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INDIANA
NEWS AND INCIDENT. Oar Comslatio o. the important Happening ot the Week. CJHOLKKA IN EGYPT. The cholera raging in Egypt is said to be entirely different from the Asiatic type There were 627 deaths from cholera in Egypt, on Wednesday, including 78 at Cairo T-.::-,,. There w re 795 deaths from cholera in Egypt on Thursday, including 39 at Cairo, 296 in the province of Charkich, and 115 in the province ot Fayanm The deaths from cholera in Egypt, to date, number 16,448, of which 6,366 died in Cairo. There is an un confirmed report of a carbuncle plague at Damietta, On Tuesday 682 persons died from
cholera in Egypt, including 70 at Cairo
and 130 in the province of Sioat. Only
four deaths were reported in the prov
ince of Sioat in the last return.
The deaths from cholera in Egypt on
Monday, were 598 in number, inducing
78 at Cairo, v , SOBKES IN ISCniA.
The state of sflavrs at icchia is worse now than ever. At first it was decided
-to cover the whole scene of; the earth
quake with chlorid of lime to protect the
living in their necessary work among the
ruins, so great and deadly has become the stench arising from the bodies of the
more than 8,000 human beings known to
have perished. But when it was found
that scores of riving persons were en
tombed i3 the rume. the nlan of whole
sale disinfection had to be abandoned,
Tuesday a man was rescued alive from
the ruins. The effluvia that tailored from, the crevice which his person had
acted upon as a tight-fitting coik over
powered his lescuers, all of whem faint
ed. There can be no douibt that niany persons still iemain alive in the Jschia ruins. It is probable t)at all those renaining alive will have to be abandoned
to their fate, as every part or tne scene
has ceased to be endurable. Scarcely
rescuer is left able to resist the terrible . vomitings compelled by the indescribable
stenches new prevalent. The entire land
has been almost constantly shaken by
series or intermittent shocks ever smre
the great disaster of last'Sunday. Strange to say, the odors which will now' render further rescues impossible, and drive the force of humanitarians from this once beautiful island, will probably let fin the hordes of Italian brigands who now hover about in sufficient number to pass any probable guard, waiting their chances to rush on the scene for any plunder. AH INDIANA HAKOIKG BEE. Back Sto it, convicted of the murder of Taylor JJunt ary near Parungton,last November, was banged at Bockville, Wednesday. The execution was the occasion for a holiday in Bockville! Fakir and venders took the town. Hundreds of people surrounded the 380. Stout slept well Tuesday night, and rose looking pallid, but with normal' pulse and temperature. He was led to the scaffold at 1 p. m, ascending the stairs between his . attorney e with elastic step, disappointing those who predicted his collapse. During a prayer by Rev. S. N. Fuson he was the least concerned of all present. Be read a statement. Bis last look was a smile as the deputy adjusted the noose. Tie drop broke his neck and he died without a tremor. A fire in a lumber yard, pending the execution, increased the excitement. To Deputy Sheriff Bailey, Stout had told the following: "Dunbar and I got into a fuss over the ownership (f some game. I-stepped up behind him and hit him twice with a club. He wouldn't down easily; we clinched, and finally It hot him twice. I killed him through damned meanness, and then thought it was no harm to go through him. I took hi& silver" watch and four dollars in money; Tina was the second execution in the history of Parke county, both'for murders committed outside the county. Evidently a few more hangings would have a salutary effect Twentysix homicides and six infanticides have . occurred in the county, but only seven convictions have been obtained. Of the seven eonvictedonly one served out a full term in the penitentiary, and the total number of years served by all only slightly exceeds the number of deaths by violence. " - ,
It is reported that CommiBsiocer Marble, of the patent office, has resigned. The candidates for position in the civil service who have been thus far examined are said to have done fairly well. A number of colored men aire among those who have passed. , Aa compared with the year ending June 30,182, a statement of the business of tie general land office shows an increase of 35217 in the number of entries, cash sales, original homstead entries and timber culture entries, of 3,505,843 in the aumber of acres entered. The amount received from cash sales , increased from 18,81334 in 1882to $7564449 in 1883 or nore than 128 per cent The national association of the Amalgamated Associationron and steel workers, met at Philadelphia Wednesday, and the President delivered an appropriate address. A resolution was adapted that "We do hereby extend to pur striking brothers of the telegraph brotherhood our sincere wishes for victory in their present struggle agajnst monopoly; and we do hope that, ere many days, victory to the telegraphers will be raised all over this nation' Upon the adoption of this resolution three cheers ware given for the - telegraphers. . 7' . ' INDIANA ITEMS: A Norwegian living near Atwood and a practical distiller, says and excellent brand of whiskey can be made from common marsh grass. MibsW. K. Gray, of JerTersonville, started a fire with coal oil on Monday morning. The lady will live, and the hired girl will light- the fires hereafter. A ten-inch tooth and a big chunk of the jaw of a mastodon, were found in St. Mary's river at Fort Wayne, and a hunt is being made for the rest of the skeleton. A son of Benjamin Bruce, of Pleasant View, Dearborn county, in dyingof bleeding at the nose which no medical- skill can stop. ;: Bishop Dwenger, of the diocese of Fort Wayne returned from Europe, Thursday and waa greeted by several thousand citizens; who escorted Mm to the episcopal residence. . .... The Fort: Wayne ministers are going to
make an organized attack on Sunday ex
cursions. Whether they will use the sword of the spirit, or something more tangible to the unregenerate, is not stated.
An Aurora fisherman caught a catfish
on Monday morning, which weighed eighty-five pounds, dressed. In cutting him open a silver dollar, of the daddy de
nomination, was found in the stomach.
