Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 39, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 July 1883 — Page 3

Mias fluiwoK, of Terre Haute, a Bhoit hand writer, ms allowed $75 out of the county treasury for reporting the evidence in the Sanders case. The new compulsory education law in Illinois provides that every person having the charge or control of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years shall send them to school at least twelve weeks in each year, unless excused by the local school board. The Jaw farther provides for its own enforcement, and prescribes the proper fines and penalties to be hat poeed upon those who disobey it. Now that the tax on sulphur has been abolished and 76 per cent, of the tax on parlor matches taken off the match consuming public onght tc reap the benefit: rut, sad to relate, this is net sure to be the result Under the old law all manufacturers were obliged to put lOpsulphur matches in each dot, but now the number :e not repulaUd. Already this omission IB being taken avantrge of, and the boxes are "bhort count" For the same money we may buy more boxes than f ormerly, but it does not necessarily follow that we secure a greater number of matches in the transaction.

Babtobis is an athletic and stockybuitt Englishman. He has a great craze for athletic sports and will spar any man whenever an opportunity offers. He is a good tennis and racquet player, and while in New York spends all his time roaming about town with his friends. It is said that he is not at all popular with his wife's family, which is unfortunate, if true. Sartoris had a much better bargain than Nellie Grant He gained everything by his marriage to a Jovery girl belonging to a famous family. She gained nothing but a thick-headed, though good-natured Englishman, of no particular account in Ids own country, and small ability of his own right Nxabm all the whalebone used in the IJnited States is ra San Francisco, b ut nearly every pound received there is slopped directly to the East, where it is put up into shape for use. Whalebone is largely used in the manufacture of whips. The catch of late years has been comparatively light The receipts at San Francisco for the past three years has averaged less than S5Q, 000 pounds. The quantity which was reported in 1882 was 139,600 pounds. A Boston paper says the total catch of Arctic whalebone in 1882 was only 241,000 pounds, and that on the 1st of November, 1882, when this bore first came upon the market, the supply of carry-over stock in

flnti hmntiM vrr onlv 18.000 nonnds. The

foreign demand has been quite active ibis year, especially from England where the consumption is much larger than in eitier France or Germany.

Fkom Columbus, Ind., comes 8 fox story that is a good one, and all the better for being true. A chasing party was out near that town, and early in the day the dog started a fox. After a long circuitous run the scent led into one end of a large hollow log, out at the other end, and thence around a tiresome circuit, in and out of the log again. At this point of the proceedings, in the hore of catching the long-winded ox in his own trap, the exit end of the log was stopped with sticks. Sure enough, after another hard run, in which some of the men and dogs wen beaten out, the trail was traced for the third time into the log. The log was opened with axes and three foxes, all showing evidence of recent running, were captured. Then it dawned on the wearied party that a fresh fox had led on each grand round, the second runner going out upon the entrance of the first in the log, and the third upon the return of the second.

POLITICAL MATTERS.

Events and Opinions, Published Without Bias, forjfcfca Information of the Reader. BiiAcxBTJBJi'a posmojf. I. Congressman Blackburn, in an interview, states that daring the next congress be proposes to insist (1) upon a reform of the tariff, putting leea than one half of the present dutiable art-cles on the free lift and reducing the others to a strict revenue tare; (2) freeships atid a revision of the navigation laws (3) j estoration to the public domain of all unearned land grants; (4) the abolition of the internal revenue bureau; reduction of the number of federal officers; distribution annually of 325,000,000 among the states for educational purposes; the improvement of the MississippL ' .. NOT A STATE TO TIE TO. N-Y. Ban. . Ohio in a good 8tateforthe Democrats in tidal wave years. Sat it is prone to be rather unsteady in its course when not borne along by a strong current. In the great -uprising against Grant's Administration in 1774, the Democrats carried Ohio by a plurality of 18300. But the next year the Republicans recaptured the State, electing Eutherford B. Hayes for Governor over the veteran Democrat William Allen. In 1876 Mr. Tilden was elected President, though Ohio went for Hayes, just as it had for every Bepubhean candidate since the party was founded. These facta ahow that Ohio is not a safe State for the Democratic party to depend upon in Presdentiai years. The Democrats carried their State ticket in Ohio last fall by a plurality of 19,000, but their absolute majority was only 1,559. In October next they will elect Hoadly. But, in view of its past history, H -will still remain true that Ohio is not a good State for the Democrats to tie to or take their candidate from in a Presidential contest. THS FTB8T STBAW, . The New YorkTimes sent out letters to 400 correspondents with instructions to inquire as to the choice of their localities for President on both Democratic and Republican tickets. The summaries of the letters show public preferences in the following ratio:

BeirabHcanBlaine, 106: Arthur, 6;

Edmunds, 47; Grant, 19; John Sherr

man, 17; Liogan. 14; luncom, 12Ui Har-

naon, 13; Wen. Hhenaan, 6; Gresham, 4; Pairchild, 4; Hswky, 2; Cornell, 2; A1K2; Hitter, 2; f&eridan, 1; Folger, 1; Windomv 1 Democratic Tilden, 120; McDonald, 72; Bayard, MX; Hancock, 25; Butler, 2s"; Thurman, 17Jf: Cleveland. ll;Bandall, 5; Flower, 4; Hoadly, 4; Morrison, 3; Eaton, 2; Parker, 2; Hewitt, 2; Hendricks 1; Jewett, 1; Palmer, 1. THE BKPTJBniOAK PARTY DENOUNCED. At a state convention of colored men in South Carolina, to nominate delegates

to the national convention, an address was adopted denouncing the national republican party for its course toward the colored '.race 'during the last six years, and condemning its action in conferring every office of honor and trust upon the white men to the exclusion of the colored race; denouncing the present state of government as the most damnable to which the people have ever been subject ed, asserting that the right of trial by jury was denied defendants, and that the verdicts of juries and sentences of courts ue determined by the condition and color of the parties accused of crimes.

