Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1881 — Page 2

Rensselaer Republican. MiMHALL A OvnUCKU, Ed». A Prop «a. RENSSELAER, : : INDIANA.

HERE AND THERE.

The new comet is labeled “C.” We shall “C” it bye-and-bye. Thebe are said to be 698 holders of government bonds in this State. % Geneb 'i. Grant’s income is estimated to be about $60,000 a year. The method of Guiteau’s imprison-, ment is equivalent to solitary confinement. , • \ Am exodus of colored servant girls from Virginia to New York, is in progress. '■ Ulysses 8. Grant, Jr., is said to have cleared a half million dollars duriDg the past year. Switzerland and Eastern France were shaken by an earthquake o the morning of July 21st The Red River regie n of Dakota promises the largest and best crop of wheat ever harvested there. The net proceeds of the Indianapolis poatofflee for the year ended June 30tb, 1881, were $83,476.33. It is thought that a reward of $50,000 will be offered,'for the capture of the robbers of the train at Winston, Missouri.

A London dispatch announces that it has been determined to give up the whole of the Transvaal of South Africa to the Boers. r . Indiana’s railroad property is aseessed for the taxes ofr 1881 at an aggregate of $13,279/418, being about $4,700,000 more than last year. .The Brush Electric Light Company proposes to display its street light in Indianapolis on an pxteueive scale, witnin the rext ninety days. A writer Jn the New fork Sun maintains, with a strong showing of fact and argument, that the doctors are killing the President with quinine. Dr. Aonkw, the Philadelphia surgeon, has had ttje cooling apparatus taken out of the President’s room. He said it kept the President’s temneraiure uneven. . The English Radicals are preparing for an agitation aga inst the land system of that couutrv, to be commenced as soon as the Irish land bill is out of the way.

"The estate of Lord Beacon afield is sworn to be worth £76,487. The debts and funeral expenses amounted to The uet va,ue ia ‘bus about “olo.iXH). » 7 An Irishman has been arrested and held for trial in London for threatening the life of Hon. William E. Forster, the British Chief Secretary for Ireland. The law of compensations appears to be in full operation in the crop prospects. The wheat yield is short, but the potato prospect is uncommonly fine. A Wisconsin wife paiuted the soles of her hustand a boots, and thereby obtained evidence of his wandering footsteps which will be valuable to her in a suit for divorce. *

; In Philadelphia, a few days ago, fwojawyers were convicted of forging a will by which was proposed to divert an estate valued at SBOO,OOO from its lawful owners. The total value oif exports of domestic breadstuff* from the United States during twelve months ending June 30, 1881, was $865,561,329; twelve months ending June 30, 1880, $252,132,618. , A number of prominent England a/e forming an association to encourage British manufactures. They pledge themselves to wear home-made goods'in preference to those of foreign make. > . The men of Nebraska will vote next year on a constitutional amendment allowing women to vote„ and systematic agitation of the women suffrage question has already -been' commenced there. i It is said that the price of wheat is twenty-five per cent, higher than it last year, thus “evening up” the shortage of the crop, which is estimated to aggregate ajbou. the same per centage. i . The latest with Reference to Mr. Cockling is r that there is a motion on Toot to start a Stalwart newspaper in New York city, fith a capital of a million dollars, and Roscoe as editcr/ 4u-chief.

lT is feared by man> that an *era of extravagance and reckless speculation has set in which will speedily exhaust the resources of “good times,” and ' paralyze the energies of the business and industrial revival. It is said that the Nihilists are now holding a “World's Congress” in St. Petersburg, right upder the nose of the C*ar and his vast police machinery, and yet the Congress cannot be found by the government. The Right Reverend Joeeph C. Talttott, Episcopalian Bishop of (he Diocese of Indiana, is lying dangerously ill at Indianapolis, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. This is his third attack, and a fatal result Is fearcc*. The Cincinnati Gazette says: “Of the"soo deaths which cccurred in this city from the effects of the excessive heat, three-fourths, if not a larger proportion, are traceable to the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors.” The next Fat Cattle Show, under the auspices of the Illinois State Board .of Agriculture, will be held in the Chicago Exposition Building during the week beginning Nqvember 7th, and ending November 12th. - The town;of Palatine. N. Y., containing about 600 inhabitants, is said to be the richest place of its size in the world. Of its population thirty persons are worth from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000, and six are put down for over $20,000,000. F. At Bound Brook, N. Y.,a few days vewo, one of a pair of black dray horses mth^° fitrated by Bum toke. It recovshort time, but its color was i

changed to a light dun, in wonderful contrast with its former blackness and that of its mate. The conservative tendency of the popular vote in Switzerland received confirmation on the 3d of July, when a law passed by the Great Council for the election of Judges by universal suffrage was vetoed by a large majority of the elector*. The remarkable growth of the United States postal service will ne the best appreciated by the statement that the value of the postage stamps stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc., sold in the last fiscal year, exceeded that of the previous year $2,560,000. Paul Held, a Swiss emigrant who lately bought a farm and settled In Eagle creek valley, Minnesota, became insane through the failure of his crops and from homesickness, daring which he killed his wife and eight children,* and then shot himself to death. The death of Associate Justice Clifford leaves only one Democrat in the Supreme Court of the United States— Stephen J. Field, who was appointed by Mr. Lincoln. The appointment of a successor to Justice Clifford will be delayed by the condition of the President

One of the moot miraculous escapes of recent date occurred kt Troy, N. Y... a few days ago, when William Gavin, while suflering from delirium, leaped, head foremost, from a precipice 135 feet high to the rocky bed of a creek below, and was only badly bruised and cut A mysterious yellow dog which paid periodical visits to General_Garfleld’s residence before the election, and followed the President's carriage on inauguration day, has just reappeared upon the scene. He called at the White House on Thursday, received some food, stayed about the premises for a couple of hours, and then departed, no one knows whither.

