Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 August 1889 — Page 2

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INDIANA REPUBLICAN EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION. The regular summer meeting ot the Republican editorial association will occur at Warsaw, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September Sd, 4th and 5th, when the following programme will be rendered:

AT THE ORODNDS ON ARRIVAL.

1. Address of Welcome Mayor L. W. Royse, Warsaw 2. Response S. Vater, Editor Call, Lafayette

TUESDAY EVKMXG.

Address—"Mound Builders of Indiana-' W. II.

Smith,

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette

WEDNESDAY MOKNING.

The time till noon will be devoted to pleasure seeking, riding, boating and sight seeing.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

Banquet, tendered by Byer Bros., to the association, followed by toasts and responses.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.

Address—"Benefits

of Commercial Relations with

South America" The Hon. W. D. Owen, Logansport

THURSDAY MORNING.

Farewells. The Bee line and C., W. A M. railroads have tendered courtesies.

Communicate with the secretary for transportation for yourself and lady over these lines. Train leaves Indianapolis at 11:55 a. m., on Tuesday, September :)d, and arrives at Warsaw at 4:33 p. m.

RF.UH WILLIAMS, President, Warsaw. J. A. KAUTZ, Secretary. Kokomo.

Everything is Fair in Terre Haute this week.

The Vigo fair is no longer a county enterprise it is the biggest thing on the Wabash.

It takes a peculiar quality of sand to buy a gravel pit as the one belonging to the city was bought last week.

The revolution in Hayti is over and Legitime has escaped to France leaving to Hippolyte the opportunity to follow his example in the course of time. I he upshot of revolutions in Hayti is the enrichment of the retiring president. Legitime^ predecessor carried away with him many millions and it is understood that Legitime hBS done likewise.

Whenever there is a strike for higher wages we hear the free trade foolishness that the tariff has done It. And whenever that kind of a brawler Is himself an employer of labor, spot him for one that pays the lowest

possible

wages.—[New Albany

Tribune. There is a word of truth in that, and the peculiarly impressive illustration of it at the present time is the course of Cleveland's man Scott, who is about to evict his Illinois miners.

The failure of the cotton mill In New England will, of course, be attributed by the fne traders to the "protective duty" on raw materials. There Is no duty on cotton, to be sure but a little fact of this sort Is not going to prevent the free trader from having his illng at the tariff.- |(ilobe-Demo-crat.

During the past year there have been more heavy failures among the boot and shoe manufactories than in any other industry, and yet last campaign we were told that free raw material for this industry had made it increase in prosperity at a marvelous rate.

Judge Mack must not find fault with the clerk of his

court

or Tur, EXTRESS

for dereliction in probate matters. Both are public servants like himself.- The one is a servant of the people who keeps the records of public court business, and the other makes them public. Between the three of us, judge, we are supposed to look after the interests of the people vr'io are ongnged in private occupations, and there must be no secret influence or collusion by which the public can be deceived.

Judge Mack makes a grand mistake in holding that any wrong hns been committed by the publication in THE EXPRESS of the remarkable condition of the probate business in his court. In the first place the court records are public property, and neither the judge nor clerk hns any right to withhold them from the public. That is a fact which has Lieeu too frequently established to need serious discussion at this time, although it does seem that every now and then servants ot the people who have charge of the public records, come to believe that they are private possessions. Public otlice is a public trust, and nothing is so well calculated to pervert the trust to private ends as the withholding of information from the public. The show iDg made by THE E.NTKESS of the remissness of the court in enforcing the law as to guardians and administrators is the very best evidence that the records needed publicity. We have no doubt that on second thought Judge Mack will agree with us in holding that the real shortcoming is in permitting 1G1 guardians and seventy-live administrators to get years behind in discharging their legal duty.

C. O. D.

On High Olympus.

Phoebus—Where have you been. Boreas? Boreas—Oh. just been out blow PI: myself a llUIe.

Phonetically.

Little Teddy liooghesan—Daddy, what does my book mean by speofcln' of "a Utile bye-play?" Sir. (ieoghegan—i do be thlnkln' It Is the Little Larnl Koontlerye. most like.

A Genuine Conversion.

Wlekwlre-T suppose you heard about Thompklnson "setting religion?" Yabsley- Yes. Is It genuine, do you think?

Wlckwllre-I am sure of It. He has lost all In­

terest In earthly matters. He doesn't even ask about the base ball score any more. fr

live and Leara.

Mr. Oldtymer—Well, I suppose you find a great many surprises In married life, don't you? Mr. Younghusband—Rather. Why, It wm only the other day that I found out that she was fonder of onions than Ice cream,

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

Earthenware.

