Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 39, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 July 1883 — Page 2

The Bloomington Courier BY. H.XTEI.TUS. BLOOMINGTON, : : INDIANA

NEWS AND INCIDENT. O it Compilation o the important HappeninR of the Week. OHOXdSBA IH EGYPT. Special despatches from Cairo agree thai the number of deaths there from cholera far exceeds the number given in the official report. A correspondent estimates that sixty deaths occurred from cholera in Cairo on Monday. The cholera is spreading generally throughout the country. The sanitary commission is taking steps to isolate Alexandria, in which case, it is thought, the cholera would be announced Tuesday last Twenty-eight deaths from the disease occurred at Pamietta Monday, thirty-eight at Mansourah, and fifteen at Samanoud. The Egyptnn government has accepted the offer of England to send twelve doctors to the infected districts. The wooden huts where the cholera originated have been burned. Five hundred deaths are reported in Cairo in twelve hours, Wednesday. The cholera is raging in many villages not mentioned in the returns. Four hundred carcasses of cattle were removed from the Nile and bur

ied. The incorrect character of the reports referring to the spread of the cholera is shown by the fact that twelve deaths occurred in a single quarter of the city within an hour, Wednesday. The police are doing everything possible to conceal the true state of affairs, even arresting waiting men on the streets. Trains for Alexandria are discontinued. Advices from Damanhour say great die content exists there because of the uselessness of the measures adopted to prevent the contagion from reaching that point, and as it is known that several cases occurred at Alexandria. Over one hundred deaths occurred at Cairo, Thursday. At Bulak a specialmessenger counted eighty funerals. Between 8 and 11 Thursday morning there were thirty deaths in the Shoobrag quarter. Two deaths were officially reported at Abdin cn Wednesday, but it is known that twenty-five, at least, died; Patients in the worst stage of the disease are carried to the hospi'al through crowded streets. The people of Shirbin protested against the improper observance of the funeral regulations, and troops were summoned to prevent a threatened revolt against the authorities. It . was decided to form a cordon around Alexandria to prevent an innux. There were 14C deaths from cholera at

Cario Friday. Two regiments of British troops have gone to Suez. An Alexandria telegram says there were twenty-nine deaths from cholera Friday at Mansourah twenty-four at Samanoud, twenty-eight at Ghizeh, forty-four at Chirbin, and three at Damitta. There were sixteen deaths from the disease at Menzaleh on Tuesday. The sanitary commission has decided that all passengers must undergo a medical examination before leaving Egypt. The commission is considering permanent sanitary measures to bs enforced against vessels arriving at Egyptian ports from Bombay. The deaths from cholera on Saturday were 381. In Cairo and suburrJs, 33; at Mansourah, 17; at Samanoud, 26; at Mehalla, 93; at Chirbin; 32; atChobar, 33; at Bamietta, 11; at Zifteh, 8; at Menzaleh, $, besides 34 in six villages. ,' . The disease is spreading everywhere, and mortality increases hourly. The deaths in Cairo, Sunday, numbered 481 between 8 a.m. and 6 p. m. A MEXICAN OUTRAGE. Dispatches say: Doctor Campbell, American consul at Mcnterey, Mexico, arrived in Laredo on the 14th rust, leaving the consulate in charge of Rev. Mr. Shaw. Monday night the American consul's house was entered by a mob of mechanics, and Mr. Shaw, acting as United States consul at Monterey was attacked and nearly beaten to death. The furniture and papers belonging to the consulate were destroyed. The information creates a profound sensation at Laredo. The citizens deplore the rapture between the two governments, but consider the insult so bold that the United States, must resent it An employe of. the National Mexican railroad, who arrived Tuesday night, says Mr. Shaw, after being beaten senseless, revived sufficiently to crawl to one of the public hotels and give an account of the outrage, but in a - few moments became again insensible, and at last reports was unconscious.

Secretary -Lincoln again indignantly denies the story that Gen. Crcok was captured by the Indians. It is stated on the highest authority thai the president's Yellowstone trip will not cost the government a cent; that he goes at the invitation of General Sheridan, who gees to the region officially on a regular exploration trip. The captain of an English bark from Manilla discharged a Chinese carpenter at Boston, who desired to become a resident of the United States, for which the stripper was held in $2,500 for violating the immigration laws of 1882. Experts of provisions, tallow, and dairy products for six months ended June 30 188aggregated $51,575,436, against $50,708,290 for the same time in 1882. Exports of provisions and tallow for eight months ended June 30,1883, $65,086,589, against $65,384116 for the same period last year. Exports of dairy products for two months ended June 30, 1883;, $2,990.413 against $280,384 for the same time last year. INDIANA ITEMS: The outlook for the coming state fair is pronuaing. .. Logansport figures that there is a population of nearly 17,500 in her borders. The storm Thursday evening at Indianapolis did damage amounting to $30,000. A Mishawaka man had forty sheep killed by the fast train on the Lake Shore road the other day. At Sullivan, on Wednesday, in a friendly scuffle with Charles Newman, George Wright was struck with a pitchfork and fatally in juied. Major-general Hancock will probably attend the forthcoming military encampment and review the old soldiers on Grand Army day at Indianapolis. English sparrows having descended in swarms upon Shelbville, the people are trying the effect of Flobert rifles upon them. Mrs. Bosa Davis, a colored woman,agect 120 years, was buried on Thursday from the home of her youngest sonFohnDavis, aged seventy years, in Jeffersonvilie,

