Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 41, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 January 1882 — Page 2

he Figmier Banner. gonie : e e el e . 9. B, STOLL, Editor, : THURSDAY, .TANUARY ‘26, 1882, SPECIAL NOTICE. Persons wishing to confer with me personally will please call at THE BANNER gsanctum from Monday morning until Wed-, nesday noon: The remainder of the week 1 am engaged on the Daily and Weekly Monitor in the city of Elkhart. |~ i > J. B. StroLy. JusT as we go to press we learn that Guiteau has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. ‘ e e O . JUDGE JAMES L. WORDEN’S successor on the Supreme Bench will be élected this year. Is'James to be his ewn successor ? : e e A e e e 5 " Mns. LINCOLN's pension from the government 18 to be raised .to $5,000 per year. An eéffort will be made to secure the same amount for Mrs. Garfield. WA i CAPTAIN A, D. PERKINS, who sailed the first vessel that carried a cargo of wheat from Chicago to Buffalo, died at his home in Monroe, Mich., last week.' Y : el e A WILDCAT, measuring thirty-nine inches in length and over eighteen inches in height, was caught in a sfeel trap by John Keller, in Owen county, this State, a few days ago. | e e ey . Imas reported that in the vicinity of New York pansies, dandelions and lilacs are in bloom, berry bushes in full leaf, and rose bushes and cherry trees putting forth leaves. The scene presented must be a novel one for midwinter. : . e e A o e . ANNA DICKENSON made her debut in “Hamlet” at Rochester, N. Y, last Thursday evening, before an enthusiastic audience, who gave her a flattering reception. Her acting and interpretation is said to have been surprisingly good. de

At Erie, this State, a young lady, daughter of a clergyman; had her gold watch stolen while kneeling at the altar. A young man present was suspected of the theft and next day was caught while digging up the watch in a pasture. | . s el THE annual product of gold and sil:\ ver in the ‘States and Territories west of the Missouri River, including British Columbia and the west coast of Mexico, are reported of gold $31,869, 686 ; silver, $45,077,829. There .is an increase of silver in most of the States and Territories and a decrease in gold. A BILL now pending in Congress provides that the troops of the regular army shall hereafter be relieved from unnecessary Sunday service.” It has sometimes been the practice to order dress parades and military reviews on Sunday, but in a time of peace there is no reason why this should be done. Soldiers as well as other people should have one day of rest from their ordij nary labors, e REPRESENTATIVE BROWNE, of Indiana, recently introduced a bill in Congress providing for the issue of $lO,000,000 of fractional paper money of the denomination of five, ten, twentyfive and fifty cents. Mr. Browne, in representing that the peopld are clamorous for such currency, is yery much mistaken. = The people do not want such an issue.. They are not in favor of little shinplasters. ° ! Tne Indianapolis Sentinel gives the tragic history of a family at Greencastle, this State. It says that ou the 15th'inst. Elisha Sublett, while intoxicated, was run qver.and killed by a freight train on the Vandalia road. In 1856 his daughter, Mrs. Mullenix, was killed' by her husband, who was afterward hung for the crime. A brother, George Sublett, a son-in-law, named Hooten, and a son, William Sublett, were each killed on the same road and near the same place where Elisha Sublett met his death. Another son-in-law was shot dead by some enemy, making seven deaths in this family, all the result of a departure from virtue and temperance. 1 i ATUGUSTA, GA., has ten cotton mills and enough money has been subscribed foranother. . Northern manufacturers have learned a thing or two about the South by the Atlanta Exposition. They have learned, for one thing, that the South has better facilities for manufacturing than the North. Georgia has as good water powers as any State in the Union. Goods can be manufactured cheaper in the South than they can in the North. 'l'here are millions of unemployed capital that would be: invested in manufactories at the South, were it not for the misrepresentations by political demagogues in the North of the Southern people. Let these misrepresentations be forever discontinued and the people of the North, by coming in actual contact with their southern brethren, will see that their fears were unfounded, and in a short time hundreds of Southern manufactories, backed by - Northern capital, will be established throughout the length and breadthiof the “cotton belt.” et | THURLOW WEED thinks that the principal reason why so great a number of men in this country are officeseekers and politicians by profession is because 80 many of them have grown up without learning any trade or business. Mr, Weed is right. If every boy were made to learn some particular trade or branch of business, if they were made to have some aim in life; there would not be so many waiting for the favor of “great men” to, help them along. As it is, they drift naturally into politics as a business because they have no other means of supporting themselves. There'is a great demand all over the country for mechanics of skill and qualification. Why are not more of our boys being educated in that direction? A good mechanic can always be sure of remunerative employment. There is a call for skill ed labor’ of every kind. The supply dog not equal the demund. Is.labor regarded as degrading, that more boys are not educated to it? Can anything be more degrading to a man than: to drift through life without knowing how to labor? How many situations are daily offered to men who are wide awake and know how to-use brain and hand! Boys and men are wanted every day who have miscle, brain and will. Thero are dozens of applicants for every situation which does noc require much wmm but for situations which , require skill and|

THERE is and probably always will be in some minds a doubt as to Guiteau’s sanity, but his hanging is what interests the people just now. The only way in which he can serve the conntry is to ‘swing.”

* WE sEND our produetions to Eng land and Germany. Wages are lower in Germany than in Evogland, and food is dearer. Germany has a “proteztive” tariff and resulis show how the laboring man is “protected.” “Protectionists” will please make a note of this,

TUESDAY of last week Mrs. Ann Wilking, of Braoklyn, N. Y., shot and dangerously wounded her sister, Mrs. Carberry, ‘'while at dinner. Mrs, Wilkins has been insane for some time and imagined that her sister had cheated her out of some property. Mrs. Carberry may recover, but her escape was miraculous.

SENATOR BECK, in speaking of the Arrears of Pensions act, says: “It/is a standing monument to the ignorance, selfishness and cowardice of the American Congress.” He commits himself unequivocally to the opinion that it

ought to be repealed, and" there are thousands wha believe that he is tnequivoeally eorrect in his opinion.

*A COLORED MAN in North Carolina, while splitting a tree into rails, recently, struck a 4 bonanza in the sha'pe! of twenty-six gold coins, worth te‘%’m more dollars each. + The coins had been hidden in an auger hole, over ‘which the tree had grown to the thick~ ness of four inches. It is supposed they had been put there not later than 1812. . ; >

THERE i 8 eyelywhere an urgent demand for a change in eur court sys—tem. A fcorrespondent of the ludianapolis News thinks he sees a pussible chance and suggests g probate court, to sit all the year round. He thinks such a court would be cheaper, in the end, and would reduce the expenses of administering upon estates. Don’t know about that. S

Miss, ALcorT says it gives her a pleasant sense of victory to be able to sell stories that had been rejected over and over again before she began to be known as an authoress. 'She gets good prices fo;r them now, and lately sold one to an editor who had rejected that self-same story onee or twice, but who was then glad enough to get it, for a big sum of money, too. ;

A WRITER to the Indianapolis Sentinel declares his belief that Northern Indianais without doubt the most fertile region on the continent. He thinks that if she future of our State were now. told it would not be credited, and that South Bend is one of the won ders of the age. He thinks that improvements are but just commenced, and that in the near future more than 5,000,000 acres of marshy land in Indiana will be redeemed. ‘

THE FICKLENESS exhibited by Jbhn Sherman and ex-" President” Hayes is very trying to some of the repres\ntatives of the Republican press, who, when the aforesaid gentleman opposed a 3 per cent, bond bill, joined in and vigorously and valiantly fought against that measure. What are they te do now thdt John Sherman has himself introduced a 3 per cent. vond bill, and made a speech in favor of the ‘same? To oppose or favor, is the léadirg question with . these worthies now.

| SENATOR INGALLS, of Kansas, is trying to defend the Arrears of Pensions bill and assumes the responsibility of the-act for his party., The Burlington (Iowa) Gazette, in speaking .of the matter, says; *“No Democraj should put ‘a straw in the way of the championship of this measure by the republican party, so that it may have the full credit of passing one-of the most discreditable laws that has ever got through the National Legislature. Senator Beck has-given the cue which the party should follow.”

Toge Rock Island (I 11. dzgus truthfullysays: *John Kellyis now posing as an anti-monopolist and the spectacle is superlatively ridiculous. If John could see his way clear Lo any personal advantage by the support of the Prince of Wales as hereditary sovereign of this country he would how! himself hoarse in his eries for the god-given right of kings. John Kelly has about as much of truth in his claim of belonging ‘to the democratic party as in time of war aspy has of diding the side whose operations he is watching.”

