Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 December 1881 — Page 2

-3*s& 1 e e " : The Zigonier Banner, J. B. STOLL, Ediior and Prop'n. LIGONIER, :' : : -ENTHANA, O e A 3 S YAPoTRW o TV Y. DAY BTV £ST cTmgaarn.s - NEWS SUMMARY. et p—— Important Intelligence from All Parts, ¢ v ————tlee e 8 Congressional. Inthe Scnate on the 14th bills were introduced: By Mr. Camden, providing for an appropriation to improve the Ohio Riverin West Virginia; by Mr. Plumb, making it mandatory upon the Secretary of the Treasury to issue certificates upon deposits of gold or silver bullion. A resolution was adopted: di- . recting the Secretary ~of the Treasury to - prepare a statement showing the number .of farms in South Carolina sold for tax‘eB in the insurrectionary districts. The Committee on Territories r(()lpm'ted a bill to straighten the northern boundary of Nebraska. Mr. %{oar's resolution on woman suffrage was taken up and debated during the momin’i hour, when further consideration was postponed. The bill relating to the Presidential succession was taken up and debated by Messrs. Beck, Maxey, Anthony and others. Without reach- - ing a vote the Senate went into executive session, and then adjourned.... House not in session, . IN the Senate on the 15th numerous petitions were presented for the regulation of railroad transportation rates’ and for the abolition of taxes on bank deposits and checks. Mr. Sherman, from the Commititee on Finanee, report~ ed back the bill providing for the is3ue of three—ger—ceut. bonds, and said he should ask that it be considered immediately after the holidays. A regolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Pensions to inquire if the penkion of the widow of Abraham Lincoln ocught to be increased. Bill:s were introduced and referred: By Mr. Coke, to regulate 'intér-State commerce; by Mr. Béock, to repeal the taxes on bank deposits; Wy Mr. Plumb, to authorize the issue of silver wertificates and silver dollars on deposits of silver bullion. The various sub{ec_ts in the President’s Megsage were referred to appwgriaw committees. Messrs. Garland, Coke and ones debated the bill in relation to the Presidential succession. A message was received from the President in relation to a railroad right of way across the Indian Territory, which was read and referred. An Executive message in relation to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty was also received and referred. ‘Adjournment followed after a short executive session.... House not in session. . » AMONG the bills ‘introduced in the Senate on the 16th was one for the suppression and pre~wvention ot pleuro-pneumonia in neat cattle, and one to authorize the erection of a statue to Chief-Justice Marshall. Mr. Voorhees spoke on that part of the President’s message relating tothe n(?}pcul of the lawauthorizing silver cuinage and the’ issue of gilver certiticates. Assignments in the rearrangements of coms ‘mittees consequent upohn the recent vacancies were announced. Resolutions, offered by Mr. Jones, were adopted calling for information relating to the construction of the Florida Ship-Canal. Adjourned to the 19th....1n the House the Speaker announced the committee ‘on_the expenses attending the illness and burial of General Garfield. | A larfo. number of & bills were introduced and referred, among which were the folilowing: To amend the act to reduce duties on imports and to reduce the internal-revenue taxes; to regulate suffrage in the Territories and wfix certain quulifications for office; relative to the crime of bigamy and the proof thereof'; to provide for the registration of the voters of Ttah Territory; to repeal the tax on bank checks; to repeal the internal revenue tax on_ medicines; perfumerigs, eto. for: the free coinage -~ of the silver “dollar; té incorporate the Interoceanic Ship Railroad; to repeal the tax on bank deposits; relating to woman suffrage; providing for ‘the payment in lawful money of the interest-bear-ing debt of the United States: to reduce the price of public lands within railroad limits to $1.15 per acre; to abolish the duties on salt; appropriating $50,000 to Mrs. Garticld. Adjourned to the 19th. .

