Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1888 — Page 3

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A CHBOMt'LE OF HAPPENINGS IN HOOSIKKDOM. Shocking Deaths, Terrible Accidents, Horrible Crimes, Proceedings of Coarts, Secret Societies, and, in fact, Everything of Interest to the Hoosiers. The following is the official vote for State officers cast Nov. 6, 1888, as compiled by the Secretary of State: GOVERNOR. Alvin P. Hovey, Rep 263,194 Courtland C. Matson. Dem 261,003 John P. Milroy, Labor 2,661 Jasxter S. Hugos, Pro 9,776 Hovey’s plurality : 2,191 lieutenant-governor. Ira P. Chase, Rep 263,166 William H. Myers, Dem 261,011 Chase’s plurality. 2,155 SECRETARY OP STATE. Charles F. Griffin, Rep 263,304 Robert W. Miers, Dem 260,970 Griffin's plurality 2,334 AUDITOR OP STATE. Bruce Carr, Rep 262,933 Charles A. Munson, Dem 261,047 Carr’s plurality 1,946 TREASURER OP STATE. Julius A. Limcke. Rep 263,243 Thomas B. Byrnes, Dem 260,859 Limcke’s plurality 2,374 ATTORNEY GENERAL. Louis T. Michener, Rep 263,084 John R. Wilson, Dem 261,174 Micheuer’s plurality 1,910 SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONS. Harvey M. LaFollette, Rep 263,832 Elmer E. Griffith, Dem 260,531 LaFollette’s plurality 3,361 JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT —FIRST DISTRICT. Silas D. Coffey. Rep 263,511 William E. Niblack, Dem 261,258 Coffey’s majority 2,253 JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT—SECOND DISTRICT. ■ JobnG. Berkshire, Rep 263,237 •George V. Howk, Dem 261,406 Berkshire’s majority 1.831 JUDGE OF SUPREME COUr.T —THIRD DISTRICT. Walter Olds, Rep * 263,295 Allen dollars, Dem 261,263 Olds’ majority 2,032 REPORTER OP THE SUPREME COURT. John L. Griffiths, Rep 253,332 John W. Kern, Dem .*. 260,859 Griffiths’ plurality 2,473

Paroled bv the Governor. Gov. Gray has paroled John P. Quinn, alias John Parker, and John D. Snearly, alias John Forbes. They were tried and convicted in the Jackson Circuit Court a year ago on a charge of grand larceny. The crime charged against them was the swindling of an old farmer, Zachfffiah Deputy, out of $3,000 by bunko. James Karnes, who was found guilty with them, was released last August, the Judge and many citizens having signed a petition for his parole. After the three men had been convicted and were serving their sentences it developed that they were not the right parties, &nd detectives arrested Ed. Bice, Chas. Stewart, and Punch Maron. They were brought to Indiana upon a requisition .and tried, but the jury disagreed. They gave bail and forfeited it and left the State, and have not since been rearrested. llig Haul by Thieves. A bold robbery was perpetrated at Anderson, recently. While Will Shirk, a jeweler, doing business on the north side of the square, was at supper, the robbers gained entrance through the back door and carried off $2,500 worth of fine watches and jewelry, the entire contents of a show-case. Although Mr. Shirk’s store is in one of the most public places in the city, and lights were left burning, the robbers got away without attracting attention. So far there has been no clew discovered as to who committed the theft. A Distressing Accident. A distressing accident occurred at Flora, recently. A number of young men were celebrating the election in different ways. John E. Eikenberry had loaded a piece of gas-pipe with powder and attempted to touch it off. It exploded with a terrific roar. A piece of the pipe struck the young man above the left eye, tearing out several pieces of bone from the skull and cutting a terrible gash across the end of the head. He is in a critical condition. Three Person* Badly Injured, During a ratification meeting at Parker/ a station four miles west of Farmland, :some careless persons filled an iron hub of a large fly-wheel with powder and placed it under an anvil. It exploded when fired, the pieces flying in every direction, and severely injuring three persons, as follows: Will Hays, right foot cut and mangled; Isaac Clevenger, leg broken, and a boy named Tommy Karns, right leg fractured below the knee. A Painful Accident. Mrs. Hazelrigg, of Indianapolis, met with a most painful accident recently. She was riding in a wagon when awheel dropped into a bole, throwing her out. The chair upon which she was seated fell out with her, and in such a manner that one of the broken rounds gouged out her left eye. The pain of course was almost unbearable, and her screams were frightful to hear. Killed by a Train. The remains of John Chance were found on the track about three-quarters of a mile east of Knightsville, about 150 yards from his house. His brains were scattered along the road, and his right arm cut off. He had a brother killed a short distance east of that place a few years ago. Deceased leaves a widow and two children.

