Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 December 1882 — Page 2

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JTOTICE.

Beginning with yesterday Mr. Geo M. Allen assumed full responsibility and control of the Daily and "Weekly Express, Mr. II. G. Thompson retiring from the firm of Allen & Thompson, hitherto proprietors of the paper.

Congressman TJpdegrafl', of Ohio, is dead.

The prospects for peace and plenty in Ireland' were never drearier than at present.

^Thanksgiving day was the centennial of the signing of the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain.

The good work continues at Washington. Another official has been removed from the postoffice department for complicity in the star route thieveries.

The iron and steel mills are closing down, generally with the understanding that operations will be resumed about January first or as soon as some new scale of wages can be arranged.

The new English act of "closure" begins to work like a patent cut-off. Parnell desired, on Thursday, to discuss the administration of the land act. As only 37 voted with him, he was obliged to hold his peace.

The Supreme Court of Indiana has rendered two decisions that at all evonts will be popular. One is holding the Woodruff Car Co. responsible for the personal efi'ects of travelers, and the other is closing up the Yineennes policy shop scheme.

The Englishman's boust is his love or ran puiy. This quality ought to and will raise a very pretty row over the refusal of asylum at Gibraltar to the Cuban fugitives, who were forced over the English lines when they were f.eii'.cd by the brutal Spanish authorities.

Vennor has been outdone, and by a Canadian, at that. Wiggins, the astronomer of tho Canadian finance department, writes President Arthur that in March next \ve will have a storm for which the grandfather of the oldest inhabitant must yield his reminiscences. Wiggins wants the president to keep Unelc Sam's navy in shelter and avoid serious consequences.

Our navy, which consists of a few vessels and many glorious memories, will be obliged to be docked until it is determined what the country is willing to do for it. At present it is very like a house to rent—no one appears willing to allow more than necessary repairs. We are waiting for a tenant or war. Wc predict that congress will be excused for a time by the great majority if it merely keeps the present navy afloat. In fact the country just now seems to be taking in sail instead of spreading it.

Will the Republican party succeed in 1884? This ia a conundrum proposed by many of our contemporaries with the invariable answer of 'yes,'when the writeris sound in the faith.

We admit the 'ifs' in the way. If our present congress is all right, and if the next congress is all wrong, and if our party hews to the line it has marked out, let the chips fly where they may, and if we attend to business and let theories alone—what will happen in 1S84 iaa theory yet—we will be as good a party as ever. Yes, the Republican party will succeced in 1S84 if it showB up better than the Democratic party, which it can if it will.

The Chicago Tribune presents as a contrast between the results of prohibition and high license the following:

In Nebraska a license fee of $1,000 is charged to saloons in the larger cities and of $500 in towns of less than 10,000 inhabitants. The results.it is said, are that in small towns where there were twenty low drinking places, now but two or three orderly saloons exist there is less drunkenness, loafing and poor liquor. In Omaha, about the size of this city, the saloons have decreased from 150 to 90. These 90 pay $90,000 where $25,000 was formerly, collected. On the other hand in Topeka, half the size of Omaha, there are 170 saloons tunning in defiance of Kansas prohibition. "It may be remarked that no exact laws can be formulated from the short experience of the two systems, but thus far the burden of evidence favors high licenses.

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Khows How It Is Himself.

Cincinnati Enquirer. The president can sympathize with the men he has bounced out of office. He has been there himself.

Hot That Kind.

Cincinnati Enquirer. The absurd rumor prevailed yesterday that Secretary Folger had resigned. Mr. Folger Is not that kind or a man. This fact was early established during the New York campaign.

Stalwarti9m Defined.

Cincinnati Commercial. The Dayton Journal disclaims stalwartism. We had not noticed that tho Journal had omitted the championship of any fraud that came in Its way, and so it had quite earned the reputation of a stalwart.

Kansas City's Hero.

