Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 25, Bloomington, Monroe County, 21 April 1883 — Page 2

The Blooraingtoii Courier. BLOOMINGTON, : : INDIANA

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Oar Comtxiaiion 01 the Important Happenicgs of the Week

HEAVY STOBHS. A cyclone visited Arkansas, Saturday, doing great damage. The storm was also very violent in Missouri and Iowa, and throughout the northwest A heavy snow storm prevailed throughout Dakota. The damage at Bloomington, HI, was very great. In Arkansas loss of life and destruction of property me reported from every direction. . ik:su evidence. An inquiry of Clifford Lloyd into a plot to murder in the Crusheen district has led to remarkable diselos-ares. The first clew to the existence of a conspiracy was obtained by the confession of a man named Tubridyv wounded in-an attack on an objeefciqnabie party bv moonlighters. Tnbridy gives full particulars in court of the murder of a man named Kennedy by assassins brought from a distance. Tubridy states that he belonged to a secret society, in which he was obliged by threats to continue. In January, 1882, the society was reorganized, with the special object of killing landlords, agents and spies. The local leader introduced to the members a stranger from Dublin, who said he had traveled through other countries and formed societies. He stated that the Land League would supply tie socitty with arms, and promised that the league would pay the expenses of men sent out cf their own districts. He said the members mTght have to go to various parts of Ireland and even to En gland, to shoot landlords and agents. He named the new society the Invincsbles or Vigilante. The group of societies, including the Crusheen district, are implicated in nine of the most notorious murders ever committed in Ireland.

INDIANA ITEMS: A fire at Piymouih, Sunday, destroyed one of thefin-2t blocks in the town. Loss $27,000. J. L. Emmerson, of Gibson county, found a lost nog in a hollow log, where it had been imprisoned four weeks without food. The superintendent of schools in Madison county has issued a request to teachers and pupils to unite in planting trees on Friday, April 30. Within one week "William Ferguson, of Liberty, has lost twenty-one good colts from pinkeye. Besides he has lost two good horses from the same disease. John Enuck, the well-known fruit grower of Morgan county, says that the peach buds are all killed in that locality, and that he will take fifty cents for his entire crop. Miss Jane Grow, an accomplished young lady of Montgomery, has been sentenced to two year's imprisonment in the Daviess county jail for stealing silks from a store. The father of Postmaster general Gresham was at one time sheriff of Harrison county, and was killed in the discharge of his duty while attempting the arrest of a citizen for whom he had a warrant. , In a suit by John R Cobb against the Pennsylvania Railroad company, -to recover damages for taking two alleged kidnapped men on the J., M. &" I. train, after the conductor had baen notified they were kidnapped- the circuit court, at Jefferson rille, decided, on demurrer, that the company was not liable.' A young Indian of fifteen years died on the west bound Fort Wayne train,near Valparaiso, Wednesday afternoon. He was a son of the celebrated Indian chief Red Cloud, and was on his way from CarHale, Perm., whete he has been to school, to join his tribe. His ailment was consumption. According to the reports of farmers and others there has been vast improvement in tne growing wheat crop of this county during the past twe weeks. Under the influence of the favorable weather it has developed rapidly, and everything now indicates that there will be a full average crop. Columbus Republican. The first United States district judge for Indiana was Benjamin Parke, who erved from 1817 to 1825;Hon. Jesse L. Holman, of Lawrenceburg, served from 1825 to 1842; Elisha M. Huntington, of Terre Haute, from 1843 to 1363; Caleb B. Smith of Connersville, 1863 '64; Albert S. White, of Lafayette, sis months of 1864; David McDonald, Indianapolis, 1864 to 1869 and Walter Q. Gresham, New Albany 1869 to 1883. Major Wndman, lafe revenue collector at Anderson, sent his accounts as collector to Washington, for final settlement on the first of the month, and on the 11th he was notified that they had been examined, found correct in every particular and were approved. It usually takes a month to get accounts through the department, but Major Wlldman's were in such shape as to require about one-third of the time. Representative Matson has for three or fcur days been laboring with the department of justice to secure a pardon for Wm. H. Crow, convicted of violating the pension laws and sentenced to nine months in the Danville jaiL Crow has served four months of his sentence. District attorney Holstein and Judge Gresham have refused to make a r ccommendation in the matter, and the pardon will probably not be granted. m Jacob G. Wolf, fun., reports that sheep killing dogs have been among his herd of sheep this week, and that he sustains heavy losses from among his flocks. The dogs chased the sheep into a mill race and several valuable sheep were drowned. Part of the race is in Hancock county and part is in Bhelby county,and as the sheep entered the Hancock part and were found in Shelby county, it cannot be determined which county shall pay the damages. Charles Rhodes and A. B. Tinsly, laborers, of Muncie, left town with a cargo of Hercules powder, Wednesday, to blow up stumps on a farm only a few miles away. When only about a half mile from town, by some unknown means the powder, which Rhodes -was carrying under his arm, exploded, tearing his body into atoms; 3 is head was found about 100 feet from where the explosion occured, while his to.ly could not be found anywhere, the legs and one arm being ail that could be found. In the topmost branches of the tall oak t rees could be seen