To the Editor of The Express: SIB: It is not very long since the Gazette told Its readers what a wicked thing the] tariff on tea and coffee Is. At Bloomfleld. It Is said, th.it Senator Voorhees roused the Indignation of ten thousand people .by his terrific denunciation of that provision of our tariff law which forces poor fanners to pay an 80 per cent duty on horseshoes, pitchforks, reapers, mowers and English "waggons" with wooden wheels. Last summer an annex of the Indianapolis Sentinel made a furious assault on protection,becruse It compels poor men to pay 85 cents on each dollar's worth of brick they put In their chimneys, and now comes the Gazette once more walling and gnashlhg its teeth because of the duty on earthenware. These are people who "bay the moon" because they "study maxims Instead of markets," or lie wilfully in the belief that falsehoods will serve their turn belter than truth.

In this connection the first thing the reader should bring to mind is the tact that our free trade organ has many times solemnly assured Its readers that if we only could get free raw materials we would soon be supplying the worlds market with manufactured goods, and It may b3 that we have not yet bren able to fill that hungry and capacious maw, the worlds market, with cups, saucers, spittooHS, hanging lamps, etc., because we have no clay In this country. It would be Interesting to have the Gazette's opinion on tills point. ...

Coarse pottery has always been made In this country in a small way, but, like watches, steel

rails,

carpets and many more of our leading products, the manufacture of earthenware, as an Important Industry, came in with protection, and It has come to stay. As late as 1865 the business In the United States was just beginning to nrosper. These wares were then made In a small way at Liverpool and Xanesvllle.iOhlo. Some was also made at Amboy. New Jersey, and Peoria, Illinois but what was of far more importance was the fact that Thomas B. Smith, after spending an Immense fortune in experiments, had just succf eded In establishing, on a paying basis, the manufacture of the plainer kinds of porcelain at Green Point, Long island, and Smith succeeded a liim that lost all their own money and all they could borrow in fruitless efforts to establish the same business. These were the unpromising beginnings of the pottery business In America. But after the details of the trade were mastered and markets were secured for the goods produced, the business prospered, prospersd so well that by 183] 5'JJ establishments were In operation that gave employment to 7,'/!3 hands and the wares produced were worth almost £8,000,000. We have no statistics of the In­

dustry

of last year, but $12,000,000. or about twothirds of all the country consumed, Is a low estimate ot the value of the goods manufactured while at least 10,000 hands were employed In their production, and 50,000 people got their bread from the wages paid: which Is a pretty fair show.ns for an Infant only twenty-six years old.

We have abundant reason to believe that the Gazette Is vicious and venomous enough to hate protection for its own sake, but It Is generally artlul enough to denounce protection on the pretense that It enhances the cost of goods by about the amount of the tariff. It said, truly, that If an American should buy earthenware In England costing a dollar he would be compelled to pay 55 cents to get his purchase through the custom house. If It was decorated porcelain he would have to pay CO cents. But that Is not the point In Issue. People don't go to Englond for a dollar's wotth of dinner plates, and the real question Is as to whether the duty raises the price of dinner plates to the people who buy them at the stores In the ordinary way. On that point this evidence is respectfully submltt'd. The writer went to the stores of the principle dealers In these goods In the cltyland inquired how their present prices compare with the prices of the same goods ten to lifteen years ago. Every dealer replied "cheaper." One said 10 to 15 percent lower. Another replkd 25 per cent, cheaper, and yet another thought the difference to be mere than 25 per cent. One merchant point 1 to a hanging lamp and said, "Ten years ago such a lamp would have cast you $7, to-day I can afford to sell It tor $2-50," and any gor1 housewife In Yijo county knows all tills to be true. And we all know too that we can buy porclaln cups and vases at the ten cent stores that used to cost from 50 cents to $2. As no Bessemer process has been discovered for making pottery, It appears to be certain that when we surrender our markets to the control of foreigners, they are always worse than a "rubber tariff. The way to make goods cheap is to put a good round tariff on them GO per cent, for example, on decorated china. And It may be said that two-thirds of our importations of earthenware, l.ast year, was decorated porcelain costly vases from Sevres, Llnoges, Meissen, Worcester, China and Japan. The people who buy these goods can afford to pay for them, and the COper cent., too, even If It added to their price.