The New York Sun is authority for the statement that solohurous flames burst forth from the And of the sea shore, below high water mark, the other day at Long Branch, the - sand flames hissing and smelling in.a manner very suggestive of the worst place spoken of in the Revised New Testament. 1 Tiik discovery of a number of infernal machines, sent frorfr this country for probable use iu England, is creating a great sensation in' the latter country, and imposes an important and peremptory duty upon the government of this country in the detection and punishment of the villains concerned in these diobolical plots. A Washington special to the lhdianapolis Journal says that Mr. Conkling announced last Monday that he ‘•was done with politics, and should hereafter devote himself to the law.” His name having been mentioned iu connection with the vacancy on the Supreme Bench, he said lie “would uot accept that appointment Uit was tendered to him.”

Hon. Elbkidok G. Lapham, who has been chosen as Coukling’s successor, is a citizen of Canadaigun, in Central New York, is 67 years of age, and has been a member of Congress for six yeara. His fern, as tv-nsfor will expire March 4, 1885 . The' term of Hon. Warner Miller, bis colleague, who takes Platt’s place, will expire March 4,1887. New York will hold a State election next November for Stale officers other than Governor and Lieutenant Governor; also for Senators and Representatives in the Legislature; also for four members of Congress to fill the vacancies caused by the aeath of Fernando Wood and the resignations of Messrs. Levi P. Morton, appointed Minister to Paris, and Miller and Lapham, elect' d to the United States Senate.

.it is alleged, that the late Justice Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, who was the presiding officer of the Electoral Crmmission of 1877. which decided the Hayes Tildeu Piesi-, dentiaL?election dispute, has left a “complete and detailed history” of the proceedings of that commission, which, if published, would “create a sensation throughout the country.” Live stock shipped across the Atlantic to England are subject to great losses and hardships. During the year ended last February, the number of animals transported was 242,681; o? these 1,563 were washed overboard, 156 ditd from exposure,'sl2 were suffocated, 63 died for want of ventilation, 1,327 died from exhaustion, and 3.491 were thrown or driven overboard during stormy weather.

According to the discussion cf English it is claimed that there is to he three years of drouth ou the Edfope with intense lie At. The temperature in Paris was ninetV eight. Hotter than at Key west, thirty one degress south, or at Sfgnapore under the Equator. It is hoped that the extreme heat came too late to affect the crops very unfavorably, but still damage is apprehended. A special dispatch from Parsons, Kansas, says: “A post-mortem’exam-ination of a man who was accidentally shot at Chetopa, discloses the fact that the ball, which' was one of the smallest size, had not penetrated Into the cavity, but instead was found l»e----tween the outer and inner skin After being shot he walked a block a’ud * halx without assistance, and with no apparent inconvenience, but protesting the while that he would surely die. It is asserted that the man was actually scared to death.”

Referring to the impression which seems to have been created In the minds of some that Secretary of Stato Blaine is the head and front 6f the present administration, Captain Henry, Marshal of the District of Columbia, a close personal f friend of the President, says: “Tberenever was a President who had more perfect control of bis Cabinet than President Garfield, and it will be seen better, as the months go on, that he has no need of crutches, and that be is entirely able to run his own administration.” A Washington special sayß: “Mrs. Garfield and Colonel Rockwell spent sometime by the bedside of the Pr^l-

’ dent to-day, reading from the newspapers. lira. Garfield read to him a abort but well written account of the first day's excitement a/t«r the shooting, with some extracts indicative of public feeling soon after that time.' JH® listened attentively, without a word of comment. When she finished he turned-on his side, stretched oat hie arm and laid hie hand on hers, and said: 'Crete, it'a a people worth dying for, Isn't it?»»»

A recent medical paper on insanity while admitting that it is largely increasing, and is covering sn extensive range of mentsl affections, avers that we know next to nothing of its pathology. It Is thought to be a disease' of physical degeneration rather than one of civilization, but the causes of mental disease, its coarse, and its methods of cure are regarded as yet remaining undiscovered. It is estimated from statistics that one in thirty of all persons reaching the age of 20 may be expected to become insane in the older States of the Union. Insanity is found to be much leas prevalent in new and fresh places than in those where the population is centralized; is more common in the Eastern cities than in those of the West, and is least often met With in the farm districts of our new States. Its frequency has become more and more strongly marked in the last twenty-five years, and q much closer attention to neurological investigations is recommended.

One of the infernal machines recently sent from this country to England, and captured on shipboard by English officials, is described as being very beautifully made and most effectively designed. Although the machines are all charged with explosive substances, there is tolerably conclusive evidence that there was no intention on the part of the senders that they should explode in the hold of a steamer while in transit from Boston to Liverpool. The machine is enclosed in an oblong case ol zinc, of which it 5 occupies the upper portiou. There is a clock work arrangement, which upon being set runs about six hours, then it causes a lever to descend upon a tube, bearing a cap and communicating with the lower half of the case. The tube is filled with explosive material which, upon being fired, sets oft a detonating cap placed in the middle of a dynamite compound in the bottom of the case. The presumption is that the machines were intended to be used for the destruction or injury of public building-* throughout the country in accordance with the avowed Fenian programme.