fragments of clothing. Tinsly, who was walking just behind Rhodes at the time of the explosion, received serious if not fatal injuries, his body being bruised in a frightful manner and his right arm broken in twenty ' places. Attending physicians think recover probable Tijais terrible explosion shattered the windows in the buildings near by; in one house considerable furniture was damagecu The whole city was shaken up. Rhodes was a young man about twenty years of age, while Tinsley is about fort3r. THE EAST: The charter election in Albany. N. Y resulted in a complete democratic victory. Secretary Folger will appoint a commission to investigate the charges against Supervising Architect Hill. An intimate friend of Senator Edmunds says he will not be a candidate for the dresidential nomination. The cotton exported from New. York the past three months aggregated 39,208 packages, against 36,458 packages for the same period last year. The Salvation Army, of Syracuse, has been placed under arrest for breach of the peace and for obstructing the streets. The Lauisvilie detail is also in trouble. The Chinese engaged to play base ball, who struck for salaries of 20 a wek an expenses, have been allowed the advance, and practice for the tour has been resumed. New Yoke pays $7,000,000 a year for its religion and $22,000,000 for its drinks, which goes to showthat New York is having more fun in this world than it will in the next The complete record of the Guiteau trial makes 2,681 pages, divided into three volumes. An edition of 250 volumes only was printed, and copies were in gr eat demand. A railway collision occurred at the crossing of the Lehigh Valley and Phia delphia and Reading railroads, N. J., lhursday in which thirteen persons were

fataDy or seriously injured. . . ..

Freeman, the 'inspired," who two years ago offered his little daughter as a sacrifice, at Pocasset, and killed the child, is perfectly sane, and wiil be arraigned for murder- He says the ''inspiration'' came from the deviL .... The will of Peter Cooper has been filed. He leaves 100,000 to Cooper Union, and divides the remainder of his estate, except $200,000 in special bequests, between his son and daughter, Edwin Cooper and Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt.. The estate is valned at $2,000,000. The Western Union earnings this year, if they keep up to the present rate, will amount, General Eckert says, to $21,000,000. The interior business of the com pany has increased greatly, especially along the Northern Pacific road, where 2,000 miles more wire is wanted. Ninety- three persons have been . killed in Hermosille, Mexico, since the Apache outbreak, of whom twenty-seven were Americans. It is believed that many killed are not yet reported. At Palmo Ranch ten men were killed, last Tuesday; two women were hung up by the hands and ripped open. The bodies of the men were horribly mangled. -relief of sufferers by the Rhine fioods,and forwarded to the president of the Reichstag for distribution, had, up to the 22d of March, been applied to the purpose for which it was designed. Annie McGuinness,a comely New York miss, was found, by her father Sunday night preparing to marry Hong Gee, a Chinaman. She told a reporter that she was determined to marry, the heathen. "It's not his looks," she flaid, "but his ways that I like, and he's well off, too." Dorsey, in explaining his reason for assaulting his venerable lawyer, Lilly, who has just brought a suit for damages against him, says that while that lawyer had accepted a retainer from him, he lea us he reoorted his. confidentia statements immediately to the government counsel, and acted as a spy. A Chinese base-ball clubkas been organized in New York. The club will play its first game next Thursday in

Philadelphia, after which it will give ex-A ..' . -.t . T m

niDition games in JNewaris, xrenxon ana New York. The manager is inclined to believe that his club of foreigners will do better than giving burlesque exhibitions of the game, and says they are rapidly improving. The most shocking evidence is given in the Tewksbury alms-house case at Boston. A scrap says: John F. McGovern, a tanner at Woburn, said the skin of a negro, untanned, was brought to the tannery by W. P. Morrison, who wanted it tanned. Morrison said he brought it from Harvard, and thafit came originally from TewkBbury Morrison claimed to be a student. Pieces of the skin were shown, and Brown asked for a bit of it, which McGovern cut ofi and gave him. THE WEST: An Indian outbroak is feared in Oregon. Packer, the Colorado cannibal, has been convicted. Prairie firea are doing considerable damage in Nebraska. In thirty years the Washiogton Gas Company has cleared 750 per cent, profit. There was a perceptible earthquake shock at Cairo, Ilh, Thursday morning Ex-Governor Roberts, of Texas, has been made president of an Austin university. A mine caved in near Iron Mountain Mich., Wednesday, engulfing .eight men who were fatally injured. An unnatural father was arrested at Monticello, HI, Saturday. His daughter was but thirteen years of age. At Cincinnati, 1,200 cigar-makers are on a strike, demanding an increase of $1 a thousand in consequence of taking off the tax of $2 a thousand. The funeral of the late Postmaster General Howe took place at Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday afternoon. The remains will be interred at Green Bay. . ... . A canvass of the votes in Michigan show that the fusionists elected . both judges of the supreme court and both regents of the State university. The Rev. W. F. Black, an evangelist,in a sermon at Clinton, I1L, prophesied the conversion of the Jews in 1974, and the arrival of the millenium in 1987. The revival at Springfield, HL,conduoted by Dr. L. W. Munhall, was concluded Monday night with a jubilee meeting. Professed conversions number 963, Fannie Austin, a comely colored woman of Chicago, has brought suit for $10 000. damages by breach of promise against Robert Light, an Englishman. A tract of 280 asres of land one mile south of Lawrence, Kas., has been purchased by the government as a site for

