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ILLINOIS.
Cuttings from Correspondence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.

Cuttings from Correspond ence and Gleanings
from Exchanges.
Mrs. E. j. Kimber widow Of the late Rev L
G. Kimber, died at Decatur on Saturday :
At Moweaque, v. F. Hilvetv, riding on horse
back to a fire, was thrown. badly cut and
bruised and is in critical condition.
Isaac Cole is in Jail awaiting the result Of two
wounds inflicted by him, with knife in the alb
dofnen of Henry Bousman, at Hanover.
Richard Reese, son of Edward REESE, farmer
worth 500. 900, who lives near Rockford, is in
Jail for forging his fathers name to notes for
$3.50
Clarence J. Sears, eiehty-ive years old. living
at Homer Station. while in state of anger Dor
dering on insanity, hacked his aged wife to death
with hand-saw.
Sam Moore in the penitentiary at Chester
from Fayette county, sent in 1881 for life, died
in the prison hospital His crime was the MUIR
der of man for the purpose of robbery, and
from which he only got 81. rs.
William B. Wilson, who, three years ago, com
mitted grand larceny at Salem. escaped and
went to Texas. has been arrested at Fort WORTH
Tex The sheriff went after Wilson, bat re-
fused 10 bring him back, because Wilson was
confined in Jail in which were six cases Of
smallpox.
The City Council ct Decatur, which Is to
for free license, has adopted what is denounced
as an iron-clad liquor ordinance. 1t allows
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Vast Sums of Money Spent in Dress anu En-
tertainments.

Vast Sums of Money Spent in Dress ana En-
tertainments.
washington Capital.
A lady who has been in Washington society
since the war, and has witnessed the ups and
downs of two generations, says that never before
In her knowledge or experience had there been
30 much money spent in Washington in dress
and entertainments as this winter. II remem
ber,r she said, when it was an occasion for re-
mark If refreshments were offered at Cabinet
reception, and at other evening receptions Ii was
seldom that sandwich, or a cup of coffee, or a
glass of punch was offered. so late az tie
Hayes administration, when Senior Mantilla
gave grand reception at Wormley's in honor of
the marriage of the King of Spain, champagne
and terrapin were served, and it was considered
. princely extravaganza, but now the finest and
most expensive wines are served as freely as
caret punch was ten years ago. and terrapin is
sas common IS chicken salad. The Letters and the
Whitneys and other wealthy people who have
recently como to Washington, have set a
ashton that has prevented many people who
you'd like to do so from entertaining. Until last
lear have always given receptions each winter
] usually served Coffee claret punch, salad,
oysters and that sort of thing. and it has cost
me $500 or $500, including music and flowers.
But I've had to give them up because can't
make such spread az others, with champagne
at $35 case and terrapin at $40 dozen. One
does not like to have her entertainments con-
srasted with other peoples. IL only one family
was doing this sort of thing there would be no
difficulty, but it has got to be the style, and one
night as well be out of the world as ont OF the
hSaion. 30 we poor folks have been driven 10
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Miscellaneous Notes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The Democrats and
mugwumps from vevay have been here, hungry
and anxious to serve their country, and have re-
turned home wiser, if not successful. Now
the temperance element is represented in the
person of john Dickson, who generally gets what
he reaches for
Tonight the Journal correspondent asked
Hughes East why he had not received his ap-
pointment Mr.. East replied that the purpose of
the administration to reward him was genuine
and sincere but that in the midst Of the Senate
complications be had not sought the suspension
of the man he hoped to succeed, because it might
embarass somebody; that he was waiting with
interest. always provided, however, that it did
not get him beyond the ground hog point
One of Representative Kleiners constituents
has written to him for seeds enough to farm q
place in Ohio" while another Hoosier has ad-
dressed request to another Indiana congress-
man for two Chester white pigs, one male and
one female.
Senator Harrison will probably introduce a
bill. this week. to pay Mrs Hendricks wife of
the Vice-president, an amount equal to that
which her husband would have drawn as years
salary.
Senator Vest, who has been suffering for
some days with neuralgia and congestion of the
ear and brain, is convalescent.
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they must be charged to the State or Territory
in which the damages are sustained. OF course
no legislature would vote an appropriation to
pay Chinaman for loss made at the hands of
a mob because local sentiment is too strong
against it
Then there is safety for Chinaman on
the Pacific slopelD
None, for his life or property: and it is per-
fectly natural that there should not be. There
the scourge of the Celestial is felt There the
people know the curse of having the Chinaman,
who has no family and no responsibilities, and
who lives on ten cents day to supersede the
white laborer with family, who cannot live
upon less than from one to two dollars day.
Certainly 1t would be folly to think of holding
people like that responsible for the expression of
their disgust of the Chinaman, even if it was in
a manner that incurred a loss pecuniarily to the
Celestial.n
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Garland's Peculiar Training.

