Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 February 1891 — Page 1

VOLUME XXI. * PETERSBURG, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1891. NUMBER 38. J. L. MOUNT, Editor and Proprietor. “Our Motto is Honest Devotion to OFFICE, over J. B. YOUNG & GG.’S Store, Main Street.

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Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, INI). Office Iivroom^6 and 7 in Carpenter Building. Operations tirstclass. All work var ranted. Amesthetica used for painless extraction of teeth. I. H. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Ini>. Will practice In Pike ami adjoining counties. Office in Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night. * a^-Diseases of Women and Children a specially. Chronic and difficult cases solicited.'

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Dally Newa CONGRESS. Is tbe Senate oil February 2 Mr. Turple Introdneed a Joint resolution for an amendment to the Constitution providing for tbe election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. Referred. The fortifications bill was then considered until adjournment... .The House met In the afternoon and transacted litttlo business. J. A Owenby. who had been arrested for contempt in re-fu-dng to test fy before the silver pool investigation. was brought before the House and purged himself of contempt by expressing his willingness to testify. The other proceed ings were unimportant Tuk Senate on the 3d passed the House bill to amend the statutes In regard to temporary designations to till vacancies ofteasioned by death, etc., of heads of dop irtmonts, extending the time from ten to thirty days. The fortifications bill was then considered at length but not finally disposed of. Several bills of a local nature passed, the military academy bill was reported and the Senate adjourned. . ..Tile House passed the Senate bill to prohibit the sale «rf tobacco to children under 1*5 years of age in the District of Columbia. After disposing of several local bills the House, in Committee of the Whole, considered the diplomatic and consular bill until adjournment During the debate the liarrnndia killing was the subject of a lively tilt between Messrs. McKenna (Cal.), Dalzell (Pa.) and Hitt (111 ), the two former defending Minister Mizner and criticising the censurepf Commander Reiter and the latter gentleman defending the action of the department After routine business in the Senate on the 4th and a colloquy between Senators Cockrell ane Dawes as to the source from which petitions on tlijo Conger lard bill emanated,. the fortification* bill was considered at length and finally passed. Pending consideration of the military* academy bill, which was next taken up, the Senate adjourned— Soon after the House nut it went into Committee of the Whole on the sundry civil bill. When the Committee rose the diplomatic appropriation bill was passed. The conference report was adopted on a bill to provide an additional Justice for the Supreme Court of Arizona and \h© House adjourned. When the Senate met on the 5th Mr. Ingalls, rising to a question of privilege, said that as his action of pairing with Senator Allison during the late contest in the Senate and his attitude on the cloture rule ami elce lions bill had been the subject of censure and animadversion, he wished to say that he was and ever had been opposed to the cloture rule; that he favored an impartial elections bill, but not the bill before the Senate, unless it could be properly amended, and that he paired on the cloturorule, giving Mr Allison the right to vote toseeur© a quorum, but he had not given the most remote idea or intention that his vote should be counted against the passage of the eh etions hill. The pension bill was then discussed at length and passed. It appropriates $133,173,085 for pensions, and for examining surgeons and clerk hire >1,S7.\000. A number of bills, of merely local interest, passed, and the bill for adjustment of accounts of mechanics, etc, to the eight hour law was taken up—The HouSej was occupied aR day in considering the sundry civil bill, to which Mr. Rland offered an amendment providing for fiee coin age and which was tinder debate at adjournment In the Senate on the 6th Mr. Paddock presented the resolutions of the Nebraska Legislature against the Conger Jarfl bill. The naval appropriation bill was reported. Mr* Morgan addressed the 8cnate in favor of the bill to ai l in construction of the Nicaragua canal. The bill to adjust the accounts of mechanics and laborers to the eight-hour law* was then taken up and considered at length. - The House amendment^ to the bill forfeiting certain railroad lauds were agreed to....The House pussed the Senate bill amending tbe land-forfeiture act of September 19, 1891. The post-otfieo appropriation bill was reported and the House proceeded to the further consideration of the sundry civil bill, the pending question being the ruling on Mr. Bland's amendment tacking oh the free coinage bill. After a long debate the chairman (Pavson, of Illinois,) ruled against the silver amendment and upon an appeal the chair was sustained by a vote of 134 to 127 and free coinage was ruled out. Without completing the bill the House took a recess until evening when pension bills were considered.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The Senate has confirmed Marcus W Aeheson, of Pennsylvania, as United States Circuit Judge of the Third circuit The public debt statement showed a decrease during the month of January of $15,8:55,490. ,'■>! .The recent campaign in the Northwest will cost the country about $3,000,001'. Secretary Bi.aine has purchased the old Seward mansion in Washington in which he now resides. It is given out at Washington that the President’s purpose in asking an extension of time within which Secretary Windom’s successor might be appointed had special reference to Robert, T. Lincoln, Minister to the Court of StJames. The ways and means committee of the World’s Columbian Exposition has decided to ask Congress to appropriate $5,900,000 in aid of the World’s Fair. The matter will be laid before the next Congress. The council of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, in session at Washington, adopted practically free trade resolutions. The President on the 5th published his proclamation of reciprocity with Brazil under the provisions of the McKinley tariff law. THE EAST. Investigation into the Mammoth (Pa.) mine disaster fastened the blame on Fire Boss William Smith, one of the victims, who was intoxicated and unable to a ttend to his duties. ' The Heela bronze and iron works at North Eleventh and Third streets, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, N. Y., have been almost completely burned out. It was estimated the amount of property destroyed was $300,0000. Ik a reareud collision near Braddoek, l'a., four men who were in the caboose of the front train were seriously injured. The Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia protests against free silver coinage. There is little doubt that the Pennsylvania Legislature will reimburse Governor Beaver the #400,000 borrowed for Johnstown’s sufferers. A miner named John Dueeman was killed and two others badly injured by an explosion at the Neilson colliery, at Shamokin, fa. Eighteen lives were lost in Hayden & Ca’s mine at Jeansville, near Hazleton, Pa., on the 4th, caused by water breaking into the slope where they were at work. The rest of the men escaped. On the same day three men lost their lives in a similar way in colliery No. 5 of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Grand Tunnel, near Wilkesbarre. The New York Times says Honduras is reported to be on the verge of a revolution. Sixty-five horses were burned to death in a fire at Glow’s stables, Hanover street, Boston. Loss, about #35,000. The New York Chamber of Commerce has appointed President C. S. Smith, Abram SI Hewitt, C. N. Bliss, John H. Rhodes, John Sloane and Henry W. Cannon an a committee to appear before the Committee on Coinage of the House of Representatives to protest Against the free coinage of silver,

