Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — Page 3

The Republican. I RENSSELAER, INDIANA *t. E. MARSHALL. - - Pubushke.

Blanche K. Bruce, ex-Register of the Treasury, intends to reside in the fntnra at his old home in Mississippi. A Wilksbarre, Pennsylvania,-woman fell off a chair and broke three ribs and a collar-bone while trying to hang a neighbor’s cat for eating her chickens. The “John Brown Scaffold Company” has been organized in Charlestown, West Virginia, where John Brown was executed. The company has a capital of £1,200, and will manufacture relics fromJ;he lumber used in making the scaffold on rvhich Brown was hung. The wood is now contained in the poarch of a dwelling at Charlestown, which has been purchased by the projector of the company. When Mr. Fawcett, the late Postmaster General, of England, returned to health after lying for a time at death’s door, he stated that his illness had at least freed him from the fear of death. In the most serious part of his trouble he felt no anxiety, and did not fear, as he had in health, that the end would be preceded by great pain, or a severe'struggle. He felt that his heart would slowly, and without his knowledge, cease to beat. The United States is the greatest coffee-consuming country on the globe, our imports last year amounting to 520,957,000 pounds, worth £40,906,000. Of this supply Brazil sent us nearly two-thirds, a large share of the remaining third coming from the Central American States. Recently Mexico has been bidding with increased results for the A merican coffee trade, and the subjects of Dom Pedro are beginning to look upon it with jealousy. Dr. J. L. Blair, of New Haven, has constructed an astronomical clock which shows the earth, moon and minor planets in motion about the sun; the minutes, hours, days, weeks,- and months of the year; Mercury revolving about the sun, and its superior and inferior conjunction with Venus and the earth; also, when it is the evening and the morning star. Venus is shown in its orbits in the same way. The clock gives the whole system of tides, all the phases of the moon, solar, and sidereal time, periodical and synodical time, and the earth’s pasago through the constellations of the zodiac. Of the late Robert Treat Paine, the Boston Advertiser says: “When nearly 80 years old, and not in strong health, he made a solitary journey to California on the occasion of the eclipse of 1880. He loft the train on a lonely prairie, where the station was ' the only building, and where no man or beast was to be seen. The total eclipse was to last only thirty-seven seconds, and, in his anxiety to secure a correct observation of the moment when the sun reappeared, he deprived, himself of the satisfaction, after his long journey, of viewing the eclipse as a spectacle, that he might attend more closely to the beats of his chronometer.” In Yonkers, N. Y., the other day a man was arrested for “refusing to disperse.’* That was the charge on the court docket, and ho was the only map complained of. He was standing tin the sidewalk with paper and pencil recording the names of persons who went into a factory to work. He was not a riotous mob, and when ordered to disperse didn’t know how. Besides he claimed the right to stand on the sidewalk by himself, in nobody’s way, and., follow his literary pursuit. Nobody had any right to know what he was writing, either. But a policeman took him in for “refusing to disperse,” and the lawyers had fun over the case and the Yonkers Judge decided that as it tvas impossible for one man to disperse without racking his physical system the case of this one-man mob would be dismissed. * Philatelists may Well be discouraged when it comes to making a complete collection of revenue stamps. First, because of the difficulty of coming upon stamps of the largest size, which are valued at $5,000 each. The only way that these stamps can be had is to get them from packages upon which they have been used, and even obtained in that way the possessor cannot rest in peace, for it is unlawful to have such stamps in one’s possession. In fact, it is said by the authorities that nearly all the smokers in thh land might be arrested and iniprisoned for having failed to destroy from their cigar boxes the stamps that paid duty on their contents. It is not enough that the stamps are canceled; they must be destroyed beyond the possibility of being used again. Stamp maniacs would better leave this branch of the art • severely alone. !- ... - —• ’1- ' • /• Meriweatheb, Georgia, furnishes a good mule story. Four brothers named Byrd,, all fine judges of animals, and one of them the cutest man at a horse trade in that region, were attending a picnic, when they encountered a young man whom they judged to be a greeny, who had a good looking mule for sale. The animal was

