Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 August 1889 — Page 2

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The Fair needs only fair weather to be the biggest and best fair ever held in the Wabash valley:

It is again reported, and with some show of authenticity, that the pope is about to leave Rome for Spain.

The strike in London is a bigger one in its etl'ect than any we have had in this country, and yet we are told that free trade England is prosperous as compared with the United States.

The city council has taken to caucusing about the gravel pit sale. The time for caucussing was when that resolution was up, and which wont through by a unanimous vote. The horse is gone.

The (J. A. R. at Milwaukee this week will have something to say on the pension question. We suppose our friends who refer to the members of the grand arm as the "grand army of robbers" will at least consent that they be heard. But whether or no'they will be heard by the grest majority of the people in the country who do not believe in using the "apothecary's scales" in dealing with the men whoBaved the union.

Farmers in Clark county, Illinois, also have gone into the combine—boycott business and have served notice on the merchants. George William Curtis in a recent address complained that while the legislatures were legislating against trusts they did not legislate against the labor trusts of labor organizations. So it seems there are trusts and trusts and we are all opposed to the trusts in which our own calling in life is not a part.

The Republican National congressional committee is sending northern speakers down to Louisiana to take part in the lively contest in the third district in that state. Consequently the southern press is much wrought up and insists that this is a sort of invasion. Yet we had Mills Carlisle, Breckenridge and all the southern leaders in the north last year. Indeed"there was complaint at the national Democratic headquarters that the southern Democrats seemed to act upon the idea that the northern Democrats were to furnish the "sinews of war," to pay southern fellows' expenses "teaching the people their duty" in the north.

The telegraph brings from Washington an editorial that is to appear in the Post of that city this morning. It is under the heading "Prom Riverside to Arlington," and appeals to the Grand Army encampment at Milwaukee to take the initiative for the removal of General Grant's remains from New York to Washington, or rather, to Arlington, the national cemetery. While the motive for this appeal may be construed as part of the rivalry for the location of the ISO:! World's exhibition yet there is no one who who will not respond to the feeling and demand that some better care and recognition be given to the last resting place of the great soldier.

C. O. D.

Fond Uncollect Ion.

She-lMil yon think ol me while you were away? lie Oil. yes. And especially at the barber shop.

She- I'd like to know what you could mid at the barber's to remind you or mo. lie -The fellow was a little awkward, and nearly every time lie powdered my race some of the stuff got Into my mouth.

A Sure Sign

Yabsley-lt Is easy enough to tell that the old lady Is the boss In the Wlckwire household. Mudge—llow'.'

Yabsley—1They never have a hired girl that Isn't as homely as a mud fence.

"Tis Often Thus.

Visitor Who Is tiint dismal looking man In the next room gritting ills teeth so savagely'.' Kditor Oil, that's the funny man trying to get through Ills work.

Another Scandal.

Mrs. .lason-It really is a pity that the papers have to devote so niui'h space to scandal' Mr. .lason-It Is. indeed. By the way, did you see anything In tlie paper about Wlckwire leaving town the other day with a married woman'.' .Mrs. Jason—No'.' Tell me about It. quick. Who was she.

Mr. .lason- His wife.

YOlt'K OF THE PKOl'LK-

Tare-hnto.

Tn the Eilit• ir of The K.r)re,f: Sin: In my former communication I said the correct pronunciation ot the word Terre Haute (which means In French high land or high ground) wasTer (He in the French language. I will reiterate this and say to the good people of Terre Haute that the word Is not Tarry Hut. Tarry Hot, Tarry Hoot. Tarry Hout nor Tare Hote, and that allot' these pronunciations are vulgar and barbar ous. The lirst "e" tn the word Terre is pronounced precisely as in the Kngllsh word "met," and the tinal "e" is silent. The "r" is pronounced somewhat stronger than In English, but for all purposes any Frenchman will understand you It you say Ter Ote.

The Frenchman has no true aspirate "h nor does It occur in any language on continental Europe, except the Spanish or "x." Texas and Mexico are pronounce! In Spanish Tuhas and Mahlco. and Jinn and .Taltpa are pronounced 11 win and Halepa. I have heard the word Terre llaute pronounced by Englishmen, Americans. Irishman. Scotch and Germans, and will say that ir any man wl pronounce It as they do to a Frenchman which I did not long ago. he will answer you is bt? did ME: Jc NC (NWI/JIYIUI

But when I gave It to htm pre­

cisely as I have given It. lie understood It perfectly and answered me correctly: Miwsuiir nits MWU'Wiiiii" l'ii N sincere- LAMAKTINK.

