Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 January 1882 — Page 2

The Ligenier Banner gonier Bamuer, G J. 8. STOLL, Editor. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1882. e —————————————— SPECIAL NOTICE. : Persons wishing to confer with me personally will please call at Tok BANNER sanctum from Monday morning until Wednesday noén, The remainder of the week I am engaged on-the Daily and Weekly Monitor in the city of Elkhart. i : : : 7 J.B. SToLL." ' THE -students. of a medical college at Keokuk, lowa, have been in the habit of receiying subjects for dissection from Chicago. They recently got one from that city and dissected it, and as a consequence forty of the students arenow down with the smallDOX. ; b eesaeminunie . bL . eoeomsamaned Tite Temperance Colonization Society of Canada has secured a million acres of government land on which to establish a colony of total abstainers. The land will be sold at prices a little lower than the established one, and none but the genuine .alcohol haters need apply. G

MINNIE BROOXKS, the Chicago white woman who turned her beer garden into a p{ace of worship and took a leading part in a revival held there last year, was not content with the -public notice gained thereby, and, still thirsting for distinction, recently achieyed 1t by marrying a negro.

ILrixors girls are sometimes fickleminded, as may be provea in the case of a Bloomington girl. Her father offered her $5OO, after the wedding guests had assembled in the church, if she would back out. She promptly accfited the offer and the minister dismissed the disappointeil audience.

THE- use of» electric light wires in Philadelphia is likely to be condemned ‘as.'dangerous. Twenty - five houses . were last week set on fire. A hack- " man was recently killed in England by a shock received by an electric wire. What is wanted now is an invention whereby the wires can be dedangerized. Mr. Edison is respectfully refjuested to turn his attention to this matter. v .

‘A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Shanesville, O, on New Years eve. During a festival held at that time by the Knights of Pythias, the floor gave way and 200 persons were precipitated

to the floor below. A.stove containing hot coals set fire to the building, but by prompt action the flames, were extinguished. Two persons were instantly killed, two were fatally injured and about eighty more or less hurt.

A Bostox stock speculator has experienced sudden wealth and the effect on him is anything but good. Formerly he was a quiet, well-behaved

person, hut since his accession to

wealth his senses seem to have taken to themselves wings. He spends his nights in smashing costly china and glass,"and insists on having his house lighted from garret to cellar. He sometimes goes to the window and gives vent to terrific yells. He is said, to be very ‘quiet in the -daytime.

Tue Cincinnati Qazetteis in fayor of issuing; postal currency. Currency, placed in a letter, is liable to be lost, while postal orders are perfectly safe. But what the people want and need 18 cheaper postal money orders, Under

the present system an order for the smallest sum is ten cents. People sending' money would rathér -pay a

amall sum to insure its safety than to rup the risk of losing it by mail, and cheaper postal orders would be a decided relief to the people.

STrAUSS, the famous musical composer, has just produced a new operetta at Vienna, entitled *‘Der Lustige Krieg” (The Jovial War).. The Vienna people received it with such vigorous and enthusiastic applause that Stravss’ wife, who was present, cried for joy at her husband’s success. One of the melodies, in particular, so took their faney that it had to be repeated eight times, and the applause was perfectly deafening after each rendering. The composer was pelted with flowers and vociferously applauded by archdiikes and othereminent persons.

TOERE are three Senators and eight

members of the New York Isegisla-

ture belonging to Kelly’'s Tammany ting, and they propose to Hold out against the regular Democracy, which cansists of fifteen Senators and fiftythree, Representatives. If the New York Democracy do not wish to be

Kelly’s bound slaves hereafter, they ~ will not allow him to dictate to them now in-such a shameful manner. The

Tammany ring business should for

once.and all time lose its influence over the New York Democrats, and the sooner this is brought about the better it will be. ! i

Pror. Bross, Superintendent of Public Instruction, has been making himself.very unpopular by reason 6f his course in regard|to the public schools of this State. On being appealed to by-a certain class who objected to the study of grammar in school, he decided that grammar might be dropped. He now fibds that another class of people object to having their children study geography, and still another class who object to geology as a study on the ground that it goes against the teachings of the Good Book in trying to prove the world older than does the Bible. Just what Prof. Bloss will do in regard to these cases is not knowa, but it is to be regretted that he is allowing the public schools of Indiana to retrograde in this manner.

NEWARE, N, J,, is becoming notori‘ous for the disgraceful financial robberies committed there, of which there have béen as many as. ten. or twelve In the same number of years. One of the last, but by no. means least, of those unpleasant proceedings 1s the infamous swindle by Cashier Baldwin, “whereby he succeeded in appropriating to;his own use over $2,000,000 confided to his.care. In order to keep up the reputation of the place, Mr. F. A. Palmer, City Auditor, a man highly respected by the citizens of that un fortunate community;, recently embezzled between $125,000 and oxso,booi ‘belonging to the taxpayers, The people of that ancient town “will soon lose their faith in model public officials unless a stop is put to that sort of 'Gfk' : : 2 5

SINCE STOCK GAMBLING i 8 generally at the. bottom of the matter when bank oflicers are tempted to abscond with the money of the institution, it might be a good idea to carefully investigate the stock gambling business after disposing or the dishonest bank men.

CONSIDERABLY excitement was cau:od among the superstitions at Plain City, Mo, by a little three-year-old boy who, after gazing up into the sky very earnestly for some time, declared that he saw his dead mother up there smiling on him. The boy firmly de clares that he saw her, and many of the neighbors believe it, also. i e e g Al s 5

THE daughter of ex-President Zachary Taylor has just received from the I'reasury of the United States $16,000, the amount of salary that General Taylor wouid have received had he lived to'the end of the year in which he died. The anthority for the payment was contained in the Deficiency Ap~ propriation bill passed June 16, 1880.

A sOUTHERN ILLINOIS girl, who was onc? 20 handsome that she turned the head of every man who saw her, neglected vaccinati on and took the small pox; and riow her betrothed has declared the engagement off, and says he would rather have the small-pux as a chronic disease than marry her. She has sued him for breach of prom ise. ) s

‘TiE Bellefonte (Peun’a ) Repu-blaica‘z confesses to a serious disappoin‘tmep at the result of the recent convention in New York city. 1t says:

“The spectacte of five or six hundred ‘manufactiirers clamoring i’ a body, and each individual endeavoring to clamor loudest, for special recognition of his particular interest for government protection, is not a gratifying outgrowth of the grantl principle tauzht by the departed Carey.”

IN a recent sermon to commercial travelers, the Rev. Ferd. Iglehart, of Evansville.said: “Pat brains into anything—brains and principle—and it will thrive.! This excellent advice wounld be applicable to others besides commercial travelers. Itis*"brainand principle” that makes any business thiive, and it would be well for young men who are starting out in business life to make a note of the fact.

'THe Defiance (0.) Democrat says that by a search instituted among the pupils in the schools of that city, twen-ty-six pistols and revolvers were found. In this day and age such juveniie reading as “Nickel Libraries,” “Boys of New York,” and kindred woiks, makes 1t seemingly a necessity for all youngsters to'carry a weapon of some kind. Parents cannot be too carefui in their atfention to this matter.

DURING the funeral services of Rev. Simon Kuhlehenhwlter, 'at Quiney, [ll, a seat broke down in the gallery and a panic immediately occurred. As the church was a large one and all the available spuace filled, the rush that tollowed was terrific. .Women and children wére trampled down and the men acted a 3 if bereft of their senses. About forty persons were ,inj,u'red, several supposed to be fatally hurt, . - It MAY be interesting to those who do not thoroughly understand the financial situation to know the amount of money now in circulation in this country. It is as follows: . Legal tender notes, - - - - $346,681,016 National Bank notes, - - - 361,000,000 Gold, - = - - - . . .. o . 568,000,000 Silver, - -.-- - - - - - 186,000,000 Total, - - - < - - < . $1,4564681,016 This amount exceeds that of former years, Heretofore the largest amount in ,circulation was in 1869, when it amounted to $1,226,278,198. For the present expansion we are indebted tu the enormous balance of trade in cur favor, to the' remonitization of silver and to democratic theories of finance.

