Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1880 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTTNEI WEDNESDAY, MABCH 31, 1880.

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BT VHIUP BUBKI XARST0X. A little time for laughter, A little time to sing; A little time to kiss and cling, And no more kissing after. A little time for scheming Love's nn perfected scheues; A little time for golden dreams. Then no more any dreaming. A little while twas given To me to have thy love: Jiow, like a ghost, alone I move About a ruined heaven. A little time for speaking ThlDg4 sweet to say and hear; A time to seek and find thee near, Then no more any see king. A little time for saying Words the heart breaks to say: A sharp, short time wherein to pray. Then no more need of praylrg. But long, long years to weep in. And comprehend the whole Oreat grief that desolates a soul, And eternity to sleep In. EXPRESSIONS. An unsophisticated young person of Kent Brought forty old jokes on Lent. lie was pon ruled with chairs, And kicked down the stairs. And sect home with his nose badly bent. Comb-makers bees. Plane facta shavings. All shopkeepers believe in signs. At what time was Adam married? Upon his wedding Eve. "If I hit yer," said one small boy to another, "yer'll be usin' yerself for snuff ter morror. "How can a young married couple live economically?" asks an exchange. Why, by sponging on the old folks. One man eloped with the wife of another from a spelling bee in Tennessee. Such bees interfere with the honeymoon. "Yon look good enough to eat," said he, looking over her shoulder into the mirror. "Food for reflection," she replied without a smile. In the stomach of a Pennsylvania cow, recently killed, were found 17 wrought iron nails. She had cowhide outside and oxide inside. Every man who has become president of the United States has been elected during a leap year. This is something for the girls to wonder over. When a girl is 29 she feels very easy on that score. It's only when she scores another that she begins to wonder who invented wrinkles. Tuesday's snowstorm didn't hurt any. March will probably continue to be lamblike an til it is old enough to be mutton, and then will come to its capers. A new punishment for criminals would be to condemn them to solitary confinement until they had solved the 13. 15, 14 puzzle. They'd find it a woree "cell" than theirs. Da Lesseps estimates that the Brooklyn bridge will endure for six centuries. There is a possible chance, therefore, of its being completed before it is worn out. In a Paris salon : "Do you know that oune man whose hand you just took?" "Yes," "He is seen everywhere in the bois, in the theatres. Who is he? What does he do?" "He doesn't do anything. He is a charge d'affaires." "Oh, mother, may I go play 15?" No, no, my dearest daughter; it's the biggest fraud that ever was seen. Go draw the washing water" and the length of the fair daughter's countenance was expressive of the great length of time it would take to 80lve the puzzle. New Haven Register. A lecturer on optics, in explaining the mechanism of the organ of vision, remarked: 'Let any man gaz closely into his wife's eye and he will ate himself looking so exceed ingly small that" . Here the lecturer's voice was drowned by the shouts of laughter and applause which greeted his scientific remark. Lang 8 ne Again. Old Schoolfellow: "Yes, it's me, sir. Gattin' on pretty mid dling, thank you. Undertaking line, sir. Hope you'll give me a turn some day, sir. If you'd stick my card np over the matelpiece, sir, so as your friends muht have it handy if anything happened, sir, thank you." When a Connecticut man's wife claims to be too lick to go out and split the wood, he stands it about three days and then tells her that the stores have got their spring bonnets on show, and when she gets back, all oat of breath from a fruitless search, he says if she's able to race three miles to look after bonnets she's able to split that wood. Women are too much the creatures of impulse. Thackeray's and Dickens' Ways With Characters. By Richard Proctor, the Astronomer. While Thackeray's sncces in delineating characters ordinarily met with in the world must be admitted by all who give the mata thought, there are many who deny to Thackeray the power which Dickens is regarded as posassing in a very eminent degree that, namely, of delineating such etraDge and whimsical characters as are less frequently met with. Probably if Thackeray had allowed himseif the same license as Dickens in such matters, he would have been as successful in presenting in an amusing manner the grotesque, the fanciful and the weird. The license I mean is that ot combining in the same character incoognious characteristics. This license, in deed, Dickens took with characters of ail orders; and not only so, but he took the further license of distributing anion different characters tte peculiarities of one and the same person wHom he knew in real life. For instance, we know that some of the peculiarities of Micawber were copied from what Dickens had seen in his own father, whils r.tbrs were taken from other