Bloomington Progress, Volume 18, Number 5, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 April 1884 — Page 1

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THE BUOCil OF TUB SC2CDAT SCUOOI THIS STTLE CUBA. Threw back her shoulders, and aha mtt Some umi teen Bible verses About Mople who go In ft tun. When dead! And when the girl b got au throng. All through. They cam her a ticket painted bras. All blcet Tim she went horn and went to bed, With throbbing heart and aching head. Ah, boot The Mongol heathen spit and spirt, Ah.s-.lrtl upon the Snoerintcndent's shirt. Clean shirt! That he might cut n heavy swell, when he ; hould stand straight up and tall Bow that girl d ed in dotal well. Oh, cert! And the Mocgol heathen lima on yet, litres yet. And Scarce the Superintendent's debt, M ash debt! And eo th" Snpi rlntendent lives. And atiil rh Mongol heathen Uvea, While the world is running abort ot wire. Ton bet! rJBrookttn EoqU.

The Last Man,

Bl A SEA FAKES, A small iron, full-rigged ship was is latitude 10 degrees north of the equate, outward bound for a New Zealand port. The ran would be setting in an boor; already hia disk was rayless and of a dark and angry gold, and his reflection lay in a broad and waving dazzle npon the western swell. A pleasant draught ' of air, blowing softly over the port quarter, had kept the lighter canves sleeping all the afternoon, but the lower 6uils bang np and down, and, as the ship leaned npon the gentle undulations, the tender swinging of their T folds wafted cool currents over the fevered decks, as thongh some gigantic punkah-wallah, perched aloft, were fanning the ship. The deep blue of the sea, scarcely wrinkled by the breeze, stretched around, and the water-line was like an azure cincture clasped, where the elory of the sun hung, by a plate of gold; 'but over the side the water was of an exquisite transparent green, in which you could see the metal hull of the vessel wavering till a bend hid it, and it was enough ts possess a man, half-blinded with the heat that came off the brassy glare under the aim, with a calenture to look into the glass-like emerald profound, and to think of the coolness and sweetness to be got by a lazy flouting in the serene surface of that fathomless depth. All the afternoon it had been blowing a soft air, with sow and again a stronger fold that came out of the northeast with

a parching taste in it that might have J

made it pass tor the expiring breatn 01 a rush of atmospheric heat from sonic blast furnace hidden behind the sea; .but one felt that the draughts could ' not long outlast the sinking of the sun, whose ardency was slowly sucking out all life from the air. Already in the south the water-line- ruled ' the deep violet of the sky . -. with a burnished surface, betwixt which . and the heavens there was a trembling of heat in which the blue swsm to a height of four or five degrees. Just where that tremulous appearance was yon saw a shining speck, the topmast sails of a ship disconnected by refrac- - tions from the rest of the fabric; they looked through the glass like kites flying in the air; and if there was anything in this world to emphasize the vast expanse of the ocean, it was those tiny points of canvas, when one came to . think how small a handful of miles was needful to sink . the big vessel out of sight, to render invisible a hull full of , people, perhaps, and leaded with a cargo of a value sufficient to render a thousand poor families happy and independent for life ashore. Still the breeze continued blowing softly as the sun sank. There were wrinkles round the stem of the little iron clipper, and the surface of the green clearness over the aide was strewn with bubbles that gleamed like emeralds and diamonds and rubies between the shadow of tho hip and the light off the sea, as they veered slowly astern into the languid, iridescent wake. It was a pretty sight to peer from under the short awning to up aloft, and mark the stnnsails spreading farther and further as they de- , acended, till the reflection of the "great white squares of cloth stretched by the swinging-boom shone like a sheet of stiver under the black spars; and when ever the ship lifted to the swell, there would come from aloft abound of pattering reef-pointa, and the quiet beating of buntiines, and the low clatter of rope against rope, which, with the aid of the crook-like murmur of the rippling water at the bows, might have passed for a stirring of fallen leaves disturbed in their shady place by a sudden passage of winds betwixt the dark trunks 01 trees and over the cool V, "tiri

It was the second dog-watch. No work was doing, &nd the heat was too great for any kind of diversion. One v saw a number of open-breasted, mossybosomed seamen overhanging the forecastle rail, pipe in mouth, with drowsy eyes sleepily looking away into the blue distance, while a low, throaty murmur of voices floated aft from forward, where the black cook, standing in the galley door, was arguing with a Dutch sailor. There was a farm-yard noise, too, of muttering hens, mixed with the tooting, grubbing grunt of a pig or two, and a strange Eastern bird, secured bv fhe leg, was clawing with beak and talons up and down a fathom or two of fores tay, while in a hoarse sea-note he'd sing out now and again : "Sail ho t bless my eyes! bear a hand! sail ho!" Bight aft on the quarter deck, visible from the weather side of the forecastle under the lifted clew of the mainsail, stood the helmsman gripping the wheel, and gnawing upon a quid in his cheek, with many a roll of his gleaming eyes aloft and then into the compass-bowl and then upon the sea; the brightness came off the water in a scarlet tremble

upon hia figure, and often he would tip

Jus Hcotcn cap on the back of Jus bead to pass the length of his arm from the wrist to the elbow over his streaming brow. The captain, a red-faced man in a straw hat, with a Manilla cheroot in his mouth, paced the deck from the mizzen -rigging to the taffrail ; the chief mate, who had charge of the watch, walked in the gangway, and the second mate, seated on the main hatch, was emptying his third and last sooty pipe. Slowly the sun sank, brightening out the heavens to far beyond the zenith into an amazing glory of scarlet and red and orange, melting into a sulphurous tinge that died out into a delicate green sky, which, in its turn deepened into blue and violet and indigo where the ocean met it in the east, with a star or two glistening where the lovely hue was deepest. A tropical evening, indeed; and yon saw the silver speak -wf the hidden ohtj-pn sails trerfi-

bling above the horizon and catching the farewell ray of tho setting luminary, whose light went slipping level to it from the brow of one swell to-another, until it was like a drop of blood in color, and hnng like the red lamp of a distant light-house, though the ashon eastern shadow closed down upon it swiftly, and melted it into thin, gray air, while the loftiest of onr own clipper's sails were still on fire with the rich hectic of the west, and the ropes, like gold wire, and the greased topgallant and royal masts, and whatever else showed a polished surface up aloft, twinkling with ruby stars. Darkness swiftly follows the descent of the sun in these parallels; there -was no twilight, and the sight lay in a dusky, spangled fold in the east ere the sun had fairly trailed the skirts of his golden robe off the low-down westers skv. The moon would not rise for an