Washington county has a giant. Hib
name is Jake Williams. He is twentyfive years old seven feet high, weighs
250 pounds, is rather slender and claims to be still growing:. He is a horny-hand
ed farmer.
Sma'l-pox has broken out in Elberfield
a small town in Warrick county, and is raging in an epidemic torm. No restric
tions are placed on the infected persons, and they please from house to house, spreading the disease in all quarters.
Ferdinand Schaffer, employed in the
saw mill of Daid Tagtmyer,of Ft. Wayne
was horribly mangled on Saturday by a
circular saw, which he fell against. Af
ter being sawed in twain he pulled him
self oft the saw and again fell on it, and
was out from waist to knee.
Rev. Arthur Jordon, the pastor of a country congregation, twelve miles northwest of Wabash, committed suicide, Friday, by taking strychnii.e. Jordon has recently been intimate with a young woman of bad character. He was reprimanded-by his congregation, and this so weighed upon his mind that he disgraced himself vet further by self destruction.' Sheriff Taylor, of Tippecanoe county, is authority for tbe statement that there has been a league between gangs of horse thieves and certain offieers at Terre Haute and IiOgansport and other places, whose operations consisted in the theft by the former of horses and the latter in turning over the stolen property when the owners offered a reward.: The statement is to be investi ated. At Valparaiso, the other day,two young ladies from the Normal, went to see a lady friend off on the train at the Grand Trunk, and forgot to kiss her good-bye until the train had started. Suddenly they were seen to wildly paw the air and screech so loudly that the conductor's attention was arrested, and thinking they
wished to go somewhere, stopped the
train, thereupon the ladies got on and exchanged the ; usual amount of kisses and
good-byes, and-then coolly got off. The
conductor was too thunder-struck for
utterance.
A coal miner named Ed Edlin and his
boy, while making a blast in the Cannel-
burg mines, Daviess county, were blown
up Thursday evening, receiving fatal in
juries. The explosion was caused by the drill striking a piece of sulphur while temping in the blast, the sparks setting
the powder on firer the concussion blowing both men a distance of thirty feet.
The father had both eyes torn out and
the son one eye, besides other serious in
juries. r
James McDonald, a teamster in the em
ploy of Kichard Couohman, of North
Vernon, attempted to turn his team while
driving near the Biplinger stone quarry,
at Old Vernon, and in doing so backed
them over a cliff seventy-five feet high
and was carried down with them. McDonald and both horsee were frightfully mangled and instantly killed by the fall,
ana uouonman, wno was scanamg near by and attempted to save the team from
falling, was struck by the wagon and had
a leg badly broken.
Tpe board of trustees of the Indiana
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Wednesday, . ' Li' ... " .
maaecnangeswmcn wiu cause almost a
complete revolution in the management
of the institution, the only officer retain
ed being Dr. Glenn, the superintendent, who was elected for another year. C. B. Rowland, the steward, was discharged,
and Richard O. Johnson, of Indianaprlis, was elected to the position. Mrs. . Mary Foster, of Fort Wayne, the widow of the late Senator Foster, was elected matron in the place of Mies Colvin, who was also discharged. Mrs. Milton Grier, cf Laurel, was elected housekeeper in the place
or Mrs. Todd. Miss Lulu Brownlee, of
Anderson, the daughter of the editor of
the Anderson Democrat, was chosen as
the visiting attendant Milton Grier
husband of the newly-ejected housekeeper, was given the position of night watchman. The teachers were all retained, at the same salaries paid them last
year, and it was decided to open the school for the fall term of 1883 on the
15th of September. Dr. James, it is un
derstood, dissented from the action of the
board.
A Washington telegram gives a few in
teresting particulars regarding Indiana postoffices. There are in the State 1,789 offices ot all grades, an increase of fiftysix during the past fiscal year. Offices where the salaries of postmasters are less than $1,000 a year appointments are made
thereto by the Postmaster Generaj. The
towns of Fowler, Hartford City, North
Manchester, North Vernon and Winamac
were promoted during the year just past.
The t ollowing statement shows the
standing of the presidential post offices in Indiana, together with the salary allow
ed, as based upon the receipts of the of -
A seaman has been striken with yellow fever in New York. The Ohio Liquor Dealers' Association is called to meet at Toledo, August 9, to organize for an aggressive campaign next fall. The town of Vineyard Haven, Mass., was almost entirely destroyed by fire, Sunday. An appeal for aid is made to the public. A stranger walked into a New York butcher shop on Saturday, borrowed a clever, laid his hand on a. block, whacked off his little fin ger, and walked out. It has juEt teen 'earned that Mary the nineteen-year-old daughter of Hon. Moses Warren, of. Troy. N. Y., was mar
ried to her father's coachman, .Edward Welch, May 22. The father of the lady will make the best of it. One hundred oitizens of Oastleton, N Y., incensed over ;Jthes immorality of a young German named Voss, took the fel
low from the residence of a friend and gave him a heavy coat of tar and feathers and a warning to keep away.
Five Chinamen, who stabbed a fellow
Chinaman, at Paterson, N. J., for reduc
ing laundry rates, were committed to the
stateiprison and had their queues out off.
They appealed to the oourt to allow the
queues to remain, but were refused.
Oscar Wilde made his appearance in
New York again on Saturday. He comes
to eupervise the rehearsal of bis new play
"Vera." Bis flowing locks have been shorn away, and his front hair out square
across in the most approved style of the
bong. :i
The Dixon Graphic company, of Jersey
City, recently offered a series of prizes for pen oil drawings. The contest was to
be limited to pupils of public, private or art schools. There were 354 contestants.