Incendiary Fire at Clinton. At Clinton, recently, fire was discovered in a bnilding occupiedby J. N. Frist as a furniture store, and Wilson A Crane j as a drug store. By prompt work the tire j was put out, but botb stores were dej stroyed. The rear door was found j broken openandcoal-oil pouredaround, j showing that it was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary. Loss, about I SS,(MX); fully insured. This is the third j fire in Clinton this fall in which Wilson I A: Crane have suffered. A Youthful Prisoner. The Coroner at Laporte has concluded his investigation of the poison case which resulted in the death of Isaac Sowards and the violent sickness of two other children of the family. The evidence showed that the 12-year-old daughter purchased arsenic at a drug store and administered it to them, but whether by accident or design is not yet known. The Coroner recommended that she be held to the grand jury. Minor State Items. —Elmer Ellison and an old soldier named Gates were seriously injured by the premature discharged of a cannon at a ratification meeting at Homer, Kush County.

—ln the last two months several horses have been stolen in the vicinity of Winamac. Recently, Joseph Coltz, of Chicago, was arrested for having in his possession a horse belonging to Air. Frees.

—State Senator Philip Schloss died at Terre Haute, of heai-t failure, after a brief illness. He was 52 years of age, and a prominent Israelite. He was a Democrat, and held many offices of trust, having served in both houses of the Legislature. His body was taken to Cleveland, 0., for interment. —Burglars entered the store of John Herb, of Mooresville, Floyd County, and stole a wagon-load of groceries and dry goods. All the meat. 100 pounds of coffee, a lot of flannel, $4 in coppers from the postoffice in the store and a few dollars in change in the drawer were taken. No clew to the thieves. —The Anderson flint glass works took off their first heat recently. Everything succeeded admirably. This is the only glass factory in the State making flint glass bottle in which the sand is smelted by natural gas. The establishment employs 100 hands. —Adam Pavnier, a pioneer of Elkhart County, died, aged 78 years. —David Bowers, a prominent farmer of Aboit Township, Allen County, died suddenly of apoplexy, while in bed. —Burglars entered the postoffice at Huntington and robbed the cash-drawer of sls in stamps and pennies. They also blew open the outside door of the safe but were frightened away before getting through the inner door. The damage to the safe and furniture is about S3OO. —William Goleeke died at Fort Wayne from the effects of injuries received in a saloon fight. —While Ed. Stotzki and Tom Cutsinger were handling an air gun, at Franklin, it was accidentally discharged, the bullet striking Cutsinger in the right side. He was taken to his home and Dr. AV. C. Hall probed for the ball, but failed to find it. The injury is not thought to be serious as the ball was small. —Joseph Hawkins, a prominent butcher of Fowler, dropped dead at the slaughter-house door, recently. He had been a sufferer from heart disease for some time. —A week ago a stranger hired a team at John Orr’s livery stable at Russiaville, to drive to Terre Hall, a distance of fifteen miles, and was to return on the following day. The stranger is still at large and Mr. Orr mourns the loss of histeam, buggy, and harness. No trace of the missing property has yet been discovered. —At Terre Haute, Mrs. Dr. George AV. Cooper hanged herself in the attic of her home. —A forty-eight-hour rain in the vicinity of Seymour has raised A\ r hite and Muscattatack rivers to an unusual height. Much stock has been drowned, thousands of bushels of corn have been swept away, and thousands more are endangered. —Four prisoners, confined in the jail at Tipton, made their escape by sawing off the iron bars leading into the Sheriff’s residence. Two of them were awaiting trial for larceny, one for assault and battery with intent to kill and one for arson. They have so far eluded arrest. Col. AV. H. Talmage, of New York, general agent of the United States Government, was in Peru recently, effecting a final settlement with the Eel River Miami Indians, of Miami County, now numbering twenty-six persons. This is the last and final payment to be made to them under the treaties of August 3, 1795, and September 30, 1809, aggregating a total of $22,000, or a per capita of $846.16. This handful of persons represent a once great and powerful tribe. —Patents have been granted Indiana inventors 1 as follows: Jehu Davis* Bringhurst, pulverizer and cultivator; AVilliam N. Schindler and W. Mikel, Mishawaka, bushing for shaft pulleys; Benjamin F. Shepherd, Pleasantville, hoisting apparatus; AVilliam AV. Smith, Laporte, metallic wheel; Geofge J. Zimmerman, assignor to Scott and Niles Company, Laporte, making metal wheels.

