Bloomington Courier, Volume 15, Number 16, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 February 1889 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

BY H. JT. FELTUS.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA

Recent discussions of the electrict & light go to show that it is vastly superior to gas and oils from a sanitory point of jj "views Gas lets rapidly vitiate tho air of a hall or churcU, and the consequence is headaches, exhaustion and colds. This is not true of the electric light The only charge made against it is the possible damage to the. eyes.

The United Slates Supreme Court the other day decided that a State govern-

. ';. ment had the constitutional right to tn;i Vtact laws requiring physicians practising H within its herders to produce certificates oi ability. A law of "West-Virginia re jr-- quires a practitioner of medicine in the - - ' State to procurefrom the State Beard of .Uf Health a certificate that he-is a graduate - of some reputable medical college, or 3& : ? lias, nrflrispti in the State ten years

previous to the passage of the act regulating the practice. One Dr. Dent objected to, this law on the ground that it abridged his ri ht as a citizen. But the Supreme Court upholds the State in thus looking after the interests of its

citizens in protecting them from quacks

?3M andj JEsculapian fledglings.

' Ml

11 1 ID liU UUOOZU1C utlV0MUuu

the

popular value of recent researches into

the true nature and proper protection against consumption. The pitiful helplessness that we have exhibited in the face of a disease that has plucked go many victims is now displaced by a bolder front. Dr. Chapin, to whom was

j awarded the $200 prize, tells us there is

now no question but consumption is contagious, His rules of prevention are to teach the people that no-one can have tubercular consumption without tuDercle bacilli find their way into the lungs; nor then, unless conditions are favorable Unfavorable conditions for their1 development are caused by sanitary food, pure air, plenty of exercise and warm clean clothes. Disinfection must be attended to, to destroy the poison in the spectum of the patient, and persons predisposed to the disease, as well as all children, must be kept aloof from the sick. .

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THE PROGRESS IS MUSIC. An 'Instrument of Some Kind in

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Indianapolis Journal. The growth of musicali culture in this country, in : the past twenty years, has been as rapid as that of any other art or industry. The grade or- class of music has not only been advanced, but the general musical education has been brought out as 'a necessary branch of one?sdevelopmehtintellectaally. There are few children, who enjoy-the benefits of the public schools, that can not- sing the do-ra-me, and underatandingly, and while many of them do not become proficient, either, as singers or instrumentalists, they rn listen to a musical number and appreciate it. The language of the lines and spaces is as familiar to those whose education- has been commenced within the past decade as that of any othsr study. The luxuries of the past have became the necessities of today in the line ot musical instuments. Pianos, wjich were only possessed .by the wealthy of well-to-do, are now conT sidered an article of household furniture which none but the very poorest can do without, but churches and Sun- : day schools have them as their only voice accompaniment. Lodges are furnished wif h pianos and organs, and in many of; these places large sums of money are spent for handsome pipe organs, and skilled organists and singers furnish music for the rites of the societies. The dancing master who taught the art of- Terp3iehoreto the scrape of a violin meanwhile performing the steps for his class, has now a piano in his hall, and an accomplished player, who, to the airs of the latest music, keeps

timeior the dancers. The attractions of

the saloon are increased by the presence

of a musical instrument, played upon by

some one whose forte or ambition as

pires to no higher plane. . The piano has been the most popular instrument, probably; for two reasons.

Jf irsfc, that u requires the least effort to

produce asonnd, and next because it is

always ready for the player, not requir

ing tuning or adjustment as most in-

BuuwwiK-uu vvium uamg. xne ques

tion of its not being; in tune, alwavs.

does not strike the-non-sensitive ear possessed of no particular cultivation of sounds, and often the listener will en-

, joy a piece, well played, even on a

piano "badly out of .tune, when exactly

the same tones from; a '-violin would al

most produce a nervous chOL The feli

coyeredshammers of the piano falling on

- the wires soften and harmonize a dis

cordant vibration as the hairs of a bow

v cannot. r The study of the niano is so

&fk$ general that it is estimated that there ; 'J;, are nearly, if not-quitej 100 persons in this cifyfJid vicinity who make all or

BJ---' part of their living teaching this in-

strument. They range from the master

jJS" who caniconnnand from $1.50 to $2 an feK B0UT ' I instruction, to the pupil's 5 papil who will givevan hour les&on for

,i v 2pc. Some of these litter prices are aske4 by teauhers whohy giving a few les-

'"eonseach week, can earn enough to pay

Wki . '.. iornstruOTomor tnemseives. in the

large Easrn and a few Western cities, likeChics.go, Cixscinaati, St Louis or Denver, -there are teachers who ask some $5 or $6 for half or three-quarter-hour lessons, but Indianapolis teachers have never been able tp get more than $1.50 fr piano or $259 for voice teaching. It is doubtful if any one is capable of taking.instracrton enough, even in an hour, to recompense them for an outlay cf $5 or $(: but, like many other things, the price is regulated by the law of suppry and demand. It is not the high or even theT moderately high-priced teachersi that are the" most numerous however. It is the teacher who asks &3c a lesson or will

give three lessons for $f . Some of this

iattei class will have from ten to twenty pupils. few Of tnese are entirely dependent upon their own exertions, but the majority will be found to be young women who have homes and desire to earn some money on their own account. Besides these two c'iaeses there is one, which is small, indeed, and belongs only wAne femenine fejachers. They are those who have to -teach, and so with

:tt

cents is secondary. ftith men it is like other lines of business. They expect to makp it their life work, but with women it is more often simply a transition from school girl do-nothingness to wifehood, when the burden of expense will be borne by some one else. The violin is rapidly becoming a popular instrument of music. While it has always been a favorite, it is only within recent years that so many young children have been initiated into its intricacies. It is called the only perfect instrument, -because of the perfection of tone which may be brought from it. It takes the bow in the hands of a skilled violinist to secure this perfection, however, for in the hands untrained it is an

instrument oi torture to those within hearing distance. The makers of musical instruments are almost as numerous as the sellers, for nearly every dealer has one named for him or tor the firm. There are factories where pianos are made, and any one can have any name put upon them. The standard makes

will always hold their own ana command good prices, and it is only the cheaper makes that bear the names comparatively unknown. The manufacture of new makes is increasing all the time, and musicians are looking for some great improvement, but what the improvement will be future years will haveJto determine. ODD HAPPE.MAGS. Sydney, Australia, is having an organ built in London, which is said will be the largest in the woild, costing $75,000. . It is said that Charl eston has impro ved greatly . in general appearance since the earthquake necessitated so much rebuilding. A club in Tennessee which meets once a week to play checkers has taken the name of "I he Seacoast Fishing and Shooting Club." There is a good field for missionaries at Tuecumbia, Miller county, Mo., w here there has not been a church building of any kind in forty years; A Ulysses, Neb., man has built the "largest corn crib on earth.' ' It is 430 feet Ion?, 42 feet wide and 12 feet high, and holds 25,000 bushels. A number of plants have been discovered in the Philippine Islands, whose flowers aie almost a yard in diameter, the petals, five in number, being oval and of a creamy-white color. A farmer near Athens, Ga., began farming having one horse, and that a mare. When Bhe was twenty-eight years old she still worked, but was then assisted by her five colts that had grown to horsehood. A new scheme for harbor defence is soon to be tried. Perforated iron pipes will be sunk in the water, and through them petroleum will be forced. In this way a fierce stream of blazing oil could be sent down on an enemy's fleet to drive it away. Iron vessels could not pass through this line of fire, because it could be made to extend many miles along the river. A banker in Lille, France, had the misfortune to wet eighteen bills of the Bank of Franc, and in order to dry them he placed them on a board at an open window, where the sun shone upon them. They dried more rapidly than was anticipated. A gust of wind carried them into the street where, unfortunately, a goat, picking up odds and ends,at once captured the bank bills and swallowed them. The goat was purchased and the bills secured in a very dilapidated condition, but the Bank of France recognized its obligations and re deemed them. The Word "Damn Defended. London Truth. , Mrs. Sarah Austin tells us in her recently published ''Memoirs" that she was greatly exercised as to whether she

was justified in retaining the word "damn" in the recital of a story of Lord Jeffry and Mr. Sydney Smith, Lord Lyttelton and others protested, it would seem, against it, and Lady Holland suggested the substitution- of the word