The oats crop in Jackson county is one of the best in the history of the county. The hay and potato crop are unusually large, nnd the price of the latter will be lower than for many years. -: . Upward of one hundred and fifty horses at Terre Haute are effected with a disease somewhat resembling the pink eye. It deprives their owners of the horse's eervices for several weeks, but there are few fatal cases A Corydon man has a remarkable old gobbler Some time since he took charge of a nest of eggs until t he process of incubation had gone through, and now he cares for the brood with the kindest maternal affection. A couple of Logansport colored men, having a quarrel on hand, one challenged the other to fight a duel. The challenge closes as follows: "If you do not accept my challenge, den eab, I is guant to have mi satisfacashum: do you bar mi gental wail?" Ira Hinchman, a f aimer who lives five miles west of Sharpsville, sold his farm and received a $2,000 payment on it. On his way home he lost the envelope containing the money, and up to this time has not found it nor heard a word about it. ... . William S lith, a middle-aged painter of Connersville, was found dead m an alle near midnight, Tuesday night, where he had fallen in an apoplectic fit from excessive drinking. He killed a man some twenty years ago aud it is said tcok to

liquor to drown his remorse.

On last Friday evening Josh Stucky, a

rather eccentric individual of Pike county was marrted to Mrs. Emily Keel, of Knox

county; ; The fair bride has attained the ripe age of seventy-two. while but about

half that number of summers have passed over the head of the groom.

Mr. Charles Alley, of North Vernon, has in his poe session a curiosity found in

the track of the recent cyclone at that place, the trunk of a small tree, a foot in

diameter and fifteen feet long, with the center taken out, leaving nothing but the

berk, which is sound from top to bottom.

A young man by the name of McKee

living near J? ayetteville, was drivm? a reaper on the road Saturday, when the

Horses became rngntened and ran away, throwing him off in front of the guards He was terribly mangled. Four of the guards ran through one of his arms, tearing the muscles out. Yesterday afternoon Mrs Loate Harris and Miss Mary Francisco were thrown from a vehicle near Richmond. The horse was frightened by the harness breaking while going down hill, and ran away. Miss Francisco died soon after from the injuries received, and the death of Mrs.

Harris is expected. Two children that

accompanied them were not hurt. Fully 60 per cent, of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis railroad stock is held by W. R McKeen. and in the last fiscal year of the company there were but fifry-f qui new stockholders entered on the transfer books, and these .transfers came mostly through the division of estates, as few people who are in possession of this st oek which pays 8 per cent, net, care to part with it The yield of wheat in Jackson county will be very much better than was expected a month ago. The grain is very large and plump and of extra quality. iTWoto oumo-fleiarmtiie county xnat will make an average of thirty five bushels per acre. The oats and grass has not been as good in years, and the corn crop gives large promise.. Ihe second series of encampment meetings of the Christian Sunday school and Missionary Associations will be held at Island Park, August 3 to 18. The Sunday school association, State missionary society. State ministerial association, woman's board of missions, and the National Sunday school association will occupy the time in the order named. The most noted preachers and workers of the denomination in the west will be present. Last Saturday night, as Peter Wilson,a wealthy bachelor farmer, of Lawrenceburg, was returning home from Aurora, he was attacked and terribly beaten by three unknown highwaymen. It was supposed that he came to town for money, but the would-be robbers were disappointed, as no money was found on him .He lay until morning in his dangerous condition, and then was taken home by friends. A good many inquiries are being made as to the amount of state revenue tax that will be levied. The legislature failed to fix the levy, and by law the amount will be run as last year, with the addition of J cent for the permanent endowment fund for the Indiana University. The total will be 30 cents on , the $100, of which 16 cents are for school revenue; 12 cents for state revenue, and 2 cents for the new state house. Captain John Flush, of the Lawerenceburg Gas works, has a pet toad that he has trained to catch Dies, and the little creature will come to him when he whistles and submit to being placed on a table where some attraction has been placed for flies.' This done, it will amuse an audience by the expert and swift manner it will dispose of these winged pests, jumping at times several feet high and protruding its tongue almost an inch in efforts to reach its prey. A special meeting of the State Board of Health was held in Indianapolis on July 21 for the purpose of considering precautionary measures against cholera. Strict sanitary rules will be enforced in the towns and cities of the State, many of which are in a very insalubrious condition on account of their extremely filthy streets. Diseases kindred to cholera have been reported from different sections of the State, and it is thought highly important that there should at once be precautions against the epidemic. The state board of equalization con eluded, Monday afternoon, the work of appraising and assessing the seventy railroads in Indiana. The following are the totals shown: Total miles of main and second main track in 1883, 5,301 miles, against 4,954 miles in '82; valuation of main tracks $39,572,223, against $36,371,726, in '82 (an increase of ever $3,000,000); valuation of side track, $2,571,996 against $2,156,713 in '85; valuation of rolling stock, $10,752,270 against $9,183,178 last year; total valuation $54,209,228, against $47,882,398 in '82-an increase in the past year of $5,322,830, an'l of $10,873,888 since 81. At Aurora, the other night, a young gentleman and two young ladies overtaken by a rainstorm, took refuge under a freight car. Soon after the rain-bound party had taken shelter, a freight train backed in, coupled on fc the car they were under, and began pulling out. The gentleman and one lady managed to es

cape frcm beneath the car before it had moved far, but the other lady was unable

to creep out, but with rare presence of mind she prostrated herself flat on the

ground and remained motionless while five cars rapidly passed over her w ithout inflicting the slightest iniurv.

