Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 July 1881 — Page 2

BLOOMtNGTON COURIER.

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H. J. FEEiTUS, Publisher.

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Fxiengh and Spanish crop prspects are said to bo promising. THE liondoii Tablet says that the horse? Iroquois is winning $5,000 a day for his owner.

George Ferguson Dyer, York, has become insane on of the sbooting'of Garfield.

of New account

Destructive cyclones visited Fairfield, Minn., and Monroe, Mich., on the afternoon of the 13th insk It is stated that there were seventy one deaths from sun stroke or overheating in St. Loui3, on Monday, July 11th. Secretary Blaine speaks in the high est terms of Vice President Arthur and his excellent qualities of head and heart.

The opinion seems to be strengthening that the yield of wheat in this country will not be much short of that 9f last year, Ghakles Ejlmo, of Scituate, Mass.. lost a cow the other day for which he had refused 20,000. She gave fortyseven quarts of milk a day. Justice Cufford, of the United States Supreme Court, has had one of his feet amputated for gangrene. His

chances for small.

recovery are exceedingly

GtJTTEAU says his name should be pronounced "petto,' which suggests to the Madison Courier paragraph fiend that Charles Jules should speedily Get-to Hades.

Among tho numerous gifts that have recently flowed into the White !House, were four bottles of rum that were nearly 100 years old. Im view of the e'eadiy work of the ready revolver, itis proposed in some quarters that the manufacture and sale of such small and eoncealable guns shall be prohibited. The 8t Iiouis Globe-Democrat very

truly says : "There will be more joy on earth over one President who recover eth than over ninety and nine presidents who never were shot at" The thanksgiving celebration of the recovery of the President, which now seems not very far distant in the future, will be cue of the most memorable days in the history of this country. -The first ball fired by the assassin Guiteau has not been found. It did not lodge in the President's arm' as at ibrst reported, and where it went or what.became of it -is one of the?mysteries. . ' The Fourth of July favors General Grant. His daughter NeDie, Mrs. feartoris, was born on that day f and his youngest grandson. Colonel Fred's latest baby, was born on the last Fourth.

175 yards from a Martini breach-loading, rifle; and of eight bullets which

struck the cuirass only two pierced the

metal, while even these were com

pletely flattened and remained m the woolen lining; so that a man wearing

he cuirass would have been uninjured.

Wonderfully rapid canal digging

ik to be done in Florida, in connection

with the scheme for redeeming the

Vast area of swamp land. Powerful machines on floats will scoop out the

soft soil to a depth of fifteen feet, and j.yidth of forty-four. Nine million

ubic yards will be thus excavated in

about six months.

Last year's agricultural statistio

dhow that 181,583 acres in this country were planted with vines, and that 23,-

353,827 gallons of wine were made

therefrom, valued at $13,426,870. Cali

fornia produced one-half the total.

Missouri and Ohio being the next

largest producers. Grape culture and wine making are rapidly increasing in

his country.

Party lines are about obliterated in

North Carolina, the sole issue now be

ne on the temperance question. Some

'. Democrats are for prohibition and some against it; ditto the Republicans, who are equally divided. A vote is to oe taken nest fall to ratify the action yf the Legislature of last winter in passing a prohibitory law, and the canvass is becoming very exciting. .Captain Lunbborg, a Swedish

fnaval architect, has made designs for a

passenger steamer to cross the Atlantic in six days. The vessel will be 500

feet long, seventy-four feet broad, and be propelled by four compound en

gines, having 22,S0O horse power. Lund-

jborg's main idea is to construct a ship whose main body shall divide the 'water horizontally, and he projects the hull below the water line.

; "I believe in God and trust my--self in His hands," said President Garfield, shortly after being shot down by .the assassin Guiteau, and when it seemed that his death was very close at hand.

Willie Cain, aged ten, was drowned the other day at Kockport, Me., oy Ralph Richards and Edward T. Grss, aged 14 and 11-years, to whom he refused to give up ttventyfive cents.

People dread lightning much more than they do hot weather, yet in tha United States last Saturday and Sunday more people were affected by sunstroke than have been killed in this country in five years by lightning. ; T?ie model in clay of the head of

Senator Morton, made by Mr. Franklin? Simmons, which has been pro

nounced by Mrs. Morton to be abso

lutely life-like, has been accepted by

the Morton Monumental Association. Ppobably the longest petition on

record was presented in the British

House of Commons, recently, by Mr.

Stevenson; It was in favor of closing public houses on Sunday, was 1,100

yards long, and contained 84,008 signatures. The circuses of late have gained some incidental advertising, but at large cost Barn um has lost a valuable car by fire, Coup has had a train wrecked, Cole's tents were shreded by a whirlwind, and Forepaugh's elephants killed a valuable trained horse. It is said that Guiteau can't sleep at night because he imagines he hears a mob hammering and howling at the doors of his jail. For once, at least, a mob will be doing good service If the fcar of it shall fill the nights for this wretcj with the torture of terror. President Garbield describes the pain he suffers in the following terms : "It is like a trip hammer crashing upon my body. If you can imagine a cramp such as you sometimes get in the water 1,000 time sintensified, than you have some idea of the pain I have suffered." , It is said that Judge Lapham, one of the New York Republicann omin ees

for United States Senator, has always been one of Mr. Conkling's warmest friends and supporters, and that Mr. Miller, the other nominee, pulled earnestly and effectively with Roscoe

Jot Grant's nomination at Chicago.

' GuiTEAiT has made a full confession

n garaing his conduct in and about

Washington City prior and up to and including the snooting of the President. He confessed to having arranged his plans for the murder of the Fr-

icieut on several different oceasions'and

as as many a nerenc pi aces, out, some

uaforseen matter always intervened and prevented his infamous designs.

