Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 5, Number 37, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 13 December 1883 — Page 2

Iterance tSMIn glrajss, NAPPANEE. : s INDIANA. HEWS OF THE WEEK BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. > CONGRESSIONAL. The Senate was called to order at noon on fheM by President-pro-tom. Edmunds. After grayer and other preliminary proceedings, the customary resolutions notifying the pouse and the President that the Senate was teady for business were agreed to. A recess fras then taken, and after reassembling an idjournment was had for the day Clerk dcPherson called the House to order at twelve >’clock. The roll-call disclosed 316 members iresent. John G. Carlisle (Ky.) was elected Speaker by the following vote: Carlisle (Dem.)„ 191; Keifer (Hep.), 112; scattering, 5. Mr. Carisle was then escorted to the chair, and, after i short address of thanks and outlining a conservative policy for the present session of the Souse, he took the Iron-clad oath of office. When the roll was called for the swearing in pf members, a dispute arose over the rival claims of Messrs. Manning and Chalmers (Miss.), and pending a resolution to refer the matter to the Committee on Elections when appointed the House adjourned. Beveral bills were introduced in the Senate pn the 4th, among which were the following: By Mr. Ingalls, to amend the Arrears Pension law by removing certain limitations in that by Mr.Beck, providing for the removal of . all disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment; by Mr. Edmunds, tor the further Brotectlon of colored citizens of the United tates against the violation of certain rights secured by the Constitution; to establish the postal telegraph system; by Mr. Sherman, to give National banks a circulation equal to ninety per cent, of the market value or tUeil* bond deposits; by Mr. Blair, for a Bureau of Labor Statistics, and to make eight hours a day's work; by Mr. Logan, to appropriate 160.000,000 for the education of children, ana to provide pensions for Union prisoners in the late war; by Mr. Hoar, to provide for the performance of the duties of the office of the President in case of the death, resignation or inability of both the President and Vice-President; providing for a uniform system of bankruptcy (the Lowell bill); by Mr. Van Wyck, declaring that railroad corporations shall pay within sixty days the cost of surveying and locating the lands to which they are entitled; otherwise, that they be subject to State and local taxation, and pre-emption and homestead entry; also, to restore to the public domain lands donated but not earned by the railroad corporations, when the roads are not finished within the time specified in the grant; also, to protect all preemption and homestead entries inado after forfeiture or failure to build a road within the time specified. The President’s message was received and read.... In the House the Democratic caucus nominees for the minor offices were elected and sworn in. Considerable debate was had on a resolution offered by Mr. Tucker to refer to the Committee on Elections, when appointed, the certificates and all papers relating to the election of a representative from the First District of Virginia, with instructions to report as early as practicable which of the rival claimants (Mayo and Garrison) has the prima facie right to the seat, reserving to the other party the privilege of contesting the case on its merits. The President’s message was read and referred to the Committee of the Whole. In the Senate on the sth a joint resolution was presented from the Massachusetts Legislature opposing convict labor on the public works of the United States; also one from the Legislature of New Hampshire opposing further land grants to railroads and any ronewal of forfeited land grants, and ono by Mr. Blair providing for a Constitutional Amendment to ;prohibit the manufacture or sale of distilled "alcoholic intoxicating liquors ex* cept for medicinal, mechanical, chemical and scientific purposes, or for use in the arts, in •ny States or Territories, and the Importation of such liquors, except for the purposes named. Bills were introduced: By Mr. Butler, to repeal the Internal-Revenue laws now in force and abolish the Internal-Revenue system; by Mr. Cullom, to reorganize the Legislature of Utah; by Mr. Logan. to provide for granting public lands to soldiers and sailors of the late w ar. tion case of Garrison vs. Mayo was referred to the Committee on Elections, when appointed, with instructions to report the legal questions involved therein. Mr. Jones submitted the customary resolutions announcing the death of Thomas H. Herndon, of Alabama, and in rbspect to the memory of the deceased the Houeo adjourned.

