Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1882 — Page 4

HER TOUR. BT WILL CABLETON Yes, we’ve been traveling, my dear, Three months or such a matter, And t4s a blessing to get clear Os all the clash and matter. Ah! when I louk the guide>book through, And see each queer place in there, *Hs hard to make it seem quite true That I myself have been there. Our voyage? Oh, of course ’twas gay— Delightful! splendid! glorious! Ue spurned the shore—we sped away— We rode the waves victorious. The first mate’s mustache was so grand! The ocean sweet, though stormy (1 was so sick I could not stands But husband saw it for me). At Queenstown we saw land once more— Ground never looked so pretty! We took a steam-oar near the shore For som" light-sounding city. A very ordinal v stone We had to kiss at Blarney; The beggars wouldn't l<» 11s alone That half-day at Xlllarney. Th • G ant ‘ Causeway? ’Tim a-rang’d W th nn rega d to sc en e; Jt muß> somehow of late h .ve change 1-— A lea t«e saw no g ants Borne Uttl ■ funny scrubs nt f Iks S Id pictu es and w re m try; Th men w re full of yarns an i jokes, The women bares ot, ve y Old Scotland? Yea, all In our power We did there to be thorough: We s oppe In Glasgow one who! ■ hotir. Then straight to "Edlnbo»‘ougA.* At Abbotsford we made a stay * f half an hoar precisely (The ruins all along the way Were ruined very nicely). We did two mountains in the rain. And loft the othe s undone, Then to k the "r lying Scotchman" train, And came by night to London. Long tunneN so < eWhefe on the line Made s nnd and darkness de per. No: English scenerv is not fine, Viewed from a Pullman sleeper. Oh. Faris! Paris! Paris! ’tis No wonder, dear. that, you go 80 far into the ecstasies About ’hat Victor Hugo! He paints the city, h gh and low. With faithful pen and ready Q think, my dear. I ought to know— We drove there two hours steady). Through Switzerland by train. Yes, I Enjoyed it, in a measure; Bnt still the mountains are too high To see with any pleasure. Their tops— they made my neck quite stiff Just stretching un to view them; And folks arc very foolish if They clamber clear up to them! Rome, Venice, Naples, and the Rhine? We did them—do not doubt it; This guide-book here is very fine— Twill tell you ail about it. We've saved up Asia till next year, If business gets unravelled. What' going? Como again; and, dear, I will not seem so traveled. —Harper's Magazine

A GHASTLY MVSTERY. Several year, ago it fell to my lot to be on the march with a subaltern of my regiment in Ireland. I was taking a det iclunent into a remote part of the country, where I believe some disturbances were apprehended, anil we had been started off at pretty short notice. I have even now a lively recollection of a long railway journey, the dingy stations we passed, the tedious stoppages, occasional plashes of rain against the windows, and onr final exit from the train in a dark, draughty shed with a sloppy platform. From hi re we had a good long march to our halting-place, i through a sad-colored waste, past hillsides of black bog, hardly a fence worth calling one to be seen, now and then a tumble-down hovel by the roadside, and off and on the rain pelting down in the Bort of searching cold showers one gets in bleak parts of Ireland in the autumn time. The town where we were to stay the night was no exception to the general dinginess. After setting the men down into their billets, we “prospected" the princi al inn in the place, got a couple of very middling bedrooms, and made up onr minds to make the b -st of the situation. We bad divested ourselves of our wet uniforms, entered our little, sitting-room with its welcome peat piled fire, examined some hideous Sacred prints hung round the walls—among them I remember one of St. VeTonica displaying a large handkereh es with the Savior’s face upon it—and were busy planning what to associ ite with whisky and the jacketed itato, when a note was brought in at. I handed to me, with a mes«age that some one was waiting for nn answer. It was addressed to “The officer commanding detachment, Regimentbut one saw at a glance it was not an official communication—the envelope being a dainty white one, and the handwriting almost unmistakably that of a lady. It turned out to be a very courteous invitation from a Mr. and Mrs. M., of lunishderry Hall (we will call it), who, having he rd that some troops were passing through Moynetown to-day, hoped for the pleasure of the officers’ company at dinner that evening. This was really a timely as well as a hospitable offer, so A., my subaltern, and I at once agreed to accept it. Fortunately, when evening came round, and the rickety-looking car that was to jolt us to our entertainers clattered up to the inn door, the weather had cleared a little. Well do I remember the drive; the cold, keen air; a pale half-moon lighting up the somlier landscape; dark islands of bog alternating with pools of shimmering water; hill slopes near, but mysterious. As far as I can remember, we entered the grounds of Innishderry Hall about a mile and a half from the town. Already the country had begun to wear a prettier aspect; patches of wood appeared; and, after passing the lodgegate, we began to descend a valleybroken, rocky ground, with clumps’ of spruce and larch on either side—till, suddenly emerging from this, the drive swept round a corner, and we were in view of the sea. A few minu’es more, and we were looking down over a ch inning little bay shut in by cliffs, with a lioat h-gh and dry upon the beach: and, from this point till we sighted the lights of the home, copse, park and heather intermingled one with the other to our left, while on the right great white lines of surf quivered and broke in the moonlight. It was a beautiful scene as it presented itself to us in the obscurity of the night-time. Possibly by day some of its enchantment might have l>eeu missing, but we did not see it in daylight. Such as it was, it probably impressed me and stamped itself in my memory more on account of the subsequent incidents which ensued than anything else. The house, as we drew up to it, seemed a large and handsome one. It had a great many windows, a steeppitebed roof and was partly ivy-clad. ’I wo long ranges of out-buildings were attached to it, one at either end; and from that nearest us as we approached ran out an old wall matted with ivvstems and forming an inclosure screened by thorn-trees, behind which one could just make out the ruined gable end of a small building. Onr driver, who had been most uncommunicative all the way ont as to our host and hostess, condescended to tell us this was a very ancient chapel, which some ancestor of the family had pulled down and dismantled, “bad luck to h:m!” The fine entrance-hall—l can recall it now—warmed by an ample stove and well lighted up, with a few dressed skins ly ng about, and a huge ebon cabinet over against the door, made a cheery contrast to the outside car and surroundings we had just left. Round the walls were grouped a splendid pair of stag’s horns, a fox’s head and brush, a stuffed seal and other trophies of a sporting life; and a black buffalo’s ma sive frontlet, surmounting a sheaf of assegais, suggested at once, wha‘ we afterward learned to be the case, that our host had been in South “I wonder what sort of people they are,

