Bloomington Telephone, Volume 15, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 November 1893 — Page 2

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Thb "bloody shirt" has been resurrected. It was found in a carpenter shop at Elkhart It is not known that it will be used for political purposes.

Sleeping car berths are now sold at $4 from Chicago to San Francisco. The stale jokes about the overpowering wealth of Pullman porters will evidently have to be revised.

The question now agitating the public mind to the exclusion of more iraportant matters is: W.I1 Bud Stone fall with a dull sickening thud a other stones do when dropped?"

but the youth insisted that the liquid was nothing but water. An cx-hanp. of contrail ictory remarks ensued, and the boy, to convince t If nether, applied a lighted matca to the wasted fuel. The converv.M of that boy to his mother's vbws on tho subject was quite as sudden as tho change of heart that came over Saul of Tarsus one famous day, for 'Suddenly there shincd round about him alight from" not heaven, but the earth beneath, and he was sadb burned. The fire department came to the rescue and saved the building and the M. Ds will save the boy's life.

'Ha.pfti9 the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold."

A party of grizzly bear hunters from New York city are already snowed in at the head of Clearwater river in Montana, and do not expect to return before spring. No fears are felt for their safetv.

EX-SEXAT03 Fahwsll, of Illinois, !

Continues to brood over the snub he thinks he received from Benjamin Harrison during the latter's Presidential terra, and has given a lengthy interview to the press in which be airs his grievanc3S and exhibits a very sore toe to the public gaze.

Omaha policemen go to church. They even become interested in re ligious services. "One of the Finest" was relieved from duty for remaining too long at the "throne of grace." Such a charge has never been brought against an Indianapolis Knight of the mace. Of late the force of that city have devoted their energies to suppressing the traffic in beer at illegal hours with great success. We are ot informed fully, but perhaps this accounts for the unparalleled epidemic of suicide that has devastated our beautiful capital in the past few weeks. This is a subject for moral philosophers to investigate: What, if any, relation does the suppression of the . illegal sale of spirituous liquors bear to the mania that results in self-destruction?

A scientist has recently disco v- ; ered than the pain we feel when a mosquito bites us is caused by an acid fluid which is injected by the ferocious insect into the wound in rder to thin the blood to a desirable consistency and make it more readily digestible. This is a great achieve- j ment on the part of the scientist. We all like to know what hurts us.

A decision of great interest to rural committees has been recently handed down by the United States Supreme Court, the full bench concurring. The decision establishes the right of any man to prevent a dogfight, and holds that if a psace maker in the canine combat shall receive bites or injuries he may recover damages from the owner of the dog or dogs.

Tub contest waged by St. Louis and Milwaukee at the World's Fair as to which city produced tbe best beer resulted in a disagreement of the judges, and the final settlement of the vexed question was left to the supervisory committee of the national commission. The result is not inappropriate, as everybody knows that the beer business is a "draw" game anyway. The will of the late Mayor Harrison has been probated at Chicago. The estate is valued at $950,000, and is left in equal shares to his four children the amounts advanced in tbe testator's lifetime to tlr je heirs to be deducted from their portions with the exception of $10,000 to be used by the executors in charity. He appoints his two sons and oldest daughter as his executors, and the will is set forth in his own handwriting.

Our own J. W. Riley is said to be superstitious - to a marked degree Recently he arrived at Baltimore at late hour, and after registering at

& hotel the clerk called a colored bell ;

boy, who was cross-eyed, and or- '

dered him to show the guest to room 13. "Not much," said the Hoosier

poet, "I don't allow no cross-eyed

coon to show me to room number 13' As Mr. Riley insisted on it, another boy was called and the superstitious Hoosier was assigned to another room.

Ordinarily to destroy the inherent value of anything renders it worthless. There has been one exception at least found to this rule, ho wever. Four -dollar postage stamps

are said to be coming into use for j

tetters only requiring a two-cent engraving of Columbus discovering "us", the object being to hve them cancelled by a government official, which at once adds a certain fictitious value to the bits of paper in the eyes of the stamp collectors, who are numbered by thousands. The letters bearing the valuable medallion are registered so that the sender may recover them with certainty, A premature youth of Indianapolis recently hurriedly emptied a bucket containing gasoline belonging to his mother out of a back window. His maternal ancestor sharply reprimanded him for his carelessness,