Washington Correspondence Cleveland Leader
He is not rich, and / suppose that out in Ar
kansas where the code of public morals is not
the highest his action in the Pan-electric bust
ness would be looked upon as smart" rather
than bad, and | can easily imagine from Gar
lands education how he might have gone into
this thing without full appreciation of the
enormity Of the crime he was committing. Take
a Western frontier town, and especially an Ar
kansas one, where the practice Of the law is
made up largely of bleeding Eastern capitalists
for the defense OF their lands, and where,
if man succeeds, the people do not
ask how he obtains his success. Here the from
tier lawyers conscience becomes in time a
very flexible article. He excuses himself and
whips the devil around the stump. In few
years he finds he has conscience left. and
when he gets into public life he does things
which, had he been differently educated. he
would never have thought of doing
There is good deal of the boy about Gar
land. He likes to run around with his fellows,
tell stories, fish, play jokes. and eat candy.
don't believe he is much of a thinker. and
imagine that Cleveland understands him pretty
we'll in that he leaves nothing to him of much
Importance, overrules his decisions, aud tells
him what he should do, as though Garland was
schoolboy and Cleveland his teacher.
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DANGEROUS GOLD COIN.
IA Ccunterfeit That Yields the Maker hut 10
Per Cent. Profit.

IA Counterfeit That Yields the Maker hut 10
Per Cent. Profit.
Washington Special.
The chief of the secret service of the Treas,
TRY Department was to-day notified By the as
sistant treasurer at Boston of the discovery of
new and dangerous coun terfeit SIS gold piece
stamped with the date 1881" 1t is composed
according to the report made to the chief of the
secret servicel of gold, silver, platinum and cop
per- The actual value of the piece is $447.5
the value of the gold in it being 4.43 Chief
Brooks thought this was the work of an un-
usually intelligent and wel-informed counter
feiter, man who watched bullion value Hecould
not tell how it had been made. not having seen
IL IL might have been struck from an alloy
pianchette; it might have been cast in plaster
mold; 1t might have been split and filled
but the fact OF its introduction said he sis
most significant II an operation of this sort is
attempted on 10 per cent. margin of gold value
why not upon q per cent margin of silver
value2 The relative profit is greater and the
chance OF detection far less for the counterfeter
couiu use the exact proportion of the govern
ment silver standard dollar alloy and make a
large manufacturers profit" Chief Brooks was
at least the suggestions for them, came from
.bro, -. where the finest counterfeiting was DONE
"a yvherss, OF late years, good deal of work
id been done TOW sd cSas..esrfeiting our coins.
ae results of which would shortly appear In the
ountry, if indeed, they had not already done
90. Speaking of some coarser counterfeits in
srodueed into this country from abroad. he
said ..There are the fine gilt pieces. spiel marks,
sc thew are called, which are passed off for genu
inc twenty, ten and Ave dollar coin upon raw
elnierants in foreign seaports and our own ports
These spiel-marks are sometimes carried far in
land and ignorantly exchanged or offered in pay
ment for goods Counterfeits, however. are
drawing nearer the real thing in their imitation
of our nickel and bronze coins. You see. our
bronze penny is only worth; intsinsieaiiy' one.
fifth of cent, and the nickel five-cent pieces
successful imitation, using the standard govern
7nent alloy. Nobody knows how many million
az our hundred million stock of nickels may be
spurious, and we dc know that the Germans are
beginning to manufactn.e copper token coins re-
semblng ours on one side 80. aa having some IN
scription on the other. Considerable
OF this token coin are flowing into the couStrv.
and. in passing from hand to hand, if the Indian
head is kept uppermost with apparent careless
ness, the Teutonic tokens will readily be mis-
taken for the Yankee cent"
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THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
A Transfer Of His Pan Electric Stock Would
a Help His Case but Little.


