Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 21, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 September 1881 — Page 2

:So y | Che-Ligonier Banner, ~ J. B. STOLL, Edlior and Prop’n. | LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA. ] T , : - NEWS SUMMARY. A e — e Important Intelligence from All Parts. - . Domestic. : - ONE Buker, of New York, who was caught in the August wheat corner, and who margined aBOO,OOO bushel deal to the extent of $90,000, all of which the manipulators of the deal proposed to scoop in. commenced “suit in the Superior Court of Chicago on the Ist to recover his margins under the provision of the State law in regardto ‘‘option deals’”” and ‘‘corners.’”” The Court issued a temporary injunction restraining the payment of ‘the margins, Subsequently two other suits were begun by other parties to recover. §3,600 and $9,000, respectively, which had been put up and confiscated. THE village of Sierraville, Cal., was destroyed by tire on the 31st ult., involving a loss of about $BOO,OOO. S - THE public-debt statement issued on the 18t makes the foilowing exhibit: ‘L'otaldebt . (including interest of $12,853,026), $2,056, - 838,356, Cash in Treasury, $2411,498,788. Debt, léss amount in Treasury, $1,816,339;568. « Decrease during August, $14,181,221, Decrease since June 30, 1881, $24,2)9,244. * RECENT reliable reports as to the yield of the Minnesota wheat crop indicate that the average yield per acre this year is about 11.40 bushels, and that the aggregate yield _of the whole State will be about 83,771,511 bushels. This'is 8,600,000 bushels less than the yield for the last year. The crop was best in the western counties of the Stateand poorest in the southern counties. : : - CAPTAIN STONE has returned to Cincinnati with Maud 8., and announces that she will not appear ia public again this season. . EX-SECRETARY STUART, of the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Board of Eduecation, was recently arrested for the embezzlement of $107,500 of the funds of the-Board. ON the 31st ult. Miss Sallie Carneal, of _ Cincinnati, was burned to death in the stable of her uncle, Charies Lawrence, at Lawrence Station, Q. It is believed that she saw ‘the flames and went thither to aid in sup- - presshig them. .

DURING the year ended on the 31st ult.: Bt. Louis received 398,589 bales of cotton, and shipped 411,077 bales. : THuE Ohio State Fair at Columbus, which closed on the 2d, is said to bhave been, in point of exhibition in 'all departments and in attendance of visitors, one of the most successful fairs ever held in the State. About 10,000 persons were upon the ground the last day, The estimate by the Treasurer was that the receipts had been sufficient to pay all expenses and leave a net balance in the treasdry of about $lO,OOO.

THE rubber-works of Eugene H. Clapp, at South Hanover, Mass., valued at $75,000, have been recently burned. . A RAGGED tramp, who was attempting to sell jewelry on the streets of Chicago, was arrested in that city a few days ago, on suspicion, and proved to be Mary Henderson, of Petroit, in male attire. REPORTS received.up to the 3d from most of the Western States indicated that the number of hogs was one-quarter less than last year, and that they were of small size and in poor condition. There was not the usual mumber of pigs, and there was a defi«ciency of food with which to fatten them tor market, : )

DisPATCHES received at New Orleans on the. 2d were. to’ the effect that great damage was being done ‘to the cotton by the prevailing drought. Carefully-com-piled reports from 166 counties showed an averageé- condition twenty-seven per cent, worse than last year. ‘ s THE Grangers of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia gave a picnic at Williams .Grove, Pa., on the Ist. Fully 20,000 people were in attendance, Delegates were 4 present from New York, Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware and West Virginia. Mr. C. L. Whitney, of Cincinnati, and Leonard | Rhone, Master of the Pennsylvania State Grange, made the speeches of the occasion. ACCORDING to a Washington dispateh the past month was the hottest August since 1872, and the rainfall was less than for any Auguss during the past ten years. THE Treasury Department has issued a «circular regarding the protests filed with ‘Collectors of Customs, and says: * Collect--ors upon receipt of such protest are required te examine the grounds of protest, and if it is found the parties are entitled to the relief claimed, whether under any decision of the Treasury Department or otherwise, and sufficient protest has been filed, reliquidation of the entry should be nlade without submitting the case to the Treasury Department.”’ A MOB recently whipped a Mexican boy to death in Tombstone, Arizona, because a thirteen-year-old girl said he had insulted her. The girl subsequently said, that her story was uuntrue, : i A STRANGER recen'ly calied upon ‘Dr. Hammond, the distinguished New York surgeon who has lately attained considera- . ble notoriety by his causue criticisms of the President’s treatment, and informed him that a special train had been provided to carry him to Washington to take charge of the President. The Doctor packed his bag and started off tothe depot with an assistant, only to learn that hehad been made the vietim of a practical joke. : ; A DEADWOOD! dispatch of the Ist announees the discovery, thirty miles from that city, of & vein earrying $150,000 to the. ton. & ] . C. H. KEELER, the Treasurer of the St. Louis Carbon Works, has been arrested for

