Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — Page 3

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA, a. E. MARSHALL, ' - - Pubushhl

Buffalo is afflicted with a suicidal mania. Dating the past year more persons resorted to self-destruction than ever before. The favorite method has been by shooting; the next most acceptable way has been by drowning. The snic des have been for love, political disappointment, business troubles, and poverty. i Much is anticipated of the great Scotch 1 colony Tvliich is about to be planted in Florida. The first division, composed of fifty families, will sail from Glasgow on the 26th. These immigrants own the land to which they are coming, and, in addition, are well supplied with money. • Fully a thousand families, in all, will come. The sweet by and by is coming right along. The mahwa tree, recently discovered in the forests, of Central India, bears blossoms which yields half their weight in pure sugar, and a single tree bears a thousand pounds of blossoms yearly. The day seems to be ’ approaching when the down-trodden and oyipressed of every clime will be able to cat cake three times a day. Detroit Free Press:, A little 4-year-old girl was put to bed in the third story of her »bome and left, as usual, in the dark. A terrific thunderstorm came up, and her mother, thinking that the child would be frightened at the lightning, went to her. On entering, the child called out with delight: “Mamma, the wind blew the sun up just now; did you see it?” Fear had no entrance there.

Philadelphia Call: “Hello, Bascomb, I EOtice you stutter ns much as ever.” “I—l—know—l—d-<lo." “I thought you were under treatment?” “Well, so-—so —l—was. Under—a—-doz-dozen kinds of—of—of—treattreatment. All no—no—good.” “Why not try a new ten-cent stamp?” “Gra-gra-cious, how would—would—that—-h-h-lielp me?” “Well, they say it insures nn immediate delivery.” The Princess Isabelle, the only ing child of the Emporor of Brazil, is happily married to the Count D’Eu. She is now about £5 or 40 years of age, and is rather masculine in stylo and disposition. She has intelligence and firmness, and often compared to Queen Elizabeth. During the absence of the Emperor in the United States and Europe in 1876 and 1877 she assumed his authority, and ruled with firmness. Rev. Dr. John Hall is one of the wealthiest clergymen in New York. He receives a salary of $30,000 and many presents. He is paid SI,OOO a year as chancellor of the University of the City of New York, and receives $12,000 a year from the Ledger for one short article a week. Other literary work brings his annual income up to about SIOO,OOO. Seventeen years ago the Doctor preached in Dublin, Ireland, at a salary of $2,500 a year. The expression of “galvanizing a corpse” has ceased to be exclusively metaphorical. M. Kergovaty, a Frenchman, has discovered a method of preserving bodies by giving them a metal coating. We may according to our means, become silver-plated, nickelplated, or galv nized with zinc or copper. The process has been thus far tested successfully on eleven human bodies and more than one hundred times on the carcasses of animals.

A girl named Effie Elizabeth Davis, aged 14, was on a visit at tbe house of Mr. Averill, Bugar-Loaf Farm, neaj Stourbridge, England. Mis 3 Averill was sitting at the piano and Miss Davis was standing by her side singing, when the report of a gun was suddenly heard and Miss Davis fell dead, shot through the head. Miss Davis’ brother, Nathaniel Averill, gave information to the police, and they, after making inquiries, arrested him on suspicion. He was at first silent, but afterwards said that ! his gun was accidentally discharged as he was returning from shooting. He was remanded in charge of the Stafford police. San Francisco is lending 11,000,000 Mexican dollars to China this year. The ungainly coin has steadily grown in use and favor amongthe Mongolians. The iftoriey comes to San Francisco in payment of goods purchased by Mexican merchants. The Mexican government is aware of this enormous amount of her coin being shipped to a foreign country without any return coming back. But the sister republic does not consider it as coin. The eleven mints are leased out to private individuals. The mints thus become simply factories in which a commodity is turned out for exportation to Chinas —turned out in a convenient shape for handling, and called a Mexican dollar. Jennie Jones is a pretty young lady, residing at Highland, Ulster County, New York, and is a dressmaker by trade. About a year Bgo, while dinployed in New York, she befriended an old lady, who had lost her pocket-book, by loaning her a small amount, and also assisted her across the street. Miss Jones cave her name and place of resi-

