Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 2, Number 52, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 31 March 1881 — Page 2

Jtappnnce latfcltlii fteif'i. NAPI’ANEE. : : INDIANA. THE HEWS. v ■ Compiled from Latest Dispatches. Washington. Foifrtlfe months ended January 131, 1881, ijse of cxDorts from, this country of petroleum and petroleum products was $32,839 328; duriug the same months in ' 1880, $25,934,159. On the 19th the Comptroller of the Currency reported that the National Bank circulation then outstanding was $340,734,628; legal tender notes on deposit by banks reducing circulation, banks in liquidation and insolvent banks, s3S,92l,lo4—leaving the net circulation of the National BanksPoutstanding, secured by United States bonds, $307,813,524. The total amount of United States bonds to secure circulation was $347,632,000, of which $46,953,850 were sixes of 1881, $158,470,100 funded lives, and $137,900,000 fours and four-and-a-halfs. According to Washington specials of the 19th the belief was quite general that an extra session of Congress would be called to meet in April or early in May. A Washington dispatch of the 19th says it was reported that.Alurin# a recent interview, President Garfield assured Governor Murraj', of Utah, of his determination to use every endeavor to suppress polygamy. President Garfield on the 21st nominated Thomas Wilson, of the District of Columbia, to be Consul to Ghent, Belgium, and Ronello W. Berry as Collector of Internal Revenue for Idaho. At the Cabinet session in Washington on the 22d the question of an extra session of Congress was thoroughly discussed. It was bel eved that the idea had been abandoned. Tiie Commissioner of Indian Affairs, R. D. Trowbridge, of Michigan, has tendered his resignation to Secretary Kirkwood, and asked that it be immediately accepted. The following were among the nominations sent to the Senate by the President on the 22d: Albert Woodcock, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of Illinois: Edward S. Meyer, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio; Henry Fink, to be United. States Marshal for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; A. M. Jones, to be United States- Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois.

Tlie Past. At Valley Forge, Pa., a f6w evenings ago Samuel Clugston was shot twice by a burglar, and soon after died. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has decided that the law imposing on express companies a tax of two per cent, on their gross receipts is unconstitutional. Notice was given on the 18th by the Pittsburgh molders that they must receive an increase in wages of ten per cent, on the Ist of April, or they wopld strike. The Bartlett mills at Newbury port, .Mass., were recently destroyed by tire. Three of the alleged Northampton (Mass.) Bank burglars were recently released from custody, the Grand Jury having failed to indict. Much indignation was expressed at the result, and there were rumors that a compromise had been effected. A young man named Henry Dillon, employed in a Buffalo (N. Y.) confectionerywhile unloading boxes in front of the place, was attacked by a large Newfoundland dog, which buried its teeth in h s throat. Gangrene set in, and Dillon died shortly after, in horrible agony. A few days ago a ten-year-old Boston boy, named Frederick Clark, was held for trial on a charge which, if proved, shows him to be an incipient Jesse Pomeroy. A day or two before he encountered Albert Taylor, nine years old, and, lassoing him with a slipnoose, hung him to a lamppost. When tired of his cruel sport he let his victim down and ran away. Taylor was badly choked, the marks of the rope being visible on his neck when he got home. The police had learned of several other instances where Chfrk had abused small boys. A colored MiN, delirious from small-pox, escaped from bis keepers and rushel through the streets of New York a few days ago, shouting “small-pox” at the top of his voice. He was captured and taken to the hospital. A joint resolution which was passed by the lower house of the Pennsylvania Legislature, expressing sympathy for Ireland and requesting the people of Pennsylvania to extend pecuniary aid to the Irish, has been reported upon negatively by the State Senate Committee on Federal Relations.) Charles Seitz, the well-knowp New York brewer, has failed, with liabilities o's about *IOO,OOO. According to