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THE NEWS IN BRIEE.

It is bow denied that the viceroy of India intends resigning. The steamships Bothnia and Frisia, from Europe, brought $550,900 in French coin. The entire garrison in Ireland does not include a single distinctively Irish regiment. Cardinal Manning lately lost his brother. Their father was governor of the Bank of England. Chicago Land league has voted to tend 11,000 to Ireland to be used for the defense of the agitators. Mayor Btokley. of Philadelphia, when a boy, worked for a dollar a week and slept under a counter. Harvard University announces that the fond of >130,000 necessary to endow the divinity school has been subscribed. The death is announced in Bing Sing, of Eugene Fairfax Williamson, alias “Gentleman Joe,v the persecutor ofDr.Dix. . Five men, pleading guilty to sending lottery certificate* through the mails, haVe been each fined >SOO, at New York. • (

The weekly statement of the bank of France shows an increase of 8,725,000 frances in gold and 16,406,000 francs in silver/ . » The Rev. Talmage has received notice that he will again be called upon to answer the charge of lying, before the Brooklyn presbytery. The will of Mrs. Maggie Emboy, probated at Elkton, Ky., gives $200,000 in Louisville 4 Nashville stock to the Vanderbilt university at Nashville. John Clay, the brother of Henry Clay, is living in Kentucky, and is still a strong and active man. Henry Clay’s estate at Ashland is rapidly going to decay. The famous Stevens battery, at Hoboken, N. J., upon which millions . have been spent, having recently been sold for $55,000, is being broken up by a Boston firm. The remains of Mathew Lynch, the well-known New Mexican mine owner, w ho was killed in the Moreno Valley, N. M.. last July, hav® been interred in PiTildelphia. . The oldest postmaster in the* country is John Brown, of Brownsville, Washington county, Md. Hew ninety years old, and was appointed in 1830 by President Jackson. GkThe Marquis of Ripon, will resign the vice royalty of India, owing to iris inability to stand the climate. Lord Dufferin, formerly govetnoregeneral of Canada, will succeed him. T-he tire comrafewioners of Cleveland, have c'onvicted John A. Bennett, tire department chief, of insubordination and violating the rules, and dismissed him from service.

. The portrait of Mrs. Hayes, which is to be painted and engraved as a temperance testimonial, is to be the •work of Mr. Huntington. Mrs. Hayes gave her first sitting on Saturday. J. Henry Perkins, a prominent stock broker of Boston, has been arrested for unlawfully disposing of collateral security to the amount of $12,000. He was admitted to bail id $25,000. Governor Long, of Massachusetts, has sent a reply to Secretary Schurz’s letter on the Ponca Indians abuses, an does not think the secretary presents . a candid and fair statement of the case. ■ . ' , Judge Houston, of Wilmington, Del., has notified Hon. E. ,L. Martin, through his counsel, that he will withdraw his contest oi the election of the latter as congressman from Delaware. Joseph Cook has been lecturing to immense audiences in the. .city of Edinburgh. He has been received with very cordial greetings in all the cities of 'Great Britain where he has appeared. The clergy of all the Roman Catholic and several Protestant churches at Montreal, denounce Sara Bernhardt in strong terms and warn their people against patronizing her performances. The story is pronounced unfounded that Herr 'Wettendof, the Prussian official who undertook to reform the Turkish finances, had given up his mission as a hopeless task, and would quit Constantinople shortly.Michaeloff, the nihilist nobleman anx'sted, was an active participator in the attempt against the life of the emperor of Russia at the winter palace on the 18th of February last, when ten soldiers we.re killed and 44 wounded. On the Bearic Meadow division of the Lehigh Valley railroad, Richard Sherry was killed, Jasper Taylor fatally hurt and Wfliiam Conner and Lawrence McGinley badly injured, by the explosion of giant powder cartridges. < A freight train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad ran into a' freight train dh the Wabash road at the crossing of the two roads at-Cha-fin, ten miles west of Jacksonville,’ Ils., smashing three loaded cars of the Wabash and badly damaging its own engine.

A haunch of mutton was lately sent anonymously to a gentleman in England, who invited some friends to eat it. A slight bitterness in some of the meat excited suspicion, and it was found ,to be impregnated with quantities of strychnine. Mr. Adolphus Cones, a respected citizen of Suffolk county, Va., is dead, aged 60. He was in attendance at the count v court as a witness, and while conversing with a gentleman, suddenly fell back in the chair and died without uttering a word. The executive of Mexico has ordered two engineers, three officers of his staff and one physician to accompany Captain Eads on his surveying tour over the Isthmaa of Tehuantepec. The expenses ofthe commissioners wDI be paid by the government. Nine buildings were recently destroyed by fire at Duke Centre. McKern county, Pa., with a loss of $25.000. The fire started in the Apple Bee hotel, while the guests were yet in bed, several of whom had narrow escapes. Among the number was Anna Eliza Young, Brigham’s nineteenth wife, who lectqred there, and was rescued by the firemen from the second story window. The loss is about onethird covered by insurance.

