Plymouth Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 January 1879 — Page 2

The Republican. J. W. SI DER S, Editor. Thursday, Januar y 9th, 1879.

A daily increase of distress io every quarter is the report that comet from England.

Alexander H.Stephens is said to be daoger oualy ill at Washington with neuralgia of the bowela. In the month of December there was received and forwarded at Indianapolis 51,211 cars; of this number 38,983 were loaded ; in the corresponding month, 1877. there were received and forwarded 49,961 ; of this number 35,986 were loaded.

Thurman positively declines the nomination for Governor, which the Ohio Democrats have been trying Jo force him to accept. If "rise up" William Allen should get the nomination, and be elected, it would spoil Thür man's chance for the Presidential nomination at the hands of the Democracy. William Allen, mere than any other man in America, deserves that nomination, for had it not been for his paving Ohio to the Democracy and reorganizing the party in 1873, there would he no Democratic party to-day.

"Plan" Buchanan, the Greenback leader has taken quarters at Indianapolis and proposes to be a caodl date foe Halted States Senators. If he can keep the National Greenback members in olfi pbalttH he may give Vcorhees tiouble.

There seems to be a general feeling throughout the country tuat the be ginning of this year marks the beginning of better times, but no one need expect a sudden revival of business. Slowly bat surely the good time will come to those who work and wait.

Ia 18G5 the legislature increased the pay of its members te live dollars a day. In 1873 it was increased to eight dollars and made retroactive, a grab as offensive as that of congress about the same time. Ia 1875 the pay was fixed at six dollars a day and there it remains. Now when the legislature begins the necessary reduction of expenses which the people insist upon, let it begin with its own

members. The pay ought not to be !

more than four dollars, but if it is reduced only to five there will be a saving of ten or twelve- thousand dollars. Who will be the first to propose a measure so just, and which as an example will have so much force? Indianapolis Xews.

A strong effort is now being made by the people of Kansas City to have thaieity attained to Kansas. Kansas will no doubt he willing to the proposition, but Mieaeuri will make such strong opposition that it is not probable that the schesme will succeed.

Pen and Scissors. The total coinage of the United States mint for December was $5,948,300. About thirty state legislatures and congress will all be in session at once, this month. Over twenty centenarians died in this country In 1878, the ages ranging rrom 100 to 114. The poliece records of New York city for 1878 show that 78.441 persons were arrested during the year.

I Holstein, Germany.has a petroleum well yielding an oil said to be every j way equal to the American product. 1 Resumption continues to work

smoothly io all quarters, and the government a stock of coin is Increasing. The total bullion product of the Western States and Territories for the year was-gold, $38,956,231; silver, $38,749,391. A Dispatch says that Virginia has received $110,000 more during the past year from the bell punch liquor tax than under the old system. The late Beverly Douglass, while

a major in abet one of

and increased the debt $2.000,000. This ie a bad showing for the "wealth and Intelligence of the atate." An isfusion of "carpet-baggery"

The shippers of but few if any cities in this country can boast of railway faclltlee equal to Indianapolis. There are one hundred aod thirtye?n switches leading Croat main tracks to business bouses. This inlade switching-tracks put ia by the Belt railway aod the Uaioa railway companies.

Dr. Israel Reed, the body snatefeer. escaped from jail at Huntington. Monday. It is said parties who feared developments in this ease removed a large iron bar from his ceil window, making his eaeac i an easy matter. There is no trace of his whereabouts. Hit escape caueed great excitement In Huutingtoa.

Iowa must have a bciaJc trio of railroad commissioners, to comply with the railroad law, which preides that tha commissioners semiannually make a personal examination of all railroad bridges in the

State. As there are over US.000 rail road bridges, they witf have to ex

amine one hundred every working day la the year. Guess they'll hare to hurry up.

