Elkhart Democrat (Newspaper) - December 19, 1879, Elkhart, Indiana ESTABLISHED EN 1866. EVERY 83 a in No paper discontinued until all arrears ure paid at the option of tbe otm Auction 19, 1879. 5U OF 00 45 00 30 00 one column one column one 10 cents a line for first and 5 cents for each subsequent Business not ten this sized 85.00 per lines of this a and iM business cards that much Attorneys at Gov The only abstracto in the and Diseases with unparalleled on Diseases on lOPian Send or first in be Consultation rooms over Shumway's BaM 116 Main beoKs of Ul by mail bound 014 mads to order on Snort attended A east side of Main All calls in city or country promptly of the over the Cornish Heat comer Mala estate transfers and collections attended t4 and all business Main at all reasonable Ice in their P. attend promptly all calb for public sales and al lowest Address or at this T. Insurance and Collecting Agent Office 138 Main ELKHART - M. now prepared to execute work in the department o lAnd Survey Orders expeditiously attended Office cornel and Jackson J. consulted At over A Orug 00 Main on from H to 11 n. ami 2 to audat all hours whca not ou Haggerty's comer of 3d oud on corner Main and Harrison Open all Cancers use of the corner and Harrison all calls in city or and Tumors treated Over First National attention given to laans and J. A. AND Main and High B ock first of Sage to general but prefers of Women and S. B. 1>. HAT and aching and Artificial teeth on any of the different styles of bases at moderate Gold a All registered and ' T. Greene elevated railroad employes of New York are petitioning for an increase of hundred thousand Mohammedan pilgrims worship in the Kaaba of Mecca is in N. over one hundred which has never failed till this tonnage of the United States United States 3,040,743 to foreign 10,718,394. Pacific coast consumes over 5,000,000 pounds of and more than 130,000,000 are at present 100,000 telephones in use in the United and 4,000 have already been introduced in clergyman ambitious of temporal has brought suit to recover a district in Wales twenty-three American Union telegraph company continues to employ a mounted patrol to guard Its poles earth is so cracked on the prairies in Erath that it is dangerous to ridie on The last rain fell on Ihe 29th of New ' Haven man smokes several cigars a day throughout every even but in the odd years not one from January to December the trial of at New indicted for overstepping his duties during the Fort Stanton riots last resulted in Los A. J. city tax has absconded with This is the fourth defalcation on the part of of that city in the last five sends large quantities of steel blanks to Connecticut lobe struck off into They are then re turni d to where the fine finishing is St. Louis and sheet association have taken liminary steps to strike if their employers do not their wages 15 per be fore the 1st of partially decayed body of Jaines a retired was discovered recently in the garret of the bank building at lie had been missing since large iron known as which Wixs brought to from New York during the has been sold to Boston will be removed lien creditors of the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad obtained a decree of foreclosure against the road on about ol The road has been given six months in which to match in New between the French Andrew and Edwin the English was won by the latter in two straight Duke of Cleveland has lately evicted from their homes on his Devonshire estates in England about 160 They and their have occupied their houses since the Norman largest steamer that ever crossed the Atlantic was the Great Her extreme length was 080 with a tonnage of 12,000 She was built in and was launched in 1858. that city of Beau chael Angelo and Dealer ALL to tlie and against Street railroads as injurious and calculated to injure The population consists chiefly of from state that 300 Elliot county visited Clifty creek where they captured four petty charged with barn One was shot and the mercilessly stockholders of cotton mills company at Little Rock voted an amendment to the charter increasing the capital stock from to The work of extension correspondingly commences the regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Ohio railroad John A. Garrett was elected president for the This makes the 22d consecutive Garrett's election as is a man in Kentucky whose first child was a He wanted a boy so bad that for two years he wouldn't acknowledge the sex of the He made prominent man of the county believe that it was a boy and named ior New York Inspector of who was convicted last week of falsely and fraudulently issuing a certificate of votes cast for for at the election 1878, was sentenced for two years in the state a New Jersey agricultural a man exhibited three packages of All from the same He took first premium for second for while the third was strongly death of Dr. Sylvester of of N. is He was born in New and was the son of a royalist captain in the revolutionary and a oh his of the Ben several agd the 1eib| 3" of an alleged has been released having been iwas not the guilty threw into the to When he was hauled ashore a bottle of whisky was in his Being asked what he took it with him he replied that his rescuers might want miners at in and Coalton are on a - The ject is to compel the to accede to the demands of railroad section who have been on a strike for some time for ' This action 800 men