dence to the lady whom she had befriended, at her request, and thought no mote of it. A day or two ago Miss Jones received a letter from a Buffalo lawyer, stating that by the death of a wealthy lady of that city, she was heiress to $50,000. The lady who beqneathed the money was the person whom Miss Jones assisted. The football season in England has barely got into full swing, but already two deaths have been caused bv the game, besides a goodly number of broken limbs. The controversy of the comparative safety of the two styles of playing is left just where it was before, since one of the deaths occurred in an association,.and the other in a Rugby match, though at the inquest held on the latter a witness assured the coroner that Rugby football was much less dangerous. An item is going the rounds to the following effect: '“A Chinese banker, Han Qua, of Canton, is said to be the wealthiest man in the world. He pays taxes upon an estate of $450,000,000, and i 3 estimated to be worth $L400,000,000.” Upon this statement George Francis Train comments thus ia New York Sun: “In a country wker|r they use 1,600 coppers—‘cash,’ so called—to a dollar, larger coim ere overestimated. A guest of ofd Howqua—not Han Qua —three decades ago at Canton, and later of his sons, I saw his wonderful gardens and beautiful grounds. He was a life-long friend of Russell & Co., leaving them untold sums. He was known as a friend of America. He may be worth $50,000,000—certainly not $1,400,000,000. History is a fearful liar.

' The project of drying up the Zuyder Zee is again being urged with some vehemence. A “State Socialist” argument is now freely used; it is said that the gigantic task will find rich employment for the Dutch working class population for many years, among whom social democracy is increasing. The Providence of Utrecht, Gelderland, and most of the municipalities whose cities and towns lie upon the sea, have given their adhesion to the scheme, and have empowered a commission of experts to report on the probable cost. On the other hand, a few of the towns, including Monnikendjim and others, protest eagerly against the scheme, since its execution must infallibly convert them into “dead cities.” If the sea should ultimately be turned into dry laud the Kingdom of Holland will bo enlarged by the addition of a new province twice the size of the Province of Utrecht. The now country has been already provided l>y anticipation with the name of “Willemsland.” The gospel tent was packed to overflowing this morning, says a Birmingham (Ala.) dispatch, and Rev. Sam Jones preached the grandest sermon of the week. His discourse was filled with brilliant thoughts, and it was only occasionally that he indulged in his inimitable “funny” sayings. He said that every man and woman had to get every vestige of the hog element out of his character before they could become Christians; that lie was here to assist in destroying that hog element, and at this point he exclaimed: “O Lord, come down aDd help us kill hogs! I want this to be a regular hog-killing meeting.” While discoursing upon the injunction: “Love thine enemies,” he said: “I verily believe I love every human being on the top side of this oaitb, and if you will bring a man whom I don’t love and stand him up here on this platform I’ll hug him till he squeals, and if you can find a woman in all this world whom I do not love and bring her up here, why, I’ll— I’ll—send for my wife and make her hug her until she squeals!” [Laughter and applause.]

The class of ’B7 of Cornell University, the members of the present junior class, have developed into genuine college martyrs. During their early days at Ithaca their class supper was stolen by the sophomores and eaten at Trumansburg. In their second year the immediately succeeding class captured the cane from them in tlid annual “cane rush,” an unparallelled exploit, and it has just leaked out that * heir third year in the university is likely to prove as unfortunate for them as the previous' two. Certain facts have come to light which tend to show conclusively that a party of Cornell men, representing for the most part the class of 'B7, were rather roughly handled while attending a party the other evening at' a wellknown mansion in Newfield. Several young men of that place, who, it seems, must have disliked the idea of having the Cornell students * tpin from them the affections of the fair ones, managed to spirit away the carriages in which the students had driven up to Newfield, and, taking the vehicles, into a field near by, the wheels were removed and tied to trees in the immediate vicinity. The horses also disappeared, and, after several hours of search, one was found in a dilapidated cowshed on an pdjoining farm. Upon the whole the Cornell men spent a busy night, and it is probable that the next party at the mansion alluded to trill probably ndt have a representative the university.

