Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1876 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. BORACK k J A RES, I’roprtrior. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. The LotHtati TVmaa of the 19th says the British ‘Cabteet had decided to give a general Bupjaort to Count Andrassy’s note to the Porte, but reserving the right to differ on : any proposition Austria might make after ite preeectation. A proposed political banquet toGambetU, at Marseilles, was forbidden by the French commander onthe 18th. The failure of a large silk-house, with over $1,000,000 liabilities, was announced from Lyons, Prance, on the 18th. A Berlin telegram of the 18th says the police had discovered that Thomasaen, the dynamite fend, was charged, in 1806, with scuttling a ship on board of which lie had goods insured in England for £24,000. A Ragusa telegram of the 19th announces the defeat of six Turkish battalions between Ragusa and Trebigne by the insurgents under Gen. Peko. The Turkish loss was 300 killed and wounded. According to a Rome special of the 19th the Italian Government had closed the Catholic seminary at Como because of its refusal to admit the Government Inspectors. This was considered the strongest act yet taken by the Government in Sts dealings with the Roman hierarchy, and important results were thought likely to follow. The Italian Government bad accepted the proposal of the United Stales to exchange scientific publications. Several important failures occurred in England on the t®th, notably those of Joseph Gaury <fc Co. and Samuel Radford & Sons, the extensive grain merchants. A Madrid telegram of the 19th announces that G«n. Tristany, the noted Carlist leader, '> had notified the authorities at Bayonne of his i unreserved submission to Alphonso. A Vienna special of the 20th reports that Ljubobracht had issued a proclamation resigning the leadership of the Herzegovinian insurgents. In consequence of the concentration of Turkish troops on the Montenegrin frontier the Priuoe of Montenegro had summoned a council of Senators and military officers, which resolved that if such concentration took such proportions as to carry into effect the reported plan of blockading Monts negro on that side It should be considered a ca*ut belli, and the Prince should summon all Montenegrins able to do military duty and' march into Hevuegovina prepared to aid the insurgents. On the 21st E. 18. Oakley, proprietor of the Corporative Credit Bank, of London, was arrested on charges of fraud, false pretences and conspiracy to swindle depositors. He was examined before Che Lord Mayor and committed without bail. On the 21st K ictor Hugo issued an address to the Senatorial delegates for Paris sad France, in which fiti asks them to found a democracy which shall “ end foreign war by arbitration 1 , eiwll war by amnesty, and distress by education.” On the 224 a collision occurred on toe Great Northern.’ Railway in England which caused the death of thirteen persons end serious injury to many others. The collision took place in toe midst of a blinding snowstorm. Among those killed was the soc. of Dion Boucicauit. Mother Stewart, of Ohio crusade renown, made her first appearance before a London audience on the evening of the 23d. Ragusa dispatches of the 22d report continued fighting between the Turks and the insurgents in which the advantage was generally with the; latter. Trebigne was threat! ened with famine. It was reported in .Constantinople on the 22d that the Porto had accepted Count Andrassey’s proposal for the pacification of the disturbed provinces. A Berlin telegram of the 23d says a German squadron, consisting of three iron-clads and one tender, would visit Philadelphia in July. An Austrian army of observation numbering 50,000 has been ordered to the Dalmatian frontier to await emergencies. A Madrid klispatch of the 23d says -the Ministry had secured a large majority in the new Cortes. The minority numbered seventy.

