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&$" '$• THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

The California Legislature adjourned so that its members could attend a prize fight.

There are 17,107 newspapers and periodicals in the United States, an increase •f T97,

Johnny Humphreys, aged ten, died at Philadelphia from a fright given him by youthful White Caps.

Four men were instantly killed and several injured by a boiler exploding at Pittsburg, Pa., Thursday. "Old Hutch'' is manipulating the Chicago wheat market again, and fluctuating priees is the result.

The twenty-one-year-old daughter of a millionaire of Newport, R. I., eloped with the family coachman.

At Seneca, Kas., W. J. Joyce was convicted of selling Jamacia ginger, thereby vio" ^•"g the prohibitory law.

Vnderson, the actress, has been id to cancel all engagements on of nervous prostration. rohibition amendments to the mpshire constitution were de)v an overwhelming majority. J. B. Weaver, ex-Congressman, n. E. H. Gillette, will go into the vspaper business at DesMoines. negroes were judicially hanged jkadelphia, Ark., Friday for ir. One of them was a preacher. Gould declares the financial situaweak and the railroad situation se than at any time for thirty years. \e colored people of Springfield, 177. decided to erect a monument in Jfc city, to the memory of Abraham 'icoln. The Minnesota Legislature has passed solutions urging a vigorous foreign jlicy on the part of the General Govmment.

A conflict of troops and boomers occurred in Oklahoma, Tuesday. Several were hit, but no one killed. The troops Jwere victorious.

Ex-Alderman Kerr, of New York, 5 was acquitted of the charge of bribery in connection with the Broadway street railway franchise.

The Nebraska House, by a "vote of 77 to 18, passed a bill providing for the "Australian system" of voting in the lareer cities of the State.

The discovery of lead and silver on the farm of Judge G. W. Craddock, near Frankfort, Kv., is causing great excitement in thai neighborhood.

The stove firm of Perry A Co., of Albany, N. Y., are in financial straits. The firm was established in 1864 and at one time employed ,800 men.

Lynn, Mass., paying

National Bank of Lynn, is |ft)0 in his accounts. He He is under arrest. Sigel, clerk in the New York jto Office, has pleaded guilty to ^ery in Bigning pensioners' names to ecks and pocketing the money. The Dominican Consul at New York, -has been dismissed for aiding the Havtian rebels in violation of the neutrality laws of the United States.

The brig Anges Barton was wrecked about four miles below Virginia Beach, Thursday night, and six of her crew of •v. ten men, including the Captain were ^^Liirowned.

New York parties are before the Michigan Legislature with a scheme to cut a ship canal across the upper peninsula, connecting Lake3 Michigan and Superior.

A religious enthusiast at Bridge water, Adair county, Iowa, has been preaching and fasting forty days and nights, and closed his term of fasting Tuesday night with a big supper.

C. C. Scott, one of the proprietors of the Oilman House at Portland, Ore., committed suicide by jumping from the third story of his hotel in a fit of temporary insanity.

A preacher and thirty-six of nis congregation are under arrest at Braxton, J: W. Va„ for tearing down eight houses, and driving away the inmates in the iaterest of morality.

Arthur Dale committed suicide at Chattanooga, Tenn., by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. He has been gradually becoming insane and preferred death to insanity.

An Illinois court has decided that physicians may advertise. This notwithstanding the State Board of Health Now for a decision notifying them that they ought to advertise

Engineer Cook, charged with criminal negligence, which resulted in the killing of sixty persons at Mud Run, Pa., last October, by a collision, has been acquitted of ''.he charge by a jury.

James Irw i, Superintendent of the Carnegie gas li ne, was arrested at Greensburg, Pa., charged witn murder. He turned on the gas without notifying the workmen, and a pipe burst, killing one oi them.

The steamer Walla Walla, of San Fran*flisoo, plying to Paget Sound, was seized I. Sunday by custom officers for smuggling opium amounting to $10,000. The opium was shipped in barrels supposed to contain sauer kraut.

Judge Lyman D. Follett, of the Probate Court, Kent county, Mich., who ran away with $50,000 of the people's A. money last sumiper, was arrested at

Helena, Mont., but got away and is now on his way to New South Wales. Wm. Buffalo, colored, aged six years. of Norfolk, Va., has been arrested for the murder of another colored boy, aged 10. He struct him over the head with a paling of a fence, a nail penetrating the brain.