Kansas City Journal. "Colonel" Frank James' d«but in Kansas City has never been surpassed. Abbott's first nights were pretty well attended, and Colonel Ingersoll secured a good attendance, but both stars pale Into Insignificance beside this sun. The very best citizens awoke early and went to the court house to view the great bandit. No audience in Coates' Thespian (temple would have waited four or five hours for the curtain to rise, bnt the audlcnce yesterday did not murmur, whistle or stamp Its several thousand pedals. The show was too great to be thus disturbed.

ANOTHER PROPHET.

The Canadian Official Astronomer Predicts the Greatest Storm on Beeord for Next Month.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.—The president has received the following communication from Prof. E. T. Stone Wiggins, L. L. D. astronomer of the Canadian finance department, under date of Ottowa, Nov. 29.

On the 23d of September last I announced, through the Canadian press, a great storm would occur in March next, that it would first be felt in the Northern Pacific and would appear in the Gulf of Mexico on the night of the 9th and being reflected by the Rocky Mountains, would cross this meridian from the west at^noon Sunday, March 11, 1883.^ No vessel whatsoever her dimensions will be safe out of harbor, and none of small tonnage can hope to survive the tidal wave and the tury of this tempest. As the wind will blow from the southCAOb) lUC pililieuw fviw* wilt cient to submerge the low lands of the American coast, especially those bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and washed by the Gulf stream. The air currents for several hundred miles along the east side of the Rocky mountain range', owing to the great atmospheric presence in those regions, will spread universal destruction. The New England states, will also sufl'er severely from the wind and floods. No point outside of the harbor in the whole area of the Atlantic, especially north of the equator, will be a place of safety, for this will be pre-eminently the greatest storm that has ever visited this continent since the days of your illustrious first president. In view of this event, therefore, I take great liberty in representing to your excellency the advisability of ordering all United States ships into safe harbors, not later than the 5th of March, till this storm be passed.

INDIANAPOLIS."*

A Decision Holding the Woodruff Car Co. Responsible for Personal Effects— Stolen Express Goods Recovered.

IxniANAPOLis, Dec. 1.—The supreme court, on Tuesday, decidod in favor of Harry Diehl, in his suit against, the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company. Diehl, while occupying a berth in a sleeping coach, en route from Indianapolis to Cleveland, had his watch and a sum of money stolen, and brought this suit to recover the value of the stolen property. The court holds, Judge Howk rendering the opinion, that while the sleeping car companies are not liable, either as innkeepers or common carriers, for personal goods stolen from the occupants of a sleeping-car berth, yet the company is responsible to such an occupant for the loss of personal goods resulting from the company's negligence that the company in accepting the price of the passenger's berth, impliedly agrees to keep watch over him. while asleep, and take reasonable care to prevent the theft of his goods and money from his person, either by unauthorized intruders or by occupants of the car. The 8tolen Express Matter Itccovered.

Part of the goods which were stolen Wednesday evening from one of the United States Express wagons were found strewn along the street, near the corner of Ohio and Pennsylviinia streets. An investigation shows that the thief kept only one package, containing three valuable blankets. It seems that the contents of the other packages were not valuable enough to satisfy him and he cast them aside. No trace has been found of the thief yet, and the theory is he drove off with the wagon believing that it carried one of the company's safes.

Obituary.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Henry C. Murphy died this morning at his residence in Brooklyn. He had been seriously ill, but his recovery was expected. He was well known in this city, and especially in politics and financial circles. He was at the tiino of his death president of the East river bridge trustees. He was elected mayor of Brooklyn in 1S42 by the Democrats, and had served ascorporation counsel. In 1S44 I10 was elected to congress, in 1846 he was a delegate to the constitutional convention, and in 1S52 a delegate to the national convention and came near receiving the nomination himself, but Franklin Pierce was nominated.

