Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 16, Bloomington, Monroe County, 17 February 1883 — Page 2

The Bloomington Courier.

BY H. J. FHLTXJS.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA,

NEWS AND INCIDENT. Ouy Compilation of the Important Happenings of the Week. INDIANA ITEMS: Ikniicellc flijF fctr ic lih af Ca Kokomo has a female insurance agent. Epidemic influenza is prevailing in various localities. Montgomery county has $65,000 or loanable school funds. The ice extends fifteen miles into the 'lake from Michigan City. The coal miners at Sheiburu are on a strike for 20 per cent increase. Graveyard insurance is being actively prosecuted in Jackson county. John Bentot, a type-setter of JeffersonTiUe, has worked at the case for (30 years. John R Tomiinson, of Shelby county, lost 35 of fine sheep by the recent floods. rontrihuted its full

share to the destruction caused by the

recent flood. The oldest inhabitant all over the State is trying to remember another -winter as severe as this. More farm dwellings will be built in Clinton county the coming year than any previous one There are fourteen divorce suits on the

docket of the Wayne Circuit Court at tha

present session. John Lackey, of Cambridge City, sold six head of horses this week, averaging over $200 each. Porter county will have a court-house to ccst 8100,009 when complete The County Treasurer has discovered a

c f ccal on his fsixn tear Vineennes

The Presbvteritn ladies of South Bend

are preparing to give a "jug break," whatever that is. . v The Lawrenceburg Presbyterian church wakes up the sinners with a new beli weighing S35 pounds. ....... Amos Hendricks, living near Martinsille, was drowned Thursday while trying to rescue some hogs. Dublin, Wayne county, has a citizen who has lived there forty years, and has never ridden in a railway car. Peter Cooley, of Chesterton, Porter County, trapped an otter, a few nights

ago, which weighed thirty pounds. A little girl in South Bend was nearly killed by swallowing the fragments of broken glass beads which she put in her month. . John Crull, a well known citizen of Wayne county, fell on the icy side walk at Hagerstown, Thurdsay, and received fatal injuries. J. W. Conklin, a Wayne county farmer has nine ewes which have given birth to eighteen lambs, two triplets, five twins, and two one each. A Fort Wayne druggist, named Heinewald, has been arrested at the instance of the licensed liquor dealers, for selling liquor without license. A bank at Greensburg has put eleven barrels of silver dollars and one barrel of smaller coins since the "dollar of the daddier was legitimatized. Montgomery county collected $6,000 taxes unearthed by ferrets, and the parties who paid it will sue to recover, under

the recent Supreme Court decision. A child three years old, daughter of J A. Smith, at Hartford City, died on Wednesday from the effects of swollowing a one-cent piece some three weeks since. George Wilson, a Pan Handle brakeman, was soundly horsewhipped, Friday, at Royal Center, Cass county, by a Mrs. FoxJwhose daughter he had trifled with. Petitions are being circulated and numerously signed by workingmen, praying the Legislature to pass the pending bill in regard to the emplepment of convict labor.

A conntryman skated-several miles to Crown Point, the other day, carrying a beefs hide on his back. He exchanged it for a ack of flour, and skated home with that l ne miners at Shelburn, Sullivan county, are out on a strike. The operators claim they can pay but eighty cents per ton for digging, and the men refuse to diir for less than SI per ton. Architect Seherer, of the State House, says it will cost $1,210, 772.06 to complete the building, including $1-5,893.35 for heating apparatus. The expenditure up to December 1 were $748,581.35. Blackford County is all astir with religious revivals. It appears to be universal all over the county. At least 600 peo pie have united with the different churchend the good work still goes on. The flood &r t&y hio river is greater

than ever known, even than "rhfir-0L-4T-r

Lawrenceburg, Ind., is flooded to a depth of three feet by the giving way of the levees, and great damage is done all along the mew. Township Trustee Eitter, of St. Joseph county, recently lost a number of sheep by dogs, but as his own dog was one of those that did the killing, he is at a loss to know how much, if anything, he is entitled to receive on account of the others. Kichraond Independent: A gentlemen who is much interested in the welfare of the quail, and is an excellent shot, is of the opinion that the prolonged freeze has destroyed most of the quail in this section of the country. He thinks there is scarcely "enough left for seed." I The village of Hammond, Lake County, has a Justice of the Peace who, whn litigants or spectators become unrnfyy adjourns court and pitches the obstreperous individual out of the window, and resumes as seriously as though npthing had disturbed him. ! Ode Plummer, tried at Mt. Vernon for outraging his 11-year-old step-sister, was found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for fourteen years. This jury ook the case at 11 o'eloel:, and came in with their verdict at midnight, Tuesday. , A young man of Seymour started for Tennessee Monday night with the avowed intention of marrying an unknown correspondent, to whom he-has been writing for some time. He has never even seen a photograph of the lady, but says he If ves her for her letters. A young man named Joseph Friend and a woman old enough to be his mother, named Alice Clements, wife of William Clements of Fort Wayne, have been arrested in Dayton, Ohio, by the husband of the woman, and lodged in jail on the charge of adultery. The couple eloped rom Fort Wayne about two years ago. A mare belonging to John Kane, of Fayette county, died the other day aged thirty-seven years. During the twenty-

seven years that he owned her she raised eighteen colts which were sold an average of $125 each. All the braggadocio displayed by Buck Stout, the Darlington murderer, before and during his trial, has left him since he has been sentenced to death. He is morose and sullen, when not engaged in weeping and bewailing his fate. It is

presumed that ho will utterly break down !

