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“Chablbb 8. Sweet,..of Chicago, to Secretary Lincoln’a private secretary. Woman sufferage In Wisconsin has received a back set in the rejection of the constitutional amendment providing for woman suffrage by the people recently. But it must be confessed chat the exceedingly cloee vote on the amendment to an tncouragement mßre than otherwise. - ** n

Tse chief provision of the new coercion law, now being enforced in Ireland, la that those who offend against the laws as they stand,mly, in certain proclaimed district*, be arrested and imprisoned without trial for eighteen months. Bach tyranny will benefit England but little. Another soulless- monopoly in New York. A cremation society has Just been organised in thatcity, which proposes furnishing special rates to members, and to reduce “active” members to ashes free of cost. Outsiders will pay full rates or leave their chances of incineration to the place which Bob Ingersoll asserts does not exist.

It is said by the New York paper that their boasted Central Park is fast going to decay. The (Hives are neglected, the trees for, the shrubbery dying and the pathways impassible. Buch a condition of affairs in one of the most beautiful parks in the world, is a disgrace to the people of New York City, who should . make the park commissioners do their duty at once. The Irish Jails are being rapidly filled up with victims of the coercion act. Over forty prisoners were taken on iVednesday. When Halley, one of the more prominent of the “village tyrants” as Foster called them,on being removed from the train enroute to jail, he cried out to the large crowd of sympathisers at tha depot: .“For every man arrested let one be laid prostrate.” There is trouble ahead in the Green Isle. -. hj! l _ ■ The sity of Duluth is doomed to oblivion by the decision of powers that be. The managers of the Northern Pacific railroad have recently deckled to make the terminus of the main line of that road at Superior, where there is a fine harbor, seven miles distant from Duluth. The “future great city” therefore will be built at Superior and not at Duluth. This is said to be the natural terminus for the road. j

1 The latest reports from the northwestlire to the effect that Sitting Bull and his remnant of warriors are well nigh starved out,with so many deserving people appealing to our sympathies we confess that the condition of Sitting Bull haa not as yet worried us to tears. A good Indian is not the worst fellow in the world, but an Indian of the character of Squatting Taurus, haa got to get pretty far along before we commence slobbering over * himIt is not so certain that we shall have another world’s fair In 1883. The trouble Ilea in getting a suitable place where it is to be- held. The general verdict Is that Central Park is the place: but those in charge of it are opposed, and will not give permission. General Crant, president of the board, has a poor opintbn or the place selected, and it is evident that unless the place be changed to the Central Park, be will withdraw from the board. It is far from being a sure thing that the fair will be held at the time announced.

Legislatures are idiotic at frequent intervals, but at some times the attack is worse than at others. The Wisconsin Solons are just now having one of their periodical attacks of lunacy, and a bill is pending in that legislative body providing imprisonment as the penalty for the truancy of a child from school. The bill is likely to nass. In this country, where the highest slip ’Of even the poorer classes is to educate their children, any scheme tending toyrard compulsory education is looked upon with, dislike, and this bill of the Wisconsin idiots is a move In the direction of such compulsion as to- education, and a move so far beyond the ' pale of reason that even professed friends of such education will be likely to turn from the whole scheme. The legisl ture had better let such a bill severely alone. u

It was thought that the death of the Czar would be the signal for a general uprising in Russia. But it now appears nothing of the kind was Intended. It is difficult to sei? "what these fellows really wanted. t If a general uprising was not the purpose of the assassins what advantage did the Nihilist expect to gain. The Czar was by all odds the most liberal monarch the empire has ever had. Under his rule and by his own action surfdom was abolished and the large body of

the Russian people who had been held as serfs or slaves were liberated. ’To the assassinated monarch more than all other princes of the empire, that have guided the destinies of the nation is due what little of political and civil liberties the people have. Was it because he was generous that his life has been sought and at lastwarificed ? It is said the nihilists are sifting a constitutional government. TOds is well, but could not such a government be . as easily attained the old monarch as any other qpe, .who is likely to him? Just how these agitators are likely to attain such an object under the present monarch is not so clear, touch nearer are they to a constitutional government is hard to detect. It would seem the assassination of the monarch was not only a cruel, but a useless piece of work.

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TELEGRAPHIC.

Cincinnati, March 19,—“Death from being stabbed by its mother. I farther find said wounds were inflicted to commit murder.” The above to the verdict of the coroner this afternoon in a case of infanticide. The mother to Matilda Streazel. The birth and infanticide oeeured two weeks age, bat the discovery of the chil< in a privy vault was not made til* last night, and then accidentally by plumbers. Twenty mortal stabs were found in its body. The mother this afternoon testified that she gave birth to the child alone in the privy, knifed it to death to still its cries and threw it into the vault to conceal her shame, but says she was mentally deranged. She to twenty-one years old, oome from Germany to Chicago a year ago and tP this city about a month ago. She and Carl Seibel, the reputed father of the child, are arrested for murder. They come from Germany together, and are said to be cousins.

