Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 28, Bloomington, Monroe County, 12 May 1883 — Page 2

Bt H. J. b'JSLTOS.

BLOOMIXGTON,

.oarier.

INDIANA

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Oor Compilation o the Important Happenings ol the Weefe, INDIANA ITEMS: TheG. A. R will give a picnic on July 4, at Tern, and roast oxen, sheep and hogs will be on the bill of fare. A Seymour man cliims to have killed a rattlesnake seven feet long, with twentyseven rattles and a button. L G. Snelt, a prominent citizen, and Dr. Wm. Cocnors are held to bail at Union City for alleged grave robbery. Three women were burned to death in the State, Wednesday, at different points

and under different circumstances. I)r. Commons, Dr. Green and J. W. Snell, of Union City, who were indicted for body-snatching, have been acquitted. Sixteen hundred men are now employed in the car works at Jefferson ville, and within the next two weeks the force will be increased to 1,800. There has never teen known a time in the history of Washington county when the fruit crc p presented a more promising appearance than it does now. The information is given at the Sate Bend of Asiknlture locms that the lett bines hae lun entirely killed, and that there will be an average yield of apples. W. B. Seabrighf, mayor of Vincennes, committed suicide, Wednesday, by shooting himself through the head, fle was defeated for re-election, which is given as the cause.

The Studebaker Brothers ship timber from counties boiderii g on the Ohio river to South Bend, where it is made pu into wagons end shipped to all parts of the continent The Indiana elections Tuesday resulted in little change from the usual results. Principally, politics did not enter into consideration, and the canvass centered on matters of local interests only. The President has appointed Wm. A. Woods, Judgo of the State Supreme Court tc succeed Judge Gresham as U. S District Judge for Indiana, which ex ites a vacancy in tie State Supreme Court. .... .Independence, a small town on the Wabash river, has fifteen cases of small pox, tnd three deaths hare resulted. fcA man named Patton, on his return from Ohio, took his ease to the little town, and he was the first to die. By a premature discharge of dynamite powder on a farm fifteen miles northwest of Fort Wayne, Simon Kuport was killed Monday and frightfully mangled. A. W. Fry, assisting, was badly hurt. . William PolTenberger, a Bluifton young man, started to Fort Wayne with a gamier named Hughes, to see the town. He soon missed Hughes from the train, and at the same time missed $250 in greenbacks, which he had foolishly displayed. James- Newman was brought to the

system. Tho patients, with the exception of the maniacs and those violently insane are given out-door work and tho treatment consists almost solely of methods which have the effect to divert their minds from concentration upon any one subject. They are permitted to move about with freedom and require little guarding. In fact, the Governor says, one would hardly suspect from casual observation that they were insane people. There is no doubt that the methods are better than those now in use in Indiana and it is likely that the new hospitals, will be constructed upon plans adopted to much the same mode of treatment. The Rev. Josiah Ileuson, Mrs. Stowe's Uneie Tom, died Saturday, aged ninetyfour. The dailv mail of the Pension Bureau

in Washington is as large as w that of a

city oC 20,000 inhabitants. The divorced wife of ex Senator Sprague lias dropped his name, and is now known as Catherine Chase. Strikes are occurring among the cigar makers in almost every city of the Union At New York 700 cigarette makers are out. Most of the cities have given the advance demanded, At Pittsburg 8,000 miners are out against a reduction. The count of cash, examination of securities, etc., in the treasury, shows that the onlv discrepancy discovered was an excess of 3 cents in favor of the retiring officer. This evcess exiett d hen Mr. Gil til lan took possession of the office. The resignation of Lieutenant Colonel Guidno Hges, Eignteenth Infantry, to take effect in January next, has been received at the War Department, having been forwarded from General Terry's

headquarters. Secretary Lincoln directed that L be returned with instructions

that if the resignation be tendered to take effect immediately it will be accepted; that otherwise a court martial will be ordered to try him upon the charge of duplicating Lis pay accounts. There was the greatest movement in manufactured tobacco at Lynchburg, Va. Tueeday, ever recorded in history. Nearly 60,000 worth of stamps were issued, and thirty-six car leads of tobacco, aggregating about 800,000 pounds were shipped to various points. One firm shipped 120,000 pounds. But for the damaging strike by -the operatives, the shipment from this point would exceed a million pounds. At Louisville, Ky., Richmond, Va, and all other points the movement in intobacco is reported re extraordinary. The new tax law went into effect Tuesday, which accounts for it. Rev. J. A. Eeddick, a well-known colored Methodist Episcopal clergyman, .formerly of Baltimore, but now of Staunton, Va, arrived in Baltimore, Wednesday on a train from Washington, over the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and ?.t once made complaint that his civil rights had been denied him, and that he hd been ill-treated and ejected from the Viaduct Hotel at Belay station, owned by the railroad company. He states that when t he train arrived at Kelay he went into the hottl witli the other passengers to his breakfast, but was refused by the mana-

gee of the house, who stated that John

Southern Prison, on Thursday mornin

to serve three vears fr stealing food from 1 w- Garrett had gi Ten orders that colored

the flood sufferers. He came from Posev owpie saimia not oe served mere, xne

clergyman says he attempted to remonstrate with the manager, when the la tor became angry, and with an oath put him out of the dining-room. Mr, Reddick declares he will have his rights vindicated.

county, and the people of that county think thet he is the "riirbt maa in the right place. While out hunting near Boonville, on Saturday, Gussie Wyerbacher, . aged ten years, accidentlly shot John White house, aged abont eight years, with an

air-gun. xne Dan entered tne ieit eye,

tearing out the entire eye, and lodged in the nasal bone. The eye is destroyed and the boy in a dangerous condition. Emma Gerard, a vicious woman, who ormerly lived in Anderson, and latterly in Marion, and who afterwards drifted to Texas, has been sentenced to be hanged for shooting her little girl whom she compelled to beg on the streets. She killed the little girl in a fife cf rage, because she did not . bring home enough money as the result of her begging.

