Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 10, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 January 1881 — Page 2
BLOOMINGTON COURIER.
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H. J. FELTUS, PUBLISHER
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA
THE NEWS
At Home. The Egyptian budget will show a surplus of $555,000.
A PARTIAL eclipse of the sun is advertised for December 81.
SINCE January 1, 1880, 318,937 immi-
grants have landed in New York. The first day's sale of tickets for
Bernhardt, in Chicago, reached $3,500.
JOHN SHAW, of Glen Falls, New
York, was shot dead while sitting at his window. It is denied that elaborate military preparations have been made at the Quebec citadel. JOSEPH WHITE. worsted spinner, of Bradford. England, has failed --- liabilities 75,000 pounds. REV. ISAAC MOSES, rabbi of Milwaukee, has been sued for libel by a parishioner, whom he called "a lying old thief." The widow of Mark Hopkins, of San
Francisco, has been sued by a decorative artist for $12,000, for wo k done on her mansion. H. C. HALL, an insurance agent of Pittsburg, shot and killed Mrs. Eiser Foster, in a house of ill-fame, Hall claiming that the woman was his wife. The St. Paul elevator company, Chicago, with a storage capacity of 1,000,000 bushels of grain, is opened for business. MISS DORA BANOS has sued B. F. Tizzard for $10,000 damages by breach of marriage. Both parties are of EATON, O. The St. Louis Times newspaper has been absorbed by the Republican, and its publication will cease as soon as the present contracts expire. Makers of oleomargarine and other articles of that sort are required in Chicago to stamp their products plainly with the name. MRS. LIZZIE PATTERSON, of Cincinnati, has given the childrens' home of Cincinnati 30 acres of land, worth,
with improvements, $40,000. THE centennial anniversary of the establishment of the first Universalist church in this country, was celebrated at Gloucester, Mass., Sunday. HON. JOHN ROWE, formerly surveror general of Pennsylvania, and speaker of the house of representatives, died at Chambersburg, Monday
The southside stree lway company in Chicago will use an endless underground cable with which to run their cars. It will cost $2,500,000. THE ex-confederate General Loring,
who served in the Egyptian army since the rebellion, is a candidate for the United States senator from Florida. Two negroes named Campbell were lynched and hung in Hart county, Tennessee, on suspicion of having murdered J. A. Gardner, a prominent citizen. THE Democrats it is said have not abandoned the resolution declaring Kellogg's seat in the Senate vacant and will have it called up immediately after the recess. HON. WILLIAM WAIT, the wellknown law writer, died at Utica, New York, Wednesday. FIFTY-SIX prominent Democrats of St. Louis, held a meeting Monday night, and inaugurated measures looking to the displacement of the present central committee. SLOSSON was defeated in the billiard match at P??? by Vignaux, by thirtynine points. Slosson's friends claim that he was robbed by the unjust deof the referee. SECRETARY EVARTS says that both himself and the President are highly satisfied with the treaties negotiated with China, and believes they will be satisfactory to the country. BEVIN brothers manufacturing Co's. lathe and finishing shop and office at East Hampton, Connecticut, burned Monday night. One hundred hands
are thrown out of work. Loss $25,000. In a cireular just issued by the Wabash. St. Louis and Pacific road it announced that on and after January 1 the local tariff will be reduced to 3 cents per mile on all portions of the line.
DR. HENRY, a dentist of New Alex-
ander, near Steubenville, Ohio, beat a farmer named Buckingham, and a doetor named Schooly, in a row on Thursday night. They will not recover. LIEUTENANT NEVILLE, of the Texas rangers, says Victoria was not killed, but a subordinate chief, who was palmed off on the Mexican authorities to obtain the reward offered for Victoria's death.
M. DESPREZ, ambassador of France
to the Vatican, will start for Rome, January l5.
Japan is preparing to give the Rus-
sian Pacific squadron a cordial recap-
tion at Yeddo. TRICHINOSIS prevails in Erie county, Pa. Seven persons have died with it in one township. The London Electrician states that the postoffice department has ordered twenty thousand telephoaes for the postal service. The authorities of Servia have forbidden a meeting of the peasantry, which was to have been held in
the interest of the liberals.
The tribunal of the Seine has sen-
tenced the Petit Parision to 600 francs
fine, M. Dewastine to twenty-five
francs, and the managers of tne remaining journals to 150 francs, for libelling Madame DeKaulla. China is going to construct a telegraph line from Shanghai to Tientsin, twelve hundred miles in length. The work will be commenced early in the spring, and the enterprise will cost about $5,000,000. ADVICES from Europe state that Tur-
key is absolutely bankrupt and can
not manage her vast debt in any way. No money, no credit, and the country in anarchy. The "stick man" must indeed be in his last stages. The British Government has taken the telephone under its protecting wing and will introduce it in connection with its postal and telegraph
systems. This will not be in accord-
ance with the views of private individuals who saw fortunes in it.
nounces that the Mormons are swarmi-
ing into that Territory, bringing their
peculiar institution with them. GENERAL FAIRCHILD, United States minister to Spain, is coming home to educate his daughter. His observation of European customs and society convinces him that the best place for American girls is America. He is not one of that class spoken of by Grant who belittle their own country and seem ashamed of her institutions. Two sections of a train on the Airline railroad collided near Charlotte, N. C., killing Philip Whisnaut, Charles Sellers and a negro named Ned Stroud.
The cars caught fire, and one of the
above-named passengers probably burned to death.