The first prize has been awarded to David
S. Kotz, a pupil of the South Bend high
school.
flee:
Clas. Salary Anderson. .... 2 $2, 00 Angola 3 1,4' 0 Attica... 3 1,500 Auburn 3 1,4 0 Aurora 3 1,9(X
Bedford. .3 1.&0 Bioomington . .3 1,800
Blufiton .3 1,700 Brazil. l.00
Butler.. ...........3 1,100
CambndgCty.3 1 ,401
ColumbiaCity.3 1,6(1
Columbua.......2 2,00 ConnerBville..3 J,600 Covington 3 1 .300 CrawrrdBville2 2,200 Crown Point.. 3 1,300
Ianvine ... ... i,7ut Decatur. 3 VW DelDhi.... 3 160'
Edinburg .3 1,300 ElMiart........n.2 2800 EvanBTille......! 3(00
Fort WaynOi. .1 3,000 Fowler 3 1,2 0
Frankfort 8 VO Franklin.;.......3 l.Wi
Goshen.. ..2 2,200
Greencastle...2 2.UT
Greenfield 3 1,200 Greenaburg .3 lf 00 Hartford City.3 i.l'O
Huntington. ..3 1,700
Indianapolis..! 3,300
JerTersonville. 2 2,100,
KendaUville..3 1,W0
Knightetown. .3 1,300 Eokomo 3 1,800
Lafavette i 3,00
Lagrange.. 3 1,400
Laporte..... 2 2,000 Lawrenceburg3 1,600 Lebanon ..3 1,600
1,200
. Clss. Salary
Jjigomer 3 l,0
IiOgansport.. . , 2 2,&'0
Maaison 2,500
Manon.... ...... 2 2,0f0 Martinsville .,3 1,300 Michigan City.2 2,40 '
ausnawaa. ..3 l.WO
Mitchel ...3 1,100 Monticello .... 3 1,400
mount vernon a l.bOQ Muncie ...2 2 inft
New Albany.., 2 2,40 NewcastK......3 100 Nobleeville .-... 1,400 N Manchester.3 1,800 N Vernon..... 3 1,200 Notre Dame . . 3 i, joo Peru 2 2,200 Plymouth 3 1,700 Portland...... 3 1,501) Princeton... .3 1,800 Rensselaer 3 1.210 Richmond 2 ' 2 500 Rochester 3 1.600 Rockport 3 1,300 Rookville....;.3 1.5U0 Rushville 3 1,8 tf eymour .2 2.00 SbelbyvilJe... .8 1 800 South Bend... 2 2,800 Spencer,.. 3. 1.1C0 Sullivan 3 1,600 Terre faute-.l 3,000 Union ity....l 1,600 Valparaiso . . . ; 2 2,r00 Vevay 8 1,300 Vincennes 2 2,60 1 Wabmh .2 2,000 Wiu-saw .3 1,800 Washington... 3 ,70 Waterloo 8 1,20 Winamao 3 1,100 Winchester ...8 J,5u0
Inberty ......3
In order to receive the benefits arising from the free delivery service a town must have at leas' 20,000 inhabitants. Indiana has seven cities thus supplied Indianapolis, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Lafayette, Richmond, South Bend and Tene Haute. South Bend having been .recently supplied with letter-carriers. .
THE EAST: Schulyes Colfax urges the pardon of Sergeant Mason,
At a confederate reunion in MoKinley, JPexas, Thursday, 50,(KK) piople were prefient, Gen. Lewis made a very indiscreet speech, and Gtn. Gable said he hoped to .'live to lead ex-confederates under the stars and stripes against England. The steamer William Lawrence, f rom Savannah, when off Point Lookout, Friday, was in collision with the schooner Mariah Lavinia. The schooner immediately sunk, carrying down the wife and two children of the captain, and Joseph Leavitt, the cook. In Miller county, Ga., Joe Fulford hired Harry Bradley, colored, to beat his sict wife over the head with a club. Fulford then choked the poor woman to death and had her body dropped: into a creek
by Bradley and another negro. The three
men were arrested, and on a preliminary
trial held for murder. That night Ful-
ord and Bradley were taken fiom the
jail by a mob and hanged.
Evans Jenkins, of Sumptercounty,Ga.,
upon being married -to a beautiful young lady at Amerious,was immediately stricken with hemorrhagic fever. The bride
WASHINGTON NOTES.
THE WEST: A state hoiinefis meeting is being neld at Tolon- III. A ten-acre field of oats, near Mason City, la., threshed 980 bushels.
The Illinois assessment of 1883 showa
an increase of $5,786,33 over last year.
St. Louie is shipping considerable
quantities of oleomargarine to Holland.
Homestead entries in Dakota for the
year ended June 30, covered 3,267,227
acres. . New wheat is selling in Nebraska for
70o a bushel, and oats are selling in Iowa
for 20c.
A boiler exploded at Fort William, Out, Friday, killed P. C. Caldwell and I..
Hawick.
The bones of what is alleged to be the
skeleton of a man twelve fe&t high . have
been found near Barnard, Mo. Three dollars and thirteen hoars a dav
is what the working girls of Lincoln, 111 ,
want and they have "struck" for it, too.
A dispatch from Sonora says that Col
onel J5audola, of the z2d Mexican restt-
lars, commanding the forces operatiug
against the indiane, was killed on the 2d
instant by "our San Carlos pets." Nearly 13,000 pert oris attended theCen
tral Illinois soldiers reunion on thefanr
grounds near Carollton. Speeches were
made by Governor Hamilton, B J. Og-
lesby, Judge Kirk Hawnes and others.
Leonard Brown, a noted eccentric,, of Polk City, la., was showered with eggs
for expressing the opinion that the law
should have been allowed to take its
course in the case of the murderer Hardy.
A Florence, A. T., dispatch states that
the Wells-Fargo's express was robbed between Eiyeraide and Pioneer, of $8,2C0, and express agent John Collins was kill
ed, une passenger was wounded and
both stage-horses killed.
