Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 34, Bloomington, Monroe County, 25 June 1881 — Page 2

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BLOOMINGTON COURIER.

H. J; FELTTJS, Fubushek.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA.

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Home Items. . Thb American horse, Iroquois, has won- another race in England. Seckotaky BiiAtNE's new residence in Washington: is to cost $60,000. . 8uniay free concerts are given on Boston Common, at the city's expense ;;' - . Ix is estimated that the cotton- crop of the present year will exceed six - million baleen The money-circulation, of this country specie and paper exceeds a billionof dollars. Nearly eleven million gallons- of whisky were manufactured in Chicago during the year 1880. . A Buffalo rag-picker,; who wasiiving in squalid poverty, was found to have $4,000 in his possession. Cumberland county, 111., is troubled with chinch bugs, which havedestroyed her wheat mid com crops. 5 Eight villages were destroyed by a b recent earthquake in the Armenian province of Van, Asia Minor. The first oarjoad of new wheat was received in Chicago, last Tuesday, from Texas. Its quality was about No. 3; The School Board of Cincinnati has dismissed all the married women teachera in the public schools of that city. During the ten months ended May 81, over 5100,000,000 in specie were imported into this country from Europe' It is estimated that half a million dollars worth oi property was destroyed by the recent cyclone in Western .Missouri; - ;" Illinois had on the 1st of the month . 7,566,645 acres of corn as reported by

the Secretary i cf the State Board of Agriculture. - Mb. TBXMMjat writes from Paris that he can not, under" any cirenmstaneea, become a candidate torGrovernorof Ohio. 1 The exports of provisions frbm-this

country is reported at about 35,060.000 pounds less than for the corresponding time last year; ,v ' Seeretaryae.win' leave Washington next week for the coast of Maine, where he will spend the aummor for his healths sake.' Councflmai Stephen Nerse, of Philadelphia, has; been investigated by a special committee for bribery. They -recommend his expulsion.4"17 The thirteen and the seventeen year . locusts have , occurred simultaneously in the west and the southwest for the

first time in two centuries. w

The State Supreme Court of New Hampshire has decided that the pretent Legislature is-the proper body to elect United Stated Senator; ! The Dunkards, a sect of Baptists, held their national convention at Ashland, Ohio, last week, with about 20,000 members in attendance. ' The church building of Bev. J. Hyatt Smith, the Brooklyn Congress-

s jjiwi, b iu ue hoiu soon to sanafv

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if " Hosttcjites have been opened bepr 'tween the Gould and Vanderbilt rail-

cunt wiuuuittiiouH. : .may it oe a war to thedeat. "When rogues fall out " etc. '. " ... -t .'"3 ? -.5 - : Farnum's cotton mills, at Morristown, Pa., has been obliged to stop work for wan t x of hands. The employes struck a month ago against reduced wages. s '. . ". V - Having been furnished with an escort; of troops, theUte Commissioner, Russell, will at once proceed to look for lands on which 'to locate the Tin:

eompahgre Indians:

Central Iowa, parts of Missouri and Minnesota, have been visited by terrible windstorms which wrecked houses and barns, and did immense damage to crops and fruit trees. Secretary Windom will not make

fuwuu pw u report ox ine . committee who were charred with th

animation of transactions of the office

m iusiouian oi tne Treasury. The Grand Trunk Bailroad Company

-will give their machinists at Montreal an advance in wages of 15 percent The men hav$ agreed to- return to 7 - work. ' - ' i ' ' The two pounds of tea, raised in r Georgia, by the late Commissioner of , Agriculture, lie Duy is estimated to

have post; at the rate of $12,500 pound. '

Wfiliam H. Vanderbilt is the largest

- jutuviauai nojacr of registered 4 per

y oent. oonas, ms share of them being rath in thmto-My m- : 000,000. i-. r - , - -

It is estimated that there has been

mt least 1,700 conversions in the various

ohurcheslof Indianapolis, since threevival meting8 began there three

xnonms ago.

Aj&jB,w3tu prooucc or tnxs country

for 1880, as compiled by the Bureau of

Statistics, amounted to 2.714 'fi02 ftftl

bushels. ; Wheat and corn formed,the

greater part, or ,5:32,697,681.

v A Breckinridge (CoL) dispateh says

- tuat near that town four feet of car

bonates have been ! struck at a depth of

jw iwji. ine ore assays i3o ounces of

f suver anu o ounces of gold to the ton.

in jxew York City the employing

-brewers will not yield to the strikers, and the saloonists propose not to buy beer from the Brewers' Association. It seems to be a question of drinkers verbus capiiaL ... .... ."j : It is claimed that the sun never sets la the domain of the United States. Before his last rays leave the American flag, at the last point of the Aleutain Isles, thoy strike the flag again at Calais, Maine. j Depositors of the Freedman's Bank ' have $3.40 each due them on unclaimed dividends. As j soon as ttie bank property is sold the final dividend will be paid, making a total oi 60 per cent. ; paid each depositor. The diphtheria baa become epidemfi. ie in the village j of Ludding ton, 1 a thriving business center of the Western Michigan lumi ber region . There have been 120 deaths, recently in a i population of 4,000. Therb were killing frosts In the northern portions of N ew Hampshire and Vermont last week, and it is feared that the apple crop has been entirely ruined, ana that corn, potatoes, .etc., will have to be replanted. Star route discontinuances in the Southwest are oceiisioning much inv convenience, and when Congress meets it will be asked to restore some f those which have j been discontinued I' . -r . 'g if-.. 1