Church's soda water factory at Greenpoint, L. I., has gone up in flames. Loss, 8300,000, • "The poorhouse at Waterville, Me., was burned and a girl of IS lost her life. Near New Haven, Conn., a gang of stone blasters were shaken up by exploding dynamite, placed on a forge to thaw. C. L. Harbour lost both eyes, was much out and may die. Sternberg’s bolt works at Beading, Pa., have been destroyed by fire. Loss, 8800,000; fair insurance. The long overdue steamer Denmark has arrived at New York from Europe. She had encountered a, series of fierce gales, in which one cattleman was drowned and the vessel considerably disabled. Four hundred men were thrown out of employment at Mahoney City, Pa., by the shutting down of the Tunnel Ridge colliery. The New York Press says it is an open secret that the portfolio of the late Mr. Windom has been offered to Chauncey M. Depew, which he declined. THE WEST. A House joint resolution was offered n the Ohio Legislature requesting Senator Sherman to -vote against the admission of Senator-elect Brice to the United States Senate on the ground that he is not a resident of Ohio but of New York. The lower house of- the California Legislature has passed a bill appropriating 8300,000 for the World's Fair exhibit The Chicago Live-Stock Exchange has challenged the State Legislature to investigate their business methods. St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church at Quincy, 111., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, 850,000. McElroy’s dry goods store at Detroit Mich., has been destroyed by fire. The loss was 8175,000; insurance, 8110,000. Veins of coal in the mountains near Newcastle, Col., are on fire, causing much alarm. The Ohio House has passed a bill making eight hours a day’s work, except farm labor. It now goes to the Senate. The Wisconsin Legislature ‘has repealed the Bennett school law. All the missing fishermen who were carried out to, sea by the breaking of the ice in Saginaw bay, Mich., are reported safe at Fish Village, near Fish Point There were many thrilling escapes, but no lives were lost. A mortgage has been put on Schweinfurth’s “heaven” at Rockford, 111. John C. Hall, the defaulting attorney of San Francisco, has left that city and can not be found. Iowa proposes to have a 8100,000 building at the World’s Fair. By an explosion of giant powder in the Wiefly tunnel of the White Qua.il mine at Kokoma, Col., William Young and John Anderson were blown to atoms and John Johnson, John McLeod and Will .Crain terribly injured, many of their bones being broken by flying rocks. Seventeen ghost dancers, who were arrested at Lower Brule agency early in the Indian troubles and taken to Fort Snell ing and confined, returned to their homes completely cured. Hundreds of their people gathered to greet them. The Northwestern Lumberman says the production of white pine lumber in 1890 was 8,684,504,715 feet—375,788,353 feet more, than ever produced in any previous year. The shingle output was 4,484,834,500—more than 300,000,000 less than in 1889. The Pullman repair shops at St Louis have been destroyed by fire. Loss, 8335,000. A private letter from Winona, N. D., gives news of the death of two soldiers by drowning in the Missouri river, names unknown. They had been carousing at Winona and were on their return to Fort Yates and went through an air hole in the ice. Applications for injunctions against twenty-five saloons have been filed by the State Temperance Alliance at Fort Dodge, la. Detectives -have been at work for weeks in gathering evidence. The creditors of Banker Kean, of Chicago, have decided to accept thirtyfive cents on the dollar. Jay P. Davis, defaulting deputy clerk of the district court at St. Paul, Minn., has been given six years in the “pen.”

