Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 41, Bloomington, Monroe County, 13 August 1881 — Page 2
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HEBE A3II THERE, - Pope Iieo is studying the English language. ' Six of the. thirty-six ChigaAJdmen are sidoon keepers. . It is stated that 10S men were lyncheel m Arknnsaslastyear. te was a remarkably good business monthdn; New; York city. . :J . The national debt was reduced 078,023 during the month of July. The Mrs. Garfield fund seems to be ticking? at about the sum of $155,000. The presence of the comet -is utilized in Jirginia for the conversion of negroee.A y;v , ' , A sorjoiKKs reunion will be held in Kokomo on the 24th, 2ath and 56th of ftbia month. . . - . " i
Naiookai banks now hold as security for- circulation 362,684,000 government bonds.
The ra'tincation of the two treaties betweenne Unitedt States and China wasexebanged at Pekin, July 19. IvbnajS, the distinguished French author, is. preparing to write a history of the Jews, up to the second -exile. It is now stated that the immediate cause of the death of the late Czar Alexander, was cerebral concussion. LetjviiIiB shows' a high -state of civilisation. Two men were hung there a; few days ago .according to law;
The prohibition proposition was overwhelmingly defeated in North Carolina by theivote ofr the people on
proporuuu, are uutjuie lu uie iuivuaperate use of intoxicating liquors." Captain Retjb. KoiiB, of Eufaula, Ala, pulled from his sixty-five acre watermelon1 patch one day recently 10,000 melons, the largest number that was ever pulled from a single patch in one dav in the State Of Alabama, if
not the. entire South. - The finding of the Court Martial in the Whtttaker case will not be made public until the President has examined it,' but it is understood that the verdict of the Court is unanimously in favor of .discharging Whi ttaker 4rom the military service, Bisikg Sun was "all tore up," from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same, the other day, over the discovery of the lifeless form of a very small colored baby in a large jar of lard from which a hightoned .family had been using shortening for two weeksprevious to the "find." ; It is?stated that the members of the Cabinet are receiving letters threatening them with death unless certain persons in government employ are discharged, so as to make place for new .appointments. From interna machines, Socialists, Kihilists and A&iassins, "Good Lord, deliver us." TfflS United States owns 5,52S,920 acres of coal lands situated in the western Territories, about fi f ty per cent; o f which is located in Utah and twentjr per cent.- in Colorado. Under the pre-emption laws these lands can be had for 20 per acre in tracts not exceeding 160 acres. Repobts of the probable yield of wheat along the line of the Northern Pacific road indicate that although the yield will not be quite up to the aver- . ".' .
age, tne increased acreage wm com
pensate for it. Some sections show a much higher yield, and on the whole it is considered that the crop is excellent.! H
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It is predicted in well informed circles that Senator Edmunds will be tendered the" vacant 7 seat-on the Supreme Bench. : ONtY live papers of the one hundred and twenty jfive published in -North Carolina, oppose the prohibition move men in that State. & T. H. TinBETS; the advocate of the
The Coghlan claim against
Stated twenty-three internal improvement1 bonds of $1,000 each, issued in 4836, since outstanding drawings per cent, interest, and now amounting to .the round sum of $128,560.34, was paid by Treasurer of State Hill Tuesday. It was the largest sum paid cut of" the State treasury at one time for many years! .. . . . .
xruiiui, asm marriexi "ijrjgnt Jfiyes.', !
. , - - , luuabivo ti-ic uiuci via-v .
the hancsomest, best educated .Indiaz f
womaniin America. 1 Senatob;Xapham is described as being a large, portly man, with broad ahoulde-9, shong features, heavy jaws, tide whiskers and a pronounced double .chin.. ; -! Vj -. - . A CAiXEGKAM received at- St. Paul reports. iJSe arrival at Glasgow of a consignment of Minnesota wheat, via the barge line and New Orleans in good condition - r :t. A coacAKir, with 2,000,000 capital,, has been organized in New York for the transportation of cattle- to be known as the New York; iiye tock Express.' s--.-1 9 ' " m TheTrw of compensations appears to fee-in mil operation hi the crop prowpects. The wheat yield is short, hot the potato prospect is uncommonly, ane., t . JtosxsQ the mon th of June the excess of imports into the United States from England, over exports, was $60,304,42.5. or at the rate of $7)00,000 for the year. - yis The liighest temperature in Chicaeo during July was 93 degrees; the lowest 56 degnaes. The mean temperature of the month was small fraction over 80 degrees. ' ' . . v BrmsG' Br's band will be divided UP amongfehe different -agencies;- A littie diviij from his shoulders-w ,
greatly out of place.
IaIEUTENAST SCHWATK A. thfi Aroiir.
explorer, says that the coldest weather
ever expenenced by white men was
aegrees below the freezing point,
x utgrets oeiow zero. I
77- vtiwiSTiAKCY's divoree
Buit issaia tohave costhim 4 000 in counsel fees and alimony, and the end is not It has certainly cost him
w ireiarawe loss of reputation.
"V ugh's "most beautiful wo-
mm m America" has been discharged
- ""ua to sue xor the $10,000
prize na advertised he had given her
Z1 only gave her $30 a
A mad man
ranaboutin Jersey City biting men and boys, a mad cat enlivened the proceedings of a horse railroad, and in Passaic a mad ' woman was found in the act pi putting a boiler full of Kerosene toil on her stove to boil while the fiumes were already spreading about it Ex-Congressman Tom Creamer of New York, a Democrat, says of the two Senators : "Miller is a soldier, and a fintv organizing politician: Mr. Lapham is a good high liver, a good lawyer,-and greatly beloved by his neighbors in the ancient Massachuset ts town of Canandaigua. Lapham ought to make a iearned Senator in law thing.-?,
LMiller a keen one." .
