Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 40, Bloomington, Monroe County, 6 August 1881 — Page 2

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f changed 10 a light dun, in wonderful T dent to-day, reading from the news

H. J. FELTIT3, Pcblihheb.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA.

HERE AXD THERE.

contrast with its former blackuess and that of ita mate.

, The new comet is labeled UC." Wo shall "C" it bye-and-bye. There are said to be 608 holders of government bonds in this State, Gener ii Grant's income is estimated to be about 50,000 a year. Te;e method of Guiteau's imprisonmen t is- equi valen t to solitary confinement An exodus of colored servant girls from Virginia to New York, is in progress. Ulysses Si GRA3ST, Jr., is said to have cleared a half million dollars durin g the past year.

Switzerland and Eastern France were shaken by an earthquake n the morning of July 21st. The Red River regit n of Dakota promises the largest and best crop of wheat ever harvested there. The net proceeds of the Indianapoli.3 postoffice for the year ended June 30th, 1881, were $83,476.33.

It is thought that a reward of $50,000 will be oftered;for the capture of the rooters of the train afcAViuston, Mis sousi. A London dispatch an n ounces that it has been determined to give up the whole of the Transvaal of South Africa to the Boers.

Indiana's railroad property is asseied for the taxes of 18S1 at an aggregate of $,279,418, being about $4,700,000 more than last year. The Brush Electric Idght Company proposes to display its street light in Indianapolis on an extensive scale, within the next ninety days. A writer in the New York Sun maintains, with a strong showing of fact and argument, that the doctors are lulling the President with quinine.

ic agnew, tne Jfjiiiadeiphia surgeon, has had the cooling apparatus taken out of the President's room. He said it kept the President's temperature uneven. -fHE Engll-h Radicals are preparing for an agitation against the land systera or that country, to be commenced as soon as the Irish land bill is out of the way. The estate of Lord Beaeonsfield is sworn to be worth 7S4S7. The debts and funeral expenses amounted to 1S,375. The net value is thus about 315,000. An Irishman has been arrested and held for trial in .London for threatening the life of Hon. William E. Forster, the British Chief Secretary for Ireland. The law of compensations appears to be in full operation in the crop prospects. The wheat yield is short but the potato prospect is uncommonly fine. A Wisconsin wife painted the soles of her husband's boots, and thereby obtained evidence of his wandering footsteps which will be valuable to her in aj suit for divorce.

In Philadelphia, a few days

two lawyers were convicted of forging a will, by which it was proposed to divert -an estate valued at $800,000 from ita lawful owners.

The total value of exports of domestfo breadstuff from the United States dining twelve months ending June 30, 181, was 65,561,829; twelve months eliding June 80, 188), $282,132,618. A NUMBER of prominent ladies in England are forming an association to encourage British manufactures. They pledge themselves to wear home-made 'goods in preference to those of foreign make. The men of Nebraska will vote next year on a constitutional amendment allowing women to vote, and systematic agitation of the women suffrage question has already been commenced there. It is said that tbe price of wheat is t wenty-five per cent, higher than it was last year, thus "evening up" the shortage of the crop, which is estimated to aggregate abou. the same per eentage. 'ZThe latest with reference to Mr. Conklingis, that there is a motion on foot to start a Stalwart newspaper in New York city, with a capital of a million dollar, and Roscoe as editor-in-chie It is feared by many that an era of extravagance and reckless speculation has set in which will speedily exhaust the resources of "good times," and paralyze the energies of the business and industrial revival. It is said that the Nihilists are now holding, a "World's Congress" in St. Petersburg, right under the nose of the Czar and his vast police machinery, and yet the Congress cannot be found by, the governments The Right Reverend Joseph C. Taittr, Episcopalian Bishop of the Dio

cese of Indiana, is lying dangerously

mat inaianapons, from the effects of

a paralytic stroke. This is his third

attack, and a fatal result is fearec.

jlhe Cincinnati Gazette says: "Of

t he 500 deaths w hich occurred in this

city from the effects of the excessive heat, three-fourths, if not a larger

proportion, are traceable to the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors." The next Fat Cattle Show, under the auspices of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, will be held in the Chicago Exposition Building during the week beginning November 7th, laid ending November 12th. The town ;of. Palatine; N. Y., containing about 500 inhabitants, is said to be the richest place of its size in the world. Of ita population thirty perns are worth from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000, and six are put c'own for over j$O,OWiOO0. ; 1 -1 1 1 1 1 1 1 At Bound Brook, N. Y.f a few days ago, one of a pair of black dray horses 5was prostrated by sunstoke. It recovered la a short time, but its coloj: was

The conservative tendency of the popular vote in Switzerland received conxlrmadon on the 3d of July, when a law passed by the Great Council for the election of Judges by universal

suffrage was vetoed by a largo ma

jority of the electors. ;

The remarkable growth of the Vm ted States postal service will be. the; best appreciated by the statement tbatj the value of the postage stamps stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc., sold in the last fiscal year, exceeded that of the previous year $2,550,000. PAUirHEiiB. a Swiss emigrant who lately bought a farm and settled in Eagle creek valley, Minnesota, became insane through the failure of his crops and from homesickness, during which he killed his wife and eight children, and then shot himself to death.

The death of Associate Justice Clifford leaves only one Democrat in the Supreme Court of the United StatesStephen J. Field, who was appointed by Mr. Lincoln. The appoiniment of a successor to Justice Clifford will be delayed by the condition of the President. .

