Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1880 — Page 1

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NEWS SUMMARY.

The Uak» League club of NewYosk gave * very elegant reception last uigbt to (General Grant- / - Royal Carr, for the murder of a haltbread ladiaa at Worcester, Vt, baa been • sentenced to be hanged oa the last Friday ia April next. r kn. Lydia Maria Child* the well knows authoress, died October Mth, at Wayiaad, Massachusetts, aged aeventyeight year*. The elevator of the Soft'A Woodman’s linarictl oil work*, at Omaha, burned Octo ber 28. 'Loss, $35 000; nearly covered by insurance. luceodiary. Yesterday was the last day of registration in New Yoafc. T e total number registered ia 216 J 74. The total number registered 1876 was 188,064. The amount of gold withdrawn from the bank of Sag land yesterday waa Itr 000 pounds. It went to Egypt to pay for the cotton crop, which i» Urge. The indictment against the land league in Ireland will include two hundr* d speeches ami drafted testimony of 890 witnesses and various newspaper arts, else i 3 The secretary of the treasury yesterday instructed the assistant United States tree, surer at New York to purchase 88,900.000 in United Bute# bonds for the sinking fund. The country residence of Charles J. Backer, president of the Franklin Na tional bank, of Baltimore, wae burned October 90. Lota, 880,000; insurance, SIB,OOO. The servants of King Barman, ex-mem ber of parliament-for Sligo, and nt other landlords in Ireland,"have received notice not to pay lull rents, under penalty being shot" The woolen mil's of the Anchor works and other manufactories, .at Camden, Maine, have shut down for want of water The Megauticook river waa never so low as at present * The Democratic wing of the wotkiogmrn of San Francisco, have withdrew Senator Enoa.their candidate for congress, and endorsed General Rosencrans, the Democratic candidate. Orr. Leonard A Daniel’s large oil mill at Piqua. Ohio; waa burned October 20, with in* a. Joining warehouse. Both w*>re full of flailed a«id*»fl. Lo-b from $l5O/ 000 to $900,000; insured. While Mr. Bridget and bi* wife of BanfanwTo, i'al., were attending a political meeting at that pUoc tbeir house caught fire a»«.t their four Vhildren, the eldest, aged 11, were burned death. <, Geo. Messer, while firing a saluta on the arrival of GwerDur- Porter, at Madison, Ind., bad both his arm* blown off and h'S eyes blown out by the premature discharge of the cannon. He will probably die. •

A large livery stable on Fourth street, Quincy, 111, burned together with a large number of hacks and carriages and fortytwo hones, including the stallion, Amboy, owned by Wash Corbin and valued at SIO,OOO. United State* Marshal Tonie Neis, while in search of a gang of road agente in New Mexico, was fired oa by five of t‘i ?m without being hit. He returned the fire with & Winchester rifle, killing one. The reat fled. IS la said that the Russian finance minister has decided on a complete revise of the tariff. Higher protective duties will be levied on imported tallow, grain and caaj- The duties on cotton goo Jt will be completely revised. The five story brick" building on Canal, near Thompson, occupied by Alexander McConnell, morocco manufacturers, and John J. McConnell, manufacturer of cotton and woolen yarns, burned. Loss on stock and machinery, $50,000. Insured. Justice Cross, of the coart of the queen's bench, has ordered the liberation of Ziuck, alias Brooks, the alleged Colum bus, Ohio, forger, on the ground of insufficiency of evidence to warrant extradition, aad defects in the warrant of commitment

Dudley Porter, of Tennessee, charged with accidentally shooting Mr. Doty, and under bail to await the action of the grand jury, has been again arrested at Poughkeepsie, New York, far another asunit on Wm. Ostrom, and pnt under additional bonds. Propellers arriving at Detroit report the storm last Saturday on Lake Superior as ot unprecedented fury. The Arisons, ot the Lake Superior transit company’s line, experienced great difficulty in making Duluth harbor, the wares running thirty and forty teet high. The national board ot health has submitted its annual report uS the secretary of the treasury for transmission to congress The expenses of the board to September 80 were $825,830, of which $210,177 were expended by the board, and $116,971 by the southern states. During a dense fog, one section of an east bound freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort, Wapne & Chicago, ran into another sect too, near Alliance, Ohio. William Seifert, a brakeman; was crushed to death, and engineer James Schiltz. and conductor Mathew Jaquee painfully injured.

The amount paid for conveying United States mails by sea during the fiscal year, ending Jurif 80, last, was $196,684, of which $153,906 was paid for the trans-at--1 antic mail service, all to foreign steamship companies, except $1,964, earned in •ea postage by ftie American line from Philadelphia . " Colonel William P. Adair, assistant chief of the Cherokee Nation, died in Washington, October 23, of typhoid pneumonia, aged fifty-two. He commanded a brigade of Indians ip the confederate army, and since the close of the war has been the principal representative of Cherokee interests in Washington. The following is the basis for the proliminaries of peace in the South American war: “t&ili, Peru and Bolivia will each elect three commissioners to discuss the conditions of peace to meet on the Peruvian territory occupied by the Chilian army, the United States minister taking part in the conference aa a inend ly mediator. London dispatch: Steps are being taken to form aa influential committee of liberals to strengthen the hands of the government in dealing with, the disorder in Ireland, and to urge the 1 necessity for immediate measures for the protection ot life and property. Sergeant Heron has already been engaged by the crown aa one of the counsel for tile protection of the land league. ▲ sensation was caused 6y Duke DeCharties at a military dinner at Evrenx, France, proposing a toast to France and the government and to the president of the republic. The Legitimists consider this an indirect acceptance Dy him of the republic. The duke, in his speech, said: “In America, where he passed part of his youth, it was customary to give such loyal toasts before all others.” The failure of Merwin, Huribut A Co_, dealers in arms and ammunition. 82 Chambers street and 65 Beads street, New York, is announced. They made an assignment *«> Andrew Van Ivndren. The firm wan one of the largest in that line in the cltv, and waa estimated to be worth $200,000 to $900,000. The liabilities are eottmated at $190,000 to $260,000 It is sakl the stock is valued at SIOO,OOO.