when the time for the execution arrives. The wife of Joseph Pentecost, a prominent farmer living east of Liberty, died on Sunday night from trichinosis, one i f his daughters having died a few days since. Other members of the family are afiiicted with the same disease. Thorough examination made by the medical profession leave no doubt as to the nature of the malady. A man representing himself as John W. Godfrey, a physician and missionary, enticed a woman away from her home in Mt. Carmel, to Rising Sun and kept her confined in a room at the latter place, uuder the pretense that she was his wife, subject to fit of insanity, until a sheriff accidently learned the truth. Here is onothsr trick of the sharpers that needs attention. A farmer receives a circular through the mails stating that a new and improved variety of winter wheat has beeu discovered, and that seed will be furnished him free of charge until a full crop is raised, on condition that he sends $1 to pay for postage aud packing. After the farmer sends his dollar he hears nothing farther from the money or wheat. Mr. J F. Studebaker, of South Bend, has purchased a big stock ranch in Colorado, embracing a range fifteen by thirty miles in extent, on which there are now running 1,5- head of grade Koi man horses and mares. The range is situated sixty miles nor theast of Denver, kl& is among the finest in the west. Mr. Studebaker intends to import twenty -hve Norman staiiions with a view to breeding a high grade of draft horses. Mis. Marietta Richards was arrested at Ft. Wayne and lodged in jail for stealing

385 from James P. Cass, of Laporto She is linown to be worf h $11,000, aud is by profession a fortune teller. She is a widow over sixty years of age. The robbery was accomplished, it is alleged, while Cass was in her room, by the use of compounds, which she mixes to gain power over her victims. Her brother is a wealthy business man, but would not go on her bail, and she is now in jail awaiting trial.

Cook fc Speaker are stove manufacturers, and do business at Wabash. One day a stranger sauntered carelessly into the foundry and after looking around aud examining all the articles closely, approached one of the proprietors and said: "Where did you get the pattern for those stoves?" The proprietor replied that he bought it in Cincinnati. "And did you-buy the patent?" inquired the stranger. "Don't need any patent" said the proprietor. "Well, I'll see about that That is my patent, and you can settle for it here or go with it. and settle it in the courts." The man proved his assertions, and the firm compromised by paying him $300 for the use of the patent.

enti-

Blaine is writing a history to be

tied "Twenty Years of Congress' Two boys twelve years of age, have been arrested in Massachusetts for robbing the mails. The police of New Brunswick, N. J., are looking for a gypsy band who fed a dead baby to a bear. The friends of the Niearaguan canal schema are working hard to have it incorporated as part of the river and harbor bill to be reported from the committee on commerce.

A dangerous gang of thieves and burg lars known as the "Molly Macks,'1 has baen captured at Washington. The detective connected the band with twelve burglaries and recovered much stolen property. The Pacific roads will charge Knights

Templar and their female relatives going to the conclave $75 each from the Mis sonri river to San Francisco and' return by one route, or 8100 each for the round trip going one way and returning the other. Members of the Grand Coramandery traveling alone wili be taken for 50 by one Hue, with 375 if accompanied by a lady.

THE EAST: The first Florida strawberries have reached New York. The late William E. Dodge left an estate valued at 000,000, There were 2,818 deaths in New York City during the month of January. Eight hundred men have resumed work on the new caritol at Albany, JLX Robert J Smith, a jealoivfmsband o Lowell, Mass!le4iTLswife and himself

The Brooklyn (New York) postoftice was robbed Wednesday afternoon, of $2,300, by a sneak thief. The body of a German immigrant, which was interred in the potter's field at Wechakm, N. J was exhumed, and 2,000 was concealed in his undershirt. The new Jersey Senate has passed a bill to prohibit theraanufaeturo or sale of any alcoholic or intoxicating liquors. Eox, of t he Police Gazette, has given 31,000 bonds, at New York, that he will quit making prize-fighting arrangements for twelve months. Sergeant Yanderburg, of New York, lost five blue blooded bantams. He val ues them so highly that he has offered 300 for their recover y. At the recent farewell dinner in New York to the German Consul-Goneral, over 100 leading Germans of that city refused to drink to the health of Kaiser Wilhelm. The estate of Bev. Dr. Mercer, of Newport, B. L, soon after his death., was estimated at $200,000, but is now found to amount to over 81,000,000. It has been taxed for $10,000. There is great surprise at this revelation. Some of the timbers in the costly New York residence of Cornelius Vanderbilt have become so offensive from having been saturated with heavy oils to prevent dry rot that workmen are engaged in replacing them with ne w timber, the residence has only been occupied a few weeks. Mrs. Mary Young, of Fall Biver, Marc., offers to erect in memory of her son, Bradford Matthew Chalmers Durfee, a high school, and present the same with the lot to the city ; also, to provide the apparatus and give the city in trust $50,000. The whole gift is valued at $40n,000 A terrible accident occurred near Hinsdale, Pa., Monday, to; a passenger train, the trestle of a bridge giving way, and precipitating the engine and baggage car into the water, covering them up entirely,