Statistics laid before the Congress of Brewers which recently met at Versailles show that there fire In Europe about 40,000 breweries, which produce annually nearly 2,250,000,000 gallons of malt liquors. Great Britain alone produces a third of the entire quantity, or to be exact, 785,017,002 gallons. Prussia comes next with 278,579,998 gallons; Bavaria, 260,757,002 gallons; Austria. 245,975,158 gallons; and France will. 155.950,000 gallons. It will thus be seen that the Teutonic nations are eminently the beer producers, as they are also the principal beer, drinkers; where wine is to be had nearly as cheaply as beer, ’tho malt liquors are preferred. The proportion in which beer is consumed varies very much. Bavaria beads the list with 54 gallons per head per annum, or rather over one gallon per weak. Belgium is next with 30 gallons, and England is about the same, namely, 29 gallons, or, roundly speaking, something over half a gallon per head per week. In Germany, excluding Bavaria, the average consumption is 19 gallons, and from this a great drop follows, to 9 gallons in Scotland, and 8 j in Ireland, where whisky is preferred. Austria consumes only 6 gallons of beer per head and France only 4.

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Tickets to Chicago are being sold in York at $9, all ou account of the railroad war. Montpelier, at Orange Court House Va., the birthplace and home of President Madison, was sold at auction for $20,000. For the year ending May 1, the net increase in the sale of beer manufactured In the United States' was 1,324,566 barrels. Jay Gould has purchased the St. Louis, Jersey ville and Springfield railroad, and will merge it in the Wabash combination. • Miss Florence Ducat, of Wood county, Ohio, has been arrested for forging and negotiating a note for SSOO. She confessed the crime. So far during the current year 1,399 saloons have been licensed in Chicago, which is 2QO more than for the corresponding period of last year. A Canadian detective has arrested a farmer named McCormick, living near East Saginaw, Mich., charged with the murder of a man ten yeaisago. Stockton, Kansas, had a terrible hot .day last Wtdbesday. The thermometer was 115 deg. in the shade, and the citizens took refuge in their cellars. It is said that negotiations are being made by William, Amasa, Mary, and Sprague, for the purchase of the Sprague estate r or about $4,000,000. The Treasury Department has ordered that no more gold halves or quarter dollars be manufactured or sold under penalty of flue find imprisonment.

General Raum has qfferdd a reward of S3OO for the capture of McDow, the ringleader of the outlaws who murdered Deputy Collector Brayton, near Columbia, S. C. \ > President Garfield, referring to the election of Mr. Lapham, saidt “Well, lam glad it is over. I am sorry for Conkling. I should like to give him a foreign mission.” Sitting Bull says that his people have been bad,"but since they have had to surrender their gun and ponies, they are all good. He * Tnted his son educated as a white ma. A erazy- inebriate named McLane went to the Old Capitol Building, at Albany, N. Y., with the object of shooting Governor Cornell. He had an unloaded gun with.him, T. O’Meagher Condon, the Irish patriot, now in Washington, claims that the infernal dynamite machines were shipped by British agents from New York for political effect. A Methodist minister at Providence, R.L, the Rev. W. F. Witcher, charged with stealing books from the public library, confessed his tin to his congreptiop and resigned tfre ministry.

It is reported that a party of detectives and deputy sheriffs will lqave Chicago at an early date to capture the Missouri outlaws, for the reward of $50,000 offered by the authorities and railroads. ' Mr. Conkling stated, Tuesday, that the alleged interview with him in which he told the reporter that he waa going to retire from politics and devote himself to his law practice was on true. Copper and diver-bearing ore has been discovered near Fort Laramie, W. T. Surface assays vary from SBO to $l5O. A town is beiog built on thq spot, and a big emigration has set in rom Cheyenne. United States Commissioner Osborne, of New York, does not know what to do with Esposito, the alleged bandit arrested by the Italian Consulate in New Orleans. He believes he has no authority to hold him. , Secretary Windom has instructed tiie Collectors of Customs at Boston and New York to endeavor to ascertain the name of the consignor of the infernal machines recently shipped to Liverpool from this country. Frank James, one of the notorious gang concerned in the recent train murder and robbery In Missouri, was in Kansas City nine days after the affair, and had, meantime, married a Miss RalstoD, of Independence, Mo.

Professor Bell’s electrical indicator for locating a bullet in the human body was experimented with before Dr. Agnew. The result showed that the invention could be reiicd on when the ball was only two inches below the surface. Commissioner Raum has directed Collector Brayton, of Columbia, 8. C., to employ eight special deputies to help put down illicit distilling in that district. This order is the result of the recent killing of Deputy Collector Brayton. Mr. Vau Marter, city editor of the National Democrat, Peoria, 111., states that the infernal machines captured by British officials, were manufactured iu Peoria, under a director of the Association of United. Iri3hrqen, who lives there. It appears that Guiteau, the assassin, assisted his wife ta obtain a decree of divorce by confessing bis infidelity to the marriage vow. Being at that time a member of Calvary Baptist Church, New York, that congregation promptly expelled him for immorality. A ten-mile horse race between Miss M. Pinneo, of Greeley, CoL, and Miss Curtis, of Topeka, Kan., came off Tuesday at Leadville. Miss Pinneo wwh the raoe in twenty-six minutes. Her competitor dismounted and fainted on the eighth mile. The President’s medical attendants have decided he interviewed any more about the pbuf-ea of his case, as they claim they have l»eeiv misconstrued by reporters. Hereafter the official bulletins will be the only source of information touching the patient’s condition.