other two hours; but the darkness and the coolness were wonderfully sweet after the long spell of roasting daylight. The dew fell till the stars made pearly flakes of it upon the rails and skylights; and the gentle breeze still blew, though with an ever-waning breath. The ripples now ran in lines of fire from the ship's bow, and strange green shadows, like the vapor rising from melted tin, brightened and dimmed in cloudy puffs in the slants of tho inky swells, and you saw tendrils and stalks and leaves of phosphoric radiance eddying in the holes of the ship's wake, and glimmering along the lines which marked the breadth of the ebony path she was sailing along. Then, in armies, the stars overran the velvetblack heavens, with planets shining in blues and greens, and dropping points of quicksilver- into the dark waters, while above them the glittering dust of countless worlds lay thick as sand, and often a narrow space of the vast dome would flash out in radian oe to the bursting of a meteor, whose momentary bright shining would seem to find an echo, so to speak, in a dim violet glare of lightning down in the southeast. Two bells 9 o'clock were struck; one heard the ringing chimes hollowly thrown downward out of the sails. A dead calm had fallen, the ship lay in a deep slumber npon the gently breathing bosom of the ocean, and nothing seemed awake bnt the throbbing stars. Not above four miles hod been measured since the darkness came down, and now that the night was breathless, with a threat of cat's-paw on no account to be neglected on . either bow and all around, the captain gave instructions for the stemsails to be taken in and stowed away out of the road of suoh boxhauling of the yards as might bo

necessary. This made tne snip lively

for awhile with the running about and

the racing aloft of naked-footed mariners; but presently all was silence again, the captain below taking a glass of grog, the second niato pacing the deck aft, the watch coiled up anywhere for a snooze, a single figure erect on the forecastle, and the sea liko a mirror full of starlight, yet so dock that it was like looking through a haze at the luminaries over the water-lino. Three bells were struck, and scarcely had the last vibration died when the second mate hailed the forecastle: "Forward there 1 is there anybody singing below?" "Nobody singing here, sir," came back the answer promptly. "Nonsense, man! There's some one singing somewhere below forward, I toll you. Put your head into the scuttle and listen." There was a pause, and presently back came the reply : "All's still in tho forecastle, sir. There's no singing is this part of tho ship." The second mate walked up to the fellow at the wheel: "Did you hear a man's voice singing just now, before the bell- was struck?" "Yes, sir." "Didn't the sound come from forward?" "It seemed like it," answered the helmsman. "Hubs! there it is again," cried the second mate, raising his hand and stretching his head forward, with his ear bent toward the forecastle. The sound was dist net enongh it was that of a husky voice singing but at a distance that made the notes as thin and vibratory as the twanging of a jew's-horp heard from afar. It ceased, and was followed by a faint, unearthly laugh, that died out at the moment, when a sudden shivering flap of the canvas up in the darkness seemed like a shudder passing through the ship. "There's some one singing and laughing away out ahead here, air I" shouted the man on the forecastle, in & voice that made one suspect he felt his loneliness at that moment. "What the dickens can it be, and. where does it come from?" exclaimed the second mate, stepping to the rail and looking over. He peered and peered, but the night lav dark upon the water, spite of the starlight, and no deeper shadow stood anywhere upon the gloomy surface to indicate the presence of a vessel in tho neighborhood. "Forward there!" he shouted; "do you see anything?" "Nothing, sir." The watch on deck, aroused by this hailing, and gathering its import, clambered on the bulwarks to look around, and the captain, hearing the second mate's voice, came, up from the cabin. "What's the matter?" he asked. "There's been a sound of singing and a kind of laughing following coming from somewhere ahead, sir," responded the second mate. The captain went to the side and took a long look. "Pooh ! pooh!" he exclaimed, "it must have been your fancy, sir. Singing and laughing? Why, were any vessel neMr enough for us to hear such noise, we should be bound to see her." He was walking over to the compass. "There, ! sir, you have it now!" cried the second mate. ' Once again the same thin, wailing, singing, borrowing a supernatural character from the darkness, came faint but clear to the ship, followed as

before, by the same reedy, croaking ' laugh. "By heaven, Mr. Burton, it's j no fancv! exclaimed the cantata.

wheeling swiftly around. "But it is a j

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in mercy's name can it come from ? I ' say, my lads," calling to the men staring over the bulwarks, "d'ye sec anything?" "Nothing at all, sir, thongh 1

tne sounds plain enough," was tho answer, delivered in a tone of awe. Suddenly a dim, luminous gray hazo floated up into the eastorn sky; it brightened into yellow and then into a kind of a sullen red; and in a few moments the upper limb of the moon jutted up, a pale crimson, with a light that made an indigo line of the horizon under her, and as she soared one saw the wake she left trembling in dull gold along the withering ebony of the swell, till, shooting clear of the deep, with a broadening luster around her that quenched

tho stars there, she shot her level crimson beam at the ship, whose sails took ' the tinge of feverish radiance, and

stood out in phantasmal spaces of mystical light against the darkness and the stars. But speedily transmuting her copper into silver, the luminary threw out a fairy radiance that, flowing to the

westevmost sea-line, showed tho clvolo dark and clear all round, and" scarcely was her blond and beautiful illume nation fairly kindled when a dozen voices shouted: ''There's a boat out tbero on the starboard bow !" "Hush I" cried the captain i and amid the silence

, there stole down yet ngain to the awed I and astonished listeners the wild, mysi terious singing of a man's voice, followed by a peal of laughter. "Well, j whatever it it ay prove, it must beover- ! hauled," Bflid the captain. "Mr, Bur-, j ton, call some hands aft to lower away1 j one of tho quarter boats, and go you; ! and see who it is that is singing and1 ! laughing away out here in the middle, ! of the ocean." In a few minutes the.

boat was pulling away for the dark ob-v jeot to the left of the moon's reflection. The watch below had turned out and a crowd of seamen awaited with burningcuriosity the issue of this singular en-! counter. 'It'll bo no man's voice as' raised that there chantey," said one ofj the oldest, and presumably one of the! most ignorant among them, as they1 overhung the rail. "If I'd been in the old man's place yo might ha' turned to and boiled me afore yon'd ha' got me to send a boat to it." "Why, what d'ye think it is, Bill?" inquired another. Thinki I don't think at all. 'Taint my business to think. But d'ye s'pose," replied the old man, "that any mortal being with hintellects inside him, such as you and me'a got, 'ud tarn to and sing songs and I dessay comic son-rs, for what should set him larfin'? in a hopen boat at this here hour of the night, 2,000 or 3,000 miles away from land? You bet old Bill knows what he's a talkin' about when he says that if what's come across in that thero boat turns put mortal he'll swaller the biggest pair o' sea-boots that's knockin' about tho forecastle." Awed by tho old sailor's prophetic croaking, to which years of rum and hard weather had communicated a forbidding, sepulchral note, the others fell into deep silence, straining their eyes in the direction of the boats. A half-hour passed before they approached the ship, during which the seamen had been startled by many hoarse and dreadful cries proceeding from the advancing boats, intermixed with'shrill and savage laughter, and wild shouts delivered iu accents the mariners oould not make head or tail of. "Well," cried the captain, when tho boats were within hail, "what is it you have come across, Mr. Burton?" "A raving lunatic, sir," answered the mate. He's a Spaniard, I think. There's a dead boy iu the bottom of his boat that I reckon to be his son. He's boon shipwrecked apparently, and there's nothing to eat or drink along with him that we eaa find. " It was now soon that two of the crew were ou the madman's boat holding him. As they drew alongside the wretched maniac began to rave fearfully, sometimes Ijreakiug off to sing some" weird, tuneless song, then bursting into accents full of heartbreaking entreaty, and afterward wrestling furiously with tho two nem who had hold of him, making tho I oat sway to her gunwales, ana uttering shriek after shriek. It was as terrible