THE SOUTH. A hand-car was run down on a trestle near Martin, Tex., and one man was killed and five badly injured. At the annual banquet of the Louisville (Ky.) Commercial Club, Erastus Wiman, who was the principal orator, discussed reciprocity with Canada and made glowing predictions. The joint committee of the Arkansas House and Senate has adopted a resolution refusing to recommend any appropriation for the Columbian Exposition, owing to the large deficiency in the State Treasury. General R. J. Henderson, a noted ex-Confederate officer, died at Atlanta, Ga There was a report of a serious disaster on' the Cotton Belt road near Clarendon, Ark., on the night of the 5th. Nine persons were said to be killed. Eight firemen were injured at Norfolk, Va, recently by the burning of a three-story brick building on Hill street. Harvey Reynolds, the most noted moonshiner of Alabama and Tennessee, has been captured at Birmingham. Passenger train No. 634 on the Little Rock & Fort Smith road was ditched near Alma Ark., every coach being wrecked. Only three passengers were injured. Spreading rails was the cause. There is no doubt of Treasurer Woodruff, of Arkansas, being a defaulter to the amount of 396,000.

A German white book puts Emin Pasha in the black book lor insubordination and extravagance: The returns from Spanish provihces continue to show gains for the Government. This is the cause of much congratulation, for it was the first trial of universal suffrage. The Pope thinks the formation of a Catholic party in France is an “iridescent dream.” Michael Eyraud, the murderer of Notary Gouffe, was guillotined at Paris on the 3d. Contrary to reports President Carnot refused to commute his sentence. , ' „ Religious persecution in Russia increases in intolerance. The Mussulman subjects of the Czar are chafing under it, and the Stundists, Mennonia s wad other sects are largely preparing to emigrate to America. Adblika Patti is lying sick at Bristol, England, due to a return of la grippe. * Tax Canadian Parliament has been (Resolved,

It is now stated that 50 persons were killed and 200 injured in the fight following the revolt of the garrison at Oporto, Portugal. Canada has decided to establish dairy schools throughout the Dominion. In Montreal the conviction is growing that the Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific will consolidate. Joint passenger and freight rate circulars are now issued. The loss to Japanese merchants on their silk last year was $25,000,000. The Japanese Parliament is to be appealed to for aid. Dr. H. Rankin, who is studying the Koeh method at the Hygienic Institute, Berlin, has disclosed the nature of his remedy for anthrax. It consists of proteid matter extracted from the spleen of the rat with the aid of 50 per cent of glyeerine, the extract being precipitated with alcohol. When it is to be used it is dissolved in water and injected under the skin. ' A monument fund for Meissonier has been opened in Paris. Major Wissmann will return from Africa to Berlin via America. . At Waterford recently Captain Ilogan of the ship Bohemia, Liverpool, for San Francisco, subdued at the pistol’s mouth fourteen mutinous seamen. There is a scandal over the magazine gun affecting the English War .Oflice. The matter has attracted the attention of Parliament. The Central Farmers’ Institute of Ontario favors free trade. The assertion is made at Lisbon that the funds used by the insurgents of Oporto were furnished by Signor Zorilla, the Spanish agitator, and the republicans of Spain. Several hundred men employed in the Admiralty ship building dock yard at St. Petersburg struck recently. They then proceeded to the headquarters of the Admiral. He endeavored to argue with them, but they became so threatening that the troops had to be summoned to rescue him. A strike of the Canadian Pacific conductors, brakemen and switchmen from one end of the line to the other was expected at any moment. The cause was a demand for increased wages.

COUNT von Waudersee, of Germany, the retiring chief of the general staff, took formal leave of the staff attaches. In a speech in which he showed deep emotion, he said: “The Emperor has ordered me elsewhere. A soldier obeys orders without asking-reasons.” A meeting of republicans at Barcelona, Spain, was attacked by gendarmes recently and several persons were injured. Nine children were burned to death in a fire at an orphan asylum at Moscow, Russia. Many others were seriously injured. In the British House of Commons Mr. Gladstone moved the second reading of a bill to remove religious disability and made a long and earnest speech in support of the measure. The bill was defeated by a vote of 256 to 223. The Chinese Government is trying to raise a per cent, silver loan of $85,000,000 at 95. At Toronto, the Farmers’ Institute received a committee report favoring abolition of the Dominion Senate as being a hindrance to her progressive legislation. Twenty-two men were recently buried under an avalanche of snow at Ruetta, a village of Switzerland. A ihspatch from Chili by way of Lima, Peru, states that the port of Iquique when the dispatch was sent was momentarily expected to be bombarded by the Chilian insurgents. It has been officially decided to commence work on the Siberian railway at" Obdivostoek this year. Three bandits were killed by officers on the steamer Iglesi at Havana. The outlaws were endeavoring to escape at the time. The Cabinet crisis in Italy seems to become more serious every day. Upon King Humbert’s refusal to consent to large economical reductions of the nayal and military budgets the members of the Right Center have withdrawn from the Cabinet. « Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended February 5 numbered 206, compared with 320 the previous week and 321 the corresDonding week of last year. —

