Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — Page 1

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DE LOK OB DE LOKD. En dis wo'ful worl' can’t 1 do as I please? Guess not, Brndder, guess not. Can’t I set right down an* take my ease, Wid all I can beg an’ borrer an’ seise, My head on my han’s, my han’s on my knees? Guess not, Brndder, guess not. Won’t some rich ’latlon take pity on me? Guess not, Brndder, guess not. Can’t I ’preach the roost whar de fat hens be. An’ do it so sly dat nobody ’ll see, An’ den git off wid no dog after me? Guess not, Brndder, guess not. Don* you tink dat de lazy man git froo de gate? Guess not, Brndder, guess not. Es he don’t hurry up will he be too late? An* den won’t be hev in anodder state A second perbation, an’ come out at lass Ju' as good as though he had trabbled sass? Guess not, Brndder, guess not. Es I don’t want de debbil to scratch on my grave. Go on, Brndder, go on, An’ holler, “Come up here, you old jack-a-knave. I’ve wafted an* waited for yob, honey dear; Git up outer dar.an’ cum along here; Go on, Brndder, go on. •Tse got a little corner close by de fire— Es you ain’t warm enuff you can hitch up Higher. ” Go on, Brndder, go on. An’ I say, "Misser Debbil. I ain’t your sen: You is werry kin’ to dig, but you’ve dug de wrong one. "I truss in de Lord, an’ he,’s lookin’ for me: Gpod-by, Misser Debbil —do yon s’pose that he Will erpologize, and let me go free? Jess so, Brndder, jess so. An* from dat narrer escape can I fly tip to Jerusalem in de sky? Jess so, Brndder, jess so. Well; den’ I guess I won’t do as I please, An’ I won’t res’ my han’s too much on my Jcuoes • As nigh as f possible can, I’ll do right; So I won’t be afraid ob de Lord’s daylight. Jess so, Brndder; jess s?. —lndependent.

"TANTIVY CLUB.”

BY THANE TAYLOR.

The room was brilliantly lighted by three crystal chandeliers. Around a long table, Uttered with periodicals, several individuals were reading or lounging, and the rest of the members present, numbering perhaps a score, were for the moment divided into two groups, respectively discussing politics and polo. In the latter and younger group was Agustus Tantivy, an exquisite of the first water, and owner of the club house which he ran chiefly for amusement; wealth and love of pleasure being the nine qua non ot membership. The polo men had become very animated over sonw point at issue in the last game played, when Fletcher, the rigid English Softer, a giant in size, appeared in the broad oorway and called the attention of the whole room upon himself by the extraordinary expression of his countenance, for he seemed; for the first time in his life, to be about to explode with laughter. “There’s a person at the door wanting admittance, and—l don’t know what to do about it,” stammered the man. “Who is inquired lor?” said one. “It’s not so plain, sir. There’s no card and —in fact—the stranger doesn’t seem able to talk.” ■ri “Why, fellow, what do you mean by acting so devilish queer ? Show the gentleman In, of course,” drawled Tantivy. The porter quickly disappeared, and, the curiosity of the Sybarites being excited, all eyes were upon him when, almost instantly, he returned, very red in the face, and in his arms he held a wicker basket which he brought in and carefully set on the table under the middle chandelier. The whole club moved forward to investigate the mystery, and there was a confused murmur of astonishment when they beheld, In the depth of the basket, lined with pink Bilk, an infant richly dressed and quietly slumbering. its tiny face was waxen white, and on its little head was a lace cap. “By Jove, here'sagamel” exclaimed Weed, who was ihe first one to find his voice. “How in the name of wonder did it come here?” cried-another. “I found it on the door-step, s r,” explained thd porter, enjoying the joke immensely. “But what can we do with it?” “Ugh. Send it to the Foundling’s Home,” responded one of thaolder men. “Unnatural mother'” was Hugh Severn’s comment, ar he thoughtfully regarded the ciflld. “Yes, pretty little beggar, it’s too bad!” chirruped lively Tom Chanter, tapping its cheek with his cane. “Aw—weal lace on its clothes,” said Tantivy, who had been examining the infant closely through his eye-glass, as though it was a fine work of art. “Hullo, ’Tivy! How the deuce do you know so much about dry goods?” laughed Harry Bristol, the greatest dandy of the lot. “Why, you see—er —my sister taught me the difference between weal and imitation lace, and it’s weally a wery important thing to understand, my deah fellow, for you may depend upon it if a young lady wears sham lace she either wants taste or means; both—er—you know, most fatal defects.” ’ “Gentlemen!” said Cyrus Burke, in a firm, sonorous voice. “I think our club ought to take up some philanthropic work, and I propose that we, as a body, adopt and educate this waif in the spirit of charity.” Great applause, upon which the infant opens its eyes, smiles and tosses aloft a coral toy covered with jingling silver bells. “The project meets with unanimous approval, continued Burka “Now then, let us make a solemn compact to maintain this child for a certain number of years, none of us to see our protege until he or she, whichever sex it may be. is, say, 17 years of age. Your hands upon it, gentlemen.” Twenty hands were joined above the child's head, and its fate was sealed. “The next thing is to name the waif,” said Burke.

“Y-a-a-s. By-the-by, is it a boy or a girl? Fletcher, you are the only married man heah. What do you say?” said Tantivy. “Oh! it’s a girl, sir, plainly; you see its hair parted in the middle. ” “So is Tivy’s. That proves nothing,” laughed Chanter. “What kind of an ornament is that?” said Augustus, disdaining to notice the reflection, and adjusting his gold-rimmed eyeglass again to examine a small enameled pin which fastened the infant's embroidered cloak. “Aw —a daisy. Suppose, then, we name it Daisy Blanc?” “Three cheers for Daisy Blanc, the ward of Tantivy Club I” proposed Weed. The infant, startled by the noise, made a very wry face, throwing its gallant corps of guardians into great consternation. “By Jove! it's going to faint!" exclaimed Tantivy, hastily putting his turquoise vinaigrette under the infant’s nose, with alarming effect Never before or since was laughter heard in a bachelors’ club with such an accompaniment “Here, Fletcher,” ordered Burke, “carry the child home toJyour wife, and to-morrow it shall be sent to Madam Campan.” Accordingly the basket was borne out and order restored. Madam Campan, previous to her marriage, had been at the head of a famous French academy, and, upon being left a widow without means, she determined to admit into her home a limited number of orphans of high parentage, to be educated with her daughter, Honora, aged 4. It was into this refined circle that Cyrus Burke succeeded in introducing the little Daisy, but only after considerable difficulty and the offer of extremely liberal terms, and, having concluded the arrangement, he nor any other member of the club took the least further thought about the personality of their ward, simply regarding the matter of her support as a contribution to charity. Many years passed. There had been some inevitable changes in “Tantivy Club,” only seven of the original members remaining, Burke still being one of the number. Since that memorable evening when Fletcher introduced the little stranger in a basket, the reading-room had been re-decorated several times, and was now more luxurious with gilt, frescoing and velvet than ever. I Here the immortal seven chanced to meet one evening, when Burke, drawing a notebook from his pocket, remarked: “ Gentlemen, I suppose you have not forgotten the infant we adopted in this room seventeen years ago? Assuredly not! Well, Daisy Blanc is now 18 years of age, the period of our guardianship is about at an end, and I have just received a communication from Madam Oampan stating that the young lady is fully accomplished, ind desires to relieve us of all further responsibility by becoming a teacher in one of the best private schools in the country. Our phi! anthropic work being therefore concluded, we are invited to meet Miss Blanc at an evening reception, in order to ascertain, I presume, from personal observation as far as may be, how faithfully the worthy Madam has fulfilled her trust Shall the invitation be

