Bloomington Telephone, Volume 13, Number 33, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 March 1889 — Page 3

HARPER'S FERRY.

The Fat of the Participant In the Famous Raid John Crown's Family. The recent death and burial of Owen Brown, the third son of u Old -John Brown," whose soul has been "marching on" for so many years, recalls the association of the Harper's Ferry raid October, 1859. With Owen, who lived several vears and died near Pasadena, Iios Angeles County, CaL, has gone the last actual participant in the famous attack on chattel slavery in Virginia. There were twenty-three persons acttially connected with the raid, excluding the neighborhood slaves who joined Oapt. Brown. Of the latter it is positively known that some twenty-live acted with the raiders. They all claimed, however, to have been impressed by them. It is understood that about 201) in all were made acquainted, in some -degree, with Brown's enterprise. Six Massachusetts colored men were to parNictate. Only one arrived, and he did . 'not get into the fight. Seventeen of the twenty-three were white and six were colored. Of the party eighteen were killed in the fight or hanged afterwards ;gfive escaped. These were Barclay Coppoe, killed in October, 1861, by the falling of a train through the Platte Abridge, the Hannibal & SI. Joseph Bailroad bridge having been burned by Rebel guerrillas; George Plummer Tidd, soldier in a Massachusetts regiment, who died of fever on a gunboat . -the day in 1862 that Burnside's expedi

tion took Roanoke Island, N. C. ; Francis Jackson Meriam, who served with colored troops till the war closed and went to Mexico to join Juarez in 1865. He fc has not since been heard from. It was his money that finally enabled John Jirown to move. ; Owen Brown was the other white man who escaped. He was 64 years old when he died. His half-brothers. Oliver and Watson, were not quite 21 and 24, respectively, when killed at Harper's Ferry. His own brother, Frederick, was killed at Ossawatomic, Kan., in 1856. There are now living of the Brown family: John Jr., 69, with wife nnd one child; Ruth, now 60 years old, wife of Henry Thompson. Both families live at Put-in -Bay Island, Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie, O. Two brothers of Ruth, William and Dauphin, were killed in the Harper's Ferry raid. Oliver's wife was Ruth's sister. She died soon after her husband. This made seven lost from the Brown and Thompson families. Jason, John Brown's second son, 66 years of age, lives at Pasadena; Salmon, now 53, lives at Red Bank, CaL, as do also Anne, Sarah, and Ellen, his sisters. Their mother died there a few years ago. John E. Cook and Albert Hazlett escaped, but were captured by Pennsylvanians in the Chambersburg Valley and returned to Virginia, where they were executed, Hazlett being hung as William Harrison, a name signed to some letters written by Richard J. Hinton, according to an agreement between him and John H. Kagi. They were found in the famous carpet-bag with John Brown's Provisional Constitution for a free government and other papers. Of the colored men one only escaped. Osborne P. Anderson was a handsome, intelligent mulatto from Canada. He died in Washington in 1869 or 1870. Newby and Anderson were killed during the fighting. Leary, Copeland, and Shields Green were bsnged. A brother oftCopeland was at

the close of the Civil War a Second Lieutenant of Artillery in a battery of colored poldiers. Of those who were actually privy to John Brown's intentions and in a minor degree participated somewhat there are still alive the following persons : I. M. Shadd, of Detroit, colored, who participated in the convention at Chatham, Canada, and Frederick Douglass, who at Chambersburg, Pa., declined to act further with Brown in a movement so audacious and, as he feared, likely to be so barren of good results. There are perhaps half a dozen other colored men who were partially in Brown's confidence. Of the white men there are now living only George D. Gill, who was chosen Secretary of the Treasury at Chatham and was prevented by sickness from being in Virginia. He lives in Kansas, as does Luke F. Parsons, and C. W. Moffett, both early members of the original party. They declined to go to Virginia. Frank B. Sanborn and Prof. Morton were advisers and literary confidants of John Browa. Richard J. Hinton, who tried hard to get to Harper's Ferry from Kansas, is a working journalist in this citv. New York World. " The Chinaman at Home. The possibilities of the future of Asia and of Europe were never more patent than just in this year 1889. This wonderful Empire of China will undergo a great chfpge in the next generation, and the great questions of otQr economic future are to be fought out on Asiatic soil. The day will come when these 400,000,000 of pig-taihid, squint-eyed, Jersey-creamfaced people will enter the manufacturing markets of the world, and with their power of doing as good work as the best of our white-faced, fttraight-eyed 'bers will, on their own soil, be AgTrmidable competitors to Americanlabor than the cheap laborers of Europe have ever been. The Caucasian can never live on from 2 to 10 cents a day, and the Chinaman can save a fortune on what would be starvation to him. I do not believe that the difference in the natural skill and in natural intelligence, or rather intellectual power, is much in our favor, and no thinking man can come to China and not be struck with the imminent danger which the awakening of this great race might bring upon the rest of the world The Chinese who are sent to America are not a fair type of the people here. They are the lowest of the low, and the poorest of the poor. They come from the Southern Provinces of China, where the cHmate is detrimental to manly growth, and if they have alarmed the people of the United States, how much more should these Chinese giants of the North alarm them. There is as much difference between the sections as between England and Italy, or as between the Northern States aud South America. The Chinese I see here arc entirely different from these I saw at San Franisoo. They are taller and stronger.

