Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 32, Bloomington, Monroe County, 11 June 1881 — Page 2

BLOOMINGTQN COURIER.

H, J, FEtiTUS, PUBT-ISHKR.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

Home Items. Six-Senator Itorsey is seriously ill at hht Washington house.

Prksidbnt Gakfxelb recently in- divorce, and the

tared nis life for $25,000. The strawberry crop of the Middle States U said to be enormous. Gen. Bex Butler is again a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts. . About a dozen persons were prostrated by beat in New York. Monday. General Grant and party sailed from Vera Cruz Saturday for New Orleans. The Presbyterian General Assembly

will hold ita.next session at Springfield, ' lite. J. ...... Heavy rains have greatly benefitted the crops in Illinois and adjacent States.. . The Bank of North America, Philadelphia, celebrated its centennial last Wednesday. Mrs. Garfield haa been free froii fever for several days, and is rapidiy convalescing. Earthquake shocks and a njore copious flow of lava are reported fom Mt. Vesuvius. The office held by Fred Boiglass pays $17,000 a year, audits dutes are exceedingly light. ;.; The Mormon church claim? to be receiving more converts thsu "ever before in its history. :. Isaac M. Crane, of Eaton Kapids, Mich., an able lawyer, diedvOf4elirium tremens, Wednesday. An unknown man was kiled in Chicago Sunday by the falling f the center-pole of a circus tent. , : Mb. XiQBTTJi art gave $000, nearly one half of his winnings ox the Derby, to Archer, the rider of Iroiuoi?. ., Storks of wind, aain ani bail occurred In Texas last Saturday which were attended with loss of Jfe and property. ' v- , Mery Dinnen, of Detroit, Saturday , recovered $500 damages j from Patrick Buckley, a salooniat, for selling liquor

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to her husband.

The4 first crate of Georgia peaches for the season was sent to New York Monday night. The crop is estimated at 60,000 baStsVsi W W The grand jury of the District of Columbia is reported to have indicted several persons - for&complicty in the Star route steaLf ; P .f ... : The belief is becoming prevalent that the star, ronteand Treasury investigations ill show a great deal $ 'more cry than wool." . The'Cornell crew are considering 'an invitation of thVViennea Bowing Association to row a match on the 4 "beautiful blue Danube.1 7 I Accompany in New York is manufacturing 40,000 pounds bleomagarin e a day. which takes tho.piice of about that amount of' butter. rf 1 The Presbyterian Gen aai Assembly at its recent session, 'voted to dismiss the charges of untruthfulness against Bev. T; DeWitt Talmagej John T. Paddock, formerly assistant

postmaster at Albany, BL; was held

.-Saturday morning in $1500 bail for violation of the postal lassu - The Chicago Public library consists

of 75.000 volumes. Of the readers 51 per cent, are men, 27 per cent women, aud 21 percent! juveniles. ' Two schooners, the David Bows and Geo, W. Adams, are chartered to convey, between them 270,000 bushels of oats from Chicago to Buffalo. . The national debt was reduced $11,150,721 during the month of May. Since June, 1880, the national indebtedness has been reduced $89,250,323. Boston has eighteen public baths, and last year 890,735 persons availed themselves of their advantages, of whom were 245,535 were females. Sen or Zamaeona, who has ably represented the Mexican Government at Washington, has resigned, and is about to return to Mexico with his family. David Bows has the largest elevator in the world in New Yoi. It cost $2,000,000, is practically fiierproof, and has a storage capacity of 2,500,000 bushels, ', The United States steanship Alliance, now at Norfolk, Va, has been ordered by Secretary Huit to tbe

search for the Arctic exploring ship Jeannette. "v - It is said that the Spragie divorce ease will probably be comoromised, and thus pare the world thenecessity of the inspectionsof an un&igltly rally skeleton. ; A HosiXLirrES have been opened between the Gould and Vanderbgt railroad combinations. May it be a war to the death. "When rogues fallout," etc. . . General Grant's railroad measures have been approved by the Mexican Senate, and he is probably on his journey home by the way of the Guf , and New Orleans, ' The excess of exerts over imports for the year ending the 30th "uit., amounted to the vaiue o. $259,013,961.

a gain of over eighty millions over the

preceqing years excess.

To maintain prices the Eastern coal

inieresui nave determined to restrict

the production. With this object in view they will only work the mines . full time alternate weeks.---i The States of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas have appointed agents who - -wjil open offices in Europe for the purposef inducing emigration to their respective common wealths. A cipher tffopateh among the records of the War Apartment shows that Gen. Bumside suggested the fa- - mous 'march to the sea" a var hAfar

the march was undertaken. ...

The Presbyterian General Assein biy at iMiffalo has: reorganized the Synods of t hat church, making theSynodical bounderies, with" a few exceptions, coterminous with State lines. Henry Ward Beecber was announced to deliver two leotijres at Nashville, but the attendance atrhe first nteht was so small tliat the engment for the second night was canceled. The New" Y ork Herald prehes a temperance sermon in a paragraph which says that fonr-'ifths of the bodies taken to the morgue in that city are sent.there by strong drink. A bill wbicb has passed the New

ark Legislature provides for the pay-

;nt of a tax of $1 for each emigrant ugh t to Newf York by steamships, te applied to emigrant inspection J The Democratic members of the

ted State Senator John C. Jacobs for the place of Mr. Coukling, and Francis P. Kernan for the place of Mr. Piatt , :. . ..... " . .. Jewish charitable societies of New York City spent in the cause of charity in one year $47,09S. The relief committee had sent 153 persons to Europe, and had buried 54 deceased persons. Bevy, the celebrated cornet player, was arrested for bigamy. The alleged wifft ftlaims to have married him in

England, in 1S60, and asfes for alimony,

custody of her two

children.

Buriuff the eviction riots in the

islands ofl the Donegal coast, Ireland,

the people lestroyed the small boats

belonging to B. M. gunboat Goshawk,

whereupon the gunboat opened fire on

the people.

