Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1891 — Page 6

%be flcpubfiam. Qxo. E. Marshall, Publish®*?. 'RENSSELAER. * INDIANA

When Kalakua wu retired from the ■actual king business by the adoption | (of the Hawaiian constitution in 1877 his Majesty took to literature, first ae- j quiring a proficiency in French, Spanish, German and English. Aspiring , jto authorship, he brought out the j •■Legends of Hawaii," the book being ■ published in Philadelphia, Then his Majesty set in to tackle a task require Ing wide scholarship and biblical learning, and this is the task his friends prefer he should not complete, for they {ear a royal giveaway of the first class. n short, he wants to construct a re* wised theology wherein all things betfia in fire and end in the same uncom-! lortable fashion. He accordingly eliminates the deluge. The book, if ever eompleted, will be called “The Temple of Wisdom." The French Ambassador at Tangier hM made a demand upon the Sultan of Morocco for the necessary permission to construct a railroad between western Algeria, and Fez, one of the capitals of Morocco. The Sultan has appointed a committee of eight of his subjects to study the project. Morocco is known to be rich in many resources, and nothing but the fanaticism its inhabitants prevents it from reaching a development second to that of no other African country. It is more favored by nature than Ageria, and the day is doubtless coming when Europe will demand that so rich a rogion so near the northern nations shall be utilized for tho purposes of European commerce. It is not known that the Sultan of Moraccp himself has wiy special objection to railroads. Ho has in the palace grounds at Morocco a little railroad about a mile long’ complete in all respects, on which he and the ladies of his harem often make the tour of the grounds.

It may yet be necessary for seme clergyman to write a treaties on the destructive elements in religion. Fanaticism in religious belief resulted in the old daps, in to the world some of the most valuable manuscripts, Ibooks and pictures that had been garnered in Europe through ancient and mediaeval times, and now we find a young man in Omaha mutilating available painting by Bougereau because he did not approve of the dressmaking methods applied to the feminine figures. This man is probably what is j known In the slang of . the day as a ••crank.” It is not likely that he has any knowledge of art' in any of its branches, or that he is more than a vulgarian, falsely inspired to mischief. Uon ma with a pure mind ever sees anything in the nu.de paintings of legitimate artists except the skill in technique and the delicate imagination involved in the conception, yet there are thousands who deny the right of the brush to depict nature except as nature is represented by Worth and his imitators. The eating of the •pple in Eden did no more harm to any profession than to that of the painter. This particular exploit, resulting in the destruction of a paintin? worth nearly $20,000, is likely to make it difficult to borrow really important pictures for exhibition.

4. FAMOUS teacher of singing remarked a few nights since that sho dreaded the appearance of an American girl as a pupil. “Most of them, ahe said, “are delightfully sweet and winsome, but they ha~e the prevailing trait of American women, and that means death to my artistic success. Their natural endowments are frequently superior to those of the German, French and South American girls who study singing with me, but it is almost an impossibility to get them to throw off their life-iong habits of ease —lndeed, I might soy indolence. Their mothers encourage them In it, and they do not make half enough of their opportunities. I have rot a single German pupil on ray list who does not practice four or five hours a day, and many of them devote even more time than this to their v o.k by the smdy of the scientific side of musical educatior. I have never yet had an -merican pupil who would not give up her practice any morning to go to a manicure, and looked upon two hours’ pr ictice a day as an achievement bordering upon the heroic. A French girl is r.us-.-d by her mother at 7 o'c’ock in the morning and Bet to wor’r, wnile an American girl is kept in bed 111 11 by . her indulgent mother because she bad practiced so hard the day before. The only real reason why American girls whose voices indicate a brilliant future should be sent abroad fs because they gat what may be called habit of work over there from their companions."