St. Louie, March 19.—The case of ex-United States Senator Armstrong, on trial several days past for malfeasance in office while he was at the head of'the police board of this city, terminated ♦his afternoon with a vefe diet of “not guilty.” The Republican's Charleston, 111-, special says: Printed bills were posted all over the city last Hight warning some twenty persons, about half of them being women, to leave the place, on pain of being regulated b/ .be vigilante Several of these peof pie were whipped a few evenings ago, 'as previously reported, and most of them have left the city since morning. The vigilante are determined to rid the country of the gang of des>eradoes and their women, who have jurned houses and hay' stacks, have strung cattle and horses, and robbed and plundered and have murdered for two years past.

New York, March 19. —Applications for entry blanks to the great bench shefw of dogs continue to pour in at an unprecedented rate from all over the Union and Canada, and even Texas has been heard from. Henry Lacey, of Hebden Bright, and C. H. Mason, of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, both successful exhibitors of sporting dogs abroad, have signified their intention of sailing from Liverpool by yesterday’s steamer, one of the objects of their visit to this country being to attend the show. Mason will bring with him about twenty of his crack dogs of various breeds for exhibition. The managers expect the foreign entries will be unusually large this year. The competition of the champion field trial of setters already gives promise of great interest. D. C. Sanborn, of Dowling, Michigan, has written that he. will enter Count Noble, winner of the first prize at the American field trial on the D rby at Vincennes last fall, and Dr Henry Oten, es Brooklyn, has made a similar promise regarding Which won the first at'Easton field trials in 1879 and diwided the third and fourth prizes with Sensation in 1880.

Galveston, March 19.—The News’ Palestine special says: Last night the passenger train from Long View to Palestine, collided with part of a freight train loaded with railroad iron, causing great damage to both trains. The passenger train was well filled with passengers. J. E. Bond, express messenger, was instantly killed, and the engineer seriously injured. John Telundale was badly hurt. Eight or ten others were slightly hurt. The accident was caused by the freight cars being started on a down grade, the heavy weight causing the train to run with great speed unti) it met the passenger train. The smoking cm was alfnost completely telescoped by the express and baggage cars.

Lomdon, March 21. —The Mark Lane x press, in its review of the grain trade for the past week, says: A week's fine weather has inestimably benefited agriculture. Young wheats, though backward, are assuming a healthy appearance. Good samples have been in sellers’ favor throughout the week and indifferent samples have been neglected, but the demand is very quiets nd the tone is gradually lowering. Needy buyers, however, paid 6d to Is in advance. The improvement in some provincial markets Saturday reached 2s, owing to the small openings. There haa been a rather better supply in London during the week. Flour continues in consumptive demand at unchanged rates. Foreign bread stuffs have been in very small supply. Of nineteen cargoes which arrived at ports of call during the week eighteen were from America. One* third of the London supply of wheat from America is unimproved. Sellers’ wheat had the advantage of the position and succeeded in obtaining 6d to. Is advance. Buyers of flour, however, resisted any advance, and trade therefore . has been quiet. For American red winter wheat 48s per quarter has been paid. California also improved. At the close speculation values were weaker, especially for American. Only eight cargoes on passage were reported sold during the week. Millers are buying reluctantly, and there does not appear even a shadow of improvement in the general tone. Barley unchanged ana the demand uninfeproved, in some provinces good sam-' Bles8 les being scarce' and realized, 1 to Is advance, the tone of the trade improving therein in consequence of the demand tor seed. Foreign totally unchanged. Oats quiet and values scarcely sowell supported. The same may be said of foreign, Swedes being easier on account of the prospective Baltic supplies. Maize in small spot supply and the Increased floating contingent has counteracted the effect of the small supply. Sales of English wheat during the week, 33,926 quarters at 43s 7d per quarter, against 24,338 quarters at 46s Id per quarter for the corresponding week last year.

Louisville, March 21.—Ed. M. Clark came into Russellville, Logan county, this state, last night and gave himself into the hands of the officers, stating that in a quarrel with Ed. King, about three miles from that city, he had shot and probably killed him. The coroner and a party went to the place described and found King dead, with bullet holes under each eye and a pistol by his side. He olaimed it was done in self-defence, and the coroner’s jury so decided it. Clark two years ago killed a brother of King’s.

Kansas City, March 23.—The first train from San Francisco over the Banana line arrived here this morning In charge of Conductor Hallett, The train consisted of twelve ears drawn by the engine <‘Jeff Coledge,” with T. Dickinson holding the throttle. The coaches were all crowded and seventy-five through passengers were on board. The run was the moat remarkable one on record. The train having left San Francisco on time, was on time at every station in the

R.ICTJRWET.AICTL JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA.THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1881.

the long line of miles, and arrived here oh time. A large party of Chicago capitalists arrived here by the Chicago & Alton railway this morning, en route to New Mexico and Arizona to invest in mines, and left this evening for the west on the Atchison, Topeka A SantaJFee railway. Madrid, March 23.—A bomb with a lighted fuse attached, was placed outside of the Royal theatre last night, but was discovered by the police before it could explode. Vice. March 23.—The Italian opera house burned this evening. A fire broke out at the beginning of the performance. The bodies of fourteen persons, who were suffocated, were taken out and placed in a church opposite the theater. It is feared a hundred men and women perished in the flumes. ■.Paris, March 28.—Two men have been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment for placarding addresses congratulating the nihilists on the assassination of the czar. The manager of the has been sentenced, in ddnutitof appearance, to six months’ imprisonment and 200 francs fine for a similar offence.