Within the past few days a remarkable revival has commenced in the quarter of Chicago which is largely occupied by houses of ill-fame. Minnie Rrooks, for years the proprietress of one of these houses, has been converted, and has abandoned a life of vice. At her house prayer meetings are being held for fallen women, which are already meeting with good results. A tornado in the vicinity of Troy, N. Y., Tuesday, sw<pt the country, doing very great damage, deitroying barns and other buildings. A traiu on the Boston, Hoossc Tunnel and Western railroad was thrown from the track. The crops were severely injured. Reports of the tornado show that it was general throughout New England. Justice Nathan Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, died at Corhish, Me., Monday. He was born in New Hampshire in 1803; was elected to Congress from Maine in, 1838; was Attorney General under President Polk from 1846 to 1848; was soon after Minister to Mexico, and was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Buchanan in 1858. He was a life-ions: Jeffersonian Democrat, and a member of the famous electoral commission in 1877 which seated President Hayes.

Foreign. * A violent shock of earthquake was felt at Agram, Austria, Thursday morning. It was from Dublin that Sir William Harcourt received the first warning relative to the infernal machines. The Siberian plague is decreasing in the province of St. Petersburg. Of seventeen persons attacked with the disease, eight died. The conclusion of the consideration of the Irish Land bill in the House of Commons in. committee was arrived at amid enthusiastic cheers. Gambetta will, it is said, seek reelection inutile new French Chamber by advocating a reduction of taxes on articles used by the working classes. On the arrival of the steamer Alicanti at Havana the embezzlers of the branch Spanish bank atMatanzas were captured with SBO,OOO in their possession. After removing the explosive machines from the cement barrels in which they were sent, the barrels were left on the quay at Liverpool, but not body has claimed them. r At Yokohama, Japan, the Fourth of July was being celebrated by American residents, when the news of the President’s assassination brought the .festivities to an abrupt ending. A Berlin dispatch states that Bismarck would refuse to allow Italy to join the Austro-German alliance, as the object aimed at would be to check French progress in North Africa. One hundred French have been killed during the seige of Sfax. The Arabs have possession cf some of the houses, and preferiug death to yielding, keep up a deadly fire on their enemies.

For his efforts in effecting a peaceful arrangement of the frontier question between Chili and the Argentine Confederation, the American Minister at Buenos Ayres has received a State presentation. Four hundred police have been sent to Moscow from St Petersburg, to guard the Czar on his removal to the former city, and soldiers have been stationed all.along thrline, a distance of 400 miles. A Havana dispatch states that two employes of the Spanish Bank of Cuba, assisted by two accomplices, chartered the steamer Alicante, and left port with $200,000 in specie, -which they embezzled from the bank.

It was decided at a meeting of the United Germany Telegraph Company at Berlin to vigorously prosecute the work of daying the new cable, so as to complete it this year. The principal shareholders are English capitalists. By a vote of 209 to 76, ah amendment in the land bill offered by Mr. Parnell, was passed. It provides that while the Land Court is considering a change of rental, no executioner ejectment shall take place against the tenant.

By a strictly party vote, Sl4 to 206, the motion of Sir Michel Hick* Beach, in the Hooae of Gammons, censoring the Gladstone ministry' for the oourse pursued by than in Sooth Africa, was negatived, and the mace policy approved. Marshal Basaine, a celebrity under the empire of NapoleonJll, is desirous of returning to Franoe a legacy which has been bequeathed to him. Popular feeling is against him, however, and governmental permission will not be granted. The London Standard quotes from the Irish-American journals a column and a half in recommendation of outrage* against England to prove that the Irish agitators in this country “regard themselves in a state of declared war with England.”

Russian telegrams to Vienna report the revival of persecutions of the Jews in the province of Pultava, where, in consequence, seventeen villages had been destroyed. The Siberian plague, which attacks man and beast alike, is ravaging the cattle in Livonia. The Nihilists held a great meeting at St. Petersburg on the 17th inst, at which it was resolved to give the Czar and his Ministers one more warning, which if they do not heed they will all be assassinated. Rochefort’s socialistic journal is the authority for this news. The Canada Southern freight shed at Chippewa. On!., ignited from sparks caught while Vanderbilt’s special train was passing through the village en route trt Niagara Falls. Before the flames were extinguished twenty houses were burned, involving a loss of $20,000. Baron Von Geyso, a promising young' officer ip Berlin, was killed in a duel with a brother officer. At the University of Gottingen, two students fought a duel with pistols, one being mortally wounded. At Gibraltar, in a duel between two Spanish officers, one was killed and the other seriously wounded. At Liverpool, England, a barrel shipped on board the steamer Malta, from America, supposed to contain cement, was discovered by the excise officers to be filled with six ziuc boxes, containing clock work dynamite machines. A similar barrel was found on board the steamer Bavarian.

