Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 January 1882 — Page 2

The Ligomier Bamuer Ne T L e . J. B, STOLL, Editor. ‘ THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1882, : : SIPECIAL NOTICE. ‘Persons wishing to confer with me per- l sonally will please call at THE BANNER | ‘sanetum from Monday morning until Wed- ~ nesday noon. The remainder of the weéek T am engaged on thq Daily and Weekly Monitor in the city o}l‘ Elkhart.. i | 0 ol SEE:« THE noted: California corruption*ist, * George C. Gorham, seems to ‘be the * leading member of Arthur’s cabinet. e has the entree of the White ITouse by the back door. 2l L cEeel Ll Tue Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the Michigan Central railway . companies have concinded to advance the rate on grain and flour. The rate " isnow 15 cents per hundred pounds " from Chicago to New York. ’ eet A e e 3 ° 'l‘um-Attorney-Gengral has decided \ that liquor licenses granted at a special meeting of the County Commissioners are not legal. Such action must be taken at regular terms of court, and * the license must.date from the time it

was granted instead of the time it is taken out. i

THE OPINION is rapidly becoming general in Washington that Dresident Arthar i 3 one of the most timid persons that ever occupied the presidential chair. One instance given of this unfortunate weakness is his hesitancy in-giving Sargent a position in his cabinet after promising him the place. ~

A SouTn BEND MINISTER created a decided sensaticn among his congregation Sunday by saying, ““there are more drones than working beées in the hive of the Lord.” It is said|that there was a yery bercepzible dodging all ¢ver the house lest the minister should go farther and single thew out.

AT Oskaloosa, lowa, three boys selected a building used as a powder magazine for a target, at which they shot for some time, but one of the balls piercing the wall, there was an’ immediate explosion. The boys wers instantly killed and the buildings iu the vicinity badly demoralized. So much for allowing boys to carry firearms, o

IT APPEARS from a lecter just’published that the late Presitlent Garfield assumed all the responsibility for the appointment of Judge Robertson as collector at New York and zspeciauy exonerated Mr. Blaine from the charge of meddling with the rights of other members of the cabinet. Gen. Garfield said in his note: “The attempt to shift the fight to Blaine’s shoulders is as weak asitis unjust. The fact is, no member of the cabinet behaves with more careful respect tof the rights of ‘his brother members than Blaive. It should be ‘understood that the ad ministration is not megdlipg in New York politics. It only defends itseit when assailéd.” . . :

SoUTH BEND'S prospects| of getting the new Southern railroad the coming ‘season ‘are not as promising as they might be, perhaps. It isrumored that while Jay Gould was at. Chicago, recently, looking after the interests ot the Wabash road, he advised that ali contemplated railroad extensions, except such 'as are nearing completion, be abandoned for ‘one year| in order that the resoufces of tne‘l eompany may be recuperated. The wages ot his laborers are being lowered, ana these movements are thought to be but the forewarning of coming events, Mr. Ruckman, whose opinion was asked as to the chances of the South Bend extension being secured, said that it would be difficult| to tell what their views are in regard to the miat ter, but .a delegation of the officers would soen be there to make an estimate of the cost of such|work.

\_ 'I'NE Chicago T'imes says that a German by the name of Heinrich Semler, having made a special study of Ameri‘can agriculture, has returned to Germany and written flattéringly about what he learned here. ‘The comparison drawn by him between German and American farmers is/largely 1n favor of'the latter. The Germans, he 'Bays, are not so practical as the Americans, although they work as hard, it not harder, The formeriare more conservative and do .not easily drop the old - fashioned implements of labor. ‘The edueated German has more scientific knowledge, he is|equal to the American when it comeg to conquests of agriculturat implements, but as a business man he is far |behind. The American, as a rule, drinks no brandy while at work, and does not eat so many meals a day. (Herr Semler thinks that one reason why the American laborer does not become suddenly lazy when his master’s jack is turned, is because, being shewn more respect, he has some respect for himself. In fact, the American laborer is more in dependent and ambitious to. “get ahead” in the world than German laborers, and meets with MoTe encouragewment from his superiors, -

Mz. OSCAR BUNTHORNE WILDE, the English :sthete, has landed in the wilderness of Amariéq\ with the avow.ed intention of “diffusing beauty”. iu this land of practical thoughts and ideas. Oscar is a dainty, too-utterly &sthetic lily, only six feet four inches in his stockings, and wears his hair cut on the Samson plag.\‘ He has undertaken a herculean task and needs all his strength. He is heie to “ditfuse beauty.” Well, he will §ad enough beauty in America that needs diffus- " ing, and when it is diffused we may begin to hold up our heads and feel as big as other nations. To be sure, -we have a few native @sthetes, but none that will compare with the too utter Oscar, and such as we have are being maligned. Why, one wicked paper states as a fact that the Boston sesthetes are nearly wild with anxiety lest they may not be able to persuade Mr. Wilde that their baked beans are lotus seeds. The idea of Boston folks * being ashamed of their. baked beans! It is too utterly absurd, and the whole thing 18 undoubtedly a slander. Mr, ' Wilde is also said to talk with a ryth‘mic chant, and it is even averred that he writes poetry, but that is nothing. We have’ poets, too, and they write rythmic chants, but as yet thvy are not, as thorou iate I e is o | gm said Oscar to remedy this deee: 5 &

DURING the past year Indiana Fas built three hundred and seventy five miles of railroad. e

Hon. H. C. MEREDITH, of Wayne county, one of the most prominent stock men in the State, has heen elected President of the State Board of Agriculture. :

—E el g 4 - MATILDA Zscimcn, a German girl of fourteen years, living at Indianapolis, was accidentally shot by aboy of fifteen. Another lesson for boys who persist in carrying loaded weapons.

~ SAmvueL W. Piercy, Edwin Booth’s leading support, died at the small-pox hospital on the 9th*inst. The Boston, lodge of Elks sent a tine casket to:the hospital on hearing of his death.

. THE bequest of the late Chauncey Rose for the establishment of a Polytechnic school, at Terre Haute, has énabled the executors 'of his will to build an institution costing $1060,000 with an available fand of $400,000.

" WirnniAM BEeTIIERS, a 4 deaf and dumb tramp printer, was killed ‘while walking along the track near Plymout'h' by the Pittsburg express, No. 1. His body was terribly mangled and he lived nine hours after tlie accident.

It Is-stated that Scoyille, withs G uiteau's consent, has accepted the offer of $l,OOO for the body of Guiteau. An agent of Barnum's is said to be the

lucky (?) purchaser. Baruum will have tlie ‘body embalmed for exhibition. . x ; :

CAPTAIN EADS is now in Washington, and expresges his confidence in getting his ship canal across the Isthmus of Tehuantepee constructed. Ie says that private parties in England will subseribe ¢énough money to carry the enterprise through if 1t s to be under the control of the English nation. : ; :

Tug North American Review will present in its February number, published on the 15th of the present month, Part lIL of its series of artjcles on “The Christian Religion.” 1t will be from the pen of George P. Fisher, the eminent professor of ecelesiastical history in the Yale Divinity School—as thorough a scholar and as able a defender of the Christian faith as this country affords. A powerful presentation of the claims of Christianity is expected. 3

A NEGRO PREACHER in Edgefield county, South Casolina, concluded that it would put money in his purse to im-

itate the trick by which large gumbers of his race a few years since were induced to -emigrate to Kansas and starve. Accordingly he preached an “exodus” to Arkansaw, each immigrant to pay a certain sum for his railroad fare. . Many of the deluded people never - reached their destination, finding that their passage was not paid ,in some instances more than half_way. They are now returning to their former homes, | !

‘Tue Pittsburg - Commercial-Gazette (.repixblican) speaks rather contemptuously of Gguer,al (Grant’s change of opinion in regard to the case of Fitz John Porter. - It refers to the matter a 8 “Graut’s recent flop in favor of the disgraced general.” = General Grang de«clares that his changed opinion was brought about by his caretul reading of the testimony, much of which was not given vefore the c_ourt»martia'l that condemned Porter and was not known at all to President Lincoln when he approved the findings of the courtmartial. Courts and juries very often change their judgments and verdicts on after discovered testimony. It is also said that wise men sometimes change their ¢pinions, but fools never.

