Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 9 June 1881 — Page 1

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The Democrat. Official Paper of Adams County. — 13. XTecy 'W lllinxxxHi, Froprictor. Terms: One Dollar amd Fifty Cents Per Year. THE BEMOt HAT S AGENTS. As fust rh satisfactory arrange meutN can br made we will have an Agent lor The Democrat ut each poMtoilire in the County, the names of whom will he kept atiinding in the paper. We do thin lor the convenience four MUbMcriberN. hihl triiat they yili appreciate It. Subscribers con pa) their subscription, or any part thereat, or mi) sum ot money, to ouraurntM, who will receipt lor the same, and who also will take the names and rush of new subscribers. The follow ing are Che names ol agtuits already n ppointed, nod our patrous at the several others will do us a great favor by remitting to them a “little money on subscription:*’ C. U. HIM KER Monroe JOHN I). MALI. Geneva BUG ENE MORROW Linn Grove J. T. BAILEY, ATT’Y AT LAW £ J. P., DECATUB, INDIANA. | Jl’ill Practice in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v‘24n29tf | A. G. HOLLOWAyTjL D.. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INQIANA. I Office in Houston’s Block, up-stairs. Will fillend to all professional calls promptly, bight or day. Charges reasonable. Rest deuce on north side of Munroe street, 4th house cast of Hart's Mill. 25jy79tf R B. AiLifiOW, Pres’t. V». 11. Niblick, Cashier. I). Studabakeh, Vice Pres’t. THE ADAMS COUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, E This Bank is now open for tlie transaction of a general banking business. U We buy and sell Town, Township and County Orders. 25jy79tf PETERSON & HUFFMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR,INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. 0. O. F. building. 2ajy79tf FRANCE & KING. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DI'.CATIK.INItIANA. I'Bitßy, Huston, county. Ga., January 28, 1880. 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-lIIIIIIM IIHHIII Illi II I I Ml I I I 111 '.111..J1 PEOPLE WHO niSVPPEVR. Foul Play Very Rarely the Explanation of a Disappearance—Tliougli ties* Husbands, Stray Children, asttl a Skeptical Police. [New York Sun .] “I am the cruellest, the most indifferent, and the hardest-hearted man in this city.” said Superintendent Walling, leaning back in his chair, and allowing a smile to steal over one of the . best natured faces imaginable.. I “Who says so ?" asked the reporter. “They all do—all those people who come here after lost husbands, wives, i children, or friends. But they apolo- ' gize afterward, and admit 1 was right. They are in a flurry at first, and don't give me credit for any experience, and ' yet thousands of cases of lost people i have been reported to me in the past : few years. The average is more than one a day at present.” “Are many of the ‘missing’ really I lost?” “Not at all; nearly all return in a : j short time. A lady came to me the : other day and said sho feared something had happened to her husband. He had come home sick the afternoon before, and she had given him an opiate. An hour or two later she had 1 missed him from his room, and he did , not return that night. I asked her if she had been tj his office, and she said ' she had not, as he would certainly have conic home before going there. I said . to her: ‘Your husband was sick and restless; he wandered out for a walk. , When the opiate began to effect him he dropped into some quiet hotel and spent the night there. Go dowu to ' his office and if he is not there come I back and tell me.’ Ih half an hour I f received word that he was all right.” “Do wives often come to inquire after their husbands ?” “Very often. The husband is called , suddenly out of town and forgets to telegraph to his wife, or perhaps the message miscarries. I remember a ’ case where a gentleman went to Phila- . delphia in this way, and remained three i days. His friends fairly ran down my ■ office and his wife was distracted. I'in- • ally they ceased coming and I sent around to see what was the matter. He had returned, and explained that his dispatch to his wife must have miscarried. In another instance a gentleman went to see a friend off on an Eastern train. He was absent-minded and remained on the train us it moved out of the Grand Central Depot. He did not return until the next morning. His wife was down here after him. On his return he did not explain why he had got off at some station between here and Boston: but as bis friends were satisfied with his explanation, we had no reasons to complain.’ “Do these disappearances turn out frequently to be due to foul play ?’ “No; very rarely. When the man is dead, he has either committed suicide or met with an accident. The old stories about garroting. throwing victims into the rivers are quite worn out. I recall two cases in which death was supposed to have been caused by violence. A gentleman of means from the South came to this city and put up at a prominent hotel. He went out for a walk and did not return. As he carried a gold watch and a considerable sum of money, his friends were confident* that he had been murdered. A week or so afterward the paddles of a tugboat in a North River slip brought his body to the surface. The watch and money were intact, and evidence that he had accidentally fallen into the river was afterward obtained. In the other case a wealthy gentleman of Syracuse started from this city to go to Brooklyn. His body was found a week later, under the bridge of the Wall street ferry. He had probably missed a jump for a ferryboat or fallen from a boat in some way. His money j and valuables were untouched If the body of the patent lawyer, Charles F. ' Bi ke had not been found so soon as- I ter he was missed, his friends, no doubt would have suspected foul play. “How about suicides? ’ “In such cases the family and friends generally suspect what has happened. The missing man has left a letter, or he has been showing signs of derangement. In such cases we first search the hospitals and the Morgue.' A private detective who was listening here broke into the conversation and said : “I remember the case of the supposed suicide of a young man from Nyack. His coat was found on the apron of the North River ferry-boat Jim’ Fisk, with a piece of paper attached to the lappel. on which he had written his name. 1 visited his home and found a tearful letter, bidding them all farewell. He was given up as lost, and a story of dis- . appointed love was told. A month later he turned up out West safe. “Yes; people are always ready to believe the worst," said the superintendent. “They rush here without the commonest investigation. A detective came here from Missouri looking after a respectable eixizen, secretary ol a bank. He had been traced to New York. His friends were sure he had 1 been murdered, and the detective was I on here to find his body. He didn t f find it, and then they thought of open- - ing the man’s tin box in the bank safe. “ All his money was gone and trust money belonging to Other people. He was afterward discovered running a faro P bank in Montreal. “The private detective here had ’ another relapse. He said : “I was in the Thirtieth Street Police Station last summer when a man rushed in with a badly scrawled note, written by a wellknoWn gentleman living in Fifth avenue. and announcing that he was going at once to drown himself. ® Word was telegraphed toPolice Hcad"i quarters, and policemen hastened to ■ the ferries. The gentleman s family sat up all night. He was found the

i next day on Broadway. He had been drinking too much." “Do you often have inquries for young men? ’ asked the reporter of Mr. Walling. “No, not often. Parents know that young men generally turn up after a time. There was a father who came here from the Ninth Ward in a mournful state of mind. ‘My lost boy is dead,’ he said. ‘How old?’ I asked. ‘Nineteen years,’ he replied. ‘Nonesense,’ I said; ‘he will be home in a day or two.’ “The father insisted that I wronged the boy, and thought, it very harsh of me when I refused to send out a general alarm. The next day he came around and apologized, and said I was right. The boys always turn up when the money gives out.” The detective here started on another lap: “I know of one case,” said he, “where the young man didn’t turn up alive. It was a young man in the wine business who lived in Jersey City. He was engaged to a handsome young woman, but could not marry because his salary was insufficient. His brother, who employed him, opposed the match. The young man went to Philadelphia and tried to get help of his friends there. He failed, returned to Jersey City, and threw himself off a Certlandt street ferryboat. His body was found two weeks afterward on Bedloe’s Island. “Some of these cases are amusing, however,” said Mr. Walling. ‘A broker whom I know personally dashed up to the door here in a cab one day, rushed into my office in a frenzied way, and cried : ‘Oh, Mr. Walling, my child is stolen —do you hear me? —my child!’ and he laid a strong emphasis on ‘my.’ I said: Os course, your child , I don’t suppose you would be so alarmed over anybody else’s child. Calm down and tell me how it was.’ He then, almost crying, said that the nurse had taken the little orre out for a walk on Madison avenue, and that when herback was turned for a moment it had been spirited away. I told him I didn’t believe anything of the kind, and that the nurse had probably bceu careless and allowed the child to stray. He went awaythinking I had no heart, because I would not order the entire police force to search the city. )\ hen he reached home the child was there. A lady had found it in the street and brought it home. It is apt to be rich people wno are sure their missing children are stolen. Poor people generally say ‘lost.’ We had twenty-one lost children here last Monday alone—more than usual, because Monday was ‘moving day, “What do you do when you receive telegrams from out of town asking you to catch fugatives?” “Nothing whatever, unless it is a criminal matter. In some States afu gative husband or wife can be arrested, but not in New York State.’ At this moment Detective McNam- ■ ara entered the room and said : “I find he has got home all right, Superintendent.’ “There,” said the Superintendent to the reporter, “ that is a case in point. That man was missing a day or two, -and now he turns up. If the police force were to spend its time in looking for missing men it could do nothing else. But if a ease looks serious wo send out a general alarm and keep a lookout.” Found at Last.—What every one should have, and never be without, is Thomas' Eclectric Oil. It is thorough and safe in its effects, producing the most wondrous cures of rheumatism, neuralgia, burns, bruises, and wounds of every kind. No Humbugging ths American People.—You can’t humbug the American people, when they find a remedy that suits them ; they use it and recorni mend it to their friends. Just exactly I the case with Spring Blossom which ' has become a household word all over the United States. Price 50 cents, trial bottles 10 cents. Druggist’s Testimony.—ll. F. McCarthy, druggist, Ottawa, Ont., states that he was afflicted with chronic bronchitis for some years, and was completely cured by the use of Thomas Eclectric Oil. Inquiries are made as to what is meant by the term “star route” in the postoffiee department. It is used to designate those mail routes not on railroads, that is, those on which the mails are carried overland on stages and other conveyances. The cheating is done in the following manner: Take for example the overland route from Butler via St. Joe and Spencerville to Ft. Wayne. Suppose a man takes this ■ route for four years, at SSOO a year. • Then after awhile he will get some man ? having influence with the authorities at ‘ Washington to get the contract i changed, raising the price to three or i four times the original amount, he : agreeing to make the trips oftener, and in less time. This, of course, he nev- . er does, but takes care to get his iu- ! creased pay from the government ’ Those who make the bids on these , routes are seldom present in person , but have other parties make the bids t and then the contracts are so arranger i that the real parties step in and get thi compensation.— Auburn Courier. Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re ‘ newer is a universal favorite for restor ? ing gray hair to its original color, and . making hair grow out thick.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, JUNE 9, 1881.