Many of iihem arc fully six feet huzfe, and ihey are big boned and strohg limbed. They show in their faces different characteristics. They have larger noses and straighter eyes. There are manv noble and intellectual faces anion them, and they have as many different types of features as h&ve our mixed people of the United States. Letter from Peking. Where the Trouble Began. The question, 44 At what period should the training of the child begin ?" lias recently been generally published by the press, accompanied by the answer, With its great-grand parents. " I Perhaps this theory furnishes the

clew to a reason for the ill-health prevailing among the present generation. Against it will no doubt be urged tlu fact that the grandmothers were generally strong, industrious, long-lived persons, who washed, wove, and worked to supply the necessities of pioneer lit. Exactly; they were capable of doing all these tilings, but possibly not able to endure this steady, heavy, indoor labor, and also give strong constitutions to large families of children. Lycurgus, wishing to insure a fine race of sons for Laeedyemon, provided that Spartan maidens, clad in one scant robe should participate in the exorcists of the gymnasia, and engage in some of the athletic contests at Olympia. In many instances the English nobility lias for generations retained a remarkable degree of physical and mental vigor, and the health of English women, as compared with that of our countrywomen, is proverbial, The arrangements of the English domestic life secure to the young simple and natural habits, out-door exercise, particularly long walks regardless of weather, being the rule. Another theory, supported by scientific research, is, that persons who in dulge to excess in alcoholic beverages can never transmit perfectly normal organizations to posterity, but instead bestow, no matter how hidden, a heritage of weakness liable to appear even down to the third and fourth generations. Perhaps, therefore, when fathers are free frcm vice and mothers have learned to choose out-door occupations and recreations, the term ill wUl cease to apply to the health of our daughters. The Voice. Stanley and the African Slave-trade. Probably no man has ever excelled Stanley in his wise treatment of ths Africans. He seems to have a natural instinct of the best way to manage thesa people, who combine great childishness with natural ferocity. Stanley is firm, but kind, considerate, and generous. The natives knpw than he is strong, and they have faith in his honesty and truth. He has managed the savagea with wonderful skill. The slave-traders hate and fear him, and many people have thought that if he were ever surprised and cut off in Africa it would be by the malice of these bad men, who fear for their trade. Stanley, like Livingstone, saw enough of the horrors of the slave-trade to be in deadly earnest to do all that lay in his power to stop it. Tippoo Tib, the Arab trader, has long been a slave-dealer, though he has pretended to give up that horrible traffic since he has bean associated with Stanley. Very likely, if he ever got u chance to go into the, slave-trade again, without being found out, he would do it. And, if Stanley stood in his way,

