Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1883 — Page 7

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Our Compilation of the Important Hap* pacings of the Week. INDIANA ITEMS: A man in Columbusfound a §5 bill frozen in the ice. The hog cholera is prevalent in Huntington county. " A colony of young men is forming in Huntington to go West. Logansport gave the visiting Legislators a hospitable welcome on Sanirday. i Richmond is making a strong movement to secure one of the new insane asylums. - ' All river counties throughout the State have suffered immense damage from the reoent floods. In some of the Northern counties the doctors have been making professional visits on skates. The Postmaster-general has declared the Dime Distribution Company, of Indianapolis, a fraud. The banks and levees along the lower Wabash are overflowed and all the low lands are flooded. A stock dealer near Anderson, Madison oounty, lost 200 head of cattle on Tuesday by the overflow. Calvin Wisely, a Monroe oounty farmer lost sixty head of sheep, eleven steers, and five hogs by the flood. iWo girls at the Richmond Home for tije Friendless cut a hole through the prison wail on Wednesday and escaped. James Swim, of Richmond, who has never had children of his own, has adopted three children in succession all of whom have died. Frank Stahl, of Jeffersonville, baggageman on the Ohio and Mississippi road, has fallen heir to $4,V(30 by the death of a . relative in Germany. A Franklin blacksmith put on 6,439 horse shoes from Fedruary 1, 1882, to February 1, 1883. His highest record Was seventy-eight shoes in one day. Bain, of Morgan County, had sixteen sheep killed or cripplod by dogs a few nights ago, and ex-Commissioner Matthews lost twenty the same night. Wabash Plain Dealer: The late icestorm destroyed many valuable orchards and forest trees in the county. In many instances fine sugar camps have suffered At a ball at Tumersville, Porter county, Ind., Martin Parker, a drunken guest, killed .a young man named Lebke, and stabbed the hostess, Mrs. Qua Radke. He was himself beaten, but fled. Tuesday right a large barn, four miles below Roekport, belonging to Thomas Snyder, and containing several thousand bushels of grain, was upset by the flood and the grain washed away. Architect Scherer, of the State House, says it will cost $1,210,772.06 to oomplete the building, including $45,893.35 for heating apparatus. The expenditures up to December 1 were $748,581.35. At Andrews, in lieu of a calaboose, the peace officers tie turbulent spirits to telephoce poles. This novel imprisonment soon takes the “starch” out of the roughest individual, and his trial follows later. The flood in the Ohio river is greater than ever known, even than that of ‘47. Lawrenoeburg, Ind., is flooded to a depth of three feet by the giving way of the lovees, and great da&age is done all along the view. The oldest inhabitant on the river towns having been compelled to dry up on flood reminiscences, has fallen back on the stubborn assertion that, anyhow, there is not as much mud now as there was in 1832. Jas. T. Murphy, an attorney at law, of Winchester, familiarly known as the ‘Trish Barrister of Ridgeville,” has been convicted for embezzlement and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. He had collected ninety-five dollars for a client and failed to pay over the money. A part of the track of flervey's railroad (I & E.) was tom up near Kinderhook, last Wednesday night, and a notice left at the place, which reads: “Pay up old scores. Unless you pay up the old score this will be done again, at another time and place.” The trams run so very slow that the mischief was observed and in time to avoid an acoident. A Columbus jeweler has applied for a patent on a double watch dial, designed to enable one to carry double time, as, for instance, New Tork and Chicago time on the same * atoh. The contrivance consists of a small adjustable dial within the circle of the large dial, which can be set at any point, thus indicating the difference in time. A young man named Joseph Friend and a woman old enough to be his mother, named Alice Clements, wife of William Clements of Fort Wayne, have been arrested in Dayton, Ohio, .by the husband of the woman, and lodged in jail ou the charge of adultery. The couple eloped rom Fort Wayne about two years ago. A mare belonging* to John Kane, of Fayette county, died the other day aged thirty-seven years. During the twentyseven years that he owned her she raised eighteen colts which were sold an average of $125 each. The west Eorkof White river has been