1 THE LITTEE OOXISERS. r BX LISLIB LESTER. In the mountainous localities of Calt ifornia, there is no lovlier picture of 1 nature scenery than that which embrac--3 cs Donner lake. Any one riding over the Sierras in a Central Pacific railway car, will catch a fine view of the lake - as the train dashes in and out of a 1 myriad of tunnels among the snowy j mountain spires that enclose the mirp ror-like lake in their giant arms. Close to the lake are great forests of 2 unmolested pines and cedars, and when 3 sitting in a boat on the surface of the 1 water, the reflection of the white-crown-ed mountain-tops is seen in the crystal depths. - Before the Donner children were 1 known to California history, and before such an enteprise as a railroad over the t, Sierras was ever thought of, even bes fore gold was discovered and Califor- ’ nia known to the world, the Piute In- ’ dians believed in a legend that had ex- . isted, no one knows how long, among r their ancestry. The Indians that lived in Tro-tro-ne 3 valley, as the Truckee valley was called by them, and which is the pass ’ through the Sierras from the lake on > the eastern slope, quarreled with their ' chief, the legend says, and fought a ' desperate battle, bringing upon them ■ the anger of the Great Spirit. ’ As a punishment, he banished the t leaders of the rebellion, and sent them to a certain locality over the mountains t where there was neither water nor ! food, but a great basin boiling with - gre and lava. This place is now Don--5 ner lake. ’ The exiled Indians, after a long and . tedious journey over the great snowl peaks, came down to the vast cauldron, ■ which was seething and bubbling with fire and lava stones, trowing great hot I cinders and smoke many feet in the ] air. t The weary Indians were so terrified 3 and faint with hunger many of them , perished; but a few who had faith in , the Great Spirit prayed to him to stop , the fire and smoke, and promised obedience to all his commands if he ffould 3 spare their lives. While they prayed they fell asleep, j and lay all night beside their dead com- ; t panions, rolled up in their blankets, | very weak from fatigue and hunger. In the morning when they awoke, they found the warm, pleasant sunlight , dressing the hill-tops in the clouds with silver and gold, and the great ba ’ sin that was boiling with mol tan lava the night before, was nowhere to be j seen, but in its place a beautiful lake 5 of purest water, filled with sporting ’ fish, and reflecting the snow-peaks ’ above. The Indians fell down on their faces and gave thanks to the Great Spirit for this goodness. They built tliemselves huts, and lived in peace the rest , of their lives around the lake, finding abundance of fish in its waters and j game in the mountains. This is the legend as told by an old Indian to the writer. The bcautilul s , lake may have been the crater of a volcano. y During the construction of the Cen- . tral Pacific railroad, an engineer sounded its depths one thousand, six hun- , dred feet without touching bottom. r In October. 1846, a large emigrant i train that had been plodding all summer across the plain toward California, reached Truckee pass very much cx- • hausted. There were one hundred and i eighty persons in the company, under 3 command of Capt. Donner, the father ■ of Master Willie and Ida Donner. ' A terrible snow-storm overtook the party in this wild pass, and it was decided to break up the train —a portion to remain and winter in the valley, and others to try and cross the mountains. The Donner family undertook the journey with others. Those who remained in the pass built rude cabins, killed their cattle for food, hoping to r hold out until spring. When Capt. Donner's party had traveled about fifteen miles, they met one of the worst snow storms that was ever known in that locality. Ordinary snow storms there leave forty to sixty feet n„., ~ J , of snow in the valleys, so we can intt agine what an unusual stoim it must have been. T It was impossible to proceed; their d cattle died and were buried in the snow, and the whole party left with scarcely any food. For si x weeks they struggled, hoping to reach the summit —women and c.hili dren were carried sometimes, and they ’ I burrowed in the snow to keep warm, , ! while the men went forward to break id j > away over the snow drifts. ; Master Willie Donner has since told i how he used to stand with his arms ! around his mother’s neck, trying to e-1 warm himself and keep her warm also, as r 'l she held her little sister close to her d ’ breast, and the whole three of them I shaking with misery and hunger.

