Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 21, Bloomington, Monroe County, 20 September 1884 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTER E BRABFUTE, - - PuBUHHSa

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

Tn Directors of the suspended National Bank of New Jersey slate thai the capital is intact, and that the ooacern is ready to resume business when the requisite for nudities have been complied with.... A kettle of varnish jn Cragin s japan works at Brooklyn caught fire and extended, burning one man to a crisp and fatally scalding four others. The fire resulting caused a damage of $3,000. Thb Edgar Thompson Steel Company, at Pittsburgh, last week notified the empieces that unless they accepted a reductumta wages the mills would be closed. There is great distress in Pittsburgh because of the number of factories and mills now idle, and the appropriation for out door relief is already exhausted, witt six months yet to run. . . . The sugar-refining firm of Burger, Hurlbut Livingston, of New York, has made an assignment, giving preferences for about $120,000,... The Coroners of New York reported twenty-five sudden deaths caused by the excessive heat Thb examiner of the New Brunswick (N. J.) Bank reports a surplus of $48,000, after deducting the $220,000 deficit of tne Cashier and President. . . .The failure is reported of Stafford & Co., cotton-goods manufacturers of Providence and Fall Hirer, with debts of $250,000 in the former city alone. Thokas MoKeok, a desperado of the oil regions, walked into a bank at Eldred, Pa., kept the cashier and teller quiet by means of a cocked revolver, and walked out with $200 in currency Robert Hoe, senior member of the well known printing press firm of B. Hoe & Co., died at New York, aged 74,

THE WEST.

Nrab Lanark, HL, a passenger and an express train came in collision, wrecking both engines and several cars. In the express train were Sitting Bull and other Sioux Indians en route to Chicago, but all escaped uninjured, while only a few of the other travelers received slight bruises William Collison, a telegraph operator on duty in the Hocking Valley Mines, was mistaken for a striker engaged in firing a hopper, and was shot dead !y one of the militiamen on guard. ? Eau CukiSH (Wis.) 'iispitch: The flood ravages at Eau Claire a re ovsr. The highest mark registered was twenty-seven feet, being four feet higher than the flood of 1880. The current moved at the rate of eight miles an hour. The dams held out well except the one in the north fork of the Eau Claire. The Dells dam was crushed by the great pressure of 50,000,000 feet of logs. The loss in the immediate vicinity of Eau Claire is estimated at $500,000, and the entire loss in the Chippewa Valley at $4,000,000. Half a million feet of logs broke from the boom near the Eddy mills and floated down stream. The booms on Paint Creek, a tributary of the Chippewa Biver, went out late last night, and the water in the Chippewa Biver rose rapidly. This, with the floating logs, carried away the upper bridge of the Wisconsin Central at Chippewa Falls, and also the lower bridge between there and this city. The Milwaukee and St Paul bridge and all the city bridges here, and the city bridge at Chippewa Falls, are all carried away. Every bridge on the Chippewa has gone out-five railroad bridges and five wagon bridges. In this city the loss 4s appalling. No satisfactory estimate can be made at this time. In and between Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire the loos will not fall short of $3,500,000, and it may greatly exceed Oat sum. In this city over two hundred houses have been swept away. Only one life lost so far as heard from. A liAD named Montgomery went hunting with a friend at Salineville, Ohio. Getting some distance away, he covered himself with leaves to have a joke. The sportsman heard the rustling; supposed it was caused by a pheasant, and emptied his shot-gun into the cunning fellow Sieberling's flour mill at Akron, Ohio, was wrecked by lightning and wind, involving a loss of about $25,000. E. J. SAlff A Co.'s woolen mill at Portsmonth, Ohio, waa burned, involving $30,000 loss. A block of stores at Midland, Ontario, was consumed, the loss reaching $30,000. A $100,000 fire occurred at Pierre, Dakota; the First National Bank Building and several stores were destroyed Benjamin Johnson, colored, was hanged at Cincinnati for complicity in the murder of Beverly Taylor, his wife, and their little rid at Avendale, near that city. Frank Hatchings was hanged at San Francisco for murder. ...J. O. Hatteman, engines and mill machinery at St Louis, has made an assignment.

