Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1876 — Page 2

KI ELABR UNION JASPER -BJUPUBLICAN. / w . INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

‘ A OowUntlaopte fitspatch of the 27th si. vs WslosurrocUon tn Bulgaria i.w‘l been coin-1 glMaiy uuMwed, and military operations la ■t province hsd.faerefore,eeased. All the Utairee thatvrero la revolt had tendered titer ****Z^j > *° **** Turlt **l» authorities. Aocordiag to Constantinople dispatches ol ••to 30th «4u,tbe Sultan Abdul Alla had been ’ treed to abdicate, and Ma nephew, Mcrad : 'ddteecded 'to the throne. The matronea Hal tan was kept under guard in a kioaque In Mm eraelle. Both Christians M* Kuaeuttoeu were greatly pleased at the change, and perfect tranquility prevailed. Tt was bclltrvM that the new condition of af®alr« won rd. greatly facilitate the settlement cf the Eastern difficulties. The sew Sultan had accepted throe propositions ssffiniitted to vl,: '^ he institution of the permanent assembly «I notables, abolition of the seraglio, and the reduction of the civil list to 5,000,000 A V«>is destructive fire occurred at Quebec, Can ad aon the tOth nit. It started on Scott street, to the afternoon, a high wind prevailing at Ute time, which caused the flames to rapidly spread. The fire paseed through the center of what are known as the St. Louis «üburte,-«exteading from the extreme western limit to the eastern limit facing the fortiMeaUone, then southerly to the Grand Alee and uortherlr to the third street south of St. •John street. One thousand houses were destroyed, involving a loss of about $1,000,000. Hundreds of the sufferers by the fire were compelled to pass the night in the open fields. The JhsMieof Correepoudenz of Vienna, of the tSlst ult. says the dethronement of Abdul Acte was effected neither by popular revolution nor by police intrigue, but by a revolution of the ministry. A rumor prevailed in ViennT-that the ex-Bultan had suddenly died from-apoplexy. Other rumors prevailed that ihe had been strangled. The London Timet' Berlin dispatch of the same date says Servia had issued a decree dosing all schools and •courts,-and that war with Turkey impended. ALondon telegram of the 31st ultsays that -on the>applicatioD of l the Government, 'Winslow had been again remanded until after •Panels. The preliminary work on the tunnel to ■connect England and Trance has been commenced at Langatte,' France. Advices from the Turkish provinces recdvtfd on the Ist, say the change of rulers was everywhere received with satisfaction. -Several persons exiled for political reasons ■during the last reign had been recalled. The ■ex-Sultan’s treasure amounting to € XX),000.<<M)O, had been seized and confiscated. -London dispatches of the 2d state that sev■cnaltenportant failures had occurred in Italy nad Russia, and something like a financial jpanic prevailed.

vonuesTic. Company H. Twenty-third Regiment, un■der command Of Capt. Eskridge, lOfl Omaha •on-the 28th for Tort Laramie, and would go thence direct to Custer City, where they had •beeirordeYed to protect the miners against theindians. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the-retirement iof $404,208 in legal tenders, that-being eighty per cent, of the National Bank . circulation issued during 'May. This •leaves.the outstanding greenback circulation at WTO, 128,808. ■The Chicago Inter-Ocean of the-29th says; “MrJoD. E. K. Stewart, a well-known lawyer ■of this city, received the other day a letter ifrem his brother, Mr. J. H. Stewart, who has been in the Black Hills for the last four weeks, which gives a favorable account ■of the progress at mining operations. He -says * ‘they are mining se'-etrty-five miles tfrom Custer ■ City, on Deadwood Creek, where they have very rich diggings _ai.<V.plenty of gold. They find considerable difficulty in securing claims. The miners ihave not seen an Indian since they went there, though it is evident there are plenty -ofilnd'ians around, two of their horses having been stolen? Mr. Stewart is known here .as a •man of veracity, and the above state-ment-will therefore carry weight-with it.” .Dlst.i&tty Dyer, of St. Louis, announces rthat he has obtained judgments on all the bonds of distillers arraigned for.violation of ■the Revenue laws, to the Amount of nearly 41.080,000, Mrs. William Monahan, of 'Logansport, lad.« while building a fire on the :29th ult,, tusedtkerosene oil to hurry up matters. She w was terribly and fatally burned. The passenger fares on the ■ railroad routes to tbe*East‘have been reduced to --tee following figures:'Between Chicago and Boston, 4t7;:fcew York, 816; Buffalo, sl2; Philadeljihia, $14.40. A corresponding reduction has been unade between St. Louis,‘Cincinnati, •etc,,.to.-the. above-named Eastern points. Theunonthly debt statement issued on the Tstshas'/s the public debt to be *52,213,616,<l7. Cash in .Treasury—coin, -B&5X<2-1,"66; ■currency, $8,285,708; special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit,-834,• S85)000; ■total, $110,295,474. Debt less cash in Treasury, Decrease during A special-train started from Naw Fork at ame o’clock on the morning of' the Ist to make the run to Ban Francisco >in eightyeight hours. It reached Chicago in - twentyone hours—twenty-five minutes ahead of •ebetale time. Hews casne by telegraph on the Ist, from Udoolr, Neb., that Qapt. Stone’s party of Cincinnatians, on theii way to the Slack HUM, were attacked by a large party of In<itaM, while.pasting through the sand-hills, aad forty-nine .were believed to have been TOMtaeted- The same .dispatch say-. it wm exported that nearly all the Indians had left the Agencies and. were on the warpath. A««iecial dlfpalefa from-Tort Laramie-on the li to theiGhlcago. lnter‘Ocean, says there is no truth Jn the reported Massacre by Indi. mb of the <Ctacionail party route to fce Black Mills.