"hang:" Now, wbv? To "damn" is to

condemn; to be "damned" is to be con

demned, while to hang is to execute a condemnation, and to be '"hanged" is to

di3 in consequence of a condemnation. What, then, can be the difference whether Lord Jeffry "damned" the north pole,orwhether he expressed a wish that this meteorological point should be

hanged? It is held that to desire that

the north pole, or a chair or a horse or

a wife or any thing or any one else should be Jdamned, is to swear, wb ereas to express the desire that a thing or a person

should be hanged is not. As a matter

of fact, the use of neither of these expressions involve swearing. They are

mere foolish utterances by which the person using them wishes to convey the

notion that he is displeased with the thing or the person against which either is leveled. "Damn" may be coarse and

vulgar, for verbal coarseness or vulgar

ity is conventional. I am not quite sure, however, that the expression of a wish

that the north pole may be condemned is not a good deal more reasonable than

that it should be banged; Be this, how

ever, as it may, I entirely deny ? that

damning is swearing.

;r,h o firit ambition to make a name and position, and tbe matter of dollarji and

The. Cabinet in Session. St. Nicholas. .

The President presides, seated at the

head of the long table, facing north; on

his right are seated the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and Post

master-General; on his left are the Sec

retary of the Treasury, the Secretary of

the Navy, and the Attorney-General; and opposite to him, at the foot of the table, is the Chair of the Secretary of the Intetior. The private secretary occupies a seat at a small desk facing the southern window and near the Presii l. mil's m

ueni;. xms arrangement is not in ac

cordance with the order ol precedence observed by Congress in establishing the Presidential succession. If the Attorney-General and Secretary of the Navy should change seats, bringing the former fourth and the latter sixth, the rank alternating across the table,-the

L order ould be strictly correct.

The sessions of the Cabinet are informal affairs. No persons except those named are permitted to enter the room during the councils, and no official record of the proceedings is kept. The business done or discussed covers all leading subjects belonging to the various branches of administration on which the President may desire information or advice, department reports tjon -

cerniog special matters of importance,

appointments to office, and questions of

general administrative policy,

KING SOLOMON'S MINES. BY H. RIDER HAGGARD.

CHAPTER VII. Continued. Solomon's road. When we had gone about half a mile we came to the edge of the plateau, for the nipple of the mountain did not rise out of its exact center, though from the dpsfirt side it seemed to do so. What

lay below us we could not see, for the landscape was weathered in billows of morning mist. Presently, however, the higher layers of mist cleared a little,and revealed some five h undredyards beneath us, at the end of a long slope of snow, a patch of green grass, through which a stream was running. Nor was this all. By the stream, basking in the morning sun, stood and lay a group of from ten to fifteen large antelopes at that distance we could not see what they were. The sight filled us with an unreasoninsr joy. ih ore was food in plenty if only wq could get it. But the question was how to get it. . The beasts were fullv six hundreds yards off, a very lone shot, and one not be-depended on when one's life hung on the results. Rapidly we discussed the advisability of trying'to stalk the game, but finally reluctantly dismissed it. To begin with - the wind was not favorable, and, further, we should.be certain to be perceived, however careful we were, against the blinding background of snow, which we should be obliged to traverse. "Well, we must have a try from where we are." said Sir Henry. "Which shall it be, Qaatermain, Ihe repeating rifles or the expresssB?" Here again was a question. The Winchester repeaters ot which we had two, TJmbopa carrying poor Ventvogel's as well as his own were sighted up. to a thousand yards, whereas the expresses were only sighted to three hundred and lifty, beyond which distance shooting with them was more or les3 guess work. On the other hand, if they did hit, the express bullets being expanding, were much more likely to bring the game down. If. was a knotty point, but 1 made up my mind that we must risk it and U3e the expresses. . - . r'Let each of us take the. buck opposite to him. Aim welt at the point of the shoulder, and h'g'i up," said I; "an Umbopa. do you give the word, so that we may all fire together.' 1 Then came a pause, each man aiming his level best, as indeed one is likely to do when one knows that life depends upon the shot. ...... 'Fire!" said Umbopa, in Zulu, anpl at almost the same instant the three rifles rang out loudly; three clouds of smoke hung for a moment before us, and a hundred echoes went flying away over the silent snow. Presently the smoke cleared; and revealed oh, joy! a great buck lying on its back and kicking in ils. death agony. .We gave a yell of triumph we were saved, we should not starve! Weak as we were, we rushed down the, intervening slope of snow, and in ten minutes from the time of firing the animal's heart and liver were lying smoking before us. But now a new, difficulty arose, we had no fuel, and therefore could make no fire to cook them at. We gazed at each other in dismay. "Starving men must not be fanciful," said Good; "we must eat raw meat." There was no other wav out of the dilemma, and our gnawing nungermade the proposition less distasteful t'-an it would othei wise have been. So we took the heart and liver and buried them for 1i few minutes in a patch of snow to cool them. Then we washed them in the ice-cold water of the stream, and lastly eat them greedily. It sounds horrible enough, but honestly I never tasted anything so good as that raw meat. In a quarter of an hour we were changed men. Our life and our vigor came back to us, our feeble pulses grew strong again; and the blood went coursing through our veins. But mindful of . the results of overfeeding on starving stomachs, we were careful x ot to eat too much, stopping whilst we were still hungry. "Thank God!" said Sir Henry; that brute has saved our lives. What is it, Quatermain?" I rose and went to look at the antelope, fori was. not certain... It was abont the size of a donkey, with large curved horns. I had never seen one like it before, the species was new to me. It was brown, with faint red stripes, and a thick coat. I afterward discovered that the natives of that wonderful country called the species "Inco." It . was very rare, and only found at a great altitude where no other game would live. The animal was fairly shot hi;h in the shoulder, though whose bullet it was that brought it down we could not, of course, discover. . I be