."Mgr. WirLLiIAM PENN NilxoN, the stalwart editor of the Inmter-Ocedn, and who for years has been the strong supporter of Arthur and Logan, has learned a thing or two lately, Having been ‘a candidate for the office of Collector of customs at Chicago, and been obliged. to stand back while Jesse Spalding ook the place, he has learned that it is the duty of an editorte work for others, and as a reward see those he Lias helped elevate to power scatter their rewards upon some one else. 'Tis ever thus. The chief business of a newspaper seems to be tu help some other man to a prominent and lucra tive position, but the editor himself is expected to be content to gaze upward and admire. % . ;

IN one of the counties of the State the Commissioners made an order that all the connty officers have their print ing done in a certain newspaper. Inquiry was made of .the Attorney General as ta whether the Commissioners had legal authority for their action, and in response the following opinion has been. given by Attorney-General Baldwin: ' e

Under the act of March 9, 1875, it is the duty pt\the Auditor of the county to make the publication. He has a right to determine what mewspaper of his county has the largest circulation, and his decision is final and not subject to review by any court. The Board of County Commissioners haye nothing to do with the printing. In case of a Sheriff’s notice of sale of réal estate no one has authority to control his action in selecting a newspaper unless it would be the court, and even this may be doubted. So of clerk’s notices and administratoris notices, :

ToeE PRESIDENT of the New York Board of Health says that he thinks the spread of the small-pox in this country is largely due to the great ‘number of Bohemians and Poles who come here, and “whose filth is as as‘tonishing as their objection to vaccinatien.” Immigrants arrive from all countries of Europe and scatter to all paits of the coumtry. The greater portion of Bohemians and ‘Poles go to the northwestern part of the‘Unitéd States and the result is small-pox prevails to a greafer extent in the Northwestern States than any others, Although everything is done Lo prevent the spread of contagious diseases by health officers, yet many escape their scrutiny. . We are threatened with other diseases from Europe. The cholera is said to be steadily advancing, and a season of exceptional sickness is predicted. Asthe immigration from the old world this year will in all probability be unusually large, the danger is increased. Everyone owes it to himself and neighbors to do all in his power to prevent the spread of diseage. He should leave no means untried to insure protection from con‘tagion. © e A

HIrAM Co'LLEGE recently lost ‘a bequest ot $17,000 left by Flora C. Randall. A grandson of Mrs. Randall successfully contested the will: ; k) O i _ DR. JouN DRAPER, the scientiat who first photographed a human tace, died at his home in Hastings-on-the Hudsou on the 4th of January, 1882.

RicaarDp I, DANA, jr.,died in Rome, Italy. on the ith inst. He was a son of Richard Henry Dana, the poet, and was himself a writer of considerable ability. ¢ o :

" Tue Democratic Editorial Association met at Indianapolis last Thursday. The attendance was rather small. Owing to the crowded state of our columps we shall have to defer giving a report of the proceedings until next week. !

Cor. I. B. McDoNALD, of Columbia City, spent part of Monday and Tuesday in this place, on businéss, in the transaction of which he “is lightning.” The Colonel Is a man of untiring industry, and consequently makes a suc cess of most everything he undertakes.

GuiTeAU still refuses to entertain the belief that he will hang. Scoville and John W. Guiteau advised him to prépare for the worst, but he said, con(idently, that the American peopie did pot want him hung. He believed in. the jury and the men he had helped to ‘office, }%y_e_n,one of the visitors asked. him if there was not a possibility of conviction be said: “This can not be, “and I cannot allow myself to think “such a thing is possible. But if lam “mistaken I will send out's statement “to the world that will astonish it. I “made ‘Arthur President, and there is “no reason why 'he should want me F“huug. [ have helped a number of ‘ people to office, and why should they "“W,ish for my death? I acted under a “grinding pressure, imposed on me by “'the Almighty. I wasnot responsible i“for my acts, and while I am sanenow, ] was Isane by reason of Divine in%“spiration, when I carried out the “Lord’s will.” - ‘ S

RAVINGS OF AN IMBECILE. Our attention has been called to a wonderful effusion which was thrust upon an indulgent public through the medium of a “journalistic” Blop Bucket during the past week. The éffusion is headed, “Why He Left Them,” and is intended as an argument why young men should no longer affiliate with the democratic party. 1t is signed by a venompus old codger named .Isaac Tivbott, whose habitation is on the outskirts of the village of Wawaka We may say, by way of. preface and explanation, ‘that' the wild ravings of this silly'old man would not have re‘ceived notice at our hands but for the fact that a number of his immediate neighbors, who feel outraged and incensed over his vile sl‘énders, made a special request that some attention be bestowed upon his wholesale denunciation of those whose sense ¢f duty impels them to vote and act with the demoératic party. Were we to act upon our individual judgment, the author of that conglomeration of malice, nonsense and falsehood would have passed unnoticed, as unworthy of public recognition, aund, like the swine, permitted to wallow in his mire. * Time is too precious and our space too valuable to follow .this venomous old man through all his rubbish. He proclaims that he was once a member of the democratic party and that he lett that organization because he held it to be “thoroughly corrupt.,” This is the first Intimation we have had that the old man ever belonged to the democratic -party, and we feel like tendering him a vote of thanks for the information. It explains a few things that were heretofore shrouded in mystery Thirty years ago Democracy in Noble county was strong. Its gradual decline and weakening is now accounted for. Isaac Tibbott a Democrat! No wonder that men who shun evil associations left the party while such a compound of fanaticism, narrow-mind edness. and unadulterated meanness claimed a front seat in the democratic temple. Aud behold the happy change! After the party had become relieved of his disagreeable fellowship, and the temple had been thoroughly fumigated 50 as to leave no vestige of his forme: presence, the party began to grow and increase in strength,conquering strong hold upon stronghold, until finally victory was inscribed upon the banners of » rejuvenated Democracy. Men of a lib eral turn of mind flocked to its stand ard, tired of the disagreeable associa tion with such fanatics as Isaac Tib bott, and rejoiced to find themselves ip company with men who love liberty, venerate the constitution, and believe in a system of government that protects but does not oppress the individual citizen. ! :

Isaac Tibbott an instructor of young voters! What brazen assumption! A man 80 ignorant as to talk of Kansas voting to become a “freeholder;” freedom being *“killed” by Democrats and rebels; “alleniance for 1884,” ete., etc. The stupid old sinner ought to be aghamed to put such nonsensical stuff before the rising generation. Can it be possible that he has never heard of the monkey c¢limbing up the pole and muaking a conspicuous display of his anatomy? And does foolish old Isaac not' know that he proclaims himself not only a fool but a knave when he says. that the democratic party -“has ‘« aglways. been led by a pack of thieves, “rebels and cut-throats ?” Ah,indeed! And yet you say that for many years you were a follower of such leaders. Out upon such slander and vituperation! An old man, on the very verge of the grave, to put forth such a foul and infamous falsehood is<proof conclusive of his mental deformity and of his moral depravity. Thomas Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson,Van: ‘Buren, Douglas, Silas Wright, Marey, Seymour, and a host of other great and pure men, as free of crime or cor ruption as the driven snow of ‘the prairies, accused by Isaac Tibbott of being thieves, rebels and cut-throats! If this 61d man had the sensa of shame of a common harlot, he would hide himself away in some dark cavern, never again to offend public decency by exhibiting his brazen physiognomy | among peop_la who have some regard for truth, honor, apd the amenities of civilized society. i ; ' Were we disposed to retort in kind, ' we might fill column upon column in setting forth the sins of the republican party, which Isaac Tibbott beglimes. and disgraces by his fulsome

