Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 30, Bloomington, Monroe County, 26 May 1883 — Page 2

The Bloomingtort Courier.

BY H. J. ifclLTirs.

BLOOMIKGTON,

INDIANA

NL.WS AKD INCIDEMT.

Oar Compilation 01 tne important Happenings ct the. Week. Tho hop crop does not pr-oniise well. Texas is now diix ping dressed heef to Cincinnati The total nnmtjer of coke ovens in the the United States in 1880 as 12,279, employing 3,140 persons and requiring a capital ot $5,545,C58 to carcy on the business. Fonr million herring haye bsen placed in the Ohio river by the United States fish commissioner, and o,C 00,000 salmon have been distributed by the Cuvier Club Cincinnati, INDIANA ITEMS: The Warren Times says the hail during the recent storm killed seventy sheep and one hog in that vicinity. The neighbors of Hon. M. G. Beeson believe he was murdered instead of committing suicide, as reported elsewhere in this column. In an altercation between John Klingel

and Frank Maver, two of the most prom- the term ending June pOtb, 1882, there is

inent citizens of South Uend,on Monday,

ion or take auy decisive action for the next several years. The expenditures up to the present time amount to $781,762,12. According to the New York Tribune's crop report the probable wheat crop in this state will te about fifteen per cent, below the crop of last year. The corn crop is expected to be larger than usual, and the oats about an average. Less than the usual amount of flaxseed was sown. Grass is reported to be good in all sections. Fruit will show a slight. falling off from frost, mostly peaches, which generally will be a small crop. Apples promise well ; also small fruits, as a rule. With fair weather the general crop prospects are very favorable. THE ODD FELLOWS. The semi-annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, at Indianapolis, was attended by full representation. The grand secretary made full report of the work of the term ending December 31, 1S83. During the term 1,296 brothers and 191 widowed families were relieved. The sum of $25,063.35 has been paid for the relief of brothers; $3,476.37 for the relief of widowed families; 739.83 for the education of orphans; 7,733.-17 for burying the dead, and $2,201.94. for other charitable purposes, making the total amount of relief for the term $39,21-1.96. Add to this the sum of $38,738.93, the relief for

Klingel was fatally beaten. A large steel plate fell uponWm.Yonng an employe in the Wabash yards at Andrews, Saturday, crushing him. It required ten men to lift the plate from him. A couple of Mormon ciders who attempted to hold meetings in Carroll and Cass counties, were egged fiom the pulpit, but declare their intention to speak in every settlement in thes e counties. The contractor who is removiug the bodies from the old cemetery at Michi

gan City, iej orts that he found the bod- balance in the treasury,

ies of two persons who had been burned alive and had turned o-ver in their coffins. A Richmond colt attempted to jump an iron picket fence, but was impaled so firmly that ji required "he strength of eight men to lift it ofil It ia likely to recover, however. Jethro Morris, of Lawrenceburg, tt ok from the Newtown pond on Sunday thirteen large fish, the average weight of which was twenty-four pounds. One monster alone weighed seventy-one pounds. The May report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of; the school enumeration show that th0 population in Evansville of school children is 15,718 while in Forfc Wayne, which strives for the rank of the second city in the State, he number is 14466. The jury in the case of H. O. Hofiman, ex-revertnd, vs. Zettie Robinson, at Bloomington, for d,0CQ damages for slander, after being out sixty hours, reported their inability tb agree and were discharged. The jiuy trlood eight for Zeltie and four lor fioiliaan. Horace Hefiien, a number of prominence of the recent Legislatu re, died at

his home in Salem, Daiess county, Sun;

day, at 1 o'clock, aged 64 years. He has

occupied political positions ci; prominence

for years. Dr. Hitchcock, of South Bend, secre

tary of the county board of tealtb, has!

been making some microscopical examin-j

ations of pork. He says that out of thirty different lots examined by him, all ot which came from Chicago or elsewhere,) he found twenty-seven more or less in-j fected with trichina?. Charles Allen, of Cambridge City, has a powder horn once owned by Genera Ethan Allen, the eaptnrer of Fort Ticonj deioga. On its sides it has etched the plan for the capture of the fort. It was presented to Mr. Allen's grandfather by the general himself . Robert G. Martin, of Laper, Marshal

county, suspected some parties of stealing wheat from his barn. He. wrote his name on email bits of paper and mixed them with his wheat, and soon after found - i them in. the wheat in 3aily & Caprons mill, and caused the arrest of John Steejl and Warren Chart, who sold the wheat. Just before the cyclone struck Wabaslk Saturday afternoon Mire. William Hayjden was seated in front of her residence, when she was st'uck in the breast by a ball of fire, which passed, up over her. shoulders, and,strange to say,only slight ly sheeted her, M. G. Beeson, a member of the last Legislature from Wayne county, committed suicide at his home near Rich -mond, Wednesday. He first took a desje of landnum and then severed thejugrilar einwith his pocket knife. Mental depression, because his wife was afihctetl

with a cancer, is assigr ed as the cause. William McEee was arrested at Limjt, on Thursday, charged with attempting o poison the family of his son-in-law, Aa Ganyard, by pouring Paris gr?en in I a well. He was placed under 2,000 boncjla but on Friday his bomlsmen surrendered him to the authorities, and he was placed in jail at Lagrange, where he hanged himself the next night Susie B awkins, of Ijawrenceburg, tjecame so eesperate over her father's cruelty that siie committed suicide. The inhuman parent, Charles Hawkins, wjas tarred and feathered by the indignant citizens. He resisted desperately, ajid

the iarsre sum of $77,953.02 as the total

relief paid by lodges in this jurisdiction for the year LS82. Four subordinate and ur f o Rebekab lodges have been instituted since this session, while two lodges have surrendered their charters. The following figures will show the work of the subordinate lodges for the term ending December 31, 1882. Lodges per last report, 542; lodges now effective, 544; number of members per last report, 26,531; now inactive membership, 26,196; total expenses, including rehef,$93,132.54

