Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — Page 3

BY HOMER P. BRANCH

[copyrighted by the author, 1800.] CHAPTER VI-Continued. He seemed convin ed of tho trnth of this and brought out the paper, an old, time-worn copy of a New York daily. I scanned this closely, and In tho marine intelligence saw a marked paragraph. I read: “Wrecked. —The schooner Morning Star, on the Florida coast, in a gale. Tho ill-fated vessel was bound from London to New Orleans. All lives saved but the first mate, two seamen and a passenger, who having heroically stayed on boi),rd to the last helping off the others, were swamped In the last boat half way between the wreck and the shore. Tho passenger lost was one Albert F. Arold, who was bound for Amer.ca to join his wife and child in cue of the Southern States. ” After reading this a thought slrufck me. Burton Arold’s mother had been an El Muza and had married in England while on a visit to, re atives In that country. Could she be the one whose husband was thought to have deserted her. and was the Albert F. Arold mentioned in the paper lnr husband coming to her? I found out by further contersation with tho negro that the initials in the name of tho senora’s husband, were A. F.; so I settled my mind upon this point, arid came to the conclusion, from the old man’s story, that tho phantom lady was no other than Burton’s sweetheart; also, that the people of the villa had consideredßurton’s legitimacy a 9 resting under a cloud, and that for this reason tho match between him and the fair Zeyna had been opposed and thwarted by the young lady’s parents. The sun was sotting In a blaze of gold and emera d and purple, throwing its manyTtinted lights up against the few slight clouds that were floating lazily along the sky, and a gentle Gulf breeze just stirred to a tremble-the ripe leaves upon the trees, as I left the negro’s shanty and started musingly back toward the solemn villa. I had partaken of supper at the exslave’s humble board, and had learned much of the Montinni history from his honest lips—much more than I need tell here. Engaged in deep thought, I strolled on toward the gloomy old house. It was growing dusk when I reached the shadow of the building. I entered, went up stairs and sat down upon an antiquo sofa at the end of the hall near a large double window where I could look out upon the fields and country beyond, and watch them as they slowly disappeared in the deepening gloom of night. In tho hush and listlessness of the place and •the Influence of the 9ootfling darkness I fell-into a pleasant sleep.

CHAPTER VII. THE PHANTOM LADY APPEARS TO BURTON. Words warm with the eloquence and ecstasy of love and of woe, addressed in a wild, passionate , vehemence, by a manly voice (to the phantom lady, so I surmised), echoing tnrough the grim old house, startled me from my sleep. I arose and started down the hall, but stopped midway as I saw the library door swing open and Burton step forward. His face was pale and set as if his soul within were wrenched with a pain of sorrow so deep and unspeakable as to even render emotion inanimate and still. I knew by his looks that his phantom sweetheart had appeared to him, and that the voice which had awakened me was his. He strode*forjvard to tho landing of tho stairs,ythen suddenly stopped. How grand he looked there in the hall, standing so erect and solemn in the moonlight! No bronze statue standing lone and stately upon Its marble pede.-tal, in ancient ruin, in the shadow of princely grandeur, could have presented a more striking picture. I amost expected to hear another outburst of eloquence, accompanied by some spiritualistic manifestation wilder and more beautiful than I had yet seen; but, instead, a groan echoed from the statue-like form and it began to totter forward- I leaped to Burton’s side just in time to save him from a precipitate fall down the stairway, and to convey him down its dark and crazy flight out Into the air. “Is that you, Hal?” ho asked. I answered affirmatively. “Did you see her?” was his next question. I replied that I had seen no one, having been as eep In the hall until awakened by his voice. We both sat down on the front veranda railings and taking out cigars smoked them In silence. Burton brooding and dreaming, and I wondering what would come next It must have been late in the evening when the silence was first broken It had become tedious, and I • ventured to ask Burton what the subject of his profound meditation could be. Pointing toward a wooded dell a half mile away, which 1 could just faintly discern through the moonlight, he answered: “Down in yon valley, where the woodbine and the ivy cling to the noble trees, lies the grave of her who would have been part of my life if she had lived. Since her death, years ago. I have not lived; only in appearance She was my soul, my existphee. Upon her every word I hung as upon . the breath of life.' Into her eyes I looked as into a lustrous sea upon whose balmy waves I should be borne away to lands of everlasting benediction. Her raven tresses, lightly falling about her queenly bodice, were as rays of sunshine to my vision. She was my world, nty* heaven. Her very fooisteps sounding,filled mo with an exquisite delight that was a sort of insane ecstasy. We were cruelly parted by her parent-, and before I could arrange to secretly convey her hence she died of broken heart; and I had rather died. These miserable years have been a period of quasi-madness—a strange and wildered dream, part temporal, part spiritual. To-night the spirit of my love appeared to me for the first time, but only for a moment, holding her clasped hands above my head as if mutely blessing me. It may be that this was but an eccentric vision of a dream distracted brain. However this may bo I feel that I too must 9oon pass away. I leel that my strength is weakening fast.” His voice during this speech was low and feverish; fitful and wild at first, then slow and solemn. As he quit speaking his breath began to come heavily and he fell back; but I anticipated this and caught him before he could fall to the ground. I assisted, or rather carried him into the parlor where I had noticed a sort of couch sofa, and fras looking arQond for something of 'Which to make a light when suddenly

