Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1883 — Page 3

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to the Jnentof the soldiers’ paprtk and File” which appears place in this issue of Itblican. We are authorllf the publisher, to state (first person who sends stff two copies of “Bank and Jr one year will be presented the “Garfield Memorial p on heavy plate paper; size wp inches- ■ Statistics Report of fry of County Board of the year ending Dec. Recorded.... 4*8.:::::;::::::::::: : **• a ses dangerous to public health.. 7. _ ination certificates 883. 8 o. C. LINK, M. D. R Sealtn Officer, Jasper Co. a his year, as above reported, *&ted of II months, commenc>ith February Ist, 1882. bjice making this report the Sh Officer has found thakjjbfi^

14 been births Jr., of Shelby county, e( ] wketed seven hogs, on Saturday, which lacked two pounds of averaging 400. He got 86,25 per hundred. The. returns from the different fox drives in the State are coming in. They are all about the same—tremendous noise, lots of fan, and no foxes. At a negro funeral at Jeffersonville, Sunday, a disgraceful fight commenoed just as the body was being lowered into tiie grave, bricks and shovels being used. Dr. W. F. Sherrod, physidpn of the Southern Prison, has issued orders forbidding visitors to the prison daring the continuance of the smallpox scare at Jeffersonville.

An obstreperous street car passenger in Fort Wayne, refused to pay his fare, and resisted the efforts of the driver to eject him by lying down in the bottom of the oar on the flat of his back. Kokomo Gazette : Kokomb can boast of more pretty girle, fewer old bachelors, more young widows, and more musical talent to the square inch, than any town of its size in the State of Indiana. Wm. Derrington, of Montezuma, Parke county, a few days ago, married his eighth wife. He was divorced from No. 6 in 1881, and No. 7 died last November. Mr. Derington is eighty-six years old. Surveys are being made, with a view of constructing a levee running from Knox into Sullivan county, along the Wabash River, a distance of fifteen miles, which would reclaim a large area of valuable land in both counties. Miss Nellie Shepherd, a sister of the late Rev. Father Shepherd, and Miss Agnes Kelley, two young ladies of Madison, have renounced the world and entered the convent of St. Marys of the Woods. ' At Shoals, on Friday, George Chapman, a section hand on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, was struck on the head with a spade by a fellow laborer, near Huron, and is perhaps fatally injured.

The Cannelton cotton-mill runs 11,632 spindles, 400 looms, and gives employment to 339 hands. It consumes about 5,000 bales of cotton per annum, and pays out from $6,000 to $4,000 per month for labor. The body of Allen, the man killed at Decatur, Monday, was left in the courthouse at night. Next morning when friends went to bury him they found an empty coffin. The body had been stolen during the night. The matter will be investigated. The county clerk at Logansport received SIO,OOO in cash in payment of two judgments on Saturday afternoon after banking hours. Not being able to deposit the money, he stood personal guard over it all night, and Sunday morning got the bank officers to take it in. A little girl by the name of Burton,living with her uncle, Joseph Leasure, north of Rushville, was playing in front of an open fire-place with a dog Friday evening, when she lost her balance, fell backward and was literally roasted. She lived until Sunday. Mr. David Force and Miss Ella Clark living near Seymour, were to have been married Sunday evening. Arrangements for the wedding were all made and the invited guests and minister were present, but the groom did not report, and has since mysteriously disappeared. The inended bride is nearly crazy with grief. At Vincennes, Monday, John Wheland, a white barber was jailed, having been caught in a trap. During the past few weeks various sums of money have been missed from the Trivoli s aloon, and when a watch was kept it was rand that Wheland entered through a de door of the barber shop in the same building by takoftthe lookRising Sun Local: James Harris while engaged in sawing veneering from a walnut knot, discovered in the twisted fibers of the wood, a perfect delineation of a spaniel’s head. The lines are aocu • lately drawn as if from the pencil of an

