Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 19, Bloomington, Monroe County, 10 March 1883 — Page 2

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The Blpomington Courier.

BY B. J. FELTUS.

B LOOMINGTON,

TNDIANA.

IMPORTANT EVElrS. BEATH'Oi A. H. STEPHENS. Alexander H. Stephens died Sunday

miormng at his home inGeorgiais

with his ax and cut Frank's hand off. He came near bleeding to death before medical aid conl be bad.

j At the reception given after the mar-ringre-ceremonv ofMrGlarence Bruner

and Miss Nellie Pettit, at Wabash, last Friday night, some of the food is supposed to have contained poison, as the next day about 100 of the guests were -seized 'jwitfc violent crampings of the stomach, some being quite sick. H A floirangjnitt on the-Salamonie river , near Iiagro,, has fallen into the riyerThe

stream had washed the supports of the

Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, Governor

of Georgia, was a notable man, and hasistracture so that; all the machinery, val-

filled no inconsiderable space in the his tory ptthe times. .Hie was bom inJWilkes County Gal, in! 1812, graduatedat the university of that State mi l&32j taught schoo,1readilaw5 enaged?in thepractice, and entered politics. After several terms in the Georgia Legislature,he was elected

to Congress in 1S3S, and relecedacon-1

tinuously for,sixteen ye&rswhenhe 4fe

clined farther service. He ran as PresidentialElectorifor the State at Large in Georgia, on the l)onglass and Johnson ticket in I860; was elected tr the Seces

sion Convention m Georgia in lobi; op-.

posed and voted against the Ordinance of Secession in that body but gave it bis support after

it had been passed, against his judg

ued at $3,000, was removed three weeks ago, and the mill has been expected to topple over at any time! f The . building was valued at OOOi Kev. ame Davisipastor of the Fifthstreet A? M? E? Churchf was arrested Monday at Madison, en a warrant sworn out by Sanfqrd Finney? father of Mrs.

Jennie Williams, oharged'with bastardy.

The parties are all colored. Davis gave $M bondfto appear on March, 12. Considerable excitement prevails in colored society. f- -- JamesKink,J a wealthy farmer o$ Daviess county, was arrested on a writ of ne exeat just?as he was about boarding a 'train for Missouri.. Some months ago he i. was.canffht.in a compromisinc situation

northward. Davis, the murderer o Major Gant,is not among the prisoners., Hon, T. Williams a brother of the late Governor "Blue Jeans" Williams; of Indiana, died at .lacksboro, Tex., on Thursday night,aged seventy-three yeara Ho had been a resident of Texas many years, served as Judge of Jacks county and filled other positions of trust and honor. He has been insane for th. past six months. A newsboy, aged, thirteen years, named Earl Nichols, was arrested Monday at Louisville, Ivy., charged with outrage on a little girl five years old, last Saturday. The child fully identified the boy, who makes only a feeble denial of his guilt. The matter will be investigated on Wednesday, The penalty under the Kentucky statutes is death. At this term of the "Worth county, Ga., Superior Court, are to be tried seven teen men, citizens of that county, for the murder about twenty years ago of an old gentleman named George Korea and his little boy, and the long standing of the case, the fiendishnoss of the murder, together

ment as to its policy: was elected'by that with the wife of Willis McBae; and set-

convention to the Confederate Gongress; which net at Montgomery, Ala, Febru-v ary 4, 1861, and was chosen Vice Presi dent under the- Provisional Government by that Congress; was elected Vice President o the Confederate Staes for the term cf-six years, under what was termed the permanent Government, in November 1861; visited the State of Virginia on a mission under the Confederate Government in April, 1861, upon the invitation of that State; was onO'Of the Commission era on the part of the Confederate Government at the Hampton Boads conference inlFebruary, 1865; wasrelected to the Senate of the United Stated in 1866 by the.first Legislature convened under the newCkmstitutioB, made under the Johnson policy, but -was not allowed to take unseat; was elected tothe Forty-third Congress in J873; was -elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh CongresseaiLast fall he was elected Governor of Georgia, as a regular Democrat, by 'a majority of 62,357 over Bis Independent Democratic opponent. Mr. Stephens was a man of fee

ble constitution, and formct "of his life ? as a constant sufferer. In spite of his poor healffihi&clearand vigorousinteiln

lect enablehiai to feep at jthefrentVioi

public affairs. He was a highly intellectual man, a severe student, close think

er and a fine constitutional lawyer. Mr. . Stephens, influence4!?! pnbHoa&rE8i?wasv.

always beneficial and elevating., fiowns

a real statesman, and, excepting his con-,

nection with the Confederacy, a genuine patriot. - r- - .. A xew rawiubdJ - 4 There is much exeitment in Fulton and

tied it by giving Ms note for $275r which McBae sold to a neighbor, and then sent his wife away. It is claimed that "Rink had sold his place and was leaving for the West to avoid payment of the notes. He was taken to jail, refusing to give bail. vThree' Evansville negro boys, J?rank Downey, Willie Crump , and Jim Lefis, aged thirteen; twelve and nine years respectfully; stole a top from Willie Garraty, a white boy, aged ten years. They refused to give it back. Garraty said he would. tell a 'policeman' about it, when Downey said: "P will 'kill you before you shall tell omme." The negroes then attacked Garraty with a club and bricks, killing him- almost instantly? Officer

mteUnm,rlSJoTh.oymih6 oT&if6ar maHe pickefl-np4 an

Cahill- arrested the negroes ; and: slated them on the charge of murder. 4 Saran E. l)eckard, daughter of a" monroe county farmer, has brought suit against Marion Eads, Jackson jH. Clementiner, Jackson Foddrille, and John N. Kirk, asking damages in S2,000 each, or 812,000 in alii -The complaint recites that the defendants restrained Miss Deokard of herHberty, bnised and beat her, and shaved her head, thereby depriving her of arcrop of beautiful hair, an(l causing her

t much pam dhunnliation 1 i. r

j Five persons of one family were killed by a negro named Ed. Cooper, four miles from Evansville, Tuesday morning. Coopeif s wife" iS a; whife woman? She was staying at:Stansberrj''s,having obtained a 65v0roe.from Cooper. Some of the men employed at the same place were too intimateTwith the woman;' which enraged Cooper, yesday'he took' ..a' sMflj Hwent

to the houieahd;caught his,-wiJtesin the

cused will invest the occasion of the trial with the greatest interest. A farmer nained Perry, in Chesterfield county, S. Q,a few days since per petrated a hori ible crime, his wife being the victim. He uad not been married a year before be fell in love with another woman, and though his wife was all that love and devotion could be,he determined to make himself freeman. As the law will not grant a divorce, he purchased a box of "Bough on Eats," mixed it with whisky, ami gave his unsuspecting wife a drink at night and the next morning the neighbors found her corpse in bed and Perry missing.