' A joint resolution proposing to amend the constituticn so as to pro

hibit the manufacture and sale of

liquor, was defeated in the Pennsylva

nia Senate, Thursday.

It is expected that about $100,000,000

of the cash in the National Treasury will be paid out during the present year in the refunding operations of the

Treasury Department.

John Hetz, consul-general oi the

Republic of Switzerland at Washing

ton, has been indicted for making false entries in connection with the failure

of the German Savings Bank.

Nearly all tbe cattle in a recent

shipment from Boston to Glasgow,

were found at the latter place to be af

fected with foot and mouth disease,

and were slaughtered and boiled down.

During the past ten years the annual production of buckwheat in the United

States has increased about two million

bushels. Barley has increased 15000,000, and rye 3,000,000 bushels in the

same period.

To settle disputes in the South,

either of a domestic or political nature,

the favorite appeal is to fire-arms. The latest novelty in this line is that of a daughter firing at her mother after a

domestic broil.

Carmichael's postal card, in which

he made an abusive remark regarding

General Mahone, is to be a boomerang against the postal clerks who ventured

to read the card, ana they will be tried

for that offense.

Anti-prohibitionists in Kansas have

ingenious methods of evading the new

liquor law. " Jug trains" are dpiDga

more than the best time on record. Another contestant beat the best time

one mile. Viut weighs only 102

pounds.

One of the churches in Patchogue,

L. I., has made a novel addition to its

music by introducin a in to the church

two dozen canary birds in cages. They

sing with the choir and also when the

choir is not singing, and their mu9ic is

not complained of by either the minister or the congregation.

The shock of an earthquake was felt

at Lasselle Ills., a few days ago, ;and

after it had subsided, six parallel fissures, extending northwest and south

east were traced for a distance of bOU

feef.. They measured from one to two

inches in width, and buildings near

them sunk about six inches.

A contract has been made in St.

Louis for an experimental shipment of

30,000 bushels of Spring wheat from St.

Paul to Glasgow, Scotland, by barges

to iNow Orleans, thence by steamer.

If the shipment proves successful

others will follow. The rate for the

first shipment was 28 cents per bushel. For the five months ending May 3J ,

the arrivals of emigrants at Castle

Garden. New York, amounted to 182,-

10S. For the corresponding period last year the arrivals were 135,836. Ar

rivals for the month of May wore 76,-

812, a larger number than for any one

month in the history of Castle Gar

den.

A Youxct lady (atj Markeson, Wis.,

aged 16, poisoned herself, the other

day, with a mixture of baking powder

and strychnine, because her father had

forbidden the visits of. her lover, aged

18. The lover upon hearing of the

eirl's death, committed suicide with

the same compound. Baking powder and strychnine!- Next! Miss M. B. Williams, of England and Miss Belle Cook, of California, will contest for supremacy in a twenty mile horse race at Minneapolis, in September. The deferred race between Miss Jewett, of Minnesota, and Miss Cook, interrupted last year by an accident which befell Miss Jewett, will be completed on September 6, Henry Graft, a German of Chicago, went into a North Side beer saloon and drank a pint of whisky. He then laid a wager with the barkeeper that he could drink a quart of whisky before leaving the bar, He accomplished this feat in a few minutes, but, upon turning round to walk put, fell dead. The barkeeper has been arrested. Op1i167 bills introduced in the two houses of the Illinois Legislature during the recent long-drawn-out session, only 136 became laws, of which fiftyone were appropriation bills. The

Counterfeit silver certificates of

denomination of $20 having made

their appearance, the appended descrip

tion, will be found useful: "The paper

is thinner than the genuine,, and the work appeals darker. An attempt is

mode to imitate the distinctive gov

ernment paper by two parallel lines

drawn lengthwise through the certificate. The treasury number can be

rubbed off the counterfeit with a damp finger or sponge. The diamong figures between the letters of the word 'eertiftcate' on the back are duplicates of each other in the genuiue, while in the counterfeit they differ in shape and

size. The words engraved and printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,' appear on the genuine under the word 'certificate' on the back, also outside the border at right end on the face, and are wanting at both places on the counterfeit seen."

THE STATE.

proposes

of

good business. - The friends of temper- Senators and Bepreseutatives and the

ance believe that the la w will eventu

ally be entirely euccessfuK-

; At Springfield, Mass., a spark from

ia passing train ignited twenty-seven

barrels of gasoline on the platform of

the railroad depot. While the fi remen

were at work two barrels exploded, se

verelyinjuring many-firemen -and citi

zens.

. There i3 great rejoicing in New

Ybrt oyer the victory of Mr. Pierre

Lorillard's S-year-old :colt, Iroquois,, in winning the famous English Derby stakes, but the report that LoriUara' won $2,000,000 on the race may be re

ceived with many grains of salt.

The Cornell crewel eft for England oh Saturday.. They yrill,rif .barred -put of

the Henley regatta, challenge the win-

emploves of the two houses drew, on

salary account during the five months session, the sum total of $250,000. . One Barnard, at Stanley town, Louisiana, wanted to die and preferred drowning as the means, but hadn't the courage to jump into the water. Finally he hired a negro for 10 to let him down into a well, giving his executioner a written statement of the facts as a defence in case of prosecu tion. Was.it a murder or a suicide? Evangelical clergymen in Chicago are generally pleased and satisfied with the revised New Testiment. The changes made involve no dogmatic change; their creeds are left unweakened, and the plan of salvation is just the same as by the King James versiou. Judgiujr from the larce nnm-

ners. There is;. a strong probabmty be W?Jd PeoPle are' aIso

mat cue crew win go xo Vienna ana row the Vienna four.