statement sent from Boston that arrangements had been made for a reunion of and Alton and the Sante Fe Roads from President the penitentiary they are sent on There 103; but lo the to 150. , ' The historic the Leth cently W. for 000, from New York to-day for will run between that town Stw John ' ' al al place ' 1 the Dec. 11.At the meeting of the United States board of trade two papers were one by Mr. of the statistical by A. H. on postal Several resolutions relative to commercial matters were arid after ing some routine business the board adi subject the call of the chair The members then called on the the session of the National Board of Trade to-day the following was That in the opinio n of this board it is desirable to secure national legislation upon commerce by and that said legislation should embody the following to raise a special commission to secure uniformity and publicity in railway accounts and publicity of railway contracts and to enforce provisions securing of rates and classifications under like circumstances publicity of rates and prevention of and prevention of extortionate charges and of personal or local next proposition considered was the expediency of renewing the efforts of the National Board of Trade to procure the enactment by congress of the national bankrupt After considerable debate on the matter it was referred to a special with instructions to report to meetings of the board proposition submitted by the Philadelphia board of advocating the adoption of a cental was then considered resulting in of the following was offered by Mr. Randolph of That it be recommended to congress provide for the adoption of cental r of supplies by the the and collecting of duties arid the of statistics in tlie case of committees to which it may be hoard then reaffirmed its previously taken in favor of the of a department of a branch of the general a minister or the resolution was adopted calling the attention of the government again to the light duties collected by Great Britain on a view ta opening diplomatic looking to their s a very general debate ou the subject of the existing trade the States with the Dominion the following resolutions were agreed That a committee of five board be appointed to urge on ' president commission whose duty it shall be to whenever it shall he by the government of Great consider jointly with Great the subject 6f and on what basis a treaty of reciprocal trade can be negotiated and concluded for the benefit of the people of the United States and the dominion of The commission is hereby instructed to report doings at the next meeting of this following of which the president of the board is was appointed to confer with the committee on commerce of thJ house of representatives on matters relating to the commerce of the of Thurber and of New York Bates and of of Milwaukee Middleton and of and of A permanent committee on reciprocity were consisting ot the ing Kemble of McLaren of Milwaukee Hersey of Portland Hodges of Baltimore snd of Dec. 11.^The Star and Herald of Panama says just before the sailing of the from the following was received by the president from General The have been driven back in Santa Cattalina and Dolores by General Daga cuts off their retreat in turn and the fight still In San Antonio the excitement was and every one was In Lima on the arrival ot the at Caliao the telegram was and private ones had been re announcing the defeat of the with heavy but adding the curious circumstance that they had re their old Dec. 11.-Yesterday mornin two children of a gii aged and a aged drowned by the breaking of the of an ice pond thirteen miles north of this The ice pond was formed by two dams a quarter ot a mile Recent heavy rains swelled the causing the lower dam to and a torrent of water swept down upon near the ice with two of his children in his arms and leading a the and followed by his attempted to wade through the flood from his which was surrounded with water to the depth of six The ing timber of an old ice house the little boy out of his father's arms and the little girl froni his and were McCroy wife and the remaining child Dec. 12.A hill in equity was filed to-day in the United States circuit court in behalf of Mr. Stephen Ell Morgan St sister and brothers of the late Mrs. Sarah Ann against The object of is to null and void the will of Mrs. Dorsey of January 4th, 1878, by which the whole her estate was bequeathed to Jefferson Dec 12.A" special from Los Pinos 11% says After Los Pinos tlie will to or where they will the Gen chairman of the says -I believe that these Indians will allow to be tried in that they cim ihe tried as well end this business and fight them cy the governor a writ of Dec. 12.Nathan ex-president of the trust was convicted to-day of Dec. 12.^Five.hundred in the contributions will probably reach Dec. 12.The stocks of sugar held by leading consumers are The authorities now consider the beet supply from 250,000 to 300,000 tons short of last There has been hardly a important transaction in foreign The slock in the chief European at the end of is estimated at 19,000 tons less than the same time last Dec. y 12..The Western Union Telegraph in response to a issued by the senate committee on privileges and elections for the production of all messages in regard to ator and all books records and records certain covering the first six months of 1878, which was made returnable on the 11th have asked and obtained an extension of till next ' has 130,000 ounces of silver for tlie mint at San this received a telegram from General dated Los December 10. the in their request to be tried in meant to be tried by the They are willing to be tried anywhere out j. of They stated through Ouray that they might as well be hung to trees at the agency as to be taken to Ouray says that the commission has demanded all warriors mentioned by the but that the women made some which at the but the proper persons will be secured aad turned over as soon as it is ascertained who they They will turn over all persons mentioned by the Dec. 12.