Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1888 — Page 2

£ht ; Gbo. E. Mabshall, Publisher. TKBNSSELaRR - INDIANA

Tub “White Pasha” has been heard from again. He is reported to have gion with disastrous results 10 his foes. As the date of this engagement is not given, no definite conclusions can !«■- drawn from the report. It would seem, however, to disprove the claim of Cap tain Van Gele that he himself,and- no Stanley or any other, was the “White Pacha.” Captain Van Gele returned to Europe from the Congo country sbou( the middle of September. j 11 be was not the mysterious white man, the proba bility that it was Stan cy is strengthened. - The decision in the Tildeu will case in New York is of general interest It is one more of those cases where expectant heirs,by litigation, undertake to get what dose not belong to them and what the owner never intended they should have. It is unfortunate that in many such cases, by persistent litigation, the claimants succeed in worrying the true heirs into a compromise. The ' Supreme Court in the present case decides against the nephew who lays claim. He has taken the case to the Court of Appeals. The intention and explicit will of Mr. Tihien was to found a greatpublic library and reading room. The property left for this purpose amounts to $5,000.001 or more. Our laws allow too great latitude to breakers of wills. An improvement on church fairs has been devised in Lincoln, Neb., if we may trust the Omaha papers. One of the churches, wishing to raise money to pay off the debt, offered merchants of all aorta a chance to advertis- on the walls of the church. A large and handsome advertising card appeared in a eonspi cuous place containing the names of such merchants as accepted the oppor tunity at $5 a head. At the close of divine service, the pastor called attention -to the card, faying that they were all reliable men, wh i could be safely dealt with, and advising his parishioners to patronise them. This may be better than some other plans a good deal niore commonly adopted. At least the merchants get their money's worth. The Florida orange crop is estimated at 3,000,000 boxes, which is more than double the product of any previous year. Each box holds, on an average, 150 oranges, which will be ten for every person in the United States. But these 450,000,0 at Floridas will not be one-half the oranges sold in our markets. There is no fruitgrown more valuable to both consumer and grower than the orange. Think of the good times if every person in the land really had his twenty oranges. By the end of the century the average to each person will be not less than 100, for most of the best groves are just coming into bearing. This is true of California as well as Florida The enormous consumption of oranges is tallied by the equally increased consumption of grapes and berries. The i u>i » > I »’»d ’ New England are very encouraging to people of light complexion, blue eyes and brown hair, while tall people have a decided advantage over the short. The men who stand above ,Bfll years range from 100 to 168 pounds, and the women from 100 to 120. The men through life have been of the bony sort; but the women the other way. The teeth are mostly gone, but hair in good condition; and in almost all cases the skin remains smooth and moist. .If any one wishes to figure up his chances of living to a good old age, he can take these items into the count, if they are favorable to him; if not we advise him to reject them and reljy on good habits, moderate exercise ami going to bed eArly and rising early. The old recipe for long life is good—“He that would live long must watch the sun;” that is, go to bed early and be up at sunrise. , The effect of the rise in flour and breadis said to be simply terrible in the lower quarters of New York City. There has been a rapid increase in the use of the darker breads made by Russians, Hebrews and Hungarians; but this also has gone up, of necessity, in price. Stale bread, which used to be given away, has of late years been sold at from 1c to 2J. Much of this .is full of maggots, mold and filth; but it is bought and eaten Indeed, there are ninety dealers in Stale bread on three blocks of the Sixth Ward. But stale bread also has gone up in price. The result is something quite approaching mobs. Worse yet is the gradual creation of a mob element, ready for bread riots such as have characterized European capitals. Opr social fabric is constantly in danger between anarchy on one side and monopolies on the other. They exist as cause and consequence.

Atwood to the Fore.