THE FT. OMAHA ARMY SCANDAL

The finding of the court martial in the case of Lieutenant Colonel Joshua A. Fletcher, former commandant at Fort Omaha, charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, has been forwarded to Washington, says an Omaha dispatch to the New York Sun. This is understood to mean that the court has found against the colonel.

Fort Omaha is one of the prettiest posts in the service. Maple and elm trees brush against the quarters and shade the driveways, the golden rod covers the prairie, and dandelions and daises peep from amid the grass that covers the level parade. The post is not much given to social indulgences. The officers are nearly all married, and most of them are past the heyday of youth. Hops and like entertainments are, therefore, rare, and up to June last social matters at the post glided peacefully along.

But one evening early in June the garrison was invaded by a petite woman with a retrousse nose named Mrs. McFarlane, of Philadelphia. Mrs. McFarlane was announced as the sister of Mrs. Fletcher, wife of Lieutenant Colonel Joshua L. Fletcher, then commanding the post in the absence of General Wheaton. Mrs. McFarlane proved to be vivacious and lively, and became popular with the younger officers, but many of the older men shook their heads gravely over some of her pranks.

Soon after her arrival at the post there was a hop given, and Mrs. McFarlane attended. During the evening she met for the first time Assistant Surgeon Frank L. Henderson, a young man in medicine, with a blonde moustache and a most affable manner. Mrs. McFarlane became confidential with him at once, and in one of the intervals between dances informed him that Colonel Fletcher had accused his wife of being criminally intimate with Captain Dampsey, an officer of the post, and that she was going to persuade her Bister to leave the colonel and return with her to Philadelphia. This was the beginning of the troubles that led to the arraignment of Colonel Fletcher before a court martial.

Soon after the hop Mrs. Fletcher began packing all the household goods, and informed the ladies of the fort that she was going to leave her husband and return to Philadelphia, herformer home, but she said nothing to Colonel Fletcher relative to this decision on her part. On the morning of June 10, while the family was at breakfast, Mrs. Fletcher asked the colored coachman if he had washed her dog-cart, and if he hadn't, she wanted him to so at once, as she wished to send it away.

You cannot take the dogcart," said Colonel Fletcher, "as it is mine. I paid

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A long discussion ensued, and Mrs. McFarlane took a hand in it. She declared most vehemently that the cart did not belong to her sister that she had paid for it with a check signed by the assignee of her first husband's eBtate. Thereupon Calonel Fletcher told Mrs. McFarlane that she was a "d—d liar," who resented the aspersion, concluding by declaring that she would tell Captain Dempsy, and Dr. Henderson that he had oharged them with being criminally intimate with his wife and her sister.

It so happened that at this hour Captain Dempsey was sitting on the colonel's doorstep with his fiancee, Mies Miskey, also a sister of Mrs. Fletcher, and Mrs. McFarlane proceeded to carry out her threat. Running to the front door, she cried: "Ob, Captain Dempsey, come in here. Colonel Fletcher charges you with being guilty of adultery with his wife!"

Captain Dempsey immediately ran into the house and seized the colonel by the throat. "Did you say that?" he cried. "No, Captain Dempsey, I did not," gasped the colonel, "and if you wait I'll explain it all to you." "You d—d liar and coward," said the captain, "you did say it, for both these ladies have told me so." lie released the colonel, however, and left the house. Mrs. McFarlane then declared that she was going to summon Dr. Henderson, and she ran down to that gentleman's quarters. He was at breakfast, but immediately answered the summons. "Dr. Henderson," said she, "I want you to come and face Colonel Fletcher. He says that he has seen you {in a compromising position with my sister."

Dr. Henderson at once accompanied her back to the colonel's residence, but when he reached there the colonel was not to be found. When Mrs. McFarlane started for Dr. Henderson he ran out of the house past his stable, and over the prairie toward the city. As he passed his barn he called to his coachman to harness the horses to the carriage and follow him.

The colonel stayed in the city all day, and when he returned to the fort in the evening, he found that his wife and sister-in-law and many of the household effects had gone. They had left the fort in the afternoon and taken the train for Philadelphia.

