Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 32, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 November 1881 — Page 2

. . ; | : E . . Jv he Ligonier Hanner, ; 3y J. B. STOLL, Edlior and Prop’n. LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA: v e, e AT A T R AASTR B ST NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts. : Domestic. | ; THERE was a severe earthquake shock at San Jose., Cal., on the 15th. | L ~ STRIKING miners at-Cannelton, W. Va., have driven out miners empfloyed in their stead, and threaten to prevent any others {rom going to work.. Gov. Jackson on the 17th called out the militia. serious,trouble is threatened. | “ ; DURING the year ending June 30, 1881, the gross earnings of the Unipn Pacific Railroad were $22,765,752; the | operating expenses, $11,474,910; net earnings, $11,290, - 842, The gross earnings of the Central Pacific ‘Road were $22,803,344; operating expenses and rentals, $13,502,5604. 'l‘h¢ gross earnings’ of the Northern Pacific were $2,931,802: the operating expenses, $1,946,157.

' SECRETARY FOLGER has issued a circular instructing vessel inspectors to see that ievery requirement of equipn‘*ent is provided ion lake and coast steamers and vessels, in order to insure the greater sofety of passengers, and to see that all rulds and regula-. ‘tions of the Board otSuperv&iug Inspectors be strictly observed. e

DIRECTOR Swift, of the Warner Observatory,.discovered on the morning of the 17th a faint comet in the constellation Cassiopeia.

. Tur Holden-White matchfor the featherwelght championship had a ridiculous outcome on the 16th. The prdposed meeting at Long Point was thWﬂrtecP by the United States authorities, but a ning was finally formed just over the, Ohio li‘rne, where, after four rounds had been fought, the entire crowd were arrested by % Ohio. Sheriff. The match was declared a draw, and’ the principals were locked up. ‘ - It was stated on the 17th/ that Secretary Folger was about to eall in $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 of extended six| per.cents. for redemption. |

NEGOTIATIONS are pending for a further Tedquction of postal time between New York and Patific coast. 5 Tae National Labor-Cgngress met at Pittsburgh on the 16th and erganized by the selection of John Jarrett, of Pittsburgh, as Permanent Chairman "and H. H. Bengough and M. L. Crawford as Permanent Secrotaries. -

DURING the month of Oc¢tober 67,929 immigrants arrived at United Btates ports. ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL HAT“TQN has decided that publishers, in addition to the name and address of “the person to whom newspapers and magazines may be sént, and the index figures of the subscription book, the iprinted title of the publica--lion, the printed name and address of the publisher or news agent, and written or ‘printed words or figures indicating the date 0f expiration of subseription, may also ‘print upon the wrapper ‘a request that iif the matter be not called for within a limited time it may be delivered to any of the class of persons named. This ruling is ‘believed to be in aid of the purpose contemplated by the statute in permitting the isending of sample copies to obtain sub‘seribers. - |

" TWoO.,MASKED road-agents robbed. the ‘stage near Larcdo, Tex., on the night of the A7th. The passengers were plundered, and ‘seéveral packages of registered | letters and considerable money were taken. “ON the morning of the 18th, five men en‘tered the house of C.. C. Rice, Cashier of the Bank of Camden, Ind., bound his wife and took him to the bank, to compel him to open the safe. They were® defeated in this by the time lock on the safe, when they handled. him roughly, tdok his watch and fled. s

A FEW nights ace Commander Cheyne, of the British navy, ,lei:turodl to a large audience in New York on the subject of Arctic research. - He asks the public of England and America to contribute $150,000 to enable himself and Lieutenant Schwatka to ‘reach the north pole by balloons from St. Patrick’s Bay. P :

THE memorial hall erected af North Easton, Mass., by the children of Oakes Ames, at a eost of $400,000, was dedicated on the 17th-in presence ot the Governor and State officers.” i }

A WELLat San Antonio, Tex., has been found to contain quicksilver in large quantities, and opinion differs ‘as to whether it is a natural deposit or reveals a plot to poison the family. i .

IN a recent lecture at Baltimore Comptroller Knox said the National Banking «ystem was not menaced by the rapid payment of the public debt, as the minimum amount of bonds required to sécure the circulation of all the banks is less than $100,000,000. WASHINGTON TERRITORY is being scourged by small-pox. Northern Pacific trains have ceased stopping at New Tacoma, and there are ninety-three .cases at Dayton. P : 3

SINCE the lamentable disaster in Grand street, New York, the inspectors have found ﬁtty unsafe buildings. ay

THE Erie Canal will be closed to navigation on the Bth of December., ~ - j THE total population of the United States as finally determined by the United States census of June, 1880, is 50,155,783, , THE thermometer in Northern Minnesota marked eight degrees below zero on the morning of the 18th. l

- TWENTY-FIVE flremen were seriously injured at a fire in Hopkinton, Mass., a little after midnight on the moruing of the 18th. - B {

THE main building of the Ohio Idiotic Asylum, near Columbus, was destroyed by fire on the morning of thie 18th. Tlere were 614 children in the school-rooms of the building, but, owing tol the perfect discipline and the coolness and presence of mind of teachers, all escaped unionjured. The loss is estimated at from §200,000 to $250,000.