COL. DUDLEY'S LETTER.

IT IS TO BE INVESTIGATED BY THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY. Figuring on Election Majoritl**— Contest* Probable—The Grand Army Couiiu inilrr Appoints His Aides—Other Inteiestiug News. [lndianapolis (lud.l sp?cial.} The Federal Grand Jury has virtually received instructions from Judge AA\ A. Woods, of the District Court, to return an indictment against Col. AA\ AA r . Dudley for “aiding, advising, and counseling” au attempt to bribe voters. The Grand Jury is composed equally of Republicans and Democrats, but politics is not likely to cut any figure, as Judge AVoods, a Republican, enjoined the jurors not to allow partisan considerations to interfere with their judgment. Coming as this does from a jurist who is Gen. Harrison’s confidential friend, who was with him at Middle Bass Island this summer, and who is believed to be the choice of the President-elect for the first vacancy on the Supreme Beach, the charge has more than ordinary weight, and its real significance is that the next President is going to enforce the election laws. In his charge Judge AVoods did not mention names, but he might just as well have done so, and the indictment of Col. Dudley seems to be a foregone conclusion. Colonel Dudley’s friends regret that the famous letter containing a course of treatment for “floaters” should have made his indictment so easily possible. Democrats who have undertaken the prosecution evince their determination to push it, and they profess their ability to secure a conviction. THE FAMOUS LETTER. First—To find out who has Democratic boodle, and steer the Democratic workers to them, and make them pay big prices for their own men. Second—Scan the election oflicers closely, and make sure to have no man on the board whose integrity is even questionable, and insist on Republicans watching every movement of the election officers. Third—See that our workers know every YOter entitled to a vote, and let no one else offer to vote. Fourth—Divide the floaters into blocks of five, and put a trusted man with necessary funds in charge of each five, and make him responsible that none get away and that all vote our ticket. Fifth—Make a personal appeal to vour best business men to pledge themselves to devote the entire day, Nov. 6, to work at the polls—i. e., to be present at the polls with tickets. They will be astonished to see how utterly dumfounded the ordinary Democratic election bummer will be, and how quickly he will disappear. The result will fully justify the sacrifice of time and comfort, and will be a Bource of satisfaction afterward to those who help in this way. Lay great stress on this last matter. It will pay.

LATE ELECTION NEWS. Figuring Up the Majorities—Contests Likely to Occur. ILLINOIS. Springfield, Nov. 13.—The official returns from all the counties in Illinois on the vote for Governor have not yet been received at the office of the Secretary of State, but the figures at hand, with Alexander County official figures missing, indicate that “Private Joe” will have a plurality of 13,695, and it is not thought that the figures to come will reduce the total below 13,000. INDIANA. Indianapolis, Nov. 13.—Official returns of the vote for Governor have been completed. The total is 536,634, against 495,094 cast in 1884; cast for Hovey (Rep.), 263,194; for Matson (Dem.), 261,003; for Hughes (Pro.), 9,776; for Milroy (Labor), 2,661; Hovey’s plurality 2,191, against 7,392 for Gray in 1884. Official returns on Presidential electors are not yet complete, but the returns thus far received indicate that it was only a few hundred in excess of the Gubernatorial vote. OKLAHOMA. St. Lotus, Mo., Nov. 13.—The result of the election held by the Oklahomaites in No-Man’s-Land was largely in favor of Territorial government and for the Springer Oklahoma bill. 0. G. Chase was elected delegate to Congress, together with the entire Territorial Council ticket favoring the Oklahoma bill. The Kansas annexation schemers polled only a light vote. WEST VIRGINIA. Wheeling, Nov. 13. The political situation in West Virginia is unchanged. Both parties claim a small plurality in the State, and it will require the official count to decide the result. A canvass of the vote in the State has begun. It will require ten days to determine the result. ARIZONA. Tucson, Nov. 13. Mark Smith’s (Dem.) majority for Congress is nearly 3,000 —1,200 increase over 1886. The Legislature is largely Republican in both branches. DISPUTING A MARYLAND DISTRICT. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 13.—1 t is announced that the friends of the Hon. Isidore Raynor, who was defeated in the Fifth Congressional District by Henry Stockbridge, Jr., have discovered errors in the count which will overthrow Stockbridge’s slim majority of 89. An appeal will be made to the courts for the purpose of securing a recount of the ballots. Carlisle’s perforated ballots. Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 13.— An examination of the ballots in Boone, Campbell, Kenton and Pendleton Counties in the Sixth Kentucky District shows that 6,502 perforated tickets were cast for the Hon. John G. Carlisle. His majority in the entire district was 6,051, so that if no further search is made there are enough ballots to defeat him if it shall be declared upon contest that these perforated ballots are void. Georgia’s governor inaugurated. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 13.—Gov. Gordon has been inaugurated for his second term. In his inaugural address the Governor said that he does not believe that the Republican victory means the degrading of any of the Southern States by the enactment of force bills. lOWA commissioners. Des Moines, lowa, Nov. 13.—Sufficient returns have been received from the official canvasses to make it certain that the Hon. John Mahin has been elected Railroad Commissioner by from 1,500 to 2,000 majority over Colonel Dey. This will make the commission wholly Republican.