Trial of Guiteau, the Assassin, ' ON the 14th Dr. John L. Withrow, of Boston, was called by the prosecution, and testified [ that he was pastor of the Park Street Church in that city. Witness said prisoner désired to deliver a lecture in that church inreply to a ; lecture delivered by Ingersolt but he declined ; to have the church used for that purpose. He had never seen the slightest indication of unsoundness of mind in Guiteau, but thought him possessed of unususal cuteness. The grisoner generally took part in the iscussions ‘in . the church, and was always critiecal and accusative. . Durin ; this witness’ ~testimony Guiteau saig be was not in court to save’ his neck from the gnllows. but for vindication, for justice and or right. - Charles A. Bryan, of the New York Equitable Life Insurance Company, testified that he had employed Guiteau to solicit for him, and that he had swindled him. He considered him sane. Henry M.:Collier related an instance where Guiteau collected $175 and ‘failed to pay it over. Heconsidered the prison- . era thief and a scoundrel, but gane. At thig point one of the jurors complained of illness, and the Court adjourned. it As SOON as the Court opened ‘on the 15th Guiteau made a short address wherein he ad- ' ‘vised fhe Court to order the jury out fora . three-miles” walk before. breakfast every morning, as a remedy for possible indigestion. Henry M. Collier was recalled and testified that e had never scen any signs of insanity in the prisoner. He was perfectly competent to distinguish between right and wrong. J. M. Justice, of Logansport, Ind., suid he knew Guiteau in I§7B, when he was selling the “ Life of Moody,” He was apparently sane (at that time. Rcv. B. R. Shippen, ?aswr of . Alll Souls Church, Washington, boarded at the same house with GGuiteau from April last until the day. before the murder, and saw no cvidences of insanity. Mrs. Dunmire, formerly the wife of the prisoner, then took the stand and testified that she was married to the pris- \ . onerin July, 1869. Mr. Scbville objected to her further testimony unless the proof of her di- ; vorce were shown, and the witness weas temporarilly withdrawn! Dr. Nobhle Young, the jail | physician, testitied that he had held numerous conversations with the prisoner since his confinement, and considered him a perfectly sane and intelligent man. General Jo- | . scph S. Reynolds, of Chicago, had visited the prisoner in the jail twelve. days after e assassination, Prisoner expressed. surprise that Grant. Conkling and other Stalwarts had not defendéd the uct of killing the President. - After recess, Mr. Corkhill offered ©an evidence an application of the prisoner for a life insurance policy, in which it was stated ! » that there had never been any insanity in the - Guiteau family. Mr. Reynolds was further examined, and stated that when he called upon Guiteawa second time he wrote an address to ' ‘the American peaple. The orgglnal draft of’ the address was then read and 'duly commented upon by Guiteau. On the cross-exani-nation General Reynolds said be had been paid his expenses—amounting to sBs—during the time he secured the interviews with Guiteau. At the conclusion of the examination the Court : adjourned. | s : TeR trial of Guiteau was resumed on the morning of the 16th at the usual hour. . George D. Barnard, Deputy Clerk of the Supreme . Court of Kings County, N. Y., produced the » record of the divorce of the prisoner from his former wife. Mr. Scoville objected to the record on the ground that it was not certified by the Clerk of the Court, but .mdgle Cox overruled the objection, and ‘Mr. Scoville noted an exce&tlon. Genetinl Reynolds was a?ajn called and testified that at the time of his interviews with Guiteau Mr. Garfield was living, and wit-, ness had no thought of being. suppeenaed as a vltngss. Witness read from his notes wherein Guiteau stated that he ranked with Grant, Conkling, Logan and the other Stalwarts, + Ellen C. Grant, Guiteau’s boardi‘r,xxlg mistress -+ prior to July Ist, gaid she knew Guiteau well, - and never s.u?ected that he was ;%sane., ' He was indebted to her in the Xum of forty~seven dollars for board. Mrs. Anna J. Dun- -, ‘mire, the prigoner's former wife, was then called, and geveral ladies aroge to leave the . court-room. Guiteau loudly l‘gecla.red. that the 7 _ladieis 3eed 'notiieave,v aB’ tgaro"'“ was nﬁ:t to be any indecency in the examination. He profneﬁted that the Dls!ttgqf-ﬁtmme?t was guilty of - infamous conduet in bringing in this witness .10 have her cheraetor rlma:i’tgs; asit would be, and he d%gmygeﬁ ,g}' %e_ iy that @ stop be put to su . Very few questions were . asked of witness, to the ¢vident relief of the | Bt o et e M e n any signs ol insanity during the time she lived wérm“ his *wr’f‘;." ’l‘heg‘eroéo-g;mm-lp nltlonwgotedwua andawho}lgr fruitleds, and ag she left the stand Guiteau shouted after her: ; “Ihavg not seen this ludy for eight years. So ' faras I know she {8 a high-toned Christian A .S&ilhﬂe nothing against her. I wish mer well in whatever station she may be.”

Pr. Loring, of the Eye and Ear Infirmary at Washington, had examined Guiteau’s eyves and had found no indications of a disordered brain. Dr. A. McLane Hdmilton had made mental and nervous diseases a special study. He had closely examined the prisoner and found no defects in the ghysicul conformation of his head and face, and said there was no extetnal evidence of mental disease. He was simply an eccentric man. He beligved the grisoncr.entimly sane, and’ thoroughly capale of | discerning between right and wrong. Pending the cross-examination of this witness the Court adjourned until the 19th.

Domestic.

THE liabilities of the Sprague estate in Rhode Island are $8,912,872, and its assets at, the assessed valuation aggregate $5,242,431. “IN a case (involving ‘a patent for an improvement in corset springs the United States Supreme Court, in a recent decision, holds that by allowing it to be generally used for two years the -inventor abandoned it to the publie, and cannot complain of 'infréingement.

Tuge Directors® of the Mechanics’ Bank of Newark, N. J., have raised $700,000 with which to reorganize. Small depositors will be paid in full,- while seventy-five per cent. will be disbursed on large sums. : - Ix New York on the 14th B. Frank Moore, indicted for violating the Postal law in sending lottery circulars through the mails, was fined $5OO. Sor.omMoN Davis, a colored lad of fourteen, residing at Warrenton, N. C., loaded his father’s musket and killed his little sister because she insisted upon telling their mother of his theft of cold ’possum from the pantry. ' Tur condition of the eotton crop, as reported to the Department of Agriculture, is lower than in any geason since 1866. The December returns, compared with last year, are as fol-. lows: North Carolina, 71; South Carolina, 773 Georgia, 80; Florida, 92; Alabama, 83; Mississippi, 73; Louisiana, 83; Texas, 66; Arkansas; 50, and ;Tennessee, 53. Taking the reports of the season together, up to December 1, the indications point to a crop of about 4,900,000. bales, and a somewhat higher product appears possible, L '

