Greencastle Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 December 1888 — Page 2

THE GREENCASTLE BANNER; THURSDAY, DECEMBER ‘20, IH8H.

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A SERIAL STORY

The readers of this paper will be delighted to learn that with the next issue we wi'l begin the publication of a s *ril story, entitled: KING SOLOMON'S MINES,

THE BONDAGE OF SIN. The Devtl is a Hard Task Masier.

Saving »if »!m onpel.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday Subject, "Lifted from the Brick Kilns.”

Text, Psalms Ixviii, LI. Hesaid:

I am going to preach something whic'n some of you do not belive. and that is that the grandest possible adornment is the religion of Jesus Christ. There are a great many people who suppose that religion is a very diflerent thing from what it really is. The reason men eon-

H, Rider Haggard. Mr. Haggard is recognize 1 as the most popular novelist of the present day, and “Kino Solomon's Mines’’ is the strongest, the strangest and finest production of his facile pen. The story deals with un) ^Niyn people of Kukuanalaud, in onk, frica, and the reader’s interest is Su ned from the opening chapters until the last, by the startling adventures of the actors in the story. No one who reads the story will regret it. Don't fail to read the opening chapters

in this paper.

flashing of the chandeliers, ami I crv: all Kings and (Queens forever and ever. ' “Woe! woe! The way of the ungodly If I have induced one of you this morn-; shall perish. There is no peace, saith ingto begin abetter life,then I want to' my God. to the wicked. The way of know it. I may not in this world clasp j

Th. Uonrinc*am i» a i>e K r»rti, B —r. lee ] transgressm s is hard.” Oh, my friends, hands with you in friendship, I may not j from There u No Keii r—Ti.. . there is in .re joy in one drop of Chris- hear from your own lips l'e story of

tian aatisiaction than in whole rivers of temptation and sorrow, but I will clasp sinful delight. Other wings may be hands with you when the sea is passed j drenched of the storm and splashed of and the gates are entered, the tempest, hut the dove that comes in | Thst I might woo you to a better life, j throu h the window of this heavenly | ami that I might show you the glories: ark has w ings like the dove covered with i with which God clothes His dear chilsilver, and her feathers with yellow dren in heaven, I wish 1 could this I gold.. _ | morningswing hack one of the twelve j Again I remark, religion is an adorn- gates that there might dash upon your n ent in the style of usefulness into | earone shout of the triumph, that there which it inducts a man. Here are two might flame upon your eyes one blaze of young men. The one has tine culture, the splendor Oh,' when I speak of that

...U exquisite wardrobe, plenty of friends, j good land, you involuntarily think of deiiin the Bible"is hei'ause they do not great worldly success, but he lives for 1 some one there that you loved—father, understand it; they have not properly j himself. His chief care is for his ow n ! mother, brother, sister, or dear little examined it. ' Dr. Johnson said that I comfort. He lives uselessly. He dies chdd garnered already. You want to Hume told a minister in the bishopric ! unregretnd. Here is another young know what, they are doing this morning, of Durham that he had never panic- uian - ! l18 »l , l ,ar *' 1 *n*y *>ot be so 1 will tell you wdiat they are doing, ularyexamined the New Testament, yet ; g° 0< C l'’ 8 education may not he so j Singing. You want to know what they all his life was warring against it. And so I * borough. He lives for* others. His j wear. Coronets of triumph. You wonmen reject the religion of Jesus Cfirist! happiness is to make o hers happy. He I der why oft they look to the gate of the because tliev reallv have never investi- : as self-denying as that d\ing soldier, temple, ami watch and wait. 1 will tell

gated it. 'They think it something i f a V i , , ’ K | n 1 ,,H! . rankB ’ llt ‘ equivocal, something that will not work, j Colonel, there is no need of those hoys something Pecksnifllan, something ’“ e,,,se * ve8 .J’. uarr y ,11 K ,m ' to Die hypocritical, something repulsive,when ! hospital; let me .lie just where I am. it is so bright 'mi so beautiful you I Dos young man of whom 1 speak might compare it to a chaftluch, you I , < ? ve8 1 wa ! 1 ’ 8 , wor ld to lo'’* 1 might compare it to a robin redbreast, ! H , ln b 18 not ashamed to g arry a bundle you might compare itto a dove,its wings | .°t le ? ”1' D |at dark alley tothe poor, covered with silver and its feathers '\hieh of those young men do you ad-

mire t e better? i he one a sham, the

ottier a Prince Imperial.

