Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 December 1892 — Page 4

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WEEKLY JOUBNAL

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SATURDAY, DEO. 31, 892.

This Date in History—Dec, 3.

1688-James II, the last Catholic king of Knuland, fled from his capital he was intercepted anil brought hack, but a few days later escaped to France. 1753-Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule, horn at Holton. 1800—Battie of Holienlinden

Moremi defeated the Aus- CAmtoi.i.. triuiib. 181.V- John Carroll, prelate and patriot, died in

Maryland liorn lTli'i cousin of Charles, the "signer." IKSi Belzoni, fiimons raveler, died born JT7S. 182U- George Hrinton JlcClellan, soldier, engineer and governor of New Jersey, born in Philadelphia died 1S85. 182fl—Green Herry Hauni, federal oflicial, born in Uolconda. Pope county. Ills. 1855 Hoberl Montgomery, British poet, died born ls(l7. lStll The loreign envoys at Washington joined in a protest agains^tlie action of Captain

Wilkes in seizing Mason and Slidell. 1890—The house of representatives passed an International copyright act.

THE FARMERS' INSTITUTE. No extended report of tbe proceedings of tbe State Farmers' Institute held here last Friday and Saturday was attempted last week for tbe reason that tbe work of the Institute did not close until late Saturday afternoon, and we supposed tbe readers of The Jouhn.u, would prefer to have tbe proceedings all at once rather than in broken doses.

The very slim attendance at tbe Institute was anything but creditable to Montgomery county farmers, and suggested in a pretty loud voice, that tbe appropriations made by tbe Legislature to defray the expenses of these educational meetings, at least so far as our county is concerned, is but "casting pearl before swine." The papers read, and the discussions that followed, were of the greatest interest to every farmer in the county: but the farmers did not come, and hence received no benefft from the appropriation so generously made by the Legislature in their interest. Mr. J. 1. Lutz, of Shadeland, read a paper on the questions, "Does Fall and Winter Feeding of Stock Pay? "If so, How'.'" Mr. Lutz showed from many experiments on his own farm bow he had made money feeding stock in winter. He kept accounts of expenses and sales, and demonstrated by tbe figures that fall and winter feeding could be made profitable. The main point in his discourse, however, was that it would not pay to feed any but first class stock- such as would command tbe very highest price in the great markets. What he called the best stock was such as yielded the greatest proportion of high priced meat. Ho did not speak very favorably of Alderny and Jersey cows. His estimate was that not more than one in ten was a good dairy cow, and that proportion could be found in other breeds that would do for beef when not worth keeping for milk and butter. "Importance of Pasture on tbe Farm," was discussed by Henry Learning, of Tippecanoe county. His paper was good and called out much discussion. He believed in a variety of grasses on the farm, and thought much of Indiana |uite as well adapted to blue-grass as any other locality. He believed that good blue-grass would grow—even in our black land, if well drained and tramped by stock. Tbe idea seems to privail among those who joined in the discussion that blue grass could be made very profitable on all the farms in this locality, und that our farmers ought to give it more attention than they do.

Hut the paper which created the most discussion was Mr. William Mitchell's essay on "Highways and Other Improvements.'" He advocated with much force the value and importance of good roads, and thought that money judiciously expended in making good roads would always show large profits. He believed in the most thorough drainage, as our roads were too often spoiled by letting water stand on and about them. Another point he insisted on was a system of thorough and constant repairing. He did not believe in letting the roads get full of rutB and chuck holes.

The discussion was participated in by nearly all in attendance, and there was a general condemnation of the present method of working on our gravel roads. It was claimed by Mr. Fullen, one of the county commissioners, that all road supernitendents had orders to never let their roadfl get out of repair, but it was pretty fully 6hown, nevertheless, many of our roads were constantly full of chuck holes and gutters which largely destroyed their usefulness and doubled the expense of repairing them. At the conclusion of the discussion the following resolution was offered by P.