Charles McAdams shot and instantly killed Phillip Rial, at the house of C. J. Sterritt, editor of the Plaindealer. " Hawesville, Ky/ Rial commenced the»ftay by firing at McAdams with a pistol, when the latter replied with a shot gun. Both, parties are well " known and highly connected young men. McAdams’ brother married Rial’s sister. It is said that some remarks by McAdams about Rial’s ais- . ter caused ths resentment of the latter knd a fatal encounter the result

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GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Washington, D. C- December 21. —The committee appointed to report on a general plan of inaugural decoration* has concluded itework and recommend a series Of thirty-eight light arches of gas pipes over Pennsylvania avenue, with appropriate decorations representing each state In Che anion, and the decorations pf all the Statutes in the city. It is proposed, among other decorations for the executive mansion, to have about one hundred lanterns of different sizes and one hundred dozen hotel candles, and citizens will also be requested to illuminate their dwelling*, places of business, etc. The senate in executive session eonfirmed the following nominations: Eugene Schuyler, of New York, con-sul-general at Bucharest. Tobe consuls: Sidney W. Cooper, ofXew York, at Cadiz; Henry L. Atherton, of Net* York, at kemambuco; Theodore Conisiusi of Illinois, at Guatemala; James E. wharlon, surveyor of customs at Portsmouth, Ohio; Andrew J. Dumont. naval officer at New Orleans; Theodore James, of West 'Virginia, pension agent at Washington, D? C.; William Lawrence, of Ohio, first competroller of the treasury, and a , large number of army appointments and promotions. Postmasters; John N. Shipman, of Springfield, Ohio; William Hart, of Frankfort, Indiana; Thomas J. Lucus, Lawrenceburg, Indiana; N. Headington, Portland, Indiana; O. H. Woodworth, Columbia City, Indiana; Miss A. M. Lawton, Greggs ville, Illinois; Miss M. E. Jenks, Murpheysborough, Illinois. A considerable part of the senate’s executive session to-day was consumed in discussing the nomination of Judge Wm.B. Woods,of Georgia,to be associate justice of the supreme court. The nomination was brought before the senate on a favorable report frqm the judiciary, committee, but immediately encountered opposition on the ground that this appointment should have been given to a southern man, and Judge Woods’ nomination, though credited to Georgia, was really an additonal excessive appointment to the supreme bench of Ohio,of which he was a native. It was also contended that Judge Woods is an extreme partisan. On the other hand, it was argued that he had been a citizen and actual resident of Alabama and Georgia throughout the past fifteen years; that the performance of his duties as circuit judge for the southern circuit has been eninently satisfactory to the bar and people of* the states therein embraced, and that memorials have been received from the bar associations of the principal southern cities, strongly urging his confirmation for the” supreme court. At the close of the debate a vote was taken on the question of confirmation. There were only eight voters recorded against it. A motion to reconsider the confirmation was entered, however, and after some further discussion an attempt was made to end the matter by bringing this motion to a final vote.* A call for the yeas and nays disclosed the absence of a quorum, and the senate therefore adjourned, leaving the case suspended on a motion to reconsider. New York, December 21.—Neil McGrew, a ruffianly and disipated young man, who recently served a term of imprisonment for theft, went to-night to the house of his respectable married sister, Mrs. Jane Carhart, at ' 348 West Eleventh street. While there he quarreled with her, and Mr. Carhart ordered him to leave the premises. Seizing a kerosene lamp he threw it at his sister, when it brojee and the flaming oil Eoured over her, burning her so badly er life is dispaired of. She was taken to the hospital. McGrew made his escape. Lafayette, Ind., December 21. The statement which originated in a Boston paper and has been widely ; copied, insinuating that the large earnings of the Lake Erie A Western railroad may, be cooked up, brings out a statement from the auditor of the road denving the report as malicious and faise. He says the books of the company are open for inspection, and the statements of the earnings are strictly in accordance with the facts.

Van Wert, 0., December 21.—Last evening, at about nine o’clock, Miss Annie Vandine, late of Kendallville, Ind., committed suicide here by taking strychnine, at a house of prostitution, k'ept by Kata Martin,and, after suffering the greatest agony, died about twelve o'clock to-day. She came to this place last Saturday, forsaking hottie and friends to .engage in a life of shame, and the only motive for the commission of’ the rash act is gathered from two hastily written letters, addressed to FVrris Fisher, a brakeman on the Wabash, St. Louis & ‘ Pacific railroad, a former lover, residing at Lafayette, Ind., abd another to her mother, trho lives at Garret city, Indiana, in both of which she declared then to be her last. In the one to Fisher she - mentioned one Johns as the causfc of all her woes, and declaring that she would end her days in van Wert. Miss Vandine was about twenty-one years of age, prepossessing in appearance and from the tone of her letters was possessed of a good education. Your correspondent was unable to gather any more of her history than that of a too confiding nature. She fell the easy victim of a libertine. It appears that her fkther about four weeks ago committed suicide in the same manner.

Valparaiso, Ind., December 21. —Miss Ella Sutton', of this city, died this forenoon from the effects of morphine administered yesterday by her own hands with suicidal intent. She was eighteen years old, and had for the last year been an employe of •the yarn mill, working there until the day she took the narcotic. Deceased and her mother lived with a married sister and she failed to get along peacably with them. This, the brother alleges, is the only reason he can assign for the rash act. He also stated that she had attempted suicide before. The cause is not generally accepted, and many are inclined to share the opinion that she is a victim of seduction, though the coroner’s inquest failed ta develope proof of this. No post-mortem examination was held. Fremont, Ind., December 21.—A man named G. Dunham took mor£hinc about six o’clock this evening, ut was discovered in a stupor in time to be taken to Dr. L. A. Abbott’s office where emitics were given and a stomach . pump used. At this hour, nine p. m., he was thought to be out of danger, and was removed to his home. Domestic troubles are supposed to have been the cause. He says he expected to be in glory in half an hour after taking the morphine. Elizabethtown, Kentucky, December* 22.—The neighborhood of Howes valley, fifteen; miles from here, is a acene of the wildest excitement on account of a terrible tragedy enacted there. David J. Carter and Bud

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1880.