ZEYNAEL ZEGAL

Wmsmamt & lut’

the room became softly illuminated, and I saw the Senor Montinni and a number of the revelers of the night before standing around the couch. Montinni came close to me and whispered: “Senor Burton is very ill; his time is near at hand You must go ior his mother. We .will see that be is kept as comfortable as possible. Ills mother lives twenty miles up the tyayou in tho town of M— —. The packet steamer, Katie of the Dell, is due to pass hero about this time. You had better prepare to go at once. ” Looking out at tho window I saw a long train of sparks falling back from two tall dark pipes down, tho bayou, and knew that the steamer was coming. Getting a few details of direction from Montinni, aqd taking leave of Burton, I ran over tho hill to tho landing just in time to hail the boat. The steamer’s whistle answered my salute, the boat drew up against the bank to take me on. and soon I was a passenger, my thoughts mingling vaguely with the hissing of the engines, the splashing of tho wheels, the trailing of the sparks, and recollections of the strange events at tho haunted house.

CHAPTER VIII. A MIDNIGHT ERRAND. The' packet was a fast boat, and it was but little after midnight when it drew up at tho M landing, but notwithstanding tho night and the darkness I fol owed the direction given me and soon found the residence of Burton's mother. Tho house, as well as the whole town, was in the pulseless sleep of night, and the hollow thump-thump of tho old-fa hlor.ed knocker at the door echoed dully along the street as I applied it. Presently a nogress came to the door and asked in a frightened manner what was wanted. I told her that I was a messenger from Burton Arold to his mother, and that it was necessary for me to see that lady at once. The negress showed me into a small but neat drawing-room, and turning a low-burning lamp up to a full blaze left the room and went to call her mistress. In a few minutes a tall, handsome matron, of about fifty years, stepped into the room. “Is this the Senora Arold?” I asked, rising. She started and stepped backward several feet Then coming forward she took me by the hand and said: “You must pardon my being 9tartled, but you so much resembled my brother who is dead that I thought you an apparition. You have come from my son. Is ho well?” The anxious look in the mother’s face showed that she feared the truth; so I immediately gave her a short account of his illness, and suggested that she should be at his bedside as soon as possible. T his was an irrelevant suggestion, for while I was Hiving it the Senora rang for her servant, and when that person had appeared she was given the order to wake up her two brothers and have them get a skiff ready Sipon the bayou immediately. “We were to go down, ” she said, “by boat to C , eight miles below, whore we could catch the mail coach for Blank, which would take us within a half-mile of the villa.” In the course of fifteen minutes the negress returned and said that Sam and Tom were in their skiff at the landing, ready. The Senora had packed a few necessaries, among which was a small case of medicines, into a sachel, and after she had wrapped up well we started for the landing, where we found Sam and Tom, two strong negroes, in waiting with a sharp-prowed skiff. The Senora gave her orders, and tho stout fellows laid to their oars with a will, and several times I “spelled” one or the other of them, to give a breath of rest.

No wind stirred the water, and the skiff sped along Gown the bayou with a speed that brought us to C—— just a 9 waking day was opening his eyes in the faY dim east We had time to take refreshment at tho little tavern of the town before the coach started, and soon after breakfast we found ourselves in that old swaybacked vehicle, the only passengers. After having directed the Grivcr to drop us at the nearest point to the Montinni estate, we began to talk over the affairs in hand. After I had explained my connection with Burton, and told some of my experiences among the mysteries of the villa, I pulled from my pocket the old copy of the New York paper given me by the negro Ben, and showed her tho marked item of tho shipwreck. There aro times when the heart is full, when recollections of the past crowd in upon the soul, and the commingled anguish and joy, tho pent-up experience of years, the vicissitudes of life, perhaps, well up from the vaults of memory and overwhelm the heart. Far be it from me to assume to describe the feelings of that widow and mother when she learned through that old and timo-stained newspaper the true cause of her widowhood away back in the tender years of her earlier life. Her sorrow for the sad fate of her husbana, and her joy to know that instead of having deserted her he was coming to join her as they had arranged, and that he had acted bravely and noSly in those his last hours on e'arth, was a matter that drew forth my deepest sympathy at the time, and dwells pathoticically in my recollection yet, but that is a private affair and belongs only as a mere mention to this story. Her sufferings during all those years of bereavement, when she had thought that the man who had fascinated and won her maiden heart had deserted her and left that heart to eat itself away In *he canker, the bitterness, the ashes of unrequited iove and broken faith —these, too, I will pa9sover, leaving their intimations to impress the kind reader as they may. Slumbering sorrow when once really awakened in' the breast drives away all thoughts of business formality. Knowing this full well I did not disturb the, Senora in her thoughts. Let the fuff heart work away its grief with what little of joy that may beam Into it. At about the middle of the forenoon a blast from tho driver’s horn warned us that we were near our stopping place) and soon the coach stopped. After getting out we walked silently and quickly to the villa.