The colonel ate his tea in loneliness, and after that went out upon the porch and sat down. While he eat there, Dr. Henderson, accompanied by Lieutenant Wright, appeared upon the scene. The doctor prtsented the colonel with a paper which read:

June IS). 1889.—I, the undersigned, J. S. Fletcher, lieutenant colonel of the Indiana United States Infantry, tn the presence of witnesses, have made remarks most derogatory about my wife and Captain Dempsey and Dr. Henderson. These remarks were unbecoming In an officer, and were lies wttkout foundation.

Without looking at the paper Colonel Fletcher began making an explanation to the doctor, denying the accusations made against him. "That won't do," exclaimed the doctor "I don't believe anything you say. Either sign that paper or take the consequences!" "I cannot sign it," replied the colonel, "as it is untrue."

No sooner had he said this than Henderson struck him squarely in the head, felling him to the Hoor. He then threw himself upon the colonel, and beat him severely. He was finally pulled away by Lieutenant Wright.

This all occurred on June 19th. For the following two days the tongue of gossip at the post' ran riot, and the troubles of Colonel Fletcher were discussed, not only in "Officers' Row," but down in the quarters of the enlisted men, at the camp canteen, in the guard house—everywhere. There were no further developments, however, until the 21st, when Colonel Fletcher sent the following letter to Captain Dempsey: Captain Dempsey:

SIK: I would be pleased to see yon this morning and endeavor to explain and satisfy you that the serious accusations against me are erroneous and misunderstood. I would like to have present Adjutant Kenzle, Lieutenant Wright and any other ofllcer you may wish to have present. 1 should like to have, also. Captain Keller present. Tours, etc. J. 1.. FI.KTCHKK,

Lieut-Col. Second Infantry.

J'. S.—1 never made any remarks derogatory

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I about my wife or you or Dr. Hradersoiijso help me God. In haste. J.L. FLETCHER. In response to this Captain Dempsey, accompanied by two or three brother officers, called upon Colonel Fletcher to hear his explanation, but when he met them the colonel said that, inasmuch as the affair had created so much scandal, he would like to have all the officers of the poet present when he made his explanation. Captain Dempeey and his friends then retired, and the other officers were notified to call at the colonels headquarters, and they did so that same

^Colonel Fletcher is an exceedingly nervouB man, and his talk on this occasion was rambling and incoherent. He addressed himself chiefly to Captain Dempsey. He said that he had been charged with utteri ing allegations of infidelity aganst his wife, but that these accusations against him were untrue. He acknowledged that while in the heat of passion he had said things that it were better should be left unsaid,_ but he had never doubted his wife's purity for a moment. The colonel's explanation was not considered very satisfactory to a majority of the officers, and after leaving his'quarters they went to the club and discussed the matter. There was some talk at that time of dropping the colonel's name from the club roll, but this was not done.

In the meantime Colonel Fletcher had made one of his gravest mistakes by not putting Captain Dempeey and Lieutenant Wright under arrest for their assault upon him. On the sixth day after the assaults had been committed Captain Mills, 8 warm partisan of Mrs. McFarlane, wrote a letter to Colonel Fletcher, and asked him why these officers had not been ordered under arrest. The colonel replied by ordering the arrest of the two officers. Later they were released.

Soon after this Colonel Fletcher was notified that charges had been preferred against him, and a court martial was ordered to sit upon his case. Colonel Fletcher ascribed all his troubles to Mrs. McFarlane. She visited the colonel once while he was stationed at Fort Robinson, and he says her conduct at that time was such that he found it necessary to chide her. She didn't like the colonel's interference, and declared her intention of "getting even," and the colonel says she took this way to do it. The people interested in the army anxiously await the publishing of the verdict of the court martial.

JUDGE FIELD'S EARLY CAREER. -i

He Cscil to Walk the Streets Armed to tlie Teeth Like a Desperado. It must always be remembered that Judge Field is regarded here in a much different light than at the East, says a San Francisco dispatch to the New York Tribune. Here he cannot be separated from his early career. Thousands now living in California recall him as he was in Marysville in 1850, when he walked the streets with a six-shooter in each pocket, and cocked his weapons when Judge Turner appeared in sight. Terry, no doubt, counted on Field's old spirit showing up when be received the gross insult of a slap in the face and, if he had been struck in return, he would have drawn the kuife which, he always car ried.