standing the smoking car on end, and shaking up the passengers in the day ;:oach. Two persons were drowned. The water was within two feet of the rails of the track. THE WEST: Illinois in 1882 produced 53,302,900 bushels of " wh ea t. Tie whisky in bond at Chicago amounts to S80,000 gallons. The gross receipts of the Cincinnati festival are estimated at $130,000. The city of Santa Fe., New Mexieo.wiU celebrate next July its third ecntennary. The contending bands of Creek Indians in the Territory will probably resume hostilities. It is reported that nearly V 000 carloads of corn are snowbound in the West, on the way to Chicago. Illinois has 1,085 lunatics in the four asylums, l,2B2in the County Almshouse and 1,917 under private treatment. Governor Crosby, of Montaua, vigorosly opposes the project to lease Yellowstone park to Ilnfns Hatch. Five men were killed, Monday, near Sidney, O., by a railroad collision. Orders had been misunderstood. M. Gran, of Chicago, challenges Dr Can er and Captain Bogardus to shoot with rides, 50 to 100 shots, 200 yards distance. Anton Korminsky, a foot-pad,, was shot and instantly killed while attacking August Gerahardt, at Chicago, with intent to rob him. The saloonkeepers of Chicago have pe titioned the legislature of Hlinois to defeat the pending lieeuse lav, which advances the license fee to Jj?00. Near Upper Sandusky, O., Monday, an unknown man, with his wile and child, attempted to cross a swollen creek :n a buggy, and alt were drowned. John F. Coad, an extensive cattle owner of Wyoming, states that there will be no loss of stock by the snow storm, as the herds can stand a siege of twenty days.

The attorneys of Scheller, charged with firing the Newhall House, hint that they wili produce the missing hotel books and point out as the incendiary a trusted employe. The Iowa prohibitionists have asked Governor Sherman to call a special session ot the legislature to re-enact the pro hibition amendment to the state constitution. The Eagle hotel at Grand Kapids,Mih., took fire early Mon 'ay morning, with fifty guests and twenty-five employes in their beds. The building was dest roved, but no lives were lost. On Sundav afternoon an old German

woman named Zilmendorf was found by a granddaughter suspended from a garret rafter in the family residence at ?Jihvaukee. The age of the suicide was eightyone years and six months. The Chicago common council has resolved to require all hotels to be provided with ropes in their rooms fronting on streets, for escape in case of lire, also to require every hotel to provide itself with a Chinese gong. The authorities of Minnesota have r.sketi for Prank James, to answer to the charge of robbing the Northtield bank, but Governor Crittenden states that he cannot deliver the prisoner to any other state until the disposal of the indictments pending in Missouri. It has been discovered that a coffeehouse in Chicago regularly takes the commonest grades and by a chemical process converts them into an ' imitation of old government Java, at a profit of five cents per pound. Frank James has been delivered to the authorities of Daviess County, Missouri,

for trial on the charge of murdering John W. Sheets, cashier of the Gallatin bank, in December 18(H), and for murder in connection with the Winton train rolberv. in July, 1881. It is said ..of Council Bluffs, la., that safe-rilling is so common that the mer

chants leave their safes unlocked. One of the leading mills has the combination pasted up above the safe, with instructions to use it and do no injury to the safe. Captain Payne, the Oklahoma boomer, has been arrested south e-f the Cimarron

river by JUieu tenant Stevens. The party was on its way to Oklahoma, outfitted with 100 wagons. Captain Carroll, commanding the troops in the Oklahoma country, will take the enti re party to Fort Reno. A FortWorrh. Tex., special says' th snowstorm has abated at d the weather has greatly moderated, although still unusually cold. Reports from the ranches' are that the oattlGlui34r?ito& in even direfitkmTid the mortality among the sheer) is the largest ever known from the weather in this section. The Stock Jr urnal of thatcity has accounts from all the stock and sheep regions, and reports as high as 20 per cent, loss to flocks, and in some few cases as high as fifty per cent. The thermometer ranged from three to eight degrees below zero. There appears a strange fatality in county and municipal affairs in Georgia. Some time ago the records of Fulton, Atlanta comity, were stolen, and though every effort has been made, no clev has been found. Later the Hall county records were mysteriously stolen, and last week the records of Glascock county were missing. The Treasurer was $500 short and the Ordinary was under grave suspicion. The Savannah defalcation added interest tc the situation. Tuesday the court house together with the records of Warren county, were destroyed by an incendiary fire. The only explanation is that conspirators arc enployed in making out jboirus claims tc titles of lands, and are removing true records so as to spring their bogus deeds. Great insecurity is felt.

methodist young lady of Baltimore, has renounced the Christian religion and embraced the Hebrew faith, taking a now name. An incendiary fire at Decatur, Texas, destroyed a number of stables, in which were fourteen hors s, also several small bnsiuess buildings. Losses $10,000; insured for &t,iW. Noal and Craft, the Ashland murderers, have arrived at Grayson, Ky., for trial, accompanied by 100 state troops. The prisoners and part of the soldiers are quartered at the jail, and tho others in a train of nine cars. Oily Childs, of Abbeville, 8. C, attempted to shoot a mad dog on Wednesday, The gun failed to fire when he clubbed the dog with it. The blow killed the dog and discharged the gun, the load entering Child's throat, killing him. Caroline Smith, wife of Henry Smith, of Dallas, Tex., gave birth to triplets the other night. Eighteen months ago she gave birth to twins, and previous to that she gave birth to triplets. She has been married three years, and has eight children, all boys aud all alive. Representative Young, of tho Arkansas Legislature, rising to a question of privilege last Monday: "To-day I heard a member of the House say he hated a negro. I desire the chaplain be requested to pray for his soul that he may be reformed and saved." The speaker ruled that tho matter was not within the province of the House. John 32. Cross, at Highland, Ya. dreamed that lie was on a chase, and pressing a stag. Just as the imaginary animal turned at bay, the sleep hunter sprang out of bed and down stairs,alighting on Ids head. He received injuries from which lie died. A few months ago Cross had a similar dream, resulting in his springing from his bed and injuring himself painfully.