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ries around which grow thriving towns and accumulates capital to be again dividded in useful enterprises is trade. Nations whose seaports were once the busy marts of the world are now obscure and impoverished. The highways of trade found other termini and their prosperity departed and their very civilization languished. Yet with all its power how. sensitive are the laws of trade. They respond quickly, to disturbing influences and in the volume of trade we have a barometer that registers acts of parliaments and congresses, rainfalls and floods and even the whispers of influential statesmen aa they talk of tariff and freetrade, for when law-makers begin to work speculation bets on what they may do. Trade in time- may accommodate itself to exacting and oppressive laws, but not to shifting and un certain laws. We have reason to distrust some of the old, and more of the new, statesmen who are preparing to take an active part in our future financial and revenue systems.

He was appointed bv President Buchanan minister to the Hague in 1856, and he wrote the history of the Netherlands. He served as a state senator from 1862 to 1873, was also counsel for large corporations and was closely

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 1.—A careful canvas of the legislature-elect indicates that Windom will be re-elect-ed to the United States senate on the first ballot. OL »tlie 108 Republican members in the two houses the friends of Windom claim eighty-two earnest supporters, while not exceeding twelve are pronouncedly against him. Most of them favor Dunnell. The remaining Republican members are classed as doubtful, and some may vote for Windom. Dunnell's strength is confined wholly to his old congressional district. Sevenly-six votes in the joint ballot are required for a choice. Windom's friends claim he has a margin over that number of six or eight.

'A SWORN LIE.

That is Wlmt a Very Prominent Stason Characterizes Thurlow Weed'« DeathIJod Statement. ••. Cincinnati Commercial.

The publication in New York of Thurlow Weed's death-bed statement, reveaJing the points stated by him concerning the death of Win. Morgan, who disappeared after the publication of his pamphlet, Morgan's FreeMasonry Exposed and Explained, has created a wonderful revival of the topics of that day.

Mr. Enoch T. Carson is the past grand commander of the grand com mandery, K. T., and the Ohio member of the supreme council of the thirtythird degree. Ho was busily engaged in the office of the Masonic and Knight Templars' mutual aid association, of which he is president and treasurer, when a Commercial reporter called on him Tuesday afternoon. "What do you think of Mr. Weeds statements, Mr. Carson?" was asked. "I think Mr. Weed died as he lived," was the reply. "How is that?" "He always was a liar and he died a perjurer. 1 believe this statement is false from beginning to end that Whitney never made such a statement to Weed, and that if he did it was false, and Weed knew it was false when he heard it. Weed always was an extremely selfish man. He would charge a man with the murder of his wife, knowing^ that it would cause that man to commit suicide, if it suited him to do so. This statement is not a surprise to me. I expected that some such venomous sting would be made before the serpent finally died. I do not know what the papers find in a man like Weed to extol, and yet they have been full of him for-the past fortnight. This is not the first man who has said he killed Morgan, however, even if he did say so."