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Unanimous assent. “ I say, boys, suppose we each go and tekkll on the young lady separately pre vioufi to the mnentinn?” “ Iliat would be rather a good idea, I fancy,” drawled Augustus Tantivy, who had grown older and more exquisite than ever. “ For my part, I shall make no attempt to see her until the evening named—a week hence”—responded Burke with decision. All the others favored Tantivy’s plan. “Very well!” said Tom Chanter. see there are just six daysand six visitors. 80, to avoid clashing, we’ll toss the dice for days* Now it happened that Madam Campah was called imperatively from home, by a summons to the sick-oed of h» aged mother, who, we will premise, did not die at that time, but detained Madam, fearful of the event, the entire Week. It is true she left her daughter in charge of the six young-lady pupils, but Honora, being little older than the others, was easily persuaded to enter into a plan for having some amusement out of tile expected visits. “Listen here, girls!” cried Madge, the mad-cap, in a great flutter of excitement “We’ll out holes in the panels of one of the doors leading into the drawing-room, so that we can examine these fine fellows at our ease, and the girl who happens to be best pleased with the one under inspection at the time shall personate Daisy. She, of course, having the first choice. ” Agay peai of laughter greeted Madge’s proposal, and nothing was talked of but their wild {dot and its details. No two of Madam Campan’s pupils were alike in temperament or appearanca Daisy Blanc, the favorite of all, was a little creature, white and dainty as a snowflake, with golden hair, fine as mist, and long, curling lashes, shading the earnest brown eyes. Alice also was fair, but attractive, rather than beautiful, and extremely devoted to fashion. At the appointed hour, on Monday, the seven merry-makers were in their places behind the library door, peering through ingeniously contrived apertures, when the first visitor, Harry Bristol, entered the drawing room. • With easy self-possession he glanced around, ana, finding himself quite alone, sauntered to the mirror, to ascertain whether his cravat, wristbands and blonde mustache were still in faultless shape. Alice observed particularly that every article of his attire was of the finest description, from his great seal ring and fancy sun umbrella to the little gold puppy dangling from his watch-chain. “How do you like him?” she whispered anxiously to Daisy. “Not at all,” was the reply. “Then Til choose him, for I think he is just splendid.” Accordingly, Miss Alice, daintily dressed in pale blue silk with many flounces, glided into the drawing-room and held out her hand to Harry Bristol, who advanced to meet her with a gay smile. “I don’t think it’s fair to listen, girls,” said Miriam, who was of the strong-minded literary turn, a decided brunette, with burning black eyea “No, Indeed!” cried Fleda; “none of us in her place would like to be watched. Let’s go up stairs and wait for her. ” Two long hours passed before Harry Bristol took his leave, and Alice rejoined her companions with blushing cheeks and a conscious expression. “He proposed to me and I accepted him!” cried sire, frankly, in answer to their eager looks of inquiry. “Oh, oh, oh!” exclaimed the chorus, breathless with amazement at the serious turn things were taking. “And he thinks you are Daisy Blanc?” cried volatile but good-natured Fleda, the greatest slattern in school “Yes, and oh, girls! our engagement is to be a dead secret until after the reception. Remember that We must stand by each other through this business, now we have begun it” “We’ll never breathe it, honor bright!” declared the whole band.

Tuesday they were ready for the next chapter of the romance, and Hugh Severn came upon the stage. Miriam contemplated his grave and meditative features with peculiar satisfaction, and when, after a brief interval of waiting, he began to examine the books on the center table, she exclaimed in low tones: “Ah, this gentleman has literary tastes. He knows the value of time and uses every moment to advantage. If Daisy is willing, I’ll play her part here.” Daisy instantly consented. The interval of Miriam's absence seemed endless, and when at length she rejoined her friends they had to use all their powers of persuasion to draw from her the Intensely interesting news that she also had received and accepted a proposal of marriage.

“Why, whatever could you have been thinking of, Miriam?” exclaimed frivolous Fleda “He's awfully old Positively, I saw a bald place on his head!” “No matter, I have met my destiny,” was the solemn reply. “I wonder if we shall all receive proposals,” remarked Lily, who adored the aesthetic, and was tra'ning herself in the limp and languid style. “Oh, isn’t it too perfectly, utterly delightful for anything!” cried impulsive Madge, clapping her hands, and fairly screaming in her enjoyment of the frolic. “It’s actually becoming intense!” murmured Lily, who was always quivering with soul, and never gushed. It was Weed who furnished the entertainment on Wednesday. Weed, the free-and-easy, whose “den” resembled an old curiosity shop out of order, and whose dress was seldom neat, though invariably in the latest style. They watched him as he advanced, tossing his hat on the table, his gloves on the floor, his cane into the nearest corner, and throwing himself indolently into a fourth place. “That’s my boy!” chattered Fleda, who had suffered untold woes on account of her habitual carelessness, and hailed this masculine counterpart of herself with delight. Daisy had no objection, so Fleda danced into the drawing-room, her beautiful hair in a tangle of sunny curls, and wearing a sailor costume of dark blue, with leather belt and blouse waist An hour later she rushed up stairs, and, with suppressed excitement, threw herself into the arms of Madge, her dearest friend, andpartner in m’schief. “Fledn, tell us quickly, did he propose?” cried Madge. “Yes! Yes! He did, and I like him immensely. Oh, I think I must have been created for him. because he de flared that of all things in the world he hates primness and enjoys a convenient litter of things about him. Isn’t it jolly?” The fun had now reached its height, and the girls were in a nervous fever to see who would come next

