Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1881 — Page 3

Rensselaer Republican Ml—s r ~4~ RENSSELAER, : : INDIANA*

HERE AND THERE.

SxiiirPOt is tfldifflie in Cincinnati. * Pmbid; jrr Arthur weighs 215 poa»k. i . •Mu Gabrielm's in— is now. •bout 100,000 • twA tHrbb-dat* sbo* storm to reported In the An»trl»n Alps. ”•

(Jamßarra and Bismarck “talked mitten over, M a few days ago. It to stated that leo Hartman, the Niblltot, has gone back to Europe. A bkw Nihilist conspiracy,to agsaaenate the CaarJias been discovered.

A MOTHS B Cosset h*a been discovered, making the fifth daring the present year. __ 4 - : r Thb name of Guiteaa street in Cleveland has been changed to Abram street. - 'lt to said that twenty chorchee In Now York use the revised New Testament. ... . Through trains will be ran .o California on the Texas Pacific railroad in January. •

Thb radical Republican, Gambetta, will be the Premiecof the new French Cabinet. - • Francs to building ’seventeen new iron-clad ships, and Edgland is buildjog tea. ' Focmdays ot mourning for Pretident Garfield has been ordered by the Court of Portugal. Thb damage by frost last week, with in ten miles of Boston to estimated at $1,000,000. • ■■ Dipthbria and typhoid fever are becoming alarmingly prevalent in Louisville, Ky. " N

Db. J. G. Holland, the poet, physician and author, died, suddenly, Wednesday morning. Tiikrk are about tea million bushels of corn in Chicago, being Ihc largest amount ever known to be there, Thb new international five cent postage stamp will he adorned with the portrait of President Garfield. A Youicw lady in Peru, Nebraska, lias a lies', of hair sjxty-eight indies long, for which she has refused SSOO. Tub Arkansas trslnfrobberß, on pleas of guilty, were each sentenced to seventy year’s terms of imprisonment. gallery at Cleveland has secured a rush of business by settiDg 14P an effigy of Guiteau as a target. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Illinois, at its recent meeeting, appropriated SI,OOO for the Michigan sußerer*.

Tub Russian newgpapetu are agitating the question of transferring the capital from Pt. Petersburg, to Moscow. The Mexican Government has appointed a commission to negotiate a commercial treaty with the United States. The value of the hay product in I*ew York, in 187 i, was $60,207,240, t»htg the largest product in any State fd>-be Luton.

* It ta in evidenca in the Christiancy **** tbat Mrs.C.had refused twenty-five offers of marriage before ehe accepted •the old Senator. McDonald, who rode Keene’s FoxTian to victory at the Newmarket races in England, winning half a million for 5 Keeue, received SIO,OOO for his services. Several cities in this Stale have recently organized associations for the purpose of promoting the manufacturing interests of their respective com- . inanities.

Th* Land League agitation is to be resumed with increased fury and bit•cness. “Whatever is is wrong’'appears to be the watchword of the leaders of tula movement. This balance of trade for twelve inonths ended September 81st, was $251,531,618' in favor bf this country, while that of September, 1880, was in our favor.

jProwxkhb about the‘tomb of Garfield are notified . the Cleveland Chief of Police tL they wil be shot at sight. Th'e Stewart gra*«>-iolrblijg industry went be encouraged there. The movement in Ireland for ming only ar iolrs bf Irish manufacture is said to b? vefy popular.and gives gTeat promise of success iu its object, which is the amelioration of the condition of Irish laborers. - 0 Tas President died in the anniversary of the battle of Cbicamauga, a Jojitest in which he tendered glorious C ‘tvice to lis country. The coicci ‘M ce » »y the least of it, is very sinking and suggestive.

\ LifAiETTE and Fort Wayne are cloying a lively poetoffice ‘contest. *nd the Elevehth atd Thirteenth Revenue District* are stirred up by eager aspirants for the pceitkmof Collector’s Moon and Wild man. U • Tile [<* by the Michigan fires is estimated at $2446,413, and included the destruction of 1,147 dwellings, 28 ichool houses, 8 churches and 34 mills. The entire insurance upon pro per tv * tost was only $623,632. < . *

Washington Butch ek’s Fons, a PiiikdeJphia provision firm of 121 standing, suspended the other i+fj Uabl, ’o ß » initiated, at ?iSW,OQO, and Chknigo speculations in > gyMtipiroMppoeed/lo be lie tot use. President Arthur baa been memorialized by 4he temperance peopla of the Untied States prhying that iu social entertainments and official acts be will favor the temperance cause, and awist in the great work of final prohibition. The American resideets io London, England, propose to place a marble slab in-memory of Prrsident Garfield, iu Westminister Abbs, if the Quoy* consetffis, and It is.'’believed ih« will. Tbte will be an honor never before coucided to an American - Mim A* 11 "**'™ $!«,-!

vilie and Nash villa Ball way Company, ««king only $25,000 for the fractured j one of priceless accident St Heeling y*n, V At thes&cent towyetoctlons cectfbut the qfiestK* olhcciiMTf in liceuoa in respect to the sale of Uq—• was submitted to a vote of the people. The result to that seventy-three town ships voted for Uoenarand thirty-th—-against. '

Hardy and Mcßride, telegraph op—wire. Hardy went to Mcßride's ofc ffee, to have the mattes »«t,11i.3s *°Ptosed/ and. MMay marntog*iWaa found there stool d«U«, Was missing- ■oO.uil v. alia lui _ SeventW** tßWßind acres of land in Arocstodk COuQty^f^whoee Stale valuation has tseen^fiS sold at auction TlfTitfgfto, ago, for 73,4-10 cents per acre. ot 5,000 acres la Somerset, oountytoold #t f 54 oenU per acre, the Stati* vnuaflag being 39 cents pet acre.-

