Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 6, Number 44, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 29 January 1885 — Page 2

gtojpncc 'Salfchlu .gleica * NAPI’ANEE. : iNDIAN > NEWS OF THE WEEK. BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. XLVlllth CONGRESS. Second Session. Tve- ay, Jan. -o.— lu tho Senate several bills on the calendar were considered, after which consideration of the In-ter-State Commerce bill occupied the remainder of the session. In the House a bill was reported to prohibit<?aliens from holding lands in the United States. In Committee of the Whole the Indian bill was considered. When the committee rose eulogies were pronounced to the memory of the late John 11. Kvins, of South Carolina. Wednesday, Jan. 21.—1n the Senate the invasion of Oklahoma lands was considered, a bill to establish a Court of Appeals was discussed, and the remainder of the session was occupied iu debate on the Inter-State Commerce bill. A message was received announcing the death of Congressman John 11. Kvins, of South Carolina, and appropriate resolutions of respect to his memory were adopted. In the House consideration of the ludiau bfll provoked a long discussiou on the Oklahoma question. The Agricultural Appropriation bill was, reported. Eulogistic addresses upon the private life and public services of the late Senator Anthony, of lihode Island, were delivered by several members. Thursday. Jan. 22. Tlie status of the Oklahoma lauds was the chief subject for debate iu the Senate. Messrs, l'awes, A est, Harrison and Maxey held that the law forbade the invasion ojf these lands bv white men. Mr. Win mb claimed that without th* consent of the Indians, the lands could opened to settlement by the action of Congress and the President. In the House, the Italian Appropriation bill was further discussed. Amendments were adopted to establish an Indian industrial school at Santa Ke and to negotiate- with three triln's for tho opening of the Oklahoma lands to white settlers, after which the bill was passed. Friday, Jan. £’>. —In the Senate, when Mr. V est's resolution for negotiations with three Indian tribes for the cession of the Oklahoma lands came up, Mr. Plumb offered a substitute suggesting negotiation with the rod men for all lands above 160 aeres to each head of a family, the surplus to be used for actual settlers only. Alter some debate, both resolutions were referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. A National flag was “presented to the Senate by tin l Women’s Silk-Culture Association of tho United States. Iu the House the day was occupied iu discussing Senate appropriation bills. A silk flag was presented to the House by the Women’s Silk-Culture Association. In the evening forty-six pension bills were passed. FROM WASHINGTON. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United Statesduriug the week ended on the 17th aggregated $776,390,2(8), against $774,166,206 the previous week. As compared with tho corresponding period of 1664, the falling off amounts to 27.0 per cent. The President received information from General Augur on the 20th that the squatters in Oklahoma numbered four hundred, and threatened resistance to Federal authority. The President sent instructions to concentrate more troops at the point of invasion and remove the colonists as peacefully as possible. The United States Senate received a report from the Secretary of State on the 20th showing that our trade with Mexico, Central ami South America and the West India Islands amounted in 166-1 to $04,900,006. The annual session of the National AY Oman’s Suffrage Association commenced at Washington on the 20th. It was stated by S. W. Talmadge on the 20th that information received from*the principal wheat-growing States showed that owing to the severity of the winter the outlook for the crop was Very unsatisfactory, the average in shortage of acreage compared with last year being fully twenty per cent. Secretary Lincoln declined on the 20th to order a court-martial for the trial of Chief Signal Officer Huzen on the charges preferred by Lieutenant Garlington, and also decided to take no further action in regard to the Grecly relief expedition. President Arthur on the 20th sent to the Senate the name of Carroll H. Wright, of Boston, Mass., for United States Commissioner of Labor Statistics. An estimate was made on the 21st that vJOo.oot) men, previously Unemployed, had obtained work in manufacturing enterprises since January 1. The Senate on the 21st continued John Davis to be Judge of the United States Court of Claims and William A. Richardson to be Chief Justice of the same court. The House received a report from the Committee on Public Lands on the 21st that European noblemen had acquired t’venty-oue miijtpti acres iu the United States, and thnitjfwfceign capital would before many years possess itself of one hunI drcdiiiilliyn |tcris more by the foreclosure of Anrpricath jtaitroud bonds.

sent to the Chairman of the House Committee on Post-offices an'l Post-roads on the 21st the draft of a bill providing fOr a reduction of postage on second-class matter, or newspapers, mailed! by publishers, from two cents to uue cent per pound. For the first s x months of the fiscal year the internal revenue collections in the United States amounted to !S,.y;s, a decrease of +4,270,780 as compared with tfie corresponding period last year. The death of the wife of Justice Stanley Matthews occurred in Washington on the ' 22d. Her remains would betaken to GlenIt has been decided by the House Postoffice Committee to recommend that, the proposition to reduce the postage on papers be ‘incorporated in the Pos.t-ofiic© Appropriation bill. There were 4l> business failures in the Unit'd States and Canada during the s**ven days ended on the 2‘ld, against 4>2 the previous seven davs. The distribution was as follows: Middle States, (>7; New England States, UT; Western, 1 J‘>; Southern, ho; Pacific States and Territories* J 8; Canada, JO. THE EAST. From the port of New York the exports, exclusive of specie, for the seven days ended on the 20th were >7,009,000. The Republicans elected the following United States Senators on the 20th: New York, William M: Evarts; Connecticut, O. H. Plate,(re-elected); Khode Island, Jonathan ( ha=e: Pennsylvania, John D. Cameron, f re-elected.> The b ntii of-Sister. Theresa occurred on the 21st in the convent at Wilkesbarre, Pa. She was :i B iii.'--o of James <l. Blaine, named Nellie Walker. The Savings bank of Jamestown, Pa., failed recentjy, and on the 21st a defalcation of >lo,<mm> was discovered. <>no of the officers had been missing for several days. Ox the West Shore and Pennsylvania Road*emigrant tickets were, on the 21st, selling from New York to Chicago for one dollar. The other day Patrick Lenningham, a laborer, living in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Reported that the savings of hi3 lifetime, $2,700, had been stolen from a sachel in his bed-room. W. J. Lewis w elected President of the American Tinned-pltite Association at its annual meeting on the 22d at Pittsburgh, Pa. Ox Mouat Washington, N. H., the thermometer went down fifty degrees below