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TELEGRAPHIC.

Chic ABO October 90.—Dispatches to the Goodrich line state that ooe mors body waa washed ashore near Holland, Mich., but before it could be secured an undertow canted it out iato the lake The wreckage has been fully identified by agents of the company aa that of the Alpena, and aot a particle of hope is now entertained by officers here that any person escaped. Inquiry has been made here for the schooner American, whteh was on the east shore during the storm, and Irani which no intelligence has been received Holaxd, Mbs, October 90— Trains arriving today have brought a large nam ber of persons in searen of Wends and re lativea lost on the steamer Alpena. Large pieces of cabin came in this afternoon just north of the harbor. The wreck te being broken up and carried away by relic hunters. CSpt Buntline, of die Goodrich line, will extend the patrol line south to Bangatnck and north to Grand Haven, so that should any bodies come ashore the news will be received here as soon aa a messenger can reach here by-wain. - '■* Columbus, O-, October 90. —The Ohio Mason c grand lodge spent moat of the day listening to a committee report on matters pertaining to the order and of considering the proposed amendments to the Masonic codes. The report of the ways and mtans committee showed the finances ot the lodga in good shape. Bal ance on hand at the cloeo of last session waa $9 928; receipts for the year, $12,609: total $14,835. The committtee appointed to seteet a place for the meeting of the grand lodge next year recommended Toledo, on the third Tuesday of October. The report waa adopted. Txuuc Hautr, October 20. — A- horrible accident occurred in this city this afternoon. A battery of three boilers in the distillery of Cox A Fairbanks, the largest establishment of the kind in the United States, exploded with a report and concussion that was beard and felt for miles. Six men were instantly killed and twice aa many seriously Injured. The cause of the accident has not yet been ascertained, bat the coroner’s inquest will be a searching investigation. There is great excitement here over the affair. N*w Yosm, October 20.—The differences between the Wabash and Chicago, Burlington A Quincy railroad companies in regard to the extension of the tormer company’s line to Nebraska, were settled conditionally at a meeting to-day. A truce in the southwestern passenger rates was agiecd to. . New York, Octobef 20. — A convention of fire underwriters, representing companies from all parts of the Union, with delegates from English and American cornpanic*, assembled to-day in the rooms of the National board, Lowden Bnowden, chairman. Snowden, on taking the chair, briefly stated the object of the convention, referring especially to the nnfavora ble legislation with which insurance interests had to contend. The secretary read s list of sixty companies unable to send delegates bat expressing sympathy with the objects of the convention. Mr. Hope, of the Continental, suggested that this body be organised into a perma neat one, ana that a committee on organisation should report suitable by-laws and constitution for its governm at the session to-morrow.

J. W. Tate, of Richmond, made some remarks as to the expediency of the eon vention devoting leas of its time to legis lative measures and more to other subjects as equally Important to insurance interests, jLocmvTuat, October 10. —The grand lodge ot masons, In session here, wss startled to-night by the report ot a committee appointed to examiae the books of A. G. Hodges, grand treasurer, showing that Hodges is a defaulter to the amount ot $7,000. Raleigh, N. C.— A freight train r#D into an excursion train to-day, coming to the Atate fair. The engine and care were wrecked. Three men were killed and fourteen wounded, three seriously. They were mostly on the plstfonh. Mohtfklikr, Vt-, Oct, 20.—The Legis!ature today formally declared George F. Edmunds elected United States senator.

Holland, Mich., Oct. 21.—Late last night a trunk came ashore near Grand Haven containing papers. Jewelry, clothing, and an insurance policy in the name of B. F. Sweet, Braid wood, lU. Wind from the north this morning and light. A large number of persons have gone out searching the shore between Sangatuck and Grand Haven. The body of a boy was found pear Port Sheldon yesterday and identified as the oldest boy of John Osborne. A tug, supposed to be the government tug Graham, came down fiom Grand Haven about 11 this morning. When about eight miles out from our harbor she was signalled by a passing barge and stopped and as far as '•onld be ascertained by the aid of a glass, lowered her jo&t and picked np something, and then turned and went back toward Grand Haven. The barge went on south. Professor Scott, of Hope College, has just shown the Associated Preßs correspondent a leal from a diary or pass-book, found attached to the moulding of a cabin by a small nail. It is badly ch&ied and water soaked, but by the aid of a glass I can make oat the following: The steamer is breaking np fast. lam aboard from Grand Haven to Chicago. Geo. Conner.- The last two letters of the name are,very faint and it may be Connell.

Holxahd, Mich., October 21.—Manager Hall, of Grand Haven, states that a tug has arrived with the bodies of Fred Spaeth, of Grand Rapids; Montgomery Cross man, of Grand Haven, and a lady supposed to be Mrs. Rev. Furrell Hart, of White Pigeon. - " ' Chicago, October 21.— Special dispatches from Holland, comment on the character of the wreckage of the Alpena which came ashore there. It is stated there are, in some cases, absolutely rotten timbers, so that it is considered remarkable liiat she had not gone to pieces sooner. People who saw the condition of the timber that floated m, were highly indignant. It is fair to say that it is claimed to behalf of the Goodrich company, that many of the pieces of wood which came ashore were not pans ot the Alpena wreck. Mr. Bquier, whoee son was lost on the vessel, uas been on the shore ever since the new arrived ot her loss, and expressed the belief that the Alpena and the David A. Wells may have collided, sink, ing the Wells and disabling the Alpena so that she was unable to cope with the waves. The Weils was sunk off the port Mr. W. C. Rittibooe, of Chicago, whoee name has appeared in the list of those lost on the Alpena, waa not a passenger on the Alpena, having left for Muskegon Friday evening, from Grand Haven, by train. Guard Hatkx, October 21.—The following are supposed by inquiring friends to have been on the Alpena: E. L Mills, of Evert, Mich., who was on his way to Topeka, Kas., waa to have been married today; his oarents live in Marshall, Mich. W. W. Wallace and wife, Milwaukee; Isaac Bush and wife, Rockford, Mich., sister of Mr. Dibble, of Muskegon, Mich. Mr. Croasmon’t watch was stopped at 10:50. It is supposed the steamer foundered about that time Saturday forenoon. The body found near Pine Creek this morning proves, by a letter, to be that ot Fred. Spaeth, ot Grand Rapids. The taa Graham has arrived, bringing the budHa of M. Oroeaman, of Grand Haven, 8. K. Onto, of Evanston, Illinois, sister of Frank Holbrook, of Muskegon,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1800.