From the press opinions telegraphed out here it is evident that many editors throughout the east are not acquainted with Terry's record, as they condemn Nagle for not making an attempt to arrest Judge Field's assailant before

Bhoot-

ing him. Nagle knew Terry's desperate character, and was aware that Hopkins, the only officer who ever tried to arrest Terry, received a bowie-knife in his neck and narrowly escaped with his life. It was for this crime that Judge Terry remained in the custody of the vigilance committee for seven weeks and if Hopkins had died he would have been lynched.

WOULD-BE BRIDE IN DISTRESS.

ltobert Johnston, of the United States Service, Supposed to be Foully Dealt With.

Miss May Trueman, of 103 Blake street, is in some anxiety concerning the non-appearance of Robert _Johnston, whom she was to have married on the 20th of this month, says the Indianapolis News.

JohnBton is a surveyor in the employ of the government, and was stationed at Fort Bowie, Ariz. According to a telegram received from H. J. McGrath, commander of the United States troops at that point, he left there on the 11th of August for Indianapolis. He was to stop at St. Louis,and Miss Truuman,acting on the advice of James Quigley, her brother-in-law, telegraphed to the chief of police in that city to see whether Johnston had arrived. A telegram in reply states that his name was found on none of the registers.

Johnston had a large amount of monpy on his person, and Mr. Quigley fears that he may have been waylaid.

Light Infantry May Go to Court. City Solicitor Horace Smith has been employed by Company D, Indianapolis light infantry, and will bring habeas corpus proceedings in the circuit court to have then released from the order of arrest issued by Adjutant General Ruckle. Mr. Smith claims that Company was not legally mustered into the Indiana legion, and Ruckle therefore has no control over them.—[Indianapolis News.

The New Deputy Collector.' Mr. Wads worth, local revenue collector, to-day installed his successor, Mr. Harvey. The latter has given a sufficient bond. Mr. Wadsworth, during Collector Hunter's term, has collected here $745,017.28 of revenue for Uncle Sam.—Indianapolis News.

Indiana State News Notes. A. Trlggs, a brakeman on the J., M. & I., was killed at Columbus yesterday.

Dr H. Wright, of Jefferson county, pension examiner, died at 1130 yesterday. Captain W. H. Hart, appointed third auditor of the treasury, upon leaving Frankfort for Washington, was waited upon by several hundred of his fellow townsmen. Irrespective of party affiliations, and was given an appropriate farewell.

Thomas Fisher, who was sent to prison May 17, 1880, from Gibson county, to serve fourteen years for murder, was released this evening by expiration of sentence. During his term or nine years he dally waked the 600 convicts by blowing a bugle at 5 o'clock In the morning. He was also leader of the prison 'band.

Frank Jung, a young man or magnificent physical proportions, employed In the New Albany glass works, while chatting with friends, suddenly sank to the floor, ind his death from heart troble followed In a few minutes. It Is a coincidence that Louis Aubrey, his Intimate friend, died from the same cause last Thursday, and It was Jung who caught him iu his arms and eased him to the floor.

The cells of the 700 convicts in the northern Indiana penitentiary, at Michigan City, will be Illuminated by electricity after September 1. The board of directors have adopted the incandescent system. Every cell will have one lamp. Tlie convicts have heretofore been allowed candles, but under the new method of Illumination the officers will have the assurance that all lights are extinguished on time. •, V,

A Break In the Erie Canal.

LOCKPORT, N. Y., August 2G.—A bad break occurred on the Erie canal at Shelby's basin, two miles east of Middleport, this morning.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, TDESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1889.

OLD SCHOOL BOOKS.

A New Proposition Foe Exchange by th« Indiana School Book Company. The Indiana school book company at first offered-but a nominal price for the old books in exchange. The company has now, however, sent the following circular all over the stiate:

INDIANAPOLIS, A,ugust 19, 1889. To the County Superintendents and School Trustees of Indiana:

GENTLEMEN: When the bid was made by this company to furnish certain textbooks under the new school-book law, we had not succeeded in making satisfactory arrangements concerning the exchange price to be allowed on the books in use. Consequently we offered in our proposition merely nominal prices for them.

C. M. Barnes, of Chicago, a wholesale dealer in school-books, now agrees to take the books displaced by our seriee at the following exchange pricee, and upon the conditions named in the price list attached hereto:

For first reader, 5 cents. For second reader, 7 cents." For third reader, 9 cents. For fourth reader, 11 cents."' For fifth reader, 15 cents. For elementary arithmetic, cents. For complete or practical arithmetic, 11 cents.