Near Georgetown, Ky., James Reid lost two head of cattle from a Btrange disease. They were taken with a swellffJ&i ing in the legs v.nd died in a very abort time. When cut open the flesh was fC- found to have turned black.

The Supreme Court of Illinois denied, I|',{J Friday, the motion to correct the judgFi mentin the cane Fielden and others against the people, and at last the "x«u|bj archistcase" has been disposed of, so far as the Supreme Courtis concerned.

A large Newfoundland dog went mad Tuesday morning in the streets of New York and before he was killed bit and multilated three parsons. There was $ wild excitement

for

a time. The wounds

\of those bilten were promptly cauter'^d.

Caesarian operation was successerformed at the University of

Vv4' mia Thursday, on Mary F. ^v-iwo years of age. The op-

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eration was made necessary on account o£ an abscess, and not from an malformation. "Bobby" Adams, a notorious burglar, and one of the Minneapolis Postoffice robbers, serving a six years' term at Joliet, was released Sunday on a pardon issued by Grover Cleveland. He turned States' evidence, and his accomplices are now under arrest.

Samuel Lutz. residing near Circleville, O.. Thursday celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, and received the congratulations of over twelve hundred friends and relatives. President Harrison and Governor Foraker sent congratulatory telegrams.

General Sherman's son, Thomas Ewing Sherman, who has becom® a member of the Society of Jesus, is to be ordained a priest in Philadelphia. Arrangements have been made under which it is expected the ceremony of ordination will take place in July in the cathedral.

John Krzywosynski, of New York, sues for divorce because his wife eloped with John Jwinjinjynski. She assigns as a reason for eloping, that her new lover had an easier name to pronounce, as it was made up in sections, and could be taken apart and put together again without getting the pieces crooked.

Monday, ex-President Grover Cleveland was fifty-two years old. He celebrated the event by rising early and starting on his Havana trip in eompany with ex-Secretary Vilas and ex-Fost-master General Dickinson. The party took the train for Washington. Mrs. Cleveland remain* at the Victoria Hotel.

The North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, the Union Steel Company and the Joliet Steel Company have been consolidated with a joint capital of $20,000, 000. The consolidated company has a capacity to manufacture about one-third of the total output of steel rails in this country, and will be able ^practically to control the market.

Harry Holmes, who has been held to answer* a criminal assault, was found dead in his cell at Sacramento, Cal., Sunday. He had starved himself to death, having refused food for two weeks. On Thursday and Friday, physicians pumped nourishment into Holmes' stomach, but it failed to give any strength, and he wasted away to a skeleton.

The litttle town cf Big Sand}', Montana, is full of excitement over the development of gold mines in the Sweet Grass Hills, fifty-five miles northwest of there. People have just arrived from the hills reporting that miners in Eclipse gulch are making from $50 to $80 a day. The most of the gold is taken out in placer diggings. But blue ore has been struck by several parties in the hills and the country is full of prospectors from Helena and other mining districts.

FOREIGN.

Brazil and Bolivia are about to engage in war. Disastrous floods are prevalent throughout Galicia. Several towns and many villages are submerged.

An exnlosion of fire damp took place in a colliery near Nimes, in the department of Gard, France, Friday, by which fifteen persons were killled and six wounded.

The London Times attacks Messrs, Crewler and Clark, radical members of Parliament, for joining with the radical clubs in the welcome to Henry George, on Saturday.

The financial crisis in France is becoming alarming. Forty million francs are needed to save the Comptoir d'Escompte, and Paris bankers and capitalists are making efforts to raise it.

A soldier named Vertjoie has been sentenced to death in Oran, Algeria, for throwing a quid of tobacco into the face of Colonel Thierry, while Vertjoie was being tried by court-martial for attempt ing to desert.

A party of wealthy residents of Berlin, numbering twenty, will start from the German Capital on March 20 for a tour of the world. They will go directly from Berlin to New York, thence overland to California.

A terrible explosion occurred in the Brynnaliy colliery at Wexham Thursday, resulting in a great loss of life Eleven dead bodies have been taken from the pit and three miners have been rescued. Later advices say twenty persons were killed.

