Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1885 — Page 3

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, - - Pubusbka

Cholera germs show decided affinity for human lips; therefore fruit - from infected districts is dangerous. The orange especially, or any fruit which, like this, is washed with water before shipment, is very likely to transmit the germs. To touch the body of a cholera patient and afterward accidentally to touch one's own lips with the same hand would probably cause cholera to the person so doing. A man residing on the line of an Eastern railroad has taught his dog to bark vociferously at every passing train. The impulse of the firemen is to watch for the barking dog, and hurl pieces of coal at him in passing. The result to the owner is that he has delivered at his door all the coal he requires for his own use free of cost, and is now contemplating the opening of a coal-yard for the supply of his neighbors. He thinks he can compete in price with the oldest coal-dealers in the vicinity. “~Zera Babbett and wife, nf Norfolk, have had six daughters, says The Neiv Hartford (Conn.) Tribune. The first death in the family was the father, at the age of 84 years, then followed the mother at the age of’B6—nothing so remarkable in the age of the parents, as the six children who survived them. The circle was not broken until July 3, 1885, by the death of Eliza M. Humphrey, wife of Deacon James Humphrey, at West Norfolk, at the age of 71, the combined age of the six sisters being 420 years. The following list of words was “given out” to the applicants for admission into the New York City Nor--1 mal School, and although apparently not difficult, they proved veritable stumbling-blocks: Aberration, Gauge, Rarefy, Acquiesce, Hyacinth, Recollect, Aqueduct, Irascible, Seize,. Balance, J< cular, Siege, Ballast, Lattice, Tyranny, Belligerent, Lettuce, Vaccination, Cerefnents, Palace, Vacillation, Correlation, pusillanimous, Afghanistan, Coralline, Militia, Panama, Defamation, Negotiate, Bosphorus, Delegation, Omniscient, Reuben, Embarrass, Oscillation, Benjamin, Felon, c_j Parish, Hannibal, =feicassee. Quinsy.

Final preparations are now making at Philadelphia for an expedition to Vigo, Spain, in search of the Spanish treasure galleons sunk in the bay in 1702. An engineer who visited the spot last summer declares that he has positively located eleven of the sunken treasure galleons, and in a diver's suit, went down upon the decks of several of them, which were lying at the depth of thirty or forty feet below the surface. With a charge of-dynamite he blew off the deck of one of them and laid bare the general Cargo, which consisted of huge logs of mahogany and logwood in perfect preservation. He also picked up coins from the deck, and iron balls, mementoes of the sea fight 183 years ago. , From Mr. Ruskin’s Autobiography: “My mother forced me, by steady daily toil, to learn long chapters of that discipline, patient, accurate, and resolute, I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but the best part of my taste in literature. Once knowing the 23d of Deuteronomy, the 119th Psalm, the 15th of I Chrinthians, the Sermon on the Mount, and most of the Apocalypse, every syllable by heart and having always a way of thinking with myself what words meant, it was not possible for me, even in the foolIshest time of my youth, to write entirely superficial or formal English, and the affectation of trying to write like Hooker and George Herbert was the most innocent I could have fallen into.”

A lad of 17, who was with the Egyptian Army, under Hicks Pasha, was an eye-witness of his death, and gives this account: “Hicks Pasha and the very few English officers left with him, seeing all hope of restoring order gone, spurred their horses and sprang out of the confused mass of wounded,, dead, and dying. These officers fired their revolvers, clearing a space for themselves, till all their amunition was expended. They killed many. They had got clear outside. They then took to their swords and fought till they felt Hicks Pasha alone remained, He was a terror to the Arabs. They said heuever struck a man with his sword without killing him. ' They named him Abou Deraa Dougal, the heavy armed (or‘thick of .brawny). He kept them all at bay, but he > was struck on the wrist with a-sword and he dropped his own. He then felt”