Cincinnati, March 23.—Gazette's, Ripley, 0., special says: Four buildings burned to-day. Loss, |10,000; all covered by insurance, except that of J. Cochrane, $2,000. The principal loteea are Fred Rutz, J. Parker,' J. Cochrane and W. Badmer. ST. Louis, March 24.—The Republican’s Fort Davis, Texas, special says: A dtopdtc i received here from Pnsi-1 dio, dated yesterday, signed <Capt. iPierce, of the First infantry, .States, Moses Kelly, a wealthy merchant and rancher;- was murdered last evening by John Favrer. Mr. Kelly had been in a house adjoining his store, in which the father of Favrer’s wife Hved, and. when he came out, Favrer shot him dead.

J* Republican special from Little Rock, Artt, says: George W. Burmingham, a painter, living near Vilo- 4 na, Faulkner coutny, was assassinated yesterday by an unknown person,' while working in his field. No cause to known for the crime. Columbus, 0., March 25.—Mrs. P. F. Murray died to-day from the effects of an abortion produced on her last Thursday. r Just prior to her death she made al Statement declaring that the aboftioh /was pro diced by Dr. Willoughby.'at her ov n request, and in direct opposition to her husband’s wishes. Murray is the mother of three children, and her dislike of the increase offamily cares led her to this operation. Dr. Willoughby has been arrested and will be tried on a charge of manslaughter. New YoßKl'March 24.—A woman 25 years old, fashionably dressed, and wearing etpeußrve diamonds, was arrested in' toe upper part of the city tonight and locked up at police headquarters. Detectives declined to state the realnatoe pf the woman, but said she was 'tile wife of a well known physician of Chicago who was reported to be worth ujyer $300,000, and that her family connections were the best in the state. She was charged, he said, with stealing. $4,250 worth of diamonds from Chas. W. Perkins, a diamond broker on Lasalte street, Chicago, on February 8. A three weeks search resulted in finding the woman in this city in $n uptown board] ing house, living under the >umed name of i (Florence McNeil, detective Hartman and the woman (tart for Chicago'to-morrow. : City of Mpxico, March 16, via Havana.—Tne Mexican chief engineer has surveyed the Tehantepec obute and reported Captain Eads’ project entirely practicable. The ovation,to' General Ord coninue. $ It is reported- the government refuse's the modifications in the concession in which Romero transferred to company organized by General Scioux CnV, March 24. —Gustave! Frederick, a German saloon keeper 46 years of age, this morning shot and 'inmntly killed ya girl named Helen Eberhard, aged 114. Frederick then shst himself twice, the last shot tearing away his heart.. The shooting took, place just back of Frederick’s salobn. The girl at the time was passing through a narrow, hallway. The coroner’s jury found that the man was insane. i

Pittsburg, Pa., March 23.—Seven masked men entered .the house of John. Connor, agedßl, who lives alone with his wife at Catflkh, Pa., about fifty miles from here, bound and gagged bqth, compelled thei - old gentleman to give the combination of his •safe and stole $5,000, government coupons bonds, unregistered, and from $5,000 to SIO,OOO cash. The old people were roughly handled and may not survive the shock of the outrage.

A Quilt of 55,552 Pieces.

From tb« Phlliutolpbi* Pram. A more comfortable, old-fashioned, quiet-locking home for old ladles than the Union home,* at Forty-eighth and Lancaster avenue r dould scarcely be found. Yesterday was donation day at the h6me, and the presents which poured in attested the friendship of tttb.se who have ite. Welfare at heart. Barrels of flour, eases Of canned tomatoeA hams, tongues, all kinds of groceries, fruits, etc., were piled up in the •oulkitchefi until it looked like a wholesale grocery store, and gave promise Df'rerievihg the purchasing commitfaF work for a time.' 1 A large of the friend! of the instituWiMjt called during flhe day, and the managers gave a tea In the afternoon. Among the interesting objects made by the inmates and exhibited was a quilt of 55,552 pieces, sewed together by a lady who bas been blind from infancy—Mfas Kate Braith. She worked thrqfi years on the quilt, used 100 spoils of thread, and threaded every needle herself. She thinks she could make another such quilt in two years.

A Good Housewife,

The good housewife,' when she is giving her house its spring renovating, should bear in mind that the dear inmates of her house are more precious than many houses, and that their systems need cleansing by purifying the bloods regulating the stomach and bowels to prevent and cure the diseases arising from spring malaria and miasma, and shernust know that there is nothing that will do it so perfectly and surely as Hop Bitters, the purest and best of medicines.—Conoord CAT. J5T;' The governor of California has called atoextra session of the legislature for April 4th, to enact a general appropriation bill, levy taxes, pass deficient and apportionment bills, enact a road lbw, and confirm appointments. The session is limited to twenty days. The ■ German citizens of Montreal held a mass meeting and protested against the statement in the JPiitneM that they sympathized with the murder of the czar of Russia. A resolution was adopted condemning the principles of nihilism.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Indianapolis, March 21.—The senate further considered the bill relating to public offices and officers, and referred the sections touching fees and salaries to the fee and salary committee, with instructions to report within five days. In the house, the wife whipping bill was put on its passage. The vote Mood. 85 in favor to 34 against, the Mi failing for want of a constitutional majority. The bill providing $40,000 for a sewerage from the deaf ana dumb asylum also failed for the same reason. Dr. McDowell, a member from Allen county, was injured in a railroad accident last night. His injuries are not considered serious and he will be able to report for duty in a day or two. 'Mr. Berrymore, member from Shelby and Bartholomew counties, is reported to be dying of pneumonia at his home in Shelbyville. Indianapolis, March 22.—1 n the senate this morning joint resolutions were offered proposing an amend ment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of liquors, and to enfranchise women and permit them to practice law. Afterwards the senate further considered the bill relative to public officers.