In spite of reports to tbe contrary and suggestions of a hoax, Sir William V. Harcourt, Home Secretary, reported in the House of Commons that ten infernal machines had ac’ualiy been taken from two Atlantic steamers. They are supposed to have l«en shipped by Fenians. Another Nihilist plot for the assassination of the Czar has been discovered at St. Petersburg. One of the conspirators who betrayed his accomplices was found murdered in the outskirts of the city. Among many persons arrested was ati accomplice of Sou'avieff. The North German Gazette is makii jj h strong effort to counterbalance the' free trade agitation of emissaries of the Cobden Club. It claim* that wherever introduced free trade principles have “ruined agriculturalists, degraded workmen to mere machines, and converted the countries that have accepted them into tributaries of Manchester.”

THE STATE.

water supply is gettin low. Connersville is threatened with au epidemic of scarlet fever. The poor children of Jeffersonville are to have free rides on the ferries. The business men of Elkhart are now working hard to secure waterworks. ! A Richmond florist has lately shipped a consignment of roses to Jamaica. Parties boring for coal on tbe line of the Indianapolis & Evansville railroad near Hosmer,struck a 5J footvein,sixty teet from the surface. r At Greenwood, liid., a widow who keeps a toll-house shot a burglar and killed him. The neighbors are about to raise a subscription for her. Highwaymen attacked Henry West at New. Albany,Baturday night,knocked him insensible, and beat him cruelly. They got but five cents. Thev escaped. Dr. Wm. H. Leramling, of Slash, thirteen miles southwest of Marion, dosed himself heavily with chloral Friday night and died next day. He had been on a spree for several weeks. Shelby county fishermen are much incensed over the recent importation into that county of dynamite torpedoes which “pot hunters” are using with fearful effect in all of the larger streams.

Barney Fuchtman, who lives northeast of New Point was gored by a bull which will result in his death. The horn went in just below the heart, and passed to the right lung and his intestines diopped out. During a recent thunder storm, Mrs Voight, of New Albany, had all the hair burned from the top of her head by a flash of lightning. She was so shocked as to be confined to her bed for several days.. As the little three-year-old sou >f W. B. Aritton, of Livonia, was playing with some neighbor children, they tipped over an old fashioned cornercupboard, and crushed the little fellow so badly lhat he soon expired. George Asire, a steam-fitter in the Studebaker shops, at South Bend, was was poisoned by some one putting arsenic in the food in his dinner-pail. The doctors took hold of his case in time to save him, but had hard work to do so. William Mount, an old citizen of Crawlordsville, fell dead from a box in front of Joel’s clothing store Monday morning. He was eighty-three years old, and had been a resident of Montgomery cpunty since 1824. He left his wife property to the value df $150,000. Mr. Valentine, of Franoisville, eech year employs several men in shooting birds, and by a process of freezing, keeps his game In good condition until seen time as there is a good demand for it. This spriog he estimates he had 18,000 birds in his re'riger&tor, and it is only a short time since he shipped them.

In transferring the baggage at the burned bridge on the 1., P. <fc C. rail road near Webber's station, an alligator seventeen feet in length, belonging to Rhen’s circus, got away, and at last accounts had not been captured. The animal is valued at $285. The country people are already commencing to emigrate from that section. A little child of Mr. Davis Meyers, living south of Vedersburg, was bitten Wednesday bv.a rattlesnake while playing in the yard. It died Thursday morning after suffering great agony, the limb which was bitten having swollen to several times its natural size. This is the second child Mr. Meyen has lost in the last few days by snake bite. A quarry of the finest magnesia limestone has been discovered on the term of Dr, W. W. Tucker, at George-

1«»wb, Fjoya county, situated onefonrth of a mile from the Air-Liie railroad. The stone taken out is pronounced superior to that of the famous Bedford quarries. Dr. Tucker has been offered a large sum for his farm in consequence of the discovery. Twenty years sgo-tbe body ofLavina Harvey was buried in the northern cemetery at New Albany. After severs! years the body was exhumed for some purpose, and was found to be perfectly petrified. A few days ago it was found that the body had been taken out of its coffin, and it is believed to have been “resurrected” by some showman. An investigation is in' progress.

Jack Minton was shot and instantly killed Saturday night by Eliza Athie, of Greensburg. Minton and three others went to the disreputable house occupied by Mary and Eliza Athie,and attempting to force an entrance, were met at the door and Minton shot through the neck with a Colt’s army pistol. The shooting is considered justifiable* The sixth annual convention of tbe Christian Temperance Union wiU be held in Lafayette, September 10. Excursion rates may be had over all principal railroads. There will be a free entertainment for as many dele-, gates as can be accomodated in private families, and hotel entertainment at reduced rates. The convention will be held each evening of the con ven lion and Sunday afternoon and eroding following the convention.

The Corydon Democrat has a description of a snake killed on a farm of D. W. Creceiius, in Harrison county, which was three reet four inches in length, and about two and a half inches thick. Its belly was a golden yellow, and its head* were the same color. Its body was a beautiful brown, dappled with gold colored spots or specks,with about sixteen yellow stripes across its back. But what is the most remarkable is, tbe snake had two heads, one at each end, and teeth about a half an inch in length. The wife of George Avery, of Greenville, Floyd county, nearly severed her head with a razor Tuesday night, because the gossips of the place made two free with her reputation. She leaves a husband and two small children. Mrs. Avery’s father died on the voyage to America j and was buried in the ocean. He left a wife aud herself-t----she then being a small girl. They came from New Orleans to this city on a steamboat, and as the boat touched the wharf the mother seized her daughter and sprang overboard into the river. She was drowned, but the child was saved to meet death by her own hands.