lieve that Good, mindful of his marvel

ous shot at the giraffe, secretly set it down to bis own prowess, and we did not contradict him. We had been so busy satisfying our starving stomachs that wo had hitherto not found time to look abotne. But now, having set Umbopa to cut off as much of the best meat as we were likely to be able to carry, wo began to inspect our surroundings. The mist had . now cleared away, for it was eight o'clocx, and the eon had sucked it up, so we were able to take in all the country at a glance I know not how to describe the glorious panorama which unfolded itself to our enraptured graze. I have never seen anything like it-before, nor shall, I suppose, again. Behind and over us towered Sheba's snowy breasts, and below, some five thousand feet beneath where we stood, lay league on league of the most lovely champaign country. Here were dense patches of lofty forest, there a great river wound its silvery "way. To the left stretched a vast expanse of rich undulating veldt or grass land.on which we could j ust make out countless herds of game or cattle at that distance we could not tell which. ThiB expanse appeared to be ringed in ; by a wall of distant mountains. To the right the country was more or Ices mountainous, that is, solitary hills stood up from its. level, with stretches of cultivated lands between, amongst which we could distinctly see grouos of dome shaped huts. The landscape lay. before. us. like a map in srveiB flashed like silver snakes, and Ailplike peaks crowned with wildly twisted snow-wreaths rose in. solemn grandeur, whilst over . all was the glad sunlight and the wide breath of Nature's happy life. Two curious things struck us as we gazed. First, that the country before us must lie at least five thousand feet higher than the desert we crossed, and secondly, that all the livers flowed from south to north. As we had a painful reason to know, there was no water at all on the southern side of the vast range on which we stood-, but on the north ern side were

manv streams, most of which appeared

to unite with the great river we could

trace winding away further than we

could follow it. We sat down for a while and gazed in silence at this wonderful view. Presently Sir Henry spoke. "Isn't there something on the map about Solomon's Great Road?" he said. I nodded, my eyes still looking out over the far countrv. "Well, look; there it is!" and he pointed a little to our right. Good and I looked accordingly, and there, winding away toward the plain, ras what appeared to be a wide turnpike road. We had not Heen it at first because it, on reaching the plain, turned behind some broken country. We did not say anything, at least not much; we were oeginning to lose the sense of wonder. Somehow it did noi seem particularly unnatural that we should find a sort of Roman road in this strange .and- We accepted the fact, that was all. "Well," said Good, "it mtiBt be quite near us i f we cut off to th e ri zht. Hadn't we better be making a start?" This was sound advice, and so soon aa we had washed our iaces and hands in the stream, we acted on it. For a mile or so we made our way over bowlders

and across patches of snow, till sudden

ply, on reaching the top of the little rise;

there lay the road at our feet. It. was a splendid road cut out of the solid rock, at least fifty feet wide, and apparently well kept;" but the odd thing about it was that it seemed to begin there. We walked down and stood on it, but one single hundred paces behind us, in the direction of Sheba's breasts it vaninhed, the whole surface of the mountain being strewn with bowlders interpersed with patches of snow. "What do you make of that, Quater-

mamr " asked cur lienry. l snoot my head, I could make nothing of it. "I have it!" aid Good; "the road no doubt ran right over the range and across the desert the other side, but the sand of the desert has covered it up, and above us it has been obliterated by some volcanic eruption of molten lava." This seemed a good suggestion; af. any rate, we accepted it, and proceeded down the mountain. It was a different business traveling along down hill on that magnificent pathway With full stomachs to what it had been traveling uphill over the snow quite starved and almost frozen. Indeed, had it not been for melancholy recollections of poor "Ventvogel's sad fate, and of tht grim cave where he kept company with old Don, we should have been positively cheerful, notwithstanding the sense of unkuown dangers before us. Every mile we walked the atmosphere grew softer and balmier, and the country before us shone with yet more luminous beauty. As for the road itself, I never saw such an engineering work, though Sir Henry said that the great rbad over the St. Gothard in Switzerland was very like it. No difficulty had been too great for t he Old World engineer wno designed it. At one place we came to a great ravine three hundred feet broad and at least a hundred, deep. This vast gulf was actually filled in, apparently with huge blocks of dressed stone, with arches pierced at the bottom for a, water-way, over which the road went sublimely on. At another place it was cut in zigzags out of the side of a precipice five hundred feet deep, and in the third it tunneled

right through the base of an intervening

ndee of space of thirty yards or more.

Here we noticed that the sides of the

tunnel were covered with quaint sculp

tures .mostly of mailed figures

driving in chariots. One, which was

exceedingly beautitul. presented a

whole battle scene with a convoy of cantives beins marched off in the dis

tance.

...'Well," said Sir Henry, aiter inspect

ing tms ancient work of art, rn is very

wen to can tms ooioniion s rtoaa, out my humble opinion is that the Egyptians have been here before Solomon's people ever set a foot on it. If that isn't Egyptian handiwork, all I have to say is it is very like it." By midday we had advanced suflicieutly far down the mountain to reach the region where wood was to be met with. First we came to scattered bushes wtiich grew more and more frequent, till at last we found the road winding through a vast grove of silver trees similar to those which are to be seen on the slopes of Table Mountain at Cape Town. I bad never before met with them in all my wanderings, except at the Cape, aud their appearance here astonished me greatly. "Ah!" said Good, surveying these shining-leaved trees witn evident enthusiasm, "here is lots of wood, let us stop and cook some dinner; I have about digested that raw mes-.t." Nobody objected to this, so leaving the road we made our way to a stream which .was babbling away not far ofi, and soon had a goodly fire of dry boushs blazing. Cutting off some substantial hunks from the flesh of the ineo which we had brought with us, we proceeded to toast them on the end of eiharp st:cks, as one sees the Kafirs do, and eat them with relish. After filling ourselves, we lit our pipes ami gave ourselves up to enjoyment, which, compared to the hardships we had recently undergone, seemed almost heavenly. The brook, of which the banks were clothed with dense masses of a gigantic species of maiden-hai r fern interspersed with feathery tu'ls of wild asparagus, babbled away merrily at our side, the soft air murmured through the leaves of the silver trees, doves, cooed around, aud bright-winged birds flashed like living gems from bough to bough. It was like Paradise. - The magic of t he place, combined with the overwhelming sense of dangers left behind, and of the promised land reached at last, seemed to charm us into silence. Sir Henry and TJmbopa sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and Kitchin Zulu in a low voice, but earnestly enough, and I lay, with my eyes half shut, upon that bed off ern and watched them. Presently I missed Good, and looked to see what , had become of him. As I did so I observed him sitting by the bank of the stream, in which he had been bathing. He had nothing4 on but his flannel shirt, and his natural habits of extreme neatness having reasserted themselves, he was actively employed in making a most elaborate toilet. He had washed his gutta-percha collar, thoroughly shaken out histrouseis, coat and waistcoat, and was now folding them up neatly till he was ready to put them on, shaking his head sadly as he did so over the numerous rents and tears in them which had naturally resulted from pur frightful journey. Then he took his boots, scrubbed them with a handful of fern, and finally rubbed them over with a piece of fat, which, he had carefully saved from the inco meat, till they looked, comparatively speaking, respectable. Having inspected them judiciously through his eyeglass, he put them on and began a Iresh operation. From a little bag he carried he produced a pocket comb in which was fixed a tiny looking glass, and in this he surveyed himself. Apparently he was not satisfied, for he proceeded to do his hair with great care. Then came a pause whilst he again contemplated the effect: still it was not satisfactory. He felt his chin, on which was now the accumulated scrub of a ten day's beard. "Surely," thought I, "he is not going to try and shave." But so it was. Taking the piece of fat , with which he had greased his boots he washed it carefully in the stream. Then diving again into the bag he brought out a little pocket razor wi th a guard to'it, such as are sold to people afraid of cutting themselves, or to those about to undertake a sea voyage. Then he vigorously scrubbed his face and chin with the fat and began. But it was evidently a pai nful process, for he groaned very much over it, and I was convulsed with" in ,ard laughter .as I watuhed hi in struggling with that stubbly b ?ard. It seemed so very odd that a man should take the trouble to shave himself with a piece of fat in such a place and under 6uch circumstances. At last he succeeded in

getting the worst of the scrub oil the right side of his face and chin, when suddenly I, who was watching, became aware of a flash of light that passed just by his head. Good sprung up with a profane exclamation (if it had not been a safety razor he would certainly have cut his throat), and so did I, without the exclamation, and this was what I saw. Standing there, not more than twenty paces from where 1 was, and ton from Good, were a group of men. They were very tall and copper-coloredi and some of them wore great plunies of black feathers and short cloaks of leopard skins; this was all I noticed at the moment. In front of them stood a youth of about seventeen, his hand still raised and his body bent forward in the attitude of a Grecian statue of a spear thrower. Evidently the flash of light had been a weapon,and he had thrown. As I looked an old eoldier-like looking,

man stepped forward out of the 'group,

ana catching the youth by the arm said something to .him, They then advanced upon us. Sir Henry, Good and Umbopa had by this time Beized their rifles and lifted

them threateningly. The party of na

tives still came on. It struck mo that

they could not know what rifles were.ov they would not have treated them with such contempt.