zero on the morning of the 22d, one degniß below the record. A hurricane was blowing at the time at the rate of one hundred miles an hour. Louis Ladeniikruer, an officer of tjhe Franco-Prussian war, hanged himself the other day at Scranton, Pa., after having been out of employ ment for three mouths. It was decided ou the 22d by the creditors of Oliver Brothers, of Pittsburgh, f.’a,, to grant a live-year extension, taking separate notes for the pciymont of interest semi-anuually. On a farm near Groton, N. V., a portable engine exploded‘on tho 22d. killing two men and fatally wounding two others'. From various portions of the country advices of the 2kd to ftrmhttreet's •Imtrnal stated that general trade was still in an unsatisfactory condition. A fire on the 2-id burned the steamer St. John, of the Albany line, at her dock in Now York. The boat was valued at $400,000, and was noted for her speed. The death of C. Godfrey Gunther, the war Mayor of New York City, and for nearly half a eentry a leading Democrat, occurred on the 2:d. At Shoomakersville, Pa., a verdict of $!R)0 was given recently against Dr. M. S. Hollerin' favor of Peter Herring, aged cightv-four, whose broken legs tho physician had improperly treated. (In the 2Md the Liberty Bell was taken from Independence Hall in Philadelphia and shipped by special car to the Xow Orleans Exposition. WEST AND SOUTH. lx Booge & Co.’s packing-house at Sioux City, la., a rendering tank exploded on the 20th, wrecking a great portion of the building, killing four persons and wounding eight others. At Brown's Summit, N. C., the old Stouficello Academyv now used as a free school, was burned the other night, and Miss Hessio Pritchard, aged seventy-six, perished in the flames. On the 20th the steamer Chesapeake, of the Virginia oyster navy, captured seven schooners engaged in illegal dredging near Norfolk, ami turned over to the Sheriff their force of sixty men. The Democrats elected United Static Senators as follows on the 20th: Indiana, Daniel AA'. A’oorhoes (re-elected); North Carolina, Z. B. Vance (re-elected); Florida, Wilkinson Call (re-elected), 0 The six-year-old daughter of Henry Abel, of Washington, Daviess County, I lid., caught her clothes afire from a grate on the 20th, and she was burned to death. Mrs. Rachel Barber, an aged widow, was burned to death on the same day at her home in Veale Township, Daviess County, her dress also taking tire from an open grate. In some of the. southern counties' of Tennessee pleuro-pueumonia was on the 26th spreading to an alarming extent. The most active preparations for war in the Hocking (O.) Valiev were bn the 20th said to be going on among the lawless element, with scarcely any attempt at concealment. The Governor had notified State troops to hold themselves in readiness to respond upon a moment’s notice. Two colored children were burned to death iu a cabin near Springfield, Ky., a few days ago. While coasting at Mansfield, 0., the other afternoon, George AVinaus, aged fifteen, was struck by an express train and instantly killed. At AA'ood’s gambling-house in San Antonio, Tex., three employes were bound and gagged early the other morning by six masked men, who then broke open the safe 'and carried of $4,000 in greenbacks and gold coin. At Evansville, Ind., in a struggle with officers on the 20th, two chicken thieves named Sanders and Nally the former being killed and-thc latter mortally wounded. The officers w ere arrested. The doors of the Bank of AA'adena, owned by E. S. Case, at AA’adena, Minn., were closed ou tlie 21st. It was thought that not more than twenty per cent, on the dollar would be paid. In a tenement house at Baltimore fire the other night created a panic. A woman jumped from a window and was fatally hurt, and two children would die of exposure. The remaining occupants had narrow escapes. The Missouri Legislature bn the 21st reelected George G. A'est United States Senator. Ox the 21st the Illinois House of Representatives held a continuous session of. t welve hours. Uu ail appeal to the Speaker to permit a vote on permanent organization, Mr. llaiues expressed his surprise that he was not deemed competent to act as Speaker, and would, therefore, resign. Mr. Croukrite was made temporary Speaker, and the House adjourned to the 22d. Schuyler Colfax’s will was admitted to probate on the 21st at South Beucl, Ind. The estate, valued at $500,000, is 1 ft to Mrs. Colfax and her son. The Ohio Legislature has resolved to place in the old capital at Washington a statue of ex-Governor AVilliam Allen. A few days ago tea persons were injured by a railway aeeideht near Sedalia, on the Missouri Pacific Road. The westbound passenger train struck a broken rail and a chair-car was precipitated down a high embankment. An appeal by Director-General Burke caused members of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange on the 21st to subscribe SOO,Oou to meet current expenses of the AA'orhl’s Exhibition. „

lx the Colorado Legislature on the 21st Secretary Henry M. Teller was elected United States Senator. "Withlx a. short time hog cholera has swept oft* one thousand head in a township near Lincoln, Neb. , Great excitement prevailed in St. Louis on the 21st concerning the outbreak of alleged Asiatic cholera. Two men—a Rus-sian-Jew peddler and a negro—ha l died in that city of the disease within a few days._ iH'Rl.xt; 0n affray with knives the other day in a Louisville coal office a white man was fatally stabbed, and two negroes were seriously wounded. Governor Sr ales, of North Carolina, and Governor Ireland, of Texas, were inaugurate'l oil the 21st. Thirteen thieves who recently stole 00<> worth of goods fr.om the Chicago Alton rretgnt \ai ds at Lexington, Mo., . and had committed numerous rob-, j beries, were 'arrested on the 2lst at Lexington. 4 The other day a troop of the Fourth United States (Rivalry had a tight with Mexican bandits and four-of the latter were killed and twelve were taken to Fort Yuma. b>V \ Prohibitionis?- met in State Conventiou at T>es M"iiiv< on the 22d, State Senator (’lark- being chosen President. Resolutions were adopted demanding a better enforcement 61 the prohibitory law; declaring that tno maim fact lire and sale of 5 liquor is a crim?* aujl should be suppressed; that the verdict of the people of lowa has been giveu four times for protection; that the tenipcrance people of lowa will stand by the present ’’Prohibition law of the State, and will ch.im at t.e hands of the next Legislature juich an amendment as will cm*" any imfiicuMicv and make it more easily enforced. The troops.mid'‘,r Ccncral Hatch had on the 22d surrounded U :n lTs Oklahoma boomers at St.T water, and intended to starve them out. ■ Those willing to leave Couch’s camp w ere permitted to go, and 1 numbers w re taking advantage of the order. Jacob. W. GurfmE was fleeted Mayor of Wheeling, V>\ \ a., on the 22d by 700 majority. He will be. tin* first Republican Mayor of that ei y in twenty-five years. At Wheeling, W. A a., manufacturers on the22d advanced the price of nails twenty cents per keg. Miss Matilda Chase, a lineal descendeut of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was burned to death on the 22d at her home in Annapolis, Md. She was sixty-three years.old. Ox the 22d t e special Grand Jury engaged in investigating election frauds at Chicago have found true bills agaiust 255 Judges of Election and the late Canvassing Hoard for negligence w leaking returns.

