Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 30, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 November 1881 — Page 2

. v * e i ToAN R A Tlhe Ligonice Banner o . 4. B. STOLL, Ediior, and Prop’n. . LIGONIER, :; : :{SINDIANA. S i & NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts. ' ~ Domestie. " THE public-debt statement issued on the st makes the following exhibit: Total debt ‘(ineluding interest of $12,340,504), §2,026, - 495,473, Cash in Tréasury, $240,960,971. Debt, less amount in Treasury, ¥1,785,534,466. Decrease during October, s§l3,321,459, Decreage since June 30, 1881, $55,064.345. . ; On the Ist the authorities of North Bennlngton, Vt., quietly raided all the saloons in the village and spilled their liquors in the streets. : b o . CAVEATS on file in the Treasury Department show that there are outstanding $2,541,000 in stolen registered bonds, for which new ones have been issued.

LIGHTNING trains, making the transit from New York to Chicago in twenty-six hours, have been established by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Vanderbilt managers' announce that they will speedily place 4 train-to run over their lines in somewhat less time. These trains will reduce the postal time to all towns west of Chicago by or}le day. . ; s N Augusta, Ga., on the 2d Confederate bonds sold at from $lO to $ll per $l,OOO. GOLD to the amount of $1,042,750 was brought to San Francisco from Australia on the 2d by the steamer City of New York. FIvE years ago the tannery of Bryant & King, at Clinton, Mass., was destroyed by a flood.” The firm was forced ‘into bankruptey, seventy-three per cent. being obtained from the wreck. A few days ago the ‘insolvents secured $lOB,OOO damages.for the loss of their building, and at once forwarded to their creditors drafts to make good the principal and intergst. S A GOLD mine in ‘the Summit district of Colorado is said by reputable experts to te yielding $20,000 per ton. An offer of $3,000,000 in cash for a half interest was recently refused. : 7

- UNITED STATES TREASURER GILFILLAN’S report for the fiscal year ending June 80 shows an increase in receints over those of the previous year from every-source. In customs, an increase of $11.637,611; internal revenue, $11,255,011; gales of public lands, $1,185,356; miscellaneous sources, $3,177,702, The total increase was $27,255,681. During the year there was a reduction in expenditures of $6,930,070, thus making an/ increase in the surplus revenue of $34,185,+ 751. The net revenues for the last year were 360,782,292, .fm’d the net expenditures $ 260,712,887, Of the excess $90,872,261 was expended in the reduction of the public debt. The total amount of coinage of silver dollars, under the act of Feb. 28, 1878, is $9B, - 222705, of which thirty-four per cent. are in circulation. 'l'hé coinage of -the. last fiscal year was $27,7565,955, of which $9,589,490 went into circulation. . S

JODGE FRENCIH, Acting Secretary of the Treasury, has issued a_ cireular, giving notice that the exchange of silver certificates for gold coin is suspended until further orders. The reason given is the small amount of silver dollars in the Treasury. AT the Home for Aged Women in Boston on the 3d Mrs. Emma W. Skelton died at the advanced age of 104 years. }

AT Columbus, Ohio, Emma Beekman, who was taken sick on the 3d while employed in a hotel, jumped from a fourthstory windew of a building in High street, receiving fatal injuries. i &

THE President of the Illinois Association of Prisoners of War has sent out a circular to his comrades urging earnest work tosecure an act of Congress granting pensions to all who were inmates of rebel prisons. . TWO BURGLARS rode into Mount Vernon, Ind., on the night of the 3d and tried to explode the combination lock in the First National Bank, failing in which, they were/engaged in drilling héles in"the safe when/ discovered by the watchman. -~ S. L: BOGART, an old member of the New York stock exchange, has been expelled for splitting commissions with a friend who furnished him with business. . .

- 'THE receipts for the last fiscal year on account of the Post-office Department were $39,757, 664, and the expenditures $38.544, - 935, of which amounts $24,702;708 were received and expended directly by Postmasters. s

THE annual report of the Pension Bureau shows that on -the 30th of June last there were in the United States 268,830 pensioners, being 18,028 more than there were in June, 1880. The total amount puid for pensions during the year was §49,723,147, of which $20,954,180 was paid for accrued pen@ooB covering periods dating back to the date of the discharge of the soldier who collected, or his widow or children. IN his annual report, General Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, states that thore has been a decided improvement in the weatlter predictions made by his Department. - With regard to the forécasts made for the benefit of cotton growerd, he says he was obliged to reduce the number of signal stations on account of insufficiency of the appropriation. A WABHINGTON correspondent says the recent Newark bank defalcation had caused the President to eall the attéention /ot the Acting Secretary of the Treasury to the system of bank examinations. The President says the Newark defaleation shows ‘elther that the Bank Examiners are inefficient. or that their inspection of t)e books ~of National Banks is- merely noiainal, or . their inspections so infrequent asto be of no - practical account in detecting fraud. . AT the recent session in that city of the Harrisburg (Pa.) Conference of the Lutheran Church a resolution was adopted denouncing ‘‘grave-yard insurance,’” and suggesting thal the community should be: en« lightened by the clergy as to the! nefarious business. i