"Put down yourgunsl" I bauoed tp

the others, seeing that, our only chance of safety lay in conciliation. They obeyed, and wa king to the front I ad

dressed the nlderly man who had

checked the youth .

"Greeting," I said, in Zulu, not knowing what laugur go to use. To my surprise I was uncerstood. "Greeting," answered the man, not, indeed, in the same tongue, but in a dialect so closely allied to it that neither Umbopa or my self had any difficulty in understanding it. Indeed, as we afterward found ou I , the language spoken by this people wa an old-fashioned form of the Zulu tongua. bearing about the same relationship 'to it that the English of

Ooaucer does to the English of the nineteenth centurv "Whence come ye?" he .went on, "what are you? and why are the faces of three of ye wh ite, and the face of the fourth as the fr.ee of our mother's sons?" asd ho pointed to Umbopa. I looked at Umbopa as he said it, and it flashed across me t hat he was right. Umbopa was like the fa jes oi the men before me, so was his crest form. But I had not time to reflect m this coincidence. We are stra ngers,aud come in peace," I answered, speaking very slow, so that he might uuderstand me, "and this man is our servant." . .... "Ye lie," he answered; "no strangers can cross the mountains, where all things die. B it what do your lies matter? If ye are. strangers then ye must die, for no pti angers may live in the land ff the Ki;kuanas.. It is the king's law. Prepare, nhen , t o d i e,o i stran gersl ' ' I wras slightly staggered at this, more especially as I saw the hands of some of the party of men steal down to their sides, where hung on each what looked to me like a large aud heavy knife. "What does that beggar 8ay?M asked Good. . . "He says wc are going to be scragged," I answered, grimly. .

"un, iora, '. groanea uoou; ami, as was his way when perplexed, -out his hand to his" false teeth, dragging the top set down aud allowing them to fly back to his jaw wit a a snap. It was a most fortunate move, for the next second the

dignified crowd of Knkuanas gave a simuitaueous yell of horror, and bo'ted back some yai ds, "What'sup?"saidl. "It's his teeth," whispered Sir Henry,

excitedly. "He moved them. Take

them out. Good, take them out!"

He obeyed,; slipping the set into the

sleeve of tns flannel shirt. In another second curiosity had over-

I come fear, an! the men advanced slow-

1) A pparenUy they had now lorgotten their amiable intentions of doing for us.

"How is it, : oh strangers," asked the old mau, solemnly, "that the teeth of

the man (pointing to Good, who had nothing on b it a flannel shirt, and bad

only half finished his shaving) whose

body is clothed, and whose legs are bare who crows heir on one side of his sickly

face and not on the other, and who has

one Binning and transparent eye, and

teetii tnat move.pt tnemseives, coming away from 1 is jaws and returning ol

their own wiilY"

"Open your mouth,". I said to Good, who promptly curled up his lins and grinned at the, old gentleman like an angry dosr. revealinsr to their astonished gaze "two thin red lines of gum as utterly innocent of ivories as a new-born elephant. His audience gasped. "Where are his teeth?" they shouted; "with our eves we saw them." Turning his head elowly, and with n gesture of ineffable contempt, Good swept h;s hand across his mouth. Then he grinned again, and lol there were two rows of lovely teeth. The young man who had flung the knife threw himself down on the gras and gave vent to a prolonged howl oi terror: and as for the old gentleman, his knees knocked together with fear. Conttnueea nost wtek.

TIME AND TIDE.

Wlicu the Bay and the Tidcs Begin. Why the Ohl World Takes .Precedence. Portland Orogonian. Where does the day begin? Our Eastern States got the New Year before we did, Europe got it before they did, and Asia got it before Europe did. It must have begun, then, at some point in the Pacific ocean between the west coast of America aaid the east coast ot Asia. But, as the circle of the year is without beginning or end, except as men have agreed in relation thereto for their own convenience, one part of the globe might in the abstract claim the beginning of the day or of the year as well as another part. By common conseat, however, calculation oi the beginning of the day gives the beginning tc the old world, for the day was fixed before the new world was known, and as the earth revolves on its axis from west to east, time in the journey toward the west fell behind fixed time. As geography became known it was obvious that Asia got the day before Europe got it, just as America got it after Europe got it; and so the beginning of the day has been pushed out from the Pacific shore of the Eastern hemisphere and beyond its lands isinto the Pacific ccean. But suppose America had been uhe older world; suppose that civilization had had its origin here, that computation of time had been established, and discoverers, sailing from America, had found the other hemisphere as this one was found by discoveres from Europe, the Atlantic coast of Europe would be the last part of the elobe to see the day and the year, just as the Pacific coast of America is now the last part of the globe to see them. Where do the tides begin? This is a question solely of physical fact not depending in any way on human history They appear to begin in the largest stretch of open sea on the globe the southwest Pacific ocean whence they are propagated ia all directions, subject however, to complications aud irregularities arising from the distribution of land upon the globe and from the configuration of the bottom of the sea,

NKWS PROM ALASKA.

The steamer Ancon arrived at Port.

Townsend, "NV. T., on the 2nd, with news

from Alaska. Tne Juneau Free Press reiterates the Btories of outrages on Im dian women, and says that the Indians will fell their daughters and sister to white men for from $5 to $50. The Tongas custom house, a sub-port of entry, has been abolished by the government, aud the deputy collector of customs. Col. Oittenden.is temporarily appointed

inspector afloat, vice Edward Haley re

tired. Only a few days alter tne port was abandoned a sloop load of whisky from Fort Simpson, fourteen miles away, was smuggled in. The smugglers became involved in a quarrel, and a man named Snow was murdered by a man named "Jack." The Indians turned the murderer over to the authorities at Sitka for trial. The Indian who caused all the trouble at the Upper Yukon placer mines last year, when the miners were trying . to got established there, has given himself up to the authorities. He says his people will never allow the m Uxors to go into the Yukon if he is punished, but that they will murder the first party that appears. Snr.retarv Bavard has notified tho Ger

man Minister at Washington that this Onvnrnment accents the proposition for

a resumption, at Berlin, of the conference begun in Washington hi 1887, in regard to Samoa.

