Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 12, Bloomington, Monroe County, 22 January 1881 — Page 2

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BLOQMINGTON COURIER.

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BIiOOMINOTON,

INDIANA

THE NEWS. Justice Swayne will resign January M, . . . SmON Camekok is to make a smithem tour, going as far as Cubai George B. Fisher, a Hartfoidufiuranee agent, has disappeared." Eight persons perished by the hurtling of the Kronstadt theater. Fifty thousand colliers are- oix a strike at Lancashire, England. New York Republicans nominated Thomas C. Piatt for the Senatorship. The mother of Kate Bateman , the actress, died in London, Wednesday. James H. Fair has been elected to the United States Senate from Nevada. Thomas G. F&att. has been nominated for Senator from New York. The damages of the breaking up of the ice at Cincinnati reached SI 00 GOO. Several passengers were injured in a railroad collision near Unionpart, Ohio. : j ' - Mr. McMillan was nominated Aerator from Minnesota ,by the Bepublicans. v. Hamilton Fish is now the Preside nt of the Union League Club, of 2ew York, Jean Xios, t he San Domingo revolutionist, was tpursued and shot by the troops. -7!.".. ' ' : " P. T; Baknujk is now rapidly re overing from his attack of mataal feveri ;'; ":., , -.. Gkn, MuBoweix is , being pushed for secretary of war by California politicians. . Eleven million dollars will be paid out as interest in Philadelphia. this month. - - Mrs. Willam Astor gave a magnif icent ball at New York,i Wednesday evening. General Grant has been " elected

counsel for ex-Governor Sprague in he divorce case brought against him bv his wife, but wi!l represent him in he civil aase with his creditors. P'.Or'Kas been revealed to capture Col. James G. Fair, the Nevada millionaire, while he wasin'Candelaria, and hold him for a ransom of half a million dollars. Mr. Fair wa3 suddenly

called to Aurora, Nevada, the n igh t

the plan was to have been executed, and it was thus frustrated. The impecunious heirs of General Washington are beseiging Congress to purchase for 10,000 a sword formerly the property ot the General. The United States already owns several cart loads of such relics, and Congress should let up on buying any more, A Dublin correspondent says the iiistory of the past year in Ireland may be written m two words DistressDisturbance. It came in with the begging box and went out with the bludgeon. HajOiAN, the Canadian oarsman, has sprained his wrist, and some doubt id entertained as to bis ability to row in the match against Layeock. At the Plymouth church pew-rent-ng, Tuesday night, Mr. Beecher said that the "persecution" of that church by Theodore Tilton, and the defense of the pastor had cost it 200,000, one-half of which had been paid, and the other half is still owing. The last' rise in Western Union

1 stock has proved very disastrous to

the "shorts" in New York. The intimate friend of Van derbilt lost half a million , Gould's former partner 150,000, and' several other operators from 350.000 to $75,000.

SENATOR MCDONAIiD Ot

Com-

President of the World's Fair mission.

Secretary Gofp will not be renamed in the navy department by Gen. arfleld. " ' ' i Ho batxo Seymour is in a state of decline, and is not expected to live very long. Statistics show the leases by lire daring 1S80 were a little, more than half those of 1879. ; ! Delia Deabam, of Sedaiia, Teiro.; poisoned her brother for marrying against her wishes. - - - J 1 John Wiakow, oif Oshkosh Wis., murdered bis family, fired the house, and then shot himself; Francis Peabedy, Jr., and Miss Rosamond Lawrence, of Boston, were married Wednesday. ag&O Three indictments for embezzlement have been found against Si W. Huffman, of Cincinnati' " ' " ' 1 - Warren Jjpngmore,' the boy murderer of Machias, Me., has been convicted of nianslaughter. : Frederic Wintz, of the New Orleans CSty Bailway Company, has been arrested for embezzling 550,000. The Democrats cf Nevada have nominated James G. Fair as their candidate for Senator. . THEgrand total of the population of the United Siates is 30,152,5c.! A handsome showing.; Iff is estimated that tne aggregate east of the Arrears of Pensions? Ac t wfli be $400,000,000; :? ; " o .Postmaster Gen. Maynahb has gone to Tennessee to look. rftr the Senatorial contes t 1: M&ejel Litta (Miss Von Eisner) Is to be married to Hairy Cleveland, the tenor, in February next. Thb opinion generally prevails that the rebellion in Traiiskei, South flea, is approaching its end. ' . The Ameri3an manufacturers are shipping large quantities of guns and munitions of war to Turkey. .

The French Government will issue i

next July 800,000,000 francs worth fof redeemable 3 per cent, rentes, X Gov. Lo.ng, of Massachusetts, favors a proposal to grive property-holding yvo men the right of suffrage, '-- Two yonng men and a boy were drowned Friday while skating at Bags reek, Maitown, New Jersey. fe . 1 vThb city.of .El Paso, Texas, is- over

run : wim thieves, gamblers

. marderers, and the governor has been

appealed to for help.

Joseph C. Graxnan, tha- detective

this Stat

was married Wednesday morning to Mrs, Josephine T. Bernard of Washington City. This is the third time for the Senator and the second instal ment for his estimable lady. More than two thousand persons were present at the meeting of the Berlin Wahlmaenner. Resolutions weie adopted strongly condemning the an ti-Jewish movement and protesting against interference with the legal equality of religious professions. The committee on gubernatorial votes in Maine will report that Plaisted, the Fusion candidate, received a plurality of the votes cast, and declare

him elected Governor for the ensuing

two 3 ears. The total vote was 147,802, of which 73,713 were cast for Harris M Plaisted, and 57 for Harrison M. Plaisted, while 73,544 were cast for Daniel F. Davis. A minority report

will alao be presented. . "Jay Qovlo predicts another financial crisis in this country within the nextetwo or three years. The reckless dealings in all kinds of stocks, real and imaginary, particularly the latter. The " investment of large amounts of capital in railroads and mining stocks, which to a large extent are unproductive, and the general carelessness that pervades 'every thing, shows that the prediction is in a fair way to be fulfilled. Bedpath, in his lecture on Ireland, begins with: T . .