The epidemics of 1830, 1845 and 1866 caused the people everywhere to adopt preventive measures which were thought to have great Efficacy. Care in diet was considered most important, of course, and fruits ‘'were almost entirely discarded. Watermelons and cucumbers were looked upon as poisonous, and even ripe peaches and other harmless fruits were permitted to rot. So heavy were the losses by fruit-grow-ers and dealers in the East in 1830 that for a few years after the plague disappeared no one would raise melons and other objectionable vegetables and fruits for fear that they could not be disposed of. Boiled rice, mjjish and

milk,-and bread and milk became the principal articles of diet in families, and meats and other heavy foods were partaken of very sparingly. Camphor came into universal use as a disinfectant, and nearly everybody wore some of it on the person. Flannels were w-orn all summer, and plasters of various kinds were used on the chest and back. —F u A portrait of General Garfield, painted by Frank B. Carpenter, th* painter of “The Emancipation Proclamation,” in the Capitol, is on exhibition in New York. This picture, upon which Mr. Carpenter has been at work since General Garfield’s death, represents the martyred President in a plain Prince Albert coat. His left arm is held behind him, and his right is slightly extended toward the spectator, as though the General were in the act of speaking. The figure is visible to the knees, and stands out from the gray background, seemingly extending a warm welcome to the beholder. This portrait Was bought by H. C. Bullard, son of E. P. Bullard, for $5,000. This young man, who was graduated last year from Dartmouth College, has shown his regard for his alma mater by giving the portrait to that institution. The presentation of the picture will take place at the Dartmouth commencement this week, when it wiil grace the walls of the picture gallery in the new library building.

John D. Williams, who died recently in Utica, New York, caught cold on a Hudson Biver steamer by sleeping between damp sheets, lost his sight, became dumb and blind and was unable to move a muscle except his eyelids. One of his most intimate friends remembered the recital in Dumas “Monte Cristo” of the invention of a little girl whose grandfather was a paralytic, affected very much like Mr. Williams. She told him to wink once when he meant “yes,” and twice when he meant ‘’no." When he or she had other than affirmative or negative communications, she would spell out the words by mentioning letters of the alphabet until the right one was reached, and by putting them together their wishes were understood. This system was adopted by Mr. Williams’ friends, and by patience and perseverance the wants of the sufferer were made known and. relieved as f r as possible. Of course the little girl’s simple code was improved upon, and from 1848 to the death of the sufferer communication was kept up in this way.

A man who knows John Roach well talks as follows: John Roach was born in Cork. I was talking about him the other day with his son Garrett, when I asked if his nativity was not Scotch. “He was born in Ireland,” said .Garrett,?, “but you can set him down as a thorough American.” His career has been one of the phenomenal ones in this country. At 11 years of age he came to America alone to hunt out an uncle who lived in Texas. He found that Texas was so far from New York that he concluded to remain here. The old iron works of James Allaire were then the largest in the country. The lad sought employment there, and was told he could be taken on as an apprentice to learn the trade by paying SIOO. He worked at odd jobs and hoarded for over a year to get that sum. When he reported to the foreman that official called him a good-for-nothing Irish brat, and refused to set him at work. The lad marched over to the office. He went up to the proprietor’s desk. Pulling out his memorandum he said: “Mr. Allaire, I’ve paid you my SIOO. I’ve got your receipt. But the foreman says I’m good for nothing and won’t take me on. I am good for something, and I want my chance.” Allaire was pleased with the Irish boy’s pluck and he got fair play. He was offered the foreman’s place years later and refused it. Afterward he was made foreman. The works passed into the hands of Theodosius Secor, and John Roach set up a l.ttle shop in Georck street. His first job was a lot of grate bars for a Williamsburg brewery, which he made and delivered himself, carrying over two or three at a time. With his own hands he made the pillars that still form the front of Bellevue Hospital. When James Allaire failed he formed a stock company and confined the business with Allaire at its head. His largest work was the Harlem Bridge.

Nora’s Balance.

Last summer, during the excitement owing to bank failures in Indianapolis, I was watching the anxious crowd besieging the doors of a bank that was supposed to be in danger, when I overheard the following dialogue between an Irish woman and her husband : “Nora, dhraw yer money out" “An’ shure, Patrick, I won’t.” “But, Nora, you musht dhraw it out.” “Faith an’ I won’t dhraw me, money out at alh” . “Nora, an’ don’t yees know they’ll lose yer money for yees es yeds don’t dhraw it Out?" “An’ shure, Patrick, ain’t they better able to lose it than we are?” Patrick was evidently overpowered with this last astonishing and unanswerable argument, they both left the scene apparently satisfied. Fortunately the bank survived the pressure, and its ability to lose Nora’s balance was not practically tested. — Editor’s Drawer, in Harper’s Magazine. In general that man is a coward who stapes his course of action by his fears; and he alone is a man of real courage who dares to do right

THE FORTUNATE ONES.