One more fact will probably be enough for the present. The Gazette Is constantly making faces at what It calls our "Infant" Industries, and anxiously Inquiring for the time when they will be able to stand alone. The Inquiry cannot be answered. The protective system may be lost forever. There are no signs, at least, of any radical change In the near future, and the system will last along time yet unless the people should conclude that It is their duty to look after the Interests of the English and Belgians before taking care of themselves. Furthermore, the Gazette Is such aH ardent admirer of the British that It ought to be pleased to sre us, for once, at least, Imitating the example of the British people. They protected their woolen manufacturers from the time of William the Conquerer, or eight hundred years. They took good care of their steel workers, or makers of cutlery, from the days of the llrst Richard, or seven hundred years and they began to miike porcelain ten years before the death of the second George, and did not abandon protection till 1874. We may, then, count on one hundred and twenty-four years of protection for. English pottery. If this last period Is short enough to suit the Gazette, It Is to be hoped that the ninety-eight years of protection the potters have yet before them will be d'ligently Improved, so that oureaithenware men may get ready for free trade on or before the first day of July. 1987.

On account of their ear.iest devotion to protection the Gazett 3 Is constantly calling our people donkeys. But La Fountalne tells us about a donkey that fitly represents the Gazett3 'dltor. This long eared animal once happen'd to get his nose to the end of a llute, and Ilndlng that he could make a noise by blowing through the Instrument. was Instantly able to congratulate himself on his superior skill as a musician. The Gazette's efforts to play a tune on the tariff are equal In sense and logic and knowlr jge of the subject to the discordant noises that the witty Frenchman's ass mistook for heavenly harmony. C.

TERRK HAUTE, August 24.

EXCHANGE ECHOES.

St. Louis Globe Democrat: The whisky trust Is rain advancing prices, but the people are not anxious to curtail Its activity In this direction. Tills tiust Is the "private affair" of the Democratic party.

Globe Democrat: More pig Iron was consumed In the tfrst halt of 18CJ In the' United States than In the entire year of 1879, end virtually the whole of It was made In this country, with free trade the amount of pig Iron used here would be far less, and, pracMcally speaV'ng, all of It would be made on the other side of the Atlantic.

Chicago News: Among the theatrical debutantes announ ?tl for the New York st'?e are Mrs. Carter, Nina Van Zandt end Laura'Hollts, a daughter of the notorious Laura D. Fair. Piobably their should be added to these the name of Sarah Athei Ten/, who In the element of rotorleiy Is not behind any of them.

Kansas City Journal: Members of congress must look forward apprehensively to t'ie next session. There will be aNew York lobby, a Chicago lobby, a St. Louis lobby, and a Washington lobby end there c?n be but one world's fa'r with the sanction of congress. It will be a fatiguing session to the congressman unaccustomed to riotous living.

New York Tribune: 1 he way forGover.ior Lowry to indicate the good name of the state and his own dignity as an officer will be to let Sullivan serve out his teiiu. A pardon wonld turn the whole pursuit end prosecution of these men Into a farce, and cover the governor and his state with ridicule.

Party Tours in Europe.

On Wednesday last a party of fifty Methodist clergymen left this port to make a tour in Europe and Asia and on the same day a party of Xorth Carolina school teachers, who had been making a tour in Europe, returned to this port in an ocean steamer. The formation of large parties for the enjoyment of foreign tours is very often heard of nowadays and the reports of their experiences that they give are nearly always pleasant.—[New York Sun.

Hie Jacet I'ncle Dul.

An ancient stone in a graveyard at Litchfield bears the following inscription:

Under this stone lies Solomon Taylor. Next to him Is Gat TS, the whaler. Further on down deep In the mud Is all that's mortal ot Uncle Dud. —JGardiner (Ale Reporter.

STORY OF MADAME LAFARGE.

Late in the reign of Louis Philippe celebrated French dramatist, being engaged in a play in which the development of insanity was a conspicuous feature, obtained permission to visit the female lunatic aBylum of La Salpetriere, says the London Telegraph. No sooner had he set foot in the court-yard than he was surrounded by a crowd of demented creatures, whining out their usual entreaties for ''freedom and tobacco." 1 noticed that one inmate, a tall, gaunt woman, with dark, flashing eyes, and some remnants of good looks in her pallid face, kept aloof from her sisters in misery, and did not condescend to join in their petition. As, under the guidance of a Sister of Charity, he was wending his way to another part of the establishment, the tall, dark pallid woman touched him on the arm with a roll of paper which she held in one hand. "I am Marie Cappelle," she said, "the Widow Lafarge. See, here is the letter which I wrote to my husband on the night when he brought me home to Le Glandier. I am innocent." Then unrolling the pap9r, she began to read or rather to recite, for she bent not her eyes on the paper, the contents of which she had recited, by heart, hundreds upon hundreds of times. She was not by any means Marie Cappelle. She had been a governess in school but Bhe had lost her wits through incessant dwelling on the details of a great oyer of poisoning which absorbed public attention throughout France, and it may be said throughout Europe, during the better part of the year 1840, and she had become the victim of a confirmed monomania—her hallucination being that she was Mme. Lafarge, convicted of the murder of her husband by arsenical poisoning. It is proposed, as briefly aB it may be, to tell the stor/ of the real and most

unhappy

convict in question.