A Transfer of His Pan-Eiectric Stock Would
Help His Case but Little.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WARRINGTON, Feb. 22.-"Mr. Garland, am
afraid, is becoming frightened" said one of the
ttoArney generals friends to night. "He talks
of selling transferring his Pan electric stock.
That would simply add evidence of cowardice to
whatever there is repreheusible agains. him now.
1t puts me out of patience. The transfer or sale
of the stock would not excupate him. If he is
guilty of wrong-doing he ought to 60 out of the
Cabinet; and if he is not, or the President with
him thinks so, he ought to stand pat and meet
the issuen
do you think he regrets being in the Cabi-
netln
'1know he does. Had be remained out of the
Cabinet he might have brought about the defeat
of the Bell patents and made himself millionaire,
and the people would not have known how or
why. Now. he will be under just as many obi
cations to the Pan-electric company if he dis
poses OF the stock as if he retains it. He has
been the beneficiary by it just the sames
But how about Secretary Lamar, Indian
Commissioner Adkins and the other officials ad-
mitted into this company on the same ground
with the Attorney general?"
''Well you see'the Attorney general is made
the target because he is the central law officer
and figure in conducting or directing the suits
even if the President has seen fit to nominallv
relieve him of it,
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THE FIRE RECORD.
The Loss by the Fire at Wilmington Now Es
timated at Half a Million.

The Loss by the Fire at Wilmington Now Es-
timated at Half Million.
WILMINGTON, N. c., Feb. 22.-The loss by
yesterdays fire is now estimated at 5000 and
the insurance at $40O0O0 Some of the principal
losses are as follows: The schooner Lily Holmes,
loaded with euano. loss $780, 900; no insurance.
The Offices Of the Atlantic Coast line, andtwo
freight warehouses, loss, $4,000. The steamer
Bladen, loss. $5O,0OO no Insurance. The Front
street NJ. E. Church, loss, $3000 insured. The
business houses of Worth g. Worth, Alexander
Sprunt & Son. G. B. Wright Kirchner & Colder
Bros, Smith and Gichrist were all partly in
sured In the Brooklyn section of the city nine
teen buildings were destroyed, causing loss of
SIS. 900. with but small insurance. Other firms
sustained losses as follows: G. B. Wright, $16,
900, M. J. Heyer, $4,000 fully insured
Worth & Worth. $75 00c, fully insured; Mariners
Hotel, $4,000, insured; Champion Compress
Company, loss. $4,000; insurance, $27, 900.
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Losses by the Pittsbure Fire.

PITTS BURG. Pa. Feb 22.-The total loss by
this mornings fire at Pollard's liquor store will
reach 100000 The building was four-story
structure. and was entirely consumed the loss
on the building and stock being $4,000 Firms
doing business in an adjoining building sustained
damages from water as follows: Acme Tan
ming Company. 500, 900; Joseph Barckey & Co.,
-four dealers. SIC. 000 Iron City Glass Company;
Watson & Co.. grain dealers; Charles Irwin.
grain dealer. and Mccullough g. c., liquor
dealers $1,000 each. The insurance was
$33, 200 distributed as follows Northern Insur-
ance of Aberdeen S.. 900; North British and
Mercantile. $500; Germania of New York.
Commerce of New York each. So. 000 Manufact
urers and Merchants of Pittsourg. S., 2O0
Westchester of New York. Washington of
Boston, City of Pittsburg. So 500 each; Lancas-
ter of Englan1. Birmingham of Pittsburg,
American Central of ST. Louis, Pennsylvania of
Pittsourg. each, $1,000.
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Other Fires.