A RECENT examination of the active
list of the army shows now one officer
for every thirty men. There are
twenty-nine general officers now on
the sick list above the retiring age. There is a scramble among the officer's to be retained on the active list. Two prominent pastors of Kalamazoo, Rev. George L. Spinning, of the First Presbyterian church, and Rev. W. H. Thomas, of the First Congregational church, preached their farewell sermons Sunday evening, The former goes to Cleveland and the latter to Leavenworth. THE St. Louis Times will be published by D.B. Chambers, who claims to be its owner, from the office of the Post-Dispatch. The paper is now issued from the Republican office by Culonel Cundiff, who claims to be the manager. There will be two papers in the field, each claiming to he the or- iginal Times.
was a large fire, Monday evening, and was badly burned.
A. O. Neff, an old and respectable
citizen of Decatur, dropped dead Mon
day night. He was formerly of Win-
chester, where he founded the Journal.
John Graham, sr. , was found dead in his barn, Monday, near Leaven worth, from apoplexy. HAMILTON KEARNEY, an old citizen ofCoatsville, committed suicide by shoot ing. No cause is known for the act. Fred Daily, a switchman, was run over and killed in the railroad yards at Richmond, Tuesday, being the third man killed there within ten days.
UNCLE ABE MAGRUDER, a colored
man of Greensburg, aged sixty-five, is
dead. He was the tallest man in
southeastern Indiana, being six feet
high.
HON. ROBERT GRIFFITH, ex-auditor
of Sullivan county, died Tuesday, aged
sixty. He Was a prominent mason,
with $4,000 insurance in the fraternity
company.
Col. Robert M. Goodwin was Tues-
day sent to the southern penitentiary
for life for the murder of his brother at Brookville. The sentence was delivered last Friday by Judge Swift.
JACOB SAFFORD, living in St. Joseph township, Allen county, lost his way
in the storm, and was found in a wood
shed near Forth Wayne, with his lower
limbs badly frozen. Amputation will
probably be necessary.
C. B. MURRAY, an old citizen of
Hagerstown, while engaged in har-
vesting ice fell a distant of thirty feet
striking on his head and crushing his
THE jury in the Scott Crossard Rob bitt scandal case at Cleveland, after being out about a week, rendered a
verdict for
dants.
the plaintiff D. I. C. Scott, of $4,750 against all the defen-
The company which has been founded for taking preliminary steps to ascertain whether a sub-marine tunnel can be made between Calais and Dover has at last succeeded in driving a shaft down to the depth at which the tunnel, if practicable, would have to be made. Although in the upper strata there was a good deal of water, there is no infiltration of it in the gallery, which is in the solid roek. A second shaft is about to be driven, and the director says that if no unforseen obstacle arises the tunnel might be completed in four years. Interesti g items. The check for $100,000 awaits Grant's order in Philadelphia.
Navigation is suspended on the
Ohio river on account of ice.
NEW YORK banks are declaring divi-
dends ranging from seven to fourteen
per cent.
ONLY four candidates for the Presi-
dency have received a majority of the
votes cast since 1840. SULLIVAN and Donaldson, arrested
for fighting a glove match in Cincin-
nati, were discharged. MARSHALL FITZIMMONS, of Georgia, will be allowed to explain before any action is taken in his case. RAY, Republican, has been elected successor of Fair, the recently deceased New Hampshire Congressman. HON. SAMUEL F. RICE, of Montgomery, is talked of as the successor to Judge Woods, as circuit judge. ANTHONY DEITERS one ofNapoleon's companions in arms, through all of his
campaigns, has just died at Wheeling.
SAN FRANCISCO has gathered together her Chinese lepers, numbering twelve, and bundled them off to Hong Kong. Ex-Gov. SCOTT, who killed young Duffey ; of Napoleon, Ohio, has been committed to jail at Defiance, for murder. District Atttorney Benjamin. K. Phelps, of New York, is reported to be dying of acute rheumatism of the stomach. THE public debt statement to be issued in Jannary will show a reduction in round numbers of about $3,000,000 . GEN. McCLELLAN contradicts the report that he has declined the presidency of the Underground railroad of New York. The Erie and New York Central railroads have cut the emigrant fares down 20 percent, to spite the Pennsylvania road. The Chinese commissioner, Trescott, left San Francisco last night for
Washington, with an official copy of
the new treaty. NANSOM, BERTHOLOW & CO., of St.
Louis, recently failed, have settled at
fifty cents on the dollar, and will soon resume business. JESSE GRANT and his partner Honore, brother-in-law to Fred Grant, are said to have lost heavily by the recent grain failure in Chicago. Tl e Iowa Central railway has issued a Maine law order. Any employe who drinks alcoholic or malt liquors while on duty will be promptly discharged. In New York city last year the sales of oysters amounted to $4,500.000, and this year there will be an exportation
of 100,000 barrels of New York oysters.
AMERICAN black walnut is exported
in large quantities to England to be
manufactured into furniture. There
it has taken the placc of mahogany for furniture.
In speaking of the Isthmus canal Senator Booth says: "The Pacific
coast has more interest in the canal than any other section. In California this year there are two million bushels of wheat. There are not enough vessels to carry it away, while railroad freight rates are too high to enable owners to ship it with any profit. By sea, Liverpool is four months away from San Francisco; with a canal it would only be thirty days." Horace Maynard is a native of Massachusetts, but has resided in the South forty-eight years. When he accepted a position in the Cabinet the Nashville American congratulated Massachusetts upon having a representative in the Cabinet. Young ladies who wear men's overcoats and hats, as many of them do nowadays, are in danger of suffering for the eccentricity of their custom. In crowded street cars especially they are in danger of being taken for good-look-ing young fellows, and gentlemen who are seated of course do not think of extending them any courtesies on account of their sex. They should hang out ear-rings, or something of that sort, that they may be identified.
