Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1877 — Page 1

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VOL. XXVI, NO 27. IISTDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORXIXG, FEBllUAJtY 21, WHOLE XO. 1802.

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Our more among Ihotfs rieb and golden strings Wunder w itlj thy warm arm, dear Irl, so pul?; A:id when at last from thy sweet dLscord springs The aerial music, like the dreams which veil Earth's shadows with diviner thonghU mid thinxs, O. let the piisslons and the time prevail. And bid ihy fpiiit through the innzea run; For Music is line Love, and must be won I O. witke thi rich chords with tby delicate lingers! , loose the enchanted music from mute, sleep! M-thinks the fine Phantasma near thee llu uerx. Yet will not come, unless tone strong and deer Compel him. Ah! raethinks a low aven-j gers Kequite njon the heads of those who ween Tli" sorrows which they Rave) the sullen thin IwrUthee, as thou itft'wt tho vanquished strlu. Kt., no; it eoines; sweoter than death or life, swter than hope or joy (beneath the moon), weeterthan all that Is harmonious strife, Kroiu whose embrace ! torn a perfect tune Where every pa-slouate note with thought is rife. Come, then; with golden speech enchant us Hoon as thou wilt with airs of hope, with fears. The rage of passion, or the strength of tears! These lines, never rW.r published, were addressed by Harry Cornwall to the lady who became Mrs Proctor, tiee "Moore's Diary," edited bv Lord John liussell. For the Hunday Sentinel. THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF LOVE. Kindness Versus Idve. MRS. 8ALLIK A. RAMAfcE. Farents and educators who, aware of the va-a responsibility placed in their hands, endeavor to study fully the demands and needs of their charges, are agreeing that the law of kindness is the universal rule by which to strengthen and encourage the love of honor and purity in children. No longer is the whip, the lash and the ferule employed as the great agents in the work of training the young, grasping mind. No more the plastic will and reason moulded with an iron hand that will not relax, no matter what the exigences of the pupil's condition may be. The great motor power in the world is love; constant, unceasing, wi.-e love, the abiding affction that draws the heart of the innocent child to its father, and mother, and the souls of men and women to a merciful God. The sweetest memories that ever come to us are those of home; the old home of our childhood; the place where our childish faults where forgiven, our sorrow comforted and our joys intensified. There is not a man living, though he may stand now in the valley after a life journey of three aore and ten, who is not better and purer if he can look back to the scenes of his boyhood and find there the lore and kindness that, though unappreciated and uncared for then, have saved him from much evil, and elevated and ennobled him as ae aud experience haw taught him their value. The children, the lit'Ie prattling girls and boys, full of the overflowing life and happiness of the soring time of their youth, are looking to us day by day for strength, for training, for education, and we have the power to nurture the pure and the divine in their hearts, or to embitier and sour them forever against the world and its duties and pleasures. They come to us in perfect confidence; to theui we are infallible oracles, and they rely upon our words for their actions. They have as yet no disposition to err wilfully; they make mistakes, they stray away a step or two from the straight path we mark out before them; they forget our, perchance, hastily given instructions, and we punish them. The child is easily touched by loving reproof; his heart is tender, and yet neglecting the many opportunities for checking any inclinations to sin, we brutalize the whole nature by whipping. We scourge the tender, shrinking flesh, and promote hatred and evil in the infant mind, that as yet can noi grasp the idea of punishing the body for the mistakes of the head or heart. How often, when heated by ancer, when vexed by other causes, the unresisting child is forced to bear our wrath, and by venting our displeasures in lasting the trembling form, we crush out something godlike and divine in the soul with every blow. Fathers and mothers need to learn lessons of eelf control and discipline ere they reek to correct the mistakes of their children. They need to learn that that which to their eyes may appear a grievous offense, to the child may be but an error of ignorance or a mistake of judgment I have seen children who hated their homes, who would rather be anywhere else in the world, for whom the hours spent with their parents were the moat dreary and miserable, and I have pitied them with a yearning tenderness, for childhood comes but once to them, and these memories of bitterness will haunt them to their latest breath. I have seen children shrink from their home as criminals from prison Iis. Thy knew too well Ibat every room was an apartment of torture, that every wall had heard their cries of pcin, and every day brought moments of anguish. They were whipped for every trivial offense, for every mistake, for every hasty word or act, and dreading the father and mother as the cruel ones who i flicted the punishment, they shrank from the presence of the parent. If they, forgetful of time, with memory and played too late they were whipped, no allowance being made for the childish delight in the passing moment. 1 they soiled their