j Ireland is the Gethsemane of Europe. In f it tnre are more undeserved poverty and

sinless crime than In any other land on the face of the globe. England will give you reasons for It as plentiful as the tigers in'the India n jungles. She says it is because the inhabitants are Catholics; because They are lawless; because they are indolent; because they are drunken, and because they are ex

travagant, if you ask me., for a reason, I

answ er in on e" word : Lan dl ordis m I The

trouble has its origin in the robbery of a

race for tne benefit ofca class of loafers. The Worlds Fair to be held in New York seems to be rapidly materializing. The , last vacancy in the Commission was filled by the election of Ge:i. U.S. Grant, who was at the same time elected President -of the Commission, The vacancies intthe Executive Committee were also filled, Indiana being represented by James A. Smart, ex-Superintendent of Public instruction. Prof. Smart's connection with the representation from this State at the Center nial in 1876 have given him a special -jltneas for the position, and guarantees the State a prominent place. :

Tiee House Committee on Foreign Kelations had under consideration Representative Crapo's resolution declaring the policy of the United States in relation to the Panama Canal, and teafiirrning the Monroe doctrine. Mr. A.1' Thcrndyke Kice, editor of the Torth American Review, was present sand made ra long statement to the committee; In a recent visit to Francehe had observed that the ideas

vot American interference and Ameri

can interests were treated with jscprn and ridicule, and that

tae real state ot nubnc leelme

W! agamsi; roe had been, withheld or misrenre-

itiuzici. cuiiuuttung: OJS SftAftlpH. Mr. RiflA fnrthflr nffrl thot

damages at $35,000.

The remains of' Lieutenant Irving, ef the Sir John Franklin expedition, recovered by lileutenant Sehwatka. were;i)uried in Edin burg Sunday. ? John Dbuhmond has decided that eonsalidated railroad corporations may be sued in the courts of 1 each State where they have" an in fegral part! . Jclius Cohn. manufacture of var, nish. at No. 273 Hearl street NeW" York, and at Hunter's Point, has agi gned,with liabilities of $190,000. Sctjen Waitefobd, a domestic of Jineianati, fatally shot nereself 'he eanse har lover, James Smith, declinetf to keep his marriage engagem ents ; Tihhtytwo of the crew of the Spanish steamer Ieoii, which Sank ,4n collision with the steamer Harelda, have been saved. Tbirtv are still ' mining. l- -

Garfield, Gibson and Conger, of the House ways and means committSeT' have -all been promoted' to thir Senate, and Garfield thence to . the Presidency. -ft ":- The President has decided to noini nate "Ef C. Billings, United States Judge at -New Orleans, to be circuit judged vice Woods promoted to the supreme bench. : 4 Fokty or fifty thousand colliers ari?

on a strike in Lancashire hecfiuse the masters wish to enforce the acceptance of contracts freeing them from li ability in case of accidents.. 1 : 1 rHR New'Yoik Central road has sabscribed $260000 to the world's IfaiH providing that.orOjOOO is raised. Otineral Grant is spoken of as president of the company , of eourae. Mrs. E.O. EUiis and Mrs. CVt;alley , wives of prominent citizens of Havana, were Wiled Monday, being run over by a train whileerossiag the railjoad track iu a steigtu V J t i'slss.. Bceb has -declined! tos act M

tae Panama scheme was founded upon a "concession" from the -government of New Granada, but it was incorporated under the laws of France, -whose courts would'iave jurisdiction in all litigation that might arise. Several ether gentlemen gave their views on tbiesubject. s r - - Wfl' ., .. , . . ... . General Grant says, in an article, favoring the Nicaraguau Canal route, which has just been published that "an inter-oceanic canal across the American isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, and between the United States and the rest of the world. It will be tne great ocean thoroughfare leween our Atlantic and our Pacific shores, and virtually a part of the const Hoe of the United States. Our merely commercial interest in it is greater than that of all other countries, while its relations to our power and prosperity as a Ration, to our means 6$ defense, our unity, peace and safety, are matters of paramount concern to the people of the United States. No other great power would, under similar Circumstances, fail to assert a rightful control over a work so closely and

vitally affecting its interest and welfare."

Interestin g Items. "aitt. Grace is the 77 th mayor of New York.' ' ; ' . . Thebe are 40,000 colored people in Washington. ..Tanner, of forty days7 fast fame, now weighs 170 pounds. C arloads of poplar are made into cigar lighters at Cleveland. Nearly every-town in eastern Kansas ia digging the earth for oral. a woman calls her h usbe nd Good Bolution, beoause he Is always broke.

Texas papers speak of the late George Eliot as "a very gifted but very immorad man," OLTVJ3R Logan says that the largest Incomft received by English novelists is that of Miss Braddon, A RIDE across the desert of Sahara by rail will be among the novelties of the future travel. Distri ct attorney Phelps, of New York hail his life insured for $26,000, and had paid but one premium. Rev. Ism ao Moses, rabbi of Milwaukee, has been sued for libel by a parishioner, whom he called "a lying old thief." It is rumored that Bjornstjerne Bjornson is to be married to ihe widow of the late 6le Bull, now resident 02 Milwaukee. The Senate committee on privileges and elections, by a vote of four to three, decided to call the Kellogg case up in'the Senate at an early day. and press it to a vote.Mr.YptTNG Wing i3 the only member of the Chinese Legation who has the permission of his Government to wear American dress. In calling Bright Eyes, the captivating Ponca maiden, a liar, is not Secretary Sehurz forgetting his customary courtesy to ladies? NewYork Graphic. The origin al Anderson , Her r man n , Blitz, and Heller, the renowned ma

gicians, are all dead; yet performers are travelling under ail these names. ; A jury recently decided that John Dick of Warsaw, New York, had a right to sit in his pew in the German Lutheran church with his ieet elevated upon the baek of the seat in front of him. A XiEVTSR from Milan, Italy, to the Cincinnati Gazette says; Musical statistics show that there are 3,000 sopranos and 16,000 singers in Milan on the tapis looking for contracts. The valuation for assessment of Tennessee for this year is $211,76S,43S, or $i,&49,342 less than the valuation of last year. Seven years ago the valuation was $30S,089,738. Even Siberia has its university, an institution that is located in the city of Tomsk, possesses a library qt 35,000 volumes, and :has .already cost several hundred thousand dollars. There is a young man in Walla Walla, only 19 years of age, who has attained the height of seven feet aud four inches. He looks strong and healthy, and is very quiet in manner. One of the greatest pleasures, of railroad traveling to lovers have been destroyed. Now, just before a train enters , a tunnel, a buccaneer goes through the cars and lights all the