some men think Tippoo Tib would nob hesitate even to kill Stanley, and so be rid of him. Tippoo Tib is now a very great man in Central Africa. He in enormously rich, and he can raise a force of many thousands of men whenever he has occasion to call for them : It is singular that it should not be thought necessary to send a search expedition for Stanley, Jiiter all that he has done in that direction himself. But Leopold, King of the Belgians, ancl others, devoted friends of Stanley, pro pose to do this very thing, unless newu of the the White Pasha's safety cornea to us. NoaU Brooks, in St. Nicholas.. Martha Took the PaiL Last week I saw an incident thai; forcibly illustrated a growing tendency of "our girls." An old lady, but ft portly one, heavily veiled, came into u street-car and sat a huge, well filled basket down. It chanced to intrudu on the toes of a superbly dressed young; woman opposite. She immediately wan indignant. She abused market baskets roundly, and then abused :he people who earned them. Then she allowed the opinion to escape that people who carried baskets had no business to rido on street-cars. And then she decried against poor people being allowed to ride in every street-car. Some cars, she said, should be reserved for genteel folks. The girl mortified everybody. The veiled lady said not a v?ord until both motioned the driver and the car stopped. "Hold on! Take ;hat pail,'' said the elder lady. Her tormentor looked a moment in astonishment, "Take that pail, Martha, and carry 113 home. This basket is all I can man age' repeated the elder. "Why dicta'i: you tell me who you were, mother ?" asked the crestfallen girl, as she pichii up the basket and went out, while th occupants of the car giggled. St. Louiit Globe-Democrat. Extinction of Plants,. A committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science has reported eighty-five flowers thai have become completely or practically extinct in Scotland. The white waterlily wis curiously found to have been nearly exterminated in the lochs about Dumfries by the ravages of a single individual, who has now been warned off the estates. A plant which existed only in one locality in the country,' the bo; of Methven, was undoubtedly destroyed, by a flock of black gulls which settled in the bog and devoured everything in the shape of vegetation. Another plant, growing in shingle on the Bay of Nigg, was completely exterminated by th use of the shingle fox concrete piers ; and a grass which was confined to a patch near Moray Frith was destroyed by the overturning of a tree. The dis appearance of plants has been largely due to the injudiciousness of botanist. Szo transit An ambulance wagon.

Speak Kindly Why not? Why shouhl not husbands Mid wives, bound together as they are in the most intimate of - all earthly relations, and necessarily in constant interno nrso with each other, consecrate and hallow the sacred relation, and bless themselves, by always using kind words when ihey speak to each other? "Wher is the place for hard words, angry words and words of reproach and bitterness V Such words always leave a sharp sting behind them. They ire not the words of affection, and become neither husband nor wife. They contribute nothing to the happiness of either, aud are the prolific source of a large amount of misery. The husband who abases his wife "by his words, and the wife who naps and snarls at her husband, are nlike untrue to their marital pledge, and really in a very bad way. Such husbands and wives ought at once to repent of their sins against each other, and acquire better affections and better manners. Speak kindly. Why should not parents always speak in this M ay to their children, and why should not children always so speak to their parents? If parents thus speak children will naturally learn do the same thing. The example of the parents will r produce itself in the practice and habits of the children; and the latter will grow up into manhood or womanhood with a gentleness aud softness of manners, and a carefulness in the use of words, that is characteristic of refined and cultivated beings. Authority, when exercised through kind words, is scarcely felt simply as authority. The element of severity is withdrawn from it; and obedience to it is secured by love. Parents who allow themselves to get into fits of passion with their children, and then thunder and storm at them in the language of vehemence and anger, are making a grave mistake in the matter of family government. Such parents need first of all to govern themselves and put their own passions under a healthful restraint. Speak kindly. Why not? Why should not brothers and sisters living in the same house, eating at the same table, and fed and clothed by the same bounty, always speak to each other in this way? By so doing they will minister to each other's happiness, avoid petty quarrels, make home pleasant, cultivate good affections, gratify their affections and pleas God. As they become men and women they will be scattered hither and thither; and when thus scattered, it will be pleasant for them to look back to their childhood days, and remember that their intercourse with one another was kindly and affectionate. The friendship then formed will follow them through life. Yes, spek kindly. Why not ? Why should not men who are associated together in business study and practice the law of kind words toward each other? Why should not the master speak kindly to his servants? Why should not one speak kindly to a stranger who may ask him a question ? Whv should not those who differ in opinion address each otter in the use of respectful and kindly words ? Why should not those who oppose moral evil temper their language with the law of kindness in the form of utterance ? Why should not the minister of the gospel, the doctor and the nurse in the sick-room, the buyer and seller, the banker and the merchant, the governor and the governed, the judge on his bench, the warden of a prison, and, indeed, every man and every woman, on all occasions, in all circumstances, and under all provocations, both study and practice the law of kind words in the total intercourse of life from the oradle to the grave? The Independent.