SOUTH PARIS. Me-. Feb. 22.-The Paris Man.
ufacturing Companv's factory was burned yes
terday morning. The loss is 5000; insurance,
$40. 000 The cause of the fire is unknown. The
factory will be rebuils at once.
LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, Feb. pa destructive
fire visited Fort Leavenworth. this afternoon,
entaiiing loss Of over $l2. 900. The fire orig
mated in the quartermasters stable consumin e
the building and burning thirty head of fine
mules The harness and paraphernalia and
quantity of hay and corn were also destroyed
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Soldiers, Memorial at Toledo.

TOLEDO, Feb. 22.-The formal opening of the
recently completed soldiers memorial hall took
place to-day. under the auspices of the Toledo
Soldiers Memorial Association. The interior of
the building was appropriately decorated for the
occasion. and vast audience was present at the
dedicatory exercises this afternoon. Addresses
were delivered by his Honor Mayor Forbes. Hon.
John r Osborn, who took for his subject The
Citizen in the War;" and Hon. D. P. Austin,
whose theme was 1.-THE Soldier in the War" To-
night there was grand military promenade
concert and ball. Memorial Hall was erected by
the city. is handsome edifce and worthy tribute
to the cause
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CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-The Inter Oceans Dubuque
Ia special says: THE suit for damages against
lyn, N Y, for $25, 900. was to-day dismissed by
the judge of the United States District Court
The case is one of great Importance, not only to
Dubuque and Iowa. but to all other States and
cities Mr. Wandover claimed the damages be-
cause he was arrested on the charge of peddlng
without license. The court decided that the
ordinance requiring pedders to have license
was not in conflict with the spirit of the Consti-
tuition of the United States. and the city is not
liable for damages, even il the ordinance be un-
constitutional"
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The ;..hAta Bill in the House.

sneci,,i to the Indianapolis Journai.
WASHINGTON, Feb. pa member of the
House committee on Territories predicted to-day
that the Dakota bill will be reported tomorrow.
This week. he said it was intended to consider
the measure and get it out of committee. He
would not venture an opinion as TO the fate OF
the bill in the House. but said 1t would have a
minority Endorsement of the committee.
The friends of the Dakota bill--which is the
Senate measure drawn by Senator Harrison,
and dividing the Territory on an east and west
line, and admitting the south half to statehood
say they are perfectly willing to abide by the
action of the House if the bill can only be got
out of committee. Now it is to be reported.
The party will not make Of it an issue by smoth-
ering it, and its supporters have been assured
that it is to be fought fairly
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NEW WAY TO COLLECT BAD DEBTS.


The Ellnira Uniformed Collection Company
Method of Doing Business.
Hornelsville IN. - Special.
1--WE intend to make life very pleasant for the
man who owes small bills around this town that
he is able to pay but WON'T" said W. FL. Rey-
nolds, manager for Steuben county OF the Elmira
Uniformed Collection Company. "We are in
the field to collect accounts from just such GUS
toners. and if there is one who doesn't come
down after we have turned all our batteries on
him, he's man that dynamite wouldn't rattle.
1.-THE way the Uniformed Collection Company
works is this: Such persons as desire our serv-
ices become subscribers to our plan, and pay a
fee or bonus of ST. We furnish each subscriber
with blanks which he fills out and sends to his
delinquent debtors, with statement of their &C.
counts. The blank is simply request for them
to remit the amount. with the declaration that if
they do not their cases will be turned over to
the Uniformed Collection Company. When the
company receives case collector is sent at
once to the debtor to solicit payment Of the
amount due. If he still refuses to pay, we send
another collector, who wears striking uniform,
with the word Collector in very distinct letters
debtor three successive days, at his house or
place of business If the third visit does not re-
suit in obtaining the money, the collector wears
hat on the band Of which are the words Col
leetor of Bad Debts His orders to call on
the debtor daily and demand payment of the
claim or claims against him. These calls soon
attract the attention of the neighbors and be-
come the talk of the town. 1t has got to be
case hardened old pensionsr in the confidence of
his butcher and baker and candlestick-maker
who can boldly face more than half dozen calls
from the gentleman with the suggestive hat
band and the consequence is that an arrange
ment satisfactory to the creditor is always eff
fected. We charge the creditor 10 or Is per
cent of the amount collected. as the case may
be- and everybody is happy but the man who
has come down with the skids. This method of
collecting bad debts is no experiment We have
tried it in hundred different places, and never
lost yet The system originated in
Canada We have had several collectors very
neatly done up by irate debtors. but our men
expect that, and assume all such risks when
they enter our employ. If collector is dis
abled, we put bigger man right on in his place,
and it has got to be very sultry day when we
let man rest easy while we've got bill against
him.
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Burning of a Buffalo Rink.

