Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1882 — Page 2

MILAH HPUBUCAi, 4 oTmcnm, yisyrtrtw RENSSELAER, IND.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Business is being resumed.at Alexandria. Camden, New York, was badly schorched. A tornado swept through North Carolina, destroying crops. Attorney Qeneral Brewster will not not go on a trip to Europe. Samuel L. Sachs shot his wife, in jealous rage, at San Francisco. Scurvy has broken out among the Hungarians at Shnandoa, N. J. Joseph Li. King, a successful grain merchant, of Piqua, Ohio, is dead. Hon. Irvine C. Wales formerly a senator, died near Massillon, Ohio. Burglars blew open a safe at Armada, Michigan, and secured $2,000. Favorable reports come from the northwest regarding all crops except corn. The result of the Smith murder trial at Bucyrus, Ohio, is the penitentiary for life. It is predicted that congress will adjourn August 6th—-not later than August 15th. Three prisoners escaped from the Newark (O.) jail. The jailer was knocked down. John Goggins, a vagabond, killed his wife at St. Mark’s hospital, Grand Bapids, Mich. Ivan W. Bowman, who killed Marshal R. D. Lane, at Augusta, Ky., has been captured. A dymanite cartridge, put into the mails, wafe found in a down-town New York letter hex. * Columbus, 0., has an international portrait company, with' a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. Norvin Green has been elected president of the Vermont and Boston telegraph company. The residence of Jackson Slane, near Norwood, was burned while the family were at church. Mrs. Mary Odell, aged ninety years, a Cincinnati pioneer, was found dead in her bed at Urbana, O. James O’Donald shot and killed Green Gilbert at Louisville. Both colored coal-cart drivers. The Miami and Whitewater valley pioneer and Harvest Home association has be*n incorporated. Two horse thieveß resisting arrest were killed by a sheriff’s posse at Hayward, Dakota territory. The weather has improved in Ireland, and the prospect for a good crop in moßt par is of the island Is assuring.

The sum of $25,000 will probably be appropriated to bring home the remains of Captain DeLong and comrades. Eddie Dlckman, of the Durrell BiOthers, song and dance men, was accidentally and dangerously shot at Indianapolis. A threshing-machine boiler exploded near Dorc. ester, 111., killing one man, two horses and two mules and burning up a wheat stack. The body of Peggy Crone, a young courtesan, of a respectable family at Kokomo, Ind., was found dead in a field near Wabash, that state. Chicago has added ,an engine to increase its daily water supply by thirty million gallons, making the total supply a hundred and thirty million gallons a day. A party of Indians attacked a wagon train near Clifton, N. M., killing two men. The wagoners wounded and oaptured one Indian, and roasted him alive after the fight. In the Chicago prison an inmate named John Prendell, an imbecile, confined in the same cell with Wm. J. Clarke, unbuckled Clarke’s wooden leg and beat him to death. Jacob Johnson, a farmer, started home from Lexington, Ky., “tight.” and next morning* was found inside his gate, with his head battered, and his pocketbook and SSOO gone. The court of inquiry in the case of General Warren finds substantially that General Sheridan was justified in relieving General Warren of his command at the battle of Five Forks, and that he did not exceed his authority in so doing. Concerningthe death of Ferdinand Winter, at Huntington, West Virginia, there are suspicions of murder. His skull was fractured and a silver watch with which he left Cincinnati, is missing. At Freeport, Wayne county, Pa., two girls named Stearns murdered their mother and concealed her body, but the secret leaked out finally. One of the girls was arrested, the other fled. Governor Porter of Indiana, has pa:doned Theodore Brown, who was sentenced for a long term, in Marion county, in 1878, for killing his wife with a blow of his fist, while drunk. He has gone insane. The Commmroia’s Dayton correspondent reports 'hat Brother Barnes u losing his giip there. His audiences have dwindled down to one hundred n nd fifty a night, and not a single conversion has been made for tweek.

CONGRESSONAL.