DISRAELI ON BYU3X. Lord Beaconsfleld's Clever Spoooh "We Have All Been Young.' The last time I heard Lord consfield was at Willis' rooms in the days of the old building. We had been called together to consider the advisability of erectiug a statue to Lord Byron, and the platform occupied by several eminent ecesiastics, says the London Sunday Times. There were, to the best of my recollection, an archbishop and two or three bishops and plenty of deans, archdeacons and such small clerical deer. Lord Beaconsfield was received with enthusiasm. He mad a capital speech. I could not hlp contrastieg his style his calm, measured sentences with the dash and go of his great parliamentary rival. As earnestness is the essence of Mr. Gladstone's oratory, so was polished epigram the ''stock" of Disraelli's carefully considered utterances. The great conservative was delightfully calm. He was always dignified, and even when flippant distinctly majestic. I remember that on the occasion to which I refer ho made the point which convulsed the audience tae moment it was understood. "I do not pretend to defend all the faults of the poet s private character. It is, unfortunately, common knowledge that he was a libertine. But then, my lords and gentlemen," said Dizzy, turning to the archbishop, bishops and the, remainder of the clerics, "we have all been young!" The speaker spoke perfectly gravely. For a moment there was silence, and then, when the audience took the point, came a shout of applauses and a roar of laughter. The idea of suggesting the possibility that so eminently a respectable a company might have found themselves in the same boat with the peccadilloes of Lord Byron was too lovely for words. PEOPLE. N. C. Engberg, a Waterloo (Ore.) jeweler, has made a clock the framework of which contains over a thousand pieces of wood, all grown in that vicinity. The body of James Curlin, of Trig;; cou ity, Ky.,lies in a neglected grave, hidden by weeds. Curlin gave tho c unty the proceeds of the sale of his slaves sixty years ago for school purposes.

The railroad car evangelist. Rev. I

Boston Smith, is meeting with great success in the Northwest. Mr. Smith was the first missionary to utilize a railway car as a chapel. The car l.e now uses was built for kirn by John D. Rockefeller and other capitalists, and will seat one hundred persons. The parents of Chang, tho dead Chinese giant, who are now living, are people of only ordinary size, and there was nothing unusual about that of Chang till he had a brief illness in his boyhood, when the growth .set in that gave him a commanding eminence as one of the human curios oi' the time. On the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the house at Ashficld, Massachusetts, in which Professor Charles Eliot Norton spends his summers, one of his guests was Henry Norton, eighty-three years old, who had walked fourteen miles to attend tho dinner which Professor Norton was to give on his lawn to the Farmer s Club. The famous library of the late Mr. Skene (for many years historiographer for Scotland) has just been sold at E linburg. It was one of the best private collections in, Scotland, and remarkably rich in hi&trical, ge lealog'cal and antiquarian works, and in Celtic literature. Mr. Skene inherited the splendid library of his father, Mr. Skene of Rubislaw, the intimate and trusted friend of Sir Walter Scott, but added very largely to it, and was himself a very enthusiastic book-collector.

INDIMA STATE SEWS.