T. Jpntheexpression of mote intelligence belike often sees in canine visages is readily theism TlSouth Bend Register: A party from tiie F., 4ral districts seeing the steamer at work Waaawing out the hydrants, asked a byof aSmder what it was. The cruel man told accqfie innocent abroad that it was the new for wention for heating the city by driving untifa steam into pipes extending everysuccfeere over town. The rural rooster espiowed that he thought it war a good Hisia warmer in town than out where he spewed, but ’lowed the weather had njodknolited.” wotlßerry Foreman, who lives in Hard duij-rabble, a suburb of New Oastle, got woftad at something and began beating his thiWe rand mother. Then he smashed the BUliVnitore, and finally ran out, pulled up bein&rjump and split it open. At this junoCALEfethe neighbors were aroused, and rea%>k a hand. One man struck Berry Himth an ax handle, and a woman snapped BOOkfle twice at him, butit would not dis- ’ ougiarge, when a boy named Dolan took Ukiyme gun, picked powder into the tube

and fired, the ball striking Foreman in the ankle, when he threw up the sponge. Isaac H. Kieratead has given bonds at Indianapolis in the sum of 8200,000 as the executor of the will of the late Bishop Talbot. The property left by the bishop was all personal. He held a policy for 85,000 in the Mutual Life. Insurance company and one for alike amount in the Mutual Benefit After paying his cash bequests and distributing to legatees his furniture, eta, and the payment of debts to the amount of about 81,000, there will be several thousand dollars to be given to his sister-in-law, according to the provisions of the bill.

The debt of the United States February 1, less cash in the Treasury, was $1,580,269,900 Charles H, Reed will probably "ask congress tor SS,QOt) for his services in defending Guiteau. The Hawaiian Islands sent 106,181,858 pounds of sugar to the United States during the year ending June 30,1882. □The first through train from New Orleans for San Francisco, over the Southern Pacific route, went into San Antonio Wednesday evening on time. The 146th ahniversary of the birth to Thomas Paine was celebrated by the Free Thinkers of New York and Philadelphia on Sunday. Large public meetings have been held in both oitiee, From official statistics received by the secretary of the American Iron and Steel aesoeiation, he reports that the production of Bessemer steel ingots in the United States last year, was 1,696,450 tons being an increase qver the production of 1881 of 10 per cent. The quantity of Bessemer steel rails produced in 1882, by the fourteen completed works were 1,334,349 tons an increase of 6 per cent, as compared, with 1881. These figures do not cover rails made from imported blooms and open heath steal rails.

THE EAST: Pittsburgh shipped 4,000,000 bushels of coal Tuesday. Mace and Slade were arrested and prevented from meeting Sullivan. The loss of the burning of the Inman docks at New York will aggregate $1,000,000. 1 Fred Gebhard was seen to pass through Pittsburgh with a seal skin sacque valued at SI,OOO. The Vermont Supreme Court has decided that the State liquor-law is unconstitutional. Mace and Slade were bound over to keep the peace in New York in SSOO bonds each. The association of textile fabrics of Philadelphia, collected $35,000 to establish a school for instruction in the textile art. The United States Supreme Court denies the right of General Ward B. Burnt tt, of New York, to draw double pensions. The widow of John C. Green has given the New York Chamber of Commerce $57,000 for thejbenefit of honorable but unsuccessful merchants. During an entertainment of Lincoln Council, A. I. H., at Brooklyn, a creaking beam caused a panic, and many persons were injured by rushing for the doors. George Biemiller, of Allegheny City, Pa, is held to answer the charge of killing his wife, by kicking her in the breast and thigh, while she was sick with typhoid fever. The furniture in engineer Melville’s house,at Sharon Hill. /*•*. has been seized by the Sheriff „ satisfy Mrs. Melville’s creditors, and a mortgage on the property held by Miss Polish has been foreclosed. Tha exports of petroleum have fallen off 500,000 barrels during the past year at Philadelphia, while they increased 500,000 at New York, owing to the Standard Oil Company delivering its traffic 7 to New York. A large fire occurred at the docks near Canal Street, New York. Thursday. The sheds,stores and shipping were all ablaze.