$15,425,02. As

to the KebeKan lodges tne secretary reported the majority doing but little. The total membership was 2,958; the total amount of relief, $5451.70. The secretary reported $1,222.80 distributed to flood sufferers, lesvi g forty-live dollars on hand to be returned to the city of Rochester. JUDGE HAilKONB APPOHTTED. Governor Porter has appointed Judge Edwin P. Hammond, of Rensselaer, Jasper county, supreme ccurt judge, to succeed Judge Woods, appointed United States district judge. Prior to the appointment all candidates for the position had withdrawn, except Judges Frazier anclHammoiid. Judge Hammond was born November 26, 1835, at Brookville. He moved with his father's family to Columbus, I nd., in 1849. In 1854 he came to Indianapolis and engaged in a wholesale dry goods store as clerk. A year after he became a law student in the office of his brother (afterwards governor), Abraham A. Hammond, and Thomas H. Nelson, at Terre Haute. In 1861 he enlisted in the 2Sinth Indiana volunteers. He was elected and commissioned first

lieutenant of the company, and served in

ihe tim e month campaign in Western

Virginia. Returning to his home at the expiration of that term of service, he resumed the practice of law. In August,

itfbd, ne assisted in organizing company , Eighty-seventh Indiana volunteers, and was soon promoted as lieutenant coionei of the regiment. With the exception of a short absence, he was, during his term of service, on active duty with his regiment, and was engaged iu some of the severest battles of the war. He possessed the requisites for a popular commander. At the close of the war the president appointed him colonel by brevet in the United States vc lunteers "for gallant and meritorious service during the war," as recited in his commission. The war over CoL Hammond again entered upon the practice of law at Rens

selaer, and soon acquired an extensive reputation as a lawyer of integrity and ability. Though a republican in polities, he received from Gov. Hendricks the appointment of judge of the thirtieth judical curcit ih 1878. He was elected to the same position in the next October, and re-elected in 1878, the republicans, democrat and national parties placing his name upon their ti kets. He was a delegate to the national republican convention held in Philadelphia iu 1872. THE EAST:

The steamer Granite State was lost off

living have

ier

several persons were snot. He and the

woman with whom te was

been ordered to emigrate.

Iunng the absence of their moti

from the kitchen, on Saturday morning,

the two children, son &nd daughter, of F. J. Katterjoun, a prominent miller, of Boonville, were badly if not fatally scajlded. The chddren had fastened a string to the teakettle, which was on the stove qnd full of boiling water, and were playing horse, wfcen the kettle was overturned and the children were scalded in the face, feet and limbs. , Another chapter in "he fatal shooting affair which occured at Boonvilie on the 28th of April, when Jake Wallace ost his life, was closed on Thursday night by the death of Thomas Wallace, who died from the effects of the pistol shots he) received at the hands of Simon Williams. Williams is still in the Evansville jail. Considerable excitement and deep feeding was manifested at the death ot the Wallace boys, j The report of the State-house ccmniissioners for the quarter ending March! 31 was submitted to the Governor last Saturday. The only notable thing aboijit it is that it contains nothing of intefeat. The action of the General Assembly is elaborately set forth, but the commissioners say nothing in regard" to their injtentions, A t their presen&rate of progress

they areiuot likely to lemifr&ny conclus-1 to burn out the woman and her husband,

Hartford, Friday, and five lives and much

freight perished.

Cooper's Jersey cattle sale at the American Institute, New York, netted 112,840

for the 117 animals in the herd

A neffort is being made to drive out the Chinese residents of Mott street, New York, on account of- their immoral prac

tices. " .. .

The trustees of the Brooklyn bridge have fixed the toll for foot passengers at one cent. The opening will take place on "the

24inst.

The police commissioner of Brooklyn,

New York, reports to the mayor that there is not, so far as known, a disorderlv house

in that city.

A movement has been inaugurated by

the tin companies of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for the restoration of a protect

ive tariff on tin plate.

The workiugmen's societies in jS'ew

York refuse to attend the opening of the

East river bridge because it take3 place on the anniversary of Queen Victoria's

birthday.

Lydia Pink ham, of proprietary medicine fame, died in Lynn, Mass., aged six

ty-four. She spent 180,000 a year in ad-

vertising,and secured trade netting $300,000 a year profit. The production of rolled iron in Pennsylvania in 1882 was 1,123.886 tons, a decrease of 130,930 tons compared with 1881. The production in Ohio was 35(,603 tons, or 10,831 tons in excess of the previous year. William S. Mclntyre, a formor Hudson river steamboat captain, and new interested in Colorado mines, and mining stock, lost his pocket book containing about $125,000 in bonds and $375 in cash Tuesday, in New York, and has heard no tidings of it. . After a lapse of thirty years, Hartford county, Maryland, has a revival of Mormonism. The sect isknown as the pmted Brethren of Latterday Saints. At the last meeting between sixty and one hundred persons were present, the malus outnumbering the females three or four to one. Several weeks ago Patrick Shally, a boy, was arrested on the charged cf arson in Newcastle, Pa., on the statement of an old colortd woman named Simpson, and since then five attemps have been , made

They are hiding among their own people as they can not find a habitation. Bishop Jesse T. Peck, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his home in Syracuse, N. Y., Thursday, at the ago of 72 years. Bishop Peck was born in 1811, entered the ministry, and was licensed to preach when 18 years old, and was elected Bishop in 1872, He was a man of distinguished ministerial talent. THE WEST: A heavy fall of snow occurred on Sun

day, at Deadwood, D. T.