a late report of the Chief Special Treasury Agent at New York great quantities of goods are smuggled into this country, by persons claiming to be respectable. West and Soutli. The last of the murderers of Colonel Potter, one Libi, has been captured in New Mexico. A bill to make the Illinois Central Railroad tax available for the payment of the ordinary expenses of the State Government was passed by the Illinois Senate on the 18th. There was a bungling execution at Marion, S. C., a few days ago, the victim being a negro murderer named James Black. As the trap fell the rope broke, and the unfortunate man fell to the ground, bleeding at the mouth and begging for water. Eighteen minutes later he was successfully hanged. A collision between a switch engine and a freight train at Parsons, Kan., the other day killed two men and wrecked two locomotives and twenty cars. Advices from the frontier received on the 18th represent the White River Utes as securing all the gun? and ammunition possible, and there were grave fears of an early outbreak. The troops had completed a substantial block-house near the agency. Fite citizens of Arizona who had pursued abgadof Apache mule thieves for seven

days, were themselves finally ambushed and murdered by the thieves. The tow-boat John Means exploded her boilers near Osceola, Ark., on the 18th, and' immediately sank. Four of her crew were drowned and four others injured. A few days ago Mrs. Mary Rogers, of Terre Haute, Ind., while delirious from an attack of the measles, sprang into a well 4 and was drowned. On the morning of the 18th the first overland trajn for the East by the Southern route left San Francisco. Charles Foster and wife, living near Lexington, 111., were turned out into the storm by the burning of their house on the night of the 19th, just as they were coming down with the small-pox. Rather thaiU endanger their neighbors, they protected themselves for seven hours with bed clothing, and then traveled eight miles in a lumber wagon to reach the residence of a family already stricken by the same disease. A few days ago Thomas Phipps, a twelve-year-old boy, died at Hopkinsville, Ky., of lock-jaw, caused from a slight wound in his hand some days before with a toy pistol. On the 19th and 20th the snow and windstorm equaled in severity any that preceded it daring the past winter. It extended very generally throughout the Northwest, causing considerable detention to railroad trains. Vennor, the Canadian weather prophet, some time ago predicted a severe snow-storm on the 20th of March. Charles L. liiach, of Indianapolis, died on the 20th, after suffering for eleven weeks frorir-trichiniasis. A few days ago "a boiler in Tyler <fe Harrod’s saw-mill, near Frankfort, Kv., exploded, killing three persons and wounding six. The stables of JOS. Ollut, in Paris, Ky., were burned on tl\e 20th, and several valuable horses perished. * * Tue next Ohio State Fair will be held in Columbus, beginning August .29 and ending September 3. Tiie journeymen tailors of Cincinnati have recently demanded an advance of twenty-five per cent, in their wages. The Arkansas Legislature has adjourned without day. a TnE Directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad have recently distributed 200,000 shares of the common stock to the original promoters of the enterprise, bringing the capital to the maximum limit of $49,000,000. The Illinois Supreme Court has recently decided that the law imposing a penalty of one per cent, for non-payment of taxes is constitutional. The same tribunal also declares that local assessments of railroad sidetracks, turn-outs and switches are void. Miss Hattie Deul, of lowa City, fifty-tvo years of age, in obedience to what she conceived to be a religioujs duty, had, up to the 21st, refrained for twenty-five days from eatiug, and for three years from talking. At Lake View, 111., near Chicago, a few evenings ago a young man named 'William Seymour, about nineteen years of age, went to the residence of Charles H. Cram, of the Doggett, Bassett & Hills Company, called him to the door and killed him with a revolver, and then instantly blew out his own brains. A refusal by Mr. Cram to permit the boy to pay attentions/to his daughter is believed to have been/the cause of the double tragedy. 7 By the explosion of a boiler in White & Russell’s mill at Middlefield, 0., on the 21st, Joseph Hamilton, Selden Sprague and John Patctiin were killed.