Harrington, both fanners in good circumstances, the former fifty-five years old, the latter thirty-five, had a law suit heard yesterday, and after its hearing they quarrelled. Harrington drew a pistol and shot Carter, the ball entering his mouth and coming out at the back of hia neck. Young Carter, a son of the wounded man, ran home and returned in a few minute® with a double barreled shot gun, both barrels of which he discharged into the body of Harrington, apparently killing him instantly. He fell seemingy lifeless and lay perfectly still where he had fallen; but old man Carter seized a smiths sledge lying near and walking up to the remains, deliberately crushed the head of the victim and then fell over him apparently in a dying condition. The wounded Carter ■and the remains of Harrington now lie in the same house, that of Mr. Randolph, one awaiting the coroner and the other the result of the wounds. ~

New York, December 22.—Inspector Byrnes’ detectives arrested this afternoon on a bench warrant, Michael P. Caffe, Laurent DeFassa and Charles Wyant, president, treasurer and secretary of the Mutual stock operating company, recently supplanted by the Guaranty income company at 42 Broadway. They were charged with obtaining money on false pretenses, and have been indicted by the grand jury. The history’ of the swindling operations of the Mutual stock operating company extends over the entire year, in w’hlch time probably as many as two hundred persons have been robbed of sums ranging from $5 to more than SIOO,OOO. St. Paul, Minn., December 21. The Pioneer Press has just received a special from St. Peter, giving the finding of the grand jnry in the matter of the asylum fire. *ln their report the jurors say that “We have been unable to ascertain the manner in which such fire was started or originated, or .the party or parties, if any, who started it. We further find from the testimony of witnesses, that as soon as possible after such fire was discovered the officers and attendants used all the means within their reach to save the lives of patients, * and to suppress the fire. We also find seine negligence on the part of certain attendants in allowing a certain patient by the name of Ben. Hazelton to be out of his room after the time when he should nave been confined in his room on the night of~the fire, and especially is this the case in this patient’s instance, owing to the fact that quite recently before such fire he threatened to burn such building. We also And that at the time of the fire there were no ladders in or about the hospital wherewith tci reach, the third story of such hospital, or to remove patients from such third story from the ontside of the building.” Detroit, December 23.—About midnight a fire was discovered in the job rooms of the Free Press, but it was quickly under control and extinguished before serious damage was done. Work on the paper will not be interrupted. Almost at the same time a fire broke out in the second story of the Newberry A McMillan block,‘the finest in the city. The fire was kept under subjection and extinguished before it reached the higher stories. The damage by water and fire will not exceed a few thousand dollars. Jamesburg, N. J., December 23, Some time ago the Chinese workers in the spirit factories here struck. The factory people replaced them by American laborers, three hundred finding employment. The Chinese quarters outside of town_have' been aliandoned, all the ocbupdnts leaving the place. Columbus, December 23.—State Mine Inspector Ray has just returned from Corning and reports the miners all idle to-day, caused by the miners demanding payment of wages semimonthly instead of monthly as at present.

Richmond, Va., December 23.—Dr. Janies M. Vest and Charles R Morrison, druggists, of this city, went down the river Tuesday, for the purpose of duck shooting. They got into a boat on the lower Junies river, accompanied by a negro man, and have not been heard from since. The wind was very high and a snow storm prevailing. Fears are entertained that all were drowned. The steamer Oriel, from Norfolk, to-day picked up the boat and a broken oar. A snow storm prevails to-night all along the Chespeake& Ohio railroad. Washington, D. C. December 23. —A delegation of twelve Sioux Indian chiefs and head men from the lower Brule agency reached Washington last night in charge of Captain Daugherty, of the United States army, acting agent of the Crow Creek agency. Their business here is to conduct negotiations with representatives of the several lines of railway relative to granting the right of way through their reservation. To-day, in company with Secretary Schurz, they called at the white house and paid a brief visit to President Hayes, who was introduced and shook hands with them all. The names of the chiefs are White Ghost, Iron Native, Dear Hand, Little Pheasant. Medicine Bull, BuH Head, Don’t-Know-How-Dog-Bark, Bear Bird; - Big Mane, Wisei and Handsonib Elk.

John D. Defrees, thepublic printer, in his annual report, shows the actual expenditures on account of printing, binding, engraving, lithographing, etc., for the government of the United States for the fisical year, ending June 30, 1880, as executea at the government printing office, amounted to $2,034,750; value of stock on hand at the end of the fiscal year, $34,798. As evidence of the increase of work in this offiee, the number of blanks printed during the fiscal year, ending Juue 30,1879, exceeded those printed during the previous year by 30,854,933, • and blank books by 126,511, and the increase of blanks printed during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880,orer those printed during 1879, is 25,454,886, and of blank books, 94,196. The increase of work during the first quarter of the present fiscal year, as shown by requisitions of the executive department, exceeds that of the last fiscal year during the same time by twenty-five per cent.