A SICK MAN FOR IUOK. Chicago News (Kep.) The whole thing depends on Samuel J. Tiiden's health. If his health is all right, then every thing is all right. The question of nominating him is of no importance at all. The question of electing him cuts no figure. If his pulse is normal and his respiration is fair, that's all the country cares about knowing. This is the way comment runs. The newspapers might have learned by t he past that healthy men do not alwsys poll the largest number of votes, nor are men defeated because they sre unhealthy. The sick man is often the lucky one. The unhealthiest man in America, Alexander H. Stevens, was elected Governor of Georgia shortly before his death, and one of the healthiest men that ever drew breath. Gen. W. Hancock was defeated for the presidency less than three years ago. If Tilden is the man the Democrats want, they ought to trot him out or have him brought out on a shutter. No one will decline to vote for him because ihisjlive r is out of order. THE MISSTPPI AS A POMTIOAI FACTOR. A conference of delegates from the river cities was held in St Louis on the 11th, which was well attended. The meeting was designed as the forerunner of another, to be held not later than November 20 of the present year, to devise some means of keeping the Mississipi river within the bounds nature mads such a failure in placing her. There have been conventions to consider this subject, and yet the river twice a year, at the March and June floods, bursts her barriers a ad seeks a shorter channel to the gulf. But the convention of Wednesday built a sort of annex to the political platforms that may be adopted by any party. It is couched m these words: "Resolved, that in the selection heareafter of members of congress from the Mississippi valley it should be the especial care of all people interested that no candidate be selected except those pronouncedly in favor of river improvement, " Until some plan has been

or shall be adopted by the people for improving the river, a oc ngressional aspirant will not be reriously hampered as the canttidate of a constituency each individual of whom has his own notions of how the river ought to be improved. THE PENNSYLVANIA IDEA. Cineinmati News Journal. ...I f The Pennsylvania republicans have adopted a principle which would be fatal to all democratic republican government, if they could succeed in establishing it as a part of the American political system. If the government can so far pervert the taxing power from its legitimate uses in raising the revenues necessary in frugal administration, to reach indirectly some

proposed economical end, all the com

munists and socialists claim will have been admitted. Once allow this principle, and there is no end to it. It may be extended indefinitely. The difficulty with a wise principle is to preserve its applica

tion; the reverse is true of a false princi

ple. Once admitted and made apart of government policy, and a thousand interests will keep pushing it and extending it to its utmost consequences. If it is the business of the government to make its citizens happier and better, and more prosperous by means of the taxing power, and if surplus revenues may be raised for this purpose, the socialist and the communist will come forward with their views of what are wise, economical ends. If thus bounties may be perpetuated with the avowed purpose of protecting labor and maintaining wages the inquiry will soon be made, Why put these bounties for the benefit of labor into the hands of employers and managers and capitalists? Why not find means through labor bureaus and labor organizations to reach with these protective funds directly the men to be benefitted? If it is a wise policy to provide bounties for labor and protection for wages, indirectly, through the bounties of the protective tariff, which go first, in the price of the article manufactured, to the managers and capital engaged, why not devise

means to make the application more di

rect? If taxation is to be solely for, or primarily for, bounties and for economic

purposes, and the government is thus to

be the benign father of the people, improved methods of applying bounties to labor may be surely devised by the same wisdom which has devised the clumsy machinery which first makes the bounty tor labor go to the manufacturer, and relies on him to distribute it to labor. Labor is beginning to f see that -wagea are not thus increased or kept up. It is barely able to preserve living wages by its own determined efforts. If the government may raise surplus revenues for the advancement of labor, the workingmen may bethink them to devise better means of securing labor's share of this beneficent bounty. Taxpayers will do well to think twice before they embrace this disguised communism. Democracy holds every man's right to his own to be so sacred that the government can touch no part of any man's property in any way, or for any purpose except through the taxing power for revenues to be devoted directly and solely to the wants of the government economically administered. It would confine the government strictly to the duties of government, and rather seek means to diminish the necessity for taxes than hunt for means to enlarge its revenue wants. Any principle of taxation other than this is a step toward communism. Once go beyond the bare right of the government to its absolutely necessary revenues, or enlarge the sphere of government to embrac e business and other subjects beyond the true sphere of government, thus enlarging the necessity for taxation, and a long step is taken toward a power in government over private property, which is all communism asks, Dennis Kearney, Herr Most and Justus Schwab have never possessed the far sight to take such step toward communism as the Pennsylvania republican convention took, unconsciously, in the interest of bounties to manufacturing capital, aider the pretense of favoring labor.

THE DUDE.