Distribution of Federal Patronage— '■ Appointments for the Week. ' [Washington special.] The following appointments were made. by President Cleveland during the week: Gabriel C. Wharton, of Virginia, to be Inspector of Surveyors General and district officers : Charles C. Hhackford, of Colorado, to be Special Auentof the Land Office; H. Clinton Bell, of Illinois, to be Chief of Division in the Pension Office; Chester R. Faulkner, of Indiana, to be Chief of Division in the Pension Office, vice W. Ford, discharged; Theodore D. Jervey, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Charleston, 8. C.; Anthony Eickhoff, of New .York, to be Fifth Auditor of the Treasury; Conrad Krez, of 'Wisconsin, Collector of Customs for the District of Milwaukee, Wis.; Samuel Flower, Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New Orleans, La.: Truman H. Allen, of Oakland, Cal., to be Pension Agent at San Francisco; Morris A Thomas, of Maryland, and George R. Pearson, of lowa, to be Indian lnsnectors; J. Wheeler, of Oregon, to be Agent for the Indians of Warm Springy agency in Arizona; William H. Moffett, or New Jersey, to be Consul of the United States at Athens; John Devlin, of Michigan, to be Consul at Windsor, Ontario; John 0. Rich to be Lieutenant Commander United States navy; O. E. Lasher and H. S.Warinz to be Lieutenants, and C. O. Rogers to be Lieutenant, junior grade; Joseph B. Baker, Appraiser of Merchandise, district of Philadelphia, Pa.; Daniel J. Moore, Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise in the district of New York; Colin F. MacDonald to be Receiver of Public Moneys at St. Cloud, Minn. To Be Agents for the Indians—Joseph B. Kinney, of Missouri, at the Uintah Agency, in Utah; Thomas Jennings, of Wisconsin, at the Green Bay Agency, in Wisconsin; E. C. Osborne, of Tennessee, at the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Agency, Indian Territory; T. A. Burns, at the Yakima Agency, Washington Territory, vice R. H. Melroy. suspended; J. L. Hall, of Texas, at the Kiowa, Comanche, and ■Wichita Agency, Indian Territory; Frederick Hoover, at the Osage Agency, Indian Territory. To Be Surveyor of Customs —Richard Sinnott for the port of New Orleans. La. To Be Collectors of Customs —Peter F. Gogbill for the District of Petersburg, Va.; Benjamin R. Tate for the District of New London, Conn.; Bradley B. Smalley for the District of Vermont: Oliver Kelley for the district of Perth Amboy, N. J. Postmasters—Samuel H. Buck to be Postmaster at New Orleans, vice W. B. Merchant, suspended; Benjamin E. Russell, at Bainbridge, Ga., vice J. A. Wilder, suspended; W. H. Dawley, at Antigo, Wis., vice H. Smith, suspended; Frank P. Crotzer, at Nanticoke, Pa.; Simeon Sawyer, at Fairmount, Neb.; George 0. Rembaxgh, at Winfield, Kan.; George F. Laskell, at Larimore, Dakota; Thomas B. Crawford, at Grand Junction, Cal.; Frank Shutt, at Litchfield, Ill.; George J. Spohn, at Superior, Neb.; W. E. Lewis, at Charlton, lowa, vice J. H. Stewart, suspended; William A. Fleming, at Nashua, lowa, vice J. F. Grawe, suspended; John Dawe, at Edgerton, Wis., vice Ed A. Burdick, suspended; Wm. B. Alexander, atPine Bluff. Ark,, vice A. A Rogers, suspended; S. R. Davis, at Creston, lowa, vice L. T. Teed, suspended; J. A. Taylor, at Oxford, N. C., vice M. B. Jones, suspended; T. B. Douthlt, at Salem, N. C.,vice J. Bleckenderfer, suspended; Samuel H. Smith, at Winston, N. C., vice W. A Walker, suspended; J. A. Bennett, at Reidsville, N. C., vice R. H. Wray, suspended; William J. Fleming, at Fort Smith, Ark., vice J. K. Barnes, suspended; David G. Hackney, at Fort Plain, N. Y., vice A, Hoffman, suspended; Henry -Cook, at Michigan City, Ind., vice J. H. Peters, suspended; George J. Love, at Huron, Dakota Territory, vice John Cain, suspended; R. R. Hurley, at Talladega, Ala., viceß. A. Mosely, suspended: J. H. Bewly, at Smyrna, Del., vice Wm. H. Baggs, suspended; Charles W. Howe, at Rochester, N. H., vice Osman B. Warren, suspended; George W. Bell, at Webster City, lowa, vice John D. Hunter, suspended; JohnF. Pyne, at Vinton, lowa, vice Stephen A. Marine, suspended; Ebenezer M. Lockwood, at Burlington, Kan., vice A, J. Brown, suspended; William Becker, at Marysville, Kan., vice William H. Smith, suspended; Henry E. Slaymaker, at Lancaster, Pa., vice James N. Marshall, suspended; C. C. Yonge, Jr., at Pensacola, Fla., vice John Egan suspended; J. J. Shannon, at Meridian. Miss., vice William M. Hancock, suspended; Samuel DeWolf, at Rochester, Minn., vice Joseph G. Wagoner, suspended; Frank L. Thayer, at Waterville, Me., vice Willard M. Dunn, suspended; Nathaniel A. Swett, at Saccarapha, Me., vice James M. Webb, suspended; Alexander 0. Haller, at Wytheville, Va., vice W. F. Slater, suspended; George D. Sanford, at Grand Haven, Mich., vice Samuel C. Glover, resigned; Samuel 8. Lucey, at Marshall, Mich., vice William R. Lewis, suspended; Dudley C. Brown, at Brandon, Vt., vice John L. Knight, suspended; W. L. Howard, at Fair Haven, ; Vt., vice Harris ■Whipple, suspended; Francis M. Sitzer, at Albany, Mo., vice Adrian C. Case, suspended; William E. Black, at Gallatin, Mo., vice Jehiel T. Day, suspended.