Millers are complaining over the quality of the new wheat crop. Much of it is

proving unfit for rlour,and not a few gram

men think less than one-half the Indiana

crop will grade over No. 3. The size of the crop in this state is the subject nf much speculation; a prominent dealer estimating it at 20,000,000 bushels about half an average. Another equally well informed, placed the yield at 24,000,000 bushels, of which he thinks one half will grade No. 2 red. Still another broker estimated the crop at 18,000,000. These figures cover the raue of estimates One thing seems assured, the per cent, of unsound and rejected wheat will be uu u-ually heavy. The general manager of one of the Indianapolis roads, Thursday, remarked that the efforts the last few years to elevate railroad men was doing much to bring about better service. He said most railway mt nacjers now, if they heard that an employe, in high or low position, was drinking too freely of intoxicating liq nor.-, he would be reprimanded, and if he reformed was continued in the service of the road, but, if after he had been reprimanded he continued to hang around saooas, his head soon cams off, as it was

not safe to have a man in any branch of

railroad service who usea liquor, more

especially train men. He thought J. W.

Murphy, superintendent of one of the

busiest divisions of the Erie system, had

Uaken really the right ground in this mat

ter, having issued an order prohibiting Ids men to use liquor, either while on or

on or an xy. jar. jmirpuy Knows very

wen wnat it nas cose tne compauy in

years past to employ operators who drink Majy roads prohibit its use whils men are on duty, only the above mentioned

gentleman goe9 further, and reaches the sensible conclusion fiat the best way to have sober men on duty is to keep them sober while off, and he deserves and will have the thanks of the t traveling public. THE EAST: In New York 7,000 cigar makers are

out on a strike. Texas cattle brought to Worcester, Mass., have the fever. Five dollars a day will be the hotel charge at Yellowstone Park. The marriage of Lotta, the actress, and O. E. Huss was a fact. Hues will join his wife in Europe. Eight boilers exploded in an anthracite furnace at Reading, Pa., Tuesday. Sev

eral persons were fatally injured. The Catholic clergy of Wilkesbarre, Pa., prohibit the wearing of "bangs" by

children while attending divine service. Heavy Eastern capitalists, on Tuesday, entered 43,000 acres of land at $1 per acre in what is known as the Cherokee strip. Cuban insurgents, to the number oi ll 0, irefc m New York, Sunday and declared for n a r, as the only way to free Cuba. The bark Monrovia failed, on Monday mqramg, from New York for Liberia-, with fifteen negro colonists. The negroes are all from Sonthera States. A bolt of lightning deseeded upon a colored camp-meeting near Baltimore. A large i umber of the worshipers , were shooKed, ana s -verai wctc rendered senseless. . Jay Gould is evidently in earnest about his trip around the world. The Secretary of the Treasury issued the necessary papers Monday for his yacht to go anywhere under the sun. In the report made by the Tewksbury investigating committee to the Massachusetts legislature, the majority pronounced the main charg s of the governor groundless and orueL The minority, all democrats, declared the charges substantiated. C General E. O. C. Qrd, of the United States army, who took passage on the steamer City of Washington, at Tern Cruz for New York, and was taken with yellow fever, compelling his removal to shore while the vessel was at Havanna, died Monday evening. There is a mysterious looking man at the Fifth avenue hotel in New York, who t; e gossipers believe is Mr. Langtry, and that he carries a shotgun under his clonk. Still Freddie has raised $47,000, and is apparently making preparations to sail with the Lily in the Alaska. . The Hanlan Ross four-mile boat race at Ogdensburg, N. Y., Wednesday, was won, as usual, by Hanlan. Boss was beaten a quarter of a mile. The lime was twenty-seven minutes and eight seconds. The fastest on record. Hanlan is anxious to race with Courtney. Dennis Kearney delivered a speech at Cooper Institute Friday evening to an audience of 2,000 persons. He said that a convention of wage workers would be soon held at which the laboring men throughout the country will be represented. He advocated the raising oi' railroad wages. A great fire occurred at Brooklyn last Thursday. A dock filled with hemp, jute and coffee caught fire from a passing engine. The flames spread with incredible rapidity, and in a few minuter the entire dock was ablaze. A dozen firemen were caught under falling rafters, bat were rescued after bring considerably injured. Six lives are believed to have been lost by falling spars. Three vessels caught fire from the dock, and, with their cargoes, were burned. The dock was totally destroyed. It is believed the loss will reach $1,000,000. Majority and minority reports of the Tewksbury investigating committee will be presented to the Legislature on Friday. The former makes about ten columns, and the latter seventeen. Tae majority report will speak in most postive terms regarding the direct charges made against the honor of the State, will take up in detail the most serious of them and endeavor to show how they have been refuted, and will characterize in strong language the nature of the attempt to make the Commonwealth seem savage and brutal, and, possibly, may be very di rcct in its language upon the part the Governor took in promoting the investigation. THE WEST: Encouraginsr crop reports come from Nebraska, Several police officers are on trial in Chicago for criminal offenses. Cincinnati's tax levy amounts to 15,82 mills and will yield $2,720,720. The annual cattle drive in tho southwest is expected to rech 1,000,000 head. A St. Louis Globe Democrat dispatch reports the Denver exposition a f ail n re. T. J. Fisb mayor of Racine, Wis., was

fined in a justice court for fast driving on tho streets. Seven steers standing beside a barbedwire fence, near Decatur, 111., were killed by a stroke of lightning on Monday afternoon. The reports state that generally through out northern Illinois the corn crop is further advanced than at this date a

year ago.