Mr. D. Whiting of Riverside, Cal.,
is enclosing 1,500 acres of land with a stockade, and proposes importing one hundred pairs of ostriches from South Africa, worth from $250 to $500 a bird. Ostriches breed at four years of age and will produce four broods a year each averaging twenty chicks. At eight months the feathers of a bird become worth $5, and as it grows older, attain a value of over $100. It is said that it costs no more to keep an ostrich than a sheep. Thm products of the American farms for the year 1879 aggregated in value $2,250,000,000; of this vast sum $566,378,000 was sent abroad, making about 75 to 80 per cent, in value of all our exportations and exceeding by $521,000,00 the entire imports of the eountry. For the year 1880 the aggregate value is somewhat greater (I have not the exact figures before me), and the exports of farm productions the present year will slightly exceed $600,000,000. Wood cutting is very active this winter, in view of the great demand for lumber. It is expected that 100,000,000 more feet of logs will be obtained in the Chippewa woods than ever before; the Main cut will also be much larger; the lumbering business of the Lake Huron shore, of the Big and Little Manistee, and of the Chaudiere, Ont., mills will be many millions of feet beyond previous periods. Numerous lumber and shingle factories arc projected throughout Michigan, . The city debt of Memphis, repudia-
NAUGHTY, BUT SWEET. Somebody's lips were close to mine; The temptation I couldn't resist; Roguish and rosy, a sweet little mouth Was suddenly softly kissed. Somebody's eyes looked up and frowned With such a reproving glance, "If kisses were wicked?" I asked my pet, Then the eyes began to dance. And, smiling, the little maid answered, As I knelt there at her feet, "They must be a little bit naughty, Or they never would be so sweet."
PHOTOGRAPHY.
A Discovery that Revolutionizes the
Business---Pictures Taken In- stantaneously.
gan Greeks? When he said, "Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him peclare I unto you," he said it as if he had a message to make known. There was no argument as to the true translation of a word, nor splitting of hairs upon some theological doctrine, but with a voice and manor that carried conviction to all who heard him, he declared that God "now commandeth all men everywhere to repent." Go to one of our modern churches, listen to the pastors as they read from their manuscripts, and no feeling enters the heart that the message he is delivering is a personal one. Wo-hear something
said, and that something will be cloth-
ed in
the
and
most beautiful
we
lan- guage,
call
JUDGE WEST of Ohio, Sherman's competitor for the senatorship since Foster's withdrawal, has written an ill-tempered letter suggesting that Sherman withdraw in the interest of
harmony.
ONE Cooper of Milwaukee, who ap-
peared some time ago as an accuser of Senator Ferry, charging that gentleman with unmanly eondact toward the female Coopers, has been appointed
to a consulate.
THE Socialists of New York are making great preparations for the reception of Leo Hartmann the Russian Nihilist, who was implicated in the
plot to murrder the czar of Russia and
who subsequently escaped. THE New York Evening Post finan-
cial says: "The dividends which will
be paid by corporations of the profits of the last half year will probably exceed in amount any thing on record,
all classes of business having been very profitable. CHARLES H. WARTHEN, of Boston, has received $17,557 from the Grand Trunk railway; damages for the loss of a leg several years ago. This is the
largest sum ever recovered from a rail-
The number of hogs in Illinois, according to the estimate of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, is 3,133,557, which is 334,506 less than reported last year. THE bronzc statue of General Philip Kearney was unveiled in military park, Newark, N. J., Tuesday, with imposing ceremonies participated in by Gens Grant, Sherman, McClellan and others. Mrs. Sutter, a widow of Gwist
Hill, near Belleville Illinois, was
found dead between her two children,
and her newly born child was found
frozen to death in an out-house whare
she had placed it. It has been discovered, after all that has been said, that Gen. Butler did not make up $120,000 in bonds to the Sol-
diers Home out of his own Pocket.
accounted for every cent in his
ted by charter,
the city's
surrendering its
amounted to $4,500,000. A
special dispatch from there says: "A compromise will doubtless be effected which will realize to the bondholders about 40 per cent. of the debt in bonds bearing 4 per cent. interest. These figures just now seem to be the most popular, and if holders of old city bonds would make such an offer it would be favorably received " This is a polite invitation to the city's creditors to surrender sixty per cent. of their claims. RICHARD GRANT WHITE has lately thrust his pen quite sharply into the public school system, and as a grace after meat, discourses on the decay of apprenticeship, one of the causes being a result of the modern course of education. Some of his lamentations will find ready echo in the minds of many. He remarks that an artisan, the perfect master of his trade, is now rarely seen; that we are compelled to accept and pay for work in all mechanical branches that is imperfect or botched; that the rapidly increasing use of machinery removes all incentive to manual dexterity, and makes of men mere feeders of machines. Those people "who went to the Centennial," and have been boring their friends ever since will have an opportunity to indulge in a new sensation in 1883 as Inwood , on the northwestern end of Manhattan Island has been at last selected for the Now York Ex position site. The place is one of the
stations on the Hudson railroad. The site is a triangular plain of 300 acres fronting Spuyten Duyvil creek, and
shut in by low hills. It can be more easily reached from the city than the Philadelphia site; and on the whole is one of the most accessible sites ever selected for a World's Fair. The trip from New York postoffice to Inwood by the elevated railroad, would require about fifty minutes.
bead and crushing his skull in a horri-
ble manner.