‘ealogy; but we do not care to take up i.apgcé for that purpose st a time when good men of all parties are enjoying a ‘much needed rest from partisan strife ‘and contention, endeavoring to eradicate the bitterness engendered during the late ogg:p}di‘gn. in the righteous Type of restoring among neighbors that cordiatity and friendship so essential to good society. Democrats can well afford to pass over, wilh si‘lent contempt, the mean, malicious utterances of an llsaac Tibbott, when afkured by decent Republicans everywhere that they repudiate with all the emphasis of their ratures the nastiness, filth and venom ewitted by a being whose praises inflict injury ‘and whose Invectives are as harmless as the braying of an ass. FAILED TO SHOW WHERE HE _ : . LEFT THEM. s A Document for Young Democrats and Old Repubiicans to Read. "Ep. BANNER: —lt seems queer that a man as old as Isaac Tibhott should bs a Democrat as long as he claims to have been, and then leaye the party to join one that is even more corrupt than he claims the democratic party tohave been. He also claims that the Republican party was founded on righs prin’ ciples and composed of good metal, and that it came victoriously out of all its undertakings. He means, perbaps, the demonetization of silver, the erushiug of prosperity, the stealiug;_of the Presidency in 1876, the reariog of monopolies, and the encroachments upon the reserved rights of the States. He claims that the foundation of the republican party is broad, and that it protects the low and bumble as well 4s guaids the interests of the rich and great. Itis a party of the people, by the people and for the people, so Isaac sayd. : Now, this is all very good, but the party to which he belongs f’ails;to do anything for the boys who made that party. 1f the republican party was made up of such men as Iszae Tibbott, it would be more foul than the democratic party ever was or ever can be. He claims to have left the party in 1856. Now, was not that a mistake? Was it not in 1865? You are well aware that every Republican was in ‘tbe war,'and nobody but those cowardly and treacherous Demociats stayed at home during the rebellion. Was he not one of the latter, as he was too cowardly to smell burnt powder? He says that the democratic party has always been led by “a pack ol thieves,i cut throats and rebels.” I 'should like} to know who has stolen more money and cut more throats than this spot-‘ less republican party hassince 1850. Ji chey had not stolen so mueh, there would now be mers money to equalize soldiers pay. = - 3 1f he belongs to a party tbat is founded on right principles, aud which does everything well, as hé claims, they should pay off the mén who made the party and its principies. What would have become of the party and those principles of which he speaks so much if it had not been for a large number of good democratic soldiers who stepped to the front and helped to put down the troubles of 1861 ?

If he wants any more information on this subject, he can get it by calling on Lovuis WALTER.. ALBION, Ind., Jan. 10, 1882.

Tibbott’'s “ Reasons.” iy WAWAKA, Jan. 8, 1882. EpiTORS BANNER:—We wish to say a few words through the columns of your paper, in regard to a well-known citizen of our village, who gave his reasons, in a paper called the Leader (?), for leaving the democratic par‘ty. We are quite well satisfied with his alleged reasons, and would now like to heat his reasons for ieaving the Methodist Church. He surely canunot think it suflicient reason because they opposed ‘his “mash” up the railroad. Having been a faithfal (?) follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, and.a member of the Methodist Church for thirty yeirs, he certainly ought to have had more reasons for leaving the Church than for leaving the democratic- party. Chis is a time of peace and good will in the land, and if he wishes to-en gage in warfare, let it be his future warfare. Secondly, we should like to know how he ever aidel the poor. He certainly does not mean that he is aiding the poor when he takes a railroad laborer, who is making $l.lO per day, and compels him to work day after day, in the dust and dirt, behind a separator, for the munificent sum of 50 cents; and he surely did not mean 30 when he paid a poor man for a 4 day’s butchering with a few pig’s feet. ! Dorßzs.

Beware of Chloroform. . - At the inquest over the remains of E. H. Tapper, of Hammond, Ind., who died in a dentist’s office, in Chicago, the doctors. testified in effect that all aniesthetics are dangerous; that chloroform was the most dangerous of all; that it should never be used in dectistry because it is yery dangerous Lo raise the upper part of the body abeve a level position after it has been adminiBtered ; that it should never be admin-: istered for thirty minutes, as it was in this case, for fear-of cumulative eftect; that Dr. Dodge ought to have pulled at the patient’s tongue to facilitate breathing; that the patient’s head shiould have been literally hung downward to promote a flow of blood to the head; that those who use chloroform ought to keep a galvanic battery for the resuscitation of patients, and that the most skilful physicians can not tell whether or not it is safe for any particular person to take it. The jury found that Dodge had not taken sufficient precautions, and that his efforts at resuscitation were not sufficiently vigorous or long continued.— Chicago Times. | D — - E—— A New Swindle. (Fort Wayne Gazette. ) A new swindle upon unsuspecting farmers has been brought to light. Swindler No. 1 calls upon a farmer with .a patent wagon tongue, and informs him that, haviog made a big thing out of it, he is on his way home with only his cotinty to sell. He tells the farmer he can have it for two hundred and fifty dollars, and if he wants it to write to him. In-a few days patent right man No. 2 comes along. He has heard that the farmer has the right of the county for the patent wagon tongue, and as he made a big thing of it in Nebraska, he wants to buy the right of the county, and offers the farmer four hundred dollars, and pays ‘ten dollars to bind the bargain. The farmer writes to No. 1 and sends him his note for two hundred and fifty dollars. He never hears of either of the two wen again, but his note comes up for collection in a neighboring town, and Mr. Farmer is out two hundred and fifty dollars, : !