Hartford Courant. 1 The towns of Killingly,Mansfield,Norfolk, and Thomaston, wl 1 each be represented in the com ng Legislature by a member named Atwood. Four persons of the same name are not often found in the same Legislature, and certainly Atwood would not be selected as a name likely to be most numerous in a body of 246 men. The four Atwoods are all Republicans.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

OFFICIAL VOTE FOft ELECTORS. The official canvass of the vote for Presidential electors was finished on the *’ " I g 1 Oomrnas, g 8 j| g x S f -a »> £ p MlUl— ~..... —.!■ -T T2T7 T3B "TH Alien. M 55 9692 16.- 95 Bartholomew..— 274 3.CJ 69 6 Benton 1 261 14vol 624 3 Black 10rd... ™.-- 1141, 12X2 ix , 18 Boone 3411 33" 104 ItO Brown.™...—. 4,61 .1538 63 11 Carroll >O7 25U) 130 28 xw—...fr.r......--. 38-21 12 43 Clarke 8788 46 3 Cl At., .3711 *773 10 98 Clinton 3519 3.7' 137 .CHwU.nl 14'5 1< 28 22 10 Davi»-»8 2t”9 2689 6 39 Dewrburn. ’.648 3531 57 32 Deraiur..._ 266 - 24C0 6'< 5 DrKalb 2876 . 316" ]■ 41 DelwWaie 4'27 268 J 8 17 DnboiaJu ..... 1220 '2* S* 1 2 ElMhnrt. 49.-5 4464 322 47 Fayette 19i> 147. 2. F10yd;.... '-.lt: 8824 W 15 Fo main 260-, 2 2 3' 114 Frank in I'.U 2872 ’ 87 ... Fuiton 20 3 216 76 4 Gibaon.'. 2958 272 238 25 Grant...>929 jsw 393 bl Greene 293 . 26.< 36. 18 Hamilton..... 8599 241 390 21 Han<oc*...'. 19-6-237 75 8 Harrison 2133 252’ 26 77 Hendricks 3297 jtb 24' 3 Henry 1 BM9 227' 230 51 Howard TOM o-: 227 89 Huntington 3559 348; Ix 6 3 Jackson 2.-63 J 9 18 Jqaper I<W4 100: 78 21 Jav- -811 27 1 1 1 72 Jtflen-on- 3321 27a 31 .... JenninßS 2u6" 159: 25 23 1 J0hn50n........ 2168 .59’ Tfi 162 Knox 79'2 3f, I 161 3 K< aciuskb 4147 308 J 191 6 Lat-range 2262 1516 13 35 Lake 2543 77 6 I Lh Porte 3722 4607 99 16 L wr. nee 2356 181 9 5 Madison 313 b 392* 99 29 Marion 17139 17515 3 9 57 MarabaH .... .......0.... 258* -3188 Ihr ;« Martin .... 139 1558 8 3 Miami- 30 2 31-> H 5 36 Monroe 205-1 1815 84 #5 Monuome y <0 1 3763 89 2J Moraau 2500 2077 76 13 Newton.i .. . 1283 860 68 14 Noble 302 2979 13 14 Ohio 726 58j 2 1 Orange..... 17'9 1651 10 1 Owen’ 132 juu 7> :... I Tarke2 -6- -#59 178 WPerry«... 1974 20117 3 1 I Pjke l'-'7 209.- 19 78 I Porter 2-2 2018 143 7 . Po-ev 23(91 26-4 99 32 Pnl«Sk’ 1.23 1446 37 la Pninsm 2570 jjujg % 14 Randolph’* 46 9 22 6 180 45 Kl'ley 2-0 238] 40 5 Rusji 2713 22 2 146 21 Scot’ ' 3 1030 27 1 Shelby. 287 i 3409 iso 11 sperner 2733 2685 2v 4 i Starke 834 904 26 2 ! St Joseph 4929 5‘i,7 193 14 Steuben 2T02 1;<48 Us 30 SullivanlS®? 33.-2 38 26 Swilx> rland 15<0 1637 5 57Tippeianoe 5072 128] 120 27 Tipton 2042 2370 109 24 Union I’oß 868 42 6 Vand»rburg ......*» 6»27 58 9 65 14 Vigo 62.3 6102 !2 160 I Wabash • 9TO 2555 261 22 arren 1847 1017 38 15 Warrick... 2361 255 . 62 38 Washington 1847 2389 14 8 W yne. 6138 3653 266 20 Werh 1926 2942 2b6 .2i WrETteT..?;..;....... 1942 2017 69 17 Whitley.. 213. 232 14 ■> 1,3 Total. 12633611261013 9088* 26.4For the puipose of showing the totals Of the various votes in the congressional districts the following table is added: r Martin,