S. Kennedy, and unanimously adopted: Resolved, that it is the sense of this Institute that our Board of Commissioners should adopt some system c? repairing our free gravel roads that will secure constant attention, and jirerent chuck holes and ruts, and that the law regulating heavy hauling on the roads should be rigidly enforced against all offenders."

It was resolved to hold tbe next Institute at Ladoga, and see if a better attendance could not be secured.

THE PURPOSE OF TAXES.

Assuming that the tariff is a tax on consumers, a great many people object to it because it is a tax paid by one class for tho benefit of another class. Take, for instance, the tariff on tin plate. It is claimed that the tariff of two ccnts ^.ind is a tax paid by the poor and laboring classes who uses tia ware, to those engaged in

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manufacture. Im

mediately after the tariff was placed on tin

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at least fifty enormous factor

ies were in progress of construction. Grant, for the sake of the argument that this two cent tariff is to be paid by the laborer on every pound of tinware he buys, is not that a small price for such great internal improvements as these many factories are showing themselves to be? Hut more to the point. The poor and laboring classes are made to belie-To that they are taxed for the benefit of those in better circumstances. Let us see. If it was a fact that the poor man bad to pay the increased tariff on his tinware it would not amount to a day's work in a year. Suppose ory man had to pay school and road tax propotioned according to the number of children he has to send to school, and according to the amount be uses our roads, how would the account stand then The poor man's tax would be a thousand times more than bis tax caused by any tariff. Under our present system the rich pay this out for him and get but little thanks. These taxes are paid directly out of the pocket by those who have no children for the sole benefit of the poor and laboring classes who have the most children to be cared for. Our roads and streets are kept up by a tax paid by those who use them least. If there ever was a case where one class was taxed for the benefit of another, it is in tbe paying of tho school and road tax, a tax for public buildings and for support of tbe poor, and tbe poor and laboring classes get far more benefit from them than any other class. After seeing the wealthier class taxed for their benefit in building schools, roads and alms houses, tbe poor and laboring class have little reason to complain and higgle about a few cents tariff on tinware, and especially when it does not raise the price of it.

In order to have a wealthy and independent country we must have a system to support our schools. We must have roads and highways and factories. Grant that the tariff is a tax—it is a 6niall tax on the poor man, compared with what the rich pay for his benefit in the way of highways and schools and public buildings.

conniisi'oxDF.NT

of the Newport N.

H.j (JUumpUm says "In the campaign of 1892 the college has received a degree of attention hitherto unknown. This field has been carefully looked over and accurate statistics have been gathered clearly showing that from 70 to 90 per cent, of the men now in New England colleges are Republican."

Tjie Indianapolis Journal is authority for the statement that Hon. K. B. F. Peirce will be elected president of the Citizens Street Kail road company in January, to succeed John P. h'renzel. Tiik Joi'itXAij notes with pleasure the successes of our former fellow-towns-man.

It is said that in cities which have a screen ordinance it is violated by conducting the business during illegal hours either down cellar or in the second story. When the screen ordinance is drafted it would be well to think of this.

Conghkss.man Holman has declared himself in favor of an income tax. This is about the most unpopular form of taxation that can be imposed.

Tni:iu:are 5600,000,000 of war claims now directly or indirectly before Congress. Keep your eye on these claims.

Gamblkus must leuve under the vagrancy act.

Indianapolis

Hnvft Talcen Several

Bottles of Bradfield's Female Kegulator for falling of the -womb and other dieeases combined, of 16 years standing, and I really believe I am cured entirely. for which please accept my thanks

Mrs. W. E. Stebhtns. Ridge, Qa.

A great many persons, who have found no relief from other treatment, have been cured of rhumatism by Chamberlain Pain Balm. Do not give up until you have tried it, It is only 50 cents per bottle. For sale by Nye & Booe.

Children Cry for

Pitcher's Oastoria.

HOW TO TREAT DIRT ROADS.