The Russian'lmperial Academy has elected Prof. Newcomb, of the Naval Observatory at Washington, Prof. Gould, of the Argentine Republic, and>Prof. Whitney, of New Haven, as corresponding members. News was received in New York on the 2td from Havana that a force led by Henry Reeves, 2,500 strong, had invaded Sagua County within "the previous week and._ destroyed sugar estates, some of which were valued at each. Sagua La Chica, at the mouth of the river of that name, where there were warehouses with IjfOO hogsheads of Muscovado sugar, had been burned and all the sugar consumed. The estate Cayoeepino of Senor Nugarica wasiin the hands of tfiie rebels and of course destroyed. It was located on the south side-es the island, while Sagua County is on the north shore. •OJtESTIC. Secretary Fish was before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on the 17th, and stated that he did not regard as unfriend!}’ the tone of a recent Madrid telegram giving the outline of Spain's reply to the American circular, addressed to foreign nations, asking , their moral support in the event of media-: tion or intervention by the United States in the Cuban quesUuK. In the case of Wilton w. State of Missourii the United States Court has decided that the State cannot eornpe® a peddler to pay license for selling articles produced in other States, on the ground that it is a tax upon the goods themselves, a discrimination against the products of other States, and is in conflict with that clause of the Federal Constitution which declares that Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States. A party of Indiana editors, over 200 in numher, on a visit to the Centennial grounds in Philadelphia, on the 17th passed a series of resolutions to the effect that the Exhibition should receive the encouragement of Congress to the extent of the fl t ,500,000 appropri- > *tion asked for, but that the Government should disclaim all liability for the expenses incident to the enterprise other than for the amount specified in such appropriation. Miss Dona Herndon, residing near Springfield. 111, on the 18ih spilled upon her person some burning-fluid from a lamp in her hand and became enveloped in flame, and was horribly and fata’ly burned. On tbe same day, at Delphos, Ohio, a saloon-keeper named Ceorge Sheeter threw a lot of coal-oil into a

stove to hurry up the fire, and was seriously burned. . In a Wceut letter to a New York member of Congvcm Treasurer New states that 5# per ceriL<of the legal-tender notes and fractional ’currency sent to the department tn Washington lor redemption are unmutilated and fit for circulation, and he reiterates the tarns of a previous circular in which it was stsfted that in no case will the Government pay •he charges upon such notes or currency sent for redemption when the same are fit for ■circulation or when the same are sent in disregard of the regulations, but the expenses of such redemptions will be deducted from the returns made therrfor. The town of Apollo, on the West Pennsylvania Railroad, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th, forty buildings, including a number of stores, being burned. Loss between $40,000 and $50,000. The Moody and Gankey revival efforts in Philadelphia have been brought to a close. Mr. Moody is reported as saying that he regarded the revival in that city as the most successful he had ever been instrumental in effecting. T-be number of meetings and Bible readings held during the eight weeks of their continuance was 248. The grand total of attendants upon the services is estimated at 5900,000, comprising some 300,000 different (persons. The expenses of the revival were about SBO,OOO. At the closing meeting, held on the evening of the 19th—the twentyfirst aarfiversary of the Young Men’s Christian Association—over 12,000 people were present, and as many more were turned away for watt of room. A collection of over SIOO,O#C was taken up to aid the completion of a new building for the Y. M.C. A. One lady, whose son had been converted, sent as a thank-offering a diamond ring, for which a gentleman gavesl,ooo. On the night of the 19th a mob attacked the dfEee of the Aewsand Press, of Cimarron, Mew Mexico, and shrew the press, type, and other fixtures into toe river. The trouble re■sulted from local pollticaf feeling.

Eight persons,. members of a prominent boarding-house in Columbus, Ohio, were taken-suddenly and seriously ill on the 20th, caused by eating diseased pork. Other persona in the city had been affected in a simular manner, and from a like cause. George Henry Jacobs was hung at Joliet, 111., on the ’Jlst for the murder of his wife on the26th of last May. Marshall Crain, a hired assassin of one of the parties to the Williamson County vendetta, was also hanged on the 21st, at Marion, 111. An entire suspeusion of all mining of anthracite coal in the Pennsylvania mines has been decided upon from Feb. 7 to March 11, inclusive. This action has been taken in consequence of overproduction and the accumulation of unsold coal upon the market. Copies of the correspondence between Secretary Fish and Minister Cushing and other foreign Ministers of the United States were transmitted by the President to the House of Representatives on the 21st The correspondence chiefly consists in a rescript of the note to Mr.‘Cushing, the tone of which does not materially differ from that part of the EFresident’s message relative to the Cuban question. Nothing is given of the replies received from European Governments to the advisory circular forwarded by Secretary Fish, and no allusion is made to any correspondence with tthe Spanish Government direct since Nov. 5,1875, the date of the note to Mr. Cushing. The latest counterfeit circular shows that there are in circulation spurious bills of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, the First Nationabßank of New Albany, and the First National and Richmond National of Richmond.