v " Nelson, R. Vance, D. Winch, P. U. L. F’rst Disc. <0,611 21,641 506 192 Sex.ncl .. .. 16.658 18 609 219 81 Tbir 1 .197 18,393 213 14} Fourth ,t. I'. «2 ],6'.C4 2 1 1(M Fifth 17.621 Vl5O 75 214 Sixth ... . 23.568 14 317 1,'27 15 S Tenth ... 25. 8 27 228 B\3 105 Eight. 22:9 9 23 14 2 566 GOl Ninth 24 751 20,3.9 1,187 373 T ntn 19.504 18,3 6 76 155 Eleventh .21 6 1 22 69 1,632 18! Twelfth 18,106 21 <-20 839 228 Thirteenth. 21,169 21 5 5 9t\_ 123 Totals... 263 361 261.113 9,8 11.694 From these figures it will be seen that the Republican official plurality in Indiana is 2 348. The variation between the votes cast for electors on the Republican ticket and that in votes for electors on the Democratic ticket, is shown in the following tables. REPUBLICAN ELECTORS. A44arge-.~JfWne« M. -haekleord.. . ....263.856 at large. Tb<« H. Nflaon <63 86“ •Jin-t dis-ncc Citvro Bucnanan263 340 Reeond. Thonw J B l.oks . 263,3.0 Third. D vid W. V<.ybs ’.'6 34 F. urth, John <>. < raveas:263 3 0 Fifth, I'avid E 8tm263.338 sixth. L x der P Mitchell 261.335 Seventit. Winfield T. Durbin.368.386 E’ghtb, John C. ,<'h»ney265,337 Ninth, David c. Scull ...., 2*3. 32 Tenth, Frank Swigart 263,321 Eleventh. Wm. -. Trammel......; 263.325 I'wilfih, Wm Penfield263 32Thirteenth, Hiram S Bi ga,268,8 6 DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS. At Large, At Large, Ji-hn E/Lamh.»?. >0 88’ First District Saiuuerß Vance. ... 261 0 3 St conn. Cat e• S. Dobbins26l 00 Thi»d Ger-rge H. D. Gi'*on26" 987* F unh. Nle <•! >s Corntt., 2 t',99 Fifth. John R. East.. 26 ,9 3 Sixth. Thames J. 5tudy..260.9'1 -Seventh, David «>. G->odi' g .. 260 978, Eighth, Samuel D. Pt1ett...,260 971 Ninth. Jo u F. McHughn,..,.. 360. 91 Tentn, David D Dvkeman... 260:988 E eventb. John M. Turner, 26 0 4 Twelfth, John H..8.t 5260 983 Thirtiemh. Andrew G. W00d 291,0j4 Arderson still talks base ball. Plymouth is taiking electricity. Cordwood is scarce at Logansport. Sneak thieves are operating in Union City. At Goshen, possibly, a morning daily. Crawfordsville doctors have formed a trust. :■ .. There is typhoid fever Tn Decatur county. 4 4. . - There are several cases of diphtheria at Elkhart. ’ r Zionsville will have a poultry show Dec. 10th. Fire bugs are causing much uneasiness at Angola. Peru gardeners are meeting with sn<> cess in celery culture. The new Vanderb’irg county court house will cost;ss 0,000. Manufacturers of Goshen will form a night school for their employes. The new Governmentbuilding at New Albany is ready for occupancy. Jude F. W. Viehe, a distinguished lawyer of Vincennes, died on the 27th. A ’“cousin” party of thirty persons, all cousins, was given at Muncie last week. ; There are fifty-three cases in the Supreme - Court from Montgomery county. r The oldest road in the State - the old Madison, now the J., M. & I.—was fifty years old on the 28th. AC:W. & M., train killed six valu-