PMMONAL

G. M. D. Bto*«,one ,*f the editors of the ClncintMti and for twan ty.two years •n attadke of that jjonrnal, nca instantly killed by*train, xm theaveniug of the2Btb, while walklag on the traafc near iJraneh Hill station, where be resided. Lawrence Hamqy, an ex-Doorkeqper of the jHouse, appeared before the Clymer Investigating Committee on the ,29th, and swore tint be had paid *tfSO to Speaker Kerr in IMW, ter the appointment of Augustus P. Gwen to » vacant lieutenancy. Upon colpoints tbe witness wae forgetful, but be Muck most pwtiuaetausly io the main aaaentlon that the money WM paid for the kppofatnant. Mr. K«r denied knowing wynsw and most soluiuly asserted that not A A*|lsr itad-ywsed between them as aworo ewtensivo grocery house of Jackson, ft fiongiasa, of St. Louis, suspended ooWe m. Liabilities stated at sxtMalve pork-packing houses of LouiavUlo. Ke-, have suspended recently, WiCiUrgrogate liabilities of about •1,000,000. B la said the failures were caused by outMHKnilatlnff to .futures ol cotton and

other articles, and not by losses on regular packing. The new Secretary of War, J. D. Cameron, was shorn Into office ota the Ist, and at the same time Judge Taft qualified as AttorneyGeo eval. Before the Judiciary Committee on the Ist, the witness Mulligan (a book-keeper of Mr. Ftefeer, of Boston, with whom Mr. Blaine had busk ess relations) stated that in an inter, view between himself and Mr. Blaine the day before, the latter had obtained possession of certain private letters of his (Blaine) in witness’ hands, under promise that he would return them after refreshing his mind with their contents; witness said Mr. Blaine had plead earnestly for the letters, which he refused to give hila until he had promised to return them; witness also said Mr. Blaine had promised him a Consulship on condition of yielding up the letters. Mr. Blaine in his statement, denied the pleading and consulship portions of witness’ story; he said ho only wished to retain possession of such portion of his private letters as bore no relation to the matters in question before the committee, and that such letters only properly belonged to one of two parties —the writer or the one to whom they were written—Mt. Fisher. Mr. B. declined to submit the letters to the committee until he had consulted his counsel in relation to the matter. He had offered to return one of the letters to Mr. Mulligan—the only one bearing at all upon the question before the committee; he (Blaine) regarded it a gross outrage that his private correspondence should be published, as Mulligan had threatened, in certain contingencies, should be done. The lowa Episcopal Diocese has unanimously elected as Bishop the Rev. Dr. Btetens Ferry, the President of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., Dr. Eccleston, of Philadelphia, having declined. In his cross-examination, on the 2d, Her. ney persisted emphatically in his assertions :that he had paid Mr. Kerr money to procure Lieut. Green’s appointment! Ex-Congress-man Meyer Strauss, of Pennsylvania, testified that in 1866, at Harney’s request, he had written to President Johnson in behalf of Green’s appointment; that Harney had stated to'him that he (Harney) could make a little money out of the business, which he needed, as his position did not pay well. On the 2d, Mr. Blaine still refused to deliver his private letters, obtained by him-from Mulligan, to the Investigating Committee, by advice of two of his counsel—Messrs. Jeremiah 8. Black and Matt H.Carpenter—who stated that they had found nothing in the letters bearing at all upon the case pending before the committee, and that -they ad. vised Mr. Blaine to assert his rights and refuse to yield up the letters.

POLITICAL. The Rhode Island General Assembly met on the 30th ult. The Counting Committee reported J. M. Addeman elected Secretary of State and no , choice for other State officers. The Grand Committee then re-elected Governor Lippitt, Lieutenant-Governor Bisson, Attorney-General Sayles, and Treasurer Samuel Clark. The Republican members of the 'Rhode Island General Assembly, in caucus on the 31st ult., nominated Henry B. Anthony for re-election to the United States Senate. The Missouri Democratic State Convention met at Jefferson City on the 32 st ult. and chose delegates to the National Convention. They are reported to stand nineteen for Hendricks, ten for Tilden, and one doubtful A resolution to instruct for Hendricks was withdrawn. The resolutions give no utterance on the financial question, save to ex press a favorable opinion of the Resumption act of January, 1875. The Maryland Democratic State Convention, in session on the 31st ult., selected delegates to the National Convention who are in favor of the nomination of Mr. Bayard fpr President. A resolution was adopted in favor of a speedy return to specie payment. The recent Louisiana Republican State Convention adopted a resolution favoring the establishment of a system .of Federal finance which will bring about a steady, speedy and permanent return to payment of specie into and out of the Treasury in all Federal transactions. Delegates were choseq, to the National Convention. The Tennessee Democratic State Convention met at Nashville on the 31st ult., and elected delegates to the National Convention. They were uninstructed, but it is supposed that fifteen out of the seventeen chosen are for Hendricks for President. The resolutions oppose contraction and favor resumption of specie payments whenever it ean ibe effected without injury to the business interests of the country, and the unconditional repeal of the Resumption act of 1875. The Virginia Conservative State Convention met at Richmond on the 31st ult,, and elected delegates to the National Convention. The lowa Republican State Coorrention met at Des Moines on the 31st uIL, and nominated a State ticket composed as follows: For State Auditor, Judge Sherman, renominated; Register of Land Office, Capt, Secor, renominated; Secretary of State, J. T. Young, renominated; Attorney-General, 11..I 1 .. F. Me Junkin. Delegates to the National Convention were chosen and resolutions were adopted, among others, advocating the gradual resumption of specie payment by continuous and steady steps in that direction, recognizing in James G. Blaine one' well worthy to be nominated for President by the National Convention, and instructing the delegates to vote as a unit. A resolution instructing for Blaine was offered and subsequently withdrawn. The delegation it .understood to be largely in favor of Mr. Elaine’s nomination.

Peter Cooper, in replying to tbe letter informing him o' his nomination to the Presidency by the Greenback Convention, says: “ There is a bare possibility, if wise counsels prevail, that ’ the sorely needed relief from the blighting effects of past unwise legislation relative to finance, which the people so earnestly seek, may yet be Grad through either the Republican or Democratic party, both of them meeting in National Convention at an early day. * * * J .therefore accept your nomination conditionally. expressing an earnest hope that ihe£hdependent party may yet attain its aims, while,permlttlng me to step aside and remain in that quiet which is most congenial to nty nature and my time of lite.” The New York Democratic State Convention, called to chose delegates on a green-, .back platform to the St. Louis Convention, met at New York city on the Ist. Delegates avere chosen and a platform was adopted claiming admission for their delegates to the Bt. louis Convention; declaring for the uncehditional repeal of the Resumption act; the,substitution of legal-tenders for National bank noteti, these legal-taaders to be received for all debts, taxes gnd customs.; yno forced inflation or contraction, but circulation equal to the wants of all.; legislation for the development of the resources, and wealth of the country by tbe people to tbe exclusion of monopolies, etc., etc.