Propur Drainage Is of i*araiiioiint Importance in Their Maintenance. By dirt roads is meant those roads which are formed of tbe natural soil found in the lino of the roadway. Tliev are so common as to be almost our only ro.id outside of town and city limits, and will for many years be vised largely in country districts, and especially on the linen of crossroads which connect the main highways. Dirt roads at their best are greatly infe^jor to macadam and telford roads in every essential Df a good highway—durability, cost of maintenance, drainage, tractive qualities and in many localities in point of economy also. But lie dirt road is here, and the public hand must be directed to its treatment. The first and most important thing necessary for the maintenance of a dirt road may be stated in a single word—drainage. It is the one thing that can neither be dispensed with nor neglecled. Most dirt is soluble and is easily displaced under the softening influence of rain, and this process is hastened in the dirt road by the passing of heavy wagons over the wet surface. in providing for the drainage of a dirt road we should first consider the material of which the roadway is composed. If a heavy, viscous clay predominates the ordinary side ditches should be of good deplli. and will even then in many cases be inadequate for 1 borough drainage without the addition of a center drain running midway between and parallel with tbeside ditches. The center drain should of course be filled with loose, irregular bowlders, cobblestones, broken bricks or similar filling, covering a line of tiles or fascines at the bottom, and should be connected with the side ditches by crossdrains carrying the water out ward from tbe center drain at proper intervals along the length ol' the roadway,

In locations where the prevailing material is of a loose sandy nature the difficulties of drainage are more easily overcome, and side ditches, if found necessary at all, may he made of moderate depth and left, open without incurring the risks and dangers of travel that prevail where the deeper open ditches are used for draining heavier soils. But on the other hand, the light and shifting nature of sandy road material destroys its value as a surface layer for an earth roadway, and its efficiency in this respect is most easily remedied by the addition of a stronger ami more tenacious substance, such as stilt' clay.

When mixed with sand in proper proportions (which in each case depends upon the nature of the clay and sand used, and which can best be determined by experiment), this composition affords many advantages which make it superior to a roadway composed of either sand or clay when used alone. The

sand st'rves to quicken the drainage and to destroy the sticky, tenacious qualities of the clay, while the clay supplies the qualities of cohesion in the substance of the road surface, counteracting the shifting qualities of the sand and making the roadway more easily packed and rolled, and more likely to retain its proper grade and slope.

Every day it is becoming more iirmiv established that a good road roller is the most valuable piece of machinery employed in the loadmaker's art. and indeed without it neither can the foundation nor subsoil of tin roadway be made uniformly hard .-Mid reliable, nor the surface layer be given I hat uniform compactness and solidity which give excellence to the road and insure a perpetual economy in the cost of maintenance and repairs. In using he roller in actual work the depressions and soft spots are carefully filled and brought: to the line of the required grade, vhile the successive passing of the heavy roller over the filling gives to the entire road that form and consistency which are so essential to every good highway.—1. B. Potter in Century.

Al'raid if tlx- jie 11 *,e.

Worse Tlittn Nothing.'

At the outset 1 am forced to sav that in my opinion the road work we have been doing here in this country for years has been to a very great extent absolutely injurious and detrimental instead of beneficial and would better have been left undone. 1 mean particularly the practice which I believe is general in this country of plowing and scraping up the roads, called by our o\ 11 ers "rounding them up."—Address by W. B. Napioi.

I ill lioaiU Are Ti Kxpensive. W •Nothing can be said in favor of the system of toll roads by which certain parts of Kentucky have long had good rock roads. It has been estimated that the expense of gatekeepers alone exceeds that of the entire state tax for all other purposes.—St. Louis Kepublic.

1 'I heir Iteiielieeni Kll'eet. (iood roads make better citizens, better farmers, better schools, better health and happier homes: they make the country available at all times in the

ye::v are the means of famty and making life Chicago Inter Ocean

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Unless general interest can be awakened—such an interest as will demand from those who make and those who execute the laws, such legislation and such administration as will secure different: and better results—there is little would not involve personal obi igations prospect of an improvement of present!

prohibiting prowort' living.—

SUSPENDS PAYMENT.