Ible horses, for Jesse Vermilfion, of Mad son county, Tuesday night. ' Xoss sl,2o’i. ' ‘ ' Elder Badger, of Greencastle, a minister of over fifty years, standing, has in that time married 033 couples. He is now 69 } ears old. » Ed. Chamberlain, on trial at Logansport for the murder of his sweetheart at Reynolds, White county, last summer, committed suicide, Monday. I Henry Kinder, aged 14, of Hush county, while visiting near Ovid, Madisou county, Oil tlltf 2?|tir, TeTl'abwn a cellar stairs and broke his neck. , Faripere of Montgomery andeurrounding counties have formed an insurance society on the mutual plan, and the insurance is confined to larm property. The oldest and largest ant hill in the State is located near Laporte. It is a ■ huge pile of sand, and millions of the little but industrious creatures inhabit it. Both Rushville and Columbus report elopements in high life. At Rushville, Otto Dillon and Larena Carmichael, at Columbus, Carl Nymettry and Lulu Gent. I Elder M. M. Van Cleve, of Crawfordsville, has married 638 couples. He came to Crawfordsville in 1825, when there were but men in the township. I Charles ’Sheehan, an inmate of St. Joseph’s Hospital, Fort Wayne, stole a watch from another patient. Thirty hours afterward he was in a cell of the Northern Penitentiary. Charles Proctor, of Muncie, has “taken up” with another girl, and upon this is based the suit or Minnie B. Wright, of Anderson, for $5,0. 0 for breach of promise. Mr. Proctor is a wealthy society young man. Statistics that have just been compiled show that the total valuation of real estate and personal property in 110 cities and towns of Indiana is $224 915,419, while the bonded debt is $8,143,759 and floating debt $1,063,246. The Dills brothers, living at Markle, have been crazed by re igious excitement. They put in most of their time holding religious exercises and resolved upon a fast in expiation of their sins. They are in the county jail at Hunting-, ton. The suit of Milo Pearson against the Commissioners of Wabash county was decided in favor of the plaintiff, in the Huntington Circuit Court, he being allowed $3,575.50. About four years ago Pearson went down with a bridge at Rich Valley, receiving injuries which made him a cripple for life. The executors of the DePauw estate have flit d their first report in the Floyd Circuit Court since their appointment. The report shows a personalty consisting of Stocks,bonds,etc amounting to $2,500,000. This; of course,.dries not include the vast real estate holdings in nearly every State in the Union. The suit of Sterling D. Hendricks against ihe Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, for personal injuries, venued from the Washington Circuit Court tr the Court of Jackson county, has been concluded, and the jury awarded the plaintiff the sum of $6,0( 0. The> defendant will enter motion this week for a new trial.

Patents were granted to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Benedict F. Alvey and F. Lesure, Marshall, whiffiletree coupling; Seymour S. Cole, Aurora, blotting device or pad; Jno. Cornelius, Evansville, stump-extractor William A. Preston, Ft. Branch, refrigerator; Griffith *'W. Williams, Greensburg, wire-stretcher. The State Superintendent has issued an attractive program for a suitable celebration of the seventy-second anni.versary of Indiana’s admission to the Union, which will be observed throughout the State December 11. Though there is nothing compulsory connected with it, every teacher in the State is urged to give special attention to the anniversary. The program is issued as an aid and suggestion, and will be sent to every school. The annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency shows that Indiana, on Oct. 4, bad ninety-fouv national banks, with loans and discounts amounting to 827,709,014; capital stock paid in, sll,964.50»; and aggregate resources, #49,100,892.. The individual deposits aggregated $24,503,013. There are thirty-nine private banks in the State, with a capital of $2,264,699; deposits, $4,893,064; and a surplus of $354,895. Will Schreiber, teller of the First National Bank, of Columbus, Ind., absconded to Canada with $8,500 of the bank’s money. He also took with him several valuable notes, and as soon as he arrived in Canada telegraphed the bank officials where he could be found, presumably that they might propose terms promise. His accounts are supposed to be very crooked, and the bank may loose much more than the amount named. Schreiber had lived far beyond his means. Mrß. Sage was sentenced to the reformatory at Indianapolis some time since for the murder of her 3-year-old child, because it stood in the way of her marriage to Sage. The woman went to prison for life and her husband was exonerated. Recently he applied for and secured a divorce on the grounds of her conviction; This so offended the woman that she has made a full confession of the crime, inculpating her husband equally with herself. He has been indicted. They hail from Marion. The Mrs. Turner, who came to Elkhart recently from Glasgow, Scotland, and claimed John Turner, an old and Well-known resident, to be her husband, he having deserted her before he came to this country, has begun criminal action against his Elkhart wife, on the charge of adultery, and the latter, frightened out of her wits, has fled East, pursued by the county sheriff. When t he* Glasgow wc man appeared, Turner abandoned his second wife and property at Elkhart and fled to Canada. Major Funk, of Corrydon, Harrison county, who has cdled upon Governor Gray to inform him that the late Grand Jury has found indictments against eight or ten of the alleged White Caps, is very confident that some of the leaders of the lawless gangs are to be brought to punishment He states that public sentiment down there has changed greatly since so much publicity has been given to the instances of outlawry, and that there now seems a general disposition to aid the prosecutions by supplying any evidence that can be found. The annual report of the officers of the Michigan City Prison shows that during the last vear 364 convicts were received and 266 discharged from the