James Sweeney, of Peoria, was arrested

recently for stealing handkerchiefs from

"his girl," and received a reward of four

mouths in the work-house.

A report comes from Champaign county, 111., of a hail storm on last Monday,

in which hailstones fell measuring twelve

inches in circumference.

During the absence of Isaac Hattinger and family from their farm, near Fremont 0 vandals broke the windows, destroyed thefurniture and mined all the machinery. A cyclone swept through Fort Atkinson, Wis., on Monday afternoon, wrecking 100 buildings and injuring six- persons. The damage is estimated at $50,000. Governor Sherman and Judge Kinne, Bepublican and Democratic candidates for Governor of Ioa, had a meeting Tueslay and arranged for jort debates Bridget Fox, an eccentric old maid of Burlington, Iowa, who carries $1,500 on her person, was knocked down in her doorway and robbed by two young men. Ex-Senator Tabor, of Denver, goes throuph the streets attended by a police man. His life has been threatened by James Bush, the brother of his former partner. The Board cf police commissioners of Kansas City, Mo., on Tuesday, passed a resolution that the provisions of the new Snndav law be rigidly enforced in that city against all un exempted business. A letter from the frontier, dated July 14, stating that near the place where General Crook left the hostile, in the district of Montezuma, they attacked a Mexican settlement, killing five persons. A detachment of Mexican infantry pursued

the savages, but found them in too strong

force, and were repulsed with the loes of

seven soldiers.

The Illinois Geological Department has

come into possession of a couple cf interesting relics. The relics are a pair oi! ver

itable pikes manufactured by order of

John Brown and used by tho negroes un

der his command in the raid on Haider's Ferry.7, The blades are nearly fifteen inch

es m length, flat, and about two inches

in width. 1 . 1. 1. - 1- . . TV 1

Arcnoisnop jrureeurs wuj, orawn in

February, 1880, has been filed in the probate court. His property, of every kind

whatsoever, not subject to the payment

of his debts, is bequeated to his coadjutor

Wm. Henry Elder. In a codicil, it is pro

vided that in case of Bishop Elder hecoming incapacitated, the property shall pass

to Bishop McCloskey,Bishop Toebbe and T" 1. T ii -m m m

.Disuop xurgess ro nave ana to noia m

trust for the person who may thereafter

become the archbishop of Cincinnati.

A terrible tornado swept over tho country in the neighborhood of Elgin. Minn.,

Saturday afternoon. The track was from

one to two miles wide, and crossed Blue

Earth, Waseka, Steele, Dodge, Olmstead

and Wabaska counties. The most serious

damages occurred in tho villages of

Koenio, ootunaa. ana Euan, At Elgin

three persons were injured. Near Man-

torville there were nine serious casualties, By the overturning of a passenger train, thirty-four persons sustained injuries ol a more or less serious nature. Near Hitchcock, Mr. Gessinger and his mother were killed, and Miss Bowles was killed near Kedfield. Near Huron, Dak., it is reported nine persons were killed and fifty wounded.

PAID IN PENSIONS.

Seven Hundred Million Dollars Since the Government Was Established.

THE SOUTH: The heat in New Orleans on Wednesday was so oppressive that horses and mules dropped dead on the street., The mechanics and workiigmen of the International railway at Palestine, Texas, struck for higher wages, Tuesday, Lightning set ofT 1,000 pounds of dynamite at Avery's island near New Orleans. No lives were lost, but the country for miles around was well shaken up. A Dallas Texas, Sunday night, Peter Wright, aged 20, and Ada Mays, aged 13 eloped and were married- The parents concluded to accept the situation. The Galveston News contains the following clipping from the Two Republics, published in the city of Mexico : "The cholera has made its appearance in Sau Donso Del Mexicara." The cotton worm has appeared inTexan near Calvert and Hearne, and west ol! Austin, on the road to San Antonio, at the latter point doing much harm. This early appearance causes fear of much damage. w The sergeant-at-arms of tne House of Commons, Thursday, reported, to that body that Bradlaugh had brought an injunction against him,to restrain him from preventing Bradlaugh from entering the House.