The Inland Revenue Department of Canada has issued a bulletin relative to the adulteration of lard, the American product coming in for general condemnation. Nearly every sample examined was found to be adulterated. It is recommended that the duty be increased in order to practically exclude the article from Canada.

China mail advices, concerning the loss of the Spanish steamer Remus along the Phillipine Islands, says that forty-two lives were lost out of 109 people on board. The Remus was engaged in the coasting trade, but at the time was taking out orders to their various stations on the Phillipine Islands and struck a reef near Point Biliarm, about two days' voyage from Manilla, sinking in thirty-five fathoms of water. The surviving officers and passengers were picked up by the gunboat Argus.

ALL QUIET AT SAMOA:

TheGnruaita Withdraw Their Obnoxious Proclamations—^There "Was no Confltot,

The following news has been received via Auckland from Samoa: A steamer has arrived here from the Samoan Islands with advices from Apia to the 5th of March. Everything was tranqnil when the steamer left. There had been no change of positions of Mataafa and Tamaseefie. The former bad 6,000 men in his intrenched camp and the latter only 700. The German authorities had withdrawn their proclamation of martial law and abandoned the right of searching vessels for contrabands of war. The foreign men-of-war remained in the harbor of Apia. There had been no conflict, or disturbance on sea or land sine* the last advices All were awaiting instructions from Berlin and Washington.

Tho revival in the Baptist Tabernacle at NtiW Albany, rustled ia 125 conversi m*. and seventy accessions to the church, while the church itself was brought up to the highest condition' of spirituality in its hit, tor v.

Dr. H. 8. Wolfe, of Jeffersonville, physician of the Prison South, has tenderea his re«gH»tio«

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THE MOONLIGHT RIDE.

IN THE MOONLIGHT AROUND THB WALLS OP JERUSALEM.

Explore the Heart's Rums and Begin the Work of Reconstruction and Cease Not Until tlio Temple

Has Been Made Whole Again.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at tho Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: "The Moonlight Ride." Text: Nehemiah ii., 15. He said:

My subject first impresses me with the idea what an intense thing is church affection. Nehemiah was a servant, a cup-bearer in the palace of Artaxerxes Longimanus, and one day, while he was handing the cup of wine to the King, the King said to him: "What is the matter with you? You are not sick. I know you must have some great trouble. What is the matter with you?" Then iie told the King how that beloved Jerusalem was broken down how that his father's tomb had been desecrated how that the Temple had been dishonored and defaced, how that the walls were scattered and broken. "Well," says King Artaxerxes, "what do you want?" "Well," said the cup-bearer Nehemiah, 'lI want to go home. I want to fix up the grave of my father. I want to restore the oeauty of the temple. I want to rebuild the masonry of the city wall. Besides, I want passports so that I shall not be hindered in my journey. And besides that," as you will find in the context, "I want an order on the man who keeps your forest ior just so much timber as I may need for the rebuilding of the city." How long shall you be gone?" said the King. The time of absence is arranged. In hot haste this seeming adventurer comes to Jerusalem, and in my text we find him nn horseback in the midnignt riding around the ruins. It is through the spectacle of this scene that we discover the ardent attachment of Nehemiah for the sacred Jerusalem, which in aii ages has been the type of the Church ol' God, our Jerusalem, which we iove just as much as Neheuiiah loved his Jerusalem. The fact is that you love the Church of God so much that there is no spot on earth so sacred, unless it is your own fireside. The Chuivh has been to you so much comfort and illumination that there is nothing that makes you so irate as to have it talked against. If there have been times when you have been carried into captivity by sickness you longed for the Church, our holy Jerusalem, just as much as Nehemiah longed for his Jerusalem, and the first day yon came out yon came to the house •A the Lord. When the Temple was in ruins, as our3 was years ago, like Nehemiah, you walked around and looked at.it, and in the moonlight you stood listening if you could not hear the voice of the dead organ, the psalm of the expired Sabbaths. What Jerusalem was to Nehemiah the Church of God is to you. Skeptics and iniidels may scoff at the Church as an obsolete affair, as a relic of the dark ages, as a convention of goody-goody people, but all the impression they have ever made on your mind against the Church of God is absolutely nothing. You would make more sacriiices for it to-day than for any other institution, and if it were needful you would die in its defense. You can take the words of the kingly poet as he said: "If I forget thee, O Jetu- alem, let my right hand forget her cunning.'' You understand in your own experience the pathos, the homesickness. the courage, the holy en-thut-iafin of Nehemiah in his midnight, moonlight, ride around the ruins of his beloved Jerusalem.