THE LATEST. In tire Senate, on the 7th, an order was agreed to that during the remainder of the session the Senate shall meet at 11 a. m., sit nntil 6 p. m., and take a recess until eight o'clock. The EightHour law was debated all day and a number of amendments to it were agreed to. The death of Representative Phelan, of Tennessee, was announced, and the usual resolutions were offered, after which, as a mark of respect, the Senate adjourned..In the House the report on the Raum investigation was submitted and ordered printed and recommitted. In committee of the whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriations bill an amendment to the World’s Fair paragraph, fixing the salaries of officers of the World's Columbian Association, was adopted. The appropriation of $30,000 for the expenses of certain meetings was stricken out, dnd the World’s Fair clause was then passed. Without disposing of the bill, the committee rose, and the death of Representative Phelan, of Tennessee, being announced, the House, as a mark of respect, adjourned. The insurgent Arnauts have taken possession of the telegraph lines in the vicinity of Pristina, Roumelia, and have cut oft communication. The representatives of foreign powers at Pristina are unable to convey intelligence of the situation to their respective government. The New York Sun claims to have good ground for saying that an extra session of the .United States Senate, for the transaction of business of more than ordinary importance, will be called to meet on the 4th of March or immediately thereafter. It is reported on. good authority that the Northern. Pacific railroad has engineers in the field surveying a line from Snohomish, Wash., to a connection with the Spokane & Northern road. The United States fish hatchery at Duluth, Minn., has received 35,000,000 white fish eggs from Alpena, Mich. They will be planted and hatched in about three months. The latest advices from Valparaiso state that those members of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies who are not in prison are in hiding. The threatened danger of a strike on the Canadian Pacific railway was averted by the company meeting the men half-way in their demands. The French League for opposition to Atheism has been reorganized with new life and vigor. The unemployed workingmen of Sep M» are assuming a threatening attitude.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. If DIANA'S GROSS AREA. The Lend and Water Surface by Square Mile*. According to the last census report the gross area of Indiana by square miles is 30,350, of which 440 is water and 35,910 land surface. The area of the Hoosier State by counties in square miles is as as follows:

ounms.;........ a® Allen _.• 659 Bartholomew .... 4X1 Benton...,. Blackford.. Boone. Brown,.. Carroll. Caas. Clark. Clay... Clinton.. Crawford.,_ Daviess..1*..'._ Dearborn . Decatur De Kalb ... Delaware........,;. Dubois Elkhart..’.. Fayette. Floyd ... . Fountain.. Franklin....... . Fulton.... Gibson... Grant.. Greene....._ Hamilton..._ . Hancock. Harrison. Hendricks. Henry. Howard_ Huntington. Jackson. Jasper... Jay... Jefferson_ Jennings. Johnson....._■ Knott. Kosciusko. Lagrange. Lake... ..... Laporte ............. Lawrence,..?_ SSIgglgJgitsgSlisgSSilliggsSSigS^SSliiliiSiS

Madison. 480 Marion. 40) Marshall.... 441 Martin.. 840 Miami......... 3 0 Monroe..430 Montgomery 5C4 Morgan... H.....,.0 480 Newton..'.. 4<0 Noble.. 410 3hio. ....... 10 Orango. .. 4 0 □wen. 890 Parke. 4»0 Perry,. *0 Pikfe.. 810 Porter-..... 4 0 Posey.. 318 Pulaski.. 4£0 Putnam. 490 Randolph_....... 4 0 Ripley.. 450 Rush.... 414 St. Joseph.V... 470 Scott...£. 190 Shelly... .. 4(0 Spencer........... 380 St trke.v........ 3*K> Steuben........... 330 Sullivan. 44) Switzerland......... 230 Tippecanoe...a 50 J ripton... 260 Union_... t. 170 Vanderburg.... 23) Vermillion. 270 Vigo. 410 tV abash-. 433 liVarren. 360 Warrick..... 390 Vashington..:. 500 >Vay ne —. j......8*) WeUs........ 357 White......_ KO Whitley. 380 Total..35,910