DOMESTIC, Thk public-debt statement issued on the Ist makes the following exhibit! Total debt (including interest of $10,954,585), sl,. 874,551,570. Cash in Treasury, $301,700,513. Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,509,785,060. Decrease during November, $1,721,670. Decrease since June 30, 1883, $41,306,146. Owino to over production the twentynine mills of the Consolidated Paper Company, scattered throughout Illinois, Ohio, lowa, Wisconsin and Indiana, shut down on the Ist for an indefinite period. Tony Laymiller, teaching school near Canton, 0., on the 3d suspended Mary Oglethorpe, aged eleven, for six and onehalf hours by the wrists, her toes barely touching the floor, seriously injuring the child. He had been held for trial. Patents have been refused in Washington on clock dials having twenty-four hours on the face, it being known that in 1547 a watch was made on the face of which the hoars from one to twenty-four appeared on two concentric circles. A dozen stores and offices at Cbillicothe, Mo., were destroyed by fire a few days ago. r The Adjutant-General of the army re ceived information at Washington on th* 3d of the surrender at the camp on Poplar River of five lodges of Bitting Ball’s forces from the British provinces. A silver mine of great richness has been discovered near Boyd, Ean Claire County, Wis., by William Nowell, and the Ean Claire Silver Company was on the 8d being organized to work the lead. Since the beginning of the glass-blowers’ strike three months ago at Pittsburgh, Pa., over 109,000 boxes of glass have been imported to that city. There were no indications on the 3d of a settlement between tho workmen and the manufacturers. The Atlantic Sc Pacific Road has completed arrangements with English capitalists for the sale of two tracts of land, each containing 1,000,000 acres, for $1,500,000 cash. ■ Robbers attempted a few evenings ago to wreck and plunder a train on the Memphis Sc Little Rock Railway, twenty-five miles west of Memphis. The train officials made a prompt defens# with fire-arms, and tho robbers, after shooting at the engineer, Red Into the woods.

Judge Denny was acquitted a£ Lancaster, Ky., on the 4th, of the murder of James H. Anderson. It was discovered on the 4tb that some grocers’ clerks in New York had formed an organization to rob their employers, each member being required to obtain $125 per month and deposit it with the secretary. A fire on the 4th at Lynchburg, Tenn., destroyed twenty-two buildings, including the Sentinel office. 8. M. Meyerberg & Cos., silk manufacturers at New York and Hoboken, failed on the 4th for $250,000. The firm employed four hundred persons. The stores and the railroad depot at Sadiga, Calhoun County, Ala., ware burned on the 4th. Loss, $75,000. A mine explosion at Stambaugh, Fa., a few evenings ago killed one man and injured six others. The concussion leveled pillars in the ifiine, upset cars, and extinguished the lights. J. S. Wioley, a member of the New Orleans Grand Jury, was ’fatally stabbed the other night by two unknown men. Coleman Hawkins, a wealthy landowner of Madison County, Ind., on the sth shot and killed J. J. Johnson, postmaster at Johnson’s Crossing, and then blew out his own brains. The tragedy was the result of an old feud between the parties. The Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington stated oh the sth that the internal taxes collected during the present fiscal year were at the rate of $123,000,000 per annum. He estimated that the collections for the entire year weuld amount to $130,000,000. Fourteen inmates of the jail at Chattanooga, Tenn., sawed their way out on the sth with steel shanks taken from their shoes. Secretary Folger on the sth transmitted to Congress estimates of the appropriations required for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885. The total amount is $283,125,305, or $22,323,282 less than for the present year. Two students at Yale College, New Haven, have died from typhoid fever, and a number were ill on the sth from malarial fever. The professors claimed that the sewerage was perfect. Reports on the sth from eighty counties in Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Arkansas and Missouri stated that the winter wheat plant was in a vigorous condition seldom before equaled, and that the acreage had been increased. It was ascertained on the sth that the Columbia No. 8 was the pilot boat run down by the Alaska a few nights ago. There were ten persons on board at the time of the accident, and all perished.