A marked improvement lias taken place in the wheat crop of Illihois. The lightning: rod thieves and swindlers are defrauding fanners in several parts of Illinois, At Minneapolis the receipts of wheat. are falling off and the production of Hour is decreasing. Prominent wheat authorities place the wheat crop of California this year at 50,950,000 bushels. Jerre Dunn was acquitted at Chicago, Friday, of the murder of Jim Elliott, a set off for the Thompson-Davis case in Kentucky. A vein of gas was struck at a depth of eighty feet in a well near MiJo, 111., and it comes through a two-inch pipe with a roar that can be beard four miles. The council of liockford, 111., has increased the license fee from 500 to 600, Tom Ochiltree is going to Europe to sell Texas lauds to foreign investors. Mrs. Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of the late Brigham Young, was married on Saturday at Loth', Ohio, to Mr. R. Denning, of Manistee, M;oh, The lady had become generally known as a lecturer. The ex ci lenient in G j i a y am a s over tb e Lower California gold discoveries is unabated. The prefect of Mulge asks for troops to protect the miners and preserve order. The fare from Guayamas has risen from 6 to 16. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Monday published verbatim reports of the sermons delivered Sunday by Bev. C.

H. Spurgeon in Loudon, Henry Ward Beeoher in Brooklyn, and David Swing in Chicago. A State convention of the colored people of Hlinois has been called to meet in the Senate Chamber at Springfield, Oct. 15, at 10 o'clock. The object is stated to be the promotion of the material welfare of the colored race. Steps have been taken in San Francis co to organize a national wool growers" association. The objects are to exert an influence in the passage of laws to promote the wool industry of the country and repeal the law reducing tariff on wool. A State Constitutional Amendment association has been formed in Columbus with Thomas N. Ilackmau, as president. The purpose is to unite the friends of prohibition without regard to party afiiliatiors. It is proposed to form connty township and ward branches of the association. Thomas Lynch, brakeman, and James Walsh, boiler maker, accompanied by 200 sports of Chicago, fought just over the Indiana line Sundav. The men were badly punished, and Lynch delcared winner. When the party returned to the

city the principals, seconds and several

of the spectators were arrested and held

in bonds.

The Farmer's Review, Chicago2 in its

cr op returns covering lb, ' en t i re Nor th -

west and Southwest, says in its issue of the 22d hist.: "Winter wheat shows no

improvement; in fact, iti general condi

tion is not as promising as thirty davs

ago. Reporl 8 of poor seed and corn no i

coming up well continue quite general

and the present season promises to be a

repenuon or ma. spring wheat areas are all doing well.

A Cairo telegram says millions of caterpillars falling upon the track of the Texas & St. Louis railroad, on Sunday, at Birk's Point! delayed the incoming train several hours, arriving away behind time. The woods along the line for miles are entirely st ripped of foliage, while complaint, comes from the interior that fruit and shade trees are being killed by the hundreds. The emigration of the worm to fresher fields caused the novel delay of the train. A curious case is in court at Waterloo, Jefferson county, Wisoonsin, where Mis Clara Voight accuses Joseph Thomas of attempting to drown her. The pair were engaged to be married, but Thomas affection cooled, and he sought a release, which Miss Voight did not wish to grant One evening Thomas invited the girl to take a boat ride with him on the mill pond, but she declined, ' whereupon he pushed her into the pond, leaping iu after her, and three times forcing her head under the water. A special session of the Choctaw Indian council wfii at Armstrong academy, the capital of the nation, Monday, having been called by the Principal Chief McCiulin, to consider the freedmnn question. By the treaty of 18G6, between the federal government and the confederate Indians, the Choctaws and Chicasawe agree! to emancipate and give the usual rights to the colored people in their nation within two years, for which the United States was to give them $600,000, and if they failed to adopt them in that time, the money was to be used to remove and settle the darkies elsewhere. The Choetawa failed to adopt them, and they have been there ever since, without either citizenshi p rights or title o the land they work. The Choctaws now desire to adopt them, and it was for this purpose their council was called.

There is also a larger acreage of corn than last year, and it is three-fourths of it in good condition. Two convict guards, John Leonas and S. Bondrenux, white, went to a colored people's festival, at Brozonin, Texas, got into a row, fired nine shorts at JimWright who turned and fired two shots, killing both. A fire occurred at Harrcdsburg, Ky., Tuesday morning, and destr oyed an en

tire MismeHS oiocK. .L'hu xnompson, on trial for the murder of Davis, w is one of the busiest workers. The jury vrnessed the fire in charge of a deputy sheriff

TRICKS ON BARKEEPERS.

How Thirsiy Individuals Obtain Drinks Without Paying.

