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&e richest young and unmarried wo- ' Xb. oti-tke Pacific coast is Miss Jennie frtift who Vpretty and very pious. She fte happyowner of 500,000 in Unit--"' j States 4-per cents., a present from her father. Tho richest prospective heiress in California is Miss Hat tie Crocker, who is charming and charitable. Neither of thesejyc-ung ladies seems inclined to marry- - . - - -

Of the 84 morrocco manufactories in the United States, 36 are situated in Philadelphia. These establishments turn out 2i0Uj skins a day in good weather. It is one of the anomalies of the trade, jest now, that while the demand for morrocco is very active, the price is very low. This is owing to the fact that it is impossible to get any advance from the shoe manufacturers. The latter cannot raise the price of shoes without combining to do so. and the consequence is that the morrocco manufacturer can not put: up his price. -- : - " The Spanish-American Clai ms Co mission has adjourned sine die. T-he commission has been in existence 11 years, during which period 140 claims were considered, representing about 20,000,000. The awards made in 38 cases aggregate about $1,1200,000. Eight cases remain on hand for decision. These claims aggregate ,048,600. The Spanish minister received the congratulations of President Authur and his fellow-di-lilomats and officials of the State Department on the settlement of these long ending questions.

Tite New York Tribune talks with practical common sense about Sunday oaws. It says: ?A just conception of the object of Sunday laws is that they are needed to protect laboring

.men from a demand on them for seTen days'

each -week; to secure A, who shnts np his

p and lets his clerks roat, against the competition of B, who adds one-sixth to his own profits and the labor of his men by Sunday trading; Furthermore, public worship is of such general utility that to it ought to be secured some .quiet hoars in each seventh day; and the domain of public amusaments seems to be large enough without using Sunday, though no one ought to be denied the privilege of intellectual study or diversion. In fine, secure the general rest; protect the quiet of church hours; shut the theaters; open the libraries."

At the present time, and in the United States, iron is emphatically king. It is a powerful factor in itself, and it indirectly infuses vitality into nearly every department of trade. Of late years, at least, prosperity and depression have been led in turn by the iron interest. It appears to represent an industrial standard by which everything else pertaining to trade is engaged. To-day the rollmg-mills now in operation in this country are turning out steel rails at the rate of 22,000 miles a year. At this rate the demand for this vast production will speedily decline if it does not altogether cease. A period of depression will naturally follow, and continue until some other commercial potentate snatches the scepter from the weakened grasp of iron. How long before this usurpation will occur, or what will be the succeeding intdresfc,tune alone can tell.

Woanor are knocking for admission at the doors of Columbia CollegeNew York, a wealthy institution not so overstocked with male students as to cause apprehension of a crowd should their casters be accepted as students. The rulers of Columbia are very conservative, however, and are not yet prepared for the new orderof things. To silence their prejudices Prof W. Leconte Stevens argues a t length in the North American Beview, that no evils have resulted from coeducation worthy of being compared with its benefits. The main trouble has been with over-ambitious girls who Ltudy too hard for thenphysical well being. This is a fault that needs earnest repression, but it is far less deplorable than the opposite ones of laziness and dissipation, which are almost exclusively confined to mates. The late Prof. Pierce, of Harvard College; showed from a thorough canvass of the records of that institution that the great majority of early deaths occurred among members of the last half of each college class Want of rank is not always occasioned by reckless living, but it is .very often attributable to it, and the Professor knew enough of the actual facts in many cases to draw the conclusion that dissipation shortens many lives where undue application alleviates one.

The Commissioner of Agriculture, in his report to Congress relative to the work of Ms department, made a formidable exhibition of the distribution of seeds alone. Under the special appropriation of Congress of 30,000 for seeds to the flooded Southern districts, 504058 packages were sent, divided as follows: "Vegetables, 41,876; field corn, 48,64: fieldfpeas, 26,957; field beets, 3,9f4; field millet, 14348; field cotton, 159. The whole number of seeds sent out by the bureau during the year was by packages, :2,396U76. Of these packages 1,058,479 were sent out through members of Congress and Senators, 269,177 through the statistical correspondents, 508,958 as above mentioned, by special appropriation, and the balance 53274, to miscellaneous applicants. Of the total number of packages, 30,773 were cotton seed, 97,051 wheat, 7574 oats, 92,897 corn, 70,700 turnips, 179,452 flowers, 3,653,704 vegetables, 83,215 tobacco,26,)57 peas, and 14,835 strawberry. These are the principal items. There were 107 kinds of vegetables 15 Mads of wheats of flowers, 13 of corn, and 39 of sorghum. The proportion ef tioweis over grain packages is three to one.

The recent action of the Bradford, Pa, School Board, forbidding speculation in oil by the school-teachers of that city, was no coubt well timed. The stories of men who have seen fortunes disappear in oil have long since become old, and the occasional notice the uiifortunate one receives has in it an air of apology for in feuding such a thrice told tale on the publie. But the increasing part that women are taking in this traffic is a matter for astonishment, if not for alarm. Small losses are of course studiously concealed and also for the most part the fact hai they have inVestd Sports are, however, begiiming to leak out that many prominent ladies throughout the region of greatest speculation find their fortunes seriously impaired: One lady in a neighboring town changed her investments just at the time when oil became unsteady and lost $12,000. Another whose speculation began in a little banter with broker friend as to the possiblity of $1 50 1, lost nearly as much. These are not litary cases. Thereare the young las who, through some broker, place smaller sums as they are able to indi One of those who bought in vmkttfiom found-herielf a

gainer of $200. She was sure that this was but a beginning, and as a promise of other things hoped for she bought a furlined'cloak and invested all her available funds in oil again. She lost, of course: but afterwards in listening t the condolence of a friend, suggested, with a satisfied glance at the cloak, that Providence had at least found anew way of tempering the wind to the shorn lamb.

