Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1892 — Page 2

■ THE REPUBLICAN. ftrnsß R. **4—iru Publisher. RENSSELAER * INDIANA

The seaside butterfly is in the swim and the hammock girl is having her full swing. It is said of an editor’s daughter that she rejected a suitor because he was not accompanied by stamps. Mr. Cleveland has selected Robert L. O’Brien, of Boston, a newspaper man, as his private secretary. ■ This is the age when our rich men seem to want to shell out liberally to Educational institutions. The latest is SIOO,OOO to Barnard College, the Woman’s annex to Columbia. present indications Harrison \ BW«l° d I ■- 1 Weaver j By the way. Harrison, Bidwell ana Weaver were born in Ohio, as also was Whitelaw Reid. That State seems to have some favorite sons.

Europe appears to be an admirable place to keep away from this year, When thereare received the reports of pestilence, the blowing up of pleasure steamers, the wrecking of ocean liners, frightful landslides at a popular summer resort,, earthquakes and the burial as well aa the cremation of a village by molteu lava, tnc -average American cuizen is prone to indorse the sentiment that “there is no place like home.” John Philip Sousa has resigned his position as leader of the Marine Band at Washington, which has become famous under his direction. He has signed a contract for two years with a New York and Chicago syndicate to organize a military band with * the best men that can be secured, which will make a tour of the country this fall. The Marine Band has been very poorly compensated, and Congress has been repeatedly asked to increase salaries. The band added to its income by making annual tours, but the National Musicians' Union strongly opposed this. It has petitioned the President to forbid any more of these concerts, as they injure the business of local bands, and threatened him with the loss of thousands of votes if he refuse. Sousa will be sure of an audience wherever his new band goes.

Tiie champion negro slayer oi Africa. Dr. Peters, is the first man who has thought it useful to issue a pamphlet on the best way of fighting the natives. As Dr. Peters has l|sd larger and more unnecessary experience in this line titan any other traveller, he is doubtless an expert well qualified to treat the subject. He has a poor opinion of the courage of native tribes, and says the whites have nothing to fear from them in the open, but that the tricky and treacherous character of the .enemy renders it necessary to be constantly on the lookout against surprises in forest or jungle. Dr. Peters £fills nineteen pages telling what he knows about the way to kill African natives. Inasmuch as his sanguinary doings in Africa, it is- said, are to be investigated by order of Emperor William, it is hoped he will not have any further opportunity, personallj", to practice the teachings based upon hiS large and varied experience.— N. ?. Sun.

« a *■ The French government, says the N. Y. Sun, has given its official authorization to the project of holding a Universal. Exposition in Paris in the year 1900. There will, therefore, be eight years-of preparation for it, if the peace of Europe be maintained, if Germany, or Russia, or Austria, ‘or “ItalyoFSpal&7 or r England does not raise any rumpus in which France will becihvolved. In view of the relations between the various powers of Europe it can hardly be expected that they will keep quiet until the twentieth century of Christianity. The Germans have been made so angry within the past month by the suggestion of the Paris Exposition that they will surely find it hard to restrain their jvrath against France for eight years, especially if the prospects of the Berlin Exposition of 1893 should be blighted under the shadow of the French project. Nevertheless, let us hope fpr the continuance of peace. We advise Germany to push the Berlin project without regard to the rivalry of Paris, and to get up, four years hence, an exposition not to be surpassed bjf that which is to be held lour years after it. ,

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

There Is said to be nnmeroua anarchists In Pittsburg. Manager -Frick, of the Carnagie works, Is recovering. Cbauncey M. on the 28th for a European vacation. G. M. Gfijv of Canton. Ohio, committed suicide because i t was so hot Patti will receive 1200,000 for singing in Jforty concerts in America next year. Four men were killed by a boiler explosion at Gaylord, Mich., on the 28th. There were seventy-nine sunstrokes in Chicago on the 26th, and thirty at St. Louis. Moses S, Beach, at one time proprietor of theeNcw York Sun, died in that city on the 2Sth. - <“ Rain has fallen in Towa, Nebraska and thronghout the Northwest, and there is great rejoicing. 6There pen fifty, deaths in Chicago on the27th And seventeen on the 28th froth sunstroke and heat. Disastrous storms created great havoc in parts of Pennsylvania ou the 28th Many lives were lost. Thirty-seven miles of horse-car strectrallway lines in St. Louis are being con~verted into electric lines. Mrs. Ellen Murphy, a native of Ireland, has just died at Kansas City at the age of one hundred and six years. There were forty-two deaths from sunstroke Friday in New York, and ninety in Chicago since the heated term began. A b<»rr glass thrown from an excursion train near Bloomington, 111., struck a woman on the head, killing her instantly.-. A New York electrician lias invented an automatic device that will make “hello” girls In telephone exchanges unnecessary. The constitutionality of the recent Democratic apportionment law of Wisconsin is to bo tested in the Supreme Court this month.