Mg. SPRINGER, of Illinois, hag introduced in the House a bill for defining the law of insanity in criminal - cases. The bill provides that no person indicted for crime ghall be acquitted on the ground of insanity, idiocy, lunacy, or other ungoundness of mjind, except when i is proved that at the time of ‘committal he was laboring under such a defect of reason as either not to know the nature of the act he was committing or not ‘to know that the act was wrong. A morbid propensity to commit unlawful acts existing in the mind of & person ghall be no defense inthe prosecution unless it ean be shown that the aceused was incapabie of knowing the unlawfulness of such aets. If upon trial the jury shall find him not guilty, he shall be placed in an -i‘gsané‘ asylum, there to remain until digcliarged by law. . o . eo e i A SICKENING CRIME has come to light in Wayne county, this State. On last Saturday a woman named Smith and her {wo sons were arrested for the murder of Davidﬁ}l. Sm;th, the husband and father ot the accused. Mr. Smith had been missing for two or thres weeks, and from the suspicious actions of the family, the neighbors were led to make investigations, which resulted in the discovery of Smith’s body in an old well. There were two pullet holes in the head and he was ander - nine feet of water. After the arrest of the three guilty ones an angry crowd gathered and threatened to lyneh them, but they were vlaced under a hewvy guard and the excited populace were prevented from carry: ing their threats into execution. The circumstantial evidence is conclusive against them. No reason is given for the fiendish deed, except that of a general dislike of “the old man,”

WiHEN John Sherman was invited to explain how it happened that governwent employes worked upon his new house and worked for him in otHer ways he said that he intended to pay them out of his own pocket, and if they were not 80 paid it must have been Pitney’s fault, who probably got things mixed. Mr. Pitney, by the way, ig' & gavernment official himself, and ‘how he came, to be in the employ of John Sherman, that statesman has forgotten -to explain, and this omission will not tend to make the public believe in his statement that “Pitney must haye got thifigs mixed.” A man of Mr., Sherman’s shrewdness and long-headedness would scarcely allow his agert to “mix” his affairs in such a strange manner. It is an undisputed fact that the government has been' swindled, and it now remains with Mr. ‘Pitney to show whether his accounts ‘haye been “mixed” or not. Either John Sherman or Mr. Pitney is guilty of a gross wrqong which should be speedily. rghted, by s b

(jn hz;s béen discovered in the Black Hills. It is pronounced fully as geod as PPenngylvania petroleum.

“THE REIGN OF THE WIDOWERS” would describe our administration—almost. The President, Vice - President, Secretary of the Treasury, the new Judgés of the Snpreme Court, and the new Postmaster-General® are all widowers. What a field for some aspiring female! 5 g

ACCORDING to the report of the State prison at Michigan City, Marion county leads off in the way®of representatives, having 138 in that institation. Torty-three of the 572 prisoners confined there at the end of the year are in for life. There are 103 farmers, 189 are laborers, 397 are of intemperate babits, 190 ean neither read nor write, and 422 are wimarried. o S e A . < Tie New - England Vaecine company; of Chelsea, Mass.,, is @doing a thriving business. During the year ending August 31, 1881, they soid over 500,000 points, Chicago aloue receiving 126,000. Sinee that time Chicago hus taken 300,000 points. The company supplies the entife United States with vaccine matter, and is now sending about 5,000 points a day to Cincinnati.

MRr. AvcusT GOTTEL, formerly a 'New York banker, but now resid‘ing in Vienna, recectly won $BO,OOO in a tottery and immediately gave $62,500 of the amount to the sufferers of the Vienna Ring Theatre disaster. The authorities did not hesitate about accepting the gift, and the money has done just as much good as it would if collected at a church festival. The sufferers probably took it in the spirit in which it was given. ¥

‘Tur Chicago T'ribune invariably calls Chester A. Arthur “the acting President.” Ip explaining the reasons for so doing, the T7ibune says: “Mr. Arthur was not‘the choice of a majority of the electors, or any of them, or of a majority of the people, or any of them for office of President.” He did not receive one vote out of the 369 cast by the electors or one out of 9,000,000 cast by the people for the Presitial candidates. Even as a candidate for Vice Presidency, Mr. Arthur owed his election to the- prominence and popularity of another man.” Mr, Arthur’s friends take the opposite view of the matter and say that it was owing to Mr. Arthur's name being on the ticket that Garfield was elected. Office seekers will hav‘é to accept the latter view if they wish to receive the benefit of Mr. Art,_hur"s patronage. . L .NEws;*Bi:;iorns. Thad Butler is still at the head of the Wabash Plain Dealer and manages to make ita better paper from week to week. ; . The Goshen Independent has been bounght by Thomas A. Starr, of the Hicksville (0.) -Wews, and will hence forth bé published by the Starr Brothers. - ‘ . - The Connersville Hxaminer, published by that excellent and discerning journalist, John M. Higgs, recently appeared in an entire new dress, and pre;senbs a greatly improved appearance. . Dick Steele; a writer of national reputation, has been "added to the edi‘torial 'siaff of that model country ‘newspaper, the Steuben Republican. Dick slings the Faber with a great ‘deal of vigar. '

Owing to continued ill-healtp, our esteemed friend, Daniel Y. Husselman, has been obliged to retire from the publication of the Auburn Courier. He is succeeded by Mr. F. P. Blair, formerly a telegraph’ operator cn the L. S. &M. S, The new firm, Messrs. Barns & Blair, have.our best wishes.

Mr. M. T. Matthews, who for seven 'months occupied the position of local ‘editor of the Kendallville Standard, has severed his connection with that paper and will henceforth devote his energies to the gathering of historieal facts. Mr. Matthews is a pleasant genfleman and a spicy writer. The Warsaw Republican, in entering upon its fourth volume, announces that its circulation has reached three thousand, and that the general business of the office is in avery flourishing condition. Quinn Hossler is a fair exemplification of what may be done in the newspaper business by energy -and snap. : ' STAR ROUTE PROSECUTIONS. The star route cases were again called on the 11thinst. Col. Bliss conducted the prosecution. All:the parties arrested were either present or represented by counsel. Bliss made severe arraignments of the methods of transferring property from one party to another just before the contracts were awarded, making a piece of land worth ouly a few thousands represent $3,000,000, lesaid that un‘der the present law the Postmas‘er ‘General could do nething to prevent such frauds, ' : The-first case called was that of Cabell, Mibnix and Dickson. The first witness for the prosecution was Post-office-ingpector Tidball, who identified la statement written by himself in ‘Juns last and signed by Dickson. This ‘statement charges Cabell and Minnix of conspiring vgith himself to defraud the government by presenting worthless bonds. in place of legal security. Tidball was subjected to a cross-exam-ination by the counsel for the defense, who tried to make him acknowledge that the government had not lost by this transaction. The next witness was P. H. Woodward, inspector of the Postoflice Department, who was handed a paper which he recognized as one which Minnix had sworn to in his presence. The paper showed: that Dickson and Donohue had conveyed the Minnix land to go on Cabell’s bond, and this is the same land that Cabell’s statement referred to as having been conveyed by Cabell to Dickson and Donohue to go on his bond. ‘l'he court then adjourned till 12 the following dly.v { .