SENATE. Washington, July 24.— The senate bill to refund to the estate of John W. Forney $27,684 paid by him when Secretary to the senate u> cover the delation in his office, passed. . Mr. Morrill moved'•to take up the revenue blfl, and Mr. Hqle to give way for the navaKappropria* tion bill. Mr. Morrill’s motion prevailed, and the revenue bill was taken up, the pending amehdment being one to reduce tobacco tax to eight cents per pound. After debate the amendment was voted down —yeas 18, nays 80; not a Democratic member v Vr. Sfahone moved to amend tne amendment by inserting in lieu of the provision proposed to be stricken out the following: “Provided, that on all unbroken and original factory packages, such articles (cigars and cigarettes), including smoking and manufactured tobacco held by manufacturers or dealers at the time such reduction shall go into effect, upon which tax has been paid, there snail be allowed a drawback or rebate of the full amount of the reduction: provided tne same snail not apply m any case where the claim has not been ascertained or presented within thirty days following the date of the reduction.’’ Mr. Morgan suggested the modification of the pending amendment allowing the payment of a rebate to manufacturers on stamps at reduced rates. Adopted. Mr. Mahone’s amendment was then agreed to—yeas, 27; nays, 25. The section, as further perfected, on motion of Mr. Hoar, was then adopted. The senate without disposing of the subject, adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July 24.—Messrs. Pay son and Knott presented their views of the minority judiciary committee upon the subject of the N >rthern Pacific land grant. Mr. Knott asked unanimous consent to have the resolution placed on the calendar but Mr. Caswell objected. The v*ews of the minority were ordered printed and laid on the table. As the bill originally passed the house it appropriated $19,880,273, as it passed tne senate it appropriated $20,276,300. As agreed upon by tne conference committee it appropriated $20,038,000. The conference renort. was agreed to and funner conference ordered. The following bills were referred: By Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, to collect frfcm the Kansas Pacific railroad company the cost of surveying, selecting and conveying certain lands. By Mr. Knott, of Kentucky, declaring forfeited to the United States certain lands granted to the Northern Pacific railroad company and remaining unpatented on the first of July. By Mr. Dingley—Fixing the duty on Imported nay at 20 per cent, advalorem. By Mr. Flower, of New York—Proposing a constitutional amendment granting the president the right to veto any distinct item or provision of a bill while approving other items. By Mr. Atkins, of Tennessee—To protect the treasury. By Mr. Chase—To make bills of lading negotiable. The District of Columbia business was then taken up, and an attempt to repeal all license taxes on commercial travelers failed under the rules. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, July 25.—The senate indulged in an hour’s debate without action upon printing the reports of the tenth census, when the conference report on the river and harbor bill was presented and adopted. The revenue bill was then proceeded with. The pending amendment was agreed to—yeas, 34; nays, 25. Mr. Harris moved to substitute for the section a provision for the reduction of ten per cent, on all imports after July 1,1883, and ten percent, additional after January 1,1884. Without acting on the amendment an adjournment was carried—27 to 26 —all the Democrats, with Messrs. Hoar, Ingalls, and Kellogg, voting aye. HOUSE. Washington, July 25.— Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania, made an answer to the recent attack of Senator Butler. His remarks elicited applause from the Republican side. The speaker the regular order of business to be the further consideration of the bill allowing a drawback upon imported material used in connection with domestic materials in the construction of vessels for foreign account, and the pending question to be the motion of Mr. Kelly to recommit the bill to the committee on ways and means. Agreed to—yeas, 100; nays, 70. Mr. Page, of California, presented and explained the conference report on the river and harbor appropriation bil • The house refused to agree to the report—B2 yeas, 79 nays. ' Mr. Strait, of Minnesota, moved to reconsider, and Mr. Cox, of New York, moved to lay the motion on the table, pending which the friends of the bill as it now stands mustered their forces and carried an adjournment. The conference report comes up tomorrow, on a motion to reconsider. SENATE. Washington, July 26.—Mr. Conger,from the committee on commerce, reported favorably the house bill to regulate the carrying of passengers by sea. Laid over until to-morrow. As soon as the routine order of business was disposed of, Mr. Hale moved to postpone all present and prio vf orders, including the revenue bill, and take up the naval appropriation bill. A long discussion followed and the bill was taken up.

