Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1883 — Page 3

THE BAD BOY.

“I am thy father’s ghost,” said a sheeted form in the door-way of the grocery, one evening, and the grocery man got behind the cheese box, -while the ghost continued in a sepulchral voice, “doomed for a certain time to walk the night/’ and, vyrving a chair round, the ghost strode up to the grocery man, and with the other ghostly hand reached into a box of figs. “No you ain’t no ghost,” said the grocery man, recognizing the bad boy. “Ghosts do not go prowling around groceries stealing wormy figs. What do'you mean by this sinful masquerade business? My father never had no ghost.” “Oh, we have struck it now,” said the bad boy as he pulled off his mask and rolled up the sheet he had worn around him. We are going to have amateur theatricals to raise money }to have' the church carpeted, and I am going to boss the job.” “You don’t say,” answered the grocery man, as he thought how much he could sell to the church people for a strawberry and ice-cream festival, and how little he could sell for amateur theatricals. “Who is going into it, and what you going to play?" “Pa and ma, and me, and the minister, and three choir sin gens, and my chum, and the minister’s wife, and two deacons, and an old maid are rehearsing, but we have not decided what to play yet. They all want to play a different play, and I am fixing it so they can all be satisfied. The minister ■wants to play Hamlet, pa wants to play Rip Van* ma wants to play Mary Anderson, the old maid wants to play a boarding-school play, and the -choir singers wnt an opera, and the mteieter's mfd .wants Mfclfcth, thy Chum., and me Wit jhad -jk JehegraMlast night, and I ala (the only cM abfc |o-3b;. YoTf^efe 1 thoy hM'-O pVrptotfkig different plays, afidlJ We lly|he minMtdteSail SfcwJMelrof hfc a, maftUe ’ftadi < f |a linen buggy lap blanket, <Sd he w©i a ia knife suqlt aw'Mhet 0 ffejlowsjsffijtj bonnets’i.'aiyl' WJuii 0 tteathewwear WEen they get an iAptijtion an you never Saw Hamlet murdered the way he did it. His interpretation qf the character was thaw A dud.* that tallied through his nose, and whHa be Ws , inflating suit dj,«as Rfar Wtmt tyle^^p^ s he r up -till- rnnadvMMtcliEflfe eajne in, in the sleep-wajking ■'scene. She couHn’i hud a so Tteok a slide of watermelon andsharpened it for hey, |and she ma(MjLmiatake inthe, one slje was going to stab. and she stabbefl ■Hamlet inithe heck a slice of watermelon, and the core qj the melon •fell on pa’s face, as he lap asleep as jßip, and when Lady Macbeth said, 'Out, damned spot,’ pa woke up and felt the gob of watermelon on his face and he thoiight he had been murdered, and ma came in on a hop, skip and jump, as ‘Parthenia,’ and threw her arms around a deacon who was going to play the grave digger, and began to call him pet names, and pa was mad, and the choir singers they began to sing, Tn the North Sea Lived a Whale,’ and then they quit acting. You’d a dide to see Hamlet. The piece of watermelon went down his neck, and Lady Macbeth went off and left it in the wound under his collar, and ma had to pull it out, and Hamlet said the seeds and the juice was running down inside his shirt, and he said he wouldn’t play if he was going to be stabbed with a slice of melon, so while his wife was getting the melon seeds out of his neck, and drying the juice on his shirt, I sharpened a cucumber for Lady Macbeth to use for a dagger, but Hamlet kicked on cucumbers, too, and I had more trouble than any stage manager over had. Then pa wanted to rehearse the drunken scene in ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ where he hugs Grechten and drinks out of a flask behind her back, and he got one of the choir singers to act as Grechten, and I guess he would have been hugging her till this time, and have swallowed the flask if ma had not took him by the ear, and said a little of that would go a good ways in an entertainment for the church. Pa said he •didn’t know as it was any worse than her prancing up to a grave-digger and hugging him till the filling came out of his teeth, and then the minister decided that we wouldn’t have any hugging at all in the play, and the choir girls said they wouldn’t play, and the old maid’s struck, and the play came to a standstill.” “Well, that beats anything I ever heard teU off. It’s a shame for people outside, the profession to do play-acting, and I won’t go to the entertainment unless I get a pass,” said the grocery man. “Did you rehearse anv more?” “Yes, ghost soene,” said “and he' Wanted me to be the ghost. Well,' they have two Markses and two Topsies in ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ and I thought two ghosts in ‘Hamlet’ would about fill the bill for amateurs, so .1 got my chum to act as one ghost. Wb broke them all up. I wanted to have 'something new in ghosts, so my chum and me got two pair of ma’s long stockings, one pair red and one pair blue, and I put on a red one and a blue one, and my chum did the same. Then we got some ruffled clothes belonging to ma, with flounces and things on, and put them on so they came most down to our knees, and we put sheets over us that came clear to our feet, and when Hamlet got to yearning for his father's ghost, I came in out of the bath-room with the sheet over me and said I was the huckleberry he was looking for, and my chum followed me out, and said he was a twin ghost, also, and then Hamlet got on his ear and said he wouldn’t play with two ghosts, and he went off pouting, and then my chum and me pulled off the sheets and danoed a clog-dance. Well, when the rest of the troupe saw our make-up it nearly killed them. Most of them had seen ballet-dancers, but they never saw them with different colored socks. The minister said this benefit was rapidly