Jtjdoe Crozier, of Leavenworth, Kansas, before whom several test

ew Yotk Leglslatiire Jjye iiomlna- j

cases were brought, has rendered a decision in which he holds the prohibitory law of that State, recently adopted, to be unconstitutional. BurLDiara in New York city is again at high water mark. There have been

eleven hundred and forty-five buildings started during the present year, the united cost of which is nearly $19icoo.ooo; The Mexican colons at Eagle Pass has asked by what authority United States troops invade the soil of Mexico, and in response Gen. Stanley declares his intention to follow all marauding parties into Mexico who seek refuge there. - On the question of the use of fermented wine at the celebration of the Lord's Supper, the Presbyterian General Assembly, at Buffalo, has decided

that the Church Sessions shall decidewhat is bread and what is wine, for i thatipurpose. John Gkiscum, of Chicago, watched and attended by seven reputable physicians, commenced a forty-five days fast last Saturday. He says-he has

freauentlv fasted twenty days ana i

quite confident he can hold out for the longer period. The statement having been made that there are nineteen counties in

Missouri wnicn nave no saloons, a doubter suggests that the statement

should be that there is no couutv in

the Puke State which has less than

nineteen saloons.

A warm debate in the eighth General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church last week, discloses a probability that the new church will divide oh the doctrine of eternal punishment in hell. The creed of the church is now silent on that subject. The large bagging factory ol John Casely & Son, Knightstown, employing seven ty-fi ve hands, was struck by hehtning Monday, set on fire, and tv tallv destroyed- The loss is stated at $26,000; insurance $9,000, divided among nine different companies. A convict in the Kentucky pen itentUry, wearied with the labor of hackling hemp, recently hired a neg o convict to cut his hand oft for twenty cents. The pay was small, but, with a sharp axt the labor was not great, and the hand came off with one blow. It is announced that the Department of Justice will make no further efiortto discover the author of the Morey letter, and that the .President has concluded that it was not written by the person who was tried for the offense. English holders of Confederate bonds of the cotton loan of '63 have not yet

abandoned hope that they will be pa?'At the last, meetit g the bondholders thought that; although they had no legal claim, America might be induced to pay it if a friendly appeal were made to her.. , Presby terianism iu the South, as shown by the proceedings of the General Assembly at Staunton, Va., is much tainted with, envy, hatred, malice; and all uncharitableuess of their Northern ' brethren . The Rev. Dr. Mullaly seems to be the leader of this un-Chr istiaiilike opposi lion . A CiNeiNNATE court has e:i joined Mayor Mt ans, forbiddi pg hi m to close the opera houses :.nd concert halls of

Uiat eitv on Sunday, but the mjunc

tion does not restrain the Mayor from arrting the proprietor and performers hen the performance, gi ven is in violation of the law. In the Mx-days-go-as:y ou-plcr.fe pe destrianconSest which closed last Saturday evening in New York city.

v mi,me mxie -tsrooKiyn. snoemaker,

o a sepre of oyo miles being eleven

satisfied with it.

At St. Joseph, Mo.f the case of Mary Griffey vs. James R. Finney, for seduction under promise of marriage, was given to the jury late Saturday afternoon. Mary claims $25,000 damages, and the general opinion is that she will get it. Finney i3 a wealthy farmer residing near Wallace, is about 40 years of age, and a bachelor. A Chattanooga dispatch describes a boiler explosion which killed a man half a mile distant with a nine pound piece of iron, and hurled another piece weiching 200 pounds through two cars loaded with ffrain with such force that

it knocked down the corner of a house. The man who wrote this dispatch ought to form a partnership with George Alfred Townsend. Vennor, the weather prophet says uthe 'north waters' are only coming down now, which is an indication of a wet June. The warmest part of June is likely to occur betwoen the 20th and 25th, wheu the heat may ue excessive.

June win oe marKeu oy trequent se

vere wind and thunder storms, mid

Irosts are probable between the 5th and 10th of the month. James Robinson, a blacksmith, of Cincinnati, had been miesing for three or four days. On Saturday, the steoch from decaying animal matter in the cellar of inepremUes occupied by RobinsOn AQcame so offensive as to cause ah examiuailon, and his body was found'; It is supposed that he became overheated, went into the cellar to cool off, and wat there attacked with congestion of tfce bntin, from which he died.

The annual i?ae of yearlings the other day, at PreaUness Farm, owned by H M. San ford, near Lexington, KyM resulted in the stle of thirty-eight bead of the colts of Virgil, dlenelg, Monarchist, Ten Broeck, and Dther good sires. Eighteen colls sold for $17,050, the average price per head being $947. The average oa fiillies was a fraction over $400, the full amount for twenty of those disposed of being $8,035. Thus we have$25,07o as the entire sum for the thirty-eight animals disposed of. A hokhlbJjE atfair is reported from Woodruff county, Arkansas: A seven year old boy Jiviug in the interior of tbe county, was sent by his parents to the house of a neighbor, some distance away. While on the way lie encountered two savage dogs. They ran toward the child, who became frightened and attempted to uet awav. but; was overtaken and bitten to 'death by them. The dogs afterward dragged the corpse to an adjacent thicket where they proceeded to devour the body. They were discovered before thoy had finished, and were killed. The remains of the body.tfer, however, un tilated beyond cognition. It is antllnee that the future oper'atiop.erf the treasury will consist chiefly of paying off bonds not continued

put or the surplus revenues of the government. There are about $150,000,000 sixes that are not continued. These will be paid by the 1st of August next. The next bond to. be paid are the coupon fives which were, not continued, at. 3 per cent. It s impossible to tell the amount of them that will be cancelled. After these are paid the treasury will redeem the registered fives that exceed the limit of $250,000,000, the limit fixed for tbe continuance of that class of bonds. , Gov, St. John, of Kansas, claims that the prohibitory law of his state is a wonderful success. Topeka, with a population of 20,000, has not a single saloon, and has had only one case of drunkenness since the law went into effect. An inebriate took an overdose of Hosteller's bitters, and the man who sold the 4 'medicine'1 ...wa Hnea $100i There are no open saloons outside of Leavenworth and Atchison and those in these cities are under prosecution. Ibe governor's letter was written before the recent judicial decision shaking the constitutionality of the law was rendered.