The sausage from which some Pennsylvania miners lunched a few days ago, to theiimraediate benefit of local undertakers, has been found on analysis to contain poison, and there seems to be a suspicion that it was made of tne flesh of poisoned animals. The unlimited, steadfast and generous con

fidence of the American people in the inxiversal sausage is an exhibition of sublime faith, worthy of a better cause. GyiTEATj'3 plea of insanity will not a van him iii the District of Columbia, if the law is obeyed. A statute of that district provides that ,v hen the defense is insanity : f;It must be clearly proved that at the time of committing the act the party accused wa3 laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it, he did not know that he was doing wrong." Official returns show how vast are the flocks of sheep owned in the Australian colonies: The New Zealand and Australian. Land Company owns 300,000 sheep ; Mr. Bobert Campbell, 386,000 Mr. George Henry Moore, 90,600; Messrs. DaJgetty & Co., 208,000; Sir Dillon Bell; 82,000; the Hon. William Robinson, 86,000; SirCracroft 40,000; Mr. Kitchen, 80,000, and Mr.

I Allan McDean, 600,000.

The physicians are bringing to mind 1 a large number of cases in which persons have recovered- from wounds similar to that of General Garfield. Among ftheA latest called up is the case of General Meade, who was wounded at theoattle of Glendale in 1862, and recovered. After his death, in 1872, it was discovered that the ball with which he was wounded ten years before had passed directly through the liver.' ... An aged miser was found dead in his Chicago den. It was evident that a robbery had been committed, but it was thought that the larceny had no

immediate connection with his death,

which was attributed by a Coroner's

jury to natural causes. Two negro

boys ran away with a circus about that

time, and they were arrested on a bare

suspicion that ibey were the robbers.

They promptly confessed that they

were also murderers.

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the opinio a m very generauy expressed that the Vice President ought

to be more actively identified with

public affairs and in connection with his administration. Hence it is pro

posed by some that he shall be made

aoenator-at-large; by others that he

shall be, ex-omcio, a member of the

Cabinet, and by another it is suggested that he shall be made, ex-oflicio, Governor of the District of Columbia. The

discussion of the matter is timely and

profitable, and will probably result in

a beneficial change of the official status of the now merelv nominal

second officer in the Government.

At a Fourth of July picnic in Louisiana the game of throwing rubber balls

at the head of a negro as it was thrust

through a hole in a canvas attracted

attention through the wonderful dodging of the living target. Nobody had

yet nit mm, ana lie nao grown over

confident, when a drunken fello w of

fered 5 for five throws witn a stone.

The bargain was made, and the crowd

eagerly watched the dangerous sport.

Three times the r.egro dodged the mis

sile, but on the fourth it struck him squarely in the forehead, fracturing his skull.

Some time ago tho postoffice at Lyon, O., was robbed, and since that time Postmaster C. E. Carmon has een very anxious on the subject of burglars. About 2 o7clook Sunday morning his attention was aroused by seeing a figure on the roof ot tho extension of the house, and lie fird the contents of a breech-loading carbine through the head of the supposed intruder. Examination revealed the horrible fact that he Lad killed his lour teen -year-old son, Elmer, who had gone out either in a fit of somnambulism or to seek relief from the terrible heat. . It appears tnat Silas M. Waite, now serving a term of imprisonment for afealcation while President of the Brafctleboro (Vt.) bank, actually contributed $100,000 of hia own money for dividends to the stockholders. Although the concern was bankrupt, he covered up that fact by meana of perjured returns, declared dividends regularly, and paid them out of bis own pocket.

His motive is not clear, but it is certain that his falsity impoverished many depositors. He is about to sue the stockholders for a return of the dividend money. There are five cities in the world having each a population or over 1,000,000 inhabitants one each in Britain, United States, Germany, France, and Austria. Then there are'n me having more than 500,000 inhabitantsthree in Great Britain, three in the United States, two in "Russia and one in Turkey. Of cities having between 200,000 aim 500,000 inhabitants there' are 29 six In the United States, five in Great Britain, four in Germany and in Italy, three in France, two in Spain and one in Russia, Austria, Belgium. Holland and Portugal. The Chinese are now rapidly entering into competion, in vessels of their own, against the trade of others notions. With their large capital and low labor they can eiisily drive oft a".l competition as they are rapidly doing. The San Francisco Post says that Ton King Lung, the Superintendent of the Chinese Merchant's Steamship Company, at Shanghai, recently said, 'I am not going to let the English and Americans make profit in conveying the Chinese to America and in carrying tea. If there is a profit in it we shall make it," They can now transport California flour for four dollar; on, while the Americsn line charges seven.

Iowa and parts "of Illinois were vis- T -At Zurich the Swiss Grand Council iter! bv snvere ?.torms Bundav evening, have decided by a large majority, not

Some very interesting experiments have been lately carried out in Leipsic with a cuirass made of a newly invented preparation of steel. The metal of the cuirass is only about tf-50ths of an inch thick, and is lined inside with a tli in layer of wool. The cuirass itself is fourteen in ches wide and ten Ouches high (being intended to protect only the heart and lungs), and weighs two and one-fourth pounds'. Eleven

rounds were fre$ at it at adistarice oft

The Massachusetts town of Great

Barrington has been foully disgraced by the tarring and feathering of a woman by a gang of four roughs. The woman is a Mre. Johanna Sullivan, whose offense seems to he that fhe talks and scolds too much in the oiinion of some of her neighbors. Her assailants broke into her house at night, violently took her out of bed, and covered her with tar and feathers. Two of the scam i s are under arrest , an d4he other two have tied the town.

