Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 June 1889 — Page 2

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Simon Cameron, the first war minister under Lincoln, was a remarkable

man

'n many respects. In his long tenure of life, with the possession of his keen faculties to an advanced 8ge, he resembled some of the eminent English

I li?1 statesmen who remained in politics a i: score of years after ordinary men would retire to private life or their graves. He belonged to a period in Pennsylvania Ipolitics when the Keystone state either under Buchanan or Lincoln was more I prominent in national affairs than it is to-day.

j. Prohibition was lost in Pennsylvania by 180,000, and in Rhode Island by a vote of one to three—the one state does not want the experience of prohibition, and the other had had the experience, nominally, for several years. Pennsylvania rejects a law which cannot be enforced, and Rhode Island repudiates one L» which never was enforced. Perhaps the defeat was not by votes from those whose i* souls were vexed by

Ips' The charges that Alexander Sullivan R: speculated with funds entrusted to him by Irish societies are now followed by similar chaiges against another member of thejriangle, Michael Boland. If the money^fts contributed for conspiracy, the treachery of Sullivan and Boland is I none the less, for they imposed upon the confidence of their confederates and squandered the Contributions they had encouraged. Pffihapjphis may be I added to th& mnny.MimtnS& of the enthusiasm and go^ feith average

Irish patriot, who,'"- burping '^ith zeal and devotion to hiB motherlands oannot believe that his tricky leaKfl|:£jre any less sincere and devoted. It is an old, old story, this robbery and betrayal of misguided enthusiasts. Since the days of the Irish parliament thero have always been some to sell out, .be-

II tray or defraud ^fcose who offered their monw^tod ??iheir liveB for what thejSfflwRled a sacred cause fA', wiley leadeVa have offceil fomented mtrigue to gratify a petty ambition to be conspirators or to get hold of •,' the jiiirse. They were most often responsible for the crimes done in the •*v.-•£. natae of liberty, into which the unthink5j, ing mob were hurried, without reflection

or sufficient explanation to understand the risks and illegality of their proceedings. In the days of Fenianism leaders like Mahoney, the general-in-chief of the Fenian army, masqueraded with their lieutenants in --u brilliant uniforms, in handsome quarters in New York. Money contributed often by laborers and servants went to pay the large expenses of the headquarters and 0* the smaller expense of the abortive invasion of Canada. In these later days of oath-bound societies and dynamite by night just as much money has been raised and just as much squandered.

The charges that Sullivan and others have instigated the Cronin murder to conceal the misuse of trust funds might seem to relieve the societies from the responsibility of the assassination, but not yet. It must be shown for what ostensiI ble reason Cronin was put to death. The secret reason may have been to conceal peculation but the open reason may have been because he was called a traitor to some Becret oamp.

C. O. D.

O. H.

The counterfeiter never works on a false cent. A fair exchange Is no robbery, unless It be a church fair exchange.

The first man's name signltled "red earth." After the fall bis name was mud. The great trouble with the pug as a professional beauty Is that his t&ln Is made to Bt a shorter dog.

The small boy pronounced the word "gout" as "go-It" made the not uncommon error of cen-^ founding the effect with the cause.

The New York Sun Is the ablest, brightest, and in every way the best newspaper in ths United States. (Nsw York Sun. please oopy.)

Col. Cal Monroe's theory, that the oil which Is flowing so treely'from the earth Is fried out of the sinners in Sheol. is a little far fetched. Still, If the colonel be correct there's no danger of the supply ever running abort

non-observance,

but

the result was all the same, and shows that prohibition is not going to be an

issue in national politics very soon, as some have predicted.

The Chicago gas company in Jackson, Michigan, goes right on making and selling fuel gas at 30 cents a thousand feet, for 40 cents a thousand furnishes a peculiar incandesant burner which converts the same gas into an excellent illuminant. There is room to bslieve that this system has been or is being looked into by some of our citizens. There can not be a doubt that ere long it will cost lees to run a stove than a refrigirator, especially since a Northwestern clergyman has invented a stove which burns water, making afire as hot as Tophet. Seriously, however, there can not be a doubt of having fuel cheap as the cheapest, if not by natural means, then by artificial processes, if capitalists are willing to invest.

ORIGIN OF CITIES.