"What is the dude, papa?" she said, With swoot enquiring eyea, .And to the kuowledee-seefcin maid, Her daddy thus replied: A weak atiiBtaohe, a cigarette, A thirteen button veBt, A curled-rim hata midarot-r Two watch-chainB cross thebrest. A pair of bangs, a lazy drawl, A lack-a-dasy air: For gossip at the club or ball, Sonae little past "affair." Two pointed shoes, two spindle shanks Complete the nether charms; And follow fitly in the ranks The two bow-legged arms. An empty head, a buffoon's sense, A posing attitude; -By jrve!" "Egad!" "But awl" "Immense!'1 All ttieso make up the dude.

BETTY FLIPPINS' AWFUL NEWS

It was to be a famous day in Lichendell. Tbiebe Hopkins was to be May Queen and I was to be her prime minis ter and chief officer of the household all which had fceen the subject of no end of correspondence between her and me. If no accident happened I should Teach Lichendell on the 1st day of April before sundown, and have the evening to spend with Thiube; and she and t, being sweethearts of long standing, would find the time short enough for the many things we had to tell each, other. But, however othereahzing may be a lover's lancy, i t never quite obliterates,in a healthy man, his appetitite for dinner at least I'm sure mine responded pretty promptly to the conductor's "half an hour for refreshments P as the train slowed up about noon in front of a jaunty little station. I had gotten the best of two tongue sandwiches, a cup of coffee and driedapple turnover, before the cry of all aboard interrupted my festivities. I was hurrying to regrain my place when a lady closely veiled I could see she was young and handsome not withstanding came hurrying through the crowd clinging to the arm of a halfgrown lad. Both had a frightened look, and kept glancing about timidly as if apprehensive of some threatened peril. "Might I ask you to see my sister safe as far as Blankbury, air?" said the boy, in a tone wherein shyness struggled with anxiety. "Certainly," I answered, not a little flattered that my appearance had invited saoh a mark of confidence The engineer tooted his last warning as I handed the lady up to the steps and led her to my own 6eat, of which I gave her half, there being, no other vacant

place. . She was evidently too absorbed in her own thoughts to be inclined to conversation; and having done all that good breeding required or permitted to break the social ice, I fell back on my own resources and set to drawing fancy pictures of Thisbe Tesplendc nfc in hor regal robes and floral crown. "Blankbury P at last sang out the brakeman, flinging open the door. I gave the lady my arm and assisted her to alight I had hardly done so when a rough hand seized my collar. "So you're the preecious rascal that's running away with my niece, are you?" shouted a plethoric old gentleman , purple with rage and reckless of consequences to his blood vessels. I tried to shake off his grasp and get back aboard the train, already beginning to move, but his grip was like a vice. "No you don't!" growled my captor through hi teeth. "Tve iust had a telegram from my brother to keep a lookout for his runaway daughter and her puppy of a sweetheart, whose flight he fortunately discovered without loss of time. Fye never seen you before, but I don't intend to let you go till we're better acquainted." I made another vain attempt to get loose, but the old sinner was as strong as a horse, and I had the mortificat:on to see the train move rapidly away, and, oh, horror! peering from one of the open windows was the face of Betty Flippins, the most unmitigated gossip in all Lichendell! If her lanky, flaxen curls had been Medusa's snakes, and her countenance the gorgon's own, my sense of petrifaction could hardly have been greater. Before the sun went down it would be as current news in Lichendell that I had been caught eloping with a beauti'ul young lady, as if the town-crier had prodaimed the fact in every street. Betty'p derisive smile left no doubt that her keen eyes and ears had not lost a single circumstance. As I turned in desperation to face the irate uncle, I caught over his shoulder a glimpse of the fair cause of my predicament as she leaped nimbly into a waiting carriage, of which the blinds were quickly pulled down as it rapidly moved off. "Let go, you old grizzly!" I shouted in a fury "let go, I say, or your gray hairs shaU not protection!" "Gray hairs be hanged!" he bellowed; "I can easily serve out two such whippersnappers as yourself P' "See hero. Squire,? he called f n a portly, jolly-faced man, whose attention the disturbance hsd attracted "which is it, burglary or grand larceny, to run off with another man's daughter?" "Neither, I am afraid," returned the Squire, "especially if the lady is willing." "You don't eav that's law?" 'Tm afraid it is." "I can't hold him, then?" "Not lawfully." "Then the law's a dunderhead, I say!" And with a shove and a kick,, which latter I dodged, and which cost the old reprobate his equilibrium, and I was sent about my business. What was my chagrin to learn that no other train would stop there til six o'clock next morning! I couldn't possibly reach Lichendell to take part in Thisbe's coronation; besides, she wculd hear Betty Flippin'B awful story, and 6et me down as the most perfidous of men. Stay I might send her a telegram explaining all. Happy thought but, unhappily, too soon to end in disappointment. The wire communicating with Lichendell was out of working order! The; e was nothing for it bat to wait. Amid a rattling fire of titters I struck for a shabby little inn and secured a room in which T kept close till train time next morning. It was past noon when I reached Lichendell; and from the station I went directly to the grove selected for the day's observances. There,on a throne gorgeously bedecked sat Thisbe arrayed as never was Solomon in all his glory, a crown of brightest of flowers on her head and a garlanded

scepter in her hand. Her face was beautiful, but not happy. Was it the cares of state that robbed it of its smiles, or was my own defection in part tr blame? I hurried forward to make my obeisance; but instead of graciously extending the tip of her scepter, she gave me a withering flash of scorn as she turned aside her queenly head to give some im perial order to her ohief courtier, Nic. Oadgers,an insufferable jackanapes whom I had more than once been tempted to cuff for his impertinent attentions to Thisbe. I attempted to speak, but she would not hear, and I was about 'to retire in confusion when a lady and gentleman approached. In an instant Thisbe's face brightened. Descending the steps of her throne