Personal andﬁl" Political.

ON the representation that the citizens of Shackelsford, V., had ¢ombined to prevent the Re-adjuster pdstmaﬁter from securing a place for an” office, tho | Postoffice Department has deprived the town of mail facilities., ! A TuE Industrial Len?e of America, in seseion in Philadelphia, passed resolutions on the 16th favoring the arrangement of export duties so as to prott:ct home industries, the reduction of internal revenue, and the promotion of American ship-building and ship-owning interests, | - SHAREHOLDERS of th; Mechanic’s National Bank of Newark, N, J., have been as= sessed 100 per cent. by éomptroller Knox,

. It is discovered that J. Howard Welles, | Jay Gould’s blackmailer, is a cqmmiss{ar,vg who defrauded the Government of abqout{ $2,000,000 and then went to Europe dmﬁng@ the war. ; : | e CHARLES H. NORTHAM, of Hartford, who died recently, left by will to several Episco-i pal educational establishments and chariltie the sum of 215,000, . |

Mg. JOHN MERRYMAN, President of the United States Agricultural Society, and one of the most prominent agriculturists |anc stockraisers in the United States, died at hi: home nedr Baltimore, Md., on the 15th., James L. RIDGELY, since 1842, Grand Cor responding and Recording Secretary of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. of the Unitec States, died on the 16th. e

THE summer residence of ex-Attor’hey-General MacVeach, near Philadclphia, was burned on the 16th. - - ; |

THE judicial conference of the Methodis! Episcopal Church which is to try the appeal of Rev. Dr. Thomas will meet at Terre Haute, Ind., November 30. Bishop Merril will probably preside. - e GEORGE LAw, a well-known New York capitalist, died on the 18th. . *