Foreign. The Mexican govern m en t

to establish a National bank. The recent census gives the city

London a population of 3,814,518. Prince Bismarck has a painful attack of an old ailment, which confines him to his bed. Dueling is again becoming fashionable in Paris. Three occurred within twenty-four haunt. A strong shock of earthquake was

felt at Murray Bay, in the Province of

Quebec. JNo damage resulted. The adoption of measures for the suppression of the Land League in Ireland is now ufuder discussion in the British Cabinet.

The first electric railway in the

vicinity of Berlin is so satisfactory, that a second is projected to run iu another direction.

Russian crops are reported generally good. The Czar is planning import

ant measures for the amelioration of

the peasantry.

Further particulars of the electric railway of Siemens and Halske, the

inventors, tried in the suburb of Ber

lin, state it to be a success.

Hon. L. S. Sackville West, C. B., has been appointed as Minister from

Great Britain to the United States, to

succeed Sir, Edward Thornton.

Disraeli's memory will be kept green by a grand monument to be erected in. London by popular subscription

raised from all parts of England.

Incendiarism is -growing to oe one

of the effects of the disturbances in

Ireland. At Mallow, county Cork,

eight farm houses have been burned.

A corrrespondent of a .Parisian jour

nal was murdered by Arabs at Bijao

(Tunis) Saturday. His murderers

were arrested, court-martialed, shot.

The Grand Trunk Railroad Company

will give their machinists at Montreal an advance in wages of 15 per cent. The men have agreed to return-to

work.

Father Sheeey, who has flashed into

popularity in Ireland for his outspoken

natriotism. it to be rewarded bv his

appreciative countrymen with a testi

monial. .

A collision between peasantry on the one side and bailiffs and soldiery

on the other, occurred at Mitchells-

town. Irelaud. Several wounded on

either sid

and

e.

Grant county is constructing eight free gravel roads. There are only five counties in Indiana uu touched by railroads. The City Council of Lafayette is moving towards the establishment of market; houses in that city.

R J, Wilson, of Rushville, was 1 training a 51,000 trotter a few days ago, when it reared up, fell back and broke its neck.

Friday afternoon the five-year-old

sou oi win. j'u-is, living sou in or

Knightstown. was burned to death in

a straw pile set on lire by some chil

dren.

It takes 55,000 bricks to lay a single

course in the walls of the new State House, aud it is estimated that there

will bo 27,000,000 bricks in the entire

building.

The time for holding the bottle

ground camp - meeting has been

changed to the 17th of July, to enable the brethern to have the assistance of

Harrison, the evangelist.

A sixteen year old boy set fire to the

Opera House at FortWajne. A sa-

loon keeper whose business was injured

by a rival in the Opeva House paid

him $10, for the arson.

George Starbuck, of Barnesvillo, O.,

while en route to Knightstown, last

Thursday , was robbed atColumbbs, O,,

of nearly $0,000 in money and notes.

.u attempt to blow up Tow Powell's

saloon, at Liberty, was made Thursday night, by placing a bottle filled with powder under the floor. The floor was

torn up, but no serious damage was

done.

The daily express over the Jefferson road from Jefferson to North Vernon runs the whole wy at a little less than a mile a minute, and over a poition of the route at even a greater rate of speed. A prisoner named Josephs, who was serving out a life sentence in the southern Indiana state prison, attempted to escape. Joseph McCrea, one of the guards, shot "him, killing him instantly. The two-year-old daughter of Frederick Enable ot Scott township, Vanderburg county, fell into a kettle of boiling water Friday afternoon and was so badly scalded that she died the same night. Miss Annie Jeffrey, of Dayton, 0.,a beautiful gypsy girl of IS years, granddaughter of the queen, died at the gypY camp, near New Albany, and her remains ware sent to Dayton for inbirment. Gilbert Westizon, " the hermit of the knobs," waa found dead in his cabin in Floyd county th other day. He was a native of France, and had lived as a hermit in the hut where h die'. for thirty-three yeara. Two small boys of near Worthirigton were out in the woods. Quo o them suggested that the other eat spikenard as a remedy for his cough. The boy ate. what proved to be wild turnip, and was'dead in five hours. Mrs. Mary Ronan, aged 55. while driving a horse across the New Al

bany road, about a mile north of Lafayette, was caught by a train and instantly killed. Her own son was fire-

horse had gotten him down, and doubtless would have killed him had his position not been discovered in time by the women at the house, who came to his rescue. The Knights of the Switch is the name, of an organization for vigilance purposes in Washington and Boone townships, Harrison county. Of late .this vigilance committe has been accomplishing its mission on several vio

lators of the law m their vicinity, and

only a few days ago two suspected thieves were left a bundle of switches

each, and a note of warning to leave the county. They took the hint and loft. . Warren 11 Throckmorton, Thomas R Haliiday, Delia F. Hall, Joseph M. Hall and Neville J. Throckmorton, of Lafayette, have brought suit for the possession of the public . square, now valued at $200,000. The impression is that certain requirements " by which the county obtained the grant of this land have not been complied with, and that the recent events relating to the new court house project, will form a basis on which the suit is brought William Smith, a young man aged eighteen years, son of Seth Smith, living near Eirod, a little village eight miles southwest of Moore's Hill, committed suicide Wednesday. He wanted to leave honie and work for a friend, but his mother objected. He became enraged in the evening, took down an old musket horn its place on the wall, went out into the yard, cocked it, put

the muzzle in bis mouth, pulied the his toe. and blew the

top of his head off.

Great preparations are making m

Lafayette for the grand prize drill and

tournament of division U. B. No. 1,

Knights of Pythias, June 22d and 23d,

The invitation card and programmes ! nnf. crnr?eous in stvle and execu

tion. The drill prizes are 1st, $300:

2d, $200: 53d, $150 ; 4th, 5100. Band

nrizps: 1st. snw ouu, .i mow

contests are to ne ac too iair -grouuu

on Thnrsdav. June 24. Beceptiohs,

narades. etc , the day before. The af

fair is to he one of the greatest euter-

ments of tbe season. Lafayette will

spread herself.