Ah! the youngest heart has the same waves with in it as the oldest, but without the plummet Arhich can measure their depthfe.— Bicliter.

Chinese Holidays.

It w ould be a matter of many chapters were I to describe ail the holidays which we have in China. The bare enumeration of them would be as difficult as tedious. In point of fuct we have almost as many holidays and festivals as there are days in the,year. Each prominent idol has a birthday, also anniversay of his death, Ixptli of. which are celebrated. There are sOino, the Goddesses of Mercy, for instance, who have half a dozen days sacred to them. There a/e a number of deities, great persons deified, that are common to the nation; while each city,- town, and hamlet, has numerous local deities who ate its special protectors. Extremely lucky it is for the aforesaid idols that their devotees are naturally fond of show, pageantry, and display; otherwise, idolitry would have little to attract the multitude. As it j is, millions of dollars are spent in these | celebrations every year. At the dedication of a temple in Canton, two years ago, $30,000 were spent. As I Avas present at> this really great exhibition, I can give you an idea of it. For a long time a committee of citizens had been collecting subscriptions from dwellers far and near; and weeks before the completion of the temple, a large pavilion was reared, the material of which was mainiy bamboo in the form of poles, mattings, and slips. Marvelous architectural results are attained by combing a iew wooden pillars with the bamboo in various forms, and soon,a light airy structure looms up in the sky, which can be seen from a great distance. The pavilion is directly in front of the temple, while smaller ones are built in Aacant lots near, by, all connected with the main building by aAvniugs pitched o\er the streets. There is a high tower in the middle of the great pavilion, on the ceiling of Avhich curls a dragon of many colors, gleaming with innumerable spangles, through Avhose mouth a rope is dropped on which is suspended an immense chandelier. The latter is finely carved so far as the body, which is of wood, is concerned, and for brilliancy of coloring; has no rival in China. It is octagonal and each side throws out four branches, which uphold kerosene lamps. The centers of each side are cut out, and glass inserted, behind which automatic figures are made to piove by clockwork. The finest effects of this chandelier are of course obtained when the lamps are lighted. Suspended from the roof in other parts are other chandeliers, less olaborato and smaller perhaps, but not less artistic and beautiful. Forests of pendants are attached to them, so that on all sides the light is reflected. Then, in the intervals betAveen the chandeliers hang oblong cases, all decorated with silks and satins, and finely carved, containing dolls, about two feet high, elegantly dressed in character, and grouped to represent historical scanes. These figures have machinery placed beneath them to make them shake their heads, or lift their hands, or sway their bodies, just as the role of each requires. There are also smaller cases in which are arranged tableaux from romance of Avhich the Chinese are very fond.

There are platforms in every goodsized pavilion where the musicans sit and discourse music for the pleasure of a most attentive audience. There are drums, kettie-drums, immense cymbals, gongs, cornets, flutes, castanets, two-stringed fiddles, and I don’t know what else besides, and when they are sounding together the effect is overwhelming on ears unaccustomed to such strange symphonies. The flutist first blows his flute, then the cornetist joins with his toot, and then the kettledrum man strikes up, which i 3 a signal for the symba's to clash and the gong to raise its hoarse cry, while the shril fiddles may be distinguished in the din like the witches’voices above the storm in Macbeth. Worse still follows, when the musicians tu/n from instrumental to vocal music, and one of them gives you a solo with that falsetto-pitch which is meant to imitate a female voice. While the crowd of people are enjoying the different sights and sounds in tlie pavilions, inside the temple various ceremonies are going on. The temple itself, entirely new, is finely decorated with both permanent and temporary ornamentations: Among the first are frescos and wood carvings, and figures in bas-relief; among the second, banners, flower-baskets, and pictures. Buddhist priests are praying to Buddali in the central hall, where the shrine of the chief deity is situated, flocks of worshipers flit to and fro making offerings of food, lighting candles, and burning incense. There is no scene in China more animated. Everybody who has any religion in him comes to worship and to ask home favor of the god, and each person leaves more or less money with the keepers of the temple. In my native city festivals similar to this occur two or three times a week in different parts of the town. —Yan Phou Lee, in Wide Awake. --. 1

The Instantaneous Photograph.