The hour and the moment arrived, the door opened, and behold, the inevitable Tantivy! He had absolutely exhausted the resources of his wardrobe to make himself utterly irresistible, and his appearance created a profound sensation. “Daisy or Uiyfor him!” was the general exclamation. “Let it be Lily, then,” said Daisy, viewing the sybarite with a quiet smile. “Well, you are a curious girl if you don’t fancy him. He is simply adorable! What a mercy that I put on this particular dress today. I know he will admire it ” Her dress was a delicate fawn color, made after the trailing, classical style; the neck cut square, and at her belt she wore a bunch of brilliant red tulips. Augustus Tantivy was enraptured by the vision of delicacy and refinement that glided so gracefully toward him. “Ah! Chawmed to meet you. Miss Blanc. Very much so,” murmered he with great empressment, bowing very low and just touching the slender hand held out to him with his perfumed lipa Seating himself so that the young lady could not fail to notice the fine embroidery on his hosiery, the gentleman readjusted his long blonde mustache, the little finger being correctly curved, and before the eavesdroppers left their posts of observation they heard him languidly “I had no ideah how vewy agweeable an acquaintance with Miss Blanc would be, otherwise, I assure you, it would have been impossible for me to have wemained away until now. Weally it would.” The sequel was obvious, and Lily’s collapsed condition on her return only confirmed the general expectation. “Aha!” exclaimed Honora, “I see he has given you the button-hole bouquet he wore.” “Yes, Honora, and his ring also. It is mine, now,” replied lily, holding out her hand to display the large diamond glittering on her engagement finger.” “Well! Did you ever hear of such an extraordinary week as this? Four of us engaged in as many days,” said Honora “As for me, I would be more difficult to suit. Few men have the exalted ambition and nobility of soul that I only would be willing to mate with. ” “Did you nottoe his beautiful hair, Ms per-

fectly elegant attitudes and that lovely pink silk ’handkerchief?” murmured Lily, in a kind of dreamy ecstasy. ‘Oh, you are perfectly welcome ijjo him!” cried Madge. “100 believe a bit of mud on his patent-leather boots would fOrfivfir Uh* settle his mind." . “My precious Augustus!” breathed Lily, with ame-away sigh, tA which piece of affectation her companion* laughed immoderOU Friday Tom Chanter sauntered into the drawing-room, his bright eyes gleaming with humor, and, all unconscious of being under inspection, he hummed a lively opera. Inwardly hoping that Miss Blanc would not overwhelm him with her dignity, the fellows who "had already met her being mysteriously reticent on the subject. “Madge, Madge, your time has come!” said Daisy, detecting her schoolmate's admiration. Madge did not deny the gentle insinuation, and when she burst in without ceremony Upon Tom, attired 1U a bewitching pink dress, it proved a case of love at first was afra d Tantivy had ruined my prospects,” said the happy Tom, after they had come to an understanding, ‘‘for since he was here he seems exactly like an engaged lover —go absent-minded and all that, you know; and what most aroused my suspicion was that I couldn't get a word out of him in reference to his visit I can’t imagine what ails him: but no matter now that yon are mine.” “He is certainly a Very elegant gentleman,” replied Madge, demurely, “but not to be compared with you, in my estimation. ” Tom found it impossible to resist the tender naivete of her upward glance: and, Suddenly clasping the blushing Madge in his strong arms, he whispered: “It is bliss to havd you say that!” While waiting for their last visitor to appear next day, Honora, with an air of high superiority, remarked: “I must say, girls, I think you have’ acted with astounding precipitation, not to say actual indelicacy in this matter. The whole school engaged! What a revelation for mother! lam glad I am not Bo easily impressed. Daisy and lat least are not entangled; but—ah! who is this?” Catching the sound of a firm, manly footstep, she quickly Purveyed the drawingroom, and saw the tragedian-like Montalto entering. He was dressed entirely in black, with a silk hat in his hand and a light overcoat on his arm.

Honora observed the quiet dignity and conscious power of every movement, the haughty curve of his lips, and the fire in his dark eye. “He is superb!” was her involuntary exclamation. “Hark! the conquering hero comes!” quoted Daisy, laughing with the rest. “Go! Go!” cried they, gayly, forcing her away. “I shall be proud to make his acquaintance,” said Honora, departing, “but, depend upon it, there will be no engagement this time. Beings like us never rush into serious situations vnthout due consideration.” After such positive assertions, Honora Campan could not be induced to confess exactly what happened in her private interview with Montalto. Subsequent events, however, left her protestations and pretensions open to suspicion. And, after all, the real Daisy Blanc had met none of her guardians. “She’s as playful as a kitten,” said Tom Chanter, thinking of winsome Madge in her ruffled pink dress. Montalto, frowning darkly, hastened to correct him. “Those are terms fit to apply to a romp, whereas Miss Blanc is dark-eyed and majestic.” Chanter and Weed laughed this opinion to scorn. “No, weally, you are dead wrong, Montalto, her eyes are blue as the violets; I assure you they are,” drawled Tantivy, not half liking the discussion of his fiancee’s charms. “My dear fellow, you must be dreaming,” said Severn patronizingly, having a distinct and thrillingremembranceof Miriam’s black orbs. “Wager you any amount- that her hair is auburn and her eyes a beautiful gray,” said Bristol hotly. “Poh! These fools are all color blind!” thought Severn, while Montalto strode away in disgust. “Pll tell you what, boys!” said Burke, “if the young lasiy is so agreeable, one of you ought io marry her. ” “Hum! Do youthink so, weally?” replied Tantivy, with a very knowing smile. “Well, I agree with you about that, and we’ll consider the subject.” “Precisely!” echoed Tom Chanter, ironically, we'll think about it” Each man enjoyed the fancied delusion of how he had sola the others; and Burke alone, having a clear conscience, wondered at their difference of opinion, and the warmth of feeling displayed in discussing the personality of Daisy Blanc. Madam Campan was Anxious that Daisy’s appearance should reflect credit upon her own motherly care, and,with the instructive taste of a true French woman, she wished her to be dressed entirely in white, at their little reception. Perhaps she also indulged a secret nope that her darling would be spared the drudgery of being a school teacher by becoming the wife of one of her wealthy bachelor guardians, and certainly, when she floated into the drawing-room that evening,Daisy Blanc was exquisitely beautiful; a being who seemed made only for luxury and love. Cyrus Burke thought so, when, appearing rather late, he found his six friends paying devoted attention to one or the other young ladies, while the fairest of them all stood near the door in solitary neglect Madam Campan came into the room almost at the same instant with Cyrus Burke, and after casting a look of bewilderment on the scene, she hastened to greet him. “Mr. Burke,you are, I believe, the only one here yet unacquainted with our Daisy, and I have great pleasure in now presenting you. ”

She had hardly ceased speaking when Augustus Tantivy with Lily clinging on his arm, approached the preceptress, and diverted her attention by saying: “Madam, I have the extreme happiness and honah to inform you that Miss Blanc has accepted the offah of my hand in marriage, and, since you have beenflike smother to her, I trust I nave jjour consent to our union.” , . , < This little speech, uttered with affectation, and concluding with an elaborate bow, created a great flutter among the guilty girls, and before any explanation could be made the five other accepted lovers stepped forward and made the Same claim. “Madam. Pardon me There is evidently a mistake It is I who am the favored suitor fbr that lady’s hand,” said Montalto, frowning darkly. “On the contrary,” declared Tom Chanter, confidently, “Daisy Blanc has promised to become my wife, and that shortly.” “Nothing like it, sir. She is mine,” said Weesi, tersely. “Preposterous!” ejaculated Severn. “Let the young lady speak for herself. She will deny your bold assertion, admitting that she is mine.” “There is certainly some misunderstanding here, gentlemen,” said Madam Campan, with dignity, and now fully believing that her pupils had been playing one of their mischievous tricks again. Taking the real Daisy by the hand, with an affectionate caress, she continued: “This is Miss Daisy Blanc, gentlemen, and I do not*think she is at present engaged to any one.” The other young ladies were then named and presented in turn, and Cyrus Burke, after all. was left in undisputed possession of the Ward of “Tan Ivy Club. (Chicago Ledger. ___________________

Macaulay’s Pen.