| WASHINGTON LETTER. | The Reassembling of Congress — Mr. Orth Protests~ Mr Springer Indig-. nant—Bre%&goad, i 5 (From our own Correspondent.) : WASHINGTOR, D. C., Jan: 7, 1881 The holidays are over. The national bunting has again been run up at voth ends of the Capitol, announcing the presence of. the House and Senate in Congress assembled. Postmaster General. James has formally resigneds and the new - Postmaster Genperal, Howe, has been duly iustalled at the ‘head of the largest postal department on the planet. The most noted, and, owing to ils cause aud its episodes,the most repu'sive Lrialin modern judicial history, is rapidly nearing its close. The social world at the Capital is abruad “on the boulevard, or at home in the drawing-room, alert, irrepressible, diabolically gay, and wsthetically wicked. Unlil - within the last five days we have had the balmy winter climate of South Carolina; ‘but. the new yvear brings a 4 temperature and snow fall that has set the oldest inhabitant talking. ' fhe House met on Thursday, and after a brief session, adjourned until Monday, but the session, brief as it was, was sufliciently long for Mr. Orth, of Indiana, to express his protest and indignation at being ignored in the formation gf fmoortant committees. This is the beginning, and the Fortyseventh Congress will not hear the end of the very general dissatisfaction with Speaker Keifer’s committee \mechanism. For the last ten or fiftesn years there has been a feeling among legislators that.the system of nzming the persdnel of committees by i the Speaker concentrated too much power in the hands of c¢cne man. So long, however, as the Spezker foilowed the ruls-of recognizing, as far as possible, the leadeis of the House, and placing them on iinpnr:a—r_xt, committees, there had been no emphatic protest; but now comes Speaker Keifer, ignoring all precedents, and nearly all i the recoguized leaders, causing great ldiss;xtisfaction in boch rank and file, {and in both parties. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, will in a few days offer a reso-' lution setting forth that unknown and inexpe:ienced men have been ass'gned to important committees, while older members, and those familiar with leg--Islation and the rules of the House, have not only been gagged by being placed on unimportant committees, but they hive been removed from important ccmmittees, where thay have long servéd, and that their «¢fliciency as legis'ators has been c¢onspicuously and wantonly impaired; that the aetion of the Speaker is not so much a personal effront as it is a wrong to their- constituents and the country, whose interests cemand the best abili-. ty and most mature experience, or, in other words, that tools shall not be given to bunglers, hut to those who can uss them. The feeling of dissat isfaction among members is, by no’ means, confined lto Mr. Orth, or to Democrats. It is shared by the friends of Mr. Orth and of ‘Mr. Kassor, and is prevalent among the Western, the Eastern, the Southern, the New Eagland and the New York delegations, It needs no prophet to predict that, with this intense feeling existing, the Forty seventh Congress will not be a dove cote, or the Speaker’s chair a bed of roses. CoALS L E—— ; “Elkhart” on Institutes. : ORANGE Twep., Jan. 3, 1882, The storm. of mental perturbation, which so recently stiuck “Elkhart” ot Wawaka, has made terrible havoc among the attributes of his mental vision, as evidenced by his extraordinary travesty, “About Township Institutes,” published in the Era of Dee. 29. *“Elkhart” comes down upon “Skutoff” and all loval newspaper correspondents, 'like an eagle upon its prey. He wants them to understand that Mr. “Elkhart” is none of your *small fry”; for, he has revelled in "prehistoric civilization,” and reconstructed the ‘“classic wonders of Grecian art on the ‘Pastinm waste.”” He has “Inspected the architectural miracles of the Nile Valley,” and gazed, “for a moment, cn the ruins of the ‘Pantheon and Acropolis.’” He has “listened but for a moment to ‘Platu in the Academy,” and “walked with ‘Aristotle in the Lyceum.” He has “set with Socrates throughout his last day,” and followed “Agassiz among the: trightful Glaciers.” “Elkhart”, leaving his asspciations of classie lore, makes his appearance in the village of Wawaka, where he undertakes to dis play his vast kuowledge. He realizes that tender minds are too feeble to comprehend his brilliant talents, so ke calls the teachers of his township to assemble in institute to see the unfolding of the beautiful rose so long budding in bis fertile brain. Proclamation is given in due form, and is published in all the papers of thie county. The day arrives fer the grand opening,. In a few hours the school hall is filled with teachers and others to walk in | the grove with “Elkhart” and to listen to his sublime teachings. He heads the piocession, but before all get into line, he becomes conscious that mapy of those present are not prepared to receive his valuable instruetions, with profit to themselves, 80 he concludes to bring them up to the desired standard by a more simple process than that | practiced among the great sages. Foi the success of Elkhart’s grand opening, vide Skutoff. Literaturs is another chosen field of “Elkhart”. He is enthusiastic on the utility of bro:d culture. The authors read by him are legions. The study of literature is no doubt a very pleasant thing, but why is it, that “Elkhart”, who has read so much and studied language 8o carefully, is in the habit of using such an anomalous term as “ourselt”, or an obsolete term as “unpracticable”, or soleclsms as the following: “We, too, have concluded to have something to Bay,” “we will never,” “we will content ourself,” “we will say,” “your ‘teeth are full-grown which. enables,” &c, &c.,. or why one so learned should coin the new word “gossipper” when the old word is shorter, or why he should misspell such words as “Mucaulay”, “Aristotle” and others? It has| been suggested that teachers of the county procure copies of the article “About Township Institutes,” by “Elkhart”, for the purpose of selecting their examples in false syntax for the edifi cation of their ngm@mfi ~ —s e, 'THIS PAPER P etspiinacs |

An exchange says that Mr. and Mrs. Clem Studebuker, of South Bend, will next year build a hundscme chareh at that place, the eutire expenses tp be borne'by thewm, : ;

"THE NEWS. —— . 37 Oompiled from Latest Dispatches, ———— s 2 Trial of Guiteau, the Assassin, A 7 the opening of Court on the 4th Mr, Sepwille presented an affidavit which stated in substance that, since the 15th of December last, he had learned of the existence and names of material witnesses for the defendant upon the issue qgf insanity, and that by them he could prove the mental condition of the fpri»mmr on or about the date of the killing of the President, ete., and moved that the defense be allowed, notwithstanding it had closed its @idence, to introduce the newly discovered testimony. The motion was discussed at length by Messrs. Reed and Scoville for the defense, and by Messrs. Davldge and Corkhill for the prosccution, and the Court decided that testimony relating to the issue of insanity could not be introduced. The tastimony, however, of those witnesses by which the defense expected to prove that what the prisoner asserted upon the day of ‘the assasgination and upon the daX after was motive for his act the Court held should be admitted as eyvidence in: subrebuttal. Mr. Scoville offered in evidence a letter written by Guiteau’s father, in which he expressed the‘l(_)‘iflnion that the prisoner was insane. Dr. Beard, of New York, was called, but objection was made to his_ testimony, which the Court sustained and Mr:* Scovsllc noted an ecepiion. J. J. Brooks, Chi€f of the 8Lry secret Service, testified to his vifting /the prisoner on the night of the shoQting. (**He arose in great anger and excitement”’ said the witness, “and wanted to know what I meant by disturbing his rest and quiet at that hour of the night. I said'it ill became him, a murderer, to speak in that manner; that he had disturhegethe rest and quiet of the whole Nation. He came back at me, that be was no murderer, but a Christian and a gentleman; that his mind was made u}) that he had been moved to do the act as a political necessity, and that it was for the good of the country.” The witness continued: *I told him I wasa Republican and a' Stalwart, and he replied: *Than yon can approc ate wh Ididit’” The witness detailed at some leneg;sl‘; his conversation at that time. He (the witness) gaid to the prismer: *lf you had taken tho ‘Delty into consideration you could n t bave d:'ne such an act.”” The prisoner replied he had thought over the matt:r and prayed over it for six weeks aud more: he beoame convinced ‘that th>» President must g‘o, and 1t was his ducy to remove him. r. Davidge said the prosccution had already prepared their statement of the law points upon which they ;would rely, and he would be pleased to give the defense the benofit of them. He then read as follows: 3

1. The legal test of responsibility, where insanity is s¢ét up as the defense for alleged crime, i 8 whether the accused, at the time of committing the act alleged. knew the difference between right and wrong in respect to such act; hence; in the present’ case, it ‘the accused, at the time of committing the aat charged, knew the difference between right and wrong in respect to such act—that is, if he knew what he was doing and that what hé was doing was contrary to the law of the land, he is responsible. #2, If -the accused knew what he was doing, and that what he was doing was contrary to the law of the land, it constitutes no defense, even if it were true that whon he committed the act he really believed he wus theveby producing a public beneiit or carrying out an inspiration of Divine origin or approval. Such belief would not afford any excige, nor would such excuse be atforded by the fact that in the commisgion of the act he was impelled by a depraved moral sense—wheghsr innate or acquired, or by ¢vil passion or indsffercnce to moral obligation. : “3. Insanity would, however, constitute a defense if by reason of the disecase the accused, at the time of commitiing the act charged, did not know what he was doing; or, if he did know it, that what he was doing was. contrary to law, | .

*5. The only evidence in the ‘present case tending to show an irresistible impulse to commit the homicide is the claim-of the uwccused that his free agency was desteoyed by his alleged conviction that the death of the President was required for the good of the American people, and that he was di\'inolf' inspired; but such conviction, even if it really existed, could neot afford any cxcuse when the party knew what he was doing, and that it was contrary to law. No mere delusion or error of Judgment, not cven a fixed belief that what is prohibited by” law is commanded or approved by Divine authority «can exempt the accused from his responsibility for breaking the law. To have such effeet the commisgion of the act charged must bave been the result of insane delusion, which was the product of disease and of such foree as to deprive the accuscd of the degree of reason necessary to distinguish between right and wrong, 4n respect of the act, so that at the time of comuiitting the act he either did not know whet he was doing, or, if he did, that the- act was wrong or contrary to the law of theland.” At Mr. Scoville’s suggestion the Court then adjourned until the Tth. .