Cruelty to a Poet. The suit for divorce instituted by Mr. Earl Marble, of San Francisco, against his wife, of Boston, on the ground of mental crueltv, will be watched with thrillful interest by all who hold literature dear. In his complaint Mr. Marble set3 forth that he is a poet. His lyrics have adorned the Century Magazine and made the pages of the Atlantic Monthly musical and romantic. While pursuing his rhythmic avocation, ho avers, it was Mrs. Marble's iconoclastic habit to stride up and down his study, interrupt his flow of thoughts with expostulations pitched in a shrill and earpiercing key, and on bitter cold nights she would invade his shivering dreams, drag the blankets from the bed and compel him both to listen to what she had to say and to dance away the sad, dark hours in . a blue and loathsome chill. All this, he delares, has perturbed his fancy, made his imagination bilious, and impaired his sense of euphony to a degree little short of absolute ruin, and he therefore prays for relief. This is doubtless a most just cause. The producers of magazine songs should be entitled to protection while incubating, and the truly loving and appreciative wife of a poet would comb his hair with a piano-stool while he is soulfully trying to make "Bismarck rhyme with "concatenation" or make hideous his night of sleepless toil when he is endeavoring to compress nineteen great and globular thoughts of spring into a triolet for which he only expects to receive $3. The public must have poetry, and marriage must not be allowed to hamper its flow. New laws should at once be passed exempting poets from the family tie, and no fears that the change could possibly make magazine verse worse than, it has been

and is could for a moment be honestly

entertained. New York World.

Queer Mistakes of Paris Experts, The annals of the Hotel Drouot abound in stories of the queer mistakes made by so-called experts; how one mistook the title of a picture, "Salvator Mundi," for the name of a "Venetian painter,

rival of Salvator Rosa;" how another

attributed to Velasquez, who died in

ItitiO, a portrait of Louis XV., who was born in 1710; how another offered a picture of a woman washing .dishes as a Portrait of Rubens' Wife, by himself," and volunteered the explanation that, "as everybody knew, Kubens married his cook." The men who are at the head of their profession are incapable af such gross ignorance as this ; nevertheless, even experts of the highest grade aie fallible. Thus quite rftaentiy

an eminent Parisian dealer offered without hesitation 30,000 francs for an antique Persian mosque lam), fabricated a few years ago at Vaugirard by the famous Brocart; and still more recently the most eminent expert in Pans asked in a sale the modest sum of 100 francs for a hawthorn pot which, to his astonishment, sold for 4,(500 francs, and afterward went to England, where it was resold to a New lork collector for i.dOO. Theoilpve Child, in Harper? Mag a sine. if llofc.il and Princely Dinners. In our day royal households keep a comparatively less sumptuous table than many private individuals. Queen Victoria is fond oi Scotch cookery, and commences her ronasta with oatmeal broth and cream porridge. She drinks pale Domech sherry from a silver cup of marvelously delicate workmanship that originally belo-igod to Queen Anne. The Queen's dinner in the eveniug is complete. The table is lightel by golden candelabra holding wax candles, and masses of orchids placed in epergnes reach up to the ceiling. Her Majesty eats a special kind of meal bread highly baked iu a square loaf. The Queen of Sweden keeps a tempting table. Soup, nearly always clotted cream and barley; steak, and one of li3i favorite dishes, balls of hushed meat, cooked in oil and surrounded by poached eggs. Then at almost every meal follows the national and natural viand, salmon preserved in the earth. At the German Court tho Grand Duchess of Baden keeps the most refined table. She has a French cook and the best of French cuisine, a little too white, perhaps, too many dumplings aud jellies, but still a refined kitchen, and excellent wines. The Grand Duchess makes her own coffee in a Russian coffee-pot of enameled gold. The Empress Victoria lives in English style, and added a great deal of milk to her cookery when the first symptoms of the Crown Prince's illness appeared. She has a preference for mashed vegetables, with gravy and pastry of every kind. In Italy the Court dines at a table covered with magnificent hammered gold plate, the only luxury visable. There are no flowers, and the iishes of the country prevail, especially the fritto, a mixture of artichokes, hearts, liver, brains, and cock's combs. At thOomte de Paris' tl.e cuisine is English and bourgeoise. The peculiar feature is that soup is served at luncheon.. The wines are Asti, Zucco, and Pontet-Canet. In the morning English and in the evening French silver plate is used. The Due d'Aumale favors French cookery. Onion soup for lunch, with coarse, almost military bread. One delicacy is permitted, a marvelous kind of cream cheese. Paris Gaulois.