Major?” were A.’s words to me, sotto I voce, as he gave his sleeves a final jerk ; and glanced down critically at his 1 boo s, while we followed the butler to I the drawing-room. A moment more 1 and we were face to face with our new acquaintances. ; I do not recollect anything very noteworthy about our host. He was a tall and rather handsome man, but of somewhat faded aspect —quiet and gen- -! ial in lais manner. “I am an old soldier myself,” was his greeting to us, “and I never like any one in the service to pass our place on duty without our finding him out.” But our hostess! As I shook hands with her she at once engrossed my attention. I am at a loss now, as I was then, to define the nature | or cause of the peculiar interest she J seemed at once to excite in me. Ceri tainly she was ft remarkably handsome woman, but my observation of her at the moment of introduction was quickly diverted by the strange demeanor of A. I had turned round, and was in the act of presenting him, when he suddenly started, stopped, and, without attempting a salutation or advance of any kind, stared at her. For the instant the situation was embarrassing. Was the man going to faint, or was he oil' his head, or what ? There he stood, stock-still, facing Mrs. M,. till in a severe tone I said, “A., this is out hostess. Mrs. M., allow me to introduce Mr. A..” This appeared to rouse him a little, for he made a sort of backward movement which might do duty for a bow, though a very poor apology for it, and said, “I—I—I beg your pardon,” retiring immed lat ly into the background. If this was bashfulness, it was a curious form of it, I thought, and certainly new in my knowledge of A. This little incident over, I had leisure to look round the room. There appeared Io be about a dozen people in all. Mr. M. introduced me to a relation of his, a Baronet whose name I forgot; to a parson, who assured me in Hibernian accents that troops had been down there “repeahtdly;" and to a niece, whom I was to take in to dinner. I caught a momentary glimpse of A., and saw to my surprise that he was furtively but intently v atching the lady of the house from an obscure corner. I was quietly slipping np to him to ask what it all meant, when dinner was announced.

At the dinner-table I found myself on the left of our hostess, the Baronet opposite me. A. was placed some distance down on the other side, so that I could keep an eye on him, which I soon began to think I must do. I had now an opportunity of noting more particularly Mrs. M.S personal appearance. Her age I should judge to have lieen somewhere about 28 or 30— considerably under her husband’s. Her figure was faultless; neck and arms of that nameless tint one has so often seen imperfectly described in novels as “creamy white;” a corona of hair of that deep auburn-red which so sets off a fair woman; and a face of singular beauty, of which you forgot everything but the eyes the moment yon looked into them. Such eyes they were! Their particular size, shape, this or that color, would never occur to one; it was their strange, almost weird, effect when turned on you, that one felt. It was as though they divined what you were thinking of. and could answei your ♦noughts. Yet it was not a satisfactoi y or a restful face. I can recall certain half-disagreeable sensations I experienced as her eyes occasionally rested on mine while we talked, and once or twice a flash as of something almost malevolent seemed to pass out of them. One incident I recollect. IVe were discussing pictures, and Mrs. M.., pointing to some fine family portraits hung round the dining room, said: “My husband and I are distant cousins, Maj. P., so that you see we are mutually represented here; and yonder is a lady of bygone days, supposed to have been very wicked, and to be like ms.” 1 looked up, and sure enough there gazed dow non me front the canvas a woman's face strikingly like the speaker’s—so like that, except for the quaint costume, the portrait might have been taken for her own. It was a finer specimen than usual of the formal yet fascinating style in which our great-great-grandmothers have been depictel for us—a stately attitude, regular bnt immobile features, and exuberant charms sumptuously if somewhat scantily draped.