THE trial of the Guiteau case was resumed on the morning of. the Tth. Mr. Davidge opened with ‘argument on the legal points, during which he was several times interrupte ed by the prisoner. The first sensation of the day was the roading by Mr. Davidge of the charge of Judge Davis, of New York, in the Coleman murder case. Mr. Scoville objected, and said the readin?l was a dramatic attempt to affect the jury. Judge Cox ended the disgute bdv saying that the matter was unoubtedly authority. As Davidge resumed Guiteau shouted: #l° ‘want: to get this thing right before the jury. Every one knows that the jury in the Coleman case gave a verdict against that charge, and the prosecution knows it well.” The effect was electrical when Davidge, in the most deliberate and earnest manner, said: * Your Honor, this man -was for three weeks held up to us as an imbecile, and now listen to him! He not only knows the difference between right and wrong, but he understands fully the law of the case.”” Guiteau replied: ‘‘Transitory mania—that's my case. I don't pretend I am insane now. I've got as good a head as you or Porter, but Scoville is a fool. 1 repudiate him and his whole theory of defense. -All I want is two hours before that i\axry, and I can settle this thing all right.” r, Davidge then read and elaboratcd the instructions which the prosecution asked the Court to give the jury. Mr. Reed thén opened tha argument in behalf of- the instructions askeld ‘f(l)lr by tha defense. As to insanity Mr. Reed said the better doctrine was that, if the fury had a reasonable doubt of the sanity of the accused at the time of committing the act, they should acquit. The Court should instruct as to what coustituted a “reasorrubl » doubt.” Mr. SBcoville. commenced his argument, but before he had proceeded far the hour for adjournment was reached and the Court adjourned until the 9th. 3 !

Congressional. In the Senate on the sth & ‘number of petis tions were presented, many of them praying for the exercise of Government control over railroad transportation charges. Bills were introduced: By Mr. Anthony, to promote the efficiency of the navy; biyl' Mr. Maxey, to ins crease the efficiency of the signal service of %hc army....ln the House Mr. Orth gave noice that he would introduce a proposition to change the mode of selecting committees: he then stmngry‘%)rotosted against the alleged inJjustice done him and his constituents by the Speaker in the- late appointment of committees, and gave a summary of his own record in Congress, and thought such record entitled him to more considerate treatment than he had received from Speaker Keiter; he then asked to-be, and was, excused from serving on the Committee on Rules. The Speaker stated that he did not wish itinferred, because.the Chair did not undertake to challenge the statements charging him with injustice, that the Chair acquiesced in the views taken by the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Orth). A resolution was adopted tendering the thanks of the people of the United States to the Khedive of Egypt for the gift of Clco(gmtra‘s needle, ‘‘a gift which ong' the oldest of Nations could make fin the youngest could most hlghl{ prize.” ills were introduced by Mr. Hawk (I1l.) to reorganize the militia, and to~ reniuire manufacturers of oleomargarine to label the same. At his own request Mr. Hewitt was relieved from service on the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, as his private business relations were such as might make it improper for him to serve. Adjourned to the 9th. . Ix the Scnate on the 6th Mr. Maxey offered a resolution, which was adopted, instructing the Secretary of the Interior to furnish a report, if any had been made, of the survey of the United States and Texas Boundary Commission, made under the act of Junse 5, 1858, and if no final report of said Commission was made he will report that fact, together with the maps, surveys and the report of the work 80 far as it was prosecuted. Mr. Hale's resolution for a Special Committee on the mode of electing the President and VicePresident and of cauntlné{nnd ce‘rtlfying the vote was referred to the Committee on Privilv%es and Elections. Mr. Davig’ (W. Va.) resolution relating to pension frauds, calling for a statement of their nature and character, what amount of arrears had been paid, the number of cascs added to the é)ens_ion xfill‘ under the Arrears act, etc., was debated; Mr. Davis expressed a fear that the amount to be paid in pensions would ultimaten.'l‘y exceed the amount of the National debt; Mr.- Logan stated that the report of the Commissioner showed that, with a ocertain force at his command, the arrears of pen&ions could be paid in two l;lrem's, and that, after these were paid, the roll would be reduced to $40,000,000, or not over $50,000,000. Two amendments were ordered to be grinted with Mr. Sherman’s bill for the issue of three-per-cent. bonds, one for the extension of the time in which they were to be made dpaya.ble. and the other directing that all funds in the I'reasury for the reder&?tion of United States notes in excess of $lOO,~ 000,000 be used for the redemption of three-and-s-half percents. After an exeontive sessionthe. Senate adjourned to the 9th....Hause not in session. 2 g

Domestie, : Up to the 4th the exodus of negroes from ‘Bouth Carolina to Arkansas had reached a total of about 7,000. It was stated that 20,000 acres of land in South Carolina would go un: cultivated next Season for want of laborers. THE Appellate Court at Chicago has decided that a telegraph company is not responsible for errors in the transmission of a cipher message beyond the amount paid for sending it. - A TRIAL at Yankton, Dakota, the other day resulted in the conviction of Brave Béar, a Sioux chieftain, of the murder of David Johnson near Fort Sully. THE total values of exports of petroleum and petroleum products from ‘the United Btates during the eleven months ended November 80, 1881, were $44,415,673; same period in 1880, $81,464,007. s : OF a crew which took to a boat from a sink-. ing vessel off Gloucester, Mass., reccatly, two died from exposure, and five were badly frozen, : Rty . Tre wife of Rev. James Cameron, pastor of. the Sccond Presbyterian Church of Oakland, Cal., recently gave her husband a dose of carboli¢ acid by mistake for miedicine. The poil« W sk oy S e e v g, R §i o

01 caused the roverend gentleman’s death Sx ahott thme: Vi S e SETEN murdercrs were hanged on the 6th—two at Bt. Louis, one at Marshall, Mo., two at Fraunklin, La., one at Eluum,_fl}!{ ~ and one at dersey City. e D. D: Ricuanns, one of the gang implicated in the Missouri land frauds, was convicted in the Criminal Court of St. Louis on the 6th, and sentenced to five vears in the Penitentiary. i

Tue Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service has instructed Division Saperintendents to saspend communieation with infeeted locilities without waiting to consult him, in order that the Department shall not be responsible for the spread of contagious discin o ¥ 4 €ases. = ;

ReceExT Texas dispatches state that the massacre of the Chinese laborers on the Southern Pacific Railroad was not done by Indians, but by white men, who took this means of being avenged on the Asiatics, who worked for lower wages than their white comrades. * _ By a recent decision of the Indiana Supreme Court a large number of claims for bounty by volunteers who enlisted in the Union army are forever barred, the Court holding that an offer of bounty by a Board of County Commissioners was not a contract in writing, and that actions to recover such hounty are barred by the statute of limitations. : THIRTY-ONE warrants were issued at Washington on the 7th for the arrest of mail confractors. A. E. Boone was held in $15,000, several were released on $2,000, and three more jailed in default of bail. :

Tu_F: requisitions for stamps received at the Post-office Department on the 7th aggregated §64o,ooo—the largest issue in the history of the mail service. :

THE stage-coach runmng between Tomb. stone and Bisbie, Arizona, was on the sth attacked by five robbers, with whom the express messenger had arlively battle with a Winchester ‘vifle. The thieves found #5500 in the treasure-bhox. s