As Indianapolis dispatch says of the Blaine-SewtittiZ libel suit: " Senator Harrison, Mr. Blaine's leading counsel in the libel suit, unqualifiedly denies the statements of specials from here reporting him as saying he had proposed to the Sentinel attorneys to give a bond to produce Mr. Blaine m court in person within a week provided the Sentinel would agree to an immediate trial. Mr. Harrison says: 'I had no interview with any one about it When I was approached by repeaters. I always said that I was not trying my case in the newspapers. I said nothing of that kind.' The present stay of proceedings in the suit is owing to Mr. Blaine's attorneys' objections to the rule requiring Blaine to answer interrogatories propounded to Mr. Blaine by the defendant, Mr. Shoemaker, publisher of The Sentinel, reprints his proposition that, if Mr. Blaine will trzuthfully and without evasion answer the interrogatories, he will agree to submit the case to a jury without further evidence or any argument Inthe Blaine-ffeitfrnel libel suit at Indianapolis, cm the 13th inst, Judge Woods declined to rule that the plaintiff must answer the interrogatories submitted by the defendants. Senator Harrison, however, stated that the questions would be answered, but refused to state at what tipae.

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It has developed at Louisville that the cotton factors, Payre, Viley & Co., who failed afew days ago, had been swindling the banks by hypothecating warehouse receipts for goods which they did not possess. These swindling operations have been carried on for two years, and the stealings are said to amount to $144,000, thaif United States Bank of New being victimized for $67,500

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Tenn., has suspended. The assets are said to be $200,000, and deposits about $100,000. Tbe latter will all bo paid, it is said, and the stockholders will receive but 50 per cent. ... Oklahoma Payne was released on $1,000 bail at Fort Smith, Ark., and seven of his followers were set free. Evan An&KUTT, a lawyer, died at the Anchorage Asylum at Louisville, from the effects of injuries inflicted by the guards of the1 institution and from lack of medical attention. The guards who beat Mr. Allnutt have fled. . . .Two convicts were beaten to death at the water-works reservoir, near Lexington, Hy., by their guards. The last spike on the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Boad was driven on the 11th inst, at a point about 100 miles south of Memphis. WniLiAH Vales, a street railroad watchman at Augusta, 6a., was murdered the other night, and the body saturated with oil, set on fire, and partly consumed. A desk in the office was robbed oil $38. The intent of the murderers was to destroy the building by fire, but Vales blood quenched the flames. The citizens of Hot Springs will present their claims for the Soldiers' .Home to be erected west of the Mississippi at a cost of $250,000. The three existing institutions are in the oold belt, and the soft climate of Arkansas will be urged for all it is worth.

WASHiivcaroiiu A policeman in Washington, named Fowler, was shot dead with his own revolver by a colored member of the chaingang, named John Langster. J. H. Sqxjieb, a Washington, D. C, banker, who failed some time ago, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a penknife. POLITICAL. Ik the Democratic State Convention of Wisconsin, Nicholas DT Fratf; was nominated for Governor, A. C. Parkinson for Lieutenant Governor, and Hugh Gallagher for Secretary of State. Resolutions were adopted for the semi -annual examination of State banks and demanding the abolition of the prison-contract system. The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts, to the number of six hundred, gathered in Boston, and nominated Presi dent Seelye, of Amherst College, for Governor, and Henry Faxon for Lieutenant-Governor. Both are Independent Republicans. The Greenbackers of Connecticut nominated

James L. Curtis for Governor, and'

adopted resolutions for a secret ballot and against prison labor. Larkin D. Mason was nominated by the Prohibitionists for Governor of New Hampshire. He is 73 years of age and was one of the founders of the Republican party. The Democrats of New Hampshire nominated John M. Hill for Governor. After two days' deliberation the Nebraska State Committee of Anti-Monopolists and Greenbackers agreed to fuse with the Democrats. .... The miners on strike in the Hocking Valley of Ohio, who have always been Republicans on the tariff issue, are organizing Butler and West clubs, and threaten to go over bodily..,. The material of the Kansas Prohibitionist, the St John organ at Leavenworth, has been seized for debt Nominations for Congress were made by the different parties during the week as follows: William McAdoo, Democrat, 7th New Jersey District; Sebastian Brown, republican, 4th Maryland; Francis B. Hayes, Republican, 5th Massachusetts; Jacob Gallingor, Bepubllcan, 2d Mew Hampshire; Gen. J. C. Black, Democrat. 15th Illinois; B, M. La Follette, Republican, 3d Wisconsin ; B. F. Frederick, Democrat, Sthlowa; Poindexter'Dnnn, Democrat, 1st Arkansas; Wm. C. Maybury, Democrat. 1st Michigan; C. T. Gallagher, Bepubllcan, 4th Massachusetts; L. H. Weller, Democrat and Greenbaeker, 4th Iowa; Carlton Hunt, Reform Democrat, 1st "Louisiana; E. W. Armstrong, Republican, Washington Territory: George E. Adams, Republican, 4th Illinois; J. W. Throckmorton, Democrat, 6th Texas; C. P. Head, Democrat. Arizona Territory: E. J. Gay, Democrat, 3d Louisiana; J. S. Henderson, Democrat, 3d North Carolina;