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The Bev. J. Powell Garland, presiding elder at Ashland. Va., informs the Republican leaders in that State that 21',00O. voters have agreed to support any candidate nominated by either party, provided they favored a local option law. J The German Beisohstag is alarmed at the immigration of Boumanian Jews into Germany, and that of German laborers to this country. The latter was allowed to be due to the fact that the laborers were badly off in their own country. Foreign imports at New York for eleven months of the fiscal year 1881, were 497,371,791, an increase of $12,000,000 over the imports of 1880. The exports for the same period were $386,434,059, an increase of $29,000,000 over those of the preceeding year. It is said that in his will the late Eli Bates, of Chicago, bequeathed the sum of $40,000 for the erection of a monument to Abraham Lincoln at the entrance to Lincoln Park, and $15,000 for the erection of a fountain in the park. John Taylor, a negro charged with grossly assaulting a white woman, was taken from Greensboro, N. C, jail on Saturday night and lynched. A crowd ot 200 men overpowered the jailers and carried the prisoner seven miles into the country, where they hanged him. Tkbbe is now building in the Baldwin works, Philadelphia, a locomotive designed to be the fastest in the world, and in tended to do 80 miles an hour without taking in water. It will be taken to Europe end tested on the railroads of 'England "and . the continent. . ... The verdict of the London, Out., jury which ; investigated the steamer Victoria disaster, was that she capsized on account of water in the hold and striking a snag or rock in the river. They attach blame to the engineer, captain, manager, and the government inspector. - The Chicago Inter Ocean is authority for the statement that for the last six months no Sabbath has passed in that city without a murder or murderous affray. Ihe Sunday law against keeping open saloons and other vile places of resort is not enforced. Luddington, Michigan, a flourishing town on Lake Michigan, at the terminus of the Flint andPere Marquette Bailroad, was almost entirely destroy

ed bv fire on Saturday nicrht. Mo9t of

the burned buildings were of wood. The loss is estimated at $20,000. The insurance is comparatively small. A man named Larkin, a Deputy United States Marshal, was sent to arrest his own cousin, at Bogerviile, Tenn.. for violation of the revenue law, shot him dead because he resisted arrest. He is lodged in jail, and State troops are required to protect him from.the deputies of "Judge Lynch." 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 New Orleans; thence by steamer. If the shipment proves successful others will follow. The rate for the first shipment was 28 cents per bushel. ; A resolution was passed by the Directors of the Maritime Association of New York, respectfully urging President Garfield, Secretary Windom, and Collector Bobertson to retain men in the New York Custom House who were faithful and efficient, and to let ability and experience be the sole tests in making new appointments. Postmaster General James says he does not propose to carry economy in his department so far as to cripple the-mail service; that he fully anpreciates the necessity of mcreasingf it to keep pace with the progress and deyelcpment of the country, but that he is deter min ed to relieve the treasury of

bogus and corrupt contracts.

Another American horse has won a national race. Mr. J. B. Keene's b. c. Foxhall was the winner of the Grand Prix race which took place Saturday at Longchamps, near Paris. Tristan was a very close second, the American colt only winning by a head. Many prominent persons, including Preside nt Grevy, Marshal McMahon, and ex-Queen Isabella were present. The next best paying oft a debt is the reduction of the interest on it. Illinois has done the best thing by wiping out her debt, and Ohio has done tne next best thing by refunding her

entire debt of over $4,000,000 at the

low rate, of 3 per cent. This is the

most important event in the history o

State finances.. The rate Is a quarter of a cent lower than any other State

has obtained; -

Geneial Grant, interviewed by the

Chicago Inter-Ocean reporter, testifi ed

to his decided sympathy with Conkling

in the matter at issue between him and

the half-breeds. He intimated that

the opposition of President Garfield was uncalled for and ungrateful, be

cause Senator Conkling did more than

any other man for the party and the

election , of General Garfield. With

regard to Mexico, General Grant an

ticipates a bright future for her, con

sequent upon a good government, improved transportation,and commercial

intercourse with the united Stales.

The Financial Chronicle shows that

since January 1, 1879, the total outstanding currency (not including

fractional silver nor silver dollars in the Treasury) has increased $324,000,-

000, and the holdings of the people have increased $263,000,000. Calling

tne population now U,Uuu,ouo, and es

timating hve persons to a family, each

family on an average actually holds m

currency, (gold, silver andj paper) to

day about 82. besides fractional silver.

And the whole currency now outstand

ing (that is, m the hands of the people

and in tne pubnc depositories), includ

ing, however, fractional currency,

reaches, now, say, about $27 per

captal." It seems that the attempt to natural

ize, camels in Texas and -New Mexico

was not, after all, an utter failure. The

camels used for carrying freight across

the California desert did not, for some reason, prove profitable, and they were

turned loose on the Gila and Salt Biv-

er bottoms. There they lived and bred, until now, it i3 said, they roam the lower Gila plains in laree numbers.

giving ground for the belief that they will continue to increase in numbers,

until a drove of wild camels will be- . .. .

come as common on tne western nlains of Arizona as buffalo now are bn the plains east of the Bocky Moun-

tains. .

The particulars of the recent great

tornadoes in Northwestern Kansas, Northwestern Missouri, an d Cen tral

Iowa, -show that wherever the cy clones struck the earth the destruction of

buildings, orchards, forests and grow

ing crops was complete. Many persons were injured, but only a few killed, as far as can be ascertained. Scores of people lost their homes and all their property. The terrific force and the

destructive eneets ot tnese tornadoes

were similar to those which had deso

lated the Western and Southern locali

ties in former years. The discussion of these disasters has brought out the

suggestion that the growth of forests

would very materially decrease the

frequency and violence of the winds on the vast open prairies and plains were tbeeyeiou? holds 3 way,

Habvestino is in progress in C-ali- T

fornia, and reports indicate fair crops. There, as in other portions of the United States, the season is later than usual, and trustworthy estimates of the season yield of grain are impossible. From South Australia word comes that the wheat crop is a failure, but taken alone that will not materially affect the world's supply. Any one of a half dozen American wheat States produces from four to six times as much wheat as the acreage of South Australia. The Australian . colonies, and at least one Central American State, report light crops; and the prospects in Russia are about the same as last year. Interest in the Ameriaau crop will iucrease as Intelligence of the shortage in the yield of foreign grain fields is confirmed.

proposes

Foreign. ; The Mexican government

to establish a National bank. Bush fires are raging in Canada on the line of the Quebec Central railroad. A drought of long continuance has greatly injured the sugar crop in Trinidad, W. I. Southern Russia is still in a disturbed condition, which has taken the form of incendiarism. A book containing the names of his Fenian accomplices has been found on McGrath, the Irish Nihilist. In the east and southwestern departments ot France it is feared that the crops have been injured by excessive rains. In the province of Quebec farmers fear they will lose their hay crop in consequence of the drought. Further particulars of the elect i-ic railway of Siemens and Halske, the inventors, tried in the suburb of Berlin, state it to be a success. Au informality is raised against Foxhall as winner of the Grand Prix de Paris, on the ground that his certificate was not presented prior to the race. An I alian party consisting of fifteen persons, which started from Assab Bay, Abyssinia, to explore the ''dark continent," has been massacred. Father Sheeny, the priest who was arrested at Kilnialloek, County Cork, is indicted for acting with others in compelling persons to quit employment. Chin Iiau Pin, the Chinese Minister at Washington, is to be recalled. His successor, Chiang Tasn Yu, has been for some years a prominent revenue officer, I A large delegation of North of Ireland farmers had a conference with liberal members of Parliament, and expressed hopes for the passage of the land bill. A Nihilist proclamation will be circulated throughout Russia stating that

the four men recently executed for the

murder of the Czar were tortured while

in prison.