DEATH OF COMMODORE NUTT

Bemimscenes of his Career by the Lightning Calculator and Oapt. Goshen.

A Washington special says, the

Attorney General has been placed in

possession of some very important documents and proofs in ibe Star route matter. It is understood to be of the

most conclusive character, and to affect prominent persons, some of whom

have hitherto held high olhcial posi

tion. There can be no doubt that

when it is made public the country

will ho fit art led. What the President

said to the Postmaster General and Attorney General, almost in his lan-

jniae. was. 'Go to the bottom of this

ri "... business, and do not stop until you

get there!" This injunction, repeated

rp.vm-h! tintMs. is the warrant lor the

steps that will be taken, and may

nronfiriv beiniernreted as a defiance

X- F- . .... - of the in linen tial persons who are said

to be endea voring to stop the in vest!

gation. Among other things, it is said

that proof will be adduced to show that $40,000 were expended by t he Star

route ring to prevent the investigation

of last win tor from being carried to its logical conclusion. I is also stated that the evidfiuc3 will implicate persons who have hold high position, and

New York San. Commodore Nutt recently died iu the Anthony House, Broadway, above Twelfth 8 treet. He had been ailing for several months past, but had supposed his troubles to come from rheumatism. About three months ago he organized the Tally Ho company, to play light

operettas, and started on a trip through

the interior ot tnestate. Alter piaying about four weeks, he disbanded the company and returned to this city.

He became worse, and for the last

eigh'i; weeks was confined to his bed.

Last Monday Prof. Loomis was called

in. and he pronounced him to tie m

he last stages of Bright's disease. He

was 37 years of age on April 1st last. He was born near Manchester, Vt.. to

which city his remains will oe. taken

to-morrow, nis iuu name wa3 ueorgo Washington Morrison. Kutt, ..;

Psof. Hutchins, the lightning calcu

lator, said yesterday : "He was an old

friend of mine, and the smartest little

fellow in the business. He could -sing

and dance well,, and .was a good character actor. He was the star performer

of Hliputian opera. I remember well whttii Bar num first brought him out. The Commodore's father was a big six-

foot; farmer, weighing 2?0 pound,, and

his mother was a woman of average size. Bar num heard of him, and in 1860 engaged him for his. .museum.

The Commodore was then about thirty

inches taU, and was known as Bar-

uum's $30,000 Nutt. He was a ..smart little fellow, and when the living skele

ton or tno rat woman trieu to cwie mm about the way, Tom Thumb cut him

out, he shut them up mighty quick. You see, Lavinia and Minnie W arren

were in tbe Museum at the same time.

The Commodore took a great fancy to Lavvy. Tom Thumb liked her too,

but; he was rather backward, whsle the Commodore used to talk up. But Tom Thumb was smart, and so he goes to Barnum, and, says he, 'Old man, Pd like to marry Lav vy Wan en, and if you'll help me to get her I'll be married in public.' That caught Barnum, and Tom Thumb and '.Lavvy had a big wedding in Grace Church. The Commodore was mad as hops, but he wasn't going to.turn his back on a good engagement, and so he went abroad with Tom Thumb and the Warrens, and made the tour of the world with thorn. He stayed with them when they scot back for many years, but after a while he began traveling with side shows, and then got iuto the iiliputiau opera business., and afterward iuto saloon keeping.".

Col. L-foshen, the giant, was airecteu

by a divine power to this earth, so b the same power can he be borne awajj to some less or more happy state. The rumors of evidence of angelic life; as being widely d liferent from human life, are not definite nor con? cl usi ve. M any years ago the thought? f ul and learned McCosh pointed out to us, in a large work, the fact that the Creator has adopted some one form in -his works and has followed it every-- . s w here. The five senses run through f the animal world in all its Infinite lesser mutations. The spectrum analysis has come to tell us that the Creator has followed a unifoum methods even in the inanimate world, for we discover that the substance of the planets is the substance of c ur earth. All the stars are formed of the same material, and it is almost certain that trees and grasses, and the flowers of our little globe, all repeat themselves -

in many ot the worlds wmon are seen at night hi the far-away blue.. ; If, then, our Creator, is such a lover ot ' unity of plan there is little probablilty T that there are intelligent beings having wings. Those belong to the same fan cy as that which gave us a winged Mercury in classic fable. We see in hum ani ty the universal type of ration al life, it is not probable that vast as the universe is it has space wide enough to carry us- away from that a form of man which stands erect and ' bears upon its countenance the' attributes of God. If the planets all, or many of them, are inhabited, it seems almost certain that could we visit any one of these worlds, we should see k man everywhere, on hOland field anl street not man as sinful and weak.but as a being in that lifcenes of flesh worn here by our great and our beautiful , and chosen as the worthy encamps ment of such a soul as that of Nazareth. ' ': m - The Czar and the Doves. ; i luondon Telegraph, ..i,-,i-;v. Of the strange stories connected with the melancholy fate of Alexanders ; II. that have obtained currency sincev his death, not the least curious is the following narrative, published in the , St, Petersburg Beehive and alleged by that journal to be in every particular m authentic : One mornine. about a fort-

nigh t before the catastrophy of the 13th ultimo, while looking out of -his bed- f room window, the late Czar noticed ': ; two or three dead pigeons lying on the ledge of the balcony. As the Imperial : pig eons, like those of the Piazza di San j I filftrco in Venice, are privilegedtfrds, 3 hin Majesty r displeased that they should have been slain within the yerjf precincts of his palace, ordered an inquiry f made as to how ,they had come by their death, " ; It was soon discovered that a huge, I hawk had taken up its quarters in some out-of-the-way nook of the-' Winter "

by the news. ltHe has killed me many i Palace roof, and. emerging thence

A number of proselyting Mormon

emissaries have been expelled from

Germany by order of the Government 1 V A. i i

wnicn snows at leasu one guou msui of imperialism.

