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And now the press of the country is taking a rest on cabinet building and commencing to wonder what General Garfield wHFtiave to. say in l»Ls Inaugural adßirdw It Lb rumored that W. D. Howells is to be appointed United States minister to Switzerland. Mr. Howells has been the able'edrtor of the Allande Monthly for years, but has already sent in his resignation • And now the prophet rhea up and says that the world is coming to an end, A. D. 2370. Just onr luck; every shirt we’ve got to our back has gone lathe laundry, and that last lot of sale bills hav’ut been paid for yet. It fa not yet known what ship will be sent in search of tbe Corwin. The Corwin, However, is to be sent tn search of the-Jeannette. If congress proposes to follow the precedent made in this case,.it take many years for the nation to run but of ships. i Jay Gould - can buy a railroad, a newspaper or . a telegraph oompuny | without a miypnur, but when Mrs. Gould asks him to bring up a dozen < of eggs whence comes home at nfglit, he asks her ifahe thinks .“he’s made 1 ofjuoney.” • The absolute - losses by fire in the United States ainounletl to $74,838,000 in 1880, not counting the worth* of the eoat we Used to wear when writing , spicy articles with a past? brush, aiid I which re from our pipe ami | was entirely consumed. “Faith covers a multitude of sins,” said a senator,in debate,the other day. when it was found that he was from | Michigan rhe senate di<l not wonder | so much at tho' mistake tli'egihitleman made as at tire fact that he could | quote scripture in any style.

Jay Gould will add 900 miles to the, Pacific railroad during thia year, thus extending the Missouri Pacific systeifi to Laredo, on the Rio Grande. Fifty thousand tons oletcd rails, 40 loeomotlves, 3,000 freight card,, 20 passenger coaches and six baggage cars have been -ordered for the extension. L_ Lt ia rumored that the Irish Aaiid |Hague will their funds,to the United States for investment. The total amount closely antwoximates a half million of dollars. There would be some sort of justice in such a step, as most of the amount was contributed to the ftinds'by the Irish of tbiadouutry‘ ====—b * General Grant talks of resigning the presidency of the wor T d’s-fair commission, and now comes io the front as president of the new United States national bank, of New York. Since his recent jaunt around the General seems to be “ftoy put” in aa/one | C X Ohe of the original “six hundred” - who inode dowh “into the valley of death” at Balaklava, was found beg- • gingan England recently, and only a few years ago another of the noble bnnddied of starvation there.-* Hadn’t • England better rtuie over. here' and '.take a few lessons on pur manlier of treating heroesf‘ -; c ,};•» What with the constant Iosso(J«h j seis and crews sent fc search oF*4he | north pole, men of sense are about coming to the conclusion'that as this i country lias got along v **ry welt with-1 out it Heretofore, there are ho|»ea that sheban pull through a while longer ’ without ft. Lt has already cost more wdy of rornrey and lives than it i worth. Let the north pole.prqject die, or at least give us a rest- on the > subject until the wCather gets settled. The British crown has a number of subjects that arc inclined to be Boerisji. These are not confined to South Africa, but may be fount! also in Ireland and Afghanistan. - The government has given these Boers to understand that they can now peaceably acknowledge their allegiance and aeeepting a protectorate. This is what they are fighting against. They might have had peace on these terms before they struck a blow. It is the other thing the Boers want—liberty or independence.

The Baroness Burdett-Coutts,'that dear old girt of seventy summers and about as many winters, springs and falls, has married Mr. Ashineadßartlett at last, the giddy old thing. Mr. Bartlett is nearly thirty years of age, and when he is sixty his wife will be pt par—just to think of it—or at the cemetery, one or the other: By .her marriage the Baroness loses <500,000 per year, willed her toy the Duchess nt St Albans, but If she imagines that her dear Ash heap, or Ashment!, or whatever his name is, will be worth that amount to her, it’s all right. Sne has <10,600,000 besides the <500,060 and if they are real' economical,’ and the old lady does her own housework they can worry along/ According to the terms of the marriage settlement the husband must take the wife’s name, which he did—and will doubtless take her fortune too,when he gets a rfaiM*’*. . J. 1 “Indian Jim,” or iamea- Jacobs, a Jamons hunter of the Beneca tribe,was found dead in of Potter eounty. Pa., lately by a party ofhunters. He was 80 years cqd, Mod it is supposed he diM of heart disease. During bls life Jim took great pride in wearing the typical dre® of the backwoods, and was always- seen in beaded moccasins, buckskin breeches, B-doeukiri shirt, and velvet vest. He was known t*r and wide, his trapping and hunting teritory extended from the headwaters of the Lsfckawaxen river to the Susquehanna and. Delaware, and embracing nearly one hundred square miles of wooden gosq-

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TELEGRAPHIC.

