Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1881 — Page 2

Renssetaer Republican. ." i"i h• y - i - Mutnuu * Onucra, Ed*. * Prop**. RENSSELAER, : : INDIANA.

HERE AND THERE.

- Pop* Leo is studying the EpgiMi language. Srx of the thirty-six Chicago Aidermen are saloon keeper*. It is stated that 106 men were lynched in Arkansas last year. July was a remarkably good business month in New York city. Tag national debt was reduced $lO,078,023 during the month of July. The Mrs. Garfield fund seems to be "sticking" at about the sum. of $155,000. The presence of the comet is utilized fn Virginia for tho con version of negroes. i , * ~A soldiers’ reunion will f be held ih Kokomo on the 24th, 2Sth and 26th of this month. National banks now hold as security for circulation $362,684,000 government bonds. The ratification of the two treaties between the United States and China was exchanged at Pekin, July 19. . Renan, the distinguished French author, is preparing -to writes history of the Jews, up to the second exile. ,

It isr now stated that the immediate cause of the death 6f the late Czar Alexander, was cerebral concussion. • Leadville shows a high state of civilization. Two •men' were hung there, a few days ago, according to * w - > ' # The .prohibition proposition was overwhelmingly defeated in North Carolina by the vote of the people on the 4th inst. It is predicted in well informed "irelea that Henator Edmunds will be tendered the. vacant seat on the Supreme Benoh. Only five papers of the one hundred and twenty-five published in North Caroiiua, oppose the prohibition move men in that State. T. H. Tibbets. the advocate of the y Poncas, baa married “Bright Eyes,’, the handsomest, best educated Indian woman in America. Senator Latha m is described as being a large, portly man, with broad shoulders, strong features, heavy jaws, tide whiskers find a pronounced dcuble ehiq.

A cablegram received reports the arrival at Glasgow of a consignment of Minnesota wheat, via the line and New Orleans in good rendition. ‘ A company, with $2,000,000 capital, lias been organized In New York for the transportation of cattle, to be known as the New York Live Stock Express. The la* of compensations appears to be in full operation in the crop prospects. The wheat yield Is short, but the potato prospect is uncommonly fine. Dobing the month of Juue the excess of import* into the United States from England, over eXp-irts, was $60,304,425. or at the -rate of $723,000,000 for the year. The highest temperature in Chiqaeo during July was 03 degrees; the lowest . degrees. The temperature of the month was a sfiiall fraction over 80 degrees. '* • 8m ino .Bull's band will be divided up among the different agencies. A little, dividingof 8. 8.-say bis head from bis shoulders— would- not be greatly out of place.

Lieutenant Schwatka, the Arctic explorer,Vay* that the coldest weather ever Vxperieuced by white men was 103 degrees below the freezing point, 6r 81 degrees below, zero". ■ Minister Chnistiancy’s divorce suit is said to have cost him $24,000 in counsel fees and alimony, and the end ta not yet. It has certainly cost him an irreparable loss of reputation. * * * -- _ Forepauqh’s ‘‘moat beautiful woman in America” has been discharged, and she threatens to sue for the ffo 000 prize he advertised he had given her wefek laCt be °“ Jy S**® her 5 30 a Thk London Times has a rumor from Berlin that Hon. Carl Schurz will be appointed by President Garfield the successor of Andrew D. Whim ae United Statee Minister to Germany. - Ex-Sen atob Conkung has been continuously In Congress up td the time of bis reeighation, with the exception of the two years from 1863 to 1565, since 1869, or for a period of twenty years.

It is said that the government of the great city of London has determined to aiscontinue the vaccination of the police force, so morally certain Is it that no member of that body will ever catch anything. According to the statistics the an nual consumption of eggs in the United States amounts to about 10,600,000 barrels. This poultry marketed and • consumed is estimated at 680,000,000 pounds, cot ting $68,000,000. During the past fiscal year 567.386,982 cigarettes were manufactured in the United; States, which, at (he tax of $1.75 per thousand, yielded a revenue ®T The tax for tne preceding fiscal year amounted to $716,^29j A very decided sensation has been created in Philadelphia, especial!* among the Catholics of that city, on account of the assertion of MaryAgnes Dunn, an iuvalidof long standing, that she has been visited in bet sick room by the Virgin Mary. The Sight Reverend Joseph C. TYdbott, Episcopalian Bishop of thaikoceee of Indiana, is lying dangerously ill At Indianapolis, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. This is his third „ attack, ?*nd a fatal result is fcaretv The Cincinnati Gazette says: “Of the 500 deaths which occurred in this city from the effects of the excessive best, three-fourths, if nut a larger

nmnnrtlnn an tOOMhlfl to the internr r v ’ perate use of intoxicating llquops. ” * Captain Rkub. Kolb, of Eufeute, Ala., pulled from his sixty-five acre watermelon paid* one Jay recently 10,000 melons, tkeWgart number that .was ever pulled from patch in ’one day In the State of Alabama, ft not the entire South. The finding of the Coart Martial in the Whittaker ease will not be made pnblic until the President has examined it, but it is understood that the verdict of the Court is unanimously in favor of discharging Whittaker from the military service, r , Rising Sun was ‘’all tore up,” from the rising of the Sun to thegoing down of the same, the other day, over thediscovery of the lifdeee form of a very small colored baby in a large jar o/ lard, from which a hightoned family had been using shortening sot two weeks previous to the "find.* 1 It is stated that the members of the Cabinet are receiving letters threatening them with death unless certain persons in government employ *fe discharged, so as to make place for new appointments. From inferaa machines, Socialists, Nihilists and Aaiassins, “Good Lord, deliver us.” The United States owns 5*528,920 acres of coal lands situated» in the western Territories, about fifty per cent, of which is located in Utah and twenty per cent, in Colorado. Under the pre-emption laws these lands can be bad for S2O per acre in tracts not exceeding 160 acres.