For elementary geography, 11 cents. For complete geography, 25 cents (except Indiana editions, or such as have a special chapter of Indiana and not of any other state.)

Or to make the exchange as follows: Five cents and the old first reader in U6e buys the new first reader.

Eight cents and the old second reader in use buys the new first reader. Sixteen cents and the old third reader ia use buys the new third reader.

Nineteen cents and the old fourth reader in use buys the new fourth reader.

Twenty-five cents and the old fifth reader in use buys the new fifth reader. Twenty-eight cents and the old elementary arithmetic in use buys the new elementary arithmetic.

Thirty-four cents and the old complete arithmetic in use buys a new complete arithmetic.

Nineteen cents and the old elementary geography in use buys the new elementary geography.

Fifty cents and the old complete geography in use buys the new complete geography.

The agents of C. M. Barnes will communicate personally or by letter with the various county superintendents and other school officials within a few days to perfect arrangements for collecting, boxing, shipping and paying for the sec-ond-hand books. Inasmuch as these exchange prices are liberal we hope the children of the 'state will avail themselves of this opportunity for receiving the full benefit thereof.

INDIANA SCHOOL BOOK COMPANY. Among the readers included in the exchange list are Appleton's American, Barnes', Butler's, Edwards', Gilmore's, Harper's, Harvey's, Lippincott's, McGuffy'e, Monroe's, Modern, New'Franklin, Raub's, Sadler's Lander's, Swinton's, Watson's and others. Among the arithmetics are Appleton's, Barnes', Harper s, Ray's, Robinson's, Sheldon's, Stoddard s, Thompson's, Wentworth's, White's and others. Geographies: Appleton's, Butler's, Barnes', Eclectic, Harper's, Monteith's, Swinton's, Warren's, New Primary and others.

RAILROAD NEWS NOTES.

General aud Personal Mention of General and Local Interest. Wm. Brandon, of the round house, is on the sick list.

Roadmasters Henry and Reagan, of the Big Four, were in the city yesterday. Ollie Miller returned to work in the erecting shop yesterday after a brief illness.

John Connelly, of the tin shop, was called to Montezuma yesterday by a telegram announcing the death of his sister-in-law.

A company of Indianapolis and Logansport capitalists are "talking up" a railroad which will directly connect the two cities.

Mattoon Commercial: Engines No. 21 and 28, of the P., D. & E., have been loaned to the E. & T. H. for a time to pull freight.

Ike Hughes, late of the machine shop, left yesterday morning for Washington, where he has secured a position in the O. & M. shops.

A one and one-third fare for the round trip has been made by the Big Four on the occasion of the old settler's reunion at Greencastle, August 29th.

Sunday afternoon Jack Pickens, foreman of the east Vandalia yard switch gang, had two fingers of the right hand badly mashed while coupling cars.

A car load of fine chickens and turkeys arrived in the city yesterday for the fair over the Big Four. They were shipped by a Mr. Miller, of Edgar county.

South Bend Times: "A car load of teams arrived at New Carlisle from Logansport to work at grading the new Vandalia extension from this city to St. Joseph, Mich."

John Cantlon, foreman of the T. H.'A P. machine Bhops at Paris, is making an effort to organize machinists, boilermakers and blacksmiths into an international brotherhood on the plan_ of the Brotherhood of Licomotive Engineers.

The Railway Conductors' association of the state of Indiana will hold a two days' session at Logansport, beginning Wednesday morning. Matters of importance to the order suggested by its national committee will be considered.

The E. & I. road is being worked to the limit of capacity in the shipment of coal from the Lancaster, Harrison and Clay City mines. An average of fifty flats per day are billed from Clay City. The south branch crew, after making their run for the day between Clay City and Brazil, are often ordered to make a run to Terre Haute by night, to clean up the switches.

A New Vestibule Train,

The announcement comes from the Pennsylvania management that a new vestibuled train, with dining car and all the latest improvements, will shortly be put on between St. Louis and New York over the Vandalia, Panhandle and Pennsylvania route. The most important feature of the new service will be the dining car. Another desirable feature will be the bath-room. Business men, to whom time at the point of destination is an object, have very much appreciated the comfort of a bath and a shave on the "Limited." It amounts to a saving of one hour after reaching New York. ThiB accommodation will probably be furnished on a composite car on the St. Louis express. As to speed, the day train out of St. Louis known as the Pennsylvania special already manes good time, but it is to be accelerated, and a better connection will be made at Pittaburg for the night train.