It is stated that gig Franch ffittteaye kill prouallyrlone to.fyi*y;?.W 0 i 00( * passengers and wound op* ip 500,000; the English ra4vkj* Nfflt Ib ersry 6.200.0QQ and wwr&joa? in every third :t)f • teWhdH Prumian railway* hill 21,508,000 and wound onfc,4B.jaVefy 4,000,000. .; / i vJ. .it or yih?M H °

A OENTLBMAIt' W%O recently 0 T&0 through Ex-Senator Doruay's battterinch in New Mexico, says dfltt w lt is forty by Bixty mUss In eteeaad baa on It twenty-eight thousand bead cattle’and thirteen hundred horses. The income from this place ean hot- be less than $76(000 for the present seg-. eon. • ■ - -

‘ The President, under the operation of his new rule, can dispose of hundred appointments per day. These appointments of postmasters etc. are decided by the heads of Departments and recommemtottd to the President who merely Bign s hto uame td the homfc nation, and they are ready to go to the Senate. ’, .. ' , t

The State Supreme Court reSenOy rendered a decision that where B bounty, during th * War, ottered a bounty for volunteers \n a certain regiment, and R person, acting on the Inducement, enlisted, and was subsequently assigned to another regimrtit, hat credited tbw quota, the person so enlisting was entitled to the bounty. *" i" ~ ■ru C’oMMif sioNER Raum has decided that the Internal Revenue Department cannot properly -sanction the sate of compounds made of whlskoy, Water and strychnia, and called “toufq Mfcters.” He says it should he (tolled “poison.” The fatot that tometkm for the sate of mith compounds* has bpen asked for should be a .walrmug ltd Imbibers to “Unfit a little ouV. I’’ 1 ’’ ThW ftthte bureau of Statistics publishes a table showing the number of horses, mules, cattle, sheep aud hogs, in the State in 1880 and 1881, There is an increase In the number of horse*, cattle and sheep, and a deAre&Se in mules and hogs this year as compared with last. Marion county leads in tiro number of horses, having 11,573 bis year. Vanderburg ba52,329 mules, and leads in this. Allen has more cattle than any other county, 24,506. Rush has 37,486 hogs, more than any other, and Lagrange the largest number of sheep, 43,533.

Fires in the past three months the New York Commercial Bulletin shows from its own files to have consumed an aggregate of $6,800,000 In July, $6,200,000 in August, and $9,800,00 in September; aud from this account are omitted all fires causing a loss less than $20,000 each. September was the worst month on record, exoept those, months in which the great fires of Boston and Chicago occurred; forest fires in that month aggregated a loss of $4,000,000, and with $1,500,000 allowed for the smaller fires not above enumerated, the total is $11,300,000, The great cause of fires is carelessness.

When President Garfield was a young Professor, he wrote these lines in a young girl’s album: If (be treasures of ocean were laid at my feet. And Its depths were all robbed of Its coral and pearl',. • And the diamonds were brought from tbe mountain’s retreat, And with them were placed.all tbe wealth of tbe world— ■ '■ 1 Not silver, nor gold, nor tbe spoils of tbe Nor tbe garlands of fame that tbe world .. can bestow, ,• 1 \ But a purified heart that, from sin is made free, ... . m-•. L I would ask for thee, friend, on tbe journey belftW.*

Hiram, Jan. 8, 1857.

A Philadelphia dispatch gives what purports to be the true inwardness of, tbe “infernal machine” plot which recently created so much excitement in England. It is declared that the scheme whs organised to cheat the British Government out of the rewards to be offered. Peter H. Foye,a saloonkeeper of Philadelphia, caused the manufacture of the infernal machines and turned them over to O’Donovan Rosa. Foye tfien began negotiations with the British Consul it New York, and received SIO,OOO for Information leading to the discovery made on the docks ot Liverpool. He some weeks ago fied from the United States detective* at Philadelphia, and no w knowß his whereabouts. ’

In the opinion of. the Journal of Education 'the public schools in the proeperous west are driving with ■dangerous speed. It advises (he schools at onoeto begin the neosssary work of slacking up ihe.wslooitj% out uociseaoi study; relieving this in-tensity-pf examination and ceasing to act bn'tbe assumption that the avert age child can sndfirS the fitrafti of the average hard-beaded, 0 n4p#M*>ni*r. t oritip, “with the fopd delusion that H? Vfit outstrip the Vrorid ih public school tVafnlngi beCatisC lit ‘ briAftog the iptodlgtodß Vnsrgy tbit hhs fruuie it ;great- in industry,! in war*ftp* 1n statesmanship the production 6F such a generation of youthfulprodigies as no country has yet seen. But the willbreak doWftftWthe simple reason that irchiid is-l cpfld, fign gqt be shot into mataris acouree of study and f mQajfily f?amination. rt , ~

- fm ■* /‘Vkaswwsll Jli I TmitojTinlßf tefap—' “ about three bandied *•*#■** repraaanUng the daring the next poUUoal campaign. wbb nnanimoaaly adopted: The tempenaee pepoU or tbe State of mmt -, l|B| laulln seenelijj 1 recosnlaloa the rnin aad writ caneert to TndfvWnel and eommualty by U»« see of MronyUrlnk, declareU»e followtag ae UtaMMto

