Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1891 — Page 6

democrat deoaturTind. K. BLACKBURN, • * - Publish**. ■ ■" 1 ■ — THE NEWS IN BRIEF. THE NEW MESSIAH AT KANSAS CITY, MO. Non-Partisan Judges Elected at Chicago— Fire at Battle Creek, Mtcli.—A Mayor in Disgrace—Doctored Whiskey Seized. ROCKFORD WONDER JfCstabllshes a Beaven in Kansas City. Kansas City special: Jacob Schweinfurth, the Rockford Messiah, was given a reception to which only the faithful were admitted. The “Christ” sat on one side of tlih room along with his disciples, who sat in -silent contemplation of the Rockford wonder. Silence reigned except at stated intervals when Schweinfurth would rise from his seat and exi claim: “I am the only true Christ.” -/ Then several of the iemale members f of the congregation would rise and say, ‘ \ “Yes, he is the only true Christ.” This * reception lasted about two hours, but the reverend messiah did not deign to enlighten his believers by addressing them. Schweinfurth positively refused to talk to reporters, and says that news--1 papers are an abomination. He has given strict orders that all members of “* tho press shall beexcluded from his meetings. In the afternoon Schweinfurth talked for four hours to the faithful at the residence of Mrs. .Adams. s There was a large crowd coming and going all day, but his talk was of such a character that it was not Necessary for the hearers to be there all the time, as he rambled along repeating the fact that ho was the only true Christ with variations, and making no sensational statements. Must Not Koflect on Blaine. Bangor (Me.) special: Reflections of any kind upon Mr. Blaine are not relished in Augusta, and a clergyman of that city has been given unmistakable evidence of this fact within the past week or two. The clergyman referred to, while delivering a discourse on temperance from his pulpit on a recent Sunday was imprudent enough to allude in rather uncomplimentary terms to the Secretary Os State in connection with the shipment ;of beer from this country to South America. The result has •been a decided coolness on the part of the congregation toward the pastor,- while sev- ’ eral of the prominent and influential members of the flock have cut loose altogether and now attend at other churches; The blundering clergyman will be fortunate if he is not frozen out altogether. Doctored "Whisky. Inspector McCormick; of New York, has seized 313 barrels of "Edgewood whisky, estimated to be worth $50,000. j Seven hundred barrels of this whisky ‘ was shipped to Bermuda in 1883 by M. Hofheimer, of Now York, and reshipped back here in August, 1890. While lying in the warehouse at Bermuda it is charged; tiiat the whisky was “doctored.” The seizure was made because the whiskyiwasientered atr the custom house as of domestic manufacture. This is one of the biggest seizures made here for years. The duty on foreign whisky is 82.50 per gallon. Three Drowned. A. E. Meninger, one of the leading citizens of Plattsburg, Mo., with his wife and daughter, drove out of the city to spend the day with friends in the country. Heavy rains fell during the day. In the evening the horse rind carriage were found in the creek near town, but a vigorous search of several hours failed to discover the parties. It is almost certain that all three were drowned as the water was twenty feet deep and a strong current running. ■ Barnum's (tody Will Be Cremated. Benjamin Fish, treasurer of the, Barnum and Bailey shows, and cousin of Mrs. Barnum, is quoted as saying: “I have just left Mr& Barnum and we have decided that the best thing \yc can do is to have Mr. Barnum's body exhumed and cremated. That was his wish and such a disposition would have been made of tho remains but for the opposition of members of the family.” Non-Partisan Judges Elected at Chicago. Little interest was taken in the election at Chicago for eleven Judges of the Circuit Court, and Wight vote was polled. The non-partisan ticket, composed of live Republicans and six Democrats, ten of whom are at present on the bench, was successful. The eleventh candidate on this ticket was Francis Adams, a Harrison Democrat, who is elected by a small plurality. .. r , Sunk in Cltignik Bay. News has been received at San Francisco by the BarkontineKatie Flickinger, which arrived from Alaska, of the wreck of the schooner Sadie F. Caller. She ran on a rock in Chignik Bay and sank. She had 200 Chinese on board, but all were saved. The Battle Creek Sanitarium Burned. Fire totally destroyed the Sanitarium printing office and building at Battle Creek, Mich., with a total loss of $40,000; insured for SIO,OOO. Tho origin of the fire is unknown, but it is ascribed to the use of crude oil as fuel. Judge Taft’s Will. The will of tho Hon. Alphouzo Taft has been probated at Cincinnati. It is very brief, and gives his entire estate to his wife and her heirs. The wife is appointed executrix without bond. The Midland Will Pay All Claims. The superintendent of the Midland railroad is at Wavelantf, Ind., making arrangements to pay all claims against the road. It is believed that the tie-up will now be lifted. A Mayor in Disgrace. Mayor Noonan, of St. Louis, is in trouble. Not only has the City Council refused to confirm Ills appointments, but a large section of local papers is exposing his moral weakness to the public. During the past week Boston and New Orleans municipal officials paid formal visits to the city to inspect public improvements. The Mayor and tho New Orleans party began a rose-colored raid that culminated in a corousal on change, and so impaired the vitality of the St. Louis executive that he could not meet the Boston visitors. The affair lias caused much scanda* and talk. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The twelve directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, who are indicted for a misdemeanor in maintaining the car-stove on their cars, were called for pleading ber fore Judge Van Brunt at New York, and the date of their trial fixed for June 22. A New York paper says that ex-Pres-Ident R. B. Hayes, who suffered last winter from a severe attack of the grip, has had his memory affected as an after effect of the disease. He can talk but a minute or two when he forgets 'the topic of conversation. A cloud seems at inter-