Private dispatches announce the recent massacre by Indians of Henry W. and John MeNamer, father and son, near Spokane Falls, Wash. In a fight the latter killed a squaw, this enraging the Indians. Their bodies were horribly mutilated. They were old citizens of Clay County and left Brazil a few years ago. The father taught school in Brazil for 20 yearS, The North Vernon State Bank, a pew organization, was opened at North Vernon, the other morning. The officers are: J. B. McMillan, president; John Fable, vice-presi&ent, and J. C. Cope, cashier. There was a great fox drive in Washington Township, Boone County, in which hundreds of people participated, but all the foxes broke through the line but one. V A shocking accident happened at a"' saw-mill six miles east of Booneville, the other evening at 4 o'clock, which caused the instant death of John B. Floyd—mutilating Jiis body in n horrible manner. The unfortunate victim was engaged in setting off ■ the logs for cutting the size of the lumber being sawed, and while setting the gauge on the carriage lost his balance and was thrown in front of the saw. Ilis entire face, both legs and one arm were cut off. He was twenty-five years old and single. The grip has made its appearance in Anderson, several fatal cases having occurred. John Mast, a saloon-keeper at Lafayette. dropped a spark into a package of powder and was severely injured in 'the explosion that followed. James Iveinhakt, of Brandywine township, Shelby County, was compelled to kiU several cattle and hogs thought to be affected with rabies. H. Bossie, county treasurer; the other afternpon fell from his barn loft at Columbus, and sustained a fracture of the skull. He was unconscious for several hours, and is still confined to his house, with but little hopes of his recovery. The old Blake homestead, which is being torn down in Indianapolis to make way for modern residences, has sheltered some very distinguished people in its time. Henry Clay and Van Buren were frequt ntly entertained there, and many other noted men had been guests within its famous walls. It was one of the oldest residences in Indiana. Thorntown wiU establish a cream ery. Twenty-seven years ago John Bond, colored, got mad and said he would go to bed and never get up. He kept his word and is still in bed in Mitchell. Tramps broke into a freight car on, the Monon road at Greencastle and stole* a box of raisins. They were found soon afterwards in the sand-honse near the depot, where they had taken quarters for the night. The stolen fruit had been devoured. The thieves, nine in all, were held for trial at the ensuing term of court.

aiiTCHEi.L, a well-thought of mechanic, called on Miss Jessie Modlin, his lady-love, at Indianapolis, the other night. Going away late he laughingly told her she would see him no more, fie went home, procured his father's pyrtol, came back to his sweetheart's home and knocked at the door, When Modlin looked out he saw Mitchell shoot himself. He left a mote which leads his friends to think him religiously crazy. Gas well No. 4. at Carmel, has just been finished, It is one of the best wells in Hamilton County, and now Carmel claims more gas than all the other towns together on the Monon railroad. In the case of the State bf Indiana against Martin Shafer, indicted for murder in the second degree, |t Logansport, the jury was out twenty hours. The verdict was fifteen /ears in the penitentiary. Shafer killrl Ed. Lowrey last September with a sling shot as Lowrey emerged from a saloon. A motion for a new trial has been filed. But two and one-half Biles of toll road remains in Tippecanoe County. James A. Woods, convicted of killing Thomas J. Blount in the inane hospital at Richmond, last September, was sentenced to twenty-one jears in the State prison. A motionfor a new trial was overruled by Judge Comstock. At Lafayette the grand jury has returned two separate indictnents against George Bennett, charging him with murder in the first degree for the killing of Wm. Scott and John Werkhoff. The shooting occurred in November last. . 7 The mother of Senator Voorhees is dead at Veedersburg, uged eighty-nine. Muncie is to have any ict factory, to cost (f69,000. John D. Uovgab, of Lafayette, presented a check for the largest sum of money ever delivered by th« Tippecanoe County clerk in that phape. The cheek waa for (It 0,000

INDIANA LEGIStATURE. iNDLANAPOtJS. Jan. *8. — £*N ATB — Bill* passed: Abolishing the office of State Mine Inspector nnd creating the office of State Inspector of Mines; providing for the election of road supervisors by the people, fixing their terms of office at four years, limiting th9 number of di-ys for shich they may draw salaries at Sheen; prohibiting the burning of natural gas in flambeaus, and providing a flue not to exceed $25 for the first offense and not to exceed f2t)0 . for the second offense; repealing the law by which the estates of insane patients are held liable for the maintenance of said patients in the Insane asylums; provided that mercantile and manufacturingestabiishmenls shall furnish chairs for the women and girls in their employ; compelling corporations tp pay their employes every two week9 and prohibiting the Issuing of script Hotrsn—Bills passed: Fixng the terms of court in the Thirty-second Judicial Circuit; providing a fine of $809 and imprisonment for six months for the removal of mortgagod property; authorizing the common councils of cities to till vacancies In the offices of mayor, clerk and councilmen: legalizing the acts of notaries public whose commissions have expired; authorizing county commissioners to appoint justices of the peace in newly incorporated towns; ceding to the Notional Government jurisdiction 'over theNtrtlonalCemetery at New Albany, .1 Indianapolis. Jan. 23—3*satk—Bills reported favorably; Providing for medical attendance to tbe poor outside of poor-houses and asylums': amending the savings bank law. Bills passed; Legalizing the acts of deputy county officers under age; providing that this act shall not affect ponding litigation; defining rape; changing the age of coiscnt-from twelve to fourteen years, and providing n penalty of from two to twenty-one years’ imprisonment; making decisions of the Supreme Court evidence in certain cases; providing for a State Board of Health, for county boards of health; for a sy» tom of registration and for vital and insanity statistics. Bill prohibiting the killing of qua 1, tnipe and plover for a period of two years was defeated. Housk.—Bills passe4jjChanjing the time for the filing of deeds from forty five to fifteen days; abolishing the office of State Oil Inspector and creating an efflee of Supervisor of Oil Inspectors; licensing pawnbrokers and Junk dealers, and making it an offense for them to purchase anything from any person under eighteen years, except with the written consent of parents; requiring that charges against boys which would send them to the reform school shil be described with the particulars of an indictment and that tbe charges be proved in open Court in the presence of ihe boy. Bills Introduced: To prevent deception in the sale of duiry products; authorizing cities of 10,000 population to establish Boards of Park Commissioners; creating Police Judges in citiesof lOO.OW population and defining their duties; to prevent officers of all classes from accepting railroad passes.