SOME DAYS SINCE, while Mr. Halstead, the editor-in-chief of the Cincinnati Commercial, was in New York, the Commercial-Advertisér took occasion to ask hirm about some things in his past record as a journalist and politician, and presented some very unpleasant guestious relating thereto. It wanted to know about Mr. Halstead’s remark that the late General Garfield was “marked all over with the Credit Mobilier small-pox,” and wished to know why he thought “the clatter about Garfield a most contemptible thing -at Chicago, in June, 18806,” and why he said that Garfield had no record to run on for President. It also requested Mr. Halstead to inform the public generally why, after the election, he regarded Mr, Garfield *“the greatest and purest of men.”* Mr. Halstead’s memory wus defective on this point, 'He didn’t remember using any such language, and if it wasin the Commercial it must have got in by mistake. Mr. Halstead probably never heard that old remark about cons sistency being a jewel,

DRIVEN WELL DECISION.

An- important drive well decision was rendered in the United States Circuit Court at Syracuse, N. Y., last week, by Judge Wallace. Sepurate bills in equity had been filed by Wil- ‘ liam D. Andrews ef al. against William Verbeck and twenty-two others, for ialleged infringement of the Green drive well patent. Green claims to ‘have invented the driven well in 1861, at Cortland, N. Y. Numerous affidavits were filed by the respondent in the.case, showing that driven wells ‘wete put down at Saratoga Springs in 18’;&. and on the county fair grounds there, in 1850, 1860 and 1861. The complainants liled several afidavits iy ‘Tebuttal, but Judge Wallace refused the injunction on the ground of previous use. A preliminary injunction: has been recently refused in cases at Grand Rapids and Detroit. These decisions may have a tendeney to put an end to the driven well imposition.

. Miss ANNA MCKEEVER, of Brook--Iyn, N. Y, recently died from the ef fects of having her ears pierced. . 3 gl s 5 o e ; A GOOD BUGGESTION. -

It has been suggested that the pen sion list be published in order that the public may know to whom t,he.prusi'uin money is paid. The ideais a grod on: and should be carried out vy all weaus. Millions of dollars are paid vut of the public treasury annually, and the peo ple may be a litlle anxious to kuvow who get the benefit of the money. If the list were published many uiideserving cases might be brought to light, and the deserving claimauts would surely not object to haviug their names made public. There i 8 no doubt that many an able bodied man is to-day drawing pension money to which he has no right, meén who would have hard wo -k to t¢ll in what way their health has been impaired in the service of their couutry. -There are still men who are really entitied to a pension, but who have never receiv ed one. Nb one wishes or desires to see such a person deprived of his rights, but when so many fraudulent claims are allowed it is time public att~ntion was called to the matter. We know of no better way to do this than to have the entire list published. Pablicity should be the rule io the case of all public acts and records. Why not in this?. - - ; :

| A'LITTLE CHAT WITH PARENTS. . ,'f‘Anvold subject, but vne that will always' have a meaning, is generally a 200 d oue, aod advice, though it may have been given in Noah's time, if good, will always be acceptable, We will suppose that boys and girls, too, are very much the same in all ages and in all climés. . We will suppose that they all'like fun and “a food time.” Pavrents, here i 8 a plamm question: Would you prefer to have your boys and girls have “a good time” at some one else’s fireside, er worse still, on the street, than in your own home? If not, do you try to make your home a home in every sense¢ of the word? Or do'you make that sacred spot only a place wherein your children may eat, and drink, and sleep? Do you allow them free access to the pleasuntest parts of the house? Do you allow them to romp avd play as healthy children’ should? Do you give them leave to invite their very best friends and playmites to visit them oceasignally? If not, why not? As they grow older, do you enc.urage them to read good books and papers, and discuss the respective merits of each in a pleasant and profitable maznner, or do vou sternly prohibit the use of all books except schoolf books?. Arve you laboring wunder the too common mistake that a school boy or girl should not read anything outside of the regularly prescribed school reading? If ‘80! and your children have any taste for reading, rest assured that they will find some way of gratifying that taste. It will not always be judicious reading which they select, either. Oftener than not it will be some cheap, trashy tale that should be burned before leaving the publisher’s hands. Would you not prefer to select your children’s reading, rather than trust to the very questionable books and papers which they may be able to borrow und read on the sly ? Ilave‘enough. but not too | much, of good reading for your children when the brain demands a change }from the dry facts fourd in school ‘books, a~d you may depend upon it, ithey wiil eventg‘ally ‘prove to be brighter and better informed than those to whom such reading is denicd. ~ Theré are numerous ways by which i\home may be_made the pleasantest ‘place on earth to the children, and parents are neglecting a sacred duty if ‘they do/not do all in their power to }make',pleashnt ‘the short time their children have to stay ‘with them.

- PLUCK IIN POLITICS. The Necessity of Boldly Strike | ing for Primciple, lAml Appealing to the Intelligent Judg- ‘ " ment of the People, | —_—— « { Instead of Conducting Politieal Cawmpaigus asa | Mere Scramble for Office. ~ (From the Columbus Herald, Jan, 14, 158&)‘ SEn A GOOD KEY NOTE. ~ Mr. John B. Stoll, who is at the head }of the Executive Committee of the Democratic Editorial Association, is a sagacious aund discreet politician, while be is at the same time a bold and outspoken one.. 1f sach men as he were ‘permitted -to shape the course of the democratic press of Indiana, we be lieve it would redound to the greater benefit of the party. True, we havea ‘large number of most excellent papers whose editors boldly avow their positions on the leading issues now before the parties, and {o these, all hon or and praise. But we have another large number of democratie papers| so-called, that only do nof uphold the democratic idea, but on the contrary have joined with the Republicans in regard to the questions of the amendments, and timidly acquiesece in the purpose of the “sagacious leaders” of ‘the Republicans, of ‘“keeping the ‘amendments out of politics.” These ‘need, not only backbose, but more, they need a most thorough schooling. 1n the principles of the party they claim to advocaté. The paper that ‘does its party good must fight, must roll up its sleeves and seize upon whatever there is to do in an honorable, manly way, without waiting to ascertain what others may do orsay. Piant ed upon the bed-rock of democratic principles one may not hesitate, fearing to go wrong. The more one tem porizes or dallies the more surely will his Influence wane and his word go for naught. o i

In an interview on the day of the recent State Editorial convention, Mr. Stoll expressed the following sentiments, and we commend his words to the weak-kneed, hoping that a little of his spirit and his outspoken democra¢y, imbibed, may sour the timid to action, It i 8 not to be expected that those democratic papers which favor the: amendments will be pleased with Mur. Stoll’s outspoken declarations, but they seem to embody s “key-note” for the coming campaign, with which all tiue Democrats are in accord:

We must meet the issues of the day with a bold front., There must be no shirking of responsibility. Our own State can be redeemed next fall if we press the Republicans into an espousal of their own measures as devised by a Republican Legislature. Inorder to evade the fulfillment of their promises to the temperance men they resorted to the proposal of certain amend,: ; ments to the constitution. Their most sagacious leaders are doing their utmost to evade a direct issue upon these measures, and they are very anxious to secure the assistance of Democrats in what they are pleased fo term “keeping these amendments out of polities.” Forone ILam not disposed to aecommodate them, They have made the’issue, and 1 propose to hold them to it. It is their measure, not ours, They should be made to father their own bantling. As a friend and advoeate of sobriety Lam in favor of the old democratic doctrine of a well-regulated license law a 8 against all vigionary schemes at &rohibitory legislation. lam quite confident that by an adherence to dechmﬂc ‘theo-

ries upon the question we can successfully meet the opposition before any enlightened community. Egquivocation would be ruinous, We would forfeit the respect of not only thousands of independent voters, but also of thousands of democratic voters who have very decided opinions on this question, e ]

THE NEWS.

Compiled from Latest Dispatches.