Nww York, February HL—ln the Western Union telegraph company to $>0,000,000 was filed. It is signed by NervhiGreen, E.D. Morgan,Augustte Sclrdl, E. Darke, B.F. Barger, Joseph Harker. A. B. Cornell, Russel Sage, J. W.-JVanhorn, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Wilson Hunt. E. Sanford, Thopias T. Eckert, D. C.MUIa t . O. H. Pifrntr, Samuel A Munson, Jay Gould, Anson Stager, ME. D. Worcester, aad Win. D. Bishop. The certificate is filed “because of questions that have been made as to whether the articles of the association under which it is said the company is organized have provided for the Increase aforesaid, and to exclude all possible pretext for doubts respecting the same; but the company also claims said articles do provide for such increase, and that it has already been authorized and made." A messenger was sent by special train to Albany this ■afternoon to file a copy of the certificate in the office of the secretary of stety. President Green, of the Western Union telegraph company, said to-day that the supposed consolidation of the telegraph companies had been accomI plfahed, and that the present action of i the stockholders had been taken to I provide against legal contingencies. Referring to the suits brought by the i cable‘companies, he said: “The suits' | are the durndest sham I ever saw. The cable companies practically are one company as much ’as . we hire. They have a working arrangement under which the business is diI vided, and in fact it can make no posI sible difference to them if the land lines are consolidated. The reasons for the sufts do not appear in the legal I papers. The chief reasons are the in- . terest (if stock speculators in opposing union for pecuniary purposes,and fear on the part of the companies of laying two new cables by the American l telegrajih cable company. Gould, who i is the originator of tliat company, has ’ not said one woid about these cables i to this company, and no arrangement has heen made. Ido not know that I he has indicated his purposes to any one, but the present c bie companies stand in great dread of the scheme.” London, February 19.—The Economist says of the stock market: The . buoyancy abroad and the reduction of Hank of England rate are strong i elements in favor of advancing prices. 1 The English colonoial and foreign markets show a decided improvement. American and other foreign railways and bank shares also .met 'with good inquiry. Ip foreign governments Virginia new funded advauce<| 4on the week. In American railroads New Jersey Central shares advanced 7, Central Pacific A California, Illinois Central, Union Pacific, St. Louis bridge preferred. and Erie preferred 3 each; Ohio A Mississippi and St. Louis and San Francisco 1 each, and St. Louis A San Francisco preferred 4. Chicago, February 22.—Thompson A Strogles oat meal manufactory burned this evening the building was owned by Hiram Brooks, of Boston. Loss SB,OOO. The loss on stock and machineiy is $17,500; insurance $9,000 on machinery. ' .. ’ Richmond, Ind., February Walker Ames has entered a plea of guilty to the charge of kidnapping, and has confessed that he enticedfa small ls>y named Adolpbita Williams from his home, No. 303 Bright street, Indianapolis, and started - on foot with L hjm toward this place. They walked sixteen miles the first day, when the boy’s feet became sore Aines took a rope and made a cat-o’-uiue-tails and .lashed the boy. making him walk on. He whipped the boy until he nearly fainted. They walked on to Richmond, lagging as they went, the boy being forbidden on pain of death, to make a complaint, At this place he took another little Itoy named Ratlifie, and started on towards Pittsburg, compelling the Itoyslo walk oVer tlie frozen roads, and beating them unmercifully whenever they complained. He reached Troy, Ohio, when they were overtaken by parties from here and brought back. Ames says he intended to take the BbyfTto' Harrisburg, «4te., to his mother and have her raise them. He is a light-colored mulatto, very tall und slight, and says he was the porter in. a disreputable saloon in Chicago during the winter. . . Hakrishi rg, February 22.—The senatorial conference committee on theftrst ballot unanimously selected J<gt* J. Miteboll, of Tioga county, as of the conference for United Steffis senator. Mitchel i< - represents tlipt 16th district of that slate in the present congress, his- term * expiring on the 4th of March. The selection has been received as entirely satisfacto|y. Each faction holds a caiicus to-morrow to ratify the action of .'the copforeuce, after, which a general Republican caucus will be held to endorse him. X- C Eaht Liverpool, 0., February 23. —A family of eight persons, named Sloan, were burned to death thia morning. About 1:30 flames were seen issuing from wfow «tory.fram» owned rZ&f&fr&A and occupied as a drug -’sCorr, fee 4 storey grocery aud. dwelling'. The proprietor of the drug store,*fiwilHani fttoartj with., his family, liver!lu.Uiala^tM - portion. As soon as the flftnes weft Oiscoveftd

by Mr. Sloan 'he asvokr alk, qnd telling them to efdilow, picked up qj three year old daughters and startecß for the stairs. The flames hud cut ojfcJ this retreat by/-this time, howevpEl and turning to a window, leaped oirti] <nd at the same tlmeielling his wfre] and children.to do the same. It isaupposed that , before they had time to follow bis advice they were overcome by the stifling fumes Atom the drag store, as no others escaped. The building burned like tender, and haviugsßßinerourfjeievatoira to the upper floors which opened a pathway for the tames, waa in a. short time in ruins. A search for the bodies was begun at an early bout this morning, and soon 'MI were discovered. Mrs. Sloan was ihirty-one yean old. The six children were- from eighteen months to thirteen years old- Wilbur S. Keete, a brother-in-law of Mrs,. Sloan, was the other’vicum. The nbe started pi <he drug stoje, and te^upposed-to lurve been incendiary. The loss will reach. <16,0()0, which fe fqliy insured. NkW February s3—Thei provision dealers here say there!# a scarcity rather than an abqndanictewpt EThe demand has been My : the past eighteen months, and eldom been larger, while Mt-the same time the production has been, comparatively short. Though exports have been very large the last rear And a half, there is really no m ie *' k produced than can be readil y whether or not several foreign ! iitriea prohibits its importation. a 4 for the prevalence of trichinosis, were inclined to regard the report as f * SAM' A*Fe,‘ ffoMuary 23.—The flUtl of the week a shooting match occurred’ in a gambling booth in a secluded