THE STATE LEGISLATURE '

In the Senate on Ihe 31st Johnson introduced a resolution directing attention to the alleged violation of the rejiniremetit that the twenty extra doorkeepers phould he efc-sokiiers and au thorizing the appointment of a committee, Who are ex-soidiers, to ascertain the facte regarding the iontte and report them to the Senate. Tlie resolution was- mdeJihuidv postponed by a party vote, .folmisoi) then oflered another resolution ordering the Doorkceoer to report to t ie Senate the names of all ex-soldiers now in his employ, mid in what rngiment he served, lu explanation ho said ihn! the resolution was oflered because a Democratic Senator had Said that it wo not known that the Doorkeeper hid failed to do his diitj mid he wanted to ascertain if the opposition to an investigation was well ufou ruled. "I rharge" lie added, "Hat

the spirit and letter of the lesolution nave been

violated; that ex-soiaiorri have been turned a wav, and in their places are men who are related to Senators of the majority and do rot

need employment." Mullinixi0 you know that the ussistant are not ex-soldiers? Johns 3ii

1 find upon the pay-roll the name of Logsdon, w man who is relf.ico to one of the Senators on

this floor, and 1 1 now that he could not hsve

been a soldier. I And also on the roll the na iie

of Mullii'ix. an emolove who Is a son of ihe

Senator from Greene, who could not have hceu a soldier. Besides, I have trustworthy informa

tion from an cx-soldier who hns looked into the matter, and ho tells me there are not to exceed seven ox-soldicra on the force, 0 And

now I charge on my honor us a mau and I d re

any member Oi the majority to prove that the charge is not true that not ten ex-trnion

soldiers i)re now on the force of the Doorkee per

of the Senate. I toree the charge down your

throats Clint your resolution was a subterfuge; that it was passed in bad faith. I court an investigation t dare you to make it. It is easy to ascertain the facts. The truth is, relatives, friends and dependents have been given the positions that should go to the soldi jrs. Your resolution was a sham and a subterfuge, and it wis passed simply to fasten a lot of supernumeraries upon the public treasury. This resolution was also indefinitely postponed. Mount then offered a resolution directing the Secretary of the .Senate to report the number of his employes and how many of them are ex soldiers. His object, he said, was to" show :hat there were more persons employed- than were needed. In reply M ullinix said that the majority was responsible for their record, and that it wr,s evident their management of public interests was approved by the people, because the

Democratic majority in this General A trembly is la ger than it was two years ago, "Indian i is Democratic to Ihe core," he declared, "if you takeaway the corruption and bribery that was practiced at tho brat election." Kennedy Was that S10 000 givca by the President used in Indiana or some other State? DeMotte Vbat have you to say abou: the statement of the Democratic County Clerk, who failed a dav or two ago, that this election eofci him Si0,000. Thus the day was consumed. The forenoon in the House was devoted to the introduction of; bills. Among the more important were: Relating to the appointment of deputy she PifR, detectives, etc.; to fix certain fees; requiring voluntary insurance associations to file articles of incorporation; to make school towns liable for their proportion of any existing indebtedness; to provide for burial permits in s 11 cases of deaih and for the recording and reporting of deaths; to suppress bucket shops and g ambling in stocks, bonds, etc.; concerning taxrtion; concerning gravel ' and macadamized roads; concerning hedge fences; to protect sheep husbandry; concerning -election contests; authorizing county commissioners to construe: free turnpikes; to provide for the registration of voters; to regulate elections; o prevent fraud in the granting of divorces; relating to the sale of spirituous liquors; to pay j .mounts due Indiana Legion; concerning the liability of corporations and companies for the injury or death oi employes: to prevent monopolies; to regulate foreign insurance companies do- : ug business in this State; to authorize the tornation of co-operative societies; to provide for a general system of common schools: to abolish capitation and labor taxes for the construction or repair of hicluvays and bridges; to prohibit killing of squirrelfi during certain seasons: concerning the death penalty; ( bills) providing for rare of State nous!, and many others. Two bills were engrossed.- A majority and minority report was submitted on the deficiency appropriation bill, the majority not desiring to -allow pay for Col. Kobertson, Special order for the 5th. The

bill providing ;:or a Supreme Court Commission came up as a sjecial order and on adjournment the discussion had not been completed. Curtis, Brown, Willard, Linck, Fields, Oppcahejm, Cullen and others made speechesThe Senate on the 1st resumed consideration of Barrett's bill requiring night schools lobe opened in cities exceeding 15,000 population, aud there was objs-nion because the bill did not give the trustees th 3 right to decide when there is public ncces-sity for such schools. IJa.rnett thought the purpose oi the measnre would not be carried out if it should be changed t;o meet this objection, Shoekney objected to it because it allowed any twenty persons to force upon eit-: ics un expense that would be unnecessary In many cases. His amendment was voted down. An amendmeri was adopted by the vote of the I.ieutenant-g vemor providing that the pupils at the night schools should only be such persons as are in such circumstances that it is necessary for tbem to work during the day to aid in the support of the families. An amendment specifying what class of personsshould be allowed to attend tho schools was reported. The bill was then engrossed. The House bill for

the relief of Gorgateh, ex-Treasurer of Dearborn county, was amended and paiised. It

involves s i.'i. 'ine tu concerning tamis in

the bed of Beaver Lake was engrossed. Kills in

troduced: to authorize co-operative associations; to authorize mirehase of free school Looks; to

provide for tne protection of hotel keepers and several others less important. The House bill ceding to tho United States jurisdiction over eertnin IhiuIk In -Grant eountv for a National sob

dicrs' home M as passed. I'ndcr suspension of

rules an attempt was made to pass tne House bill to authorize county commissioners no fix bond of eountv c erks for such amount as they

may deem pre per, but as tnerc was u general disposition t;o investigate the bill it was made

snecial order for 10 o'elock on the 2d. Favorable

committee reports were submitted on Hale's hill for free turnpike roads: the bill to prevent trac

tion engines running on public roads: to provide

oinee room lor county sum'rintenaeats. mm

min'oniiner conveyance of stock: stmide

mental to the drainage art; appropriating i?50,O00

for tne soldiers' and sailonv' orphans' home; to

amend town incorporation act; concerning: high

wavs and faipervisors thereof; to increase the l.'wlo nF AAimti.n.i.HlnK' ..K.I m t.Mtii;rsi ineM-.

po ration of Russia ville, were ordered cngmssed. The session of the House was occupied in hear

mg committee reports, and considering bills on second readinsr. Nothinu of importance was

done. The Committee on Elections presented a

report on the Peyton -John contest, bill without

oeing reau, it was niaue a speenu oritur oi business for Monday afternoon. The bill of Representative Loop, requiring that the effects oi

alcoholic stimulants on the human 3stcm

shall be taught m the public schools, was in dnfmitolv nostnnned. on a - strict nartv vote

Tho billlncreasing the pay of prison officers was

entrrossea. Jt makes the

S2,o00, of

instructor

bill amending Section 2.117 of the Kevlted Stat

utes was indefinitely postponed. The bill oi

Hughes relating to cemetery associations was

engrossed, ai d the same action was taken on

rttepcenson s 0111 concerning general ejeciious. A resolution was introduced by Zoercher rcouest-

ine Coni?r?ss to secure a better extradition

treaty with En eland, enabling- the United

states to bi escape pun

resolution was passed. A bill authorizing county

commissioners -to fix bonds oi county cicr.ss, under a suspension of rules, was passed. Also

passed, bill -legalizing-election of Trustees of

J ones ville, Bartholomew county. --Bills introtroduced: Concerning teaching of German; to provide for the regulation of the running at

large of all kinds of animals; to compel owners of towc lots to build sidewalks: and others;. Bills

engrossed: To prevent hunting rabbits with

ferrets: reauiring township trustees to 'publish

annual statements: concerning -adulteration ol

drues and foods; and -others of less importance Indefinitely postoncd: To provide vunUhment for obtain ing notes by fraud: relating to study of physiology and hygiene and effect of alcohol

on tne system, uy a party vote; to prevent campimr and buildimr fires ou highways: to exempt

persons owning less thanScO from working roads, regulating rates of toll. CurUsbHl, providing

ior a live siock commission nu i oinio

veterinarian, was passed to engrossment. In the Senate on the -Jd a resolution to i nvesli

gate ihe report that JohnK Sullivan, defaulting

clerk of Marion county, had involved the funds

belonging to the Insane Hospital was referral to the committee on Benevolent --Iiisti;.ution&