After six weeks of such suffering, it was found utterly impossible to go on. Then this little band divided again. Those who were best able and without children, extemporized snow-shoes, and taking with them a very scanty supply of provisions—for there was little to divide —set out to find their way over the summit and obtain assistance for those left behind. Os this party only one ever reached the summit—then it was not until he had witnessed the most dreadful suffering among his starving companions, who were at last obliged to cat the dead to keep themselves alive. The Donners and their companions, now doing everything possible to save themselves, hoping the advance party would succeed and send relief, one by one died as the weeks flew by, and the provisions were exhausted. Mrs. Donner, a very beautiful woman, with all a woman’s love, endeavored to save her children. When hunger drove them nearly wild, it was feared that some would not wait for others to die before appeasing their appetites. At last Capt. Donner died. Both of the children were wrapped in blankets and laid in a snow trench with their mother. They could not walk as they had grown so weak and emaciated. Little Ida used to lie looking at her mother, with her great eyes staring pitifully, with that terrible look that starvation implants there, and when Mrs. Denner could bear it no longer, and sank weeping beside them, she folded her little hands and said this child-like prayer: “Please, G-od. send us something to eat, and take the snow away. Maybe we shall all die if you don’t. Brother Willie is sick, and mamma has nothing to eat, and I am dreadful sick. So God, please do.” God certainly heard this touching prayer, for when at last one man reached the other side of the mountains, he found some friendly Indians, who conveyed the news to Gov. Sutter, at Sutter’s fort, in the Searamento valley, and assistance was sent forward at once. On the eastern side of the lake I they found the Donner party in the I last stages of existence. Mrs. Donner j had just died, and neither of the children could speak. Little Ida was hugged elose to Willie’s breast, her almost flashless arms around Lis neck, while the brave boy had grasped his dead mother’s arms and drawn them «around him. It was a pitiful sight, and the kind-hearted, rough men, who had come to rescue them, wept at the scenes. Willie and Ida Donner were sent forward to the fort ahead of the others, as they were nearest death, and the guides could travel faster with only the little, helpless mites to care for. When (he remaining sufferers were fed and started out of their camp of death, a board was erected on a rock> inscribed with rudest letters, as follows : “Tins is where the Donner party camped in the winter of 1816, and all but five persons perished with cold and hunger. April, 1847.” From that dreadful occurrence the lake derived its name, and will always be known as Donner lake. Master Willie and his sister were tenderly, reared in San Francisco, and a contribution fund provided for them by the warm-hearted Californians, a portion of which was invested in a one-hundred yard lot, at the corner of Folsom and Second streets and which increased in . value to $600,000 some years ago. Both brother and sister, now man and woman, live in the Golden City, and they say the winter spent in the snow in the Sierras seems to them like a dreadful drcam. The city of Marysville, in California, was named after a young lady who also survived the perils of that winter’s siege. The young people who read , this story, will, in later years—if they ever ride over the Nevada? and look from the car-windows upon the beautiful lake Donner, as they whirl past the , summits peaks that surround it—recall . vividly to mind the suffering of the little Donners, and the party that pioneered the emigration across the mountains. t Killed by a Vicious Stallion. Washington Benson and family,of Porr ter township, Cass county, Mich., drove 3 through this city yesterday morning,on 1 their way to lowa. They stopped by the roadside for dinner about 1 j miles 3 beyond Mt. Pleasant. The old gcntlc- - man was leading a stallion to water and y stooped to pick up a stick with which i, to hurry the horse along. As he did k. so the animal reared and threw himself upon the old man, tearing the flesh, car 1 and all. completely off the right side of s the head. The maddened horse then > bit the poor man through the breast ; breaking all his ribs from the breast r bone. Dr. McGill was summoned and i arrived just as the man was breathing his last.— St. Joe Volley Reyinter.