2 . H » » Trial of Guiteau, the Assassin. THE Guiteau trial openéd on the morning of the 19th with a short speech from the prisoner, complimenting the New York Court of Appeals upon its alleged decision in relation to the question of insanity, from which the defense claim to derive some comfort. Mr. Scoville then resumed his argument and attempted to show from the eviden®e that, atthe time of the shooting, the prisoner was perfectlyg;a!m and ecool, and in condition, as regards nerves and intellect, at variance with the hy}){oghesxs of sanity under such clmgmstances. € eomlained that the tprosecut! 11 had failed to: call Betective McElfresh, whose evidence would ‘have been of service to the prisoner. The pris‘oner stated that Judge Porter had been pretending to be sick for two days. He lpoged it would be providential to keép him sick. e hoped the Lord would take him' down below quyck and then send for Corkhill. As Mr. Scoville proceeded Mr. Corkhill made frequent andg slighting comments until, becoming irritated, he turned upon the District-Attorney ‘and denounced his untair conduct, and instanced his production as evidence a letter written by the prisoner which he (Corkhill) had intercepted and mautilated by cutting off the signature . and such portions as he thought might benetit the prisoner, “‘a thing,” said Mr. Scoville, ** which was never before permitted in a court of justice, not: even upon the trial of a civil suit.” . Mr. Scoville continued and said his main desire in the defense of the prisoner was- not a counsideration for the honor of the family, but to save the American Nation and the American judiciary from the disgrace of hurrying to the gal- | lows an insane man. After recess Mr. Sco« viile continued his review of the evidence, and | claimed that the prisoner had been frank and outgpoken in all things, and that he had con- | versed at the jail with everyone the prosecution sent there, and always without reserve., Had he been sane, and playing a part, he would not have done so. Commenting upon the absence of motives, Mr. Scoville ‘gaid: ** You cannotfind an instance in history, you cannot suppose a case, where a man forty years of age, who has never before committed & crime, who has never for an hour associated with criminals or bad ngg' who, on the con-~ trary, has always sought t gociegy, not only of the better ¢lass of people, but of Christian people; you cannot conceive of suéh a man's committing such a crime withouta motive; .nothing. but the theory of , insalgy can possibly dccount - for such an ~act as Guitean’s,”” Mr. Scoville s then dig¢ussed the nssumﬁ)ti(m that Guiteau might - have been actuated by a desire for revenge, “and argucd the ixn})mbabi]ity of such as- - sumption, from the fact that if any ground for iﬁ-will existed on Guiteau’s part it was ,against Secretary Blaine, and, according to ‘ the inexorable laws of the mind, it would “have been c¢xecuted.against him. ‘“There ~cannot possibly be shown,” said Mr. Scoville, “any ill-will on his ﬁrart toward President Gartfield.” . :Mr. Scoville next teaok up: the hypothesis that the erime, was committed from an overpowering desire for notoriety, and claimed that history failed to point out a cage where such a crime was committed purely and simply from such a motive, and that it was incompatible with reason and impossible for the human mind to conceive . such a ‘motive as sufficient to induce any sane man to commit such a crime. *“That he killed the President as- a disappointed office-seeker is more than improbable,” said Mr. Scoville; * for had ' he brooded over some wrong of this kind something of his dinm)ointment would have cropped out, He would haye said something in. his intercourse with other people indicating his disappointment or bad temper on the subject. Nothing would have been more natural in the interval before he made up his .mind to kill the President.” Mr. Scoville severely criticised the conduct of Dr. Worcester, of ;Massachusetts, an alleged expert, and charged the District-Attorney with having tampered with him. The Court here adjonrned. Mg. BCOVILLE resumed his argument in the Guiteau case on the morning of the 20th, ealling especial attention'to the testimony of Dr. Hamilton, whom he termed “one of the Government cons;gratm*s.” He said that from the very start Dr. Hamilton had perverted his testimony and studiously made use of the hardest adjectives, showinﬁ the'intensity of his feeling, as though every effort on his part was designed to secure: beyond peradventure the conviction of the prisoner.. “In short,” Mr. Scoville said, “his feelings led him to transcend the bounds of truth, and these expressions are used by him, as it appears to me, for the express pur(s)osc of manufacturing a feeling in your minds against the prisoner.”” Mr. Scoville continued, with frequent interruptions on the Bart of the District-Attorney. Taking uP the ia%mm of Guiteau’s head offered in evidence by Dr. Hamilton, Mr. Scoville said: *“I progose to show you that Dr. Kempster lied when e told you that' this diagram was a correct representation of the shape of Guiteau’s head. He attempted to convince you that Guiteau had an unusually symmetrical head, and I - propose to showi'ou that his evidence in this respect was absolutely false.” Mr. Scoville contended that Dr. Gray’s tables of hpmicides by insane persons were prepared for this case, and do not correspond with the tables for the sane years in Gray’s official reports. In read-ing-an accountof one case of homicide, Scoville said: ** Had the District-Attorney been there, he would have said, probably, ¢ Put him on {irial for murder, and hang him; this is a ‘case of devilish depravity.’ » After * recess Mr. Scoville said “the laws were framed for® the _&unishmont of sanc people, not the insane. “When aman has overstepped the boundary line of sanity, and has committed crime, he should not be puneished as should a sane man. If you find a rea~ sonable doubt, as the law mereifiilly declares | Of his sanity, you shall give him the benefit of it. The object of human punishment is not for revenge.” Mr. Scoville discussed at some length the demoralizing influence of the scaffold, and expressed his opinion that crimes ‘would be diminished by the abolition of capital punishment. He then proceeded to anticipate the argument of Jud;{e Porter, and to point out to the jlg{?' the fallacy of the arguments which he predicted Judge Porter would advance to support the theory of the prosecution and to secure the hanging of Guiteau. In conclusion he said: “ It has often been said that our jury trials are a farce, and I have in my practice frequently heard it said that tze Jury system ought to be abolished—because juries make a. mistake, bedause they are influenced by the eloquence of advoeates, because they are influenced, not by justice, not by evidénce, but by the last address—but, gentlémen, I thank God that there was a time when my English antestors stood up against wrong and injustice, and ‘wrested from a despot the right of trial by 111:')’, and I haye never yet seen the time when would wish to see that right abolished. I feel more se¢ure and more safe in this mode of the administration of justice than in any other., 80 long ‘as juries are honest, it does not require that you should have read Kent or Blackstone. It requires that you should have honest hearts and clear heads, and above all, that you should be fearless to find for tho right, regardless of what may come, regardless of whether your fellow-men may approve it or not. This is what I shall expect of you, gentlemen, and 1 believe that you will'do it. I leave the case with you, gentlemen, thanking Youfor your kind attention.” . : ' The District-Attorney stated thnta on behalf of the Govemm_ent, he would withdraw all ob.‘jlecnon to Guiteau’s addressing the jury. udge Cox said he had decided to allow the gm}onor to speak, and the latter said he should eliver to the jury the speech already published. The Court hereupon adjourned with. the understandmg that Guiteau would speak -on the following day.

Uprox entering the court-room on the morning of the 21at, Guiteau took hisseat in the wit-ness-box and read a speech from manuseript. Ho said the prosecution thought he was wicked and Mr. Scoville that he was a lunatic. He -Baid ke was alunatic on the 2d of July. The jury had nothing whatever to do with his condition befog'e or since the killing. If they had any doubt that he was sane at the moment of the killing, it was their duty to give him the benetit of that doubt, and -acquit him. 1f he fired the shot on his own account he was sane; ‘but if he fired supgosing_ that he was the agent of the beity, then he was insane, and the jury must acquit. The recent decision by the New York Court of AEPeals he considered'a special Providence in his favor, and he asked the Court and jury so to consider_it. He then read. his %reviously prepared speech. After thankiugc is counseél and paying al?lgh compliment the zeal ,%qd ability ef Mr. Scoville, to whom he promiﬂe a 8 liberal fee, he extended Jhis grateful acknoywl~ edgment to.-the Court; the gury and the gress. During the reading of his address e broke down and burst into tears, At one time he leaned toward the iury and said, with an attempt at great soemnity of utterance: * I tell you, gentlemen, {]ust as sure as there is & God in Heaven, if lYou arm a hair of my head this Nation will go down in blood. You can put my body in, the frave‘, but there will be a day of reckoning.” n the most natural mannerimaginable Guiteau e‘x&ﬂamed that the reason he did not * take Gartield away two weeks before he did” was because he had no authoritdy to nemove Mrs. ‘Garfield. “When the time did come,” he saif in an ail;{ tone, * I removed him gently and gracefully.” He concluded: “The jury mafl put my body in the ﬁmund, but my soul wi g 0 marching on.” ere he chanted weirdly one stanza of **John Brown’s Body,” closing with “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah.” The court adjourned until the §3d. 4 -

Congressional.