A Cincinnati boy, two and a Jialf years of age, who mysteriously disappeared on the 17th, was restored to his parents, on the 21st, and Kate Fitzgerald, his abductor, was lodged in jail. She says she was under the influence of liquor when she stole the boj\ Tiie princely donation of $500,000 has been made by Ainasa Stone, of Cleveland, to the Western Reserve College, on condition that the institution be removed to Cleveland, its name changed to Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University, and that the Board of Trustees be> increased to twentythree, eleven of them to be selected by the donor. The Trustees have accepted all these conditions, and the names of President Garfield, ex-President Hayes, John Hay and other eminent cit zens of Ohio are named by M*r. Stone as Trustees. On the 22d the Illinois Senate passed the House bill which prohibits the sale of pistols or bowie-knives to miuors, and places restriction upon I heir sale to adults. A Lake Shore express train coming west ran off the track at Nottingham, 0., at a high rate of speed on the 22d. Engineer Lace and Fireman Henderson were killed, and Express Messenger Schneider was severely injured. The Tennessee House has passed the bill to settle the State debt at par and three per cent, interest. On the 22d a professional resurrectionist informed the authorities of Baltimore that many graves have been robbed in two of the larger cemeteries there, the subjects beingsent to Southern and Western cities,. Four young men stopped the Corpus Christ! stage, about seventy miles south of San Antonio, a few days ago, robbed the mall pouch, arid got S4OO and three watches from passengers. At Detroit a few days ago two negresses were sent to the Penitentiary for one year for making false pension affidavits. U. S. Senate Proceedings. Friday, March 18.—The credentials of Mr. Frye (Me.) were presented, and he was sworn in, and took his seat. On motion of Mr. Anthony, Mr. Pendleton’s organization resolution was indefinitely postponed—3B to 37—the Vice-President casting the deciding vote in the affirmative. Mr. Anthony then offered a resolution reorganizing the Senate Committees, on a Republican basis, which was agreed to—3B to 37—the Vice-Presi-dent casting the deciding vote. Mr. Davis (111.) voted with the Democrats, and Mr. Mahone with the Republicans. Mr. Saulsbury expressed the opinion that in the organization of the Senate the Vice-Presi-dent was not clothed by the Constitution with power to decide in a question of this character, and that such action was an assumption of power not warranted by the Constitution. Mr. Logan said the Vice-President merely followed precedents, and quoted a similar case in 1879. Monday, March 21.—The Chinese treaties were reported favorably from the Committee on Foreign Relations. Among the noraina-

tions confirmed were tlipse of Levi P. Morton, of New York, as Minister to France, and S. Dana Horton, of Ohio, as Secretary of the ■"United States Commissioners to the International Monetary Conference at Paris. Tuesday, March 22.—Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution seating forth that “the hostile attitude assumed by the National Banks toward refunding the National debt at low rates, and the recent attempt to dictate the legislation of Congress on the subject, are contrary to the best interests. of the people, and wfell calculated to excite their alarm for the future.” Objection was made to the consf ration of the resolution, on the grouud that it was not in order, being in the nature of., legislative business, and, at Mr. Conkling’s suggestion, it was withheld until the 23d. Among the nominations confirmed was that of Ilenry G. Pearson as Postmaster at New York City. Foreign Intelligence. Large quantities of arms have been seized by Austrian troops in a mosque in Bosnia. On the 20th Rochefort, the editor of the Paris Intramif/earti, was summoned before a magistrate for advocating regicide. Rochefort admitted on the 21st that the Nihilist telegrams published in the Paris Inli'anxicjeant, and purporting to come from Geneva, wore manufactured in Paris. The St. Petersburg police have recently discovered two dynamite stores and captured a man upon whom was found arms, poison and twenty thousand roubles. A slide of twenty thousand tons of earth near Folkestone, England, a few days ago caused serious interruption to traffic on the Southeastern Railway. The British House of Commons on the 21st voted ,4*446,000 for army expenditures in the Transvaal, and £210,000 for extraordinary transport serviceStanley, the African explorer, was recently met in a mountainous region,, twenty-live miles inland from a place called Avedi. Six influ'Mitial journalists of Paris were on the 22d sentenced to tine or imprisonment for publishing articles applauding the assassination of the late Czar. Rochefort’s fine one thousand francs. TnE British House of Commons on the 22d rejected a resolution declaring-that the foot aud mouth disease among cattle is entirely owing to the importation of diseased animals, and that the landing of live animals from countries known to be infected ought to be prohibited. On the 22d over one thousand persons left Berlin to embark for the United States. The Emperor of Germany received many telegrams on the 22d congratulating him on the recurrence of his birthday. A London dispatch of the 22d says peace had been concluded between the Boers and the Briiish. The former were promised complete self-government, and would at once disperse their army. A few day s since a bomb with a fuse attach.‘d was found in front of the palace of the Duke of Ossuna, at Madrid. According to a Dublin dispatch of the 22d the police had been informed that the Fenian Council of Ballinimore had selected two ineii to slioot the landlord who tired on a tenant during a riot last year. Pietracer, the man who some months ago attempted the life of Bratiano, the Premier of Koumania, has been sentenced to bard labor for twenty years, and his accomplices to nine years each.