ftiwt other fthipi 'of —«11» AivnmtnairUta also destroyed. The loss was very heavy. At the annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Vice, at New York, Anthony Comstbek stated that during the year he had seuedaixtons of gambling furniture and apparatus, and made 118 arrest® for offenses against decency. At the meetingof the Central Labor Union, of New York, resolutions were adopted calling upon the Legislature to abolish the ooptraot system in the State Prison, which the present investigation showed to be the cause of much of the cruelty practiced in those places. There is not much change in the condition of things at the caved in district of Wilkeebarre, Pa. Arrangements are making for an examination of the condition of affairs under-ground, and a party of forty brave fellows, who responded to the oall “Only those who have no wives, mothers, sweethearts or sisters," has been organized for the hazardous undertaking. "Franklin Fierce, Worcester, Mass., claiming to be a physioian, was Tuesday held in $3,000 bail for manslaughter in causing the death of Mrs. Bams Bemis, of Oakdale. He treated her for internal erysipelas by bathing her in kerosene, and rolling her up in a bandage satnrated with that oil. The woman was literally blistered and skinned alive, and died after a week of horrible suffering. A disgraceful row occurred in Calvary Cemetery, New York, on the oooasion of the bhrial of a child of Dennis Callahan, of 7 Batavia street, on . Sunday last, Callahan’s friends claiming that the proper grave had not been opened. A fight followed, during which the grave diggers were assaulted and thrown into the grave. Police arrested Mortimer O. Sullivan, Callahan and Jeremiah Hagerty, who were fined sls each.

The condition of McFerron, one of the principals in a prize fight which reoently took place near Rochester, Pa., is reported very serious, and slight hopes are entertained for his recovery. A Swede, named Gilsone, who fought several weeks ago, near Sharon, Pa., is also said to be dying from the effects of injuries received. The referees and other participants are preparing to leave the city in the event of their death. A new excise law has been prepared for New York and Brooklyn and will probably pass the assembly. The threebed clause of the present law is stricken out. The bill requires warrants to be obtained before arrests can be made for vio lation of the law except between the hour of 1 o'clock in the morning and 12 o’clock at night on Sundays, when the police officer in whose precinct a violation of the law occurs can make air arrest without such warrant.

THE WEST: A professional “masher” was fined SIOO and costs at Chicago Thursday. > The Detroit river is bridged with ice, the first time in twenty-eight years. The Lebanon, Ohio, reservoir broke Sunday and caused a damage of $4,000. The ice between Mackinaw City, Mich., and Point St. Ignace is twenty feet thick. Frederick Smith was smothered in the bran bin of a Mansfield, (O.) flouring milk □F. L. Lord, publisher of the Mail, was hung in effigy at Kalamazoo, Mich., on Monday. Gen. Chas. F. Manderson has been elected Senator from Nebraska, to succeed Saunders. A cyclone struck Denver on Monday, doing $200,000 of damage and seriously injuring several citizens. Dr. Herman Petershausen, of Detroit, attempted on Sunday in a fit of religious insanity, to kill his sister. A valve chamber of the Cincinnati Pumping Works, weighing thirty tons, has been successfully cast A wife in St Louis went home Tuesday night to find that her husband had committed suicide on the doorstep. A woman at Wapakoneta, 0., was fatally burned Thursday, in her attempt to save her child, whose clothing had caught fire. The post-master general has directed that the free-delivery system be established at Madison, Wisconsin, beginning April 1. D. M. Sabin has been elected U. S Senator from Wisconsin, to suooeed Windom. He was “Windom'a choice” next to himself.