A report has reached Tombstone that
the soldiers camped forty-rive miles north east of Hermosilla, mutinied on the 8th,
killing the' captain and first lieutenant.
The mutineers fled to the mountains, tak
ing-anus and ammunition.
Al. and Harry Funk, of Vermillion
county, Illinois, have lost about eighty
head of hogs in the past two weeKs, from
a disease which they pronounce as not
cholera. The animals do not die sudchin-
ly, but perish from sheer exhaustion.
A report ccmes from Queretaro, Mexi
co, which is about one huudred miles be
low Laredo, that Cortina was in that
place last Tuesday, with 300 revolutionists. From reliable ieports it is probable that the northern states of Mexico wiMbe in a state of revolution betoie the yea r is out, . Charlie Ford, who killed Jesse James, in an interview with the Kansr s City Star, Eays he joined the gang purposely to capture it, he and his brother Bob., having made arrangements to that efleot with Gov. Crittenden. He was trued $200' for carrying a revolver. ... A decided flurry has been caused at Manstieid, Piatt county, 111., by the dis covery of glanders among horses. The State veterinary surgeon has found four horses of A. Furlong diseased with glanders, and promptly shot and burned them He also burned their harness, He al lowed Mr. Furlong S85 compensation.Cora in central Illinois, which lias been suffering for some time for rain, received the benetitThursday night of afine shower. The indications are that there will be a heavy fall. Should warm weather again set in after the rain, the crops will certainty be immense in quantity and of the finest quality. A small white worm, about the eke of a cambric needle and half an inch in length, is eating offthe roots of the grow
ing corn nearGenesco 111. Wholcjtieids are being attacked by the pest audit appears now as though a large number of fine fields will be eutiiely destroyed by them, Cob tinned dry weather is aiding the worms in their work of destruction. The Governor of Illinois has refused to deliver George Washington and William Nelson to the authorities of Minnesota, as requested by the Governor of that State. Nelson and W ashington are now serving out sentences in the Chester pen itentiary for burglaries committed in that State, and they are wanted in Minnesota for a murder committed there.
The Hill investigating 3mmittee will
probably find that there was favoritism
shown toward contractors, but the evi
dence does not fix corruption.-
The total receipts of cub boras for July
last were $20,909,290, against $19,950,637
for the same month last year. This shows
an increase of $958,663 the fi rst month of the new tariff law, -
Plans are being prepared at the Treas
ury Department for silver vaults to ac comodate the excessive accumulation of
silver dollars. It is proponed to locate one of these vaults at the New Orleans
mint, and another in the basement of the Treasury Department. There is an ap
propriation of $10Q,C00 available for the construction of these vaults.
Capt. J. A. George, a gentleman of al
leged influences, has produced amass of
correspondence going to prove that E. John Ellis, member of Congress, guaran
teed Col. Newell $360 for helping the
New Orleans Pacific railroad getitstlback-
bone" land grant through Congress last
watohed niorht and dnv.hut iinnvnilinalv. winter, and that he (Ellis'l naid $200 of
As soon as she saw her husband expire the amount, but kicked out on the pay-
THE SOUTH: . The Georgia legislature has passed a general local option law. The Kimball House at Atlanta, Ga., was burned, Sunday. Loss $1,000,000. At Remersville, N. on Monday, Philip Gomfert, having been disappointed in love, committed suicide by swallowing a paper of pins. ; A boiler exploded in a saw-mill at Liberty, Ky., on Thursday, killing Friend Bay and a young man named Morrison. Ex-county Judge Andrew Grovener and his-two sons and three other parsons were wounded,
ment of the balance. The Congressman's
failure to pay has led to the exposure.
The treasurer oi! the cattle commission
has made a report, to the Treasury Department with regard to tne alleged ex
istence of the foct and mouth disease
among cattle in this countiry. It says, in
part, that cl: arges having rbeen recently
made in the English Parliament that cat
tle were being shipped from our ports in
fected with the foot and mouth disease, a
majority of the Blouse of Commons hav
ing voted for a resolution opposing the
imnortation to I Great Britain of cattle
from any country in which the said dis
ease is existing, we feel it our duty to
state the facts of the case as far as this
country is concerned. After a most ex
tended and most exhaustive inquiry, your
commission have not been enabled to find
any trace of the foot and mouth disease
apart from herds just arrived from Great
Britain, and which herds have been in
every segregated until the infection has
entirely disappeared. The nature and
scope of our inquiry may ho deduced from our report in 1881. Beginning with the
great rendezvous of cattle at Kansas City
Council Bluffs and Omahi3,we have made
a careful investigation along all lines o
cattle traffic as f ar astheejistern seaboard
in tins investiga tion, and we have includ
ed all the great stockyards where cattle are detained for feeding, watering, sale, etc, and all the great feeding stables.
The acting Secretary of the. Treasury, Wednesday, received a telegram from the collector of cnsixros at Tacoma, W. T., stating that his officers, with the assistance of the revenue steamer Walcott,had captured a sloop engaged in running Chinese across the line from British Columbia. Two smugglers were arrested, but nine Chinese passengers escaped. The ollector also stated that nearly one hun died Chinamen had landed at various points on the Northern frontier . in boats and Indian canoes within the past few
she rushed frantically into an adjoining
room and swallowed an ounce of lauda
num, declaring she could not live longer.
Restoratives saved her.
FOREIGN:
A larce number of the members of the
English Parliament will spend the sum
mer recess m amenca.
It is said the Spanish insurrection is
the work of Kuiz barilla, which he has
been plotting for six years.
A dispatch from Dover saya two Nor
wegian barks collided off there Wednes
day. One was so badly injured that she
sank, carrying down thirteen, of her crew.