LATER Tiie Russian press urge that all Swiss be expelled from the Empire; that diplomatic relations be severed, and that a prohibitory tariff against Swiss merchandise be instituted. Tiie opera house at Nice, Italy, was burned on the evening of the 23d. It was feared that over one hundred lives had been lost. The State Committee of the Readjusters of Virginia held a meeting on the 23d and issued a call for a Convention to be held June 2 for the nomination of a State ticket. The course of General Mahone in the United States Senate. was approved. ' * On the 23d General Grant resigned the Presidency of the World’s Fair Commissiohiand Hugh J. Jewett was elected to succeed him. The Rhode Island Democrats met in State Convention on the 23d and nominated. Horace M. Kimball for Governor; W. L. Segar for Lieutenant-Governor; John G. Perry for Secretary of State; F. L. O’Reilly for Attor-ney-General, and A. L. Burdick for Treasurer. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the ‘ unmanly, dishonest and treacherous course of Senator Mahone iu aiding and abetting the Republican party.’* Among the nominations made by President Garfield on the 22d and 23d were the following: General Stewart L. Woodford, to be District Attorney for the Southern District of New York; General Payn and General McDougall as United States Marshals at New York; William 11. Robertson, Collector of Customs at New York; William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, Minister to Austria; Edwiu A. Merritt, of New York, Consul-General to London; Adam Badeau, of New' York, Charge d’ Affaires in Denmark; Lewis Wallace, of Indiana, Charge d’Affaires In Paraguay and Uruguay; Michael J. Cramer, of Kentucky, Charge d’Affaires in Switzerland; William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, Solicitor-General; Samuel J. Phillips, of North Carolina, Judge of the Court of Claims; L. A. Sheldon, of Ohio, Governor of New Mexico; Thomas M. Nichol, of Wisconson, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Edward 8. Meyer,* United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio; George W. Atkinson, United States Marshal, West Virginia; Bryan H. Langston, Collector of Internal Revenue, Fifth District of Missouri. In the United States Senate on the 23d Mr. Voorhees again submitted Ms resolution declaring that the hostile attitude assumed by the National Banks to refunding the'National debt at a lower rate of Interest, and their recent attempt to dictate the legislation of Congress, are contrary to the best Interests of the people, and calculated to excite their alarm for the future. Mr. Morrill-interposed a question of order, but afterward withdrew It, And the resolution went over under the rules. Mty Dawes offered a resolution for the election 4>f Senate officers, naming the candidates selected by the Republican caucus. The resolution was laid over.