It seems uo doubt to many a reader of Macaulay’s History as if he wrote without effort, and as if the charms of his style were the gift of nature rather than the product of art, so spontaneously do they appear to flow from his pen. .It was the general opinion of his literary friends tlfat he wrote with great rapidity and made few corrections in his manuscripts. On the contrary, we are told by his nephew and biographer that he never allowed a sentence to pass until it was as good as he could make it, and would often rewrite paragraphs and whole chapters, that he might gain even a slight improvement in the arrangement or expression. After writing thus carefully he corrected again, and his manuscripts were covered with erasures. He paid equal attention to proof-sheets. He could not rest until the lines were level to a hair’s breadth, and the punctuation correct to a comma; until every paragraph concluded with a telling sentence, and every iwntence flowed like running water*

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 11,1883.

Borne Singular Stories Concerning Its Tremendous Kx plosive [New YOrk SpeeUL] One of my friends in this conference had been an eminent contractor, and something was said about the Irish making a dynamite war on England, on which this gentleman remarked: “I have had a good deal to do with nitroglycerine. I did some important Government work, such as the making of breakwaters, where the took brought io me in large pieces, tad we had to blow it up, and used nitroglycerine for thit purpose; It is the most destructive thing you can Conceive Ot A little cartridge Of it as thick as the end of a musket barrel, dropped to the bottom of an oil well, will shatter the most tremendous primitive rock. Yon can take a piece of it half as big as your hand andit will blow a rock as big as this room in which we are sitting ’all to flinders. I can tell you of a very singular property about nitro-glycerine. On one evasion an ordinance was passed in a certain city where I was doing public work imposing a penalty of SSOO forbringing nitro-glycerine within the city limits. I had to haVe it, so I told tny foreman tb put that glycerine Under my table, at which I sat writing. As it is exploded by concussion, you may imagine that for a few days I was a little skittish. There was enough glycerine there concealed by that tablecloth to have blown up half a dozen blocks of that city. People used to come into my room, sit a few minutesj and suddenly one or more would put their hands to their head and complain of headache. Not being subject to headaches myself, I could not under stand it. I suppose that from one-half to three-fourths Of all my visitors who fiat with me more than ten minutes would have those headaches. One day a man came into my office who had been blowing out oil-wells in Pennsylvania. He sat there fifteen minutes and suddenly said: * Why , I have a headache; you must have nitro-glycerine here.’ ‘Oh, no,’said I, with a smile. ‘Yes,’ said he, ‘ this is a nitro-glycerine headache. I think I smell it, too.’ He began to sniff his nose. ‘There is a very slight odor, hardly perceptible, in the stuff, and it looks like a box Of lard.’ With this my visitor lifted the tablecloth and said: ‘ Have you got it there ?’ pointing to the boxes. * Yes,’ said I, with a laugh, ‘that is nitro-glycerine.’ ‘ Well,’ said he, *it gives the headache to a large proportion of people who sit near it.’ * “Did you have any accident?” said I. “No, I did not; but a follow-contrac-tor, who was doing some work in Canada, was driven out of that country by an accident that happened to him in a very simple way. He had been using nitro-glycerine, and it is supposed that some of it got spilled on the tire of a wagon, which. was left unmoved for sometime. One day he hitched ahorse to the wagon and started to drive it off, and then that small amount of stuff adhering to the tire blew up as the wheels moved, and really destroyed two-thirds of that little town. The people around were killed, the hotel was blown to pieces, two or three blocks were devastated, and my associate was unable to do any contracting work in Canada. He hastily sold whrft he left there to a native, and crossed the river and came away, otherwise they would have sued him for all the damage done to that town.”

Arkansas Bob’s Prayer for Briggs. It was a touching sight to see how the boys stood around the dead form of Briggs and endeavored to hide their emotion and failed.

The tears ran down the face of Arkansas Bob like rain off the gable-end of a com-crib, and Ted Williams and Jim Henderson and several more bowed their heads, while their forms shook with the sobs they would not allow to to escape. The boys dug a grave on the banks of the Brazos river, and that night, as the clouds drifted away and the moonlight fell upon the snow-covered ground and sparkled amid the ice-laden limbs of the tall forest trees, we laid poor Briggs down in his narrow resting place. The only requiem that was sung was the turbid Brazos as it surged along on its way to the sea—a mass sung by nature.

When the grave had been filled, Jim Henderson said: “I think we ought to have some kind of service. It ain’t right, by a dam sight, to go away without sayin’ somethin’ over the grave—any you fellows got a Bible ?” No one had a Bible, nor had seen one in a number of years. “Well, suppose some, one say a sorter of a prayer,” The boys scratched their heads, glanced at one another for a moment, and then looked away off into the woods.

Finally some one whispered, “Sish! Arkansas Bob’s goin’ to pray,” and he did. “Oh, Lord," he said, “I guess in your opinion I’m pretty tough, but I ain’t askin’ nuthin’ for myself, it’s for Briggs. He is dead now, but was as white a man as ever walked. He never did no man a hurt, and he had a heart in him as big as a mule, and no one, as I’ve heard, ever said a word agin him. I don’t know as what I say will have much influence, but Briggs stood well - with us down here, and, although I don’t know much about his career, or his history, or his family, he was a man you could bank on every clatter. He gave a sick Mexican $4.50 once for medicine, and then turned right round and nursed him through a fever, but the infernal Greaser hadn’t been well more’n two days before he stole Briggs’ saddle-bags. Ah! Lord, there hain’t any preacher nowhere ’round here, or we’d had him to say something more pinted to you-than I can say it. I never pattered any with the Bible, and can’t just now remember a hymn-song, but I’m a man of my word; I mean what I say, and Briggs, if he gets a chance, will make a good record in heaven as any one that ever got there. He had, away down in his heart, something that was square and as true as steel, and, oh, Lord, you mustn’t go back on that kind of a -man, ’cause they’re too skeerce in -these parts. Amen. ” The prayer was as rough as Bob, but no more sincere, as was evidenced by his tearful eye and trembling lip. After the prayer the boys ranged themselves on one side of the grave, and, drawing their six-shooters, fired a salute over their dead comrade, and, while the sharp reports were still echoing through the vaults of the forest, they turned and left the scene.— New Orleans Times-Democrat. ■

A stranger dropped in one morning before breakfasf at a Washington drug store and called for a bottle of Congress water. The intelligent clerk ducked

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beneath the counter and promptly produced a bottle of old Monongahela.The customer tasted it tad then, depositing, his glass, remarked: “Do you ball tha£(jongress water?" “That’s it,” answered the pill compounder, smiling pleasantly. Congressman who oomes in here drinks it” — Brooklyn Eagle.