looked over by the party, and pronounced O. K., (and Jim Byrd proposed to swap with the verdant stranger. This was soon effected, and Jim was so pleased with his trade that he insisted that there should be no rueing or demand to swap back. This was readily agreed to. Next morning Jim’s little boy came running in from the lot, shouting, “Pa, pa, that old mule you got yesterday is blind in both eyes, and can’t hear a bit.” A close examination proved the truth of the hoy’s statement Jim paid $lO to get his horse back again. ' v Senator Evarts has given a law of etiquet to autograph-hunters. He says: If stamped and addressed envelops and a card are inclosed it is a rule that the request shall be heeded—from patriotic motives—because it gives the Govcent in postage. If one is obliged to go to the trouble of writing both autograph and address, to furnish envelope, card, and stamp, it is not customary for such requests to be accompanied merely by an inclosure of loose stamps. A poet of my acquaintance once told me that his autograph requests supplied him with stamps for all correspondence. Autograph - seekers probably found that loose stamps were appropriated without compunction, for they have changed the custom. Ido not receive a great many such requests now. They come in great numbers after making an important speech. The mother of Mark Twain, who is 82 years of age, and living at Keokuk, lowa, has recently been interviewed: “Sam was always a kind-hearted boy,” said Mrs. Clemens, “but he was a very wild and mischievous one, and do what we would, we could never make him go to school. This used to trouble his father dreadfully, and we were convinced that he would never amount to as much in the world as his brothers, because he was not near so steady and sober minded as they were.” “I suppose, Mrs. Clemens, that your son in his boyhood days somewhat resembled his own Tom Sawyer, and that a fel-low-feeling is what made him so kind to the many hair-breadth escapes of that celebrated youth?” “Ah, no,” replied the old lady with a merry twinkle in her eye, “he was more like Huckleberry Finn than Tom Sawyer. Often his father would start him off to school, and in a little while would follow him to ascertain his whereabouts. There was a large stump on the way to the school-house, and Sam would take his position behind that, and as his ( father went {last would gradually circle around it in such a wav a 3 to keep out of sight. Finally his father and tho teacher said it was of no use to try to teach Sam anything, because' he was determined not to" learn. But I never gave up. He was always a great bay for history, and could never get tired of that kind of reading, but he hadn’t any use for school-houses and text-books.” Of a population of 8,000 in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, about one-third have suffered from typhoid fever and many more with malerial poison. 'The origin of the epidemic is clears—ignorance, filth, and water pollution. The town is situated on the alluvial soil of hills sloping toward the Susquehanna. The water supply is from reservoirs made by damming a brook running through the town. There are a number of these reservoirs, one above the other, from which water is distributed by pipes to most of the town. There is no sewerage system, ancl the water used for domestic purposes finds its way through the soil to the river. The water of the reservoirs has been analyzed by Prof. R. C. Kedzie, of the Michigan State Agricultural College, who reports it to be the worst city drinking water he ever examined. Post-mortem examinations by Dr. E. O. Shakspeare, of Philadelphia, establish the fact that the disease is typical typhoid. Tho first case was in the person of a citizen just returned from Philadelphia with the disease, and lying sick in a house some forty feet above the banks of the brook, between the third and fourth reservoirs. The excreta from this patient were carried in March, by the rains and melting snows, into the brook, thence to the reservoirs, and widely distributed through the drinking water. Such an epidemic would have beeh impossible had the town been clean. The water was foul, the town ripe for the disease. The seed was planted, and the harvest of death followed. This was not a dispensation, of Providence, but of ignorance. Doubtless as foul conditions exist in many localities that have heretofore miraculously escaped. The miracle will cease upon the establishment of the first case.

Not Up to the Style.

Mistress—What in the world are yon doing, Bridget? ' Don’t you know that yon are spoiling the very best silver pitcher I have in the world. Why are you hammering it out of shape-in that manner? , * i " Bridget (new servant who is very desirous of pleasing)—Faith, mum, I was only tryin’ to do my best, mum. You told me for to bring down the hammered-silver pitcher, an’ as I couldn’t foind the loikes of it, I fetched this plain one, an’ thought that I would be after pleasing ye, mum, by hammerin’ it wid this ’ere big hammer.— Phila - Hlelphia Call It is injurious to be in a hurry, and delay is often equally ho ; he is wise who does everything in proper time. Tardiness and precipitation are extremes equally to be avoided. * * n .* ■*' ,*■ •; V ' ' i ,

CROP PROSPECTS.

