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vol. XLiv. Richmond; avayxe county, Indiana, mchT m. - no. ol
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THE 1TTKM
It rgn In sb'1 ' 7 A .
Tobic-ru"-"'1" '
It went ,he enn of th worl1
Tosr P"1 start in Its eouiw.
II unlown ,i,te on th 0,i
With lnerilbWspMl; ll-lare
Utoae column of building" wei bent, '
And corner loU blown out of square.
I'm sore that lh-re never was wn "
Homuoh wind in the weather before; .
It warpeii every well In the town,
And blw your teeth ont by ttie score. t
In walking down atreer,you woalJ go
At the rate of some miles In a minate;
Twas the thickest wind ever was known,
With never a Miower to thin It.
It blew the luud off of the flelda,
And the country It filled with alums.
And the farmers net day with sad hearts
Went burning around for thtrir farms.
It blew the dirt clean from your face,
But it shoveled it into yonr eyes;
In a minute It toolc offyour freckles
In a way thut occasioned surprise.
The sunshine was blown from the streets.
The smsli-pux was blown out of town;
Men's words were carried ntuch further
Than ever their words had been known.
It blew your ears clean from your head.
And the buttons clear off of your vest;
The firmament darknd with hats,
And the point of the enuipuxs stood west.
It blew tiie day back quite a week, '
llHurruntlug all business affairs,
And people grew inad at the way ;
The weather wua putting on airs.
It blew your boot off of your feet,
And a whistle It made of your nose;
It blew yonrdebtsontofyourmtnd,
And the grease spots clear out of your
clothes.
You couMu't walk out without taking, ,
A club 10 keep the wind oif, , . . ; t
And you had to hold fast to j'our head,
Or It would have gone sure enough.
Tl surely an ill wind that blows
Nobody good fortune, they say;
Five men are at work on my roof.
And are making four dollars a day.
BIJan Rlarn to m Nbsrp Point.
"One of the pleaaaote-t sights in
liutuaa nature," remarked Bijah as he -sat
down, "is too" He roxe up sud
denly, became very red in the face,
and an he held an eight ounce tack up
in hia fingers, he hoarsely whispered :
"Show uie the wretch who sot me
dowu 011 this 'ere tack !" There was
an awfal stillness. Some of the loaf
ers looked .straight at the wall ahead,
and others looked down, while the
boys turned pale and crowded Lack
against the partition. "Never mind,"
continued the old man; "justice sleeps
but never dies. I'll live a hundred
years but what I'll havo blood for
this!' .
The Inst captive brought out was
Jacob Iliuser. "You don't leel well
this morning, I see,"' remarked his
Honor, as he took a square look at
the prisoner. - ,
"No, I'm Urettv uur cniui". ahail ,
"Is it consumption, asthma, icsan- 1
ity. or wfut?" V ' r v
I eS, L III IUS. BU.
"Do you have pains in the head. hot
flushes, a back ache, cold sweats, a
nervous fueling", and a loss of appe
tite?" t . ' ' " ;
"Yes, 1 do, replied Jacob, blowing
his no.e sot'tly.
"Can't sleep nights no ambition to
run for office, don't care a cent wheth
er schools keep or not?"
"Them's the symptoms," answered
Jacob.
"Ob I well you can go. If I should
send you to the House of Correction
and you should die there of Charles
Sumner's ailment or Napoleon's dis
ease, I'd never feel like buying an
other pound ol Catawba grapes.'
Bijah said that was all, and the
driver ot the Black Maria rushed hia
vehicle around on a gallop, and the f
boys formed a circle, took off their
hats and sang:
Fun and sadness mixed together,
Tears of woe and smiles ot hope;
Some net off, and some are boosted
Better stay outside the rope.
, Detroit Free Presa.
In the House, on the 24th, General
Butler effectually silenced the oppo
sition.) Alter old charges against the
Attorney Oeneral had been iterated
and reiterated, Butler arose, and mov
ing to the area in front of the Speak
er s stand, denounced the warfare they
were m:iking, and aaid that if they
believed the charges they were mak
ing, it was their duty to bring articles
of impeachment against Judee Wil
liams. "But," said he, shaking his
finger at the democrats, "making the
charges ami Insinuations in this way
is simply infamous, cowardlv, ana
contemptible. 1 ou dare not put them
to the test, for you know that you
have not the slightest proof of any of
your allegations. Ana tney ni
nothing more to say on that subject.
f - , "
And they had
itoestcrs, says josu itiuings, are
cne pugilists among Diras, ana, having
no suitable shoulder tu strike from,
they strike from the heel. When a
rooster giu whipped, the hens all
march off with the other rooster, if he
ain't haff to big or so hansuni. It is
pluck that wins a hen. Roosters, as
a class, won't do enny household work;
you kan't git a rooster tu p:v enny at
tention tew a young one. They spend '
most of their time in crowing and
strutting, and once in a while they
find a worm, which they make a great
f us over, calling thir wives up from
a distance, apparently to treat them,
but jist ax the hens git thare, this
elegnnt cuss bends over and gobbles
up the worm. J ist like a man for all
the world!
Terr Haute. Febrnarv 24. The
Wabash has rieea fourteen feet in
twenty-four hours. The steamers
iuung America and jik lying here
were wept down by the pressure of
the float ng ice. The Young America
was caught six miles below in a badly
damaged condition, and the Elk ia
supposed to be loat. The steamer
Dolly arden was sunk at her landing
by the ice. A barge, belonging to the
Prairie tity, was unk. No lives
were lost.