clothing, broke their plaything, or forgot their lessons, the same punisb.r-.vjnt awaited them, until they chose the wrong deliberately and lied and deceived to escape the pain. What dark pictures rome people carry forever with them of the homes of their childhood, the spots that might have been near to heaven, but to them were much nearer the place of eternal anguish. Who of us to-day with the children clusterin? around our knee would deliberately blind them forever to the light and beauty of earth; not one. We would rathor gather them close to our hearts, and if any must suffer offer ourselves for the sacrifice, and yet unless we are tender and thoughtful, are dy by day blinding our girls and boys as we brutally take away from them the gentle, loving kindness that is part of their- birthright W would not cover the beautiful flowers just budding with cold, hard stones and expect them to fulfill the promise of perfume and loveliness, and yet on the warm, throbbing hearts of our children we cast the cruel.bitter words; their bodies we mark with the whip or ferule, and yet we expect in their maturity that there shall be no blight. We should never let anger govern us when we punish a child, nor should the mere theory of sparing the rod and spoiling the child influence us. Quietly, dispassionately, sadly we should show the wrong; we should appeal to the heart and conscience, and if these are the modes of punishment from the earliest moments of reason, we need never resort to harsher means. We have known children who would rather be flogged than deprived cf father's or mother's kiss, and to whom the reproving glance of an eye that was always loving was a punishment even to be shunned. Oh! when we kis for the last time the frozen lips, that never more shall offend, when we press the fingers that shall be busy with the childish play no more, and give our child back to God our grief will lose much of its bitterness .ind weariness, if on looking back over the short journey that was traveled by our side we find we did nothing to bring sorrow and care to the young heart so soon stilled in its beatings. If we knew the baby finders Pre-sed ngninst the window pane Wu!d be cold and st Iff to-morrow, Never trouble us hgain. Would the Wight eyes or our darling atch the frown upon our brow? Wou d the print of rosy nusrers Vex us then as they do now? The homes that are the happiest are those where the parents, before they attempt to govern their childreucan govern themselves, where the fundamental principles of all law and judgment are well understood, and the child is not expected to observe rules he does not understand or meet requirement he can not observe. The homes of our childhood are in the fairy land that lies beyond the turmoil and weariness of the present; they are among the things of the long ago, and yet we hoje to have them again in that future where our mansions shall not be made with hands when we shall meet again father and mother whose love for us was like the current of our lives, always with us. We pray to feel again the touch of our mother's fingers as we knelt at her knee and her hands on our lowed heads blessed the penitent, weeping child. We hope to be clasped to the heart that had only forgiveness fof the prodigal, the ungrateful the heart that could cherish no anger or hatred. We hope to walk the gold paved streets with our father, who just and noble, yet could stoop to pity and comfort the children of his home. We clung to his hands for strength and support in our first weak steps, and his arms were about us untif we folded them for the last time over the grand old breast that was broad enough to hide even fault and sin of his sons and daughters. We are men and women now, and yet. standing to day in the midst of the conflict of life, we look backward to home and, taking courage from our memories, thank heaven for euch a blessed retrospect, and go on to the eternal home where love shall rule forever, for love is of God and God is love. Whatever else you miss giving the children money, education, luxury, ease do not deny them your love and sympathy. They will be returned to you ten-fold in the perfect, symmetrical lives of the men and women who reverently and tenderly call you father and mother. Be farm, be just, be inflexible in the right, but withal remember you are dealing with immature young minds and hearts, and that more good and discipline