THE EAST: E: -Senator Kellogg has bean admitted to bail in the sum of $10,009. The coinage at the mint in Philadelphia for April aggregated 6,356,003 pieces, valued at $1,575,603. A bill to pension school te: chers over seventy years of age has passed the New York Legislature. The Massachusetts Senate passed a bill for the payment of $1 a ton bounty on beets raised for sugar-making purposes. The Grand Army of the Republic's

"Concert of War Songs," at Boston, on

A fire broke out in Union Oifey, Friday j Thursday, was attended by 10,000 people.

night, and destroyed property to the

amount of $250,000. The waterworks and fire apparatus proved inefficient and assistance was sent from Sidneyand Green ville, Ohio. The fire burned from 6:30 to 11 30. Telegraph communication was cut off. Among the property destroyed was the planning mill and lumber yard of Peter Kuntz k Co. The fire was seen from Bichmond, twenty-five nii'es. A baby, a little over a year old, belong ing to Mr. Richards, was accident!; killed at Donaldsonville, one day last week. Some children had it out in a baby carriage, which got away from them and ran down an inclination in the sidewalk until it ran off the walk and upset just under a horse's feet which was hitched there. The child was thrown out and the horse stepped upon its head, crashing it and killing the child instantly. The Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture states that although the large majority of farmers have not done their planting, he has- seen corn above ground, which is in 8 ne condition. " The failure of last year's crop," the Secretary remarks, "largely through tho unsound corn planted, has had the effect to make the farmers more careful in the selection of their seed-corn, and the grain for this year will, therefore be more healthful Another chapter in the fatal shooting affair which oceured at Boonville on the 28th of April, when Jake Wallace lost his Jife, was closed on Thursday night by the death of Thomas Wallace, who died from the effects o! the pistol shots he received at the hands of Simon Williams. Williams is still in the Evansville jail. Considerable exeitet&ent and deep feeling was manifested at the death of the Wallace boys. The report of the Htate-housc commis-sicners-for the quarter ending March 31 was submitted to the Governor last Saturday. The only notable thing about it is that it contains nothing of interest. The action of the General Assembly is elaborately set forth, but the commissioners say nothing in regard to their intentions. At their present rate of progress they are not likely to reash any conclusion or take any decisive action for the next several years. .The expenditures up to the present time amount to 8781,762, 12. Governor Porter and the members of the Insane Hospital Commission, who visited the Illinois asylum at Kankakee last week, found that the methods of treatment were widely d liferent from those in vogue in the Indiana asylum and they were very favorably impressed with the system of management. The hospitals at Kankakee are conducted upon both he cottage and the palatial or congregate

The iniquities of Tewksbury alms house

have been duplicated at the Pettis county, Missouri, poor house, Sedalia, and at the East Brunswick, New Jersey, poor house. John Russell, a New York printer, who

j died in Bellevue hospital, the other day,

had over $40,000 on deposit in various savings bank. He went to the hospital as a pauper. A valuable two-year old colt, owned by Lyman S. Rhodes, of the Dorchester die trior, Boston, cut her throat while in pasture, on Sunday, on a barbed-wire fence and bled to death. The colt was val ued at ; 3,000, and was soon to be sent West. J ohn Callahar, of Manchester, ? Ma- s., wentto Wolwin,on Saturday night,bought galh n of liquor and went on a spree. Be brought a three year-old child with him, forced him to drink all he could and then threw liquor in his face. The child went into convulsions and died. Bishop Roane, of Albar has made a plan to build a grand cathedral in the city and he has collected 344.000 with which to begin the work. The site has been selected and the ground has been paid for. The cathedral is to seat 2,000 people, and will have cost when completed about 8300,000. A convict in the Sing Sing penitentiary secreted himself in the pattern-shop of the prison stove foundry until the establishment was closed for the night, and hen with an ax broke up $1,200 worth of patterns, the loss of w bich will cause a suspension of work in the foundry foi several days. The eminent colored scholar, Richard T. Greener, L. L. D., seriously doubts the wisdom of toe national convention of colored men, which it is proposed to hold in Waalungtcn in September. Ho says: "IC the negro could get rid of his colore J leaders and his white philanthropists by professioD, he might develop into a useful citizen." THE WEST: Sitting Bull has turned farmer. Kansas crop reports are encouraging. The Soott liquor bill has got into the Ohio Supreme Court, and will be decided, this month. A whole family has been arrested at Marshfield, Mo., charged with placing obstructions on railroad tracks. High license is rhe motto of Iowa towns and cities now, the saloons being taxed from $400 to $1,000 apicci. The city council of Danville, Illinois, lias raised saloon license from $100 to $C0P. There are forty saloons in the city. By a shameful system of weighing wheat in East St. Louis, farmers of Illinois have been victimized to a great extent