Bills engrossed were: relating te Attorney's fees

In prom issory notes; concerning notes ana

other negotiable instruments; concerning public otlenccs; appropriating ?10,000

for the construction of asewcr from the Michigan

Citv penitentiary to Lake Michigan. Tnerc was

a prolonged discussion on Senator Ilayden's bik

proposing au increase in the salary of Circuit

Judges from 1,500 to 3,000. An amendment was proposed by Traylor, providing that: in judi

cial circuits with a population of less tnaut ou.oou,

the salary of the Judge shall he 5-2,000 pear year; where the population is 40.000. it shall be $3,500,

and where there are 60.000 inhabitants in the cir

cuit, the oay shall be 88,000 a year. Further consideration of the bill wos postponed. iSeveral

new bills were introduced. One provides for es

tablishing a State Department of Geology and XatimilRpsnHrees.nnderthe cLame of a director tobe

elected by the General Assembly, who shall have

the power to appoint a state Mtno inspector, an Oil Inspector and a Natural Gas Inspector, all of whom shall be under his directieu, A civil ser

vice bill was introduced by Grose, and other

measures that were placed on file were as follows: Bv Jackson a bill relating to sewers in incor

porated towns: by Johnson, regulating the hand

ling of mtro-glycerme, dynamite aim other explosives: by Mount, providing for divorce froni a person confined in the insane Hospital ten

years. The Senate adjourned at noon until Monday mornimr.

The House was without a Quorum. A resolu

tion instructing committee on temperance to re

port a bill to prevent the coming generation

irom ocing rnnieu uy me imou m iiucimcruui:u tsuaaested bv the opening prayer) was lain on tho

table. A resolution was then adopted, declaring

that as the Republican preachers and JtepubU? can saloonkeepers worked hand in hand during the last campaign the preachers should not now lie so hard on their allies. A half hour of the brief session was taken up in a discussion of ground hog day. The bills to amend the game laws wopa discussed. One of these bills providing that pheasants and quails shall not be killed for two years, M as engrossed. Tha other, which-proposes to prohibit the killing of quails and phei'isaats for all time, was reported from committee with an adverse recommendation, but the repo::t was rejected, an I the bill also passed to engrossment. At noon the House adjourued until Monday. The Senate on tho 4th received committee reports, favorable upon the following hilts: Authorizing the payment of the indebtedness of a former tnuftco of Uniou county, providing for the publication of legal advertising in daily papers; authorizing the incorporation of companies to conduct health resorts, hospitals and sanitarium, concerning taxation: regarding the incorporation of insurance companies; regulating foreign insurance companies doing business in this? StaU.

Substitute bills were reported by several com

mittees, one oi which provides ior the appoint

ment ot a supreme . ourt commission by the

General Assembly; another defines the wom mtnimr' in the act relating to the incorpora

tion of companies with a capital stock oil $100,000. The bill giving to eiti-ia the authority to in

sue sewer ana street improvement? noi ms was read a secoud time The bill providlujj for tho

construction of bridges oerstreanifl l-.S along the boundary between two counties, Catte up for consideration on third reading, and was discussed at length. The bill was then passed. Barrett's bill against pools, trusts ana combinations, was passed by a vote of ayes 43, hays The bill to appropriate 810,000 per year for five years to the Stave Board of Agriculture was passed. The hill to pay F, Oh Hubbard, ci:-trcasurer of a school board ill Richmond, &;veral thoiisahd dollars tVau awo passed. T wo Mlfc; Were introduced . The Hi use' w is without a qiionihi but legislatioii which todld reveal IH ; fact w'03 cateftiliy avoided. Bills indefliiatcly postponed: Concerning taxation; sunplimcrital xo thtS criminal prjW'cdingsact. The bill authorising Iridfah'apoTis school boards to Issue bonus forS .r)0,000 was engrossed, is was the bill pr5scril?ing the dutit's and powers of t chool trtistees. Over an hour was occupied in liscussing Mr Claypool's bill amending section 2t4S7 of ttic - RevlserT Statuk-s concerning the law of decent, proposing to gfre to widows an absolute life c-tate in the one-thiri

share of nropeity left to them instead of a fee simple title. Mr. Fields said that, as the law stands, i: causes confusion and is a delusion. The amendment would moke the law just wh t it is generally i upposed to .K. Mr. Adams said that, with the 'jxcentiort of lawyers, there is not

oiie person wh y knows what law is. He favored it also for the leason that, i t would make the estates liable fer debts. NptV tiflt iiiofe thaii twthlrd5 can be taken. 51 r. Curtis opposed the bill. He thought there wavt no demand for the change propos ;d, and it was simply for the benefit of spceuLitors, who buy the estates f.f minor heirs. The bill was referred to the Committee on judiciary. A bill appro jiriating 10:000 to the State Board of Agriculture was engrossed. The committee on benevolent institutions was directed to inquire into the disposition of the funds. A concurrent resolution authorizing an inquiry as to why the lands at the, insane 1 ospitr 1 are thrown open to the public was adopted. Majority and minority reports were made on the hill creating the office of State Geologist. The majority report recom mending that it pass Was adopted. The bill was engrossed (party vote). . Tdte bill to tlx the the pay of officers of the State Prisons were engrossed (party vote). The bill fixing time of holding cour: in the 49th circuit was passed. Two unlmpoitant concuri'ent resolutions were adopted.. A brief recess was taken to allow the Senators to b ? introduced to Mrs. Hendricks, widow of the late Vice President. Petitions were presen ted urg ing the pass age of the bill for tho study in our common schools pf the effects of narcotics au 1 alcoholic liquors onv the humar,

system. The but to render valid the records 01 circuit and superior courts in case whore the lodges omit ed to sign the record was passed. The bill making Wabash and Miami countieV scparat 3 i udi ;ial circuits was posed . The bill authorizing" itios to construct levees was passed The Senate on the 5th passed Boyd's bill making separate judicial circuits of Hamilton and Madison counties. Several speeches were made against the bill on account of the extra expense entailed, but only 12 vote were recorded against it to &I in its favor. BIchouski's bill, relating to drainage, was also passed. It L supplemental to the act authoriz ing Circuit aid superior Court Judges to order additional assessments to pay for drainage, anci provides tha.v in counties with a voting popula tion of 12,500 when the first assessment is insula

cient another may be ordered by the coun.