Commissioneb PuDiiEV has written the following letter to a gentleman asking whether there wa any real necessity for employing pension attorneys, and for a brief statement of the methods used by dishonest attorneys to swindle claimants: Department op thk Interior. Pension Office, Washington, Dec. 19, 1SS2. y Dear Sir: Your communication of the 14th inst. is at hand Yon ask me two questions. Firsts is it absolutely necessary that an honest claimant for pension should bo represented by an agent, and, second, -what are the principle devices by which dishonest agents fleece soldiers. In response to the first question I should say that section 4,748 of the revised statutes provides that the Commissioner of Pensions, on application being made to him in person or by letter by any claimant or applicant for pension, bounty

land, or other allowance required by law to be adjusted or paid by the Pension Office, shall furnish such parson, free of all expense, all such printed instructions and forms as may bo necessary in establishing and obtaining such claim. I hand yon herewith a copy of the pamphlet of laws and instructions issued in conformity with said law and sent ont upon application or freely distributed on call. When the claim properly tilled up and executed is filed, the receipt is acknowledged, the number of .the claim given, and the claimant notified that the same will be taken up in its order. At the same time an extract of said pamphlet is forwarded containing full and complete instructions. Necessarily considerable delay occurs between the time of filing tho claim and it being taken up in its order, which delay the claimant isdvised to employ in procuring the necessary evidence. When the case is reached and taken up. if the evidence is all in and sufficient, the claim is settled at once. Otherwise tho claimant is calletfupon for the paxticnlarkind of evidence required, and the circular calls are ? o worded that they can not be misinterpreted or misunderstood by any one. The evidence of record is obtained ay the office direct, as is also the medical examination by the medical boards in different parts of the country. ... I will only add that the services of an agent are most useful to the claimant when he devotes himself to preparation of the required, evidence immediately, upon the filing of tho required claim or before. An agent well posted in the law and the requirements of this office can thus anticipate the calls of this office,, and greatly shorter, the time consumed in the adjudication of the claim, and also save the office much labor. As to tlie absolute necessity of the intervention of an agent-, each must judge for himself . In response to your second question, I would say that the criminal files of this office show so many and various prosecutions against dishonest amenta that I should be unable to classify and enumerate the different violations of law, and the devices used in defrauding pensioners, within the limits of such a communication as this. But the principal violations consist in the collection under some guise or upon some pretext or another of more than the fee allowed by law, the enforced collection of so-called expense fees or postage claims in advance, addressing the calls to this office, for medical examination or other evidence, by 0. 0. D. packages, the collection of fees in advance and the abandonment of the claim as soon as fee is received; advertisements holding out claims not warranted by law, by

which honest soldiers are led' to prefer baseless

claims; the only advantage in such cases being that which accrues to the agent, who gets a fee. Such acts are principally predatory upon tho claimant, rather than upon the government, but are just as meritricions and blameworthy. Very respectfully, W. W. Dudley. Commissioner.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. Wednesday, Dec. 27. 'Senate. The civil service bill was discussed, amended and adopted by a decided vote. In its most salient points, it provides: The President is authorized to appoint, with the consent of the Senate, three Civil Service Commissioners, not more than two of whom shall be adherents of the same party, as a Civil Service Commission; salary of each, SS,500 and necessary traveling expenses. Their duty will be to aid the President as he may request in preparing and promulgating rules governing the civil service. These rules shall provide for open competitive examinations; for selections according to grade; for apportionment of employes among the several State Commonwealths; for a period of probation before actual appointment; that promotions shall be made from a lower grade to a higher, as a basis of merit; that no officer is under obligations to contribute to a political fund; that no person in said service has any right to use ofHcial anthority or influence to coerce "political action; provides for employes of the Commission; for examination and grading of clerks already employed; that when two or more members of a family are in the public . ser vice in grades covered by this act, no other member of such family shall be eligible to appointment to such grades; that tho recommendations of any person shall only apply as to character and residence of applicant; that no person habitually using intoxicating liquors in excess shall be appointed to or retained in office. Thursday, Dec. 28. Senate The Edmunds anti-political assessment bill was taken up. Mr. Beck offered as a substitute the bill introduced by liim on the 12th, but it was rejected. The bill was then passed .. . . . . The Fitz Sohn Porter relief bill was then taken up and considered. Friday, Dec, 29. Senate. A number of biils were introduced . . . In the Fitz John Porter bill consideration was resumed; Mr. Logan in opposition made a lengthy speech. Saturday, Dec. 30. Senate not in session. HousE.The Senate bills to reform the civil service and to prevent official assessments were referred.. . .. The bill extending the period for filing claims for horses and equipments lost by officers or enlisted men in the service was passed, limiting the extension to one year An amendment to the rules, creating a committee of fifteen on rivers and harbors was referred The speaker appointed Calkins to succeed Orth on Committee on Civil Service Reform A report from the Secretary of the Navy was submitted The annual reports of the manngors of the Soldiers' Home were presented, showing the number of inmates to be 18,000, an inctease of 680.