The president has signed the commission of Judge William B. Woods to be associate justice of the United States supreme court. The papers hi the case of Capt. Thomas F. Field, commanding officer of the marine corps at the Brooklyn navy yard, regarding charges of scandalous conduct, etc., have been received kt the navy department and are being examined. Charlotte, N. C., -December 23. Additional particulars in regard to the railroad disaster on the Carolina Central, yesterday.atlndian creek trestle, come in slowly. It is now known, however, that the following were killed: J. F. Bloom, of Charlotte, mail agent; 8. W. Goodson, of States-

ville, and general agent of the Richmond and Arlington life insurance company, of Richmond, Va.; F. W. Smith, salesman of Bendict A Hall, New York city: Bill McKenzie and James Wartick .(colored) • brakemen. H. P. Johnson, the conductor, escaped without serious injuries, and Messrs. Richard Linebrick and 8. H. Griffin, salesmen of Austin, Nicholls A Co., New York city, were taken from the burning wreck to a hotel in Llnconton with doctors in attendance. The bodies taken from the wreck were unrecognizable. Both brakeman are thought to have been killed in the fall. Bill McKenzie was seen in the burning debris transfixed through the chest with a piece of shattered timber.

Cincinnati, December 28.—John Sullivan, of Boston, and Professor John Donaldson, of Cleveland, were matched for a fight to-night with small gloves for one hundred dollars a side before a private audience. The police interfered because there had been much bitterness of feeling between the men and their friends, and a row was expected if the fight was allowed to proceed. It is understood that articles of Incorporation have been filed for a company to construct an elevated railway through the northern part of the city along<the Miami canal. Among the incorporators are Theodore Cook, Richard Smith, Wm. R. Thrall, Beniamin Eggleston, Robert Simpson, ana John D. Davey. The Gazette’s, Newark, 0., special says news of a murder reached that city to-night committed late last night eight miles from Newark, near Dudgeon’s corner?, at a ball at the house of Samuel Levison, a farmer. Oscar Loper quarreled with a man named Lenison, and a fight followed. Loper finally fled and was pursued by a man named Haniman, who had an eld grudge against him. After the two passed out of sight shots were fired, but no attention was paid to them by the party at Levison’s. This forenoon Loper was found with his skull broken, and he died soon after being found. A warrant is out for the arrest of Haniman, but he cannot be found.

Caldwell. Kas., December 23. Harry L. Hill, chief of scouts of the Oklahoma colony, and Col. Thomas D. Craddock, general manager, who went into the territory on theßth,having flanked the military at Arkansas City, came into camp to-day. They were gone fourteen days. They say the territory is fiill of people. 'They met at an appointed rendezvous over fifty wagons concealed from the scouts awaiting Captain Payne, who will join them as soon as he reaches the townfsite. They report that hundreds of claims have been taken and the foundation of houses built on them. Payne having failed to get all the parties into the territory, they will return to their homes to await future movements. Most of the colonists havejgone to their homes to spend Christmas, only about one hundred remaining in camp.

St. Louis, December 23.—The Pacific flouring mill of Kehloa Bros., corner of Third and Cedar streets, was almost completely destroyed by fire between four and five o’clock this evening. About 500 barrels of flour, 10,000 bushels of wheat and some $15,000 worth of new machinery waiting to be set up was also in the mill, which was either destroyed or badly damaged. Loss estimated at SIOO,OOO, but may fall short of that. Henry Carroll and Pat. Larkin, members of fire engine No. 18, were carried down by the falling floor in an elevator on tne north side of the mill. Carroll was killed and Larkin injured, but not seriously. An employe of the mill, named Beiderman, was badly burned about the hands and face. Insurance, $46,000. Detroit, December 23.—Rev. Samuel B. Carpenter, an Episcopal clergyman, of Toledo, recently of this city, was the victim of an audacious robbery in a Lake Shore train last night. As the cars were about to stop at Monroe, a gentlemanly appearing man inquired the time. As Mr. Carpenter took out his watch it was grabbed by the thief. At the same time two other confederates seized the clergyman, bent him back over a seat, and hurriedly rifled his pockets, securing SBO. and jumped from the cars before tne passengers had time to recover from their astonishment over the affair. The watch was worth $250. Cincinnati, Dec. 25.—An audience of four thousand listened to the oratorio of Handel’s Messiah, rendered tonight by a festival chorus of six hundred voices, Theodore Thomas director, with a Cincinnati orchestra of sixty pieces and soloists. New York, December2s.—A Washington dispatch in the Telegram, says Governor Porter, of Indiana, is mentioned by his friends for secretary of the treasury, under President Garfield. He will accept, he says, if it is offered him;

Chicago, December 24.—A review of business for the year in Chicago, shows unparalelled prosperity and Increase in aggregates. Hundreds of new industries have been established, thousands of dwellings and business houses erected, manufactures have in some cases more than doubled in values and amount. Bank clearings have increased over last year, which was the heaviest in the history ,of the city, by $336,000,000, the total for the year being $1,694,000,000, and the bank gives a flourishing financial exhibition; but the chiefincrease is in the grain trade. Elevator room has been increased over two million bushels; there has been an aggregate of grain receipts of 161,000,000 bushels against 138,000,000 in 1879. and 60,000,000 in 1870. The increase of this year over last is in com and oats, the other cereals show a falling off, owing to the “corner” lof 1879, w hich brought out heavy of old grain. In l®o, the receipts were 3,370,000 barrels of flour, 33,000,000 bushels of wheat, 32,000,000 bushels of com and 17,000,000 bushels of rye and barley. This year the receipts were 3.090,000 barrels of flour, 23,000,000 bushels wheat, 95,000,000 bushels of corn, 24,000,000 bushels of oats, 770,000,000 bushels of rye and barley. The shipments this year were 176,000,000 bushels, last year 126,000,000. The prospect for the winter and spring trade is the brightest possible.