Reports of the probable yield, of wheat along the line of /he Northern Pacific road indicate that although the yield will not be quite up to ihe average, the increased acreage will compensate for it. Some sections show a much higher yield, and on the whole it is considered (hat the crop ft excellent '■ The Coghlan claim against the State, twenty-three internal Improvement bonds of SI,OOO each, issued in 1836, since outstanding drawing 7 per <“ent. interest, and now amounting to. the round sum of $128,560.34, was paid by Treasures of State Hill Tuesday. It was the largest sum paid out of the State treasury at one time for many years. . . ’( New Jersey bad a surplusage of lunatics the other day. A mad mail ran about in Jetfeey City bltmg men and boys, a mad cat enlivened the proceedings of a home Railroad, and in Passaic a mad woman was found in the act of putting a boiler frill of kerosene oil on her stove to boil. while the flames were already spreading about It Ex-Conoressman Tom Creamer of New York, a Democrat, says of the two Senators: “Miller is a soldier, and a fine organizing politician. Mr. Lapham is a good high liver, a good lawyer, and greatly beloved by bis neighbors in the ancient Massachusetts town of Canandaigua. Lapham ought to make a learned Senator in law thing*, Millers keeu one.”

There te a general railroad and manufactur'd.if boom in the South. New railroad are being projected and burn in a;i jim-eiions, and consolidations,’'combi nations aud poolings are aU the r.ijM* • Manufactories are being establish*.-I t very where./ Northern capital i> <lie moving power of this new iadus-r.U and commercial life in the South. * There tea counterfeit ot the silver dollar now in cimulatiou, which expert* pronounce tne’most perfect ever made. ' The Chicago Inter-Ocean describing it sayb: It is silver plated, to resist the action of acids, is of good weight, 98 per cent, of genuine, and has a good coin ring It so clearly resembles a genuine coin that not one in a hundred will be able to ’ detect it in ordinary trade. A St. Paul, Minn., dispatch sivs: A contractor named Goodal-?, a near neighbor of Governor Pillabury, was sunstruck recently, ami -ever since has believed he was commissioned to assassinate Mr. Pillbdry, a- la (juiteau. He has so frequently announced Lis intention that yesterday he was examined by the commission on lunacy aud committed to the St. Peter’s insane asylum. His bouse was found to be a modified arsena’.”

i-.ln a letter to W. H, Lamaster, of Nohlesville, this State, Ex-Senator Oonkling says he never made the remark, “The President has forced me to commit suicide or murder; l r prefer murder.” Ms. C. says this “is one of the 'countless falsehoods with which the country has been filled. *• • Ail- I kuo\y about is ' that some scoundrel * set afloat tbjs particular falsehood.” * / * „ The Bllver medal for the iiest cheese at the showln Birmingham, England, has been borne, away by' Mr. Jubal' "Webb, who Has been xtyled * Tlie Cheese"Elead, 11 in consequence of his indefatigable exertions in prociylng the best cheese to be had in America. The one which obtained the prize is pronounced the largest dht«< se ever made, weighing three-quarters of a ton, and came from lowa. John Bf Grinned, of lowa, who lias beyn over the State a good deal during the last two or three makes a gloomy report He says that there will be a shortage of 15,000,000 bushels in the wheat crop as compared with last year, land that the corn yie’d will show a decrease of from 73 000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels, but there will he a great increase in the number of horses, cattle and sheep.

. It is said to be a fact, of general knowledge in that region, that the Jamee brothers and the rest rrf the gang of bywaymen and dteperodoes of Western Missouri, frequently visit Kansas City, stopping at the hotels and business in the tqwig and that, although the police and ifi'any of the citizens know«hem sight, the raaoals are permitted to come and go without molestation or- interference, the general understanding being that they shall do all theih robbing anti murdefing outside of that mtinici-; pality. ' The Irish Land bill, which finally passed the House of Commons by an overwhelming affirmative vote,appeals to be acceptable to many of the Home

finally withheld any oppotetion. I Kin believed that the Mil will pan the House of Lords after some debase. It is a significant fact that in tha-House ot its only opponents. The measure, if te' becomes wiUjfc it bdJevej? greatly mitigate the ills of the Trish land-tenants and farm workers. A Remarkable man-hunt has been going on tor some time in the wilds ot Wisconsin. On the 10th of July, t w p brothers, named Coleman, officers of the law, .who were endeavoring to arrest two horse- liiteves, Lon and Edward Williams, were xAurdered by the thieves in the village of Durand. A posse of citizens usd officials at onee set out and chased the outlaws into a forest known as the “Big Woods.” The woods have been traversed by armed parties, assisted by Indian scouts and packs of blood-hounds, at a heavy coat in money, but without result, and attest accounts it was believed the-mur-derers had escaped from the forest, by the tsonni vance of an Indian scout.

It is said that “the hot weather in London has assisted the Government largely in carrying its Land bill through.the committee iu the House of Commons.' The Premier, with white odfct, dqck trousers, and a sporting tie, is pictured as the gayest an# airiest member in Parliament. He. rises briskly aud often, and strikes' hard. He passes over Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. War ton, Lord Sandon and two or three more meddlesome’ gentlemen like a , clod crusher in a cornfield, and seems positively rejuvenated in a temperature .in which everyone else te gasping for breath, and under au electrical state of »the atmosphere . which- throws half telegraph wires .in the -country into disorder. ;

The Postmaster General te reported to he preparing a very desirable change, in the postal money order system. Instead of the present cumbersome and slow machinery he proposes to have an engraved blank of two tions, 'funning up to $2 50 aud $5., Upon these blanks numerals are printed in cbluthne, and amount of the order is punched out. • If tho ordehis for $3.75, a three is punched out of the first columu, a seven out of tbe second, and a five out of tbe third. A purchaser will present his money, get his order for ad nfany of '* them as he pleases, and present tlfemwhen he pleases for payment. They are to be good for three mohths from issue, and payable to the person to whom they are endorsed. In this way a large saving will be made, and the bueluess much simplified.