discovery of gold, and considerable num

bers are flocking to that section. '' The Benson Mining' company 1 has ' made ' the first "cleannp" ? ever made by a; goldmining company in this state. The amalgamfrom this4 cIeall, up" gives about $750 of gold. A sample of ten pennyweights andrfcuieteen grains of this arqalgam yiefde S4.61 in pure gold'The

metal is of a bright yellow, andmore re-

sembles Australian than California gold. The gravel from which this result was obtained was taken-from the surface and down to a depth of fifteen feet,' and the average yield is about 3.75 per ton.-The present cost of mining and "milling' tins gravel is 87 cents -perjton,irand thermill can work fifty tonsevery twenty-four hours. . In one day- seventytwo tons were worked. Assays of this gravel made by mining experts nnd chemists all over "the country run-from twenty-five cents to 875 a ton; Thereceipfeof tiiproucjof; the nune caused great excitement, and it is now claimed that Northern Newi viYork gold fields are no longer an' experiment.

Another nnU is almost ready to starlr'np, j and four more are;ordered and will be in i

operation early in the siring.,r The1 best yard wood cpu be pur chased at the mines at $1.63 per cord, -and fiiis is nsedfor

nel athght ex pense. f

ax in the house and made after the. man,

L who drew a revolver and shot at Cooper,

slightly .wounding him. Cooper afterwards killed all the inmates of the house except a man named Reichert, who jumped into Cooper's skiff, went to Evansville and gave the information to Chief Prich-

lettrHetectivejewitt andiothers, who left

for the scene.

' " The survivors of the Jeannette crew reached St. Petersburg, Saturday. f Ex-President Diaz, of Mexico, has arrive'd'on a visit to the United" States. The President appointed 200 postmastersin3Februarytwenty 6tr whom were ladies.? - . : Senator Tabor the thirty-day bonanza Senator from Colorado, was married in great style wT Washin"gtonThursday evening, to Miss McCort, of Chicago. The public debt statement shows a re duction off 3630,678.51 during the past m:ntb, and. A reduction of $104,638,a46.29 sine? June 80, 1882. The debt less cash in the treasury March l 1883,181,586,276,114.43. The cash in the treasury is 306,-

256V748,7'8;r TlVe" total" interest debt, March' 1, was 1,354,805,750.

Excelsior Glass Co.,has given notice that it will shut down for an indefinite period Saturday; and it is thougUt that others will soon follow. Prices have fallen off 25 per cent, sinco the benning of the season. THE WEST: Sraalippx has olosed the public schools in Laadville. AJpaty of fifteen famili?s left Sholbyville, (HI.) Saturday, for i3akota. J. C. Kaholt's jewelry store, Springfield, 111., was robbed of 20,000 worth of goods Saturday. Thos. W. Palmer was elected Senator from Michigan to' succeed Ferry, Eightyon 3 ballots were taken. Dr. Carver again defeated Boadus at Chicago, .Saturday, killing eghty-two bhds-out of 109 to the Cap tain's seventy nuier - , Twenty-five young men, MoriQn missionaries to the South, arrived 'Sunday at St. Louis under the ohargo of 113 der John Morgan. . There have been thirty-live cases of

smaDpoxat Berlin, Wis., five of which j with the standing of a number of the no-

proved fatuHgiviug rise to the most alarm- j

in g falsehoods, A Salt Lake letter" says the - Monnons are looking to Mexico as a place of refuge

it: case they are crowded out of this connTbo five men who re(;enily robbed a Central l?aoitic train pleaded guilty at Elko, Nev., and were fcejiterced to twelve and fourteen years in the penitentiary. Tvo valuable seams of ccal, 100 and 300 feet, respectively, were f ound Saturday on the farm of Captain Morton near Lemars, Iowa. The Crow and Creek '. i o i signed tbe treaty with the government commissioners "Wednesday nigVt, by which 400,CKK) acres of choice land at -Chamberlain, ). T, is thrown open for settlement. Certain Chicago ladies have fallen in love with the decorationa en the tattooed lady on exhibition there, an J propose to. duplicate the beauties. orLtlieir own persons At San Francisco, sing Lum, tne Chinese murderer, who was to have been

hanged Friday, hanged himself in his cell in tihe morning during the tempprary absence of tlie guard. Tt is estimated that a thorough search for human bodies supposed to be buried

under the debris of the Southern Kail--

road depot atiCincjnati;will cost $10,000. The Chamber of Commerce relief committee has refused to appropriate money to carry on the search. The residence of Samuel Bixler, an old fanner, abouf five miles north of Zoar, Tuscarawas county, 0 was entered Monday night by two masked- robbers who overpowered Bixler and his daiighter and stole nearly $1,200,. in gold sand silver from a chest in the house. Jim Elliott; the pugilist, was shot dead in a-Chicago eating house, Thursday, by

Jerry Dunn, another chtjactor - ex bunko and confidence man. Trouble had arisen

.-. ... . i between the men, and they commenced ! shooting on sight, a fusilade of revolver shots following in a crowd of twenty-five j people. ' , An examination of the records in St.