The senate then went into committee of the whole iMr. Harris in the chair), and Mr. Halexin charge of the bill, addressed the committee. Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, chainnan of the naval committee, at the instance of that committee, moves! to recommit the bill, with instructions to the appropriation committee to eliminate all its provisions relating to the organization of the navy. Discussion followed. Pending an executive session the bill was laid aside until to-morrow, without action, on motion of Mr. Cameron. Mr. Frye introduced a bill to remit the import duties on materials used in the construction and equipment of vessels to be employed in the foreign carrying trade. Referred. After an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July 26.—Mr. Hiscock presented the conference report on the generall deficiency appropriation bill. Mr. Hiscock moved that the house recede from its disagreement to that item. Lost—yeas, 65, nays, 115, and a new conference ordered. Mr. Page called up the conference report on the river and harbor bill rejected yesterday, and the house voted —yeas, 114, nays 27, to reconsider the vote by which it was yesterday refused to agree to the conference report. The conference report was then agreed to—yeas, 111; nays, 82. The house proceeded to the consideration of business under the “Pound’ rule. Passed, On motion of Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, a joint resolution was passed authorizing the secretary of war to loan tents to a colony of Russian Hebrews in Foote county, Kansas. Joirft resolutions also passed granting the widow of Hemy Highland Garrett,, late minister to Liberia, an amount e iual to her husband’s salary for one year. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, July 27.— Mr. Williams offered an amendment so be proposed to the sundry civil bill, directing the attorney-general to ascertain what would be jnst and reasonable compensation for the services rendered by Charles H. Reed in the defense of Charles J. Guiteau, and to make allowance therefor not exceeding $5,000. Ref rred. After further discussion a vote was taken and Mr. Cameron’s motion to recommit the bill was defeated—29 to 34. The bill then went over without action until to-morrow. The conference on the Japanese indemnity bill reported their disagreement and a new conference committee was ordered. After an executive session the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, July 27.— 0 n motion of Mr. Davis, of {llinois, the bil passed fixing the salary of the collec tor of customs at Chicago at $7,000 per annum. Mr. Kasson, from the committee on ways and means, reported back the bill recently introduced by Mr. Dingley, adjnßting the duty on imported hay at 20 per cent, ad valorem. Referred to committee of the whole. Senate bill to amend the statutes in l elation to copyrights passed. The floor was then accorded to the committee on Indian affairs, and Mr. Deering called up senate bill granting right of way for the railroad and telegraphic purposes to the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Companies passed. Mr. Williams from the committee on conference on the Japanese indemnify bill reported disagreement and further conference was ordered. A proposition to adjourn over until Monday received but a few votes. Adjourned until to-morrow.

Facts About the Gentle Sex.

Young English ladies walk about London alone now, a fashion unknown 20 years ago. Mrs. Betsy G. Truell was buried at Candia, N. H., Wednesday, her daughters acting as I*ll bearers. A girl at Coviniton, Ky., has sued her own mother for SIO,OOO damages for imputations against her chastity. A Dubuque man, who found a wallet containing S3OO in cash, refused to give his wife $5 to buy a hat, and she peached on him and mado him restore the whole sum to the loser. A lovely young lady, a member of a mutual aid union, advertises in the Yazoo, Miss., Sentinel that she is ready to receive proposals of marriage from nice young men. An Illinois woman of 80 has brought suit for divorce against her husband of 25. She thinks he married her for money. It will be difficult for him to convince a jury that it was her blooming youth that attracted him. Up in Boone county, a few days ago, Mrs. Maggie Miller procured a divorce from her husband ou the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. She proved the bad treatment by her own sister. A few days after the sister and divorced husband were married. One hundred years ago small-pox was spreading its terrors through Europe, and Madame Elizabeth,sister of Louis XVI offered her fair arm for inoculation to convince th«* people of its virtue. The people manifested their gratitude a few years later by choppin. off her head. Of the 262 women who have been inmates of the Massachusetts home for intemperate women, 46 have been discharged as hopeless cases. Yet when the kind matron selects the objects of her benevolence from the courts, she chooses only those who appear as if they might be reclaimed. A great scandal was caused in Cornwall few months ago by the elopement of a young lady, the duughter of a gentleman well known in the county, with her father’s groom. They fled to South Africa, and recently letters were received announcing that the damsel was on her way home, having left her companion in a hotel at Natal, where he has been engaged as waiter. Geegory Lltherman, member of the barracks band, at Columbus, and connected with the army since 1861, was fatally injured by a fall from a window.

INDIANA.