According to the . -census report there were fllty-pine life insurance companies in the United States at tbe close of 1879. Thirteen of these were located ih N*w York City. Tbe capital stock of tbe fifty-nine amounted in the aggregate to $14.9201,000; the assets were $419,000,000; liability to; policy holders, $365,668,883; number -ol policies, 725,418, involving in the rggregate, $1,660,191,924. There was a great falling off in the business during the last decade. The amount of money iu »uGtd In 4070 ftni tbo total QumUri of policieswefe less by 65 and 28" per cent, respectively than in 1870. This great falling off' te attributed to the depression existing from 1873 to 1879. Many were by this forced to succumb. Since 1879, however, there has been a marked improvement in the business.

Interesting statistics of the World’s correspondence uy post and telegraph* were published recently in Germany. The latest returns which approached completeness jwere for the year 1877, in which more than four thousand millions 'letters were sent, which gives an average of 11,000,000 a day, or 127 a second. Europe contributed 3,036,000,000 letters .to this enormous mass of correspondence, America about .760,000,000, Asia 150,000,000, Africa 25,000,000, and Australia 50,000,HX). Assuming that the population of lite globe was between 1,300,000,000 and 1,406,000,000, this would give an average of three letters per head for the entire hum »n race. There were in the same year3B,ooo telegraph stations, and the number of messengers may be set down for the year at between l!O,00Q,000 and 111,000,000, being an average of more than 305,000 messages per day, 12,671 hour, and nearly .212 per minute. *

The astronomer of the Naval Observatory at Washington is reported to have said that there are three comets now visible. The latest arrival is the comet known as Encke's. It can be seen through telescopes, about 2sßo in the morning, just a little north of the “Pleiades.” It is , about 167,000,000 miles from the earth, and traveling toward it tjuite rapidly. It will be visible to the naked eye about the middle of October. Comet C, recently discovered at Ann Arbor University, is becoming brighter every morning, apd the astronomers think it would, be visible 15 ■ the naked s eye now if it was .not so near the horizon. The Oqtnetß., whiclj has been visible for some time,,ls fast traveling south. It is etill an interesting object in the Evening sky. No special observations will be made ofEqeke’ys comet for several davs. It is regarded with great interest by astronomers on account of its gradually shortening periods, which is considered as proof of Encke’s theory that there is a resisting medium In space. Its period is about three and a half years'.

The physicians In attendance upon' the President have been experimenting for some time with an electric apparatus called the “induction"' balance,” in the hope of determining the location of the bullet yet remaining in bis body, hnd now announce their ponvlction that their experiments have been successful. Tpey , are convinced that the bullet has been found or at leasjt located on a straight line runnir ; through the body from front to back just abqye the groin on the right, side. It was pot possible to ascertain any degree oK certain ty the (depty, at ball lies Imbedded on this imagin aJwline, but as the front wall ■fefthe abdemen at this point is about two aad ope-half inches in thickness, the ball must lie within that distance of the surface. These results fully

confirm pyglpfl dteatek n f the I— , iiiilclij lln sttfiwlhifwijfpMi soon after the Pres Went received hi* injary, and the result te as gratifying ti.q '—mpHy —y—the, Auction balance is £» it* injfentors/ Hbfeaeora BeU aud Tkinfof ffhte k* t£ first instance te which* andmbeded bullet has been accraately and definitely located without probing, and by purely scientific methods. These is no intention on the part of the surgeons to perform the operation /or (be tetekratef the bill M -present So long as it gives no trouble it will be allowed to rpittsinde 1* present place The miration, of the disposition to be fthalfy made of it will be considered wb%n tbe President shall -have, recovered his strength. '*

The National Catholic Total Abatinance Society, at, its recent session In Boston, adopted a series of, which are presented and summarised as follows:, “That we acknowledge with gratitude tbe encouraging words of our hierarchy, the zealous efforts of their prieqty, who, during the paVt, fostered the good cauaegmd helped it along by word and, example, and we hope their suceeeaps will be a stimulus

to stiff mods .earnest efforts injfhe future; -that it is to theinterest every citizen in the oouutry jto. help on the good ;Work, tor ;iui piopwtion as the vice 9i intemperance decreases, so wiH men-, become better, citizens, honest, uptight in their dealings with others. Trade,!nwiU! ;si»>'qnperi,lrtiugtry will flourten. The of thinking men, tfaedailyiekperienaa of those in authority, )* agreed In- demanding increasing efforts in Tth3' ' suppression of so odious* advice. We. view with justs . pleasure* • the rapid -progress •$! the • cause among the ladies of the land, ahd the nnmf>er of ladies’ branches already started shows that-they are'-ditva:to its benefits, and is a bright pros-’ pects for the rising generation, for good mothers will bring up :gcted children. That while the organization 'of cadet societies te not altogether dead, we regret the apathy In tfcetf formation, mid weagree to Urge with all pur power the Oigahization J of cadet societies in every parish. Recognizing tile power •ot thi press, we call bn Catholic papers to advocate in sfeason and out of season the bause of total abstinenoe. The seventh resolution urges*' the import-

ance of making meetings attraclivp. The eighth termers thanks t<> tin- clergy and press. A resolution of sympathy with the Irish their struggle for land reform, and' d-'daiiog the land league has uo rrto're tllk ijn-t .sup - porters OT its principles than the Catholic Total Abstinent Union of America, was adopted.

THE NEWS.