Bo-

FOREJGN: Ths greater part of Koenigin Irof,

hamia, lias bren destroy ed by fir-. Darnel Curly, the second of the Phoenix Park murdereis,was executed at Dublin Friday. Fitzharris, the cab driver, was sentenced to penal servitude for life as an accessary in the Phoenix Park murder. The Czar was accorded a grand recep tion by the populace on his arrival at Mosc w, Sat u rday. The Russian authorities believe the nihilists are preparing for simuitoieoii i".isturbances in various parts of the empire during the coronation ceremonies. Maekey, of Nevada, has started for Moscow to attend the coronation of the car, as a member of the American mission. Mrs. Maekey who aoeomuanies her husband, has fifteen court dresses. New s has been icceived that King Cetewayo, having advanced to attack Oham and Ufibepu, the latter chiefs combined their forces and utterly ronted Cetewayo. The first account of the engagement put his loss at 0,000 men, bntthis is probably

exaggerated. The imports for four months of the present year in France show an increase of 34,000,000 francs compared with the same months in 1S82. The exports decreased l,o00,C0"0 francs. James MnJlett, Edward O'Brien, EdMcCalTrey, Daniel Delaney, William Maroney and Thomas Doyle, all of whom pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to murder, were arraigned afe Dublin, on Thursday, and the first five were each sentenced to ten years penal servitude, and Doyle to five years penal servitude. There is a report that the hosiery manufacturers of Germany are moving to secure the abolition of prohibitory legisla lntion against pork. They are alarmed lest action be taken by the next United States congress imposing a duty on hosiery, which will exclude it from the United States. CVD i i ell, mc icier of Parliament for Dungarvan, in a letter to ii e Freedman's Journal, lefening to ihe lope's circular to the Irish bishops, says that the Vatican has been miffed 1 y the sjceious rcen-

dacity winch has availed it f elf of the monstrous ignorance of Irish affairs prevailing v.i Roma He characterizes Errington, who has I eon the medium cf communication between Great Britain and the Vatican, as a sneak and renegade, and says the attention of the Vatican should be called to the crime fostered by England's enforrerneut of the infamous land code. James Gordon Bennett. New Yore L for. The Herald employes strike a very gr u thing when he baa the luck to get into the goorl graces of the proprietor of that paper. Mr. Flynu, the managing editor, was a reporter on the Herald a few year?

ago. One clay Mr. Bennett saw in his columns a news report of a matter in which he was particularly interested. The report pleased htm very much, and he inquired who wrote it Flynu was the young man's name, and Flynu at once received a gold watch and chum, S100 in

j cash, and a leave of absence for six weeks on full pay. A while, afterward he was made manariii editor of the Telegram. j and after t wo years good service there he

was promoted to the niana.irin,iT editorship of the Herald. Thene are probable twenty .superannuated employe.1; of the Herald whose declining years are comforted by liberal pensions from the office, and some

THE SOUTH: J. Proctor Knott has been nominated for Governor by the Democrats of Kentucky. Indians are reported as raiding the miners region,in the Cornizo Mountains, Texas. There were twenty-five tons of strawberries shipped from Chattanooga for Cincinnati and New York, Monday night. Mrs. Dr. Eidley, a daughter of the late Senator Hill, jumped from a runaway buggy, in Atlanta, and was fatally injured, Hon. Walter Evans, of Louisville, Ky., has been appointed by the President to succeed Baum, as Commissioner of Internal .Revenue. , Twenty-four persons were poisoned at a church festival in Chattanooga by some -taint in the refreshments. For a time the lives of several were despaired of. Phil B. Thompson, who killed Davis two weeks ago, was acquitted by the Kentucky ury, and the verdict was received with shouts of applause. There is an increased wheat acreage in Kentucky, and the crop promises fairly.

of tm

rn draw

full

pay.

scribed 10,000 to the ben-

Bennett subkfit fund of his

printers. The fund is large enough to permit the payment of 8300 to the heirs

or a rierairi printer wnen lie dies, ana j when he is siak he receives u weekly al- j lowance. A few years ago the autocrat ol the Herald pent one of his city editors on a sis nvnths trip to South America j hi pursuit of health, and paid all the ex- I pensea He came back . a well man, bat j fell from grace soon after and was di- j charged. Bennetttis impulsive bat not I sympathetic in his liberality to hie men. Last year, while strolling around his ; composing-room one night, a type-setter seventy years of age attracted his at tenfckn. He called the old man to him, j

made a memorandum of his name, and remarked: "I'll have to get yon something easier to do' Of course the old man was much elated, but he has had plenty of time to subdue his spirit?, as he has never heard of the matter since.

Origin of Two Expressions. The origin of the terms "Uncle Sam,' applied to our government, and Brother Jonathan," applied in the first instance to the people of New England, and sometime to the people of the whole country, or, rather, to the representative American, often proves a parole. The question how the terms arose is often asked. The following seems a correct answer: After Washington was appointed commander of the patriot army in the revo

lution, ha had great diflieuity in obtain-

inir snnuiies. On one occasion, when no l

way could be devised by him and his officers to supply the wants of the army, Washington wound up the conference with the remark, "We must consult Brother Jonathan." He referred to Jonathau Trumbull, then governor of Connecticut, in whose judgment he had confidence. Governor Trumbull helped the general out of his difficulties, and afterward the expression used by Washington became a popular byword in the army, and eventually a nickname for the nation. The name Uncle Bain, as applied to the United States, is said to have originated in the war of 1813. An inspector of army provisions at Troy, named Samuel Wilson, was culled by his workmen "Uncle Bam.' One day somebody asked one of the workmen what the letters "U. H." printed on a cask meant. Tho workman replied tb u.fc .he supposed it must mean Uncle Hzm. The jok was afterward spread iu the army, and this, according