--rust ■ Me set! ees ki iMfiTert nr taipptftoa Wtta it. laloien—am sin elweye pre▼sit mßiarTtodf aiiiilMdir »>“ «>—*fetroved. Men ttastrer ce kept sober or re•tirtewtett ’TBti>iiPfrt n oo runtkvir or probMyteßaij vva r ,y'T, i dSK thsu^ Stetinatpenij and ae each they febe heard pipmibttion;

wkitofjifprthatato^era^^ur;ben' totoe kU^toeqcan-, 7KSSS79IB sfiKIEt the Bdhititiwfon nffT» tetoiaCSbpkftttd by uto lest togtoteiuje “tow hate w mirntm rwch a gSnrousL’aSkKa-

tßAtShedLsmsloftotohrtoMthy iegtstataroU iyrannleal, and sqch a dluttuit Of the people aa tboold tohdseVbe lessor any man mr thetlbectr«MiU opoatfy. - we here ptodaa M«u aaertW too*s» to stand by the Ibtgolo* leclkratloh. . Resolved, That bertiAftil-, ts !t ltibtmd that tbs atocbfbtory ot parties n testrcMed by ip* xrgtoMß mr^x hrJm the peopMUttsakferad etcht Ot (VOtlD* apoh tub RtHflect of.anvenCUns tha coristil'dftcrti,‘then, appealing t 6 me cbrfttfJm rnoral elements of oar'State fttt the Of!ftVcanao, we will, lusuch cata,,organize thn/oshodt the State, independently, and -fiiitkbe contest sat hnttl the areetrteken from osr people.

i o.V .il-Momto Iksasa. . L Tlic Baltimore aud Ohio railroad hS6. ordered a cash dividend fit 5 per cent).', payable Ist pfox. Commissioner i&ys that the report q* j'rtttttfs l,rthe PSitoion Bureau ere highly ooloieit and sensational. It to believed that the railroad war is near an end, and that Vgmterbilt ban termlna(e Uat abif.Jtlitte. f ’ . Hard an will roWfeosß forthechampiotAhip of the world and over tlie Cfiaye GAsar -t»alre course at St'.- //*.:• 1! ■»!i y<L k The Garfield monument at Lake ATew Cemetery, ft To cost iS'KJ.OtoVto/ which UlcVeland proposes \o nt&elod.m Henry Ward Beecher on the subject of the Thomas trial, said, Suuday, that the conference Is trying to oust an angel anddo take.iu a ueyil. , The jury in the Cftse at i obu Lamb, the prisoner charged with the J all ray btirfclirjy, at which DlH'ier Jtace was allied in Chtoago, brought tU'n verdiot of not guilty.. ( ~r n! j . The Tammany delegates who were refused admittance to the convention at Albany, New York, have issued an address to the 1 electors .-- protesting against that action. Farmer Dickens, a nephew of the great novelist, Charles Dickens, was elected a deacon of the Methodist church, by the Bock River Conference, at Bycamore 111.

A party bf twenty-nine Sioux Indi ans froln the plains, passed • through ■Chicago Thursday, sn route to Hampton College, Virginia, .where they will be civilized and educated. Hurl, eK President and Treasurer of the Woman’s Educational Aid Association, of Evanston; III:, is accused of fraud. ‘ He Is Alleged to be shsrt In his sooounts $3,000. *’ . By the burning of Landenberger’s mill at Philadelphia, Wednesday night, about twenty lives were lost. Criminal carelessness In' providing fire-es-capes Is charged to ,tne owners. * t ". Charges of prejudice and slander ha-p----ing been by the Rev. Thomas against the Rev. Mr. Parkhurst, were referred to a special committee, who, after a brief deliberation, exonerated Mr. Parkhttrshi -n G ri r .. if ., A Boston oommittee has decided that it is feasible to hold tbe. next International Exposition theto,'provided tbe sum of $5,000,000 is subscribed -for the purpose. Beacon Park has been offered free fbr the site, i i i At Wayne township, Du Page county, IHi burglgrs robbed Mr, Fairbanks, a farmer, of about $5,003. Near Glrfirdt 111., thieves secured SB,OOO. K ln both cases the robbers hound the family Securely before they commenced to plunder. • u " ' *

J. A. GARFIELD.

Judge Jameeon made i* a special' charge, to the strand Jury-;iff Cook Sty.llls., relative, to grain gambHe indicated the law - jjjpv* |nh nll ».cornering grain apd provisions and promised that if the l aIMIU • uljT would present the culprits aiy would be prepared.tp do-their duty in Uie matter. m The President has- expressed a desire that tbe Qgnkte should remain in session uptil after, the (Close of. the YeiftX town.' Centennial celebration, lie suggssMda recess to allow the* Senate t > attend the celebration and do hoiidr to the Visitors from abroad. After the reoes? he'proposes to make Cabiiiet ceutebnuS? 1 * iminedifitely ({ after the. . ;1 r. f->,<.rr: .Wilrwr winkiniii. . Foreign. ‘ Tlie British steamer CoMca fcuuderebetsHioff ttto’Bbnfbiifidkff:* *} General Preodegast has '’-been dp poluted Governor General «f(CubaW fbe place of-Geoeral Blanco. .I 1 1 .