- Home Items.’ “Two torpedo boats are being built In this country fbr the British Government. f Maud 8., in rup, her official record made '2:los Thursday, at Buffalo, N. V. Kent McNutt, seoretary to. Secretary Blainet was accidentally drowned at . K«*,L»illo, j P. W. Crowe, of Peoria, ’claims the' glory of having manufactured the infernal machines on behalf of the Irish nation. Tbe internal revenue officials find that sweetened'Whlsky is largely shipped to temperance localities as patent medicine. Guiteau, being a lawyer, wffl defend his own case. He is writing bis autobiography, which he thinks will have a great sale. The amount of tax collected on spirits last year was $67,158,774, an increase of nearly $6,000,000 over that of tbe previous year, i’ cv During the past fiscal year $135,-, 229,902 were collected by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and* paid into the Treasury.. ? , rGeorge Walker, of Boston, who ab ducted a 7-year-old pJbikl from the front, of* house in New York, was sentenced to ten years ia State Prison. - Careless mining and robbing supporting, pillars has so-weakened twenty .to thirty houses in Plymouthboroagb, Pa., that they are liable to cave in at any time; • Sitting Bull wants to go to-Wash-ington, but tbe Indian Commtesion have no use for him there, and he will therefore remain at Standing Rock Agency. '••■.. • Leo Rartman, the Nihilist leader, who has been iu. New York a few.days,, proposes to publicly, relate his Russian experiences for the enligbtenfiient of the American people. * Guiteau has sent in a petition for hte release to the District That official, howeyer, pointed out the risk he would run of violence on the street, and the assatein deckled to hold the petition in abeyance awhile, i .

At Glass Valley, Gal.;!, the 'frirst Artillery Battalion, N.. G. C., encamped near there, had a sham fight, and. in .storming a fort miseioned officers.and between twenty and thirty men wepe more or lees wounded, rut nohb seriously. •’\l; ” In the case of McGrath apd McKewitt, the dynamite fiends, the Liverpool Jury found both persons guilty, and sentenced McGrath to penal Servitude for life and' McKevitt for fifteen years. , .' ■ , .•». A Dead wood' dispatch reports the' discovery of rich, oarbopatos nine miles from the city, a sample! Of which assayed $2,600 to the ton., Miners are flocking thither from all parts of the Black Hill?. A. C-. losing, of Chioago, has filed a bill in the Superior Court charging' the new Board of Trade'League .wibh. bribipg. tea Aldermen, and praymg for an injunction, against the erection of the new building., . ...i ~U It i 3 denied by the Wfashington Health Department that the Potomac Elatsare now causing sickness at the White House. The Engineer Com- 1 missioner rather blaniee the bad drainage of the White House. ; d . On Saturday night a terrible explosion took place at the distillery of the Woqlner Bros,, Peoria, lil., by which eighteen persons were, badly inured, nine of whom have simp* died, ana several more arp not W Dover. In a race between the British steamships Lord of the Isle? and jfte Gfienllrtneyl from Japan with cargoes of tisa, thfe Lord Cfthe Kites came into harbor just six bpura ahead of her strange record for a run of 15,000 Mlft. If. For the year ending June |o>- lifer, I

(he same period for imports was $2,700,707, and with the additions from various Murcea . 52,739.J)3a. making Chicago Me Mtl* port? in ttlfc UhitOd irigtflh, fmci Viewed by Ahe'reprtelntltive of the Inter Ocean, said that if the Nihilist, Leo Hartman, now in New York, is wanted by the Russian Government for assassination, he will be surrendered by the United States authorities, ■ 1 ■ i J'y r’ ' T Withfu the past few days a rem&rkable revival has oommenced in the quarter of Chicago which irlargely occupied by houses of ill-some. Minnie Brooks, for years ithe proprietress of oae of these; bouses, has been converted, and has abandoned a fife of ' vfee. At her boose pntyer meetings are being hold for fallen women, which lire already meeting with good'results.

U ,*.J •« : r.fwreign*' -V Anlhjeaiah riots oon(inue prevail in various plaoesin Pomerania. ,i The O’Donogtue,” member of Parliament from Tralee, tibknd. is bankrupt, : fit. Poster, Chiefc SecrWiry for Ireland, will, it is said; : resign that position after the land bill become* law. . Less than half' the average yield of the crops in KoumeitaWiil, is reported from Bucharest, be the'result of Might. nThe London > Standard says there is an average wheat, -crqp,in Euglaud; the root erop is bad. but tlie potatoes good. Census returns shoV that the ptfp’u ration*of the DornlUkm of Canada fr 4,850,469, an increase in teu years of 680,498. .. , ,i 1 , ,;r. ,A Kirig of Spain, is engaged to be married to an Austrian Archduke. It *w*salove .match.' Mr. C. S. Bead, au Euglish agricultural expert, said at a receqt meeting, that the British harvest this year (Would not bh’a great one. '• r- ' •■ '» •' At Mazatian, Mexico,'.arripwdeE magl«ust blowing up a whole square, hud burying mapy families in the ruins. 1 The Chief of Police Of Rome has beefr dismissed for aUoWlnjg-tlte disgraceful street riot during the r«ntexmenbot the remains of the late Pope Pius IX. It is supposed that McGrath’s memorandum book supplied the British authorities with the iutormitiori relative to the 'shipmehbi <*£ the infernal machines. .v . - '. , r ' Bieven men-of-war are btiug built by the Spanish fßVveriiinent, arid Six 5 more-are Wderfcd indockyard to]form *at fas t and wel i-.ar.med squad ron,, for the coloniea. O’Connor and Bfi tiell Are expecting to shortly conuhet <•« £ l« «dure tour in America for the benefit of the Land; League* The .former wil| leave Bng-» land fen days hence. ' The House of Lords looks tipon the Irish land bill as a very bitter dose, which it is compelled to accept ss An i expediency. It will l>e considerably amended by them, however, before it tecdlves-the royal signature. .