Cities, the centers of the moral and intellectual activity of modern civilization, came from very simple and humble beginnings, says the San Francisco Chronicle. When the primeval man began first to feel the need of association with his fellows for the purpose of selfdefense, commerce or carrying on various branches of primitive manufacture, he formed with them a village for the more convenient execution of his projects.- If the trade were carried on by sea this village became a seaport. If it was the headquarters of a chief it became the capital of a tribe or nation, and other villages paid tribute to it. If it was placed under the protection of a deity it was called a holy city. The word Babylon means the "City of God." The name Heliopolis literally translated is "holy city." Troy was a sacred city in the truest sense, having, according to the legend, been built by Neptune. Mecca has been a sacred city since the time of the patriarchs.

If a city was the central seat of authority, like Nineveh, Babylon, the capital of the Pharaohs, Athens or Rome, population flowed to it, and it became the home of learning, the arts, of civilizbtion in all its forms. If it was on the seashore, like Carthage, Alexandria, Ostia or Marseilles, it became in time great by its commerce, while it might also sometimes be the residence of the sovereign. If there were mineral waters they became the resort of those in pursuit of health, and villages were formed about them, as by the Romans at Aix la Chapelle and at various points in Italy, Germany and France. The habit of visiting medicinal springs is by no means of modern origin. If a station or stopping place on one of the lines of trade and travel between Asia and Europe, in ancient times was of considerable importance, it became a powerful center of commerce and civilization, like the Arab city of Palmyra, whose queen, Zenobia, is a conspicuous personage of history.

The origin and growth of modern cities is more interesting. After the fall of Rome and the chaos that succeeded the world bad, so to speak, to be recreated. During the Dark Ages there was hardly a place in Europe worth the name of city except Rome, Byzantium, Marseilles, Paris, London and a few others. This was the state of things after the FrankB and other German tribes had overrun France, or at the moment when the fedual system was about to be evolved. What are now called France, Germany and Austria had returned to their condition of virgin forest, with clearings here and there which represented small cities, caBtles with villages attached, or monastrie with a farm inclosed by a wall. When the conquerer divided the subjugated country among his subordinates the building of castles began on a scale hitherto unknown. The castle was located on a hillside, as near the top of a hill as possible, if water could be obtained for the-moat about it or for the cattle. Wells were generally sunk within the walls to supply the lord and his garrison. A large number of retainers were needed to perform the work, to care for the dogs and horses, to cultivate the fields, to make armor and olothing. These could not always be accommodated within the walls, and were obliged to build their huts outside, but as near as possible, that they might escape within in time of danger. Others wno exercised trades or who tilled the soil, without being more intimately connected with the castle's occupants than by the obligation to render military service from time to time, helped to increase the population of this vassal village, which, if the situation was of sufficient commercial importance, became in time a city. There was another way in which villages were formed at the same epoch. It was often desirable that in some wild forest region the trees should be cut down and a- plantation made in the clearing. Then a number of vassals or serfs were sent to the locality designated and a temporary shelter prepared for them on the edge of fife forest. A tract of land consider a ge than wide was assigned eaptf.^which was cleared. On one end of each of these tracts a house was built for each of these vassals, in front of which ran the village street. The houses were sufficiently near together for protection of the inhabitants from brigands or wild animals or for the carrying on conveniently of individual trades. On the seashore the villages, in most cases similar appendages of castles, were aggrandized by fishing or commerce with other countries. As the monasteries of the Middle Ages, were in reality feudal fortresses, they might in the same manner be the germ of villages that afterward became cities.

From these different beginnings came most of the towns and cities of modern Europe. In time the castles disappeared or became, perhaps, amass of ruins, but the city remained. All over France and Italy are still seen villages or small cities perched on hillsides, some of which, having no special reason for being, have fallen into decay, while others may have lived and flourished by force of some special industry. The French carried the manner of clearing a forest and founding a village to America. It is noticeable in Detroit, which was laid out in long, narrow strips of l&nd, one end of which was on the river and the other a mile or more back in the country. The houses .were built along the river and formed a compact village, whose population was always near together at night, while the men cultivating the fields were never far apart in daytime. This method of arranging the farms was convenient as a means of defense from the Indians.