CHAPTER IX. A STARTLING VISITATION. A subdued purple ladiance flooded the Interior or the- villa; a delicately sweet perfume floated about op the airy draughts that wandered in fresh from their morning dalliance with the flowers of many fields; and a soft, delicious spell seemed to reign fairy like over the semienchanted place. If the soul of the phantom lady # had pervaded every room, carrying with it the atmosphere of the blessed realm where dwell the spirits of 'all like her, balmier breath could not have come to kiss the brow of him who was passing into the shadow. I had been sauntering thoughtfully through the rooms and chambers of the old house for an hour or so, having, upon our arrival, left the mother and son alone in the sacredness of their meeting, for, under the circumstances, this meeting was sacred. “She once strong young man, now

weak and at times delirious In the burning and the eating* of the fever, pouring the discontented eloquence of his life’s great sorrow and despair into the tender recesses of that mother's heart, and the reassuring words of love and comfort and sympathy spoken in return by that mother, are matters to which you and I are not parties. We can only guess by what has come under our own observations, and perhaps our limited experiences, what transpired during that interview; but I do know that the heart that had been broken in early years, and left; | bleeding and disconsolate by the cruel negloct and cold treatment of proud and unfeeling paronts; the beart to which ; he had been pressed in the days of his babyhood as if his very being were a ! healing balm that might assnage its interminable aching, aye, the most faithful of mother hearts, still yearned | toward her boy in his manhood as it had I in his infancy, and that its chords of symVa.hy would vibrato at tho slightest word from that boy in a tender love as sweet »as tho whispered music of the .(Eollan harp when the evening zephyr scarcely touches it and away. I had been wondering during this hour what should be done next; what the whole meaning could bo of my mission at the villa and among its mystic and shadowy people. As I was thus thinking, I felt a touch upon my arm, and upon looking up, behold bofore mo the shadowy, beautiful form of the Sonorlta El Muza. She pointed to one side, and following the direction she indicated I- saw such a counterpart of myself that I had to look •tho second time to ascertain that thero was no mirror there to reflect back my i form and visago. This person thus pointed out had tho shadowy appearance 1 had noticed in all the spirits. A pleasant smilo overspread his countenance when he noticed my discomfiture, and he said: “You are evidently surprised at the fact that you and I resemble each other so closely; still tnero need be no surprise when you learn'that we are related by a long line of ancestry through your mother, a descendant of the El Muza stock, but of a different wing of the family. “There are, ” he continued, “only two representatives of the direct lines now lining ‘on earth. These two are the Senora Arold aiid your friend Burton. The Senora is my sister, so I am tho young man’s undo My parents treated them shabbily because it was thought that the Senora had allowed herself to bo disgraced by being betrayed into* false marriage, followed by apparent desertion on the part of her husband; but they have fully repented of their harsh conduct since their advent into tho spirit world, where we have all met her husband, who was shipwrecked on the coast of Florida while an the way to join her, and have learned that the marriage was valid. They wish to repair as well as they can the Injury done their daughter’s happiness. She must be kindly taken care of during the remainder of her natural life, and when she joins us in the future existence we will all bo happy together forever more. “This estate,” continued he, “was a partnership one. The El Zegals are all in the spirit world, the Senora Arold was disinherited, and the whole estate, under certain conditions, falls to a' nephew (by marriage) of Montinnl’s, whoresiijles at Venice. The transfer Is made subject to the management 8f an administrator. Now, there never has been any administrator, appointed, but legal forms are drawn up accompanying Montinni’s last will and testament, wherein places for an administrator’s name are left blank. We authorize you to affix your name to them, and to take all legal steps necessary to secure your position. The two-thirds of the, estate left without a will by El Zegal and El Muza are in such a posltion that they can bo placed in possession of Montinni’s nephew or given over to the discretion of the state. What we want you to do is to acquaint Montinni’s heir with tho power vested In you and to get a testified contract from him to the effect that if this property is given over to him that he will allow the Senora Arold the freedom of th# villa as a home and provide her with a proper mainteni ance during her natural life, and so mako the transfer that if he fails in the leastwise to comply with his intrusted obligations his claim to the El Muza and' El Zegal property shall henceforth be, null and void. “You will find the papers In a small Iron safe in orfe of the closed rooms up stairs. If you go immediately for them the doors will be opened for you. The heir’s address will bo found among the papers. ” [TO BE CONTINUED.]

Dust In Space.