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Harvester trust is to be abandoned. Four fatal affrays occurred at Kansas City on the 36th. Dun's agency takes leas hopeful view of the business situation: A new compulsory education law is proposed by Illinois Democrats. James Gunter Arnold of Kosciusko, Miss , was killed With a hammer by his demented son. At noon on the 7th Inst, the shock. of an earthquake rattled windows and frighten* ed horses at Toledo, O. In a wreck on tho Panhandle at Wo;ds stock. 0., twenty cars were demolished, canting a loss of $30,900. The next convention of the Republican ; League of the United States will be held in Cincinnati April 31 and 22. ! Miss Grace Hathaway, of Kent, 0., aged ! 20, deranged from overstudy, committed. 1 suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Wm. G. Jillson, owner and -business manager of the Hqpe River Warn Cain-. : pauy, bas closed the mill. An assignment is expected. Jacques Van Roalet, of Holland, has brought suit against James G. Blaine, Sec* retary of State, for pay for $120,000 in cons federate bonds. ‘ An attempt was made to rob a Southern Pacific train near Fiatonia, Tex., but the robbers were frightened off by U. S. Marshals on the train. ; Canadians in Jfavor of annexation \vith_ the United States declare they would not assist Groat Britain in the event of war with this country. Gov. Thayer, of Nebraska, refuses to yield up the Governor's office to Governorelect Boyd. He says Boyd is not a citizen of this country and therefore not eligible. A company hasbeen incorporated to build In New York city a rapid transit road to be operated' on the principle of the roller coaster. The stations will be on the street level. Saturday night a strong natural gas well was struck on the farm of A. B. Funk, near Bloomington, 111. Mr. Fuuk was engaged in sinking a well and Whop, at the depth of seventv feet the reservoir of gas was tapped, so strong was the pressure that the tools wero blown out of the well and sand and gravel were tnrovvn fifty feetinthe air. The gas ignited aud burned with a terrific roar, the flames burning more than fifty feet high.

A special'butletin was circulated Saturday from the Census Office giving church statistics. The compilations of church statistics is not yet complete and only a few denominations are given in this issue of the special bulletin. The denominations recapitulated are the United Presbyterian Church, the Church of the New Jerusalem Salvation Army, Advent Christian Church and the Seventh day Baptists. It is ascertained from the figures that Indianahas of the United Preslyterian Church twentynine organizations and 5,542 members; the Church of the New Jerusalem has four organizations and 104 members; Salvation Army, four organizations and 455 members with no Seventh day Baptist organizationsMr. Taubtneek, one of tho three farmer Representatives in tho Illinois General Assembly, said on the 11th that he and his colleagues had made up their minds to insist on fusion from either the Republic cans or Democrats on the United States Ser.atorship. They will not by their votes allow either side to get a quorum in joint assembly and elect a candidate, and should both Sides vote for their respective nominees, farmers will also vote, so that neither candidate shall receive a majorityIf a United States Senator is elected at this session of the Legislature he will have to be a man satisfactory to the F. M. B A. representatives, and peither Palmer Fanvell, nor Oglesby aro such men. Mr. Taubcueck said Grand Master Thompson or Cicero J. Lindloy would suit him,though their names had not yet been mentioned in conference: The name of the man they have most favorably considered has not yet been mentioned in connection with the Senatorsliip. The Senator they want is one who will use all honorable means in bis power to secure for farmers beneficial legislation and who will not be influenced against such legislation by the wiles of corporations nnd their agents. Such a n an should have no affiliation with either of the old parties.

FOREIGN.

The weather in England has been the severest for mally years past,— Anna Parnell writes a letter vigorously attacking her brother’s opponents; The trouble among Home Rulers has been settled, it is said, Parnell is to step aside and a nevv leader be elected. A Sicilian shoe-black, who won 4,000 lire in a lottery, fell dead at Palermo on res ceiving the news of his good fortune.

MR. SHERMAN ON SILVER.

The elections hill having thus been diss placed and the financial bill taken upin its stead, the latter will be read by the clerk, and Mr. Stewart moved to amend it by adding his free coinage provision. Mr. Sherman said that the sudden andunexpected change of scene and the intro* duction of a new topic of debate, should not revolutionary measure now proposed (Mr. Stewart’s amendment) to pass without the serious and sober attention of every Senator. The fact that there had an unexpected defectiun in the minority of this body from its responsibility if It supported that measure. He appealed to the sober sense of responsibility on the Democratic side of the Chamber against a measure which he regarded as revolutions ary and dangerous, and the effect of which' (if it should becomS a law) would be more destructive than that of any measure tha has been proposed for years. If thefrieuds of silver bad only patience, and would wait until the element of time acted on the silver law of last session, the policy of the United States Government and of the French government, together; with the use of silver in the South American States would lift up silver again to the gold standard. and that would give them gold value for their silver. He did not believe, from what he knew now, that the. bill could pass; and if hi* Democratic friends desired some measure for the relief ot the money market, they woald throw away the only chance that they had to aooompllsh the result which they desired. f

THE INDIAN WAR.