The lady’s figure, as it chanced, was turned toward our end of the table; she held afin in her hand; the lips had a disdainful, almost derisive, smile, and the eyes, which in such pictures usual G aj>; ear to be contemplating the spectator and to follow him about, seemed di- ! rented full on our hostess. “There is certainly a likeness,” I said, “but the lady on the wall is entitled, I feel sure, to an entire monopoly of the wickedness.” Mrs. M. laughed and w inged a glance at me, and the smile and the eyes were those of the portrait. Another circumstance I remember discovering in looking round the table, ■which, liad I been superstitious, might I not have added to my comfort. We were sitting thirteen. Mrs. M., I rather think, must have noticed me counting the number, for she made some remark as if in reply to my thought: “So sorry we were disappointed of one of our dinner party at the very last moment.” Meanwhile A. was again attracting my attention by his extraordinary behavior. H:s partner, a pretty-looking lively girl, was evidently doing her best to make herself agreeable, and he was answering her in an intermittent sash ion: but I could see he was eating very little, and crumbling his bn ad in ft ■ nervous, preoccupied manner, while every now and then his eyes wandered to Mrs. M., with a curious, fixed stare that was positively ill-mannered and | altogether unaccountable. Instinctively • I turned to the same quarter to see what could be the object of this persistent scrutiny, but in vain. There, indeed, wa a beautiful woman, dressed to perfec ion, nnd with those wonderful eyes; but what right had he to gape at. her like that? I liegan to wonder if she or any other of the guests would observe A.’s rudeness. I tried to catch his eye, but without success. In a little while I lapsed into comparative silence, and set mjself to watch A.’s movements more narrowly, as well ns I could, across the table. After a time it seemed to me that the direction of A.’s gaze must lie at Mrs. M.’s head, or a little above it; but there was nothing I could see to account for this. To be sure, she wore, fastened into the thick ' top coil of her hair, a jeweled orna- | ment of some kind that seemed to sparkle at times with intense brilliancy; ■ but, still, why this repeated and offensive contemplation at her own table of a married woman, on whom, so far as I knew, neither A. nor I had ever set eyes before? Could these two have been known to each other in some, by- i gone love affair, or was the man gone out of his wits, or Lad he taken too i much drink ? How this memorabledinnerstrugg’el on to a conc'usiou, I hardly rememlier. The more fidgety I got, tire more irresistibly was I draw n to w ateh A. His face wore a pale, scared aspect quite foreign to him. for he was ordinaril v a cheery, common-sense fellow, not easily disturb, d. At length it seemed that our hostess became aware of the intent olkcrvation she was being subjected to; a_d, before the lidies rose f;om the dinner-table, her handsome features

had grown very white, there was a visible trembling movement in her hands, and her eyes took an uneasy expre sion not previously there. As soon as we men were left alone, and almost before we could reseat our selves, A. turned to our host, ami in an odd, muffled voice announced that he felt unwell, and begged permission to take his departure. Mr. M. glanced at me with a puzzled air. “He was so very sorry. Could he do anything? And, of course, the carriage was entirely at Mr. A.’s service.” By this time it was evident that something was really amiss with A.; so I made some cort of excuse that I feared he had had a hard day’s mor-h and got soaked, sent our sincere apologies to Mrs. M., and, rejecting the kind offer of the carriage, we found ourselves out again in the moonlight. The moon was well up, and, as we passed the old ruinous chapel, you could see, through a little pointed window in the gable, the Wall beyond, half lit up, and dappled over with long shadows from the thorn-tree alongs de. We walked for a little while in silence—l deliberating what to say, whether to bo stern or sympathetic, but decidedly inclining to the former. Indeed, whether he were well or ill, the extraordinary gestures and demcaner of A. that evening were unbecoming in the extreme, and. taking place as they did in ths presence of his senior officer, could not be passed over. “Mr. A.” at length I began in an official tone, “I must ask what is the meaning ”He had been hurrying on with his face averted from me; but now, as I spoke, he suddenly stopped, turned round, and, grasping my arm, broke in I with—“So help me God. Major, the devil stood l»eliiad her!" ' The devil stood behind her!” I said, in utter amazement; “what on earth do vou mean?” ; “I mean whit I say; the devil was standing behind her all the time.” His i voice fell almost to a whisper and he looked back toward the house, which I was still in sight. I could have no i doubt who he meant by her; but I was Bo taken aback that what to go on say- : ing to the man I knew not. It was obvious he was under some strange men- j tai delusion. We walked on . Presently he spoke again, as if to himself. “Be- j hind her by the mantelpiece—behind I her chair—that fearful thing’s sac those fiendish eyes, my God!” As I said before. I am not superstitions, but it was neither quite comfortable nor canny hearing those queer exclamations under the peculiar circumstances; in a moonlight walk; dark, umbrageous thickets on one side of us; on the other, black cavernous cliffs, and the melancholy, murmuring sea.

As far as my memory serves, we were I still a little from way the lodge-gate,when i A. stopped again an instant, and said. ' “Listen! What’s that?" I could hear ' nothing; bnt in a few seconds came the distant clatter of a galloping horse along the drive. “Something has happened to her,” whispered A., laying a chill hand on mine. “ Anything the matter ?” I shouted to the groom who passed ns on the horse. The man called out something, which we were unable to catch, and galloped on. We could see him pull up at the gate, and a woman came out to open it; but. by the time we reached her, horse and rider were out of sight. She was standing staring down the road after them, and I asked her if anything was wrong. “Jesus save us, sur!" she exclaimed, crossing herself, "the man says meelady is dead—she has taken her life!” “Dead! taken her life!” was my ejaculation. “Why, we've only jnst left the honse.” Here was indeed a climax to my bewilderment! But what an announcement! I was utterly unable to realize it—it seemed too monstrous. My first impulse was to run back at once to the Hall and see if we could be of any use; but on second thought it seemed better not. Then, as we hurried out of the park through the tall massive gateway, I heard my companion mutter, evidently still possessed with his hallucination, “Did she see it, too?” About half-way to Moynetown we met our car coming out to fetch us, and mounted it. “I seen M.'s man ridin’ by jist now like smoke,” was the remark of our whilom taciturn jarvie; “there’s somethin’ up, I belave. They tells quare tales of that house, an’ the ould chapel, an’ the lights seen about it o’ nights, an’ the sthrange noises people hears thereabout. Och, thin, shure an’ there’s bad luck in that house, sur!” I was too stupefied to stop the fellow’s gabble till his words were out, and they have often reenrred to my mind since. When we got back to our inn, the ill news was already in the air. I sent for the landlord, inquired for the principal medical man in the town, and dispatched an urgent message to him intimating what we had heard and beg- | ging him to go out to the Hall immediately. Word was brought back that the doctor had already been sent for, and gone. This done, I felt I hardly dared ask further questions of any one jnst then. Y’et the whole thing seemed like a horrid dream, hardly credible. We two sat np late into the night in the little inn-parlor, I absorbed in the occurrence of this eventful evening, and ' in painful anticipation of hearing more; A. speaking not a word, but glowering into the fire.