Louis sLow that Sena tor Tabor, of Colo., and1 Miss 'Elizabeth MeCourt, of Oshkosbf iWis., were privatelynna cried on the 30th of last September in the law office of Col. D. P. Dyer, who is an intimate friend of the Senatrr, by John M. Young, a justice of the peace, and Witnessed by a brother of Miss M.eCcnrt. A mysterious murder has been mi earthed near Pive'rside, Cal. A married woman named 0'Bhn, of Los Angelos, went riding with Mt. McDowell and wife Jan. SL Sunda the body of Mrs. O'Brien was found" partially buried bearing marks of violence. McDonald was arrested. It is reported tint Mrs. McDonald-told of the crime,which was committed through some motives of jeal

ousy.

FOREIGN: The Prince of Wales will not attend the ooronation of the Czar. A popular riot is threatened in Sicily over the tari if question. The assassins of Prof. Palmer were hanged at Tantah, Egypt, Wednesday. Colonel Ochiltree proposes to make a thorough revision Of the Goverrnien appointments in Texas. It is believed in Dubl in that- the Uni ed States Government will refuse the d: mand for the extradition of Shendan. The Governor of Virginia has returned to Fortress Monroe with five oyster vessels as prizes and forty men as prisoners. Suicides amovg the officers in the Ger-

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NEWS AND INCIDENT. Our Compilation of the Important Happenings of the Week. INDIANA ITEMS: v ? ' T Allison; a" Crawfordsville blacksmith, fpounded'-one Shulers head into; w jelly with-a hammerSatnrday afternoon in a

row.-. r

- Yankee Kobinson, who- has been ternporanly sojourning ia Ehjaburg, talks of making that fown the winter4 quarters for his show. v .

The one bad case of small-pox and the s

prevalent measles at Anderson, have al Most caused the jmblic schools to bum--pend for want of pupils. . ' ' . ' G The high waters floated out the records of Jefferson ville prior to 184, which had been lost for a long-time behind some old boxes in the court room, and they were reclaimed. "" 'V ; The recant freshet caused a fire "at the Mishawaka paper mill. The water forced its way into the lime-house and "slacked a quantity of Kmtheiheat rm which ignited the building. A sawlog was hauled to a mill in Wabash county which measured fifty-one inches across the end, and the scales, which have a. capacity of twelve tons, woulil not weigh it. The boiler in Patterns box factory at Westville, ten miles south of Laporte, exploded Thursday morning, killing A. O. . Patten, the proprietor, and HeBryPatten, and demolishing the building. At Laurel, twelve mifes south of Connersville, J ohn Coulter, one of the most desperate men in Franklin county, a one-;

-armed manjblew off his only hand with a dynamite cartridge while trying to kill fish. . A few days ago a little girl, about nine

years of age, was seen wallowing in .the middle of one of the streets of Cohnersville in a beastly state of intoxication. She had been sent for . a bottle of ;whisky and had helped herself. Two counterfeiters, named Waters and Welch, were arrested at Springfield, 111., Tuesday, the 27th. They had about $ 3,000 in counterfeit money u pon their persons when arrested. They claim that they live at Evansville? and are engaged in the commission business in that city. Frank and Alexander Moore, of Indian creek township, Lawrence county, were splitting rails' a few days ago on their father's farm, wben Alex, made a mislicj

THE EAST: Bhode Island"was badly 00 up by an earthquake, Wednesday. At Bennington, Tt, by runaway horses, one man was killed-and eight injured. The wire drawers Of New Haven- are striking against a reduction of wages. QAwiid; story comes from Boston that Jennie Cramer has been found -there alive. The late Trenor W.Parkj of Bennntgon left no-will.f His estateis j estimated at

, L 3,600,000. ' ,

The report that winter wheat through

out Central Illinois has been " winter killed, is denied! 1 r The Land Beague'-treasurer at Waterbury Cohm, has forwaraed$2;634 to the ,Irish;famine suiferers. - . ' At the Philadelphia mint 6,265,440 pieces , were coined during February, their total value being $1,100,360 - 'Mrs. Nellie Welsh shot a New: York burglar through the neck as hewaSiplundering her wardrobe Tuesday night. The wife of W. H. Burdick,. rwho was drowned in the Soutneni depot disaster, at Cincinnati, has becomeinsane through

wagered, was played in. New York, Davie Johnson beating Charles F. Pavi by 200 to 196 points. The cl osing of the parochial-sehools in Lawrence, Mass., maintaine j by the Augustinian Society, will, result in sending 1,200 children to. the public schools. J. M Portland, of New Haven,who had been arrested for theft, voted while disabilities were existing, for which he was sentenced to eighteen months in jail. ... A fireocourred'inthe Dunlap elevator, Albany,!N. X, Saturday morning. Several persons were severely burned. The ..total loss will reach nearly $275,000. . The New York brewers have secured the arrest of driver and cooper on a charge of soiling their barrels to out-of town- brewers. 'Fifty thousand barrels are thus annuaUy sold. .There has been a reduction from 80 to .75 cents for mining coal in the Hocking Valley. The miners are willing to submit to tbs reduction provided the "free turn" question is settled before the 15th inst. A heavy robbery occurred at Philadelphia, Friday. An adroit thief entered the office of the Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. and purloined 70,000 in bonds of the People's Passenger Bailway Co. No clue. A Pittsburg dispatch says that great depression exists in the glass trade, especially lamp chimneys. One f aetory,the

THE SOUTH: Polk the Tennessee def aulter, has bee n released on 20,000 bonds. Colored people are emigrating from

.Mississippi to Arkansas.

"Virginia has sent a military force against illegal oyster dredgers. It is; estimated that 30,000 northern people are in Florida this wintert The cost .of the Neal and-Craft trials at Grayson, Ky., is estimated at 25,X)0. Governor Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, "died" at ari" early hour Sunday morning. The steamer Tazoo on the Mississipp: new New Orleans struck a snag,- Sunday and sunk. 25 J ives were lost." -The insubojcUnation at the naval academy, at Annapolis,- has been settled; . Ca dets Woodruff, Gross , and McGrath are dropped "from the rolls. And now comes Arkansas with a shortage in "its State Treasury of 29000. The deficiency was causcddurin g t he administration of Treasurer Churchill. Suit "w'ill be brought to recover.' West Virginia has 810,000 square miles of timber land, containing 990,000,000 feet-of merchan tabl e lumber. Last year's crop .was of- the alue of $ 131 ,857. E. Samuels, a i-romincnt dry goods -merchant; of Paris,--Jex;, was shot and killed byB. W. Gumper. The same shot

killed a boot black,and4Y0imdedadrnm-.

mer named Hofrman.