Oh, do you know of anything my hearer, that is more beautiful than to see a young man start, out for Christ? Here is some one failing; he lifts him up. Here is a vagabond hoy; he intro tices him to a mii-sion school. Hire is a

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with yellow gold.

But how is it if a young man becomes a Christian? All througu the clubrooms were he associates, all through the business circles where he is known, there is commiseration. They say: “What a pity that a young man who had such bright prospects should

have been despoiled by' "those"“Chris- j i-niily freezing to death; he carries them tians, giving up all his worldly pros-1 ^ . c , coa '- rhereareeighthunpects for something which is of no pa'- 1 , ' tbDhoiis perishing in midnight ticular present worth!” Here is a young '^fkness, by al possible means he tries woman who becomes a Christian, her!! 0 the Gospel. He may bo voice, her face, her manners the charm ' au 5. ie ^ at ’ , ! Ilt * * ie . n,a . v De sneered at, of the drawing-room. Now, all through I an< * " “N carricatureil, but be is thefaKhif.nahie eiri'le. ft,e not ashamed to go everywhere, saying:

"I am not ashamed of the Gospel of

you why they watch and wait and look tothe gate cf the temple. For your |

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

[^grange ladies spin flax. Bluffton has a new hank. Laporte is boring for gas. Petersburg has a fire engine. There are Ti-4 convicts North.

Angola is worried by hoodlums. Diptheria prevails at Templeton. Madison has a tariff reform club. Muncio needs temperance reform. It snowed at Monticello Saturday, Muncie is waging war on whistles. A whisky war is on at Winchester. Cu'td weddings prevail at Madison. The Lagrange county fair is defunct. Thieves are plundering Riply county. Chicken thieves trouble Huntington. Diptheria is raging at Michigan City. Muncie is troubled with White Caps. Everybody at Evansville chews gum. Cordwood is a curiosity at Anderson. Greenwood has a hog with two heads. Much destitution prevails at Evans-

coming. I shout upward the newsto-j v ^' < ‘ -

day, for I am sure some of you will re-1 Ft. Wayne bicyclists will hold a car-

pent and start for heaven. Oh, ye bright I nival.

ones before the throne, your earthly | Butterfly socials rage at Michigan

friends are coming. j City. Hog cholera is reported from Sey-

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There is some real satisfaction, notwithstanding the crime, in the report that some of “Old Hutch’s” clerks have decamped with several thousand dollars of the old man’s money. “Old Hutch” engineered the recent corner on Chicago wheat and by the methods employed realized a million and a half dollars or more by the transaction. To draw a fine moral point his clerks were fully as justified in robbing him as he was in robbing grain dealers and the poor by force of their necessities. At any rate “Ohl Hutch” won’t get much sympathy, whatever betide him. John Hopkins University is not alone in its troubles. Cornell has lost its huge lawsuit for over $1,00 ',000, left tothe university by Jennie McGraw Fiske, wife, when she died, of Prof. Fiske. The Professor, not content with a fortune received from his wife, who died soon after marriage, contested the will, and has won the case in the Court of Appeals. By charter, Cornell can not own property in . xcessof jo,000,000. The lands, the interest of which go tc university, are worth fully that sum but the land, it is claimed, is not university property. Now the case goes to the Supreme Court. The sympathy of the public is, of course, with the great institution that has done so much for education; and can use the additional million without detriment to the interests of anyone It is very clear that it any high-toned briber, or one in any way illegally connected witli ballot corruption, ialis into the hands of Judge Gresham, he will fare hard. The judge does not consider the small fry as worth prosecuting; but he wishes to see one of the heavy corruptionists who organize bribery, and go regularly to church, punished as he deserves. There is no questioning the wickedness and danger to free institutions from bribery. The only question is whether it is on the increase or decrease. In the last century votes were openly bought in the streets at tables set out for convenience in making change. But give the Judgeachance by all means. We must break up the system in all forms nt all risks. Somk of the suggestions made by Judge Cooley and his Inter-State commerce lommission should be acted on promptly. Among the most important is the need of legislation to prevent express companies from suddenly raising rates without previous notice, as also provisions covering the whole immigrant question. Castle Garden is no longer capacious enough, or decently convenient, f>>r the reception of immigrants. There should be a landing place outside the city. The Commission also recommends that the payment of fees for procuring the shipment of immigrants from foreign countries he dei hired illegal, and punishable. The whole imtnigran* question might wisely he.given over to the discretion of the Commissioners. The condition of affai s is now a compound of rascality and brutality.