NreAr El Paso, Texas, a few evenings ago a band of robbers entered the express car of a Southern Pacific train, disabled Messenger Banvard with the butt of a revolver, and took from his safe $3,000 in cash and $12,000 in vaiuable property. As the train slowed up at Rogers Station the thieves dropped off, and doubtless crossed into Mexico. THE stockholders of ‘the Keeley Motor, at the annual meeting in Philadelphia on the 14th, adopted the annual report of the Directors, to the effect that the inventor should, for ‘the protection of the stockholders, take out patents to cover his invention. ‘ : Tue Board of Trade and Transportation of New York recently adopted a resolution asking Congress to make trade dollars a legal teénder to the same extent as the standasd silver dollar. Qi T B e

It appears from statisties that the export of butter from this country to England has fallen off exactly one-half in twelve months, and threateng to fall off more, on account, it is alleged, of the way olcomargarine has been imposed upon the English for genuine butter. NEws was received at San Antonio, Texas, on the 15th from Presidio Del Norte, on the Northern Rio Grande, that Chief Arragattie and thirty of his tribe had been captured by Mexican troops. These constitute the main remnant of Victoria’s band. v

Tue Board of Trade of New York has adopt;#l ed resolutions favoring an appropriation by ‘\ Congress for the Hennepin Canal. i ‘A RULE has been issued by Acting Post--mnaster-General Hatton that no supplement containing any advertisements whatever can be allowed in the mails at second-class rates unless the publisher makes afiidavit that the same rates. are paid for rdvertisements in the supplement as for those in the body of the paper itseif. © ; Frve men were drowned by being carried over the falls in “skiffs near Charlestown, W. Va., a few days ago. : - Surrs have been begun against five Chicago | jobbers for dealing in adulterated butter. | ABOUT noon on the 17th a party of cowboys raided Caldwell, Kan. Talbot, the leader, killed, ex-Mayor Meagher, which/ he last year threatened to do. The citizens of Caldwell at onece organized to crush out the raid, and as the murderers rode out of town ‘ toward Indian Territory two of them were shot dead, several others wounded, and a ' number captured. Talbot, the.chieftain, escaped. e o

AX old man who had literally starved to death was picked up by the police on the streets in New York City a few days ago.

Personal and Political.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the 15th nominated J.. C. Bancroft Davis, of New York, to be Assistant 'Secretary of State. Among the nominations sent to the Senate on the 16th was that of Benjamin H. Brewster, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Attorney-Gem-eral. Y } :

A crANK named Tachynutis, a native of Greece, wrote fifty letters to President Garfield, and has sent twelve to Precident Arthur, begging for office. ¢ s MR. BREWSTER, who has been nominated for Attorney-General, had a long interview with the President on the 16th, and says the Star-route cases will be prostcuted with "@he utmost vigor. o 7

TrE following are the assignments recently announced in the United States Senate in the rearrangements of committees consequent upon recent vacancies: Mr. Windom is substituted for Mr. Edmunds as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and takes the place of Mr. Aldrich on the same committee; he is also assigned to the Committee on Patents and Education and Labor, to fill vacancies, and also Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, in place of Mr. Blair. Mr. Harrison succeeds Mr. Logan on Indian Affairs, and Mr. Sawyer on Territories. Mr. Aldrich takes the place of Mr. Hawley, on the District of Columbia. Mr. Sewell is assigned to the Chairmanship of En‘rolled Bills; Mr. Sawyer to the Sclect Committee on Census, in the place of Mr. Cameron (Wis.) ; Mr. Miller (N. Y.) to Epidemic Diseases, in place of Mr. Miller (Cal.); ¥r. Hill (Colo.) tothe Select Committee on Nicaraguan Claims, in the place of Mr. Hawley; Mr. Dawes to Civil Bervice and Retrenchment, in place of Mr. Hill (Colo.); Mr. Saurders to the Select Committee on Civil Service, in place of Mr. Rollins; Mr. Van Wyck to Pensions, to fill a vacancy. Ve : : Tur bill introduced by Mr. Hazeltine, of 'Missouri, in the National House of Representativesyon the 16th provides that all the inter-est-bearing debt of the United States shall be paid in lawful money, ands that all money in: the Treasury, and all revenues of the United States not otherwise appropriated, shall be ‘applied to the payment of the interest-bearing debt. The Becretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue. non-interest-bearing Treasury notes in denominations of &1, $2, §5, $lO, $2O, $5O and $lOO, which shall be made lawful money and legal tender at their face value for all taxes, revenues and debts, public and private, which may be necesgary, in addition to the sforesaid money and revenues, to pay said-interest-bearing debt. - i ' At a meeting of the Washington Monument Commission, held in Washington on the 17th, it was decided to ask Congress for an appro-

priation of $200,000 to continue the work of completing the monument. ; - A PLASTER-CAST of Guiteau’s head has been successfully taken by the sculptor, Clark Mills.