a scene as ever the mooon shono down upon. They had to bind him tnrn upon turn with ropes in order to drag him aboard, and mad as he was, yet it was evident he knew he was to be separated from the dead boy under the thwarts of his boat, for his struggles wore frantic when he saw what they meant to do, every posture was a passionate, delirious yearning toward the corpse, and when finally he was lifted over tho rails, his screams and ravings iu Spanish sent the hardest among those w ho had no hand in getting him inboard recoiling with horror. Ho was little more than a skeleton. When tliew brought a lantern and examined him, they found the remains of what had clearly been a tall, handsome man, but famine hod done its work famine and thirst. A boy might have lifted the emaciated frame, though madness furnished it yet with a horrible vitality, and a degree of life, fearful to behold in so shrunken a conformation, blazed in his dark eyes, cruelly sunk, and showing like flames in the hollows, whose shocking depth was accentuated by his bushy brows. The corpse of, :- the lad was reverently dropped qjrer the side, and the boat sent adrift; after the ship's name she carried painted on her stern had been duly noted. There was no doctor on board, but what the kindness of English sailors could do for the poor Spaniard was dene. He died on the following afternoon, having ceased his raving and fallen into a pathetic silence soon after hte had been taken below. It could not certainly be known that tho boy had been his son. "Bat I don't think" thero could be a doubt of it," said the captain and Mr. Burton, as they stood looking at tho dead man, "for, mero skeleton as the poor fellow is, there seems to me by the appearance of his face that there was more of a broken heart in his death than the want of food and water." The man's clothes

and belongings, besides the vessel's name, served to identify him. He was master of a Spanish ship that had sailed from Cartagena three months Erevious to the discovery of the loat y the English irou clipper. With him had gone his only son. The vessel was never heard of after having been spoken in twenty degrees north latitude, and there could bo no doubt that of the numerous crew who were in her, the poor

captain, whon encountered raving in an open boat amid tho frightful solitude of the great Atlantic, was the last man. London Telegraj'h. To Husbunda. Always complain of being tired, and remember that nobody else pots tired. Your wife should have everything in readiness for you, but you should not do anything for her. When your wife asks you for money give her a nickel; ask her what sho wants with it, and when she tells you. ask her if she can't do without it. Then go down town and spond ton times the amount for cigars, for they are a necessity. Go down town of an evening, stand on the street corner awl talk politics; it's more interesting than to stay at home with your family. Charge your wife not to gossip, but you can spin all the yams you wish. Have your wifo got up and make fires, but don't get up yourself till the rest of the family are eating breakfast, as you might catch cold. Wear old clothes and make yourself as untidy as possible until your wife's health fails; then it would holiest for you to fix np some, for in all. probability you will want another tt hen she is gone. Be happy if you can, but do not despise those who nro othcrw.se, for you do sot- kzow their troubles.

WOMEN AT THE POLLS.

There have been many reasons given first and Inst why women should not vote, but I desire to say, iu tho full light of a ripo experience, that some of them are fallacious. I refer more particularly to the argument that it will degrade women to go to the polls and voto like a little man. While I am not and never have been a howler lor female suffrage, I must admit that it is much more of a success than prohibition and speculative science. Mv wifo voted eiidit Years with mv

full knowledge and consent, and to-day I cannot sec bnt that she is as docile and as tractablo ns when sho won my

trusting heart. Now those who know

me best will admit that I am not a la

dies' man, and thorofore what I may -ay hero is not said to secure favor nnu grateful smiles. I tun uot attractive and I am not in politics. I believe that I am homlier thi winter than usual. There are reasons why I believe that what I mav say on tin's subject will bo siuvere

and not sensational or saltish.

It has been urged that good women

do not generally exercise tho right of

suffrage, when thov hove tho opponn-

nitv, and that onlv those whose social

record has been tarnished a good deal

go to the polls. 'Ibis is not true.

It is tho truth that a good full vote

always shows a list of the best women and tho wives of the best men. A

bright day makes a better showing of bsd voters than a bad one, and tho

weather makes a more perceptible dif

ference in tho female voto than tho male, but when things are osciting and

the battle is rod hot, and tho tocsin of

war sounds anon, tho wife and mother puts on her armor and her sealskin

sncque and knocks things cross-eyed. It is generally supposed that the fe

male voter is a pantaloonatic, a half

horso. half alligator Kind of woman,

who looks liko Dr. Mary Walker and has the appearance of one who has risen hastily in the night at the alarm of fire and dressed herself partially in hor own garments and partially in her husband'?. This is a popular error. In Wyoming, where femalo suffrage hn3 raged for years, you meet quiet, courteous, aud gallant gentlemen, and fair, quiet, sensible women

at the polls, whore there isn't a loud

or profane word, and whero it is on infinitely more proper place to send c young ladv unescorted than to tho post-

office in any city in the Union. You can readily see why this is so. The men about tho polls aro always candidates and their friends. That is the reason that neithor party can afford to show tho slightest rudwnoss toward a

voter, ilio man who on Wednesday would tell hor to go and soak her head", perhaps, would stand bareheaded to

let her pass on Tuesday. While sho

holds a smashed ballot shoved under

the palm of her gray kid glove she may walk ovor tho candidate's prostrate

form with impunity and hor overshoes,

if sue chooses to.

Weeks and months before election in

Wyomiug tho party with tho longest purse subsidizes tho most livery stables and carriages. Then on tho eventful day every convoyaiico available is dec

orated with a political placard and

driven by a polito young man who is instructed to improve the time. Thus every woman in Wyoming has a chauce

to ride once a year at least. Juatoly,

however, many prefer to walk to the polls, and they go in pairs, trios, aud quartet;, voting their littlo sentiments, and calmly returning to their cookies and crazy, quilts, as though politics didn't jar their meutal poise a

minute.