Again, my text impresses me with the (act ihat before reconstruction there must be an explsration ot ruins. Why ivas not Nehemiah asleep under the jovers? Why was not his horse stabled the midnight? Let the police of the :ifv arrest this midnight rider out on *on:e mis-chief.

No, N-!oemiah is going to rebuild the city, ami he is making the preliminary exploration. In this gate, out that gate —east, west, north, south. All through the ruins. The ruins must be explored before the work of reconstruction can begin. The reason that so ny people in this day, apparently converted, do not stay converted is because thev did not first explore the ruins of their own heart. The reason that there are so many professed Christians who in this day lie and forge and steal, and commit adultery, and eo to the Penitentiary, is because they first do not le--im the ruin of their own heart. They have not found out that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." They had an idea that they were almost right, and they built religion, as a sort of extension, as an ornamental cupola. There was a superstructure of religion built on a substratum of unrepented sins.

The trouble with a good deal of modern theology is that instead of building on the right foundation it builds on the debris of an unregenerated nature. They attempt to rebuild Jerusalem beforej in the midnight of conviction, they have seen the ghastliness of the ruin. They have such a poor foundation for their religion that the first northeast storm of temptation blows them down. I have no faith in a man's conversion if he is not converted in the old-fashioned way.

A man comes to me to talk about religion. The first question ask him is, "Do you feel yourself to he a sinner?" If he says, "Well, I—yes," the hesitancy makes me feel that that man wants a ride on Ne'nemiah's horse by midnight through the ruins—in by the gate of his affections, out by the gate of his will— and before he has got through with that midnight ride he will drop the reins on the horse's neck, and will take his right hand and smite on his heart and say, "God be merciful to me a sinner and before he has stabled his horse he wili take his feet out of the stirrups, and he will s'ide down on the around, and he will kneel, crying, "Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy loving kindness, according unto the multitude oi thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions, for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sins are ever before thee." Ah, my friends, you see this is not a complimentary gospel.

This is what makes the people so mad. It comes to a man of a million dollars and impenitent in his sins and says, "You're a pauper." It comes to a worn of fairest cheek, has never repented, and says, "You're a sinner." comes to a man priding himself on his independence and says, "You'/e bound hand and feot by the devil." It eomes to our entire race and says^j

"You'ie a ruin, a ghastly ruin, an illimitable ruin." The redemption of the gosp* I is a perfect farce if there is no luin. "The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." "If any one, though he be an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel than this," says the apostle "let him be accursed." There im.st be the midnight ride over the ruins before Jerusalem can be,built. There must be the clicking of the hoofs before there can be the ringing of the trowels.

Again. My subject gives me a specimen of busy and triumphant sadntss. If there was any man in the world who had aright to mope and give up every thing as lost it was Nehemiah. Yot Nehemiah did not give up. Then when you see him going among those disolated streets, and by those dismantled towers and by the torn up grave of his father, you would suppose that he would have been disheartened, and that he would have dismounted from his horse and gone to his room and said: "Woe is me! My father's grave is torn up. The Temple is dishonored. The walls are broken down. I have no money with which to rebuild. I wish I had never been born. I wish I were dead." Not so says Ne hemiah. Although he had a grief so intense that it excited the commentary of his King, yet that penniless, expatriated Nehemiah rouses himself up to rebuild the city. He gets his permission of absence. He gets his passports. He hastens away to Jerusalem. By night on horseback he rides through the rums. He overcomes the most ferocious opposition. He arouses the piety and patriotism of the people, and in le^s t' ni two months, namely, in n-r,y-two ys, Jerusalem wras rebuilt. That's what I cal! busy and triumrihant sadn ss.