WILLIAM CHAMBERS, a live stock
dealer living six miles north of Anderson, was seriously injured the other day, by his horse falling upon him. His right leg was broken in two plaees. Mrs. Nancy Williams Burk, of New Corydon, Adams county, celebrated her 100th birthday, on Tuesday, at the residence of her grandson, Wm. Burk. A train of cars ran into a street car at Jeffersonville, Tuesday night, crushing it and dragging it half a square. Fortunately no passengers were in the car. The dwelling of James Sanders, of Muncie, was burned Wednesday. The fire department could render very little assistance on account of frozen hose. The chief had his ears frozen. John Woodsman, the man who murdered Marcus Bratton, Sunday night, near Washton, has been caught by the officers and lodged in jail. Woodsmall is not quite twenty-one years old. Mrs. M. Hogan, of Lagrange, was
shot through the arm by a revolver in the hands of her husband. The bone
was badly shattered. She ran out of
the house screaming "murder," but both declare the shot was accidental. TWENTY-ONE soldiers, who re-enlist-ed from Jennings county, in 1863, just after a bounty of $210 had been offered by that county, have sued for recovery of that amount with interest, amounting in all to $8,908.20. BUSINESS at the Jeffersonville plateglass company's works is booming so that the company have put up and started a new furnace, and will also make extensive improvements on the large Belgian polisher. THE will, with two codicils, of the late Governor Williams has been probated in the office of the clerk of the Knox circuit court. His estate is divided between his children, grandchildren, and his only sister. John W. Lovett, of Anderson, wife and children, and Mrs. M. S. Robinson, were thrown from a sleigh while driving, Mrs. Lovett and Mrs. Robinson both receiving serious cuts and bruises about the head and face. Bayard Daily, a brakeman of Logansport, jokingly, he claims, aimed a pistol at Anna Beckly, his affianced wife, and fired. The bullet struck her in the forehead and ranged around under the scalp, fortunately doing little damage. ROBERT HALL, a four year convict
from Vigo county, was released from
the Southern prison Monday, and immediately arrested for the murder of a fellow convict, Martin Peters, iu August last. He will have his trial in January. A YOUNG SON of William Harmless, of Jackson township, Parke county, got a toy pistol for a Christmas gift. He loaded it up with powder, put the muzzle in his mouth and pulled the trigger in the usual way. He may recover, but the chances are against him. A YOUNG farmer named Reprogle, living in Jefferson township, Elkhart county, was instantly killed wnile attemp ing to cross the Lake road in a 1umber wagon. The body presented a sickening sight, the entrails being scattered along the track for about two hundred and fifty feet. Professor E. A. Haight, for the past eleven years superintendent of the Alton, Illinois, public schools, has accepted the position of principal of the Vincennes university, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of its principal, Professor Lewis Prugh.
New York Cor. to Springfield Union. Speaking of Bernhardt's photographs reminds me that what is known as the instantaneous process of photography is making giant strides into the public favor. Rockwood, of New York, deserves credit for his perseverance, having sunk $20,000 in experiments before getting anything of real value. Some English inventors have been working upon the same thing for years, and at last the instantaneous process is an accomplished thing,
which promises to change the whole business of photography. It is as great an improvement over the present process as the priming from the negative is over the glass plate daguerrotype of thirty years ago. Roekwood showed me a few days ago the process and some of its results. It has been for years the dream of photographers to obtain a plate so sensitive that the picture may be made in a few seconds instead of nearly a half a minute. Gelatine was found to be a far better medium for the salts of silver used on the plates than collodion, the ordinary solution of cotton and ether. But the great difficulties in the preparation and use of gelatine plates are enormous, and notwithstanding the fact that pictures could be taken by the exposure of a fraction of a second only, it was abandoned. The gelatine plates now used are not made by photographers, but by chemists, and in large quantities; they are perfectly dry, can be carried anywhere, and are unalterable. With these plates pictures can be taken so rapidly that the motion of the hand in uncovering and covering the lens of the camera with the usual black cloth is far too slow. In its place a disc of black velvet, moved by pneumatic action has been substituted, by pressing a rubber bulb, which is connected with the camera by a tube, and may be carried in the orerator's hand to any part of the room the disc flies up and falls down again. When so short an exposure as this is all that is necessary to make a good negative it becomes the easiest thing in the world to take pictures of moving objects or persons. It is not necessary for them to keep still; the operator watches the sitter move about in his or her chair until the po-
sition pleases him, when he squeezes
the bulb and the thing is before the sitter knows that the photographer is ready to begin. The most admirable pictures of children are made without trouble and w.thout the child having to keep still. The instruments of torture known as the head -rest and the prop can be done away with; Rockwood has sold his for old iron. Persons may be taken laughing, talking, walking or running. Rogers, the sculptor, whose terra-cotta groups are so famous, employed Rockwood to photograph athletes wrestling; Rogers sat in a chair holding the rubber bulb which controlled the camera disc. The athletes went to work without any reference to the camera, and struggled for half an hour; whenever Rogers saw a position he liked he squeezed the bulb, the plate was taken out of the
camera and, another one put in. At
mechanically,
it a sermon, but in our hearts we never dignify it by calling it preaching. Preaching, such as the fathers of the church gave to the people, such as enabled Luther and Melanchthon to split asunder tbe Church of Rome, or Wesley and Whitfield to draw after them all the common people of England, is now one of the lost arts. Preachers often bemoan the lack of interest among the people, and wonder why so many fail to attend church. Did they ever stop to think that they themselves were to blame? Let them try to re-
cover the lost art of preaching and the people will turn out to hear them. Let them study how to induce men to repent and not how to start some new ism. Let them preach about the duty of man to his Lord, and not about the
little false or mistaken theological doctrines of the fathers. Let them preach as though they believed what they were preaching.
About five miles from the Abo springs have discovered some ancient siliggings, c smelters were built of adobe or
sun-dried bricks, and were elevated
some twenty or thirty feet above the
surface of the ground. In digging down they found the remains of charcoal, which they used for fuel by the old smelters. There were also seen the remains of an aqueduct, in which water was conveyed from a spring, three-fourths of a mile distant, to a dam which diverted the water into the smelting works. About five acres was covered with slap which Mr. Patterson has taken up for a mill-site. From the old furnaces a trail was found, after
considerable exploration, leading di-
rectly from the smelting work to the mine in the mountains, which rise in peaks to a height of 10,000 feet. The
ancient trail pursues a zigzag course, having a length of five miles, which in an air line, thc distance is not much exceeding one mile. Everything was
transported in those old mining days
best on a deep,
first imported
FARM NOTES. Asparagus thrives
sandy loam. Ayrshire cattle were
into this country in 1835
The first cows were brought to this
country by Columbus at his second
voyage, 1493.