higher the past week than it has been since August 1875. Many hogs and hundreds of bushels of com were destroyed in the bottoms. Scores of cattle and horses will perish from cold and exposure. Miles of fences and numerous bridges and culverts were swept away. John Howard Payne’s body will be buried in Oak Hill Cemetry, Washington on the 9th of June the ninety-second aniversary of his birthday. The monument will be finished. It will be of pure white marble, thirteen feet high, with a bust of Payne surmounting it. All the braggadocio displayed by Buck Stout, the Darlington murderer, before and during his trial, has left him since he has been sentenced to death. He is morose and sulleh, when not engaged in weeping and bewailing his fate. It is presumed that he will utterly break down when the time for the execution arrives. The president of the Vincennes National Bank is a wag. Having received a circular from ah Eastern nursery asking for the names of some able bodied men to engage in the business, he forwarded the names of two leading citizens of Vincennes. Then he told each one separately about the other and each had a good laugh at the other’s expense. In a few days they both received an offer of employment from the nursery. Then hey howled. Fort Wayne News: Mr. Wm. Cause, of this city, the. inventor of the mower which bears his name, received from Washington letters patent on a harvester and binder of entirely uovel structure, and fully as ingenious, we are assured, as the meritorious invention, which has brought his name into such high repute. The Cause harvester has thirteen distinct claims to originality, and will be the lighest of draft of any machine now in the market Singularly, Mr. Cause has succeeded in eliminating the reel, rake and platform, heretofore considered necessary parts of every harvester.

The trouble at Annapolis Naval school still festers, and is liable to break out again. The pension appropriation bill. has been reported to the full committee. It appropriates $81)000,000. The report of the Jeannette court of inquiry praises the conduct of officers and men on the cruise of the vessel. Mr. Parnell will visit America in the Spring, accompanied by Mr. Sexton, and they will visit the Irish societies in the principal cities. The department of agriculture reperts that the product of the present cotton crop will amount to 6,800,000 bales. The new nickle piece is not regarded as a success. It is easily washed with gold into a five-dollar piece. The Senate committee on foreign relations have agreed to recommend the ratification of the Mexican reciprocity treaty During the seven months ending January 31, the immigration into the United States numbered 283,418 against 346,346 in the sams period of the previous year. The arrivals in January were 12,940, in January 1882, 18,489, Death in the passed few days has claimed ex-Govemor Smith, of Wisconsin,Marshall Jewell, Chairman of the Republican National Committee; Wagner, the great German composer, and ex-Gov-erhor Morgan of New York. Lieutenant Burbank, the officer in charge of the guard at the tomb of President Gartieiu, denies the reports that the remains are exposed to the view of strangers. The Lieutenant states hat he has an order from the Secretary of War which says: “Until otherwise ordered by competent authority, no one save Mrs. Garfield will be permitted to view the remains.” This order is rigidly enforced, and no one but Mrs. Garfield is permitted to go iuisde the vault.

THE EAST: A bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature to punish wifb-beaters by flogging. Fishing for seals and whales on Long Island is one of the amusements of the natives at present. Diphtheria is raging in the German wards of Buffalo, and 300 persons are now sick with it or soarlet fever. Up to February 1 the reoeipts of the East river bridge were $14,480,714.90, and the total expenditures $14,345,714.72. James D. Fish, president of the Marine National Bank of New York, has purchased Booth’s tht atre for $550,000. Considerable excitement has been occasioned by the disoovery of a cave of large size undei the city of Lookport, N. Y. The result of the investigation into the prison abuses in New York will probably result in their immediate and- emphatic reformation. ' . The first soda-ash factory in tbe United States is to be established by EngHah capitalists at Warsaw, N. Y., employing 1,000 men. The will of the late Samuel Wellets, of New York, leaves over thirty bequests of from $5,000 to $50,000 each to* educational and benevolent institutions. A oolored nurse in Wilmington, Del*

