Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1891 — Page 2

genwurat deoXtxjbCind. V. BLACKBURN, ... Publishes. A clock owned by a resident of Trappe, Pa., has ticked since 1766. The citizens of Nashville, Tenn., use the United States street mail boxes for epittoons. ■ An electrical expert says no light has been found that will penetrate a fog better than the old oil lamp. A twenty-acre pond bubbled up out Os the earth in Center County, Pa., recently in twenty minutes. Galera, a village in Peru, is the highest inhabited place in the world. It is 12,635 feet above the sea. Black eggs are regularly laid by a duck belonging to Mr. E. C. Williams, of Madison County, Texas. The parcel post has been extended to the territory of the British East Africa Company and to Uruguay 7 A resident of Parker’s Ford, !’a., is Caid to have a ring dove which is 21 years old, and has been in one cage all life. Near Madagascar 15,000 islands are inhabited. One can live there by working twenty-five days a year. No clothes •re worn. If Adam had been created a small boy to start with, it would have keen a cold day for the serpent when he came over the garden wall. A recent school examination in Cincinnati elicited the following forms of comparison: Ill,iller, illest; ill, worse, better; ill, worse, dead. Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us Snore truth than they do others. Count Skavlixojzkov is said to be the most pronounced temperance man in Russia, and that in saying much for the endurance of Russian vocal organs. The night refuge of the Salvation Army at Belleville has been closed by the Paris police because it had become a rendezvous for all the dangerous characters of the city. An electric tramway has been completed and is now working in Rome to connect the Place de Popolo and the Ponte Mollo. The line is about a mile find half in length. An Irish-American in Newark, N. J., Was let off from punishment in court recently for thrashing a foreigner who disputed his assertion that the United States was the best country on earth. „ A neat decoration was affixed to a bridal costume by a Montreal bride. Her pst canary was attached to her shoulder by a golden chain, and it sang With great animation during the cere<nony. - In these days when Americans ate cudgeling their brains to find novel and surprising things to do we may exiiect that in good time some one of us will go to Europe and come back writing a book about it. “The Secret of Success” is the subject of a symposium written by ten more or less successful statesmen and financiers. After reading it one stands convinced that the secret of success is to keep your secret. A London paper recently contained the following advertisement: “A lady wishes to have twice a week from the country a supply of live sparrows for a cat. Address, with terms, ‘Trixie, Bishop’s roads, W.’” A Philadelphia doctor says there is b little brain in every person’s throat. We knew that a good many men do most of their thinking with their throats, but we didn’t suppose that kind of thinking required a brain. There is always a quarrel when a boy is born in a family. The father wants to put him into boots and pants as soon as he can walk, and the mother objects. , You can tell by how soon a boy begins to wear pants and boots, who is the boss of the family. London smoke is a sunshine killer. The Royal Botanical Society has kept a careful record of the bright sunshine that fell on the gardens in Regent’s Park last year. Out of a possible 4455 hours the “beauteous eye of heaven” was visible during 1092. A dispute has long existed whether •aluminum”" or “aluminium”: is the proper spelling. “Aluminum” seemed likely to carry the day; but it is now proposed to reconcile the hostile parties, and save ink, type and time by changing the name to “aiium.” German engineers are said to be adopting a new line for bearings, composed of compressed vegetable parchment. When lubricated with an emulsion of mineral oil and water the parchment becomes impregnated with the oil and will last for a considerable time. Ice two inches thick has sufficient strength to bear infantry; four inches thick it will bear cavalry or light guns; sx inches thick it will bear heavy field guns; eight inches thick it will bear twenty-four pound guns on sledges, the weight not to be over one thousand pounds per square foot. _ If doth can be made out of fine spun glass, it would seem a simple matter to , make it out of wood, and this is done by boiling strips of fine grained timber, crushing them between rolls, carding the filaments into parallel lines, as with •ordinary textile material, and spining

