Indianapolis Journal, Volume 1, Number 148, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1872 — Page 2

THE EVENING JOURNAL: INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1872.

EVENING- JOURNAL. Market Street and. Circle. INDIAN APOLIS JOURNAL COMPANY, PBOPBIBrOKS.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY. MARCH 12 1872. TERMS: Single coptes, per week, deliyerad by carrier,. . . $ 10 By mail, payable In advance, per year 6 00 " per month BO ADYKTCisnra rates. Local Mi.TTras,-.Notiees under this head will be Charged 80 cente per line for first Insertion, and 15 cents per line for each additional Insertion. Marriage Notices 50 cents Funeral Notices 50 cents DlSrLATID ADYMlTIflSJCENTg, WA.HT8, FOR SALI, For Rbnt, Lost, and Fottsd, five cents per line each Insertion. A liberal discount on Ions time advertisements. "While hi3 Excellency, Conrad Baker, is appointing commissioners to look after the improvement of the Ohio river, we should like something done toward the improvement of the State sidewalks in eur city. The walk3 around the State House Square can hardly be called passable, and our citizens have much to complain of in the condition of the pavements around the Institute for the Blind and the public grounds above. On the west side, particularly, the walking is wretched. There is no paving, and not even a passable gravel walk. The worst of it is, the property holders in the square this side, from North to Michigan, streets, seem to feel themselves exempt from the ordinances which govern the rest of the city, and have made no improvement in the sidewalks. If there has been no ordinance to compel these citizens in the heart of the city to improve their sidewalks, we fail to see the justice of compelling suburban prop erty holders to be heavily taxed in this way. But our remarks, are intended for State property especially, and we venture to inquire why some of the large appropriations made annually have not been expended upon the necessary improvement in pavements. As it is, they are an eye,-sore and a disgrace to the town. "We might suggest, too, that some of the money expended in the cultivation of exotics and house plants could be better disposed of in improving 'the vacant ground north of t& Institute. We are not in favor of any extravagant outlay for walks and flowers, but the planting of a number of hardy trees would be a public benefit to whatever use the ground may in future be applied. This could be done at a trifling expense. "We are confident if such a project " were entertained the citizens in the vicinity would con tribute liberally toward it for the sake of the pleasant prospect it would afford them. But this is not necessary. There should be enough State pride in the trustees of public institutions to see to it that the roads and walks thereabout be as passable and sightly a3 those belonging to private individuals. In its argument against the slaughter-house nuisances the Sentinel quite absurdly intimates that coal smoke is as insufferable a nuisance as stink, and if the slaughterhouses are driven outside the city, the rolling mill and kindred establishments must follow. Thi3 question was raised and settled years ago. The common sense of mankind, crystallized in legislation, has branded the slaughter-house, the glue factory, the bristle and bone-boiling establishments, and kindred enterprises as nuisances of the first class, which can only be permitted to remain within the corporate limits of a city on sufferance, while manufacturing establishments that produce smoke and noise are minor nuisances, which must be submitted to. The law has decided, time and again what may be abated and what must be endured. The slaughter-house is an abatable nuisance, and whenever it is vigorously proceeded against it will hava to "move on," no mittei what may be the cost to the proprietors. "We are not in favor of disturbing necessary business interests where the danger of disease is small, and the discomfort not insufferable; but in the case of the Coffin establishment, where a removal may be effected without loss to the proprietors, we insist on removal, in compliance with the compact entered into years ago. A short time since we gave a feeble imi. tation of the style of the howling idiots who dit the Caucasian at Lexington, .Missouri. The original matter in the paper is made up of "whews!" and "bahs!" with such fancy epithets as4 'Nasty chusctts freed om-granters!" 