RENSBEUAEai, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1881.

spot five miles from the stage road, between Fort Wingate and Bacon Springs. Four men entered a saloon and sat down with the proprietors to play cards. After some playing a row began, resulting in the death of all the card players, each being shot several times. No arrests. Pittsburg, February 23. At a meeting of the Western Nail association to-day, it was unanimously decided to advance the price of nails to $3. St. Louis, February 23.—Fred Bechtolheim, who has occupied the position of Austro-Hungarian consul here for several years past, left the city last night. He is accused of the embezzlement of hinds entrusted to his care. The amount is not known. New York, February 23.—At a regular meeting of the United States international exhibition commissioners to-day, President Grant said it would be impossible for him to give much personal attention to the enterprise for some months, as he was about to leave the city. He said he was surprised to see so little interest taken in the movement, and thought some action should be taken to arouse the ardor of our public citizens. He recommended that another effort be made to secure Central park, for the site, and believed the city would be a liberal subscriber, it being fully as able to subscribe as Philadelphia in 1878. Considerable opposition was manifested to the Central Park site, on the ground that the present subscribers believed the fair was to be held in the woods. The matter of selecting another site was delayed until the Ist of March. A committee was appointed to go to Washington to secure additional legislation. As soon as $1,000,000 is subscribed the stockholders will be called and a finance committee ejected.

East -Saginaw, February 24. Eugene A. Davis, proprietor of a law and intelligence, office in this- city, and Wm. Wiskerker, clerk in the ? eneral ticket office of the - Flint A 'ere Marquette railroad, were arrested this afternoon charged with conspiracy to defraud and the embezzlement of passenger tickets. Both were lodged in jail to await examination. Washington, February 24.—Senator Matt H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, died at his residence in this city at this morning. Three days ago va|M>r baths were tried upon Senator Carpenter with such appareut success that it was thought he would recover. His health has been failing for about two years past*. Several times he has been down, with no expectations of his recovery. His naturally strong constitution enabled him to rally from these several attacks, but he has been almost a wreck for the past six months. -Though his death was caused directly by Bright’s disease of the kidneys, there was a general dissolution of the vital energies, Yesterday afternoon he. had improved considerably, and it was expected he might again be able to get about. During the night, however, he grew worse, and it was known he could not live. Last Friday he was out iu his carriage and called upon the president and several of the departments. He went to bed the next day, and never rose again.

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY

THURSDAY. SENATE:—A number of bills werefavorably reported and placed on’the calendar, among which, were bills for government buildings at Terre Haute, Ind., and Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Voorhees offered a resolution, which was agreed to, instructing the judiciary committee to- inquire into the best method of protecting . innocent purchasers from the imposition practiced by fraudulent venders o’ - patents and patent-rights, and report, by bill or otherwise. The senati' re-? sumed discussion of the funding billwith the general!)' understood puipose of disposing of the bill to-day, even if a night session were necessary; Much discussion followed when ‘ a vote w/Ls taken on the amendment- of the committee fixing the interest rate at 3U instead of 3 per cent., as fixed by the house. Ameudment rejected—aygp 25, noes 33. All the committees vtuendments were disixwed of. The committee of the whole rose and reported the bill to the senate. It was ordered printed, and the senate then, at 11:30, adjourned. HOUSE:—Mr. Hubbell reported Lack 'the pension appropriation bill, with senate amendmenla, recommending concurrence in soggfo and nonconcurrence in others. was agreed to. The speaker lata before the house from the president a enmmunicatidnlsonvu)e secretary of state in relation to like resolution ' addressed to the house on thfe 31st of January, on fufcject of’ international action ’for 'the restoratfoß/Of silver to full, use as money. The pcfiaident states that the, prospect of an international conference on that -subjeet promise«mioh valuable results to the ’-vunfiry that he recommend* Im--4bediaseattention congress, and the propriitj’ of-,‘an appropriation of thia at sueh conference. The

smTSE&m*. or th .- «nd ! senate amendments, vis: a 5-20 in-!Mm?ofa&-10 bond, compensation of of % ofl percent. for placing the loan, provision for popularizing the loan in the sense of having taken it by the people, and several t verbal H(R'SE.-Went idto dommlttee -of the whole on the agricultural appropriation bi* After some debate the committee '^^rvatDAT 6 house ad SENATE—A nuniper M>f amendments to the river and harbor bill were introduced aup referred. The cattle disease bUI, far establishing a bureau of animafl industry was Taken up. the senate at 2 o’clock adjourned to attend the funeral eg Hon. Fernando Wood. HOUSE.—WahI into committee of Xwls&S, house adjourned t4.Mte*|f the funeral .^.lSEW^rE.—rite legislative appropriate mini I waa/akniLup in committee of'tbe'wholr, and Tmt little else *HOUBE.-A number of bills of a local nature were introduced and re? MFi f° r t|- memtdrable the bouse mil for detining the idrification of the returns es national ■banks. * He said the object was to legalise eaths taken by bank officers as

to returns when made by a notary public. Passed. Mr. Bayard, from the finance committee, reported, with a substitute therefor, the senate bill to repeal all laws that impose taxes upon the capital of and deposits with banks and bankers and upon bank checks. The rest of the business was simply of a routine nature. HOUSE.—Went into committee of the whole ou the agricultural appropriation bill. After rising the bill was put to a vote and passed. Recess until 10 to-morrow, . WEDMEZDAT. SENATE:—A bill was introduced for the relief of the Poncas. Several bills were passed, after which the fortification appropriation bill was taken up, and passed. HOUSE:—Went into committee of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill, but pending any action the committee rose. But little else was done but the consideration of district business.