FEARFUL FALLS FROM A BALLOON.

The Terrible Experiences of Two Aeronauts in Connecticut. [New Haven (Conn.) special.] At Winsted, Conn., a balloon ascension was made this afternoon by an aeronaut, Prof. Brooks, and Frederic Moore, a wealthy manufacturer of the town. The balloon was the largest ever used in the State. It was eighty feet high and 120 feet in circumference, and was calculated to have a lifting capacity of 1,500 pounds. All went well until the aeronauts had reached an elevation of 2,500 feet. There, although they were above the clouds, ttiey were caught in a storm which proved to be the heaviest experienced in that part of the State for years. Becoming terrified by the lightning they began to descend and passed through the cloud layers in safety, although the balloon suffered from the heavy rain, and the gas began to escape. When within 100 feet of the ground the machine was "rocking violently from side to side. As they fell the two men threw out sandbags, and, losing two much ballast, the balloon careened wildly, the gas escaped, and the car was overturned., Brooks and Moore lost their hold on the slippery rail and fell headlong from the car. o The crowds that had been cheering wildly a few moments before stood out in the pouring rain in their eagefness to see the descent and did their best to catch the aeronauts as they fell. Brooks was picked up very badly hurt. He is expected to die. Moore’s injuries are not so serious. Both men had had considerable experience in ballooning.

Indian Claims in Minneota.

[[St. Paul (Minn.) special.) A commission, composed of Messrs. Larabie and Morrison, appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to investigate the claims of the traders at the Upper and Lower Sioux Agencies in Minnesota, was in session here yesterday, taking evidence on certain claims growing out of the Indian outbreak in this State in 1862- The claimants are Nathan Myrick, Wm. H. Forbes, and L. Roberts, and their aggregate claims wiWreach hundreds of thousands of dollars. The gentlemen named were licensed by tbe Government to do a trading business with the Indians, and at the time of the outbreak there was a large amount due the traders from the Indians. The effort is made to recover the sums due at the time of the uprising, and also damages for depredations committed by the Indians. Mr. Myrick has been laboring for ten ora dozen years to have the claims settled, and it is likely that the matter will at last be disposed of. It is thought likely that the amount will be very much reduced.

ITEMS.

Gen. Gbant smoked his last cigar Nov. -20L1884. ThrovghoCt the war Gen. Grant never received a wound. ■ A fire in London recently was extintinguished with champagne. of Massachusetts receives a sajary of $5,000 a year and the Mayor of Boston SIO,OOO. < Theodobe Mills, of Washington, is to fashion a bust of Bishop Simpson.

THE PUBLIC DEBT.