Trial of Ciuiteau, the Assassin. | ‘ On the 16th the proceedings in the Crirhinal Court began at the usual hour. As the names of the jurors who had been accepted were be-r; ing celled over Guiteau was brought in. | ‘}{ls§ appearance was wild and excited. g\_tter his manacles were removed he seemed to calm| down and conversed with his counsel. |Thel work of securing the threeadditional jurymen was then entered upon and the entire panel of seventy-five was nearly | ex 4 hausted before the- twelfth = juror! was obtained. The following is. the ury as sworn in: John P. Harlin, Fred.ggj ‘{V. Brandeburg, Charles G. Stewart, anryg' _J. Bright, Thomas H. Langley, Michael shee4 an, Gggrge W. Gates. Samuel T. Hobbs, ?\‘alph WOﬁmsley. "William H. ﬁqw&cm L Heinlein and Joseph Prathei. & DistrictAttorney suggested that the Court adjourn to| give the jury an opportunity to .arrang their . -business . aftairs. During | th examination = of talesmen the | foly lowing -statement was prepared by Guiteau and given to the press: ; e l? »To the&egal Profession of America: | “l am *n trial for my life. 1 formcrl({ ?pracg ticad law in New York and Chicago, an L proi pose tg take an active part in my defense, us know more about my inspiration and views i the case than anyone. My brother-in-law, George Scoville, is my only counsel, and hercby appeal to the legal profession for aid I expect to have money shortly so' 1 can =pa§ them. Ishall get it from the settlement| of an old matter in New York and partly trom th gale of my ‘book and partly from publi¢ co t{}ibution's‘m -y defense. My defenge wa! publish-d in the New York Herald on Octobeg 6, and in'my speech published November 13 ‘ (vesterday). Any well-known lawyer of| crimg | inal capacity desiring to assist in my defense will please telegraph without delay to Georg ‘ Scoville, Washington, D. C. If, for any re son, an application be refused, the name wil] be withheld from the public. i | ; “CHARLES Gm'rg:w. ! ‘“ln court, Washington, D. C., Nov. 16. 1881.” L ‘ Just wrevious to adjournment Mr. Scpvill Baid he did not approve of the above docu - ment, and wished this distiectly understood; ‘ The prisoner arose at the conclusion of Mri Scoville’s remarks and. in an excited manner} insisted that he had not yet accepted the ser‘i ices of counsel, and declared that, untii he di 80, he would defend himself. The Court thetd adjourned until the 17th ; i 3 By hall-past nine o’clock on the morning Q‘i the 17th the Criminal Court room in Wa;shlmz: | ton was well filled, a large number: of/ ladiej being present. The Court opened at ten, and immediately thereafter Mr. Scoville arose tg ; make a personal explanation, in which he saidl | that there had been no.disagreement between himself and his associate, Mr. Robinson, anil that nothing prevented their working ha | moniously together. At this point Guitean arose and objected to Robinson taking pa in the defense. He said he could and! would | manage his own case; that he wouldn't trust - Robinson with anything, as he was destitute gf | brains. He wished the Court to understand him on this point. and it counsel were forc | upon him he would make a noise nhodt it the country. He represented the Deity i this case. and wished the Court to understan it. Continuing, he said two or three blundesbuss lawyers would losw: the case for him, a | he did not prepose to submit to anvthing of the kind.” The Court quietly informed the ¢ prisoner that, if he did ' ng¢t “keep _still and. behave himself, fo ~would be removed from the room and tt)&:’ trial would proceed without him. Guiteas then subsided, but conversed very excited and energetically with Mr. Scoville and Mu. Robinsoun. Colonel Corkhill, the District-At-torney, then delivered a very impressive opening statement. During its delivery the prisoner assumed an air of apparent indifference, { and devoted himsclf to a hurried I_%)erus 1 of the morning papers. At one time he interrupted the District Attorney, but Jud Cox sternly told him that if he did njot stog his turbulent conduct he should immediately be sent to jail. Guiteau, in response, saig: ** I will not do it again, your Honor, but I have very deep feclings in this case,” at which thie crowd laugbed. Mrs: Sewville, the sister ¢f -the prisoner, cried bitterly. At the iconeclysion of Colonel Corkhill’s remarks, James G. Blaine, then and now Secretary of State, took the stand and narrated at great lengthithe cii~ cumstances attending the shooting of President Garfield. In answer to questions by the District-Attorney he stated that Guiteau had vigited him as many as twenty-five or thirgy times, and that he had been a most persistet applicant for office. Mr. | Blaire was closely cross-examined by Mr. Scovillg, and said he had first seen Guiteau in Marc?. and met him auring the campaign several times. He had corresponded with thie Maire Committee, of waich witness was Chairmap, . with a view of speaking in that Stale. Mk, Blaine said he had not preserved the/letters, as after the election-all such applications were burned. He further s=aid it was'the general rule with his Committee, and, he lelieved, with all othe. s, never to employ aspeaker who | Ev‘plies himseltf to speak, because al man /'6f ~€uaough reputation to be of iniduence is of “consequence enough to be sought ftor, and ‘need not seek. Guiteau - had often apglied for ofiice. and he believed he had sonie backing. He haa been annoyed at Giuitca&’s : persistence in . seeking the Raris Consulate. and plainly told him he could not have tle ‘place. - Mr. Blaine was then closely questioned concerning the dissensions in the Republicin party, and responded by stating thejfacts ‘\s to the Collectorship ot the Port of New York and the resignations ot Messrs. Conkling add Platt in consequence thereof, and the subse-. quent action of the New York Leg‘islnturczﬁ; electing their successors. . Mr. Biaine in sponse to questions explained the distinotidn between the *‘half-breeds” and “‘Stalwarts’ and said it was understood that Mr. Conkling was a “Stalwart.” ‘The Court then: todk a short recess. When the Court reassembleéd Guiteau again protested against the emploiyment ‘of Robinson’'as his counsel, and sdild there would be a row all the way through lit his services were not dispensed with. Judge Cox again sat down on Guiteau tm?,thre 3 ened to send him back to jail again if he j not behave himself. The resident Minister bt Venezuela. Mrs. Sarah M. White. matron bf the Baltimore & Potomac depot, a'lﬂl Robeirt - A. Parke, the ticket agent at the depot, w then, called and testitied as to the circumstances of the shooting and Guiteau's conn tion therewith. Othcr witnesses wﬂ%e called ‘and testified, after which the Court adjourned until the morning of the 18th. ; of Several hundred ladies and gentlemen s sembled in the Criminal Court room at Washe ington on the morning of the I¢th to witness the Guiteau trial. As the prisoner alichtpd from the prison van there was a ‘mgrked sence of noisy demonstration, but it was eyident that Guiteau teaved sudden |violenge, Upon the opening of the Court Mr, Scovijle requested Judge Cox 10 take some measures to prevent the prisoner from givlfng to the public his " unauthorizea conxmugicatio 3, and also' to prevent the annoying joterruptions - of the prisoner | in e courtroom. During Mr. Scoville's re= IMArks the prisoner pecame greatly excited, andsaid: “Mr, Seoville talks one thing to Ilihe in private and anothsr in pubiic. I do Hot -Propose to put my ease in his hands., He is po awyer and no pol't.cian. 1 want .ﬂrsbcl 38 talent in this business, and I am gof g to e it, or there's going to be trouble. Mind your business.”” he continued, fiercely strugglihg with the Deputy-Marshals who were tryimg to suppress him. [urther conversation followked between Mr. Scoville and the Prlso er in I gard to another communieation which Gteau had prepared for the press, during which the latter ioudly declared that Seihville was no criminal lawyer, and that he had ho confidence m his Mguctty. 1o sajd: “1 propose to get two or [thrce iof the first-class -law ers in America [to managemy case, AT} 1 want to- gy g*‘u ward _uron the law,” saidh uéﬁrewng e Coupt. “If vou expel me from the courtiroom the Court in banc will ,reyersgt_’w» It sﬂw%o vt | puts. me out—confoundec 18 frx‘wr"“ ‘lhe | eried, tu-ning and struggling with the office:s