lamps. John Randolph told Josiah Quincy that the greatest orator he ever heard was a slave mother, on the auction

block, appealing for sympathy and justice, and denouncing her heartless auditors. The consumption of beer in this country is increasing. By the taxes paid on malt liquors last year it appears an amount was consumed equal to 8.28 gallons per capita. In 1870 the consumption was 5.20 gallons per capita. The magnitude of fire insurance was recently illustrated by a packing firm in Chicago, which last week ordered $050,000 worth of insurance on a single house and stock arid the week before gave an order for 250,000. These were placed in Live) pool by cable, every American company being full on the risk. The sultan of Morocco recently dismissed at a blow two hundred of his oldest wives, bestowing their hands upon distinguished officers of bis army, whose pay in consideration of the high favor thus conferred, he-docked five and twenty per cent. As an instance of the meanness of the laws of New Jersey, every railroad company doing business there is compelled by statute to furnish the members of the legislature with dead-head tickets. Frederic Arthur Law, having presumed to contract a marriage with an English ward in chancery without proper application to the vice-chancellor,; and on fraudulent representations, has been committed to prison. The court observed that the young lady Was entitled to a considerable fortune, and intimated that that was Mr. Law's inducement to marry her. The convicts In Sing Sing prison under its present management earn their own living nnd earn iOr the State from $2,000 to $3,000 a month. Instead of working in stone quarries and making lime, and .getting out .material for house building, they work in shops on the prison premises. The manufacture ing of stoves aud shoes, and the humdrying of shirts for the trade, are the industries from which the State derives profit. The city of Providence, It. L, was incorporated forty-eight years and seven months ago. During these years four men have held the mayors 1 tj forty years and seven months, and six men have held the office for the re

maining eight. , One man has heldT.be office for fifteen years. The revenue books show that during the year 1880, 13,561,300 were received for revenue stamps from the match m anufacturers of the , Uu i ted States. This would make the number of matches consumed 35 613,000,000, or about 700 matches per year to every man, woman and child in the United States. Charles Sumner was kindness itself to young men beginning life. On one occasion, when much? pressed for time, he answered a young lawyer of Baltimore as to what cottrse oi study he should pursue in a ten-page letter. The you n g man was not a frie n d even and has no claim upon him whatever. He is now one of the leading lawyers of Baltimore. , Mr. James R. Keene's family will, it is reported, occupy a furnished house at Newport this winter, their beautif.il home having been burned up. . Mr. Keene continues to pay 550 for passage across .the. bay once a week, since the regular running time does not suit him, and his personal residence at Newport is limited to about ten hours a week.

Aura ham Lincoln, the grand fa (her t

or tne rresHieiH or tnar name, was killed by Indians on Linkkbrn's Han, as the scream in Kentucky was then called. His blood ran into the stream which ever since has bom his nameHe was found with the string of his powder-horn around his neck. Tim powder-horn passed from one neighbor to another, and finally fell into, the hands of a Mr. Brown, who forwarded it to the Lincoln Memorial Association at Springfield, III. It bore the owner's name aud an eagle with spread wings carved in bold relief, Brignoij:, the tenor in company with a number of gentlemen, was recently entertained at Lexington, Ky., by XL Price McGrath. After dinner

some ono asked Brignoli to favor the party with a eong. He. replied that singing was his profession, and he onlyj parcticed it. upon the stage. A short while afterward he expressed; a desire to see Mr. McGrath's horsen. The latter told him that racing horses was his profession, and that if he would come to the next spring meeting anop.porttmity to see his horses would be afforded. Brignoli returned to his hotel without getting a glimpse of Tom Bowling or his stable mates.

THE STATE

ATT ARABIAN CHARGER.

An Army Officer's Enthusiastic Recollections of His Horse.

Andrew B, Taylor, leading grain and hog dealer of Pendleton, died Friday morning. The Methodist Episcopal church at Modoc, Out., burned Sunday night. Loss $10,000. John Graham, sr., was found dead in his barn, Monday, near Leaven worth, from apoplexy. The Fort Wayne college will erect a 15,000 dormitory for the young lady

students in the spring. Ferd McMakiglew as badly hurt and his horse killed, a few days ago, by a runaway accident at Mauckport. An eight -year old son of Ed. Parry, hardware merchant of Connersviile, had his right thigh broken while coasting. The store of Cox & Co., at Clifford, Bartholomew county, containing the postoffice, was burned Friday night. Loss $2,000. C. B. Murray, an old citizen oj Hageretown, while engaged in harvesting ice fell a distant of thirty feet, striking on bis head aud crushing his head and crushing his skull in a horrible 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 places. J For two

The contract for the erection of a new jail at Salem has been awarded to Or umbo & Co.. of New Albany, at $14,783.30. This includes the Washington, county pool, . Mrs. M, Hog an, of Lagrange, was shot through the arm by a revolver; in the hands of her husband. The bono