Mgs. ABranax LiNcory, who is stopping in New York, has recently written to her friends in Springfield, 111., that she had almost completely lost-the use of her eyes and was threatened with total blindness. She was unable to write, and her letters were written at her dictation by an attendant. Dr. Isaac I. Haves, the famous Aretic explorer, died suddenly in New York City on the 17th, of heart disease. He was forty-nine years of age. ’ T e Ex-SECRETARY BLAINE has been invited by the Garfield Memorial Committee to deliver the chief oration when the memorial services are held in the National House of Representatives. ;

At Salt Lake, Utah, on the 16th Chief-Jus-tice Hunter refused to set aside or modify the order heretofore made by him in the case of Campbell »s. Cannon, in which he Held that the certifieate of naturalization held by Gearge Q. Cannon was obtained by fraud, and had been fraudulently used, and was void on its face. This reaflirms that Mr. Cannon is an alien. :

Forelgn,

- Ix three churches of Santander, Spain, on a recent Sunday, excommunication was pronounced against the directors of three Liberal newspapers for attacking the clergy. It is estimated that 2,000 persons died of diphtheria in Nova Scotia during the past rear. S ' ), GERMANY proposes to hold a Universal Exposition in the city of Berlin, in 1885. Prince Bismarck. is said to favor the project. » AT a recent meeting of Irish land owners in London, it was resolved to take up a subseription in behalf of persons unable to gather crops. The London World 'of the 13th says it was proposed to indict Healy and O’Connor, on'their arrival in England, for the part they took 4n the Land-League Convention at Chicago. : It is said the yellow fever has assumed alarming proportions at Barbadoes and in San Domingo. © e e o

Late Rome (Italy) journals say that the question of the Pope’s departure is sesiously mooted. It is stated that his Holiness had advised the Bishops, who came to Rome to attend the canonization ceremony,.of his intention to leave Rome. i

A sENsATION has been created at the City of Mexico by the nlleged attempt of an American named Greenwood to bribe Senators and secure a valuable concession. -

AT a recent meeting at Westminster Abbey it was resolved to place a recumbent effigy of Dean Stanley near the grave of his wife.” The Prince of Wales was appointed to receive subscriptions. Minister Lowell participated in the proceedings, and expressed the hope that the American people would be allowed to contribute to the fund.

PrerorA has resigned the Presidency of Peru and embarked for Europe. AX Englishman, walking leisurely about the walls of the prison at Malaga, Spain, thé other day. was challenged five times by the sentry, and then shot dead. : e

Toe police at Dublin on the 15th entered the office of the Urited Ireland, arrested a clerk and the sub-editor, and removed all papers to the castle. It was stated on the 16th that Dillon had been indirectly informed "that he could at once obtain freedom by promising to leave Ireland, but he refused to give a pledge. Several convictions for agrarian offenses had been obtained at the current assizes. Several hundred tenant-farmers plowed Parnell’s land,” in County Wicklow, and performed all necessary work, meantime cheering for the imprisoned leaders. 5 :

- Tue London Standard announces that fresh competition in telegraphic communication with Awmerica and India may be looked for from a new company, to be launched in that city in January. ' DRr. CARVER, the -celebrated American marksman, defeated two English shots in London on tle 16th. : AMoN6 other arrests in Ireland on the 17th was that of O’Sullivan, a Tenants’ Land Valuator. The fund for the imprisoned suspects had reached a total of £4,000. 3

LATER NEWS.

AT the opening of the Criminal Court in Washington on the Mnnouncement was made of the death of the wife of one of the jurymen, and the Guiteau trial was adjourned to the 21st. : : : :

A WasHINGTON special of the 19th says exSecretary Bl’%,line had declined to deliver the eulogy on the late President Garfield before the National House of Representatives.

TuEe President on the 19th nominated Horace Gray, of Massachusetts, to be Associate Justice' of the Supreme Court, and W. H. Trescott to be Special Envoy to Chili, Peru and Bolivia. - : : ;

IN the United States Senate on the 19th the nominations of J. C. Bancroft Davis to be Assistant Secretary of State, and B. H. Brewster of Pennsylvania, to be Attorney General were confirmed. Bills were introduced—by Mr. Williams, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and the spread of infectious diseases among domesti¢c animals; by Mr. Hoar, to regulate the counting of Electoral votes for President. and Vice-President. In the House a bill passed to confer the franking privilege on Mrs. Garficld. Bills were introduced—to authorize National Banks to make loans biyl' mortgage on real estate; to germit the purchase and rcﬁrister of foreignuilt ships by-citizens of the United States; to apply the proceeds of the sale of public lands to the education of thgfpeople; to abolish taxes on the sale of leaf tobaceo in the hands of producers; to abolish duties on salt and sundry articles; to make the trade dollar legal tender. Adjourned until the 21st. GoverNoßrß CHURCHILL, of Arkansas, formerly State Treasurer, is charged with a shortage of $75,000 in his accounts. ; - A REWARD of $l,OOO has been offered for the capture of the Caldwell cow-boys, dead or ‘alive. :

Furtner agrarian .disturbances were reported in Ireland on the 19th. A prison had been prepared for the female Land Leaguers, and the Lord Lieutenant had inst:ructed the police to prevent any woman from. participating in illegal proceedings. | A mail-car pl&z‘}g between New Pallas and Doon had been stopped by armed men, and the letters searched. The United Ireland was hereafter to be published in London. ;