The recount of the ballots showed that the police appropriation, instead of having a majority of 1b,600, was defeated by a majority of l,o.‘iff votes. The Piute Indians were oil the 22d said to be starving on their reservation in Nevada, having failed to receive the Congressional appropriation of $7,000 Obtained fat them by Senator Dawes. A Dayton (O.) washerwoman who waul recently given some clothing belonging tv a dead woman of her acquaintance, found S6OO in currency sewed in an iiudergar-' ment, and promptly r< turned tlie money to the heirs. Mrs. M. ,1. Pottinoek, of Louisville, was appointed .Notary Public on the :K!d by Judge Stiles in the Common Pleas Court. She is the first lady-examiner ever appointed in Kentucky. On the 2ed it was stated that snowstorms and freezing rains had prevailed for a week in Northern Texas, and cattle and sheep were reported to tie dying rapidly. A bill has passed the Semite of Nebraska forbidding the sale of tobacco to minors. lx the Susquehanna River an immense ice-gorge on the 2.'ld caused the flooding of tho lower section of Port Deposit, Mil,, the rapid rise of the tide causing great excitement. Citizens removed their effects hastily, and there was; some narrow escapes. The police foiuid among the three thousand books recently stolen from the Chicago Public Library a box containing a revolver, dynamite cartridges and giant powder. The thief, who gave the nameof J. C. Talbert, proved to lie Otto Funk, who admitted that he had been experimenting with explosives. In the Shreveport (La.) section a sleetstorm ou the 2kd covered the'onuntry with ice. Streamswere mutually high, and the bridges had been carried away. BAs aged miser named James Commie, of Delphos, ()., was found frozen to death iu his hut on the 2k t, and 'search for his treasure was being made. The execution iff Anthony Walker (colored) took plaee at Marshall, Tex., on the 2." id for the murder of AVilliam Henry, a wealthy white planter, in November, 166::. Ox the 2:id AVilliam R. Lyle, a reporter of the Chicago '/Vales, was found guilty of assaulting with intent to kill Henry Gregg at the Chicago Driving Park W(st September, his punishment being fixed at two years in the penitentiary. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Several Italian villages weredestroyed by an avalauehe on tho 20th, and great distress prevailed among the inhabitants. A large number ol’ persons lost their lives. The death of Thomas Barbour, tlie famous Irish thread manufacturer, occurred at Lisbon, Ireland, oil the 26th. He left an estate valued at $10,600,060. ON the 21st advices stated that at a point about twenty miles from Meteinneh, in the Soudan, General Stewart luid a desperate battle with the forces of El Mehdi, who were driven from'their ranks, leaving eight hundred corpses. The English lost nine commissioned officers and sixty-five (lien, and an number Were wounded. Among the killed was Lieutenant-Colonel Burnaby. General Stewart’s I horse was shot dead. Twenty-four laborers on tlie’Nnrthern Railway between Callendar and Gravenhurst, Can., were on the 21st reported to have been frozen to death. A man named Barton, pf Lime Lake, Out., while drunk on the 22)1 killed his daughter with a chair, whereupou his wife left the house in terror, anil died from exposure and excitement. The text of an alleged agreement between England and Turkey announced on the 22d, provides for the deposition of the Khedive of Egypt, the Sultan to appoint his successor from another family. Montreal customs authorities discovered recently that by means of counterfeit invoices made by brokers the Government had been defrauded to the amount of st.'i,nun, whit-li would be levied ou the importers. On the 22d earthquake shocks were again felt at Malaga, Lola, Uelez-Malga and Allnuneear, in Spain. Some damage was ibmo at the latter place. In the Governments on; ArehangeJ and Vologda, Russia, famine prevailed on the 22d. Advices of the 22d stale that dozenis of villages in Italy were destroyed in the recent avalanche, and over two hundred persons loaf their lives. Scores of ilead bodies had been recovered. Four men were frozen to death near St. Amies during the recent great storm in Canada, and two others liiet a similar fate at Acton Yale. At Melvulles, in the Department of tlie Haqtes-Alpes, France, an avalanche on the 2kd crushed a church and buried the congregation in sno .v. Twenty men working in a marble quarry near by were also buried. A volunteer force was digging the victims out. Many travelers and sentinels in Spain were frozen to death in the recent cold weather. Russia and Prussia have concluded a treaty providing for tin* extradition of assassins or abductors of royal personages and of persons guilty of the illegal manufacture of explosives.

LATER. Dynamiters caused three b>surns in London on the aft- rnOv.i *l the 24Lh. One was in°the strangers’ gallery of the House of Commons, .tiie 's‘*cnl in a crypt at Westminster Hall,'and the other lit the Tower. The 1 itest reports were to the effect that thirty-four persons were injured; that the Parliament buildings were badly wrecked, ami that the White Tower was greatly damaged.. The. x.-it-merit ii the city passed description. The entire pol'co force was on duty, and all the troops about the metropolis were under arms. After a wreck on the Canadian Pacific Road, near Smith’s Fall’s, Ont., tic* other morning, three cars took lire, and two men were burned to death.- Three other persons were injured, one fatally. W. H. Gcmersell N: Cos., a St. Louis dry-goods firm, failed oil the24th for +2H},URH; S. 1). Me Reynolds* a private banker of Reutoiivi'lle, A: k., fade 1 for H25.0n.q end (’. K. Andrews, of .Milwaukee, bakingpowder manufacturer, failed for Ox a sheen ram he near Sail Angela, Tex., two Mexicans entered a tent a few days ago win* o four men were sleeping and fatally stabbed the entire party. J’h e Moii! real'express' on tin* Canadian Pacific Railway ran oft* the track on the 24th near Smitl#s Falls, Out. Fjoiir cars - were.-buriied, two men were kiiUel.aril several others were seriously injured. At Newport, Ky., on tie* 25th Mrs. Carrie L. Winslow while insane killed her two children and then committed silicide by cutting her own throat. Colonel Hatch was on the 2Uh notified by the Oklahoma boomers that the settlers intended to fight. The strength of the boomers had been increased by lour hundred men. The Unit and States troops were try ing to cut oft all supplies and reinforcements. , Dl'itixti a quarrel at a dance in Pickens County, Indian i’erril'u'vL a few nights ago four men w*-re killed and two others were fatally injured. The excess of .-.SFc ts >v.-r liabilities in the United States Treasury on the 24th was >i or >s,<>uo,t)Ou more than the customary reserve. Admiral Colret disembarked French troops and made an attempt to s i/c the mines of Kelung on the 24th, but was. repulsed with the loss of seventy-five m*u. In the United States Senate on the 21th Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill making it felony to manufacture or deal iu nitro oi chloride compounds to be used to injure persons or destroy property, either at home or abroad. After news was received of the tfxplosious in London resolutions Mr ere adopted expressing indignation and horror at the dyuaui'to outrages. In the House the Agricultural Appropriation bill was passed. An effort to call up tfic Mexican Peiisiou bill was defeated.