A MISSIONARY. bishop of the Mormon Church has made 125 converts in southern Virginia, who will soon leave for Utah, ° AT Castle Garden, N. Y., 89,264 immigrants landed during the past month, an inerease of 8,662 over the arrivals of the preceding month. Fy Tae President has designated the 24th inst. as the National Thanksgiving day. AT an early hour on the evening of the 4th the ississippi River steamer War Eagle ran against a span of the bridge at Keokuk, breaking it into fragments and demolishing the boat. There Wwere ‘a large nymber of passengers on board, of whom at least eight were lost. A e ~ THE collapse of the Mechanics’ National Bank at Newark has served to develop the fact that Harry B. Marchbank was retired from a corresponding clerkship, two years

ago, with a Geficit of $50,000 in his accounts. He has been arrested. - : Tur Commissioner of Pensions recommends that Congress be asked to appropriate $100,000,000 for the disbursement by his office for the year ending June 80, 1883, in payment of annual and acerued pensions. He also requires $20,000,000 to pay the grrear claims for the current year. GOVERNOR LITTLEFIELD, of Rhode Island, refuses to audit the -bills for the wine drank at the banquet given the French visitors at Néwport. ' ' A FURIOUS snow-atorm raged in parts of New York and throughofit' New England on the 4th. A foot of snow fell in the northern part of St. Lawrence County, New York. The Catskills were white with snow. Eight inches fell in Northeastern Ontario. Tue Treasury Departinent offers to. purchase extended bonds to the amount of $2,000,000 each Wednesday until further notice. ¢ ANOTHER ‘‘ecrank ”” put in an appearance at the White House in Washington on the 3d. He was laboring under the hallucina‘tion that he was President of the Uuited States. He was taken to . the station-house.

THE valuafion of the real and personal property in Massachusetts subject to taxation is $1,648,239,976, an increase since 1880 of $63,483,174. of which $24,677,419 is on personal property, and $88,805,755 on real.

IT is stated thatthe Treasury Department in Washington has in store about £2,000,000 in Contederate bonds and 50,000,000 in notes, besides a large quantity of certificates of indebtedness issued by the Confederate Government, ranging from $5O to $300,000 in amount.: : 9 S

THERE were 140 business failures in the United States and Canada during the week ended on the sth, being nineteen more than during the previous week. - :

_ AFTEK an examination iato the affairs of the bursted Newark (N. J.) bank the Govlernment Examiner reports' the assets as amounting to the sum $2,085,252.98, and the liabilities as bei g)‘ $4,446,253.43. The shareholders will lo;(} an amount equal to their stock, and depdsitors may recover 50 per gent., L _, i I'gvas thotight on the sth that’ only two lives were lost by the wreck of the steamer War Eagle at Keokuk, lowa. ! AT Omaha on the night of the 4th Colonel Watson B. Smith, Clerk of the United States Court of that district. was assassinated, his dead body being found at his office door the following morning, with a bullethole through his head. It was guspected by some that his recent activity in enforcing the Liquor law led to the tragedy. Ata public meeting of citizens on the stha purse of $5,000 was raised to offer as a reward for the conviction of the ‘murderer, and the liquor-dealers offered § 500 more. ;

A FIRE broke ou: at the Eagle Dock in Hoboken, N.¢<J., on the afternoon of the Gth. Owing to a quarrel between the city authorities and the Fire Department the fire got under full headway Dbefore the department got to work, and the whole dock was consumed. Lgss estimated at $500,000.

THERE were heavy frosts in the cotton districts of South Carolina on the mornings of the 4th, sth and 6th inst. i !

Personal and Political.

AMONG the witnesses summoned on the Ist for the trial of Guiteau were Mrs. AuguStus Parker, James G. Kiermap, George T. Burroughs, Frances M. Scoville and J. Lewis Lee, of Chicago. aud C. S. Joslyn, of the Oneida Community. e

COLONEL COWIE, Chief-Clerk in the Fifth Auditor’s Office in the Tressury Department at Washington, was rcecently. requested to restgn for passing an alleged illegal elaim for ¥2,000. ’ | ON the 2d the Minnesota House of Representatives passed the Senate bill for the readjustment of the old bonded debt of the State, by a vote of 77 to 29, with only one important amendment, that making the interest not to exceed five, per cent., instéad of. the provision making the interest fivé per cent. absolutely. CAPTAIN FRANCIS M. RAMSEY has been appointed Superintendent of the. United States Naval Academy, vice Admiral Rodgers to be retired. ; - Tuke lifé insurance of the late President has been equally divided between Mrs. Garfield and her family. Mrs., K Garfield has been appointed administratrix of the estate and assumed the guardianship of the children. '’ : i

Tur New York Graphic-of the 2d says: ** It is known that Baldwin, the Cashjer of the- Mechanics’ National Bank of Newark, lost a great deal of mouey in coal shares about the time of the coal war, and he has been a dabbler in Wall street for a great many years. Sometimes he made money, but he was oftener loser, and was frequently robbed by professional pointers and blackmailers.’? : ; .

