Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1886 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. X. MARSHALL, - * - PnßLmaß

One of the strangest names for a pnper is the Sod House. The Sod House is published weekly at Cimerron, Kansas. ■/ So rr seems that this continent cannot boast the richest man in all the world. A European journal makes the statement that Prince Paul Esterhasv, with his boundless estates, Transylvanian forests and other sources of wealth, would probably go beyond the late Mr. Vanderbilt by a trifle of twenty or thirty million dollars or so. William Ewart Gladstone is three years older than M. Grevy and one year older than the Pope, and he is stronger and far more active than either. Bismarck issix years younger than the Englishman, who is eleven years younger than the Kaiser, and carries ten less years than Von Moltke. Tough old men, all of them. * The total electorial vote of Great Britain under the new law, at the last election, was 4,724,530. Of these only 3,179,510 persons voted, leaving 1,545,020, or about one-third of the whole, who refused or neglected to avail themselves of the extension of the franchise. In Ireland the total number of qualified voters was 489,694, of whom 365,164 voted. ' Senator Stanford is named as paying his Congressional salary over to one of his Private Secretaries. He has two of them—one being a correspondent of a San Francisco paper, who, by securing the role of Private Secretary, is enabled to go to the Senate floor and gather news. Senator John P. Jones also transferred to his first Private Secretary the salary of his Senatorship. The people of Atlanta have sunk $26,000 in digging an artesian well 2,000 feet deep. No stream having been found that would come to the surface, Prof. White, of the State University, was called in, and he decided that as Atlanta stood on granite rock—the bedrock of the continent—tho only way to an artesian well would be to start on the surface and bore up into the atmosphere. ¥

Onk of the officers of the British force in Burmah concludes that stomachache is a widely prevalent malady in that region. At Koonah he found an idol which effects miraculous cure when a sufferer plasters a flake of gold leaf upon the part corresponding to the seat of his own disorder; and the abdomen had been caused to protrude in a most extraordinary degree by the plastered offerings of health-seekers. Senator Evarts’ library in his house in New York is full of costly books, engravings, pictures, and works of art. He had a visit there some time ago from one of his law-clients, who had always supposed the Senator to be not any too luxuriously supplied with this world’s goods. He looked the room over with a critical eye and remarked that he did not see how the Senator could afford so many fine and costly things. The Senator mentioned the remark to a lawyerfriend a day or two after,'(yard, with tbo dry comment: “He will know when I send him my bill.” It is said that the paralysis of the actor, T. W. Keene was caused by excessive smoking. He is not the first member of the profession who has succumbed to the effects of the weed. Thomas Placide, the famous commedian, died of a cancer in his lip, which was caused by pipe-smoking, and J. A. Zimmerman, who was treasurer of Niblo’s Garden, during the run of the famous “Black Crook,” died from paralysis and' softening of the brain, superinduced by smoking cigars. De Vivo, the operatic manager, who is an inveterate smoker, has had two or three warnings, in the form of severe illness, that he must abandon the weed. One of the deepest mourners at the bier of Alfonso was Ugly, the lamented monarch’s pet Skye terrier. “The poor animal,” says a London Daily News writer, “howled to be allowed- to go with him to El Pardo, but was not allowed. She got there, notwithstanding, but how, nobody knows. When the King was dead she -was found lying under his bed in a state of the deepest depression. Ugly certainly knew that she had lost her royal master. Ever since that loss she has been altogether off her feed, and to prevent her dying from inanition milk and soup are to be forced down her throat. The Queen was greatly distressed at having to allow the poor little dog to be turned out of the piortuary chamber when the religious ceremonies were taking place." A curious military point arose at the < birth of the Prince of Wales. It had been the custom for the officer on guard at St. James’ Palace to be promoted to a majority when a royal child was bom. The guard was relieved at 10:45. At that hour the new guard marched into the palace yard* and three minutes later the child was bom. The .question arose which officer was entitled to promotion. The officer of the fresh guard claimed it because the relief marched

in before the birth and’ the keys were delivered over to him; but the other officer claimed it because the sentries had not been changed wher}_ the child was actually born. His men were still on guard, and he disputed the fact St the delivery of the keys, arguing that in all probability this had not occured at the moment of the birth. Although there was no precedent, the old guard got it. 1 Almost everybody has heard of the Scriptural phrase, “pure religion and undefiled before God," and now Mr. Beecher has got 4he news. He thus explains how it happened; “It was two weeks ago that I was explaining that the idea of righteousness ran through the Scriptures rather than that of religion, and in the dash of the moment said that I did not think the word religion was found in the Bible. I had notjgot out of the church that Sunday before a good brother called my attention to the fact that the word was to be found in James. Now I haven’t time to read the somewhat less than a million letters that have come to me on the sub ject. At first they came in scores from around New York, and then the circle extended, and now they pourin from lowa. Soon, I presume, they will come from California. I had no idea so many persons read the Bible. It occurs five times.”