MOSAICS.

Duty is not only pleasant, but cheap. A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure heart. Many are willing enough to wound who are yet alraid to strike. To-morrow is the day on which idle men work, and fools return. The man lacks moral courage who treats when he should retreat. No vices are so incurable as those which we are apt to glory in. It is the best proof of the virtues of a family circle to see a happy fireside. Do good to all, that thou mayest keep thy friends, and gain thine enemies. How few faults are there seen by us, which we have not ourselves committed. The Chiuese say there is a well of wisdom at the root of every gray hair. The heart is a book which we ought not to tear in*our hurry to get at its contents. It is with life as with coffee; he who drinks it pure must not drain it to the dregs. If you would not have a person deceive you, be careful not to let him know you mistrust him. The rich are more envied by tbore who have little than by those who have frothing. Jrlow rarely do we accurately weigh what we have to sacrifice against what we have to gain. Ladies are like violets; the more modest and retiring they appear, the more you love them. It is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduiug his p issious and laying aside his prejudices. Have nothing to do with any man in a passion, for men are not like iron, to be wrought upon when they are hot.

It is a most mortifying reflection of any man to consider wbat he has done compared with what he might have done. The object of ail ambition should be to be happy at home. If we are :ict happy there we cannot be happy elsewhere. Benefit your Iriends, that they may. love you still more dearly; benefit your enemies, that they may become your friends. A lively imagination is a great gift Erovided education tutors it. If not, it i nothing but a soil equally luxuriant for all kinds of seeds. To pin our faith on another man’s sleeve,and submit to be led by authority, deprives us of independence, and subjects us to just contempt. 4|No man will excel In his profession if he thinks himself above it; and commerce will not flourish iu any country where commerce is not respected. Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore comes from the hottest furnace; the brightest flash from the darkest cloud.

The Missing Bullet Found.

Washington (Special. To-day District Attorney Cork bLII found the missing bullet which was fired at the President, and about which there has been so much search It appears that a German glazier who tramps arwuud the streets repairing windows went into the depot to get a $lO biH changed Saturday morning. He was standing in the main room, some forty feet from where the assasin stood, and in a southeast direction. He bad commenced to unstrap bis box, in which he carried his glass, and bad got <*ne strap off his shoulder, when he beard the noise of a pistol, ana immediately three panes of glass in bis box were shattered. He at once rushed from the depot, thinking it was no place for safety. On Saturday he was cleaning out his box, and found the ball in his putty,and was narrating the fact to his friends when one of them told him that was the time the President was shot, and brought him to the District Attorney’s office, where he gave his statement and gave up the bail. He thinks it was the first shot • hat broke the glass, but says ttey were so close together that he bad not time to get away. His position confirms the (statement of 6k nor Camanche, the Venezuelan Minister, as to the exact position of the assassin at the time of firing the shot. As far back as 1769 the East India Company began to urge on its representatives in India the making of a statistical survey, but no really decis ive and concentrated action was takeD in the matter until 1860. when Lord Mayo (the assassinated Viceroy) in trusted the task to Dr. W. W. Hunter. The inquiries had to be prosecuted over au area little less than that of Europe, except Russia, inhabited by 240,000,000 people. This tremenduous labor is now reflected m the cages of “The ImKrial Gazetteer of India,” published Trubner of London,

BANDITS ROBBING TRAIN

Eye Witnesses’ Accounts of tbe Robbery at Winston, Me. The through passengers. irom b uain that was boarded by banditti, near Winston, Mo., on Friday evening arrived in Chicago last night. One of 'them, Mr. C. F. Chase, of the Topeka Polioe Departmentgi ves the following narrative of the aflhir: “The train halted at Winston for two minutes. This was about 9:30 p. m. I was in the coach next behind tbe smoking car. Jnst after the train got in motion again I heard two or three shots. The shooting seemed to be in the smoking car. At the same instant the passengers in the smoking car came tearing through the coach like a mob. The stampeders were heading for the tail end of the train. Ab they rushed through some of them kept pulling at both the air brakes and the bell rope. T was carried along the aisle by the crash. I ventured while trying to keep my feet, to enquire what had happened, and was answered by the shout of ‘Robbers!’ On tbe rear platform of the coach I met the rear br&keman. He was signalling with his red lantern to the engineer to stop the train. He didn’t know what had happened either; at least he pretended not to know. Subsequently -he said thfere were robbers around. The train in tbe meantime bad slackened a little. I pulled out my revolver and remarked that I didn’t propose to permit anybody to rob me. This alarmed the brake man, who told me to put up my weapon, &3 its exposure would draw a fire from the attacking party. I didn’t put it up though. I looked in the coach ana saw only two or three persons, and they were lying under the seats. One man crowded under' the seat in the smoker, and laid there until we bad run fifteen or twenty miles. Three girls who had taken seats in the smoking car, for what reason I did not know, acted with charming coolness, and did not attempt to go baok in the train until after all the other passengers had fled precipitately, excepting the man who took refuge under the seat. After a few seconds I saw a man in his shirt sleeves coming from the forward end of the train. This was the express messenger. His face was very pale. I went up to him and said, ‘Have they been coming the John Rodden over you?” He smiled and answered, ‘Yes.’ I asked him if they had got everything in the safe, and he again answered, ‘Yes.’ I then asked what the amount was. He replied that he could not say, as he had only receipted for the way bills. 1 led the way and went forward to the express car. The car was dark, but the side doors were open. We struck a light and took a look at things. The top of the little safe was thrown back and the contents gone. I asked the messenger to tell me how the robbery was accomplished. He said that seven or eight men came into the car, pointing pistols at him, compelled him to get down on his knees and open the safe, andi drop money packages and the other contents into a sack which, they held open before hjm. They threatened to blow out his brains it he did not show up everything. He assured them that he had given up everything except the bricks of silver bullion on the "floor. The bricks they did not want. There were no marks of violence about the body of the messenger. I think, notwithstanding the stories told to the contrary, that the robbers did not strike him at all. The platform of the smoking car was stained with blood in several places. It was there that -conductor "Westfall and passenger McMillan were killed. My idea is that the robbers intended to kiil the conductor. He probably knew them, and, as he would be able "to identify them, they decided to put him out of the way. It is not known what fate befell the conductor—whether he was killed outright or had been wounded and jumped to the grouud—uutil we reached the next station, G iJJatin. some five or six miles distant, when the operator showed us a dispatch stating that the bodies of Westfall and McMillan had been picked up and carried into the Section House. What became of the forward brakeman and the news agent is more than I can say. They disappeared from the train ‘ while the shooting was In progress. I don’t believe there were fifteen shots fired, all told. The robbery, although successful, was bunglingly executed, and apart from the tragic taking off of two valuable lives, the scene had an extremely ludicrous side.”