The Centreville Chrouiole says: A
Mr Pierson. of Indianaiwlis, has con-
raciea ror me j. is. Julian property
in thi placet-We understand that he
intends building a water cure estab
lishment. We sincerely hope he may,
accomplish the feat, as there ,ia no
better place for it
Billiard Ublea have ben intro "
ttttced into the gymnasium ' at
Princeton College. , -
A IJUls Hersv.
y BY GRACE GREENWOOD.
In the city of Hartford. Conn.. lives
the hero of the true ftory I am about
to relate, but no longer "little," as the
perilous adventure which made him
famous in his native town happened
several years ago.
Our hero was then a bricht. active
boy of fourteen the son of a me
chanic. In the eevere winter of 1835
the father worked in a factory about a
mile from his home, and every day
the boy carried him his dinner across
piece ol meadow land.
Uno keen, frosty day he found the
snow on this meadow nearly two feet
deep, and no traces of the little foot
path remaining. Yet he ran on as
fast as possible, plunging through
drifts, keeping himself warm by vig
orous exercise, and brave, cheerful
thoughts.
When in the midst of the meadow,
nearly half a mile from home, he sud
denly felt himself going down, down !
He bad fallen into a well. He sank
down, down into the dark, icy water,
but rose immediately to the surface.
There he grasd hold of a plank
which had fallen into the well as he
went down; one end of this rested on
the bottom of the well, the other rose
about four feet above the surface of
the water.
The poor lad shouted for help until
he was hoarse and almost speechless;
but all in vain, as it was impossible to
make himself heard from such a
depth, and at such a distance from
any bouse. So at last he concluded
that if he was saved at all he must
save hinist li"vand begin at oncet as he
was getting extremely cold in the
water, bo he went to work.
First he drew himself uu the Dlank.
and braced himself against the wall of
the well, which was ot brick, and
quite smooth. Then he pulled off his
coat, and taking out his pocket-knile,
he cut off his boots that ne might go
to work to greater advantage. Then,
with his feet against one side of the
well, and his shoulder against the
other, he worked himself up by the
most fearful exertion, about one-half
the distance to the top. ilere he was
obliged to pause to take breath and
gather up his energies for the work
yet before him. Far harder wan it
than all be had gone tnrough. for. the
aide being from that point all covered
with ice. lie must cut with his knife
grasping places for his fingers, slowly
and carefully all the way up.
It was almost a hopeless attempt
but it was all that he could do. And
here the little hero lifted up his heart
to Ood, ana prayed fervently lot help,
. fearing that he could never get out
alone.
t Doubtless the Lord heard bis voice
calling from the deep, and pitied him.
HZ TZmhS a "jrttcle ..tO save him.
e breathed mto his heart a yet lar-
and stregthemnVh'im'Vo wftr,K0tftlCfirs
own deliverance.
After this our little hero cut Ins way
upward inch by inch. His wet stockings
frose to the ice and kept his feet from
slipping, but hia shirt was quite vjorn
from his shoulders ere he reached the
top. lie did reach it at last, crawled
out into the snow, and laid down for a
moment to rest, panting out his breath
in little white clouds ou the clear,
frosty air. . . -
llix ilitha soon froze to nis body.
but he no longer auffered with cold, as
full of joy and thankfulness, he ran to
the factory, where hia father was wait
ing and wondering.
The poor man had to go without his
dinner that day, but you may be sure
he cared little about that, while lis
tening with tears in his eyes to the
thrilling story which bis son had to
relate to him.
" I have not heard of the "hero" for
two or threotsars, hot I trust that he
is growing up into a brave, heroic man,
and I hope ne will never forget the
Heavenly Friend who did not forget
him in the hour of his great need.
There is an old saying that truth
lies at the bottom of a well. '
I trust that this brave boy found
and brought up from there this truth :
"God helps those who help them
selves." - "
, Plymouth! Kisses. -
The testimony in the great Brook
lyn trial reveals a singular proneness
50 giving and receiving personal en -iearments
among certain prominent
act.irs in the scandal. Mr. Tilton
swears that Mr. Beecher kissed him,
and that he endured it, even after he
knew that 3Ir. Beecher had commit
ted adultery with his wife. Mrs.
Moulton says that she kissed Mr.
aw L wAikfltr i rwtn Kiss AAnfadaiAn
UCCVUn UllCVVIf wawu vaa , --"-y vr s
J rf guilt and threat of self-murder.
Mr. Iseecuer is represented on several
occasions as layine his hand caress
ingly upon Mr. Moulton's shoulder;
and from a question put to Mrs.
Moulton by Mr. Beecher d counsel, it
would seem that an attempt will be
made to show that not only Mrs.
Moulton, but also Mr. Moulton and
Mr. Tilton were in the habit ot kiss
ing Victoria Woodhull., On reading
these thinga the profane reader is re
minded ot the popular quatrain :
"I saw Kaau kissing Kate,
In fact, we all three saw;
, I saw Ksan, be saw Kate,
And he saw I saw Esau.
" ; h INew York Sun.
There was a scene lately enacted in
a court room at Mons. Belgium, which
would have delighted a White League
man. The accused considered him-
self insulted by the prosecuting attor-
nev. and drawing a revolver pointed it
j at him. The attorney left. The pis-
101 was in succession deliberately
i pointed at the judge, jury, and Becta-
tors, all f whom followed the eiam
, rle of the attorney. Then the accused
( left; and has never returned.
., ....