The Versaont State Democratic Convention met at Montpelier on the Ist, and nominated Wm. H. H. Bingham for Governor and E. B. Baldwin for Lieutenant-GoVernor. The delegation to St Louis was uninstructed except to vote as a unit The platform favors an earijr return to specie payments. The Mitlhesote Democratic State Convention met at St. Paul on the Ist, and selected delegate! to tbe St. Louis Conrentlo®, who

are supposed to favor the nomination of Tilden as President, The platform favors specie resumption as soon as the business interests of the country will permit. CONGHHRRIONAL. Altar further consideration of the Impeachinent question on the 29th, the Senate de* elded that it had Jurisdiction by adopting a resolution that ex-beeretary Belkiuui is amenable to trial by impeachment for acta done us Secretarv of War notwithstanding hie resignation of said office before he waa impeached. The vote on thia resolution war as follows: Vess—Bayard, Bogy, Burnside, Cameron (Fa.), Caperton, CockrelC Cooper, Davie, Dawes, Dennie, Edmunds, Goldlbwaiie. Gordon, Hamilton, Hitchcock, Keny. Kernan, Kcv, MCCreery, McDonald, Maxey, Mitchell. Morrill (Vt.), Norwood, Kandolph, lianaom, RoberUon, Hargent, Saulsbury, Sherman, Stevenson, Thurman, Wadletgli, Wallace, White, Withers. Wright Nays ■— Allbon, Booth, BoutweU, Bruce, Cameron, (Wis ), Christlancy, C'aytou. Conkling, Cragin, Dorsey, Eaton, Ferry, Frelinghuy, ecu, Hamlin, Harvey, Howe, Ingalls, Jones, <Fla.), Jones (Nev,), Logan, McMillan, Morrill (Me ), Morton, Oglesby, Paddock, Patterson, Spencer, West, V) iudom—2U. Messrs. Alcorn aud Burnuni were excused from voting, and Messrs. Autbony, Conover, Johnston and Sharon were absent. Adjourned to the 315t....1n the House, a bill was passed providing for the sale to actual settlers of the Osage ceded lands iu Kansas. The bill to devote the proceeds of the sales of public lands for. educational purposes was debated in Committee of the Whole. Adjourned to the 81st. Tho bill in relation to the Japanese indemnity fund was amended and passed In the Senate, on the 31st u1t.... A resolution was offered In the House, by Mr. Jones, of Nevada, and referred, declaring that Congress should pass wiitlr out. delay a bill repealing the Resumption act. aad should prohibit any further contraction of the currency, and should provide, If necessary, for its increase, and for the displacement of National Bank notes by United States notes, anil should also provide for a speedy return to gold and silver. In the Louisiana contested election case of Spencer n. Morey, the majority report <if the committee, declaring Morey, the sitting member, not entitled to the seat, and Spencer, the contestant, entitled to it, was adopted w ithout division.

A number of private bills were .passed in the Senate, on the Ist. The judgment Of the Senate in the Impeachment case, overruling the plea of the defendant as to jurisdiction was announced, and an order was submitted and discussed that the accused be ordered to plead further, or answer the articles of impeachment witliiji ten days. 3 lie Senate, sitting as a Court ot Impeachment, adjourned to the tfth....Bills were passed in the House—to promote the efficiency of the army, to provide lor lie gradual reduction, aud to consolidate certain of it- start' departments; providing for the appointment, by the Secretary of the Treasury, of a Commissioner, to be known as a Shipping Commissioner, ior every port of entry which is also a port of navigation. Bills were passed in the Senate, on the 2d—to close the channel of the Ohio River, on the south side of Neville Inland, by the'Constructl»n of an embankmerit or causeway from the head of the island to the southern shore of the river; to exempt all vessels efngaged in the navigation of the Mississippi Riwer and its tributaries above New Orleans from entrances aud clearances. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up and amended by restoring the salaries of certain Government officials to what they wereibefore being reduced in the bill as passed by the House. ...In the House, the Indian Appropriation bill was considered iu Committee of the Whole. An evening session was held for general debatu an the Tariff.

Conventions and Meetings to be Held at Philadelphia.

The following is a rev-ised .list of the Conventions, Congresses, Society meetings and Conferences to be held iniPiiiladelphia during the progress of the Exhibition: American Medical Association, June fi. Reunion Society Army of the-James. June 7. Reunion Society Army of theJPotoniac, June 8. National Convention of Civil-Engineers, June fi). Women's International Convention, June 10— 12. Association of Superintendents of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, June 12. Women's National Temperance Union, June 12. International Temperance Conlerence, June 13. Good Templars, Slate Lodge, June 13. National Association Stove Manufacturers, June 14. National Division Sous of Temperance of North America, June 14. Ministerial Temperance Conference. June 14. Grand Lodge, Good Templars of Ulilted States, June 15. National Convention Mining Engineers, June 20. Manufacturing Chemists’ National Association, •Jnno-22. —•— T-— —■ —-— Grand EncampmenffKnights i's Malta, June 24. National Religious Amendment Association, June2fi. World’s Homeopathic Convention, June 26. Convention German Erne Thinkers, June 26. National Law Congress, June zB. Reunion Twenty-eighth and One Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiments Pennsylvania Volunteers and Knapp's Battery. National aim State Encampments Grand Army of Republic. June 3D. Congress of Authors, July 1. National Convention Catholic Young Men’s Association, July 2. International Typographical Union. July 3. Salesmen's and Commercial Traveler’s Associa tion, Jhly 3. Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, July 4. International Conference of Delegates, Societies St. Vincent de PauL-July 6. International Arbitration Convention. July 11. Pennsylvania State Den tal Society, July 25. Encampment Knights Templar at Ridley Park, under auspices of Maryland Commandery, July 28. Convention of Historical and Antiquarian seieties, Aug. 1. American Dental Association, Aug. 1, State Camp Patriotic Order Sons of America (at Reading), Aug. 8. Photographer’s National Association, Aug. 15. Grand Lodge Kuights of Pythias, of Pennsylvania, Aug. 15. American Association .cf Instructors of the Blind, Aug 15. Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias, Aug. 22. International Medical Congress, Sept. 4. International Convention of Archaologists, Sept. 4. National Pomological Society, Sept. 11. Grand Council of the Improved Order .of Red Men of the United States, Sept. 12. National Convention of the American Foresters, Sept. 13. American Forestry Association, Sept 13. Grand Lodge of the United States, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Sept. 16. Grand Lodge of the United States, Improved Order of Red Men, Sept. 20. Convention of Apiarians (honey men) Sept. 28. WelshNationil Eietediodd, third week. ' “ National Carriage Builders’ Association, third week. Dedication of hall Patriotic Order Sons of America, first week. State Council O. U. A. M., 6>ct. 17. American Dairy-mall’s Association* Oct. 17.