S. AY. Talmage, of the Milwaukee Chamber of Oommeice, says the May crop rAnnrfr. -will lm but little, if M1V. better

than that of April. The people of Grinnell, la., the town so badly wrecked by a tornado last June, have sent 500 to the sufferers from the tornado in Mississippi. Suit is to be begun for possession of ten acres of ground in Waco, Tex., on which are located school and church buildings and several handsome icsidences. Mrs. Louisa B. Stephens has been tolcccd to succeed her husband as presdent of the. First National batik, of Marion la. She is the fu st woman who ever held alike position. A light oceured en the open prairie, in Indian Territory, between three horsethieves and a posse of citizens. Cue of tho thieves was killed, another fatally

wounded and the t'lird captured. Two escaped convicts named James Miller and Thoinan Kntherin, have terrorized Van Buren county, Ark., not slopping at murder, and a party of twenty men are now searching for them in their retreat, the Boston Mountains. It is discovered that an organised band

of rustlers are running ciT the stock of the Crows on the Wyoming bender, and tho Indians are asking for proteetiou. It is now believed that this gang, instead of the Pivgnns, made the recent laid noon the Indian ranges. The Josephite Mormons seem to bo worrying the "Latter Day Saints in Utah." On Saturday the pil..amist organ had a three column editorial blasting it to the monagamist Mormons. Besides this there was a long cnmmnnieatimi on

the same subject from a polygaxm&t sister. The city attorney of Eldoiado Springs, Mo., who has been married but four months, attempted to elope with a young lady of respectable connection in the place. The couple were overtaken by the lawyer's father-in-law and two uncles of

the woman, who obliged them to return to Eldorado Springs. An immense crowd witnessed the departure, at Pan Pan, Mich., Wednesday, of Mrs. Mary J2. Jones, the world's champion female pedestrian, cn her long walk o San Francisco, which she expects to reach Sept. 1, lecturing on her way. Hhe does this to show what a woman can do, and for the elevation of her sex. When the town of St. Lawrence, Hand

I county, Dakota, was laid out in lott, last

spring, it was announced that a choice lot was reserved to be presented to the first baby boy born within the corporate limits of the place. The prize has fallen to the infant son of Mr, Wm, Trimble, of Inglevillc, Yanderburg county, who married Miss Eliza yeott, of Evatsville. The farmers near rcknty viiie, 111., are manifesting cnsideinble anxiety over the recent discovery of glanders among the horses of a farmer named Pi overt, on the east side of the county. Three or four horses were killed and eight or ten more put under strict quarantine. It is hoped, however, with care to prevent the further spread cf the disease. The Minneapolis Tribune will publi sh an interview with Col. S. G. McGill, superintendent of elevators on the Northern Pacific, saying that sealing in the Bed River valley, and throughout northern Minnesota and Dakota, is considerably in advance oflast ir, aud is being pushed rapidly. If the present favorable wcaher ronf.in.us i h- ara of wheat roroj in these sections will be 'very much linger than last year. A Ouadalonpe rancher leporfs that General Crook passed across the Mexican boundary, last Friday, with his troops and scouts, out fitted for a three montUs' campaign in pursuit of th marauding Indians. General Crook detached a guijrd with orders not to permit any one bearing dispatches for aim to cross the line. He then struck out with his vrhcle command for J if& Itif, in the hiuit tl the Sierr Madre. An Indian Territory special reports great loss of life among the horses of the herdsmen in the counties along the Texas border from the deadly poison of the "loco 'plant It is especially unfortunate at this time,as all the horses that can be procured by cuttle men are needed for

the spring round-up or to ta.se the trail.

been indicted for murder by the grand jury which was unexpected. "Public sentiment, which was favorable to Thompson, is undergoing a change, aud the murder is now regarded as little less than an assassination. In the ease of Myra Clark Gaines against the city of New Orleans, Mrs. Gainers gets judgment against the city for $1,025,(3)7 the rents and profits repnltinc from the ocrnipatiou of the property hhown as the Blanc t' act, which the city has had in its possession since March mm?. Ex-Speaker Randall has returned from a visit to Senator Ken na, in West Virginia aud if? thoroughly impressed with the great future of that State "I dislike to ses it," be said, "because of State pride, hue the Kanawha valley of West Virginia will soon supply the West, with coal. Only recently a million of English capital has been invested there. Railroads are being built, and tho rapid development of the State is phenomenal.

GEOGRAPHICAL DERIVATIONS. "Now," in a Chili tone she said, t will b 1 r ' 'tis trno. Although yi Arab brilliant catch, 1 do not Cattre you." O, hOy ! 1'n p1o lummy tu Thin heart ie Bcot by thee." "Nay, sir, I oomiui howl your words For you Ariiaut to mo !" "Tia Wolsh'sho ntldnl, freezing!?, Siiico Siaiu proasod so fair. To Hindoo you no longer hero And so, good nr, Tartar !" " What Ottoman Hko mo to do?" Bewailed the stricken man: I'll Finnish up my mad career, Aud wed the Gallican !"

ON A RAFT IN THE FRESHET.