originals. S3 Mrs. Micawber has many ways which D.ckens had noted in his own mother, while others of her peculiarities were not snch as characterized Mrs. John Dickens. But we find also that while the oddities of Micawber and of his wife were borrowed from different sources, so the characteristics of D c kens' father and mother we distributed among different characters Mr. and Mrs. Nlckley, Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, etc - One of the moat remarkable illustrations or Dickens' manner in such matters, a manner nc questionably resulting from deficiency cf the creative faulty (which, until the real origin of many of his characters bad come to be known, was mistakenly supposed by Inexperienced readers to be possessed by Dickens in a very large degree), is to be found In Dora and Flora. Copperfield' first meeting with Dora is Dickens' meeting (when little more than a boy) with a lady by no means so young as Dora is represented The courtship is derived from hijyauth'ul lore for tbc original of lora. Ths married life with Dora so far as her household ways are concerned, presents Dickens' own experience, so that Dorn there represents a third person, and that person his wife. And lastly the death cf Dora, and Copperfield'sorrow during the following years, are drawn from the death of his wife's youDgest sister, Mary, and th sorrow Dickens felt for years thereafter. Yet, though the real Flora fur Dished only one of these four copies from which the Dora of fiction was combined, we find her forming a part of two distinct and very unlike charao ers, the characteristics of her later years bing la part reproduced in Flora but only in part, for some of Dora's ways were derived from other sources. Nor can it be said that, after all, Dickens so artistically combines and distributes what he had observed that they become effective as Ü they were real creations. For no one

possessing any power of critical discrimination had failed to recognize the incongruity of many one may almost say all cf Dickens' characters long before it became known that he had constructed them of heterogeneous materials and applied his materials to heterogeneous purposes. Another remarkable illustration of Dickens' manner of writing is to be found in a picture which is commonly, and in some respects justly, very much admired the childhood and death of little Paul Dombey; yet the ways of the old fashioned child were borrowed from one child (a child with whom Dickens had been exceptionally well ac qua! n ted himself, while the later scenes were, it is needless to say, taken from a different experience. And. by the way, does any one know why the original description of the death scene was altered by Dickens in the later editions or "Dombey and Son." I took np, in February, 1374, at the house of Dr. Chandler, of Bethlehem, a copy of "Dombey and Son," to read the account of Paul Dombey's death, for I had been speaking blasphemies about "the immutable," and I knew that reading that scene would put me in a better frame of mind. I then learned for the first time that a remark made by Miss Tox, after the child's death, has been excised. I have oince looked for it in vatn in many copies of "Dombey and Son." As I remember the original description, afler the words, " the old, old fashion death oh! thank God for the still older fashion, Immortality." (I quote aa nearly as I can remember them.) Then followed a break, and then these word), or words like them : "Go." Miss Tox remarked to Susan Nipper in confidence and tears that evening, "Dombey and Son is a daughter after all." I have been assured these words were never added to the chapter, and that my memory altogether played me false; but I am perfectly sure that they were there. Moreover, tn removing them, probably by advice of Forster or some other friend. Dickens failed to remember another passage which referred to them, and should have been altered at the same time, viz., where Miss Tox, after Florence's return to her father, says: "So that, as I remarked on a former sad occasion, Dombey and Son is a daughter after all." And here I feel tempted to remark on a peculiarity of Dickens' manner treating his subjects which would of itself show that he did not belong to that class of creative writers which includes all the really great names in literature. Paul Richter used to say: "If an author has to stop and ask himself, 'what shall 1 make such and such a character do or say at such and such a point in the narrative?' to the devil with him," implymg that such a writer may possess superficial cleverness, but no genius. I