ShelbyviLe 's <n fresh oysters. Stock hogs are very scarce in Owen county A colored camp meet in? began at Laporte Saturday. Bass fishing is uncommonly good in Wayne county. Beer-drinking among the women is getting fashionable. Henry county’s wheat crop is estimated at 1,000,000 bushels. Peru is to have a military company under the military code of Indiana, Parke county com could not look better where it has been well tended. The last Ohio regiment got $1,300 for camping at Glen Miller, Richmond. A son of Samuel Kits, of Hardenberg, was fatally kicked, Tuesday, by a horse. Henry J, Powell, a Shelbyville grocer, has closed his doors. Liabilities, $1,600; assets about S3OO, The wheat crop in Hendricks county, so far as heard from, will average about twenty bushels per acre. Mr. Alex. McLeod, formerly of the Southern, has taken charge of the Ohio & Mississippi at Vincennes. Ed. Dillon,who absconded from Hart township, Warrick county, last Saturday, it is now known, carried with him money to the amount of SIB,OOO, which he defrauded the farmers of that county of. In an altercation Sunday afternoon at Alvord’s feed yard, at Peru, Frank Hathaway stabbed seriously one Elbertson and ran for the woods. He was overtaken and planed in jail. The assault was unprovoked. The liabilities of the firm of Masters & Ferguson, clothiDg and boot and shoe dealers of Boonville, who failed last week, will reach all the way from $12,000 to $15,000. The heaviest creditors are merchants of Cincinnati. On Saturday, near Goshen, a three-year-old son of Joseph Weaver followed some of the older children to a field without their knowledge. They had to pass through a gate with a broken hinge, and when returning found the child pinned down by the gate, and dead. Mr. Alex Ferguson, of Hanover township, near Madison, while driving a horse hitched to a hay-rake,was thrown from the rake by the running away of the horse, and received severe injuries. He lay in the field for seme time before he was discovered and carried to his home. The United Brethren of Reedsville, have just finished their new church and on Saturday mounted an 800 Bound bell of superior quality. The uildingwill accomodate 500 people and cost $1,500. Uncle George Muth age eighty-three; is pastor, a regular old father in Israel. Catharine Stattler, aged seventy, was terribly injured on Saturday, near New Albany, by her horse runrunning away with the spring wagon in which she was sitting. Her right knee was broken, right hip dislocated, breast bone broken and shoulder dislocated, besides serious bruises. The house of Thomas Newman, a wealthy farmer in Miami county,was burglarized Saturday night of a large amount of valuables. The robbers spent some time in the house, going into every room, and although a large number of people were sleeping in the rooms, none were disturbed. Saturday afternoon, while Wm. Goodrich was running a rip-sa.vat Courey, Waller & Deprez’s furniture factory, at Shelbyville, the piece of wood he was cutting slipped, throwing his right hand against the saw. It was lacerated in a fearful manner, part of the bones adhering to the saw. JohnH. Lawson, of Greensburg, was at Lawrenceburg Junction sitting on the platform so near the track of the railroad that a passing freight train struck him, crushing in the skull. He was taken home on the passenger train, but died soon after. He has a wife and one ohild, a boy about nine or ten years. The dwelling of William Hogin, of Marion, was burglarized, and his vest and pants, with their contents carried away. A small amount of change and nis store key was the burglars reward. The key is supposed to be what they were after, with a view to entering his store house, which from some cause they failed to do. The dry goods store of G. J. Roth & Co., and the hardware and grocery stores of F. C. Hepp and Gus Bchrieber, three of the leading business establishments of Boonville, were burglarized early Saturday morning. The money drawers of each store were forced open and rifled cf contents,and more or less of goods in stock carried away. '■ Charles Eppinghousen, of Terre Haute, has brought suit against Patrick Shannon for malicious prosecution, with damages placed at $150,000. This suit is an outgrowtyi of the court house war somb time ago, as a result of which Shannon sued Eppinhousen for libel, and afterwards dismissed the cases. A 1 vie Wilson, < ! '-'.uncle, was at work on a top of a -i. :*w •hi ack, and having complete lua labors, slid down the side of th- s ack to the ground. Standing agaiust the stack was a pitchfork, handle upward on which ne alighted, which entered the body to a depth of more than twelve inches. His injuries proved fatal, and he died in nine hours.

THE MARKETS.

Ckleage. Flour—Easier; common to choice spring wheat, $4 75@6 75; common to choice Minnesota, $5 00@7 25; patents. $7 50@8 75; winter wheats, $6 00@7 00; low grades, $3 00@4 75. Grain—Wheat: No. 2 red wlntern unsettled and generally lower, $102% @103; No. 2 Chicago spring steady and firm, $1 28; regular, unsettled and generally lower, $1 21%@1 21% July. Corn irregular and unsettled, higher, 77@77%c. Oats fairly active and a shade higher, 56c. Rye steady and unchanged, 67c. Barley easier. 82c. Flaxseed—Steady and firm; merchantable, $1 28. Butter—Quiet, weak and easier, but not lower. , Eggs—Strong, 18c. Whisky—Fipm, sll7. Provisions—Pork in fair demand, but lower; S2IOO oash and August; $2117)6@21 20 September; s2l 30@ 2132)6 October; sl9 45@19 50 year. Lard unsettled and generally lower, sl2 27)6@12 30 cash and August; sl2 40@12 42)6 September; sl2 50 October ; |sl2 87)6 year. Bulk meats easier; shoulders, $9 75; short rib, sl2 65; short clear, sl3 25. i Freights- Corn to Buffalo, 2c. Call—Wheat winter, firmer not higher; spring, firm; regular, quiet and weak with but few changes in prices. Corn irregular, 77)6c July. Oats steady and in fair demand, 55%c July. Pork unsettled and generally lower; s2l OOAugust; $2117)6 Septem-