DYNAMITERS AT WORK. Loudon Startlod by Throo Torriflo Explosions. Tlio House of Commons, Westminster Hall ami the Tower llatlly Shattered— Several Persons Injured, hut None Killed. CHEAT 1. \‘ 'ITEM !i NT. Loxnox. Jan. 24. — At 3:10 i>. m. to-day mi aiimiiiiu; I'xj'los'ion oocunvd tlio Houses of l’miiaim'nt. Tlio rumor spread tlii'ouuh tlio <iiiv with woudorfid rapidity and eausod tlio ftroatost alarm. Thousands of. personsj li.ur.riod to the scone, and. in a few minutes, the larite buildings were .surrounded by an exyitod I'opuiaeo. (ireat exoitemonf prevails, linnmrs of a dynannto phit tili tlio air. and the Strand is tilled with persons who Wateh for tlio newspaper Iml let ii.is. Hiitlji 1 louses of l'ariiariioiit and tlie Governmeiit otliees were sexerely shaken ami eousiderahle damaire was done. The explosion oeeurred elo-e to the I louse of I .ords. near Westminster Hall. It is reported that the explosive was plaeeu in a iTypt under the huihlinir. A policeman .was M'l.iiusly hurt. The force of. the shook was tremendous, and was felt at a meat distance. The amount of danupic •done is very jrrea't. i'here ware two explosions instead of due. as first supposed. The second came a bom three ndnujes after the first. One was near the House of Commons and the other at Westminster Hall. Saturday heiny the usual visiting day at the Houses of Parliament, the tmildiucs contained a creat number of sicdit-secrs at the time of the explosion. The first, explosion occurred in a crypt of Westminster llall. The second took place in the st.ranJ. r-3 eatery in llouse of Com'uidns. ImHiediatelv helore the Jtr'st eyplosion a lady visitor, who was alone aid about hi enter the Imih, lines, hcekOned to a pi.lie,man and called his attention tn a (laekace lyinc upon the steps outside- ihe erv pt. The polieem ill picked lip the parl.aoe carelessly, not suspect ini' anv thine, and went witli it out into Westminister llall. He no sooner reached the lud! than; the, paekace exploded, This explosion knocked ihe policeman down ami injured him seriously. 11 is case is eons.deixd eritieal. Itsforee also knocked down two other polieemen- standins in the vicinity, and stunned them. A lady and jceiitleman near the officer who had the packa.ee were also prostrated. A great vvindovv over the main entrance t<> Westminster llall was smashed to atoms and ail the side w indows were blown out. In the interior of the House of Commons and updii the tlopr the only seat damagedby the explosion was that which tdadstoiie occupies. A sinall chip was also turn off the top’ of the Speaker's chair, ’flie explosions caused a panic among the visitors. Those who were in the House of Commons tied precipitately and many ladies were bruised and crushed,] The second e.xpiosioipin the fuiidings (leeurred three jaim.it.es later than the fd>and was far more destructive. The liy’.xaiuite which Oaused the second explosion 'must have been placed utujyr the Peers’ gallery, on the left side. Little Impe is entertained of tile survival or the wi.itnd.ed polieeimUi. The force of the • \’,i'osio;i was such that one man was Mow n to the earth three hundred yards from thojpoint of the exmosion. 'l'h.e prevalent belief is that the destructive ag-.-nt was conveyed into tlie House of Co.iiimous hy some Saturday visitor. A fuller iuv (.stigaii.'U shews the extent Os the damase a- much greater than at first supposed. T!;e yvesteiu extremity .of..the Jlouse is a total wreck. 't here is no doubt hut that the explosive was placed under the Peers' gallery on the (ioveniment -rdo of tlm House. All the wood-work in that part of the building was shattered and a wide hole was made through the liner. The gallery was dis-pk'ei and and even the . solid stone work of lie doorvv av s was either pulvei'i/.e lof shitted.tioiu its posi'tion. Every pane of glass inflie house was smashed to atoms'. Cullen benches were overturned and broken and the gallery generally dismantled. A ladv visaing the House of Commons at the time of the Outrage was seriously injured, immense damage was done ill the lobby. 'flie masonry decorations and.sculpture were utterly destroyed. The place is described as literally blown to pieces, 'flie shock was fell in Pall Mali, am! persons,iiji that vicinity .say the very earth shook. Mr William Vernon liarcourt, tlie Home Secretary, and the Marquis ot Haltiligton. Secretary of State for War, are visiting the scene. At two o'clock p. m. another explosion occurred at London Tower. The outrage was the most successful yet made upon any of tlm public buildings since tne inauguration of the present era of dynamite warfare. The famous old ImihUng was crowded with visitors at the tiiife of the explosion. 'fhe wildest rumors are in circulation us to the number ot persons injured. 'These'minors are being carried through tlie city and constantly exaggerated by the visitors present at the time. I'p to four o'clock but sixteen persons had been otiiciail.y reported as injured by tlie explosion, and tioiiy of these mortally. The attack was made on that portion of the building known, as the White Tower, it was fairly tilled with visitors at tlie time,. and the most-if not all of those hurt were . moving üboijit in the 'fewer at the time of the explosion, 'fhe White 'fewer is almost completely wrecked by the force of the explosion. ’flie roof was blown clear off the structini'r All the persons known to have been injured were vi-itors. :> i.m.— file city i> iii a frenzied state of excitement, flie whole police force is on duty and the troops in and around the city are under arms. Police patrols are station; and everywhere in close proximity to each other and a cordon of police has bjen drawn around every public building. Chief Superintendent Williamson. i>f .Scotland Yard, has personally insp. eteil the dvm sos the explosion, as have also inspectors Livingstone and Kelly. One of the wounded polieemen is dying. Several men lgivc b e:i arretted, but arc believed to !>• innocent of any connection with tlie horrible outrages. 'The man taken into custody in the .vicinity of Westminister Hail is a Canadian, and apparently e. s afarcr. He was thoroughly searched, bill nothing of an iuciimimiting nature wak found. 9 t A round and nbsolutelv hairless face is, tin; newest wrinkle in fashionable society. For the present the mode is conduct! to the most exclusive sets, but of course it will only be a tew months until the faslron is taken up hy the aspiring youths of every circle. The smo dii faces of the young gallants are intended to harmonize with, the classic 1 1 roles of their fair and intellectual companions. The IP mans, these you.hs limy well argue.'ever since the time of Scipio Africanus. who was the first of his illustrious nation to employ a barber every day. considered the beard a sign of barbarity. .Y. V. Urtijihic. e ♦ This remarkable story is vouched for by a correspondent of tlie Cleveland Ilcrnhi: “Benjtumh (iiaqtie, who died suddenly hi Berlin, <>.. a few days ago. had a large dbg which was his best friend in sickness ami In health. Gi:iqiie would get intoxicated, an I the dog would do the same and 'wabble and fall. le mi C ia j tie went, to bed t lie dog would lie beside him. and when bis master wou'd groan tie' dog would liovvl. Luring l ie three Weeks ‘of Ilia*pie's sick-, ness, the dog was very sick, and .what capped the climax, the very day and hour that lie died, the dog died.” ‘ Several of the prominent society ladies of Washington are 0 going about on orutcties on account of injuries. It is sits peeled, however, that the crutch business will become fashionable and half the girls in town will n-c them before the season $ over. Washington .Post. —Last year Paris officials fished out of the Scute within the city limits the following: Dogs, 3,939: cats, 349: rats, i.9IG: fowis, 191; rabbits, 130; pieces of meat, 33: geese. 8: turkeys, 3; sheep, 3; one goat, one monkey, one pig, and one calf. * "