My friends, the whole teiuj tation withyou, when you have troutde, to just the opposte to the behavior oi Nehemiah, and that is to give up. Yor. say. "I have lost my child and can vnrer smile again." You sav. "i have lest property, and I can never repair my fortunes." You say, 1 have fallen iuusin, and I can never start again for .• new life." If Satan can make you for that resolution, and make you keep it he has ruined you. Trouble is not sen to crush you, but to arouse you, to animate you, to propel you. The blacksmith does not thrust the iron into the forge and then blow away with the be1 lows, a-nd thon bring the hot iron ou on the anvil tfeud beat with stroke iifte stroke to ruin the iron, but to prepare it for abetter use. Oh! that the Lord God of Nehemiah would rouse up all broken-hearted people to rebuild. Whipped, betrayed, shipwrecked, imprisoned Paul! went right on. The Italian martyr, Algous, sits in his dungeon writing a .{ the d^® prisoL®* sadnesjW her baf^f pearet' "Give school me, anc 1 little chj| dren. street." 3 is trium^' this al^ Phi) stat^if£ed-? twenty del street. It

jr, and he dates it "From orchard of the Leonine Mjis what I call triumphant ]|'w a mother who buried jiiday, and on Sabbath apfbouse of God and said pjass give me a Sabbath ha\eno child now left Ud like to have a class of

Give me real poor chil-""-a class off the back ay, is beautiful. That .iness. At three o'clock a beautiful parlor in parlor pictured and Pre will be from ten to •nte children from the

That was the first home in Philadelphia where 1 was called to comfort a great sorrow. They had a splendid boy and he had been drowned at Long Branch. The father and mother almost idolized the boy, and the sob ard shriek oi that father and mother as they hung over the coffin resound in my ears to day. There seemed to be no use of praying, for when I knelt down to pray the outcry in the room drowned out all the prayer. But the Lord comforted that sorrow. They did not forget th-ur trouble. If you should go on the snowiest winter afternoon into Laurel Hill, you would find a monument with the word "Walter inscribed upon it, and a wreath of fresh flowers around the name. I think there has not been an hour all these yearn, winter or summer, when there was not a wreath of fresh flowers around Walteif's name. But the Christian mother who sends those flowers there, having no child left, Sabbath af ternoons mothers ten or twenty^ of the lost ones of the street. That is beautiful. That is what I call busy and triumphant sadness. Oh, I wish I could persuade all the people who have any kind of trouble never to give up. I wish they would look at the midnight rider of the ?ext, and that the four hoofs of that beast on which Nehemiah rode might cut to pieces all your discouragements and hardships and trials. Give up! Who is going to give up when on the bosom of God he can have all his troubles hushed? Give up! Never think of giving up. Do not give up. One like unto the Son of God comes to you today, saying: "Go, and sin no more,' while he cms out to your assailants: "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at her." Oh! there is no reason why any one in this house, by reason of any trouble or sin, should give up. Are you a foreigner, and in a Btrange land? Nehemiah was poor. Are you homesick? Nehemiah was homesick." Are you broken-hearted? Nehemiah was broken-hearted. But just see him in the text, riding along the sacrileged grave of his father, and by the dragon well, and through the fish gate, and by the King's pool, in and out. in and out, the moonlight falling on the broken masonry, which throws along shadow at which the horse shies,

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afternoon at three o'clock for many years. These destitute children receive religious instruction, concluding with cakes and sandwiches. How do I know that that has been going on for many years? I knew it in this way:

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the eame time that moonlight kindling up the features of this man till you see not only the mark of sad reminiscence, but the courage, the hope, the enthusiasm of a man who kin ws th«?t Jerusalem will be rebuihied. I pick you up

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refuge, and underneath are tho everlasting arms."

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INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Koleen is "forninst" saloons. Normal schools are looming up. Laporte has eleven cigar factories. Marion is talking of a Board of Trade. Natural gas socials area late wrinkle. Waterloo is troubled with Sunday liquor selling.

Jackson county farmers are sowing oats and plowing for corn. Mrs. Jacob Shimp, of South Bend, aged seventy-three, is dead.

Mrs. Falkner, of Ft. Wayne, ill with consumption, claims to have been cured by faith.

Fort Wayne is enjoying a great boom, and its citizens are humming the hymn of progress.

Strong indications of oil have been discovered at a depth of 1,700 feet near Ft. Wayne.

Five Valparaiso liquor dealers have each been fined $130 this week for violating the law.

The venerable father of Judge Allen Zollars, of hort Wayne, died Wednesday at Macon, 111.

New Albany starts off with a lively building boom, and the prospects for a lively season are excellent.

The glass factory of Stewart, Estep & Co., at Marion, was destroyed by fire Thursday. Loss $55,0C0 with $37,COO insurance.