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL At a Republican Congressional caucus in Washington on the afternoon of the Ist W. W. Keifer, of Ohio, was nominated for Speaker. In the evening the Democrats met and nominated John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, for on the first ballot, the vote being Carlisle, 104; Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, 52; and Samuel S. Coz of NewYork, 31. Mr. Carlisle’s nomination was made unanimous. John B. Clarke, of Missouri, was nominated for Clerk; John P. Leedom, of Ohio, for Sergeant-at-Arms; J. G. Wintersmith, of Texas, for Doorkeeper; Lycargus Dalton, of Indiana, for Postmaster, and Rev. John S. Lindsay, of Washington, for Chaplain. Recent elections in Spartansburg, Winnsboro, Orangeburg and Marion, in South Carolina, turned on the question of license or no license, and the no-license party was successful. A. Oakley Hall has severed his editorial connection with the New York Truth, and will soon leave for London, where he will locate permanently as a lawyer. Mary O’Conners, aged one hundred and three years, died in a hospital at Lafayette, Ind„ on the 3d. A Vienna dispatch of the 3d states that Lieutenant Payer, the Austrian arctic explorer, is not dead, as was reported. President Arthur has appointed Robinson Locke, of Toledo, 0., the eldest son of Petroleum V. Nasby, United States Consul at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng. Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, on the 4th surrendered possession of the Quidueck Mills. The semi-centenary of the organization of the American Anti-Slavery Society was held at Philadelphia on the 4th. John Purvis, one of the three survivors of the original society, opened the meeting. The other two survivors are John G. Whittier and Elizur Wright. The Pennsylvania Knights of Labor are circulating petitions to Congress against the importation of foreign labor under the contract system. In organizing the new National House of Representatives at Washington tha Democratic caucus nominees were elected, as follows: John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, Speaker; John B 1 Clark, of Missouri, Clerk; John P. Leedom, of Ohio, Sergeant-at-Arms; J. G. Wintersmith, of Texas, Doorkeeper; Lycurgus Dalton, of Indiana,Postmaster; Rev. John S. Lindsay, of (he District of Colombia, Chaplain. The Grand Jury at Danville, Va., after a two days investigation of the election riot, reported on the 4th with no indictment*. Governor Pattison sent a message to the Pennsylvania Legislature on the 4th vetoing all appropriation bills, save those sections providing for employes’ salaries, basing his action on the fact that the legislators failed to accomplish the purposes of the extra session. The Legislature passed the bill over the veto. An enthusiastic meeting of prominent colored people was held in Nashville, Tenn., on the evening of the 4th, and resolutions were adopted denouncing the late decision of the United States Supreme Court on'the Civil Rights bill. The Virginia Legislature met on the fftti, both bouses electing Democratic officers. A resolution was offered in the Senate aching for the resignation of United States Senator Mahone. A* attempt was mad* at Union town, on the 6th to try young Nutt ter the onus' der of Captain Bahaa, boT only ttjle'

jurors out of a panel of eighty oould be secured, and a change 0f venqe to Allegheny County was therefore granted. >• Charles P. Freeman, Who butchered his yeung daughter in Massachusetts, three years ago, as a sacrifice to the Lord, was on the6th committed for life to tha insane, asylum at Danvers. FOREIGN. A hurricane was reported on the 3d off the coast of Newfoundland, and much damage to shipping was expected. The new Government steamer Princess Louise was lost on the rocks with her Captain and eight men. Warehouses at Liverpool containing cotton, hemp and sugar were burned on the 3d, causing a loss of $300,000. Infernal machines reached Paris on the 3d, one directed to De Lesseps, and others to the Panama Canal contractor. Upon De Lesseps’ being warned of his danger, he |paid: “They treat me like a sovereign.” Archbishop McCabe, of Ireland, in a pastoral letter on the 3d denounced secret societies, which “ seem to possess a fatal charm for Irishmen and generally end with the hangman’s