AT the anniversary of the American Home Missionary Society, held in Chicago last June, a committec of fifteen was appointed to suggest changes in the constitution and administration of that institution. The committee has presented a report recommending the deposition af Rey. Dr. H. M. Storrs as its Chief Executive,and suggesting material changes in the comstitution and management of the society. : LorENZO MONTUFOR, Secretary of State of Guatemala, made the journey to Wash-, ington to convey the condolence of his Gov-/ ernment on the death of the late President Garfield, and he was appropriately received by President Arthur on the 2d. ° IN the Criminal Court at Washington, argument was commenced on the 3d on the motijon to set aside the information in the Star-route cases. Jeremiah M. Wilson held that the Grand Jury was the only recognized authority for the prosecution of parties for crime. Mr. Ingersoll said he should insist that the informations were illegal, improper, and contrary to the spirit of American liberty, , ,

'BY order of the President, the pension agency at St. Louis is to be removed to Topéka, January 1, and Nathaniel Adams has been appointed agent. o ADELINA PATTI arrived in New York from Europe on the 3d, 3

PRESIDENT ARTHUR and Secretary Hunt left Washington for New York on the ad, where they proposed to remain until after election. 3 %

Tare Minnesota House of Representatives has impeached Judge Cox,of Mankato, and appointed & committee to prosecute before the Senate. The jurist is charged with being intoxicated and with immoral conduct. THE resignation of John W Foster, Minister to Russia, has been accepted by the President. : e i ;

IT was stated in- Washington on the 4th that evidence had been submitted at the War Department going to show that Mason, who attempted the life of Guiteau, was really insane., Hence the Department had recalled its order for a court-martial and directed that. Mason be placed under medical surveillance, with a view of ascertaining

whether or not heis insane. If reported ingane_be wiil be sent to the Government asylum without trial, but if reported sane, another court-martial will be ordered to try him.’ Wity

"' A. H. WrIGHT, a Lientenant Commander in the navy, died of yellow fever at Key West, Fla., on the sth.

THREE Boston clergvmen and a brothex of Guiteau have been formally summoned as witnesses on the trial of the assassin. : IN the lower house of the Legislature of Washington Territory on the sth a bill giving the right of suffrage to women passed—--13 to 11. A similar bill was defeated in the upper house on the 26th ult.,, by a vote of 110 5. g

IN six of the second ballots for members of the German Parliament held on the 6th the Liberais gaiued tive and the Socialists one. Liebnacht, a Socialist, was elected for Mayence, a Catholic stronghold.

Forelgn,

A WASHINGTON telegram of the 2d says a cablegram had been sent to Minister Hurlbut, in Peru, instructing him to continue to recognize the Government of President Calderon. :

ON the 3d the priitcipal journals of London continued to demonstrate the impossibility of any return from Confederate bonds, and the price fell in that market to £1 12s. 6d. per £l,OOO. : A DAUGIITER of the late John Stuart Mill, in addressing the Ladies’ Land League in Dublin, expressed the opinion that only in Turkey could such. atrocities be possible as are now being committed in Ireland. : RiCHARD LEONARD, of St. Augustin, Quebec, who had attained the age of 109 years, was burned to death on the 3d in his cabin while lighting a fire with shavings. . . O’HAGAN, the retiring Lord Chancellor of Ireland, intends, it is said, to largely increase the magistracy, appoidting many Catholics. Attorney-General Hugh Law is booked to succeed te the Chancellorship. The police of Limerick have been provided ‘with revolvers. A tenant farmer near Corrigan, named Doherty, was murdered on the 3d after baving paid his rent. ~

FlvE employes of the Czar’s palace in St. Petersburg were arrested a few days ago, omwethe charge of being in league with the Nihilists. :

‘A DUBLIN telegram of the 4th says Archbishop Croake, of Cashel, replying to anaddress of the Branch Land League, advised the tenants to tender a fair renmt. Ifrefused, the fault would not be theirs. It° would show that the lrish could, for their country’s sake, endure insults and injuries. He declarec that the Government had established a reign of terror. . i