Michael Davitt, in a speech In County
Clare, said the English government had
been reduced to such weakness that they
could not protect the life of one of their
vile instruments.
The British agent at Piefrr Moriteburg
believes King Cetewayo still alive, and
reports of his death were put in circulation for the purpose of continuing the
agitation in Zululand.
An organized band of wreckers has
been discovered in the Black Sea, including pilots and government officials. The
English Marine Insurance company has
paid many millions of roubles indemnity
on disasters caused by the gang.
Elections were held in France yesterday for members of the councils general.
Seventy-one districts return republicans and twenty -three .conservatives. Second
ballots are necessary in seventeen districs.
Republican net gain sixty-three.
The authorities at Mueblbausen,Thur
ingia, Germany, whera the late John A. Rcebling,fcn gineer of the Brooklyn bridge,
was born have named a street in the town
after him and have affixed a brass tablet
containing his likeness to the house in
which he first saw the light.
The riots at Ekaterinosly, caused by
animosity against the Je s, were contin
ued on the 30th inst. The mob attacked
the Jewish quarter and destroyed many days, and that he is powerless to prevent houses and liquor stores belonging to the theirlanding unless4his force'islargely inJews. It is now reported that a hundred creased. Secretary Folger will be back
persons were killed or wounded during I in a few davs. and the subieet will be
the rioting in the town. brought to his attention at once. It was Fresh outbreaks in Spain hastily sum- explained by an officer oi' the customs di-
moned 'the Cabinet. The Council re- vision that the law provides that uo Ohi-
solved to suspend constitutional guarantees throughout the country, and declare
a state of seige wherever necessary. The
fresh risinsr alluded to is that of the Nu-
mencia cavalry regiment, which revolted
at Santo Domingo, near Logrono, early
on Wednesday morning. The ring lead
ers are a lieutenant and strsreant. The
rebels went in the direction o? Lagrono.
Officers and loyal soldiers are pursuing. Several groups of workmen near Barce
lona raised seditious cries Wednesday
and fled to the mountains.
horse reporter; "because if it's anything about that we keep that in type."
"No; uYd not hing like that." "Nothing about several well known
society young men on the North . Side
are about to organize a riding club is it?
We ve got that already, too."
"I never ridej" said the young man. "I wouldn't advise you to, unless you ake along a postage stamp to make you
sit quietly on thehorre."
What I wan't to know," said the
young man "is whether, in walking with
a young lady, a gentlemam should always offer her his right arm are make it rule to have th e lady on the inBide of the
walk, no matter what arm she takes in
accomplishing this result. We've had an awful argument about it over on Ashland avenue and Oholly and I nearly had
a real serious quarrel."
-WhoisCholly?" "He's my roommate, you know. We've
been awful friends ever since he lent me
nis manue-colored pants two years ago.
I wouldn't for anything in the world have
any trouble occur between Oholly and I, because we've been in the threads together for nearly a year."
"In the what?" "In the threails in the thread depart
ment, you know and we think every-
t Diner in the world of each other. I hard
ly ever buy a lemonade without asking
Cholly to have some of it. But we're aw
fully puzzled about the matter I told you
about. Cholly says the gentleman should always offer the lady his right arm, but I don't think so. I'm going to,take,a,Epiendid young lady out for a boat ride in Union Park t ext Wednesday evening, and thaf s how we oqme to talk about it." "Well," said the horse reporter, "this what-shall-we-do-witb-our-girls business
is a pretty mrplieated matter. There are a good many things to be considered, and the best authorities have decided that no absolute rule in regard to what arm a lady shall take when walking with a gentleman can be laid down. It depends a good deal on the gait of the crirl. I have peen some shy, demure, please-do-npt-say-piano-leg-when-I-am-around young creatures that would carry a man all over the sidewalk if you happened to walk them in front of a millinery store and had them hitched up on the off side.'' "Then you think either way is allowable?" asked t!he young man.
"Certainly. When did you Bay you were going out with! this girl?" "Next Wednesday." ' "Well, you'll have time enough before then to have you legs dipped over." "Have what?"
"Have your legs dipped over. When people make candles, you know and any of them are spoiled, they just put them in the mould and dip them over. I guess likely you can find some candle moulds
on the west side and improve your ap
pearance considerably.
CURRENT HISTORY,
Some Public Matters, Details of which will be Found of More than Ordinary Interest.
Missouri and Kansas it ia slight, meuax'W1
. The Match Monopoly,
Cieveland, O., May 18, The Dia
mond Mitch monopoly absorbed two
small match manufacturers in April, and now own aud control the leading match
factories in this country. The company
has secured patents in all improved match making machinery used in its works, and have made binding contracts with their
best employes for many years service.