them into threads, from which doth can be woven in the usual way. It may be very cruel to cook lobsters alive, but when a brisk waiter puts the query “Liveordeadsir,” you are apt to wonder how long the lobster has been dead, and with a memory of the lobster pot of your childhood you retort pertinently and forcibly: “Cook it alive, waiter, and be quick.” A singular instance of protective coloration in the spider known as' cyrtarachne has been brought before the Elisha Mitchell Society. This spider hides among the leaves of bushes, where it has <• a wonderful resemblance to a small univalve molluse which is extremely common on the leaves. There were ,5,759,856 savings bank books in France on Jan. 1,1891, against 5,224,856 on Jan. 1, 1890. The deposits for 1890 were 869,500,000 francs, or 104,000,000 more than in 1889. ffhe total sum of savings bank deposits in France has increased in the last year from 2,683,500,000 francs to 2,906,000,000 or $600,000,000.

A little girl who is learning to read by studying the big print in the newspapers prayed as follows the other night: “Dear Lord, make me pure—"make me absolutely pure, like baking powder.” This beautiful, good, and true story told by a contemporary is commended to the prayerful consideration of people who think that it does not pay to advertise.

Just before adjournment, Congress passed an Indian Depredation law that will probably put $50,000,000 (in circulation. This law practically removes all restrictions and limitations, and every settler, or his heirs, can now get pay in full for all losses occasioned by Indians. All interesteG' had better write to their congressmen for copies of the law.

Two months ago an engineer on the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas road, on the Jackson division, Mississippi, ran over a goose. Since then its mate runs around the engine and expresses, to the best of its ability, great animosity for the engine. The engineer says that whenever his engine signals for the station the old gander knows the whistle, and in spite of attempts to scare it off flies at the engine as though it were its deadliest foe.

Very much the greater part of the opium smoked in the Chinese laundries and joints is second-hand. Opium is costly, even though so much of it is smuggled across the Canadian border, and, since only half its strength is exhausted by one “cooking,” it has become a profitable industry to save the refuse of the pipes, prepare it over again and sell it anew. A great deal of the opium sold over the counters of the Chinese stores and called second grade is really second-hand.

The London Graphic gives this little story about Von Moltke: A deputation of ladies came to congratulate him on his 90th birthday. He received them very amicably, and talked to them for some time in his quiet, pleasant way, when, referring to all the good wishes that had been showered upon him, he said: “I’m almost sorry, oif noticing all this affection, that I am not a young man again.” “How old would you like to be, sir ?” asked one of the ladies. “Well,” replied the nonagenarian, “if I could only be 80 once more,”

Certain animals have teeth which grow during all their lives. The rat and the squirrel are examples of this. Our own teeth are developed from pulps, which are absorbed and disappear after the teeth are grown, but in a rat’s tooth the pulp is perpetual, and is continually secreting material by which the incisor gains length. Therefore the animal is obliged to gnaw all the time to keep the tooth ground down to the proper length. It is commonly imagined that the rats keep gnawing from pure cussedness, but such is not the case.

There have probably been forty patents in as many years of the water grate, as used on hard coal burning locomotives, and a few that burn soft coal. To those who think that to them belongs the credit for the original idea it may be of interest to look back a few years, the Locomotive Engineer says: “At the Museo Borbonico, Naples, Italy, there are carefully preserved many copper and bronze tools and utensils, exhumed at Pompeii, and among them a small, vertical boiler of copper ; this has a fire box and smoke flue through the top, a door on the side, and water grates composed of vnall tubes of copper crossing the fire box at the bottom. Pompeii was destroyed more than 1,800 years ago.”’ Terrorized by a Wild Cat. The residents of Berlin, N. J., are greatly worked up over the nightly visits of a ferocious wild cat that geherally invades streets after nightfall. The other night about 7 o’clock two small boys were walking along the main road when suddenly in front ol them a small animal sprang out from a hedge fence in front of them with a scream. The larger lad had a milk pail which he threw at the cat, frightening it away. About 1 o’clock a young man named Jacobs was coming along the road when suddenly he became aware of the fact that something was following him. It was the cab Be turned and fired his revolver at it and ran the rest of the way home. A party of twenty-five hunters, with dogs, started on the track of the beast about 9 o’clock one morning. They found the wild cat in an open field, but he soon distanced the dogs, taking refuge in a near-by swamp. Not many of the citizens are on tbe streets after nightfall unless armed with a gun. r A daily hunt will be kept up until the wild cat is killed.—JVew Fork Herald. A man who is a poor liar find* it convenient to stick to the truth.