FOREIGN

W U. Vanderbilt and familv sailed for Eu rope, 8a tu rday. The striking bakers at Vienna created a eerious riot Friday night. Tbs greater part of Koeniginbof, Boham in, Las been dest royed by fire. . The importation cf American pork into Greece in forbidden by tht government. The te-timonial which is being raised for rarnell has reached the sum of 000. A great strike among carpenters and

masons for increase of wages has begun in Berlin. Hix persons were killed by the explosion of a powder magazine at Portsmouth, England. Bradlanph again demanded his seat in the House of Commons, Friday, and was again refused. Brrdlangb announces that he will make no further effort to Fccuro his seat in Commons, but will visit his constituents and resign, ; The polar exploring ship, WiUemberts, has sailed from Amsterdam for the Artie regions in search of the Dnteh artic expedition in the Varna. The council of French have ministers instructed the minister of commerce to examine into the question of rescinding tho interdict on salted meats from abroad.

The Veracious Narrative of Mr. "Curleyn Peters, Steersman. Callicoon (N, Y.) Cor. Now York Sun,

'Curley" Peters, the steersman, and , Toe ! rkdit back on to her. an

Billings, tho front oarsman, and Billy auin, T were kinder shinned, natVally,

up an'jhowled. The raft ended fur the rocks,an' I shot my oyes an1 tried to pray, but durn singular ez mebbe y'll think it, X couldn't git my mind on nothin but wonderhi who m wdder would marry. While i were tryiir to settle on the man ez'd he mt-at likelv t honk onto her an' the S3r.ti I had in m chist id hum, T felt myself L-goin up towards the clouds, an' a-eailin' through the air, ez if I'd bin a Kotiin' re a pciwder kag, an1 somebody had touched a match to it. t opened my eves to fee what wtjk the matter. Ez I

tui ned a summerset I see that I war suthin like . couple of hundred yards ahead o' ihe rafi, an' it wnr biliu' along with one side kind o tore out. She had stove on the rocks but not head on, an" the shake up onlv just slackened her speed a lectio, v hWi1 f i:ep aoin right on. But that raft shot ahead so durn fast through the rift ! hat whf n 1 got down, more'n 300 yards from where we stove, she were plumb in under me, an I jest plunked

away we tore

King, the hind orasman, Fat in the smok

ing-car on their way to Big Eddy, from where they wec to start down tht liver ;

with a three-oared raft. The train was booming along at twenty-five miles an hour. "This is gettin' over the groun' pooty tol'able scrumptious, I'm takin' on it,"

said the hind oarsman, "an' rather knocks the sadust ont'n raft in'. I reckon that we're a scootin' 'long a little bit faster th'n the riptearnest fresh on record ever drnv a hemlock raft, don't yo think we be, Curley?" "Not by a pow'rful sight, we hain't," said the steersman. "I guess it you'd a ben 'long o' me on a raft o' toggle-timber that I run from the Gap to Easton Bridge, on the roarin' old fresh e,'3 come from the big June rain, back in G2f you d think this ere train o' keers won't more th'n keepin' out'n the way of a funner'l percession." "See yer, Curley,' the front oarsman put in, "y, hain't agoin' to run us up agin that ba'd-headed yarn, be yeV The las' time v' tole that lie, which it we e up in the Long Eddy tavern, don't y reckomember that the tavern were struck b' iiglitnin an' we was longest a fotohin' you to tlm' ef y d a clum outsid'n three drinks o' the Eddy rum? If you steer ne foul o' the blame thing again I'm s teered

Upon the occasion of the coronation of ! t: ere 11 be a wreck on this ere train, sar-

the Czar, the poll-tax will he reduced 10,000 O'.H) roubles for the entire empire, and there will be remissions of various fines, sentences aud penalties. A sensation was caused in Dublin by two of ihe Phoenix Paik murderers confessing complicity in the horrible crime. Their evidence corroborat s what has a'lre::dy been ;aven. The Itiisfiicn auth.:iiiifs l.-eiiove the nihilists are preparing for simultaneous disturbances in various parts of the empire during the coronation ceremonies. Many awards have been made to persons who suffered by reason of violations of law in Ireland. Lady Mountmorris and Mrs. Blake both receive for ihe vaarder of their husbands. A dispatch has been received f: om Tabreez, Persia, repmiing that the city has bren visited by an farthtpiake which de

i efro el a gr at manv houses and caused

ihe death of a large number of persons. A de-patch has been received from Tabret z, Persia, reporting that the city l:ai b-'um vitited by an earthquake, which uVsi ' ed a gieat majiV houses, and c utsed tJie death of a gnat number of person s Tlie Ijondon Times says a meeting of leiifling owners of steamships will beheld on tb-r KMh instant, to take steps towards raising capital for the purpose ot building smother canal across the Isthmus of Buo;;. The board of bishop:- of the Methodist church, south, have decided to establish an Anglo-Saxon university at Shanghai, China, with Dr. Y. J. Allen, president. They also made an appropriation of 820,(K)0 for supporting missions in Brazil. A Lexington, Ky., special says the stable of 3. A. Ch'instead, containing six thoroughbred yearlings, all by imported Thunderstorm, was burned, and all oensumed. Loss, SI 0,000. It was the

work of an inesudiarv.