Mrs. Caldwell, of Louisville, -was lately

man army are of almost daily occurence. Financial difficulty is cenerallv thp

cause. An alibi is being prepared lor Frank Byoue, acr seci by Carey, of oomplicity in the Phcenix Park murders. He Tras ni London that. day. Among the prisoners arrested for the Pho?nix Park conspiracy is a German named Hobnebien, who claims to have been naturalized as an American citizen at Wyandotte, Kas.,in 1866. A dispatch from San Antonir., Tex.,says a party of ranchmen surprised an Indian camp at Chihuahua, Mex., a few days ago, captured twenty. five 6quaws ami killed ten bucJts. An Irishman who gave the name of Highland, but whose real name is John Walsh, was arrested at Havre, Friday. The newspapers say he has a vowed his complicity in the Phomix Park murders. Baron Nordeuskjold, the Swedish explorer, has notified tho Dutch minister at Stockholm that ho intends to claim the reward of 25,000 guilders offered in 1596 for the discovery of the northeast passage. Letters seized at Walsh's lodgings Bochdale revealed the fact that 6,000 men are enrolled in a secret society he had been organizing in the north of England, and are amply supplied with funds and revolvers. Additional agrarian outrages have occurred in Andalusir. Eleven anarchists, in jail at Eepria, declared that they and 228 others were vnedged to murder landlords and commit robbery and arson at the bidding of their leaders.

It is expected that Breunan and Eagan, and several of Pamell's followers in Commons, will accompany the latter to America. Tt is their intention to give a full account to the Irish in America of the way in which the funds of the Land League were disposed of, Anderson, a telegraph operf .tor at Ottawa, Ontario, was recently gazetted as heir to a Scotch estate worth 9,000,000. He purchased on credit a summer residence at Brockville, valued at 39,000, but has now been arrested for obtaining 100 by false pretenses. The government of Chili remains firm in its determination to appoint its own 'ecclesiastical dignitaries, and the Pope's legate has left the country. Congress is expected to vote salaries only to priests the government named. Oh arch dis-es7 tablishment is becomirg a nEiional question. Accounts from the district of Geevedoie, County Donegal, in. the north-western portion of Ireland, indicate that the condition of the people is very distressing. ; The inf dical onicer of the.. district reports tho children are much emaciated in consequence of the scarcity of food and the general nso of seaweed as tbe principal diet. There are sick persons in almost every house.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Silas W. Burt, nominated chief examiner of the mvil-servico commission, declines to serve. Commissioner Paum promises to modify his ruling that no person may become surety on the bond of more than one distiller. " ' ' Kepresentative Van Vorhis, of New Tork.grossly insulted Page of On lifornia,

'Thursday night, in the discussion of tho river and harbor bilh and only o caned expulsion by an apology. The Navy Department is preparing a list of naval officers on duty at Washington and ie length of time they have been thera Officers who have resided there a long time seem to feel that a general cleaning out will be the result. The committee in charge of the postoffice appropriation bill has decided in favor of fast mail service between New York and Chicago, and has agreed to recommend October 1 as the date for the two cent postage to commence. Secretary Lincoln has reported to the

Senate the names of eighty-two officers of the army cn duty at Washington. Secretory Chandler places the number of navy officers on duty at the capital at 201. , : A. B. Williams, one of Dorsey's coun

sel in the Star Boute trhd, has been 'indicted for receiving stolen goods a watch stolen from Mrs. Ellis a year ago from parties for whom he acted as attorney . Mr. Williams says the charge is absurd and is the outgrowth of the ill will of the Department cf Justice because he lias taken an active part- in the defense of Dorsey. While the provisions of the act to reduce the revenue go info eiloet, generally, on and after July 1, 1883, exception is made in respect to traitf duties upon

sugar, which take-effect June jl, and internal revenue provisions .relating to reduction of taxes on tobacco, snuff and. cigars, and reduction of special license taxes, which go into effect May 1, with a

provision that all claims for drawback on unbroken packages of tobacco, snuff, cigars and cigarettes A held" by' manufacturers or dealers at that da?, must ha presented before July 1; Milton Turner, x-minister to Liberia is in Washington, seeking to obtain government aid fc 30,000 negroes who are living in the Indian Territory in a state of senri-alaYery to the Chootawa and Chickasaws. They want to be removed from among the Indians to the Oklohania

lands which Payne -and his marauders are trying to "jump," and a bill to give them the assistance sought has been drafted by the Secretary of the interior. The existence of the poor negroes, who were once slaves to the Indians; was wholly unknown to tha Department, and the whole country will share in; the surprise. The new tariff law will add enormously to the work of ths Secretary; of the Treasury. The revised classification Of articles and re-arrangement of duties will make it necessary for the Secretary to go through the law with the greatest care, and. subject every paragraph to the most painstaking and thorough analysis. He

will be called upon to define the law and give rulings on a great many points involving vast public and private interests. Business men everywhere will want the law interpreted their way, a&d no pains will be spared to make black appear white, and white black. On one point alone which will be spruug t he Secretary

will have to make a S3,000,Or3 ruling, and others of equal importance may develop. A tobacco dealer gives it as his opinion that the rebate clause will cost the government OOOioOO or &t,(XK),0i)0 on tobacco and cigars alone. The rebate is on whole packages, and dishonest dealers can systematically swindle the govern--ment out of large sums. In reply to inquiries Monday the Com missioner of Internal Revenue ;said the effect of the law reducing linternal -revenue taxation would be as follows: IChe tax upon capital-aud. deposits of banks and bankers, and national banking asso-; ciations,is repealed from this (late, excopt such taxes as are now due arid payable. The reduction of tax upon checks j drafts, etc., and upon matcluas, perfumery, medical preparations, and other articles, imposed by schedule A, following section 3,&17. Kevised Status, takes effect O nly 1, 1SS3. After May 1, the tax on, manufactured tobacco and snuff will be 8 cents per pound; on cigar, $3 per thousand, and on cigarettes 50 osaHS per thou-

and. There will be a rebate on tobacco, j

Snuff, cigars and cigarettes of the difference in the tax recently imposed and the taxes as now provided .for where claims amount to 10. These claims .must be presented within sixty days from May tlv

A billiard match on which $40,000 wast converted through tho efforts of Kev.Geo.