The Indiana Legislature meets to day. The election of a United States Senator will take place Jan. 21st, or the two houses will ballot on that day, though it is not probable that any one wi.l receive a majority of votes. Neither party has a majority, but the friends of Mr. Voorhees claim to have already secured the votes of two of the National Greenback members, the number required to elect him if all the members of bis own party stand by him. Ws have never had any doubt but that Voorhees would be elected. It will be a bitter piil for

the honeat money Democrats, and the

election of such demagogues will eventually demoralize the party. There is however, perhaps, no man in the State whom the liemocrats oould elect that oould do less harm to the Republican party than Voorhees and while we fssl ashamed of having Indiana represented in the United States Senate by such a man, it will huit the Democratic party more than any other.

would be an improvement which the creditors of the state would relish. Philadelphia Press. The latest reports show that there is in operation in the United States 8,641 miles of narrow gau e track, 132 miles of which is in Indiana and 207 miles additional is projected, to be built the present year in narrowgauge roads. Colorado leads in mileage. Ohio is second, and Pennsylvania third. Illinois.Calirornia. Utah. Nebraska and Iowa are next on the list. Ohio has sixteen In number, and Pennsylvania seventeen. A New York special says: A private banker on Broadway, when green-

! backs were first made legal tender,

framed one of the early Issues. He surrounded It with a bcrder of deep mourning, and beneath it he wrote this epitaph: "Saored to the memory of departed values. The person is not yet born who will see this note redeemed." The note was taken down Thursday an is now in possession of

the confederate army, I the government, having been redeembis soldiers In a fit of ed in gold. i

paction. Remorse for the deed 1st There are only eight states in ths said to have made him a drunkard. union where the postal service pays Recent Investigations of the deaths 1 !t w7. Dd half or them are in New in England due wholly or partly to ; England .New Hampshire, Massaalcohol, gave a total of 39,287 yearly, I ohusetta, Rhode Island. Connecticut, a larger adult mortality than is due ! NüW New J.er7. Pennsylvania to an other disease except consump-I aud Michigan-the net surplus of tjon revenue from theae states being over

I $2.530,000. ir the remaining states did as well, the department would i have a surplus of $10,000,000 to turn i into the treasury annually, instead of I lacking about $5,000,000 of being

self sustaining.

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Oa the first day of January the Postoffice Department reduced the price of stamped envelopes twenty per cent., on au average, throughout the entire schedule. Too result was that on Saturday the number required was double that of any previous day in the history of the department. Stationers will have to reduce the retail price of envelopes, or the government will almost atenopoKze t! e trade.

The Cincinnati Commercial publishes a list of murders aod homicides in fhe United States during the ye -r 1878, as reported in the papers from day to day. According to this list there were during the year 1,46"! murders In this country. Bewenty -persona were killed 0 January, 70 in February, 91 in Marek, It In April, 7 in May, 110 In Jirae, 1 2 in July. 168 in August. 134 In September, 108 tn October, 100 In Noveeawer, aod 110 te December.

Caleb Cushing, one or the greatest lawyers aod shrewdest politicians in the United States, died at his home at Newburyport, Mass., last Thursday evening. He was born January 17, 1800 and was consequently almost 79 years old at the time of bis death. He entered politics early, having been elected to the Legislature of Massachusetts at the age of twentyfive, and from his first entrance in politics to the day of his death he was almost constantly holding sojne position given him by the people of the government. No man in this or any other country ever mingled so much in politics and at the same time held so high a position at the bar. He also found time to do a good deal of fine literary work; but from his entrance into public life to the time of his destb he worked to advance the interests of Caleb B. Cushing, and will never be esteemed as a man of bis great and versatile talent might r av been had he worked for the interest of the people. He died wealthy.

Liu-re? tu Mott has just passed her eighty-sixth birthday. She commenced the advocacy of woman's rights forty years ago, and has been more or less before the public ever

since. The whole number of Indians in j the country, not counting Alaska, is j 270.000. Tbey have 320 schools attended by 11.515 scholars; 28,000 j

church members; 292,000 acrea of laod cultivated. "If any man in the approaching aession of. Congress attempts to make a speech on finances, shoot him on the spot," This is the feeling of merchants and business men at any rate. Si. Louis Olobe-Democrat. The year 1878 will be remembered aa a year of regicidal mania. Four attempts to assassinate the monarcbs

of Germany. Spain and Italy, have :

been made, and threats made against the lives of five other sovereigns. The Democratic party is now pre

paring to declare that it was always 1 in favor of resumption, and in a few I years there will be some fool Kepub- j Means that will believe it ust as they would believe that it saved the coun-

try during the rebellion. The total amount of grain received in Chicago in 18TS was about 133,000,-