“It is curious to look over the educational records as given by the Congressmen,” says the Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Lender. “Bragg states that he was educated a lawyer; Smalls of South Carolina was self-edu-cated; and Houk of Tennessee educated himself while working at the cabinetmaker trade, and by reading by firelight at night. Judge Kelley got his education as a printer and proofreader, and Gen. Grosvenor was trained in a country schoolliouse. Pulitzer had a private tutor; Hepburn of lowa was educated in the common schools and printing 6fßce; Oates was self-edcated and Taulbee and Boutelle had private schools. , One hundred and sixty-four of the members of the present House have had collegiate or academic educations, and eighty put themselves down as having been trained at common schools. The majority of collegiatebred men come from small country colleges, academies, and seminaries; and many of* them State that they have graduated at some noted Taw-school, such as Harvard, Ann Arbor, or New York. Havard has seven college graduates, Princeton four, the University of Virginia four, Bowdion two, Dartmouth four, Union three, Yale two, Amherst two, Brown two, Ann Arbor five, Jefferson two, Franklin two, and numerous other colleges one.” • - -V? T Mr. Eric S. Bruce ■ recently delivered a lecture in London on “Health and the Electric Light. ” The lecturer stated that the requirements of an artificial light, in order to make it conducive to health, were that it should not be a source of impurity to the atmosphere; it should heat the atmosphere as little as possible; it should be a brilliant bright light, and should be perfectly steady, cleanly, and in no way a danger. Most of those requirements, however, were not met by the forms of artificial light in use; indeed, aHTights which were dependent on combustion at the burner were sources of impurity to the,at*fiosphere and a danger to the public. The electric incandescent lamp, he pointed out, was the only light where they had perfect incandescence without appreciable combustion in the lamp. It possessed all the health requirements of an artificial light’ such as an inappreciable heat, purity and brilliancy of color, steadiness of light, and immunity from danger of fire. The lecturer, having shown by experiments the advantages of electric lighting over other illuminants, concluded by tracing the present depression in the electric market to the experimental nature of the earlier work, the predjudices of the public and certain drawbacks of the present Electric Lighting act. At the conclusion of the lecture the Chairman in moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Eric Bruce, said the electric light possessed almost every advantage that was required in an artificial light, and in his opinion it was destined to be the light of the

Typhoons.

These are most common during August and September, but they are likely to occur at any other time during the year. The first signs, according to the government astronomers Of Hong-kong, are -feathery clouds in the sky of the cirrus type,, looking like fine tufts of white wool, and which travel from east to north. These appearances are accompanied by a slight rise of the barometer; clear weather, heat, and light winds. The barometer then begins to fall; the heat becomes oppressive; there is a swell on the sea, and-the sky assumes a threatening As the storm approaches these effect* "be come„more and more marked, while the wind gradually increases in force. Near the. center of the storrtl the wind blows with such violence that no canvas can hold out against it, and the rain pours down in torrents. 1 i Still nearer the center, the sea is lashed into such fury that this is the most dangerous position for ships. ' Leabn to bear prosperity with an humble spirit;, so that .if adversity befall thee thou wilt have ho need to Liang'thy head. * • t Bad taen excuse their faults; good men will leaveithem.- -Ben Jonson.

EVICTING THE CHINESE.