Monday, Jan. 1, 1888.

gongress not in session.

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Starting a Young Man,

Wall Street News. It is related of a wealthy Philadelphian who has been dead these many years,thafc a young man came to him one day and asked for help to start him in business. "Do you drink?" asked the millionaire. "Occasionally." "Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then come and see me." The young man broke off the habit at once, and at the end of theyear again presented himself . "Do you smoke?" asked the greakman. "Yes, now and then." "Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then come and see me." Theycung man went away and cui loose from the habit, and after worrying through another twelve months once more faced the philanthropist. "Do you chew?" "Ye" "Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then come and see me." But the young man never called again. When some one asked him why he didn't make one more effort, he replied: "Didn't I know what he was driving at? He'd have told me that as I had stopped chewing, drinking and smoking, I must have saved enough money to start myself." The Odds With Us. Madison Courier. We can better afforp to do without sour wine, drugged gin, forty-rod brandy and poisonous absinthe than the Germans and Frenchmen can ojford to be

deprived of the American hog,

SOME DAY.

ISABlUJUA GRAST MEREDITH.

Some day I shall be dead. Some day this tired head, With all tho anxious thoughts it now doth kuow, Shall bo laid low. This body pain-racked, ill, Shall lie at length, Mid still. Under tho clover and wind-swept grass. Nor hear you pass. That vere, indeed, blrange sloop, When even you might weep. And ooine, and o - even yon unheard of mo As bird or bee. Nay, sweetheart, nay, believe Hore i no cause to grieve, One so wayworn, of trouble so opprest. Is glad of Test. Perchance, when that releaso Hath wrought its spell of peace. O'er this unquiet heart, long voxt with woo, nenrtfs-oase may grow. Who loves mo will not weep When that I lie asleep. But rather joy to think eaok sorrow may Have end uomo day.

A WIFE'S CONFESSION.

BY ELIZABETH CAMPBELL.

I did not marry for love. Very few people do; so in this respect I am neither better nor worse. No, I certainly did not marry for love; I believe I married our rector, Mr. Cartwright, simply because he asked me. I ought to have been very happy; for he was a most devoted husband, but I was not, and though I did not notice it then, I know now that for the first six months after our marriage he was not happy eith

er.

One morning about that time he told me at breakfast that he intended leaving me alone for a few weeks to stay with his mother, who wa9 not very well. He watched the effect of this announcement on me, but, though I was really displeased, I coucealed my annoyance, and asked carelessly when he would start. He replied the next day, if I had no objection, and so it was settled. He was more afiectionate. than usual that day, and I was colder than ever; I once alluded to his journey, and that was to ask if I might have my sister Maud to stay while he was gone. The next morning I was anx ious to avoid a formal parting, so I drove to the station with him; as the train moved off I remembered that this was our first parting since our marriage, and wished I had not been so cold. "When I got home the house looked so drear)7 and empty, and there was no one to meet me. Every room looked empty, and each spoke of the absent master; at last I wandered into his study where he spent his mornings, and liked me to sit and work; and now remembered how often I had excused myself, saying I preferred the drawing-room, and this reflection did not add to my happiness. It was full of little remombrancea of nie, and everything I looked at reminded me of his goodness to me and of my coldness and ingratitude to him. At last, I went to bed, where, after working myself into a fever of anxiety lest he should not have reached the end of his journey in safety, I at length cried myself into a restless sleep. The next morning I went down to breakfast with a heavy heart, for I knew I could not hear from him till the next day. My plate, for the first time since my marriage was empty as I sat down to breakfast, for my husband, who was an early riser, always had a little boquet to greet me with every morning; frequently I forgot all about it, and left it. to be put into water by the seiwant; this morning I would have treasured it most carefully if he had gathered it. After breakfast' I determined to arouse myEelf and go and visit some of the poor people of the village; so I filled a basket with some little delicacies for the sick and set out. Wherever I went it was the eaine story; all held forth on my husband's goodness, for ail had been helped by him in one way or other, and all loved and respected him. As I listened with burning cheeks, I felt ae though I was the ouly person on earth who had treated him with cruel ingratitude, and I was the very person whom he had most loved and cherished. When Maud arrived in the afternoon I treated her to a long tirade of abuse against mothers-in-law in general, and my own in particular; and. I vented all the anger I really felt against myself on the innocent Mrs. Cartwright. "In fact, Nelly," said Maud, "I believe you are so much in love with your husband that you are jealous of even his mother; and you are making yourself miserable about nothing. Why, Mr. Cartwright will be back in a fortnight, and I dare say yon will get a letter from him oveiy day; so cheer up and let us go for a drive." I agreed to this plan, and giving Maud the reins, I lay back and thought of her words. Was she right, after all? Was I jealous? Was I really, as Maud said, in love with my husband? Had I only found t out,now that I was deprived of his company? Was this the reason that I could do nothing but inwardly reproach myself for ray conduct to him? And the longer I thought the more convinced I became that Maud was right, that I "was jealous, and that I was in love, as she said. The next morning I got up early and walked out to meet the postman, so anxious was I to get a letter from him; it was the first I had ever received from him since our marriage, and no girl was ever so anxious for or so pleased with her first love letto, as I was over this. It wa3 a long letter, full of loving messages and terms of endearment, all of which cut me to the heart,for they sounded like so many reproaches. I spent the morning in answering it, much to Maud's amusemait who, of conrse,ihought I was pouring out volumes of love and complaints of my temporary widowhood; after-tearing up about a dozen sheets of paper, I at last sent a short note cool, and with no allusion to my misery. For a whole week I went on in this way, suffering more acutely every day, and every day receiving long, loving letters from

Mr. Cartwright and writing short, cold answers. At last, when he had been away ten

days, I could bear it no longer, for I felt

I should have brain fever if I went on in this way,so I determined to go to Melton,

where Mrs. Cartwright lived, find see my

huBbnncL Jcame to this decision one

night, and went into Maud's room early in the Krning,to tell her of my intention.