was badly shattered. She ran out ot

the house screaming ".murder," but both declare the shot was accidental. RobertHall, 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, in August lasr. He will have his trial m January. J. C. Nieman.. of Fort; Wayne, made a death-bed confession that another party committed a certain forgery, for which Morris Robinson was convicted and sent to the penitentiary for two years, mainly upon Nieman 's Testimony, Frank Nevak, twenty years of age, has been arrested at Ligonier, for a criminal assault upon a widow named Mrs. (rloyed, sixty-eight years, old. Only three weeks., ago Navan completed a term of imprisonment for a like crime on a. youi.g lady from Goshen, At a spelling school near Zionsville, Boone county, Friday night, Adolphus Wood shot and instantly killed Leland Tinsel, jr. The two Tinsel boys assaulted the. Wood boys and a cousin named Miller, first striking Miller on the head., aud then began shooting. Wood then shot Tinsel in the stomach. Miller is" dangerously hurt and the other Tinsel boy is uuder arrest Marcus A. C. Bratyon was fatally stabbed by John Woodsmall, while on their was "home from a singing school at the Bowman schoolhouse, near Owl town, Daviess county. The knife penetrated the stomach, and Bratton lived but five minutes. Woodsmall escaped. He belongs to a bad family, his father having been connected with a murder several years ago. There are four building associations in Seymour. The largest, representing $150,000 stock, hn3 just, completed an organization. RcaTestate in Seymour is very valuable, owing to a -great extent, to the number who have become property owners through these associations.. Faruls Dalton, aged seventy, an old citizen of Washington county, was attending the funeral of his daughter, near Prowville, and when the eoffiiii was opened for. the friendu to take theirJa. look at the dead, Mr. Dalton stepped to the open coffin and immediately fell dead beside it, " Kenney Dodd a young man of Rising Sun, had his hand badly burned by the explosion of some powder in his pocket. It seems that he had some paper caps, a buncn of keyes and some matches in the same pocket with tb.9 powder, and the matches rubbing against the keys iguited and caused the powder to explode, with the above result. f.r Judge J. Logan Chipman, of the Superior Court, and lawyers Don M. Dickinson, Levi I. Grift n, and George S. Hosmev are sued in the Wayne Circuit by a plumber named Edward H. Ross for false imprisonment, with damages laid at $100,000. rj he case grows out of the Boss divorce suit. There are 9 merchauts, 54 lawyers, J collector. 2 manufacturers. 1 nrinter.

39 farmers, 1 real estate agent, 17 physicians, 1 tailor, o editors, 1 lumberman i, 8 ministers, 1 barber, 2 bankers, 1 molder, 1 clothier, 1 druggist, 21 contractors, 1 iniFer, 1 school teacher, 1 quarry man, 1 shoemaker, and 1 Justice of the Peaces in the Indiana Legislature. TV" The rumor omes from Vincennes that tiio body suatchers have visited the grave of the late Governor Williams; dug up t he body and robbed it of its valuables, even taking the silver trimmings from the casket. The report was brought to Vincennes by a citizen of the township, in which the cx-Goveruor was buried. General John F. Miller, of California, who is to succeed Sena cor Booth

in the United Stales Senate, is a native of Indiana. He first went to California about 1 850. He afterward returned to Indiana, and resided at South Bend. When the war broke out he raised a regiment and became its Colonel. He rose to the rank of Brigadier General, and was wounded, losing an eye at the

ba.tie of Stone River. He was in command at Nashville while Johnson was Military Governor. AfUr the war ..he returned to California. Wiien Johnson became President he appoiiited (.General Miller Collector oj. the Port of Han Francisco. His prominence in business circles enabled him to become one of the founders of the Alaska Fur Seal Company, of which he is the President. This has made hi m enormously rich. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention! two years ago, but has held no other elective office. Senator Booth made no effort to be re clewed.

W ilko's Spirit of the Ti men. While our brigade Avas temporarily quartered near Overton Four Corners in 1888 1 was an officer upon the General's staff, and was passing with orders one afternoon along the rough path our command had opened through a long stretch of scrub timber, toward the front, when I encountered a shabbily dressed mulatto boy skulking, apparently, in the woods, and leading by a ragged rope halter a miserablelooking, jaded, lame horse, which, in spite of its plainly forlorn physical condition, challenged ..my notice from the several striking and good points in its form, and especially from its peculiarly intelligent and attractive features. I halted the negro and inquired where he had got the beast. ...'Pick'b ,'er up on der road," he responded quickly. "Picked herupt When?" "Two free days ago. sab." "What do you know" about her?" I continued, as I advanced and hurried

ly examined ner neaci ana nozzie. . .VNuffin, sab," said the darky indifferently. "What is the matter with the mare?" I asked. 1 .'She's dun gone dead lame, sab," he replied, pointing down to her swollen nigh fore foot, which she scarcely touched to the ground as she hobbled tremblingly along. "Follow, me, then," I said, authoriuttively, "and bring the mare along. I will provide for you." And an hour afterward I had Reub aud the crippled beast in camp. In a few weeks she rapidly gained in flesh, and her spirited action and movements inducea me one morning to mount and ride her away to the Post Commissary's depot a distance of sixteen miles from our camp. I found her the best saddle horso I ever bestrode, and at once appropriated this

fine animal to my own private use.

Years thereafter I rode ner

constantly in the military service. From her wonderful fleatness and evident high breeding I named her Borak in Arabic signifying light

ning. Her

eourage was indomitable, her

Intelligence almost human, her temper singularly docile, and her affection most remarkable. Upon the march; when 1 wearied of bestriding her, she would follow me in the line like a watchful dog. Unon halting, when we lay down at noon for a temporary rest, she woi Id lie down beside me quietly until the column was again in motion, when she would jump to her feet without word or signal, and patiently wai till I mounted, or led the way on foot, when she would "fall in" as promptly as any trained soldier in the ranks. She became strangely attached to my other two army horses after a little while, and would recognize them in the field, by day or by night, with singular affection often after my staff duties, separated us for days together from her camp stable mates. But toward mo, individually, she was tne most demonstrative In her kindly and loving attentions. On two occasions I wTas stricken down and )eit the field (in hospital V when I was absent from duty three to four weeks at a time. On my recovery, the moment she saw me near her, she pranced and danced nervously about, with seeming zealous joy at my return, and amid her cheering neighs I could almost fancy I heard her saying, "How are you. old boy? where have you been? I'm right glad to meet you, all so chirpy again." Her capacity for endurance; her abundant physical strength; her fine ear aud muzzle, as well as form; and the constant evidence she gxwe of her Intelligent reasoning power, reminded me many times during my acquaintance with her remarkable qualities of her likeness to the favorite mare in the story related by Lamartiue, of a notable Arab couiser belonging to a captured chief. This anecdote may not be new to you, but it will be fresh, perhaps, to many of our leaders: The tribe under Abou-el-Ma.rek had been vanquished in a fight in the desert, and this Chief was taken prisoner, with his horse, to Acre, bound hand and foot. He was thrown upon the ground before the tent door of his captors, and left there to pass the night His horse was picketed near by. The pain of his wonnds kept him awake. He heard the animal neigh, and dragged himself over the sod to caress him psrhap for the last time, "My poor friend," he murmured, "what will become of you, among those Turks? Yoii will be shut up in a roofed stable of the Kahn; no longei will you be fed and tended. by the women and children of the tent: no longer will you fly over the desert, free as the winch But if I must be a slave, you at least must be free. Go to our home. Tell my wife :and children that Abou-el-Marek will return no more." With these words the Arab chief his hands being liouuel), with his teeth undid the fetters which bound the limbs of his steed, and so set him free. The noble animal, instead of flying aw ay alone, stooped down,, took her master's clothes in her teeth, lifted him up and theri knelt while he worked himself on her sto ut shoulders. Aud then away she went at full gallop, homeward where, without halting in her flight, she arrived at daybreak safely with her burden before the family tent, laid her still fettered master at the feet of his family and children and immediately dropped dead with exhaustion. The name of this wonderful beast is constantly mentioned by the Arabs of Jerico. My : beautiful mare was unluckily