rL N. Bickle, Democrat, 7th Kansas; A-.K. Wilscr. Republican, 5th Kentucky; R. P.1 Bland, Democrat. 11th Missouri: W. J, Nicholson.

Greenback, 2d Kansas; D. R. Pcige, Democrat, 30th Ohio; C, H. Allen, Republican, 8th Massachusetts; W. W. Rice, Republican, 10th Massachusetts; W. N. Norville, Republican, 7th Mis soori; 8. . Payne. Republican, 27th New York; J. P. Buck, Republican, 1st Connecticut; E. F. Stone, Republican, 7th Massachusetts; T. B. Needles, Republican, 18th Illinois; Heman Iiehlbach, Republican, 6th New Jersey;' J. S. George, Democrat, 2d New Hampshire; A. A. Camahan, Democrat, 5th Eansiis; Henry Cabot IiOdge, Republican. 6th Massachusetts; W. C, Pusey, Democrat, 9th Iowa; M. A. Hynes, Republican, 1st New Hampshire; J. A. Warder, Republican, 5th Tennessee: J. W. Taylor, Democrat, 8th Tennessee ; J. J. Lanihan, Democrat, 3d Iowa ; James Buchanan, Republican, 2d New Jersey; O. B. Thomas Republican, 7th Wisconsin; W. T. Shaw, Republican, 2d Iowfv; Rev. A. N. Alcott, Prohibitionist, 4th Michigan; W. E. Gunny, Greenbaeker, 2d Missouri; J. F. Jordan, Green backer, 3d Missouri; J. B. Rector, Republican, 10th Texas; Ij.F. McKinney democrat, 1st New Hampshire; Zachary Taylor, Republican, 10th Tennessee; A. B. Irion, Democrat, 6th Louisiana; J. Floyd King and Charles J. Boatner, Democrats (owing to a split), 5th Louisiana; L. B, Caswell, Jr., Republican, 1st Wisconsin; W. C. Edsell, Prohibitionist, 5th Michigan. A meeting of the Tammany Hall General Committee, called for the purpose of determining what action should be taken in the pending Presidential contest, was held on the evening of Sept. 12. The ball was crowded with spectators. John Kelly called the meeting to order, and ex-Senator Foster was made Chairman. After dwelling upon the ancient history of Tammany Hall,

how it has never swerved from its allegi-'

ance to the Democratic party nor faltered in its support of the candidates nominated and in the principles enunciated from the platform of the National Democratic Conventions, the report says that in respect to the candidates now before the Democracy of the nation: "We acquiesce in the will of the majority of the representatives of the party, although we believe that will to have been unwisely expressed. There is but one alternative left to us to sever our connection with the Democratic party. This we cannot and will not do." The address goes on to criticise some of Gov. Cleveland's vetoes, recounts the contests of the sachems in past Presidential contests, and the harsh treatment in the Chicago convention, and concludes with the following: "Resolved, That we, the Democratic-republican General Committee of the city and county of New York, in Tammany Hall assembled, hereby ratify and indorse the nominations made by the National Democratic Convention held in Chicago on July 10, 1884 for President, Grovor Cleveland, of New York; for Vice President, Thos. A. Hendricks, of Indiana and hereby pledge ourselves to an earnest and cordial support of the candidates so nominated." The reading of the resolutions was followed with great applause, mingled with hisses. Ex-Senator Grady in a speech bitterly denounced Cleveland, ana in closing his remarks stated that he should support Bfen jamia F. Butler. Gen. Spiiiola advocated the adoption of the resolution in i strong speech. Wm. Burke Cochran followed in an eloquent speech seconding the motion. The calling of the roll on the address and resolution was then proceeded with, and resulted in their adoption by an overwhelm