A big oli well lias been struck near Nottingham. Gold diggers aro Hocking into Brown county in droves. Columbus is to havo n now soap factory, on an extorsive scale. Largo, numbers of lino (islnaro boing caught near Vincennes. Noblesville is excited about numerous thefts in Hamilton county. North Manchester is having trouble, to d spose of waterworks bonds. Huntington has a minstrel troupe made up exclusively of local talent. Geo. Clow, inventor of the Clow scythe blade fastener, is dead at Seymour. Peter Carbon, Recorder of Marion county, died at Indianapolis, Thursday. A man living near Metamora is fifty years old and has never had a tooth. Connersville people, are, happy over the prospect of a bountiful supply of gas. Literary clubs in Vermillion county are wrestling with tho great National problems. State Geologist ("rorbv was arrested and lined for drunkenness at Indianapolis, Tuesday. Discovery is made that the new charter of Ft. Wayne docs not mention the oftice of police judge Arrangements have been made to put 50.000 pike in tho lakes of Noble and LaGrange counties. Chas. Well man, a farm hand near Thor ltown, had his hand torn off in a corn busker. Saturday. The family of Conrad Meyers, of Ft. Wayr ato freely of impure cheese, and were dangerously prostrated. A committee has been named at Anderson for the purpose of raising funds to care for tho poor of that town, i The court at Portland was petitioned to appointa receiver for the Salemonia Creamery Company. Liabilities $3,00 1 It is understood that Jason B. Brown will havo determined opposition in his race for the Congressional ronomination. Dr. Leandcr II. Smith, of Lexington, sutferej fatal concussion of the brain in a runaway accident, dying in a short time Alba Crumley, a timber buyer, while in the vicinity of Hiilsboro 'as met by two masked men, who compelled him to disgorge $,'0. Iierschel Smith, a fifteen-year-old lad living in Jirookville, stands 9.x feet four inches. He has grown two inches in the past seven weeks. James Pcrter was shot by his companion at Valparaiso, Saturday, with an old, rusty, didn't-know-it-wus-loadcd revolver. Will die. William Winn and son, lessees of the Nutt Hotel at Crawfordsville, have disappeared leaving numerous creditors to mourn their departure. Luther II. Gorton, of Elkhart county, who shot and wounded Frank Baker, a boy whom he found in bis berry patch, has been fined $ 0 and costs. A lad at Evansvillo threw a ball of burning excelsior into the. air, and it struck Minnro Proctor, twelve years old, in its descent, setting her clothing on lire. She was burned to death. II. Satterwhite, President for twenty years of the First National Bank. Martinsville, resigned from the office, Thursday. He was a victim of Haughey's Indianapolis National Bank deal. A petition is circulating in Daviess county asking the Governor to parole Burr Hawes. who was sent to prison for eight years as an accomplice in tho burning of the Daviess county courthouse. Mr. J. Morgan, living near Jasper, the other day. shot a squirrel that had but one ear. and instead of teeth had four tusks, two from the upper jaw and two 'mm the lower. The tusks were about two inches long. Amos Ileavilon, a wealthy bachelor farmer of Clinton county, is deal. By the nardost of toil he amassed a fortune exceeding SICO.OOO. Recently he gave $35 000 ro Purdue University. Tho deceased was

sixty-five years old.

Philip Peffer, a celebrated fruit-grower f St. Joseph county, a brother of Senator Pelier, of Kansas, is dead. Tho Peffer ,'ruit farm is stiil one of the noted places n northern Indiana. Tho deceased was .iighty-foure years old. Albert T. Pawell,a journeyman carpenter of Kokomo, received notice this week hat he had fallen heir to $10.00.) by the ieath of his grandfather. The notification came through his uncle, A. T. PawII, of Toronto, Canada. Aaron Stevens, a coal miner, of Clinton, vecused members of his family with hidug his pipe and tobacco, and in tho heat f passion he walked into an adjoining oom and committed suicide by shooting jimself through the heart. R. S. Sample, trustee of Vernon townhip. Hancock county, is just completing, t McCordsville, one of tho finest and most omph to four-room school buildings in ho State, The school will open Dec. 3, .vith J. W. Kay in charge. News from tho seat of war at Montte.lo, Friday, brought intelligence of a ;ensational horsewhipping by a maid of hat town, who thus avenged an insultng story, alleged to have been circulated y the lunckless young man. Dr. Salem Tiiford and wife, of Martinsille, both lay dead in their home, Moniay. Dr. Tiiford died Sunday afternoon f heart disease. Mrs. Tiiford died Sunay night of cancer. They leave ten chilren. A double funoral was conducted, Tuesday. The old academy .building at Fayette:U used during recent years for resiience purposes by A. T. Stone, has been lestroyed by fire. Tho academy was founded before the war, and for many ears it was conducted by Prof. K. G. J amble. One of the smallest steamers on the Dhio is the Shawnee, plying as a market boat between Madison and Louisville. )n a recent trip it brought down one thousand rabbits to the Louisville market. The steamer . 35 feet long, 10 feet beam and 3 feet hold. 4 Park r & Jeckell, of Anderson, have patented a balloting machine. There are iifty keys, each one representing the name of a candidate. Kach vote is numbered the same as if by a casli register, and within twenty mum tea after the voting ceases the result can be known. The Culbertson w ill case at New Albany has been compromised. Mrs. French was given iZ 0,!H0 worth of securities, to be deposited with the Union Yru-t Company of Indianapolis, she to receive the income every three months, the balance of her share of 0 0.x) to be pa d in cash. Uhile the family of Frederick Uurgilt,