IN MEMORY OF GRANT, THE DEAD HERO OF APPOMATTOX, The Most Illustrious Chieftain of Modern Times, an Imposing Statue Is Unveiled —lts Site Galena, from Whence He Went Forth to Fame and Fortune. The streets of Galena, the little Illinois city where Gen. Grant spent the years preceding his emergence from obscurity Into everlasting fame, were thronged with visitors on the occasion of the unveiling of the Grant monument presented to Galena by H. H. Kohlsaat, the well-kno <vn business man of Chicago. It is doubtful if the city 1 i=> \ fits fer) I raW fe 11 B l v* / IS I J W ever before held so large a crowd. The streets were fairly packed with men, women and children in holiday garb, each bent upon adding his quota to the great song of honor that goes forth to the‘dead hero of Appomattox. The generosity of a Galena boy, now grown to be a Chicago man, has reared in the former home of Gen. Grant a noble monument which is destined to mark forever the love, esteem and veneration in which Illinois holds the memory of her greatest citizen-soldier. Distinguished citizens were gathered from all points of the Union to celebrate the unveiling of the monument as it deserves. Mr. Kohlsaat’s gift is a credit alike to the city of his birth, the city of his adoption, and to himself. The die on the base of the statue had been completed in the last few days by having cut thereon the names of twelve battles in which Grant was engaged, as follows: Palo Alto, Monterey, Molino del Roy, Chapultepec, Belmont, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattariooga, Spottsylvania, Petersburg, and Appomattox. Hard by the insecure old house that gave shelter to the old commander the statue stands—a noble bronze cast In heroic dimensions and mounted on a pedestal of carved and glistening red granite. Three tiers of gray granite form its base. It is in Grant Park—a six-acre plot of ground high above the river, purchased and given to the city through the instrumentality of two Chicagoans, H. H. Kohlsaat and James W. Scott, both of whom are proud of having come out of Galena. Already the park is graced by a soldiers’ monument and a fountain. Sculptor Gelert did his work faithfully and artistically. He has given to Galena a marvelous life-like statue of the General in civilian attire and in an attitude of meditation. “Grant, our Citizen,” is the simple inscription on the front surface of the monument The total cost of the statue is about $25,000. The exercises were begun by prayer by the Rev. H. W, Atchison, after which Miss Pauline Kohlsaat of Chicago pulled the cord and unveiled the statue, the band playing “Hail to the Chief” at the time. Ex-Gov. Hoard of Wisconsin then presented the monument with the following words: - lam coramißsionea on behalf, of one of the distinguished citizens of your State—Mr. H. H. Kohlsaat, of Chicago, “a man whose soul delighted in goodly deeds,*—to tender you this noble memorial of Gen. Grant. 1 need not tell you in set words «f the purpose of the donor, I need not speak of the rate soul that Ilea behind this noble gift, of his generosity, of his patriotism, of his abiding love for his fellow-men and his country. All this is a thousand times more expressively told in the silent yet eloquent presence of yonder heroic statue. Who shall paint the rose or adequately tell of the subtle essence of its perfume? Who shall bound by descriptive phrase the love of a mother or defljae the devotion of a wife ? •A good and perfect gift” like this, and the creative spirit of the giver, who shall hope to bear them to your hearts on the failing wings of speech? Instinctively now our thoughts are upon him who was ever our invincible and unconquerable pilot, the God-given Grant. Inseparably connected with the name of Grant will always stand the city of Galena. He was your own beloved citizen. Here he uttered the words that were pregnaqt with all the after-meaning of his - EX-GOVERNOR WM. D. HOARD. career. Entering hie store the morning after the dispatch came announcing the surrender of Sumter, he put on bls coat and said: “The Government educated me for the army, and although I have served through one war I am still in debt to the Government and willing to discharge the obligation.” Loyal words; brave words, and in the light of all they meant for the weal of the American nation they are sublime words. There was set before him a supreme necessity —his country’s peril. He accepted his duty, as do all great souls, in the white light of the sim£le truth. Called of God to this great mission, e answered to every summons as did Samuel of old: “Here am I.” Young men, in the light of this great example, and the honor and glory the world has accorded it, how grandly stands forth the truth of that utterance of the great Teacher: ‘He that will lose his life shall save it.” How inspiring, amid aU the sordid greed and self-seeking of men in public affairs, is the transparent heart, life and purpose of General Giant. No man ever plowed himself into the conviction of bis fellows without this Christlike quality of putting his purpose above himself. The common people, rarely at fault, always trusted him, ana he never failed them. Fortunate is that nation that has such an example of manhood, patriotism, courage, and Citizens of Galena, receive this gift, made doubly precious by the sublime life and devotion to country of him it represents. As you have always guarded the name and fame of Grant, so guard and preserve this memorial, and round and about you shall be the prayers of all the American people, East ana west, North and South. Briefly accepting the gift, Mr. K. H. McClellan, Chairman of the Board of Park Commissioners, introduced Mr. Depew. The famous after-dinner speaker and brilliant orator was greeted wfth