To evade work, Thomas Wall, a longterm convict at the Frankfort, Ky., penitentiary, chopped off three fingers of his right hand. . " F. Malllck was arrestedatUong P.ranchand 11. Bauer at Allegheny as accessories in the attempted assassination of IL C Frick. Both are anarchists. There is a great harvest in Dakota,'but the farmers are In a panic, fearing they will not have sufficient help. Each county needs from 303 to 400 hands, Clayton C. Clough,,a Boston job printer, has been loft $5,000 bfiHerford Drummond of London, for stopping a pair of runaway horses and saving Drummond’s life. Tho State Convention of the Federation of Labor was held at Logansport on the 20th, 27th and 23th, with about eight labor unions represented. Thos. M. Gruelle, of Indianapolis, presided. Advices from Bering sea are to the effect that the patrol squadron of United States revenue cutters and cruisers, besides chasing seal • poachers is breaking up the lucrative industry of hunting sea otters. The long contested and famous Myra Clark which has been in the courts for more thairftfty years, lias been settled by the payifcent by tho city of New Orleans of $923,788 to the heirs of Mrs Gaines.

Henry Papineau, a three-year-old boy Avas Inmied-to death at Kankakee, 111. Monday, by a bonfire which lie and his companions made in his father’s barn. The barn, outbuildings aiul a house Avcre burned up. George K. Sistare. one of the firm of Sistaro Brothers^bankers, Avhich failed dishonestly a year or so ago. comuxttted suicide at the Manhattan Club, Noav York, on the 2Slh by shooting himself in the right temple No cause is known ——~ Mr. Charles Page, of the banking house of Page & Cp.v doing business in Fourth street, Philadelphia, Avas shot in liis office by on#of his customers, Wednesday, and killed. The customer, whose name is Kennedy, then shot himself dead.

Selections from Ingersol were rend at the funeral of Margaret Colter, aged fourteen. in Springfield, at the request of the father, who is not a believer in the Christian religion. Mr, Colter’s mother, who is a believer, retired from tho services. Three cases of smallpox have been discovered among the Japanese railroad la hotel's at Nampa, Idaho. Oho hundred and fifty Japs have been run out of that place and Caldwell, and there will proba J bly bo ft further uprising against them along the Oregon short lino. The steamship England, which arrived at New York, Monday, brought ICB asses consigned to a Mr. AncUrson, at Bowling Green, Ky.. and accompanying the animals were.two men under contract to caro for tliera $ year. The men were detained as contract laborers, and will probably be returned to France. A queer sewer .explosion occurred at St. Louis on tho 2t>th. Without warning 500 feet of the street shot up into the air. Three people were killed, three injured and three are missing. It is believed to have been caused by an accumulation of gas from oil which had flown into a sewer after a recent fire. <**

The Tn man steamship City of Paris, which sailed from Liverpool on the 20tli inst. and Queenstown on the 21st, for New York, arrived early Wednesday morning, beating the record for the western trip across the Atlantic. The time of her passage across the ocean was five days, fifteen hours and fifty-eight minutes. » Rev- Tyrrell, pastor of the M. E. Church at Clarion. lowa, occupied a seat. In the judge's stand Tuesday and officiated as time keeper in a race between two local trotters. The spectators questioned his decision, whereupon he promptly shed his coat and announced that he could whip any man that called him a liar. Mutual friends prevented the affair from going further, but it naturally caused much comment. Considerable comment has been caused through Oklahoma by legal opinions rendered by Judge John Dille and other prominent lawyers of the Territory, that Indians Will be entitled to vote at the com ing elections. They say that the law provides that Indians taking land in severalty bavethe same franchise as any citizen, and’ if this opinion bo good law, the caadidateSVill have 3,030 Indians to button--eh ‘ j "' '