' The Official Treasury Statement for the Month of July. The debt statement issued on the Ist instant shows the detreaA? of the public debt during.the month of July tn be $8,662,"89.96: Cash ii th? Treasury $188,418,719.43 Gold cert fieates out-tanding..,. 140,611,320.00 Silver certiti, ates outstanding ... 139,213,086.(-0 Certificates of deposit outstanding 31,680,001.00 Refunding certifies es outstanding>.y 233,200 00 L< g 1 tendcr-i outstanding 346,681,016.00 Fractional currency mot including orai unt estimated aS lost or destroyed) 15,337,126.88 Net cash balance on hand 44,< 5.’,'129.75 Toe following is a recapitulation of I the debt statement issued on the Ist instant, (new form*: Interest bearing-debt— V . , BoniiH at 4 '» yer cent $250,000. f 'oo.ol l oads at l per cent 737.728,100.00 Bonds at 3 per cent.... 194,190,500.00 Iletund.ng certificates at 4 per •tent. . 233,200.00 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.. ' 14,000,090.00 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent......... 64,623,512.00 Principal...; 1,260.776,112.00 Interest.; 8,557,003.00 T0ta1...... .... .. . Debt.- cn which interest has . ceased since maturity— Prlncii al, $4,014,485.26 Interest. 225,856.19 Total $4,240,341.45 Debt bearing no interest— Old demand and legal-tender notes $346,738,931.00 - Certificates of deposit 31.420.00 Gold certificates..... .2.. N. 123,289,000.' 0 Silver certificates 98,887,106.00 Fractional currency (Ich‘*sß,37.’\934 Estimated as lest or destroyed) 6,961,192.78 Principal.. . $607,281,229.88 Total debt— Principal $1,872,071,827.14 1ntere5t8,782,859.73 Total $1,88'9,854,486.87 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt.. .. . . ... .. $260,239,397.83 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,600,00 T0ta1.... $360,230,397.83 t'dv. Total debt less available cash items ■:$1,520,624,289 04 Net cash in the Treasury 44,052,929.35 Debt, less cash in Treasury, Aug. L 188551,476,571,359.00 Debt, less cash in Treasury, July L 1885... 1,485,231,149.65 Decrease of debt during the ' month as shown by’this state- —— ment $8,662,789.96 Gash in the Treasury available for reduction < f the debt— Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding. $]23,289,009.00 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding' 98,872,106.90 United States notes held for certificates of depcs t actually outstanding, .... t , j. ,2.. ,-f 31,420,000,00 Cash held for matured debt and in-crest unpaid 6,647,925.02 Fractional currency. 1,366.81 Total available for reduction Ofth-Jdebt $262,230,3'97.83 Reserve fund held for redemption of United States notes, act July I'2, 18.89 100,600,000.00 Un vailable for reduction of the debt— Fractional silver coin. $25,353,920.23 Minor coin 857,072.02 Total $26,212,092 25 Certificates held as cash issued, but not outstanding $57,923,300.01 Net cash balance on hand 44,052,92 '.35 Total cash in Treasury, as shown by Treasurer's general account $488,418,719.43

REFUSED TO CARRY THE MAIL.

The ‘Pacific Mail Company Defies Uncle Sam, [Washington telegram.] The Postoffiee Department is m receipt of information that to-day an agent of the department attempted to sail on a Pacific Mail steamer from San Francisco for ports on the west co.ist of Mexico and Central America, taking with him a trunk, for which he offered to pay the regular charge for extra baggage. The postal officials in San Francisco presumably are too familiar with the Pacific Mail Company’s officials, for the purser on the steamer had information that the trunk contained the usual mail matter for Mexico and Central America, and he promptly refused to accept pay for the trunk or permit it to be put on board the steamer. The mail was then ordered to be sent by rail from San Francisco to New Orleans, and thence by steamer to Mexican and Central American ports. By this route mail sent from San Francisco will reach ports on the east side of Mexico and Central America in twelve days. The Pacific mail from San Francisco to ports on the Western coast is nineteen days, so that a week will be saved in the new route. On the Ist of April it ceased to be compulsory with American steamers to carry the mails, but it can not be pretended that this change of the law relieves the steamship companies from ans of the obligation of common carriers? They have a regular published tariff of charges on freight of different classes and on extra baggage, and it is certainly an extraordinary proposition that they can discriminate against United States mail matter when packed in a trunk, and taken with him by one of the passengers.

A “BATTLER.”

