the. ** Yankoees,” a 3 Englishmen term all our lhiorses, have been do nz so well that the other contistunts for the Derby have been alarwel at the outlook, and two of them, Iroguois and Don Fulano, the former the property of Mr. Loriilard and the latter of Mr. Keene, who ¢ame in seco:d and third te Peregrine for the Two Thousand Guineas, came to the front’at onoe among all horses in kngland of their age, though the expectations of the Lorillard party attached rather to Barret and Passaic, who were beaten at the start by a bad send-off, rather than to Iroquois, the ultimate vietor in the Derby. The race came off ¢cn Wednesday, and [roqitois won the race by half a length, with the Duke of Westminster's Peregring second, and two lengths ahead of :Lord Rosebery's Town Moor, third. Atthe distance-pole, Peregrine looked like winning at a canter, but Irequois made a dash, and came in amid tremendous enthusiasm, his rider elaimingz that if it had been necessary he could have won the race by three lengths.” Thousands upon thousands of Englishmen and the most of the Royal family joinéd in the applause that greeted the brave brown colt, who was in the best of spirits, likewise his rider. It is ncedless to say that Mr. Lorillard is also in the best of spi:its, as well he may be, having won, it is said, two millions on the race. The American people will join in his jubilation, and help celebrate the great victory of the first American winner cf the Derby, whieh no longer leaves any doubt as to the . long-mooted questicn cf superiority between Ameriean and English thoroughbreds.—Chicago T ibune, June 2.

' Railroad Aeccidents. . Tre Railroad Gazeie of arecent date has a record of the railroad accidenis occurring during last April. There we e in all 63.aceidents, whereby 22 persons were killed and €6 injured. Seven accidents caused death, 18 in ury but not dea'h, while in 33 accidents, or 60.3 per cent. of the whole number, noserions injury to persons is rcco:ded. As compared with April, 188), there is adecrcase of eight acaidents, but gn increase -of 11 in the number Killed and of 21 in that .injured. For the year ending with April the record is as follows: e Accidents. Kdled. Injured. MEAY iR s 30 107 JUBe Cioiviiaii e e 15 7 ST 0o st e S 21 100 Avgust: . ililivelbe o THE 49 214 September........ .2 1A 15 54 Geoigber: .. ... o M 180 - 1Y 137 November........ e 145 40 165 Pecember.... ... ... ¢ 130 29 141 JROUARY oocGuna igl 30 152 FebrufYy....... .\ 149 < 253 MAreh. ;. ..ot ol okl &8 177 Aptll: ocovni s B 8 eBD 66 Potalg ... :...ivi.. .1 Boa 85 1,698 Same months, 1879-80.... 830. 150 644 Samemonths,lB73-79.... 815 = 28 - &1 The number of accidents is over one-half greater, while that of killed and injured has ‘more than doubied from the previous year. The average per month was 11t aecidents, 82 killed and 139 injured, against 72 accidents, 15 killed and 54 injured in 1379-80. ; - """" —""-‘ 'o’ S g i . Set Free by an Earthquake., AN incident which occurred during the late earthquake at Chios strikingly illustrates the truth of the old adage that ‘*’tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good,” and i 3 well worth the attention of missionary ciroles, Some montlis ago considerable excitement was caused by the imprisonment for life of a Turkish mollah, by name Khodja Abmet, for the oftense of having helped Dr. Kohle to translate the Bible and certain Protestant prayers into the Turkish language. Khodja Ahmet was shut up in a prison at Chiog; and there he would probably have remained until released by death but for the earthquake, which knocked dowa his prison walis, and moreover effected the demolition in such a skiliful manner that he was uninjured by the wreck of the building. Wnen Khodja Ahmet realized what had happened. he wiscly took to. his heels, and, without reporiing himself to the authorities, scampered to the bay, where he mandged to get on board an Engiish steamer, and, according to the Levant Herald, is at present in London. i

A Mother Sacrifices Her Life. MRrs.McFAßLAND,residing on Sussex avenue, Newark, N. J,, and Mrs. Coryell, & neighbor, started for Brooklyn a few mornings ago, to visit Greenwood Cemetery, and plant flowers on Mrs. McFarland’s son's grave. Tsey were accompanied by Mrs. Coryell’s four-year-old daughter. When they reached the depot Mrs.. McFarland orossed . the track first, and the child attempted to foliow her, when an express train which does not stop at the station came thundering along. Mrs. Coryell, seeing her ehild’s imminent peril, gave a piercing scream, and, without, hesitation. jumped on the track and pushed the chi d out of danger, She then lost her presence of mind, and, becoming paralyzed with fear: was unable to move in either direction. The engineer whistled down braies, but before the train could be stopped the locomotive struck Mrs. Coryell and hu:led her over to the platform. Her. injuries were congidered fatal. eel A T A Pin in a GirP’s Tengue. ‘ Miss HARVEY, of Candor, when eleven or twelve years of age. was one evening making hurried preparations to attend a party. She had a pin between her lips which passed into her mouth and was supposed to be swallowed. Dr. Miller assumed such to be the fact; but. the girl insisted that it was under her tongue . Tae physician - made search for it there, but failed to discover it and treated her protestations as the work of imaginarion. One day Miss Harvey had a large bunch. or swelling ¢one upon one side of her tongue. increasing in panfulness. Dr. L. D. ¥arnham opened the swelling. The next day,. after eleven years of hiding, the pin eaineout of the opening. It was twosihirds covered with a lime formation and wag much oorroded.. —lthaoa (N. Y.) Journal. & 1 —Robins have selected fenee corners. and bushes for their nests this season. This is said to portend violent storms. all through the coming summer. _—Eunice Sweatt died in Belmont, N.. ‘H., recently, aged 105 years. =