' | —“the who were pressing him into his geat Court will_understand that he will llie reversed.” Judge Cox said: “On severa oct‘c:sions in the court of the Un'ted bdtiatesd e prisoner has been, on a.ccount& of sorderly conduct, removed from the court and the case continued in his absence. It was done in this very court in the case of Lawrence.” ,:l'hg prisoner . interrupted tho | “Judge _an struck the table a tremendous blow, saving such a course of gmceduro would be altogether illegal. To this Judge Cox replied: *lwill not resort to that unless it is necessary; but 1 admonish the prisoner in advance if the case r=guires it it will be done. 1 have told you that at the proper time you can be heard in your defense, and you shall be heard at the close of the evidence if you desire it. Until that time you must preserve silence.” 1 come here as counsel, and I want to be heard,” cried the prisoner. “You . canaot _be heard, said Judge Cox, severely. Gultcg‘u then relapsed into comparative silence. ‘T'he District Attorney offercd in evidence certain letters Whieh had been identified by Mr. Blaine. Jo. seph K. Sharpe testified to seeing the prisoner trying to escape.and to witnessing the arrest. - Bila M. Ridgeley testified to ueurmgilthe conversation between Guiteau and the hackman -and the cftcumstances attending theshooting. William S. Crawiord saw the firing. John R. Scott detailed the incidents attending the searching of the prisoner. E. L. Dubarry witnessed the shooting and grupm;cai(liy described the incidents thereof. He had said repeatedly that prisoner ought fo be hung. Policeman Kearney arrested Guiteau and described the ‘shooting. At this point.a recess was taken. After recess, Guiteau asked the Court that Judge Magruder, ~of Max}'lgnd, be invited to assist 'in ‘the d:fense. John Taylor and Agquilla Barton, backmen, testified as to Guiteau’s negotiation with them for a vehicle. Byron Andrews, the correspondent of the Chicago Infer Ocean, said he had received no papers from the prisoner. Mr. Scovitlegave formal notice that the defense in the case was insanity, and that the burden of proof would be on the prosecution. ‘Mr. Brown, Chief Clerk of the State Department testified to Guiteau’s frequent visits to .the Department. He thought he was a nervous individual. J. Stanley Brown, private Seerctary to Pre ident Garfield, testified to Guiteau’s frequent calls at the White House. He also identified a Jarge number of letters ‘from Guiteau to the Pregident in relation to the Paris Consulate, in some of which he charaoterized Mr. Blain¢ as a bad man, ete. The Court adjourned'at this point. |

. Forelgn. | . : WALLENSTEIN, a Kentucky horse, won the Shropshire handicap in the Shrewsbury, Eng., races on the 17th. i THrE session®of the German Reichstag was opened on the 17th with 2 speech from the: throne. : l : A DUBLIN dispatch of the 17th says the tafls had peen cut off of over 100 cattle, the property of a farmer named Flanagan, near Roscommon. : ' , SEVERAL native Chiefs in the Transvaal have rizen in rebellion against the Boers. The whites are flying to places of safety. -IN the Chamber of Deputies M. Roche, a member of the Extreme Left, on the 17th introduced: a bill proposing the complete separation of church and State and the sale of ecclesiastical property. . IN Tunis an important engagement has taken place between General Bonier’s centingent and a large body of insurgents. The French captured thousands of sheep and hundreds of camels. LoxDpoxN, England, dispatches of the 17th state that all the registered letters in the Hatton Garden Post-office haye been stolen. It is believed they contained |diamonds and watches valued at $400,000. The diamonds are valued at $200,000. The insurance comspanies offer a reward of £l,OOO for their recovery. ;

DispATcHES from Berlin state that a party of 230 Jews' from Russia passed through that city on the 17th, on their way to America. It is the third party of the kind, and others are reported on the way. A LONDON dispatch of the 17th says there was reason to believe that the Sultan intended to give more encouragement to the Arab movement in Northerni‘ Africa. The palace was keeping up constant communi= cation with the Tunisian insurgents and the Arabs in Tripoli.- - A LARGE cotton-spinning firm of Oldham, England, has demanded of Liverpool merchants compensation for losses sustained by adultérations of the raw product. ;

OVER sixteen hundred miles of cable for the Central & South American Telegraph Company have been shipped from London, and direct communication with Peru and Brazil is promised by June. |

.JOHN DUNN has notified the British Government that he is a candidate for the Zulu throne. 1 {