Report of the National Agricultural Bureau—Favorable Outlook for the Michigan Wheat Yield. ~ .r* 1 ■ —. —- —f ■* ’’ i A Larger Corn Acreage in Illinois Than Last Year, and the Condition Good. The National Kepert, [Washington telegram.] The July report of the Agricultural Department shows that cotton has made material improvement during June. There, : ire few imperfect stands reported. The j temperature and rainfall have favored j growth, and fruiting has commenced in ! the lower Gulf States. Local droughts are very rare, and moisture is generally sufficient from Virginia to Texas. It is somewhat in excess in the lowlands, interfering with cultivation and stimulating the growth of grass. The geneial average condition has advanced from 92 per cent, in June to US per cent It has not been exceeded in July since 1880. This will insure, barring i drawbacks so likely to come in the later summer, a large crop. Averages of condition by States are as follows: Virginia 98, North Carolina 93, South Carolina 96, Georgia 97, Florida 95, Alabama 92, Mississippi 99, Louisiana 100, Texas 92, Arkansas 96, Tennessee 97. The States east of the Mississippi stand as in June, except Georgia and Florida, which have advanced two points. All the others give higher averages. The caterpillar is re-, ported" in Baker, Brooks, and Dougherty Counties, Georgia; in Jackson and Madison Counties, Florida; in Montgomery and Elmore Counties, Alabama; in Cameron County, Louisiana; and in Van Zaudt County, Texas. The new wet worm has been very abundant in Texas. The boil worm moth has been observed in Titus County, Texas. The month has been favorable to the development of winter wheat. A slight improvement is indicated, which advances the general average between two and three points, or from 62 to nearly 65.’ Avery slight decline is reported in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and in some of the Southern States. • In Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri there has been improvement, as well as in California and Oregon. The winter wheat region, which does not include the Territories, now promises about 215,000,000 bushels. The condition of spring wheat continues higher, though the average has been reduced slightly, the acreage being nearly 96, The indicat’ons now point to a crop of about 48,000,000 bushels for Wisconsip, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakota, and nil other Territories and Northern New England. This makes an aggregate of 363,000,000 bushels. The immense corn area of last year has apparently been increased abaut 6 per cent., or at least 4,000,000 acres, making ah aggregate of 74,000,000 acres. The largest increase is in the Missouri Valley. The condition of corn is higher 1 than in any year since 1880 except the last. It averages 94 against 93 in 1884. It is highest in the South, and higher on the Atlantic coast than in the West. The Kansas average is 83, that of Michigan and Missouri 87, Wisconsin 88, Illinois 90, lowa' 92, Minnesota 93. Ohio and Nebraska 97. The average of winter ivo has increased from 73 to 87 since the first of June. The general average of oats is 97 in place of 93, last' month. Oats have shared with all the cereals in the improvement of the month. The only States below 90 are New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia-, Mississippi, and California. The condition of barley' averages 92, and of tobacco 96. Corn in Illinois. [Compiled from the July State Agricultural Report.] The area of corn is much larger than last season, especially in the central and southern counties, and the growing crop has generally been w'ell cultivated. The most unfavorable condition likely to affect corn in Illinois would be an early and severe frost before the late planting had manured. The correspondents of the department are, as a rule, farmers of extended experience and deeply interested in the accuracy of the returns. The prospects are encouraging for nearly as large an average yield of corn per acre in all portions of the State as at the corresponding date last season. The present area of corn is larger than last season in all the central and southern counties, and with few exceptions in all the northern counties. There has been considerable improvement in the condition of corn during the last month, and ' with a favorable fall season for maturing there Will be about an average yield of corn per acre throughout the State. Michigan Crop?. The Michigan crop report for July estimates the total yield cf wheat in the State this year at 25,373,682 bushels, or 3561407 bushels more than the yield in 1884. The yield, as estimated for the southern four tiers of counties, is 17.27 bushels per acre, and in the northern counties 16.39 bushels. The number of acres reported in wheat this year is 1,480.055. The total number of bushels marketed in eleven months ended July lis 8,468,513. In the southern four tiers of counties 8 per cent, and in the northern counties 5 per cent.—in all 1,900,000 bushels—of the 1884 wheat crop still remains in farmers’ hands. The condition of other crops, expressed in per cent, of condition as compared with one year ago is a 3 follows: Com, 87: o»ts, 96; barley, 93; clover meadows, 92; timothy meadows, 92; clover sowed this year,-95. The condition of corn compared with average years is 85. Thirteen per cent, of the corn planted failed to grow. Apples promise 52 per cent, of an average crop in the southern counties and 62 in the northern. A Dangerous Disease. [Palmyra (Wis.) dispatch.] State Veterinary Surgeon Atkinson has completed his examination of the diseased Herds of cattle owned by Dan Seamen, of this town. He prenounced them suffering from a disease called anthrax, considered contagious. He advised immediate change of pasture from low to high land, and strict quarantine. Three cows from this herd have died from the disease within a few days. While skinning one of these cows a small sore on Mr. Seamen's hand came in contact with the poisoned matter. The hand became inflamed and swollen immediately to such an extent as to require prompt medical attendance. The Hessian Fly. [Rochester (15. Y.) special.! The Hessian fly has made great devastation in the wheat-fields of various towns in Wayne County. In Arcadia the loss is estimated at $20,000. In the immediate vicinity of Lyons the loss is estimated by careful observers at $70,000. In some places the farmers are burning the wheatfields in order to exterminate the insects as far as possible. 0 --L- ■■■ ■ . Mr. Cleveland’s two carriages, a victoria and a landau, cost $1,862. A calf was born at Macon, Mo., that weighed 120 pounds at birth.