ACCORDING to a Constantinople dispatch of the 4th the Russians would shortly occupy Merv. The Tekke chief had arrived st St. Petersburg to offer the submission of all the Turcomans. 5 : ; THE sub-commission of the Land Court as Belfast has given judgment in fifteen cases, making material reductions in all but one. b

J. D. CARMICHAEL, of Montreal, cashier in the office of the Utited States and Canada Express, has absconded, leaving a balance of $lO,OOO on the wrong side of the ledger. A DUBLIN cablegram of the 4th reports a bloody collision between the police and people of Ogonnelloe, in which several persens were injured on both sides. ~ BRISSON, the Republican, candidate, has been elected President of the French Chamber of Deputics, receiving 347 gotes. The Legitimist and Bonapartist candidates received 33 and 18, respectively. A FORM of note promising to pay rent on the day when Parnell and his companions shall be released is being circulated among the farmers at the fairs in the west of Ireland. : -

‘THE number of applications for adjudica/tion of rents up to the sth before the Irish Land Court was 16,000. A manifesto was being circulated by direction of Egan advising the farmers to pay no rent, to keep out of the Land Court, and to hold the Crops. : : ' ( ./ LATER NEWS,

THE schooner Delia Hodkins capsized in a squalt on the 4th off the coast of New England. The crew took the ship’s launch, and, in two days’ exposure to the storm, five men died of eold and fatigue before a passing vessel picked them up. THE Supreme Court of the United States rendered an important decision on the 7th, holding that where an azent deposits the money of the concern which he represents with his own money, and, although he keep but one. account, the bank is directly respounsible to the concern, and the concern’s mouey can be recovered from it, though the agent may have drawn the money on his pers= sonal account; also, that if money held by a person in a fiduciary capacity, though not as a trustee, has been paid by him to his account at his banker’s, the personfrom whom he holds the money can follow it, and has a charge on the balance in the banker’s hands, even though it is mixed up with the depositor’s own money. - AT BRESLAU two Socialist members were elected to the Reichstag on the second election, held on the 7th, defeating, by the aid of the Catholiés, the Progressist candidates. THE whaler Belvidere, which has arrived from the Arctic seasat San Francisco, brings news and mail from the Arctic relief steamer Rodgers, which she spoke September 27, near Herald Islandysthe Rodgers then being on her way south for winter quarters. Lieutenant Berry; of the steamer, had estiait)lis(lhed the fact that Wrangel Land is an sland., ”

THE Irish landlords are much alarmeéd lest the late decisions of the Land Courts reducing the rents thirty per cent. will prove ruinous to their interests. Five theusand tenants on the estates of Sir John Ennis, member of Parliament, assembled near Athlone on the 7th and resolved to apply for an abatement of rent, and in case the abatement was not granted to apply to the Land Court. Sir John Ennis is a supporter of Mr. Gladstone’s Government.

FRANK HarToN, First Assi_‘itant Postmaster General. assumed charge of his department on the 7th. »

HANSON & NA'NWINKLE, wholesale dealers in chemicals at Newark, N. J., failed on the 7th, in consequence of the failure of the Newark National Bank. The United States Court placed a provisional receiver in charge of Nugent’s factory. = Cashier Baldwin’s examination was postponed for oné week and be was ordered to find bail in the sum of $lOO,OOO. -

CHARLES MADDER, a divinity student at Heidelburg College, Ohio, recently shot and killed a young lady to whom he had been paying his ‘attentions. He asked her to marry him, and upon her refusal shot her dead. On the mornin% of the 7th a body of men numbering several hundred appeared at the juil and demanded the keys. The Sheriff refused, and; having previously gathered a posse of armed men (o protect the jail, a lively riot ensued. Some of the officers received severe injuries, but the mobh wnu,relielled. and warrants were fssued for the leaders, s |