FAMOUS ELECTION BET. Over 9150,000 Realized Off One Sack of Flour, Probably the most noted election bet was that made by Kuel Gridley, of Austin, Nebraska, in 1862. He bet that he would beat his opponent. The terms of the wager demanded that the loser should carry a sack of flour from upper to lower

Austin. Gridley lost, and the day after election started oft his trip, accompanied by the entire population of Austin. The question arose as to what disposition should be made of the flour, and some ingenious individual suggested that it be sold at auction for the benefit of the Western Sanitary Commission. Gridley was auctioneer, and the hag was knocked down for $250. The purchaser declined to receive it, and suggested that it be 6old again. The idea took like wildfire, and the bag was sold again and again, and before night the sum of $6,900 had been realized. Gridley saw fame for him and gold for the sick soldiers opening before him. He entered heart and soul into the idea, and be started with bis now famous bag of Hour on an expedition which immortalized himself, and brought joy and comfort to thousands of suffering soldiers. His reception everywhere was like a Roman triumph, aud the people, infected by the noble work, vied and struggled with each other in their generous rivalry. Gridley sold his flour all over the West, and finally exhibited it at the great sanitary fair in St. Louis. Afterward the flour was baked into small cakes and sold at a high price. AVhen the grand total was added up it was found that Gridley’s bet had been the means of adding more than $150,000 to the fuuds of the AVestern Sanitary Commission.

GRAND ARMY APPOINTMENTS.