can be accomplished with love than with pain and agony. Let your demands be reasonable, your exactions possibl, your rules movable, and let your children expect sympathy in their trouble, and for punishmen) the loss of something that has become precious to them never physical punishment and the moment they have repented and asked forgiveness that instant let their tears blot out their offen.e. The age is one of kindnessHof gentler feel ing. of better impulses than those that are past, and the rule, not the exception, is to be "good will amorg men." Wars cruel and fierce may be waged, but the nurse, the sanitary commission, the pure and noble men and women will allay the anguish and suffering on every battle field, when the din an 1 smoke of the conflict have cleared away and the twilight and the dew, like gentle ministers from heaven, soothe and refresh the dying, bleeding soldiers. Ruler, king?, councils and generals may direct and lead armies to the slaughter, but the great mass of the people is united in pleading for peace and pro es in against the brutalizing effect of needl -8s warfare. Governments are leaguing themselves together to preserve

order and quiet over the whole world, and are devising means by which to ameliorate the condition of their subjects. States and cities are every year introducing refornis into public institutions and asylums, and organizing societies for the prevention of cruelty to men and animal, and for the promotion of the highest laws of Christianity and humanity. The convict in his cell, kept from association with the great, busy world about him, sentenced to w eary years of confinement as a just punishment for his crimesis neither forgotten nor his claims ignored. Humanitarians and philanthropists are giving attention to his physical and moral condition. The old theory that was part and parcel of the rigorous requirements of a passing age is now shown to be at best but a system for the complete brutalization of men and women, and with the fading away of the fanaticism that burned witches on JSnleni Hill or perse cuted the meek, humble Friends, the entire code of the treatment of prisoners is changing. Every criminal will, at no distant day, be considered as a human being, not wholly lost to honor and God, but wretched, miserable, sinning, still human, with some-thing divine in him as long as the heart pulsates and the will commands good or evil actions. In only a few prisons is flogging still allowed; it is too brutalizing for even the most hardened criminals, and it reacts with such fearful force that the executioner is lowered and debased with every blow of the thongs. In Delaware the whipping post is still seen a monument to the brute force that has kepti civilization and Christianity from advancing. There a man commits a petty theft, he is dragged to the post, stripped. Hogged; and, lacerated and maddened, is set free to steal aye, murder if he will, he is degraded and

his manhood is lessened in a fearful ratio; a but whipping is a cheap punishment and economy is a precious virtue in the eyes of Delaware. The idea is row to raise men up, higher, higher, no matter bow fallen, how low; take hold of them by some grappling iron of kindness and mercy and save them from the dark torrent of sin. Ileligion, education end enlightenment can do this, but they Lave no need for the lash to aid them; that is a relic of the days when it was thought a pleasing sight to God to behold men tearing their flesh, offering their loved ones to the flames and killing captives as a daily sacrifice and a continual adoration. If philanthrophists will not abuse criminals can you believe it possible for your children to need the whip or the strop. The blind, the deaf and dumb and the crippled have always been objects of pity, but kindness is not being exerted practically to enlarge the sphere of their happiness and usefulness, and managers of state institutions are now expected and forced by a watchful public to show to their unfortunate charges only the most ceasele.- care and gentleness, and dismissal is the result of neglect or cruelty. The insane, so long treated almost like criminals, are now recognized as invalids requiring continual watching, perhaps needful restraint but never brutality or punishment. Only to prevent outbreaks of ungovernable passion are fetters and straight jackets allowed, and the poor, wandering mind receives no impressions save those of sympathy and uniform kindness. The proper authorities are holding with a firm hand the reins of restriction, and none are allowed either to be cruel or unjust to the weak and helpless under their charge. If this is the feeling while dealing with the inmates of prisons, reformatories and asylums, how long will it take it to get to our schools, to abolish forever the use of ths lash? We rarely ever hear of the whipping of advanced pupils; no.it is a punishment reserved for the little children or those just at the age when the dictates of duty