*hdle. If the Indians vote, It Is liable to make quite a difference in the congressional race. ' The followers of Jack Cooley, the leader of a gang of outlaws in Pennsylyania. aro avenging his recent death in a frightful manner. Wednesday evening they proceeded to the house oL Wesley Sister., who had participated in Cooley’s capture and. death, bound and gagged him and repeatedly outraged his daughter. The daughter was but a child, and probably'will not recover. A sheriff’s posse is in pursuit of the outlaws and if captured there will be more deaths to avenge. Adam Fuchs, a yourg man employed at the Kentucky woolen mills. Louisville, met with a horrible accident Tuesday. He was walking across the tXnk of boiling water used for washing the oil out of wool, when he slipped in. The water only reached about midway of his body, but the part below the surface was almost literally boiled from bis bones. The unfortunate man shrieked with agony, but retained sufficient presence of mind to wade to the rim of the vat and was lifted out, leaving great flakes of flesh in the seething water. The withdrawal of soldiors from Homestead has commenced. - Wild! y enthusiartic cheering Tuesday among the hundreds of white tents on shanty hill proclaimed the fact to the strikers in their homes at the foot of the slope. The lucky boys in blue who were the first ones to get marching orders were the members of the Eighth regiment. It is believed that the tijpops will gradually be removed unti l only two regiments remain. These two regiments will bo held until there is no further danger of trouble. Would-be assassin Bergman was given a preliminary hearing Sn the county jail office at Pittsburg, Friday, before Aiderman McMasters, and was put under bonds aggregating $24,000. O’Donnell Is in New York, his friends say, preparing “a disagreeable surprise” for the Carnegie company. Wba-t that “surprise” is to bo is not known." It is very probable, too, that it never will be known. It Is announced that ninety workmen who struck on the -SBth of Juno havoTeturnedTo workr Ills believed violence will be resumed as soon as the troops are removed. There is nothing encouraging so far as the strikers are concerned. ■.'*• ~-,T, At 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon one of swiftest, most destructive, and most formidable war vessel in tho world was launched at Cramp's ship yard at Philadelphia. It was the much talked of and much wrfefcten about “Pirate,” of cruiser number 12, a vessel which will do much toward placing Uncle Sam's navy on a par with tho marine armaments of Europe. The Pirate is four hundred feet long on the mean load line, beam molded fiftyeight feet, draft twenty-four feet, displacement about 7.300 tons, speed sustained twenty-one and indicated horsepower 26,590, Every ounce of material in the craft is&f domestic manufacture, this being one of the conditions of the contract and the bill which tho Messrs. Cramp will render at tho completion of their work amount to just $2,725,000. - _ Startling discoveries have been made at Fort Kinney, Wyoming. Koiscr. a soldier under arrest at tho post, has confessed tlift-t ho was hired to blow up the building in which the stockmen Ayerc confined when brought from the T. A. ranch. On this information a bomb made of four pieces of two-inch gas pipe Was found Tuesday morhing, under the floor It contained two sticks of giant powder, and the a - acajit Apace-was -filled-AVitlr- -gua-eetteni-Ivelscr says he was paid $25 in advance, and was promised $l5O upon completion of tho job. It was to bo fired by an electric friction tube, but ho pulled tho wire too sharply and itr came away without ignitiug tho charge.

FOREIGN. The famous “Robber Tower” at Zeni* am, in Moravia, one of tho oldest relics of tho Middle Ages, has fallen. Five persons were killed by the falling walls. Four conspirators who attempted the life of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria wor e executed on the 27th. Others who participated in the conspiracy wore sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. Sixteen anarchjsts, charged with a conspiracy to ptcaS explosives, were found guilty at Liege, Tuesday. Tho leader was sentenced to twentydive years’ penal servitude; two others to twenty years each; four to, fifteen years each, and twojtqten years each. Henry T. Hardy, one of tho most desperate and reckless bank robbers and jail breakers tliat this country has ever produced, was arrested at Frankfort on the Maiu, Germany, Tuesday, where he'"Was living as an “American mine owner and millionaire,” maintaining a fine establishment and spending money lavishly.