At Antwerp, the authorities refused to

One party owning 450 iirsl-class horses i Krant a concession to a company wishing

can use but tea of them, the poisonous "loco' having taken the rest Before Judge Tuley in the Circuit Court at Chicago, on Saturday, certain heirs contested the pay ent of a bequest to a priest of ihe Eoman Cat liolic Church to reimburse him for sayiii masses for the repose of the soul of testator. The point urged by counsel for the hoi i s was that the money wan expended for super-

to erect grain elevators for unloading grain. Previous to the announcement of the decision a mob attacked the town heard smashing windows and injuring several persons. The police charged on the crowd, and made a number of at rests 'The cab driver, Fdzharris, on triul charged with being one of the principles in the Phomix Park murders, was ae quitted Tuesday. After the verdict had

sliticus use. The court held the objee- j been rendered, Fstzharris was taken back tion could not hold aud the bequest was ! to jail to await trial on the charge of con-

valid undo-the State statute. The death is announced oi! au aged negro named Jordou Blizzard, at C'enierville, ().. who was probab'y one of the oldest citizens in the United Htah s, ah though his exact age cannot be ascertained. The information that can be obtained from the most reliable sources the year of his birth at about 1758. Ho was. thefef ore, rd ti e time ot his death, 125 years oil. He was born in !jipijx county, near Norfolk, Va. He lived the last eighty years in Ohio, having come to the State in l.SUO, even before Ohio was a State. The last few years of his life.he was partially blind and deaf, and it is thought his death resulted from sheer exhaustion.

THE SOUTH; It is estimated that the loss lo the government from smuggling cairn d on al.mg the Kio Grande amounts to 00,K)0. The superior court of Keiriucky, has decided that a woman can sue for money lost by her husband at gaming. Mercer county, Virginia, is sulTtring f rom the ravages of small no:;, and all efforts to stay it?: progress are unavailing. Lieut. Gillespie, of the Tosas rangers, reports from Fort Tavia that cattle and horse Ihieve. are very troublesome on the Bio Grande. Honolulu advieas state the large Chinese immigration is the absorbing question. At the rate the Chinese now arrive they will mou ont-oumber the natives. Meetings prntesfiug are constantly held. There is n repfrt I hat the hosiery irannfacturers of Crermany are moving to secure the abolition of prohibitory legislahition against pork. They are alarmed lest action be taken by tho next, United States congreea imposing a duty on hosiery, which will exclude it from tho United States. Congressman Thompson, Kenf mt; , who killed Davis a few days Hjp

Rpiracy to murder, the penalty for which offense i ten vears penal servitnda Av'tjrk on the Merced canal, projected to irrigate a vast tract of dry land in the Ban Joaquin valley, Cah, is being rapidly pushed forwauL When completed 25t),000 acres of poor wheat land will be turned into good fruit and vegetable land. Should the scheme prove a financial success, it will be the commencement of other similar canals, which will make the San Joaquin valley the heavist wheatraising section on the continent The Freeman's Journal says that the dynamite plot, hatched in America, was betrayed to the British consul at New York. The name of every conspirator who came to England, and the ship on which he sailed, was cabled to England directly after the vessel left New York. The police watched the conspirators from the time they landed in England. Tire Freeman's Journal also says a member of the go ve ruing council of the conspirators could alone have given such information A committee ot pork importers, at Hamburg, Germany, writes to the New York Chamber of Commerce that in order to secure the repeal of prohibition it is of the greatest importance that this government should take f ho t rouble of making the ueeesfiary investigations, which would establish the foi lowing facts: First, that no diseased hogs or dead hogs aro used for the ex ri trade; second, that tho examination of goods when shipped is a very strict -ne, so much so that only fully cured and v;iel.-sme meat can pass it. Tbs Good Old Antidote. Mnrr fliifi'ii Hmlii.

tin ez hemlock. Head yer timber clear o

that snag an give us a chance to tie up safe, won't ye?" "Hain't th yarn true?'" asked the hiud man. "True?" gaid the front oarsman. "Tru? Yhey hain't no more truth in it than they is sap in a forty-year-old tombstone!"

jo Dining s, sant cue steersman, "yer

pin ted dead wrong, fur if they ever were a reg'lar ole seasoned -in-the-log fact, warranted to cut four feet at tho butt, and to work up without nary a knot, seis ere one is the stick o timber ez'll get the canthook fu-t ev'ry time, an' don't ye forgit it!" "That's all right, Curley," replied the front oarsman, "but cf I was you, and spected to keep on telliu' thaf- air story; C'd git my life insured. Annynias an' Sapiry would a left their folks a durn sight better fixed ef they'd a done it, too. But, pull out! pull our with yer 'tarnal olo yarn, an' jes' see whar ye will land us." And Jo Billings lit his pipe and resigned himself to his fate. "I b'lieve I said ez how I run that ai raft from the Gap to Easton Bridge," the steersman began, "but that wa'n t the way on it. That raft run me, an done it, durn han'some, an' no mistake. "They hadn't ben seen a rain know'd 'long the Delywar1 fur forty year e2 come a dippin1 through the valley in June, '6:1 It jet came down in hogsheads full fur three days and nights. The river begun