becoming *• farce,’ and before we had danced half a minute ma she recognized her socks, and she came for me with a hot box, and made me take them off, and pa was mad and said the dancing was the only thing that was worth the price of admission, and he scolded ma, and the choir girls sided with pa, and just then my chum caught his toe in the carpet and fell down, and that loosened the plaster overhead and about a bushel fell on the crowd. Pa thought lightning had struck the house, the minister thought it was a judgment on them all for play-acting, and he began to shed his hamlet costume with one hand and pick the plaster out.of his hair with the other. The women screamed and tried to get the plaster out of their necks, and while pa was brushing off the choir singers ma said the rehearsal was adjourned, and they all went home, but we are going to rehearse again on Friday night. The play cannot be considered a success, but we will bring it out all right by the time the entertainment is to come off.” “By gum,” said the grocery man, “I would like to have seen that minister as Hamlet. Didn’t he look funny ?” “Funny! Well, I should remark. He seemed to predominate. That is, he was too fresh, too numerous, as itwere. But at the next rehearsal I am goingdo work in an act from ‘Richard the Third,’ and my chum is going to play the Chinaman of the ‘Danites,’ and I guess we will take the cake. Say, I want to work in an idiot somewhere. How would you like to play the part ? You wouldn’t have to rehearse the part or anything—” At this point the bad boy was seen to go out of the grocery real spry, followed by a box of wooden clothes-pins that the grocery man had thrown after him, —Pec k’s Sun. Fortunes in Stock. But few persons, says the lowa State Register, estimate the rapid increase of a herd of . cattle, and consequently are at ft loss to know why suehfine fortunes are madp-ou the farm or ranch- by cattle breeding or feeding. A man starts out with 100 good cows, with ample range for''them, Let us see what he'may reasonably expect in return for his capital and care in ten years. The cows, say, cost SSO a head, or s£,‘ooo. If the cows and their female are kept for breeding, it is reasonable to estimate 40 per cent, increase in female calves ■yearly, as well as the same Indreksb in male calves. The increase in the female line will be aS follows: > Helfers. 100 cows in first year drop .... 40 100 cows in second year drop 40 140 cows in third year drop 56 180 cows i 1 fourth year drop;." 72 236 caws in fifth year drop. .. 1»i . ■ 94 308 cows in sixth year droo 123 402 cows In seventh year dr0p............... 161 526 cows in- eighth year drop. 210 686 cows in ninth year drop 274 896 cowg in tenth year drop , j....... 358 Total, ten years. .<1,428 There will be an equal' number of male calves, which will come into market at 3 years of age, as follows: Fat steers at’end of third year 40 Fat steers at end of fourth year 40 Fat steers at end of fifth year 56 Fat steers at end of sixth year 72 Fat steers at end of seventh year 94 Fat steers at end of eighth year..' 123 Fat steers at end of ninth year 161 Fat steers at end of tenth year 210 Total for seven years 796 These at S6O per head will amount to $47,760, which had been received during the last seven years of the ten to refund capital and pay expenses. At the end of ten years there will be on hand 1,428 cows and heifers, and 274 2-year-old steers, and 358 Iryear-old. It will be observed in all these calculations of either heifers or steers we have allowed for 20 per cent, per year for failure of calves and for deaths and accidents afterward. The steers which have been marketed pay the first investment of $5,000, and leave $4,200 per year for expenses. The stock on hand at the end of ten years is worth SBO,OOO. This is how money is made on large stock- farms or on ranches on the plains. How Some People Look Upon Smuggling. Many people have a notion that there is no moral wrong in smuggling. A few years ago a dealer in laces in Leonard street, New York, was found to have been extensively engaged in smuggling. He had made himself liable to pay a penalty of SIO,OOO. I took him to the District Attorney’s office, where he expressed his willingness to pay the cash. He said: “I suppose you think I have committed some moral wrong. I do not think so. I have merely violated a legal restriction of the United States, but committed no moral offense. Your Government levies a duty of 60 per cent, to-day and tomorrow takes it off. Morality is not made and unmade in that way.” He paid the SIO,OOO and that ended, it. He represents a large class of people claiming to be honest who do not hesitate to defraud the Custom House. Very respectable people have been caught smuggling clothing, and I found one jjftercjiant who regularly bought hits clothes from a London tailor without Staying , duty.— Customs Officer, in New York Sun.