THFMDAY . SENATE.—The death of senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin was announced, after which the senate adjourned. HOUSE.—The consideration of the apportionment bill came up in regular order, .but no quorum voting, the ser-geant-at-arms was brought into requisition, and at midnight the bouse was still in session and nothing accomplished.

Girl Life in India.

On the day of her marriage she is put into a palanquin shut up tight, and carried to her husband’s house.’ Hitherto she had been the spoilt pet of her mother; now she is to be the little slave of her mother-in-law, upon whom she is to wait, whose commands she is implicitly to obey, and who teaches her what she is to do to r lease her husband; what dishes he ikes best and how to cook them. If the mother-in-law is kind she will let the girl go home occasionally to visit her mother.

Of her husband she sees little or nothing. She is of no more account to him than a little cat or dog would be. There is seldom or never any love between them, and no matter how cruelly she may be treated, she can never complain to her husband of anything his mother may do, for he would never take his wife’s part. Her husband sends to her daily the portion of food that is to be cooked for her, himself and the children. When it Is prepared she places it all on one large brass platter, and it is sent into the husband’s room. He eats what hp wishes, and then the Blatter is sent hack; with what is left, for her and the children. They sit together on the ground and eat the remainder, having neither knives, forks nor spoons. While she is young she is never allowed to go anywhere. When she becomes very old, if she makes a vow to go on a pilgrimage to some heathen temple, she is permitted to go to otter a sacrifice either for herself or for others, but this is only occasionally done; very, very few ever undertake it. She always has her Takoors, or household gods, on a shelf in the house, most frequently over her«own bed, and to them she pays her daily devotions, offering them rice and decorating them with flowers ; and so at length she draws near the hour of death, and when it is thought her end is just approaching, is carried down to the banks of the Ganges, there to breathe her last in. view of that holy stream whose waters are supposed to be efficacious in cleansing away sin. As soon as the spirit has departed the remains are taken to the Burning Ghat (the place for burning the dead bbdles) and aid upon a pile of wood. In a few hours nothing remains but a little heap of ashes. This is then taken up and cast into the river Ganges. Such is the life and death of the happiest, the most favored, amongst th«*se Bengali women. The little girls are married even as young as three years of age, and should the boy to whom such a child is married die the next day she is called a widow, and is from henceforth doomed to perpetual widowhood ; she can never marry again. As a widow she must never wear any jewelry, never dress her hair, never sleep on a bed, nothing but a piece of matting spread on the liara brick floor, and sometimes, in fact, noteven thst between her ana the cold bricks,, and no matter hOw cold the nights may be. she must have no Other covering than the thin garment she lias worn in the day. She must eat but one meal of food a day, and that of the coarsest kind, and once in two w. eks she must fa£t for twenty-four hours. Then notia bit of food, not a drop of water or medicine must pass her lips, not even if she were dying. She must never sit down or speak in the presence of. her mother-in-law, or either' of her sisters-in-law, unless .they comma d. her to do so. Her food must be cooked and eaten apart from other women's.. She is a disgraced, a degraded wo-' man. She may never even look on at any of the marriag ceremonies or festivals. It would be au evil omen for her to do so. She may have been a high caste Brahmanic woman, but an' iter becoming a widow, any, eveii the. lowest servant, may order her'to do - what tliey do not like to do. No woman in the house must ever speak ‘one of love or pity to her, tor It is supjfosed that if a woman shows the slightest commiseration to a widow she will immediately become one hererff. I saw an account a short time ago in an English paper that they have been trying to take the census of the population lately In India, and, as far as they had gone, they found that .there were eightv thousand widows Lundersix years dr age. ‘Can you imfagine the amount oftsuffering that little sentence tells of and foretells?

Some amongst the educated men of India are desirous to break the chains that still hold the women in slavery. Others still desire to keep them down in abject submission. A native gentleman, a lawyer, only a short rime ago pleaded in the English court of jutitiee in Calcutta for the “abject dependence of women,” quoting the ‘‘statutes of Menu,” one of the most ancient of their holy books. He said: “Menu tells us tMt ip childhood a female iqqst be dependent on her soIther; iq youth on her husbands her lord being dead, on her sons." He also stated that for a woman te-aspire to the exercise of her free win would be something shocking to the feelings of the whole Hindoo community! Menu also writes:. “By a girl or a woman advanced in years, nothing' must be done even tn her own dwell-ing-place according to her own pleasure.’’. Menu classes her with the etupid, the dumb, the blind and the deif. She may be corrected by her Iqrd, to whom her Rind, speech and bo<]y qre sq be kepf fi sqtle&ion by means of a rope of cane. This is the position of her who should be his companion, his helpmeet and friend. So is it any wonder that the race has remained so degraded for .ages?— Congreqational-

INDIANA.