with a haste anything but queenly, she and the other lady caught each other in a close embrace, and exchanged kisses

with a profusion that to many of us seemed not a little wasteful. "You don'i. know how glad I am to see

you, dear Euphrasia!" cried Thisbe, hr crown all awry and her scepter at her feet. "Ifc seems an age since we've met, Thisbe dear!" returned the other. Then the kiesing had te be done all over again. "But Fve forgotten to introduce my husband," Euphrasia added. His name's Angustns Waggett. My old friend and schoolmate, Thipbe Hopkins, Que, and he! who s this?" turning to myself "as I live, Ghi8, here's the kind gentleman who lok such nice care of me on the train yesterday, and got into such a scrape with that dear old bear, uncle Festus PiJgrew, and gave me the chance to play him the slip !" Thisbe gave me a look both gracious and sweet, and it wasn't many minntep till I was basking in the sunshine of hei court, vice Nic. Cadgers deposed. N. Y. Ledger.

Farm Notes. Open ditches are a relic of the past. Crude heney keeps better than clarified honey. Beet-root sugar is only about two-thirdj? as s weetening as cne sugar. A Cotswold cross on the Merino make.c first class, early maturing sheep, good grazers, and hardy. Too much care can not be excercised to guard against the Texas cattle fever. Don't allow good stock to go where Tex ans have been. It is more profitable to dispose of cattle at two years old than to keep them until they are thiee years old. Early maturity is the wacthword of cuccessful stock growing.

Dr. Ooessman, of Amherst, by treating a wild grapevine with phosphate and potash so increased the sugar and lessened the acid that a grape as sweet aft the Concord was produced. The Germantown Telegraph says: The cucumber, it is said, will always produce more abundantly if furnished with a trellis of laths and strings for its support as it is a climber and not a creeping plant. Brnsh laid on the ground around the hills ia better than no suppor. The suds from the washtubsoan not be put to a better use than to be uoured about the newly planted fruit trees ml vines. Tt will often literallv "save thai lives," and under any circumstances is a valuable fertilizer. ...... This rheubarb plant can be greatly strengthened by removing the peel roots a often as they appear. Allowing them to mature greatly weakens the plan, which shows itself in subsequent years by the slender stalks. If the hogs must be confined, see to it that they have plenty of clover to eat, and they will do all the better for it; or cut hay or grass and put in the pen. It will keejithe hogs healthier, and they will fatten faster. Too much corn is injurious. Tb3 practice of some of the best farmers now is to keep pigs throuch the summer on green food, out and carried to the pens, with a little grain, and what milk can b. spared after butter making. Spring pigs are thus made to weight 200 ponnds at seven months old, . and, except in the last month, they get little grain. The best time to sell such pigs is at the beginning of cold weather, usually in October. Swine breeders have not sufficiently borne in mind the variation in the amount of lean meat fouud in the carcasses of different hogs. The Berkshire is nniveraally credited with having more lean than any other breed; but. even Berkshires vary in this regard, as do all other ol asses of swine. Hence, by closely scanning the cut up carcases giving preference to certain families showing libeial presence of muscular substance, these to be used as breeders, the relative quantity of lean

could be increased in any family or breed. It is well known that some hogs, when reduced to an impoverished state,, are rallv very thin, as the term is U8ed,while while others have as meager an amount of fat as the thinnest, yet have greater fullness of all the parts, and under no circumstances do they become so lean in appearance as the others. This difference is owmjf wiitireiy to tne greater aiseorrne muscle the motive parts and this difference is invariably shown in the cut up meat, So it will be seen that there are two modes of making a very correct estimate of this peculiar difference in swine by comparing animals that are, so far as we are able to jndge, aMke reduced, then again scanning the fat carcassses as they lay side by side upon the block. Cure for"Cat Fits." Showman in Sun Franoisco Chronicle. "Do you see anything remarkable about that leopard?" asked Mr. Boon, halting in front of a great, spotted African cat. "I see a sleek looking beast," was hazarded. "It's ail that," replied Mr. Koop, "but it's more. It '3 about the only long-tailed leopard in the United Sta'es, You see these blasts are subject to tits, and whenever that comes on the only relief is to cut off a joint of his tail and let a little blood. It's the same with cats and dogs. Whenever they get fits, just take a big pa;r of shears and nip off a joint; let out a little of the bad blood and then the tit is cured. I've known a pig to rear round a sty like a wild thing, and as s: on as he's had his tail shortened he'll ke just as quiet as a lamb. Leopards are peculiarly subject to fits, but this leopard has had no fits and consequently he's got all his tail. Nearly all the other, beasts have been docked, and in some menageries you may notice that most of the animals are stump-tailed. They've been dockod for fits. In fact, you can tell just how many fits aunni-nnl has had by oounting how nianv tiij I joints he's had iopped olF,"

CURRENT HISTORY, Some Public Matters, Details of which will be Found of More than Ordinary Interest. IiOTTEBY PROFITS..