and the wooings of pleasure are about equally balanced in their importance in the mind, and where a step one way or the other is not an act of a firm will but rather the impulse of the heart The child unused to the confinement of the school grows weary, nervous, irritable; commits some trifling offense and is whipped. How many adults do the same every Sunday when the sermon is long or prosy? The innocent, gay, merry-hearted girl or romping boy sees something to amuse, the keen sense of fun is aroused, there is a ripple of laughter, as innocent as the song of the wild bird, but the offender is caught in the act and whipped. The lessons are long or are difficult the child is too young for continued applioakion, the woods and figures slip from tke untrained memory and the trembling pupil is whipped. The boy sees a butterfly floating from flower to flower, Its bright wings catching the sunshine; involuntarily he' pursues. His hat is a ready trap for the swift winged game, but he tries in vain to catch it he is heart and soul in the chase, when like a death knell he bears the bell for school. . He is five minutes late, there is no excuse, and the lash stings the body and the soul. The little girl whose mind is bmy with her playthings whisars one word of news about her plans to an interested friend.and on her tiny palm or shrinkiug shoulders the flesh raises in Ted purpling marks under the keen whip or the heavy rule. The child that would have kept its innocency and j jyousness f jr years under the care of wise parents and teachers in a twelvemonth Ciiii veritably be so burtalized that the lah will be shunned nt by more correctdeportmentbuthy greater art in lying and deception. The oldor.the more advanced pupils escape punishment or receive that which if given when they were smaller would have been tenfold more effloaciuua

than whipping, counsels, reproof and advice. No matter how incorrigible a scholar is, I doubt the wisdom of ever allowing the whip to be applied. In Prussia, where discipline is the rule of life, a boy was sent from school to school, and from teacher to teacher, only to be expelled and abandoned as a hopeless case of insubordination and wickedness, lie was whipped every day, kept in solitary confinement, only to repeat his conduct. He was so harcfened that corporal punishment was proved to be a failure in his case and he was given up as lost- Finally,

.as the la t resort, at the importuning of anx ious friends, he was placed under a teacher who would not whip. This the boy knew, and ere he had been at school long he began one of his fearful outbursts of temper, foaming, frothing from his mouth, wild with rage. The master bound his hands and feet securely, and then laying him on the floor called around him ' a class of little scholars and bid them sing. They sang sweet, plaintive songs, but there were no evidences of feeling in the offender. The teacher attempted some advice, but it was unavailing. Again and yet again was this repeated, until the blessed words and melody of the little singers touched the rough, brutalized heart, and the boy burst into tears. The master unloosed fhe bands, talked gently and lovingly to the weeping lad, aud gave him back to the world purer and better. After a year he was one of the best, most refined and obedient pupils in the school. Whipping had failed, but love had accomplished the work. Teachers are as apt to become weary and irritable as other mortals; they have much to vex and annoy them, but they have no right to vent upon helpless pupils the anger that is occasioned by other persons or causes. The best teachers are those who are thoroughly in love with their work, who are self-controlled and well disciplined, and whip but little. They understand the human nature of their pupils, and allow neither anger nor hate to force them into the work of converting children into brutes, but rather they seek to elevate and ennoble. Whipping is not only a cheap, but it is a quick punishment, and the teacher employing this agency can speedily do the day's work of restraining and moulding the school, few or many lashes as the law requires, and the work is done for time and for eternity. When we are educated up to the theory that teachers are not to be hired as the lowest grade of workmen are, the cheapest always r the favorites, but as we should engage physi cians and ministers, those who can the best help to save body and soul, regardless of price, then we will secure throughout the country men and women who will be able to give our children, not alone mental training and discipline, but physical and moral elevation. The teachers of our schools are the guardians of the children while they are in their most impassionable years, and if we value the future of our boys and girls we should be careful to detract noti ing from the power and influence of educators when they work for the good of their pupils, but when in this they fail the voice of rernonstra .ee from parents should