Mrs. Hollowell, of Seymour, aged 82 years, was found dead in bed. Thomas Robinson a miner of near Carbon, accidently shot himself while hunting. . r . The store of James A. Easton, at Morristown, Shelby county was rob bed the other night. Fine bass are being caught through holes in the ice near South Bend - . Crawfordsville voted $40,000 to the Lake Erie and Western railway, by 650 majority. The Madison Star says it is doubtfill whether Trow A Co. will rebuild their mill in that city. A postofflee has been established at Bruce’s Lake, Fulton county, Amanda Lebo postmistress. Richard Deane aged twenty-four, was killed by the falling of a tree in the Kaolin mines, near Bedford, Lawrence county.

Henry W. Glendenning, of Rush county, has been missing for two months. He had $1,600 on his person whten last heard of. Five Wabash engineers have been killed within the last six months, more than have been killed before since the opening of the road. Ervin Weller, a young man of Muncie suffered the loss of one of his legs by having it caught In the machinery of the fttx mill at that place. George Mott, of New Harmony, Posey county, was drowned by the upsetting of nis boat in which he was hunting ducks near Fox Island. The son and administrator of the late Governor Williams has contracted for a SSOO monument, to be placed above the grave of the Governor and his wife. Among the social events of last week at Elkhart, was the celebration of the sixty third anniversary of their wedding by Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Clark. Mary Shelvey, a domestic in rhe employ of Rev. W. H. Llpes, of Fort Wayne, fell into a cistern while attempting to draw water, and was drowned. 8. B. McCann, a freight brakeman on the Fort Wayne road, fell from the top of a train and was run over and had both legs cut off. He lived two hours.

Three workmen fell from one of the piers of theC. W.&M. railway bridge, over the Mississinewa river, near Marion, Gram county, and one was so badly hurt that he will die. The finest poplar timber in the State grows in Pike county. Last week M. D. Walts, sold 100 poplar trees, as-they stand in the wooas for $1,200, and Polk Rumble sold 100 for SBOO. Robert Hunt, of Canaan, Jennings county, has been arrested for implication in an attempted abortion on a young lady of that village. Hunt’s son, also a party has fled the coufttfyi The flrm of Pyke A Ford, shoe dealers at Lafayette and Fort Wayne, made an assignment, having been in business twenty-three years. The proprietors say that with time they can pay all claims. Rev. M. V. Snellman, appointed by BishonChatard, was ordered from the churchyard of the Catholic church, at Brownsburg, Hendricks county, by Rev. Dennis O’Donovan, who “holds the fort” against the bishop’s orders. The dam across the Wabash river, at Delphi, has partially been carried away by the current, and farmers in that neighborhood are consequently Jubilant, as at every freshet therr lands would be inundated by back-water. James Ketcham, of Newberry, was badly if not fatally hurt, while hunting. He was resting ou his gun, with the muzzle under his arm. His dog reared up and placed its foot on the hammer, draw ing it back sufficiently to discharge the weapon.

Henry T. Sample, a resident of Lafayette since 1823, died Saturday morning last. He was. an honored and respected citizen and was at the (lime of his death, president of the Tippecanoe Agricultural Association, a position he had held centinusly from the organization of the society. John B. Cobb has been appointed post masterof Columbus, vice William Winkler resigned, and the same created great excitement and much dissatisfaction which resulted in a meeting and the agreement to hold an election the first Saturday in March to determine by vote who shall be the postmaster. Mr. Cobb was a party to the agreement. At Indianaplis, on Saturday, Joseph Wade, charged with assisting Mrs. Brown in the murder of her husband, S leaded guilty to murder in the second egree, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life. On a former trial Wade was found guilty and sentensed to be hung, but the Supreme court reversed the decision, and gave him a new trial. ~ Wash Carpenter of Fort Wayne, an engineer on the Wabash road, was killed -at Wildcat creek, near Lafayette, by the breaking of the side rod of his engine which, flying back struck him op the leg and threw him to the other side of the cab. He put on the air brakes and the train being stopped it was found that he had rolled off the engine and down an embankment. He had a severe wound on the head and his ankle and hip bones were so mashed as to protrude through the skin. He died shortly after receiving his injuries. He leaves a wife and six children.

Anecdote of the Dutch Tulip Mania.

Many anecdotes are related of the .tulip mania. A Dutch merchant, who prided himself qn hisrere tulips, was informed by a sailor of the,arrival of a valuable cargo of merchandise, and the merchant rewarded the sailor for the pews by presenting him a fine red herring for hjs breakfast. The sailor had been absent from the country, add knew no( of the mania for tulips. Seeing What he supposed was an onion out of place among silks and satins he put it In his pocket. It was a tulip bulb worth <I,OOO. The precious bulb was soon missed, and the whole establishment was in an uproar of search. Finally the sailor was thought of. The merchant rushed to the quay, where he found the sailor eating the last morsel of the bulb as a rylfib |q his herring in the belief that |t was an onioq. ft Is recorded that an English traveler. whp wasan amateur botanist, while in the conservatory of a Dutohman, picked .up a costly tulip root, and, being ignorant of its quality, took out his pocket knife, peeled off its coats, and cut it in two to make experiments upon it. When the Dutchman came in the Englishman made some learned remarks on the singular