One of the most miraculous escapes of recent date occurred at Troy, N. Y a few days- ago, when William Gavin, while suflering from delirium, leaped, head foremost, from a precipice 135 feet high to the rocky bed of a creek below, and was only badly bruised and out. A mysterious yellow dog which paid periodical visits to General Garfield's residence before the election, and followed the President's carriage on inauguration day, has just reappeared upon the scene. He called at the White House on Thursday, received some food, stayed about the premises for a couple of hours, and then departed, no one knows whither. The New York Sun is authority for the statemen t that sul phurous flames burst fori h from the sand of the sea shore, lelow high water mark, the other day as Long Branch, the sand flames hissing and smelling in a manner very suggestive of the worst place spoken of in the Revised New Testament. The discovery of a number of infernal machines, sent from this country for probable use in England, is creating a great sensation in the latter country, and imposes an important and peremptory duty upon the government of this country in the detection and punishment of the villains concerned in these diobolieal plots.

A Washington special to the Indianapolis Journal says that Mr. Conkling announced last Monday that he "was done with politics, and should hereafter c.evo te himself to the law . 1 9 His name having been mentioned in connection with the vacancy on the Supreme Bench, he said he "would not accept that appointment if it was tendered: to him."

Hon.-Elbbidq e G. Lapham, who has been chosen as Conkiing's successor, is a citizen of Canadaigua, iu Central New York, is 67 years of age, and has beenr a menibt r of Congress for six years: His term is Senator will

papers. Mrs. Garfield road to him a short but well written account of the first day's excitement after the shootin g, with some ex tract 3 in dieati ve of public feeling soon after that time. JBTe listened attentively, without a word of commenjt. When she finished he turned on his side, stretched out his arm andllaid his hand on hers, and said : 'Ofcte, it's a people worth dying for, isn't jit?'" A recent medical paper on insanity while admitting that ii. is largely increasing, jand is covering an extensive range of inental affections, avers that we know next to nothing of its pathologjv. It is thought to be a disease of physical degeneration rather than

one of civilization, but the causes of

mental (disease, its course, and its

methods of cure are regarded as yet remaining undiscovered. It; is estimated

from statistics that one in t hirty of all

persons reachiug the age of 20 may be

expected to become insane in the older

States elf the Union. Insanity is found

to be much less prevalent in new and

fresh places than in those where the

Donulation is centralizea: is more

common in the Eastern el ties than in those of the West, and is least often

met with 111 the farm districts ot our

new States. Its frequency has become more and more strongly marked in the last twenty-five years, and a much closer attention to neurological investigations is recommended. One of the infernal machines recen tly sent from this country to England, and captured on shipboard by Eug lish officials, is described as being very beautifully made and most effectively designed. Although the machines are all charged with explosive substances, there is tolerably conclusive evidence that there was no intention on the part of the senders that they should explode in the hold of a steamer while in transit from Boston to Liverpool, The machine is enclosed in an oblong case of zinc, of which it occupies the upper portion- There is a clock work arrangement, which upon being set runs about six hours, thou it causes a lever to descend upon a t ube, bearing a cap and communicating with the lower half of the case. The tube is filled with explosive material which, upon being fired, sets oft a detonating cap placed in the middle of a dynamite compound in the bottom of the case. The presumption is that the machines were intended to be used for the destruction or injury of public buildingthrouiihout the country in accordance with the avowed Fenian programme. Statistics laid before the Congress of Brewers which recently met at Versailles show that there are in Europe about 40,000 breweries, which produce annually nearly 2,250,000,000 gallons of malt liquors. Great Britain alone produces a third of the entire .quantity, or to; be exact, 785,017,002 gallons. Prussia comes next with 27S,579,99S gallons ; Bavaria, 260,757,002 gallons ; Austria. 245,975,158 gallons; and France with 155.980,000 gallons. It will thus be seen that the Teutonic nations are eminently the beer producers, as they are also the principal beer drinkers; where wine is to be had nearly as cheaply as beer, the malt liquors are preferred. The proportion in which beer is consumed varies very much. Bavaria Lends the list with 54 gallons per head per annum, or rather

expire Mrch 4, 1885 The term of 1 over one gallon per weak. Belgium is

Hon. Warner Miller, his colleague, who takes Piatt's place, will expire March 4,1887. New 1okk will hold a State election next November for State officers other than Governor and Lieutenant Governor; also for Senators and Representatives in the Legislature; also for four membera of Congress to fill the vacancies caused by the aeath of Fernando Wood and the resignations of Messrs. Levi P. Morton, appointed Minister to Paris, and Miller and Lapham, elect d to the United States Senate. 11 is alleged that the late Justice Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, who was the presiding officer of the Electoral Crmmission of 3877, which decided the Hayes -Titden Piesidential election dispute, has left a "complete and detailed history" of the proceedings of that commission, which, if published, would "create a sensation throughout the coun try. ' ' Live stock shipped across the .Atlantic to England are subject to great losses and hardships. During the year ended last February, the number of animate transported was 242,681; o! these 1,563 were washed overboard, 156 died from exposure, 512 were suffocated, 63 died for want of ventilation, 1,327 died from exhaustion, and 3,491 were thrown or driven overboard during ate rmy weather. According to the discussion of English scientists it is claimed that there is to b3 three years of drouth on the continent of Europe with intense heat. The temperature in Paris was ninety eight. Hotter than at E"ey west, thirty on' degress south, or at Siguapore under the Equator. It ia hopra that the extreme heat came too late to aiTecc the crops very unfavorably, but still damage is apprehended. 1 A special dispatch from Parsons, Kansas, says : "A postmortem 'eaminaticn of a man who was accidentally shot at Chetopa, discloses the j fact that the ball, which was one or the smallest size, had not penetrated j into the cavity, but instead was found between the outer and inner skin After being shot he walked a block ad a hali without assistance, and wiih apparent inconvenience, but prot fetiiB the while that he would surely dir. Ii is asserted that the man was actually scared to death."