ing majority. The vote stood 810 yeas, 87 nays. On motion, the vote was made unanimous. The Democratic State Convention of Nebraska met at Omaha ajnd agreed upon an alliance with the Anti-Monopolists. The platform indorses the Chicago platform; denounces the school-land frauds in Nebraska permitted by the Republican administration; commends high license, but denounces prohibition; declares that corporate capital must keep its hands off the reserved rights of the people; that railroads must keep out of politics; that the Legislature has the right to control railroids, and that railroads have no right to control the Legislature. The fpllowing Democrats were nominated on the State ticket: Governor, J. Sterling Morton; Treasurer, Daniel Clancy; Attorney General, C. S. Montgomery; Secretary of State, H, E. Bonestell. The following Anti-Monopolists were nominated: . Lieutenant Governor, L. C. Pase; Auditor, G. Beneke; Commissioner of Public Lancfe and Buildings, Nels Anderson; Superintendent ITxblic Instruction, A, N. Dean; Regent State Uni versify, D. P. Schovilie, Two Democratic and three Butler electors were nominated. ... The Colorado Republican State Convention, after a stormy session of four days, nominated Hon. Ben H. Eaton, of Weld County, for Governor; Peter Breen, of Leadville. fer Lieutenant Governor; and J. G. Synis, of Denver, for Congress. There was great trouble in the convention over contesting delegations, and the contest was the bitterest in the Centennial State's political history. . . . The Nebraska Prohibitionists met in State convention at Lincoln, J. G. Miller was nominated for Governor by acclamation, and H. H. Shedd, the Republican nominee, indorsed for Lieutenant Governor. Five St John representative electors were also nominated. .A dispatch from Portland, Me., says that complete official returns of the Maine election show that the total vote was 140,436 the largest ever cast at any election save one. Robie received 77,779, against 68,070 cast for Redman, Democrat, and 3,147 cast for Eaton, Greenbacker. The constitutional liquor prohibitory amendment is adopted by a majority of over 40,000.

GENERAL

The National Prison Association of the United States met at Saratoga last week. Ex-President Hayes was chosen Chairman. A number of interesting papers were read. The tobacco crop of the United States is now nearly liarvested. It is reported to be the best in quantity and quality that has been raised for years. The crop has been a comparative failure in the tobacco counties of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. . . .Five hundred Mormon immigrants were brought to New York by the 6teamer Wyoming from Liverpool. The immigrants are of the agricultural and mechanical classes. . . . Wednesday, Sept. 10, was the hottest day of the season in the Atlantic States. There were about fifteen deaths from sunstroke at New York, and seven at Philadelphia, The animals at the State Fair in the latter city suffered terribly. The heat was so intense at Pittsburgh that the schools were dismissed. The iron-workers suffered terribly, and there were many cases of prostration. Alfred G. Isaacson, of Montreal, has absconded, and is a defaulter for a large amount, the funds having been intrusted to him for investment. . . .Four students of the Collegiate Institute at St. Catharines, Ont., were drowned in the canal near Port Dalhousie. Business failures for the week numbered 180, against 178 the previous week, and 136 in the corresponding week of 1883. : . . .Bradstreets' report of the condition of trade notes a general improvement, arising from the demand tor autumn goods. Jay GouiiB writes that to pay the taxes, fixeel and sinking-fund charges, the amount due the Government, and a 7 per cent. dividend, requires from the Union Pacific Railroad $950,000 net per month. Up to Jan 1, this year, the road sold 2,425,098 acres of land, equal to $7,421,928 Near White Cloud, Mich., McLane's sawmill, twenty houses occupied by employes, and ft million feet of lumber were destroyed by fire A heavy loss was sustained at Oronago, Missouri, by the burning of the Granby Mining and Smelting Works. . . .The armyworm has destroyed entire fields of rye in Douglas and Leavenworth Counties, Kansas, and is threatening the young winter wheat . . . .Between Capes Race and Freels, Newfoundland, 315 icebergs are drifting southward.