From tho Phihulolphia Press. "It has become a perfect science, within tho last year or two, sighed a barkeeper in a Chestnut street saloon yesterday afternoon, as he mechanically mixed a gin sling for a gentleman with a kidney affection, "quite a science. Why, before the centennial, your country barkeeper, only two weeks in town, could 'tumble to a 'rum beat.' Yes, sir; didn't take an extra smart chap, either, to know whether a man meant to pay for his liquor or not. Tell it iu the winter by the way he shut the door, and in the summer by tho way he walked into the barroom. Easiest thing in the world. When it;s cold enough to keep the door shut, your ordinary beat always closes it behind him very carefully, while the roan with ten cents in his pocket lets her slam. In summer time the mau who wants to 'stand you up,' walks on his toes and grins like a hyena while the man with money marches up like a soldier and says: 'Gimme a little whisky, "Just wait until I make this 'fizz' and fire that fellow out," said the dispenser of cocktails and punches, 'nnd I'll tell you how far the beat of 1883 is above the beat of 1875 and thereabouts." The "fizz" was duly compounded, sipped and gulped. The vagrant tattered, torn and thirsty was fired out in a very elegant and scientific manner by the bedi amended barkeeper, who returned to his poet, washed his hands, wiped oft the bar drank a small glass of beer, and then with his thumbs iu the armholes of his

vest, resumed his story. "You see he continued, "trickery iu all kinds of trade has become so common that it would seem strange if the saloon keeper wasn't played off for a 'gillie' as often as anybody else. A drinking man

--that isf a steady 'soak' is bound to have hia bitters every day. If he's got the cash he pays for it if he hasn't the cash he don't pay for it; but he gets it all the same, and den't you forger it. The commonest plan nowadays is to walk in boldly and call for a drink. Of course you si7o u p your man in a minute. If he looks half decent, you can't do leas than set out the bottle and glasses. He takes his nip, drinks his water, and saye very coolly, 1 11 drop in and pay you in the morning. No use kicking. 'T would take a stomach pump to get the rum, and before you can get from behind the bar, you can bet your lir'e he is e ut the door. No use throwing a beer glass at them. They will dodge it and then laugh at yon. Of course that is the ordinary heat. Five timeaout of ten i on can tell by the way a man asks for his liqnor whether he intends to beat yon or not These are not the fellows I mean at all. It is your scientific bummer I am talking about A man tolerably well dressed will walk in, slam the door, walk up to the bar as though in a hurry. Not too sweet, and very little lemon.' Well, you mix up tho drink, thinking perhaps he is a little particular. Your gentleman stirs it slowly, and with a very sweet smile says, before he puts it

to his lips: 'I will have to owe you for this,don't think I ha ve any small change.' What can yo do? If it was plain liquor you could take the glass away and pour the contents back in the bottle, but a hot Scotch must be drunk at once or it is no good afterward. That is one way. Au other is for a man to rush in suddenly and bog for heaven's sake to give him a little brandy; that a man has fainted

around the corner and may die before be gets back. The chances are ten to one that you will be taken ofl' your guard and hand out the liquor. In a few minutes the empty glass will be returned with thanks. You can easily guess whose stomach was benefitted by the dose. ''About the newest dodge I have heard

of is for a man to enter a saloon with a

small medicine vial in his hand. He will ask very politely for a few drops of liquor to mix with some medicine ordered by a physician. The quantity asked for is so small that the saloon keeper usually gives it without grumbling. As soon as the beat gets outside he empties the contents of the vial into a half pint tlask carried in another pocket. This programme is repeated in fifteen or twenty saloons, and by that time the beat h s a flask full. Probably one of the most amusing, ana at the same time one of the most ingenious methods devised to beat the bar, continued the man of drinks, as he stopped a moment to attend to a customer, was played right here on ine, Thursday last. Two old men -both Irishmen came in about 10 o'clock in the morning. One of them was leading the other by the arm. Tho man being led appeared to be in great pain, and kept groaning at a terrible rate, while he held his hand over his stomach. His companion walked up to t he bar and asked if I would do him a favor. 'What is it?' says 1. 'Wnllsayshe yez would give this ould mon a d brink it wud be an act av oharitee. Hays ho, 'He wuz on tho sthreet beyant, an' appears til be iu a dyin' condishun. It's not a dhdnkin' mon I am meself, but I can't bear til see a fellow erayture snlTer.' 'What the matter with him?' says I, if he's sick he wants a doctor, and not rum. You'd better take trim to a drug store.' "Thankin ye kindly for the advice, sor,' says be, 'bud av I'd a penny about me I'd not be niftier enterin a grog shop til ask a favor The ould man is wake, and a dhrop of liquor would do hum good. It's not for meself I'm askin,' mind yez. I'm wull and hearty and want none of yez rum.' "The thing was so "well doi e," went on the handsome barkeeper, "tliat I was do-

suppose you've seen people stand at a bar for an hour or more waiting for angels?' That's common. They'll drink with anybody and generally try to get around when the beer man or cigar dealer is collectaig a bill. 'Corner catchers' are another class you can pick out every day. Know what I mean? Fellows who stand on the corner waiting to be hailed by an acquaintance. They shake hands warmly, walk up the street and hang on until they are asked to take a drink. Thun they go back and wait for another 'angel.' Of course these people don't make a business of beating barkepers; but once in a while they will get a drink and promhe to pay for it in the morning.' Whisky or giu cocktail, sir?"