Remember that your fowls need
gravel just as much as they need food,
and keep a supply constantly by them.
Tlie United States while it contains
less than
Europe,
a third
a sixth of the population of
has four-fifths as many swine,
as many cattle and a fifth as many sheep as are in all the European
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun
on men's shoulders to and from the mountains. There are now trees of
growing on the trail
"
Newspaper Writing,
Baltimore Gazette.
The majority of people imagine that it is the simplest thing in the world to edit a newspaper. A man may have grave doubts about his talent for pub lic speaking, may freely admit that he can't turn a tune or, recognize one when turned by anybody else; may confess that he is no poet, not much of a scholar, and nothing of an artist; bnt there is no poor creature so low spirited as to avow his incapacity to edit a newspaper. On the contrary,
this is a work to which every man has
dozen excellent negatives from which he could work at leisure. Painters have employed Rockwood to take children at play, sleepy children yawning, horses trotting, cows grazing and even pigs feeding. In one picture of pigs that I saw, a fat old fellow scratches his back and looks stolidly at the camera. For taking pictures out of doors, the disc moved by pneumatic action, has been found to be too slow, and another device consisting of a wooden slide, perforated with a hole has been provided. Only when the aperture in the slide is opposite the camera lens can light get to the plate. As the slide is allowed to fall rapidly it follows that the exposure is only for about the hundredth part of a second. Pictures taken of the harbor by this process show the finest ropes on the moving ships just as perfectly as if the ships had been at rest, and the waves are all outlined just as they were at that particular
second. As photographs, those made by this instantaneous process are superior to any other --- finer, and more distinct, while the unavoidable stiff, unnatural expression to be noted when a person's head is held between iron
pincers, while he stares at without winking for half a done away with.
a manifest call. No matter what his
actual business may be --- preacher, law-
yer, physician, butcher, baker or candlestick maker--- he has a secret fancy that if he only had a chance he could make a newspaper a little bit spicier and livelier than 'any thing in the shape a public journal that has ever come his way. This is one of the most musing and universal weaknesses of modern times. The number of people who are infected by it is known only to publishers, just as the extent to which opium eating is practiced is known only to druggists and physicians. The drawers and waste baskets of every leading newspaper office in
the country overflow with evidences of
the ambition and harmless vanity of the vast public who scribble by stealth and patiently toil over reams of com position Which nobody can be induced to print.
it must be admitted that there is.
something enticing and
editorial life, as it appears to the outside world. The delight of getting into print for the first time is one of the keenest enjoyments. What, therefore, both men and women reason to themselves, must be the pleasure of that happy man who daily feasts the public with his wisdom and whose smallest scribbling finds its way into type without criticism or delay? But this reason is altogether unsound The editor does not look at things in the same light. The colors seen by other eyes have become to his a little
clouded. The freshness, the exquisite charm of seeing his reflections in print has long since vanished. He writes sometimes painfully and under pres-
sure, often harassed by a thousand petty vexations, and not unfrequently
the "pinon
larger than a man's body, showing the antiquity of the path. Mr. Patterson
said he was two weeks discovering the
mines after finding the smelting works. The mine from which the silver was taken was concealed by fallen timber, some of which had taken root. It took nearly a fortnight to clear it away. It
was found to be seventy feet deep with several horizontal shafts. A lot of pottery was also discovered, and also a rich turquoise mine which bore evidence of former working. The pottery consists of drinking vessels used by these old inhabitants of the country. The vessels are of various designs, representing several species of birds and antelope. Some of the specimens are striped and spotted with a black coloring. An old miner named Baxter found in digging down a chamber about ten feet square, having on one a firside eplace, across which hung a crane having a clay hook, and at the end of the hook was a bone On the opposite side of the fireplace was found the skeleton of a man in a sitting position, who was evidently watching the bone roasting for his meal, when he and his habitation were overwhelmed in ruin by a sudden discharge of
lava from the mountain.
countries together.
tells this champion gourd story: "Mr.
E. T. Hickley has a gourd vine cover ing about one fourth of an acre, and upon which is over 100 gourds which will hold over a gallon each."
They are beginning to use Indian corn in England instead of barley to make malt. If the experiment proves to be prictical, it will cause an increased demand for American corn
and farmers will always have a place to put their surplus grain.
Seventy-two cattle from Springfield,
Ill., led by A. Farr, were sold in Chicago, recently at $6.50 per cwt live weight. This price is the highest that has been reached in that city in two
years. They were mostly three-year-
remarka-
olds, coming four, and were bly even and uniform.
By the analysis of Professor Collier
we learn that he found the per cent of sugar in the stalks of Indian corn to be much greater the more perfect the
stalks were and the nearer they are
to maturity. The experiments
[illegible] the importance of planting
the end of the bout he had half a
with aching head and weary hand. His work is, of all work, the most wearying, the most exhausting both to body and brain. The call for copy is inexorable and cannot be refused. He must write; he must also endure the most contemptible and continued criticisms, but bear patiently; "to be esteemed dull when he cannot be witty, and to be applauded for wit when he knows that he has been dull." Every blockhead who buys his paper feels that he has purchased a right to dictate the manner in which it shall be conducted, to criticize sharply every thing that appears in it and to "elevate its tone" with his own carping lucubrations, fairly written out and enclosed in a note for immediate publications, signed "A Subscriber," "An Old Patron," or "An Earnest Well
Wisher." If you were to ask this
modest friend to cut you a coat, or
measure you for a pair of boots, he would indignantly reply that that was not his trade; that he knew nothing about it and would not attempt it. But the deffidence which shrinks from the shears and coyly draws back from the awl and the lapstone, boldly grasps the pen and undertakes to so illuminate and instruct the world. Breeches and shoes require art, experience, reflections, in their making; political essays flow spontaneous from the most addled pate, or can be pumped out of it by sheer hand labor, without the vulgar appliances of study, thought and knowledge. Such is life!