Theke were 721 fresh cases of cholera in the city of Naples on the 10th inst, and 250 deaths. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, up to the above date, 1,100 bodies had been buried in the cholera section of the Naples cemetery. A CABLE dispatch of the 12th inst from Naples says of the cholera ravages: The dreadful epidemic increases hourly in the ferocity of its ravages. King Humbert was yesterday prevented from visiting the poorer quarters of the city. During the last twenty-four hours there have been reported in this city 966 fresh cases and 328 deaths from cholera. In other parts of the province, in the same period, there have been 19 fresh oases and 14 deaths. At Avellino, 3 fresh cases and 2 deaths; at Bergamo, 11 fresh cases and 9 deaths; at Campobasso, 3 fresh cases and 2 deaths; at Caserta, 13 fresh cases and 6 deaths; at tiremona, 2 fresh cases and 3 deaths; at Cuneo, 12 fresh cases end 10 deaths; at Genoa, 36 fresh cases and 21 deaths; at La Spozia, 26 fresh case and 17 deaths; at Carrara, 9 fresh cases and 2 deaths; at Reggio, 2 fresh cases and 1 death; at Novara, Potenza, and Salerno, 1 death in each place. . . .Itis reported that the French have captured Mahonora, in Madagascar, south of Tamatave. Kino Eumbebt of Italy seems to be a prince among kings. He has already contributed $60,000 for the relief of the cholera sufferers in Italy, and, moreover, he has gone among the patients cheering and comforting them. . . .There are now 19,000 French soldiers in Tonquin. SAK FBANCISOO dispatch: wThe San Pablo arrived this evening with Hong Kong dates to Aug. 14, and Yokohama to Aug. 30. Information had reached Canton of a frightful inundation in the Kiang-Sai provinoe. The news was dated from King Tak, the chief center of pottery manufacture and one of the f ourgriat markets of the empire. The floods lasted four days, and the entire country was submerged to a depth of sixty feet Whole towns were swept away. It is believed fully seventy thousand persons perished, and it was feared pestilence would follow." A v:ery bad spirit is manifested by the European continental press toward England. The French newspapers; daily denounce the British, the Hessian journals

indulge in very serious threats, and the German press eulogizes Bismarck for his colonization policy, which is avowedly hostile to England The British Government has shipped to Egypt 1 ,600 pounds of dynamite, with which to force a passage for boats through the cataracts of the Nile. The opinion is expressed by the Army and Navy Gazette that the boats ordered for the expedition are fit only for firewood At a French Cabinet council the Prime Minister stated that China had not declared war. Admiral Courbet was instructed to resume operations at once, and cablegrams show that he has since sailed northward from Matsou with his entire fleet. ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Attorney General of New Jersey has given an opinion that bank presidents and cashiers may serve on the electoral ticket, being simply officers of private corporations, and not United States officials. A BEBEttiiious disposition is being again manifested in the Turkisoh provinces adjoining Greece. A force of 1,000 Turkish troops has been ordered to the frontier. . . . The Italian cities report 280 deaths from cholera, Sept. 13, with 750 fresh cases. Clearing House exchanges the past week $633,831,406 were $50,724,758 less than for the preceding week, and when compared with the corresponding period in 1883 show a decline of 37.7 per cent Five inches of snow fell in Spring Hill and two inches at Truro, N. S., on the 12th inst. By the explosion of the boiler in the Central Railroad compress atEufaula, Ala., four men were killed and several wounded, ten fatally. The compress and about 400 bales of cotton were destroyed, the loss reaching $100,000. There are fears that a number of bodies will be found in the ruins. N. C. Thompson's bank at Bockford, HL, has suspended. The liabilities are said to be about $750,000. Mr. Thompson professes to think that if he is given time to realize on his property he will be able to pay his creditors in full. The failure is said to be due to inability to collect for agricultural implements sent out from the Thompson Manufacturing Company of Bockford. .The boilers in a steam flour mill and cider factory at Morton, Tazewell County, 111., exploded, five persons losing their lives and half a dozen others being fatally hurt or scalded. The disaster was caused by the engineer's carelessness. The financial loss is placed at $10,000. . . . Oliver Dalrymple, who expects to thrash out 600,000 bushels of wheat on his Dakota farm, has arranged to ship it to Buffalo by lake from Duluth, and has secured storage in the former city Frank Jones, who created a commotion with his rifle at Wellington, Kan., was taken from jail and hanged from a gang-plank in the courthouse building. The Methodist Episcopal Conference at Lansing, Mich. , rejected the report of the committee pledging members to support Prohibition candidates, and adpted a resolution which permits voting as conscience may dictate. The Sovereign Grand Lodge of OddFellows was in session at Minneapolis last week. Grand Sire Leech congratulated the order on its prosperity, showing an increase of four grand lodges, 189 subordinate lodges, and 11,875 in lodge memberships during the year. The total relief reached $2,015,832.52, and the revenue is $5,350,041.47. In view of the heavy expense, the Grand Sire recommends biennial sessions of the Sovereign Lodge, instead of annual meetings, as at present.