Even in the Middle Ages cities grew rich by the traffic carried on across the continent of Europe between the shores of the Mediterranean and the north of France and Germany and the island of Great Britain. One of these was Venice, which not only sent to the north its own manufactured goods, but was the entrepot of those coming from other Mediterranean ports. Another was Bruges, in northern Belgium, then called Flanders, which, because of* its canals, was sometimes called the Venice of the North. Bruges carried on a direct trade with Venice, and also made and sold fine fabrics of its own, by means of which it became populous and wealthy. Its history suggests the part that the medieval citeis of Europe played in the propagation of liberal ideas, in the guilds of Bruges, Ghent, Liege, and some of the French cities originated the firat ideas of constitutional liberty, *nd the .van that ftbey waged with their Uege lords or kings form not the aHMtonimporUat put of the annals of the middMages. There were in that period two kinds of oitiee, those whose population wasoosapoeed of the vassals of the iai—disfa lord, and the imperial cities, whoa* jjtfrileges were granted by the king or eaperor. The sovereign often used th—S cities 88 a means of controlling his rebellious nobles. The imperial cities having special privileges became wealthy. Thevassjd cities, on the contrary, op-•r-s

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pressed by the nobles, remained poor, and their inhabitants were wretched. Among the imperial cities that enjoyed a certain independence were Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne, the capital of Rhenish Prussia, and those that composed the so-called Hanseatic league in Germany. The league comprised, besides other cities, Hamburg, Augsburg, Lubeck, Bremen and Frankfort-on-the-Main, all of which, owing to the commercial freedom allowed them, became rich and powerful. Their history is long and includes many vicissitudes. It is only necessary to say that they were deprived of their privileges by Bonaparte, after which they were restored, only— that is, Hamburg and the two or three others that till the time of the formation of the German empire had retained a considerable degree of autonomy—to have them finally taken away by Bismarck.

The world no longer moves on mediaeval fashion. Cities are not now slowly evolved from a network of crooked lanes and alleys by a process that goes on for hundreds of years, 88 at that gloomy epoch. They spring up in a day, as during the prevajence of the gold fever in California, or in anew crusade of emigrants, as in Oklahoma, and are laid out with painful precision by the square and compass, and not by the accidental development of population. If our development goes on accelerating its rate of speed in this manner, neither steam nor electricity will suffice fifty years hence. New and more effective motive powers will have to be discovered^^ v* ""'V BAILBOAD NEWS NOTES.

General and Personal Mention of General and Local Interest. Coach No. 6 was sent to the paint shop yesterday for an overhauling.

Mike Laughlin, of the boiler shop, was absent yesterday because of sickness. Ed. Rfgby, of No. 118, is on the Bick list. Will Pearce has taken his run until he recovers.

The annual convention of master mechanics adjourned Thursday at Niagara Falls. Mr. Prescott was in attendance.

Joe Derolf returned Thursday evening from Lake Maxinkuckee, where he had been doing some work at the station.

The tracks of the I. & St. L. running through the city are being repaired in different places and placed in first-class condition.

Uncle Billy Baugh iB suffering from a severe attack of erysipelas in the feet, which first made its appearance Thursday afternoon.

Receiver McNulta will turn over to the purchasers of the

Wabash

900 miles

of road, most of it in good coadition, 200 locomotives and 9,000 cars. The force of men from the boiler shop engaged in repairing the bridge at Logansport will finish the work to-day. They will return home to-night.

The house of John Mangle, a laborer in the C. & E. I. round house at Danville, was struck by lightning Thursday night and burned to the ground. It was a total loss.

Logansport Journal: A retired local agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad at New Carlisle, St. Joseph county, charges that aBet of the officials of that company, with or without the knowledge of the higher authorities, has for a long time been engaged in the systematic robbery of farmers who deliver grain at the company's warehouses by cheating them in weights, and "hogging" in the Burplus. The charge will be investigated by the interstate commerce commission.

C. & O.'s Supt. of Transportation. CINCINNATI, June 21.—Mr. I. G. Rawn has been appointed superintendent of transportation of the Chesapeake &Ohio road with headquarters here, vice J. W. Sherwood, resigned. Mr. J. T. Hanrahan, general manager, has been given charge of traffic and accounting department.

The Nypano's Big Cut.

CHICAGO, June 21.—A special dispatch from Clevelaad, O., says: The New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio has made another big cut in iron rates. It is probable that it will cause trouble with the Eastern lines, as the cut is a deep one and is made for the benefit of the Pennsylvania manufacturers, being good from New^stle and Pulaski, Pa., to Eastern points.

A. K. M. 91. Association.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., June 21.—The American railway master mechanics' association finished its labors here yesterday, and adjourned until June 1, 1890. The following officers were elected: President, R. H. Briggs, Memphie,Tenn. first vice president, John McKenzie, Cleveland second vice president, Albert Griggs, Providence secretary, Angus Sinolair, New York treasurer, O. Stewart, Charlestown, Mass.