H. T. Locke, of New York, lost with the Alpeoh, have been found. The bodies of Maggie McConnell, stewardess, aad Tboa Osborn, aged eight years, were also found. The following is the most accurate Brtthat has been obtained of the peasen gets who were on board; W. Croesman, W. O. fienham and wife, Mil &T.

Curtis, H- V. Bquier, Maggie McConnell, of this city, Mrs. Newton Bradley and two daughters, Lou sod Kate, of Silver City, New Mexico; Fred. Spaetb, G. Hoi I anger, and C. Raster, all ol Grand Rapids; Mrs. G. B. Call, Evanston ; H. F. Locke, agent Hills Bros., New York; Rev. J. Fred Hart and wife, Boblinski; Harry St. Cl hr, John Osborne, wife and four children, Joseph Bemens and three children, Chicago; L. D. Payton, New York; Neal McGUlorey, 8t Joseph, Michigan; Mia. Secandren, Evanston, 111. a sister of Mrs. Dibble, of Muskegon; Isaac Bosh and wife, of Rockford, fll.; W. W. Wallsce and wire, of Milwaukee; C. L. Mills, of Evanston, and J. B. Patterson, of Washington, D. C. A trunk containing letters to D. F. Nocet and J. W. Sweet, Braid wood, 111., indicates that persons bearing these naaea, or oee ot then*; Were on board.

Cincinnati, Oct. 21.—Geo. Gchen, fourteen years old, a pupil m the fourth intermediate school of Cincinnati, shot himself today ip the school house, with a twenty-calibre pistol, the ball entering the left breast aad passing through a lung. He had been reprimanded by the principal, Sands, for truancy. He says the principal called him a ancak, and that was more than he could stand. The wnund ia not fatal unless inflammation should follow. Silas Mahn, ot Nicholasville, Ky., one of the injured in yesterday’s accident on the Cincinnati, Hamilton A Dayton railroad, died this evening. His daughter, Maggie Mahn, is in a critical condition; also Chas. Keehan, of Jackson, Ohio. New York. October 21.—1 n the insurance* convention to-day a series of resolutions were adopted, setting forth that it waa the inevitable effect of all bad legislation respecting insurance to diminish the security of policy holders and materially increase charges fo.* insurance; that the truo interests of insurance companies and their policy holders were strictly identical ; that this convention protests against such legislation, and calls upon all legislators to see to it that tne laws affecting insurance bo well coo3 ; dered before adopted, and asks that no law bo enacted respecting insurance except snch as shall conserve to tho beat interests ot honest policy holders throughout the land. 6t. Paul, October 21.—Fire caused by the upsetting of a lamp broke out about six o’clock to-night. The building used aa a warehouse by the Standard oil com panv, on the river flat, near the 8L Paul building, was entirely destroyed, with a large quantity of oil, empty barrels, etc. The building and tanks were erected at a cost of $15,000; insurance, placed only yesterday, was $19,000. Louisville, October 21.—Maior Thomas L. Butler died in this city to-day, at tho advanced age of 91 years. He w*s a captain in the Fifth regulars, aide-de-camp to General Jackson, was at the capture of Pensacola, and commanded the city of New Orleans during the famous buttle of January, 1815. ' VVashihgton, D. C., October 21. United States Attorney'Johnson, of Colorado, telegraphs here that Agent Berrv. it arrested, is in danger of being lynched unless sufficient escort is famished. The interior department has requested the war department to furnish the necessary military protection in case Agent Berry is arrested.

Sturgeon Bat, Wis., October 21.*—'The mall carrier, who came from North Bay, last evening, reports that masts of vessels are sticking out of the water at that place. No portions ot the wrecks or any. thing leading to.the identification of the vessels had been found. Chicabo, October 21.—Miss Pinneo won the twenty mile race at tho jockey club park this afternoon after an exciting and well contested trial, beating Miss Jewett by a noee. Time 66 minutes and 20 seconds.

N»w York, October 22. —The business committee of the underwriters at the session to-day, submitted a report on profit insurance. They reported un&ni-, mously in favor of insuring on reDts, recognizing it as legitimate insurance, not on profits, but for actual loss, and not dangerous to fire insurance interests. The committee was in favor of condemning the practice ot insuring commissions beyond the amount covering the charges and expenses, and snch property of the commission as would have been paid in the face ot the withdrawal of goods. The committee reported in favor of condemning the practice of profit Insurances on manufacturing works, so subversive of one of the principles of fire underwriting tending to encourage incendiarism. The committee condemned the practice of insuring general profits on general business. The first proposition was discussed at some length and dropped. The second proposition, relating to commissions, was referred to & special committee to bo appointed by the chair. The third proposition was amended to read “that the practice of insuring profits on manufacturing risks should be condemned as unwise and inexpedient,” and in this form was adopted. The fourth proposition relating to the condemnation of the practice ofposfit insurance on general business risks, was adopted. The business committee then reported on Mr. Oakley’s resolution on the subject of state deposits.. The first part or it, protesting against such deposits as are unjust to companies and also to citizens, was adopted. The second part, referring to cases where deposits made with state authorities should appear aa a liability against the assets ot the corporation making them, was after discussion voted, down. The following waa adopted: That it is the sense of this convention that each member of the united fire underwriters as aociation in America shall, in his individual capacity, exert his utmost efforts toward the fonnationof the satisfactory working of local boards throughout the United States. Mr. Heald, of the Home insurance company, offered a resolution suggesting that underwriters in New York be re quested, as a matter of justice to themselves, to become united and form a local board. Adopted. The time and place for holding the next meeting was referred to the advisory committee. Adjourned sine die. Looibvilajs, 0.,»0ct. 22.—John Unka. fer, an old gentleman residing at New Waterford, Columbiana County, Ohio, stepped lrom a passenger train at this station this morning fer a moment, and on returning to his seat in the car, found his satchel gone, which contained one thousand dollars in gold, rnd notes and mortgages amounting to fifteen thousand dollars. • Some lady passengers saw a man who bad been sitting behind the old gentleman take the eatchel and run to the woods. The thief was pursued, but has thus far eluded capture. The satchel was found with the notes and mortgages, but the gold had been abstracted. Five hundred dollars reward is offered for the return of the money. Hr. Louis, October 22—Under telegraphic order from New York, all agents of the Wabash road were notified this evening to restore the old rates. Although

lar rates prevailing everywhere. N*w Yom, OcL 2fi-Tbe Bulletin ■oteu that the terms of agreement between the Wabash aad Chicago, Burlington A Qniccy are that the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy agree not to baud a new road ia the territory of the Wabaah and Union

