Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV.

The Cincinnati Commercial does not allow Guiteau’s name to appear in its columns. Encouraged by her success in Ui 'iilet. Anna Dickinson will soon attempt Macbeth and Richard 111. Several thousand tons of impure ice have been condemned by the NewHaven, Conn , board of health. The financial storm is over in Europe. The banks of France and England have reduced their discount rate to 5 per cent. Ten barrels of apples were handed out in the streets of Cleveland, the other day. On each apple was stenciled the advertisement of a show. At a recent dinner in Washington Attorney General Brewster appeared in a coat of white uncut velvet with point lace rutiles, worth a fabulous sum. Jefferson Davis’ daughter. Miss Varina, is a great belle in the South. She is slender and pale, and at balls affects rose pink velvet and satin costumes. The total number of periodicals and newspapers published throughout the world is estimated at 37,274, with an aggregate circulation of 116,000,000,000. I,AST year there were 463 factories built in Philadelphia. A protective tariff appears to be a pretty good thing for home industries and working men.' __________ Sergeant Mason, the soldier who tried to shoot Guitcau, is now being tried by a court martial. Guiteau, having been convicted, cannot be a witness.

IM THE EVANGELIST NEEHFDS Just now the religious press of this country are in a ferment and heated discussion as to the employment ofthe evangelists who labor from church to church As to the desirability of spreading the gospel and persuading sinful men to accept its invitations, there is a common consent, except among the very narrow-minded people who want to keep to themselves all the religion there is. Such persons look on the employment of evangelists as a fanatical ami needless enterprise. Among others the uuestion is as to whether the strolling evangelists or the settled pastor can best do the work. In the early days of the Christian church there were many evangelists who traversed the country, proclaiming the gospel and establishing churches. Tiie Apostles did this kind of work and did it well. There are now many men who are fitted both by nature and by training for perapatetic work, and who can make greater successes in it than they ever would in the settled care of churches. There are places where tho labors of such men are very acceptable. As missionaries in new settlements, establishing Sunday schools and churches, these men make their mark on the community doing a work which except for their efforts would never be done. They prepare new fields for the work of settled pastors. Having done this on the edges of civilization they follow the population and continue the work of preparation. There are others who do evangelizing work, but in the very reverse direction. They pitch their tents in the centres of religious civilization and gather the floating crowds in the large cities. In this variety of work there is opportunity for much good if the evangelists are godly and wise. But if they are mere rambling exhorters and promoters of excitement they may accomplish a good deal of mischief. Sometimes they are mere rattle-brained ranters, possibly with good intentions, but with slender education and with no religious standing in the communities whence they have wandered. Some of them engage in the work in a business manner, at so much a week,with privilege of selling hymn books. Some are nothing but religious vagabonds with saintly air and forms of speech which deceive even the elect. Between these and the better class of peripatetic dispensers of the Gospel such as Moody and Sankey, there is a wide difference. Yet there are many discreet pastors who hold that in communities where churches are already established the visits of even the best evangelists are a superfluity. The Baptist ministers of Chicago recently discussed the matter, and passed resolutions calculated to throw cold water on the peripatetics, and to send them to localities on the outskirts of civilisation where they may really be wanted. It is believed by those who may be regarded as good authority, that pastors of churches can by a corresponding extra effort do their people as much good as the peripatetics can, and do it in a better way. There are all sorts of diversities of gifts among tb e traveling exhorters. There are those who expound the scriptures gracefully and to edification. There are those who shout »>eU-fire and damnation, and do incalculable injury to nervous people and invalids. Seen these are evangelists of every 2S As a general thing the eomCg Os au evangelist or of a party of them upsets the churches and unset- ♦ the work which the ministers in g-ueral opinion of ibe tn who mould the opinion of the American religious world, and it « evident that t e and “reare fast coming to a close.

The Decatur Democrat.