FOREIGN: It is intended to light Canterbury Ca ibedral with the electric light. Judah P, Bonjamiue, the Queen's conn set, has retired from practice at London, A Dublin oiiicinl says the agrarian outrages in Ireland during January numbered ninety. The Czar has issued a manifesto, announcing the core nation ceremony to take place May 27, next. The forty thousand slaves not emancipated in Cuba by their owners in 1870, are to be treated henceforth as freedmen Herr Most and Leo Hart man, the Bus sian nihilist, unite in expressing the belief that the Czar of Russia will never be crowned. The attitude ol China toward Japan is becoming unpleasant, if not actually hostile, tho cause of the ill feeling being the still unsettled Loo Ohooqucstion. In the trials iu Dublin, Kavanaugh has been unequivocally identified as th-2 driver of the car containing the Phcenix Park assassins, and it is believed he will turn informer. Edwin Booth appeared Sunday evening at Ifcrlin in "OtieHo." lie was presented with a silver lar.rel crown amid storms of applause. The presentation was accompanied with an address. Kavanaugh, the driver of the car containing tho Phoenix Park murderers has confessed. Tho right parties have boon arrested for the crime. Kavanaugh swears that he drove Brady ,Keliy and two others

to the park. Dslanoy is another who was present. Davitt, Heaiey and Quinn, arrested some time ago for making inflammatory speeches, 1 e refused to givo bail, and Saturday were lodged in Kilmainhan jail for a term of six months. The survivors of the disaster of the stormier Ken mure Castle, which foundered

was sfrickon frost Oi f rod lipt, it Iwhig ooviaod by a section of Uio Rcneed Statutes. Tho pectiona of tho bill U iiown aj tho machinery elaua wore strickeu nu(, in ordfir that they may e wr feetod when the !iJl jh presented in th Seiuitiv Sherman offered tin additional sect ion, which w.s adopted, protecting individual rights that amy havo aoeured muter existing lawn, and providing that any change siitho existing law shall not t ffeet ponding civ: 1 suite, etc,, nor affect the riUt

to a tenor of any oflice. Adopted. Houkk. After a time Bpeut in tho fruitless at- i tempt to pass bills by unanimous connect, tho House set amdo the private calendar and went into committee on t he tariff bill. Mr. Springer reported a joint resolution for the printing of th. column compendium, which was adopt -.'d, At the evc inj session a number of pension h lis were reported and passed, ai d a large number of bills donating condemned camions to (irnml Army Peats for niouumentftl purposes. Satcuday, Fob, Bknate.-A brief executive session was 1 eld. The pension appropriation bill was taken up and passed. The tan IT bill was considered during tho rest of tho day, HorsB. A resolution was passed providing for the free admiss on into this country of articles intended for es hibition of electrical appliances at Philadelphia, Consideration of the tariff bill was resumed, Monday, Feb. 32, Sbnatb, Routine business was transacted, petitions presented and bills introduced. The consideration f the tariff bill wes resumed. Horse. A private bill was passed. And routine business transacted. The tariff bill was considered. LEGlSrjfivFPROCEEDINfiS. TncsDAY, Fec, 5. Sbxatk Ne w bills were introduced, Numerous petititions were presented. A bill authorizing gas and water companies to extend their mains not exceeding five miles of the corporate limits of n town or city was passed Tho bill on roads and highways was I i.rther considered, IN TUB HOUSE. The House resumed consideration of the Statu appropriation bill. The appropriation for Purdue University was

PERSONALTY OF MEN. Ail Old Hallway Conductor's Talk About Soma 2Soted People.

Chicago Newd, Men starting on a long journey, and during its progress, aro sure to ehow some individuality, Railroad men are exceedingly observant, and can tell almost at a glance whether a man is used to Iming away from home. "Peanuts' hnnUy ever approaches a person whom

Ilia practised glance "sizes up" as a "commercial tourist" or man accustomed to travel. Old conductors havo a large fund of information and anecdote, and it would astonish people to learn how critically they watch each individual passenger, and how well tbey can describe the traveling habits and idosyncrasies of prominent people. One of these has given some of his recollections in a talk to a Philadelphia Press reporter. He commenced by comparing Grant, Colliding and Blaine, saying: "Bosccc Conkling generally gets one seat in a drawing room, and be gets all the newspapers he can buy, reads them, and throws them all over the drawing room in a mass, besides be always has a portmanteau full of law papers, which he strews all over every seat in the drawing room. Conkling is a very vain traveler, and wants everybody iu the car to look at him. Now, there's Blaine; he's just the opposite. He always buys the whole draw ing room and shuts himself up, and is a very modest, retiring traveller. But Grant is a queer old fellow. When he was President of the United States he nearly always traveled in a special car, but how since he has leeome a private citizen, lie travels

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The Constitutional Ar-v '.ionta came up in j just about the same as ordinary folks.