O. JBarnes. A6 a result she has named her twins after the Savior and the "Mountain Evangeiists., Lawrence C. Best, and his nephew, Mr.

Aiien, 01 Aiienaaie, to. u., engagea in a

duel with knives, and S. H. Dupies, marshal, interfered. Beat turned on . the officer and wae clubbed to death. The English colony at Kugby, Tenm, have borrowed through the Board of Aid, $125,000 of Mr. Henry lumber of London. A lirst mortgage ou the Ilugby tract of 25,000 acres was given as security. The prisoners in the Missouri State Penitentary, mutinied, Friday, and set fire to the building. The convicts then attempted to escape, but were overcome and placed in dungeons. The loss by the fire to st x?k and buildings will aggregate $300,000. Ex-Treasurer Polk was able to appear before the Ten nessee legislative investi

gating committee and deny tho accuracy of the report of the condition of his aocounts. He savs he hopes to pay the

State all he owesFritz Waite, wh is to lie hanged at Frankliu, Tex., March 14, has executed a written conveyance of his body to Robertson eormty physioirns for $25, and is said to be now en ikying the blood money. Six of the esca peu A rkansas convicts have been captnnd. The others have succeeded in reaeii 4 tbo hills of Crowly's ridge and iire reported itB traveling

A North Carolina Gold Mine. F.'tyettoville Special to TJoston RornhJ. 'North Carolina has a bonanza king who now counts hi3 woalth ty the hundred of thousands. The lu sky man is John Brneg, of Moore county. A few weeks ago his earthly possessions consisted of half a dozen halkswvod coon dogs, and a twenty acre lot oi barren land in Moore county. About a fortnight ago Bar ne3 discovered gold on his farm. He prudently kept the secret to himseh and moved the precious metal as' best he could. He obtained more than one hundred pounds cf gold, then disposed of a portion of his land for $143,000, reservr ing a large share for himself. Barnes is now considered the wealthiest man in Eastern Nojth Carolina. Barnes is preparing to build for himself a handsome residence a short distance from tho spot where ho discovered his gold mine. The coon dogs, who wero his constant and alraosl solo companions iu his poverty, are to be kindly cared for.

mates aggregating S271,39i&;asrepotTIe ed from the House committee on appropriations they aggregated $220,082,752; as pasRcd by the Houeo, 226,420,208; as re ported by the - Senate committee oa app ropriations 3.230,662,541; and as finally passed by both houses, after adjustment by conference committee $229,827,oll, an increase of $1924,478 over - the- amount originally recommended byvthaHbuse committee on appropriations. The following circular has been issued by the Commissioner of Pensions and approved by the" Secretary of the Intexibr: The following regulations are prescribed

for the purpose of carrying into effect, as sp3edily as possiblerthe provisions of the act of Congress approved March 8, 1883, increasing to $30 per month the pensions of those who lost a leg at or above the knee, or an arm at or above- the elbow, arid of those who have been so disabled as to be incapacitated for performing any

manual labor, but not so much as to . re? quire regular personal aid and attendance,

and who are now receiving pensions at

the rate of 324 per month, and to 824 per month the nensions of those who have

lost one hand or one foot, or been totally

or permanently disabled in the same, or

otherwise so disabled as to render their

incapacity to perform manual labor equivalent to Iobs of hand" or foot, and now receiving $18 per month. Inasmuch as said act has immediate effect upon tiuch admitted cases as have been igdjft cheated at the rates of 24 a:nd 318 per month, respectively, uo formal application by the beneficiary is necessary to be made, other than to forward to the Com missioner of Pensions tho pension certifi; cate. accompanied by a letter statincr, in

the handwriting of the penaioner, his present postoflice address. As soon as pos ble afier the receipt of the pension

certificate aforesaid, the Cammissionef will issue to him a new certificate for the new rate, and will forward thei same? to the proper pension agent to inscribe tiie name of such pensioner pn-the roll at the increased rate, and to make to" the pen--sumer proper payment. 1 In case of' am putatton tlie certificate shall be reissued without any further medical examinntioni The intervention of agents or attorneys in such admitted cases as are aJfected., by this act b(iing unuecesgary, will not be re:!6gnizea. The resolution offered by Representative Townshend;'of IlUnois, to prohibit the importation' of German wines'" wassu re'ija'iatory; measure,- -pro yoked- by the acr

tkm of the German government in for.bidding -the further . introduction of American meats into "tli markets "of that

cbuntry. : It is not likely that anything

will' come of this resolution; but it may sngcjesfeai plan of retaliation that will put a stop to the reckless issuance ot further arbitrary orders from foreign govern,ments against American meats. These orders have" invariably been made in obedience' to a clamor from traders who

are jealous of the growing popularity 'of

American meats among the working

classes of Europe. Our packers have

found a great market for their cheap

nheate in the crowded communities' Of the

Old World, and their goods are far supe

rior in every respect' W the ; meats the -European consumers sf small means , cap

obtain from their local butoherp, besides

lieinir much ffheaoer. The drive and eh--

terprise of Americans in pushing their products into foreign markets has alarmed

their foreign rivals,- and as a results of

their maoliinatipni American tnieats-. are in a great measure debarred from sale in a large portion of Euroge. .to the the detriment of the laboVing1 classes ' and to the enrichment : of thoe who have . thus been enabled5 to keep up the price of meats to a point beyond ,the reaoh of the wago-getters. It has been suggested hat the best way to bring these foreign, governments to a sense of their Short oightedness is to put -ah absolutyiprbthibitory duty on' winetj, silks' and a 'htin-" dred other luxuries wMch.are now admitted in American ports on the payment of a moderate tax. ' uThisl,, said a prominent Western Senator, "Would put a stop to further foolishness. feThe; ory of diseased meats, which is t he excuse set up by France and Germany for- the; embargo fchey have placed on American mats, is is all gammon. The government officers had to have an excuse, and this was adopted for the double purpose of giving: them ground to stand on and' to excite an ignorant populace against- tho property they were trying to drive out. of heir home market" This matter is one'ofi peculiar interest where hogs, corn and