L st summer an engine on the Kansas Pacific railroad, attached to a freight train, went through a bridge over Kiowa creek, instantly disap-

peaiing in the quicksands and baffli g I

all attempts to recover it. For the past six months the search for the missing locomotive has bsen kept up, resulting in success a short time since. It was found at a depth of forty feet in the quicksand. A hydraulic ram was used to remove the sand. Tho case is one of the most remarkable on record. Ths Chicago Inter-Ocean has improved its appearance vastly by re

ducing the width of its columns.

while by addiug onu more to the page it has enlarged its space. The InterOcean is becoming a rernarb..bly good newspaper. Its commercial and city department have long been modeln of excellence, aod every other feature ü being made to conform to tham. Tho Inter-Ocean Id edited by an Indlanian, Col. O. A. Pierce, formerly of

Neighborhood Notes. The Whitley County Commercial has a new head. It is now the Columbia City Commercial. Diphtheria has made its appearance in a malignant form in some parts of LaPorte county. A schoolteacher in Jefferson township, Pulaski county, stands six and a half feet in his stockings. Mrs. Margaret Collins, aged 94 years, was run over and killed by the cars at Goshen, Monday, Over $3,400 havo been turned over to the coon ty by ex-Treasurer Shearer's bondsmen in St. Joseph county. The LaPorto woolen mills have suspended work for a few weeks, to invoice'and renovate the goods and material on hand. Almost every county in this part of the State contains a Democrat who is willing to serve the State In the capacity of prison director. The Winamac Republican is enlarged to an eight colnmn paper. It Is a good paper and deserves the support of the citixens of Pulaski county. The Indiana Supreme Court has decided, in the suit of a church against a member, that subscriptions made on Sunday cannot be collected by law. Three persons of one family, Mrs. Sparklin, Eli Sparklin and little Florence Sparklin, died of lung fever near Goshen last week within thirtytwo hours. John Batterson, convicted of rape on a little girl and sentenced to twelve years imprisonment at South Bsnd lust week, had previously borne a good character.

The village of North Judson in

Starke county, was visited by a fire last Thursday which destroyed a number of business buildings and the Masonic Hall. Times ought to be good in Porter county. The Vidette says that Christmas presents were more numerous and costly than have .been given in that vicinity for years. The people of Starke and Fulton counties are considering a proposition to pay two per cent on their taxable property for an east and west railroad through those counties. There is a general complaint among farmers of n" -Ining counties as well as among the farmers of this county, that vegetables and fruits froze in their cellars during the cold weather A child in Lagrange county had a grain of corn cut out of its windpipe lust week, but died soon afterwards. A post-mortem examination disclosed two grains of corn embedded in the lungs. The grand jury of Huntington

that his wife had applied for a dV

vorce. Peter was recognized as "a bigger man than o d Grant" in his profession, and Uncle Sam sent him to prison last spring for 15 years. His age is about 50, while that of his wife only tallies 28. Fifteen years. of widowhood was too long for her, so she played sweet on Peter until she got nearly all of his property (estimated at $50,000) in ber name, when she concluded to give him the grand bounce. Za Porte Clironide.

Valnurniin whn to u A h rrullant nMir

fro. this State and a member of the Countj, Ind have indicted, for rob

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OOO hiirthtdR ucxinKt 94 41f. :?!'. himhal 1 i 11 r, n: j IUg graves, JLrs William Myers.