Czar Alexander has entered Moscow, i the anonent capital of -Russia, rialetv, and w r as received with enthusi&t'm by] the iuhpbitapts. Hia first public/aet was to offer prayers at' the Cathedral. Inspite'of a bitter speech.against the Irish laud Vila ny Uord : Kanaoiph ChurofiiU, it passed a third * reading in the House of Commons by a vote of 230 to 14, and was Immediately sent to the*House of Lords, where itfwas read the ttrist time. Another plot to assassinate the Czar has been discovered by the police of Moscow. This time a lady of high rank was to be the agent. Sbe-has escaped, but her accomplices have been arrested] The Czar left Moscow* secretly for Nijni Novgorod. Conservative members,pf the Mouse of Commons claim’ that Parnell’s amendment to the Ifthd bill; providing for a dlepeneiom qf Judicial; action for rent pending the decision of the land, court, Wag nished through without due notice, and they are indignant- aecord 1 - r . s . . Ira* The House of Commons received 1,392 pefitfons Sigifed ' ity 280,595 persons, praying themt to reject any change of the iaw wbjcbbars 'the arf-i mission of athfists; arid it also received 673 petitions, signed bv 115,641 persons, praying for an alteration -of-the law. „ '■] .r, uf>)(; " The leading Home. Rulers in Lpndon and elsewhere decline to *i»sne a‘manifesto to jbefr, ffjende in,, America, who sent tne infernalmachines to England, becftufee they allegethdreiS no evidence that the senders weredlrfeh patriots, 1 or that the consignment was tod benfr fit the Irish cause.

Afghanistan dispatches state that the battle between the Amest and Ayood Khan lasted three hours, and that SOO or 400 men killed on eachside. General Hume, In command of the .Anglo-Indian cpniingelrt * at Quetta, had froqi 5,000 ta.'6,oQo naen with him. His nearest outpost was seventy-eight miles from Cand&h&r.

THE STATE.

r * i : n \ ;| •» *;»•; '•< l *♦<• At Indianapolis two brothers were killed'by a strfeet car driver in self defense.' ■ A- -ii O' iixj ‘ V‘ ’ f There are’hii Jeflei'sowviilA fiftypersons, corporations and qompkuie* paying tax on an assessment ojfiJID.OOO or over. . T- .' fru> Work intWship yard at Madiso*i if unusually lively. Last Week five re paired.vessels Were lannched frrttn the way, and three boats were tnken>-*<lulJ for repairs. ” \ Tuesday night’ the sfht-e rtf Is. M. Campbell, at Lexington, ten miles south : of Deputy, wiaS- f reWred by burglars, who blew open his- carrying away SBO6 la money and SI,<JOO in. notes.;.Ho eldw/ j/nff n-u . 7 ; Mr. W„C.,DeP«tiw; of. Hew Albany, wJU leaye fy;., Jplwpjtfin *4? ff days toremain a couple oryears. .He will, visit all the Eufopek'h countries, and wUI 'make a particular inspection of Palestine and tlf? Hpfy , u Extensive preparations ‘.are -being made fbr the* at Lafayette owtbe'Kd afad is# of Septemher. General 8 erman, Hayes, Sheridan, Belknap, Logan, and others have signified their "intention io be present. ; on r>i«?r George end Charley Hunter, brothers, .of Montpcliep. £ave been arrested by United" Statue t)epuly Marshal Haydeti.' of Eon W*j4e, and &United State* detective, for passing counterfeit silver eqln of dollar, and bast dblfer denominations. ” The crtintafestonera tt# count#; 'have fautde a contract with- JJiA.Vrydrawnew plans and specifications for a new court house. Vrydattfth' will receive five pet cent., leas SI,OOO, fpr his ootnmlflaion, the court bouse to be built within the prescribed limit of smooo • ■ EF TE v,“

An attempt was made to blow m> City, by exploding a dynamite cartridge in the cellar. The building was tjrifltejJ and racked, but no one jpEinarwl. wWlng and lathrfftm TOWgMW oßdedwsuckers and Ikss ars strewn along the banks of the Whitewater between Richmond and Abington, six miles below. It is supposed that they have been poisoned by the sewage Irom the factories and shops that empties into the river above the national bridge. George McElfresh, of Muncfe, went to the house of his long-divorced wife,

kicked down the door, seized her and threatened to brain her with a huge stone. Her sister; Mary Lee, fired at him and inflicted a dangerous and perhaps fatal wound in-the abdomen. Mrs, Mansdoefier, wife of a wellknown farmer, residing ten milps from Ft. Wayne,>ud Just across- the Whitley q .unty line, while preparing a meal fbr her ! family Saturday was bhrued to-death by her clothes taking fire frqmthe stove. ,i * Buiglars entered the residence of David Grubb, at Waldron height miles south of Shelbyville, about 10 6* clock' Sunday night, and took S2OO in nfoney* which M*. Grubb had placet! in his bed but »' short time'before. Mrs. Grubb and blr daughter had retired to bed, but were so badly frightened that they dared not give any alarm. While Hebry Hanna* of Fort Wayne, was crossins Clinton .street bridge over tfr# Bt. Mary/s river,’the bridge fell, carrying Mr. Hanna, his horse and buggy into the river. The horse was drowned, £nd Mm Hanna was rescued much exhausted, after being in the water jeyeral hours. About a dozen resident of Richinond make a living by hunting ginseng inn Henry county. Some say they average over se veto* pounds' of the root, but three or four pounds is nearer the average. It looses about half its weight in drying, and sella to the druggist for exportation to China, at. per pbund. It sells ih Pekin for $5 per. -pound.’ ’li ’ . i t Mr. W. H. Smith, es Jduncie, to Lafayette, and met in. the street & ggntlemapW the naipe of Willis Wells; who*had' ran 'aWay Wittr hiS wife aoruq weeks before. . Ha greeted him warmly. marched him back. |to the hotel wherelie had beefc stayihg with Mrs.S., took him into the backyard and administered a severe whaling. Smith tnen took his wife and returned home. Well*declares he acted only as. ft good Samaritan in (he case,but Ueg »t treated mere like the other fellow, A little' - soft Of Marion Junes of Rains vllle was.nlimbing-a fence vfith a pjtohfork tfhen he heard spake rattle and looking down saw a huge rattle bnake in tSe< act of springing. With great courage ftnd .presence of- mind* the little fellow attacked hiija with the pitchfork sticking one of the prongs in ; ihis mouth and.,pinning-him to tWe ground. He held him there for half an honr until help arrived, and killed the mopfeterviwbich Was eight f6t*t four inches long and had sixteen rattles. Dilrlrigthe storm near Connersyille last week, a terrific bolt of lightning struck a largelocust tree in the yard of WV H. BrotsldHs. ' The tree stood not 1 ! more thap ,tmenty-4lye feet from the sleeping apartments of the family, yet ndUfeof them was seriously shocked.; The,family W** instantly aroused to firiq their rooms brilliantly illuminated and, hooking out, balls of fire were seen roiling over-the ygrd for several minutes.-. Pemons a mile distant -Were, w«at odt to see ir tnelr own buildings, .were not struck. Annie, the ten-year-old daughter of Jojin Brahmes, of Fort Wayne, died June 2, and. was buried very quietly And dridCr Suspicious circumstances. On Saturday Coroner Gaffney exhumed the body and found it qqvered with one mass of braises from head to foot, the back of the head showing bruises Sufficient to nave caused, death aloneSuriday Mrs. Brahmes was arrested. Charged with mordering her child by severe whippings, but an examination showed ' that she was insane, and she will be sent* to the asylum. Sb has five otb er children which have' beeri sent to the Gathotfc orphan’s home.'; . * I. . • *