INthe Senate on the 17th Mr. Plumb pre‘sented a petition from citizens of Kansss favoring woman suffrage. New bills were introduced: By Mr. Conger, to provide for a Commission on the alcoholic liquor traffic; by Mr. Cameron (Wis.), to authorize the cutting and sale of dead and damaged timber on Indian reservations; bﬁ,Mr. Blair, granting a pension to Lucretia R. Garfield. Mr. Beok continued his remarks upon the Tlngalls resolution, declaring that the ' PensionArrears law cught ‘not to be repealed, and stated that® in 1879 the Pension Commissioner had reported that frauds on the Peusion Bureau had resulted from the Ap-rears-of-Pension law. Mv. Sherman’d Funding bill was further debated... In the House M&. Armfield offered a resolution for a committee tomvestigate internal revenue abuses in the Sixth District of North Carolina. - Mr. Belmont presented a resolution calling for t.. > correspondence relative to efforts 1o secure poage between Chili, Perpand Bolivia. M. Robe:on called up the retgox't of the Committee on Rules, and stated that the thirteen committees whose membership it was proposed to increass had before them nearly ninéty per cent, of'ajl the business of the House. Debate occupying ' the remainder of the day took place over the report. A Cigt

THE bill: to permit Ward Hunt, Associath Justice of the Supreme Court, of the United States, to retire, was reported favorably in fhe Senate on the 18th. A resolution was adopisa that the Committee on Public Lands inquirg into the adminfstration of the Land laws and report recommendations, Mr. Brown argued, at great length on his resolution ::{.mlnst the withdrawal of silver certificates and in favo{ of bimetallism. The Sherman Fuudinlg bwt was taken up, and Mr. Morgan ingisted th thé'v%vmmew in cleven yea's take nﬁ the contintied 8 without drawing a cent’ from the urf:lus revenues. Mr. Fervy ine trdduoe‘dn’bﬂ to fix the compensation of lettemcarriors. .. In the House Mr. Haskell announced that the Committee on Claims: had Bix lxglxrxdred'bms‘undcr consideration. M, onl offored a vesolution for prlntmg threo ‘thousand coptes of the report of the Guiteau al, for tho uge of members, Mr. Hopking,

from the Coinage Committse, made a report on the subject of metrie coinage, favoring a bill to .gnhori_z{g; metrie coin for international use, to be known as “the stélla;” and of a bill to authorize the coinage of a goloid metric dollar, two dollars, and fractions of a doliar;. also, for the coinage of & metric double oagle. | cagle and half cagle, all of standard value. The Téport was recommitted, - ° 'TrE Scuate on the 19th passed—4l to H—the “bill to permit Associnte Justice Hunt, of the Supreme Court, to ‘lﬁt!tp;.j(r.;wm!ams intro-" duced a bill appropriating $750,000 for a Gow ernment building at %T_Jou%vme. Ky. Resoln tions from the Lesii‘smnte of West Virginia were presented, aski tha:ﬂ,{)roducers of leaf tobacco be not m;uiﬁi to e-out a license. A prolonged debate cnsued on _ the Three-per-cent, Fum}lng{ bill. Adjoutned to the 23d....Tn the #iouse, Mr. Bayne, from the Committee on Military = Affuairs, reported a bill for the establishment of a home for indigent soldicrs and sailors at Erie, Pa. After considérable debate, the Tém port of the Committe: on Rules, increasing the membership of the various committees, waus—ls9 t) ¢o—referved back to the committee. The Speuaker presented several mcssag{es from the President in connection with Indian and army matters. - X : T Senate was not in Session on the 20th.... In the House six private bills were considered in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House and passed. The Fortification Appror priation bill ($375,090) was reported from Committee. - Adjourned to the 23d. : = e ——— G Domestle. . Tne New Haven Grand Jury has found true bills of indictment against the Malleys and Blanche Douglass for the murder of Jennie Cramer. . Tne committee having in charge the project of holdiiig'a World’s Fair in Boston in 1885 have abandoned the undertaking as impracticable. Tue Wisconsin State Grange met in Milwaukee on the 17th. § 4 : Ix New Hampshire on the morning of the 18th the thermometer. indicated twenty-four degress below zero. 2 Owixa to the prevalence of small-pox, the Virginta Legislature has appointed a committee to report on the advisability of ahandoning Richmond. ; THE product of pregious metals last¥year in thé region west of ghe Migsouri River is estimated by Wells, Fargo & Co. at $31,869,636 in gold and $45,077,820r5i1ver. : Tre Dickenstn County Court Housé at Abilene, Kansas, and the county records were destroyed by fire on the morning of the 17th. Property valued at $35,000 was burned. GovERNOR CORNELL made the Spuyten Duyvil . railroad . disaster the subject of a special message to the Legislature of New York on the 18th. He pronounced the oceurrence an absolutely inexcusable one. Jayes A. WinLmor, a farmer mnear Lancaster, Ky., killed his mother, wife and two daughters with an ax, and hanged himself in “his barn on the 18th. .

A BRIDGE in process of construction over Rolling Fork, near Lebanon, Ky., was undermined by high water on the 18th. Of six men at work, one was Killed and four seriously injured. : : -~ A COAL-BREAKER in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, uperateﬁky J. C. Hayden & Co., was damaged by fire on the 18th to the extent of $§200,000. i :

.Ox the 18th James. Sullivan and William Howard were arrested at Seattle, W. T., for, the murder of one George R. Regnolds; and were brought before a magistrate for preliminary examination. At the close, a Committee of Safety forced its way into the courtroom, overpowered the- officers, took the prisoners to a neighboring tree and deliberately hanged them. Benjamin Payne, a prisoner confined for murder, was also hanged. The Committee resolved to continue its organization, and issued a notice that persons guilty of highway robbery in the city will, if arrested, receive the penalty of death in a-summary manner. :

At Lewis, Mo:, on the night of the 18th a mother and four of her children—one of the latter being a young lady, snother a young ‘man and two little ones—perished in the flames of their burning house. The father and two other’ children narrowly escaped with their lives.

. CHARLES E. BERRIDGE, a torpedo-shooter in the employ of the Roberts Torpedo Company, was killed by an explosion of nitro-glycerine near Bolivar, N. Y., the other afternoon. Berridge had just shot a well, and was returning to the glycerine magazine with two cans containing four quarts of the compound. Inleaying the wagon with the cans in his arms he stumbled, fell and was literally blown to pieces, his remains being scattered for rods around. The team of horses was killed. In Bolivar the shock was severely felt, windows being broken and ho'u;cs shaken. & A FEW days ago Adolph A. Cohn, an agent of the Alaska Commercial Company, being short in his accounts, killed himself, at San Francisco, with a revolver. i . IN the counting-room of the Sentinel, at Indianapolis, early on'thé morning of the 20th, Greenbury B. Hawkins, the night clerk, was accidentally shot dead by a carrier named John Greene. Tne whelesale shoehouse of A. W. Bartlett & Co., of Atchison, Kan., suspended on the 20th, with liabilities of $60,000.

Joux F. Besr, clerk of the Light-House Board at San Francisco, was arrested on the 20th for forging signatures to Government ‘vouchers and embezzling $15,000. Ture National Board of ITealth on the 20th declared small-pox épidemic in the Unitéd States, and- ordered an inspeetion of several Jimportant quarantine-stations to ascertain if ‘the rules of the Board are enforced. Tue Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that for the past twelve months ended December 31, ‘21,200,921 pounds of butter, valued at $4,072,517, and 140,357,826 pounds of cheese, valued at $15,506,871, were exported from this country. i Ix the United States Court at Chicago recently Judge Drummond decided that a passenger has no claim for damages who attempts to alight from a car until it has actually stopped. * : : Tae city-of Washington has been' quarantined against the small-pox. All persous arriving there from towns and cities in which the small-pox exists are subjected to examination. . i i i

-DuriNG the month of December, 1881, there arrived in this country 87,037 immigrants. ATa recent meeting of the trunk railroad magnates in New York all differences on the subject of freight rates were placed on an amicable footing, and the famous war of the trunk lines was declared ended. o Tur National Board of Health officials at Washington maintain that the present smallpox epidemic originated from the immigrants who arrive at Castle Garden, infected with the disease, and carry it West in the emigrant trains. S .

GREGORY BTERNOXI, an Italian merchant of Petersburg, Va., was recently convieted of receiving stolen tobacco, and sentenced to receive twenty stripes at the public whippingost. : A MURDERER was lynched at Ironton, Ohio, at midnight on the 19th.’ . A stockyMaN from Wordsworth, Ind., was slugged by a thief and robbed of aver $l,OOO, in Chicago, on the evening of the 20th. * The robber escaped. T - At Hampton, Pa., on the 20th, while William Cork was dying of smiall-pox, his wife placed a lighted candle in his hands and knelt beside the bed in 'prayer. She instantly snecumbed to exhaustion, the bedding was set on fire, and she and her ¢hildand husband perished in the flames. 2

THIRTY-NINE cases of small-pox’ were discovered in New York during the week ended the 21st, 4,800 vaceinations being performed. Cincinnati repbrted 122 patients under treatment on the 21st, and on thot day forty new cases were discovered at Pittsburgh and eight in Chicago. § . A. ProsPaNER & Co., cotton factors of Mobile, Ala., suspended on the 21st. - Their liabilities are reported at-over- $lOO,OOO, most of which amount is due to New York parties. A FIRE which originated in the candy factory of ¥. E. Black, at Atlanta, Gsa., on the 21st destroyed seven buildings, on! which the loss was estimated at $500,000. Tue flood at Nasghville, Tenn., on the 21&t surpassed sanything ever seen there. Ten thousand persons had fled from their homes, and two thousand workmen were unemployed. North Nashviile was cut off, and the breaking of the gas-pipes left South Nashville in darkness. por

A COLLISION occurred on the 21st on the Savannah Road, about twenty-seven miles from Charleston, .between passcnger trains. Mail Agent Fox and a colored fireman were killed and Mal Agent Beerbridge fatally inJured. Five others were scriously-hurt. e i Personal and Politieal.