, , iryiBiaiuio. vui. neroe is a unuiaui i . T ,

. . . pfiioinn, anu juuu mammon, w r . and Is always i , TT T ,

when he see, KM r V ' , Z - tT! "v,

aod he sees it pretty often. He Is a VT- w versatile man. too, having no small ' Theis are at Logansport, Ind , ac

cording to the thronu-le, fifteen ex-

A destructive fire occurred in Chicago. Saturday afternoon. The Bonore black, located on the corner of Dearborn aod Adams streets, one of the handaotnoet and best coostrueted Io the city, a large portion of it being occupied by the PostoAee and Chica go & Alton railroad edaees, was partially destroyed. Fifteen womeo aod five men, sleeping In ta fourth story, were out off by the lasses, but made their escape by means et the fire-escape ladders, The loss Is about $125,000. The Senatorial election la France Indicates that the Republic has come to stay. Conservatism which means 1 imperialism. Bonspartism. ohurchism and the like received a crushing defeat. A majority of the French nepepapers are jubilant over the success of the Republicans, aod the Imperialists are correspondingly despon

dent. If the friend of popular gov- i

ernment osn sucoeed la Frasoe.it will will persooai liberty and equal rights before the law to all the people of Europe within the next decade.

The Inter-Ocean says: The cause

l of temperance has made wonderful

advance In the United States In the last twenty years. Not that there Is not plenty of room yet for improvement, but that the improvement Is marked everywhere. A few years ago the refreshments furnished in every harvest field, or at house-raisings or at gatherings of any kind, were considered incomplete unless the demijohn was full aod ready for

io 1877; and there were shipped

about 120,000.000 against 90,700,076 bushels in 1877. The above figures include flour reduced to wheat. The Coveiaor of Kentucky has been trying for two weeks to find out whether Breathitt county is a part of Kentucky or Kentucky a part of Breathitt county. At present Kentucky and the Uovejnor seem a "leerte" ahead of old Breathitt, No wine or spirits of any kind were

offered to callers at the houses of j any Cabinet officer in Washington on New Year's day. This was never so in Washington before, and shows that Mrs. Hays has some influence, j

iu ber department anyhow. Returns to the postofflce department for the quarter eodlog September 30, Indicate that the postal revenue will be iecreased about $900,000 per annum by the change in the mode of compensating postmasters of the fourth class, allowing them commission on stamps cancelled on letters, instead of on st imps sold. The tax on tobacco declined during

and incisive writer.

rsady to bit a head

ability as a public speaker, both oa

the Stump and Id the lecture Seid.

Indianapolis .'ru.

Washington tpcrlal tp lae CinriaBatl(Jsstte. A Fill Tor the Pottertle. Republican members of the Potter committee have evidence at band that will give the Democrats a fine opportunity for extended explanations. It is no less than a charge made by a cousin of Gov. Niebülls, who was deputy sergeantiat arms of the Stenger sub-commiltee which visited New Orleans early last summer, to the ef

fect that money was raised aad paid Pf PMr of fifty-six columns.

use. No fashionable dinner-table

was properly served without the va- December $48,315 compared with the rietles of wine. Even the sideboard corresponding month of 1877. This ef church members contained choice I attributed to the agitation of the liquors, and ministers and members question. Notwithstanding this indulg. d in "something for the decrease there was a net gain on the

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The Inter Ocean of January 1, contains a review of the mopetary and cpicmerciai interests of Chicago for tha year 1878. The returns or the Clearlog House shows a reduction in tb0 clearings of $77,500,000. but this must be attributed to the low prices ruling for all articles. The xeoeipts of flour aod grain are the iar on ceoord, aggregating i;n(a."u.oix iush' els, while the sbipmenta are 121.08.000 bushels. The increase in the re ceip'a of wheat is about 111 per cent: oorh, 81 peroeut; oats, 35 per oent;

rye, 44 per cent; and barley, 17 per I cast. The Increase in the supply of ;

stomach's sake and the many infirm! ties." We notice the fact now, from the large number of exchanges from every section of the country, each making mention of the fact that upon "New Tear's Day there was little drunkenness," and that 'the ladies generally served lunch without the use of wine or other intoxicating drinks." It may be all true that many who spent the day in soberness made up for it the next, but it is something gained when liquors sre banished from the social gatherings and the home, as they have been during the few years past. Just in this connection we note in the New York Observer two little scraps of history of the old Colonial days, which marks the progress we have mentioned; In 1735 Frsminghitin "voted for the rniainv f the meeting house one barrel ef rum, three barrels of cider, six barrels ol beer, wish uituble provisions of Basal sad bread," at an expense of 70t. which wns then the amount of the minister's salary lor a year. The records of Med ford s'ate that at

f the meeting house rsisinjr in 1709 "no one-

was hart, winch probably mcaiib that no one was intoxicated enough to put his iv la PSflL Hut in another town near

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Boston, where a nsrt of the frame fell

during the raising, in 1773. there is no doubt that everybody was drunk ; for the record w': "Voted, to provide for one lrrel ol West Indian rum, five barrels of New üneland rum, one barrel ef fmd brown sugar, hall a box of lemons, and two losve ol 1 af sugar, for fmmiug and raising the meeting lioube !"