WAR IN THE DESERT. Ten Thousand Arabs Hash Into a Storm of Itritisli Shot and She’ll—General Stewart's Command Fiercely Attacked While Struggling to Relieve “Chinese” (Jordon —The raise Prophet.'* Head Piled I p in Heaps—The Survivors Flee—ltritisli Loss Seven t y-Votir. Lonmin, Jan. 33.—A battle between Seneral Stewart's troops, numbering 1.500. uni 8,000 to 10,000 Arabs lias been fought it a point in tlie Passaniyeh desert, twentythree miles northwest from Metemneh, and near the caravan station of Nhebacat, in which the rebels were routed. Among those who fell under the enemy’s lire was Lieiiteiiaiit-l'olonel I’uiniuby. Resides Colonel Ihtrnahy, tlie following were killed: Major Carmichael, Fifth Lancers; Major Atherton, Filth Dragoons; Captain lJarley and Lieutenant Shaw, Fourth Dragoons; Lieutenant Wolfe, Scots Creys, and Lieutenants Pigott and He I.esle, ot the Naval brigade.; Lord St. Vincent and Lord Airiie were wounded. A dispateli lias been received at tlie Wat Otlice from General Wolseley, dated Korti, Jan. 31, 3 p. in., which reads substantially as follows: General Stewart lias had a heavy engagement witti a portion of K 1 Mchdi's forces neat, tile Alm-Klca wells, about twenty-three mile? this side of Metemneh. Tlie rebels had collected from Berber. Meteinneli and Oiuilur* man. This lasi place. I regret to say, so prisoners report, was recently captured by tv Melidi, and thus men were released froiu o there to liglTt General Stewart. On the afternoon of January hi General Stewart's cavalry reported that the enemy were in position some lew miles this side of the wells. As it was too late ill tile day to allow of ail advance and ,ut-eesst'iil encounter. General Stewart liiv or.-avked when- lie was lor tin? night. Tlie enemy kept up a harmless tire all, night and eroded wei-as on General Stewart's right think. On Saturday General Stewart endeavored to draw the enemy on to make an utlauk. tmt tne rebels .hesitated. In consequence. General SU-wart left all Ins impediments, also his camels, with a guard of Ihe Sussex regiment and some mounted infantry, and moved forward, keeping ti is . lorees in tin- lorni of a square. Ail tlie men were oil foot. Tfc Itrftish army pa-se i around the enemy's flank, forcing them to make an attacker be subject to an outbade lire. The enemy wheeled to the left and made a wellorganized eharue usder a withering tire'from our IUUI. The square was unfortunately penetrated about its loft rear, when a heavy cavalry and camel regiment were in possession, by sheer weight of numbers. The admirable steadiness of out men miabled them to maintain a" hand tobaud tight with the opposing force, while severe punishment was being indicted upon tbo enemy by till ol In-r parts of tlio square. Tlie enemy was finally'driven back under a heavy tire from all sides. The" NliVteotitli Hussars then pushed forward to tlfi> wcils, wlnch were in our possession by live in the evening. The enemy left not less than eight hioubeit slain around the works-. Tne nuuibci of their wounded able to march or to be curried ott tile-held is estimated at two thousand. Tile prisoners taken while the enemy was retiring report tlie number of the enemy 's wounded is tpiile exceptional. One immediate etl'ect ot the battle is liuit many of the rebels are submitting. it was necessary for the army to remain at the wells some hours to obiain water. As soon .is practicable the. intention was tu push oil w.th all expedition to Mcteuiueh. The TrUgiisli wounded are doing well. General Wolseley adds; General Stewart's operations have been most creditable to him as a commander, and the Nation lias every reason to be proud ot Tlie gallantry and Splendid spirit ot her M.ajcsly s soldiers on this occasion. Our losses were lime commissioned otticers killed and nine wounded and sixty-live, non-eiuuniissiou :d otticers and men killed, land eigiity-iive wounded. General Stewart's force consists of about 1.-100 men all told. Later dispatches say that the British had no idea that tlie enemy was so near.. The native reports.had led them to suppose that only a few rebels held Alni-lvlea; the rebels brought all their best troops to the attack. The assault on the right of the British square was U and by Almsaleh, Emir of Metemneh, and the attack on the left was under .Mis hammed Kh.iir, Emir of Berber, who was wur tided, and who retired during the early part of the engagement. Almsaleh advanced fiercely with a hundred fanatics until shot down in the square. Burnaby fell, pierced by a spear vvliieh severed the jugular vein, and his right hand clinched in death about the throat of the Arab who killed him while gallantly lighting with his comrades.' The enemy‘s filing she night before the tight prevented sleep. Tlio rebels came on in good order from tlie right and left front at eight o’clock in the morning. A serew-gnn battery cheeked their advance for some time. 'Though the British position was well protected the titles of the rebels made accurate lire. At ten o’clock General Stewart determined to make a counter-attack. The medical stalf under Surgeon Ferguson worked splendidly under tlie heaviest tire. Tlie stoppages to attend to tiie wounded delayed the advance. The interior of the square presented to the view a mass of falling camels and struggling Arabs and English soldiers. Three hearty cheers were' given when the square was reformed on fresh ground. Numerous Arabs, having protended to be dead, now rose from the held and rushed past Ihe square to join the retreating enemy. The rebels consisted of forces from Khartoum, Kordofan and Berber; During the night General Stewart sent a portion of the guards back to bring everything from the intrenched post in the rear. They returned in safety on the morning ot the ISth, when t,he troops partook of their tirst food and water for twenty-four hours. The Hussars buried sixty men where the square was attacked. The rebels had nine hundred special negro ritlemen, all go<xl shots. London, Juii/.33-—T’reiteriek Burnaby, I.q-U----teniiut-Coiouel eoiiimamling Horse Guards, soil of the late Urv. G. Burnaby, Was born at Bedtonl March :>. 1-T.', and received his education at Harrow School and in Germany, ilo entered the Royal Horse Guards, blues, September :>U. INVS lie bus tor the most part of his life since then been pi omineutly connected xvjtli tlie British armyx Lieu tenant-colonel Burnaby was a member oj' Hie t oil nod ol tin- Aeronautic* Society ol Great Brinrn. and inis mado nineteen balloon ascents.being on several occasions unaccompanied by any profe-sionataero-liaul. In Maiei:. Iss3. ho ascended alone in tlie Kelipse balloon irom Hover, and. alter some vicissitudes m mid-air, descended near t bateau de Moutiguv, near F.nveniui. in Normandy. His works are: "A Bide to Khiva;’’ ‘’Travels and Adventures in Central Asia;” “On Horseback Tbrough Asia Minor,” and “A Bide Across tin-Cbaune’, and Otiier Adventures in the Air.” Twelve Dollars for a Baby. Chicago, Jan. 33.—Ollieei Dudley, ot tlie Humane Society, discovered on Monday night that Kong Wa Long, a celestial launibyman at 3i>d Clark street, had in his possession a white boy baby live years old, and that lie hail paid twelve dollars for him to a German woman who is married to Lee Wing, the laundryman's brother. Investigation showed that the woman, with the assistance of Mrs. Ileitmeier, a midwife living at 3721 Cottage Grove avenue, pmeuiijd the child from the Hahnemann Hospital, it is said that the child's mother is a Mrs. Bailey, and that she supposed it vx-is taken from tfie hospital to be adopted by a North Side artist. The otljeers of the HumanedScetety removed tlie child to the Home for the Friendless. A Boy Hangs Himself Because His Mother Whipped Him. Orkgox, Ogle Cos.. I!!,. Jail. 33.— The body of a boy fourteen years old, named Robes,’- was found Tuesday, frozen stitf, banging from a live forty ro Is from his mother's house at Eagle I’ojiit, in this county. The mother inn Iv\ hipped him for some misdemeanor on the l'slh instant, lie went to the Irani and t *ld the hired man lie would bang himself, lie tln-irdisappeared. He bad tied Hie rope about Ids neck, chmlied a tree in the grove, fastened the rope to a limb and sprung pit. x A Proposed Reduction LjyNewspaper Postage.** Washington-. Jan. 33.—IVstmaster-Gen-eral Hatton has sent lo the Chairman of the House Committee on i’ex'.-olliees and Hostroads the draft of a bill providing for a reduction of postage on second-class matter, or newspapers, mailed Uy publishers, from two cents to one cent per pound. It is provided in the draft that the rate shall not apply to the eireulaUo.i of sample copies generally, although a publisherjiuay, twice a year, circulate sample copies nis to exceed in number the actual i ircu.ation of his paper at the date of writing.