FIGHTING ALL ALONG THE LINE. Short Bull leading tha Ilosttt-Indian*— A Schama to Masisere the Whites. i . The seriousness of the situation at Pine Ridge says a dispatch on tbe»-7th, is in*» creasing. Short Bull, the leading hostile chief who has distinguished himself all along during this trouble! by never fora i moment considering any of the overture 3 j looking to an amicable settlement, but who has steadily struck to his lair in the Bad Lands, has assumed command of the great body of hostiles, Tuesday nigut he told our spies that he would take this agency , if it costs every warrior he had. Half* j breeds here have been informed by friends : and relatives, whom some of them have ! among the hostiles that they had better immediately move their families along distance from the-agency, as a great raid and massacre was certain The half breeds aro showing us what they think of this information by getting their families out of here with a rush. The gove_rnment her der, John Dwyer, and issue clerk Pugh, I have both discovered through their Indian friends of years’ standing that a raid and massacre has' been fully decided upon and maturely planned. General Miles is thor oughly conversant with all these facts,and himself says that our situation is ex term es ly critical. There are less than six hun--1 dred soldiers here now all told. | A special to the Rocky Mountain News ; from Pine Ridge, via Rushville, Nob.,re- | oeived atffe’eloek Tuesday morning; saysf | Sunday night will never be forgotten by | any one who spent it at Pine Ridge, The Sabbath had opened bright, clear and warm. The church bells rang, and the threo pastors had crowded houses. In the 1 afternoon, toward 3 o’clock, it was noticed* that tbo squaw men and half breeds were exoited and were hurrying from one point ’ to another with their guns in their hands, i Instantly every one was on the alert and, ! running down the ravines. It was found \ that half a dozen squaws had been given | the ’tip” to get out; that a party of war bucks bad visited the camp of friendlies (so-called), who are camped within a mile of tho agency, and had urged rirem to help massacre all of the agency. The In dians have always been permitted to 1 corhctn. and during the day and evening l ; to wander around the agency at their own i sweet will, carrying their guns in Jtheir ■ hands. The plan was to take advantage j of this leniency, gather in the town late ; in the evening, and at a given signal each ■ Indian was to pick out his man and kill ■ him on the spot. The success of such a 1 plan was self evident. There are less than 500 soldiers here, and they are on the far outskirts of the village, at tho earthworks. Such a force, with their cannon, could keep a large number of Indians at a distance in the day time, but at night the pieketline is necessarily weakened and drawn out into too long a line to hold back any rush, while the cannon-are useless. The hostiles were to be close at hand, and as soon as the firing began they were to rush in. The citizens and reporters, as well as the soldiers, soon learned the news. Many a man thought of this or that Indian with whom he had quarreled and kept sharp watch to see that no one was behind him. Finally the half-breeds to]d certain Indians that we were “on to” the scheme, aud told the bucks to light out, or the soldiers would make it warm for everyone With a gusto. In an hotir there was not an Indian in the camp except the uniformed scouts and police. Many a dark look was passed and ugly words spoken between the whites and reds during that hour of stampede. Over twenty-five squaw men and their families drove with frantic speed for settlements along the railroad. Houses and hotels were abandoned, every ono going to seme store or warehouse, where there was a chance for resistance. Even Gen, Miles remained up until 3 o’clock. There are not no w near enough troops here. A battle is expected every day with the enemy, and it will be ono of the hardest in the annals of Indian warfare. Thetroops have the Indians surrounded on the east,' west and north, and an attack will drive them into the agency, where the main battle must be fought. The enemy number over four thousand men. women and children, with half that manyto attack us in the rear. The scene as the town moved into the stronger buildings was one of in describable confusion, as men with guns in their hands and a grim look of war in their faces, escorted crowd after crowd of frightened women and weeping children to the apologies for strongholds. No one wants to see a repetition of the scene. The most startling reports were received on the 11th from the Indian reservation in southern Manitoba, near the Dakota boundary line. It is rumored that fighting ha 3 already began between the reds and mounted police recently ordered there to prevent any uprising and to prevent those Indiana from joining the American rebels. Officers of the militia and Indian departments were, interviewed and, discredit these rumors; but it is a significant fact that another detachment of mounted police from Brandon were sent to the disaffected reserve. A report reached Delor. aine, at noon, that a skirmish occurred early in the morning between Canadian mounted police and Turtle Mountain Indians, at Fish lake, ofi the boundary line between North Dakota and Manitoba. Ono policeman and three Indians are sab' to have been killed. Thirty mounted police ire on the way from Brandon, N. D., to the reservation. The hostiles number ! about 400.