Free Lftlr Delltrty Sfttna. '
, It has been clearly shown that the
result ot the system is an annual loss
of not less than four millions of dol
lars, and that its convenience to the
public is no compensation for the
great expense to tne national .treas
ury. It is, moreover, unfair and un
just to tax the people at large for the
benefit of the citizens of eighty-seven
cities. ; - -
The Detroit Free Press asks, if Mr.
Bergh can send a man to jail for three
months for killing s mad cat. -we'd
1 like to know what he can do to a boy
1 who feeds marbles to parrot ?
The Xswlti
Surely there ncrer was such another
family tor simon-pure, unadulterated
friendship as the Brooklyn Moultons.
First, we were led to believe .hat
Francis, the head of the family, was
the particular object to be admired,
the only genuine "mutual" friend.
He told us that Mr. Beecher freuuent-
! ly remarked to him that "God .never
J raised up so good a friend to a man.
t rank, as you have been to me, and
Mr. Moulton gave us distinctly to un
derstand that if ever there was a noble
and disinterested follower of sweet
Damon and noble Pythias, he was
that modest young hero. And so it
has gone along, and we have rested
under that belief for six months or
more. But now this is rudely broken
in upon Francis was a friend, to be
sure; he may be said to have been a
very good friend, but the party ot all
parties entitled to honor and glory as
the champion and the one "raised pp"
for the particular occasion was 5lrs.
Francis, the wife of the mutual and
much admired Moulton. It was she
and not her husband who was the
best friend, etc. Witness her testi
mony: "He said I was the only per:
son who oould give him any sympathy.
He met me once in the hall and said
I was the best friend he ever had."
Of course this settles the case. There
could be but one best friend, and if
MrB. Moulton was that, her husband
has to take a back seat.
We are rather puzzled over Mrs.
Moulton. She states that Mr. Beech
er confessed his great sin to her, and
that she was very much horrified and
all that; but strangely enough, she
admits to a feeling of real affection
for him; says she kissed him at vari
ous times, and continues: "I remem
ber one Friday, when Beecher was on
his way to prayer meet ins, when Mr.
Moulton was present, I threw my
arms around Beecher neck and asked
Moulton to save 'this good .man.'"
At another time she says : "I did not
put my arms around him, but I said if
ever there was a good man, I believe
he was one." It's very plain, we
think, that Mrs. Moulton was the par
ticular one "raised up'1 to assist Mr.
Beecher. These demonstrations of
affection and admiration were rather
strange, to be sure, in one who knew
she was talking to a hypocrite, a liar,
and an adulterer; but then, you know,
women are queer beincrs. And it
seems, too. that this lady h:is not al
ways had the sympathy, pity, and ad
miration tor Mr. Tilton which she
uow exhibits. She says : "I remem
ber on one oceasiontelling Mr. Tilton
that ho was 11 villain, and would be
tray my husband as he had betrayed
Mr. Beecher, or something like that.
Now, why did Mis. Moulton say this?
No mutter what she may have thought
of some of Tilton's pranks, why should
she have said that be would ' jjetk a v
m hub band as ho had betrayed Mr.
ye.eo.ber?'' She knew, according to
on the other side. Whatever" eise
Mr. Tilton had done, he had not
betrayed Mr. Beecher, unless the
whole of this case is precisely what
the defense alleges it to be a con
spiracy io ruin the Plymouth pastor.
We do not know how tne oeiense goi
Kolrt of thia exnresp'ion of Mrs. Moul-
ton's but the tact that she was led by
the sharp cross-examination into ad
mitting th:t she made use ot it. is
very important. We shall doubtless
hear more ot it, and of similar utter
ances, before, the ease shall be con
cluded. Inter Ocean.
Tbe rewritten leofrst Mea.
We always think of great men as in
aot nt iwrftirminir deeds which
give them renown or else in stately
repose, grand, silent ana majestic.
And yet this is hardly fair, because
the most gracious and magnificent of
human beings have to bother them
selves with the little things of life
which engage the attention of us
smaller people. No doubt - Moses
snarled and got angry wnen ne naa a
severe cold in hia head, and if a fly
bit his leg while he was in the desert
n. Ehniild wn sunnose he did not
iunio and use violent language and rub.
the sore place! Ana tesar isu 1 it
tolerably certain he used to become
furious when he went up stairs to get
his slippers in the dark and found
that Calphurnia had shoved them un
der the bed so that he had to sweep
around them wildly with a broom
handle? And when Solomon cracked
his crazy-bone ia it unreasonable to
suppose that he ran around the room
and felt as if he wanted to crv? Im
agiue George Washington sitting on
the edge of the bed and putting on a
clean shirt and growling at Martha
because the buttons were off; or St.
Augustine with an apron around his
neck having his hair cut: or Joan of
Arc holding her front hair in her
mouth, as women do while she fixed
up her back hair; Napoleon jumping
out of bed in a frenry to chase a mos
quito around the room with a pillow;
or Martin Luther in a night-shirt try
ing to put the baby to sleep at two
o'clock in the morning; or Alexander
the Great with his hiccoughs; or
Thomas Jefferson getting suddenly
over the fence to avoid a dog; or the
Duke ot Wellington with the mumps;
or Daniel Webster abusing his wife
because she hadn't tucked the covers
at the loot of the bed; or Benjamin
Franklin paring his corns with a ra
aor; or Jonathan Edwards, at the din
net table, wanting to sneeze just as he
got his mouth full of hot beef; or
Noah standing at his window at night
throwing bricks at the cat. Max
Adeler. 1
The Indianapolis Journal settles
the sensation of the amiable spinster
correspondent of the Commercial
thusly: "The law of 1S32 regulating
marriage, is either valid or invalid.