It is possible, and even probable.

that a man and his wife may disagree on politics, ns they might on religion. The husband may believe in Andrew Jackson and a relentless hell, while his wife may bo a stalwart and rather lib

eral on the question of eternal punish

mcnt. If the husband manages his wifo

as lie would a clotnes-wrniger, and turns her through lifo bv a crank, ho

will no doubt work her politically, brt if she has her own ideas about things

sho wilt naturally act on them ; while tho man who is henpecked in other respects till he can't see out of his eyes

will be henpecked m the matter of national and local politics.

These are a few facts about the actual workings of female suffrage, and I do not tackle the great question of the ultimate results upon the political ma

chinery li woman sullrage were to be

como general. I do not pretend to say as to that. I know a -great deal, but I

do not know that, lhere are millions of women, no doubt, who are better qualified to vote and yet eannot than millions of alleged men who do vote; but no one can toll now what the ultimate effect of a change might be. So far as Wyoming is concerned, tho Territory is prosperous aud happy.

; living in tho placo and regularly receiving the copies mailed to them. Ilo roj plied : "All hero except Brother S . I lie went to heaven last summer. Hia widow ami children ivmain here per ; manently.'' Harjicfs Basaf, Don'tl Don't lie on the left side too much I lie ou the right sido all you can, it pays i better. I Don't jump out of bed immediately on awakening in the morning but this

advice u unnecessary. AO man ever did it. Don't forget to take a drink of pure water before breakfast it settles thaigs after tho last night's seance, reduces the size of the head, and, besides, makes one appear like a temperance advocate. Don't take long walks on an empty stomnuh if you want to walk ou a stomach at all, try and find a full ono, as it is softer traveling. A totnach is not a very good place for a long walk auv way. Don't start to do a day's work without eating a good breakfast -if you haven't got a good kro.ikfast don't comnicnco work until after dinner. Don't eat between meals if you get hungry have the meals oftener, or whenever you get hungry. Duu't try to keep up on coifee when nature is calling you to bed coffee is an uncomfortable thing to sleep on; a sack of flour would be better. Don't stand over hot air registers it is tiresome, and you might as well sit down over the registers and bo comfortable. Don't inhale hot air when tho mercury gets up in tho nineties keep your noso over a mint julep or something else that is cool. Don't strain your eyes reading on an empty stomach it is so diflicult to find anything on an empty stomach to read that you might bo t.;kou for a lunatic if you should mistake ono for a library. Don't make a practice of relating scandal calculated to depress the spirits of the sick only toll that kind of scandal which will raise a laugh. Don't forget to cheer and gently amuse invalids when visiting thorn ticklo them under the noso with a feather, dance a jig, sing a comic song, or do something that is light and convivial. Don't talk your sick friend to death it will interfere with the prerogative of tho doctor. Ia walking, learn to keep the mouth firmly closed and don't open it to give vent to a lot of toin-foolery in tho shape of advico 'which nobody heeds, and which you don't follow yourself. And finally, Don't worry yourself about other people's habits to tho extent of making an ass of yourself. Texa Sitings.

A French Translation ef Longfellow's Great PoemTell us not in disconsolate rhymes : "Life is a dream void of sense, for tho poul is dead when it goes to sleep and the thing are not what they appear to be." Lifo is real; life is serious; death is not its term, "Dust, thou shalfc return lodust." Tho word has not been said for onr soul. Neither joy nor sorrow is our destiny. Our lot ia to act, in order that each pcxt day may find us more advanced than tho day before. Art is long; time flies; our hearts, so rourageous, so strange as ihey can be, beat of ten a funeral march as'thoy advance toward the tomb, like drums veiled with a black crape. In the immense field of battle of the world, in tho bivouac of life, bo not like cattle who let themselves be pushed on in silence; be a hero in tho melee. Trust not in the future, bo laughing as may bo its colors. Let tho past inter its dead. Act, act, in the living presence, with your heart in you and tied ovor your her.d. All tho lives of great men make us see that wo can render our lifo sublime, and in departing leave behind ns in tho sand of timo the imprint of our steps. An imprint that anothor traveler, a shipwrecked brother, will discover perhaps, in stranding upon tho bank, and of which the view will raise up his

courage. Let us elcvato our souls, let us act; lot us bo prepared for all tho changes of fate; always pursuing, completing our task ; let us learn to toil and to wait, Cinc'nnuiti $alurdaj Night.

BLAINE'S BOOK. A Chapter on the Critical Period Betwecn Liucnlu's Election and iSucbfUian's Exit

the Beginning of Secession and the Haste with Which the South Wa Hurried t Its Fate.

Buchanan's Coarse and Character from 1 FcnnsylTnnln Standpoint A Cbuptcr of Absorbing Interest. One of tho most intorostulj chapter's W If. Blaine's new look la that dovotcd to the iiUtlcal events of lbCO aud tuo early months et 1801. Tho following oxtraci.8, made fioru advance cbcets, eover points of special interest:

The winter Xoltov ice tho ciect'on it Mr. Un-

worss were pisaiiTe, than hie atrffreBsIVe ststments on behalf of tlw 9nth. The election of snv one of our fellow-citizens to the oH-ce ot Trefidont, "Mr. Bi.chnnutomilaontlafser6J pl, -.iocs not of itself afford just omuso tor dUsolfiiifr the Union." And then he aade aa) cxtiaordtnarJ'qWuitwation: "This is more especially tiue if h s c!citon has beeneffeciod by a mire plurality, and not majority, or the reoulc, and has reoultoJ f oiti troaei nt and iniujporary causes, which may prongM never aiiaici occur." Translated into plainer laogtiMf this wos an S snranoe to tl.e bonthcrn disunion sta that tut-y nSid not breas np tne Government at fh timo, becaus : M.-.Llacom was a mlnoriv.- President, and as certain to bs bciU-nttiehfJtt-let.de . Tne President ioun-1 tnat e ehief Krierancc of ilie South was in the ennotmfnW or the free Bats known as -personal liberty law. Wnea the lhsiMTo elave law subjected thj liberty of citizens to the" decision 01 a sinl s tommlseioncr, and denied iurv tflal to a roan npon the q.iu.8 ioa oc sending hliri tt litelonfr and cruel se vitu-lo, the Issue throughout toe Ire utiles wm male one of ufir-preservatioll. without Laving tho lead ngl.t to obs.ruct the return Ot a i hc. live tUvs to his s. rviimio, taey felt not! only that tuey bad t ie right, bus that It was th-lr dutr fo i ro'.vOt frco citiSens in their freedom. Very likt-jy HM-ne snaatnicnWi Inspired by an earnest si iut of li'rt, went in many muM t.u. fat- ami tmi, lit i!rcdiK.e aontlloce

h'etwocn lia:ljual and State uuthodt.; That

coin was i.ucd wi h dtnlorablo ct.it. Ill tuo I ws a qiuetion to bo ueteraiineu nnaiiy aiiu -