There is a general railroad and manufacfcuriiij? boom in the South. New railroads are bei iig projected and built in all d'i rations j and consolidations, em biuations and poolings are all the rage Manufactories are being established- evrvwlfere. Norlherii capital ij the moving power f this new industral and commercial, life in, the South.
The
from
London Times
nas a mmnr
iernn that Hon. .(W
wm be appointed by President Gar-
miu tne successor of Andrew D. White
wm uniiea atates Minister to Germany; Ex-Senator Conkung haa hn
continuously in Congress up to the Mima aii u." l - -r -
y via resignation, with . the ex
eepuoior tne two years from 1863 to iRArk ifin lO-n . .
t,iMix .flf rot a period of
iwenry years.
IT is said that the government of the
great city of London has determine
to aisccntinue the vaccination of the
ponce aoree, so morally certain is it that no member of that body will ever
eaten anything; S ; According to the statistics the an
t'uiwuuipuon or eggs in the
United States amounts to about 10,600, -000 barrels. The poultry marketed and
wnsumea is estimated at 680,000,000
puunos, CostmgOOOjOOO. " DtfBiNa the past fiscal year 567.386, -082 cigarettes were manufactured in
the United States, which, at the tax of
-pit thousand yielded-a revenue ot m$m. The tax for the preceding fiscal year amounted to $715,229. ' Avery decided sensation has been created in Philadelphia, especially among the Catholics ofi that city, on acconnfe ;of the assertion of Mary Agnes Dunn, an invalid of long standing,, that she has bean visited in her sick room by the Virgin Mary. The Bight Reverend Joseph C Talbott, Episcopalian Bishop of the Diocese of Indiana, is lying dangerously ill at Indianapolis, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. This is hi third , attack, and a fatal result i&fearec.
"Of this
The Cincinnati Gazette says : the 500 deaths which occurred in
city from the effects of the excessive Jm: ffoths, M i-P
There in a; counterfeit of the silver dollar bow in circulation, which experts i)i ouuuace the most perfect ever made. The Chicago Inter Ocean describingi t says:4 It is silver plated, to resist the action of acids, is of good weight, 98 per cent, of the genuine, and hasa good coin ring It so clearly resembles a genuine coin that ijot one in a hundred' will be able to detect it in ordinary trade.
A St. PATjii, Minn., dispatch; .says: A contractor named Good ale, a near neighbor of Governor Piilsbury, was suns truck recently t and ever since has believed he was. commissioned to as.sassinate. Mr. Piilbury, a la GuiUau. He has so frequently announced his intention that-yesterday he was examined by the commission on lunacy and committed to the St. Peter's insane asylam; His house was found to be a modified - arsenal."
In a letter to W. H. Lamaster, of Noblesville, this State, Ex-Senator Conkling says he never made the reman The President has forced me to commit suicide or murder; 1 prefer murder." Mr. C. says this "is one of the countless falsehoods with which the, country has been filled. AIT I know about it is tbat some scoundrel set .afloat this particular falsehood." 5
Tsde silver medal for the best cheese
at the show in Birmingham, England, has" been borne away' by Mr. Jobs)
Webb, who nas . been styled i The
Jheese Fiend," in consequence of his
luueiaugaoie exertions in procuring
the best cheese to be had in America.
The one which obtained the prize is
pronounced the largest cheese ever
made, weighing three-quarters of a
ton, and came from Iowa. - ... ...... . - ?r
John B. GrinneIi, of Iowa, who has
been o ver the State a good deal d u ri n g
the last two or three weeks, makes a
gloomy report He says that there
wHi be a shortage of 15,000,000 bushels
in -4he wheat crop as compared with last year, and that the corn yield will
show a decrease of from 75 000.000 to
100,000,000 bushels, but there will be a
great increase in the number of horses,
cattle and sheep.
It is said to be a fact, of general
knowledge in that region, that the James brothers and the rest of the
gang of hy waymen and desperadoes of
Western Missouri, frequently visit
Kansas - City, stopping at the hotels and doing business in the town, and
that, although the police and many of
thetfricizens know them on sight, ths
rascals are permitted -to come and go Without molestation or interference.
he general understanding being that
they 'Shall- do all their robbing and
muidering. outside of that mun ici-
pality:
The Irish Land bill, which final Jy
passed the House of Commons by an
oveihelming affirmative vote,ai)pcais
eptable to manv of the Home '
i : rs' v ' - 'fir v-s .
Rulers and Liberals! Even Parnell finally withheld any opposition. It is believed that the bill will pass the House of Lords after some debase. It is a significan t fact that in the House of Lords the stiffest of the aristocracy arc its only opponents." The ineasme, if it becDmes a law, will, it is believed, greatly mitigate the ills of the Trish land-tenants and farm workers.
A BbmarkabTjE man-hunt has been going on for some time in the wilds of Wisconsin. On the 10th of July, two brothers, named Coleman, officers of the law, who were endeavoring to arrest two horse-thieves, Lon and Edward Williams, were murdered by the thieves in the village of .Du rand. A posse of citizens and officials at once set out and chased the outlaws into a forest known as the "Big Woods." The woods have been traversed by armed parties, assisted by Indian scouts and packs of blood-hounds, at a heavy cost in money, but without result, and at last accounts it was believed the murderers had escaped from uhe forest, by the connivance of an Indian scout It is said that 'tho hot weather in London has assisted the Government largely in carrying its Laud bill through the committee in the House of Commons. The Prero ier, with white coat, duck trousers, and a sporting tie, is pictured as the gayest and airiest member in Parliament. ' He rises briskly and often, and strikes hard. He passes over Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. Waiton, Lord Sandon and two or three moro meddlesome gentlemen like a clod crusher in a cornfield, and seems positively rejuvenated iu a temperature in which everyone else is gasping for breath, and under an electrical state of the atmosphere which throws half the telegraph wires in the country into disorder.