Personal and Political. Tug fll bench of the Bupreme Court of Kansas, in passing upon an -agreed case, the other day, made a decision which will invalidate nearly all the laws passed by the Legislature of that State in 1877 and 1879. The ground of the decision was thait the act was" passed with-the aid of the votes of four members who were not legally elected. Among the laws thus made void is the Prohibition Constitutional amendment. Hox. Joux PuerLprs Purxay, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of New York; died a few days ag‘o.c ; W.\smxmo.\"lelegm:ns of the Gth state that Scoville had been offered $l,OOO for the body of Guiteau after execution, the wouldbe purchaser offering to'walt_t.wenty years for the delivery of the body.f Guiteau was in favor of accepting $2,000.PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the 6th nominated Samuel C. Parks, of New Mexico, to be - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, and Joseph Bell, of New York, to be As- » sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. NEW developments were brought to light in the Star-route rascality, on the 6th, of such proportions as to call for a message by the President to the Senate on the subject. A letter from lon. George Bliss, special counsel for the United States for the prosecution of the cases, shows cagclusively: that there have been imposed upon the Post-office Department not less than 13,000 worthless bonds. The letter also shows that the Government is practically without protection against a wholesale system of worthless honds submitted by bidders along with their proposals, and that some legislation is necessary to enable the Post-oftice Department to examine into the sufficiency of these bonds. The Presideut is so strongly impressed with ‘the importance of the subject as to urge upon Congress its immediate consideration. Samuel N. Hoyt, John N. Minnix, W. 8. Barringer, J. W. Donohoe and E. J. Sweet, Starroute contractors and sureties in the alleged fraudulent bonds, were arrested on the 6th. IN his recent message to the .Legislature of Virginia, Governor Cameron explained that the people were willing to pay that portion of the principal of the debt properly chargeable to the present State,.all agreeing that three per cent. is the highest rate of interest which can safely be promised. The Governor also recomiended a liberal scheme of education, the rescinding of the ecapitation tax, and a vigilant protection of the purity of the ballotbox. X %

Epwix W.SrovGHTON, ex-Minister tod Russia, died in New York, of Bright's disease, on the 7th. i 2

GEORGE A. JONES, of the Milwaukee Republican, dropped dead in that city on the evening of the Tth. - -

i : Forelgn. ITe London Daily News says that England can never agree to allow the suzerainty-of the United States over the entire Western Hemisphere, which would be conceded by an American protectorate over the Panama Canal.. A FIGHT between a body of Austrian troops and fifty Herzegovinians occurred at Sutorina on the 7th, in which four of the latter were killed. 2 THE rumor is confirmed that the King: of Ashantee caused the massacre of two hundred young girls last fall. ; THE British Cabinet refuses to recognize the claims of the United States to exercise entire control over the Panama Canal as consistent. with international law. Tue Khedive of Egypt was notified on the 7th that England and France, which placed him on the throne, are determined to maintain his. authority against any attempts to cregte disorder. , . A processioN of three hundred Communists marchec}hout to Pere la Chaise cemetery, in Paris, on ti® Bth, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Blanqui. They became so demonstrative that the police arrested Louise Michel and twenty-two others. Twenty persons were wounded in the melee. OX the 7th the editors of eleven republican newspapers in Madrid signed a declaration in favoi of continnous efforts to establish democratic government. ¢ Ix the French elections on the Bth Victor Hugo and De Freycinet were chosen for the department of the Seine, and Leon Say for Versailles. The Republicans gain twenty-two seats in the Senate.

LATER NEWS,

Tux Secretary of ‘the United States Treas ury lm:j issued a cirenlar embodying a commu. nication from the National Board of Health, recommending vaceination or revaccination of all employes of #he Government in conncetion with the Treasury Departmment on daty in various parts of the country where they may be exposed to contagion of small-pox.

:JUSTICE GRAY was on {he 9th sworn in as a member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Lovrse Micnen was arraigned before the Cirrcetional Tribunal in Paris on the 9th and sentenced to imprisonment far fifteen days for disorderly conduct during tie Blangui demonstration. Others implicated were given from eight to sixty days. :

-G():\'Eitfi'm; ]lf?ltn.\nz) and the other State oflicers of Minnesota were inaugurated on the 9th. 2 ¢ b

THE physicians who attendel President Garfield decided on” the 9th to present bills for $llO,OOO. Dr. Bliss leads the list, with $50,000; Drs. Agnew and Ham'lton ask #16,000 each: Dr. Boynton and Mrs. Edson $lO,000 each, and Dr. Reyburn $B,OOO. The Pennsylvania Road wants nothing, and it-is said that the State of Ohio will take care of bills footing-up $200,000. A receExT St. Petersbary dispateh’ stated that Admiral Saulkowsky, who sailed in the Russ:an man-of-war Chasseur in search of the Jeannette, had informed his Government that he liad heen in cum}umy with the rivoduers, search’vessel, which he had left Aucust 9, returning to Irkutsk, and that the Rodeers had sailed for Herald Islapd, having heard that one of the jeannctte’s boats (eontaining corpses) had been cast ashore there. The commander of the Rodgers had made preparations forwintering at Herald Island. . IN the United States Senate on the 9th Mr. Teller introduced a bill for the issue of certificates for bullion deposited in the Treasury, and Mr. Rollins an act. for the organization of the Territory of Oklahoma. Mr. Hoar’s resolution for ‘a special committee on woman suffrage was passed. Mr. Sherman explained his Three-per-cent. Bond bill, and earnestiy urged its - passige. Mr, Logan offered a resolution. to. devote to general eduecation . all the monelys _ received by Internal Revenue Collectors from the manufacture or sale of lquors. Awong the bills introduced In the Ilouse were the following: By Mr. Kasson, for a Commission to investigate the Tariff xu\& Internal Revenue laws; by Mr. Caldwell, to sqgallz‘e pensions, and to repeal the Arrears-of-Pensions act; by Mr. Smith (IlL), for the distribution of Yure vaccine matter to the people: by Mr. Payson, to’ make +mlygumy a dlsauallflcatlon for office in the Territories; by Mr. Henderson, for the construction of the Mi!slsslfipf & Iltinois Canaly by Mr. Willis; to reduce letter postage to twoeents, . . o Ix the Guiteau trial on the Oth Mr. Scoville resumed his arguient, finishing at noon. . He ‘was ‘followed by District-Attorney Corkhill, wha argued the legal points for an hour, after which Mr: Davidge adidressed the Court, The J }\riso_nur was as noisy and .lns(m-nt'as(_yug‘unl_. Ie stated that hie hud received some efght hundred detters st of theny from Lulies| as well as a eheek £ 2100 oom Bro rk:‘;t,x and anothier for 5500 fio o e Yok - Yen wille stated Hict £ LOCRT were WOrtlihess,

;;9;« T e ", INDIANA STATE NEWS. e v B G M f.,‘:_‘;a‘;: LS i‘:'n:';.«‘.»"" é‘ré he annual session of the State Teachers' | Association held iri Indfanapolls récently, thefollowing officers were ¢lectel: President, H. 8. Tarbell, of Indianapolis; m»maaeniq, W. 8 Almont, J. M. Wallace, ‘W, Mcßlike;: Katharine Miller, R. 8. Page, Sheridan Cox, W. H. Calkins; Recording Seeretary, Annic E. H. Lemon; Execut ve Committee, R. G Bome. Chairman; Recretary, J. F. Merrill; - .« The- Indianapols - grain -quotations “are:! Wheat—No. 2 Red, [email protected] 4. - Corn—No, 2, 63i4@64 Jc. . Outs—4iadSe. The Cingin. nati guotations are:’ Wheat-- Ng, 2 Reid, $1.39@l4O, Corn—No: 2, 10@@T1tg¢. Oatz- No. 2, 49@491ic. Rye—No. 2, §1.04q 14 . Barley ~51.05@ 1.0515. e Tables just .completéd at-the Statistical Bureau show that the wheat crop for 1831° inIndiana was 30,000,000 bishels, against 47,000,000 in 1830. The-corn cropamounts to 71600, 000 busliels, against 87,000,000 last year. - The: vorn. erop is unexpectedly” large, as the esbimate given has been fifty per centum of. last: year’s product. - The wheat raisedcorresponds’ very closely. with the eéstimates “that have. been given through the season by the Chief of the Bureau based upan lis pestal: ¢orrespondence. Gl gL G The management of Purdue University has submitted ifs annual report to the : Goverdor.: The attendance of pupils was 254, 90 in college classes; school of chemistry; 113 industrial, 25; agriculture; 2; mechanical 10, and academy, 141. . Receipts, -$34,348.35; expenditures, £32.559.24. ° The ‘endowiuent - fund, $350,000, is now invested in one Indiana State bond, and brings an annual income-of $17,000,. On the morning of the 31st ult."a_ barn belonging to the Center House, in Imlay City, was burned, and with' it Blaic's: livery=stable, in which were twelve hoyses. S : The dead body of & young, woman, clad only in night-clothes, was discovered on the ‘morning of the 3lst ult. floating in' the . rivérat Flint. 1t proved to be Martha Heale, daugh‘ter of Charles Heale, a restdent. of that city, She was about twenty-five years ald. andmueh . respected. R e