Max Limon, imp! lately a rfiSh banker of Kiev, Russia, recently exiled by the Czar's edict against Hebrews, is working in tho stock room of Kahn Brothers, clothing house, Chicago, for a weekly sal-* ary of 87. At ono time Limon's fortuno amounted to 8500,000 roubles, almost half a million dollars, yet for five weeks he wandered about the streets of Chicago in search of work, and had it not been for a pittance occasionally bestowed by the charitably inclined, he would have starved to deatli. A letter from Celebes gives details of the recent eruption of the volcano Gunona, on Great Sdhger island. The eruption commenced at 6 p. m. on a day early in June aud wasHinheraided by the slightest siesrhic warning. . .Immense volumes ofiflame and smoke and masses of stone suddenly burst from the volcano. The sfones foil all over the island, killing hundreds of natives, who were busy in the fields getting in the rice crop. Those who reached the supposed shelter of their homes found no refuge, many having been crushed beneath the weight of the falling stones and roofs having collapsed under the weight of ashes, burying the inmates, in .many instances whole families. Streams of lava flowed with frightful rapidity down the slopes of the mountaias, on #fiich were situated numerous farms and villages. Houses and fugitives alike were Overwhelmed by these rivers of molten rock. It is estimated that over 14.000 nave perished on the slopes of the mountains and many hundreds more in the low lands, bat tho total loss of life is unknown.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Popcorn is a Bedford suburb. El wood will celebrate Labor Day. Columbus houses are being numbered. Dog poisoners are bnsy at Michigari City. Taliy-ho parties arc a Muncie diversion. Hun tin gton will a Y. M. C. A. tion. Three Chinamen have settled in Valparaiso. Huntington will probably erect an ice factory. The Valparaiso military company has disbanded. West Muncie has “signed” a new fruitjar factory. Greensbnrg is on the ragged edge of a “boom,” it thinks. Middletown has been holding fairs for twenty - two-years. - _ w. ' Shplby county farmers aro storing their wheat to wait for better prices. The traction engine is getting in its deadly work on Hoosier highways. A crematory, one of the first in the State, has been put in operation at Kauts. The Sixty-ninth Indiana Regiment will bold its reunion at Muncie, August 25. Rain has fallen in Kansas, assuring a corn crop that has never been equalled. Urawfordsyille has enacted a stringent anti-peddlar and anti-traveling-doctor ordinance. Fifteen thrashing machine accidents have occurred near Tipton within tho past few days. A turkey near Portland is said to have hatched out and is now caring for a of fifteen quails. The Greencastle Council refused to enact an ordinauceirequiring the removal of screens in saloons. -- Balloonist Nevcling dropped from his parachute into the top of a high tree at Hartford Qity and received severe bruises. The Wall oil field, near Portland, is one of the best in the State. There are twen-ty-two good paying wells within a radius of five square miles. John Kipper is a Jennings county farra_cr_ who feelfr pretty—walk--thanks. -He raised 700 buShols or wheat this' year on thirty acres of land. O. A. Johnson, of Franklin, has been presented with a quilt, made by his mother, Mrs. FI. A. Jolihson, of Indianapolis, who is 83 years old, which is composed of 7,680 pieces. The bleaching buildings of the Strawboard mills of Kokomo, burned on the 27th. Loss $8,000; insured. A temporay shut-down results, throwing out 800 men for a few days or weeks. Warsaw- entertained in a hospitable manner th« Grand Army committee which Is examining sites for a soldiers’ home. One hundred and forty acres of land on the shoro of Pino Lake are offered by tlie Warsaw people.