Failure

tho Stone City Bank Joliet, 111.

ENTERPRISE WIRE JILL INVOLVED.

The I.labilities of llotli Concerns Will Kcaeh Nearly $1.000,000--Ht:sinc*» Men Surprised—fause ol* the 1 ailure.

a .ioi.iet hank's coi.r.ArsK. JofciKT, 111., Dec. 1.—The Stone City bank of this city made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors at p. m. Wednesday. James L. O'Donnell, of Haley & O'Donnell, attorneys, was appointed as assignee under bonds of S-o.OOO. About the same hour George H. Moore was appointed receiver of the .Joliet Enterprise Company, manufacturers of barb wire. Seventenths of the Enterprise stock is held by Henry iish Sous, who own the bank. The liabilities of the two concerns are said to aggregate nearly Si,000,000. The Fishes are said to be worth over that sum, and claim that they have turned over all their assets to O'Donnell.

JtiisineeK Paralyzed.

The financial disaster of the two concerns has paralyzed the business circles of Joliet. While vague rumors have been in the air for two days regarding the alleged insecurity of the bank and I the Enterprise company they were considered incredible The several otlicers of both concerns deny their responsibility for the disaster, and what meager facts can be elicited from them serve only to envelope the affair mystery. Alt that business men

Joliet can say is that the failure pears to be a most tangled affair. I I'lxiiit the Itlame.

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he owners of the bank are Henry Fish, Sr., George „M. Fish. Henry .Mantling Kish and Charles M. Fish. These men, it appears, blame the failure of the bank to the alleged mismanagement. of the Enterprise eompanv, but F. II. Council, superintendent of the company, says the Fish people have been responsible for overloading the works above what the market warranted. The bank officials say that they cannot resume business till the stock of the Enterprise company is sold.'

I'eople Caught.

The bank it appears has recently been making bids for deposits, going so far as to offer ti and per cent. Many of the working people of Joliet, it is said, have put their savings into the concern on this account. One of the unfortunate cases in connection with the bank's suspension was discovered Wednesday night. Miss Jennie Heath, a purchasing agent, who has an extensive line of customers in Joliet, called at the bank in the morning to arrange for the payment of some Chicago obligations. She bought a draft on Chicago for .?1,400. Before she reached Chicago with the draft the Joliet bank had suspended and the correspondent bank in Chicago refused to cert ify. 'I he loss ol this amount, it is said, represents nearly all of Miss Heath's savings.

Cause ol the Hun.

The bank opened Wednesday morning at o'clock, but no sooner had its I doors opened than a crowd of depositors poured in and a run on the bank began. The bank sent out and borrowed t'l-vooo, but this was not enough to satisfy the demand, and before 10 o'clock they were compelled to close their doors. 1 he run was a total surprise.

It is said that the run on the bank was caused by rumors set alloat by fifty men who were discharged from the Enterprise works last Saturday because, it was said, the works were overstocked. These men were paid in time checks due December 15. When their checks were presented at the bank it is said that the Fishes .refused to honor then till De-

eember l.". and the men concluded that the bank was shaky. An official of the Enterprise company said that the Fishes had used the Enterprise company as a dumping ground for indebtedness because the company

conditions, it is perhaps scarcely lair involve them personally. Lawyers to say that there is complete indifference representing creditors are as much in upon the subject. Most people are interested in securing a better condition of the common roads of the couulrv for their own convenience and pleasure. But the disposition to antagonize a forward movement in this respect, or lo retard an intelligent and comprehensive administraiion of present laws, is based perhaps upon the fear of the amount of money necessary to be expended in securing in the first instance a thoroughly good road. In all discussions of ih

subject lliis seems to be the final resort of those who oppose improvements upon the present system.—Forum.