, ...... . . ;•':*« ■J.f, \ ;■ "j; vals to obscure his mental vision, and he must pause until it passes and leaves his mind free again. Even then on most occasions he has completely forgotten what he has just been talking about. Mr. Hayes feels his misfortune keenly, but his friends all hope that hts affliction will not be protracted. Thomas Cogswell, the Governor’s nominee for Railroad Commissioner of New Hampshire, has been for the second time rejected by the Executive Council, At Bradford, Pa., at the conclusion of the Bradford-Meadville ball game, a wooden foot-bridge across the Tuna Creek, leading to the Association Park, gave way under the crush of people, precipitating 200 men and boys into the creek. Six persons were seriously injured and a great many others received slight hurts and a severe shaking-up. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Ax Kansas City. Mo., the jury in the case of J. M. Sewell & Co. against the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway for discrimination brought in a verdict against the railway awarding the coal company S3O damages on each of 150 allegations of discrimination and overcharge. The coal company claimed that tho Memphis hauled coal from Carbon Center, Mo , to Kansas City for other companies, notably the Keith & Perry Company, in which the Memphis is said to be interested, cheaper than it made the same haul for the Sewell Compony. The suit was brought in the State court. The railway company claimed that the State court could have no jurisdiction, inasmuch as a part of the haul was made through the State of Kansas, and it will take an appeal. In a voice that admits of no misunderstanding the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in session at Detroit, has vetoed tho appointment of Dr. Chas. A. Briggs, professor elect in Union Theological Seminary. The highest court in the church disapproves his appointment by a vote of 440 to 00, and in the terms of the now famous compact of 1870 “no such appointment of professor shall be considered as a complete election if disapproved by a majority vote of the assembly. ” The wholesale liquor house of Wm. Darst & Co., at Omaha, was closed by its creditors. Liabilities, $80,000; assets, $75,000. Acting under instructions from Attorney General Miller tho United States District. Attorney will bring a bill in equity to cancel the the Rancho Corte Madero del Presidio grant in Marin County, California. The tract includes Kershaw Island, Point Tiburon and other property, in all about eight thousand acres, valued at over $1,000,000. In 1885 the tract was patented to the heirs of John Reed, an old sailor who held his grant from the Mexican Government. The Supreme Court has always upheld the validity of the Mexican grant, hut if this suit, is begun it is stated that the title of every Mexican land grant in the State will be affected.

Ax outbreak of the soldiers at Walla Walla, over the arrest of those implicated in the Hunt lynching, is feared. The Sheriff has ordered arms and ammunition. * The village of Osseo, Trempealeau County, Wis., was almost destroyed by fire. The flames started from tho explosion of a lamp at a dance and soon spread throughout the town. The business portion was wiped out and many residences burned. The loss is SBO,OOO. The depot of the St. Paul and Omaha roads at Sheldon, lowa, was burned. Considerable freight was destroyed. Fire at Wahpeton, S. D., destroyed six large blocks, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. A flouring mill and elevator wore burned. By the explosion of seventy-five pounds of dynamite in the Atlantic and Pacific tunnel, near Silver Flume, Colo., four men were, killed and one seriously injured. The men killed are Henry Taylor, William Coughlin, John Richards and John McHolland. Morris Fcrritan was seriously wounded. Tiie explosion is said to have beenjcaused by a spark thrown out while tamping a blast. A. Traunweiser, a Cedar Rapids, lowa, jeweler, shot and killed liis wife and then fired a bullet through his own heart. They had not been living together for some time, their domestic relations 9iot being happy. It is supposed he committed the act during a fit of temporary insanity. Five small children are left orphans. A train of seven coaches filled with excursionists was wrecked near Tipton, lowa, all the coaches being derailed and turned over on their sides. The passengers were badly shaken up, those most seriously injured being the following: C. Cruys, internal injuries: Julius Frahm, hip and back bruised by falling stove; Zeke Murdock, knee dislocated: Jajtnes Trahner, hurt on head: Harry Henninger, head cut: William Bryan, wrist cut; Miss Rose Barkley, hip hurt by falling stpve. The accidetfU was caused by tho rails spreading. A’ Canton, Ohio, Detective Frank Kellogg, of the Pinkerton agency, with the Forepaugli show, arrested Robert Rathborn, alias Robert Roberts, who is known all over tlxe country as tiie “Gorilla.” He is charged witli stealing $3,000 from a West Side Chicago bank in 1886. After getting out of the bank he shot at several people who attempted to capture him. He was finally arrested, and jumped a $2,500 bail bond. He will be taken back to Chicago. One of the soldiers confined in the Walla Walla, Wash., jail charged with the murder of A. J. Hunt has turned State's evidence. When it became known at the garrison that he had done so, rumors of attack on the jail were cireulatr ed. As a precautionary step the Sheriff doubled the guards at the jail. At Circleville, Jnd., a gang of burglars broke into the 'Lake Erie depot, and after ransacking the money drawer and ticket case visited the three or four stores of the town and loaded themselves with such goods as they could carry. The four large mines of Cabel & Co., at Washington, Ind., have been closed for the summer because tho miners would not return to work. This throws 600 men out of employment. Sherman Gattox, a costal clerk on the “Big Four,” running between Cincinnati and Cleveland, was arrested by Inspector Hamilton on tho charge of robbing the mails. Six letters were found on him, two of which were test letters, containing money. He was taken to Cleveland for trial. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. A policeman at Houston, Texas, was fatally shot while protecting a woman from a drunken husband. At Wheeling, in a fire which destroyed his home, Henry Phillips, his wife, and two children perished. At Athens, Ga., General James S. Longstreet is in very feeble health. He has been so ill for the past few weeks that he has given up work on his history of the Confederate war. The book is nearly finished, and will contain much that no history of the war has yet published. Fire at Jacksonville, Fla., destroyed all the records of the United States

—. Court for the northern district of Florida. Many Indictments were burned, and it is said the cases in which they figured will have to be dismissed. At Macon, Ga., Tom Long was found lying on the ground in front of his honse with his head split open. His wife was arrested and confessed that she killed him. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. At Washington, D. C., a committee composed of Messrs. Paul T. Bowen, L. P. Wild and E. W. Hambleton, representing District Assembly No. 66i K. of L.. called upon the Secretary of War and presented to him charges against Brigadier-General Albert Ordway, commanding the National Guard of the District of Columbia. The charges are in effect that General Ordway, in a lecture to the officers of the guard, used language that was treasonable and incendiary, and calculated to create in the minds of the militia officers a sense of their superiority to the law and excessive fear of the dangers to be encountered in the lino of their duty, and a bitter hatred and bloodthirsty vindictiveness toward such people as they may be called upon to restrain in the interest of peace and good order. During .jts term the United States Supreme Court disposed of 017 cases. This breaks tho record. The largest number of cases ever disposed of by the court heretofore in one session is 470. POLITICAL PORRIDGE. Senator Cali, has at last triumphed over his enemies and will represent the State of Florida in the Senate for six years more. Kansas delegates to the People’s Party Convention, held at Cincinnati, are highly elated over their prospects. The sentiment is freely expressed that Senator l’effer, of Kansas, will be the nominee of that party for President next year. Tiie following-named postmasters wore appointed by the President: Frank P. Mannix, Highlands, Colo.: John M. Jolley. Dayton, Fla.: Anson Tolan, Rock Rapids, Iowa; August T. Koerner, Litchfield, Minn.; Wallace E. Woodworth, Lake Village, N. H ; Mrs. EmmaC. McPherson, Raton, New Mexico; Wilfred A. Rcbbins, Mexico, N. Y. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Queen Victoria has decided that the Duke of Fife's daughter (the recently born granddaughter of the Prince of Wales) is only entitled to rank as the daughter of a dukd and not as a princess of the blood royal. It is reported that Prince Ferdinand, ruler of Bulgaria, is betrothed to the Archduchess Marie, eldest daughter of the Archduke Joseph of Austria. The Prussian authorities have ordered the sternest measures on the Posen frontier to keep the Russian and Polish Jews out of Germany. The roads at the boundary are patrolled by troops and the railway stations are carefully watched. The military have instructions to aid the civil authorities in preventing undesiraable immigrants from leaving or passing through Prussia. J, 11. Wilson, secretary of tho Seamen and Firemen’s Union, recently released from Cardiff jail, where he had been sorving a sentence for unlawful assembly, is to bo put up as a labor candidate for Parliament The Liverpool Coroner’s Jury, which has been investigating the ease of tho boy whoso mutilated remains, inclosed in a sailor's bag, together with knife and a saw. were found floating in the water at Handon dock on May 19, has concluded its labors. The jury finds that John Conway, a steamship fireman and a member of tho Seamen and Firemen's Union, who was arrested on suspicion, is guilty of having murdered the boy, whose identity remains undiscovered. The medical Examination established the fact that the mutilation of the lad’s body had occured after death. Conway resolutely declines to say anything. FRESH AND NEWSY, Nine Japanese women, who were refused adifiission to this country on the ground that they had been brought here for immoral purposes, were released from custody by Judge Dealy, of Portland, Oregon. Officers of the Treasury Department have been selected as agents to visit tho cities named below and select sites for the public buildings authorized by Congress, viz.: Akron, Ohio, Beatrice, Neb., Bloomington, 111., Danville, 111., Emporia, Kan, Fargo, N. D., Lima. Ohio, Madison, Ind., Racine, Wis., Rockford, 111., Rock Island, 111., Sioux City, lowa, Sioux Falls, S. D., Sheboygan, Wis., South Bend, Ind., Saginaw, Mich.f and Taunton, Mass. The recent quarantine of Canadian lambs at Buffalo and other points west when they are stopped to the United States has been so severely felt that it is likely some effort will be made to have the quarantine removed. Judge Ritchie, of Halifax, N. S., has delivered judgment dismissing the application for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Piagett, the Texan embezzler. MARKET REPORTS. chkJago. Cattle—Common to prime. 