wonder what Richter would have said of an author who not only thus hesitated, as we find that Dickens repeatedly did, but asked and took the advice of his friends about so critical a question as the fate of his principal characters, or would even after writing the closing passages of a'.story adopt, at ajfriend's suggestion, an entirely different conclusion. No one knew bitter than Dickens the re qlremeats of true art. Nay, be often describes himself as living in his work and among the characters of his story, as the true artist should live; but it is certain that he deceived himself, for if be had he could never have been in doubt what their fate was to be, and still less could he have modified, at the suggestion of thoe who were comparatively strangers to his creations, the fate which he had decided should be theirs. I am aware that other novelists have on occasion done likewise. Scott, for instance, consented to restore Athelstane of Coningsby to life after he had killed him, and a fiae mess Scott made of that change; but, even if we assigned now to Scott the high position which was assigned him by contemporaries, it might still be answer d that Athelstane was only a subordinate liare in the story, and that Scott would never have coneented so to arrange matters to suit the popular taste that the insipid Iliwena should have disappeared and the gallant but shadowy Ivanhoe have married Rebecca, that most beautiful of all Scott's creations. It neel hardly b9 siid that Thackeray doei not allow himself such license as D.ckens in the portraiture of character. Not a line can b found in the p'ctures of Costigan, Huxter, Rawdon, Craw ley, Lord Steyne, and the boat of varied Characters which appear in Thackeray's principal works which can be regarded as incongruous, nor cm 1 rfcsll a single In stance in which characteristics appropriate to one character are distributed among sev eral. Again, Thackeray never, so far as can De judged, departs irom that natural sequence of eventi which the development of his stories has suggested to him. I Lack eray is content, in fact, to hold the mirror up to nature. I do not say that the por traiture is always perfect, still less that the work belongs always to the highest class. Oeorge .uot seems to me to be as. far in advance ot Thackeray in many respects as Browning is In advance of Tennyson. For this reason she will si ways be less popular than Thackeray, even as Thackeray is less popular than Dickens. Uut the work Thackeray nnder takes is alwavs good work, and it is always well done. He does not seek to please by effective situations, by bringing in per fas et nefas humorous or pathetic images, though hi humor is truer, his pathos deeper than many conceive. Nor does he care to make his stories "end well." or even end at all, They are slices fron real life, and real life moves ever onward. His pictures, if not the finest, are among the best drawn of all that J. o gush writers nave given us. That Old Uebel Yell. Colonel J. . McGowan,.of the Chatta nooga Times, in a special to that paper, eives the following graphic description of an lnci dent of the Cincinnati banquet: The great orchestra, under the puissant baton ol Micnaei tsraua, struck up tne stir ring old air "ilxle," with its soul thrilling associations and memories. For a moment there was a hash. The old eoldlers of the North and the old soldiers of the South looked at each other, and the vast throng was still. But betöre the second bar was struck the emo ttoas of the gallant Southerners overcame them, and almost simultaneously they sprang to their feet, moie than a thousand strong. and the old Southern battle cry made the lofty arc nett ring again. iae by iae witn tnera stood the Northern hosts and cheered with them. Again and azaln the men of the South broke forth as the gay measures woke their enthusiasm, and the strains of the orchestra were falny drowned by their united voices. A prominent gentleman of Cincinnati, and a famous soldier, turned to Governor Marts, of Tennessee, and said : "That Is the old rebel yen." "Yes," was the reply, and now hear it raised for the stars and stripes," for just then the orchestra struck: up that grand old patriotic air. The scene tout followed is Indescrib able. Such an one was never wltneie be töre. As the full orchestra pourtd forth the grand old strains or "The star-epansled banner Oh, long may it wave O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave." the great organ burst forth In glorious unison with all Its magnificent power, and tb vast audience arose as one man. and the old L'nlm cheer blended with the old rebel yell to the notes of the national air for the first time since the dark and bloody years of the great civil war. Men who bad raced each other on many a crimson battle field uuder the -stars and bars clasped bands and waved handkerchiefs until the great level of the hall was like a white sea. All the sound of the orchestra and organ was lost in the exultant shouts ot reconciliation and common patriotism, and the great wave of enthnsimm swept over the vast, glowing concourse, una carried everything before it. It was a scene never to be for rotten by those who anticipated a moment that was cardinal In the history of the great 1 It-public. A Sure Thing. A Washington special says: Ex-Senator TUrnnm of Connecticut, who Is one of the shrewdest politicians in the country, and chairman of the Democratio National committee, says that everything points to Grant i nomination, and he accepts the action of the Chicago convention as a foregone conclusion, me leading democrats nere ai ssy that Grant will be nominated,

ANOTHER CAVE MT8TEBT.