the embezzlement of $12,000. B REPORTS were received on the 3d and 4th =.of another horrible massacre of troops by . ladiansen the frontier. On the 18t General Carr’s foree, consisting of 110 men and seven officers, were attacked about thirtyfive miles from Camp Apache, Arizona, in the White Mountain Beservation, close to the New Mexican line, by a force of about 500 Apaehes under Chief Piedro, and nearly every man—if not every man—is said to have been killed. The attack was coim‘menced by an Indian seouting party attached to General Carr’s' command, and Piedro’s warriors coming up immediately . swirounded the lcommand and cut off all “chanee of escape. It was also reported that. _ the Indians had ecaptured" Fort Apache, where General Carr’s wife and the wives of some other officers were staying. i . BnE Coroter’s jury at New Haven, Conn., - rendereda verdict on the 3d in the ecase of Jennie Cramer, to the effect that the unfors tunate gjrl came to her death by poison and violence, The jury held James Malley, Jr.,

criminally, and Walter E. Malley and Blanche Douglass morally, responsible for the death of the poor girl. . Prof. Chittenden reports finding arsenic in all parts of Jennie’s body,. e WILLIAM F. MARTIN, the man sentenced to be hanged at Lebanon, Mo., who was released by the jailer’s niece, and Trecap:ured in her company at Pine Flats, Tenn., sprang from a car window..in fetters, at two o’clock on the morning of the 3d, and made for the woods. Sheriff Goodall sent the womaa to Lebanon and started in pursuit of the murderer. =

WiLLIAM R. DICKERSON and Joel M. Van Arsdalen, two Philadelphia lawyers who torged the name of ‘a Philadelphia millionaire to a will which bequeathed to themselves a large’ amount of the millionaire’s property, have been convicted and sentenced each to ten years’ imprisorment and to pay a fine of $l, 000. - ;

AT Erie, Pa., on the 4th Mary J. Lee, aged nineteen, daughter of Prof. Lee, bedridden for four years, got up and walked to church. Her cure was .believed by her friends to- have been the result of special prayers by Methodist friends and others. THREE THOUSAND citizens of Birmingham, ‘Ala., recently assembled to witness a twenty-minute fight between two bull-dogs and a wild-cat. The latter scratched out the eyes of its adversaries. et THE town of Andover, N. Y., was recently visited by an clectric storm which prostrated several persons and burned eight houses and barns. The loss was esuimated at $60,000. - : : LEMUEL GRIFFITHS, a rtemperate old man of Mognt Carmel, Pa,, who died recently under suspicious circumstances, had grave-yard insurance placed upon him to the amount of $lOO,OOO, for which he was paid one per cent. by speculators. - DISPATCHES of the 4th state that the continued drought in Virginiaand North Carolina was doing great damage to the tobacco and cotton crops of those ngtes. And in som%figiom. through the \same cause, the corn\¢rop was a total failure. Cattle, and in some instances the people, were suffering from want of waler. ; UP to the close of business on the 3d there had been receivedat the Preasury Department in Washing 5,649,000 in coupon five-per-cent. bonds, under the 103 d call, and $12,222,350 in registered five-per-cent. bonds, under the 104th call. GOLD to the amount of §1,600,000 reached New York on the 3d from Europe. :

Personal and Political.