A man named Edward Williams, who, together with a Mrs. Meling, had been arrested for the murder of tfee latter’s busband, was taken from the jail on the night of the 22d, at Barbcrsville, West Va., apd hanged by a mob. He confessed to the crime. Mrs. Meling was also threatened with a like fate, but finally spared. She confessed to repeated attempts to poison her husband, and accused herself of being the cause of the murder by Williams, but begged pitifully for her life. A freight train on the Cincinnati & Marietta‘Railroad went through an iron bridge over Spring Grove avenue, in the northern limits of Cincinnati, on the afternoon of the 22d, killing three men, wounding two and totally wrecking the bridge, locomotive and eleven freight cars.

personal. John T. Hartranft was Inaugurated Governor of Pennsylvania, as his own successor, on the 18th. In his letter to Senator Gordon, asking for the removal of his political disabilities, Gen. Beauregard states that he makes the application dn order that he may be qualified to serve as a member of the Louisiana Levee Board of Commissioners, at the expressed desire of his friends in New Orleans. It has been decided that the Plymouth Church advisory council shall be called for Feb. 8. The house of Jordan, Clark <fc Co., Summer street, one of the leading wholesale clothing firms in Boston, has suspended, owing to the falsification of their books by their confidential book-keeper, Frank Sanford, who has fled to Canada. The wife of Sir Hugh Mackenzie, of Canada, recently eloped from Montreal with a young English officer named John H. Brydges, taking with her her four children. The parties went to New York, where they were arrested and subsequently discharged. A brother of the lady and a Canadian officer endeavored to have her return with them to ■her home, but she positively refused to do so, the eloping couple still clanging to each other. Tbe New York Sunday ..Ven-ary of the 23d announces that a body of representative Conf regationalists was being organized for an investigation of the Beecher scandal, and would be composed of the most eminent men in tbe denomination, who will inquire into tbe fitness of Mr. Beecher to remain a Congregational minister. The movers are said to be the Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven; the Rev. Dr. L. C. Bartlett, of the Chicago Congregational Seminary, and the Rev. Dr. Henry M. Dexter, of Boston.

POLITICAIm The Democratic National Committee i» to meet at Washington on the 22d of February to fix the place and time for holding the next National Convention. At a meeting of friends of the greenback, held at Madison, Wis., on "the 18th, a State Central Committee was appointed, consisting of one member from the State-at-large and one from each Congressional district. A committee was also appointed to draw up a declaration of principles. The final ballot in the Kentucky Legislature on the 18th for United States Senator resulted in the choice of James B. Beck, who received 106 votes to fifteen for Wadsworth

(Republican!, and flvfe scattering. He will tekv his sort on the 4th of March, 1877. In tin Mlttissippl Legislature on the 18th L. Q- G Lamar received 110 votes for Uniteff States Senator from the 4th of March, 1877, to one for Martin, the Republican members voting blank. It Is said that a privateeaucoa of Republicans decided not to participate in the election of Senator on the ground that the late election was caiy ied by fraud andyiokuce. Gov. Kirkwood was elected United States Senator Ou the 18th by the lowa Legislature. The vote stood: Senate—Kirkwood, 40; Leffler, 9. House—Kirk wood, 4JB; Leffler, 28.' His term in the Senate will begin March 4, 1877. The Alabama House of Representatives on the 19th adopted a memorial to tbe United JJthtes Senate to inquire into the right of George E. Spencer to a seat in that body. The memorial had previously been adopted by j.he Senate. The Supreme Court of Michigan has decided that the Sunday Liquor law,'enacted at the last session of tbe Legislature, is constitutional. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention is to be heW at Lancaster on the 22d of March.