The news from South America is the opposite of pe aceful. The Republic of Venzuela is in a state of;war, a formidable rebellion having broken out. General Blanco, the President, at the head of 10,000 men, has taken the field against the insurgents and a bloody engagement is expected to follow General Guillermo, the ex-President of the Republic of Sanf o Domii -

go, is now in tne! island or at. Thomss

purchasing arms and ammunition pre

paratory to the invasion of his country.

He has a force of 400, and expects that

on landing this force wjU be greatly

augmented.

This little picture of the President and his wife comes from a letter written by the Hon; A, M. Pratt j of Bryan, Ohio: "Twenty-three years ago Mrs. Garfield sought and taught sholarsl iu painting and drawing iii this then very insignificant village, and not getting very large classes, lining meantime iu my house, the guest and friend of my then wife. The future President was frequently entertained at my table; he a young, strong, green, greathearted, large-headed youth, but two years from college, hopeful, full of life and push; she graceful, swept, amiable, retiring, with a disposition as lovely as a star-Kt sky both poor. Their fortune was their youth, health, hearts, intellects, and, glad am I to say, love." The "Marrying Squire" of the old town of Alexander, Pennsysvania, is the son of a Squire "why married 900 couples, and he Droves .the superiority of the present generation by more than doubling his father's record; Up to the 25th of last month ho had united 1,846 couples. Of course lie has kept a careful register of them all, giving dates, names, residences and the amount of the fees. The largest fee was $20, the smallest 50 cents, and the average about S3. Among the odd experiences of his long career, (for the lSquire" is sixty-eight years old) he relates the story of a man who had no money to pay the fee, and wanted to ger married "on tick." The knot was tied j with the promise of $1 in a few weeks. Three months later came a letter, telling the "Squire"

that if he would only untie tho knot

he would remit double the fee and

thank him besides.

Dr. Blisb, the President's chief

medical attendant, in a talk last Sun

day with reference to the wound and the ball that inflicted it, said : "We know that the ball entered three inches

into the body. We have felt and de

veloped the course of the ball so far. Where it went then we did not defi

nitely know, but from the direction of

the three inches of its course which

has been ascertained, it is certain that

it must have entered the liver, and possibly it passed entirely through the abdominal cavity and is lodged in the interior wr.il of the abdomen. That is where I think it is now in the interior wall of the abdomen, and not in the abdominal cavity at all. The ball entering the body where it did, and passing inwards three inchea, must, of neiessity, pass through a portion of the liver. At that point in the body the liver lies close alongside the ribs, and the ball could not penetrate the body iX that point and enter so great diistanc j without striking the liver. The liver is there and must have been hit. Even if the ball dropped downward after

ward it must have grazed the liver in its downward fall. But as I have

said, the indications of which we have privately advised Drs. Agnew and Hamilton by letter, are that the ball

went through ihe liver to the abdominal cavity, and is lodged in the anterior

wall of the abdomen, as at first sup

posed, and it will be easy, when the

time coin es, to remove it from that

point, without claner. 1 do not think

it will be necessary to outer the abdom

inal cavity at all.''

which did great damfige to crops, railroad tracks and buildings. Chauncey M Depew has withdrawn from the Albaii3r contest. The caucus elected Warner Miller for the loug term and B. S. Lapham for the short term. There were 618 cases of small-pox in Chicago since Jan. 1, Of those sent to the hospital only twenty-two per cent died, while of those kept at home 37 per cent died. Merrill, the pedestrian of Boston, won a victory at Lewes, Sussex, -Eng., over six competitors. His time was 6:39, which was ten seconds less than the best record. Thirty-five deaths from sunstroke occurred at Cincin n ati Wed n esday . From various parts of ihe country come reports of prostration from the solar neat, and a lew deaths. The experiment has been made of s teerin g a steam sh i p by electricity. It worked well enough for steering purposes, but affected the compasses bo as to make them useless . Aiady, one of the maudlin, sickly-

sentimental kind, no doubt, called at the Washington jail Sunday to give Guiteau some broiled chicken and sweetmeats. The food was denied him. The Illinois Slate Board of Health proposes as a means of checking smallpox, to examine emigrants arriving in the State, and to. vaccinate all those who have not been already operated upon. There is a revival in the iron trade,

the only drawback to the out-put

being the excessive! heat, which is bovond the laborers', endurance. Mills

are sold six months ahead for steel and

three on iron.

The bonds stolen from tho Erie

County Savings Bank, of Buffalo, N' Y.. last May, amounting to $114,000,

were returned to the hank Friday, less

$15,000 of United States securities, which had been negotiated. Socialists of Chicago repudiate Guiteau and his crime, but they wish to abolish the Presidentship and the Senate. Quite a number of people who believe that the Socialists are Nihilists and Communists would like to see them "abolished." Mrs. Abraham Txncoln has greatly i ni proved in health, and is able'to ride out and receive callers. The news of the attempted assassination of President Garfield almost prostrated her, aud induced a renewal of illness which lasted till tho next day. News of the signaling of ihe steamship