Riotous Scenes at Seattle, Wash. Ter.— Chinamen Driven Aboard a Steamer. They Are ! Shipped for San Francisco, with Steerage Passage Prepaid. [Beatqajgt»B*lingt<o.Territory» telegram.] At last' the long-drawn-out anti-Chinese agitation has reached a culminating point so Car as Beattie is concerned. It was thought by many when the United Btates troops were withdrawn from here that the agitation was dead, and as weeks went by without the commission of any overt aot, this opinion Was strengthened As the event shows, howejer, the feeling was not very dormant, and tye agitators have been quietly laying plans a»l the while. An effort was made to put fcLsse plans into execution to-day, though wi.:h what success can not be said. An pnti-Chinese meeting was held last night, at yhich a committee was appointed for iie ostensible purpose of visiting Chinatown and ascertaining whether the city sanitary , -regulations were properly observed by Chinamen. This committee commenced its work at 7 o’clock this morning, headed by Acting Chief of Felice Murphy, and, accompanied by an enormous crowd which had- apparently come together by previous understanding, it proceeded to Chinatown. The mode of procedure was simple. The committee would approach a Chinese house and knock at the door. When the occupants appeared they were asked questions concerning the observance of- the cubic air and other city ordinances. While the conversation was in progress a crowd would enter the house and begin packing the contents upon a wagon whioh would appear at that juncture. It was useless for the Chinamen to resist, and they generally acquiesced •rith as good a grace as possible. When their movable goods were loaded in the wagon they were also placed on board and i»iven to the ocean dock, where the Queen jf the Pacific was lying ready to sail for *>an Francisco. Not the slightest warning this movement had been given, aud the to. Verities were totally unprepared for it. Tfc> police force generally sided with' the irowj, and made no effort to stop the work of removal. Sheriff McGraw was soon on She scene, and commanded the crowd to disperse, but it paid no attenrion to him. V fen he would collect a few citizens and atlon.pt to interfere, the crowd would cease operations at that point, but carry them on without cessation in other quarters. This continued for several hours. Sheriff McGraw, Judge Green, and Mayor Yesler made such efforts as they could in behalf of th« law, but without avail. , The Governor issued a proclamation “warning ill persons to desist from breach of the peace, and that peacefully disposed jiersons shall retire to their homes, except such persons who are disposed to assistthe Sheriff and the duly constituted civil authoriiiss in maintaining law and order, and I request all persons who are disposed to assist in maintaining order to enroll themselves under tho Sheriff immediately for that purpose. Furthermore, I order the military of this city to immediately place themselves under arms, and that the commanding officers of such companies report fortwith to the Sheriff of King County.” This was read to the crowd, and was ->ceoeived with a howl of defiance, It had absolutely no pacifying effect. 1 ' An attempt was then made to ring the fire-bells, bnt tjiey yere spon silenced. TwoTooal companies of militia obd three companies of home-guards, organized at the time the United States troops were withdrawn, however, responded as quickly as possible, but by the time they were ready for action there seemed nothing for them to do. About four hundred Chinamen were huddled together in a warehouse on the ocean dock, and an immense crowd prevented them from returning to their homes. Indeed, the majority of them showed much inclination to remain, as they were thoroughly cowed, and eager to get away. Officers of the steamship, however, refused to receive Chinamen without tickets. They prepared hot-water hose, find took every precaution to defend the vessel from any attempt to force the Chinamen on board. In this dilemma a collection was raised and enough subscribed to pay the passage of about a hundred. These were received on board, each one expressing a desire to go and declining the offers of officials to protect them from violence if they remained. The Mayor of Seattle and other prominent citizens telegraphed to Vancouver barracks asking General Gibbon, commanding the Department of the Columbia, for troops.

QUEER CASE.

. Remarkable Effects of a Rattlesnake Bite. [Jasper (Oa.) telegram.] The condition of Mr* Sylvester Sams, a well-known citizen of this county, excites considerable interest. Two years ago Mr. Sams, while walking on his faring was bitten by a 'rattlesnake. He immediately resorted to the native remedy in each cases, whisky, of which he took copious draughts. Nothing more was thought of the matter until six months ago, when Sams betrayed symptoms of St. Vitus dance. He is never still, not even in his sleep, twitching his muscles and moving incessantly. Later he has developed violent symptoms, so much so that he beat his wife and family and whoever comes within reach: He now acts like a man with a well-defined case of rabies, only instead of barking he makes a rattling sound. He has been taken to the Canton jail, where a strong guard can be kept Over him until the result of his case can be reached. - - , The copy of the first book on arithmetic, of which only another copy is known, fetched S2OO at a sale in London the other day. ■ 1 United States officials in Wayne County, New York, have discovered a band of moonshiners, and made several arrests. A California nurseryman is writing to Orange County, Florida, for young orange ’ trees. The stenographer’s fees in a prolonged contest over a will in a New York court were nearly SB,OOO. R. M. Pttlsifer. editor of the Boston Herald, has been elected President of the Marietta and Georgia Railroad. A Boston minister objects to having his sermons printed on the same page with advertisements of Old Bourbon. Bismarck’s doctor, SHiwentiinger, has been invited to go to St. Petersburg to'treat the Czar for obesity. ■ . * i . —. c : Two Arizona papers, one known as the Dam, and the other as the FoOl, have consolidated, using their names m one title.