'Senator-nigger I" "Inkotypic bondsmen!" "Rhapsodizziacal!" "Hippopotamic jaw smashers!" "Low-born scum from hell's bubbling broth-pot!" etc., mixed in. The following is an average chunk from the Caucasum leader: Can a man touch pitch and not be defiled? Can he ekin skunk?, and not contract a little extra fragrance? Can he lay bare the characters of the hellions who are to-day ruling and ruining America, and not sometimes no over the edge of fastidious delicacy? Can he tear off the lid of hell, without some sniffs of blue blazes and briuntone smoke? Nary time. It can't be did. A herd of ruthless liberticides, bellowing their brutal ruffianism beneath the grand dome of the National Capitol, and trampling with unclean hoofs upon the glorious Constitution of. our fathers, upon the ntcLs and hopes of forty million of their countrymen fallen freemen. A howling mob of perjured outlaws, led by the Devil's pet pig with an X mark in his eyes, pantry thief, bank-robber and grave-pillatrer Butler; blustering, besotted debauchee and bullyragg-r Chandler; and palsy-smitten, damnation-mortgaged old hyena-parson Brownlow; styling themselves the Congress of the United States; making laws, stealing, swindling, plundering, squandering; and compelling submission to all their atrocities by hireling bayonets. Legislators, mere gangs of unfctUrid convicts. Tite wit of the Louisville Courier-Journal is not always found in the "Small Talk" department. The following appears in leaded brevier. Its production brought on a stroke of apoplexy: The editor of the Indianapolis Journil says: "We cannot even read, much less publish, communications written upon both sides of the paper." There is nothing la the Journal to indicate that he could read a, communication, no matter how It Is written. v

As might hare been expected, the Sentinel comes, out strongly in defense of the stink interests, and howls heroically for liberty to build and maintain slaughter-houses, starchfactories, bone-boiling establishments and other nuisances in any part of the city and in any number. The editors and proprietors of the Sentinel have lived and moved and had their being so long in a pestilential atmosphere, loaded with the sickening odor3 of decomposing cats, that their physical as well as moral senses have become corrupted, and they hanker after stinks. The odor from a slaughter and packing house may not be agreeable always, but we blieve it ha3 been settled over and over again by the highest medical authority that they are not unhealthy even where decomposition takes place. Sentinel. Will the Sentinel be good enough to produce some of that high medical authority to which it alludes? Henry P. Elias, the Cincinnati lottery thief, ha3 brought suit against the New York "Tribune for $20,000. There never was so much as twenty cents worth of character in the entire Elias gang. The Sentinel Buzzard is opposed to the removal of the slaughter houses.

POINTS OF FACT. There are 35,000 temperance men in Texas. A rolling mill will soon blow in at Paducah. A Cincinnati colony has settled in De Soto parish, Louisiana. A lady law student has appeared in Montgomery, Alabama. A lady sophomore at Michigan University saws her own wood. The Peruvian railways have smoking cars "exclusively for ladies." Alabama has six cotton factories, which work up 20,000 bales annually. An imported brass band soothes the savage breasts of the Japanese. Andy looms up as a prospective candidate for Governor of Tennessee. Josh Billings says: "There is a grate deal uv raw bliss in gitting tired." Tortoise-shell daggers with carved head are the latest style of ornament for the hair. Charles Chemise is the polite name for rthe German gadfly who torments the Presi dent. Pates defoie gras, equal to the Strasbourg article, are now manufactured in New York. The town of Jacksonville, Florida, is built on a foundation of the bones of Northern invalids. Clara Swain, a lady physician of Philadelphia, is accumulating fame and rupees in the East Indies. A New York florist has grown an immense lot of shamrocks for the celebration of St. Patrick's Day. A colored woman was graduated Tuesday from the Law Department of Harvard University, "Washington. A new style of glve for ladies is made of opossum skin; it is very soft and durable, and can be worn in full dress. A valuable asbestos mine has been discovered in Georgia. It is being worked to supply packing for car wheels. Mr. Henry Eisner, of San Francisco, invested sixteen thousand in zoological studies, and graduated inside of a month. Nilsson has invested her $400,000 in America because she loves the country, and the rates of interest are much higher here than in Europe. Mr. Tom Ryan, pugilistic editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, lost a portion of his east car in a recent argument with a gentleman named Gall. J. J. Pettitt, father of the Lieutenant Governor of "Wisconsin, has published a voluminous apology for getting married at the age of seventy. Levi Calvin, a talented young Missourian, has made considerable proficiency in the abstruse science of horse stealing at the early age of eleven years. The Charleston (S. C.) Xevs records four fatal cases of trichinosis the wife of Justice Riley, of the Forks of Edisto, on the 3d, and her three children afterward. The Mayor of Lexington