Indianapolis, Jan. 30—SENATE—The Sen* ate this igfcrning attested its appreciation ol thjnworthcn the late Secretary Windom and sympathy for his family by adopting by a unanimous rising voto the sympathetic resolution, introduced by Senator Hays. Senator McHugh introduced a bill this morning on tho subject ol libel. The bill introduced provides that in an notion for libel there shall bo no presumption of malice from the mere fact of publication and places the burden of proof on the question ol malice on the plaintiff. In an action for libel if there is no proof of expressed malice, the court or jury shall so find and no exemplary ot punitive damages^fell be assessed nor general damages that ureVm strictly active and real, ' House—Little business of general interest was transacted to-day. Indianapolis, Feb. 2.—Senate—Bills introduced: Providing for liens on real estate for la bor and material; authorizing city councils andt town boards to license pawnbrokers at from $10 to 1110; apportioning the State for Congres sional and Leg.slative purposes; providing for construction of railway and wagon bridges over streams that form the boundaries between States; to prevent deception in artificial dairy products; to amend the act rroviding for the construction and repair of railroad crossings; to provide for the record of all births, deaths and marriages. Bills passed: To prolub t the use of pumping apparatus in the transporta tion of natural gas; to amend the criminal act relating to gambling. Senator Clemens’ bill, authorizing guardians of minor children tc loan the funds of their wards in sums ol (80) and upward on first mortgage of unin cumbered real estate, was recommended foi passage. House—A number of bills were ordered engrossed among wh ch were those providing for the appointment of matronsnt the State orphan asylum• and for licensing plumbers in cities ol twenty thousand and upwards. Bills intro duced; Providing for the creation of a State Board of Insurance, said Board to consist of the Secretary. Auditor and Attorney General, whose duty It shall be to equalize the cost or insurance and adjust losses arising from fire; requiring any candidate before any political convention to file! with the county clerk, after the convention, a s&orn statement of hfe expenses. A resolution |ras adopted providing for the appointment of A committee of three to correspond with the Legislatures of the Northwestern States relative to the adoption of a uniform legal rate of interest. Indianapolis, Feb. 3.—Senate — Bills passed: Legal zing the nets of notaries public whoso commissions have expired; permitting companies organized previous to 1850 to change their names by resolution; providing that administrator mav dispose of personal property of decendents at private sale; providing for city courts in cities of 5,000 and upward, giving such courts the saino^ jurisdiction as that held by justice*? and mayors, and the same as circuit courts, whero the amcuut involved does not exceed $500; to amend the fravel road act. making the board of county commissioners board ol turnpike directors, dividing ilie rouls of a county into three districts, and making each commissioner superintendent of one district. “House—The following Mils were passed: To provide for the distribution of decedent estates; providing that cigarette edUefs shall take out a license of &00; providing for the cutting ol ghedge fences to the height of four feet arid \heir trimming once a yeai; giv ng to all counties the right to refund tbeir debts; requiring officers of State institution! to purchase native live stock for food; prohibiting the selling ot adulterated candy; transferring the county ot Switzer and from the FlflU to the Seventh Judicial Circuit.

The two-year-old daughter of a Mr. Evans, living at Donttldsville, was fatally scalded by the accidental overturning of a tub of boiling water the other day. Wm. Foreman. aged twenty-three years, was killed, near Polard, the other night. He wascoon hunting with others, and was crushed under a farting tree. A. H. Gump, of Ft, Wayne, says for $1,000 he will agree not to eat a bite for thirty days. Joseph Davis, an employe in the wire-nail mill at Anderson, ran 100 yards in 12)4 seconds, winning thereby 8500. ) Counterfeit nickels have made their appearance in great numbers among the merchants of Brownsbury. Amos Weaver, a Delaware County youth, returned home from a six-year's sojourn in the wild West, stayed long enough to swindle 04 relatives out of $3,000 on a bogus land scheme, and evaporated. A business block, owned by E. Campbell, was burned at Sedalia. Eli Masters, merchant, lost$4,000 on stock, upon which he had $1,500 insurance-in the Citizens’ of Evansville. U Jack Baber, of Jeffersonville, is a philanthropist in his humble way. He has whitewashed all the telegraph poles of the town, and is now building board sidewalks where they are most need at his own expense. Tip Paxton has a bullet in his breast and Ike McBride isa fugitive fromFrankfort, all because of a whisky-inspired argument. Ex-Sheriff Sorter, of Clay County, grew, weary of an earthly pilgrimage of three-score-and-ten and opened the Great (Beyond with suicidal hands. Geo. Kirby, one of the Anderson white-cappers, has squealed, and told a harrowing tale of how the brave gang disported itself at midnight, shaving horses’ tails, chopping up valuable machinery .and writing threatening notices decorated with crossbones and smiling skulls. ' A