8tartllDg Discoveries ' In Highland County, .Special to the Cincinnati Cobs mere 11. - Hills boso, March 22. The residents of Marshall township, this county, are consid erably excited over the somewhat remarkabio discovery of a .cave containing human bones, together with large quantities of the bones of animals. The cave-, if it deserves that name, Is on what is knowo as the Rugg farm, now belonging to lion. John L ii tunes, uor many years hunters have no ticed that rabbits, foxes and other game when pursued always made for a certain point on this farm, and disappeared suddeny from sight at the confluence of two small streams. A gentleman by the name of Main, while chasing a rabbit a few days since determined to investigate, and at the base of the hill where his game went out of sight, he found a hole. Reaching in, be grasped eomethiog in bis hand which proved to be the long bone of a human. His curiosity being now very much excited, he procured assistance, and commenced dig ging. People nocked out from the Tillage, and came pouring in from the surrounding country, aa the news rapidly spread. The ocallty is but a short distance from the no torious Bob McKimie'a old headquarters. and within the range of his once noted gang. nearly all of whom are now in prison under one sentences. In fact, it was supposed that McKimie was hid In one of the numer ous cares that exist in the eastern part of the county, after he msde his escape from jail here in.so daring a manner about three years ago. After digging some distance they came to a large stone slab on edge, closing the mouth of a cavern about 10 by 12 feet square and six feet high. On the floor lay bones in arge number, some hundred, but the larger portion bones of different species of animals Some of them were in a good state of preservation, and could easily be named and classi ned, while others crumbled to dust on exposure to the air. Bones of wildcats, rabbits and dogs were found, while some larger animal bones could not be classified, though they are supposed to belong to the larger species of wild animals, such as pan tners, catamounts, bears, etc. There was also f jund some large bodies of charred wood or charcoal. One ot these is as large as an ordinary base burner stove. Clcss search was made for metal ornaments. but none were found, though several articles of flint and stone were discovered such as are generally found In mounds and ancient fortifications. The cave or cavern is a mystery to every body. If it were not for the stone and flint articles, the theory of some, that the skele tons are the remains of murdered persons hid there by their murderers, would be ganerally accepted. There are many stories of murders and mysterious disappearances during the early times throughout this sec tion. Old sittlers tell of movers from Vir ginia and other States, and of travelers along the once great highways from the .hast to the West, being murdered for their money, and their bodies never found. It may be that the dead past has now revealed the resting place of some of its dead after a long lapse of years. There are reasons, though, for not credit ing the murderers' hiding place theory. Some little distance away from the cavern stands an ancient mound, and it is believed by some that the cavern was once the entrance to a subterranean passage leading to the interior of the mound, ibis idea seems eo plausible that arrangements are being made for a thorough examination of the mound. It is proposed to dig into it, and excavate to a depth sufficient to uncover all it contains. The work will be supenntended by competent persons, who will carefully preserve whatever may be discovered. Death of "Dick Kennedy." IKokomo Tnbune.J Kokomo'a learned crow, "Dick Kennedy," is no more. During the past winter he has been suffering with a broken leg and could not travel around much. Recently he wandered away from home, and not returning, inquiry was made as to his whereabouts, when it was found that he had been killed by a dog. "Dick" was a prominent character of Kokomo and Howard county. He was known far and wide. About five years ago, Mr. P. B. Kennedy, while on a visit to his farm, a short distance from this city, found "Dick" lying near a tree, having evidently fallen from a nest high above in the branches. Mr. K. took pity on the fledgling and brought him home. The bird soon grew stronger, and became a general