Arizona off Fire Ireland Sunday night will be joyfully welcomed by many aching heart A few days ago a package of letters wash?d ashore from the wreck of the Arizona. It now transpires that they were thrown a way as waste. Mr. W. S. Peiffer, a salesman for a varnish firm of Chicago, was arrested Monday night in St. Louis, charged with drunkenness, thrust into cell, where he died in the course of the night. It now appears that he was not drunk, but suffering from a sunstroke a case of gross cilminal carelejjsness. The Garfield testimonial initiated by Cyrus W. Field had reached on Saturday the sum of 117,686. In Chicago tnat afternoon a few gentlemen contributed 12.000. if the testimonial is made a national one, it is expected that $1,000,000 can he raised. The money is not for the President, but for his noble wife and his children. A Washington special says that in the investigation cf the facts connected with the shooting of the President, conducted by Col: Corkhill, the District Attorney, it has been rendered very clear that Guiteau never used the exclamation credited to him when he discharged the shot. That expression was the work of some excited imagination. Fowler Bros, have been mulcted in a contest before an arbitration committee of the New York Produce Exchange in the stra of 19,24o. Tho question was whether a June contract or 2,000 tierces of "choice lard stearine" called for "winter-pressed" of summer-pressed lard. The firm claimed the former, the purchasers the latter, and won. On Sunday heavy lains and a water spout caused great damage in Marshal town, Iowa. Linn Creek arose to so great a height as to float about forty houses. Some thirteen manufacturing

establishments were more or less wrecked. In the city the damage amounted to $200,000, whileoutside the loss in crops and farm implements is very, large. Intense heat was the rule Saturday aud Sunday in tho Middle States. At I ndianapolis the thermometer was between 98 and 10:2 degrees, and there -. ... j i j

were twelve cases or sunstroke, ai Cincinnati 108 degrees was reached, and there were eight cases of sunstroke and twenty prostrations. At Wheeling 103 degrees and 106 at Dayton, Ohio, with several cases of sun stroke at each place. Secretary Fisher, of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, reports the wheat crop prospect of the State as follows : In Northern Illinois only 57 per cent, of an average yield per acre; for Central Illinois there is but 40 per cent, of an 'average; in the Southern division, where the leading wheat counties of the State are found, only 49 per cent, of the average yield is anticipated.

THE MEW

Home Items. The newspaper people have found

out more about Guiteau's antecedents

han the police. Guiteau, the assassin, was a member

of Hen rv Ward Beccher'a church some

twelve years ago.

The wheat crop of Kansas is esti

mated at fully 20,000,000 bushe s That of Michigan at 17,000,000. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad brought to Chicago during May and .TunelG.OSO emigrants. A machine has been devisee! for supplying cool air at a temperature of 35 degrees to the President's sjc: cham-

Foreigm Bradlaugh means to try physical force to obtain his seat in the House of Commons. The winter was unusually severe in

the Arctic circle. At Spitsbergen the

ice is not yet breaking up.

In Algeria the insurgents are making

their presence felt in the Tell District

by incendiarism and assassination.

A French company with $10,000,000

capital has been formed in Paris to de

velop the mining resources of Canada,

Lefroy, the murderer of Qoldy, hay been arrested in the East End; London, and has made a full confession of his crime. It is stated that the Sultan will commute tho death sentence of tho murderers of Abdul Aziz to exile for long periods. Tho differences between 1 'Vance and Turkey have been adjusted by the Sultan's explanation that he sent troops to Tripoli for the maintenance of order only. In Havana the "Nannigos" a secret political society, whoee platform is kerosene and incendiarism, has been discovered by the police and

arrested. The missing steamship, Vandalia, of the Hamburg Line, has arrived at

Stornaway, on the Hebrides islands, in tow of two tugs All the passengers

are wen.

About 800 of the inhabitants of

Northampton. England, have address

ed a petition protecting against the admission of Bradlaugh into the House

of Commons.

to allow the Socialists, Nihilists,

Co mmu u ists, e tc. , to hold th eir u u i -versa! congress in that city.

The captain and passengers of the

British bark St. Lawrence, from Rio

de .Janeiro, saw two comets on the

evening of June 28, one in the north

west and the other hi the northeast.

Ilessy Helfman, the Nihilist woman

who was sentenced to death at St. Petersburg for complicity in the mur

der of the late Czar, will, it is believed, have her sentence commuted by the Czar. His Holiness the Pope hat), in consequence of the ill feeling existing between the French and Italians, advised the postponement of two French pilgrimages fixed for August aud September. A new political party has been formed in Germany, under the name of

Anti-progressists. It is composed of

the Conservatives, Liberal Conservatives, Anti-Semitic?, and a portion of the Clericalists. A clause in the land bill favoring emigration will be strenuously opposed

by the Parnell party in Hbe House of

Commons. The members supporting

the Ministry are as strongly determined to retain it. A stableman named Allan Ruther

ford, working in Toronto, Canada, has

received information that he has succeeded to the title and es tates of the Karl of Teviot, with an income of 3 00,000 a year. The Czar, Czarina and Czaiowitz, on Tuesday left the Peterhof Palace and landed in St. Petersburg at the English Quay, whence they drove in an open carriage to attened ; mass at the Fortress Cathedral. A number of citizens of London, Out., who lost relatives by the Victoria diseaster, have signed an address to the government protesting against the .verdict of the Coroner's jury as not.

being severe enough. The Italian Senate, in session at Rome, has 'passed a bill proposing to acclimatize the American grapevine and to take precautionary measures against the spread of phylloxera, the destructive vine disease. A short and convenient road to China from Bnrmah via Bharno, a Burmese city of considerable import ance, has been reopened after being closed by the semi-savage government of Burmah for twenty years. A statement of the Secretary to the Admiralty in the House of Commons that France had nine ironclads on the African coast, and England had six

which were suflicient to cope with the

French nine, was received wj'h cheers. The experiment ul lighting the Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, with naked electric lights of great power, hung from wires suspended on poles fortv-

fivo Via hijfth, was not successful. The

light was too intense and painful to the eye.