-A Receiver for a Railway.

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SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 21.—Judge J. P. Phillips, of the circuit court, made an order at Hillsboro, yesterday, on the petition of ex-State Senator E. Southworth, of Litchfield, placing the Jacksonville Southeastern railway in the hands of a receiver.

The petition was based upon the grounds that the company refused to pay a judgment, which Mr. South worth obtained againit it in November, 1888, for personal injuries received on defendant's road in March, 1887. Attorney R. D. Lawrence, of this city, was appointed receiver, and will take oontrol of the property, next Wednesday, unless a settlement can be effected before that time.

A Tree That Quivers.

In front of Macedonia Church, in Columbia county, Georgia, is a quivering tree. Years ago, the negroes of the neighborhood say, a murder was done under its branches. Two men had accompanied a woman to church, and after she had entered the edifice they quarreled about her, and one cut the other to death. The murderer escaped, and ever Bince every limb, Bmall and large, on the tree trembles BS if in fear or as a suffering animal would quiver. This occuraggtap not a breath of air is stirring. No negro in Columbia county can be induced to pass the so-called haunted spot alone at night. Prominent' gentlemen say they have noticed the phenomenon, but no explanation of it has ever been volunteered.

The President's Hlwteln Danger. MINNEAPOLIS, Minik, Jam 2L—Miss

Iroafaw, Ohksaad

this oity, Charles a and the. The

DOWN WITH WTTIlAOTIJps

Iks Mn or

9mmme,

the following from Caracas, Venezuela, under date of June 10: Sensational events have been occurring here in constant succession for the past thirty days and the republic has been trembling with apprehension and excitement bat the only peaceful revolution it has ever known has been aooomplished. The reign of Guzemaa-Banoo has ended the military despotism that has existed ia Veneuzela for a quarter of a century is abolished and there are constant demonstrations of gratification in which all classes join with equal ardor. Men who have submitted quietly to the tyranny of Guzeman for fear of injury to their business, are now marching and shouting in the streets those who have hardly dared to whisper his name are crying "down with the tyrant" and moet of his obsequious followers are foremoet in the demonstrations of rebellion. For the first time in thirty years the press is free the editors of the eetablishsd papers are permitted to speak their minds without fear of imprisonment or exile. That Guzeman will make an effort to recover the oontrol of the government and resume the dictatorship is not doubted for a moment by those who know him, but nobody believes that he can succeed, and that opinion adds to the enthusiasm.

That the situation may be understoo d, and the significance of recent events appreciated, it must be known that General Guzeman-Banco, since he first came into control of the government in 1870, has seemed to regard Venezuela as his own property, to do with it as he desired. He has treated the republic, which embraces an area as large as tbe middle states and New England, as if it were

hiB

own inherited estate, and the three million of people his tenants at will. He has been an uncrowned czar, and his government an absolute despotism. Under the constitution the president may not succeed himself in office, may not have two consecutive terms, but is eligible to reelection after an interval. GuzemanBanco has therefore filled the presidential chair every alternate term for the last nineteen years, and between times has had in power a dummy who was subject to his will. His many acts of tyranny have awakened a secret hostility that has only been suppressed by military force. Two years ago, at the expiration of his presidential term, he left the country and has since resided in Paris. The cable between Caracas and Havana has enabled him to continue the dictation of governmental affairs, and nothing has been done here without his approval. Before going he gave himself credentials as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to all the European ports, and his prolonged absence was due to the settlement of the internal differencee between Venezuela, England, France and Germany before leaving.

Dr. Rogas Paul, one of the ablest citizens of the republic, wis placed in the presidential chair. The manner in which Guzeman performed his self-im-posed duties in Europe was highly satisfactory to Paul as well as to the people, and during the past year the breach between the president and dictator has been widening. President Paul, fearing that Guzeman would incite a revolution, began Bome months agii to gradually depose from their comtsuuds the leading officers of the army wVo were supposed to be in sympathy with the angry man in Paris, and replaced them with men in whom he had confidence. This called out an insulting protest from Guzeman, but Paul was sustained by the people snd in congress, and did not swerve from his course.

The steamer which arrived from Europe on May 17 brought letters from Guzeman to the president of such a character as to bring matters to a orisis. Just what their contents were no one seamB to know, although there are many reports in circulation. On the following day, to th9 astonishment and consternation of every one. Dr. Paul sent to congress his resignation of the office of president. He gave no reasons, and it was unnecessary. Everybody knew he had received letters from Paris, and had been directed to do what he had done.