CAPTAIN HOWGATE, whose steaiings from the United Statés amount to nearly or quite $200,000, was nowhere to be found on the 31st ult., and it was believed that he had fled from the country in company with his mistress, leaving his bondsmen to_settle with the Government, His deserted wife was left almost. penniless. A WASHINGTON dispatch of the slst ult. says: ‘‘Guiteau continues as devilish as ever. He has written a letter to the Dis~ trict-Attorney, in which he expresses his increased regret that he was not able to Kkill the President while in church, and thus secure’ his death on the instant. He says he is sorry that he suffers so much, and a good deal more sorry that he is not dead.”’ Tne New York Republican State Convention has been called to meet in New York City on the sth of October GENERAL GRANT is reported as saying there vas no truth in the statement that he had had frequent consultations and conferences with Vice-President Arthur and other ‘public men in New York in reference to political contingencies at Washington growing out of President Garfield’s recent dangerous cendition, Hesays he had met General Arthur on?y once since the attempt on the President’s life, and then no one but the Viee-President and he was present. ; * GEORGE F. CUTLER, Paymastér-General of the Navy, has been placed on the retired list, and as no successor can be appointed until the President can act, Secretary Hunt will discharge the duties of the position. THE Republican Central Committee ot Nebraska has called a State Convention to meet at Lincoln, October 5. - THE trial of Rev. Dr. Themas on the charges of heresy preferred by the Rev. S. A. Jewett and the Rev. Robert M. Hatfield was commenced in Chicago on the Ist. The Rev. Dr. Willing presided, and the jury consists of Rev. J. W. Agard, Rev. T. H. Hazeltine, Rev. J. W. Phelps, Rev. J. S. David, Rev. William Craven, Rev. John ‘Ellis, Rev. Robert Proctor, Rev. D. R. Van Horne, Rev. J. H. Alling. Owing to the absence of bis colleague, Rev. Mr. Jewett; .Rev. Mr. Hatfield said it was impossible for him to proceed with the trial, and an adjournment was taken until the 6th. . GENERAL M. H. AVERY, well known throughout the oil region, where he operated the first pipe line, died at Geneva, N. Y., the other day. He commauded a brigade under General Sheridan. :

BENJAMIN ISRAEL BUTLER, the youngest son of General B. F. Butler, died of Bright’s disease at Gloucester, Mass., a few duys ago He was twenty-six years of age, a graduate of West Point, and of -the Law School of Columbia College. : : HoN. HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, late a member of -Congress from the Twelfth Pennsylvania Distriet, died at Wilkesbarre, in that State, on the morning of the 2d.

. GUITEAU was hanged in efligy in Niagara Square, Buffalo, N. Y., on'the Bd, in presence of 3,000 persons. | ' LORENZO DELMONICO, the famous restauranteur of New York, died of gout at Sharon Springs, N. Y., a few days ago. . 'WIELIAM M. KVARTS has arrived at New York from the International Monetary Conference. He reports entire unanimity of feeling between the United States, Italy, Heolland, France angd Spain as to bimetallism, and thinks the gold drain in progréss will open the eyes of Great Britain as to the wisdom of such position. -

Foreign,

SEXTON, the Irish_-Land-Leaguer, addressed a meeting at Dublin on the 31st ult., and said that as long as the Emergency Committee existed there would be no peace in Ireland. He also repeated thatthe Land League would not disband until Jandlordism was destroyed. e

1 'FIFTEEN So?allstsz have been éxpelled from Berlin for laboring for the election of Herr Bebel to the Reichstag. | THE india-rubber warehouse of P. B. Cowhill & Co., in Broad street, London, a wine-store in Cheapside, and seven other buildings, containing property vulued at $1,000,000, were burned on the Ist. ¢ 1T was stated on the Ist that there werg then about 225 cases of yellow fever in Havans, Cuba. The deaths duringthe previous week numbered :26.. - L. A RECENT attempt to relieve the French garrison of a fortress on the Algerian frontier failed. The Arabs to the number of 2,000 attacked the relieving force, compelling it

to retreat. . The Tunisian troopsin the vicinity refused to assist the Freuch, and gave evidence of strong anti-Gallic sympathies. The situation of the garrison was resarded as critieal. ; L

SPEAKMAN & SoN, leading stock-brokers of Manchester, Eng., failed on the Ist for $400,000. S IT is believed that the loss of life caused by the wreck of the Teuton on the South African coast was not as great as at first reported. ‘A boat containing three officers, two firemen, two seamen and a coolie arrived on the Ist at a point on the coast not far from the disaster. They stated that in their ?pinion another boat containing thirty women and children would yet. make the coast. Most 'of those ‘who perished@ were emigrants.