TELEGRAPHIC. moving’ M /- rch 8 -Gladstone, In ferr'l/ m H dQress t 0 the <l ueen re ‘ err ng to the recently attempted assassination, said similar attempts “1 ‘’u tlie lives of rulers in other coungritvanc« bee “i aSßoCittted with 80Iue ' discontent, whereas the attempt upon the queen Was prompted solely by a morbid desire for notoriety ■n an intellect of a narrower kind. Northcote seconded the motion for the address and it was carried unaniuaously. In the house of lords a resolution was moved by Granville and seconded t>y Salisbury, congratulating the queen on her escape. It was passed unanimously. The queen's private secretary, writing on receipt of Secretary Fr'elinghuysen’s telegram expressing the pleasure of the president and people of the United States at the escape of the queen, says: “Dear Mr. Lowell—l received your telegram to-day and gave it to the queen, who was very much touched by the kind feeling shown. I felt that the expression of oue nation to another was rather too important for me to answer, and therefore gave it to Lord Granville with the queen’s request that he would convey her most hearty thanks for this telegram.” The following note from Earl Granville to United States Minister Lowell is printed: “My Dear Mr. Lowell—l have just received a message from the queen, desiring me to convey her majesty’s acknowledgements for the congratulations you have offered on behalf of the president and people of the United States, and to express her hearty thanks for the kind feeling manifested towards her majesty.” Mac Lean, the would-be assassin of the queen, was quietly removeu Salurday to the Reading jail. The solicitor of his family writes that he possesses the certificate of the eminent physicians,.Maudsley and Gaderich, of the existence of mental abberation in the prisoner of long standing, and be has no hesitation in saying there will be no difficulty in establishing the fact of his insanity. Defiance, 0., March 6.—As the canal boat A J. Tyler was passing through the fourth level this afternoon, some small boys who were fishing at the rear of Korsts A. Fiuzer’s planing mill, began throw: ng stones at the men on deck, when one of them warned the boys to stop or he would shoot them. Not heeding this the captain’s son, Alonzo Brewster, went into the cabin ffiid soon returned, revolver in hand, which he at once leveled at the crowd and fired, the ball took effect in the wrist of a boy named Fred Surprise, entering the front of the wrist and lodging just under the skin on the other side. The boat was pursued by Sheriff Faust and Constable Houtz. Brewster seeing his capture evident jumped onto a bridge and took to the woods, but was soon captured by the mounted officers and lodged in jail. He will have his hearing in the morning. Marquette, Mich., March 6.—The Lake Superior powder company’s packing house blew up at 9 oclock this morning, killing four men—Peter Doyle, Chas. Hatch, Herman Elkstron and another, name unknown.

St. Louis, March 6. —A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, says the leaders of the prohibition movement claim to be advised of a secret meeti. g of d stillers, brewers and liquor dealers held in New York last week for the purpose of planning a campaign against the temperance cause in Kansas, and if possible to carry the state election this fall, and reverse the present policy in regard to this question. not only for the benefit that will accrue to them in Kansas, but principally for the effect it would have in other states that are now endeavoring to enact stringent prohibitory liquor laws. It is stated citizens of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville were ail represented in the conference, besides delegates from various smaller places in the different states. It was decided t> concentrate in Kansas a determined effort to break the temperance wave. Chicago, March 6.—Henry Ward Beecher’s lecture drew a crowded house at Central music hall to night. His subject was “the moral uses of luxury and beauty.” He had proceeded in his talk about twenty-five minutes, when reaching the passage about the difficulties of rich men in attaining salvation, he began, “there is an impression,” at this point he stopped, hesitated and appeared to staggrr. Some one In the audience seeing he was about to faint gave the alarm, and be was helped off the stage by some gentlemen on the platform. Prof. Swing, who had introduced Mr. Beecher, made a brief announcement to the audience that Mr. Beecher was suddenly indisposed, and moved that he be excused for the evening, a motion that was unanimously concurred February 26.—Lima dates by yesterday's arrival from the south are to the 16th inst. Novoa, Chilian commissioner in Lima, had received an official telegram from Santiago, announcing the close of the conference between Trescott and Balmacoda, Chilian minister of foreign affairs. An amicable and apparently agreeable understanding was arrived at, and the two gentlemen drew up a protocol to be submitted to the Peruvian government to serve as a basis for a treaty of peace between Peru and Chili. The protocol recognizes Chili’s claim to the cession of Tarapera, but leaves the subject ot indemnity in abeyance, or at least does not stipulate for immediate or earlv payment. Trescott has ninety days allowed him in which to submit this to some competent government in Peru. If on the expiration of that time he has not secured its signature bv the government, in whose stabili tv Chili can confide the protocol becomes null and void. Bo'ivia is said to be awaiting the movement when Chili evoeuates Tacenta and Arica to take possession of that valuable de payment and further dismember inducements in connection with the Landreau claims against the Peruvian government were found among the archives of the palace. They will I troops defeated the Peruvians as at Piecara and killed their chief of staff, Col. Talfur, and a lieutenant colonel and several other officers and eighty-seven soldiers. The Chilians had one officer and fifteen men killed. New Orleans, March 6.—The Picayune’s Greenville, Mississippi, special says: The back water is still rising and spreading. It is now from six inches to a foot higher than on any previous overflow since the country was first fettled. There will be very little land above water from river front places to the hills beyond the Yazoo river. Greenville is secure.