to raise, an it kep' on a raisin' till they wa'n't scarcely no more land fur it to git a hold onto, an folks begun to give out contracts for the buildin o' Noar's arks. 'Long in the fall o '62 I had started with a five-oaed raft from the head o' the river fur tide, but the fresh didn't turn out to be notion' but a scrub fresh, an when we got to the Gap we run out o water an' had to tie up. They didn't come no water agin that season, an we didn't git none o no consekence till the big June fresh. Soon as they wa'n't no doubt that we was agoin' to have water 'nough to float the Great Eastern clean to the starfein' place o' the Delyware.' I struck 'ein in fur the Gay to git my rait in shape fur gittin' he tae rest o' the way to tide. They were a good fresh by the I got to the Gap, mi we overhauled, the raft au' tightened her up. By the time we hail her in shape the river begun to raise like ez if it was a tub an' some one were a pumpin water inter it through a six- inch pipe. It riz so fast that when we went to work on the raft at seven o'clock in the mornin' she lay at the foot ft a big button wood tiee ez stood on the bank, -By ten o'clock we had to cut away the branches o' that tree so e:s we could stan' up and work, an' them branches was thirty feet fron the groan by actiyal measure! An' it seemed ez if that water was a rnnnin1 more'n a hundred mile an hour. Wall, we see they wa'n't no use o' thinkin1 o' start-in' out on such water ez that, an' we unshipped the oars to wait for a fresh ez 'twere safe to run on. The two fellers ez was helpin' o me had left the raft an' I were pick in up some tools to carry off when one o' the snubbin' ropes snapped in two. Quicker'n lightnin that eeud o' the raft swung down stream, and kerbang went t other rope. In two seconds the raft was makin its way down that river at a rate ez railroad keers mebbe kin come up to one of these days, but the fas'e?t time ez ever wnr done yit on the best road in this kentry is like an ox train 'long side a 2:10 hoss when you kum tu talkin' 'bout how that air raft went sb'din1 'long. An thar I wur on the durn thing, without nary au oar, an' know in that when she stove up they wan't no more show o' me gitfcin ashore th'n there was for me to steer her with a pine shingle. The only thing I could do wur to just sit down au' take in the scenery an' wonder how much they'd find o me arter tho fust bridge-pier we met had got through with us. AH of a suddinl I thort o' Foul Hi ft which it takes a man ez knows every rook an' buth they is on the shore au' in the river to steer inter without stavin', an' I

says to myself, 'We may run clear o' ev'-

nn' when I sot up agin thar I see a bridge pier right atraight in f -out of us. They wa'nt no help for us. Bang! went

the raff squar on to the pier. When I come to I were lay in in a boat on the Pennsylvania shore, more'n ten rod below the bridge, two men alookiu' at me. " 'Wall,' says one on 'em, 'when I seen you a eorain ever that bridge, a whirlin' like a circus tumbler, an' ye korsoused inter the wafer 'Ion? side o' this boat, I were afeerd yed hin t yer.eelf, but I'm darned if e've got a scratch.! Y !:eet wh.eu the raft sapped ngin the pier, T didn't. Kzhiek had it, I went clean over the bridge, an it's a hundred foot high, fin' come down in ihe water on t'other side, whar two men was ketchin? driftwood. When the rafs and me left the Gap it was jist half-past ten. When T looked at my watch after comin' in the boat it Inekr d two Fronds o' being ten minutes to 'leven. Ez it's thirty miles from the Gap to Eastern bridge, Tm a takin it that a makin of it in less'n twenty minutes r other knocks this train's time clean out'n the channel." The hind oarsman didn't say whether lie believed the story or not, but when the train stopped at Pig Eddy he told Curley that he had changed his mind about going down the river, and when the train left Curley was looking for a man to take his place. Ed H. Mott.

A Tallahassee lady of n common nerve appeared at an evening party recently wearing live spiders, chameleons, beetles and ftre tlies in her hair and on her dress. Grace Greenwood writes from Paris that the average American dressmaker is more clever than the women of that calling in France, which no doubt is true, as the best dressmakers of Paris are men. At Sarah Benhardt's tea the other day, a certain Count appeared with one arm in a sling, having wounded himself while out shooting. "Really? quoth the

sympathetic Sarah, "so there was no other game?" Tho Rev. Miss Anna Olivei, who

recently resigned from the Willoughbyaveuno Methodist Episcopal c'mrch, Brooklin, L. I., has sold the church edifice, which was held in her name, to tho First Reformed Presbyterian church for $18,000. It is said that Mile. Etelka Borry who will soon appear in this country as a star, eats but one meal a day, walks ten miles each day, swings Indian clubs, t ys with hundred-pound dumb-bells and boxes like a prize fighter. We should think that Mile. Boory might be quite capable of managing her manager. Talking about the suppressed sex, we wero informed that there were 75,000 women who might have voted at the school meetings in N. II, tlr's spring if they

had seen fit, but they didn't and-at Manchester not more than 75 went near the polls. If only one woman in 1.000 wants to voie, why should there be any contraction about female suffrage? E x. Registration of women voters in Boston : "I wish to register, sir." "Your

name, please?" "Alraira Jane Simpson. Your age?" "Beg pardon." "Your age.' "Do I understand that I must give my age? "Yes, miss, the law requires it.' "Worlds, sir, would not tempt me to give it! Not that I cue. No; I had as lief wear it on my bonnet as a hackmau does his number, tut I'm a twin, and, if my sister has a weakness, it is that she dislikes any reference made to her age, and I could not give you mv own, because I do not wish t oiind her."

Morals of Southern Negroes.

A German professor asserts that ohlo- i rythin' till wo git to Foul Rift, but whou

i wc git thar Mrs. Curley Peters is a widS der sart in' ez sap in spring '

"Wall, we got to Foul Rift. The openin Ui it twixt the rocks didn't look no wider'n this koor, an' the water just got

rido of lime is a good antidote for snake poison when introduced under the skin near ihe wound, it may be, but Tejuins will cling to Hie old antidote which is introduced under the nose near tho chin.