playmate of Mr. K.'s grand-children. .No pains were taken to educate Dick. He developed a keen perceptive faculty from his early youth, and it was not long before he began to talk a little. Until his ltg was broken Dick was a regular attendant at Chool. Every morning, at the first tap of the bell, he was off to the school yard, and perching himself in a tree he would cry out "bad boy" to all tardy pupils. It was a lamentable fact that Dick became (doubtless, unconsciously addicted to proftnity. He would frequently exclaim "0 Lord!" without seeming to be impious. Dick was a very mischievous bird durirjg hi whole life, and numerous causes cculd be assigned for his clipped wing or disabled limbs, when he would hobble home in the evening. If a window was left open for an hour in the morning, in any part of the city, Dick would steal into the house, and turn things topsy-turvy, picking out all the pins from a cushion, throwing them on the fljor, carrying off jewelry, and doirjg other mlachitf. In politics, Dick was a Republican. Many of our citizens doubtless remember V e part be tcok in the notable campaign of 1S76 Upon every day a Republican demonstration was held D.ck wss on hand, riving around and watching the "rally" with evident satisfaction. But when the Democrats attempted to "rally" Dick would hide away in the woodshed and mutter "bad boy" all day. The children especially were great friends to Dick, and they will learn of bis death with sadness of heart. Of cheerful disposition himself, Dick msde happy surroundings. In very many respects he was a remarkable bird, and his early death will be mourned. Many interesting incidents could bs related of his curious pranks Peace to the ashes of the poor crow! He has gone to the "happy hunting ground." where there are no "bad boys' to throw (tones at him, and no dogs to bits him evermore! A Reminiscence of the War. In October. 18C1, Lamdin P. Milligan, a highly respectable citizen of Indiana: Colonel Bowles, a veteran of the Mexican war, and one IIo;s?y, a hostler, were tried by military commieion, in Indianapolis, on a charge of treason, found guilty and sentenced to death. Indiana was a peaceful State, and the laws had their fall sway. The men belonged neither to the army nor the navy, and a grand jury of the circuit court of the United States was convened in Indianapolis at the time of the arrest. Joseph McDjq ald.no United States senator from Indians, was counsel for the three prisouers Vainly he objected to the competency of the tribunal. He then went to Waehingron to see President Lincoln, "Mr. President," said h, "I don't think that you want to execute these men." "No, Joe," Mr. Lincoln replied, "I don't love blood at all. If other people loved it as little as I do, there would be no meat ta'en in this world. I'll keep these men in prison awhile, and ttea leathern go. Mr. Lincoln was about to Mease all political prisoners when be was assassinated. Andrew Johnson became president. He approved the finding of the court martial, and the men were sentenced to be executed on May 19, 18G5. On the 10th Milligan petitioned the United States circuit court, Judges Davis and Drummond, setting forth the fact, and praying for a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Davis favored the granting

of a writ, and Judge Drummond dissented. Under an act of Congress passed in 1802, this disagreement oent the case to the fall bench of the suprene court for review, upon request. Judge Davis certified it for review. Criminal cases on appeal had precedence in the

supreme court. But. in this case, the court did not meet until December. The appeal could not carry a stay cf execution, and, withont a star, the men wonld be over seven reontha in their graves before the Jiuestion came before the court. Judge tovis came to the nscne. He wrote a letter to President Johnson, detailing- the facta. expressing an opinion that the supreme court wonld practically decide against the authority of the military commission, and asking for a suspension of execution until the ease could be heard in December. This letter was presented to Mr. Johnson by Jcseh SI McDonald. Tho. president read it, and laid it on his table. "It's a technical question," he said. I reckon they're guilty." Mr. MeDonald began to call his particular attention to the points in dispute in the case of Milligan, when the great American commoner tired with