Tlio Commander-In-Chief Makes Public His List of Aids. [Kansas City (Mo.) lolegram.] General order numbered three has been issued from the headquarters of the G. A. R. in this city. It announces the following additional appointments on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief: Assistant Adjutant General, E. G. Granville, of Kansas City. Mo.; Senior Aid de Camp, Robert F. Wilson, of Chicago. Then follows the long-looked-for list of aids de camp named by the various State Departments: Arizona—George A. Allen, Thomas Hughes. California—A. D. Cutter, O. A. Witherell, H. L. Bissau, J. H. G. Weaves, C. C. Allen, O. N. Kellogg, R. B. 8. York, Lyman Hotaling, It. E. Houghton, J. G. Gerstring. Connecticut—lra E. Forbes, Darwin C. Andrews, Samuel Miller, William 8. Wells, Chas. M. Bowman, Jamas T. Proudman. Dakota— L. K. McGinnis, 8. M. Booth, M. 8. James, E. C. Walton, C. H, Gardner. Illinois—Frederick A. ll ittey, Charles E. Sinclair, R. 8. Thatn, A. 8. Wright, Morris T. Stofford, G. B. Welden, John C. Ward, F. L. Graham, O. P. Cooley, D. C. Brinkerhoff, Holmes Hoge, George O. Spooner. lowa—John H. Woolsou, J. Balyrook, G. W. Chafa, W. C. Steinmetz, H. W. Wilson, R. L. Chase, L. E. Erwin, E. M. Scott, 0. J. Jolly, N. A. Nergley, E. R. Hutchins, George H. Nichols. Kansas—Riohard Blue, A. M. Fuller, A. R. Green, Mark J. Kelley, E. F. Sprague, G. VV. Camp, Murray Meyers, E. J. LI tlewort. Maine—Enoch Foster, Henry A. Sborey, William T. Eustis, Henry C. Levinsaler, Joseph B. Peaks, Augustus H. Printer, Hannibal Hamlin, Samuel L. Miller, Eliphalet Rowell, William H. Fogler, Hehry A. Balcom, Patrick Hayes. * Maryland—Alfreds. Cooper, Edward Schilling, Charles A. Rotan, Thomas H. Coburn. Missouri—John W. Noble, Emile A. Becker, R. D. Cramer, R. H. Wren. W. T. Sullivan, Peter A. Rachroth, H. B. Kerens, J. W. Beach, Joseph L. Moore. New Mexico—Lee H. Rudisllle, J. J. Fltzgerrell, Ed J. Savage. Ohio—A. B. Baldwin, Mark B. Wells, Lot AWfight, D. L. Lee, Charles H. Jones, Thomas G. Herron, A. A. Simmonds, W. B. Shattuc, J. Byron, E. A Scoville, John T. Booth, E. H. Sprague, J. W. R. Cline, James Fitton, L. D. Woodworth. Potomac—James R. Brown, Edward P. Russell, J. H. Stine, James L. Thornton, James L. Davenport. Tennessee and Georgia-J. J. Weiler, P. M. Radford, C. W. Norwood, J. W. Andes, Kemp Murphy, E. D. Smytho. Wisconsin—W. J. Hillman, Charles S. Wicks, John Fletzer, Richard Carter, William Grover, S. C. Prince, O. W. Carison, A. J. Smith, George E. Smith, M. Mongan, K. M. Bartlett, 8. C. McDonald, Thomas Boland. The order then states: The position of Aide-de-Cainp is not to be regarded as a sinecure. The comrade honored in this order by being named as Aide-doJlamp on the naiional staff should bear in m na that be bag been selectid for activo work. He is the immediate representative of the Comrnander-in-Chief, and is expecte i to work, and he is hereby instructed the Ist day of January, lt8), aud the first day of each month thereafter, to make report to these headquarters of the number of posts he has visit d, the number of recruits lie has had mustered in, and such other matters as he may deem of interest to the order. The harvest is ripe; the Aiie-de-Carnp should lead In the work in the field. The amendments to the rules and regulations adopted at Columbus follow, and announcement is made that the revised ritual will be ready for free distribution from the office of the Quartermaster General and assistants after Jan. 1 in exchange for the old ones. The Commander then calls attention to the 33,583 suspensions during 1887-88, and concludes with the remark: “Let us never drive a worthy old soldier out of the Grand Army because he is poor. ” A committee to define and establish relations between the Grand Army of the Republic and Sons of Veterans is constituted as follows: A. R. Conger, Akron, Ohio; Thomas Bennett, Richmond, Ind.; Washington Gardner, Albion, Mich.

AMERICA’S CORN CROP.

The Department or Agriculture Estimates the Yie’d at 2,000,000,000 Bushels. The returns of the yield of corn made to the Department of Agriculture indicate a yield per acre as large as that of 1885 and larger than any other crop since that of 1880. The aggregate grown on a larger area will exceed that of any previous American product, being very close to 2,000,000,000 busheD, or about 32 bushels per capita, which has been exceeded in several previous years. The average yield of the States is as follows: Ohio, 35.2 bushels; Indiana, 35 bushels; Illinois, 36.2 bushels; lowa, 37 bushels; Missouri, 31 bushels, Kansas, 27 bushels; Nebraska, 36 bushels. These seven States produce 64 per cent, of the crop. The general average will fall somewhat under twenty-seven bushels. There is a good supply of maize in nearly all parts of the South, so that comparatively little will be required from the West. The yields of the Atlantic States are moderate; seriously reduced by frost on the northern border. After three years of low yield, potatoes give an average of about eightv bushels per acre, or neirly the rate of vield of 1879.

Sioux City’s Railroad Bridge.