near Uussiavillo, was absent at church and the old mau was alono at home, three masked men entered and knocked him down, after which they systematically plundered the bouse. Tho spoils exceeded fc00, of which was cash. Judge lirown, of the Marlon county Circuit Court, Monday, decided taat tho act of March 3, 1893, providing that county and town school superintendents shall turn into the Statu treasury the unexpended balance of school funds in their possession, is repugnant to organic law and invalid. Detween 10,0)0 and 12,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Uoyal Center has been leased by oil speculators, and eight or ten wells will be sunk without delay. The best lubricating oil yet discovered is said to underlie this field, and it ii claimed that five barrels of it is worth as much as forty barrels of tho ordinary oil. Daniel Pettorf, of Noblesville, who placed obstructions on the railway traok near that city, and then sat down to see what effect it would have, has been sentenced to fourteen months imprisonment in the Hamilton county jail. No wreck resulted, tho engineer noticing the blockade in time to stop. Tho Richmond Democracy voted for choice of postmaster on Saturday, and John Schwegman polled 870 votes and H. F. Wissier, editor of tho Richmond Sun, 382. John Rolling. ex-Mayor Thistlewaito and Luther Mering, who are also candidates for the same oflice, refused to submit their names to a popular choice. Early Sunday there was an attempt to wreck the. homo of Charles Parker, of Fairmount, with dynamite, but only a portion of tho kitchen was torn away by the explosion. Mr. Parker is the attorney for the anti-saloon people, and ho is. conspicuous in the efforts which tho people of Fairmount are making against the establishment of saloons in their midst and for tho enforcement of the law. The stories of actual starvation in Indianapolis seem to have been exaggerated. A benevolent landlord advertised that he would feed gratis all poor children who would come to his hotel, giving to each a bowl of soup, glass of milk, and all the bread and butter they could cat, hut tho response was surprisingly small. Only an occasionai child called to recoivo his bounty. T. D. Brown & Son, of Crawfordsville, had on exhibition a donble-yolked hen egg, Sl4 inches in circumference. It was the seventy-fourth egg of the kind which had been laid by a Plymouth Rock hen since the last of July, besides which she had hatched two broods of chickens from eggs supplied by other hens. It is said that she has never laid a single-yolkod ogg. Twenty-five orphan boys were shipped from Chicago to work in the factory of the United States Glass Company at (fas City. When the strike came the boys wen left unemployed and became unruly. A few nights ago the manager of a boardinghouse sheltering the buys gave to one of the i boys a merciless Hogging and the citizens thereupon prosecuted him. He was fined a total of $70. The whippet! lad disappeared before the trial and it is supposed that ho was shipped buck to Chicago. Druggist Frank Keller, of Fort Wayne, who si eons over his store, while carrying a lighted caudle in his hand stumbled over a can of gasoline. The gasoline ignited and there was an explosion, which enveloped Mr. Keller in flame. However, he seized thu fragments of the can and threw them outside; meanwhile his younger brother grabbed a blanket and wrapped him from head to foot, smothering the flames. Mr. Keller was badly burned, but he will recover. An incendiary set fire to the barn and other outbuildings belonging to dames C. IJrown, of Lebanon, and with difficulty his handsome residence was saved. The flames spread to tho implement warehou e

of W. T. Ilooten fc Co.. and S. S. Heath aiso lost a barn and outbuilding. The total loss exceeds 2,500. After his acquittal of tiie murder of C. S. Wesner, Mr. Jirown was advised tj take a trip for hi; health and he left on a hunting expedition to Arkansas. En 'mios appear to have taken advantage of his absonco to wreak barm. Patents were, Tuesday, issued to Indiana inventors as follows: M. Alexander, Ireland, fruit gatherer; M. L. liarr, Indianapolis, folding bed; C. XV. Delayney. assignor to J. W. Dysard, Hammond, luru tester; D. M, Forsythe, Franklin, corn planter; J. A. Hadley, assignor of onehalf to R. L. Kennedy, Brazil, flue stop: G. Johnston, Connersvil'e, planing machine for blower pistons; R. V. Lundy, South Hnnd, adjustable track for door hanger; S. H. Maxfield and XV. Snyder, Angola, motor; H. G. Olds. Fort Wayne, washboard: J. Pedopen and A. Melin, assignors to Sholl Steel Whiflletreo Manufacturing Company, Hobart, neck yoke; G. A. Shields, Anderson, safety guard foi rip saw; M. oStegncr, Lebanon, garden cultivator. THE BRAZILIAN REVOLUTION.