^The president of the board of aldermen to-day introduced aa ordinance the sale of is not making much show It is probably switched off to train go There is opposition to holding the Indiana in An campaign is too long for the average republican can ' real of the day are the republican editors one column the south verge of a new lion and in next land the section as consumptive a few months the campaign will be When you come to look into the matter the time for getting ready surprisingly who expect to serve as should resign was never in such a stew From the brigadiers in congress and the returning his neck is almost twisted off his tliS fate to be angels have stirred nomination of lect the ablest and purest representative to noon Th and others specified by ' i ' ' - people of a station and are greatly excited in consequence of grave robberies committed last I robbers tracked men having three dead their one of bodies oC Robert and of and tlie third of Miss who time of was ninety years of- ' Gazetteer reports that man mentioned in atch from St Petersburg having dynamite a complete plan of the and a printed circular that the palace blown the next i party left for at Dec. 12.Jndge concluded to % liquors in places where public theatrical entertainments are and it was referred to the city solicitor to port if it in proper police commissioners to-day voted to make no more arrests for giving theat rical shows on Sunday until the pending cases arc Also so as to allow the shows to go the proprietors to be arrested and dealt with according to of proprietors of all places of were made of Police has A. S. Sands is elected in his place and Wappenstein made v N. Dec 14.Two young May daughter of Judge and Jane daughter of C. C. ship skating on the river through a weak spot in the ice and weie Dec. 13.Rev. George rector of the Cavalry Episcopal was stricken with paralysis 61ass." He removed to his residence on a His condition is extremely He is years Dec. 13The bod ies of John Brown and his daughter for whose murder Clarke son of the was recently been for furter It is and will be arrested as a consequence of this Dec. 14.The- house committee on Indian adopted Representative Bedford's calling on the secretary of the interior for correspondence relative to the Ute also Representative resolution instructing the committee on Indian affairs to investigate the cause of the recent Ute The senate resolution to appoint a with a view to the removal of the was also adopted with sonie house committee on postoffices and have adopted the of Representative Money establishing a der the act of June 1879. It is estimated by the treasury department about per of these were issued prior to 1875, when no coinage was James M. city this v company has been incorporated under the laws of the District ot with a capital of to publish a weekly devoted entirely to the interests of the army and and to be called the and Navy Register Mr. E. H. of the Boston will have editorial charge of the R Dec. 14.About three o'clock this morning the two-story brick lively stable occupied by A. J. corner of Scott and Eliri discovered to be in and in a few hours A cotton compress adjoining was also The family of Gill is asleep in the second Gillis and wife dropped their children out of the window to the ground v suffocated by tlie and falling back was Gillis jumped from the window and was picked up in m from injuries It is he inhaled the and is fatally Both children were About ten houses and several carriages arid buggies were About 100 bales or cotton were at the about on stable and The building belonged to Bishop The compress jo the aj ' There was insurance on the burned A fireman named wiis hurt from falling off the outer stairway of the Odd to escape falling Zeb of the construction of the Little Rock and Pine Bluff rai Work com immediately at dred will lie tire road in operation in 1880. but Boston elects The thousand votes of the fair electors were - cast only for school and were so far as to insure in advance the choice of a number of doubtless observes that that little triangular arrangement has been made a quadruplex and that the fourth party is apparently steering for the same place that was laid out for the secretary of the is a good deal of point in western criticism upon President recommendations about has passed the needed laws; the courts have declared them now it is lor Mr. Hayes to execute of the Navy Robeson has and reports himself ior of Of But the country will be quite relieved to learn that Mr. Robeson doesn't desire the navy should be thanks for this Utes had appeared at the late publisher of the though Colerow Pantagraph and of this had promised to return with died to-day Dec. 14.Several large land west at by A of policemen i and ' speakera were Catholic Government reporters the in his of br the distress competition