Three eases of scarlet fever have appeared in the feeble-minded institute at Lincoln, Illinois, which has over three hundred inmates. Revivalist Harrison’s meetings at Decatur, HI., are in the tenth week, and the,, converts number a thousand. The interest continues great. A special dispatch from Milwaukee says Jnb. Gilbert, actor, injured in the Newhall House fire, has been informed of his wife’s death. His mind is deranged. Great excitement prevails the saloon men at Springfield, Ohio, cm account of the wholesale indictments having been found agffnst them by Hie Grand Jury. One ; of them wai indicted

Tuesday on thirty-five counts tor violating the liquor laws. , •.. , y * . Saginaw are thoroughly aroused at the blow threatened against their interests by putting lumber or. the freelist! A oommifctee of twenty-five has been appointed to go to .Washington for the purpose of lobbying against the proposition. An attempt is being made to secure oonoert of action from other lumber districts. A passenger train Wednesday, when within six miles of Crested Butte, Colorado, divided, thq engine going ahead to clear the track. When about four mil—from where it left the coaches the engine was struck by a anowalide and thrown from the track; it is now under twenty feet of snow. A wrecking engine ooold not get nt arer than two miles of tire coaches. On Saturday, two miners named Lawler and Owen, were caught in a snowslide near Irwin, Colo., and earned several hundred yards down the mountain aide. Owen, a long pole used in snow-shoeing, succeeded in making a hole through the snow, thus enablng him to breathe until he could extricate himself. A large party of miners later in the night found Lawler dead. Trouble of several year’s standing between Mr. and Mrs. David Clark, living on a form a tew miles from Akemos, Mich., culminated Sunday in her killing him instantly by shooting him with a revolver. The immediate oause of shooting was Mr. Clark furnishing medicine to a little daughter which its mother was determined should die through neglect. Miss Emma Bond, of Taylorville, ILL, is still alive, but her death is hourly expected. Montgomery and Pettns, the two men charged with murderously assaulting her, have barricaded their homes, and heavily armed, remain constantly on guard in expectation of an attack by a lynching party. They say they will give fight until killed.

Tho condition of 4,000 workmen, thrown ont of employment at Joliet, HI, a month or two ago, by the closing of all iron and steel nulls, is very distressing. There is no prospect of their being able to resume work, and starvation now stares them in the face. Every church in the place has organized a relief measure. There has not been so much destitution in tfyit place since the great strikes of 1875. The reoent cold knap of four days dura tion, was one of the coldest in the history of Wyoming Territory. The mercury ranged from zero to 35® below, with slight wind. The fall of snow was light, so that the winter cured grass was not covered. The animals can withstand any temperature while feed is abundant. The losses are scarcely sufficient to notice. A few sickly calves in each herd succumbed. Sheep suffered none. Thirty millions of dollars are invested in that territory in cattle, sheep and horses, and as these live out of doors all the year, the weather is an important matter.

THE SOUTH: A fire at Atlanta, Ga., caused a loss of nearly SIOO,OOO. There were 15,000 visitors at the Montreal carnival. Navigation has been resumed on the Mississippi from St. Louis to Cairo. The college at Evening Shade, Ark., was burned by an incendiary Thursday night The Ocmulgee Creek orphans have been paid $350,000 by the government at Little Rock, Ark. About 100 vessels, potato laden, are frozen in the Bay of Halifax, and are not expected to get out before spring. Sixteen of the mob who attempted to lynch Neal and Craft, at Catlettsburg, Ky., have been indicted by the grand ju*7* ■ John Stewart, the Texas forger, who cut the arteries of his neck at the Desbrosses street ferry, New York, died in the hospital. Mr. Acklen, # of Louisiana, has with drawn his notice of contest against William Pitt Kellogg, for the congressional seat of the third district.

Price and Cameron, the detectives who aided in the attempted escape of Polk, the absconding State Treasurer of Tennessee, have gone into Mexioo. The home creditors of the city of Memphis have agreed with the committee for a settlement of the debt on the basis of fifty cents, with six per cent interest. It was a mere joke of a Si Louis Catholic editor that a priest of Perry county, Missouri, was going to devote 81,000,000 to the payment of the Cincinnati diocesan debt On a plantation in Laurens county, South Carolina, some negroes killed and ate a goose which had been bitten by a mad dog. Five of the family have died, and four others were in convulsions at the last report. <■ There is great excitement at Montgom ery, Ala. A committee to examine the accounts of State Treasurer Vincent were to have begun the examination Tuesday. Vincent left the city Monday night A letter from him to his chief clerk was delivered to the latter late Tuesday, to