SOME FORMER CONFESSIONS. "Who else has done so?" "A Mr. Sterne, in Illinois, in a pamphlet on Masonry, published in New York in 1832, gives an account of two confessions at that time. In 1835 a man named Valima, of Illinois, made a detailed confession of having murdered Morgan. Then I don'trtake any stock in "a man who would conceal a murder for fifty-one years, while during that period he had been charging this very offense upon the Masons, saying that they had obligated themselves to conceal even murder when committed by one of their order. What would be thought of a citizen of Cincinnati who would come forward now and say that he had the confes--f man shortly after tne Bardwin murder, stating that he had been guilty"of the crime, but that now the murderer was dead And how much would it add to our disgust for such a statement if it should be a well-known fact that during all that time the party making such a statement had been charging citizens or the members of a respectable society with having committed this murder? That is Mr. Weed's case exactly." "Whose body do you think that was "There can be no doubt as to that. It was the body of Monroe. The facts are as follows: On the 7th day of October, 1827, there was a body found on the shores of the lakef as stated above. An inquest was held, which pronounced that the body was that of a person unknown to the jury, and who had perished by drowning. This was about one year after the disappearance of Morgan. It was suggested that this might be the body of Morgan. In the feverish condition of the public mind at that time this was sufficient. A second coroner's jury was called. The body was disinterred. The jury found that this was tho body of tho missing Morgan. Mr. Weed was a member of the local committee organized for the purpose of discoverng the murderers of Morgan. "The whole country rang with 'Morgan's found.' The body was removed to Batavia and was buried in the village with great parade and ceremony. The fall election was approaching and as much was made out of the occasion as was possible by the AntiMasons. The body had scarcely been interred when an advertisement appeared in a Canadian newspaper, also in one in western New York, stating that one Timothy Monroe, of the town of Clark, in Upper Canada, was drowned in the Niagara river, giving a description of his person, his clothes, his cravat and the tracts which he had on his person. Inasmuch as this supposed Morgan was heavily laden wita tracts, the description of the clothing, and $100 reward offered by the widow Monroe for the recovery of the body, led to the disinterment for the second time of the so-called Morgan, and a third coroner's inquest, at which it was established beyond all question or shadow of doubt that the body was that of Thomas Monroe. And this ended the Morgan theory." "Then it was that somebody remarked to Mr. Weed: "'What are you coing to do for a Morgan now "And he replied, 'This is good enough Morgan until after the election.' It should be borne in mind," continued Mr. Carson, "that the pub' lie was fully impressed that this was Morgan's body, and the election was close at hand,"so there was not time for the truth to be brought before them.".

WHAT THE FRATERNITY WILL DO. "Mr. Carson, as a leading member of the Masonic fraternity in this country, 1 would like to have you tell your opinion of this mystery."

Mr. Carson hesitated for a few moments, and then replied: "Well, it is one of the unsolved mysteries. Morgan disappeared. Nobody ever heard of him. It is like the Baldwin or the Ross murder. It has never been solved. If Morgan was murdered by Masons, then I say most emphatically, it was the most outrageous Eolation of every teaching and doctrine of that order. That ignorant men commit crimes under the impression that they are fulfilling the law of God or some society or organization to which they belong, is one of thoso facts common in the history of the world. Terrible crimes have been

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committed in the name of religion. It is possible that crimes have been .committed in the name of Christianity and Masonry for which neither Christianity nor Masonry is responsible." "Did Thurlow Weed originate the term 'Jack Mason?'" "I do not know that he did,although it had its origin about that time. It was a term used in the anti-Masonic times, and applied to all who were riendly to Masons, or who did not believe that the Masons were cut-throats and murderers and at one of the elections held in Rochester, New York, in 1827, Mr. Weed had a jackass prepared with a rope around his neck, whix h, in rid'cule of the Masons, was called a" 'cale tow,' and led the animul up to the polls with a Masonic ticketin his mouth." THE .WEED STATEMENT A SERIOUS ONE. "Mr. Carson, what opinion do Masons hold

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A CURIOUS CAVERN.

A Large Subterranean Luke IIISCUYTOJ in Newton County, Missouri Blind Flsli Found in Abundance—A Natural