A Russian Socialist who escaped

from Siberia has reached Switzerland. Only one other case of a political priso

ner escaping from Siberia has ever

been recorded.

The British Government claims to have information that the Fenians propose to fire various public edifices

in English cities. Chester in particu Iar is threatened.

It is believed that a dispatch has

been sent from the Foreign Office, London, to the American Government.

calling attention to the operations of

the Fenians in New York.

The Irish land bill is being discussed

the House of Commons by committee

of the whole, and is making rapid pro

Kress. Over one thousand miuor

amendments have been withdrawn.

It has been recently discovered that

the officers and crew of the man of-war

which- was stationed off the Peter hoff Palace as a guard to the Czar and im

perial xamuy are tainted with Nihilism.

The gate money at Longchamps race

course, near Paris, last Sunday, when

the race for the "Grand Prix de Paris"

was won by Foxhall, amounted to

$50,000, the largest sum ever t alt en

there.

Three hundred men marched to the

Liverpool iail Sunday, to effect a de-

liverv of the Irish Nihilists, Roberts and McKevett, but finding the Warden

and men ready to give them a warm

reception, they changed their minds

and went home.

Tne Italian unamDer o deputies re

jected universal suffrage by a vote of

314 to 39. Female suffrage was only supported by its proposer, Signor Fabri. Signor Crispins amendment to grant suffrage to all who could read and write was rejected by a vote of 220

to 106.

It is officially stated that 642 houses

were destroyed by the great fire of

Quebec; 1,211 families were rendered homeless, and that of. the 6,000 sufferers two-thirds lost their all, and were uninsured. Ten per cent, of the subscription paid to the Relief Committee will be given to the Protestant committee. This British House of Commons has passed a legislative resolution affirming the justice of local communities being entrusted with the power to protect themselves from the operations of the .liquor traffic. Gladstone voted against the resolution, . MIdhat Pasha has cop fessed to the Sultan that while he did not have a hand in the murder of the Sultan he helped dispose of him, because Abdul Aziz wished to set aside the regular success to the Sultanate and bad offered, to .cede Constantinople to the Russians, Indictments have been found against the murderers of the late Sultani The Bishop of Boss, County Cork, Ireland, has written to the papers that the accounts in the English newspap

ers or the riots in his county were ex

aggerated, arid that while evictions continued there could be no quietude. In the House of Commons Mr. Foster

stated that most of the evictions were

of tenants who were able to pay rents but would not. ; Gladstone contemplates reducing

the interest on Great Britain's put-iic

debt by a new issue of consuls at 2J per cent-, which he believes would be readily taken up to the amount of

$250,000,000. The landed debt of

Great Britain is now 3,537.152 .9(55.

Thei nter est on that and the terminable annuities (about 350,000.000) is

$143,229,915.

One oh" the last bills enacted by the

GermanReichstag previous to the,olose

of the session was one which provides for the insurance by employers of the

laborers and clerks who may die while in their' service. Two-thirds of the premium is to be. paid by the employer and one-third by the employe. It will

only affect workmen earning less than

$500 a year.

An inquest was held Wednesday on

the body of Hugo von Malapert, who

suicided by throwing himself from the

Chicago Water Works tower, 180 fee t

to the ground. Chagrin at being whip

ped to a .juarrel with a fellow boarder

wan the cause. Deceased was the son oMJarom von Malapert, High Chamberjain to the German Umperor. The Canadian Government has made a grant of 200,000 acres of land in the Bow River country .about 300 miles northeast from Fort Benton, Mjht., for a cattle-ranch, to be founded by three capitalists of Quebec, who are now on their way. to theWes1; with a large number of 'blooded horses aud cattle, to which they intend to add by extensive purchases of stock in Montana. Almost all the great churches in St, Petersburg, Moscow and other large

towns in Russia have their domes pljated with gold nearly a quarter of an injeh thick. The new church. of the Savior dedicated in -Moscow represents a value of fully $15,000,000. The Isaac cathedral in St. Petersburg represents three times that amount. So strong is; the belief in the inviolability of holy peaces, that never even in seaeons of bitter distress have attempts been niade to plunder this gold. - j Despatches received in Liverpool fiioni Melbourne announce e massacre in New Guinea of a number of nkissiouaries. On the 7th of March they were attacked by the natives at Kato, in the district of Port Moresby, Hulu, and four of them with two of their wives, four children and two servants, were killed. No provocation was given, out it is stated in the despatch that, the perpetrators of previolus massacres on the coast had not tleen punished, and this is looked upon ajs the main cause of the outbreak. I An electrician of Paris has' succeeded ija driving an English tricycle for an hour along the streets of Paris, by means of electricity stored in a Msecojndary battery" of Plante's make, and two small Deprez electric motors. The vehicle with its ..occupant weighed 400 founds, and it was driven at the speed c'f an ordinary cab; but by improving tjie mechanism, the inventor hopes to rinse the speed to twelve miles an hour ; an d the mod i fication wh ioh has since been effected on the Plante batttjjry by M. Faure, will no doub'; enable a! supply of electricity to be.-stored up, ckpable of working the tricycle for njiany hours. -

THE STATE.

Xe Ducs Experiments.