STATE INTELLIGENCE. TSii' 4>fnrral Awembl.T. Txm ax.\i*oms, January Sun ate. —Only flltoon members were present, and proceeded to business without a call of the roll. A petition was presented bearing signatures, praying- for*the passage of an act providing for instruetion in the Public; schools on the subject of the evil effects.-of alcohol on the human system. Hills intnulueed: To remove the disabilities of married women allowing them to become surety for their husbands and -other powVrs. To regulate the practice of medicine and surjrery. To provide a fund for the State ITmersity, Suite Normal School and Purdue t*niversity. Senator Po'ulUc offered an <M|tinl suftrajre bill. A measure was introtlueed for the regulation t>f the freight trathe and for t he appointment of a Kailroad Commissioner. A resolution was passed providin'* tor the appointment ot* a special committee, to be composed of six members of the Senate aiid six menbers of the House, whose duty it shall be t**> examine the statutes relating-to the Treasury and report tn^reon. Hoi sk.— Harely a quorum, of members answered at roll-call. ,\n intcrestiiurdiscussion attended the consideration of the bill to increase the State Treasurer's bond from ?l. r 0 • (mm) to SI,(NN)JMN). Uepresentativc Kellison moved to amend by making t he amount $. r >oo,‘ nco, but the amemiment was tabled, as,were' likewise similar propositions to chaujre thebond to $1 .nOO.OOU, to and to x),<mo. The bill was amended by adding an einerjrency clause and by increasing the number of sureties required from twelve to twenty. It was then engrossed. Amonjr tho other bills of importanei* which were engrossed wc*re the To prohibit Sunday base ball playinr: to appropriate $40,000 to Purdue University; to piohibit the sale of lands for delinquent taxes until the said taxes have been due one year; to relieve hotel keepers from liability lor the theft of money and jewelry stolen from jntCsts when not deposited in the sate. ninj to make hotel deadbeatinpr a misdemeanor; to detine the jurisdiction of the .1 usl ices the Peace. New bills introdue#*d: r l'o provide for the holding of a eonstimtional convention, similar to that pre>ented to the Senate last week: limiting the rate of fan* on all railroads in Indiana to two cents. The present rate is four cents, but most of the companies now charge three. IMU AN ATOMS, Jui I'V *JO.—SKNATIw—The da\ was mostly routine work. Senator HaiU’.v ottered an amendment to the iiqour law, removing the restriction against the sale of in*<\ieants between 11 p. m. and 5 a. m. Senator Hoover,- one exempting 1 e.\Ciiion soldiers from poll-tax and road work, and Senator Hillijrass. a bill providing for Ihi ee Jucliit s wliere two now exist in the enmities of Klnc-kford and Wells, Jay and Adams, and Huntington and (Jrant. Daniel H. Ilunl was appointed (Jerk of the Senate Committee on Enrolled Hills, and James K. Walsh, of Shelby, was made Heading Clerk. 1 lor-SK.— I Jtt le work was done outside of routine busiuess. Amon.l* the l>ills itit rodueed was one by lloban, of sii<‘lby, requiring uniform freight rates on all railroads, ami one by Moody, of DeKalb, the taxation of railroads. Kivers, of Kobinson, also has a I ill. reducing-railroad fare* to two cents per mile. Representative Dalton, of Sullivan, in- N trodueed a bill doing* away with the Grand Jury system. Indianapolis. January ‘Jl.—Senate.—At noon the two'housesj met in joint convention to report tho votes for U. S. Senator cast the day before, tiie totals beings Voorhees, 04; Porter, .’>l. Hills introduced: Making changes in the electlaws. It provides for the opening of the polls at t a. m.. make* very definite and clear provisions as to the kind of paper upon which ballots should be printed; namely. No. “book paper, ot a uniform width of three inches Avith a caption printed on one straight line in black ink with plain Roman capitals, no* larger than pica, while the body of the ticket shall be printed in type not larger than brevier. Another section of the bill requires that inspectors and judges shall first count the votes unopened, except so far as to see that each ballot is single, and if two or •more are so folded as to present the appearance of a single ballot both are to be destroyed if tlii; whole number of ballots is found t-o exceed tho total number of votes on the poll lists. Tho New York system of destroying she ballots immediately after the count is introduced in another section and when the count is completed the election clerks are required to draw a heavy line with a ruler from jho last tally mark through to the column on tho right, in whien the total is to be placed, and to place the total vote of the candidate in said column.' Further sections repeal the property qualifications of election otlicers and of the persons designated by either party to swear Wi challenged voters. Senator Seilers lias a bid which proposes the election of Judges of Superior and Circuit Courts at a special election to be held on the last Tuesday in August in the y*ir intervening between the years in which general elections are held. Senator Dtinean proposes tc make anew circuit of the counties of Owen and Mon me, make Hendricks ami Morgan a circuit, and leave Marion County as a circuit by itself. Hoi sk. —A.six-per-cent, interest bill, introduced by Representative Willimms, of Knox, has been reported favorably, aivl now stands on its third reading. Mr. Cottmll has introduced a bill to appropriate $50,000 to complete the new buildings of the State University at Hloomington. in place of those destroyed by tire. A high license bill was offered by Kepreseufative McHenry, of Allen, requiring the jmymcnt of $50(1 for a general license, and $;>00 for the sale of wine and beer. >1 iHCellancon* Item*. Following is Senator Hilligass’ redistricting bill. 'The First district is the only one in which the boundaries are not changed. The other districts are constituted as follows,; Second District— Greene, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Dubois, Crawford, Orange, Lawrence, Monroe, Democratic plurality reduced from I, to 1..T10. Third District—Jackson, Jennings, Jefferson, Scott, Clark, Floyd, -Harrison and WashingtonDemocratic plurality reduced from .4,027 to Fourth District —Fayette, Union, Franklin, Decatur, Ripley', Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland. Democratic plurality reduced from 1,739 to. Fifth District^-Shelby, Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson, Morgan, Hendricks* Putnam and Owen. Demcratic plurality increased from 1,309 t# 1,900. Sixth District—Delaware,Randolph,Henry, Wayne, Rush. Republican majority reluced from 8,490 to 7,D7(. Seventh District —Marion, Hancock, Madison. Democratic plurality increased from 1,245 to 1,421. Kighth District—Fountain, Montgomery, Vermillion, Parke, Vigo, Clay Sullivan. Gross Democratic plurality of 1,175 in place of present Republican plurality of 150. Ninth District—Tippecanoe, Clinton, Howard, Tipton, Boone and Hamilton. Gross Republican plurality of I,lob, instead of present Democratic plurality of 61 J. Tenth District —Warren, Benton, Newton, Jasper, Pulaski, Fulton, Cass, White, Carroll. Republican plurality increased from 431 to 487. Eleventh District —Miami, Wabash, Huntington, Wells, Adnrlis, Jay, Blackford, Grant. Democratic plurality of 1,110, instead of Republican plurality of 54. Twelfth District—Lagrange, Steuben, Noble, De Kalb, Kosciusoo, Whitley, Allen. Democratic plurality reduced from 2,550 to 1,773. Thirteenth District—Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Stark, St. Joseph, Marshall, Elkhart. Democratic plurality increased from 2,178 to 2,200. John Page was killed near Ridgeville, Randolph County, bv a falling tree, a limb of which struck him on the head, crushing his skull. V Andrew W ampler, one of the pioneers of Central Indiana, was buried at Martinsville a few days ago, the Masonic order oflijciating. . , Daniel W. Voorhees was nominated by the Democratic Senatorial Caucus on the 20th, to succeed himself. The Republicans nominated ex-Gqvernor Porter. The Imperial Star Mills, at Evansville, were destroyed by fire. Loss 000. Fovr farmers, living near Vincennes, were iudicted for selling diseased