Then Die Bravely.

The best substitute for an impossible

elixir of youth ia to grow old gracefully, cheerfully and sturdily. To keep young, feel young.

UA

man is no older than he

feale, a woman no older than she looks." -[New York World.

HARRISON'S MASTERPIECE.

Beautiful Oration In Which He First AdTocntcU a Soldiers Monument, At the unveiling ceremonies of the statue of Governor Morton, January 15, 1884, Senator Benjamin Harrison delivered the speech given below. Like Lincoln's classic at Gettysburg, this speech of General Harrison's is short, though sufficient:

Fellow-citizens, there are two reasons why I should not epiak to you to day. One belongs to you, the other to me. It is not fitting that I should hold you from the exercises that remain—that I should hold you here till the shades of evening shall obscure the outline of the loved governor's face which you are yet to look upon. Nor is it fitting that I should put any contemporary remarks of mine in contrast with the finished eulogy to which we have just listened from the lips of the silver-tongued orator of Indiana [Richard W. Thompson

J. It cannot be

inapppropriate, however, that I should suggest to you this thought that has be in in my mind here to-day.

It is that we should build in Indianapolis another monument, to be a companion piece of that which is to be unveiled to day that we should here set up a stone which will keep fit company with that bronze statue. An impersonal statue, one upon whose base no name shall be written upon whose summit shall stand the typical soldier of the union. In one of the southern states they have built in a beautiful cemetery a monument to commemorate the confederate dead. A soldier stands upon a shaft with his gun reversed and his head wowed over his musket. Not thus will be typify the soldier of Indiana. He shall stand with his head erect, with arms at a shoulder, fitly typifying the victory he won. As I have said, we will write no name upon the stone, but the sons and daughters of every soldier who went to battle for the country, as they stand at the base of that monument, may spi-ak of their own dead and be able to say: "That is his monument."

GENERAL POLITICAL NOTFS. The Massachusetts state prohibitory convention will be held September 4.

The Indianapolis Republicans will nominate candidates for the city council this evening.

As there will be an important political contest in the Third Louisiana, congressional district a week from to-day, day, in the four new states six weeks hence, and in Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, New York, Massachussetts and New Jersey a month later, 1889 can hardly be called an off year after all.

Indianapolis News: Quite a number of Indianapolis Republicans had a long talk with Private Secretary Halford about Indiana politics, presumably, and when the president getB back.to work he will doubtless be made acquainted with the "exact feeling" in Indiana, so far as Private Secretary Halford's informants were able to judge it.

When Mr. M. E. Ingalls, the railroad magnate, was asked if he would be a Democratic candidate for senator from Ohio, replied: "WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., August 23.—Your telegram was received. If I had anything to say on the subject alluded to it would give me pleasure to give it to you, but life is too short and I am to busy to chase phantoms. M. E. INGALLS."

The Indianapolis News has this fresh gossip about Indiana politics: Colonel Tom Byrne, of Evansville, was in the city last night. He announces that he will again be a candidate for treasurer of state. Said a Democratic politician last evening: "The old state ticket will be in the field again, and BO far as I know there will be but few changes ia its composition." Andrew M. Sweeny, who was mentioned as a possible candidate for clerk of the supreme court, has changed hiB mind and will stand for congress from the Second district. The congressional fight in the Second district has grown interesting. Congressman O'Neal has been forced out of the race, and every county in the district has a candidate for his place. Among the Democrats prominently mentioned are: Sam Taylor, of Daviess county, present state examiner Mason Niblack, Knox county, speaker of the last house of representatives James M. Andrews, of Paoli Cutter S. Dobbins, of Morgan county, and ex-Senator John _Benz. Jepthe D. New has announced himself as a candidate for secretary of state on the Democratic ticket.

The Iowa Grass Palace.