doomed at last.

put up money on a bet. The res!; will. 1 crwfish around and finally baci: water on their assertion. Only ten women out of every 500 who start out on a journey by a railroad consult a railroad man or have the least idea of the .direction ..-they take. iFour hundred and niuety-eifeht worry about their baggage; 497 are certain they took the wrong train; 497 wish they bad never started. The risk of being bitten by a dog ie. greatly overestimated. Out of every 1 ,000 big aud little dogs only two to care to get up a row with the bumaaa race, ana these two are ready ami willing to die. The number of men who can put in a more pleasant evening clown town than at their own firesides is on the decrease, and the number of wives, who are taking a little extra pain? to make home more pleasant than a concert saloon is on the increase.Out of every 1 ,0( 0 men who get mad and swear they will sea a lawyer about it only fifteen carry out their intentions. Out of every 1,000 women who ride on street cars only twelve will move along to offer another women a chance to sit down. Nine hundred aud ninety-eight of them, argue that it is a man's duty to stand ap, even if there is plenty of room.. and the other two-are supremely indifferent. Only one woman in 5,C00 rfays .the first price asked for a bonnet, and only one milliner in a 1,000 expects her to. Ths time occupied by the average man in buying a" full suit of clothes is

just one-fourth the time occupied by

the average woman in buym

pair of stockings.

pea red the catamount fled. The dog followed and son afterward Boyd heard a struggle in the woods. Be hurried to the scene, and found the dog worrying a wild-eat kitten;, the old one being nowh.re to be &eeh. Boyd took the kitten away from the dog, and started home with it. Near by he found two more kittens crouching in the bushes. He took them in his arms, and when he reached his gate he looked back and saw the old one pursuing him. He hurried into the. house, and the dog drove the catamount away. Next' day Boyd took one of the kittens fcu the spot where he had found them. He nied it to a tree, and hid. himself,' with his gun . ready no fire. The cries of. the kitten soon brought the mother Id it. She took the kitten , in act mouth, but Boyd shot her dead before, sho had takena step. ; HOUSEHOLD HOTEa

FARM NOTES.

At the assault on Petersburg, upon t

the explosion of the ;iame which our division had dug under the enemy's fort on the hill, the stalf officers stood awaiting orders just before the signals were given for the final charge of our

Faint all tools that: are exposed

the weather or the heat of the sun. Dip the tip of nails in grease aud they will easily drive into hard wood. Frost will not penetrate so deep when the ground i3 dry as when it is very wet. There is as much nourishment in one bushel of beans as in five bushels of potatoes. Parafline on whetstones is superior to any other liquid, and will keep the stone in better order. Harness oil, made of one gallon of neatsfoot oil, with four ounces of lampblack, well mixed, is simple and effective. Spent tan bark has been pounded into a compact clay soil with the nest results, as it rendered the soil mellow and increased its warmth. The manufacture of thread from wood is now carried, on to a considerable extent in Sweden. It is particularly adapted to crochet work. Pastures that have been fed a few

seisons will generally produce more milk, or make more fat, than those which have been newly seeded down. Ewes in lamb are very liable to take cold, and . when exposed to wet unci cold weather,. or allowed to lie on tb? ground, are likely to suffer abortion. The aericultual products of the country during the past few years foot up enormous figures. In 1879 they amounted to $1,919,959,397, and the estimate for the present year is $2,ooD,ooofooo. ' ; ' In Baltimore, Md., there are fortyfive firms engaged in the business of preserving and canning fruits and vegetables, employing a' capital of $1,980,450, using material to the value of $1,905,200 and producing stock to the value of $5,262,568. John A. Van Vleit, of the town of Esopus, N, Y.; a few days ago killed a bog which was somewhat remarkable in that it weighed 250 pounds dressed, and had two hearts and two windpipesL One of the hearhi was about half the size of other. Stringbalt is an affection of the nerves, and is incurable. It is caused by a loss of power of the nerve which controls the muscle by which the leg is lifted,. the action then being spasmodic, irregular and excessive, cans ingthe high lifting usual in this disorder. ."Excessive drinking of water by farm animals i3 said to increase the consumption of fat in the body. Too watery fodder and too much drinking are therefore to be avoided, especially in fattening, if we wish to attain the most rapid and abundant formation of flesh ana fat. Professor Riley says that kerosene or oil of any kin; ?s sure death to insects in all stagivg. the only substance with which wesay hope to destroy the eggs. Oils will not mix directly, with water but will mix with milk, fresh or sour, and then may bo diluted to any desired extent. An English mechanic has invented a .horseshoe composed of. three; thinknesnes of cowhiae, .compressed into i steel mold and subjected to a chemical preparation. will last longer than ..the common shoe, weighs only onefourth as much, does not split the hoof, requires no calks, and is very elastic. .... ; Pla5it5 like animals, differ much in their habit and the different sons of food on which they subsist. The broad-' leaved clovers,1 turnips and mangels abstract from the air a large portion of their growth, while the narrowT-leaved grains and grasses partake more large lv of mineral food, which they draw from the soil. This fact will explain the great advantage of rotation 'crops. 1 lWilly 35,000 to 40.000 calves have come from the East arid been distributed tfeiroughont the Western country during the.pasi; three months. Over 700 cars of. bowlers so far, and they are still coming liberally. The like was