‘ OVER-STUDIED PUPILS. It iasaid that of the number of pu pils attending the Cleveland High }Schools, twenty-five per cent. of the ‘girls and eighteen per cent, of the boys ‘have been obliged to leave on account of ill-health, This breaking down is 'supposed to be the result of over-study in the school-room. [n times past such ‘a thing as a child losing its health from too close application to books was fof Very. rare occurrence, and it is a significant fact that the rules of study ‘then were not 80 strict as now, and

chiidren’s mental ‘faculties were not “crammed” to such an extent. It has been remarked that children learn more and faster nowadays than they did a generation ago. But it is also true that children are not so healthy ‘as they were at that time, and the only. ‘conclusion at which we can arrive is ‘this, that the brain is developed at the cost of physical powers. It is absurd ‘ to expect an active, growing child ‘to do what would be & severe task- for ‘an older person; that is, be obliged to sit still for so many hours a day and ‘bother his little brain over what to an older person would be simple enough, but to him is as hard to solve as =0 many Egyptian hieroglyphics. . And the worst of 1t is that voo often. there is a severe penalty attached for lessons not learned, a penalty, tke thought |of which goads the sesitive child on ito‘ still greater efforts. While it is true-that a dull, lazy child is in no daniger from over-study, a bright, precoi'cious one is always sure to meet with 'nothing but. encouragement from the, zteucher, who will often coax and push alternately to prematuarely develop his mental faculties. The surest growths are the slowest. There have been Imany living examples of this, among the brightest perhaps, and most unfading are Emerson, Carlyle, and Hugo, while Burns, Byron, Poe and a few more who were youthful prodigies lived their brief lives in a few short years and then the light of their genius was quenched forever. Sl el POLITICAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Political economy sounds well and is well, but to the soul of the average man domestic economy has a more comprehensive meading, for the kind of economy that can be appreciated l by the many is not that which effects them in any indirect way, but that which exerts an immwediate influence over their affairs. A great famine or pestilence is always a horror, but the farther away it is, the lesshorrible it appears. Just so with the affairs of the Government. They affect a man’s business interests, but seemingly in an indirect manner, and in such a way that be scarcely realizes in what way be is effected. A man has his own interests to look after—home interests that are directly influenced by domestic affairs, and he can see and realize the causes of disturbance. So, though man may 'deplore the existing state of affairs throughout the country, he has his own individual affairs to watch over, and, in realily, cares more for the workings of his own "househould lthan for the workings of State. If | prices from some cause or other fluctuate, he is correspondingly elated or depressed, and it is an even chance that the average man does not know and-still less care about the real cause. He keeps his attention confined strict ly to effeets, for man is proue to look out for himself first, the rest of mankind afterward. “Hard times,” if not credited to the mysterious rulings of Providence, are ascribed to the “other party.” 16is notin nature to expect a hard-working man, who labors day -after day, to keep posted on all the in tricacies of political affairs, and if domestic machinery glides smoothly, the rest may take care of itself. He has no time to think of the thousand cares and perplexities that bother the brain of the statesman, for he himself has too miny cares of his own. If heisa tiller of the soil, he has his farm to look after. The great world seems so far off that the noise and turmoil scarcely reach him. DBut should any‘thing at the farm. go wrong he is awake to the fact. The crops may fail ; disease may make fearful* havoe among his horses, cows or sheep; some of his family may fall sick; a dozen things may happen, and he knows where the 17'ss will fall. He must be careful and hoard up his little gains for arainy day. He understands thoroughly that economy in the most trivial things in every-day life must be practiced if he is ever to get ahead in the world. He believes in letting those - who know about such things take care of the State' machinery: If he is allowed to vote for “his mwan” that is all the “politics” he cares for. While the country 18 experiencing some financial difficulties, he knows that his business is materially effected, but not inquiring into the matter, knows nothing of the causes. He knows what the effects are, and that’ is enough to satisfy him. This look‘ing after one's own interest is very commendable, for a man, to be a man should thoroughly understand his own business, but while 80 doing he should not forget that he owes, in a great measure, his prosperity to his country’s prosberity, and a general knowl edge of “State affairs” and a consequent intelligent voting, will go a long Zim-y towards bettering his own conditlon, i

MEETING OF DEMOCRATIC EDITORS. The -Democratic State Editorial Association met in convention at Indianapolis on Thursday, J'anuar_v 5, 1882, aud held a pleasant and interesting meeticg of one day. Besides an attendance of some thirty editors, ex-Governor Hendricks, exSenator McDonald, Franklin Landers, W. W. Woollen and other dist'nguished Democrats favored the convention with their presence and delivered short and appropriate addresses. %

The following resolutions were adopted: . L

i RESOLVED, That acrimonious newspaper ‘discussions in urging the nomination of favorites for State officers, and denouhcing the aspirations of rival candidates, is hurtful to the best interests of the democratic party. While we concede the propriety-of presenting the good qualities of aspirants to State offices, the practice of denouncing, ‘without just cause,others who may be candidates for the same office, meets our unqualified condemnation. » et .- RESOLVED, That 1t is the sense of this meeting that no contracts for advertising Ain any paper should be taken from any forieign advertisers at a less rate of compensation than that charged local advertisers on ul%‘ kinds of matter. Provided, that no speci lprivile%es be given to foreign advertisers over local adwertisers, ResoLvED, That we hereby tender to our retiring f’resident, Hon. Jobn B. Stoll, our thanks for the efficient manner in which he has filled the office of President of thé association. We regard him as a trug-blue Democrat, and an editor of enberé)ri:sing industry—aone well ealculated to do valuable services for the party, REsoLVED, That we de%recaw the practice so common amonf publishers of newspapers of inserting all advertisements sent them from parties of whose financial reSponsibility they have no knowledge, and at rates ruinously low; and that itis the sense of this convention thas no.order for advertising should be accepted without firet obt.ainlu‘if satisfactory references as to the responsibility of the advertiser or advertising agent. 3 The association elected the following officers for the enguing year:

- President, I. B. Maynard, Indlanapolis Sentinel; Vice-Presidents, I. Mc Donald, Plymouth Demoorat, and Dr W.H. D. Hunter, J,awrenceburg Rey-

ister; Secretary, B. F. Louthain, Lo gansport Phares; Corresponding Secretary, J. O. Henderson, Kokomo Dispaleh; Treasurer, Josiah Gwin, New Albany Public Press; Executive Committee, John B. Stoll, Ligonier BANNER; Col. I. B. Me¢Donald, Columbia City Herald; H. E. Wadsworth, Laporte Argus; A. Seidensticker. Indianapolis German' Telegraph; George E. Finney, Columbus Herald. '

The association then resolved itself into a social session, during which short addresses were made by ex-Gov-ernor Hendricks, ex-Senator McDonald, John B. Stoll, W. W. Woollen and Frapklin Landers. ! : The association met at 7 o'clock P. M. to hear ex-Senator McDonald, who delivered an address’ which may be briefly summarizd as follows: / " He is opposed to'a protective tariff upon two grounds. . 1. Sach a tariff is in no just sensea tax, and to the extent that it excludes foreign merchandise from our mar kets it 13 no tax at all. It is a bounty, and the Constitution does not zuthorize Congress to impose a burden of that kind upon one class of our people for the benefit of another.

" 2. It is unjust and unnecessary even considered from the standpoint of the protectiorist. The claim for protec tion rests upon the assumption that manuf?ﬁiml this country cannot compele with the cheap capital and labor of Earope, or, to use a favorite term with the advocates of protection, “the pauper labor of Europe.” A resolution of thanks was expressed to Mr. McDonald for his address, after (;::hich the association adjourped sine ie. 5 The vext meeting will be held in Indianapolis in June. .

Something About “Elkhart.” Oune of “Elkhart’s” friends says'that “ Elkhart” is “scme one else;” ‘but “ Elkhart” has securely hidden himself behind s nom deplume in the forests of Elkhart township, and since this is the case, would not the name “« Bushwhacker” Or—Or -— D —“Guerrilla” be as secure ashield? We merely offer the suggestion, and are half inclined to withdraw it already. “Elk hart!” The name hath a soothing sound, that steals quietly upon -the senses and for some unaccountable reason the mind is carried, almost insensibly, away off, over the ocean’s foam, across a hot, dry, barren waste of sand.. Without any effort on our part the mind’s eye sweeps across the dreary landscape and sees, as in a dream, a large object—possibly an ostrich, or more than one, in fact. And now the foremost gives utterance to a, harsh, discordant, prolonged shriek, then with a graceful flop, buries its. head in the sand. The others follow the example of theéir leader. We ruminate, we ponder and we dream about this phenomena. But the scene changes. We are now, in fancy, in Elkhart township. We see 2s in a smoky, Indian summer mist, certain other—ostriches? Well, we wili say objects. They are eagerly searching the pages of a huge eneyclor®dia to eke out their scanty store’ of knowledge. After they succeed in grouping together the high-sounding phrases which they have found, they give vent to several peculiar long-drawn shrieks like the wailof a dying swan,and then get their heads behind the aforesaid book, thinking thus to hide from the gaze -of mortal eye. But alas! encyclopedias were never made large enough to hide the ‘ears. There let them rest in fancied security. Our pen shall ne’er disturb them more. We trust they may ultimately find that rest which they refuse others whe “had hoped for rest.”