A BACHELOR’S OPINION,

WU, > 110 uuu sense, boys, 1 say To think the bird should choose thl day For billing am for cooing. Its only silly folk (ike you. Who tare no bet ter work to do, That waste ttaeii time, tnil money tot In such a sense les3 wooing. You’d better sart your preoiout dimes,

xujtvuu s Jtuumj, HIIIJ . Iij 4UVV-, Just Uk*3 a pack of nini&i Bat no! you needs must rack your brains Ami have your labor for your p&ies. Inditing sentiraontal strains To Pollies* Kates and Minnies. And as for what they send to you. Dear,‘dear, it’s stuff and nonsense, too, With more of rhyme than reason. They’d better far be at Or learn to be good, useful cooks, Then .sending cMkntinrs, odzooks! Both in aad.out of season. What, what? a valentine for m t Do hurry boys, and let me see— Who sent it no'.r, I wonder? It must have been the Widow Grey, I’ve often seen her look this way. Well, we I, I’ll let her name the ilay~ A comic one, by thunder! •-Helen Whitney Clark, in Good Housekeeping. mVM VALENTINE. The Happy So ding of a Disastrous Beginning.

DON’T see whal Cousin Z o e wanted to. Send a valentine for. anyhow. She’sawful old: Most nineteen, I guess. When I get as old as that, I'm certain I won't care about sending valentines. But she did, and she asked me to post it on

■of1 " ■ my way to school. 1 had a good mind to refuse because she wouldn't let me see the valentine she got the day before 1 thought it was real mean of her, when i showed her all mine. Hut 1 got tc see it, anyway, for Cousin Zoe sent me to get a ball of -blue Germantown zephyr out of her drawer the same day, and there was the valentine right besideit. X suppose I hadn't ought to. but 1 couldn't help taking just one pcej at it; and then I knew„why she wouldn't show it to me, for it was a comic one- - the very eomiealest one I ever saw. It was a picture of a big, stout woman, with a long, red nose. ' Cousin Zoo's nose m a little long, ant ghe is sort of stout, too. I know she hates to be stqpt, too, for she wears hei dresses just aSBfht. But I didn't tell her I looked at th< valentine, I knew she felt mortiliec about it. And she said if I would post the valentine for her, and not tell a single soul about it, she’d give me a whole bandbox fall of silk scraps foi my crazy-quilt. 1 Was real glad to get them, for I was afraid Susy Da we • would finish her quilt before I did. Her sister Cassy is a dress-maker, and so she gets lots ol scraps. ■ So I said I’d. take it. and I tucked it trader my arm and started. But when I got to the post-offlee, it wasn't there— the valentine. I mean —and I went back three blocks to look for it, but couldn’t find it, and 1 came near being late to school on account of it. I felt so worried about it, too, that I missed my spelling lesson, and got kept in all re-ess. f told Susy Dawe about it at dinner-time.. Of course, Cousin Zoe wouldn’t mind Susy knowing it. Only she didn’t want grandma and Uncle Dave and brother Robbie to know, because they’d be sure to tease her. And Susy asked right away who the valentine was to. “Jo Hazard,” I told her. And then she said: “Why don’t you buy another-and send him, Bab?” (My name is Barbara, but everybody ealls me Hub.) “Hu won't know but what it’s the same one," she says. Sure enough! I hadn’t t hought of that. Susy always was smarter than me. So I asked her if she would go to the store with me to buy one, and she said she would. The store was right around the corner on Prairie avenue, so we had time enough to go before school began again. “Was it a pretty one or a comic one?” she asked, as we hurried along. I hadn’t seen it, of course, but -f. was most certain it was a pretty one. ■ Jo Hazard and Cousin Zoe used to lie great friends, and he was always coming to our house, and taking her to sing-/-M El ft "M/

ilsSaisisWE PSOJ’PFP IT m A UETTER-BOX. Ing-sehool or sleigh-riding, and other places. Bat something happened—I never knew what it wins. But I know Consin Zoe and Joe had some sort ol falling out, and he stopped coming. And Zoe felt had about it, too. 1 could see that plain as the hose on my face—and that's a pretty plain one, everybody says. But jf don’t care. I’d rather be smart than pretty any day. And so 1 told Susy that I thought it must have been a pretty one. “It’s likely Cousin Zoe wants to make up with him," I said, “by sending him a real pretty valentine.” For I Always judge other people by myself, and I know that’s the way 1 would do if I wanted to make friends with anybody. And so Susy and I picked out the v<*y prettiest valentine (that- didn’l cost too much) in the whole store. But there yere sath lots and lots of 'em, It was fe«d work to choose. fhuat zwied me '.#*§ oas will