Adams County Sabbath School Convention. The “Sunday School Convention” convened in Decatur, on Saturday, the 28th of May. There were several delegates present, but not as many as were expected. The first thirty minutes were spent in devotional exercises conducted by Rev. W. W. Watts of Monmouth. The minutes of the proceeding meeting were then read and approved. A motion was made by Rev. M. S. Metts, that a committee be appointed on Temperance work, carried. After which our enthusiastic president made some excellent remarks on the importance of the work, and the interest each one should take in the work. The programme was then taken up. But owing to the absence of Rev. J. B. Fisher, “How to secure and retain teachers in the Sabbath Schools” was passed. Mrs. M. L. Holloway then read a very interesting essay, on Qualification. She said “the teacher should be a person of fair literary ability, must have spiritual sustanence, be a person of strong faith; have a love for the work, should be a friend, be patient, &c. Such a teacher will be more effectual in gaining an influence over the pupil,” a very lively discussion fol lowed. Music by choir. How to make song most profitable in Sunday School by Mr. John Woy. He said “the majority are endowed with musical talent; all should improve that talent given us by God; second sing with the spirit and understanding. In the discussion following it was stated that “'A ords should be studied so as to give expression to the music.” Rev. W. W. Watts then asked the convention to excuse him as he was obliged to go to Van Wert, the request was granted. Music by the choir. Prof. Luckey being necessarily engaged in other work during the day his exercises were deferred. By consent Rev. Gleason's exercise was postponed nntil afternoon session and some other subject on programme was taken up instead. “The best means of securing attendance at Sabbath School” was taken up. The discussion was opened by Rev. Dustman. He said, “The great responsibility rests on the Superintendent, that he should endeavor to make the school attractive. The teachers should be present and welcome their scholars. Make absent scholars feel that they are missed.” He was followed by Stoops, Kanouse, Metts, Mrs. Moses, and Mrs. Hastings. Music by the choir. The discussion on “Teachers meetings was opened by Rev. M. 8. Metts. He said ‘ teachers meetings arc important in securing uniformity of teaching, ’ he was followed in discussion by Rev. Kanouse, Gleason and Miss Lauretta Ballard. GENERAL BUSINESS On motion a committee on nomination was appointed consisting of one person for each township. D. Durr, John Woy, Eli Stoops, T. P. Harris, John McConnehey, Judson Teeple, Arta Numbers and Mrs. W. W. Moses, were chosen on that committee. A motion was carried that the office of Vice President of the county be added to the county officers of the ‘Union.' The following persons were appointed on committee of Temperance Resolutions. Mrs. M. Holloway, Ed Moses, Lewis Edwards, T. P. Harris, David Durr, and David Mumma. On motion the committee adjourned to 1:30 p. m. AFTERNOON SESSION. Fifteen minutes prayer meeting conducted by Rev. Dustman. Mrs. Dr. Schrock read a very interesting paper on “Infant Class Work. She said the first element was the Christian teacher, second, teachers should have natural capabilities, third, a love for the work and children. Discussion followed. One was called upon to tell how she became so successful in her teaching; ’ her answer was, her dependence on God in prayer. Music by the choir. “The chief difficulties in our Sunday School work” was then ably discussed by Rev. Gleason. Discussion followed I in which Rev. Bicknell and S. G. Hastings took quite a lively part. A very excellent essay on “Temperance” was read by Miss Maggie Metts. She said, “Intemperance is casting a shadow over every household. At this ■- time men of all nations are apprehende iug what is their duty in regard to this n great work.” An interesting discussy ion f< Bowed. The next subject “Sabs bath decoration,” was taken up by Rev. - Kanouse, and set forth in his usual 1 earnest manner. He said “The Sabi bath was the grandest of all days,” and 1 enumerated some of the sad results f that must follow such a desecration, r Time being limited no discussion foli lowed. Music. The discussion of i “The character of General exercises in t Sabbath School” was opened by Miss t: L. C. Ballard followed by several others. 1 “County and township organization ; was very briefly presented by Rev. Metts. He said. “Schools should hr