Mr. Frederick Henkei, of 386 West Adams street was in the smoking car when the attack was made. His account of the inception of the affair agrees with those already given. He adds: -‘Assoon as the train wa3 in the possession of the robbers the passengers jumped down on the floor, and some of tnem uuder the seats. You see, it was unhealthy to be upon your feet at that time. It rained lead, and the diet is unhealthy. There were six ladies in the sleepers, and as soon as they heard the shooting they just dropped on the floor like the other pa> seugers. They were frightened, but they showed as much grit as the men. We’could not show much, for not one of us had a revolver. John McMillan was killed with the conductor. I thins that the thieves recognized them and that they were nut out of the way on that account. The express messenger, William Murray, deserves credit for his pluck. The robbers shouted to him to open the door of his car, but be persistently refused. They flred thirteen shots at him but none took effect. When they did break in they found him hidden between the coal box and a sample trunk. They struck him twice on the head with their revolvers, but said they would not kill him on account of his grit. The passengers all endeavored to hide away tbeir watches and money. One of them, a Chicago drummer, DUthis valuables in the water cooler. 1 wrapped mine in my pocket handkerchief, lifted the cover of a spittoon, laid it in and put the cover on again. But the passengers were not molested. We found five bullets in the smoker and thirteen in

the baggage car. John T. Wright, of Atchison says: “The outlaws fired into the express car and ordered the express messenger to surrender, but he said if they billed him they could have all the treasure in the safe, but he wouldn’t give anything up. They then broke open the door.with an axe. They flred thirteen shots at the tries senger. He held on to the door even while they were tearing at It with the axe, and they finally got him flown by striking him over the head with their revolvers. When the robbers jumped off they threw the throttle of the engine wide open, but the engineer, owing to the faitbfulnes of the brakeman, who bad set tbe air brake, was able to csutrol lhe train; The engineer and fireman wanted to go back and pick up the bodies of the dead conductor and stonemason, but the passengers would not have it lest they might be molested again, for no one on the train was armed.” Major Scott J. Anthony, of Denver, Colorado,' said: “We had not gone more than three-quarters of a mile further when the trouble began. I have no doubt the gang fully intended to go tbros ;h the whole train. The first man win entered tbe smoking car, and who flred the first shot at the conduct');*, cried out ‘Hands up!’ as he advanc e. The others seemed taken back at tbe large number of persons found in tbe car, and looked from one to another and hesitated.; One who bad entered the car looked around him after he had shot a couple of times,and seemed surprised that be was alone, and then backed oat of tbe car, wavi g bis revolver to keep the passengers from rising upon him.’ I have been in one or two tight places before, and did not feel particularly scared. I was in the sleeper and I called oat for every - '

man in the earilo gA prepare to do his duty. Not f however, had one on the car. Then began tbe fun. It was amusing to see the fellows going down for their watches and money and other valuablee T and hunting for places to hide them in.”

A Terrible Conflict.