Coni, .luiaaioq has (’colded ,iq, continue -prohibtllon against American, pork. Persia ha* - applied to th« Rupiah GoV«rament to send; army ottoerk tff. remodel the Persian army on the Bus. stop vstonv -Ths British Cabinet will shortly de On fepsfgetid imasnreslwbe adopt- - The Municipal Council qt Re^n, has deckled to.lend-the City Hall tor a fOemnrial service in honor of Hie lkte’ Garfield’. R dro . • * vory large oongsegaiioa-at IhoCongre- ’ ratidual Cbapri in NeweasUe-upon-'Tj ftotmtfH *<tf the arena oflaHToMnew. Lah.l; League tags fuUsway, and hoyco Ugg and inosudiadsm ars.ibe rule. . - - Arohtatohop Crake, in replying t& tkal*

tHE NEWS.

d iiami* at D u f f|A revolt baa broken out Ilf the re-1 cently conquered Kroumir eoantry. the want of organization in the sanitary arrangements of the army of ocw nnM l iii ii„toii will ■ hmjiwrr that if Parnell attempts to obstruct hto heels in Kilmainham Jail.” j ispaieh eUCsslEatEn epidemic fed*k»M»glng at Umritsur w Jn the. provlfifir of the Punjaub (In •NeMtkratsaNKß «bdta).jrhiiflkJi»<tou«ing a mortality of Iron. do 300^ctoily. Parnell threatens thar WaffltOhe’s «\tesftfr ItoMn-tegsCßOiKed as

chaff before th£hHgeildsß4jA|lßfihr Dr. SchU tfmndM has- at CpqstenUypple to secure through the tjermsffi the Porte in eoaltoitoi his excavation at Htosarlik, .thj9 fl ancient Troy. t Ttodttght liitw&n tha French and Antes on 4bo r9sd / teii&fi' , WfcP r *®. virtually a victory for th* native*, M the French, lacking water ana provisionsvlikdto reireat [ There were.6.ooo on each.side. , |

A Paris ecrreaiiomtetir says* It is rumored that England' apd France i hafva agreed oniaJ.fiiUpolicy of for their subject to .ms fcr tMs

j Th* Kinga ol Spain n»(i iWu«il have beep ftateruiiingkau Exchanging at hausUftts KOqtimenls of mutual esteem. The reeult will bb thehloeeV I' hjtidtk the auspices of the Laud League a tearful I ucrease. ,nf! /priwir* has • been reporteii In, Ir«ft.o4. , The agrarian tretnltf&s v*ry'’r-oni -hriiVder and incendiarism , to pdtitog freed lei Into potatoes to be fed to thapajtle of a boycotted farmer.

r~ Y” | , . t . The Land Dengue are reeking to reVDfifee themselves tor the success of the land bill by preventing hunting. A party of Yahotos attacked the Curraghmore hounds' with pitobforks, nufi have caused the oreah-up sis Ibe finest pack ‘lb freiaua. ' '' M 7 !,rr i ®he Mexican has started a Bctysnie to encourage Italian colonitaUon, which to on a very liberal basis. The conlractdr Will receive $Tn fir head rf»r i each emigrant over 18, and •40 for eaeh child bcUVecn 8 and re. The govern then t ffirnlfenbe lknn.nohsre, 1 imnleittente, wore, to\V arid mare for ‘eabn fatoily, -ami twenty-five‘cento a (toy for 4aeh pei [ftjr Ulo year. Tjie colonists are to repay . same In one year. .. ~ . i. -lal The English Cotton Spinners’ Aseo ciatlon iqtepd to for legtotetVoil against oornering Gotten. Their Heo* retar*, mr. Oldham, has written to the United States Consul at Manchester, calling his atteQltou to the fact that the spinners pay for thousands Of tons of sand fraudulently packed with the cotton. He suggests that the names of the planter and packer he placed Inside of each bale. . k ' v The British government has oopamencfd a vigorous line of potion against the Land League, the initial step being the arrest of Parnell and hto. lodgement in Rilmatoham jail, under the coercion act. The. news of his arrest created intense excitement throughout.,,lreland, and the result may be n general uprising of the pSe t riots. A mass meeting of irlsh in London has been oalled for the 23d,.

THE STATE.

| |Mayor Cpic, of Kokomo, was a e’etaulter to the city in the sum of ; $366, at the time he washilled. Howard county has 100 sctioallhouses containing rooms,-of the estimated value of $95,525. >, ( • Mrs. Jfanoy A., mother of.Prefbesoi H. 7m. McLain, of Wabasfi Collegia, dropped dead Hiturday night of apoplexy. ’ :i •* ’ IT Columbus Summons, of New Albafiy, aged twelve years, has stolon three horses and one mute in the past foUr months, anti is now in Jail. '* : Charles J. Goodman, superintendent of the Madison water-works, While playfully wrestling with Mr,) AleiGraves, was thrown, breaking his leg.

William Wood, an employe in Parson’s slaughter- house, Hagers town, ivaa fatally, injured on Saturday, py lightning. His bead and face were badiycat ahd his clothes tohi off: • The forest, In Lawrenoo Vouh l *y abound Wifih. Uimisnuds of squirrels—/more tban.have been k DOWQ fur.many yca«. They eome from tiie southwekf; 1 find SeOto to be movifig In * northeastly dired ion.‘ , l( a I ' Isaac.Freepe, a farmer living hear. .Logrp, has had adcpve of thirteen stolen frpm binj. The^ vafue or!th«- ' porkers 14 S3OO, ktfd although a diligent search hsiLeeu made, there is Mot ih)i slightest tojthe thieves. '-■ ‘ rl R. E. Purnell, pfCfoniiersville, father of the boy bittoh' o days since byi ’saVdgefiog Wh4d by tiphmin J. Smith,