swell until the clamor should awaken the world to the truth that the training of the youth of the country is tne greatest, the most important subject appealing to the world for attention. Do not brutalize the children until they are hardened and sinning, and then spnd years of praying and pleading to win them back. Do not in school or at home, let the lash mark the flesh of your children and leave upon the pure soul ineffaceable stripes of degradation. But keep them, the heirs of wealth or the waifstf sin, the children of virtue or the despised of sin; help them to retain the purity and innocence that is a mark of the Saviour's love when He said: "Suffer them to come to Me." TLJ t KIU CATIO.X. The cost of tuition per pupil in the Boston schools is three times that of twenty years ago. Maine is to give to its normal schools hereafter $15,000 instead of $13,000 annually. Syracuse uu! versify now has an etching class in its art college. There are 200 students in the university. ' Chicago, during the past year, has spent $82.308.50 for school purposes. The cos of tuition per pupil was $18.(jb The board of trustees of Princeton college have elected three new professors: Professor C. A. Young, of Dartmouth college, in astronomy; Professor Charles O. Rock wood, of Kutger college, in mathematics and Professor Ü C. Oris, of Marietta (Ohio) college, in Greek. There is a practice at Harvard college of lending money to students whose circumstances require it and of taking nots in return. Mny of these notex are never paid. It is estimated that over $35,000 is now due to the college from students who have never repaid what they borrowed. In his last annual report President Eliot states that the majority of these debtors are in the ministry, and takes strong grounds against the extension of the beneficiary system. The visiting committee for Harvard for 1875 70 rejrorts that the present work in metaphysics 1 considered insufficient and it is suggested that Berkeley Hume and Kant be added. Philosophy No. 3, "Critique of Judgment." should supplant Shopenhauer and Hartmann. The ethical courses "are characterized with a vagueness and slightness." In history the several courses should be' brought in closer connection, so as to have a common cei ter. Two new courses are recommended, one by which a complete review of Greek culture tuny be obtained through the English, aud the other to be for those who aiui at accurate scholarship in this branch of language. Mathematics re not pictured very a'tMctlveiy, und a reduction of freshmen work U recommended. On mo terh Ungunges, the main criticism ia on the Gaiiiciz i i gih into wh.cu tne students translate French,

THE TRADITION OP CO NO, TEST. KY MRS. M. B. PIATT.

H l-i grace of Marlborough, leger ds my, Throngb bnule-lightning proved his worth. Vas scathed like others, in hU day, By fiercer fires at his own hearth. The patient chief, thus sadly triedMadam, the dutches, was so fairIn Blenheim's honors felt less pride Than in the lady's lovely hair. Once (shorn, she had colled It there to wound Her lord when he should pass 'tissaidi, Shining acroKshls path i e 'ound The glory of the woman's bead. No sudden word, no sullen look. In all his a ter days, confessed lie missed theehnrrn whose absence took A sear's pale shape within his breast. I think she longed to have hlra blame. Anil soothe him by imperious tears; As It ler beauty were the Käme, He praised her through his courteous years. Hut, when the soldier's arm was dust. Among thejlead man's treasurer, where He laid it as mini moth und rust. They found his wayward wife's sweet hair. FAS II I OX FOIBLE.". The newest percales are in India designs and dark colors, like those seen in cashmere shawls. The newest princess dresses are made with square trains and entirely without drapery. Glasses are now made of frosted glas in antique forms and patterns, the monogram being in color. The length of ladies' waists behind now extends lower than the spine, and trains are proportionately longer to harmonize lengths. Dried flowers and ferns arranged on silk or fine cardboard, and covered with prepared muslin to keep them from breaking off, make handsome ornaments for lamp shades. Very plain styles are .now preferred for dressing the hair for the street and for mornings in the house. Cable cords or twisted ropes of hair in two thick loops are worn at the back of the head, drooping low, as chatelains. The switches made up of short hair on stems will not answer for these ropes, as long hair is needed to keep the ropes smooth. These loops are then fastened together at the nape of the neck with a long brooch of gold or of faceted steel. The milliners are anticipating very few novelties this season. Chip bonnets of fcni shades continue in vogue, but a great number of fancy straws will also be imported. There will be bonnets partly of chip and partly of lace straws, with brims of one and crowns of the other. The capote t-hape, it is predicted, will prevail. The fronts