LATER NEWS,

WHEN the prison van conveying Guiteau from the court-room back ‘to ¢he jail had reached the intersection of East Capitol and First streets on the afternoon of the 19th a man well mounted rode up behind the vehicle, and, wheeling, pointed a revolver at Guiteau and fired. After pointing the revolver at the driver he rode off, pursued by Officers Edelin and Carson. The ball but Just grazed Guiteau’s right forearm. The assassin. was greatly frightened, and expressed anxiety to get within the jail walls. *¢Bill Jones” is the name of the would-ne assassin of Guiteau, and he is described as a “rollocking, -happy-go-lucky’’ sort ofa fellow, a resident of the District/of Columbia, and is said to have been drunk at the time of making the assault. He was subsequently arrested and locked ' up. A telegram of the 20th states that Policeman Edelin had been to the jail to see the man (Jones) arrested for firing through the prison van, and at once declared thst a mistake had been made. The man who fired was of resolute bearing, with a heavy black ' mustache, and his steed had white forelegs, while Jones was a blear-eyed sot, -and his animal was wholly sorrel. Eb. WILLIAMS, alias Maxwell, the bandit recently captured in Nebraska, waslynched by the citizens of Durand, Wis., at two o’clock on the afternoon of the 19th. Peogle from the surrounding country flocked in y squads and heard the prisoner confess mux%e_ring the Coleman brothers. A rope was thrown over his neck in the court-room, and he was strangled while being hauled down the aisle and stairway to the nearest tree, where his corpse was left to dangle nearly all the afternoon. o WHEN the Central National Bank of Boston opened its doors on the 19th a run was begun upon it, and a temporary suspension was caused, but friends of the bank' paid the clearing-house $500,000 due. and business was resumed. -The Directors of the failed Pacific National held an exciting session and voted to put the concern in the’ hands of Examiner Needham. The indebtedness was stated at $1,260,000. . DR. BLilss was the principal witness in the Guiteau trial on:- the 19th. He gave a narrative covering the time he was called to the late President’s side, fifteen or twenty minutes after he was shot, until his death; the immediate cause of .death was hemorrhage. The doctor stated, in answer toa ‘question, that most of the doctors who had been originaliiy in attem}unce uson- the wounded President were discharged by authority of the President, given in the presence of Mrs. Garfield and the witness. ‘The District Attorney. exhibited a section of a human skeleton, which the witness recognized as a portion of the vertebra of the late President. Colonel Co,rk%ﬂll and ‘General Swaim were also among the witnesses examined. While the former -was detailing the occurrences at the depat at the time of the shooting, Mr. Scoville remarked to the Court: *‘We admit the killing.’’ Guiteau prom}my; spoke u?:, ‘*No, we don’t—we don’t admit the killing; we admit the shooting.” When asked what were the President’s last words General Swaim answered, with emotion: ¢¢ His lu* words were: “Oh Swaim) » ;

The Platform of the Industrial League . of Amerieca. At the late session of the Industrial League of America in Chieago the following resolutions were adopted and declared to be the platiorm of the Association: : ~ Resolved, That the acts of the framers of the Constitution and of the mrembers of Congress in its first session plainly show that they established a protective policy, which has been the usual policy of our Government, and when departed from such departure has always brought National disaster, and that it is the duty of Congress to be vigilant and resolute in providing legiglation which shall sustain every branch of our industry, benefit farm and factory alike, and help to develop and naturalize new industries among us. :

Resolved, That a wise protective system ‘secures to all the people the highest benefits, and is needed to develop our resources, educate our citizens, aud protect our country from toreign foes in war; and that, however well established our manufactures may be, a tariff for protection and revenue is stiil nceded, that skilled laborers and producers may have constant and remuncrative cmployment. Resolved, That we gladty accept the success of the International Cotton: Exhibition now being held at Atlanta, Ga.,/as evidence that *‘the new South’’ isdiversifying its industrics, cmploying its people, creating home markets, and. working up its own raw material, thereby uniting our intcrests with theirs as citizens of one Nation, and muaking an Aincrican policy of protection a benelit and a nced to all scetions. ¥

Lexolved, That this Convention reccommends to Congress for the more ctfectual protection and upbuilding ot ourcommercinl marine: 1. That American maritime property shall be exempt from the burdens of State, municipal and local taxation. The reason for this is thav American vessels derive no proteciion or benefits whatever from State and municipal Governments, which are not shared in an cqual degree by foreigix vessels touching ‘at our ports, which pay no taxes, and hence such taxes upon capital invested in maritime property amount to a heavy discrimination in favor of forecign against American shipping—this discvimination in the port of New York being 24 per eent. on the principal.

2. The United States should make Amorican vessels the carricrs of American mails at rates proportionate to the value of the sorvice performed, without regard to the rates at which foreign vessels, subsidized by their own Governments, may be wiiling to carry them. 3. The United States should regard an American commercial marine as the basis of an American navy and an integral element of our American nationality, and should so discriminate in favor of American vessels, especially of those which are striving to extend American trade to new countries, as would secure to them a fair and lucrative share of the world’s carrying trade proportionate to the‘dignity and power of the country in other respects. :

4. That the methods adopted for meeting the expenses of our Consular.serviceshould be so remodeled as no longer to amount to a discriminating tax on American vessels. to which the vessels of other countries are not subject, Resolved, That whenever any fereign commodity is produced or exists in surplusage and is constantly brought to our markets ag tallast, thus advancing the price of our products, an increased duty should be imposed thereon for the benefit of the home laborer and the Government revenue.-