rounds of applause. His speech was as follows: Thirty years ago your city numbered among its citizens a man so modest that he was little known in the community; & merchant so humble that his activities were not felt in your business. Three years later his fame illumined the earth, and the calculations of every commercial venture and of every constructive enterprise in the country were based upon the success or failure of his plans. He was then supporting his family on a thousand dollars a year, and before the third anniversary of his departure from your city he was spending four millions a day for the preservation of the Union. One of the patriotic meetings, common at that time all over the North, was held here to sustain President Lincoln in his call for seventy-five thousand men to suppress the rebellion. The ardor and eloquence of John A. Rawlins so impressed an auditor whom none of the Congressmen and prominent citizens on the platform had ever met that he subsequently made the orator his chief of staff and Secretary of War. Some one discovered that Captain Grant, a graduate of West Point and a veteran of the Mexican war, lived in this city, and he was invited to preside at tha formation of a military company. He was so diffident that few heard his speech of three sentences, but in that short address was condensed aU the eloquence and logic of the times. ‘You know the object for which we are assembled. Men are needed to preserve the Union. What is your pleasure?” He organized and drilled that company and led it to the Governor at Springfield. By that march Galena lost a citizen and the republic found its savior. Grant's career will be the paradox of history. Parallels cannot be drawn for him with the great captains Os the world. Historians, by common consent, place Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Napoleon Bonaparte in the front rank. But each of them had learned the art of war by continuous service and unequaled opportunities and displayed the most brilliant qualities at every period of their achievements. Hannibal and Cresar had won universal fame in the 'Bo’b. Alexander died at 33, grieving because he had no more worlds to conquer, and Napoleon at 37 was master pf Europe. But Grant at 40 was an obscure leather merchant in Galena. As a cadet at West Point he had risen only just above the middle of his class. As a subaltern on the frontier and in Mexico he had done no more than perform his duty with the courage and capacity of the aven, age West-Pointer. But the moment that the great responsibilities were thrust upon him and the fate of his country rested upon his shoulders, this indifferent farmer, business man, merchant, became the foremost figure of the century. The reserve powers of a dominant inteUect, which ordinary affairs could not move, came into action. A mighty mind which God had kept for the hour of supreme danger to the repubHc grasped the scattered elements of strength, solidified them into a resistless force and organized victory. He divined the purposes of the enemy as well as he knew his own plans. His brain became clearer, his strategy more perfect and his confidence in himself more serene as his power increased. He could lead the assault at Donelson or the forlorn hope at Shiloh or maneuver his forces with exquisite skill and rare originality of resources at Vicksburg as the best of brigade or corps commanders; or before Richmond calmly conduct a campaign covering a continent and many armies with consummate generalship. His plans did not contemplate defeat. The movement he always made was “advance.” The order he always gave vras “forward." When