the fashionable circles the whisper goes: "What s pity that such a bright light should have been extinguished, that such a graceful gait should be crippled, that such worldly prospects should he obliterated!” A h. my Irieuds, it can he shown that religious ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her oat hs are peace; that re.igion, inetead of being dark, and doleful, and lachrymose, and repulsive, is bright and beautiful, fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold. See. in the first place, what religion will do for a man’s heart. I care not how cheerful a man may naturally he before conversion; conversion orings him up to a higher standard of cheerfulness. I do not eay that he will laugh any loudei. I do nut say hut he may stand back from some forms of hilarity in which he once indulged; but there comes into his soul an immense satisfaction. A young man, not a Christian, depends upon worldly success to keep his spirits up. Now he is prospered, now he has a large ealary, now he has a beautiful wardrobe, now’ he has pleasant friends, now he has more money than he knows how to spend, every thinu goes bright and well with him. But trouble comes—there are many young men in the house this morning who can testify of their own experience that sometimes to young men trouble does come—his friends are gone, his health is g me, his salary is gone, goes dow n, down. He becomes stur, cross, queer, misanthropic, blames the world, Dlaurfti society, blames the church, blames everything; rushes perhaps to the itipbcicating cup to drown his trouble, pot, instead of drowning his trouble drowns

his body and drowns his souk

But here is a Christian .young man. trouble comes to hpo, Does he give up? No.He throws himself back

on the resources of heaven.

Oh! what a poor shallow stream is worldly enjoymepf compared with the deep overtiowiug river of God’s peace, rolling midway in the Chrisrian heart! Sometimes you have gmc out on the iron-bound beach of the sea when there i as been a storm on the ocean, a d you have Seen the waves dash into white fo»m at your feet. They did not bo you any harm. While there you thought of the chapter written by the Psalmist, and perhaps you recited it to yoftrself w bile tne storm was making commenta y upon the passage: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in the

time of trouble. ’

Oh, how indepenpent the religion of Christ makes a man of worldly success and worldly circumstances! Nelson, the night before his last battle, said: "Tomorrow 1 shall win a peerage or a grave in Westminister Abbey.” And it does not make much difference to the Christian whether he rises or falls in worldly matters; he has everlasting renown any way. Other plumage may be torn in the blast, but that soul adourned Christian grace, is fairer than the dove, its wings covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold. T ou and 1 have found out that people who pretend to be happy are not always happy. Look at that young man caricaturing the Christian religion, scoffing at everything good, going into roystering drunkenness,dashing the champagne bottle to the floor, rolling the glasses from the barroom counter, laughing, shouting, stamping the floor, shrieking Is he happy? I will go to his midnight pillow. I will see him turn the gas < ff 1 will ask myself if the pillow on which he sleeps is as soft as the pillow on which that pure young man sleeps. Ah! no. When he opens his eyes in the morning will the world he as blight to him as to that young man w ho retired at night saying his prayi rs, invoking God’s blessing upon his own soul ami the souls of iiis comradis, aim father and mother and brother and sister far away? No, no. His laughter will ring out from the saloon so that you hear it as yor pass hy, for :t is hollow laughter; in it is the snapping of heart strings and the rattle of prison gates. Happy! That young man happy? I^t him fill high tiie bowl—he can not drown an upbraiding conscience. Let the halls rid 1 through the howling-alley; the deep rumble anil the sharp crack can not overpower the voices of condemnation. Let him whirl in the dance of sin and temptat.on and death. Allthe brilliancy of tiie scene can not make him forget the last look of his mother, as he left home, when she said to him: “Now, my son, you will do right; I am sure you will do right, you will, won’t you? ’ That young man happy? Why, across every night there flit shadows of eternal darkness; there are adders coiled up in every cup; there are vultures of despair striking their iron beaks into his heart; there are skeleton fingers of grief pinching at the throat. I come in amid the clinking of the glasses, and under the

Christ. It is the power of God and tiie wisdom of God unto salvation.” Such a young man can go through everything. There is no force on earth or in hell that

can resist him.

