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A. NEW YORKER obtained $10,600 from a street car company in the loss of an eye in a collision.

IT IS thought the committee will report favorably on Msj. Rochester's confirmation as Paymaster-General of the army.

IT is said that Judge Taft, of Ohio, will surely get the Berlin Mission and that John C. New, of Indiana, it a possibility for St. Petersburg.

A FAVORABLE report on Senator Harrison's bill, fixing the salary of the Dlstrict Judge for that District of Indiana at $5,000, is expected shortly.

SECRETARY FOLGER does not think Senator Beck's bill will accomplish its object that it will add nothing to the statutes already in force on the subject.

A rrvK thousand-foot memorial is before the Ways and Means Committee asking that the tax on bank deposits and the two-cent stamps on checks be abolished.

AT the forthcoming Parliamentaiy election in Meath the Irish party intend to elect Michael Davitt. Patrick Egan will also be nominated, in order that if Davitt be disqualified Egan may take his 8 seat.

Auxiliary letter carries will be glad to hear that Bingham's bill increasing their pay from $400 to $600 per year is to be reported favorably by the committee. Upon promotion iliey are to receive from $800 to $1000.

THE closure is regarded with distrust and dislike in England. The London Ttmts opposes it. fit will assuredly," says that paper, "degrade the House of Commons and not improbably shatter the liberal party."

The Secretary of the Treasury has submitted a report showing that twenty-nine employes of the Internal Revenue De. partment had been killed and fifty wounded While enforcing the laws against moonshiners.

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THB Denver Tribune says marriageable girls are more numerous than marrying 'men at Denver, adding that the number of attractive young ladies in society there whose fathers are very rich is very large. Young men go West.

DAVID MOUAT, of Philadelphia, one of the now famous "306" delegates who voted tor Grant at the Chicago convention, is temporarily rusticating in the Pennsylvania penitentiary. His medal will be cent in care of the warden..

THE man who expects to adjust the rope around Guiteau's neck is named Robert Strong. He has had enough practice to make him proficient. He says that, although Guiteau seems brave now, he expects to see him die like a cur

THK sentiment in the army is very strongly in favor of Butterworth'a bill for the compulsory retirement of army officers at the age of sixty-two. It is argued that making it compulsory win treat all alike and young and old seem to be alike in favor of it

CoxsiDKBiKo that the British govern. 4- ment feels itself compelled about every third year to suspend the habeas corpus writ in Ireland in Older to govern the

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HAVTHG lost several of their mission school buildings by fire, the Creeks desire to cede 175,000 acres of their reservation to the government, to obtain means to increase their educational facilities. Secretary Kirkwood recommends that the expenditure of $3,000 for surveys be authorized.

RBPBSCBKTATIVE Peele, of Indianapolis, will press to early and favorable consideration his bill, authorizing the Secretary of War to give to the Morton Monument Association of the United States, twelve unserviceable cannon for casting a statue of Oliver P. Morton, to be erect-

ed at Indianapolis.

THE Kentucky Legislature knows all men as liars. The other day a member of the Legislature in all seriousness introduced a bill to make telling a lie an offense punishable by fine. When he saw his bill promptly tabled he expressed in most emphatic terms his disgust at the moral sense of that eminently respectable body. —s—s——•—a

GEH. JAMES WATSOH WEBB, gossiping with a reporter as to his army, diplomatic, and journalistic career, said that in looking back over his life he had con* eluded that he left scenes of peace and quiet for those of strife and warfare when he resigned from the United States army and entered the field of journalism, and yet the old gentleman fought with Indians sixty years ago. &

SUIXIVAN has been challenged DY DICK Eagan, of Troy. The friends of Eagan are confident that he can beat Sullivan easily. Egan was measured yesterday, with the following result: Measurement across the muscle ot the arm, 16% inches calf of the leg, \1% inches thigh, 29 inches hips, 45% inches waist 42inches chest 43$ inches. Egan is 80 years of age and five feet ten inches in height He walks to Albany every day.

Kosovo's Mayor was recently killed while stealing flour frmn a mill the Mayor of Adrian, Michigan, had to run away. Our municipal heads should band together for the protection of their good reputation, for if this sort of thing keeps on it will sadly mar their fair names. One Mayor stealing flour, another one a fugitive from justice—are there any on the rock pile? They must have been keeping Baldwin's company.