As soon as the fact was known the people closed their business houses and surrounded thecapitol. Within an hour after the resignation was reoeived, 20,000 men were shouting themselves hoarse with denunciations of Guzeman and praise of Paul. They demanded that the resignation be not accepted, but the confusion was so great that the congress could take no action, and, in fact, its session had to be abandoned, because of the invasion of the excited people into the legislative chambers. When congress adjourned the crowd went to the Casa Amarilla, or yellow house, where the president resides, and remained about it all day, calling for him and demanding that he should withdraw his resignation. That night the entire population of Caracas gathered with a common impulse in the Plaza Washington, where stands a statue of him who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."

A procession was formed and marched to the residence of the president, who stood upon his balcony and witnessed an unexpected ovation. He was addressed by the chairman of the Washington plaza meeting and informed of the sentiments there expressed. In reply, Dr. Paul spoke very briefly, but to the point. He expressed his profound gratification at the demonstration of popular approval, and, in obedience to the demands of the people, withdrew his resignation and continued in the performance of his constitutional duties.

On the following day the president fulfilled his promise, and, after passing a resolution of confidence in him, congress adjourned in great haste, leaving legislation in a state of confusion, and between twenty and thirty contracts and concessions made by Guzeman unacted upon.

There have no messages from Paris sinc^the natenation of the president, and tbe irftfEtions of "the illustrious American" unknown, but it is not thought probable that be will submit to thmlndignitiee or allow Dr. Paui to remain iswbwer if he can prevent it. Three membra of the cabinet, who have always been devoted adherents to him, have rseignsd, and their places have been filled by anti-Gufsman men. General Crespo has oabkd'his approval of Paul's action from Peru, and is now on his way to Venezuela with a promise to support the president Many others who were banished or voluntarily went into exile

Maggie Harrison, of Chicago nieoe of President Harrison, narrowly eacapsd drowning at Lake Minnetonka yerterasy through the oapsizing of a^ doting the isignof the dictator are re-

Breok-

AlioeNyeof Lillian Hard. K. Hard of of Chicago,

the water an

hour, and wer| nearly exhausted when

taming to assist in maintaining his ovsrthrow complete and permanent.

5, ,, County Hulsyd of Equalization, The oounty bo4rd of equalization has been in session an week, looking over the sseesaors' papers until yesterday. Then they eummoned a few witnesses and will continue to eigmtfla witnesses and pa-

day until the woric ahaD be The examination of papers while witnaaan are not

completed will pn present.

«M Tjrafct of

Ttsuuls, Sooth Ammihs,«HA NEW YORK, Jane 2L—The Sun hss

8UPEE9TITION8

THE

CLAT-EATISS.

Traditions Handed Down for Centnrles and Still Implicitly Believed.

A correepondent who recently visited the clay-eatere of Winston county, Alabama, thus writes of some of their superstitions:

It may or it may not be the reeult of clay-eating, but those people are as superstitious as the black' followers of a Voodoo. They use signs for every thing, and almost worship the moon. Corn is planted when the moon is full, and potatoes are planted on the dark of the moon. They will not start on a journey or begin a job of work unless the moon is right, and they foretell storms and all kinds of disasters by the appearance of the moon.' If one end of a new- moon is lower than the other, it will rain before the moon changes again, say the clayeaters, but if tbe new moon is level there will be no rain until another change occurs.

The average clay-eater has a mortal dread of an owl. The hooting of an owl at any hour, day or night, is an omen of ill luck, and if heard at night and answered by the howl of a dog, it is a sign that one of the family will die Boon. As soon the hoot of an owl is heard, a chair is overturned. If the hooting of the owl then ceases at once, it is a sign that the threatened danger has been warded off for the time, but if it continues there is weeping and wailing in the home of the clay-eater. The howling^ of a dog at night is also an omen of ill luck, but is not a sign of some approaching fatality unless it is in qnswer to the hoot of an owL

In every fire place there will be found apiece of flint rock. This is supposed to keep foxes and owls from catching the chickens. To save the chickens from hawks the good housewife holds a sieve over the young brood for a few moments as soon as they come off the nest. Sometimes this safeguard fails to work, but those who lose their chickens argue that there may be exceptions to all rules. "Never turn back without making a crossmark in the ground with the right heel." This is one of the many proverbs the clay-eater lives up to. No matter where he has started he will not turn back unless compelled to and then he never fails to make across in the ground with his right heel.