Next morning we were take an early start. Before the fall-in bngle sounded the little bustling landlady had communicated to us all sorts of rumors concerning the terrible event that had taken place the night before. Clearly the tragic story was all over the town by this time; but the only coherent upshot of the matter we could extract was. that the poor lady down at the Hall had goue up to her bedroom immediate! v after dinner, and then and there took poison—that they found her stretched on the floor quite dead, the iice turned to one side, as if averted from something, and with an awiuliy-fearsome look upon it. It may be imagined I was anything but sorry when I and my men mounted the steep hill overlooking Moynetown, on the road to our next billets, with our backs turned upon the scene of this ghastly and mysterious business. I never heard of the M. family again nor did I ever revisit Moynetown. I lielieve there was an inquest, and a verdict of temporary insanity. A few months afterward I chanced to see something in a local newspaper about Innishderry Hail being to let; and that “dreadful affair down in County ” was talked of for a w hile in Dublin in a certain circle of society. As for A, he too passed out of my observation soon after, as he applied for leave, and got an exchange. He never told me more than what I have told the reader, and never again spoke to me on the subject. I suppose some would maintain that A. was gifted with what in Scotland is called "second sight.” Be that as it may. the mystery of how or why “the devil stood behind” that singularly beautiful and fascinating woman—an acquaintance of an evening only —will, I suspect, never lie cleared up. — Magrizine. Lheke are nine ambu'ances constituting New York's ambulance svstem. Esch one is accompanied bv a driver and surgeon, and bylaw is’given the right of way throughout the city \ clanging gong tells you that one of these judiciously-arranged vehicles is hurrying to the scene of an accident They are summoned from the stitionhouses. In the event of anv serious calamity the call for ambnlaac.'s i s ,(.-<■ out without waiting to learn if anv ne‘rsons are injured. ’ 1

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS. The postofflee at Bretzville, Dubois county, has been discontinued. The mail-carrier service between Citizen and New Carlisle has been abolished. Mrs. Dr. MothershEad, wife of one of the most prominent physicians of Columbus, dropped dead recently. Bishop Talbot, of the Episcopal diocese of Indiana, has decided, in view of his poor health, to resign his office. Lovitt, Gettings & Co., doing business at Disco, Terra Haute, Lomax, and Carman, 111., have made an assignment. Mrs. Blakely, of Huntertown. Allen county, while gathering moss with her daughter, dropped dead of heart disease. Hon. J. H. Defrees, of Goshen, was prostrated with a severe attack of illness after attending the funeral of his brother, Hon. John D. Defrees. The Y. M. C. A. Convention was held at Wabash. Addresses were made by numerous prominent workers, and the Session was a pronounced success. The Earlham College faculty would not allow the college boys belonging to the Richmond nine to go to Columbus to play a neighboring club a return game. An Indianapolis butcher turned over to the Board of Health the carcass of a dressed hog, the other day. which w as spotted and fearfully diseased—the result of cholera. Lucy Widner sues the Terre Hauta and Indianapolis Railroad Company for $3,000 damages, owing to injuries received by falling through the defective crossing at Indianapolis. The Pan-Handle road is making arrangements for putting in their new freight depot on Virginia avenue, Indianapolis. and are removing the old buildings from the grounds. A YOUNG lady of Seymour, aged 17 years, became so convulsed with lauhter while in conversation in a family circle the other night that her jaw became locked, she not being able to close or move it. Some time since the trustee of Jefferson township, Sullivan county, ordered lightning rods placed on the school buildings, agreeing to pay $75 for the service. He was presented with a bill for $1,300. A monument, to lie placed at the grave of the late Gov. Williams, was destroyed by the railroad collision at Auburn Junction, recently. It was of Scotch granite and measured twentyfour feet in height. A 13-year-old girl, an adopted daughter of Nicholas Murphy, of Nabb's Station, Clark county, has been detected in the cruel pastime of cutting the throats of Murphy's horses. She is thought to be insane. Isaac Newsbai m, the oldest man in Indiana, died at his residence south of Wabash. Mr. Newsbaum was 107 years I of age, and has been a resident of the county for over forty years. His death was occasioned by old age. A few days since a hack driver, named Oscar Hart, run over a child of Ira Cohterman in Goshen. The child ■ has since died. A Coroner’s inquest being held, Hart was declared negligent j and careless, and has been arrested and now lies in jail awaiting trial. George Barret, a wealthy farmer of Sullivan county, committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear. in the presence of his wife. His wife, who : saw him do the deed, was horrorI stricken, and fainted at the sight. No i cause is assigned for the rash act. Solomon Coletrain, a wealthy farmer who lived near Darlington. Montgomery county, died recently. It was believed he had SIO,OOO in gold hid aw ay in a bureau drawer at the time of his denth, but, after his burial, search failed to find a larger sum than $3,000. Tom Buford, the murderer of Judge Elliott, in Frankfort, Kentucky, has es- ( caped from the insane asylum to which }he was committed, at Jeffersonville, ' Indiana, and it is claimed that, being merely a fugitive from a lunatic asylum, he is not amenable to the extradition laws.