Pacific, and iheae two make the same stipulations respecting the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy territory. The new line of the Wabaah. which runs parallel with the Chicago, Bariington A Quincv, te to be completed jointly by the two companies and be worked Jointly. Harmony is to be restored in the matter of rates. These are the main points of the settlement of the dispute. New York. OcL 22—The managers of the railroads in the west and aouUi that have been cutting rates so extensively, mat to-day aad agreed on a settlement of the passenger war rates. This settlement saddles on the other railroads seventy-five par cent of the loss to be sustained from the recent large sale of unlimited tickets at le a than one third of the usual price.

Dnmta, October 99.—Governor Pitkin last night sent aa order to tho sheriff of Gunnison county, directing him to take a sufficient force and proceed to the reservation and arrest Agent Berry. In the order the governor says: u lf the Indians attempt to resist the proosaa, they will be swept away.'’ The order continues: “If sufficient force and ammunition cannot be procured in Gunnison, it will be furnished from Denver. The force should be partly or wholly mounted and well supplied with ammunition. In case of Berry’a arrest, you will be expected by people of the state and myself to see that he Is protected against violence.” Memphis, Trmh , October 92.—As an out going freight train on the Charleston railroad this morning at 7 o’clock, approached the fair grounds, four miles distant from the city, it was flanged by an unknown white man, who, as the train checked up, deliberately fired a shot-gun at Back Elliott, the engineer, severely wounding him in the arm. The would-be assassin afterwards coolly walked away. Defter, October 22.—The Tribune’s special, dated Cline’s Ranch,says: Berry, Meacham and Hoyt, willi Deputy Marshal Smith,' attorney Johnson and witness Bradtdaw, left the agency early yesterday morning for Denver. Commissioner ScheDCk anil three witnesses are here enrouto for Denver. Philadelphia, October 22.—Dr. Martin Y. Chapman, brother-in-law ot the notorious Dr. Buchanan, who tsenped from the train which brought them to tbte city six weeks ago, was arrested to-night. He is charged by the United States authorities with peijury, in swearing that Dt. Buchanan had committed suicide.

Saw Francisco, October 22.— President Ilayes and party arrived on the Madiera to day from a trip to the Yosemite, which was accomplished in four days. They leave again this evening by special train on the Southern Pacific for Los Angetos, thence east, connecting with the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe road. Chicago, Oct. 22.-»rhe Tribune learns that the paddle-house of the wrecked Alpena, which came ashore to-day at Holland, was so ingeniously arranged as to float and support a number of persons. That nobody remained upon it is sufficient proof of the fury of tne storm. * Detroit, October 22 —A man named Horace Johnson, with a ticket from Chicago to Boston, died in a Canada Southern train going east this morning, age about 70.

Deadening Pain.

The last number of the Medical Record contains a notice of a new and curious method es deadening pain, which is of striking simplicity. It was discovered by Dr. Bonwill, a dentist of Philadelphia, in 1875. In using the method the operator merely requests the patient to breath rapidly, making about 100 respirations per minute, ending in rapid expiration. At the end of from two to five minutes an entile or partial absence of pain results for half a minute nr more,. and during that time teeth may be drawn or incisions made. The patient may be in any position, but that recommended is lying on the side, and it is generally best to throw a handkerchief over the face to prevent distraction of the patient’s attention. When the rapid breathing is first begun (he patient may feel some exhileration; following this comes a sensation of fullness in the head or dizziness. The face is at first flashed, and afterward pale or even bluish, the heart beats rather feebly and fast, bat the sense of touch is not as fteted, nor is consciousness lost. The es. tcct is produced in females more readily than in males, and in the middle-aged more easily than in the old; children can hardly be made to breathe properly. It is denied that there is any possible danger. Several minor operations, other than frequent dental ones, have been successfully made by this method, and it is claimed that in dentistry, minor surgery and obstetrics it may supplant the common anaesthetics. Dr. Hewson’s cxpla nation is that rapid breathing diminishes the oxygenation of the blood, and that the resultant excess of carbonic acid temporarily poisons the nerve centers. Dr. Bonwill gives several explanations, one being the specific effect of carbonic acid, anotber Hie diversion ot will force produced by rapid voluntary muscular action, and. third, the damming up of the blood iD the brain, due to the excessive amount of air passing through the lungs. • The Record is not satisfied with the theories, but considers it well proved that pain may be deadened by the method, which it commeods to the profession for the exact experimental determination of its precise value. “Tastes good, doesn’t it?” asked the drug clerk,as the customer drank the soda water flavored with pineapple syrup. “Yes, very good.” The drug clerk laughed sardonically, and said: “Of course. But then you don’t know what it is made of.”

“What do you mean?” “The old mun’e oat,” he said, looking cautiously around the store, “and I’ll let you into som-i of the secrets of the business if you wont give me away. The old man made that pineapple syrup out of old cheese that you could smell through a fireproof safe. Fall es skippers, tool I’ll tell you a curious thine about that cheese. The old man cut off a slice and brought it up stain here with him one night. He laid it on the ceunter; next morning it was gone. Oome to leok, the little animals in it had shoved it onto the floor, wriggled it down the stairs and putlt back exactly in its old place in the cheese. The old man said that was an extraordinary illustration of the strength of the home instient in the brute creation.” “I think I'll be a skipper myself,” said the customer, with a white face, and he skippod out of the store to the nearest barroom.