from issue, ana to whom thy
The Postmaster General is reported to be preparing a very desirable change in the postal money order system. Instead of the present cuinbrsome and slow machinery he proposes to have an engraved blank of t wo 'denominations, running up to $2 50 and 5. Upon these blanks numerals are printed in columns, and the amount of the order is punched out. If the order is for $3.75, a three is punched out of the first column, a seven out of the second, and a five out of the third. A purchaser will present his money, get his order for as many of them as he pleases, and present them when he pleases for payment They are to be
good for three months payable to the person
are endorsed. In this way a large saving will be made, and the business much simplified. According to the census report there were -fifty-nine life insurance companies in the United States at; the close of 1879. Thirteen of these ' were located in New York City, The capital stock of the fifty-nine amounted in the aggregate to $14,920,000; the assets were $419,000,000; liability to policy holders, 8365,668,883; number ol policies, 725,418, involving in the aggregate, $1,560,191,924. There was a great 'falling off in the business during the last deeade. The amount of money involved in 1879 and the total number of policies were less by 55 ad 28 per cent, respectively than in- 1870. This great falling off is attributed to the depression existing from 1873 to 1870. Many companies were by .this forced to succumb. Since 1879, however, there has been a marked improvement in the business.
Interesting statistics of the
World's correspondence uy post and telegraph were published recently in Germany. The latest returns which approached completeness jwere for the year 1877, in which more than four thousand millions letters were sent, which gives an average of 11,000,000 a day, or 127 a second. Europe contributed 3,036,000,000 letters to this enormous mass of correspondence, America about .760,000,000, Asia 150,000,000, A frica 25,000,000, and Australia 50,000,J00, A ssu ming that the population of he globe was between 1,300,000,000 and 1,400,000,000, this would give an average of three letters per head for the entire humeri race. There were in the same year 38,000 telegraph stations, and the number of messengers may be set clown for the year at between 110,000,000 and 111,000,000, being an average of more than 305,000 messages per day, 12,671 per hourt and nearly, 212 per
minute. - The astronomer of the Naval Observatory at Washington is reported to have said that there are three comets now visible. The latest arrival is the comet known as Encke's. ft can be seen through telescopes, about 2:30 in the morning, jusp a little north of the "Pleiades.1" It is about 167,000,000
miles fronrthe earth, and traveling toward it quite rapidly, It will be visible to the naked eye about the middle of October. Comet O, recently discovered at Ann Arbor University, is becoming brighter every morning, and the astronomers think, it would be visible to the naked eye now if, it; was not so near the horizon. The Comet B., which has been visible for some time, is last traveling south. It is still an interesting object in the evening sky. No special observations will be made of Encke's comet for several davs. .It is regarded with great interest by astronomers on account of its gradually shortening
periods, which' is considered as proof of Encke's theory that there is a resisting medium in space. Its period is abou ) three and a half years.
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CQUJirm nit? ongiJini uisig uuaia ui tue case, made by the att eliding surgeon soon after tho President received his injury, and the result is as gratifying to them as the complete success of the induction balanoo is to its inventors, Professors Bell and Tain tor. This is tho first instance iu which an impeded bullet has been accruatoly and definitely located without probing, and by purely scientific methods. There is no intention on the part of the surgeons to perform tho operation for the removal of the ball at- present So long as it gives no troublo it will be allowed to reniaiu in its present place. Tho question of the disposition to be finally ma-do. of it will be considered ivhen the President shall have recovered his strength.
The National Catholic Total Abstinance Society, at its recent session in Boston, adopted a series of resolutions, which are presented and summarized as follows: "That we acknowledge with gratitude the encouraging words of our hierarchy, the zealous efforts of their priests, who, during the past, fostered the good cause and helped it aloug by word and example, and we hope their successes will be a stimulus to still more earnest efforts in the future; thai it is to the interest of every citizen in tho country to help on the good work, for hi pioportion as the
vice of intemperance decreases, so will ?
men become better citizens, honest, upiight in their dealings with others
Trade will ojosper, industry will!
flourish. The testimony of thinking men, the daily experience of those in authority, s agreed in denandihg increasing c (torts in the suppression of so odious a vice. We view with just pleasure, the rapid progress of the cause among the ladies of t he land, and the number of ladies1 branches already started sho ws that they are al i ve to its ben erits, and is a harbinger of bright prospects for the rising generation, for good mothers w ill bring up good children. That while the organization of cadet societies is not altogether dead, we regret the apathy in their formation, and we agree to urge with all our power the organization of cadet societies in every parish. Besogniziug the power of tht, press, we call on Catholic papers to advocate in season and out of season the cause of total abstinence. The seventh resolution urges the importance of making meetings attractive. The eighth tenders thanks to the clergy and press. A resolution of sympathy with tho Irish people in their struggle for lane?, reform, and drclasin the land league has no more efiicieni sup porters of its principles than the Catholic Total Abstinence Onion of America, was adopted.
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Home Items. Two torpedo boats are being built
The physicians in attendance upon the President ha ve been experimenting for some time with an electric apparatus called the 'induction bal
ance," m the hope of determining the
location of the bullet yet remaining in his body, and now announce their con
viction that their experiments have
been successful. They are convinced that the bullet has beon found or at
least located1 on a straight line running through the body from - - f ron t to back
just above the groin on the right side;.