Prices in the Early Gold Mining Days. A man would pay $300 for a horse worth $6 a month before, ride it to the next camp, turn it loose and buy another when he needed one, provided he could scrape from the ground the cost of the animal more easily than he could pay for the feed of one for a week or two. Again, it is related that on the Tulare plains an emigrant sold his cart and a voke of oxen to a Frenchman for $600. The gold was weighed in improvised scales, and the emigrant fancied the Frenchman was cheating him, but said :tiething. On reaching Sutter's Fort he weighed the gold again and found it worth $2,000. Of articles in continual request sales are reported of flour at $00 a barrel, and of sugar, coffee, and pork at $400 for the same bulk. A pick, shovel, tin pan, pair of boots, blankets, a gallon oi whisky brought $100 each. Eggs were $3 each ; drugs in liquid form, $1 a drop pills, $1 each ; a doctor's visit $100 or $50, or nothing; a cook's wages, $25 a day; the hire of a wagon and team, $50 a day ; the hire of a rocker, $150 a day. A box of sardines in 1848 cost at a Colima store $1(5 ; a pound of hard bread, $1 ; a bottle of ale, $8; total, $26 for a moderate luncheon. Bancroft's Callfomia. When the Queen's Head Was Cut Off, Apropos of the recent articles on the amount of feeling experienced by a victim of decapitation the following extract describing the execution of the Queen of Scots from the bulky catalogue will interest scientists ; At last, while one of the executioners held hir streightly with one of his hands, the other ave two strokes with an ax before he did cntt (off) hir head, and yet lefte a little grissle behinde. She made a very small noyse, no part stirred from the place where she laye. Tho executioners lifted upp the head, and bade God save the Queen. Then hir dressinge of laune fell from hir head, which appeared as graye as if ehee had been three-score and ten yearcs olde, powled verv short. Hir face much altred, hiv

lipps stired upp and downs almost a quarter of an hower after hir head was cut off. Pall Mall Gazette. Astonished the Old Man. An old gentleman of Glens Falls who is popular among the boys, and by vir

tue of his intimate relations w:Lth them often proffers advice, one day rt.n across a couple of lads who were smoking clay pipes. "Well, well, boys," said he, with an impressive sigh and solemn manner intended to make the hoys feel the seriousness of the occasion, "I am 70 years old and have never smoked a pipe in my life." "You old fool, you, it's your own fault," replied one of tho pair. The old man was so dreadfully taken aback that he couldn't say another word and left the pair to enjoy their smoke without hearing his intended homily. He tells the joke himself with evident enjoyment. A.lbtnij Journal. The Hunting Season "Pa, I want you to buy me a gun for my birthday." "My son, it is not safe for you to have a gun." "Pa. don't you know that a boy of xr.y size can shoot a gun ?" "Yen, I know that a boy of your sizs can shoot a gun, but I also am aware that by a strange ooncidence. a gun feau shoot a boy about your size." 2V&at Sifting 8