A jjouisianian gives tne following in

formation as to the profits of the Louis

iana Lottery Company: For fifteen years

it has beeu a power in Louisiana politics. It has made and unmade men in Oongreis and out of it Its influence in the State has been so patent that no politician who

wishes to live politically dares oppose it A member of the last Congressional delegation mpde himselt objectionable to if, and he was promptly shelved. The capital stock of the concern is nw worth about five times iU pa value, and its dividends have been m jroas d. Last ye ir it divided seventy per cont amns: its stockholders. Its stock is all in the bauds of a very few persons. The largest owu'3r is Mr, Charles T, Howard, who has 0,000 shares, their par value being 8600,000, His dividend last year was $120,000, Mr.

John A. Morris is the next Urjofc owner He has 4,000 shares, and last year he received $280,000. STE.VLING IiAND. It is evident that the only fraud practiced upon the government to obtain land are not those of the railroad companies, gross a nd outrageous even as those are, ft seems that the private individual, acting in his divine right as a settler on the frontier, has been guilty of dishonest practices in securing land, which, if not so gross as those carried on by the large corporations, are fully as iniquitous. That these frauds have exisfed in Colorado, Dakota and other western states and territories has been well known, and they have become so frequent that the government,flome months ago,began a thorough investigation of the business. Thirty

special agents were set to work, and from them over 600 reports have been received at the general land office, showing that 65,000 acres have been fraudulently taken by settlers and others, whieh revert to the government These lands are located mostly m the rich valleys, and are generally th most desirable in the regions in which they are situated. The estimated aavin? to the government by this investigate 3n is about $125,000. The homestead and pre-emption laws of the United States are so plain and simple that a mistake is almost impossible. OONPI5DBBA.TB BOND3 IN ENGXjAXD. The resant rise in onfederate bonds in Eoglaud is explained by the fact that Lord Penzance and Messrs. Bruce and Goesfc are moving to a3cure the payment of these bonds, at a discoun t of course,by the state governments of the South. It is a little difficult to understand this movement in view of the na tional legisla

tion regarding these bonds, but it may be that English ignorance of our laws is at the bottom of it, or it may be, and this is most p.'obibl. that tuts fnherae is started to give the bonds an increased local value whioh holders will make available to unload upon such as believe that Lord Penzance is in earnest in the matter. The arguments presented to the English public to make them believe that such a scheme should succeed is that the southern states BTe showing a disposition to settle their nisfcms' debts.aad that cUy may be induced to pay these bonds. T 50 i anient mav do on the other side of the Atlantic, but so long as those states do not exhibit much anxiety. to pay one-hall! of their own repudiated obligations, it is not probable that they will pay any percentage of the bonds of the defunct Treasury. While the southern states are gaining rapidly in prosperity it is not probable that that the people can be iniuced to shoulder the additional burdens of taxation that would be required 1o compromise these bonds even if the national constitution did not prohibit it. Lord Penzance and his asso elates may have some standing at home, but they are likely to lose it by being parties to so glaring a fraud as is, hidden under this latest confederate bond scheme. crook's campaign. General Crook does not pan out as great a hero as he has been crowned. The statement of State Senator Gibbs, of

Texas, that he and his command were captured by the hostile Apaches turns out to be true. The facts, as gleaned from an employe of the Interior Department, who was present afe the conference between General Crook and Secretaries Lincoln and Teller, and about as follows: General Crook, in taking with him the 200 White Mountain Apache scouts, supposed that they were worthy and might be depended upon in any emergency. On this hy pothesis, he made his contingent of Federal soldiers comparatively small. After a few days march in the mountains of Chihuahua, he began to see unmis

takable evidences tht tshe scouts were not to be relied upon. They unceremoniously objected to an order given by Crook after his suspicions were aroused, detailing a patrol as well as the pioket forces from the ranks of the soldiers. They insisted and carried their point, that sentinel duty should be equally di-ridfid between the two races. The scouts within the camp marched and slept together, and while they were not anf rieudly iu their intercourse with the soldiers, practically maintained a separate and distinct organization. The advance of the 'orce was rapid, uninterrupted, and direct. They found themselves in the mountain strongholds of the hostile Apaches without any oi the delays incident to a cautious advance on an enemy'B country. Crook knew that he was in the power of his scouts, and, like a wise man, devoted all his persuasive powers to effect sr.ch a rescue that would not be wholly without honor. He realized the fact that unless he could make his 200 scouts meditators 1 between him and the hostiles, he and his soldiers would be massacred. He urged the scouts to use their influence to persuade the hostiles to retnrn to the reservation. He deplored bloodshed, and thought all men should live in peace. He pledged his word as a warrior and chi f that fche hostiles should be restored to their reservation, if they would surrender, Aa Crook had been exceptionally honest in his dealings with the Indians, the scouts conveyed his promises to the hostile1?, and the were accepted, with the condition that a certain number of squaws and children of the hostiles should go to the reservation, not as hostages, but under the protection of the Apache scouts m a pledge taat the iiostiles would treat iu good faith upon the proposed terms, the scouts having obligated themselves to protect these women and chil iren with their lives against any perfidy on the part of the government. When Sesrotary Teller refused to

errant the reauest of Crook that the ho

tiles be placed on the San Carlos reservation, the scouts, eee aVof whom are very intelligent and Quickwitted, quietly in

formed the "captives," as the women and children were oalled, and enough of them tied to the hostile camps to carry the news. With this intelligence the hos