is attending a session of the United States Court in Louisville, on invitation of a negro who accuses his Honor of aggravated assault and battery. General Forrest has contracted with the State of Mississippi for two hundred and seventy-five convicts from the penitentiary of that State, to be worked on the Memphis and Selraa railroad. Physicians say that the reason pneumonia is so prevalent this year among ladies is on account of the sealskin sacks, which are too warm and air-tight, and produce colds if left off or worn in a close room where the body becomes overheated. A fellow in Wilmington, North Carolina, got tired of his wife, after living with her about fifteen years, and hired another man to take her over to South Carolina and marry her, giving him a mule and $55 in money to take her off his hands. A Philadelphia woman who, forty years ago, at the age of sweet sixteen, married a rich old fellow of three-score for his money, expecting soon to be a gay and festive young widow, has recently died crtaa 56, leaving a husband of 100, and four children to mourn her loss. One of the most remarkable colored men of the fime is said to be John Lynch, the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives. He is not over twenty-three, and could not read at the time of the capture of Natchez by the Union forces. Having received his first lessons of one of the American Missionary Assocration teachers, a Northern lady, he has since been so diligent as to have acquired a fair general English education and a tolerably good acquaintance with law. His character stands unblemished, and his habits of study and attention to business are such that a distinguished career may with certainty be predicted for him. He excels as a presiding officer.

"SHORT KEERDS." a new yorker's game of toker with a learned pig. From the New York Sun, March 7. Since his misfortune in the great Chicago fire the veteran showman, Col. "Wood, has spent his time exclusively in perfecting the wonderful collection of curiosities in his museum in Philadelphia. The Colonel's latest addition is "Wicked Ben," the most wonderful pig that ever wore a bristle. Ben can do anything. He is a lightning calculator, and by means of numbered cards can show the result of any ordinary arithmetical problem. He can also tell the time of day by looking at a watch, and if two watches which do not agree are placed before him, Ben can tell the difference to a sec ond. Gold-faced watches Ben knows nothing about. All watches shown him must have white faces, and be held very close to his eye. The pig is nearly two years old, and from his earliest infancy has shown a remarkable aptitude for acquiring knowledge. In size he is like other half-grown pigs, weighing perhaps 80 or 90 pounds. He has a keen, gray eye, which twinkles roguishly whenever he sees astonishment depicted on the faces of the spectators who daily crowd around the raided platform upon which Col. "Wood exhibits him. lien's principal accomplishment, the one in which lie is the most nearly perfect, is that of poker playing. He can clean out an ordinary poker player any time. Terry Farley would stand no chance at all, and as for Harry Genet, Ben wouldn't even leave him the corner stone of the Harlem Court House. How the pig has ever been taught this intricate game is a mystery to every one His understanding of it is wonderful. Not long ago, among a party of ladies and gentlemen who had to called see Ben and his wonderful performances, was Mr. John E. Speaightts, a New York importer of liquors. Mr. Speaightts was astonished at Ben's watch trick, his arithmetical feats, and other minor tricks, and was about to turn away when the pig's keeper said: "If you'd like to try him a game of bluff, sir, he kin play." Mr. speaightts looked at the keeper indignantly, lie evidently thought he Avas poking fun. "Fact, sir," said the keeper, "he kin play bluff." Mr. Speaightts hesitated. The ladies here crowded around. "Oh, do Mr. Speaightts try him a game. Do, that's a good fellow, "We want to see the fun." Mr. Speaightts assented. The keeper brought out a pack of cards, a little rack like a bill file, and $5 in ten cent fractional notes. The cards he gave to Mr. Speaightts, the little rack he' set up in front of the pig, and the ten cent notes he laid down at Ben's right. The pig then sat down on his haunches and waited for Mr. Speaightts to deal the card!. Before doing so that gentleman went down into his breeches pocket and fished out some money. He then shuffled the cards and began to deal. While the cards were going around, the pig picked up a ten-cent note, and dropped it on the platform in front of Mr. Speaightts, at the same time looking intelligently at that gentleman in the face. Mr. Speightts antied without further dela-. After the deal the keeper pifked up . the pig's cards and arranged them in a little rack before him. He Ihen