I organized in every town-hip. An Evangilist should be sent to work up , the matter.” Report of committee called for. Heard and accepted. On motion one delegate and one alternate were appointed to attend State Sunday School Convention, Mav 31st. Dr. Schrock was appointed with Rev. Metts as alternate. The following officers were electI cd for the ensuing year. President, S. G. Hastings ; Vice President, W. If. Schrock; Secretary, JohnMcConehey ; , Treasurer, Miss Maggie Metts; Vice Presidents,Union township, Dari 1 Dur; Root, S. Moses; Preble, 11. Forhman; Kirkland,Joshua Bright,Washington,G. W. A. Luckey; St. Marys, M. F. Fuller; Blue Creek, Andrew Holms ; Monroe. t T. P. Harris; Eceiiuli, KWe - , Hartford, David Eekrote ; Wabash, W. W. Roberts; Jefferson, Jesse McClelli urn. On motion the next appointment of the convention was made for October j Bth, at Pleasant Mills. An invitation was extended to all to attend a town- ’ ship convention to be held in Pleasant Valley church, commencing June 14th, at 2 p. m. and continuing to the 16th. The following resolutions were adopted. Whereas, the liquor traffic is the great crime of crimes in this country, and Whereas, It has assumed its gigantic proportions because of legalizing and licensing of the same by the govern- ; ment, therefore, Resolved that we as ministers of the Gospel, Sunday School Superintendents, teachersand Christians will do all in our power to suppress the traffic and 1 place it under the law of prohibition in - our state and nation. Whereas, The sad effect of Sunday > desecration is determined to the best , interests of the community, therefore Resolved, That we earnestly urge all lovers of morality to assist us in our efforts to suppress it. Resolved, That as in union there is ■ strength, therefore we as Sabbath School t workers hail with gratitude these Sunday School conventions as omens of future success. T. P. .Harris. D. Duer. I). Mum.i. Ed. 8. Mosses. M. L. Hik.loway. The Children's Meeting held in the evening was quite interesting at. d well attended. Rev. Metts, Rev. Dustman ■ and Prof. Hastings gave some very in- ' teresting talks. All passed off pleas- ■ antly. 8. G. Hastings, Prs. Art A Members, Secy. ' Certificate. —“I have used Bur- ’ i dock Blood Bitters with great benefit for indigestion and constipation of the bowels.” C. L. HE ASTON, “Hamilton, Ont.” i Price SI.OO, trial size 10 cents. Mothers! Mothers!! —Don't fail to try Rinehart's Worm Lozenges for your children—the only medicine that destroys the Worm nest. n0.10w2 Reminiscences of Webster. Kingston (N. H.) Correspondence Boston , Journal. A friend recalls Mr. Webster's love ! of horseback riding by showing me an autograph letter from him which I have not seen in print. He iiad seen ■ the good saddles made by a still noted Boston firm, and finding himself in ■ Washington one spring with a good saddle horse, but no saddle, he wrote to the head of the firm to make him one. That gentleman, who was a great admirer of Mr. Webster, had his son ' make with his own hands one of the | best saddles the establishment could ' j turn out, and claimed the privilege of making Mr. Webster a present of it. , The autograph letter in question was I one acknowledging the receipt of the ■ saddle, and telling, in characteristic ! ! language, just how he enjoyed its use. i Mr. Webster was also very rondos driv- ; ing over the road from Boston to 1 Marshfield with his horse and chase. and I have often talked withold settlers f along this route who knew him and his I turn-out and had had many familiar 1 chats with him. Mr. Webster was oftI. en reserved and quiet among publie k men and politicians. But farmers in ' the vicinity of Marshfield and Franke lin have told me that he was the most !■ accessible and companionable of neighs born. I close there reminiscences of Webster by a brief allusion to a cons versation about Daniel Webster that I - have just had with a cotempotary of - his, who as president of an old invar-: . ance company of Boston, had long and 1 | intimate relations with him. Mr. Web--1 eter was for a longseriesof years kept 1 as standing counsel for the company. 5 I Says this venerable gentleman : If he made his appearance on State Street the word was passed around that Mr. 1 A ebster was on ‘Change, and all would i I want to see him, his presence was so s grand and so entirely unlike other men >. that I can very vividly recall the sen n sation Mr. Webster's presence used U make on State street in his rare visit e there, and just how ho appenrod JJ.