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Buell told him that the transports at Pittsburg Landing would not carry away one-third of his force Grant said: “If that becomes necessary they will hold all there are left." His Vicksburg campaign was against all the teachings of the military schools and the unanimous opinions of his council of war. A veteran strategist cried In indignant remonstrance: “You will cut loose from your base of supplies, and that is contrary to all the rules.” Grant answered: “Unless we capture Vicksburg the North will out off our supplies.” And the sorely bereaved and disheartened people were transported with joy and hope by the Fourth of July message: “Vicksburg has surrendered." The Western armies never knew their resistless power until they felt the hand of this master. No better or braver body of soldiers ever marched or fought than the Army of the Potomac. It lost battles through bad generalship and generals by camp jealousies and capital Intrigues. Thousands of its heroes fell in fruitless fights, but never wavered in its superb confidence and courage. At last it found a leader worthy of itself and after scores of bloody victories ended the rebellion under Grant. We are not yet far enough from the passions of the civil strife to do full justice to the genius of the general who commanded the rebel army. England’s greatest living general, Lord Wolseley, who served with him, assigns him a foremost place among the commanders of modern times. He possessed beyond most leaders the loyal and enthusiastic devotion of his people, ana he was the idol of his army. In estimating the results and awarding the credit of the last campaign of the war, we must remember that Gen. Lee had defeated or baffled every opponent for three years, and that, after a contest unparalleled in desperate valor, frightful carnage and matchless strategy, he surrendered his sword to Grant. The most signal services rendered by Grant to his country were at Appomattox, and in. his contest with President Johnson. The passions aroused by the civil vrarwere most inflamed when the Confederacy collapsed. Grief and vengeance are bad counselors. One serene intellect was possessed of an intuition which was second to prophecy anci was clothed with power. He saw through the vindictive suggestions of the hour that the seceded States must be admitted to the Union and their people vested with all the rights of American citizenship and all the privileges of State government, or the war had been fought in vain. He sternly repressed the expressions of joy by his troops as the vanquished enemy marched by, with his famous order, “The war is over, the rebels are our countrymen again and the beet sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field. ” He gave to the Confederates their horses and belongings and told them to go home, ijnltivate their farms and repair the ravages of war. He assured all, from Lee to the private soldier, that they would be safe and unmolested so long as they observed their paroles. \To enter Biohmond, the capital of the Confederacy, whose spires had been in sight of the besiegers so long, would have been a resistless temptation for a weaker man. But bls mind was not on spectacular display or triumphal marches over humiliated foes. It was bent on peace and pacification. I know of no scene in our history so dramatic as the meeting between Lincoln and Grant at the White House three days after the surrender at Appomattox. The President, who had so loyally sustained the General, and the General who had so magnificently responded to the confidence of the Preaident, met for the last time in their Uvea. Grant returned with deep emotion the fraternal grasp of the only mans in the country who fully understood and wap in complete accord with the policy of reconciliation and repose. The work of the warrior was done and the labor of the statesman begun. - Yesterday it was destruction; to-morrow it must be reconstruction. That night the bullet of the assassin ended the life of our greatest President since Washington, and postponed the settlement of sectional difficulties and the cementing of the Union for many years. There have been many Presidents of the United States and ♦he roll will be indefinitely extended. We have had a number of brilliant soldiers, but or Jy one great general. The honors of civil life could add nothing to the fame of General Grant, and it has been often argued that his career in the Presidency detracted from his reputation. Such will not be the judgment of the impartial historian. He was without experience c.r training for public life and unfamiliar with politicians and their methods. The spoils system, from which be could not escape, nearay wrecked his first administration. His mistakes were due to a quality which Is the noblest of human virtues—loyalty to friends. iXven at this short distance from scenes to vivid tn our memories party umcor has lost its bitterness and blindness. On great .questions affecting the honor and Grant will &ve • piece in tike annals of the world and awnsestully carryt