from any possible overflow, though I the low points were at one time threatened. Refugees from overflowed plantations are congregating here and our resources to feed and shelter them and will be severely taxed. So far the relief agents have not communicated with our local authorities. Our board of supervisors have asked that some of the government rations be sent here, as the needs are immediate. The sheriff of Bolivar county has lodged his prisoners in jail here. He reports very few plantations in his county with even a strip of land above water, consequently the loss of stock there will be almost total. The levees are thronged with negroes and stock, whose condition is most deplorable. As its extent bet comes known this calamity begins to be appaling. A tax sufficient to rebuild the levees above would be almost insupportable, but that it is only an item. Laborers have lost their stocks and movables, and are in a panic-stricken and demoralized condition. Could transportation be secured there would be an exodus from here to the hills. The despoudenev of planters and merchants is deepening. Memphis, March6.—The river here became stationary at noon, and since then has declined perhaps half an inch, with thirty-six feet on the gauge, a rise of four inches since Saturdry night caused by local rains. : I’he levees between Vicksburg and I Helena are covered with stock in a j starving condition. Several rafts I with whole families aboard were seen floating down stream and in two instances were rescued by the crew of a steamer and taken on board. The situation has become desperate in some localities, and now it is only a question of provisions or early starvation to both human being and stock. The Avalanche’s Helena special says: The situation to-night is alarming in the extreme. The levee broke above the city last night and the water is kept off the city by a cross levee on Walker street? The rise since last night was four and a naif inches and continues coming up. If the Walker street levee breaks tonight we will be in a sad condition to-morrow morning. A large force of men are at work. Boston, March 6. —The banking bouse of Charles A. Sweet & Co. suspended this morning, causing considerable excitement in financial circles. The house has been advancing money, it is stated, to the Massachusetts Central railroad, taking its bonds and placing them in the market. The road is a new one. Its bonds have shrunk in value and the banks which have been carrying the bonds called on Sweet & Co. for additional funds. To this call the firm have been unable to respond. It is stated C. A. Sweet & Co. borrowed about $20,000,000 from Boston banks on collateral security, and that they held S7O ,000 of Massachusetts Central bonds. A member of the firm states they hope to pay in full. The firm subscribed to only $60,000 Massachusetts Central bonds at the start, but they have since loaned large sums upon them and have of late been buying heavily to sustain the market, a rumor of the collapse of the Carrolton Valley securities hastened the disaster. The liabilities amount to between $3,000,000 and $4,- I 000,000. The firm will probably not I resume, but will liquidate, paying dollar for dollar.

New York, March 6.—The advisory committee appointed to consider the question of differential freight rates held their first public session for hearing the views of commercial bodies on adjustment of the rate in the board of managers at the produce exchange. A. E. Orr, chairman of the produce exchange committee, after welcoming the advisory committee on the part of the exchange, presented arguments to that body for the abrogation of differential rates bet ,veen the west and the seaboaid. St. Louis, March 6.—George Killian was indicted in Belleville, Illinois, to-day, for being concerned in the murder of a family of five persons near Saxtacon, St. Clair county, Illinois, on the 19th of March, 1874.

An Irish Munchausen turned up at a -Boston restaurant in the humble capacity of a waiter. The guest had been served with a small lobster. “Do you call that a lobster, Mike?” “Faix, I believe they do be callin’ thim lobsters here, sur. We call ’em crabs at home.” “Oh,” said the diner, “you have lobsters in Ireland?” “Is it lobsters? Begorra, the creek is full of ’em. Many a time I’ve seen ’em when I lepped over the sthrames.” “How long do lobsters grow in Ireland?” “Well,” said Mike, thougntfully, “to sphake widin bounds, sur, I’d say a matter of five or six feet.” “What! Five or six feet. How do they get around in those cr.eks?” “Bedad, sur, the creeks in Ireland are fifty or sixty feet wide,” said the imperturbable Mike. “But,” asked the guest, “you said you had seen them when you were leaping over the streams, and lobsters here live in the sea.” “Sure I did sur; we’re powerful leppers in Ireland. As for the say, sur, I’ve seen it red with ’em.” “But look here, my fine fellow,” said the guest, thinking he had cornered Mike at last, “lobsters are not red till they are boiled.” “Don’t I know that,” said Mike, “but there are bilen springs in theouldcounthry, and they sefiwim through ’em and come out all ready for ye to crack open and ate ’em." This calls to my mind the story of Sheridan. At a dinner one evening a sportsman said: “I was out fishing one day in a cold spring, and soon caught a large mess of delicious trout. But what was really surprising, not a foot from the cold spring there was one of boiling water, so that when you wanted to cook your fish all you had to do after hooking them from the cold spring was to pop them directly into the boiling.” The company all expressed astonishment and incredulity at this monstrous assertion, with the exception of Sheridan. “I know,” said he, “of phenomena yet more surprising. I was fishing one day when I came to a place where there were three springs. The first was a cold one stocked with fish, the second a Dolling spring, and the third a natural fountain of melted butter and parsley.” Turning to one of the guests who seemed to be smiling slightly, he said: “You don’t believe that ?” “Ob, yes,” replied the guest, “I believe it because you say it; but I should not have believed it if I had seen it myself.” Few people know that in bad seasons honey is apt to be poisonous. This arises from the fact that in such seasons the bees are often obliged to gather it from po'sonous flowers. Great care should be taken to remove all poisonous plants from the neighborhood of the hives. The Rev. Stephen Gladstone, rector •f Hawarden, son of the Premier, has been ordered abroad by his medical advisers. His condition of health causes his friends much anxiety.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIAN A, FRIDAY. MARCH 10, 1882

CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Washington, February 28.—The resolutions of the Chicago historical society, recommending the purchase of the Franklin manuscripts, were submitted by the chair. Mr. Windom, from the committee on foreign relations, reported resole tions of instruction to committee. Mr. McMillan introduced a joint resolution fixing the head of navigation of the Mississippi river in the state of Minnesota, which was introduced in pursuance to a resolution of the legisliture. By Mr. Vest—For a public building at Hannibal, Mo. By Mr. Ingalls—To authorize the president to appoint Alfred Pleasanton brevet major general in the army of the United States, and place him on the retired list. The postoffice appropriation bill was received from the house and referred. The Chinese bill came up as unfinished business, but Mr. Miller temporarily yielded the floor to Mr. Ferry to allow the house post route bill to be considered, and the amendments of the senate committee were read and agreed to. The senate then took up the Chinese immigration bill to carry into effect the treaty by suspending the coming of Chinese laborers for twenty years, after sixty days succeeding the passage of the act. Mr. Miller, of California, who introduced and reported the measure, proceeded directly to a discussion of the general question, leaving the amendments to be considered later. During Mr. Miller’s speech the habitues of the galleries were astonished by the appearance in the diplomatic gallery of four members of the Chinese legation. The strangers had been sight-seeing in the capital and their visit was not prearranged, for upon being apprised of the subject under discussion the immediately retired. Mr. Miller spoke one hour and forty minutes. The bill was informally laid aside to permit action on the house I ill to furnish impressions ot the card invitations to the Garfield memorial services, which was passed. After an executive session the senate adjourned. house. Mr. Gibson Introduced a joint resolution for the appointment of a committee of sixteen members—seven from the senate and nine from the house —to attend the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi river. Referred. Mr. Kelly, chairman of the ways and means committee, reported the bill repealing the discriminating duties on tea and coffee products of possessions of the Netherlands. Passed. The senate bill appropriating SIOO,000 for continuing the improvement of Galveston harbor was passed. A bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river at Keithsburg, 111. Bills introduced and referred: By Mr. Young—To establish a marine hospital at Cincinnati. Mr. Ritchie, from the same committee, reported a resolution declaring that Mr. Ball shall not be admitted as a delegate from Alaska unt’l the commiitee files a report thereon. Referred.

Mr. Robinson, of New York, (by request) introduced a bill to organize the national labor league railway company of America, for the purpose of constructing, operating and main taining a railway from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago, St. Louis and Council Bluffs. Referred. The speaker announced Messrs. Hiscock, Robeson and Cox, of New York, confereres on the immediate deficiency bill. Adopted. senate. Washington, D. C., March 2— Mr. Platt, from the committee on patents, reported favorably the bill to regulate practice In patents. Mr. Vance offered a resolution reciting the cost of collecting the internal revenue tax in the sixth collection district of Not th Carolina (nearly 60 per cent.) being greater than that of any other district in the United States. The senate took up the Chinese bill, and Mr. Grover spoke in its advocacy. house. There was a good deal of confusion this morning owing to the members demanding recognition of the speaker. The contested election case of McDowell vs. George, of Oregon, was dismissed. Mr. Whitthorne, of Tennessee, in a speech, commended the foreign policy of the administration of President Garfield. In the course of the discussion Mr Ortli spoke from the Democratic side of the chamber, and he was frequently interrupted by Mr. Hewitt, of New York, and Messrs. Stockslager and Holman, of Indiana. The colloquy between Messrs. Orth and Holman had reference to the loyalty ot Indiana Democrats during the war, but was cut short by Mr. Kasson, who claimed the floor, saying that since the war had been carried from Ireland into Indiana, it was time the house should return to the consideration of the pending bill. The senate amendment to the poet route bill was concurred in and the house adjourned.

SENATE. Washington, D. C., March 3.— Mr. Butler presented a long memmorial from citizens of South Carolina for national aid for the education of the youth of that state. Referred. Mr. Anthony reported adversely the resolution for printing 10,000 copies of the medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. The discussion of the Chinese bill was resumed and Mr. Farley continued and concluded his remarks. Mr. Maxey followed in advocacy ot the t ill, declining to discuss it from the standpoint of ecstatic sentimentality and sublimated humanitarianism. Mr. Saulsbury favored the bill, but advocated a modification of the period of suspension of immigration to ten years. Mr. Miller, of California, said the bill as introduced by him prohibited immigration until otherwise provided by law ; but to avoid the construction that this would conflict with the treaty, which allowed a suspension but not a prohibition of immigration, the twenty years’ suspension was agreed upon in committee. Mr Bayard, in opposing the amendment, spoke of the gravity of the The bill accordingly went over until Monday. Adjourned. HOUSE. The house went into committee on the private calendar. The c mmlttee rose and the house passed some personal bills. On motion of of Wis '

cousin, the committee on foreign affairs was accorded leave to sit during the sessions of the house in order tc carry on its investigation on the subject of the Chili-Peru correspondence. Adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, March 4.—A bill passed proving for the holding of a term of the district court of the United States at Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Hiscock presented the conference report on the immediate deficiency bill. He explained the bill. As it now stood it increased the appropriations made by the house $236,000. The report was agreed to. Mr. Horr, from the committee on commerce, reported tho bill to prevent the shipping from foreign countries of adulterated food -nd drugs into the United States. Placed on the calendar. The house went into committee of the whole on the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill. Consideration of the bill was concluded and it was reported to the house. The previous question was ordered on the passage ot the bill, but no further action taken. Adjourned.