The bouse passed the following bills: Senator Kramer’s bill relating to the manner of choosing township trustees; Mr. Barnett’s bill, amending section 26 of the fee and salary act; and Mr. McShehey’s bill, authorizing a tax levy by Indianapolis to build a market house. Mr. Burkirk’s bill to legalize the records of county courts failed for Want of a constitutional majority. The bill authorizing railroad companies to construct and operate telegraph lines for commercial purposes was also passed. The report of the conference committee on the tax bill was received and concurred in. The senate recedes from nearly all its important amendments, including that abolishing the publication of delinquent tax lists, and taxing the gross receipts of foreign insurance companies. •

“ Indianapolis, Indiana, March 23. —The report of the investigating committee, deposing the superintendent of the soldiers’ orphans home and asylum for feeble minded children, was concurred in by the senate to-day by a voteof 28 to 14. >

The following bills were passed: Abolishing the superior court of Cass county and amending section 8 of the bank act of 1873, permitting the capital stock of banks to be reducedSenator Heffron’s bill, relating to notes payable in bank, failed to pass In the house the majority report of the committee on the Evansville bridge bill was concurred in, and the bill passed. A provision to made against the charging of exorbitant tolls to other roads by the company ownng the bridge. Senator Wilson’s bill, for a state fish commissioner, was passed, and also the compromise medical bill. The bill makes it unlawful for any one to practice medicine in this state after June 1,1882, without certain prescribed qualifications. Tiie Vawter road bill, which remodels the entire road system of the state, was also passed ; also the bill levying a tax for state house purposes of two per cent, for two years. The commissioners are allowed to draw SIOO,OOO from the general fund. Mr. Hinton’s bill relating to the fees of jurors was re-introduced in an amended form, and passed. The house adopted a resolution that hereafter no more leaves of absence shall lie granted, except in case of sickness, or where the presence of a member is imperatively demanded elsewhere.

Indianapolis, March 24.—The senate passed the following bills to-day: The ouse bill providing but one voting precinct in towns of less than 2,000 population; appropriating $5,000 for the survey or wet lands by an engineer to be appointed by the governor; and providing for the reinvestment of the Purdue University sand in twenty years state bonds bearing five per cent, interest. The house passed bills authorizing countv boards -to raise the bonds of >oor farm superintendents to $5,000; or the protection of wild game; amending the act limiting the indebtedness of counties to 3 per cent.; Mr. Gibbons’ draft law; Mr. Kerr’s mechanic’s lien bill; to provide for the sale of lands forfeited to the state and for the sale of lands purchased on behalf of the state; the bill compelling railroads to fence their lands. The joint fee and salary committee will, it is said, report a new bill, making important reductions in both fees and salaries of officials. Indianapolis. March 25,—A lively debate was precipitated in the senate this morning over the concurrent resolution touching the state house cor-ner-stone, Messrs. Spann, Bell ansl Brown taking part in the discussion. Mr. Spann’s substitute for the committee’s report, instructing the commissioners to remove ana relay the same aftenplacing therein some memorial of the soldiers of Indiana, was jected,—yeas 11, nays 32. The committees report, recommending that some appropriate memorial of the war be placed in the building, was then adopted without dissent.

A resolution was adopted directing the committee on revision to prepare a bill codifying all the election laws conform with the constitutional amendments recently ratified by the people. Senator Langdon introduced a z bill establishing three district appellate courts in the state, each court to have three Judges, who shall serve until the next election. The bill provides for eumulat<ve voting, on the Illinois plan, so that the courts may be nonpartisan, The morning session of the house fras occupied in discussing the joint committees report on the soldiers’ orphans home and asylum for feebleminded children. The report of the committee, recommending the removal oft he superintendent, was concurred in, a resolution-adopted ordering the removal of Superintendent Ibach.

The bill to abolish the superior court of Cass count jr was passed; also the following: Giving to city judges the same jurisdiction as that of mayors; authorizing the appointment of a commission to empanel jurors; authorising the mortgaging of the state fair grounds to pay off the present mortgage, and appropriating $4,000 annually to pay the interest. A Galveston man, J. Hafney by name, who is in the interior of the State, received a letter from his wife the other day. It read: “ Dear husband, I have been very anxious about your personal safety ever since I read of that cattle train being wrecked.” The fenian council of Bal Hnmore, Ireland, has resolved to shoot the landlord who last year shot a man In self-defense during a riot on a farm from which the tenant had been evicted. Two men have been selected to commit the murder. The police are tn possession of all the facta.

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My Monkey.