St. Louis, Dec. 25.—Christmas was very generally observed. Business was suspended, and the day was made one of festivity and pleasure. Both churches and theatres were well attended. About half-past six o’clock this evening a party of six or eight drunken roughs attempted to enter Swain’s keno rooms, on Sixth street, between Market and Chestnut, but were refused admittance by Larry O’Brien, the doorkeeper. The roughs immediately became abusive and quarrelsome, and Joseph O’Brien, a brother of the door-keeper, James McCormick, Joe Garvey and Jos. Kelly, who were

standing on the sidewalk, took sides | with the door-keeper. A general fight ensued, during which several Sersons were knocked down and ames C’Brien received a dangerous cut in the breast, the knife entering the cavity of the chest. Garvey was stabbed below the shoulder blade and severely cut in the arms. James Kelly got a bad slash across one of his arm*. The two former are supposed to be mortally wounded. A man called “Hickey” by his rowdy companions died from tne effects of his cuts. The Whole affair is said to have occurred in two or three minutes, and all of the assailing party escaped before the police arrived on the ground*. One or two other cutting scrapes occurred during the day, but not of a serious character.

Denver, December 25. —A Republican Secorro, N. M., special says: At a Christmas- festival held here on Christmas eve, several Mexicans created a disturbance, which was quelled by a Mr. Conkling, editor of the Bun. Shortly afterwards, while Mr. Conkling and his wife were leaving the church, two Mexicans seized him by the arms, while a third fired three shots, killing Mr. Conkling instantly. The assailants fled to a small town in the vicinity,, where they are guarded by 2,000 Mexicans. A large posse of Americans were armed, and intend to get the murderers if they haye to fight for them. Bradford, Pa., Dec. 25.—This morning Albert Magee, of Canton, Ohio, and Thomas Perry, went out to torpedo a well, one mile east of the city. While Magee was mixing nitroglycerine in the derrick. Perry, who was in the engine house, turned on the steam rapidly on the frozen compound. An explosion followed, which blew the derrick into bits. Perry was driven clear through the engine house, but will recover. Magee was blown into fragments, the only portions of his body discovered being his heart and lungs, which were found on the hills, one hundred yards away from his liver, and a leg of his pantaloons. Burlington, lowa, Dec. 23.—A fire broke out in Wesley Jones’ wholesale book and stationery house, this evening at 11 o’clock. The inside of the building was burned. It is not known how the fire originated. Loss estimated at $20,000; covered by insurance.

Paterson, N. J., Dec. 25.—Vandehook & Co.’s furniture establishment burned to-day. Loss, $45,000; insurance $30,000. The adjoining dwelling and stove store of Robert Duncan w’as considerably damaged. Danville, Virginia, December 25. At Chatham, Pittsylvania county, last night, the telegraph office and passenger depot and express office, were burned. A large quantity of express freight was consumed; also four hundred dollars in money. Petersburg, Virginia, December 25.! —The newspaper office of the South Side Sentinel, Alphens Boling proprietor, published at Burkesville, Virginia, burned. No insurance. Summit, Missouri, December 25. The Sentinel office, Times office, B. Hillburn & Co.’s store, and Masonic and Odd Fellows hall, burned. Insurance, $7,000. Pembroke, Ontario, December 25. Fire to-day destroyed the Masonic hall and adjoining property. Loss, $250,000; partly insured. Norway, Me., December 25.—The New Religion newspaper office burned to-day.

Cleveland, 0., Dec., 25.—A Leader special from Meadville says David P. Ewing, of Ft. Dodge, lowa, 72 years old, dropped dead while attending a loan] exhibition.} Supposed apoplexy. A farmer named Anipony living near Weston, Ohio, according to a Leader special, while attending a Grand army fair at that place last evening with allof his family except two children, fourteen and fifteen years of age, returneii honie to find his house in ashes and the children burned to a crisp. Nothing is known how the fire occurred. A Leader special from Cardington says Emanuel Diecient and family who were in that place on business, a •’d dwelling a few miles out, on retiming home (found their home burned to the ground. Chicago, December 25.—A peculiarly distressing and unaccountable suicide occurred on Lake Avenue, near Thirty-ninth street, this afternoon. Miss Add Hebden, a young lady of twenty-two years, engaging in manner and highly esteemed by all acquaintances, lives there with her brother, Robert Hebden, assistant manager of the bank of Montreal in this city. Last night she attended some Christmas festivities at a neigh bor’s, and was among the merriest. This morning she rose and break-fasted as usual. Shortly after dinner, finding herself alone in the room, she suddenly went to a drawer, took from it a pistol, and without warning or explanation fired a shot into her heart and fell dead on the carpet. • Columbus,O.,December 25.—Christmas was very generally observed. Among other festivities William Wagner, proprietor of a brick yard, was fatally stabbed in a saloon, it is supposed by an associate, named Ferdinand Krost. * Two prisoners in the county jail mutinied to-day, and all the police in the south end of the town were called in to quell the disturbance. One shot was fired, but with no fatal result. Cold water and chunks of coal thrown at the prisoners was found to be suffient arguments to quell the trouble. Several convicts were seriously injured by being hit with pieces of coal.

The Glacier of Zarafshan.