Standing aud Select Committees of the U. S. Senate. Washington, March 18. The following are the Senate Committees as elected to-day under a Republican resolution adopted by a vote of 38 to 37, the Vice-Presi-dent giving the deciding vote ih the afflimative. The first named on each committee is the Chairman: standing COMMITTEES. Privileges and Elections—Hoar, Cameron (Wis.), Teller, Sherman, Frye, Saulsbury, Hill (Ga.), Vance, I’ugb. Foreign Kelations—Burnside, Conkling, Edmunds, Miller, Ferry, Johnston, Morgan, Hill (Gu.), Pendleton. Finance—Morrill, Sherman, Ferry, Jones (Nev.u Allison, Platt (N. Y.), Bayard, Voorhees, Beck, McPherson, Harris. Appropriations Allison, Logan. Dawes, Plumb. Hale, Davis (W. Vu.), Beck, Ransom, Cockrell. Commerce--Conkling, McMillan, Jones (Nev.), Kellogg,,Conger, Ransom, Coke, .Far* lev, Vest. a Manufactures—Conger, Hale, Jewell, McPherson, Williams. Agriculture—Mahone, Blair, Plumb, Van Wyck, Davis (W. Vu.), Slater, George. Military Affairs—Logan, Burnside, Cameron (Pa.), Harrison, Sewell, Cockrell, Maxey, Grover, Hampton. Naval Affairs—Cameron (Pa.), Anthony, Rollins, Miller, Mahone, McPherson, Jones (Fla.), Vance, Farloy. Judicial y Edmunds, Conkling, Logan, Ingalls,McMillan, Garland, Davis (111.), Bayard, Lamar. . Post-Ollices and Post Roads Ferry, Hill (Col.), Platt (N. Y.V Sawyer, Mahone, Maxey, Suulsbury, Farley, Groome. Public Lands—Plumb, Hill (Col.), Blair, Van Wyck, McDill, Jones (Fla.), Grover, Walker, Morgan. Private Land Claims—Bayard, Jonas, Call, Edmunds, Allison. Indian Affuirs-Dawes; Ingalls, Saunders, Logan, Camron (Wis.), Coke, Pendleton, Walker, Slater. • Pensions—Teller, Platt (Conn.), Blair, Mitchell, Edgerton, Groome, Slater, Jackson, Camden, Revolutionary Claims--Johnston, Jones (Fla.), Hill (Gao, Anthony', D iwes. Claims—Gammon (Wis.), Frye, Teller, Hoar, Conger, Pugh, Jackson, George, Fair. District of Columbia—lngalls, -Rollins, McMillan, Hawley, McDill, Harris, Butler, Vance, Gorman. Patents—Platt (Conn.), Hoar, Mitchell, Edgerton. Coke, Call, Williams. Territories—Saunders, Kellogg, McDill, Sawyer. Butler, Garland, Vest. Railroads—Kellogg, Saunders, Teller, Haw ley. Sawyer, Sewell, Lamar, Grover, Williams, Jonas. Brown. Mines and Mining—Hill (Col.), Jones (Nev.), Van Wyck, Miller, Hampton, Fair, Camden. Revision of Laws McMillan, Platt (Conn.), Hale, Davis dll.), Pendleton. Education and Labor—Blair, Morrill, Bumside, Edgerton, Muhone, Maxey, Brown, George, Fair. Civil Service—Hawley, Rollins, Jones Nev.). Hill (Col.), Butler, Walker, Williams. Contingent Expenses—Jones (Nev.), Platt (Conn.), Vance. Engrossed Bills—Suulsbury, Call. Conkling. Rules—Frye, Hoar, Sherman, Call, Gorman.. Improvement of tne Mississippi River— Mitchell, Kel ogg, Van Wyck, Frye, Jonas, Cockrell, Jackson. Transportation Routes to the Seaboard—ll airison, Cameron (Pa.), Blair, Platt (N. Y.), Beck, Voorhees, Camden. Joint Committee on Public Printing—Anthony, Hawley, Gorman. Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills —Platt (N.Y.), Rollins, Pugh. Joint Committee on Library—Sherman, Hoar, Voorhees. J<*int Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds—Rollins, Morrill, Cameron (Wis.), Jones (Flu.), Vest. SELECT COMMITTEES. Civil Service—Sawyer, Rollins, Dawes,Hampton, Groome. Census—Hale, Morrill, Cameron (Wis.), Me* Dill, Pcndicton, Morgan, Harris. Epidemic Diseases—Harris, Lamar,Garland, Jonas, Teller, Miller. Sewell. Nicaragua Claims—Davis (W. Va.), Groome, Johnston, Hawley, Mitchell. • On Erection of New Library Building—Voorhccs, Butler,.Morrill.