I exp ed she would laugh at me, but I

thin ie euessed something: was vrronc.

for cemed glad to hes.r it, and helped me ck a few things and set off in time to morning train.

It was three years to me, for the nearer I got to my husband, the more impatient I was to see him. At last we got to Melton, a large town. Of course,as I was not expected, there was no one to meet me, so I took a carriage to Mrs. Cartwright's house, where I arrived about 3 o'clock. I learned afterward that Andrew was in the little drawing-room with his mother when I drove up, but thinking I was only a visitor he escaped to another room, so I found my mother-in-law alone. By her side were some of my husband's socks which she was darning, socks which I had handed to my servants to mend and which I longed to grasp from his mother. His desk stood open, a letter to me which he had been writing lying on it. The servant announced me as Mrs. Andrews, my voice failing as I gave my name, so that Mrs. Cartwright held up her hands in astonishment when she saw who it was. "My dear Nelly! Has anything happened? How will you look! What is it?" she exclaimed. "I want my husband," I gasped, sinking down on a chair, for I thought I should have fallen. Without another word Mrs. Cartwright left the room; I feel sure now that she guessed all about it, and I can never thank her enough for forbearing to worry me with questions as to what I had come for. She came back in a few minutes with a glass of wine which she made me drink off, saying she would send him to me at once if I took it. I complied, and she went to fetch him; in another minute I heard his step outside the door, and then he came in. "Nelly, my love- my darling- what is it?" he cried, as I rushed into his outstretched arms, and hid my face on his breast, sobbing bitterly. For some moments I could not speak; at last I recovered myself enough to sob out: "Oh, Andrew, my love! my dear love! can you ever forgive me? I came to ask you, and to tell you that I can not live without you." I would have said more but his kisses stopped my mouth, and when at length he let me go, there were other tears upon my cheeks beside my own. That was the happiest hour of all my life, in spite of my tears; and before my mother-in-law again joined us, which she discreetly avoided doing till dinner-time, I had poured out all I had to tell into my husband's ears; and I had learned from him that he had left me to try what effect his absence would have on me; for he had felt for some time that my pride was the great barrier he had to overcome to win my love. He had judged right. He was too generous to tell me how he had suffered from my indifference, but I know it must have grieved him terribly. He is a different man now, he looks so happy, and I know he would not change places with any one on earth. Queer Stories. Unlcmtown (Ky) Local. Eli Berry, of color, is not only one of the best workers in the State, but is decidedly the strongest in his neck and cranium. In the removal of our office last week Eli was chartered, and he performed the herculean feat of carrying on his head 1,800 pounds of type without dropping a single one. We must confess, though, that he "staggered" a little. Hawkinsville (Ga.) Dispatch. The most aged cow in Georgia perhaps in the United States is owned by a citizen of Hawkinsville. The owner assures us that the cow is 100 years old and is now giving milk. When we mentioned the improbability in fact the almost impossibility of his cow being 100 years old, the gentleman assured us that she had belonged to his grand-parents, greatgrandparents, and other ancestors, and that there is no doubt that the cow is 100 years of age.

Warren Virginian.

Information has reached this place that

a rooster belonging to a farmer near Thoroughfare Gap has gone off to live

with a flock of wild turkeys. Every morn

ing at daybreak he crows, and the farmer,

who knows where his rooster is, is thus enabled to kill a wild turkey every day.

Hickman (Ky.) Courier

Charles Holcombe has two biscuits

baked thirty years ago, and they are well

preserved. His mother baked them for him when he was leaving home, Nov. 16, 1852, for a lunch, and enjoined him not

to eat them until he got hungry; and Mr.

H. conceived the idea of keeping them as

a memento of his mother, and has kept

them wll preserved thirty years. Tennessee Sentinel.

We learn from Sheriff Joe S. Hobbs

that Mr. William Bruce, of Coffee's Creek has a dog that crows just like a rooster.

Some two years ago the dog began to practice this art just as he heard the roosters, and every morning as regular as

could be he kept up the practice, until

now he is an expert crower. He goes

through all the motions of a rooster, raising his head and bringing it lower down ae he completes the crow. Charlotte (N.C.) Observer. E.T. McCord, of 'Possum Walk, this county, left last Thanksgiving Bay for the mountains to collect a drove of 'possums, and information received from him yesterday indicate that he has been eminently sucesscul. He arrived at Davidson College about 10 o'clock yesterday morning with 123 'possums, which he drove along the road as if they were so many hogs. He camped at Davidson College last night, securing his droves by means of poles, hanging ten 'possums to the pole. He kept three dogs barking all night, and these kept the 'possums so frightened that they held a firm grip to