- CAprrAIN GEORGE E. Tysox, who drifted for seven months on an ice-floe in the Arctic regions, is said to heartily indorse the scheme of Cheyne to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloons.” v ’ Ptk

Tre Jowa Legislature on the 17th elected _James . Wilson Senator for the long term, and Judge McDill for the Kirkwood vacancy. SENATOR LAMAR was re-elected by the Legislature of Mississippl on the 17th, the Republican yote being cast for General Fitzgerald. - Tar announcement was made from Wash. ington on the 17th that it had been ascertained that Captain Howgate’s defalcation would reach a total of $300,000. - Jonx W. GuireAv, brother of the assasins, “Baid on the 17th that he expected his brother would be hung by the Ist of April. . Bl g Tup, Natiopal Committee of the Uniom

League of America have been called to meet ‘at Washington on the 7th of February. = ~ Ir is announced that Attorney-General Brewster has decided to revive the practice of ‘appearing before the Supreme Court in all cases involving impd?rﬁmt public interests. - Nicworas Ravos, of Erie, Pa,, now reveals the fact that when he was at the Washington ‘depot on the morning of July 2 he saw Guiteau, heard him tell a man he was talking to, balf laughing, and not at all excitedly, that he was going to shoot some one that day and that then Arthur would be President. Then hesaw him follow the President into the ladies’ room and shoot him. . g [’ A Tucsox dispatch of the 17th says: “ Gen- | eral Carr has beén placed under arrest by or!der of ‘the President. The cause is not definitely ascertained, but it is reported, on good authority, that it is on account of certain facts brought out at the recent ;trial of Indian scouts. . ‘ THE centennial anniversary of Daniel Webster’s birth was. very generally observed throughout the New England States on the ‘ 18th: e ol Huao PREYER has issued a call for a Union Greenback National Convention to be held in- ! Bt. Louis March 8, 1883. ' - v | It has transpired that the charges’ against General Carr are disrespect, misstatements in complaints to higher authority, disobedience of orders and misconduct of the Indian campaign. General Carr telegraphs that he is ready for any kind of an investigation. At its recent meeting in Washington the National Board of Trade adopted resolutions favoring the creation of g Ministry of Commerce, its occupant to be*a member of the Cabinet ; for increasing the efficiency of the life-saving se'wicei the passage of the Lowell Bankruptey bill; an& one in favor of making the Consular service subserve the interests of commerce. . } ON the 21st the Senate Committee on Pensions unanimously agreed to report a bill giving Mrs. Lincoln $15,000 for arrears and increasing her pension to $5,000. : HexrY RoOCKWELL, Secretary of the United States Fish Commission, dropped dead at his residence in Washington on the 22d. g : Forelgn. i WuniLe a bull-fight was in progress-at” Matanzas, Cuba, the other day, the fall of a scaffolding precipitated three hundred persons into the stables, one being killed and many injured. - L : Havixeg considercd the cases of the Irish suspects who are Members of Parliament, the British Cabinet has decided that the leaders of the Land League have no claims to exceptional treatment. 2. _ ON the evening of the 17th fire broke out in a Rotterdam theater. In thg panic several jumped from the balconies. The fire was soon extinguished. But few persons were injured. ! ELEVEN Vienna firms declared themselves insolvent on the 17th. : THE first appeal from a reduction of rent by the Land Commissioners at Belfast was thrown out by the Court of Appeal on the 19th and the tenant gets a material allowance. : Apvices from Egypt represent . that the material support of England and France is necessary to uphold "the authority of the Khedive. Sir DANIEL MACONEE, President of the Royal Scottish Academy, and well known as a portrait painter, is dead. & '

A bDETACHMENT of the 11th -Austrian infantry had a fight with eighty insurgents in Herzegovina on the 19th, and drove them to the mountains, six regulars being wounded and six rebels killed. :

MoxTrEAL reported three failures on the 19th. Alphonse Marcotte, a dry-goods dealer, Habilities, $300,000; William McLarin & Co., shoe manufacturers, liabilities, $70,000; and the Tumber firm of McGouvron, Tucker & MeDonnell, labilities, $30,000. : : Frames broke out in, the Circus Kremsier at Bucharest on the 19th, and spread with such rapidity - that many men and horses were burned to death. ;

Tre Nihilists who attempted the life of General Tcherevine at St. Petersburg, were on the 19th sentenced to twenty years in the mines of Siberia. ! ; Tae Greek Consul at Manfalout, in Upper Egypt, has been murdered by the natives. * O~ the 18th Beaumiene, a cashier in tflq French Treasury, committed suicide because of some unfértunate speculations on the Bourse, = Iy a collision on the 18th between French and Italian workmen ona French railway three rioters were killed and twenty wounded. A rATE London dispatch says. the explosion’ which destroyed the sloop-of-war Doteril, in the Straits of Magellan, last April, was similar in all respects to the one which took place recently on board the flagship Triump, in the Pavcific station. 3

THE jail term of Parnell- and the other Irish members of Parliament and Land Leaguers has*been extended for three months.

ExGISEER MELVILLE, of the Arctic steamer Jeannette, telegraphed the Secretary of the Navy from Irkutsk, Siberia, on the 20th, that he and his party of eleven men were all well at that pointe No tidings werereceived of the missing second cutter.

Tuge Herzegovinians slaughtered a squad of ten Austrian soldiers, near Dobar, on the 20th and burned their quarters. - AN attempt to assassinate President Salomon, of Hayti, was made on the 21st by five armed men, who had secreted themselves in the executive mansion. Forty arrests were made in connection with the plot. |

A CABLEGRAM on the 21Ist stated ‘that the insurrection in Herzegovina was becoming more formidalle. Insurgentcorps were forming in the mountains, and the orthodox Mohammedan population were in full sympathy with the revolt. The garrison of Ragusa was sent forward in the night to reinforce endangered posts, and two thousand additional troaps were shipped from Trieste.

. Tne suspension was announced on the 21st of the Canada Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company, which had done business for over thirty years. . A PASTORAL létter from Archbishop MeCabe, urging the people to refrain from violence, was read on the 22din all the Catholi¢ churches of Dublin. :

TaE Marquis of Lorne and Lady Balfour arrived at Halifax on the 21s¢ and took a special train for Ottawa.

- LATER NEWS. : A rorriox of .the Catholic Orphan Asylum at Woreester, Mass., was burned on the 23d. Fifty-two children were rescued, but one was suffocated, ¥ | ‘Tug inancial panie in Prance continued on the 23d, and business on the Paris Bourse was completely ‘paralyzed. _Tue bouse of Henry Cleer, of Des Moines, Towa, took fire in the absence of his wife on the 23d, ‘and two small boys were burned beyond recognition. : "CHARLES DANA, engaged in the beef trade at Boston, failed and fled on the 23d. His liabilities are stated at £lOO,OOO. o CrargsoN N. PoTTery-2 very prominent member of the Forty-fifth Congress, died at New York City on the morning of the 23d from an apoplectic stroke. - Ile was fifty-seven years old. " x ;

At Fort Garry, Manitoba, on the night of the 22d the thermometer registered thirtytwo degrees below zero, and at St. Vincent, Dakota, thirty-seven below. .

Ix the United States Sepate on the 234 Mr. Anthony submitted resolutions of respeet for the memeory of General Burnside, and addresses were delivered by Messrs. Edmunds, | Hampton, Ransom, Harrison and others. In the House bills were in- ‘ troduced: By Mr, Pacheco, to repeal the land | grant of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Compauy; by Mr. Farwell, for publishing a list of all-persons receiving or claiming pensions, or ‘to whom pensions have been refused; by Mr. Carpenter, to grant- pensions to all persons engased in ‘lndian wars prior to 1840, or ta their widows; by Mr. Willis, to regulate and limit Chine ¢immigration; by Mr. Van Hornegq to establish a Unitéd States Court in Indian Tervitory: by M, €assidy, to establish a Bureant of Mines and Mining; by Mr. Harmer, 'izrm-tinz a gratuity to persons having served aithfully twenty-five continuous years in the ‘.‘,ostul service of the United States: by Mr. Warner, to reduce the salaries of the heads of departients. It fixes salaries as follows: President, $30,000; members of Congress,. £4,000; Leads of dg:gartments, $7,000; Chiet Justice of the United States Suprenie Court, %9.500% Associate Justices, $9,000; by Mr. Hazelton, granting - pensions to yersons disabled in the life-saving service or postal service of the United States; biy Mr. Dunnell, to reduce and le%ulate the duties on sugar :nd molasses. ‘Public business was sus-< peuded and gulogies upon the life and memory of Senator Burnside were delivered.