Washington Star. i I One of Commissioner Le Puc experiments in connection with his sugar rjaaking from sorghum has never been made known. This was the salting aind packing away underground of the refuse stalks of sorghum, from which the juice had been pressed by the roller if th-3 sugar mill, lor the purpose of making horse feed. Not only was all (if the available space allotted for experimental vegetable growth sown with sorghum seed, but a large farm Was rented in Virginia, seven miles jfroni this city, and about ono hundred acres planted with, this crop. Several buildings were erected on the line bf B. street south, a fteam boiler, en

gine, and very expensive machinery aet up, including a mill" for pressing the jaice from the stalks, boiling tanks, pumps, defecator, evaporator, mixer, centrifugal apparatus, etc. ..i As the work progressed, the accumulation of the crushed sorghum stalks was simply immense, and what to do With it was a serious question. The Commissioner generously ofj.ered to jive it away to poor people who kept bows or hogs, for feed, Some of it was carted away for such purposes, but it jyas soon found that tne animals would not eat it. Horses would nibble at it a little, and the happy thought Struck the Commissioner that it could he saved for horse feed by salting and packing away, and by excluding the air on the enslige plan, it could be successfully enred and used by farmers during the winter, and spring- months i n place of hay or short feed. A pit ijome twenty feet long by ten or twelve wide, about eight or nine feet deep, paved and wailed up its full height with hard brick set in cement, and covered with a rough board roof to eep the rain out, was rilled with the green crushed sorghum stalks, in close smd alternate layers of stalks find salt. They were kept through last winter an til spring, when, a small quantity was taken to the stable and put before the horses, but after all this trouble the ungrateful brutes rejected the stuff

much to the disgust of its inventor.. ! The horse feed experiment, like that of the sugar was not a success, and the inly thing to fall tack on is about fifty barrels of the sorghum juice standing in the open lot, and now supposed to be undergoing the process of turning to vinegar. How tqis will pan. out for use on greens and cabbage is not Jtnown. ' I There is still another undeveloped project that of making a compost of .torgum stalks and free lime, a large pit of which was mad e last Ml n ear by the horse pit ; but it appears that the stalks remain hard, like dry chips of wood, and refuse to be rotted. It is jsaid by some that the few pounds of brown sugar made by Commissioner Le Due last season cost, the fjJoverninent from $20 to $30. per pound, and was sold by a grocer hi this c ity for

.five cents per pound. ... . :- j Saved by Main Strength. .

.ansas City Star. . ,

Truesdale was detailed to i shove

"rrain from one of the bins to the shule.

Through this bin ran a perpendicular

flange screw elevator, wmcn, ueing

rattached to the shaft by a belt, was

kept constantly in motion.

i Bv some accident . the unfortunate

man slipped while near it, and his foot

being caught in the rotating Haage, was

ilrawn down the shaft m wnicii it

vorks!un til the knee joint was leve

with the floor. Knowing that unless

iiomething was speedily done his whole t i i it. ...

poay woma oe grouna to ueces m uns

new sausasre maenme, ue, wiw a

oresence of mind that was extraprdl iiarv. raised his body until it reached

She belt which turned the flange, and

idv aheer strength of muscle-hold the

machinery still, thus putting his

ntreuerth against the strength of a

twenty -horse engine. In this, condition

with his crushed and mangled limb

it ill in the machine.he. held out against

the engine three-quarters of an hour,

when he he was rescued oy other

workmen, who had come to sea what

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was. the matter witn me macninery.

He was taken to the Bisters' hospital,

Hind Dr. Bigger says he will ultimately

recover the use of the injured member.

Truesdale is about six leet high, and

"weighs 170 pounds, but is a perfect giant

sftent holding the machinery he says

will alwavs oe a noruoie rememoer-

a5iee.

No Man's Land.

It ia not generally known ihnt there is a strip of territory inthe North west that does not belong to anything: or

aufrbotiv. In the organization of Wyo-

mfiiir Territory, the largest portion of

which then belonged to.. Dakota, a

quer error was made in denning the webtern boundary. This was marked

hv a certaiu meridian line, instead of

conforming to the eastern boundary of the adjoining territory of Idaho. The result was that a portion of Dakota Win left west of the line. Map milkers by inadvertence have made it a portion of Oicid a county, Idaho but it is not legally such, nor can the laws of Idaho be enforced there. It still renmines within the jurisdiction of Dakota, through separated by the long dieta nee of uu intervening territory. A crime committed therein can only ,.bu tried by the Dakota court s6 a a also all cavil suits growing out of local litigation. This ynll some day, unless ratified, produce considerable trouble, as it makes it Virtually a refhge foy ovttlAWd. ,

iNDiANAi'OXis has been made "a port of delhreryifor foreign shipments. Friday afternoon the five-year-old son of Wii. Pitts, living south of

Knightstoy a straw pile dren.

n, was burned to death in

set on nre by some chil-

are grading for the track of ville.and "New Castle road.

John Mulfhead, a well-known young man of Foi l Wayne, was , found dead in an alley near his oiace of business. The cause oil his death was probably appoplexy, At Harts Vjille, Bartholomew county, a child is reported to havo been born lately whicll weighed but one pound and if i livinW and doing well. The moth sr dicdf A sixteen i7ea? old boy set lire to the Opers, Hotis4 at Fort Wanc. A saloon keeper vVhoee busitieea wa s injured by a rival In! the Opra House paid h i m 10, for the arson . Tho daily express over tite .feflerson road from Jeiferson to orth Vernon runs the whle way i t u little , less than a mi.e ajminufe; and over a portion of the route at even n greater rate of spaed. i 1 A prisoner named Jose)hs, who was

serving out a U7e sentence in the souths ern Indiana stte prison,, attempted to esca:ie. Joseph McCrea, one of the guards, shot him, killing him instanlly. The two-year-old daughter of Frederick Kalile, of Scott township, Vanderburg county, fell into a : kettle of boiling water Friday aiternoon and was ho badly scalded that she died the same night. A daughter, one and one-half years old, of A, P. Wood ward, of Crawford:

ville, accidentally shot herself with a

revolver, Wednesday evening, the ball taking effect in the neok,. and making a painful and serious wound. Two small boya of neej Worthington 'were out in the wpod.: One of them suggested that the other eat spikenard as a remedy far . his cough The boy ate what proved to be wild turnip, and was dead in five hours. A stone plow and two ston hatchets or axes have been found in White Lick creek, a small stream near Brownsbiirg. These implements are in parfeot condition with the exception of a small niece being broken, from the plow. ' : ' ' .RtdlroaiLandu tries otf new enterprises on the eastern side o:f the state are