Rijferring to the imprjssion whicli seems to have been created in the mini Is of some that Secretary of State Blaine is the head and front of the present administration, Captain Henry, Marshal of the District of Columbia a close personal friend of the Pres dent, says: "There never was a President who had more perfect control1 of his Cabinet than President Gar-field, and it will be seen better, jus the'months go on, tnat he has no need of trutehes, and that he entirely able to run his own administration."

next with 30 gallons, and England is about the same, namely, 29 gallons, or, roundly spealsing, something over half a gallon per head per week. In Germany, excluding Bavaria, the average consumption is 19 gallons, and from this a great drop follows, to 9 gallons in Scotland, and 8 Jin Ireland, where whisky is preferred. Austria consumes only G gallons of beer per head and France, only 4, THE WE W7 Home Items. Tickets to Chicago are being seld in New York at 9, all on account of the railroad war. Montpeiier, at Orange Court House Va., the birthplace and home of President Madison, wan sold at auction for $20,000. For the year ending May 1, the net increase in the sale of beer manufactured in the United States, was 1,324,560 barrels. Jay Gould has purchased the St. Louis, Jersey ville and Springfield railroad, and will merge it in the Wabash combination. Miss Florence Ducat, of Wood county, Ohio, has been arrested for forging and negotiating a note for $500. She confessed the crime. 80 far during the current year 1,399 saloons have been licensed in Chicago, Which is 200 more than for the corresponding period of last year. A Canadian detective has arrested a farmer named MeCormick, living near East Saginaw. Mich., charged with tbe murder of a man ten years ago. Stockton. Kansas, had a terrible hot day last Wednesday. The thermometer was 115 deg. in the shade, and the citizens took refuge iu their cellars. It is said that negotiations are being made by William, Amasa, Mary, and Fanny Sprague, for the purchase of the Spiague estate 'or about 4,000,000. The Treasury Department, has ordered that no more gold halves or quarter dollars be manufactured or sold under penalty of Hue and imprisonment. General Haum has offered a reward of $300 fur the capture of Me Dow,; the ringleader of tha outlaws who murdered Deputy Collector Bray ton, near Columbia., S. C. President Garfield, referring to the election of Mr. Lapham, said: "Well,

1 am glad it is over. I am sorry for Conkhng. I should like to' give him a foreign mission." Sitting Bull says that his people have

been bad, but since they have had to surrender their gun and ponies, (hey are alt good, Ho w nied his sou educate d is a white mai A crazy inebriate named McLane went to the Old Capitol Building, at Albany, N. Y., with the object of shooting Governor Cornell. He had an unloaded gun with him, T. 0 Meagher Condon, the Irish patriot, now in Washington, claims that the infernal dynamite machines were shipped by British agents from New York for political effect. A Methodist minister at Providence, P.. L, the Rev. W. F. Witcher, charged with stealing books from the public libra' v, confessed his sin to his con-

Hereafter 1 he hi the only touching the

A Washington special says: "Mrs. GarJ ield and Colore! licjekw ell spen t

sometime by the bedeidejof the PresM gregation ud resigned the ministry.

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It is reported that a party of detec

tives and deputy sheriffs will leave

Chicago at an early date to capture the

Missouri outlaws, for the reward 01

S50,000 offered by the authorities and

railroads.

Mr. Conkling stated, Tuesday, that the alleged interview with him in winch he told the reporter that he was going to retire from politics and devote himself to his law practice was untrue. Copper and silver-bearing ore has been discovered near Fort Laramie, W. T. Surface assays vary from SCO to $150. A town is 'being built on the spot, and a btg emigration has set iu fom Cheyenne. United States Com in Issioner Osborn e, of New York, does not know what to do with Kaposi to. the alleged bandit arrested by the Italian Consulate in New Orleans. He believes he has no authority to hold him. Secretary Windom has -usiructtd the Collectors of Customs at Boston and New York to endeavor to ascertain the name of the consignor of the infernal machines recently shipped to Liverpool from this country. Frank James, one of the notorious? gang concerned in the recent train murder and robbery in Missouri, was in Kansas City nine days after the affair, and had, meantime, married a Miss Ralston, of Independence, Mo. Professor Bell's electrical indicator

for locating a bullet in the human body was experimented with before Dr. Agnew. The result showed that the invention could be relied on when .the

ball was only two inches below the

surface. Commissioner Raum has directed Collector Bray tan, of Columbia, S. C,

to emolov eight special deputies to

help put down illicit distilling in that district. This order is the result of the recent killing of Deputy Collector Bray ton, Mr. Van Marter, city editor of the National .Democrat, Peoria, HI., states that the infernal machines captured by British officials, were manufactured in Peoria, under a director of the Association of United Irishmen, who lives there. It appears that Guiteau, the assassin, assisted his wife to obtain a decree of divorce by confessing his iufidelity to the marriage vow. Being at that time a member of Calvary Baptist Church, New York, that congregation promptly expelled him for immorality." A ten-mile horse race between Miss M. Pinueo, of Greeley, CoL, and Miss Curtis, ofTopeka, Kan., came off Tuesday at Xeadvi lie. Miss Pinneo won the race in twenty-six minutes. Her competitor dismounted and fainted on the eighth mile. Tbe President's medical attendants have decided not to ho interviewed any more about the pb.i.--o of his -ease,

as uiey claim tney nave oeen miscon

strued by reporters, official bulletins will source of information patient's condition.