ing out the policy of the submission of international disputes to arbitration. The Geneva conference and the judicial settlement of the Alabama claims will grow in importance and grandeur with time. As the nations of the earth disband their armaments and are governed by the laws of reason and humanity they will recur to this beneficent settlement between the United States and Great Britain and Gen. Grant's memorable words upon receiving the freedom of the city of London: “Although a soldier by education and profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war and I have never advocated it except as means of peace”—and they will hail him as one of the benefactors of mankind. Gen. Grant was the product and representative of the best element of our social life. Home and its associations have been the training and inspiration of our greatest and noblest men. They have come from the class which had neither poverty nor riches, and which was compelled to work for the support of the family and the education of the chHdren. Its members are God-fearing men and loving, self-sacrificing women. It gave us Lincoln from the farm, Garfield from the tow-path, Sherman from the crowded house of the brave and struggling widow, Sheridan from the humble cottage, and Grant “from the home of the country storekeeper of the Ohio wilderness. These men never lost their sympathy with every human lot and aspiration or the homely simplicity of their early conditions and training. Grant was clerk in the Custom House and President of the United States, a Lieutenant in HON. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW. Mexico and Commandcr-ih-ohief of the armies of the Union, numbering over a million of men, the unknown junior in a tanners’firm at Galena and the guest of emperors and kings. But the memory of the church of his mother was ever visible in his reverent regard for her teachings. The applause of soldiers for their commander, of partisans for their chief leader, and of the world for one of its most, illustrious heroes was grateful, but the sweetest music for him was within the family circle, in the loving companionship of his wife and children and the prattle of his grandchildren. Though he received such honor and recognition abroad and such distinction at home, he was always, whether in the presence of royalty or of the people, a modest, typical American citizen.

Through the verses of great poets runs a familiar strain, through the works of great composers an oft-repeated tune and through the speeches of great orators a recurring and characteristic thought. These are the germs which exhibit the moving forces of their minds. During the war, “I propose to move immediately upon your works," “Unconditional surrender, “I shall take no backward step,” “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer,” are the beacon lights of the plans and strategy of Grant the soldier; at Appomatox, “The war is over,” “The rebels are our countrymen again;” at the threshold of the Presidency "Let us have peace”: on his bed of agony and death at Mount McGregor, when his power of speech was gone, writing to a Confederate General by his bedside, “Much as 1 suffer, I do it with pleasure if by that suffering can bo accomplished the union of my country,” are the indices of the labor, the aspirations and the prayer of Grant, the statesman and the patriot. Gov. Fifer followed with a brief speech. “Thirty years ago, ” he said, “the experiment of free popular government on this continent entered upon its great and final trial before the civilized world. American nationality, American liberty, American character and civilization, came up to the judgment bar and hour of the God of nations. It was a supreme l ! ’ ( libw r GOV. JOSEPH W. FIFER. crisis; for, if this free govenment fell, what other could ever hope to endure? When the great republic numbered her hosts and set captains over them it was found that Illinois, which had furnished the statesman, was destined also to furthe great captain of that historic crisis. He came from the people and his cause was theirs. “We are here to receive and dedicate this monument Such a gift is twice blessed; it blesses alike the giver and the takers. It proves that the great principles defended by Grant live immortal in the generous breast of the donor. For this patriotic testimonial I extend to Mr. Kohlsaat the thanks of the people of Illinois, and with the thanks I voice for them I mingle the congratulations of all lovers of liberty that he has been generously moved thus to link his name' with all that is worthy and noble and heroic in the history of his country. ” It is a mistake to suppose that the weather is colder the further north one goes. The northern pole of greatest cold is only about 300 miles northeast of Yakutsk, Siberia, where the mean annual temperature is a little lower than in the highest latitudes reached by Nares and GreelexsKOOO miles further north j