Probably Safe.

A New Hampshire farmer who heard •of a New Yorker stopping at one of the mountain hotels, drove thirteen fhiles one day last summer to ask him if he thought the prospective shortage of crops would bring about another financial panic. He waited around the hotel for several hours, and finally ascertained that the man he wanted to see was absent, and would be gone all day. “Where has he gone?” “Over to Silver oreek.” “What fur?” “To fish.” “Gone afishin’, and calkerlatin’ to be gone all day?” “Yes." “Took a bottle of brandy and a lunch and a silver-plated fish-pole, and went off kinder onconsarned, did he ?” “Yes.” “Well, then, I guess I'll jog back hum and finish them ’taters,” continued the old man, with a sigh of relief. “It kinder seems to me that if this kentry was in danger of a kerflumux them chaps from New York wouldn’t come here to fool their time away suckin’ in mornin’ fogs and scrapin’ the creaks fur fish-bones!”— Wall Street News.

STANLEY MATTHEWS.

Some History Worth FroiWog, aaA Stem mente Worth Hofirilwg. [From the New York Sun. J Responsible Republican newspapers and Republican leaders have repeatedly charged that Gen. Garfield appointed Stanley Matthews to a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court in fulfilment of an agreement by which Mr. Jay Gould contributed a large sum of money to aid in electing Garfield as President in 1880. This charge the Sun believes to be true, from the different forms of testimony supporting it and from certain internal evidence which carries with it moral conviction. The latest contribution on this matter was derived from Mr. Dorsey, reported in the Sun of the 16th inst., as follows: “When this was repeated to Garfield he said that Mr. Gould ought to know that he entertained the same view that Mr. Gould did respecting the interests of these corporations, and he wanted Mr. Gould to be assured that if elected President, and if it should fall to his lot to nominate a member of the Supreme Bench he would take care to appoint a man whose views in that regard were the same as his own. “This was taken to Mr. Gould. He announced himself as entirely satisfied with it, but he made the gentle sugges tion that -it be put in the form of a pledge and in writing. This Was done, and it is alleged that the pledge can be produced, as it is understood to have been committed to the keeping of a gentleman who holds it subject to the order of both parties. “Then Mr. Gould warmed uprte the Republican party. Himself and another subscribed. $450,000, as is expected to be shown before the investigating committee. * * * Garfield subsequently nominated theft «aa to whom this agreement had ~ reference, Stanley. Matthews* tec 4he --Supreme Bencgy apd Gould by one majority.” This isaaftparecise a»dt<p«aiive statement, made by one who was closer in WSfiter of the Commercial, who may be said to have been the pivot upon which tfaw management 'Of'tbe PresidentiaHainpaign traced: J HA* is it met? The Commercial.. Gazette says; “The statement to the effect that there Was an agreement between Gould and Garfield that the latter should appoint Judge Matthews to the Supreme Court is necessarily false, for the reason that it was not known, and there was no reason te suppose; until, the 4th of March, 1881, that Garfield would be called upon to fill the vacancy occasioned by Swayne’s resignation/’ Technically, tms is true, but it does not reveal the whole truth. The statement is really an evasion of the truth. The intention of Judge Swayne to resign his seat on the bench was well known after Garfield’s nomination. In point of fact, that purpose had been declared to his friends at the preceding term of the court. No time had been named for the resignation, because Judge Swayne had kept the final act undecided in his own mind, for personal reasons. Judge Clifford was at that time in infirm health, far advanced in years, and with a very precarieus hold on life. He died in October, 1881. Here, then, were two vacancies on the Bench reasonably certain to occur within a short time, and both of which were likely to happen at the beginning of Garfield’s term. Mr. Gould was largely interested in knowing these probabilities, and he probably had more exact information on the subject than any other person. Garfield understood the situation perfectly when he assured Gould that “if it should fall to his lot to nominate a member of the Supreme Court he would take care to appoint a man whose views in that regard were the same as his own.” And when the agreement was put in writing Mr. Gould had a lien on the prospective President from which there was no escape if the contingency named in the instrument should come to pass. They both expected it would come to pass, as in the order of events it did. Judge Swayne resigned his seat in the winter of 1880-81, and the fraudulent President nominated Stanley Matthews for the vacancy. Matthews had been one of the visiting statesmen at New Orleans, he was the confidential counsel of Hayes before the Electoral Commission, and he, with John Sherman and Charles Foster, negotiated the bargain at the Wormley conference, by which opposition to the count was ar- j rested in the House of Representatives. ■ Matthews in the Senate was the most conspicuous opponent of the Thurman act. He appeared virtually as the attorney of the Pacific corporations on the flpor. He was seen in conferenw with Gould, Huntington, and their sat 1 ellites, whe had assembled at Washing ton with a most formidable lobby, and with the appliances to conquer prejudice, in the hope and in the full expectation of defeating the bill. But, with a promised majority, the corporations weye finally beaten.. U(lbl0 •. Although it is usual to confirm the nomination of a Senator or a former 1 Senator without opposition, except for special cause, the appointment of Matthews was resisted strongly from the outset and until the end of the see- ' sion, when it died with the Congress. Now Garfield’s turn came. The written agreement was there to confront him. He had of his own accord, at Mentor, told a distinguished Stalwart that he did not intend to appoint Matthews. Nevertheless, one of his ( first acts was to nominate Matthews for ' the vacancy. The opposition to his confirmation was revived, and was vigorously conducted. Finally he got through by one vote, procured by barefaced deception on two false pairs. John S. Barbour, said to be the finest organizer in Virginia, has been placed at the head of the Democratic State Central Committee, with the intention of making a systematic and vigorous campaign.

JUDGE BLACK.