Curiosity. Special Cor. oX the Post-Dispatch. PIERCE CITY, Mo., Nov. 28.—A few days ago I visited the farm of Mr. Wallace Cook, located four miles west of Pierce City, in the eastern part of Van Buren township, Newton county, Mo. The object of ^uiy visit was to ascertain the depth of the cavern which was discovered "when digging his well. I found Mr. Cook at home. Ho was in a very communicative mood, and soon gave me a history of hisi many efforts and failures and his last success in getting a well that never goes dry. About thirty years ago the first well that was dug on his farm was sunk to the depth of sixty feet, when late one evening the workmen came to a dark cavern, nut. of- —iomiorl. accompanied by a rumbling noise, as that made by a passing train or distant thunder. The workmen were frightened, and called to be drawn up out of the well. During the evening the hole was carelessly left un covered, and a horse belonging to Morgan Green fell into it and was instantly killed. The weH was thus made worthless, and was filled up without further discoveries. A second well was dug nearly 300 feet sout'i of the first about fifteen years ago but Mr. Cook being a poor man and unable to hire help, che well was frequently neglected. About two years later a gen tleman from Gran by, a miner, came by. Seeing the pi!e_of clay and rock, he stopped and spent part of the day with Mr. C. lie went down into the hole, find after much examination said that these were good indications of mineral, and that he would agree to work in the well for half the profits, which was agreed to. Work, was to begin on the next Monclav, but the miner was taken sick,and died 011 Sunday evening, and the well wa3 left to cave in. The third well was dug seven years ago, about 225 feet southeast of the first and 150 feet east of the second. Hiring a man to help him, Mr. Cook commenced vork with the determination of procuring water if it was possible. After digging fifty-nine feet through tough clay and gravel he came to a solid limestone rock. He procured the necessary tools for blasting and steadify went on with the work. Every day enabled him to go a foot deei)er, and on the eleventh day an opening was made through into the cavern. The opening was sufficiently large to admit a man. Calling for a light, and with a rope made fast to him, Cook carefully stepped out into the cavern and the rushing torrent of wind. The flickering light cast sliaddows all around him. Step by step he pushedTilong the mudd floor. Above the rock was white and abrupt, and from every crevice could be seen golden drops glittering in' the lamp light. Pendants of limestone, curious and grotesque in figure, hung like icicles, while others resembling sheets of falling water were seen. No other attempt was ever made to explore the cavern. Mr. Cook dug down through the rock into a white clay gravel and there found an abundance' of water at a depth of eighty-seven feet. "What is your opinion in regard to the extent or this cavern?" he was asked. "I believe' it to be several miles in extent, and in many placesovera hundred feet deep, filled with water and forming a subterranean lake, from which blind fish have frequently found their, way into our wells."

He took me out into the timber some forty rods ill a northwesterly direction from the house. As we are walking along I noticed the land in various places had been uplifted or depressed either by volcanic action or the giving way of the rock roof over the subterranean lake. After further examination of one of the greatest of these depressions, which is about sixty feet deep and 175 feet across, I came to the conclusion that it must be attributed to the falling in of the roof of the subterranean lake, 83 all the surrounding country is comparatively level, except a few of those depressions, which are generally called "sink holes." Other indications point to the same belief. Wm. Corinne, one of Mr. Cook's neighbors, who lives half a mile away, has often found blind fish in his well. The same kind of fish, usually about three inches in length, have been found in the other wells in the vicinity. The supposition is that, as these wells never run dry, they are fed from the subterranean lake.

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THE TEJtflE HAWTE EXPRESS. SATURDAY MQHNTN©, DECEMBER 2,1882.

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Weed?" "Well, I can scarcely say. "Vou know my opinion. The statement is false, and yet it is an important one. It involves questions of great inteffest to every person. It strikes at the very heart of Masonry. I know the thing to be false. I have written to members of the fraternity iu New York today. The whole troublo comes from ignorance on the question. Now, there were Masons in New York who, at the time of the dedication of the Masonic temple on Twenty-third street, New York, called on Thurlow Weed. Well, I have no patience with those kind of Masons, and_ we don't have them outside of New York, either," said Mr. Carson, warming up —"and don't you forget that." "Will the fraternity take an}' notice of this matter?" "Not at all. The order has survived all such attacks, and will continue to survive them and flourish when Mr. Weed's memory is only known in connection with all that was corrupt in the history of American journalism and politics. There is much said at the present time about bosses. Thurlow weed was the prince of bosses, even down to this present day of November 29,1882. With him the end justified the means. He was really the father of American political antimonopoly." "Mr. Carson, 1 should like to ask what would become of a man who would expose the secrets of Masonry?" "The only penalties known in the order are reprimand, suspension' from membership and expulsion from the order. That is our capital punishment. Anv man who claims that Masonry teaches any higher grades of punishment than those is a fool, a knave, or, worse, as was ThurloW Weed."