bad seasons at All of the in favor was d. - meeting was Carrick released - grand at Carrick on Shannon true against New York legislature appointed a committee receive As the general is not likely to reach New York till after the expiration of the it is probable committee will have to perform the duty if they perform it George W. McCreary ono of the men concerned in placing Mr. Hayes in liis present ent Is he a fit man for the judge bt the His has and unfit the people must groan and Robeson softens somewhat the which would naturally be aroused by his for Grant and a third by that he would not be a member of the the third term could be made tolerable under any this is one of Conkling has given his Roscoe Conkling son of senator of handsome present of The baby is said to look like senator but this is attributed to the influence of- the Washington is said that the tissue said to in southern have radicals of ast election they used a ballot which was or glazed so that they could not be nor would pasters stick on Slick chaps are for to suggest a new line of thought and Hayes has a financial fever and One day he burns with fervor over the retirement of the the next he shakes with a chill lest he shall split his party in Tuesday his and he informed Mr. Fort that his was intended for private circulation and that republican congressmen had a perfect right to so regard McCrary showed his strength with the senate His as United States circuit judge for Iowa met with no opposition Now if good old Deacon of is able to get into position in the cabinet with as little trouble we shall begin to believe that Hayes has how to train up a happy family in senate of the United States should give close scrutiny to the credentials and personal appearance of the man who is now crossing the and purporting to be of proposing to take a seat in august may Indeed be the as everybody it is not the habit of the Sharon to go to and the senate should be on its guaid against of made his admiration of party blackmailing very conspicuous in the hOuse of by denouncing the pending prohibiting the assessment of employes for political This is the measure which was so bitterly opposed by the same member at the extra After a lively debate it was made the special order for January 7th. expiration of term as president will the date of from the This has led to suggestion of Hayes as a successor to Mr. can riot He Gent ral Garfield tbo iri the and is under obligations to He is also any aridi possible ' probable democratic stales to determine will have much more weight in naming the candidate on the great body of the is the use of getting The democrats in Vermont and Iowa ai e keeping Pittsburg Post of met Of th to make an inquiry concerning bestowal of the patronage of that a resolution declaring the present employes capable and ordering retention of all union spoilt ira fee mm is still r the English is the to do that thing and make it Grant had visited Indianapolis the third term and rid himself of some of the third term or who connected with tlie democrats of Indianapolis would have ' united welcoming him but the envelope which surrounded the entire performance was entirely too The central figures of the affair were aU and their step tune perfectly Third term was written all over their coat York ventures to saf that of has written a very beautiful letter to the of Chicago on the of Strangely of In case public have to a band idate for Russian ' a good - idea for Governor of te invest a few dispatch j. principles to which we Iw claim that can be found in the north or south doubts his patriotism or his the and his statesmanship is acknowledged wherever Id be he is There would be nothing experimental in his His position is known and his ability to carry out his ideas of government is He has never wavered in to the to he and he sacrificed tlie common interests of the whole country in order to his Tribune competitors for the Ohio do not vote Garfield's intelligence In his comparative callow youth even by a liberal application of soft forced him to slip aside and let Stanley Matthews in. And now they are trying it again bjr showing Garfield how much more influential and splendid his future should he stay in the house and be third office in the as they put in comparison with senatorship is paltry all But Garfield has been teething during last four and his wisdom teeth are quite visible when he opens his mouth to He thinks a bird in the hand is worth dozen in the they are and he will hang opto until its tail gives railway recently undertaken over the Mount Lotty range of South will in years to come be regarded as one of the greatest engineering work's at the ' gradients of 1 in 45, and ascents of 2,000 feet may now any one who travels on the future or inspects the earthworks and tunnels aa they are now being cannot fail to regard the line as a bold step for a small community to Nearly will be spent on the 33 miles between Adelaide and Within trifle the railway is estimated to cost per and through a country where the cost of the is a mere In some parts the expenditure will be fully per owing to the large amount of tunneling to be done and the of the viaducts and embankments to be summit of the range will be in 18^^ miles from at a point about a mile to the west of and at an altitude of 1,630 feet above sea Here a to be named after the the Mount Lofty will be The ruling 1 in 45, will be between government farm and this