THE CHILDREN’S WATCHES. Why an Arkansas Storekeeper did not Take two Mutilated Coms. Yesterday an old man entered a Little Rock store, and taking from his pocket an old buckskin pouch, he emptied two coins on the counter, and then, after regarding the silver for a few moments, said: “Mister, I w ant to buy some goods to make a dress.” “That money is mutilated, old gentleman, This twenty-five cent piece has notches filed in it, and this fifty cent piece has been punched. You see they have been abused. I can’t take them.” “Abused,” said the old man. “Abused.” And he picked up the fifty-cent piece and looked at it tenderly. “And you won’t take it on account of the holes. Heaven grant that I did not offer it to you. Years ago when my first child was a little girl, I punched a hold in this coin and strung it around her neck. It was her constant plaything. At night when she went to bed we’d take it off', but early at morning she would call for her watch. When our John, you didn’t know our John, did you? No? He used to come to town a good deal.” “Where is he now?” asked the merchant, not knowing what to say, but desiring to show appreciation of the old man’s story. “He was killed in the war. I say that when John was a little boy I strung this quarter around his neck. One day his watch got out of fix, he said, and he filed these notches in it. He and his sister Mary—that was the girl’s name—used to play in the yard and compare their watches to see if they were right. Sometimes John would’nt like it because Mary’s watch was larger than his, but she would explain that she was bigger than him and ought to have a bigger watch. The children grew up, but as they bad always lived in the woods they were not, ashamed to wear their watches. When a young man came to see Mary once she forgetfully looked at her fifty cents. “What are you doing?” asked the young man; and when she told him she was lookingather watch he took it as a hint and went home. After this she did not wear her watch in company. Well, Mary and the young man married. John went oft in the army and got killed. Mary’s husband died, and two years ago Mary was taken sick. When her mother and I reached her house she was dying. Calling me to her bed she said: “Papa take care of my watch.” The old man looked at the merchant. The eyes of both men were moist. “Do you see that boy out there in the wagon?” he said. “Well, that is Mary’s child. I would’nt part with this money, but my old wife, who always loved me, died this morning, and I have come to buy her a shroud.” When the old man went out he carried a bundle in oue hand and the “watches” in the other. Everybody in Pittsfield knows the tatro tribe, but few know their remark able history. High upon Washington Mountain, in a small old farmhouse, Isaac Tatro has his home. Isaac is 63 yeais old, ai.d, and while neither li model farmer nor a model man, has a model wife. Born in Canada and reared by prudent parents. Isaac wisely remained unmarried until he was 32 years old. Then he took to be his wife a widow eight years his junior, a Mrs. Lydia Doras, oue of a family of sixteen children by the name of Shepherd. Lydia had three Doras children,and Isaac groaned not a little because of the size of his family. But the poor man dream ed not of what was in store for him! Thirty one years have passed since then, and uy to tho present time Mrs. Tatro has presented her husband with twenty-two children, making twenty ive by including the offspring of her first marriage. Os these was one pair of twins; two died in infancy; seven died in infancy; seven died after attaining their growth ; and sixteen are living, the oldest about forty, and the youngest a babe. Mrs. Tatro is said to be 58 years old. Os her children ten were boys and fifteen girls,and all having thriving thriving families. The grandchildren and great-grand-children at present number about fifty. This mother of more than seventy souls is a stalwart French woman, who peddles berries and mats from house to house at Pittsfield, and looks as hearty ana strong as do any of her numerous danghteis.

The foundation stone of a Catholic college in Hong Kong, China, was laid on November 3, by Sir John Pope Hennessy. The new institution Is to be called St. Joseph’s College, and will be conducted by the Christian Brothers. The new revivalist,George O. Barns calls himself the “Mountain Evangelical of Kentucky.” He claims to be able not only to cure sin-sick I souls, but disease-hardened bodies. , For the first lie preaches and piays. The latter he annoints and prays , over. Ex-Congressman Morris, of Pennsylvania, is dead. Forty cigarettes killed a student at the Nashville university. Mr. Blaine has promised to attend a reunion of Kansas pioneers. The Bank of France, has reduced its rate of discount to 4 per cent. The question of reorganizing the Union Generale is being discussed in Paris. Four prisoners escaped from the county jail at Beaver, Pa., by tunnelling out. Sam W. Piercy, the well known ■ actor, is down with the small-pox at ’ Boston.