Marie-Fortunee Cappelle—there seems almost a touch of the irony of fate in that agnomen of "Fortunee"—was born at Villers Hellon, in Picardy, in 181G, and was consequently only 2i years of age when the terrible drama, in which she played so tragical a part, wes enacted. The father was a colonel of artillery of some distinction, and her mother, dying early, left little Marie a fortune of about four thousand pounds. She was educated at the famous School of the Legion of Honor at St. Denis, founded by Napoleon I., and of which the original directrees was Madame Campan and for the discipline and intellectual curriculum of this historical academy Marie Cappelle appears to have entertained as lively a hatred as Charlotte Bronte had for her Yorkshire school at Cowan bridge. Her father having married again, and the idea of a stepmother being altogether distasteful to her, Marie was taken out of the establishment at St. Denis by two of her aunts, Mesdames Garat and De Martens. They were ladies of

Bome

position and

under their auspices Mademoiselle Cappelle seems, until the time of her marriage, to have mingled in a circle of society which may be defined as wealthy and cultivated, but not devoid of a savor of Bohemianism. The girl herself was not precisely beautiful, but both her face and figure were full of attractive elegance. She had plenty of governesses and professors, and became highly accomplished. She seems to have been of a strongly impulsive and romantic temperament, and her maiden life was marked by more than one sentimental episode very closely approaching the proportions of e3capades. She also formed a mysterious friendship with a Mademoiselle Nicolai, who became the wife of the Vicomte de Leotaud, and who, previous to.'her marriage, had been a victim of a tendresse for certain Felix Clave, who, by his own showing, was an Italian of noble extraction, but who seems to have been more of the nature of a Parisian calicot. This Clave went the stage the young Vicomtesse

Leotaud saw him on the boards and dreading-^ apparently that his ultimate intention might be to extort blackmail from her, she confided to Marie Cappelle a valuable parure of diamond)?, with instructions to turn the jewels into money, and therewith purchase the silence of Clave and secure the return of eome compromising letters which she had written him. Eventually the soi-disant Italian disapp3ared but the diamonds were not sold. They turned up, long afterwards, in the possession "of Madame Lafarge md at her" trial at Tulle she was charged not only with poisoning her husband, but with stealing the jewels of Madame de Leotaud.

Meanwhile, in 1839, there arrived in Paris M. Pouch-Lafarge, a widower of 28, and by profession an ironmaster of Le Glandier in the Limousin. He yearned for a second wife, and so sought aid and counsel from a notorious matrimonial agent, of one of whose congeners there is a graphic picture in Lord Lytton's novel of "Night and Morning." The fact has not been precisely ascertained, but the balance of probability iB that Lafarge was introduced to Marie Cappelle^ at one of the receptions of the Hymeneal order at all events, five days after his presentation to her the banns of marriage were published between them. Latarge seems to have been an individual of indifferent moralp, of uncouth and uncleanly manners and habits, and a consummate liar to boot. One of his wife's complaints against him was that his nails were "always in half mourning.'' He represented to his aflianced bride that his business as an ironmaster brought him in 80,000 francs a year, and that his residence at Le Glandier was a stately Gothic castle, built on the ruins of an ancient abbey. The pair were married and started for the Limousin but they broke their journey at Orleans, and here a tempestuous scene ensued between the bride and bridegroom, curiously analogous to a certain "situation" in the "Maitre de Forges" of M. Georges Ohnet. The spouse of the master of real life seems in the outset to have looked on her lord with feelings of simple loathing, and her abhorrence was aggravated almost to frenzy when, arriving at the house which was to be her home, she discovered it to be no superb Gothic castle, but a ramshackle and dilapidated tenement almost denuded of furniture, and there she found an acrimonious mother and a frigid sister-in-law. The iron works •were genuine enough, but Lafarge was desperatelp embarrassed, and for some time past had been staving off bankruptcy by "flying kites," or floating accommodation bills in Paris. In a passion of despairing expsperation, on the very night of her arrival at Le Glandier, this new Pauline Deschappelles wrote to her very commonplace prince of Como that conjugal relations were impossible

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1889.

between them that she had• long loved another man, and that she had seen her old love from the window of a hotel on the road to Le Glandier. She entreated, she exhorted Lafarge to set her free, to take her fortune, and allow her to change her name and emigrate to America, or to the East. Of course, this letter— which was passed under the husband's locked door—caused a terrible commotion at Le Glandier but a Bemi-recon-ciliation between the ill-assorted couple was patched up by the acrimonious mother and the frigid sister-in-law. Lafarge, scamp as he was, seems to have been really and passionately fond of his second wife. What her real sentiments toward him were eventually will never be known still it iB certain that for some months before his death they corresponded in terms of the most ardent affection, and even executed wills in eachother's favor.