A Snake Ten feet Long and Carrying Around Twenty-five or Thirty Battles. [Jonesboro (Ga.) special.) The people on the -line of Fayette and Clayton Counties are in terrible excitement to-day over the appearance of a monster rattlesnake in that section. A little off the McDonough road there lives a man named McJunkin. Last night he was called upon by a friend, who sat up late with him, while Mrs. McJunkin retired. The two men drank quite freely. When the husband retired his companion was mystified by peculiar noises inside. Striking a light, he went in and found coiled up between the couple a huge rattler. The appearance of the light broke its charm, and, gliding across the body of the sleeping woman, it crawled under the bed and through an opening in- the floor and out. The reptile.was not less than ten feet in length, rusty and scaly, and having between twenty-rive and thirty rattles. The settlement turned out this morning with shotguns in pursuit of the reptile, and at last succeeded in running it into a hu e hollow log. where its’ body was perforated with a hundred bullets. Wonderful stories are being told of other reptiles by the excited people. A DEMONSTRATION is being arranged to be held in Genoa in 1892 in honor of Christopher of the features of which will ba an exhibition of Amer.can relics and produce. p. A Philadelphia chemist says that the American style of kissing is what plays hob with the teeth. The Brazilian production of diamonds amounts in yearly value from $l,C00,00(bto $1,500,000. . . ’ _ - Wisconsin dairymen have foinetFa cheese pool to increase prices.

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Miss Rose K. Cleveland. y Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of President Cleveland, and mistress of the White House, is, by virtue of that relntionihip and position, the first lady ©fthe land. She has, however, A celebrity entirely independent of these accidents, one due to a circumstance never before occurring to any person in the world. Her book, “George Eliot’s Essays and Other Studies, ” went to the sixth edition before it was published—an honor hitherto unknown in the history of literature. The seventh edition was issued within a week after the first publica-

tion. Miss Cleveland is the youngest of nine children. She was born in Fayetteville, N. Y. She was carefully educated, graduating at Houghton Seminary. Then she became a teacher in that institution; then Principal of Lafayette Collegiate Institution, Indiana, and then taught a private school in Pennsylvania, after which she commenced lecturing before classes. After her mother’s death, which occurred in 1882, she resided at the old homestead at Holland Patent, which she purchased out of the earnings of her own labor, and continued the work of lecturing until called upon by her brother to assume the duties of mistress of the White House. Hon. A. E. Stevenson. Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, the newly appointed First Assistant Postmaster General, was born in Kentucky in 1835, and removed to Bloomington, HL, when.sixteen years of age, where he studied law. He held various State judicial offices, and was a candidate for Presidential Elector on the McClellan ticket in 1864. In 1874 he was elected to

Congress, serving one term. He is a man of stalwart health, under fifty years of age, with business habits, and is a thorough-go-ing Democrat. He is a great personal friend of Postmaster General Vilas. He is an eloquent orator; a fine lawyer, and an accomplished gentieman. He is a worthy descendant of the best Kentucky stock, possessing frank and chnery manners which ever win and make friends. Persons coming before him on department business will always feel easy in hrs presence. James B. Kimball, James B. Kimball, the newly appointed Director of the Mint, was bom in Salem, Mass., in 1836. He graduated at Harvard University and at the Mining School of Freiburg, Saxony, and in 1857 graduated with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the famous University of Gottingen.