THE condition of affairs in Zuoluland is causing the British Government considerable anxiety. It was stated on the Ist that several chiefs were marching through the country with large armed followings. For- publishing false news and for unfriendly comments upon the Minister of War, one newspaper at Alexandria, Egypt, has been warned and another suspended. EIGHT cartridges marked *‘U. B.’? have been discovered in a bale of cotton at the Abbey Spinning Company’s works, near Oldham, Eng. , It is believed that they were placed there with the design of setting fire to the mills ' : §

SOME soldiers in Dublin on the 4th made insulting remarks about the Pope, and a riot ensued. The police fired upon persons,who threw stones, and fifteen were wounde.d.

SECOND ballots were taken in. France on the 4th for members of the Chamber of Deputies in distriets which failed to elect two weeks before. Twenty Republicans and one Conservative were elected. ‘

THE loss of life by the foundering of the Teuton off the Cape of Good Hope was stated on the 4th at 236.

'THE French Minister of War on the 4th ordered another brigade of four thousand men to Africa. ,

The President.

THE London Lancet of the 2d says the President will not be out of danger until the wound is healed. It held that another failure in the President’s digestive powers, or any other symptoms of blood-poisoning, might at any time turn the balance against him. The Lancet condemns the probings of the President’s wound for the purpose of ascertaining how the process of healing goes on. The most favorable symptoms in the President’s condition, it thought, were the falling of the temgperature and the frequency of the pulse, ther&tient’s improved powers of digestion, his ability to sleep, and his mental elearness. :

It was the opinion of the surgeons that .the President made some gain on the Bd. In the language of Secretary Blaine the gain was not great, but was in the right direction. At6:3o p. m. his pulse was 102; tem= perature, 99.6; respiration, 18. The bulletin issued at 8:30 on the morning of the 4th stated that the patient vomited once the evening before and once about an hour after midnight. Notwithstanding this disturbance he slept well most of the night, and in the morning had taken food by the mouth, without nausea, and had retained it. The 6:30 p. m. bulletin on the 4tn stated that the President had passed a comfortable day. He had taken his food with some relish, and had no return of the irritability of the stomach reported in the morning’s bulletin. The parotid swelling egntinued to improve, and was so far reduced that the contour of his face was restored. The wound showed no material change. The pulse was more frequent throughout the day than the day before, and he showed more fatigue after dressing. Pulse, 110; temperature, 99; respiration, 16. At }:3O on the morning of the sth he was resting quietly.. The surgeons had decided to remove the President--to. Long Branch, and a car specially prepared for that purpose by the Pennsylvania Road was on its way tothe Capital. e .

LATER NEWS,

AFTER a somewhat restless night the President’s condition on the morning of the 6th was reported to be weak and low. The extreme heat of the day was detrimental. At 8:30 a. m. his pulse was 114. During the day there was no material change. The patient received and retained nourishment in the natural way, and had no gastric irritability. The evening bulletin showed a diminution of the pulse to 108, the temperature during the day being slightly above normal. Arrangements had been perfected for the President’s removal to Long Branch, and it was thought the removal would take place eariy on the morning of the 6th. In his | dispatch at 9:40 p. m. to Minister, -Lowell Secretary Blaine says: ““This has been the hottest day of the season, and she heat has told upen the President. His pulse and temperature have been higher than for,several days past. In other respects there has been no special change, either favorable or adverse. It is expected that he will be removed to Long Branch to-morrow. It is hoped that the sca air will strengthen him.” A special at one a. m. on the 6th said the surgeons had difficulty in putting the Presideut to sleep, and'bad recently been giving him considerable injections of morphia. He was restless and had more fever, and was constantly talking of Long Branch and the removal. He was resting quietly at 1:45 a, m. ; NINETEEN persons were killed and twen-ty-five injured by a railroad accident in France on the 4th, caused by the failure of the flagman to close a switch. Some of the unfortunate victims were go horribly mutilated that identification. was impossible. .BENJAMIN SHOROCH, while playing baseball at Paterson, N. J., ion the bsth, was struck in the stomach: by a ball from the bat. He died from the effects a few minutes after. . S :

BY proclamations.of the Governors of 11linois, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New York and Ohio, Tuesday, September 6, was set apart and observed in those States as a day of public prayer for the recovery of the President. The Governors of Maine, New Jersey and Massachusetts appointed the Bth, and the Governors of other States had named other days, to be similarly observed in their respective States. 2 : THE Commissioners of Indian Affairs at Washington received a dispatch on the sth from Tiffany, of the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, that the Apache mussacre was not nearly as bad as at first reported, Captain Hentj%emd ten men were killed. General Carr, he says, was not killed. General MeDowell had telegraphed the Adjutant-Gen-eral that Captain Hemtig and seven men were killed, and that Eleut_enaut Gordon was wournided in the attack on the fort. A dispat h received in Chicago on the same day by General Sheridan from General Pope, Banta Fe, N. M., was to the effect that General Carr and his command were all right. It, however, confirmed the report of the loss of Captain Hentig and ten men, ' :