very active. At Dunreith a -large force

the RushTrains are

expected; to run over .ibis line he first of J uly. ; Aj.bcrt 'Emswiier, son of George P. iEmt.'Wiler, one of the wealthiest eitiKens of KichmondjShot himself through the &ead and fell upon the railroad track in front of an approaching train. He had been sick and desnondent for some time.Mrs. Mary Eonan, aged 65, while driving . s horse aerossj the New Albany road, about a mile north of Lafayette, was naught by a train and instantly killed. Her own son was fireman of the locomotive, and was nearly wild with grief. It is understood that a two cent daily morning paper, 1o be called the Times, will be started at Indianapolis soon by Colonel W. B. Holloway. The paper will be published in the old Journal building, 'and. will bo independent In politics. ' A monstrosity in the shape of two pigs grown together was brought to Terre Hfvute by James Williams, of Abcite. The sides of the pigs were grown the entire length. They were of tne Essex breed, having t two heads two tails and eight legs. i Eugene McCutchan and Charley Osbarae, two Evansville boys, were playing under a sand bank, when it gave way, burying both out of sight. They wore unearthed in an uncon

scious condition, and revived only after

the most strenuous efforts.

A few days ago at Deitrich's hotel ha

VYaveland, two travelers were sitting

by the stove and a fine setter dog lyinaj

between them. A flash of lightning

came, down the chimney anu stove

pipe, in tan try killing the dog but

leaving the men unharmed

Jfine Lynch, of Little York, Washing

ton county, got fighting mad at her

hashand because he would not take her

to the show, and bundled up her goods

and left, her husband and four children

under ten years of age crying after

her, and has hot since been seen.

Ia appears that some of tho Land

Leaguers and Fenians

the methods ,of the

Irishman, have been arrested on the

charge' b f attempting to Mow up the town hall and police station of Liver

pool, England, with dynamite.

Tjie meeting of the National En

campment of the Grand Army of the Bepublie;i at Indianajjohs, was largely attended and very interesting. The reports of the: officers show that' the

The Indiana Sunday school union 1

m sess ion at hivansville, has elected the folio wing officers for the ensuing year: W. Ml Levering, of Lafayette, president; - Charles S. Hubbard, of Knightstowtf, vice-president; Charief H. Conner, of New Albany, secretary: Charles D. Meigs, of Indianapolis, treasurer: Warwick H. Ripley, of Indianapolis, statistical!. The place of meeting selected for next year was .Crawfofdsville. r- . A couple of years ago George Parmetier and another railroad man, ofVincennes, put a number of young Jshad into a pond in a gravelpit beyond Vincennes, as an experiment. They did not examine as to the results till about a week ago, when they tried their luck during a. day of recreation., They were greatly surprised and pleased when their efforts were rewarded by a nice catch offish, with which they found the pond to be abundantly supplied.

Sheriff Trindle and his deputies went

to the variety store of Dr. Thomas

Rose, at Richmond, armed with a writ

of ejectm ent that his wife-had sworn

out to gel; possession of the store room occupied by him, and commenced setting his goods out on the pavement. He made no resistance and in a few minutes was seized with convulsions,

and has been lying hi an unconscious

condition ever since. He has not been

living with his wife for sometime, and!

she has applied for ia divorce from himSirs. Frank Cooper, of Hoopston,

of Illinois, and- her sister aged IB

daughters of Samuel Sharpley,a prom

inent citizen of Fowler, were struck

by lightning Mon day eve ning and in-

stanuy killed. The family were sit

ting together singing a hymn, the two

persons killed being on opposite sides

or tne rcom. no one eise was mjurea

though Mrs. C. held her infant in her

Ian. The lightning cut a hole through

the globe of the lamp, melted the glass

in a mirror and burned a hole through

a. picture, 'V'

A two-year-old sou, of Joreph H.

Klbby, of Richmond, register in bank

ruptcy, and grandson' of Judge Kibby

ran away from his nurse, Saturday morning, and was not heard- of until a

telegram was received by the, agent? of Via Ylinnlnnnf 5 TTnmUfni'ii' n nH Tn r f rri.

road from Superintendent Williams,at

Cmomnati. saying that a poy had been

found in the depot th ore, who said that

he lived in Richmond and was a son '0

Joe Kibbey, who worked in the .post office.' An answer was returned ask

ing Mr. Williams to send hini back on

the next train. He had slipped on the cars and taken a seat, where He re

mained so .quiet that 5 the conductor-

thought he belonged to one of-the pas

sengers opposite, and let him ride to

the end of his run, ; "

How JeffDavis Took jfcho"XSewsj Philadelphia Times. . ' ' ' ,'

After my hot haste' from Appomattox I was much worn. 'but as soon as I

reached Danville. 41 the last capitol of

the Confederacy," Getf. Walker led me

to the house where Davis was dining.

I took a seat on a sofa and the Presi

dent came and to )k a seat beside -me, Gen. Walker taking a chair near by us.

As soon as we were thus seated Presi

dent Davis again bowed his head tome

as a signal for me to proceed'. I then,

in as few words a possible, gave him a full statement of the information I had

obtained of Gen. Lee's surrender.

During my recital of this information Phesident Davis lested his elbow on the side of the sofa and kept his hand on the, side of his brow, listening with

the profoundest attention, but uttering

not a word either of comment or in

quiry. After I had finished the telling of my terrible news, he still sat for a lew moments resting his brow uoon his hand, as if in profound meditation.

Presently, still without one word of

eorhment upon the news I had brought him or of inquiry as to further particulars, he turned to Gen, Walker and myself in amost courteous manner and inquired whether we liad dined. The General replied that he had, but I had not. In fact T had not' tasted food since leaving Mr, Payne's that morning at sunrise,and had ridden oyer fifty miles since. ,. 'Then," said President Davis to me, "walk in, Captain, and take some bread and meat with me," As he t said that he arose from his seat on the sofa, I did likewise, thanked him for his in-r vitation. and followed him as he led he way to the dinner table. On entering the dining room , I found seated at the table a number of gentlemen who were members of the President's official family, including several of his (Cabinet Ministers, but there were ho ladies present. He invited me to a seat at the table, took a seat himself, and recommenced eating. He seemed to be profoundly mpdita'ting all the time, and when addressed by any. of the gentlemen' around him,, always

made very courteous replies, but m

the fewest words possible, and - took. no.

dans have adopted other Part ia tae conversation, he- ihiiis Two 0n Jtein ttiim y6' koweverj

Juts illJUL'iiJ paiiiun uio uava tuu c" option room, where we rejoined Geh. Walker, who had been waiting for me. We resumed ourseats in the 'reception room, as before, and then President Davis turned' to me and made the m?st careful and special', inquiries touching the newsI had brought him, and all t ha ,t t had 'seen and heard during my expedition to the lines of the nrmv' All theise inaunes I answered

organization is nourishing beyond the fufiy araCl exphcitly. 1 .

most sanguine hopes of its founders.

