ants fled.The records in the office of Dr. F. G. Jackson, city health officer of Muncie, show the following facts concerning the smallpox epidemic in Muncie: Total number of cases to date, 146; total number of infected houses, 70; total number of deaths, 20; total number of patients discharged as cured, 86; well, out not yet discharged. 7; total number of cases now under treatment, 3; total number of convalescents, all in hospital, 30; number of houses underquarantine, 1: number of houses disinfected and discharged, 69. The indications now arc that the quarantine will bo raised by the first of next week.Patents have beengranto.l Indiana inventors as follows: James Farlow, Groencastlo, washing machine; JohnF. Greive, Clay Hill, plow; Frank E. Herdman. Indianapolis, elevator; PeterG. Kirseli, Decatur, wash machine; Anderson Lee. Evansville, hinge-setting machine; TheophieUl D. Oakley. Vevay, type case: John Seitz, Jtlays-villo, assignor of one-half to J. T. Corn, Jasper, apparatus for forming leaders in blast holes: William H. Smith, Albion, wagon running gear; Howard F. Smith, assignor of one-half to H. J. Cannon, Elkhart, process of and machine for making cell cases; Peter N. Staff, Terre Ilauto, holder for opera glasses.Wit r.taxi Pp.aphvR. n. fjinmet* livinor