How is it with the photographic camera and lens, our artificial eye? We will suppose that everything is in readiness, that its retina or sensitive plate is in perfect condition, and that not a ray of light lias yet entered within the darkened chamber. Instead of being “the twinkling of an eye,” we shall arrange so that the time elapsing between the opening and closing of the artificial eyelid shall be less than onetenth of a second, of far less than the time necessary for our eyes to. open and shut. It shall be as nearly “instantaneous” as possible. Everything is ready. Click! It has opened and shut. What has it seen in that little instant of time? If anything is in motion, it has been perceived in that fragment of a second as if motionless. Men walking along the street are pictured with uplifted feet. A trottmg-horse may be caught with all of its four legß in the air, viewed just at the moment when he was clear of the ■ ground. A man leaping a high pole may be pibtured in precisely in the position in which lie appears at the highest altitude.- Motion seems rest. But this is not the most wonderful of its powers. Far beyond the keenness of human vision is its range of. sight If the light is good, this sensi-

tive plate of i glass will have recorded and discerned a thousand uplifted faces as perfectly as tho human eye perceives the'features of a single countenance. Every expression of joy hr sorrow, every peculiarity of dress or attitude, jjfche leaves of a forest or the grass by 4he wayside, will "have been seen and delineated and retained perfectly in far less than tho briefest possible twinkling of a human eyte. —Popular Science Monthly. f

The Lime-Kiln Club.

t Just previous to the opening of the meeting, and about the time Brother Gardner struck the lower step, on bis way up stairs, Whalebone Howker intimated that Skinner Johnson was a liar. The two had been disputing as to whether this would be a hard winter or an open one, and Brother Howker lost bis temper. '1 he expression mentioned had scarcely passed his lips when something hit him and he fell over two stools and he lay down on the floor to rest. He was still lying there as Brother Gardner came, in, and he did not reach his seat until the triangle sounded and the meeting opened. ' i BEFORE THE BAR. “If Brudders Howker an’ Johnson nm in de hall dis eviu’ dev will please ate]) dis way,” observed the President as lie turned liis glance down the hall. They happened to be present, and th ey Avalked down the aisle like men who had but ten minutes to live. “Brudder Johnson, how did dis affair come about?” asked the President. "Well, sail, I remarked dat I ’spected to see a werry milq winter. Brudder Howker at once remarked dat he ’spected to see de coldest winter fur twenty-live y’ars. I said I nebber saw sicli thin co'n-husks. He said he nebber saAV ’em so thick. He articulated dat I was a liar." “Brudder Howker, am Jis k'rect?” asked the President. “Dat’s about what Ave said, sail.” “And a knock-down followed—a fight in dis hall, dedicated to peace, harmony, and good-will! It kin be justly characterised as de crownin’ outrage of de nineteeth century.” “I’ze dun sorry, sail,” said Brother Howker.

“An’Tze dun mo’ sorry, sah,.” added Brother Johnson. “Bein’ sorry nebber mended a broken window or fixed up a broken gate,” replied the President. “In de lust place, Brudder Johnson had no sort o’ bizness gabbin’ ’bout de weather. It was none o’ his bizness wheder we hav nn open winter or a hard one. In de nex’ place, Brudder Howker had no bizness wid do weather to begiD wid, an’ no sort o ! bizness to call a man a liar to eand up wid. You have both laid yerselves liable to expulshun, but as you am ole members, an’ dis will probably bo a.great moral lesson to you, I shall content myself wid imposin’ a fine. De verdict am dat Brudder Johnson am fined SII,OOO, an’ Brudder Howker am fined $17,000. You kin re: turn to your seats an’ figger out how long it will take you to save de respective amounts out of your respective incomes.”-- M. Quad. hot Good Judges of Shawls. Hanging in a dry goods firm’s window were some elegant cashmere shawls. There is nothing more misleading, perhaps, than a cashmere shawl, but the ordinary lady purchaser prides herself on what she knows about such things. Recently two ladies entered the store and asked to look at the shawls. They were produced and displayed to the ladies, who pulled at them and pi'-ked at them, and discussed them, and finally turned aside with an air of indifference, as if they had found no merit in them. The obliging lady clerk had become interested in their examination, and, as the ladies were about to turn away, she asked what they thought of the shawls. One of the women only spoke up. She stuck her long forefinger under one of the shawls and, pulling it again, replied: “O, nothing much. I saw the shawls in the window; that was aIL I thought then that they were pretty cheap at $2, but I don’t want ’em.” The tag on the goods might have misled them, and perhaps the outward appearance of the rich fabric of the shawls might have aided in the deception. The tag was marked S2OO, instead of $2. The clerk explained the difference to her customers. Both of them, it is said, looked as though they would like to have the roof faH on them.—Lewiston Journal.