tiles resumed operations, and are still

raising soalps. OBN. TOM TntJMll. The death of Gen. Tom Thumb wo an

nounced last wok. He leaves a widow,

who'had been the sfcr with him since

1833 He was forty-six years of age. His

c rrect. name was Charles Stratton, and

he came to the notice of P. T. fiarnum in November, 181 and the showman describes him as bein;? under two feet high, weighing less than sixteen pounds, beautifully formed;a blonde with ruddy chseks and rnirthfni eyes. Barn am introduced Stratton to the public on December 8, 1842, by the name that afterward preceded htra around the w jrld G merali Tom Thumb. He paid the little midget $3!a week, with expenses for himself and his mother f jr four weeks. Then he was reengaged for twelve months afc $7 a week, but long before this term expired Mr. Barnum paid him $25 a week. In January, 186, Tom Thumb, now getting fifty dollars a week and expenses, set sail with B irnnm for Earope in the Yorkshire, a sailing ship. The little General prove I a decided hit in England, Prance and Ger

many, and the statement never af tor ward

omitted from the show bills, that he was exhibited "before the crowned headsMwas

literally true. In the autumn, Tom

returned with his manager, who was then the proprietor of the mnseum that bore

his name, and early the next year the mite

returned again to Europe. When,, three months later, he again oame back to

America, his value as a curiosity had

grown greater than before. Barnum took

m 95,504.91 m twelve days wicn him in Philadelphia, and $976.97 in one day in Providence. Mr. Barnum took him to Havana and made a great deal of money there. After that the dwarf was put in the hands of agents of Mr. Barnum, who had! no desire to spend his life in travel. In 1857 Barnum took Tom Thumb to Europe, and in 1862 he engaged Lavinia and Minnie Warren, two tiny sisters, to the former of whom Thumb lost his hsart at the showman's home in Bridgeport. At the old museum, the receipts Wre frequently $3,000 a day. The fact that Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren were to be married redoubled the popular interest in them, and Barnum offered thorn $15,000 to postpone the wedding a month. This was indignantly refused. The showman resisted the temptation to have their wedding viewed by the p ublic at so muoh a seat, though he said he could have made $25,000 by exhibiting the ceremony in the Xode-rrr n Mnsie. They were marne 1 in Grace O uirob, a;i;l held a reception afterward in the Metropolitan Hotel This was in 3862, Of late years the name of Tom Thumb occurred outside of the museum show bills, when he and his wife escaped with their lives, but lost some money and jewelry in the burning of the Newhall House, at Milwaukee. Genoral Tom Thun b long ago grew in height, became stoutand ceased to be the smallest mortal on exhibition. He wore n mustache rmd a board. Three geiiAra tions of Americans sat before him He was fond of yatching, and, being more prudent than most of those who have onjoyed good fortune in the same way, liv

ed comfortably and saved money. AFTEB TWENTY YE ARS. No doubt ehe flirfcod all tfirls ilo; But thtjn you know, she lidnt mean it; To me in ail things ohe raa true a blind even could have seen it, But thorus are fouud near every roao. And after some few months we parted. A teardrop glistend on her nose. And I for days was broken-hearted. A score of years havo passed away Since then; 1 lately heard about hor, Her hair had turned a trifle gray. Her ifon re grown a great dm1 stouter. And 1 since then have marrii Ic9, My heart no longer ronchee toward hers, For she has been a widuw thrice And latoly's gone to tifcing boarders, P. H. Curtiss, in Kansas City Times.

CONDIMENTS. A corner in pork A piga ear, , Fair play is a jewel, but bluff fcakeB the

pile. A laughing etook A collection of good jokes. It is a wise horse that noser his own fodder. The dissipated actor weira his "tights' on his nos.j. Croquet ie a cute game but billwda is the cue-test. Vain as tha peaoook is, the weathercock is even more vane. Watermelons are here, and the population will soon double up. Hunger is the beat sauce; hsnce streetboys are naturally saucy. Woman's sphere the darning ball In fact, many a moman fears it. Never look a gift horse in the month, especially if it be the Colt revolver. .What letter in the alphabet ia the best initial for cucumber? Double yon. FantaloDus will be worn longer m July than in June one day longer. A hog may be considered a good mathematician when it comes to square root. Many men have mny taiudsi, but oue woman frequently has more than all of them.. Marriages were invented in heaven, but unfortunately the process was not pattnted, Whea a man ia half-seas over you may harbor a suspicion that his judgment is afloat. No matter how good his buwiuess may be, the dentist always looks down in the mouth. The potato with all its eyes is the most susceptible of all vegetables. It is so easily mashed. David slew Goliath with a sling. This provea that the Philistine was not a temperance man. Gen. Washington made the Elessian fly consequently he is responsible for this wheat shortage Joe Blackburn's Clothing. A friend of Congressman Joe Blackburn says that the following is gospel truth: When Joe sta-ted for Washington last week he was in a good deal of a hurry, and neglected ty bring with hi. n the necessary outfit of linen. On his arrival here he telegraphed to his family to send him some clothing, but when the message arrived no one was there to All the order but his little daughter, about ten years of age. She did her best as the following telegram from her will show: Deah PapaI have sent all the wearing apparel I could find seven shirts, oue bowie knife, and three pisfcois, 44 she sent fchem.. f

THAT STRIKE.

The Telegraphers Trying to En

force their Demands for Higher Wages and Less Work,

TEIiHOIi APHERS' STBIKE.