If invalid, it could not repeal the law
of 143, and that enactment must still
be in force, so they are all right any
way." - - .
The Superintendent of Springdale
Cemetery reports the earth frozen
harder and deeper down from the sur
face than he has known it during the
last twenty-two winters he has had
charge of the cemetery
The Kansas : State Relief Com
mittee authorize the axmonncetaent
that moet of tbe leading railroads
: have given notice that they will no
! lonarer carry relief eroods consigned
i to individuals without the payment
I of freight at regular rates.
SPARE THE BIRDS.
The UrsMkssprr Placss T ta
WstTh Rcsalt arTlielr la. .
olsserlaalBtatte Slstsvhter.
Cor. Hartford (Conn.) Courant,J"eb. 13.
And no wonder. The marvel is
that it does not sweep over that whole
region, when we read of the wanton
destruction ot its birds. An item in
arAV rAf Innn uin -a at zii-f
-v.Lij'r f-v. uu 1VU5 Qauwj ciatu
that 10,000 quails and prairie chickens
were ted to swine in a single day, in
that city. It goes on to say that in
the country west of Chicago, quails,
ruffled grouse, and prairie chickens
are destroyed by the million, irrespec-
live 01 law or season. 10ns 01 Dirus
snared and shot out of season are
boiled down and fed to swine. On
one day there stood a waeon on the
corner of two streets, containing one
hundred and eighty dozens of prairie
chickens, while, on the near sidewalk,
were piled thirty-seven boxes, con
taining hve hundred and sixty dozens
ot quails, corrupt, decomposing anil
condemned by the health officers, as
only ht lor swine, lhey are trapied.
hot and snared, and sent to the
market, where they find a ready sale
up to the middle of March, and yet
the indiscriminate slaughter continues.
The young birds and Eetting hens, all
alike, are captured and sent to Chicago
and other cities on commission, and
destined to be fed to swine. The
birds, the editor says, must soon dis
appear before such recklessness and
vice. Yes, the birds have disappeared
almost entirely from many Western
localities, and grasshoppers and other
noxious insects have multiplied and
swarmed forth, to spread famine and
desolation. The divinely arranged
balance between birds and insects
have been destroyed by ruthless bird
killers, and the cry of famine rings
out over the land. Such is the retri
bution for the violence of the equipoise
of nature and the making of discard
in the divine harmony of nature's
works.
This harmony runs through the
whole creation, and its disturbance
always produces suffering. The innu
merable rivers which flow into the sea
are freighted with all the impurities
of the land, which, if not abated in
some way, would turn the ocean into
a cess-pool. But these impurities and
foreign ingredients are absorbed, or
worked up into islands for the future
occupancy of man. by millions and
millions of animalcules, and other
larger marine scavengers. To them
is given a task infinitely greater and
more laborious than the building of
the pyramids or the tunneling of gran
ite mountains, which all the mighty
men of earth could not perform.
so the birds have a task, which va
rious governments have tried in vain
to get done, by offering bounties as
inducements to their citizens, to de-
strov thv inu tuta 1 - ,
exterminators of the enemy, without
whose divinely appointed labors, in
keeping the insect world in check,
the earth would soon be made void as
at the beginning, and gaunt famiue
would rcien over all its realms.
Some predict that the winged
scourge is eastward bound. This is
not improbable: and whence will come
our deliverance? Our natuial helpers
hang up in our meat-markets by mil
lions, sacrificed to the gratification of
epicurean appetites. Not only the
larger varieties, but the little tiny
birds with their crops full of insects,
are brought to New York markets in
bushels and sold for a few cents a
doen.
The Entomologist of September,
1S6S, startled its readers by the fol
lowing declaration : "On the whole
we are certainly speaking within
bound when we assert that, taking
one year with another, this country
suffers from the depredations of nox
ious insects to the amount of $300,
000.000." Peter Kalm, a Swedish botanist, at
the suggestion of Linneus, in 1745,
was sent by the Swedish government
to make a botanical tour through
North America. In his voluminous
reports he incidentally 6tates that,
"after the creat destruction made
amonc the blackbirds for a bounty of
three jieoce a dozen, the northern col
onies, in 1749, experienced a complete
loss of grass and grain, which were
dovuured bv insects.
The older civilizations of the East
are more anrtreciative and protective
of birds than our own. In Japan they
are held sacred and never destroyed.
On the occasion of the visit to that
eountfv in 1844. of the squadron com
manded by Commodoie Perry, who
opened it to the commerce of the
United States, several of his officers,
one day, went out to shoot birds, for
their amusement. The natives were
hnrror Btrieken when seeine the de
struetion of their favorite birds, and
ran to the eommodore to remonstrate
sir.-iinst the cruel conduct of his sub
ordinates. This soon put an end to
the sport of American bird-killers in
.Tanan. and when the treaty between
the two countries was negotiated, the
Jananese authorities were careful to
have inserted an article protective of
the birds ol that country from Ameri
can fowlers.
What an exposition is this of the
comparative worth of the two civili
sations; and how gratelul should we
be to the Japanese government for
sending young missionaries to this
barbarous country, under the guise of
pupils seeking education in our
schools, but realiy, it would seem, to
convert our bird-shcoting barbarians
to the gentle humanities ot their re
ligion, and teach our school boys good
manners and good morals 1 Success
to the mission!