Potato Starch.

In the preparation of potato starch, the potatoes, after being washed and peeled, are grated to a fine palp by a revolving grater. The pulp is then placed upon fine sieves, and water passed through them until all the starch is washed through, and nothing left except the cellular tissue. Successive portions of the pnlp are thus treated until the vessel over which the sieves are placed is filled. The washings are then allowed to stand until all the starch has settled to the bottom. The water is then drawn off, fresh water is added, and the starch stirred again thoroughly, and then left to settle a second time. The process is repeated several times, using fresh water each time, until the starch is quite clear. A final washing is then given it, and it is put to drain in perforated boxes. "When quite drained it is cat up into square lumps, is placed upon perforated bricks to absorb the moisture, then dried in heated ovens, and finally broken, by pressure, into small pieces, and packed in boxes for use.— Inter Ocean.

Rochefort and His Children.

Rochefort was the dry nurse of his own children, and brought up the oldest with a sucking-bottle of his own invention. He was then a clerk at _ the Hotel de Ville, with a salary of 1,000 francs a year, and living in a garret The child remained by herself when he was at his office, and he used to take her out in his arms to give her airings at night when the sbabbiness of bet clothes wonld not be seen by the neighborhood. There is no better authority on the usual diseases of infancy than Rochefort, who Las studied them in his children and grandchildren. He spoils the latter as he spoiled the former. There is nothing he would not do for them except think of their future.— Par in tetier in London Truth.

FOOD FOR FLAMES.

A Detroit Family of Four Persons Perish in Their Burning House. An Oregon Crazy Woman's Insane Act-Other Fatalities by , Fire. A DETROIT FAMILY CREMATED. Frank K,nocU, Hl* Wife, and Two Children Perish In Their Burning; Building. Detroit special. The house of Frank Enoch, a market gardener living in the suburbs of Detroit, was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. In the flames perished Frank Enoch, aged 26; Susan Whitman Enoch, his wife, aged 22; George Enoch, their eldest child, aged 3 years; Frank Albert Encch, a babe. The origin of the fire; tho hour of its beginning, or any of tho circumstances attending its outbreak, or the efforts of the family to escape, are alike unknown. The fact of the sad fate of the entire familyis apparent in the three charred and blackened bodies, out of which every semblance of humanity has disappeared. These are the bodies of the father, mother, and one of the children — which one it would be impossible to say, for the shriveled little form has nothing distinctive. A few bones of the back and a twisted limb are about all that remain. Nothing could be more horrible than the sight of these remains as they were laid together in a heap beside the smoldering ruins in' which the search for the other child was being prosecuted. It is learned that B. Joseph Eana, George Laurain, and James Whipple were returning from.their lodge meeting about 1:30 o’clock. The house of Enoch Was burning and they raised the alarm, but it was too late. The entire structure Avas in flames, and by the time they reached it the roof had fallen in and the walls had begun to fall. There was nothing to be done in the way of suppressing the flames. The water supply Avas limited to the well, which was inclosed in a kitchen. The creek below was a full quarter of a milo distant and covered with ice, and the men were helpless. They gathered snoAv and ice and attempted to beat out the flames, but their efforts were futile. For a moment the floor of the house Avithstood the flames, and in that instant they saw the remains of the family, which almost immediately sank into the cellar. Willing hands cast aside the charred rafters and beams, and in a feAV minutes the bodies of Enoch and his Avife, apparently clasped in each other’s embrace, were exposed. The effort to lift them out was attended with difficulty, as they crumbled away on being touched. But by slipping beneath them some planks they were tajeen up and brought into the snow- Then it was seen that the body of a child was between them, but only one. Shortly after ten o’clock the searchers came to what they supposed to be the remains of the other child. There Avas scarcely anything left; certainly nothing by Avhich it could be distinguished as being the younger or older one. What remained Avas taken out and placed Avith the rest. The Enoch family were sober, industrious German Lutheran people. Frank Enoch was known to have money in the house, Avhich he had been saving to make some payments, The searchers in the ruins found a revolver, and it is said Enoch never owned one. These two facts led to the suspicion that murder was committed for the sake of robbeiy, and the building then fired to cover up the crime. The position in which the asheß of the family were lying would seem to oppose this opinion. However, nothing is definitely known, everything about the house having been completely consumed. One body was not at first found, and it was thought the flames had entirely devoured it. Later the searchers found the crumbling ashes of what had once been the youngest child. The Coroner’s jury met and adjourned till later in the week.