The Wrong s(;nntor. (Salt Lake Tribune.)

oOa Sunday last-when Senator Jones reached Ogden, the train had no sooner stopped than 4 Salt Lake man jumped on and inquired for Senator Jones. The darkey, who was something of a wag. pointed out a long bearded individual who was in the sleeper and the man rushed up and grasped him by the band with: “Well, Senator, old pard, how are you?n § N The man thus addressed took in the situation at a glance and determined to make the most of it. He extended his hand with a cordial grip and said: “Take a seat, old boy. - What can I do for you?” “Don’t s’pose you'll go back on the man that mined with you on Rocky Bar, will ye?” o “That’s hardly my style, is it ?” “Well, no; but it’s so long since we met that I didn’t know but” what you might have sorter -forgot the old boys.” - “Didn’t you loan me a horse once to get outof Arizona? And when the—" “Well, T did, and a mighty good piece o’ horse flesh it was. 1 paid $5OO for it the week before.” 2

“Did you think I'd forget that? It’s lived in my memory ever since.” “You say the nag is still alive?” “Can’t say that, but, Colonel, my gratitude 18 still in a healtby. state, and I’m right on top with the administration. - Now, what do you want?” - «J 8 the Marshalship of Utah filled ¥” “The office isn’t worth having, Colonel. I was thinking that some sort of a foreign mission might suit you better—say Plenipotentiary to France; you speak elegant French,you know.” «] can -throw “the whole language down and walk on it.”

- “Do you believe that the Mormons have vigueur de dessu lately ?” «1 do; they are just covered with it.” “But speaking of that lone un bien fait n’est jamais perdu.” “That’s what I do, jam 'em right to the wall. E pluribus unum, as they say in Paris.” Just then a man on the seat behind snickered a little, and the office-seeker turned round, as the man who was talking French rose up and remarked: “Tell me your name and I’ll ‘introduce you to Senator Jones.” The office-seeker did not wait to reveal his name, but gatbering his hat up hastily left the car -on the run, as the porter called out: - - : “Massa, how’d ye make out wif Jones ?”. o

Auditor Wolfe has officially stated that several of the so-cdlled “grave: yard” insurance companies of other States cannot legally do business in this State, as they have not the required amount of capital.-Whatever weapon can be used to drivesuch insurance ghouls out of the State should be bandled fearlessly by the authorities. The histoty of such insurance in Pennsyl vania and Maryland is scandalous.— Indianapnlis Journal.

' ¥ree of Charge. All persons suffering from Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Loss of Voice, or any affection of the Throat and Lungs, are requested to call at Scott & Son’s drug store and get a Trial Bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, free of charge, which will convince them of Its wonderfu: merits and show what a regular dollar] size bottle will do. Call early. : e Ex-Gov. Rullock, of Massachusetts, dropped dead Tuesday afterncon in ‘Worcester. Appoplexy was the cause,

o L ‘fhen S . OUR OLD FOLKS. — R : - 'There are gdins for all our losses, - There are balms for all our apalns x e But when youth, the dream, departs, . It takes something from our hearts. - And it never comes again.. : ek ~"_R. H:Stoddard, e e A . T A%, ol 25508 Sl - THE NEWS. » . Compiled from Latest Dispatches, Trizl of Guitean, the Assassin. UPpoN the opening of the court on ‘the 13th Guitean said that he had received a letter on. the preceding day severely demouncing Mr. Davidge, and that his remarks against him (Da-. vidge) were based upon that. The ?srlsoner had found out, howeyer, that he was mistaken, and that Davidge was a high-toned Christian gentleman and a sound lawyer, and he desired to withdraw anwthing he might have said" a?ﬂnst him. He wgs wrong on Davidge, but I'iiht on Corkhill. Mr. Davidge resumed his a‘ggument, and showed by the evidence of J. W. Guiteau and other witnesses for the defense the fallacy of Mr. Scoville's theory that the prisoner was an im‘becile. Davidge passed to the examination of the grisoner himself, his appearance on the stand, what he had said, and what capacity of intellect he had shownadpmving, he said, conclnswel{ that what had gone before had all been a sham and hollow: fraud. Scoville had dilated upon his morality, and had asserted - that lack of intellect was his failing. On the contrary, he had shown upon the stand wonderful memory, logie, reason and intellectual ability. Likewlse, as'the defense had claimed for him virtue and morality, the prosecution had availed themselves of their right to show the contrary, and what had been the result? He had been shown to be such a monster of corruption, dirt, depravity and wickedness that the coantry looked on with . a shudder. Continuing, Mr. Davidge skillfully, and with marked effect, reviewed that portion of the testimony bearin, upon the frlsoner‘s moral character, as evinccg in his pastlife. * All this time,” said the counsel, ** no one accused him of insanity. In the estimation of his friends and his family, he was sane enough for all transactions of life; but when his hand is red with blood, and out~ raged law claims him as a sacrifice on the altar of 3ustice, we first hear of insanity.” He alluded bﬂeﬂg to the testimony of Mrs. Dunmire, the divorced wife of the IPrisoner. The prosecution were debarred from entering upon those confidences which exist between husband .and wife. The defense could have done so, but they did not. Mrs. Dunmire did not hesitate, said Davidge, to testifé' emphatically ‘that he was a sane man. ‘ommenting on the testimony of Dr. Spitzka, Davidge said that, notwithstanding some of his remarkable statements, Spitzka never denied the prisoner’s legal responsibility. Aeccepting all his evidence, even Spitzka brought :the prisoner within the reach of law and punishment. Never before had 80 many men of eminence tﬂtppeared upon a trial of this character. The reasury had been opened to secure the attendanee of witnesses; more than twenty experts had been summoned for the defense, many of théem men whose names were known in every household. They came here; they watched the prisoner. They listened to his evidence, and what was the result? With two exceptions, they vanished from before the light of evidence, like elouds before the wind, and not one of them could come upon the stand and swear that this man was legally insane. They met and compared not=s, and could not testifgv but to his ganity. “Now,” continued -Mr. Davidge, * what has been the result of all this evidence? This alleged fool has. grown before you to a man of more than ordéary intellect. We have uncovered his moral nature. ‘We have shown him to be in religion. a hypocrite; at law a pettifogger; in all things a swindler; a denizemrof jails' and a depraved and wicked wretch.” In answer to the prisoner’s claim of Divine inspiration, Davidge read with impressive etfect from the first chapter of the Efistle of James, thirteenth to fifteenth verses, inclusive, as follows: *‘ Let no man say, when heis tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man; but every man is tempted when he is drawn away of hisown lust and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sBin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” After disposing of the insunityﬁmd inspiration theories Mr. Davidge continued: * Thore?is not an element in this case that removes 1t from the cate%nry S 0 carcfulg’ provided against in the courts. Here was a daring, audacious boy, who in the Oneida Community gave way to a life of lawless vice; later, as aman, a theocrat, whb would overturn all law and churches; later, when he boasted himself tobe of the firm of Jesus Christ & Co., you see the legitimate outcome of his wicked egotism. It is Jjust as legitimate and logical to find the true explanation of this crime in the same traits of inordinate vanity, desire of notoriety and reckless egotism. As I conceive it, the only theory of his crime is this: He conceived the idea of this monstrous crime, believing that others were as -wicked as himself, and that those who would be benefited by it would in some way interpose to save him from the damning consequences of his most heinous crime,” Mr. Davidge concluded his remarks without peroration, and the Court adjourned. GUITEAU opened the proceedings on the 14th by announcing that hé had received about $15,000 worth of checks'on the preceding day. Some of them, he thought, were worthless, and mﬁny were no doubt good. He requested those who were sending*checks to him to forward only good ones, apd make them {myuble to. his order. Upon the motion to allow the prisoner to address the jury, Judge Cox said that while he should be loth to deny to ‘any “man the proper opportunity to, be heard, even if represented by counsel, in this case it was certain the grisoner would{ abuse the privilege,as he had done all through the trial, and that what he would say would be highly i,mgmper to go before the jury. He should therefore deny him the privilege. His counsel could, if they = thought proper, read such portions of his manuscript as they considered suitable. Guiteau protested that he appeared as his own counsel, and claimed the right, as an American citizen, to be heard in his own defense. . Finding that Judge Cox could not be moved he shouted: * Let the record show that I appear here as my own counsel, and that I take exception to .your ruling, Judge Cox. Ishall appeal to the American people, and they will overrule you, and you will go down to future mitcs with a black stain on your name.” Mr. Reed then addressed the ' jury. He complimented them upon the seriousness and solemnity which %}m characterized them . during the trial. Contrasting the mercy of the Savior toward those inflicted with devils (insane) Mr. Reed said that the prosecution cried: ‘“Hang him!" Mr. Reed then commented upon the evidence, and said itdid not require an expert to i)ronounce the prisoner insane. The jury had seen him day after day shuffiing in before them, and his condition was Iputvnt to all. Continuing in this strain, Mr. Reed said that, in his opinion, if ‘‘this Poor creature was sent to an asylnm he would be a driveling idiot within six months. These experts,” continued the sﬁeaker, ‘tdo not swear to facts, for none but the Deity can know what there is in the brain of aman. They swear only to opinion, and you have a notable instance how far from the facts the opinions of most learned doctors may lead in the sad case of the late President. It would be a shame to send a man to the gallows on the opinion of doctors.”” Alluding to the strictures of Mr. Davidge upon the course of certain members of Guiteau’s familg in sticking to the prisoner when they should have cut him off, Mr. Reed said that it was in evidence that, six years before, Mrs. ScoviHe considered her brother a mental wreck, and shoulll she desert him, now that he was on trial for his life, she would be unworthy the name of gister. Referring to the difficulty experienced by the defense in aecurin% witnesses, Mr. Reed said the jury -could have no idea how hard it was to get people to tell what they knew. They would rather listen to the cry of “erucify him’ than come and tell what they knew to save the poor man from the gallows. All the testimony they had been able to secure for the defense was a veritable God-send. Mr. Reed then argued at considerable length the question of insanity. The prisoner’s father was, he maintained, insane on religious subjects, and forced him into the Oneida Commaunity, that vestibule of hell. In conclusion he reminded the juryof the oath they had taken at the beginning of the trial, and adjured them to falter not in keeping it. ' The convietion m%d execution of the prisoner would be an infamy beyond desgcription—an indelibie stain on American juries and American jurisprudence. The Court adjourned at the gonclusion of Mr. Reed’s remarks until the 16th.