Tie United States Supreme Court has recently decided that failure to pay an insurance premium when due’ forfeits the whole policy, and that sickness or incapacity is not a valid excuee for non-payment. :

Forry lives were lost by acolliery explosion at Bolton, Eng., on the«9th. ' Ox the 19th two passengers'on a Hannibal & St. Joseph train drew revolvers and demanded the money of the passéngers. The conductor and the train crew threw the ruffians into the ditch at Utica, and sent back men to arrest them. 3 -

At Soudan, Egypt, recently, a false prophet with 1,500 followers killed Governor Forshoda, and totally annihilated 'his force of 350 Egyptians. i ! ; :

Tur Comptroller-of the Currency has ordered an assessment of 100/per cent. upon the stockholders of the -Pacific National Bank of Boston. : :

The Mississippi River Commission. . W ASHINGTON, December 15. . The Senate to-day received from the’ Secretary of War the annual report of the- Mississippi River Commission. It covers the progress'made in surveys and examinations from the dateof the last report, January 8, 1881, up to October 10, 1881.° During this period the triangulation of the river has been completed from Arkansas City, Ark., to Greenville, Miss.; where it joins the Coast Survey River, now triangulated from Keokuk, lowa, to the Gulf of Mexico, The lines of precise levels are complete between Keokuk and New Orleans. - With the reémainder of the present appropriation it is hoped during the coming vear to complete the final topography and hydrography from Bt. Louis to Vicksburg, and complete the work of ascertaining the lines of levels across the alluvial bottoms of the. Mississippi. o The Commissfon report they have expended $144,000 for surveys from Dgcember 11, 1830, to November 19, 1881, and have a balance of $lll,OOO, which it is thought will be expended during the remainder of the current year ending June 30, 1882. The estimates of the next fiscal year for surveys, etc., call for $200,000. The works of improvement contemplated under the existing appropriations include channel improvements upon two reaches, the first lying between Cairo and Memphis, a distance of 145 miles, and the second bhetween Skipwith’s Landing, La., and Island No. 95, a distance of twenty-five miles. A ;

It is the unanimous opinion of the Cominission that the improvement and navigation of the Miasissippi below Cairo, upon the general plan recommended in their report of February 17, 1880, is entirely practicable, and that the completion of the work for which partial estimates were then submitted will establish a continuous low-river channel not less than ten feet deep over all shoals and bars between Cairo and the head of the passes, with a possibility of attaining practicable depths congiderably beyond that limit. S The Comumission estimates the total cost of the improvements needed-in the Mississippi at $33,000,000. Of thé 1,000,000 appropriated by the act of March 3, 1881, $250,000 had been expended up to Nov. 25, 1881, and the remainder, $750,000, will, it is thought, be expended during the present fiscal year. For the next fiscal year £3,113,000 is asked to contract the channel and protect caving banks on six reaches of the river, 184 miles in length, and $1,010,000 for closing existing gaps in the levees. ik : -

On.the subject of the levee system the Commission repeat the conclusions submitted in their report of February, 1880, in which they say, among other things, that in a restricted sense, as auxiliary to the plan of channel im‘provements only, the construction and mainy tenance of the levee system is not demanded, but, in the larger sense as embracing not only the beneficial eflects upon the channel, but as a protection against destructive floods, the levee system is essential, and would also promote and facilitate the commerce, trade and postal service. : ‘ The Commission renew the recommendation contained in the former report that provisions be made by law for appropriations of land or material when needed in the ‘improvement of the river and not otherwise obtainable. It is recommended that authority be given the Commission in charge of the work to apply to the United States Courts for condemnation of land or material and assessment of damage to owner. In addition to such legislation it is recommended that Congress declare to what extent the river shall' be under the control of the Commission during the progress of the work, and under what circumstances and to what extent the material found on bars or islands within the banks may be used without compensation to owners. :

Ex-Secretary Blaine on the Panama . Canal Question.

SECRETARY BLAINE’S letter to Minister Lowell, explaining the attitude of the United States in reference to the Panama Canal and the modification of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, was transmitted to Congress a few days ago, by the President, in response to & resolution by the SBenate. The letter is dated November 19, 1881, and in it Mr. Blaine declares that the conditions under which the' Clayton-Bulwer Treaty was made had long since ceased t 6 exist, and could never be reproduced. The development of the Pacific States has created new duties and responsibilities for our Government, and to the proper discharge of those duties a modification of the treaty is necessary. In reference to the ‘Papama Canal, it says that it would be no more unreasonable for the United States to demand a share in the Suez Canal fortifications, or their neutralization, than for England to make demand for the perpetual neutralization of the Panama Canal. Mr. Blaine takes occasion to reaffirm the Monroe doctrine, and suggests the following modifications in the * Clayton-Bul-wer Treaty: That every part which forbids the United States fortifying the canal and holding political-control over it in connection with the United States of Colombia be canceled; that every part in which Great Britain and the United States agreed to make no acquisition of territory in Central America shall remain in force; that the United States will not object to maintain the clause referring to the establishment of afree port at each end of the canal, if England desires that provision retained; and that the provision by which the two Governments agree to a joint protectorate of whatever railroad or canal may be constructed be considered obsolete. The letter states that the United States will make joint proclamation with the country in which the canal is located that it shall always beopen in time of peace to the commerce of every country, but in time of war will be impartially closed to war-vessels of all nations. Thecommunication concludes as follows:.