rope or the infamy of the informer.” At Wolverhampton, Eng., on the 4th Mr. Chamberlain made a speech maintaining that it was the duty of the Liberal party to remove the causes of Irish discontent, and denouncing the “shame, fraud and transparent imposture” of the present system of Irish representation in Parliament. A Dublin dispatch of the 4th says: “ The reports of the rioting iu Wexford Sunday are said to be greatly exaggerated. The damage to property was confined to broken windows. Nobody was seriously injured. Major Whittle, the Chicago evangelist, held two services in the theater yesterday and was not disturbed.” Another report says “the riotous disturbances were renewed at midnight, when the Methodist Churchy the rooms of the Christian Association, the Cork County Court-house,and some houses of the Protestant population were again attacked. All is quiet to-day. The police patrol the streets leading to the theater.” Patrick O’Donnell, the slayer of James Carey, the informer, was informed on tho 4th by the Sheriff of London that be would be hanged on the 17th. He received tho announcement with composure, and replied that he was prepared for the worst. Foreigners in Canton were informed on the sth by officials that war between China and France was imminent. A street-car in Toronto was blown up with dynamite on the sth, and four occupants received serious injuries. It was announced on the sth that the British Government was about to restore Cetewayo to power over his tribe and lands in Africa. A fire raged all day on the sth in Constantinople in quarters occupied principally by Jews and Turks. Hundreds of houses were burned. Mr. Gladstone has appointed Rt.-Hon. Sir Edward Sullivan, long an intimate personal friend, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The discovery was made on the sth that President Craig, of the Bank of Montroal, who had vanished, had squandered in speculation and by other means about $1,000,000 of the funds.

LATER NEWS A petition was presented In the United ! States Senate on the Gth from the Nebraska 1 Legislature to so amend the law as to force railroads to take out patents on their land grants. Mr. Groome introduced a bill to construct the Maryland & Delaware Free Ship Canal as a means of defense. Mr. Lapham proposed an amendment to the Constitution giving women the right of suffrage. The House met and adjourned to the 10th. Toronto (Can.) advices of the Gth say ; that the recent explosion by which a street* car was damaged was caused by boys placing a fog-signal on the. track, and not , by dynamite, as previously reported. , The Belgian Legislative Chambers in 1 Brussels were destroyed by fire*on the Gth. Many firemen were injured, and it was reported that several grenadiers were killed ,by falling walls. j Advices of the Gth state that the recent ifire in Constantinople swept away six hundred houses, four synagogues and a Greek Church. Thousands of people were made | homeless and destitute. ; A snow-storm on the 6th at Denver, Col., blocked railway communication for twenty-four hours, and carried down three hundred telegraph poles laden with wires. At the session on the Gth at Louisville, |Ky., the Farmers’ National Congress elected Colonel Robert Beverly, of Virginia, President. Advices of the Gth from Gloucester, Mass., report the loss of thirty-eight men by the sinking of three fishing schooners, which makes the total number thus far lost in the late gale sixty-eight. The Dover Silk Company, of Paterson, N. J., suspended payment on the Gth, with liabilities of $102,00J. An engine with several people crossed the new bridge over the Niagara River on the 6th. The structure was said to have felt as firm as solid ground. A large number of Ohio clergymen assembled at Columbus on the Gth and formed a Divorce Reform League, with Rt. Rev. G. T. Bedell, of Cleveland, as President. Armed robbers held up a mail-rider on the Gth four miles from Dardanelle, Ark., I and took his letter-pouch. At a fire in a tenement in New York City on the Gth two persons were fatally burned, one was overcome by smoke, and a fourth leaped from a third-story window. Another riot occurred on the Gth at Canton, China. A Christian chapel was destroyed, but no one was injured. Soldiers dispersed the mob. An earthquake lasting forty-eight sec. Jonds was experienced on the oth at Rouenden Springs, Ark. It broke stoves and jcrockery, and loosenedfrocks in tha rail[way cute.