has, throbsU hte attorieys, Murry A Micbener, began a damage suit against Smith, ‘demanding $2,000. “j;, j Bhep*Cru m packer,of LkpeWe Oougty, haß rbacbed hhme' from Frahc4, with fiftfen-o'.the fihesk blooded taofses ever saM to bo the torses tooit that eter left , n oi,i . , t ; | ,H T A small boy was playing with wtoy pistol ire the toll gale on l the'¥6rktoWi*< forufrike, it/ the Vedtero suburbs of Uuneie. when tbs cartridge! exploded. Tto W 1 antfred fhejeft breast of his niolbbr, Mrs. Green, gate keeper, and .inflictedh wotmd frum which sbo »viU Ujree! tollw Wgcd lS.' tias to-eti Seiitto tlis house ot-reftigi tiitbo ago (of airtting fire to/&iiieU;lilior’s ,lttikhd boose,v) , .ai J ,! . /&<& . I ** I. $ u iibpjr jPoMerayiWf! a farmer iiviug uorth oLtown, lost alxtoen fat sWihe, aggregating ’VriQtti s39o'worth, to few nights »i«COv wtod Taoksiki R fiMvefbttmtrea ted pbfwms li Leets -ooakioWi df misdsmeaton hy> jusltore Ql.tljapflfio6H>/Ul#war, l spupty > fU* erty. fnioffittathig liquor w realized S69J/57rpni fim>. »iV«i f» 3Wf*ißsmu«l V bf^iinsHftVifttor*Uh. UlJiqnV ghWt, fOfkAVftyn©,.,.Usuiue involved * -,•/ fi# ■ r". * ! 1»

attacked her wRb alijgfated kMPoaeoej per godpito a r)V|t wripnH a ha# Mrs- a toa ij# <teg logw Smock bit <*rfhe greater part of SefanaiplMr’s BoSSTnehoelplMr fait oft a chunk of Boaock’a ebin, while the dog ctenwed hk legs. All but the dog wept

to Laporte Thursday for a load of lumber. After-beeoming iktaikalea -he hr hone. Some' mile* from «;TOpi> hi eh pats d Mfa totte*li£fc» nmkitnd aiOUBC ■IWIvj ® MejoaWilliam. n Sullivan, the weT ka«m<RimAlteoto»Wc^|^pooun^

a—- ff.it r |( i. HMMed «iv>Msnt»iiv-J '»Ry ei naf tot Pr'T'' 1 Zy? _ from the third story dfEbe Centra* hotel r! .MadisoD u at 4 o’clock Bfitttlaß; ;si*i»dee ,wae : prvmpUy ; ., the unfortunate man diedUtWo .hp ll ™; later wUboht.iltjWn#* > *ofcfts«l- -« I w<* and Silas C. Day. reported- J tfto”gVoss* ■ceht.ab^ «**Utli.of tbeiofceigh hoftrq Cl the Preeby tei lan hhUrCn/lS provide! rTn 3 the Wilt, The eXcbut'ora made Me* 5 Very This was the, largest estkto ever

probated in ibis ‘ t ~ f, Th'eteltlltefie ot Htyto knahear vicinlAy> k small town south ot Shelby vilie, Are rail fever Mf* excitement. over th* nijjriWious A**tostead LevflfJ'ohboTlhS most loflapatel*ud check®., Jtotuft ißfiVjb^homChestated stable, th*h %errt to the fifth of CdnreydbDupfeS, furnUurh de^firi,’Wlteh' tlon4r{'.toank i* amouiUng •■tos46oo f> gaina hlkwbeieabouta. ,

Dan ger to New Orleans.

sWnfc'StTdelldb or?tliir~inteiitiau t# demrtthe Queen.-City OUbeSOUth and teefca new owUet to the KyX>n the Father of Waters w rapidly cutting another channel, and 13 that the entire waters of the Red river and a large-, portion hi those of the 1 Mississippi ana now flowing through the Atcbaiflaya. Unless.tUay can, be arrested it is notion .nrotmuleihat ibaar be left In rmture strandSd on a shallow Stream. Observations at UmAjouth of the Bed river go to-show that where a bar existed a year ago there IS Ofow k' depth cff sixteen feets i running .clear .through to the Atehatalayp,. seven .©* eight miles distant. This IS %■ most tfc. markab'e change in so short atime.and if the torc©M-ia-operalion, continue the menace to the; commercial supremacy of NewjOrleans will become a subject for'torious consideration. History records several natural ohaugea'and revolutions of this character in . the Old" Wo»ld, but they have'required centuries for their accomplishment. The great American river, however, is up with the age. and it is not impossible that it may do in a week 6r it month what the sluggish waters of the other hemispheres have taken hundreds of years to worfc out. 1 •

A Serious Warning to Our Farmers

NewYorkSan, f/ , t . The foHcwlugdetter relates to a subject of extraordinary importance: v «Tb tbe fed 1 tor of thte Hhn—Sttr: PUwufc ihfortt\ What the tnclohed liisfect* Ai¥T.V|fo Worms t found lusoknfe oJd Wheat; anti tbe d lea Krodpd the Mdte 6f the granary?. YwSy begin to fly aboqt fl o’clock -lu the svenrag, ana.then Settle UoWn By the shleaof tlie Bln; Aye they sh“ anyway connected T And will u» regret that the Writer hr the atove.qkhltted his Post Offlfea ad tress itthiS note,' because -it II quite itnportaut Khaki out readers hod Id' from whit part of the country noxious insect's are received, that. they may be" on the lookout for the aside species. .. The small,' Silky moths, of which our 'Correspondent sends Us specimens, are the parents of the worms found.ln the wheat; and, furthermore, they are among the most destructive insects beLngmo other than tpe doted Angoumoto grain meth (Qelechia cercalelta), so named because first disco vered in the- ■pf-ovjttoe of Angoumois, France, about 160 years ago,, i ■