IN MY ENEMY’S HOUSE. A Story of Life in Russia, Translated From the Russian. Traveling once near Moscow, I chanced to meet N. Petrovitch, an old college chum. After some merry talk over our scrapes and adventures of former days he entreated me to accompany him to the house of his friend, Baron Staloff, at a place about ten miles distant, adding byway of persuasion: “Staloff is a fine, openhearted, generous, hospitale fellow,just such a man as yon would like to meet; he told me to bring with me as many friends as possible. Come, we will be there about a week. I can promise you a very agreeable visit.” Although a stranger to the baron,as I then thought, I yielded to my friend’s request, and we took the as ternoon train, ariving at Staloff late in the day. The Baroness received us gracefully, regretting that the Baron was unavoidably detained until dinner. Punctually at seven o’clock my friend and I entered the magnificent dining room. There was just time for a hasty introduction to the host before we took our seats; we were about twenty at table. “What is the matter with you,” whispered Petrovitch, “you look very much frightened; have you seen a ghost?” “Frightened! I may well look frightened. Your fine, generous, open heaited Baron is my deadly enemy, than whom I would rather encounter a thousand ghosts. I will tell you all about it after dinner. After an uncomfortable dinner, I succeeded in finding an opportunity to speak to Petrovitch in private. “That man and I were once friends,” said I, “but the old storv, we both admired the same girl. That made the first breach between us. He proposed to settle the matter by the sword. I easily disarmed him. She jilted both of us for it and married Pavloski, of the dragoons. Two years later the same thing happened. We fought again. I wounded him severely, and he swore fearful vengance upon me. But she mairied him and is his present wife. * * * But how has he become ‘Baron Staloff?’ When I knew him he was merely Gregorei Altoft.” “His uncle left him this property last year with his name. He wisely took both.”

“If I had only known it! The man hates me and sees me present myself at his dinner table. How soon can I get away?” “Not to night, I am sure, If you fear any treachery come spend the night in my room. But, really, the common rules of hospitality * * *.” “Oh, I don’t believe in hospitality when it comes to a man of his nature. He has heard ‘MacbeTi,’ and may imitate him—not for ambition, but to satisfy his cherished revenge.” “Well, I will speak to the servant and have your bags removed to my room before bed-time.” “Thanks, old fellow.” The evening passed pleasantly by means of music and cards. The Baroness was charming, the Baron did not appear. Late in the evening my friend left on receiving a message from the Baron to join him. Half an hour later a lackey made a sign to me from the door. I turned to him “I am come sir to hand you this key.” lam to spend the night in my friend’s room.” “Yes, sir, but a larger room has been prepared for you two gentlemen whenever you are ready. Sir, lam at your service to show you the way to it.” “I am ready, now; go on, I will follow.” I followed him, as lamp in hand, he went up a long winding staircase and along a narrow corridor until we reached what seemed a sort of tower. Here is a broad space, where were several doors, lie stopped. “I suppose this part of the house is not occupied. “Ob, yes sir. it is all occupied. Your room is one of the best. That is it.” He opened the door of a large, bare apartment. Ou one side near a large, old fashioned bed I saw my traveling bag. “Your friend is here sir, probably,” and he left me. With the key in oue hand and the lamp in the other, I advanced to the fire-place. There was no fire, but one single candle stood on the mantle. This I lighted but the darkness and gloom seemed impenetrable. “Petrorovitch is not here,” thought I, e» I threw myself in an old arm chair to wait for hini- “What can delav him?”

I sat there until midnight. Still he did not come. Rousing myself then, I thought I heard the rattling of a chain. “The fellow is somewhere here, who else could make a noise?” Then I distinctly heard a regular breathing. “He must have fallen asleep somewhere. I will look for him.” So lamp in hand I proceeded to explore the room. I reached further away than I had thought. * * I heard the chair, again. * * * * What was my horror to behold stretched at full length fast asleep, beside his open cage a splendid tiger. The chain attached to his collar hung loosely to the ground; he was free! I rushed to the door. It was locked on the outside! to the windows, they were enormously high from the ground! There was no escape forme. There was the treachery I feared. This must be the trap of the generous, hospitable Baron! To call or make a noise might be useless, and would certainly arouse the animal. I had no pistols with me. I carefully and without any noise piled the chairs in one corner to serve as an ambush, reserving a stout little one as a weapon of defense. Then I sat down, keeping my eyes on him. He lay cat like, opening occasionally his drowsy eyes, sometimes giving his enormous head a shake. By degrees his sleepiness seemed to pass away, and with a frightful yawn he raised himself up and advanced towards me.

He paused for a moment and, raising his head, he snuffed the air as if suspicious of tiie presence of an intruder. With a growl he continued to advance cautiously, as if on his guard against a foe whose strength he was ignorant of. A few steps discovered me to him and, with a growl of rage, he crouched as if for the fatal spring. While I waited in terror the fearful fate, which would be on me in a few seconds, I could not help admiring the excessive beauty of the animal, whose splendid stripes of black on his brown and orange skin and glaring eyeballs, as he lashed his sides with his tail, made him a perfest study. The quivering movement of his body told me that in a moment I would be torn to pieces without a chance of defenseor escape. I closed my eyes for a second, and as I opened them he suddenly raised himself and stood with bis head turned towards the door. Was any one coming to save me? I listened in vain lor a footstep. Suddenly the soft music of a guitar broke upon the stillness. My first impression was that it meant another