appearance of the unknown bulb, which he supposed was an extraordinary onion. “Hundert tousand duyaels,” said the horrified Dutchman, “its an Admiral Vander Eyck!” *•* Thank you,” said the Englishman, taking out his note book to make a memorandum, “are these admirals common in your country?” “Death and the devil,” said the Dutchman, seizing the astonished botanist by the collar; “come before the syndic and you shall see.” The Englishman was forcibly taken through the streete, followed by a mob, and, when brought before the magistrate, learned to nis consternation that the bulb which he had cut up was worth $1.600. He was lodged in prison till he found security for the payment. Marte for the sale of tulips were opened in 1636 on the stock exchange of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and in all the principal places in Holland. The gambling mania of speculating in tulips ran wild throughout Holland. Jobbers bought for a rise or fall in tulip stocks, and many grew suddenly rich by enormous increase in prices. The tulip marts were crowded, and everyone imagined that the passion for tulips would last forever, and that the world would send to Holland and pay any prices asked. Everybody dabbled in tulips, and people converted their property into cash and invested in tulips. Mackay says that “foreigners became smitten with the same frenzy, and money poured into Holland from all directions. The prices of the necessaries of life rose again by degrees; houses and lands, horses and carriages, and luxuries of every sort rose in value with them, and for some months Holland seemed the very ante chamber of Plutus.” The mania spread in England, and tulips were publicly sold fn the London exchange. Paris also was bitten by the tulip mania. In England tulips were catalogued at SI,OOO.

Horace Greeley and the Ticket Agent.

A reformed ticket agent, a man now engaged in a mercantile pursuit, and who looks back with a profound melancholy and remorse to his wicked career, as he sailed in as a ticket agent, told me that once, in his sinful days, he was employed at Chicago on a through line from that incorporated Boreas on the la’<e to New York city, which, made up of a new combination, was “bucking” against Vanderbilt. To extend its custom the combination had at Chicago a corps of able-bodied runners, to seize wayfarers by the throat and fetch them up to the ticket agent, where the innocent traveler was to be talked into a ticket over the combination.

One day and able-bodied ruffian came leading up a rough looking customer, who wished to purchase a ticket for New York by the way of Cleveland. But evidently the old white-hatted, loose-trousered, coarsebooted countryman, with his white head and goggling look, did not know what he wanted. It was for the ticket agent to care for him, and so he rattled on with ticket in hand until the venerable, goggle-eyed old shuffletoes had extracted from a fat wallet the price and shambled awkwardly away. “Say, old fellow,” asked a friend who happened to be in the office, “dp Sou know who you sold a ticket to len?” • “Some old fool of a corn-cracker.” “Not a bit of it—that was Horace Greeley.” “Ger whillicans! and he wanted to go to Cleveland?” “Yes, he is billed to lecture there, and the Tribune will give your combination the devil for the swindle.” “That’s so. Here, you put your cheek to this hole till I find him.” Away ran the ticket agent. It was not dincult to find the hotel at which the venerable philosopher lodged. The ticket agent found him in the reading room pouringover a tale issue of the Tribune. He tapped Horace on the shoulder, and the philosopher looked up with the childlike expression offhis that seemed to come out from open eyes and mouth. “I beg your pardon,” said the agent, “but I sold you a ticket to New York awhile since, and I made a mistake.” “In the money, I suppose?” replied Horace, dryly. “No, sir; in the route. I remembered after you left you said Cleveland. Now the ticket I gave you will not take you to Cleveland.” “The hell it won’t,” cried Greeley, starting up. “Well, young man. I can tell you that would be a great disappointment to Cleveland.” “I don’t know anything about that; but I did not want any man to miss his way through any fault of mine. So I’ve been In every hotel in Chicago after you.” “The devil you have.” “I have. 'l’here is the right ticket. It’s over a rival line. But my honor, sir, rises above trick. I bought the right ticket for you, and if you give me the old one we will be even.”

“Young man,” said Horace, fishing from his capacious pocket the ticket of the combination, “you are very ijood; too good; come to think of it, »o good for a ticket agent. Leave that, good young man, before your innocent nature is corrupted, or your Patent Screw and Podauger line is burs fed up. Go west, young man, go west.”— Don in Waahington Capital.

Maine News.

Hop Bitten, which are advertised In our columns, are a sure eure for ague, biliousness and kidney complaints. Those who use them say they cannot be too highly recommended. Those afflicted should give them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic in ths praise of thsir curativs qualities. — Portland Argue. '

Joseph Hopkinson wrote “Hail Columbia’’ in 1798. At that time the war between England and France was raging, and it was believed that the United States would have to take up anna. Congress was in session in Philadelphia. The people were divlded, some favoring an alliance with France and some with England. One Saturday afternoon a young Philadelphia actor came to Hopkinaon and said he was to have a benefit on the following Monday night, but that no boxes had been taken, and he feared that he would lose instead of gain by the benefit. The actor thought that he could fill up the house if he eould get a patriotic song to the tune of “President’s March.” He asked Hop-, kinson to write him one. Hopkineon promised to try. and the result was “Hail Columbia.” The song was readyon and soon A convention of colored men has been called to meet in Washington, March 9d and Bd, two days preceding the inauguration ceremonies. The convention is called to consider mmna for improving the condition of the colored people, and promises to be largely attended. The French government has put an embargo upon the importation of American salt pork, bacon and ham