© Treasurer Gilfillan’s Report. : WAsHINGTON, November 8 The report of United States Treasurer Gilfillan for the fiscal year ended June: 380, 1881, shows an incr%ase in the receipts over those for 1880 from every source. Increase in customs, §11,637,611; internal revenue, $11,255,011; sale of public lands, $1,185,356; miscellaneous sources, $3,177,702; total increase, $27,255,681, which, added to the net reduction of $6,930,070- in; expenditures, makes an increase in the surplus revenue of $84,185, 751 : i i The netrevenues wewf( $360,782,292, and the net expenditures, $260,712,887. The excess of the receipts over payments vwas! $100,069,404, of which 90,872,251 was expended in the redemption of the public debt. : : The balanc: in the Treasury increased ¥18,667,603 from $208,791,321 at the begin-~ ning to $252,458,925 at the end of the fiscal year. The amount expended on account of interest and premium. on the public debt ran down from $98,552,805 in 1830 to $93,569,989, a reduction of $14,982,905. ‘The balance standing to the credit of disbursing oflicers and agents of the United States with various officers /of the Treasury, June 80, 1881, was $24,936,307. : ‘T'he receipts for the fiscal year on accoung of the Post-cffice Department was 339,757, - 664, and the expenditures, 138,544,935, of; which amounts $24,7027703 were received and expended directly by Postinasters. The unnvg(‘ﬂlablc funds in the Treasury amount to $29,5621,632, an increase since the last report, by reason of taking up certain items previously carried in cash. At the close of the yearthere washeld by the Treasurer in United States honds, 360,505,900 as security for the circulation: of National banks, and %15, 295,500 as security for public deposits in National Bank depositories. During the vear $276,899;700 in! bonds was deposiled for these purposes, and $277,527,800 withdrawn, exceeding by far the transactions of any former year. The amount of United States currency outstanding at the close of the year was #362,539,437; redeemed during the year, $71,069,974¢. Total redemptions since first issue of curreney, $2,800,141,073. United States bonds amounting to $B5, - 304,050 have been retired during the year. The aggregate retired by purchase, fedemption; conversion and exchange, from March 11, 1869, to the close of the fiscal year, was $1,983,344,800. ; Coupons from United States bonds of the value of $22,797, 667 were paid during the year, and quarterly interest on registered stock of funded loans, amounting to $44,455,790, was paid by means of 305,105 checks. ; 5

National Bank notes received for redemption during the year, $59,650,259. The aggregate redemptions, under act of June 20, 1874, has been $1,099,634,772.

Con{xﬁ)ariug the condition of the Treasury Septeniber 30, 1881, with the condition the same day last year, the most striking changes are the Mcreasec in gold coin and buliion and standard silver dollars on hand, and in silver ccrtificates outstanding. Deducting gold certificates actually outstanding, the gold belonging to the Govern

September 30, the last four years, was §112,602,622 in 1878, ¥154,987,371 in 1879, ¥128,160,085 in 1880, and $169,552,746 in 1881 The gross amount of gold and silver coin and builion held by the Treasury, without regard to obligations outstanding against it, ranged from $163,969,444 in 1878 to $222,807,368 in 1879, to $214,203,215 in 1880, and $269,706,998 in 1881. The increase last year was $55,400,000. of which $39,150,000 was in gold, and $16,250,000 insilver. . The increase in gold was greater and in silver less last vear than any year since the coinage of the standard silver dollar began. - The United States notes on hand slightly increased last year, notwithstanding the urgent public demand for notes for circulation. The amount on hand above the amount required for payment of clearinghouse certificates is §20,000,000 against $lB, - 000,000 a year ago. * v : The practice the past year has been to make 10 per cent. of all payments in silver dollars or certificates, 40 per cent. in gold coin and 50 per cent. in notes. To this rule there is one important exception. Under an arrangement between the I'reasury and the New York Clearing House all payments by the Treasury to this institution, ageregating $275,000,000 a year, must be made in gold coin or United States notes, standard silver dollars not being receivable under its rules, although silver certificates are now being paid it by the Treasury to gsome extent in large denominations, in lieu of gold coin, for use in payment of custom dues. Aside from any personal views as to the expediency of reviving the silver dollar, the Treasurer says it would seem unwise for any branch of the Government to encourage an arrangement by which coin, which the lav:'l has made full legal tender, is discredited.

In referring to thereserve held for the redemption of United States notes, the Treasurer says: *There is no provision in the law requiring specie reserve for redemption of United. States notes. In the preparation for the resumption of specie payments a fund was created in the Treasury,under section 3, Resumption act of 1875, by the sale of $95,500,000 in bonds, and the accumula‘tion of surplus revenue to protect outstanding notes. The amount of this fund has never been definitely fixed, but it has been maintained at about 40 per cent. of United States notes outstanding. s *¢lt has usuallv been assumed that areserve ‘of 40 per cent. is sufiicient for the protection of United States notes, but under the method of comvputation the reserve is- not. merely 40 per cent. of liability represented by United States notes, but also 100 per cent. of all other liabilities. So far as gold, silver and clearing-house certificates ars concerned, it is necessary, under the laws authorizing their. issue, that their full amount should be set aside in gold, silves and United Statés notes, respectively, as funds for their redemption, but as to the ‘other liubilities there is no such obligation as this, and it is submitted that no higher reserve is required for their protection than is required for the protection of United States notes. In the changed condition of trade and commerce, unless some calamity shall overtake the Nation, thereseems to be no &rob;r.bility of a run upon the reserve of the ‘Treasury.. The total demand for coin in the redemption of United States notes aggregated since resumption but $12,029,086, and no notes whatever have been presented for redemption since February, 1881. “Should there ever be a run on the specie reserves of the Treasury, United States notes will be made the basis of demand, and not the other matured obligations, which compose the very varied current liabilities of the Government. The excess of assets over demand for liabilities of the Government, other than United States notes, is shown by atabulated statement to be $146,443,491. 77 Considering these liabilities as a whole, the Treasurer says: *“‘lt is clear that whatever percentage the reserve will protect, United States notes will proteet the other liabilities.’”? The Treasurer does not attempt to say what this percentage should be, but is of opinion that a uniform gercentage should be fixed for all current liabilities other than the t(.kree classes of certificates, and the excess ' cash in the Treasury should be expended, from time to time, in the purchase or redemption of the public debt, aceording to some definite and publiclv announced plan. Should this be done the policy of.the Department would cease to be subject 1o speculation,and the influence of the ' reasury on the money market would be reduced to 4 minimum. During the last two years there has beena steady increase in outstanding notes of denominations of $2) and under, and a proportionate decrease in notes of higher denominations, hundreds alone excepted. sElig e -