It was not possible to ascertain with
any degree of certainty the depth at which tho ball lies imbedded on this
i maginary line, but as tit e (ton t wall of the abdomen at this point is about two and one-half inches in thickness, the ball must lie within -that distance
of e surface, fhesej result fully
in this country'for the British Government. Maud S., in her run against her official record made 2:10 J Thursday, at Buffalo, K. Y. Kent. MeNutt, secretary to Secretary
Blaine, was accidentally drowned at
Nashville, Ten n., Sunday, P. W Crowe, of Peoria, claims the glory of having manufactured the infernal machines on behalf of tho Irish nation. The internal revenue officials find that sweetened whisky is largely shipped to temperance localities as patent medicine, Guiteau, being a lawyer, will defend his own ease. He is writing his autobiography, which he thinks will have a great sale. The amount of tax collected on spirits last year was $67,158,774, an in
crease of nearly $6,000,000 over that of
the previ ous year.
During the past fiscal year $135,,229,902 were collected by the Com
missioner of Internal Hevenue and
paid into the Treasury.
Geerg3 Walker, of Boston, who ab
ducted a 7-year-old child from the front
of a house in New York, was sen ten
ced to ten years iu State Prison.
Careless mining ana ronmng sup
porting pillars has so weakened twenty
to thirty houses in Plymouthbo rough,
Pa., that they are liable to cave in at
any time.
Sitting Bull wants to eo to Wash
ington, but the Indian Commission
have no use for him there, and he
will therefore remain at Standing
Book Agency.
Leo Hartman, the Nihilist leader,
who haj been in New York a few days, proposes to publicly relate his Russian
experiences for the enlightenment of
the American people.
Guiteau has sent in a petition for his
release to the District Attorney. That
official, however, pointed out the risk
he would run of violence on the street,
and the assassin decided to hold the
petition in abeyance awhile.
At. Grass Valley, Cal the inv&t Artillery Battalion. N. G. O., en
camped near there, had a sham fight,
and in storming a fort several com
missioned officers and between twenty and thirty men were more or less
wounded, but none seriously.
In the ease of McGrath and rMcKe vitt. tho dynamite fiends, the Liver
pool jury found both persons guilty,
and sentenced McGrath to penal servitude for life and McKevitt for fifteen
years.
A Dead wood dispatch reports the discovery of rich carbonates nine miles
from the city, a sample of which assayed $2,600 to the ton. Miners are flocking thither from all parts of the
Black Hills.
A. C. Hesing, of Chicago, has riled a bill in the Superior Court charging the
new Board of Trade League with brib-
iuc ten Aldermen, and praying for an
injunction against the erection of the
new building.
It is denied by the Washington Health Department that the Potomac
Flats are now causing sickness at the White House. The Eigineer (Commissioner rather blames the bad drainage of the White House. On Saturday night a terrible explosion took place at the distillery of the Woolner Bros., Peoria, EL, by which eighteen persons were badly injured, nine of whom have sine? died and several more are not expected to recover. Iu a race between the British steamships Lord of the Isles and the Gleniirfney, from Japan to New York with cargoes of tea, the Lord of the Is-es ca aae into harbor just six hours ahead of her ' competitor a strange record for a run of 15,000 miles. For the yo&r ending June 80, 1M?
13,675 vessels entered tho port ol Chicago. The total receipts during the same period for imports was $2,700,707. and with the additions from, various sources $2,739,030, making Chicago the sixth port in tne United Btarm. A State Department official at Washington, interviewed by the representative of the Inter Ocean, said that if the Nihilist , Leo Hartman, now in New York, is wanted by the Russian Government for assassination, he ..will be surrendered by the United States an thorittes. Within tho past few days a remarkable revival has commenced in the quarter of Chicago which is largely occupied by houses of ill-fame. Minnie Brooks, for years tho proprietress of one of these houses, has been con verted, and 'has abandoned a life of vice. At her house prayer meetings are being held for fallen women, which are already meeting with gcod results. Foreign. AnU-Jewhh riots continue to prevail in various places iu Pomerauia. "The O'Docoghue," member of Parliament from Traiee, Ireland, is bankrupt. Mr. Foster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, will, it is said, resign that position after the land bill becomes law. Less than half .the average ield of the crops in Rouinelia will, isysported from Bucharest, be the result of blight, The London Standard says there is an average wheat crop iu England , the root crop is bad, but the potatoes good. Census returns show that the popu lation of the Dominion of Canada Is 4,350,469, an increase in ten years of 680,498. The Infanta Eulalia, sister of the King of Spain, is engaged to be married to an Austrian Archduke. It was a love match. Mr, C. B. Bead, au Etiglisb agricultural expert said at a reoent meeting, that the British harvest tnisgear, would not be a great; one. At Mazatian, Mexico, .a powder magazine exploded last Thursday, blowing up a whole square, and burying many families in the ruins. The Chief nf Police of Borne has been dismissed fo3- allowing the disgraceful
street riot during the reinterment of
the remains of hh late Pope Pius IX. It is supposed that MeG rai n's memorandum book supplied the British authorities with the information relative to the shipment of the imornal machines. Eleven men-of-war are being built by the Spanish Government, and six more are ordered indockyard toform a fast and wel farmed squadron for the
colonies.
O'Connor and Parnell are expecting
to shortly eamniricsa lee tare tour in America for the benefit of the Land League. Tho former will leave Eng
land ten days hence.
r The House of Lords looks upon the
Irish land bill as a very bitter dose,
which it is compelled to accept as an
expediency. It will be considerably
amended by them, however, before it
receives the royal signature.
Czar Alexander has entered Moscow, the ancient capital of llussaa, safely,
and was received with enthusiasm by
the inhabitants. His first public act
was to offer prayers at the Cathedral.
In spite'of a bitter speech ajrainst the
Irish land bill by Lord Randolph Churchill, it passed a third reading
in the House of Commons by a
of 220 to 14, and was immediately sent
to the House of Lords, read the hrst time.