Congressional. ) Ix the Senate on the 11th a large number of petitions were submitted for a Commission to inquire into the alcobolic liquor traffic. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution, which was laid over to be printed, directing the Special Committee on Woman Suffrage to inquire into the mitter of suffrage in Utah, and report a bill to set aside any existing laws conferring uuﬂ’m%e u&)on women of that Territory. The President pro tem. announced the ggecial Committee_. on the Rights of omen as follows: ELapham, Anthony, Ferry, ?lnir. Georﬁe, Jackson and Fair. The Sherman undiu% bill was taken up, and Mr. Vest claimed that the Democratic measure of last year would have saved the people $15,000,000 annualﬁyin interest; that the pﬂ.{ment of the public ebt would wipe out National Banks, and the latter do not intend to surrender their charters. Mr. Shérman replied that the bunks were subJect to the will of Congress, and that it was fortunate that the bill of last year failed; he said the National Banking system was not a monogoly, for banking was free; and he believed it supplied the best form of banking ever devised by man—one now being copie ‘ by other nations.... Mr. Orth offered a yesolution in the House instructing the Committee ' on Civil-Service Reform to report a different - mode of appointing committees. Mr. Haskell, ‘ a auestion of privilege, presented a resoluon declaring that no polygamlst is' entitled 0 admission to the House as a Delegate, but- | House voted that the resolution did not presont a privileged question. ; A BILL was pased in the Senate on the 12th to authorize a bridge across the Missouri River, within five miles of St. Charles, Mo. Mr. Ingalls defended the Arrears-of-Pension | act, and offered a resolution against its re- | &eal, which was laid over at the request of r. Beck. A communication was presented from the Chicago Historieal® Soeciety, asking co-ogeratlon in the ecclebration of the. two hundredth, annl_\'ereari' of the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi bv La Salle., A prolonged dcbate took plave on the Three-?ement. Funding bill. 'Adjourned to the 16th....1n the House Mr. Bayne introduced a bill to repeal all the bank taxes, and Mr. Browne amensﬁre for the issue and exchange of fractional Treasury notes. An appropriation of $540,000 for werk on the census was passed. Mr. Browne offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior fora %a;tggtn%x‘xt ng;:l 3nleﬁgmou,nt !;mlm:_ltly req\éh-e 0 ring the next quarter century, Adjourned to the let?. 4 - . g : ; Domestlc. THE Secretary of the Treasury has made another call—the 107th—for $20,000,000 in extended bonds, on which interest will cease: on the 13th of March. : TaE South Carolina State Legislature have been apprised that within the past six weeks an exodus of 5,000 negroes occurred from one connty. s 3 3 7 TaE Apaches are at their old work of murder in the neighborhood of Sonora, N. M. The State troops and citizens of the Territory are chasing tl‘:a red-skins, who are believed ta pumber 200, under the leadership of Nana. Taere were 208 business faflures in the United States during the seven days ended on e ® 3 i < . aoy :

thé 18th—the largest number in any one week for bver a year. A g “AX alarming rise in the Crrhberland River on the 13th flooded the: lower portion of Nashville and swept away vastiquantities of logs.. T World Mutual Relief Association, a graveyard insurance concern of Pennsylvania, was dissolved by judicial process on' the 14th. Tt had issued policies representing over $13,000,000. The three largest .companies in that State had previously been swept away by the courts, ; i L

LATE on the evening of the 14th the wholesale grocery house of Sibley, Dudley & Co., of Chicago, made an assignment to H. M. Humphrey, to cover liabilities of $250,000. By a misplaced switch on the New York Central Road onethe 14th, at Fox Bridge, necar ‘Syracuse, a freight train composed of thirty loaded cars was ‘wrecked. The engineer, Charles Chapman, was fatally injured. * SeECRETARY HUNT sent the following cablegram from Washington on the 14th to Lieutenant Danenhauer and Chief Melville, of the Jeannette, at Irkutsck, through Hoffman at St. Petersburg: “Remain on the ground till -the remainder of the expedition -is found Help the search by every means in your power.” { i Bt oa A FIRE at Albion, N. Y., on the 14th, originating in Parchard’s fancy store, on Main street, from the explosion of a lamp, caused a loss of §250,000. : . ; BFurTHER particulars of the railroad disaster on the Hudson River Road at Spuyten Duyvil on the 13th show that eight persons “were killed and eleven wounded. The halfburned body of State Senator Wagner, the palace-car proprietor, was taken from the wreck and sent to New York in a speciaj ~coach. The remains of the seven other victims were taken to the city by Coroner KuogWith the exception of Miss Mary Daniels, the injured were able to go to their homes. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. - Valentine, the newly-married couple, were forwarded to Vers 'mont. George Melius, a brakeman on the Chicago express, was arrested on a charge of ceriminal carelessness. ¥

R. L. Hoop, Cashier of the Wabash freight office at Detroit, disappeared several days ago, and it is now learned that he had embezzled $15,000 or more, which was lost in the gambling dens. : - i

Personal and Political,| Ix the Star-route cases on the 13th counsel for the conspirators objected to the evidence which the Government proposed to submit, -and claimed that the existence of a conspiracy had not been proven. An unsuccessful effort was made to reduce the amount of bail required in some of the cases. ; A CONGRESSIONAL sub-committee was appointed on the 13th to consider and report on a system of postal telegraph in this country to be operated by the Government: - TrE Cabinet session on the 13th eonsidered, it is said, the case of Cadet Whittaker. The Judge Advocate General asserts that the court which tried him was illegally constituted. | : GOVERYNOR 871. JonN, of Kansas; deniesghat the Prohibition law of that State is invalidated by a recent decision of the State Supreme Court. o SR AssociaTe-Justice; HoMeEr E. Royce has been appointed Chief-Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. . 7 ‘ Prese Covzins and several other advocates of Woman Suffrage appeared at Washington before the House Committee on Rules on the 14th to urge the appointment of a speciaj committee to correspond with that ordered by the Senate on Woman’s Rights. _ . A RESOLUTION was adopted o the 14th by the special committee of the National House of Representativeson the expenses attending the illness and burial of President Garfield, and the allowance to his widow, instructing Chairman Taylor, of Ohio, to give public notice that all persons having claims for services rendered or materials furnished during the illness and burial of the late President Garfield should present the same to the committee for audiding .on or before the 10th of February next. 5

AFTER battling with the small-pox for thirteen days, Mrs. Caroline Richings-Bernard, the noted singer, died at Richmfond, Va., on the 14th. She positively refused to be vaceinated. b .