Some of the oldest records of human’ history contain accounts of the fall of| great stones from the sky. Until the, opening of the present century it wasi generally believed by men of science'; that the ancients only imagined that they had seen rocks fall out of the heavens. j Modern science, however, has verified the truth of the ancient records, and •we now know not only that stones and; metallic masses, called aerolites or meteorites, do come tumbling down out of space, but that a fine dust, called cosmic dust, is continually sifting down through the atmosphere. It is like the smoke and dust of a journey, for the earth is really journeying, along with the sun, toward the northern part of the universe, and as it goes it draws in with its attraction the refuse paFtlcles that apparently exist throughout space. But while there can be so doubt of the existence of this silent rain of minute matter upon the earth, the difficulty has been to recognize It after it reaches the ground. Of late years, however, it has been found mingled in the ooze dredged up Irom the sea-bottom, and a few years ago when Baron Norden9kjold visited Greenland he gathered a quantity of dust particles from the great snowfields there, which were believed to have come from the sky. , This conclusion was Afterwards disputed, but lately a new analysis has been made, which seems to show decisively that a large part of the material really Is cosmic dust A computation bas d upon the amount found on thp Greenland moors indicates that the earth must gather in, over the whole of its surface, at least one hundred and thirty-two thousand tons of the dust of space every year!—Youth's Companion.

Stern Discrimination.

George—“ Yes, sir; I cannot tell a lie— I did it.” Washington Senior—“ Well, that’s all right about the lie, but (whack) d’ye think (whack!) you can tell a cherrytree (whack! whack!) next time?” He told his love in burning words, a tender love and true; the Boston maid blushed rosy red, and to his arms she flew, and round her alabaster neck his ruddy whiskers blew.! “I love you, dear,” she softly sighed— 1 he smole a smile serene—“because your lovely scarf-pin is the image of a bean.” Mr. Edison keeps himself well before the public with his 800 odd patents. We are now told that he has devised an electric motor which will easily enable railroads to run trains at the rate of 100 miles an hour.

HERE’S ALL THE NEWS

TO BE FOUND IN THE STATE OF INDIANA. Giving A Account of tHo Numerous Crimes, >CasualUes, Tiros, Suicides, Deaths, Etc., Etc. An Editorial Trip, The National Editorial Association trip to California and annual meeting at San Fr&ndsoo, as at present arranged, isfor all Eastern and Southern delegates todeave Chicago and St. Louis by two routes on the evening of May 9, meeting at Gaiorado Springs on tho morning of the nth, remaining thero until the night of the 12th to take part in the dedication of the Childs-Drexel “Homo for Printers” which is to occur on the 12th. This homo for printers Is said to have cost 5150,000, and is a monument to tho generosity of the donors. Tho Hon. Amos J. Cummings ot Now York, will deliver tho dedication address.

Leaving Colorado Springs tho delegates go by special train to Santa Fo, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Riverside, remaining a day at each place, also other points of interest, arriving at San Francisco on Saturdav, the 21st, After the SaDhath day’s rest the annual session of the Association will togin on Monday, the 23d. The delegates will come homo by tho. northern route, ending their itinerary at Seattle, in time for Republican editors to attend the Minneapolis convention on route on June 7., George W. Childs of tho Philadelphia Ledger, and other newspaper publishers of prominence, will read papers bofore the annual convention of editors, a full list of acceptances of papers to bo read, with the subjects of each, is in preparation, which, together with descriptive pamphlot of trip, entertainments and program of tho three days’’session, will be sent to all delegates by the Secrotary, J. M. Page of Jerseyvillo, 111., as soon as all details aro fully Known.