Mrs. Hayes wore one of her most

first six months of the present year of $923,470 compared with the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. A Washington correspondent announce a report in that city from Europe that the Jowish projeet for the purohase of Palestine ia practically complete. Sir Moses Montlfiore, the Rothschilds and other prominent men of the race, have hopes of the consumation of the plan. The project receives the most cordial support of Jews in all parts ,oi the world. For the present scresy is preserved. A young man called at the SubTeaaury fori5,000ain gjld. and in carelessly haadliug the bag it fell to the murble pavement, ths string broke, and io a few moments gold eagles

were rollingJn every direction

for a good deal of the evidence taken by the Democrats at the time. It will be remembered that a number of the witnesses, who had made affidavits of fraud aad intimidation in connection with the presidential election before the returning board, appeared before, the Steoger committee and dsnied their evidence before the returning board. St. Martin says these witnesses were hunted up aod paid in money for the testimony they gave. In some cases, however, they received a promise that if tbey would retrsct their former testimony they would be al

lowed to return to their homes, from Crawfordsville girl recently opened a

which they have been banished on cigar store. Her friends anticipate account of statements they had made j speedy failure, but the resolute maid

preachers, of whom four are carpenters, two lawyers, one blsjcktmlth, and one dead beat, while the others "live on the interest of what they owe." The LaPorte Chronicle now furnishes its readers with a patent inside without advertisements. It says It is enabled to do this because of its increased subscription list. We are glad to note the prosperity of the Chronicle. The Kendsilvllle Standard appeared last week enlarged to an eight

It

now has a "patent inside" but Myers

will see to it that some of his reader, at least, get all they want in twentyeight columns of outside matter, it deserves success. The Crown Point Cosmos says LaPorte will be all right financially next summer. The ice crop is immense, Arrangements have been made to put up 1,000,000 tons this winter, and it wih be done If It takes all the watar in clear Lake. 1500 men and 100 teams are employed in gathering the harvest. The KokOmu Dispatch says: "A

before the returning board. 8t. Mar

tin further says that he waa instructed when he summoned witnesses, to ascertain whether they would give teatimony of value to the Democratsand in case it was found they would not, to report them to the committee as not found. Th i affidavit goes into details, aod sets forth the Democratic dealings with St. Martin, whom they supposed they bad successfully purchased.

A New York business man who has made a large fortune, believes that advertising should be included in the

After ' KeDeral "tlmate of expenses, as reg-

hogs was equal to 54 pr cent, and the elegaot dresses, an Ivory tinted silk, inc .tse In the shipments of r.og pro-1 traioed skirt and high waist. The

ducts rusty :per cent. Tho table of I neck was cut V-shaped In front and direct export, to Europe show that filled with lace. The sleeves and three times aa much flour, nearly five draperies of the skirt were of the times as much wheat, three times as ; same embossed white gauseof a very much corn and fifty per cent mere raro pattern. She wore no Jewelry, pork waa shipped than during the j In her blaok hair was a single white )ar 1877 'plume and an Ivory comb.

gathering them up and recounting the entire amount, he returned the bag of coin, and requested the cashier to give blm some currency that would not roll about. It h said that the practice of making New Year's calls originated with the old Dutch families iu New York city. Whether they brought it from Holland, or started it themselves, is not stated. It was first introduced into Washington in 1810, when Madison became President, but it was not until 1824 that the doors of the White House were opened to the genera! public on Nuw Year's

day- Sunday night, at Carbon, Wy., The treasury of Louisiana is empty twenty-five or thirty marked men and $900.000 are required to pay the ' broke open a baggage ear and took

ularly as store rent, clerk hire and in

surance. It is often said that a good stand at a high rent Is better than a poor one rent free. Advertising brings a man before tho public In a away that makes any "stand good. The best stand you can havo is in a newspaper. These publications absorb so large a share of the life of the day and are ao constantly extending their scope and influence that it is next to impossible for a business to 8ucceed and not make itself known through the newspapers. Better be out of the world than out of the newspapers. Indianapolis News.