_ Mn. BLAINE has fixed upon Friday, the 27th day of January, as the time for his eulogy upon the late Presjident Garfield, before the United States Senate. : : :

Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN is an inmate of a Twrkish and electric bath establishment in New York. Dr. Sayre finds that she suffers from chronic inflammation of the spinal. cord and disease of the kidneys, and that cataract has appeared in both eyes. ———ee. : o - . Foreign, TuE Pope declines to comply with the Census law of Italy by giving an enumeration of the persons employed in the Vatican. . A JEWELER in Paris was robbed on the 13th of 250,000 francs by Colonel Gaston and another man, representing themselves as Americans. . Taeßank of England on the 13th subscribed £5OO to the Irish property defense fund. BisMARCK has resolved not to submit the Imperial reseript to the Reichstag. THE French Governmeut will ask for a prolongation of the time for concluding the An-glo-French commercial treaty. Tuk Sultan of Turkey has commissioned a number of German officers - to reorganize his force of gendarmes. Tue Canadian Parliament was formally opened at Toronto on the 12th by the Lieu-tenant-Governor, in' the absence of the Gov-ernor-General, the Marquis of Lorne. MRr. GLADSTONE has again remitted ten per cent. of the rentals of his Hawarden estate. THE Presidént and Secretary and two members of the committee of the Drumecollagher branch of the-Ladies’ League were committed to Limerick Prison on the 14th, for holding illegal meetings since the Ist of January. ! GAMBETTA ascended the tribune in the “Chamber of Deputies on the 14th and read his bill for the revision of the French Constitution. It provides for the election of life Senators by separate votes of the Chambers, for ‘the insertion of the principle of scrutin de listey; for depriving the Senate of the power to restore to the budget items stricken out by the Deputies, and for the abolition of public prayers at the opening of the Legislature. : LATER NEWS. Ix the Guiteau trial on the 16th Mr. Scoville commenced his argument for the defense. The chief point made during the day was the charge that a conspiracy had been formed to hang Guiteau, and that the conspirators were District-Attorney Corkhill, Judge Porter, Mr. Davidge and the five eminent medical experts who testified that in their judgement Guiteau is now and was on the 2d of July sane. Mr. Scoville had not concluded his remarks at the hour of adjournment. : : ?s‘l\’l: colored convicts employed in cutting wood near Little Rock, Ark., were drownedon the 16th while crossing a stream in a rowboat. FrANK BURR, the engineer of the Tariytown train/which ran into the Chigago express at Spuyten Duyvil on the 13th, testified at-the Cotoner’s inquest on the 16th that there was no warning given him by that ‘train until it was too late. He stayed on his engine to the last. . 7 - A

Nrar Lansing, Towa, on the Chicago, Milwaulkee & St. Paul Railroad on the 14th, the breaking of a wheel derailed the train, and injured twenty persons. One. child was killed and three persons fatally injured.

THE flood in the Camberland River at Nashville has rendered six hundred families homeless, and on the 16th water. was. pouring into the cellars of wholesale houses on Front and Broad streets. Sae : . IX the United States Senate on the 16th Mr. 'Logan introduced a bill to pay Mrs. Abraham Lincoln $15,000 as arrears of pension for five years, and it was referred to the Pension Committee. The House bill appropriating $540,000 for the census deficiency was passed. A bill was introduced by Mr. Cockrell to amend the homestead and pre-emption ' laws, The feature of the day was a debate on the resolution for the repeal of the Pension-Ar-rearages .act. - Mr. Voorhees declared the measure an honest one; Mr. Beck argued. against the scheme at great. length. Adjourned. In the House of Representatives bills were introduced: By Mr. Farwell, to repeal the law imposing’ a tax on the deposits and - capital of banks; also, repealing the tax on bank checks and matches; by Mr. Payson, to ‘define the crime of bigamy, and to provide for the trial and punishment of offenders thereunder; by Mr. Hazeltine, to issue and regulate fractional paper currency; by Mr. McColid, to make the terms of officee of Presidential Electors four years, and giving them power to act in case of the death or disability of the President and Vice-President; by Mr. Willlams, of Kentucky, for the erection of a monument over the grave of Z. Taylor; by Mr. Burrows, of Missouri, to retife National Bank notes; by Mr. Ford, to establish postal telegraph lines in the Unifed States. AdJottied L iRt e e CAPTAIN GEQRGE E. Tysox; who drifted for seven months on an ice-floe 4n the Arctic regions, is said to heartily indorse the scheme of Cheyne to attempt to reach the' North Pole by balloons: Hi S I ey & 5 %

- INDIANA STATE NEWS." - Road ~Su'peﬂht;‘ndentb_s=;’j i The new law enacted'by the last Legislature cegarding Road Superintendents ‘has. been productive of numerous- Jawsuits and a very marked difference of opinion:among legal authorities regarding its proper construction. There are at present’ a number of - contested eases in the State, where ‘men liying in town have been appointed Road Superintendents of the townships Jin which: the towns were situated. The matter was sreferred to AttorneyGeneral Baldwin' for settlement, and he recently gave the following decision:. ~~« =~ ~ Where an incorporated town or eity is situated in whole or part in such townshi}u, it shall be.exempt from all. the provigions of this act. In such cases the town or city and township are each serzm‘:fe and distinet organizatiohs, each exclusive of the other. The case isnot like a Township Trustee, Justice of the Peace, ete., who exercise jurisdiction ‘throughout both town or city and township. While it trae that the regident of the town ﬁ also a resident of the township, &till, in cases of Road Superintendents, the town or city peu{)l‘e cannot vote for the township Road ‘Superintendent; neither can the- coum'ag people vote for town or ¢ity road officers. - While it may not ﬂlw_ags_ be the case, still, in ‘this ‘instancel think the l'itgh.t to vote is the test of the right to fill the office. -I therefore decide that a resident of a town or city is not eligible to the office of Road Superintendent of the township in which the town or city is situated. =~ 3 NG

o Indiana:ltems. .L 0 . A day ortwo ago Isaac Pattison; father of the present City Treasurér of Indianapolis, and a resident of that eity for thirty years, was found dead in an out-building at hisiresidence. He was 'a'ged“ eighty-two, and one of the pioneer Methodists of the St,ate.;'-}{e.was the second white man to settle in-what is nay. known as Rush County. = Saan George W. Shoemaker, formerly: Chief of Police at Terre Haute, was recently. arrested in Indianapolis for presenting a forged note, and on the 3d killed himself with morphine. - Four cases of . small-pox were reported at North Manchester,:in Wabash-County, on the

The Indianapolis grain _'ﬁuo,tntio't;s‘ are: Wheat—No. ‘2 Red, sl37}{@l.37%.:,«Corn?—'— No. 2, 64@64%4c. - Oats-—46@4S¢. The €incinnati quotationsare: Wheat—No. 2 Red, $1.40 @1.42. Corn—No. 2, 661{@6615c. Oats~No.. 2, 472@48¢. Rye—No. 2, [email protected]. Barley—[email protected]. SR RE e