The Seymour Times says: "If
there is any trash more flat, stale and
unprofitable, than the proceedings of
these teachers' institutes we have
never seen it in print. These pro
ceedings consist of fnlsom eulogies
and compliments passed upon one an
other and the beautiful system, of
education, of which these teachers are
the nngrammatical lights." Without
endorsing this the Madison Courier
respectfully refers the criticism to the
teachers lor their consideration. ,
V "What is it which has a mouth
and never speaks, and . a bed and
never sleeps? A liver.
.'."j!. . "1 as . ;
The ' old time trotter, Flora
Temple, is still alive and, perhaps,
kicking. She ia over 30 years old.
t
i Washington Dispatch to the Cleveland
Leader.
- The Democrats are alarmed and
have decided upon another grave con
sultation. Governor Hendricks. An
drew Johnson, George II. Pendleton
and others have been telegraphed to
come and consult as to the propriety
of defeating the appropriation bilU
and forcing an extra session of Con
gress, under the pretense of guarding
against carrying out the suggestion ol
the President' Arkansas message.
The real cause of the consultation is,
however, alarm at the harmony in the
Republican ranks and the increased
backbone of Republican lenders. Sen
ator Thurman, Fernando Wood, and
other Democratic leaders are terribly
alarmed at the certainty of the Re
publican victory in 1S76, hence the
telegraphing; for absent comrades for
a council of war.
A Good Wife.
Prov. XI-16v. A gracious woman
retaineth honour; and strong men re
tain riches.
XII-4v. A virtuous woman is a
crown to her husband; but she that
maketh ashamed is as rottenness in
his bones.
XIV-lv. Every wise woman build
eth her house; but the foolish pluck
eth it down with her hands.
XIX-14v. House and riches arc
the inheritance of fathers: and a pru
dent wife is from the Lord.
XXXI-16v. She considereth a
field and buyeth it; with the fruit of
her hand she planteth a vineyard.
17v. She girdeth her loins with
strength, and 6trengtheneth her arms.
18v. She perceiveth that her mer
chandise is good; her candle goeth not
out by nifiht.
20v. She stretcheth out her hand
to tho floor; yea she reacheth forth
her hands to the needy.
25v. Strength and honour are her
clothing; and she shall rejoice in time
to come.
26v. She qpeneth her mouth with
wisdom; and in her tongue is the law
of kindness.
27 v. She look eth well to the ways
of her household, end eateth not the
bread of idleness.
28v. Her children arise up and call
her blessed; her husband also, and he
praiselh her.
29 v. Many daughters have done
virtuously, but thou excellest them
all.
30v. Favour is deceitful, and
beauty is vain; but a woman that fear
eth the Lord, she shall be praised.
dlv. Uive her ot the lruit ot her
hands; and let her own works praise
her in the gate.
Susan B. Anthony.
Can any of vou gentlemen tell what
the "B"' stands for in' Susan B. An-
about, too busy to stand or sit. Rum-
mellsburg Demonstrator.
As the "ii is after Susan, perhaps
it wants to extract honey from her
lips. Christian Observer.
But as the "B" is before Anthony.
what can it be for? Continental Dam
Builders' Organ.
Perhaps it is to mark Anthony.
Bungtown Banner.
If that "B" has been after Susan
all her life, and we knew the longev
ity of bess but that may be going too
lar. Harper's Bazar ,
The "Ii"' in question is in the im
perative mood, and a command is ut
tered in this shape: Susan be An
thony, and never be anything else.
Educational Journal.
Perhaps the "B" was intended to
show her abee lity to sing. The Scots
man. Why don"t you go to the lady's
grandmother and get the facts of the
case? Evangelist.
Katie King informs nie that Susan's
maiden name was Brown, and that the
was once married to a Mr. Anthony,
of Rome, who deserted her for a col
ored girl called Cleopatra. Robt. Dale
Owen.
It is believed in Brooklyn thnt
Theodore Tilton is responsible for
that B. When somebody told her to
get up. out of his lap, he remarked:
Let Susan B! Brooklyn Eagle.
It is an old saying, concerning a
man who is flighty, that he has a bee
in hia bonnet, but this, of course, has
nothing to do with the question.
Phrenological Record.
The Globe prints these opinions to
show what a vast amount of misfor
tune can exist concerning a simple
matter. It is consoling to know that
Susan B. will continue to be long af
ter these editorial bees have ceased to
buzz. The , B" in her middle name,
according to the inscription on the
Moabite stone but we can't think of
it just at this minute. Boston Globe.
It is curious that so plain a ques
tion is in such a muddle. Gentlemen,
vou all mistake tbe point. The young
la Jy was dissatisfied with plain Susan,
and wished to "B" Anthony. The
peculiarity of this particular B is
that it is B-forc Anthony, B-hind Su
san and B tween both. To effectually
dispose of this important question we
suggest that it be referred to the next
North American Bee Keeper's Con
vention. Pittsburgh Chronicle.
If you will h t Susan "B." gentle
men, she will still "B" Anthony,
which might "B" more congenial to
ber tastes than B"-ing Bennett,
Brown, Beecher, or any other man.
Perhaps not. McKcesport (Penn.)
Times.
We are satisfied to let Susan B. An
thony as long as she desires. She has
probably solved the question of "To
be, or nt to be." in her own way, long
incc.-Detroit Commercial Advertisar.