Scanlet fever has bfecome-epidemic at Richmond. Four new cases were report ed on the 28th, and there is estimated to be seventy-five cases in the city. For several weeks past new cases have been reported each day. There but sow fatalities. Lizzie Chizzum is a sixteen-year-old girl living at Noblesville. She has been the victim of a curious hallucination, fancying herself the wife of President Harrison*, and having Mrs: Cleveland for her attendant. She has been declared insane, some of the symptoms having become violent , Christen Ilhnsen Schmidt arrived in Hartford City from New York, lie left Germany to go to a brother at Hartford, Conn., but,the ,Castle Garden authorities sent him to Hartford City, presumably because it was the better known Hartford, jiud Schmidtleft Tuesday for Connecticut. .. ,SuitJias,be€b.iiied„ltt,,aa„ Indianapolis court for a receiver for tho Order of tho | Iron Hall, The petition recites that the Order will not be able to meet its liabilities, is paying too high salaries, etc. Tho officers of the Order declaro that they will be able to defeat tho suit and that it is solvent. Jack Robinson was killed at Evansville Wednesday night by William Kurtz. Both were intoxicated. The trouble botjveen them originated in an intimacy between Robinson and Kurtz’s wife. Formerly they had been friends. The dead man was cut in most barbarous fashifn bf his murderer. Dr. John Williams, aged eighty-W years, the oldost. wealthiest and most promiuent physician in Clay county, received a suhstroke. Tuesday, at his home in Bowling Green. Ilis life was saved by prompt medical attention, but it was found that he was stricken blind from the effects of the sunstroke. The committee of the Indiana Department G.A. If. charged with selecting a site for the proposed Indiana,., soldiers’ home last week visited Munclc, Warsaw and Lafayette, aud finally selected the site at Lafayette. The place selected is what is known as. TecUmseh’s Trail, about three miles from “'Lafayette and adjoining Batt'e Ground.

Miss Anna Higsloy was assaulted by ai gang of seven tramps in the suburbs of Evansville. Wednesday, Three of them hild succeeded in their designs, while the others held her. Her screams alarmed the tramps, although they had choked her, and brought assistance. Tho entire gang, after desperately resisting the police, wero arrested and jailed. Miss Rigstey is in a precarious condition. Ed Craig’ of Linden, is a genius. He was married the other day. and desired his change in life to be well advertisedAccordingly, he visited, he says, about thirty of the good ladies of his neighborhood, and told them of the approaching evept under a pledge of secrecy. Mr. Craig states that never In the history of that section was a marriage half so well advertised. It really 1 created quite a furore.—Crawsfordsville Journal. A Hartsville minister who preached the funeral of the wife of a resident of that city sent the husbaud a dnn for the pay a few days atierward. The husband drove to the home of the minister on receipt of this lettei and found that there was no one there. In a day or two afterward another was received; asking that the money, be sent by return mail. Another trip to Hartsville was made and the minister’s bill of 85 was paid. * The thermometer registered 98deg..at

Vincennes on the 2®h. the highest point o! the season. Most all work in the foundries and shops is suspended add several cases of snnstroke were reported from the rural districts yesterday. Threshing ma chines have had to stop work and farmers had to delay their harvest on account of the excessive heat. Many horses in this locality havo boon overcome and died. - Late Wednesday evening Jeffersonville was visited by a severe rain storm. The residences of Edward Heller, S. B. Defender, Ebenezer Davis and James Davis were damaged by electricity. Several persons were stunned, among whom were Dr. Edward Caldwell, James Ford and Mrs. Sarah Patrick. Their injuries are pronounced critical. Mrs. Wm. Geltin, residing in Port Fulton, was knocked insensible. Mrs. Giltner’s daughter was rendered unconscious. The storm concentrated in and about Utica, tearing down houses and doing great damage to corn and wheat.

Magnificent specimens of carp are being taken from the Wabash river at Lagro. The United States Fish Commissioner live years ago stocked a few ponds and the river near Wabash with small carp, and these have grown until the Wabash Is said to be alive with them, weighing from two to twelve pounds.fiMany Of the ponds were washed nut by the overflow of the stream, which accounts for the presence of so many carp. The fish are caught.in large numbers, but , are said to be too fat and rank for table use. Patents were Tuesday granted Hoosier inventors, as follows: E. H. Beckley, Elkhart, vestibule car; T. M. Bissell, South Bend, reversible plow point; W. Callaway, sr., Knox, machine for wiring fence pickets; J. R. Cook, Rushville, steam engine valve; C. S. Fuller, Lafayette, flour bolt; D. Gensinger, Teegardcn, gate; J. B. HaberTe, South Bond, sprinkler; J. J. Kircham, Terre Haute, gas generator; H. J. Schneider, Ft. Wayne, road grader; M. D. Williamson, Indianapolis, adjustable pressure bar for veneer cutting machines. « Star City,on tho Pan Handle road,north of Logansport, was the scene of bloodshed and violence, Tuesday, The Indiana Gas Company, which is laying a pipe line from Kokomo to Chicago,lifts I.COJ men, mostly Italians, working in tho trenches. Monday 250 of the men working near Star City got on a big drunk and proceeded to clean out the town. The officers were unable tq,restrain them. Saloons were broken into, women woro assaulted and insulted, and many of the inhabitants fled in terror. Harry B. Stanton, of the Pan Handle depot, was robbed of his money, stripped of his clothing, and, after a cruol beating, was dragged to a tree, where a rope was thrown around his neck and he was suspended in the air, where tho crowd left him. Ho was rescued by friends before life was entirely extinct, and will recover. No arrests have been made. A remarkable struggle between a fish and a man took place on tho falls at Jeffersonville Friday: Thomas Wright, com-, ing from Louisville to Jeffersonville, saw a one-hundred-pound catfish drifting on top of tho water. He struck it with an par and stunned it, and, grabbing it by the gills, attempted to hurl it into his boat. The fish revived and dragged him out, upsetting the skiff. , Tho life-saving thinking that Wright was drowning, appeared on the scene just as Wright was reappearing on tho surface still clinging to his fish. Ho managed to hold to the skiff, and, with the assistance of the crew, got the fish into -the- boat. -AH qi the men had their hands full in capturing the monster. Wright was nearly drowned and utterly cailapsfed when the captur was having ’been unable to cxc 4t4£ate bis hand from tlre grtls-."^-™-^*”