1 show you three spectacles. Spectacle the first: Napoleon passts by with the Lost that went down with him to Egypt, ami p with him to Russia, and crossed the continent on the bleeding heart of which he set his iron heel, and across thequiv- ring flesh of which he went grinding the wheels of his guncarriages in his dying moments asking his attendants to put on his military

boots for him.

Speetaele the second: Voltaire, bright and learned and witty and eloq ent, with tongue and voice and stratagem infernal. warring against God amt poisoning whole kingdoms with his infidelity, vet applauded by the clapping hands of thrones and empires and continents— his last words, in delirium supposing Chris standing by the bedside—his last words: "Crush that wretch! ’ Spectacle the L ird: Paul Paul insignificant in person, thrust out from all r fined association, scourged, spat on, hounded like a wild beast from city to city, yet trying to make the world good and heaven full; announcing resurrection to those who mourned at the barred gates of the dead; speaking consolations »hich light up the eyes -of widowhood and orphanage and want with glow of certain and eternal release, undaunted hetore those who could take his life, his cheek Hushed with transport, and tiie eye on heaven; with one hand shaking defiance at all the foes of earth ami all the principalities of hell, and with the other hand beckoning messenger angels to come and hi ar him away, as he says: "I am now ready to he offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.” XX hie i of the three spectacles do you most admire? When the wind of death struck the conqueror and the infidel they were tossed like sea-gulls in a tempest, drenched of tiie wave, and torn of the linn icane, their dismal voices heard through the everlasting storm; but when the waveand the wind of death struck Paul, like an albatross, he made a throne of the tempest, ami one day floated away into the calm, clear summer of heaven, brighter than the dove, its wings coverwith silver, and the feat here with yellow gold. Oh! are you not in love with such a religion—a religion w hich can do so much for a man while he live, and so much fora man when he comes to die? I suppose you may have noticed the contrast between the departure of a Christian and the departure of an infidel. Deodorus, dying in chagrin because he could not compose a joke equal tothe joke uttered at the other end of his table. Z uxis, dying in a fit of laughter at the sketch of an aged woman—a sketch made hy his ow’n hand. Mazarin, dying playing cards, his friends holding his hands because he was unable to hold them himself. All that on one side, compared with the departure of the Scotch minister, who said to his friends: "I have no interest as to whether I live or die; if I die. I shall he with the Lord and if I live the Lord shall be with me.” Or the last words of XVash-ngton: “It is well.” Or the last w’ords of McIntosh, tiie learned ami the great: “Happy!” Or the last word of Hannah More, the ( hristian poetess; Joy! Or those thousands of Christians who have gone, saying; “Lord plesus, receive my sjnrit, Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly ” “() death! where is thy sting? 0 grave! where is thy victory?” 'Behold the contrast! Behold the charm of the one; behoG, the darkness of the othei! Now, I know it is very popular in this day for young men to think there is something more charming in skepticism than in religion. They are ashamed ol the old-fashioned religion of the cro-s, and they pride themselves on their free thinking on all these subjects. My young friends, I want to tell you what 1 know from observation; that while skepticism is a beautiful land at the start, it is the great Sahara Desert at tiie

last.

On, if relig on does so much for a man on earth w hat w ill it do for him in Heaven? That is the thought that comes to me now. If a soldier can afford to shout "Huzza!” when he goes into battle, how much more jubilantly he can afford to shout “Huzza!” when he has gained the victory! If religion is so good a thing to have here, how hrigtit a thing it w ill he in heaven! I want to see that young man when the glories of heaven have rolled and crowned him I want to hear him sing when all hu-kiness of earthly colds is gone, and he rises up with the great dnxologv. I want to know w hat

A telegram from New York on the 14th states that Mr. Blaine had been tendered and had accepted the position of Secretary of State hy Gen. Harrison. A reporter called on Gen. Harrison to verify the report. Mr. Harrison refused to deny or confirm it. The report is believed by those close to the Presidentelect, lobe without foundation. One of the New York papers announced that the correspondence between the two men would be made public in a few hours. In the Cincinnati Enquirer Friday appeared a telegram from XV. C. MacBride, in which he affirms the truthfulness of the report “without reservation, because the information comes to myself from a source not . to be challenged or questioned.” Interviews regarding the matter with several of Mr. Blaine’s friends in Washington. among them Senator Hale and Congressmen Boutelle and Reed,are published. They do not confirm the report, hut they think it is true-, because they believe that Mr. Blaine ought to he the Secretary of State, “for purely patriotic reasons.” Mr. Boutelle says: “It is suspected that the report was started by friends of Mr. Blaine who have evinced a determination to force General Harrison to take him into the Cabinet. "But,” remarked one of the friends of the President elect to a reporter, "General Harrison is the kind ot a man who can withstand such pr ssure.” An Associated Press telegram from New York credits Thomas C. Piatt with referring to the story as “bosh.” He does not believe that the position has been tendered Mr. Blaine, and he sa\s that tiie report was started by a correspondent of a Cincinnati paper. It was sent to every newspaper in New York, but editorwhodetected its character threw it into