'he Fishes, while the bank would

the dark as any one and refuse to give a list of their clients. Almost everv family and business notice in the city is I said to be involved to some extent, (Jem-Re Fish's story. I d'titil afternoon none of the firm would talk or even seen. At last (ieorge M. Fish was found and told the situation briefly, ile said: "I visitnl Chicago Tuesday ami mini.- arrancemerits for *HtOOOO from a bank to mem the I needs of our hanU. ollenni us collateral warehouse receipts of wire unit stock in Mie ware.I hou.-.cs of the Kiuerprise compare,. At -J o'clock iu tin.- morning I was called up by teleI pjioiie ami Informed that there w.is to be a run on our bank. I umlerstouil Uiat somehow the same news reached toe Chicago bank, thus preventing us rrom getting the $100,000 as expecteil. When '.he bank opened the peopie rushed in and asked for iheir money. We paid out cash as fast as it could pass over iho counter. At 9:80 a. m. #o0,00J had been paid out. We had only a small amount lert anil wa hart to inform the public that we could pay out no more \\re had taken in about £!fi0,000 worth of deposits. In this case we filed an assumpsit for 1176,000 on the

Enterprise company. We were obliged to expect to satisfy and

make an assignment everybody.'' Other Banks Ulve Aid.

The bankers of Joliet agreed in the morning to temporarily aid the Stone City bank, if they could secure them with collateral other than that involved in the Enterprise company. About 810,000 apiece was secured f/om two or three banks.'The First national bank, of which Fred oodruff is president, advanced 310,000 on the alleped promise that it would be secured by a judgment note. The money was taken, but after the suspension Harry Fish is said to have told Mr. Woodrutt tliat he must come in with the rest of the creditors. Thomas Colburt some months ago sold the Fishes 1(50 acres of land for §20,000. He took certificates of deposit, and his §20,000 has gone with the rest. John Brooks, bookkeeper for the Enterprise com-

pany, had all his savings, SS,0()0, in the concern. Assets and Liabilities.

J. L. O'Donnell, assignee of the bank, gave the following estimate oi the assets and liabilities:

Assets—Judgment entered on plant of thi Enterprise, firti.420 notes and bills receivable. jrSJ.OOO cash left from morning run. J.'!,100. Total, f201, V.0. Liabilities—Deposits, $10.i,000 paper indorsed by bank, JOfi.OCO. Total, S^iO.Oua

According to these figures even the bank is considerably short in its accounts. Henry Fish has .-40,000 worth of unincumbered property which will go to cover bank liabilities, and the opinion was expressed by O'Donnell that the bank depositors would be paid dollar for dollar. He did not express so sanguine an opinion regarding the Enterprise company's affairs. His estimate of the assets and liabilities of that company is as follows:

Assets: .Slock on hand, $17ii,00t) plant fc!00,000 bills receivable. S-12.000: total, ?417,000. Liabilities: Trust deed to V. J. Blair. *1:»5,3I8: confessions of record, -*100,000 claims unsecured, $150,00(1 total. $73'i,:tl&

These figures are not considered positively accurate, and it is said that no definite statement of the situation will be made for weeks. Xo one could make any close estimate of the assets of the company, so involved is it with the bank and with the private operations of the l1 isli Bros. It is the opinion of local business men, however, that Mr. O Donnell figm-ed discrepancy between assets and liabilities is if anything, nude res, ti mated.

The DnUM'prist' un|mny.

The history of the Enterprise company is one of a continuous overstocking of the. works. A few years ago the Fishes suddenly increased the capital stock of the company from $: o.0()0 to S2fiO.(IOO. The force of men employed was raised from a few to ii.io. making it the second largest wire mill in the world. Wire has been accumulating in the storehouses ever since. The main storehouse, tOOx JO feet, is full of material. Thirty thousand dollars' worth of stuff is on hand and there is SUOU,000 in grounds and buildings.

.REPORT ON THE ~CENSUS.