Archbishop Croke made an earnest speech defining the position of the Irish patriots. He appealed to Glad

stone to stop evictions as the only

means of conciliating Ireland.

? During artillery practice at the fort

ress of Grandeuz, Prussia, a shell fel

in the midst of the marking party killing three captains and two others

and wounding three other persons

At a meeting in Madrid of the Anti-

slave Trade Society, resolutions were

passed looking to the abolition of capi

ta) punishment and the limmediatf

liberation of slaves in the Antillies.

It is rather significant that the Ital

ian Chamber of Deputies is to be asked for an increase to the budget of nearly

two millions of dollars for ordinary

war expenditure, 'rue .Italian arnn

on a peace footing consists of 220,000

men. It is said that the Empress of Russia looks more like a corpse than a liv in g being, and that she sits speechless and uumoved as though she neither heard nor saw anything going on around her. Daniel McSweeny, a member of the Laud League, was arrested in Donegal, Ireland, under the coercion act. He claims American citizenship, and will ak the protection of the United States Government. A riot occurred at Clonmel, Ireland, during a sale of tenants' interest in property, in which the hussars charged on the people with the flats of their sabers, and the people responded, with stones. .Several persons were injured. Canon Doyle, of Duncannon, County Wexford, regardless of Father Sheeny 's fate, and not having the fear of Gladstone. Forster. and -the coercion

act before his eves, designates tbe lan:V-l

bill as one of tae greatest shams. which ever passed the House of Commons.

We have boasted a great deal about

Edison iu this country, but it is said he does not begin to compare witb

Siemens, the great European electrician, at least as far as pecuniary profit

is concerned. Siemens has already

laid aside a neat fortune of $20,000,000 trom his electric inventions, and ex

Deets to make as much more from the

electric railroad which he has just put

in operation in Berlin. The inventor used to be a poor man not many years ago. Tub long-debated question of the repeal of the prohibition of marriage with a deceased wife's sister is exciting much interest just now in some of the British colonies. Iu Australia such marriages have long been legalized, and the acts of the colonial Legislatures to this effect have been duly scrutinized by the law officers of the Crown and solemnly ratified by the Queen, but when a Australian Englishman basrmade his fortune and wants to return to Merry ..England, he is confronted by the! lac t that hh sister-in-law wife can't be his lawful spouse in England . No wonder he com plains of such "foolishness." The recent horrible disaster near London, Ontario, by the collapse of the stetMuer Victoria, in which about two hundred iud fifty lives were sacrificed, is one of the strangest on record, t he di? aster occurred within torty feet of the shorpfif th. ri.-v 'I'liomns whir-ih

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relatives of persons uow in public of-

man of the locomotive, and was nearly i fice in different parts of the country,

IV " v!, :e Sc. I in corrupt transactions

Jtne ooay or uie oamuei ivnsob, of Idaville, White county, which was buried sit years ago, was disinterred a tew. days ago and was found to be petrified. It weighed about three hundred pounds, while Mrs. W. in. life weighed but 140. A monstrosity in thf shape of two pigs grown together was brought to Terr Haute by Jamei William s, of Aboite. The sides of the nigs were grown the entire length. They were of the Essex breed, hajing two heads two tails and eight legs. Mrs. Calvin Butler, Of Sbelbyvilie, attempted to commit , suicide a t her residence Sunday night by taking laudanum, and would have succeeded if her husband had not arrived in time

to take vial away trom her. in doing

is only about 500 kt wide and so shallow that it. is uavjgawio only by flat-

oomuuea noais. l ee Victoria was an open-docked pleasu boat, and it would seem that her passengers were not exprsei! to such very rreat peril by being d'jimned iuto t ho vter so near the shore, but the fearful oss of life occurred, nevertheless, though its cause will never be flilly explainer and ua-derstoodi

which he was severely' bitten on the

hands, j The house of Putnam Montgomery, of Si- James, Gibwn oninty, near Hu Yanderbtng county lin, was rectuiiy robbed of a sum of money. If nw turns out that the robbery was committed oy Mr Montgomery's own son w ho has been arrested, and restored $1)60. Coufciderable indignation is caused in Washington to wnship,;Gntnt county, over the depredations that are being committed on the farms of A. G. Wells and others, in the shape of cutting down fruit trees, breaking in windows, tearing down fences, etc. They otter 5125 reward for the detection of the scoundrels. The house of Putnam Montgomery, who resides about three miles west of St. James, in Gibson county, near the line of Vanderburg, was robbed of 11,000 on Saturday. Mr. Montgomery and hit help were bui.y in the field, when some sneak thief entered the house and stole the money. J. D. Outhart, of Delphi, dealer in stores,, was found dead in his bad the .other day, having died ii is supposed, from sm overdose of ohloral. There WAvidBoe of a terrible struggle before dtth easued. Mr. Outhart, it is reportros.wM the first volunteer in the );atereliiv from lh Stati ef Ohio. William Spencer, a will - known former who resided about three miles from ililltown. in Crawford county, took his gun last Saturday to shoot some crown. T make sure that the gun was properlj loaded he put his toe on the hammer and blew in the muxale. It was. It is estimated tat there will be this season 150,000 buhilg of peaches grown In the vicinty of Malison, distributed among growers asfoFowa: J. C. Davis, S0.000; Court AVhitseXt, 25,000; Joseph O. Tavler fc Co., 30.000 Anrus Dean, 15,009; Trout, 10,000; Howell & Co., 10,000; Mnffet 6,000; t .Morris, 4,000; other growers, 20,000. Rev. D. E. Hudson, editor of the