toasted »baby’s feet against a red-hot stove, uut.utittg in the child’s death. It is thought the nurse is deranged. John li. McDowell, a young commission me ‘haot of Altoona, Pa., has absconded. He has embezzled $35,000, and a warrant for his arrest has been issued. There is to be no St. Patrick’s Day parade in Philadelphia, and the money set aside for the purpose will be dovoted to charity. A good example in the present exigency. The property left by Governor Morgan is estimated at from $8,000,000 to $lO,000,000, a great part of which is invested in real estate in New York city, Washington and Newport. John Brower, of New York, paid os high as $2,500 for being excused from ju* jy duty. A. J. Keegan, deputy commissioner of jurors, is on trial in New York for receiving half the money. A sleigh containing William Howe, Wm. Meyer, Miss Alice Franks and |Miss Emma Mattram, was run into Sunday, at Wallingford, Conn., by an express train as it was being driven across the railroad track and all but Miss Mattram, killed. A terrible accident occurred near Hinsdale, Pa., Monday, to a passenger train, he trestle of a bridge giving way, and precipitating the engine and baggage car into the water, covering them up entirely standing the smoking oar on end, and shaking up the passengers in the day coach. Two persons were drowned. The water was within two feet of the rails of the track. A deposit of natural gas has been stiuck at Creighton Station, a few miles from Pittsburgh, on the Western Pennsylvania railroad. Some idea of the inp portance of the strike may be gathered from the fact that the gas which supplies Spang, Chalfant & Co.’s mills at Sharpburg is brought nineteen miles, and costs $42,000 per annum, and is equal to $69,000 in value of coal per annum. A remarkable case of the transfusion of blood ocoured in New Yoik Saturday. Mr. F. -De Voheburg, a Swede, thirty years old went to the Hotel Si Andre, on Eleventh street, and when he retired blew out the gas. The hotel people found him this morning nearly dead; but physicians were summoned, who took from the arm of a healthy negro man enough blood to revive the almost asphyxiated Swede. The remarkable feature of the case is that the patient has six ce failed to recognize his wife and child, and that he calls the negro his brother,

THE WEST: Chicago is threatened with an egg famine. Litta, the prime donna, is quite ill at Grinnell, lowa. Senator Ferry’s supporters have abandoned him in the senatorial contest. The Langtry matinee in Cincinnati for the relief of the flood sufferers netted $1,107.25. Bloomington, (HL) expends its charity on the sufferers by the Braidwood mine disaster. The bill to establish the whipping post in Illinois, is making fair progress through the legislature. Five men were killed, Monday, near Sidney, 0., by a railroad collision. Orders had been misunderstood. The Attorney General of lowa, has filed a petition with the supreme court for a rehearing of the amendment case. A careful compilation of the loss by the flood in the city of Louisville, made by the Courier-Journal, foots up $267,500. The orchards in Illinois have been ruined by tb&aocumulation of ioe in the late storm, tfi|: weight of which broke the trees. The government hires a vault in a safe deposit company in St. Louis for the storage of silver dollars, and has about $4,000,000 in it. Twelve thousand laborers of Milwaukee have petitioned the legislature of Wisconsin to put a distinctive mark on state prison goods. John F. Coad, an extensive cattle own : er of Wyoming, states that there will be no loss of stock by the snow storm, as the herds can stand a siege of twenty days. The attorneys of Scheller, charged with firing the Newhall House, hint that they will produce the missing hotel books and point out as the incendiary a trusted employe. The Kansas house of representatives by a vote of 65 to 61, rejected the bill providing for a re-submission of the prohibition amendment to a vote of the people. A | coin • found at Taylorsville, (HI.) twenty-five feet below the surface, bears the inscription of an Emperor of Rome in the year 234. Its reverse side reads, “To the genius of Ctesar.” The Diamond coal mine at Braidwood, HL, was flooded Friday afternoon, Aid it is known that sixty-three men and boys are drowned. The Diamond mine is one of the most extensive in lllinois.l Three miles from Colfax, (HL) a vain of ooal five feet in thickness has been struck at a depth of 175 feet A six-foot vein