and the descent from the summit to the Aldgate pump will be by a similar Powerful engines will have to and they will come down to without the aid of The mountain section begins about and with but small exceptions the gradient ia 1 in 50 until the government farm is But in order to secure even gradient creeks have to be steep hillsides mountains sharp curves and ravines spanned by viaducts of great Scientific appointment on his plural namesake -in the the present and be r V. aus successor to Heath a very of State to has finally that no nation can afford to leave the of its people in and as they cannot educate the expense must be home by the This was doubtless the intention of those who framed our instead of placing authority in a special class born to rule as of divine they threw upon the people necessity for improvement by giving to each one the power ot obtaining highest And so it has happened iri this that what iri other countries has been left somewhat to chance or is here regulated and controlled by And now the rests with those who have in charge our to see that its practical workings are kept up to standard of the Let them to it that the youth of the state are provided with teachers who will impart to them not only the knowledge that may found in but the far more important lessons from may be termed the to lead them the knowledge of what high and honor and compel them at all times to listen to its to before them the necessity of tu obey in order that at may to rule to impress upon them ance of their obligations to their If this done in the true we have no fear that education will continuo to be greatest source of strength that we possess as a John Leo Dead to V. Jl passed through the city last home Hot had been to see her who is stopping there for ' Several days since Mrs. received a dispatch from Hot Springs hastened to sorely stricken with to receive Here saying her husband was These dispatches and she on the to his situation for the contradictory all band was and he was laid out as ' the wap did not grow cold as it A there beint that but Dr. not were ' applied hack life iwas a slow but wi movement is seen among the dark forms disappear and presently emerge they at then increasing their rush in a toward the Wo follow at our utmost of feeling by that they are getting into shoal they seem to and select the weakest spot for a our speed is and all prepare ior the a moment's headed by the largest of the they rush at my boat which happened to be in the centre of the awall of behind which are dimly seen arched backs arid agitated we fire our and dash the oars in the They a few plunge under the I backs the as thrown over half filled a blow bl an ax a terrified and spouting the whale rushes back into the and heads for the shore in his blind i redouble and th e finally their Wounded and themselves on the where they lie wallowing in the shallow With a cry of borne back from the women who stood on the cliff dancing and waving their arms in delight at the prospect of an abundant winter supply of all the boats rowed for the each striving to be first to commence the With a final the men drove the boats in the leaped and began to strike and gave up the and attacked the nearest with my long seizing hold of the monster's fin. in spite of its I plunged the knife repeatedly into Its Its exertions and plunges were lifting mo off my and throwing me I managed to hold and kept striking with a final it turned on its The same going on all about with wild cries and noises the men struck and hewed at the whales as if regardless of and the waves which swept over them every While recovering my and looking out for another I received a tremendous blow from the tail of one behind me. I was stunned lor a and on found I had been placed in One of the I sat in thc hoat and watched strange already as tlie poor stupid ignorant of their fell easy victims to their determined strange and the cloudless suri was shining on except overa large many yards in dyed red with wave showed of crimson as it washed over the gl rejoicing that it could insult the strange forms that had lately swam lords of the Behind a narrow beach rose the steep down which were running the women and their shrill cries rising above the shouts of tha men and the roar of the Gradually the tumult except where a whale in the last throes wrapped a cloud of bloody and deluged the men who stood watching for an other all were killed the men dragged the boats on and themselves on the sand to laugh and recount their Some wore severely bruised by blows from the fins of the but all was forgotten as they talked ot the value of the oil and the of a comfortable Ropes were and the work of securing the captured Each fish had to be above work of no as many of the fish required the united efforts of thirty men before they could be songs and shouts they tugged and and gradually all were placed so that the waves could not reach Women and children lent their and shouts bf laughter were heard on all as some rope slipped or broke and sent the long line sprawling on their At last we could rest count the We found that fine hundred and ten fish represented a good day's James fever and diptheria are prevalent at across White at is has just issued in city bonds in aid of a new hogs are dying in great numbers with cholera near New C. of an old died recently of lung a near was dangerously hurt on the 6th. old canal bed at filled and the space will be used for