JEFF DAVIS ON SCHOOL HISTORIES.

Tlie Old Arch-Traitor Objects to the Northern Historic*. The Jackson (Miss. ) Clarion prints tho following letter from Jefferson Davis in response to one in which'allusion had Been made to a favorable expression of opinion by tho West Station (Miss. ) Educational Journal concerning a Northern “School History of the United States:” Miss., June 20, 1885. "Col. J. L. Power, Clarion Office: “Dear Sir —lnclosed with this I send to you a letter on a subject of such importance as will no doubt commend it to your attention. As there can be no higher duty than to guard against false impressions in the instruction,©! children, so there can be no care more essential than the proper selection of tho school books. In them to pervert history and propagate untrue doctrines is to poison the sources’of our political streams. ■>, . ■ j.» “Among the l4ss informed persons at the North there exists an opinion that the negro Slave at the South was a mere chattel, having neither rights nor immunities protected by law or public opinion. Southern men knew such was not the case, and others desiring to know could readily learn the fact. On that error the,lauded story of‘Uncle Tom's Cabin ’was founded; but it is strange that a utilitarian and practical people did not ask why a slave especially valuable was the object of privation and abuse. Had it been a horse they would Lave been better able to judge, and they, would most probably have rejected the story for its improbability. Many attempts have been made to evade and misrepresent tho exhaustive opinion of Chief Justice Taney in the ‘Dred Scot’ case, but it remains unanswered. “From the statement in regard to Fort Sumter, a child might suppose that a foreign army had attacked the United States—(certainly could not learn that the State of South Carolina was merely seeking possession of a fort on her own soil, ana claiming that her grant of the site had become void. “The tyrant’s plea of necessity to excuse despotic usurpation is offered for the unconstitutional act of emancipation, and the poor resort to prejudice is invoked in the use of the epithet ‘rebellion’—a word inapplicable to States generally, and most especially so to sovereign members of a voluntary Union. But, alas for their ancient prestige, they Have even lost the plural reference they had in the Constitution, and seem so small to this utilizing tuition, as to be described by the neutral pronoun ‘it!’ Such language would be appropriate to an Imperial Government which in absorbing territories required the subjected inhabitants to swear allegiance, to ife. - “Ignorance and artifice have combined so to misrepresent the matter of official oaths in the United States that it may be well to give the question more than a passing notice. When the ‘Sovereign, independent States of America’ formed a constitutional compact of union it was provided in the sixth article thereof that the officers ‘of the United States and of the several States shall be bound bv oath or affirmation to support this Constitution,’ and by the law of June 1, 1789, the form of the required oath was prescribed as follows: ‘I, A B, do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States.’ “ That was the oath. The obligation was to support the Constitution. It created no new obligation, for the citizen already owed allegiance to his respective State, and through her to the Union of which she was a member. The conclusion is unavoidable that those who did not support, but did not vio-, Tate the Constitution, were they who broke their official oaths. The General Government had only the powers delegated to it by the States. The power to coerce a State was not given, but emphatically refused. Therefore, to invade a State, to overthrow its government by force of arms, was a palpable violation of the Constitution, which officers had sworn to support, and thus to levy war against States which “the Federal officers claimed to bd, notwithstanding their ordinances of secession, still in the Union, was the treason defined in the third section of the third article of the Constitution; the only treason recognized by the fundamental law of the United States. “When our forefathers assumed for the several States they represented a separate and equal station among the powers of the earth, the central idea around which their political institutions were grouped was that soverignty belonged to the people, inherent and unalienable: therefore, that governments were their agents, intrusted to .secure their rights ancFderiving their just powers from the consent of the governed, whence they drew the corollary ‘that whenever any government becomes destructive of these ends it is tiie right of the people to abolish it,’ etc t What is meant by the word ‘people’ in this connection is manifest from the circumstances. It could only authoritatatively refer to the distinct communities who, each for itself, joined in the declaration and in the concurrent act of separation from the government of Great Britain. “By all that is revered in the memory of our revolutionary sires and sacred in the principles they established, let not the children of the United States be taught that our Federal Government is sovereign; that our sires, after a long and bloody war, won commnnity independence, used the power not for the end; sought, but to transfer their allegiance, and by oath or otherwise bind their posterity to be the subjects of another government, from which they could only free themselves by force of arms. Respectfully, JeffebsCn Davis.” » The proportion of illegitimacy in Chili is prodigious—exceeding 23 per cent. In the United States it is less than 7 per cent. In Austria, the European country which approaches most nearly to Chili in this particular, it is less than 13 per cent. The giraffe has never been known to-, utter a sound. In this respect it resembles a young lady in a street-car when a gentleman gives her his seat The happy past is the happy present.