The White, Colored and Chinese Popu* lation of the United States. Washington, March 20. According to the tables of the Census Department, the white population of the United has increased since 1870 from 33,592,245 to 43,402,408, or nearly 23 per cent.; the colored population from 4,880,387 to 6,577,407, or nearly 35 per cent.., and the Chinese population from 63,251 to 105,679, or about 67 per cent. The following table shows the number of whites, negroes and Chinese in each State and Territory: States. While. Colored. Chinese. Alabama 661,086 600,141 4 Arizona... 35,178 138 1,632 Arkansas. 591,611 210,622 . 134 California 767,266 6,168 75,122 Qplorado 191,452 2,459 610 Connecticut 610,884 11,422 130 Dakota U 33,177 5181 238 Delaware 120.198 26,456 Dist. Columbia..... 118.2516 59,378 18 Florida... 77“ 7. 141,249 125,262 18 Georgia 814,218 724,604 > 17 Idaho 32,611 29,011 3,378 Illinois ... 3,‘32,174 46,248 214 Indiana 1,939,044 38,998 37 lowa 1,614,510 9,412 47 Kansas 952,056 43,096 22 Kentucky 1,377,077 271,462 10 Louisiana 455,063 483,898 483 Maine 646,903 1,427 8 Maryland 724,718 209,897 6 Massachusetts 1,764.082 18,644 258 Michigan 1,61*,078 14,986 29 Minnesota..... 776,940 1,558 54 Mississippi 479,371 650,5t37 52 Missouri 2,023,568 145,046 94 Montana 35,468 202 1,737 Nebraska 449,805 2,5176 18 Nevada. ...: 53,571 465 5,423 New Hampshire... 346,264 646 14 New Jersey 1,091,8.56 38,796 182 New Mexico 107,188 907 65 New York 5,017,142 64,9451 942 North Carolina...... 867,467 531,316 1 Ohio 3,118,5144 79,665 117 Oregon 163,087 493 9,508 Pennsylvania 4,197,106 85,342 170 Rhode Island 260,933 6,503 27 South Carolina 391,258 604,326 9 Tennessee 1,139,120 402,992 26 Texas 1,197,493 394.007 142 Utah 142,5181 204 518 Vermont 331,243 1,032 Virginia 880,739 631,996 6 Washington 67,349 537 3,227 West Virginia 592,4513 25,729 14 Wisconsin.... 1,309,622 2,724 16 Wyoming 10,436 279 914 Total . 43,402,408 7,577,497 105,679 In California the Chinese population has increased in ten years from 49,310 to 75,122; in Arizona. from 20 to 1,632; In Oregon, from 3,3‘Dto 9,608; In Washington Territory, from 2514 to 51,227. In Idaho the Chinese numbered 4,274 in 1870, and 51,378 in 1880. —No less a person than Sir Bartle Frere has announced it as his belief that the Boers and the Irish Land League are acting conjointly. In a long and bitter letter to the London Times, wherein he declares that for an Englishman to talk of making peace with the Boers while they have arms In their hands is an act of treason, he makes this statement: “I have always believed the outbreak to be principally instigated by adventurers of other than Boer descent, and have believed it to be more nearly connected than people supposed with troubles nearer home.” —Walla Walla papers are discussing the propriety of the formation of a State Government in that Territory.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE* EXTRA SESSION. Senate—On the 11th the Tax bill was amended so as to tax ail tangible property of building, loan, fund and savings associations. TheCommittee’s substitute for Sec. 94 was adopt-, ed. It taxes the gross earnings of sleeping-car companies two per cent. Adjourned until the afternoon of the. 15th. House— Several bills were introduced and bills passed—requiring railroads to destroy all 1 noxious weeds along their rights of way; relating to the settlement ot decedents’ estates; enabling agricultural, horticultural, and mechanical societies to consolidate; amending the act of May 23,1852, concerning election of President and Vice-President. The bill concerning landlords and tenants failed to pass for the want of a quorum. The bill for the creation of a Board of Pardons failed—yeas, 32; nays, 49. The Governor vetoed the bill fixing the pay of jurors at $2 a day, and the bill for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Senate— Reconvened on the 15th, ana pro-, ceededto the further consideration of the 1 House bill on Taxation. An amendment was udopted making the Lieutenant-Governor a member of the State Board of Equalization. Also an amendment depriving • professional ferrets” of their occupation, by providing that County Commissioners shall hot employ other than the officials prescribed by law to discover omitted property. . Hoij.se—The bill directing that revenues dor ’rlvbd from liquor licenses should revet.t. to public libraries was killed. The Insurance Committee recommended that the bill relating to foreign life insurance companies be laid upon the table: that the House bill piohibiting the taking or receiving of applications for life insurance policies outlie Tontine plan in the State be indefinitely postponed, and that the House bill relating to foreign insurance, companies be similarly dealt with. The first report was concurred in, and action upon'the other two deferred. Sundry amendments to the Constitution were offered prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State except for medicinal,mechanical and scientific purposes, and requiring the Legislature to provide by law fn what manner liquors for the excepted purposes shall be sold; fixing the „of electors. These proposed amendmcnt&jwere referred* Senate- On the Kith the day was spent in consideration of the Tax bill. An.amendment was a lopted doing away with the publication of delinquent lists in comity papers. House—The bill of the Codification Commission providing (further penalties for, illegal voting, ballot-box stuffing arid importation of voters was passed. 