There never was such luck. I’ve always thought that I’d rather have a monkey than be a millionaire. There is nothing that could* be half so splendid as a real live monkey, but of course I knew that I never could have one until I should grow up and go to sea and bring home monkeys and parrote and shawls to mother just as sailors always do. But I’ve actually got a monkey. It was Mr. Travers that got the monkey for me. One day there came a woman with an organ and a monkey into our yard. She was an Italian, but she could speak* sort of English, and she said that the “murderin’ spalpeen of a monkey was just wearing the life of her out.” So says Mr. Travers, “What will you take for him?” and says she, “It’s $5 I’d be after selling him for, and may good luck go wid yel”. What did Mr. Travers do but give her the money and hand the monkey to me, saying: “Here, Jimmy! take hitnand be happy.” Wasn’t I just happy though. Jocko—that’s the monkey’s name—is the loveliest monkey that ever lived. Toby Tyler may talk about his “Mr. Stubbs,” and tell how he understands everything said to him. and begs for crullers, and all that; but I tell you “Mr. Stubb” was just an ordinary illiterate monkey alongside of my Jocko. I hadn’t had him an hour when he got out of my arms, and was on the upper table before I could get him. The table was all set, and Bridget was Just going to ring the bell, but the mor-key didn’t wait for her. To see him eating the chicken salad was Just wonderful. He firfished the whole dish in about two minutes, and was washing it down with the oil out of the salad bottle when I caught him. Mother was awfully good about it and only said, “Poor little beast, he must be half-starved. Susan, how much he reminds me of your brother.” A good mother is as good a thing as a boy deserves, no matter how good he to.

The salad somehow d(d not seem to agree with Jocko, for he was dreadlully sick that night. You should have seen how limp he was, just like a-girl that has fainted away and her roung man is trying to lift her up. if other doctored him. She gave him castor oil as if he was her own son, wrapped him up in a blanket and put a mustard plaster on his stomach and soaked the end of his tail In warm water. He was all right the next day, and was real grateful. I know he was f grateful, because he showed it by try>ig to do good to others, at any rate to the cat. Ourlcat wouldn’t speak to him at first, bdt he coaxed her with milk, just as he had seen me do, and finally caught her. It must have been very aggravating to the cat, for, instead of letting her nave the milk, he insisted that she was sick and must have medicine. Bo he took Bridget’s bottle of hair oil and a big spoon, and gave the cat such a dose. When I caught him and made him let the oat go there were about six table-spoonfuls of the oil missing. Mr, Travers said it was a good thing, for It would improve the cat’s voice and make her yowl smoother, and that he had felt for a long time that she ought to be oiled. Mother said that the monkey was cruel and it was a shame, but I know that he meant to be kind. He knew that the oil mother gave him had done hhn good, and he wanted to do the cat good. I know just how he felt, for I’ve been blamed many a time for trying to do good, and I can tell you it always hurt my feelings. The monkey was in the kitchen while Bridget was getting dinner yesterday, and he watched her broil the steak as if ne was meaning to learn to cook and help her in her work, he’s that kind and thoughtful. The cat wks out doors, but two of her kittens were In the kiteken. and they were not old enough to be afraid of the monkqy. When dinner was served Bridget went up stairs, and by-and-by mother says: “What’s that dreadful smell? sure as you’er alive, Susan, the baby has fallen iqto the fire.” Eveiybody Jumped np apd ran up stairs, all bqt me, for * knew Jocko was in the kitchen and I was afraid it was be that WN® burning. When I got into the kitchen there was that lovely monkey broiling one of the kittens on the gridiron just as he had seen Bridget broil the steak. The kitten’s far was singeing and she was mewing, and the other kitten was sitting up on the floor licking her chops and enjoying it, and Jocko was on his hipd-legs as solemn and busy as an owl. I snatched the gridiron away from him and took the kitten off before she was burned any except her fur, and when mother and Susan came down stairs they couldn’t understand what It was that had been burning, and guessed the cook must haye put This to all she monkey has done siqce I got him day before yesterday. Father hM beep away for a Week bpt |s coming back In a few days, apfl WW’the be delighted when heflnds a monkey in the house?— Harpert Young PeopU.

Spantsh Hatred for Protestants.

The days of the Inquisition still survive in Spain. The same intolerance prevails in that religiously besotted land as in the times when the wheel, rack, thumbscrew, and auto-da-fe prevailed. The Spanish Romanists of today are not a whit more liberal than were their predecessors of centuries ago. The light of the nineteenth centory haa had qo eflfept op re<hovingthe Even when* tolerant laws are °MJacted thpy are openly defied and remainunenforced. The latest instance of Oathhonorof tOJn,°in» nearly v£ lage. some Protestants opened a booth for the sale of Bibles, hymn books, and other evangelical works. The nek the Pretestanta, wd\tarned the pei ple against the new device of the evil one. The Archbishop of Saragossa then took the matter In hand, and, through some petty officials, sought to

cloee their shop. The chief of poll * however, interferred, and the sale co tinned, carefully watched by tho who considered it an open doorway to perdition. When the Protestant booth had been in operation three days, a youth, 17 years of age, came along, and tak- I ing up a book commenced to read. It being cold and stormy, he was invited inside. A little questioning drew from him the following story: He had been discovered reading a Bible I and for this had been expelled from I

the college where he was studying for the priesthood, and had been disowned by his parents. He had walked in the rain three days, almost without food, and slept at the roadside, his one desire being to get to those who could tell him more about the gospel. Having expressed a desire to enter the I evangelical school, he was plaecd I

under the care of a Bible wpman in the city, with whom he might have had a very happy home, but here, too, the Catholic Archbishop interfered. He instigated the police to demand the boy’s letter of authorization from his father to leave home, without which the law forbade his residence In Bara-1 gossa. . At this juncture some distant relatives of the oqy appeared and offered to take ana provide for him on condition of his never again speaking to the Protestants, and the law at once Sve him into their custody. Such is tholic tolerance towards Protestants in Spain. If the cases were reversed what a howl there would go up from the Vatican against Protestant intolerance.—Cleveland Leader.