Tne touemem cuue.'.s prenareu a

monster petition ,. with 8,000 signatures, expressing their alarm as to the injury likely to ensue , to tbedr industries by

the operation of the one-sided system of free trade which obtains in Great

Britain.

rnnce Alexander or uuigaria is accused of having resorted to buldoing

at the recent election far members of

the Assembly, and to have prohibited the circulation of the newspapers pub lished by American missionaries in Constantinople, At the Kerry, Irelar d, assizes Judge

Lawson drew attention, to the feet

that the reign of law in that county had been superseded. The jury, in spite of the. Judge's remarks, acquitted some men charged with a flagrant case of intimidation. The miserable Russian peasantry

have recommenced the persecution of

the wretched Je ws who have tho misfortune to live among them. When a number of massacres, outrages and villainies have been committed the authorities' will interfere. The Standard (London) says that the dying embers of the Eastern question have again been disturbed by Frauee. Turkey's .helplessness, Italy's good sense and the peaceful tendencies .of England are all that prevent an European war. At Tongue Point Asylum, near Montreal, two insane women named Porier and Roberts were confined in the same cell. During Monday night Porier fancied the other woman was a dragon come to attack the inmates, aud pounded her on the head with a board, causiing her death. For the past cloven years a party of counterfeiters at Geneva, Switzerland, have done an immense business in

the manufacture of 'oase coin, which they circulated in Egypt. The principals, including a banker of Marseilles, have been arrested and will be tried in Geneva. A terrible disease, known as the Siberian plague, has appeared in St. Petersburg, where it is sprcadiug with alarming rapidity. Horses are dying by scores, and many persons are affected. A want of. efficient medical attendance, and the fact that the peas ants sell the hides of the deceased animals, render the local authorities helpless. .

stable Sunday night. He was nearly thirty years old. Some boyfi playing in the old fair grounds at Seymour, saw a largo box o n top o f t he J ud ge, s ta u d . They took a peep inside, and beheld a human corpse in a bad stale of decomposition. An investigation will be math?. Louis Sappen field, living two miles south of Palmyra, hi Harrison county, committed suicide by shooting himself in the forehead with a rifle the ether day, because his new wife refused to give him money to buy a farm with.

aud operator at St. Louis crossing, on the J. M. & I. railroad, a few miles from Shelby vilJe, was totally destroyed by tire Saturday. A trunk containing a large amount of money was lost with the goods. Thomas J. Ewing, aged twenty-four years, a son of Columbus wlng1 one of the most prominent farmers of Jackson county, has been adjudged, insane and !?eut to the asylum tor treatment, His insanity was probably caused by hard study. For some time it has been known thai, two or more panthers have been ranging through the almost primitive forests in Half and Columbia townships, Dubois county. Last week a party of hunters set out iu search of them, and after an exciting chase succeeded in killing one, William. McLain, of Waterloo, went

to Connersville, got drunk and said Guiteau did bis best !ay- work when he shot Garfield. Thereupon William Hamilton promptly knocked him down, and was fined one cent and

costs by the justice, who paid the fine himself, and the other officers remitted their fees, William Dunn and George, Taylor, while on a spree, made a rush, on Eugene Bretna, engi neer a t Thompson's inilH at Terre Haute, to aveng an old grudge. Bretna met them with a hammer, crushing Dunn's skull, and killing him instantly. Taylor fired several shots without effect The survivors arc in jail. While Mrs. John Webb, of Lagro, was at work at her home, just under an up-stairs window, some children, who were playing above, dropped a pitchfork on., he?. One prong of the fork enterred her left arm, and the other ran into her side, inflicting injuries which will probably prove fatal. In the criminal court at Fort Wayne, in the case of the State against State Representative Dr. McDowell, for assault with intent to kill Miss Amanda Bockhill, the jury was discharged. They agreed as to the defendant's guj.lt, but differed as to the, proper punishment. The testimony disclosed a deplorable state of affairs, John Marks, the railroad agent at Woodlawn, six miles northwest of Mnncie, on the L. E. . and W., attempted to snatch a plank off the track in front of a coming locomotive, when it was struck by the wheels, whirling Mr. Marks to the ground, breaking bis hip bone and severely bruUing him all over. Although badly used up, his physician says he will survive. Mrs. Mary Mitchell, of Indianapolis, was at Kingstown to visit her children at the orphans' home. She found one ch ild missing, a girl of eleven years, who had been sent from the home. No one knows, where she is or by whom she was taken. The child's name is Emily Josephine Mitchell, she has red hair and fair complexion, and is a smart, intelligent girl. Any information of her whereabouts would be acceptable at the home. Mrs. Stoker, the estimable wife of a well-known citizen of White comity, who resides near the Lingle farm, two miles! west ol Chalmers, was well nigh scared to death the other night by rinding a monster snake iu her bird cage, with her two canaries inside of him. The cage was hung high, and it is a mystery how the reptile got there. He was safely caged, with no .chance of getting out until the canaries were digested. On Sunday night Frank Whiting made an almost successful attempt to escape from the reform school, at Plainfiehl. Since hia recent attempt to escape it has been necessary to keep him shackled and to keep close watch upon him. On Saturday night he went to the night closet, and ir. some way managed to climb up thi wails, after the manner of Jean Valjean, and crawl through a small ventilator to tho gable end of the building, and dropped a distance of more than two stories to the ground. This aroused the guard, but, hampered as he was, Whiting .managed to reach the shelter of a fence-corner, where he had nearly su exceeded in removing the shackles when he was recaptured.

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A young man named Paulton, liviug near Washington, died of injuries inflicted in a fight with Frank Jennings, n tho 4th. Jake Paige, while cutting wheat with a self-binder on a farm near Pleasantville, Sullivan county, accidentally cut his right hand off.

Zed Barnes, son of Prof, Barnes, Muncie, found an old toy pistol in rain barrel, where it had reposed for year, and while fooling with it put bullet through his le.