If they start on a journey, no matter where, and a rabbit is seen to cross their path the journey is at once abandoned. It would be certain death to go on, they Bay, because

across

rabbit never runs directly

man's path except to warn him

of death. Like the negroes of the South, they are all firm believers in the magic power of the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit, and the ignorant clay-eater would part with his home rather than his rabbit foot, which he carries suspended about his neck under hiB clothing. Cats live until they die ef old age in the home of the clay-eaters. Bad luck would always follow the man who killed a cat. It is also bad luck to move a cat from one house to another, and when families move tbe cats are always left behind.

No ax, or other edged tool, spade or shovel, is ever carried through one of theee cabins. It is held to ba fatal to do BO. If the ax is caried through the house it will be the instrument of death for some member of the family. These tools can be taken into the house, but they must be carried out through the same door they were brought in.

When the floor is swept with a broom made of the long Btraw which grows wild in the old fields, .the trash is never swept out at the door, always into the fireplace. To sweep it out doors would Sweep some one out of the family. The crumbs from the table are never thrown outdoors, as such an act would mean that the luck of the family was thrown away forever.

ABk one of these people why they believe in all these peculiar superstitions and the answer is: "I alters heard said as how 'twer' bad luck." These signB are sacred traditions handed down from generation to generation, and believed as implicitly as they believe in the existence of a Supreme Being and a hell. To reason with them of the folly of these superstitions would be useless, for they will answer you by citing dozens of instances where these signs proved true, so they heard grandpa or grandma tell years ago, when they were boys and girls. Taught all these things from infancy, they believe them implicitly and would not dare disobey one of these silly proverbs.

The clay eaters ef Winston county do not number over one hundred families, it is said, and they live in a sparsely settled region remote from the civilizing influences of towns, schools, or churches. Of theee five hundred or more people, lees than fifty have ever Been a town or a railroad. train. Of modern inventions they have never dreamed, and they would ridicule the man who told them the world was round. With the tenacity of ignorance they cling to their old traditions and superstitions, but in time they will disappear before the onward march of civilization and intelligence.

A Seized Ship Returns Home. GLOUCESTER, Mass., June 21.—The schooner Mattie Winship, which was seized by the Canadian cutter Vigilant, for alleged violation of the fishing laws, arrived home to-day. The vessel is under $3,000 bonds. Captain Erickson insists that he was within the threemile limit for shelter only, and was not fishing.

The Case Will Be Continued, PABKERSBUKO, W. Va.,.June 21.—Tom Hudkins, the man arrested by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad company for firing into a train some time since, walked out of Ritchie court house this morning while court and lawyers wete arranging for continuance of tbe case. He has not since been heard from.

Official Returns of Prohibition Tote, PHILADELPHIA, June 21.—Official returns have been reoeived from every oounty in the

Btate.

The majority

Bgainst*tbe prohibition amendment is 189,020. The majority sgainst the suffrage amendment providing for the repeal of the poll tax qualification is 235,240.

An Insurance Bill Vetoed.

HARTFORD, Conn., June 21.—Governor Bulkley to day vetoed tbe resolution amending the charter of the Phcenix life insurance company. The resolution authorized the policy-holders to assume oontrol ttf the company.

The lint Colored Prleefc.

BALTIMORE, Md., June 21.—Cardinal Gibbons thie morning ordained Charles Randolph Uncles, colored, who, if he receives holy orders, will be the first colored priest to be ordained in America.

PACKAttl

A potato went out on a maafa And sought an onton bed '•ThafspS tor me," observed the squash,

And ail the beets tuned red "Go awjv the onion weeping cried, 'Tour lore I can not be. Tbe pumpkin be your lawful bride.

Tea canteiope with me."

But onward still the tuber came And laj down at bet feet You cauliflower any name

And it will smell as wheat And I, too, am an earlj rose, And MO I've come to see, So don't turnip your level} noae,

Batsplnaeliat witbrne.

I do not carrot all to wed. So, go. sir, II rou please! Tbe modest onion meekl said,

And lettuce praj bave peas So think that you have never seen Myself or smelted mj sigh Too long a maiden I have been

For favors In your rye. Ah! spare a cress, the Urter prayed My cherry shed bride you'll be You are the only weeping maid

That's currant now with me! And as the wily tuber spoke, He caught her by surprise. And giving her an artichoke.