An Old-Fashioned Dainty.

There are several styles of making the Welsh pedantically sailed the ‘ , the first requisite is to have the pfoper character of cheefie. It requires a sounds sharp, bld And Crumbly cheese. I have found the English Cheshire, or the American imitation thereof, to, be the best for this purpose; the next is the Parmesan. The bread, I would say, should be of the very best quality, light, sweet and pure. I will now give you the old English plan for making a Welsh rabbit Toast a slice or two of day-old bread, not scotched or burnt, but to a nice, crisp, golden color; blitief these well tad lay them tipcto a Warn plate; Now ctit up into small pieces four ounces of cheese, put into a small sauce-pan with a teaspoonful of tatkde English mustard, a little black pepper, A pinch of salt and a half a tumbler of ale; place on the fire and stir until thoroughly melted, then pour it over the toast and, accompanied by a glass of good ale or beer, proceed with a thankful heart to discuss.

Ax American Rabbit.—Make slices of toaSt, lay thgm on a hot dish find pour over them a little hot milk or water and set the dish aside on the range to keep warm; now proceed exactly as directed in the above, except that you use milk instead of the ale. Another PlaN.—Mix with fl quarter of a pound of Cheshire or Parmesan cheese an equal quantity of fine bread crumbs and a quarter of a pound of good butter; and. a. teaspoonful of made mustard, a salt-spoonful of salt, and a dflsh Of blflck peppef; Mix all well together and beat it to a smooth paste in a mortar. Spread this paste neatly and thickly on slices of toast, and place them in the oven to become thoroughly hot and slightly brown; placing a stout sheet of white paper over the dish until hot and then removing it prevents the cheese from becoming too brown or dry. Another Style.—Cut or grate a quarter of a pound of cheese, put it into a saucepan with a small tumbler of milk or cream, two ounces of the best butter, a table-spoonful of made mustard, and a pinch each of pepper and salt; place on the fire and stir until melted; then add and stir rapidly in the yelks of three eggs; when the mixture begins to set, form it into a roll, put it on a hot dish and serve immediately— The Caterer.

How Perfume Is Extracted.

One of the best methods of obtaining perfumes is by the use of grease. The process is called maceration. The best fat employed is marrow, which is melted in a water bath and strained. While it is still warm the flowers are thrown in and left to digest for several hours. They are then taken out and fresh ones are placed in the grease. This is continued for several days. The grease and perfume are then separated by the use of alcohol. Beef marrow is not the only substance used in extracting the odors from flowers. Inodorous oils are also used, especially refined olive oil, which is more extensively employed in the South of Europe. The process used for delicate plants, such as jassamine, tuberose and cassia, which will not allow the use of heat, is on the principle of absorption. A layer of purified lard and such mixture is spread on the glass bottom of a square wooden box, and upon this freshly gathered flowers are spread every morning as long as the flower is in bloom. The boxes are kept shut, and the grease soon acquires a very strong odor. In saturating oil, instead of glass bottoms to the boxes wire ones are used, upon which cloths soaked in oil are laid, and the boxes or frames are piled upon each other to keep them close. After the oil-soaked cloths are sufficiently charged with the they are placed in a press and the oil is squeezed out.— York Sun.

A Vegetarian’s Experience.

A vegetarian reports to the British Medical Journal the result of his year’s experience without meat. At first he found the vegetables insipid, and had to use sauces and pickles to get them down. As soon as he became accustomed to the diet all condiments were set aside except a little salt. The desire for tobacco and alcohol left him spontaneously. Then all his digestive functions became regular, and he found himself wholly free from headaches and bilious attacks. After three months a troublesome rheumatism left him, and at the end of a year he had gained eight pounds in weight. He believes he can do more mental labor than before, and that all his senses are more acute. For breakfast he has brown bread, .coffee; dinner consists of two vegetables, brown bread, and pie or pudding; for tea he rejoices in bread and jam, with milk and water, and for supper, bread, jam, cold pudding, and, as a luxury, boiled onions. Eggs, milk, butter and cheese are used only in very small quantities. The dietist is a doctor, and his statement is drawing out many similar ones from medical men.

Little Johnny About the Pig.

One time I was in Mister Brily’s shop and he had cut off a pig’s head and set it on top of a bar’l, and old Gaffer Peters he cum in and seen it, and he sed, old Gaffer did: “Mister Brily, yure pig is a gitten out.” Mr. Brily he Inked and then he said: “That so, Gaffer, you jest take that stick and rap him on the nose fore he can draw it in.” So Gaffer he tuke the stick and snook ■up reel sli, and fetched the pig’s hed a regular nose-wiper, hard as ever he cude with the stick, and kanocked the pigs hed off the bar’l, and you never seen sech a stonish ole man! But Mr. Brily he ptended like he wesn’t a lookn, and ole Gaffer he sed: “Mister Brily, you must excuse me, but wen I struck at that pig it dodged and cut its hed off agin the edge of the bar’l.”— The Argonaut.

Pbof. J. P. Stelle, of Alabama, is down on wfiat he calls the “carp farce.” He thinks the carp is no better than the buffalo fish. He calls it the “aquatic buzzard,” and says it is the “meanest fish <4 any waters; a nasty, grisly-fleshed kind of mud-sucker, winch digs in the muck and feeds on decaying substances. Gobtschakoff, who was a great linguist, once said, in reply to a remark relative to his power to keep state secrets, that he knew how to hold his tongue in six languages.

ERIN GO BRAGH.