; give me the up my mind it dtchen, helpwhen I got and ate quite a my conscience But 1 couldn’t ne Cousin Zoe • thing about the for I took good" silk fringe all round it. and a looking-glass in one side, gold, with a verse under it that •• Look in the glue and yon will The dearest one on earth to me.” But I didn't exactly like that, and, sides I bad found a prettier one. It was bordered with a wreath of get-me-nots and in the center silver dove, holding out a leaf, and the leaf was written: * “ Forgive and forget.” I thought that would bp very appropriate. And Susy thought so, too. So 1 bought it, and a big envelope put it in; and before I scaled it put in one of Zoe's cards that I happened to have in.-my pocket, so he would be sure it was from her. And then I got the lady wc bought it of to direct it to Mr. Jo Hazard, because I always run the words down hill when I am directing an envelope. And then we dropped it in a letterbox, and ran to school just as the first bell was ringing. I didn’t feel quite right about it, though, and I kept out of Cousin Zoe’s way as much as I could when I got home.. 1 had half a mind to tell her what I had done, but then I Was afraid she would be angry, and not gi”“ " quilt-pieces. So I made not to say any thing about Cousin Zbe was in the ki lug grandma get supper, home, and 1 slipped into the parlor <> went to practicing my music-lesson till it was ready. / I believe I would have stayed away from my supper if I bad dared. But I knew that wouldn’t do. Grandma would be sure I was sick, and give me a dose of medicine and some gruel—i I hate gruel almost as bad as I do medicine. :»o I went to supper, good deal, considering my was troubling me so. But help quaking every time looked at me. siie did not say any valentine that night, care not to give her a chance. But the next morning, just as . starting to school, she pounced out of the parlor, with her sweeping-cap and gloves on, and said: “All right, Bab?” And I said: “All right.” I hoped, away down in my nean,, uih it teas all right, and I thought it was, I'm sure. Anyway, I had done the best / could to make it right. But I couldn’t get feeling all day. Even at recess, when susj other girls were playing “l iam” and “Oats, peas, beans

THEN I LOOKED DOWN AND BEGAN TO CRT. ley groves,” I sat at my desk, with my head on my arm, thinking how wicked I bad been to lose Cousin Zoe’s Valentine and then tell a story about it. But that night, when supper was over and I was studying my history lesson, Zoe came in with a big bandbox full of the prettiest silk scraps, and emptied them out on my lap. And then I broke down and menced to cry and told her the whole story. ‘•I won't take one of your pieces,” I said, “if I never finish my silk quilt.’1 And Cousin Zoe! I’ll never forget how she looked. But at that very minute the door-bell rang, and she hurried a wav to open it.

I didn’t learn much of my history tnat night, though I sat up later than common studying it. But when I had put away my books and gone upstairs to go to bed, Cousin Zoe came in s and kissed me, and she looked so bright and happy 1 couldn t help asking what had happened. And her cheeks got as red as if she was ashamed of something, but she said: “Nothing has happened, only Jc Hazard has been here, and—and it s all right, Bab. And I'm so thankful you didn’t send the one I gave you, for it was that comic one I got the other day* . I thought he had sent it to me, and I was going to send it back again. But he hadn’t sent it after all qnd—and we are both thankful to you for what you did.” “Oh, Zoe. did you tell him?” I cried. “Why, of course! I couldn’t let him / think I sent it, when I didn’t,” she ex-j plained. “But it’s—it’s all right, Bab and he told me to thank you for him.^ I didn’t see why he should thank i and I couldn’t imagine what Cousin i meant by looking so happy, and t it was all right. But I was glad it was, and my 1 felt lighter than it had for two day4 When I went to school the nex. morning and took out my atlas to study my geography lesson, I found , the valentine that I thought I had lost. And then I remembered that I had put it there after I started, so it wouldn’t get crumpled and had forgot- L ten all about it I hadn’t used the atlas J the day before, because we only have vl map-questions twice a week. I took the valentine home and gave it to Cousin Zoe, and she burnt it up. She has got two new silk dresses . , lately, and she gave me the scraps front both of them, and Jo Hazard gave me a pretty work-box with a silver thimble, “to pay for his valentine,” he said, and to use in making my crazy-quilt. Last night, when I came home iron: school, I found grandma and Cousin Zoe had tacked downTnew carpet to the parlor, and were putting nP some new curtains to the window*. I asked grandma what they i ing hp so nice for, but she^ only i school-girls mustn’t ask questions. I think I can ffuett what it’s for. Jo Hazard comes here < ever did, and Zoe wears a 1 gold ring on her fin^ur. I saw her reading a recipe tor i cake, the other day.—Helen Clark, in Golden Days. • —“Do you remember my first low letter to you, dear?” she asked- “Yes,” he replied, “I rememember you i | hoping with \