Devoured her with his eiea. —(Xoulsvllle Courier-Journal. Beethoven's house, at Bonn, ia to be converted into a museum.

Maria Mitchell, teacher of astronomy at Vassar, is dangerously ill. The price asked for Dickon's house, near Rochester, England, is £7,000.

Kansas raised last year^one-fifth of the silk cocoons produced in the United States.

Three hundred and forty-five oonverts to Mormonism were landed at New York Thursday.

The body of Sir Thomas Dakin, exlord mayor of London, was buried in a paper coffin.

The skeleton of the largeet elephant ever killed in India has been found to measure ten feet six inches high.

Ex Judge Hilton, of Van Buren county, Mich., invested his money in a wild west show, lost it, and has gone crazy.

Mrs. Phoebe Vennum died at Morrison, 111., Wednesday, aged 104 years, 11 months, and 26 days. She retained her mental facultiee to the last.

Pliegende Blatter: "I am Borry, but tbe editor cannot talk to any one today." Auther—Ob, that's no matter. I will do all the talking myself."

Life: "I want to write a letter to the secretary of the navy. Shali I address him as 'Your Excellency?'" "Oh, no use the term, 'Your Warship.'"

A Jefferson City girl coughed up a pin, the other day, which

Bhe

swallowed seven

years ago. It is mighty seldom that a woman keeps a pin that long. The chief clerkship of the government printing office haa baen tendered by Public Printer Palmer to Colonel A. W. Swalin of the OakalooBa (Iowa) Herald.

While cutting down a tree at Lima, Ohio, Thursday, Elijah Woollet had his knee-cap taken off by the head of tne ax, which flew from the handle. He lived but a short time.

After remarking to his little daughter, Wednesday night at Manchester, N. H., that he was "going to see tbe Savior," Philip Godreas jumped into the canal and was drowneid.

Stuart M. Brice, son of pal Brice, chairman of the Democratic national committee, was expelled from Phillips college, Exeter, for disobedience of the orders of the taculty.

It was announced t-i the students of Beloit college Thursday that Dr. D. K. Pearsen, of Chicago, was the gentleman who had given tbe $100,000 to the endowment fund of the institution.

Professor E. Benjamin Andrews was on Thursday elected president of Brown university. Professor Andrews is an alumnus of Brown, and has until recently held a professorship at Cornell.

Relatives of Frank Reichow, of Burlington, Wis., who was found drowned Sunday morning in the Pox river, suspect foul play and have asked the district attorney to thoroughly investigate the case.

The two great future ironclads of the English navy will be named the Hood and the Hawk. The Hood will be of 20,000 horse power tnd 14,600 tons. The Hawk will be also 20,000 horse power, and 7,500 tons.

Somerville Journal: "Judge a man by his eyes, but a woman alwayB by her lips," said Benjamin Franklin. Now we understand how Benjamin happened to get so deeply interested in the atudy of electrical phenomena.

The simplest way to fumigate a room is to heat an iron shovel very hot and then pour vinegar upon it drop by drop. The steam arising from this is a disinfectant. Doors or windows Bhould be opened that it may escape.

The right of a man to change his mind has received the official sanction of the Maine pupreme court, the governor of that state raising the queetion by first signing a bill and then erasing the signature and writing a veto.

R. H. Shumway, of Rockford, 111., had two revolvers BO placed that in case a burglar entered his store, they would be discharged. Thursday evening the store was entered, and the thief ahot. He managed to get away, and the police are looking for him.

At Ascot, England, Thursday, the race for the gold cup was won by Mr. Warren Da Li Rue's colt, Trayles. Prince SoltykoflTs fillly, Love-in-idleness, won tbe Rous Memorial

Btakes

Sir R.

Jardine's colt, Lord Lome, captured the Biennial stakes, and Mr. Abington'scolt, Pioneer, landed the St. James' Palace stakes^

Strange Series of Mnrdera In Montana. CHICAGO, June 21.—A special from Helena, Mont., Bays: Newswss received here last night of a most brutal crime committed in Fergus county, in what is known as "Judith county," about one hundred and fifty miles north of Helena. The news was brought by the driver of a stage line running from Fort Benton to Livingston. He says that on Saturday last the body of a middle-aged woman, who had been shot in the back, was found by a cowboy in a wild and unfrequented spot on Judith river. The coroner's inqusst developed no information as to who she was.