His

THE STATION AGENT. Wajs and "Manners Peculiarities tho Mai rat the Junction.

of

feck's Sun,:

Menvwho travel a rreat deal never cease

to wonder how it is that the orossest depot agents that dan W found are" nearlyal-

ways looated.at the junctions, wherethere

is nothing but a depot ahdS store and a saloonbut suoliis the5 case! A-travelor gets to ajunetion and-goes into; the depot to find when the next train goes and the ticket-window is closed. He looks around

and finds that'the agent is helping'to unload freight, or is upon5 a side-tirack coupling cars, or is over aeros8'thetrackhelp ing afariner kill hogs, or has gone to tke adjoining town with a team tof carry some passengers. " Or, if the agent is iri the office, he has got more business than the

general manager of the road. You speak ; to him, and ask a question, (andvhis- brow corru gates, ardhe goes on counting a pile of ohe-ddller'billB,and acts as though he thought he had a dim - idea that" 1 he had been spoken to, but he waits until ha gets the. money in, tihe safe, and. turns the

knob, and then he answers you so short.

that you almost conclude to walk to the

next atation, end then he bustles out' of office and looks the door, arids you think he has gone jto attend to some important business upon which depends thef ate of the road, and you g;o out and walk on the platform, anil pretty "soon 'you' 'see1' him

t helping his wife ta ring rcut clothes? or

ybusee himvoutdn the bacli?,yard hangr ing clothes on the line, or splitting railroad ties for wood. You may be a millionaire, and yon may pay your hostler more thaii the junction ageht as a salary,

but he lcbka updn!''yOu as a threecard

monte man, andJlocks thestove'docir . for

fear von will out in a stick of wood dr.

steal the lining out t the.? stove. The agent is in his element when a train is a

, 1.. . few hours behind, and he sits at the tele

graph i nstrument working as ft the5 work

rested ohJhis shoulders. You listen to

the constant click of 'the' ' instrument, and you would,give a, $10 note toitknow what

mond mines of Brazil were opened m 1727, It is estimated that since that time they have produced at least two. tons of diamonds. In England a etoiie eighin one carat, and of the pnrest Wter, 1? worth, when cut and polished, ftfeofc 'Thfrdenlers'in rough.stones fJI1, liabit of distinguishing the water id. Jb rough stone bysimplw breathing upon itAmong the historic diamppdB.fhe iiaiaji weighed 367 carats and the Great Mogul 289.' Before ifcwasnit thedatter weighed

900 carats. From thei composition of the , diamond we see what costly thing?? nature makes from common4 'maferil 'All the diamond fields of the world .are not worth the anthracite fields of Peunsylyania. A. ruby of five carats is double5 the value of a diamond of that size, : an!;

one of ten carats is worth three times asv

much S' a diamond ofr conesf;oiidirjg;

size. : A perfect ruby is tho? rarest or alh stones? "Bubiee are often (imitated' with-

real stones, the most common being spinel.

But it is not difficult to distinguish thimitation as the' ruby is the- only- stone

having a pigeon blood color. Another

precious stonS is the sapphire, wluch is like the ruby with tlir 'exception ' of th color. There has beemseen -a :sinall sfcone?

which was niby on one side arid sapphir on the other. The Emeraid is a deet green, the deeper the better. ' It loses iu brilliancf'inaii artificial ' 'li&k but ifacolor may be expelled by a gentle . lieat.i Most of our emeralds come from New Granada, and" -twill always thavftJiii'ws; 1 lit imitations it is not the hardness nor thej color that issoiTght so mucb as the flaw

in Eng-i

The first evpfflasses were made

Oft: (1 land of emeraldsl

Waakiiigum Special. . , . , '

At last one of the gang of swindlers who?

is going on over the, wires. Occassionally he will . lau gh at something, the instrument says, ah'd whenyotf thhdlr the news of theworld is v coming over thfe wires andis stored dmthat massivebraio; the agent turnsjito country galpofe who has. on a5blue drilling .roundabout, v and his pants in his bootp, and who wipes his nose' ori his mitteirancl sayst Ji 'There is going to be a dance at the hop-yardat Johnston Siding to-night, and they want us to come lip onNo.i.r ' SDien you'realize that theagent all these., long hours that you have been watching the varied expressions of his " calm mysterious 'face has been-cliaffihg with the female spera-tepatthe-nexfe station, -and as the country galoot takes a chew of plugrtobaooo; fand

says he will go nd -brush-up a little and : put ohaloleaBishirt before 'No,? incomes, and the operator jsays -they haye a daisy time at .the dance, your go out pn tbe platform anri try to get aeniuainted with the fellow who runs the hptfse--pbwerf wood-sa,wing machine. There isno man who knows more than the junction agent abontevei y "thing it you can draw1 ; him; on-M'Thougri only orir trains a day stop, at his station, and thejitonly ?stop nfor? la minute to let off some poor devil who has got to got offthei, the agentushhis ele

I ment; fortaiibrief'bmenfciHe.vaddresses

the conductor as. "Junior ."Gorg" or iffyj'm aas s show, of interest as deep' as a division superintendent would have, Where' he passed "No T" and

!if MNb. tf is going'to be oh time. ' ! He may ;

;ask something aboutrths railroad .istocks, .

and-yqr imagineitha.t he is,; bullingj ithef

market when the chances, are. s, that he'

hasn't goi 811 left 'rom his lasfc, montfrs r it' 5 I salary; If he4 was1 i)olite,ahd did hot seem to-own the road, you, would .like .him, but when.be snubs you; and treate you as though'informatiofT was "worth more than :y6ur5tioke,ri you - hate 'him, and'if ayoii should fheab therenras talkof ; promoting him to a station where there weresix houses, you vould want . to prevent it.