be delivered to the governor. Vinoen ■aid Ire was behind, but was goinp to New York to get tire money, which the letter indicated he had loaned. An examination of the books showed that Vinoent had speculated hugely in cotton futures. The deficit is between $225,000 and 8300,00 a The governor has sent a message to the legislature. Prairie fires did gri&t damage in west and northwest Texas. The stock and slaughter ranges especially suffered. A large amount of hay in stacks were destroyed. Some of the fine were accidental, while others were set on fire through malice. Baltimore special says: The Court of Appeals having sustained the aot for punishing wife-beaters with the lash, Sheriff Hunter to-day carried ont the sentence of Jndge Phelps of seven lashes on Charlee Foote (oolored.) The whipping was at noon by one of the deputies, the prisoner being plaoed m the stocks recently erected in the jail yard. The lash wee laid on with a vigor, but the prisoner stood manfully. After the whipping he was discharged. This is the first case of the kind for twenty years. FOREIGN:

It is intended to light Canterbury Oa thedral with the electric light The average yield of wheat in Greet Britain in 1882 was. 26% bushels per acre. The appearance of the salvation army in Switzerland has been the signal for riots. The German government has asked an appropriation of 85,(X)0,0Q0 to fortify tire western frontier. Iron hnts have arrived at Dublin for protection of the informer, Kerrigan, ia the Joyce case, and the informers in the Huddos case. The Vestnik newspaper at Odessa, say* famine prevails in the government of Kherson, Russia. Several peasants, hare committed suicide to escape seeing the misery of their starving families. Cetawayo has been reinstated King ot Zululand. Abour 5,600 Zulus were present at the ceremony. Many chiefs expressed great dissatisfaction at the conditions on which he was restored. The attitude of China toward Japan is becoming unpleasant, if not actually hoetile, the cause of the ill feeling being tire still unsettled Loo Choo question. The Neuchalet, Switzerland, Cantona government condemns tire attacks there upon tiie “Salvation Army," and the consequent disturbances,and exhorts citizens to respect religious liberty and the right of public meeting. * The suspicion prevails that the Austrian government contemplates eventual extension of the frontiers of the empire in the southeast, for the realization of which project Hungary will be the base of operations. The North German Gazette points ou that Emperor William’s letter to tire Pope was countersigned by Bismarck, thus proving that the letter was not simply a compromise, but a document of political importance. German military officers in the Turkish servioe have drawn up a plan for the reorganization of the Turkish army, retiring a swarm of useless officers and devoting their pay to useful purposes. It is understood the Sultan has expressed entire concurrence. The Prussian deeree ordering youths born as Danish subjects and now residing in Schleswig either to enter the Prussian army or leave their homes, causes intense indignation throughout that country. Denmark protests against this fresh breach of treaty obligation.

A report is current in Paris that the Orleans prinoes have drawn up a manifesto in which they protest against the charges made against them and declare their readiness to sacrifice their personal interests for Franoe. It is stated that should necessity arise they will publish a manifesto and at the same moment qui the country. The gangs of convicts at the Haul Bowline docks, in Cork, Ireland, attacked the warders Monday. The police were summoned, but were unable t®, suppress the rioting, which was afterwards quelled by the military, after a severe conflict lasting nearly two hours, in which a number of troops and convicts were killed and injured. Michael Davitt, in a speech at a National League meeting, at Dublin, referred to the terrible distress prevailing among the tonant farmers, and said that he defied the Government to punish him for proclaiming the existing state of affairs. In many districts the suffering was indescribable, and in making it known he was only obeying the dictates of humanity. Parnell has forwarc.-d to Father Gallagher £IOO of the £385 received from the New York society of Ancient Order of Hibernians. Father Gallagher, iu acknowledging the receipt of the money writes that the suffering people of Dime* gal are subsisting on food only fit for beasts; that private can not cope with the wide spread distress there; that the government alone cab do so; and that things will never come to a crisis.