Jndicil Humor. There was much more dignity about the Supreme Court in the dtys of Washington than there is now. Chief Justice Jay wore a black gown with scarlet facings, and William Cashing the man who was appointed his stuccea sor, never appeared without a wig. He was Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts before he was made Associate Justice of the United States, and Flanders, to whom 1 am m ich in debted in this article, tells a story oi the sensation which his wig created when he came to New York to take hi neat on the Supreme Bench. It was in February, 1700, and it seems thirt wigs were not then common among the New York fudges. When Gushing appeared on Broadway he noticed that 1(K boys followed him as though he were the prize elephant of a circus procession. The boys did not cry at him, bu1; their number was augumented at every step. Judge Cushing was at a loss t know the reason of their attention, when a sailor who passed by looked at him and involuntarily exclaimed : 'My eyes! What a wig!" This disgusted the Supreme Court judge, and he went to a barber aad had ins hair arranged in the ordinary style of the day. In that day judges of the Supreme Court wore black silk stockings, knee breeches and buckled shoes. The colonial judges before them wore even more gorgeous, and their black silk gowns were worn over full black suits, with white bands at tho neck, and they had silk bags for their hair. These judges, when murderers wore being tried, wore scarlet robes with black velvet collars and with black velvet facings. Judge Marshall was verv fond of tho classics, and it is said that at the age of 12 he had transcribed the whole of Poe's "Essay on Man." He wis very fond of Milton, Shakspeare, and Dryden, and has attempted poetry himself. During the latter years he read novels with intense interest, ,n.d he would sometimes sit up ail night to finish ono. He had a high admiration for the talents of the other sex, and th3 most beautiful stories of his life arc those connected with hie. wife. He met her when she was but fourteen years old, and it was a case of love at first sight On his marriage, after paying the minister his fee, his sole remaining fortune was a guinea, and this recalls the fact that Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth was married before he ever had a case, and that the married relations of all the Chief Justices have been of the most pleasant character. Salmon P. Chase, who succeeded Taney, was, perhaps, tbe finest looking of the Chief Justices. Tall, well formed and majestic, he had a great dome of a head, a high, broad forehead and bright sparkling eyes. His fiist visit to Washington was to seek a place in the departments, and he applied to his uncle, who was then in the Senate, to secure him an appointment. The old Senator, who understood a great deal mor s about Washington departments than his nephew, promptly refused, and said: "My boy, I will give you a half-dollar to buy a spade to dig your way into something of a plfcce in life, but I will not get you a place in a government office. I have already ruined one or two young men in that way, and am not going 1:0 ruin you. The man who enters the Government service seldom does anything more. He is swallowed up in these departments, and that is the last heard of him." Carpenter, in North American Review.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

A WEEK'S

DOINGS OF O0B

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Rules for Avoiding Collisions. When a train is prevented from arriving on time at its meeting point, we must have some rules by which the opposing train may proceed, or all business on the rbad would bo suspended, by the delay of a single train. Only the general principles of these rules can be stated within limits. They are as follows : First. All freight trains muftt wait indefinitely for all passenger trains. Second. When one train only is behind time, the opposing train of the same class will wait for it a specified time, usually ten minutes, and five minutes more for possible variation of watches, then go ahead, keeping fifteen minutes behind its schedule. Third. But should such a train, run-

RcsolutionH Offered- Bill iRttrftilaeeA Home FaHfWMi kiu! Others U-fffaalad A Summary of the Proceedings,

Feb. 10. In the Senate a high license bill was indefinitely postpouod. Bill passed: Declaratory of the moaning of the word "mining" as embracing petroleum and natural gas; to authorize Boards of Commissioners to negotiate and sell bonds to complete court-houses in certain doses and etc.; to pay eight e -trustees of Clay County for mone3ps lost by failure of a bank in which they deposited public funds; concerning orphans homes aud homes for destitute childrenIn the House the Foster fee and salary bill was discussed at length and passed to engrossment. Bills passed: Depriving the Supreme Court reporter of fees and fixing his salaay at $4,000 per annum; abolishing the office ef President nf nil t.ViA honovnlDiit i not iin f inno nnt'

providing for the election of a separate and distinct board for each institution. Feb. 20. The bill creatiug the Supreme Court Commission was paBsed in the Senate under t he previous question rule enforced by the majority. Senator Boyd then sought to bring up the bill creating the department of geology, but Senator Johnson obtained the

floor and a wrangled ensued. J. he (Jnair

which he devoted to scoring the majority, denouncing the enforcement of . tha rale which prevented the minority front explaining their votes. When the five minutes expired the presiding officer interrupted Johnson, who continued his denunciations. Whereupon the Chair ordered the roll called. Great confusion and excitement prevailed and the Republican Senators gathered about Johnson, who defiantly challenged any doorkeeper to seat him. For a time a free) fight seemed imminent, and when quiet was restored it was announced that v caucus of Republicans would be heML immediately after adjournment. It iff thought all the Republican Senators may decide to resign their seats and leave the Senate without a quorum. A communication was received from tho Governor urging an investigation of tbm affairs of the Insane Asylum at Indianapolis. A joint resolution was adopted to that effect. Iu the House the following billfi were passed: To protect sheep husbandry; to legalize the town of Rensselaer; to appropriate $5,000 for the Soldiers' Orphans' Home; to create the Thirty-third Thirty-fifth, and Fiftieth Judicial Districts; to legalize the acts of the Trustees of the town of Boonville, Ind,; to appropriate money to the Deaf and Dumb Institute; to regulate, insurance companies Ffih 21. Tn tit a TTnnfiA tha Frttr Ia