Another plot to assassinate the Czar
has been discovered by the police of
Moscow. This time a lady of high
rank was to be the agent. She has escaped, but her accomplices have been arrested. The Czar left Moscow secretJy for Nijui Novgorod.
Conservative members of tho House of Commons claim that ParnelVs amendment to the land bill, providing for a dispension of judicial action for
rent pending the decision ortne-iana court, was rushed through without due notice, and they are indignant accordingly. The House of Commons received 1,302 petitions signed by 230,595 persons, praying them to reject any change of the law which bars- the admission of atheists, and it also received 673 petitions, signed by 115,541 persons, praying for an alteration of the law. The leading HomelRulers iu London and elsewhere decline to issue a manifesto to their friends in America, who sent the infernal, machines to England, because they allege there is no evidence that the senders were Irish patriots, or that the consignment was to benefit the Irish cause. Afghanistan dispatches slate that the battle between the Ameer and
Ayood Khan lasted three hoars, and
that ouu or 4U0 men were killed on eacn side. General B-ume, in command of
the Anglo-Indian contingent at
Quetta,.. had from 5,000 to IKOOO mer with him. His nearest outpost was seventy-eight miles from Candahar.
where it was
An attempt was made to blownip Thomas Hibbs' saloon at Cambridge City, by exploding a dynamite cartridge in the cellar. The building was badly twisted and racked, but no one was injured. The ceiling and laths on the walls fell off. The police have found no clue. Thousands of dead suckers and bass ara strewn along the banks of the Whitewau-r between Richmond and Abinghm, six miles below. It is supposed Unit l hey have been poisoned by the sewage from the factories and shops that empties into the river above the national bridge. George McElfresh, of Muncie, went to tho house of his long-divorced wife, kicked down tho door, seized her and threatened to brain her with a huge stone. Her sister, Mary Lee, fired at him aud inflicted a dangerous and perhaps fatal wound in the abdomen. Mrs. M&nsdo-rier, wife of a well5known farmer, j eliding ten mites from Ft. Wayne, and just across the "Whit-k-y cxtiity line, while preparing a mcu 1 for her family Saturday was
.bunted to death by her clothes taking
fire from the stove. Buiglars entered the residence of David Grubb, at Waldruu, eight miles south of Shelbyville, about 10 o'clock Sunday night, and took 200 in money which Mr. Grubb had placed in his bed but a short time before. Mrs. Grubb and her daughter had' retired to bed, but were so badly frightened that they dared not give an y alarm While Henry Hanna, of Fort Wayne, was crossintt Clinton street bridge over the St. Mary's river,-the bridge fell, carrying Mr. Hanna, his horse and buggy into the river. The horse was drowned, and Mr. Hanna wafi rescued much exhausted, after being in the water several hours. About a dozen residents of Richmond make a living by . hunting ginseng in Henry county. Some say they average over seven pounds of the root, but three or four pounds is nearer the average. It looses about half its weight in drying, and sells to the druggist for exportation to China, at $1.65 per pound. It sells iu Pekin for 5 per pound. Mr. Wv H. Smith, of Muncie, went to Lafayette and met in the street a gentleman by the name of Willis Wells, who had ran away with his wife some weeks before. He greeted him warmly, marched him back to the hotel where be had been staying with Mrs; 8., took him into the back yard and administered a severe whaling. Smith tnen took his wife and returned home. Wells declares he acted only as a good Samaritan in the case, but he got treated more like the other fellow. A .little son of Marion Jones of RainsviLle was climbing a fence with a pitchfork when he heard a snake rattle and looking down saw a huge rattle snake in tile act of springing. With
great courage and presence of mind the little fellow attacked him with the pitchfork sticking one of the prougs iu his mouth and pinning him to the ground. He held him there for half 'an hour until help arrived, and killed the monster which was eight feet four inches long and had sixteen rattles. During the storm near Connersville last week, a terrific bolt of lightning struck a large locust tree in the yard of W, H. Broaddris. The tree stood not more than twenty-five feet from the sleeping apartments of the family, yet none of them was seriously shocked. The family was instantly aroused to find their rooms brilliantly illuminated and,, looking out, balls of fire were seen rolling over the yard for several minutes. Person 3 a mile distant were shocked, and went out to see if their own buildings were not struck. Annie, the ten-year-old daughter of John Brahmes, of Fort Wayne, died June 2, and was buried very quietly and under suspicious circumstances. On Saturday Coroner Gaflney exhumed the body and found it covered with one mass of bruises from head to foot, the back of the head showing bruises, sufficient to have caused death alone Sunday Mrs. Brahmes was arrested, charged with murdering her child by severe whippings, but an examination showed that she was insane, and she will be sent to the asylum. Sh has five other children which have beeu sent to the Catopo orphan's home. The State Bureau of Statistics received last year, and is again collecting for its report of 1880," returns from t h several Jcouu ties showing the number of acres of newly cleared land, and also of arable land left idle or unused. The
returns of last year, which by the way were omitted from the printed reporfor the lack or space, show that the largest quantity of unused land was it the following counties, namely, Har riaon 20,671, Lawrence 1S,903, and Washington 28,500, while Stark, with with 894 acres had the smallest amount of any county in the State. Four counties viTe:re shown to have cleared more than 5,000 acres of new land for crops in 1880 Kosciusko, Lake, Jackson and
Bartholomew, while Floyd cleared the smallest amount 176 acres. It is noticeable froai the statistics that the
land in the southern counties needs
more frequent rests from crop-raising
than that of the other sections of the
State.
TH E $T& TEa
At Indianapolis two brothers were
kiBed by a street ear driver! n self de
fense. "
There are in Jefferson villa fifty-two
persons, corporations and companies paying tax on an assessment of 10,000
or over. Work in the ship yard at Madison h unusually lively. Last week five re
paired vessels were launched from the
way, and three boats were taken out
for repairs.