the waste basket.

An Augusta (Me.) special says that Mr. Blaine declines to give any information as to the story of his having been offered the Secretaryship of State, and that Joseph H. Mauley states that he does not believe General Harrison has tendered the position to Mr. B'aine, although he has always believed that it would be tendered and that Mr. Blaine

w ould not accent.

AH in a Half Century. The discovery of tiie electric telegraph. The discovery of photography. The establishment of ocean steam navigation. The annexation of Texas. The war with Mexico, and the acquisition of California, with the discoveries of gold that followed. The French revolution of 1848. Tiie rise and fall of Napoleon III., and Die establishment of tiie French Republic. The laying of the ocean cables. Tiie great civil war and abolition of slavery in the United States. Tiie unification of Italy. Tiie great Franco-German war and the unification of Germany The overthrow of the Pope’s temporal power. The emancipation of the Russian serfs. Tiie extention of Russian power into Central Asia. Tiie discovery of the sources of the Nile and Niger, and the exploration of interior Africa. The discovery of the telephone. The growth of Life Insurance from nothing to a million policy-holders, six hundred million dollars of assets, and two and a half billion dollars of insurance in force. Lawyer NV Iiiteliouse ami Lawyer Choate. Chicago Herald Lawyer Whitehouse, the son of the late Bishop of Illinois, had some business in New York with a large law firm, wherein a son o.' Rufus Choate is a partner. It was Mr Choate to whom XVhitehouse addressed himself. “All right, sit down," said Die New York lawyer; “I’ll see you in a moment or two.” “But,” said the visitor, “I am Mr. Whitehouse of Chicago.” “All right, all right,” said the lawyer,

ship wagons to

mour.

The Studebakers

Africa.

The salvation army has attacked An-

derson.

has a new Christian

Valparaiso

Church.

Columbia City Democratic soldiers are

organizing.

The Motion wants to locate shops at

Hammond.

Hoodlums worry Waterloo’s Salva-

tion Army.

Gospel temperance has reached De-

catur county.

Six large vessels are wintering at

Michigan City.

Progressive angli ng is a new game at

Crawiordsvll’e.

Crawfordsville will have free mail de-

livery after Jan. 1.

Old time quilting parties are fashion-

able in Shelby county.

Climliing the court house dome is a

Tetre Haute pasttime.

Shelhyville is protesting against exor-

bitant rates for natural gas.

Fort xV’ayne proposes to pipe gas from

the Blackford county fields.

Bach Bros, store at Wabash was burn-

ed on the 14th. Loss $2 ',00 >.

Shipping oat and wheat straw is an

important industry at Seymour.

The Oliver plow works at South Bend

are using crude petrolein for fuel.

Alfred Duenweg, a Terre Haute bookkeeper, played faro, and is adefaulter. Escaping gas exploding wrecked several houses at Quebec on the 13th. Since Jan. 1, forty one persons have id ed in Ft. Wayne aged in excess of 70. J F. Walda, of Ft. Wayne, fell eightytwo feet, from a smoke stack, but may

recover.

I ostmaster Wright, of Fairview, was in seventeen general engagements in

the late war.

Charles Plum, a Bluffton burglar, was captured and sentenced (two jears) in

twelve hours’ time.

Over 20110 persons have signed the pledge in a re-ival at Laporte, conducted

by Thos. E. Murphy.

The Mayor of Ft. Wayne has instructed the police to banish pugilists and wrestlers from the city because “they bring in their wake thieves, rowdies anil

criminals of every class.”

A young lady in Evansville made this

novel proposition to her lover: “If Cleveland is elected, I’ll marry you; if Harrison, then you marry me.” She

won, the wager being accepted. Representative-elect Kelley, of De

Kalb county, has called a meetin of his constituency to formulate such legislation as they may think desirable during the coming session of the the General

Assembly.