The girls at the Washington seminary at Leavenworth, play foot-ball in the groves at the rear of the institution. They kick pie ball and cry “hail” as loud as the boys. A neatly-written; girl ish-look-ing challenge was on the bulletin-board at the college, offering to jilay a niaiclt game of foot-ball one alterncon in tiieseminary yard. The freshmen were afraid to accept, ana have incurred the disgust ot everyone in consequence.

A jacket for an older boy, in soft woolen, is paletot-shaped, square pockets at the side: the sides, longer than the back, are shaped like square tabs, and are held together at the back by a large flat bow of ribbon without finds. The jacket is open in iront, fastened with one button at the throat; sailor collar. The dress worn under this is generally of the same material with Hat plaits, and has a Louis XV. ■ ,vest - ~ . . A Cleveland lady objects to Use new silver quarters, for the reason that the Goddess of Liberty wears the same old clothes she had on when the war caused her temporary retirement from society some years ago. Miss Liberty should bj all means keep up with the fashion. Thjiee-fouhths of all the plaster sold and used north and west of the Ohio Hirer, comes from the gypsum beds at Grand Rapids, Mich. It is claimed to Le the purest and best which has yet been worked in the United States. A Boero> paper, noUcing the pride of young men entering,business life, says too many of them wish to retail high-toned strawberries instead of peddling plain codfish. . . ' - —.... They say an average Philadelphia man has §0 much quiet and deep-seated conceit about him nowadays that travelers frequently mistake him for a Chicsgoao.-y GMe. j.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

At Indianapolis the other afternoon three young men, named Adolphus Hines, William Krei'gcr and Charles Harper, went boatfug on the canal. While on the broad cut the i>oat was tipped over, unit gl| of them were thrown into the water, i Hlnqsl beinfj able to swim, succeeded in rehchlngj the shore, but the others were drowned. ■ A mam uatned Donnhuc entered a Shelby- i villa saloon on the afternoon of the 80th | ult, and culled for liquor. Upon the refusal : of the proprietor to .drink with hltn, pons- ' hue raised a tumbler to strike him, whereupon tiie keeper grasped a mineral bottle I mid heat Donahue over tiie head, causing I futul injuries. The foTBTWIug questions from the Auditor of Imwrenee Comity have been slung at the devoted head of Eb. Henderson, Auditor of ! State, ‘‘When a township votes an appro- I priatlon for the building of a railroad ! through sold township, is a widow exempt from taxation to the umount ot SSOO from said railroad assessment* Is a widow or ; unmarried female entitled to ssooexemption 1 provided she is worth over $1,0007 Is. railroad subscrlpudh Tmna-ffde indebtedness, aud should It be exemptfrom To tiie first question lie answers “yes;” to the others “no.” On the morning of the 26th, in Harrison County, S,T. Babcock was taken from his house, tied to a tree, and brutally whipped witli hickory gads. His father, hearing his cries, came to tiie place and identified several of the, villains, two of whom were arrested andbrought to Corydon to undergo preliminary examination. .At Vincennes, on the 29th ult., Mr. V.' Bom b’s son, aged thirteen, was struck with u brick by a lad named Tare, aged eleven, witli whom he was quarreling, and died la half an hour.

A fight occurred at Indianapolis on the Sfith ult. between the union and/non-union bricklayers at the Insane Asylum building, three miles west of the city, during which Samuel Luke shot and killed a man whose name could not be learned. Luke came to the city and surrendered-himself to the police, claiming to have acted In self-defense. Geo. Fowler, river pilot on the Ohio, living in New Albany, committed suicide, the other morning, by jumping from a steamer into the river. Business troubles were the cause. The Superintendent of Public Instruction has made the following apportionment of the School Fund: The Democracy of tlicFirstCongresskmiil District have nominated Hou. JL fi. Fuller for rc-eieefion to Congress. Several children have been withdrawn from a Terre Haute school because a colored student was set to assist them in their studies

Number Chi'drrn betuiern 6and 21 years ot Ayr, Tata l collect'd and Ready for Apportionment . Amount Apportioned to Each County.

Counties.