Wi'bin the past few days a remarkable revival has commenced in the quarter of Chicago which is largely occupied by houses of ill-fame. Mi inie Brooks, for years the proprietress of one of these houses, has been converted, and has abandoned a life, of vice. At her house prayer meetings are being held for fallen women, which are already meeting with pood results. A tornado in the vicinity of Troy, N. Y., Tuesday, swept the country, doing very great damage, destroying barns and other buildings. A train oil the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western railroad was thrown from the track. The crops were severely injured. Reports "of the tornado show that it was general throughout New England. Justice Nathan Clifford, of the United States Supreme Court, died at Cornish, Me., Mouday. He was born in New Hampshire in 1S08; was elected to Congress from Maine in 11838; was Attorney General under President Polk from 1S46 to 1843; was soon after Minister to Mexico, and was appointed to the . Supreme Court by President Buchanan in 1S5S. He was a life-long Jefferson ian Democrat, and a member of the famous electoral commission in 1377 which seated President Hayes. Foreign - A violent shock of earthquake was felt at Agram, -nstria, Thursday morning. It was from Dublin that Sir William Harcourt received the first warning relative to the infernal machines. The Siberian plague is decreasing in the province of St. Petersburg. Of seventeen persons attacked with the- disease, eight died. The conclusion of the consideration of the Irish Land bill in the House of Commons in committee was arrived at arnid enthusiastic cheers. G imbetta will, it is said, seek reelection in the new French Chamber by advocating a reduction pf taxes on articles used by the working; classes. On the arrival of the steamer Allcanti at Havana the embezzlers of the branch Spanish bank a&Matanzas were captured with 180,000 in their possession. After removing the explosive? machines from the cement barrels in which they were sent, the barrels were left on the cmav at Liverpool, but no

body has claimed them. At Yokohama, Japan, the Fourth of July was being celebrated by American residents, -when the news of the President's assassination brought the festivities to an abrupt ending. A Berlin dispatch states that Bismarck would refuse to allow Italy to join the Austro-Germau alliance, as the object aimed at would be to cheek French progress in North Africa. One hundred French have been kill

ed during the seige of Sfax, The Arabs have possession ef some of the houses, and prefering death to yielding, keep up a deadly fire on their ene

mies.

For his efforts in effecting a peaeef u i arran gem en t of t he Iron tier qu e.stion between Chili and the Argentine Confederation, the American Minister at, Buenos Ay res has received a State presentation. Four hundred police have been, sent to Moscow from St. Petersburg, to

guard the Czar on his removal to the former city, and soldiers have been stationed all along the line, a distance of 400 miles; A Havana dispatch states that two employes of the Spanish Bank of Cuba, assisted by two accomplices, chartered the steamer Alicante, and left port with $200,000 in specie, which they embezzled from the bank. It was decided at a meeting o f the United Germany Telegraph Company at Berlin to vigorously prosecute the work of laying the new cable, so as to complete it ttiis year. The principal shareholders are Englnh capitalists. By . vote of 20.0 to 70, an amendment to the land bill ollered by Mr. Parnell, was passed. It provides that while the Land Court is considering a change of rental, no execution or ejectment shall take place against the tenant.

By a strictly party vote, 314 to 205, f

the motion of Sir Michael Backs Iteach, in the House of Commons, censuring the Gladstone ministry for the course pursued by them in South

Africa, was negatived, and the neace policy approved.

Marshal Bazaine, a celebrity under the empire of Napoleonlll , is desirous

of returning to. France to'receivo a leg

acy winch has been bequeathed to him. Popular feeling is against him, however, and governmental permission will not be granted. The London Standard quotes from the Irish-American journals a column and a half in recommendation of outrages agaiust England to. prove that the Irish agitators iu chia couutry "reerard themselves in a fttate of declared war with England." Russian telegrams to Vienna report the revival of persecutions of the Jews iu the province of Pultava, where, in consequence, seventeen villages had been destroyed. The Siberian plague, which attacks man ard beast alike, is ravaging the cattle in Livonia. The Nihilists held a great meeting at St Petersburg on the 17 th insfc., at which it was resolved to give the Czar and his Ministers one more warning, which if they do not heed they will all be assassinated. Rochefort's socialistic journal is the authority for this news. The Canada Southern freight shed at Chippewa, Out., ignited from sparks caught while VanderbiU's special train was passing through the village en

route to Niagara Falls. Before the

flames were extinguished twenty

houses were burned, involving a loss

of 20,000.