The grave of Jonathan Jennings, the first elected governor of Indiana, Is

somwhere.OB the ffirm of Mr..W. S Feriier, of Charleston, but no one knows exact ly wb ere. Several a ttemicts have been made to. find and

mark the spot, but without success.

Considerable indignation is caused

in ashington township, jGrant coun

ty, over the depredations that are ben

ing committed on the farms of A. G.

Wells and others, in the shape of cut

ting down fruit trees,, breaking in win

dows, tearing down fences, etc. They

offer $125 reward for the detection of

the acoundrels. ' - -

John O. A. Booth and son, who

reside eight miles eascof Lagrange, were

on their wa3T to lama with a load of

w heat, when Frank ie, the son, aged

twelve years, fell rrom the wagon and

was run over and instantly killed. His father did not miss him until he had

driven, naif a mue xrom wner tne ae-

ident happened.

Bev. D. E. - Hudson, editor of the

Aye Marie magazine at Notre Dame,

is the fortunate owner of a photo

graph of a picture that has history. It

is a photograph of the only sketch mad e of the Emperor Napoleon I, and was eeerelty drawn by the attendant physdoiah immediately after the great

General's death , and by hi m presented to a family i who idolized,: the dead Ernperor. . At the bottom of of a aniooin hole,

six i aches in diameter and sixteen feet

deep through the solid rock of a quarry

near Hope, Bartholomew county,4 were found the seniHpctrified' remains of a reptile which in life had been fourteen feet in length, with a larire head, the

mowJi having twelve teeth, with four

large tusks three and. a, half inches in lenglh.

Thomas trail, a wealthy farmer of

Hentwille, Clark county.1 was killed'

recently by astroke of lightening, -near his; ylace two miles east; of . Henry-

ville He was returning home on

horseback' from a neighbors house

when the bolt came. He was found

beside his dead horse, with one foot m

tlie stirrup,

The Head of the British, Army.

London World. 1 ' .

In the round, mellow voice, smgu-: larly unlike that ef his Hoyal cousins, the Commander-in-Chief talks affably and tolerantly of army systems, new and old . He is intrenched behind an enormous writing ttible, on which everything is as big, solid and substantial as if it were emblematic of the mental and physical constitution bf its master. " As the quality of his voice, almost entirely free from guttu

ral sounds, is strikingly unlike that of Queen Victoria's sons, so is his intona-. tion distinctly and purely English,and as a clear, coherent and impressive

sneaker in public he has few equals. It.

is, perhaps due tothe fact -that his

father was an hJnghshman, that his

speech is free from- any touch of the

foreign accent so rem ar Ruble in tne

Royal Family: yet he speaks German1

perfectly without the faintest English

accent. When talking to two of his

equerries, General Macdonald or Colo

nel Tvrwhitt, ne always speaits m hju-

glish. and to Captaiin Mild may almost

invariably in German. His F rench is

also remarkably good, if hardly so per

fect as hisEnghsh and German: but

in whatever language he may be called

upon to address a,u audience he. never nrenarea his speeches, after the man

ner now coming generally into ash-

ion.

On this fine May morning, tho Duke

of Cambridge has just come hi from

his morning ride of two hours' in the

Park', his solitary recreation of the day.

Alwavs a very eariv riser, ne nas time

to look over a little correspondence be

foro he ikies out, an exercise never

omitted in any thing approaching pos

sible weather. At Ih o'clock for he is

punctuality itselfhe is back again at

Gloucester House seated at the big

table, ready to get through work with

the equerry on duty. A thorough man.

of business, he geis.nu or it at a rauiu

pace. To-mgnt ne na3 - co speaK ai

ch

ed

is endowed with the fine natural appe

tite propfeif fco the alriily of Guelph"? restrains a t'endencM to adipose tissue by

restricting;, himsnlj to a couple of meals

per aay. . alornmg wors. ano exercse are do ne tie fore hreakfas t a subs! an -

tial dejeuner a lafowrchette eaten about noon. Thus luncheon is avoided, and the day is left clear until dinner. A great part of this wide interval is spent

in the work falling upon a Command

er-in-Chief, which could only be kept down.by thepu actuality and method proper to the Duke of Cambrid ge, who hears every, complaint, and goes into

tne merit of every application.

The Duke of Cambridge xs" a perfect

master of that important part of the metier de nrince which (jonsists in

never forgetting any body. Just as the Prince of Wales's' bright-blue eye is the first thing one sees in a room, so surely is the Duke cf Cambridge's white hand one of the first extended

in greeting. It is said by those who

ought to know that his father was

never known to be out of temper for seven years at a stretch. It would be too much to say this of the old Colonel of the X7th Lancers, but, as a matter of fact, he is one qt the best- tempered men in the world." Doubtless much of this unruffled demeanor is due, first, to natural ' kindness and generosity ; and, secondly", to' an -lextremely methodical life, vhich permits of proper attention being: paid to everything and

everybody, without bustle or hurry of

any kind. The maxim that punctuality is the politeness of princes is amply and practically acknowledged.

One ef the m ost endear i n g quail ties of the Duke is his keen : affeetioh for his family. The protrait of his venerable mother, stttllivihg at Bt. James's, painted by Von Angeli, occupies a prominent position in liis own room.

and the numerous boxes and trinkets used by his father are- -tenderly put under glass and preserved. It is needless to say' that his3 house contains many choice arms and curiosities of ail kinds; and that his diamond sword, presen ted by the. Shah of ? Persia, and another given .by the City of London, are worn by him on grand occasions. The Duke, who is a very well dressed man, appears' to- great ' advantage in mufti, and especially in fuilv evening dress, when tlie fine limbsi at d very small feet peculiar to his lamily lend an elegance to his appearenee which is lost in uniform: Agreeable at a dinnertable or in a" drawing-roomy he is not less at home in stubble or coppice. .. As cool and clear headed in a: hot corner as elsewhere, he is sorely tempted by multitudinous otters' b f the best shooting in the;couhtry.4 I5ut h5s prime devotion is to his work as a military chief. As a iirivate gentleman he administers hl , affairs, wsitli'' his own hand. As fortunes go he is not a very wealthy man for a Prince of the Blood Royal with a large family; but.he is as punctual in his payments ' as in his correspondence. He never lets himself owe either a letter or a shilling.