What Constitutes Marriage.

The New York Court ot Appeals has decided in favor of the legality of the marriage contracted by the late Wm. R. Hynes, a wealthy citizen, with Mrs. May F. Saunders in 1861, while in London. He gave her a ring in the presence of witnesses, and tola her he would recognize her as his lawful wife so long as she remained a true and honest woman. He repeated the oeremony while crossing the channel, and repeated his declaration in France. She remained with him up to

jhi d€*th, ia 1874 b of M Arms tho dootekma ot courts, aad tbs stst ire of the deceased will have to vacate tho property owned by their deceased brother; and account for the profits derived from tho estate Mace his death.

KOMICK KUTTINGS.

WoH driPad—The ofl flia.’ A “fiery stsed”—Pony brandy. * The Tnrkiah position—Cross-legged. postmaster somotiaies ffiamps hi* Apple Jack Is tot oousin to James Jam? • H Many are eaSed but tew an chosen”— to oecupy political office. Aman caaaoi smoke a cigar too short unless he smokes it too long. And now Lsdv Godlvs is said to be a myth—a bare falsehood, as it were. - Tbs New York Commercial weals every body to beware of the champagne lie. Boms one bquirte, “Where have all the ladies’ belts gone?’ Goae to waist long ago. u My burden te light,” remarked the littie man carrying a big torch ia the procession. “Thosuspenseisorert” aa the Sheriff •aid when he cut down the criminal’s body, The bobtailed horse spends his whole existence in lamenting his lack of terminal facilities.

• The boys of Utah, we teem from the Balt Lake Tribune, boast of the number of their mothers. Oonridering that kind words cost noth? ing, what a poor stock of them te in the domestic market The dealer in salt must have s precarious time of it The salt cellar, you know, te always getting overturned. A Kaos as paper ends a marriage notice: “The couple left for the east on the night train where they will reside. “Alcohol will clean silver.” Yes, alcohol well stuck to will clean all the silver you have—out of your pocket “There is no place like home,” repeated Mr. Henpeck, looking at a motto, and he heartily added: “I’m glad there isn’t” A country paper speaks of a meteor “about as large as a basket” The tail must have been as long as a piece of string. What the milkman said when he found a fish in the milk: “Good heavens! that brindle cow has been in swimming again.” When a Cincinnati man speaks of the productions of his pen, you never know whether he ia a literary teller or a hograiser. The reason why the poets always speak of October as ’’sober” is because “sober” is the only word they can find to rhyme with October. .

Rebecca—“Yea; a man who ia con tinßally sticking his nose into other people’s business can be said to possess a roamin’ nose.” "Do we eat too much ?” asked the D«IWttffiW Proas, and out of five dozen boarding house keepers 60 answered in tire affirmative. A writer on physiognomy would like to know, “if large ears denote a miserly disposition, why is a mule so apt to squander his hind legs’” Hint to Politicians—Millers make poor party men. They are generally bolters. —[Toronto Grip. This seems to be a bran-new Joke. One of the first requisitions received frem s newly appointed railway station agent was: “Beni me a gallon of red oil for the danger lanterns.” An Indiana editor says: “Coal oil rubbed on the neck and head wi<l cure hog cholera; we have tried it” Who can dispute testimony like that? Some Indians use soalping.knlves of tortoise shell, probably on account of the old fable in which the tortoise waa alleged to have got away with tho hare. Preceptor (after a lecture)—“Now, what are the principal things that are obtained from the earth?” Pupil (and disciple of lzaak Walton)—“Worms, sir I”

It is said that sharks will not bite a swimmer who keeps his legs in motion. If you can keep kicking longer than a shark can keep waiting you’ll be all right. A South End man was recently seen carrying to hi a abode a parrot and a motto which read. “God Bless Our Home.” He evidently wanted the parrot to die young. There's one thing yen may put down In your note book. Say what you will about the women, we never yet knew a woman who coaid keep a secret half so well as a maa could tell it. When a*: Indian doctor has lost five Eatients the aurviyors of the tribe send lm after them to see what has become of them. After all. the Indians would lose some advantages by civilization. Rev. Dr. Hall said that every blade of grass was a sermon. The next day he was amusing himself by clipping hu lawn, when a parishner said: “That’s right, doctor. Cut your sermons short A telephone operator,* when asked to say grace at a dinner the other day, horrified the party, in * At of absentmindedness, by bowing hia head and shouting “Hello! hello!*' Force ot habit.

A crash in the kitchen is heard. The head of the family calls out to the cook: “What have you broken now, you black idiot F* Matilda stops singing a hymn to 'answer: Taint the iorf commandment brass de Lord.” I When old Mrs. Bonsbn had got through reading in the paper an account of the last fire, she turned her spectacles from her eyes to the top of her head and remarked : “If the city firemen would wear the generwlne hum-nit stockings, they woo ldnt be a boatin’ es their hose at every fire."

A World of Good.

One of the most popular medicines now before the American public is flop Bitters. Yon see it everywhere. People take it with good effect It bailds them up. It Is not as pleasant to the taste as some other Bitters, ss it is not a wbiskj drink. It is more like the old fashioned bone set tea that has done a world of good. If you don’t feel just right try Hop Bitteri—JfimAi Newt.

A Danbury young man offended one of the lady clerks in a fancy goods store, at a party a few evenings ago. A day or two later he went into the store and * Sired if she-bad “gentleman’s gloves.’ e answered, “Tee.” “I want to get a pair,” he said. “Whom are they for?” die asked, looking him straight in the “Why—for—me,” he gasped turning scarlet under the insinuatien in her inquiry. Cant Edward Brawch Robinson, one of best known printers,died October fit, at Washington, aged 76.

INDIANA.