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

TfIVBMBAT. SENATE:—In the senate the con* sideration of the civil code was set aside, and the bill allowing members to vote for presidential electors was taken up, yeas. 28; nays, 21. Mr. Wilson moved that the senate take a recess for one hour, to hear speeches from ladies representing the woman ’s suffrage association of Indiana. The resolution was agreed to, and the lieutenant governor having the rostrum, it was occupied at onee, Mrs. Dr. Mary Haggart, of Indianapolis, speaking first, Helen M. Gougar, of Lafayette, following, and Mrs. Dr. Thomas closing with a very few words. riIUAY. Tho senate renewed the consideration of the committee on revision bill, section 271, codifying tbe laws concerning court proeeedure in civil cases.

In the house bills were introduced: For the revision committee [H. R. 889]; for an act concerning churches* to amend section 1 of the act of March 14,1877, to provide for the distribution of the surplus dog Ut in the hands of township trustees; in relation to promissory notes, bank checks and bills of exchange, and to designate the holidays to be observed in the punishment of the same; [H. R. 393. J Concerning public offences and their punishment. Read twice by title only, and made special order for Thursday, February 24, at 10 a. m.; to provide for the publication of legal and official matter in newspapers; to establish a school for truant boys, and defining the duties of certain officers connected therewith; establishing rules for governing the same, prescribing penalties, eta.; “regulating the mode of transacting business of foreign corporations doing business in this state; to fix the times of holding circuit courts in the counties comprising the 36th judicial circuit and declaring an emergency; to encourage the destruction of woodchucks; supplemental to the act of June 10, 1853, defining felonies and prescribing punishment therefore. The house for the remainder of the session continued the consideration of the committee on revisions’ bill [H. R. 204] codifying all the states concerning assessments for taxation.

Indianapolis, February 21.—1 n the senate, this afternoon, Mr. Bell’s road bill, after discussion, was ordered engrossed. The rest of the session was occupied in the discussion of Mr. Yancey’s medical bill. . .. The house was engaged in receiving reports from committees and hearing bills reported the second time. Mr. Roelker’s bill, giving laboring men a lien for wages, was recommitted. Indianapolis, February 22.—The senate continued the discussion of the medical bill this morning, a number of amendments being offered and relected. It finally went over to Friday. The rest of the day was spent in consideration of the civil code bill. After considerable discussion the amendment to admit women to the bar was lost.

The house presented an animated appearance, many ladies being present to witness the disposition of the woman suffrage hill. This was not reached, however, until after considerable discussion of the Buskirk interest bill, when Mr. Cauthorne moved to amend the bill by striking out the enacting clause. This was lost by 43 to 46, and then by the samq vote the bill was orderefengrossed. The suffrage bill was then put upon its passage and failed to pass—yeas 43, naves 46. The tax bill was further considered and finally passed. Indianapolis, February 23.—The senate received the tax bill from the house this morning and made it the special order for every .afternoon until finished. The medical bill was then taken up and finally ordered engrossed. The civil code bill was completed and ordered engrossed. In the house a number ‘of senate bills were read, and the following ones passed. Amending the street ami alley law; prohibiting pool-selling; concerning the settlement of decedents estates; authorizing county commissioners to provide suitable asylums for pauper children; amending the act concerning contempts of couit; legalizing the recording of patents issued by the United States or the state of Indiana; appropriating certain money ,to pay the Indiana legion; repealing the act requiring separate polling places In incorporated towns. The bill authorizing lees than the entire jury to return a verdict in civil cases was lost—ayes 38 nays 43. A telegram was received this morning announcing the dangerous illness of Senator • Hart, at his home in Booneville.

Governor Porter this afternoon nominated Samuel Green, of Rush county, as trustee of the institution for feeble minded children from April 1, Indianapolis, February 24.— The forenoon was spent on the Shaffer temperance bill, the discussion being preceeded by the presentation of a great quantity of petitions asking for a better liquor law. The reports of the committee waft read, and all but three of the twenty-six amendments proposed were concurred 'in. A motion to disperse with the constitutional restrictions and put the bill on its passage was rejected by a vote of 28 to 23, after which it was recommitted, with instructions to strike out the emergency clause and report to-mor-row. The most important of the committee’s amendments is that which requires the petition to contain the names of a majority of all the voters who actually voted at the last proceeding election, The afternoon waa spent in considering the tax bills. In the house several new bills were introduced, among them one to prohibit Insurance on the tontine plan. The house then took up the criminal proceedure bill, and efforts were made successively to abolish the grand Jury and to reduce its numbers to nine and up, all of which failed. The committee investigating the female reformatory reported this morning, finding the management satisfactory. - The prison committee of thehouse will report very favorably of the Northern prison and unfavorably of the Southern, recommending a large proportion for its maintenance, or that ft be consolidated with the Northern prison.

“Nother One Basted.”