STEPS are being taken in committee looking toward the passage of a bankrupt law. We are sadly in need of such a measure. In last week's report of failures it was stated that a large per centage of them smacked of fraud. A bankrupt law is one' of the important questions for the consideration of the present Congress, and it.isto be hoped we may profit by the experience gained under the law which we found it necessary to abolish a fyf yean ago*

AXD now comes defendant benatorjskn Sherman, and saith that it is a lie that he didn't steal any of the contingent fund, and that the recent story of PitBey's recall and submission of letters from him and Mrs. Sherman is a whole* sale lie. THE GAZETTE does not know exactly what sort of lies they all are some are probably wholesale and some retail, but THE GAZETTE really doubts if there has been aDy such thing as a contingent fund investigation at all. The whole thing is probably a lie got up to injure the ex-Secretary. Ut

THB Arkansas Republicans are engag ed in a lively row over the marsh alship of the western district. The others are finding fault with the way in Which exSenator Clayton got control of the State Executive Committee, which is alleged to have been on a bogus letter purporting to have been from Postmaster General James, which stated vhatall appoihtments to federal petitions must have Clayton's approval. With this he second a majority of the committee. Of course this wasnt exactly civil service reform.. but as Clayton is a recognised reformer this was probably a little ^compromise of the means to secure the end

THE Cincinnati Commercial fi bf the opinion that every paper and person in the land ahould scrupulously avoid using the name of the murderer of President Garfield. It say*: "There is a remarkable coincidence of opinion manifest in the action of American journals excluding from their columns, since his conviction and sentence, the name of the murderer of President Garfield. 1 he little wrctch might look over hundreds of newspapers now-a-days without seeing his infamous name. Perhaps there could be no punishment inflicted upon him for the present, more severe than that of turning over a pile of newspapers and seeing himtielf regarded as a dog already dead."

IT i9 estimated, says an exchange, that William H. Yanderbilt will be a billionaire by the close of the present century. At the lowest figures his weallh is put at $165,000,000,or $100,000,000 more than it waa seven years ago. Property, over a certain point, accumulates fast, and it is not improbable Yanderbilt will realize the predictions of those who have made hia progress a study. Enormous as the sum

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THE musical season of 1882 will he marked in the annals of musical England by two colossal Wagneriah Festivals. It seems that Wagner himself is to superintend a complete production of the Ring of the Nibelungen, with which he startled the world at the Bayreuth Festival. The affair ia to take place in May. The play is to last four nights. All the usual society engagements, dinners, parties will have to be suspended, and everyone will be too "done up for any "at homes" on those Sturn^ und Drang" mgbts- .-

THOMAS HENRY NELSQN The reader most not fail to read what' a Washington correspondent has to say of Terre Hante's favorite ancient son, as printed in another column. It is the richest piece of Washington literatuie that has appeared in print for many a day.

Alas, poor Tom!—We all knew him a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne us on his back a thousand times. There are scarcely ten living in this whole city, not over two score and a half years of age, that have not had that joyous ride in the laughing days of infancy. Here hung those lips we all have kissed, we know not how oft Where be your gibes? Vour gambols? Your songs? Your flaehes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar

THE consumption of absinthe is said to be on the increase in England. A chemical examination of this dangerous* beverage shows that it contains a poisonous oil which is very injurious to the nervous system and is called wormwood oil. Other oils, such as peppermint, cW*8, cinnamon and anis seed, areadde flavoring, while the color hi produce .y nettle juice, Bpinach or parsley. Oi.^ of the results of absinthe drinking is a terrible form of epilepsy. An instance ia re corded in whieh a man, who was known to be a large consumer of absinthe, was picked up in a public street in an epileptic fit. His convulsions lasted for four days and four nighte, until death followed During the last five or six hours of life his face turned almost black.

THE American people have been accustomed to look to Europe as the land from whence comes our champagne, claret, broadcloth, and silks. But the dreams of the past are likely to be rudely dispelled. Baltimore and Hoboken have been drawing their supplies of cabbage from Holland since last summer, and now New York is importing potatoes from Ireland. Several vessels have arrived in that city with cargoes of potatoes and now Boston has 700 tons of the tubers on the way, to play secodd fiddle to the pork and beans. Whether the alien product is more ssthetic than its native prototype we have no means of judging, but the feet that they are imported shows that the foreign grown tuber is cheaper than American grown potatoes.

A COBBESFOMDBST of the London Times describes Nihilism as an active force and remarkes that who those Nihilists are no man can. tell nor how numerous they are, to what class of men they belong, of what means they disuse what chiefs they look up to where they have their headquarters. Their work isjonderground like the mole's. Their dif$hbfe ia unsuspected till they break out at the sur face. Hedoes not believe that Nihilism has spoken its last word, notwithstanding the violent measures of the Government. He asserts that the ^mixture of sore dismay and eager expectation it has raised among the people/ must be looked upon as tantamount to adnonic revolution." The correspondent's remedy is, in brief, responsible constitutional government.