The rumors of a month or two of a con

templated strike of Western Ukiou tele

graph operators culminated Thursday

noon by a general strike at nil the princi

pal -frire in the TTr Ted S ates. Tbe de

mands nuon which the strike is based are

freedom from compulsatory labor on Sun

day, and that both exes receive equal pay

for equal work, and an increase of wages

The operators at New York. Boston, Chi

cago and all the large cities promptly

left their keys and quietly left the buildings. At New York several hundred op

erators are employed, and at other points

proportionate number?. At Boston all

the operators but two have struck, and

women operators have also gone, but four

out of twenty-five are left. At Indianr-

polis the strikers numbered thirty

Whether tbe strike is to be succcessf ul or

not is to be determined. A prominent member of the Western Union executive

committee said after the meeting in New

York: "We will not make a general ad

vance or one per. cent, even, to , say nothing of fifteen per cent. The sub-commit tee was appointed to correct any irregu

larities which might exist, but as to the

general advance not a farthing will we

give, wny, mere w an army or operators gathering now; they are coming from everywhere."

The third day developed nothing espe

cially new regarding the strike. The Western Union maintain that their busi

ness is being transacted generally under favorable circumstances, but it must be conceded that they are experiencing no

little trouble.

INCIDENTS. J. A. Fuller, an Indianapolis non-

striker, working a direct Chicago wire for L. C. Hopkins & Co., unwittingly gave

the signal for the strike to Chicago. He clicked to the operate r at the open board;

"Have you heard anything about General Grant dropping dead?" The Chicago op

erator dotted a little while, then "73"

("best respects") and "gocd-by" came,and

he jumped the board. Fuller then click

ed to the operator at the Metropolitan

Grain exchange, in Chicago; "What's the matter with that fellow? I asked him if he had heard that General Grant had

dropped dead, and he quit on me." The

second man wired back to Fuller: "Here

we go. Good-bye.' And that was the

last of him.

A BROTHERHOOD TRICK. "The Brotherhood " said one of the at

taches of the Western Union, 'Wee up

to all sorts nf trinkB. Thev workrd to get

as many men into the organization as

possible, and made use of many very small and harassing methods. I dropped

on one of their tricks. When a Brother

hood operator sent to a member of the

order, if the receiver was a slow man he

sent slowly; if he wasn't a 'brother he sent it in so fast that he would break the

receiver all up, and in this way succeeded

in getting a non union man discharged."

THE GRANT CANARD. " One story of tbe origin of the rumor of

General Grant's death comes from a mem

ber, of the Telegraphers' Brotherhood, to

the following effect: The plan was to

have sent the dispatch simultaneously with the signal to strike, but it went off prematurely. Had it been properly timed It IB thought the demand for news caused by the rumor, combined with the supposed impossibility of procuring any, would

have brought pressure enough to bear on the companies to have made them grant ihe demands of the men before night. The more conservative of the strikers condemn this action, if it was really contemplated, and think that it will irretrievably hurt their cause with the public if traced to any members of the Brotherhood. They equally condemn the too general nature of the strike, claiming that one man should have been left in each office, if possible, not only to watch matters, but to protect the public interests to some extent. AT CINCINNATI. The Western Union men m&rohed out to the air of "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, ti e Boys are Mh'ns'." "non the signal of A J. ,WntV by sMMne threA times on his table with a rile when he leceived the message, "Grant dropped dead,"whioh bad been previously agreed on as the notice to quit work, and which was flashed all over the country from the New York office. This message gave rise to the story almost immediately circulated on the streets and on 'Change to the effect that the ex-President had really drop pe l dead while walking iu Central Park, but which was a few minutes later contradicted.

was a matter of life and death with us, and they left us walked right out without giving us a minute's notice. Long before the strike, we had decreased tike time of a working day to nine hours, and given them other concessions. Now their demands are equal to a 30 per cent, in- -creas?. We could not pay it, and we have chosen the alternate. So bave thay and they will have to abide by itVf "If they agreed to withdraw from the Brotherhood, would you accede to thailf f ;r demands?" ; "That I do not know; but what I do know is that we have been but wjr slightly inconvenienced by the stiike." A SMIIjE or two. J Some of the operators now at the wires are a little rusty. They have the theory but are out of practice. Yesterday a superintendent and a manager undertook to converse over the wires. FTegct buav ness with you," clicked the manager. I II. Go ahead, frite stow," came the answer. ' Write slow," was meant, ;. and 1 are both dashes, t being short. Inexperienced operators get p end h mixed. P is five dote and h tour. An ; 1 Evansville operator asked who wa ut this end of the line, and Manager Butler, who recognized an old acquaintance, said he was. The answer came, "Papa, go

ahead," which was finally interpreted . as , "Ha! ha! go ahead!" Z ' 4

THE STRIKE OF 1870. ' ' "The strike of 1870," said one of be

Brotherhood, "wne a very different affair from this. It began in San Francisc ,

and it was three weeks before it struck '

Indianapolis. Why, the boys here don't

know to this day what they struck for."