At a Republican 'caucus of Hie Maine Legislature on the eveeingmf the2oth delegates were chosen to the National Republican Convention and a resolution was unanimously passed in favor cf iHon. James G. Blaine for President of the United States. A Washington dispatch of the 20th says the “ real obstruction to Pinchback’s admission to the Senate at present is the question whether there is ■«. de jure Government -in Louisiana. Until this question is settled by the Committee on Privileges and Elections Pinchback will not sueeeed in obtaining the vote of the Senate. Should Gov. Kellogg appoint a newsman the latter would stand in no better position than’Pinchback.” The Illinois Farmers’ Association closed its annual session -at ‘Bloomington on the 20tb. Resolutions were adopted demanding the withdrawal of the National Batik circulation and the issue of a greenback currency direct from the Treasury, to be a legal tender for all dtAts, public and private, except tbe principal and interest on the public debt traded to be paid in gold, and interchangeable for registered bonds bearing a rate of interest, to be paid in geld or legal tenders, at the option of the holders, not exceeding-8 per cent., said bonds being redeemable at the pleasure of the Government in from ten to fifty years;-tnd declaring that the transportation of the 'Country should be under the direct supervision and control of the public authorities of the nation, State, county, township or city, according to the inter-State or local character. The Ohio State Republican Convention is to be ‘held at Columbus on the 29th of March. The Wisconsin Republican Central Committee have called a State Convention to be held at Madison on the 22d of February, to select delegates to the National Convention and to nominate a State Electoral ticket.

CONGRESSIONAL. The credentials of James R. Eustis, claiming a seat as Senator from Louisiana, were presented in the Senate on the 18th, and objection was made to their reception on the ground of irregularity for want of the Governor’s signature, and they were laid over. The memorial of the Democratic Conservative Convention of Louisiana, concerning the election in and condition of that State, was presented and referred. A bill was passed to secure attendance and payment of witnesses before military courts. The resolution for the appointment of a special committee to investigate the books and aceouuts of the Treasury Department was taken np and Mr. Boutwell entered into a lengthy explanation of the manner of keeping accounts in the different offices of that department. After the offering of amendments and remarks by other Senators the matter went over .... in the House a proposed amendment to the Constitution waa reported from the Judiciary Committee to the effect that no person who has held, or may hereafter hold, the office of President shall ever again be eligible to said office; notice of a substitute was given by the minority of the committee. An adverse report was made on the bill to abolish capital punishment. Bills were passed—to extend the time for stamping unstamped instruments to the Ist of January. 1877; to extend for three months the time for claimants before the Alabama Claims Commission to prove their claims. Several bills were introduced. The Centennial Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole. Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, offered a ptoposed amendment to the Constitution, supplementary to the amendment proposed by Mr. Blaine, providing that no money raised by taxation in any State shall be appropriated for the maintenance of any sectarian school or sectarian Institution.

Twenty-one petitions from citizens of ©hla were presented m the Senate on the. 19th asking for aid in the construction of the Southern. Pacific Railroad. Mr. Davis’ resolution for a Special comniitte to investigate tbe books and accounts of the Treasury Department was taken up and further debated, the pending question being a motion to amend by referring the subject to the Finance Committee. A bill was passed amendatory of the act of June 20, 1874. amending the charter of the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company and for other purposes.” Mr. Morton spoke at length in favor of his resolution relative to the Mississippi election.. ..A constitutional amendment was introduced in the House providing against the enactment by Congress of any special or local law where a general law can be made applicable, in regard to granting pensions, bounties, lands, relief to Individuals, etc., and leaving to the courts to determine whether any special law could be embraced in a general enactment. The Centennial Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, Messrs. Phillips of Kansas, Harrison, Kelley, Reagan of Texas, and Frye speaking in support of, and Messrs. Cochrane and Tucker in opposition to, the measure. Various petitions were presented in the Senate Ton the 20th asking for a repeal of the lawrequiring a two-cent stamp to be affixed to bank checks. Mr. Morton continued his remarks on his Mississippi resolution. Bills were introduced —to amend the Pacific Railway acts of July 1 and July 2, 1864; to provide for challenges to jurors in trials for bigamy and polygamy Tn the Territory of Utah, and to amend Sec. 4 of the act in regard to courts and judicial office in the Territory of Utah, approved June 24, 1874; in regard to postal routes. Postoffices and post-roads. The resolution tocontinue in force the joint rules for the government of the two houses of Congress, except the twenty-second rule, in regard to counting the votes for President and Vice-President, was discussed and adopted ...In the House an adverse report was made on the bill to reduce the postage on first-class mail matter to one cunt for each half ounce. The Centennial Appropriation bill was further debated in Committee ot the Whole, being advocated by Messrs. Townsend of New York, Jones of Kentucky, Banksand Swan, and opposed by Messrs. Stenger ot Penus'lvauia. Felton and Co, k.