In November, 1839, M. Lafarge went to Paris in hopes of raising a loan which would enable him to bring out a patent for certain improvements in the manufacture of iron. On December 18 MB mother wrote to him to say that the family had sent him Bome little cakes of the local kind known as "jhoux," and that he was to eat these cakes on a given day and at a given hour, in loving remembrance of bis wife and family, who, at the same hour, would be partaking of similar cakes at Le Glandier. The cakes were made by Madame Lafarge mere, who was a notable pastry cook, but they were packed and sent off by Marie Cappelle. The little cakes never came to hand, but one large cake did, and it afterward transpired that the box in which the cakes were to be placed closed with hooks, whereas the. case in which the large cake came to hand was fastened down with nails. M. Lafarge only partook of a small portion of this cake. He was immediately seized with a violent colic. A fortnight afterwards, in a piteously feeble condition, he returned to Le Glandier, and on January 14,1840, in extreme agony, he died. Before bis death, however, his family began to suspect foul play, and the object of their suspicion was his wife. The first medical man called in saw nothing wrong. He was the family doctor, and ascribed Lafarge's sickness to nervous colic, from which he had be9n a chronic sufferer. The second physician had his doubts. He thought that he discovered arsenical traces in a "lait de poule," or white wine whey, which Madame Lafarge had made for her husband. It is worthy of remark that the sick man knew that his wife was in the habit of taking such a "lait de poule" before she went to bed, and that ai a proof of affection he entreated her to share this night-draught with him and that, on the night in question, she alleged that she had drunk the Whole draught, but that she would make him another, which she did, and which he drank. The watchful mother and sister-in-law declared that they had frequently seen young Madame Lafarge dropping a pinch of white powder into the food and the medicines administered to the patient. Marie Cappelle, on being charged with this, replied that the white powder was only pounded gum arabic, which was "very refreshing" to an invalid and it is certain, as all travelers know, that gum arabic does allay thirst. Then M. Lafarge complained of the rats with which the tumble-down old masure of Le Glandier wtn infested, and the noise made by which robbed him of sleep. Marie Cappelle herself complained that the mischievous rodents had gnawed away half of the skirt of her ridinghabit. Eatsbane was sent for, and to make it stronger, Marie purchased from chemist a quantity of arsenic. But when the "mort au rats" came to be analyzed it did not exhibit a single trace of arsenic, and when Madame Cappelle was questioned on the matter she explained that having "mixed a certain quantity of arsenic, Bhe had given the re it to her servant, who, in her turn, asserted that, being afraid of the stuff, she had buried the parcel containing it in the garden. There, sure enough, the packet was found, but it contained only carbonate of soda. These equivocal circumstancss continuing to accumulate, the family demanded the exhumation and autopsy of M. Lafarge. The analysis of the remains was undertaken in the first instance by the faculty of Tulle, who seem to have made a scandalouB mess of the whole matter. They professed to have found an arsenical precipitate but the illustrious chemist Orfila, applied to ai a referee, pointed out th.it the precipitate obtained had not been reduced to metallic arsenic, and indignantly added that, ii their blundering experiments, the faculty of Tulle had "gaspilleB," or squandered, the most valuable part of the internal arrangements of the defunct Lafarge.

Young Madame Lafarge had been in the meantime arrested, Bnd an idea may may be formed of the snail-like pace at which French criminal procedure moves when it is stated that eight entire months were devoted to the "prevontion" or "instruction," during which period the prisoner was kept in solitary confinement, and subjected to innumerable interrogations from the examining judge. It was not until September 2,1840, that the miserable woman was placed on her trial before the court of assizes at Tulle, and by this time public opinion in France had became divided into two great camps, the Lafargists and the anti-La-fargists, the former very largely predominating. She was defended by two of the mo3t eminent members of the French bar, Maitre Paillet and Maitre Lachaud, to whom was adjoined a young and gifted advocate, M. Theodore Bac. TheJHrst and clumsy analysis of the remains having bean declared abortive and null, a second took place, even while the advocate general was reading the act of accusation. This time the experiments were made in accordance with the directions laid down by Orfila, and with the use of March's apparatus, the result being that the experts declared their inability to discover a singe trace of arsenic in the body of M. Lafarge. One should not forget the post mortem "gaspillpge," or squandering, which had so aroused the ire of Orfila. A third analysis took plac3 on September 3—this time under the auspices of M. Dupuytren —and the conclusion arrived at was a wholly negative one. To Madame Lafarge, for a few hours, the bitterness of impending death wai pnt. She alternately wept and swooned for joy. Maitre Paillet and Maitre Lachaud embraced her. Maitre Bac—who by this time had fallen in love with her— knelt and reverently kissed her hand. The gendarmes who guarded her threw aloft their cocked hats in exultation. The crowd outside the prison roared with delight. "No arsenic! No arsenic in Papa Lafarge!" But the advocate general wn implacable, and the president of the tribunal dead against the prisoner. Yet another analysis was decreed, and the illustrious Orfila himself wa3 sent from Paris. On the 13th the great chemist appeared in court, and a voice described as "sepulchral" said, "I will demonstrate that arsenic exists in the body of Lafarge. He exhibited three plates which had been exposed to the vapor