Adams 5.515 $5,228 46 $8,768 85 Allen 1f1.386 21.314 2I» 30.823 74 Bartholomew...... 7.505 12.873 WK 11,V32 95 8ent0n..... 3.412 7.054 Hl 5.425 08 Blackford 2.6471 3.242 60 4.208 73 Boone. 8.031] 12.214 75 14.208 24 Brown 3.542 i 22118 23 .5,63172 Carroll 6.3041 8.064 87 10.023 36 Cass t1.43;i 15.512 31 15,00 183 Clark St 12'l It.v.tt'.) 36 14.341 80 Clay ..’ -B.SSS 8.086 33 13.670 82 Clinton 7.404. B.Vol 64 11.772 36 Crawford 4.072 11.7(17 54 6.474 48 Daviess 7.6811 a 7,786 58 12.212 711 Dearborn 9.' 95' 15.415 05 Decatur; 6.025 10.882 15 11.010 75 Dekalb 6.941 9.206 01 11.040 96 Delaware 7-451 11.607 641 ;11.M7 00 Dubois 5,834 5.94-1.80 9.276 06 Elkhart 11.327 18.097 40 IS.OOO 92 Fayette. 8.(565 9.533 50 5.827 35 F10vd..... D.ltki 8.542 04 11.573 94 Fountain 6.595 7.823 50 .10.486 05 - Frankbn-. •• ■•-%• s-..- - 7.A9-2- lO>!<> 99 11.-753-28 Fulton 5.00'.1 5.1'30 42 7.96-131 Gi1)50ii...j,... ..L-LTil. 1111825 Off 112.312:96. Grant..— S 7.57 J 10.292 89; 12.037 89 Greene..-. 8.218 13.066 62 Hamilton 8.260 10.816 84 .13.133 40 Hancock 5.6'1' 8.906 44' S.'.kl3-UI Harrison 8.017 6.168 72 12.747 03 Hcnd.icks 7.526 11.622 KI. .11.966 34 Hcurv 7.9.12 12.192 31; 12.707 28 Howard 6.181 8,148 22 11.099 Huntinuton 7.429 7.130 08j 11.812 11 Jackson 7.125 9.589 13 11.805 75 Jaspr 3.19 T 4.656 16 5.553 87 Jay 6.:II2 ! 7.287 00; 10,083 78 Jefferson-...j 10.794; 8.524 41 17,162 46 Jennings 5.968 5,(172 Isi 9.459 12 Johnson 6.385 ft. 931 58 10.152 15 Knm; 9.521 10.405 21 15,138 89 K05ciu5k0......... 9,114 10,376 24 .14.491 26 La Grange. 5.041 8,446 41 8.015 19 Lake 5J133, 10.2.51 84 8.002 47 La Poite 10.023 15.3 952 16.890 57 Lawrence 6,4001 8.-137 12 10.1’6 IK) Madison 9.122' 12.774.57 14.503 98 Marion 29.648' 92.096 86 47,140 32 Marshall 8,3241 9.316 00 13.235 16 Martin 4,661 3.315 20 7.410 99 Miami 8.451 10,218 86 113.437 09 M0nr0e............ 5.'45 7.460 42 8,816 55 Montgomery 9.242 j 15.684 66 14.694 78 Morgan 6.6161 8.819 -Al 10.519 41 Newton. 2.814 4,735 23 4.474 26 N0b1e.... 7,516 10.-.25 90 11.950 44 0hi0....... 1.904 2.456 43 3.027 36 Orange 5,048 4.510 171 8,026 32 Owen..'.,. 6.015 7.363 37 9.5'3 85 Parke 6,991 11.340 66 11,115 69 Perry 6.647 3.350 13 J 0.568 73 Pike.™™.™, 5.830 . 5.712J179,36tL7(l Porter 6.154! 8.591 17 9.184 86 Posev B.2Bii| ItUSW 4fi 13.174 74 Pulaski 3.581 3.117 27 5.693 79 Pili num 7.105 14,8.0 1 4 12,250 95 Randolph 8.8811 13.9 852 14.1’0 79 Ripley 7.8951 7,346 22' 12.'.53 0;> Hush 6 2>3| 14..28 12. , 9.926 37 Scott 3.005 1.876 83V 4.77 795 Shelby 8,399' 14.175 36|' 13,354 41 Spencer 9,326 8.0.0 84i H 1.828 34 Starke 1.816 1.597 7o! 2.887 44 Steuben 4.89'1 6.558 12 7.18.'82 St. Joseph 9.680 14,764 06 15.391 20 501teWi........... —7,725 -7.975 21 52.282 75 "Switzerland. 4,647 4,463.44 7,888 73 Tippecanoe 13.642 21,353 87: 21.6' 078 Tip.0n......;. i... 5.375 4.537 941 8.546 25 Uni0n....... ■. 2.410 6.049 09 .3.831 90 Vamlerburg 16,713 23.312 53 36.700 87 Vermillion 8.8881 6.634 98 6.181 92 Vigo 13.58 V 23.070 92 21.5 3 12 Wabash 8.9391 11.381 54 14.213 01 Warrick 7.6111 6.994 58 12.101 49 Washington. 6,835| 8.273 10 1".861 65 Wayne. 12.578 26.631 99 19280 12 Weils 5.963 7.1 M 95 9.481 11 White 4,386 6,987 09 6.973 74 Whitley 5,739 7,495 36' f1,12i 01 Noriua'l School. .. ....'.| 7,50 00 Totals 679.230 $930.496 01 $1,087,574 70

;.Thb latest reports from Cincinnati give file following as the current prices for toadling staples: Flour, [email protected]; Wheat, Corn, 47@49e; Oats, iUc; Barley, 9S®99c; Rye, 72@73c, Pork, Lard—Steam, 10%@lfc; Kettle, 11%@12c; Hogs—ss.so®6.oo.

CENTENNIAL ITEMS.

—Whoever undertakes to “do” the Exhibition in one day will simply find that he Iras left everything undone. —The Centennial Commission have resolved to extend the time for the reception of exhibits for the historical department until June 20. —Forty tents have been put up intended for the accommodation of the officers of the United States army and employes assigned toi duty on the Centennial grounds. —The Philadelphia custom of closing shutters at nightfall is assailed by Forney’s Frew, in behalf of visitors from the brilliantly-illuminated capitals of continental Europe. —The Mississippi logcabin is now open for exhibition at the Centennial show. Every foot of timber used in its enaction was shipped from the State of Mississippi, and workmen sent to put it up. —Turkey appears to be in 4 comatose Condition. The boxes and packages which have been in the building for a number of weeks are Btill unopened, and much anxiety Is entertained to know the nature of their contents, —’Victoria and South Australia, in the British scciiim/ are making excellent