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A Law for Wayward I'oung Men. When a young man steals a sheep or a pair of boots, which, by the way, have probably not been placed in bis safe keciping, society lias little doubt what to do with him. It conies to the conclusion in short order that ho is a thief, and puts him in jail at hard labor or in Slate prison. But if ho has had a place of trust in some financial institution, and grossly betrays the confidence reposed in him, society is somehow struck all of a heap and does not know what to do with him. The crime must bo covered up, the deficiency made up by friends, there must -be no prosecution, no publicity and no penalty whatever, and the young man must be sent off to begin lifo again. Now wo believe this is nil a mistaken policy as regards tho young man himself. Wo believe it is a teiribly mistaken kindness. Some of our readers probably know cases in which this policy has Deen pursued, and the young men iu whose behalf is has been tried generally become wanderers on the face of tho earth, pursued by the phantom of that old concealed crime left behind, and often rushing into now ones. They were not vicious originally, but they were weak, flabby, morally; they had about as much moral backbone as a jelly fish or a butterfly, and seeing older men indulging in expensive luxuries and vices they began to run the same couise until thov were caught in the trap of crime. Leniency and sending off into new associations are simply wasted on suoh men. They need "taking down" to the foundation and a new start a real one, not one of those new birth conversions which do not enablo a man to confess his sin till he bus been found out. If conviction, penalty and disgrace are the fit portion and the best thing for the ordinary thief, they certainly are the best things for the embezzler. Let him take hi3 punishment, with such professions of repentance as ho feels justified in making, and such as courts are always

ready to take into account in fixing the

penalty. Then let lum return to his home, where we all know him, and Ids father before him, and begin again. He will be better off than in some dis

tant locality where vague rumors of a crime greater than the fact may at any time penetrate to damn his pence of mind. But hero at the scene of his crime and failure he will always have friends to welcome and encourage evry effort for a more promising career, and who know the worst as well as the best.

Springfield liepublican.

no cn icli wme.i rci alls o ninth that is worthy

of ri grot and so litue that gratifies pride. Tho reeuii of t.ie election was unl'o-'iuuatc in the wide divergence tetwien the votj which Mr. JLinoolii received ia tho electoral c liege and the vote w hieh he received at tho polls. Inth ; electoral colleges he had ah aagrcgate of l.so. His opponent, united, had tut las. Of the popular voto, Lincom received i.Si'o.iM; Douglas, i,-2!il.6;t; Breckinridge. SS'i.Oj-i; bell, M'i.ljl. M Liu Mil s vote was wholly lrora the tree States, except some '.f,C0 cas-. for him in the live border slave States. In the other slave States his name was not presented as a candidme. Sir. Douglas received in the South about 16S,0'-o votes, luthc North tne votes cast distinctively for thn llreckinridue electoral ticket were less than lOn.ooo, and distinctively lor tho Bell electoral ticket about 0,004. It was then inaniiest t hat the two Northern Presidential cauUlates. Lincoln and Douglas, had absorbed nearly the c.-ttiro votes of the tree States, an 1 the two Southern Pi evidential candidates, lireckinride and Hell, had absorbed almost the entire voto in i he slave States, 'the Northern candidates received popular support In -lie South in al -out the sams degree that tuo Southern candidates fo.-cived popular support in t ic North. In truth as well as in appearance it was a tectional cont st, in which the N'ortli eui-ort:il Northern candidates aud tiie South supported Southern candidates. It was the first time in the history of ihs government in which the President was chosen without electoral voles from Itoth tho slave and tree States. This result was undoubtedly a source of weakness to Mr. Lincoln weakness made moro apparent by his sienal ia.lure to obtain u popular majority. lie had a large plurality, but the combined voto of his opponents was nearly a million greater than tho voto which he received. The time had now come whon the Southern diauuionlsta were to be put to the tot. The event had happened which they had declared in advance to ne cause for sei aration. It was perhaps tho belief that their courage and determination were challenged which forced them to action. Having ho oiten pledaed themselves not to endure the election n an anti-slavery President, they were now petsuaded thatj if they quietly submitted, they would thereby accept an lufeiior position in the Odvernmeht This assumed obligation of consistency stimulated them to rash action; for, upon every consideration of prudence and wise forecast, they would have quietly accepted a r suit which they acknowledged to be in strict accordance with the Constitution. The Smith was enjoyinR i-xcep-tirnal prosperity. The advance of the slave tiutes In wealth Was more rajlid tliaii at any other period in tiu-ir iiistory. Their staple products commanded high prions, and were continually growing iu amount to meet the demands of a market which represented the wants ot tho civi Izcd world. In the decade between ls,oaud 180U the weiiltli ot the South had Increased three thousand millions oi dollars, and tti a not from an overvaluation of skives, but from increased cultivation of land, the extention cf railways, and all the aifts and appliimos of Tftst .agricultural enterprises. Georgia alone had increased in wealtu over $3W,0 Jv,voO, no small proj ortion ot which was from ommercial and manufacturing ventures that had proieJ cxUemely profitable. 1 here m vr was a community on the face ot the globe v hose condition so little justified revolution as that of the slave States in the -eat ikGO. Indeed, it was a sense Ot ttrenctk born of exceptional prosperity which led them to their rash adventure of war. It would, however, bo an injustice to tho people of the Houth to say that in November, 1S0O, they desired unanimously or by a majority, or on the part of any cotu-idcrablc minority, to enir; tin li ii ehIiimiui i,!1 Vinli,,!.. ,-Diuttitir tf thn

rmruutnl m-iimrirv Tii slav.-hohiera word, iii ! to whoe learning and ability Mr. Blaine pays

the main, i-caeefolly disposed and contented I high tributO. After periling- of Judge)

with tho situation. Hut slavery as an ccouomi- I lllnck s devotion to Democracy ana his