THANKSGIVING.

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Though sh rill-voiced winds go bawll ng by, And sober skies look grim and murky. Men keep the feast of pumpkin pie,

And slay the pompous bird of Turkey. The crop-haired saints of Plymouth Rock, Exiled the Mayflower's sacred wood in, At every other feast could mock.

But—they were human—loved their puddin' With sermon, prayer, and psalmody they rendered thanks In meeting, Then homeward solemnly they trudged, and rendered thanks by eating.

Far north of Massachusetts Bay, And westward e\er wide and wider. Has dbread the honor of the day v*

And flowed its hospitable cider. w* For all his roaming prodigals The fatted calf the father slaughters The smiling mother round her calls

Her lusty sons and lissome daughters: Love's beacon, lielited from old days, their homeward steps is leading, And some, whom life has swindled, are not loath to find good feeding.

Happy whose hearth is spared by fate, '*. Whose calmer pulses do not tingle, As musing by his lonely grate, (He minds of a dearer ingle, Around whose fires with glowing hearts

His blood and name were wont to cluster— Ah, well, that kind of wound still smarts

Beneath flic balm of many a lustre! Shall we give thanks that strangers sit within bur hallowed places,

Or praise that now the dust of death enshrouds the dear lost faces?

Go buy a turkey for the poor, And makean end of silly questh Thank Uod.foronce, that you are sure

To 'scape Thanksgiving indigestions. The dark November knows no rutii For flowerorsong the frolic May had— Yet for the golden hopes of youth,

As for the memories of the erayhead, For the long peaco of all the dead, for the brief days of all men living,

May even wandering, homeless hearts make glad Thanksgiving!

THE IiAND-SLiIDE CASE.

IJY M. TWAIN.

The innocent gener.il was amazed. He said he had suspected before that the people of that territory were fools and now he knew it. "But." he said, "rest easy, rest easy, and collect the witnesses: for the victory is jnst as certain as if the conflict was already over." Sides wiped away his tears and left.

At two in the afternoon Referee Roop's court opened, «nd the remorseless old joker appeared, throned among his sheriffs, his witnesses and a "packed" jury, and wearing upon his face a fraudulent solemnity so aweinspiring that some of his fellow-con-spirators had misgiving that maybe he had not comprehended, after all, that this was merely a joke. An unearthly stillness prevailed, for at the slightest noise the judge uttered shrilly the command: "Order in the court!" "Way for the United States altorjy!"

The witnesses were called—legislators, high government officials, ranchmen, miners, Indians, Chinamen, negroes. Three-fourths of them were called by the defendants, Morgan, but, no matter, their testimony invariably went in favor of the plaintiff', Sides. Each new witness only added new testimony to the absurdity of a man's claiming to own another man's property because his farm had slid down on top of it. Then the Morgan law:

era made their speeches, and seemed .0 make singularly weak ones—they did really nothing to help the Morgan cause. And now the general, witff*a great glow of triumph on his face, got up and made a mighty effort he pounded the fable, he banged the law books, he shouted and roared and howled, he quoted from everything and everybody, poetry, sarcasm, statistics, history,"pathos and blasphemy, and wound up with a war whoop for free speech, freedom of the press, Tree schools and the glorious bird of America and the principles of eternal justice. [Applause.]