.,aM.lo.I,..u...wnu, xoa can aiwavs una urant m tne rear

tho iiouso declaring taut the amendments aro

properly before this General Assemblj for their rejection or approval. Tho vote stood yuas f2 nays 85 A motion ':o strike out the $ ,(Q appropriation

The bill ioridintf for the re-location of Conn- HHYions " eveiy uociy m ue car. no ty seats was lost for want of a constitutional never looks at any one. Sometimes he majority y as 47; nnya tl. The bill for ax. appro- will look out of the windows for hours.

end of the car in the smoking department with a eignr in his mouth, and there he sits with a hand on either arm of his chair and .'-mokes and smokes, thoroughly

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THE SOUTH: A Louisville German has committed suicide by drinking a quantity of concentrated lye. Tho loss to stockmen throughout Texas by the recent cold weather will not exceed 5 per cent. General Gordon, of Georgia, has recently purchased nearly 20tf,O0O acres of delta land in Mississippi. It is claimed that a sand-bar of large proportions has formed across the North end of the Mississippi jetties. General Hob Toombs is blind in one eye and the other is nlmost out. An Atlanta oculist is to operate on him next week. The postoilice at Birmingham, Ala., has been robbed of money and stamps amounting to $6,600 or 7,000 and a fine diamond ring. Mi6s Lotta Galloway, a highly educated

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nv ciiswuHja Ufl-nnei vest. ne third of

licer became frtarvinff mad and ; limped overboard, but vas rescued. Archbishop Croke, of Cashel, writes, confirming the widespread, fearfnl distress prevailing in the cum ties of Mayo, Donegal, Glare and Sligo. The country, he says, can never expect peace and plenty until nd of the yoke of a bloated and ruthless oligarchy. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. Tuesday Feb. 0. Sen te. The Senate concurred in the recommendations oi the President concerning, the Mexican treaty, "then proceeded to the cousiderai ion of (ho tar iii bill. The paragraph . roh&ittg to woolen shawls was amended eo as to nitikc the dutk'tias folhrvs: On all shawls 'inaaufactured in vho'o or in virt of wool, specially enumerated or provided for when valued nlnot exceeding 1 le? poir id, thirty-five cents per pound and por cent, ad valorem; above $1 pr pound, thirty-five cnUs per pjnnd and 10 per cent ad valorem, li; the clause relating so flannels luaukets, hats of wool, aud all goods made on knitting frair es, tho words "valued at eighty cents per pouml'nrjd not exceeding $1. per pound Ihirty-tjvo cents per ixmnd." were stricken out and the highest rate of value named was made eighty efnls instead of $1, The duty on bunting was made ten cent per square yard &nd thirtyfive per cent, The death of Representatives Updegraff and I Jawke, wero reported, and the Senate adjourned. TToi'SE A message was received from the President and rof-.'rred, transmitting a recommendation from thi; Secretary of War for more stringent legislation to prevent invasion ot the Indian Territory. TJi Hons-went into committhe on the Tariff Tsill, the clause under discussion relating to glass, ware. After prolonged debate, Kelly, to cut off debate, moved that tho committee rise. Tho minority resorted t lillilmstcrxng, Various amendments were offered and rejected The commit ee then rose and the de.it h of ilepreBentotives Updegralf and Ifawko was announced Wedxebdav, Feb. 7. SEATE.-The silk schedule vrw nnchanged. Tho duty on books was fixed at la per cent. On cadhfl and tapers 2ii per vfnt. and on card clothing () per cent, nd valorem, On hituniuious coal and shale 75 cents per ton. On friction matches a duty of 75 per cent, ad valorem wan lixcd; on gloves Ml per cent, ad valorem; on powder H and ".? cents duty; Ifr.ttw piuh 25 eonta ad valoim.j.'nrden need 20 eentfl td valorem; On marble fV.) cents ami $1.10 per cubic foot. lIoeHE The day wits passed iu discussing the tariff bill, but no definite conclusions wero reached. A nbtht .session ww field, TmnuiDAT, Fob. 8. Sen a tv. The proposit ion to place juto on the free liar wVs lost by S2 yeas te 81 ncys. and that to admit jute butts free was agreed to without division. The motion to make rawMll: pay a duty of to por cent, was rejected by 7 yens to 39 nays, air. Allium offered an amendment providing for a drawback of W pr cent, of tho duty imposed on ?-;it wt d in curing meat fir exjiort. Ordered printeih Pending a motion by Mr. llayard to inc'ii(i in the free l-.st Ktths in winch ninoral waters are impcrt'd. the Bona to sojourned. llorsf: ;V jri?t resolution was 'jassed permitting tho importation, irreof duty,f mount Park, I'hiladclpiiiiu After some unimportant business the Hoase wi'id into committee on ti e tariff hill under consideration, Klip a i, Feb P, S:nate--',Th' propnsition to I educe the duty on wool pi odueed u tmarp debate. In the miscellaneous snhednle changes wero made. Vance ..aide a long npecch in favor of patting salt on the fret list, and a long debate followed. The amendment was lost. The proposition to refund dntiei; collected on salt used in curing meats and fish wuf passed over. The paragraph relating to machinerj for tho manufacture of beet suket

priatiou foi the department- for women in tho Insane Hospital was passed yeas 7; Bays 0. Wednesday Fob. 7. Senate. New bills wero introduced. The bill providing for tho purchasing of toll roads was lost for want of a constitutional majority Tne bill t authorize municipal corjorations to invest their sinking fund temporarily iu tho bonds of the United States was pas-ied. Tho bill to prohibit certain animals from running at large failed to pass for want of a constitutional majority. Tho bill cha. ging the dales for paying Installments of u.xes was parsed. The bill to amend an act to provide for the organization find support of the Asylum for Feebleminded CHldron was passed. Yec.s.ia, nays 1'.'. Tho road bill was discussed and amonded, IN THE HOUSE. In the alienee of Speaker Bynum, Eep. Hoffren was elected Speaker pro tern. New bills were introduced. Several committee report-s were made, VHUBSOAT, I'eb. R.

tEN te. J'etittons were proseuleu ana new bills introduced ns usual.