The State Bureau of Statistics received last,year, and is again collecting for its report of 1880, returns .from' tb several Jcofantles showing the number of acres of taewiy clearedland, and-also ( of arable idle or unused The returns of lastyedr, Which ‘.’by the way were omitted from the printed reporter the lqqk of space, show that the nirgttet quantity of unused land the following cnuutiee. -namely; Har •risen 20,671, Lawrence 18,903, and Washington 28.500; Wild Stark, with With 894-acres bad thosmallest amount of any county jp the State.- Four counties wfere shown'to have cleared morethan 5.-000 acres of -new. land for qj-op?( in 1880 -Koeqiq/sko, Lake, Jackson and Bartholomew,'Whil6' Floyd cleared th'fe smallest/ amount —l7 ft, acres. Ilt-is, noticeable,from the statistics* that the iand'Tn tire‘ southern counties 1 ’fllieds morfe frequent rata from' or6p-raising thap that pf the,other - sections of the

Factors of Mexican Progress.

Barper% Magaslfte for July. f - d In the progress and prosperity of apy there are severs! important factors.■ Chipfamongst these maybe ritekrtned natural resources; population, education, aiid means of transports-! (ton. With the first-qf these Mexico ik iidhly endowed. ’ It is doubt til if any equai area pn>tbe« Sace oS the globe possesses larger deposits rtf the precious met ale, 6r his-already produced more of themw fUeaf crfasWandti/or; the most part are exceedingly feitfie, producing in’ abddahed the best 'growths of the tropics,.hHt they i haver au unhealthy, climate, and can never, be ; developed bythe Imb6?bf:drhite Tfaeri. -i: : ! Tbs interior may be descrlbedas a vast table-land, elevated from s,wx>to 9,(K)0 feet abrtVfe foe sea, ; an & a climate favorable, wherever water is found, to allfoecrops of tbs t*m pirate zone. Mrich orft, However, i# arid and sandy, and in th* northparticularly water is scarce. /Brtwpen 4 tJqjse tWo great'natural uyvlsiohrs " lie what the Bpanjards called the temperate where frost, and excessive heat are’ unknown*, hnd Whenre everything that is: grown hrom H#w York to-Florida .wlh thriye and yield abundantly. f ’ ’ These temperate lands," cohsietihgfof terraces or benches separated oy steep slopes and deep valleys, and , situated 'as-twy are foi* th'd most part tn a Comparatively harrow belt, are alike a bar to the existence of navigable ■ streams and the easy construction "bf good, roads connecting the Interior with the 1 coast. Partly front this dause, and partly from the unprogressive charac- 1 ter 6f fob population or ' the msturbed ytdtedf the country, the pack-saddle dnd the primitive wagon have hi therib been the only mblmS of*transportation. This.vist territory -; of ; . 760,009 s<iuare Sites, with a population estimated .at n millions; equals'’r«r ‘Sktent ■Btfifes east pf thfc Idississippiapd south, of Michigan, while , Its population.. T aMiy bxosodh that of'New York and ia. ; T Wobhtrils.rtf, this poptuv ,lation are of pure Indian thejre. ' maiiring Hllrd A>ei njf elfchet of Spanish descefit or of mixed raees H.ow it that any ldpidpro8 1 "? 88 M "exlcq must . come through 1 cokmifcation’ by ibmd'hfgher ami mone

progreseive race, or by the introducvelop her of the native races, who are generally peaceable and industrious. ] Yet, ifi a thg climatCM of MbXICO, wliete tbejradls Murdeeire* of the Haiti veAre sPlimitSi it will be coutrary ko c’Arienoe elsewhere if they fjhnijl btJtpe ajkcd-working people Item the mere desire of accumulation. Under no circumstances could much improvement be locked for without improved means of transportation, of which the government was wall aware, as is shown by the many liberal subsidise it haa granted to various railroad enterprises. i

Farm Training.