- —The product of the gold, silver and copper mines of the Southern States for this year promises to be above the sta.rggxg figures of $20,000,000.

—Excellent paper is made in Florida from the palmetto. ; i

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Lalfayette on the 25th the faculty of Perdué College filed a demurrer to the complaint of Messers. Bringham and Hawley, students, whp asked for and .were granted an alternative mandate, requiring the faculty to show cause why they- were not. admitted to that institution. The demurrer raizes the point as to the jurisdiction 6f the Circuit Court: alleges that there is a defect of parties defendant, and lastly, that the complaint does not recite facts sufficient to constitute a cawse of action.

Henry Hooper, in jail at Lafayette on an indictment charging him with the Killing of his brother John, in August, last, has not given the ampunt of bail fixed by the judge —§sB,ooo. It is reported thata couple of business mei residing in the neighbgrhood where the Hooper boys lived had signified a willingness to go on the bond, when = committee of citizens waited upon them and notified them that if they did this it would be at the sacrifice of their trade. It is known that a strong feeling prevailed in the township against the defendant, but it was not. suppoged that it would be carried to such an éxtreme.! : G

Dick & Shouse, agricultural implement dealers at Vincennes, failed a few days ago, when it was found that their liabilities amounted to $30.000. The principal creditors are the First National bank ot that city; the Champion Machine Company, William Deering & Co., the Wayne’ Agricultural Works, and jother manufactories. A -compromise has been effected for fifty cents on the dollar.

On the evening of the 25th in Lovelydale, a small village nine miles east of Vincennes, burglars entered the store of David R. Van Kirk, blew open the safe, and captured $315, besides taking a large amount of clothing,. etc.

On the evening of the 25th, while a little daughter of Sainuel Tannin, of North Manchester, Wabash County, .was carrying an infant across the, floor, she stmmbled and fell, throwing the baby into a tub of hot water. The child was horribly sealded and die’d at an early hour next morning. . On the 26th James Reese was-seriously, if not fatally, injured while blasting in the stone quarries at Laurel, eleven miles frein Connersville, by a large stone striking him on the side of the head. When the accident occurred he was a hundred yards from the blast.

The boiler in Dixon & Carson’s saw-mill at Petersburg blew up on the 26th ult, and William Duffner, an employe. was fatally hurt, . . ;

On the 29th ult. the remains of Theodore Francis were found in the woods ten mileés south of Fort Wayne, in an advanced stage of decomposition, He has been missing for ten days. He started from Fort Wayne in the afternoon to ride to his home near Liberty Mills. He had about $4OO on his person.. The horse came flome without him, and a rigid search failed to find any trace of him. Some hunters found the body in the woods -with two bullet-holes’ through his head. No clew to the perpetrator. As the money is gone it is supposed robbery was the cause. :

Near Fort Wayne on the 23th ult. John Mackey, a brakeman on a freight train on the Fort Wayne Road, was thrown from the top of a train and run over by several cars, and instantly killed. /

It is announced that John Scoggan. the Superintendent of the Lawrence County Poor-house, has determined to bring suit against the late Grand Jury for libel. The report-of the Jury gave _%i most horrible account of the manner in which paupers were ‘ treated, etc. Scoggan alleges that he can prove his treatment has beemw humane in every particular, not only by the paup.er's ~ themselves, but by outside parties who are ‘not in the least interested. Ile isof the ~opinion that there i 3 a political ax to grind somewhere in the business. e