Ex-Governor Roop leaned his head upon his hand for some minutes, thinking profoundly, and the still audience waited breathlessly for his decision. Then he got up and stood erect, with bended head, and thought again. Then he walked the floor with long, deliberate strides, and his chin in his hand, and still the audience waited. At last he returned to his throne and seated himself. The sheriffs commanded the attention of the court. Judge Roop cleared his throat and said: "Gentlemen, I feel the great responsibility that restsupon me this da}*. This is no ordinary case. On the contrary it is plain that it is the most solemn and awful that ever man was called

upon to decide. Gentlemen, 1 have listened attentively to the evidence, and the weight of it, the overwhelming weight of it is in favor of the plaintiff, Sides. I have listened also to the remarks of counsel with high interest—and especially will I commend the masterly and irrefutable logic of the distinguished gentlemen who represent the plaintiff. But, gentlemen, let us beware how we allow human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity to influence us to our undoing at a moment so solemn as this! "Gentlemen, it ill becomes us, worms as we are, to meddle with the decree of Heaven. It is plain to me that Heaven, in its inscrutable wisdom, has seen fit to move this defendant's ranch for a purpose. AVe are but creatures, and we -must submit If Heaven has chosen to favor the defendant Morgan in this marked and wonderful manner and if Heaven, unsatisfied with the position of the Morgan ranch upon the mountain side, has chosen to remove it to a position more eligibfe and more advantageous for its owner, it ill becomes us, insects as we are, to question the legality of the act. No—Heaven created the ranches, and it is Heaven's prerogative to rearrange them, to experiment with them, to shift them iround it its pleasure. It is for us to submit without repining.' I warn you that this thing which has happened is a thing with which-the sacrilegious hands and brains and tongues of men must not meddle. Gentlemen, it is the verdict of this court that the plaintiff, Richard Sides, has been deprived of his ranch by the visitation of God! And from this decision there is no appeal."

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It was in the early days of Nevada Territory. The mountains are very high and steep about Carson, Eagle and Washoe valleys—very high and very steep, and so when the snow gets to melting off fast in the spring, and the warm surface-earth begins to moisten and soften, the disastrous land-slides commence.

General Buncombe was shipped out to Nevada in the invoice of territorial officers to be United States attorney.

One morning Dick Sides rode furiously up to General Buncombe's door, in Carson City, and rushed into his

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resence without stopping to He his He seemed much excited. He told the General that he wanted him to defend a suit for him, and would pay him $500 if he achieved a victory. And then, with violent gestures and a world of profanity, he poured out his griefs. lie said "it was pretty well known that for some years he had been farming (or ranching, as the more customary term is), iij Washoe district, and making a successful thing of it and, furthermore, it was known that his ranch was situated right in the edge of the valley, and that Tom Morgan owned a ranch immediately above it, on the mountain. And now the trouble was that dhe of those hated and dreaded land-slides had come and slid Morgan's ranch, fences, cabins, cattle, barns and everything down on top of his ranch, and exactly covered up every single vestige of his property, to a depth ot" about six feet. Morgan was in possession, and refused to vacate the premises—said he was occupying his own cabin, and not interfer ing with anybody else's—and said cabin was standing on the same dirt and same ranch it had always stood on, and would like to see anybody make him vacate. "And when 1 reminded him,' said Sides, weeping, "that it was on top of my ranch, and that he was trespassing, he had the infernal meanness to ask me why didn't I stay on my ranch and hold possession when I see him him.coming! Why didu't I May nnit? The blathering lunatic! And, by George! when I heard that racket and looked up that hill it was just like the whole world was a ripping and a tearing down that mountain side—trees going end over end in the air rocks as big as a house jumping about a thousand feet high and bursting into ten million pieces cattle literally turned inside out and a comiDg head on with their tails hanging out between their teeth. I just took one glimpse of that speckticlc, general, and lit out'n the country in three jumps exactly. "But what grinds me is that Morgan hangs on there and won't move 0IF11 tho ranch—says it's his'n afcd he's going to keep it—likes it -better'n he did when it was higher up the hill. Mad! Well, I've been so mad for two days I couldn't find my way to townbeen wandering around in the bush in a starving condition—got anything here to drink, general? But I'm here, now, and I'm a-going to law. You hear me?"