Mr. Porter I ells What, the Kmimerul ion ost and What Is Needed. ASiiixoTox, Dec. 1.- —Census Superintendent Porter, in his annual report to the secretary of the interior, strongly urges that the census office be made a permanent bureau of the interior department. Mr. 1'orter refers to the complaints that have been made against the accuracy of the eleventh census, especially by the authorities of certain cities, and says that, the work of the enumerators has been vindicated by time. The cost of taking the eleventh census aim.tinted to V-0:i.('.i: Mr. I'orter estimates that the sum of S'J-tO,-000 will he required t.o continue the office. Of the thirteen volumes in which the result of the eleventh census will be embodied there are now in th hands of the printers eight quarto volumes, and it is stated that the infinite detail of the office makes impossible to forrleW the slate of the actual completion of the whole work*.

RAILROAD TRAINS STALLED.

Heavy Storui oil l.ons Island Impedes Travel on All Itotids. Eo.no I sland Citv. L. I.. Dec. 1.— Tho snowstorm on Long Island is the heaviest since the blizzard of 1S.SS. the fall being from IS inches to 2 feet. Heavy drifts havt formed in many places, impeding travel on the roads. All trains on the Long Island railroad are behind time. The trains from Sag Harbor and Crreenport are missing. Nothing- can be learned of them because the wires are down all over the island. The drifts are packed hard and it is likely that several hours will elapse before any of the stalled trains will be able to get through. Many of the passengers on the Uonkonkoina and Central Parktrains walked from where the train was stalled to Hieksville station. Snow plows have been sent out to assist the stalled trains.

MAY COME IN THE SPRING.

Belief Tlmt New York City Is Destined to Invasion by Cholera.

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\op.k, Dec.

1.—Six

of the twelve

members of the senate immigration committee met Wednesday morning and adjourned about l:«i) o'clock. Dr. Cyrus Edson. of the health board, was present during most of the session and gave his views oil the cholera question. He believed, he sai.l, that under the existing condition of immigration laws cholera would invade this city next spring. When told that the committee had under consideration the advisability of slopping immigration for a year he said this course would be the surest one to prevent the entrance of cholera, to this country. The senators have not yet reached ny decision upon any of the questions under scussion.

Work hy th« I.ife-Savers.

W ashington, Dec. 1.—The anuual report of Superintendent Kimball, of the life-saving service, shows that there were 242 lives saved last year, 181 on the Atlantic and forty-eight on the lakes. There were 337 accidents and of 2,570 persons on the vessels twenty lives were lost In all 747 shipwrecked persons were sheltered. The value of vessels involved was .$5,,r)84,160, and of their cargoes, $7,200,305 of which total $7,111,005 was saved. The total wrecks numbered 00. There were 170 casualties to small craft and 7 lives were lost.

Awful Lous of Life.

New

ork, Dec. 1.—Information

has been received at the maritime exchange that the Japanese cruiser Sheshinarnkan collided with the British steamer Ravenna in the Island sea and was sunk. The Japanese cruiser was bound from France to Japan, and all of her crew, numbering 275, are reported lost.

To DiKciiMH Consolidation.

Bkooki.y.v,

Dec. 1.—There will be

a big mass meeting of real estate men and private citizens to discuss consolidation with New York on December 7. Some of the chief disciples of the doctrine of the union will address the meeting, and it is the intention to worV: up a tremendous sentiment in its favor.

SHORT SPECIALS^

Mrs. Martha D. Strickland, of Chicago. has been admitted to the bar at Memphis, Tcnn.

John Nicholson, a farmer of Paris, III., with a wife and five children, shot and killed himself Tuesday,

A. I). Dunville, a prominent contractor of Marinette, Mich., fell from a load of hay and broke his neck.

A. Rasch it Son, of St. Louis, dealers in rooting material, made an assignment Tuesday. The assets are §20,000 and liabilities uuknown.

John Noland, of Cleveland county, N. C., died of hydrophobia after chewing his tongue into shreds in his convulsions. I Cal Hale, Jack Kenzic and George

Zaehery, robbers of the Roslyn (Wash.) bank, were held fur trial iu bonds of 510,000 each. They were identified.