There may be some rule by which the

cdssest man ouihe line is, given,, am .isolated, junction 1 ; vsJi",

f. flB IS - ! -r; iJ

watch for visitors to the Ouritoi; c

them tor admission and play other bonridefibe games upon them, - lias ibeenarrested J The amdunHn riuestion -is iTery small j battfche mm arrested is an old ofc fender, and if he is add it ?will go faf toward breaking up the 3and of shippers which have s long plied thei yofyr abbut- 'SC.V o.JMBS Wiggtiof Ma.3sachnsett,tild tfestoryto thQfpblice. !He?said .that? 14 arrived in the ci ty yesterday and took a. wait to th Capitol. As he was entering the ' Wt door he 'W isacc stiedsb5 va 0911 .knaa woaskedhiin.if h,was:a stranfflBf. JBfe replied tiiat he wasr fjde)lien pointed across the park, remaraiiitf that fthat wair the Pomao,f and fchafc jwas. ?the Wwhingh?n ; monumenV' and k

number .oi other such" remarks. As h& wfjoufcri) inter he building'thegtilS?

cattl

e are' raised. It "is ver) p"robable

that this question will come up - prominently before ,the next Oongrais. 1 President Arthur Jias .transmitted- to the Senate a repart from the Secretary of Slfcifia in rmnnDRfi frO "Tr Van Wvnk'fi

Regulations upon this matter WU1 be im-: . rolution; inquiring whether the minismeoiately issued, and Wants mil be far. fep:,0p thtf tfaited States' had- beeii fa-1

nished unon which claims can be made.

The law provides for o, larga reduction in the special taxes upon dealers, commencing May 1, 1883. The commissioner also

stated that immediate arrangements from Mr .pftrtridge saylnth rep-, would be made for changing the fonn "of I - . 3f;r nf nJit Britain. France!'

the special-tax stamps and stamps for.! states' (Germany

str noted to invite or accept the mediation

of European' powei's iu settlement of; the-

difficulties betveep Giiili and Pern. The

Secretary says he received a dispatch

)ayment of taxes upon tobacco, snurr,

cigars, etc.,so as to supply collectors with these stamps in tune to meet the require ments of trade prior to May 13 Mr. Hiscock, chairman of the House committee on appro priations, furnished for publication a statement relative to the appropriation bills passed this session, and which have become laws. The ' aggregate amount of all the bills is $229,327,511, made lip as follows; ; PimioDt :. $ 8fi75,CCO

Stir the Soil, A J. Downing, who was one of tho best horticulturists Amerio has isvor known , aaid; "If I wore to preach a sermon on horticulture I should take for my text 'Stir the Soil.' Frequent and keep stirring will enable one to grow fine vegetables on comparatively poor and slightly manured soil, while without it one fails to gain the proper advantago,even from the richest aud linest soil,'

Military Academy .-....i.V..... UJB,Gfi7 Fortifications.... : v 670,000 Consular and diplomatic ' 1,2W,755 NavyJ........ .....u.... I,.. lh,m,m Army ,8t,35 Postoflice ! 44,4 Lii8lative.-.....T....:;.;...-. .a". 24lU,29fi Indian , 62,0.55 Snndry Civil ia,9J,U3 Oifttrict of Columbia...... 3,flt9,S57; Dnficiency 2,8i?us7 AKricultural '. 405,W Miscellaneous bills involving appropriations of money ., 7i0,0t0 Tho aggregate of appropriations for laifc year, including $18,758,87" for the rivers and ha rbors i Sn,3 7,r For i ho preceding year, including 11,441,303 for tho rivers and harbors "21fl,J7,lWJl An analysis of the figures for the past three years shows that the appropriat ions for tlie current expenses of the government, irrespective of the amounts for pen-r sione, aggregate less than either of the two preceding years. The regular pen

sion bills for th fiscal years 1882, 1883 and 1881 aggregate 252,5,000. tho bill jast passed being $20,275,000 in excess of the bill passed two yearn ago, and $13,225,000 less than the bill of Sast year. Of tbe deficiency bill just passed only about 500.000 is on account of the current

fiircal year. The appropriation bills of j Columbus Junction claims to be the the present session wore based upon ust- horse metropolis of east Iowa,

1 declining taking aiiy part) considered the'

subject of the above-named 'difficulties at an informal' meeting at: Mrl ' Partridge's houses, and concluded that each should deplare to his government his belief that the only way of' bringing "about a cessation of hostilities? .would; be an agreement'

to address representation, to the . Chili ya Government expressing a wish to see peace made on the basis ot the cession of Tarapaca. The ministers - further de-; clared that they considered it to be their

duty to' urge their respective governments'

to take the step indicated at once.; Upon receipt of this dispatch Mr. Partridge was telegraphed by tho Secretary of State in substance that tho leave 'or' absance he had requested was granted, and he was expected to return to the United States by the first steamer. He was further informed that the action set forth in his dispatch having been taken by him with-, out authority was disapproved, and he was directed to so. anfoim those of bis colleagues who had acted . with lum. A note was at the1 same time sent t i the ministers Of the United States in JuOndon,

Paris and Kome, informing them that Mr. Partridge had joined with the represent' atives of Great Britain, Prance and Italy to their respective governments to inter

vene iu the Chili-Peru difficulty, and instructing them to inform the governments to which they are attached that this action was taken by Mr. Partridge without authority, and has not been approved. The cost of the government in the city of Paris is a little more than $50,000,000 annually.

demandedseTOntyifivei cents top. hi;5seri vices, and showed 'Oifba.lge, rslsatinffv tba he was a guide and- must bo paid. Mr. 'Wiggiri' gave hiriiJ 'fifly 1 centr , butt the

. guide msisted; am - th toll, amount Mx

Wiggin then, made cmpiainfetp thft Cap--itol police.and the confidence man was 'arrested.' rL fw daysj ;einc this; crowd -sold a strangean entrance tticket to tile.