stepped back. The game played by Ben is "straight poker," "draw poker" being beyond his comprehension. It was the pig's "ed-e." He looked at Mr. Speaightts. Mr. Speaightts chipped. The pig picked up between bis toes two cent-notes and laid them in the pot. He had raised Mr. Speaightts ten cents. The gentlemen at once covered the bet, and raised twenty cents. The pig picked up two more notes, dropped them in the pot, and gave a grunt. "He calls you, sir," said the keeper. Mr. Speaightts became terribly excited. He laid down his hand, showing two jacfts, a queen, an eight spot, and the ace of diamonds. The pig looked at the hand, and at once came from behind the rack and with his foot kicked the money over toward his own pile. "Hold on," said Mr. Speaightts, and he looked toward the keeper. "He's got it, sir three deuces, a jack and tenspot. You dealt 'em yourself, sir," and with this the keeper showed the pig's hand. Mr. Speaightts had lost 40 cents. The ladies fairly yelled with delight, and Mr. Speaightts blushed to the very roots of his hair. It suddenly occurred to him that he had business on Chestnut street, but the ladies evidently thought this story was too thin. "No, no, Mr. Speaightts. Just one more game; that's a dear good fellow. Oh, do!" they all cried. Mr. Speaightts picked up the cards and began to shuttle them. As he did so the pig gave a grunt and shook his head. "Tain't your deal, sir," said the keeper. "Oh!" said Mr. Speaightts. "I'll have to shuttle the cards, but he can deal em, he can," continued the keeper. "With this he gave the cards a shuffle and placed them before the men. The pig shoved one off with his nose toward Mr. Speaightts and another toward himself, and so on to the close of the deal. He then resumed his place, having first dropped a ten cent fractional note as an ante. The keeper picked up the hand, and arranged it in the rack. It was Mr. Speaightt's edge. That gentleman held his cards in his hand, and Jooked with interest to see. what the pig would do. The pig looked at the cards on the rack, and then at his pile of fractional notes. Both antes were up. The pig picked up two ten cent notes between his toes and dropped them in the pot. He had bet twenty cents on his hand. The keeper, who stood behind the pig, looked wise, and it was noticed that he touched the pig on the rump. The pig shook his head. Mr. Speaights interpreted the keeper's telegraph as an indication that the pig had made a blunder. So he promptly saw the pig's bet and raised it five ten-cent notes. The pig looked puzzled. He was evidently nonplussed. He went to a pile of numbered

blocks a few feet off, and rubbed his nose among them. "He don't understand yer bet," said the keeper. "Either count the stamps out one by one, or else turn up the No. 5 block so he can see it and know how much you bet" Mr. Speaightts counted the stamps one by one, and distinctly called "fifty cents." The I pig looked at the pile of stamps and then at his hand. He shook his head and began nosing among the pile of stamps and looking wistfully at the keeper. "He wants to raise yer bet, but he can't count out stamps enough. I'll give him some bigger money," said the keeper, and with this he threw a dollar note and a two-dollar note on the floor. The pig picked up the dollar note and laid it in the pot. Mr. Mr. Speaightt's bet was seen and raised a half-dollar. With a face rilled with determination, he went down into his breeches and fished up a two dollar note. This he put into the pot, drawing out the pig's dollar, t he pig watching him closely, But seeming to understand it. "See the bet and raise it half a dollar," said he. The pig picked up the two-dollar note and put it in the pot. Mr. Speaiehtta looked at hirn.

"He ain't got no change, so he raises you a dollar and a half," sai the keeper. ' Mr. Speaightts having no more change, borrowed three fifty cent notes and put them into the pot. "I call," said he. The pig looked toward the keeper, who advanced and taking the card from the racks displayed them to the astonished Mr. Speaightts There were three tens, an ace, and a queen. Mr. Speaightts showed up on a pair of fives, a pair of jacks, and a nine spot. As soon as the pig saw Mr. Speaightts hand he kicked the money over to his own pile with a lively grunt of satisfaction. Mr. Speaightts had lost $3 CO and thought that was enough for the day. So he refused to play any more then. Next day, however, he was induced to try it again, and the pig cleaned him out of 3 50 by bluffing him, as the keeper afterward proved by showing his hand. Ben is truly a wonderful pig. He not only plays poker, but is a lively hand at euchre, having beaten the Hon. R. R. Miller, of Camden, three games out of five one afternoon. He knows the bowers and their relative value according to trump as well as the most skillful player, and can take in as many tricksjis any one.