progress, ami especially in the apace allotted to the first-mentioned. South Australia has uncovered several large cases of beautiful birds, but what the other Lig packages contain remains to be seen. —At die Japan Department, the other day, a young lady examining a quaintly wrought vase, asked the Japanese youth in attendance: “ What is that vase made tor! 1 ” The polite little fellow replied: | “ Madam*, that was made expressly to secure the admiration of the American ladies.”— Philadelphia Timet. —A Bucks County farmer drove into I Phiiadelpiaon the “opening day” with a load of garden sass, and casually ini quired what all the noise and excitement I was about. They told him the Centennial was going to be opened. “Sen-tenny-ul 1" ■said he. “Sen-tenny-ul? What’n thun--1 der’s that?" They hung him forthwith I to the nearest lamp-post. I —The Philadelphians have joined in ! the demand for lower railroad fares. Heretofore it has not occurred to them tiiat they were interested in the question, but a week’s experience with the Exhibii lion has taught them among other things i that visitors would have more money to leave with the local extortioners if the i fares were not so high.— Detroit Tree Preet. —Jennie June writes with some feeling to the Baltimore Ameruwnof the Woman’s i Department of the Centennial show. She ! says: “As a representative exhibition of j ‘woman’s work,’ it is absurd; their books 1 are in * Booksellers’ Row,’ in the Main ; Building; their pictures and statuary, with a very few exceptions, in Memorial Hall; their industrial work is exhibited in the working of garments in the showcases of male proprietors of great cloth-ing-houses.” —The hydraulic apparatus in Machini cry Hall is far more extensive in quan- | tity than, and superior in quality to, the I similar exhibit at Vienna. It is in a sort j of annex just off from the great hall, and has in its center a large pond, where powerful engines are constantly drawing water out and throwing it in again. Some of them work with immense force, and show what they could do in a real matter ■of business. Pumps seem to be one of our strong points, and our exhibit in this line beats all that has ever been done before in any part of the world. —The arrangements for tl»e live stock ■display are now perfected. The grounds appropriated are within 2,000 feet of the main entrance, and comprise thirty-five acres. All the necessary stalls and sheds

have been erected and preparations made for the classification of stock of all kinds. Morever, liberal prizes, running up into the thousands, are offered for the best displays, which will or ought to attract the farming and .stock raising community from all parts of the country. To many this will be tlie most attractive and interesting feature of tlie Great Exposition. —The Presidency of Bombay has contributed generously to the Exhibition. Several old English firms, having houses in London and Bombay, have taken the pains to collect some of the best specimens of native workmanship in wood and precious metals, and they may now be seen in the Indian section of the Main Building. The black-wood carvings, and filagree-work in silver and gold, show an astonishing degree of skill'. If the carpenters and jewelers of Poonah, Ahmednuggar, Surat and Cliundore,. were in America, they would make a better living. —Doubtless the Centennial will be the excuse for a great many convivial parties this year from all the cities of the Union —at least, from most of them. The Philadelphians will be glad to see them, no doubt, and the Centennial Commissioners will not object to the numerous halfdollars that such travelers will leave at the gates. For several days in June special cars have Been engaged by parties in New York, Baltimore and Washington; and when the Exhibition gets fairly opened, the contagion will spread. The railways_are- preparing for excursions, and the question of a reduced fare will pre oably be settled on the basis of excur-sicn-trains running through to the Centennial grounds, with tickets good only for a specified train.—Cur. Chicago Tribune.

Street Scenes In Papeete, Tahiti.

There are no such things as pavements, sidewalks or gutters, and everybody travels in the middle of the narrow streets. You pass along and step aside, now to avoid running into a crowd of Kanakas holding a confabulation, now to avoid stepping on an old native woman who is sqiiatting in the street, intent upon drying some tobacco with a match preparatory to having a smoke. Further on, at a corner, is a orowd of men and women hovering around the stump of a cigarette, which is successively smoked and tossed around on the ground for the next one to take up and have a whiff at. On one side the street a Chinaman, with nothing on but a pair of big-legged breeches, leans against .a door-post gazing into vacancy, poudering'On the wise sayings of Confucius or planning a five-cent swindle; on the other aide awlusky. maiden sits on a rock playing a fragmentary noise on a cracked accordeon. Next door is a Chinese barber shop; the customer, on the front porch, sits bolt upright on a stool, with nothing to support him but his thin back, .while the .lank-jawed artist plies the torture. On the other end of the porch there are two or three native women lounging, for John is popular with the native belles, not because he is handsome —Tahiti belles look deqper than that—but because he makes an exemplary husband.; for not only does he do his own and their .cooking, but he washes for them too, and leaves them to eat, sleep and smoke in undisturbed indolence. The next is a group of half-naked boys tossing pennies at a cork set up with one or more coppers on it. This is a favorite amusement not-onlv with the boys but with the mustached ifanakas. In the Quai de Commerce the scene is somewhat more business-like. Vessels are discharging and loading, and natives with handcarts are rushing here and there with freight. Drays, trucks, express wagons, etc., are unknown. On the verandas of the business bouses native seamstresses, seated on mats on the floor, are busy making calico shirts, dresses of thin stuffs, etc. Beneath a spreading buran a crowd of natives are having a dinner of feiis and bread-fruit. On the f ront veranda of a warehouse, or perhaps of a dwelling, a Kanaka gentleman, play ing a jews-harp, lies on his back, covered with a blanket, while his. juiveu is being washed. — Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. I The Coroner, in summing up a recent case, pointed out to the Jury that there was no evidence whatever that the deceased had come to her death by foul play, and therefore there wasnothing for them to do but to return a verdict of “ Death by the visitation of pod. ’ The jury, however, thought jt d|giiified to retire tor consideration. They dared not, of course, give a verdict right in the teetli of the Coroner’s summing-up, and so, after a long consideration, this is how they satisfied their own consciences and the demands of justice: “We find that the deceased died by the visitatio® of God, but under the most suspicious circumstances.”

Chocolate Pcdding.—One quart of milk; three tablespoons of grated chocolate; two of corn-starch 1 ; sugar and salt to taste; sweeten the milk, and let it come to a boil, then stir in the chocolate and corn-starch, mixed with -a little water; boil about five minutes. Make a sauce of cream and sugar and vanilla, or sugar and butter, stirred to a cream, with lemon or vanilla.— Cos. Chicago Tribune.