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The long delay in receiving the acts of the last Legislature from the State Printers has at last ended, and 2,000 copies of the volume have been turned over to the Secretary of State. Partial shipments of them were made on the 27th ult. to some of the most inaccessible -counties, and others will follow as fast as the force in the Secretary’s office calgprepare them for Shipment. .

Captain James J. Smiley, who was reported a victim to Indian atrocities in New Mexico, has returned home safé and sound, and will take his chances in the local political field where hair-lifting is done in a more scientific manner. .. B

Judge William Giles, an eminent criminal jurist of Baltimore, Md., an éx-member of Congress, .and who claims to be an intimate friend of the Camerons, of Pennsylvania, created a great disturbance at the Denison Hotel in Indianapolis the other evening. The gentleman and his wife, accompanicd Dby two children of a former wife, Lad been on an extensive western tour, and when the l party reached Indianapolis his condition | showed that the Judge had been dissipating 1 to the point of delirium tremens. After being assigned to his room he imagined that | his wife was making a demonstration upon his life, and he came sailing into the main hall clad in his might shirt his eccentric appearance and wild figures of speech excited the liveliest interest among the guests. It was necessary to call in the police, and it was only after severai hours of careful treatment that it was possible to persuade the eminent jurist to quiet down for the night. His wife was put to great distress by his unfounded accusations, and at her request was assigned to different apartments. Next day Judge Giies had recovered sufificiently to resume his journey homeward, and upon arriving there will probably find himself a defendant in divorce proceedings, the lady asserting that she had determined upon a final separation. : y * A funny thing at the expense of a Chicago gambler was current in Indianapolis on the 28th ult. A few days ago Andy Daniels established luxurious’ gaming rooms in that city and caused it be understood that it was g gentleman’s game,”’ and was introduced to fiil a void in sporting circles. The gamblers tumbled kindly to . the racket, and one after another the men about town struck it for §5O and $lOO, until. Daniels’ capital was sénsibly weakened, and he began to apprehend that the average Hoosier thought he had a ¢ soft’’ thing, and took advantage thereof to the fullest opportunity. On the night of the 27th uit. an eminent Judge, who gets drunk once a year regularly either in Chicago or New York, and the rest of the time remains at ~ home the personification of judicial dignityr and sobriety, stuwmbled into the room more than half drunk. He started in on $10; “called the turn,’’ and won repeaiedly; at the sume time drinking deep and long, until -finally he fell upon the floor an inert mass of stupid intoxication.” An inventory of his *“chips”” showed him several hundred dollars ahead, and they were duly cashed and placed in care of a friend for the Judge’s benefit. The next night the same jurist again turned up, drunk as a lord, as\Daniels flattered himself that his banßwould even up its losses of the night before; but the contrary was the case. The fact is, ~ Daniels and his bank were cleaned out,. the | jurist striking it for $1,400 that night, with _other players proportionately lucky. : Dan- - iels started on the return for Chicago, announcing before departure that he had ~ gone after funds. If he realizes, the bank - will reopen. -

It was reported on the 28th ult. that W, W. Metcalf, an agent for Dun’s Mercantile Agency at Bedford, had abscondeu with considerakle money belonging to that concern. The cause of this strange action is attributed to bad associates and indulging too freely in wines. Mr. Metcalf had been considered one of the leading attorneys in Rockport, and his fall has astonished the citizens. ;

On the 27th ult. D. Ross, a resident of Somerset, Wabash County, was thrown from a buggy and fatally injured. ‘ Fire started the other evening on the stock farms of Robert Lockridge and Wiiliam Bridges, two miles east of Greencastle, from a locomotive, burning five hundred acres of grass, fences, and one hundred tons of hay, and seriously injuring valuable rimber. Three hundred citizens assisted and subdued the flames.