FOREIGN: "The people of Melbourne want New Guinea annexed to England. In the battle at Huanuco, Peru, the Chilians captured e'even pieces of artillery, 800 rifles and one standard. At the Inter-national rifle match at Wimbleton, the American was defeated by the British team by 45 points out of a total of 1,951 for the British and 1,900 for the Americans. The Toronto Globe publishes crop reports for Ontario and Quebec, which show that the country suffered no more rains this season than in former seasons from other causes. Samuel Bulger, who & few davs ago committed rape at May&ville, Ky., plead guilty, Tuesday, and was sentenced to death. Five more corpses in the victims of the steamer Daphne disaster, at Glasgow have been discovered, making the number of bodies so far found 123. A Marseilles letter states that the Prince of Monaco is negotiating with France for the sale of that principality for 1,000,000 francs, subject to recognition of the gaming concession for twenty -seven years. ,.

Washington Lot tor. Washington, July 16. One of the causes for the falling off in the reduction of the National debt is found in the fact that the pension payments in the year just past have been very large. The amount an Dronri at ed for last year's uee

was $100,000,000. The entire sum was not required for the year's demands, but something like $70,000,000 of it was paid out, so that but for this requirement the debt reduction would have amounted to

$200,000,000. Tho remainder of the sum appropriated, for last year is to be used

for a like purpose this year. The amount

of money paid out for pensions by the

Government is something enormous in

the aggregate, though taken separately

the payments seem ridiculously small. The number of persons on the rolls now

aggregates abort 300,000, the work hav

ing bsen pushed forward with err eat ra

pidity during the past year. "If it were not for this pension business," said a Treasury official recently, in speaking to

your correspondent of the year's work,

If it were not for this pension business

we should nvtke a much larger showing of reduction of the National debt Sixty

or seventy millions a year is a terrible drain on the Treasury."

" Yet it goes right out among tho people

and is put into circulation again, is it

noi;?"

"Yes, I suppose it is all. right. Of

cou rse these men and womeoi are entitled

to all they get God knows it is little

enough in comparison to what each one

" . . .. i i

nas suuerea, yen wnen i sst nere ana see

it going out in great bundles, million af

ter million of dollars, a comfortable for

tune for ouo man going out evry hour

of the day, it seems rather tough. Why,

jxisti rniuK oi , j?or every nour or one

business day the year round there is paid out twenty-fivo or thirty thousand dol

lars, or nearly five hundred dollars a min

ute. That is, counting it out working

hours of course. It goes in great lots, Ml- I ' ll

several millions ar a rime, aii'i tnen our

debt reduction for that month drops down, down, so that instead of $15,000,000 a month it is often only $5,000,000. Yet I suppose we shouldn't begrudge the poor fellows or their families what they get where they are justly entitled to it, for besides the fact that they havo earned it a thousand times over, it is merely a method of putting tho money into circulation again. And it is well distributed, 1 can tell you. It goes to 300,000 persons in all parts of the country, in small and frequent payments, and, as a rule, is paid out by them nearly as soon as they receive it. So it is put into general circulation nearly as soon as it leaves the Treasury.'. "What amount has this Government paid out for pensions mice its existence?' "Something over seven hundred millions. Tho payment of pensions has been going on, you know, ever since tho organization oi! the Government. An act promising pensions to those disabled by the war of Independence was passed by the Continental Congress August 2i5,1776, less than two months after the Declaration of Independence, and from 1789 to "1791 the payments on account ot pensions were $175,000. In 1702 they were

over $100,000. From that date to 1810 ihey were not above $100,000 except in 1795 and 1798, and in 1803 they dropped down to $62,000. In 1816 they jumped to $188,000, and have never been below that since. From 1819 to 1864, they averaged only two millions a year, only dropping below one million a year six times. In 1864 the effect of the late civil war was felt, and they went up to about five millions. Next year they were sixteen millions, the next about the same, then twenty, then twenty-eight, and so they ran at about that until the Arrears of Pensions Act doubled and trebled the sum, and now the payments reach ovar sixty millions every year and still increases" ..... . . The persistency with which these pension claims arc pushed is something remarkable. Year aft er year they remain in the Bureau, and ere gone over aud over again by faithful, patient clerks. It i3 the fashion to abuse Government employees, saying that they are neither faithful nor painstaking, This is not the fact. It naturally does follow in some cases, for it would be impossible to get 10,000 persons together in any employment without finding that there were some : hundreds amon? them devoid of any... feeling of responsibility. But many of them are willing, patient, even persistent in their efforts to do exact justice to applicants and the Government. It is instanced by a case decided in tho Pension Office during the present year. An application for pension had been filed nearly twenty years ago

! by the family of a soldier who was alleged 1 to have died in a hospital in one of tho

Southern States daring the war. An examination of the records of the regiment to which he was said to have belonged did not show his name, ror did the ordinary hospital records. These facts were endorsed upon the claim and it was passed on down to another official whose duty it was to verify the report of the first examiner. . He made similar aud more diligent search, but with no better success. Time flew by, and by the slow-moving machinery of the Bureau and the persistency of the claimants it went to another clerk, who, after a diligent search, was forced to erport adversely, as the man could not be found. So it passed on through something like a half-dozen hands with similar result. Finally, when it had nearly completed its circuit and was about to be finally rejected, a happy thought struck one of the officials whose duty it was to do post mortem duty on what seamed an extremely deid claim. He traced back the history of the regiment, aud at last, in a book of the hospital little used for death record and soldo ni referred to in cases of this sort, the name of the man and the record of his death wan found, just as described in the claim filed almost twenty years ago.