Jubae PORTER commenced his argument for the prosecution in the trial of Guiteau om the23d. e pictured the man as the vilifier of woman, the hypocrite, liar and coward. He showed the jury that the insinuations of Guiteau that the witnesses’ and counsel for the nrosecution were paid large fees were false. He also stated that Guiteau was mistaken when he elaimed that the &ress and the peof!_e of this country entertained sympathy for him. -As the prisoner haﬂ"e%noted scripture, Judge = Porter - retalial by ° quoting the forty-foar:ih verse c&:{ .{ohrtl' ':riis. m prieoner was greatly mov by the seathing remarks of %ﬁ‘ Pgrwr, and S&s, very noisy during the éntireday. At the hour'of augonm,men't: Judge Porter had not ‘finished:his remarks. i

~ INDIANA STATE NEWS. . e e Dr. Hawn, Secretary of State, received a let- | ter the other day, direeted ‘to *‘The Clerk of the State of Indiana,” from a Justice of the Peace in a northern county, in which he says: that * the Note of Republic” in his town has died, and his friends want him to apply for the. position. .He evidently thinks that there can be but one Notary Public in a town, and gives the postmaster as reference as to his capabilities, ete. g : Hon. J. M. Bloss, Superintendent of Publie Instruction, had a case referred to him recent- | ly in which a school-teacher struck one of his pupils on the head, pulled his hair, and did several other highly reprehensible things. Mr, Bloss has sustained the action of the County Superintendent in revoking the tosclier's. license, his formal decision concluding as fol* lows: ‘“The statement of the defendant upon the trial that he had the right to pull the bair and ears of the pupil, to strike pupils on the head with his hand, shows that there is an en_ tire. want of the knowledge ofithe Gbjects of punishment. 1t is difficult to perceive how punishment can he so adimninistered except from a spirit of revenge.”’ : A Mormon preacher has recently been holding a series of meetings in New Albany. Ife had large audiences but no converts are reported. . The State Bureau of Statistics has com. pleted a table of the number of women working at various occupations in the State, showing the following interesting totals: Actresses, 29: apiarists, 44; authoresses, 95; bartenders, 105; boarding-house keepers, ~816; book agents, 236; book-binders, 117; basketmakers, 91; clerks;93l; cotton milloperatives, 134; copyists, 103; elocutionists, 31; dentists, 21; druggists, = 47; factory operatives, 1,676; florists, 87; farmers, 3,118; fruit growers, 79; government employes, 4513’ housekeepers, 2.310; hotel Kkeepers, 153; inventors, 28; insurance agents, 86; lectu rers, 36; librarians, 91; liquor merchants’ 22; manufacturers, 389; matrons of hos. pitals, 23; merchants, 489; milk dealers, 129; ministers, 138; nurses, 662; paper mill operatives, 734 printers, 78; photographers, 40; physicians, 166; prison and reformatory superintendents, 10; portrait painters, 72; postoffice clerks, 134; postoffice mistresses, 93; professional musicians, 523; professiona readers, -56; restaurant keepers, 85: saloon keepers, 83; shoemakers, 113; Sisters of Charity, 340; taxidermists, 15; telegraph operators, 61; telephone operators, 50; tobaceo operatives, 123; woolen mill operatives, 272, The number of school teachers will be determined by the report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. : " Some days ago Henry B. Hoopor was acquitted in Boone Couuty on an indictment charging him with Killing bis brother John last August.. The alleged killing occurred in Tippecanoe County, but by change of venue ~the case was tried in Boone County with: the result stated. The people of Romney, near which the deed was committed, recently held an indignation meeting at which it was resolyed that ‘*such a deecision is an en. ¢ouragement to every vile offender to seek to commit crime of every magnitude under the cover of circumstantial evidence, and 'the manufaeture of grounds for reasonable doubt;’’ *‘ that it iistl}e firm belief of nine-tenths of the citizens of the neighborhood (notwithstanding the decision of the jury) that the said Henry B. Hooper’s hands are imbued with the blood of his brother, and shall remain .in that belief untij his friends and attorneys bring the guilty party to light, when we will be'happy to confess ‘ our error.” **That we are a' united people, | and in. view of the threats heard to have been made will hold the said Henry B. Hooper re. sponsible for any erime that may be committed | againgt anyone in this neighborhood, either to person or property.” From this it would seem that Mr. Hooper's lines have not fallen in'pleasant places. ; ; | - The Indianapdlis grain quotations gre: Wheat—No. 2 Red, [email protected]}5. Corn— Wo. 2, 64@65c. Oats—46@4Bc. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 2 Red, $1:40 @1.41. Corn—No. 2, 653{@66c. = Oats—No. 2, 48@48'%c. Rye-No. 2, [email protected]¢. Barley—[email protected]%4. i sile A man named Smith, who lived near Washington, in, Wayne County, was recently murdered by his son Daniel. _After the killing the corpse was thrown into a well in fhe barn yard, where it rfemained until the neighbors,” alarmed at his absence’ from his accustomed haunts, organized a party and made systematic search for him. Daniel, his brother and Mrs. Smith were subsequently arrested, and each: confessed, Daniel that he committed the deed, and the others that they were aceessory before and after the fact. X 1 The Secretary of State has peremptorily refused to file articles of association sent him from Cosesse, Whitley County, of a so-called, Indiana Aid and Benefit Association, because it has no stockholders and proposed to insure | people between the. ages of twenty and eighty-five. The insurance is on the assessment plan, and is clearly of a grave-yard character, such as the Attorney-General has decided cannot be tolerated under the laws of the State. John Walten, a wealthy farmer residing about ten’ miles frof® Shelbyville, was shot dead a few days ago while reading at a window. ' A negro named Aaron Frazier was suspected, and on being arrested he confessed that he was persuaded to commit the murder by O. M. Garrett, who offered to pay him a large sum of money. Garrett was then taken into custody and soon afterward fatally injured himself with a revolver. Walton’s wife was subsequently arrested as an accomplice. Henry C. Spaulding, who.was once famous. as the inventor of liquid glue, was arrested at New Albany, the other day, for drunkenness.. He said that he sold the right to manufacture to a concern who made a round $1,000,000, but he got nothing out of it, the buyer putting in a defense to the suit brought by Spaulding that the plaintift was a minor when the contract was made.. o At Erie recently, a clergyman’s daughter had her yatch ‘stolen while kneeling with penitent sinners at the altar. A young man who was suspected was next day caught in' the act of digging up the time-piece in a pasture. . | C. C. Bhowers, of Bloomington, was kﬂ]ed‘ by a locomotive at Greencastle, on the 16th. George Oden, of Huntington, while at the house of aneighbor, the other day, complained of symptoms of ague, and asked for quinine. A bottle of the drug was given him, and he swallowed a quantity -‘estimated at sixty grains. In a few hours he rapidly grew worse: and death ensued. iy Sarah Gorhani, who died on the 18th in the County Asylum at Indianapolis where she had resided for thirty-five years, has of late taken daily ninety grains of opium, 'more or less morphine, and ‘a_pint of .whisky. She has been known to consume two hundred grains of opium in a day. = -

n theafternoon of the 18th, W. H. English, of Ina'iiirr‘;k)li_s, late Democratic candidate for Viee President, was somewhat disturbed by a dispatch announcing that Judge Barrett, of the New York Supreme Court, had attached his property in that State on the applicatlon} of William H. Murphy, from New York, who' made Democratic speeches during the campaign, for which he claims he was never paid: Mr. English said in relation to the matter that he was not aware of having any property in New York, nor had he been served with any notice of such legal proceedings. He was not aware of owing Murphy anything, but, if so, he certainly would be able to pay it when the claim was shown to be valid. "Whatéver he may have had to do with Murphy was a 3 Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, and in no other capacity. Ile remempbered that there was a man of that name who made some speechgs in Indiana, which did not prove altogether satisfactory, but he thouglit all of his expenses were paid at that time. ‘ F. Dietz, a wholesale dealer in hides and leather at Indianapolis, failed on the 16th for $15,000. t At its late session in Indianapolis the County Surveyors’ State Association elected the following officers: W. A. Osmer, of Cass County, President; F. €. Vawtor, of Tippecanoe County, Vice-President: John B. Malott, of Lawrence County, Recording Seeretary; H; B: Fatout, of Marion County, Corresponding Seceretary; Isaiah Patt, of Marion County, Treasurer; H. B. Fatout, J. B. Malott, R. L Morrison, L. Salter and Ira McConnell, Executive Committee. Y A At Guthrie, in Lawrence County, a few nights ago, - William Lewis, who had been drinking quite hard for several days, coolly ‘and deliberately loaded his revolver, sat down on the side of 'a bed, and, telling his father he. had made up his mind to leave, shot himself through the left breast. - He died in a few seconds. e : 2y Mrs. Conroy, of Jeffersonville, mother of Bister Assumptia, killed by a railroad collision at Indianapolis, January 2, will sue the | railroad companies for $lO,OOO damages. _ With the exception of ten, all the cointieg in the Btate have received their portion of the | school fund. The total amount of the apportionment fs $364,84, of which §7,500 goes ‘BO the State N rmal School at Terrg ~~ute.