POSTAL AFFAIRS, Extract* from Po*tmMter-General Gresham’s Report. The revenues of the department for the year amounted to $45,508,692, of whioh $411,619 was the net revenue from the money-order business. The expenditures of the year, not including tho amount credited to the Pacific Railway Companies, was The total estimated surplus of revenue - over total cost for the year was $1,001,281. In addition to these expenditures $406,243 was paid on account of liabilities for previous years. The receipts were $3,632,282, or 8.6 per cent, more than of the previous year. The increase in the item of pay to Postmasters was $1,350,717 --15 per cent, more than for the previous year. The estimated total cost of railroad transportation for the year was $12,719,882. As compared with the previous year there was a decrease In the expenditure for star service of $1,0*2,939, or 18 per cent. The aggregate appropriations for the service of the year were $1,284,899 more than the total expenditures and estimated liabilities. The receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885. are estimated as follows: Receipts, $47,104,078; expenditures, exclusive of amounts to be credited to the Pacific Railroad Companies, $50,062,189. The total number of post-offices is now 47,863, or 1,632 more than lust year. Os these 2,143 are filled by the President. The total number of departmental officers and employes is 168, an increase of 37; of Postmasters and other officers and agents, 69,020, an Increase of 3,243. Tho star service shows a cost of $4,739,478, with 77,998,782 miles of annual transportation, agdinst a cost of $7,321,499 with 76,070,916 miles of transportation In 1880, being an increase of 1,927,787 miles of transportation, and $2,582,021 decrease in cost. There has been a satisfactory increase of the money-order business. The 30th of last June there were 5,927 money-order offices in operation, which issued domestic orders amounting to $117,329,406 and paid domestic orders amounting to $117,344,’ 81. Tho international orders issued were $7,717,832, and international orders paid $3,063,187. The new postal notes are being extensively employed. Those paid at the New York City Post-office from September 3 to October 20 numbered 57,374 and amounted to $106,864 The number of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal-cayds issued during the year was 1,861,680,669, and the value $42,910,319. The largest Item was ordinary postage stamps, of which there were issued 1,202,743,800, valued at $30,307,179. The amounts of postage collected on second-class matter wus $1,705,177. Os this 26.40 per cent, was collected at New York, 8.37 per cent, at Chicago, 6.50 per cent at Boston, and 5.20 per cent, at Philadelphia. The new mode of treating held-for-postage matter, by which the addressees are invited by Postmasters to remit the postage and get the matter directly from tho mailing-office, was found to work so satisfactorily at the free delivery office that it has been extended to all tho Presidential offices.

The number of letters and parcels sent through the registered mails was 10,694,716, of which 7.849,826 were domestic letters. The total weight of the mails sent to postal union countries, exclusive of Canada, was 2,532,990 pounds. Os these, 41.32 percent, of the letters and 41.36 per cent, of the printed matter, samples, etc., were sent to Great Britain; and 23.01 per cent of.the letters and 17.30 of the' prints, etc., to Germany. The cost of the ocean transportation of mails was $316,552, an increase of $36,354 over the preceding year. There seems to be a popular impression ihat one cent a copy is the uniform rate for all newspapers. Many persons deposit in postoffices newspapers weighing more than two ounces with a one-cent stamp On them. They are not entitled to be sent, and. perhaps, are not. This creates dissatisfaction. In order Jo obviate this it is recommended that the rate of postage on newspapers and periodicals sent by others thaiS the publishers or news agents be made one cent per three ounces. The Postmaster-General is invested with authority to issue an order forbidding the payment of money orders or the delivery of registered letters to any person whom he believes to be running a lottery scheme. His decision of the question of fact is final and conclusive, and nis action is not subject to judicial review. The power of Congress to enact such laws cannot be doubted, and the order in question is of binding force. postal telegraph. The impression widely prevails that oui means of telegraphic communication should not be limited to such as are furnished by private companies which eujoy a monopoly and claim to be exempt from Government control in their relations with the public. Several substitutes for the present system have been suggested: (1) The acquisition and operation of the existing lines by the Government. (2) The construction by the Government of lines which it will operate in competition with existing companies. (3) The creation of a company by which lines of telegraph are to be supplied to the Capital of each State, and other places having a given number of Inhabitants, or where stations are now maintained, or the business of the country may hereafter require them. The company, in consideration of the special powers conferred by Congress. is, at certain reduced rates to be prepaid by stamps, to transmit messages at a compensation to be paid by tho United States not to exceed ten per centum upon its authorized capital stock over and nbove operating expenses. The Government is obliged to furnish at each stution the requisite accommodations for the officers employed in the transaction of business, and to assume the duty of receiving messaged, and delivering by mail or otherwise such as are transmitted. T merely stute in the most general form the leading features of each of these plans. It will be perceived that they are essentially different. The first two contemplate that the Government shall own and operate the lines, including all the necessary apparatus; and the third that a company thall be employed to perform tho required service at a stipulated compensation.