Tuesday night the store of E. If,
Campbell, at Lexington, ten miles
south of Den a ty, was nierec 03" burg
lars, who blow open ins safe, carrying
away $uu in money ana m,0U0 in
notes. No clew.
Mr. W. C. pePauw, of Nev Albany,
will leave for Europe in a few days to
remain a couple of years. He will visit all. the European countries, and
will make a particular inspwHon of Palestine and the Holy Land
JSxtensive preparations ro being
made for the soldiers' eneam .muufe at Lafayette on the 22d and 23d of Sept
ember. General S.erman Hayes, Sheridan, Belixnap, Logan, a id others bave signified thir intention to be
present.
George and Charley Hunter, broth -
are, of Montp slier, have been arrested
by United States Deputy Marshal
Elayden, of F3it Wayne, and a United
States doteotive. for nassine: counter
feit nil ver coin of dollar and half dol
lar., den om in at ion s.
The commissioners of Vigo county
have made a con tract with .ft A. Vry-
langh to draw new plans aud speeirica-
tions for a new court house. Yrydaugh
will receive five ner cent., lejjs f 1,000,
for his commission, the court house to
bo built within tl,e prescribed limit of
Factors of Mexioan Progress.
Harper's ISlagazine tor July.
In the progress and prosperity of any
country there are several important
factors. Chief amongst these may be reckoned natural resources,. population, education, and means of transportation. With the first of these Mexico is richly endowed. It is doubful if any equal area on the face of the globe
possesses larger deposits of tne precious metals, or has already produced more of them. Her coast lands for the most part are exceedingly fei tile, producing iu abudance the best growths of the tropics, but they have an unhealthy climate, and can never be developed by the labor of white men, f The interior1 may , be described as a vast table-land, elevated from 5,000 to 9.000 feet above the sea. and possessing a climate favorable, wherever water is found, to all the crops of the temperate zone-. Much of it, however, is arid and sandy, and in the north particularly water is scarce. Between tnese two great natural divisions lie what the Spaniards called tho temperate lands, where frost and excessive" heat are unknown, and where everything that is grown from New York to Florida will thrive and yield abundantly. .... These temperate lands, consistingjof terraces or benches separated by steep
slopes and deep valleys, and situated
as they are for the most part in a comparatively narrow belt, are alike a bar
to the existence of navigable streams
and tin? easy construction of good roads connecting the iu terior with the
coast. Partly from this cause, and
partly from the uu progressive charac
ter of the population or the disturbed
state of the country, the pack-saddle and the primitive wagon. have hitherto
neen the ouiy means ot transportation.,
This vast territory of 760,000 square
miles, with a population estimated at
ten millions, equals in extent our States east of the Mississippi and south of Michigan, while its population tardiy exceeds that of Xew Vork and Pennsylvania. Two-thtrdsof this popu latiomare of pure Indian blo'M, the remaining third being either of Spanish desceufc or of mixed races Kow it is evident that any lapkl progress hi Mexico must come through CQloniflatjLoir by some higher and mo?e
progressive racej or by the introduction of capital in large amounts to develop her natural resources by thejaid of the native, races, wlao are generally peaceable ar.d industrious. Yet, in. a land with '.he dim atec. of Mexico, where the wants and desires of tho natives are so limited, i I; will be cqntrary to all , experience elsewhere if they
should become-a hard-working people-
from tne mere desire of accumulation. Under no .circumstances could much improvement be locked for without improved means of transportation, of which the government was well aware, as is shown by thcmahy liberal subsidies it haj granted to various railroad enterprises, f r - " S'arm Training. The farm is the best place in the world to rah;e boys. Most ot the srccessml business men of cities were farm boys. The habits formed of early
- nsm g, const au t employ men t of body
or mind in a useful way, economy, truthfulness, honesty and virtue, are just what are needed to make sterling, go-ahead, successful men -in all departments of life. A gentleman sen fc the following letter to one hundred men, standing at the head of the financial, commercial, professional and educational interests of au eastern city: My Deab. Sir I desire to find out, for the benefit of the boys, how the leading men of this city spent their boyhood. Will you be kind enough to tell me: : 1. Whether your home for the first fifteen years of your life was on a farm, in a yilliage, or in a city? , : . ..... t 2. 'Whether you were accustomed during any part of that period to engage in any kind of work when nojt in school? I should be glad, of course, to have
you go mto partictuars as iuiiy as you
are disposed to do; but I Uo not wish to tax your patience, and I should be greatly obliged for a simple answer to the questions.
Eighty-eight replied. Of these eighty-eight men, twelve-spent the first fifteen years of their life m the city, twelve in villages, and sixty-four were farmer's boys. But of the twenty-four Who lived in villiages and cities, onefourth were practically farmer's boys, for they lived in the vicinity and did the work of farmer's boys. One of these viilags boys naid : " "I learned to
hoe, dig and mow, and to work whether i r" i . 1 a 'j. 'V . j. a. - 1 1 5
1 iiaeu it or uou 1 weut m senooi in winter, and wrought, at nights and
morniucs for mv board." Another
said : "I used to work away from home on a farm in the summer and" fall. In the winter;. when -going to school, we three boys used td work up the wood for win ter 1: se. ' 1 This was the story of Others. So t hat TO outof SS four-fifths -had farm. life training. Did the few. boys of the city list have an easy time? One studied law when out of school. He had not much play. The others were poor boys, children of the working classes, in needy circumstances, accustomed to hard work from their earliest years?. .......... One said he was 1 'generally employed in "summer months and during vacations in doing any .work that, offered." Four were newsboys. One said "the last of his connection with the pressure earned, $100 before nreab fast." Another that "he paid his own way since' eight years, of age, without any 'assistance except board from my 8th to my lith year. . ' v. ' ! ri ; . Where are the boys to-day who were
at -the same time going-, to school and
amusing themselves? -Where are they ?'