Senator McDonald, qf tadtana, Into An ‘married to Mrs. Barnaul, of Wnsklngton, *2217 JuSa7i3lS ekofy^"Hl^11 *"* Kirk Qivs*, who kilted Sylvester Fteher at Pendleton a tew days ago, has been discharged, the coroner haring rsterns6 a verdict of justifiable homicide. Joe Wade, the condemned Indianapolis murderer, has written and placed on calc a book. He te trying to raise tends to take his cmc to the Supreas Oouit. Three brothers named Wills kilted Geo. Benner in Delaware county, on Friday last Thnrquarreted with him became he had challenged ooe of them on election day. R-.G. Sample arrived in Madison Saturday night from Mancie, having traveled the entire distance on a bicycle. Beet time made waa seventy-six miles in one day. An unknown man was instantly killed on the Ohio A Mississippi railroad near Vincennes, a lew days since. He tried to cross the track in front of an express train.

Governor Williams has pardoned W. H Mabley, who waa convicted of rape aad sentenced by the Cass Circuit Court in 1877, to five year’s imprisonment Woolen men complain of the rush of business saying they are unable to HU their orders, though running eighteen hoars a day. One of the factories has instructed its agents to take no more orders. Lillie, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wetherly, of Seymour, was bitten try a dog about two months ago. For two weeks abe nas been ill, and now her sickness has developed into hydrophobia. William Mai by, under a three years sentence in the Northern Penitentiary, was on Saturday last pardoned by Governor Williams. He waa sent up from Cats county lor committing a rape on his 12 year old cousin. A heavy rain accompanied by high winds struck Jeffersonville Friday night and continued with more er less fierceness during the night It did consider able damage in the vicinity, washing out water ways, blowing down trees, etc. The Union District Medical society of eastern Indians and western Ohio will hold thslr annual meeting at Rtuhrille, on Thursday, October 28. The physicians of Rash county are making arrangements to give their brother escnlapians a right royal reception. -Mr. Stother Holmes, residing at Dupont Ind., was seriously injured a few days since while driving his team. The hone he waa riding became frightened and plunged against the wagon, oruising his leg so badly that gangrene has set In, and fatal results are anticipated.

Edward Hoskins, of Sullivan, wai frightfully scalded about the breast and arms on (he 15th inst. While rendering lard at Mason's slaughter house, a twenty Sllon kettle of boiling larji upset on him. is flesh was thoroughly cooked, and his condition is considered critical. H. M. Compton, of Claypool, was robbed of SMOO Saturday evening, on a Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan train, between Warsaw and Claypool. His pocket was cut entirely out. The ears were full of passengers, and he don’t know when H was taken or by whom. 8. P. Melman. of Elkhart, died at his boarding house very suddenly Saturday night by the bursting of a blood vessel in his brain. His father and one brother died of the same cause. He wee an employe of the Lake Shore thope end about forty-two yean old. Several days since, rumor says, Miss Laura Ewing left her home in Richmond leaving a note behind which reads: “I am gone forever, but you'll hear from me soon. Laura." It is thought she has probably drowned herself. The cause is thought to be misfortune in love and betrayal. Mr. and Mrs. Tinsley were divorced years ago at Columbus, Ind. Both made subsequent matrimonial ventures, he taking four wives in succession and she two husbands. At length, both being free, they discussed their varied experience, admitted that neither had been happy since their parting, and finally were reunited. Information has been received of a tradgey enacted Saturday forenoon, near Independence, in Madison oounty. Wiliam Pinkerm&n and Bosooe Rohrer became involved in a quarrel regarding the possession of some property* when Rohrer shot Pinkerman in the abdomen. The wounded man cannot live. Rohrer tried to escape, but was captured three miles distant

George Bchillng, of Madison, hu been scntenoed to two jean in the Jeffersonville penitentiary for attempting to oat* rage the person of Annie Ayrea a few weeks ago. His brother Peter was sent to the penitentiary for five yean for a similar offense a couple of weeks ago, he haring attempted to rarish a young married woman residing a short distance from that city. Captain McAfee, clearing boss on the railroad being extended from Boohnlle, was on Friday erening stabbed by John Schneider, saloon-keeper. McAfee was intoxicated and quarrelsome, haring insalted several persons daring the evening. He took a drink at Schneiders saloon and refused to pay for it Schneider oidered him to get oat of his house, and McAfee refusing to go, Schneider attempted to pot him oat A scuffle ensued, bat Schneider succeeded in putting him out McAfee turned at the door and dealt Schneider a blow in the face, wherenpon Schneider stabbed him with a pocket kmife twice in the breast McAfee's wounds ore dangerous.

LOVE AND DINNER.

Very near us sat two young people. He wore the face of a man that ah ares three times a day, and that white neck-tie had never seen the starlight before. There was pearl powder on the ahoulder of his coat and a tender, dreamy look in her lovely eyes. They sat and looked ap at the stars, and they didn’t care for any solitary thing any nearer to this earth. “Mortimer,” die murmured softly—- “ Mortimer,” his name appeared to be Mortimer, though I couldn’t learn whether it was his front name or his after name—” Mortimer, dear,” she said—"lf we could only live apart from this bus] and sordid, unsympathetic world, in one of yon glittery orbs of golden radiance, living apart from alt else, only tot each other, forgetting the base things of earthly life, the coarse greed of the.world, and its animal instincts, that would be our heaven would it not, dear f" And Mortimer said that it would—- “ There, heart of my own,” he said,, and his voice trembled with earnestness—“my own darling Ethel, through all the softened radiance of the day, and all the shimmering tenderness of night, our lives would pass away In an exaltedstmospbere above the base born desires of earthly mortals, and far beyond the chattering crowd that lives hat for to-day, oar lives, refined bevond the common ken.”— And just then the man with a gong came out. Mortimer, he made a grab for

Ethel’s hand and * plunge for the cabin gathered her a*t»ta with her chair, eadmSafrMrhShf^WMr th«qr went clattering down the cabin, upset a chair, ran into a good sweet old Quaker lady, end banged a bad word out ot her «h« had time to stop it; down stairs they rushed, collared a couple of chain at the nearest table, feed a waiter, and epened the aotkmwith skirmishing. I am a man of ooerse mould and earth born appetite myself, end 1 would not live in a star as long as I could find a good hotel ia America; hut, long before I got seat* *t th® table for my family, Mortimer and Ethel had eaten two blue fish, a little rare beefsteak, some com bread, a plate of hot cakes, two boiled egg*, and a bunch o' onions, and the Waiter had gone out to toast than some Cheese. . • '■ muL. I have, during my wanderings, met sev oral people who wanted to live in a star, when earth born people with animal appetite, couldn't trouble them, and I always found the safest place for an earth born man, when the star bom soul started for the dinner table, was behind e large rock. Distrust the aspiring mortal who lives in a place so elevated that he requires the nee of a toleecope when he wants to look down on the net of us. And if he ever desires board at your humble table, charge him fifteen dollars a week, and feed him loti of soup, or you will lose money on him.