This Insect .has already caused the destruction of thousands of bushels of bdrtt, wheat, and athtof kinds of grain In this country, and from present appearances it will soon make the keep-' ing bf grain over winter a very- dim-cqlt-pmtter in. tbe Urited States, because the moths deposit their eggs oh ihegraln'ln the fall eoowafttirill|s her'thd summer, when stored in bios and' the hfogrem or«Ug msecs by eipending $5,003,000 attbto time,;it woidd be’ tbe best Tniestmcht ever hdade by our pfeople. We haY&Jteep watchlngjfte progress of the pest for tbe pafet ten years, Utad' And that -it has become pretty well distributed over nemty all ..the graingrowing regiqns In both the Northern r and Southern. Btatee: dAs eArly as 173* this same grain moU destructive in some parts orFrance as to near* ly cause a famine amdog tie. people, ibis eoontry, as no effort to being made to check the ravages trfiWsaudmvwar other imported grararaea|Yoylng in-

w theti thoroughly fumigate 'ybur< graupotany grtiin in the-bins this season, w&PSßn&g&is poison#- or-starVefl odl Wfota* tbO same building wHF-be-a safe depository, for •ny Mud of grata Again.; 7r iU 1 * “ ,( Furtbarmose, your.. neighbors must do dbe-same, nr tbs moths will come from theie barns-- 40* youfs. j Until .rigorous measures are, adopted, the spread and ta rages of such - peats cap/tiotvbe prevent fid. Laws must ..be dnaeledhjr tb«u general Government for. *heir suppression* and ttvewenfopood to .die very Uu«o < As-soou •M-Europefin' trie#*find tbntuwe s «n sending them infested grain, .Ahey wjU. want, a«<* mar* of It. atony pciee;aud by mat 1 time our farmers w*U -, learn what U, .euetß to,harbor thekoaomies. ?■»: *

A New York “Orfun.”

lb O/iS'of'tWe-little iamb# picked upin die York by AVMtomw q» We4l to tied a home WfY’haapted ly a family about two fciqhtffJngb, and ere 1 hi# hr published Mr. field has received a big postal card announcing- that hi# dear lamb has goce>-West in i fight I Indians' igmd that

an hour later he reiterated the statement at the house, and added: “And *hf»n mc * wiped hie mouth on hie sleeve, and gave the family to understand before sapper was over that he didn’t oome Weettohave hto his his first evening he slipped out, had dhree fights and stole a dog, and when Granted up he was about to take his beer in a saloon. The family expected tmLwroffm fiiwjsgg^farmwfajigmad thev didn't sis down on him Until f{

beoknte nseeaslty. Dtttine his first week be-«tole IS in money,* £*>lib c%aftm«'«*al*fabi*h4*4i3i r trf tM itoe taiidbeiaaffaM nrat i dsgwtrfor a qbartMy throw the saw took and lectured tos? lstaib for. fifteen

Collar. .He BJrn«d an'iious the head good tit le boy wlhbla balf a mile 8r bim, .and lto fold :he leaobSt pf his etesstbtt when she cm# stufl Moscßdn the bulrushes dowu bim tt wbuW fcemfter *he Wekehed: Wisher

IThey. gape him *sPwd»y--pchool book to fit his,case- butheifl led it to acrat.k in the sidewalk otp bis aufo. Wiirni mowtl.aMMtfl at.dki in*; tVldkM .yopththii' fi-trttti fife rod. Hewfts bigger than the boy, and b©j walloped him, St'ln Ihifoei hours twQ of the nuts 5 "the w. od«lif*s,aud before - dark.a .win*. 3pW gl&Sar,worth was,broken. ..That :PiSmP aha ftetftcred. He was licked and reasoned with. .‘Am bit too, grad*' tPQBf days ago hfi was tcW that he wonldi be keut-tfo-the-Reform SC bool, it ihßierWaa, further trwwe Atyi hiihuidTbat bight be stole S 3 of the Cdok, a butcher kbifafrohi lhe bahri-jr,.a'hle from the, MdteWoard aba departed itie tfodWJeavingoh bis ‘bed a nolld rending as fol* r)pft*i.ltf'£JMs .town nr/ nq- place fur.g isl. JYqrk orfufl. I'm goia’ - out op the planes to ,ftte lujunii. It Ujill be yuse* less tb folfer'me,- forJrcari’t bo--took 1- >-•!' ;-*a ■> J--’ . •

Too A wfully Utter.

J/, , : : ,WWeU/’ sald ft Degdwopd rqau who hid just been introduced to 9 Brooklyn girf, dod who hid been asked -by her if they had mmy of thoae- lovely frontiersmen otft bis way-f*?wpll, gram, we, have.right smart of ’em iu pur peck o’ wood?,’’ f * , ' ’ “And, do Wear fringed legs and bout those dear,-sweet buffalo?” staked .the girl. lo ..nuni ./. bj “The stage diivers wear fringe, and sich, and when a buffalar shines out some one h» pooty apt to book on.” ? I IfHiow fcupre me! Abd those gorgeous Indians ip their, jiicturesqne wigwams or watqpuin, v ith their combinations of war-pglnt, do you often see them?” •«» .-al ■ -f. «■ - - . “Ohl once in awhile we get a hack at % buck, but (mostly they are on the rwervatlone.V replied, tbe Dead wood man, curing. “The ydoes cotoes in occasionally, but we don’t track with th*m.” T ? • ;• ,ei l