William Bobbin, s,n industrious one-

legged man of Hamilton township,

Jackson county, anc. aoout nity years

of age, had an arm torn oft in a thresh

ing machine the other day.

While George Brown, of South Bend

was pourinix babbit metal around the

journal of his thresltinir machine, the

metal explode! and Hew in ms eyes,

entirely destroying tho sight of both

of them.

T. A. Ellinger. of Crothersville,

Scott county, was rebbed of $800 on the

returning Niagara Fails excursion

train at a point just across the Indiana

State line near Union City, buiiday morning.

The Dodge manufacturing compa

ny's bundling, at Mishawaka, was struck by lightning, which set it on Are and destroyed $30,000 or 135,000 worth of property, on which there is no insurance. Wm. Bohroeder, n employe of Olds & Sons' spoke factory, at Fort Wayne, hanged himself, last Wednesday, and his body was not found till Tuesday. Grief at the loss of his wife was the probable cause. . 'Old Charley," the faithful lire department horse of Ijafayette, for fifteen

years an active and efficient fireman, as burneel to death in the chiefs

IFecunciity t of wishes. In a lecture in Englaud on the food fishes of the sea, Prof. Huxley gives some estimates of their fecundity that are almost startling. He says that 2,500,0(10,01 K)or tbereabouts.of herring are every year taken out of the North Sea and the Atlantic. He assumes that their number is even greater 3,000,000,000. Now, he says, " prodigious as is apparently this number, it is not more! than one shoal, covering a dozen square miles," and that shoals of much large size are on record. It is safe to say that, scattered through the North Sea aud the Atlantic at one and the same time, there tmist be scores of shoals, any one of which would go a

lone: way toward supplying the whole

of man's consumption of herring. And

the statement is made with the fact be fore him that nine-tenths of all the

herri.ncs eesrs deposited in the sea are

lost. Prof. Huxley counts that in 1870,

5.000,000 of ccdnner and nafce were

taken by the Scotch fishermen, and

estimates that these fish alone had consumed 3,500,000,000 herring during the

year. This enormous destruction of

smaller fifth by the cod finds its parallel iu the aborpirig qualities of our native fish, the Poma torn ns aaltatrix our well known blue lish. Nothing is more

destructive than the blue fish, aud the

.United States fish commission reports

state that making an allowance Often fish per diem for the blue fish on our

coast, and that they keep on eating

- fish at this-rate for one nuudredand twenty days, before the end of the season they have consumed in round numbers 5,200,000.000,000,000. of fish, which it h calculated represents in weight some 300,000,000,000 ot pounds. We are. lost in amazement at such figures, aud at that nature whose hidden marvels arc on such a tremendous scale. The sea is apparently exhaustless, whatever may be done upon land. Prof. Huxley also settles the question in regard to the celebrated English whitebait, which he affirms to be nothing elso but herring under six months old. Ho Was There, Too.

Sittings.

There was quite a row in the Blue Light: Colored Tabernacle night before

hist between Uncle Moso and Deacon Gabe 8nodgras.

1 You is do . biargest ojacK rascal in

Austin," said Deacon Suodgrass.

You isi & heap bigger one," respond

ed Uncle Hose, placing his hand on

thoivorv handle of bis-umbrella..

uBi;eddern,N said Parson Bledsoe, vou talhs as if dar was, nobody else

p resen t 'eept i n 1 y erse fs. 1 1

Mark Twain's Preparation for a Possible Encounter TOth -J tho Comet.

Cor. New York Sun ' Desiring to get' the c y in toil' of that celebrated amateur astronomer, Mr. Samuel Longhorn Clemens, on the new comet, I visited his house this morning just before daybreak. His passionate fondness for observing celestial phenomena is. well known. I was confident that I should find him at his telescope in the turret that caps the northwest corner of his extraordinary mansion. A few well directed pebbles brought him to the window 'Hello!" said he. i(Come' up; : but don't wake the baby. Mind the sixth .stair on the second flight; it creakes a Hades of a falsetto. So saying he let down his door key at the end of a string. When I reached the turret my friend was no longer inside. Hewas sitting

iu an open scuttle leading to the roof

smoKing a cigar. With both hands he grasped a long pole. When it grew

lighter I perceived a was a boat, hook.

His face had a haggard look,, and his

long legs hung listlessly through the

scuttle way. rYcu look tired, Mark." said I. "Have you been up all night?"

"All nigfctr" said ne, witn a. groan

that consisted of a vowel' and two

consonant sound?. "All night? This makes the fourth consecutive night

that I haveivt closed half an eye. It

wearing on me. tuis constant respons

ibility is undermining my constitution.

My sense of duty is as strong as the

next man's, but sometimes I feel like letting go my .grip, even if the condemned planet slides into the revised version of brimstone. All night?

Goodnight! Some other night l"

There was a degree of exasperation

in his tone which the circumstances did

not seem to warrant. "Well," said I,

"there is no occassion for anger. No

body compels you to sit up here in the

maiarious atmosphere and early dew.

Ho looked for a minute as though

he was going to break out with a tor

rent of obmrgatioir Tnen ne mas

tered his wrath and gazed down upon

me with an expression of melancholy

pity. . . .

"The tail of that comet," said he,

sadly waving tne end of his pole to

ward the Northern sky, "is according

to my calculations' a little over forty-

two million miles long; yet it wouldn't

reach more than a quarter way through

the skulls of some people that I know.

The reckless ignorance of mankind amuses me the older I grow.. Why

don't I go to bed? Yes, it .would be a perfectly easy and natural thing to

go to bed, wouid'nt it, now? Perhaps

I bad better uo to bed." And he

laughed derisively.