Dinners and Punctuality. London Globe. A prominent American statesman was said to take a price in always knocking at any door within which he had an engagement precisely with the first stroke of the clock or with the very tick of his watch. Perhaps if
that wondrous wise statesman had taken the trouble to "tot up" all the odds and ends of time he must have wasted in securing this pettifogging precision, he would have found that whatever he might have done for other people's time he had really been as wasteful of his own as the veriest sloven in this way may he supposed to be on the showing of very exemplary people ---as wasteful, for instance, as Lord Palmerston, who was known to drop in to a public dinner four hours
enviable in
When Bosville gave his fashionable
dinners in Welbeck street, the guests were always given to understand that tmie must be observed to the
minute, and that if they were not there dinner must proceeed without them. It was not often that folks came late, for most people can be punctual when they know it is expected of them. On one occasion, however, it happened to be the Astronomer Royal who came in half a minute or so behind the appointed dinner hour, and , as he no doubt expected, found the guests coming down the staircaee to the diningroom. "I trust, Mr. Friend," said the host in greeting him, "that in future you will bear in mind we don't reckon time here by the meridian of Green-
more valuable crop.
Taking the country through, wheat this year is ahout ten cents per bushel
lower than at the same date last year corn about two cents per bushel higher,
hogs, seventy-five cents per hundred pounds higher; lard, $1.10 per hundred higher; pork $2.50 per barrel higher for January delivery; for earlier delivery the price is not so high. The French are a nation of small farmers. There are more land owners
in that country than in America. The farms are small. The majority are under twenty acres, and a very large number under ten. It may not be that
is the only reason for the mondey wealth
wich but by the meridian of Welbeck
street." That sort of thing may be all
very well when it is clearly understood that in auctioneer's phraselogy it is to be dinner time "prompt," but it is not every host who can muster the hardihood for such rigidity even though their guests may not be astronomers Royal. Most people will agree with Dr. Johnson, in his well-known dictum on the point. "Ought six people to be kept waiting for one?' asked' Boswell, who himself was inclined to proceed without one laggard. "Why yes;" said Johnson, "if the one will suffer more by your sitting down that the six
will by waiting."
a camera minute is
A Lost Art: Logansport Journal. There has been many books written and essays read upon what the writers have been pleased to term the lost arts. In this nineteenth century we are given to the belief that we are wiser and better than those who have gone before. In our vanity we imagine that all goodness, all wisdom, all genius are centered in this one age.
The ages that have gone before us we delight to call fogyish.. Our horses are
The twin children, three months old,
faster, we have railroads, steamships,
THE STATE.
of William and Fannie Johnson, of
New Albany, froze to death, the other morning. The parents are very poor. Mr. Johnson left home to hunt work, leaving his wife and children at home with no fuel. It grew colder in the night, and despite the efforts of the mother to keep them warm in their cradle with scanty clothing, one of them perished at 8 o'clock and the other at 6 The destitution of the family was not known to the neighbors.
Marcus A. C. Bratton was fatally stabbed by John Woodsmall, while on
their way home from a singing school at the Bowman schoolhouse, near Owltown, Daviess county. The knife penetraed the stomnch, and Bratton lived but five minutes. Woodamall escaped. He belongs to a bad family, his father having been connected with a murder several years ago. MRS. DORCAS BURCHFIELD, a widow who lives in Francisco, Gibson county, shot Thomas Burchfield, her brother
in-law, the ball entering near the right nipple, about 10 o'clock Saturday
night, on th street. He died
after. It
He
road corporation in a suit for personal damages.
Foreign. THE agitation in northern Albani against conscription is growing. BACELIC has been appointed Italian minister of public institutions, vise De Sanctis resigned. An international committee has been formed to suppress gambling at Monaco.
bonds, but made good no losses.
DURING his Presidency General Grant had every possible Isthmus canal route surveyed, and claims Nicaragua to be the best, because it is further north, more direct, and nearer us. He is very bitterly opposed to the construction of the canal by Europeans.. The Leadville (Col.) Democrat says
that it has been an open secret in Leadville for the past two or three months that the James boys and two
or three more of the notorious train
robbing "gang" have been
the vicinity of Leadville.
SOME years ago the country was told
that the Mormons were hiving, and that, unless something was done, New Mexico in the course of a few years would be practically annexed to Utah. Now the Governor of Idaho an-
mining in
AN AUSTIN county store and stock
on Gililland creek, twelve mites from Galveston, burned Friday night.
A new monthly the Home and
School Visitor, has just been started at Greenfield. Lee O. Harris is editor. The Crawfordsville schools, which have been suspended on account of scarlet fever, were resumed Mouday. Mrs. Treat, a pioneer of Laporte,
mother of Judge Treat, of Springfleld, Illinois, has just died, at the age of 93. The house of George Paxton, at Michigan City, was burned Wednesday. It caught from a red-hot stove pipe. The water works were frozen up. John Stackouse, who has been on trial at Madison, for the murder of his brother-in-law, Edward Claflin, last
August, has been acquitted.
The infant son of A. J. McIntosh, of Salem, fell against the grate, in which
appears that they had quar-
soon
and lodged
reled, and she pointed the pistol at him, not thinking it loaded, as she
claims. She was arrested in jail.