‘“ln presenting the views contained herein %0 Lord Granville you will take occasion to say that the Government of the United States seeks this particular time fordiscussion as the most opportune and auspicious.. Atno period since the peace of 1783 have the relations between the British and American Governments been go cordial and.friendly as now, and I am sure- her Majesty’s Government will find in the views now suggested and propositions new submitted additional evidence of the desire of this Government to remove all possible grounds of controversy between the two Natioms, which have so many reasons for honorable and lasting peace. :

“*You will at the earliest opportunity acﬂux}int Lord Granville with the purpose of the United States touching the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, and in your own way you will impress him fully with the views of Kour Government. I refrain from directing that a copy of this instruction be left wit.h%ﬂs Lordship, becanse in reviewing the case I have necessarily been compelled, in drawing illustrations from British policy, to indulge somewhat freely in “argumentum ad hominem.' This course of reasoning in instructions to our own Ministers is altogether legitimate and pertinent, and yet might seem d%scourt.eoua if addressed djrectlfy to the British Government. You may deem it expedient .to make this explanation to Lord Granville. If afterwards he shall desire a cop ?t.t. -’t;his instruction you will, of course, iumhg

. —The Eniseror of Austria has left off smoking, under the advice of physicians,

‘ INDIANA STATE NEWS. ; ! In’(_llana‘Land. : e The State Bureau of Statistics furnishes the following comparative table of the acres of land in the State, together with the value of the land, value of improvements, value of city and town lots and improvements thereon, value of personal property, number of taxable polls, estimated population and the value per capita, as appeared in April of the present: year, and the same month of 1880: L IBBto U 184 p, Inerease, Acres..... .. 22494576 22,393,037 101,539 Value land. . $333,302,104 $326,810,518 $4,491.681 Yalue im- . provem’ts. 69,500,784 62,721,296 6,779,488 Value. city . : 10t5......... 73980,607 72,056,594 1,924,103 Yalue improvem’ts. 72.718,132 71,878,971 814,161 Valife per- ; L : _Sonalprop. 220,401,850 192,382,202 8,019,648 Total - tax - : value ...... T 67.903,657 725,844,576 42,059,081 No. tax polls 320,918 311,715 - 9,203 E numerawed - sch’l et'd™n 712,150 703,862 8,288 Estimated Population 2,035,144 1,976,277 58,867 Value per ; . eapita..... £377.32 $367.28 slo.o¢ e The Northern Prison. - The Directors and Warden of the State Prison North have submitted their anuual report to Governor Porter, in which, by changing the time of the Directors’ first meeting, they include four months that properly belonged to the former management. The receipts and earnings for the prison during the fiscal year were $77,429.40, of which $71,404.14 was on account of labor performed. The expenditures were $80,020.87, leaving a deficit of $2,501.47. The deficicney is reduced to $1,359.47 by twa notes on responsible parties.. The previous Board received $24,404.23, of the amount given above, and expended $30,787.49, leaving an excess of indebtedness up to March, 1881, of $6,383.24. Since then the deficit has heen reduced by $3,791.77. The report shows that the recent controversy over letting prison labor has resulted very much to the baenefit of the institution, and calls the attention of the Legislature to the needs of a bath and wash-house for the prisons and of a building in which those who are refractory or insane may be confined. | The report of Warden Murdock shows that the average monthly number of convicts was 572. 'The average per diem cost of each conviet, including officers, guards, fuel and light, clothing, food, medicine, repairs to prison, ete., was $38.03. i ; The clerk’s report shows Marion County is represented by 138 convicts, the largest delegation from any county in the State. Among the 572 prisoners in custody at thé close of the year 43 are in for life, 103 are farmers, 189 laborers, 190 can neither read nor write, 887 aie of intemperate habits and 432 are unmarried. The health and morality'of the prisoners has been exceptionally good. . at o :

Transfers for Schooling. Wumerous inquiries have recently been made by Trustees cohcerning pupils who, were transferred 'out of ‘their townships or ' counties, and Superintendent Bloss has sent apopinion to a Trustee, in which he says: ** Those who are transferred to your township cannot claim their rights to school privileges until ‘they pay to' youa tax upon their _property in the township in which they reside at the same rates which persons in your township pay. Thus, suppose A lives in Orange Township, Noble County, and has $6,000 of groperty in said township, and is teansferred y his Trustee to your township. Then, suppose that the following are your rates of levy in Johnson Township, Lagrange County, for school purposes: Thirty cents on the $lOO for special school, and 30 cents on each poll for -speeial school.” Also, 15 cents on the $lOO for tuition revenue, and 25 cents on each poll for tuition revenue. Then A should pay you $lB- - for special school, and for tuition school $9.25, making a total of $27.55. ; : - “For this you should give him a receipt, stating that he has paid his school taxes in tfull. -When this 'has been done, A is entitled to school privileges in your township. If he refuses to pay this amount, then it is your duty, as Trustee, to exclude him from school privileges in your towns Hip. (See Section 17, School Laws)., A having received your receipt for school taxes in full, should present it to his County Auditor and obtain from him a certificate of error, which he should present to the County Treasurer in lieu of his school taxes in his own county. If you have not heretofore demanded. this tax of transferred persons, I think you should not now eollect from them, because those who have alrcady paid theijr taxes in their own eounties could not use your receipts in lieu of their school taxes. You will ‘observe that the face of the receipt hits nothing to do with the amount of tax from which transferred persons are relieved in their own county. Your receipt relieves them from their special and -tuition taxes in their own counties, which may be either greater or less ' than the face of their receipts.” =