'The majority ieportOf the committee recommend ng, i in* passage of the bill placing the’ two Slate Prisons under a Board of Directors, and niuking other changes was concurred" ot the session was taken up with the hV<)l law, and the amendment propoae:^^^ojjolish the system of County Sti pt*Vi n tenitra|ts. was re j ect ed. Senate—On the 17th finished consideration of the 'Pax tyhichj it has worked for the past • took up the bill from tl^^P>w^lktion Committee relating to The most important changes over the present 'Pax law are those doing awayxwth the-printing of delinquent lists and taxing' s(*nii-an.nually the gross receipts of foreign insurance Companies throe dollars on #IOO, anil not allowing u# deduction for actual in ine Stab*. House—Bills passed—the bill in relation to common carriers; for the protection of husbandry, and the taxing and killing of ddgs. •A Constitutional amendment was proposed making the term of all County and State officers lour years instead of two, and rendering such officials ineligible for re-elpction until four years after the expiration of their term. The bill reorganizing the benevolent institutions was ordered engrossed after a sharp fight. The remainder of the day was occupied with the School bill proposed by the Codification Committee,.during which the effort failed looking to the abolishment of County Superintendents. A concurrent resolution was adopted for a Joint committee to report upon the feasibility of consolidating the State Prisons. Senate— On the 18th the Tax bill passed —33 to 11.‘ Some progress was made on the bill relative to offices and officers, and by resolution it was decided to take up the General Appropriation bills, on the 21th. A committee was.instructed to inquire into the feasibility of an appropriation lor representing the State in the World’s Fair of 1883, and a joint resolution was introduced requesting Indiana Congressmen to favor the passage of an amendment to the Federal Constitution prohibiting the disfranchisement of citizens of the United States on account of sex, which was read the first time and referred to the Committee on the Rights and Privileges of the Inhabitants of the State. House— Work on the School bill consumed , the greater part of the day. and among the amendments was one reducing interest on school fund loans to six per cent.: also, permitting half an hour’s instruction each day in Gorman. After engrossment the bill passed—--55 to 26. Senate— On the 21st less than a quorum put in an appearance, but the time was spent In considering the bill relating to public officers and offices. House— The time was mainly devoted to routine work. The Wife Whipping bill failed to pass by want of a Constitutional majority—the vote standing 35° to 34.

INDIANA ITEMS. There is an unusually large amount of sickness in Indianapolis at the present time. Malarial disorders, diphtheria, spotted fever and measles are the principal complaints. The winter lias been very destructive to bees throughout the State of Indiana. It is estimated that fully half of the colonics that went into winter quarters have died. The second annual report of the State Bureau ol Statistics and Geology Is ready for distribution. It forms a book of 80S pages, and will be very valuable in securing a recognition of the resources of Indiana. A few of the most important figurcsrarc as follows: In the Btatc during 188 ) therfe were 3,109,845 acres of wheat, producing 47,130,684 bushels; of corn there were 686,901 acres and 15,563,4530 bushels; of rye, 15,028 acres bushels; of barley, 31,019 acreWod 657.911 bushels. It is estimated that there were 6,672,096 apple trees, producing 85,992,182 bushels, and 1,910,601 peach trees, pr0ducing4,241,445 bushels. There were 503,045 horses, 57,815 mules, 1,065,143 eattlc f 2,003,948 hogs and 1,538,860 sheep enumerated! The population of the State is given at 1,976,277. There are 256 toll roads in the State, and the total value of taxable property is 1880,561,241. There are 63 railroads with 4,275.47 miles of main track. The total length of fences in the State would, if extended, reach 14>£ times around the earth. The report also contains a number of scientific matters and other things of general interest. 10 Since the Ist day of last September there have been filed 186 divorce cases in Marion County. During the same length of time there have been 600 marriage licenses Issued. Jane Melrose, a young lady of Wabash, has recently been using a preparation to bleach her hair. ▲ few days ago she became suddenly 111, and died. Soon after death her face and hair turned a deep green color. Physicians state that her death resulted from the chemicals of which the preparation was composed. Thi Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, (§}4Bc; Oats, 85@86<*. Cincinnati quotation! are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 91.O7tf01.O8; Corn, 47@47tfc;Oats,88@88tfc; Rye. 91.1201.14; Burley, |[email protected]. 1