depot and is said that the hog crop of county this season is 12 per cent. than that of last poultry association has been organized at with Dr. P. mentioned in connection with the republican nomination for supreme residence of James at Clay was burned ox the 4th. for gang of sneak thieves the north part of Vigo stealing their they can get wheat crop of the southern part of the state is reported in fine with a large increase last Cohen was shot and instantly killed iri Fulton county one night last by a farmer whose corn crib he was of Washington climbed tree Moral herein is to be recognized the moral Neatness The struggle between his reason and conscience on the one and the natural impulses of his heart on the is the same internal struggle .in which each individual of IS Mr. Gladstone's have ever been brave and tremendous motive of naturally apt to be so in an young man who begins public life with a brilliant has never swerved him from the often rugged and dreary path of Great as he is as an as a practical as an enthusiastic as an untiring worker he is certainly greatest in his moral No statesman in recent English political history is so conspicuous above all others for this that find Pitt and Canning and Russell and ablest and best of of that illustrous in bitter party struggles tor Not one of them was entirely free from yielding to the by yielding to which power came their Mr. Gladstone's rise to power has been in spite of his succession to the premiership was not to his seeking but to transcendent and the confidence that all had in of a more solemn that it not a reward or a but a a and a r-So pure and lofty a fame as as his will surer ly be lesson to future generations will be its moral to be graceful manner can be acquired tiy The best grace is you must study and form your manners loy the rule that is but out the ilaw But if it your nature to be assuming some ungraceful pray help stout avoid the smallest chair in the and be sit on the rwith your hands below the the you Vith your chin protruding and your i the bowl of I s not wear flimsy material made or recovering for some ' ' is one of the marvelous reiid ito the knowledge brie knew Wiy plain - ' been moping until ' the thought forget past - and own Uhe you and how you become and fell to the and killed The township of Jackson has voted in of the proposition to levy tax of two per in favor of the Seymour strike is ended in Clay the men going to work at cents a which is an advance of ten cents per hay from Mishawaka for the season were 500 and a hundred tons more would be if the season would governor has issued commissions to the officers of the Galveston a state militia company recently with Marshal D. Ellis as Linn of have purchased an interest in the Logansport The paper will continue democratic as it has ever old of committed suicide last week by The cause is said to have been trouble on account of selling living near Orange cut down a large which fell on his She was so seriously injured that her life is despaired children of Robert of Union were badly poisoned last week by eating cabbage on which Paris green l ad been sprinkled while City The shipments of hay from this port for the season were 500 and an hundred tons more would Ije snipped if the season would price of real estate is going up in Parke One day last week twenty-five acres of one and one-half miles from was sold for jier No improvements except the Putnam ' gentleman says that the North Carolina negroes who have come into this county are honest and that they have found work and arc attending to it J. son of commissioner at five miles south ot both arms and legs and his body by being caught in a His recovery is a lodging house in the other a man narrowly escaped death from On retiring he blew out the A timely discovery of his with prompt medical saved his wealthy living three miles north of Wayne poisoned by inhalation of vapor from red oak timber with he was on the 7th. After terrible agony he circuit court at Madison issued special venier for twenty-four men for Major Simpson's trial on the 15th. The case of the first national bank of against Elijah Waltz and others resulted in the bank's favor for T. a young married man of Pike with two all started to drive home from On the road out on his head and He leaves a yomig of War has ordered that the claims on file in the office of the of known as tlie ' raid be transferred in bulk at once to the war department at This wi 1 prevent these from by the statute of barn owned by Thomas near by fire on the Seven head and con- i grain Loss about sarrie evening a tramp anil requested was Tho opinion is that his revenge by setting to The road Princeton to the Pike county line hiis put the coal owners into quite a oi arid the result will the opening of a dozen or more mines in and of ' The of construction on the Pike and Dubois be pushed energetically throughout * church called the A. 379), was called by the prefect of the Emperor Valeris .to EO as not to allow so many congregations to be disturbed on niceties in The prefect promised the of tho he would thus comply with But Basilius lUp in: the cannot bear lhat a single syllable of be they arc if necessar der of great value when such friendship is consistent with fear of but if this is I say very dangerous And when lie prefect became ' on ' atd said art mad I always may retain this - B. Simmons pork packers of N. a general benefit of their liabilities are to in