ARITHMETIC’S MISSING LINE.

A New Fractlonaltle Table for Solving Problems Without a Pencil. A little wrinkled man, with an eager ,air, sat in a plumber’s shop -working out problems in mental arithmetic. The plumbers regard him as a wonderful mathematician, and he can cipher out the most involved combination of figures in a very short time. ’ He is Moses T. Williams, of No- 16 King, street, and lie claims to have invented anew fractional table, whioh he calls the missing arithmetical link, and which he holds to be a long advance in the science of numbers. He rarely finds a pencil necessary to work, and either has a prodigious memory or arrives at his results by intuition. Hw system is based on the mechanical value of the single vulgar fractions of this 10 or anv denomination commencing with one and ending with fractions. He holds that a man who has learned by heart all the single vulgar fractions of class has an instrument at his fingerends which will enable him to master almost any arithmetical problem which is properly applied. For example: A tailor has 150 yards of cloth, and wants to know how many pairs of trousers, of 24 yards each, he can get out of the piece. The ordinary way of finding the result of this simple problem would l»e to reduce the 21 to 2.5 and with it divide 150, giving 60. But Mr. Williams argues : If each pair of trousers needed ten yards the 150 yards would allow fifteen pairs. Instead each pair needs but 24 yards, which is one-fourth of ten yards. Therefore the number t>f trousers to be got out of the piece at 2i yards to the pair will be four times the Dumber possible at ten yards to the pair—or 60 pairs. Again; - How many gallons of water will be held in a tank 18 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 5 feet deep V Remembering that 37 j is $ of 100, and reducing to equal denominations the answer, 6,732 36-77 gallons, is reached very expeditiously. The following table Mr. Williams would have the rising generation cut out aud paste in their hat: 10 is 10 times 1 10 is 6 3-3 times 1 1-2 10 is 5 times 2 10 is 4 times 2 1-2 10 is 3 1- 3 times. 3 10 is 2 1-2 times' 4 • v ■ 10 is 2 times 5 10 is 12-3 times 6 10 is 13-7 times 7 10 is 11-3 times 7 1-2 10 Is 11-4 times 8 10 •is 11-5 times 8 1-3 10 is 1 1- 9 times 9 10 is ,1 times 10 10 is >%ll times 11 % 10 is 5-6 times 12 10 is 5-7 times 14 10 is 2- 3 times 15 10 is 5- 8 times 16 • -30 is 5-16 times 33

A Model Kingdom.

This Kingdom of Bavaria, which next to Prussia is the largest constituent part of the German Empire, has an area about equal to the principal part of the State of Michigan, known as the Lower Peninsula; and on this a population subsists without distress, numbering as many as that of the whole £Jtate of New York, the city, Long Island and all, but setting aside the City of Brooklyn. This statement of the area and population of Bavaria leaves out of account that detached fragment of the kingdom known as the Rheinpfalz, separated from the main body of the country by 100 miles and lying on the Bhine. The soil of Bavaria is made productive only by constant attention to its chemical needs and by careful cultivation; but wherever in the country you Bee them, the people ‘appear to be well fed, well clothed and contented. Three times in my life I have gone through the length or breadth of Bavaria, and I have never seen a beggar anywhere within its borders, in town or country. This mav be owing largely to one of the good and wise acts of Napoleon Bonaparte, that the Congress of Vienna, after his downfall, dared not disturb. He found the church had absorbed and the monks had possession of more than one-third of all the land of Bavaria. In a comparatively small bnt fertile district he found twelve large monasteries, their inmates luxuriating upon the fat of the land, while the tillers of the soil subsisted most miserably; this was called the Plaffenwinkle, or the Priests’ Corner. Napoleon confiscated these and all other lands of the church, except such as were directly needed for church purposes, and vested them by decree in the Bavarian Government, which by another decree from him divided and sold them in small parcels, on easy terms, to the people. Ontside the cities, therefore, the land of Bavaria is divided among over half a million proprietors, in lots of from five to thirty acres, though a very few have forty to fifty. Around the cities the holdings do not average over an acre or tVo; but these afford a living for a family in the growing of vegetables for market, its members finding time for. tabor elsewhere, also; and no matter how small the holding it is a freehold. —•, Alpha Child in Boston Transcript.