The estate of the late James Johnson, of Indianapolis, who died leaving no will, has been settled without litigation, and under the apportionment agreed upon by the heirs. The whole estate was appraised at $482,000, including $14,000 cash in the bank, yet to be divided. The Saloon occupied by Joe Reinhar», at Palestine, was blown up. recently, for the fourth time by dynamite. The explosion w as terrific and shattered several building adjoining. No one wai hurt. No clew to the perpetrators and no excitement, as the people have got used to it. A man named Varner, of Illinois, who has been visiting his brother, John Varner, near Wheatland, Knox county, Indiana, while out hunting in the swamps near that village, mistook the person of John Brooks for a wild turkey and filled it full of heavy shot, inflicting a serious, perhaps a fatal wound. In digging out a channel for the new water supply back of Richardson’s mill on the river l»nk. at Indianapolis, the other day, the workmen came across an old wharf, which had been buried for forty-five years. It was excellently preserved, the timbers being very little decayed. Old residents remember the wharf, which was m common use half a century ago. Jacob Allen, living near Indianapolis, while driving homeward the other day, gave permission to two strangers to ride with him. Shortly after petting into the wagon they turned upon Mr. Allen, beat him until he was insensible, after which they stole his pocket-book, containing $32 in cash and valuable papers, and disappeared in the woods. Mr. Allen was seriously injured. The Lafayette Public Library, the gift of James J. Perrin, Treasurer of the School Board, has been thrown open to the public. The board purchased what is known as the “Whitehouse” property, the most suitable and centrally located in the city, and Mr. Perrin donated the interest earned by the school funds while in bank, aggregating about $10,500. The library starts out with over 10,000 volumes or carefullyselected books. James M. Donaldson, of Indianapolis, who holds a certificate of membership in the Globe Association of Indiana, has brought suit against the association and Jame W. Mann for SSOO which he claims he is entitled to as the value of the certificate. He alleges that the association is in such a financial condition that a Receiver ought to lie appointed, and he therefore asks for" o . n . e - A / urther statement is mad • that all the funds deposited from May to October have been withdrawn from bank by the officers.

The corner-stone of the new Court House at Lafayette, was laid with great ceremony, and the services were witnessed by a large number of people from the surrounding conntrv. Tippecanoe countv's new Court douse is to cost about $260,000 when completed P P a ‘ the were undei the charge of the Masonic order and were conducted by the Grand Masr. Bruce Carr, of Indianapolis, and G.and Secretary W. H. Smythe The stone ,s from the Bedford quarries and weighs about five tons. It bears the

date of the commencement of the building, and the motto: “May Truth and Justice Ever Prevail.” Judge Gbesham, of the United States Court, has made two important rulings. Henry Braning, a brakeman on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, was injured while the road was being operated by King, Receiver, by being caught between ears, the draw-bars of which were in a damaged and unsafe condition. Ho sued to recover damages, aud the Court allowed him $4,000. The cars had been passed in good condition by the Car Inspector, and the Court said: “The master is bound to protect the servant, not against all risks, but against risks which could be avoided by the exercise of respectable care on the part of the master. Conduct which amounts to personal negligence as against an individual should and does amount to the same thing against a corfioration acting by its proper officers or agents. Railroad companies are bound to use due care in seeing that their cars and other rolling stock are maintained in a reasonably safe condition.” The St. Louis Air-Line has met with its first serious accident since it has been running through trains. The St. Louis express, which left New Albany at 8:20 p. m.. was thrown from the track at Boston Station, Crawford county, fortv-eight miles west of New Albany. The fireman, John McSwain, of Evansville, Ky., was killed and the passengers shaken up. The accident occurred about 11 o’clock, and was caused by a misplaced switch. The switch-lock had been tampered with and was found broken, evidently by outside parties. The train was running slowly at the time and consequently only the engine w as ditched and turned over. McSwain was caught under the machine and instantly killed. Several pasengers were bruised a little, but only one was injured severely. The remains of the fireman were taken to his home in Evansville. The engineer escaped injury. The conductor in charge of the train was John Bently. The damage done was chiefly to the locomotive. No delay to traffic resulted. Paying a Bonus for the Location of Shops. The Common Council of Lafayette, in a burst of generosity, on the 4th of October pledged the faith of the city to the payment of $29,500 to the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway Company upon the condition that the corporation would locate, maintain, and operate its main shops in that city. This the road agreed to do. Having mane the pledge, the Councilmen began looking around for the money with which to pay this amount, when needed, and made the discovery that there weren’t funds to meet it. The banks have consented to float the city's orders for this amount, and at the last session of the Council that hotly made an additional levy on the duplicate of one-fourth of 1 per cent. The original levy was threefourth of a cent, and the addition increases the amount to the utmost limit permissible under the charter—l per cent.

Suicide at Shelbyville. One of the most lametable suicides that ever occurred in Shelbyville, took place recently, the victim being Mrs. Rhoda Reed, daughter of County Treasurer Amsden, and wife of George Reed, one of the leading citizens of that place. George Reed and family reside on South Harrison street, and about the hour above stated, Mrs. Reed aud her sister. Miss Pet Amsden, were at home conversing, when Mrs. Rhoda Reed made some excuse to her sister, and went into a aide bed-room and shut the door. In a moment two shots were heard, and Miss Amsden, rushing into the bed-room, found Mrs. Reed lying on the floor, shot through the head, the brain oozing out of the wound. Mrs. George Morrison took the revolver from the hand of Mrs. Reed. Dr. V F. Green was called, aud pronounced the wound fatal. Mrs. Reed was thirty years old last May, has been married about nine years, and leaves a husband and four children, one of which is a mere babe onlv two months old.