The barrel and wagon factory of Andrew Johnson at Pierceton was entirely destroyed by fire a few days ago, involving a loss of about $6,000. ] >

The delay in the Coghlan bond matter against the State is due to an effort on his part to obtain interest on the whole amount due at the date of the first demand—interest on principal and interest from that date. The State tenders the principal of the bonds and coupons, with interest from their maturity to date. ° i =

Captain Conner, of the statistics bureau, recently received a letter from Charles T. Boerner, of Vevay. who has the veputation of being one of the best meteorologists in the State, saying that he heartily approves of the proposed enterprise of establishing a weather bureau in every county. He says the system has been established in other Western States for some years. Mr. Boerner has been a weekly reporter from his section of the State to the United States Signal Office, from the time of its first establishment. i

The banks of Indianapolis are united in denouncing the agent for a patent stamp to prevent the raising of checks. .

There is considerable feeling among business men of Indianapolis over the action of the State Board of Agrieulture in fixing the admission to the coming State: Fair at fifty cents instead of twenty-five cents. They claim that the proposed increase will keep hundreds ‘of country people away, and thus decrease the trade” in the city during the fair. This summer has been rather a hard one on farmers, and they are not very flush, the excessive drought and subsequent failure of crops contributing largely tu the result. It looks as if the State Board wanted to pay off all their indebtedn 'ss at one fell swoop, but they will probably come up smiling at the next session of the Legislature, howling for the old flag and an appropriation. : : $

Mrs. Elizabeth Beatty, of Indianapolis, swallowed morphine on the ‘night of the 28th ult., with suicidal intent, and died at an early hour yext morning. She was in love with William H. Starchman, who, on the:24th, ign red her claims and married another lady. On the 28th she invited bim to a farewell dinner, and when he came he found her in hysterics. She claimed that she bad taken nothing, and said: **Don’t

let the doctors or newspaper men see me, I’'m dying of a broken sheart.’” Later at night it became evident that she had taken poison, and when the physician came she | was past recovery. The deceased was the divorced wife of Police Officer Meek, and bore a good character. , ; At Terre Haute on the afternoon of the 29th ult. the Centenary Methodist Church caught fire from stablés which were burning in the rear of the church, and, with the exception of the walls, was dedtroyed. It was one of the finest church edifices in the city. The loss is estimated at $3,500. ' . A.J. Nottingham’s saw-mill, situated eight miles south of Muncie, was totally destroyed by fire on the 28th ult.| Loss, $3,On the 29th ult. a drummer for an Eastern house stopped in Lufayette, and, presuming on bis acquaintance with a fellowman of the road whom he supposed would be absent from the ecity, he called at his house. Finding the husband at home, he left, but during the afternoon he sent around a note 'addressed to the wife, in which, it is alleged, he made a base proposition and inclosed money to pay passage to a neighboring city, with a request to meet him there. The note fell into the hands of the husband, and he very justly became hotter than Congressman Orth’s lime-kiln, He went on the war-path. The impudent drummer was invited to his house. and told to call in the evening. Fool-like, he went! -The husband locked the door, and then proceeded to administer one of the most .thorough, if not artistic, pummelings. that any drummer ever got. That class of people are noted for their adamantine cheek, but the husband’s fists were too tough for this one, and he was hammered as tender as a porter-house steak.. Then his baggage was sent for, he was washed up, and told to leave town on the first train. He left, and ‘:will hardly show up in Lafayette for some time. ; o . Siie

Over a little altercation at cards a few nights ago at Rochester Julius P. Michiels attempted to shoot Paul Dor.ch. ' The ball went through Michiels’ hand. Lyman D. Drake, an old and well-known officer of the State Farm, has disappeared very mysteriously. He started to Indianapolis on the 23d ult. on a hunt for a runaway boy, and nothing has been heard of him since he left Plainfield. He is married, and has lived at Plainfield fifteen .years. The disappearance has caused no little amount of comment. All gfforts to obtain tidings of his whereabouts have proven fruitless, and it is feared by his friends that he has met with foul play. : : Adjutant-General Carnahan went to Terre Haute the other day for the purpose of mustering out the Light Guards, ot tljat city, who have grown tired of being bloody soldiers. This is the first instance on record Where a company has been mustered out in the time of peace of their own accord. '