A co,urr ittoo was appointed to re pre sent the Senate in the matter of pr rehash: g a gubernatiomd residence. The bill regulating and providing for the election and ippointmout of suporvLsirs of highways was discussod at lcngtli, and wls ordered engrossed. IN THE HOrSE. There vn not a quorum present, New bills were introduced. Committee reports were received, A great number of bills were read t he second timo. Fnrrav, Feb. 9. Senate, Tho bill roonraniriu;? the management of the Piainfield House of Kofuge and changing its name to tho Indiana Reform School was passed by a party vo.o, The bill for the reorganization of tha Southern Prison" v.as also passed by a party vote. The decedents estates bill was passed. New bills wore introduced. .. Tho bdl to define the thirty-first (Lake and Porter) and tho forty-foarth (Pulaski aud Starke) judicial circuits was passed under a suspension

of rules, A local bill to legalize tho town of Sullivan was passed. IX THE house. The bill to make promisory notes non-uegotia-ble was amended and engrossed. The metropolitan police bill was called up, amend -xl and passed to the second reading. Two or three bills of no . interest were passed. Tho appropriation bill was read the thirdtime and passed. Yeas SO; nays 0. It appropriates $1,254 JiU . The bill regulat ing the descents of heirs (concerning adopted children) was passed. The bill to create tho forty-third judicial district was passed. The bill to legalize the acts of i;h3 trustees of tho town of Sullivan was pasficd, The bill tu provide, for a homestead and exempting it, from sale on. execution, and exempt-iag-CCrt ain personal property, was mussed . Saturday, Feb. m. Senate. -The usual petitions and remons c nej were presented. The-general appropriation bill imported from the House was read tho first time and referred to to tho Finance Committee, A I ill ereating.the 37th judicial circuit of Fayette, Franklin and Union counties, and tho 8th circuit of Decatur and Hush wad passed. Mr.. White's graded teacher's license bill failed to passfortwnut of a constitutior.nl majority; The vote by which tho Senate proposed to Investigate the- Wiutorbotham election- was recou-sideied.

When he's not doing that lies glancing over a newspaper. He's indifferent to overythiujf that's going on. Why, if tile traiu he is in stops on tho road in the open country for some minutes he never moves, never inquires what is the matter, but Sits and smokes stolidly until the train starts, ivhile all the other passengers put their 1 sett. Is out of the windows or get off to see wimt's gone wrong. "J remember,' continued tbc veteran conductor, "a trip to Chicago Grant made in my car some time ago. Tlis seat was directly Iehiud a lady who was traveling alone and who by-the-by knew very little about traveling. She had her window up for some time, and it was pretty chilly, besides the black smoke poured into the car. I watehid Grant a little while and T saw he was annoyed, as the smoke and the chilly breeze blew right over him.

i Presently he got up, and leaning over the lady's shoulder,put his hand on the catch

and let the window sash down. The little woman gave an involuntary start and turned around fiercely, but Qrant never noticed her, and dropped back into hs chair. After a little while the little lady hoisted the window again, and some of the passengers, who had seen the affair, smiled at one au other. Then the little woman beckoned to me and said : "Conductor, who is that hog back of me?" "That's General Grant! said I. 'Oh!" said tho little woman, and she dropped tho window immediately. Grant heard the question but never let on, and went on reading his paper as if nothing had happened. "Herbert Spencer was the most restless traveler I ever saw, and Bob Ingersoll is the best. When Ingersoll enters a car to go on a journey, the first thing he does is to hang up his big slouch hat, then he commences to make himself comfortable, and by the time the train starts he just acts as though he were home in his study. If there's no oue on the train he knows, it don't take him long to strike up an acquaintance, and everybody seems glad to know him. He's a very jolly and a very liberal travelersmokes nearly all the time on the cars and always carries a bundle ol choice cigars with him. I remember one night there was a freight wreck, and our train had to lay up for three or four hours. It was a terrible night; the

wind blew a hurricane, and the rain came down in torrents?, Colonel Ingersoll was

i oue of the passengers. Everybody cot ! 1

! into

j with. At last a little Scotchman, who I

i was traveling through America sight-

As they : ceased Dusenbury marched up to the table at which the strangers sat. His flashing eyes, his heaving breast, hie five feet of towering form reduced the

spectators to speechlessness. Even the strangers paused and seemed impressed "Gentlemen' said Dusenbury, diving into his trousers and bringing up an ancient silver watch, "you have wounded the finest feelings of my natur in your remarks about Texas, and you must retract them or but never mind. I give you five minutes to retract. Five minutes to secure your safe return to home and friends. Five minutes to avoid a grave on the lonesome plain. Five minutes!" An awful silence fell upon the crowd. The blood curdled in the vein of every Fort Worthian present. What! had they been treating this fire-eating terror with scarcely veiled contempt"? Had they absolutely been courting death for years? But just then one of the strangers recovered his power of speech and said: "Why, stranger, if you feel that way about it, of course we'll cut it short. We don' t mean it for you or any ot your friends, but was talking on loose-like.'

And with that they all four got up and slunk out, their six-shooters Hopping feebly against their hips and their very spurs looked droopy and weedy as they went. With the closing of the door, Du-

senbury's aye reeled in its socket. The excitement which had thus far held him

gave way and he collapsed, a flabby HV j

tie heap upon tho floor. The assembled citizens crowded around hira. ''Why, Doozey, my boy, you took us all by surprise. We never thought you were a fighter." "Didn't you?" "No. Why, don't you know those are four of the worst men in the cattle business? And we expected every minute to see them go to shooting. Were you armed:'" "Well, I had a pistol for show, but don't believe it was loaded, and I could'nt have fired it anyhow," "Great heavens, man! suppose they had refused to retract, what on earth would you have done?" Dusenbury stopped, looked all rround to see if anyone were passing, pulled his friend's ear close down to his lips, and whispered: "I'd have extended the time."