Two men in Huutington county, each own one half interest in the same cow, and they are n >w at loggerheads because one insists that the other owns the fn nt half and won’t divide the

milk.

_ A remarkable revival is in progress a Cement ville, Seott county, conducted hy Elder Matthews of the Christian ehuren. So far 53 persons have been baptisi-d ami nearly the entire population have

joined the church.

Railroad managers will complain to the next Legislature that consignees take their own time in unloading coal cars, depriving the road of 50 per cent, of the service the cars might perform!

and will ask relief.

Thirty passengers who were detained while en route to see President Cleveland and wife in October, 1887, have brought suit at Washington against the Evansvi’le & Indianapolis rail wav,

claiming 115,000 damages.

Farmers near Wabash are incensed over an etlort to kill off the dogs in that neighborhood. Several valuable animals have been sacrificed. A post mortem examination showed that broken glass was administered, and that death

was horrible.

Each sixth year Hie State provides for an enumeration of its adults' The coming year, betw en Januarv and July this j een us will be taken. The State Auditor issues the necessary blanks. There were 536 849 votes cast in Indiana last month against 495,0tj4 four years ago. There was a generel raid on the saloon, gaming and ill fame elem-nt at Elkhart. Saturday, growing out of indict-

scribbling away like mad: “take a chair; ments, which had been worked up by a I am busy just now.” I Pinkerton detective, under direction of

j | the Law and Order League Additional steps are being taken to rid the city of

busy just

“But,” again said Mr. Whitehouse, am the son of Bishop Whitehouse.” “Oti! well; take two chairs, then,” said

Choate, without looking up.

vice.

Number of passengers carried hy Indiana roads in the past year, 27.884,233;

The Ashbourne act, which has passed mnnher’^/'-^ imthe House of Lords, and now awaits clerks, 3,930; number cf persons killed the Queen’s approval, simply increases by cars, 199; number of persons injured,

the amount available to be lent to Irish trac * t ’ va l ue i tenants for the purchase of estates, from .. ' „ . T , ,

£5,OOP,000 sterling to £10,000,900. The Cumberland PreSbyter’isn'churrin Lot government lends the money at 4j per gansport, has become insane, owing to cent, and the tenant hy paying that excessive use of tobacco and morphine,

standard he will carry when marching amount becomes in forty years the own- l e contracted the morphine habit while underarchea of pearl in the army of sr of his estate in fee simple. Appli- in Tennessee, suffering with chronic banners. I want to know what com nan y j cants of nearly £fl.O00,(K)ti have been diarrhea, the drug bring prescribed for he will keep in a land where they are I made under the original act. | his^relief. He is a young man with a

stronghold upon his congregation, and only a few days ago he returned from conducting a successful revival at Mar-

tinsville

Auditor Carr has received reports of the condition of thirty seven State hanks up to Oct. 1. The reports show i total resources $5,841,256.41, as against ! $5,527,532.46 in 1887. a net increase of $314,724 65. The capital stock is $1,851),- ; 0 0, an increase during the year of i fl07,5 HI. The surplus is $299,618.19, and increase of $250,146.31, State Treasurer Lemcke says that tlic next General Assembly will he asked to appropriate $165,00 ) for furnishing and finishing the new insane hospitals In the State House fund there is a deficiency of $125,000. owing to the failure gif the previous Legislature to continue the two cent levy. The School for Feebleminded Children ami the Soldiers’ ] and Sailors’!)rphans Home will each ask ; for about $l!)t).()00. In the appropria- | tions for the new insane hospitals for | four years there is a deficiency of $50,000. The Soldiers' and Sailors’ Orphans ! Home is behind $25,' < 0 ami the institution for feeble-minded $32.00", in addition to which the December collections have been anticipated by the Treasurer to the amount of $100,000. It will be necessary to increase the regular appropriations for the new insane hospitals about a quarter of a million of dollars a year, and the increase of dependents in other institutions will make necessary an additional expenditure of i60,000. It is the Treasurer’s belief that it will be necessary to increase the levy from twelve to eighteen or twenty cents on

the $100.