"What m the name ot common sense arc you driving at, Clemens?" I demanded. "Oh, nothing at all," he replied with a sardonic wave of the pole. Nothing except that while the mad revelry of the world goes on below, and the multitude pursues its wonted avocations as though a universal: catastrophe was not imminent, one solitary watcher sits up here in Ins lonely tower, braving danger aud incurring. great fatigue for the sake of his infatuated fellow beings. There have been examples of such devotion to duty in history, but they are rare, and it has always been left to posterity to recognize them. At the present moment I fill the post of lookout to th planet', young man You'll fiud set down in the census the exact number of fellow citizens whose existence depends upon my vigilance, "That.'s all I'm driving at!" I saw now pretty well how things were with my friend. So, to humor him, I gravely remarked: (I always knew your philanthropy, Mark.' Yet 1 must say that tbb last undetaking surprises me." . He immediately became affable and .even confidential. "There is a good

deal of true Christian spirit of self-de

nial in it isn't there now? . iou see,

thev all wromr about the tail. I've

ciphered on that tail uutil I understand

every inch of it. Its absurd to think

that tail isn't solid, and pretty tough.

too. Do you imagine that a comet

could go bulging through space at the rate of two hundred miles a minute without knocking spots out of a tail

of vapor ? Tie a roe; nan k on trie rear

end of the New York and Boston four o'clock express, start her off at even forty miles an hour, and see how long your fog bank will travel in company with your loco moti ve. Yet they ask us to swallow this infernal nonsense abou t the comet's tail. My observations of this fellow, sud also of Coggia's comet, seven years 'ago, have convinced me that comet's tails are fastened on tight, and are of a fibrous and durable nature, like Hart lord beefsteak "And what do propose to ;do. Ayith your pole ?' ' I asked "Great Caer!" he exclaimed. "With a tail forty-two million miles long,- three millio"h miles thick, and tough as whip leather, whisking about in the- wake" of that piratical craft every time sh-e tacks overhead, don't you see the necessity of keeping a cool-headed aud muscular man on deck here to feud off, in case the cussed thing whisks this way.

by a sister of the Five years before, in

I the Low Countries, another bigot,

Baitbzar Gerard, had frustrated all the

steps taken to shield the person of William the Silent, and, penetrating

tho house in which he lived, succeeded

iu killing the liberator of Holland.

This case is a startling one, because

tho murdered man was forewarned and completely on his guard. For ,

four years PhikWa offer of 25,000

crowns and a patent of nobility to any one who would rid him of his enemy had stood open, and had led to several

attempts on William's life, m one or

which he had been dangerously

wounded. So, too. in 1620, the attend

an is who surrounded Henri IV. as he rode through Paris on his way to take

command of his army, were powerless

to ward eff the daggar of the assassin Ravaillac, Nor could all the agents of

the Lieutenant-General of Police and "

the horse and foot soldiers of the royal

household prevent Damiens irom levelling a vicious, though, as it happened, not mortal, blow at Xonis XV.

if wo look at tne most remarKaoie

attempts upon the lives of sovereigns

during the present, century, we snail

nnd that m almost every instance tne assailed person was encompassed with guards, yet owed his escape fropa death less to their intervention than to accident or defective aim on the partof the assailant. Such precautions did not hiuder the would-be assassin from approaching the person of Alfonso XII, , or from reaching the veryidoor of the carriage in' which Humbert !, was seated. If the presence of armed attendants could suffice to avert assassination the recen t desperate assault upon the German Kaiser would not have been risked, and the ' same thing may be said of the fatal attack on Alexander II., who, it will be remembered, was returning from a review, and was accompanied by a military escort. Louis Philippe, too, was on his way to a military pageant ; and was surrounded by officers of the royal staff when he s6f' narrowly escaped death from the Fieschi infernal machine, through? whose explosion some forty persons were killed, or wounded Again, it was. pure accident that rescued jSTapoledn I t. from the Orsini bombs, for the police of : Paris had failed to arrest the conspiracy; of which, they had heard rumors, and the body guard of the Emperor could not prevent the tragedy which followed. In the long record of attempts on the lives of public personages, the most nerfect analogue to the crime of Guiteau seems to, be -the assassination of Spencer Perceval, the head of the British Ministry in 1809. The real executive chief Of the United Kingdom is, of course, the Prime Minister, and, like our President, lie may be said to incarnate the deliberate will of the nation, though his representative character was by no means so perfect before the first Reform bill as it is now. But it is a curious fact that Perceval, like

Mr. Garfield, was shot by a disappointed office-seeker, one Bellingham, an English trader, who alleged some injury at the hands of the Russian Government, and who seems to have become half crazed by , his failure to procure redress from the British Ministry. Bellingham was tried, convicted, and hanged for tbe common-law crime of murder, and such will mxdoubt be the fate of Guiteau, should the President's wounds prove fatal. But, notwithstanding the shock of horror occasioned by Bellingham' mad deed, British public bpinioii'would not sanction the proposal to guard against the :- repetition of suoji crimes by surrounding the person of the Prime. Minister with an armed retinue. We may add that the institution of a body : guard- a precaution which, as we have seen, is essen tially futile will never eomrn end itself to the good sense and sober second thought of the American people.