Adie, daughter of Gus Carter, of New Albany, died a few days since from the effect of haying swallowed two nickels. ~ Everythingis fearfully dry between Blooinington, 111., and Lafayette. A spark from a passenger engine fell on a bridge near Gibsou City the other night and set fire to it, delaying a' train several hours. A wellknown engineer says that for several weeks past he had not thrown -a cigar stump from the engine, but always threw it into the tender or fire-box, for fear of igniting something by the roadside. e : At an early hour on the mornirg of the 30th ult, trains Nos. 60 and 63 on the Lake Erie & Western Road ran together near Tampleton station, destroying four empty" freight cars and doing a good deal of damage to the locomolives. The engineers and. firemen hopped off and escaped injury. The drawbars of fifteen cars were broken. Both trains were running according to instructions, the error being chargeable to the dispatcher, who gave different passing points. A tinsmith of Lafayette, John G. Derr by name, was thrown from his wagon on the 3uth ult., the horse running away, and, falling beneath the wheels, had one or two ribs broken and was injured otherwise in-such manner as to cause®ears that he will not recover. T

At various points in Clark County, on the line of the railroads, the destruction of property from railroad locomotive sparks Jhas been very great. Hundreds of yards of fencing and thousands of acres of grass have been burned up in the past few weeks, and, if the droughtieontinues, the destruction will be terrible. :

The Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, [email protected]. Corn— No. 2, 64@66e. - 0at5—39.«43e.. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, [email protected]:5. Corn—No. 2, 66@6645¢. Oats —No. 2, 435@433{c: Rye—No, 2, $1.12@ L12!4. Barley—No. 3 Fall, nominal. . ..

The Quaker Case. The celebrated Quuker case, entitled The White Lick Quarterly Meeting ot Friends vs. Ailen Hadley et al., was placed on trial “at Indianapolis on the 29th ult. in the Circuit Court. The suit ostensibly is to secure the custody of certain trust funds, but the real issue is to gestablish the true church, upon which hangs the rights of property in this and other States, invelving a great many thousand dollars. The defense hold up that there are two White Lick Quarierly Meetings, the true one presented by the defendants hoiding to the declaration and testimony of faith and doctrine as established by the conference of committeemen at Philadelphia in 1880, and from which there had been no departure by them. They claim to be governed by the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, New England, New York, Obio, lowa, Kansas, the Orthodox Western and Canada, and assert that these bodies have pronounced the Western innovations and departures by the Progressive Yearly Meeting represented by plaintiffs to be the acts of separation and renunciation of fellowship with the true society. The. plaintiffs claim that the White Lick Quarterly Meeting, to which defendants bglong, was illegally organized, and is fictitious, and that the plaiutiffs are the only legal society, indorsed by the Western Yearly Meeting. In it itgelf stood in full tellowship with the Yearly Meetings of London, Dublin, New England, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, I wa, Kansas and Upper Canada. . The cuse has been s:veral&n»ufl;: in preparation. 4nd the opposing attorne: hm?e g:riifl'udp“ themselves with . aflidavits from all parts of the country. The initiatory proceedings were closely watched by a large gathering of citizens, among them ‘representative men from Illinois, New York and the New: England States. Both si_deg elected to stand a trial by court, and the introduc fon of testimony began. Whatever the decision may be an appeal will be taken COOHG ShaE i RE G

~ Weather Indications. '© 4 See,” said Mrs. Spoo?end_vke as she' laid the paper down, **l see that we are to have rising, followed by falling barometer, with northeast to southwest winds, and higher or lower temperature, with clear or partly cloudy weather, and li%ht. rains. ll’ioiw is it they contrive to tell so accurately about the weather? Do you understand it?* ~ | = - ~ ““Certainly,” replied Mr. Spoopen~dyke; ““ they do it by observation. They have a man .out West observing, and a } man down East who observes, and fellows observing around in-different parts lbof- the country. They put all their ob~servations together, and we know just what it's goingto-da.’h - -t i 0 - +¢l suppose that's what makes the wind so gifi'erent everwy morning. When one man’'s teniperature is rising, anovher's falling; and when: one is clear all the rest are partly cloudy, with——" *No they ain’t. Each observer sends in what he observes; and then the chief makés up his mind from those reports what the weather will be. Can’t you understand P!’ : or sl

¢ Perfectly,” said Mrs. Spuopendyke, rubbing her elbows. ‘‘lf one sees the barometer rising and another sees it falling, and 'its cold in one piace and cloudy in another, they all'say so. . But I should think when ‘one hits it right the other would be awful mad.”? =~ -

*“ What would they'!get mad about?”’ demanded Mr. Spoopendyke. Youdon't imagine that they all get together and fight it out, do you? They take the weather from different points and combine it, and they parcel it-out among the different regions. -For instance, if it snows in the East and is warm ‘in the West, they strike an average for the Lake region. Now, what is the average between heat and snow?” :