Baron Von Geyso, a promising young officer in Berlin, was killed in a duel

1 with a brother officer. At the univer-

sity of Gottingeu, two students fought

a duel wim pistols, one being mortauy wounded, At Gibraltar, in a duel between two Spanish officers, one was killed and the other seriously wounded. At; Liverpool, England, a barrel shipped on board the steamer Malta, from America, supposed to contain cement, was discovered by the excise officers to be filied with six zinc boxes, containing clock work dynamite machines. A similar barrel was found on board the steamer Bavarian. Iu spite of reports to the contrary and suggestions of a hoax, Sir William V. Harcourt, Home Secretary, reported in the House of Commons .that ten infernal machines had actually bi-en taken from two Atlantic steamers. They are supposed to have been shipped by Fenians. Another Nihilist plot for the assassination ;f the Czar has been discovered at St. Petersburg. One of the conspirators who betrayed his accompli ces was fou n d m u rd e r e 1 in 1 h e n n t skirts of the city. A mong many persons arrested was s.n accomplice of Sou'avierT. The North German Gazette is makii g a .-itr.mg effort t counter balance tbe f:tc trade agitation of emissaries of the Cobden Club. I-. claw us That wherever introduced free trade principles have "ruined agriculturalists, degraded workmen to mere machines, and converted the countries that have accepted them into tributaries of Manchester." ......

THE STATE. Lafayette's water supply is gettin low. Conuersville is threatened with an epidemic of scarlet fever. , The poor children of Jefferson ville are to have free rides on the ferries. The business men of Elkhart are now working hard to secure waterworks. A Richmond florist has lately shipped a consignment of roses to Jamaica. Parties boring for coal ou the line of the Indianapolis & Evansville railroad

near Hosmer,struck a 5 foot vein, sixty teet from the surface, At Greenwood, Ind., a widow who keeps a toll-house shot a burglar and killed him. The neighbors are about to raise a subscription for her. Highwaymen attacked Henry West at New Albany Saturday night, knocked him insensible, ard beat him cruelly. Tbey got but five cents. They escaped. Dr. Wm. H. Leramling, of Slash, thirteen miles southwest of Marion, dosed himself heavily with chloral Friday night and died next day. He had been 011 a spree tor several weeks. Shelby county fishermen are much incensed over the recent importation into that county of dynamite torpedoes which upot huntera" are using with fearful effect in all of the larger stream. Barney Euchtman. who lives northeast of Hew Point was 'gored by a bull which will result in. his death. The horn went.iu just below the heart, and passed to the right lung and hi intestines di opped out. During a recent thunder storm, Mrs Frjd Voight, of New Albany, had all the hair burned from the top of her head by a flash of lightning. She was so shocked as to be confined to her bed foip several days. As the little three-year-old son of W. B. Ari tton, of Livonia, was playing with some neighbor children, they tipped over an old fashioned cornercupboard, and crushed the little fellow so badly ihat he soon expired. George Asire, a steam-fitter in the Btude baker shops, at South Bend, was wTas poisoned by some one putting arsenic in the food in his dinner-pail. The doctors took hold, of his case in time to save him, but had hard work to do so. William Mount, an old citizen of Crawordsvillo, fell dead from a box in front of Joel's clothing store Monday

morn.1ng. He was eighty-three years old, and had been a resident of Montgomery county since 1824. -He left his wife property to the value of $150,000. Mr. Valentine, of Francisville, esch year employs several men iu shooting birds, and by a process of freezing,

keeps his game in good condition until sv eh time as there is a good demand for it. This spring he estimates he had 18,000 birds in his refrigerator, and it is only a short time since he shipped them. In transferring the baggage at the burned bridge on tbe I., P. fc C. rail road near Webber's station, an alligator seventeen feet in length, belong

ing to linen's circus, got away, ana at last accounts had not been captured. The animal is valued at $285. .. The country people are already commencing tc emigrate from that section. A little child of Mr. Davis Meyers, living south of Veders burg, was bitten Wednesday by a rattlesnake while play i u ? i n the yard . I t died Thursday morning after suffering great agony, the limb which was bitten having swollen to several times its natural size. This, is the seeond child Mr. Meyers ha3 lost in. the last few days by snake bite. A quarry of the finest magnesia limestone has been discovered on the farm -pf Dr. W W. Tucker, at George

town, Tloyd county, situated oueAp'rth of a mile from the Air-Lite railroad. The stone taken out is pronounced. superior to that of the famous

Bedford quarries. Dr. Tucket has been offered a large sum for his farm in consequence of the discovery. Twenty years ago the body of Lavina Harvey was buried in the northern

cemetery at New Albany, After several years the body was exhumed

for some purpose, and was found to ne perfectly petrified. A few days ago it was fou ml that the body had been taken out of its coffin, and it is believ

ed to have been "resurrected" by some

showman. An investigation is in progress.

Jack Minton was shot and instantly killed Saturday night by Eibsa Athie, of Greensburg. Minton and three others went to the disreputable house occupied by Ms.ry and Eliza Athie, and

a. tempting to force an entrance, were

met at the door aad Minton shot through the neck with a Colt's army

nistul. The shootimr is considered

justifiable

The sixth annual convention of the

Christian Tem perance Union will be

held in Lafayette, September 10. Excursion rates may be had over all principal railroads. There will be a

free entertainment for as many dele-.

eiate3 as can be accomodated in pri

vate families, and hotel, entertainment

at reduced rates. The convention will

be held each evening of the convention

and hunuav afternoon and evening

following the convention.

The Corydon Democrat has a de

scription of a snake killed on a farm of

D. W, Creceiius, in Harrison county, which was three reet four inches in

length, and about two and a half inches

thick. Its belly was a golden yellow,

and its head3 were the same color. Its

body wat a beautiful brown, daopled

with gold colored spots or pecks,with

about sixteen yellow stripes across its back. But what is the most remark

able is, tne snake nail two neaus. one

at each end, and teeth about a half an

inch in length.