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Down in a Coal Mine.

Wjlkosharre Correspondence Philadelphia Preef . By this time we stood by the black, grim-looking elevator, called the cage,the guides ready with their lamps, and the order came to descend. The youngster was tr-hen back to the effico and placed in charge of the bookkeeper, and with a friend I stepped on the cage with much the feeling of a criminal on the gallows; a horrid sense of going to meet death in some shape. Down we went in total blackness 300 feet, when wo came to a halt and stepped out into a subterranean world of Egyptian darkness, spotted here and there with small bunches of light, of steaming engines, and animated here and there with the activity of toiling, grimyaed men and boys, obstinate mules, and the clans: of work. After walking for some time through galleries walled and arched with coal, braced with heavy timbers and threaded with narrow railway tracks, wo made another descent of 200 feet down a seam of coal at an angle of forty-five degrees, with only a faint light at the bottom to mark our way. Four hundred feet farther down was the bottom of the mine, but as the various floors of thi9 underground workshop afford similar views, we did not make the de sceut. My 'guide was enthusiastic in regard to the healthfulness of mining. He contended that there was no purer air in the world than iu that mine, and every now and then a mvsterious current of air swept through those dismal chambers, which the guide said came from the ven

tilator. In some of the galleries we came into passages cut iu the solid rock, where the coal joined the slate in solid purity without at all mingling with it. After several feet of rock the coal began again. Once we were nearly suffocated by the passing of an engine, the steam and gas

compiWceiy filling the gallery and enveloping us so that we were entirely blinded and for breath bent our heads low for safety. One of the most interesting features o

j the mine is the stables for the mules. There are stalls and feed-boxes and straw : and hay for them quite the same as on

the surface, and a lead pipe carries wter

the mine foT them. Twenty-five

mules work in this mine pulling the ears

where engines can not well be used, and j

SHOUTS. . I Ivory is worth $5,000 a ton. High spirits The archangels. A close calK-"Shut the door." A smart thing A mustard plaster. "Come ofi' the perch," is fresh slang.7 The emperor of Japan was bora in 1852. There are 28,000 blind people in France A piller of the chureh-the pious drug gist. . . ' Kunning accounts stand until they aro settled. Tonsorial studios are superceding barbershops. , Mrs. Oliphant has already written over fifty novels. -, ... The monks and nuns in Italy number nearly 32,000. : . Many Catholic priests in Italy receive only $80 a year. In one shoe factory in Lynn are thirty divorced wives. White potatoes average 132bushels par' acre 'in Motnana.. There are over 900 blind persons in the state of Arkansas. Senator Bayard's wealth has been esti. mated at 8150,000. Our national flour export lias more thai trebled in ten years. 1 It Is only one step from tho bar room . -to the barred room. Governor Pattison won't allow any ontf to call him "Your Excellency." What even the most carpful man over

lookshis nose. New York Journal.

The best butter brings eighty cents a pound in New York and Philadelphia. Solon Chase, of Maine, has suspended publication of his paper, Them Steers. . Smator Saunders, of Nebraska, is an uncle of Senator-elect iBowen,of Colorado. The number of spindles now running in Georgia is 348,000, against 200,974 iu 1880. . Mr. Anthony Trollope left an autobiography which his son intends to publish, ... ... ... The Whitehall Heview says that Mr. Gladstone never forjgets and never for gives. In a graveyard in Pennsylvania is a tombstone inscribed: "Methuselah Smith, aged one year. , The Governor of Alabama is mansion less, and his salary is only sufficient for a bare subsistence, Mr. Welsh, of Mushing, , L. L, gets three months of hard labor for kissing a

lady on the street: The government now pays foreign

steamers the pecan postage, averaging two cents per letter. , Iowa schoolmaster's threat: " First thing you know, you'll have 180 pounds crawling over 'you."". ...... g The Virginia woman who tried to collect toll for Sheridan's whole army still lives near Wrinchestor. President Porter, of Yale College, is seventy-three years of age and has been in office thirteen years. Grand Haven is to have the largest shingle-mill in tho world, turning ou tf 1,000,000 shingles per day "'. A woman at Greensboro, N.C., 53 years Id, has bought tx pair of spectacles and begun attendance at school. A writer in Harper's commences a poem with the line, "Some day J shall be dead"

It is indeed a beautiful thought, Girl graduates in England wear gowns imprecisely like thoso worn by university, t men and made by the same tailor. , . A Boston preacher delivers lectureesev ,- ry Mondy. If thereever is a time when peopie need the consola tion of religion it is on r washday. .. Cheyenne society is har rowed up ovtat a question of etiquette. People are divided in opinion as to which coat-sleeve ' j a man should wipe his mouth with af- : tereatang soup. -t

awarded

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seeing, learne.1 who Ingersoll was, and he I tor othsc V1 of hor' ? e, y ! tackled him then aud there. Ingersoll I the of "" nfte.r haT1DS forkd

was just in humor, and in less than ion

Mrs. Jane Smilh has been

$9,000 in her suit against the Chicago Gas-light Company for injuries received in an explosion at No. 384 Wabash avenue , five years ago. caused by the negligence of the defendant ' Tom Waggins, colored,of Chattanooga, finding his wife, from whom he had been :- separated, in eorapany with a colored:, nreacher, cnt hcr throat aid-then his

own.