A Cannoneers' Ride. iftpoeii Owfii in l ho Philadelphia ""Weekly Times. The most conspicuous act of reckless courage I ever saw displayed on any battlefield during our great civil war occurred at the second battle of Manassas on the 80th of August, 1S02. It was performed by a Federal artillerist in the presence of both armies and witrcssedby at least a thousand men, many of whom are still living and can readily recall the incident when reminded of the circumstances. J ust as Hood's men charged down the lull near the Henry House upon the first Federal line, and it became e ident he would capture the battery stationed there, a Federal artilleryman determined to save one of the cannons, if possible, aud to do so he hat to take it up the side of the ditch in front of the Confederates for half a mile. The ditch was four feet wide and a? many deep, and could not boscrossed with the cannou. How ho got his horses hitched or whether they had really ever been taken from

the piece I never have known, but the first I saw of him he was coming up our front in a sweeping gallop from the cloud of smoke and Hoou's men were firing at him. As soon as he escaped from the valley lie came in front of our brigade and under range of our muskets on the left, and as he swept on up the line a file fire was opened u pon him. Our line was approaching the ditch rapidly at a double quick and the lane between us and the ditch was getting narrower each second but the artilleryman seemed determined to save the gun from capture, and he flew along his course at a tremendious rate of s need- He had four large gray or white, horses to the cannou aud they came up the valley in splendid style. The man sat erect and kept his team well in hand, while his whip seemed to play upon ihe flanks of t' e leaders and all four horses appeared to leap together in regular time. Th- ground was very dry and a cloud of dust rolled out from under the the horses' feet, and from the wheels of the cannon as they came thundering along. Three regiments of our brigade had already fired at him as he rushed along their front and as he approached the left of another t ran down the rear rank shouting to the men: "Shoot at the horses! Let the man alone and shoot at the horses! Yon are firing to high!" At this I saw a noted marksman in Company F. drop upon ou kne and sight along the barrel of this musket and fire, but on came the man and the gallop of his team was unbroken. Ramming in another cartridge the marksman was ready again in a minute, and just as the cannoneer swept across his front within a hundred yards he kneeled down and, linking deliberate aim at the foremost horse, fired again, but on went the team unharmed as before. Thus he passed along the whole front of our regiment and then along another on our right and escaped around the head of the ditch aud across the field and up the hill beyond. As far off as we could see him his team wriS still going in a gallop, but when out of range on the hill beyond tho ditch he turned in Ins saddle and, taking off his hat, waved it around his head several hme3 and some of the Confederates checed him. At least 500 men fired at that Yankee gunner, and 1 have often wondered if he escaped death in the subsequent battles Or! the war and lives to tell of the fearful gantlet he ran along the front of a wholebrigade ot! Confederates firing at him. For and About Women, Alabama has 17,247 more women than men. Fanny Davenport will summer on her farm at Canton, Pa. The w indow of Benjamin Walkius Leigh formerly V. S. Seantor from Virginia, died in N. Y, aged SI years. The Queen has intimated that she will open the Universal Fisheries Exhibition, even if unable to walk at the time of the opening, Cbepeta, the widow of the famous chief, Ouray, has married a White Uiver Oto who is said to wear the extraordinary namo of Toomuchagut. The L'rincess Louise, find ing some children playing marbles in the hallway of the Brunswck the other day, stooped down and taught them anew game.

Dr. Tucker's address on the condition of the negroes at a recent Southern el lurch congregation has just been printed and contains some astonishing statements as to the morality in the worst sections He says: In t he midst of a prayer I have, known them to steal from each othor; and on the way home fram a prayer meeting they will rob any henroost that lies conveniently at band, and this without any thought of sin against God aud even without any perception of an incongruity, The most p;ous Negro I know is one confined iu a penitentiary for an atrocious murder, who can see no especial sin against God in his crime, though he acknowledges an oltense against man. He cannot be made to sec that God must be angry wilh him, and thinks all intimations to that effect in prayer or exhortation found in personal dislike or prejudice, or because he is not well d rested and has a sore on his leg. Absolutely he cannot conceive of any other reason or motive for ' taking part against him" and imputing sin against God to his crime. F have known a Ne?ro preacher guilty

of incest; another of habitual theft; a third with two wives, being married to neither; a fourth who was a constant and mostaudacious liar, yet who were earnest and successful preachers. I coulagive names dates an 1 witness for these and 20 others similar cases and it would be easy to find a n y requi red number more. Vet, t he f o u r men whom I speak were not conscious of hypocrisy, aud their own sins did not diminish their influence with their race. It

was impossible to hear them preach and pray and doubt their absolute sincerity. As to the marriage relation. Dr. Tucker says: In one county in Mississippi there were during twelve months 300 marriage licenses taken ou'; in the Cjuu ty Clerk's office for white people. According to the proportion of population, there would have been in the sain j time 1,200 or more for Negroes. There cau be j no legal marriage of any sort in Mis- i sissippi without a license. There was j actually taken out by colored people just J three. I know of whole neigh- I