generated by Marsh's apparatus. On two of the plates there was no sign or token of the poison. Bought for but the third was speckled with grains of arsenic in what Orfila admitted to be "gp imponderable quantity"—that is to ea not susceptible of not being weighed But theee imponderable particles proved heavy enough to turn the scale of justice against Madame Lafarge. The jury found her guilty, but with "extenuating circumstances, and Bhe was sentenced to penal servitude for life, with preliminary exposure in the pillory, in the market-place of Tulle. During the trial her sable tresses had turned white, and she was so enfeebled that it was in an arm chair that her gaolers brought her into court to receive sentence. Her doom had scarcely been pronounced when another famous chemist, Raspail, who had been sent for from Paris on behalf of the accused, arrived in court. He examined the plates submitted by Orfila he pronounced that the quantity of arsenic found did not exceed tne hundredth part of a milligramme, and he pledged his professional reputation to be able to extract that or a double quantity of arsenic from the legs of the presidential chair, or from those of the president himself. But it was too late. Marie Cappelle had been found guilty. She appealed to the court of cassation but her appeal was dismissed, and the sentence took its course the degrading infliction of the "exposition publique" being, however, remitted by the royal mercy.

Unofficially the case had been reviewed and argued by half the lawyers in Europe and two distinguished German juris-conBults of the royal court of Berlin made no secret of their opinion that Marie Cappelle was wholly innocent, and that the real criminal was one Denis arbier, half a servant and halt a clerk to M. Lafarge, who had been his accomplice in many shady financial transactions, including the negotiation of sundry forged bills, which, it transpired, had been paid, out of her own money, by Madame Lafarge, in order to save her husband's honor. Barbier, the German lawyers thought, might have poisoned his mestei first, that he might rob him, and next that he might be revenged on Madame Lafarge, whom he hated. The unhappy woman was compassionately treated in prison. She was not put to hard labor, and was allowed to write and publish her "Memoirs," a work of considerable literary ability, but which was naturallv a lengthened vindication of her conduct, and a reiterated declaration of her innocence. After twelve years of captivity she was pardoned by the Emperor Napoleon III., and died shortly afterwards, of sheer exhaustion, at the Baths of UsBat. She had only reached her 37th year. As regards the diamonds of Madame de Leotaud, who denied anything beyond the most platonic relations with her pseudoItalian admirer, the secret of that transaction remains to this day as inscrutable a mystery as that of the doing to death of M. Lafarge. Felix Clave died raving mad in an asylum at Pau, a year after the passing away of Marie Cappelle, veuve Lafarge.

-Fleas Hold the Fort.

Philadelphia has found something to shake it up at last. Fleas by the million have carried the town by a large majority. Every man, woman and child is boarding more or less of the fretful pests, and the city displays more activity than it has shown since the centennial's opening day. It is the liveliest town in the country day and night. People are learning to swear at a fearful rate. The most alarming visitation of the pests, however, is in the Twenty-eighth ward. The flea grows larger there than a reed bird, and his business hours are from sunrise to sunrise. He never goes to bed. Humanity is sending up agonizing appeals for help. IIow they came or how they were brought is a mystery, although it is claimed that a young man living in that section of the city brought into the house several weaks ago a dog completely covered with flen. The dog was of a Mexican breed and had no hair, and the flies only used him as a resting place, so as soon es the dog was brought into the house the fleas left him for a more congenial spot.

Death From Tight Lacing.

A verdict of death from tight lacing is, perhapp, atill to be sought among the curiosities of law. But a Birmingham jury have come near it in a verdict of death from pressure round the waist. The victim was a poor servant girl who died after a fright, and her death was attributed by medical witnesses to the fact that she was too tightly belted to enable her to stand the wear and tear of any sudden emotion. She was a notorious tight lacer her collar fitted so closely that it was impossible to loosen it at the critical moment, and under her stays she wore a belt so remorselessly buckled as to prevent the free circulation of the blood.