Never a B. has bothered the brains
of our brethren like unto this B be
tween Susan and Anthony. To ac
count for its being there, we suppose,
like the author ol Genesis commences
sacred history, i go there "in the be
ginning," because she was so B-witch-ing
when little. Richmond Palladi
um. --: - ' ' '
The publishers of the Terre
Haute - newspapers have entered :
into an agreement not to publish
an j legal notice of any kind, except
sberifTs sales, unless tbe l cash ae -companies
the advertisement, and
to forfeit tile sum of $100 lor every
I violation of the contract. 1 -
j - la m Peck f Trsaslr.
lautfa i Les-lslattare.
j Indianapolis, February 22.
Senate. In the Senate bills were
introduced quietin? the t'tli of tha
State to lands in the bed of Beaver
Lake, Newton county, anl to relieve
counties ir..ia su t entered by the
Attorney-General to recover certain
taxes on the equalization f lST'J.
f The State Board of Health bill
; failed on engrossment.
The bill reducing the salary of the
! Governor to $'6,000. and the per d'em
! of members to b provoked a long
'debate. A proposition wss oflered to
: make the per diem provision apply to
j the present Assembly. It was made
I aiuu.;.! "VI I ... -..
noon.
HorsE. The House passed bills
for the advertisement of lands sold on
assignment, to prevent unfair sale,
defining auction and auctioneers' sales
as to the lowest bidder as well as the
highest, and for the p yment of mate
rial taken by supervisors of roads.
A committee of investigation was
ordered to inquire into the charges of
abuse in the Insane Hospital.
BilU were introduced: To repeal
the appropriation to the State Uni
versity; for the appointment by the
Governor of a railroad commissioner
(the bill is modeled after the Massa
chusetts law, with a salary of 4.000);
to reduce the number ot clerks of both
Houses from sixty to twenty-four.
A joint resolution was introduced
asking Congress to refuse any appro
priation to the Texas Pacifio Rail
road. The Governor informed your cor
respondent to day that he had no idea
of calling an extra session of the
Legislature. This has been hinted at
in various quarters, but Hendricks
will not entail the expense on the
State.
Tuesday, February 23.
Senate, Leave of balance was
granted Secretary Rhodes because of
death in his famil3'. A petition from
Rush county asked that the law ol in
terest bo not changed. A large num
ber of reports of standing committees
were presented. A resolution oflered
by ir. Johnson, of Floyd, urging
forward the investigation of the
Southern Prison, proved somewhat of
a firebrand, kiudling a warm debate
on this tender topic. The result was
instructions to investigate both pris
ons. A bill was passed establishing a
Superior Court in Tippecanoe county.
A joint resolution asking of Congress
to make the law effective in protecting
the manufacture ol polished plate
glass in the Uuted States, was adopt
ed, after a spirited discussion, partici
pated in by Messrs. Dykeman, Harney,
Johnson, of Floyd; Johnson, of
Parke; Sco.t, and others. In the af
ternoon sixteen bills were passed,
among them Senate bill 115, known
"TiiVnbuskT. Ihe MoVgan rauf
claim was tabled; the building com
mittee reported that there was no nig
ger in the woodpile at the Southern
Prison so far as the building accounts
are concerned. A bill was introduced
which provides for a State House
sinking fund of f2,000.000. The ap
portionment bill passed, as did the
bill authorizing the Governor, Audi
tor and Treasurer to negotiate a tem
porary loan, alter argument.
'Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 24.
Senate The concurrent resolu
tion, to meet in joint convention to
day for the election of a trustee of the
Bliod Asylum, was taken up and re
ferred to the Committee on the Judi
ciary to examine into the legal ques
tion whether the election should not
be by concurrent action of the two
Houses, in accordance with the terms
of the statute on that subject. .
The Governor's message nominating
two trustees of the House of Refuge
was referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee, to inquire as to the vacancy
alleged to exist by expiration ot term
of A. S. Evans, of Fort Wayne.
Reports were received from the
standing committees. Among them a
bill for the purchase of additional
land for the House of Refuge. Mr.
Bell gave notice that he would submit
a minority report with reference to
that institution, probably to morrow.
Mr. Baxter, from the Reformatory
Committee, reported on the Woman's
Reformatory to the effect that it was
well managed and in excellent con
dition. They recommend an appro
priation of 20,000 for outside im
nrovements.
A concurrent resolution was adopt
ed providing lor the appointment of a
committee ol three Senators and three
Representatives to see that the pro
dncti and mineral resources of Indi
ana are properly set forth at the Cen
tennial JjipUMUUU.
Mr. Sleeth introduced a bill requir
ingthe Auditor of State to pay quar
terly into the treasury the fees received
from foreign insurance companies, ex
cepting ten per cent, to be retained
for his services. (This will give the
Auditor 1,20U a year instead ot $12,
0U0, as now. On motion to suspend
the constitutional rules so as to place
the bill on its passage, the call result
ed: yeas, 29; nays, 14, the motion fail
ing, the negative vote being entirely
Democratic. The bill was made the
cpecial order for 9 o'clock to-morrow
morning. -
The Senate bill to change the age of
girls to be admitted to the Woman's
Reformatory from 12 to 16 passed,
under su pension of the rules, by 39
to 1.
The Senate bill, allowing Criminal
Coart judges to issue writs of habeas
corpus, passed by 40 to 1.
The Senate bill allowing towns of
2.000 inhabitants to incoiporate as
cities, passed by 40 to 2.
The Senate bill, prohibiting coun
ties but allowing particular townships
to vote aid to railroads, passed by 27
to 14. ; .