The wife of George Avery, of Greenville, Floyd county, nearly severed her

head with a razor Tuesday night, be

causa the gosaips. of the place made two

iree with her reputation. She leaves a

husband and two small children, Mrs.

Avery's father died on the voyag

to America B and was bulled in the

ocean. He left a wife and herself

she then being a small girl. They

came from New Orleans to. this city on

a steamboat, and as the boat touched the wharf the mot her seized her daugh

ter and soring overboard into the

river. She was drowned, but the child

was saved to meet death by her own

hands.

MOSAICS.

Duty is not only pleasant, but cheap. A woman who. wants a charitable

heart wants a pure heart.

Many axe willing enough to wound

who are yet afraid to strike.

To-morrow is the day on which idle

men work, and fools return.

The man lacks moral courage who

treats when he should retreat.

No vices are so incurable as tno?e

which we are apt to glory in.

It is the best proof of the virtues of

a family circle to see a happy fireside.

Do good to all, that thou mayestkeep

thy friends, and gam thine enemies.

How few faults are there seen by us,

which we have not ourselvps commit

ted.

Tne unmeee say tnere is a wen 01

wisdom at the root of every gray hair.

The heart is a book which we ought

not to tear in our hurry to get at its

contents.

It is with life as with coffee; he who

drinks it pure must not drain it to the

dregs.

If von would not have a oerson de

ceive vou, be careful not to let him

know you mistrust liim.

The rich are more envied by there

who have little than by those who have

nothing.

How rarely do we accurately weigh

what we have to sacrifice ajrain&t what

we have to gain.

.JLiKuies are JiKe violets: tne more

modest and retiring they appear, the

more you love them.

It is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduing us p-tssions and

laying aside his prejudices.

Have nothing to do with" any man

in a oassion, :or men are not like iron,

to be wrought upon when they are

hot.

It is a most mortifying reflection of

any man to consider what he has done compared with what he might have

done.

The object of all ambition should be to ne happy at home, If we are net happy there we cannot be happy elsewhere. Benefit your friends, that they may love you stltil more dearly; benefit your enemies, that they may become your friends. A lively Imagination is a great gift provided education tutors it. If not, it is nothing but a soil equally luxuriant for ail kinds of seeds. To pin our faith on another mau's sleeve,and submit to be led by authority, deprives us of independence, and subjects us to just contempt. ?3No mar. will excel in his profession if he thinks himself above it; and commerce will not flourish iu any country where commerce is not respected. Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of

the greatest minds. The purest ore

comes. from the hottest furnace; the

brieb test flash from the darkest cloud.

The MissHigiBullet Found. Washington Special ,

To-day District Attorney Corkhill found the missing bullet which was

fired at the President, anil about which there has been so much search It ap

pears that a German glazier who

tramps around the ., streets repairing

windows went into the depot to get a

$10 bill changed Saturday morning

He was standing in tne mam room, some forty feet from where the assasin

stood, and in a southeast direction. He

had commenced to unstrap his box, m

which he carried his glass, and had got

$ne strap off his shoulder, when he

heard the noise of a pistol, ana inime

d iately three panes of glass in his box

were shattered. He at once r us bed from the depot, thiuking. it was no

nlacs for safety. On Saturday he was

cleaning out his box, and found the

hall in his putty,and was narrating the

fact to his. friends when one or them told him that was the time the Presi

dent was shot, and "brought hiiu to the

District Attorney's office, where he gave his statement and gave up the bath He thinks it was the first shot that broke the g!as, but says ttey were so close together that he had not time to get away. His position confirms the statement of Be nor Camancbe, the Venezuelan Minister, as to the exact position of the assassin at the time vf firing the shot. A far back as 1769 tbe East India Company began to urge on Its representatives in India the making of a statistical purvey, but no really decisive aud concentrated action was taken in the matter until I860, when Lord Mayo (the assassinated Viceroy) iu trusted the task to Dr. W. W, Hunter. The inquiries had to be prosecuted over an area little less than that of Europe, except Itosia, inhabited by 240,000,000 people. This t rem end nous labor is now reflected m the pages of ''Tbe I wiper', al Gazetteer of Iudia," published by Trubnor of London,

BANDITS ROBBJNG TKAIN Eye Witnesses' Accounts of the

Robbory at Winston, Mc. The through passengers from h train that was boarded by

banditti, near Winston, Mo., on Friday evening arrived -to Chicago last

niffht. One of them, Mr. C. Jb Chase,

of the Topeka Police Departmen t,gi ves

uie rouowimr narrative 01 me auuu.

"The train halted at Winston for

two minutes. This was about 9:30 p. m. I was in the coach next behind

the smokingear. Just after the train

got in motion again I heard two or

three shots. The imooting seemed to be in the smoking car. At the same

instant tho passengers in the smoking

car came tearing through the coaen like a mob. The . stampeders were heading for the tail end of the train. As they rushed through some of them kept pulling at both the air brakes and

the bell rope. T was carried along the aisle by the crush. I ventured while trying to keep my feet, to enquire what had happened, and was answered by

the shout of 'Kobbers:' On tne rear

nlattorm of the coach I met tne rear

brakeman. He was signalling with

his red lantern to the engineer to stop

the train. . He didn't know what had

happened either: at least he pretended

not to know. Subsequently he said there were robbers around. The train in the meantime had slackened a little.