the pole with their tails,and never thought of losing their grip until sun-up. A Breakfast Break. Peck's Sun. "Yes," sad the bad boy with a vacant look, "I take no interest in the pleasures of the chase any more, though I did have a little quiet fun this morning at the breakfast table. You see pa is the contrnriest men ever was. If I complain that anything at the table don't taste good, pa says it is all right. This morning I took the syrup pitcher and emptied out the white syrup and put in some cod liver oil that ma is taking for her cough. I put some on my pan-cakes and pretended to taste of it, and t told pa the syrup was sour and not fit to eat. Pa was mad in a second, and he poured out some on his pan-cakes and said I was getting to confounded particular. He said the syrup was good enough for him, and he sopped his pancakes in it and fired some down his nock. He is a gol darned hypocrite-

that's what he is. I could see by his face that the cod-liver oil was near killing him,

but he said the syrup was all right, and

if I didn't eat mine he'd break my neck; and, by gosh, I had to eat it; and pa, he guessed he hadn't got much appetite, and lie would just drink a cup of coffee and eatadonut. I like to dine, and that, I think, makes this disappointment in love harder to bear. But I felt sorry for ma. Ma ain't got a very strong stummick, and when she got some of that cod-liver oil in her mouth she went up stairs sickern a horse, and pa had to help her, and she had nooralgia all the morning. I eat pickles to take the taste out of my mouth and then I laid for the hired girls. They eat too much sy rup, anyway, and when they got on to that cod-liver oil and swallowed it, one of them, a Nirish girl, she got up from the table and put her hand on her corset and said 'Howly Moses!' and went out in the kitchen looking as pale as ma does when she has powder on her face And the other girl, who is Dutch, she swallowed a pan-cake and said, 'Mine Got, vas de matter from me,' and she went out and leaned on the coal bin. Then they talked Irish and Dutch, and got clubs and started to to look for me, and I thought I would come over hero. Pa and I are going to Chicago next week, and I'll bet we'll have some fun. Pa says I need a change of air, and I think he's going -to try to lose me. It's a cold day when I get left any where's." -JDie Valley of Death. A valley surpassing in reality of horrors the fable region of the upas-tree has been discovered in the Island of Java. This island is volcanic, and in one spot the emanations from the interior of the earth are so deadly that the place is called the Valley of Death. As the traveler approaches he is attacked by nausea and giddiness. He also notices a suffocating smell. As he advances these symptoms disappear, so that after passing through the belt of fcttid air which guards the valley, the visitor is able to examine with less risk the spectacle before him. A recent traveler describes the valley as being an oval, about one mile in circumference and about 30 01 40 feet below the surrounding land, the floor of the valley is flat, dry, without any vegetation, and scattered all over it are the skeletons of men, tigers,wild boars, birds and stags lyamong large blocks of stone. No steam or smoke is to be seen, nor is any crevice apparent in the earth, which appears to be as hard as rock. The hills which hem in this valloy of desolation are clothed from base to summit with healthy trees and bushes. The traveler whom we have already quoted descended the side of one hill with the aid of a bamboo 6tick, to about 18 feet from the bottom, and he compelled the dog to go down to the plain. In five seconds the animal fell on its side motionless, although it continued to breathe for 18 minutes. Another dog died in 10 minutes; and a fowl only resisted the deadly air for a minute and a half, and was dead before reaching the bottom. It is believed that the human skeletons are those of malefactors who have sought refuge here, ignorant of the fatal influence of the air they come to breathe. The neighboring mountains are volcanic, but they neither emit sulphurous odors nor do they present any indication of recent ernption. Storming a Bee Castle, Gridley Herald. . 'For nearly fifteen years past a colony of bees have had their quarters in a large cave situated on the highest bluff of the Buttes. They have occupied the place so long that the rock is generally known as' "Bee Bock." It is located about a half a mile northwest of South Butte,andstauds alone at the head of an extensive and picturesque glen. The rock is about 50xlC0 feet at the base, and is from one to six feet wide on top. To reach the top from three sides it is necessary tc climb a. perpendicular wall from 150 to 200 feet in height. The top is accessible at only one point, and there by crawling through a crevice barely wide enough for a man to pass. Then a bridge twenty feet long and one foot wide has to be crossed. It is about 400 feet from the bridge to the ground beneath. On the 16th of last month a party of men living in the neighborhood of Pennington went to the place determined to rob the mammoth hive. They were supplied with powder, fuse, drills, bars, etc., with which to assail the stronghold. Few of tho invaders had nerve enough to cross the bridge, but three of them got over all right and fired a blast. The result was a cloud of bees that made them retreat Next day the assault was renewed, and after a lively battle of three hours the bees were defeated. The dead bees filled three grain sacks to overflowing. The cave was then blasted open and the party found a solid mass of honey in the comb two and a half feet thick. The expedition was a success, but many of the participants paid dearly for their victory. When the post-office appropriation bill is brought up in the Senate, which it will be soon, Senator Plumb will endeavor to have the reduction of postage from three to two cents go into effect July 1, 18S3, instead of January 1, 1884, as provided for by the House. In referring to this matter, Mr. Hazeu says it would be impracticable to make the change as early as J uly. He claims that t here would be a surplus of three cent stamps on hand at that time; that trouble would arise in adjusting the accounts with postmasters, and that the commissions for fourth-class postmasters on the sales of stamps would not be eettled. In reply to these objections Mr. Plumb says he does not believe there will be a surplus of stamps on July 1, as the postmasters will have nearly six months after the passage of the bill for disposing of their sapply. If thero is a

surplus,he says, they can be used for mail matter requiring more than two cents. In regard to the trouble that may arise in adjusting the accounts, that difiictilty will be encountered any ho w,and might as well come first as last. Concerning tho plea in regard to the payment of postmasters, the Senator thinks the people and not the officials should be considered. These commissions, however, can be determined upon before the 1st of July. The bill will pass the Senate before the 1st of February, thus giving tho country five months to

prepare for the reduction. He is confident his views will meet the approval of the Senate. He believes that no attempt will be made to grant publishers of newspapers free transit for their publications through the mails. He favors such a reduction, however, and prophesies that belong it will be accomplished. It is said that Col. J, B. Merri wether of Jefferson ville will be p. member of the third House of tho Indiana Legislature, and will present claims before the Assembly amounting to 30,000. These claimij originated during the Shuler AdHanist of the State prifior South, 'VI-

MOONSHINERS.