. A few days ago Antoine Freitag, a Poland. er, lost his life in an effort to save the lives of others. He was asection hand on the Lake Bhore Railroad, and with several other men was riding- on a hand-car uear *Otis, when a speeial train. came t}xunileriug‘a!q;fg. They all could have saved theirlives by leaping from the car, but Freitag shouted that the handcar must be lifted off.” He took’ the position of danger and the brave fellows suceeedéld in lifting the obstruction’ frointhe track. Bat just as Freitag's edrner of the hand-ear was thrown down the embankment and as lie was in the act of leaping the locomotive sfruck and killed him. ' The, section hands’ unite in declaring that but for Jhis heroic performance of duty the train would have been wrecked.

“ A number of gentlemen re¢presenting various fish societies throughout -the State, met in Indianapolis a few days ago amd organized a society, to be known as the Indiana Association for the Protection and Culture: of Fish and Gupe. Samuel E: Williani, of La Porte, was elected President, and Alex. C. Jameson, of Indianapolis, Seeretary and Treasuréer. A resolution was passed ‘to ‘organize in’ ¢very district for the strict enforcement=of the law for the protéction of . fish. The following Executive Committee was appointed: e Thurston, Seymour; Johu M. Stevens, Greens--burg; George W. “Grubbs, Martinsyilles W B. Engard, Cambridge City;-Ignatius Brown, Indianapolis; Joseph. Gilbert, Terre ITaute; E. H. Waldron, Lafayette; George B. Forgy, Logansport; Colonel Josiah Farrar, - Peru; Colonel Speuncer, Fort Wayne, and Dr. .\fglholland, Goshen. - : S o * The Statistical Bureau. of -Indiana has recently completed a table showing the different, vocations of women, and theé number engaged fherein, as returned by the various township trustees of the State. Women are engaged in fifty-two voeations, among which arc the following: Apiarists, 375 anfixoresses and news” paper correspondents, - 66;° bar-tenders, as an occupation, 52; -boarding-house proprietorsy 533; book agents, as an occupation, 107 ; farmers, 2,253 ; clerks, as an occupation, 8224 physicians, 98; printers, ‘as a trade, 51; preachers 126; book-binders, 57; basket-makers, 10," and many other proféssions where women have not heretofore been known professionally. . The State and Delegaté Boards of Agriculture met at Indianapolis-on the 4th.. The President, -in his annual | report, placed the debt of the Assoeiation at $55,000, 'recommended; the organization of a tri-Btate Fair Circuit-and the appointment ‘of delegates to attend the Detroit meetings, and favored a redistricting of the State. The Seeretary: reported: Total receipts, $44,059.45; expendiwures, $24,061.43 in-cash orders and $6,855.50 in premiums; balance in Treasury, $13,142.52 3 increase over the 1880 State Fair, $1,218. . The Indianapolis city authorities recently finished the &ax duplicate for ‘lBBl, -the totaj showing: Value of real estate, $23;528,%%5; value of improvements, $15,534,950; value of personal property, $12,837,472; total valuation, $51,901,217. This is an increase over 1880 of $1,870,946. The number 6f polls is given at 13,622; total current tax, $562,154.02 and delinquent $45,491.42, making a total of $607,645.44. The delinqueney is the smallest amount reported for many years. ~The tax rate is $1.07, of which 22 cents is for school purposes and 85 cents for ecity. The city’s bonded indebtednessis $1,914,500. = - . Judge D. D. Banta, President of the:State University at Bloomington, recently submittod his report for the year 1881 to the Governor. It showed receipts, $31,461.90; expenditures, $30,045.43, leaving a balance of $1,416.58: The finance committee. report thé’ est,i‘maxea receipts for the year ending October 31, 1882, to be $35,866.58, including the cash balance of $1,416.58 and the State appropriation of $25,000, The committee recommended the appropriation of $22,850 for the purchase,of books and periodicals for the library, andother sunis, aggregating in all $33,165, for thetotal ¢xpenses of the University for the current year.

1 the Virghiia avenue crossing,-at ‘lndianap?)gis, recently, a 2 Wabash ‘freight = train crashed into a street-car. A Sister of Providence was killed, and Dr, James H. Bozell had both feet badly erushed: -o, o 0 0

During the past year 1,104,871 cirs were handled at Indianapolis, as against 859,391 in 1880. The number of. loaded cars in*lBBl was 816,767, andin 1880, 727,883, | o s Some days ago' William Gobb; of Indianapolis, was declared insane and on the 4th Deputy Sheriffs Bradley and Couway attémpted his removal to:the asylum. He ias placed ina carriage and manacled, but heeame so violent that additional assistancé-was necessary to: secure him. His struggles were so violent that the flesh was torn from his.arms and legs’ frightfully. The officers were badly bruised. A few days ago four. men when out skiffriding near-Mount Vernon, andiere drowned. The current took them down the river about five miles. A man by fhe name of Walker succeeded in getting ashore witka line, but his foot caught. in the line and threw him into the river, drowning him. =The other men are: not known. B e W

The Woman’s State Industrial Association ‘met in Indianapolis recently,"and at the close of an interesting session thefollowing officers were elected: President, Mrs. Mary E. Haggart; First Vice-President, Mrs. Dr. Annie B, Campbell; Second Vice-President, Mrs: . W. Townsend; Secretary, Miss Florence M. Ad. kinson. e Tl el

Kachlein. & Reister, dedlers: ‘in’ fruits and confectjonery, at Lafayette, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors a few days ago. The firm hadbeen in business about two years. The liabilities will' foot up about $3,000. The assets are small. . * =

A fire in Spegil, Thomas & ‘Co.’s furniture. store at Indianapolis the other day destroyed property to the value of §15,000. ot . | The saloon owned by Walker & Hoffner, of New Paléstine, Hancock County, which was blown up some time since with dynamite, was again blown up with the same material early on a morning last . week. The property and contents were entirely destroyed. - - . -

Two cases of small-pox appeared recently in Washington Township, Whitley county. ; The report of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics for 1881 shows 989,266 acres of hay, with a vield of 1,313,475 tous in :1881, as against*79s,438 acres.and 1,221,164 tons in.lBBo. ~.~ . During the past vedr $83,564.33 “were expended in. Indianapolis for street improvements and $40,745.65 for sewers. - About $800," 000 were invested in building. fmprovements during the-year. <O 3 ekl e

A man entered a drug store at Madison the other day and cleansed his coat collar with benzine. After saturating the cloth and ob= literating a greasé spot, he went to the cigarcage, got a cigar, and in attempting to light, it the bengine ignited and a bluc blaze cxivéloped his chin and face, but did little damage. -~ The school-house af Oswego, i%\w County, was burned a few days ago, "Some of the echolars who had recently been expelied from school are supposed. to have set the building on fire. " g R Lewis J.- Baker, of Sitverville, Lawrence. County, aged about sixty-five’ years, New Year’s cvening ate his supper as usual, and directly after fell on the floor and expired;. cause, apoplexy. He was one of the most ‘prominent men {n his section of the country,