Frank SmoUk,' a C. & I. C. brakeman, was fatally injured at Attica while coupling cars. Thomas Goins, the Greonsburg barber who shot Daie Welsh, was glvou five years in the Penitentiary. A shed fell on Win. G. Bain’s stock, near Martinsville, burying sixty-two hogs and seven of his cattle. William and James Robbins of Jefferson County, were arrested at North Vernon for counterfeiting. Farmers of New Providonce and locality think of boycotting the Monon road on account of high rates for freight. Both school houses and churches in Macey, near Peru, have been deserted for some time on account of diphtheria raging. Goshen is troubled with a gang of toqghs who make night hideous with yells. I’olico going to stop it or break somebody’s nock. White Caps, near Plainfield, battered down the door to> Milton Stanley’s residence, claiming to bole search of a man supposed to be stopping with Stanley. Mrs. Maria McCoy of Jeffersonville, who deserted lici husband and family some time ago, before- husband’s death, has returned and taken possession of property. Over thirty accessions to tho Christian Church at Greoncastlo have resulted from the revival meetings in progress there. ISlder Crim of Shelby ville, is conducting the meetings. S. K. Miller, a wealthy Clay County farmor, has been arrested for persisting in cutting down the poles of tho Postal Telegraph Company. lie was angry because tho company refused to buy tho right of way along the old National road in front of his farm. Conductor Ai.bet May of Terro Haute, was killed bv being run over by his train on the Brazil branch of tho Evansvlllo and Indianapolis railroad. He was with the west division of tho Big Four road for many years, and he was known among railroad men by the fact that in his many years of railroading he had never met with an accidentThe other night, as tho family ot Henry Rodman, a wcathy citizen of Harristown, near Salem, was about to retire, a noise at the door attracted attention. and, upon opening It, a man was seen running away from the house. On tho panel oi the door was found a note, purporting to be from a friond, warning Mr. Rodman that enemiesffiad plotted to murder him and burn his house. “Chub” Carroll will petition Gov. Chase to ne transferred to the Northern Penitentiary, which is at Michigan City. He dislikes to return to Jeffersonville for four years, tocauso he was so unfortunate as to kill one of tho guards. The only case where a transfer has been made in many years was that of William Baggott, the book-keeper for the Jeffersonville Boot and Shoe Company, who forged their check and obtained @1,200 from tho First National Bank, which he used in fleeing with Georgio Twoomoy, a 16-year-old school-girl to Mexico. Upon his arrest and sentence to serve two years he was transferred to Michigan City. Russiaville is again at the height of the capon shipping season. This year shows the most rapid strides of improvement of any heretofore given. There Is a larger per cent, of money paid out to farmers who raise capons here, when the money invested In tho business is considered, than in any other line. The number was formerly considered largo If hundreds were shipped, but now the number reaches into the tens ot thousands. Days aro appointed by the dealers upon which they receive the fattened fowls, and the town, on those days is generally crowded with capon-raisers and their coops. There is a number of mea who practice caponizing surgery successfully, and the business lias become very remunerative. The price paid for the product this year has not been as large as in former years, but the farmers are ‘satisfied. Even at 10 cents per pound there is rnuen profit in tho business.

An 8-year old eon of J. A. Weishani, of Lebanon, it is claimed, lias been cured of a mad-dog bite by a madstone, the property of Moses Necses,-near Whitestown, John Perry, a miner aged 30, committed suicide at Rockville. The local freight train was clearing for the regular passenger train, when Perry lav down and placed his neck on the rail in front of the moving cars. The hind trucks of the caboose passed over and be was iustantiy killed. Two weeks ago he was adjudged insane, but his papers were rejected at Indianapolis. He was a single man. Correspondence from Springville, Lawrence County, conveys the news of the discovery of a lodge of rare lithographic stone 1,200 yards in length, and ten feet thicm It forms a part of the wall of a large cave near Springville. Late in the fall of 1890 Miner A. Sliney, son of Joseph Sllney, of Lagro Township, Wabash Countv, gotdrunk on liquor purchased in Andrews, Huntington County. On his way home the boy fell into the Wabash River and was drowned, ills father brought suit for damages against Gauss and others, • where the liquor was bought, for $6,000. The case was tried in Huntington, and the Jury returned a verdict against Gauss for SSOO.

Vincennes has an “Owl Club," o! young people. Evidently, their purpose is “to woo.” Charges Black was fatally loured by a falling limb near Spring Cave, Owen County. D. G. Davis’ llttlo girl, at Coal Bluff, was fatally burned by her clothing catching fire from a grate. At Muncie, Clarence Burbridge, aged 25,attempted suicide by taking morphine. The stomach pump saved him. John Whittington of Oraagovlile, Orange County, is 80 years old and the father of twenty-three children. Dkmpsf.v Truebi.ood, a well-known man at Anderson, died from poison resulting from eating boneless ham. Siphonia Peterman, wifoof a wealthy Montgomery County farmer, has sued for a divorco and $25,000 alimony. John Hamilton of the Of A. R. filer, mot hik brother last week, the first time in twentv-seven years. John Kearnkgan walked out of the Lawrenceburg jail In the absence of (ho Sheriff, same ouo having unlocked the door. The Kno\- County Lodgor'makes a demand that kissing on tipi school grounds shall be prohibited. Bough on the scholars. The Brookytile cqroncr that Miss Ida Quick, who was supposed to have committed suicide, was murdered by unknown persons. Citizens of Richmond are highly elated ovor the prospocte of a paying gas well, a strong pressure having been struck in Trenton rock, 047 feet down. ~ Frederick Wooprick of Sprlngllold Township, Lal’orte County, a prominent farmer, accidentally fell from his loaded wagon, breaking his neck and dying immediately. Charles Garrett, a farmer near Montpelier, had three ribs broken and was injured internally by being thrown, from a log-wagou and squoozod botwoon the wagon and a tree. Forty business men of Konnard have formed a company for the purpose of laying tho natural gas and torrltoral advantages of their town before capitalists who are looking for .desirable sitos for locatiug new industries. Mrs. Elizabeth Gray of Osgood, wife of Judgo Gray, deceased, aged 85 years, lias cheated the dentist twice during her lifetime, as the third sot of teoth have made their appearance and are protruding through tho hardened gums. Two blooded Clydosdalo stallions In the stable of William Price, at Crawfordsvilie, engaged in a deadly fight. One of thofii klckod and bit fils opponent until ho dropped and dlod. The (lead animal was valued at $1,500.