BASE BALL. A FEW THOUGHTS ON THE PROFESSIONAL PLAYER. From the New York Times. There has grown up within the past two or three years a class of men who make their livelihood wholly by playing base -ball matches. The professional player, asfte from his private character, is not precisely a majestic object. It may not be incumbent upon any man to lead a life of really productive industry, but it certainly seems as though one might find some other occupation than hiring oneself to win matches for the Black Stockings and "White, Blue Stockings and Gray, who claim to be exponents of .the national game. Evidently the professional player himself sjrmpathizes with this view, for except when compelled to play during the summer season, he keeps himself modestly out of sight in those quiet retreats connected with bars, and not free from a suspicion of rat-pits, where the sporting men f the metropolis meet for social improvement and unpremeditated pugilism. Not to put too fine a point upon it, the professional player, though doubtless occasionally an honest, inollcnsive fellow, is usually a worthless, dfssipated gladiator; not much above the professional pugilist in morality and resp stability. Not only does the employment of the?e inen in a match game render the result simply a question of money, for the club which can afford to hire the best players is of course the winner, but it opens the way to dishonest and fraudulent practices. The professional player can, if he choose, insure the defeat of the side on which he plays. It is nly necessary for thegambler who has large sums at stake to buy him, in order to make certain of winning his bets. That this is frequently done, any one who reads the report of the quarrels which usually follow an important match game, will find abundant reason to believe. -The professional player thus makes the game an instrument in the hands of gamblers, and so brings it into deserved disrepute. If those who really enjoy base-ball as a sport desire to retain for it the interest of the respectable classes, they must sternly set their faces against the professional player. In every point of view he is an eminently undesirable person, and he ought to be peremptorily and completely suppressed. Let our young men meet and play base-ball if they choose. They will thus improve their physical well-being without detriment to their morals. To employ professional players to perspire in public for the benefit of gamblers, is, however, a benefit to no one, and furnishes to dyspeptic moralists a strong argument against any form of muscular Christianity. A MISSOURI MONGREL MURDERED. From tbe Neosho Times. On last Saturday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, Mr. Sol. M. Crews, a respectable farmer, stabbed and killed a negroIndian barber, named Green Smith, well known in this community as a trifling and desperate character. The act created no sensation whatever, as all our town people were constantly expecting Smith to either kill somebody "or be himself kjlled. The wdiowed sister of Mr. Crews lives directly opposite the cabin where Smith lived, and Air. Crews was there to dinner. The negro, partially intoxicated, went over to the house and annoyed the family. He was told to go awaj', but would not. The sister requested her brother to put him out, as she was not well, and his presence and noise distressed her. The negro became impertinent in his language and threatening in his manner, and in the nielee which ensued Mr. Crews stabbed him to the death, inflicting three or four wounds, any one of which would prob ably have been fatal. He lived but a few moments. Jlr. Crews sought out and surrendered himself to the authorities. An examination was had, a verdict of justifiable homicide returned, and Mr. Crews went about his business. The deceased has had, it is said, several difficulties, involving life, in Texas, and was himself shot, about a year since, in this town. He drank to excess, and when under the influence of liquor his savage blood seemed to prompt to the commission of barbaric acts. "When sober, he was as goodlooking as a swarthy-complected individual could well be, dressed neatly, and in general was sufficiently polite. Without exulting in the unhappy termination of an unhappy man's life, it must be confessed his taking off causes a feeling of relief throughout the community. HOW LEAP TEAR WAS KEPT IN NEW ORLEANS. A correspondent writes from New OrIc&n s "It is remarkable how the ladies keep leap year here. The usual form is gone through with on the street as well as in the parlor. On Saturday I attended the matinee at the new Varieties Theater, and was much amused by the witty freaks of the ladies. Several who had invited gentlemen to accompany them stepped out to the ticket office, purchased tickets, offered their arm to their company, and seated them in their proper places. Then when there was anything really pleasing enacted, the performer received the acknowledgment of his appreciation by the clapping of their fair hands. The- performance over, the lady again offered her arm, and after a promenade along Canal street, the usual courtesy would be extended by the lady paying the fare in the street cars The other evening in one of the Baronne street cars, just about the time there is a great rush and the cars crowded, an elderly gentleman entered the car. Every seat was occupied, and as he turned to leave, a lady left her seat, and taking the veuerable gentleman by the arm, said in a low, sweet voice: Pray, be seated, sir; take my place." As he was about to decline, she said: 4No, sir; I insist upon your taking it. This is leap year, you know." This little action caused many a compliment to pass from the hps of Jhe male passengers.