• The sweet tilings! And yoi* have such sunsets opt Ln-your mountain fastnesses, and such loves qf highwaymen ! Do you eVer see those delightful highway men? I “Not often; mUm. ( ,Tney get In the brush; and arrbr Sunsets, we get eta prettV reghJitr in fair Wfebther.” ■' “Isn’t it-just too awfully too?*' exclaimed, tlie giil, clasping het baud# ami,rolling her eyes. .- . “Yes uium, M stllmtbered tbe D?a47 wood man, “semetiifaes it’s pretty darn too; leastpriw if was t&s day that Cobbles Duffy came into town on tbe lahd Slide ” T n r • ‘•An avalamrfiet Do you mean an avalanche? Oh! Can there be anything more crystally utter than, an avalanche!'* > i‘‘lt was poofy, toofy utter,” hazarded the Dead wood man, dropping info bis companion’s style of expressio'p. “The cobbler had a—a—be lxad-a cryfotally shaft up the sideof the ’biMte, apd one day he wae— i was toolng around, up and’things slipped out: frOm Under him. - "■> •;>' .* •) . *!•! i “Oh! how radiant! . How iridescent!’’ ir n \ - > \

•‘Yes mum, and he began tofadiata. towards tbwri at the rate Of One thousand miles aud three furlongs gvm&iute. We see him a—a uttering down tbe aide of the mountain, ripping up trees and rocks, and toeing alone, sod his iridesoent wife-flapped out bf jjger shack and began to raise a row.”. .}. nPoorDfly,’’ moaned the girl; “did she Step tbe glorious avalanche?” . **No, mum, «ot quite, Duffy fetched up against his shack, all -atanaiug Usd' began to bawl like a ’cause, he thought he'd lost bis mine, But when they tipped the landslide on One end there Was the-mine underneath Justus he bad left it. Sohe cdirld work it right Underi'lite.'..winder.' That was pooty considerable, ted, -eb!” aqd the Dead woodman never-winked. “How sublimef'“Butl Wfcs going to says we never had a sunset sinee,” r -- > ; !j stall nrurmored tbe girl. “Yes, mostly like aslar. -You see the, iandslkfe staqds toe re to this *day ‘on end, and they don’t darei to llirn it over for fear of filling’ im* the 6owu, sp. we don’t get any trail after 11 in the morning.” •- - -rae' *. “A perbnnltd Cwilightl &o fearfully, terribly, awfully uttM’.v •>< " • “Yee,” mui mured 'the Dead wood mao,” it is about as utter as you oau get’fid.'W •ith'ii‘l • 5 s’ A Aud she sot and gszed upon- |iim, wrapped hi admiration, while: he fell, into a r«ve»le, hud Wondered, ab Brooklyn bospitaltty iu oot-prdvidiag ’‘sand boxes” for-strangers.: » Tsid « t. , - ■•j - .. _. . . . .no?

The Pride of Virginians.

porreapoudeuce ot'Hi *#. Heralkk * ■* i « ! isn S to Rlchmotirftbcgrq iga,(furious compound of tbe metropolitan and the prosssafe ism. - The et'ty*ie the-pride of all traW ssr majority in the Degisiatotej .with -Ihe ssfefeWit Wh'wit'Wheli B to posedtle todo kyfaaitoXe: HyTftie Js#uth;ttihearifhW extend’ from/ the Potomac nearto the Miaaiiiatpp4 a»Mi yet there to not:a b? th. fcy ■ to re-build. year or two they had a handsomer city than evgf bgfoie* -TBfese same energetic fohto h»TP been fleeopppths paving

I y .r ' - ■’*«' 'rtg-ifc - JLmJr vW-frw i;; ,im ]^3ySpPy Jo goodav -QaH^STOCBL 420 Broadway, Zo<rausport;ln<l. pPUhfe-Btg €totd Boot. | lo ertmT jyattIEATOST ntPQmye&TOBgYERS gi i !»- *tw vffr * * .tag# 1 nss,RiM>M-toVm T 1 ol «vi 3 mrurioi ®BJ£o Both owned and managed hy

“’ill -i .r.i ;< i i. i\ Rindly.aclt tli© people of .v»v wxiQm Ollnten, Carroll* PulasW, and ths Qrtdtest Drv Gwdi aM Qerpei Ho,e West 0/ Ntibtirk mtdteiM, the amoiint of 'hW.td U tihic| Aer; hPb tHc T AdVAn%e of, trorrt * rdoßfc;inwnehep.fek df PrOTs'Goo^,'§in<s v ftushes frobi get y£ upwards; Cldakfe and Dolmans; VelvM*Be*aver ghaWfe from $1 upwards, i . .... ■—-y ... Bm av u feel that goods, at last must Have reached rock-bottom, for you will wonder [low .these gcx#s can be manufactured at prices'#-Ww.*' v .» 1 ■ , ... par us but a single visit. iCpnly to see: the handsomest _ arid -best-filled Dry Gk>ods and Carpet House in the grfeat State Of 315 and Fourth Street, LOG AX SPOlt^’ ii^N^.