James McDonald, the old wldowor of Logausport whoso flirtations with a Peru milliner has cost him SI,OOO rocontiy, is believed to to a soft mark by adventuresses, who aro dally pouring letters to him endeavoriug to got tip a cause for action. A Peculiar accident occurred at Brazil. “Commodore” Butts, tho 15-year-old son of Samuel Butts, a wealthy merchant, was kicked on the hcad'by a horso. Tho child lay In an unconscious state for a few hours and thon recovered, frothing at tho mouth. It is thought Ills brains were injured,causing Insanity. Fire broke out in' tho livery stable of Broxton Brothors, at Loogopteo, and th<v stable and contents wore consumed. Fifteen head of horses and tho stallion Chancellor wore cromatod, and a number of boggles, carriages and otlior vehicles, with harness, etc., wore destroyed. Tho loss will reach SIO,OOO with no Insurance.

A revival is in progress at the Friend’s Church In Cartilage, under tho preaching of Rev. John lloorv Douglass, tho Quaker ovangollst, of Dos Moines, lowa. Ono hundred and forty persons united with tho church. Porsons have become deeply Interested, and aro coining from miles around to hear tho preacher, who is said to be ono of the most effective evangelistic workers among tho society of Friends. Near Dunlap, last week, the members of the family, together with the neighbors, took Lewis Woogman, who was so emaciated by sickness that ho could not turn over in bed, to tho river and immersed him naked in tMo freezing waters. Tho weather was very sovore. the mercury registering but a few degrees abovo zero. The most remarkable part of tho horrible affair Is that Wqogman Is still living. The people are boiieyers in the cold-water euro.

April 20. 1803, George Futrel and Minerva Harrel were married at Seymour. ALer tour years Futrel left his wife and two children and was not heard from for many years. His wife, supposing him dead, on Fob. 10, 1870, was married to Elijah L. Easton of Carr Township, and has six children by the union. A few months ago she learned, to her great surprise and horror, that Futrel was aiivo and also married again, whereupon she sued for a divorce from him. The decree was granted at the last term of court, and within the past wceg a new mawiagb license was taken out and Elijah L. Easton and Miss Minerva Harrel are legally married, after living together for twenty-two years and roaring their family. Patents have been granted Indiana inventors as follows: Taylor Davenport and M. M. Doyle, Brazil, dumping wagon; Harry Denham, Sanford, granite hammor; Asa M. Fitch, Seymour, walking and riding plow; Eugene Hardendorf, Fort Wayne, adjustable folding soat; Esom O. Leach, Fairmount, brick-mold sander; John F. Mains assignor to Mains Patent Mailcatcher and Delivery Company, Indianapolis, mail-bag catching fork; James S. Moore, Sullivan, assignor of one-half to W. S. Bristol, Fiat Rock, can-filling machine; John Newlove, Michigan City, street sweeper; James W. Quinn, assignor of one-half to C. D. Vawter,North Madison, flower stand; William M. Skelton, Lebanon, wire tightener for fence; Allen D. Ulrich, Kokomo, harness-sad-dle; Wendel Vondersaar, Indianapolis, row lock; Edmund C. Westervelt, South Bend, plow. Mart Deeding and Mabel Hudson of Crawfordsvlllc, became stage-struck and started for Chicago, but were overhauled at the depot by the police and returned to their respective homes. J. H. Bbockamp’b daughter, at Brookvilie, Is kept in a cell In a corner of her father’s stable, she being Insane. The other day the girl fired tbo place and a big conflagration was narrowly averted. J. N. Goodbar of Crawfordsvllle, was worth over $50,000, and as his brother was wealthy he' wi!!cl him but SSO. The Utter attempted to have the will set aside, but the court decided for the will.

David Zenor of Bowling Green, is past ninety years old, and his wife is more, than seventy, making them the oldest couple In Clay County. They have both been very low with the grip. Harry Callegan, chief electrician for the Wabash Electric Light Company at Wabash, narrowly escaped death recently. The fuel used at the works is crude oil, stored in a large underground tank near the building. This tank was being filled from, a car, and Callegan, in passing the tank With a lantern, fell and threw the lantern to the ground, igniting the gas and causing a terrific explosion. He was so badly burned that his life was for a time despaired of, ConsiderabH damage was done to the building.