What Vanderbilt lAjght - do With

His Money

Some one has made a very curious calculation of what Mr.. Yanderbilt

could do with h is money . . William H.

Vanderbilt's income from his inrest-

ments in $51,000,00! four per C3nt,

government bonds is represented at

S5.000 dauy, which is 30825 per hour,

$3.37 per minute or over .five cents per second. Assuming that he Is paid by the second, he cannot possibly spend his money,2 as he could not select his purchases and lay down the prices fast enough. He could not thiow it away to pick up, cast,' recover, pick up and oast again would take him two seconds, and if he worked all through the twenty-four hours without? rest j he could not dispose of one-half his income. By living economically, saying up for four years he could, placing 'his fi ve cent pieces side by side, make a nickle belt around the earth, or by converting his savings into onesisent pieces and mounting them, in a pile he would in twenty year 3 erect a road to the moon and have $500 to in vest? ; , when he got there. . Should his amusement take a charitable twist, "4 he could; out of a year's receipts, donate to every man, woman and child in the United States, twenty cents and have money left over. Other vast possibilities occur to the glowing fancy oif the calculator. In one day: he could go to fi,000 different circuses, eat 10,000 pints of peanuts drink 5,000 glasses 4 of lemonade and have money left to get his shoes blacked. He can afford to have 00,000 shirts washed in one day, and on the day of his death his income; will buy ten first-clans funerals. Mr. t John Mi ibrakev living 1 a few miles north ofcShelbyyille, saw a cat catch a y(ung . duck and disappear through a hole in the barn. . He seized a shot gun and :3red, missiag the cat

but hitting a you n g m an named If roeor,

of Shelby ville, I'tittipg out sn eye, cutting an artery in his . neck, nud filliug his face with'shoti and also ' wounding

two of his own hoys. 'Mr Drake was

not aware that, the .boys, were J about

Berry Carpenter shot and killed his

brother,1 Lee Carpenter, fifteen miles

west of New Albany; Berry, - who is a

low character, had, it appears; seduced his own daughter, and his brother was remonstrati ng ! with him against his evil doingSi when he drew a revolver and shot him tlnough the heart. He then fled and it is thought would com? mit suicide. If round alive the citizens will probabiy-fajw? -summary vengeance tupon him. : f

FOB AND ABOUT ? WOMEN.:

are is

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Spanish blonde is the darling lace. I Tau-colorod kid gloves are worn witbj white costumes. .. ..... r j ' '3r

How loth t lie naughty little pin DellKht to stick in cirosses - And run into the encircling fin: As comoly waists it proesses. The black Beugaline dresses much admired. Bengaline silk

similar to Siciiienne, but has less conspicuous reps, and is more pliable;fcr drapery?' ; f-; -- A small turtle of jet cut in many i facets is the newest creature for eecur j ing lace draperies on bonnets, anil there are also birds' faces, and' Skye . terriers' heads of colored, steel and gilt for the same purpose. 3Irs. Barah Terwiilinger, of Bordem i Hill,"N." Y., who has just reached her. one hundredth year, enjoys gooti heath, a good appetite, and her intelr . le(?tual facultijs are unimpaired.6 Hel?

hair is still blaok and glossy, but with an occasional gray h&b: mixed with-it.

The New York Mail says 5 'a young, M lady was asked by her nnaneee on the ; yM eve of the marriage what of all things

she would like best that he should give her as a wedding present. "Pay pap?s debts.'! said she, and I shall e tb& happiest girl in the world;" And, like the dear, good, George Augustas that; he is, he did it; - Mrs. Elizabeth Kingsbury, a leadings advocate of v?omen suffrage, wants all unmarried women called "Mrs." after

they are thirty years old. This reminds me of the young man in Kokomo who, asked a girl ii he could Jescort her home? after church. She said no. Then he:!

wanted to know if he cculd sit on

fence and see her go by;

the Chicago Times sayBlit is an absurd- "

Garfield as a lady pessessmc rrat f

physical beauty. Her face is thor 1: $-m

oughly linetl and seamed with the H ,

caresof many years of hard physical .

moderate income for their wan tshas so drawn her face that no subsequent luxury or uast- will ever be able1 to quite straighten it mat again. She bias

also lived too longoiit of general sodf

ety to ever be ble to enjoy it or care for it. Her receptions drag upon her in such: a way tbiat her ; guests 'are made uncomfortable through her uahanninPRa. RhA is Ji.ki vprrriiflWfint.

jiuu, luruuuu mw tciy. uuuunwo us

called proud and rejjeryed by nany of

:ner visitors. - ' ; -

A Tragedy of I860 Explainocti

The mystery which theassassuial ion , mm

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of Prof. Crowley, of;he Mount Yernoh

Female College of Cincinnati, has been buried in for twenty years, has been dispelled by the confea&ibn 6f a dying man at a Hospital -in Nashvjljei Jlto nessee, -.v l

Crowley derecdea a jaay irom xm :g insults of some roughs in the steet f one night in . I860. Soon afterward i; 1 ' party attacked him nxm behind, ahdf one reached around ac d stabned liim; -in the breast. He Jut his hand on the wound, cried, "My- Qtni I am killed I" . staggered around thie times and fellq i. dead. ' No clue to tlie nmrderjEfswas h-

ever iouna. . ,r : . . , s. The dying ; man a says he and .two ; ffM companions! did i t They hid in the r! ftp woods on the hills two days, and then fep went to :New Orleans The Amt night ?

crer of the same size, voice ancL man- f :Sl

ner as Crowley's, picked a light with them, and stabbed. the one who had stabbed Crowley, ra the same plactw He put his nana over the wound and ' cried, AiMy God, 1 am killed !" staggered tliree times around, and feltdead in i the same manner ast (S'owlev. - . . ; Tins terrorized the other two; aud k they became wan defers. Our West another was stabbed by a stranger and killed. The third came back to con, fess. but his courage failed himnmtii at tlie point of death. The man did soon t after telling the above. ? The is ' believed to be true; ..

arity dinner on a suoiect unconnectwith the army, and a few, statistics

have been prepared by the Secretary of the institution.; There are read, ex

plained, annoted, consigned to his pocket, and never heard of again by mortal man till the Duke rifes to make

tho sneech of the even ine, when he is

found; to have perf ctly assimilated and arranged the information supplied to him. The Commander in-Chief, who

Two months ago, at a log rolling jn .