' Resolved, That this Convention disapproves of that class of absurd Treasury decisions which interpret Bessemer steel blooms, steel wire rods, cotton ties, knit goods, and other products of advanced value, the production of which has begun sincs the Tariff tlaw was passed, in a manner to class them under the clause *‘not otherwise provided for,” instead 0. classing them under the designation most nearly corresponding to these products in their nature, cost of production, and need of protection. The effect of these decisions is' to make theduties on these articles diminish as the awmount of labor invested in them increases. Such decisions sacrifice the evident spirit and intent of the law in a manner which reca]ls.the apostolic saying, “The letter killeth, but the spirit maketh alive.”

Resolved, That the National internal revenue taxes should be gradually reduced with a view to their extinguishment within a reasonable period. Resolved, That this Convention recommends the passage of an act of Congress providing for the appointment by the President, by and with the consent of the Senate, of a commission to revise our revenue system,: incluading both the internal revenue and our tariff laws, in the interest of protection and for needed revenue. - ; :

WHEREAE, A National Tariff Convention is to be held in New York November 2J and 30; therefore, g Resolved, That such wise and patriotic action as that Convention may take, inspired by fidelity to the idea of the American policy of protection, will meet our hearty approval and support. : 2 & :

Resolved, That a committee of five persons be appointed to visit Washington during the next session of Congress, present the acts of this convention to th? proper committees of Dboth Houses, and forward its objects in ai! proper ways. Resolved, That this Convention recommends the appointment of a committee on printing and correspondence. to whom shall be referred all letters and communications to be published in its doings, it worthy such place.

Reﬁcrt of Indian Commissioner Price.

The annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior is made puklic. Commissioner Price, at the outset, desires to ¢ urge with earnestness the absolute necessity for a thorough and radical change 6f the Indian policy in gome respects and particulars. . It must be apparent to the most casual observer that %he system of gathering Indians in bands or tribes on reservations and carrying them victuals and eclothes, thus relieving them of the necessity of labor, never will and never can civilize them. If white men were treated as we treat the Indians the result would certainly be a race of worthless vagabonds. oI wish to call attention to the fact that, in almost every case, it is only the non-laboring tribes that go upon the warpath, and the stubborn facts of history compel jJue to say the Government is largely to blame for this. We feed the White River murderers and compel the peaceable Uintahs to largely care for themsélves. This course induces the Indian to believe that if they are to get favors from the Government they must refuse to work, refuse to be orderly and peaceable, and must commit some depredation or murder, and that a commission will be appointed to treat with them and pay them in goods, . provisions and money to behave themselves.*? l

- The Commissioner recommends the prohibition of the introduction of liquor on the Indian reserves by authority of the War Department. Incidentally he suggests, as a more effectual remedy for the evil of drunkenness, that Congress be asked to prohibit the manufacture or sale of ardent spirits in any of the Territories of the United States. - Among other -things laws should be enacted to extend to Indian reservations the criminal jaws of the States and Territories in which they are respectively situated. . & | :

—Not quite the cheese—The article sold under that name by some grocers.

Suggestions of Secretary Kirkwsod. The annual report of the Secretary of the Interior is largely devoted to the fresh discussion of the Indian question. He strongly recommends that ‘‘a liberal provision be made by Congress for teaching the Indian youth our language; that, upon just termsto the Indians, the number and area of the existing reservations be greatly reduced; that on such reservations as are not well adapted td farping without irrigation, efforts be made to teach' Indians to become herdsmen instead of endeavoring to. try to. make them farmers; that Indian titles to reduced reservations be individualized and thoronghly protected by law; -and that the more -civilized reservation ‘lndians be encouraged to abandom - their tribal relations by setting up experimental forms of local government among them, as nearly alike as may be to the system of county government prevailing in the States or Territories in which the reservations are respectively located. There are now in the States and Territories west of the Mississippi River 102 ‘reservations, great and small, on which are located, in round numbers, 224,000 Indians. -If all the Indians west of the Mississippi were gathered up on fouror five reservations our Indian affairs could be managed with greater economy to the Government and greater benefit to the Indians. I recommend tha Congress be asked to create a commission of three or four.eminent citizens to visit, during next year, the reservations west of the Mississippi River for the purpose of recommending to Congress, if they shall deem it ‘wise, the concentration of the Indians on four or five reservations, to be seleoted in different parts of the West, on which the different tribes shall be located; and if this shall, in the judgment of the-Commission, not be wise, then to rccommend the concentration of the existing small agencies where that can be properly don& and a reduction of the arca of others to dilnensions proportionable te the number of Indians locates therszon.’”’ - ; L