Capitalists are organizing at Evansville to establish the largest brick and terra cotta yards in the West, and it is proposed to invest $200,COO in the plant alone.

Edwrard Huenfield, of Holland, was instantly killed, on Saturday, while trying to stop a runaway team attached to a threshing machine. He was agsd eighteen.

Crawford county Democrats don't like Senator Johnson, of Wayne. The Democrat says the next Senator elected from that county will have to take an oath to whip Johnson.

The annual encampment of the Union Grand Army Association of Madison, Delaware, Grant, Blackford. Randolph and Jay counties, will be held at Marion, beginning July 30.

John Price, of Corvdon, recovered $50 damages from the Adams Express Company for the loss of a dog, which he swore was chiefly valuable in frightening away "White Caps."

John McGuyer, of Washington, on Friday last, four successive times tried to throw himself under an approaching engine, but was prevented by friends. He hails from Pittsburg and is without a home.

Cary Adams, the young printer, of Rushville, shot by Thomas Scanlan, night watchman, under the impression that he was a burglar, died Saurday, and the charge of murder hangs over Scanlan.

The Muncie Natural Gas and Improvement Company has closed a deal with New York capitalists, by which $350,C00 was deposited in the Delaware county National Bank for a block of stock.

Mrs. Louisa Nachand, living near Jeffersonville, is strangely affected, her extremities being badly swollen, while she suffered untold agony. The trouble is attributed to wearing underclothing dyed in aniline or other colors, the poicon of which was absorbed by the skin.

Miss Mabel Vail, one of the pupils in the schools of Laporte, while standing on the rostrum reciting, was seized with a fainting spell and fell to the door. She was holding a sharpened pencil in her hand, and as she fell the point entered her neck, inflicting an ugly wound in the iarnvx.

The Indiana Improvement Company of Fort Wayne, has been incorporated, capital 100,000, the purpose being to buy and sell real estate, build new towns, erect mills and grain elevators and excavate gravel beds and quarries, mainly along the line of the new Mahoning Railway.

The expert appointed to investigate the accounts of ex-Treasurer Graves, of Harrison county, reports a deficit of $14,969.34. This is contested in a most emphatic manner by Mr. Graves, who will appeal to the courts to sustain his claim of having been an honest and economical officer.

It is estimated that the total earnings of the laborers and mechanics of Jeffersonville is about $10,000 per week, of which $5,000 goes into the lo associations, $2,000 into the lodges and $1,000 is expended in Louisville, leaving but $2,000 for circulation in Jeffersonville. On this account several business men are seeking locations elsewhere.

The late Jesse W. Griffith, of Huntington, kept a drug store over thirty years, and he rarely left the place,except to go to his meals. He died in his store, refusing to be moved, and about his person was $4,000 cash, while other amounts were found concealed in jars and other receptacles. His estate aggregates $50,000. nearly all in cash.

The assistant secretary of the Senate, J. D. Carter, Friday, filed with the Secretary of State the journal of proceedings of the recent Senate. He was allowed $500 extra compensation for this work, which required but three days'time. The Secretary of the Senate was allowed $500 for makicg an index which required but two days' time.

The Supreme Court, Friday, declared the act of the late Legislature cutting off the fees of the Supreme Court Reporter to be unconstitutional. The decision is based on the portions of the act requiring the Judges of the Supreme Court to perform functions other than judicial, and has no significance as applied to the other cases before the court. Mr, Griffiths will continue, under these circumstances, to draw a very substantial salary.

Farming in Indiana is to be (developed into a high-toned science under the operation of an act by the late Legislature, which provides that farmers' institutes must be held in each county annually, sometime between the let of November end the 1st of April. Instruction is to be given in agriculture, horticulture and agricultural chemistry by lecturers to be appointed by the Committee on Experimental Agriculture and Horticulture of Purdue University. An appropriation of $5,000 annually is made for expenses.

It is believed'by many that an investigation by experts, such as Governor Hovey m'ged, would disclose that the Insane Hospital deficiency is fully $50,-

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0C0, and possibly much more, but at present there is no means of ascertaining definitely what is the condition of the financial affairs of the institution, as the accounts are in the possession «f the old Board of Trustees. A prominent citizen, a Democrat of much influence, suggested that the books in the State Auditor's office might show something of the deficiency that is supposed to exist.