Death of the Eminent Lawyer and Statesman. A Sketch of His and Eventful Career. Judge Jeremiah 8. Black died at his home In York, Pa., after a week’s illness, on the 19th of August His death was as calm and peaceful as the se ting of a summer’s sun. ; His two sons, Chauncey F. and Henry, his 1 daughter, Mrs. Hornsby, his son-in-law, Mr. Hcrnsby, and A B. Farquhar were present 1 when he died. Just before his death he spoke with confidence of the future, saying to his son Chauncey that he had no fear of I crossing the dark river, adding: “I would that I were as comforta le about what I leave beuind in this wor d.” He spoke of busine.-s and private matters to his son. and in the midst of it would stop and refer to his faith in Christ On one occasion he said: -1 would not have you think tor a moment that I fear to cross this river. I Lave taken care to arrange for my futu-e over there, and therefore death has no terrors for me.” When his beloved wife knelt by his bedside, comforting him with her sympathy and love, he gave utterance to the following prayer; I I -uh, Thou beloved and most merciful Father, from whom I had my being and in , whom I have ever trusted, grant, if it be Thy will, that I no longer suffer this agony, ana that I be speedily called home to Thee. And Oh, my God, bless and comfort this my 1 Mary.” I Jeremiah Sullivan Bladk was descended from a mixed ancestry, composed pf the German and Scotch-Irish elements. He was born in the Glades, Somerset county, Pa, I Jnnel(\ IblO. His father, Henry Black, was a man of prominence in Southern Petm yl- ; vania, and was a memter of Congress at the time of his death. Young Black finished his “schooling” at 17, after having gained a fair knowledge of the classics, mathematics, and, above all most precious to him, a thorough grounding in the knowledge Of English classic literature. When his school 1 days ended he went home to work on the 1 farm, but his studies were nbt neglected, ' for by. the light of the morning fire he 'conned his Horace and 'Virgil, committing to ! memory each day anertatn number df lines. I Before he entered upon his profession, he 'had not only translated but learned'‘th4 : whpja.of.theiVJ bqoks by heart ... u ■/ ' 1 I h Under Chadncey forward he studied • laty/tuadinHfeFwas admitted to the -her.-j , When he was 28 years of age he married ifis , taStruCtof s daughter, she being 17. About tohiSiUmQfee joined the sect known as tha J : Camp bellites or I?is ciplea of Christ, with I Whom he remained In fraternal relatlonsthe rett of his Hie, Gov. Porter in ; .j ; pointed him presiding Judge of the Frank- j iiin, Bedford and Somerset districts, hndf i j; though a party Jight was made on the apI polntment, the urianimotis approval of the ; members of ten bar decided the nyattec in 1 his favor. This office he held with great credit for nine years When thepoutfoii was made-elective he was chosen for. the. short term, and filled the Chief Justiceship most acceptably for three years ■ • - Judge Black, was re-elected for fifteen years; bht was' compelled to resign After twp, President Buchanan calling him to the Cabinet as Attorney-General where he remained until 1860. His most oon!«WH?BQfttae Willie holding this Office was the protection of the claims made by ; Americans against the fraudulent preten- . Stfitiof the Spanish in regards to land’s ih ; California.; r Mr. Stanton was associated’.' with him In these labors. When Judge , Black was made Secretary of State Stanton became Attorney-General Throughout the war he remained a staunch War Democrat. When Black retired from the Cabinet he resumed the practice of Law, and few man have eiyoyed so large a practice in the Supreme Court of the land as ha His manner was characterized by eminent legal ability, courage and skill He talked to the court