53.50 @ 6.50 Hogs—Shipping grades '4.50 #4.70 Sheep 6.00 # 6.75 Wheat—No 2 Red 1.02 @ 1.05 Corn—No. 2 56'4@ .5754 Oats—No. 2 47 1 *# .48'* Rye—No. 2 ...A. .83*# .84*6 Rutter—Choice Creamery 17 # .17'J Cheese—Full Cream, flatß 09 <o> .(,9)* Egos—Fresh 15.'$# .16 ' Potatoes—Western, per bu 95 # 1.05' INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 8.50 @ 6.75 Hoos—Choice light 3.00 i«i 4.60 Sheep—Common to Prime...... 4.00 @4.75 Wheat—No. 2 lied 1.08)$# 1.04 Corn—No. 1 White 56Vj# .57 Oats—Nc. 2 White .47 # .48'.. ST. LOUIS. Cattle 5.10 ® 6.10 Hogs ; 4.45 @ 4.55 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.03 #. 1.04)$ Corn—No. 2..... 52)$@ .53* Oats—No. 2 44 @ .45 BARLEY-r-lowa 69 @ .71 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.50 Hogs ... 3.50 5.00 Sheep 3.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.50,v-@ 1.06 Corn—No. 2 04 *# .65 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 48 # .49 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.255a H0g5..... 3.00 @ 4.85 Bhhep 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.07 @ 1.07 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 56 @ .5754 Oats—No. 2 White.... 47)$@ .48 TOLEDO. Wheat 1.08 @ 1.08% Corn—Cash .58 @ .585* Oats—No. 1 White 47 @ .48 Clover Seed . 4.15 @ 4.25 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 4.00 @ 6.00 Hoos—Light 4.00 # 4.90 Sheep—Medium 4.25 @ 5.15 Lambs 4.75 @ 6.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring.... 1.02 )$@ 1.03 Corn—No. 3 CO @ .61 Oats—No. 2 White 53 @ .54 Rye—No. 1 93 @ .95 Barley—No. 2 76 @ .77 Pork—Mess 11.25 @11.75 NEW YORK. CATTLE. 6.00 @ 6.25 Hoos.. 4.25 @ 6.15 Sheep 4.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.12 @1.13)4 Cohn—No. 2 66 @ .66)5 Oats—Mixed Western 49 @ .50 Butter—Creamery 18 @ .19 Eggs—Western 18 ® .19)4 Pork—New Mess 13.00 @18.76

* r —~ WON BACK HIS LANDS. COL. KING’S SUIT AGAINST MRS. PILLOW. The Supreme Court 0? Tennessee Restores to the Colonel the Property Which the Beautiful Widow Wheedled Out of Him —Sensational story Recalled. The Supreme Court of Tennessee has rendered a decision in one of the most sensational cases ever tried in this country, and in which murder played an important part. It was from the chancery docket, and was that of H. Clay King vs. Mary E. Pillow. King is the author of “King’s Digest of Tennessee, ” and has a reputation throughout the South for brilliancy as a lawyer and courage as a soldier. , He fitted out a company of cavalry for the Confederates during the war, mounting his men on horses bred by himself in Kentucky. He fought his way to the command of a regiment and “Clay King’s Tigers” made a name as the most desperate regiment of cavalry in the West, not even excepting Forrest's troopers. King is now in jail on a charge of murder. Mary E. Pillow is the widow of General Gideon J. Pillow, of Mexican war and civil war fame, and a woman of rare qualities of mind and person. She and King formed a liaison about ten years ago, and occupied tho King manor house, about forty miles from Memphis. The partnership was alleged to be a pureiy ousinese affair, but Mrs. Grundy said otherwise. It was an open secret that King was very much in love with Mrs. Pillow, and about three years ago he filed a bill in chancery asking the court to divorce him from his own wife, stating as a reason tiiat he wanted to marry Mrs. Pillow. The bill never saw the light at that time, for King withdrew it before the newspapers got hold of it. A short time later Mrs. Pillow filed deeds from Colonel King giving her all of his property—plantations in Arkansas and real estate in Memphis—in consideration of his having a home under her roof during his life. Still there was no scandal, but finally the fair widow ousted tiie Colonel from the plantation. He then filed a bill against her in chancery reciting that she had swindled him out of his estate. The widow came back at him with a voluminous cross bill charging him with robbing her and trying to force her to live with him. Ho responded with an an-w-:r containing a ' stack of love letters from Mrs. Pillow to bimself The case was tried last fall, and King won it. The affair was supposed to be settled but it was not, for on the 22d day of last March King met Mrs. Pillow's attorney. David H. Posten, on Main street and shot him without a word of warning. Posten died the next day, On account of the prominence of the inurdeicr and his victim the. tragedy created intense excitement. Posten was very popular with brother lawyers and King is decidedly unpopular, consequently ho has found it necessary employ' non-resident lawyers to assist in defending him. The Supreme Court has now rendered a decision in tho suit of King vs. Pillow, affirming tiie ( lianeellor’s decree. This puts King in a better shape financially to fight for his life in tiie Criminal Court than he would otherwise have been, but public feeling against him is very strong, and unless he dies in jail, which is not unlikely, as he is 65 years old, he will probablv be found guilty of murJer. His counsel have endeavored to get a change of venue, but failed. LOOKING TO HARVEST. Tillers oftlie Soil Report Traspecla Fair y Good. Showers in the spring-wheat region of Minnesota and the Dakotas during the last week have been light and not well distributed, and in some localities some injury has Tesulted from drought and frost, but crops are doing fairly well. In tiie States of the Missouri Valley the weather was generally favorable for small grains, but it was too cold for corn. The drought in Noitheast Nebraska has been relieved by generous rains In Kansas all crops were improved. especially wheat, which is well headed. Prospects are reported as generally good in lowa and Missouri: frost did little damage; in some sections corn is being