Throe years ago Detroit had about fifty amateur weeklies in full blast. Hue by one they have sucumbed to the chicken-pox, measles, whooping cough, and hard times, and the number yet aliye can now be counted on the fingers of the left hand. The c * curred yesterday Just after the bells had struck 132 o'clock. An ambitious, persevering boy of 12 had established the Twiliffht in a lit-

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tie second floor back room beyond the parks on Woodward avenue. In his issue of twenty-three copies in the forenoon occurred the following item: “Nonas.—tHhere is A Read-beded WOman in ThiS Bitty j»ho IJckß her Childern With the stOve handel. LEt her beWair or We BHall pußlisH Her naim.” _ The editor of the Twilight was seated in his sanctum at the hour named when a female She hadn’t come to subscribe. She wasn’t there to have a funeral notice published. She didn’t look like the president of a female sewing-society. Noone could read her errand until she had locked the door. Then she kicked the? press over, upeet the standing-galley, knocked the legs ■ . from under the editorial table, and laid hands on the editor. Being taken by surprise, he did not realise what was going on until he had been shaken out of his boots and Jammed into the wood-box head first, and ere he had regained his editorial composure the assailant had fled. Ruin and desolation brooded there. Havoc and disaster sailed around the room. The red-headed woman who licks her children with the stove-handle had played smash and left nothing to begin anew on. No insurance, and no more Twilight. -

Anecdotes of Carlyle.

It is said that having gone to spend an afternoon and dine with a newt $ • quaintance, and arriving several hours before his host, he entered the library, upon the gentleman irided himself, as it contained a num>er of rare and curious volumes. The host came and dinner was eaten. After leaving the table, he told the author that he should be happy to show him his books- “I’ve read’em,” was the laconic answer: and it proved that Carlyle had actually ab> orbed In the time before dinner all that was valuable to him in the well-chosen library.

When Charles Dickens had decided to write “A Tale of Two Cities.” knowing that Carlyle had made special studies for his “French Revolution,” he asked the latter to send him a few books that would be best worth consulting. Judge of the novelist’s surprise when a large van drove up'to the door and discharged its load of volumes, in five or six languages, to his amazement and dismay. This was Carlyle’s notion of a few books—really enough for a moderate library. A characteristic anecdote is told of the Scotch image-breaker. A ship owner, a fellow-countryman, went from Glasgow to call on him, and, entering his presence, said with fervor and feeling: “I have come to see you, Mr. Carlyle, to tell you that I admire and honor you; that I have built a ship and named it after you on account of the good you have done in the world.” Then quoth the author, with his marked accent: “I don’t balieve you, maun! I never did ony gude in the warld! There is na gude in the warld!” ' —- William Black, the novelist, once called on Carlyle, and after a little conversation the philosopher remarked : “You know Scootland very well, I see. I’ve * read your nooyels with Eleasure. They’re vary amusing, vary, tut when are ye goin’ to do some wark—when are ye goin’ to write some real books—maun?”

Choosing A Wife.

Dr. Fletcher says: “A man’s first necessity is to find a woman physically able to support the cares and duties which attend that position. Solomon, who from a long experience with wives, ought to know what constitutes a good one, described his favorite wife as one who spun wool and flax and took care of the bouse, etc.,* in short, he means to say that she shall posess a large share of physical potency. It is the power to do, without which no woman deserves the name of wife. Within the past decade some young men in choosing wives have disregarded this advice of Solomon’s, and have since repented. But young men are fast becoming more careful and. wise in the matter. They are learning that a pretty face and form, though, doubtless desirable accompaniments, are not the whole requisites of a good wife. It is true that there are some thought--1688 exceptions among the young men but they aye simpletons. But above them are thoughtful men, who do not and will not fall in love blindly, but who are looking for the wife which Solomon commends, and who will not be satisfied without such a one. Ido not’ wish to reveal any one’s secrets, but I have had men say to me when talking upon the subject of this discourse, ‘Girls, nowadays, are too freil to marry.’ Does any one think the young man to blame who says thia and then stands aloof from the marriage altar? Surely not. And does a young lady who is too weak to sweep . m , or make her own toilet, think such a young man will hasten to propose? If so, she is mistaken ; young men of to-day are fast becoming wise through the experience of their unfortunate friends.

A Baby Preacher.

The expression in the eighth Psalm Hn™ h f aiidsucklings hast thou ordained strength,” is a ß > tills nc ldent: A little five-year old boy overheard a workman who was repairing the sit-ring-room, drop the exclamation “by gosh, over some mishap. “That's the first swear word! ever heard in my father’s house,” was the grave rebuke of the little fellow. the rough man that he went to th* S* er w^ e •“!? confessed his fault. While engaged nn the job he Z£ni£ iD ,nt ° « The boy, now a tall lad, wields the same influence over his mates Thev ? nde l^. and that his part in the game is ended as soon as bad words are inTh “ knowled ge that his 'ether » tongue was never pointed bv profanity, together with hk precepts, ano a ghild’a natural riiwinri to be Yike his father" thta salutary bias to his eariv life.

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responsible for the following, which that paper gives as an actual occurrence: 8 Btroll aIon « Main street the other day, on the look-out for an item, when we heard the concluding chapter of an animated discussion between two old, weatherbeaten farmers. They sremed to be discussing the relative expense of boy® and girls. One re“Ceftainly, Mr. Williams. But * hen > you know, them furbelows and fixin’s that the gals wear ain’t near as tertoeke, and si puted.