indignation. How is it that you say nothing to me about Horsey? ' he asked. "Why.l appear for all three," Mr. McDor.ald replied. "Yes, but you don't mention his name." the president roared. "I know the reason. It s because he s one of the canaille that s it, sir. By Heavens, I'll commute his sen fence to imprisonment for life. But Bowles and Milligad must suffer." Mr. McDonald begged a respite for two weeks, and returned to Indianapolis. But Andrew Johnston did not forget his pledge. Honey's sentence was immediately commuted. Mr. McDonald reported the result of his mi&ion to Judge Davis. Prompt action was required, for there was little hope of further lemency from the president. The judge took advantage of bis action in the case cf Horsey. He laid the facts before Governor Morton. He told him what he thought would be the opinion of the supreme court, llorsey's case was already on the docket with the others. If the opinion in Horsey's esse was favorable, and the other two men were executed before it was promulgated, it would make their execution deliberate murder, and leave a lasting stain on the escutcheon of Indiana. Governor Morton was too good a lawyer to hesitate. He turned the screw on the president, and the men were saved. The Hendricks Club. New York Express.! The formation of a Hendricks club at Washington is a gratifying circumstance. And it is especially noteworthy that both the Indiana senators, the Democratic representatives of that State and a number of other prominent and influential men joined the club at the start. Of course, such a club does not necessitate the nomination ot ex Governor Hendricks. It is a fitting and deserved compliment to the ability and worth and high reputation of a statesman whom it is a credit to support, Mr. Hendricks has ttroBg points as a presidential candidate; and one of the strongest points in his favor is the fact that he has kept the Democracy of his Siate united and harmonious, loyal to their principles, devoted to the cause. There are no dissensions in that State. Strong and able men there are, who naturally aspire to leadership, and would fill important offices with credit. Yet they never swerve in their fidelity to the party, which in that State is a unit, and would give a popular majority of 15 COO to ex-Gevernor Hendricks in spit of all the Republicans have done to coloniz the State with Southern negroes. Mr. Hendricks he 8 a good record. No man can say aught against him. His views are moderate and conservative, well representing the Democracy of the whole country. He has many elements of popularity, and resembles Lincoln in the sturdy honesty, s!mp'.icity and straightforwardness of his nature, and his hearty sympathy with and regard for the people. He consented to take second place in 1S76 against his will, at the urgent solicitation of the leaders of the party in all sections of the country, and the result proved his personal popularity. Among Democratic candidates for the nomination his name shines with particular lustre. Sensible Talk. It is a misfortune to be poor, but not a crime unless one keeps up appearances at the expense of others, contracting debts he can cot pay, borrowing money he can not return, etc. This trying to seem what we are not has become the bane of society, and, like what is called mimicry amongst insects, produces a nondescript race very difficult to dtfice or assign to its proper place in the or der to which it evidently belongs. Of course, wearenotadvocatmg the exposure of a man's business anairs to everybody with whom he comes into business or friendly relations, but we do hold that he has no right to pretend to be better off in worldly goods than he is in fact; for to do bo is a deception which is but another name for dishonesty. By strict economy, and the adoption of a manner of living suitable to our means, the pressure of poverty mav be removed in time. To be sure it is bard to deny one's elf the luxuries ol life, and resolutely turn from all expensive pleasures. But it must be done if wealth is to be gained. There is a pleasure in self-denial that a majority of our people never experienced, and it comes in most gloriously, and is extremely satisfactory to the one prac. icing it, when he can say, "I owe no man anything," and at the same time has $100 in his pocket, but wanting some articles costing $200. be refuses to purchase until, through self-denial, the