of all bonnets will be close asrainst the face, but there will be some variations in the crowns. Trimmings will be tied closely around the crown, and follow its outlines, instead of being massed in bows and loops. A great many flowers will be used, epecially in wreaths and half garlands. The ribbon bows, worn last season for tying chatelaines have fallen into disuse, though a small bow with ends is sometimes placed on the crown of the head to conceal the termination of the loop. The front hair is worn in large waves if it is thick enough, but if not, an invisible or false front is used, and is surmounted by a nest of finger puffs directly on the top of the head. Light blonde hair is still worn rough and fluffy but it is not regularly creped. Dark hair is wrn smoother than fair hair, and must be laid flatly in long waves, or the water waves that require so little hair, or, more stylUh still, in the Montague locks, that are made of thick curves laid irregularly on the forehead. Side locks, just in front of the ear, are turned toward the face. These locks and the Montague curls are glued down with bandoline to keep them in place. For plainer house dresses and for suits there is nothing so popular with old ladies as the soft clinging erinnere a fahrte they were familiar with in their youth, and are glad to see revived. Sometimes these are now made with the cuirass and long looped overskirt very simply trimmed with bias folds of the same, or else with knife pliitings of 8 lk. The lower skirt may be perfectly plain, but the fancy for trimming has reached even the plainest people, and there are few old ladies nowadays who object to the flounces that were formerly thought too frivolous. While black is generally preferred for the street by old ladies, the rich dark soft shades now in vogne are much used in the house. With the gray hsir and pretty caps that have now become obje .'ta of admiration, there is no dress more becoming than the rich pi urn colors and seal brown woolens so fashionable at present. When black is worn in the house, grandmamma relieves it just as the young matron, her granddaughter, does, by bright Inots of ribbon on her cap and cunninglycontrived bows at her throat The dresses made for old ladies by fashionable dressmakers differ very little from those made for the young. The polonaise suit and the princesse home dress, however, are especially liked by old ladies who are fond of dress, as they make rich-looking and stately costumes. The best, fabrics are chosen by these experienced buyers, and the most marked feature is the diminished trimmings. Thus for full dress are princesse robes, partly of black brocaded velvet with silk, or else of plain velvet and silk, made without a single flounce or drapery, ot any sort Rich passementerie, fringes, and laces are used, but not abundantly. Although black seems lo be losing favor with yourrger ladies, it is worn on all occasions by the old, and the fabrics are now so rich that they make sufficient variety without any change in color. Satin, brocaded Bilk, embossed velvet, plait velvet and plain silk are chosen for rich dresses; two of these materials appear in each dress, and these are combined in new ways by making alternating gores and side forms extending the whole length of the dress, instead of as hitherto having the dress of one stuffand the accessories of another; thy are now so mingled that it can not be said the dress is of one kind, but of both. . Gloves, which are very little things in themselves, often prove a large item in the expenses of a young lady. Here is a gennine way to save money, anlyet wear fresh, clean Kloves. When you have several iairs of roiled gloves, shut the door and open a window In your room. Then pour a cup full or a pint (according to the number of gloveOof naphtha, or benzine, which, in omruerve are the same thing, into a basin. Then dip your gloves into it once or twice, and pin them np at your window to dry. This will restore them to ahnst their original beauty and puritv, and save both the ex-ent-e and trouble of send ng them out to be cleauoed. Dresses, wck s, Jchawla and other

woolen garments mav be cleaneed in the aanie way without being ripped,and will come out so fresh as to surprise yon. Of course, if you dip garments instead of gloves you will need one, twoorthrej gallons of benzine, which is only fifteen cents a gallon at wholesale. As soon as they are dipped the garment should be hung on a lin out doors, that the odor may pass off. If gloves have become spotted by sea air or other dampness, lay them in a paper box; then saturate the inside of the box cover with liquid ammonia, put it on the box, and your spotted gloves will soon come out as fair as ever. A very reliable lady who has made these experiments with great success, sends these receipts for saving money. The caps worn by old ladies nowadays are the mofet tasteful fmi