The .form is the best place-in the world to raise boys. Most of tha- suecesstol business men of cities were form boys. The habits formed of early rising, constant employment of body or mind In a useful way, economy, trutbfalneeS, honesty and virtue, are just what are needed to make sterling, go-ahead, successful men'in all departments of life. . j -y,: '■ * A gentleman sent the following fetter to one hundred men, standing at the head-of--the financial, commareial, professional and educational interests of an eastern city : ~ , My Dkak But—l desire to find out, for the benefit of the boys, how the leading men of this city spent their boyhoodi Will'you be hhui enough to tell me:—- -- , ‘ 1. Whettieryouf home for the first fifteen yeam of your life was on ft farm, in a villi age, or in a city? : 2. ,'Wheiher you were accustomed during any part of thftt period to en 1 - gage ifi iny kind es work when not ih be glaci, of course, to have you go into particulars-as fully as you aredispose<wodo; but I do not»wish' to tax your, patience, and I should be greatly pbliged for a simple answer to txio cruestions.' * * ? Eighty-eight replied. Of these eigh-ty-eight^men,—twelve spent the first fifteep years o( tHete life in the city, twelve In villages, arid sixty-four were fomeris boys. * But or the tWenty-four who lived in. villiagee and. eities, onefourth were practically, fanner’s boys, fbr thfcy lived in the vicinity and did the work of farmer’s .boys. One of these village boys said: “Jt learned to hoet'digand mow, and to work whether I liked it or.npt.•„ I. went to school in winter, arid’ wrought at nights and mcpßlrigs far my board.’* Another, “Jnaed to urork aw»y fr° m borne op a farm in the summer and fall. In the winter, whed going to school, we three boys used to work ;up the wood for winter use.” This was the story of others, tro'lbat'76 outof Bs—four-fifths —had iarmlife training. ( ’ t -; >Did the few boys of the city list have an easy time? Oue studied law when ’outof achboL He had notmuch play. The others’ ■Were poor boys, children of the working classes, in needy circum- , stances, accustomed to hard work from thwr earliest years. . Onesaid he was “generally employed in “summer months and, during!,vacations in doing airy work that offered,” • Font-were newsboys. One said “the last of his con nection with the press he , carried SIOO before breakfast,” Another •that *llopaid his owtf way since eight years pf age, without any assistance except board from my Bth to my 11th year. i \ the boys to-day who were at the same time going to school and amusing themselves? Where are they? . ; \ye know who, the 96 per pent, of successful ruen were—former’s boys or ' poor andfhard working town boyr.

Sad Scene. With a Lively Corpse.

St. Louis Globe Democrat.. * Mr. C’heney. a farmter of Indiana, having a Married daughter] living in Nebraska, was shocked by a telegram from her.huaband saying that her body , would arrive the next -evening. The ’family was overcome with, the sudden blow. Hurried preparations for mourn*, ing gaj-u;et.'.s aim {he preliminaries to the fuiural were made, and on the dismal evening, dressed all in black, they wept to the station to meet the corpse. The hearse and two or three carriages were drawn lip in line,and a numerous prowd, attracted partly by partly by sympathy, accompanied tne bereaved household, As the • train approached a solemn silence settled upon the assembly, apdas it stopped there was a respectful* bush until tne cere mo-, ny of.receiving the corpse -was. concluded. But the train hands did ndt' share this feeling.'' The baggage master pitched his trunks about aud swore just as briskly as ever, and just as if a part of the load was not of a character to call for decorous behavior.

The conductor came upon the platform laugliing and trying to joke with the station agent’s, daughter, who told him he ought to be-ashamed ’.to carry on meantime the long, narrow box which »b quick ly tells its story-hiyl not made its appear;.ace, and after a painful delay, Mr--Mr. Cheney stepped forward afih asked for the corpse. The baggage map stared at him as if he were crazyy and making no reply went on overhauling the trunks as if it .might be under them somewhere. Suddenly Mr. Cheney ■ felt an’ arm ground his neck a kisa-imprinted upon his He. looked. It was his daughter. The female members of family ventiinfo hysterics. Thep were shouts and ‘tears and laughter. Thatdaughter; : appall©! at - the somber dresses, ithe hearse and portege was "frightened almost into a fainting fit. She-tiould offer no explanation of the Ualsgracp- Bhg could not say whether in a state of absent mindedness ber husband Bad actually sent the dispatch Es received, or whether he-wrote it so lindly that the operator misread it. At my riite she refused to ride home in the-bearse and took her. place in the carriage with, the chief mourners.'

Ha Was a Failure.

Detroit Bree Press. ( :r ( A day or two since a traveler from the East walked into the Cass- House With bis grip-sack in one hand and the other pressed to his jaw, arid be wasn’t loag-in.paraakt.ing fifteen or twenty people to know that, he had been, inflicted with the toothache' every minute since 7 o'clock the previous evening. He couldn’t eat, drink nor stand atm, and when some ode asked him why he didn’t go to a he reI hd^en't' got the ; pluck! I Mere I am, a great big- sks-foptfer, able to kno.«k down : an ox,aiul yeti haven’t got the grit to stand One yank on'this tooth! Five-been down on the battleUue, ip free fights and put among the red skins, but I’m a coward ! M .. i Borne laughed and some encouraged him. and he finally said: 7 ’ "“Well, I bfldleve ’ I’ll" try it. but I know what I ami, and I want something tdpysh me. pn. I’ll bet this five' dollar biu against'ted cents that ITI have the tooth pulle/l.” , One„of the guests mad a/ the w agBJV and a small ct-owd went dioug to see the fun. The sti'angef walked up ua bold as a lion, took a seat in the dental chair, and evinced no' sign of crawfishing until the dentist picked up the forceps and : told 'hifh t 6 get a good grip on the chair. Then he grew white in an insbvut. slid out of tha chair and seized lJ? hat and saidi 7 “It’f-'justasi expected! I’m a great big calf-on wheels,and the Worst flufiker in America, botl can’t help it! I’ve los'-rbe fiv«.dollaw, and will probably have the toothache right 'along for ■ a - week, but. I’ll have to stand it and hope tq l# struck by lighting or mashed up qu the oars. 1 ’ — n| : , «, It has . became evident that a mistake, was made in locating the villae of , Niobraga inHebraska.gully, in tcad -of qnt a high plain near by * and! the bouses are all to he removed to exactly thesama relative positions op the beter ** h.CA * •«-:

FOR AND ABOUT WOKEN.