nese laborers shall be permitted to enter the United States by land without pro duoing to the proper officer of customs a certificate required of Chinese laborers seeking to land from a vessel, and that any Chinaman found unlawfully in the United gtates shall be caused to be removed therefrom, after being brought before a justice, judge, or commissioner of the United Sta tes. But the duty of bringing Chinamen before a judge or commissioner, or taking action f r their removal from the United States, is not devolved by law upon the customs officer, The recently published statements, in eflect that Beveral millions of dollars remain in some mysterious depository in Europe for the payment of interest on Confederate bonds, with the equally in
teresting statement of Governor Butler
that the United States- treasury holds
fome millions of Confederate money
which ought to be first redeemed it any
such fund exists, led to some inquiries at
the Treasury, Thursday. A long search
The company has purchased all the tim
ber lands in Michigan in the market, and developed the factthat Governor Butler
was right in his statement that the gov
ernment holds a Quantity of Confederate
money in the Treasury, It also devel
oped another curious thing, that very few
of the officers of the Treasury were aware
that such was the fact. A long inquiry
among leading officials, including such as
acting Secretary French, the acting Treasurer, the head of the loan division, the Cashier of the Treasury, and others
failed to discover any knowledge of any
Confederate funds so held. A . subordi
nate, however, ventured the statement
that, the division of captured and abam
donod nronertv mieht have some. There
r.r . : , -. many millions of Confederate money and
bonds were found. The aotincr head of
the division said: "There are not many
bonds, but there is a large amount of the
the money ; I presume there may be $50,000,000 of the money and bonds, all told. It was captured during the war at vari
ous times and places, and sent here. It simolv lies thare. no Beoretary of the
. r .. r . - .. : ' . Treasury caring to take the responsibility of destroying it. Here is some of it now," and he drew a $50 bill, bearing the vignette of Jefferson Davis, from a drawer in his desk. It read: 'Two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States of America will pay to bearer, on demand, $50," Then this isn't an absolute promise to pay any more than the bonds are. Their payment is only promised on condition that a treaty of peace is made between the two parties here mentioned. They ar only worth the paper on which they are y rinted. It is the sheerest nonsense totalk of their being redeemed , I tell you it is the scheme of some fellow over there who has a lot of bondVhe wants to get rid of. He hopes to get up a boom for the bonds and then sell out. - The Horse Reporter on Escorting Lj dies. Chicago Tribums.
"Society editor in?" A rather tbirvouug man, with very tight pants, high collar and a round cloth cap, opened . the door of the editorial rooms and popounded the above questions ...... ....... ... . 'No," said the horse repeater 'he society editor ismt in. Did you want5 to see him?" "Oh, awful ly,' was the reply, "Is Beatrice Perkins going to Mukwonage for the summer aijain?" asked the
own many hundred scree, xney are m
fine condition to carry on the match busi
ness without opposition, notwithstanding the fact that new manuf aotpries would naturally be started after the abolition of the tax on matches, A special from Washington, received last night, says: The-match manufacturers, intimate, it is said, that there will be no reduction in the cost of matches to consumers, even though the stamp tax be abolished. That they will be able to maintain the prices of the past is not believed here, for, under the commissions allowed by the government on large sales of titamps,those match manufacturers who hold the monopoly of trade were enabled to sell their matches at the cost of manufacture or even below that figure, and make money on the commission allowed the rr for stamps. Now that the stamp tax has been abolished competition cannot be prevented, and the monopoly cannot cent rol the trada It is significant, as showing the desire of the heavy manufacturers for the continuation of the tax, thai; they persistently opposed all efforts to repeal it. However, as will be seen by the facts given in the first part of the dispatob,the statement marie in the Washington tele
gram, as regards competiou in the match business are all wrong. The Diamond IVIatch Company has worked its cards we'l, and will continue for many years to be one of the greatest monopolies of the age, as new manufacturers cannot be started in opposition to them and be successfully maintained Taking Cable Messages. Ah old operator tell the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner how cable messages are received. He says: "I don't suppose you know how the messages are received over the cable? No? Well, it is altogher different from this tick, tick, tick. The operators there sit in dark rooms. The messages come as little electric sparks;
the letters are known by the length of flash. These men go blind at the end of fifteen years, and are pensioned in England, but nothing is done for them here, They are not even ,paid any better than we are,"
The Rising Statesman. Atlauta Contitutioh, Pike is the name of the New Hampshire senator. After awhile we shall have Pike Bpeak in the Senate, O. Duncan, of Maine county, Kansas, is the wealthiest colored man in the state.
War History. The Republican's "man on the ave
sue" tells a story, which he erets from a
prominent Eentuckian, about General Wolford's canvass for his seat in the oexi Congress. Wolf ord was an officer in trie Union Army a Colonel in the Eleventh Kentucky cavalry but a Democrat. When he waa nominated General Fry was sent up into the district to hod up the Republican end. Fry had only been gone four days, the narrator says, when he returned, looking very blue. Being asked why he was back so soon, he said he couldn't cope with Wolford's methods and facilities. He said that Wolfori met him at a mountain town, where they were to speak together, treated him handsomely, and gave him the opening, and desing .of the debate. rf He sjoke, touching on national topics, and giving' especial attention to the magnanimity of the Reriublioan party toward the Confederates at the close of the war. Here is the way the Republican tells the remainder: '"Wolf ord got up," said Fry, "and paying no attention to what I had said on N ationa! issues, said : Don?t you believe a word General Fry has told you about
the magnanimity of the Federal government and the Republican party It's a lie. Whiit ;iid they do with General Lee after the engender, at . Appomatox? Why, they took him out and hung him right between the lines, right in plain v .V". JV'I " Hold on, I shouted, 'that is not true General Wolf ord. You know you are perverting f aot3.' Instantly two or three of the old SJecpnd Cavalry boys sprang up and swore that they had been on . the ground and seen General Iiee hung, and
one' of them remarked with a swagger that if anybody questioned the statement he would have to chew on the barrei of a six shooter.." . ; .A ; "What dild they do with Jeff Davis after he surrendered," continued , old Wolf ord. "Why they tied 2,800 pounds of . iron his legs and threw Mm into a dungeon, and starved him for eight months, and then took him out and bung him. That's what they did for him A h 1 of a magnanirQOUs government that T I interrupted to say tha t Jeff Davis was alive and healthy now, but two or three Second Kentucky liars stood up and swore thqy had seen him hung. . And there the old scoundrel etood, hanging Alex Stevensjliosgstreet, J ohusoa,rIamp ton, and every- Confederate of prominence he could think of, and piroving it by eyewitnesses from his old regiment. . Wolford will evidently make a good Congressman. Poker in Thompson Street, Life. . ' .'-,, It was a poker par in Thompson street,and a big jack pot had been opened There were evidently big hands out, and the bete and excitement ran high. Looker hyer, Gus, whuffer yo rise dat potf exclaimed Mr. Tooter Williams. VNebber yo' mind yo' call, ef yo' isn't afraid yes yo' call dat's alii" retorted Gus, sullenly. "I won't call 1 1 rise yo' back," said Mr. Williams, whose vertebras wa6 ascending. !'I. rise yo' ag'in," retorted (lus. .......... ,. And so they went at each other until chips, money and collateral were gone, Mr. Williams concluded to call; "What yo- got, nigg;er, dat yo' do all dat risin on? What yo got, nohow?" - ... Gus laid -down his hand ace,-king, queen, jack, and ten of clubs. "Is I dat
good?" he inquired, beginning to size up .
the pot.; ; . -.