penitentiary, leaving a net increase of 68. On the first of the present month the number of prisoners was 7u2. Teh of the discharged prisoners were pardoned. The receipts and earnings of the institution were $105,718,76. The cost of maintaiilance was $99,417.34. There is a cash balance on hand of *9,042.64. The cost of feeding each convict is 12 J cents a dav; clothing each $5,871 and fuel $7,17 2-5. ‘ According to the official election returns, State pride was. not very strong in Indiana. General Hartison’s p4u«Uity was 2,348, and General Hovey’s was 2,191, showing that the Presidential canflidate ran ahead of the candidate for Governor only 157, while he fell behind two of the men on the State ticket —Mr. La Follette, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Mr. Griffiths, the newly elected Reporter of the Supreme Court. In Marion .county General Harrison received 118 votes more than Geheral Hovey, so that outside of that county there were only thirty-nine more votes for the Electoral ticket than for the Governor. Elias Jackson, a fanner living near Wabash, shot and killed Curtis Jellison, another farmer, on the 28th. Jackson was inspired by a belief that Jellison had alienated the affections of his wife. Jellison, victim of Jackson’s jealousy and rage, is dead. He was without onedical aid from the time of the tragedy. The physicians probed for the bullet, which was finally found on the opposite side, having passed clear through Jellison’s body, tearing the intestines and causing internal hemorrhage. When told of Jellison’s death the murderer expressed no regret and appeared to believe that he had done the right ihing. The opinion is gaining ground that Jackson is weak, mentally. The revolver used was secured by The Coroner Friday. It is a thirty-two caliber. But one load is missing. The Coroner’s verdict will be that Jellison came to his death by a pistol shot fired by Elias Jackson. The Indiana State Statistician, speaking of the Indiana gas belt, says: “There are now seventy nine large manufacturing concerns established recently, having an aggregate capital of $4,462,500, and which employ 5,734 hands, and this aew capital-is now continuing to be invested at the rate of $3 0,000 per month. We have probably as much money in vested in this Stare now, on account ofnatural gas, as they have in Ohio. The industries are varied, too. For instance, 'to take an entirely new industry in this immediate section, we have fourteen glass factories, started with a capital of $1,033,500. The one at Hamilton made its first glass, Friday. Again, we have .'eight paper-mills with $904,000 invested and employing ?54 hands. There are now in the State 300 gas wells in active work. Hamilton county has the great est number, leading off with seventy wells. Madison coqntv has twenty-nine wells. Henry county twenty-three wells, and Marion county nearly forty. There are twenty-five or thirty in Jay county, and twenty-three right at Greensburg alone. There ar-* al o wells at Lawrenceburg on the Ohio river, which we seldom think of as being in the natural gas field.”