I pulled out my revolver and remarked that I didn't propose to permit any

body to rob me. This alarmed the brakeman, who told me to put up my weapon, us its exposure,, would draw a fire from the attacking party. I didn' t nut it un thouirh. I looked in the

coach and saw only two or three per

sons, and thev were lying: under the

seats. One man crowded under the

seat in the smoker, and laid there until

we had run fifteen or twenty miles

Three girls who had taken seats in the

smoking car, for what reason I did not

know, acted with charming coolness,

and did not attem t to eo back in tho

train until after all the other passen

gers had fled precipitately, excepting The man who took .refuse under the

seat. After a few seconds I saw a man

in his shirt sleeves coming from the forward end of the train. This was the exoress messenger. His face was

very pale. I went up to him and said,

'Have thev been coming the John

Rodden over you?" He smiled and

answered, cYes.' I asked him if they

had got everything in the safe, and he

agaiu auswered. Yes.'. I then asked

what the amount was. He replied that he could not say, as he had only

receipted for tbe way hills. 1 led th

way and went forward to tne express

car. Tho car was dark, but the side

doors were open. We struck a light and took a look at things. The top of

the little safe was thrown back and the contents gone. I asked the messenger to tell me how the robbery was accomplished. He said that seven or eight men came into the car, pointing pistols at him, corapeUedhiai to get down on his knees fnd open the safe, and drop money packages and the other contents into a sack which they held open before him. They threatened to blow out his brains if. he did not show up every 1 hiug. He assured them that he had given up. everything except the bricks of silver bullion on the floor. The bricks hey did not want. There were no marks! of violence about the body of the messenger. I think, notwithstanding the stories told to the contrary, thac the robbers did not strike him at all. The platform of the smoking car was stained with blood in several places. It was there that conductor 'Westfall and passenger McMillan were killed. My idea is that tne robbers int ended to kiU the conductor. He probabl v kuew them, and, as he would bo able to identify them, they decided to pu him out .of the way. It is not known what fate befell the conductor whether he was killed outright or bad beeu wounded and jumped to the ground until we reached the next station, G-iUatiu, some five or six miles distant, when tlie operator showed us a dispatch stating that the bodies of Westfall and McMillan had been picked up and carried into the Section House. What became of the forward brakeman. and the news agent is more than I can say. They disap

peared from the train while the shooting was in progress. I dout . believe there were fifteen shots fired, all told. The robbery, although successful, was bun glingiy executed , and apart from the tragic taking otf of two valuable lives, the scene had an extremely ludiiorous side,?'

Mr. Frederick Heukei, of 386 West

Adams street was in the smoking ear when the attack was made. His account of the inception of the affair agrees with those already given. He adds: Assoon as the train was in the possession of the robbers the passengers jumped down on the floor, and some of them under the seats. You see, it was unhealthy to be upon your feet at that time. It rained lead, and the diet is unhealthy. There were six ladies in the sleepers, and as soon as they heard the shooting they just dropped on the floor like the other passengers. They w?ere frightened, but they showed as much grit an the men. We" could not show much, for not one of us had a revolver. John McMillan was killed with tbe conductor. I think that the thieves recognized them and that they were put otic of the way on that account,,4 The express messenger, William Mm. ay, deserves credit tor his pluck. Tne robbers shouted to him to open the door of his car, but he persistently refused. They tired thirteen shots at hiiu but none took effect. When they did break iu they found him hidden between the coal box and a sample trunk. They struck him twice on the head with their revolvers, but said they would not kill him on account of his grit. The passengers

all endeavored to hide away their

watches and money. One of them, a Chicago drummer, nut his valuables in the water cooler. I wrapped mine in my pocket handkerchief, lifted the cover of a spittoon, laid it iu and put the cover on. again. But the passengers were not molested. "We found five bullets in the smoker and thirteen iu the baggage car. John T, Wright, of Atchison says: The outlaws fired into the express-car and ordered the express messenger to surrender, but he said if they killed him they could have all the treasure in. the safe, but he wouldn't give anything up. They then broke open the door with an axe. They fired thirteen shots at the messenger. He held on to the door even while, they, were tearing at it with the axe, and they dually got him down by striking him over the head with their revolvers. When the robbers jumped off they threw the throttle of the engine wide open, but the engineer, owing to the faithful nes of the brakeman, who had set the air brake, was aole to control , the train. The engineer and fireman wanted to go back and pick up the bodies of the dead conductor and stonemason, but the passengers would not have it lest they might be molested again, for no one on the train was armed." Major Scott J. Anthony, of Denver, Colorado, said: "We had not gone more than three-quarters of a mile farther wben the tiouble began. I have no doubt the gang fully intended to go thro:: zh the whole train. The first man win. ..entered, the smokiug car, and wi o tired the first shot at the

conduct' o, crieu out -irianus upr.as ne ad vane d Th e others seemed taken tiack at tbe large number of persons found in the car, and looked from one to auofcher ami hesitated. One who had entered the ear looked around him

after he had shot a couple of ...times, aud seemed surprised that he was alone, and then backed out of the car, wav-

g his revolver to keen the passengers

from rising upon him. I have been in

one or two fight places before, and did

nor ieei pur. nana ly scareu. a lvasui the fejleepor and I called- out for every

raan in the carJto get his weapon and

prepare to do his duty. Not a soul,

however, bad one on the car. Then ego the fun. It was arousing to see

the fellows going down for their watches and money and other valuable8and

hunting for places to hide them uu"

- -mm ; A Terrible Conflict. "Streak o' ligh tain's said to be pooty

powerful, ain'titir??. asked a gentleman

iroui jew iiOis as ne taiu a wireepound radish on the managing editor's desk.-.-. ,, .. . .