PECK'S BAD BOY.

Peek's .Sun. ..... "Well, if you have got through with your sermon, I will toot a little on my horn," b.nd the boy threw the remains of the herring over behind a barrel of potatoes, and wiped his hands on a coffee

sack. Tfyou haJ this black eye,

and

Despotism in India. So far from the interest of English capitalists and the Indian government being

identical, they arc often absolutely antagon:stic, writes A. R. Oonneli to the Pall Mail Gazette. Tho former thinks only of making money in India, the tatter must consider the god of tho government. Lord Lyfcton says that our government of India is a despotism, and, so far as it is a paternal despotism, exercised in the interest of the masres, it may boast of its superiority to native rule; but, so far-ns it is more and more becoming a despotism of one nation over another, and still worse of an enereetiu minority of that nation backed up by all the power of Englieh capitalists, over a powerless mass of native laborers, it is being transformed into a tyranny nnparaled in Indian history. It is this erection of an imperium in imimporio that is like'y to prove the great obstacle to the continuance of good government iu India, unless the English settlers are once and forever placed on au equality with the people among whom they settle. If they can make their business jay without special privileges, let them do so, but why should they be regarded as so essential to India's prosperity that they must be petted and parapeted? In truth, the whole idea of developing India's resources by means of foreign capital is an egregious fallacy. India is none the better for growing indigo instead of rice, nor are the resources of the country likely to overtake the growth of population by English settlers appropriating the profits of agricultural enterprise. What India requires is the encouragement of prudential checks on population to supercede the physical ones which we hve partly abolished, and that can only be done by stimulating the growth of habits of thrift, foresight and self-reliance by raising up a body of ndependent peasantry, not by adding to the number ot paupers dependent on foreign taskmasters.

to tho historian Frost, was tho origin of the national sobriquet. Cover plants with newspapers before sweeping. Also put a little ammonia upon them once a week,

ceived and set out a bottle and glass. The old chiip took four fingers and swallcwed it at a gulp. About two hours afterward X had occasion to go uptown, and droppe d in to see a friend of mine wh keeps on Columbia avenue. I was just taking a social smile when who should come in but the same two old men. This time, however, the sick man was leading the well man, who was groaning as though

j he had a frightful attack of cramp colic.

T boy went through exactly tne same performance positions reversed as they did in my place, and the mau who had been perfectly well before gt a generous drink of good brandy. I thought it such a clever trick that I offered to treat if they would own up. You never saw a man gob over the colic so quickly in your life. Tho ould mon' said that they had worked ihe 'racket' successfully for months, and took turns in playing sick and well. That's about the best scheme I've heard of, barring tho little bottle Imsiiutes, perhaps, but it's apt to work more on your sympathies, you know. J

An Insurance Carpenter. San FracSbOo Post, The other day, during a case in the Police Court, a witness was put upon the stand who gave his occupation as that of a carpenter. "Where is your shop?" asked the lawyer. "Haven't any' urbanely responded the witness. "How can you be a carpenter without a shop?" "Well, you see, I don't need one, I'm an insurance, carpenter." "What's that?" "Well, Im employed by ihe insurance

companies to estimate damages to houses. You see it works this way: A building catches fire and burns up a few rooms; or, say the roof caves in. The company sends for me as an expert, and I look around, measure with this tape line, and do a lot of figuring on a shingle with a big red pencil. Then I say I can repair the damage for $8.70, or something like that." "And how does it work?"' "Oh, first rate. The house owner says he'll attend to the repairs himself. He sends in a bill for $300 or $100. The company shows my estimate, aud rather than bring suit the man takes oue-half,on which I get my percentage,don tyou see?" and the expert smiled benevolently. "And so you have never sawed a board in your life?" said the judge. 'No; nor drove a nail,'" griuned the witness; "but I tell yon, gentlemen, the com. anies couldn't get on without me." No more they could, gentle reader; no more they con id. Believed Himself Dead. (iaUinmm's ( Paris Mossmiger. There ha? just died at Charenton a man who has had a very curious history. Thirty years ago the deceased, whose name was H us. ot, was condemned to death at the Seine Assizes for the murder of a.3 o'.d gentleman, M. l)?tuonry. The case had excite 1 considerable interest and the Court was crowded with spectators. Among ihe persons standing immediately Koussofc, who wttrf flanked by a pair of

j geiidr lines, was one Planchet an employe ! of the Press newspaper, who had somehow contrived to wriggle himself into that po

sition without attracting notice. Scarcely had the sentence bsoa pronounced, when Planchet, moved, as he after wards explained, by an nncontrolable impulse, passed the side of his hand over the prisoner's neck in imitation of the keen blade of the guillotine, at tlie same time emitting a whirring sumd, Koussot instantly foU forward with a shriek of terror, and the bystanders, indignant that is shocking and heartless act, rushed upon Pianehel and roundly abused him. Planchet was subsequently condemned to two