G. A. R. MATTERS.

The Democratic soldiers who say they have become tired of the Grand Army of the Republic met afc, Indianapolis on the 28th and perfected what they, call the “Democratic Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Veteran Association of Indiana.” At a preliminary meeting held several nights previous a committee was appointed to procure a charter and draft constitution and by-laws for the new association. This committee reported and its report was adopted. The preamble sets forth that it is the object to establish tlje order on true principles of patriotism and love of country, and to foster and maintain Democratic principles in both State and National affairs, and to resist the encroachment of the najority upon the rights of the minority. It also sets out the purpose to take care of the interest of veterans in securing places in the civil service. The officers elected are: President, R. A. Taylor; secretary, W. C. Tarkington, treasurer, L. C. Daniels, and vice-president, Samuel C. Green. In addition to these an executive board is to be appointed. , Major Wm. Warner, Commander-in-Chief of tlie Grand Army of the Republic, said in response to inquiries concerning the reported withdrawl of Democrats from the organization in Indiana: “I think very few will withdraw, for tShe simple reason that they have no cause for withdrawal. The grand Army is not in the least influenced or controlled by sectarian or partisan differences existing among its members. It leaves these questions,to the individual judgment of the member, without attempting to influence him in his opinion in any way. This fact is recognized and known by members of the Grand Army to whatever party or church they may belong.” DEATH OF MRS. W. T. SHERMAN Mrs. Ellen Ewing Sherman, wife of General W. T. Sherman, died at the family residence in New York at 10 o’clock, Nov. 28th. For.; nearly five years Mrs. Sherman has been suffering from heart trouble, and about three weeks ago her malady "ssumed a serious aspect. ’ General Sherman is almost prostrated. He and his wife have been married thirty-eight years, and grew up as children together in Lancaster, 0., where Mrs. Sherman was born sixtyfour years ago? Her father wa&the celebrated Thomas Ewing, Senator, Representative and Cab nent officer. Her mother was a Miss Boyle, and it is from her that Mrs. Sherman inherited her rigid Catholic faith, for which she has become noted. The remains were conveyed by special train to St. Louis for interment■ > • . - - -

TERRIBLE ATROCITIES.

A dispatch from San Francisco says advices from Peru received by the Panama steamer,report terrible atrocities committed in the interior country by The curate of Moyaro was shot and beaten to death with sticks and stones, and when his old mother interfered she was shot and her head cut off. Another women who tried to save her Was killed. The bodies of all three women were wrapped in hides and thrown into the river. At Lapeza street a riot occurred, owing to an attempt to head a movement for Comache, the revolutionist leader. In the indiscriminate firing by Government troops 137 men, women and .children were kill ed and sixty wounded. I

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

. DOMESTIC. The Dayton Plow Co. has failed. Mrs. J. G. Blaine, Jr., is going on the stage. The Findlay, 0., cabbage trust has “busted.” An epidemic of diphtheria prevails at Aitkin, Minn. The schools are closed. Dr. Boyd, a prominent citizen of Bloomington, Hl., suicidedQa theffiith. Galmeyer & Co., glassware dealers, Pittsburg, have failed. Liabilities, $150,100. ‘ County Treasurer Winchell, of .Redfield, Dak., is $12,000 short, and has fled. The New York Graphic has been sold to a syndicate who will make it Republican. The railroads will give half fare rates to aud from the inaugural of President Harrison. The new Congregational Church at Northampton, Mass., burned on the 28th. Loss $65,000. —3— Jay-Eye-See, the famous race, horse, valued at $50,000, is about to die from a cut received while in pasture. Jake Ki.rain has.’ challenged John L. SuLivan to fight with bate knuckles to a finish, London rules for $5,000 a side. Senator Farwell and Gen. Martin, of Chicago, and Col. Fred Grant, were among Gen. Harrison’s visitors on the 28th. Miss Bolleta M. Hage, head clerk in the Revenue office at Harrisburg, Pa., is said to be a defaulter in the sum ot $6,500. One hundred and twenty-two colored converts to the Baptist faith* were baptised in a mill-pond at Hopkinsville, Ky., Sunday. At Chfittanooga, Saturday, Lucretia Mcßeynolds got a judgment for $25,000 against John Graham, a wealthy landowner, for bjjeachof promise. Jack Havlin and Tommy Warren, the light weights, had a brutal prize fight in San Francisco Tuesday night. Havlin was knocked out in twenty-six rounds. The rumors tfiat Armour & Co., the great Chicago meat packers, are about to establish retail branches in various parts of the country, are without foundation. The New York brewers Tuesday decided to lock out all union men and employ nbn-union men, as a retaliation for the persistent boycott of Stevenson’s brewery. ’ In the six-day walking match at New York, Littlewood broke all previous records, scoring 623 miles and winning the contest. He has been challenged by Alberts, the ex-champion for another contest. The Inman-line steamer City of New York, which arrived at Queenstown Monday from New York, met the American W haler W. Martin, on Thursday last. The whaler’s crew were starving and asked for provisions. A supply was given them.