Arrangements have 1 een completed for the formal opening of the Chicago and Northwestern liailioal bridge across the Missouri Biver at Sioux City, lowa, Nov. 25. It is now expected that within two years Sioux City will have a direct line west through Nebraska and Wyoming to Salt Lake Citj.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

i Tli® Manners ami Customs of Society in the I.a.t Century. [From the Westminster Review.] As to our dinners and cookery— a century ago merchants and the middle classes generally dined at 3 o’clock; “society” an hour Inter; but the artisan’s chief meal still hung back at 1 o'clock. Where a Frenchman ate—and still eats—more bread than mea% the Englishman naturally gives himself greater, perhaps because a more northerly, latitude in the matter of flesh. Our strictly island cookery, then as i now, was simpler, admitted of Lss disguise than the French; and few cosmopolitans will, even in these modem days of wide aud electric travel, with- . hold the suffrage of their palates from ! the London chop or steak off the everj multiplying grid, or cry oh! at the | roast beef of England, except, indeed, i it be in the chorus of Fielding’s song. Made dishes—mets composes were unknown; and the pot, the gridiron and the spit were almost the sole stock in trade of the women cooks. A ceremonious dinner rarely went beyond a couple of joints and some a sietts volantes, presumably what we 1 uha to call side dishes, consisting of 1 vegetables and (Yorkshire?) puddings, followed by a dessert of cheese or fruit, according to the season. The philanthropist praises, enigmatically, the “whiteness” of the butcher’s meat, which, for all that, was not bo nutri- • tive ns that of Paris. Carome, no I mean judge, thought differently; but the so much vaunted roast beef, the idol of the English, was easier of digest.on than the French, being less compact. What he wanted to express, no doubt, was that it was not bo tough. The vegetables, fruits, and j salads were tasteless, and cabbages, turnips, and spinach near London i tasted of the coal smoke which filled !Dm air. Game, too, although abuni dant at thirty miles distant from London was eaten on the spot in the country; that of Picardy being preferred in the capital; and wo can quite believe it when we see the way in which the Englhh farmer of the present day still allows himself to be driven to the Mall bv the fowls, dairy produce, and vegetables and fruits of the Continent. ()ur dinner furniture included “roundhandled, two-pronged steel forks for carrying solid morsels to the month with the left hand, directly after each such morsel was cut with the right, which was constantly armed with a knife, and that knife broad and roundpointed, for use like a trowel, in tnking up sauces; etc.” For the Englishman did not jily his goed knife and fork by awkwardly pausing those weapons from hand to hand, like other nations, and could thus be detected anywhere in Europe before he opened his mouth, at all events, to speak. The constant use of knife in the right hand, however, suggests to the ethnologist milder social manners in race which could tolerate the custom without the apj rehensions it would naturally evoke in a country where another and a lethal j “use of the knife” was more common.

Meaning of the Word “Limited.”

A subscriber asks for an explanation of the word “limited,” which lrequently follows ths'name of a corporation, as the “Sunrise Blacking Company, limited,” or “Smith & Jones, limited.” In the last case, as in the concern is a corporation, with shareholders, not on 3 of whom, possibly, is a Smith or a Jone?. The old principle of corporations create! by legislative act was that the entire property of every stockholder waslia de for the whole debts of the compaiy, as the whole propeit/ of every member of a general partnership is still liable for the debts of the firm. But this s /stem made every shareholder responsible lor bad management of which he might not be guilty, and deterred wealthy m:m from becoming interested in the shares of corporations. To remove this objection the principle of limited liability was introduced, and in order to notify the publ.c that only the separate property of the corporation was liable for the debts of the corporation the English law re juires that the word “limited” shall be uied in every case by the company. Most American corporations are constituted on the principle of limited liability, but few, if any, of the States enjoin companies to append the word limited to their corporate titles. The matter is so well understood in this country, indeed, that it is not necessary. The most noteworthy exception to the general rule is the case of the national banks, and even in this instance liability is limited to an amount equal to the par value of the shares. That is, if a national bank fails, each stockholder may not only lose what he has invested, but SIOO more for each share of stocks he holds, if so much is necessary to pay the debts of the 1 ank. Until within a few years all the Scottish banks were organized with unlimited liability, and when, eight or ten years ago, a Gla-gow bank failed, disastrously, there were cases of men who only owned a share or two, valued before the failure at not much more than a hundred dollars each, who were assessed thousands of pounds sterling, to meet the debts of the bank. Since that time the Scottish banks have been allowed to reorganize on a bas s of limited liability.— Youth’s Companion. Apologies for Christianity were addressed by Justin Martyr to the Emperor Antoninus Pius, about A. D. 164, Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, was founded by Ashur about 2245 B. C.