The memorial of Stanley Matthews and a committee of the National Railroad Convention recently beld ia St. Louis, setting forth the advantages of certain thoroughfares, and asking aid for tne Southern Pacific Railroad, was presented in the Senate on the 21st and referred Mr. Boutwell announced the death of Vice-Presi-dent Wilson, and, after a graceful eulogv. offered the usual resolutions of respect; eulogies were also delivered by Messrs. HamJin, Ingalls, Bogy and Anthony. Adjourned to the 24m .. A bill was passed tn the lioass- 142 to 100—for the retirement. on full pay, of Judge Wilson McCandless, of the Western District of Pennsylvania, in consequence of physical disabilities, notwithstanding he has not attained the age of seventy rears. Action was taken on the resolutions in honor of the memory of the late Vice-President • .Ison, unanimous consent being given to extend the privilege ot the floor to a delegation of Indiana editors dnri g the eulogies to be delivered. Eulogies were pronounced by Messrs. Warren, Harns I Mass. >. Kelley, KuAtt, Aymer, Kasson. Banks, Lynch. Hurlbut, LaWrence, Lapham, Reagaii. Joyce and B>air, after which the resolutions of respect were Senate not in session on the 22d... .The House adopted, resolutions—directing the Committee on Appropriations to Inquire into the expediency of making any appropiatiron for the

support of the Sioux Indians, and also in to the right of having white men exdadi-d from the Black Hill* country; requesting tbe President to impart to the House any communications which may have passed between the Government of the United States «nd any Ktuopean Government besidoe Spain,-tw regard to the Island of Cuba. The Centennial Appropriation Wil was further considered In Committee of the Whole.

VARIETY AND HUMOR.

—Wage* are ten cents a day in China. —A waste of *.‘t” —Putting it in depot. “GvJd bead necklaces promise to be fashionable. —Everylold maid can boastof two beaus, but they are elbows. —lron and coal industries of Virginia are growing rapidly. —As spring approaches the Black Hills excitement begins to sprout anew. » —A Mr. Wheels has re-tired to the ■shades of a New Jersey penitentiary. —“ Tichborne in baby clothes” is the latest euphemism for Jimmy Blanchard. —Three-buttoned gloves are stylish for gentlemen. And yet people talk of hard 'times! —Oneof the new French Senators is Adam. He isn’t the first man in France, 'though. , —When a man is willing to pass for what he is he makes a good beginning for manhood. —Ex-Gov. Dingley, of Maine, will resume the editorial chair. It’s better to write than be Governor. —Th« Boston Globe, in the midst of these exciting scenes, pauses to inquire what two figures multipled together make seven.