Gone to South America. A few months ago Messrs. Milmine, Bodman & Co., of Toledo, Chicago and other places, opened a grain commission branch house at Vincennes, which they transferred to Higbee & Co., of Fremont, Ohio, about October Ist. A gentleman and his son named McMillan, recently of Danville, 111. took charge of the branch, and manage it now. McMillan’s son is named Ralph, and is about eighteen years of age. A few days ago his fatner gave him a check for $440, telling him to draw the cash and express it to Oaktown, a small town fifteen miles north of Vincennes. The young man returned after awhile with the Adams Express receipt-book containing a receipt purporting to be signed by Ed. Breivogle, agent, and which the senior McMillan filed away. The boy walked out of the office and has not been seen since. The following morning Mr. McMillan made inquiries and ascertained that the express receipt was forged, and that the money was not transmitted. Efforts were then made to hush the matter up, but the secret had been put into the keeping of a leakv individual, and here it is: The McMillan boy had left on the noon train for Cairo, taking with him Will Lewis, a young fellow who, though he has borne an excellent character, is a devotee to yellow-backed literature. He told his young friends that they were going to South America, McMillan t< foot the bill of expenses.

Healthfulness of Honey. Pliny. the Roman historian, speaks of Rumilius Pollio, who possessed marvelous health ami strength, at over 100 years of age. Upon being presented to the Emperor Augustus, who inquired the secret of his liveliness of spirits and strength of body at so great an age he answered: 'lnterns melle; e-rlenm o/eo”—lnternally through honev; externally through oil. Pure honey should be nsed unsparingly by every family. It is no longer a luxury to be enjoyed onlv by a few but it is sufficiently cheap to li within n- I** 6 '!. ° f all Jt has Properties which make it valuable food. It differs from alcoholic stimulants, which dull the intellect—on the contrarv it produces a bright intellect as well as a healthy bodv. Children are verv fond of honey, and one pound of it g<is fur then than a pound of butter it j r , s mter 7 ; ar,t l " f keel>i "K gOW ’ "bile ■ XVbealtir° meS

Xhe bees gather the honev from the Pices of healthy plants, shruU and thor S f aUd H he ne, tar Keeled is therefore, the pure sweet, as it comes from the hand of the Creator Wo therefore, strongly advise C verv family iu the land to place honev on the table for daily use; make cakes, eook.es ginger-bread. pop-corn bails, etc., v.ith n'X if 1 ' ® n ,11P c,lil <lr™, impart Ing to them health of bodv and strength 2dldter 1 ’t ,n i StPafl ° f US ’ ag tbe Unhp -‘P'‘V. monly deal out death to the “little kS - d l e£o 2 at,ng “ ln;e ' Pr7 house: hold and hanging the black call o! ' ;or!d

FIRMING AND FARM WAGES IN ENG LAND. The use of elaborate machinery fol farm purposes is not so general as it the United States, though it is rapidly increasing. Some six or seven year! ago, when American farm products be gan to flood the English markets, am' English farmers began to cry out foi protection from our cheap products, on< of the great reasons assigned as giving 1 our farmers an advantage in cheapness of product was their far more extensivt use of machinery. The lesson then en forced seems to have been studied t< ' some purpose, and English farmers art now using more machinery than a few vears ago. But the older ami more clumsy methods of farming are stii very common and popular in this conn try.’ Many fields are still reaped will the old-fashicned bagging hook, whirl is really only a kind of improved sickle but the reaping machine is coming rapidly into use. Thousands of self binders were used in America in 1881 and 1881: only a few found their way into English harvest fields—not one tenth the number Used by us to an equa area of wheat. But I am far from wishing to laugh at English methods of farming, thougl i they certainly are often very clumsy ami slow, for the result is always good even though the tools are awkward am. the method old-fashioned. A good workman with the bagging hook wil put up a surprising amount of grain it a day, and he puts it up well, and leaves none on the ground. No rank crop oi weeds springs up as soon as the field is cleared of grain, as is almost universally the case in our country. The farmei nearly always supplies his harvest hands with plenty of beer, but they sei dom get drunk. The custom of furnish ing strong drink of some kind to liar vesters. which is almost unknown on American farms, is nearly universal here. English haystacks are almost ai art. They are skillfully made, ami nearly always topped with a neat thatchwork of straw, which sheds the : rain far better than the unprotected hay of the stack. In many of out States w heat straw is burned as refuse but several English farmers have told me that they realize more from the sale of the straw than from the wheat This seems incredible, but I merely repeat what farmers have told me. The straw is largely sent to London as feed and bedding for horses. In March and April wheat is generally hoed. I have on several occasions been in the wheat fields when the workmen were hoeing the grain with narrow hoes, just wide enough to pass between the drills The ground is frequently as hard as half-burned brick. So it seemed to me Wheat ground is always ploughed in lands just w ide enough for the passage of a drill, and the furrows between the lauds act as ditches in carrying away the surface water. Owing to the stiffness of most soils, the ordinary plough is usually drawn by horses. Farm horses are nearly always fine, large animals, and farm wagons are about as heavy and nuwicldly as the horses. Carts are mostly used instead of wagons. The farm laliorer is a faithful but plodding w orker, and is often very little more intelligent than the horse which he drives. Once an agricultural laborer, a man is likely to remain such as long as he lives. He is not a voter, and hence cannot better his condition by means of the ballot. What he gets from the government must come through his employer, who is usually very little concerned about him. Indeed. it seems to have been the studied plan of the governing classes to keep the workmen as ignorant and helpless, politically, as possible It has often been said that education makes him dissatisfied with his condition as a hired laborer, and that he had, therefore. lietter remain without education. At all events, that has l>een the plan practically' pursued. For many years certain reformers have been agitating for the extension of the ballot, so as to include the agricultural lalmrer. and the present Government even promises to present a bill of that kind, but the measure is still unborn. The agricultural laborers’ wages are meagre enough. He lives in a little cottage, for which he usually pays his employer about sixty cents a week —say about S3O a year. His privileges are not numerous. As a rule he is not allowed to keep chickens, for they would be almost sure to run npon his employer’s fields, which is not at all to be desired by the latter; he very rarely is allowed to keep a cow, for the reason that it would require pasture, and his master has no arrangement for this. Occasionally he may keep a pig, if well penned up, but this is by no means universal. Here, then, we have the singv !ar spectacle of the man who does all the farm, work having to buy his own nilk. butter and eggs. An abundance if these country staples is always asso.’iated with the idea of country life, and it seems unnatural that the farm workman should lie without them. It s difficult to state, even approximate!v, I what his wages really are, for in addi- 1 tion to his regular pay he generally has ■ some little perquisites or extras, such is l>eer in harvest, the nse of ground enough to raise his potatoes, sometimes a small allowance of milk, and occasionally a load of coal. Now and then the rent of his little thatched cottage is a part of his hire, but this is not common. Strange to say, the liest part of England. agriculturally, pays the lowest " ages. That is, the workman’s pav in ■he rich southern shires is less ?nan in the rougher and less productive shires of the far north and of Scotland. There is a difference of fully $1 a week in favor of the northern counties.