IT begins to look as if we should have some legislation on the Mormon question. Representative Willetts, of Michigan, yesterday submitted' to the House the bill agreed on by the Judiciary Committee. The bill ia limited in ita proviaieos and Mr. Willetts explains that more vigorous provisions are in contemplation by the committee. The Mormon question has been growing in importance as the gigantic evil has grown in magnitude. The monster should have been strangled in its infancy, but it has been allowed to grow until it has become a giant evil and can now be subjugated only by the strong arm of the nation. No uncertain or compromise measures must be attempted. Mormonism must go as slavery went, and the sooner the better. Every day's delay makes its eradication the more difficult We paid the price of compromise and delay in dealing with the slavery question. Let us not be so foolish again.

IT seemsfalmost impossible to believe the accounts of the severe injuries from whieh the twain nnjtnfimbs recovers. An instance is related in which a Frenchman drove a dagger through his skull with a mallet, in an attempt to commit suicide. He struck the dajrger about a dosen times. The weapon, which was ton centimetres long and one wide, waa

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nearly embedded. In order fo remove the dagger, the patient was placed on the ground, and while two strong men held his shoulders, the dagger was forcibly pulled with carpenters' pincers, but all to no avail. Strange to say, these prsceedings did not cause any pain, and although patient and assistants were raised off the ground, the weapon remained immovable. At last the man, walking without much difficulty, was taken to a coppersmith, and there the handle of the dagger was fastened by strong pincers to a chain, which was passed over a cylinder turned by steam power. The man was then secured to rings fixed in the ground and the cylinder set gently in. motion, when, after the second turn, the dagger came out JSo pain bad been,suffered by the patient during all these manoeuvres, and after remaining in the hospital for ten days, he returned to his work and the wound gradually healed.

It.: "Is the human skull growing thinner f' is a question raised by Mr. W. B. Cooper who endeavors to prove by generally accepted laws of evolution that such nJfest be the case. These laws teach that the stronger orsanisms must survive the weak in the struggle for life, and that all living creatures possess the natural tendency of becoming accommodated to altered circumstances within certain limits. Mr. Cooper argues that when barbaric warfare and the dangers of the chase were common occurrences the law of natural selection must have operated to elimininate individuals with skulls too weak to withstand the severe shocks to which they were exposed. Adaptation, also, must have exerted an influence in causing the bony armor of .the brain to become thickened to serve as a protection for that delicate organ. With civilized man a change is found. Natural selection no longer has special occasion to remove persons of weak crania, as the skull is seldom exposed to violence. For the ?&me reason the law of adaption, which like all evolutionary laws may be either progressive or retrogressive, tends rather to decrease the skull's thickness than to increase it—the brain no longer having need of a strong protective covering. Men's skulls are now less exposed to violence than at any former period in the world's feistoiy, but, in view of the fact that the moat advanced races of to-day, were barbarians a few centuries ago, it is obviously too early too look for any great change. He maintains, however, that in accordance with theory the brain must be fast loosing its shield, and points out that it is no unusual event nowadays to hear of fractures ascribed to the unusual thinness of the skull.

THE Tammany members of the New York Legislature surrendered unconditionally to the regular Democracy, and the deacMock in that body was at once at an end. Before midsummer John Kelly will be deposed from the leader ship of Tammany Hall and ejected from its councils. This is a bad era for bosses of all kinds, particularly for dishonest bosses who use politics to fill their pockets with publtc plunder.

Patrick Shannon ahould read the hand writing on the wall. He must hand over the money of Vigo county he wrongfully retains, and, what more to the purpose, he must understand, once for all, that no man who will have him on his bond,, or keep public funds in his bank, or permit him to use the offices tor his personal aggrandizement will ever again be elected to office in this county. Nominations by ten cbnventions could not induce the people of this county ever again to elect a man to office who would permit Patrick Shannoa to use the office, keep the money, tangle up affairs and leave a vexatious law suit to make him disgorge as a legacy to an outraged community. This is to be understood once for all THB GAZETTE proposes to keep this community posted on the doings of Patrick Shannon and his creatures from this time henceforth and forever.

LOOK YOU UPON THIB PICTURE, AND ON THIS. Mr. Patrick Shannon is storming mnd fuming as if he were possessed of devils and expected to die of apoplexy at any moment. 1. fv -:J

His gigantic misfortune is that some infernal thief took $1,500 of money from hia bank.

In contemplating hia loss of $1,500 and by analyzing {hia feelings towards the thief or thieves Mr. Shannon can comprehend the height and depth, the length and breadth and everlasting strength of the general detestation tor him entertained by the people of Vigo county, whom, only recently, he plundered, or tried to plunder, out of $500 more than this thief took from his bank.