The Duties of a Servant "Mamma," exclaimed a little girl, running into the house, "me and Willie wanted nurse to sit down and let us puor sand in her back, and she wouldn't." "Certainly not. She did quite right." "Well, that's what you told her she was to do when she first came." "I told her she waa to let you and Willie pour sand down her back?" "Not exactly thatT mamma; but you told her she was to mind the children." New York Sun.

Most fathers know by this time that a diamond pin, a brown-stone house, or even the highest test of respectability an English dog-cart are not guarantees that a man will be a good husband; yet a large majority of marriages are made because of similar superficialities. Freeman's Journal,

It is better to strew the flowers in the pathway of those we love to-day. The dead cannot enjoy their perfume and color. Freeman's Journal.

THE MARKET. NEW YORK BBKVttS $6.50 7.00 Hogs 6.75 S 0.50 FiiOUB Extra 6.00 6.75 Whkat No. 2 Spring 82 .83 No. 2 Red 86 & ,88 Corn No. 2 - 62 & .63 Oats White 35 & .2 Pohk New Mess X7.00 n.60 CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 7.25 Oooa Shipping 6.oo & o.so Common to Fair 4.60 5.50 Hogs 5.75 & 0.50 Floun Fancy White Winter Ex 4.25 $4.75 Good to Choice Spring:. 4.00 4 4.50 Wheat No. 2 Sprung 75 (3 .70 No. 2 Red Winter 77 & .70 Corn No. 2.. 53 (3 .55 Oats No. 2 .24 t& .25 Rye No. 2 53 t$ .55 Barley No. 2 cs .67 Butteh Choice Creamery 22 (3 .24 Fine Dairy 10 .18 Cheese Full Cream .00 3 .10 Skimmecl Flat 05 (3 .06 Eggs Fresh 14 & .15 Potatoes New, per bu 2o .30 Pork Mess 16.50 (417.00 XiABD 07 .07 i4 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red .77 .78 Corn No. 2 54 .55 Oats No. 2 26 & .27 MILWAUKEE. Wheat-No. 2 73 & .74 Corn No. 2 55 c .56 OATS No. 2 28 & .20 Barley No. 2 Spring 60 .62 Pork Mess 16.25 $16.75 Lard 7.00 & 7.25 ST. LOUIS. w Wheat No. 2 76 & .7726 Corn Mixed , 47 .48 OAT3 No, 2 .26 .27 Eve ;... &o -B2 Pork Mesa 16.C0 16,50 CINC1NNATL Wheat No. 2 Rd W 5 -80 Corn & J& Oats Mixed 27 & .2S . Pork Meas 16.60 (17.00 Laud 07 .07 ?$ DETROXT. Flour 6.25 (3 5.75 Wheat No i White 70 & .80 Corn -Mixed M & .54 Oat No. 2 Mixed .27 .30 Pork New Mess laoO 018.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Kod, New 74 3 .76 Corn Mixed... 51 (3 .53 Oats Mixed 25 t .27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle - Best 6.25 ?& fl.75 Fpir 5.75 0 6.25 Common 4.25 v 4.75 Hons 6.00 6.50 Sheep 3.75 j 4.50

TALE OF THE HOTEL REGISTER. Wbat It Reveals to t be 8 indent of Human . Nature. National Characterlatics. The hotel register is an interesting study. The oaligraphy or cacography, as the case may be, furnishes its quota to the store of the student of human nature. The mere registering of one's name is simple enough; but the manner in which it is done, the writing upon the book, of ten tell a tale, however unconscious the writer may be that he is furnishing a paragraph to the observer. Mr. Grandison Bake has been detained down town, toying with chips until his stake has petered out, or has, perhaps, imbibed far too freely to encounter at early morn the partner of his woes and so he registers "Grandison Bake, St, Louis," although a resiident of the city, taking care to make his autograph as illegible as a bad pen