. The Superintendent of Public: Tnstruction recently completed the: schedulés showing the apportionment of the common school revenue for tuition, and the distribution to the various: counties began on ‘ the 2J. - The table shows: Number of school: children in the State, 714;843; amount derived (rdx_n “school - tax, §607,611.44; interest collected on common . school fund since last appertionment, $93,122.48. The amount derived from ofher sources, with the above, gave a total® collection - from: the counties of $717,949.56. The balance in: the treasury 'for distribution - was = $149,396.08, which, added to the county-collections, make an aggregate sum. of $§367,345.64. The State Normal Bchool gets a semi-annual allowance of $7,500. Marion County’ report, the largest number of school children, 38,164, and Starke County the smallest number, 1,8%9. Ohio County has 1,986. -The increase ©of -school children over 18580 was 10,785 in the State, and the amount per. capita’ for- each .entmerated child was $1.20. = i ot o BEAtaT

While Lewis G I“ceuj- a farmer livingin Green township, Grant County, was digging a ditch on his farm, a few days ago, he unearthed portions of a mastodon’s skeleton.- Seven years ago Green's brother, while digging in the same place, found several teeth weighing over four pounds each. ' Green now .proposes ;to search for the rest of the bones. This discovery is the third.one of “the kind made in the vicinity during the past three years. . - Mrs. Mary Roland, a widow aged fifty-eight vears, committed: suicide at” Indianapolis recently. et e In the case of the State vs. Creek, appealed to the Supreme Court for the. purpose of testng the question as fothe jurisdiction of Jus“ices of the Peace to try criminal cases where imprisonment. might ‘be -part “of the punish aent, it-was decided recently that Justfce. have jurisdiction in‘such -cases.. The Couy aolds—Judge Worden delivering the opinion:

that Justices have jurisdiction in" all case. where a fine is the only punishiment that mus . be inflicted, though imprisonment in ‘the county jail might, but need not necessarily. be imposed, but that theyhave no jurisdiction in cases where both fine ‘and imprisonment: must be assessed in. punishment. - The decision is a suprise to lawyers generally, as it was supposed the Legislature, at its last séssion: had taken cases of the kind mentioned from the jurisdiction of Justices, and these officer were acting accordingly.’ v o i J The State Delegate Board' of Agrieulture, concluded its annual session at Indianapolis a few days ago by electing the following officers: . President,’ Henry: C. Meredith,” Cambridge City; Viee-President, B. Custer, Lo’ gansport; Secretary, Alexander Herron, In dianapolis ; General*Superintendent, 'Fiéldim ? Beeler, Indianapolis; Executive Committee. Robert Mitchell, John P. Barnes; J. K. O'Neil and W. B. Seward. T e e

© The State Wool-growers Association, at its annnal meeting. in Indianapolis rtecently, elected officers as- follows: - President, Fielding Beeler; Indianapolis; Vice-President, R. J. Farquhar, Trenton; Becretary, J. 'W. Robe Greencastle; Treasurer, & W. Dungan, Franke Foae o B

Madison County is to.havea new court house, to cost $150,000. .. .o T

A young girl named Matilda Zucheéck, aged fourteen, was fatally shot by a boy named Otto Hess at the residence of the latter’s father in Indianapolis, a few days ‘ago. The shooting was claimed to be gccidental. ~. - . Frank Hamburger, a bookkeeper in the émploy of Henry Herrman, at Evansville, was run over and killed by thecars a faw:days ago.

A fire in Merritt & Co.’s ‘woolen mill at Inidianapolis a few days-ago did damage to the extent of §20,000. - o The store of Ben™ Nofscar, at- Grant, Fulton County;, was’ totally destroyed by fire afev days ago. Loss on stock and building, s4;oo°, Traln-wreck(;_rs removed - a rail ,from thi: Little Miami track; six miles east -of Rich mond, a few nights ago, and ' the Dayton express was thrown into the diteh. The firemas named Ellis, was - fatally hurt.. The engin and train were only slightly injured. Several attempts have-been made to wreck<rains at that goint, and on two occasions the cars have been fired on witH rifles and stones. . 7

The Marion public ' schools are” \éven‘ly' matched as to: the sex of pupils, - there being 800 of each e T Ll el e b

The State Board of Health has recently received official information of the prevalence o', small-pox in sixty-one-towns in Illinois and a large number in Indiana, and they are’ therefore redoubling their efforts tof prevent a further spread of the disease,. particularly ir Indianapolis. PR S e

William ' Kirkenball, of - Rochester, agec sixty, undertook toload one barrel of his gur while the other ba_rrc,l was 10&(11:({ and hainme ! drawn. The hammer of the loaded barre fell, blowing off his left thumb and “shattering his right forearm, - .-~ o 7 o Tar o . Ellis Thurman, of Grandview, Spencer County, eloped recently with His grandfather’s WHe o e

The new Court-house at Rockyille, Parke County, erected at g cost” of $lll,OOO, will be dedicated on Wednesday, February 22. - William M. Davis, a’ prominent dry-goods merchant of Indianapolis, died from prostration caused by the extraction of a tooth a few daysago. = L hiino et e o Two men were scuffling in a saw-mill at Muncie the other-day, and, falling: under the connecting-rod of the engine, - theii bheads’ swaré mashedy o 8 el SRI e

An infuriated dog, attacked Benjamin Hargrove’s small boy, at North Vernon, the other, evening,‘and before the crowd that was attracted by the boy’s cries could rescue him the brute succeeded in chewing his hand and arm until both were but a. mass of mangled flesh and bones. ¢ SRR e Miss Ella Tuuiey, a- bright -and intelligent young lady of twenty-two years, committed suicide at Beymour the other day, being troubléd'about herdebts. = ¢ T o John Darby & Co., wholesale fruit: and con-' fectionery dealers at. Indianapolis, made an assignment a few days ago. ‘Theliabilitiesare given at $40,000; assets, $30,000. - - 3 - William Miller, a farmer - living three miles north of Wabash, fell from a wagon in which he was riding, a few days® ago, and hroke his neek. He died instantly, e The Exccutive Committee of the State Oratorical Association decided recently to hold the annual contest in Indianapolis on the evening of April 13 next. *The judges selected were the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks and Rev. Myron -W. Reed, of Indinnapolis; W. 8. Lingle, of the Lafayétte Courieir; Emery :A. Storrs, of Ch'cagoy and Governor Foster, of Ohio, with Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Counier~Journal; Murat, Halstead, of ‘the Cinclunati 'Commercial; and ° Judge Wi Q. Gresham, as alternatcs. - - © o A recent report that the Frankliu Life Inc surance Company was about to close out fts business caused much ‘excitemeént o Indianapolis, where many pollcy holders reside. - .