"And do you know row?" T "Yes, we think we do. A strike now ie

of much greater magnitude than then. At

that time we used the same wire for Cin

cinnati and Chicago, and sent only from sixty to one hundred messages a day to Chicago. It was a big day when we sent a hundred. Now the average is from 800

to 900 a day. I understand the rmurkete

are badly troubled now, the reports com

ing in very slowly. So slow, in tao that

an old opeiBtor told me it reminded him

of the early days of telegraphy. Of c urse :

they have all the men upstairs t hey have

use for. What's the use of sending mes sages unless there's somebod.. at the othe r end of the wire to tak t hem." "

JAT QOUTiD'S OPINION. "I do not see that the strike is not about over. I was . told that there had been little interruption in business; that the work had been kept well up all the time, I do not think that the public will be caused any serious inconvenience. Tou see we have maintained a great many offices that did not pay the expenses just to accommodate the public iu the fullest mauner. It is rather to the advantage of the company that these should be closed. Indeed, I believe that the sti ike will prove to be a benefit to the company. We shall be able to out ofi some unnecessary expenes which otherwise we could not have done convenienty. I am sure that the company will be helped by tue strike. The price of the stock since tbe strike was make shows, does it not, that the street looks at the matter in the same way? I am sorry that there should have been a strike, for the telegraphers will be the principal losers by it. I think it must have been instigated by persons herein Wall street." .TERMS OP OaPitUIiATION, "We will take the strikers back," was the decision of Colonel R. C. Olowry, general superintendent of the western division, which is all the territory west of Pennsylvania, "onlyhowever, on one condition." "What is that?', , : 'That they withdraw from the Brotherhood of Telegraphers." "And do you think they will do it?" "We do not care whether they will or not. We are perfectly independert." "If they made such a capitulation, what redress would they have in the future?" I don't care." Mr. Clowry responded, "what they could or what thej could not $o. They did not show us any meroy. Jt

, ,. Freaks of Lightning. -In a thunder storm at Ouondaca, N

T., a man had both eyelids torf away by

lightning. A physician is now transferring bits of cuticle from the patient's arm

to make him new eyelids - - "-

The three little daughters of Jacob

Morowitz, of Winona, Minnr, were struck

by lightning while walking under an um

brella in the Btreet. Two were killed, and

ine orner was sugnuy paraiyzeo. .. . i

While using a telephone during a storm- v

William Walter, of Williamstown, N. Y

was struck by lightning. Tlie eleotrioity ran from the side of hie neck down-

throuvh his boot into the flocr. v.

Three mules stood in a sow in the barn

of Joe Johnson, near BwghamtonN. Y.

A stroke of lightning killed both of t he

outer mules and left , the middle one;

uninjured. The bam was badly splinteS ed. - . : $.-t.: ; , Six negroes at Bonham, Texan, had jn t left a hack in which they were riding to escape a storm, when the vehicle struck by lightning, which killed both,

the driver and team, and tore ,1110 into kindling wood. v ,

Lightning struck p tenement occupied by Hungarians at Ashland, Pa., paralysing one man, breaking the leg and arm of another, and burying a woman under some timber. Another man, became. insane through fright. Solomon Deets and his bride of Mili lersburg, Ohio, were- cleaning sud fur

nishing fcheir house, into which they.ere soon to move,.when lightning struck the building and injured them both eo badjy that heir recovery is dpnb-nV A lightning bolt struck the ohimneyof the house of W. Ii. Greenlee at WestDeuver, Col., and dividing, one part ran down the outside of the house, ripping ' off the' weather boarding from the roof to the cellar. The other part of the charge went down the 8tovepipe,8oattenn.' the kitohen utensils in every direction, and then crossed the carpet to a brass rail opposite upon which the sliding door rolled,, cutting the carpet in two as it with : a knife. It set fire to the clothing-in a closet, and? then made a hole through the floor into the ground. t . .. William Middletpn, of Cbnnersville, Tnd , stepped out of the house to adjust a. lead pipe as a rain storm came up. Jusas he stooped to lay hold of the pipe a flash of Hchtning seemed to envelop the house. Middleten was prostrated, and

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Rfvverinflr almost immediately be cried

to rise, but found his limbs wholly porerless. In a minute his wire and servant girl were at his side, and he called for them to throw water on his legs, as he4 thought them ootli afire. They did so,' and it relieved him somewhat, so. that he ; could be carried into the house) When " '4 there he still insisted that his legs wens I badly scorched, though his trousers were . unsinged. An examination revealed that both limbs were very severely burned though not a shred .of his clothing was J injured. - .. . .,, . - : . - , PsrragutV Flag:. ; Philadelphia Times. The ridicule oast upon that new-fan -gled device the President's fiag recalls an anecdote concerning bluff- old Iron sides Farragut When1 Vice -Admiral Porter was in high feather in the navy J department, during Grants earlier administration, and had his eye on the possible succession at some day to the chief command of the navy, he drained out an " ensign for the Admiral, who at that timewas the hero Farragat; The standard was an odd looking afiair, and suggested ,4 the British Cross of St. Cteorge as mnoli. as anything. The first time the new flag t was raised on shipboard over the head of ; the old sea dog the victor of Mobile and; New Orleans-the nondescript 'caught

his eye at once. Pointing up to the nag; so the e'ory goes, he angrily demanded;

"What do you. call thing up there?""

Somebody told him it was the newly

devised Admiral's flag.

"Who in- ordered it to be hoisted?'he again asked. v "V

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Porter had.

"Take that rag down at once," he thun

dered. "The Stars and Stripes are 0fio enough for mo?' .-XS Admiral Porter's gridiron came down with amn, and this is the first and last time its folds were ever unfurled,

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