- A Terrible Balloon Accidents ~ | Information {s just received here from ‘Cuaautla, Mexico, of an extraordinary and ter- | rible accident that occeurred there .on Satur- | day. It had been widely advertised that a bal- | loon ascension wonuld be made there on that | day, and alarge number of - nativés had assembled to witness the spectacle., The aeronaut was Seuorita Catalina Gongora, a beauti~ ful young maideu only seventeen yearsof age; whose feats of daring upon the trapeze dur-’ ing balloon ascensions had made. her famous: throughout all Mexico, and whose bravery was only excelled:by her béauty. =~ .. - The balloon, which was inflatedwith hot air; | and was not expected to. make. long flizhts; | had no ear gttached, but in place of it cirvied: a trapeze. \Vheg the moment. for her aseen. sion arrived the intrepid young girl geasped the trapeze, the ropes were cuf, and. amid a ] flourish of musical instruments Senorita Gongora and her frail ship floated toward the' clouds: Cheer upon cheer’ aros® from the crowds below as the brave. voung seroaaut . went through her usual featsuponthétrapeze, | untii the distance finally beeathe so great-that it was hardly possible to ‘distinguish her per--Sormances. S SRR S S . The balloon had reached an elevation of fully three-quarters of a mile, and every éye was still'strained toward it, when suddenly - one great scream arose from the multitude, and the collapsed balloon, with its fair young navigator, was seen to fallswiftly as.a. meteor to the eanth. Horror seemed to frecze the- - for a moment, when, rushing tothe - gpot where the balleon had’ fallen, tliey found - the terribly smashed and inangled body of the -poor young girl lving lifeless beside the wreek of her balloons 2 b

The Mexican women wrang their hands and wept over the dead girl; whose remains were afterward tenderly cared: for by the people and buried in the cemetery near the t.mvn;’ {

It was afterward discovered that the balloon was of altogether too frail construction for the risk of human life, as the material -of which it was made was: flimsy and easily reng asunder.—Laredo (Tex.) Cor. Cincinnati-Times-Star. - See . e ‘.j-;' A

Death leséd ‘by Triechins.

The fatal pork: parasite, grichinw; has again - brought disorder and death to a family wha neglected the precaution of thofoughly cooke ing their meat. | Thursday of Slast ‘week, Dr. .G. M. Emrick was called to wisit she family. ofJohn Straese, ‘@ German, and. the” physician found Stracse, his wife, two men Dhoarders and. a male relative of fhe family suffering severe illness, with symptoms of trichintasis; - He. administered. rewedies,. and the ‘patients’ seemed in a fair. way of recovery, but-in the, case of the womin, Heurietta 'Straese, aged thirty two ycars, the parasités soon leit the internal canals and began to ﬁnil’tipl_’v,_; in the muscles, and she died Thursday in great.agony, and was buried ye:terday e The men are still in a fair way of recovery, and Dr. Emrick believes he can bring tliem through x'*l right.” There aré .three children in the family, but they are mot affected, not: having eaten any of the discased - ineat. By questioning the victims the doctor discovered that at a weglding held -in {he house albout Christmas his patients had partaken of some half-cooked ham, and it was by ‘meuns of this ‘meat that the animalcule entered their systems. Dr. Emrich was seen last night by areporter of the Zribune, and he stated that' he: had removedsome of the muscle from the body of the woman and shlqauitth vit“tn 'e'xamiuat-.-, tion under a microscope, - and. found !.'it to be completely filled with trichine, as. many as 200 of -the parasites appearing in a pirticle one-cighth of an inch in gize and-up--wards of 40,000 in a square inch of the muscle, He stated ‘that the symptoms of illness'in all the cases avere identical,; beginning avith nausea and vomiting, aceompanied by pains 'in the stomach and intestines and muscular contraction and soreness. He 'kxiéwv of ,uo specific treatment, for the discase, and believed that most physicians’ in its treatient would confine themselves to watching the: symptoms and trying to counteract tliem, with a view in “the earlier stages of keeping the parasites out of the mus("ular'tissdcs and confined to the intestinal chandels until they. were. deséroyed. ~ The- fatality - usually ‘' de~ pended upon the amount of the diseaséd meat eaten and the physical condition of the vietim. The men in the présent case areallsfrong and bardy, and, as stated, avill probably recover.— Chicago Tribune, Jan, Bk~ % i o

Accidentally Poisoned,

Rey. James Cameron, pastor of:the Sécond Presbyterian Church, Oskland, was accidents ally poisoned yesterday afternoon by a’ dose. of carbolic acid, administered ‘in mistake by hiswife. He resided with his wife at tha house of Dr: Barber, Oakland, and He was being treated by Dr. Barber. -An operation had. been performed on his. foot on Monday, and. hie was using a carbolic wash for the wound: He wasalso taking a tonic digestive medicine. A few minutes. after four o’clock yesterday afternoon Mrs. Cameéron was reminded i.vy.Dr‘ Barber that the patient had: not, takeh his medicine... She went - ifito " the back room where the medicine was kept. The room was' somewhat dark, the blinds being drawn down,: and Mrs.‘Cameron took a bottle off the mantel, not noticing any other, or thimking of any, other, and filled out a-dose ‘in a ‘wine glass. She brought it to him and he drank off ‘ubout half of it, and then stopped, saying: *‘lt tastes very strong. ’ls"thcre anything in it?’ Then he-swallowedthe remainder of the dose. Mrs. Barber said: :“Could it be anything elset”” - Then Mrg. Cameron perceived the odor of earbolic aeid, audremembered: that, the bottle of carbolic deid was also.onthe mantel. She whispered hér suspicions to Dr. Barber, who quickly obtained au-eu_x'(et.if;'_';md, ordered an antidote. to ‘follow. - The émectic. would not work, as he c¢ould .not . swallow, but they forced down ras much- magnesia and oil as they could. Dr. Wythe amd Dr. Buck were sent for,|but too late to he of any assistance, as he died i a few minutes after, The bottle whieh contained the tonic.mixture hypophiosphites which Mr. Cameron was’ taking was a high-shouldered mediéine bottle, - about three sizes ldrger than the carbolic acid bottle, and both were labeled, but Mrs. Cam-, eron had not been in the habit of giving her husband bis wedicine: “Mr. Cameron was a' native of Greenock, Scotland, and was sixty~' four years-of age.—San Forancisco Bulletin, .

e S e A Brave Woman,,

One day last week Mrs. Douglass Vass, a bride of two weeks, by her coolaess and eour--age saved the life probably of her husband and herself, as-well as their team.. The rains and snows of the last féw.days have made many of the river and creck fords very dangerous. crossings. Mr. Vassand his wife, who was a Miss James, 6f Fauquier; were #ttempting to cross the Rappahanunock, at Beverly’s Ford, in a two-horse wagon, and when near the middle’ of the river théy werewashed: by the: current from the ford and down the dangerous stream. The couplings~becoming - unfastenéd; they were in a perilous. situation| and the gentle--man, losing his presence of ‘mind, éndeavored toleap into the river’ As he'had on his overcoat, he would have in -all” probability been. drowned, but the lady caught him. with one band and with the other guided the horsés to 2 point near the shore, where the wagon-iuug: up. Then,_ insisting on his remaining and looking after the horses, she leaped-into the stream, swam ashore, and went a-mile to Mz, Cunningham’s, the nearest ‘house, for: assist. ance; which in an hour or two. was procured, and the half-drowned and frozen man, with his team, was rescued.—Culpepper (Va.) Uor Baltimore Sun. ! S RAR S

—Some of the books gathered into a noble library by, the late Earl of Craw-= ford, whose remains were stolen nearly a month ago from the Balcarres tomb; possess large value and perennial interest for the. bibliophile. One is the “Catholicon,” printed:-on vellom, in 1460, by. Guttenberg, and' the only known book from the immortal printer’s 'second press; another is the renowned Mazerin Bible, * first® of t-yp'e-gljim,ed ‘books, and,” as ‘many. hold, tlie best: printed of all books; still anothey, .theé ‘¢ Cicero de Officiis,” of 1465; the first printed classic; another, the block book speculum, on which the Dutch have founded their claim to priority in the invention of printing; and again, a large collection of the romances of chivalry,. including the Arthurian and the Carlovingian, nearly all of them being first. aditione: 0 Ed el SR e