SoUl to the Whisky Trust.

H. McLean, financial agent of one whisky trust, was at LaSalle, 111., Satururday settling up the open accounts of the different contractors on the Kidd distillery building. This is about as conclusive evidence as LaSalle pieople require to satisfy them that tne plant has gone into the hands of the combine, and that there will be no whisky made there. The cost of the structure as it now Rt.nnda in an unfinished state is estimated at about $2GO,OOD.

How About Cleveland?

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Society abhors the hangman. A gentleman will take no part in a public execution. Electricans and physicians are men of considerable education and character as a rule, and they naturally desire better business than slaughtering criminals, even with the approval of the law. [Rochester Post-Expreee.

Why Schoolma'ms are Scarce. In Freeport a scarcity of teachers for the primary schools is reported. The girls can make from five dollars to twelve dollars a week in the shoe factory, and only from five dollars to seven dollars weekly in the school room.—[L^wiston Journal.

Ttoyle O'Foilly's Prescription. If you want the real elixir of life, don't take it through a hypodermic syringe, but through a canoe trip down a river, or a long swim every day for a month, or a few weeks' camping out in the woods—[Boston Pilot.

A Plausible Explanation.

Teacher—How.did the name protestant originate? Ikey Rosenburg—Maybe it comes from some peebles vat have let some notes go protest.—[Texas Sittings.

Candidates for Death.

There are at present eighteen candidates for capital punishment at the Tombs in New York.

EXPRESS: PACKAGES.

What's In.a Name?

I have a girl—a gny coquette— Whose name to me Is Margaret.

A Frenchman, whom she calls her "sweet." Most always calls her Marguerite.

A Spaniard, evldtntlf "sweeter,'" Addresses her as Margarita.

A Portuguese, and quite a leader In drawing rooms, says Margarlda.

A chap from sunny Italy Prefers to call her Marghery.

An awkward swain from Germany Pronounces It "raeln Ueh Margie-"

A dude, with trousers wide and baggy, /Srif Seems to enjoy the pet name Maggy.

SK Another impecunious wag UlmlnuUvely calls her Mug.

iM,A Park policeman, with a badge. £$5 lias christened her by name of Madge.

jsgff (He took her once to witness "Nadjy" And 'tween the acts addressed her Mad]y.) ll| fegl Some call her Meg, some call her Meggy HH Some call her Peg, some call her Peggy.

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And some, more vulgarly than than witty. SSi Contemptuously call her Gritty.

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But Where's she's hired as a dlenst maedchen, §pijHer German mistress dubs her Gretchen. —[Herman E. L. Beyer In Judge.

A great oyster season is predicted. Labouchere is coming to this country. "Lessons in tennis" are given in London.

Gladstone's library has more than twenty thousand volumes. The pope has a large bed-room filled with singing birds.

A 5-months old baby, weighing eightyfive pounds, is a boast of Buffalo. It is stated that there are in Boston 411 miles of public streets and l-.l miles of private ways.

Mr. P. T. Barnum will bring out during the coming autumn a volume of personal recollections.

British soldiers, not in possession of Bwimming certificates, are forbidden to enter boats for purposes of recreation.

The Chicago Times says that the wholesale dealers of that city have in their employ 18,000 commercial travelers.

Sir Charles Russell's fees in the Maybrick case amounted to 1,10D guineas. He had 500 guineas as a retainer, and a "refresher" of 1CD guineas a day.

A society has been started in London to promote the development of thd science of mesmerism and of the application of hypnotism to practical medicine.

The returns of a recent school election in Kansas show that 50,050 women voted on school matters, and that a large proportion of school officers this yeat are to be women.

Some idea of the shah's traveling expenses may be formed from the statement that Cook's charge for what railroad and hotel expenses he had disbursed on the Bhah's account was £25,000.

A kitchen table with as many drawers beneath it as a writing desk, and having a high back like a sideboard, full of pigeon holes for kitchen untensils, is a recent addition to the hired girl's comfort.

An umpire for a ball game at L'Anse, Mich., paralyzed a crowd of people by appearing on the field armed with a cutlass, an axe, and a spyglass. On his back was painted a big sign: "You will please Bide with me."

The fashion of men locking their own arm behind a woman's elbow and clutching fast to her forearm is not peculiar to America. An English woman writes to a London journal: "Man is rapidly coining to be the gallant defender of our sex. Once upon a time we looked up to him and rest upon his arm. Now, alas! the tables are turned. In the present day he idly takes our arm, while we are obliged to take his part and our own as well."