Flower Superstitions.

A reverence for flowers is found in all countries. Even you would not have the temerity to doubt the good fortune that comes to the finder of the four-leaved clover. Among the Hindoos all bright-colored flowers are con ■ sidered suitable offerings to the gods, either from historical associations or because they have some fancied resemblance to some revered objects. Th'tts, the trimurti, that corresponds to onr trinity, has two plants dedicated especially to it; one is the cratseva, and the other bael tree- Both have trifoliate leaves, like the shamrock, that is also considered to represent the trinity. One of the first legends that you hear in India is that of Krishna; a variety of basil is sacred to him and to Vishnu alsp. Equally interesting is the esythrina indica, that all truly religious Hindoos believe bloomed in the garden of Indra, in ~ Heaven. Krishna is supposed to have stolen it from there; hence it is under a curse, and is and considered the meanest of all flowers. In Hindoo mythology the ! five flowers of love stand ont prominently. Kamadeva is their Cupid, and he is supposed to have tipped each one of his arrows with these flowers, most of which can be seen in the private collections in and about New York. Tliey are the i the mango, the bulla, the oledring-mit flower, and the white nagYorkJPost.

MR. EDMUNDS’PRECEDENTS.

.'4 I The Judiciary Committee's Report on the Relations of the Exeeatire to the Senate. _.j [Washington special.] Senator E dmnnds has completed his report on the reply of the Attorney General to the Senate Judiciary Committee ! application for information regarding a removed official. He has had the records overhauled for precedents, and is greatly pleased at what he has found. The following is in substance the historical portion of the Senator’s report: Three Senate committees have considered the whole subject 'of the relations at the Executive ' to the Senate and Congress, and hava taken substantially the same position, that the Senate has a right to participate with the President hr removals, as it has a right to participate with him in appointments, and that Congress has a right to enact almost any kind cf a law regulating the exercise of the appointing power t»y the President. The first of these committees reported in 1896, and had Thomas H. Benton at Its head. In 1835 John C. Calhoun had a committee created to consider the growth and the peeper means of curtailing Executive patronage, and made a very able report, not mneh of which, however, was devoted to the matter of removals. In 1844 a third Senate oommittee was raised on this subject, and was headed by Senator MoTehead, who made his report Jane 15, 1844. The Benton and Calhoun- reports and the debates on the latter are attached to the Marehead report, which devotes more space than its predecessors to the alleged right of arbitrary removal possessed by the President. Senator Morehead said that the power of removal without cauße and without the consent of the Senate was not only not conferred on the President by the Constitution, but was expressly withheld from him. He admitted that that power had been exercised without impeachment and without the acquiescence of the constituted authorities ever since the organization of the Government, bnt he pointed out that for the first thirty veers removals were scarcely ever made except for cause, and with that practice he contrasted the practice of removals lor political reasons, which began sixteen years before, and had been general for twelve years. It -was not, he said, tHI 1828 that the Senate’s attention was called to the President's assumption of power no! belonging to him, and its attention vn then called to it by the exercise of the appointing and removing power by a President who was elected by the House of Representatives after a heated and-excited campaign. The committee then created (the Bentpn committee) reported in favor of Congressional regulation of tho appointing power, and reported six tills to curtail the President’s patronage, and also to repeal tho four years act cf 1820. One of these bills was to prevent the arbitrary removal of army and navy officers. None of these bills was acted on. The Calhoun committee reported two bills. One of these repealed the four years law, and mode it the duty of the President to report to the Senate the reasons for overy removal made during the recess; the other bill regulated the management of publio deposits. The former kill passed the Senate after a most interesting debate by a vote of 31 to’l6. Mr. Morehead describes this as the reclamation by the Senate of the power which, by the casting vote of the Vice President, was in 1789 yielded to the President, but which Congress has the right to reolaim at any time, Mr. Morehead argues the invalidity of the precedent of 1780 on ocoount of the peculiar circumstances, George Washington then being President and the Senate being entirely new to its duties. Besides, he says, all that was then conceded was the President’s power to remove for good cause. Ho admits that Madison argued for the Presidents power of removal, but be also points out that Hamilton, who was always on the side of a streng executive, said in No. 87 of the Federalist that tne President could only remove with the consent of the Senate. Hamilton need this to allay the fear of those who thought the President might make a clean sweep on coming into office. Fisher Ames construed the Constitution as Hamilton did. “Down to 1898,“ says Mr. Morehead, “the power was not construed as authorizing the removal of honest, qualified men. The motive for its exercise was public policy—not party resentment.