Where Is the English Arctic Exploration Party?

When the two vessels wire last seen, open water lay before them, and they were bearing straight up 'northward for Prudhoe Land and Cape Isabella. The season was in all respects eminently favorable, and there was every reason for hoping that a very high latitude tyould be reached. Unfortunately, as the recent voyage of the Pandora abundantly demonstrates, there is nothing more treacherous than Arctic seas and Arctic skies. In the morning there may be a fresh rolling sea, without a glint or ice, and a watery sky stretching round the whole circle of the horizon. By the afternoon the wind will spring up, great lioes will drift steadily in, and before night closes the vessel will be hopelessly beset. It is consequently possible that the Alert may have been stopped at Cape Barrow, in latitude eighty degrees, or even* as far south as Cape Isabella and Cadogan inlet. On the other hand, when we remember how Hall, in the little Polaris, a mere river steamer of s*iall power and ill adapted for ice navigation, with a company, all told, of thirty men, women and children, including eight Esquimaux, steamed up Smith Soupd and Kennedy Channel in one working season, a distance of 250 miles, we cannot but

venture to hope that Capt. Nares may have been able to push the Alert through the hitherto unexplored Waters of Lincoln Sea up to the shadowy nnd far-off President’s Land, or even, it may be, to the eighty-fifth parallel. The Polaris, without the slightest let or impediment, reached as high a latitude as eighty-two degrees sixteen minutes north, and at this point saw northward of her a navigable sea with a water sky. She was a mere wooden gunboat of 387 tons, and had been in no way strengthened or specially fitted out for her work; while the Alert was originally a powerful vessel of 1,045 tons, and has been overhauled and fortified for her encounters with the ice, and furnished with new and powerful engines and boilers. We know from Mr. Lamont’s experience how a steamer, if her bows are properly ironed for the work, can charge and crush her way through tlie ice which would hopelessly stop the progress of another vessel, and there is consequently some reason for believing that the sledging party, which must now be well on its way, has possibly not got more than four, or at the outside five, degrees to cover before it reaches that extreme apex of the earth which is, to use Mr. Markham’s words, “ a spot where the sun’s altitude is equal to its declination, and where bearings have to be taken by reference to tithe and not tp the magnet,” but which yet is tlie Ultima Thule of all arctic discovery and the express goal of the present expedition. Remembering the achievements of Parry in 1827, when he left his vessel on the Spitzbergen coast and made his way over the great polar pack as firr as eighty-two forty-five minutes north, we can see no cause to despair of the success of the sledging parties which at this moment should be pressing northward. Parry, it may be recollected, found that the vast sea of ice over which he was traveling drifted to the south faster than his sledges were able to move toward the north. He traveled, as far as actual distance went, 172 miles from his vessel, but near the end of his journey he perceived that be was losing more by the southerly movement than he was gaining by the day’s work. To this difficulty the present sledge company are not likely to be exposed. In all probability the ice between Lincoln sea and the pole is no portion of the polar pack, and its southward drift, even if perceptible, will not prove a serious hindrance.— Loudon Daily Telegraph.

A Warning to Bathers.

It has long been known that it is injudicious for any one to go into water to -bathe-just after eating a full meal', but-it is not so well known that the practice may result in death'. This latter fact seems to have been demonstrated by the recent death in a bath in Bristol, England, of a boy thirteen years old. He had never had a fit and was believed to have been in perfect health. When found in the water the crown of his head was just above the surface, and he was standing in a stooping position, with his face just under the water. At the place where he was the water was only three feet four inches deep, while tlie boy’s height was four feet nine inches. The temperature of the water was seventy-nine degrees. The medical testimony disclosed the fact that the deceased had eaten heartily just before entering the water, or at least he had not given his food time to digest. He had vomited a large quantity of food, and when found his mouth aud throat were full. The opinion was expressed in the medical testifiiony, and indorsed by the verdict of the jury, that death resulted from epilepsy, brought on by the dangerous practice of entering the water immediately aftereating a meal.

Does It Pay?

The Rhode Island and New York papers notice the recent death of a clergyman of Westerly, R. 1., caused by his taking an overdose of chloral. The story of his life is a short one. At eight years of age he was received into the church as “ knowing more of the Bible then than many grown-up people.” At twenty-one he had graduated from college with honors, married, and, after teaching and studying a few years, settled as pastor. In college he overworked, and without rest or vacation labored through the next decade, and at the early age of thirty-eight died. For the last five years he found rest and sleep only by the use of chloral. He was talented, esteemed by all, loved by his own church —but on arriving at the very doors of usefulness in life, he found them shut. This is only one case of the many all around us. The case suggests the ouestion—does it pay to live so fast and do all of life’s work in a half of the three score and ten years allotted man ? Will scholars ever learn that a conscientious cessation from labor and taking necessary rest is as manly as conscientious and earnest labor? Do parishioners know what they are asking oftheir pastors when they call tor so many scholarly sermons and brilliant addresses? It hot unfrequently costs the lite of the man whom they most esteem. Will we ever learn that time is as valuable as any other force, and that he lives longest and best who lives by practical methods and never experiments with the fixed and known sources of life.— l oledo Blade.

Curious Growth of a Tree.

NearlNo. 53 Blandina street, in this city, stands a tree which has excited the wonder of all the dwellers in that vicinity. It is a maple, standing perhaps, fifteen feet from other maples on either side. For three years it has been completely girdled for a space of about three feet from the ground. During that time it has lived and flourished, producing foliage which has attracted the attention of ali observers for its peculiar brilliancy and deep green tint. The bark of the girdled portion was removed by natural decay, and above that portion it is perfectly sound. A natural aperture extends from the girdle upward about six feet, laying bare the somewhat decayed pith of the tree. And here is visible that which arouses the wonder and the theories of observers. A vine of some variety, it resembles an ivy vine,seems to have grown up the hollow heart of the tree. It appears plainly visible in the crevice. And thus the strange lift: and abnormal green ness are explained. It is thought that the

maple and the vine in its interior have combined, that the vine tears the sap past the area denuded of its bark, and that tlie extreme greenness of the verdure is due to the mingling of the life of the ivy. The vine or shoot does not seem to have grown above the aperture, and there is a possi bility that it is a maple shoot. Whatever the truth mav be, the tree has lived under a combination of circumstances which would have killed an ordinary tree, and it provides an opportunity for experiments by the student of saps* flow iu trees.— Utica (N. Y.) Herald: 7 ■■ -

A Spelling Machine.