—Dwelling-house landlords appear tc be the only human beings who never have to pass through the periods of infancy and childhood. —The whole alphabet is in this one sentence of forty-eight letters: ” JohnP. Brady gave me a black walnut box of quite a small size.” —Missouri has Ceased its penitentiary for the cost of management and maintenance and $112.50 a year. Small as the amount is it is on the right side of the book. —“Yes. I know it. I made a mistake and gave him to© much medicine,” frankly said a Berkshire (Mass.) doctor, lately, when he was told that his patient was dead. —-Take the world right through, and three-quarters of the humans cio not earn their bread and clothes. That is what makes it so tough for the other quarter. —Nice weather in Alabama: Violets, buttercups, crocuses, japonicas, strawberries and plum-trees are in full bloom, and swarms of “ little busy bees” improve the shining hours. —“ It was Ben Franklin who introduced broom-corn culture in this country.” But thousands of suffering husbands would prefer to see the man who introduced broom-handles. — Norristown Herald. —The Courier-Journal properly ranks Mr. Fruits and Mrs. Fruits, of Indiana, among the first Fruits of the earth, the one being 113 and the other 111 years old. The old gentleman neither smokes noi chews, of course. —Walking-dresses should not exceed three yards round the bottom and, properly, consist of one front gore, a narrow gore either side, and a single breadth of wide and two breadths of narrow material for the back.— Hamer's Bazar. —A citizen who has been there otters a liberal reward to anyone who will invent a word containing sufficient sulphur to express a man’s feelings when he jumps out of lied in the morning and introduces his foot to a one-inch tack in the carpet. —A candidate for City Treasurer in Madison, Wis., thus announces himself: “ John Steels, Independent candidate, is found guilty before the Seventh District Police Court to sit in the City Hall for one year, as City Treasurer, and also to pay a fine of 100 kegs of independent lager.” —lt was a citizen of Vigo County, Ind., that built a handsome barn, and made the mistake of having the doortoo small to admit his new carriage. He then had the whole barn raised to let it in, and then found that he had raised the floor as well as the top of the door, and that the door was the same size as before. —The Shroeder air-ship at BaltimOrie, which had been nearly completed, ;was recently almost totally destroyed by a gale of wind. The fencing had been removed preparatory to stowing away the ship until spring, anil the wind, having free course, twisted the big machine into a shapeless mass of irregular wicker-work and broken boards. —At Saratoga, the other bridegroom stepped off the cars fori®gAment and the train went off with his‘Bfflwe. He followed on the next train down, and she,

on the other hand, returned by the next train up, and they passed each other on the road. This operation was repeated, each trip leaving them at different ends of the route, until a peremptory .telegram kept the bride stationary until,, her husband reached, her. —A very pointed conversation (says the rortland Press) was overheard on Congress street last evening. A young man had just come from the Museum, and was in the act of seeing his beloved to’ her home. As they passed up the street the conversation turned to the play which they had just enjoyed. Judging from the conversation, he was finding fault with the love-scene between Charles D'Arbel and Hurtsnse. “I could do better than that, myself,” the young man remarked. “ Why. in Heaven’s name, don’t you, then?” she replied. Then there was a long pause. —Several foreign naval powers are directing their attention to the practicability of establishing telegraph stations in midocean, by which messages can be sent from any part of the sea along the line of the cable to the terminal points on shore, and vics versa, so that communication with iron-clads, mail steamers and other vessels when out at sea may be established. The invention consists ot a hollow sectional column, with a base-plate attached by ball and socket-joint, which column is lowered into the water and anchored rigidly to the ground. The branch cable is coupled to the main cable and carried along the column to the surface of the water, to be there connected with instruments on board the vessels. By this invention it is proposed to control naval and strategical movements, while a ship in distress could communicate her exact position, the nature of her disasters, and thus procure assistance.— London Standard.

When the case of George Smith, a man of respectable appearance, arrested for snatching an umbrella from a lady in New York city, was called in court the other day, he admitted it and said that he did it for the express purpose of being arrested and sent up,” to save himself from starvation, bis petition to be sent to Blackwell’s Island having previously been denied by several magistrates.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Tint Rose Polytechnic Institute, in Terre Haute, will be opened next September.. Mb. J. H. Dickson, of Petersburg, has a pair of spectacles Which are said to be 252 years old. The ninth annual report of the Board of Trustees of the State Normal School shows that institution to be in a flourishing and easy fiatSncial condition. The Indiana Poultry Association has elected the following officers: President, A. C. Shortridge; Vice-President, Robert Mitchell; Secretary-, Wm. H. ffry; Treasurer, W. F. Christian. f i Arthur W. Lewis, of ifattin County, aged fifteen years, was recently married to Mrs. Nancy Sheridan, aged fifty-five years. The boy’s mother had to give her consent before the Clerk would issue the license. A large majority of the newspapers of the State will probably comply with the request of the committee and publish Centennial numbers on the 22d of February’, and the information so published will make an excellent exhibition of the resources and history of the State.