j years impr sonmenr. as lor nis victim,

he never recovered the shock, but remained imane to the day of his death. He was pardoned by the Emperor and confined, first at Bicetre, aud afterwards at Charenton, where he has just expired. The unfortunate man was under the impression that he had actually been beheaded in the Palais tie Justi'e,and when relating the story was in the habit of imitating the strange sound which haunted htm for thirty years. Asking Fool Questions. Philadelphia Record. The winds were whispering low ami the sentinel stars had set their watohes,if they have any to set up in the skies, as Mrs, Tomly learned from ho chamber window and asked, in a lew and trembling voice; "Is that you, Eh ny?" "Fore I answer that question I'd like to know if that's you, Bharah?" said he, holding on to the front gate ond levriug up at Sharah's chamber window. "Why, certainly, Henry, Hrisma" "Is ir the corner of Austin avenue and B site t?" "Why, of course it is, Henry." "hen," said Henry, indignantly, as he swayed up agaiustthe fence, "of eon.-o it's me. What yer ask fool questions lor? Don't you know your own husband V

had got it the way I did, it would be a more priceless gem in the crown of glory you hope to wear, tha?a any gem you can get by putting quarters in the collection plate, with tho holes filled with lead, as you did last Sunday, when T was watching you. O, didn't you look pious wrhen you picked that filled quarter out, aud held your thumb over the place where the lead was. The way of tho black eye was this. I got a job tending a soda fountain and last night, just before we closed,there was two or three young loafers in the place, and a girl came in for a glass of soda. Five years ago. she was one of the brightest scholars in- the ward school, when I was in the inter mediate department. She was put a hrnlsome as a peach, and everybody liked her. At recess she used to take; my paitj when the boys knocked me arcund, and she lived near ue. She had a heart as big as that cheese box, aud I guess that's what's the matter. Anyway, she left school, and then it was said she was going to be married to a fellow who is now in the dude business, but he went, back on her and after awhile her ma turned her out doors, and for a year or two she was jerking beer

iu a concert saloon, until the mayor stopped concerts. She tried hard to get sewing to do, but they wouldn't have her, I guess 'cause she cried so much when she was tewing, and the tears wet the cloth she was Eewing on. Once I asked pa why ma didn't give her some sewing to do, and he said for me to dry up and never speak to her ii: I ever met her on the street. It seemed t nff to pass her on the 6treet, when she had tears in her eyes as big as maibles, and not speak to her when I know her so well, and she had been so kind to me at school, just cause a dude wouldn t marry her, but I wanted to obey pa, so I used to walk around a

block when I seen her coming, 'cause I didn't want to hurt her feelings. Well, last night she came iu the

store looking pretay hard and shabby, and wanted a glass of soda, and I gave it to her, and O, how her hand trembled when she raised the glass to her lips, and how wet her eyes were, and how pale her face was. I choked up so I couldn't speak when she handed me the nickel, and when eke looked at me and smiled just like she used to, aud said I was getting to be almost a man since we went to school at the old school house, and put her.haudkercuiet to her eyes, by gosh, my fcyes go t so full I couldn't tell whether it was a niokle or a lozenger she gave me. Just them one of thoe-e loafers began to laugh at her, and call her names, aud said the police ought to take her up for astray and he made fun of her until she cried some more, and I got hot and went around to where he was and told him if he said another unkind word to the girl I would maul hits. He laughed and asked if she was. my sister, and I told him that a poor friendless girl who was sick and in distress, aud who was insulted, ought to be every boy's sister, for a minute, and any. boy who bad a spark of

manhood should protect her, and thou he j your vines like this.

laughed and said I ought to be one of the Little Sisters of the Poor : and he took hold of her faded shawl aud pulled the weak girt against the show-case, and said something mean to her, and she looked as though sho wanted to die, and I mashed that boy one right on the nose. Well, tho air s?snied to be full of me for a minute, cause he was bigger than me,

If vou want to have no trouble with:

heaves in you horses be sure that they are fed no dusty and dirty hay, which is the prolific source of this annoyance. Ordinary clean hay can always be fed with safety if properly cut up, moistened and mixed with grown grain; but to feed themnsty or dirty sorts is very injurious. Clover, own-" ing to its liability to crumble, often gets dirty, even after storage, and should nev- - er be fed without being previously moist ened.. ... V. , Professor Arnold says the points in favor of dairying are: First, a dairy farm co t 10 per cent less to operate than grain growing or mixed agriculture Second, the annual returns average a little more than other branches. Third, prices are nearer uniform and more reliable. Fourth, deairy ing exhausts the soil less. Fifth, it. is more secure against changes in the; season, since the dairyman does not sut fer so much from wet, frost mid varying seasons, and he can, if prudent, protect

against drought. A cow and her increase cannot be kept : for les3 than 20 a year, and if, at the end -of the year, the calf is sold for $20, a good sale is made. In this $20 you have the pay for tne year's feed, labor of feeding the interest on the money invested in the cow, and the interest on the money invested in the laud that the feed grew up- : on. It is certainly evident that the fanner ; who keeps cows simply for their increase -is selling his feed at a very low price and receiving a very low -wage for his laborC

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Tho Housekeeper. - . , Never let tea boil.