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate debated the silver bill on the 7th. Plumb favoring and Hiscock op posing free coinage. The House discus ed the subsidy shipping bill. In the Senate, Mr. Sherman reported | from the committee on foreign relations a ; bill providing that the United States guarantee the payment of 1100,000,000 bonds of the Nicaragua Canal Company, holding; the canal and Its revenue as security. It : is designed to give the support of the go. -, | ornment in encouragement of the on <er ■ r prise, and was reported unanimously. Mr. | ( Morgan apoke on the financial bill. In the ! ! House the army appropriation bill was re. ! I ported and discussed. It provides for the appropriation of $34,639,000, an increase of >400,0001

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

.. LEGISLATIVE CAUCUSES. . Both parties of the Legislature caucused on the evening of the 7th for officers of the Senate and House. The Senatorial Democratic caucus selected the following officers: D. H. Fenton, of Lake, Secretary by acclamation; Geo. S. Pleasants, of Switzerland, Assistant Secretary, he receiving 30 votes, John Bens, of Crawford. 2. and John D. Carter, of 'Orange. 1, Oliver T. Weils, of Marion, received 32 votes for dorrkeeper, against 2 forD. F. Lemonof Crawford. The Democratic House caucus nominated Mason J. Niblack, of Knox, Speaker, by 37 votes, over James B. Curtis, of Marion, 28 totes, and Judge Hench, of Allen, 8 votes. F. D. Haumbaugh, of Miami, was elected doorkeeper, receiving 45 votes, to 26 for R. M. Robertson, of Tipton, and 2 for John D. Carter, of Orange. Thomas J. Newkirk, of Rush, received 47 votes, and Emmett, Rose 25 votes for Clerk, Chas. E. Crowley, of ‘Sullivan, was nominated for Assistant Clerk, receiving 41 votes, .T. Fred France, of Adams, 27, and D. T. Stevenson, of Crawford, 8. . • The Senate Republican caucus nominated. C. C. Waite, of Randolph, for Secretary; Geo. B. Henderson, Spencer, Assists ant Secretary, and W. A. Dußois, Hamilton, doorkeeper. The House Republican caucus nominated A. Hess, Wabash, Speaker; W. T. Seweesee, Clerk: B. A. May, Jefferson’ Assistant Clerk, and John Childs, Decatur’ Assistant Clerk. ■

THE SENATE. The Senate was formally called to order at 10:15 a. m. on the 3th inst., by Lieutenant Governor Chase. Rev. D. R. Lucas petitioned for divine aid. Most of the session was spent in preliminaries. : The House of Representatives was called to order by Mr. Griffin at 10 a. m. on the Bth Inst. Dr. Cleveland invoked devine blessings after which nominations for Speaker of the House were in order. Mr. Cullom, of Knox, placed in nomination Hon. Mason J. Niblack, of Knox County and Mr. Lindemuth, of Wayne performed a like courtesy for Hon. Alexander Hess, of Wabash County. The result of the roll 'call was a strict party vote—74 to 23 and Mr. Niblack was declared elected, i A number of more or less important resolutions were offered. One to the effect that smoking, swearing tr vulgar language should not be used about the House was carried. A resolution offered by Mr Beasley that a committee of five be chosen jto prepare and report a bill revising and modernizing tax and revenue laws. In the Senate on the 9th Senator Hubs bell introduced a series of resolutions demanding that a bill be passed taxing eor. poratiems and providing for a revenue from the sale of franchises. By a party vote the resolutions were laid on the table the Democrats declaring that they proposed to control legislation when ready to do so. The Senate adjourned to the House and heard the Governor’s Message read. Among the important bills introuneed were the following: Appropriating SIOO,OOO for Indiana’s .At, _ the World’s Fair; authorizing county commissioners to fix salaries of county officers; for listing moneys for taxa»t tion, for relief ot railway employes; to suppress gambling in blocks, wards, etc., for compulsory education. There was considerable debate over unimportant things. - The House met and with the Senate heard the reading of the Governor’s message. A bill appropriating SIIO,OOO for the expenses of tho Legislature was introduced. An attempt to pass was unsuccessful for want of a constitutional majority. The House then adjourned until Monday afternoon.