The Mountaineers of Kentucky Who Defy tho Laws. Indian Among Thorn.

Ciuohmati Enquirer. United States Marshal A. J. Auxicr, whoso headquarters are at Louisville,and who has charge of the Southern district, was found in tho United States courtroom. In the course of the conversation which was being held on the all-engrossing topic ho said that the moonshiners can not conceive that it is an offmnse against the revenue law to make liquor and sell it to their neighbors. "They will make a run," said he, "then they will fill up a couple of kegs which will hold three or four gallons each, placo one in each end of a sack and throw the sack across tho back of a horse. One of their number will then mount the animal and start on a trip among the country people, to whom he will sell it for live cents adrink or twenty-five cents a pint.

On county court days they will seek a

quiet place as near town as they darjXto come. The fellows soon find ou.Vhere it is, and those whgimMI go and get it. Of couraU of them get drunk and they Jiave a good time, The moonshiners will eveu go to church, or as near to it as they can consistent with safety; and when service is going on in the house thoy will be somewhere on the outside pouring liquor into any of the thirsty members of the flock who care, to hunt them up." "Why do they not enter the towns and sell the products?" "You must know," said the marshal in reply, "that lately a very strong temperance movement has started in that portion of the State, and many of the towns have local option, and the sale of whisky is watched very closely." "These fellows do not care anythiag about a prosecution," he replied, in response to a question. "They may be tried and sentenced, but when their terms have expired they will return to the old life. More than that they will in some cases court prosecution; One will go to another and say Here,you report me for moonshining, and I will do the same by you. Each of us will appear as a witness against the other. " "What do they gain br that?" 'They get their witness fees, mileage from their homes to the court, and board at tho expense of the government." The idea was so supremely ridiculous as to provoke a laugh from the listener, but it is nevertheless a literal fact. "It is difficult to catch them at times," resumed the officer, "for they move about continually. The deputies may have a warrant against one of them, and he hearing of it, will move away. They have a run all through eastern and southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee clear to Mississippi. Once in awhile, though, we drop on one.' It is not generally known that there is a small tribe of Indians in the mountainous region who are to some extent engaged in the manufacture. Begarding these, Mr. Auxier Baid: "They live on tho upper waters of Middle creek, in Magoffin county. The patriarch of the- settlement is old man Cole, who at the present time is nearly one hundred years of age and possessed of a good deal of sense. He is as straight as a shingle. His eyes are black, and his hair is black and straight and as soft as silk. It has never turned gray. As the years have passed they have intermarried with both w lutes and blacks until they have become a mongrel set. They keep to themselves and gain a livelihood by hunting, fishing and making wliisky. They ride on. jackasses not mules or donkeys, but jacks. There will be one of these animals in the possession of every three or four families, all the members of winch will in tarn have the Use t him. When they move the old man mounts a jeek and goes on ahead followed by the remainder on foot and jach-back, as is the custom s.ong the Indians. They are in fact a tribe. J They will not steal, but at times there arises a family feud, and then some one will be killed, but none of them can ever be convicted of the crime. When I was Commonwealth's attorney in that county there was a case of that sort, and they swore each other clear. They often have petty suits one against the other, and then each party, accompanied by a. host of witnesses, appeals in court, On such occasions the whole tribe turns out,"

Buried Treasures Unearthed. Tho little town of Franklin, Pa., in the oil regions, is agitated over the discovery of a chest containing $27,000 in gold by a resident of that place. For many years there has been a belief that during the occupation of that part o the country by the French a large amount of treasure was secreted in Franklin, near where the old fort stood, and close by the ancient house of Captain Smith, which is now occupied by Prof, Solinger as a residence. Columbus Brown had a mania in regard to this treasure, and for years the thought of becoming possessed of riches in this way has haunted him. About two years ago two Frenchmen, supposed to be relatives of the old commandant of the forts, arrived at Franklin with maps, and commenced a systematie search, but it proved fruitless. Brown became excited at this, and since that time has continued the search. The other night he had a revelation. He dreamed that he was counting and handling a chest of gold, and that he had found it buried in the earth at the foot of a tree, in an open field. He was informed in some manner, he cannot tell how, but by a man with a foreign accent, dressed in a military uuiform, with a sw ord and sash, that if he would measure a certain distance from the center of a rock in the run, due north, and then measure thirtythree feet due west from srhat point, he would find the treasure he had so oftcn seen in his dream. Ho a rose, and with spado and pick went to the owner of the field in which the tree stood and gained permission to dig. He had not been at work more than two hours when he came upon an iron chest, which he opened, and the sight that met the gaze of himself and son was enough to turn the head of almost any man.The box was nearly twothirds filled with gold and silver coin, tarnished and covered with sand and mould, but nevertheless gold. Tho coins are mostly French, but a number of English, German, and Spanish coins are among the lot. They bear the dates 1729, 1744 1751, and various other dates, tho latest of which is 1751, which is the same year that Fort Macnault was completed. On a brass ruler found in the chest the name of "Joncaire" is plainly stamped. It is a well:.kuown fact that this is the name of the officer in command of tho French troops. Tho fort- was evacuated iu July, 1759, and very hastily