A CRAZY WOMAN’S HEED.

She Fires Her House and Cremates Herself and Four Children. Olympia (Wash. Ter.) telegram. At Long Prairie, about eight miles from this place, a deplorable event occurred. Mrs. Miner, a relative of Mr. David Chambers, had for some time manifested symptoms of insanity, and, according to report, she last evening saturated papers with coal oil and distributed them around the honse, telling one of her children, on inquiry, that she was wetting them with, water. Early this morning she made the remark that she was about to destroy the whole family, and her husband, fearing that she was abont to, attempt his life, proceeded to put her out of the room, but on opening the door discovered the honse in flames. Reaching the front door with one of his children, he found it locked and the key removed; thereupon he ran to the back door and found it nailed np. -Finally he and his little daughter succeeded in escaping through a window, but were both badly burned. The unfortunate woman, with her four other children, was burned to death.

LOCKED THE DOOR.

A Colored Father’s Imprisoned Children Burned to Death. Starkville {Miss.) dispatch. A negro man, by the name of Bladen, living near Starkville, absented himself from his home several hours, locking his three little children in the house. When he returned the building was reduced to ashes, and all that was left of his children were a few bones and charred flesh.

DEADLY GASOLINE,

A Little Boy Burned to a Crisp at Cleveland. Cleveland dispatch. William White, a telegraph operator, living at No. 36 Ontario street, was engaged in cleaning his little son’s dress with gasoline. The father had stepped from the room for an instant, and when he returned he found that the fluid had ignited, and that his child, aged three years, had been burned to a crisp. The mother was away from home at the time.

FATAL MISTAKE.

A Wife Kills Her Husband by Administering Aconite. St Johnsville (N. Y.) special. Borl S. Gillett, aged about 58 years, cashier of the National Mohawk River Bank of Fonda steep its organization in 1856, died at Fonda from a doss of aconite given him by his wife in mistake for the usual medicine. He left the bank at 4 o’clock, and was about to take tea at 5i30, when he asked for his medicino^which was given with the above result