The Blue Grass palace at the Creston, Iowa, exposition attracts much attention. The outer walls of the structure are made of baled hay and straw, so arranged as to give the appearance of solid masonry, with cuttings of lighter stone. They are dados and panels formed of the varied grasses and grains of this region. The structure is graceful in its outline, and is surmounted by a grand central dome, whose outlook is ninety feet above the ground. The interior of the building is handsomely decorated with grasses and grains arranged artistically. OQ the ground floor are thirteen departments, devoted to exhibits from BB many countries. There area number of booths in the gallery.

A Verdict In Rhyme.

The Texas jury which found James McCoy, the desperado, guilty, on which finding he was hanged last Friday, returned the verdict in rhyme, aB follows:

We, the Jury In the McCoy case Have found his actions very base: We think that 'Is only Just, When to us Is given trust JNO reason why we should abuse Our bodies further with misuse,

To waste our time In vain endeavor The Judge would say'twas very clever. But no, their guns went bang, bang Then, whyln h—1 should he not hang? 'Twill be a lesson In after time To warn men from such crime. So should our lives be pure and true. Then will we no have In court to sue. For life or property or divorce. For law will surely have Its force As It did in this case.

He Deserved It.

"I wouldn't ask it, CaBbley, but my life depends upon it. Lend me a dollar, won't you?" "Your life, Everbroke? Can see how." "Why, you see my health is railing and my physicien says I must have a little ehange."

He got it.—[Burlington Gazette.

Where the Expense Came In. V"Speaking about expensive cigar cases," remarked McCorkle, "I knew of one which cost $250."

"It must have been fine," commented McCrackle. "Yee fine and costs. The man had been smuggling the cigars, you see."— [Time.

THIS SOCBRBTTS.

The leading lady is frigid and prim And haughty and circumspect, too She feels her proud place and Is stately and grim

When commoners come to woo. But one little stage chit Is not a bit glumShe's the Jolllest girl to be metAnd the beaux that she gathers are really --some,

For every one likes the soubrette. There's the flrst "walking lady," and likewise the "ute,''

And the "Juvenile," "Ingenue And all are clever and gracious to boot— v. The "eccentric" and "character," too. But none of them equals the girl all smiles

Quite ready to flirt or to bet At every stage! How alluring her wiles!— Oh, every one likes the soubrette. You see she Is Jolly, and careless, and free.

Abandoned, and chummy, and pert. She know* how to entertain folks and sUU see How calamities dire avert She's the life ot each company, reckless and wild,

And does Just such things as will set Each group In a roar, for she's nature's own child—

And every cne likes the soubrette. And that's why her praises I cheerfully sing: A lauGh double discounts a frown— The one who soars away on unfaltering wing,

While the other depresses the town. The laugh Is refreshing, and restful, and sweet. And It comes when your eyes may be wet With the tears of destractlon—'tis then most complete-

Oil. every one likes the soubrette. [—Chicago Mall. Cold baths are now said to be efficacious in the cure of typhoid fever.

Mrs. Kesterson,of Fulton, Ky„ has five sons and the birthday of each is July 24. A Chattanooga man tried the other day to pawn his falee teeth to get money to buy drink.

A West Virginia girl has promised her lover to marry him when "the count for governor is over."

Ansonia, Conn., has a 2 years old boy who cries for cigars, and smokes them when they are given to him.

A fish hawk has built its nest on a chimney on Jonathan Hoffman's house, in Fishing Creek, Cape May county, N.J.

The Indiana Progress says: William Keener, of Raed's Station, killed thirtysix snakes on his way to church on, last Sabbath.

Typhoid fever continues to spread in London, and people are getting very nervous. St. George's district is the one most affected at present.

Louis Fenton, who is camping at Belle View, near Jamestown, N. Y.. caught a twenty-two-pou nd muskallonge the other day. It was 44 inches long and 4}4 inches across the back.

Solomon jok, an Ohio gentleman, aged 8G years, who is visiting friends in Mifflin county, distinguished himself by picking 200 quarts of raspberries in two days during the season.

The dramatis persona in the now celebrated Terry-Broderick duel numbers thirteen. The duel was fought early on the morning of September 13,1859, within ten milea of the center of San Francisco.

An oyBter bed of unusual size and richnes was discovered recently by a Danish fisherman near the coaat of Jutland. It ia some eleven miles from land and fifteen miles long by seven miles wide,

A black polished granite memorial tablet has just been placed over the door of the house in Bayreuth. where Franz Liszt, the great German composer, died. The inscription on it in gold letters is: "Franz Liszt, died 188G."