THE present high price of eggs has stimulated the ingenuity of an Indianapolis man. and he claims that has succeeded in making an artificial egg that is equal to the real one. He made a chemical analysis of the egg, ascertained the elements that enter into its
composition, and by taking these and mixing them in proper proportions
makes a product the same in all respects as a real ''sure enough" egg. He even makes an artificial shell, and places the substance in it in its natural position as to the white and the yolk. He has applied for a patent on his invention and as soon as it is obtained will erect machinery for the extensive manufacture of eggs, which can be produced at from six to ten cents per dozen all the year round. All this is what the man claims in conversation.
faster, we have railroads, steamships, telephones, telegraph, etc.. that they
had not in those old fogyish days, and because we have them we think that we are better than they. But are we better? Among all the advancements of the present age, may not preaching be classed as a lost art? In fact, has not pure, genuine preaching gone out of style? When Christ commanded his apostles: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every living creature," He sent them forth with a message to the people, of glad tidings of great joy. Paul went forth, preached and wrote, and his
teachings are to-day the standard among Christian people. Was he any
more divinely inspired or commission-
ed, than the preachers of the present day? Or was he any more learned?
If not, why is it that his teachings
stand so pre-eminentlv above all oth-
ers? Thousands throng to hear Beech-
er. and thousands more read his ser-
mons. They tickle the ear for a mo-
ment, or please the fancy for a brief
period, but who remembers them a month? Suppose that Beecher, with all his wonderful talent, should stand as did Paul, when he addressed the Athenians, could he, or would he preach such a sermon as did Paul from the midst of Mars Hill? We go to church Sabbath after Sabbath, listen to the "lectures" of the minister, go away, feeling that we have conformed to a custom, been seen of men, and that is the end of it. The minister closes his book, takes himself to a comfortable dinner, and returns thanks that another task has been
completed In the pulpit of to-day
we find no such burning eloquence as that which made the thousands stand in
the open air to listen to Peter and Paul, Wesley and Whitfield, or within the memory of some now living, to a Bascom, a Strange, a Finley. Is it the fault of the people, or is the cause to be fouud in the preacher? Suppose Paul had stood before the Athenians with a written manuscript, and had it read off to them as one of our modern preachers would have done in a listless monotone, accompanied, with awkward and unmeaning gestures, what effect would it have had upon the pa-
AN AMERICAN POMPEII.
Wonderful Discoveries in New Mexico --- New and Remarkable Traces of a Perished Race. America, as well as Italy, has its Herculaneum and Pompeii, if we may believe the reports of Messrs. Patterson and Mackley, two gentlemen engaged in mining in New Mexico, who
have just arrived at St, Louis, with remarkable statements. Some stupendous ruins have been discovered at Abo City, in the Manzana or Apple Mountains, in Valencia county, about twenty miles west of the Rio Grande river, and nearly the same distance from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. The district was once very populous, but has now no inhabitants. We learn from a long report in the Republican that there is evidence of vast volcanic eruptions in the vi-
cinity, which overwhelmed large cities and buried them and their inhabitants in hot ashes. There are lava beds fifty
miles in extent, and at one time the crater of one of the mountains must
have been sixty long and from fifteen
to twenty miles across. The remains
of a temple, with walls sixty feet high and ten feet thick, and covering an acre of ground, were found. The timber, which is pinon wood, was as sound as when first cut.
There are on one side of the piece of
timber some rude figures, one of the All Seeing Eye, representing probably the sun. Other figures are deeply indented in the wood, as if made by anything but a sharp-edged tool. Mr. Patterson says that he found stone hammers, but nothing in the shape of the sharp-edged or steel tools. There are small furrows seen in the wood as if plowed out with a stone gouge. The building evidently belonged to a style of architecture anterior to the adobe and dried-brick period. Mr. Patterson inclines to the opinion that the locality was tho site of one of the seven cities mentioned by the Spanish chroniclers, the author of which traversed the
Aristocratic Idlers. The men who do not work and yet 1ive on the fat of the land, says a correspondent, arc constantly increasing in New York. I do not refer to the clever fellows who pick up all sorts of odds and ends by their wits, but to the "high-toned" idlers along Fifth avenue and thereabout, who toil not
neither do they spin, and yet dress in
the Clubs. Most of
laid up
of these people. They are notable
economical and thrifty.
The yield of wheat on some of the
farms in Santa Cruz county, California, this season was very large. Mr. M. P. Owen says, in the Courier. of that
county, that he spent two days recent-
ly in gathering items from persons of
intelligence and veracity, who had
taken pains to weigh the wheat and measure the ground from which it was
taken, and it is an established fact that a good many fields turned out from seventy to ninety bushels to the acre,
and two fields yielded over 100 bushels
to tho acre, while fifty to seventy is common
In keeping sheep for profit the great
point is to secure cheap pasture.
Where wool alone is the Source of in-
come cheap land is an absolute necess-
sity. and the
diminishing.
left in the
can be procured in large tracts for fifty cents to $1 per acre or even less
supply of this is rapidly
There are few localities
United States where land
than fifty cents. But such tracts can
yet be procured in the mountain regions of Southwestern Missouri, West Virginia and North Carolina, where the climate is all that can be desired. When a horse or cow breaks a leg it has generally been considered impossible to set it and effect a perfect cure, but science will triumph. The
New England farmer gives an in-
stance: "Some time ago a valuable horse belonging to Charles E. Smith, of Stony Brook, had his leg broken at
Fort Jefferson. The broken limb was
set and the leg was imbedded in plaster of paris. In two weeks the horse could walk around the stable; in three weeks
drove him home, a distant or five
miles, and three weeks after the horse was driven to [illegible] a mile in four minutes.
The Lime-Kiln Club. Detroit Free Press.