an industrial school for Indians. Ct is designed to erect bnildiugs tmpable of accommodating 360 pupils. Chester, 111., penitentiary will receive two distinguished inmates this week S. H. Russell, ex-marsbal of Texas, embezzlement, 50,000, two years; J. F. Burril, ex-grand secretary Masonic Grand Lodge of Illinois, embezzlement $7,000, five years. r The first installment of Irish paupers sent out by the English government, arrived at Boston, Sunday, by the steamer Nestorian, landing G50. Sixty-nine evicted farmers from Mayo and Galway arrived at Philadelphia in the steamship Indiana. A riot among the students of the Stnte Normal University, at Normal, 111., occurred Thursday, Several noses were "punched." The cause of the rouble was as senseless and unjustifiable as sxich college troubles usually ara The joint legislative committee recom

mends the appropriation of $1 ,831,890 for the support of the nine charitable institutions of Illinois for tho ensuing two years. This is $100,000 Jess than was asked for by the superintendents of the institutions. One of the mysterious disappen ranees that caused so much wonder in Milwaukee the latter part of 3882 bas been explained by the finding of the body of Mrs. Mary A Nelson in the river, weighted down with a heavy piece of iron giving evidence that she had committed suicide. A dispatch from Williams ranch, Texas, states that an immense meteor fell, Sunday, destroying the house of SI, Garcia, killing him, his wife and five children. Every window in town was shattered and all the houses shaken. The meteor is still steaming and covers an acre of ground. Indian Agent Wilson, of San Carlos agency, in a telegram to Commissioner Price, says it is rumored that a company, of rangers is being organized at Tombstone, and the general indications point to an invasion of the San Carlos reservation. He adds that the result of such an invasion would be disastrous. Kansas liquor men are going to carry the question of the constitntioi ality of the prohibition amendment to the IJuited States supreme court, Senator Vest, of Misiouri, is their attorneyjand he says "the constitution of the United States guarantees the right to sell and manufacture liquor, and no state has the right to abridge any right which is guaranteed by that constitution by amending an organic act." In Catholic circles at Milwaukee it is reported that the pope has given Bishop Spaulding hismdorsement of thepj ojee of a Catholic university in the United

States, for which 32,030,000 has already been promised, and that indications point to the present site of St. Francis' Seminary, south of Milwaukee as the seat of the university. The most disastrous fire that ever occurred in Nebraska is reported a few miles north of Lincoln. Barns, houses, graneries and haystacks were licked up by the flames. Several deaths are reported. It is estimated that fifty square miles were burned over. The fiames lit up the country for many miles around. The regular circus season advertisement which is expected to be well circulated by the press, was sent out from St. Louis, Wednesday. Jennings,a reporter, entered a cage of lions wintering at a circus there, and was fatally clawed. Jennings claimed that there was no danger in the act of entering the cage as lion tamers do, and would not heed the entreaties of those 'near ioi- lrim not to attempt it. Congressman Guenther, of Wisconsin, who was active in his efforts to secure a reduction of the tariff on glass bottles, says that even now, before the new tariff has gone into operation, tae pfice on small bottles has been increased about one dollar per gross, and it is expected that when the new tariff goes into effect the price will be still more iaereased. the old rate was 35 per cent, ad valorem, and the new tariff, owing to the extraordinary action of the Conference Co.oimit tee, fixes the rate at one per cent, per pound, an increase of over one hundred percent A schoolmistress of Eureka, California, while on her way to school, was attacked by an infuriated steer. "She seized the animal by the horns and held him until help cama" The next day she saw a rat in: the school room, when she hastily gathered her skirts about her, jum ped upon a desk and yelled murder. A rat has no horns for a woman to grab hold of, The tide of immigration haa decreased very perceptibly. During the last year the falling off has been fully twenty-five per cent. Qne-third of the immigrants come from Germany. England and Wales frrinish one-seventh of the new-comers, whi'e only one in fifteen comes from i amineatrieken Ireland, The per cent, of decrease has been about the same for the different nationalities. The effect of the embargo upon Chinese immi ration has been to reduce the number of arrivals at San Francisco mere than one-half.

THE SOUTH: Four inches of snow fell at Baltimore Friday. A war cloud is hovering over France and China. It is said that Captain Howgi.te was seen on the fjtreets of Washington Tuesday. The prohibitionists in Kentucky have concluded not to act independently in political matters. Henry D. MoDaniel, of Walton county, was nominated for Governor of Georgia by the Democratic State Convention. The steamer Wylly collide:! with a bridge at Fort Gaines, Ga., Thursday, drowning ten persons, including the purser and others of tbe crew. A twelve-year-old girl in Holmiis county, Miss., whose parents are as black as native Africans, has white ears, chcekB and nose, and the color is spreading over her whole body. On accoun t of the reported existence of yellow fever in Cuba and other southern islands, the National Board of Health has decided to establish quarantine stations on the southern coast earlier than usual this ye'ar. Lyman Potter, who, on a wager, was attempting to roll a wheelbarrow from New York to New Orleans, was killed on a railroad near Salisbury, N. C, Monday morning. He once walked from Albany, N. Y., to San Francis co. Sallie Pruitty, a colored girl twoSvo years old, living on Warren Bush's place, in Monroe county, Ga., killed two ohildren of a woman named Philits, working