* The report vigorously condemns allowing the President to divide the offices “as a victorious General distributes the rpoils of conquest. A citizen of the United States,' says the report in small capitals, “who accepts a publio trust, however obscure his birth or humble big employment. has an inviolable right to be protected '.a the faithful discharge of his duties from ths Violence or the menaces of arbitrary power.* Speaking of the newly introduced spoils system, the report says: “Honest, capable, and faithful publio servants have been removed from offiees which they had filled with credit to themselves and ad vim tags to the country to make room for incompetent parasites, whose meager qualifications for snch offices were to be acquired at the expense of the Government, and whose experience was to be matured at a cost not to be estimated, consisting of losses to the nation perhaps never to be recovered. Diplomatic functionaries who had filled those stations with honor to themselves and their country have been recalled to make way for and to afford the means of corrupting the memb< n of the National Legislature. ’ The resolutions attached to this report affirm the right of Congress to make laws regulating the appointing and removing power, denying the power of arbitrary removal to the President and the heads of the depaitments and declaring in favor of a law regulating qualifications es appointees and excluding improper- interferences in Btate or Federal elections by officials. In the debate oil repealing the fouryear law, Mr. Calbouq attributed the needless Increase of the public service to the President's power of removals, and/be claimed that his party had pledged itself to repeal the fonr-year law and to restore to Congress the power of dismissing officials. Webster and Clay strongly supported Calhonn in denying the power of absolute removal to the President. Webster affirmed the power of Congress to reverse the action of 1789, and Clay offered an amendment to Calhoun's bill, provthing that If {tbs President's reasons were not satisfactory to the Senate, the removed official should resume his office. Webster affirmed the constitutional right of the Senate to demand of the President the reasons tor his removal. Two years before this, in March, 1842, the House of Representatives by resolution called on the President and the heads of the departments for the names of all members of the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses who were applicants for office, whether they apSlied in person or by friends, and what places iey wanted. President Tyler refused to give the Information, saying, in the first place, that applications fbr office were confidential communications to him, bnt he added: "The appointing power, as far as it is bestowed on the President by the Constitution, is conferred without reserve or qualification. The reason for the appointment and- the responsibility for the appointment rest with him alone. I cannot perceive anywhere in the Constitution of the United States any right conferred on the House of Representatives to hear the reasons which an applicant may nrge for an appointment to office under the Executive Departments, or any duty resting upon the House of Representatives by which it may become responsible for any soon appointment. ’’ In the summer of the same year—July, 1842 the removal of a pension clerk named Sylvester by Secretary of War Spencer, created snch a breeze that Hie House rai ed a select committee to investigate the matter. Garrett Davis was Chairman. This removal was not political. Webster demanded Sylvester’s removal on the ground that he bad spoken libelonely of him. Garrett D&vis reported three resolutions of which the second is as follows: “Resolved. That both houses of Congress, and especially the Horse of Representatives, as the grand inquest of the nation, have a constitutional right at all times to free access to the executive deportments of of the Government for the examination of all papers therein, whether regarded by the head of the department as public or as private and confidential, and also to copies of snch papers from the officer or officers having their custody, as either house may require.* < " ' The valne of fine cloth exported from Berlin iD 1885 shows a decrease of 10,000,.000 marks as compared with 1884, doe to English and American competition. The Arizona Legislature,- at its last session, appropriated $3,070.80 for newspaper* for the m»mbers. They wanted to keep 1 abreast of the times. 1 * General Longstkeet is writing his military memoirs. He resides in Gainsville, Ga. s ,i A female brass band has been organized in Cnthbert. Ga. .