replanted, owing to damage by cut-worms, and in a small area wheat was plowed under on account of injury by Hessian fly. Missouri reports wheat average: meadows never better, and fruit, except applets, continue excellent. In Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois rain was very light and badly distributed, and the cool weather retarded growth. The effect of tho week was generally injurious. Many farmers in Illinois are replanting corn on account of its injury from insects. Grasses and grain are dying in Wisconsin on. account of droughts, and some fruits are injured by frosts in Michigan. Indiana and Illinois, however. report grain in good condition and the indications aro that the pending drought will be succeeded by general rain within forty-eight hours. Crops were generally improved by recent rains in Ohio, although frosts injured wheat in northern sections. Cool weather has retarded all growth in Kentucky, where the outlook is not promising and wheat has been injured by rust. Local showers have given temporary relief in Tennessee, Arkansas and northern portions of Louisiana, but in localities not so favored cotton has been injured and in some sections p'owed up and corn planted instead. 111 Texas, where nail injured crops, cotton has been replanted and reports state that corn, cotton and wheat are in good condition. : The drought continues over the greater portion of Louisiana, and all crops are more or less injured. 111 tho east portion of the cotton region the prospects are much more favorable, owing to recent rains, but the cool, cloudy weather l was unfavorable, though South Carolina reports the crops in good condition. Excessive rains in central North Carolina, attended by cold weather, retarded growth, while drought continues in the vicinity of Wilmington. OUI- Worlit Names. .Etna signifies a furnace, dark or smoky. Sicily signifies tiie land or country of grapes. Sardinia signifies footsteps of men, which it resembles. Rhodes signifies serpents or dragons, which are produced there in abundance. Syracuse denotes bad flavor, so called from the unwholesome marsh upon which it stood. The English of Caledonia is a high hill. This was a rugged, mountainous province in Scotland. Africa signifies a land of corn or ears. It was celebrated for its abundance of corn and all sorts of grain. Gaul, the ancient name of France, signifies yellow-haired, as yellow hair characterized its inhabitants. Asia signifies between or in the middle, from the fact that geographers place it between Europe and Africa. HiBERNrA is utmost or last habitation, for beyond this to the westward the Phoenicians never extended their voyages. Italy signifies a country of pitch, from Its yielding great quantities of black pitch. Calabria received its name from the same characteristic.

THE BUSINESS WORLD. THE GENERAL OUTLOOK EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT. Prosperous Condition of Financial Affairs in America—Labor Disturbances Insig-nificant-Good Reports of Grain Crops from the Principal Agricultural Sections. From one end of the country to the other business is seasonably active, and the general outlook is exceptionally bright. The month of May is always richer in prospects than in results, however, and this year it has not violated the time-honored rule, says the Inter Ocean. In a negative way a good deal of ground has been gained. The usual labor disturbances have proven remarkably insignificant outside the iron regions of Pennsylvania, and even thero a final settlement has happily been reached. Tho enemies of the grain crops have not carried on their ordinary work of devastation in the principal agricultural sections, and tho European consuming markets havo not spent a very great amount of money or energy in depressing tho prices for our produce. Then, again, the United States has sent nearly $30,000,01)0 in gold to Great Britain and Europe during the past month without causing the slightest semblance of financial distress in this country. When resumption occurred-the Treasury held $114,000,000 in golf 1 ., besides that held for certificates outstanding, and that was all the gofd apparent in tho country; now there is about $214,000,000 in the Treasury, and about $400,000,000 in circulation in the country, or was May 1. Russia's seemingly insatiable demands for tho yellow metal are yet quite inexplicable to financiers on this side of the Atlantic, and no satisfactory excuse for their continueneo lias been made by foreign bankers. This enormous gold export from New York has had a strongly conservative influence upon both the speculative and legitimate interests, and served to keep loanable funds fairly well employed at profitable rates of interest. But the chief end of fliis peculiar condition of financial affairs will he one of great profit to America. It will demonstrate to the world at large that tiie United States is a nation of immense monetary resources, as well as a land of unparallcllcd powers of production. The apparent ease with wh.iih our markets have absorbed tho tens of millions of American securities that foreign holders have returned us since last autumn has given them a higher place in the estimation of investors abroad than whole decades of wise and honest administration and any amount of handsome interestbearing operations would do. Last November tiie great Bank of England was forced to cal upon tiie leading financial institution of the most prominent republic of Europe to relieve its pe uniary distresses and in order to avert a world wide panic. For more than a moifth now tiie proud- old monarchies of Great Britain and Europe have sought monetary aid and support from the most prosperous republic of tho “Neiv World. ” Thero are in these two statements a decidedly significent suggestion to the subjects of kings and princes, and one not unworthy of consideration by some of our own dissatisfied people.