meat, found guilty and finedsloo each. Silas Khondabusii, living eighteen miles south of Monticello, while returning home intoxicated the other evening in a wagon, fell from the vehicle into a drift of snow and perished. The team was found a short distauce from where the body laid. (’has. Havens has l>een Convicted and sentenced fn tho Criminal Court at Indianapolis for assault with intent to commit robbery and murder. He is the man who attacked a street car driver Finnegan, a short time ago. His sentence was fourteen years and one hundred dollars fine. George Scott, the Ft. Wayne train wrecker, was sentenced to thirteen years in the penitentiary. Muncie will have water-works with a capacity of two million gallons. Gold, it is reported, has l>een discovered in Clay Township, Morgan County. Moody, the evangelist, will hold a Christian Convention in Indianapolis, beginning February 20 and lasting three days. The Methodists at Hartford City are holding a successful revival. Many ara joining the church. Colonel J. B. Maynard has been reelected Clerk of the State Printing Bureau. CaptainTleorgk AY. Koontz, of Richmond, has been named by Governor Gray as Adjutant General. Thomas ade, of Clay County, has been appointed m State Mme Inspector. --

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. ■—Bi-hop Jackson, who died in London the other day, had nine daughters, for whom he found husbands in nine vicars of his own diocese. —There arc 2,£00,000,000 copies of daily, weekly and monthly journals published annually in America, against 7,300,000,000 copies in Europe. —Diaz, the new President of Mexico, is a full-blooded Indiem. Mrs. Diaz, wife of the President, is only tweutytive years old. .She war a Rubie before her resetting. —(leneral Hancock lost his only daughter in 1873 and. Mrs. Hancock has worn mourning ever since for one relative after anothsr until now she wears it for her only son. —A'. Y. Sun. —Newspapers in Kn gland do not circulate by subscription as they do in America, but they are sent over the country and sold by news-agents. Then they are sold claeaper here than in America, one penny (two cents) being the usual price.—Cter. Christian Evangelist. —Patti told the Boston Herald that she had worn dhriivmds worth $300,000 the last time she sang in “La Traviata” in New York, but tliiU she supposed the audience thought leer dress was fronted with glass beads instead of gems. She had left most of the collection in a safe deposit vault during her tour, —A statue to R>e, with the inscription written by "William Winter, has 1 ecu in Italy bv the order of a number of actors and literary people, and will shortly be erected in New York. Poe has Waited a long time for such honors, but he has appeared to grow in the popular estimation as the "memory of his personal faults has faded. — Current. - In the album of the widow of exSenator Evans, of Maine, is the following verbatim airgraph of Davy Crockett: “Mrs. Evans of main requists The hunter from the west to write his name in her Album. Her curosity shall be grattiliod by a Sentiment wishing her licith and hapines—and a safe arrivel at her residence with her family and friends.” — Harper's Bazar. ' —Mark Twain says that he used to be a neighbor of Bret Harte in San Francisco, w)ien Harte was editing a weekly journal and acting as Secretary vof the United States Mint, and Twain was a reporter on a daily. The popular hit of “The Heathen Chinee" nearly Vuined Harte in his own estimation, for lmu ambition was to make fame in writing the kind of prose sketches which have since gained so much appreciation, and he feared that people would insist upon always regarding him" as merely a writer of funny rhymes.— N. )'. Tribune. —Correcting some recent reports about Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the Oswego (N. Y.) 7 ’imps says: “Belva Lockwood was a resident of Niagara County, in this State, and her first husband was a gentleman by Hie name of McNall. After the death of Mr. McNall she removed to Washington to take charge of a young ladies' seminary. In Washington she married a dentist by the name of Lockwood. Mrs. Lockwood is' a talented woman of excellent character, and the fact that she has become somewhat conspicuous as a leader among the woman-suffrage advocates is no justification of the lies they tell about her.’’ ' ♦ • HUMOROUS. —The ice man may not be much of a skater, but he is able to make fancy figures oft ice. —Boston Post. —A market reporter says that his sweet heart encouraged him, and he thought of marrying her at once, but that a further advance was followed by a decline. —Louisville Courier-Journal. —We are in danger of having too much culture in this country. An aesthetic buff-colored pug recently went mad in Boston because his mistress dressed him in a light green blanket.— N. Y. Graphic. —A patent medicine advertisement speaks of the “liver failing to act.” We suspect the manager cut down its salary. When the liver refuses to act the drama of “Life” can't go on very successfully.— Aorristown Herald. —lnquiring child —“Pa, what is the difference between sitting up and sitting down?'’ Pa (with perfect confidence in his ability to explain) “Why, my child, when somedody is standing up, and he seats himself, he sits down, and when he doesn't goto bed, and sits down, he aits up.” Forced to wed. To speak the words her tongue did falter. Hut all her tears and prayers were idle; Her father forced her to the halter. For he'd determined on the bridle. She did not wish to stirrup strife. And so her feelings she did smother; But saddle be her married life — She wedded one, but loved another. —Boston Courier. —First Dude—“Aw, Chaw ley, my dear boy, What a wattlin’ pace von are goin” this mornin"." Second Dude—“Aw, yes, Fitznoodle, my dear fellow. Don't tl 'twain me. I'm hard at work. This is the busiest season of the year to me." “By Jove, Chawley, wliat are you doin'?" “I'm dodgin' my creditors. ‘' —Philadelphia Call. —Calling Contributor: Is there any one here who appreciates poetry? Editor: Yes, certainly: have you some? Poet: Yes; four, all on the seasons. Editor: Good; that's just what wo want. Here, John, sprinkle a little sauce on these and take them downstairs. Poet: What for? Editor: For the goat. He is the only one about the establishment who loves poetry. But he won't eat season poetry without mint sauce. —A*. Y. Sun. —“Faith is a confidence in the existence of something we can not see, my little dears,” the superintendent explained to the juvenile Sunday-sehool class. “For instance, when you buy peanuts you know there is a kernel inside of the shell though you only sec the shell. Now, that is faith. Do you all comprehend me?” Class unanimously: “Yes, thir.” Superintendent: “Then what is faith?” Class unanimously: “Peanuths!” Pittsburgh Chronicle. A Texas Doctor; Dr. Blister is one of those physicians who do not take any nonsense'from their patients. One day last week he presented his bill to Mdse .Schaumburg. “One hundred ituif.fifty tollars!” exclaimed Muse. “Vy, mine Gott, two funerals in dot family vould not has cost me so much as dot.” “It’s not too late to have a funeral in the house yet,” replied Dr. Blister, drawing an army-sized revolver. The physician heels himself whenever a patient feels indisposed to settle. —Texas Siftings. - Salaries in Different Countries. In Hungary each member of the imperial legislative body receives for every day of the session about $2.10, besides .*IOO annually for lodgings; in Austria about s•> a day during the session. France pays her Senators and Deputies about *2,2'>o per annum: Holland, about ftSAo per annum and traveling expenses; Belgium, SB4 a month during the session: Norway, about fd.Bo a day and traveling expenses; Portugal, per and eni. Members of the Canadian Parliament receive for every session lasting over a month, SI,OOO and 10 cents mileage; Brazil gives to her Senators SI,BOO and traveling expenses: Mexico allows the members of both Houses $2,000 per annum; the Aigentue Republic even goes as high as $3,300,' and in the United States, both Senators and members of the- Hous ■ of Representatives receive ; .',O ii annually, \> .tit mileage of twenty cents per utile. —Philadelphia Press.