location of this field is about seventy-five rods south of the fort, and was no doubt; elected for the burial of the treasures with a view to mislead the Indians aid recovering it at a subsequent date. Mr. Brown took the chest to his home, and many of the coins have been on exhibition in the banks. Prohibiting American Pork. Prnirio Farmer. . A cable dispatch from Berlin a few days ago rave the text of tho ordinance presented in the German Bundasrath forbidding the importation of American pork, pigs, bacon and sausages of all kinds. Two years ago, when the prices of American pork were exceedingly low, a duty was imposed on the importation into Germany of American hog products

amounting to about SL25 per 110 pounds.

of lard. It is now proposed to prohibit the importation of all hog products except lard. The ordinance is not the result f feic Vrmi trichinosis in American por&f tliVmgh it is not improbable that this may be made a pretext for its passage. According to the figures given in the N, E. Grocer, during the year ending June 30, 1881, there were exported from the United States to Germany 41,539,700 pounds of bacon, 1,455,646 pounds of pork, and 88,127,893 pounds of lard. During the year ending June 30, 1878, there were exported from the United States to Germany of hams, bacon, pork and lard, 114,078,481 pounds; in 1879, 138,439,048 pounds; in 1880, 113,612, 667 pounds; in 1881, 131, 133,309 pounds. Now, if the above ordinance is passed by the Bundesrsth it will be high time that the United States adopt a suggestion made in the Prairie Farmer in regard to the action of the French government in a nearly similar case. This government is paying Germany and France millions upon millions of dollars annually for wines (and is not to our credit to know that a vast quantity consists of wines of exceedingly low quality) and it would be simply an act of justice to ourselves to prohibit the importation of these goods from Germany, and from France as welL It is more than probable that an experience of a few months under a retaliatory measure of that kind would bring Germany and France to a realizing sense of their ways in regard to American pork. Spurgeon on Consciece. London Society. The Kev. C. H. Spurgeon, a few weeks ago, gave a "Recognition Address," on the induction of anew pastor to the Wal-worth-road Baptist Chapel. It was characterized by the famous preacher's usual earnestness, felictions use of anecdote and humorous common sense, conveyed in good Saxon English. The burden of the address was "Encourage the Minister!" Mr. Spurgeon, like Sir Garnet WoIseleys soldiers at Tel-el-Kebir, went "straight" at his hearers. Among other useful hints, he warned them not to fall into the ranks of these whom we may call "Nomadio Christians;" those who must go and take a sniff at this place, aud a sniff at tkat and a sniff at the other. I do so dislike that kind of spiritual gypsies. I have a notion that they do this, and go about in their rags and teits to save paying any taxes. I think that there are some people th; t go round from place to place that they may never take a sitting of their own, and pay pew-rent, Well, my dear friends, if you do not pay pew-rent and help tosupport your pastor, have you got any conscience? The good man is to give all his time for your edification, and persons have to support him, but you will not take your share in it. If so, your conscience is exceedingly like that of a gentleman who some time ago, was in a convict prison. The chaplain' said: John, have you any conscience?" The man answered: "Sir, I have one nearly as good as new, for I have never used it within my recollection." I should, advise a little use that t hing called conscience.

THE NEW YEAR

A Horse's Weak Points. New York Graphic. The weak points of a Lorse can be better discovered while standing than while moving. If he is sound he will stand firmly and squarely on his limbs without moving any one of them, the feet planting flatly upon the ground, with legs pl imp and naturally poised; or if the foot is lifted from the ground and the weight taken from it, disease may be suspected, or at least tenderness, which is a precursor of disease. If the horse stands with his feet spread apart, or straddles with the hind legs, there is weakness in the loins, and the kidneys are disordered. Heavy pulling bends the knees. Bluish or milky cast eyes in horses indicate moon blindness or something else. A bad tempered horse keeps his ears thrown back. A kicking horse is apt to have scarred legs. A stumbling horse has blemished kneea When the skin is rough and harsh, and does not move easily and smoothly to the touoh, the horse is a heavy eater, and his digestion is bad. Never buy a horse whose res piratory organs are at all impaired. Place your ear at the side of the heart, and if a wheezing sound is heard it is an indication of trouble. Let him go. A Curious Place in Kansas. Lea venvorth Times. W. W. Wells, the scout, came up from Sheridan's Roost, yesterday. Said he: "The cattle thieves have full swing, and there is no use talking, they have the backuig, and it won't do for any few men to try to recover stolen cows in our section. The headquarters of the gang is on Red river, and some of the. wealthiest men in the country are backers. You would bo surprised if I was to tell you the names of some I know. There is a nest near the Roost where a large quantity sf stolen cattle stands guarded by as deadly a set of devils as ever fed on gunpowder. I went down there some time time ago, for I knew John Voltz had missed some cattle, and knew they were thero. I got out of the nest at the point of a gun barrel, and if I hadn't had a good man with me I never would have escaped alive. The cattle are there but nobody dares touch them. A largely attended meeting was held in London for the purpose o organizing a fund to relieve the distress in Ireland, Many telegrams and letters from clergymen, including Archbishop Croke, were read, describing the outlook as gloomy and appalling, and stating that the people are on the verge of famine. A resolu