“ Spelling jjees” are now raging violently in England; and they continue to buzz at intervals here and there in out own country. And this reminds us of the man who while visiting Lake Mephagagatunkoobogsquitakloonatick, a summer resort in Maine, conceived the brilliant idea of inventing a machine that would spell the longest name of any lake in that State without creaking. He meant well, buthe failed—miserably failed. When his machine was finished a large crowd congregated to witness its performance. At first the inventor tried it on the name of a small lake—or rather, ou the small name of a lake—Lake Huggmooskwobbyskit. He commenced to turn the handle—very slowly at first. Presently there was such a groaning, snapping and inward rumbling that the spectators thought his spelling machine was going to fly to bits every minute. It spelled the lake correctly, however, and the inventor’s face was wreathed with smiles and perspiration. He nexttried Lake Woonsockitywissickquoti probubcricksn ixpock i t. The spectators gathered closer, and watched intently. The man again took hold of the crank and ventured a turn. With great difficulty he moved it about an inch, and the insides creaked frightfully. Then he pulled off his coat, rolled up his shirt Sleeves. spat on his hands, and essayed another turn. His brows contracted, his teeth gritted, and—whiz-z-z! bang! bang! whil! klop! bank! The air was filled with cog-wheels, mahogany splinters, dial plates, fragments of tlie alphabet, screws, and so forth. And that spelling-machine was no more forever. Tw’o persons were killed on the' spot, and several wounded on the same place. And you never saw such a demoralized man as that inventor was about that time. He sadly remarked that he didn’t think it was a healthy climate for spellingmachines, and he left the Lake Mephagagatunkoobogsquitokloonatick House without saying good-by to anyone.—Norrietoicn Herald.

An Excruciating Death by Suicide.

A young man named Elias Wilson, who resided with his widowed mother on Campbell, between Fourth aud Fifth streets, brought himself to tlie most excruciating death night before last that can possibly be imagined. The young man has been demented for some time past, but even under the influence of his mania, which would be worse at times, and then again almost disappear, he was usually tractable, ana apparently harmless to himself and others. On Tuesday, however, he threatened the life of his mother, but as night came on his passions became pacified, and he retired to bed as usual. About midnight his mother, who slept in an adjoining room, heard him moving about in his room; and although the circumstance caused her considerable uneasiness of mind, she thought it best to remain quiet’herself, hoping that her son would soon retire to his lied. But this -was farthest from his thoughts. He was then making tlie awful preparations for his self-destruction. Tlie sequel showed that he rose from his bed, dressed himself, and then saturated his clothing, hair and entire person with kerosene oil. Having done this, he lighted a match and ignited his saturated clothing. Instantly -htrbecanre a pillar of flame. His mother hearing him strike the match, arose also, fearing that in a crazy mood he might set fire to the house. Her terror was indescribable when she beheld her son rush out of his room enveloped in a column of seething fire, and she fled from him, believing that he intended to carry out his threat against her life of the previous day, and end the existence of them together. It took but a moment, however, for the tortures of the flames to exhaust him, as in his wild delirium he ran around the. house, and he fell to the ground, a blackened, Charred mass-nf lifeless, broiling flesh.- Wilmington, (N. Ci) Journal.

A paper was read bffore the Illinois State Homeopathic Association at its recent annual session in Chicago, from which the following is extracted: No wound was more dreaded than the bite of a rabid dog, and every, year one or more persons in every large city die from simple fear. If it is claimed that the dog was not rabid, but only mad, at the time of biting, and that the saliva progresses to rabidity in process of time, why are not dogs and hogs bitten by a merely mad dog subject to hydrophobia? If a man is of strong mind, the chances of his dying from the bite of a dog actually rabid are infinitely less than in the case of one who gives himself up to gloomy forebodings. If a cheerful, buoyantperson is injured, after the first shock is over, he rapidly rallies, and is likely to recover. Physicians should rely more implicitly upon keeping the mind.in a cheerful condition than upon drugs. Several instances were given in illustration. The most successful physicians are those possessing the faculty of keeping their patients in good spirits, even though their prescriptions may be faulty. Homeopathy has won many laurels by reason of the small amount of medicine given, when the real credit was due to other causes. Oneto recover from disease or injury, needs the full exercise of his mind, and hence the patient should not be siupefied by opiates or made drunk on alcohol.

“ Before the Queen of Kuglnnd left German territory,” says the Constitution-, net of Paris, “ the Emperor William had a conversation with her Majesty, the political results of which will soon be made known. The question of the succession of Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg was discussed by the two sovereigns. According to usage, the throne will be occupied by one ofthe heirs of Prince Albert. The Prince of Wales would have succeeded to it if provision had not been made that no German principality should fall under the authority of a foreign sovereign. The Suke of Edinburgh therefore will ascend e throne at the death of his uncle. Meantime, the Psi nee, who has the rank ot Captain in the British navy, has been impointed an officer in the German army. There is no truth therefore in the rumor of the cession of the duchy of baxeCoburg to Prussia for a consideration.” A single field in Grimes County, Texas, contains 13,000 acres all under one fence, without a cross-fence in it; 10,000 acres are ini Cultivation. Nearly the entire field belongs to one man, who rents it out to tenants at two dollars per acre. Cement for Steam Pipes.—Cheap and steam-tight cement can be produced by a mixture of rye flour and linseed oil, with an equal portion of white chalk. A congress of leather and shoe dealers,, hide dealers and workers in leather from alb parts of the world is to meet in delpbia July 11. Over $20,000,000,000 would express the value of precious metals till now drawn from the earth. ,-Y