K«aoluttens tfce irtafc National Leaguei The Oppressions of England and the Sufferings of Ireland Recited. Thelrtah-American people, assembled tn convention at Philadelphia, submit to the intelllUence and right reason of their iellow-men that the duty of a Government is to preserve the Uvea of the governed; to defend their liberty; to protect their property; to maintain peace And hrder; to Allow each portion of the people an equitable and efficient voice in the legislature; and to promote the general welfare by wise, just and humane laws. We solemnly declare, and cite unquestioned history and the universal knowledge of living men in testimony thereof—--1 That the English Goveroment has existed in Ireland, net to preserve theTiyes of the governed, but to destroy them. Entire communi- & r S‘ Kwans'i' sssask; suspended front the gibbet; pilling babes have been impaled on points of its bayonets, bMaiwe, in their own words, its emissaries liked that kind of government; its gold has been folded in the hand of the assassin, and has rewarded the infamy of the perjured traitor fits treacherous ialsehood has lured patriot s to unsuspected death, as if the sword, cannon, torch, scaffold, dagger and the explosive were not enough; it enjoys the unique infamy of being the only Government known to ancient or modern tifnes which has emplayed famine for the destruction of those fro* whom it claimed allegiance, forcibly tabbing the Irish, people of the fruits of theif own toil; jpfodticed b¥ their own labor; it has buried, not a hundred, nbt a thousand, but moTO than a million of the Irish race uhshroiiaed, uncoffined, in graves of hunger; it has mercilessly compelled other millions in compulsory poverty to seek in alien lands the bread they were entitled to in their own. There is no form of cruelty known to the lowest savage which it has flos practiced 0n the Irish people in the name of the hfchest civilization; there 18 no device of fiendish ingenuity it has not adopted to reduce their number, within two years it has massacred children, and woman’s body has been the victim of its licensed ruffians. There is no species of destructive attack, however insidious or violent, ancient or modern, rude or scientific, whether directed against life or matter, in any portion Of the globe, fSt Which its barbarities In Ireland have not furnished ttn example. There is no form of retaliation to which dfispaif or madness may resort, for which English cruelty in Ireland is not exclusively responsible. 2. We declare that the English Government in Ireland has net defended the liberty of the people, but has annihilated it. The statutes enacted einpe the invasion amount to a series of coercion UWs framed to deprive citizens of all vestiges of personal freedom; aiid reduce them to outlawry, in order to confiscate their property and compel them to flee to foreign lands. Since the beginning of the present century, when the Irish Parliament was abolished, the laws for Ireland have been made in England, and during that period the habeas corpus act and the right Of trial by jury have been suspended. More than fifty times hOrdes of Soldiers have been loosed upon a people forbidden to bear armS; and a state of war, with all its attendant horrors, with occasionally those of retaliation, has been maintained. To-day the representatives of the peoSile are in prison guiltless of crime, freedom of peech has been abolished, the freedom of the press abolished, and the-right of a peaceable public meeting is annulled. NO flan a house is secure, night or day, from armed marauders, who may insult and harass his family. Without a warrant a citizen may be thrown into prison, Und without counsel he may be put on a mock trial before a prejudiced Judge and packed jury. On the lying averment of purchased wretches, his liberty may be sacrificed, or his life taken, in the name of law.

8. Instead of protecting the property of the people t the English Government in Ireland has been conspicuous for its injury and ruin. Out of 20,000,000 acres of producing land, 6,000,000 have been allowed to lie in waste, dnd the ownership of the remainder has been generally acquired by force or fraud, and been retained In the hands of ravenous monopolists, jvho have annually drained the country of its money in the form of rents, no portion of which goes back to the Irish people. In addition to this, an iniquitous system of taxation imposes on the people a gigantic burden for the sustenance of a foreign army, for an oppressive constabulary, for salaries to supernumerary officials, for pensions to English favorites, for blood-money to informers, and for a vulgar court, whose extravagance is equaled only by the shame of its pretensions. The nfttUrally-created capital bf the country is sent to England on one pretext or another, and brings no exchange except articles of English manufacture, which the Irish people, under self-government, would produce for themselves, or purchase in America. Irish manufactures that have been deliberately destroyed by England in the last century are still dormant. Her Immense watef-pOwer turns nowheels; her canals are all but impassable; her rivers are obstructed; her useful clay and valuable minerals are untouched; in her beautiful harbors are few ships, except those of her enemy. English law for the protection of property in Ireland has been a lance to make Ireland bleed at every pore for the benefit of the heartless landlords and English manufacturers. 4. The English Government In Ireland has not maintained peace and order, but has, for 700 yenrSjbroken her peace and destroyed her order. 6. The English Government in Ireland docs not allow that portion of the empire an equitable and efficient voice In the legislature. In England, oiie-twelfth of the population votes for members of Parliament, while in Ireland not oae-twenty-fifth of the population votes for members of Parliament. In England registration laws are favorable to voters; in Ireland they are Inimical to voters. In England all classes of the populace are fairly represented; in Ireland the poor law is employed to secure to landlords and place-hunters a preponderance in the national delegation. In England the judiciary is independent Of the executive and sympathizes with the people; in Ireland the judiciary is a creature, and part of the executive, and is appointed exclusively from the enemies of the people. In England the magistracy is chosen without regard to creed ! in Ireland 97 per cent, of the magistrates having jurisdiction Over the people's liberty are selected from a creed rejected by 78 per cent, of the people, and a detestable spirit of religious bigotry is thus legalized and perpetuated. In England the laws creating civil disabilityon account of religion have long been dead; in Ireland the laws made under Edward UI., Queen Elizabeth, Earl of Stratford, Charles HI., Queen Anne and their successors ara still vital tertorment a people for whose oppression no statute is found too hoary by the venal and truculent Judges. Every measure of legislation proposed by an English member receives courteous consideration; any measure, however just, necessary or humane, proposed by patriotic Irish membersis certain of contemptuous rejection by a combined majority of both great English parties. Thus the educational system' of Ireland is notoriously inadequate; thus it is that evictions unknown in England, and declared by Gladstone to be almost equivalent to a death sentence, are of daily occurrence in Ireland, and have nearly doubled in five years, in spite of the boasted benefits of Gladstone’s land laws; that although, according to Government returns, criminals are twenty-seven in 10,000 of English population, and only sixteen in 10,000 of Irish population, in spite of the'exasperation to which they are subjected, yet England enjoys constitutional liberty, and Ireland is under worse than martial law. Intrepid and persistent attempts by patriot Irish deputations to obtain in English Parliament just and humane laws for Ireland always have been, and, it is our belief, must continue to be a failure. Now, therefore, in view of these facts, be it Resolved, By the Irish-American people in convention assembled, that the English Government in Ireland, originating in usurpation, perpetuated by ioroe. having failed to discharge any of the duties of the Government, and never having acquired the consent of the governed, has no moral right whatever to exist in Ireland, and that it is the duty of the Irish race throughout the world to sustain the Irish people in the employment of all legitimate means to substitute for it a national self-government. Resolvea, That we pledge our unqualified and constant support, moral and liteial, to our countrymen tn Ireland in efforts to recover national self-government, and in order the more effectually to promote this object by the consolidation of all our resources, and the creation of one responsible and authoritative body, to speak for Ireland in America, that all societies present In this convention, and all t at may hereafter comply with the oonstitu’ions < f admission, be organized into the Irish National League Of America, for the purpos • of supporting the Irish National League of Ireland, of which Charles Stewart Parnell is Preside nt. Resolved, That we heartily indorse the sentiment of Bishop Butler, of Limerick, that every stroke of Forster’s savage lash was for Irishmen a new proof of Parnell’s worth and title to the crnfidence and gratitude of his countrymen. Resolved. That we sympathize with the laborers of Ireland in their efforts to improve their condition, and, as we have sustained farmers in their assaults upon the landlord garrison, we now urge upon farmers justice and humane consideration for laborers, in words, for the employment of which an Irish member of Parliament was imprisoned, we demand that farmers allow laborers "a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work." Resolved, That as the manufactures of Great Britain are the chief source Of her material greatness, and as they are already declining under the influence of American competition, we earnestly counsel our countrymen in Ireland to buy nothing in England which they can r roduce in Ireland, or procure from America or France, and we pledge ourselves to promote Irish manufactures by encouraging their Import into America, and to use our utmost endeavors to secure plain statements of fact, and a discrimination in the patronage, and to persuade the American tradesmen from keeping English, goods on sale. Aesoloedy That an English Ministry* oaten-