The Republican State committee held a meeting at Indianapolis on the 14th to wind up the affairs of the Siate campaign. The report of the officers were submitted and their action approved. It was decided to continue the labors until the next campaign. A cotnmwee to consist of the following was selected to assist in securing rates, etc. to the innauguration of Gen. Harrison: W. D. Ewing, If 8. Bennett, Evansville: T. H. Adams, Vincennes; J. C. J*> ilheim, Was ington; XV. B. Godfrey, New Albany; Dr. S. C. Taggart, Jeffersonville: M. A. Sulzer, Madison; A. E. Nowlin, Lawrenceburg; J. C. Rupe, Richmond: J. F. McCullough, Muncie; W. J Lucas, Columbus; Thos. Hanna. Greencastle; C. L Griffin, R. B I’ieree, C. W. Fairbanks, N. R Ruckle, J. R. Carnahan, XV. I*. Johnson, Indianapolis; W. T. Durbin, Anderson; W. R. McKeen, Terre Haute; Lew XX’allaoe, Crawfordsville; XV. H. Hart, Frankfort; H. C. Tinney, J. M. Reynolds, Lafayette; Q. A. Myers, Logansport; C. B Landis, Delphi; G. XV. Gunder, Muncie; A. C. Bearss, Peru, R. S ; Robertson, Ft. Wayne; J. B. Kimball, Kendallville; D. Zook, Goshen; George

Loughlan, South Bend.

The Directors of the I’rison South were in session on the 12th and 13th. The repairs made include a bat h house sewerage system and the completion of the chapel. The receipts from earnings w re $74,137.71 and disbursements $, !,- 6(16.2!), leaving a net balance of $2,531.42. • he prison is self-sustaining for the first time since the contract system was adopted. The Warden recommeds the erection of a new building, containiug guard rooms below and litirary above; also a kitchen, bakery, hominy mill, laundry and the putting in of a new battery of boilers and engiue, the entire plant to cost not more than $12,00) if huilt with convict labor. The contracts for labor in force arc: George XV. Brown, hoot sand shoes; expires July 1, 1889; 52 cents per day; 7i men. Alvin L. Bryan, hoots and shoes; expires April 1, 188!); 60 cents per day; 50 men. Alvin L. Brvan. boots and shoes; expires July 1. 188!); 31 cents per day; 50 men. Patton Manufacturing Company, hollowware; expires December 10, 1891; 60 cents per day; L o men. Alexander G. Patton, hollowware, expires January 15, 1892; f 6 cents per day: ♦100 men. XVm. D. Patton, hollowware, expires December 1, 1891; 49 cents per day; 60 men. R. M. Demise, saddletrees; expires December], 1891. 55 cents per day; 30 men with privilege ol 50 men. The present number of prisoners, 539, is just equal to that of last year. The directors advise a separation of first offenders from hardened criminals, where there is a reasona de hope of their reformation, and that their sentences should be determined by evidences of reformation, ability to earn a living and character for honesty. The physician’s report shows that there has been a decrease of 474 cases of disease from last year, and a decrease of 15 in the number of diseases. In 1887, 67 diseases and 1,191 casre were treated, -nd 13 deaths occured. There have been 11 deaths this year. Of the cases treated this year 120 were burns, many wilfully self-inflicted, to incapacitate the “operator” from

work.

A Change of Tactics. Detroit Fn e Press. Up near Rossville, Tenn.. which place was occupied hy Hooker, seeking Bragg’s left flank, at the battle of Missionary Hidge, I was ou* in the field looking at an old cannon, when I heard a pistol shot in the scrub. By means of the smoke I located the shooter, who was a colored man and down behind a log. As there were a lot of rabbits runningabout 1 supposed he was firing at them and gave him no further attention. He fired again and again, and hy and by as I sat on a log making some memoranda, became running up to me, pistol in hand, and called out: “Boss, got a revolver?”

“No.”

“Got any cattridges?”

“No.”

“Hain’t you got a bower-knife?”

“No.”

"Den dis ycre army has got to fall hack to a new line!” he muttered, and took to his heels and was soon out ot

sight.

He was only well away when another colon d man, also having a revolver broke cover and came across the open and asked: “Has he dun gone?” “Yes.” “Hoo! Was he hit?”

“No.”

“Hoo! Had six shots at each odder an’ nobody hurted! Say, boss, d’ye reckon it’s in de color of do h’ar dat we can’t hit a ha’n fo’ rods t ff! Pze been shootin’at dat nigger all summer, an’ now 1’zegwineto try an cotch him in a b'ar trap.”