GENERAL SHERMAN. MOVEMENTS OF TnE AMERICAN SOLDIER IN FLORENCE. From the London Times, Oct. 22. The Florentines certainly do not seem to bouder over their translation of their Capital to Rome; on the contrary, if I may use such an expression, they appear to have come out stronger since that great event, though dwindling down to mere provincials. In the good old times of Lord Burghersh, Prince Borghesi and Prince Demidoff, Src, it was the strangers who did the honors of Florence to the Florentines themselves. As for a ball or supper, or lights flickering in the dismal and prison-like apartments of the Florentine Palazzi, it was a thing unheard, undreamt of. Now, however, this is all changed; strangers go and come like the winds, and the Florentines this very year seem to have rivaled each other in giving a succession of fetes, Indit-costume and reunions. The Strozzi, Torregiani, Guioni, Corsini, Gcrini, have thrown open and oiled the rusty hinges of their iron gates; and I would bet two to one that since the days Cosimo and Eleonora di Toledo no such gayety has been witnessed in their hitherto silent halls. The Xazione is delighted, and teems with the most brilliant descriptions of the fetes, not orfly how Principessa A., Duchessa B. . and Contessa C. were dressed, but how their very eyes rivaled the diamonds with which they were covered; and one lady, Principessa T , is put down as having a million and a half of jewels spread over her dress. Nohavc the Forestieri been backward in following the example set by the natives. At Quarto a select ball was given by her Imperial Highness Grand Duchesse Marie de Russie; Baron Landau, at the well-known Villa Normandy, gave a sort of Ud mo?i.sire, where the ere me de la ereme were present. Mr. Lorimer Graham, the American Consul, issued cards for a ball to meet Gen. Sherman. Mr. Graham is an American gentleman of taste and fortune, and very hospitable just the sort of man any nation would covet as their consular representative. He takes no fees, and tries to make nothing out of you by exchange or shipping, and invites you to a capital dinner, where you meet the best society. His apartment in the Palazzo Orsini was decorated with great taste; a profusion of flowers and exotic plants formed a most.charniing background for the toilets of the ladies, who to the number of 50 crowded his saloons. I penetrated with no small amount of difficulty to an inner room, where was caged the lion of the evening. General Sherman. He was surrounded bv a brilliant gathering of Italian ofticers, eighty having been invited to meet him. The General is tall and erect, wiry in make, very unaffected, and natural in his manner; his uniform, which is plain, made a great contrast with the splendid costumes of the Italian Etat-Major, and it partook- almost more of the naval than the military to a casual observer. We were introduced to him, and be shook hands very cordially with us all. He told me this was his first visit to Europe, and his great object is to sec and visit the Mont Ctnis Tunnel and the Suez Canal.. As for ladies and gentlemen, men and women, he could sec plenty of them in his own country. "Well, General," said I, "What do you think of Italy?" "Oh, a very nice country, but old, very oldnothing to be done; not like my country, where all has to be done." Peruzzi, our Mayor, happening to be near, I called to him, and explained in Italian that the General thought Florence was a finished work. "Mcntepiu da fare! Cor)Y di Baeco! exclaimed he. "I wish IJiad 10,000,000 francs! I could lay them out to-morrow, and I will do so if I continue in my place." The ball was kept up till 8 in the morning, and a few American beverages were introduced at supper, and afterward went through several editions. The true itizcns of Florence are delighted at the result of the carnival, and are collecting statistics to prove that more monev has been spent this year than last. UNLUCKY JOHN. From the Chicago Times. On the 28th of November, 1870, Janson McCord, a wealthy gentleman of Chicago, departed this life. "Before his death he made no will, and it was left to the courts to say who should inherit his riches. An appraisal of his real and personal pronortv showed that he died worth upward of $000,000. Costly buildings in the southern and western parts of the city; blocks of city land and acres of country farms, railway, insurance and bank shares; live stock and steamboats where scheduled to a vast amount, while those who made out the papers wished they were his next of kin. Outside of Chicago, some eighteen miles or more, there has lived for man' years a poor, hard-working farmer named John McCord. Despite his toiling and his constant tilling of the soil, "Unlucky John," as his neighbors called him, grew poorer and poorer as he grew old in years. The only thing in which he prospered was in the raising of a large family. Horses and cattle and iiogs sickened and died, but children to the number of ten lusty boys and girls were born beneath their father's unlucky Star. "When the boys were big enough they too worked on