The experts appointed to examine the books of John E. Sullivan, defaulting'^*, tlerk of Marion county, have about concluded their labor and estimate Sullivan's theft at about $55,000. This does not include $14,000 borrowed from the county Treasurer. Those who know Sullivan believe he carried away with, him from $75,000 to $80,000. His stealings from the insane asylum, it is said, may amount to $50,000 but this is mere surmise. The old board admitted an indebtedness of $17,000, which were amply provided for in the allowances made. Every new turning of a leaf shows a phase of Sullivan's deep dyed villainy.

Philip M. Gapen, Treasurer of the Insane Asylum Board, was arrested at Indianapolis, Friday morning, charged him with embezzlement. He gave bond for $5,000 with Franklin Landers and. John J. Cooper as securities. The money alleged to have been embezzled is the $3,000 to recover which Gapen recently brought suit against the Meridian Bank. Gapen loaned John E, Sullivan $4,700, part of which was paid, but a check signed bv Sullivan for the balance came back protested, and Gapen in his suit claimed the bank had converted thebalance to its own use. It is reported on competent authority that a partial investigation of State Treasurer Lemcke's manner of loaning funds to John E. Sullivan was also made by the Grand Jury, and that it will further go info the mat ter at its next sitting. Lemcke loaned Sullivan money, but received it all back. Section 5,636, of the Revised Statutes prohibits the State Treasurer from loaning the Stte fundeor receiving interest* thereon.

The good people of Moore's Hill and Milan have been flagrantly imposed upon, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Last week, a blind preacher, giving his name as Harry Wilson, of New Albany,accompanied "bv a youngster called "Johnny," preached for the Methodists at Moore's Ilill, and a collection aggregating several dollars was taken up for his benefit, Mr. Wilson saying that he was raising money with which to complete his education. He also preached at Milan, and accepted the hospitalities of Mr. Grant Toole for himself and companion, who guided, him from place to ptace. That night Mr. Toole was shocked by a quarrel between the two, in which the minister, used profane language, the quarrel originated over the division of money, and the row furthe*- disclosed that "Johnny" was a female w7ho was accompanying Wilson in his travels. The couple were thereupon turned out doors, and they made haste in getting out of that locality.

The G. A. R. Department of Indiana? and W. R. C., assembled at Indianapolis on the 12th and 13th in Annual Encampment. There was a large attendance of both bodies. The report of the Assistant Adjutant General G. A. R., showed that there are now 489 posts in the State, with a combined membership of 26,772. The number increases at an rate that seems surprising at first hought, considering the fact that the number of persons eligible for member-:, ship is constantly decreasing. During 1S88. 2,551 new members were mustered in and taken with additions from other States and, by reinstatement, the muster roll was lengthened by 4,660 names. Three hundred veterans went to their eternal rest during the year. During the year $6,089.40 was expended for relief of members and their families, of which the number was 742, The benefits of the society were aiso extended to 365 veterans not mem-, bers. In the relief fund at present $5,291.69 remain. The amount of post funds and property in the Department is $39.68.762. The receipts of the Department during the year from all sources was $7,342.18. The reports of all the officers were submitted.

Chas. M. Travis, of Crawfordsville, was elected Department Commander, the other candidates being I. B. McDonald, Shelby Sexton, A. Zollinger, JtUF. Williams, A. R. Tucker and Mark L. DeMotte. T. D. Harris, oi IShelby ville,? was elected Senior Vice Commander I F. Campbell, of Anderson. Junior Vice Commander Dr. A. II. Green, of friishawaka, Medical Director: Rev. Charles W. Lee, Indianapolis. Department Chaplain and J. II. Harris, Nobles vi'lle C. J. Murphy, Evaiusville: J. M. Payer, Indianapolis Alexander Hess, Wabash, and F. A. Gihnore.t Council of Administration. Governor jvey was named as delegate-at-large-to the National Convention. Resolution.-) in memoriam of the late Comrade Phil Sheridan were adopted.

The Woman's Relief Corns elected the following officers: Department President, Mrs. Myerhoff, of KvanRville Senior Vice President, Mrs. Melissa Cavlor, of Noblesville Junior Vices President, Mrs. Mary D. Travis, of Craw-® fordsville: Treasurer, Mrs. Mattie E. Grill Chaplain, Mrs. Martha Craig, Princeton.

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