“RUN DOWN, OF COURSE.” Mysterious Caso of tiie Schooner Thomas Hume. The disappearance of the schooner Thomas Huine, from Muskegon, Mich., to Chieasu, lumber laden, is one of those unfatliqpiable mysteries of the Great Lakes which have in years past darkened the lives of huqdreds of the kindred of those who liavo diappeared. Not certain tiiat death has claimed the husband or father, wives and children cling vainly, year after year, to the hope that some time tho loved one will return to liis home. Captain Lee. of Chicago, who is conducting a search for tho missing boat, when asked his opinion of tiie fate of the vessel, said: “Collision—run down, of course, just as tiie \V. C. Kimball was run down, if she capsized she wouldn’t sink, and I don’t believe that stanch, stiff vessel ever capsized. Some steamer ran her down. People say no captain would be heartless enough to leavp a crew after running their vessel down. Pshaw! I have sailed these lakes forty years, and I know of several such cases. The fine schooner Magellan was one of them. If the officers of some steamers see a big loss to pay for, you bet they keep mum.” For days the reporters havo been endeavoring to learn the names of the crew, but to no purp -se. The Hume, like all other vessels, kept a book on board. That book is lost with her.jsand no list of the crew was left ashore. The owners of the Hume can give only tho name of the master—Capt. Albriglitson. Even the t'eamen’s Union has no list of the crew. It was ascertained to a certainty that the mate was Olof Johnson, but the names of the other five seamen have not been learned. Johnson was 25 years old and was a single man. His brother and sister-live in Chicago and his parents in Europe. Capt. Henry Albrightsou leaves a widow and six children in Chicago. Vessel-owners generally urge that Congress should pass a law making it compulsory for masters to leave a list of the crew ashore each time they go out. It is a matter that the masters must attend' to themselves, as they often pick up ere,.ws a few hours before they leave port. These men on the Hume shipped in Chicago, but as their names are not known it is of course impossible to say at what ports their families reside. A Wandering Heir. A private letter from Vienna says that Count Stephen Karolyi, one of the most powerful and wealthy members of the old Hungarian aristocracy, has just returnea there frtfm the United States without having succeeded in his mission. The object of this journey across the Atlantic was to recover his son, the young Count George, ;who landed in Boston accompanied by an actress named Bariska Frank, the star of one of the foift-th-rato theaters of Buda Pesth. According to the statements of the old Count, the woman forms part of a gang of Vionua usurers, whose sole object is to exploit tho family of the young man. The latter has been in their power for more than a year, and it was only when, toward the end of last summer, he was on the point of making a full confession to his father of his troubles and of appealing to him to save him from their tlutehes, that the gang, fearing to lose their prey, causing Bariska to induce him to eiope with her to America. In February the Count received the news that his son had married the actress, and he immediately set out for the United States. On reaching New York he began a search for his son,'visiting Boston, Philadelphia, Washington. Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, Atlanta and New Orleans. At the latter, place all traces of the couple were lost, j The Count accordingly returned to Vie’nna. The object of the gang in keeping father and son apart will be easily appreciated when it is stated that the young Count is an only son and legally entitled on the death of his father to at least one-half of the latter’s vast fortune. According to the Hungarian laws he cannot be disinherited, and is, therefore, being persuaded to discount his future inheritance at a ruinous rate by the gang. I

THE FAIRSOFTHE STATE ———————— FULL LIST OF THOSE TO BE HELD, Together with the Time and Place ol Holding the Same, and Secretaries’ Addresses. In the subjoined list all dates are inclusive, and the name of the Secretary of each association is given: Auburn District—Auburn, DeKalb • County, Sept. 7 to 11, Cal Husselman. Acton District —Acton, Marion County, Sept. 8 to 11, T. M Richardson. Benton and Warren—Boswell, Sept. 7to 11, George W. Cones. Bridgeton Union—Bridgeton, Parke County, Aug 10 to 15. Thomas S. N'Cvins. Bremen Agricultural—Bremen, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, Henry H. Miller. Carmel District—Carmel, Hamilton County. Eastern Indiana Agricultural Association— Kendallville. Noble County, Sept. ‘-8 to Oct 2, J. S. Conologue., Fairmount Union—Fairmount, Grant County, Sept. 14 to 18, J. D. Lathan Fountain. Warren and Vermillion—Covington, Fountain County, Sept. 14 to 18, Wm. H. Miles. Francisville Union—Froncisyille, Pulaski County. / Grand Jubilee and Agricultural Exhibition Association—Wirt Station, Jefferson Uounty (Stony Point), Aug. 18 to 21, T. H. Watlington. Gosport District—Gosport, Owen County. Henry Madison, and Delaware—Middleton, Henry County, Aug. 4 to 7, P H. Hodson. Kentluud Agricultural—Kentland, Newton County. Knightstown District, Knightstown, Henry. County. Loogootee District Fair Company—l.oogootee, Oct. 6 to 10, John Rauey. Lawrence District—Lawrence, Marion County. Miami and Fulton—Macy, Miami County, Aug. 25 to 28, Dr. J. S. Wilson. Montpelier Tri-County—Montpelier, Blackford County. New Carlisle and Farmers’ Union Fair—New Carlisle, St, Joseph County, Sept. 23 to 25, W\ H. Deacon. New Ross Agricultural—New Ross, Montgomery County, Aug. into 14. Thomas I', Rouk. Northeast Indiana Agricultural—Waterloo,DeKalb County, Oct. 5 to 9, M. Kipliuger. Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan Exhibiting Association — Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Sept. 14 to 18, M. A. Wilcox. Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan— South Bend, St. Joseph County, Sept. 14 to 18, C. G. Towle. North Manchester Tri-County—North Manchester, Wabash County, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. E. A. Ebinghouse,. North Salem Agricultural and HorticulturalNorth Salem, Kendricks County, Aug. 3 to 7, L. O. Moon; Oakland City Agricultural anil Industrial— Oakland City, Gibson County, Aug. 24 to 29, Z. T. Emerson. Poplar Grove ’Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical—Poplar Grove, Howard County, Sept. 28 to Oct 2, Robert T. Barbour. Remington Fair Association—Remington, Jasper County, Aug. 25 to 28, O. M. Vickery. Southern Indiana District—Mount Vernon, Posey County, Stpt. 21 to 25, Ellwood Smith. Switzerland and Ohio—East Enterprise, Switzerland County, Aug. 25 to 28, Wm. H. Madison. Vermillion Joint Stock—Newport, Vermillion County, Sept. 28 to Oct. 2, Lewis Shepard. Warren Tri-County — Warren. Huntington County, Sept. 1 to 5. Wm. F. Swaim Washington and Clark—Pekin, Washington County. Sept. 8 to 11, Thus. H. B. Baker. Wayne, Henry and Bandolph—Dalton, Wavne County, Sept. 8 to 11, L. H Davis. Wayno County Fair Association—Hagerstown, Wayne County, Aug. 18 to 22, J. M. Loutz. County Fairs. Allen Countv Driving Club —Fort Wayne, July 17 to 21. H. U. Rockhill. Carroll County—Camden, Sept. 1 to 4, Z. A. Brown. Clinton County—Frankfort, Aug. 24 to 28, Joe Heavilon. * _ Daviess county—Washington, Sept. 28toOcft. 3, Jame 3 C. Lavelle. Dearborn county—Lawrenceburg, Aug. 18 to 22, John S. Dorman. Decatur county—Greensburg, Aug. 25 to 28, Ed Keasing. Delaware county—Mnncie, Aug. 18 to 21, Marc S. Clay pool. Dubois county—Huntingburg, Sept. 14 to 19, F. W. Kattenhenry. Elkhart county—Goshen, Sept. 21 to 25, Thos. A. Starr. Fulton county, Rochester, Sept. 2 to 5, W. M. Loomis. Gibson county—Princeton, Sept. 7 to 12, S. Vet. Strain. Grant county—Marion, Aug. 25 to 29, J. F. Carmichael, Green county—Linton, Aug. 31 to Sept. 5, Jas. H. Humphreys. Green county (Central)—Bloomfield, Sept. 14 to 19, Ot. Herold. Hamilton county—Sheridan, Aug. 31 to Sept. I, Will J. Woods. Hancock comity—Greenfield, Aug. 18 to 21, Charles Downing. Harrison county—Corydou, Aug. 24 to 28, T. S. Gctzendanner. Henry county—New Castle, Aug. 11 to 14, O. L. Jeffries. Howard county—Kokomo, Sept. 14 to 18, Geo. SV. Lundon. Huntington county—Huntington,Sept. 8 to 12, Leon T. bagley. Jay county—Portland. Sojit. 29 to Oct. 2, H. J. Yotaw. Jefferson county—Madison, Aug. ll to 14, Joseph M. Cravens. Jennings county—North Vernon, Aug. 4 to 7, Wm. G. Norris. Johnson county—Franklin, Sept. 15 to 19, W. S. Y'oung. Knox county—Vincennes, Oct. 12 to 17, Jas. W. Emmison. >•- Lake county—Crown Point, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, George I. Mallett. Laporte county—LaPorte, Sept. 29 to Oct. 2,W. A. Martin Lawrence county—Bedford, Oct. C to 10, F. M. Stalker. Miami county—Peru, Sept. 14 to 18, Fred W. Conradt. Monroe county—Bloomington, Sept, 14 to 18, John E. Edmondson. Montgomery county—Ciawfordsville, Sept. 8 to 12, W. W. Morgan, Marion county—Agricultural rooms, Statebouso, second Saturday of each month, Ida F. Richardson. Newton county—Morocco, Sept. 15 to 19,Frank Davis, Noble county—Ligonier, Oct. 5 to 9, J. E. McDonald. Owen county—Spencer, Aug. 17 to 21, Mat Matthews. 5 Parke county—Rockville, Aug. 17 to 21, W, H. Bison. Perry county—Rome, Sept, 14 to 19, O. E. Robin son. Piko county—Petersburg, Aug, 31 to Sept. 4, E P. Richardson. Posev county—New Harmony, Sept. 14 to 18, W. W. Robb Pulaski county—Winamac, Sept, 15 to 18, J. D. Vurpillet. Put nam county—Bainbridge, Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, A. R. Allison. Rnndolpbcounty—Winchester, Sept, 8 toll, B. F. Boltz. Rush county—Rushville, Sept. 8 to 12, Charles F. Kennedy Shelby county—Shelbyvillle, Sept. 1 to 5, E. E. Stroup. Spencer county—Rockport, Sept. 21 to 20, A. D. Garlinghouse. Steuben county, Angola, Sept. 22 to 25, F. McCartney. Sullivan county—Sullivan, Sept. 7to 12, Jas. M. Lang. Spencer county—Chrisney. Sept. 28 to Oct. 3, P. C. Jolby. Tippecanoe county—Lafayette. Aug, 31 tc. Sept. 4, Mortimer Levering. Tipton county—Tipton, Aug. 17 to 22, W. R. Ogleby. Vermillion county—Cayuga, Aug. 17 to 21, J. 5, Grondyke. Vigo county—Terre Haut*, Aug. 24 to 28, Chas. C. Oakey. Wabash county—Sept. 22 to 25, J. M. Haas. Washington county—Salem, Sept, lto 4, E.W. Menaugb. Wayne county—Richmond, Aug. 25 to 28, Isaac Kline. f Minor State Items. —Delaware County will build a new asylum. —Wheat entirely destroyed by hail in some parts of Hamilton County. —Genevive Fosdick badly injured in a runawaf accident at Laporte. . —Will Shildmyer, 13, trying to board a freight train at Greencastle, instantly killed. —Hog cholera is raging in Hamilton County. In Jackson Township seventyfive head of-hogs have died. —Mrs. John Edelman, of Valparaiso, drowned herself in Soger’s Lake. She had been demeuted for some years. —White Caps have notified Mary Watkins and daughter, of Paoli, “to get religion.” \ ' —Under new provisions of tax law Indiana will receive from 60 to 100 per cent, more from corporations than before. ' —Denla Rezener, a little girl, was sent to draw water with a rope from a cistern in Evansville and pitched in headlong, being drowned. —The increased tax-list of New Albany gives that city $10,000,000 taxable pioperty, making an Increase of $150,000 in the annual revenue.