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—At LaPorte, -Frank McCollum vrm fatally kicked by almTke. —The Halem Press has change hand*. L. O. Saltmarsh i* now editor and proprietor. , —At New Albany, noth withstanding the cold, colored converts are being baptized in the river. —Fire at Goshen destroyed Hawks Bro*/ furniture warehouse. Loss. $20,000; insured for $3,0 M). —The Lafayette Paper Mills Company has made an assignment. The liabilities are said to be $30,000. —A nigbt AVfitelimnp at the fjonthem Prison shoe-shopslias been relieved'fiom duty because be said ho saw ghosts, —There are sixteen Indiana* men on the pny-roll of the House of Representatives—four more- Ilian any other Slate delegation has. ■ % —There is a gas vein on the Charlestown pike, three miles from Jeffersonville, and prospecting is going on to find an eligible place to tap. —Senator Voorliec* has consented to deliver his lecture on “Jefferson’’ in feu cities in Indiana, shortly after the holidays, in aid of the Hendricks Monument fund. —lt is said that the woman who threw a stone through the depot window, has been sent to the work-house for ton days. Is hanging played out? — J nil iunapol is Journal. —An appeal has been taken from the decision of a Lafayette jndge, avlio ruled that an application for a liquor license published in a German paper was a valid notice. Henry Moore and Joseph Beddlc, in crossing railway traeks jn a buggy neai Lafayette, were struck l>y a train. Moore was instantly killed, and bis companion fatally injured. —A broken rail ditched the engine, bag-•gage-enr, and smoker of a Monon passenger tmin near Putnamville. Three employes were seriously hurt, but the passengers escaped. —The Wabash City Council refused to compromise the, claim of the Wabash Hydraulic Company for water rents from 1875 to the present time, and the company will file suit against the city for $4,000. —A young man named Ewry. baggage master cn a Louisville, New Albany and Chicago train, while assisting in coupling cars at Elliotsville, \vns.so badly squeezed as to make his recovery extremely doubtful. —George Kunstman, a member of the firm of Knobtock, Ginz Sc Co., millers, of South Bend, committed suicide by shooting. lie liad been failing’ in health about a year.

—The Fostofßee at Daggert, Owen County, has been discontinued, and the mail goes to Coal City. The Postoffiee at West Saratoga Springs, Pike County, has beeu discontinued. The mail goes to Oatsvilie. —Within the last year some eight or ten horses have been stoleu from Union Comity, and the County Commissioners have offered a reward of SBOO for the apprehension and conviction of the first horse-thief. - The saloon of Paschong & Co., in the business center of Andrews, east of Wabash, was saturated with coal oil and set on fire. The blaze was discovered barely in time to prevent a huge conflagration. i— - - Edward Bean, a Chicago lawyer, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Clarke County for trespassing on the farm of James Cole, a farmer Irving near Charlestown. He was arrested, and gave bond in the sum of SI,OOO. - In a quarrel in a school yard "at Westfield, John Garvcr, son of Judge Carver, slrnek Harry Steed on the head with a stone, killing him instantly. The murderer is sixteen years old, and Iris victim was about the same age. - By nn explosion of gas in a Terre Haute city building the offices of the City Clerk and City Treasurer were completely demolished, and the Deputy Treasurer seriously injured and burned. The City Clerk was slightly injured. —Near New Era Station, Levi Kessler shot L. II Harrier, placed him on the track, and rifled his pockets. Kessler was arrested and confessed. He obtained from his victim a watch and sfi. The father of the murderer asked the officers to hang him.

- - Mrs. Hendricks’ heart wound was twice made to bleed afresh lately by a telegram announcing the sudden death of a near relative of her deceased husband and another bringing tbe news of the death of a warm personal friend, and whose name is known to every section of tbe State. The first was the death of Paul Hendricks, a cousin of the deceased Vice President, and who dropped dead while conversing with friends at Madison, this State. He died of paralysis of the heart, the same disease which proved fatal to bis distinguished kinsman. The second was the death at Dublin, Ind., of Mrs. Sarah Smith, with whom originated tbe idea of a female reformatory• in this State, and to whose energy and snperintendcncy the institution is a standing monnmenk. This is the institution of which Mrs. Hendricks was long President of tbe Board of Managers, and Mrs. Smith was one of the strongest pil--1:118. r —Mrs. Anna Price, widow of John Price, a revolutionary soldier, celebrated her 'J7tb birthday at Kilmore, Clinton County. There are now living of the descendants of this venerable mother and her husband ho less than PM persons, as follows: Sons, 5; daughters, 2; grandchildren, 42; greatgrandchildren, 12M; great-great-grandchil-dren, 19; total number of descendants, 194. The old lady’s eye-sight is still good, and she is a great reader, chiefly of CTiriatia* hooks ;ind new spapers.