costumes of the last hundred vears. ' For the morning they are made of clear white muslin. With full mnh emwn m ml.o. r plaited mnshn or of koe, and a bow of soft luioiuurui paie uiue riDDon in Iront and back. Thev are so uimnto thai easily made and laundried, their only iounciauon Oeing a bit of cap-wire passed around the honsl vnr dressy, afternoon wear, white net in figures or eLe plain Lyons tnlle is used, with tulle ruches for trimming. The crown is not as full as in muslin riT rw! ; 1 ..- I are wide etrings of tulle, with the ends pointed and the edges finished with the narrow ruche. These String are nrnrrt Kon!r.n. only very old ladies now use strings to tie uuuei: lue tuiu. rur iuu aress occasions the cap is formed of the fine real lace barbes and pointed coiffure pieces that are imported in round point applique and Valenciennes, and are richly trimmed with lace, and perhaps a few flowers. The dreary black lace caps worn a hundred veara nr-n n.t thai i, ; - w - r ..vi. kiuuicu head-dresses are happily banished, or mum. are worn oniy ny those who are not courageous fnniiih tn h; own natural gray ha'r, but resort instead to wigs, false fronts and hair-dyes. Indeed, caps are no longer considered the specialty of old ladies; for while the youngest matrons find thpm hpmminrr anA tn fanf - " rv u iu. i, they often form a part of the bride's outfit, they are not worn at all by many old ladies who have abundant gray hair, or by those who can afford to buy the gray switches that cost, from fortv to" seventv-five rlnllnni Harper's Bazar. THE NT ATE. Angola is going to have a new jaiL A fire company has been organized af De catur. There are thirty rauDcra at the Pik county asylum. Franklin has PI cht Xh VKlpJ h n n uvn rer. nlar and one homeopath. The German hunting club of Terre Haut. will visit Evnnsville soon. Farm hands in Montgomery countv are asking from $16 to $20 per month. According to the Cannelton Enquirer there are 113 marriageble young ladies in that Durg. The Have-nothings of Georetown townshin paraded the streets at that hamlet on ednesaay. South Bend Tribune: Ira Nye has lott his trotter, Gray Alice, from heart disease. She was valued at $3,000. A preliminary survey of the proposed nar row gauge railroad from HarrLson to Cheviot was commented last week. Lafayette Courier: The fortune teller at the gipsy camp is overrun with sentimental lads and lassies from this city. Delphi is no longer connected bv tele graph with the outside world, the office at that place having been discontinued. Washington Democrat: Five hundred dollars has already been offered for the old court house. Chance for a speculation. Terre Haute Gazette: A growing decrease in the supply it is thought will raise the price of meat in the Terre Haute market A bank, a railroad, and another distillery, are the new enterprises that occupy the attention of the people of Harrison just now. Lafayette Dispatch: It is said that in pruning the grape vines, it is found that nearly one-half of them were frozen to death. Bloomington Courier: The residence of George Fox, near tNiiithville, was entirely destroyed by fire rast week. There was no one at home at the time. Bloomfield Democrat: Hydrophobia is prevailing in parts of this county to an alarming extent Last week eight mad dogs were killed in the neighborhood of Jpnesboro. Centerville Chronicle: Itoney, of the Richmond pre, was married this week. He has as good a right to starve a woman as any of the other editors we know of, and we wish him luck. Franklin Herald: Would it not be well for the elders of the Presbyterian church to look after some of their floi-k that are inclined to stray toward the dancing ball of this city? Crawfordsville Journal: Many of the fanners have opened their sugar camps but havn't made much headway in manufacturing the sacchariferous substance. Tbey say it has been too dry. Cannelton Enquirer: Mr. T. Courcier took the premium at the Centennyil exhibition for the finest corn and the largest yield from a single grain, which proves that Terrjr county has some rights to boast of in' agriculture. . Spencer Journal: A fire was started in the tall grass on the ridge south of Mr. Fletcher's residence, by some miscreant the other day, and before it could be put out a grove of young chestnut trees was nearly ruined. The Evansville and Crawfordsville road has brought suit against the Logansport, Crawfordsville and Southwestern for $19.000 damages for alleged depreciation of road and property, leased by the former to the latter, during the term of lease. South Bend Register: A new cock-pit was opened in the city last evening in the presence of 25 or 30 persons. No fight took place, but some "gloved' handling was done and measurements taken for future reference. Developments may be expected. Bloomfield Democrat: Greene county against the world for patience and endurance, even in love affairs! A young couple within our bailiwick recently spent 13 solid hours in erh other's company wi thou t stopping for refreshment or sleep. Can any other county hold over this record?