The State Board of Agriculture, recent-* ly in session at Indianapolis, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, H. Caldwell, Wabash; VicePresident, Stephen Davidson, Fulton County; Secretary, Alexander Heron, Indianapolis; Treasurer, Carlos Dickson, Indianapolis. , A remarkable wedding occurred near Goshen on the 7th. It was a genuine case of winter lingering in the lap of spring, the contracting parties being Mr. Christian Farber, a well-known elder in the Methodist Church, aged sixty years, and Miss Greenawalt, a blushing maiden of eighteen summers. Two Constables, named Barnot and Stroyer, made a levy on goods in a store at Cambridge City, the other night. In the attempt to remove and select goods hot words were indulged in, which finally led to a scrimmage, during the course of which Stroyer was thrown violently upon the ground, receiving injuries likely to prove fatal.

The following postal changes, exclusive of Presidential appointments, were made in Indiana during the week ending Jan. 8, 1876: Established—Cornstalk, Howard County, George W. Rice, Postmaster. Discontinued—Saltillo, Jasper County. Postmasters appointed—Cowan, Delaware County, Robert M. Ball; Epsom, Daviess County, Sylvester M. Hackler; McGrawsville, Miami County, John Younce. The Mexican war veterans met in the Senate Chamber at the State-House on the afternoon of the 4th, Gen. M. D. Manson presiding. Several new members were elected. The following were elected officers for 1876: President, Gen. M. D. Manson; Vice-Presidents, Col. John M. Osborn and Gen. John Love; Secretary, Edward Palmer; Assistant-Secretary, Gilman Jordan; Treasurer, Dr. E. 8. Gale. The society accepted an invitation from the National Association to wear bronze medals at the Centennial.

. The following statistics are taken from the twenty-seventh annual report of the Commissioners of the State Insane Asylum: Number of patients on Nov. 1, 1874, 482; number admitted during the year, 438. Of these 252 were discharged as restored; 14 as improved; 50 as not improved; 47 dead; 1 not insane; aggregate discharged and died, 366; remaining Oct. 31, 1875, 554, a reduction ot 46 below the capacity of the institution. Total expenditure for the year, $174,109.95’ resources, $236,600.99. J. W. Dare was arrested at’thdianapolis the other night upon the charge ol bigamy. His second wife, a young lady residing in Peoria, states that a few weeks ago she married him, and that a portion of the time since then he has remained with her.- Becoming anxious to know where he spent the remainder of his time, she made inquiry and learned that Dare had a wife and four children living al Reno. She at once, started for that place, and he, learning thlft she was after him, left Reno and arrived in Indianapolis, when he was taken in by the Marshal.

In Decatur, recently, at a church festival, a cane was to be voted to the most popular physician in the (town, or, in other words, to the one whose candidacy brought the most money to the church treasury. Rivalry carried the receipts up to a fabulous figure. Each doctor present was bound to be the recipient of the testimonial. Each was determined to get that little piece of advertising, though it cost him his wealth. 8o the war waxed strong. Money poured in before the grinning treasurers of the festival as the contest deepened. At last, from sheer exhaustion, the “pool” was closed, the money was counted, and one Dr. Blank declared the winner of the fight and owner of the memorial cane. A rival of the successful candidate, who had been pouring out his money like water, refused to be comforted, and has actually sued the society for the amount of money h< squandered.

The State Association for Improving Common and Gravel Roads throughout the State met at Indianapolis on the 6th, President Irwin, of Columbus, in the chair, and some thirty members being present; Messrs. Shafer, Beeler and Jackson were appointed a Committee on Finance. A committee consisting of Judge J. Y. Allison, Alfred Moore and E. J. Howland was appointed to prepare and report a bill or bills to be presented to the association and when adopted to present the same to the Legislature with a memorial asking their passage. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows* President, J. I. Irwin; Vice-Presidents, same as last year, one from each Congressional district, with the change of J.* Y. Allison for the Fourth and Jas. Poole for the Ninth; Secretary, Alfred Moore; Treasurer, F. Beeler. The board then adjourned to meet at Indianapolis Sept. 27, and delegates were directed to organize county societies at once.

Terrible School-House Disaster in Switzerland.