Said be with Infract new. - ■ jt * ’Bishop afpevea are revived. - Long faces look > beet .with low ooiffures. Traveling cos tu mea are "made very short, Uc * Corsets are not worn with aesthetic drorocn. Tall Women should not wear high ooiffures. —.» . j, Qjeaat. color Is among new Cascades and jabots of lace "overflow light dresapa. ; v Bashes are much in vogue for wear with white dresses. Odd shaped Japanese hats are worn with coaching toilets. Yery little jewelry should be worn* with summer toilets. , ? • A new device for a lace pin Is a cow jumping oyer the moon. • r White dresses of soft, crushable wool are worn more than ever.

Venetian lape is Worn as trimmings upon bright oolored surahs. Jabots and necklets of flowers are used upon full-dress toilets. Irish pointfind ‘Church lace are used to trim silk dresses. Poke bonnets and small capotes are both to be worn next winter. Hollyhocks and peonies are just now very fashionable corsage flowers. Turquoises set in Etruscan gold are the fashionable jewels this season. > The fashionable weight tor a Japanese pug is three arid a naif pounds. Nayy blue flannel is on the list of popular material for traveling suits. Qmber net, in all colors, is pretty for strings or scarfs on summer? bonnets, r. Corsets for summer wear are made of net, aba are also exceedingly short. Capuchin hoods trimmed with lace are worn upon white morning dresses, Bayadere striped surahs are used for trimming rough straw summer bonnets. ' . '

Miss Annie Louise Cary left Oconomowaic, Me., lasfrhursday, for Minnea P <lliß - . ) , . ' ‘ Flesh colored silk stockings embroidered with orimson rosebuds are very fashiouable. - Bam Kearney, of Illinois, killed his wife because he could not make her jit down in a chair. He didn’t begin right. If he had told] her to stand up she would have sat down. There is a Mother Hubbard parasol now. The man who gazes on it falls into the condition in which Mother Hubbard fourid the dog when she returned from buying him a coffin. Mojeska recently said in conversation with 'a friend In Loudon: “I have played a year here.l have received offers from all over the. world, but I like London and I have stayed on.” Mis# Alamatz Yamakowa, a young Japanese lady,' for several years a member of Rev. Leonard Bacon’s family at New Haven,‘has been bapdized end admitted to the Center Church New Havfen. r The wife 'of an old colored man in ■i he eastern part of Georgia recently [resented him with the sixth pair of twins, the family having been previously endowed'with tWo pairs of triplets—all flourishing. A beautiful French girl at a fancy baz«r in Paris demanded fifteen louis for a kiss. Fifteen wealthy gentlemen would hot accept the offer, even by chipping m aud drawing lots for the honor. Finally. #he Countess Pourteles paid the money and took the kiss.'. '•

Raw Chinese silk, grey and brown mohair, tilled flannel and India pongee are materials for ulsters and traveling wraps, to the exclusion of linen which is fashionable only for children. Like the. gentlemen’s garments, they are destitute of hoodk, belts, collars and lining.,' * '• • Miss Anna Hampton Brewster writes 'from Rome that when the famous ballet dancer, Mile. Zuechi, had her benefit iii that city, a Roman Prince sent her a supurb bouquet, in the center of which was a blank check, signed by his own princely name. A. Parisian ligbt-o’-toes would \ probably have ruined the confiding vepf fable admirer. ZUCChi, however, is wn and prudent. She fiilled up the Check for Only *20,000 francs ($4,000), and drew her money without dispute. Had she written 100,000 francs instead, the family, of the aged admirer would probably have.'proseqnted her, which dan be done in Borne.

Lost Lingerie.

L.nul3viUaUonrler-Jonmal. A well-know young society beau of this city, while traveling on an Indi-.ana-railroad recently, let- bis gallantry get the better part of hisjudgment and gfit'bfimself-'into a nice little scrape. V> eu he iutered Ihe' car at New Albany, he found it nearly full, and he.; instantly made for a*eat nearly in the middle of the car, which was vacant. The teat in front of him Was occupied by & lady at d a little gill, while Just behind sat u young lady, Who Seemed to be Alone. . The lady and little girl got off at a smalt. station about half way to Indianapolis. Jost as the train was starting from the station the young mail noticed a bundle of female clothing lying on the seat at'his side. The idea instantly occurred to him that the iadVwho hkd just gotten out had forgotten the bundle. He thrust his head out of the window and called ,to her, hut s|be was just entering and did not hear him. The train l»ad now started, andj the young man thought . thfit the bnndie would be lost if be did not act qhickly, so he picked it up and .JiK the-Window on the plat formr He then sap k back on bis sesrtmh kd easy conscience, flattering himself that he had acted with wonderful presence es mio/L Things went along smoothly until within a few miles of Indianapolis, when.fhe young on the seatbebind him began to show signs of restlessness.- She looked under she seat she was occupying, on the teat behindjher, and then on the seat on whten the young man was sitting. ThU ifeiihhTdM s K»dn to satisfy her, and in a few momrnts she began to make inquiries of him—if'he had seen a small bundle on any one of the seats. The young man’s hair began .gradually to .stand on .end, .and for .a /eE moment* be was speecfoless as he began to realize what had become of thefoundle. j He djd pot dare, to tell bev-what hehad dorM- so he replied, that he had-seen. nothing cf it. This inCrbasea tne ydOug-lady’s -uheasiness, and she made inquiries of the conductor, but hq had Pot seeii it. in a seat jtm bjgbipd hf-l m&Jlr -.r-ked if it-was a verly valuable bundle. ‘‘No,” replied the young lady 1u an audiable whisper, ‘‘hut ft obntained my only night-gown.” The young man attempted to make some amends, when they reached the city, by agreeing to hire a carriage for the young lady, and was very attentive to see that none of 'fterotfhalee Were lost, and that she ifentixrtTO rfgnt notci. 7'ltS J(7H / ■ Miss Liliwhite, who is about to mar : ry. rkkuttked bn Memorial day‘that she co ukbaym pathi? e with the brave boys in blue, having, lost ber hand in an engagement. - ■'A ■' ' r - wt A —j Perseverance is the best school for «vwy mknly virtue. *" .