January coupons of interest, and current expenses. When the Republicans surrendered the government two years ago, there were $300.000 in the treasury, with a rate of taxation of 14 mills. Io these two years the

Democr$ts have spent tha surplus number ol stage robberies,

out and hung to a telegraph polo Duteh Charley, who was enroute to Rawlins for trial oharged with participating in the Wfhidowflald murder last fall. He was a notorious charac

ter, and had been identiQsd wi'.h a, fsiter, McC'artney. at the prison one

day last week, wfcen. h.e was informed

says she has plenty "tobacker." And though dealing extensively in mere sham goods she has the ability make the boys smoke. A special to the Indianapolis Jour nal from Crawfordsville, Sunday, says: "Yesterday morning, at Beckville, two young children, named Nolan, were found frozen to death in bed. Their father came home drunk the night before, removed the bed covering from his children and appropriated it to himself. Friday night of last week, William A. Cunningham, a married mau with three children, and Ueorge Daniels, a boy 19 yeara of age, got into a quarrel at a dance at the house of Samuel Flint, in Washington township. Miami county, which resulted in Daniels shooting Cunningham in the neck, killing him almost instantly. The Michican City correspondent of the LaPorte Chronicle Bays. "Senator Sarnighausen of Fort Wayne, the father of the senate, has been here on a visit to Senator Winterbotham. Report says that the latter has engaged five rooms at the Bates house and proposes to entertain his friends in such a royal manner that they will forget that such a Democrat aa Dan Voorheea ever existed. One thing is certain, "Honest John doesa't propose to take a baek seat in this figbt. His motto is: "Lay on McDufT. and d d be he who first cries hold, enough!" "Tis ever tons siuce childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay So thought the notorious counter-

Hews ef tbe Week Condensed. There has been a heavy snow storm in Scotland. A thaw in France is causing the rivers to overflow. Santa Barbara, California, was visited by a cerrlflc tornado Thursday. Orest desolation and distress prevail throughout Alsace and Lorraine. It is said that Washington banks fear tbey will have too much gold thrust upon them. Tbe subscription to the four per cent, bonds Saturday reached seven and a half millions. Russia will hold a grand national exhibition in 1880 the twenty fifth year of tbe Emperor's accession. The gold dial of the New York Steck Exebange has been taken down. There is no further use for tt. The sales of stamped envelopes have largely Increased since the twenty per cent, reduction In their prices. Last year Great Britain bad 15,059 business failures, an increase over the year before of more than four thousand. It is rumored that Conkling has reconsidered his determination to oppose the New York custom-house nominations. The city of Cork refused to give General Grant a reception, because th-y considered him an enemy to tbe Catholic religion. A Spanish court has sentenced the editor and manager of a newspaper to

imprisonment and fine, tor insulting the King of Spain. Tbe weather so delayed trains that but few members of Congress reached Waahiugton at the opening of the session this week. The Supreme Court of tbe United States decided, Monday, that Congress has power to pass laws prohibiting polygamy.