The State Federation of Labor which was in session at Logansport] adopted a resolution censuring Congress for its failure to pass an anti-Pinkerton bill. A res olution that members of the organization arm themselves at once s croated a good deal of amusement, and was voted down almost unanimously, but later a resolution calling on labor men not to join the militia was adopted. Tho resolutions adopted wore numerous, bufeunimportant. South Bend was selected fqr tho next con J veution. Officers were elocted as follows: President, T. M. Gruelle, of Indianapolis; Secretary, J. P. Hannegan, of Lafayette, Organizers—O. P. Smith, of Logansport; D. F: Kennedy, of Indianapolis, and Miss Belle E. Pearson, of New Albany. District vice presidents—First, M. A Levy* of Evansville| second, to bo appointed;’ third, John Lutz, of New Albany; fourth, to bo appointed; filth, to be appointed; sixth, William P. Fewrey, of Muucie; seventh, John Oreig. Indianapolis; eighth Nelson Rose, of Torre Hauxe; ninth, A. F, Raymond, of Frankfort;' tenth,' William S. Rosier, of Logansport;.eleventh, S. W, Young, of Huntington; twelfth, A. Laemmerman, of Fort Wayne; thirteenth, Al-; bert Harlan, of South Bond. Tho officers of tho Pennsylvania militia wore criticised for tying up a private by the thumbs, and their dismissal was demanded. Governor Pattison will be furnished witli a copy of the resolution. ■ A resolution denouncing the Indiana gerrymander was tabled. A printer from Indianapolis caused much excitement by offering a resolution ro- r questing all laboring men t 6 quietly organize; and defend themselves against capatalists. THE HEAT IX IXDIANA. The beat in northern Indiana has broken its record. For seventy two hours the temperature at Portland has been the, highest ever knbwn. ranging from 100 to 105 degrees in the shade. The death rate in this section has increased two fold, and a number of heat prostrations are reported. Greensburg is suffering, but there have been .no fatalities. Wm, Borden. Harris City; Robert Lavender, yardmasler: Bert Fletcher, fireman;’ Jeff Hale, section boss on tho Big FoUc, were dangcrously prostrated, but prompt attention saved them. Frederick Brange, a young farmer of Allen county, was stricken while at worki in the harvest field and died instantly. James Bert Sch, a farmer living; near Cambridge City, died, the result of sunstroke. -7 Greenfield thermometers recorded 102 decrees in the shade.

ALABAMA ELECTION.