ROACH ON HIS BACK.

’ ' The Big Ship Bailder Worsted in His Fight with the New Adr ministration.Making an Assignment lor the Benefit or Mis Creditors Owing to Gar* .. land’s Decision. [New York telegram. J Saturday afternoon a notice of assignment was filed in the County Clerk's office by John lio.ich, the well-known ship-build-er'. About the same time notice was posted at the iron-works on East 9th street to the effect that employes would be paid on Monday by Mr. Mooney, Roach's bookskeeper, and that the works would be closed till further notice. George M. Quintard and George E. Weed are named assignees, and preferences are given to the amonnt of $122,217.78. The preferred creditors are William Rowland, of New Brunswick, N. J., $62,217.18; the Mechanics and Traders’ Bank of Brooklyn, $20,000, and P. W. Gallaudet & Co., $4*0,000. Shortly after the notice was posted at the works Mr. Roach, accompanied by his two sons, Garrett and Stephen, left for- the shipbuilder’s place on the Sonnd. Mr. Garrett Roach said in answer to quo tions that the complications arising from the recent decisions of Attorney Generali Garland had induced his father to place all his property in the hands of trustees, so that the interests of all creditors might be guarded, Mr. Quintard, one of the assignees, said the assignment had been a surprise to him. There was no doubt as to its being due to Secretary Whitney's action in the case of the Dolphin, and he (Quintard) thought Mr. ' Roach feared similar action on the part of the Secretary in regard to other contracts. There was SC9,100 owing to Mr. Roach for repairs on the double-turret monitor Puritan, besides money on the three cruisers, the Atlanta, the Boston, and the Chicago. He believed there was $223, 000 due on the Chicago, and $6,00 ) each on the Atlanta and Boston, and uncertainty as to payment of these amounts was the cause of the assignment. Mr. Quintard thought Mr. Roach’s property was sufficient to pay all claims. He added that Mr. Reach was completely broken down physically. Mr. Aaron J. Vanderpoel, one of the great shipbuilder's lawyers, said his client was a very sick man, but he was sure every creditor Would be paid in full, as Mr. Roach could pay $2 for every $1 he owed. [Chester (Pa.) dispatch.] The news of the failure of John Roach caused considerable excitement here, where his solvency had never been questioned. Up to within a year ago his weekly pay-roll was never le-s than $15,000. Now it is about $7,000, but this will be reduced tomorrow, when 400 men will be. laid off. Only enough workmen will be kept to finish the Mallory ship Coipal. Representatives of the Winchester Company say the shipyard was a separate corporation and was not included in the assignment. The yard will bo affected, however, and as Mr. Roach is a Large stockholder in thft Chester rolling mills, blast furnace, and Combination Iron and Steel Company, located here, it is difficult to foretell the result on these places. Work on the cruisers Boston and Chicago and the monitor Puritan will virtually be suspended. Secretary Whitney on the .Failure. [Newport (R. I.) special.] Secretary of the Navy Wliitney," speaking of the assignment of John Roach & Sons, said to-niglit: “I must admit that I was very much surprised tp learn of the assignment of Mr. Roach, and I a:n sorry for it, yet I do not see how the Navy Department of the Government is in any way responsible. As a matter of fact there is only $15,000 or $2!),000 difference between the Government, and. Mr. Roach. All he could connect the Government with in the matter is this: He would say: ‘The Dolphin is ready and the Government refuses to receive her, afad I cannot get my $15,000 or $20,000.’ Now whether that would cause the suspension of a man like-that, I cannot tell you. In the matter of the assignment, and the individuals preferred, it is clear that the GovernmoiTt is protected, for the reason that we hold the bondsmen whom Mr. Roach has given the preference.” The Secretary said there was no reason why the other contracts should not be proceededwith. " 1 1 1 g Eoach on tlie Disaster, “As to the causes which have led up to my assignment, 1 strict y speaking, it is not I a failure,” said John Roach to a New "York ; reporter; “that is to say, my assignees will ! be able to pay $2 for every $1 of liabilities j if they realize anything like the real value ;of my property. I cannot say what the | exact amount of my liabilities is, nor what j the sum of the assets will be to meet them, j If the people understood this matter, if | the mendacious free-trader had not so ex- ; tensively deceived them, the failure of John Roach would be looked upon from ocean to ocean as a nai tioual calamity. This is not a party question. I have been a Republican, but above that I have first, last, and ever been an American.. It was my great ambition that, onr nation should recover its glory and .prosperity on the seas. I incorporated companies to sail vessels, and, despite the fact that the Government lent me scant encouragement, while foreign Governments practically supported their ship-builders, I j I have proved that it is possible for us to ; secure an immense foreign trade and to be- | come. }f the Government would-but lift its consenting finger, the greatest sea-trading ; nation of the earth. Business became | stagnant about a year ago when the Presidential nominations were being made. The ‘free ship’ movement was strong, for it has a catchy sonnd. The Democratic party is supposed to favor free ships, and when the election excitement began and people saw the ; possibility of Democratic success and of j the passage of a law that would mean the annihilation of American shipbuilding there was no business. All the work, therefore, that I have on band has been the construction of the new dispatch-boat and | the three new cruisers. In the meantime the Democracy had come into power, and ! prepared to prove their prophecy that the i appropriation was not honestly spent The ; Dolphin, a strong, substantial, excellent vessel, was condemned on the most puerile j technicalities, and to add to this injustice, Mr. Garland has repudiated the contracts and practically said that there exists no binding agreement between me and the Government. That capped the climax.” MrsA Maxwell —Miss Braddon, the novelist—is at the head of the Children’s Country Week Society of London. The relatives and friends of Mrs. Surratt do not countenance the proposition to 1 erect a monument to her. Thomas Nast„ the caricaturist of Harper’s Weekly, has gone to Europe for rest and recreation. ! CoLdvEL Thomas Ochiltree will [ blossom out as a lecturer in October.; | The General Gordon memorial fund now .amounts to $9(1,155. T *

INDIANA STATE NEW S.