The largest brook trout ever caught on this continent was landed the other day at Spring Creek, New York. The fish weighs six pounds and two ounces, and its proportions are perfect. This is one of the species of brown trout, the spawn of which was imported from Germany, and received at the state-hatch-ery on February 13,1884, so that its age can not be more than between five and six years. The largest ever caught previously weighed a trifle over five pounds.

The American rage for base ball is, after all, weak compared to the British craze for dticket. At the last match between the two greatest of the county elevens, Surrey and Nottingham, which took three days to play, nearly ten thousand people went to see it and Surrey's victory. The batting of Lockwood and Abel, who together made 15!) in Surrey's second inning, was so important toward winning the match that the collection taken up for their benefit amounted to £12, £5 of which was in penny pieces.

It is proposed by the Cbickamaugua memorial association that the ground on which the celebrated battle of Chickamaugua was fought be bought by the association and converted for all time into a national park. This project will be pushed at the annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland, when it is held at Chattanooga on September 10. Efforts are being made to secure the attendance at this reunion of members of the confedorate army who fought in the battle of Chickamaugua.

A burglar attempted a novel mode of deceiving the inmates of house which he was trying to enter in Newark, N. J., recently. A lady and her daughter were the only persons at home, and at about 9 o'clock they heard some one on the stoop humming a low tune. The person was evidently a man endeavoring to imitate the singing of a woman. While he thus amused himself his confederate climbed to the roof of the porch. His footfalls were heard by the ladies, and looking out they saw the figure of a man crouched under one of the bedroom windows. They sounded an alarm and he, with his singing confedorate, beat a hasty retreat.

An August 4,1880, Charles E. Burnes and Nathan Fubbard left Linkville, Ore., on a prospecting tour to find the "Losi Cabin" in the mountains. For years the Lost Cabin has been one of the traditions of that section, and many a search has been made for it and the gold that is waiting for the finder. Nothing was again heard of the two men until a few weeks ago, when a cattle herder found their camp and their skeletons in a dense wilderness near Diamond lake, fifty miles from Fort Klamath. The skeletons were found near together, wrapped in their blankets and clothed. Their guns stood by a tree near by. A small sum of money was in one of the men's pockets, and a watch, so that*it seemed mrtain that they had not been murdered and robbed. A diary and a postal card addressed to Burnes' mother served to identify them. The diary was carried to August 21,1880, so that the men had been dead nearly three yeaia. But how they died will probably be one of the mysteries of the Diamond lake regions.

The liver and kidneys must be kept in good condition. Hood's Sareaparilla is a great remedy for regulating these organs.

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AMUSEMENTS. NAYLOR'S OPERA H0USH-.

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August 26, 27, 28. 29 and 31.

Kvery Night Next Week Except Friday. SPECIAL MATINEE SATURDAY.

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Prices—10c, 20c and 30c—Prices Advance sale opens Monday, August ai.

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TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (1') denote Parlor Car at Inched. Trains marked thus (3) denote SleepliiK Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bullet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dally. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDAUA LINE.

T, H. & I. DIVISION. LXAVK FOR TH* W*9T.

No. a Western Kxpress (84V) 1.42 a.m. No. 5 Mall Train 10.IB a. ra. No. 1 Kast Line (P4V) 2.16 p.m. No. 7 Fast Mall W.IH P. m.

LKAVK FOB THK KA3T.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.80 a. m. No. 6 New York Kxpress (8AV) 1.61 a. m. No. 4 Mall and Accommodation 7.16 a.m. No. 2(J Atlantic Kxpress (PAV) 12.42 p. m. No. Fast Line 2.UU p.

AHKIVK FKOM THK KA3T.

No. a Western Kxpress (SAV) l.iW a. m. No. 5 Mall Train ll).12a. m. No. 1 Fast Line• (PAV) 2.(10p. in. No. 8 Mall and Accommodation li.46 p. in. No. 7 Kast Mall U.IJU p. m.

AKK1VK FKOM THK WKST.

No. 12 Cincinnati Express (S) 1.20 a.m. No. 6 New Y»rk Express (SAV) 1.42 a. in. No. 20 AtlanUc Kxpress (PAV) 1Z87 p. m. No. Fast Line* 1.40 p.m.

T. H. A L. DIVISION.

I.KAVX FOR THK NORTH.

No. 52 South Bend Mall 6.1*1 a. m. No. 54 South Bend Express 4.00 p. in. ARKIVK FKOM THK WIHTH No. 61 Terre Haute Kxpress 12.00 noon No. 53 South Bend Mall 7.80 p. in.

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