A resolution was adopted by a party vote pre

viding for tec employment ot a eiers to copy bills for tht printer. Ht i bbelPs bill crcatiug.a

Superior Cc urt in Elkhart : county vras passed. The House , on the 5th, considered the Curth bill creating a Board of Public Works for Indianapolis. The committee report favorable tc its passage was presented. The report was concurred in b? aves 51, nays 39. Cullen spoke acainsx the bill and Curtis said that at the proper time he would reply to Culleu. The bill wo then amen led and ordered engrossed. The House, in C )mmliteeof ihe Whole, then began consideration of the deftctehcy appropriation bill. The reductions recommcuded by the mnjority of the Coramitice on Ways and Means were approved, without objection, until the item allowing the State Auditora thousand dollars for office expenses was reached. The allowance has usually been $000, and the minority recom-

f mended a reduction to that amount. Mr. Wil-

iara expiai teuuiat ii was lrwu una iuuu iuui iuc Auditor ha il prdd the salary of Robertson as Lieutenant-Governor. Mr. Adams said that he had hoped "tho old sore" tor that's what it was would ne t be opened ngain and reviewed the Lieutenant-Governor's contest at length. The bill, a;s am ended, makes appropriations as follows: For the years 18S7 ana 1888, for the Governor, 5.000; Governor's Private Secretary, 51,500; Governor's Clerk, $1,000; Governor's Messenger, 3700; Adjutant General, $1,200; Adjutant General's Clerk, 8600; Quartermaster General $30); Governor's office expenses, SO: Governor's civil contingent fund; 1,000; Governor's military contingent fund, 82,000; Secretary of State, 82,000; Deputy Secretary of Stale, Sl,500- Clerk of Secretary of State, SSOO, Clerk of the Bureau of Printing and Stationary, $1,200; off cc expenses lor Secretary o" State, $r00; for the dis tribution of 1 twi and reoorts, 250; State Auditor, U1.500; Deputy Suite Auditor, 2,300; Clerk of the Land Department, $1,200; Clerk of the Tnsur. ince Department, 1,200; State Treasurer, 3,000 Dc puty ?3tate Treasurer, 1,500; watchman Treasury 720; Treasurer's office expenses, $200, The othe? items have aot yet been passed upon byth'5 ommittee. The bill providing for a Supreme Court commi ssion was passed; ayes 53, navs 41, The bill to elect three tmstees for each of-ttio S ate hospitals, was ordered engrossed. Severftl Mils were introd'aced, , In the Senate on the 6th a message from the Governor announced the appointment of Henry Watts and and B. L. Smith as trustees of the Soldi irs' Orhans' Home. The appointments were rcfencd to the Comm ttee on Executive Appointments. Johnson and the Republicans protested against this action being taken and the fact that this committee has as yet made no reports on appointments referred to it was criticised severely bv the Republican Senators. The following bills were piused: Authorizing the construction of a

sewer at tne ueuiKJii .uy ireiuaiiuuij, inu

laKfanABti fnr C-ftfl Anil it. in thU trv

ment of tliis, w ith interest for twenty niriS ?earfl, amounting to $14,00(V jbha

sue asks. . . . -v " Representattre Dryer has introducerl a bill wbich, it it comes a Jaw,wiII' j furnish valuable heaHU statistic It r provides that burial penults must be taked out for every death, and that j marriages and birlhs must be rOOOitea;! to the County Health Boards within ve J dava from the Jate of their occurrence County Health officers are to be anpointed bv the County Commissionera' i and paid fees instead oi ealariesT The State Bo ?rd of Health bsm long wanted 5 such a bill as this passed ,i JZ'J0 ; m J 1'he committee on reformatory i nstitutions, Tuesday, submitted to the House ; a report of its visit to the Befonnatoiry J for Women on Jan. 29. The membere inin in Rnvintr that nnon th0 whole the' 4

result of their visit was most gratifyp ing, and that they have only; words oi commenlation for tl ose who manage affairs. There is need, they say, for Vi additional bu tiding for a hospital. The same committee reported that , it had visited the Reform School for Boyp, afc.4 Piainfleld, and that they were favorably ; impressed with ita management The House has engrossed the bill n troduced bv Mr. Custer providing for a Live. Stock Commission and Statei Veterinarian. If ... it is paed, as iti

probably will be, three Commiaioners i; will be elected by the General Assembly ;i . V

one for a term of four, years, one tor three years, and another for two yearsV Their compensation will be $4 a day int

addition to the allowance ior neceesaryf

salary ot tne warden

tne Deputy warden si,zuo, oi tne moral

511,000. and of the clerk Sl,200. StuU's

ing back for trinl the embezzlers who islmient by going to C'anadn. The

viding ( r the formation of hur associations and giving f icm authority to borrow money i legali7Mi" tho nets of Notaries Public whose commis

sions hnve expired, and amonding Sec. 1493 of the Revhfed statutes; to makti the term of oflice oi township trustees and Assessors commence on the bjfc of August; relating to Justices of the Peac(i bv adding a clause requiring the defendant to i rst file an amdarit showing good cause oi action: to render uni torm the assessment oi porscnal property; Johnson's bill to require that the dea h penalty sh all only be inflicted at the penitentiaries. Committee reports, favorable: to pav a warrant issued by the benatc at the former nession; to direct tn5 copying, filing and indexing )f certain land records; to make appro priatioK for the Home for Feeble Minded Youths; majority and minority reports were reported oc the I ill to allow Alonzo G. Smith the salary of Lieutenant Governor cluring the lost Senate recontmendiucran appropriation respectively or

Traylor' s bill to punish White Gaps was passed; nlso ne bill Drovidinc that eicot hours shall

conSJltute a day's work by substitutes on high

ways. Other routine business was transacted.

In the House a few bills were introducedone to ptohi bit billiard tables for public use being placed ii any room where liquor is sold, and anotUcMakes from the Governor the right to anncint a State Coal Oil Inspector. Bills en-

grosjed: Concerning proceedings in civil caso; authorizing commissioners to construct freo emv?I re ads r n eountv lines: rcducine: the mira-

ber o jurors in cases iriod before Justices of the Peace --from twelve to six. The bill makiiw eiffb t hours' a lecal davB' work wits discussed

and referred back to committee. The Reynolds

local out. on bill was made the special order for

tlie lttth inst. Several bills were engrossed

Other en crossed bilis were made and referred.

The deficiency appropriation bill was called up,

t uiiex ouereu an amenament to increase me allowance 5 to the Stat; Auditor to 1,400; which iucludes the money paid to Robertson. On a motion t lay the amendment ou the table the aves and navs were demanded and taken and it

was found that there yrai i not a quorum present

aajournnreut was naa. lilXJISLiATivE ITE5JS. The bill for the relief of JameB D. Gat ch, j former Treasnrer of Dearboni connty; has paaaed both houses. Tho bill relieves Mr. Gatch from the payment of $2,500 of the county s money, winch ;as lost through a bank failure. The bill revising the election laws ot. the State, and providing for registration law, wh: ch the Republicans agreed up on in etneus, waa introduced in the Senate, Monday, by Senator Thompson, of Jasper. Itwas referred to the committee on election?. . , 1 . Governor Hovey Tuesday appointed Ben U. Smith, 'of Rush, ana Harry Watts, of Henry county, as ',- trustees of the Soldiers' OrpbansV Home. Mr.; Smith ift president of the board, his appointment being a; continuance, for another term. , 4 ; Mr. Stanly has introduced a bill in the House providing for increasing the tax on dogH. He thinks there are too many dogs and not enough sheep. In many counties of the State the dog-tax fund is not sufficient to pay for tho she ep k tiled by do&e. : ; Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks was a visitor in the Senate Tuesday. ; Out ct reBpect to the distinguished lady a recess of & few minutes was taken, and all the members were presented to her. When business was resumed she occupied a seau by the side of the Lieutenant-governor. " v . -. j.vv, S-. ; The bill appropriating $35,000 for the use of the Southern Prison was passeu

to engrossment m the House, Saturday,

S20.000 of the amount is to be used in

paving the debts incurred by Jack How

ard, and the remainder is to be used in making some improvements about the building. The Republican members are

opposing the bill on account of the section appropriating money for -to relief of How ards credit ors.