¢ Indiana ITtems. The annual report of the Auditor of State has been filed with the Governor. It is principally a statistical document, showing: Cash balance in the treasury Oct. o B eta s s daisnsa a 8 148 R Total receipts (including a balance of $885,865 37)-during the year.... 4,167,743 06 Bisbursements. . ........ .. o 00000 8427002 3¢ Receipts for new state-house fund TOLThHe year. oo sie aol 20846500 Expended....\iciacuiidia. iy 191534 80 The main iterhs of expense chargeable to the State general fund shows: > Circuit judges, 5a1arie5...............8%103.471433 dnpsane hospital. .i o iiitiheisa 0210984 83 Peatand dumb. ..ol s B 2 D Buae 0 e DN R gD Noxth prison. . .ob. . g boaio . il S 0 82 South PUIROR. .0 v.. iivis aitasa s 80249 10 House of refuge.........cccuvvue.ui... 40,000 00 Interest on non-negotiable bonds..... 234,286 99

A decrease of $139,000 was made in the state debt. P

The Secretary of State submitted his annual report to the Governor on the 12th, showing that there have been issued from the Executive Department commissions to 196 Justices of the Peace, 1,124 Notaries Public, 36 Commissioners of Deeds; also 7 proelamations, 40 pardons, 29 remissions, 56 requisitions and 34 extradition warrants; also 859 articles of association have been filed. The report also shows that by the creation of the State Bureau a saving of $32,843 per year has been effected over the old system of doing the public printing. = This saving has been accomplished despite an increase of $10,050.51 during the last two years because of the enlarged and increased number of various documents printed.

~Several months ago McDowell & Brownlee, attorneys of Marion, presented a bill of $B,OOO for services rendered the Miami band of Indians, who live in that vicinity, to Hon. C. Cowgill, paymaster.. Mr. Cowgill thought the amount too high and referred the matter to the Indian Bureau, which has just reported. The claim has been cut down to $3,800, which amount, it is probable, the lawyers will accept. 0 Bope o

The Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, $1.363%¢@1.87. Corn—No. 2, 60@ble. Oats=44@47c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, $1.87@ 1.88. Corn—No. .2, 65}@66¢. - Oats—No. 2, 48@49c. Rye—No. 2, [email protected]. Barley— Extra Fall, [email protected]. ; : At Evangville on the 14th Frank Busch, formerly a well-known insurance man, was arrested for embezzlement. Henry Riedel, the alleged victim of the swindle, was sent to the Penitentiary eight years ago for the murder of his uncle and sentenced for fifteen years. ‘While he was serving his term he fell heir to $l,OOO. He authorized Busch to collect the money, but when he demanded it it was not forthcoming. Busch was arrested and put under bonds. : : : : :

S The Buteher. =~ The butcher is generally a good man, but sometimes has a bad weigh of showing it. S S lEEE T R e The butcher is a jolly fellow; therefore, it is meat that he cuts up occasionally. i ol as i He is a good husband, and his wife. cleaves unto him. . He takes great care of his cleaver. PTG The butcher isa great favorite amgp/z the fair sex. He is always killing. 2 - The butcher never sells horse eat, although he has been known to cat up and dispose of a fillet. . . ~ | The butcher will knock down an ox and lamb a woman or a child; but lef us not be too harsh on the poor creature, for a pork reacher heis. = = - = - It has been said that what is bred in the bone won't come out of .the flesh: but the butcher gets much of his bread in the bone he sells to you; and doesn’t this come out of .theé.flesh? - ‘The - butcher. has been blamed for charging you as much for the bone as for the fiesh; but he does not require you to take the bone. He.carefully removes all he can before he send® it home. SE i

Though . the butcher charges you twenty-tive cents a pound for bone, you must rememher that -he sells the same bone to the scavenger for three cents. So you see his average price is not exorbitant. SRRI SRR el

Butchers are almost invariably fleshy men. © A meat shop, is-the place to go if you tio getfat, = ooe o , Tlﬁutch‘er. is a great wag.. He has been wn to_seil kittens for rabbits, 1t is too bad to h?ake.ga-meof poor Puass. | The butcher is usually very court: eous, but some of -his best customers {lrequently get the cold shoulder from . e ve n

The butcher soon finds out a poorpaying customer, and will: at once cut him off. If you go to him for a pound of steak the chances are that he will cut you oft two. Lo It is said that the butcher will assoon cut a steak off 4 cow as a steer. 'This is a miss steak. - F S e A e

If you ask for a tender steak, the butcher will sometimes cut a slice from the round and beat it with his eleaver. This makes it terider, batis it a legal tender? - bty SRed