deliberately, without notes, and cited authorities from memory. The most important cases in which he was engaged were: The Milliken case, the Vanderbflc will case* the McGarrahan claim, the Belknap impeachment, and the electoral contest In no case where public interests were involved, as in the Milliken case, did he take a fee for services rendered j Judge Black was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in 1873, and was urgent in pressing the needs of the legislative reform. He served without pay. Not only as a jurist, learned, exact, and apt, has he made himself known to the people of the whole nation, but as a writer of political and theological articles he has won a place among the classic writers of the age. His answer to the strictures on Christianity by CoL Ingersoll, given in the pages of one of the principal magazines in the land, pro yoked much critki m and praise. For a time it was the topic of conversation and of leading newspaper articles, and its clrcu'ation passed the boundaries of the United States into Canada and England, where it was unequivocally commended. His last noted political paper was on “ Monopoly,” and the strong views he uttered, backed by keen logic and biting woids, were as rapturously applauded by his sympathizers as they were condemned by those opposed to its views. Personally Judge Black was imposing in his stature and manners. Nearly six ieet tall, with shaggy eyebrows that in repose gave him a stern aspect, his strong bodily frame and erect carriage made him a remarkable figure in any assemblage. Though noted for the radical views he held in politics, he was a great social favorite, and Garfield. Carpenter, Ingersoll and Blaine always sought him out when in Washington. Even Thad Stevens defended him once in the House, when attacked by some one on the Democratic side. Lawyer as he was, statesman and scholar of high ability, deeply read in literature, Judge Black devoted more time to the study and perusal of the Bible than persons would think possible His ideas of right and wrong gained in the strict old school of Presbyterians remained with him throughout ms jife and make his character shine with a brightness that mere culture or even genius could never produce He was an American in every sense of the term, the peculiar product of a community whom, for • rugged strength and grand ambitions, the I world has never seen excelled.

SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.

A bolt of lightning killed twenty-seven hogs and two cows which were seeking shelter under a tree at Blue Springs, Tenn. A sot crawled into a mill at Lawrence, Mass., and went to sleep oil a very wide belt When the madhinery started he war killed. John McGubbay, of Henrietta, Texas, while p'acing a pistol under his pillow, accidentally shot his wife through the head, killing her instantly. Ex-County Clerk Andrew C. Warren fell three feet from a haystack foundation on his farm near Stan ord, N. Y., and broke his neck. He died instantly. Two Georgia boys were in swimming. One of them snapped a revolver under the water, and was greatly surprised when it was discharged and his yotmg companion was An Illinois snake charmer gave a public exhibition with a copperhead. The charm didn t work, but the snake did, and weeks elapsed before the showman knew that he would recover. Cl a Reyno 1 ds, of Marietta, Go., had a scythe thr wn over his shoulder and was riding a mule. The animal, fr ghtened at a passing train, threw Reynolds to the ground, and the scythe took his head oft. John Hetman, of Lexington, Pa, stood tn the haU clearing his ear with the b itt-end of a small, stiff switch. A screen door was opened suddenly against him, which thrust the sw.tch inside the ear, broke the drum, caused the most intense suffering and made Helman a maninc

PASSING EVENTS.