_““ Rain,” cried . Mrs. . Spoopendyke, delighted with her sagacity, *‘ I see how it is now. They take whatls usually going on and equalize it all over: the country. I'm glad the Democrats weren’t elected.”? ' : oLI B

“¢ What have they got to do with it? " Do you think a barometer is a politi- . cian?”’ - S Ll ‘ No. Butif the Democrats had been elected they would have to change it all around, wouldn't they? “And the South would have got-the best share. That’s what the Repub—=22 =/ =7 o 4 - ¢ Blast the. Republicans! They’ve.got no more to do with it than you have. You have got an idea that they throw the barometers and observers into one end of a steam-engine, and the weather comes out of the. other. They don’t. make the weather. The weather makes itself. It is the eonly self-supnorting thing about the Government. And these signal men only watch-it and tell what Wegoingtobe ~ 8 om L ¢ I.suppose when’ these observers all get together and talk it over, that iscalled a storm-center, isn’tit®’

‘¢« That's_it!?’ shouted Mr. Spoopendyke. “You've got the weather now." All you want now is your name painted on the handle and the spring broken to be an umbrella. . They don't talk it over; they tell you-all they know, and it’s fixed up in Washington. ‘They agreeo? it here, and then they -telegraph it. all around everywhere. It is generally made in Manitoba and. sent down here. Xt v ol ba e T e

¢« How wideis it?’’ asked Mrs. Spoopendyke, deeply interested. *¢ Because, if it isn’t too big<d should. think they might stop it el o “ Wide! It's just afeet wide! Just. a feet. Just about as wide as vour measily information. How’re they going to stop it? = Think it jaws the sleeping-car conductor because therve’s only an upper berth left? Well, it don’t. 1t hires a horse!’ howled Mr. Spoopendyke, *‘ and the only way to stop it i to build a fence around it. There was some talk abott buraing the last one, but the wood was wet.”?

““ Well, my dear, you needn’t get angry about it,” said. Mrs. Spoopendyfie, ~soothingly. . ¢“I only thought there might be some way they could make some arrangements about it. I think storm centers are horrid, and the observer in Manitoba must have a hard time. If he has to observe much in the winterlhé must be nearly frozen.” .

* Does any human being know what you are thinking . about?”’ raved Mr. Spoopendyke. ¢Do yous'pose he goes around with a spyglass looking behind rocks? Think he prowls around all night with a lantern hunting up storm centers? Got an idea that he runs round under the bed with a broom, like a married woman I know of; and when, he catches a center pulls him out by the leg and observes him?. He. don’t do anythiing of the sort.. He has them to spend the evening with him, and’ gets them drunk and finds out what they're up to. Understand it now? All you want is to whirlround twice and squeak nights'to be a weathervane.” - - «I didn't know how they did it,”" quoth Mrs. Spoopendyvke complacently, “put [ see now. If vhe Prohibitionists had been elected he eouldn’t have done that, and we should have been in a bad way. Now that 1 understand it I'll learn the indications every morning. How does the barometer rise and fall?"’

<« With cork-screws,’’ thundered Mr: Spoopendyke. = ““Sometimes they haul it up with a stump-machine; then they drop a carpenter’s shop on it. When it gets very low they blow it up __wir‘t:h-gun-cotton. Onece in” Dakota it got so high - they had to dig a hole and ram it down with a spile-driver. - Got it now? Be‘gin to see through it? . What you need is a box of pilis-and a conundrum to be - an almanac!’’ And Mr. Spoopendyke jumped out of the house like a conical shot and banged the door after him. - « I never quite understood it before,” soliloquized Mrs. Spoopendyke, speculating: as to whether she would put the plume on the side or back part of her hat; *“but now that he’s explained it to me, J. wonder. they don’;;_obseive by steam. It must be awful hard. on the poor man.”’ And; having decided about the plume, Mrs. Spoopendyke filled her mouth with pins and crawled under the bed in search of herthimble.—Brooklyn Eagle. . v e

~An old man with a head asdestitute of hair as a watermelon, entered an Austin Avenue drug store and tol?,t,he clerk he wanted ‘a bottle of hair restorer. ¢ What' kind of hair restorer do-you prefer?’ I reckon I'll have to take a bottle of red hair restorer. 'l'hat was the color it used to be when 1 was a boy.”’—Texas Siftings. .=~ =