Professor Mushketoff, the Russian geologist, and M. Ivanhoff visited the glacier of Zarafehan, one of the greatest in Central Asia, last summer, and were quite successful in their explorations. The lower extremity of the glacier, says Prof. (Mushketoff, is at the hight of 9,000 feet. The Galtoha people, who inhabit the [upper valley of the Zarafshan, have never ascended the glacier. They say that on the summit of it there are two great pillars of stone, between which the traveller must go, and that the pillars would certainly crush together if anyone ventured into the icy solitude. A tunnel. no lees than 8,500 feet long, runs under the glacier, being the bed of the Macha river. The temperature during the day was as high as 72 degrees, and during the night as low as 24 defc grees. On the fourth day the explorers reached the first watershed, or rather the first iceshed. The whole length of the glacier to this point was 16 miles, the width being one mile. Six other glacier, each of which is greater than the greatest Alpine gla clers, fed the principal one. At the head of it there is a wide cirque opening to the east, and several peaks around it reach 20,000 feet. The descent on the other slope of the mountain ridge was far more steep and dis-

flcult than the ascent. The crevasses are numerous and the glacier has several great “ice-falls,” tne inclination of which is no less than 50 degrees. The explorers were compelled to make use of small anchors and to cut steps in the ice.

INDIANA.

Nearly 400 student* are snroßril •$ Indiana Asbury University. The commissioners of Scott county have refused all petitions to sell liquor in that county. Mrs. Sarah Vassar, of Greensburg, while fooling with a pistol, got an ugly woundin the thigh. Public sentiment is overwhelming against the proposition to build a new Cout House at Evansville. Ice fishing in the river at Warsaw is excellent, and large numbers of fine bass and perch are being caught. Mr. Jas. H. Sweetzer, a prominent citizen of Indianapolis, fell dead while standing in the door of the New Denison hotel. The public schools of Crawfordsville have seen closed on account of scarlet fever, and will not be again opened until after the Ist of January. Jont Ratcliff, of Henry county, living a few miles southeast of New Castle, had his hand almost cut off by a euzz saw w’hile sawing wood. . / Officer Nevil, of Lafayette, shot and very seriously wounded a rough named “Punch” Jones, while resisting arrest. He will probably die. A farmer named Thomas Eaton, residing near Osgood, was on Monday morning found dead on the floor of his cabin. He had been sick a few days. John H. Barnum, of Rushville, has been arrested and taken to Shelbyville, where he is wanted on a charge jf bastardy preferred against him by Mary C. Crim.

Two masked men attempted to kill the watchman of the Wabash state dam, near Delphi, the other night. They were recognized, and warrants sworn out for their arrest. A. C. Hirst, stave dealer at Greencastle had $450 worth of staves stolen from Amo station near the former glace. They were shipped to Terre iaute and sold. He has a clue to the thieves he thinks. Mrs. McCain, of St. Paul, caught a tramp in her house with a bundle of her clothes and her pocket book, just making his escape. She seized a billet of wood, recaptured her property and drove him away. A shooting affray occurred at Colfax between Augustine Knott and Wm. Moody, over the possession of a barber shop. Moody shot Knott through the shoulder, and was arrested for an attempt to murder, and placed under ssou bail. Knott’s wounds are not mortal.

The Morgan raid claims of this State have been referred to General Ekin, Quartermaster at Jeffersonville, for examination and report. This will be convenient for claimants and will be a large saving in expenses. Judge New has introduced a bill to facilitate the proof in the claims. Two Richmond painters named Charley Bell and Wm. Dennis were at work painting the new depot at Centerville, when a car ran against their scaffold and knocked it out from under them. As it gave way they sprang for a telegraph wire, ana caught it just in time to save themselves from falling in front of the cars which were following. A portrait of the late Governor James Whitcomb has been presented to the State, by Judge Horace P. Biddle, of the Supreme Court. The portrait was originally the property of the late N. B. Palmer, and from him on down through others it descended, finally falling into the hands of Judge Biddle, who had it restored from its somewhat dilapidated condition, reframed and otherwise improved.

For convenience to prisoners the Mt. Carmel calaboose is hard to beat. Thd boys who are now occupying this calaboose have a banjo in their quarters, and they also have a loose board at one side of the calaboose through which they can pass in and out at their pleasure. They have been enjoying themselves of late serenading our citizens late at night, and then returning to the calaboose in time for an early breakfast, as it were. Indianapolis Journal: Some figures which have been gathered by the Bureau of Statistics snow the singular fact that there is enough fencing in the State of Indiana to circle around the world thirteen times. The total length of fence is 111,080,391 rods or 344,201 miles, of which 101,818,835 rods is rail, or “worm” fence, 5,445,790 rods of plank fence, 1,825,601 rods of post and rail fence, 141,589 rods of stone fence, 837,075 of wire and barbed wire fence, 1,433,520 of osage, and 78,031 of willow fence.

A case of considerable interest to the medical fraternity has just transpired at Clifton. Charley Teegarden, aged 6, has been suffering about two years with a disease that has baffled the skill of several local physicians, but the other evening the cause of his trouble became apparent. He vomited up an animal about five inches in length, fish shaped, and of the consistency of a salamander. In a few minutes after the operation*' he took nourishment and wanted to go out and play. The other morning a tramp who gives his name as Frank Moreland was arrested at Anderson, on the charge of setting fire to the courthouse. The charge was based on threats of burning made by Moreland the day before. He said he had a friend in jail whom he intended to have released, and that the jail building would have to go next. It is supposed that the courthouse was fired to get the indictments against prisoners out of the way. The Mayor held the prisoner in the sum of SI,OOO. in default of which he was sent to jail.