Preparing to Squeeze Monopoly—The Ischia Calamity. Oar Forests—The Cholera—Cheering Agricultural Prospects. The completion of the Northern Pacific railway is fraught with vital interest to the people of the Pacific coast. Heretofore, in the opening of the new routes, the Central Pacific combination have been enabled, by geographical and other influences, to so maintain fare and freight-rates that the new routes afforded no relief to anybody. The completion of the Southern Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Denver and Bio Grande and the Atlantic and Pacific, has in no ease resulted in a reduction of fare to California, for the reason that the Central Pacific, controlling, as it does on all sides, the Western outlet of these roads, refuses to make concessions. With the completion of the Northern Pacific a new era wi 1 dawn. That road is under' obligation to nobody. It reaches tide-water with its own line, and the Pacific ocean is free to all It can make its own rates without fear of reprisals in any direction. It can cut the tare to San Francisco to I .s—quite enough, by the way—and force its rivals to follow suit or lose the business. It can make its own freight rates, make its own contracts with Pacific coast merchants—in other words, do exactly as it pleases, and the Central Pacific combination is powerless for either redress or vengeance.

The Ischia Calamity. The mail accounts of the Ischia calamity bring it before the reader in still more vivid colors than those of the telegrams. At Casunicciola there was a resident population of 1,-000, and the town was crowded with visitora After a premonitory roaring the earth began to roll and surge "like a pot of thick tnmh,” and in an icstant buildings began to crackle and crumble into heaps of rubbish. Great cracks opened in the earth, into which many houses disappeared bodily. It was about 10 o'clock at night when the end came A moment before, and a large town was full of peopli, many already in bed A moment later, and not a. single bouse was iteft standing, saving only a small phurch by the sea, and the root was partly shaken off lug walla Dense masses of sulphurous Smoke and dust wena-emitted, in which many were suffocated There vyae.aotja light left ■■ It was ta&Pdarkness ft ot until eiumingpould the suryj vOtts begin *to retene the wounaed’ In the ruins of. thit single » town 4,000 people lie entombed. For a day or two many lingered in suffering- One by < onetheif' cties ceased In two or three days -thn. progress of decomposition has made the work of seeking for remains an impossible task. Tfalristhe history of one •own. TUre were half-dozen - others in which similar scenes were witnessed upon a smaller scale. It wW*Dne' *nf“ the most appalling disasters >of modern times. • : ’ ' Our Forests. The meeting of the American Forestry congress was heldaxt 8t Paul The primary object of this association jig the preservations of our foresta Dr. Loring, United, State* ( Commissioner of Agriculture, is its President and delivered the opening address. Among other things he said that the consumption of pine lumber : by fire and in thwarts was very great, and suggested that the future supply might be obtained by allowing an exhausted region to recuperate while * the lumberman resorts to uncut sections for the purpose of his demands. New Hampshire and Vermont are exhausted of their pine supply, and their spruce will last but seven ana four years respectively at the present rate or consumption. In Maine the pine will last bm four and spruoe fifteen years, while in South Carolina, at the present rate of cutting, the pine forests will last fifty years; California, 150 years ; Arkansas, 300 years; Pennsylvania, 15 years; Georgia, 80 years, Louisiana, 100 years; North Carolina, 50 years; 'Wisconsin, 20 years; Michigan, 10 years; Minnessoto, 10 years; Mississippi, 150 years; Alabama, DO years; Florida, <0 years; Texas, 250 years. Exhausted forests can be restored in time, and to this end every means should be applied both by people and Government, eaeh within its own jurisdiction. The Cholera. If it is true that the cholera, which has caused such dreadful ravages in Egypt, is not the genuine Asiatic disease, there is, of course, every reason for believing that we will escape a visitation from the plague. The physicians who were first sent over by France and England pronounced it Asiatic cholera of the most malignant type. The physicians sent from India into Egypt by the British Government say the disease is nothing like the plague with which they are familiar in India. There is a doubt, then, as to the character of the pestilence. If it is an endemic disease, there is no occasion for alarm either in Europe or America; if it is an epidemic disease, ft is certain to take the grand tour around the inhabitable earth. Cheering Agricultural Prospects. In the midst of a somewhat, to say the least, doubtful financial and commercial outlook the prospect of a most bountiful harvest, and consequent plentiful breadstuff supply at moderate prices, is such as should Insure popular content and tranquility. Indeed, the agricultural prospect is so hopeful as to constitute a silver lining to the somewhat darker than ordinary cloud that Just now obscures the horizon of trade and commerce.