THESE ACTUAL FACTS ALL FOUND WITHIN THE BOR' DERS OF INDIANA. An Interesting Summary of the More lm* ° portant Doings' of Our Neighbors — Crimen, Casualties, Deaths, Etc. Farmers Diversifying Their Crops. For some time the farmers of Bartholomew County have been considering a change of crops, having in view the object of a better income from their farms^ This subject was thoroughly discussed at the farmers’ institutes held in that County this year, and greater diversity of crops will be the result of it. Two farmers near Jonesville have each planted twenty acres of potatoes, while several others have turned a part of their attention to the raising of broom-corn. Several others are trying a few acres of navy beans, while another will try to reap some profit fropi a small field of the castor bean. In the western part of the county there will be several who will embark in the tobacco-raising business. In the years of 1865 and ISS6 tobacco was successfully raised in Brown County in large quantities, and one or two men who yet reside and do business in Columbus, made several thousand dollars ou tobacco raised in Brown County alone. Since that time the culture of tobacco in Brown County died out and the stave business took its place, but of late this business has, on account of the scarcity of timber, become unprofitable. There are many farmers who have grown tired of raising wheat and corn, andwilHikely be beneiitted by the change, and besides will save a great amount of labor. Minor State Items. —Eastern capitalists will open a $200,000 National Bank at Muncie. —Two boys caught a catfish near the mouth of Silver Creek that measured thirteen inches across the head, weighed 130 pounds, and had the undigested hide and skolotoifof a dog in its stomach. —A large quantity of liquors and cigars found stored under a church at Columbus; stolen and concealed there byten boys, all under 15, belonging to the “best families” of the city. No arrests. —Walter Reeves, a colored lad, was hanging on a moving freight car at the junction near Greencastle, when his body was caught by a car on the side-track, crushing his hip and otherwise injuring him. He will die. —During a storm lightning struck a wire fence on the farm of Norman Cohee, in Brown County 1 , ran along a wire r for a quarter of a mile, killing two horses and a cow that happened to be near it at the time. One of the horses was quite valuable. —Robert Pogue, aged 14 years, while working with a machine at the Bowen Manufacturing Company’s factory, Union City, put his right hand under a eut-off knife to clear the fragments of wood. The blade descended and severed his hand from the arm’at the wrist. —The Fort Wayne Amusement Company are making extensive arrangements for the opening of their new Base Ball and Driving Park with a grand celebration on tho Fourth of July. There will be horse racing for large purses, base ball, balloon ascension with a parachute descent, fire works, etc. ' —A young man near Veedersburg lias made a queer contract with the father of his future wife. He is to give his note for S3OO, and must live with the girl at least three years. Each year he is to be credited with SIOO on the note, until it is paid. At the end of tho three years he will be at liberty to do as he pleases about longer living with his wife. —The ill effects of cigarette smoking were made painfully apparent at Greencastle, when the 17-year-old son of Capt. James M. Owens was seized with a spasm on his way to school. He fell on the pavement,as in a fit, but had never given the least sign of epilepsy, £ and the attack is attributed solely to the excessive use of cigarettes. He was carried to a physician’s office near by, and soon rallied under the effect of restoratives. —Governor Hovey has received a letter from a Kentucky Democrat congratulating him on his refusal to honor a requisition for the return of the Owensboro girl whose only crime seems to have been running away with and marrying tho man she loved. The Kentuckian was so enthusiastic over the refusal that he wants an opportunity to vote for the Governor for some high office. Governor Buckner denies having issued any such requisition, and the document received at Indianapolis must therefore have been a bogus ,pne. Governor inten-

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tions were good, nevertheless. —W. V. Noland, manager of the Stillwell flour mills, Laporte County, went to Laporto and surreptitiously entered a room at the Standard Hotel, where he was found dying from the effects of a dose of morphine taken with suicidal intent. There was a letter to his wife and children, saying that he had been selling flour and misappropriating the proceeds. It implicated others with him. The proprietor of the mill 9 is at death’s door from paralysis and Noland evidently feared his peculations would he found out. Noland further said that he' did not want to live unless ho could live an honorable and bpnost life. —Alvin Peets and Sherman Tomoy engaged in a quarrel at Martinsville, and, after a few words, Peets drew a razor and slashed Tomoy across the left breast '' making a gash about ten inches long. The wound is a dangerous one. —lsaac Lyons, a wealthy farmer, together with his hired man and two horses, were struck by lightning while plowing in a field near Danville. The map and horses soon recovered consciousness, but Lyons was instantly i killed. I —Bartholomew County wheat full of 1 black rust. —Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, near a was burned to death by falling into ». fire place in her house. She was 70 ■ years old. Her son, about 35 years old, I was the only other inmate of the house, I and he was in bed asleep at the time. A fl neighbor boy called at the house and made the discovery of the old lady’s horrible death. They were very poor, and B lived in a dilapidated old log cabin. It B is supposed she was building the morn- B ing fire, and being old and weak, fell and ■ was unable to save herself.