trick of the witty Baron, but to my intense relief the tiger with a purr of satisfaction laid himself downagainst the dcor in an attitude of attentive and delighted listening. Hour after hour passed away as the music continued without a’ moment’s cessation ami his highness the tiger remained subdued and quiet in his evident enjoyment of the sounds. This lasted until daylight, when the door was suddenly opened and a man entered armed with a heavy whip and a carbine. This was the tiger's keeper At eight of him it crept lazily into its cage. The man,s surprise at si eirg me was very great. “The secret of this door”, said he, “is known to the Baroness and myself alone.” I lost no time in escaping from my prison and soon reached the other part of the house. I found Petrovitch wandering about in search nt me. I told him what had happened. “1 must leave this house at once,"said I. “Stay to breakfast, Let the Baron see that you are alive and well. I shall so enjoy his surprise.” I did stay to breakfast. The Baron’s yellow face turned green at the sight of me. The Baroness did not appear. After a month I heard of the Baron’s sudden death. I called on the Baron ess. She had known of the horrible design on my life. It wa- by her influence that the servant who confided his suspicions to her was induced to spend the night playing on the guitar, she having known that wild animals are tamed by musical sounds. She is now my wife. The tiger has been placed in a menagerie I hope they will be as good to him as he was to me and will feed him well, as I escaped doing!

STRIKING A LIGHT. How it Was Doue Before the Days of Friction Matches. People who light their pipes, cigars or lamps, or kindle their fires by the instantaneous ignition of friction matches, have, unless they are old people, very little conception of the labor and tribulation attendant upon the same process fifty years ago. Every well regulated family, at that time, was provided with a tin box of tinder, produced by the combustion ot rags, and a flint and steel and matches which had been dipped into brimstone. When fire was wanted the flint and steel and tinder were produced, and the tinder being ignited by sparks precipitated from the steel by means of the flint, a match was touched to the burning mass, and, being lighted, was applied to some prepared kindlings, and a fire thus produced, the whole process occupying fiom five to fifteen minutes, accordng to the skill or luck of the operator. This was attended with so much labor,and productive of the use of so many naughty words on the part of the person operating, that fires were generally kept all night. This was done—there were few stoves and hard coal had not come into very general use then —by covering the huge and bla. zing back-log in the fireplace with ashes, and in the morning there was generally found in its place a bed of live coals, which, by the application of fresh w ood, and with the aid of the then universal bellows, usually produced a blazing fire in from fifteen minutes to half an hour. Sometimes, however, from some cause, the backlog would be wholly consumed, leaving nothing but a bed of ashes. In this case, particularly if there was an absence of dry kindling in the house, some member of the family must take the shovel, and oftentimes, through snow, knee-deep, trudge to the nearest neighbor’s, “after fire.” And sometimes, indeed, the nearest neighbor’s fire would be out, too, in which case the walk would have to be extended till the fire was procured. The live coals were borne home upon the shovel, often carefully guarded with the hand to prevent blowing off, placed between two brands, the bellows set vigorously at work, and the fire thus set a-blazing. In lighting .a candle, a live coal was taken up with a pair of tongs and blown upon with the mouth until a blaze was produced. Pipes were lighted by placing a live coal on top of the tobacco, and cigars by holding the burning coal to the end and puffing with all one’s might. The first improvement on this in New England was the substitution of a bottle of phosphorus, into which, the cork being removed, a brimstone match was thrust, and being thus ignited the bottle was quickly closed in order to retain the strength of the liquid. This was such an emancipation from the thralldom of the tinderbox and flint and steel, and the other Inconviences of the old method, that people rejoiced greatly, and believed the ne plus ultra in this direction had been reached, and every well-regulat-ed family was provided with its bottle of phosphorus, while the flint and steel and tinder-box were laid aside to be used only in case of emergency. This invention was known by the name of “loco-foco matches.”

Directly, however, there was another invention, that left the phosphorus bottle as much in the shade, as the other had the flint and steel. This was the application of a preparation of phosphorus and brimstone to the tips of matches, which only required to be drawn between the folded leaves of a piece of sandpaper to produce a light, so that the smoker had only to carry his matches in one vest pocket and his folded paper in the other to light his pipe at any moment. These latter were known as “Lucifer matches,” as partaking, it is presumed, of the character of the scriptural “son of the morning.” But the spirit of invention was not satisfied to stop here, and the result was, the present world-used friction matches, that serve all people, and the making of which, at the present time, in all probability consumes almost as much’ wood as there was burned by the whole United States, for all the purposes of warming and cooking, a century ago.

A Voice From The Press. I I take this opportunity to bear s testimony to the efficacy of your > “Hop Bitters.” Expecting to "find , them nauseous and bitter and composed of bad whiskey, we were agree- ’ ably surprised at their mild taste, just like a cup of tea. A Mrs. Cress- , well and a Mrs. Connor, friends, have ' likewise tried, aud pronounce them , the best medicine they have ever taken for building up strength and toning upthe system. I was troubled with costiveness, headache and want cf appetite. My ailments are now all gone. I have a yearly contract with a doctor to look after tiie health ol my elf aud family, but I need him not now. ~ S. Gilliland, July 25, 1878. People’s Advocate, Pittsb’g, Pa Virginians cook tiie roots of the common blue thistle and pronounce them a very palatable dish.

NUMBER 49.