Ave Marie magazine a Noo Dame, is the fortunate owuer of Xphotograph of a picture that has history. It isa photograph of the only sketch made of the Emperor Napoleon I, and was seoreity drawn by .be attendant physician immediately after the great General's death, and by him present ed to a family who idolized the dead Emperor. At the bottom of of a smooth hole, six inches in diameter and sixteen feet deep through the solid rock of a quarry near Hope, Bartholomew county, were fiuimi the semi-petrified remains o a

reptile which in life had been fourteen feet in length, with a large bead, the 1

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mown uiui"o - w vvv., ....... largo tusks three and a half inches in length. , , Nat. Ellsberry, who is employed on the stock farm of Hmchnum ani Patton, one mile, north, of. Green field, was attacked by a trotting stallion and severely bitten on. the right leg. The

The vise of the word "hades" (pronounced in two syllables) in the revised Kew Testament, is explained as follows: In the Greek text of the New Testament the word uhade3" occurs ten times, not referring to the place of future punishment, bu t to-the abode -of the dead pending their final destination . In nine of these ten cases the King James revisers used the word "hell," and in the tenth the word "grave," as the translation of the word "hades." In the Greek text of the New Testament the word "eahena" occurs elev-

en times, and both the old

revisers agree in giving the word "hell" m its proper translation. A

third word. "Tartarus." in used once

. .. .. in the same text, with reference to the

abode of fallen ausels. and both ver

sions agree in giving "hell" as the cor

rect rendering fur "Tartavus." Thus

. w , the word ''hadee' is used ten times in

the new Nrw Testament, and the

word "hell" twelve times. The word

"hades" signifies "unseen," and its

use in the new revision was suggested

and secured by the American (revisors.

a time," he said. "You know I used

to be the giant and he Jack the giant killer. Sometimes we would change the parts, and he would play the giaut a:ad I would kill him. Most giants and dwarfs are alike fin one thing. The dwarfs don't seem to have room for furniture, and the giants are like the

s:ix and seven stojy houses nothing much in the top. But the Commodore was quick and sh arp. Poor little fellow, he did himself harm by getting to be a sort of sporting man. I will never forget the trick he played me out in Terre Haute some four years ago. We were traveling together in an opera company, and a big house had been lold. The Commodore started ou a little racket, and the manager got

scared. ;uoion.eil says ne to me, 'I'm afraid the Commodore won't u- come to time for the performance to-night.' 'I'll see to that,' says I, aud .just picked him up, carried him up stairs, and locked him in a room. When I went lip after him in the evening, there he was, as drunk as a lord, and I had the key of the room in my pocket all the time. When he saw me he put on a comic look and began to sing: 'Tarn Timothy Tottle, Im fond of my bottle. "That's a song he used to sing, and I couldn't help but laugh for the life of me. You see. he haa slipped some money under the door to the hall-boy, and got him to bring him . up some liquor and a clay pipe. The boy put the pipe-stem through the key-hole, and the Commodore stood on his toes and he got all the whisky he wanted without having the door opened. Finally he quit the business, and started a concert saloon in Salem, Oregon, but got into trouble with the .authorities. He .tried it agaiin in San Francisco and again in Deadwood City. But he was too little a man to keen things

and new ' orderly, and at each place there was so

much trouble that t he police broke him

up. tie haa a similar saloon up town

Mr. Edward Atkinson computes that the saving; on the merchandise carried bv railroads during the

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years, beaiuse

of the

freight, hundred a larger

last ten

reduction of rates for has been more than twelve millions of dollars. This is

amount than the aggregate sum paid

toward the extinguishment, of the debt

of the United' States since thecio.se ol!

the war, an "qifaet," as it were, to th

war expenditure, but it does not prove

that the reduction in the rates for

freight has been all it should be,' or

that the adjustment of freight rates is

under the control o: powers or system;

that are not inimical to the interests of

that the people. Tbe ernor moua increase ' i?a the pioduc

tions of the country during the

last voars, has created a va'tt business

upon which freight rates could be re

duced and still leave unjust profits, in

the hands of the reducers.

(5 rati fy L'NG- assurauces are coming

from the South in various forms that

the people of that section are begin in g

to realize their imnera'ive need of in

creased educat ional facilities. In a re

cent renort Mayor Courtenav, of

Charleston, S. C, stated that, although, the people of that city paid a school

tax proportionately much larger thau

was oaid in Boston, yet there .were

nearly 4;O0O children for whom there was neither room iu the schools nor

money to provide teachers. These and other grave facts brouslit to the

J. v T attention of the City Council by the Mayor, will be laid before Congress during the next session. Wukn Tom Nast was enricaturiug Horace Greeley in Harper's Weekly in 1872, Judge Robertson, Chauncey DoPew and "ithers of that ilk'? "couldn't see where the laugh came in," but now that Tommy has turned l;ue point of his pencil . against Coukling, the Judge,. Chamiccy, et al., are having more inn than the boy .hat had the measel.s. In the recent town elections in Virginia the Bourbons were generally vis-iork-us, a divided opposition being easily beaten.

od Sixth avenue for a while, but bad

no better success.. Last summer he was a deputy superintendent at the Rockaway pier, rigged out iu a Commodore's suit. The Commodore was fond of bluff occasionally. Says he to mo once: 'Colonel, 1 slugged afellow the other day and knocked him into ':he water,' 'How high was he, Commodore?' says I. Well, about six feet,' says he, and he three feet and seven inches high !V The Commodore has commanded as much as $150 a week salary, and made a good deal money, but his unsuccessful business ventures are believed to have coat him a great deal. About two and a half years ago he marritd Miss Lilian EJstar at Bed wood, Cai. Mrs. Nutt is a small woman, but is a great deal taller than her husband was. m Jjife in the Planet3. Prof. Swinf s fiermon. It is , an... almost, universal , belief among the more thoughtful that our planet is not the only world inhabited by live beings as man. It is one of the smallest of the heavenly bodies, and cannot produce any special reason why it should support on its bosom such a vast and gifted throng. The fact is singular. Here rta thousand million of intelligent beings are to le found. They work, they talk, they Laugh, they build, they Jiail ships, they run strange trains rapidly, they find the beautiful, they iuvent, they compose, they feast, they love, they sing, they worship, they weep, but, most wonderful of all, ;they hurry away. All disappear iu thirty-three years. Taking k tb estimate what a wonderful life thi? is, iu its .? offers of happiness and usefulness, we must say that man's stay here is out of ail harmony with tlie greatness of the place. What! leave such a world in thirty-three ears and become a handlul of dust! If, now, other, planets are inhabited, may not those occupautw be com posed of the miiiionn upon millions