BUFFALO. N. ". Feb. 23.-At 1890 o'clock
this morning the Armory Rink, which until the
last few weeks has been the headquarters of the
Seventy fourth Regiment. caught fire. and was
totally destroyed A high wind prevails and it
is feared the flames will spread to the adjoining
property. The whole fire department is on the
scene. Loss on the rink, sos, 000 insurance. $25.
0OO
las A. M.--The flames were confined to the
armory building, and the fire is under control.
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Washington Special.

washington specih.
Mrs. Cougar. from the Hoosier State. then
made speech. She is tall woman; her hair is
somewhat gray, though it evidently was once
yellow in color. She was dressed in suit of
turtle-back green satin and velvet. Her speech
was revelation. There has not been such an
exhibition of cultivated oratorical art seen in
either house of Congress this session. Any
brief resume of it would utterly fail Of doing
justice to it. She sketched out in dozen con-
else sentences the struggle for human liberty
since the Magma Charta, and asked the commit
tee to report bill to the House referring the
rights of women to the legislatures of the vari-
Gus States. Suffrage" she said in closing
needs woman to-day far more than woman needs
suffrage. Look at the condition of municipal
affairs 10 New York Chicago and Cincinnati.
Safety from the dangerous classes is found only
in the home vote-aad the home vote is the
yYnman's Yatan
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Prospects of the Porter BIN.

Special to the Indianapolis journal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The Fitz John Porter
bill will doubtless pass the Senate, and Presi-
dent Cleveland, it is said, is anxious to sign it.
There has been much less agitation of the sub
ject by the soldiers of the country,
it seems. In past Congresses memorials,
letters, ETC., have poured in from hundreds of
thousands OF people. 1t appears to have been
accepted as foregone conclusion that this Con-
gress is the friend Of Porter and that nothing
could change its course.
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CLEVELAND. O.. Feb. 22-Marion Hawkins. a
saw-mil laborer, and Willis Klare a student Of
the academy in West Pennington, were both
bound over to court TO- day on the charge of I'M
lawfully using dynamite. The men are sus-
pected of having placed dynamite cartridge
under Hawley's saloon, which was blown up one
week ago. There is great excitement in the
town, as result OF prolonged temperance
agitation, and the prisoners were therefore taken
before country justice, twenty miles from West
Pennington. They waived examination.
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New York,s Veterans of ls1e.

NEW YORK. Feb 22.--Four of the five veterans
of the of 1872 who live in this city met to day
to talk over old times in commemoraton of
Washington's natal day. They were Gen.
Abraham Daily. aged ninety years; Geo. Creleer,
eighty -elght years; Henry Morris, eighty six
years. and Henry Abbott eighty-three wears.
Elijah p. Henks. the absent one, is eiehty-eight
years old. and was too feeble to attend. A g.
A. r. post escorted the old veterans and pro-
yided them spread
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giving teas I've not the slightest doubt that
Mrs. Whtneys entertainments cost her not less
than 81, 500 week. but everybody enjoys them
and she can afford it. heard the other day
that her bachelor brother deposited $500, 900 to
her credit last fall, and told her that the money
was not to keep, but to spend for the enjoyment
of her friends. There never were so many hand
some toilets or so many valuable jewels in Wash
ington as this winter. The people are running
crazy on account of Dress