IT IS RIGHT IN LINE, IS THIS COLUMN OF FRESH INDIANA NEWS. A Large Number of Accidents—A Few Suicides and Deaths—And Other Important News. —Frank Ferry thrown from a buggy In a runaway at Columbus, fatally hurt. —Mrs. Thomas Swanger gored by a bull near Washington, will die from injuries. —lsaac Whitsell, a prominent farmer, residing west of Lafayette, died from sunstroke. —Walter Reeves, colored boy, fatally injured while “hanging on” the cars at Greencastle. —J. K. Murphy, of Henryville, has a plow horse that can trot his one-half mile in 1:08%. —Goshen Democrat says the number of divorce cases on the docket for the present term of court there is appalling. —William Davis, Eric Koons, Benjamin Keys, and Van Swanenger were killed by the explosion of a boiler at Frankfort. —At Lafayette, George W. Bennett, who shot and killed John Werkhoff and W. H. Scott, was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. —The 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Reed, of Tipton, was kicked by a cow and her leg was broken in three places. —Charles Lease, the 12-year-old son of A. G. Lease, of Van Buren Township, Grant County, was struck by lightning while in a barn and instantly killed. —Miss Florence Shearer, 20 years old, fell from the steamer Bluewing at Evansville and was drowned. She was returning from a pleasure trip up Green River. —During a pleasure trip down the Ohio River, on the* City of Chartiers, S. A. Culbertson, of New Albany, shot and killed a bald eagle that measured five feet from tip to tip. —lsaac Wells, a colored horse-thief, tried to sell a stolen animal to farmer McCullough, near Jeffersonville, but the latter marched the negro to town at the point of a gun-barrel. i —Two boys caught a catfish near the mouth of Silver Creek that measured thirteen inches across the head, weighed 150 founds, and had the undigested hide and skeleton of a dog in its stomach. —Rufus Alcorn, a well-known and highly respected citizen of Kokomo, fell dead while on the street in a distant part of town from his residence. He leaves a wife and two small children. Heart disease is the supposed cause of death. —Some vandals entered the Batson Cemetery, about four miles from Warren, Huntington County, and pushed over thirty-six monuments and tombstones. Many of them were broken, others separated at the joints, but all were thrown to the ground. * —The Bryear-old son of Sanford Hauser, while left alone with his 5-year-old sister, picked up a rifle standing against the wall and, putting a cap on it, pointed it at the little one and fired. The ball passed through the child from shoulder to shoulder, and she will die. They reside in Jackson Township, Owen County. —The ne\y design for the State Fair posters includes a racing scene as a central figure, with agricultural products as a border. Each corner is ornamented with a fine stock cut. The buildings and grounds have been photographed and will be worked in as a background. The posters will be done in six or seven colors and are to be 27x35 inches. —The Montgomery County Fair Association will set apart Tuesday, of fair week, for the children. In the declamation contest there will be prizes of S 3 and S 2 for boys and girls. For best original map of the Uited States, SI; second, 50 cents. Best map of Indiana, SI; second, 50 cents. Best map of montgemery County, 50 cents. Best diagram of a sentence containing not less than fifteen words, SI, second, 50 cents. Best exhibit of penmanship, SI; second, 50 cents. —The application of Mrs. Wm. Fields, of Elkhart, for a divorce from her husband, will result in a highly interesting divorce suit. They have always lived together as husband and wife, but Fields claims they were never married, and the supposed wife will base her fight to establish a legal claim to Mr. Fields as her husband on the relation they have borne to each other for so long, and the fact that she has always been recognized as his wife. A highly interesting constitutional case is expected. —W. V. Noland, manager of the Stillwell flour mills, Laporte County, went to Laporte and surreptitiously entered a room at the Standard Hotel, where he was found dying frqpi thg 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 mills is at death’s door from paralysis and Noland evidently feared his peculations would be found out Noland further said that he did not want to live unless he could live an honorable and honest life. —Mrs. John Mikesell and William Cripe, who eloped from Goshen last February, have been arrested in Wabash where they have been living together. —About a year ago the City Council of Crawfordsville sold, on credit an old fire-engine and hose to Fowler for SBSO. The other day the bill was sent in for payment, and the clerk wrote back saying that the new Town Board and repudiated the purchase, and that the engine was held awaiting orders from the Crawfordsville Council., • • —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 efrime seems to have been running away with and marrying the 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 one. Governors Hovey's intentions were good, nevertheless.

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