A short time ago the Afark Lane Erpress, one of the leading English agri- . cultural papers, undertook to ascertain | through its regular correspondents in the various parts of England and Wales what the pay of the agricultural workman really is. The results given are to be taken with some degree of allowance for the E.rprexK is the organ of the landlords, and, while it would not wilfully lie about the matter, it would nevertheless, put the figures as high as the bare truth would allow, and would always give the landlord the benefit of any doubt. From an inspection of the table given by that journal I get the following results: The nominal weeklv w ages in the southern counties of Cornwall Devonshire, and Dorsetshire is about 83 2., a week as an average, rising eonsulerably, however, as we approach the metropolis, and u ith extras added giving a yearly pay of about $175 pj 1,7” i ' Ot t b ° ard ’ as in onr <»’»- tiy. but then he usnallv has work summer and winter alike, with somewhat increased wages in harvest, which, however. is counted as a part of his aggregate yearly pay. With this he supports his family, though his wife usually adds something to the income bv doing little jobs of work for his employer’s family. In tue midland shires the pay rises somewhat, anti in the northern connties the weekly pay amounts to about a week, ami his yearly pav—a]; i,/ r *."',2 tPB “'i' 1 extras inidnded- to aUmt I “is table was compiled bv the ■•lark Laue JLrprexx to prove'that some writer had put the rate of farm wages entirely too low, and the figures are exhibited rather triumphantly, as if ne result was gratifying in the extreme Ihe w nter referred to nrobablv did nut the figures too low. but the Erprexx has not I eeii able to raise them anvwhere near tne alritude of decent’ living ’7 e ’. .''ca'-Jv income of even s22> 1 the income of a semi-pauper after all. a id even that figure is considerably too

nigh for the real truth of it. No doubt S2O or $25 must be taken from the aggregate in each case if the exact fact is to I»'stated. And it must bo remembered. too. that the staple articles of food are much higher here than in our own country. Rent and clothing is not bo high probably, but food is the great expense with the mere laborer always. I he real owners of the land in Great Britian seldom supervise their farms themselves. The farms are nearly always let. and are often sublet. But the farmer, whether owner or tenant, seldom jntts Ids own hand to the work. That is done almost wholly bv hired laborers. The rent of land is always high, though the soil is remarkably fertile In general I should say that it is fully 50 or 75 per cent, higher than good farm land in Pennsylvania or Ohio—often 1 (th per cent higher. Very little freehold land is for sale, though the amount offered is larger than ten years ago Good freehold land seldom sells for less than $l5O or $175 an acre: but the price lias fallen greatly in the last five years.—London Correspondence New York Sun.

SOME RIG THINGS. The largest diamond-cutting house is in AmsLp-dam, where they employ 400 men. sue famous Kobiuoor diamond was cut there. The cutters make from $7 to sl2, and even sl4 a day. The Pennsylvania Railroad's locomotive, Jumbo, has seven feet driving wheels, and has drawn a train from Philadelphia to Jersey t'ity, a distance ;>f ninety mill's in eighty minutes. The largest suspension bridge w ill lie the one now building between Brooklyn and New York. The length of the main span is 1,595 feet 0 inches. The entire length of the bridge is 5,989 feet. Thu. longest span of wire is used for a telegraph in India over the River Kistnah, between Bezorah and Sectanigrum. It is more than <I,OOO feet long, and is stretched between two hills, each 1.200 feet high. The loftiest active volcano is Popocatepetl (smoking mountain), thirty-five miles southwest of Pueblo, Mexico. It is 17,784 feet above the sea level, and has a crater three miles in circumference and 1,900 feet deep. The largest university is Oxford, in Oxford. England. It consists of twen-ty-five colleges and five halls. Oxford was the seat of learning in the time of Edward the Confessor. It claims to have been founded by Alfred. The largest trees are the mammoth trees in California. < >ne of a grove in Tulare county, according to measurement made by the State Geological Survev, was shown to be 276 feet high, 106 feet in circumference at base, and 76 feet at a point 12 feet above the ground. Some of the trees are 376 feet high and 34 feet in diameter. Some of the largest that have been felled indicate an age of from 2,000 to 2,500 vears.