who have seemed to hurry away from

this smaller globe? We confess that man goes too soon if he goes iuto dust, but he almost lingers too long if there be awaiting him other brighter and happier lauds. This inquiry is not embarrassed in the least by the ques

tion', how th race could be transferred,:

at death, from world to world, for, we are debarred from that inquiry by the fact that man is here without our knowing how he came. The theory that ho was gradually evolved from tow brute forms has almost nothing on which to rest. Two mighty objections weigh ngainst such an origin of man

from the brute the one, that no such

evolution is now taking place; the

other, rhat we fciave no brute with which to begin the evolution. .-, No

theory seems less worthy of "belief:

Man came not as an intanc, or ne

woidd have perished at once. He must

have come from (he. act. of the Kuler

and Manager ot the umvns and

must have come iu the aduit f n m. It

we concede this, then our world i in the hands of One who can move His

children to. a world vhre once they

were not, and hen-v "He can carry

man away from florin as., eaeuy . ne

ouca orougnt nin miner, rue nest

theory is? tbere&ie. that as niu came

every morning at dawn, it made a regular practice of thinning out the Emperor's flock of pigeons. Imperial commands were issued -that this inveterate columhicideshouldv.be watched for and shot: but the hawk contrived

to evade the vigilance, .of the domestic charged with its destruction, and continued to kill its two, three' or four pigeons daily with absolute impunity. A powerful trap was therefore- baited and set for it upon the roof; and, early next momiug, it was seen from below, caught by the leg, and struggling wi&i alt its might to get loose. JjBefore the 5 servants could reach the spot an end ; to the fierce bird's agony it had dragged the heavy tran over the edge of the

parapet, and fallen with it upon the . paving of an inner court-yard, overlooked by .the Imperial apartments. When the Emperor was informed that the hawk had met i ts death in this strange manner, he appeared much disturbed in mind, and observed several times to his attendants that 11 the whole affair was of evil omen." 'i : :;

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A Hawk and a BatttesnakQ. Arizona Globe-Cbronicle.

My musin gs on the ages of change that it must have taken to mold the scene to its present aspect were broken in upon by a large rattlesnake gliding out on a bare rock, within, fifty feet of the point where I was sitting. He Feemed to search around like a dog for for a place, to suit his snakeahip, and 1 hen stretch ed himself out to enjoy the ivarmth. I was thinking if it was ivorth while to heave a- stone at the monster, when a big shadow .swept ilown and a hawk nearly caught him

napping, out not quite.; rne snase sprung his rattle and coiled himself S ready for attack, while the tiawk hoyered around, making a dash, now on the right and now on the left It was-j quite ani interesting skirmish, but at ; last the snake made, a spring and ap i parently. failed to stri.se, and before he -could recoil himself, the hawk seized him with botli l&lons close behind the f head in fact, he had him on the neck M

and swept into the air, while We snake struggled and twisted, away up into the blue, in wide, circling sweeps, until the strufircrlinc 'reptile hune limp

and lifeless, when the hawk came, to ti earth again, and, alighting on a neigh--; ; boring tree, made r bis ineai on the ? snake. , r; t .. ...... What they Waiat in Colorado v Piirango Record. , . -T We want girls-girls who can get -v themselves up in good shape to go to a t dance. The boys are getting tired of receiving invitations with a. request that they bring ladies." They are . like oranges and apples scarce. We want girls who will go to church. and to Bihie class on Sunday, and that r kind who can draw a congregation of the other sex, and who will take avf buggy ride after rt be lesson is over.:.,j: This will help the )iver' business and :

will also hasten the saio of residence;

lots, for butreies are the vehicles isi

which homes are first thought of by-

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Wo want srirls that ean wait on the

table, who can smile us into an appe f tite when stomach bitters are imOr ? ten t, and who will make the boarders r regular at meals; ', i We want girls for sweethearts, so that when we get an arm shot off, or are kicked by a mule, or are thrown from a bucking horse and are- laid up for repairs, we may hear a gentle , voice, and see the glitter of a crystal tear. .spoken and dropped' in uncpn

scious sympathy, . ,7 ; Iiiauor m tho English Army.

Sir Garnet Woiseley has forwarded the following..-.. communication.;-to the Orantham f En trtandV Temperance As

sociation in reply to a letter congratu

latins: him on the occasion of his visit

to that boroucrh : ... ...... m

i4 Allow me to thank you most sin-1

oerelv for your kind lettel4, which I

have this moment received ' TheJ cause of temperance is the cause ofc

social advancement. Tern perance s. 4 r

means less crime and more thrift, aud$ '"--'i

more of comfort and prosperity for thei '

army -can we ujiceu iu iutuAiuawuji,ff and I have' alwavs found ihat Whfttt-i ." .

with nny ai'my or body or, troops iiif?

and where their 5 use was prohibited J the health as well as the conduct of thei 1 1 men were all that could be wished forj. J No one can wish the cause y ou ha veat 4

at uearc success more earuesiir luau -a do." :: : si

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An Iowa Journal says that the tmv-e eler across the state now sees the n6vel sight of the old'eom crop being 'gathered! and the new being planted on-the same farm.. .- ; . yg. Common hydraulic cement roixedf with oil forms a good pain t for roofer and out-buildings. It is watrproofj

ant? incombustible. ;.; In Portugal a widow caii not inarryf i f she I e o ver II fiy years of ago. W I104 j ever hejard of a widow as old ' as that?! 1

The

new

Spanish Min ister wife7

speaks l;Jiglish fluently, and is said tQ be Teg areeftblf iuhifr najmer;: 2