TRUE STORIES.

Erath county, Texas, has an infant industry which needs protecting just now. It is little girl, 6 years old, who is an expert telegraph operator. As the dog of Samuel King, a flagman at plizabeth, hl. J., was trotting along the road t swallow flew so low that it went into the log’s open mouth with such force that the log u narrowly escaped choking to death, rhe bird was finally taken out., ; A man in East Dougherty, Ga., has a front ioeth which he. plugged with lead with-his bwn hands over thirty yeart ago. 'He used in awl'to clean out the cavity, and packed the lead in with the same instrument, after beating it,out as thin as possible on an anvil the tooth is fn a good state of preservation, and is likely to last as long.as the man. For several days. Mrs. John Malsby had been keeping a nice pound-cake in her bureau, which she was saving for the first preacher who might drop in. Imagine her surprise, when she opened the drawer, to find a highland moccasin two feet long coiled up on her nice white cake. The snake was killed and the cake thrown away. How Che snake got there is a mystery.— Walton (Fla.} News. Dr. J. K. Barnum contributes to our museum a cucumber four feet in length and a perfect representation of a snake coiled up. It measures four and half Inches around the body and gradually tapers to the tail The mouth and eyes are plain'y marked, and when growing upon a vine in the garden, is scary enough looking to frighten any one not acquainted with the rattlesnake variety of cucumbera—Lumpkin (Ga.) Independent. Georoe J. Romanes, of Manchester, Pa., has a cat called Tabby. The other day a thin, dilapidated, I’m-afraid-of-a boot-jack-looking cat came into the back-yard. Tabby went out, and they rubbed their noses together for a moment; then Tabby went into the kitchen and took some of her own meal to the wanderer. Scon, seeing that the hungry cat was not s itisfied, Tabby went and brought out a new sunply of meat, which the stranger seemed to accept with every evidence of gratituda

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Nna person* of Indianapolis narrowly escaped death a short time ago from eating poisoned beef. Th* Liquor Dealm* Protective Association, of Fort Wayne, are backing a movement for the prosecution of druggists for selling liquor by the glass. B. F. Beverforden, a prominent druggist, was heavily fined the other day. Milton Haynes, of Lafayette, has begun a suit, through his attorney, W. L Roberts, against Moses Baker and Joseph Baker, two prominent physicians of Stockwell, for 110,000 damages for ill treatment in setting, healing and treating his broken limbi Rv-Gov. Cumback, during his term as Collector of Internal Revenue, collected and deposited to the credit of the Secretary of the Treasury, >33,500,000, without the lose of one cent to the Government His office during the entire time has been graded as “A No. 1.” A strange fight took place in Clarksville between Ed Long and John Kelly. Both are good-looking fellows, and each has a young lady to whom he pays attention*. Long remarked, during a conversation with Kelly, that his girl was the better looking of the two. Kelly promptly replied that Long was a liar. It was then agreed to fight it out according to the rules of the prize-ring. After a long and bloody struggle Long's girl was pronounced the better looking, although the champion is so badly used up that he can not leave his bed. At Valparaiso, two young ladles from the Normal, went to see a lady friend bit on the train at the Grand Trunk, and forgot to kiss her good-by until the train had started Suddenly they ware seen to wildly paw the air and screech so loudly that the oondua. tor’s attention was arrested, and thinking they wished to go somewhere, stopped the train, thereupon the ladies got on and exchanged the usual amount of kissing and (good-bys, and then coolly; got off. The conductor wa> too thunderstruck for utterance. A little boy named Vaz, at Walesboro, ' while standing on a side-track recently, wheris tomd* pushing da*, had hi. head eaaght between two bumpers;! but the cars stopped just in time to prevent itt ’ being crushed. He was badly hurt, however, blithe effecj of the injury was most , curious. His eyes, which were straight bebefore, at once became crossed aiid fed re- ; ipain; all his right side appearstoibe perfectly pulseless, yet he h** pf his , limbs. The pbyscian in charge repojt* she case unprecedented in his practice. uieii bar 'rism.-'.i Jefhtha D. Thomas was shot through the head and instantly tilled by Jack May at Center Point, ten miles south of Brazil. ' Jiay and his wife have been separated fox some time, and she is making ha* home in the Thomas family. Meanwhile fer petition for divorce is pending. Itra May and Thomas went into a buggy to Saline to- ‘ gether, he on business and she to see her - sister. ■ .They i returned home .jubout 1C o’clock. May,was lying in. w*ltfpr them, f and when they arrived in front of the residence he went up to buggy, and, placing a revolver in Thomas’ face, fired-