Louisa Montague, the $10,000 beauty, recovered S150 from Adam Forepaugh for breach of cont ract, and has now sued for damages on aximt of falling from

1 the back.of an eh phant, while in Hlinois,

two years ago. She received a salary of $100 per week during her travel. . There is a perfect, snow blockade or. some of the Canadian railways. One train was thirty-sax hours in going from Montreal to Toronto, a distance, of 400 miles. .... The pension appropriation bill has beeu reported to the full committee. It

in the mine for twenty-live years, is now

Di thk nouse. The Sonate bill relating to tho cicalifittdiona of poti-' jurors wis enprosec!. Alo tho Seiif.ie bill providing i-'inislimpnt fcr pernons who disclose xxwasnsos tuni over telogrrajJi lines. Also, tin! House Bill to legalize (he inrorporitious of the towns Syraeiwo aud Silver L tku in Kosciusko, was passed. Monday, Feb 1?. Skkatk, The Sumto ral at 2 o'clock, and tie-

appropriates 81,000,000. - Edward VaiFs jewelery store, at La-

and listened to him for over 1 W and ,ewure tor me mauiaer or mreT

around hiuv

thousand dollars worth of dia-

ins lire. j mouda. That sunshine i essential to health j

and longevity etfeniB to be disproved in j

the life of coal mining, and that it has a fascination incomprehensible to th nonminer is not to be questioned.

How the Czar of Russia Travels. A complete circumlocution office of

two hours, and the passengerm seemed so i pleased and entertained that they forgot all about the night and the accident. ; But Oscar Wilde took tho cake. Oscar j Wilde was more bother than all tho wo- j men who ever rode on a railroad car. He had an idea that ho was tho greatest man !

i that America had ever seen, and he put

; on more airs than if he hud been the Czar j mystification was devised for delaying j of Hussin, the Prince of Spain, and the plots and throwing dust in the eyes of j Emperor of Germany, all in ors& Would j conspirators. In one case, which has ! yon believe it, he paid the porter of the j hitherto escaped record, the Nihilists

vot-d tiw afternoon to ih discission of tho aleeping-cor to tell people at fhe stations j Wore suGpected of having driven a mine j Winterbotham ekctinn case. . tfic Hnc wherever the train stopped beneath the railway line from Gatschina i

x.,mrnn mmmii tn mnnrte ri i flint Obchy Wildo was in the oar. lie was to St, Petersburg. Under pretense of- a

ant! several bills were indefinitely postponed, af- th vaine?t, most conceited rnub T ever winch the Hon&adjonrnog m j SlVl'. He wouldn't drink wator out of the

It is estimated that there are 200,000 I hiss at th0 cooler, out mppea u out ol

a silver and gold mug lie carried witu him, and He'd sit with the tips of Ms lingers pressed together and look up at the roof of the car as if he was about to oiler up a prayer."

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va gabonds and beggars in the German Empire, including thieves, pickpockets and swindlers, and the autborities estimate the annual loss to honest people by their operations at the enormous sum of 855,000,000, During 18R2 3,577 new buildings were erected in New York city, at a cost of S-l 4,793,18(5, and repairs were made on 1,691, at a cost of 84,267,181. This is the best retord made in the history of the city. The accounts of the distress in Donegal are most harrowing; money is most urgently needed to stive the people of that part of Ireland from absolute starvation. C. D. Scebach, a New York bartender, on Sunday fired upon a youthful party of snow-baliists and killed John Nooman, aged nine years. Tho Massachusetts Legislative com niitteo will report in favor of municipal suffrage for women. M. X yarborry,who was hanged Friday at Albuquerque, N. M., harangued the crowd around flio scaffold for thirty minutes. He was a Texas cou -boy, and shot Charles Campbell in cold blood. Plon Flon'a brilliant future is suuering a a elapse. He is about to staH a daily, to supply a long-felt want,

The Terror of Town. 2Cw lrlne frim-Doaiocrat. Several years ago, when Fort Worth was a wild Texas town, Dusenbury was an. exotic there. He was civilized and cut his hair, and was despised by the other num. One day dapper littJfi Dusenbury surprised everybody by reforming. He was in Oalianans retreat when there entered four of the most ferocious looking ruffians who had ever h en seen in Fort Worth. Tbey came with clanking spurs and fierce beards, two revolvers to each man, and a large bowio knife for laginape and they sat down by a table aud called for whisky all around. A tremor ran through the assembly. Fort Worth's best citizens were for a moment staggered. But Dusenbury never quailed. The strangers emptied their glasses, called for more, and then glancing malignantly around tbey launched forth in f arioue abuse of Texas andTexans, their) language being garnished with that profusion and ornamentation of profanity peculiar to the guilesa oattk drover of those time.

desire to recover an old telegraph wire said to have been lost thirty years ago (such was the atory told by the official and copied by the nou-oincial press), a large staff of workmou were employed to search for the hidden danger. Nothing, however, was foundnot even the lost wire. In the meantime the Czar wished to pay one of Ids rare and rapid, but almost always nocturnal, visits to the capital. What was to be done? The police decided upon a ruse. The i nperial railway carriage was ostentatiously brought f rt m its shed, and as ostentatiously made to perform the journey between Gatschina and St. Petersburg on a date ostentatiously given as that of the Czar's arrival The empty carriage arrived without accident, thus proving the safety of the line, and when the real journey took place a little time afterward, its secrecy was well kept, t he Czar traveling, iu the most literal sense, "darkly aud at denl of night" Dare o Stand Alone. If you think s right to differ from the times, and make a stand for any valuable point of morale, do it, however rustic, however antiquated, however pedantic it may appear, do it,not for insolence, but seriously, as a man who wore a sou of his own in his bosom, and did not wait until it was breathed into him by the breath of fashion.

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