"BOSS" OF PilODEYN. Downfall of Hotd Chrcir. Ross McLaughlin, who Is th principal victim of tho recent revolution, has dominated the polit cal affairs of Brooklyn for more than thirty years. He is an old man, having passed three-score years. He is a tin type of tho political leader, and has a genius (or organising and disciplining his fo lowers. He has held tro or three important offices, but 1a much more at home in directing tho efforts of other. He is very wealthy, and polities is more of a f.ul with him t.ian business. Personally he is esteemed for business sgcity and

fair dealing in everything but in politics. As tho political leader of Brooklyn,

which, next to Now York, usually returns

the largest Democratic majority of any city in the State, he enjoys great power, being a member of Senator Hill's cabinet. His tihrewdnes as a politician is manifest by his advice to Senator Hill not to fore

Th Insurgent Believed to Be On Their Last L.eg, A cipher dispatch from Commander Picking waa received at the Navy Department at Washington, Friday, as follows: "Rio, lirazil, Nov. 17, 18J3. 'Secretary of the Navy, Washington: 'Naval representatives of eight nation, Including our nation, havo decided not to permit munitions of war to be landed at Ric. Santos still being in possession o! the Brazilian government, and connecter with Rio by railway, munitions of war for Rio can bo landed at Santos. Yesterdny insurgents dressed ship and tho Brazilian government forts fired national salute in honor of the anniversary of the establishment of tho republic. Picking." The dispatch is believed to indicate that Admiral Mello, in command of the rebei naval forces, is very much crippled, am1 that I'eixotca government will be ablo to maintain control of affairs and suppress tho rebellion in a short time. "LET US HAV PfcACE."

Hugh Onllen, Democrat, and Walter Davis, Republican, two prominent farmer near Valparaiso, got into a dispute ove the recent Ohio election, Saturday, and n tight ensued. Doth men carved eaei other in a most beautiful manner and le fore they could be separated they looket like stuck pigs. Tho Ruokeyo Window Glass Cmnany. located this season by the Albany Dan Company, Monday morning started t blowing glass.

'boss" m'latjghlix. Maynard, tha Stata mach'ne enndidata

j for tho Court of Appeals, on "the voters, i He predicted defeat, but at the same time

was not sufficiently cautious to save him self from the worst drubbing he ever received. He takes the defeat of his ring philosophically, but scorns to treat with the element of his party which brought about his downfall, and is now preparing for a rojrganization of the party.

REPUBLICAN ,;L0VE FEAST."

Enthusiastic Meeting- of Hoosier Republican Leaders The annual "love feast' is something indigenous to tho Republican party of Indiana. No other State in the Union h s anything li'fe it. Tho idea of 40J or 5J0 men. prominent in the business and political life of their own communities, Ratherimr from all parts of tho State, with no nominations to make, with no contests to fiffht, with nothing to dobutextend greeting to each other, exchange sentiments, and renew old acquaintances and make new ones, is something that would be impossible in any State but Indiana. Probably the most enthusiastic meeting of this character ever held in the State met at Indianapolis, Tuesday. A general exchange of ideas, jubilation over the results of the recent election, and joyful anticipation of future victories that all believed wore to be the sure result of ha present conditions, wore the ..order of the occanion. Much speech making was indulged in and a good many "pipes" wero laid for nominations of State otlices in tho campaign of 1834. The corridors of thcDonison Hotel were crowded and the rooms of the Jtate com uittee were literally packed. The principal speeches of the occasion were made by Don. C. W. Fairbanks, Calvin Cowgill and Charles B, Landis, of the Delphi Journal. The meeting wa a great success from a Republican point of view. DEATH OF JERt. M. RUSK.

Ex-Secretary of Agriculture Jeremiah M. Uusk died at Viroqua, Wis., Tuesday. He had bon in bad health for sometime. Jeremiah M. Rusk was born in Mortran county, Ohio, Juno 17, isao. His father was a farmer of small means and could not afford to give him a liberal education. From a farmer's boy he became a hotel keeper and ran. a itago lino. He was