on the farm, because she was tired of nursing and wauted to go back home. The case against Dick Liddell, a notorious member of the James gang, who was convicted at the last term of the United States cour at Huntsville, Ala., of conspiracy to rob, seiitenoo being then suspended, was called up Wednesday aud Judge Bruce released Liddell npou his personal recognizance. Tbis is regarded as a settlement of the ee.se. Liddell is free, and can now testify in the Frank James trial in Missonri. FOREIGN: It is the intention of the Spanish government togradully release the Cuban, refugees. Moody and Sankey find their party sailed from Liverpool for this country on the 19th. Carry, tho Irish in fornaer, is found to

bs one of the chiefs in the Phoenix park murders. A bill for giving local isolf-goverument to Ireland was rejected by the British House of Commons ayes, 58; nays, 231.

There are now 20,000 dock laborers on a strike at Marseilles, and tho number will be increased. Shipping is at a standstill. An explosion of lire damp in the coal mines at Lonrches, department cf Nord, killed seven miners. Many were severely injured. The Evening News reports 2,000 per sons arrested in Moscow on suspicion of being engaged in plotting against the life of the Czar. A Gibralter dispatch says four slaves weresoild in the public street at Tangier, near the British le. jation. The Europeans at Tangier are indignant. A large section of country in the southern par& of Russia is cove jed with water owing to Hoods in the rivers. Railway trafiic is temporarily suspended. Manitoba has entered a protest against the action of Dominion government looking to an increase in the duty on agricultural implements from the United States. Late reports from Cooms4?eie, Upper Guinea says that the king of Ashantee has relinquished the throne, and the entire coast of western Africa is in a state of confusion. It is hoped in political ciroles at Vienna that tho United States government win adopt legal measures for the suppression of Fenianism and dynamite plotting in that country. Bernard Gallagher, under arrest in connection with the dynamite jvta in Loudon, strongly protests his innocence, and calls upon the Umted States minister to interfere in his behalf, claiming citizenship here. A disastrous fire occurred, Wednesday, at Mandalay, Burrmih. One thousand buildings were destroyed, including the residences of several cabinet ministers. Two prisoners were burned to death in their cells. Accounts of a dreadful domestic tragedy have been received from Cham, Bavaria. A rope-maker killed his wife, mother-in-law, and two sons, and then poisoned himself. Joe Brady has been convicted of the murder of Burke at Phoenix Park, and sentenced to be hanged May 14th. He protested his innocence. The verdict was received on the streets with great disfavor and condemnation. Tho trnl by a military court of twentysix members of the Sotith Russian "Workmen's Federation, some of the members of which were prosecuted by J5tielrukon who was murdered, is concluded and all the prisoners convicted. Tbree were sentenced to penal servitude for life, seven to fifteen years penal servitude, four to ten years, and four to four years. The others were banished to Siberia.

A Bad Witness. Utica Observer, "Do you know the prisoner well?" asked the attorney. "Never knew him sic-k'replied the witness. "No levity," said the lawyer, sternlj. "Now, sir, did you over see the prisoner at; the bar?" fTook many a drink with him at the bar." "Answer my que ation, sir," yelled the lawyer. "How long have you known the prisoner?" "O-h, from two feet up to five feet ten inches." "Will the Court make the-" i"I have, Jedge," said the witness, anticipating the lawyer; "I have answered the question. 1 knowed tho prisoner when he was a boy two feet long and a man five feet ten." "Your honor " "It's a fact, Jedge; I'm under oath," persisted the witness. The lawyer arose,, placed both hands on the table in front of him, spread his legs apart, leaned his body over the table, and said: "Will yon tell the Court what you know about this case?" "That ain't his name," replied the witness. "What ain't his name?" "Case," "Who said it was?" "You did. You wanted to know what I knew about this easa His name's Joe Smith." "Your Honor," howled the attorney, plucking his beard out by the roots,"will you make this man. answer?" "Witness," said the Judge, "you must answer the questions put to you." "Land o' Goshen, Jedge, hain't I been doin' it? Let tho blamed cuss fire away I'm all ready." Then," said the lawyer, "dou't beat about the bush any more. You and the prisoner have been friends?" "Never," promptly responded the witness. "What! wasn't you summoned here as a friend?" "No, sir! I was summoned hero as a Presbyterian. Nary one of us was ever Friends. HeV, an okWine Baptist, without a drop of Quaker in him." "Stand down!'' yelled the lawyer, in disgust

"Hey?" "Stand down' "Can't do it, I'll sit down or stand up " "Sheriff, remove the man from the box." Witness jetiresy muttering: "Well, if he ain't tho thick ueadest cuss I ever laid my eyes on'

Mason's Case. Themovcunentfor SergiMason's release js not meeting with much favor at Washington. It is said that the president will pardon him before he retires. The Mayor of Long Island N. Y. is found to be a defaulter in tbe sum of 180,000,

DREAMS. A dream flow out of the ivory irate; And came to mo when night wu late. My lov-3 drew near with tho proud sad eyes And tho fathomletia look of soft surpriso. 1 sleep in peaco through the sunimor niht As I dreamed of her yee and thir dopth of light A dream caw) out from tho gato of horn Aud flew to me at early mom, I rati to tho stable and saddled my steed. . Wo ruahod through tho dawn at a headlong spud, Whon'I reached my lovo the sou shone bright And 1 found her dead in cho morning light, Templo Bar,