A poet chides his girl for her dilatoriness in keeping an engagement. He says: “Bee ? the moon is out, love—come along with me; hear the breezes soft, love, whispering to thee. Birds have sung themselves to sleep, calling you ypur tryst to keep; flowers will soon begin to weep, waiting, lovey, for thee.” We didn’t suppose flowers would weep if she would never come, and as/ <or the birds singing themselves toATeep calling her to keep her tryst, it is ail bosh. Birds have more sense.•' The trouble is, her mother got wind of the clandestine business and locked her up in her room.—Norristown Herald. Many a boy does not receive a large inheritance of money or lands, but every one has a pair of good hands, which are better than thousands of money. And the good purpose to make the best use of them is in every boy’s power. Remember this wise injunction. “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,”

KOMIC KUTTINGS.

There are few safe robberies. Jail birds are confined in guilt Mges.—Boston Transcript . When the baby cries for “bread” it is the mpst natural thing in the world for the mother to give it a rock. The medicine man of the Philadelphia Chronicle says that a good physician carries his skill in his heals. The reason that persons file their marriage intentions is that eveiy thing may pass off* smoothly.—Yawcob Strauss. New Haven Register’. If you intend to buy a dog, buy one that is big enough to go through a hard winter without a plaid overcoat. "All seems to hinge on this,” remarked the lover when he proposed to his sweetheart while swinging* on the gate in front of her house. A little girl reproached with disobedience and breaking the commandments, said. "Mamma, those commandments break awful easy.” Andrew’s American Queen: Because one is a flowing tide and the other is a flying toad. The question has escaped us at this moment. The average age of a hog is only 15 years. This always consoles us when we see a man spreading himself out over four seats in a railway car. New Orleans Picayune: Fashion says: “Gathered waists are still very much in favor with young ladies.” They are with young gentlemen, also.

"My serment shall stand on deze tree pints,” said a colored preacher not many Sundays ago; 1 the expound-, in’; 2 the enlargin’; and 3 the arousin’. I New Orleans Picayune’. It is a fortunate thing for Shakespeare that he established a solid reputation before the newspaper critics of America had a chance to cut him up. Philadelphia Chroniele: There are some thirty-five thousand more females than males in Philadelphia, and yet some people wonder Why some girls marry bow-legged men. “Which do you like best, your father or your mother?” inquired a visi* tor of a little chubby-fist. “Oh, I like ma the best. She spanks me with the soft side of her hand: pa takes a shingle.”

Punch.: “Accidents will happen,” Brigson (at last winging a pheasant, after missing rignt and left all day)— “Ah, ha! Knocked him over that time, Jenkins!” Keeper—“ Yes sir; they will fly into it sometimes!” , A few days after going to a wake, Bridget asked'her mistress for her money. “Are you going to leave?” “Yes, ma’am, I’m going to marry the corpse’ husband. He told me I was the life of the wake.” A hospital clergyman asked the official how one of the insane patients was getting along. ‘ ‘O, he’s certainly getting better,” was the reply, “for he told me yesterday that he had entirely abandoned the idea of becoming a preacher.” After listening to the various ills to which people were exposed, bronchitis in Florida, yellow fever in New Orleans, lightning in the pine lands—the laziest of the group pushing back his hat, remarked: “Fact is, it’s rather dangerous liven 1 anywhar.” ’ Toddlekins is a very small man, indeed. but he said he never minded it at all until his three boys grew up to be tall, strapping youjig fellows, and his wife began to cut down their old clothes and cut them over to fit him; and then he said he did get mad.

One night Uncle Harvey, keeper of a poor house down in Maine, was waked by the groans of one of the old men. “What is the matter?” he asked. “I’m dying. Uncle Harvey,” said the old man. “I’m dying;go and get me a doughnut; I must have suthin’ to pass away the time.” Childhood’s innocence—Somebody gave little Augustus two toys. “I will give this one to my dear little sister,” he said, showing the largest. “Because it is the prettiest?” said the delighted mamma. “No,” he replied, without hesitation; “because its broken.”

A tired mother in this city was looking rather cross am I sullen the vtlier evening, when, htr little 4-year-old daughter saia to her: “Mother, haven’t I been a good little girl today?” “Yes,” replied the mother. “Well then,” said the child, '‘why don’t you smile upon me?” “Yes, I’m up to my ears in business,” said Jones, smilingly, “Well, there’s no danger you’ll over get over them, Jones; not a bit of danger,” said Smith; at the same time putting his thumbs to the top of his own ears and flapping his hands up and down like a loose casement in the wind. Jones wondered what the deuce Smith meant. A clergyman was preparing his sermon for Sunday, stopping occasionally to review what he had written and to erase that which he was diposed to disapprove, when he was accosted by his little son: “Father, does God tell you what to preach ?” “Certainly, my child.” “Then what makes you scratch it out?” A very little boy one day did wrong, and was sent,after parental correction, to ask in secret the forgiveness of his Heavenly Father. His offence was passion. Anxious to hear what he would say, his mother followed to the door of tue room. In lisping accents she heard him ask to be made better; and then, with childlike simplicity, he added:—“Lord make ma’s temper better, too.”

Public Schools.