Pike county, James Stevens got into a ficht witn his ;iather-in -law, James Nance, ' concerning their respective strength, in which Jfance, the aggressor, attacking Stjephens with an ax Stephens defending himself with a handspike; inflicting a blow on the head which proved fatal in a,few hours. Stephens was acquitted: Saturday .pn the grounds of self defense;? : ! ' A farmda borer named Jam es Bedson hying i the north west part of Hart township, Warriclv cpunty? was found; dead ih ah old well Sunday night. He bad been m issing for several days, and his bqdy was hi a bad state: of decomposition when found, it is supposed1:

'he committed suicide, but no reason is assigned; for thefactt; j . w s i . ".. ' i.--A party-of masked men went to the house, of Mr.! JRusiell.i of iBichland:

township, Greene county, pne .night

ost wteK. una alter taiuusr nis wue

fiwdv whei-e she could5 not erive the

alarm, they tied Mr. Kussell to a tree and severely whipped him. Nothinfi; has been learned as to the 'cause. ?

The contract for the construction of

tlie new court house 'at Tjafayette has been awarded to Messrs. Farman and

PierbeV of Indianapolis, their bid ,beingA

ou,uuo less man cue next .wweat umder. The specifications require that

work shall .jomnienco witnm uye uays

A Pathetic Appear. ; : f jndianapolis Review;, 7 :.T : ' The Review dropped in at Governor. Porter,s oflice yesterdayV an.i was shovn the followiuig letter firoma wife asking ior the pardon of heiv husband, who is in the Southern prison, senteuciMi for theft. Its simplicity and tender ness make the appeal a most toucMng one, and the Governor, who is investi-y gating the case, .will probably graatg tlie prayer of the poor woman. Tlies; name of the writer is with-held: 4Beab Govebkor--Won't you iet my husband out of jail? 'Twas bis tbm offense, and he will never do so ahyf I more. He has served'eigbteen moiithsf: half the time he has to serveand no one lost any-thing, and 4twaa hial first ofiense, done trough bad influ-g

ence and withour, a thought or the.

great wrong he was doing. Ob:, please , do let him come home and h?lp mei I am alone with tlrree small children f? . with no home only as I can find one tol v work at, and it is so biird on account off the little children. Oh please let him, V come, and he will nevei? do so anymore! . He knew not what great wrong he was,','doing and he wili sta; away tvoWk- '- such comnany as go t hiim into the other; trouble; The Judge told me he wouldj; , write, : and for me to write, and that&jT yoii would help hirn home. Please fom' give him, for the aako of Him who is able to lorgive even un to the uttermo&t, ; and I' 11 pray for tou as Is do for my :if husband" , " " Wild Plow ? ' JOurango (Col.) Record, t , V , ' .V; ' - The whole country is abloom with l

wild flowers. Perfsct ocean's? of.eolor

flood 'hills and mesas and valleys: Tliej ground itself is covered, and tlie trees; '. and vines and shrubs are seeminglyj alive with white and yellow an d pare! g y ' colored butterflies, of brilliant hues H stationary flower butterflies. There1

are lecrions of flowers" oh every handk-

including many N Of the well-know ml Eistem varieties,' and hosts ! ol Ukimi ;

pretty children of these Westeru?wilds:

as dehcate and beautiful as thelrmaTet " :

civdized sisters, bui to us as yet, name-3 less. There' are hare-teils and butter- 4

Xipi and daisies, and' the whit bloiir r' f

soms of me service berry, and tae pret .; .

ty white tassels, made up of lit tle ball 4

it

shapea llowers, almost nice me tne iliiy?, f :-M of the valley, but growing on shrubsy 2 m and pretty yellow Jolossbms, like the? r :i '

after the signing of the1 contracts

Secretar Windom has ordered sale of a tract : of land kuowu as

the the

Mold .'-French claim' in Vincennes. It

is low and . flat,: oner square wide, and

divides the 'offer-; frolh the rivor . to the

eastern limits.1 ' Five squares near the

river f has f lieeni giyen :the iCi tysfor a

Johii -Rusch,; ofi Viuounes, while ie?

turning frojn a country funeral, jumped

out upon the hard ground as the horses

started to run away and both llegar were

prokenaoove tho anklei 4? r f t

The once noted trotting' horse, Red Cloud, is now doing duty ploughing

flowering currant, hawthorn blssom8 r ft shaded from white to pink, and DeauU---ful white bells of the iruca, and wild . ., .

sweet pes and columbine. In faotv c M

there is no end of exquisite flowers of-:V allshai andhuesr F X '$V 3

Becentric but 3MQli lagi.tning . - :

ATemarKahie v&wot nature occurrf s

eiin Laiicaster county, Penn.TonM iJK,M 'SI farmer named Gray was si Mingy fori the norch of -Ms house wheiia bolr r"yk.

porch

of lightning struck the chimuoyr ram -

down into the stove, which sb attered i

into jiiocesj then along the floo:? to tlie . porch where Gray was sitting. "In nsc4 :;i up the chair to his hip?, then in si aig?ag directioirdown his right legj ce iling ; around it like a snake, burning wherei it .wont tb his little fee o, when :tt buwtt . the boot and entered the step of tlie; norch' breaking -it ,hv o splinters, and .

then passed into the ifrouud, which it Z . j tore up for a consider ble distautie. The , ,

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house was only slightly damaged and X Mr. Gt?ay7s injurieti w ten jpnewiS j ;- 'M severe. ' : T 'f Kf m

o:f the United states

Tins Treasurer

is cottinc- ready vo sisix the Oi,(KH)

checks necessary to J ay the July in "J ' terest oh the Jtti.p cent, refiisterd? lrMiil . Thi hi ivtrct 'hnAir tu fillip till V v

vanuerouu ,

,. American Boy a- ttrottek (record-

2 :32); wag killed hy a5 collision with a-? biigtty in Waahlnion; Barki ife$iig

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