The Senate bill, making it a misde
meanor, punishable with imprison
ment, to rent buildings for ill-fame and
assignation purioees, passed by 40 to
none.
The Governcr nominated Judge
John G. Scott, of Vigo, as Trustee of
the State Normal School for four
years, vice the Hon. R.W. Thompson,
whose term has expired.
In the afternoon bills passed: To
complete' the record of deeds within
forty five days; allowing joint stock
companies 1 1 loan surplus funds to
T outsiders; House bill for the appoint
1 ment ot commissioners to locate the
boundary line between Indiana and
Kentucky, near Evansville; abolishing
the fre bank depirtment'in the State
Auditor's office; Houso bill iucorpor
at ng a bridge couiauy at Evansville.
A committee was appointed to in
quire what legislation is needed to re
invest in the State title to swamp
lands conveyed by Congress under the
art of 1S55. given to Indiana and other
States for the purpose of reclaiming
them by draining.
House. The Hou-e passed tho
Senate bill, allowing the adoption of
chtldren, inmates of reformatory in
stitutions, without consent of parents.
Also the bill preventing the sale of
deadly weapons to nr'nors.
The Wolf Lake Harbor bill was
taken up, vote reconsidered and laid
on table. '
Five Hondrwl Tnonsand Tears AS.
The Nation condenses from . an
English scientific periodical, some 'In
teresting speculations from Dr. Alfred
Russell Wallace of the probable an
tiquity of the human species. They
may well startle, it says, even those
who have long sine come to the con
clusion that 6.000 years carry us but
a small way b k to the original home.
Iu fact Dr. Wallace's (J.OoO years are
but as a day. He reviews the curious
attempt to determine the antiquity of
human remains or works of art, and
finds the bronze age in Europe to h ive
been pretty accurately fixed at 3 000
or 4.000 years ago, tho stone e ol
the Swiss lake dwellings at 5,000 to
7,000 years, '"and an indefinite anterior
period." The burnt brick found sixty
feet deep in the fine alluvium indi
cates an antiquity of 20 000 years; an
other fragment at seventy-two feet
gives 30,tKK) years. A human skele
ton found at the depth ol sixteen feet
below four hundred buried forests
superposed upon each other, hac been
calculated by Dr. Dawel to have an
antiquity of 50,000 years. But all
these estimates are pale before those
which Kent's Cavern at Troouay legit
iuiate. Here the drip of the stalag
mite is the chief factor ot our compu
tations, giving us an ui per floor which
divides the relics of the last two or
three thousand years from a deposit
of the bone of an extinct mammallia
and glutton, indicating an arctic cli
mate. Names cut in the stalagmite
more than 2.000 years ago are legible
in other words, where the stalag
mite is twelve inches thick and the
drip very copious, not more than a
hundredth ot a toot has been deposi
ted in two centuries a rate of five
feet in 10.000 years. Below this, how
ever, we have thick, much older, and
crystaline (i. e., more slowly formed)
stalagmite, beneath which again, ' in
a solid brecia very different from the
cave earth; undoubted works of art
having been found. Mr. Wallace
assumes only 100,000 years for the up-
ler noor, Zsu.miu tor the immediate
cave earth by which he arrives at ihe
ihanshtp'were buried in the depth of
h.ent s Cavern. - .
One of those crimes which the biw
has been powerless to prevent is that
ol selling whisky to the Indians.
Traders have always found some means
of evading ail regulations to prevent
them from supplying the red man
with his favorite "fire-water." Some
how the heavy penalties have been
easily evaded, and Lo has been able
to get "tight whenever be can get a
mink-skin to trade for whisky. In
view of this bad state of the case, the
Committee of the House on lndi in
Affairs have agreed to report a bill
still mora stringent, in the hone that
this vile traffic may be exterminated.
We are fearlul that it will not suc
ceed. Between the greed of the aver
age Indian trader and the appetite of
the race of "the untutored mind."
there is little chance for either law or
gospel to make any favorable change
in this direction. -
-, A Xw Rifle. .
A Paris journal describes a new
rifle, of novel construction, recently
invented in that city. According
to this account, the gun presents
nothing remarkable exteriorly, but
the lock is so arranged that the
breech is opened by cocking the
piece, and, the charge being intro
duced the breech is closed, and the
gun fired by touching the trigger.
The cartridge consists of a hollow
leaden cone filled ' with powder,
and closed at the base by a piece of
cork. At the moment the cartridge
is introduced into tbe breech, tho
powder escapes by a small hole in
the cork, and an imperceptible ball
of fulminating powder, which forma
the priming, takes its former posi
tion. The tripple action of cocking,
loading and tiring is thus effected
simultaiieously, so that a mui with
but slight experience can fire
twenty rounds a minute. The
cartridges are stored in an iron
tube, which is placed parallel with
the barrel, and . containing thirty
balls, so that the piece may be fired
as many times almost without any
interval, and without removing the
stock from ihe shoulder, there
being nothing to be done bat to
cock and pull the trigger. ,
- n s) s
Way She Was Hanny.
: Two ladies met on Wool ward
avenue, Detroit, the other day, and
one inquired of tbe other:
"Why, you. look very happy this
morning. What s happened?
Oh! I've just been having my
fortune told," was the reply, "and
tbe woman says I'm io marry twice
more, have diamonds and a camel'a
hair sliawl, and thai I can go to
the opera six nights in a week if I
want to.' i. ;
"Dear me, I don't wonder that
you are happy. But you won't say
anything to your husbandr
"Oh, of course not. Poor man!