Tho most energetic measures to stamp out this plague are being taken, and with this object the district Govern ment of Novokopersch have voted 25,000 roubles and the Governor in person has left for the scene of havoc. In Taganrog the grain aud locusta have been burnt to gether in order to stamp out the pest. From Borieaoglebsk the latest intelligence is still more lamentable. The locusts in this government are ravaging a track of

seme 70.000 acres. Six thousand sol

diers sent to the assistance of the inhabi

tant? are powerless to check the appalling destruction committed by these ravaging and insatiable insect legions. They

have also appeared in the government of

Baiaschevski.

The Widow Maloney's Ducks.

Washington Star,

Lest Monday evening, after the storm

a few citizens who met in a store on Seventh street were discussing its effects, and

a young son of the Emerald Isle, who reside, in Swampoodie, was asked whether any'damage was done in his heighborhood. "No," ho replied, "fconely the Widdy Maloney lost foive av her ducks.' By the hail?" Yiei, by the hail. The widdy had an ould duck, do you meincVwithabrood av seven, jnsb out about ten days. "Whin the storm came on t he ould mother duck tuck her youngsters in under a porch; out of harm's way. Well, when the hail dropped 6he tuk.it for corn and commenced to ate if , and the little wans did the same, and foive of the dear little ducks were frozen to death wid de hail on their stomachs." COLLEGE ETHICS.

sinful, and intemperance degrading. We beg of them on entering their course, not to lower their standard; not to adopt the wretched sophistry, that deception is "not wrong unless you get caught"; and not to weeken or lose courage, even if "no credit is given to the man who is honest above the man who is not." There is not One standard of morals for the college and another for the world. Right and wrong, honeBty and dishonesty, vice and virtue, are ths same in college as they are anywhere else; and the student who learns to discriminate between them,even in the least things, has learned a lesson that will be of far more importance to him than all the mathematics and mental philosophy taught in the text-books. . No one can do better than to fellow Dr. r MoCosh's suggestion, and pledge himself at the start even though the pledge be made only to himself against deceit of all kinds and in favor of that which is true, honest aud of good respect.

Montreal pays $1.70 per thousand for gas, aud clamors for a reduction. The Rev. Adirondack Murray intends to open a law office in New York city, and another in San Antonio, Texas. As John Yogle, of Northampton, Mass., was standing by his team in his barn lightning killed one of the horses with out injuring the other horse or tho man

The Plague of Locusts in Russia. London Daily Timca. The inhabitants of various Russian provinces are aghast at the devastating ravages of this post. Intelligence just received from Chnrkoff states that in that district the locusts are swarming over and utterly destroying the crops of fertile tract of 50,000 acres. Also in the district of Novokpersch, in the government of Voronesohki, and in the neighborhood of Taganrog, the same frightful destruction of the oiops is proceeding,

Views of Students as to the Right and Wrong.

Now York Observer. While it is undeniable that our country is better for its colleges, and that the students tuemselves are, in most cases, morally benefited by the associations and discipline, there are yet osrtain cUugerous features of college l.fe which must not be overlooked; and while it is worth while- emphasizing just now for the benefit of the large numbers of boys who are going to be entered at college. One of these, to which President MoOosh in his .. 1 . . L 1 . I . II t

annual report cans cimeiy avrennon. is

tie practise of trickery and deceit on the part of the students at testing examina

tions, He does not hesitate to express his

isevera disapprobation of the business. "I

know of no practice,1' he declares, "which

has a more demoralizing influence on the

minds of students than this. The habit

of chnT levari at collega goea up into the businass of life and continues with the man all his days. The faculty has

taken up the suject, and has subjected

the examinations to a more careful

watching, hoping all the while to induce

the students voluntarily to pledge them

selves against deceit'

Before us lies an interesting little pam

phlet of statistics, compiled by a member

of tha graduating class of another college

after a thorough canvass ot the habits, tastes, personal peculiarities, fafeure in

tentions, etc , of the 149 members which

make up his class. The testimony of

these young men shows the widest range

of preference and the greatest frankness

in expression. Sixty five freely admit

that they either ' skin" or "crib" their

lessons, and twenty -ons of them do it

regularly. Their reasons for this practice are ingenuous. With the majority it is

simply "to assist niemoiy," ""to save time,

or "oecause studies were too naray or

"to ge-6 turougn ana not? oe aroppcoy or

"because no sane man would have requir

ed the matter in question to be committed

to memory." After this acknowledgment

it is not surprising to learn that forty-

seven men do not think it wrong to de

ceive the faculty. Several think the system requires it, and that telling the truth might injure the system. Some 'hink the faculty expect it and like it. Among other answers are the following: "Not wrong, unless you geteiaught;1 "no credit is given to the man who is honest above the man who is not;" "it is wrong, but not dishonorable;" "think it wrong to deceive, bit don't mind feheir being deceive ed.! Now, making due allowance for the semi humorous character of these returns, aud tho exaggerated frankness of the students, they do not indicate in the matter of honesty the highest moral standard; while in other ethical points the exhibit is even less favorable. One-half the class, for instance, cones3 that they swear; seventy-three of tho members bet, while sixty-five, "on proper occasions and under