"No,dat's not good, 'smd Mr. jiJlhamB,
reaching down in his bootleg?"
'What yo' got den?" queried Gus. Mr.
Williams looked at him fixedly. ;
"Ise jes' gct two jacks ,an a razzer,"
"Pat's good" said Gus.
One registered letter :m 13,000 fails to
reach the par ly to whom' sent.
OUR D35BT. The July statement of the national debt shows a reduction of $7,900,590 over June, making ttie total debt, less cash in the treasury, $1,543,190,616, In spite ol all that, has been said that the going into effect of the laws passed at the last session of congress for reducing the revenues would put a stop to the payment of the national debt, it is still being reduced at a rate that is puzzling to financiers. ,; PATTH CUBE. The faith cure convention at Old Orchard, Me., came to an end last week,but prayer meetings will be con lined three times a day for several weeks. About 230 people have attended the convention, and, so far as the reports indicate, ..their
faith remains unshaken. The most striking cures in answer to prayer during the recent session are alleged to haveoccured in the case of Miss Gibbs, of Oshua, Canada, whose cerebrospinal meningitis of six years' standing has suddenly desert
ed her, and in the case of Miss Jennie O. Clark, of Derwick, Me., whom heart disease scarcely allowed to reach the convention. ' CASH IN THE NATIONAIj TBBA8UBT. The following analysis will give an idea of the funds in the United States treasury: If all the moneys to the credit of disbursing officers should be drawn out;
if all the bank notes whose redemption the government has assumed should be
presented for payment; if the funds belonging to the postoffice department
should be set aside; if the 5 per cent, redemption fund should bere turned to the bat ks; if, finally, all the obligations, of the government other than those on account of the public debt should be discharged in full, there would still have remained in the treasury on the first of last July, a balance of more than $245,000,000. But this balance, nevertheless; is liable to a deduction of funds received
on account of gold and silver certificates and currency or clearing house certificates. These putstaucling certificates on. the first o last month amounted to more than $181,000,000, thus reducing the unpledged cash in the treasury to $161,000,000. THE CREEK TBOUBIjBS. : The troubles in the Creek nation prove difhonlt to patch up. The peace convention held at Ogmulgee ten days ago was not attended at all by the Northerh faction, and while it was accordingly ; harmonious enough for those who were there',' it did little for he tranquillisation of the tribe as a whole; The difficulties between the two pariies now . headed e spectively by Spieche and Checote go back to the war of the rebellion, when one took the side of the government and
the ether that of secession.' But while the two great combatants in that struggle were able to end their strife and to reconstruct the Union, these distant red . allies kept up their old animosity, and now the Northern Creeksi who were against se cession in national affairs, advocate it in their local difficulties. They to be set apart from their southern brethren by Congress, in lands,daws, and government by a due east and west line- of partition. Possibly this may be the accepted solu tion of the trouble; for, after being once divided, they might be anxious to bomtogether again. Still, the Southern Creeks, who now control the local government, are sternly opposed to secession and will not let tbeir brethren go. IRISH EMIGRATION. Lord Derby, the colonial secretary ot Great Britain, has given notice that the
m
ed by a single point. There has been ret
rograde in the South in consequence
the drought, aud some deoliae in Miohi- ; ?ail from fnn mnnli mniolnKi. TflkuUf thB.