WANTED-A NARCOTIC. Something to Soothe a Man to Sleep Without Producing After Fains. j The danger of using chloral to produce sleep appears in the case of ex-'. Assemblyman of Kings County, who took an overdose of that drugi to relieve insomnia, started next morning in a dazed state to make a visit near! by, and was found holding on to a neighbor's fence with his skull broken and nisi eyes blinded with blood. A peculiarity! of chloral seems to be that you may' take it ninety-nine times with good effect, and the hundredth time it may kill; you. A narcotic without a sting,is yet to bei found. Probably tobacco is the most harmless of them all, and yet very bad things are said of that. Many of them, vastly beneficial in sickness and when given by a doctor, are perfectly unfit: for habitual use, or to. be administered' by the patient to himself. Os too little sleep, and the remedies! for it, the Hartford Times says: < As this presence of blood in the brain* is what prevents sleep, and as emptying the brain of blood necessarily produces' sleep, it would seem that anything, even, a drug that would expel the blood from: that quarter would be a priceless boon to the sufferer from insomnia. But the' reliance on any of the bromides, or, for that matter, on any other drug, is worse' than useless, it is positively pernicious. Hypericmia, or the persistence of the blood in remaining too long in the blood-: vessels of the brain, comes from the tool persistent use of that organ. Active! mental work keeps the blood in the head. Nature ordained that the chief brain! blood-vessels should contract when onei lies down to sleep, and by contraction' expel the blood from the overcharged brain, thus at onee bringing sleep.; “Hyperaemia” is that condition of these blood-vessels in which, by months or years of persistent fullness, as in brokers, preachers.editors, etc., the bloodvessels have lost their power of contractility, hence they s-tay full of blood where the sufferer ought to be asleep. The suggestions of the writer whose letter we quote are, most of them, good, especially those favoring baths, bodily exercise, and a “nooning,” or let-up for an hour or two at noon, for rest. Horse-back-riding is another important reme- 1 dial agency, and most of all is a temperate, simple, regular habit of life in eating, bathing, exercise, and in lettingup in the hours of work. But there is no cure of this great and growing evilgrowing, we mean, in our American! cities—except a change in our habits as a people. We must “let up on business.” We overdo it—we drive ourselves to death. It is not so abroad. On the continent, especially, as in Germany and in Italy, they “take life easy,” have a “nooning" and shorter working day, plenty of music .nd recreation, and more frequent holidays. That is jnst what we ih America hav* got to come to. If not now, we have got to do it later, as a necessity absolutely forced upon us. Our American climate is more stimulating than any in Europe, hence all the more need for our “letting up” in this insane drive, and going slow. Our little lives, the poet tells us, are rounded with a sleep. Nothing could be more desirable. But what’s the use of driving our lives, short as they are at the best, to a far more speedy ending, by this irrational spur and,goad of the restless American “fever called living?” Bochester Union and Advocate. WHIMS IN BUILDING. ! Asa Usual Thins Nothing Is Gained bjr Indulging the Fancy. Nothing adds so much to the cost of building as indulgence in whims. To set out deliberately to do a “queer,” “fanciful,” or, as it is sometimes called, “original” thing in building is always to incur unnecessary expense. If we look through the books that contain pictures of the architecture of all ages and nations, we shall find that, without an exception, in the times all men of taste are agreed in calling the good times, the modes of building have Win sensible, founded on the needs of the case, and that whatever may seem fanciful—the whole of what we call picturesque—when its charm has proved enduring, is the result of what we maycall. in every case, “accepting the situation.” Nothing has been done in such instances for the sake of being picturesque. Good building, good ornament, never poses. In building, as a rule, every departure from the rectangular form is an added expense. One of the things impressed on the mind of . young man who goes into an architect’s office to study the profession is that, if cost is to be considered, which it sometimes is and sometimes is not, all excrescences and projections must be avoided. A rectangular house is the cheapest. Bay-windows, porches, octagonal or circular, external ends to rooms —all these things cost money; and it is by multiplying these features that the expenses of building* are often made so great as to deter people from undertaking it, for the things seem so small in themselves, It is not suspected what drains they are on the purse. If a good reason can not be given for any so-called ornamental feature in a house, if it can not be shown that v something worth while is to be gained by making it, we may be reasonably sure that it is a fancy which will cost, as the country people say. more than it comes to. And, in the greater number of cases, nothing, even in looks, is gained by indulging the fancy. — The Studio. —The past year has been an unprecedented one in the history of the Ohio River. It reached its highest point and went down to its lowest, and was longer recovering from the latter than ever before. —Cleveland Leader. THE MARKETS. New Yobk, January 2#. LIVE STOCK-Cattle $2 75 7 00 Sheep 3.30 © 5 50 Hogs 4 SO © 530 FLOCK—Good to Choice 3 10 © 5 75 Cutouts 5 Oil !<?i 6 00 WHEAT—No. 2 Red !(',© V6!>{ No. 2 Sprint? m © ©£ DORN 36*© 57 DAl'S—Western Mixed 36 © 38 KYK ft-. © e PORK -Mess 13X5 ©l3 30 LARD--Steam 7 13H© 7 15 DHKKSE S © 11 v< WOOL—Domestic 24 © 38 CHICAGO. 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