During the war he served as Assistant Adjutant General on the staffs of Generals Patrick, McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, and Meade, respectively. His reputation as a mining engineer arid metallurgist is established and widespread. At one time Dr. Kimball was Vice President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. When he received his present appointment he was Professor of Economic Geology at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. He is President of the Everitt Iron Company, Pennsylvania. 1 1 ■ -y Thebe is no word or action but may be taken with two hands—either with the right hand of charitable construction or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion. To construe an evil action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong —to myself, the action, and the author. Bishop Hall. ft , The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. — lord Bacon.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—James H. Kintner, the oldest Mason in Northern Indiana, died at Logansport —The Methodist Episcopal Church wee established in Richmond fifty-two year* ago. r—Rev. Father Genhen, late of Loogootee, is now paster of St Michael’s Cjuuroh, Madison. i—There are four counties in the State Untouched -by railroad?—Brown, Ohio, Perry, and Switzerland. —Two new yachts, one steam and the other sail, have recently been launched on Turkey Lake by the Cedar Beach Association. * , —The body of Nicholas Mueller, of Evansville, who had been on a spree for several days, has been found in Pigeon Creek, near that city. —Towler, the albino who, while traveling with a circus a few years ago, married Miss Porter, of Carroll County, the Indiana giantess, died very suddenly at home, in Camden, that county. —Henry Mosier, the distinguished artist, who, twenty years ago, was a student at Richmond, and has for the past ten years been in Paris, writes that he will revisit his old home in September. —A lad named Joseph Dalton, only thirteen years of age, committed suicide at Greencastle. He hanged himself while the members of the family for whom he worked were absent at a circus. —The Liberty Herald is agitating the question of erecting a soldiers’ memorial building at that place, hold ng that a mere monument, artistic and beautiful as it would appear, would be only so much capital locked up for all time to come. —Frank Kelley has died of consumption at the prison at Jeffersonville. Kelley, murdered a fisherman on a boat at Rock", port, after which he robbed the boat. He was tried at Rockport and sentenced for life and served’out his sentence Without commutation. His age was nineteen years at the tme of his death. He was buried in the prison graveyard. —“ Is this hot enough for you?” he said. I made no say, and no more would you. But I fumbled my pistol some instead. And cave him a shot or two. He fell in a heap as the balls went through. But lie murmured still, for he was not dead : “ Is this hot enough for you?” I stabbed him twine andabruised his head, And fired some more, for my arm was true. Then 1 turned to the admiring crowd and said; “ Is this shot enough for you?” —lndianapolis'Journal. —lt is not liLely there is much in the cave recently discovered near De Pauw station. The cave has been explored a great distance, but a gentleman who went through it about three Hires says it is very muddy, very rough, devoid of fine scenery or fos-* sils, and one Las to crawl on his hands aud knees long distances. Another cave about one and a quarter mfes from De Fanw station is large and fine, but yet difficult to explore on account of the many narrow openings. A cave near Milltown is said to be finer than either of the taves at De Pauw station. —A few nights ago some fishermen, who bad their lines set at a point iu White River, below Medora,.had occasion to build a fire, using as a “back-log” what they consideredto be a part of an elm tree, which was lying near by on the bank. As tbe fire grew hotter one of the men noticed that the “Lack-leg” kept cracking, and finally burst open, or rather transversly across. Investigation revealed the fact that-the, "back-log” was hone—a huge femur of something they knew not what. The bone was carefully put away for the night, tnd the morning’s examination I showed it to be five feet in length, and of I the dimensions of a man’s body. They also found a portion of what proved to be the jaw-lone of equal proportions to the I femur. Upcn raising it up a weighi ing four pounds, fell out of its socket to the giound. Dr. M. F. Gerrish, who Las the largest and rarest collection of remarkable spec mens of all kinds of any person in the vicinity, wiil probably have these curiosities i emoved to his office in Seymour.— Indianapolis Newts.

River* and Harbors*. [Washington telefrram.J (rapt. Lockwood, of the Engineer Corps, has made his annu il report of the river and harbor improvements under his care. Of the outer harbor at Michigan City he say?: “To complete the new eivt breakwaterpierandconstruct the west exterior breakwater in accordance with the report of the Hoard of Engineers, dated March 2, 1882, it was estimated by Major Smith that it would require $159,1.00, and as this construction of the break watr. when once commenced, should be pu-hed to completion as rapidly as possible, I woul I respectfully recommend that $250,0(0 of the above amount be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1887.” The original estimate of the cost of this improvement in 1857, amended in 1870 and 1882, was $587,000. The who’e amount appropriated for the work fi om ,1833 to 1885, inclusive, is $814,418. There has been expended $800,699. On July 1 last there was available for prosecuting the work ,$13,718 for’ the inner harbor, rind $5,000 for dredging is asked. Major A. M. Miller, in charge of improvements on Western rivers, has made his annual report to th? Chief of Engineers. For improving the .Wabash River in Iridiana and Illinois au appropriat on of $190,0(10 is asked for, the greater portion of which it is propo-ed sha(l be expended on a loqk and darn at Grand Rapids, two miles above the month of White River. The sum of sls. (HO is asked for improving Kelley’s ripple ip the White River. Indiana. —Charles A. Murray, Mayor of Connersville, to enforce the Sunday law, has' issued a proclamation requiring every one’ “to refrain from all buying, selling, and w.rking, excepting so far as pressing neces-i eity may require the same.” - —ln Jackson County, out of a total popution exceeding 23.000, only 134 persons between the ages of ten and twenty-one years are unable to read and write. «’ * .4 . •_ ■ —Rudolph Baer was accidentally drowned »u the Wabash Rivei, near Lafayette, Ind