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tatioualy liberal,’ bus earned the contestant and detestation of the fair-minded men throughout the World more than 1,000 dtitefis «f Ireland without accusation or trial, among whom Were noble-hearted WMdy gaged in works of ffietct (Huong evicted vtetlffie ofhndlord capacity and English iaW. _ Resolved, That thia convention thanks the HL Rev. John Ireland, Bishop of Bt Paul: Rt Bev. John O’Connor, Bishop of Omaha; Rt Rev. John Lancastfif Spalding, bishop of Peoria; Most Rev, John Williams, Archbishop of Boston; Rt Rev. a V. Ryan, Bishop of Buffalo; MoMT&ev Patrick a Foehan, Archbishop of Chicago; Rt. Bes. Edward Fitzgerald, Bishop of Little Rock, and their co-laborers, for their efficient efforts in providing homes for Irish immigrants in the United States. "The people of Ireland are, by the law of God and the nation, entitled to live by their labor in thefr native land, whose fertile sofi is abundantly able to nourish them, but since the brutal Government compels large numbers to emigrate, it is the duty of their countrymen to Warn them against the snares of poverty in large cities, and assist them in the agricultural regions. Resolved, That the policy of the English Government, in first reducing the Irish peasantry to abject poverty, and then sending them penniless to the United States, dependent upon American charity, is unnatural, inhuman, and an outrage upon the American Government and people. We respectfully direct the attention of the United States, Government to this iniquity, and protest against its continuance, and instruct the officials who shall be chosen by this convention to present our protest to the President of the United States, and respectfully. but firmly, to urge upon the President that it is the duty Of the Government of the United States to decline to support the paupers whose pauperism began under, and is the fault of English misgovernment, and to demand of England that she send no more of het paupers to these spores to become a burden upon the American people. Resolved, That this convention welcomes the sturdy and Undaunted patriot and prudent custodian, Patrick Egan, Who. to protect the Land League funds from the robber hands of the English Government, voluntarily abandoned his private business and accepted a long exile in foreign lands, the integrity of whose guardianship has been certified, after a minute examination of his books, by the distingnished and independent patriots, John Dillon, the Rev. Eugene Sheehy and Matthew Harris. Grateful for his invaluable services, his country - men rejoice that they possess, on this important occasion, the advantage of his wise and experienced counsel, and are proud to welcome him to their hearts and their homes.

FASHIONS IN DRESS.

For the Ladles, Bra buckles are all the rage. Leather fans are in high favor. Mourning fans are edged with crape, Even man ties are made of plaid stuffs. Oashmebels the popular early spring dj?<* fabric. >’■ Gay colors in costumes are worn only ip the house. Brides’ dresses are made with elegant simplicity this season. Gold thistles and gold bum are the latest millinery and hair ornaments. » 1 Alicante brown and Soldat red are popular new shades of these colors. Amber, topaz and all yellow stones are in vogue for ornamental jewelry. Chicken down—the color of the newlyhatched—is the latest shade of yellow. Leather buckles appear among new ornaments for hats, bonnets and dresses Sleeves of street costumes remain tight and plain, and are larger than last season, Plaid skirts worn under plain fabric polonaises and overdresses are In high favor. Both high and low chignons are worn by fashionable women, but they must be small Long shell or metal hair-pins take precedence of all other ornaments for the coiffure. The bridal coiffure most in favor is wavy in front and braided into a close knot in the back.

For the Gentlemen. Business Suits.— Scotch homespun plaids, worsteds and cassimeres, of neat small checks and mixed threads of colors, are used for the entire suit—coat, vest and trousers—worn by men during business hours. The goods with red, brown and green threads, woven together to produce quiet, dark efr fecte, are most liked. The plain, whip-cord worsteds in many different dolors, olive, gray and brown shades, will be much worn by fashionable young men. The cheviots, melton and soft goods generally are double stitched on the edge three-eighths of an inch, but the worsteds and finer goods are bound wide with braid laid on flat, which produces a good effect ■ The three and four buttons cut-away is still as popular as ever, as is also the four-button sock coat; but fashion seems to favor a’ change from the high-ent style of dress to a low roll showing the shirt bosom with one stud and a neck Dress Sults.—ln full dress there has been a tendency to change a little from the conventional black cloth to the wale cord dr fine diagonals of French manufactura The coat is made with a very small cord binding on the edge, the size of a steel knittingneedle, which gives it a fine finish. The vest is cut with four buttons, and has a serpentine braid laid on about one-fourth of an inch from the edge. Vests will be made mostly with a rolling collar, but some still prefer them without The stylish vest for a change is the figured wiik or cashmere in gold and black. Small checks and fine stripes in dark colors will be chosen for trousers thia season. All high-colored goods will be avoided by well-dressed men. The trousers are cut medium, that is, neither tight nor loose, and, in all cases, pantaloons intended to wear with a full dress suit are made with the pocket in the top seam instead of on the side or in the corner, as in others, and no plstotpocket The frock coat will be worn to some extent, with a low roll to show the shirt-bosom, as in the of buslness-coata In fact, it may be said that the high-but-toned style of dress will soon have seen Its day. The browsers have a stripe down the outside t-eam on the leg, made of silk braid for young men, or of slight cord for elderly g an tiemen.

For the Children. Platted bonnets are still worn by younger children. , , _ Little girls wear bonnets with the rolled front, lined with deeply-shirred sajin, but these are less-suitable as the sun becomes stronger, and we advise all mother to select shady hate for the sake of the eyes. A great change is noticeable in hats. The most fashionable, and certainly most becoming, is the Fisherman’s poke, in Leghorn, which may be effectively trimmed with a bunch of tips of the game shade as the straw and faced with a deep shirring of satin a shade deeper in color. The English walking hat has given place to the-Lexington, a remarkably pretty shape in double Dunstable straw, which should be trimmed in black velvet, two narrow plaitings around the edge and a large bow and steel ornament confining a long feather which falls over the bock of the hair. The Jersey waist is more popular than ever. It is worn in bright colors, and is equally effective wit ha Airt of plain material or of plaid. For little. boys. plaid tunics are much liked or a kilted skirt of dark Plaid Is accompanied by a short tabbed jacket of dark green or dark blue cloth. Flannel suite for boys are now moreoftpn In invisible green than in the dark blue which has been popular so long. Knickerbocker suite of mixed materials are finished off with fine, narrow, mohair braids down the trousers, and small buttons. The coatee has side-pockets, bound in braid of the same kind. Velveteen is much less worn this season, tweeds, fine check, cheviot cloths and kersemeres being preferred. Flannel suite for little girls and misses are made of fine cheviot flannel, and are either in garnet or dark greens; blues, either light or dark, are less fashionable, while grey flannel Is only made up in combination with darker shades of the same material. Stockings to match the combination dresses are selected to correspond with the self-colored material rather than with the plaid, and are worn of delicate shades.