.We know who the 96 per cent, of successful ' men were-rfarmer's boys or poor andjhard working town boys. . Sad. Scene With a Lively Corpse St. Louis Globe Democrat. Mr. Cheney, a farmer of Indiana, having a m arrieel daughter living in
Nebraska, v;as shocked by a telegram from her husband saying that her body would arrive the' next evening. The family was overcome with the sudden blow. Hurried pr eparations for mourning gar men ;s and 1 he preliminaries to the funeral were made, and on the dismal evening," dressed all in black, they went to the station to meet the corpse. The hears a and two or three carriages were drawn. up ir? line,and a numerous crowd, attra cted partly by curiosity, partly by sympathy, accompanied the bereaved household. As the train approached a solemn silence settled upon the assembly, and as it stopped there was a respectful hush until the .ceremonyof receiving, the corpse, was concluded. But the train hands did, not share this .feeling. The baggage master pitched his trunks about and swore
just as briskly as ever, and just as if a
part of the l oad was not of a character to call for decorous behavior, The .conductor. came upon the platform laughing and trying to joke with the station agen t's daughter, who told him he ought to be ashamed to carry on that wy at .such a time. In the meantime tLie long, narrow box which so qnicblv tells its story had not made
its appearance, nd after a painful de
lay, Mr Mr. .Cheney stepped for ward ( and asked for the corpse. "The baggage
man stared at mm as if, he were crazy,
and making no reply went on overhauling the trunks as if it might be under them somewhere " .. Suddenly Mr. Cheney felt au arm around his neck- and a kiss imprinted upon his cheek. He looked. It' was his daughter. The female members of the family went into hysterics. M There were shouts and tears and laughter. The daughter, appalled at the somber dresses, the hearse and portege was frightened almost into -a fainting fit. She could offer no explanation of the telegram . Bh e could n ot. . say wh ether in a stato of absent .. mindedness her husband had actually sent" the, dispatch as recei ved or whether he wrote' it so blindly that the operator misread it. At any rate she refused to ride home iu
the hearse and took her1 .placer;, iu the carriage with the chief mourners. .
FOR AND ABOUT 'WOMWf.
What Is the dlflfewnce,?? said Ul6,t . "Between themoom and you?" a . t 1 can not tc 11, my treasured ono, " Said ho with i n t'rest new. :Tho dlflerenco is this," said she; i With tiie satire of a Junius, Tio moon nath. silvery quarters, love, ' While you are impecunious. ;
Bishop sleeves are revived. Long faces look best with low coiffures. .. t . .. ."'.v " ;'..'r : , Traveling costumes are made-yeiy short, 4 Z Corsets iie notrnlt&l. . di esses. . . , . ' Tall women should not wear luf i
coimires. ,:... '- ; j 5 Greenish cream color is among;new shades. ;!? "...Cascades and jabots of lace overflow hght dresses. t ; - V , --v m ' Sashes are much in vogue for wear with white dresses. r: ; - - i ; Odd shaped Japanese hats are worn f i; with coaching toilets. ; 4 . Very little jewelry should be worn t ? i with summer toilets. ' ;. -3 3 ;;"- 4'P.
A new device for a lace pin is a exwf v jumping over the moon. - j&
' White dresses of soft, erushablev?0oli
are worn more than ever.
Venetian lace is worn as trimmings -; upon bright colored surahsH ' - . . i. Jabots and necklets of flowers-are" J used upon fulhdress toilets;" :t ' ; : Irish point and Churchdace are usedf j ?T, to trim surah silk dresses.-; - ' V Poke bonnets and small capotes are r bo tli to be worn next winter . B!ollyhocks and peonies are just! now? A
frery fashionable corsage flowers; s& 'i
Turquoises set in Etruscan goldarf i the fashionable jewels this season. . .5 , The fashionable weight for a Japan-, J ese pug is three and a half pounds.1 " : Navy blue flannel is lon the list'of ' popular material for tavellng suits. ? a" Omber not, in all colors, is pretty for stri ngs or scarfs onsummerbonnes. Corsets for summer Wear are made' H of net, and are also exceedingly short. i (Capuchin- hoods trimmed with Jaqe are worn upon white morning dresses'; " . layadere striped' surahs are used foi; ; trimming rough, stra , suinmer -bon. I & nets. -5isjSi ' Miss Annie Louise Cary left Occinomowac, Me., last Thursday, for Mhme- ) :- .'jpolis. - ., .,;..' 9 . vFlesh colored silk stockings 'em- ' f broidered with crimson rosebuds are -very fashionable. f-3 : ? - i Sam Kearney, of Illinois, killed hisr
' wj fe because he eoui.i not make her?, sit; down in a chair. He didn't begin
right. If he had told - her to stand up
she would have sa& down. - - There is a Mother Hubbard parasol j now. The man . who gar.es on it falls -A into the condition in which Motheic -
Hubbard found the dog when she re- n turned from buying him a coffin; r Mojeska recently said in conversai tion with a friend inXondon : "I haya 5 r played a year here. I have received.
offers from all over the world, but I
iiae juuauuu nuu x.uvt? swjcu wu,-; Miss Alamatz Yamakowa, young e ;
member of Revi Iieonardr" 3iacon'8 :.