proper circumstances," drink though where the line is drawn as to the propriety of the occasion they do not say. Twenty-three, moreover, admit that they have been intoxicated at one time or another, during th college coarse. On the other hand and we anUrlad to note these facts there are seven ty-s:x men in. the class who do not bet, seventy-nine who do not swear, aud eighty-f on i' who d i.ot druik,

while eigUty-iive are professin . Christians ;

in one or another of the various denominations. Nevertheless thete figures do not wholly remove the disagreeable impression left by the others, and the feeling remains that the class which is probably neither better nor worse than the gradu

ating classes in other (ioileges is lacking too much in moval seas tiveness. If we may generalize from this showing, and there seems to be no reason why we may not, it indicates a want among a large proportion of our college students of a nice discrimination between right and wrong. Probably the lack is no greater than exist in the community at large, but under the favoring conditions of college life it ought to be less: the young men who are to carry down the highest intellectual culture of the country should likewise set up and maintain the loftiest moral standard. Nothing is more sure than Dr. Mc Cosh's remark that "the habit of cheating learned at college goes into the business of life, and continues with a man all his days." It is true not only in regard to cheating, but with respect to all the other evil habits acquired in youth. If the boy at school, or the young man at college, expects to achieve any substantial success he must avoid the beginnings of dishonesty, of profanity, of intemperance. One cannot heed too carefully ad-

monitious of the conscience, and that

hw txr winner man is fortunate whoso

'noral souse is so keenly attuned as to jar at the faintest suggest ion of evil There will be hundreds of lads going to collie next fall who have been brought up to regard cheating as dishonest, swearing a8

The Plagues of History. Indianapolis Journal. . The outbreak of cholera in Egypt and the probability of its spreading to other countries renders interesting a review of famous plagues recorded in history. The plagues of Egypt (491 B. C.) are described

in Exodus ix, aud other chapters. The first recorded general plague in all parts of the world occurred 767 B. C. At Carthage, 534 B. C, a plague was so terrible that people sacrificed their children to

appease the gods. Another raged in the

Greek islands, Egypt and Syria, 187 B. C, destroying 2,000 persons daily. At

Eomea most awful plague prevailed in

A. D. 89, by which 10,000 persons perish

ed each day. Other plagues followed at

intervals, and in A. D. 250 another visit

ed the Roman empire, and for some time 5,000 persons died daily at Borne, and

many towns were depopulated. In Brit

ain, in 430, a plague swept away such

multitudes that the living were scarcely

able to bury the dead. Constantinople lost 200,000 of its inhabitants in 746-749. At Chichester, England, 772, an epidemic carried off 31,000 inhabitants. Scotland lost 40,000 people in 954. , In London, in ths year 111 l,a plaga3 eitende I from human beings to cattle, fowls and o tner domestic animals. A prodigious number of people perished in Ireland in 1172 and 1204. In 1348 '49 Britain and Ireland suffered grievously. In London alone abo ut 200 persons were buried daily in the Charter house yard. In 1 107, 30,000

people perishel of a pestilence in London

An awful pestilence visited Oxford in

1471, and throughout England a plague

destroyed more people than than the continental wars for the fifteen preceding years. The "eyeatidg sickness" (mortal in three hours) appevel in Lurloi in 1506 and again in 1517. Tu most of the

important town? in Engla id half the inhabitants died, and Oxford was depopu

lated. Limerick suffered in 1522, where

many thousands perished. The sweating

8ickae33 appeared In England again in 1528, and the next year in North Germany, and for the fifth time in England

in 1551. In London alone, 1603-4, 30,678

persons 1 perished of a .v plague. Constantinople lost 200,000 citizens in In 1656, a transport with soldiers on board brought the plague ron Sardinia to Naples, and 400,000 people perishel in six montho.

The graat'plaguQ in Lmim be ran in December, 1664, and carried oft 68,596 inhabitants. Fires were kept up night and day for three days to purify the air, and

it was thought that the iefejtion was not

totally destroyed until the great contiagration of September, 1665. In 1720, 70,000 persons perishel in Mirseilles from a plague brought by a vessel from the Levant. A fatal pestilent destroyed 80,000 inhabitants of Bassora, Persia, in 1773. In Egypt about 800,000 per. one died of plague in the year 1792. In Barbary 3,000 died daily, and at Fez 247,00 perished in 1799. Asiatio cholera made its first appearance in England at Suuderlaud, October 26, 1831, and the first death from Asiatic cholera in North America occurred at Quebec, June 8,1S32. In Ne.v York the first fatal case occurred June 22, 1832, and extended thence to C incinnati and New Orleans. It again visited the United States in 1834, slightly in 1819, aui severely in 1855, and again; slightly, in 183 )-7. Cholera baoams epidemic in Lower Bengal in 1817, whence it gradually spread until it reached Russia in 1833, and Germany in 1831, carrying off more than 900,000 persons in '29 and '30. Iu66 nearly 50,000 deaths from cholera occurred at Constantinople. Testing a Witness. A lawyer had seen the story of the witness who was confident of his accurate notiou of time, and was requested to give his idea of two minutes, A watch was held, Jnd at the end of twenty seconds he declared that two minutes had elapsed. The lawyer resolved to try the excerinient on a sailor in the hospital whose deposition he was taking in regard to a collision, and the time which had elapsed after the vessel left the wharf. The sailor answered, "About ten minutes." "Man said the lawyer, "how long do you take ten minutes to-bep - j "About ten minutes." Out came the lawyer's watch, as he

said, "M tell you when to begin and you

tell me when the ten minutes are up "Aye, aye, sir," said the sailor. The lawyerBtood with his back to a mantel on which was a little clock facing the sailer. - .,v After three minutes the lawyer exclaimed, "See here, are you going to keep up here all day ?" No answer. The hand of the clock was on the exact notch of ten minutes as the sailor said, carelessly, "Guess the time mus be about up." . . s .. '