The Examination System in Education.

Education should be a training to promote insight, power of thought, and facility in acquiring knowledge. Perception, not memory, should be cultivated, and as the student can advance only by his own endeavors, he should be led through such a course of labor and original thought that he may come out an independent thinker as well as a thorough scholar ip such branches of education as he has inclination for.

To obtain such a training examinations should be means, not ends. For example, instead of the students in political economy, history, philosophy, or mathematics being obliged to work, as now, with an examination, it might consist in original essays in the first three subjects, and the performance of a paper in great severity in the last, all being done at the student's leisure and with such assistance as he can get from books. Here is a training similar to that in actual life: the best qualities in the mind are brought out, while recitations can furnish the students with practice In answering questions, and the instructor with opportunity of guiding the students and correcting their errors. The' same principle should be extended as far as possiole in all studies, and also in preparatory schools. It has recently been tried at Harvard with signal success in the examinations for second year honors in mathematics, while in political economy and history there is a tendency fn the same direction. The adoption, also, in the Harvard Law School of the “case system,” which to based on the principle of letting the student do his own thinking in law, has caused independent thought to be more necessary than research for success in recitations; has infused extraordinary vigor into the school, and made its recitation training unsurpassed. It may be objected that by such t syst m as I have proposed a prize would be placed on deception. Even if some obtain Illegitimate assistance, it is not pertinent to the real issue which is, What is the best method for those who wish to improve ? Natural shirkers will not receive much improvement by any method. Forcing a man to work does not improve him. as with the removal of the pressure he will return to his old condition. What we wqnt * is not to lift young men up to a height and hold them there, bqt to enable them to rise by their own exertions.

The Mexican Railway Scheme.

The'Mexican railway system, in-I stituted by certain Boston, New York and Chicago capitalists, is being! pushed with that energy characteris- I tic of the east. The Mexican roads I will be in connection with the Atchi- I son, Topeka A Santa Fe road. Targe gangs of men, surveying parties, mechanics, with all necessary implements, are being sent forward, and the opinion is that the several projected roads will soqq be completed. It was originally Intended to establish a line fromTampico, on the Gulf of Mexico, across the country to the Pacific, but recently the system has been greatly extended, so that it now covers a large area or country and touches many Important polntq. The Mexican schemes instituted by the eastern capitalists are understood to be independent of Atchison. Topeka & Banta Fe company: yet the roads will be I operatea on jntinqate terms, and, in fact, will act as one gigantic organic zation. . The first right to the company was granted from Mexico to Leon. Then an extended franchise was obtained, to extend the line to the Paso del Norte, where it will connect with the Atchison combination. Next was acquired the franchise for the crosscountry line from Tampico on the Gulf to Ban Blas on the Pacific coast. These concessions are exempt fron taxation, including everything pertaining to the road, for a perioa of fifty years, together with fifteen years’ exemption from import duties on the material necessary for the construc-

tion of the roads. AU this is supplemented by a subsidy of $9,500 for each kilometer of the road constructed. The line between Mexico and Leon must be completed to Irapuato by the end of the present year .and to Leon within the nejt year. The authority to operate for ninety-nine years has been granted. At the end of that time the lines free from debt and in good condition will lie by the government. . The cost of constructing the road and telegraph lines from Mexico to Leon is estimated at $5,400,900. These roads wiU open up some of the richest mineral country of the world. The wealth of Sonora is very great, being the scene of some of the richest silver mines known so Spanish history. Goal fields are found on the upper YdgUi river. A great deal of the land will be opened up to agriculture, and, upon the whole, the scheme is one of the most important railway measures of the age.— Leader. ■■ ■ - ■■

Edward, aged three and a half, asks for more cookies. “Have you an appetite. Edward?” says his father. Edward reflecting that if he answers “yes,” he will be given graham bread, and that if he says “no,” he will be told he doesn’t need anything more, replies to his father (a minuter,) “Well, pa, God has given me an appetite for cookies and not for graham bread.” He got the cookies, A magnificent dining car bn the Chicago a Alton road, was burned at Odessa, Mo.

Flaws in Bismarck’s System.