A few evenings ago burglars entered the store of R. W. Aiken & Sons, at Carlisle, twenty miles north of Vincennes, blew open the safe and made away with $2,100. : George W. Stephenson, aleading merchant of Muncie and President of the School Board, was arrested oh the 29th ult. on a charge of having bribed City Councilinen at the time of his election as Sechool Trustee, in 1880. Joe Davis filed the informatjony and is the alleged go-between in the transaction charged. Stephenson gave bonds for his appearance in the Cireuit Court in the sum of §2,000. His friends claim that the prosecution is malicious, and is part of the school war, which is still in progress there. |A young man named France, living near Roanoke, Huntington County, and a carrier of mails between Aboite and Libe: ty Mills) mysteriously disappeared somé days uago, and since then nothing has Dbeen hedard o him. When last seer he -was near the line betwen Huntington and Alien Countiesy Although diligent search has been made there is not the slightest clew to his whereabouts, and it is supposed that he has been robbed and murdered. At the time of bis disappearance he was known to bave had considerable money with him. : LI

| On the 29th uit. a tramp by the name of Fox boarded the down-freicht train on the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad at Carlisle Station, a few miles from Evansville. He had seated hjmself on the pumpers hetween the cars to avoid detection. After ' the train proceeded a few miles he lost his | seat, and, falling upon the track, was run over and killed. : i

" A few mornings ago Jack Hull, a well known brakeman on the ‘lr‘diunapolis £ St. Louis Railroad: had his right arm and leg completely severed from the 'body, near Avon, his arin close up to the shoulder and the leg near the knee-joint,besides receiving internal injuries which will probably prove fatal. He was Jarred from the top of the ears and fell between them.

At Lafayette a few evenings ago Edward Stapleton, aged 24, while entering his‘own house, fell to the floor, blood gushing from his mouth. Aid was summoned, but the man was dead. Hemorrhage of the lungs was the cause assigned. : »

The store of Brice & Connelly at Lockport, a village six miles south of Terre Haute, was entered by burglars a few mornings ago who robbed the safe of between . $1,500 and $2,000. To conceal their tracks the theives fired the house. The neighbors saved a portion of the stock but the build« ing was consumed. e - ; The celebrated ' Martin claim against the Btate, growing out of the building of the new lusane Asylum, and which has been to the Supreme Court and was on the point of going back, was compromised on the 2d by the State Provisional Board, John H. Marin withdrawing all suits and accepting $46,« 736.46 in satisfaction of the demand. There being no money in the Treasury for this specific purpose, final payment will await Jegislative approbation. : N

At important decision was given in the Superior Court at Indianapolis on the 2d in the case of the State Auditor v. Jackson - Landers, éx-County Treasurer, to recover $35,000 on ofticial bonds, the court holding - thatthe Tax law of 1881 repeals ali former - laws and contains no adequate saving clause a 8 to action on the ofticial bonds of Cousty Treasurers, and stich action must therefore fail. Defaulting Treasurers may be prose< cuated under certain sections of the new law. in cases where the statute of limitations has run.. The effect is, if sustained by the Su‘oreme Court, to release all liability on an officlal’s bond where three years have elapsed, but the Treasurer may be proceed~ “ed against within six years from the tinié of defalcation on individual Hability for malIca#unce in office. ‘Examination shows that the Tax-law will affect sevezal counties in “the State in this respect. . . The Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, $1.42@L42%. Corn— No. 2, 64}¢(@6ie.- Uats—44@dbe. The Cincinnati quotations are: - Wheat—No. 2 Red. l $1.43@1:48;. Coin-—No. 2 694@70c. ' Oats - No. 2, 45%{@46¢. Ryve—No. 2.. SL.ll@ Ll¥4. Barley—Extra Fall, 81, 1425@1,15. . State Charities. . . The State Auditor has prepared the fol- . owing summary showing the financial eon- | dition of the variotis penal and benevolent | {nstitutions of ~the ‘State.. The report is made in view of the Tact that the fiscal year for which the appropriations were made | expires in November. / The final footings | are dependent upon the expenditures rfor’ October.. The managers of the Female Reformatory and the House of | Refuge have drawn the full amount of their - " appropriations, the last warrant being apt plied to the expenses of October: =~ = . | Insane Hospital—Total avatlable for the current year, including unexpended balance of : | £16,176, from 15¢0, €276 77060, expended duri W‘f eleven gloth., sl§Z,sso_:-21:. unexpendod'« | balance on September 30, $29,226.42. Appro- | briations for repairs, including unexpended ! balance of $040.51, $8.440.54; of which z%;;sz.m | %15:12.7 l%eien éxpended, and the balance on hand Blind Asylu m—Total-available f-or"/the-ﬂs(?a!k ' {tfm-: inglpu?ng an uhegpende_d bzylgnce of ¥l.2,92, $23,01492, of which §25,286.12 has been expended, and there was a balance of $2,520.83 on-s September 30. Upon the repair aceounts $2,936.64, of a total sum of s3,lBl.76.available, has been cxpended, and the balanee remaining is $145.11. .. - i SR

Deaf and Dumb Institute—Appropriation for the year, $55,000: unexpended balance from last year, $4,974.12: total .available, $59,69432; - amount expended, $55,096.43; balance Scpteniber 80, $4:597.67. 5 o Mg v