The highest monolith is the obelisk at Karnak, Egypt. Karnak is on the east bank of the Nile, near Luxor, and occupies a part of the site of ancient Thebes. 'The olieli.sk is ascribed to Hatasu, sister of Pharaoh Thothmes 111., who reigned about 1600 B. C. Its whole length is 122 feet, its w eight 400 tons. Its height, without jiedestal. is 108 feet 10 inches. The height of the obelisk in Central Park, without pedestal. is 68 feet 11 inches; its weight about 168 tons. The Chinese wall is the largest w all in the world. It was built by the first Emperor of the Tain dynasty, alsont 220 B. C.. as a protection against Tartars. It traverses the northern boundary of China and is carried over the highest hills, through the deepest valleys, across rivers and every other natural obstacle. Its length is 1.250 miles. Including a parapet of .5 feet, the total height of the wall is 20 feet, thickness at the base is 25 feet and at the top 15 feet. Towers of bastions occur at in tervals of about 100 yards. The largest library is the Riblotheqnt National in Paris, founded by Louis XIV. It contains 1.400,000 volumes. 300,000 pamphlets, 175,000 manuscripts, 300,000 maps and charts, and 150,000 coins and medals. The collection oi engravings exceeds 1,300,000, contained in some 10,000 volumes. The building which contains these treasures is situated on the Rue Richelieu. Its length is 540 feet, its breadth 130 feet. The largest library in New Y'ork. in respect to separate works, is the Astor. About 100,(MX) volumes are on its shelves. The largest cathedral in the world is St. Peter's in Rome. From the laying of its foundation in 1450 until its dedication, 170 years were consumed in its erection; and if we include the work done under Pius VI . three and a half centuries passed before it was completed, during which time forty-three Popes reigned. The dimensions of the church are: Length of the interior, 613 f feet; of transom from wall to waif 446a feet; height of nave, 152 j feet; oi side aisles, 47 feet: width of nave, 77-89 feet; of side aisles, 33$ feet; circumference of pillars which support the dome. 253 feet. The height of the dome, from the pavement to the base of the lantern is 405 feet: to the top of the cross. 44s feet. The dome is encircled ami strengthened by six bands of iron. A stairway leads to the roof, broad ami easy enough to allow a horse and team to ascend. The annual cost of keeping the church in repair is 30,00 G scudi. Twa S ngular Men.

A stranger with long hair, a white coat, a white hat with a crape band and other evidences of lunacy, entered a Griswold street restaurant aud said to the proprietor: I “Sir, let me explain in advance that I am a singular man.” I “AU right, sir. A singular man’s order is as good as any one else’s. ” “I want six oysters on the half-shell —on the left-hand half, if you please.” The oysters were opened and placed before him. and when he had devoured them he said: “Now take six oysters, run them through a dothes-wringer to remove the dampness, and frv them for me in olive oil.” This order was also filled, when he called for a cup of salt ami water, add- | ed milk and sugar and drank it down ; and asked for his bill. “I also desire to explain in advance that lam a singular man,” replied the proprietor. "Your bill is $2.” "Impossible!” “Just $2. sir.” “But that is monstrous!” “Perhaps it seems high, but that’s my singular way of charging for singular lunches.’’ “I’ll never pay it!” “Then I’ll sadden your heart!” The sad proceedings were aliont to begin when the long haired man forked over ami walked ont. The lesson seemed to sink deep into his heart, for he halted at a fruit store ami, without any explanations in advance, paid the usual price for a banana and carried it off without a king the seller to dip the ends in rose v.-.tor.-■ I) (roil Free Pres*. She was a very pretty young pe won and he was trying to talk his list Ir. a Sophomore,” he said at one of questions. “Why, how can tin? You were a Sophomore last ye ir You ZL. «•* bis discomfiture ( ’b. I see. she said, with tbe safest Mos mystification: you have two I Sophomore years at your college '--I Yale Record.

Johx Df.itkri.e was arrests fl sey City, the other dav. „ u a ~< '“fl bigamy. The complaint Mrs. Game Deiterle. to ]*"■ married on Nov. 1. f,sß|. , “ M deserted the following week time ago Mis. Deiterle learned p..fl husband was living wifi. a la ' fl named Elizabeth Shannon' «t. "'’fl herself his wife. Mrs. Deiterlefl the matter in the hauls < f ,j., ,'fl who ascertained that Deiterle . fl ried Nov. 12,1881, in N .-w York beth Shannon. '"fl IHI MlllKns. NEW YORK. nurvEß ■ ItOOS Cotton Fl/WR —Superfine. • fl Wheat-No. 1 Whit<* i '*■ No 2 Rod fl Corn—No. 2 fl Oats—No. 2 ’ 'fl Pork—Mew 20 : M lakd fl CHICAGO. fl Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers s and Heifers Medium to Fair... ” 'Sfl IIOGR ..fl FLOVB—Fancy White Winter Ex. 5 ,»i . fl Good to Choice Sp’g Ex suq fl Wheat—No. 2 Sprint No. 2 Red Winter '<»• ~ Corn—No. 2 M Oats—No. 2 31 ~ ■ Rye—No. 2 fl Barley—No. 2 4 W BpttEß—Choice Creamery Pork—Mess 20'w FORT WAYNE. ’fl ftxnm-Ji;- 1 white < ■ Nq 1 Red Wheat—Ntf. 2 K-d. new ~ 1 fl Oats 32 Corn—ln ear—old so <4 New 35 Rye 75 (4 M Barley so flfl Butter—Fresh z 20 @ fl Bog* 25 (d 3 Potatoes lakd CINCINNATI Wheat—Na 2 Red v, • Corn ■-» Oats 37 . .g Rye A2 u I Pork—Mess 22.75 n Lard n r ■ TOLEDO. • 'f| Wheat—No. 2. Red 94 OORN .75 ft Oats—No. 2 t DETROIT. H Flour 5.50 ft.*.9 Wheat-No. 1 White ( . r Corn—No. 2 74 ,4 • -IB Oat?—Mixed Pork—Mess. 21.50 ,<s>«« INDIANAPOLIS Wheat- No. 2 Red 94 -K Cohn-No. 2 7 .-f| Oats—Mixed .33 r EAST LIBERTY, PA. CATTI.E- Bevt Fair 5.50 1 -nH Common 100 Hogs 7.00 t |fl Sheep 2.75 1

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