CATCHING A SHARK. How a J ,GOOO-Ftundor Was Lauded - Following tho Ship for Nearly a Week, From tho American Angler. In the summer of 1882, being tben twenty-eight years of age, strong- healthy, and full of hope, I found myself, in company with 183 other adventurous spirits, a passenger on the good ship Revenue Captain Seth dwell, of Cape Cod, master, from New York, bound for Australia. Our passengers were a splendid lot of fellows, hailing mostly from Upper Canada, Quebec aud Nova Scotia, with some four or five from New York aud Brooklyn. With the exception of two benedicts who had their families with them, every man of us was under thirty years of age Even our captain as fino a specimen of an American sailor as ever trod a deck, had not reached his third decade. We sailed east around the Capo of Good Hope; and when I say that our passage extended to ten days without a sight of laud, except the Island of St Paul, seen at a distance, you may form som-ei idea of the shifts and expedients we were put to iu order to pass the time, aud the "fun and the deviltry and diversion" thence arising. We exhausted every kill-time device known to weary and impatient matines. We read every scrap of printed paper to be found so many times over that we were all crammed with literature to the lips. We told stories, played euchre, whist, cribbage, old sledge, and every other game known to Hoyle; got up concerts and glee clubs; pitched quoits, with ropes instead of iron; indulged in private theatricals: shot at floating marks caught dolphins, porpoises, flying-fish, gulls, albatross, and Mother Carey's chickens; worked up the position and

progress of the ship each day, and carried on a daily paper until it died out of want of mental pabulum; and then, with the distant gold fields still far beyond our eag?r and expectant gaze, we sighed for new delights. One day we found ourselves becalmed in the Indian ocean, south latitude 23 degrees, east longitude 80 degrees!, within the tropic of Capricorn, between the island of Madagascar and the Australian coast. For nearly a wfjek a monstrous shark, with his two attendant pilot fish, had been following us, much to the annoyance of the old salts, whose superstitious fears p i i some ill co While the ship one day lay languidly heaving upon the slight swell of the calm, but ever-restless ocean, the old man-eater displayed his huge bulk close to the port side, aud there remained, evidently waiting for the usual contents of the cook's garbage bucket, we had never yet caught a sha rk, and I asked the captain's permission to take this fellow, it was readily granted, and we proceeded at onee to business. Borrowing a fihark hook, bent upon about two feet of chain, from the first mate, we tied a strong lino to the chain, put upon the hook a chunk of pork, and threw it overboard. After a moment's inspection the monster slewed lazily over on his side and took the bate. Two of us had hold of the line, and by a strong jerk we fastened him securly. Then we got a whale harpoon and drove it well into his shoulder. Next we took a stout irope, made a running bowline at one end passed the loop over and around the hook and harpoon Hues, pulled the shark's head a little out of water, and jammed the bowline firmly about him behind the first fin. Then we ran the rope through a block at the end of the main yard; fifty willing hands seized it and ran aft, and Lis sharkship was speedily on board. All this time, to the utter confusion of my preconceived ideas, the fish made no

resistance whatever, but so soon as he reached the deck there was the mischief

to pay. He flopped and jumped and plunged about in a terrific manner, opening and closing his fearful jaws in a vicious and highly suggestive style. There was on board a spaniel dog, which, on seeing the unusual commotion, ran up to the prize, barking furiously. He was just in time to receive a violent blow from the tail of the fish, which sent him heels over head clean across the deck, where he brought up howling against the bulwarks. The owner of the dog, a little French Canadian, now sensed, a handspike and dealt the savage monster several heavy blows near the tail, and afterwards chopped that powerful member off. This put a stop to his acrobatic feats and he lay as quiet as a log. It was? 1 'rir& s "ecimeu of tbe rreat

blue or while shark. He measured a trifle over fourteen feet in length; greatest girth, seven and a half feet; supposed weight, 1,500 or 1,600 pounds. Great curiosity was manifested by ail hands as to the contents of his stomach, and upon opening this we found oh horrors! the leg of a sailor 's overalls, and not a thing beside! I got as my own share the dressed backbone of the creaturehioh I used as a walking stick and afterward sold to a squatter in the interior for We found the strong, musty smell so offensive that we speedily threw the carcass overboard, when it was quite pitiful to see the bereaved pilot-fish swimming about it in a dazed and wondering manner. These looked very much like striped bass, and seemed to be about six or eight pounds in weight. They followed the remains of their deceased patron down into the depths and finally disappeared. The Engineer at a. Concert, "I was loafing around t he fetreets last i

night," said Jim Nelson.one of the oldest locomotive engineers running into New Orleans, "aud as I had nothing to do I dropped in to a concert and heard a slicklooking Frenchman play a piano in a way that made me feel all over in spots. 4s soon as he sat down on the stool I knew by the way he handled himself that he understood the machine he was running. He tapped the keys away up one end, just as if they were guages and wanted to see if he had water enough. Then he looked up as if he wanted to know how much steam ho was carrying, and the next moment he pulled open the throttle aud Bailed out ru the main line, just as if