"A leetle money will buy wood an' 'tators an' bacon, an' cloze." said the
old man as the meeting opened. "Lots of money will buy silks an & satins an'
jewelry an' white hosses. De man
wid a leetle money seems to believe dat de man, wid lots [illegible] taking all de
the best and fare sumptuously every
day, chiefly at
them are the sons of men who
fortunes by just as hard work as any of our busy merchants are doing now.
The fortunes were put into real estate or some other form of permanent investment, and now yield handsome annual returns. We have landlords in New York whose rent-rolls run from $30,000 to $50,000 a year, and in some cases to $100,000. These, I need
hardly say, are exclusive of the Astors, Goslets, and other heirs to enormous
estates. We have scores of very rich
beside, who made great fortunes
men,
in trade, or by specualtion,
rank as millionaires, though their
and who
names are not often seen in the papers. As a rule, the sons of these magnates, of the first class and the second, have no inclination to work. It was enough
for their fathers and grandlathers to do that. What they live for is to have a good time --- to dress at the top of the
fashion, drive fat horses, be hatfellows well met with the nabobs of the
comfort. I used to hab dat idea, but
Ize got ober it. It am my solum belief dat de man who sets down befo' his own fire, wid his wife on de right an' his chill'en on de left, an' de cie cat an' a pan-full o appels in de middle, am in a posishun to take jist as much comfort as if he lived in a house wid golden stairs. Take de world frew an you'll fin' dat de humblest homes am de happiest. De man who has steady work, a savin' wif'e an' healthy children wouldn't be a bit happier if he was to draw $85,000 in a lottery, If he doan' take comfort it's his own fault. It's her own fault if his wife isn't happy. Sometimes my ole woman gits de blues an' blows aroun' kase she sees odder folks ried out in deir keeridges
an' dress up id deir satins, but I build up a good fire, git out de apples, cider, an' pop-corn, draw up de [illegible] rockin' cheer, an' she can't stan' it moah dan ten minnits. De blues begin to fly away, an' she pats de bald spot on my
head an' says: 'We has a cabin of our
own, plenty to eat a leetle money in
de bank, an' I [illegible] we kin set down an' take as solid comfort as if you war Guv'ner an' [illegible] ten silk dresses." He who makes de most of what he's got am fittin' hisself to enjoy better. No situashun but what could be made
by worse. Every dollar made by honest
work ought to bring $2 worf
country after the conquest Mexico,
arnong which were the cities' of Came-
lona Grand Cavra, Santa Cruz, Puerto
de Abo, the Abo, and the old Pecos, and another situated a few miles west
of Abo, in the lava beds.
Another specimen is a human skull,
evidently that of a young female, as shown by the teeth, which was exhumed about half a mile from the
church. Skulls are quite plentiful among the old ruins in the vicinity.
Clubs get invitations to stylish dinners and receptions, and in a general way copy the manners and dress of
the English aristocracy as closely as possible. A good deal has been said from time to time about the growth of a privileged class in New York. The class is a very large one, and it ineludes another class which may be called the comnuinity of aristocratic
idlers. As families acquire large wealth, and set up in the fashionable world, this class steadily increases. Our friends, the Communists dislike it greatly, and would like to pull it down, but it keeps on growing, and will continue to do so. Its existence is no doubt, one of the inevitable consequences of the accumulation of money in individual hands. An Editors Life. Utica Observer. One of the beauties and charms of an
editor's life is in his deadheading it on
all occasions. No one who has never
tasted of the sweets of that bliss can
begin to take in its glory and happiness. He does $100 worth of railroad advertising, gets a "pass" for a year, rides: $25 worth; and
then he is looked upon as a deadhead
or a halfblown deadbeat. He "puffs" a concert $10 worth and gets $1 in "complimentaries,'' and is thus passed "free." If the hall is crowded, he is begrudged the room he occupies, for if his complementaries were paying tickets the troupe would be so much in pocket. He blows and puffs a church festival to any extent, and does the
poster, printing at half rates, and rarely gets a "thank you" for it. It goes as a
part of his duty as an editor. He does
more work gratuitously for the town
and community than all the rest of the population put together, and gets cursed for it all, while in many in-
stances a man who denotes a few dol-
lars for the Fourth of July base ball club or church, is gratefully remembered. Oh, it is a sweet thing to be an editor. He passed "free" you know.
of solid
comfort. Wid dese few remarks, called forth by overhearin' Samuel Shin growlin' aroun' bekase he couldn't
have mashed 'taters at every meal, we
will now eradicate the usual order of business.
Sunlit Rooms. Builder and Woodworker. No article of furniture should be put in a room that will not stand sunlight for every room in a dwelling sho have the windows so arranged tha some time during the day a flood of
sunlight will force itself into the apart-
ment. The importance of admitting
the light of the sun freely to all parts
of our dwelling cannot be too highly es-
timated. Indeed perfect health is
nearly as much dependent on pure
sun-light as it is on pure air. Sun-light should never be excluded except when so bright as to be uncomfortable to the
eyes. And walks should be in [illegible]
sun-light so that the eyes are [illegible]
by veil or parasol when [illegible]
intense. A sun bath is of [illegible]
tence in preserving a health
[illegeible] of the body [illegible] is
understood. A sun bath costs nothing,
and that is a mistake. [illegible] people are deluded with the idea that those things only can be good or useful which cost
money. But remember that pure
[illegible]
[illegible]
water, fresh air and sunlit homes, kept free from dampness, will secure you from many heavy [illegible] of the doctors, and give you health and vigor which no money can procure. It is a well es-
tablished fact that the people who live
much in the sun are usually stronger
and more healthy, than those whose
occupation deprives them of sunlight.
And certainly there is nothing strange
in the result, since the same law ap-
[illegible] with equal force to nearly every
[illegible] It will be
[illegible]
lim so that every [illegible] may be [illegible] with sunlight some time in the day, and it is possible that [illegible] more than they now recive.