—Tipton has bnt one school-house #ad a talking of bnilding another. ? —High rents, it is complained in Martinsville, cause many honse3 to stand empty. —By a boiler explosion in a Brewery at Peru, Marcellus Burtch was killed and the sugine-fiouse demolished. —Terre Hante will employ no married women as teachers hereafter, and if any teacher marries she will be dropped. —Nathaniel McLanghlin, a resident of Lafayette; was killed by a Wabash train at Clymer’s Station. Both legs were cut off. * —Schwabacher & Selig, wholesale tobacco dealers of Indianapolis, have been closed on attachments. They owe $75,000. —Edinburgh has a clergyman who rides the bicycle, plays lase-lm.ll, and indulges in nearly every kind of manly sport, and isl a musician of fine attainments. —Henry Laudinbarger, of Wabasha, mowed into a bumble-bees’ nest, and while fighting tbe insects with his scythe cut a dangerous gash in the calf of his leg. —John Brock, aged ninety years, a pioneer of Crawford County, and a soldier of the war of 1812, died at his-home, near English. He was the oldest resident of Crawford County. —Madison is getting to be the finest and best produce market in the State, especially in butter, eggs, and chickens. One dealei says that his shipments are three times at heavy as last year. —Ed Smith (colored) formerly keeper of a gambling-house at Vincennes, has caused the arrest for gambling of ten young men who nsed to play there, and who refused to pay him hash money. Some boys were snapping match-heads at Delphi, in the tube of a shot-gun, thought to be empty- James Gordon aimed squarely at Walter Bachman, and ar old load was discharged into his neck, kill ing him instantly. ——_ —lndiana is the leading State in tbs. Union in the production of starch from com, having eight factories and producing more than one-third of the total amoant made. There are sixteen factories in ths other States manufacturing starch from com. —Charles L. Deen, of Louisville, Ky., killed himself in Oxford because separated from a Miss Mattie Hitman, with whom he had eloped. Mi3s Hilman was detained in the bouse of a friend, and Deen shot himself under her window. He was bnt 18 years of age. —The party that went down to explore the new cave, one mile from De Panw station, on lRe Air Line Railroad, have returned with fine specimens of stalagmites and stalactites. They were in the cave all night, and think they traveled about three miles. The cave is said to be a very fine one, and in many respects a rival of Wyandotte. * —The Columbus Republican, in a review of base-ball, calls to mind the Seymour club of twenty years ago. In searching for the reason of the breaking up of the club it was found that one of the mem. bers was in the Missouri penitentiary and four others had been hanged by a mob, for it was a club which enrolled five of the once, celebrated Reno gang in its membership. —Gen. Black, the United States Pension Commissioner, has appointed James Britts, of Gosport, Owen County, who served in the Federal army and was severely wounded, to be a special Pension Examiner without passing a civil-service examination. This appointment has been made to test the question whether veterans of the civil war are subject to the regulations of the civil-service law of Congress. —TJje other day a boy found an old gnn in a hollow tree eighteen miles south of Shelbyville, which was the first clew to the solution of a mystery of sixty years’ standing. The gnn was identified by Rev. J. 11. Edwards, pastor of the First Christian Church, Sbelbyville, as belonging to his grandfather, Jacob Edwards, who disappeared one Sunday in the fall of 1826, and was never seen or heard of since that time. . ... 4 —Mrs. James Foster, of Otterbein, on going into her garden was amazed at finding a full-blown rose of a beautiful green color. It was blooming among a large collection of roses of the ordinary lints, red, pink, and white, but this one stood alofie, the only representative of its kind. It was sent to Lafayette to a botanist of distinction, who avers that it is a marvel, as no works on floral culture speak of such a thing. If this new variety ean be propagated it will cause a revolution in the floral kingdom. —Rev. John Fender and his aged companion" a daughter of the late Morg.u McMahon, of Union County, celebrated their golden wedding at AbingtOn, Wayne County. Rev. Mr. Fender is a son of Henry Render, one of the very earliest pioneers of the Whitewater Valley, and is himself one of tbe oldest. native-born pioneers of Wayne County, having been bom in Abington Township January 9, 1814. He joined the Methodist Church in 1830, and was licensed to exhort in 1842, bnt it was not until 1873 that he was licensed as a preacher. He and his wife have lived at their present home since the year of their marriage. ■ ■ .. i.. ... i .. 1 —Jim Wilson, the "lead-mine man,” so called from the number of ballets he carried in his body, one of the most noted characters in Southeastern Indiana, died, at his home on Longhery Creek, a few miles from Lawrence burg, of blood-poisoning. '■ — The lumber business at Michigan City is falling off as rapidly as it increased prior to 1881. The arrivals in June were the fewest in that month since 1878. ■ s —Over one hundred lots in a New Albany suburb hare been scld this season. ■' ' ' i