From the best consideration which I have been enabled to bestow upon the subject, I have reached the conclusion that Congress has the constitutional power in providing for the postal service of the country to avail itself of all the facilities devised by the inventive genius of modern times for transmitting messages and intelligence, and that it has full authority to adopt either otthe first two plans which I have mentioned. *•***•• The establishment and operation of a postal telegraph as a monopoly or in competition with private companies would. It Is insisted, reduce rates, which are now exorbitant, and protect the public against the abuses and evils deemed to be inseparable from the service as it exists. In either event/ an enormous expense must be incurred. But without dwelling upon that consideration it is clear that an efficient execution of either plan will necessarily involve the employment of a multitude of operators,, messengers, mechanics and laborers, and thus largely add to the patronage of the Government. An Increase of that patronage beyond what Is indispensable to the public service Is to be deprecated and avoided, and It is one of the dangers which threaten the purity and duration of ourdnstitutlons. In Europe the telegraph is under the control of the public authorities. With us the Administration is the Government in action, and may, for the time being and for all practical purposes, be considered the Government itself. In seasons of political excitement, and to some extent at other times, is there not ground for serious apprehension that the telegraph, under the exclusive oontrol of the dominant party, might be abused to promote partisan purposes ana peroetuate the power of the Administration? But if it could be kept entirely frefe from such Influence I should hesitate to sanction a measure providing that the United States shall become the proprietor of telegraph lines and operate them by its officers ana agents. * * .* * ■ * • • I have endeavored to maintain the authority of Congress to assume control of the telegraph because it has been and still Is seriously disputed. The existing companies operate their lines solely for the purpose of making money, and while It is doubtless true that their rates as a whole are unreasonable, yet in view of what has already been said X do not think the eyilioompfalned of are so grievous M to call for Congressional inter' vuriop

About Plasters. It may surprise some when I say, unhesitatingly and decidedly, that there! is nothing in the ordinary plaster that is “strengthening.” Their greatest possible good is effected by “counterirritation,” diverting local inflamatioh to a safer surface, thus relieving and allowing such an organ or part to re* ouperate. The usual basis of these plasters ist “Burgundy pitch,” which has no special' medicinal power, but causes irritation,i more than otherwise, on account of the accumulations of waste matter, thrown to the surface, but retained by the Jilaster, first causing irritation, then tching. It is true that such an appliance may serve to brace one, keeping them “in position.” This, however, is of no advantage, since the true principle is for the muscles to do this, ' supporting the bones. And, if it is true that exercise promotes strength, it must be apparent that just to the extent that we relieve them, allowing! inactivity, indolence, we must impair their usefulness and strength. A still more efficacious and active irritation may be produced by the use of mustard or cayenne pepper—sprinkled on a wet cloth—applied to any surface, which, unlike the plaster, may be removed at pleasure. Unlike the plaster, also, this does not retain any of the perspirable waste and poisonous matters of the body, but really promotes their discharge. This retention by the piaster—a manifest evil—probably led to the the of the “porous” ones, which retain less, but cannot be innocent in this regard. If undesirable to retain all naturally escaping from a given surface, it is not best to retain any part, or more than half, by the new ones, the pores not removing one-half of the entire surface. While the wet clothes absorb these waste matters, sponge like, preventing a re-absorption—if removed while still wet—but a small amount is permitted to escape, in the use of the “porous” kind, that through the perforations.—Dr. Hannceford, in Western Plowman.