whole area together, thft condition bBB Wt-:' Ml
advanced from 88 to 89 per cenfcof P-
tec t crop. The condition of the cens90v
crop of 1879, in August, was 99, and the' yield 28 bushels - per acre. The present returns indicate a y ield of not much more: than 25 bushels per acre, or 1,700,000,000 bushels, which is as much as was produced in '79. The condition six points higher than last year in Aurusli and tow-, er than in -August from 1870rt6 in clusiva The nights have been toa codto fcr rapid deve ppmeht and the crop v$ tn4.A uiM lll'l'H'a tw iw "mw
ytt caure disaster, lii August, 1874, the V condition was one degree higher than. the ; present average The crop is late trom-? spring and local summer drought and the yield less thau-21 bushels ;per acre, The average? in the principal produoiugv f
states are: Illinois 86, Indiana y5, lLen ? tucky 97, Missouri 83, Kansas 97, lowaSS,
Nebraska 84, Wisconsin 85: on the Atlantio coast-New York 9ft Pennlvania 99, New Jersey 101; in the uthVirgini
93, North Carolina 83, 8outh Carolina 7flt Georgia 74, Alabama Mississippi 87 I xmisiana 100, Texas 93, Arkansas 87 and Tennesse 8& ? ; J ; "f :. DISCOVERT OP NOAH S"1 ABKr ' IH
r
A Constantinople contemporary -an- -
riounoed the discover v of .Noah's art
f Looointed to investigate the question of
avalanches on Mount Ararat' suddenly" s -: came upon a gigantic structure, of - verjpi dark wood protruding, from a glacier. They made mquiries of the inhabitante- y These had Been it for six years, but had; been afraid to approach it because a-
spirit of fierce aspect had been seen looking out of the upper window. TarJtnh
commissioners, however are bold mepi
not deterred by such trifles, ; and- they determined to reach it Situated' bb ft
was amonor the fastnesses of one of
glens of Mount Ararat, it was the
ot enormous difficulty, and it
government iB rea 1y to assist the emigration of Irishmen to America. It seems the government is to act in conjunction with the Canadian Pacific railroad company, which proposes to defray . the expenses of moving 10,000 Irish families, leveraging five persons in each, to the vicinity of Winnipeg, and to settle each family comfortably on a farm fairly equipped for successful farming with buildings, utensils, live stock and seed. The farm is to be givento the family in fee at any time upon the payment of $500, secured by a mortgage without interest for the first three years, and 3 per cent interest after that period.' The part of the government in the transaction is the advan cing to the company $5,000,000 and taking its securities without interest for ten vpfira. -'The Uritish cabinet at first
approved the measure, but the catholic priests of Ireland so violently opposed it, shifting the whole responsibility upon the premier. Mr, Gladstone then wanted the Canadian government to guarantee the securities of the road, and there the matter has hung for two mouths. Lord Derby gave notice, Tuesday, that the government was convinced that emigration was the true remedy tor the. poverty prevailing in Ireland, and was willing to advance $5,000,000 for movmg the famihes to settlements in. Canada. As the Canadian government was unwilling to orTer so large a bonus for the paupers of Ireland, who may or may not wish to become exiiesj the British government will
undertake the business of transportaon on its own account. . OipiNlrisSOTJKI, A Pennsylvania oil man named W. WGilmore, just returned from Rich Hill, Mo., says that the oil-producing qualities of the land in Vernon and Bates oountiesj promiee to make it one of- the best oil lands in the world. JPhe surface ; indications were the best he had ever seen Within ten days a dbzenuwells would be in operation. Great excitement prevails all through the region, which is full of Pennsylvania Bpeoulatorsi who are .leasing all the land they can. A firm recently paid $5,000 for an option lease of 320 acres in Vernon cour ty for eighteen months at $75 an acre. Mr. Gilmore had leased 1,700 acres near Carbon Centre, which is four miles distant from Rich Hill, and wrs on his way to Htteburg to procure the necessary, machinery.- He knew of tbe machinery for five new wells being on the road now from Pittsburg. The oil wan of fine quality and as soon as the refinery, which is to be put up shortri
ly, gets in operation, the oil men will be-s
gin shipping East M , THE CORN CROP. .... The report of the Department of Agriculture, for July, is out On the prospects for the corn crop the report says: . Corn There has been an improvement
in the appearance of the corn fields, dur.-
ing the month of July, in the New En
gland States, Middle States, Ohio yalley and west of the Mississippi In Illiuois,
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was fomj ft r '
after mcreaioie naxasnips zwn tuey bub- ' p
was in a good sae - ot ? reservation; al
though the angles pbserye, not the foow : 'vV
or stern nad been n good deal broken in its descent. Tbey recognized it - at ouce: Theie waa an Englishman among them who had presumably read the Bible, and he saw it wps made of the ancient gopher wood ot Scripture, which? as every one knows, only g owe on the plajns of the Euphrates. .Effecting an enhance into
the structure, which was painted ;. Mmp-.f they found that the Admiralty reanw
mi-
ments for the conveyance of horses been carried out and' . th interior
divided into partitions fifteen feet; jh -j Into three of these only could they get- M the others feeing full of ice, and how ;;iSsfe.p' theark extended uito could not tell. If, however, on beingi!n covered it. turns out to be 300 cubits lony it will go hard, with disbelievers in the V; J book of Genesis. Needless toayaw? v i
the Pall Mall Gazette, an Amejican waa soon on the spot, and negotiations have been entered info; wit& the local Pacha for its speedy transfer, to X flUnttBd:
States." : . ; Z "I . ' :
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Jfoor tiieutenant leroy, wuo wnuea .
awav the wearv honrs at Yumal A: T a-'
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well as at the other posfe ' at' vwhich to was stationed on the Pacific coaatin concocting the rare drollerieshe gave ibo world under the nom deplume Phoanix," completely: utat'oti "aa a summer, resort by his famoa joke about the soldier stationed there? who died and brought u pin the infernal regions, which ho found fo chilly by eon
Kck fn hie WnTiltftti' Sin that neriodL R f
it is said, "sm- ha rdened mvaiida repair to Tuma to die, with a View to brninii? ured to li:0iJaaj)ti SbereattoIt was also Lieutehant Derby who, being v
left in charge of one of the San
papers aone time fpra fe days
the temporary absenoft or- tne eoiwr,.
changed the politics of he ehnft :&:fffrt ftfm horror and ehagrin.ofihafc trusting g&m tirabf mifplaceor V g so he who, m being presend to -Oener W mm
al Anonr imd fnmilv for the first timei&sW MT&
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then, looking down blandly at the chit?
aren, saia -aon inwci ;?VK,T?
iition of humor, it is saidi tbe
never forgave tdwi .... yT
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Portland, Me, had four strarigely assorted pets a parrot, amonkev, a tame foK
and a Ne?fpundland puppy. Thenarrot
nas seen niscompaiiionBuumijMiviK go the way of all fiesh, and now at the
age of sixty years, is stall one of the moa
important members of ljiutenant George
Walden's iurnily. Centeniplataon o Ih?r5 -J vicissitndeB of lite has -nado:
loquacity whioh was formerly the parrot'a.
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chief failing, and the bird is now to - 7 m
mostprpfou,ia . r ;
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appear inces, pne ot the
thinkers in ;'the State of Maine?1
Blind Tom is still aaenthumaawcr-over $ n
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