and a shaky hand will enable him to do. He does not deceive the clerk, who stows him away under the roof, as a matter of course. As a rule, Americans register their names simply, without indicating that they have or not a handle to them. The signer may be honorable, major, judge, or colonel, but he does not, in his republican simplicity, see fit to herald his dignities. If with his wife, he registers "and wife," or, "and lady," although some hotels object to this latter designation as too vulgar. The Englishman is more particular, and, when with his better half, inscribes her and himself as "Mr. and Mrs." Each nation has its peculiar handwriting. An agglomeration of thick and thin strokes is characteristically American, while the Briton's strokes are of the same thickness throughout, and consequently more legible. French, Spanish, and Italian handwritings are minute, and often degenerate into an undecipherable scrawl, but all are careful to notify whom it may concern that they are barons or counts. Celebrities of the stage and of the drama seldom contribute to the hotel collection of autographs. "Mme. V0A3 d'Oro and naid" have their names put down by the impresario or by the clerk, wliile Sig. Spafafucile, the great tenor, and equalty great beer drinker, blots the register and draws on it a pattern for crewel work, thus practically illustrating that, although "a beautiful voice is a gift of God," as Mme. Patti i3 wont to inscribe in albums, a tenor's handwriting is assuredly not. American military men are in the habit of merely appending U. S. A, to their names, thus failing to indicate as to their identity. Occasionally some distinguished personage seeks to preserve his or her incognito. An instance of this happened in New York two yeartf ago, when Goldwin Smith, anxious to escape the importunities of the interviewer, baffled the lynx-eyed and keenscented gentry of New Yoik by registering "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." This name being somewhat common, did not attract attention. Chicago News.

What I Know About Book-Agents I have been doing a light jobbing trade in miscellaneous jokes and paragraphs for some time, and h&ve never yet said a word about book-agents. Having a little experience in that line, I am aching to tell it, and it seems to me that my previous good conduct ought to have a palliating effect on this my first offence. But be that as it may am ever going to breathe my experience to the world, now is the accepted time. The grand jury will be in session at Indianapolis next week, and if I wait the opportunity will pass forever. Now, anybody that don't want to heur what I am going to say may get out. I was sitting in the office last week with nothing in particular to do except to scratch the paint off the desk with my boot heels, and expectorate anon in the waste-basket Business was dull duller than a "dull thud" and anything that would help to kill time was welcome. That is why the book-agent wasn't bounced in the first place He said he was a canvasser for the Eureka Encyclopedia. To prove it he showed it to me. I told him that I had one encyclopedia and that I had a faint recollection of using itince long ago in the hallowed days of my youth. "Since then," said I, "whenever I see anything in the papers that I want to remember I cut it out and paste it in my hat Then I keep my old hats on file in the attic, and when I want to find anything I keep the children out of school for a half day and let them hunt for it" The scheme seemed to strike the agent as novel, but ho suggested several of its drawbacks and hitches. I admitted the facts. Then he went on to say you could find anything in his book on a moment's notice. I told him that if one could fand anything in the book I wanted it. "Oh, yos, you could find anything and everything," and he smiled a83uringiy. I op ned one of the books and turned to the letter "P" and then to P-a-t "Here, my friend, you know more about this book than I do, just turn to Patterson William Paterson I want to find who struck him." A troubled look passed over the face of the agent. He said he was sorry, but that wasn't in the book. Then I reminded him of the statement that you could find anything in his great work. He said that was true; you cauld ascertain any thing, but not that kind. I asked him where he drew the line, and he seemed dazed. "Well," said I "how is one to know what questions are to be ruled out?" "Who defeated Hancock?" "Can Hind that?" "Who wr te the 'Bread Winners'? and while you are about it, who wrote 'Beautiful Snow'?" "Is that question according to Hovle?" a "Maybe you can find what the death rate is among the Piute Indians?" ( What's the chemical formula for oleomargarine?" " Where was Moses when the light went out?" "Who was--" . But the book-agent had fled out into the gloaming. He had taken my innocent questions for a rebuff, and his too delicate fend sensitive nature oouid

not stand it Hence his departure into the gloaming. Washington Hatchet A Year Without a Summer. I was a child, 8 years of age, in 1816, and well remember the privations en dured by the settlers in Central New York during that and the succeeding vear. The past winter reminded me of the winter of 1815-16, for it was cold and boisterous. My father had moved into the State from Massachusetts with a large family, and rented s farm in Janesville, Onondaga County. I bad to walk a mile to attend school, so the storms of that long, tedious win ter are firmly impressed on my mind. As the season advanced we bad good yield of maple sugar from a sugar-bush on the farm, so we were supplied with that commodity. And, by the way, farmers in those days were

more skillful in sugaring off than at present. Loaf sugar was at that time $1 a pound, for prices went up during the war of 1812, and were still mainAl A A "I .