i neviSr Known teiore. uaives jrom 1 New York have been taken out into

Finger Bowls. 'Crystal" wishes to know when finger-bowls are placed upon the dinner table. With the fruit and bon-bons. They Cl re not removed until the company have left thf dining room. HbikDl Fri-toehs. Four eggs, one pint of milk, the rind of one grated lemon, a little salt, ...flour to make a lteht batter. Bea the eggs into, the milk; add lemon, sait and flouri Fry in hot lard, and serve with wine. ."Whipped. Potatoes. Whip boiled potatoes to creamy lightness with a fork: beat in butter., milk, pepper and

a single j salt; at last, the frothed white of an lege; tons irregularly upon, a dU h, set in I the oven, two minutes to reheats but dp not let it color. , f

Jum bles. One cup butter, two cups sugar, one cup milk, four eggs, one teaspoon soda, six cups flour, a little nutmeg. BoU them out, cutjthem with a tumbler and a wineglass to form a ring; dust over with the white of an egg, and sift on a little sugar before balking. Brussels Spkouts. Trim them neatly and wash them. Put them to boil in plenty of salted water, and when almost done strain them and

drv them in a cloth, rut them in a

; pith aot mm i

Eloquence at: the bar Mosh. spotenry : grave aril rev'd sucker set5 Aern up; aain. Syeum Advertiser. The roar of N iagara has been set tej music, biitwh at does it signify?' nym. i the heights of the Andes has beetf! scaled.-CNew Haven Register. ; If "All the world's a stagef itseom :j to us that the supernumeraries is out . of all proportion to the etars.Momj ersvillo Journal. ,-. " ? 1 The hew butler: wtAid are you 4 mem her of the Church of England? ".No, sir. The little I ever d 3 in th& iue is" with the Hajia-baptists.Vps ; Punch. ! "; -:' young clergyman at a clerical meet? ;' ing UI merely throw out the Idea.'! Old minister" Well, I think that -If . tfie best thing you can do with ik" i a red-nead-ed man recentiy attended a masquerade wrappedfrom his neckf to his heels in a brown doth and witia - his head bare.' He represeiited, a ligtitr eti cigar. Svracuse Herald. .. An architect who built a neW Citv Hall for a Western town;made a3t!jotck of it and fi-3d io Canada, as he left word with his friends, -"to remain imtil the affair should blow over." Next day a high wind strnck the town and his friends telegraphed him: "Come back. The whole shebang was blown

over last nmht." . 1 - -r ;

JnpfirrtAnv ThArsrinsiP in th Terri-

tones: Mike McGowan, the "marc etasre,!? has gone down to Carson to ; make his Christmas dinner off some 0i ; the citizens of that village. His teeth wonld make no more impression on; the chee''cf a Carsonite tfanii wouicl a cat's claw on the smooth side oxifc Iowjhai'-Territorial Enterprise. 3 A A Terrible Kxiloon.' . ' Detroit, ich, Januai 121 A 1 7 :M o'clock this morning a terrible explo-i

. sion occurred in the Union Ionrlng

Mills on fWest Woodbridge street j . this city, entirely wieckhig the large

hye story building, eighty ny iiiiy?reep in size. The entire north end of thes ;

building was blown out' Three men

pepper, salt and grated nutmeg to taste. Toss them eon tly on the fire

until they are quite cooked. , Fish FRriTERS. Take the remains of any rish which has been served the previous day, remove all the bones, and pound it in a mortar; add breadcrumbs and mashed potatoes in equal a nan titles. Mix together half a teacupful, of cream, wi sh two well beaten eggs, some cayeuii 3 pepper and anehovv uce. Beat it all up to a proper consisV. ijcy, cut it into, small cakes, and fry f iem in boiling lard . CocoHUT Pudding .r-Heat a pint

I of mii... -.timng into it a smau nait

cup of sugar. Js30lye two taoiespoons of corn starch in a little of the milk taken oat before it is heated. Add this to the milk when it begins to boil. Stir until it becomes a firm paste, then stir in the beaten whites of four eggs, and after a moment or two take it off the lire Then add Mf a cocoa-nut grated and mould it. Serve it cold with a boiled custard made with the yolks of the eggs and flavored with vanilla or lemh. Game Soup (C:leak). Take the remnants of any land of ejame, not hieh, put them in a saucepan with onion and carrot, two or three cloves, a small piece of mace, a bay leaf, some narslev. white pepper and calt to taste.

! Cover the whole with veal or poultry

stock, and set the saucepan to boil gently for a couple of hours. Strain oft the soup and set it to boil again, then throw in an ounce of raw beer or liver coarsely chopped; let it give one boil, and strain, the soup through a napkinr It not quite clear, the clarifying process must be repeated. A very small quantity of sherry "may be put in before clarifying. Minute Puddikg. Put a pint of milk properly malted into a clean quart stewpan; have ready a basin of flour ; as soon as tlie milk boils take some flour into the left band and let it fall lightly into the milk (which must be

kent boilinsrfast the whole time), sur ' rtlir mwn' nnn ho for an v one

without ceasing, adime flour until it is timejio think of thle1 abiiirdity of about the consistency of porridge, then j scaring the engine, haft ihe: umbrellas let it boil a few minutes longer, still were down a-nct the rani beadngdsown keeping it stirred. Turn it out on a oa tne devoted heads of the victims." hot dish, stick pieces of butter all over j. a few mumb-s all the umbreUas it, sprinkle sugar, a nd grate some nut- j Wfre UD 2uu. and not few of thef