the farm only it was hard to raise enough ior so many. A few weeks since, the court decided that jonn Jicuord. brother of the deceased, and his only living relative, was heir to all his possessions. And the farmer, who i no more "Unlucky John," but "Lucky Mister McCord," is often seen, dressed in a fine suit oi ciotnes, in the countv'clcrk's office u nit ing until the last entry is made in the title dooks, to tate lull possession. - RUINS IN ARIZONA. The territory is covered with ruins, which prove conclusively that it was once denselv popuiaieu uy a peupiu lar in advance, in point of civilization, to most of the Indian tribes. 1 here is no written record of them. and it is only a matter of conjecture who and what they were. Occasionally a deserted house is found sufficiently well pre served to ascertain the character of the architecture. The walls of the Casa Grande, situated on the Gila, near Sanford, are still two stories above the ground. In size, the structure is about 30 feet by CO; the walls are very thick and made of mud, which was evidently confined and dried, as it was built. It was divided into small rooms, and the partitions are also made of mud. The floors were made by placing sticks close together and covering them with cement. Around and near the Casa Grande are the ruins of many other buildings, but by the lapse of time the decay of vegetation has formed earth and nearly covered them, and all that now marks the place where once a stately mansion stood is the elevation of the ground. Near the Aucha Mountains are ruins not so extensive, but in far better preservation than the Casa Grande, and near -these ruins are old arastras for the reduction of silver ores. It is believed that these ancient ruins are the vestiges of a people who were- of a peaceable disposition, but who were entirely destroyed by the Apaches. m A touso girl was practicing the "Battle of Prague" on a piano in Brooklyn on Saturday last. After she had played for two ' hours a burglar shot at her through the window, but , to the grief of the neighborhood, missed her.

BY JOHN S. SPAXX k CO.

ATJCTIOjNr SAXlE OF PART OF THE JAMES DELZELL FARM, Three miles and a hah East of the city. Ou Monday, April 15th, 1872, at 11 o'clock, A. 31., at the premises. This valuable tract of land, con? itins of about 120 acres in the asnnvErate, will be told by auction, as above, wlthont reserve, on terms as follows: One third cash in iiand, the remainder in one and two year?, with interest and mortjrnjr. Nimc or the lots nave valuable timber upon them. and all arc so situated as to be worthy the attention of buvers. The lots are subdivided as follows: Lot No. 1 5:35 acres. 2 3:fi5 acres. 3 2: 2 acres. 4 4 :". acre?. 5 5:11 acres, fi 5:14 acres. 7 5:11 acres. 8 5:14 acres. . 5:14 acres. Lot No. 10 5:14 acres. 11 5:14 acres. 12 5:16 acres. 13 5:10 acres. 1 1 5:1 acres. 15 5:16 acres. Hi 20:53 acres. IT 13.22 acres. IS 13:22 acres. Further rnrtienlars if desired may be learned by application to W. Henderson, Esq., or of JOILN S. SPANN & CO., Real Estate Agents, March 12, 1S72. 50 East Washington street. CURIOSITIES OF SCIENCE. DISAPPEARANCE OF A SEA. Bovy St. Vincent states that the time is coming when the Mediterranean will be nothing more than a chain of lakes, and then a mighty river. The Sea of Azof is already being converted into a stream its shores constantly approaching nearer together. Tracts of water which extend from the mouth of the Don to the Straits of the Dardanelles may now be compared to Lake Superior, Huron and Michigan. When the great island' of' Atlantis went, down, as Plato relates, covered with cities, must have changed the sea boundaries exceedingly. Rivers are forever in the process of changing their channels and shallowing by the debris they spread along their bottoms. DEEP ARTESIAN WELLS. That of Grcne'.le, bored for the use of the bought er-houscs of Paris, is 1,771 feet deep, water