A Big Liar. There lives a man in Missouri who has the reputation of being the biggest liar in that part of the State, and he is proud of his reputation. A few days ago Mr. Orr, who lives in the same city, and a stranger were conversing, when the champion came toward them. Mr. Orr had told the stranger of the champion liar, and when the latter was near by Mr. Orr said: “Now, Mr. . tell us as big a lie as possible without stopping to think.” Champion Liar—J. haven’t got time. Mr. Orr—O, yes, you have. C. L.—No, I haven’t, I tell you. Mr. O.—Why haven’t you? I should like to know. C. L.—Why? Because your father-in-law has just died, and I am going for the Coroner. The champion liar then turned and walked oft' at a rapid gate, refusing to answer any further questions. Mr. Orr, believing that the death had occurred, at once mounted his horse and rode to his father-in-law’s house as fast as possible, to find him in the woods at work and as healthy as ever. Mr. Orr is now satisfied that the man is the champion liar of the State of Missouri. —Quincy Herald. " —The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided that certificates issued by marriage endowment associations are void, as against public policy, and as being mere wagering contracts as to the time' when persons should marry.—lndianapolis Journal. —There is nothing that tends to encourage cruelty more than the prevalent fashion that demands the slaughter of birds for ornament. —Albany Journal. —Pay your taxes or get into the army is the law in Madagascar THE MARKETS. New Yoilk, Decembcr7. LIVE STOCK—Cattle *5 00 @ $7 50 SHEEP 350 @ 650 „ HOGS 475 @ 660 FLOUR—Good to Choice 4 06 @ 876 Patent r 576 @ 710 WHEAT—No. 2 Red 1114© 1 124 No. 3 Spring: 106 a 106)Z CORN-No. 2.... 66 OATS—Western Mixed 874® 39 PORK-Mess... 13 10 13 35 LARD—Steam 880 @ 885 CHEESE 10 @ 12 WOOL—Domestic a @ 35 BEEVES—Extra $7 00 ®$ 7 25 Choice 650 @ 875 good 560 @ 640 Medium. 460 @ 860 Butchors’ Stock 376 ® 435 „ Inferior Cattle 200 @ 340 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice 440 & 560 SHEEP , 235 @ 460 BUTTER—Creamery 32 @ 41 _ Good to Choice Dairy. ... 25 @ 85 EGGS—Fresh 26 & 36 FLOUR—Winter 600 @ 615 Spring 400 @ 676 Patent 650 0 700 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Spring 95X0 95 H Corn, No. 2 574® 57(4 g’fc'r.v”:::::::: lit T Red-Tipped Hurl 44® 54 Fine Green 54@ 6 Inferior 3 ® l POTATOES—Good to Choice 30 0 40 LARD—Steam 800 @ 865 LUMBERCommon Dressed Sldinfe. 18 00 @ 33 00 Flooring 10 00 & 86 00 Common Boards 12 00 @lB 00 Fencing 12 00 ® 14 (0 Lath 250 @ 360 Shingles 290 0 820 _ BAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best *6OO @ SO 30 hoSESSSS:::::::::::::: !8 jj 18 mmes&titz is 1 :s Common 2 0;) @ tSO J*,| •HBBP-Poor toChbloo...;; 400 3 IN l