and selary bill was defeated, A bill wai passed relating to eematery associations In the Senate bills were pastted to refund the State debt at a lower rate of interest; to exempt from examination teachers who have taught for ten years consecutively, and appropriating money to complete and furnish the additional hospital for the insane. Feb. 22. The bill providing for the creation of a Supreme Court Commission was passed over Gov. Hovey's veto, in both branches. The Senate passed the bill depriving, the Governor of the right to appoint a State Geologist; also, a Mine arid Oil Inspector. A bill was parsed regulating the manufacture and sale of dynamite in

Indiana. In the House, Cullen'e temperance bill was indefinitely postponed. Bill passed: To punish "White Gapism; authorising the appointment of a Humane Inspector at Indianapolis and Evansviile. Thirty -three persons, to fill offices recently created, were selected by caucus Feb. 23. A resolution was adopted in the Senate requiring the Committee on Railroads to report the bill referred to it, providing, substantially, that the

or in anv other way should both trains lon and short haul clUBe11f the ftet behind time, then the one as Inch is j state Commerce act should apply to bound in a certain direction for in- j railroad traffic in Indiana. The folrowstanco north has the right to tho track, j ing bills were passed: The school textand the other must lie by indefinitely. I book; to prohibit the explosion of dynaTheijo principles duly observed will mite within 1,200 yards of any ledge ot prevent collisions, but they will often j rock suitable for building purposes.

cause trams to lose a great deal oi time, the train dispatcher, therefore, has authority to handle extra and delayed trains by direct telegraphic order. Gen. E. P. Alexander, in Scribner's.

Jio Presents Received Them. A man in New York State sent a barrel of the finest apples the State could produce to Queen Victoria. There were seven kinds of apples in the barrel. Showing the advance in knowledge that New York men have made (diioe the

without the consent of the owner thereof. House Bills passed: To build sewer for the Prison North; to exempt honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from paying poll tax. Feb. 25. There was a red flag fluttering in the House to-day, and for several seconds there was danger of "bloody gore" so much so that a lady fainted. A bill was under consideration providing for the purchase of ten acres of land

time of Charles Dickens it maybe men- ! "v"xr tioned that this New York man sont tho ?d Foete1f ured th? apples to Windsor Castle and not to the ; Mr' Adftm8 vho VI g to TnwarnfT.nn.lnn wW t.h a W aw York heated discussion, m which the Mlie

politician of "Martin Chuzzlewit" was certain tho Queen lived. In due time the New York man was made happy by receiving a note from the master of the Queen's household Having that the apples had arrived. Next he got a letter from the "Hoard of Green Cloth," Buckingham Place, (laying that the apples wore being used and, tliat while everybody was very glad to get a chance at them, yet it was not customary there

was exchanged frequently. The Speaker ordered the words of both gentlemen taken down. The bill failed to pass bj a vote of 34 nays to 33 ayes. The House took up the Electiou bill, passing it by a vote of 63 to 21. All who voted in th negative were Republicans. The Senate held a brief morning session, passing a bill creating the office o State House Custodian, and engrossing the Kankakee Land Ml. Then it ad-

In the af-

wm,M L nt. tn him. Tn AnH limn Jonrned to see Harmon off.

the paymaster of the household, located teinoon t Pa8sed a bl 11 makin8t P-

at St, James Palace, sent on tho check

and the New York man receipted it to the Lord Steward's Department. Thus the happy man raked in three palaces with one barrel of apples. .Detroit Free Press.

A boy in a Brooklyn school yelled "tire!" just to see what his teacher would do. He found out She licked him until he had to take a weeks vacar taoru

ate Judicial Circuits out of Marion an Hendricks Counties, and ahte the ou reorganizing the Fir and Police Departments of the city and phic ing them under one control. Tie Republicans opposed this bill wit a might and main.

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