—We are told that after the mar‘ria.%e of old Mr. Sickels in New York the other day, the Igrbom gave ‘a dejeuner ala fourchetie at the Belmont Hotel. A very imprudent act at his time of life. - His friends, nodoubt, reasoned with him,’ and endeavored to persuade him not to - commit such an ;inexcusable rashness; but when a,,newlﬁzmarried manof eighty. years makes up his mind to give a_ de- - jeuner a la fourchétte all the argument | in the world will not. convince him that culpam pena premit comes,. Evin go pluribus unum, and so forth. But it | does.— Norristown Herald, SRR

_—A Denver paper records the fact that a dozen eggs are worth more in :gu’murket thap the heéns which: laid

" RELIGIOUS AND: EDUCATIONAL. - » —All the Sunday-school lessons in 1882 will be in thé Gospel of Mark. . - ——lt is understood that, :on the lst?pt January - next, Rev. T. M. Post will cclose his pastorate, now of more than thirty years’ standin%]. over the First Congregational Church of St. Louis. . > —One of the evidences of the power of the Gospel upon heathen savages isseen in Tapitenea, one of the Gilbert Islands, where the people have gathered and burried all their weapons of war, have passed , Erohibitory liquor laws, and imposed eavy fines on those guilty’of Sunday labor or desecration.:

TR T > & - i - —The growth of the Methodistsas a sect has probably been without prece-, ‘dent in rapidity. Their first ** preaching house’’ dates from 1739, at Bristol, - England. But before that an unused foundry in London was so used. The worship in Methodist chapels in En.'Ela,nd to-day is divided into that of the -Liturgical and .non-Liturgical: - Wesleyanism combines both, and in many Wesleyan chanels the service dilers but - little from that of the Episcopal Church. ~—An_English. paper describes. the _prison lif.e‘o% Rev. Mr. Green, the ritu: - alist. ‘Under the easternmost window “of his apartment is an altar, with a gilt ~cross.above it, and candles. b'evcﬁ'al -forms are ranged-around the sides of the room and Mr. Green at times, when anumber of his parishioners amﬁ“r}ends -visit him, practices his functions as a - clergyman nninterraptedly in the way most congenial to him. Upon the northern wall of the room iswlso a gil .crueifix, while above the large fireplacdf are suspended rows of Easterlcards. -§ © —When ' Stephen Girard died, ﬁf}t -years ago, he little thought- of |th ‘magnitude to which his beguest for the foundation:of a colleze for orphans = would grow. ‘ The college ,commenced - with three hundred orphan pupils. It now contains one thousand, and aecommodation for still more is in course of construction. Its finances have heen managed with the greatest fidelity and - judgment, and its gross revenue for 1880 was £885,753. The real estate he ‘left to the college, especiatly the coal ‘mines, has increased in value beyond all expectation. History furnishes no. ‘examp'e of -a goilege, whos» success | has been so grewt. 1t was -opened for the'reception of puapils in 1848, The | -buildings thus far have cost about $2,000,000, the main one, in the formi of a Corinthian temple."be'ng 16) feet lofig, 111-teet wide, 97 feet high, and is' said to be the “tinest specimen’ of Greek architecture of modern- times. . j e e 5 .~ The New Spoupendyke Bnb’y.; o SWell, well, well,” said Mr. Spoopl endyke,- with a grin that involved his whole heail, and an elort aba tip-toe - Aread thatshook the whole house. “And ‘soit's a girl; my dear.” MeE o Mrs. Spoopendyke smiled faintly, " “and Mr.. Spoopendyke picked up=his “heiress. T . : - ot<lt’s the “image. of you,”’ she said, . regarding withr some trepidation M. Spoopendyke’s method oZ-handling the nkant, o ! : 5 41 don’t seé how you: make that “out,’” said Mr. Spoopendyke, . oravely. “ [ don’t know when'my nose looked - like the thumb part of a boiled lobster ~elaw. . Do understand )'ou’lhut my ‘éyes bear any resemblance to the head of aserew?’ - o *: #¢l'mean the general features,’”’ murmured M;:s‘.‘&Sp\nopemiy‘ae. 1, “The -geuderal features seem to be all mouth,”’ retorted Mr. Spobpendyke, examining b's ac juisition. **if our general “featares are atali alike, my visage must remind \ou of an.ecarthquake. Hi! kitchee! kitchee! "Wht makes herfold | up bier legs like that:’ . - . = *She can’t -help it,”’ reasoned Mrs. ! ‘Spoopendyke. They'll straighiten out in time." il A ~ *No'time like the present,” gnoted Mr. Spoopendyke, and -he- took® his daonghter’s feet and commenced pulling her limbs. ~ “I d o't waat any bandylegged first in this family while 'm atv the head of it -~ ¢ . Bie - Naturally. the baby bezan to ery, and Mr. Spoopendyke essayed to soothe-it.: +<Hi! kitchee! kitchee! kitche-eg-ee!’’ he chirrfiped. ** Great Scott, what a ‘cavern! [Any idea how much tihis mouth weighs? Hi kitchee! kitch-e e You'll have to get that mouth roofedin before -cold weather. " What's the matter with ‘her, anyway?” 2 Wk _‘“Perhaps you: hurt her- Let me - take her, pleas2,”® pleaded Lelpless §lus. ‘Spoopendyke. : : : - ~+She’s doing well enough. - Hi! you' Hold up! Haven't-you an\ thing to cateh this mouth in?:it’s spilling all over the ‘neighborhood: Hi! Topsy. Genevieve, Cleapatra, dry up! I'm going to have trouble breaking this young one’s temper, I can see that.- Here! bend the other way once!”’-and Mr. Spoopendyke tried to straighten up Eis - offspring without avail. . in ™ *:Let her come to ‘me, do, please,’" moaned Mrs. Spoopendyke, and Mr. ‘Spoopendyke was forced to hand her over.' . - :

«“Well, that's guite a baby,” said he, nursing his knee and eyeing the infant. “What're those bumps over its eyes for? What preponderance of inteXligence do they represent?”’ L < You musn’t talk so,”’ remonstrated

Mrs. Spoopendyke. ‘“She’s the hand- - somest child you ever saw.” : . ““Well, she’s got to stop bitting her nails before she goes any farther with | this procession. Here, take your hands out —of your mouth, can’'t you? Why don’t you punt vour hands down?"’ ~ “Well; all babies do that,’”’ explained - Mrs. .Spoopendyke. “You can’t stop thatsdt: o : : :

- “I'm going to try,” said Mr. Spoopendyke, ‘‘and.l don't want to be in‘terfered wifh in bringing up this child. Here, ‘you, Maud §S., Bonesetter, put your hands in your pockets! Don’t let ‘me see any more nail-chewing, or you and T'll get mixed up in an ar%ument. She gets, that from. your family, Mrs. Spoopendyke.”’ ; ‘¢ Say, dear, don’t yeu want to go and order some things?’ asked Mrs. Spoop:= endyke. : e ¢ No,” rejoined’her husband, ‘I want to see this youngster: ' Where’s her chin? Do babies always have their upper jaw set right on their shoulders? Kitchee! kitchee? Her scalp comes clear to the bridge of her nose. I don’t believe she’s quite:right. Where's her forehead? - Great Moses? Her head is all on the back part! Say, that baby’s got' to be pressed. That's no shape.” - “Getaway,” exlaimed Mrs. Spoopen-. dyke, indignantly. ¢ She’s a perfect angel. There is nothing in the woxld the:matter with her.” -

¢ Of course you know,”’ growled Mr. Spoopen(}'{ke. ““You don’t want any-. thing more than a fog-horn and a misspent: appropriation to be an orphan asylum.. If T had your faith azfs the colic I'd make a living as a' foundlings’ home! She'll be old enough to spank in a week, won't'she?” ¢ ! ¢ No, she won't!") said Mrs. Spoopendyke. ~She’ll never be old enough for that.” - : : : DIl bet she will,”” orunted Mr. Spoopendyke; +‘if she isn't, she'll get it before she matures up to that period. That’s all. Let me .take her. Here, let’s have her.”’ :

.. ‘But Mrs. Spoopendyke flatly refused. ~ ““*Keep your dodgasted baby, then!” roared Mr. Spoopendyke. "*Jf you. ‘know more about babies .than T ‘do, ‘then keep her. The way you coddle her one would think she was a new paste for the complexion. If you had one more brain and a handle, you'd make a fair. Tattle-box! Fit you up with a broken sofa and a grease spot and you'd do for ‘a second-hand nursery. And Mr. Spoo end{ke started off to find his friend é;)eck ewottle who conratulated him, and started off with ‘ﬁim to assist in the selection of an overcoat and a pair of ear-muffs as precautionary against theapproaching winter. —DBrooklyn Eagle. . o o= Gold in thirt%-three counties in’ this State; cosrer in_ thirteen; dron in forty-three; diamonds in twenty-six; whisky in all of them; and the last geﬁs nwa}y with all the rest.”’ —Georgia : el - : ~The average yearly income -of the .g,ublie school teachers in Maryland is