For rough handf, use lemon juice. . Strong lye cleans tainted pork barrels, Tepid milk and . water clean oilcloth " without soap. . . ; Have as much fruit always on hand as vou can afford. . Tnipeutine applied to a cut is a preventive of lockjaw. A hot shovel held over furniture removes white spots. - - y ' Smoke dried mullin leaves in new clay pipe for bronchit is. ' ' . j

Sprinkle sassafras bark among dried fruit to keep ontwoTms. .. Pop corn is a good - lunch for Sunday nights with milk for drink. . A handful of hay in a pailfuh of water neutralizes smell of paint j. To make a carpet look fresh, wipe with ; a damp cloth after sweeping. In sewing and winding carpet ragsi double them with the right side out. Clean tea or coffee cups with scorang brick; makes them look good as aew.' - Remove ink stains on silk, woolen or cotton by saturating with spirits of turpentine. . r Washing pine floor in solution of one pound of copperas hssolved in one gallon strong lye gives oak color. Kemovo flower pot stain from window-sills by rubbing with fine wood ashes and rinse with clean water. Mixture of two parts of glycerine, one part ammonia and little rose, water whitens and softens the hands. s Corn husks braided make a serviceable' and handsome mat. The braids to te sew--ed with sack needle and twine. ' A cheap support for vine before a window in a prairie oouutry is a hrach of ai tree. Dig a post hole a short distance from tho house and set your branches. Train

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aud he got me down and got his thumb

in my eye. I guess he was going to take m eye out, but I turned him over and got on top and I mauled him until he begged, but I wouldn't let him up tilt he aske I the girl's pardon, and swore he would whip any boy that insisted her, aud then I iet him ug. and the girl thanked me, but I told her I couldn't spe?.k to her, cause) she was tnff, mid pa didn't waan me to speak to anybodv who was tutl. but if anybody ever

insulted her so she had to cry, that I would whip him if I had to take a club. 1 j told pa about it, and I thought he would j be mad at me for taking the part of a j girl that was tuff, but gosh, pa hugged j me, and the tears come in his eyes, and j

he said I had got g-ood blood in me, and ;

I did just right, and if I would show him , the father of the boy that I whipped, pa j said he would whip the old man, and ma i

said for me to find the poor girl and send her up to the house and she would give her a job miking pillow-cases and night shirts. i)w't it seem darn queer to you that everybody ges back on a paor girl cause she makes a mistake, and the blasted whelp that is to blame gets a chromo. It makes mo tired to think of it " and. the boy got np and shrok himself, and looked in a cracked mirror hanging upon a post, to s ehow his eye was getting along. Stock and Dairy Notes. A Cincinnati Gazette correspondent feedB his hogs artichokee, and has lost none from cholera, although the disease is very prevalent in his locality. Half a teaspoon ful of carbolic acid in a gill of milk is recommended by J. A. Dodge, iu the Journal of Agriculture, as an excellent remedy for hog cholera. A wrxter to the Breeder's Gazette thinks a lack of salt will account for many of he ills of stock. IIo thinks a through const antaly supplied with salt should always be kept iu the pasture and yard. A Kentucky farmer cures fowl cholera by boiling a bushel of smart weed in ten gallons of wator to three gallons, mid mixed the decoction with their food twice a day for three da s then every other day for a wiH)k. If a cow's hind feet are tied toother she cannot kick. It will make the cow some trouble for a tune, but the mind of the milker will be secure and undisturbed. After a few weeks a slight cord on each leg will be enough. Weed out your stock and get rid of the poor milch and butter cows. The profit hi a dairy comes wholly from tho good cows, while the poor ores, not only do not pay for their keeping, but they reduce tho profit made by the others. An American correspondent of the London Live Stock Journal, in comparing t he sales of blooded cattle on both sides of the Atlantic this year: says the range of short horns has been higher in America. Horefoi ds have been about equal on both sides of the ocean, and polled stock has ruled decidedly higher in Scot haul. He compares that J ersey craze now with the short horn craze of some years ago, saying that this second one, like the first one, is bound to react.

Fury of the SouthernCyclone,

A vivid impression ot the sudden fury of the Southern eycloue is conveyed by this brief statement of Mr. B. F. - Jena? of Beauregard, Miss., who the moment -he saw the danger coming called his wife 1 and little boy into: the yorr, and made them lie flat on the ground and grasp V some small scrubs which stood; within reach. T put one arm about my wife? ; says Sir. Jones, while with the other I -. J clasped a small tree, and made my son lie ; , close up to me, and then I said to them, :

j "Hold on, hold on, for God's sake! It is for life!' and then the wind came. There j was a whirl and a roar, I was shaken, j and heard tbe crash of my falling house, j j AiLinstant, and t was over. I still held j my wife in my arms, but she was inserij sible, and my w was still nestling close j up to me, but brUil bleeding," All v , three escaped with vr serious injury,

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A Leai Point. : ? t " Wall Slrcvr Now. Unbooked like a rmiuir youg 'lawyer as he entered a Jersey City bank iLe other day and inquired of tho cashior: "Has any person presented -x a check here bearing my signature J. Q. Jnith?,, "Tot sir." .. . ........ ..j,..

uIf such a check was filled in for $200

and my name forged to it would , itbe cashed?" . ,v; uNo, sir- -not even if the signature was genuine and the note tilled insfor $10! ' "Ah-eh yes! I was simply making a legal point. I bank in my vest pocket. Good morniu.' " r I A Marked Egg. Hartford HemM. Joseph A. Hnduall, Esq., living in this, county u. ar Rochester, Butler county, has a hen's egg at bis house that him a red mark up m it ab nit thee-fourths of an inch long and one fourth of an inch wide, and in this mark are plainly visible four letters of the alphabet, D B S I. Mr. Hudnall saye the letters are as plain as the priuton our pnper.

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