other '$100 is ob tained. It requires some couraze to adopt such a system of living and dealing, but it has this as a recommendation it Is perfectly safe and honorable, and deceives no one. The Solution of "15." Norrlstown Herald J Mr. Piute went home from the "lodge" the other night and tackled the "15 puzzle. He wrestled with the 30 blocks (at least he thought there were 30 of them, he being in splendid condition to "see double") and in h bout an hour bad the thing solved to his own satisfaction. Then he got pen, paper and ink, and attempted to write out the so lution as follows: Shove 4 down, push 1 over, carom on the 14, swing on the right bower, drag out 6, keep the 10 in the king row, keno on the black, deal again. run the 5 from first base, move S to the southwest of 15 white to play and mate in 12 moves, P to K B4, QR to K, move 11 14-15 a little northeasterly, R to K6ch, tbeu set 'em up on the other alley, throw double 6 b, roquet the 9 take the 7 on the fly. lead king. then R to R7, rake in the pot, and mo mov move . His wife, wcoming alarmed at his long absence, came down stairs at 2 a. m and found him under the table.. But be had "done it." That Fanny Little Elderly Man. Memoirs of Mr. Uwlns. I have fortunately met with a good tern pered, funny little elderly gentleman, who will probably be my traveling companion throughout the journey. He is contiguous ly popping his head out of the window to sketch whatever strikes his fancy, and be Cime quite angry because the conductor would Dot wait lor him while he took a tun rise view ol Macerate. "Damn the ft How!" siys he, "he has no feeling " He speaks but a few words of Italian, about as much of French, which two langutgea he jumbles together most amusingly, hi is good temper. however, carries bim through all his trou bles I am sure you would love him for his iodefatigability in his favorite pursuit. Frcra bis conversation he is evidently near kin to, if not absolutely an artist. Probably you may know something of him. The name on his trunk is J. W., or J. M. W. Turner.

SCICIDE OF A BRIDE.

A Young Lady, Eighteen Years of Age, and Married Only Five Months, Shoots Herself Myatery Sarroandlag th Case. Special to the Herald. PrrrsBTkG, Pa., March 23 A very remarkable tragedy took place' this afternoon on Second avenue, between Roes and Grant streets. In the boarding house of Mrs. 8pellman Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sneathen have been living for some time. Mr. Sneathen is the son of Captain J. B. Sneathen, of the firm of Sneathen A Wilson, and his wife was Miss 3fary Agnes Irvra, of Bast End. To day at noon one of the ladies wbo lives in the house was coming out of the dining room when the front door of the bouse opened and Mr. Sneathen cane in. Just then a shot was heard in Sneathen's room, which is oo the right hand of the hall. Soeathen as&ed what the noise was, and the lady said she thought it was the fire cracking. Sneathen then went into his room and the ladies went into tbe sitting room which adjoins it la- a seeoad or two Sneathen ca'led nut, "My God. eone hare. Look at this." On entering the bedroom Mrs. Sneathen was found lying on her bed as though asleep, and the lady saxl bo. "No, no." cried Soeathen. "She has shot hersell. Sb 1 dead." A bullet hole was found in her left temple, from which the b)ood and brains were oozing. Dr Arthurs was sent for, and on examining the wound he said she could not live three hours. The cause of the sad occurrence is not known. Tbe people at the boarding bouse say tbe couple Jived happily togetner, eut it w rumored otherwise outSide. It is reported that Mrs. Sneathen quarreled with her mother and also with her husband, bub this, too. Is said to be untrue. The police seem to think that there is too much mystery about the affair to be passed off with casual examination, and Mr. Snatben was placed under tbe surveillance of Detective Coyle. Mrs. Sneathen was IS years old. Sbe was a noted beauty before ner marriage, wmcn toot place only about five months 8t,o. Her husband is about 20. He attempted to shoct himself after he found his wife was fatally injured. A uetio of Ills Own Asking. One cold winter evening a knot of village worthies were convened around a stove in a country store in a Western town, warming their irngers by the stovepipe and telling stories and cracking jokes. The school master, the blacksmith, tbe barber, the