THE FAMOUS DEATH VALLEY

A Feature of the Great American Dead! in California. The most fatally famous part of the Great American Desert is Death Valley, in California. There Is on all the globe no other spot more forbidding, more desolate, more deadly. It is a concentration of tho horrors of that wholo hideous area; and it has a bitter history. One of the most interesting and graphic stories I ever listened to was that related to mo several years ago, by one of tho survivors of the famous Death Valley party of 1849 the Rev. J. W. Brier, an aged Methodist clergyman now living In California. A party of live hundred emigrants started on the last day of September, 18454; from the southern end of Utah to cross the desert to the (then new) mine’s of California. There were one hundred and five canvastopped wagons, drawn by sturdy oxen, beside which trudged tho shaggy men, ritks in baud, while under the canvas awnings rodo tho women and children. In a short time there was division of opinion as to the proper route across that pathless waste in front; and next day live wagons and their people went east to Santa Fo (whence there were dim Mexican trails to Los Angeles), and tho rest plunged boldly Into tho desert. The party which went by way of Santa Fo reached California in December, after vast sufferings. Tho larger company traveled In oomfort for a few days until they reached about whore Pioche now Is. Then thoy entered the Land of Thirst; and for more than three months wandorod loot in that realm of horror. It was almost impossible to get wagons through a country furrowed with canyons; so they soon abandoned their vehicles, packing what they could upon the b;icks of the oxen. They struggled on to glittering lakes, only to And them deadly poison, or but a mirage on bairon sands. Now and then a weo spring in the mountains gave them new life. Ono by one the oxen dropped, day by day the scanty flour ran lower. Nino young men who separated from tho rost, being stalwart and unencumbered with fumllics, reaohod Death Valley ahead of tho othora, and wero lost. Their bones wore found many years later by Governor Blalsdell and his survoyors, who gave Death Valley its name. Tho valley lies In Inyo County, and Is about ouo hundred and fifty miles long. In width It tapers from three miles at Its southern end to thirty at the northern. It is over two hundred feet below tho level of tho sea. Tho main party crossed It at about the middle, whero It Is but a few miles wide, hut sufferod frightfully there. Day by day some of their number sank upon the burning sands never to rise. Tho survivors were to weak too help tho fallen.

Tho strongest of the wholo party was nervous little Mrs. Brier, who had come to Colorado an invalid, and who shared with her boys of 4,7, and 9 years of age that indescribable tramp of 900 miles. For tho last three weeks she had hud to lift her athletic husband from the ground ov* cry morning, and steady him a few moments before he could stand. She gave help to wasted giants any one of whom, a few months before, could have lifted her with one hand. At last the few survivors crossed the range which shuts off that most dreadful of deserts from tho garden of tho world, and were tenderly nursed to health at the hacienda, or ranch house, of a courtly Spaniard. Mr. Brier hud lost ono hundred pounds In weight, and tho others were thin in proportion. When I saw him last he was a halo old man of seventy-five, cheerful and active, but with strange furrows In his face to tell of those bygone sufferings. Ills heroic little wife was still living, and tho hoys, who had had such a blttor experience as perhaps no other boys ever survived, are now stalwart men.—St Nicholas.

A BARBARIC DESPOT.

Mulejr HiMaii, tlio Tyrant Hultun of Morocco. The Sultan of Morocco, Muloy Hassan, rises Into prominence at present, owing to the Frcnch-lSnglish dispute in that country. There has never been a greater despot In Africa during 1,000 years. Ills subjects are never sure of their lives. They are browbeaten, bastinadoed and starved at his will. The number of human heads he may literally cut off in the course of every twenty-four hourp is theoretically unlimited, and in practice he has availed himself of the imperial privilege of decapitation to such an extent that the atrocities of the lioman Emperor Com mod us, and of the Russian Czar, Ivan the Terrible, sink Into mildness in comparison. He hates Europeans and European civilization. In appearance he Is tall, In com-

SULTAN MULEY HASSAN.

plexion he Is very dark, black blood showing itself very plainly in his thick lips, though this does not prevent his being an exceedingly handBome man. His face is thin and looks worn. He wears a black beard and mustaohe, and dresses entirely in white. His gardens are full of nightingales, his harem of the most beautiful slaves, and his halls of minstrels who chant to him the glory of himself and his ancestors, _for he is thir-ty-fifth in descent from All, uncle and son-in-law of the Prophet. It is strange that within hailing distance of Europe such a monster should hold court. But it is unfor-tunately-the interest of the great European powers to retain him on his throne.

CONGRESS IN CHICAGO.

LEGISLATORS INDULGE IN A WESTERN JUNKET. A Rousing Welcome Given* to the Distinguished Guests—Chicago Extends the Invitation In Hope of Securing an Appropriation for the Fair. " ” I Congress Comes Wen t. The Congress of the United States trrivod In Chicago the other day for tho first timo, and, according to the way Chicagoans tell it, held a special session in the future national capital. Congress often delegates committees to visit other cities on the public business. This time it has delegated itself and the marble halls of Washington were lonesome for two or throe days, while Chicago lonned her best bib and tuoker and did nor best to show off, so to speak, in the prosouoe of her distinguished guests. The business which has called Congress together In Chicago, says a leadng papor published In the Windy City, will not occupy much time, but it is of he highest Importance. First and foremost will be the visit of Inspection at he World's Fair grounds. It goes without saying that as tho invitation came

BROUGHT THE WHOLE OUTFIT.