' It is no longer the fashion to praise I everything that Bismarck does. | Never has he been so audacious and I energetic as he is now, and so far as i I personal influence goes, never under I less restraint and more successful. His will has been law for nearly I twenty years. But audacity and en-1 ergy have their limitations. A states-1 I man may be allowed to have his own I way in war,diplomacy, finance,economic policy, ecclesiastical ad minis-1 tration and parliamentary govern-1

I ment, and an easy-going worldthat is too ready to worship personal success take an optimist’s view of his career I and hastily judge that all is as it should I be. But personal triumph may imply I national failure. A quarter or half a I [century hence the Chancellor’s short- I [comings in the cause of constitutional I Kvernment may be as conspicuous as I s services in the cause of national I unity. The perspective of time may I place him in an unenviable light. When the Congress of Vienna broke I

I up in 1815, Metternich’s career was a splendid success and Stein’s a wretched failure. What a pitiful figure the Austrian diplomat makes now, even I in his own Memoirs! As the treach- I erous oe of liberal ideas and popular I rights, and as the author of a constitu-1 tion by which the creative energies | of the Fatherland were paralysed for I half a century, he is recognized as the I evil genius of Germany. Outwitted! at Vienna, unappreciated at home, I 'misunderstood in Europe, after the! lapse of years Stein towers above the intriguers and tricksters of his time!

aa a far-sighted, progressive patriot. The time has already come when the practical sagacity of English speaking races can detect some of the flaws I in the Chancellor’s system of government and administration. The most conspicuous of these is his aversion to Parliamentary institutions. When the Prussian Chambers, shrinking back in horror from a fratricidal conflict, would not vote a dollar for the war with Austria, he raised the money I upon his own responsibility, and gave I the regiments marching ora era. when I he wanted a fleet, he bluntly told the I legislators that he would have it with I or without their consent. He assigned I to Parliament no higher functions!

than those of a national talking machine. He does not grudge them the harmless diversionsofa debating society, so long as they are not too inquisitive about the blue books, but the privileges of actual administration he reserves for the King’s Ministers and I the Emperor’s Chancellor. The Reichstag is a bit of mechanism which he is to manipulate at pleasure, gov- j erning with the consent of the Dep- I uties when it is convenient to do so, and without it when it is neccessary; I and political parties are forces to be pitted against one another according I to his needs and caprices. As he grows older his opposition to Parliamen.ary government as it is known in Great Britain, France, Austria, H [> W, Ita, y> Belgium and the United States. increases. After playing fast and loose with one political faction after another, he is aiming by I means of artifices borrowed from Las-1 sale, to organize a workingmen’s party, I upon whose support he may depend Ip a National crisis; and at the same time he is striving to lessen the influence of the Reichstag by proposing bienial budgets and shifting a great share of its business to an economic council under his immediate control. I Aa matters stand, the ascendency of a simple majority of the popular assem- I bly counts for less in Germany than in any other great State in Europe. The degradation of Parliamentary institutions involves naturally the loosest ideas of ministerial responsi-1 bility. A Prussian minister holds not by the will of Parliament, but by the will of the Sovereign; and the Chancellor himself is utterly irre-| sponsible, for although he has been a King’s man from first to last, he has made himself so necessary that the Emperor cannot fill his place. The office which he carved out for himself in the Imperial constitution makes him the political dictator of Germany. He is responsible only to a sovereign who cannot spare him, and he neither shares that responsi-1 bility -with his associates nor takes pains to train anyone to be his successor. He makes a ooint of snubbing any Minister who is restive under his control, and systematically suppresses the rising men. Arnim, Falk, Camphausen, and, within a month, Eulenbers, have been displaced. and there is not a Minister in the Emperor’s service who can be mentioned to-day as likely to be the Chancellor’s successor. Irresponsible as all the ministers are from the lack of Parliamentary restrictions, the Chancellor stands without a rival, and can drive his associates from office whenever he chooses to do so. Personal government cannot go much further.

Bismarck’s practice, like the constitution itself, recognises a single popular right—and that he has lately confessed was accepted unwisely as a Frankfort tradition—that of common citizenship. The constitution Mefines the.rights of princes, the privileges of estates and the relations of states under the Empire. The princes, not the German nation, gave the Emperor his title. There is no recognition in the constitution of those fundamental rights of personal liberty, assembling, petitioning trial by jury and freedom of the press, which were advocated by Stein and subsequently affirmed in the constitution of 1848. At that time every German State was promised popular representation, responsible ministers and chambers empowered to regulate taxation. In these respects the constitutions of the German States are now below the level of the Imperial charter. Universal suffrage marks the only advance that has been made under Bismarck’s leadership. Lassale argued that when the right of conr. mon citizenship was once secured, every other popular right would follow. It has not been so. Universal suffrage does not take away from the Beiehstag the reproach of being little more than a debating society. It does not render ministers responsible to the representatives of the people nor make Parliamentary Government a reality.—Jf. K Tribune.

The special correspondent who accompanied the recent excursion to Cuba reports that D. W. Roosevelt, the American consul, and Lewis Drake, a clerk in the office of Mallory’s steamship agency, tried to perpetrate a high-handed swindle upon the Americana. These officials charged the visitors $5 each for revising their passports, which had been obtained from the Spanish consul at Nassau at a cost of $4 each. The visitors paid, but reported the matter to the governor of the province, who arrested Roosevelt and Drake. Both begged for mercy, and refunded the money. John Fink has been arrested for murdering his sister, Mrs. J. R. Scott, of Ingham county, Michigan. She was found dead in her bed on the 15th, and the first supposition was that she had committed suicide, but the authorities now believe that she was murdered.