con stable, the clerks and the storekeeper, all were there. After they bad drank cider and smoked cigars to their hearts' content, and when all tbe current topics of the day had been exhausted, the schoolmaster proposed a new kind of bitters to remove the monotony of tb evening. bach one was to propound a puzzle to his neighbors, and whoever should ask a ques tion that he himself could not BOlve wss to pay the cider reckoning for the entire party. Tbe idea took at one, and the school master, "by virtue of his office," called on Dick D , whom most folks thought a fool and few a knave, to put the first question. "Wal, neighbors," eaid Dick, drawling out his words and looking ineffably dull and stupid, "you've seen where squirrels dig their holes, haven't you? Can any one of you tell me the reason why they never throw out any aim ' This was a "poser," and even the "master" had to "give it up." It now devolved on Dick to explain. "Tbe reason is this, that they first begin at the bottom of the bole." Stop, stop!" cried the schoolmaster. startled out of all prudence by so monstrous an assertion. "Pray, now, how does the squirrel get there T' "Ah: master," replied the cunning fool, "that's a question of your own asking!" The result had not been anticipated. Tbe "schoolmaster was abroad" at that particular juDCture. Whitley County Democracy. Columbia Citt, March 22 The Democ racy of Columbia township, and Colnmbia City, held their township convention on Saturday to nominate a township ticket and to transact other business connected with the organization. This was tbe largest and best conducted, as well as the most enthusiastic convention ever held in this city. George Snyder, an excellent German Democrat, was unanimously selected for trustee; F. B. Moe for justica of the peace, ex-Sheriff John W. Wyncoop for assessor and land appraiser, Hiram Arlin and William Meiser for constables, and E W. Brown towesbip com mitteeman. Hon. u. a. Tulley was chairman, and managed the proceedings in a most satisfactory manner. The ticket is a strong one and will be elected. Dr. D. M. Mar shall, Hon. C. B Tulley and Colonel McDonald made short speeches for the cause. Colonel McDonald was particularly severe againit tbe Republican negro exodus scheme, to carry Indiana over the heads of the Democracy and tbe working clashes ot Indiana. He made a strong appeal to the working claesfs to vote against the constitutional amendment favoring a registration law. He took the ground and showed, in strorg terms, that this registration scheme was a blow agiinst the hardworking, laboring classes cf tbe State, without regard to party. All laboring men were exhorted to vote aizainst the amendment. As to president, were for Hendricks first, last, and all the time. If we can't get Hendricks, the noblest Roman of them all, then let us take Seymour and Hendricks; and, in either case, we can and will carry the election in November. As to governor, it now looks as though our Democracy would vote for Linders for governor, and Gray for lieutenant-governor. We have many Landers men here, and some Gray men, but there is the be9t of feeling amone all Democrats as to both of these most worthy gentlemen; hence you need not be surprised to see the Whitley delega tion vot Tor Landers and Gray, and give them GOO majority at the election, in October. Whitley. Personal Should this meet the eye of tue individual who created a disturbance m church last Sunday by his continued coughing, he will confer a favor on the congregation by procuring m bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, which will cure him. ES23Q. All AGREUILE AFERÜRT AND REFRIGERANT. This wi-ll-known pn-paration U hiehlv rerimiiiin!-d fr O.TMpl.-t. lleiMlaehe, Mekmn rtlie fcloiuaclt. und nil rompl.üiit arising from Aridity. IIUIomMnn, hikI Tlalarlal I'cvrn. li xuU ttie Iii ixhI nnj r'?ulaie tliu bowcU. It i A f.ivnnto nifilirine fur cluMn-ii. Prepared ! A. K' KiKIia' SOJfi, i hor.nxts, 2 LU-eckt-r htrei-t, Ni-w York. Superior to Mineral Watera, Seidlitr Powders, etc I'UIC BALE 11 Y ALL 11U VCLSTS. STARTLING DISCOVERY I LXST MA.MIUOD.RMIOUEU. A victim of youthful Irunnidciice enuring premature decay, nervoua debility, loot manhood, eh'., having tried in Tia every kwiwn remedy, luin di--ovt-red a ample aclf cure, which ho will wnd FKKK to hi fellow fii.Tereni, address J. li. 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