> L.EGSIL.ITIVE NOTES. , The legislative committee of the Farms ers’ Alliance, Grange and Federation of Trades met at Hotel English on the night of the 7th and decided to ask the Legislature to pass bills looking toward the es- . lablishment of a fee and salary system for county officers, the preventing- of adulterating of food and medicine,the compulsion of corporations to pay taxes for special privileges, the confining of convict labor to the wants of the State, and the repeal of tho law empowering county commissioners to call elections for voting subsidies The Farmers’ Alliance also decided to ask the Legislature to put all gravel roads in charge of the road supervisors, to require all permission to bunt on private farms to be written, and to compel teachers to make the enumeration of school children. Representative John T. Beasley, of Sullivan county, says tho matter which in importance overshadows all other sub. jeete which will come before the Legisla ture this session is the reorganization of the State’s system of finances. About $2,000,000 is now required annually for the running expenses of the State, and the revenues amount to but $1,409,000 in round numbers. Mr, Beasley ha 3 given a good deal of study to this problem, which must very soon be solved, if the State’s credit is retained. Said he: “I believe State and county taxes should be entirely divorced from each other. The entire income of the State should be derived from taxes upon corporations, say a certain per cent, of their gross earnings of some other fair basis of reckoning.. If the corporations were taxed justly the income from them would give the State all the revenue it needs. Then there should be one assessor for each county, and all the taxes levied on private property should be used iu the county where it was collected. The F. M. B. A. contingent of the House of Representatives to the number of twenty-five met in the State House a few nights since. The meeting was for the purpose of organization and to come to some understanding on important legislation. Representative Work of Clark county was chosen chairman. A list of members to be i placed on each committee in which the farmers are interested was handed to Speaker Ni black. It was agreed that the farmers of both houses join in the organization, and that meetings be held once a week. The meeting adjourned to meet at ! the call of the President There are about | sixteen farmers in the Senate and forty- ' five in the House.

LEGISLATURES.

The Republicans organized the New

Hampshire Legislature on the 7th. Officers had been stationed throughout the State House, the Governor fearing trouble. Governor Beaver, in bis annua! mes Saga to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, advocates the passage of Suck laws in.regard to the ballot as will secure to every voter freedom from dictation in casting his vote, and absolute certainty as to its being counted as cast, and expresses the opinion that there can be no danger of Sgoi ng too far in either of these directions. He calls upon the Legislature to organize a commission to supervise the part which Pennsyivania take in £he World's Fair and asks that liberal appropriations be made for the erection of suitable buildings and for stimulating in every proper v ay a complete and satisfactory exhibit of the State’s industries. The Thirty seventh General Assembly of Illinois convened in regular session a; noon on the 9th. The galleries of both, hpuses were crowded, and the greatest interest was manifested tn the outcome of the peculiar political complications. Naturally the greatest interest was centered in the House, where the Democratic majority was just sufficient to organize. The House is composed of seventy-seven Democrats and seventy-three Republicans,and three farmers responded to the roll call The House was organized by the election of Clayton E. Crafts, Democrat, for Speaker, by tho full party vote. The Senate was oalled to order by Lieutenant-governor Ray and Senator W. W. Matthews, Repub lican, was chosen president protem by a vote of 27 to 25.