On Tussday the bodies of two men, a 16-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl were discovered about a hundred yards above the same place. All were shot in the back except the child, who was strangled. Near by were found the remains of burned trunks and camp equipsge. Everything by which the bodies might be identified was destroyed. Nobody in Judith county can recognize the bodies. They ate supposed to have been -a family of emigrants from Iowa or Illinois.

The whole of Judith oounty is aroused, and a hundred horsemen are scouring the plains, seeking the trail of the murderers. The place where tbe deed was committed is a hundred miles from a railroad, which it is suppaasd the murderer ia trying to reach.

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Absolutely Pure.

This powder never vanes, A marvel of porttl strength and wholeaomeneaa. Mora eoonomloa thanQie ordinary kinds, and cannot ha sold in eompetraoa with the multitude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only In eans. SoiiLBuin I*OWDBB Oa, 10S Waiist, N. T.

JtnfK IS THE TIM£

In June summer puts on her dressgoods. Green, of varying shades, is the prevailing color, profusely ornamented, with flowers of every kind.

JUNE IS THE TIME.

Lovely women then likewise puts on some her dress goods—all her dress goods in turn, if they be in season. We have provided the seasonable ones.

JUNE IS THE TIME.

French printed pongees. Mohairs, batistes, lawnp, ginghams, organdies, sateens, challies.

In price, from 5o a yard up to that of the best goods imported. As to bargains, for instance: A full line of 30inch striped, plaid and fancy mixed mohair—dust proof—at 29c a yard, sold elsewhere at 55a. '"Wv

S. AYRBS 1 CO,

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

N. B.—We are the exclusive sellings agents for those very fine plain black and figured Dress Satines. We guarantee '^, that neither Bun, water, perspiration nor ," acids will change the color.

TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car attaciied. Trains marked thus (8) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bullet Cars attached. Trains marked thus rundailj. All other trains run daily Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE. ,,

T. H. Jt I. DIVISION. UAVHORTEIWBT.

No. 9 Western Express (k*V) 142 a. m. No. Hall Train 1U.18 a. m.,,. No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) H5p-m-No. 7 Kast Mall 04 p. m.

LSAVS TOR TSK EAST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (8) 1.90 a. m. !y:No. 6 New York Express (84V) 1.61a. uw No. 4 Mall

and Accommodation

TBI

NORTH

No. 61 Terre Haute Express 12.00 noon No. 68 South Bend Mall 7.80 p.m.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. DR. E, A. GILLETTE,

DENTIST.

Filling ot Teeth a Specialty.

OlUoe—McKeen's new block, cor. 7th and Haln sts

B. MAIL.

I. H. ]?OYSE,

NO. 617 OHIO STREET.

DR. C. O. LINCOLN,

DENTIST.

All work warranted as represented. Office anO mftieoee 810 Nona Thirteenth street, Tsrrr •ante, Ind.

M. A. BAUMAN,

Painting, Graining, Glaring, Calclinlnlng and Paper Hanging,

NO. 23 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. (Residence, IKB Chestnut street)

Your Patronage Respectfully Solicited.

WORK PROMPTLY DONS.

A. J. GALLAGHER.

PLUMBER

Gas and Steam Fitter,

434 Oiarry Street. Terra Haute

^44

7.16 a.

No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V) 12.42 p. m. No. 8Fast Line 2.00p. mt ABRIVK FROM THS KAST. No. 9 Western Express (S4V) I SO a. m. No. 6 Mall Train 10.12 a. m. No. 1 Fast Line (P4V) 2JWp.ni.,-.. No. SMall and Accommodation (.45 p. m. No. 7 Fast Mall 9 00 p. ui.

ARRIVB FROM TUB WKST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.20 a. m. No. 6New YarkExpress*(84V) 1.42a. m.!®-1 No. 20 Atlantic Express (P4V)—..... 12.37 p. m.. No. 8Fast Line' 1.40 P. in.^

T. H. 4 L. DIVISION.

LKAVS FOR TH* NORTH.

No..62South Bend Hall 6.00a. m.| No. 64 South Bend Express tOUp. w. ARRITK FROM

L, H. BABTHOLOIUW.

DRS. MAIL & BARTHOLOMEW^'.

Der|tists,

(Successors to Bartholomew 4 Hall. 629^ Ohio St. Terre Haute, Ind.

'*&

For Inventions promptly secured. Reference, bjrperI mission, to Hon. Win. I Mack. Address

O. E. DUFFY, 0i Willi Stmt, Washington, D. a