He's good to me, and it might hurt
his feelings to know that Tin going
to marry twice more I think I'll
tell him that Tm likely to dio first"
The President has appointed ex
Senator Thayer of Nebraska, io be
Governor of Wyoming, vice Jno.
A. Campbell who is appointed
third Assistant Secretary of Stats.
Tat Brrrbfr TrtJ.
Amoupr thw i:nvsa tor Tilh.n
a Joseph appears. He not the
Joseph thai was m.hl by hi f.it th
ers to the Ihmalitt a. tbi -li s jd
is of 4 verj dif?Tnt strip Utia
that That Jotta'pli vs o!.l. tlr
Josepij im the seller. Hi i. ii.. n.
received for ttat Jo t ph.. tn1v
pieces f silver tUs JuP.pl. vl.l
hia sister for about "s;vii!vfie
cen and mileage " in gr. tuUuks
When that Jos ph bail it iu U
power to punish his brtln n f.r
tlieir uniirttuinl act. 1 e inidtml for-
gave them and treated them iiud
ly; wiien Ibis Jotph Lud it in i
power t span, his itd r tl ci m 1
est blow of all. he insteji.l 1 imi-tlf
inflicte I it When tb SoHIn i.r.l
Pharisees bronght before tht
Savior the "wonmn tnktn io mini
Ury,"' they lmuVnt clmk triopli to
withstand the rebuke He pvetlini.
when He told tbetn : "He tl at i
without sin auioDtf vou, ht Liui
first cast a stone at her.' but slm L
away und hid thewselvra. But i
Joe Richards had been i niorg- i!,H?
crowd he would bavt bnrlt-d lh.
first "dornick at the woman, esp.
ially if she had bten his sitt. r
Joseph would have the - public b
lieve him an unwilling witnc
against his sister; yes, he is carefel
to tell the Court that he had Wen
employed! and must needs testify
It was most excruciating to his
'phelinks to have to strife to the
heart the fragile and frail sisbi r
sifting before him. but thtn we
muBt remember that Joe was und r
subpoena, and did any man in all
the world ever yet find a way to
avoid the command of a snbio?nii?
Joseph is a traveling advertising
agent and certainly be shows rn.i
nent fitness for his calling, by (his '
huge job of advertising his broth
erly affection for his t-ister E itun
Register. "
Business Rivalry In rr(f. -
A singular etorj is this from the
Columbia Ga. Sn"n. "There tire two
houses on upper Oglethorj strict
Business need not be mentioned.
One is more prosperous Llmu the
other. The least successful hired
an old woman, who is reported t.
be a conjurer. bringer on of j-tW
or bad luck, as the case tuny I.e.
who was to cast down the iivnl
and lift up the employer. S i-lf
goes to work and gets some uit!i
fram the graveyard. mixs it vi-.l.'
osiy lf-Buit inns jar is me fcr.iiPg l
a verben. The branch, b of u'
China tree which grew in one lot
overhung the house of the oll.t r.
Some of the berricn ivere giithtrcd.
boiled with peculiar roots, inenn
tations muttered and the tutts
thrown into the yard. ,Wt- a:e told
that this, nonsensical as it ttppeiUH,
has really happened in Colinmbiiu.
We didn t think that ic"oranco
and superstition could extend that
far in our city. If bad and gtiod
luck does come ol this, ihe hirer
will swear the conjuration was the
cause." .j ' ' '
A Car ster county P-3 farmer
killed a Chester white hog, weighing
1,087 pounds rive weight, and IMJi
i j i
pouuus urrueu,
A correspouneni of the New
York Times reports a production
of 240 pounds of butter in eight
months from one cow without extra
feeding. -s
Coal tar, in which " stine limV
had been mixed, freely swabbed on
birch, maple, and elm fence p st.
set out by F. R. Elliott in 1852.
was followed by these posts remain
ing sound for twenty years. " "
The Kansas Farmer recommends
that Ihe meeting of the Kane is
State Grange be deferred one year
on account of the hard times in
that State, believing the executive
committee can transact all business
necessary to be done.
Wind sucking is a habit arising
from the animal being confined in
the stable, without sufficient excr
cise. The only remedy is a brcud
leather strap buckled arourjd the
throat tight enough to prevent
bending the neck.
Four "toddies down a man's
throat these cold days wm'L aita
a man half so much as a sjngle but
punch on the nose.
"You may Kindly guide the
prancing steed to the cliryrttl
brook which babbles down the bill
side in i the summer sua, but yo i
can not coerce him to stop and
slake his thirst in Ihe si very
stream if be be n it will ng to ac -pt
your proffered kindness ' i;-. r.
The State Librarian of Ohio
hadn't been dead a week beloie
eighty -two people asked to be bis
successor.
"Amateur gentleman, say an
old Lvdy, "is a pretty good descrip
tion of a certain class of jonnj
men." : ... . -
The Ohia Legislature hi amend
ed the liquor sale bill, so as to
require ten days notice to tbu cor -poration
clerk before bringing an
action against a dealer. ,
The Milwaukee Sentinel thinks
that it ia a mistake to suppose that
education alone, unless i , embraces
some spe-Tialty, fits the possessor
to secure the prire fos wbich men
contend; and it thinks, furthermore.
J that it could hire ten " thousand
thoroughly .educated raen in the
United States at the present time
to work fas-t 51 s month, bat it
I couldn t hire h't far tbai.