btuuuu. vu tuat account mapie sugar in the country was used almost entirelv

for the table and cooking. I have seat it as white and nicely grained as granulated sugar. There was no fruit that season excepting strawberries, which wre sheltered by the clover and grass in the meadows and grew very nearly the size of ordinary cultivated strawberries. We preserved gallons of those berries, and those, with dried apples, were the only sauce I recollect on the table that year. As there were frosts every month in the year, excepting August, the raspberries, currants, gooseberries, and blackberries were all cut off. ' The garden was planted again as the frost killed the vegetables, but after the third planting was frost bitten, it was too late to raise anything. No corn was matured; I do not recollect whether any "set" or not, but when the hogs were shut up to fatten, there was nothing on which to fatten them, and when they were killed there was no lard, and the pork was so lean it had to be fried in butter. My father went forty miles to buy a wagon load of potatoes for winter use. Grass, clover, and wheat did well, so we had plenty of milk, cream, butter, and bread, but when the cow was killed to salt for winter there was no tallow to make candles. There were, of course, no apples, peaches, plums, or pears. Several thunderstorms, accompanied with high winds, prevailed during the summer, and I recollect my father having to brace himself against the outside sitting-room door, and add his strength to the fastenings to prevent it from being blown open. Those were north or northwest winds. There was a fire ea the hearth almost every evening during

that summer, and when the neighbors dropped in to spend the evening the weather was a prolific topic of conver

sation, xne cause ox tne unpropiuous season was believed to be the numerous spots on the sun. T remember well smoking glass over a candle to loo); at the sun many times during the summer. I do not recollect how much of the sun's surface was obscured, but there was sometimes a large spot, which appeared through the smoked glass to be an inch and a half in diameter, and at other times a string of small spots. They were so numerous that smoking, (glass and looking at the sun was cur prudci pal pastime. Rochester Democrat Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer that ever lived in England. Living as he did at the time of Thackeray, he reached a class of readers whom Thackeray could not touch, and judged by the mere test of the income derived from his writings, he js unapproachable. Shakspeare is oonseAraforf hv two ramtnries and a half of

fame, and yet as many people buy Dickens as buy Shakspeare, and for one that reads Shakspeare there are ten that read Dickens; for the truth is, that he had a Shakspearean power of creation. His characters have a newness and vividness that commend them, at a glance to all the world. The best of them, such as Sam Weller and Mr. Pecksniff, have more than this; they have that truthfulness which makes the reader look upon them not as characters in a novel, but as human beings. Besides, Dickens was the first person to bring home to the mind of the Londoners, the incessant flow of tragedy and comedy which was going on around them. "Oliver Twist" did more than a thousand police reports to show the tragedy of London life. "Pickwick in spite of its delightful exaggerations, was true in showing the absurdities and elements of happy comedy that everyday life pre

sents us wun. xnese are peruaps ine reasons of Dickens' success, and to have succeeded as he did ' stamps a man as most remarkable. We need not discuss the question whether his writings will be read in a century hence, nor any, of the similar questions that may suggest themselves. We may forget that this type of perfection, male and female, was not the highest; that he had no perfections of the finer shades of character; that he could not draw a man who was noble without being theatric ol nr a woniftn who was lovini? 4Jniont

being sentimental Let us only remember the good practical work done by "Nicholas Xickelby" and" Oliver Twist" and that more human being) have been taught to laugh by "Pickwick than by any other English book that ever was written. Casseirs Illustrated History of England. It Makes the World Go Bound. He (at the house of a friend) Mav I

have the pleasure of aocompanvimr vou

home, Miss Smith?

She Certainly, Mr. Brown. He (at the door of the Smith man

sion) Good night, my darling. Yon have made me very, very happy.

bhe tiood niffht, Georae. dear.

There, that's enough; vou are rufiline

my hair. Good night

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you think the buttons are sewed on se

curely?" she asked. They are; the boots are supplied with tho oldmaidls wedding buttons, a new invention.1 "Why is it called the 7i nriidls wed ding button?' "liecau-. ' n jr comes

off."