rati lyi Mr. B .vhnnan car.ied his ariramnt

1Oyoutl that i.oint, coupling it wttn a accarat.ou aud an admission fatal to the ierpctuitv of t!.e ln:oii. After icc'tmg the statutes which ho regarded 8s cbj -oiionauia ai.e hostile to th-t consJtutional rlt-'hts Of tile South, an i alter urgiu their unconditional repeal upt.n ihc North, the Pr. indent said: "Thd Bum hern SUU-s, standing m-on the basis of the cousiitiition, have a tight to demand this act of Insdec trout tuo Stat.-s oi the North. Should it Ite refused, then the ConstituUoa, to wulch aU tho Stat -euro parties, ll have been willfully vh luted by one portion of theih in a provision ovaeniaito the domca.lc security and happiness of tho remainder. In that event, tho injured States, after having us-'d all peaceful and constitutional means to obtain redress, would be justilkd In revolution u y resistance ta the Government of the Union." By thin declaration the President justified, and in enact advised, an appeal from tho c.n-:tiiutional tribunals of tho country to a popular judgment in the aggrieved States and recognized the right of those States, upon such popular judgment) to destroy the Cons itution oi the Cnion. Having maae his arirument in favor of toe right ot "revolution," Mr. Buchanan proceeded to argue Sbly and e irncstly against the assumption by any State of an inherent light to secede from the Government at its own will and pleasure. But he utterly destroyed the force of hia reasoning bv declaring that "after much serious reliectlou" he had arrived at "the ooneloslon that no power has been delegated to Congress, or to any other department of the Federal Government, to coerce a State into gubmi slon which is attempting to withdraw, or has actually withdrawn," from the I'nlon. He emphasized his po-ition by further declaring that, so far from this power hiving been delegated to Congress, it was expressly refused by the convention which framed tho Constitution." Congress "possesses many means," Mr. Buchanan added, "Of preserving the Union by conciliation; but the sword tv is it placed In their bauds to preserve it by force. J The fatal admission was tnua evolved from the ndnd of tho Presid nt that any State which thought itself aggrieved and could not secure the Concessions demanded m ght bring the Government down to ruins. The power to destroy was in the Stats. The power to preserve was not in the naticn. The President apparently failed to see that If the nation could not be preserved by fcrec, its legal capacity for existence was dependent upon the concurring and continuing will of all the individual States. The original hnnrl at union was. therefore, for the day only.

and tho provisions of the Constitution which

gae lo tno onnreme uourt junsaicuou in controversies between States was binding no further than the States chose to accept tue decisions of the court. EEcossTitt'CTiojt or ma camnst. Mr. Blaine discusses at considerable length the evil influence of Mr. Buchanan's dootrines, claiming that thoir ollccta were not oonUned to tho slave States, but they did inciUeiilnnln harm in tho free States, by fixing

In tho mindfi of many Northern men tho idea

that tho south wa jusunea in atiempt.ng to destroy tho Government if what they termed a war on Southern institutions should be continued. The doctrines of this message caused Croat uneasiness in the North, and the pres

sure of public opinion coon made itself fold Gen. Cass, Secretary of State, wag the arsti to resign from tho Cabinet, ha suddenly re-;

nllzingbcwas in a raise position, no res'gned on the 12th of December, nine day after tho message was sent to Congress, and

was succeeded by Judge Joreraian s. uiacK,

cal institution and slavery as a political force were guitc r-tiuct. Those who viewed it and used it merely as a sytem of labor naturally desired peace and dreaded commotion. Those who used it as a political engine lor the consolidation of jiolitical power bad views and nmti.lons

inconsistent wiin tne pianB ana uopes ot lawabiding citizens. It was only by strenuous churl on the part of the latter class that An apparent

hatred of Abolitionists, and his belief that;

the success of tue hepuoiicnn party wou:a.

be fraught with tuo airoat ovii, sir. iiiaine says: Judpo Black entered upon his duties as Secretary of State on the lltu Of December, the day. on which the Disunion Convention of South

Carolina Rtsscuiuad. He found tno malign in-

maiorit v of the Southern Be-pic committed ! nuence oi Mr. nucnanaua message inuy us

themselves to the d-snerate desien of destroy- work throughout tne -ooucn. i. n ler as euccur-

ina the Katlo lal Government.

Mr. illume then details the incidents at

tending the secession of South Carolina, which Stato did not wait for tho result dC the elcctiou, but early in October, Imjo, began

as.m.ntcniy thr.-edaye were required bv tha convention at Charleston to pass the ordinance,

or secessi n, ana lour aays later uov. tfaxeom issued a rroclamiiion declaring "routh Carolina a separa.e, sovereign, free, andln-lerendcut State, with the right to l.vy war, conclude

Sad Luck of His ttidow and Children. One of onr religious monthlies which has a largo "froo lisf," lately sent tho names of its subscribers in a certain town to one of the number, asking him to report whether all of them were still

Where Wisconsin Asserted Herself; A Government agent, who was sont

to Wisconsin to look up trespass cases

on Government lauds, was out on his

travels ono day, when ho found a man whaling away at some choice timber on

one of Uncle Sam's sections.

"Any land for sale around here?"

queried the agent. "Wall, thar' might bo," was tho ropiy-

"A a iifco to buy a whole sootion. "Have yo the cash to pay?" "I lkve." "I mought sell you this." "Can you give clet.r deed?" "Clear as a wh.'itl-, stranger. Gimme

800 cash, and I'll deed yo tho section afore sundown."

The agont coolly unrolled a map,

spread it out on a big, and said : "You will see by this map that Uncle

Sam owns this section. How, then, i can von civo me a deed of it?" '

Bee hv ar, stronger," said the chop

per, after a long pause, "maybe you is

one of those chaps as argufies that Undo Sam is a bigger man than a fiveborn citizen of old Wisconsin. I'll give ye jist three niinits to skip !"

xiie agent wanted only two. null i Street A'aico. '

a correspondence with tho other cotton , onee. and licentiate treaties." From that mo-

States, tho rcspouso to which dJdnot indicate mcnt Judge black's position toward tho Southa decided wish or purpose to separate from era lotders was radially changed, 'ihey were the Union. Lp to this timo Pres dentlal no longer fellow-Democr. ts. They were the electors for South Carolina had always beefl enemies of the Union to which bo was devoted, ohoeen by tho Legislature, and to tho unpro They wer.- donSpiraWrs ""e Goverent pitious assembling of that body in Nove.in- TKv tv ber, lsoo, Mr. Ulaine attributes the preclplia- judJe Biaek's change, however Important to. t;on of the war of the rebellion. A short i own famCi would prove comnarotively irultparagraph is devoted to the import attached unless he could influence Mr. Buchanan to to tho word "ordinance" 111 connection with breik With the men who had been artfully usccesslon, tho writer showing that its provi-I lug the lrawerot hit administration lo destroy ous use had been oonflnod to acts p ssscd by I the Union. Ti.o opportunity and the test came il.ntrHi.M; ' $3r&k nseS SeAnS I SS lof K&Vr? 8 for the action ol the enattirs lrom iho other i t.r..nst r of national properiy within her limit. Southern States, South Carolina would have jir. Buchanan prepared aa answer to taelr restood alone, and hor secession would have quest wnich was compromising to the honor of

proved abortive.