ixDim or EDUCATION School Awards ia tho liberal Arl Department of tbe Fair. School awards in tbe Liberal Art Department for Indiana were an aounced, Nov. 15. as follows: Public schools, South Bend, special science work in physics and chemistry. Public schools, Richmond, writttt class works. St. Augustine cathedral school. Ft Wayne, class work, science, business forms, etc. Public schools, Laporte, written class work. Girls classical school, Indianapolis, school work. St. Augustine academy, Fort Wayne, algebra, philosophy, history, etc. Holy family school, Oldenbero;, ponmauship, bookkeeping, drawings, etc. Immaculate Conception, Olden' berg, HiO vol. orthography, drawings, mythology, chemistry, paints ing. Richard O. Johnson, Indianapolis, photographs, inmates' work, etc. Indianapolis free kindergarten and training school, Indianapolis, drawings, color works, etc. Mrs. Hailman's training, Laporte, work in parquetry. Girls1 classical school, Indianapolis, literary work of pupils. Public schools, Lawrenccburjff written class work. St. Patrick's school, Indianapolis, class work. Indiana educational company, Laporte, public school organization of Indiana. St. Joseph school, Terro Hfltute, geography, language, grammar. Jasper college, Jasper, algebra, geometry, etc. St. Minarod's college, St. Mcinarod, college work, translations, etc Fort Wayne diocese. Port Wayne, printed reports, class work. University of Notre Dame, drawings of university grounds, work in mechanics. Scott city schools, Meiuarod, class work and photos. Public schools, Indianapolis, school work. State of Indiana, Laporte, educational exhibit. Public schools, Indianapolis, special science work in physics, etc. Randolph county schools, Winchest3r, written class work and photos. Union county schools. Cottage Corner, class work and photos. Dubois county schools,, Jasper, written class work. Jasper county schools. Rensalaer, written class work. Wabash county schools. Wabash, written cxrminatiun wok. Clark county schools. Charleston, written class work forUtica schools. Delaware county schools, Muncie, written class work, St. Mary's and seven other schools, New Albany, clas work. Immaculate Conception, Eushville, class wirk. Purdue University. Lafayette, panels of progressive steps in forging, bench work, etc. High schools, Lafavett?. special science work in physics and chemistry. Indiana school for feeble-minded youths. Ft. Wavne, pupils' work. Blind institute. Ft. Wayne, sewing, knittinsr. crocheting, etc. Public schools, Kcnnard, written clas work. Public schools. Lafayette, special penmanship exhibits. Public schools, Terre Haute drawings, diss work. Public scliools, Waterloo, writtea class work. Tippecanoe county schools, Lafayette, written class work and photos. Public schools. West Indianapolis, written class work. Public schools, Tell City, writtea class drawings.

JEKXMIAH M. RUSK. oieetNi sheriff prior to tho war and to the Statu Legislature in 18GL He entered the army in JSti2 and had reached the rank of Hritfadier-Gmieral for gallantry on the .field. Since tho war Mr. Rusk has hold various official positions, serving one term as Governor and filling the soat of Agriculture in Harrison's cabinot. He left a large estate. TOE WlhTK Ml

Possibility That It Will Not II Deatoryed for oae Time, There Is a possibility that tho principal World's Fair hiilMing will bo retained another yar. At a meeting, Tuesday, between the olHeials of the Exposition and member of tho South Park board of commissioner, representatives of the Exposition promised to prepare a schedule of buildings at Jackson Lark which they have the authority to turn over to tho Park commission, and tho latter promised to decide what sum of money they would accept from the Exposition in return for a release from all ordinances, contracts or bond! which relate to the restoration of Jackuon Park to its original condition.

Chinese Hound -Up. Round-ups of contraband Chinese are affording1 exciting diversion for American citizens along the British Columbia border. Gangs of ten or a dozen coolies, conveyed by white men attempting to smuggle them into this country, have recently bioii the object of exciting chases by citizens or officers in the border counties of Washington. A compnny of thirteen Chinese and two whuc men was discovered nearSumas, last week. Citizens gave chase, the two white men opened fire, and in the melee that ensued one Chinaman wit badlv wounded and six wero captured. Several captures of parties of three or four Chinamen from such ba'ids havo been made within a vredk or ten days, A Cool Customer. Texas Sittings. ''Mr. Slowpav. you owe me three week's board. Tiere will have to be a change said a New York land ladv to one of her boarders. 'Have patience, Madame. There will be a change. In seven days more I will owe you four weeks board."

The Rabbits of Australia. A writer says of the rabbits in Australia that for several years in succession tho animals become so scarce as to be quite difficult to obtain, increasing in the; next fw years to so extraordinary extent a? to become the most abundant rna:u mal in the country. After the maximum increase has been attained the rabbits commence to die off, and before many weeks are over their dead bodies strew the woods in al! directions, while a live rabbit is scarcely to be met with.