A commission consisting of Prof. W. H. Welch, of Maryland, Dr. E. 0. Shakespeare, of Pennsylvania, and Prof. T. J. Bun-ill, oi Illinois, has been appointed by the Commissioner of Agricultura to investigate the subject of (swine diseases in the United Stated, and the methods of treatment and prevention. Gen. Harrison presided at the 53d anniversary of the Indianapolis Benevolent Society on the ‘evening of the 2d. English’s opera house was far too small for the large numbers that applied at its doors for admission. Subjects of interest were discussed by speakers of prominence in charitable work. Mrs. Jennie McGrawe-Fiske died about four years ago, bequeathing $1,000,000 to Corm 11 University. Her husband contested the will on the ground that the University already possessed all the property allowed by law. A decision handed down by the New Yqrk Supreme Court on the 28th sustains Tire—husband's contest. The matter will be carried to the United States Supreme Court. on the Kentucky Midland Railroad within ten days, occurred Thursday afternoon. Four _men were killed and several dangerously wounded. The men working at the place where the explosion occurred are convicts leased from the St&te by contractors on the road. The men were blasting rock in a cut when the dynamite charge was exploded while they were at work. James McNairy, the boss of the gang, was among the killed. Frank Sacher, a native of Vienna, who has been employed in Baltimore as a waiter in a hotel and who had received a draft for 12<i,000 florins as a legacy from jiis mother, arrived in Cincinnati Sunday, morning in company with two men with whom he became acquainted in Baltimore. On driving from the depot they i equested Sacher to step from the hack and await their return, which,they said, would be in a few minutes. Besides the draft, he lost all his personal effects, which were in the hack. FOREIGN. Leprosy is alarmingly prevalent among the Canadian Indians. The French village of Vaube Court was totally destroyed by fire, Tuesday. There is a great drouth in Australia and sheep are perishing by the thousands. It is said that the British Government will send Lord Sackville West to Paris as Charge d’Affairs. A rumor has reached England that Stanley, the African explorer, is safe and proceeding with his expedition across the Dark Continent The South Carolina Legislature began its annual session Tuesday. For the first time since'reeonstruction the Senate has not a single colored jnember. Robert Gent Davis, member of Parliament, has been committed to prison fbr failure to account for £3,778 due from him as administratior of his uncle’s The wife of Gen. Boulanger is taking steps to secure a divorce, because of his moral conduct, Mlle. Reichemberger being the woman whose name is connected witn his. For the past three weeks residents of Ottawa, Canada, who expected registered letters from correspondents in the. United States and Western Canada, ■' have been anxiously but vainly looking for their arrival The Postoffice an-' thorities would give no explanation, but J it has looked out that not only are there j a large number of registered letters'