Th* following patents have been issued to Indiana inventors: Harry Jones, Richmond, assignor of one-half to R R Rouse, In. dianapolis, chain pump; Albert W. Marshall, Indianapolis, stereotype-plate holder; H. C. Pomeroy, South Bend, skate; Nicholas Shoptaugh, Boonville, spark arrestor; Charles Kittridge, Indianapolis, stapling machine; James M. Jacobs, assignor to J. M Jacobs A Son, Bluff Creek, medicine for dyspepsia; David E. Eastburn, South Bend, roaster; Joshua Hicks, Sandford, rat-proof building; A C. Connor, assignor to Hoosier Drill Company, Richmond, grain drill; Benjamin F. Applegate, assignor to h.mself and B. F. Lagel, New Albany, threshing machine; Winfield O. Gunkel, assignor of two-thirds to H. 0. McKeen and J. D. Kefuss, Terre Haute, roller-feed mechanism; John Mellette, Winamac, ribbon roll; John Mellette, Winamac, ribbon holder; James F. Miller, Spring Station, finger bar for mowing and reaping machines; Samuel Stephens, assignor to Sinker, Davis & Co., Indianapolis, rendering apparatus; Harmon H. Fulton and O. R O.sen, assignors to Indianapolis Machine and Bolt Woxks, Indianapolis, pulley; John Imler, Zionsville, combined rotary disc harrow and seed-sower; Edwin L Parker and S. Peterson, Queensville, elevator; Thea H. Patee, Greencastle, lightning-rod; Wm. H. Noll, Milton, atmospheric olothes pounder; John G. Oberohain, Logansport, machine for dressing mill-stones; Same, machine for facing mill-stones; Wm 0. Swindler, Belleville, straw-stacking machine; John Tweedy, Vernon, churn. A wild woman, or perhaps the mate of the gorilla recently captured, has appeared near Lafayette, and is terrorizing the people. Mrs. Frank Coffman, the wife of a well-known farmer, saw it the other day and thus describes it: Mr* Coffman was passing through the timber when she suddenly saw to her right a hideous creature, formed like a woman, with long black hair floating in the wind, and the whole body covered with short, gray hair. The creature was breaking twigs from the sassafras bush and eating the baik. The noise made in breaking.khebush prevented it* bearing' Mrs. Poffmaq's .approach Frozen with horror the fatmer's wife stood and gazed on the remarkable creature before her. Suddenly the wild woman turned, and,facing her civilized sister, glared at her withabaleful light of Raising her long, hairy arms she gave ah unearthly shriek and darted away into the forest Almost paralyzed with fear Mrs. Coffman gazed after the wild creature for a moment, then, with agonized screams, she fled homeward Her cries of fear attracted her husband, who was at work in the field, and he hastened toward her, reaching her side as her knees gave way with weakness resulting from mortal terror. He carried his wife to the house, gave the alarm, and soon half a hundred men and boys, accompanied by dogs, were on the trail of the wild woman. She was hotly pursued, and several times came near being caught, but eluded her pursuers with wonderful skill and cunning. Fox fully half a mile of the chase she was nevex out of sight Her feet touched the ground but seldom. She would grab the underbrush with her long bony hands, and swing from bush to bush and limb to limb with wonderful ease. She seemed only endeavoring to keep just beyond the reach of her pursuers, until, coming to a swamp, she disappeared as suddenly and effectively as an extinguished light, and no searching served to ascertain her whereabouts.