Friday' temperature ranged from seven to thirty degrees below zero in the Northern States, and it waa correspondingly cold in the South. The Cornish Bank, at Truro, Cornwall, elosed Saturday morning. It bad been established 110 years, and had deposits aggregating $5,000,000. Laat Thursday night, in the village of (eäktown, Ind., one burglar wax shot dead, and another severely., wounded, in attempting to break into a b-SuaV " The Mexican government has made arrangements for the paymeut of the third installment of $300,000 in iemuity to American citizens, due this month.. A dispatch from Copenhagen says the attacks of the semi-ofllcial Prussian press threaten to cause a diplomatic rupture between Germany and Denmark. The severe weather Saturday continued to impede railroad travel, and a number of slight railroad casualties and several cases of death by freezing were reported. The Cabinet, Friday, considered the. Chinese question, and, it is said, concluded to confer with tbe Chinese government as to limiting the emigration of the people. Resumption seems to have caused no special stir, ohange or comment tn any of the banking or business circles of the country. Everything moves along as smoothly as of yore. Garoelon, the Democratic candidate, was elected Governor of Maine on Friday. The Republicans, being compelled to choose between Smith, tbe Greenback candidate, and a Democrat, voted for Garceloo. Fires have been quite numerous during the cold snap. The new Baptist Church at St Louis, Just erected at a cost of $100,000, and the new Presbyterian Church at Quincy, 111., cost $00,000, wsre burned Friday. J. H. Smith. Secretary of the Memphis Howard Association, completed his report, which shows the receipts to have been, duriug the late epidemic, $417,536.66, and tbe disbursements $415.790.53. Judge Heller, at Indianapolis, Saturday evening, overuled the motion to give Guetig, tne murderer, a new trial, and sentenced him to be hanged by the neck io the Marion county jail on the 29ih day of January, 1879. John Norris, of Petersburg!), Kentucky, the laat survivor of tbe famous naval engagement of Commodore Perry, on Lake Erie, which was fought Sept. 10th, 1813, died Sunday morning. He was ia bis 88th year. Chicago architects are busy with plans for business houses and residences greatly in excess of the number they projected last year, and it is claimed rhioago will see more buildiug in 1879 than in any year since the fire. Tbe reports from all parts of tbe country show that the present severe cold weather extends over a larger area of country, and is the most intense experienced for many years. The range of the thermometer was rrom Öftren to thirty degrees below zero. News from England says the weather 1 again oold. There has been a daily increaso of distress in every quarter the past week. At Manchester, Friday, there were three thousand applications from bead of families,

representing 13,500 persons to the relief committee, and Saturday 4,000 fresh applications. During tbe week 1,200 families have been relieved in Wolvarharopton. Considerable increase of distress is also reported from Sheffield Among tbe importations by the steamer Belgle, which at rived at San Francisco on the 2d inst. from Hong Kong, were 100.000 trade dollars, being a part of the 400,000 reported as having been purchased for the United States at Hong Kong. They will be shipped by rail to New York. The mint bureau on the 3d inst.. turned into tbe treasury $575,000, profits accruing to the government from coinage of tbe standard silver dollar for the past three weeks, after baying silver for coinage, paying for transportation, and allowing for wasting in tbe process of coining. Since the commencement of coinage of the

ficient interest to report eve as it was, or why mention it at all, an 1 leave only guessing as to its purport. When a large number of teachers take part in the discission of "How to Teach History. why omit the point male ia their speeches, pro an i con, as tbe simple mention of tbe discusaioa being had conveys nothing of interest at all to any one outside of those taking part tn the discussion. Recitation,' by Peter Plnder, waa well handled, and evinced tbe gentleman's ability and efficiency in th school room." This is ail very interesting to tbe party interested, but of . what earthly use Is it to simply mention the subject of the rpeech and stop short, without hinting at a single one of tbe points advanced? All this Is great injustice to the teachers, who may have been at vast labor in preparing for their work, simply to be ä very little complimented and flattered, and then allow their work to

standard dollar tbe trovernmcnt has

profited between the legal tender ' ot' cause of an inefficient re

value and the real value of the builion which It contains to tbe amount of about $1,600,000. Saturday's fire record was the largest for months. The Honore block at Chicago, containing the postofflce aod Gen. Sheridan's headquarters, burned, involving a loss of about $125,000; well insured. The Academy of the Holy A sgels, Buffalo, burned; loss, $60,000; Hughes A Co. 's flouring mill, Hamilton, O , $18,000; public library and postofflce at Higham, Mass.. Avenue Hotel and several other buildings at Huntington, W. Tu., $123,000; Runkle 's flour mill and distillery, at St. Paris, 0 . $16,000. J. P. Olive and five of his herders wsre arrested at Plum Creek, Neb.. Sunday, for committing tbe horrible crime of burning Mitchell and Ketchurn, four weeks ago, in Custer county. Olive's brother, who went by the name of Stevens, was killed by two homesteaders in self-defense, and for this Olive, who is a large stock -raiser, caused their capture, and while Id charge of the Sheriff, took them away