" Department of Agriculture. - The report of the Department of Agrieulture is.summarized as follows:. - e COTTON. ' The indicated yield of cotton per acre is considerably less than last year. The reported decrease is 33 per cent. in Louisiana, 40 per cent. in Texas, and nearly 60 per cent. in Arkansas. North Carolina makes a return of 30 per cent. less yield than in 1880, 'South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi report better condition, and the prospects are for the crop not much below those of last year in those States. Florida reports adecrease of 15 per.cent., Alabama an inerease 'of 13, Tennessee a decrease of 42, Virginia is not included as a cotton State, its product being insignificant. : WHEAT. o The average yield of wheat per acre in 1881 is 1014 blushels against 13 1-10 in 1880, indicating a decrease of about 20 per cent., or 100, 000800 bushels from last year- product. In the interior and Western States there has been a great falling off, caused by the severe winter, the late, coid spring, drouth, and, in several States, insect ravages; but, while the quantity of the crop is reduced, the quality is generally reported very good. ik CORN. e The November- returns of corn- s?how an uverage yield of twenty and one-half bushels per acre, indicating a falling off of about 25 per cent. from the crop of 1880, caused chietly by the general and protracted drouth during the growing season, and by excessive raias since<the crop was harvested. Thae quality of the crop is somewhat below the avelage. e : 5

Killed Under Peculiar §Circumstaucps.

Ellen Kessler, the daughter of well-to-do parents residing near Blue Island, who was attending Normal School at Englewood, came to her death last night under peculiar circumstances, but whether the case is onse of accident or suicide cannot now be determined and may always remain a mystery. The young wonian was just past twenty years of age, and for some time had beer numbered among the scholars: of the above Anstitution. She lived in a building adjoining the school building, known as ‘the dormitory, where arc also many of her fellowschboolmates, only going home at intervals. Last evening about nine o’clock she made a call upon a friend who lives a short distanee from the school, and here it was noticed for the first time that she had acted queerly, not seeming to be quite herself. Later, she returned to the dormitory, where she met Mrs. Wentworth and explained that she was not feeling well. - Mrs. Wentworth advised her to go to bed, and said she would get her some medicine. The younz woman weut to her room, bt wher Mrs. Wentworth followed her she had disappeared. . It was then learned from one of the young men .that he had seen Miss Kessler going out of the door dressed in a light wrapper. Search in the vicinity of the Dbuilding failed to find her, and, having noticed her strange actions, it was feared that something had happened. to her. The police were notified and parties sent out in all directions. At half-past ten ‘o’clock two policemen came upon the decapitated body of the young woman lying between the rails of the incoming track of the Wabash Road near Seventy-first street. Not only was the head severed from the bhody but one of the arms and both feet were crushed. A short distance away lay a part of her underelothing; the body when found having upon.it only the light wrapper in which she was seen to leave the. school.. Her slippers lay together beside her under 7 , clothing. giving one the impression that she had thus partially disrobed just previous to her death. Itis this feature that gives the case the appearance of suicide. .No reason could be assigned other than that she was somewhat behind in her studies, and that this had preyed upon her mind for several days past.—Chicago Tribuve. November 18.

—A Pawtucket (R. I,) lawyer was trying to make a witness , tell why he knew that a certain saloon had the reputation of being a ‘‘rumshop.” 'The witness had never heard anyone say that it was a rum shop, and the lawyex berated him givin% the place a reputas tion without ever earigg anybody say a word about it. < Well,” said the witness, ‘‘you have the reputation ot being a smart lawyer, but 1 never heard any one say 8o.”’ The witness was allowed to go. ¢ o -~Somebody observes that when six young ladies sit down to talk about 2 new dress patterh a small boy with a tin horn is a refuge for the weary. | —_———————— — - —Earthquakes are always of the shaker persuasion. ; | —lt takes the butcher to make botk nds meat. ! B

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The case of The State vs. George/ W, Stephenson, of : Muncie, ‘on.the charge of bribing Councilman Hill to seenre a vote, was called before Judge Heller on the Sth. Defendant’s counsel moved to quash the in-. formation as the alleged bribéry was only a promise to pay, and not a direct tender. The Court. sustained the motion to quash, and, as Joe Davis, the informant, refused to make a different affidavit, the ¢ase was dismissed. Senstor Ben Harrison and Hon. Robert C. Bell; of Fort-Wayne, appeared as counsel for Stephenson. -The case has created great lo?&l excitement. . -

At Vincennes on the Bth a stranger named William Winters gave Eddie Cunningham, twelve years of age, three twenty-five-cent pieces in return for. favors. Shortly afterward the ‘boy discovered .that the coin was counterfeit, and informed the Sheriff. They immediately made seareh for Winters, and succeeded, in capturing him on Main Street with §6 of the ‘‘queer”’ upon his person. He was lodged-in jail. " A neatlittle sum was presented to the disappointed youth who so successtully _le;érete'd -out the-crim-inal. ;

The Fort Wayne Journal, -Times, Sentinel and Herald have been indicted for publishing lottery advertivements. The indictment is under tbe new Public Offense act, and is the first attempt at its enforcement. .