BUCHANAN'S RESPOliglBlMTV. Having given the history of the secession Of South Carolina aud shown how tho other Statos were iuduoed to follow her example, Mr. Iilaino says: Long before the secession movement had been i.evcloped to the extent just detailed. Congress was in session. It assembled ono rtonth after tho Presidential election, and fifteen days before the dlsnnionists ol South Carolina met in their ill-stured convention. Up to that timo there had been excitement, threats o; resistance to the authority of tha Government in many sections of the South, and an earnest attempt in the cotton States to promote co-operation in the fatal step which ho many were bent en taking. But there had been no overt act again9t the national authority. Federal officers were still exercising their functions in all the States; the customs were still collected in Scuthom ports; the United States mails were still carried without molestation from tho Potomac to tho lito Grande. But the critical moment had come. The disunion conspiracy had reached a point where it must go forward with boldness or retreat before the displayed power and tho uplifted flag of the nation. The administration coull udopt nc policy so dangerous as to permit the enemies of the Union to proceed iu their conspiracy, and tho hostile movement to gain perilous headway. At Miat juncture Mr. Buchanan confronted a graver responsibility than had evr before been imposed oi a President ot tho United States. It devolved on him lo arrest the nnd outbreak of the South by Judicious firmness, or, bv irresolution and timidity, to plunge tho nation into horrors tho extent of which was mcrcitully veiled fiom the visions of those who wore to witness and share them. There could be no doubt In tho mind of any one that the destruction of the Union would bo deplored by Mr. lluohauan as profoundly as any living man. His birth and rcaiiui! as a l'onusyivaman leave no other presumption possible. iMr. Blalno details tho constitution of Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet, pointing out tho fact that the Southern clement largely predominated, and continues: It was under these influences, artfully insinuated and persistently plied, that Mr. Buchauan was Induced to write his mischievous and deplorable message of the ttrst Monday of December, lsfin a message whose evil effect can never bo estimated, and whfl ovil eha-actcr can hardly bo exaggerated. Tho President Informed Conirrossti aftliclone-cnntlnued and Intemper

ate interference of tho Northern people with tho

tho Executive and perilous to the integrity otthe.

Cnion. juaea ui&ck iook a ueciucu anu irrevocable stand against tho President's post' Ion. Ho a-lvised Mr. BnohanAn that upon the basis of, that fatal concession to tho disunion leader hecould not remain in his Cabinet. It was a sharp issue, but was 6oon adjusted. Mr. Buchanan gave way, and permitted Judge HUck and hi associates, Holt and Stanton, to frame a reply, for the administration. Jefferson Davis, Mr. Toombs, Mr. Benjamin, Mr. Hlldell, who had been Mr. Buohanan's intl-. mate and ccnndintlal advisers, and wno bad led him to the brink of ruin, lound themselves suddenlv supplanted, and a new power installed at the While House. Foiled, and no longer able to use the national administration as an instrumentality to destroy the national life, the secession leaders in Congress turned upon tho President with angry reproaches. In their rage they lost all sense of the respect due to ths Chief Magistrate of the nation, and assaulted Mr. Buchanan with coarseness as well as violence. Senator Benjamin spoke of him as "a senile Executive, under the sinister intiuence of in-ana counsels." This exhibition of malignity toward the KiiBgnided President afforded to the North the most convincing and satisfactory proof that there bad been a change for the better in the plans and purposes of the administration. They realizcil that it must be a dcop sense or impending danger which conld separate Mr. Bnchanan from his political associations with the South, and they recognized in his po rtion a slgniScant proof of the desperate determination to whioli the enemies of the Union had come. Mr. Blaine then details tho reorganization of the Cabinet Secretaries Cob'i, Floyd, and Thompson resigning, and Messrs. Dix, Hon, and Stanton succoedlng. "Thus reconstructed," says Mr. Blaine, "tho Cabinet, as a whole, was one of recognized power." This reconstruction of tho Cabinet was followed by a marked change in Mr. Buchanan's position, which was rocolvcd at tho North "with unaffected satisfaction, and at the South with unconcealed indignation." This chango was announced iu a special message to Congress on the i-th of January, lDOl. Ol this message Mr. Blaine says: A certain significance attached to tho dote which the President ha-1 selected for communicating his message to Congress. It was the 8th day of Jannarv, the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, celebrated that year with enthusiastic demonstration iu honor of tho memory of Andrew Jackson, who had, on a memorable ocoislon not unlike the present, sworn an cm-niuLif,-oaih that "the Federal Union must and

shall be i.rcsoivcd." There was also m irked

qiK'sttouof slavery iu Iho hoitihorn States ihaa l at Refaction throughout tho loyal States with

imsi nmiumi ot ii m i c'levi. - Mr BncuanaifN assurance or

I lio twiut nf Cm

time has a-rived so lutich dreado.l by the 1-ather im ,.r ',,i,i,i,, ti, , al,ini, it.ii

of hia Country, when hostile gwgniphlcalpiu-tics Maroi, on tbo t ccasion o! Mr. Unculn's inaugu-

rattiiu. no OKI not nuuscir miaro in tne

have Imi-u Icruic.l." lie declared that ho had !

"lonsloresis iiando ten lorcwarnoa ins coun- i Bc,.0s appp heuel ms t hit were cnt. riatucd of

tryinen oi me imi-iiiuiuu nan bit. aim r- i ,Usturliancc on tin

cntlv ai'enint! tiic case for the Koulhoni extremists, the President believed that the danger ''docs not prop ml sole y f-rm the at'einpt to exclude idatory from the'iVnitories, nor from the efforts to dele.it the execution of the fugi-livc-siuve law." Any oi-nil of these evils, ha said, "might liav.- been en lnrcd by the Smith," iriistin? to time tin! reflection Tor a nmedy. "The immediate pi ril,"Mr. Hn h-inaii informed the country, arises Iroiiitha Cat t that tho lougcont need air i tat! n in tho free States has at

that occasion, but he made this

declaration, which was received in tho North with hearty applause: "In any event, it will be mv dutv to preserve the reace. and this duty

shall bo performed."

Tnn man whoso business so occupies i lu's mind that ho can't be civil to people 1 ho nii-cts, should either have ntoro . mind or less business, and most folks j don't care which it is. j

Afraid ef Their Own Powder. The Democratic leaders in Congress aro too cautious. They hauled off to knock the protection tariff into a

length j reduced its malign influence u i bo ! cooked hat, and then they heard soine-

siaves, ami mspnv.i iiiem witn vague noil ns oi 4i,; ,i n,..;,. jijii rt rft Tn freedom. II. li-- n sense of securltv no longer thing, and thoir gtlU Clldn t go Ott. ill exists around MWanillr aitar. The freliiie of fact, they have been so fearful that It KcVfi..; I would go off that they have drawn the

throughout lh South retires at niaht iu dread Ciiarge, anil aro cubuiih uuuut, jur uw-

and

don't

danaer should extend and int usity itself, dis- i seem to understand that the country ""SvinLhr'tlTwCrL believed . be 1I the measure of their party theirl.-vau--osof the South, Mr. Hiioi.ani.u pro- J and will not, under any circumstances, oi- ded to give certain raj-ous why the (lave- i (-i-nut it. on the tariff intention im. ..I lioldoia should not break up tho Government. T VL. .X ,1 4W8H011. Ola defensive plea for thoKotvb was wotae.lt ing MleHtgetlCer.