ab ends ninety-one feet above the surface, which shows a prodigious hydrostatic pressure somewhere to drive a column with such force into the air. At Neusalzwcrk, near Mindcn, there is an artesian well feet deep, out of which pours salt water. One Avas bored some years since for a sugar refinery in St. Louis, Missouri, deeper still, being 2,024 feet in perpendicular depth. Whether still active or not we have not ascertained. The water in those deep recesses rises in temperature the further down below the level of the sea. In some of the geysers on this continent and in parts of Europe, it is believed it may be heated in the bowels of the earth to & hundred degrees, but in its ascent, towards the surface it cools rapidly, rarely being two hundred at its escape. Where does Hie water come from in these low-r regions? It gathers on mountains and indeed everywhere, and trickles down the seam, and discolations of roc k, porous strata, etc., till reaching incandescent matter in a state of fusion, it is converted into steam, forced where there is least resistance, becoming condensed into water again, but pushed on by steam behind. INSIGNIFICANCE OF THE EARTH. M. Reclus, a celebrated astronomical writer, says this earth is the lowest in rank among heavenly bodies. Were an astronomer on some other planet exploring the immensity of space, this planet we inhabit, owing to its small size, might readily elude his intelligent view. The sun is 1,2 ,000 times larger; and yet that enormous mass is only a speck a mere point, which seems lost amid eighteen millions of stars which are discoverable by inbtruments in the Milky Way. What an incomprehensible organ the human brain, to have ascertained such astounding facts, and demonstrated the laws which govern universal nature! VISION OF MOLLUSKS. The idea that oysters and clams can see may probably be considered absurd by those who have no very intimate knowledge of their habits. They have not regularh constructed eyes which give distinct impressions of objects on a retina, but they have floating nerve filaments ranged among the gill fringes, that give them a sense of light. They arc rudimcntal optics, but suflicient for all the purposes of these very humble animal forms. hi HAIR OILS. The frequent use of "oils," "bearV grease," "arctusine," "pomades," "lustrals," "rosemary washes,,' etc., etc., upon the hair, is a practice not to be commended. All of " these oils and greasy pomades are manufactured from lard-oil and simple lard No "beards-grease" is ever used. If it could be procured readily, it should not be applied to the hair, as it is the most rank and filthy of all the animal fats. There are many persons whose hair is naturally drr and crisp, and in many families there is a want of some innocent and agreeable wash or dressing which may be used moderately and judiciously. The mixture which may be regarded as the most agreeable, eleani' and safe, is composed of cologne spirt and pure castor-oiL The folia wing is a good formula : Pure, fresh castor oil, 2 oz. Cologne spirit per cent.,) 1G oz. The oil is freshly dissolved in the spirit, and the solution is clear and beautiful. It may be perfumed in any way to suit the fancy of the purchaser. The oil of the cas-tor-bcan has for many years been employed to dress the hair, among both savage and civilized natioasand it possesses properties which admirably adapt it to this use. It does not rapidly dry, and no gummy, offensive residuum remains after taking on the chemical changes which occur in all oils upon exposure to' light and air. It i best diffused by the agency of strong spirit, in which it dissolves. The alcohol or spirit rapidly evaporates, and ' does not in the slightest degree injure the texture of the hair. The preparation, for dressing the hair of children or ladies, will meet nearly or quite all requirements. A cheap and very good" dressing is made by dissolving four ounces of perfectly pure, dense glycerine in twelve ounces of rosewater, li cerinc evaporates only at high temperatures, and therefore under its influence the hair is retained in a moist condition for a long time. As a class, the vegetable oilsare better for the hair than animal oils. They do not become rancid and offensive so readily, and they are subject to dillcrent and less objectionable chemical changes. Olive-oil, and that derived from the c ocoa-nut, have been largely employed, but they are inferior in every respect to that from the castor-bean. Dr. Xtciola? I'ire(tide Science,