“Streak o’ lightnin’s said to be pooty powerful, ain’t it?” asked a gentleman from New Lots as he laidathreeSound radish on the managing editor’s esk. “It is a force against which it is impossible to contend,” replied -the editor. : “So I alius B’posed till t’other day,” said the former. “But if you seen what I saw Friday you’d change your mind.” 1 < “Well, hurry up. What was it?” “We bad a little shower outto’ards New Lots, and I seen a streak o’ lightinn’ havin’ a hard time for a few minutes. Right smart streak, too, but it made a mistake in localities.” “What was the matter with it?” “When I seen it fust it was foolin’ around playful like, but finally it got an eye onto a mule o’ mine what was browsin’, and it lit for him. I didn’t think the mule was noticin’, but be seemed to be impressed more’n I , kuowed cf. That streak hadn’t more’fi got in reach when he straightened. ’Twas hard on the lightnin’, editor. I never seen more loose electricity to the the acre than there was around there for a minute.” * “Mole kick it?” inquired the manag- - ing editor, , ••Wunst. Just wunst, and that was the most astonished streak o’ lightnin’ that ever visited our township. But it was game, editor. It was game lightnin’.” “Come for him again?” “Well, I should emphasize! The ! second time it was mad clear ,but the mule was there. He’d nailed bis flag to the pole, cut the halyards and knocked the oleats off. He let go, and I guess I am geographical when I say that fire-ball went four hundred 7 sods without hittin’ the ground. You ought to see that mule grin! But he hadn’t got through.” “Isn’t this story finished yet?” asked the exhausted editor.

“No, siree. What d’ye think that lightnin’ done? ' It just gave one swish of its tail and it went up, but in less’n a minute back it come with four more streaks. Can’t tell me lightnin’ asn’t got no sense! more streaks, editor, and the whole five o’ ’em went for my mule. Then thinks T, ‘good by, mule!’!’ “Did they get the best of him ?” “Wait’ll I tell yer. They took.a leg a piece and one of ’em went for his head.” “They were smart,” grinned the edi- * tor. “That fetch’d him?” “But he bested three o’ ’em fust,” said the farmer with a sigh. “Three went to grass and, the other two was so worn out that we been nussin’- ’em ever since, but they downed-him.” “B'en nursing them ever since,how?”J : 1 “.Took ’em right -in and fixed ’em up. They’re the most greatful streaks o’ lightnin’ you bver seen. I’m breakjn’ ’em to harness now, and they’ll do the work o’ that mule this summer. Will yer gimme a notice o’ this reddish? Biggish one ever growed in Kings county.” It is remarkable what a statement of facts invariably accompanies a phenomenal vegetable when brought to a newspaper office! The agriculturist seems to think that an editor has no appreciation of proportions till he has heard a ruralist life a little/

The Homes of Merry England.

A London Letter. N Thoseof your readers who only know English life from the poems of Mrs. Hetnans, about the “Cottage Homes,” the ‘‘Merry Hornes,” the “Stately Homes,” and so forth, Would be taken aback if they were to visit rural England just now. Hundreds of once" magnificent estates are now tenantless. In some frou ties nearly fifty per cent.. of the land is out of cultivation; in all farms may be rented for taxes, and property is a drug, and the rent rolls, are rapidly diminishing. In olden times every Englishman who had made money in business invested it in landed property, with the object of foundinga family dynasty. . The East Indians, the nabobs, as they were called, spent fabulous sums in the good old days of the rotten boroughs in acquiring estates which brought with them seats in Parliament, and in later times the cotton lords and other,- captains of industry sunk their fortunes in the manor, assured of a perennial income and a contented tenantry. All this belongs to a past age. The tenant, manacled by feudal customs and oppressed by tithes and big rents, is unable to face American competition and live, and abandons the farm to swell the angry mob iq the boroughs. The laborer is no loneer satisfied to Jive from hand to mouth and enjoy the bilk”" of ignorance. He wants land of his own, and threatens to take it if it is not given to’ him. He belongs to a union controlled by active propagandists of radicalism, and insists on the franchise, not as a favor, but as a right of which the ’Squire and parson have defrauded him through these years. The clergy do not fare J» ich better than tbe ’Squires. Tithes are paid grudgingly./The Lords, the natural guardians of tbe church,are powerless to stay the tide that is washing out the foundations of tbe establishment, nor can they hope to save in , England the rights of property which in Ireland have already gone by theboard. Solictors tell me that for every man who wants to purchase an estate there are a huff died ready to snap at half a bid.

Far Murdering All, Their Children.

Geneva Dispatch to London Times. A man and his wife of the name of Zysset, have just been sentenced at the Mittellaud Assizes, Canton Berne, to penal servitude for life for having murdered all their children,numbering either five or sevien. They admit having put five to death, and there is reason to believe that they killed two others whose births they concealed. Their motive for committing crimes so terribly unnatural and revolting was simply to save themselves the trouble and expense of bringing their children up, for though iu humble circumstances, the Zyssets seem to; have been far from Roor, a considerable sqm of money having been found iu their house when they were arrested. Tbe plan they adopted to get rid of the children was to deprive them of food, and when the process of starvation did not appear quick enough. or the little ones cried too much, it was accelerated by strangling of knocking them on the head. When the Jury gave in their verdict, the jury expressed regret that, under the present law of Berne, the Zyssets could not t»e sentenced to some severer punishment than perpetual '•mprisonment.

Garfield’s Treatment of an Enemy.

Gutb In New York Trlhane. Once he burst out at the age of fortynine: “Isuppose I am foolish, but I can't* bear to go around with enmities to any- - body. There was one man who treated me so that I thought my self respect would compel me never to speak to him again. Accordingly when I was passing down - street a week ago, and he turned the corner I was approaching, and camqup the sidewalk, I raised mp head, anfl felt my nostrils swell, and made ready togo past him, till, just as I came opposite him, something took hold of me, and I crossed over and exclaimed: , you old * scoundrel, how are you?” It may be singular, but if I bad seen bim go up aud break a giants back like Samson, he could not be so vivid to me as when he told that incident. It in mind the m ystandapl portrait of him, ' £