i ■■ ■ - v', -J.. «■• has been struck at a point two and a half miles northwest of Lexington. It is reported from St Louis that several residents of that city have recently settled with government officers for jewelry and other valuables smuggled through New York, in large sums, in one case $7,000 being paid. The theory is now advanced that the Newhall. house fire, Milwaukee, was caused by tramps in the cellar. A body supposed to be that of a tramp was discovered in the ruins, Saturday. While riding past a school house near Omaha, Lemuel Harbaugh was snowballed by the pupils. He pointed a needle gun toward them, but claims that its discharge was accidental Nine children were injured by a single bullet. A new horror was added to the flood at Cincinnati. Thursday an, explosion of fire damp or sewer gas destroyed a three-story briok building, oooupied by four families numbering seventeen persons, six or eight of whom were killed. On Sunday afternoon an old German woman named Zilmendorf was found by a granddaughter suspended from a garret rafter in the family residence at Milwaukee. The age of the suicide was eightyone years and six months. Two boys, Swan Hoorfson and Albert Williger, quarrelled at Minneapolis, Wednesday, and fought, when Hoorfson drew a pocket-knife and stabbed Williger to the heart, killing him instantly. Neither boy is twelve years old, Hoorfsrn was arrested. John E. Gilbert, the aotor has brought suit against the Newhall House stock company for $25,000 damages. This suit is brought against C. D. Nash personally as well as the stockholders in general. It is thought that not less than fifty similar suits will grow out of the fire, involving damages that will aggregate SBOO,000. A comic valentine was received by Dr. A. Barson, a prominent physician of Paris, HL It threw him into a rage, and rushing to the office of Dr. L. O. Jenkins, he accused that gentleman of sending it, and followed the charge by the discharge of his revolver, the ball missing Jenkins. Before Burson could fire again, he was mortally wounded by Jenkins. The attempt to suppress the rebellion among the Creek Indians in the Indian Territory is expeoted to result in a serious oonflici The rebellious faction, though small, is provided with the beet of improved fire-arms, occupy a strong position, and it is believed will make a desperate fight. The mine horror at Braidwood, 111., is increased by later reporta Seventyfour persons were chocked to death by the flood, many of whom had families depending upon them for support. The scene at the mouth of the mine was most heart rending. The mine was situated in low ground near a small lake A sudden flood filled the mouth and shut off all means of escape. THE SOUTH: , At Bracket, Texas, Saturday night, four small children of Michael McDonnel were burned in bed from the explosion of a lamp left burning by the mother for the return of four d mghters at a ball J. H. Archer and J. T. Jarratt both want to be mayor of Petersburg, Va. They each tried to hold court, but failed, the polioemen refusing to recognize either. The Court of Appeals must settle the case. A caucus of democratic members of the Tennessee legislature agreed on the settlement of the State debt proper at 100 with accrued interest to date, to be funded with 3 per cent, bonds. The railroad debt is to be funded at 50, and 3 per oent. Henry Mullitt, an old man of Rutherfordton, N. 0., having quarrelled with his son James, went to his house armed with a shot gun. Finding the house closed be burst in the door, with throats and curses, but as he entered the room the son fired and the father fell dead. While Rev. James McCormick, a colored preacher at Whiteville, N. 0., was assisting in tearing down a log church, some of the timbers gave way and he was caught by the neck between two logs and chocked to death. The other men escaped without fatal injuries. Representative Young, of the Arkansas Legislature, rising to a question of privilege last Monday: “To-day I heard a member of the House say he hated a negro. I desire the to pray for his soul tftfl he iqay be reformed and saved-* The speaker nruled that the matter was not within thepfib. vinoe of the House. There appears a strange fati4|JMgn oounty and municipal affairs in Georgia. Some time ago the records of Fulton, Atlanta county, were stolen, and though every effort has been made, no dew has been found. Later the Hall oounty records were mysteriously stolen, and last week the reoords of Glascock oounty were missing. The Treasurer was SSOO short and the Ordinary was under grave suspicion. The Savannah defalcation added interest to the situation. Tuesday the oourt house together with the reoords of