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, seemed to move in the crowd as if apart from it, not of it, and as one belonging to a more superior order of existence. He passed along with slow and majestic step, his hat drawn over his broad forehead, and his deep set cavernous eyes looking out from under his dark, shaggy eyebrows in a dreamy sort of way, as if their owner found little that was congenial in the moving panorama about him. His commanding form and impressive manner would cause the most indifferent stranger to turn at once and look at him and ask of the nearest person, “who is he?” lean well understand why it was, as his best biographer has told us, that the coal heavers of London stopped their work and turned to look at Daniel Webster when walked the streets of that great city. I have seen Mr. Webster many times and heard him make many addresses. But as a speaker his efforts at the bar • in some of the famous cases in which i lie was retained, made the most lasting impression on my mind. His style before a jury was clear, transparent, direct, simple. He had what a great writer of antiquity termed the greatest accomplishment of the greatest minds—-the faculty of saying the wisest things in the language of the common people. The venerable ■ friend to whom I have just made reference says he served on several juries where Webster was pitted against the learned and brilliant Judge Hubbard. Xnd Webster would in these contests grasp two or three of the leading points and put them in such a dear 1 and simple light before the juries tb.av he would carry every thing before him. As counsel he was a universal favorite with the jurymen. INDIANA NEWS. New Albany is much dissatisfied with its 1 police force. The C«wt House at Connersville is to be remodeled at a cost of S4,OW. I Gold is said to have been diseovered-in Scott county, near the Jefferson county . line. Suspensions of- Policemen in Evansville average one a week, mostly for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Sider Miller, of the Joffeisoni i’.le c01,,,01 ~,01 Baiftist church, on Sunday immersed; an»ng others; Ann Miffs; a negrew whom he sts-i l was over 100 years old. A disease resembling lung fever has made its appearance among the horses of Jackses* township, Huntington county,, which cause* death in every short time. - ' The Ohio Falls Car Company has in ce'tirse of co’-.*H.ruction at Jeffersonville thi. teen passenger coaches for Western roiulu. It has paid out to $4,503 the present week. The act constituting the State Board of Health does not go into effect nntil the laws are published,and'tbe four physicians who are to compose the board will not therefore, be chosen before the end of July. A number of aligalor gars, a fish very renrly founl in Northern rivers, have been captured recently Im ths Wabash near Logansport. The car hn» a snakeliko bcdy.| a long, slim snout, sad is alto- ■ the,- a villainous-looking reptile - . Judge' A. B. Carlton, of Terre Haute, has fallen heir to a large estate from w deceased bachelor relative who resided in Kentucky. It is estimated that the Judge s‘ share in’the estate will be ovcrs2o,ooo. The property lies chiefly at or near Chillicothe, Ohio. The work of imu-Ag 'he sounding for th® bridge at Sand island is in progress vh the Kentucky side, and will soon be commenced on the Indiana side. The cornerstone, it is announced, will be laid with great pomp and ceremony on or about the 4th of July. The United States mag boat K. W. Lind has arrived at Terre Haute for the purpose of commencing operations on the Wabash river. All obstructions between the city and the mouth of the river will be ' removed at once, and it is hoped to make ■ the Wabash navigable fir large boats luo • year rounL As a skiff ■'onfaining two women and three men was crossing the river at Evansville, it was run down by the steiimer s Thanhauser, with a tow of barges, and the a women and one of the men were drowned. The occupants cf me boat were all negroes 1 wi'h the exception of one of the women, who was white. A singular story eomes from Jackson ' township’ Decitnr county, of a bachelor who bought a neighbor s buxom wife of her impecunious husband for SIOO, with the understanding that the latter was Io retain charge of the two children. He then ; sold Ins farm and ‘went West,” and it iI reported that the woman in the care ha , i also disappeared. Dr. Kain.-y, of Zenas, has a chicke | which has four legs, the two rear ones b< i iug placet one behind the other. Tl. : third leg has a perfect foot, and, when i ' crows, the chicken leans back and res s o ! ibis third foot, being enabled thereby t 2 I get Lis head back in a more aristocratic manner than any other re-ister can do. r. Mr. Wm. C. Simpson, house father at ,] the Reform School for some time past, last, week received a telegrun from Coldeo, I t'ol., givin r him notice of his appoint men* I as Stiperiutenletit of the Colorado 3talReform Scltoji, an I Mrs Sampson, b wife, ss r„atron. Immediately upon, ts ceipt of this lie telegraphed their acee; [a ' Hl] e .•