and burned them alive, Tbe officers have been bunting the villains three weeks, and getting evidence quietly. Not a shot was fired io making the arrests. The Government Directors have sent their annual report to the Secretary of th? Interior. They are of the opinion that the Union Pacific, In view of the very liberal support it has received from the Government, and the brilliancy of its success aa a commercial enterprise, should be judged by the moat severe standards known among tbe railroads of the country. Measured by this standard, they report that the deficiencies are many and apparent. At the same time property is being brought up with steadiness, though slowly, to a fair degree of average excellence. The failure to replace with steel rails the worn out Iron rails, is sharply criticised, and the directors say, although the policy now pursued by tbe company In regard to the m iterial condition of the property, is careful and

aufficlently safe, it is by no means liberal nor auch as the country üas a right to expect or the Government to insist upon.

CoBtmnnlcatlon. Bocsbom, lud., Jan. 3d, 1879. Editor Republican : For quite a number of years I have

been trying to read everything of educational interest that fell into my j bands, not excepting the reports of 1 proceedings of teachers' institutes, as j found in the public press. Having read these reports from all parts of the oounty quite dllligently,

I oould not fail to come to the one conclusion, that they oould by some fortunate possibility be made a trifle more interesting and profitable; or could be well omitted altogether, as they Invariably fail to Impart any information, except the meeting of the institute, officers elected, teachers present, remarks by Mr. or Prüf, so and so, paper read or discussion on some one of a thousand subjects, then adjournment for dinner, till tomorrow, sine die ad nauseum. When "Prof." Smith reads a Pape:" on any subject, instead of simply stating tbe fact of its reading and useless and meaningless comments being made tberon, the gist of the article could be brill y glvon, there might be something valuable gained by tbe publication of the report. When Mr. Brown gives his method of teaching the alphabet or spelling, the salient points of his method should be mentioned in the published reports, so as to be of profit to the newspapei reader. The reports as now made are a means of getting the man in print without corresponding benefit to any one else. When the "Verb and its grammatical properties was handled in a scholarly manner by Miss Quiz'cal, and was highly appreciated by the institute," what valuable idea can by any possible means be conveyed to tbe reader of the report. Had the lady's theories been given in brief, it might have been of incalculable benefit to the profession at large, instead of simply filling space in a newspaper, as general institute reports are noted for doing. When a "resolution is introduced by Mr. Jones, In the form of a petition to the Legislature, praying for a change in the school law," could it be possible tbe institute asks for our schools to be abolished altogether, or that all teachers, good or bad, be allowed to name their own salaries, like our Congressmen; or what the diokens was proposed, and what tbe reason of tbe mysterious failure to Bpeak plainly what should bo told, or not mentioned at all Our fears are excited, our curiosity is aroused, only to be left in the dark in this aa in all else the general reports hint at. Why could not the gist of ihe petition be fp;eatoned, in a word, if it was of suf

port of proceedings. The "Darwii a

inn theory as applied to education" might have been a very rare treat to ail, and may have been very attentively listened to and appreciated by those present, but of what use to announce this fact to the world, and never give one fact or feature of the addeas for the benefit of tbe profession outside ef that one little institute, is like hearing of a magnificent feast, but being forced to fast, wh o one would be contented with so little. But in ail seriousness, are not all reports of teachers' institutes flat and stale, and like one, like all, lacking in all edification? Let reporters take careful instructions. Cannot there be ' a great change made in reporting institute proceedings, the grain preserved and ail the useless straw and chaff be allowed to care for itself Tk . - I ' 1 -II - - - I I-

iui gqu ue uuur, auu an mat 1 gram preserved Let me, as an old teacher, suggest to our institutes to carefully consider tbe great importance of this subject of reporting only what Is of real value, in all proceedings of societies, Institutes, Stc. To report the gemv and gists of all proceedings, and remember that names of subjects discussed oonvey nothing of value; but ideas, ia a nutshell, is what Is demanded and what is valuable. Institutes are valuable, no one disputes. Points are what we

require; let's have them, and. fewer unimportant remarks tn reports. Tours truly, PSDAGOOtTB. We want everybody to

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