HOUSE AND HOME.

Pixann son Garnish.—With a vegetable cutter cut them out raw to any shape preferred. Drop them In fast boiling water, add salt end e small quantity of whole pepper; when done drain thoroughly, toss them in a saucepan with a little batter and some parsley finely chopped. Potatoes a la Sacck Blanche.— Slice some cold boiled potatoes, put them in a saucepan with a piece of butter, add a little hot water, pepper a id salt, aud minced parsley. As soon as they are quite hot stir in, off the fire, the yolk oi an egg. beaten up with the juice of a lemon, and Strained. Solus a la Matter d’ Hotel—Put into a sauce-pan l ull oi water a hunch of parsley, an onion, a blade of mace, some whole pepper, and salt to taste. When the water boils throw in eight flllita of soles or other flab, each tied up in a knot, and let them bui! till done. Serve with maitre d’ hotel snuce. Broiled Mcsbrooxs. —Choose fine sound large ones, pick and remove the stock, peel them, dip them in liquified butter or olive oil, and then broil over a clear fire; put them on a dish, with the Hollowed side uppermost Beat np a piece of butter with some finely chopped parsley, som< pepper, salt and a JUtlo lernoa juice, put a small piece in the hollow of each in Uila room, and serve. Frtirg Batter —Beat up together two tablespoontuie cl Brandy, the yolks-ot two eggs, one t&blet-poonful of olive oil, and four p? five spoonfuls of cold water. Amalgamate with this three tablespoonluls of fine flour, and a good pinch of salt Beat the mixture five or ten minutes, adding a little more water if too thick. When ready to use it, stir into it lightly and quickly the whites of two eggs whisked to a froth.

PfTAToRS A LA MAITRR D’Hofel.—Ott* some boiled potatoes iu slices threeeights of an inch thick, put them in a sauce pan with a piece of butter and topic?,minced parsley, and pepper and salt to taste, and a sqneese of lemon; give the whoie a loss on the fire and serve. If coid potatoes are thus being dressed, add a little of either white stock, milk, or water, aud leave them in the saucepan long enough to get hot. j» ■ Flemish Sod* <miiqre).— Boil equal parts of potaiots ami turnips in water, with some onion a id a bead of celery, adding jiepper and salt to taste. When the vegetables are quite done, pass die whole through a hair sieve. Put the soup in e saucepan on the fire, and as soon as it boils add a pat of fresh butter, plenty of shervil, a pinch n( parsley, and a few tarragon If-avce, all finely minced; then pour it over Slices of toast and serve Ortons eok Garnish.— Take some middling mzeu onions, cut them crosswise in slices, reject the small pieces in the center. Put the larger ones on a cloth with somCfluur; shake tlcm about on this so as to get them well fl-.ured all over; put them in the frying basket, shake off the superfluous flour, and pluuge the basket into very hot tat. As soon as they begin to color Bit them off, spiinkle fine salt over them, and they are ready for use. Caultflowrb and Cheese.— Boll the cauliflower. When done, put on the top a tablespoonful of grated cheese and % ounce of butter in small pieces. Melt it well into the cauliflower before the Are or in the oven, slightly browning it As a sance for it mix a teaspoonful of flour, 2 ounces grated cheese, 2 ounces melted batter, two tablespoonfuls of cream or milk, two wellbeatan eggs„ Btir all well together in a saucepan over the fire, and strain through a colander if Bot perfectly smoqth, Champignons a la Pottlett*. —Pick and thoroughly clean some button mushrooms,cutting them in four peices if large, throw them into cold water’ with a juice of a lemon or a little vinegar, as they are being done; then take them out and dry them in a cloth. Meit a piece of butter iu a saucepan, moisten with a little white stock or water, add grated nutmeg and finely powdered sweet herbs; put in the the mushrooms,stew from eight to ten minutes, then stir in off the fire the yolks of one or two eggs beat. :i up with the juice o ¥ a lemon and strained.

Oyster Kroxkskys —Parboil s dozen oysters in their own liquor, remove their beards, strain the liquor, and cut up tbe oysters into small dice: melt a piece of butter in a saucepan, stir in a pinch of flour, add the oyster liquor and the minced oysters, salt and pf pper to taste, a little gr-ated nutmeg, ind a pinch ot two of chopped parsley; take the saucepan off the fire, and stir in the yolk of o:*e egg with the jnice of half a lemon. When the mixture it quite cold, divide it into twelve portions, cut some slices of par boiled,fat bacan as thin as possible to the Bias of I* by 2% inches; wrap each portion tightly in a piece of bacon. When thqy are all done, dim*them in bat.er and dry them m plenty ofhot lard to a light brown color. Drain well from fist in front of the Are, and save with fried parsley.

Educational Follies.

Christ wept over .'Jerusalem, and His Creator has undoubtedly wept ovur whit men have done in the name of religion in burning people at the stake. In fact wa may sometimes be doubted whether advancing civilization is not a Juggernaut that crushes its devotees under it* wheels What misery education has brought into the world! Once tbe school room was the place of tortue. Whippings, endings, cudgelings, and tbe consequent groans, cries, and tears were familier to the schoolboy, No wonder Shakespear depicts him as creeping unwillingly to school. The knowledge forced upon him was just what he did not need to know. Nor te the school room yet purged of folly. Let us enter one and see There are boys and girls arranged in a rises. They have a book in their hands. In it th« climate of Memcu, for example, is described. The child is requiied to learn this by heart, and he does so. Now of what use can H be when he doss not know