. If an old hen fall ‘into his grasp, he will transmute it inte a spring chicken. This is a fowl proceeding. .~ = 7 The butcher pays formestof his tools, but he steels all his 'knives, -~ . = The butcher is noted for his elegance of apparel. He dresses to kill, and he kills to dress. fea Al s When beef becomes a grain stale the butcher makes corn beef of it. The butcher lis ditterent from the baker. The butcher doesn’'tt mind a little smoke when he does his bacon. The butcher has been- known to. cut off a calf’s head and sell it, and the calf said not a word. el In past, present or future, there's nove like the butcher.—Boston Lransoripll o d R e

Sister Pauline’s Basket,

In an account of the quaint and curious ways of the Ephrata (Pa.) Commuynity, in the Century appears this paragraph:. Srvoati e

¢ We now crossed the meadow ground tostake a look at the otherlarge building. and on our way passed two dilapidated little dwellings, one of. which probably is the one occupied for a long time by Conrad Beissel, the founder of the Ephrata cloister. The ‘second convent we now came to, designated as ‘Saron,” or the Sisters’ house, is in its external appearance very much like its mate, Bethania—huge, oppressive and gloomy, sheathed in black shingles, and dotted with little square-windows. The rooms and passages, however, are quite differently plotted, and. seera to have been altered to suit the uses of more recent times. In one of the cells we noticed & huge' hamper; its size, infact, compated with the dimensions of the door, was suggestivé of the Chinese puzzle, the imprisoned ivory ball, much too large for the aperturesof the incasing cell.. How was this overgrown basket ever squeezed through so narrow an opening? It never was. An ,in‘fus.trious nun, bentupon deoing seme good and uvseful’ work for the- monastery, plied in her: cell, for many days and weeks, her busy hands, to weave for domestic needs that “extraordinary piece of wicker-work. She did not discover, until she had. finished it, that it was much too: large to pass through the door of her cell, - And so it remains thiere, in perpeluam rei menoriam.”

—The best railway for a bridal trip— The Union Pacific;—Boston €Commercial Bulletin. i T

THE MARKEX'S,

‘NEW YORk, December 20, 1881 LIVE STOCK—Cattle......... "$3 00 @%sl2 75 o Sheepin il siic Gl sis s o kOO @- 6 U HOBB. & oo isivasnis DD % 640 - FLOUR—Good to Chowce...... 6 10 900 Patents. ..., 000 i 8 G% 900 ° WHEAT—No. 2 Red........... 133%@ 140 No. 28pHNg. ....civ. o inis 135 %1&6 CORN—NO, 2.¢0. . cooiniiaviie. - 08%@ 69 OATS—Western Mixed..i.... . 49 @ bl RYE-Westorn: i.l 0.0 M@ | 96 PORK—Mess. ... . ... 000 1800 @ 1895 LARD—Steam........ .:...... 411 05 @ 1115 CHEESB... ... oo 1158 @ o i WOOL—Domestig....... . Ja. =26 i@ « 801 * . CHICAGO. 3 . ; : 8EEVE5—Extra.............. $6 50 @s6 75 Oholge. «ilu it Gint BDB@, 8 % Good. .. s G @ e Medtum..,. . 0 30 4% %grxoo - Butchers' Stock.... ... 2. @ 87 Stock Catt1e............5.= 2580 @ 3HO HOGS—Live—Good to Choice 550 @ 670 8HEEP;.,....... /s 0300 @ sal BUTTER—Creamery i. 0.0 84 @, 48 - * Good to. Choice. .%o %8 @ ' 84 BGGR-Fresh ..o d.i . vos i o 8 FLOUR—Winter: ... .c:...: 650 @ 60 ' Spring. .ol Qs ABl @ T ; PREBIAIB. ..l iediianss TOO 8R 80 ¢ GRAlN—Wheat No. 2 Spring 1 25%@ 1 25% Corn, No: 8.5 i S vins 60Y%@ 60% Oats, NO: 8. g ivading AR D A 3, ‘Rye; NO. 2.0 cifeeuneiiin, =OT 0T Barley, No. 2.8 ...00 00 YO2 @ 1087 De B L. 5 G g Fine Green e« .i..iicas B@o . Bl Inforfov @, ... oo @- % Crookeds. . ..ol sivni e, ~28 @ w 0 PORK...: .G i o 1000 @ 16 098 LARD—Steam ;.. ... 2. .....;.0 1080 @lO 88 LUMBER—: ; © L T R e ' Common Dregseti Siding... 19 50 @g M Flooring ... il oo . 200 @ Common Raard5.......... 1500 @l7 50 . Fencing.. i .ccin o BRI ISO Tath'. G e ani i aiiscs A egen - Shingles. .80 o l.oivn. #lO-@ -3W A tEA%T Lmnumga;w o ORGSR ssl vy @ B hey Falrto Goo@™: ol 0.0 &% @ 58 - HOGS--Yorkers.iii.ii..ioi. 610 @ 635 " Philadelphingii., .. ..., 0660 @ 680 - SHEEP—Best.. ..ol 43 @ 500 Commons.;.».ﬁ;}.&.t‘i.‘-i MO B o 850 @ 400 CATTLE—Best... . ....i.iov.i 8325 %‘”w 58 ﬁoa{ediu;nda i) s VR ?g @;% SHEEP~Poor to Choice,..... . 8 W%f* e