The Alabama election Monday resulted in the election of Jones, regular Democrat, over Kolb, Democrat and Alliance, by an overwhelming majority— so,ooo at least, and may reach 70,000. A novel featnre was i that in most places'the colored voters turned out and not only voted but worked like beavers for Jones and tbe straight Democratic ticket and aided materially in pilittg up large majorities for the Democratic parfcy*^

SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

Jackson county nutmeg crop is great. Evansville colored coachmen Lavs a club. . . ' ■ ..» 2 The public debt was reduced $1,197, in July. Huntington is to have a bi-chlorido of gold'lnstitute, - "A rattlesnake 6 feet, 5 inches, was killed at Winchester. The wheat crop in Kansas will reach nearly 85,000,000 bushels. The Nebraska wheat crop will average thirty bushels per acre, and other crops are promising. , ' The President has signed tho bill making eight hours a day’s work for ail government employes and those working urt der. government contracts. 2 If old Tecumseh had taken his trail with him Lafayette would not have been in it on the soldiers’ home question, remarks the envious Muncie Horaid. 2Richaid Tenbrock, tho famous horseman, who was over eighty years of age, and who had been a confirmed invalid from gout for forty years, died at San Mateo, Cal’, on the 2nd. Private Drieman, of the Vincennes Infantry Company, swung his feet from tho baggage-car door en route homo ffom tho Frankfort encaifipment. A cattle guard came along and broke his leg at the knee. 2 Jesse Wilson nearly killed James Reed fWllson, IBs father, at East Connersvilie, Saturday night. The elder Wilson came home drunk and abusive, and Josse proceeded to pound him With a billot of stove wood. The injuries are thought to bo fatal. The entire non-union erew of tho bark Richard 111 was kidnaped by unlonftailors al - Nanaimo, B. C„ Sunday, cind made prisoners for - several hours. Two ofthe union sailors were arrested, tried, found guilty and sentenced to. fourteen months’ imprisonment, x,The extehsive barns of Hon. Tliomas Wilhoit, a well known cattle breeder livinp hear New Castle, burned on the 30th. Many fine animals were .burned, together with a fine lot of farm machinery, feed, etc. Among those burned were the very finest short e horns in the world, which were being prepared for exhibition at the World’s Fair next year. i-The loss is placed at, $25,003. * It is probable the Ohio Falls car-works of Jeffersonville, one of the most extensive of the kind in the country, is about tb change hands. Maitland, Phelps & Co.* New York bankers, havo an option on the plant. Tho offer was made to President T. Smiser in New York. Tho capital Stock of the company is $600,000. If tho j sale be made tho present - officers will be retained, and the capital stock increased to $1,250,000. ■-* . About 2 p. in., Monday, a largo barn belonging Uu William Purkiser, six miles south of Russiaville, was destroyed by fire. The eleven year old son of Mr. Purkiser was playing in tho in the afternoon: The child was feeble minded, and as a lire shovel was found in the ruins it is supposed that ho had taken- fire to tho barn set fire to it. Tho body -ofthe boy found in tho wheat bin, Avith his hands, feet bond burned off. On the Ist, near Hickory Flat, Term., James Martin and Miss Mary Lessenbcrry eloped and woro married. The enraged father of the bride aiid two brothers, armed avitlx shot guns, Avcnt to the groom of an hour, and at the point of the gun made him swear to relinquish all claim to the girl, they agreeing to pay him one thousand feet of oak lumber, a cow and $lO. The trio bore off the girl in triumph, secured the marriage license and returned it to tho county clerk.

A Few Items.

The hammock girl is in full swing. When you open a window on'a railway train the first thing to catch.*your eye is a cinder. —[Boston Bulletin. The New York Pyess Club expects to hold aii art exhibition and sale in February next for the benefit of its building-fund. Senator Gray, of Delaware, has invaded the prim precincts of the United States Senate Chamber in a pair of •Russet shoes. Emanuel Stephens, a lad of fourteen, died at Carthage, Mo., from the effects of being struck on the knee by a buckle in a harness. Metal match-boxes have been put on the market in the shape of profile heads and busts of Cleveland and Harrison, and the designs are copyrighted. An enterprising Philadelphia publisher contemplates bringing diit an edition of Shakespeare in words of, one syllable for use in tho primary schools. There are three places known where green snow is found. One of these places is near Mt. Heela, Iceland, another fourteen, miles east of the mouth of the Obi, and the third near Quito, South America. The Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts has opened the competition lor the most tempting of all its prrafes, the. European, scholarship, providing for a year’s abroad, td women on the same men students. Prospective, Housemaid- 1 ne * lo 'jse an’ the wages suits me well enoughNow, will yez please let me see yqur husband's portrait soc n aee what kind of a looking mau he lsj —, Boston Beacon- - j In California bands of coolies hivo rented large traces of land, forlho purpose of raising vegetables forftbo San Francisco market. - <