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anything about the climate of hi. o*» country 1 when, in fwtX, he has no sinw—tion ot what climate Ia at all. ThisL Lot a sample of the Whole wijtff. ‘Wwwhfi ev«n la high schools that steam engines are explained from the b-4Jk t A diagram ia given, and that the teacher thinks We remember one sis these. A lady who was walking with her pupils, and passing a sho->, they pressed her to show them the steam engine They went la, and she was unable to point out or show them a single part, and yet she had taaght philosophy for years—at least, she sap. posed so— and she had no mean rank la an institution of good standing. These wee another lady who taught drawing in a school. One day several of the pupfk visited her, and while there asked her Is draw oi object for them. Bhe was obligad to confess that she could not I * And yet she had taught drawing in a normal school to 200 pupils, and held the poet fim A young man took charge of a depart, mentof natural history hr a high school, and in due time was put in charge of a class mineralogy. He got along awhsmingle until a boy brought in a pebble sad asked him what kind of mineral it was. “it is not any kind:its only a aUme." But he was set to thinking, and he felt he knew nothing of mineralogy, though his class recited beamßully and delighted the examining committee. •A professor had taught chsmistnr acceptably, hearing lessons from the book, and occasionally manufacturing some oxygen and hydrogen. One-day a pupil said to him' “Professor, ir there any good iu knowing this chemistry!" “Hot m«*ob, unless you are going U> teach!" The folly of the middle ages was exploded somewhat by Prstalozxi, the book was the soul and center of all things until then. The glorious old German laid aside the book, the everlasting book, and then the world stared. Hear what a \ iattor says, who inspected his work in' 1818: “Very good books are used; to teach iu his way is extremely laborious; thetea cher most talk, question explain, and re port. But in this way their capacities are brought into the field of the inatrnotior." When will the rank lolly be overthrown?" —N. Y. School Journal.

Old Shokey, a peripatetic preacher well known to California, is suen an ar dent believer ifi Scripture that be is ready to bet on any proposition which is laid down in the Bible. A few weeks ago he visited the Lake, and stopped on Sunday at Glen brook. Being nearly penniless he determined to give an exhortation, and getting the use of a ball called the einnen ■* together. His text was the marine episode, in which Jonah was taken in by a whale. “Now, my hearers, to the clam of people who never looked beyond the surtsce of things this looks like a hard story to believe, but I.know that ia so, every word of it.” He saw an incredulous look on the faces of a few of the hard cases in the front row, and, after pausing a moment, continued: “I'll bet any man in the crowd SIOO coin up that I can prove every word of it. Does anybody respond 1 ?" He thrust his hand down In hie trouser pocket and leaned forward. Nq one took him up. He went on with hie sermoo, showing conclusively that the whale did all th t was claimed of It, and then passed around the hat. “He that giveth to the poor, iendeth to the Lord," he said as it went down the P«w. “Lay up your treasures in Heaven,where neither moths nor rust corrupt, nor thieves break in and steal," he remarked again, as ho saw the hat coming back. It was handed to him empty anu he die missed the audience with a hasty benedic tipn. Alter the services he met one of his hearers and complained bitterly of the lack of coin and enthusiasm lathe town. “We’ve got the enthusiasm here, Parson,” said the man addressed, “but whan you bluffed us on a hundred dollar bet, some thought you must be a road agent, and the rest concluded that a man so well heeled didn't need any collection."

The following little story of Carlyle, found in a pamphlet by John Bwinton descriptive of a recent visit to Europe, will disclose to many readers of that rugged and vehement essayists, the sage of Chelsea, an almost unsuspected trait of gentleness in his character. It is a very touching picture of Carlyle in his lonely eld age which it present*. Mr. Bwinton found the grave of Mrs Carlyle in the Cathedral at Hadeington, and on the stone is cut Carlyle’s tribute to her, in which after referring to her long years of • hopeful companionship, he says that by her death “the light of his life is clean gone out™ Mr. Bwinton continues: “ ‘And Mr. Carlyle.’ said the sexton, ‘comes here from London now and then to see this grave. He is a gaunt, shaggy weird kind of old man. looking very old the last time he was here.’ ‘He is eight-' six now,’ said I. ‘Ay,’ He repeated, eight-six, and comes bore to tir's grave all the way from London.” And I told the sexton that Carlyle was a great man the greatest UTan of the age in books and that his name was known all over the world, bat tbe sexton thought there were other great men lying near at hand, I told him their fame did not reach beyond the grave-yard, and brought him back to talk of Carlyle. ‘Mr. Carlyle hitnaelf,’ said the grave-digger sofUy, ‘is to be brought hi re to be burned with his wife, ay/ ‘He comes here lonesome and alone,’ continued tne grave-digger, ‘when he Visits his wile’s grave. His niece keeps him company to the gate, but he leaves her there, and she stays there for him. The last time he was here I get a eight of him. and he was bowed down under his -white hairs, and he took his way up by that ruined wall of tbe old cathedral, round there and in here by (he gateway and he tottered up-here to this spot/ Softly spate the grave-digger and paused. Softer still, in the broad dialect of the Lothiaes, be proceeded: ‘And he stood here awhile in the grass, and then he kneeled down and stayed on his knees at the grave; then he bent over, and I saw him kiss the ground—ay, he kissed it again and again, sad be kept kneeling, and it was a long time before he rose and tottered out of the Cathedral, and wan. doed through the grave-yard to the gate where his niece stood waiting for him ’ “I almost shrink from putting on paper these words of the rustic gravedigger that day; but is not the scene one for art and poetry f And does K ,h ? w ragged sham destroyer of other dare, be of the sanguinary Mw and the loud artillery, in a finer Hrht than that of any page of his htmd&d books f” • r „ . „ We are about tired of seeing that everJ«to*»»n i ng to youth item entitled “Do Not Exaggerate” floating round in the papers once more. Especially when we run across it four or five times a montl' in journal* that relate how Garfield once pulled a six horse army team and wagon out of the mud with one hand, or solemnly set forth how, when only eighteen yean of age, Hancock prevented an ocean steamer from driving toil speed on the rocks in s fog by jumping overboard and landing off the vessel with his strong right arm. ■ -»M ’ Frank Lsmmwmhaebeen, for the see. ond time, convicted of the murder of at

Too Well Heeled.

Thomas Carlyle.