INDIANA STATE NEWS

—A fire at Stockwell completely destroyed five business houses. —The barn of Cash Herron, near Lynn, burned, with contents. —Fire ha# destroyed J. Stephens k Co.’a general store at West Shoal. —Charles Canfield was found one mile south of Vernon frozen to death. —Andrew Starkey, of Porter County, committed suicide by shooting himself. —Harris k Cook, dry goods merchants of Kokomo, have made an assignment. —The residence of Humphrey Frick us, above Evansville, was destroyed by fire. —The Lafayette Gas Company proposes to fnrnish that city with electric light in the spring. —John Miller, tried at Colombo* foi shooting Bnck McKinney, has been acquitted. —Harrison M. Crockett, one of the first settlers of Sonth Bend, died recently of paralysis. —Great excitement prevails there over the discovery of coal a short distance south of Vernon. —Rufus Crisman, of Frankfort, committed suicide by hanging himself with a trace-chain. —William Shipe, of Evansville, was thrown from a wagon by a runaway horse and almost scalped. —Ewald Over, of Indianapolis, manufacturer of farm and other machinery, has made an assignment. —Fire destroyed W. J. Rawlins’ photograph parlors at Vincennes, and partially destroyed the building. —Dr. C. L. Thomas, of Logansport, has been appointed to succeed Dr. J. M. Justice on the Pension Board. —Ewald Over, of Indianapolis, manufacturer of farm machinery and iron dealer, made an assignment. —The religions revival in Connersville has been the most extraordinary season of the kind ever known in that city. —At Martinsville, Allen L. English, Trustee of Clay Township, charged with obtaining money by false pretenses, was acquitted. —George-1 Keller, near Sonth Bend, hanged himself because he hod too much money and too little education to care for it. —The daughter of Joseph Blossom, living near Keller’s Station, near Wabash, died from a dose of morphine given through mistake. —V . : —The burning of the Fisk Block, at Valparaiso, entailed a loss of $20,000. The Knights Templars lost SB,OOO in furniture and regalia. —Philip Babb, of Buck Creek, who shot and fatally wounded Nathaniel Warfield a few nights since, was arrested Saturday and bound over.

—William A. McCaffrey, of New Albany, a carpenter, fell from a trestle on the Kentucky and Indiana bridge, and died in twenty mpintes. - —lt has been discovered that the baking powder which recently censed the death of . Margaret Garrettson, at Williamsport, was dosed with arsenic. —Wm. Bums, while rendering lard near Evansville, upset a kettle of the grease, which went over his face, chest, and legs. He will lose his eyesight. —Clayton Pavey, who created a sensation in a crowded church in Dora, by shooting William Oates, who two years ago eloped with his sister Ida, is yet at large. —Thomas Birmingham, the Indianapolis barkeeper who killed William Reunion last October, has been convicted of manslaughter, with two years in the penitentiary. —Citizens of Daviess County are making objections to the raising of $75,000 by taxation as a bonus to the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad shops to locate at Washington. —Joint Railroad Agent C. M. Keck and J. B. Barnett, telegraph operator, were arrested at Auburn Junction, on bench warrants charging wholesale robbery of trunks. —Charles Broker, of Jeffersonville, while working on a pistol, fatally shot his son, five years old. The child exclaimed, with a smile on his lips, “Why, pa, you’ve shot me.” —At Pern, J. Savage, traveling peddler, while showing his traveling companion, named Golan, how steadily he could handle a revolver, accidentally shot and killed Golan. —Thomas Marley, captured in Arkansas, is now in jail at Paoli. Mar ley was indicted for the killing of Martin Archer, Jr., in the northern part of Orange County in 1882. —The Indiana Coal Mine Inspector recommends that all persons employed to weigh coal be sworn. He tested twenty-six scales and found twelve incorrect. Of these twelve only two weighed in favor of the miner.

—A sleighing party south of Columbia City passed a party of young men who were walking. Thomas Fullerton tossed a partly filled bottle of whisky in the sleigh, ’yhich struck John Gachette. The latter jumped ont, and he and Fullerton fell to fighting. Fullerton produced a revolver and fired, the Jball entering Gacbette’s abdomen, and be died in forty-five minutes. Fullerton admits the shooting, but claims it was in selfdefense. _____ *—At Cory don, Judge W. N. Trace well was fined for disturbing a public school. A,' teacher expelled one of the Judge’s grandchildren, and the Judge called upon the pedagogue while school Was In session, and made use of some very forcible remarks in the presence of the scholars. —At ; the meeting of the- Internationa] Fair and Exposition Association at Indian-, apolis the Secretary read a paper strongly condemning auxiliary amusements at fairs as wrong in thtery and injurious in practice. \