Warren oounty, were destroyed by an inoendiary fire. The only explanation in that conspirators are employed in w<Ai«g out bogus claims to titles of lands, and are removing true reoords so as to Spring their bogus deedß. Great insecurity is felt. FOREIGN: Crop prospects in England and on the continent are very poor. De Brazza, the emplorer, has gone to Congo to meet Henry M. Stanley. It is intended to light Canterbury Ca thedral with the electric light. A powder-mill explosion in Oorbeil, France, Saturday, killed six persons. The troubles between the Russian government and the Vatidan have been settled. King Humbert, of Italy, has issued a decree providing for the resumption of spede payments on April 16. The Craft trial at Grayson, Ky„ has been stopped by reason of the high waters. The military are very sick of the “picnic.” A party of hunters, consisting of Max Mueller, Gala Gerser and L. Gelloga were frozen to death on Thunder bay, Manitoba, Friday. A collision ooourred near Dundas, Canada, Thursday, between two express trains, by which two persons were killed and several injured. The attitude of China toward Japan is becoming unpleasant, if not actually hostile, the cause of the ill feeling being the still unsettled Loo Chooqueetion. In the trials in Dublin, Kavanaugh has been unequivocally identified as the driver of the oar containing the Phoenix Park assassins, and it is behaved he will turn informer. In the conspiracy trials at Dublin four men are proven to have been of the number of the Phoeni Park murderers,when Lord Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke, were assasinated. The directors of the Nashville competitive drill have fixed the time from May 21 to 26, inclusive. Correspondence indicates entries from all parts of the country and a great attendance. Charles Bradlaugh, the atheist, after his almost regular monthly election, has again presented himself for admission to the House of Commons. A crowd of IV 000 workingmen held a demonstration in his favor. Kavanaugh, the driver of the oar containing the Phoemx Park murderers has oonfeased. The right parties base been arrested for the crime. Kavanaugh swears that he drove Brady,Kelly and two others to the park. Delaney is another who was present. It is said that a number of prominent Mexicans including President Gonzales, have formed a syndicate with $20,006,000 capital to procure 7,000,000 acres of rich land in Northern Mexico at a nominal figure and dispose of them to American emigrants. • The hearing of the prisoners charged with conspiracy to murder government officials was resumed Saturday at Dublin. The most exciting sensation of the entire proceedings thus far was occasioned when James Carey, one of the prisoners, a member of the mnnicipal Corporation appeared on the witness stand instead of in the dock He was hissed by the other prisoners and denounced by 1 their counsel as infamous. He said he joined the Fenian brotherhood in 1862; James Mullet, c hairman of the Dublin branch organized the “Society for the extirpation of Tyrants.” The murder of Forster was arranged March 1882. It was Brady, he swore who took his share as the principal stabber, and who afterward cut Bmke’s throat. Carey swore that he and the other members of the assassination society believed that thefunds for the morderei s ame from the land league.

The Retort Courteous.

One of the most unique specimens* of the courting crisis on reoord, occulted at a Loudon dinner party. He had long made love to her, and while at the table he learned from a friend sitting next to him that his rival intended to “pop the question” that very day. What was tobe done? He was some distance from her, while the dreaded rival was at her side. Tearing a leaf from a note book he wrote on it with a pencil: “Will you be my wife? Write your answer, yes or no, on this paper and return it to me.” This sent to her by a waiter, saying; “To the lady in blue at the end of the table Be very careful.” The servant was careful enough, but the sender forgot to give him a pencil for the lady to use. She didn’t have a pencil, tut she coolly put the note into her bosom and answered to the waiter: "Tell the gentleman yes,”with as little betrayal of excitement as if she were accepting an invitation to a game of croquet A sensation was created in the Star route oases, Thursday, by Berdell withdrawing his plea of “not guilty” entering a plea of guilty and offering himself as jr witness for the government,, asking^; clemency of the court \ ; jM , -