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NO. 28.

| The Quakers of Richmond are hav- | ing a revival. An engine and several cars w&e I smashed up in a collision on the Lake Shore railroad. • Mr. Swing, of Brookville, a dry goods merchant, fell dead, from heart ' disease, in his store. .Columbus has eighteen saloons and eighteen churches, sixteeridoctora and but two undertakers.

Thomas Hastie shot and killed James Bennett in a quarrel, at Markland, Switzerland county. i The great revival at Park Christian church, at Madison, has resulted, so tar, in nearly fifty accessions. Charles L. Ilbach, of Indianapolis, expired after suffering torture from trichi niaMs for eleven weeks. .< A cyclone passed a few miles north of Rushville, tearing down fences, unroofing houses and damaging trees.

1 Thomas A. Meredith, city editor of I the Democrat. Washington, died of p eumonia. He was about 25 years of lags. 1 During a fit of temporary insanity, I Frederick Drue k ami Her, a wealthy I farmer of New Paris, out his throat I with a razor.. 4 Mrs. Courtney, an old lady eighty years of age, living on one of the back streets of Moore’s Hill, was found I dead in her bed. The Cincinnati Southern railroad has contracted with the Ohio Falls Car company for $200,000 worth of coal and box cars. Elliot Lynn, living a few miles east of Rushville, had a pacing mare valued at SI,OOO stolen from his barn a few nights since. Upon theresignation of Mr. E. Fleehart as treasurer of Rushville, Mr. Frank Tingley, jr.;, has been appointed to succeed him. B. F. Wasson, of Crawfordsville, for years cashier of the First national bank is at the head of’a uew bank to be started in that city. George James and Joe Tucker of Jeffersonville got into a quarrel in which the latter was severely cut in the arm with a knife.

Wm. 8. Williams, formerly of Brazil, was accidentally run over and I killed by a train on the Iron Mauntain railroad at Poplar Bluff, Mo. A gang of burglars at Indianapolis, Ind., robbed the residence of Mrs. Samuel'Toggart of SI,OOO worth of jewelry, laces and sealskins.

One of the prominent fruit-growers in the knobs of Clark County says that the hard winter has not injured' the fruit trees to any alarming extent. • Selma was bycloned the other day. ’ It lifted the roofs from several houses, made kindling wood of fencing, but passed off without doing bodily injury.

A brakeman on the L. 8. & M. 8. railroad, named Frank Mastin, was killed by a freight train on the T., H. & L. road, a mile south of Crawfordsville. John Jonas, John During and Charles Young, who attempted to rob Calvin Anderson, at Vincennes, some weeks ago, have been given three years in the penitentiary. t Henry Siebold, who has been missing since Friday night, was found drowned in the Wabash Canal, Fort Wayne, having fallen in while intoxicated. He was 24 years of age. At Washington Crossing, six miies south of Bluffton, the boiler in the saw mill of J. J. Bixby exploded, killing a young eon of the proprietor, and seriously injuring two employees. John Roan, a farmer, with his horse and wagon,, tumbled down a bluff2so feet, on the Corydon pike, four miles west of Madison. Roan and his horse were badly hurt. The wagon was not damaged. A six-year-old boy, named Billings, was horribly burned at Richmond, by his clothes catching fire from a oandle. His flesh from the knees to the head was baked to a crisp. It is impossible for him to live.

Charles O’Callaghan was found iruilty of complicity in the robbery of Sarney Ricking, last October, and his penalty was fixed at four years in the penitentiary and a fine of $25. A little seven-year-old son of M.X7. Leppert, of Madison, was seriously wounded while playing with a pistol. The ball is lodged in the child’s back. It is hot known whether the wound will prove fatal or not, A man who registered at the Spencer House, in Rockport, as John Hollingsworth, was found dead in his room. He complained of feeling badly before retiring, and had, when found, been dead for several hours.

A friendless boy from Talbott, in this state, named Stephen Morrissey, attempted to commit suicide at Paxton, Illinois, by taking strychnine, because he was out of employment and hia relatives were not his friends.

Ed. Broil went to the housed William Hayes, a farmer living sixteen miles east of Petersburg, for the purpose of whipping him. Hayes’ wife nterfered and was roughly handled by Broil. Hayes then got his shotgun and killed Broil. Logansport having rescinded the contract with the gas company, ia now negotiating with the Brush Electric Lighting company, of Cleveland, to light the city. The gas company won't be rescinded, and proposes to keep right on as heretofore, and if the city refuses to pay, bring suit to enforce its demands.

Some time ago the authorities of one of the largest hospitals in London took measures to ventilate all the drains and sewers in connection with their institution, and previous to which movement pyaemia und erysipelas had almost driven the medical staff to despair. When the whole of the ventilation was completed, and as soon as the pressure was removed from the traps of the closets and lavatories, no fresh cases were found to occur, and for months the hospital wards were free from both erysipelas and pyaemia. Suddenly, however, there was a fresh outbreak of these diseases, but it appeared that the epidemic was confined to one of the surgical wards, built apart .from the main building, on the pavilion plan, and having only one story. Close investigation proved that the ventilation pipe in this wing had been stormed by a careless workman; and, on this bong remedied, all traces of the epi- > emic disappeared. A fatal railroad accident occurred near Bandy Station, France, caused by a collision between a train and an empty wagon left carelessly on the hne- Twenty-two persons were killed and injured.

INDIANA.

Tracing Epidemics.