tion was passed -urging tho . governments

to take steps to prevent the , land from nerishingior the necessarif Tho J monr

On good New Year; w olaap ; Thia warm ahut hand of thine Losing forever, with half aigh, half graifp, That which from ourafalla like death finftt twine. Ay, whether fierce its grasp . . Has been, or gentle having been, we know That it was blessed; lot the old, year gp, Friend, com thon like a friend. And, whether bright tfiy fade ' Or dim with clouds we. cannot comprehend, We'U hold out-patient hands, each in his place, And trust thee to the end, - Knowing thouleadest onward to those spherea Where there are neither days, nor months, nor

years. ,

A LITTLE SPICE.

,Ksobserving one of

An F-,s his xi'bi.

inconsu. "Well.sh folks like i oumb.v A clerk in an em house, the head of which . ... instructed to prepare an au and have it inserted in the new He prepared one which read: "Th. scooped! We hold four aces to tho bo tail flush of any house in town on f tablecloths." A preacher, raising his yes from L desk in the midst of his sermon, was pa) alyzed with amazement to see his to? boy in the gallery pelting-Ida hearers in the pews with horse chestnuts. But while the good man was preparing a frown of reproof, the young hopeful cried ont: 'Ton 'tend to your preaching, daddy; Til keep 'em awake." ... Puck: An egg polka has been composed in Berlin, the music of which just lasts long enough to boil an egg properly. We may now expect to hee.r of . a veal enf let waltz and a porter-house steak lancers.' But to cook the average lrding-honse spring chicken we fear that nothing less than a performance of Parsifal" will indicate the time necessary to, prepare it sufficiently. Pro! Zweibeer is rather a dissipated old man, who gives lessons' on the flute for a living. Gilhooley, who feels kindly interest in him, Baid to him; "Professor, if you were to keep sober, yon would be engaged in some of the first families, and make money." "Dot iBh all humbug said the old man indignantly. -Tgive lessons so I can get drunk, and now you wants me to keep sober so l can gxve lessons, Dot ish all humbug." s . FARM NOTES. '

Soft-shell eggs are caused by a-deficiency of lime. Oyster shells are composed of carbonate of lime, and serve as a "grit" in grinding the food, as well as for material for forming tho shell. . Poultry which is to be fcept in cold weather should be thoroughly cleansed, then wiped dry with a cloth and- have flower rubbed all over the inner part; then it should be hung jn a pootdry place. ,.. , . An eminent horseraan jrives it as his epArince, after 20 years of trial, that a tired horse can be beat" refreshed and strenGthened hr giving him a quart of oat meal stirred in a pail of water. This fits iis fetomaoh for stronger fond, slakes ite thirsty and is .infinitely hotter than pure water. ., " :'. "7. ' Orange county, K T.. farmers sav that the cow with them has been more profit able than the fast hnrse. A very few fast trotters have brought much money into the county, but has usually gone to second-hand buyers rather than to growers of Jhe stock. The good dairy cow brought her income into the pocket of the former. Corn will shrink from the time it is husked from the field or shock, in the autumn, in well-protected cribs, from 20 to 30 per cent by spring; that is, 100 bushels will shrink to 70 or 80 bushels,acoording to how dry it was when husked and put in the crib. Sound corn will shrink 20 per cent, so that 50 cents per bushel as it comes from the field is as good as 60 cents in the spring, says an observer. . Good walks can be oheaply made by digging a trench two feat in width and six inches in depth, filling in with stones? old mortar and brick, then covering with coal ashes. Such a walk will dry Tery quickly after a rain. A Btilivbetter walk, can be made by cutting elm or other logs a foot or more in diameter into one foot blocks. These should 1 set to' half their, depth in a narrow trench. To prepare the, blocks economioallv, a power drag saw should be used. With such a walk,barnyards can be made passable. Good walks have very much to do with rendering farm life pleasant and attactive. Mr. O. S. Bliss, of Georgia, Vt, writes as follows to the American Cultivator concerning his treatment of potatoes threatened with rot: "I believe the use of air-slaked lime will check any tendency to rot I have for several years practised the sprinkling of a small quantity of such lime on my potatoes at the time of storing them in bins. Though I venture no positive assertion in this direction, yet ,1 believe such treatment has resulted in checking any tendency to rot I have generally found more or less in number of affected tubers which appear to have been diseased bef oire e toringPhenca I havo thought the lime dried up the ro While

I have great faith m tbe use or nine, ye,

I hesitate to recommend it specific." " . !

TheGirly Girl. Philadelphia Progreew. ,; The girly girl is the truest girL She is what she seems, and not a sham and a pretense. The slangy girl has a hard job of it not to forget her character. The boy girl and the rapid girl are likewise wearers of masks. The gitly girl never bothers about woman's rights and' woman's wrongs. She is a girl and is glad of it She would not be a boy and grow up into a man and vote and go to war and puzzle her brain about stocks fora kingdom. She knows nothing about business and

does not want to know anything about it

tier aim is to marry some gwu wuu make him a good wife and she gene1 succeeds in doing both. She delig! dress and everything that is pretty not ashamed to own up that sfc She is pleased when she is admiy

lets you see that she is. one

from the too of her head!

her toes, and if y ou trjp the dscussjonjy'1 squarelv

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