ODD HAPPENINGS.

A Pulaski county (N. Y.) hunter got seven ’coons out of one hollow tree. A Georgia negro lost his life by having an open knife in his pocket as he mounted his mule. The pistol which a Cincinnati woman said was the one with which her husband threatened to shoot her proved to be a beer faucet Cornelius Frawley andß. F. Ingram, while surveying some land in the neighborhood of William Warner’s mill, near Sylvia, Ga.. killed a rattlesnake measuring over five feet in length and haying thirteen rattiest Capt. Z. M. Mitchell, of Greene, Ga, has a rooster only 5 months old weighing five and a half pounds, and a pullet from the same brood and of the same age has laid two litters of eggs, aad is BOW sitting on Hmxkc V*

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INDIANA NEWS.

A N«w Uabtlb man paid a traveling swindler <4SO for the State right of a patent egg stimulator. EiCHY Deck, daughter of Henry Deck, of Noblesville. was drowned in White river at the edge of town. It was accidental. Ar Portland, William Pitzenberger, while in the act of throwing a belt in Kant A English’S stave factory, had a leg torn off. Miss Nrarnt Hormkb, of Marion, has performed the feat of writing 2,080 words on a postal card, every word being perfectly legible Thkjub are 0,666 school-houses in Indiana against 8,090 thirty years ag0—5,481 of these being brick. The log school-houses have decreased from 1,188 to 41. AnoY Fisher, of Madison, has perhaps the oldest horse known of at present He is forty years old, and was foaled within the walls of the City of Mexico. Ex-Judge B. F. Schebmbkhobn, for years an ornament to the Delphi bench and bar, and Major of the Forty-sixth Indiana Volunteers, died very suddenly there. Ths flr"t marriage license granted tn Grant county was issued on Sept 5, 1831, to John Smith and Mary Ann Thomas, who are still living and enjoying good health. A Louisvmus young man while in New Albany, reoenty, had an attack of delirium tremens, jumped out of bed and ran down the street with no clothing on but a shirt A Pnot count hunter claims to have killed, one day last week, three geese at one shot, four at another, and five at another, making a total of twelve geese in three shots.

There are eighty-six Postmasters In the State appointed by the President, and their salaries combined amount to 1158,900. The aggregate gross receipts of these office* are #719,98a The Wabash City Council has decided not to purchase any additional electric lights, on the score of economy. A portion of the city Is well lighted, but the balance is left in darkness. John Montgomery, watchman at the Ohio Falls oar works, Jeffersonville, met a mad dog at the door of the works on Thursday and killed him Just as he was about to bite a workman. The new Game law in this State prohibits the killing of wild ducks between the 15th of April and the Ist of September, and the exposing of ducks for sale after April 15 is also a finable offense. Clark C. Moore, of West Point, and James O’Brien, of Toledo, a canvasman in Van Amburg’s circus, were killed at Lafayette. Both accidents occurred on the Wabash tracks, inside the city limits, by switch-en-gines. The following Postmasters have been commissioned: H. E. Wells, at French Lick; D. Hall, at Funk’s; Thomas Towle, at Lieber; G. W. Weeks, at Newville; Henry Core, at Woodburn; J. M. Thomas, at Marble Corner, and Alfred Clapp, at Marysville. Exports from Brazil are that the coal trade has fallen very low. The mines are running about half-time, and it is feared that it will be so all summer. The rolling-mill is still running, employing from seventy-five to 100 men and boys. The furnace has blown out for repairs; it will probably be idle from four to five months.

The Northwestern and Central Synods of the Reformed Episcopal church have confirmed the selection of a location at Fort Wayne for the proposed Orphan Asylum, as 'recommended by a commission which recently visited that and other cities The ■land selected comprises a tract of fifty-seven acres, and lies two miles northeast of the city, on the banks of the St, Joseph river. Fifteen thousand dollars will be expended this season in buildings The new law in Indiana relating to oleomargarine Is as follows: “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that whoever sells or has in his possession with intent to sell, or exposes for sale, or whoever keeps on any table at any hotel, 05 any other public or private board-ing-house, any butter other than that made from pure milk, without first' labeling the same in targe letters ‘oleomargarine,’ shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than >SO nor less than •10.’* The rooting hogs are doing great damage to pavements in the upper part of New Albany, and there is much complaint from property-owners. One gentleman whose pavements have been rooted up and destroyed says he is wafting anxiously for the Council to order him to repair his sidewalks. He will do so as soon as ordered, and compel the city to foot the bill if it requires a salt at law. He contends, and rightly, too, that an ordinance prohibits hogs running at large, and, if the officers of the city fall to execute the ordinance and hogs damage his property, the city is compelled to pay the damages

The twenty-ninth annual convention of the Grand Commandery Knights Templars of Indiana was held at Indianapolis lads week, there being a large attendance of grand officers and delegates The Grand Treasurer, Charles Fisher, presented the following report for the year ending April 21, 1883: Receipts, balance in treasury April 24 1882, >2,444; dues for 1881, >387; dues for 1882, >2,871; incidental receipts, >500; total >5,658. Total expenditures, >2,702. Cash balance in treasury, >2,955.56. He also presented some statistical tables showing the following totals: Total membership of the Order in the State for 1882, 2,006; for 1888, 2,223; increase, 217. The deaths during 1882 numbered twenty-two. Municipal elections were held in the following cities of Indiana on the Ist inch, with the results as follows: Vincennes —The entire Democratic ticket elected. Delphi— Democratic ticket elected. Greencastle — The Democratic ticket elected by 225 majority. Greenfield—The whole Republican ticket re-elected. Logansport—The Democrats elected the Mayor, Treasurer, Clerk, Marshal, and four out of five Councilmen. Muncie— The Independent ticket was elected. Kokomo—The Democrats elected the mayor and marshal- The rest of the Republican tick el was elected. Madison—The Democrats elected the Treasurer, Marshal and Assessor, and four of the six Councilmen. New Albany— The Independent candidates for Mayor and Clerk Were elected, defeating the regular Democratic nominees 'the Democrats elected the Treasurer and Marshal, and two Councilmen; the Republicans two Councilmen, and the Independents one. Columbus—The entire Democratic ticket elected. Richmond— The Republicans elected the Mayor and Marshal and seven Councilmen. The Democrats elected three Councilmen. Terre Haute— The Republicans elected the Mayor, Treasurer, Marshal and three Councilmen. The Democrats elected the Clerk and three members of the Council Wabash—The Republican candidates were all elected. Elkhart—The Republicans elected the Mayor and four out of five Aidermen. Fort Wayne —The entire Republican ticket elected. La Porte—The Democrats elected the Mayor nd a majority of the Ooundk