Solciers’ Orphang’ Home, at K nightstown— Total available for the year, including a bal~ ance from last year. of $260.74, $ 0.260.74; exfle;n&ed. $12,847.48; ‘balance, September 30, $7,-

The Indiana State Prison North made its - last settlement.in August, when its account - stood: = Appropriation, $75,000; : balance fronv last year, ¥6,945.44; total, 81,945.44: expended, $75,604.60; earnings for the same period, ten months, $72,747.80. ~ : o . Indiana State Prison. South—Last settle-

ment in July, leaving August, September and October' to be aecounted for to complete the, fiscal year. Total appropriation; 175,0005 balance from previous year, $3,893. 185 “total, $80,893.18; expended to end of July, $65,607.58; balance, $15,112.75; earnings for the nine months, ﬁ‘is,ﬁzé.‘ 80. :

Disposition of the. A‘ppr.o"p_ﬂauons'. 1n answer to inquiries made by the Treas urer of State, Attorney-General Baldwin has given the following ‘opinion Telative to the disposition of.the appropriations: - INDIANAPOLIS, October 25, 1881, . Hou. R. 8. Hill, Treasurez of Indiana: Secrion 4 of the géneral appropriation bill of* il vepan: - s ca et SaE s

** Ali unexpended balanees of appropriations for the fiscal year endiny October 31, 1881, shail be carried forward by the Treasurer and Auditor of State toithe credit of the accounts for which said appropriations were made, provided that the Auditor and Treasurer of State shall, on the 3lst of October, 1880, close all open accounts: against: said appropriations, and the unexpended balances shall remain in the treasury to thecredit of thie general fund.”’ We must assuine that the Logislature means sometking-hy & statute. 1f the words * Blst of October, 1880,”"in the proviso is not & misprint, this: proviso nullifies the-first part of the section. : 1 have caused the enrolled bill to be examined, but the *1880" ig'not a misprint. I can come to no.other conéﬂusion than that it is a mistake of fhe draftsman; and should read *1881.!” @ e e s Believing that it was'the intent of the Legislature to inaugurate- a- change, 1 should advise you to act accordingly, and pay euwv and clese up all open accounts against the np{)ro—priations named in-this .act, and at -the.close of the business.day ot Oetober 31 next convey the unexpended balances: into the general tfund, - i i e D P AT DWING

The Fishery :&neui?lon,

Calvin Fletcher, of Spencer, has filed his bond as Fish Commissioner of the State, and drawn $5OO from the fish fund established by the-last Legislature, with- which to purchase carp spawn. He has examined the watercourses of the State,. and finds that they are well adapted to the propagation of carp. He left a few nights ngo for Washington to purchase-the spawn, and immediately after his return the work of s“.ipplyin,f.{ the st?_rsm's will be commenced, This species lieads the list of domesticated fish, and, with proper cultivation, is capable of as mhrked improvement as can be made in live Agrieultural Implements in Indiana. The Bureau of Statistics has been gathering inf_(:rmittionfrom the yarious .dealers in agricultural implements. in this and other cities relatjve to the cost of agricultural implements and machinery as compared with the value of the: average agricultueal pro- " duction. It has been found that the average duration of the ordinary farm implements as they are cared for, not as they _should be, is as follaws: Common breaking plows, six years; cultivators; five years; ~seed drills, ten years; threshers, five years, ~etc. The Bureau has learned the average ~value of these implements,and by dividing it by the time they are useful has found the annual cost-of each. An effort is now being made'to . find the: ayerage yearly cost in rephirs, and ‘yhenm“has been found, the nanual oost, o ach, {mplemant can be eusugéom&w When the Assessors have reported thenumber of fmplements in use, the total ﬂnnu&;%glﬂm‘r R saninery tn*ﬂ%ﬁm-‘uﬁ e reckoned. - The Bureau has the amotng and:market value of the agricultugal productions, aad, with the data e L B er a S VAR \ PSS e i sSR s, o ;:;::r&!;&in%:n ne « iﬁerv. Xt willalso be anf?;!m rtant f&ctor in t:@;‘;puhtionl of the prospective prices wmmm} oroductions. ~lndiuiipoiggoumal, . ~.——At Emory Gapi Tenn.; the other day, a horse, unaceustomed to. seeing trains, was hitched near ‘the "iﬁgotf when the south-bound freight came by.. As it approached hé made'the wildest. demonstrations and# tried <to break: loose, but- his ridér hastened to him, seized the bridle and/prevented it. As. the train:drew nearvey the horse a convulsive tremor. pa:::} ~over his emgire form, and; trembling thus, he sank tothe earth, dead. -@ =% o i ooty

—Farmers. of Soﬁthérn,or&gpnv went largely into the business of raising sorghum last season, and ‘the results are represented to be very satisfactory.