liirougiifHit i u rsiuiit reureH at mum in urcau cuiuv, unit v.oi"n wi an of what av befall hersell an I her children bo- I thing that will answer the purpose lore tuo. mug. The 1 re ldont was fully per-I J? . ,i, , ml, ,i suad. d than "if this appichcns ou of .imn.'s: to 1 won't make co much noise. 1 hey d

INDIANA STATE NEWSL Ksab Lafayette, Michael Horiok, a -aeallb farmer, as killed by llrhtning. FrVB THOUSAND TWO HCSDBM AND VH. seven person have Joined tH3 temperance movement at Bb amend. Toe Martin County Dtmocrat has been launched at Looaooteo. It is published aaA edited by C. M. Mean. Nbar Mt. Vernon, Wa. Oath, a Jn about 21 years old, perhaps fatally shot Jean Thompson in the abdomen. There baa been a net increase of 100 in tb membership ot Trinity Church, Lnfayeti-a, In tho past eighteen months. Peter Mitchell was long noted atCharieatown for keeping; his expenditures rUldly within fifty oenta a day. He has left fiO.OOtt. Hon. W. j. OiLLioAse, ot tin Huntington Democrat, has arranged to start a DemooxaUa paper at Wabash, to supply the plaoe oCtha Ctmrttr. Johr Fitrott and his sea Joarph, eoal merchants, of Madison, hare both disappeared. Creditors, It is said, will lose ft,M0 to 8S,000. Joseph Johnson, of Franklin, m;-kTod a a section hand on the J., M. I. Eailroad, while on his way to work, on hand-car. rle suddenly of heart disaooe. Two Mormon apostles are holding meeting In Scott County, and endeavoring to convert tha good citterns to polygamy. Three conversions have already been made, and the converts forwarded to Utah. Edward L. Ooopeb, who forted the nausea of throe prominent citizens of Now Amsterdam, Harrison County, a short time atece, has been found guilty and aoatenoed totws years in the Stato Prison South. CiJ!T McLhushliu, who committed anna, aault on MiS. Trout, near Middletown, 'hasbeen removed from Newcastle to Rich mood for safe-keeping. The people of Hoary County wore much excited and a bracking was feared. The eoal traffic of the Terre Haute nd Indianapolis Hoad, which usually sveiaaaa seventy-five car-loads into Indlanapolln daily; In now averaging ten cars per day. The ttrtko In tho Clay County mines t the canae of tho light movement. At a revival at New Haven, Fonton Warren, a young man laboring tuu!er great excitement, arose and shouted out, "God has blessed me!" and whipped out a revolver ami shot four bullets through the palm of his loft hand, which be hold up and shot as. Gboroe Davis, of New Albany, killed hts stepfather, Oscar Gallagher, by striking ate on the head with a bowlder. Gallagher swat ccededin making- his way te the JaP, where he informed tho Sheriff of the assault- Davis was arrested, and la now ta JaiL Thb offlce of Township Trustee tseaeof great importance to the people It is one more' Immediately connected with the in teteatsof all classes than any other. The poor, the needy, tha working-men, the parents of school children, the tax payers, and the citizens in general are Interested in ths administration of this otoce. Gov. W right sold truly when he used to say: "Any good ' man will do for a member of Coogres but it requires a man of firat-iate ability to le a Township Trustee." Richmond Dm- crtti. Fbof, W. H. Baoait, of Puidua, baa been highly and unexpectedly honored In tut appointment aa Superintendent of the I), visjjii of Pathology, in the World's Fair at New (rleana, commencing iu December next and continuing until Kay, 18M. The premiums In hi department amount to $10,090, besides various medals. Wo tongratolats Mr. Bagen and the University upon the honor thus litowod. Theeoiolumenteareln keeping with the place 81,000 and traveling xpmaHl. Mr. liagan will bring to this petit on Ube accepts) every requisite oua'iflcatiou Lafaycttc Courier. A Bockpoit girl named Ehylocfc got married during the high water on the Ohio. H was a tied in her affairs that she wemK) to think should be taXen at the ficod and tho , bridal party took the ferry for thacth-w shore. Attir crorsing- an overflowol field they reached a clump of trees ou the riivar bank, when a sudden aqaall raegbt th fniil craft W which they journeyed and orerturiLsd tt. The bride and ber companu m all et o ceoied in reaching- places ef safety In tto branches of the trees and were reEOued by f.ws neighbors two hours later. But the wet brM! robes were frozen atlff npon tho wearers when they were taken from the treef. CBATTSCy G. V.toits died at the country residence of Mr. Haughey, near Mapleton, Marlon County, In Ids niootloth year. Hn was born In Vermont in 1703, and served In the war of ISIS, participating In the noted battle ef Plattsbnrg. Hm (lather was a Revolutionary soldier, and bis grand father a member of the Cont'nental Congress. In 188S he came West and sot tied in LickingCounty, Ohio, where he remained until in KM hm oame to Indianapolis, where he has slnee resided. For several years he wa; engaged fn farming and afterward held a clerkship In the office of Assessor of Internal Bereaue. He lived a sublime Ufa, and lor more than sixty years was a devoted member of that Methodist Church. Richmond has a phenomenon in the person ef Master George Rowland Price, who is not quite seven years old. One morning last fail the boy oame down stairs and asked: "Bow much are 8 twice and ir Hte father replied there was no such thing', whereupon the tad rejoined: "Yea, there is; X twice and 1 make S." From that on te the holidays he was constantly stumbling onto something of the kind, which perplexed his parents, as thaw had takeo no pains to instruct htn, and they oould not understand where he cot Ms Mans from. With the coming of the holidaya, however, his mind became engrossed with mere childish things, and he for a time abandoned his mathematical problems: but, subsequent! ly resuming them, he has latterly developed into a mental marvel. Perhaps if you ask him how much forty times eighty ere, he will reply, "Two thousand and twenty sixties over;" but he generally gives the

correct answer In one total, and does M ap

parently with as little thought aud its promptly as be would toll you bin tian-o. And, while ha does sot deal In fraction, im computes odd numbers Just asrotdi y as ho does e von ones, whether the egamp'c be in addition, subtraction, or multlr-i c ition. A fellow-workman or hts father aaid : - R. oly. I have 41 cents and your father gives me then I give you 9, how many have l left?" "Thirty-nine," he replied, as quick a a ash, and the man said: " I am 41 years old; how many weeks Is that?" Be Just as promptly re ponded, (,ZS8. Instead of having- a massive head and dwarfed body, aa is general In such individuals, he is evenly proportioned, or a hoy weighing about forty-Bvo pounds, and his extra breadth or forehead would hardly be noticeable were one not apprised of his characteristic. In habits he is older than his years, remaining; with hia parents instead of taking to children's sports, tnd often eaylog te neighbor children when they como to play with him: " Yen had hotter go hoiuo; moth ji- has ouough ktas of hor own to bother her." Iu faot, he ts precooloua lu every way, but only phenomenal ui MUM matin.