But then this thief ran away, and is skulking and hiding from the eyes of men. Mr. Shannon is fighting the county and the courts about its money, and he is the editor of a paper that he can not sell, and he appeals through its columns for the patronage and support of the people whom he haa outraged.

This $1,500 thief if caught, will be tried, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. He ought to be in the penitentiary. He stole money that was not his and that is a crime and should he punished. It iathe duty of every honest citizen to try to catch and incarcerate

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It is the duty of the community te hunt the $1,500 thief down actively and persistently and to teach him by word and look that he no longer is entitled to the respect ot an honest man. The $2,000 plunderer needs attention, too. The community must care as much {or ita money as does Patrick Shannon for his.

This $1,500 thief did not know Mr. Patrick Shannon and stole as trom a stranger. Mr. Patrick Shannon took and kept $2,000 of money belonging to the people of this community which has protected him in bis possessions all his life, and is even now applying all the machinery of the police to catch the thief who stole from him.

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THB WABASH AND ITS IMPROVEMENTS. The GAZETTE is in receipt of the annual report upon the improvement of the Wabash river for theyear 1881, which has been in charge of Jared A. Smith, Major of Engineers, U. 8. A., and finds it a very valuable book, containing many valuable features relative to river improvements. Although the space cannot be spared for the report to be printed in full we print a few of the main points. "Wabash river: The improvements upon this river have made navigable, at all stages of water, a considerable portion or the river where for years before no navigation had been practicable, save at very high stages* The channel had been obstructed oj reefs, snsgs and bars, and it was narrow, crooked, and uncertain.

The river has recently come into extensive use in transporting the products of adjacent countiea, thus benefitting and developing the resourses of its valley.

All the work has been done by hired labor, and purchases of material in open market. This method has been followed for the reason that the removal of snags and most of the other work could not be done satisfactorily by other means, and also because meat of the works are too small in extent and insolated in location to attract any competition among reliable contractors.

A record of the expense of each improvement haa been carefally kept, and wherever an opportunity has occurred for comparison with work done by contract, it has been invariably found not only cheaper but in comparably better in quality. While it entails much more labor in the office ot the engineer in charge than when the works are done by contract, the method has proved entirely satisfactory to all classes save only to contractors themselves. Most of the improvements are entirely permanent in character.

The work has in general been done where it seems to be most required and tor thia reason hss been mainly between the Grand Chain and a point seven miles above Graysville, Illinois, a distance of forty miles.

Four years ago this entire distance could scarcely lie passed with a skiff at extremely low water. While at present all the usual river boats can readily and regularly make trips atallstaMeof the water. The greatest obstruction on the river is, and has for yeara been, the Grand Rapid, near Mount (Jarmel, Illinois. The act of Congress, of March 3,1881, provided that of the $50,000 the rein appropriated, one-half should be used on the river above Vincennes. This has the effect of improv ing the upper portion of the river: while an obstruction remains below which isolates it entirely during the greater part of the season of navigation. The only method of connecting the two navigable sections is by rebuilding dam 'which for years did good service, but which from its temporary character long since went to decay and ruin. The necessity for a lock and dam at this place

Various propositions and some surveys have heretofore been made with reference to connecting the Wabaah river with other navigable waters,' none of whigh would serve their purpose without the improvement at Grand Rapids."

On the improvement of the Wabash river above Vincenneahe says: "The snag boat Kwasind was sent to Terre Haute early in the season to fake advantage of the high water for passing the rapids. An examination of the river, however showed that the beat would not be able to work continuously, as its draught is too great for the lowest stsges of water on that part of the river. It waa therefore returned to the part below Mount Carmd. No improvement having been hitherto made on this part of the river the condition is only known in general terms. A cursotr examination has been made, but the stage ef water was high, so that the obstructions were but slightly revealed. The obstructions are principally of snags and bare, imwad_ it is believed that these may he removed in such a manner as to give a permanent depth of not less than three feet. Such a depth will admit the towing of barges, each carrying 6,000 or more Dushds of grain."

This report waa made up to June 80th, while the nag boat was being fitted up, and the work done by it will show in the next annual report

THE Vincennes University has just started a lottery for its benefit, the Lgislature having granted this privilege before the adoption of the new Constitution, which prohibits lotteries henceforth. Louisville lottery men have charge of the affair, the university being guaranteed $29,000 of the profits. It is rattier odd to find ehurehes and colleges going into toMeo when they a*® denounced as sinful fas some places and punished as Crimea in others. .., ,|}

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sid a balance in the treasury of $46.17. resolution, unanimously adopted, I am instituted to divide the above amount and pay one-half to the Ladies' Aid Society, tone used for the benefit of the poor of the city, and the remaining one-half to the industrial school, lately instituted at Turner Hall.

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CHABLES Anurrn, Secretary.

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