ber; $2114% October; sl9 45@10 50 year. Lard fell a shade lower; sl2 41)6 October; sl2 42)6 November; sl2 20@ 12 22)6 year. Hogs—Receipts, 11,000 head; shipments, 3,400 head; market fair and generally steady; good heavy and prime light 5 cents higher; mixed, $7 50@8 50; heavy, $8 30@8 90; light, $7 60@8 30; skips, $5 00@7 25. Cattle—Receipts, 4,200 head; shipments, 2,900; market dull and weak; throughout natives 10c lower: exports $7 25@7 75; good to choice, $6 40@690; common to fair, $4 70@5 90; butchers $2 40@4 80; stockers and feeders, dull $275@4 00; range cattle 10c lower; Texans, $3 50@465: half breeds, $4 00 @5 00; Americans, $4 25@5 90. sg Sheep—Receipts, 900 head; shipments, 200; market fairly active and steady; common to fair;[s3 25@3 75; good to choice, $3 95@460; demand very fair but quality poor.

Hew York Produce. Flour—Weak; superfine state and western, $3 40@4 60; common to good extra, $4 50@6 40; good to choice, $5 50@8 75; white wheat extra, $7 25 @ 8 75: extra Ohio, $4 60@7 75; St. Louis, $4 60@8 75; Minnesota patents, $7 25@9 00. Grain—Wheat opened % to l%c lower and heavy out afterwards recovered most of the decline, closing firm; No 2 spring, $113; ungraded red, $1 05@l 16%: No 4 red, $1 05; No 3 red, $113; No 2 red, $1 13%@1 14% certificates, $1 15%@1 15% delivered; steamer do,sl 13@11434; mixed winter, $113; ungraded white, $1 06; No 3 do,sl 16@117; No 2 do, $115@119)*.. Corn strong and % to %c higher; ungraded, 82%@85c; No 2, 83%@83%c in store, 84e in elevator, 85@85'*o delivered. Oats % to l)*c lower; mixed western, 64@67c; winter, 69 @ 70c. Eggs—Firm; choice, 22%@230. Provisions Pork, heavy; new mess, $22 00. Beef in fair demand and firmly held. Lard strong; prime steam, sl2 85. Butter—Dull and unchanged, 14@ 25c. Cheese—Dull but easier; Ohio fiat, 6@loc.

Baltimore. Flour—Steady and more <*oing. Grain —Wheat, western lower and active; No 2 winter red spot, $1 130 113)*; July, sll3 bid; Aueust, $112% @1 13; September, $1 13%@1 13%; October, sll4@l 14%. Corn, weqfern neglected; Mixed spot, 83%c; August, 83@83%c; September, 85**@85%; October, 85%c bid; November, 82@83%c. Oats, quiet; western white, 66@67c; mixed, 63@65c; Pennsylvania, 6o@ 68c. Rye quiet, 85@90c. Hay—Firm, sl7 00@18 00. Provisions—Steady; mess pork, $22 25@23 25. Bulk meats, shoulders packed, sll 00@11 75. Bacon, shoulders, sl2 00. Clear ribs sls 25. Hams, sls 25@16 25. Lard, refined, SI4OO. Butter—Firm; western packed, 14@ 20c; creamery, 23@27c. Eggs—Quiet, Jsc. Petroleum—Firm; refined,6%c. Coflee —Firm; Rio cargoes, B%@ 9%c. Sugar—Quiet; A soft, 9)*c. Whisky—Firm, sll7. Ciueluuatl. Flour steady and in fair demand. Grain—Wheat,stronger; N 0.2 red, new, $1 00@1 03. Corn, easier, 80% @ 80%c. Oats,irregular and scarce, 60@ 610. Rye, dull, 74c. Provisions—Pork, steady, $22 00@ 22 50. Lard, dull and lower to sell, sl2 25 Bulk meats,quiet, $9 75@12 75. Bacon, steady and in fair demand, $lO 50@14 00@14 62%. Whisky—Steady and firm, $116; combination sales of finished goods, 420 barrels, oh a bads of sll6. |Butter —Easier; prime western reserve, 20c; prime central Ohio, 18c. Hogs—Steady; common and light, $6 50@8 25; packing and butchers, is 7 80@8 80. Receipts, 638 head; shipments, none. Toledo. Grain—Noon board—Wheat opened firmer, closing steady; No 2 red, old, $117; new, $104%. Corn steady; No 2, 80%c. Closed—Wheat, No 2 red, $1 04%. Corn, No 2 July, 80c bid. Oats quiet; No 2 August, 39%c bid.