Agricultural Notes. The statement is that "in Japan, the reeling of the silk worm's cocoon is so perfectly performed that t he Japanese fiber is commonly nine and a half miles Jong" without a break. It may be of advantage to many farmers to be reminded that "a field that has been long cultivated in hoed crops is not as favorable to a full crop of potatoes other conditions being equal as a new field with a good clover or grass sod turned in." When the North American Bee Asso

ciation last met, a committee was appoinir ed to gather statistics. It is believed that full statistics as to the number of colonies ol! bees in the country and the produce from them will surprise everybody, and had apiculture to be better appreciatedos ooe of the important industries. A farmer's living can be greaty improved and the cost of it materially reduced by planting out a half acre of currants and gooseberries. These fruits are very prolific, and never miss. By this means a large quantity may be put up, so that instead of having the luxury of canted fruits once a month or week, it may te had every day. It is announced that beet culture, hitherto cjn fined to the north of France, is rapidly extending to the east and center. Hooieties are being established, not only to

work up the roots, but to grow them. The ini of French cultivators now is to produce a root containing one per cent more in yield of sugar, which is a superiority that the German, farmers at present possess. G. G, Zenon, a large, sugar planter of St Mary's parish, La., claims to have made in 1881, 6,000 pounds of sugar and 3,600 pounds of molasses from five acres ot land This would be 0,600 pounds of sugar and molasses to five acres, or 1,920 pounds per acre. From the time sugar was first made n Louisiana until the late war, 1,100 pounds of sugar to the acre was the highest ever known. The Zenon crop alluded to above gave 1,200 pounds. It is thought that farmers do not raise euough carrots. They make a horse's coat very fine. Carrots should have good depth of soil and fine tilth. The wives of farm

ers do not properly appreciate the value of the carrot in cookery. The liking for carrots is an acquired one. . So i that for

tomatoes. So is that for parsnips. The carrot flavor, when liked, is a valuable addation to meate, to gravies and . to 60Up. The French and Germans use it larg c ly. The Queen of England always has currots and turnips cocked with her boil-, edmatton. Dr. Stewart says that the power ill the corn kernel to regenerate, afier dryiDg, enables us to plant it shallower than is sometimes reguired for the securing of permanent moisture to the seed in the spring. While some corn seed have the power to push up through eight inches of heavy clay soil, yet our results obtained last season by experiment showed a quicker vegetation and, as we imagined, a better stand from seed planted one-fourth, inch than deeper. Hence it seems quite reasonable infer that the compacting of a tine soil about the seed is of more importance than merely the depht of planting.

Solved th - Puzzle , Wall 8tr.t News. , ' The other night a merchant in a village in Ohio was discovered in his store at an unusually late hour, and in reply to inquiries he said: "My confidential clerk is missing,' " And what of itr "Why, fin looking over the books, but they seem to be all square," "Have you counted your cash?' . "Ye -, and its "corrects a doHar.'

"liook oyer your bank booti?" "I have, and it's satisfactory, the puzzle, yu see. He sVppped: can't make out what for." "Been home since noon? . "No."

"Perhaps he has eloped wife."

"Land aiiw! but it may be so! If it is then thopnzz e will In solved.'' lie untried i.me, and it was so, ani he felt a great anxi tr off his mind.

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most : often but a few weeks. A nd, i f out of enery 500 uero families one excepts a few dozen who are legally married, the statement will hold true for millions )f tje colored people; and these things that I tall you to-night are but hints. I dare not I an not, tell the full truth before a mixed audience. The Southern Churchman publishes letters from live colored preachers in Mississippi and Louisiana, fully indorsing the truth of Dr. Tucker's account, and declaring that the half can n t be told, aud that moral character is not held the standard for church membership. Then, missions in tho South need to be carried on with desperate earnestness. He Was the Fellow. Kansas liof. A good thing is related as having occurred in a barber uhop in a certain to wn in this county recently, on the occasion of a too-too wedding. "Well, said the baiber to the usual crowd of loungers about such a place, I guess the moukey show will come olf this evening,' "What kind of a show is that?' inquired a stranger in the chair. '0, there's to bo a wedding in town." replied t he barber. "Win is to be married?" Well, some traveling man out West is going to marry old Mrs. Hornswoggle's daughter. They would have been married a year ago if it had not been for the old woman." "What was tho matter with her r" M0, she's a regular old tom-cat with goggles on. She's too pious to blow her nose, and the fellow is an out-aud out infidel.' "And how have they fixed it, that the marriage is to take place now?" 'Well, hos worth about $10,000, and she hadn't religion enough to buck against that. But it's lucky for him that he lives a good distance from the old woman." Tho stranger was shaved, and as the barber wa3 brushing his coat he inquired: . MDo you live in this neighborhood?" "No,' replied the stranger, "I'm from the West. I'm the fellow that is to be married this evening.

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Kot many years elapsed from the introduction of b u ses to a country where soil - eh mate, and geography len T themselves admirably to the propagation of the race before a few specimens escaped into the circumjacent bush, where they bred and multiplied with amazing radidity. The result is that thousands and tens of thous

ands of norses now run wild m Australia and especially in Queensland and the northern district of New South AWes, They are foi' the most part, spindle-shank ed, ilat-sided, eatdiamnie J, sjhaightshouluered brutes, which according to A. C, Grant, the lively author of '-i5ush Lite iu Queensland." would be dear . f 1 purchased at Aldridge's tut two pounds apiece. -y - - - THE MARKETS

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