The porgy factory at East Boothbay, Me., is at present producing porgy oil by the cargo. It sells at twenty-five cents per gallon, and is used largely for making "pure linseed" and for export for soap-making. Of late Scotch soapmakers have been taking a great deal of the oil.

The dispute as to whether the Cal-houn-Williamson duel took place in Georgia or Alabama has been settled in favor of Alabama. The ground where it was fought belongs to an Atlanta policeman. Crowds of visitors are rapidly stripping it of its wood for mementoes.

A good many of the shade trees in Port Jervis, N. Y., seem to be in a drooping condition. The Port Jervis Union says that most of the effected trees are in the immediate vicinity of the electric lights, and suggests that the darkness of night is as needful to trees for rest as it is to human beings.

R. M. Thompson, of Rayue township, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, has, perhaps, the oldest watch in the county. It is of the bulls-eye pattern, keeps correct time, and was made by James Luckhart, of Glasgow. The timepiece was purchased by Mr. Thompson's grandfather while crossing the ocean in Juno, 1789, and consequently has been in the Thompson family over one hundred years. The present owner is proud of it and would not exchange it for the finest gold watch made.

Editor A. J. Miller, of the Evansville, Ind., Tribune, is going to Central America for a vacatiou m|j. He has already made one trip there for pleasure, but this time he proposes to make a careful examination into each sort of business done there that is likely to be of interest to merchants of the United States, with a view of increasing the trade between this country and the people of those repub'ics. Mr. Miller is an experienced observer, and his notes on trade and commerce will be valuable.

The champion absent-minded man lives in Kingston, N.} The other evening he was desirious to see a man op business who resides not -far from his own home. He started out on this errand, and walked around Beveral blocks immersed in profound thought. By the mrest accident in his wanderings ho came to his own residence. He paused in front of his own house and rang the door bell. He had evidently Btill retained the original purpose in starting out, for, when hiB son answered the ring, he calmly inquired of the lad whether his father was at home.

At the dance in Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt's stable at Newport, the other night, an improvised electric plant furnished the illuminations upstairs and down. Over the carriage doors hung bright red peppers, and all over the ceiling were fre6coeB of pumpkins, squashes, eggplants, and other garden vegetables, the groundwork being of oak leavee, and oak leaves were used for the decorations of the sides, leaving places for floral panels in the shap* of horsecollars and yokes for oxen. Flowers were also made up to represent harnesses, hung about as if on pegs.

A girl tramp, wearing male attire, was arrested in Cincinnati, one day this week, on suspicion of being a crook. At the station house she told this story of her life: "I came here from Indianapolis on a freight train rode all the way on the bumpers. I've been a tramp for two years, working when I had to and begging for a living when it was possible. I never had a home, and never lived in a house. My father was a horse trader and peddler, and traveled all over the country in a wagon with my mother and myself. I suppose I was born in a wagon, as I never knew what it was to live in a house." "I cannot praise Hood's Sarsaparilla half enough," says a mother whose son, almost blind with scrofula, was cured by-thiB medicine.

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TIME TABLE.

Trains marked thus (P) denote Parlor Car at tached. Trains marked thus (3) denote Sleeping Cars attached dally. Trains marked thus (B) denote Bullet Cars attached. Trains marked thus run dallj. All other trains run dally Sundays excepted.

VANDALIA LINE.

T. H. 4 I. DIVISION. I.KAVK rOH THK W*ST.

a Western Express (84V) 6 Mall Train 1 Fast Line (P4V) 7 Fast Mall

Fast Line

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l.€J«. m. II). 18 a. in. 2.16 p. m.

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12 Cincinnati Express (S) 6 New York Express (3iV) 4 Mall and Accommodation 'JU Atlantic Express (P4V)

l.itt) ft. m. 1.61 a. m. 7.16 a. in. 12.42 p. in. 2.00 p.

Fast Line AHKIVK FHOM TH* KAST. 9 Western Express (S4V) 6 Mall Train 1 Fast Line (P4V) 3 Mall and Aocommodatlon 7 Fast Mall

1.80 a. m. 10.12 a. m. 2.0U p. in. fi.46 p. m.

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AKRIVK FKOM THK WKST.

12 Cincinnati Express (S) 6 New York Express (SAV) !ffl Atlantic Express (P4V)

1.20a. in. 1.42 a. in. 1ZS7 p. Mi. 1.40 p. m.

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