he was half an hour late.. You could hear her thunder oyer culverts and bridges, ar d getting faster and faster, until tne fellow rocked about in his seat like a cradle. Somehow I thought it was old 36 pulling a passenger train and getting out of the way of a special. The fellow worked the keys on the middle division like lightning, and then he flew along the northend of the line until the drivers went around like n buzz-saw, and I got excited. About the time I was fixing to tell h?m to cut her off a little, he kicked tho clampers under the machine wide open, pulled the throttle away back in the tender, and, Jerusalem! jumpers, now he did run. I couldn't stand it any longer aud yelled to him that she was 'pounding' on the left side, and if he wasn't careful he'd drop his ash pan. But he didn't hear, No one heard me. Everything was flying and whizzing. Telegraph poles on the side of the track looked like a row of corn-stalks, the trees appeared to be a mud bank, and all the time the exhaust of the old machine sounded Jike the hum of a bumblebee. I tried to yell

out, but my tongue wouldn't move. HeJ

wont around curves like a bullet, slipped an eccentric, blew out his soft plug, went do wn grades fifty feet to the mile and not a confounded brake set She went by tho meeting-point at a mile-and-a-hnlf a miuute, and calling for more steam, My hair stood up like a cat's tail, because I knew the game was up. Sure enough, (lead ahead of us was the head-light of

tho special. In a daze I heard the crash

ae they struck, and I saw cars shivered into atoms, people mashed and mangled ami bleeding and begging for water. I heard another crash as the French professor struck tbe deep keys away down on the lower end of the southern division and then I came to my senses. There he was at a dead standstill, with the door of the fire-box wide open, wiping the perspiration off his face and bowing at the people before him. If I live to be a thousand years old I'll never forget the ride that Frenchman gave me ou a piano."'

Manufactures of Moss. Probably few persous who, while traveling in Florida and other of the Gulf States,

had their attention attracted by the vast quantities of gray moss hanging upon the forest trees, ever thought that it was an important article of trade. Yet it is very

extensively used in stuffing mattresses and

chaise, and its use is increasing every year.

No Southerner native in the localities

wh ire it growrs 'remembers or ever heard

of ihe time when it did not grow, yet it

scans never to have occurred to any

one tnat it coulct be made an article, ot commerce until the Yankee went South

during the rebellion. The trade in it be

gin soon after the war closed, but like

motft other such enterprises was of slow

growth. The moss sent to market was for

some years mainly obtained in Louisiana, but the trade gradually extended to Misr sissippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida.

The finest moss is said t be that which

grows in Florida. The-gray moss is ab

solutely an air planf, taking' root and perfecting its fiber and substance in the pure

atmosphere. There is no danger of the supply being exhausted, for as mst as it is removed it reproducesdtself. Moss factories

are located in many parts oi! the South to

which the gatherers take it, and are paid

an average of one cent a pound. The pro

cess of manufacture is. to put it in an over

flowed spot or thoroughly saturate it with

water, and pile it in heaps. It is then left

to rot for from thirty days . to four

months, when the cuticle comes off, after.

which it is placed on frames to dry. When

dried it is twice run through a picker to

separate it from sticks and twigs, and al

so to separate the fibers from each other.

When ready for market the prepared moss is graded according to quality and sells at the factories for from three to ten cents a pound. The poorer grades are used in the manufacture of mattresses, and the higher grides for stuffing furnitures-carriage cushions, etc. The industry is said to be

very profitable and requires little capital,

everything connected with it being pro

duced upon the ground except a small en

gine, picker, and a bale press. The de

mand for manufactured moss is said to be

greatly in excess of the supply. Persons

whoso health required a residence in a

warmer climate would do well to think over the propriety of engaging in this

busings.

the trees for a few minutes, and small animals that happened in the vicinity."

One volumeof carbonic acid gas,-it will-

be remembered, diffused through one hundred volumes of air, totally unfits it

to sustain life. It is this gas which is

thrown off by heaters and stoves, and that produces such fatal results in close, ill-ventiiated rooms. The death of the

late Sheriff Scankm, of this county, is at

tributed to the constant breathing of fas

irom the rock bank fire of Colorado Col

liery. - h

Fires in Coal Mines.

Drowning out a mine, says a Pottsvilie,

Pa,, correspondent of the Philadelphia

Press, means something more to the operator than simply filling a mine with water and pumping it out again. It results in months of enforced idleness to

himself and his men, and thousands of

dollan? expense in reopening gangways

and other underground passages. At

Wades ville shaft, previously mentioned. Mill Creek was turned in on the 2Sth of April of last year, and, though for several months past pumping has been going on industriously, and about 2,000,000 gallons ol water a day have been hoisted, it will be ten weeks yet before the mine is emptied, and two months beyond that before the gangways can be reopened and the miners begin cutting coaL Not far from ibis mine are the old Hickory workings, which haie been afire for the past twenty -five years. Twenty years ago it was nesessary to dig a deep and wide ditch into the Jjillside to cut off the fire and pi event it from reaching the works of Beeohwood Colliery, the breaker of which stands nearly two miles away. This fire had its origin at the boilers of an inside engine. The hot ashes were thrown into worked out places, which ignited and spread with such rapidity that the place had to be abandoned. Colkftt Colliery, in the western part of this (Sohuylkill) county, presents some curious phases of mine fires. The- dirt,

or oulm, bank approaches very near to Donaldson. In fact the village is built under the shadow of the great mountains

of culm- The latter have been afire for

some time, and forces of men are battling

with the flames daily. Below the surface, however, the flames are raging with even greater severity. For ten years the east side workings of the bio vein at tbis colliery ha.ve been afire. The shaft is over 800 feet long and acts as a chimney or flue to draw off the carbonic oxide and nitrogeia gases thrown off by the burning coal. These gases vitiate the atmosphere with dewily effect. "I have stood on the edge of a breach in tbe neighborhood," said Mine Inspector Samuel Gay this wfeek, Mand have seen birds fall dead out of the trees overhead. The sides of the breach were covered with skeletons and fresh corpses of birds that had perched in

At Steamboat Dog.