. II thev Indianapolis News can be re

lied on the following table will show

whttt States or countries produced the'; members of the Indiana Legislatures:

Indiana: North Carolina,..,

Ohio. ' Germany

Illinois;,... , 3

Prussia. 2

rm . . : . " Z 1 1

expenses. rue commissioners wmr elect a State Veterinarian, who will be I

officers are expected1 to dbf everjthinga possible to protect the heal th of domu?tic animals; to suppress contagious anA infectious diseases among them and prejj vent the importation into the State ofi any diseased! live stock. ; '..-v '7 i The House Committee on the Affairs oil Indianapolis hai reported f avorablyc upon Mr. Bigham's bill requiring; tha the Police and F?re Departments in ci ies of more than 29.000 population shalp be under the control of a board of threeV commissioners, to be chosen for thei first term by the General Assembly, andf afterward to . be appointed by -i;thevs '.

Mayor. The bill provi des that tne cer-j tificates of election shall be sjjmed by the Speaker of the House and this Ser; retary of tho Senate; instead of by th - Governor and President of the Si&nsteS The Commissioners are: to each receivi t a salary of 300 a year The pay of the . : Chief Fire Engineer is fixed at $2,000 af year. It is expected that ihe bill willj pass the House this week, r v ; r. A bill to relieve the State Board of ; Agriculture of its oppressive . indebtedl ness passed the Senale Monday.' ' : originally drawn , the bill provided for ; an annual aopropriation of . $10,000 foci Jan indefinite time, but it was amended ' so as to limit the appropriation to five'J 'v years, making the amount apprbpriated $50,000. It iB provided in the bill tbag at least f8,000 of each year's appropria tlcsn nVtoll h nnnliprl tnnrsirrl r.h Hnnifla- .

tion of the'board's debts The board ist :

$51 ,0GC in debt, incurred mostly b v the'

purcnase ot tne ioity acres oi aaaioonai a1?;fair grounds a year ago. A si milar Mljb

came up in the House, on second reaa

ing, during the afternoon, and after t ing very thoroughly discussed waj; pa sed to, engrossment. Many of the " :.' Representatives opposed the' appropria f tion. Mr. Cullen felt confident the leg! ielators would set a bad precedent if it J

paid the indebtedness. He was opposed to appropriating the money because he did not think the board should

have purchased the land until it had j the money to pay for it. Besides, hB . -thought the people of the State were not generally interested in the State fair. r; charged that the fair and a few fat ont cers of the State board had been kept ujp :;

by tne state wnen pniy maianapoiia , - . was benefited; Mr. Work disagreed ; with Mr. Cullen. i He said he lived in .V-"" the extreme southern part of the State, 'n,' and he knew the people there were int ? . i7 terested in seeing the State fair prosper, " . - . He thought every citizen of the State '". should feel an interest in the success of : ? : the fair, and that the Legislature should .: ; - not hesitate to come to tne relief of the w board. The bill will probably- becomea f;; "" law. this week. .':i;t:. ' .,,!?. ; . . ; 7Senator Barrett's bill on trusts passed W by the Senate Monday provide. ,r.; that all trusts, pool?, contracts, arrangements or combinations now existing or . ; hereafter made between persons or co- .. porations, . of between any person it . , ? persons and one or more corporations,5 : z

maae witn a view, or wmco teaa to ; prevent full and free competition in tho . production, manufacture or eale of anyarticle of domestic : growth, production ? or manufacture, or iri the : importation, . . transportation .or sale of : any . articl grown, produced or manufactured ih ' any other State or country; or which; are designed to . tend to fixV vregai late, limit or reduce the price of any--article of growth, production or tnanu facture, or which are designed or tend vv in any .way to create a monopoly are declared to be conspiracies to . defraud, to ba - unlawful, r JBgainst . s Eublic policy xad vpidr " The' : ill then provides that bucK per sons entering into, or continuing ini ; such trust, pool, etc., either on his; pwa ? account, or an agent or an attorney fort another, or as an office agent, 'or stockf holder of any corporation, shall beguilty of a conspiracy to defraud, and 6m4 conviction shall be fined not . less than . $1,000 nor more than $10, 00, and shall beimprisoned for not less t han two. nor" more than five years. Section 3 ? prov videc hat ail persons and corporationa-iV and the officers and stockholders ; of ftUt corporations that shall become' or con;-t J tinue to be members of, or in any way.-!" connected with or concerned in, any '. trust, pool, etc., shall be Jointly and

severally liable to pay all tho debta.

obligations and liabilities of each

every person and corporation that may

become or continue a member. tnereoft connected therewith or ; concerned -therein, as fully as if all were partners in v the creation oi such- debts, obligations'

THE NEW YOKK STRIKE.

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Reports from the New York strike oft

the 2d, indicate that the strikers werervr

rapidly loeinir ground and were resort- ' ;

ing to violence while the cars", were be ; ginning to move with considerable reg-

ularity. . Amongst the applicants for

work at the Second aven ue depot wasi . ;

Ehrich Dasher. The , strikers met him ;

two blocks from the depot, blacked both ' ; I

his eyes and cut his head badly, The

police did not succeed in arresting hia

ussuuau ta. 4. uere were least u. .

people on the avenue wuhm sight of the; depot. later t he trouble assumed sucfc,

proportions that fyelp was summoned from Police Stations. A patrol wagon ,

containing a Sergeant ; and ten men.

drove at full speed to the scene and succeeded in clearing the avenue from

Nintieth to One nunoredth streets..-

Pennsylvania

England West Virginia,... ....

France. -.,

Minnesota........... 1 I Kentucky 3l has another el ai m Legislature to al

Connoeticutv. 1 Michigai 3

Ireltntl.. 2

Canada 2

Mnsaichnseits 1

Mrs. Edwin Mav

thatsho will ask the

low. 'The construction of the Michigan City Prison was superintended by her husband in 1801, but he received no pay for his work, as the State was at that time heavily in debti and without fundsInstwJ h wagiyiu a certificate of in

Thomas Miller was roughly handled by

the strikers at the Eighth avenue stables &r

when he caned to apply for work. He -was taken home with his head " cnt? Three dr zen hammer handles were pu - fjl: chased by strikers at a Ninth avenue -store. Rioting broke out again oh - Sec- t ond avenue later, Tho police had the-v 4; mastery, but the situation wos critical, ":. 4 Mam' persons were iniured. There was -

trouble also on Fourth avenne, fhere

rioter was snot oy a policeman, xne

mob was then dispersed.,, ? ?a H. Tbe strike of. the New York street car employes was dec'ared off on tho; 6th

the Etnkers yielding , to the inevitable. The loss to the men' is estimated at

$100,000 and, to the. companies at50.V :- 000.; ; . ( , ;; J, F. Sullivan, the clerk of Jion? county, who failed, last week, for probi ably $75,00i, has fled to Canada. Hisi ; : accounts are in bad shape and man vi hearts will ache. His flight is due to the fact of his having issued a target:' amount of fraudulent warehouse ceipts. Sullivan wras one of the men iht; . dieted for tho tally sheet forgeries, and his trial : ftovlimt'-M l&.OQO.