GENABAL MISCELLANY. Plaids and chess board pattern gcods are all the rage. Brooklyn, N. Y., was named ftftgg v Broukeleu, Holland. - ; i v One of the rages of St. Louis society it to knit competently. Uneasy ties the head on whese bald crown sports ally. , : About tw o tons of frogs' legs are Bold '

weekly in New York. . ' The Moqui and Maricopa Indians in Arize na cremate their dead. Money got by trickery is larceny under the lawi Washington judge. , A Rochester robin has built its nest on a New York Central locomofiTe f

J. M. Beck, of Newburyport, Massbafi

100 men catching fish for him , ? The Munich Academy of Art has among its 468 students t hit ty four Americans. Montana has produced $200,000,000 in precious metals. . Wooster, O., is held down by a polios force of two menu . Trade dollars were received in churches yesterday.r-Exohange. X The prospect is very favorable for m large sugar crop in Louisiana. " V. A Salt Laker has invented a combined

knife, fork and toothpick.

The 3,000th national bank has been organized. It is the Anoka bank, of Anoka Michigan, and it begins business with ft" capital of $100,000.

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' A North Carolina Weeding. It was in the Carolina backwoods, ft iu country couple and a country parson. When he had finished the ceremony, he said:

"An them 'una whom God

ed "

4Stop thar, parson," said the groom,

"don't say them nns, say these 9wmT v

John," said the parson, "I tech yon at

school, and I say them 'uns." ;

"These 'uns," shouted the groomraw-

ing his pistoL ......

The parson, seeing the movement, fired c

hrough his surplice and the groom dront

ped dead, winging the parson as he went , down. There was a lively fusilade of 31 shot 3. When the smoke cleared away t half dozen men were on the floor. The : bride peeping over the pulpit to which, she had fled for refuge, gazed mournfully on the scene, and said: . v "Them a-self-coskin pistols ,is a playn h- with my prospeoksl'V j Bonner on Poets. A New York correspondent of the Chicago Evening Journal thus describes sr scene in the Ledger office: i The short and rather thick man wore a hat that would have fitted few others in the wide world, and his singularity of

ereaL or j?reater. from ar In aap rr fmim

forehead to back. In all other respect ' he was commonplace of aspect ; but be had that decision of manner and speech which, indicates the person who has become " self confident through success, Sueh waa ? Robert Boimer, dealer in sentimental Mt- . eratnre, as he came to the inner side ot his shop counter. Outside stood a dainty exquisite girl, as shadowy in physique aa -he was solid, and as timid and low in ufe? . terance as he was bold and loud. She had brought i i some verses. 1 T will leave them for yon to read, if 5

you please, she said gently. ;

By the blush on her cheeks, as be be- , gan to open the sheet of pages which she). ! nervously handed to him, it was plain to -I be seen that she had no desire to be present when judgment was passed upon her effusion. But Bonner had no sympathy 1 v for maidenly weakness like that. "You needn't bother to cme twme," he -1 Baid, read them now" A delicate perfume, disturbed by k& rude unfolding of the paper, spread in ;, ' the air. lie read the lines hastily, shook his head decisively, and passed them -j back. V. ' .. f1

"Of no use to ns," he remarked in an off-hand way; not; poetry at all. --?!-'" i chanically all right, but without any ex- l pression or sentimental idea." " ? J The fragrant scent became more petw: cepttble, just as though the dear girl's ex- "'

otic hears was giving out sweet odor in

being crushed like a flower. She

out quickly. I don't believe she kept the tears back until she reached" the street.

In the doorway she met a big man, from whom even in her conf usion, she wihr4 -held the merest touc of her skirts by ? drawing them immediately aside. Not that he was repnl ive, but his physique j was heavv, his face red. and his whole I

personality grossly materialistic Shehad

a poetic nature, as she was well' ,aware!'

and, being etherial, it was intolerable to ; 3 come into contact with so earthy a mor-- k.

taL uesiaes, mere was unmisraKaoie whisky on his breath and tobacco in his clothes. It was with evident revulsion ? that she returned past him, to lean across the counter toward Bonner.

"X aia nor expect-10 gee say pay uuruij poetry," she said. : Tll'?:,

"That wouldn't make any dinronce; was the reply. " ...C,.-' T!As sho departed the rude, redfaced. c

whisky-bloated man threw wn ayeuow fe

page that had been torn frjom a cheap

pad. yhexrvrtmveTsea on

-4k

read them, took out his waUet, and hand-- f

ed a $10 note to the caller, who strode out without a word. Bonner allowed ma .. oaa fhAnnom - Tf. wan

correct in construction, imainnative In

character, aud melodious in rbymth.

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'And what wasiththat the

I asked. : . "Trash--mefe trash." Bonner

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