Springfield, Mo., Harold.

Capt. Jack Bstis, an old steamboatman,

has been in the city ail week circulating

among friends. He has just returned to

his home at Lebanon from his regular winter engagement on the Lower Missis

sippi and tributaries, coming up by Men

phis and Cairo. The Captain owned un

til recently a lnrge Bernard mastiff, bearing tho euphonious name of "Dibs.'.' This animal weighed over 100 pounds, and

always accompanying his 'master on the

river on his trips between Memphis and

New Orleans, became noted for his intel

ligence and remarkable size. Dibs learn

ed to distinguish the steamboat signals so perfectly that he could govern his move?

ments as correctly as the oldest pilot oh

the river. Whenever the boat would whistle for a landing Dibs, who generally

lay stretched out asleep in the bi wywould

at onee bftnomft alfirfe and wafiVh f.ViA an.

proaching shore, and as soon as the land

ing stage was ' lowered ! would bound

across it and skurry about the wharf in

a thorough enjoyment of his liberty. No

other signal from the whistles had any

power to disturb his slumber save this

At night' he was always vigilant, atid his. great strength made him an invaluable guard over freight. Woe to the unlucky

roustabout who would essay to "suck1 whisky from the barrels, or sample any of the store of fruits or planters supplies carried as cargo. Dibs was ever at hand to interpose an objection, and was known to be incorruptible. During his life on the river the noble animal rescued several persons from death by drowning, never making a failure in any of his attempts. Once at a landmg he dived entirely under the bottom of the boat to bring up a little

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I -j GENERAL MISCELLANY. John B. Gough estimates that he haa liMjtured before 8,500,000 people. Walking from his home to the London docks, an aggrega te of 41 11,823 mile W man has collected 000,000 cigar ends in seven?y6arfli'Htsf,?aBsr" "T"

The widow of the late Captain DeLong of arctic fameris yearOletit haa

light brown hair, haeTgv and is-a very rretty womRii. The 388d anniversary the fonnditoff cf tbe chV of Sata Fe N. M., will be oek4 brated in July next. Hanta $e is the oldA est American town in emsfceneef ' "'A Ilnssian Princess at a recent ball giv- - ' n in Nice wore a dress made entirely of peacock's fathers. Heads of the birds wit eyes made of garnetswere used in the looping, r -' . . The orator remarked: "What has thia .. country to expect after the Forty-seyentli Congress?" and a hoarse whisper from

the gallery responded, "The forty-eighth. -

A" New Hampshire wildcat sprang from

i tree at a boy and landed in a kettle of

boiling ss p. The ?boy says the way that cat looked baclc at him m she started off ralmost molted his heart .a-TT-While overwork was the main cause of8 Secretary tfolgerillness, no doubt tha:' defective ventilation of the Treasury bnilding had something td do with ite -The air" in the long . corridors is said to be -often-' mve and poisonous. Ventilation is a mat-, f tor of first importance in the constraotioa

'of public buildings and yet, curiously, it

da the thing that in nine cases out of tenf

r.receives the" least attention; " " ' .... ! '

Of the 260,000 Indians in the United States, about 160,000 in the West Northwest and Southwest require more or less ,,, .military surveillance. One-fourth of them - or 50,000 in round numbersare adulta " capable ot bearing arms, but there are eet ! . dom more than from 100 to 1,000 India on the war-path. Yet we have on the borvv i5

I der a force of 17,500 men for purposwpf repression and suppression. . ,f - 1 -i Prominent nublic men of France hft V8; .

i lately expressed the opinion that the s4.

French Government is in no danger from K Oricanists, Legitimists1 or Anarchists;, Affairs are running smoothly, despite the ' ebrts of a small set of malcontents to put 1 obstructions in the wav and . smash the . ;

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boy who had accidentally fallen in and RePubHfv Reports lately sent out from

been drawn beneath by the suction of the current, and" remained down so long that the bystanders thought he had sacrificed his own life in behalf of the child, but finally he rose to the "surface, bringing the nearly lifeless body with him.

Paris about the designs and the doing of

Communists seem to have been largely

sensational.

Some Great Mehfs Wives? New York Letter.