Baltimore American. Mr. Richard Grant White groups facte and figures to prove that the public schools, so far from increasing virtue and reducing crime have had the opposite effects. He says: “The census returns show that crime, immorality and insanity are greater, in proportion to population, in those communities which have been long under the influence of the public school system than they are in those which nave been without it.” To establish this he shows by a comparison of educational statistics in New England and in an equal population in southern states, that while the number who cannot read and write in New England is one in 312, in the southern states it is one in 12. He argues from this the proportion of crime ought to be 12 to 312 in favor of New England. There is a mathematical fallacy in this, but let that pass. He then shows by similar atattetics that the number of convicted criminals in New England is greater in proportion to population, not less, than in the southern states—in faVor of the southern states six to one. Ergo, the

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public schools are the nurserus of crime; and to educate youth educates Its criminal propensities in a larger degree than its virtuous impulses. It has been well said that nothing is so false as “facts” except "figures.” More accurately stated, nothing is more misleading than statistics in the hands of one who does not understand how to use them. Accept as true the actual statistics on which Mr. White relies: there are several factors and coefficients to be introduced before an equation can be established from them. Suppose it be true that there is more crime among one hundred thousand people packed together in New’ York than among an equal number spread over the mountains of Virginia, and that the Virginians cannot read, while the New Yorkers can; would that prove that education caused the overplus of crime in New York? Would not a sounder statistician find the causes in the overcrowdings, the sufferings, the contacts suggesting crimes of one sort and the competitions of the struggle for existence suggesting crimes of another sort, the loves-and jalousies, contentions, vices and despairs of tenement-house life—would he not i look here to find the cause of crimej and not in reading and writing?' Again, the statistics that Mr. White relies on are of convicted crime. Crime unpuished and undetected does not enter into his calculations. The greater number of convicted criminals of New England by no means proves that there may not be more real criminals, though undetected, in Texas. 1 may prove better criminal law and procedure in New’ England. His figures are therefore, faulty in the failure to consider essential modifying factors, and, consequently, faulty in the inductions he draws from them. And thus, thoug he set out to prove that American pride in our public school system is foolish, and the failure of that system complete, he has not even shaken our faith in the public schools. That they have failed to educate all their pupils thoroughly is conceded. That, 1 in spite of all the advantages they offer, many dull and indolent children remain ignorant of even the elements of education must be sorrowfully confessed. • But it is one of the inconsistencies of this “brilliant” essay of. Mr. White that, while finding fault with the public schools for failing to educate, ft goes on to show that the better the education they give, the greater is the proportion of crime.

The Strawberry and the Peach.

A FABLE. “What a delicious day this is, ’to be sure!” said a beautiful large scarlet strawberry,-on a fine afternoon in July, as she coyly peeped out from cool, dark-green leaves. “I am afraid it is going to rain!” grumbled a luscious peach that was ripening high upon the wall oyer the strawberry’s head. And the peach was right, for pn—ently there came on a drenching shower, which made them l»oth glad to hide behind their sheltering leaves After the rain there canae out,' as usual, a whole army of slugs and snails, seeking what they "should devour. And a great white slug, spying the strawberry’s red dress beneath her leaves, crawled up to her, and began to be exceedingly rude. “Oh, dear me!” moaned the poor strawberry, “that nasty, greedy slug has bitten a piece out of my side!” “That is what comes of living on the ground!” jeered the peach. "Now I am up safe on the wall, out of the way of those vile crawling and creenngthings!” 1 But presently the rain cleared quite away, and the hot sun came out again and shone gloriously.. Then a black and yellow wasp who was roving about looking after a meal, caught sight of the peach, who was sunning herself against the wall, and With a buzz of joy he flew toward her, and fastening on to her, drove his nippers deep into her jucy flesh. "Oh!” screamed the peach, “this cruel wasp is nipping a bit out of my face!” But the wasp did not care one straw for the shrieks of the t>each, and he did not fly away until he had bitten a large hole in her round, rosy cheek. “O neighbor Strawberry!” sobbed the peach, “my beauty is quite gone. T was wrong to reproach you: for now I find that I was not out of the reach of misfortune myself!” We may gather from this that no station is so humble or so exalted ea to be free from trials and troublss. And we should never reproach our neighbor with misfortune that is not his fault, inasmuch as we know not how soon calamity may overtake our selves. " .

In an article on Miss Amy Bradley’s work at Wilmington, N. C. the New England Journal of Education says: “There is hardly an element of the new Southern civilization that is springing so fair all through these states that is not included in the work of this admirable woman, who has become to hundreds of little children and their parents a veritable mother of souls.”

“Oh, how I do wish my skin was as clear and soft as yours;” said a lady to her friend. “You can easily make it so,” answered the friend. “How?” inquired the first lady. “By using Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood and blooming health. It did it for me, as you observe.” Read of it. —Cairo Bulletin.

“Saw wood! Saw wood for my dinner!” said a tramp, with a look of horror. “Not much I won’t. It isn’t that I object to labor.l yield to no man in respect for the God-given privilege of earning my sweat—l mean sweating my earnings—that is to say, breading my earn by the brow of—you know what I mean. lam ready,anxious, to work. Give me some hay to spread right out here in the snow. Show me where there is a stone wall to lay—behind,’ Anything but helping in the most distant way to devastate the mighty forests of this broad land, that the Almighty meant to gather moisture and induce the reviving rain to fall upon the parched earth. Why, do you know that this continent is doomed to become.an arid desert if this destruction goes on? It’s a fact;t and I won’t be a party to it. No forest, no rain. I decline the responsibility for it. Tell me vou’ve got some coal to carry in, and‘l’ll see if I can’t send you a boy to do it; but no wood-sawing for me r if you please.” The Pacific mutual marine and inland insurance company, of New York, have resolved to appoint trustees and go into liquidation. Heavy losses during the past year on the lakes and Atlantic, together with low rates of premium, are the cause.

A Lady’s Wish.

Willing to Work.