Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 2, Number 52, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 31 March 1881 — Page 4

NAPPANEE NEWS. TH U RSI)AY, MARCH 31 ,Tbßl. Measles still prevail in Marion, Grant county, scarcely a family having escaped the scourge. Ex-Gov. Blair, at Jackson, Mich., fell ami injured his back so that he has been confined to the house for several days. > A daily paper says that Count Pecci, a brother of the pope, has passed from earth—better say into the earth. A wild deer ran across the ice of a river at Bay City, Mich., the other day. and got tangled in a picket fence, where it was captured. The Chicago and Grand Trunk road will establish their shops at South Bend, having donated ten acres of land on Which to erect them. Ex-Vico President Wheeler is expeeted at his home at Malone, N. Y., at the end of the month, and the citizens are taking measures to give him a reception. Tt is said of Mrs. Senator Logan that at a recent cabinet lunch she was the only one out of twenty-live ladies who abstained from wine. She mver drinks. Gov. Porter issued his proclamation to the people, declaring the Constitutional Amendments as accepted by the people, a part of the Constitution and in full effect. A celery garden of forty-six acres, be- . lieve.d to he the largest in the world, is cultivated in the. suburbs of London, and produces annually about half a million plants.

The chief of the street-cleaning department of Boston has been requested to go to New York to show the mud-soaked people of that town how to clean their streets. Gov. Jarvis, of North Carolina, has ordered an election to be held in the territory to be known as Vance county, on May 24, to decide whether the county shall be erected. One hundred and thirty-two vessels were built in the ship-yards of Newfoundland last, year, measuring an aggregate of 1,998 tons, and receiving a bounty of *14,890, from the government. It is said that the stage lines into Yosenvrte will be running next month, as the prospects are that all the routes will be open early. The mail contract begins on May 1, and continues six months. An increase of 6.1 per cent, in its gas hills has induced one of the large steamship companies in New York to use. the electric light in lighting its pier, and also in the holds while loading and diaohrrging. A large spring of pure cold water has been found on the highest point of bind on the Fair View camp grounds near Pctoskey, Mich., and arrangements are / being made to bring the water down in pipes for the use of the hotel and eottages. Tim circuit court atMuncie, this state, Silas Richardson of grand larceny, fined him one cent, sentenced him to jail twenty-four hours, disfranchised him one day, and madc’him ineligible to any office of profit or trust for the same period. • . . Miss Simmons, a nieoe of Samuel S. Tilden, has made herself famous by composing the “raquet galop,” to whose music all the young people are dancing both in the United States and Europe. Miss Simmons is übont 22 years old, and has a snug fortune of $200,000 in her own right. Augustus Herman Pettibone, congressman from the Frst district of Tennessee, i is of Hugenot extraction. He attended school at Hiram, 0., when Prof. James A. Garfield was a teacher in that school. ; He was graduated by the university of 1 Michigan. x New Hampshire, while admitting that it has never had but one cabinet officer, claims a great many as being natives of New Hampshire! Daniel Webster, Lewis Gass, (Jen. Dix, Salmon P. Chase, I'aehariah Chandler, Marshall Jewel, Nathan Clifford, and others. —*■ - • An Omaha bricklayer, out of a job and out of money, found a bonanza, the other day, in the shape of of a lost pocketbook containing $250. His joy led him to invest in new clothes and go on a spree, whicn finally landed him in the loek-up. The owner of the pocket-book recovers an unexpected balance of $l2O and the clothes.

W. M. Chase has received an order from Harvard university for a full-length portrait of President Hayes, Which is to hang in Memorial hall by the side of John Adams and John Quincy Adams. The alumni have subscribed money enough to buy the picture. . Miss Emma S. Howe, a well-known Boston vocalist, goes to Mr. Beecher’s church, in Brooklyn, at a salary of sl, 000 a year. She succeeds Miss Hattie L. Simmons, who gets to St. Thomas’, New 3 York. Mr. George Werrenrath is continued at Mr. Beecher’s church as its tenor, at an advance of S3OO ou his salary. A lady of Pillsboro, N. C., has a coffee urn of pure, solid silver which weighs 113$ ounces,-and is nearly 200 years old. It is an old family relic, having belongto the ancestors of its present owner all that time. It has been hidden in three wars, having been buried during the j revolutionary war. and again in the war j of 1812. when the British threatened to attack Wilmington, and during the late j war it was thrown into a deep well to ! escape Sherman’s hummers. i President Garfield is reported to have | remarked to a distinguished Western j Senator on Saturday: “Senator, as a j personal favor to me I want you to take ; up and champion this Mormon question in the Senate. We must stamp out po- | lygiuny. I want this to be one of the distinguishing features of mv Administration. But we must save from illegitimacy the 70,000 children who have been born under Mormon rule, if foi no other reason than this, because my predecessors, Presidents Fillmore and Buchanan, chose to appoint Brigham Young, the head of the Mormon church. Governor of the territory of Utah.”

WASUINUTON CORRESPONDENT, Unveiling tbc Admiral FarragutStatoe. Washington, I). C., March 28, 1881. On the 2.lth of April the Admiral I'arragut statue is t he formally unveiled. The figure is of bronze, (full uniform,) ten feet high, and rests upon a massive granite pedestal. Congress originally appropriated $20,000 for the purchase of the same, $5,000 additional became necessary to complete it. it is situated at the intersection of 17th and I streets, which is a very pretty part of tin: city These statues, for which Washington is celebrated, are a source of attraction and admiration to the resident as well as stranger. They occupy conspicuous places and ar% surrounded in most instances, by iron railing enclosing a grassy plot and convenient scats, so that the wayfarer can sit and contemplate the fives of the men whose memory is perpetuated in bronze. Tiie characters represented embrace eminent soldiers and sapors of the United States, commencing, of course, with Washington. The statue that very probably attracts - more attention than any other is General Jackson’s. It is ab'equestrian figure, and displays “Old Hickory’’ holding the reins in one hand and sword in the other, with horse reared back. It is situated in Lafayette square, opposite the White House. The Navy Department is making extensive preparations to observe the coming occasion. The Secretary has ordered all the Available vessels to be on hand, and the crews of the following ships will participate, namely: The Tennessee, Kearsage, Vandalia, Alliance, Yantic, and Saratoga. Ex-Post-master-General Maynard, of Tennessee, has been selected as the orator of the day. He will, no doubt, go over the history of the Admiral, whose life was quite eventful. David T. Faragut was. born near Knoxville, Tennessee, July 5, 1801. When 13 years of age he became midshipman, and was wounded in a naval engagement. His commander regretted that he was too young for promotion. At 22 he commanded a schooner. He was also in command of a vessel during the Mexican war. At the breaking out of the late war, he was residing at Norfolk, Virginia. He left his home and re-entered the navy. His passage of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, and defence of New Orleans, in his fleet of wooden ships in April, I8(i2, war regarded as a great achievement in naval warfare. Passing the Vicksburg batteries in June of the same year was another evidence of ability or good fortune At the close of the war he w ent abroad, and was received with marked attention in the principal European capitals. He was a great reader and spoke Several different languages. He died at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 14, 1870. The remains were taken to Woodlawn Cemetery, Westchester county, New York, where they now reel..

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