The Colorado Cannibal A Denver, Colorado, dispatch says : The trial of Alfred G. Parker, the San Juan ghcul, charged with murdering rive companions in the San Juan country in 1872, in progress in Lake pity the last few-days, concluded to-night, and the case was given to the jury. The evidence shows that a party of six organized in Utah in 1872 to prospect Southenr 60I0rado. While m the' vicinity of 'the present site of Lake City, blinding storms coming on, they lost their way, their food gave out, and for. day s together they lived on rosebuds. The men became desperate and some crazed. While in this condition, Packer deUberately fell upon and butchered the whole partyand for several weeks lived on the flesh cut from their bodies. Yestarday, in the course of the tri 1, Packer made a statement calmly, and for two hours he related the experiences of the party from their setting out in Utah, closing with the most sickening details of the murder and subsequent feasting on the human flesh, claiming that the killing was done in self-defense The evidence shows that each member of the party except -Packer possessed quite a large sum of money upon: which the ghoul has since been living. After nine years wandering he was captured a few weeks sinoe near Fort PettermEn, Wyoming. While the evidence is entirely circumstantial, yet it is deemed conclusive, and a verdict of guilty is confidently expected;

General Gresham. Wasihngton Special Cm. Enqu:rer. Judge Walter Q.Gresham took the oath of office, and at once assumed the duties thereof. He was presented to the heads of Jthe several divisions, and subsequently received many callers. Judge Gresham made a decided impression upon his subordinates iu the office, and will, no doubt, be Postmaster-General in fact as well as in. name. The oath of office -was adminr istered by Judge bawrenson, who has sworn in the last twenty postmasters, be gbming with Cave Johnson -in 1845. He has also served under twenty- seven heads

of the department. . Judge Law rensou related an incident of the administration' of Jauies Monroe,

told him by Mr, Joseph Burrows, of this j

city. "One morning Postmaster-General Meigs called me,a ad, handing me a letter, said ; 1 Mr. Burrows, please take this let ter up to the President; it is my resignation.' I was greatly surprised at this,but proceeded on his errand. At the White House I found President Monroe in a pleasant moodfand handed him thedetter.

The President read it, and then said: Mi

Burrows, please return this letter to the Postmaster-general with my compliments aud tell him when I want his resignation

I will send for it.' I then returned with

the message," f

Greely's Writing; ' ! r

Norriutown Herald.

A man in Lawrence offered a prize to

smy one who would decipher a note in his possession written by Horace Gree

ley. Several persons tackled the ohirog-

raphy, which looked like a quotation

from, a Chinese paper run through a sausage cutter. One man submitted this as

th result of his labors: "Doughnuts

fried in lard causes indigestion badly."

Another offered this: "Idiots laugh at Abolitionists, you bet." A third claimed

the prize with this: "I'd knock the stuf-

rin outen him if he was my offspring;"

and a young lady was positive it read:

''Sparking Sundaynights is a wholesome

occupation." The owner of the note was

Chairman of a lecture committee in 1870,

and the hieroglyphics, when translated by an expert read: "I do net intend to lecture this winter. Yrs., fco., H. Greeley." . . ; - Wouldn' t Obey Orders. "During the rebellion," says the Cleveland Sentinel, "a well known Cleveland Colonel observe one of his . soldiers wending his way to camp with a fine rooster in his arms. He halted him and wanted to know if he had been stealing chickens. No, Colonel was the reply, I just saw the old fellow sitting on the fence, and I ordered him to crow for the stars aud stripes, and he wouldn't, so I confiscated him tor a rebel."

I met a congressman yesterday at thai Fifth avenue Hotel and spoke to him about a paragraph I had seen in a Washington paper to the effect that a Western congressman had made his wife a" present ; of $2,000 for her agreeing not to spend the

winter in Washington? I asked him if it

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was true. ''Ten to'oue it is" he saidT4 Of

all the scaly, uncouth and remarkable objects in creation a Western congressman's wife is perhaps the most eminent. Nothing can approach her except her daughters. If my wife was like any of. the fifty or sixty particularly bad: eases in Washington society I wouJd cheerfully give her nine-tenths of my fortune to stay in the wild Western woods; ; Just before I came away I attended a reoeption by Mrs. Frelinghuysen, and saw a fair illustration of the manners of the wives of these Western politicians. . Mrs. Freling-. huysen, evidently with the intention of assisting h:r guests in the ait pf politeqcsp, had stationed herself almost opposite the double doors that led into the -reception room, so that anybody walking in would surely see her. Thus, it was fondly hoped that the members' wives i would walk up to her on entering the room, and offer their congratulations. About 10:80 the wives of the Western members began to come in, with long- ' decked and freckled daughters, but decked in the most gorgeous styles of the . fashions of '78 and '7$ I give you my "word, at least six of the Western women who entered the room, either through positive ignorance or embarrassment, failed to greet the hostess at all,but sidledi off among the chairs at the other side of

the doorway or rushed precipitate!J',i' to fiiends whom they happened to knbw m-'1

the throng. Before the wives leave their"

country homes they usually have a lot of

gaudy and ill fitting bail costumes made with which they confidently expect to create a sensation in Washington? They do create a sensation, but not of the sort ' i they desire. It fc. aetofti ding the mistakas that some of them make when they first arrive. . A few have-enough 'natural tact and adaptability to overcome- their luck of breedim? after they have; been a j

shrt t ime at the Capital, but some ottfe . V'on'en remain awkward to the last. A hostess who can receive' acceptably and

popularly m'iWashingtonu man of nncommonfeict and goodvhumor I fr t he people who come to her house are m mighty haid to manage. '..,, , ; . 1 ; ; n

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