The Journal des Debais publishes the following particulars of the frightful accident at a Christmas festival in Switzerland: The settle of the catastrophe was the school-house of the village of Helliken, containing about 700 inhabitants, and one of the manv villages in thefruitful valley of Fricithal. in the parish of Weggstetten, district of Rheinfelden,, near the Swiss salt-pits. It has always been the custom in most of the Swiss villages to collect subscriptions among the well-to-do inhabitants for distribution among the school children as Christmas gifts. Everything had been prepared on this occasion in the usual way, and the children had assembled at kix o’clock in the evening of Christmas Day outside the school-house, in the company of their friends and parents, waiting impatiently for admittance to see the Christmastree in order that they might receive their several gifts. At a little after six o’clock the schoolmaster commenced lighting the Christmas-tree. Having accomplished this, he opened the doors, when the crowd waiting outside rushed in one dense mass up the staircase leading to the room prepared for their reception. On their reachirg the top of the second staircase the beams supporting the flooring suddenly gave way, precipitating everything below, and by the violence of the shock causing the lower story to break down too. The interior of the edifice presented a horrible scene of confusion, human beings, beams, school-desks, chairs, mortar and stone being heaped up together. Tt was nearly seven o’clock wlien this occurred, and everything was in darkness, when the remaining population of the village, hearing the cries of the unfortunate children and their friends, hurried to the spot, some of them subsequently running off' for assistance to the neighboring villages of Zusgen and Wagsletten, the women and children of which were assem-■ bled for a similar purpose in their respective village school-houses. They set to work busily to clear the interior as soon as assistance arrived, extracting from the debris seventy-two corpses—those of fiftysix children, fourteen mothers pf families, and two men—besides about forty injured persons and children, some of them very seriously hurt. It is said that in many families only the father or the grandparents are left alive. The proprietor of the village lost his wife and three daughters by this frightful disaster. Two little school-boys, by creeping along the wall after the accident, got bold of the rope of the school-house bell, and pulling at it with all their might brought more neighbors to their assistance. The schoolmaster and the wife of tiie President of the village commune, the latter holding a child tightly in her arms, were discovered perched upon the wall on the projecting remains of the pulpit, and were rescued uninjured, after remaining three hours in their perilous position. The funeral of the dead commenced Monday, and presented a scene of indescribable desolation to the remaining members of the griefstricken population.

Kerosene—How to Use.

A contemporary says that, “of every" hundred dollars lost by fire, not more than 20 per cent, can be said to have been lost by accident—that is, by cause®, against which ordinary care is hot an efficient defense; that 30 per cent, is occasioned by incendiarism and design and the remaining 50 per cent, by sheer carelessness.” For no small share of the latter we believe that the demon, kerosene, is responsible. It is used in almost every house where gas is not convenient or atSinable, and usually with so little care at the wonder is, not that there are so many accidents, but that there are so few. People keep it in jugs, bottles and ricketty cans, in all sorts of dangerous places, where an inadvertent tip may cause an explosion. They kindle fires with it, till their lamps at night or over the stove, and generally use it as if it was as safe as tallow, instead of being, as it really is, only less dangerous than nitro-glycerine and gunpowder. Familiarity has bred contempt for its dangerous qualities. A person ot ordinary discretion could not be induced to blow into the muzzle of a gun to ascertain if it is loaded. Certainly no timid woman could be prevailed upon io do so, yet she will cheerfully blow down the chimney of a kerosene lamp, at the imminent risk of her own life and that of her family. The practice is not only immediately dangerous to life, but the fumes given off by the protruding wick fill the room and house with a gas of highly-deleterious quality. Where kerosene is used these precautions are indispensable: Use lamps with chimneys—the taller the better. Always keep a supply on hand, in case of breakage. Fill and clean the lamps in the morning. Keep the body of the lamp nearly full of candle-wick. Trim off all the charred portion of the wick. On retiring set the lamp where there is a draft, out of the room, and turn down the wjck until the charred part, which is slightly enlarged, fills the tulie, and so prevents evaporation. Avoid always, if possible, carrying lamps from one portion of the house to another while lighted-" “So may your days be long in the land.” — RuraLNew Worker. A father at Reading, Pa., wants his daughter arrested because she parades the streets in nfale attire.

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