On the morning of the Bth a train of four cars, including an encine, tender and caboose, on the B. 8. 0. & B: Narrow-Guage * Road, broke through. White/River bridge, . killing a brakeman named Guardner: and slightly injuring eight .or ten others. The train fell about thirty feet, and is a complete wreck. The bridge had been con< sidered unsafe for some time, and . it. was miraculous that all were" not killed. Loss heavy. All the employes on the train reside - inßedford. i e et ol g g

On the ‘night of the 9th, at a point five miles north of Indianapolis, the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Chicagé -Railroad met with atserious accident. A train ‘qut_wenty '¢_urs, eighteen loaded’ with cattle, was discons nected by the breakage of a draw-bar, while passing over a high grade mear New Aiigusta. The engine and Iwo cars dashed ahead, the engineer whistling **down brakes,”? and two miles distant he slowed up to await the! coming ef the others, the track being down grade. The sighal was. not heard by the rear brakeman,and the detached section came on withi accelerated speed, crushing into ‘the other and wrecking nine cars. The engineer and fireman: jumped off.. The shock threw the throttie open, and ‘the .engine, running fifty miles an hour, dashéd into Indianapolis; and, near the Union Depot, “collided - with .an outgoing Indianapolis ~ & Vincennes freight train, the e¢mployes on ‘which jumped for their lives. The’ engines met with a terrible crash and were totally wrecked, and four freight cars loaded with merchandise were broken up and their contents thrown | in every direction. "The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago’ tracks within the city cross all ‘the principal streets, and: there was a score of narrow- escapes-for ve-! hicles and pedestrians. Only one employe,. Davis, the fireman, was injured;y and his in- . juries resulted from jumping on 'a wire’ fence. o e S dn %

~ The flour-mill ‘owners of Vincennes, six in number, held a ‘meeting the other day and nnanimously resolved to. close their mills and ship no more flour. Farmersare holding their wheat for $1.50, and are firm, giving as a reason the shortness of the crop. The mills made one thousand barrejs per dav, and the stop throws a number of people out of employment. .~ - o

There is a great deal of sickness in that part of the city of New Albany known as 'Tuley’s bottom, . Nearly every day last week there was one or two deaths in that locality from bowel diseases. It is thought the well« water in that locality is not healthy. =

The Indianapolis grain quotations are:Wheat—No. 2 -Red, [email protected]. Corn— No. 2, 39@stle. - Oats—d3@46e. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, [email protected]. 'Corn—No. 2, 62@623c. Oats —No. 2, 4614@4Tc. Rye—No. 2, §1.06@ L.05)4. Barley—Extra Fall, [email protected]}.

The family of Mr. Frank Brinnegar, a well-known farmer : of Marshall Townsnip, Lawrence County,are much alirmed in conseqjuence of his mysterious- disappearance: Two weeks ago he left home in the morning to visit a neighboring village on some business matter, and. since then has not been. seen or heard from. - He was in good circumstances, out of debt, lived happily with his family, and no cause can be assigned forhis strange absencs unless he has met with foul play. He is. a heavy-built man, fiftyfive years of age, and wears full dark whisk--ers. ; A e

" Dr. T. M. Stevens, Secretary of the State: Board of Health, has received & letter from: the Heplth Officers at Madison regarding the small-pox epidemic in thab eity.: They report that, of ali the cases thus fat reported there is not a single instance where the af« flicted person had been vaceinated.

The Auditor of 'State has prepared the ‘blanks to be sent to County Auditors for the December -settlement. About the oniy change from the old form is a clause requiring the amount of fees allowed ex-I'reasur-ers by the Board of County Commissioners for delinquencies since December, 1872, in accordance with the recent decyion of the Supreme Court. The decision referred to is that of . the Cominissioners of Morgan County against John W." Gregory, which provides that a.County Treasurer is entitled to charge a commission of £ve per centum upon all delinquent - taxes collected during theyaafinit 12 TR R © John C, New. & Co., proprietors of the Indianapolis Jourual, are reported to have been indicted by a Fort Wayne Grand Jury Tor an alleged libel: npon W. T. Pratt; a Justice of the Peace. The- complaint upon which the indictment is founded alleges that. the Journal . continued -to . publish: scurrilious and illiterate letters purporting to have been written to. the paper by - him, although the publishers had been notified that they were forgerjes. - e At _Evansville on the 14th Mary Bacon filed an aflidavit before Justice ‘Garsen, alleging that Jjackson ;Bacon had left her without proper suppox%fﬁ;i ‘After the Justice. ‘had heard all of the evidence he discharged the < deféndant. = .As he left. the room the wife, who was ‘standing® in the doorwith a handful of powdered Cayenne pepper, threw it into his eyes.. Physicians. say it is impossible for him to recover his sight, . The affair is creating-quite a sensaton, Nie e

Daniel Burton’s cooper-shops, in Indianapolis, were burned on the ngghi;.at the 9th.. Laes, 80000~ . Wh - Ease o John Burke, for tem years s successful groceryman at Vincennes, failed on the 16th.