Capitol for 2. The same crowa carry season tickets to the Capitof t6t' tfhiefc. tbByjhae' bjefnknowxi af.$ ; . 4inf Sittctaera Ffac.,i:' ' .. Miss Ada Leigb, of whase rmarkble work in pParis we gave some account; im Our issueof tecemrier lasi writes y esterdays lUfffetp titertej

faqt that inlant suicide in France has hctually destroyed -twice as niany- livas in, f our earsas hera orphanages pon tri to save in eight years- that is, -that thei energy thrown : into; infant suicide has. beemmpreithan four times as productje o$!resultas ithatpf the?charitiwhic phm

m

An Ensrlishman's View.

' Albert PelX M, P who "187 waf a

memberf'the1 ,Koyalli Commission that'

"reported &! remarkably able poper to 4 the

. English Parliaments on:the Subject 1 of

the shipmeit.of American eattje to Eng-

private business January 1.

dispenses. -One hundred an4 ninety eight boys and forty girl6 under the age ol fif

teen, she tells us, destroy ed themeelveB tin fourvears, and-of these two hundred ?wer&.over twelve years of age, twenty-one between twelve and ten, four over tem 'years, six below it' and "one only . seven. Surely in no other country except Franc 'does nbt'merelVjdeepairibnt that impatient intolerance of misery which cute its. way out of life rather than await the end,, invadethe mind? of each ttabiesae hesei : French children must.. be nrematwv ec well as most miserable, when they hav

?recojirse rio suuuie; woy uiuo uofw

learned to believe that death is- a remedy.

and that theyloan not, or may noi depend

0

this week for home on the steamship Pi r

.onrthlrindniessof the liyg before the s,

age at which raoset English ehildrt a hay

1 "716i.V, -been-

Ze C omraemprat i ve; ( ji 4 :

tliia, of theChnnrd' Lih :

'York Tr ymc$m -was h t jttebttrg when toe 1 the t Westminster - Hotel ?while Ke 6 was & -st-saw the new Aye cenj piece, lyeing packing hisitmnfejie sald: ' r J it iref ull,y Jie remarAnVwie. a. "My visit has been4bQei.,pnryi ' if awNickeihl Tiun.,mttcn:oW private business respecting cattle! Ihave zatzePiUsburt people sehbnld make traveled West eleven hundred and odd ! ze commemorative eoin for mein Bui sat miles, havbeen'ui &mtheastern Colo- 'picture, of my wife onrze oer tt; i rndo; oh the bordeWof Mexico,ahdmn Iforle .Z lthefoohiHdf?th u ' ' . '--ytii, 12,il went as;faaft$r TJHfE MARKETS 4 hadjoyelyweajjieryli snlowbiiti: X .7f .U ikvmM. My.

in my report to the' Government in 3370 4. w.xeat ' g 4j w was that England HadbtMnfe'to'1 'fear ! :r.. T1 from;. the-inpoftatipof American1 cattle :j '"TTrT 7TT"Tw4?ii 1

any belieli being at thatitimeitriat! the- in- j ?y il'"vLT . T" -rr"" crease;ui-thenppulafoon: qfthe JJmteu jJ ghoiaer., ;

States wqiilds soon piit such a-price upon

meat that it would; make, it difficult to

Sides.

Laid.:..;

ii

export it- to England with profit. Three 'i &ia?&$iffi f years experience has verified'that opinion? 55 Fr to good abippins ?t&m i 73 15 55 t is i . if a Cmmoato medixun... ......... 4 25 4 fO

I find the prices at retail of good meat in, (j . ,

C4mmoato meUwi........-.!.. 4 25 Q 4 fO

New; yprk,iandfdggs. andwheese, to .Arrfr.A ter very Mttlefrinshose charjged-in: Eng- i " Common and medium....... 2 75 g u t bind; The.tirade in refrigerated beef has ' .... . , Bulla :,-S 2S 4 00 .akLa ol1 id fc . I Hos.-Ohoice heavy snlppere;. 107 25

tremely haaarddUs. In niy't'ri thmtime t did hbt feee so many - old cattle about as before,! ahd?I think' we have eaten npf a gopijtbit oitypiiri Stqe. K Itha6 been said b am observing man,-and. i ;tliink that.,1. can endorse it,;tjiat rEng;land'nevei: begins upon 'the moat" supply of any 'country that she' does not eat" it shori: Th'e cattl,e. Tsnw this tinie were'yourigr'thah'before and 'you 1 won't be able! tpvaupplyiius so fast ii heretofore ' withhold" beeves, 1 You will have tp come to what, we are doing in.

England and w)iat you are already do

ing, for that matter,, in Kentucky; andMissOnH developing yoiir cattle witji a view to producing ae-large, an animal as possible at two years of age. I was much'5

struck' with- somecattle-l? sawin Mis;'

souri;' tbey were yeiy fine'i Iihpiiht.,-? -

? ;4 Good heiwy packers r. HJ 7 l 1 ... j Lagt nued.:.p.j. fMf,;, 6 75 g 7 80 Sheop-Ctjcjice to prime .Hi ;rc . 5 ft so 1 1 ' Fait to goi.-oi.j, 43 4 75 : . . Common.. .. .. i... ........ ........ 3 10 4 CO 'AprJieB-cooidhft v w. ; S : Hiwiii 00

' PotntoelSarly;oe. .S3S&5a . 8? 1 M j

Beans : - i 9 75 Bntter-Bairy.... . . ..'..V., A IS?" M hunter. choice.... .......... .. r 1

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EggsH?.v...:...

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Wheat

Cora..

CHICAGO. . 15 00$ t8 12 ,C;:.;......iV. M'Sbv

Curious Facts About Peclous Stones. There is iii Paris a diamond so hard

that the usual: - process for cutting imd. polishing made no , impression upon it The black diamond is mostly used for tools. T11 Kussia it is broken into flakes, polished and worn as court mourning. The historic diamonds have uo more luster than a piece of glass. The sham diamond is more beautiful than a genuine stone, but it has a tendency to decomposition, and does not refein luster. The dia-

Co.ne:....!Cfr j 60

nJrtwflriteoti...... 7 rth

4 a

Wlaat..,.,.nL Com..:...... 4ifJL5 ? w Oats.; 4' i'X

NEWORK.

Wheat

Corn... QAtfl...,

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e 74

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