'rom tho citizens of Chicago tliero will ne no attempt on the part of the Fair >fiU'lals to usurp tho time or to prejudice he session. They will be on lyind to explain when asked and to furnish deflred Information, leaving tho colossal mnorania at Jackson park to tell its own itory. Congress itself will take the cad, as is proper, and there will be no ittompt on tho part of any one to influmeo its judgment ns to what It shall do n the premises. Chicago is confident dint seeing will bo believing in this mso, and that when members have used heir eyes la seeing und their tongues n asking questions they will go lack to Washington thoroughly qualilod to talk, act, and vote intelligently. Thoy will have tho opportunity to discover how money ms been spent, how tho great underaklng has grown, und hoW much more will lie needed to make tho great Naional Fair worthy of the States which iavo contributed so generously for their >wn representation, and of tho whole lountry, which has made its appoal to ho nations of all the world, through Its President and Secretary of State, to some and send their exhibits. Wliat»ver may bo tho result of this visit Chisago will bo contented. It has no soars, lowovor, as to th# future official action if Congress after its members liuvo had ■lie opportunity of seeing for themselves viiut has been done and what remains a do. Ono hour of personal inspection Fill, be more convincing than weeks of »lk or months of argument would be. If the time allows, there is another intlonal mattor which should engage toe Mention of tho session. There Is a luge building at tho Corner Dearborn md Jackson streets, In whloh the Fedlral Government transacts Its postal, lustom-house, law court, and other lusinoss, whloh is slowly but surely -.umblirig down by piecemeal. It is important that the Congressmen should lee this disintegrating pile for themlolvos, and if they will risk toe visit hoy may even have a chanoe to see lomo of It fall while they are there. They should then make a flying trip to he lake-front and Inspect the opporlunltlos there for the oreotlon of a govjrnmont building. This done It will be h order to move for an udjournmont of ‘he Chicago sossion.

TO BE A THIRD TICKET.

flie People’s Party to Have a Candidate of Its Own. There will be a people's, or a third mrty, or an industrial Presidential ;lckot in the field in the coming campaign. This much may be set down as i fact. The nominating convention, will je held prior to the first week in June, when the representatives of the Bepub.ican party will assemble in national ;onvontlon in Minneapolis. The location of the gathering will be either Bt. Louis, Birmingham, Ala., or Atlanta, Ga. The Presidential timber will be oonInod to L. L. Polk of North Carolina, Congressman Tom Watson of Georgia, 5x- Congressman Featherson of Arkanms, Colonel B. M. Humphreys of Texas, and H. G. Tauboneck of Illinois. Tho jholce for Vice President will reßt between George F. Washbume of Massachusetts, Congressman John Davis of Kansas, and Marion Cannon of California. Present indications favor the somewhat euphonious ticket of “Tommy and George." Politics is mighty “onsartin,” but this is the barometer of the. delegates to the confederated industrial conference which assembled in formal session In the Exposition Building, says a dispatch from St. Louis. Fifteen hundred have arrived—enough to crowd the Hotel Richelieu and all the boarding houses for a quarter of a mile around —and five times that number are expected, according to the advance credentials that have been received. Delegate Washburne, of Boston, who was Secretary of the People’s Party Convention held in Cincinnati last February, says that the assemblage is the biggest industrial conference ever held Dn earth; that the delegates represent organizations with an actual member»hip of 7,000,000, and that a majority of he actual voters as the South are represented. , Appearances favor the claim. Certain It is, moreover, that all the political isms that have ever been given birth in the homo of the free and the land of the brave will have voice and utterance. The spokesmen of the single tax theorists, of the Grangers, of the Prohibitionists, the Greenbaokers, the bimetallists, the sub-treasuryites, the antis, the Knights of Labor, the anti-monopolists ind the woman suffragists are here in force. Frances Willard, acoompanied by Lady Henry Somerset, who simply looks >n with British eyes, was first on the leld. Following in her wake came A. J. Streeter, of Illinois, the People’s party jandldate for the presidency four year* »go; Jesse Harper, of the same State, who boasts of the honor of having »laced Abraham Lincoln in nomination; tgnatius Donnelly, of Minnesota; Gen. lames B. Weaver, Iowa; Col. B. M. Humphreys, of Houston, Texas, Superntendent of the Colored Alliance of the iouth; Representative Taulx neck, Illiiois; Robert Schilling, Milwaukee; L. L. Polk, of North Carolina; and Congressmen Otis and Davis, of Kansas; General Master Workman Powderly and Secretary Hayes, of the Knights of Labor; Senator Peffer, Congressman 1 Simpeon and others.