The first steps have been taken at Rochester, N. S ., to discover the ownership of Silver lake, the source of supply of the ice company of that name. I he state contests the company's right to it.

The enforcement of the United States quarantine laws is causing much trouble at Halifax, where the railroad company has many immigrants on its hands who cannot be fumigated or sent forward.

The fire which was supposed to hav« been extinguished in the Honeybrook mine, llazleton. l'a., last week has broken out afresh. The interior of the mine has been so wrecked that a total collapse is anticipated, and workmen dare not enter it. .,

VOTES CAST IN WISCONSIN.

The Total iu the Male Shows in Increase Over ISSS. Madiso.,-. Wis.. Nov. o.—The corrected vote of the state, cast at the late election, shows that Cleveland received 1 7 7 4 4 7 a is 1 7 0 land's plurality. t),474. In lsss Harrison had a plurality of 21.".-Jl.

The vote for governor: Peek", 17S. 112 Spooner, 170,445 Peck's plurality. 7.(S5.S. The other democratic candidates will probably have somewhat larger pluralities than Peck-. The prohibition vota is ]:!,0iS4. In 1SSH it was 1.21M more than that. The labor vote is this year i».^70, against S.^52 four years ago. The total vole of the state is 371.•Ml. an increase* of 10.727 over the vote of lsss, while the increase from 1880 to jss-t was 52,048. and from 1884 to 1 sss. 34.770.

SCORE ONE FOR BRIGGS.

Twenty-One Majority in 1'iivor of Sinking: Out Clinrife* 4 and 7 Against (lie Alleged Heretical rrotessor.

NKW YORK, NOV. 30— In the trial of Dr. Uriggs Tuesday the question of striking out charges -I and 7 was brought to a vote, resulting iu favor of not trying the professor on those charges by a majority vote of 21. Charge •I is to the effect that Prof. Briggs erroneously taught that many of the Old Testament predictions have been reversed by history and that the great body of Messianic prediction has not and cannot be fulfilled. Charge 7 declares that lie taught that the processes of redemption extend to the world 'ocome in the case of many who die in sin.

Mrsinse Cause of Dealh.

Tii'i'i.N. O.. Nor. 30.—John I). Daugherty. a potter, aged 30 years and unmarried. died here under strange circumstances. Seven days ago. while laughing heartily over tin- recent election Daugherty commenced hiccoughing. and the attack lasted so long that he became alarmed and called in a physician. All that medical science could do to check the strange a miction was done, but to no avail, and the man hiccoughcd incessantly until death resulted.

Proposed New [iaiiroad.

HICAOO. Dec. 1.—The Indianapolis & Southwestern Railroad Companv has tiled articles of incorporation in the office of the secretary of state at Springfield. It is proposed to build and maintain a railway Irom Indianapolis to East St. Louis the principal business oflice is to be maintained at Chicago, and the capital stock is (50,000.

Mrs. Mary E. O'Fallon of Plqna, O., say* the Phy•lolam are Astonished, and look at her like one

Raised fromjhe Dead

Long and Terrible Illness from Blood Poisoning

Completely Cured by Hood's Sarsaparllla. Mrs. Mary E. O'Fallon, a very Intelligent lady of Piqua, Ohio, was poisoned while assisting physicians at an autopsy 6 years ago, and soon terrible nlccra broke out on her head, arms, tongue and throat. Her hair all came out. She weighed but 78 lbs., and saw no prospect of help. At last she began to take Hood's Sarsaparllla and at once Improved could soon get out of bed and walk. She says: I became perfectly cured by

Hood's Sarsaparilla

and am now a well woman. I weigh 128 lbs., eat well and do the work for a large family. My case seems a wonderful recovery and physicians look at mo In astonishment, as almost like one raised from the dead."

HOOD'8 PlLL8 ihould be In every family medicine cheit. Once uied, alwayi preferred.