."It is a force -against which it is im

possible to contend," replied theedk

tor. . .

'So I alius s'posed till t'other, day," said the farmer. But if you seen whai I saw Friday you'd change your mind." , 55 , 'Well, hurry up. What wts it?" We had a 1 ittle shower out to'ards Kew Lots, and I seen a streak 6? lights inn' havin' a hard time for a few min? utes. Right smart streak, too, but it made a mistake iu. localities." " What was the matter with it?" "When I seen it fust it was foolin' around playful like., but finally it got an eye onto a mule o1 mine what was browsin7, and it lit for him. I. didn't think the mule was hoticin', but be seemed to be impressed more'n I knowed of. That streak hadn't more'n got in reach when he straightened. 'Twas hard on the lightnin', editor. I never seen more loose electricity to the the acre than there was around .

there for a minute."

"Mule kick it?" inquired the managing editor. Wujisc Just wunst, and that was the most astonished streak o? lightnin' that ever visited our township. But it was game, editor. It was game lightnin'." ; , - -i-v- & "Come for him again?" " Well, I should emphasize! The second time it was mad clear through, but the mule was there. He'd nailed his flag to tlie pole, cut the halyards and knocked the cleats off. He let go, and I guess I am geographical when I say that lire-ball went four hundred k rods without hit tin' the ground. You ought to see tha: mule grin! But he hadn' t got through." " , "Isn't this story finished yet?" asked the exhausted editor, v "No, siree. What d'ye think that lightnin' done? It just gave one swish of its tail and it went up, but in less'n a minute back in come with four more s freaks. Can't tell me lightnin' asn' t got no sense ! Four more streak?, editor, and the whole flve o' 'em went for my mule. Then thinks I, 'good by, mule!' " "Did they get the best of him?" "Wait'll I tell yer. . They took a leg a piece and one of 'em went for his head." .. . ... . . . ...

"They were smart," grinned the editor. "That fetch'd him?" "Buthe bested three o' 'em fust," said the farmer with a sigh. "Three f went to grass and the other two was so worn out that we been nnssin' 'em ever since, but they downed him." "Ben nursing them ever since. how?J ' - --,.Uf "Took 'em right in and fixed em up. They're the most gre&tful streaks o' lightnin' you ever seen. I'm breakin' 'em to harness now, and they'll, do the work o' that mule this summer. Will yer gimme a notice o? thi3 reddish? Biggist one ever growTed in Kings coui tyj? " . ,. .. - It is remarkable what a statement of facts invariably accompanies a phenomenal vegetable when brought to a newspaper office. The agriculturist seems to think that an editor has no appreciation of proportions till he. has heard a ruralist lie a little.

The Homes of Merry England, A London Letter. . . , . . v . .. Those of your readers who only know English life from the poems of Mrs. Hemans, about the "Cottage Homes," the "Merry Homes? the "Stately Homes," aud so forth, would be taken aback if they were to visit rural En gland just now. Hundreds of once magnificent estates are now tenantless: In som e courier . nearly fifty per cen t. of the laud is cut of cultivation; in all farms may be rented for taxes, and property i$ a drug, and the rent rolls are rapidiy diminishing. In olden times every Englishman who had made money in business invested it in landed property, with the object of founding a family dynasty.. The East Indians, the nabobs, as they were called, spent fabulous sums in the. good old days of the rotten boroughs in acquiring estat es which brought with ' them seat i in Parliament, and in later times the cotton lords and other cap tains of iridusury sunk their fortuues. in the ma nor, assured of a perennial income and a contented tenantry. All this belongs to a past age. The tenant, manacled by feudal customs and opuressed by tit h es and big rents, is un-A able to face American competition and live, aud abandons the farm to swell th e angry mob in the boroughs. : The laborer it; no longer satisfied to live from hand to mouth and enjoy the bli s ofiguorance. He wants land of , his own, and threatens to take it if it is not given to him , He belong3 to a union con trolled by active propagandists of radicalism, and insists on the franchise, not as afavor, but as a right of which, the 'Squire and parson have defrauded him . th rou gh t hese years. The clergy do not fare n tch better than the 'Squires. Tithes are paid grudgingly.tThe Lords, the natural guardians of the church,are powerless to stay the tide that is washingout tlie foundations of the establishment, nor can they hope to v save iu England the rights of property which in Ireland have already gone by the board. Solictors tell me that for every man who wants to purchase an estate there are a huudied ready: to snap at half a bid.

ForMttrdering AU Their Children. fihAVA nisnotch to London Times. . : .

A man and his wife of the name of Zysset, have lost beeu sentenced at the . Mintetland Assizes, Canton Borne, to penal servitude for life for having, murdered all their ehildren,numbering either five or seven. They admit having put five to death, and there is reason to believe that tl ey killed two others whose births tl .ey con cealed. Their motive for committing crimes so terribly unnatural aud revolting was simply to save theme el ves tne trouble

and expense of bringing tneir cuudren up, for though in humble circumstances, the Zyssets seem to ; h ave been far from poor, a considerable sum of money having been found -in -tfyelr house when they were arrested. '.The plan they adopted to get rid of the children was to deprive them of food j and when the process of starvation did not appeaV quick enough or the iitUe ones cried too much, it was accelerated by strangling of knocking them on the head; When the jury pive hi their verdict, the jury exprod regret that,, under the present law of Berne, the Zystets could not be sentenced to some severer punishment than perpetual

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