The Legislature of New York met on the Bth. For the first time in many years the Democrats controlled the body. Wm. F. Sheehan was elected Speaker, receiving 66 votes, against 56 cast for Milo Acker, the Republican candidate. Mr. Sheehan briefly addressed the Assembly, after which the minor officers were elected in accordance with the program. The Governor’s message was then received and read. The Governor signified that he would not again be a candidate for Governor. In that portion of his message devoted to the interests of labor, the Governor advocates compulsory arbitration of dis- , putes between corporations and their em- ; ployes. He calls the attention of the Leg- I islalure to the fact that there is at present I no law regulating the employ ment of ! Pinkerton’s detectives during strikes, aud I suggests the advisability of framing a statute either to prohibit the employment or to defina the functions, regulate the duties and restrict the powers of such “detective organizations.” The Nebraska Legislature was In a deadlock on the 7th similar to that which prevailed in Indiana some years ago. In this case it is the Alliance against Democrats and Rephblicans. The Lieutenant-gov-ernor and Speaker both tried to preside ut the same time. The point involved is this; The Independent or Alliance party is cootesting the election of the Democratic Governor and the remaining State officers, all Republicans. They wish to prevent the announcement of the election of these officers, evidently preferring to seat the contestants directly. Lieutenant-gover-nor Micltlejohn, who is a Republican, holds that it is his duty to doclare the ol- ■ fleers having a majority on the fa.ee of tho returns; that If there is to be a contest'it must be commenced in the regular way after the announcement of election is made,. The Alliance, «ien are in a majority, and had the Speaker of the House been a stronger man they would undoubtedly have brought affairs to a crisis by a show of muscular as well as numerical strength.

WASHINGTON.

Senator Hoar will make another attempt to pass the force bill. ■ r— 'X™. ■ SOS*; ™ Senior Officer Reiter, of the Hunger and Thetis, has been censured by Secretary Tracy and relieved of his command for failing to protect Gen. Barundia, while a passenger on board the steamship Acapulco, during the South American troubles. The Census Bureau has issued a bulletin giving the population and other information of the various Indian tribes, exclusive of Alaska, The bulletin shows the tota; Indian population of the United States to be 244,701. This makes the total population 1 of the country, including Alaska —estimated at 37,100—almost 63,010,000. A correspondentdeclares that the action of the Senate on thq federal election bill has destroyed any possibility of the free coinage measure .becoming a law; that Speaker Reed and other members of the House who are opposed to free coinage, in retaliation will not permit the silver bill to be considered in the House under any .cir cumstances.

A bill which will be introduced in the House early in the session will have for its object the abolishment of the State Board of Agriculture and the establishment, in its place of a State Agricultural aud Industrial Board of fifteen members, to be elected by the Governor, the Secretary of State and the Auditor of State. This Board is to have not more than eight members of any one political party, and its membership is to be composed of three members each from the general departments of agriculture, industrial arts, mechanics.commerce and livestock breeding. J A compromise on the silver coinage question is probable. The advocates of unlims ited free coinage now acknowledge that if they continue upon the line they are following they will forever strangle their proposition, and they are considering a compromise. Speaker Reed will never permit unlimited free coinage to come before the House, even though it could get out of committee, and ho will not suffer consideration of any financial question which could be amended under the iffilesby the acceptance of a free coinage feature, unless he has assuranee that no flank movement like that which side-tracked the elections'bill is attempted. He will take no chances. One of the leading free coinage advocates said to a correspondent on the floor of the ! Senate:“Wa may compromises on free coinage for American silver.” Others hinted at a similar contemplation. „