meg, when the batter ana sugar win i victims we're -entity d

2S : A 1 ber t Crossli u , fi reman , marnei t,

aged 38; Henry Seoul tzUer. mamed,aled JH :.Vly f : T ; There were three boilers in tli4 I building, each 125 -horse power, and an engine of 325 horse power caoaeity; ! Up to 11 a: mi ' only the body of Whittier had ben recovereci hnt , seaich of the mlm for sthe cher two : is being made. 1 P ! The loss will exceed $30, OtX?; Paiiialr , iy insureds The cause :'of the explosion) is said to be the employment of a che&p man to ran the eugine in place of Thomas Mahon, who left foar days ago because the managers had ordered . his wages to be cut down. He was to have resumed work at tds i

old pay this morning, bfit reitchedjtlie scene just-ufier the explosion; r. . -. t

ligaredu;Mi?$f JHS broken. ... . . ' ," , .. a The noisa of tbeexploisMi was heated over a mile away in everrdirecttonjij J , . -ft : ' J? K A Practical Joke. ? We heard a good jofce che other dAy told by a gentleman whofws.s an eye? witness to the scene, and a victim to ihe practical joke. Some years ajfO. while traveling in the west, business; called the gentleman (our informant, to a country town through which a new railroad 'had been built, and on a cer-' tain. day cue first passenger train wates to arrive at the 'place, and all of the: village aaod mucb of the surroundings i conntiv hud turned out to see the.eaia. -j

j Though it:" was raining' furiously and .

the littler depot coma not sneirr caxt the people, they waited patiently the s.; arrival of the train. When at i&sfc nke ! distant purring of the engine could le

.neara, a sea or umoreuus nnea ineisiueof the railroad,- and Just as the engine; was approachlnrg the crowd, and all the attention was centered, ihf the iron

j monster, some Wg m the crowtt

vp ' on . "Down witn venr v.m-

hndlas' rA the enshie: down w

melt and minule, and, running all over

and around it, form a delicious sauce. Do not be too sparing of butter and sugar, and the cook need not be discotiraeed if she does) not succeed in her first attempt, as experience alone can teach her how to sprinkle the flour in

properly. If it is net done very lightly, j

w.cids.

guilty of 'saymtnaughtyf

Tina idea of the cuttiajr off the, isthmus .ptPanamadoes not date from yesterili& nftvioaror. A n tenia Galvano. nroposecl td

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1S41 Remy de Paydt coofe a colony

Honduras t dig a canal t ere. Two

irs later waveua ana ouruoes? were

Nebraska, and when ready for the

block will probably find .their way back ! In"' their native State. -Dro vers' j

Journal. .

Charles V, to make an: Irtteroceamc

lumps Of uncooked flour will be there- j 'communication. In:17S0, kelson Pto-;

ftiilr.. Tt mav- be flavored with vanuia. 1 nn ed a cnial thronerh N icar acua; Von-

Entrkk JKemove tne tenaons or gristles from a breast of veal (these lie at the end of the front bones . in a breast), and place them in a atewpah with good white stock, one 5larg;e onion, two carrots, a bundle of savory herbs, and the peel of a . fhalf lemon cut verv thin, two cloves and a blade of mack The s stock should simply cover the tendons Simmer, for four hours1 or until thev are perfectly tender; when this is 1 the case; take them out and lav them on a steamer

( before the. fire to' diaui and dry. Strain

and boil the gravy to a thick gltuse aiv rauge the tendons ::n a circle in a, hot

dish with a fried crust of bread eron

ton ) Imtween each piece

cen tre of t he circle w ith

voting boiled green -peas. Many rer-

hdos serve a puree of peas; remeinher that the tendons are well glared after they are dried,? witra the glaxe made from the stock before they a:e arranged to ends up. This is a very ecotibmicai;dtsh, as the breast of veal can be dressed next day in a "variety of ways, . . ; . - N

iiial thronsrh' Nicar cua;

Htimboldfe took ua the Proie ?t ill ''1804.

In;

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sent put byrAjrisizet to sturdy the ttuestion; . tht-y pronounced ' 8 ftinst the possibility of the enterprise In! 1812; the gtjvrument of Kioartigua asked libuiTjapolen- JJonaparfelo lend his name td Tjh'e enterprise. Aii'er his es cape- froai, Ham, ilonis Napoleon didappeal to the public for f unds, in pamphlet, V:I;3 Oanal deicaragQ3 but tlie projeCDfeli throgh ; $ . 1 L Hucd LtRUniki, a youn: "vViennese

mm i I lea

or preaa . Aclu; jton man, bein without eiaployinent, ith ! some! verv ieavUy iu debt, absolutely irm i

TABLE GOSSm

T was on foot at; the moment

nearthe. General's headquarters, and, Borak had not yet been brought up from the stable hut. when a thundering cannonade suddenly broke upon our ears, and. the shot and shell fell around us and whirred oyer our heads in lively style. To horse, gentlemen I" had scarcely been ordered by our commander when we all hurried aside to mount, and as I turned around I saw my poor little mare plunging toward me, amid the dread con ftif ion, upon three legs. The

fourth, her right tore Jimo, nan oeen j yi)ars mentioned, shot clean away at the kuee-joiut by a j jows: passim? shell, just as she was trotting

out from her night shelter in the woods toward the spot where I awaited her. She was past help or succor. She came up to roe, 'pushed out or raised up the bleeding stump, and seemed to appeal imploringly to her master for aid, hen sank at myjeefc and shortly bled

to deat h.

The potato was taken .from North America to England by Sir Walter Kaleigh, who found it in cultivation here. wher! it had been introduced by the Spanish from Peru. Humboldt tried in vain to find the potato (solanum tuberosum) growing wild in Chili, JSTew Grenada and Peru, but in 1 822 s;o m e Scotch bo tau ical travel ers fould U growing wild iu Chili. Since then it has been found - by others in various places in South America. The yearly production .of. potatoes and the yield per acre, throughout the

countrv ou ihe first of. December in. tne

have been as fol-

Production. Yield,

bushels, par acre

)m .;KH,S0O,MW 1877.. rro,ou2,ooo 1878... ' .YMtGIjm 1M70..J ... lbt.620,000 lHik)..:.; 168,JW5000

71 .ti

:.W,f 98.9 SI.