This firm is the largest in Logansport, and in Fine Clothing is recognized as competitors hy best Merchant .Tailo*®.. - In fact, their nobbiest styles are built square, wide shoulders, and finely trimmed. Their Store is .Oho Hundred and Thirty peet deep und proportionate in. width, and is liteially Hlabk With godds, which includes the newest style Stiff and Soft selection pl-Or portionate with Clothiiig; ,Their stock, of nledittui-prided Meii’s and Cliildreji’s Clothr ing is startling; stacks upon stacks, of any price you may call for. , It will pay yo. , to visit this Mammoth Clotliing Emporium. , THE FAIiOUS CLOTHIERS AND HATTERS , LOGANSPORT, IND. Fourth Sreet, Opposite National Bank. $20,000 WORTH ! Diamonds,Watches, Jewelry, Spectacles, Clocks & Musical tits to ne sold before January Ist, 1332, Tbe Create at BAXCAmS ever offered this market* 20 to 23 per o©lat. below rdtirtiletr pxloe: c- «.• .t.« 11. C. EVERSOLE, pN% Zrios 424 Broadway, djiposito Pearl Street. ■’ 1-- ('• "* r " • ■ - >■ '■ L . .( ‘ r

squares of Main street with Belgian blocks, and the wha’e job is not yet done. Dust aud heat and no water, Aided by the blundering city officials, have m id# this Main street improvemeat an eyosore ftnd an affliction. The foundries and workshops funrtsb era•«il arts -are fosteir dhand- enoougfiged. There to activity, in real,^ate, and numerous stpres and resloeticeis'have' this year beeiV erected.--' The dUy is extecdlwg itself westward with great rapidity; money is plenty aud the laborer to well Yet >thdi huildiug called tho City Hall would, ipe ac cGpted by turtaen as good enhugh for -a -first-class ilvery.'stable. The be*t rsSffS&i? conrti lutes the #treeb«!esntng bureau, (who has no Dtner -working force than a shackeled hall-and-chara gantlr.’and nbother laboreito ate ter be seefa on- the, beautiful Capitol park than those w;egji»gthe zebra-like tihifortn bf (hi 'pimitentiary donVlCtd.--”1 L:»*s ;qo *i.l ;

Origin of the Beefsteak.

uW-’WSK man senator, was ordered by Emperor sues wu dnggMWlA MM., IMr« U)< ater weddompeUedto thru (theaq. In by HaucMto, whloh;binrtng htofibg^rn, •the teste of akiioaofmeat thtw-eafboua-4ed was infinitely far beyond all the conventional styles of B :mw cookery as>a patoteldW triumph; Pis nous; conSBVPMfcft dignity, and be at once ‘ eviuoed bis contempt for the Eteppor by*gstgnsi-. bly serving hito wblie rcormng tlie Mi’kiOabb vrkfe compeHeii in, perform^ ’BrSg# fITiiBBMK fooffist; uhttwed Trdjaa,’ idefrauded Jurj 4 the prominent feature. The,priests adopted It, AhcPtbd Ktegao toLger-depends*! oni» «g s tor the, ffEsssss ng e?akl: -“The Kew.Hlraclm 'itatWyAorQ,” the. He oVr IfcVmettJJ3 uamm thdugß faiueidlr tnOWM -•>/ One of Lofe’ittfobt T^ragi^dies. Dabnqne (lows) BSs About tliMw- weeks avo a young man about £8 yc-»rs oW, ho U* uam 3

as A. B. Fisher, arrived in Oentralla, this couDty, and asked Nick Myers for a job of work, stating that be was willing to do anything honorable, and offered his services for $2 per week. He Edwa: Sffi hat. and hands as aoff as a lady’s, thus ■proving that he Was-wholly unused to farm lsbor.' W 2 M»<?» fetft-sorry for the young man, who stated that he was. not well, andT Bad 'bef h ‘partially 111 for sevhrai. dayi.. ,13$' TO given sothe work! to do, but wfcrunable to do very mrfCh. ' His Appeal ance excited saspicioji; for it was no common thing for a yoiiti'i mail 6f his adjirese to be asking for work as, a farm ; handL, Mr. Mvers asked him if be was not homesick, and he replied that ne was, at the same lime bursting into wars, He was take£ into the family of Mr. Myers, Where he Is at present lyipg. very ill. A day or two »gd Marshal Harrimatv received- a-dispatch Bom New York city inquiring after this young min. -' K Tire dispatoh, Which came from Ft-her’s brother, stated toat he was last heard from near Bafuque. Mr.Harrimm traced lh» yoirqg'.man to Oentralia a °d found him at the house of Mr, Myers. ,telegraphed the Tc-sult'of his eeareb back to New York city, and informed -Fisher’s brother that tbe you~g msn was very Jtbe! young mnn tb*» Oestof csfej procure him able af ststaDce, at auy ebet, and that he wbuld take the ■first train-f-*r DObuque himself. It is evident that young fc'isiier .has wandered away f.orii ft home Of wealth, but for what mason is not kno.wm. .When his brother. arrives something more m>»y be learned or what now appears -te hi a strange case, to, say, the least. YeupgFifher to nobfxpfcted to live.

The English samson.

Uiambera JoaroaL .- A man if great strength was William Joy, known in bis day as “the Eugli 4h Samson.” Me wav a-native of bis life lie displayed reoiUrkable strength and dexterity v-eare, r dwdPwherr24 years IdC nge. he.legan publicly to exhibit his astonished feats. TAtegbffnances, he is said to have been able to retain and keepin placa a trfjf .r.g tior#* urged 'soMhr by! the check «/ b> a puli, without msy stay or support * , '** , * v * r r' by a str ing leathern girdle or belt, and supporting bimfiATf bX Pteteittt arms on a railing,:be <x>uu» iu«« from Lite ground a Stone skid mbeafon in weiglit. acUihfor a lope fastened tP • wail, wbicb badpi eyiously borne more fban a ton and a half welght-wWweto bw-ohiug. -NotwithplS»»U ble join's, imry wonderful stories being fold** tPa fcjus TlttrtJiis Ttupict, grtrgJftfSpf wlue on the sole ufcliis 10-’ti wtiicTi be could twist round with - isTiands. abitjcoqyeying tbe glass iu 1 bis w’sy tp his v foouth mtJlOUt tpUlh IS r V i rT :