Tiane v lareey 2l - Jwould be difficult to find-an example o.fv%n;atcr‘ 'dng)icity than that practiced by protectionists when they de‘clare that the tariff isnot a tax. At the late Manufacturers’. Protective Convention, held” at Chicago, Mr. G. B. Stebbins; of Detroit, made a declaration whieh took the form of a resolution, was considered by the C'onvention. . He sail? e - i T Of all the misstatements of free-tyade adves .f:k\(f.-‘rl, none is more gross than the jmgudont “and of 1-rugf-ute:d falsébood that & tariff is a tax added 1o the eost both of the imported article and of the like articleade or produced.in this country—a tax on the people for the benefit of so-calted monopolists, ete, e : “ Mr. Stebbins is explicit. He saysthat the tariff is not a tax added to the cost’ of the imported article, and that a tarift ‘does not: énable manufacturers: in this country - to maintain higher prices for their warés then would be demanded if. there were no tarifff The Galveston News, in commeming?{ upon the remarkable statéement of Mr. Stebbins, remarks that “the resolution is not only conceited and arrogant, but it is a stupid re--hash of the oftirepeated falsehood,” that it charges the fact' with being, and fatly contradicts all .the gronnas on “which a tariff is urged. It assumes that the people ave fools and easily gulled into any false theory that is gilded with gold; and to this extent it insults their intellige”uce, and attempts to betray them into the condition of hewers of wood and drawers of water to the prefected . manufacturers. . The man or the set’ of men who assert such an absurdity, and essay to give it cprrency ©as genuine coin among the people who are not supposed -to. be familiar with the subtleties of the-tarif-system, are amenable to the charge of “ignorance or deception. Surely the or‘gansof the manufacturers will be accepted as authority fouching the real facts. A recent number of the fron Age furnishes full quotations of the prices of metals in -England and in the United States, and, as matter of information to its readers, who may want the knowlJédge in fixing - their prices, it adds, in -eonneetion . ‘with the different articles, the rate of duty. . Two or three articles mentioned will suflice for the purposes \ of this argument: S

- “Take steel rails; its English correspondent ‘f“’L",""S that two ananufacturers have been taking orders at £5 158, per ton, say #28.75; but ‘most of the makers ingigt on £6 1o £658. per ton. or $3O to, §31.25. . The duty on steel rails is £2B per fou. Add this, you <have n little Joss than $6O; t 0 this must be added the cost of ocenn freight. "What was . the price of stcel railsinthe New York market, according to. this same-paper; at that time? Sixty dollars a ton. Tuke.the case of pig-iron; the quotations. are “froni the swme paper. Garthsherric is quoted on the other side at 535. to 60s. 6d., say $13.25 to ¥15.12; the duty is $7, which raises these smounts to $20.25 to $22.12.. Then there ' is the freight to be paid, and the quotation ot Garthsherrie in New York is £25 to $25.50. The lowést quotations of American pig-ivon were: ~821 to $21.50. - 1s the diuty added to the foreign _price, and then is the price so arrived at the {)asi.-'x on which prices for the domestic article are based, orpotz If it is, their the tariff is a stax; and if ‘not, what do these figures mean?” - is not required at this time to extend the avgument further to prove.that: a taviff does just what Mr, Stebbins de- - ¢lares it does not do, and -the extract. given from the fron Age so conclusively “contradicts | Mr, Stebbins that people of average undérstanding can not fail to | - see.a purpose to rob the people by processes which avesupported by falsechood. The tarift tax upon ‘woolen goods which - ‘the “people of Indiana are required to purchase continually is simply enor‘mous: | It is safe to say that ifl the tarift’ on woolen goods were. reduced one-half - the Government would receive more ‘revenue owing to increased importation, while the people would be benefited by - Jower prices,.as the result of sharper - competition. As the case now stands realy-made clothing is taxdd 356 . per ‘éent., cloths 72 per “cent., and blankets 8) per cent., and women's and children’s dress goods 70 .per cent. This enormous tax is laid. Wpon foreign importation of woolen oods, mainly for thé purpose of protection, to aid Ameri~can. monopolies to obtain from consum‘ers fully 25 per cent. more than they would be required to pay if the purpose of the tariff was to secure revenye, We assume that the 285,000 families <in Indiana will purchase two blankets each annually, at a cost say of $4 for the ‘pair. - This would represent an annual . expenditure for blankets of $1,040,000. The tariff tax on blankets is 89 per ‘cent., and amounts fo almost total pro- - ‘hibition. The revenue derived from such importations during the vear 1880 amounted to only $127,448. It is fair to assume, if the tariff were reduced, the Government® would obtain more revenue. - Importations would increase, ‘and the ‘people of Indiana would - save at least 25 per cent. of their expenditures on the one artiele of blankets Awvhieh, upon the basis of calculation “here introduced, would amount to $260,000 a year. In the article of woolen cloths, universally in demand, it is: the opinion of ‘dealers that the tariff tax .makes a differt:nce in cost to consumers of “fully 333 per cenf, The tariff on cloth is 72 per cent.,. anyl this enormous tax, while ‘it does not farrest importations, enables dealers ta sell to the people'of Indiana for one dollar a yard cloth that in England or Canada sells -for not more than sixtv cents a yard, and when the sum total of Indiana’s demand is ° estimated, the burden of tariff taxation swells to enormous pro_portions, - Assuming that of the 1,000,000 malesin Indiana 700,000 of them will require four yards of woolen cloth a year, “we have an annual ‘consumption of 2,800,000 yards. If we assume, that the cloth cost &1 a yard, we have ah annual expeénditure for woolen cloths of £2,800,000. ‘lf we assume. that '‘the tariff of eyeénty-two per cent. on woolen cloths advances the price of the home - product fifteen cents per yard, the tax amounts to'the sum of $420,000 a year. If we “were to take into consideration women’s ‘and children’s woolen dress goods, upon ‘which the tariff tax isseventy per cent., the showing would be equallyy astounding, and the same would _hold ‘good in ready-made clothing, upon which the -tarift tax is fifty-six per cent. There is -not an intelligent dealer in. the State, ‘who'is not willing to admit that the tarift Jis‘a'tgx upon the article protected, and there is not a single instance where the “faets donot apply. . This being the case, the demand is that the tariff “tax upon -the essentials of life shall be l‘cvduce(i) in the interest of the Government and of consumenrs.——lndiana State Sentinel.

—The recent, death of John Barnard by being struck by a train at the Havre deGrace end of the Susquehanna bridge was accompanied by a strange circumstance. The hody was found hanging betweern two of the floor timhérs of the bridge over the street, the shoulders having become jammed between them. The head was badly mashed, and life had been for some time extinet when, the ° body wasdiscovered. = ° g

.—A little girl living near New London, Conn., two years ago poked a bean 1p one of -her nostrils, and it was thought the obstruction had long sinee become disintegrated and passed down in its natural course; but one day last week the child fell, striking her head forcibly against a lounge, when the bean fell to the floor “without any apparent change except the smell, which was unbearable.

—One of the laxggest sturgeons ever caught on the Pacific boast was on exhi‘bition at San Francisco the other morning in the Clay Street market. It was taken in the San Joaquin River, and was marked as weighing eight hundred pounds. - It measured a little over ten feet -in length, with a circumference over the shoulder of nearly four feet. It was caught with a hook and line. % ; ;- o - - —People of Lewiston, Idaho, tell with some emotion the story of Eagle, an old Nez_ Perce ‘lndian; who; - having the small-pox, and ‘being deserted by his tribe, calmly dug his awn grave, lay down:in it, and died. ‘ . : & o el @P i ‘ -~Dalton; Mass!, has a town pauper whois nearly ninety-nine years of age. This individual is one. Noah Clark, w%xo was some fifty years ago a Hampden Caunty Sherift and keeper of the SpringR Ll - ~-A Dr. Wallace, .formerly -a Confederate soldier, who recently died, bepeulet s e s o v Allen, of Lyn L 5 V&, $lO,O for indioss i bospitity exiendei t him when ill by her father and mother.