Buncombe seized his cargo of law books and plunged out of the courtroom a raving madman, almost. In all good faith he returned at night and remonstrated with Roop upon the extravagant decision, and implored him to walk the floor and think for half an hour, and see if he could not figure- out some sort of modification of the verdict. Roop yielded at last and got up to work. He walked two hours and a half, and at last his face lit up happily, and he told Buncombe it had occurred to him that the ranch underneath the Morgan ranche still belonged to Sides, that the title to the ground itself was just as good as it had ever been, and therefore he was of opinion that Sides had a right to dig it out from under there, and—

The general never waited to see the end of it. He was always an impatient and irascible n^n, that way: At the end of two weeks he got it through his understanding that he had been played upon with a joke.

THE MELVILLE TROUBLE.

The Facts ns to the Difficulty Between Husband and Wife. National llepubliean.

Miss Capel, the Brooklyn lady from whom Mrs. Melville abducted her daughter Maude, was asked the facts in regard to the trouble between Mr. Melville and his wife. She said: "Mr. Melville, by his generosity and his desire to shield his family, has thus far refrained from saying a word on the subject, notwithstanding all tho public scandal his wife has made, and the charges that have been made against him of cruelty to, and neglect of his family. As to the charge that Mr. Melville did not properly provide for his family, it is absolutely false, lie owns a house at Sharon, Pennsylvania, about seven miles from Philadelphia, where his family reside when he is away. While he was away the last time, for eight months Mrs. Melville drew from the paymaster of the United" States navy S140 per month, and for the remainder of the time, §90 per -month. And yet when he came homo he found himself involved in debt on every hand. Among the bills was one S45 for liquors, including wines, whisky, and champagne. When Mrs. Melville was taken to the asylum at Norristown her other two children—Elsie, 10 years old, and Meta, 8 years old—were allowed to go with her, but they had no clothes to wear, and Mr. Melville's sister, a Mrs. Demarest, who lives in New York, was sent for to prepare them to go to theii mother. They were absolutely destitute, and the house was not much better. There were 110 sheets or blankets on the beds, and everything had been allowed to go to ruin. Engineer Melville and his wife have been married about eighteen years, and this domestic trouble has hung over the household for at least half of that period. Always when Mr. Melville returned home from a voyage he brought handsome and costly presents for his wife and children. Maude had on her finger when she left here yesterday a ring her father brought her, worth $300." "As illustrating Mrs. Melville's temper," continued Miss Capel, "it is said that she always slept with a pistol under her pillow,-and that she has been known to use it on other occasions besides the time of the reception to Mr. Melville on his late return home."

A General Stamjieile.

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AMUSEMENTS.

PERA HOUSE.

0PE Saturday, December 2.

Only Appearance in Terre Haute of

SALVIN1

THE GLADIATOR,

W'itli the special support of

MARIE PRKSCOTT, LEWIS MORRISON, And a powerful dramatic company, under the management of Mr. C. A. Chizzola.

Reserved Seats, S2.00, 81.50 and $1.00, according to location. Sale of seats will begin Wednesday morning, Nov. 29th, at 9 o'clock.

TLANTIC THEATRE.

073 Main St. P. 31. Schumaker, Prop. Every Night During the Week and Saturday Matinee.

First appearance of the Greatest Aerial Artists of the age, La Pearls, James, Ada and Little Eva, who will appear in their thrilling act on the trapeze bar.

Minnie Kaye, in her challenge jigs and reels. Pierce and Dunn, the champion high kickers.

Starrlngand Rlckling In tlieircelebratad Irish sketch, entitled "Tit for Tat, or, the Two Cranks."

Miss Lottie Forrest, the charming songstress. The performance to conclude, with the new afterpiece entitled

CONGLOMERATIONS

Introducing the full strength of the company. Prices of admission: General admission, 15c. reserved seats, 23c.

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