family at New Haven, has been bap-
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Church. New Haven, r
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The wife of an old colored manna
hm eastern part of Georgia recently $:4 p-eaented him with the sixth pair of 3 s t wins, the family having been previrJ h ously endowed with two pairs of trip,r4 i -letsi--all flourishing. :f i) f. W V A beautiful Erench girl at a fancyf,i g bazar in Paris demanded fifteen lonis' fi for a kiss. Fifteen wealthy gentiemeM t would not accept the 6ffer even by? f chipoine: m and drawing lots for thef w
honor." Finally, the Countess Pour- j if-Ann nflid t.h a" nwnftv .suid' took the.
kiss. -x y';:;:" Raw" Chinese silk, grey and bwwiif C! mohair, tilled flannel and Tndiapongee, i -; are materials for ulsters and traveling' ". J I wraps, to the exclusion of liuen which f is fashionable only for children. .Like- -J-f . I
destitute of hoods; belts,- colUrs and;
uumg. : Miss Anna Hampton Brewster writes from Rome that when the famous ballet dancer, Mile. Zucchi, had her bene fit in that city, a Roman Prince sent her a supurb bouquet, in the center of which was a blank check, signed by his own princely name- A Parisian ligh tro'-toes would probably have mi ned the confiding venera ble admirer. Zucchi, however, is an Italian, and prudent. She fiilled up the check tot, only 20,000 francs ($4,000),. and drew her money without dispute. Had she written 100,000 francs instead, the faml
ly of the aged admirer would probably
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Ho Was a Failure. j: Detroit Kree I'ress.. v. A day or two since a traveler from the East walked into the Cass House with bis grip-sack in one hand and the ether pressed to his jaw, a ad he wasn't
long in permitting fifteen or twenty people to ktsow that he had been inflicted with t;he toothache every minute since 7 o'clock the previous evening. He couldn't eat, dirhik nor stand still, and when some -.one asked him why lie didin't go ,to-a dentist he replied: ,. "Because I haven't goi the pluck! Here I am , a . great big, si x-footer, able to knock do wn an ox, and yet I haven't got the grit ro. stand one yank oia this tooth! Pve btea down on the battleline, in free agh rs and out among, tiie red skins, but Pm a coward!" , , Some laughed and some encouraged him, and he finally ftald': "Well, I believe I'll try it; but I know what I am, and I want some
thing to push me on, Pil. bet this five dollar bill against ten cents that I'll have the tooth pulled." One of tho guests made the wager, aud a small crowd went along' to see the fun. The ..stranger, walked up. as bold as a lion, took a scat in the dental
chair, and evinced no sicrn ot craw
fishing until the dentins picked up the forcens and told him to get a good grip on the chair, Then he grow white in an instant, slid out of tlie chair and seized 1 . i . hat and said : l4It'i uat as I expected ! I'm a great big caii on wheel s,and the worst flunker in America, but I can't help it ! Pve lost the five dollars, and will probably have the toothache right along for a
week, but JM1 have to stand it and hope to be struck by lightning or mashed upon the cars.,"
A well-know vouncr society oeau 01
this city, while traveling on an Imtt X ana railroad recently, let his gallantryv gt the better wet ot his judgment and a himself into a nice little scrape, irSfln .I! in tirArl t h a riur At? Nfiw ;
Al bany. he found it nearly full and he instantly made for a seat nearly ih the " f middle of the car, which was vacant. 3 r
The seat in front of mm was oceupiea ladv and a httle euh while just'
behind sat a young lady, who seemejiY j ' to be alone. The lady i and little girl , . got oil at a small station1 about half- r Avav to Indianapolis. Just as the train - ? i was starting from the station the, .wj young man noticed a bundle of female f ti.Jrt.r. 'i-viniv cr thft seat at his siiie. .W: -
i ti-a iHaa. imsmntlv occurred to him
that the iadv who had just gotten out r
had forgotten the bundle. . He thrust . . his head out of the window and called to htr, but she was just entering and ' did not hear him. The train had now.; started, and the young man thought; ' that the bundle would be lost if he did t not act quickly, so he picked it ur and s 4 threw it out of the window bh thef- r
rtinffnririi Tte then sanir oaoK on nis
ft has become evident that a mistake was made in locating the villa e of Niobrara inNebraska ully, ih lead of on a high plain near by , and the houses are an to be removed to exactly the sain 3 reialiVe positions on the bet-er-site. .
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seat witii an ea?y .couhowuub,-iwiwiuife , - a himself that he had acted with wonder "h fill presence of mind. Things wen f aloug smoothly until within a few; v S miles of Indianapolis, when the youngf . on the seat behind him began to showi sigus oArestlessness. She looked under;, ', she seat she was occupying, orr tW? fteat behind her, and then on the seat t oh which the young man was sitting .. This search did not sui to , satisfy, g - js her, and in a few momnts she begao ,; $
to make inquiries ot oim-ir no uaf seen a small bundle on any one of the! Si seats. The young man'sohair begau , gradually to stand on end, and torjaP ' few moments he was speechless as hcp i began to realize hat had become of . 4 the bundle: He did not dare t tell K : her what he had done, so lie ieliedr $ that he had seen nothing ' of it This t- C increased the young lady's uneasiness, and she made inquiries of the conducv tor, but he. had not seen it. . A lady, in v d 1 seat just behind her fiuidlv ' ?tfv ' ' it was. a very valuable bundle. ' No,". replied the young lady in. an audiabl j whisper, but it contained my only - f night-gown." The young man at? a tempted to make some amends, when 4 :".$: they reached the cityv by agreeing to ; -Jj hii-e a carriage for the young lady, and Jj was very attehtive to see s that, none of v; m . her bundles were' lost, and that slie ' .3
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went to the right hotel.
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Miss Liliwhite, who is about, to marl ry. remarked on Memorial day that she (iould sympathize with the brave boys in blue, having lost, erja;an , engagement. " Perseverance is the, besk school fcm .
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