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Princeton ha* struck gas. j Anderson owns its own water works. The Akron Eagle has suspended publication. Greenwood will put down an artesian well. Fire in the Crawford Honse, Boston, on the 9th., caused aslo,oo loss. Mrs. Willard Ray, raiding in the soothe ern part of Monroe county, has given birth to triplets. El wood claims to havo been stirred by two slight shocks of earthquake on the evening of the Sd. Failure to win the affections of a young lady at Kirklin was the cause of the suicide of Charles Heiny, of Noblesville. The Robinson hill property, near New Albany, has been purchased by a New Albany syndicate and will be converted into a site for -übur ban residences, to be known, gs Highland City. 4= Eighty men have been dropped from the ‘payroll of the Ohio Falls iron works, at New Albany, and thirty-five at the Monon shops, upon whom over four hundred peo pie are dependent for support. . Orlando Johnson, a young school teaoh"WTbf North Vernon, went first “spree” the other night. During the performance he smashed in the front of a saloon and broke the arm of a Mr. Meyer with a chair. . j John Q. Thomas was fatally burned on the night of the 24th, while playing Santa Claus at the Seoond M. E. Church at M 5.... rion. He approached too close to a gas jet, when his trappings took fire and in a foment he was wrapped in flames. * . Charles Thomas, aged sixteen years, son of Geo. W. Thomas, of Plymouth, shot an American eagle as it was flying oyer their farm. It measured seven and one-half feet from tip to tip, weighed twelve pounds and its talons were seven inches long. ; Two men of cultivated appearance canvassed Tipton county in the organization of mathematical night schools, charging $1 n advance for each pupil. After the field had been well worked they disappeared, leaving a number of unpaid debts and un!taught pupils. , J Prominent Republicans from all parts ! of the State met in convention with tho i 'Republican Stato Central Committee on | the 6th. Chairman Mlchener’s resignstion was received and accepted and John L. Gowdy, of Rushville, was elected to the vacancy. It was proposed to at once begin the work of the next campaign. J A subscription has been started among the business men of Union City, the purpose being to use the money thus raised in causing a re survey of the State line be« tween Ohio and Indiana. It is claimed that, the line is not correct, and that if the boundry was properly set, Ohio would be the gainer by several million dollars. Un ion City is on the State line , j Monday night, during a religious meeting at West Fork, in Crawford county, a riot started among the members of three large families—the Lowes, Wisemans and Baggerlys. Pistols, knives, stones, cudgels and fists were used with a vengeanceFive men are lying at the point of death as a result of the conflict, and others are very seriously injured. Wm. Lowe, Wm Wiseman, John Wiseman, Robert Baggerly and Ed Jones are the worst injured.

The following Indiana i nvefitors wer issued patents Tuesday: D. C. Boruff, Bed. ford, type-writing machine; L. Denny, Advance, hoe; G. A. Hendricks, Bloomington, car coupling; N. A. Hall, Peru, drawer for sewing-machine attachments; ,T. F. Judy and N. H. Wilson, Huntings burg, umbreila or parasol; N. Astler, 'LaPorte, buggy body; D. D. Mayfield, Sullivan, gate; Roann, cultivator attachment; C. D. Shellabergor, Indianapolis, fence; J. C. Sproull. Bedford, pipe wrench The old “Goose Pond,’’comprising 10;000 acres of marshy land, which a syndicate at Linton has been organized to drain, has long been a favorite spot for sportsmen There is one little island therein which has a history. During the war the important councils of the Knights of Liberty were held there, and being in the heart of ’this tract, with secret outlets, it was just such a place as would naturally be selected by them, as mo one not familiar there* with, especially after dark, could enter. There were three notable weddings in the Funderburg family, in Rock Creek township, Huntington county, all on the same day. First, Madison Moll wain and Mrs. Mary Funderburg were united in marriage; then came the marriage of Nellie Mcllwain, daughter of the greom, and Edward Funderburg, son of the bride; and lastly, Jamer Gray and Lillie Funderburg, daughter of the bride. It is now a prob<* lem in Huntington county what relationship the two first Darned couples bear to each other.

Dr. Edward W. Viets, of Plymouth, a physician of standing, was arrested some days ago, charged with attempting a criminal aesault upon Eary, aged fourteen, daughter of Bradiey C. Southworth. The girl was his patient, and had been sent to his office fer treatment. A preliminary trial resulted in the charge being changed to one of criminal outrage, and tho defendant was held under >2,500 bonds for grand jury action. Not being able to give bond, due to the feeling against him, he was committed to jail. All of the parties are very highly connected. Great uneasiness is felt along the lower Mississippi owing to the unfinished and unsafe condition of the levees, and heavy snows North with prospects of a thaw. A - repetition of the horrors of last spring’* overflow is greatly feared. Many thousands of dollars have been expended in the last year on levee work, and it is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible by the contractors, who hope to complete the work before the spring rise, as that would prove destructive to the entire system if caught in an uncompleted condition. The steamer Britannia, from Leith, came into collision with the steamer Bear, from Grangemouth, in the Frith of Forth, Scotland, at an early hour on the morning of the 11th. The Bear sank immediately her crew having no time to launch a boat or make any effort whatever to save themselves . Of the fourteen men on board the Bear twelve went down with the vessel The two othere 'were TesOTed by abdij from the Britannia.