~ ANOTHER RAILROAD HORROR. The Chicago Express from Albany Runln< ~ t 6 on the Hudsen River Rallroad, Near ‘Spuyten. Duyvil, by a Special Train-Two, . Sleeplng Cars Telescoped and Fired, and . Beveritl of the Occupants Crushed or .* Burned to Death—State Senator Webster Wagner, the Sleeping-Car Man, in the .- List of Killed—A Bridal Couple Burned - toaCrisp.. o & Gos '/ . NEW YORE, January 13. - . - .The two rear cars' of the Atlantic express from the West on the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad were crushed and jammed ‘together by the Tarrytown local train near Spuyten Duyvil Creek to-night. .Thie wrocked cars were sct on fire, and nine persons are known to have perished in the. flames. -It is believed that at least ' thrce others must hiave been burned. 'Staté Senator Webster Wagner is supposed to have been “crushed between two of hisown drawing-room / cars, and to have perished -with the other vic- | tims. The Atlantic express left “Albany at °8:20 . m., nearly three-quarters of an hour _behind _time. The train was a heavy" one, comprisings thirteen cars. Next to the . locomotive were two mailcars and a baggage-car. Behind them were three ordinary passenger-cars. < Five Wagner draw-ing-room-cars completed the train. They -were the Red Jacket, Sharon, Vanderbilt, Min- . ‘nehaha and Empire. The Empire was the rear car. At Greenbush, on the opposite - gide of the river from Albany, the Wagner . drawing-room car/Idlewild, frgm Troy, was - coupled to and becameé the last car of the train. ‘The train was in charge of Conductor George Hanford, an old employe on the road. ‘The conductor of the drawing-room-cars was Mr. Taylor. Two stops were made—one at- .. " Hudson and the other at Poughkeepsie. From this Jast point the train began to make up _some of the lost time. A speed of at least forty miles an hour was maintained until the- - Duyvil Creek Station was reached: Here the- engincer slowed down and the "train suddenly came to a stop about - midway between that station and the Kingsbridge, Station. . Something, it was said by | the train attendants, was -the matter with the air brake. For some rea--son it failedl to work. Ij was then a few min- - utes past sgven o'clock. The delay must have continued between five and ten minutes. Suddenly one shrill blast from a' locomotive was heard, when the sound of grinding wheéls from the rear, ﬁrated harshly on the ear.” The i next instant there was a shock which shivered - -the Idlewild to splinters, drove its heavy frame like a telescope into the Empire, and com~pletely wrecked that car in an instant: Two minutes later the Idlewild was on fire from the--the forward end, which had been - thrown over by the shock. The flames leaped upon the splintered Empire, and that, too, was _filled with' fire and smoke almost before the occupants could escage. At least a dozen persons- who were in the Idlewild were cut off - from escaFe, caught by the jagged timbers, and there held to be slowly roasted alive. - Three Tammany Assemblymen had j}l‘lst left a compartment at the rear of the Empire, where they had been making merry, and were goinﬁ toward the front of the car when tha - crugh ‘came, which splintered the, very comg:{rtmeut they had just abandoned. Senator Vebster Wagner had passed them on his way to theldlewild. © He was not ten feet from the newspaper, correspondent, and must have Est stepped upon the rear ,l)llatvform of the . Empire when the Idlewild shot forward and . telescoped the Empire. The first indication that the Empire’s passengers had of danger was the single whistld of the locomotive of the loeal train, the Tarrytown express. The 'shock hurled them from their seats, and they: were. flung along_the car floor. The swivel . chairs, wr¢nched from their fastenings, were thrown after them and lay pileg on top of the - struggling occupants. © A shower of glass came down from. over head, and the¢ roof of the Empire was crushed /in upon them by.the weight of the Idlewild’s roof, which seecmed to have been lifted bodily and shot forward upon _that of the Empire. To add to the c¢onfusion the lights began to glimmer and the darkness to deepen. S’mrly ‘all’ the oceupants found their way out through- windows whose sashes had been shattered by theshock. The ladies: were buriedin‘a heap of debris, and were extracted without. having received any severe bruises.. Assemblyman Monk was pinned between timbers close. to' the roof. The roof was pricd off, and he was with great difficulty - released. i

- Nearly all of the Idlewild's passengers wera. caughtin the timbers, and were nunablé to . move hand or foot. Their’ shrieks were -appalling.. The flames were gaining headway, and there was neither - hose, nor pails, nor water at hand to quench them. Water there was enough in the creck, not two hupdred feet distant from the ‘doomed cars, but in the absence of vessels of some description it could not be obtained. Finally some of the neiglbors, whose dwellings fronted on the railroad: track, furnished a few wooden pails. . Valia-| ble time had beenlost, and the flames were, now beyond control. The villagers eéntinued to throw water through the windows pearest those spots where a Isaman voice could be heard, until the heat drove them far beyond® a point ‘where the primitive fire apparatus ‘could be utilized. o s eB]

s NEW YORK, January 14—1 a. m. * ~A survivor, s;kyleaking.,ot the accident, says the warning whistle had hardly effected a brake, ahd when her engine struck the Idlewild, it cut through the car like a knife, and burst into the Empire, till the glare from its broken headl:'jght streamed upon the startled { and affrighted passengers there. " The oceupants of the last car were dashed ‘hither and thither; some made for the doors, . and sﬂlxleezed their way out; some ' burst through the windows; some caught by the cra.shinF seats:and struggled ‘to extricate themselves. A few were crush:ied to death'/at the moment of theicollision.: But i those who were only disabled crawled to the openings and strove—with what despairing efforts the. witnesses of that scene alone knew—to dra, : themselves out of reach’ of the terrible deatﬁ ; that was coming upon them. . : .. As the whistle of the Tartytown express sounded so fearfully close at hand, only one person in the Empire gathered its significance. ¢ Bit still,”” he called. The crash drowned his words. They had scarcely been uttered before the cow-catcher: of the locomotive was cutting through the timber of the car, and the . hot breath of the boiler was fearfully palpable - to the affrighted passengers. @ . = ' Here the rush to the doors was as frantic as lin the Idlewild. The Eack of politicians were ontheir'feet in a twinkling, and Jacobs, Hollahan, Cahill and Kearney went tumbling out in ~ aheap. Nichols stumbled, but caught himself up, and the others serambled about and exfricated themselvesrbﬁ what circumstances they 'tlgtlemselves hardly knew—from the crushing rudin. i sl

The group. of . men ‘that found themselves seattered about oh the soft ground in a moment—dazed ' and’ bewilderef every one of ‘them—were presently to be witnesses of a spectacle dreadful beyond conception. i In a breath fire had added its horrors to the other dreadful accompaniments of the disaster. The overturned stoves and the drop[.l\)ing ashes from the engine furnace had done their _work, The wood and upholstery had burst -into flames, and a’'blaze was now leaping up above the wreek, and sweeping along as if to swallow it. - Dreadful cries rang upon the air. Thehoarse calls of men were mingled with the horrified shrieks of women, and there was a depth of agony about the tones that betokened ‘too well how k"ce%ly those who uttered them felt the sense of the fate that was overtaking them. All along the train the lights had been put out by the shock of the callision, and now the lonE line of forward cars lay dark and sul‘len with the eugine snorting in front, while there emerged from platform and window a throng of terrified and bewildered beings. The glare of the fire brought .all swarming to the rear. Train hands hallooed and went rushing wildly'about in a futile quest for buckets. - The more ecool-headed passengers Jent' a hand where it :could be of 'service. Asseniblyman- Robb crawled through a window and came out bruised and bleeding. Renator Browning, shut up in a .compartment of the Empire, smashed the window-frame and took out with him a couple of ladies imprisoned there. s 5 Sl

It was then learned that fromnineto twelve ersons {xerished, among. whom was State genator Webster Wagner, who was: burned to a crisp in-one of hjs own palace-cars. y The following list of the dead is as complete - as it was possible to obtain last night: : Webster Wagner, Senator from the Eighb] eenth District. ,aﬁcad sixty-five years; burned | to death. D. L. nsom, a guest of the Hoff- | man House, this city. Miss Maud Brown, | 443 West Fifty-third street. Oliver B. Keeley, Spriu%Valley, Pa. Mr. Park Valentine and| wife, Bennington, Vt.; married on Thursday. | Four other bodies lie in _the Kilcullen Hotel| at Sppvten Duyvil, and one other in the|}‘h&rty—ﬂfth?recinct Station House, unidenti-| - fied. % ’ | " Among the injured are: John Jaéobs, Sen-| [ator from the Second District; injured s‘lighi#v ly about the head and thighs.” Alfred C. - ghapin‘, Assemblgman from the Eleventh District of Kings County; cuf about the head. 'Bidney, P. Nichols, Police Commissioner; -slightly injured. - S . After Senator Flt.zicrald had escas)ed from the ruins, he says that he distinct y saw a hand and arm extended ni out of the blazing car,. From the shape of the hand and cuff he ~was almost sure it was Senator Wagner's. It was a terrible . sight to see a friend’s -hand stretched out of a fire for help, and .not be’ able to render any assistance. His gaze was then riveted on a young gentleman and lad who were tc:igether in the blaze. They lug -been noticed in the car on the w.a{ down as a bride and groom, and. their stylish appear- . ance had excited comment. They st.oos side by side in the flames, and so perished. —Steam vessels for: whaliné.s have proved highly profitable. The first one ever sent out from the Pq.ciﬁc Coast was the Mary and Helen, which cleared last ear enough to pa¥ her entire cost and %30.000 besides. The second venture, that of the Belvidere, has just come back from a voyage of only six months ‘with $lOO,OOO worth of oil above the investment. The great success of these . steamers is likely to revive th@sbusiness of whaling. - L L - =~The men who have ** agreat mind ™ to be ‘honest g&m‘lgy ‘succeed. It is the man of small mind who yields to Wmplaun o L B puwm .