Tt appears from a series of experiments of the Agricultural Academy of whfoitn.. that Holland, cows consume

Dutv called me away from the pain- about five pounds of hay, or its eqiilva-

A Nevada eriiic, speaking of a harpist, said: "We never before knew theva was so much mil 'lie in a' gridiron,"

ful scene immediatel.v- 1 sorrowfully

mounted another horse, went into the battle with my staff comrades, and from that sad "moment I never again beheld, the loving face and beautiful form of my faithful army mare, Some Very Exact Statistics. A Itetroiter has been for the last two years collecting aud arranging statistics of an odd nature, and if this book is ever published readers wJH flud nothing dry about it. He goes right to business" by. commencing, on page 1 by esUmatiog that the number of lickings received by the average boy up to hlfi fourteenth year at 125, This includes the spanking; process during infancy. . ' Out of every 100,000 people m this nmrnrrv 1. 000 Cfit Ull CrOSS ill the

main

breakfast. Out of 500,000 only 50,000 will

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hnt mill? ii linni.llY'n Ol SO re-

ii that condition vevy mag au

lent, for every quart of miiK.ana Avreo.itiwi wxno- nonnds cf similar feed for

each nart of milk. Another series of experiments conducted by VSUeroy resulted in showing that 100 pounds of hav produced in Hollanders twentynine quarto of milk, in Devon,s nineteen qnarts, aud in Hereford sixteen ciuarfs.- On a. comparison of, these figures with other dafa, it appears that tne average for ll breeds about sia: pounds of hay, or its equivalent, for bile quart of milk. ' : Adventures With a Catamount. Week before last Wm. Boyd . was walking along the Little Emiinunk road, on the Pennsy lvania side of the Delaware, and when within a hundred yards of his house a large catamount sprang ftoiu the woods and prepared to attack him. Boyd whistled for his dog andjumtmd from-..the road into thebusbes. "The dog answered the cull of his master, and. when he ap.

in lilinoiRfinV has married his

mother-in-law. Revenge is sweet Before we decide whether drunkenr ness is a vicb or an amiable weakness, we want to know whether the drunkard is a man of property ora tramp.tBostonPostl; . . - There is every indication that the Capitol at Albany will tumble down soon, and there is great uneasiness in the State of New York for fear it will fall when the Legislature is not in session, and thus be n, total waste.rDtroit Free PresS.

Two old friends met not iong incc.

after a separation of thirty.ftve yerw. "Well, Tom;'r says one. "how has the world gone with ybttv old boy? Married vet?" '.'Yes, and, have a family you can't match seven boys and one girl. ll can?t exactly match it," was the re

ply. 4 'for ;! have seven girls ana one bov " "Unbapipily married ? I should think it was!" crieci the burlesque actress. '"Why here's this miserable apology of a man doesn't ,come home drunk:'

doesn't even squander my earnings! I haven't the slightest excuse for getting a divorce, and I'm afrdd I never shall make a name in the ? world.'" Boston In his essay on 'Press; Its Sanitary Aspects." Mr. Both : declares that "modern taste is so vitiated that when a woman tries to avoid deforming her body, and possesses a natural waist, unless she is very thin, remarks, are at once made about her clumsy figure, and these are frequently by mien as by the deformed, of her own sex."' . . ' A fashionable young man has acquired considerable feme as musical bore on the violin . One night at a social gathering he imounced that he was going to send for a violin and draw a few of Beethoven's immortal symphonies out of it. To his amazement all the gentlemen present volunteered to go for the instrument and up to date none of them have go back it h i t. For 1 0? persi n g n ro wd , no implement of, war has yet been invented to rival thetiddie.

oiis. made no has mind to eiHoy one

) learty meal theix to qiihT the vorld. He therefore betook himself to logerlib's restaurant, itt theSchoten gaese,; an d ordered a sum ptuous $ repast; He spen t nearly two hours at !; the bible, during which time riieci)ifruiaKi a ' iriitaseh with dUmnlilics. dishful of

ste wed kidneys, a huge blaisk pulding, and entire portion of braised beef, four I small ioa,ve?, a qdart of lager beer, aed i three nii .ts of claret. Wheiiht, had ':-

flnisUetl thu meal, he carefully folded up Ms capkiulaid itou the i talie befiide his empty plate, drew a revolver -out of his'bre&st pockeU and; setting

the muz :iti of the weapon agamtjt nis left breast, shot himseiftthgrpuglA .the .heart. u. y r- : ,-f"4 i .

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A "PiiRLpaNiaiY' prpspcctui, for privateccircubition only,'' which has been largely distributed through England, ha j excited iome sensation. The title i8v?:!Pi!Obosect Lanii Comp.uw for Ireland.' The capital is ten millions sterling, and it is being formed by a poweriua syiidufe of capitalists of London ,; Paris, aniS New Yoi k, f st the purpose of acquiring piijerty? in the ' on the. gigantic .scale, which is declaretl to a veAstiece'eiied sb well on the eiiornioui etates 'Ot the railway uouopo lists iti western America." -The t mati asters are to r e Cblohiai," the ma cbinists Scotchman, nnd . tlio laborei-sr

Welshman, aschy are "ciuap, ipdus trions, and sober." The produce A'-tar be taken tofEnsdish marfo. ' d)vi'

dend of from ten, to, twenty per cent. islbMtea for. ,r,'a H ; The imt CajgjMcmoly r GivtUVkW YorS special. - 1 The k of the Pulhjian1 ar oompafe. n.y at Itidtimorc for aii injunction wm: n ot dismissed ou thivraetsofeecaFe,: buto!the gf blinds, tnat if thers - were damages th x?ouit be t subsequently aseertjvined. It is said here -UtM -tm Pullmaa stock is to be donbiei1,on nSccunt -of th largo- sutpiusi ill 4ki -treasury of the company; 4 . f ."ltKH lswiry idicatian ljat; the f ? ice in the Ohio .fiyfcr vWilj oon. break up betw ?a Pittsburg and Chvinuaty -J This 3Leaislaturl oi Mfcsafeaiftsett

bia orgii nizing' iarehoiH9 f 'Jiiligta oliapel, i nd listened m t "1ft ijwial election sernxo'4 4 ;' -

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