missing, but a whole mail coming in by the Grand Trunk Railway has mysteriously no trace. It is stated that a very large amount of money has been lost or stolen. The Canadian Government, has just given formal approval of tne draft of an extradition treaty now under consideration between Great Britain and Mexico. The treaty negotiations, if consummated, will greatly enlarge the list of extraditable offenders as a party treaty existing between the United States and. Great Britain. Mr. Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, savs that he predicted six months ago "the recent earthquake in California. The movement, h<* says,will extend eastward, reaching Europe in February, but will be of a very moderate nature. In this connection it may be well to note that Mr Wiggins was recently elected an honor tv member of the Ananias Society, <.f Boston. WASHINGTON NOTES Congress is grinding again. It is conceded that the Republicans will have a majority of five in the House. • The public debt was increased sll,199,817 during November, owing to heavy pension payments. The Governor of Maiyland has issued certificates of election to four Democrats and two Republican Congressmen. Congressman Springer, of Illinois, now thinks that Washineton, Montana and New Mexico, as well as Dakota, should be admitted to statehood. It is said that the Republican railway postal clerks on the Wabash Road who were discharged before the election are being reinstated and quietly taken back. The Ohio National Guards will be representedjuthe inaugural procession by 2,500i/troopK The' indications are that will exceed in numbers and display anything of the kind ever witnessed at Washington. The Indianians in Washington gave a reception to Gen. Hovey, <->overnorelect, Saturday night. Several hundred people attended, and it was a pleasant and successful affair. The Court of Claims 'I uesday gave judgment for $13,839 in favor of. Colonel John S. Mosby, late United States Consul General to China. This sum represents fees for issuing certificates to Chinese immigrants 10 the United States, etc., collected in his official capacity, and for which the accounting officers of the Treasury refused to allow him credit.

Another full-fledged candidate for Speaker of the House has arrived in Washington in the person of Julius Caesar Burrows, of Kalamazoo, Mich. The Kalamazoo member and his friends say that he is not going to enter a general campaign for the office, but there is no telling what he may do. Burrows has considerable strength; particularly by reason of his ability as a presiding officer. He wields the gavel with great force and grace, and is frequently called to the chair by Carlisle. OFFICIAL RETURNS. Harrison’s official plurality in Kansas is 8 ,159. Harrison’s official plurality in Wisconsin is 21,271. The Republicans carried 56 of the 101 counties of Virginia. California’s official vote shows: Harrison, 124,809; Cleveland, 117,729; Fisk, 5,561; Curtis, 1,594. Official vote of Florida: Cleveland, 39,561; Harrison, 26,659. Cleveland’s majority, 12,902. The official vote of Oregon gives Harrison 33,293; Cleveland, 26,524; Fisk, 1,677; Streeter, 363. Harrison’s plurality, 6,769__1 The official vote of Kentucky is: Cleveland, 183,8 0; Harrison, 155,134; Fisk, 5,225; Labor, 622; Belva Lockwood, 2. •The official vote in Virginia gives Cleveland 151,977; Harrison, 150,438; Fisk 1,678. Cleveland’s plurality, 1,539. Of the congressmen elected two are ReNINETEEN DROWNED. Yhe Allentown is Wrecked »nd All the Crew Are Lost. - Cohasset, Mass., November 28. —All doubt concerning the loss of the steamer Allentown is dispelled this morning. A visit to sorth Scituate beach snows the shore at that point to be covered with wreckage, consisting of fire buckets, tables, chairs 'and other furniture, all marked “Allentown.” Captain Brown, of the North Scituate Life Saving Station, has made diligent inspection of the coast in search of bodies from the steamer, but has discov'ered none as yet. He advanced the opinion that the ship had foundered on Davis or Southeast Ledge, each of which lie about a mile southeast of Minot’s Ledge. An attempt will be made to reach her to-morrow morning for information concerning the wrecks. The crew of nineteen are doubtless drowned. The Wo nderfal Human Brain. Berlin Gazette. According to the novel computation of a renowned histologist, who has been calculating the aggregate cell forces of the human brain, the cerebral mass is composed of at least 300,000,000 of nerve cells, each an independent body, organism, and microscopic brain, so far as concerns its vital functions, but subordinate to a higher purpose in relation to the function of the organ; each living a separate life individually, ♦hough socially subject to a higher law of function. The lifetime of a nerve cell he estimates to be about sixty days, so that 5,0(0;0(M) die evdry day, about 2 0,000 every hour, and nearly 2,500 every minute, to be succeeded by an equal number of their progeny; while once in every sixty days a man has a new braim Odd Election Incident. The oddest of election incidents comes from Pennsylvania, where one Charles Smith has brought suit against the authorities who refused his vote. He was found when a baby in a cabbage field, and grew up as “Cabbage” till he called himself Smith, and the election folk would not have his ballot because they said he did not and could not know his own name.