INDIANA. The smallpox scare at Noblesvilb .s interefereing considerably with business of all sorts. Garfield lodge. No. 17, United Order of Honor, was instituted at Noblesville on Saturday evening. A four-year old daughter of George Patterson was run over by a freight train at New Point, and had both its legs cut off. White’s Institute, a Quaker educational establishment, five miles from Wabash, Was burned. Loss, $3,000; partially insured. The river at New Albany reached a point five inches higher than the Hood of 1867, and but forty-two inches lower than the great flood of 1332. Mrs. Mary Wilder, mother of General J. T. Wilder, formerly of Greensburg, died at Chattanooga, Friday uight, from injuries received some days ago. Edward Israel, of Franklin, aged twenty-two years, was instantly killed in trying to cross the railroad track by climbing over a freight cai while in motion. A man by the name of Gilbert, of Dudley township, Henry county, while moving, was struck by a chain that brike, had his leg broken in two places, and was badly mangled. J. H. Ballard, colored, for ten years school teacher at Jeffersonville, has been appointed, through Senator Harrison, ad agent on the J. M. and I. road, between Madison and Indianapolis. Michael Sarski, an employee of the Tippecanoe paper company, of Monticello, was drowned there yesterday while crossing the river in a skitt, the boat being carried over the damjby the rapid current. Peter Hanson, returning from Brookville to his home, near Fairfield, and a woman and child accompanying him, were all drowned in Templeton's creek. None of the bodies have been recovered. A little six year old daughter, o Turner Simms, of Shelbyville, was badly scalded by the upsetting of the coffee pot the other evening. Both legs, from the knees down, were so badly burned that the skin and partol the flesh came off. George W. Robertson, David Kirkpatrick and another man went duck shooting in a skiff in Muscotatuch river, in the vicinity of Salem. One of the guns was accidently discharged, the nail passing through Robertson’s head, killing him instantly. Mr. Reeder, ex recorder of Henry county, who, it was reported, absconded, leaving behind a large amount oi forged paper, has returned, and asserts his entire innocence of the charge. But one of his endorsers has filed a legal denial of his signature. Frank Habert, of St. Wendels, Posey county, fifteen years old, is supposed to have drowned himself because of ill health and disappointment in being refused permission to attend a seranadiug party His hat was found near a swo lien stream. During the flood of last week a passenger train of the J. M. and I. road was detained at Edingburgby a washout. The passengers, two coaches full ot them, were, by order of Superintendent McKenna, taken to the hotels and fed and lodged at the company’s expense. A terriftic boiler explosion occured at New Harrisburg, a sawmill boiler exploded with fearful violence. One man was instantly killed and two others seriously injured. Esta Crill, the proprietor, who was in the mill at the time of the explosion, escaped with slight injuries. Hiram Lee, aged twelve years, light compexion, black eyes and hair, Is missing from his home in St. Omer, Shelby county. When he went away he had on a pair of jeans pants, dark coat and cap. Any information of his whereabouts will be thankfully received by his mother, Mrs. Maiinda Lee, Omer, Ind. Dr. Turner, of Nulltown, Fayette county,. was called out at the dead hourof night by a tramp, who told him there was a man very sick a short distance away. The doctor followed his guide through a drenching rain to the river bottom, where lie found a person dressed in men’s clothes with only a board for a bed. A few moments later the census was increased, and mother and child were at once taken to the asylum. Nothing could be learned of the name or antecedents of either the man or woman, The following patents have been granted to citizens of Indiana during the past week:—George E. Chandler, of Jacksonburg, gate latch. George J. Cline, of Goshen, paint for roofing, etc. John F. Coppock, of West Newton, gate. Louis A. Keifer, of Indianapolis, reel lock. Jacob King, of Indianapolis seed cup for grain drills. Hiram McCray, of Kendallville, refrigerator car. Nathan Newsom of Columbus, stacker for hay and straw. - Ewald Over, of Indianapolis spring washer. G. W., J. R. and S. B. Rude, of Liberty, grain drill. Alonzo J. Simmons, of Indianapolis, steam-actuated valve. Charlee A. and F. D. Smith, of Carlisle, earth excavator and conveyer. Kate Walker, of Indianapolis, dress cuttine and fitting mould. James Weathers, of Indianapolis, liftingjack.

Last week as VV. B. Comstock was .tunning lines on the west branch, above Hubbard Lake, he heard a noise under an old stump in a thick windfall. He went to the spot, and the cavity under the stump being daik, he got down on one knee and, putting his head down, looked in. He was surprised by a large bear that growled and snapped at him, almost striking him in the face. He jumped back and would have run but the windfall was so thick that it was impossible. Mrs. bruin follow’ed him, rising on her feet, snarling and snapping. Mr. Comstock’s back was against a big fallen tree so that he could not retreat any further. He drew his revolver, and putting the muzzle within two or three feet of the bear’s head, fired five shots as fast as he could, each shot hitting her. At the fifth shot she turned an t ran into the windfall, She had three young cubs in her den, which were taken to camp. Some of the men followed her up, tracing her by her track and her blood. They got sigh’ ’ two or three times, the got away from thffi an -L ‘hat h e thicket. Mr. <ho choice in ‘hat had muck Pioneer. ’ ‘^ e that8 t ‘ u "