Precautions Against Assassination. New York Sun. It is natural that in the outburst of popular sympathy and indignation, the propriety "of afloruirig special protection to tho person of our. Chief. Magistrate should find some advocates; A little reflection, however, will make it plain that no array of police and sold iery cau assure absolute safetv to the executive head of a State. 4hd even where a constitutional or elective ruler

.grounds his title in the trust and affec

tion of the community, ne is sun, use private individuals, at the mercy of design or caprice, engendered in a morbid or disordered intellect. The futility of special, precautious on tho part of autocrats against assassination may be reckoned among the clear est lessons of history. The entire command of the resources of an empire, the continual attendance of a powerful body guard, and the elaborate system of espionage devised by Tiberius, could not save a targe proportion of the first twelve .Cinsars fivm a premature and bloody death. The annals of the house of Oth na -m and the house of Romanoff demonstrate the vanity of the most imposing guarantees against palace intrigue and popular disaffection. At this moment the Czar of Russia cannot foil the assaults of which he is the constant target, except at a sacrifice of personal liberty which would render 1 i fe i n tol arable to the m en-nest of his

subjects Tne present brntiu is .pro

tected iu hispiuitfy and whenne goes

abro id , by. a si roi ) g. m il 1 tury force and

the unceasing viattance ot a multitude

ofsoioa. Yet the same measures of

efence did not avail to save nis two

immediate nre lecessors from death or

deposition. And here we way recall

. . . . yy- I

the striking fa-at that, soon aicer tne

death of Abdul-Aziz, one astute and

resolute man found means to push his

wav through the tiles of soldiers aud

attendant wto the Council or Minis

ters, and -, i a his own hand slew three

of the oHJ officials before, he. was over-

; ; ' The Llama. 1 V . The South American llama will liear t neither beating nor ill treatment. The animals go in troops;. an Indian walking a long distance ahead as a guide. If the llamas are tired, they stop, and the Indian stops also. If the delay be, too great, the Indian becoming uneasy toward sunset, after all precaution, re solves on sugplicatihg the beasts vi resume their journey.' He stands about; ifty or sixty paces off, in an attitude of humility, waving his hand coaxingly toward them, looks at them with tenderness, and at the same time; in the softest tone3, reiterates, "le, ic? ic!,r If the llamas are disposed: to resume their course, they follow the Indian In good order and at a regular pace, but verv fast, for their legs are very long; but when they are in ill-humor, they do not even turn to ward the speaker, but remain motionless, huddled !" together, s lauding or lying down: The straierht neck and its gentle majesty of, bearing, the long dowi of their always clea n and glossy skin, their supple ana timid motion. all giveithem an air i at once sensitive and noble. The llama i the only creature employed by man which he dares not strike. If it hadpenswbich is very seldom the casethat an Indian wishes to obtain, either by fore or even by threats what ihe llama will not willingly perform, the instant the animal rinds itself; affronted bv words or gestures, he raises his head with dignity, and without making any -at tempt to escape ill-treatment by flight, lies down, turning his looks toward Heaven. Large tears flow free ly from his beautiful eyes, signs issue from his breast, and in half or threequarters of an hur at most he expires The respect shown these animals by Peruvian Indians amounts absolutely to superstitious reverence. When the Indians load them, two approach and caress the animal, hiding his head that he may not see the load on his back. It is-the same in unloading. ;

pOWeiC j .-V,::-

Tho u?.i iessuess ol preventive

8otno men with swords may reap tlve field And plant wllii laurals whore they kUl, Jin t Iholi' strong nerves nt l istmayyiuld; TUoy tama but one' another still.

We cannot have fertilizing bhowers

above. It in thus with our trial?,

meas-

urcs a&ai:SG assaKiuatiuu nas yeeii re-

nealedlv attested in the most civilized

countries of western Europe during

the past three centuries, p or some years after the murder of the Due de Guise the life of , Henri HI. was a perpetual vigil, and the most complete and careful precautions Were taken to secure him against tho veugeanccof (lie leaf no. Vermin 15S9, he perished bv the ductfr of J.90ues Clement, whose

j religious, hiuticiscp had been adroitly

The Advantages of Bern a Bojfy At the ciosinc of the Rah way, N. J.

grammar scho.d, Adolnh Jacobs, agetl li$ years, Composed and read' the following-composition 4 on? "The Advaij ; tages of Being a Boy." '. ;UA boy is generally born when he-is very young, and.gets'to :be at man be fore Ids mother. A boy is not so skit tish as a girl. ' He takes a mouse, which would scare his sister half to death;ahtr ties a string to its tail and swings it over his head. Then he is in his glory and laughs at his sister, who is looking for a knot hole to bide in. Hi weark no lace bibs or corsets, petticoats or skirts. A boy pos?esses ten times more cheek than a girl, hut if he. ever does any mischief, he owns up to it with a bright and smiling face, v Girls are ii great deal of trouble to their tarents; who have to keep them until somebody fidls ih love: with them and marries them.. Not so with a b y, he takes care of horses,- works in the mixxo. and raises eain. Ail that girls do (or exercise is to make doiis chemises, and cr ohct work, while tho boy. the park of manhood, Is putting up some job to play on his teacher, or phxy in vrH!u glorious ganie of baseball Hurrah ! Ihen for the boys? ' They aio the standard; bearers of the world!" -t

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A Dog Dies of Qfjevj i T Qazvostoii (Texs) News. ,-,... At the burial, this evening; of tbtf iu fin t daughter'of CapU Joseph Roland; i it was observed that a. dog' that had . been allowed to play with the child when alive hd followed the remains to the gmve and While arrangements were being made for the interment ot the baby, the dog hung around the ' corpse, moaning most piteously anjd other wise exhibiting its grief, and when. the grave was opened it jumped in aii r refused to come out toi coaxing j scoldiug, At lat the dog was tied with a rone, and taken from the ground T

and secured to a tree to prevent its govl lug into the grave again. After th burial rite .were performed; and the dog was-approached, to., be turner 4oeiK!.

was found 4eaL ' : v ' S ' - .